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1.3 The Creation or Manifestation
"There is a plane of divine consciousness in which all is known absolutely, and the whole plan of things foreseen and predetermined. That way of seeing lives in the highest reaches of the Supramental; it is the Supreme's own vision. But when we do not possess that consciousness, it is useless to speak in terms that hold good only in that region and are not our present effective way of seeing things. For at a lower level of consciousness nothing is realised or fixed beforehand; all is in the process of making. Here there are no settled facts, there is only the play of possibilities; out of the clash of possibilities is realised the thing that has to happen. On this plane we can choose and select; we can refuse one possibility and accept another; we can follow one path, turn away from another. And that we can do, even though what is actually happening may have been foreseen and predetermined in a higher plane." (The Mother)[1]
The word "predetermined" does not correspond to the reality; the word "pre-existent" would be more correct. The consciousness of an unfolding has a reality, it is not only an appearance.
Imagine the world as a single whole and, in a certain sense, finite, limited but containing potentially innumerable possibilities of which the combinations are so numerous that they are equivalent to an infinite (you must be careful with words, however; I am very much cramped by words, they do not express exactly what I mean). So, the universe is objectified by the Divine Consciousness, by the Supreme, according to certain determined laws of which we shall speak later. The universe is a single whole, in the sense that it is the Divine — it does not contain the whole of the Divine, but it is as though the Divine deployed Himself so as to objectify Himself; that is the raison d'etre of the manifestation of the universe. It is as if the divine Consciousness wandered into all divine possibilities following a path it had chosen. Imagine then a multitude of possibles of which all the possible combinations are equivalent to an infinite. The divine Consciousness is essentially free — It wanders therein and objectifies Itself. The path traversed is free in the midst of an infinite multiplicity which is at the same time pre-existent and absolutely undetermined according to the action of the free divine Will. It may be conceived that this Will, being free, is able to change the course of the deployment, change the path and, although everything is pre-existent and consequently inevitable, the road, the path is free and absolutely unexpected. These changes of the route, if one may say so, can therefore change the relations between things and circumstances, and consequently the determinism is changed. This change of the circuit is called "the effect of the Grace"; well, through the aid of the Grace, if the Grace decides it, things can change, the course can be different. Things can change their places and instead of following a certain circuit follow another. A circumstance which, according to a particular determinism, should occur at a certain place ahead, for instance, would instead occur behind, and so on. The relations between things consequently change.
At what moment does Time begin ? The Consciousness that chooses — is it in Time as soon as the unrolling begins?
No, Time is a succession; you must be able to conceive that the Supreme Consciousness, before objectifying itself, becomes aware of Itself in Itself. There is a global, total and simultaneous perception and there, there is no Time. Likewise one cannot speak of "Space", for the same reason, because all is simultaneous. It is something more; it corresponds to a state of consciousness subjective rather than objective, for the aim, the motive of creation is objectivisation; but there is a first step in this objectivisation in which there is a plenary consciousness, total and simultaneous, beyond Time and Space, of what will constitute the content of this universe; and there, the universe is pre-existent, but not manifested, and Time begins with objectivisation.
Can it be said that Time begins with the supramental plane?
It is not the same kind of Time. There is only a beginning of Time and a beginning of form. Time there is of a very different quality. There is a global, static consciousness before arriving at the supramental level, in which everything appears simultaneously — Time is the result of the fact that there is a succession in the organisation of the whole. While the totality you perceive all at once, on the supramental level, is not a static totality — the static totality gives place to another totality which gives the impression of Time. These are inner relations within the Supermind, in the sense that one is not aware of something which happens outside oneself; one is conscious only of something within oneself, internal, but the internal relations vary, and this gives a first impression of Time.
In this state of consciousness one does not have the impression of things being born, passing, disappearing, does one?
Oh, no! Nothing of the kind.
"The Supreme Consciousness knows everything beforehand, because everything is realised there in her eternity. But for the sake of her play and in order to carry out actually on the physical plane what is foreordained in her own supreme self, she moves here upon earth as if she did not know the whole story; she works as if it was a new and untried thread that she was weaving." (The Mother)
If you undertake a work and are told beforehand that all will be useless and you will not be able to do what you want, would you do it? No, surely not! Well, it is something like that which happens. Ninety times out of a hundred, what you do does not give the expected result. Not one person in a million would do his work if he were told: "Do this, but the result will not be at all what you want." But in the play of forces many must work for the aggregate of forces, for the totality of forces, although individually this work has no personal utility for the one who does it. So, if the individual had the knowledge that the part he plays in the whole is infinitesimal, he would not play it. But the moment you go above that, when you do things, not with a fixed end in view, but because you know within yourself that this is the thing to be done, whatever the result, then with this kind of detachment you know and see in the higher Consciousness that all action is done exclusively because it has to be done whatever may be the result; and generally you are sufficiently clear-sighted to know, at least vaguely, what will be the result of this action. For knowing it will not change in the least your way of doing it.
Instead of an explanation which goes from below upward, it would be wiser to look for an explanation which comes from above down ward and rather to conceive that little by little the Consciousness comes down and as it comes down is obscured, and one no longer understands by what mechanism things are done — that is what is called a state of ignorance.
"In a picture you need a definite scheme of composition and colour; you have to set a limit, to put the whole thing within a fixed framework; but the limit is illusory, the frame is a mere convention. There is a constant continuation of the picture that stretches beyond any particular frame, and each continuation can be drawn in the same conditions in an unending series of frames. Our aim is this or that, we say, but we know that it is only the beginning of another aim beyond it, and that in its turn leads to yet another…. (The Mother)
If I were told that things are going to stop at a certain point, I would find it very boring, so boring that I would not stir!
The only thing which consoles me is that everything continues always, infinitely, that there is always something new to be done. Whatever be the goal attained, it is only a beginning.
If you remain in a consciousness which functions mentally, even if it is the highest mind, you have the notion of an absolute determinism of cause and effect and feel that things are what they are because they are what they are and cannot be otherwise.
It is only when you come out of the mental consciousness completely and enter a higher perception of things — which you may call spiritual or divine — that you suddenly find yourself in a state of perfect freedom where everything is possible.
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Those who have contacted that state or lived in it, even if only for a moment, try to describe it as a feeling of an absolute Will in action, which immediately gives to the human mentality the feeling of being arbitrary. And because of that distortion there arises the idea — which I might call traditional — of a supreme and arbitrary God, which is something most unacceptable to every enlightened mind. I suppose that this experience badly expressed is at the origin of this notion. And in fact it is incorrect to express it as an absolute Will: it is very, very, very different. It is something else altogether. For, what man understands by "Will" is a decision that is taken and carried out. We are obliged to use the word "will", but in its truth the Will acting in the universe is neither a choice nor a decision that is taken. What seems to me the closest expression is "vision". Things are because they are seen. But of course "seen", not seen as we see with these eyes. (Mother touches her eyes…) All the same, it is the nearest thing. It is a vision — a vision unfolding itself.
The universe becomes objective as it is progressively seen.
The universe is an objectivisation of the Supreme, as if He had objectivised himself outside of himself in order to see himself, to live himself, to know himself, and so that there might be an existence and a consciousness capable of recognising him as their origin and uniting consciously with him to manifest him in the becoming. There is no other reason for the universe. The earth is a kind of symbolic crystallisation of universal life, a reduction, a concentration, so that the work of evolution may be easier to do and follow. And if we see the history of the earth, we can understand why the universe has been created. It is the Supreme growing aware of himself in an eternal Becoming; and the goal is the union of the created with the Creator, a union that is conscious, willing and free, in the Manifestation.
That is the secret of Nature. Nature is the executive Force, it is she who does the work.
And she takes up this creation, which appears to be totally inconscient but which contains the Supreme Consciousness and sole Reality and she works so that all this can develop, become self-aware and realise itself fully. But she does not show it from the very beginning. It develops gradually, and that is why at the start it is a secret which will be unveiled as it nears the end. And man has reached a point in the evolution high enough for this secret to be unveiled and for what was done in an apparent inconscience to be done consciously, willingly, and therefore much more rapidly and in the joy of realisation.
In man one can already see that the spiritual reality is being developed and that it is going to express itself totally and freely. Formerly, in the animal and the plant, it was… it was necessary to be very clear-sighted to see it, but man is himself conscious of this spiritual reality, at least in the higher part of his human existence. Man is beginning to know what the Supreme Origin wants of him and is collaborating in carrying it out.
Nature wants the creation to become conscious of being the Creator himself in an objectivisation, that is to say, there is no difference between the Creator and the Creation, and the goal is a conscious and realised union. That is the secret of Nature.[…]
Nature is not unconscious, but she has an appearance of unconsciousness. It began with the inconscience, but in the depths of the inconscience there was consciousness, and this consciousness is gradually developing.[2] For instance, mineral nature, stones, earth, metals, water, air, all this seems to be quite unconscious, although if one observes closely… And now science is discovering that this is only an appearance, that all this is only concentrated energy, and of course it is a conscious force which has produced all this. But apparently, when we see a rock, we don't think it is conscious, it does not give the impression of being conscious, it seems to be altogether unconscious.
It is the appearance that is inconscient. It becomes more and more conscious. Even in the mineral kingdom there are phenomena which reveal a hidden consciousness, like certain crystals, for instance. If you see with what precision, what exactitude and harmony they are formed, if you are in the least open, you are bound to feel that behind there's a consciousness at work, that this cannot be the result of unconscious chanced…]
Indeed, in every being, the whole process of evolution is reproduced, as if at a dizzy speed one were reviewing all that has been done, and as if it were necessary to relive all that in a flash before taking the next step.
The start, the great journey in the inconscience, in darkness, oblivion, unconsciousness, the awakening… and the return to the light.
Q: "If the Divine that is all love is the source of the creation, whence have come all the evils abounding upon earth?"
A: "All is from the Divine; but the One Consciousness, the Supreme has not created the world directly out of itself; a Power has gone out of it and has descended through many gradations of its workings and passed through many agents. There are many creators or rather 'formateurs', form-makers, who have presided over the creation of the world. They are intermediary agents and I prefer to call them 'Formateurs ' and not 'Creators '; for what they have done is to give the form and turn and nature to matter. There have been many, and some have formed things harmonious and benignant and some have shaped things mischievous and evil. And some too have been distorters rather than builders, for they have interfered and spoiled what was begun well by others." (The Mother)
You say, "Many creators or rather 'formateurs', form-makers, have presided over the creation of the world." Who are these formateurs'?
That depends. They have been given many names. All has been done by gradations and through individual beings of all kinds. Each state of being is inhabited by entities, individualities and personalities and each one has created a world around him or has contributed to the formation of certain beings upon earth. The last creators are those of the vital world, but there are beings of the Overmind (Sri Aurobindo calls this plane the Overmind), who have created, given forms, sent out emanations, and these emanations again had their emanations and so on. What I meant is that it is not the Divine Will that acted directly on Matter to give to the world the required form, it is by passing through layers, so to say, planes of the world, as for example, the mental plane — there are so many beings on the mental plane who are form-makers, who have taken part in the formation of some beings who have incarnated upon earth. On the vital plane also the same thing happens.
For example, there is a tradition which says that the whole world of insects is the outcome of the form-makers of the vital world, and that this is why they take such absolutely diabolical shapes when they are magnified under the microscope. You saw the other day, when you were shown the microbes in water? Naturally the pictures were made to amuse, to strike the imagination, but they are based on real forms, so magnified, however, that they look like monsters. Almost the whole world of insects is a world of microscopic monsters which, had they been larger in size, would have been quite terrifying. So it is said these are entities of the vital world, beings of the vital who created that for fun and amused themselves forming all these impossible beasts which make human life altogether unpleasant.
Did these intermediaries also come out of the Divine Power?
Through intermediaries, yes, not directly. These beings are not in direct contact with the Divine (there are exceptions, I mean as a general rule), they are beings who are in relation with other beings, who are again in relation with others, and these with still others, and so on, in a hierarchy, up to the Supreme.
If they came out of the Divine, why are they evil?
Evil? That I think I have explained to you once: it is enough just not to remain under the direct influence of the Divine and not to follow the movement of creation or expansion as willed by the Divine; this rupture of contact is enough to produce the greatest of disorders, that of division. Well, even the most luminous, the most powerful beings may choose to follow their own movement instead of obeying the divine movement. And though in themselves they may be quite wonderful and if human beings saw them they would take them for the very Godhead, they can, because they follow their own will instead of working in harmony with the universe, be the source of very great evils, very great disorders, very great massive obstructions. But don't you see, the question is badly put, I laughed just now when I read the question. It is a childish way of speaking. This person says: "If God is everything in the world, why are there evil things in the world?" Now, if she had told me that, I would have simply answered: there is nothing which is not God, only it is in a disorder. One must try to remedy it — God is not love alone, He is all things, and if that appears to us — to us — altogether wrong, it is because it is not arranged properly. There have been movements exactly of the kind I spoke to you about.
You may ask why it happened. Well, certainly it is not the mind, you know, which can say why it happened. It happened, that is all. In reality the only thing that concerns us is that it has happened. It is perhaps an accident to begin with…. If you look at the thing from a philosophical point of view, it is evident that the universe in which we live is a movement among many others and this movement follows a law which is its own (and which is perhaps not the same in the others), and if the Will was for the world to be built on the principle of choice, of the freedom of choice, then one cannot prevent disorderly movements from taking place until knowledge comes and the choice is enlightened. If one is free to choose, one can also choose bad things, not necessarily the good, for if it were a thing decided beforehand, it would no longer be a free choice. You see, when such questions are put, the mind only answers and it reduces the problem, it reduces it to a more or less elementary mental formula; but that corresponds only very vaguely and superficially and incompletely with the reality of things.
To be able to understand, one must become. If you want to understand the why and how of the universe, you must identify yourself with the universe. It is not impossible but it is not very easy either, especially for children.
This was one of the most childish questions that she put — altogether childish: "If He is just, why is there injustice? If He is good, why is there wickedness? If He is love, why is there hatred?" — But He is all! So He is not merely this or that, or only, exclusively this — He is all. That is, to be more correct, it should be said that all is He.
There are notions about creation, very widespread upon earth, which have been accepted more or less for a long time in human thought, that are quite simplistic! There is "something" (truly speaking, one does not know what), and then there is a God who puts this something into form and creates the world out of it. So if you have such notions, you have a justifiable right to say to this God: "Well, you have indeed created a world, it's a pretty one, that world of yours!" Although, according to the story, after seven days of labour, he declared that it was very good — but it was good for him. Perhaps it may have amused him immensely, but as for us who are in the world, we do not find it good at all! Don't you see, the conception and the way of putting it are altogether childish. It is just like the story of the potter who puts his pot in shape — this God is a human being, formidable in proportions and power, but looking strangely like a man. It is man who makes God in his image, not God who makes man in his image! So each time a question is put in an incomplete or childish way, it is impossible to give an answer to it truly, for the question is badly put. You say something, you affirm it. But what right have you to assert it? Because you affirm that, you conclude: "Since that is this, how does it happen that it is so?" But "that is this" is your statement. It does not mean that it is so!
There is only one single solution to the problem — not to make any distinction between God and the universe at the origin. The universe is the Divine projected in space, and God is the universe at its origin. It is the same thing under one aspect or another. And you cannot divide them. It is the opposite conception to that of the "creator" and his "work". Only, it is very convenient to speak of the creator and his work, it makes explanations very easy and the teaching quite elementary. But it is not the truth. And then you say: "How is it that God who is all-powerful has allowed the world to be like this?" But it is your own conception! It is because you yourself happen to be in the midst of a set of circumstances that seems to you unpleasant, so you project that upon the Divine and you tell him: "Why have you made such a world?" — "I did not make it. It is you yourself. And if you become Myself once again, you will no longer feel as you do. What makes you feel as you do is that you are no longer Myself." This is what He could tell you in answer. And the fact is that when you succeed in uniting your consciousness with the divine consciousness, there is no problem left. Everything appears quite natural and simple and all right and exactly what it had to be. But when you cut yourself off from the origin and stand over against Him, then truly everything goes wrong, nothing can go right!
But if you ask for a logic that pushes things to the extreme end, you question how it is that the Divine has tolerated parts of his own self to be separated from him and all this disorder to be created. You may say that. And I then will reply: "If you want to know, it is better to unite yourself with the Divine, for that is the only way of knowing why He has done these things." It is not by questioning Him mentally, for your mind cannot understand. And I repeat it, when you reach such an identification, all problems are solved. And this feeling that things are not all right and that they should be otherwise, comes just because there is a divine will for a constant unfolding in perpetual progress and things that were must give place to things that shall be and shall be better than what the others were. And the world that was good yesterday is no longer good tomorrow. The whole world that could appear absolutely harmonious and perfect at one time, well, today it is discordant, no longer harmonious, because now we conceive and see the possibility of a better world. And if we were to find it all right we would not do what we ought to do, that is, make the effort needed for it to become better.
There comes a time when all these notions appear so childish! And this happens solely because one is shut up within oneself. With this consciousness which is your own, which is like a grain of sand in the infinite vastness, you want to know and judge the infinite? It is impossible. You must first of all come out of yourself, and then unite with the infinite and only afterwards can you begin to understand what it is, not before. You project your consciousness — what you are, the thoughts you have, the capacity of understanding you have — you project this upon the Divine and then say: "That is all wrong." I quite understand! But there is no possibility of knowing unless you identify yourself. I do not see how, for example, a drop of water could tell you what the ocean is like. That's how it is.
[1] The Mother read this passage to the class and then commented on it. This is the case for most of the passages quoted in the book. Some of the passages are from the Mother's works, some from Sri Aurobindo's.
[2] When this talk was first published, the Mother made the following correction: "It is not the consciousness which is developing, it is the manifestation of consciousness which is developing its expression: it expresses itself more and more."
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NEWSFLASH: Damage aboard Edmond de Rothschild, Sébastien Josse putting the race to one side
At 0930 UTC this morning (Monday), while he was sailing 600 miles west of the longitude of Cape Leeuwin, Sébastien Josse contacted his shore team to inform them that he had suffered major damage to the port foil on Edmond de Rothschild. Taking into account the weather conditions the skipper of Gitana Team has had over the past 24 hours and the worsening weather that is forecast in the area in the coming hours, the skipper in agreement with the team's owners, has temporarily put the race to one side and is currently studying the best possible options to allow the worst of the storm to go by.
Since yesterday, Sébastien Josse has had to face some very rough conditions ahead of a tropical low coming down from Madagascar. This morning, while sailing on the port tack in a westerly air stream blowing at between 30 and 35 knots and on heavy seas with waves in excess of 4m, the 60-foot monohull, Edmond de Rothschild got swept along on a wave and then ploughed into the bottom. The boat came to a sudden standstill and in the incident the port foil suddenly went right down. It slammed into the top of the housing, which damaged the upper part of the appendage and its trimming system. Sébastien Josse was inside when the incident occurred and was not injured.
In order to make the foil safe, which threatened to come out of its housing, which could have had serious consequences for the structural integrity of the hull in this part of the boat, Sébastien Josse gybed to change tack and continue on his starboard foil while trying to carry out temporary repairs. Gitana 16 was on a N-NE'ly heading towards Australia, but for safety reasons was unable to continue on this course for very long. This is in fact the precise trajectory taken by the center of the low pressure system that the sailor has been trying to avoid for the past 24 hours by making headway towards the east as quickly as possible along the Antarctic Exclusion Zone. According to the latest forecasts, the sailor was likely to be facing 50-knot winds and very heavy seas with 10 m high waves. Since 1300 UTC the 60-foot monohull Edmond de Rothschild has gone back to a SE'ly heading.
Cyril Dardashti, Director of Gitana Team, and all his team, are in constant contact with Sébastien Josse to find the best possible solutions as quickly as possible and put them in place.
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Omicron Coronavirus Variant Found in Multiple US States
NEW YORK - The omicron variant of COVID-19 has been discovered in at least five states, showing yet again how mutations of the virus can circumnavigate the globe with speed and ease.
Just a day after the first known U.S. case was found in California, tests showed Thursday the omicron variant had infected at least five people in the New York City metropolitan area, plus a man from Minnesota who had attended an anime convention in Manhattan in late November.
Officials reported another case in a Colorado woman who had recently traveled to southern Africa. The variant was also confirmed in an unvaccinated Hawaii resident with no recent travel history.
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul, right, New York Mayor Bill de Blasio, center, and NYC Health Commissioner Dr. Dave A. Chokshi, left, hold a virtual press conference, Dec. 2, 2021, in New York.
Cases of the omicron coronavirus variant have been detected in New York, health officials said Thursday, including a man who attended an anime convention in Manhattan in late November and tested positive for the variant when he returned home to Minnesota.
In addition to the conventioneer, tests showed five other people recently infected with COVID-19 had the variant, health officials said. They included a person in the city's Long Island suburbs who had recently traveled to South Africa, residents of Brooklyn and Queens, and another case possibly linked to travel.
'No cause for alarm. We just want to make sure that the public is aware of information when we receive it,' said Governor Kathy Hochul.
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New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio said the geographic spread of the positive tests suggested the variant was undergoing 'community spread' in the city and wasn't linked to any one event.
The news came a day after the U.S. announced its first case of the variant had been detected in California, in a person who had recently traveled to South Africa.
Officials reported another case Thursday in a Colorado woman who had recently traveled to southern Africa.
The Anime NYC 2021 convention Nov. 19-21 drew about 50,000 people, according to event organizers, and attendees were required to wear masks and show proof of having received at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine.
Officials in New York said they were working to trace attendees of the convention, which was held at the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center as New York City prepared to host the annual Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade and braced for throngs of tourists to return after the U.S. opened up to vaccinated international travelers.
Infections were expected
Officials in the city of 8.8 million said they expected it would be only a matter of time before the new variant was reported in the city. City Health Commissioner Dave Chokshi urged people who attended the event to get tested.
'We should assume there is community spread of the variant in our city,' de Blasio said in a statement.
The Minnesota man began experiencing mild symptoms Nov. 22. He had been vaccinated and received a booster shot in early November, according to health officials in his home state. He sought COVID-19 testing Nov. 24, and his symptoms have subsided, officials said.
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Minnesota Health Commissioner Jan Malcolm said the man had not traveled outside the U.S. recently.
'Just given the timing ... it seems quite possible, perhaps the most likely, that this transmission happened at the arena convention in New York City, but that's not definitive,' Malcolm said.
Nov. 22 was the same day the person infected in the California case returned to the U.S. from South Africa. The California traveler, who was vaccinated, developed mild symptoms and tested positive Monday.
Much remains unknown about the new variant, including whether it is more contagious, as some health authorities suspect, whether it makes people more seriously ill, and whether it can thwart the vaccine.
Omicron is classified by the World Health Organization as a 'variant of concern' as scientists work to determine how it may compare with the predominant delta variant in terms of transmissibility and severity. Scientists also are studying the degree to which existing vaccines and therapies protect against omicron.
Scientists in South Africa first reported it, but the samples came from several countries in southern Africa. And health officials in the Netherlands now say it was found there prior to the South Africa detection.
'Get vaccinated'
As comfort over air travel returns, it's inevitable that new variants like omicron will spread from country to country and state to state, said professor Danielle Ompad, an epidemiologist at New York University's School of Global Public Health.
'We shouldn't panic, but we should be concerned,' she said.
Hochul said the case involving the Minnesota visitor underlined the need for everyone who is eligible to get vaccinated against COVID-19 or receive a booster shot if they have not already.
'There is one way to address this - New Yorkers, get vaccinated, get boosted, and get ready,' the Democrat said.
Japan's consul general in New York, Kanji Yamanouchi, delivered the opening remarks at the convention.
A spokesperson for the consulate said Yamanouchi was vaccinated and received a booster shot about three weeks ago. He said staffers at the consulate underwent testing as a precaution.
'He had absolutely no problem in his health condition,' said the consulate's spokesperson, Kenju Murakami, noting Thursday it had been nearly two weeks.
A website for the convention says that Anime NYC is mounted by Leftfield Media, an event company based in Shelton, Connecticut. A company spokesperson did not immediately respond to an email requesting comment.
Pedestrians pass a COVID-19 testing tent on 42nd Street, Dec. 2, 2021, in the Manhattan borough of New York.
Peter Tatara, its founder and event director, referred questions to company spokespeople. He said he had been tested 'multiple times' since the event.
New York City Council Ben Kallos, who appeared at the event with the Japanese ambassador, said a rapid antigen test taken Thursday showed he was negative for the virus.
'I can attest to the fact that my vaccine was checked and I got a wristband, and the person who tested positive for omicron was also fully vaccinated,' Kallos said, urging his 'fellow anime fans' to get tested. 'So it goes to show you, even when you follow all the precautions, we're still seeing breakthrough cases.'
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"The First Amendment is first for a reason. Second Amendment is just in case the first one doesn't work out."
-Dave Chappelle
What exactly are we allowed to say? This is a question that has predominated human existence since the invention of language. What are the parameters of our expression? What exactly does freedom of speech mean? This question becomes more & more relevant everyday.
Since The Rona this question has become more relevant than ever. I live among the Freedom convoys in Canada, a nation that just declared a state of Emergency to combat against Free Assembly. There's been wide scale & sweeping censorship happening in front of our eyes across all platforms & pathways of life from Government to Big tech, to individuals who are self censoring in fear of reprecussions.
Everyone is very divided on what exactly we are allowed to say. Nobody wants to spread misinformation & everyone wants to share the truth, but nobody can agree on what the Truth is anymore.
Joe Rogan is currently under attack with massive smear campaigns set against him in order to discredit him & make him look like a racist and a conspiracy theorist because of his opinions on the Rona and the controversial guests he has on the highest rated platform on Planet Earth.
As soon as people noticed that Spotify would not deplatform Joe for his opinions, someone compiled footage of Joe saying Nigga that has been on the internet for years. More people watch Joe Rogan podcasts than any other traditional News network on any given day, so someone felt the need to discredit him in order to silence his opinion.
This whole situation of discrediting people for their opinions is eerily similar to COINTELPRO. COINTELPRO (Counterintelligence Program) was conducted by the FBI from 1956 to 1971 to discredit and neutralize organizations considered subversive to U.S. political stability. It was covert and often used illegal means to criminalize various forms of political struggle and derail several social movements, such as those for civil rights and Puerto Rican independence. Targets of Cointelpro included various high profile celebrities like Muhammad Ali, as well as the Black Panther Party. Tupac Shakurs mother was one of the people targeted, Pac's first memories at 4 years old were of undercover cops outside his window talking about his mother on a walkie talkie.
There are people who believe Joe Rogan is actively leading millions to their death by spreading misinformation, & there's some who view Rogan as a messianic figure leading the charge towards freedom and it really all depends on what algorithm you're consuming.
This whole situation has brought up interesting questions. Who is allowed to say what? To what extent are they allowed to say it? To what extent should the government or corporate entities have control over what individuals are allowed to express? At what point does it become fascism?
Saying what you want to say is the hardest thing in the world, especially if you want to say things are broken and need to be fixed, because there are people with vested interests in maintaining the status quo, so by opposing anything you instantly create enemies.
"Jesus was black, Ronald Reagan was the devil and the government is lying about 9/11"
This was said in the first 35 seconds of the first episode of The Boondocks. The Boondocks is by far my favourite animated series & one of my favourite shows of all time, it's been the coolest thing in the world to me since I was a kid & everyday it becomes better and more relevant than when I first saw it.
There's so many things about this show that make it perfect. The fact that the show was culturally relevant and discussing things I cared about, the fact that it had the greatest intro ever made or how it incorporated music by MF Doom & Madlib, the fact that it had Kung Fu & some of the best action sequences & fight choreography in modern animation, the fact that it had some of the most brilliant satire on modern pop culture, the fact that there was Lil Wayne cameos & Nate Dogg songs, the fact that it had some of the best voice actors, & character writers in human history. I could go on & on about why this show is perfect but I think it all has to do with the genius behind it and his willingness to Die for his truth, in his own words.
Aaron Mcgruder is one of my heroes. He's one of my biggest inspirations in life. I used to try to make cartoons as a kid because of the Boondocks. If you've been following me for a while you know that the main reason I even created this platform was to be abrasive in my opinions like Mcgruder. This show was one of the most important pieces of media I consumed during my formative years & it actually shaped my worldview. Aaron Mcgruder had the balls to constantly go out on the limb and say things that others wouldn't dream of saying.
Aaron McGruder began his studies at the University of Maryland. While he pursued a degree in Afro-American studies, he began laying the groundwork for The Boondocks. The Boondocks began in 1996 as a webcomic on Hitlist.com, one of the first online music websites. The comic strip's main characters are two young African-American brothers, Huey (named after Huey P. Newton) and his younger brother and wannabe gangsta, Riley, from inner-city Chicago who are relocated to live with their grandfather in a sedate suburb. In six months, the comic strip was being distributed to more than 200 publications. The strip was then adapted to an animated series on Cartoon Network's Adult Swim & the rest is history.
What I learned while doing research on Mcgruder is how much he is really like Huey. Mcgruder is very serious about social issues and was very open about using The Boondocks as a vehicle for revolution. In a fiery speech in 2002 shortly after 9/11 (that can be found on YouTube) Mcgruder says he is willing to die for his opinions in order to make changes because he believed that by the year 2150 most of the American population would be in jail, he said he believed certain heads of state were aware of & in fact involved in the 9/11 terrorist attacks, he was going hard in the paint with his revolutionary opinions, & I watched with my mouth on the floor.
Expressing yourself is the hardest thing in the world, especially today. Public speaking is scary, let alone saying controversial opinions to the whole world that could get you cancelled and left unhireable by Corporate America or even worse, have you assassinated. Yet Mcgruder consistently unsheathed his sword, whether it was to write a scene or give a speech, Mcgruder was trying to say the realest shit he could ever say.
Mcgruder is much like Dave Chappelle & Tupac Shakur. All of these men entered the Entertainment industry with revolutionary ambitions in the 90s, during a tumultuous era for African Americans. All of these men, much like Joe Rogan, were products of the 60s counter-culture & very open about picking up the mantle of revolutionary ideologies against the status quo.
All of these men faced intense backlash, Tupac was murdered, Chappelle fled to South Africa, Mcgruder was kicked off his own show & wasn't involved in the mediocre 4th season, and now Rogan is being attacked & discredited from all angles.
In the 60s there were several major assassinations letting everyone know that America was not going to tolerate mass disobedience and revolutionary rhetoric, and those assassinations instantly worked. They were public examples, warnings to anyone that might feel the need to speak and cause any disturbance, after the assassination of Martin Luther King, Malcolm X, John F Kennedy & more, many of the revolutionary ideologies of the 60s were subsided and the status quo was maintained.
Now, I might not agree with Rogan, or Chappelle, Mcgruder, or Pac but as the French philosopher Voltaire said "I may disagree with what you have to say, but I shall defend, to the death, your right to say it."
I don't have any cause I'm willing to die for, I don't have any rigid opinions on any matters really, I'm very malleable & willing to hear everyone out, if I disagree strongly with someone I just tune them out & don't engage, the fact that there are people who feel like they have a right to curate what other people are allowed to say is insane.
It seems like there is an economy built on fostering unnecessary division & paranoia among neighbours. Regardless of the worst natural disaster, if we can foster care, camaraderie, free communication & love in a community, we can overcome anything and the way to do that isn't smear campaigns and cancel culture.
"Dont let these bitch ass niggas button your lip, say it anyway"
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Assembly Passes Bill to Help Community Solar
Critics say the PSC's VDER plan has halted more than $800 million of investment in solar energy in upstate New York alone. (pxhere)
ALBANY, N.Y. – New York's State Assembly voted earlier this week to restore net metering of community solar power.
The bill would put the Public Service Commission's Value of Distributed Energy Resources, or VDER, plan on hold for three years.
Net metering and VDER are methods of calculating compensation for smaller energy sources such as solar installations for the power they feed into the electric grid.
Bob Rossi, executive director of the New York Sustainable Business Council, says restoring net metering will make solar power accessible to all New Yorkers, including almost half of state residents who rent their homes and can't install solar panels on their property.
"It gives them access to the energy savings by joining a community solar farm, and under VDER it's just not possible for most people," he states.
The PSC says VDER was established to fix a flaw in the net metering system and to support the state's Reforming the Energy Vision strategy.
But according to Rossi, since the plan was rolled out last year, new solar installations have slowed significantly because VDER makes it difficult to calculate a long-term rate of return on the cost.
"Investors are wary of VDER because it's a complex formula, it's not transparent," he states. "And it's estimated that we're looking at close to a billion dollars in lost investment in solar in New York state."
Rossi says the slowdown in solar installations has also deferred the creation of more than 1,000 solar jobs in upstate New York alone.
Wednesday was officially the last day of the legislative session, and by news time the bill had not come up for a vote in the Senate. But Rossi says even if the Senate doesn't act, there is another way to restore net metering.
"If the bill doesn't go through, we are still looking to our governor and the Public Service Commission to find a solution," he stresses.
The bill also calls on the PSC and Long Island Power Authority to create a fair and accurate way to compensate for distributed energy by 2021.
Andrea Sears, Public News Service - NY


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Two executives of a South Korean cryptocurrency exchange have reportedly been sentenced to jail for inflating trading volumes on their exchange. The pair allegedly used a bot to fake large orders in both cryptocurrencies and Korean won.
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Two executives of South Korean cryptocurrency exchange Komid were sentenced to jail on Thursday "for their roles in orchestrating fraudulent trading volume reports on their platform," The News Asia reported.
One of the executives is the CEO of the exchange, Choi Hyunsuk. He received a three-year prison sentence while the other executive received a two-year jail sentence, Maekyung publication detailed, asserting:
This is the first time a representative of a virtual currency exchange has been sentenced to prison for allegedly inflating trading volumes.
Komid began operations on Jan. 5 last year after beta test runs. According to the court, Choi created more than five fake accounts in January last year and inflated trading volumes in both cryptocurrencies and Korean won on his exchange. The two were sentenced to prison "for fraud, embezzlement, and misconduct," The News Asia noted, elaborating:
The charges from prosecutors outlined a scheme wherein the two defendants fabricated 5 million transactions on their platform to deceive investors into thinking that the volume was natural. This led to the two earning about $45mil. There is also a suspicion that they utilized a 'bot' to automatically create large orders, which attracted new users.
Damaged Confidence
The judge explained that "Choi has committed fraud for a countless number of victims for a long period of time," the news outlet conveyed. "There is a need for punishment because the damage caused by the creation of false electronic records is large," Maekyung quoted him as saying.
However, Edaily reported that the judge took into account the fact that the damage was minimized as some funds were returned. In addition, he found that "The defendants did not appear to have committed a crime with strong fraudulent intentions." Nonetheless, he concluded:
The crime has damaged customers' confidence in the virtual currency exchange and has had a negative effect on the domestic virtual currency trading market.
Cryptocurrency exchanges have been caught using trading bots to falsify orders since the early days of Mtgox. In December last year, officials of one of the country's largest crypto exchanges, Upbit, were indicted for fraud. They allegedly faked orders worth approximately $226 billion and sold 11,500 BTC to about 26,000 investors. Upbit has denied the allegations.
Other domestic crypto exchanges in a similar bind include Coinnest, whose executives were indicted in September last year for accepting a bribe. Moreover, employees of crypto exchange HTS Coin were arrested in September last year on suspicion of fraud and embezzlement.
What do you think of Komid's executives being sentenced to prison for faking volumes? Let us know in the comments section below.
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Emotionally powerful reading for WWII study.
This online collection from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum features interviews with six Holocaust survivors who immigrated to the United States to rebuild their lives.
The site can be navigated in a number of ways. From the homepage users can use the navigation menu or the links within the page to go directly to the different sections or click through to the exhibition and access the sections from there.
Life After the Holocaust is a rich resource for anyone wanting to learn more about this horrific event and the effects it had on the survivors. The site is organized into six themes: Living with the Past, Faith and Guilt, Arriving in New York, Telling Their Children, Starting Over and Speaking Out. Each theme features interviews with survivors and narratives that explain the context of the experiences. Visitors can listen to the entire narrative of each survivor as well as view personal photographs by clicking on the name in the survivors menu. Also available are transcripts of the interviews and an opportunity for visitors to reflect on Why is it important to study the Holocaust?


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Exposed: Britain is 'Secretly Training' Saudi Troops to Fight in Yemen
Up to 50 UK military personnel have been teaching battlefield skills to soldiers who will be deployed in the so-called 'dirty war'. Picture: Saudi troops firing shells (AFP/File)
The British Army is training Saudi troops to fight in yemen, according to a report by The Daily Mail
Thousands of civilians have been killed by the Saudi-led coalition in Yemen
Famine is expected to kill many thousands more
Former head of the Royal Navy, Lord West, demanded transparency over the UK's role in training Saudi troops.
The British Army is secretly training Saudi Arabian troops to fight in Yemen, where the country has been accused of committing crimes against humanity, The Mail on Sunday can reveal.
Up to 50 UK military personnel have been teaching battlefield skills to soldiers who will be deployed in the so-called 'dirty war'.
Thousands of civilians have been killed in bombing raids and an estimated one million children are facing starvation and serious illness as a result of the conflict.
The Army's involvement is part of Britain's 'shameful complicity' in the suffering, according to Tory MP and former Development Secretary Andrew Mitchell.
The training mission – codenamed Operation Crossways – came to light only after the Army released photos and information by mistake.
The United Nations is investigating the situation in Yemen, describing it as the world's worst humanitarian crisis. Some 10,000 people have died since the conflict between the Saudi-backed Yemeni government and rebels supported by Iran began in 2015.
Recently a Saudi blockade of Yemen's ports brought the country to the edge a famine, with the charity Unicef predicting 150,000 children could die by the end of 2017.
Last night, Mr Mitchell demanded that the UK Government provide answers in the Commons about Britain's role in Saudi military operations.
He said: 'The UK has been shamefully complicit in Saudi's role in Yemen, which has clearly included breaches of the Geneva Conventions.
'I have no doubt Parliament will require an explanation of this training mission in view of the high level of concern about the humanitarian catastrophe unfolding in Yemen.'
Operation Crossways involved troops from 2nd Battalion the Royal Regiment of Scotland (2 Scots) teaching 'Irregular Warfare' (IW) techniques to officers from the Royal Saudi Land Forces Infantry Institute.
IW is a collective name for specific tactics used by conventional armies to defeat terrorist groups.
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In Yemen, Saudi soldiers are fighting against an Iranian-backed paramilitary force known as the Houthi rebels.
Due to the concern surrounding Saudi Arabia's military operations in Yemen, Operation Crossways was never supposed to be made public.
It came to light only after a mission summary and photographs were inadvertently posted on 2 Scots' Facebook page earlier this month.
In one picture a British instructor is seen standing in front of a map showing Yemen and the surrounding region as he explains a possible attacking strategy.
The MoD attempted to launch a cover-up after the MoS brought the images to the attention of defence officials.
Within 20 minutes of a reporter contacting the MoD, the images and the summary had been removed from the Facebook page
Last night, former head of the Royal Navy, Lord West, demanded transparency over the UK's role in training Saudi troops.
He said: 'Given the sensitivities surrounding Saudi Arabia and Yemen at the moment it would be better to be open about what we are doing. Our training will hopefully save lives.'
A serving senior British Army officer who chose to remain anonymous added: 'There will be serious concern that this mission has leaked out given the sensitivities of Saudi's role in the Yemen conflict.'
The MoS can also reveal the British training mission has involved Explosive Ordnance Disposal officers from the Royal Logistic Corps teaching Saudi troops how to defuse roadside bombs.
The UK has been heavily criticised for selling billions of pounds of military equipment to Saudi Arabia, in particular as British-made bombs are understood to have been used in the Saudis' aerial bombardment of Yemen.
The MoD said: 'The UK is not training the Saudi Armed Forces in irregular activity but is providing courses in how to counter it.'
OPINION: Our complicity in this biblical horror is shameful writes ANDREW MITCHELL, former international development secretary
It is a proud achievement that, in the aftermath of two terrible world wars, our leaders created the Geneva Conventions, a historic set of rules to govern conflict.
Yet even this month, as we mark the sacrifice of our soldiers, that rules-based international order is crumbling.
And in Yemen, it is being fatally undermined by our own allies.
As wreaths were being laid in the UK to mark Remembrance Sunday, Yemen was enduring yet another day of a brutal blockade that risks plunging the country into the world's largest famine. It has been imposed by Saudi Arabia.
The blockade – enforced after Houthi rebels fired a missile towards Riyadh, the Saudi capital – has now been in place for more than 20 days, cutting off half a million tons of food and fuel to a starving population, barring delivery of desperately needed medical supplies, and grounding UN humanitarian flights carrying aid workers to their lifesaving missions.
Ever more urgent pleas from the UN and humanitarian agencies to fully lift the siege fall on deaf ears. Despite Saudi protestations, it is increasingly hard to deny that this constitutes collective punishment of an entire population.
This is a crime under international law – and as an ally and major arms supplier to Saudi Arabia, the UK is shamefully complicit.
The impact of the blockade could not be more grave. Yemen is a country ravaged by medieval diseases and on the precipice of a biblical famine.
The Saudi pledge to open some ports to urgent humanitarian supplies does not come close to feeding a population reliant on commercial imports for 80 per cent of its food.
Every hour, 27 children are diagnosed as acutely malnourished: that's 600 more starving children every day. Fuel shortages mean at least seven cities have already run out of clean water and sanitation; hospitals have shut down due to a lack of running water and fuel for generators.
As vaccines run out, one million children are at risk of diphtheria, known as The Strangling Angel of Children.
The imagery on our television screens seems from a bygone era: emaciated children; tiny babies in incubators, their tenuous hold on life dependent on fuel for hospital generators that is fast running out.
Preventing the supply of weapons to Houthi rebels fighting Yemen's internationally recognised government is a legitimate aim, mandated by UN Security Resolution 2216. But this cannot justify the ongoing strangulation of Yemen and its people.
A UN panel of experts found no evidence to support Saudi claims that their obstruction of civilian goods is stopping missiles being shipped to the Houthis by Iran.
Such an obstruction is illegal under the international system. The UK's silence in the face of these clear crimes against the people of Yemen not only shames us, it implicates us.
This is a war waged by British allies using British weapons: we have supplied Saudi Arabia with almost £4 billion of weapons and military support in recent years.
As the 'penholder' on Yemen, responsible for leading action at the Security Council, we bear a special responsibility – political as well as moral – to lead the international response to end this conflict.
Yet the British government has declined to call this what it is: an illegal blockade. While the Government was right to condemn the attempted Houthi missile attack on Riyadh airport, where is the British condemnation of 1,000 days of intensive Saudi bombing of Yemen? On the first day of my recent visit to the capital, Sana'a, the city was attacked six times by bombers from the Saudi air force.
Throughout the conflict, our 'quiet diplomacy' has failed to curb outrage after outrage perpetrated by our allies in pursuit of what the UN Secretary General has called a 'stupid war'.
The current blockade does not just risk the senseless death of millions. By tightening the noose around a starving population, Saudi Arabia is feeding the propaganda machine of the opponents it aims to vanquish.
More than collective punishment, then, it is self-harm on a grand scale. The Houthis have publicly vowed revenge, blaming Saudi aggression that 'shuts down all doors for peace and dialogue'.
Saudi Arabia's borders can ultimately be made secure only by having a stable Yemen. But as it wreaks relentless havoc on its own neighbourhood, it cannot be surprised when the Yemenis refuse to toe the line.
Every action of the Saudis currently serves the narrative of Saudi's enemies who want it to be seen as the aggressor to win support of the general population.
Prolonging the conflict serves the purpose of those who profit from war and wish to undermine stability in the region: including Iran and extremist groups.
When I was in Yemen, I saw signs in the street in Arabic and English declaring 'America and Britain are killing Yemeni children'.
The time for UK leadership is now. We must demand an urgent ceasefire, an immediate and unconditional end to the blockade, and a return to reinvigorated, inclusive peace talks.
A new Security Council resolution is long overdue: it is widely recognised that Resolution 2216 is an anachronism that constitutes a barrier to a peace process.
The cost of our inaction is measured in Yemeni lives. The clock is ticking: a child dies every ten minutes. Yemen is also a time bomb threatening international peace and security.
The abrogation of our responsibility to denounce these crimes and use our leverage to stop them condemns millions of Yemenis to death. Shying away from demanding compliance by all to the international rules-based order that we helped take root also weakens a strained system that keeps British citizens safe.
We must use every inch of our leverage – diplomatic, political and economic – to demonstrate to our allies they have more to gain from peace than a fruitless military strategy that is exacerbating the world's largest humanitarian catastrophe, and undermines the international rules-based order that keeps us all safe.
This article has been adapted from its originial source.
© Associated Newspapers Ltd.


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DNA-dependent RNA polymerase catalyzes the transcription of DNA into RNA using the four ribonucleoside triphosphates as substrates. Component of RNA polymerase II which synthesizes mRNA precursors and many functional non-coding RNAs. Pol II is the central component of the basal RNA polymerase II transcription machinery. It is composed of mobile elements that move relative to each other. RPB7 is part of a subcomplex with RPB4 that binds to a pocket formed by RPB1, RPB2 and RPB6 at the base of the clamp element. The RBP4-RPB7 subcomplex seems to lock the clamp via RPB7 in the closed conformation thus preventing double-stranded DNA to enter the active site cleft. The RPB4-RPB7 subcomplex binds single-stranded DNA and RNA. The RPB4-RPB7 subcomplex recruits FCP1 to Pol II. Component of the RNA polymerase II (Pol II) complex consisting of 12 subunits. RPB4 and RPB7 form a subcomplex that protrudes from the 10-subunit Pol II core complex. The RPB4-RPB7 subcomplex probably associates with TFG1. Interacts with NRD1 and PAT1.
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Hello and welcome back to Shades of Blue.
For today's episode we talk to Alison Lowe. Alison was awarded an MBE for Services to the Fashion Industry in HRH The Queen's Birthday Honours 2017, as one of the Maserati 100 for 2016 for the support she gives the next generation of entrepreneurs.
Alison has built a reputation as one of the leading supporters of emerging fashion talent. She is renowned for her practical, realistic approach to running a creative business and is constantly in demand to share her knowledge and advice, which has led her to writing her new book, How to Start Your Own Fashion Label – the Definitive Guide, which is available on Amazon. She acts as a consultant to brands across the globe from start-ups to established fashion businesses, supporting fashion brands, retailers, manufacturers and training providers. Alison is a serial entrepreneur and has founded two fashion agencies, Felicities and Start Your Own Fashion Label.
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Dmitri Dmitrievich Shostakovich is often described as someone who had always been largely preoccupied with his personal phobias and emotional sufferings due to his country's unsettling political situation. A lot has been said about his constant fear of being arrested and imprisoned because of the "anti-Soviet" nature of his music and how his works are mostly of autobiographical nature.
While all of the above is indeed true, still, I believe that his music constitutes far more than just a personal diary of a man living in a dictatorial society. As in the case of any truly great music, his - proclaims the universal truths and therefore may - and ought to - be interpreted in many ways.
I would like to offer an interpretation of the composer's Cello Concerto No.1, which will attempt to emphasize the universality of the work. A strong connection with J.S. Bach is present here not only in the third movement, Cadenza, but indeed throughout the whole piece.
It is enough to just take a look at the way Shostakovich orchestrated the work. A very tidy, classicist choice of instruments, as well as a heavy emphasis on the french horn, which is in fact the second soloist in the work. The dialogue between the cello soloist and the french horn player begins in the first movement and continues through till the end of the piece. Thus, the instrumentation itself and the way Shostakovich makes these instruments interact makes one remember the Concerto Grosso genre.
I see this concerto as a clear-cut modernistic look at a Baroque Era, with a presence of numerous Russian "city romance" melodies and countryside songs, both of composer's own creation.
The work speaks to us with a quirky humor, as well as with some very deep philosophical ideas. I see the second movement (Andante) as a soul's eternal quest for self-realization. The Cadenza follows as a moment of deep meditation, which later becomes a bridge into the Finale, which, in turn, may be seen as a final dance of the humanity or that of a madman, or simply someone who has just had too much to drink (the latter was frequently the case with the composer himself).
Concert on 6th Dec 2014, Loyola Univerity, New Orleans. Full concert details here.


The other day my client caught me eating a quick snack between sessions.
"It must be nice to be able to eat avocados and nuts all the time and not have to worry about your figure!" Dana exclaimed incredulously. At first I didn't understand what she was talking about. Then I realized, after she scrunched up her face and mouthed the word "fat" what was going on.
Doctors and nutritionists have been advising people for years now that a diet that's low in fat and high in carbohydrates is the best way to eat. All too often, it's dietary fat that gets blamed for our ever-increasing obesity rates, high cholesterol and heart disease. I've had clients (like Dana!) try and convince me before that it's fat that makes them fat.
I'm old enough to remember the fat-free phenomena of the early 90's. It was a heady time where we all over-indulged on Snackwells Devil's Food cookies and Entenmann's fat-free coffee cake. It was the illusion of guilt free eating at its best. The mantra of the day was eat as much of whatever you want… as long as it contains no fat! Nevermind the fact that all the fat was replaced with untold amounts of sugar in order for everything to taste delicious. I get it, there is a lot of confusion when it comes to fat, let me clear up some of it and help you understand why it's not only important, but good for us!
Fat is an essential macronutrient that helps us grow and develop. Fats make it possible for us absorb several key vitamins. And, with 9 calories per gram, fat is the most concentrated source of energy. Now, with that being said, I did not just give you permission to swerve over to the nearest In-N-out Burger on the way home and binge on a double-double with extra fries. When we are talking about fats, it's important to remember that not all fats are created equal. There are indeed good fats and bad fats.
While saturated fats have often been demonized, the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition found that there is not a correlation between saturated fat and heart disease. Examples of healthy fats include avocados, nuts, coconut oil, olive oil, fish and grass-fed beef.
The fats we do want to be avoiding, the "bad" fats if you will, are trans fats and vegetable oils. Trans fats are typically found in items like store bought cookies, fried foods, non-dairy creamer, etc. Eating foods high in trans fats will actually increase our levels of LDL cholesterol (the bad kind!) and lower our levels of GOOD cholesterol (HDL.) Trans fats also create inflammation increasing our risk of heart disease, diabetes and stroke.
Despite the fact that for decades we have been told to consume carbs and skip the fat, we have continued to gain weight at an alarming rate. Not only are we increasing our waistlines, we are setting ourselves up for becoming insulin resistant and increasing our risk for type II diabetes.
Let's take a look at some of the reasons why you need to put down those nasty rice cakes and grab an avocado.
I know it goes against everything you've probably ever been told, but it's true, eating fat can actually make you lean. Omega-3 fats like those found in certain fish, nuts and flax seeds can help regulate lipolysis, essentially reducing weight gain and contributing to weight loss.
Before you panic at the the thought of building muscle, I don't mean you are going to look like Hercules or Xena, Warrior Princess. I simply mean that fats support your body's ability to produce growth hormone which inhibit the breakdown of muscle as a result of strength training.
As we get older we naturally begin to lose bone density, but we can fight that decline with a little help. Although strength training has been shown to be invaluable when it comes to bone strength, it is imperative that we supply our bodies with the proper building blocks. Vitamins K2 and D are both fat-soluble nutrients essential for building strong bones and preventing osteoporosis.
Although working out is good for us, it is still a stressor on our bodies. Although a weakened immune system is usually just associated with working out TOO much, it's still a good idea to take care of our immune system as much as we can. There is evidence that suggests that certain saturated fats found in coconut oil can help to improve our overall immune health.
Don't take this the wrong way, but your brain is primarily comprised of fat and cholesterol. Since your brain is almost 60% fat, fatty acids are some of the most important building blocks when it comes to your brain and its' ability to perform. A majority of that 60% is comprised of the omega-3 fatty acid, DHA. DHA has been shown to improve brain functions like motor skills which are crucial for athletes. A diet high in omega-3 can also improve conditions of depression and ADHD. But because our bodies don't produce these fatty acids it's important that we get them from our diet.
It's time to stop being afraid of fats, just be aware which fats you are consuming.
Do you include a wide variety of healthy fats in your diet? I'd love to hear what some of your favorites are! Feel free to share below or on my Facebook page.


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2023 to 2024 Admissions Timetable
Timetable for Admissions and Transfers Intakes for September 2023
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Applications for 2023
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Alex Clemsen was named the seventh head coach of the Maryland wrestling program on April 23, 2019.
Clemsen comes to College Park following a successful five-year tenure at Missouri, where he served as the program's associate head coach for the last four seasons. During his time on staff, Clemsen helped Missouri wrestlers earn three NCAA individual titles, 22 All-America honors and five consecutive top-six team finishes at the NCAA Championships. Missouri teams went a combined 84-7 in dual meets during his time on staff there.
Clemsen played a pivotal role in developing nine NCAA qualifiers this past season, which included four earning All-American honors. The Tigers also saw six wrestlers win MAC individual titles on the way to their eighth consecutive team title.
In 2017-18, Clemsen helped guide Missouri to a seventh straight conference title and fourth straight NCAA top-6 finish. Seven Tigers won individual conference titles at the MAC Championships, which was good for most in program history.
The 2016-17 season for Missouri was headlined by the third consecutive NCAA title for J'den Cox, who became the first wrestler in program history to reach the top of the podium three times. In that same season the Tigers tallied five All-Americans, which was tied for the most in program history.
In 2015-16, Missouri repeated as MAC Champions and sent nine wrestlers through to the NCAA Championships. The team finished sixth in the country at the national tournament and had a National Champion for the third consecutive season.
In his inaugural season at Missouri, Clemsen played a key role in the development of 149-pounder Drake Houdashelt, who went on to win a title at the NCAA Championships. In all, the Tigers sent all 10 wrestlers to the NCAA Championships and claimed a fourth-place overall finish.
Known as an elite recruiter, Clemsen helped assemble three top-10 recruiting classes and five top-20 recruiting classes during his career.
Clemsen brought with him a tradition of success upon his arrival at Missouri, as he has coached 38 NCAA qualifiers, six All-Americans and eight ACC Champions at Virginia. He helped the program reach No. 11 in the nation during the 2012-13 season, which stands as a program-best ranking.
In his first season with the Cavaliers, Clemsen helped lead the team to its first ACC Championship since 1977. The team went on to earn a 15th-place finish at the NCAA Championships to clinch its second consecutive top-25 finish at the event.
Clemsen was also instrumental in developing student-athletes off the mat during his time in Charlottesville. The Cavaliers recorded the fifth-best team GPA in the country during the 2012-13 season, and eight Cavaliers were named to the NWCA All-Academic Team as well.
Prior to his time at Virginia, Clemsen served as the director of wrestling operations at Oregon State for two seasons.
A 2007 graduate of Edinboro, Clemsen was an All-American wrestler and four-time NCAA qualifier. He finished his career with a 121-35 record, good for ninth in the school's history. He was the 14th wrestler in program history to win four Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference Championships, and he was also named an Eastern Wrestling League Champion.
A two-time Academic All-American, Clemsen graduated with the highest GPA of any wrestler in Edinboro history. He continued his career at the international level as a University Nationals All-American and a University World Team Trials runner-up.
Clemsen was a standout wrestler at Moberly senior high school, winning three Missouri State Championship titles during his high school career. Clemsen and his wife, Lindsay, have two children: a daughter, Payten and a son, Porter.
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Q: PDO + SQL Buffered queries I need to run a bunch of queries in a script, but I get this error

PDOException(HY000): SQLSTATE[HY000]: General error: 2014 Cannot
  execute queries while other unbuffered queries are active. Consider
  using PDOStatement::fetchAll().

My script
$db = Database::connection();

$sql = <<<SQL
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) ENGINE=InnoDB AUTO_INCREMENT=86 DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8;

SQL;

$db->query($sql)->fetchAll();

$sql = <<<SQL
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SQL;

$db->query($sql)->fetchAll();

$sql = <<<SQL
CREATE TRIGGER ...
SQL;

$db->query($sql)->fetchAll();

$sql = <<<SQL
CREATE TRIGGER ...;
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$db->query($sql)->fetchAll();

My SQL syntax is valid, if I run the queries by hand they are successfully executed. As you can see I've added a call to fetchAll after each query as the error message suggests, however I'm still seeing the same error. I found another answer that suggests calling closeCursor() but if I swap the fetchAll with closeCursor the result is still the same. I also tried combining the SQL into 1 query but I'm getting a syntax error, it seems like I can't run multiple statements in 1 query.

A: According to the comments it seems that the problem is solved by calling the exec method.
The problem is that multiple queries are tried to be executed using the same connection object, while the connection object for some reason has an active unbuffered query. You need to either get rid of that active unbuffered query from the connection or to close the connection and create a new connection object each time a query is executed. A work-around is to use the exec method, but choosing that solution will not get the answer to this exact question.

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First Of The Month: What You Doin', How You Feelin'?
I've recently discovered that as I evolve in adulthood, I demonstrate different character traits that weren't "as" evident in my childhood. Some good, others bad and many neutral. Most recent I've noticed that the older I age the more of a planner I become. Now, I'm using the term planner loosely to make myself feel better, because in reality I'm really that "planner" that's 100% controlling every detail to the last and will become agitated if and when the plans don't come into fruition with style and grace.
We all know these types of "planners" and we all disdain working with them! Well approaching 23 this year, I'm learning that what I just explained isn't planning but control rearing its ugly head!
In acknowledging that I'm a control freak (to the say the least), I've also begun to dig deep and discover the reasons behind this rather new obsession. I wish I could make what I'm about to write sound super deep and spiritual, but unfortunately my need to control comes from my lack of trust and sense of unhappiness! It's my form of having a temper tantrum as an adult. When something doesn't go my way instead of kicking and screaming, I toss negativity around in my mind, drum up an exaggerated speech and ensure that by the end I've promised myself "NEVER AGAIN"! Why? Because I'll have the reins this time.
Hear me out now, control is not a bad thing to have! It's the reason why we love Sza's album so much, because of the gems her mother and grandmother dropped throughout. Control is GOOD and in many cases it's necessary to have.
However, when following that spiritual compass of yours, you'll find that the more you align yourself the less control you'll have. And in a way for me at least (I'll be personally speaking throughout this entire post), the less I'm in control, the more I feel "on track. CRAZY right? But then again, I believe that "trust" is all apart of being a spiritual being. This life is all one BIG act of faith, because if I'm spiritual then I'm privy to knowledge that isn't common in this lifetime, which is what I like to call purpose.
What does any of that previous jargon have to do with the 1st of the month?
Glad you asked! In my need to control, I've been writing out my intentions, thoughts and feelings. Some have ended up as goals which I've been blessed to accomplish, others as rants (some of which you've probably read). Either way I've been writing as my compass has faithfully guided me to many gems… and well today's first exit led me to my goal for the month! Now, I never set goals for the month (as I've just stated that "setting intentions" is a relatively new result of me trying to channel my desire to control in a positive manner) however, this morning I found myself typing a goal out with the intent to post it on my Instagram story.
I won't hear, see or verbally communicate with such verbiage.
Now, it may sound funny to some (shoot, perhaps most) but I'll be honest this goal struck a chord within me and faith began to rise within my spirit. Which ultimately triggered my compass to let me know that "HA! You didn't come up with this one on your own." I read it again, and continued to type out my justification for such.
Because similar to Mrs. Keller, I too realize that my purpose is LIMITLESS and GUARANTEED.
What's an opp when you are the secured bag?
To answer for you, not a DANG thing! A "no" is simply a delayed yes. That's it! It's merely a "not right now" and/or a "not in this manner" which both can only lead you to "Yes, now is the time and in this capacity". Do you see the correlation, it isn't a dead-end road here, but a slight turn to the left or right to guide you to the same path of purpose!
So rather a control freak or not, I encourage you to take courage and utilize this first week of the month to decide what will be and most certainly what will not! I also want to encourage you to not rely on your intellect while setting these intentions, but allow your compass to have full domain. Let faith begin to rise in your spirit and follow that hunch, the one that only you can articulate because it hasn't yet manifested. This hunch that is also known as your purpose will never steer you wrong.
Also set boundaries on what you're entertaining, refuse to allow rejection, negativity, double mindedness and other poor things the opportunity to sit at your table. Raise the booth rate on every aspect of your life! If it doesn't trigger the compass then give it the boot and move onward with blinders.
Follow that compass y'all, get to living because what's an opp when you're the secured bag?
My apologies that I'm so late responding! Thank you for kind words and I agree taming is key. It's honestly a constant battle for me!