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Evolutionary Metaphors
An exploration of the occult, esoteric, imaginative and creative speculations that have resonated around the UFO phenomenon.
David J. Moore
Existentialism, Metaphysics, Ufos & extraterrestrials
Evolutionary Metaphors is an exploration of the many occult, esoteric, imaginative as well as creative speculations that have resonated around the UFO phenomenon. Understanding the phenomena as an archetypal challenge to our cultural limitations, the author, David J. Moore, incorporates Colin Wilson's optimistic 'new existentialism' with the recent studies in ufology.
The book presents a spiritual and philosophical foundation for the creative integration of our consciousness towards anomalous experience. It is a call for what Carl Jung called 'active imagination' and Coleridge's poetic-imaginative access to the deeper streams of consciousness - that which exists below the iceberg. By presenting a fresh approach in the inter-disciplinary spirit, Moore offers a vision into human existence - as well as the symbolical realities - that aims to integrate our evolutionary minds with a new understanding of reality.
This is an intriguing study of how to make sense of UFOs starting from the 'new existentialism' and a specific book by Colin Wilson on the subject. Like Jung, the author sees the phenomenon as an archetypal challenge to our cultural limitations and explanations of consciousness, challenging, like synchronicity, a sharp distinction between inside and outside by developing the higher reaches of imagination. Interpretation is key, and we have to use metaphors in this respect to achieve what William James called a more enveloping point of view. The existentialist angle comes in with the discussion of perception, will and intentionality in terms of the development of consciousness and therefore of access to deeper layers of being and knowability where we discover our ultimate non-separation…………….. ~ David Lorimer, Paradigm Explorer
David Moore is one of a new generation of scholars inspired by the work of Colin Wilson (1931-2013). Assessments of Wilson to date, however, have concentrated on his early work as an existentialist philosopher, largely ignoring his later interests. In Evolutionary Metaphors David Moore takes as his focus Wilson's latter fascination with the 'UFO Phenomenon' as revealed in his 1998 book Alien Dawn. In so doing he provides a fresh and stimulating view of the work of one of the most fascinating and challenging authors of our time. ~ Colin Stanley, author of Colin Wilson's Occult Trilogy
Do flying saucers come from outer space, or the inner mind? In Evolutionary Metaphors David Moore brilliantly suggests they may originate in that strange liminal dimension that exists "betwixt and between"reality and dream, neither "inside" nor "out," which we know as the imagination. But what exactly is that? As Moore's hermeneutical journey reveals, it is nothing less than a mystery as mysterious as the UFOs themselves. Like a phenomenological man in black, Moore pursues abductor and abductee, and finds that the evidence for extraterrestrials poses some fundamental questions about reality itself. No spacecraft required. Reading this alone will take you out of this world. ~ Gary Lachman, author of Dark Star Rising: Magick and Power in the Age of Trump
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Does It Rain in Other Dimensions?
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Our Eternal Existence
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PSUC looks for defensive rebound
2 years ago Nathanael LePage
After falling in the very first regular season game, the Plattsburgh State men's hockey team looks to bounce back with a pair of games against a conference foe this weekend.
At 7 p.m. on both Friday and Saturday, the Cardinals (0-1-0) will face off against the Mustangs of Morrisville State College (0-0-2) in the Ronald B. Stafford Ice Arena. With the Cards in search of their first win of the season, they hope it will come against this SUNYAC opponent.
The Mustangs enter the weekend coming off of two ties against Manhattanville College and Stevenson University on the back of SUNYAC Goaltender of the Week, Jared Young. Young made a total of 81 saves out of 85 shots in those two games.
PSUC sophomore defenseman Antoine Fournier is confident the team can get good results against the Mustangs.
"We've just got to approach it like any other game," Fournier said. "If we stick to our game plan, I think we should have a good game."
Fournier added that playing one opponent twice in the same weekend makes preparation easier on the Cards.
"We're going to focus more on what that team does," Fournier said. "On the [penalty kill] we'll focus more on what they're doing on the powerplay, so we can counter that. Same thing with our defensive play. We know what their forecheck is going to be, so we can put the emphasis on that to make sure we're ready for those games."
That emphasis on defensive play will be important to a PSUC team that struggled in that area last weekend.
Despite preseason victories of 5-1 over Skidmore College and 9-2 over CÉGEP André-Laurendeau, the Cards officially began the 2017-2018 men's ice hockey season with a 4-3 defeat against the Kangroos of SUNY Canton. The Cards will look to correct the mistakes that allowed the 'Roos to take a 2-0 lead just 99 seconds into the game.
"The first goal was a two-on-one," freshman goaltender Jimmy Poreda said. "The guy made a really good pass; I think it went under our defenseman's stick.
I got over, I think I did what I wanted to do and didn't give him a lot of net to shoot at. He just beat me."
While acknowledging the effort by the Canton goalscorer on the play, Poreda did not hesitate to put some emphasis on the Cards' defensive errors that led to those offensive opportunities for the Kangaroos.
"We've got to eliminate the turnovers," Poreda said. "There were a couple of costly turnovers. A couple times they just beat us out wide or there was a lack of communication in front of the net and a guy was open."
PSUC head coach Bob Emery concurred with this assessment that the defensive play was not up to the standard he expects.
"We've got to be more responsible," Emery said. "The name of the game is keeping pucks out of your net."
The team is preparing to face an opponent with a solid goaltender, and Emery said that this adds to the importance of playing good defensive hockey.
"The way the game of hockey is played now, and with the size of the goalies, and the goalie equipment, you've got to be prepared to win the game 1-0," Emery said. "We didn't do that in the first game. We gave up two goals in a minute and a half."
Emery added that giving up the early lead to Canton allowed the Kangaroos to make the remainder of the game even more difficult for the Cards.
"It's tough to play catch-up," Emery said. "Teams will play differently with the lead against us. Obviously, Canton played very tight defensively with the lead."
In Emery's opinion, the goals allowed were not because of insufficient play in net.
"We can't leave [the goaltender] hanging out to dry and give up the quality of chances we did," Emery said. "We gave up two-on-ones and breakaways; You won't win a lot of games doing that."
While defense is a priority in PSUC's effort to recover from the loss, Emery added that discipline is also a major problem.
"We didn't take a lot of penalties in that game, but we took some dumb penalties," Emery said. "I'm very concerned about the bad penalties we took. There'll be some ramifications from those."
Beyond the defensive issues and penalty troubles, Emery was content with what he saw out of his team on the offensive end of the ice, but there is still room to improve.
"I've nothing to take away from Canton; They played a great defensive game," Emery said. "We put up 47 shots, and they blocked another 20, so our offense was there. I'd like to see us find a way to get one or two more goals, even if they're dirty and greasy."
Email Nathanael LePage at sports@cardinalpointsonline.com
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Blog - Digital or print? Which works best for direct mail?
Some of the stand-out winners at the latest NZDM Awards were digital, but many of them were print or a combination of digital and print. There was even one embroidered on a business shirt.
The award results confirmed something we already know at Soar: for one-to-one marketing, print is very much alive and kicking. Despite the growth of the online world, print on paper continues to be a superior way to engage and motivate your target audience.
So when is print more effective than digital?
New donors for your charity. In the US fundraising world, print is winning hands-down. There's a huge weight of evidence showing that direct mail fundraising eclipses email fundraising. For example, hard copy direct mail is responsible for 75% of new donors while only 16% of new donors make their first gift online.
Visibility for your annual report. A BBC report that attributes Warren Buffet's decision to invest $10.7 billion in IBM to the printed annual report he received and just happened to read. PDF annual reports don't hang around on coffee tables – they're out of sight and out of mind.
Support for a high value or high risk purchase. There's some compelling marketing research that says consumers still want and need a brochure to support their purchase decision, particularly for high-value or high-risk items, and especially in situations where they might take a while to make a decision. Property, finance, automotive and travel are sectors that can't do without hard copy brochures.
The full attention of your potential customers. Researchers at Ball State University found that people are much more likely to devote full attention to print publications than to digital and electronic media. Websites are often skimmed in as little as a 15 second visit and people read digital screen text 20% to 30% slower than printed paper. With hard copy print they're reading more and they're engaged for longer.
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What do we mean when we talk about "oil consumption"? The average American uses around three gallons of oil a day. It is an essential part of our economy; it drives our vehicles, flies our planes, is the base for the synthetic products we use in the household or in the clothing we wear. It is even part of the food we eat.
Why paint or write or even think about any of this? Because oil is a finite resource. We have already used over half of the earth's oil supply, in just about a century's worth of consumption. I use petroleum products every hour of every day, and I wanted to take a moment to slow down and learn about why and how it has become such an essential part of my existence.
This body of work began in 2017 during an art residency in a tiny, rural town in Oklahoma called Alva. It observes the intimate, complex relationship humans have with our petroleum products.
It is about the oil jacks that litter the landscape, rocking up and down.
About the refineries—their necessity and their ugliness.
It hints at the everyday life enabled by and shrouded in petroleum, and our complicity.
It is about the history of oil, of the automobile, of American innovation and destruction and of our need for speed and convenience, which always go hand-in-hand.
As energy industries continue to innovate and markets to shift, as fossil fuel resources become scarcer and renewable energy sources become more abundant, this multimedia installation opens the door to consider humanity's relationship with oil.
A depiction of the Golden Eagle Oil Refinery in Martinez, CA. Watercolor on yupo paper. 18in x 26in.
"Tiny Pumpjacks" and "Tanker Accidents 1 & 2"
Watercolor on paper. Sizes vary from 6in to 10in.
Watercolor on paper. 3.5in x 5.5in.
Assorted materials (installation view at NWOSU in Alva, OK). Seen on the ground: "Tanker Train".
Oil crayon on plastic tarp. 8in x 12ft.
Oil paint and oil crayon on yupo paper. 22in x 26in.
Selenite crystals, motor oil and plastic planter tray.
"Falling 'Deep Below Heaven'" is a series of three, life-size watercolor portraits that together explore the delicious abandon, the uncertainty, the sorrow and the peace experienced through the act of letting go of a tenacious yet ultimately ineffectual grasp on a sense of control. The figures fall from the paper even as they remain attached, finally landing and becoming grounded. This commune with the inevitable and uncontrollable is a process that is completely human; it is mysterious and frightening, but it is necessary and even, maybe, good.
Gallery installation view. Arc Gallery, San Francisco, March 2015.
Watercolor. 96in x 45in. 2017.
Watercolor. 80in x 52in. 2017.
This ongoing series subverts the viewer's ability to "see" or to perceive a woman at once, in her entirety. Each portrait is painted in watercolor or in India ink on the curled ends of Arches paper rolls.
After Dorothea Tanning's "The Birthday"
Collected view: Betty Paige, Francesca Woodman, Self-portrait, Frida Kahlo, Cindy Sherman.
Transfix | Transfigure is an ongoing series (started in 2016) about the things we carry in life. The objects balanced around the female shoulders are things I've picked off the ground--broken car window glass and broken chandeliers, feathers, mossy bark. Stepping away from solely painting, I invite the viewer to consider the human body as it relates to the inevitable and mysterious draw of a found object.
"Misty's Arms", a study of ballet dancer Misty Copeland.
"Transfix | Transfigure" installation at The Midway Gallery. October 2016.
These works deal with the idea of changing identities--of having been one thing, and becoming something else entirely after a life-altering event. Although these portraits resemble real people, they are truly shells, images of former selves.
Watercolor/pen&ink. 11in x 14in. 2013.
During a time spent studying in New York City, I took photos and painted portraits of people I came upon in the streets. I wanted to direct attention to the anonymous people we encounter every day and pass by without giving a second thought to.
Watercolor and pen and ink. 90in x 44 1/2in.
Watercolor and pen and ink. 102in x 60in.


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To buy any of the following items, contact your nearest Area Office to request a catalogue and price list, and find out the cost of your order (including postage).
Since its founding in 1951, Al Anon Family Groups has published more than 100 books and pamphlets that share a single purpose: to help family and friends recover from the effects of someone else's drinking. This literature supplements the face-to-face meetings where Al Anon members share their insights and experiences with each other. It is only one tool of the Al Anon program.
Al Anon literature is most fully understood when used in conjunction with other tools of the program. The books and pamphlets can strengthen your recovery, but they cannot substitute for the help and healing that takes place at Al Anon meetings in the context of a complete recovery program.
Al-Anon Is for Men
Yes, Al-Anon is for men, too. Al-Anon is a great democracy where all affected by the drinking of another are made to feel welcome - where newcomers can find out if Al-Anon Family Groups can offer help in their situation.
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Al-Anon, You and the Alcoholic
Starting with a question: 'Does a family member or close friend have a drinking problem?', this pamphlet leads the reader through a series of questions to help reveal the ways that Al-Anon Family Group meetings can help.
A Merry-Go-Round Named Denial
This address originally formed part of a workshop in 1968; today the important concepts remain true for most of us
Alcoholism, The Family Disease
A useful resource for new members and long-term members alike, explaining a whole range of "Al-Anon basics" and offering a virtual potpouri of practical information. This pamphlet is also available in large print (P-4L).
Freedom From Despair
A message of hope, especially for the newer member
Guide for the Family of the Alcoholic
The opening words say it all: 'The family's best defense against the emotional impact of alcoholism is to gain knowledge of this disease and achieve growth in emotional maturity and courage needed to put it into effect.'
How Can I Help My Children?
Inspiring stories by parents describe how they helped their children understand the family disease of alcoholism. 24 pages.
Purpose and Suggestions
This resource is a foundational tool, one that is often offered to the new arriver.
So You Love An Alcoholic
An important resource, mostly for newer members of the Al-Anon program - yet we all need a refresher from time to time!
Three Views of Al-Anon
This powerful pamphlet explains the Al-Anon program - from three discreet points of view (which can all coexist inside one family).
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Tyczek-Nosek – część wsi Tyczek, położona w Polsce, w województwie mazowieckim, w powiecie ostrołęckim, w gminie Łyse.

Dawna wieś.

Historia
W latach 1921–1939 wieś leżała w województwie białostockim, w powiecie kolneńskim (od 1932 w powiecie ostrołęckim), w gminie Łyse.

Według Powszechnego Spisu Ludności z 1921 roku zamieszkiwało tu 67 osób w 12 budynkach mieszkalnych. Miejscowość należała do parafii rzymskokatolickiej w m. Łyse. Podlegała pod Sąd Grodzki w Kolnie i Okręgowy w Łomży; właściwy urząd pocztowy mieścił się w m. Łyse.

W wyniku agresji Niemiec we wrześniu 1939, miejscowość została przyłączona do III Rzeszy i znalazła się w strukturach Landkreis Scharfenwiese (ostrołęcki) w rejencji ciechanowskiej (Regierungsbezirk Zichenau) Prus Wschodnich.

W latach 1975–1998 wieś administracyjnie należała do województwa ostrołęckiego.

Przypisy

Łyse (gmina)

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USDA Announces Investment to Improve Rural Electric Infrastructure in Kansas
Jessica Bowser
jessica.bowser@ks.usda.gov
Assistant to the Secretary for Rural Development Anne Hazlett today announced that USDA is investing $1.6 billion in 46 rural electric utility infrastructure projects (PDF, 170 KB) to improve electric reliability and resilience in 24 states.
"Reliable and affordable power is an underpinning for economic development and quality of life," Hazlett said. "Under the leadership of Secretary Sonny Perdue, USDA is committed to being a strong partner in building prosperity in rural communities through the sustainment and modernization of rural electric infrastructure."
The 46 projects announced today are being funded through USDA's Electric Program. These investments will help contribute to a stronger rural electric system by improving operations and reliability. USDA's funding will help build or improve 5,833 miles of line. It includes $307 million in smart grid technologies, which improve system operations and monitor grid security. These investments, such as the ones listed below, will benefit 7 million rural business and residential electric consumers across the country.
In Kansas, the following cooperatives received financing:
Caney Valley Electric Cooperative Association will use a $4.78 million loan to build 18 miles of line, improve 37 miles and make other system improvements. The loan amount includes $312,100 for smart grid projects. Caney Valley is headquartered in Cedar Vale. It serves 5,398 consumers through 1,715 miles of energized line in all or portions of Butler, Chautauqua, Cowley, Elk and Montgomery counties.
Bluestem Electric Cooperative Inc. will use a $5.196 million loan to construct a headquarters facility. Bluestem is headquartered in Wamego. It serves approximately 7,166 consumers in Pottawatomie, Jackson, Wabaunsee, Riley, Marshall, Clay, Washington, Cloud and Ottawa counties.
In April 2017, President Donald J. Trump established the Interagency Task Force on Agriculture and Rural Prosperity to identify legislative, regulatory and policy changes that could promote agriculture and prosperity in rural communities. In January 2018, Secretary Perdue presented the Task Force's findings to President Trump. These findings included 31 recommendations to align the federal government with state, local and tribal governments to take advantage of opportunities that exist in rural America. Increasing investments in rural infrastructure is a key recommendation of the task force.
To view the report in its entirety, please view the Report to the President of the United States from the Task Force on Agriculture and Rural Prosperity (PDF, 5.4 MB). In addition, to view the categories of the recommendations, please view the Rural Prosperity infographic (PDF, 190 KB).
USDA Rural Development provides loans and grants to help expand economic opportunities and create jobs in rural areas. This assistance supports infrastructure improvements; business development; housing; community facilities such as schools, public safety and health care; and high-speed internet access in rural areas. For more information, visit www.rd.usda.gov/ks.


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Dear Matt: Looking at buying my first place.... Lawsuits?!
Have a question about real estate that you would like answered? Email Matt directly Matt@MattRichling.com.
I'm looking at buying my first condo in Ottawa and my search keeps bringing me to a particular building. I love the central location and the prices aren't as high as the new builds I've seen. I have been told that it has a lawsuit against the builder, any idea on that?
I'm wondering if you have any more information about situations like this and weather it is a bad idea to bad in a building that has a lawsuit or other issues.
Right off the bat, talk to your lawyer. If/when you decide to move forward, you will include a condition in the Agreement of Purchase and Sale (APS) that allows your lawyer time to review the status certificate and documents. During this period, you will be able to find out much more detailed information about the condo corporation, building by-laws, financial history, and any projected increases in fees, among other things.
HOWEVER. Lawyers are hired by you, to save you from any trouble. Think guardian angel sorta domain. So when it comes time to choose your lawyer, be very picky on who you have standing in your corner. Ideally you want someone who is local, who is not afraid to tell you the issues, but is able to remove judgement from the issues and not scare you. Great example is also the building inspector, who is also working for you to find issues and give you information. A good building inspector can tell you all the issues without saying personal judgement - "Don't buy this", "I love this builder", These renovations look horrible", "I would live here" etc. You want facts. Not emotion. A good lawyer will tell you the facts without trying to scare you.
That being said, purchasing a unit while knowing that there are issues in the building is a risk. Lawsuits are not "cut and dry" and it can go either way. It can be resolved and the building/condo corporation gets what it wants, or the builder can win and certain costs could be picked up by the owners in a special assessment or increase in condo fees.
You need to fully understand the issues, get the facts, listen to the professionals who you hire to look out for you, and know if you are comfortable taking a risk like this or not.


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The UEFA European Football Championship, less formally the European Championship and informally the Euros, is the primary association football tournament organized by the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA). The competition is contested by UEFA members' senior men's national teams, determining the continental champion of Europe. The competition has been held every four years since 1960, except for 2020, when it was postponed until 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Europe, but kept the name Euro 2020. Scheduled to be in the even-numbered year between FIFA World Cup tournaments, it was originally called the European Nations' Cup, changing to the current name in 1968. Since 1996, the individual events have been branded as "UEFA Euro [year]".
Before entering the tournament, all teams other than the host nations (which qualify automatically) compete in a qualifying process. Until 2016 the championship winners could compete in the following FIFA Confederations Cup, but were not obliged to do so.
The sixteen European Championship tournaments have been won by ten national teams: Germany and Spain have each won three titles, Italy and France have won two titles, and the Soviet Union, Czechoslovakia, the Netherlands, Denmark, Greece and Portugal have won one title each. To date, Spain is the only team in history to have won consecutive titles, doing so in 2008 and 2012. It is the second-most watched football tournament in the world after the FIFA World Cup. The Euro 2012 final was watched by a global audience of around 300 million.
The most recent championship, held across Europe in 2021 (postponed from 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic), was won by Italy, who lifted their second European title after beating England in the final at Wembley Stadium in London on penalties.
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UEFA accommodated a meeting request from A22 Sports, a private commercial venture, today in Nyon by offering them a chance to address all the genuine representative authorities of European football. Top management of UEFA, led by President Aleksander Čeferin, and high representatives from the national leagues, clubs, players and fans, stressed together that the opposition to the self-proclaimed super league remains overwhelming today as it has been since April 2021.
In line with the unity of European football, UEFA and the participating football stakeholders once again unanimously rejected the rationale underpinning projects such as ESL during today's discussion. The participants took note, with surprise, of the claims of the A22 Sports CEO that this company is not representing any clubs in any capacity, including the three clubs who continue to openly support the project.
UEFA and football stakeholders remain committed to the foundations of European football, which are based on openness, solidarity and meritocracy and serve broader objectives of sporting principles and societal interest, rather than privilege and self-entitlement.
This approach has been given unanimous support by the European Commission, the European Parliament, the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe and extensive support from national governments, public institutions, and stakeholders across the continent.
UEFA was inaugurated on 15 June 1954 in Basel, Switzerland after consultation between the Italian, French, and Belgian associations. At the founding meeting, 25 members were present. However, 6 other associations which were not present were still recognised as founding members, bringing the total of founding associations to 31. UEFA grew to more than 50 members by the mid-1990s, as new associations were born out of the fragmentation of the Soviet Union, Yugoslavia and Czechoslovakia into their constituent states.
UEFA's main headquarters after its foundation were located in Paris, but moved to Bern in 1960. They moved to Nyon, Switzerland, in 1995, where they operated out of temporary offices until 1999 while the organisation's current headquarters were under construction.
UEFA membership coincides for the most part with recognition as a sovereign country in Europe (48 out of 55 members are sovereign UN member states), although there are some exceptions. One UN member state (Monaco) and one UN General Assembly non-member observer state (Vatican City) are not members. Some UEFA members are not sovereign states, but form part of a larger recognised sovereign state in the context of international law. These include England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales (constituent countries of the United Kingdom), Gibraltar (British Overseas Territory), the Faroe Islands (autonomous territory within the Kingdom of Denmark), and Kosovo (state with limited recognition), however, in the context of these countries, government functions concerning sport tend to be carried at the territorial level coterminous with the UEFA member entity.
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Army Spc. Morganne McBeth, 19, died July 2, 2010 of wounds sustained on July 1. This was considered a non combat death in Iraq and her death was ruled a homicide. Morganne was supporting Operation Iraqi Freedom on behalf of the 1st Special Troops Battalion, 1st Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division at Fort Bragg in North Carolina. McBeth was stabbed by a fellow Army soldier Specialist Nicholas Bailey. According to court testimony, Bailey stabbed Morganne McBeth while 'horsing around' in a tent in Iraq. Nicholas Bailey was sentenced to nine months in prison, demoted to private, and given a bad conduct discharge.
2 Bragg soldiers charged in stabbing of spc.
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British Racing Motors
BRM designed and built some of the most beautiful racing cars ever to grace the circuit. From the fearsome power of the V16 to the simplicity of the P25 which secured BRM's first Grand Prix victory and represented the front-engine cars of the 1950s. The 1960s saw the switch to rear-engine cars and Hill's legendary P578 'Old Faithful' brought BRM's World Constructors' Championship and his own inaugural Drivers' Championship. In 1964, the beautiful P261 became BRM's most successful car before the advent of the H16 and the powerful V12s, including the P153 and Lauda's distinctive Marlboro BRM P160. The Motul P201 was BRM's final factory produced car.
P15 1.5 LITRE V16 MK 1
The BRM Type 15 'Chassis Number 1' is arguably Britain's most important Formula 1 car and truly deserves it's Iconic status. It recently won the People's Vote for their favourite car in 70 years of Formula One at The Magnetto Virtual Concours. It carried the weight of expectation of the whole nation; not only as a focal point for British engineering excellence and prestige, but as a venture designed to lift the spirits of a nation. Despite failing in its first outing whilst still in development, when on song, such as with Fangio at Albi in 1953, nothing could live with it/nothing could compete. Fangio's V16 had 72 psi boost (4.9 ata) and 585 bhp (436 kW) @ 11,800 rpm and incredibly, he reached over 190 mph (306km/h). Test figures from Rolls-Royce at that time suggested that the engine would be able to run at up to 14,000 rpm…
P578 – 'OLD FAITHFUL'
Eight-cylinder vee-type engine, double overhead camshafts, two valves per cylinder, 1498 cc, 193 bhp at 10,250 rpm. This specific car is arguably the most famous BRM car, affectionately known as "Old Faithful," she brought driver, Graham Hill, the Formula I World Drivers' Championship and BRM the Formula One Constructors' World Championship in 1962. "Old Faithful" is one of the highest mileage cars in Grand Prix history, having raced for both works and Scuderia Centro-Sud in 1963, for veteran driver Maurice Trintignant in 1964 and Centro-Sud again in 1965, over 20,000 miles!
The P261 was introduced in 1964 and powered by a BRM V8, 1.5-litre: 2 Valves/Cylinder, naturally aspirated, Lucas fuel injection engine developing 205BHP. The P261 had a relatively long racing career; variants of the car were still being entered for Formula One World Championship Grands Prix as late as 1968. During the course of their front-line career BRM P261s won six World Championship races, in the hands of works driver's Graham Hill and Jackie Stewart and finished second in both the Drivers' and Constructors' Championship standings in 1964 and 1965.Not only was the P261 BRM's most beautiful car, in terms of races won and total Championship points scored, the P261 was also the most successful car in BRM's history.
P153 3.0 LITRE V12
The BRM P153 was designed by Tony Southgate and raced in 1970, 1971 and 1972 seasons. It was powered by a 3.0-litre V12 engine and claimed victory at the 1970 Belgian Grand Prix when Pedro Rodriguez beat the second-placed March of Chris Amon by just 1.1 seconds. The model was first shown in our traditional British racing green, but by the time it appeared on the race tracks it was in the colours of the team's sponsor, Yardley of London. In contrast to the other British teams, amongst whom the Cosworth DFV V8 had become ubiquitous, we chose a different route for the P153's engine. In accordance with BRM's long-standing practice of building both chassis and engine, we installed our existing 3.0-litre, 48-valve V12 engine that produced approximately 435 bhp (324 kW) with a redline of 11,000 RPM.
P160B/C/D/E
The BRM P160 was designed by Tony Southgate and was powered by a 3.0-litre V12 engine. It raced in the 1971-1974 Formula One seasons and claimed 3 Grand Prix wins driven by Jo Siffert and then Gethin, in Yardley colours. The 1971 Italian Grand Prix is still the closest Formula One race in history as Gethin pipped Peterson by 0.010 seconds! The P160 was later driven to victory in the Dutch Grand Prix by Jean Pierre Beltoise in the distinctive Marlboro livery. In 1973 Lauda joined BRM, impressing Enzo Ferrari – who was to later sign the future 3-time World Champion.


This purpose of this BP is to avoid code duplications of classes and parameters, and to prevent instability in the iSER driver flow, for the TGT and LIO cases.
Currently the iSER driver is supported over TGT only, without LIO support.
There are a couple of iSER classes that inherit from iSCSI driver/target classes, but most of their functionality is the same as the iSCSI classes. This code duplication causes instability in the iSER driver code, when new features or changes are added to the iSCSI driver flow.
These two problems can be solved by adding a small fix, which includes a new enable_iser parameter within iSCSI Tgt/LIO classes.
All that is needed for RDMA support over iSER, in the Tgt and LIO cases, is to set just one extra parameter in the volume creation stage.
A deprecation alert will be added to ISERTgtAdm, since This change will act as a replacement to the current iSER Tgt code.
Leaving ISERTgtAdm, LVMISERDriver, ISERDriver and iser_opts the way they are, or just deprecating a part of them (but it will miss the purpose of this code refactoring).
Adding a new "enable_iser" parameter, set to "False" by default. This parameter will be used in TGT or LIO volume creation for setting RDMA based portals.
This single parameter will deprecate all iser_opts parameters, that are a duplication from iscsi parameters.
This change will simplify the maintanance of the iSER driver flow, since no extra classes or duplicated parameters will be used.
Fix bug https://bugs.launchpad.net/cinder/+bug/1396265 and add the correct driver parameter, with a configurable value to VOLUME_CONF and VOLUME_CONF_WITH_CHAP_AUTH.
Add a new "enable_iser" parameter that is set to false by default.
Set the driver parameter at the VOLUME_CONFs template in TgtAdm for the TGT case.
Add _set_iser(1) on the network portal object in rtslib for the LIO case, according to "enable_iser" value.
Set ISCSIDriver's "driver_volume_type" to "iscsi" or "iser" value, according to the "enable_iser" value.
HW that supports RDMA is required in order to test volume attachment over iSER.
A new unit test will be added with the new enable_iser parameter over iSCSI volume driver.


Part of the EduBloggerCon tradition, SocialEdCon is the fifth all-day unconference held the Saturday before ISTE, and it's a great event for beginners and regular attenders alike! Come join us for an amazing community experience filled with interesting conversations in a highly social environment.
SocialEdCon is free (thanks to the amazing generosity of ISTE). IMPORTANT: There is no formal signup, but for planning purposes, communication, and connecting with others, it's helpful to have you indicate your attendance at the Classroom 2.0 event page.
Honestly, this is a great event, and many will tell you it is the event to attend at ISTE because it's all about connecting and sharing. SocialEdCon is based on the idea of an "unconference", and is being organized by the participants in real time on-site. It's maybe better referred to as a "collaborative conference." There are no formal presentations, just "conversations" that you or others facilitate. To lead a session, it is not expected that you prepare material but that you have a topic you want to open to discussion. If you're not sure what to expect for EduBloggerCon, take a look at the photos and schedule from EduBloggerCon 2011. Every year is different but equally fun!
Determine roles and process: session ideas organizing, wiki mirroring, hashtag creation, etc.
9:00 am Session Creation Process--final proposals and voting!


Herders with their cows in Laikipia. Photo by USAID made available under a Creative Commons license.
Let's begin with the article's descriptions of the Laikipia landscape—"undulating savannah, forests, winding rivers, waterfalls, rocky hills and steep-shouldered escarpments. The land is home to elephants and rhinos, giraffes, zebras and antelopes, wild dogs, bat-eared foxes and lions." It was here, the article continues, that "white, often British, settlers came to farm wheat and raise cattle during the first half of the 20th century, before independence. " The ahistoricism of the description is jarring. It suggests that Laikipia was a terra nullius, an empty, unclaimed vastness waiting for someone to put it to good use. This, of course, is not the case.
Due to the current violence, McConnell's article reports, some ranches have closed and some owners are considering selling. But others, Gallmann among them, are hunkering down. "They are going to get tired of it," she says. "I know I will outlast them. There is no doubt in my mind." "They", meaning the impoverished local Pokot militiias encroaching on "the environment". They will get tired. Kuki Gallmann will outlast them.
This article was originally published by Global Voices. It has been re-published at IC under a Creative Commons License.


I have always dreaded the task of writing an Easter sermon. One root of the problem has been the desire to get it all wrapped up in some neat and convincing package of words. All of us share with our age the analytical passion to get at the root of all things. We also share the pride that impels us to think our little box of brains is adequate to the task.


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Coats for the Children Telethon Brings in $85,500
WRAL-TV filled its studios with volunteers and staffers for the 17th Annual Coats for the Children Telethon.
WRAL-TV's 17th Annual Coats for the Children Telethon will go down in history as a huge success. Held on Friday, December 9, 2005, the day-long event raised $85,500, close to $12,000 more than last year's total. All funds will go directly to the Salvation Army to purchase new winter coats and clothing for children in need.
WRAL considers this accomplishment even greater because it comes during a year when we have asked our viewers to support Tsunami, Katrina and Ophelia relief efforts. The amount raised says a lot about the generosity of our community.
WRAL-TV's Mark Roberts takes a break from traffic to ask viewers to give.
WRAL-TV's Phillip Boyd coordinates from behind the scenes.
Volunteers manned phone banks all day long, taking donations from viewers.
Special incentives offered throughout the telethon this year also brought in big donations. WRAL-TV Anchor Bill Leslie & his Lorica musical group played live during the 12:30pm telethon program and offered 20 of their "Christmas in Carolina" CDs as thank you gifts for specific donations throughout the day. In fact, they helped WRAL raise $1,870 in just 30 minutes! And a big thanks goes to CrossRoads Ford; Tom Smith presented a $10,000 check during the 7pm special!
WRAL-TV's Bill Leslie (right) & his musical group Lorica performed for the 12:30pm special & helped raise funds by donating some of his Christmas CDs.
WRAL-TV's Anchors Pam Saulsby (left) & David Crabtree playfully banter as they encourage viewers to call in.
The telethon was a huge success, but it's still not too late to help. WRAL-TV will be collecting new or "gently used" coats and other winter garments at our studios, as well as at any Jiffy Lube or Capital Bank location, through the end of December. WRAL-FM also has a collection barrel at its studios on Hillsborough Street. Viewers can also make financial donations through December 31st by going to WRAL.com and clicking on the Coats logo.
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Q: How to install skyrim using wine? I used the following commands from

 to install skyrim on linux using wine

sudo apt-get update
sudo rm -rf ~/.wine
WINEARCH=win32 wineboot --update
sudo apt-get install curl (optional)
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-wine/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install wine1.7-i386 (might be required on x86 systems)
sudo apt-get install wine1.7 winetricks
winetricks --no-isolate steam

however I keep getting stuck in the Alduin loading screen with a resource management error. I tried re-running the game a second time to copy down the error from the terminal, but I honestly do not know what the terminal command is to run skyrim. I tried the following command and received the following error
$ wine steam
wine: cannot find L"C:\\windows\\system32\\steam.exe"

Does anyone know the proper way to install skyrim using wine on linux? I also tried Playonliux and received a similar issue.
Skyrim running on Playonlinux below? Still laggy and unable to enter and exit skyrim smoothly without force quieting.
$ playonlinux steam
Looking for python... 2.7.3 - selected
[main] Message: PlayOnLinux (4.2.2) is starting
[clean_tmp] Message: Cleaning temp directory
[Check_OpenGL] Message: 32bits direct rendering is enabled
[Check_OpenGL] Message: 64bits direct rendering is enabled
[POL_System_CheckFS] Message: Checking filesystem for /home/gin/.PlayOnLinux/
[main] Message: Filesystem is compatible
gin@ger:~$ playonlinux
Looking for python... 2.7.3 - selected
[main] Message: PlayOnLinux (4.2.2) is starting
[clean_tmp] Message: Cleaning temp directory
[Check_OpenGL] Message: 32bits direct rendering is enabled
[Check_OpenGL] Message: 64bits direct rendering is enabled
[POL_System_CheckFS] Message: Checking filesystem for /home/gin/.PlayOnLinux/
[main] Message: Filesystem is compatible
[install_plugins] Message: Checking plugin: Capture...
[install_plugins] Message: Checking plugin: ScreenCap...
[install_plugins] Message: Checking plugin: PlayOnLinux Vault...
[maj_check] Message: Web version : 1400470683
[maj_check] Message: Current local version : 1400139386
[maj_check] Message: Updating list
[POL_Config_Write] Message: Config write: LAST_TIMESTAMP 1400470683
[POL_System_CheckFS] Message: Checking filesystem for Steam.exe
[POL_Wine] Message: Running wine-1.5.25 Steam.exe (Working directory : /home/gin/.PlayOnLinux/wineprefix/Steam/drive_c/Program Files/Steam)
[POL_Wine] Message: Notice: PlayOnLinux deliberately disables winemenubuilder. See http://www.playonlinux.com/fr/page-26-Winemenubuilder.html
[0519/122746:ERROR:resource_bundle.cc(417)] Failed to load C:\Program Files\Steam\bin\chrome.pak
Some features may not be available.
[0519/122746:ERROR:network_change_notifier_win.cc(126)] WSALookupServiceBegin failed with: 8
[0519/122813:ERROR:network_change_notifier_win.cc(126)] WSALookupServiceBegin failed with: 8
[0519/122821:ERROR:network_change_notifier_win.cc(126)] WSALookupServiceBegin failed with: 8
Setting breakpad minidump AppID = 72850
Steam_SetMinidumpSteamID:  Caching Steam ID:  76561198072153712 [API loaded no]
Setting breakpad minidump AppID = 72850
Steam_SetMinidumpSteamID:  Caching Steam ID:  76561198072153712 [API loaded no]
Setting breakpad minidump AppID = 72850
Steam_SetMinidumpSteamID:  Caching Steam ID:  76561198072153712 [API loaded no]
Setting breakpad minidump AppID = 72850
Steam_SetMinidumpSteamID:  Caching Steam ID:  76561198072153712 [API loaded no]
[0519/122950:ERROR:resource_bundle.cc(417)] Failed to load C:\Program Files\Steam\bin\chrome.pak
Some features may not be available.
[0519/122950:ERROR:network_change_notifier_win.cc(126)] WSALookupServiceBegin failed with: 8
^CSetting breakpad minidump AppID = 72850
Steam_SetMinidumpSteamID:  Caching Steam ID:  76561198072153712 [API loaded no]
^C^C^C^C[POL_Wine] Message: Wine return: 1
[POL_SetupWindow_Init] Message: Creating new window for pid 8711
^C^C
Ctrl+C pressed. Killing all processes...

A: This tutorial works perfectly for me.
I'm playing Skyrim for Steam flawless!
But to run steam you should use the following command:

$ nohup wine "/home/USER/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/Steam/Steam.exe" &

This will make you terminal free for closing after Steam started.
Or you can just run [Yet, you can make a skyrim.desktop file for this command]:

$ wine "/home/USER/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/Steam/Steam.exe"

I hope this help.

A: Dont use wine. use PlayOnLinux
sudo apt-get install playonlinux

It's an easier way to install anything for linux that wasn't made for linux. It was recently updated to support Skyrim.

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Agent - From initial contact to the closing date, I work hard to make the buying process a positive experience for clients. Dealing with lenders, appraisers, surveyors, and title companies can become overwhelming. My job is to coordinate the buying process and alleviate some of the stress involved in purchasing a home or recreational property. I was born in South Dakota but raised in Texas. Family in both states made for a well-rounded childhood and gave me an important understanding of the diversity in people. I graduated from Albany High School and Cisco Junior College so I am familiar with the Big Country area. I have a unique insight of local commerce including hunting, cattle, farming and the oilfield. With more than 14 years as a professional realtor, my background helps me successfully work and coordinate with all people. During my free time, I enjoy my family, the lake, live music and of course Friday night football! I take pride in providing great service and have many return clients who know I will handle whatever it takes to help them walk away happy!


Shallow Seas are the most biologically rich and productive areas of the world ocean. This latest New Naturalist volume provides a natural history of this environment and its biological communities. The margins of the continents especially broad in the North Atlantic region are drowned by shallow seas creating a sea floor environment which is part of the wider and deepening benthic realm - the ecological region at the lowest level of a body of water such as an ocean or a lake including the sediment surface and some sub-surface layers. These 'shelf seas' are the most biologically rich and productive areas of the world ocean. In his latest New Naturalist volume Peter Hayward addresses some aspects of the natural history of the benthic environment of the shelf seas of northwest Europe and its biological communities. Away from rocky coastlines the seafloor is rather flat often muddy beneath turbid water with low or no visibility. Benthic faunas mostly live within the sediment of the seafloor or are sparsely and patchily distributed upon it and if at all motile are likely to withdraw into burrows or move quickly away on disturbance. Yet dredges and grabs reveal an often extraordinary diversity and density of animals suggestive of complex interacting communities. This is not a textbook of marine benthic ecology nor is it a comprehensive review of the benthic communities of the northwest European shelf seas. Rather it describes the natural history of some benthic habitats and associations characteristic of our region.


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Apex-Linear-Algebra
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This project provides a series of classes for doing linear algebra within the Salesforce Apex language.

Motivation
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Linear Algebra and in particular vector mathematics are becoming increasingly useful for newer development requirements around implementing machine learning and data mining systems. Salesforce has an architectural system that will allow it to efficiently process large volumes of data in a batch sequence however does not have the required mathematical libraries to allow developers to build such systems. This library aims to provide that.

In particular this library will be built for providing the mathematical functionality needed for my Dreamforce 2014 talk "Building Machine Learning Systems With Apex". It is released as open source so that anybody may use it as they desire for building more complicated mathematical constructs.

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Dec 29, 2021 | Job Stories, Selective Demo, Wall Sawing | 0
Take a walk around Tysons Corner, Virginia, and you'll discover art near every Metro station. These outdoor art installations range from sculptures to murals, and are touted as being not only walkable, but Instagram-worthy. Folks hopping on or off the WMATA Greensboro Metro and/or heading to the Tysons Biergarten have surely seen the massive mural, Tysons Luxury Lilies, featuring abstract black and white dots covered in colorful water lilies. The 100' x 200' mural was created by Lawrence Atoigue, an artist professionally known as Naturel. It debuted in 2016. According to Tysons Partnership, the mural was inspired by Claude Monet's iconic and expansive "Water Lily" series.
Concrete Technology Services Mid-Atlantic Inc.
(CTS) was contracted by GC Total Civil Construction to make various improvements to the WMATA Greensboro train station in Tysons Corner, Virginia, including the modification of an existing concrete retention area. CTS needed to remove a portion of the retention pond wall adjacent to the neighboring building foundation, which featured the aforementioned mural that needed to be preserved. The project had two phases, one in July of 2021 and one in August of 2021, and it lasted a total of three days between the two phases.
Most of the retention pond could be removed with traditional excavators and breakers without the concern of damaging the mural or any other surrounding features.
However, a portion of the retention area was poured so closely against the neighboring building's foundation that CTS knew extra care needed to be taken to inspect and carefully demolish the retention wall.
CTS operators decided that using a Brokk 500 was the best option to carefully demolish the wall, because of its power to size ratio. An underpowered and less precise mini excavator would have been the only alternative option other than men on scaffolding with handheld jackhammers, both of which would have caused major schedule and cost overruns.
Since the wall needed to be exposed to facilitate the sub-grade demolition, all the work was performed in a
relatively small excavation area supported by sheet piles. The risk of damage to the neighboring historic mural wall and tight workspace made the job more delicate. CTS and the GC reviewed the details of the existing conditions with all contractors involved. Precise holes were drilled to inspect the interface between the retention wall and the neighboring building foundation. Once approval was received from the owner and GC, a Pentruder 30 HP wall saw was used to saw the end points and the demolition began.
The work was completed with no issues thanks to the talented operators Flavio Reyes and Francisco Mora with the Brokk 500 remote controlled demolition machine.
The wall that was removed measured 250' x 10' x 20".
All standard safety protocols were observed including operators wearing proper PPE, extensive machine operation training and safety training.
The project was finished ahead of schedule and under budget. CTS said that they are very satisfied with the results of their team's efforts on this job. Ron Salera, General Manager of CTS, had this to say about the project, "It was a small, delicate project, but solving a problem in a sensitive situation is part of what we love about this business. We believe CTS was a perfect fit for the project based on our core competencies and experience on other WMATA train station projects."
CSDA is proud to represent companies like CTS that are constantly innovating new solutions to modern problems and staying on the cutting edge of technology. With highly trained operators, reliable service and an unwavering commitment to safety, customers of CSDA contractors can have peace of mind knowing the project will be completed safely and worry-free.
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You are the survivor of a massive human extermination. All of your loved ones are now vague, distant memories. You're fortunate, and shipped into a world that is new, utopian, and a perfect version of life. But as years go by, nothing is perfect to you at all. What are your keys to survival?


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An essay in Foreign Policy
Recently Foreign Policy magazine invited me to venture some thoughts on the problems of and pressures on the Indian novel in English in a globalising time. My essay on this theme, "English Spoken Here", appears this week in the November/December issue.
Here are some essays that discuss in greater detail some of the novels brought up in this piece: Vikram Chandra's Sacred Games, Aravind Adiga's The White Tiger, Fakir Mohan Senapati's Six Acres And a Third, Manil Suri's The Age of Shiva, and Ali Sethi's The Wish Maker.
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Labels: essays, essays on Indian fiction
The Pakistani short story in Urdu, and Do You Suppose It's The East Wind?
The iniquities of globalization have meant that even as a new generation of Pakistani writers in English have found a mass audience and not inconsiderable material rewards, Pakistani Urdu writers of the present day and of previous generations struggle on in the shadow of obscurity and neglect, or even at best an audience smaller than they deserve. Translation is a way out of at least the last of these predicaments, but even translation is something to which, in a consumer society, the market attaches the tag of "difficult" and, therefore, not consumer-friendly.
Simply put, in a market economy it is incumbent on the reader—the last link in the chain of literature, and therefore in some ways the clasp that ensures from one side the health and integrity of the whole—to be skeptical about the hype generated by publishers, publicists, and deep pockets in the front rows of bookshops and the front stretches of the literary market, and to look further and deeper, to be willing to supply time and mind for more unusual pleasures. Such readers will certainly find much to savour in Muhammad Umar Memon's anthology of Pakistani stories in translation, Do You Suppose It's the East Wind?
Memon is the editor of the excellent periodical The Annual of Urdu Studies, which publishes a selection of literary criticism, short stories in translation and scholarly essays every year, and can now be read online. He is also the translator of Indian writers of Urdu such as Naiyer Masud. For his anthology Memon has left out younger Pakistani writers, as if desirous of first giving the greats of the post-independence generation their due. For this reason, many of the writers in his collection, although they lived and died as Pakistanis, were born in the north of an undivided India, and they extol the beauties of a landscape which could just as well be Indian.
Unsurprisingly, one of the best stories comes from the familiar hand of Saadat Hasan Manto. Called "For Freedom's Sake", it is set in Amritsar in the years of the freedom struggle and centres around two friends: The first, called Ghulam Ali, is a Kashmiri and wants to be a politician; the other is recognizably Manto himself. Always a sceptic of high rhetoric and noble motives, Manto writes cynically of his friend's meteoric rise in political circles, saying that "the slogans, strings of marigold, songs of patriotic zeal and the opportunity to talk freely to female volunteers turned him into a sort of half-baked revolutionary." As always in Manto, the mind wants one thing and the body another. His story of a political worker deeply in love with a woman in the same movement is reminiscent—although the narratorial voice is considerably more sardonic—of R.K. Narayan's later book Waiting For The Mahatma.
Some other Pakistani writers who may be only names, and not really an experience in words, to Indian readers are each given a room of their own in Memon's anthology. In "Sunlight", Abdullah Hussein tells a moving story of a man returning to his village after 20 years. Javed Shahin presents a different kind of journey, that of a son wandering through small towns and pilgrimage centres in search of his missing mother, in "If Truth be Told". While most of the stories abide by the conventions of realist fiction, a charming turn is taken at the very end by Tasadduq Sohail's surreal "The Tree", about a man who finds a tree giving him a good scolding for the way he leads his life.
But perhaps the best of these stories is one about the opulence and decadence of the aristocracy of north India as revealed through their quarrels over, of all things, mangoes. In Abul Fazl Siddiqi's "Gulab Khas", every five years, on the border of Avadh and Rohilkhand, in what formerly used to be known as the United Provinces, there takes place a competition for the best new breed of mango. During this great mango festival, writes Siddiqi, "The whole world was nothing but mangoes and life was lived only for the sake of this luscious fruit." When a dispute breaks out between two leading mango-growers of the region, the person appointed to arbitrate feels that "the eyes of the whole subcontinent were riveted on him" and that his task is "fraught with historical import."
Siddiqi (1908-1986), whose forte was stories about rural and feudal worlds, liberally embellishes his claim by drenching his story in mango lore, reeling off dizzying catalogues of the best varieties, tracking with delight the conspiracies of growers to develop sublime new strains, and stretching every sinew of his prose to find words to convey the beauties of mango colour, flavour and texture. Just as the Gulab Khas mango, bred by a lowly female gardener, walks off with the first prize in the competition, so too "Gulab Khas" is the crowning glory of this excellent collection.
And an old post: "The film writing of Saadat Hasan Manto".
Labels: Desipundit, short stories
Orwell on language, and the language of Orwell
The writer Rebecca Solnit has said about the essay form, comparing it to fiction, that, "In essays, ideas are the protagonists, and they often develop much like characters." This thought might be a good way of making a case for the abiding relevance of the essays of George Orwell. Although remembered in the main today for his novels Animal Farm and 1984 and his travel books The Road to Wigan Pier and Homage to Catalonia, Orwell was also the writer of some of the best-known essays of twentieth-century prose, including "Charles Dickens", "The Prevention of Literature", "In Defence of English Cooking", "Why I Write", and, most influentially, "Politics and the English Language".
If ideas are the "characters" of essays, then the main characters of Orwell's essays could be said to be four heavyweights: Freedom, Socialism, Totalitarianism, and Language. Just as no family ever agrees on any one point or takes one clear line, these four ideas also never work themselves, in Orwell's writing, into some clear and consistent pattern, easy to summarise and propagate. To learn what he is saying – and we are thinking of a world in which the two World Wars, the Russian revolution, and the rise of Hitler were the main trends through which he was thinking out his ideas – we have to read Orwell, to witness a mind thinking its way through a political and moral minefield (As George Packer perceptively notes in his introduction, "In his best work, Orwell's arguments are mostly with himself."). A good way of beginning such a project would be to go through some of the pieces recently brought together in a sleek new volume called Critical Essays. This title is apt, for it as a critic of trends and currents in the immediate world around him that the essayist wields the most power.
The strongest of Orwell's stresses (and hence the easiest argument to reproduce) was against totalitarianism, both of the communist and fascist varieties. As early as any other observer of his time, he grasped how the Soviet state was far more evil than the system which it claimed to refute, and that its management of thought and opinion could only end up making automatons of both the bureaucracy and citizens. We know well today the truth of Orwell's argument that the organised deception practised by totalitarian states is not a temporary expedient, but is rather "something integral to totalitarianism". In the same way, his observation that, in totalitarian states, "history is something to be created rather than learned" is something that historians of dictatorships from the Third Reich to Saddam's Baathist Iraq have repeatedly demonstrated. Orwell gives us a lens that lays bare the deceptions of an entire brand of politics.
Orwell's interest in language as an instrument of politics – as a means not for expressing but "for concealing or preventing thought" – is what animates his most famous essay, "Politics and the English Language". Here, Orwell's attack on bad, vague, overwrought or obfuscatory English is made not just as a writer concerned with declining standards. Orwell also sees that such language can be a result not just of plain incompetence or laziness, but of a deliberate intent to distort or mask the truth. Orwell proves that it is often in the interest of the state – or else a class within the state, such as the bureaucracy – to only pretend to be giving information or to be demonstrating intent, or empathy, or solidarity (he cites the classic bureaucratic cliche "we will leave no stone unturned"). But the very vagueness and woolliness of the words being used give the game away, and we would know this only if we have a conceptual awareness of how language is working, or can be made to work.
Orwell's argument is of course aimed against the state – whether the propaganda machine of totalitarian states, or the hedging and inffectuality of democratic states – and against the peculiar jargon of ideologies like Marxism, of which he was a relentless opponent. But we could easily apply it today to many forces in our times. The hysterical shrieking, pervasive sexualisation, and bad faith of so much advertising and PR-speak today are a conscious debasement of language, as are the peculiar argot of management schools, political parties, and academia, the deliberate hysteria and melodrama of our media, and the many short-cuts of chatspeak when it infects more traditional forms of written communication. (I don't know about you, but many emails and letters I get address me as "u" rather than "you", and to me even this apparently harmless and innocent misdemeanour seems not just a diminishment of me, but of language and thought itself.) All these currents, under the aegis of the so-called forces of freedom, threaten our selfhood and independence in the free world as much as oppressive political power might; freedom cannot be something that is bestowed upon us, but is something that emerges actively from our own thought, language, and actions. And for Orwell, where thought is put to sleep, there begins the road to subjugation. Language as a means not of stimulating but of stupefying thought – that is Orwell's target. Writing of totalitarian propaganda, he speaks of how such thought can debase language and hollow it out completely from within, but he is perceptive enough to see that this kind of degradation can work both ways: that "if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought." We have in our culture today an abundance of shallow language that corrupts thought.
Orwell is one of the most quotable of writers, and the pleasures of his ringing sentences can only be communicated by direct quotation. From a long essay on Dickens, in which Orwell takes Dickens to task for criticising society without ever offering a constructive program, before concluding, more sympathetically: "The vagueness of [Dickens's] discontent is a mark of its permanence. What he is out against is not this or that institution, but, as Chesterton put it, 'an expression on the human face'." From a review of TS Eliot's late poems, which Orwell judged negatively: "If one wants to deal in antitheses, one might say that the later poems express a melancholy faith and the earlier ones a glowing despair." Here, in one of the most moving passages in all of Orwell, are his criticisms of Gandhi and his religiosity in an essay called "Reflections on Gandhi":
Close friendships, Gandhi says, are dangerous, because 'friends react on one another' and through loyalty to a friend one can be led into wrong-doing. This is unquestionably true. Moreover, if one is to love God, or to love humanity as a whole, one cannot give one's preference to any individual person. This again is true, and it marks the point at which the humanistic and the religious attitude cease to be reconciliable. To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others. The autobiography leaves it uncertain whether Gandhi behaved in an inconsiderate way to his wife and children, but at any rate it makes clear that on three occasions he was willing to let his wife or a child die rather than administer the animal food prescribed by the doctor. It is true that the threatened death never actually occurred, and also that Gandhi — with, one gathers, a good deal of moral pressure in the opposite direction — always gave the patient the choice of staying alive at the price of committing a sin: still, if the decision had been solely his own, he would have forbidden the animal food, whatever the risks might be. There must, he says, be some limit to what we will do in order to remain alive, and the limit is well on this side of chicken broth. This attitude is perhaps a noble one, but, in the sense which — I think — most people would give to the word, it is inhuman. The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection, that one is sometimes willing to commit sins for the sake of loyalty, that one does not push asceticism to the point where it makes friendly intercourse impossible, and that one is prepared in the end to be defeated and broken up by life, which is the inevitable price of fastening one's love upon other human individuals. No doubt alcohol, tobacco, and so forth, are things that a saint must avoid, but sainthood is also a thing that human beings must avoid.
And here is the first paragraph of Orwell's review of Charlie Chaplin's The Great Dictator, which, through a brilliant summary that is content to leave all analysis for later, summons up an unforgettable image of Chaplin's comic genius:
France, 1918, Charlie Chaplin, in field grey and German steel helmet, is pulling the string of Big Bertha, falling down every time she fires. A little later, losing his way in the smoke screen, he finds himself attacking in the middle of the American infantry. Later he is in flight with a wounded staff officer, in an aeroplane which flies upside down for such lengths of time that Charlie is puzzled to know why his watch persists in standing up on the end of its chain. Finally, falling out of the aeroplane into a mud-hole, he loses his memory and is shut up in a mental home for twenty years, completely ignorant of what is happening outside.
These vigorous and combative essays have dated only slightly; both as a record of their time and as advice for our own time, they still have much to say.
And a recent post that takes up Orwell on the question of writerly depictions of working life: "On Alain de Botton's The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work".
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Labels: essays, politics
"In That Place Where Mind Meets Mind"
Here is my poem "In That Place Where Mind Meets Mind", which appeared recently in Mint Lounge's new poetry section, Free Verse:
In That Place Where Mind Meets Mind
Eye speaks to eye, and in the same breath hears
The long-barred self is intertwined
With one that it both needs and steers
A peace opens out, and a music binds
One moment to another, and day to day
The soul runs free, and all that it finds
It somehow both keeps and gives away.
Such was the place, or such the dream
That smiled, and then from me was taken
I slipped back into the common stream
My life moved on, but my faith was shaken.
And some other poems: "A Poem Is Someone Close To Tears", "Let Us Just Keep Things This Way", and "Song of Arzee the Dwarf".
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Labels: Desipundit
On Kazuo Ishiguro's Nocturnes
In one story in Kazuo Ishiguro's new book Nocturnes, the narrator, a small-time musician who plays in cafés, looks around at his supporting cast and explains, "Playing together every day like this, you came to think of the band as a kind of family." Of course, it is not only among musicians that music generates feelings of intimacy, tenderness, fraternality—a kind of higher awareness of both the present moment and an overarching continuity. To an extent that the rational side of our minds can never fully explain, our moods sometimes vault dramatically when we hear a melody, the tremor in a singer's voice makes a hundred memories or regrets come flooding back, and the shape of a tune can make the most banal phrases appear as if they are exploding with significance.
In his new book, Ishiguro, who in his youth nurtured dreams of being a singer-songwriter, conjures up a set of stories about the power of music to bind, console and heal. The word "nocturne" means "a musical composition of a dreamy character". It struck me that the protagonists of the stories here are not just players of nocturnes; their lives are themselves nocturnes. Some of them are young musicians of modest talent who know that they will never be stars; others are middle-aged drifters whose lives are gently washed by regret. Ishiguro explores the implications of this for their self-perceptions, their friendships, and their marriages in a way that is simultaneously tender and comic.
Like a vibrating guitar string, these stories are never stable or stationary. There is a twist or turn, usually minor but slowly expanding in significance, on nearly every page, as the narrators (all the stories are told in the first person) work out, sometimes not very well, what is happening to their lives. In the story called "Nocturne", we see a middle-aged saxophonist, Steve, whose career has come to a standstill not because he is not good enough, but perhaps because he is not good-looking. Steve's wife eventually falls for the charms of a richer and better-looking man, but both of them feel so guilty that her paramour offers, as a kind of compensation, to pay for some plastic surgery for Steve. Steve's agent thinks this is quite a good deal given that Steve is going to lose his wife anyway. After some resistance, Steve finally succumbs and gives himself a new face in the mirror.
Recovering after his operation, Steve finds himself in the room next to the celebrity Lindy Gardner, who is one of those children of the media age who are famous despite having done nothing of significance. Seeing that he and Lindy are now in the same boat, Steve realizes "the scale of my moral descent". But the despised Lindy turns out to be surprisingly good company, and eventually turns into a kind of confessor figure for him. Ishiguro's deceptively light and easy touch draws the reader in right away, and much of his dialogue is of an exceptionally high order.
Another story, "Malvern Hills", offers the pleasures of a familiar Ishiguro device seen, for instance, in his novel The Remains of the Day— that of the unreliable narrator. This kind of story features a complex first-person narration where, although we have no other information than that which is being provided by the person who is telling the story, we can nevertheless tell that he is not interpreting life accurately. When carried out skillfully, this makes fiction more stimulating and rouses the reader to activity, because it is as if we are reading a story and constructing an alternative version of it at the same time. Simultaneously, we come to understand, philosophically, how our sense of the world depends so much on subjective perception.
The narrator of "Malvern Hills" is a young, self-involved, hard-up songwriter who goes to spend the summer in a hotel in the countryside run by his sister and her husband. Although he is the one who is being helped out, he quickly comes to resent the few duties thrust upon him, and feels that the artist in him is being suffocated. "It seemed clear I'd been invited here on false pretences," he thinks, and we laugh at this and commiserate with him at the same time.
At a number of points in Nocturnes, the characters express a preference popular music— evergreen ballads, Broadway hits, the work of "those old pros [who] knew how to do it"—over more challenging and difficult forms. The idea implicit in these gestures is that we often overlook the extent to which music we think of as "easy" is itself the result of great craft and discipline. After six novels, Ishiguro is now an old pro, and as these smoothly tossed-off and beguiling stories demonstrate, he too knows just how to do it.
And here are some older posts on other short-story writers: Daniyal Mueenuddin, Nikolai Gogol, Samrat Upadhyay, Etgar Keret, Bibhutibhushan Bandopadhyay, Alaa Al Aswany, Mridula Koshy, Chekhov, Manjushree Thapa, Jahnavi Barua, and Houshang Moradi-Kermani.
Labels: European fiction, short stories
The Pakistani short story in Urdu, and Do You Supp...