Pirini, A.W. I7902 whakapapaonline | The Bristowe Branch - Capt David Reeves Bristow (I2939) Ani Te Patu Rameka (I2938), The Priestley-Bristowe Branch.
Pirini, C. I7923 whakapapaonline | The Bristowe Branch - Capt David Reeves Bristow (I2939) Ani Te Patu Rameka (I2938), The Priestley-Bristowe Branch.
Pirini, C. I7926 whakapapaonline | The Bristowe Branch - Capt David Reeves Bristow (I2939) Ani Te Patu Rameka (I2938), The Priestley-Bristowe Branch.
Pirini, D.W. I7954 whakapapaonline | The Bristowe Branch - Capt David Reeves Bristow (I2939) Ani Te Patu Rameka (I2938), The Priestley-Bristowe Branch.
Pirini, D.J. I7901 whakapapaonline | The Bristowe Branch - Capt David Reeves Bristow (I2939) Ani Te Patu Rameka (I2938), The Priestley-Bristowe Branch.
Pirini, F. I7959 whakapapaonline | The Bristowe Branch - Capt David Reeves Bristow (I2939) Ani Te Patu Rameka (I2938), The Priestley-Bristowe Branch.
Pirini, G. I7820 whakapapaonline | The Bristowe Branch - Capt David Reeves Bristow (I2939) Ani Te Patu Rameka (I2938), The Priestley-Bristowe Branch.
Pirini, Grace I3490 whakapapaonline | The Bristowe Branch - Capt David Reeves Bristow (I2939) Ani Te Patu Rameka (I2938), The Priestley-Bristowe Branch.
Pirini, Haenga I3484 whakapapaonline | The Bristowe Branch - Capt David Reeves Bristow (I2939) Ani Te Patu Rameka (I2938), The Priestley-Bristowe Branch.
Pirini, H. I7927 whakapapaonline | The Bristowe Branch - Capt David Reeves Bristow (I2939) Ani Te Patu Rameka (I2938), The Priestley-Bristowe Branch.
Pirini, Hineiahua I7928 b. Abt 1885 whakapapaonline | The Bristowe Branch - Capt David Reeves Bristow (I2939) Ani Te Patu Rameka (I2938), The Priestley-Bristowe Branch.
Pirini, H. I7949 whakapapaonline | The Bristowe Branch - Capt David Reeves Bristow (I2939) Ani Te Patu Rameka (I2938), The Priestley-Bristowe Branch.
Pirini, Hoani I3488 whakapapaonline | The Bristowe Branch - Capt David Reeves Bristow (I2939) Ani Te Patu Rameka (I2938), The Priestley-Bristowe Branch.
Pirini, K.P. I7950 whakapapaonline | The Bristowe Branch - Capt David Reeves Bristow (I2939) Ani Te Patu Rameka (I2938), The Priestley-Bristowe Branch.
Pirini, M.J. I7899 whakapapaonline | The Bristowe Branch - Capt David Reeves Bristow (I2939) Ani Te Patu Rameka (I2938), The Priestley-Bristowe Branch.
Pirini, M.M. I7953 whakapapaonline | The Bristowe Branch - Capt David Reeves Bristow (I2939) Ani Te Patu Rameka (I2938), The Priestley-Bristowe Branch.
Pirini, M.M. I7947 whakapapaonline | The Bristowe Branch - Capt David Reeves Bristow (I2939) Ani Te Patu Rameka (I2938), The Priestley-Bristowe Branch.
Pirini, M.A. I7951 whakapapaonline | The Bristowe Branch - Capt David Reeves Bristow (I2939) Ani Te Patu Rameka (I2938), The Priestley-Bristowe Branch.
Pirini, O.M. I7958 whakapapaonline | The Bristowe Branch - Capt David Reeves Bristow (I2939) Ani Te Patu Rameka (I2938), The Priestley-Bristowe Branch.
Pirini, Poana I3487 whakapapaonline | The Bristowe Branch - Capt David Reeves Bristow (I2939) Ani Te Patu Rameka (I2938), The Priestley-Bristowe Branch.
Pirini, Poono I8312 b. 15 Jul 1889 whakapapaonline | The Bristowe Branch - Capt David Reeves Bristow (I2939) Ani Te Patu Rameka (I2938), The Priestley-Bristowe Branch.
Pirini, Pori I3486 whakapapaonline | The Bristowe Branch - Capt David Reeves Bristow (I2939) Ani Te Patu Rameka (I2938), The Priestley-Bristowe Branch.
Pirini, Puti I3489 whakapapaonline | The Bristowe Branch - Capt David Reeves Bristow (I2939) Ani Te Patu Rameka (I2938), The Priestley-Bristowe Branch.
Pirini, S. I8346 whakapapaonline | The Bristowe Branch - Capt David Reeves Bristow (I2939) Ani Te Patu Rameka (I2938), The Priestley-Bristowe Branch.
Pirini, S.W. I7903 whakapapaonline | The Bristowe Branch - Capt David Reeves Bristow (I2939) Ani Te Patu Rameka (I2938), The Priestley-Bristowe Branch.
Pirini, T.A. I7948 whakapapaonline | The Bristowe Branch - Capt David Reeves Bristow (I2939) Ani Te Patu Rameka (I2938), The Priestley-Bristowe Branch.
Pirini, Ted I9240 b. 1954 whakapapaonline | The Bristowe Branch - Capt David Reeves Bristow (I2939) Ani Te Patu Rameka (I2938), The Priestley-Bristowe Branch.
Pirini, T. I7955 whakapapaonline | The Bristowe Branch - Capt David Reeves Bristow (I2939) Ani Te Patu Rameka (I2938), The Priestley-Bristowe Branch.
Pirini, W. Jnr I7818 whakapapaonline | The Bristowe Branch - Capt David Reeves Bristow (I2939) Ani Te Patu Rameka (I2938), The Priestley-Bristowe Branch.
Pirini, W. I7952 whakapapaonline | The Bristowe Branch - Capt David Reeves Bristow (I2939) Ani Te Patu Rameka (I2938), The Priestley-Bristowe Branch.


A rapid growth in infrastructure development and investment is expected in the Central European region, in line with economic growth and urbanisation trends, as demonstrated in the needs and corresponding investment gap analysis in the GI Hub's Infrastructure Outlook.
However, government balance sheets are increasingly constrained by available funding for infrastructure development, resulting in the tendency of procuring infrastructure at the lowest possible initial cost, rather than a focus on whole-of-life project cost and corresponding quality.
This approach has, in some instances, led to a higher-than-expected overall cost, due to the lack of consideration and transparency of maintenance and operation costs, long-term durability, social (including resilience to natural disasters) and environmental factors.
In a panel discussion on Quality vs Lowest Price Infrastructure held on the 19 November 2018 in Prague, Czech Republic, panellists discussed the 'Best Value Procurement' (BVP) method designed to increase project value by mitigating risks and increasing transparency by underscoring the pre-award tender phase.
• Wouter Smits, Ministry of Infrastructure and Environment, the Netherlands.
The BVP method is underpinned by principles of transparency, performance information measuring and contractor clarification. In its simplest form, the BVP is a procurement system that looks at factors other than only price, such as quality and expertise, when selecting service providers or contractors. In a best value system, the value of procured goods or services is simply described as a comparison of costs and benefits.
The BVP philosophy was initially developed in the USA and has been adopted in some jurisdictions, such as the Netherlands, in the delivery of their infrastructure program, with the BVP method representing some 20 per cent of their infrastructure program delivery. Mr Wouter Smits of the Ministry of Infrastructure and Environment, the Netherlands, presented several interesting case studies where the BVP method was successfully used, resulting in an increase in quality through 'additional value add' and transparency, whilst decreasing the overall price of the infrastructure project when compared to traditional procurement options.


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Save the Dips - Urgent!
Terry Stiffler
glen zamanian
John Foster
Margaret Ann Fowler
Stacey Epstein is organizing this fundraiser.
A brief update and request for your support to Save the Dips:
· Despite the very clear conditions of approval issued by the city and attached to the 2000 subdivision of two lots adjacent to Happy Valley Rd and The Dips (see copy below), the City Attorney continues to recommend to Council that they sign a settlement agreement with vague language which may have the unintended consequence of taking away certain rights of the public. This action by the City does nothing more than lower their cost and could have the unintended consequence of inviting illegal closure of the path.
· By law, and in support of its citizens, the City has a duty and a responsibility to uphold this Condition of Approval as a use restriction attached to the variance and subdivision recorded in 2000.
· On numerous occasions, individuals from our group, Save the Dips, have genuinely - yet unsuccessfully - attempted to negotiate with the City and the property owner to find a mutually agreeable solution. Although this matter is embroiled in no less than (4) different lawsuits, nobody from Save the Dips wants to engage in legal action.
· However, we have been told that unless we take some form of legal action, we essentially have to sit on the sidelines and await the outcome?!?!
· On Wednesday, December 9th, the City Council will vote on whether or not to authorize the City Manager to sign a settlement agreement. Please attend the meeting, raise your hand and say: I OPPOSE THE CITY COUNCIL SIGNING THE SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT PER ITEM 8A.
· Should they nevertheless vote YES, the aforementioned condition from 2000 (photo below) will be called into question, in spite of the law clearly saying the condition as written is enforceable and cannot be challenged by ANYONE.
Given the alarming timeline, Save the Dips is raising funds for potential legal action against the above scenario. All funds will be used to act in the best interest of the mission of the organization, which is to retain our rights keep the path open - both for regular pedestrian use, and for evacuation in a safety scenario. Any unused funds will be returned to the donors.
Please help us fight for our beloved and safe pathway, donate TODAY. Click read more to see the condition of approval...

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The pack ice floating around the harbour of St. Anthony, Newfoundland, melting a little more each day during the summer.
As summer arrives in Newfoundland, Canada, the pack ice floating in the harbour of St. Anthony shrinks daily as the warmer temperatures melt the ice chunks. Once the pack ice has disappeared from the surface of the harbour, boats must be leery of any large masses that many hover beneath the surface which have not completely thawed.
Pack Ice in the St Anthony Harbour, St Anthony, Northern Peninsula, Viking Trail, Newfoundland, Canada.
Picture of the pack ice floating in the harbour of St. Anthony on the Northern Peninsula of Newfoundland, Canada.


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Stefan Luitz, född 26 mars 1992, är en tysk alpin skidåkare. Han är specialist på slalom och storslalom.

Luitz blev silvermedaljör i storslalom på junior-VM 2010. Han gjorde sin världscupdebut den 8 januari 2011 i Adelboden. Hans hittills bästa placering i världscupen är en andraplats i storslalomtävlingen i Val d'Isère den 9 december 2012.

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Tävlande vid olympiska vinterspelen 2014 från Tyskland
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From the Cauldron to the Grail (Part IV)
Posted on 28 Nov 2020 by lilaiamoreliwordsaresacred
Sir Galahad, the Quest for the Holy Grail by Arthur Hughes
In the first, second and third part of my essay, From the Cauldron to the Grail (Part I), (Part II), (Part III), I concentrated on the subject of the cauldron and its significance in the everyday life, mythology and literature of the Celtic peoples, showcasing the way it features in various Welsh and Irish myths.
I focused on its evolution/transformation to the Holy Grail of the Matter of Britain as it's explained in the theory put forth by the Scottish journalist, poet, author, folklorist and occult scholar, Lewis Spence, in his magnus opus, The Magic Arts in Celtic Britain: one that proposes the sacred vessel is actually the cauldron we read about in Taliesin'a poem, The Spoils of Annwn.
In the fourth and last part, I'll complete my essay with Spence's final extrapolation regarding the origins of the Holy Grail and its close association with the Nilotic myth of the Egyptian god Osiris as well as with the way I've made use of the cauldron and other similar vessels in my own mythic fantasy novel.
Spence argues with full conviction the Grail legend meshed with that of the divine King and the "Maimed King" is one and the same with Arthur, his legend of slumbering in an island or cave or in a resting place underneath a mountain of indubitable fame. Arthur is undoubtedly the wounded king who, trasported to the otherwordly isle of Avalon, is taken care of by nine supernatural enchantresses, resembling in this regard the Grail King.
Through his sinful deeds or the wound sustained in his thighs, he suffers the loss of his divine status and the land over which he rules becones barren until he breaks free from his enchantment. The tale of Amangons (about which I wrote in the third part) provides enough proof. In one of the Arthurian myths, wherever Arthur steps, the land becomes sterile for a span of seven years, a storyline related to the maimed/sinful king.
The arc of the holy receptacle was incorporated into the narrative of the divine king and through curious ways reached the British shores at a fairly early period and fused with native Celtic traditions of similar nature such as those of the salmon of knowledge and the Annuvian cauldron. Unquestionably, it has formed part of the mythical material that relates to the cultus and rituals of the divine king.
Throughout The Magic Arts in Celtic Britain, Spence explains the reasons why the myth of Arthur bears a strong resemblance to the tradition of the divine king, one that originated in the ancient times of the Nile country. He further stresses the legend of the Holy Grail can be traced back to the same Nilotic myth, which morphed into a melange with the tales of the native British cauldron.
The Nilotic myth was birthed during a terrible period of famine in the island of Elephantine. In the same fashion, another circumstance gave birth to the cauldron when Arthur braved the Annuvian depths and reached the fortress of Caer Pedryvan. Such myth served multiple functions, Spence claims, as it not only brought to life the legend of the Grail but possibly that of others, like the Fountain of Youth in the mythical land of Bimini whose waters the native tribes believed to gift a man with youth and longevity. In some versions of the Holy Grail, when the Fisher King is restored to health, the land once again flourishes and the rivers swell and flow.
All these enduring myths and fables later came to be associated with the Christian narrative of the Grail. Of course, the foundation had already been built in Britain as there existed already such beliefs, the fruit of fusion between Celtic and Egyptian conceptions.
Upon this amalgamation, the later French and English romances were added, all these lays attesting to the mixed descent of the Grail arc. That constitutes sufficient proof for Spence who contends the cultus of Arthur—a blend of British and Egyptian Neo-Platonic notions—must have held considerable sway over the Grail legend, especially considering the identification of Arthur with Osiris.
In a nutshell, the Arthurian cult, it appears, had wholly absorbed the character and attributes of the Egyptian god Osiris and transferred them to the British titular god, as is evidenced by every known segment of his myth.
What I've found most refreshing in Spence's views is that, unlike other scholars and literary figures, he hasn't made a series of painful and frustrating attempts to ground Arthur and the ancestry of the Holy Grail to historical reality. Even though he acknowledges there existed the cult of Arthur where he was worshipped as a solar and war deity—established by Ambrosius Aurelianus—he dispenses with such ideas from the beginning and dons the lenses of comparative mythology and literary tradition in order to unearth the truth of the matter. And he's certainly erudite enough and possess a most lucid mind to make a strong case.
Herculean have been all the efforts throughout the centuries to disclose and decode the mystical origins of the Grail. With so many voices opining on the subject, it's an impossible task to determine who is right and who is wrong. Perhaps every perspective may carry some truth, some more and others less. However, it's an undeniable fact the majority of those who have seriously studied the Grail legend are convinced of its Celtic lineage.
Cauldrons, cups, dishes and other similar vessels—as has been indicated so far—are a staple of the Celtic literary tradition and mythology, their symbolic significance manifesting in various ways: feritility, wisdom, resurrection, knowledge etc.
My own mythic fantasy novel, currently titled The Fruit of Passion, heavily inspired by the atmosphere and the tales contained in The Mabinogion, couldn't possibly remain aloof from all that magnificent lore. So, until now, there have been two instances where I've incorporated into my own work subplots that revolve around such fabled receptacles.
In the first, Morella, the main character needs to help Anna, a close friend and knightess, who was badly injured in battle against the fairies. Both characters possess the gift of awen, which is the seed of all magic. Anna has healed herself as much as she can through her own magical abilities, but more has to be done to fully regain her former strength.
In comes their former mentor, Cyprianus, who tells them of a faraway island beyond the North Wind that cannot be traced in any map called Hyperborea. Here I made use of the existing legend of the Boreades tribe whom the ancient Greeks identified as Celtic, residing in the Northest corner of the Earth. As I made use of the second branch of the Mabinogi and the Pair Dadeni that plays an important role in the story, marrying the two myths.
The Pair Dadeni, literally the cauldron of rebirth, is a magical cauldron able to revive the dead that originally belonged to a pair of giants: Llasar Llaes Gyfnewid and his wife Cymydei Cymeinfoll. In my own novel, I rendered the pair rulers of the isle of Hyperborea and guardians of the Pair Dadeni, which is hidden in a double-mouthed, crystal cave. The cauldron of rebirth restores to life people heavily wounded in war or those on the throes of death.
But the cauldron doesn't function on its own, for next to it I conceived the existence of a cluster of rocks where a stream bubbles, an amethyst goblet wedged into one of the stony clefts. The cauldron's water possesses cleansing powers. Once the goblet is immersed within, it must be filled with blood and consumed twice for the rest of a person's life from full moon to full moon.
If the consumer is a wounded warrior, the blood must flow from the veins of the enemy who caused the harm. If someone dying, the blood must flow from the veins of a loved one.
The second instance is actually the pearl-rimmed cauldron that doesn't boil the food of a coward Arthur coveted in The Spoils of Annwn. Morella, like the British King, braves the depths of Annwn—the otherwordly residence of the dead—in order to reunite with her mother and find the answers she seeks. Before she completes her quest, though, she must pass a test: enter the isle's ancient temple, encounter the nine otherwordly maidens who tend to the cauldron with their fiery breath and drink from its mead that is the very source of awen and consequently all magic.
Morella drinks the liquor with success, in the process flooded with powerful visions she had never before experienced as a seer, before she recovers and meets with her mother.
Whether in the form of a supernatural cauldron, a mystical cup or a sacred dish, the receptacle of the Celtic myths and legends is an object that still rouses the popular imagination and exerts considerable fascination over our imagined reality.
Perhaps because it represents humanity's deepest longings and aspirations: the gaining of the world's knowledge and the mysteries that govern it, the acquisition of wisdom that exceeds mortal boundaries and touches upon the divine, the healing of the body and the flight from death, the love of beauty and the chase of eternal youth.
But above all, the eternal celebration of life through the means of nourishment, abundance and fertility.
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From the Cauldron to the Grail (Part III)
Posted on 8 Nov 2020 by lilaiamoreliwordsaresacred
Galahad, Bors and Percival achieve the Grail. Tapestry woven by Morris & Co
In the first and second part of my essay, From the Cauldron to the Grail (Part I), (Part II), I focused on the subject of the cauldron and its importance in the life and mythology of the Celtic peoples, presenting its role in various Welsh and Irish myths. I then started exploring its evolution/transformation to the Holy Grail of the Matter of Britain, shedding light on the theory the Scottish journalist, poet, author, folklorist and occult scholar, Lewis Spence, proposes in his magnus opus, The Magic Arts in Celtic Britain.
In the third part, I'll continue with the discussion of Spence's theory about the vessel being actually the cauldron featured in Taliesin's poem, The Spoils of Annwn as well as his views regarding the figures of the knights of the Round Table.
In the beginning of the unfinished fifth verse romance of Chrétien de Troyes, Conte du Graal, we read a story that the general concensus regards as not composed by the author of the main body of the poem. The account refers to the land of Logres, the eastern portion of ancient England, and to a group of female sacred guardians who resided in springs and wells and offered provisions to weary travellers.
King Amangons reigned over that country and he abused one of these maidens, spiriting away her golden cup. In the wake of such violation, these supernatural damsels withdrew from human contact. As a result, the springs dried up, the trees and flowers shrivelled up and died and the whole country turned into a wasteland. In the end, the Court of the "Rich Fisher", a centre of mystical origins from which flowed plenty, mysteriously vanished, nowhere to be seen.
Spence explains the passage offers an example of failure of divine kingship and the tragic consequences of such an ill deed. Amangons didn't hold on to his virtue and personal sanctity, the royal deliquency dooming the entire community by causing the death of the land. The king's wrongdoing greatly offended the genii of fertility and because of that, his people were subjected to famine.
The news travelled fast and the knights of the Round Table caught wind of Amangons' shameful act, for his own men had followed suit and treated the maidens with equal disrespect. The knights sought out the Court of the Rich Fisher, a mighty enchanter. The land of the Fisher King was finally discovered by Gawain and Perceval. However, Perceval didn't question the meaning of the marvels he beheld while he dwelled in the casle. Consequently, he failed to break the enchantment that had condemned the King to be isolated from the rest of mankind.
The knights' quest and adventures regarding the Fisher King are more fully detailed in the Queste del Graal. The tale recounts how Perceval and Bors reach Castle Corbenic, the resting place of the Grail associated with Celtic legend. Galahad leaves behind his companions in order to undergo the Grail test. A crowned man suffering a wound enters the hall accompanied by the spirit of Joseph of Arimathea which is carried to the table where the Grail rests by a host of angels.
A blood-dripping lance shows, the drops flowing into the holy receptacle. Galahad is advised not to journey from the land before he heals the Maimed King, the latter meant to spend the rest of his days in an abbey after his legs have been restored to health through anointment by the lance's blood.
At this point, Spence concentrates upon the burning question central not only to the revitalization of the wounded king but to the retrieval of the Grail as well. The story doesn't specify what the thing to be asked by the knight meant to heal the King was, in order to reverse the effects of the spell that sapped him of his strength. Upon facing the test, Perceval didn't ask the question, thus failing to pass it and dooming the King to further misery and inaction.
Spence conjectures the ''sesame'' query as he calls it seemed to have been, ''Unto whom one serveth of the Grail''? If such a question was cried out, the Fisher King would unseal his lips and confess certain secret words to the one asking him, offering the very key to unlock the mystery of the Grail.
But if Pervecal's first venturing to Corbenic didn't end on a happy note, his second coming didn't play out the same way. For he remembered his duty and managed to put forth the arcane question. In a German version of the story, Gawain asks himself but seems content with the reply he's already seen the Grail and doesn't press for further answers. In the Petit Saint Graal, the writer refuses to reveal the magic words and in Wolfram von Eschenbach's Parzival, the writer claims the Grail wasn't a cup but a stone that miraculously offered plenty of food and drink, something which has its origins in various Celtic myths.
In most versions of the romances, the wound the Fisher King has sustained is found on both thighs, the significance of which Spence has explained is symbolic of the King's sins and the loss of his divine status. In the Mabinogion, Bran suffers a wound in the leg by an arrow. Upon his death, he falls into an enchanted state. His companions sever his head according to his orders, thus rendering him into the state of a sleeping god. In a parallel fashion, his surrogate, Arthur, is wounded and ferried to the otherwordly isle of Avallon in a state hovering between life and death.
The Grail, Spence argues, is nothing else but the cauldron of abundance and inspiration featured so frequently in the body of ancient Celtic literature. The Irish gods, the Tuatha Dé Danan (as I wrote in the first part of my essay) had four treasures in their possession: the Stone of Destiny, the sword of Lugh, his spear, and the cauldron of the god Dagda, which never left anyone hungry. In the Irish account of the battle of Magh Rath, more than one cauldron of similar nature is mentioned which made its appearance in the older Irish literary tradition.
In the Welsh literary tradition of the Mabinogion, in the story of Branwen, we read about Bran's cauldron, a magical vessel that restored to life the dead warriors placed within it. From a literary perspective, the tale comes from the tenth/eleventh century, but its actual roots are far older than that. And in the story of the bard Taliesin, we read of the cauldron of inspiration, belonging to the enchantress Ceridwen. In the poem The Spoils of Annwn, Arthur braves the depths of the titular otherwordly domain and spirits away a cauldron of similar properties.
The Cauldron of Inspiration, E. Wallcousins
The Welsh scholar and Celticist Sir John Rhys, was of the opinion the Annuvian vessel was one and the same with the Grail, both possessing the same properties of recognizing the undeserving, healing the wounded and sick and proffering supernatural stamina to the soul.
The Spoils of Annwn, a cryptic poem of sixty lines in Middle Welsh in the Book of Taliesin, recounts King Arthur's descent into the depths of Annwn along with his warrior band in order to steal away the pearl-rimmed cauldron that didn't boil the food of a coward and benefit from its secret knowledge.
Charles Squire has proven that the Castle of Corbenic of the French romance, the Grail's repository, is none other than the fortress of Caer Pedryvan, the seat of the cauldron of Annwn. In the French poem, the castle is situated on the other side of the river, a fact that alludes to its otherwordly location. Something which has been further pointed out by Alfred Nutt as the forefront of Celtic story.
Intriguing is the connection Spence makes between the name of ''the Fisher King'' and the ancient Celtic motif of the salmon of knowledge. The Salmon story narrates the early adventures of Fionn mac Cumhaill. In the tale, an ordinary salmon ate nine hazelnuts that fell into the Well of Wisdom from nine hazel trees around the well. Thus, the salmon gained all the world's knowledge. The first person to consume its flesh would be bestowed with wisdom.
Striking similarities with the Grail story are seen in the Scottish Celtic tale of the Story of the Lay of the Great Fool, found in the Popular Tales of the West Highlands. More specifically, it presents many themes featured in the mabinogi of Peredur. Like Peredur, Cumhall's son grows in the wilderness. He kills his father's murderer and gains the world's knowledge when he catches and eats the magic trout. In the end, he wins back his father's lands.
The common link between this tale with the story of Finn and the salmon of knowledge as well as with that of Peredur in the Mabinogion is generous proof that they all derive from a common source.
In the fourth and last part, I'll wrap up my essay with Spence's final conclusions about the origins of the Holy Grail and its association with the Nilotic myth of the god Osiris, a figure whose cult bears many similarities with Arthur, as well as with the way I've incorporated the cauldron and other similar vessels into my own mythic fantasy novel.
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From the Cauldron to the Grail (Part II)
The Damsel of the Sanct Grael by Dante Gabriel Rossetti
In the first part of my essay, From the Cauldron to the Grail, I wrote about the significance of the cauldron in the everyday life of the Celtic peoples and the way it is presented and included in their myths and legends.
Mainly, I touched on the Welsh and Irish tradition, focusing on the symbolic function of the cauldron in narratives pertaining to the Welsh figures of Cerridwen, Brân the Blessed, Peredur and Arthur and the Irish gods Dagda and Manannán mac Lir.
In the second part, my primary focus will be on the evolution of the cauldron to the Holy Grail of the Arthurian tradition.
In my Book Review: The Magic Arts in Celtic Britain, I presented in order the topics the Scottish journalist, poet, author, folklorist and occult scholar Lewis Spence explores in his magnus opus. As he moves towards the end, he makes a commendable attempt to unearth the origin of the Arthurian myth. Putting forth a compelling theory, Spence declares the figure of Arthur belongs more to mythology than to history. He identifies him with the god Bran and proposes that Arthur was the object of a cult. We're told that the figure of Ambrosius Aurelianus was probably a historical person, a Romano-British noble and general who fought against the Saxons.
Perhaps it was him who founded the cult of Arthur. Both a solar deity and one of war who aided the Celts in the dark years of foreign invasion, Arthur probably infused them with patriotic enthusiasm and the strength required to fight against the foreign conquerors. What's even more enticing is the connection Spence points out between Arthur and Osiris and the wounded Fisher King.
Spence sheds light on the figure of Osiris, presenting him as a deity existing in a state between life and death, asleep until called to awaken. Just like Arthur who, residing in the isle of Avallon, awaits to wake to life and aid Britain in its hour of need. Additionally, Spence states that Arthur and the Fisher king are one and the same, for Arthur lies wounded, his injury between the thighs symbolizing his sins and the loss of fertility of the land caused by them. A punishment for his trangressions and his fall from the status of the divine king.
Having explored the figure around which an entire body of myth expressed in prose and poetry has been composed, Spence rolls up his sleeves and turns his attention, naturally, to the fabled Holy Grail: the most sought after vessel in the the Matter of Britain, whose genesis , he believes, lies in the isle's ancient, mythic past.
So let's delve into the details Lewis Spence presents us with, shall we?
The Holy Grail is the receptacle where Jesus Christ was rumoured to have taken his Last Supper with his disciples. The existence of it, though, folkore assumed, was owed to that of a magical cauldron centered around a Celtic fertility cult.
Etymologically speaking, the word "Grail" may have its roots on the Low Latin gradale, which referred to a flat dish. Or we could trace its origin in the term San Greal, "Holy Dish".
When the Christian faith started spreading over the British isles, its representatives found an already fertile ground sown with a multitude of Celtic sources which they tinged with their own perspective, thus forming a narrative consonant with the Christian creed.
Spence explains the story known as Grand St. Graal, written in
England about the beginning of the thirteenth century. The anonymous author describes how the Holy Grail ended up on the British shores. A man by the name of Joseph of Arimathea was a witness to the crucifixion of Jesus and was seized by the desire to possess something as a token of the scene.
He sought out the house where the Last Supper had taken place and spirited away the dish where Christ had eaten. A knight of Pontius Pilate, Joseph implored the Roman Governor to take the body of Christ and honour it with a proper burial. Pilate consented and Joseph laid the body to a tomb, and the blood that still coursed from the wounds, he collected it inside the dish, which was later named the San Greal.
Furious that Jesus had received an honourable burial, the Jews imprisoned Joseph. The man, however, clung to life in a wondrous manner by means of the holy vessel. Christ himself appeared to Joseph, promising him freedom and conferring him the duty to deliver the gospel to foreign lands.
For forty years, Joseph was confined to his cell. When he embarked on his journy, seventy-five followers set sail along with him, the sacred dish placed in a wooden ark. When Joseph's son, Josephes, unsealed it, he beheld the passion of the crucifixion on the dish's surface. Several sacred symbols were also found, among them a rich and beautiful head (reminiscent of Bran's severed head and the Celtic cult associated with it).
Joseph and his followers partook of the sacrament from the ark in the form of a child. Many were their quests and through many lands they travelled. A pagan King named Seraphe they met, who converted to the Christian faith and was baptised Nasciens.
One of the most significant items of the ark was a blood-dripping lance, a string of prophecies revolving around it. The ship was finally steered to the shores of Britain, which was still a land of thriving paganism. Some of the Britons converted, but those who clung to the old ways were drowned in a flood. A tower was raised over their corpses, the "Tower of Marvels", the prophecies foretelling of the comming of a King called Arthur and his reign. A series of adventures and quests were associated with this tower, meeting their end by the last descendant of Nasciens.
Joseph's wife bore him a son named Galahad. When conflict with the heathens arose in Britain, Mordrains sets sail to the island, bringing reinforcements. They managed to overcome the natives, but Mordrains was heavily wounded and later struck blind upon approaching too close to the Holy Grail, thus withdrawing from the affairs of the world.
Joseph's kinsman, Brons, came to be in his company. The Round Table was then constructed and a seat was left vacant, reserved for the one who would conclude with these adventures. Josephes became the keeper of the Grail. Upon Joseph's death, the Grail found its resting place in "Terre Foraine" and a long line of kepers succeeded Josephes, all of whom earned the individual titled of "the Fisher King".
Spence then proceeds to recount further accounts, which despite their differences, bear many similarities, such as the poem of Robert de Borron's Joseph of Arimathea and the legends of the Grail in the Queste de Graal, The Conte de Graal, the Didot Perceval and Perceval le Gallois, all of which narrate the adventures of Perceval, Galahad and the rest f the knights who quest after the Holy Grail.
Other legends feature Joseph of Arimathea and his followers travelling from the South of France and settling in Glastonbury through Wales where they built a church of wattles and taught the natives the Christian faith. The British publisher Alfred Nutt held the opinion that Glastonbury was associated with a local cult of the Celtic god Bran and his sacred head. We read that, "At some time in the course of the twelfth century, the old Christian site of Glastonbury took, as it were, the place of the Celtic Paradise (Avalon). It seems far more likely that the transformation was effected in virtue of some local tradition than wholly through the medium of foreign romances."
Spence returns to the Celtic tongue and explains that the locality of Glastonbury was formely known as Ynys Witryn, "the Island of Glass", a term for the Celtic Otherworld, as we're told the monks of Glastonbury strove to wipe out its name and all its heathen connections, although the new name was merely a cloaked version of the Celtic appellation.
A host of British names pop up in the Grail stories. Pelles, one of the keepers of the Grail, is a Normanized form of Pwyll. His offspring, Pellam, could be Pryderi. The ruler of the fairies, Gwyn ap Nudd, transforms into Sir Gwuinas. SirMelias seeems to be the Cornish figure of Melwas.
Evalach, amongst the early converts of the Grail, is Avalach, the King of the Celtic otherwordly isle of Avallon. Perceval is the equivalent of the Welsh character Peredur and Brons is probably the god Bran.
Alfred Nutt divided the stories of the Holy Grail into two branches: the first concerns its origins and wanderings and the second the quests of the knights of the Round Table in their attempts to retrieve the sacred vessel. Spence clarifies that the majority of the romances allude to both motifs.
The first branch refers to the legends of the Christian provenance while the second is about the hero's adventure to find the Holy Frail and his visit to the castle of a sick/maimed king. There, he encounters the Grail. However, he doesn't inquire about the meaning of what he sees, something that renders his quest a failure, as he invites misfortune upon hmself and the castle's residents.
Upon entering a second time, though, he puts forth the question, breaking the enchantment over the sick king in the act or in some versions he's bestowed the Grail kingship as a reward for his perseverance.
Spence once more circles back to the figure of Brons as presented in the narrative of the Joseph of Arimathea. He argues that he's a figure suggestive of Bran and the version of the story that features him is the older of the two Christian versions. A Celtic war deity, Bran has in his possession a mystical dish upon which later his sacred head is place. He's, also, the owner of a magical cauldron which can restore the dead to life.
Bran's one of the gods of the Celtic Otherworld in the British myths and in the Welsh tradition he's seen as the chief figure in a legend of conversion, hence the title "Bran the Blessed". And in the Hengwrt manuscript there's a mention of Blessed Bran's Head. This evolutionary line is proof of the gradual transformation of the Christian saint from the pagan deity.
However, if there's an ancient foundation for the figure of Bran, the same cannot be said for the legend of Joseph, which appears in the latter half of the 12th century, at the time where the romances were beginning to take shape. Spence mentions that an older legend of Joseph and his actions was known in Britain during the eight century when the rest of Europe was ignorant of it.
However, Spence fiercely argues, that cannot confute the Celtic origins of the myth as the rival version associated with Brons/Bran clearly shows multiple times the Celtic roots of the legend.
In the following post, I'll continue presenting Spence's view regarding the storyline of the Holy Grail, Merlin and the role of the knights of the Round Table and the way he establishes the cauldron found in the poem The Spoils of Annwn as the basis for the holy receptacle.
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I told Mary about us.
I told her about our great sin.
I could be free ever more.
Devil Woman, let go of me.
Down in our shack by the sea.
Mary's still in love with me.
Cause I don't want to stay.
Woman let go of my arm.
Like the dark coral reef.
You bring sorrow and grief.
You made me ashamed to face Mary.
Barely had the strength to tell.
Skies are not so black.
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Q: ActionScript newbie, need some help I started learning flash and actionscript very recently and I am having fun with it. Now, here's something I wanna do with actionscript and since I am pretty new, I am not yet sure where to look for to learn what I want. I am specifically looking for image manipulation techniques that can be achieved with AS, for example, basic image manipulation like changing contrast/brightness, transform image etc. Can anyone guide me towards any relevant tutorial/resources that would be easy to understand for a beginner.

A: Check out these pages:
http://gotoandlearn.com/index.php?currentpage=5
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Watch the videos titled:
Introduction to Pixel Bender: Part 1
Introduction to Pixel Bender: Part 2
Animating Pixel Bender Filters
This will have you well on your way. The rest of the site is packed with hundreds of free videos + source files (in many cases) so you should be well on your way with this website. The tutorials on that website are actually my foundation/roots/beginnings in flash. Of course since then I've moved on to more advanced topics/theory etc but there is more than enough information to come out a real flash developer. :)

A: I would recommend buying the book Learning Actionscript 3.0. This is the book I started with and to be honest I never needed another book on Actionscript again. It covers pretty much everything, including image manipulation.
You can see and download the samples from the book here. For image manipulation, I would recommend looking at example of 'Drawing With Pixels'.

A: There are a lot of good books out there. Colin Moock's Essential Actionscript is by far my favorite book.
If your looking for some online help or tutorials heres a list of references:
A nice tutorial on active tuts for changing the brightness of an image.
Senocular is an AWESOME reference in anything flash. Here he talks about the Matrix class is basically any size manipulation to a movieclip of image.
Finally the Adobe live docs are the best place for you to learn the built in classes AS3 has to offer. the Movieclip.transform property is the basis for all aspects of image manipulation (hue,tint,etc).
Good luck in your learning, I remember how exciting it was for me!

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Amy Klobuchar, the 1st female senator from Minnesota, now a 2020 Democratic hopeful
February 17, 2019 1:56PM PST
Stephen Maturen/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) — Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., formally entered the race for the Democratic presidential nomination on Feb. 10 in a snow-covered Minneapolis, on the banks of the Mississippi River.
"I'm running for every parent who wants a better world for their kids," Klobuchar said in front of an estimated crowd of 9,000 people. "I'm running for every student who wants a good education. For every senior who wants affordable prescription drugs. For every worker, farmer, dreamer, builder. For every American. I'm running for you."
Klobuchar opted for an outdoor rally at Boom Island Park, near the site of the 2007 Interstate 35W bridge collapse, and told supporters, "I don't have a political machine. I don't come from money. But what I do have is this: I have grit."
In her announcement, she outlined an agenda including universal health care, a constitutional amendment to overturn the Citizen's United Supreme Court decision, rejoining the international climate agreement, gun control legislation and advocating for criminal justice reform.
Within hours of her speech, Klobuchar sparred with President Donald Trump on Twitter over climate change. Trump mocked the senator's snow-covered announcement on Twitter, calling her a "Snowman(woman)" and writing that it was "bad timing" that she talked "proudly of fighting global warming while standing in a virtual blizzard of snow."
Well, it happened again. Amy Klobuchar announced that she is running for President, talking proudly of fighting global warming while standing in a virtual blizzard of snow, ice and freezing temperatures. Bad timing. By the end of her speech she looked like a Snowman(woman)!
Klobuchar turned the jab into an opportunity to bring up her stance on environmental issues.
"Science is on my side, @realDonaldTrump," she wrote. "Looking forward to debating you about climate change (and many other issues)."
Science is on my side, @realDonaldTrump. Looking forward to debating you about climate change (and many other issues). And I wonder how your hair would fare in a blizzard? ☃
Everyone else can join my team and contribute at https://t.co/Hz91NGE8hB https://t.co/Xjjz9I2Fw7
— Amy Klobuchar (@amyklobuchar) February 10, 2019
The former prosecutor rose to prominence in her time in the Senate as a key Democratic member of the Judiciary Committee. During the hearing to confirm now-Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh, Klobuchar challenged the judge on his beer drinking during a hearing about an accusation of sexual misconduct by Christine Blasey Ford. In a contentious moment during the second hearing, Kavanaugh turned the questioning on Klobuchar and asked if she ever blacked out from drinking. He later apologized for the question.
Klobuchar told ABC's The View that she believed Kavanuagh's behavior wasn't "dignified."
Her announcement came on the heels of a recent report by the Huffington Post claiming three people have withdrawn from consideration to lead Klobuchar's campaign because of an alleged history of mistreating her staff.
Following her campaign announcement, the senator responded to reports of mistreating her staff following her speech, admitting she can be tough.
"I can be tough and yes, I can push people, I know that. But in the end, there are so many great stories of our staff that have been with me for years and have gone on to do incredible things," she said.
With her announcement, she became the fifth woman currently serving in Congress to confirm a 2020 bid.
Here's everything you need to know:
Name: Amy Klobuchar
Hometown: Plymouth, Minnesota
Early life: Klobuchar has "always embraced the values she learned growing up in Minnesota," according to her official biography. Her father, Jim Klobuchar, was a newspaperman, and her mother, Rose Klobuchar, was an elementary school teacher. Her grandfather was an iron ore miner in northern Minnesota.
Klobuchar attended public schools in Plymouth and was the valedictorian of her high school. She completed her undergraduate degree at Yale University where she graduated Magna Cum Laude in 1982. She earned her law degree in 1985 from the University of Chicago, where she also finished Magna Cum Laude.
What she does now:
Klobuchar is the senior U.S. senator from Minnesota. She was first elected as a Democrat to the Senate in 2006, re-elected in 2012 and again in 2018. Her current term ends Jan. 3, 2025. She serves on the Senate Judiciary Committee, Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee, the Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry Committee and the Joint Economic Committee. She also serves as ranking member of the Rules and Administration Committee. In the Democratic party, she serves as chairwoman of the U.S. Senate Democratic Steering and Outreach Committee.
What She Used To Do:
Prior to serving in the Senate, Klobuchar practiced law in Minnesota. She was a partner at two law firms before being elected Hennepin County attorney in 1999. Most notably, she helped pass Minnesota's first felony DWI law and worked with the Innocence Project to put in place measures to protect against false convictions.
What you may not know about her:
She is the first woman elected to the U.S. Senate from the state of Minnesota. Shortly into her tenure as a senator, an eight-lane bridge in Minneapolis collapsed in Aug. 2007, killing 13 people. In only thirteen months after the Interstate 35W bridge collapse, the structure was rebuilt with full funding secured by Klobuchar.
In 2016, Medill News Service ranked her as the senator who sponsored or co-sponsored the most bills that were enacted into law.
According to FiveThirtyEight, Klobuchar has voted with Trump almost a third of the time.
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Mental health issues are more common than you think. In the United States, approximately 18 percent of adults experience a mental illness during a year. And just over four percent of adults have experienced a serious mental illness that has inhibited their ability to participate in daily activities. For those who deal with these conditions, it can often seem isolating. This isolation only increases with the spread of misconceptions about mental illness, labeling those who suffer as crazy or simply unrelatable.
This loneliness has been mitigated by the rise of digital communication platforms, which have connected others in many places around the world. Twitter, which has become one of these mediums, is a network that efficiently connects those who suffer from mental illness and addiction through the use of specific hashtags and even dedicated accounts that consistently offer advice and information to their followers. When a user searches a topic or a hashtag, they can be linked to a conversation with others who suffer the same difficulties and find a community that doesn't seem to exist in the real community around them.
To fully understand not only the depth of this conversation but the people who are partaking in it, we took a closer look at mental health tweets over a year and the statistics and origins of these tweets and communities. Read on to see which states are originating the most tweets on mental health, which mental health terms are being used most, and how people feel about mental health conversations on Twitter.
The cloud above shows the hashtags created to bring users and communities together. They represent the often uncomfortable part of talking about the unglamorous struggle with mental health. Hashtags such as #ChangingMinds and #TimetoTalk were aimed at youths and were created by nonprofits that often sought celebrities to help spread their message. One powerful message under the #TimetoTalk hashtag was written by Robin Williams's daughter, Zelda Williams. Since her father's untimely death in 2014, she has openly spoken about his struggle with depression, actively encouraging others to engage in honest discussions about mental health.
While #MentalHealth was the most used tag, other hashtags such as #EndTheStigma and #MentalHealthMatters showed strong results as conversation starters among friends and communities.
In 2015, a UCLA photo series originated the United States campaign "#EndTheStigma." This created a community of Twitter users who were talking about their mental health in frank and open ways. Many took this as an opportunity to speak out about the problems they were facing. They also used it as a resource for finding communities and ways to get help.
If you or someone you know is seeking help outside of social networks and communities, PsychGuides.com has resources. You can call to speak with a trained professional and find the support you or a loved one may need.
The interactive map above allows you to explore some of the tweets we looked at. By clicking on a map point you can see the tweet that originated from that location. Explore the map to see what people from around the country were adding to the conversation.
Twitter has been used to create outreach opportunities for those seeking help, providing information with hashtags that link to awareness and fundraising campaigns. For example, #MentalHealthMatters was used in 2014 by the United Nations Economic and Social Affairs Department for National Youth Day. The hashtag's goal was to increase the conversation by instigating a social media trend that took away the stigma that may be associated with suffering from a mental illness. The hashtag ultimately brought users to the UN page where it asked for video, art, and writing submissions that could help make the conversation more accessible.
When looking at all of the mental health related tweets we collected, which included 12 different hashtags, the state that produced the highest number of tweets on mental health per 100,000 people was Wyoming, closely followed by Vermont and North Dakota. Excluding Vermont, there is a high concentration of mental health tweets coming from the Northwest. On the opposite side of the spectrum, California takes a strong and distinctive lead for the lowest amount of tweets about mental health.
There is no denying Twitter's role in the mental health community. The tweets we looked at had an overall positive sentiment score (per the AlchemyAPI tool), as opposed to those that featured negative-association terms. This trend has been grabbing the attention of governments and the overall health community as people increasingly create communities and campaigns to amplify the conversation.
In Colorado, which had the highest average sentiment score, many tweets feature positive words such as "amazing," "breakthrough," and "support." It's these kinds of tweets that influence the sentiment scores in a positive manner.
While some phrases may come up as negative, in the overall context, they may not actually carry a negative message. Words such as "disease" and "crippling" could carry negative connotations when paired with words such as "ugly," or "disgusting," , but in the case of mental health tweets, they are sometimes raising awareness of the impact an illness has on people's lives.
The use of Twitter for mental health has helped researchers gain statistics and data about often-mentioned issues and problems that users were facing. In 2014, Johns Hopkins University published its findings on using Twitter metrics to understand the state of mental health among tweeters. This allowed researchers to determine where conditions exist and who they affect.
Two of the specific terms that showed up in the study, as well as our analysis, were "depression" and "bipolar disorder." After the university accumulated the raw data on the usage of these terms on Twitter, it had to go through another process of examining the context in which they were used.
Words that co-occur with specific hashtags reveal other hashtags among the top three spots for the common terms #anxiety, #depression, #mentalillness. This suggests that users are tweeting about multiple causes and tagging more than just one relevant term.
Using a data processing tool, we were able to find words that commonly correlate with alcohol, anxiety, drugs, and smoking. We only considered words that had a correlation score of 0.5 or higher and were neither hashtags nor usernames. The correlation score is charted on a scale of 0 to 1 and suggests which words are appearing most frequently.
Interestingly, the term alcohol reveals the words "tom" and "vilsack" at high frequencies. This could be linked to Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack, who has led efforts to combat drug and alcohol addiction in rural areas of the U.S. over the past year.
Even if there is no one in your life who you believe can understand what you are going through, there is a community you can connect with instantly. These data prove that you are not alone. No matter your struggle, there is always someone else out there who is struggling the same as you.
If you are one of the many who feel alone while dealing with a mental illness, PhychGuides.com has the resources you need to learn more about your condition and reach out for help.
Using Twitter's API, we scraped for 12 different mental health–related hashtags and collected 18,892 tweets. Using AlchemyAPI's sentiment analysis tool, we were able to determine how positive or negative people were in their tweets. Note: We loaded the text file and removed all links and punctuation except for @ and # to keep usernames and hashtags intact. From there, the text mining package was used to create a term-document matrix in which each tweet was treated as a document. Using the function "findAssocs," we were able to locate words linked to each keyword.
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Checking unit=0 slice=1 partition=<auto>... good.
What should I change so that /boot/uEnv.txt on this USB stick is read automatically?
Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 03/12/2019 03:12AM by bodhi.
but it looks like uBoot does not seem to take any input from this file.
Can you suggest a single line that I can put in to show the environment has effected a change as a result of reading this file as I must have missed something... Also does it matter that the file is on a FAT partition which is case insensitive, so uEnv.txt might not be found?
> input from this file.
> uEnv.txt might not be found?
Post the log here if you can't figure out what's happened in the above commands.
The problem may be due to my envs... If I install uboot.2016.05-tld-1.environment.bodhi.tar should I expect to boot OpenWrt?
As I asked above, list the content of your current uEnv.txt.
And post the entire log of the above session here.
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 03/13/2019 11:40AM by bodhi.
[    0.007738] Feroceon L2: Cache support initialised.
[    0.039015] jffs2: version 2.2 (NAND) (SUMMARY) (LZMA) (RTIME) (CMODE_PRIORITY) (c) 2001-2006 Red Hat, Inc.
[    0.820386] 0x000000000000-0x000000100000 : "u-boot"
[    0.825896] 0x000000100000-0x000010000000 : "ubi"
[    0.984412] bridge: filtering via arp/ip/ip6tables is no longer available by default. Update your scripts to load br_netfilter if you need this.
[    1.514855] VFS: Mounted root (squashfs filesystem) readonly on device 254:0.
[    6.097516] UBIFS (ubi0:2): UBIFS: mounted UBI device 0, volume 2, name "rootfs_data"
I had a typo up there!
Power up, interrupt serial console. And run the bootcmd_uenv the first thing, there is no need to run anything else before that.
And don't run anything else either.
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 03/13/2019 11:43AM by bodhi.
has been set so that the envs have been amended.
Yes. They were read in OK.
So BSD, Debian, and LEDE will be tried in that order. Whichever command is successful (i.e. completed) first, will be the running system.
Many thanks for the help. I can now boot Debian, Arch Linux and OpenWrt on my GoFlex Home using the same uBoot.
I'll spend a bit of time trying to get FreeBSD booting as well.
Your help in flattening the learning curve of getting familiar with the system is much appreciated.
At one point, you should post your u-boot envs setup that boot these 3 distros here. Probably in a new thread, so that it will help others who are looking for clues how to set it up such an environment.
I hope to do that at some point. I've made a lot of mistakes over the last 18 months since I started with this and maybe some of my posts have helped people avoid them but, I still have much to learn. I'd like to hone these u-boot envs, since I don't understand a number and would rather remove them if not required.
> them if not required.
Right. For example, these envs are transient. They are created on the fly during booting. But when you list them after executing some commands, they appear on the list.
So to get a real set of permananent envs, it should be listed in Linux with fw_printenv. And then you woud compare them with my env text file in the u-boot release tarball (uboot.2016.05-tld-1.environment) to see what are the differences. And envs that you did not purposely saved (i.e for LEDE, Arch) are not needed to be saved.
I'm really struggling to get uboot to take any notice of my /boot/uEnv.txt.
/-\|/-\|/-\|/-\Using DTB compiled into kernel.
What should I do to make uBoot set the above variables from the file?
Is there any way to include 'printenv' in uEnv.txt so that envars are displayed during the boot process?
Basically, you can not redefine bootcmd and bootcmd_uenv using uEnv.txt. So define a bootcmd_bsd that piggy back to the default bootcmd like I suggested above.
Actually you could, but I purposely exclude them in the current default envs (to ensure that users mistakes in setting envs wont lock them out of the box).
I'm trying to boot from a 350GB HD in the SATA slot on a GoFlex Home unit and I can get uboot to read /boot/uEnv.txt.
Do I need to make any changes to my envars?
I realise that bootcmd_bsd includes usb start which would be in error, but uBoot does not even seem to find bootcmd_bsd, so to me it looks like uEnv.txt has not been found/read.
Make sure the /boot/uEnv.txt file is on partition 1 of the HDD.
IOW, on partition 1, there must be a /boot folder and the uEnv.txt is in that folder.
I could not read the log, please repost the log without all the control characters.
drwxr-xr-x 17 root root      4096 Aug 10  2018 .
drwxr-xr-x  4 root root      4096 Mar 24 00:10 ..
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root    4096 Mar 26 04:59 .
drwxr-xr-x 17 root root    4096 Aug 10  2018 ..
I know some improvement is needed in SATA part of the default envs.
That's what I tried to find out in your particular system configuration.
But you have a really bad habit of not doing what I asked you to do :) I can't help you if you dont provide the info I ask for.
I did exactly as what you suggested but the outcome was the same so didn't see any sense in posting the same log as before and wanted to see if I could get uBoot to read uEnv.txt which I did by running the various functions in logical order separately, but I will post the output from the changes you suggested, although I don't know what you will glean from it.
It continues trying to boot Linux and I can post that if you want.
and running the different functions in logical order, thereby bypassing some of the conditions which determine if a function should run or not.
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 03/28/2019 03:30AM by balanga.
That's not how we troubleshoot some problems. Ask and answer :) if there is no answer, I have no way to know what was the result. Even the answer is: "no, it did not work and the result is the same" would be helpful.
> you will glean from it.
A lot info from the log with the changed envs (what the log did not show were what I wanted to see).
I'll run some test in one of my Kirkwood boxes to see what I can tell.


Just last week, the company began to test a new non-dessert offering, spokesman Chris Arnold told Bloomberg via email. This happened a few days after news broke Brian Niccol, the former chief executive officer of Yum! Brands' Taco Bell Division, is set to lead Chipotle starting March 5. Although the test may be unrelated, more menu changes are expected once Niccol takes the reins.
The seasoned CEO was credited with attracting patrons with innovative LTOs, like Nacho Fries, and launching numerous product initiatives, like Taco Bell's breakfast daypart, during his time at the fast-food chain.
It's appropriate to mention, the Mexican Grill brand has struggled with innovation in the past. For the most part, Chipotle has kept a consistent core menu since it first opened in 1993. It wasn't until the brand suffered PR nightmares thanks to breakouts of foodborne illness that Chipotle decided to roll out new menu items to lure customers back in.
The fast casual brand's first attempt was its chorizo, a pork and chicken blend that was launched mid-2016 and removed from its menu a little over a year later. Then, most recently, the burrito brand failed to introduce a queso, a nacho cheese made from real ingredients, that would excite guests and drive foot-traffic to its stores. There was so much backlash that the company decided to rework the recipe to improve flavor and texture. Currently, Chipotle is working on releasing a new dessert to its test restaurant.


(Nicosia) Cyprus is a divided Island, after Turkey in 1974 invaded in which to protect Turkish Cypriots from a coup which had just taken place. The Northern half is known as the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus and is only recognised by Turkey , everybody else sees it as an illegal occupation. Despite declaring itself as independent , it is told what to do by Ankara.
Anyway the southern half is seen as Cyprus proper and as such has joined the EU, of late it has formed agreements with other countries (Israel/Egypt) regards sharing the sea between them and as such has mapped out plots in which to allow companies to find Oil.
However as explained the other day, Turkey isn't happy and demands a share of anything found in the Waters off Cyprus proper. Which is why without warning they have declared exploration block 3 off limits to the Italian oil company ENI which had sent in a ship to start searching for oil, stating that the Turkish Navy will be hosting military activities in the area.
Naturally this hasn't gone down well with the Cypriots. What I can't understand is why the EU is remaining silent on this.


WESTMINSTER — In practice this week, Newport Harbor High softball Coach Tony Qualin said the Sailors went over bunting and base running.
His team did neither well Wednesday in the La Quinta Tournament championship game. Twice bunts were popped up and caught in foul territory. Two runners were doubled off second base, and a sign was missed that resulted in another runner being tagged out on a squeeze play.
There's always room for improvement for the Sailors. There was also room in Qualin's hands for a championship trophy.
"They did everything else well," Qualin said of his players after Newport Harbor came from behind to defeat the host Aztecs, 3-1, in the title game at La Quinta High.
His battery played well, with sophomore pitcher Hattie Marshall throwing to sophomore catcher Bella Secaira. Secaira just battered the ball, finishing two for two with a double, a walk and driving in all three of the Sailors' runs. They helped the Sailors (11-2) hand the Aztecs (9-2) their second loss of the year, both coming to Newport Harbor.
The Sailors' core group of sophomores and juniors won their second high school tournament, the first being the Whittier Tournament last year. The La Quinta Tournament doesn't hand out a Most Valuable Player award, but Qualin said his choice would be No. 12 behind the plate.
"She's an intelligent hitter," Qualin said of Secaira, who is now batting at a .658 clip this season (25 for 38). "She waits for a good pitch and she lets the ball get deep, and then she explodes on it. The thing about Bella is that she hits the really great pitching as well as she hits the average pitching. The average player might hit .200 against good pitching and .400 against weak pitching. She hits .400 against everybody – or better.
"And as good as that is, she caught an unbelievably smart game. Hattie pitched a great game, but half of that is Bella. They teamed up to do very well today."
The title game was delayed five days because of wet fields last week, and that hurt the host Aztecs. La Quinta didn't start its ace pitcher, senior Amanda Garcia, who plays on Qualin's Newport Riptide Sharks club team. La Quinta Coach Jeff Nadeau said that was because Garcia had thrown a lot of pitches in the Aztecs' previous game, Tuesday's 13-9 victory over JSerra.
Garcia took the mound in the fifth inning but La Quinta, ranked No. 3 in the CIF Southern Section Division IV coaches' poll, started its normal shortstop Adrianna Cardoza at pitcher. Cardoza pitched around Newport junior Mandy LeGault's double leading off the game, getting back-to-back strikeouts to end a bases-loaded threat.
The Aztecs brought in sophomore Krissy Brewer to pitch in the third, and her defense didn't help her out as Newport Harbor sophomore Lauren Gandi reached on an infield throwing error. Marshall singled to left, and Secaira brought in Gandi and pinch-runner Reid Ling on another single to left, giving the Sailors a 2-1 lead.
Secaira added Newport's third run in the fifth inning. After Gandi singled to right, Secaira belted a double to left this time to score Gandi. It was Secaira's team-best 21st RBI of the season.
That was more than enough run support for Marshall, who allowed just two balls hit out of the infield all game (doubles by Cardoza and Garcia). She went the whole way, allowing one run on five hits. She struck out seven and walked just one, improving to 7-2.
"She was hitting her spots good and she was popping the ball in," Secaira said. "I would tell her to make her adjustments and she would adjust every tiny inch, and it made it good. When she hits that black on the corner of the plate and she's living there, people can't hit off of her. She felt good this game and I felt good this game, so we worked well together. The battery was working."
Sophomore outfielder Hope Nokes also had a hit for the Sailors, who play at Costa Mesa today before entering the prestigious Woodbridge Tournament beginning Saturday.
Newport Harbor plays pool-play games against Martin Luther King of Riverside and Norwalk on Saturday night.
"That's a very big tournament," Secaira said. "That's going to be our really big test on how we play together."
Marshall and Secaira; Cardoza, Brewer (3), Garcia (5) and Wilson. W – Marshall, 7-2. L – Brewer, 0-1. 2B – LeGault (NH), Secaira (NH), Cardoza (LQ), Garcia (LQ).


Discussion in 'Android Devices' started by eachna, Dec 24, 2009.
I bought a German Milestone to have all the goodness of DROID on a GSM network. So far so good.
I have this Motonav app on it and I'd like to know if there's a way to remove it. I'm one of those obsessive people who doesn't like to have anything on my phone I won't actually make use of.
Anyway to get this app off?
Go to the appsmarket, download quick uninstaller (appmanager) by B&B. Select motonav with the uninstaller. You'll get a message saying its a system application, I have no idea what will happen if you agree to remove it. I love my motonav!
Thanks! It didn't occur to me it might cause a problem. Maybe I'll leave it till after the 2.0.1 update comes out.
I want other GPS application.
I think you need Admin rights (root) to remove a system app.
It's a system app and you can't mess with system stuff without root access.
If you do root it, though, you can remove Motonav by following these directions. You may need to make sure you've cleared data in use by the app before removing it, though.


More than a third (34%) of women with bowel cancer in England were diagnosed after an emergency hospital visit compared to less than a third of men (30%), despite women having more red flag symptoms and more visits to their GP, according to research presented at the National Cancer Research Institute (NCRI) Cancer Conference in Liverpool.
If diagnosed after an emergency hospital visit, patients are more likely to have poorer survival as the disease is usually at an advanced stage.
Data from 2799 women and 2946 men diagnosed with bowel cancer in England between 2005-2010, was analysed by researchers from University College London, the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine and the University of Exeter and funded by Cancer Research UK and the British Medical Association.
Women were also more likely than men to be diagnosed with a less-serious condition, such as irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), before being diagnosed with cancer. Those who had received a less-serious diagnosis in the year before their emergency admission, were more likely to be diagnosed with cancer following a later emergency hospital visit.
Dr Richard Roope, Cancer Research UK's GP expert, said: "Bowel cancer can be difficult to diagnose because it can share symptoms with diseases other than cancer. The most common symptom recorded for women in the study before they were diagnosed with cancer was stomach pain, which is usually associated with other women's health conditions. This could explain why some men were diagnosed with colon cancer earlier, as stomach pains don't have as many alternative explanations for men as they do for women. Sometimes diagnosing cancer is a process of elimination, so other conditions need to be eliminated first which means a longer wait for a cancer diagnosis.
For media enquiries contact the NCRI press office on 020 3469 8300 or, out of hours, on 07050 264 059.
Cristina Renzi, Georgios Lyratzopoulos, Bernard Rachet. Gender inequalities in emergency colon cancer diagnosis: A longitudinal data-linkage study in England on pre-diagnostic clinical history and healthcare use.
Of the patients diagnosed with bowel cancer in the study, 940 women (34%) and 874 men (30%) were diagnosed as an emergency.
56 women in the study who were diagnosed with bowel cancer as an emergency had been diagnosed with a less serious condition instead of cancer compared to 20 men. It is unknown from the data whether these were incorrect diagnoses or whether the patients had these conditions as well as cancer.


Have you been considering switching to vape juices that contain salt-based nicotine? This way of vaping is much more than a fleeting trend. Thanks to the development of this type of e-liquid, vape enthusiasts can enjoy higher nicotine levels without the unpleasant harshness that comes from vaping high concentrations of freebase nicotine.
Before you make the switch, it's important to know that your entire vaping lifestyle will change dramatically. From the device that you use to the type of e-liquid that you purchase; every component of your vaping setup will require an upgrade. Of course, many vapers welcome the change.
Is Salt-Based Nicotine What You Need?
Once upon a time, vape juices were made with freebase nicotine. Created as a more potent form of nicotine to put in tobacco cigarettes, freebase nicotine was never intended for vaping. That's because it becomes extremely harsh when heated to high temperatures. Conventional vaping systems, as you know, heat e-liquid to high temperatures so that the liquid becomes vapor. As a result, those vaping freebase nicotine typically experience throat irritation if their e-liquid's nicotine concentration is too high.
Now, of course, we've nicotine salts. This e-juice feels extremely smooth going down the throat regardless of its concentration. It allows vape enthusiasts to take in a lot of nicotine at once. Therefore, those who crave lots of nicotine can get that pleasurable buzz with every puff.
If you're someone who used to smoke tobacco cigarettes, you probably rely on that punch to the back of the throat in order to feel satisfied when you take a puff. Fortunately, vaping an e-liquid that's made with nicotine salts gives you that throat hit that you crave.
For one thing, nicotine salts are highly potent. They hit the throat very nicely when you inhale. The throat hit also comes from the propylene glycol (PG) content in juices that contain nicotine salts. This thin, flavorless substance provides a satisfying sensation to the back of the throat when inhaled.
If your number one vaping priority is exhaling the thickest, largest clouds possible, you might be a little disappointed with nicotine salts. While you will still get a decent amount of vapor per puff, it's unlikely that you'll be able to enjoy impressive fog that you get when using a sub-ohm system.
If you're going to switch to salt-based e-liquids, you're going to need to grab a new vaping device. Because vape juices that are made with nicotine salts require a completely different formula from vape juices that contain freebase nicotine, the device needs to change as well.
Nic salt juices are compatible with pod systems. These are small, portable vaping systems that are typically very easy to use and navigate compared to the large sub-ohm devices that we're used to. They utilize pods that act as atomizers. Most pod systems that are on the market have refillable pod cartridges. However, some pod mods are only compatible with pre-filled pod cartridges that are made by the device's manufacturer.
Many vapers prefer pod mods because they require less maintenance and can fit into a pocket. If you want a more user-friendly device, you'll probably enjoy switching over to this type of vaping setup.
Clearly, vaping nicotine salts is a pretty drastic change for anyone who is used to conventional e-liquids that are vaped with a sub-ohm system. However, if you crave lots of nicotine, a strong throat hit and a more user-friendly device, switching to this style is absolutely worth it.


A Washington Post poll shows a majority likely to vote in November against Virginia legislators who support the speeding ticket tax.
A Washington Post poll released Friday shows that Virginia state legislators who voted to impose a new tax on major and minor traffic infractions will face voters' wrath in November. In a telephone survey of 1,144 residents, transportation ranked as the most important issue, outpacing other items such as the economy, education and immigration by a wide margin. The so-called civil remedial fees were designed to raise revenue for transportation by adding a $1050 tax on top of an already sizable $2500 maximum fine for offenses that include driving 15 MPH over the limit in a 65 zone or wantonly disregarding the safety of others by failing to use a turn signal (fee details). Fifty-six percent of likely voters said they were less likely to vote for anyone supporting these fees.
This spells trouble for Speaker of the House of Delegates William J. Howell (R) who has embraced the fees on the behalf of his traditionally anti-tax party and blocked efforts of fellow Republicans such as state Representative Jeff Frederick (R-Woodbridge) to call a special session for their repeal. Howell's plan has been to delay action until after the elections, hoping the furor that ignited in July would die down and the issue become forgotten. Since the fees became publicly known, nearly 177,000 voters have pledged to vote against fee supporters (view petition). The Post poll suggests these voters have a long memory with a majority now expressing disapproval for the way the legislature is doing its job. This reflects a ten-point increase in discontent over a poll taken in 2006 before the abuser fee issue hit.
Only nineteen percent expressed support for abuser fees while three percent had no opinion on the issue. The poll did not ask respondents whether the fees themselves were a good idea, but it did ask whether voters thought the fees were "too high." Half responded in the affirmative, suggesting the plan of Speaker Howell and Governor Tim Kaine (D) to expand the fees to cover out-of-state drivers in January will do little to appease public anger.
A majority of legislators, including fee architect Dave Albo (R-Springfield), face no opponent in the upcoming election as the filing deadline for candidates elapsed before the fees were publicized. The poll claims a margin of error of 3 percent.


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One Comment on "Episode 758: What Makes a "Knives Out" a "Knives Out"?"
Benjamin Jan 9th 2023 11:41 pm #
Here's something that has always bumped me a little bit but I've never been able to articulate.
I grew up sorta in the hood, then lower middle class, then by the end solidly middle class, then I got married and started the cycle all over again. I didn't go to college. Generally fiction dealing with class issues reflects the upper middle-class sensibility of the writers. Think The Social Network, but also all the 80's High School movies: Films depicting not being good enough for the Country Club or certain social circles, microaggressions before we called them that, etc.
In my experience though, when privileged elite writers try and write for those on a lower social strata, they have a hard time capturing the on the ground essence of paycheck to paycheck life: You don't hate the rich. Nobody has time to hate the rich. You might hate your boss, but he's not rich either. You have to be taught to hate the rich.
Clearly, Rian Johnson really really wants me to hate the rich, from Canto Bight to the Trumpy family in Knives Out (how delicious! the Latina nurse gets the mansion at the end!) to Elon Musk and Joe Rogan. But he lacks the ability to write real characters that we believe and I wonder if this is part of what Fenzel was getting at.
I don't have a dog in the Elon fight, but if you want to propagandize me against him you need to make the case that he is DANGEROUS, or at least wantonly sloppy or…something. He doesn't need to be Daniel Plainview, but Ed Norton's character can't be this dumb and unsubstantial.
The movie seems to critique him more for having tacky stylistic choices than stealing his company from Janelle Monae or threatening presumably thousands with his energy project. It just rings false. And the final message is the same as the Last Jedi: Destroy the past…even if we're talking about the Mona Lisa.
Does the average moviegoer think it's funny to have the Mona Lisa destroyed to ruin some rich guy? I honestly don't know, but clearly Rian Johnson thinks it's hilarious and I don't get it.