Trashing Sessions, threatening Mueller, pontificating on Napoleon, and more.
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It's head-turning even by Trumpean standards. The New York Times' President Trump interview—conducted by Peter Baker, Maggie Haberman and Michael Schmidt—was one of those where you could have chosen from three or four potential leads, including their own pick of his trashing Attorney General Jeff Sessions.
What about the hint that he'd can Robert Mueller if he started looking into his family's finances? Or comments on health care and foreign affairs, including a weird stretch during the 50 minutes about his holding the hand of the French president ("He's a great guy. Smart. Strong. Loves holding my hand") and a desire to perhaps hold a French-style military parade in Washington?
Or Ivanka Trump showing up in the Oval Office with her six-year-old daughter—and the president prodding the kid to show off her Chinese to the reporters?
The transcript shows that it was at times very weird, even bizarre, but unavoidably revealing freestyling that included pseudo-historical parentheticals like his claim that Napoleon Bonaparte didn't invade Russia "because he had extracurricular activities." Or his take on the Russian army's greatness in the cold. What was that all about?!
Trump: 48 (Fox News, surprise, snaring 13, well more than anybody else).
As for a breakdown, Knoller notes that Trump has now granted four to the same Times he routinely bashes, three for Reuters, two for the Financial Times, two for the Washington Examiner, one for The Washington Post, one for the Wall Street Journal, one for Breitbart, one for the Economist, one for the Washington Times and one for Bloomberg, among others.
Trump & Friends and Morning Joe opened with the medical news about John McCain, while CNN's New Day went with the big Times interview of Trump, with reporter Haberman essentially annotating the remarkable session in which she took part (and offering various cautionary notes on how to interpret certain lines).
"He has a certain view of his accomplishments," she said, ever so diplomatically in discussing the seeming disjoint between performance and public opinion, on one hand, and his self-image, on the other.
"My takeaway, and again this may prove wrong, is that whenever Donald Trump is sort of this calm, or seeming at peace – and the disparity between his level of visible anxiety or agita and some on his staff is pretty wide, it's a big gap – he seemed as if he has some sense of what he's going to do with this presidency, what he's going to do with this White House. He has some plan in his own mind – he may not have read anyone in on it yet– but he seems to know where he's going."
It is a rather "incredible" interview, as MSNBC's Mike Barnicle readily conceded when Morning Joe turned to chewing over yet another Times or Washington Post exclusive that will provide the sum and substance of cable news programming (and MSNBC did so with the help of the Times' Schmidt).
It's food journalism at its worst. Or, better put, food journalism at its best – or somewhere in the middle – seeking the worst.
Eater.com was into Day Three yesterday of its Name of Groans, its March Madness-like attempt to find "the most truly awful restaurant names out there." The 32 contestants all came via readers and the Final Four already included Thelonious Monkfish and Pink Taco.
The latest contenders were (in alphabetical order and with all punctuation and capitalization correct) "a(Muse.) (Rehoboth Beach, Delaware), COUNTER 3.Five.VII (Austin, Texas), Hashtag Poki (Berkeley, California), I Luv Cheese (Clinton, Michigan), MAST' (Boston), Mooo.... (Boston), T'ahpas 529 (Melrose, Massachusetts), and Think? (San Pedro, California).
In the first match-up, between a)Muse.) and MAST', Eater's droll assessment begins, "These restaurants are the equivalent of the girls you went to middle school with who changed their names to be more original — it's spelled Jesykaa, not Jessica, thanks — once they started shopping at Hot Topic. "
In a face-off between T'ahpas 529 and COUNTER 3.five.VII, the analysis is, "T'ahpas 529 is at least kind of useful as a descriptive name, but is it also some kind of obscure direct-object-having French verb conjugation? Je t'aime — wait, no, actually, I meant je t'ahpas. At least its numbers are all numerals: At COUNTER, the style varies digit to digit in a way that's just over-the-top unacceptable – each number written using a different representative system! At least all its characters are able to translate to social media handles exactly as styled, though."
Ultimately, this bracket came down to a final between a(MUSE.) and Mooo.... The winner? It was Mooo.... Chalk it up to "its improper spelling and ellipses," though the chief judge makes clear she thinks that was the wrong call and personally would have gone with a(MUSE.). The competition continues Thursday and ends Friday.
"The Public Information Officer for the Nevada Department of Corrections has told LawNewz that The Daily Mail's report that O.J. Simpson received a disciplinary write-up for masturbating in his cell is inaccurate."
Meanwhile, here's what you need to know about his parole hearing Thursday.
It's not security holding back self-driving cars, it's the state of artificial intelligence, says Comma.ai's George Hotz, who gained teenage fame in hacking the iPhone, in an interview with Cheddar, the fine new financial outlet for millennials.
After McCain's surgery for a clot above the eye, there'd been lots of speculation from medical experts, including in The New York Times and on NPR.
Given the brain cancer now diagnosed, some of it was quite off the mark, including at least two experts saying it was a good sign that he'd gone home after the surgery. "Happily, it sounds like he's out quickly and doing very well," one told NPR.
Lindell, an ardent Donald Trump supporter, is the inventor of MyPillow, a foam pillow purported to treat a range of medical issues, from sleep apnea to fibromyalgia. The pillow, which has aggressively promoted Trump on its official Twitter account, has more in common with the politician than meets the eye. In the latest of an onslaught of lawsuits, MyPillow agreed to a $1 million settlement this week, after the company was accused of promising over-the-top health benefits it couldn't possibly hope to deliver.
"I rise in defense of Ann Coulter," writes Bloomberg columnist Joe Nocera (former New York Times mainstay).
"Well, okay, not exactly. The conservative firebrand's 'I hate Delta' Twitter tantrum over the weekend, after she was moved from an extra-legroom aisle seat she had booked and paid for, was unquestionably over the top. For ugly starters, she tweeted out (to her 1.6 million followers!) a snapshot of the woman who took 'her' seat, a woman who had really done nothing wrong."
David French's National Review critique very much heeds its headline, "Media, Tell the Truth: The Women's March and Black Lives Matter Embrace Terrorists."
"Mainstream media coverage of both organizations has been fawning, and their leaders have been subject to heroic profiles. As a result, millions of well-intentioned, reasonable liberals have been duped into supporting and elevating both groups..." Provacative.
Trump-loving online radio host Bill Mitchell tweeted the question, "When looking at polls, ask yourself this - who answers a call from an 'unknown number' at dinner time and talks to a stranger for an hour?"
Keith Olbermann responded, "Oh I know I know...Trump? Thinking it's Putin?"
A study by TwentyThree, a video marketing automation platform, studied more than 1.5 million videos and "found that videos can, and should, last longer than 90 seconds if publishers want to see higher engagement rates. While 80 percent of videos are under five minutes, they drive less than a third of overall video engagement. Mid-form and long-form videos, which are at least 15 minutes long, drive over half of all video engagement despite encompassing just 8 percent of all video.


In this article, I will explain how to create a simple report (that could be first report for a newbie) using SSRS 2008. Here I am assuming that you have successfully installed SQL Server 2008 along with SSRS.
There are two ways to create Reports in SSRS. You can develop the report manually, or you can use the Report Wizard to give yourself a head start. For this first report, I am going to take advantage of the wizard.
In Solution Explorer, right click on Reports folder and select Add New Report. This will open Report Wizard. Click Next on the Welcome screen and this will bring you to the Select the Data Source screen.
Enter the name of Data Source as dsLocal and select type as Microsoft SQL Server. Now click on Edit button to set the connecting string for data source, this will open Connection Properties window. Enter Server name and database name and click on Test Connection buttion to make sure the connection is established. Click OK button twice to close Test Results and Conection Properties windows.
You can check the Make this a shared data source checkbox to make this data source as shared so that it can be used for other reports as well. Now click on Next to proceed.
Click Next to proceed. It will display Select the Report Type wizard. Select Tabular option and click Next to proceed.
Now you can see Design the Table wizard. Select required fields from Available fields and clicked on details button to make these fields available in details part of a report. You can do data grouping as well using Group button. Click Next to proceed.
Now you can see Choose the Table Style wizard. Select default style Slate and click Next. Finally you can see Completing the Wizard. Enter report name FirstReport and click Finish to complete the wizard.
Fortunately the folks at Microsoft thought of this, and created a version of Reporting Services that runs in Local, or what Microsoft calls Client mode. There are several ways to use client mode, you can bind the report right to the database if you wish, or to an object. However if you have an application that's been around for a bit, or maybe you've been around for a bit, chances are you have a lot of ADO.NET DataSets you'd love to use for data in a report. Today we'll look at how to bind those data sets to a SQL Server Reporting Services report.
Let's say you have created an application to work with the AdventureWorks2008 database. You user has now asked you for one last feature. They wish to display a list of Vendors in a report. They want to preview the report, print it, and be able to export it to a PDF format.
Based on your experience you know that SQL Server Reporting Services would be a good choice. However your client does not have an instance of SQL Server Reporting Services running in their corporation. Thus the path is clear, use SQL Server Reporting Services in Client mode.
Now open up Visual Studio 2008 and create a new C# WinForms application. Note that while the ReportViewer control we'll be using works fine in WinForms, ASP.Net, or WPF, for simplicity we'll use a WinForms application. Give your project a meaningful name (I used ReportingServicesLocal).
Normally Reporting Services knows what tables and columns are available because you have setup a connection to a database. In this scenario however, we are going to bind the report to an in memory ADO.NET DataTable.
At design time then Reporting Services does not know about the DataSet, and so we must create a surrogate for Reporting Services. Thus we'll create a special type of XML schema definition to stand in for our not yet created DataSet.
1. Right click on the project in the Solution Explorer window.
2. Select Add, New Item.
3. Click on the Data leaf of the Visual C# Items branch in the Add New Item window.
4. Pick the DataSet item. Give it a meaningful name, such as VendorList.xsd.
Now we need to add a table to the DataSet.
1. In your toolbox, under DataSet find the Data Table tool and drag it onto the design surface.
2. Click the DataTable1 and rename it to Vendors.
The last step in the process is to add our columns to the Vendors DataTable we just created.
1. Right click on the name of your DataTable and pick Add, Column from the pop up menu.
2. For the first column type in VendorName. Note that if we needed to, we could now go to the properties window and change the DataType to something other than the default of System.String. For this lab, everything we'll use is a string so this won't be needed.
Now that we have a schema, we're ready to create the report and add the components to it. To create the report, follow these basic steps.
1. Right click on the project and select Add, New Item.
2. In the pop up window, go to the Reporting leaf under the Visual C# branch.
3. Pick "Report", and give the report a meaningful name such as VendorList.rdlc.
Now that the report is created, we need to add the components and data columns to it.
1. With the blank report, drag a Table control onto the report body.
2. Open the Data Sources window by selecting Data, Show Data Sources from the Visual Studio menu.
3. You should see the VendorList DataSet, under it the Vendors DataTable, and under it the columns.
4. Drag the VendorName to the first column of the table. Next, drag the City to the second column, and the StateProvinceName to the third.
5. Right click on the column header for StateProvinceName and pick "Insert Column to the Right".
Now that the setup tasks are complete, it's time to get to the user interface ready. First we'll do some basic setup of the form.
1. When you created the basic project Visual Studio created a default Windows Form, Form1.cs. Start by changing the Text property to read "Report Viewer".
2. While we're at it, let's change the (Name) property to frmReportViewer.
Now add the Report Viewer control to the form.
1. In the toolbox, navigate to the Reporting area, and drag a MicrosoftReportViewer control onto the form. Resize so it takes up the lower 90% or so of the form.
2. Change the name to rvwMain (or something meaningful).
Next add a button to the form. We'll use it to trigger the report.
1. From the Common Controls area of the toolbox, drag a button control onto the form.
2. Change the (Name) property to btnDataSet.
3. Change the Text property to DataSet.
4. Double Click on the button to open up it's code behind.
We'll be supplying the data to the ADO.Net dataset using SQL Server, so we need to go to the top of the form and add a reference to the System.Data.SqlClient.
Now let's go into the btnDataSet_Click event, and add some code to fill our dataset. This code snippet will bind to our local SQL Server, create a command to do a simple select statement to a view, and fill the dataset.
string qry = "select v.Name as VendorName "
+ "from Purchasing.vVendorWithAddresses v "
Note that in the first line of our select statement, we had to use v.Name as VendorName. The column names we return from our dataset must match the column names we entered in the Data Source back in Exercise 2 Step 3. Fortunately SQL easy to use "AS" syntax makes this simple.
Also, even though in this example we use SQL Server, the connection could be to any Data Source such as MySQL or Oracle. The important thing is we wind up with a DataSet to bind to.
In the same btnDataSet_Click method we now need to tell the report viewer control which report to run, then where to get it's data. To tell the ReportViewer control to use a local report (as opposed to a report residing on a Reporting Services Server) we need to set the ReportEmbeddedResource property.
Note the format of the string we pass in. It has the name of the project, then a dot, then the name of the report complete with it's rdlc extension. You should also know this is case sensitive.
We need to create a new ReportDataSource to pass into the Add method of the reports DataSources. In the constructor for the ReportDataSource we pass in two parameters. The first is the name of the DataTable we are binding to.
Note that it's syntax is a bit odd, you have to address it with first the DataSet name, then use an underscore to append the name of the specific DataTable.
The second parameter is the specific table from the dataset to bind to. Since we only had 1 we can use the simple .Tables syntax shown here. We could have also given it a specific name.
One final note, in this simple example we are only binding one data source. However it's possible for reports to have multiple data tables contained in them. To bind each one, we would simply have created a data table for each in the XSD, then added the code to the step above to read each one in, then bound them in this step by repeating this line of code for each one.
Finally we're ready to display the report. Simply add this line to trigger the generation of the report.
Everything is now setup, you should be ready to run.
1. Launch the app from Visual Studio.
2. Once open, click on the DataSet button.


September is here and we have pumpkin spice on the brain. From all things pumpkin spice flavored (see our HUGE list of goodies here) to Pumpkin Pie and Pumpkin Pancakes, we really love all things pumpkin. Nothing rings in fall like the scent of warm, soothing spices.
We've brought back our popular pumpkin spice brownie recipe, and a chance to win spice to stock your pantry with fall favorites from Frontier Co-op!
Preheat oven to 350. Butter and flour an 8 inch square glass baking dish. Beat butter in a large bowl until light with a stand mixer or hand mixer. Gradually add brown sugar and beat well- about 2 minutes. Add 1 egg and 1 tsp vanilla. Beat to blend. Add flour, baking powder, spices, and salt. Beat until well mixed. Beat in pumpkin. Stir in pecans. Spread batter into prepared baking dish- batter will be thick.
In a bowl, mix cream cheese, sugar, egg yolk, whipping cream, and 1/2 tsp of vanilla blending well. Drop by heaping teaspoonfuls on top of batter. Using a small knife, gently swirl cream cheese into batter, making a marble pattern. Bake for about 35 minutes.
One lucky winner will the following spices. There are a variety of ways to enter this giveaway including opportunities for multiple daily entries. Good luck!
Click the arrow buttons below for further instructions on each entry. This giveaway will close at midnight on Thursday, September 14, 2017. The winner will be randomly selected, verified for correct entry participation, and notified by email.
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I try to buy American products to support my local economy.
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I like to buy American products because they are high quality.
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I try to buy USA made because I can be more confident that certain environmental standards are met.
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Q: linear recursion $y_n=A \cdot y_{n-1}$ Let $a,b, \in \mathbb{R}$. Let $x_0=a, x_1=b$ and $x_n=\frac{x_{n-1}+x_{n-2}}{2}$ for $n \geq 2$
(i) Write the recursion in the form $y_n=A \cdot y_{n-1}$ where $A$ is a $2 \times 2$   matrix and $y_i=\begin {pmatrix} x_i \\ x_{i-1} \end{pmatrix}$
(ii) Find a diagonal matrix $D$ and an invertible matrix $S$, so that $A=SDS^{-1}$
(iii) Calculate $\lim_{n \rightarrow \infty}S^{-1}A^nS$
(iv) Deduce from that $\lim_{n \rightarrow \infty}A^n$ and $\lim_{n \rightarrow \infty}x_n$
My solution so far:
(i) $\begin {pmatrix} x_i \\ x_{i-1} \end{pmatrix}=\begin {pmatrix} \frac{1}{2} & \frac{1}{2}  \\ 1 & 0 \end{pmatrix} \begin {pmatrix} x_{i-1} \\ x_{i-2} \end{pmatrix}$
(ii) Eigenvalues are $\lambda_1=1$ and $\lambda_1=-\frac{1}{2}$.
Basis of $V_{\lambda_1}$ is $B_{\lambda_1} =\begin {pmatrix} 1 \\ 1 \end{pmatrix}$
Basis of $V_{\lambda_2}$ is $B_{\lambda_2} =\begin {pmatrix} -1 \\ 2 \end{pmatrix}$
$\Rightarrow D=\begin {pmatrix} 1 & 0  \\ 0 & -\frac{1}{2} \end{pmatrix}, S\begin {pmatrix} 1 & -1  \\ 1 & 2 \end{pmatrix}, S^{-1}= \begin {pmatrix} \frac{2}{3} & \frac{1}{3}  \\ -\frac{1}{3} & \frac{1}{3} \end{pmatrix}$
(iii)
$\lim_{n \rightarrow \infty}S^{-1}A^nS = \lim_{n \rightarrow \infty}S^{-1}(SDS^{-1})^nS=\lim_{n \rightarrow \infty}S^{-1}(SD^nS^{-1})S=\lim_{n \rightarrow \infty}D^n= \lim_{n \rightarrow \infty} \begin {pmatrix} 1 & 0  \\ 0 & (-\frac{1}{2})^n \end{pmatrix}$
Is this correct so far? How to go on now?

A: Because $\lim_{n \rightarrow \infty}(-\frac{1}{2})^n=0$, we have
$$\lim_{n \rightarrow \infty}D^n= \lim_{n \rightarrow \infty} \begin {pmatrix} 1 & 0  \\ 0 & (-\frac{1}{2})^n \end{pmatrix}=\begin {pmatrix} 1 & 0  \\ 0 & 0 \end{pmatrix}$$
To simplify the notation, we Define $X^\infty:=\lim_{n \rightarrow \infty}X^n$ and $Y_\infty:=\lim_{n \rightarrow \infty}Y_n$
Then
$$A^\infty=SD^\infty S^{-1}=\begin {pmatrix} \frac{2}{3} & \frac{1}{3}  \\ \frac{2}{3} & \frac{1}{3} \end{pmatrix}$$
Therefore (with $x_1=\{a,b\}$)
$$y_\infty=A^\infty.x_1$$
From any component of vector $y_\infty$, we have
$$x_\infty=\frac{2}{3}a+\frac{1}{3}b$$
This is consistent because $\lim_{n \rightarrow \infty}x_n=\lim_{n \rightarrow \infty}x_{n-1}$.

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Those interested in applying to Jackson State will need to submit, in addition to the application, high school transcripts and scores from either the SAT or ACT. The school is not highly selective--the acceptance rate in 2016 was 63%. Successful applicants generally have strong grades, good test scores, and an overall impressive application. For more information, check out Jackson State's website, or contact the admissions office.
Founded in 1877, Jackson State University is a historically black university located on a 125-acre campus in Jackson, Mississippi. JSU offers a range of bachelor's, master's and doctoral degree programs. Professional fields and the sciences are particularly popular among undergraduates. On the student life front, Jackson State has an active fraternity and sorority system. The school also has two Greek organizations for students involved in band, and The Sonic Boom of the South, Jackson State's marching band, has played at numerous college and professional athletic venues. In athletics, the Jackson State Tigers compete in the NCAA Division I Southwestern Athletic Conference. JSU fields eight men's and ten women's Division I athletic teams.


Is there anything in the lamp more important than the light itself? Here I was able to preserve a bit of history and dress it in futuristic shapes. Lovers of old-school radios know right away what the thyratrons were. This one in the lamp is not only from the past era, but even from the nonexistent Soviet country, USSR. The rotary valve traditionally plays the role of the switch and the dimmer.


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Niko Schwinds latest output is a spellbinding five piece EP, with three original tracks and two remixes taking us down the rabbit hole.
Lost your Mind opens proceedings, building up on emerging synths that break down in a subversive atmosphere. Next up is Existence, a sinuous techy melody dotted by distorted cowbells intertwined with trippy vocals. Boy Next Door reworks the track, twisting it into its even more hypnotizing and entangling twin. Finally,Circles of Confusion seems to be composed of just that - circular cuts sprinkled with synths that round up the whole experience. Several Definitions gives the track a deep and dark reshape, using jarring synths and shuffling hi-hats that amp up the late night feel.


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Birthplace: Cambridge, United States
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American politician, five-time Speaker of the House, a cheerfully rumpled embodiment of old-fashioned Democratic politics. Holding a record of over 50 years in both federal and local government without a single political defeat, the homespun streetwise philosopher became most known for leading a new breed of representatives past Watergate reforms into the current media age. He devised a "strategy of inclusion," replacing committee barons with legislative causes and creating task forces that involve rank and file. He once described politics as "the art of effective compromise." A charmer, full of blarney, he became Dem. Whip in 1971 and majority leader in 1973, Speaker in 1977. For 15 years he fought against the surging tide of conservationism. A partisan warrior, he was also a folk philosopher. Not a complicated man, he knew himself and totally loved both politics and people.
O'Neill was the son of Thomas Philip and Rose Ann Tolan O'Neill. His dad had a background in local Democratic politics and was the director of the 1,700 strong City Water Department in Cambridge, MA. A mediocre student in youth, O'Neill was usually voted captain of his school teams despite his unimpressive athletic ability. His first taste of politics came in his teen years when he campaigned door to door for Al Smith in his unsuccessful bid for the Presidency, 1928. To earn tuition for his education at Boston College, O'Neill drove a truck and gleefully pocketed his profits at the poker tables. During his senior year, he announced his candidacy for a seat on the Cambridge city council, but by neglecting to make a personal appeal to his voters he lost to his opponent, suffering the only political defeat of his career. After graduation in 1936, he briefly worked for a local insurance company, but was elected to the Massachusetts legislature later that same year.
O'Neill remained active in local politics over following years, becoming the youngest majority leader in the history of Massachusetts when the Democrats regained control of the legislature in 1947. When young John F. Kennedy launched his senatorial campaign in 1952, O'Neill decided to run for his seat in the House of Representatives. After his assured victory from his vast array of Democratic constituents, he was introduced to Congressional circles, and successfully plied his trade at propitious poker tables with government leaders of both parties. First elected to Congress in 1952, he gained national attention in 1967 when he broke with L.B. Johnson over Vietnam. He was the driving force in the House in choreographing the events which led to Nixon's resignation in 1974. Later, he relished his battles with Ronald Reagan. After gaining a position on the Rules Committee, he approved a measure that enlarged the Committee from 12 to 15 members, thus providing the Democrats with a majority, and was subsequently elected to the U.S House of Representatives from 1953-1987.
During the '60s, O'Neill gained nationwide attention for supporting Eugene McCarthy's anti-war policy and by taking a stand against President Lyndon Johnson over the Vietnam War. By 1971 he was elected Democratic whip followed by a victory as majority leader in 1973. As a moving force behind the partisan assault on President Richard M. Nixon, he orchestrated the events that led to Nixon's resignation in 1974. In 1977 he was elected Speaker of the House, and in the '80s took a public stand against Reagan's blunders in Central America, when the murder of missionary nuns in Nicaragua fueled his Roman Catholic rage.
Roman Catholic, O'Neill married Mildred Anne Miller on 6/17/1941 and was the father of five children. He died of a heart attack in Boston on 1/05/1994.

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Un código de caracteres de seis-bits es una codificación de caracteres diseñada para su uso en ordenadores con longitudes de palabra múltiplo de 6. Seis bits solo pueden codificar 64 caracteres distintos, así que estos códigos generalmente incluyen solo las letras mayúsculas, los números, algunos caracteres de puntuación, y a veces caracteres de control. Estos códigos con un bit de paridad adicional eran una manera natural de almacenar datos en cintas magnéticas de 7 pistas.

Tipos de códigos de seis-bits
Los primeros ordenadores trataban únicamente con datos numéricos, y no se hizo ninguna previsión para tratar con dato de tipo carácter. BCD de 6 bits fue utilizado por IBM en algunos de sus primeros ordenadores como el IBM 704 de 1954. Esta codificación fue reemplazada por el código EBCDIC de 8 bits cuando el System/360 estandarizó los bytes de 8 bits. Hay algunas variantes de este tipo de código (ver abajo).

Los códigos de carácter de 6 bits generalmente tuvieron éxito reeplazando al anteror Código Baudot de 5 bits, y precedieron al ASCII de 7 bits. Una de las más populares variante era la DEC SIXBIT. Era sencillamente los códigos ASCII para caracteres del 32 al 95 codificados del 0 al 63 al restar 32 (las columnas 2, 3, 4, y 5 de la tabla ASCII de 16 caracteres por columna, movidas como las columnas 0 a la 3, por restar 2 a los bits altos); incluye el espacio, caracteres de puntuación, números, y mayúsculas, pero ningún carácter de control. Al no incluir ningún carácter de control, ni siquiera el de fin-de-línea, no era utilizado para el procesamiento de texto general. Aun así era usado para formar nombres de hasta 6 caracteres, como los nombres de ficheros y los símbolos en ensamblador, que podrían ser almacenados en una sola palabra de 36 bits de un PDP-10, tres caracteres cabían en cada palabra del PDP-1 y dos caracteres cabían en cada palabra del PDP-8.

Los códigos de 6 bits podrían codificar más de 64 caracteres por el uso de caracteres especiales para cambio de conjunto, esencialmente incorporando dos conjuntos distintos de 62 caracteres y cambiando entre ellos. Por ejemplo, el popular terminal de comunicaciones IBM 2741 soportaba una variedad de conjuntos de carácter de hasta 88 caracteres imprimibles además de varios caracteres de control.

Una codificación UTF-6 fue propuesta para Unicode pero era un super conjunto de Punycode.

Código BCD de 6 bits
El código BCD de 6 bits era la adaptación del código de tarjeta perforada a código binario. IBM aplicó los términos Decimal Codificado en Binario o BCD a las variaciones de BCD alphamerics utilizados en los ordenadores IBM más antiguos, incluyendo el IBM 1620, el IBM 1400 series, y los miembros de Arquitectura no Decimal del IBM 700/7000 series.

Bases de datos COBOL de códigos de 6 bits
Una codificación de 6 bits era también utilizada en bases de datos de COBOL, donde el fin de la información del registro estaba almacenada por separado.

Un código de 6 bits, con un bit de paridad par añadido, fue utilizada en la Pista 1 de tarjetas de banda magnética, como era especificado en ISO/IEC 7811-2.

Código DEC de 6 bits

Código DEC SIXBIT
El código DEC SIXBIT incluyendo unos cuantos caracteres de control —usando un carácter de cambio— fue especificada en ECMA-1 en 1963 (véase abajo). Otra variante menos común, fue obtenida al eliminar el bit alto de un carácter ASCII en el rango 32 a 95 (los códigos 32 a 63 quedan en sus posiciones, a los valores más altos se les resta 64). Tal variante era a veces utilizada en el DEC PDP-8 (1965).

FIELDATA código de 6 bits
FIELDATA era un código de 7 bits (con paridad opcional) del cual solo 64 posiciones de codificación (ocupando seis bits) fueron formalmente definidos. Una variante fue utilizada por los UNIVAC 1100 series. Tratando el código como de 6 bits, estos sistemas utilizaron palabras de 36 bits (capaces de almacenar 6 caracteres reducidos FIELDATA).

Código Braille de 6 bits
En Braille los caracteres están representados utilizando seis posiciones de punto, formando un rectángulo. Cada posición puede contener un punto levantado o no, por eso Braille puede ser considerado para ser un código binario de 6 bits.

Códigos de seis bits para la codificación de binario a texto
La transmisión de datos binarios sobre sistemas qué están diseñados para solo texto a veces puede introducir problemas. Por ejemplo, el correo electrónico históricamente soportaba solo códigos ASCII de 7 bits y despreciaban el octavo bit, esto corrompía el dato binario enviado directamente a través de cualquier servidor de correo. Otros sistemas pueden causar problemas por ser impropiamente interpretados caracteres de control durante su almacenamiento o transmisión.

Un número de esquemas existen para empaquetar datos de 8-bits en representaciones de solo texto que pueden pasar a través de cualquier sistema de correo de texto, para ser descodificados en el destino. Ejemplos de subconjuntos de caracteres de 6 bits utilizados para empaquetar datos binarios incluyen Uuencode y Base64. Estos conjuntos no contienen caracteres de control (solo números imprimibles, letras, algunos signos de puntuación y quizás el espacio) y dejan el dato listo para ser transmitido sobre cualquier medio qué sea también capaz de transmitir texto legible por humanos.

Ejemplos de códigos BCD de 6 bits

CDC 1604 : código de cinta Magnética BCD

CDC 1604 : códigos de tarjeta perforada

CDC 1612 códigos de impresora (aplicaciones de negocios)

Ejemplos de Fieldata
La codificación Fieldata fue desarrollado para el proyecto del mismo nombre del Ejército de Estados Unidos para el establecimiento de comunicaciones a finales de 1950. También se aplica a los ordenadores de la serie UNIVAC y Unisys.

Fieldata

UNIVAC 1100 Series

Ejemplos de variantes de ASCII de 6 bits

DEC SIXBIT

ECMA-1

Ejemplo de códificación de la U.R.S.S. GOST 10859 de 6 bits

Ejemplos de código Braille de 6 bits
Véase Braille español y Braille.

Referencias

Enlaces externos

 SIXBIT Character Code Reference Digital Equipment Corporation SIXBIT character coding system.

Codificación de caracteres

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Steve Cotterill reflects on Town's draw with Charlton Athletic
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Steve Cotterill reflects on Town's 1-1 draw with Lee Bowyer's Charlton Athletic.
Shrewsbury Town extended the unbeaten run to three games after securing a late point against a strong Charlton Athletic.
Despite going a goal down, Steve Cotterill's men fought until the end of the fixture and managed to secure a last-minute goal through Ollie Norburn to earn a point.
Town's Manager was pleased with the performance and felt his team deserved to walk away from the tie with all three points.
On the performance:
"I think we did enough in the last 20 minutes to win the game. We had better chances and more shots on target, so I thought we deserved to win the game in the end.
"We looked like it was our third game in six days and Charlton had an extra day in between in the week. The turn-around has been incredibly tight but I hope the players realise how far they have come in the last week.
"It has been incredibly difficult with a lot crammed in during a short space of time. Towards the end, we did enough to win the game. We had some great chances and their keeper made some great saves. He is a top-class keeper and he's one of the best in the league.
"Their substitutions came on and had a big impact on the game. I'm still getting to know what we've got and getting to know the boys. We now have an opportunity on Tuesday to have a look at lads who haven't had a game."
On the Town squad developing:
"Ollie has been top class since I first came through the door. I had a chat with him early on about captaincy and we had a great chat. We have some really good lads in there.
"We will get better on the ball as time goes on. We've played against two top teams and have deserved to win both. We have a real tough month but I thought our lads were brilliant today – we are looking forward to another week now.
"If you can't win, don't get beat. If you go behind, keep playing until the final whistle – that's what we did today and that's why we got the rewards."
On the fans:
"They have been great. When we were pushing at the end, the fans with their noise gave the lads that little bit more encouragement to give it that little bit more - they helped us get that equaliser."
Shrewsbury Town vs Charlton Athletic on 05 Dec 20
Steve Cotterill


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Stop Yogi Bhajan, this fake Sikh and tantric baba from being "honored" in the Sikh museums at each Takht!
by Gursant Singh , Yuba City California USA, Monday, February 27, 2012, 15:07 (3611 days ago)
edited by Gursant Singh, Monday, February 27, 2012, 18:55
Please write the SGPC in Amritsar India and demand they stop the "honoring" of this fake Sikh and tantric baba Yogi Bhajan in the Sikh museums at each Takht!http://www.sgpc.net/
Pilgrimage to Punjab and the 5 Takhts
"The pilgrimage will be led by Bhai Satpal Singh Khalsa, Ambassador of the Sikh Dharma, Chief Religious and Spiritual Authority of Sikh Religion in the Western Hemisphere, and son-in-law of Yogi Bhajan....There will be several events, such as unveiling photos of Yogi Bhajan at Sikh Museums and honoring the legacy of Yogi Bhajan at each Takht."
http://www.indiapost.com/pilgrimage-to-punjab-and-the-5-takhts/
The Yogi Bhajan portrait in the Sikh Museum at the Darbar Sahib (Golden Temple)proves, Yogi Bhajan was never given any such title as "Siri Singh Sahib" by Shri Akaal Takhat Sahib.
One can clearly see the text for Yogi Bhajan's name as "Bhai Harbhajan Singh Ji Yogi"
There is no mention of the title "Siri Singh Sahib" when in other Sikh's portraits the museum shows the title given by the Khalsa panth or Shri Akaal Takhat Sahib under their name. I am appalled when I see a fraud like Yogi Bhajan displayed with all his tantric stones & yogic jewellry alongside the likes of Sant Singh Maskeen jee or Bhai Jasbir Singh Khalsa aka Veer jee. These Singhs were the true Panth Rattans, not Yogi Puri a cult leader!!
Why is SikhNet promoting Yogi Bhajan's use of Yogic stones & jewelry for tantric power?
Jeweled adorned emblem depicting Yogi Bhajan's grandiose self-appointment as "Siri Singh Sahib, leader of the Sikhs in the Western hemisphere". Yogi Bhajan used lavish jewelry to try and impress people that he was a king and his false titles carried the royal credibility of lavish gemstones. Official Seal used by Yogi Bhajan which shows the false title of "Siri Singh Sahib"
Why does SikhNet call Yogi Bhajan the "Siri Singh Sahib " & leader of the Sikhs in the west when Bhajan's false title has been shown to be a lie?
You can also visit a discussion from a forum with former and current Yogi Bhajan followers at this link. I encourage everyone who considers themselves a Sikh or kundalini yoga student to join in this important discussion:
Yogi Bhajan and Hari Jiwan on the beach in Mexico living a luxurious life at the Acapulco Princess Hotel.
SikhNet should have used this pic of Hari Jiwan & Yogi Bhajan in their article & Titled it " The Emperor has no clothes"!!
Yogis or Sikhs?
Shame on SikhNet for promoting this anti-Sikh propaganda of Yogi Bhajan's right hand man Harijiwan Singh Khalsa in a recent article on SikhNet. I worked closely with Harijiwan for 30 years while I was part of Yogi Bhajan's tantric yoga dera and I have first-hand experience with Harijiwan's extensive corrupt and even illegal activities for which the Federal Trade Commission filed charges against Hari Jiwan in June 1997.
Yogi Bhajan "right-hand man", Hari Jiwan Singh Khalsa, (the same person SikhNet promotes in this recent article),hosted at his house the biggest enemy of Sikhism Jagjit Naamdhari whose followers worship him as a Satguru and consider Jagjit as the 15th Sikh Guru. Below you will see many 3HOers along with Yogi Bhajan himself consorting with Jagjit and his Naamdharis.
Harijiwan~ "The Siri Singh Sahib (Yogi Bhajan) instructed me to do a powerful pranayam.... And here's the next best part...."
Well the next best part doesn't seem to be that Hari Jiwan has ever abided by the Sikh Code of conduct which in my mind is the "proof in the pudding" for completely discrediting Yogi Bhajan's half-baked Kundalini Yoga system which I think takes one away from authentic Sikhism and faith in God and Guru Sahib Ji.
http://gurmukhyoga.com/forum/index.php?id=1
Notice all the tantric stones and jewelry Hari Jiwan and Yogi Bhajan are wearing in the photo above that shows where their real loyalty lies which for them is in tantric yoga all for personal power and money, NOT with authentic Sikhism which only relies on the Siri Guru Granth Sahib & Gurbani for support. Read about Yogi Bhajan's Secret Tantric Necklace revealed by Hari Jiwan in this article : http://gurmukhyoga.com/forum/index.php?id=309
Why does Hari Jiwan & SikhNet call Yogi Bhajan the "Siri Singh Sahib " & leader of the Sikhs in the west when Bhajan's false title has been shown to be a lie?
a) There never was is or will be a title of that nature (other than in the perception of YB and the Bhajanistas).
b) This whole thing was a great hoax that was perpetrated by YB (Yogi Bhajan).
Of course, it's hard to prove a negative. That is why I invite MrSingh or any other Bhajanista to prove that the SSS (Siri Singh Sahib) title was awarded by either the Akaal Takhat or the SGPC. If they are able to post a proclamation or similar document here on this web site stating that the SSS title was awarded to YB (Yogi Bhajan).
continued at: http://gurmukhyoga.com/forum/index.php?id=424
Yogi Bhajan's Chief of Protocol: MSS Hari Jiwan Singh Khalsa
"The Master(Yogi bhajan)later explained to me that was the way it was supposed to be as it was the beginning of the switch in Sikh leadership from the Indian community to the American Sikh yogis – recognized or not." ~ MSS Hari Jiwan Singh Khalsa in a letter to the American Sikh community dated 06/24/2011
Is this a smoking gun or what? I have always suspected that Yogi Bhajan wanted to hijack the Sikh religion, here's the proof from the mouth of Yogi Bhajan's closest aid! See more photos and discussion on facebook:
Yogi Bhajan and Hari Jiwan on the beach in Mexico living a luxurious life at the Acapulco Princess Hotel. MSS Hari Jiwan Singh Khalsa brags to have been Yogi Bhajan's closest aid, literally with Yogi Bhajan everyday between 1978 and 2004. Hari Jiwan shows the American Sikh community in a letter dated 11/4/2011 his complete disdain for Sikhs of Punjabi ancestry when he says,
"There was one problem. Every time I'd run into an Indian Sikh, I'd feel accosted and tested. I was tested in the Indian custom so they could rationalize their superiority. Because I didn't know all they knew, they could justify their rejection of me, our organization and the Siri Singh Sahib (Yogi Bhajan) all at the same time. I didn't like being there foil. I finally said to the Master (Yogi Bhajan), "Sir, I've run into a lot of Indian Sikhs. They're very condescending. They all have asked me about parts and teachings and interpretations of the Siri Guru Granth Sahib. I follow you and you have taught me what the Guru says in my language. I don't know theirs as intimately. What should I say so I don't look like an idiot in their eyes and give them a chance to think they know better?" The Master spoke simple words of wisdom which would serve to shield my innocence and represent me and all I stood for in the highest honor. The Master replied, "Just tell them that they are much smarter than you, all you do is chant Wahe Guru." The answer was so simple, so direct, and so accurate that no Sikh could deny its reality, humility, devotion and elevation." See Hari Jiwan's entire letter at http://gurmukhyoga.com/forum/index.php?id=376
The truth is that Yogi Bhajan was telling Hari Jiwan to lie and just "fake it and you'll make it"! Hari Jiwan and Yogi Bhajan for that matter did NOT "just chant Waheguru" but rather were actively doing beadbi (sacrilegious actions) against Siri Guru Granth Sahib Ji with all Yogi Bhajan's tantra mantra anti Sikh practices.
Yogi Bhajan and Hari Jiwan at Jerry's in Beverly Hills California
"Jerry's shop was much bigger than it appeared. Behind the showroom was a private negotiation room with a couch, table and a chair or two. Behind this room was a large fully equipped kitchen where we enjoyed many delicious Armenian meals.
On a gorgeous spring afternoon in 1989 the Siri Singh Sahib was viewing a special Cartier broach and chain when he received a call from one of his secretaries......."
In a recent letter from Hari Jiwan, HJ says, "As he (Yogi Bhajan) often said, "I'm an easy target if all you want to see are my faults.""
"He (Yogi Bhajan) was a living example of the greatness of our Guru in spite of any faults – which were few and insignificant. He was my hero and he was a true hero."
"There are very few Buddhas, Christs, Guru Nanaks that make it to this earth."~Hari Jiwan Singh Khalsa.
Is Hari Jiwan implying that Yogi Bhajan is on an equal level to Guru Nanak?
Here I think is the crux of the problem with YBers. YBers refuse to admit any significant fault with Yogi Bhajan, eventhough YB himself admitted he had many faults. While I'll admit YB did some good, his faults were clearly many and YB should never be referred to or treated as a Satguru! YB was miles behind true Satgurus like Guru Nanak Dev Ji or Guru Gobind Singh Ji.
"My experience is that our Master(YB) and the Guru were one. So surrender to one is surrender to the other."~Hari Jiwan Singh Khalsa
Several people have said on this forum that Yogi Bhajan told them he was the Guru. This confirms again the view many YBers have of Yogi Bhajan and the view YB himself promoted as being a satguru.
Sikhnet Sikh & Yogi Bhajan's "right hand man," Hari Jiwan Singh Khalsa declares in the newspaper article "IDOL TALK";
"If the idol stands for a virtue... I have no problem putting that anywhere."
http://sfreporter.com/santafe/article-5718-idol-talk.html#commAjax
"Sikhism and Tantric Yoga" Please find the entire text for the Book under comments for this photograph's link or as a pdf file at:
http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=1837177208556&set=a.1837368253332.108156.1214270541
Join the cause "Call to Truth and Authentic Sikhism" with 6,000 other Sikhs
http://www.causes.com/causes/518356-call-to-truth-and-authentic-sikhism/about?m=74da2e2e
Join a discussion group on Hari Jiwan with ex YBers at: http://forums.delphiforums.com/KamallaRose/messages?msg=1203.8
"Hari Jiwan Singh Khalsa and Gurujot Singh Khalsa were YB's closest and dearest, his right and left arms, both crooks."
It was always my understanding that while everyone always fought and jockeyed to be close to YB, it was usually the craziest, most corrupt, sycophantic and sketchiest that were always by his side. Hardly sounds like a distinction. I also remember people telling me, "The closer you get to Espanola, the crazier it is."
Not to be completely cynical, but I have to wonder what the reasoning is behind this gush of sentimentality from the Chief of Protocol. In the wake of YB's death it seemed like many of the high muckity-mucks were subtly trying to play up angles that would give them legitimacy or authority, or at least some type of it: everything from flaunting their weird titles or starting to call themselves a "master" or "expert", to false-modest claims of siddhis, to personal stories that would range from personal reminiscences like this to more ooga-booga ones of "The SSS once gave me a SPECIAL meditation to do..." From what I've heard the banter from the Secretaries/White Tantric moderators during that time sounded like auditions for American Idol.
I guess with the Chief of Protocol's story, like all things, time will shake it out, and it will at the very least, be interesting.
Parady from the Wacko World of Yogi Bhajan:(Message Truncated)...from the Memoirs of MSS Hari Jiwan (con't):
"Remember, Chief of Protocolji, that P-A-I-N is a four- letter word for opportunity. Never forget that," he said pushing a ruby-encrusted finger painfully into my breastbone. "Those souls down there are lost sheep. Sheep with wallets."
He clasped my wrist just below the Rolex. "Other leaders have found this City of Angels and assembled followers among your generation. None of them as great as I, my son."
"That goes without saying, Sir."
He nodded in the direction of Sunset Blvd. "Jim Morrison? He had passion and sex appeal, too. He became fat. He collected fans and LA women. He made a fortune."
After a moment of silence my teacher dropped my hand and waved his glittering bracelets toward The Matterhorn. "And down there? Walt Disney! A visionary with his own kingdom. A magician, Hari Jiwan. A magician and a businessman."
The waitress brought another round of virgin pina coladas. "Tip her well, my son."
More lights twinkled beneath us as night descended on the basin.. How long had we been here? I recall mentioning it was an August afternoon when we left the movie. We had watched the summer sun go down. We had been here a long time. But with my teacher time stood still. Hours became years...
Always unpredictable, my teacher drew me up short when he waved his drink toward Benedict Canyon. "Manson got it. He faked it til he made it, Hari Jiwan."
"Sir?"
"Manson saw the reality of this place, the truth of your generation, you spoiled, stupid American poodles. Charisma and mystical ooga-booga only carries you so far. You need a plan... There's an Apocalypse coming and Manson saw it, too..."
I could see by the illuminated dial on my teacher's Patek Phillipe chronograph that it was time for the valet to bring the Bentley. I knew of my teacher's wrath when he missed the "Hill Street Blues" theme music.
How did I get to be so lucky?
http://www.3ho.org/enewsletter/imgs/featpic11-05-08.b.jpg
Hilarious and also sickening. Beautiful parody artfully exposing truth.
So did Yogi Bhajan advise MSS Hari Jiwan Singh Khalsa on how to scam people? Yes, I believe he did.
An X-YBer busnessman once told me that while in YBism, Yogi Bhajan took him and a couple other YBer Bros into a jewelry store in Chinatown in San Francisco. There YB messed with a Chinese woman's head until she sold him the gem he wanted for far far less than she bought it for. Had she been more sensitive, she would have given Saint YB the pretty rock as a gift.
"There are very few Buddhas, Christs, Guru Nanaks that make it to this earth."~Hari Jiwan Singh Khalsa. Is Hari Jiwan implying that Yogi Bhajan is on an equal level to Guru Nanak?
There's something both pathetic and creepy in the fact that Hari Jiwan's Facebook photo album titled "Me" is half-filled of photos of YB and him. You are me and I am you and we are we and...
Although we are we to deny YB's lasting impact on the one and only Chief of Protocol? He's still schleping them gems:
http://www.ninetreasures.com/
(As an aside, I find it incredibly crass to name a gem company after the Nau-Nidh/Nine Treasures spoken of in the SGGS. Anyone with half a mind would not take this literally when there are so many shabads that mention the Naam as containing all nine treasures and finding the nine treasures within one's Self. It's like a Christian expecting "the gifts of the Holy Spirit" to arrive via UPS and be wrapped in a bow and ribbon.)
Whenever HJS Jr's jail time is mentioned, 3HOers seem quick to say that he did time mostly because he wouldn't snitch on others.
This means that:
1) 3HOers on one level are able to digest the fact that there was a bigger crime being committed within the castle walls, and are not only OK with that, but...
2) Believe in some kind of nobility in covering up for other people who blatantly stole money, because they were "dharmic."
The mind wobbles.
P.S. Any FCC or other documentation out there on HJS Jr.?
Siri Ram Singh Khalsa:
http://www.ftc.gov/os/2000/02/sweetsong.htm
http://www.ftc.gov/opa/2000/02/windsor2.shtm
These guys, along with the master of lies and deception had their own paths...the socio-paths. They were men of no conscience who believed that the neds always justified the means. I'm sure there is a special place in hell reserved for yogi bludgeon.
Yeah, its called Roach Motel.
Yogi Bhajan used the sacred name of the Golden Temple, names and images of the Sikh Gurus, and sacred Sikh shabads for commercial enterprises to make millions of dollars. Wha Guru is even used as the name of a candy bar by Golden Temple Foods!Links appearing on the internet advertise Golden Temple along with wine and alcohol such as in this Google search link: "Golden Temple Granola - Food & Wine - Compare Prices" Other internet links associate Golden Temple massage oil with sex and sensual massages as in this Google search: "Sensual Soothing... Golden Temple Soothing Touch Massage Oil."
See for yourself the pictures below of the Darbar Sahib(Golden Temple) in Amritsar and Guru Tegh Bahadar featured on yogi tea boxes:
3HO Sikhs are associating yogis, ashrams, tantric sex yoga rituals,drinking of wine and magicians of the occult with the Sikh Gurus and the Golden Temple See the Rare Photo (above) featuring the Harimandir sahib in 1908 when it was under the control of the Pundits or mahants. Sadhus and yogis felt free to sit wearing only a dhoti and no head coverings.The Gurdwara Reform Movement stopped such practices in India and gave the Gurdwaras back to Gursikhs.
Tantric Asanas taught by Yogi Bhajan for transmuting sexual energy:Reprinted from Yogi Bhajan's official magazine "Beads of Truth" 11, p. 39
Yogi Bhajan illustrated here controlling tantric shakti "energy". Notice the depiction of Shiva,above Yogi Bhajan's head, Shiva is the god of yoga for Hindus. The illustration also shows Kundalini Yoga Asanas taught by Yogi Bhajan for transmuting sexual energy
Yogi Bhajan's students are intstructed to meditate on Yogi Bhajan's picture everyday which you can see displayed in the 3HO Espanola Gurdwara in the photo above.
Idolatry is forbidden in sikhism....why does an 8-foot high statue of the Hindu god Ganesh, adorn the entranceway to the Siri Singh Sahib (yogi bhajan) lane in espanola. This is the hindu god of "prosperity", as in the 3HO publication "prosperity pathways".Adi Shakti Chandi 3HO Tantric Deity worshipped by 3HO in songs and prayers(shown above). Read about Yogi Bhajan's Shaktiman and Shakti women.
Read these shocking fire pujas and occult numerology,(below), practiced and advertised in the latest newsletter published by 3HO Sikhs. These "kriyas" or pujas are complete rubbish,only adding to the destruction and dissolution of the Sikh faith and should not be practiced by Sikhs of the Guru. The object of these practices is to combine the Sikh faith with Hinduism; to defang, neuter and completely destroy Sikhi. The strategy is to introduce idolatry and a stratified priesthood into the Sikh Religion. Yogi Bhajan and his 3HO shakti cult followers are introducing idolatry and Hindu practices of pujas and tantra mantra into the Sikh religion. The Bhajan movement is attempting to shift Sikh worship from the commonwealth of Gurdwaras to private estates controlled by 3HO priests of Yogi Bhajan's Tantric sex cult church.
Idolatry is forbidden in Sikhism....why does a golden statue of a yogi adorn the entranceway to the 3HO Gurdwara in Espanola. This is a Hindu practise.
3-HO Sikhs demonstrate(in the photo above)their complete subservience to false worldly material power by exhibiting the Flag of God (The Nishaan Sahib) at an even level with the flag of the United States in front of the 3HO Gurdwara in New Mexico. The Nishaan Sahib, (The Respected Mark of God under the shadow of the Sikh Broadsword) should always fly higher than the flag of all the false materialists. The Flag of the Khalsa should occupy a place of exaltation above any government's flag that temporarily inhabits the material world.
Tantric Yoga asanas (above) taught by Yogi Bhajan
and practised in 3HO Gurdwaras
"Tantric doctrines involving sex-poses or physical contact poses are extremely repulsive to Sikhism. The Sikh Gurus repeatedly ask the Sikhs to shun Tantric practices because they are based on a mentally perverted outlook of life. The Sikh Gurus ask the Sikhs to shun the very presence and association of Shakti-Cult Tantrics." Dr. Trilochan Singh "Sikhism and Tantric Yoga"
Tantric Asana taught by Yogi Bhajan for transmuting sexual energy:Reprinted from Yogi Bhajan's official magazine "Beads of Truth" 11, p. 39
See how Hindu gods and yogis are displayed in 3HO Gurdwaras, (see link in blue).
See this post which exposes the most shocking relationship Yogi Bhajan had with Jagjit Naamdhari who is considered by his disciples as the 11th Sikh Guru. The Naamdhari Sikhs keep the Siri Guru Granth in a closet while they bow to Jagjit and refer to him as "SatGuru Ji" as you can see in the photos at this link.
Read these comments by traditional Sikhs. "What better way to make money: add a religious tone to the product. All of a sudden, it seems legit."
If you want to stop these degrading and sacriligious practices by Golden Temple Foods and Yogi Bhajan's cult followers; Post a letter of support on this website or write your local food stores and demand they stop selling Golden Temple Food's products. Some of the major stores which carry these products are Trader Joes, Whole Foods Market and Wild Oats but there are many many other stores who sell millions of dollars in Golden Temple Granola, Peace Cereal, Yogi Teas, massage oil and Wha Guru Chews.
Yogi Bhajan's sacrilegious teachings in the name of Sikhism are illustrated quite distinctly by pictures of Yogi Bhajan's portrait, hindu idols being displayed in and around 3-HO Gurdwaras and the practice of kundalini and sex energizing tantric yoga asanas inside 3-HO Gudwaras by Yogi Bhajan's students.
Idolatry is forbidden in Sikhism. Why does an eight foot high image (above) of Yogi Bhajan controlling the tantric shakti "energy" adorn the 3HO Gurdwara in Espanola? You can see the menacing image of Yogi Bhajan overshadowing the Sangat on the right side of the entire Espanola Gurdwara in the photo above.
Yogi Bhajan's students are intstructed to meditate on Yogi Bhajan's picture everyday which you can see displayed in the 3HO Espanola Gurdwara in these photos.
In a painting at the New Mexico 3HO Gurdwara(above)you can see the sacrilegious misrepresentation of our sacred Khalsa symbol "Khanda" with two swords around it. You may also observe in this painting how Yogi Bhajan is depicted on an equal level with Guru Ram Daas(the 4th Sikh Guru): Dr. Trilochan Singh recounts this observation in 1977 when he writes, "The other picture was the Khalsa symbol Khanda with two swords around it. The Khanda (double-edged sword) within this symbol was replaced by a picture of an American woman with Sari-like robes. The woman is called Adi Shakti. I saw this published in the Beads of Truth in London and have already commented on it in my book, The Turban and the Sword of the Sikhs. I told Shakti Parwha that this is the most sacrilegious misrepresentation of our sacred symbol. As usual she dismissed my opinion as unimportant."
The sikh code of conduct says food offerings to the GURU are forbidden, but there is a 'testimony' page over at sikhnet.com, a 3HO run site loaded with volumes of Yogi Bhajan nonsense talks. Yogi Bhajan instructs 3Hoer's to prepare meals as offerings at the gurdwara and calls this "a dish for a wish". This is nothing more than the Hindu practice of puja. The testimony states "a dish for a wish".
Yogi Bhajan studied and taught at the Sivananda Ashram in Delhi. This, in addition to his first Kundalini Yoga teacher Sant Hazara Singh. In the mid-1960s, Harbhajan Singh took up a position as instructor at the Vishwayatan Ashram in New Delhi, under Dhirendra Brahmachari. This yoga centre was frequented by the Prime Minister, Jawaharlal Nehru, his daughter, Indira Gandhi, and diplomats and employees from a host of foreign embassies.
Here's an article on Sivananda's approach to Kundalini Yoga:
www.dlshq.org/download/kundalini.htm
These are all Hindu practices.
You can also read about the Gurdwara Reform Movement which stopped such practices in India and gave the Gurdwaras back to Gursikhs.
Gurdwara Reform Movement
A Rare Photo of Harimandir sahib in 1908 when it was under the control of the Pundits or mahants. Sadhus felt free to sit in meditation wearing only a dhoti.The Gurdwara Reform Movement (Gurdwara Sudhar Lehr) is the Legislation passed by the Punjab Legislative Council which marked the culmination of the struggle of the Sikh people from 1920-1925 to wrest control of their places of worship from the mahants or priests into whose hands they had passed during the eighteenth century when the Khalsa were driven from their homes to seek safety in remote hills and deserts.
When they later established their sway in Punjab, the Sikhs rebuilt their shrines endowing them with large jagirs and estates. The management, however, remained with the priests, belonging mainly to the Udasi sect, who, after the advent of the British in 1849, began to consider the shrines and lands attached to them as their personal properties and to appropriating the income accruing from them to their private use. Some of them alienated or sold Gurudwara properties at will. They had introduced ceremonies which were anathema to orthodox Sikhs. Besides, there were complaints of immorality and even criminal behavior lodged against the worst of them. All these factors gave rise to what is known as the Gurudwara Reform movement during which the Sikhs peaceful protests were met with violence and death and ended with them courting arrest on a large scale to gain the world's attention. Before it was all over many would fall as martyrs with some being literally blown apart while they were strapped to cannaon barrels.
'During the Gurdwara Reform Movement, the Sikh leaders started a publication that was named Akali. From this paper and its policy the leaders began to be called Akalis, in view of which they formed the present Akali party. These Nihang Akalis should not be confused with the members of the Akali party.' The Turban And The Sword'' , by Dr. Trilochan Singh. (Page 402)
I found this post at SikhSangat.com It exposes the most shocking relationship Yogi Bhajan had with Jagjit Naamdhari who is considered by his disciples as the 11th Sikh Guru. The Naamdhari Sikhs keep the Siri Guru Granth in a closet while they bow to Jagjit and refer to him as "SatGuru Ji" as you can see in the photos below.
The 'Namdhari' cult has been excommunicated from the Khalsa Panth. See for yourself the pictures of Yogi Bhajan depicting his close relationship with Jagjit Naamdhari.
"However their are several instances which I find questionable about Yogi Bhajan. One includes the relationship they had with Jagjit Naamdhari (http://satguruji.blogspot.com/), and the other about an occurance that occured in the late 70's between Yogi and AKJ, where Yogi criticized Jatha for trying to "steal" members."
Yogi Bhajan wore huge gemstones for their so called "yogic energy and power". Yogi Bhajan adorned himself with these yogic rings and precious gems for different days of the week. Yogi Bhajan covered up the fact that these days are represented by different Hindu deities and the practice of wearing these yogic rings is really only the Hindu idea of pacifying the various gods and goddesses. Not only this, Yogi Bhajan used astrology and numerology in choosing these yogic rings. Yogi Bhajan believed the gemstones had "energy affects" and influenced our destiny, thinking and actions.
The Register-Guard
http://www.registerguard.com/
Yogi's legacy in question |
Former followers say he abused his position for power, money and sexBy Sherri Buri McDonald
Posted to Web: Sunday, May 9, 2010 12:14AM
Appeared in print: Sunday, May 9, 2010, page A8
A slow, painful awakening led Premka Kaur Khalsa, a top secretary in Yogi Bhajan's Sikh organization for almost 20 years, to leave the religious group in 1984, she said.
Premka Khalsa, 66, said she could no longer participate because of the inconsistencies she said she had witnessed between the yogi's behavior and his teachings — the deception and abuse of power.
In 1986, she sued Yogi Bhajan and his Sikh organizations, settling out of court. In court papers, she alleged that the married yogi had sexually and physically assaulted her, that he was sexually involved with other secretaries and that, as the head of his administration, she worked long hours for little or no pay.
The organization's religious leaders vehemently deny those allegations. Its business leaders did not respond to requests for comment for this story.
Kamalla Rose Kaur, 55, another former member of Yogi Bhajan's 3HO (Healthy, Happy, Holy Organization) who wrote for a grass-roots newsletter in the community, said a light switched on for her when she was researching and writing about religious groups and thought, "Hey, we're acting a lot like a cult."
Former member Guru Bir Singh Khalsa, 60, who had been appointed a "lifetime minister" by Yogi Bhajan, said he received a wake-up call in the early 1990s, when Sue Stryker, then an investigator with the Monterey County District Attorney's office, laid out evidence linking members of his spiritual community to criminal activity. Stryker, now retired, said a member of Yogi Bhajan's Sikh community pleaded guilty and served time in prison for a telemarketing scam that bilked seniors out of hundreds of thousands of dollars.
These and other ex-members of Yogi Bhajan's organization say they aren't surprised by events unfolding now, six years after his death. Legal disputes threaten to splinter the community. Allegations of the yogi's past wrongdoing are resurfacing. And the future of the Sikh organization's businesses are in question.
The outcome will ripple far beyond the religious group, whose companies have become intertwined with the local economy and business community.
In Multnomah County Circuit Court, the group's religious leaders are suing the group's business leaders over control of the community's multimillion dollar businesses, including Golden Temple natural foods in Eugene and Akal Security in New Mexico.
"Organizations/cults that have charismatic leaders and their followings, once their charismatic leader dies, this is generally the kind of thing that occurs," Premka Khalsa said.
"It's the meltdown of a cult," said Kamalla Kaur, who spent nearly 20 years in 3HO, and now runs an Internet forum for ex-members. "They actually kept it together longer than we expected."
Steven Hassan, a Massachusetts-based author, counselor and former leader of the Moon cult in the 1970s, said he has counseled about two dozen former 3HO members, including leaders, over the years.
"The group, from my point of view, was always about power and money," he said. "(Yogi) Bhajan is the consummate … cult leader. By not specifying someone to take over, there often are these kinds of political battles and meltdowns — people basically being greedy like Yogi Bhajan was and wanting more of a slice for themselves."
Attorney John McGrory, who represents the religious leaders in the Multnomah case, said his clients strongly disagree with the description of their organization as a cult. They "believe very strongly that it's a religion," he said. "They practice and follow it, and they are ministers." The proof, he said, is in the thousands of adherents who still practice it.
McGrory said the real source of the discord in the community appears to be that the assets Yogi Bhajan built up over the years are being taken for private use, with the blessing of the managers the yogi appointed to safeguard them.
Gary Roberts, attorney for the business leaders, has said they've done nothing wrong and have acted in the interests of the Sikh community.
When a founder of an organization, or the head of a family, passes away, disputes among successors are common, said Krishna Singh Khalsa, a Eugene Sikh for 40 years.
"There's nothing spiritual or charismatic or cultlike about that," he said. "It's simply where interests clash."
Religious leaders voice concerns
A year before he died, Yogi Bhajan established the "Unto Infinity" board to oversee the network of businesses, property and educational and spiritual nonprofits. Members include Golden Temple CEO Kartar Singh Khalsa and three of the yogi's former secretaries: Sopurkh Kaur Khalsa, Siri Karm Kaur Khalsa, and Peraim Kaur Khalsa. Kartar Khalsa and Peraim Khalsa are domestic partners.
In the years leading up to the Multnomah lawsuit, the group's religious leaders expressed concern that the business leaders, the Unto Infinity members, had abandoned the group's orthodox beliefs, which include not cutting one's hair, eating a vegetarian diet and abstaining from alcohol.
In court documents, the religious leaders allege that the Unto Infinity members acknowledged in 2008 that they no longer practiced those core beliefs.
Unto Infinity members did not respond to Register-Guard interview requests. But in March 2009, when the Khalsa Council, an international group of Sikh ministers, asked them whether they had cut their hair, were no longer vegetarians, and drank alcohol, the business leaders responded by letter, according to the Khalsa Council.
The letter said, among other things: "The questions raised are irrelevant to our roles and responsibilities in the organization. We are not the religious leaders of the organization; we were given administrative and financial authority and responsibility."
The Unto Infinity members wrote that they had made many sacrifices while the yogi was alive and that now they're applying "more kindness into our personal lives."
"We have learned the importance of factoring back into our lives more joy and balance as we continue to serve this mission for the rest of our way home," they wrote.
The Unto Infinity members wrote that if the religious authorities decided to narrowly define what a Sikh Dharma minister is, "we may not continue to qualify."
However, they noted, "many current ministers in Sikh Dharma have broken their Sikh or minister vows, marital vows, and the laws of our country and have remained ministers," adding that that had been true even while Yogi Bhajan was alive.
Watching the business leaders back away from the group's religious practices, some former members said, reminds them of what they experienced when they decided to leave the group.
"You go through stages of discovery of how you gave away your power and were deceived," Premka Khalsa said.
"Once the person who is defining your reality — the charismatic leader — once he's not there continuing to enforce the beliefs, then your eyes start to open," she said. "You see things in a different way, and it can be disillusioning."
Premka Khalsa said that's especially true for the yogi's secretaries, such as herself, who sacrificed much of their lives to serve him.
"I met him at 25," she said. "I was 41 by the time I left, so my life of family, child bearing and (being) productive in the world, that whole piece was gone. Nothing was put into Social Security, and I walked out with the clothes on my back."
The women in his inner circle "were denied having a personal relationship with any other men," she added. "Some of us wanted to get married and have children, but we got sidetracked into agreeing to forego that with the intention of serving something bigger than us. Sacrifice, sacrifice, sacrifice."
Flaws noted by former members
The group's publications and Web sites praise Yogi Bhajan as an advocate for world peace and as a spiritual teacher who has helped improve the lives of hundreds of thousands of people worldwide.
A resolution passed by Congress in 2005 after his death recognized the yogi as "a wise teacher and mentor, an outstanding pioneer, a champion of peace and a compassionate human being."
But Yogi Bhajan also had flaws, former members said.
"He was a phenomenal yoga teacher, a phenomenal spiritual man," said Guru Bir Khalsa, the former "lifetime minister" who left the group afte
New Agers call Yogi Bhajan, a "Sikh Guru" !
edited by Gursant Singh, Wednesday, April 04, 2012, 13:36
Please write this magazine "Common Ground" and explain that Yogi Bhajan was NOT a "Sikh Guru!" From the article "Mantra Music" by Alan di Perna.
"....kirtan luminaries like GuruGanesha Singh and Sat Kartar Kaur were direct disciples of the Sikh guru Yogi Bhajan who emigrated from India to North America in 1968."
http://commonground.ca/2012/04/mantra-music/
From Gursant Singh to "Common Ground": As a traditional Sikh, I take offense that you refer to Yogi bhajan as a "Sikh guru". The Sikhs had ten living Gurus who lived several hundred years ago in India. Now we have one Guru only which is embodied in the Siri Guru Granth Sahib. Yogi Bhajan and now his Aquarian donkeys are an embarrassment to the Sikh religion. You would do well to educate yourself on true Sikhism before printing rubbish that misleads people!
"I met him at 25," she said. "I was 41 by the time I left, so my life of family, child bearing and (being) productive in the world, that whole piece was gone. Nothing was put into Social Security, and I walked
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EMR, EHR, PACS & VNA: Looking Beyond the Acronyms [Part Two]
By erica.carnevale
By Dario Arfelli
These Letters Have a Lot to Say about the Past, Present and Future of Healthcare IT
Last week, Part I of this series looked at the motivations, challenges and standards involved in developing EMR / EHRs to support more efficient and effective patient-centered care. We also looked into the history of the PACS concept for acquiring, archiving, managing and accessing radiology images.
In Part II, we look at the evolution of PACS technology to serve diagnostic departments beyond radiology. And we introduce another acronym, the VNA (Vendor Neutral Archive), which points the way to a fully interconnected platform for sharing clinical images from every department across the enterprise. Thereby supporting the imaging requirements of the acronyms we began with in Part I: the EMR / EHR.
PACS: Picture Archiving and Communication System
Today's PACS implementations use the DICOM format for storing and transmitting images, so images of various types (X-ray, CT, MRI, etc.) can be retrieved across the hospital network as needed – although performance beyond the originating department can sometimes be an issue due to the speed of the DICOM standard. A PACS also typically includes workflow management capabilities and a storage cache for archiving and backing up clinical images. With some vendors, these workflow and archive capabilities are proprietary, which can help overcome the speed limitations of DICOM.
The PACS concept originated and matured in radiology departments, providing benefits of superior image quality, efficient storage and easy retrieval using a variety of search criteria. Other departments have increasingly adopted their own specialized PACS platforms for clinical images including cardiology, oncology, dermatology and more. DICOM is designed to support all these modalities and more, with the flexibility to meet the needs of clinical imaging departments for many years to come.
Even as these departmental systems have proliferated, the regulatory and marketplace pressures to integrate healthcare IT systems have only grown. To serve users across the organization and image-enable the EMR / EHR, some vendors have designed their PACS as a modular component within an extensible healthcare IT platform, while others have recently been unbundling and reconfiguring their systems to provide separate Workflow, Archive and Diagnostic and/or Enterprise Viewer modules.
These are intended to simplify integration between departments and enterprise-wide IT. However, even modular systems descended from a formerly self-contained and proprietary departmental PACS can still pose a variety of integration challenges, especially when multiple modalities and archives must supply clinical data to a single EMR / EHR.
One major challenge is ensuring that standards-based communications are fast enough to support the diagnostic expectations of clinicians and patients who are accustomed to getting information instantly at the click of a mouse.
VNA: Vendor-Neutral Archive
A Vendor-Neutral Archive is a standards-based central storage system that serves clinical images and data to stakeholders across the healthcare enterprise – often by means of an Enterprise Viewer embedded in the EMR / EHR.
The VNA may have multiple storage tiers, serving needs that range from immediate retrieval of images during an episode of care, to more affordable long-term storage for EHR and research purposes, to redundant off-site storage for data backup and disaster recovery. Cloud storage may be part of the mix. All these tiers need to be "neutral" with regard to supplying data to any appropriate standards-based healthcare IT system, as well as enabling simple migration if the organization chooses another vendor in the future.
VNA implementations vary. The VNA may work in coordination with existing PACS archives. Or it may relegate the PACS archive function to a temporary "cache" to be used for short-term departmental needs. Or it may completely take the "A" out of PACS by performing all archive and management functions, while leaving workflow management and diagnostic visualization up to departmental systems.
Some systems may go even further than that by consolidating all image capture, management, archive and viewing functions across the enterprise. This approach incorporates a VNA as a component within a fully integrated healthcare IT ecosystem. No matter what the specific implementation, the purpose of a VNA is to break down departmental information silos that can lead to data duplication and errors, workflow inefficiencies and gaps in the collaborative delivery of care.
"Vendor-Neutral" implies a fully standards-based, interoperable system architected to work with any PACS and any EMR / EHR, with nonproprietary metadata that is carefully designed to serve the needs of all diagnostic, clinical and administrative users. A VNA goes beyond the departmental PACS to add support for non-DICOM data, HD video and other clinical data in a neutral format. It allows different departmental systems to contribute to a single, patient-centered solution for delivering the right information to all stakeholders in a seamless way.
The ABCs of More Efficient, Effective Healthcare
The future of healthcare IT is in the open exchange of accurate, consistent, complete information about each patient. Which brings us back to where we started: the goal of a meaningful EMR / EHR that serves every stakeholder's needs. If there's a message in the acronyms, it's this: Providing the right people with access to the right information helps them deliver better healthcare. #HIMSS16 #PACS
Dario Arfelli is the World Wide Senior Sales Enablement Manager at Carestream
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handle ko ay "bluejay" – medyo baduy, then freddie coco suggested i change it to "jd transit". hehehe… i was in rj around 1987 when it was still in the j&t bldg at santa mesa. around that time, i was still studying engineering at mapua (4th year).
after school (around 8:30 pm), i'd board a bus in front of the manila city hall and reach j&t around 9:30. i still had 30 minutes to get my cassetes (wala pang cd nung araw) and chat with "the red rooster" who had the 8-10 om slot (sadly, the red rooster died a couple of years ago – a pity, we was a great guy…) i got on board at 10:00 pm and finished at 2:00 AM. afterwards, i had to commute home in a jeep with the rest of the graveyard shift people – drunks, drug addicts, snatchers and hospitality girls.
it was great to work at the tower, especially in the late evenings. you'd see manila by night from up there and it was really beautiful. the city lights and the great music more than paid for my meager "allowance". wala kasi akong suweldo eh… hehehe.
doubleA was the station manager, dante was the chief announcer, there was freddie coco, bob magoo, monster radio's the gaucho (i forgot his name, damn – hehehe).
i spent a semester at rj – they fired me afterwards, hehehe… actually, they changed their format again and they fired everybody except dante.
in that short stint, i lost around 30 pounds becuase of the late nights every night except sunday. not to mention, the school work in the afternoon and evening. my grades started getting bad and it was time to make a career move. i chose engineering and left radio to my dad and brother.
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