Because our consensus reality programs us in certain destructive directions, we must experience other realities in order to know we have choices.
Last year I wrote a 13,000 word essay about my experience at Burning Man. This year I will also share some thoughts and insights concerning my experience while being brief and limiting myself to seven thousand words. I decided to write this piece stand-alone in such a way that you do not need to have read the previous essay in order to make sense of the present text.
I have been wanting to attend Burning Man for several years, but last year was the first time I had both the time and resources to do so. Unfortunately I was not able to get a ticket in the main sale, so I thought I would have to wait another year to have the experience. Out of the blue, however, I received an email from someone from Camp Soft Landing asking me if I would be interested in giving a talk at Burning Man in their Palenque Norte speaker series. My immediate response was "I would love to! But I don't have a ticket and I don't have a camp." The message I received in return was "Great! Well, we have extra tickets, and you can stay at our camp." So just like that I suddenly had the opportunity to not only attend, but also be at a wonderful camp and give a talk about consciousness research.
The real secret sauce to our camp's collective survival has been our focus on the well being of everyone who steps inside Soft Landing. While the ancestral progenitor who occupied our location before us, Camp Above the Limit, ran a lively bar, we made a decision not to serve alcohol in our camp. I enjoy an occasional cocktail, but I believe that the conflating of the gift economy with free alcohol has compromised the public health and social cohesion of Black Rock City. We do not prohibit alcohol at Soft Landing, but we do not permit bars inside our camp. Instead, we run a tea bar at our Tea House for those seeking a place to rest, hydrate and receive compassionate care. We also give away hundreds of gallons of water to Tea House visitors. We don't want to undermine their self-sufficiency, but we can proactively reduce the number of guests who become ill from dehydration. We keep our Tea House open until Monday after the Burn to help weary people stay alert on the perilous drive back home.
Thanks to the Full Circle Teahouse and Palenque Norte, the social and memetic composition of Camp Soft Landing is one that is characterized by a mixture of veteran scientists and community builders in their 50s and 60s, science and engineering nerds with advanced degrees in their late 20s and early 30s, and a dash of millennials and Gen-Z-ers in the rationalist/Effective Altruist communities.
Burning Man is the annual meeting of the recreational logistics community. Or maybe it's a job interview for CEO: how to deal with broken situations and unexpected constraints in a multi-agent setting, just to survive.
Things I learned / practiced in the last couple of weeks: truck driving, clever packing, impact driver, attaching bike trailer, pumping gas and filling generators, knots, adding hanging knobs to a whiteboard, tying things with wire, quickly moving tents on the last night, finding rides, using ratchet straps, opening & closing storage container, driving to Treasure Island.
Indeed this may be one of the key barriers of entry that defines the culture of Burning Man and explains why the crazy ideas people have in a given year tend to come back in the form of art in the next year… rather than vanishing into thin air.
There are other key features of the people who attend which can be seen by inspecting the Burning Man Census report. Here is a list of attributes, their baserate for Burners, and the baserate in the general population (for comparison): Having an undergraduate degree (73.6% vs. 32%), holding a graduate degree (31% vs. 10%), being gay/lesbian (8.5% vs. 1.3%), bisexual (10% vs. 1.8%), bicurious (11% vs. ??), polyamorous (20% vs. 5%), mixed race (9% vs. 3%), female (40% vs. 50%), median income (62K vs. 30K), etc.
Last year at Burning Man I developed a cluster of new concepts including "The Goldilocks Zone of Oneness" and "Hybrid Vigor in the context of post-Darwinian ethics." I included my conversation with God and instructions for a guided oneness meditation. This year I continued to use the expanded awareness field of the Playa to further these and other concepts. In what follows I will describe some of the main ideas I experienced and then conclude with a summary of the talk I gave at Palenque Norte. If any of the following sections are too dense or uninteresting please feel free to skip them.
On one of the nights a group of friends and I went on a journey following an art car, stopping every now and then to dance and to check out some art. At one point we drove through a large crowd of people and by the time the art car was on the other side, a few people from the group were missing. The question then became "what do we do?" We didn't agree on a strategy for dealing with this situation before we embarked on the trip. After a couple of minutes we all converged on a strategy: stay near the art car and drive around until we find the missing people. The whole situation had a "lost in space" quality. Finding individual people is very hard since from a distance everyone is wearing roughly-indistinguishable multi-colored blinking LEDs all over their body. But since art cars are large and more distinguishable at a distance, they become natural Schelling points for people to converge on. Schelling points are a natural coordination mechanism in the absence of direct communication channels.
We were thus able to re-group almost in our entirety as a group (with only one person missing, who we finally had to give up on) by independently converging on the meta-heuristic of looking for the most natural Schelling point and finding the rest of the group there. For the rest of the night I kept thinking about how this meta-strategy may play out in the grand scheme of things.
If you follow Qualia Computing you may know that our default view on the nature of ethics is valence utilitarianism. People think they want specific things (e.g. ice-cream, a house, to be rich and famous, etc.) but in reality what they want is the high-valence response (i.e. happiness, bliss, and pleasure) that is triggered by such stimuli. When two people disagree on e.g. whether a certain food is tasty, they are not usually talking about the same experience. For one person, such food could induce high degrees of sensory euphoria, while for the other person, the food may leave them cold. But if they had introspective access to each other's valence response, the disagreement would vanish ("Ah, I didn't realize mayo produced such a good feeling for you. I was fixated on the aversive reaction I had to it."). In other words, disagreements about the value of specific stimuli come down to lack of empathetic fidelity between people rather than a fundamental value mismatch. Deep down, we claim, we all like the same states of consciousness, and our disagreements come from the fact that their triggers vary between people. We call the fixation on the stimuli rather than the valence response the Tyranny of the Intentional Object.
In a physicalist panpsychist paradigm, the vast majority of moments of experience do not occur within intelligent minds and leave no records of their phenomenal character for future minds to examine and inspect. A subset of moments of experience, though, do happen to take place within intelligent minds. We can call these conscious eigen-states because their introspective value can be retroactively investigated and compared against the present moment of experience, which has access to records of past experiences. Humans, insofar as they do not experience large amounts of amnesia, are able to experience a wide range of eigen-states throughout their lives. Thus, within a single human mind, many comparisons between the valence of various states of consciousness can be carried out (this is complicated and not always feasible given the state-dependence of memory). Either way, one could visualize how the information about the relative ranking of experiences is gathered across a Directed Acyclic Graph (DAG) of moments of experience that have partial introspective access to previous moments of experience. Furthermore, if the assumption of continuity of identity is made (i.e. that each moment of experience is witnessed by the same transcendental subject) then each evaluation between pairs of states of consciousness contributes a noisy datapoint to a universal ranking of all experiences and values.
After enough comparisons, a threshold number of evaluated experiences may be crossed, at which point a general theory of value can begin to be constructed. Thus a series of natural Schelling points for "what is universally valuable" become accessible to subsequent moments of experience. One of these focal points is the prevention of suffering throughout the entire multiverse. That is, to avoid experiences that do not like existing, independently of their location in space-time. Likewise, we would see another focal point that adds an imperative to realize experiences that value their own existence ("let the thought forms who love themselves reproduce and populate the multiverse").
I call this approach to ethics the Eigen-Schelling Religion. Any sapient mind in the multiverse with a general enough ability to reason about qualia and reflect about causality is capable of converging to it. In turn, we can see that many concepts at the core of world religions are built around universal Eigen-Schelling points. Thus, we can rest assured that both the Bodhisattva imperative to eliminate suffering and the Christ "world redeeming" sentiment are reflections of a fundamental converging process to which many other intelligent life-forms have access across the entire multiverse. What I like about this framework is that you don't need to take anyone's word for what constitutes wisdom in consciousness. It naturally exists as reflective focal points within the state-space of consciousness itself in a way that transcends time and space.
EQ (emotional intelligent quotient) isn't very good as a formal psychological construct- it's not particularly predictive, nor very robust when viewed from different perspectives. But there's clearly something there– empirically, we see that some people are more 'tuned in' to the emotional & interpersonal realm, more skilled at feeling the energy of the room, more adept at making others feel comfortable, better at inspiring people to belief and action. It would be nice to have some sort of metric here.
I suggest breaking EQ into entrainment quotient (EnQ) and metronome quotient (MQ). In short, entrainment quotient indicates how easily you can reach entrainment with another person. And by "reach entrainment", I mean how rapidly and deeply your connectome harmonic dynamics can fall into alignment with another's. Metronome quotient, on the other hand, indicates how strongly you can create, maintain, and project an emotional frame. In other words, how robustly can you signal your internal connectome harmonic state, and how effectively can you cause others to be entrained to it. […] Most likely, these are reasonably positively correlated; in particular, I suspect having a high MQ requires a reasonably decent EnQ. And importantly, we can likely find good ways to evaluate these with CSHW.
One could say that by feeling safe, welcomed, and accepted at Burning Man, attendees adopt a very high Entrainment Quotient modus operandi. In tandem, we then see large art pieces, art cars, theme camps, and powerful sound systems blasting their unique distinctive emotional signals throughout the Playa. In a sense the entire place looks like an ecosystem of brightly-lit high-energy metronomes trying to attract the attention of a swarm of people in highly open and sensitive states with the potential to be entrained with these metronomes. Since the competition for attention is ferocious, there is not a single metronome that can dominate or totally brainwash you. All it takes for you to get a bad signal out of your head is to walk 50 meters to another place where the vibe will be, in all likelihood, completely different and overwrite the previous state.
This dynamic reaches its ultimate climax the very night of the Burn, as (almost) everyone gathers around the Man in a maximally receptive state, while at the same time every art car and group vibe surrounds the crowd and blasts their unique signals as loud and as intensely as possible all at the same time. This leads to the reification of the collective Burning Man egregore, which manifests as the sum total of all signals and vibes in mass ecstasy.
It is worth pointing out that not all of the metronomes in the Playa are created equal. Some art cars, for example, send highly specific and culturally-bound signals (e.g. country music, Simon & Garfunkel, Michael Jackson, etc.). While these metronomes will have their specific followings (i.e. you can always find a group of dedicated Pink Floyd fans) their ability to interface with the general Burner vibe is limited by their specificity and temporal irregularity. The more typical metronomic texture you will find scattered all around the Playa will be art forms that make use of more general patternceutical Schelling points with a stronger and more general metronomic capacity. Of note is the high degree of prevalence of house music and other 110 to 140 bpm (beats per minute) music that is able to entrain your brain from a distance and motivate you to move towards it- whether or not you are able to recognize the particular song. If you listen carefully to e.g. Palenque Norte recordings you will notice the occasional art car driving by, and the music it is blasting will usually have its tempo within that range, with a strong, repeating, and easily recognizable beat structure. I suspect that this tendency is the natural emergent effect of the evolutionary selection pressures that art forms endure from one Burn to another, which benefit patterns that can captivate a lot of human attention in a competitive economy of recreational states of consciousness.
Inspired by a sense of mystery & wonder, we perceive the consciousness of "We Are All One". Mystics encourage the enigmatic spirit to explore a deeper connection not only on this planet and all that exists within, but the realm of the entire Universe.
– Who are the Mystics?
At their Wednesday night "White Dance Party" (where you are encouraged to dress in white) Camp Mystic was blasting the strongest vibes of Open Individualism I witnessed this year. I am of the mind that philosophy is the soul of poetry, and that massive party certainly had as its underlying philosophy the vibe of oneness and unity. This vibe is itself a Schelling point in the state-space of consciousness… the religion of the boundary-dissolving LSD frequency is not a random state, but a central hub in the super-highway of the mind. I am glad these focal points made prominent appearances at Burning Man.
Thankfully actuaries, modern medicine, and economists have already developed a theoretical framework for putting a number on this question. Namely, this is the concept of micromorts (i.e. 1 in a million chance of dying) and its sister concept of microlife (a cost of 1 millionth of a lifespan lost or gained by performing some activity). My preference is that of using microlives because they translate more easily into time and are, IMO, more conceptually straightforward. So here is the question: How many microlives should we be willing to spend to attend Burning Man? 10 microlives? 100 microlives? 1,000 microlives? 10,000 microlives?
Based on the fact that there are many long-term burners still alive I guesstimate that the upper bound cannot possibly be higher than 10,000 or we would know about it already. I.e. the percentage of people who get e.g. skin cancer, lung disease, or die in other ways would probably be already apparent in the community. Alternatively, it's also possible that a reduced life expectancy as a result of attending e.g. 10+ Burns is an open secret among long-term burners… they see their friends die at an inexplicably higher rate but are too afraid to talk about it honestly. After all, people tend to be very clingy to their main sources of meaning (what we call "emotionally load-bearing activities") so a large amount of denial can be expected in this domain.
Additionally, discussing Burning Man micromorts might be a particularly touchy and difficult subject for a number of attendees. The reason being that part of the psychological value that Burning Man provides is a felt sense of the confrontation with one's fragility and mortality. Many older burners seem to have come to terms with their own mortality quite well already. Indeed, perhaps accepting death as part of life may be one of the very mechanisms of action for the reduction in neuroticism caused by intense experiences like psychedelics and Burning Man.
But that is not my jazz. I would personally not want to recommend an activity that costs a lot of microlives to other people in team consciousness. While I want to come to terms with death as much as your next Silicon Valley mystically-inclined nerd, I also recognize that death-acceptance is a somewhat selfish desire. Paradoxically, living a long, healthy, and productive life is one of the best ways for us to improve our chances of helping consciousness-at-large given our unwavering commitment to the eradication of all sentient suffering.
The main acute risks of Burning Man could be summarized as: dehydration, sleep deprivation, ODing (especially via accidental dosing, which is not uncommon, sadly), being run over by large vehicles (especially by art cars, trucks, and RVs), and falling from art or having art fall on you. These risks can be mitigated by the motto of "doing only one stupid thing at a time" (cf. How not to die at Burning Man). It's ok to climb a medium-sized art piece if you are fully sober, or to take a psychedelic if you have sitters and don't walk around art cars, etc. Most stories of accidents one hears about start along the lines of: "So, I was drunk, and high, and on mushrooms, and holding my camera, and I decided to climb on top of the thunderdome, and…". Yes, of course that went badly. Doing stupid things on top of each other has multiplicative risk effects.
In the medium term, a pretty important risk is that of being busted by law enforcement. After all, the financial, psychological, and physiological effects of going to prison are rather severe on most people. On a similar note, a non-deadly but psychologically devastating danger of living in the desert for a week is an increased risk of kidney stones due to dehydration. The 10/10 pain you are likely to experience while passing a kidney stone may have far-reaching traumatic effects on one's psyche and should not be underestimated (sufferers experience an increased risk of heart disease and, I would suspect, suicide).
But of all of the risks, the ones that concern me the most are the long term ones given their otherwise silent nature. In particular, we have skin cancer due to UV exposure and lung/heart disease caused by high levels of PM2.5 particles. With respect to the skin component, it is worth observing that a large majority of Burning Man attendees are caucasian and thus at a significantly higher risk. Me being a redhead, I've taken rather extreme precautions in this area. I apply SPF50+ sunscreen every couple of hours, use a wide-rim hat, wear arm sleeves [and gloves] for UV sun protection, wear sunglasses, stay in the shade as often as I can, etc. I recommend that other people also follow these precautions.
And with regards to dust… here I would have to say we have the largest error bars. Does Burning Man dust cause lung cancer? Does it impair lung function? Does it cause heart disease? As far as I can tell nobody knows the answer to these questions. A lot of people seem to believe that the air-borne particles are too large to pose a problem, but I highly doubt that is the case. The only source I've been able to find that tried to quantify dangerous particles at Burning Man comes from Camp Particle, which unfortunately does not seem to have published its results (and only provides preliminary data without the critical measure of PM2.5 I was looking for). Here are two important thoughts in this area. First, let's hope that the clay-like alkaline composition of Playa dust turns out to be harmless to the lungs. And second, like most natural phenomena, chances are that the concentration of dangerous particles in, e.g. 1 minute buckets, follows a power law. I would strongly expect that at least 80% of the dust one inhales comes from 20% of the time in which it is most present. More so, during dust storms and especially in white-outs, I would expect the concentration of dust in the air to be at least 1,000 times higher than the median concentration. If that's true, breathing without protection during a white-out for as little as two minutes would be equivalent to breathing in "typical conditions" without protection for more than 24 hours. In other words, being strategic and diligent about wearing a heavy and cumbersome PN100 mask may be far more effective than lazily taking on and off a more convenient (but less effective) mask throughout the day. Personally, I chose to always have on hand an M3 half facepiece with PN100 filters ready in case the dust suddenly became thicker. This did indeed save me from breathing dust during all dust storms. The difference in the quality of air while wearing it was like day and night. I will also say that while I prefer my look when I have a beard, I chose to fully shave during the event in order to guarantee a good seal with the mask. In retrospect, the fashion sacrifice does seem to be worth it, though at the time I certainly missed having a beard.
The question remaining is: with a realistic amount of protection, what is the acceptable level of risk? I propose that you make up your mind before we find out with science how dangerous Burning Man actually is. In my case, I am willing to endure up to 100 negative microlives per day at Burning Man (for a total of ~800 microlives) as the absolute upper bound. Anything higher than that and the experience wouldn't be worth it for me, and I would not recommend it to memetic allies. Thankfully, I suspect that the actual danger is lower than that, perhaps in the range of 40 negative microlives per day (mostly in the form of skin cancer and lung disease). But the problem remains that this estimate has very wide error bars. This needs to be addressed.
And if the danger does turn out to be unacceptable, then we can still look to recreate the benefits of Burning Man in a safer way: Your Legacy Could Be To Move Burning Man to a Place With A Fraction of Its Micromorts Cost.
In the ideal case Burning Man would be an event that triggers our brains to produce "danger signals" without there actually being much danger at all. This is because with our current brain implementation, experiencing perceived danger is helpful for bonding, trust building, and a sense of self-efficacy and survival ability.
What is qualia? – The raw way in which consciousness feels. Like the blueness of blue. Did you ever wonder as a kid whether other people saw the same colors as you? Qualia is that ineffable quality of experience that we currently struggle to communicate.
Closed Individualism – you start existing when you are born, stop existing when you die.
Empty Individualism – brains are "experience machines" and you really are just a "moment of experience" disconnected from every other "moment of experience" your brain has generated or will generate.
Open Individualism – we are all the "light of consciousness". Reality has only one numerically identical subject of experience who is everyone, but which takes all sorts of forms and shapes.
For the purpose of this talk I assume that Open Individualism is true, which provides a strong reason to care about the wellbeing of all sentient beings, even from a "selfish" point of view.
Valence – This is the pleasure-pain axis. We take a valence realist view which means that we assume that there is an objective matter of fact about how much an experience is in pain/suffering vs. experiencing happiness/pleasure. There are pure heavenly experiences, pure hellish experiences, mixed states (e.g. enjoying music you love on awful speakers while wanting to pee), and neutral states (e.g. white noise, mild apathy, etc.).
Evolutionary advantages of consciousness as part of the information processing pipeline – I pointed out that we also assume that consciousness is a real and computationally relevant phenomena. And in particular, that the reason why consciousness was recruited by natural selection to process information has to do with "phenomenal binding". I did not go into much detail about it at the time, but if you are curious I elaborated about this during the Q&A.
Exploration + Knowledge/Synthesis. Many people either over-focus on exploration (especially people very high in openness to experience) or on synthesis (like conservatives who think "the good days are gone, let's study history"). The spirit of our research combines both open-ended exploration and strong synthesis. We encourage people to both expand their evidential base and make serious time to synthesize and cross-examine their experiences.
A lot of people treat consciousness research like people used to treat alchemy. That is, they have a psychological need to "keep things magical". We don't. We think that consciousness research is due to transition into a hard science and that many new possibilities will be unlocked after this transition, not unlike how chemistry is thousands of times more powerful than alchemy because it allows you to create synthesis pathways from scratch using chemistry principles.
What most people say and talk about is a function of the surrounding social status algorithm (i.e. what kind of things award social recognition) and deep-seated evolutionarily adaptive programs (such as survival, reproductive, and affective consistency programs).
Nerds and people on the autism spectrum do tend to circumvent this general mental block and are able to discuss things without being motivated by status or evolutionary programs only, instead being driven by open-ended curiosity. We encourage our collaborators to have that approach to consciousness research.
Survival – resources that help you survive, like food, shelter, safety, etc.
Power – resources that allow you to acquire social and physical power and thus increase your chances of reproducing.
It is reasonable to expect that in the absence of evolutionary selection pressures that favor the wellbeing of sentient beings, in the long run everyone alive will be playing a Pure Replicator strategy.
Levels of intellectual understanding of ethics. While stages of consciousness refer to the degree to which you are comfortable with ambiguity, can synthesize large amounts of seemingly contradictory experiences, and are able to be emotionally stable in the face of confusion, we think that there is another axis worth exploring that has more to do with one's intellectual model of ethics.
Balance between good and evil – the view that most people who take psychedelics and engage in eastern meditative practices tend to arrive at. People at this level tend to think that good implies evil, and that the best we can do is to reach a state of balance and equanimity. I argue that this is a rationalization to be able to deal with extremes of suffering; the belief itself is used as an anti-depressant, which shows the intrinsic contradictoriness and motivated reasoning behind adopting this ethical worldview. You believe in the balance between good and evil in general so that you, right now, can feel better about your life. You are still, implicitly, albeit in a low-key way, trying to regulate your mood like everyone else.
Gradients of wisdom – this is the view that people like Sam Harris, Ken Wilber, John Lilly, David Chapman, Buddha, etc. seem to converge on. They don't have a deontological "if-then" ethical programming like the people at the first level. Rather, they have general heuristics and meta-heuristics for navigating complex problems. They do not claim to know "the truth" or be able to identify exactly what makes a society "better for human flourishing" but they do accept that some environments and states of consciousness are more healthy and conducive to wisdom than others. The problem with this view is that it does not give you a principled way to resolve disagreements or a way forward for designing societies from first principles.
Consciousness vs. pure replicators – this view is the culmination of intellectual ethical development (although you could still be very neurotic and unenlightened otherwise) which arises when one identifies the source of everything that is systematically bad as caused by patterns that are good at making copies of themselves but that either don't add conscious value or actively increase suffering. In this framework, it is possible for consciousness to win, which would happen if we create a full-spectrum super-sentient super-intelligent singleton that explores the entire state-space of consciousness and rationally decides what experiences to instantiate at a large scale based on the empirically revealed total order of consciousness.
Gay + Lesbian couple – for gay and lesbian couples with long time horizons we could help them have biological kids with the following scheme: Gay couple A + B and lesbian couple X + Z could combine their genes and have 4 kids A/X, A/Z, B/X, B/Z. This would create the genetic and game-theoretical incentives for this new kind of family structure to work in the long term.
Genetic spellchecking – one of the most promising ways of increasing sentient welfare is to apply genetic spellchecking to embryos. This means that we would be reducing the mutational load of one's offspring without compromising one's genetic payload (and thus selfish genes would agree to the procedure and lead to an evolutionarily stable strategy). You wouldn't ship code to production without testing and debugging, you wouldn't publish a book without someone proof-reading it first, so why do we push genetic code to production without any debugging? As David Pearce says, right now every child is a genetic experiment. It's terrible that such a high percentage of them lead to health and mental problems.
Dispassionate evaluation of the merits and drawbacks of one's genes in a collective of 100 or more people where one recombines the genetic makeup of the "collective children" in order to maximize both their wellbeing and the information gained. In order to do this analysis in a dispassionate way we might need to recruit 5-meo-dmt-like states of consciousness that make you identify with consciousness rather than with your particular genes, and also MDMA-like states of mind in order to create a feeling of connection to source and universal love even if your own patterns lose out at some point… which they will after long enough, because eventually the entire gene pool would be replaced by a post-human genetic make-up.
* Thanks to Alison Streete for this idea.


Siva, who is education, spiritual wisdom, and the one who can be realized by a study of the arts, sing night and day the praises of Siva, in Kāṉūr, where wealth is increasing, according to your ability, so that your sufferings may leave you.
Siva who came into self-existence is himself the water, the earth the fire, the sun, the clouds and the air. Knowing little the place where he stays, people of this world will wander in all directions with little reflections.
The highest object that became the great dreadful fire, that could not be known by Brahma who performs sacrifices and Vishnu. Siva, who burnt Manmatha, came into self-existence in Kāṉūṟ. My mind is the place which he thinks as affording protection.
Siva as creator in Kāṉūr, which has a big wall of enclosure, which enemies are afraid of approaching and therefore does not know destruction, is the one who placed a single toe to destroy the excessive strength of demon, who went and intentionally lifted the mountain of Siva, who adorned himself with leaves of Indian Mesquit, Koṉṟai and Yārcum.
Padigam on Tiruk Kanur completed.
If one utters the names of Siva, who has a lady as a half in the temple Cenneṟi in Chēṟai, where noble people are crowded, all virtuous acts will come to him in full.
All false-hood will vanish. His sharp intellect will prosper.
My mind! The light divine which is permanent in Chenneṟi in Chēṟai, which has fields producing red variety of superior paddy, and the highest object of the Vedas, who has long matted locks, which glitter like lightning, to come to us and stay with us.
What great penance you performed in the previous births!
As birth, old age, great hunger, big diseases and death leave us, happiness will come to us of its own accord, if one places in his mind, without forgetting the feet of the god in Chenneṟi in Chēṟai, when eminent people live.
You who are dumb people! Acquiring wealth, falling into confusion, there is no benefit when you get tired having run for the acquisition of wealth. Save yourselves by approaching the feet of the dancing god who dwells with desire in Chenneṟi in Chēṟai, where noble people live.
Counting the days of your life the god of death, who has hairs like fire, I found out a way to drive him out, if he appears before me to frighten me, the strong chief who dwells in wealthy Chenneṟi in Chēṟai is there to protect us; why should we be afraid of anything?
What does it matter if the sky and the earth quake, changing from their positions?
What does it matter if all the kings who have no equals combine and be angry with us? The father who dwells in Chenneṟi in Chēṟai and who is impartial is there to protect us. Why should we be afraid of anything?
The wealth that we earned and saved to fall back upon in times of adversity, wives.
and relations who are united with us, if we are in affluent circumstances for all outward appearance, and leave us when we are in straits, without real love at heart.
What help will they render when death overtakes us? Siva, who has the form of a mystic who has acquired eight mysterious powers. The father, who dwells in Tiru Chenneṟi in Chēṟai is there to protect us. Why should we be afraid of anything?
My mind! Who good will noble lineage do to us? What harm will faults do to us?
You do not be depressed in spirits being agitated in mind. The shining god who dwells with desire in Chenneṟi in eminent Chēṟai, is there to protect us. Why should we be afraid of anything?
If we do not leave the relations knowing that they do not really love us, to make them leave us, we cannot get the good things that will really be of great help to us. The beautiful Siva, who dwells with desire in Chenneṟi in Chēṟai, which excels other shrines, is there to protect us. Why should we be afraid of anything?
Fixing the feet to make Ravanan, who seized and held in his hands the mountain, eminent by its fame in which Siva was seated, he gently took away the lotus feet.
there will be no affliction to those who praise Siva, as the light divine that dwelt always with desire in Chenneṟi in Chēṟai, which is perfect in every respect.
Padigam on Tiruch Cherai completed.


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El río Georgina  es un importante río de Australia, el situado más al noroeste de los tres principales del Channel Country, en el oeste de Queensland, que al confluir con el río Diamantina dan lugar al río Warburton, que en años extremadamente húmedos alcanza el lago Eyre.

El río nace de varios pequeños arroyos durante una amplia área del noroeste de Queensland y del Territorio del Norte superior. Entre estos ríos se incluye el río Burke, que fluye a través de la localidad de Boulia principal de la cuenca, el propio río Georgina superior que nace en la meseta de Barkly al norte de Camooweal, el río Ranken que nace en el extremo este del Territorio del Norte más allá de Tennant Creek, y el río Sandover. El Sandover, a diferencia de todos los otros afluentes del lago Eyre, fluye en dirección norte desde la cordillera MacDonnell hasta entrar en el Georgina en años muy húmedos cerca de Urandangie.

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[CAIRO] Saudi Arabia has launched the Wadi Al Disah Development project, which could help boost sustainable tourism-related job opportunities, Saudi Public Investment Fund said in a statement late on Tuesday.
The Public Investment Fund will set up a company to develop the project that is located within the Prince Mohammed bin Salman Natural Reserve, the statement carried by Saudi Press Agency (SPA) added.
Sustainable tourism is the concept of visiting a place as a tourist and trying to make a positive impact on the environment, society, and economy.
Saudi Arabia's King Salman on Tuesday inaugurated 151 projects in the northern province of Tabuk valued at more than 11 billion riyals (S$4 billion), the Saudi state news agency SPA reported.
The northern province of Al-Jawf is the 82-year-old king's next stop. King Salman, who is on a domestic tour, has been meeting citizens and launching development projects over several weeks, including in Qassim and Hail provinces.
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I wanted to get back into work so I went to Môn CF to get training and improve my skills.
Yes, I did First Aid, Health & Safety, Manual Handling, Fire Safety and Mental Health First Aid. Môn CF also helped me get my CCNSG Safety Passport and Lantra Dumper Truck certificate, which improved my chances of securing long-term employment in the construction industry.
If I'm honest, I wasn't keen on the idea of volunteering at first, but I've since completed a work trial prior to being taken on by my current employer, and I thrived on the challenge of working hard and showing willing to learn.
A three week period of agency work in May coupled with the support of my Môn CF Mentor gave me the motivation to find a more permanent job. I have been working for AMP Construction since July, and I'm really happy there. I am a Groundworks Labourer on various construction sites around North Wales.
I was given the time and help I needed to find the job I really wanted. My Mentor believed in me, motivated me and gave me that extra push.


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Evoke is organized by Digitale Kultur e.V. The association aims at supporting the demoscene with a special focus on activities in Germany.


Get ready for the excitement of 'Vallam Kali' or the Kerala snake boat races this autumn. An annual affair held during the Onam harvest season, it involves at least four major and fifteen minor races. The event attracts crowds of several hundred thousand people, both locals and foreigners.
Vallam Kali is literally translated as "boat race" in Malayalam. It is a major event that is held in Kerala usually from July to September. The exact dates of the races are determined by the phases of the moon. Various kinds of traditional canoes or paddled longboats are used in the races. But the most renowned is the Chundan Vallam or 'snake boat'. The curled ends of the boats are shaped like cobra heads. That's where the snake boat gets its name from, and not the slithering reptile! Some other boats used in various events include the Churulan Vallam, Odi Vallam, Vaipu Vallam and Kochu Vallam. Over the years, snake boat races have become the most popular tourist attraction at the event. Hence Vallam Kali is also known as Kerala Snake Boat Race in English.
The Chundan Vallam was originally created as a war boat in the early 14th century. It was commissioned by King Devanarayan of Chembakassery kingdom and made by a famous carpenter of the day. Even to this day skilled craftsmen build these boats using techniques developed 650 years back. Just that they are now used at the Kerala snake boat races instead of in battle! A typical snake boat is about 100 feet long and seats 150 men. Of these, 4 are helmsmen, 25 singers, and the rest are oarsmen. It takes a lot of hard work and time to build every such boat. It is given the status of a deity and is revered and cared for all year round. Every snake boat is the pride of its owners and the entire village folk.
The oldest snake boat race in Kerala is held at Aranmula, on the river Pampa, on the fifth day of Onam festivities. It is generally a two-day affair that marks the crossing of the river by Lord Krishna. More than thirty Chundan Vallams take part in it, competing furiously over a 40-mile stretch from the hills down to the plains. Thousands of people cheer from the river banks near a famous temple dedicated to Lord Krishna and Arjuna. Oarsmen don white dhotis and turbans for the occasion. The boats are lovingly decorated with red and green silk umbrellas and other adornments. Traditional Vanchipattu songs are sung in rhythm with the splashing of the water and heaving of the oars. Earlier, women weren't allowed to go near the boats or participate in the event. But now special races are being organized exclusively for the women as well.
Another huge attraction of Vallam Kali is the Nehru Trophy boat race. The race is named after Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, the first prime minister of India, who visited Kerala in 1952. He was so enraptured by the Kerala snake boat races that he donated a rolling trophy to the event in his name. The race takes place on the second Saturday of August every year. Thousands of locals as well as tourists gather on the Punnamada backwaters near Alappuzha to watch the event, often touted as "Kuttanad's Water Olympics". The 63rd edition of this prestigious cultural and sports even is all set to unfold this year on the 8th of August. The Nehru Trophy boat race is undoubtedly the most famous of all Kerala snake boat races.
Kerala is widely considered as God's Own Country. Its placid backwaters and lush greenery make for a peaceful retreat into the lap of nature. But come Onam, the tranquil waters are transformed into battlegrounds for paddle boats and the state's best oarsmen. It is a treat to watch the rhythmic rowing of the oars in perfect sync with each other. The traditional songs being sung in unison by hundreds of men also add to the entertainment value. The energy in the air is palpable, the mood festive. Kerala's snake boat races are an inextricable part of its cultural and social thread. They serve to bring together people from faraway districts to revel in the magic of the occasion and to celebrate the harvest season.
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Each academic year we run a programme of welcome for postgraduates new to Oxford.
Joining with partner churches and organisations, we host a sit-down dinner for 300+ students from all over the world, plus offering cream teas with senior academic hosts and speakers, and other orientation events to help you find your feet. And the welcome doesn't end in October—we organise a year-round programme of day-trips, weekends away, and other social and cultural activities. Drop us a line if you would like to know more. Whether you've been here a couple of days or a couple of years, we'd like to help you make the most of your time. The University is consistently ranked among the world's top academic institutions while the City is one of the most varied and lively communities in the UK.
If you are an international student who has just arrived in Oxford, the Oxford Inter-Collegiate Christian Union (OICCU) have produced a helpful booklet you can download from the green tab below to help orientate you in your first few weeks in Oxford.
Postgraduate study at Oxford University is immensely rewarding. Most postgraduates count it a privilege to have lived and worked here and take away fond memories they will retain all their lives.
Postgraduate study at Oxford University is also extremely challenging. Most students experience feelings of frustration, inadequacy and isolation at some point in their course or research.
To make the most of the good times and to endure the hard times, it is essential to have strong friendships and a lively community.
The Oxford Pastorate partners with chapels, societies and, particularly, churches who offer fun, caring community to postgraduates. These are Christian groups but would welcome postgraduates of any or no religious faith.
The University is blessed with an abundance of beautiful chapels and friendly chaplains and all are delighted to receive and involve postgraduate students in their worship and other activities. For a full list of religious provision within the university visit the Chaplaincy page here.
The Graduate Christian Forum (GCF) is the university-registered society for Christian postgraduate students. They meet on Monday evenings. Each week there is a stimulating lecture from a Christian academic and an opportunity for mingling over refreshments. To see their termcard and listen to podcasts of recent lectures visit their website.
Oxford is home to many excellent churches representing the full breadth of Christian traditions and cultures. We would be delighted to discuss your spiritual background and needs and help you connect with whichever congregation best suits you. The Oxford Pastorate is institutionally linked to four Anglican Churches and their senior ministers are all members of our board, the Oxford Pastorate Council. Further information about these partner churches may be found below.
St Aldates have three services on a Sunday. On Wednesday evenings, the postgrad community gathers in the Parish Centre (at 40 Pembroke Street) to share a meal, enjoy each other's company, and participate in prayer, sung worship and a short talk on a Bible passage by a student lead team.
St Andrews has 4 services on a Sunday including Holy Communion, a Family Service, Morning Worship and Evening Worship.
Refresh 20s&30s meet every Thursday evening. After coffee and cake there is a break into smaller groups for Bible study, prayer and mutual encouragement in our walk with Jesus. The meetings are relaxed, friendly, and informal, and always open to newcomers, whatever your previous involvement with the church. During the term there are also socials for both small groups and the larger group.
Meets here for morning and evening worship every Sunday.
There are also small groups and alpha courses running throughout the year.
St Ebbe's has 4 Sunday services, but most postgrads come either for the 6.30 p.m, or (particularly those with families) at 9.45 a.m.
The Pastorate seeks to enable postgraduates to use their academic gifts and qualifications to serve beyond Oxford. Since 2010 the Pastorate has partnered with St Aldates' Church in running Oxford Connections. Each year 6-12 Oxford postgraduate students travel to Macedonia with Oxford Pastorate leaders. In Macedonia, we support the exciting work of Dr Kosta and Nada Milkov who are Oxford alumni and the founders of the Balkan Institute for Faith and Culture (BIFC) a Christian think-tank using theological insight and dialogue to develop relationships, build community cohesion and work towards the common good for all of Macedonia's and the Balkans' peoples.
The week-long Oxford Connections trip focuses on three areas: learning about and praying for Macedonia and its people; cultural engagement (including lots of excellent meals out!) with the different religious and ethnic communities that make-up Macedonian society; and academic engagement, with each participant offering a lecture or paper on their postgraduate research at the state university and in other educational forums.
The next trip will take place in Spring 2019. Read a review of our most recent trip here.
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Best Bank Awards
India's best bank for SMEs 2018: YES Bank
View full 2018 results
Rana Kapoor, YES Bank
In a country like India that boasts millions of micro, small and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs), catering to their financial needs is critical, especially as SMEs contribute about 45% of India's industrial output and employ as many as 42 million people.
Yes Bank has done the job exceptionally well. Its focus on areas such as women-owned enterprises, or small- and medium-scale enterprises in low-income states, and those in poor economic conditions, has ramped up over the years.
In the financial year 2016/17, the bank divided Rp187 billion ($2.9 billion) among SMEs, up from approximately Rp132 billion the year before.
The lender has also tied up with Overseas Private Investment Corp, the US government's development finance institution, on a handful of occasions to further its strategy. In July 2017, Yes signed an agreement where Opic will provide $75 million in financing and a syndicated loan of up to $75 million that will be jointly arranged by Wells Fargo and Opic.
Of that, $50 million will be used to expand support to women-owned businesses and another $50 million for SME businesses in low-income Indian states.
That was the third transaction between Opic and Yes and followed a $265 million deal the previous year also to support SMEs.
But Yes has not stopped there. It has gone on to combine its focus on SMEs with its credentials in the area of CSR (Yes has long been a champion of green finance and financial inclusion) to make MSMEs sustainable. That project first kicked off in 2014/15; in the 2016/17 financial year, it impacted more than 2,000 MSMEs.
The bank, led by managing director and chief executive Rana Kapoor, also took MSMEs under its wing when it came to educating them on the landmark goods and services tax (GST) rolled out in 2017. Yes launched a programme to mentor smaller businesses to prepare and have the technology in place to tackle GST.
The scheme was popular both online and on the ground. Yes managed to reach as many as 3.9 million MSMEs using social media between July 2 and October 30, and saw 450,000 MSMEs access its online portal on GST. More than 10,000 MSMEs have attended Yes-organized events around GST.
This approach has served India's fifth-largest private sector bank well, making it the deserving winner of Asiamoney's best bank for SMEs in the country.
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A stranger suggests me to buy 90000 stocks of Liberty Coal Energy for a thousand dollars. At this moment, the price per stock is 1.1 cents. Right now the stock market is closed, because the third monday of january is national Holiday, so it's not possible to buy them right now.
Those stocks are not traded daily, and when it happens, the volume is very low, for example on 11th january just $15 worth of stock were exchanged.
Looking at the graph, the scammer could have bought stocks at 0.26 cents on 22nd December, where there is the 322k exchanged shares peak in the volume, "investing" just $800. Since he invested in one day five times the average volume, the price rose up to 1 cent. His investment now is worth $3100, but only on paper: there is nobody to sell it in bulk, their value will be falling again.
So, he sent an email to everyone about a secret company acquisition for tomorrow 22nd january for a very high price: how many suckers will buy the stock? The price will rise? We will know tomorrow.


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Australian Radiation Protection and Nuclear Safety Agency Annual Report 2018–19
Dr Carl-Magnus Larsson has held the position of Chief Executive Officer (CEO) since 2010. On 24 February 2019, the Governor-General re-appointed Dr Larsson as CEO for a term of three years, commencing on 22 March 2019.
The CEO's functions (as set out in the ARPANS Act) include:
regulating Commonwealth radiation sources and facilities
promoting uniformity of radiation protection and nuclear safety policy and practices across jurisdictions of the Commonwealth, the states and the territories
providing advice on radiation protection, nuclear safety and related issues
undertaking research in relation to radiation protection, nuclear safety and medical exposures to radiation
providing services relating to radiation protection, nuclear safety and medical exposures to radiation
monitoring the operations of ARPANSA, the Radiation Health and Safety Advisory Council (the Council), the Radiation Health Committee (RHC) and the Nuclear Safety Committee (NSC)
reporting on the operations of ARPANSA, the Council, RHC and NSC.
Executive Group
The CEO is supported by the Executive Group, which is comprised of three branch heads, three office heads and the Chief Financial Officer. This group provides the CEO with high-level policy and strategic advice and reports on matters relating to their individual business groups. Together, the CEO and the Executive Group form the leadership team responsible for the day-to-day management of ARPANSA.
During 2018–19, the role of Head of Corporate Office and Chief Financial Officer was spilt into two separate roles following the departure of Mr George Savvides. Ms Kathryn Green was appointed acting Head of Corporate Office on 22 October 2018. Mr Niraj Pau was appointed Chief Financial Officer on 17 December 2018.
ARPANSA business groups
ARPANSA has six business groups that deliver components of the agency's strategies and services. Figure 1 shows ARPANSA's organisational structure at 30 June 2019.
Office of the CEO
The Office of the CEO (OCEO) facilitates, coordinates and supports the activities of the CEO. The OCEO comprises two sections: Communications, and Government and International Relations. The office leads collaboration and communication with the public and government, coordinates international engagement and provides advice to the agency and government on emerging and strategic issues.
The Corporate Office comprises four sections: Finance, People and Culture, Digital Technology, and Performance and Governance. The office develops, builds and maintains the internal systems essential for the provision of an effective public service that meets the needs and expectations of the community. The office supports a competent and motivated workforce, and provides effective governance arrangements, agile systems and reliable infrastructure.
The Office of the General Counsel provides legal advice and strategic support to the agency with regard to all aspects of the agency's operations and assists the CEO to achieve his statutory mandate. The Office of the General Counsel also provides legal advice and support to all ARPANSA staff to assist them in performing their functions and to ensure that in doing so they are compliant with relevant government policy and legislation.
Radiation Health Services Branch
The Radiation Health Services Branch comprises three sections: Monitoring and Emergency Response, Assessment and Advice, and Radiation Protection Services. The branch conducts hazard identification and exposure analysis of ionising and non-ionising radiation sources, evaluates the health risk to the public, workers and the environment and mitigates health and environmental risks through provision of advice, assessments and services.
Its services operate on a fee-for-service basis including the Personal Radiation Monitoring Service, the ultraviolet radiation services and the radiofrequency electromagnetic radiation calibration service. The branch undertakes a number of national initiatives including our ultraviolet radiation monitoring network, the Australian National Radiation Dose Register and the radiation monitoring network established under the terms of the Comprehensive Nuclear‑Test-Ban Treaty. Emergency preparedness and response systems for field, network and laboratory measurements, and information management and decision support systems are maintained and aligned with national planning.
Medical Radiation Services Branch
The Medical Radiation Services Branch provides safety and quality advice on the use of radiation in medicine to all Australians. The branch has three sections: Medical Imaging, Primary Standards Dosimetry Laboratory, and the Australian Clinical Dosimetry Service. The Medical Imaging section is responsible for dose data collection and advice on patient safety within diagnostic imaging and nuclear medicine. The Primary Standards Dosimetry Laboratory (formerly Radiotherapy) maintains the Australian primary standard for absorbed dose and, by calibrating hospitals' radiation detectors against the primary standard, ensures that a provider's equipment is accurate. The Australian Clinical Dosimetry Service audits linear accelerators used by radiotherapy providers in Australia and New Zealand verifying that the radiation exposure of patients undergoing treatment is correct.
Regulatory Services Branch
Regulatory Services Branch has main carriage of regulation of the safety and security of Commonwealth radiation sources and facilities.
The Branch has four sections: Facility Safety, Source Safety and Security, Safety Systems, and National Codes and Standards. The Branch is ARPANSA's principal driver for promoting a uniform regulatory framework across all jurisdictions. The costs for direct regulatory activities are recovered from annual licence charges and application fees.
https://www.transparency.gov.au/annual-reports/australian-radiation-protection-and-nuclear-safety-agency/reporting-year/2018-2019-13
ARPANSA snapshot
Part 1: CEO foreword
CEO foreword
Part 2: Agency overview
ARPANSA at a glance
Role of ARPANSA
Part 3: Report on performance
Case study 1: Integrated Regulatory Review Service mission to Australia
Case study 2: ARPANSA's new linear accelerator
Case study 3: mobile phone use and brain cancer study
Case study 4: stereotactic ablative radiation therapy project
Enabling legislation
Performance and rewards
Staffing statistics
Note to and forming part of the financial statements
Part 7: Index


Gamers want blazing performance and flashy looks in a fragging rig. The Area-51 m15x does both but also comes at a cost. At nearly $5,000, the rig provides the latest in gaming tech but also deals a tremendous blow to a bank account ... or trust fund.


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Meet Marcela
Golf Rules
Tips From the Pros
3 Putting Green Rules You Need To Know
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Today I'm sharing 3 putting green rules you need to know – let's see if you've encountered any of these before.
Last week my friend Karen and I played a fun Four Ball Match Play round with Andy Proudman and Matt Blacket at our home course, The Santaluz Club.
Matt is a former European Tour Player and Andy Proudman is a PGA teaching pro and co-founder of Me And My Golf. They obviously know the rules, but I am always on the lookout for issues that come up during a real round of golf. And, to be honest, I kind of like to catch people violating the rules!
In the first situation, Karen and Matt are partners and it's a Four Ball Match Play. Matt is helping read Karen's putt for her and is showing her where to die the ball.
Is Matt permitted to touch the ground to indicate the line of play for his partner?
The answer lies in rule 10, Advice and Caddies. 10.2b(2) "The player or his caddie may touch the putting green with a hand, foot, or anything he or she is holding to indicate the line of play."
…………………..And remember that a player may help their partner in any way that a caddie can.
So, yes, Matt can touch the putting green and I didn't catch him in a violation.
Can a player set their putter down on the green to line up their putt as Andy appears to be doing in this video?
According to rule 10.2b(2), a player must not set an object down to show the line of play. In this case though, Andy has not set the object down, the putter is still in his hands, so no penalty here.
Here, my partner Andy is standing behind me and reading my putt. Would Andy incur a penalty here?
Rule 10.2b(4) says, "when a player begins taking a stance for the stroke, the player's partner or caddie must not deliberately stand behind in a location on or close to an extension of the line behind the ball for any reason."
The key phrase here is, when a player "begins taking a stance," and as you can see I had not yet begun to take my stance. As long as Andy moves away before I begin to take my stance, there is no penalty.
Oh and P.S., I didn't make the putt!
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Top companies from Northern Ireland's digital media, cyber security, fintech and sports tech sectors have completed a two-day business mission to London where they engaged with senior leaders from the capital's business community.
The companies included Cyberlytic, Beezer, The Tomorrow Lab, IT Guarded and Heritage Fund Services.
Organised by Belfast Partners, and supported by Belfast City Council, the mission culminated in a networking reception (Thursday November 23) at the Mansion House, official residence of the Lord Mayor of the City of London.
Hosted by the Lord Mayor of the City of London Rt. Hon. Charles Bowman, 175 attendees to the gala event heard about Belfast's investment opportunities, its innovative companies and quality of life.
Rt. Hon. James Brokenshire MP, Secretary of State for Northern Ireland and Patrick Magee Chief Commercial Officer of the British Business Bank and Suzanne Wylie, Chief Executive of Belfast City Council.
Founder Karena Vaughan set up Belfast Partners after seeing "the fantastic work" carried out by Manchester Birmingham and Liverpool in promoting their cities as a place to do business.
"I felt there was a need for Belfast to do something similar and ensure the city is on the decision-making radar for organisations considering new investment and purchasing opportunities," she says.
The Lord Mayor of Belfast, Councillor Nuala McAllister, commented: "Coming on the heels of the announcement from the Chancellor around negotiations for a City Deal for the Belfast region, this event underpins the importance of building connections with key decision-makers and influencers, and opening up those lines of communication for the benefit of not just Belfast, but the entire economy of Northern Ireland.
Belfast City Council Chief Executive, Suzanne Wylie, added: "Our Belfast Agenda sets out clear ambitions to create 50,000 new jobs by 2035 , continue our excellent track record of foreign direct investment, and to attract £1 billion investment towards real estate and regeneration projects to transform the city and create vibrant communities and neighbourhoods over the next four years.
Established in March 2016, Belfast Partners is a business networking initiative that connects Belfast with other fast-growth international cities. It provides opportunities for Belfast's city executive leaders and its companies to tap into new business potential and for investors to quickly access information on property investment and new job creation.
In addition to expanding into Ireland next year, Belfast Partners plans to bring together investors and buyers from London and Dublin for a networking dinner at Belfast City Hall in March 2018.


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Brad Rassler
The Types of Bindings for Cross-Country Skis
The Best Snow Skis for East Moguls
Review of Vision Snowboards
The Best-Cross Country Skis for Beginners
The Best Women's Beginner Skis
Home Sports Snow Sports
Review of Fischer E99 Skis
Fischer's venerable E99 Crown, now sporting a BCX logo, is better than ever, perfect for off-piste tours that have you venturing into the gentle foothills of big ranges. The E99 has been in Fischer's backcountry lineup since the early 70's.
The E99 might be the most versatile ski in Fischer's lineup. Thanks to the time-tested Crown waxless base, skiing uphill is a cakewalk. And the full-length steel edges allow you to control your descents, and carve in everything but the most demanding conditions. A double camber and Air Core construction facilitate surprisingly efficient kicking and gliding: these skis excel in rolling terrain. And that's probably where you'll want to keep them, as they are not recommended for deep powder, glare ice or the steeps.
You'll ski the E99 a bit longer than fat backcountry boards; they're not designed to shred as much as they are to cruise. Lengths range between 180 and 210 centimeters, and as you would expect for a touring ski, the widths are middling. With a 68mm shovel and a 55mm waist, they're designed to handle moderate terrain with aplomb.
Early users of the E99--then called the Europa 99--routinely skied them with three-pin, 75mm bindings. But Fischer now advocates their BCX boot-binding combination, a sleeker system that conforms to the ski's waist, rather than overlapping it. The benefit to you is higher performance and lighter weight, equating to a pleasing snap and greater efficiency.
Brad Rassler is a leadership consultant, executive coach and avid outdoor athlete who has written for publication since 1994. His work has appeared in "Climbing," "Powder," "Couloir," "Sea Kayaker" and "City Sports." He is a contributing editor for "Tahoe Quarterly Magazine." Rassler holds a Master of Science in organizational development from Pepperdine University.


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Track Those Tax Dollars In An 'Augmented Reality'
October 31, 2009 • Want to know where those stimulus dollars were spent? Consider turning your smart phone into a government watchdog — then all you'll have to do is take it for a walk.
Just How Many Jobs Is The Stimulus Responsible For?
October 31, 2009 • The Associated Press reports the number of jobs created or saved by the stimulus bill has been vastly inflated by the Obama Administration. Obama's senior adviser David Axelrod told host Scott Simon the AP was "extrapolating from a small piece of information," and that the administration believes it will achieve its goal of creating several million jobs. NPR news analyst Juan Williams talks with Simon about how this issue might play out.
A South Carolina Shrimper Stays Afloat
October 31, 2009 • Capt. Wayne Magwood, a third-generation shrimper in Charleston, S.C., has run a successful market for the past 40 years. He relies on local restaurants and loyal customers to stay in business, battling intense foreign competition.
Examining Government's Job-Creation Numbers
October 30, 2009 • The federal government releases its report on the how the economic stimulus has affected employment. The White House says jobs 650,000 have been saved or created under its plan.
Sections of worn concrete are removed from a section of Interstate 90 during a repaving project in June near Snoqualmie Pass, Wash., one of several projects on the roadway that are being paid for by federal stimulus money. Elaine Thompson/AP hide caption
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Is The Stimulus Really Working?
October 30, 2009 • As the recession apparently wanes, the effect the stimulus program had in the turnaround is up for debate. Among other things, the White House claims to have saved hundreds of thousands of jobs, but economists are skeptical.
The New Republic: Pouring Cold Water On GDP Stats
October 30, 2009 • There is some concern with the impressive-looking GDP growth number of 3.5 percent: it reflects a lot of one-off boosts to growth and masks trends that are likely to get worse. That said, it's much better than the alternative.
Economy Is Rebounding But Not Employment
October 30, 2009 • Data from the Commerce Department indicates the country has pulled out of the recession. The figures show the economy grew in the third quarter. Still, 15 million Americans are without jobs. And even if the economy keeps growing, it could be a while until employers put people back to work.
Floridians Try Nutty Way To Their Save Post Office
October 30, 2009 • Residents of Lantana, Fla., think the Postal Service would have to be nuts to close their post office. They have been mailing coconuts to Postmaster General John Potter along with requests to keep their post office open. It costs about $4 to mail a coconut. Postal officials say they have received hundred of them.
State Parks Juggle More Visitors With Budget Cuts
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October 30, 2009 • Because of the down economy, state and local government have put the squeeze on spending. Some of the first items on the chopping block were parks and after-school recreation programs. Those cuts come at a time when demands for the services are up.
China Lifts Ban On U.S. Pork Products
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October 30, 2009 • American pork producers say China's decision to lift a ban on U.S. pork imports comes at a critical time. The industry is struggling because of fears over swine flu. China imposed the ban on U.S. pork five months ago following the outbreak of the H1N1 flu virus. The disease cannot be caught by eating pork.
Chinese Banks To Fund Texas Wind Farm
October 30, 2009 • Two Chinese power companies and their American partners have announced plans to build a big wind farm in West Texas. The turbines will be manufactured in China. Chinese banks will finance much of the project, which will cost about $1.5 billion. The U.S. government will provide some backing as well.
House Scrutinizes Fake Letters Sent To Congress
October 30, 2009 • In June, as the House prepared to consider a sweeping climate bill, several lawmakers received letters seemingly from the NAACP and the American Association of University Women. The letters warned lawmakers that the organizations had serious doubts about the bill. But the letters were fake.
GM Faces Long Odds In Paying Back Its Bailout
October 30, 2009 • The U.S. government has poured $50 billion into General Motors, and taxpayers own 61 percent of the automaker's stock. Now the question is whether sales can ever recover enough for the public to get its money back.
Halloween Tricks And Audio Treats
Halloween Theme Parks Bring Spooks ... And Jobs
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October 30, 2009 • The economy might be scarier than the Halloween theme parks cropping up this time of year, but people will pay good money for a fright that doesn't involve their 401(k). Haunted house theme parks are expected to rake in more than half a billion dollars this season.
Explaining Bank Overhaul Proposals
October 29, 2009 • Congress has taken up legislation that would prevent big companies from endangering the entire economy when they reach the brink of failure. They would be required to have more capital in reserve and wind down operations in an orderly fashion in the event of a bankruptcy. Would these rules prevent a crisis like the current one?


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News Analysis: Citrix Seals XenSource Deal, Pressures VMware
By Laurianne McLaughlin
CIO	 Oct 24, 2007 8:00 am PDT
Citrix just sealed the deal that had the virtualization community buzzing when it was first announced in August, the $500 million acquisition of XenSource. As outlined yesterday at Citrix's iForum user conference, Citrix has finalized its purchase of XenSource and its Xen enterprise server virtualization software. As I noted earlier this year in a blog post, for enterprise IT departments, a rivalry between VMware and Citrix can only be good news, since rivalry equals faster product innovation and more pressure on pricing and support quality. Citrix also announced new products and marketing deals at the conference yesterday. What does this burgeoning battle mean to you?
For starters, choice. Lots more of it than you've had in the past few years, when VMware reigned as the uncontested beauty queen of virtualization. But should you go with a best-of-breed approach for tools, or stick with just one vendor? You may want to keep your options open on that one.
Virtualization as a technology presents one of the biggest opportunities for enterprise IT today because it can save money, improve disaster recovery and, more importantly, speed up business process. It's also one of the richest pools of opportunity for vendors. In announcing the finalization of the XenSource deal yesterday, Citrix said it sees growth in the neighborhood of $5 billion during the next four years in the server and desktop virtualization markets.
Citrix, with its long history in the thin-client computing arena, can now, thanks to the XenSource server software, pitch enterprise IT on a complete solution, spanning from servers to desktops. XenSource's well-known Xen enterprise server virtualization product will now be called Citrix XenServer. Along with this, Citrix will offer its current application virtualization tool, Citrix Presentation server (which stores Windows applications in one data store in your data center, instead of local PCs). Rounding out the Citrix trio, the new Citrix XenDesktop software will allow truly virtual desktops, for which data lives in the data center. (Citrix added that XenDesktop will work with VMware or Microsoft server virtualization software, if the customer prefers.)
Also at the conference, Citrix unveiled new marketing deals with Dell and HP. Dell will preload XenServer in an embedded (basic, low-cost) version on selected server models; giving customers the option to upgrade to the enterprise version. HP will preload XenServer enterprise edition on some of its boxes. Both of these agreements are all about customer convenience; both server vendors emphasize they'll continue to work with multiple virtualization vendors including VMware.
Not surprisingly, given its current advantage, VMware wants to be a one-stop shop for enterprise IT on virtualization tools. But Citrix and some startups are plugging the idea that an open architecture, including use of multiple vendors' management tools, makes more sense for CIOs.
As my fellow CIO.com blogger Bernard Golden has noted, Citrix and XenSource sure makes an interesting marriage, given Citrix's marketing power and traditionally tight relationship with Microsoft on the one hand, and Xen's open-source heritage and close bond with the Linux community on the other. (Xen shepherds the open-source Xen virtualization software, in a separate effort from marketing its XenEnterprise product.)
So how do industry watchers see this stacking up in the next few years, and what's their planning advice for CIOs?
Generally, consolidating IT (and the number of vendor partner relationships) is a top priority today, says Natalie Lambert, a senior analyst with Forrester Research. The usual rules apply. Managing less complexity costs less. And the more you buy from one vendor, the better your potential discount. Today, she says, many companies are buying "good enough" functionality from a single virtualization vendor as opposed to best-of-breed functionality from many vendors to get cost savings.
It's early for CIOs to even be able to pick between VMware, Citrix or Microsoft (which delivers its Viridian server virtualization product next year) as a long-term virtualization partner. "Citrix is going after virtualization across servers, desktops and applications," Lambert says. "Microsoft is more focused on the desktop. VMware today does it all. So, while consolidating on a single vendor is a better strategy in the long run, we are not at a point where all of these vendors are interchangeable."
Meanwhile, a slew of smaller companies including Akorri and Marathon Technologies have produced interesting virtualization management and performance tools to address tactical needs like workload balancing and rollovers in case of trouble.
Given the amount of noise and hype in the virtualization market right now, these vendors will have to work hard to get your attention. That's not all bad—nor is the fact that there's enough money at stake that the scrappy smaller companies are not going to sit back and let the big guys make all the breakthroughs.
In the near term, at least, picking and choosing between various companies may net you some real benefits.
By the way, if you think desktop virtualization is something you don't have to worry about long term, think twice. With its XenSource deal, Citrix just made a $500 million bet that you're wrong.


The Summary tab provides an overview of the state of the selected object, group, or application. Use this tab to evaluate the impact that alerts are having on the object and use the information to begin troubleshooting problems.
In the left pane, click the Environment icon, and select a group, application, or inventory object. Click the Summary tab.
This widget displays the summary of metrics and properties of the selected object for review.
This widget displays a score indicating the remaining computing resources as a percent of the total consumer capacity for the most constrained resource.
The Datastore Summary tab provides an overview of the state of the selected datastore. For the selected object, the Datastore Summary tab displays the alerts and metrics as they affect the health, risk, or efficiency. Use this tab to evaluate the impact that alerts are having on the datastore and use the information to begin troubleshooting problems.
The Host Summary tab provides an overview of the state of the selected host. For the selected object, the Host Summary tab displays the alerts and metrics as they affect the health, risk, or efficiency. Use this tab to evaluate the impact that alerts are having on the host and use the information to begin troubleshooting problems.
The Cluster Summary tab provides an overview of the state of the selected cluster. For the selected object, the Cluster Summary tab displays the alerts and metrics as they affect the health, risk, or efficiency. Use this tab to evaluate the impact that alerts are having on the cluster and use the information to begin troubleshooting problems.
The Custom Group and Container Summary tab provides an overview of the state of the selected group or a container. For the selected object, the Custom Group and Container Summary tab displays the alerts and metrics as they affect the health, risk, or efficiency. Use this tab to evaluate the impact that alerts are having on the group or a container and use the information to troubleshoot the problems.


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Review: Decemberists in Oakland
Posted on May 21, 2009 by Jim Harrington
It's a safe bet that no one among the 2,800 fans in attendance at the Decemberists' sold-out show at the Fox Theatre in Oakland ever considered skipping the concert in favor of staying home to watch the "American Idol" finale.
That has nothing to do with the powers of TiVo. It's because the Decemberists have always appealed to a wildly left-of-mainstream demographic. That remains true today, despite all the predictions that the Oregon band's latest CD, "The Hazards of Love," would be this year's cross-over commercial success.
"Hazards" will likely be remembered as 2009's "other concept record," taking a backseat for all of posterity to Green Day's new rock opera, "21st Century Breakdown."
For most of Green Day's career, however, it was certainly hard to imagine that the East Bay punk band would ever release anything as ambitious as "21st Century Breakdown" or the album that preceded it, 2004's "American Idiot."
In contrast, Decemberists fans that have paid attention should definitely have seen "The Hazards of Love" coming. The band has been building toward this moment during its entire career – crafting highly literate and original story-songs as far back as their first independently released EP, 2001's "5 Songs."
Lyricist Colin Meloy's ambition became even more noticeable with the band's major label debut, "The Crane Wife," a song cycle that NPR listeners voted the best album of 2006.
Now, the group has taken its game to the next level with "The Hazards of Love," a brilliant 17-track offering that is at least as impressive as either of Green Day's two contributions to the rock-concept-album genre.
The Decemberists' current task is to take this complex piece of music, with all of its difficult arrangements and its highly complicated storyline, and make it work on the live stage.
The group lived up to the challenge on Wednesday, as it performed "The Hazards of Love" in its entirety during the first of two sets at the Fox. Those fans that did their homework, and studied the album, before reaching the venue certainly got the most out of the concert.
This was the second time I'd seen the band perform "Hazards" from start to finish. The first opportunity came in March at Texas' South by Southwest music conference, before I'd had the chance to hear the record. Not coincidentally, my initial reaction to the material was lukewarm. Two months (and at least a dozen spins of the record) later, my response was quite different.
The band did a great job in breathing life into this demented musical fantasy, which details a love affair between a woman and a shape-shifting creature of the forest. The tunes were all catchy enough that listeners could sing along, at least to the choruses, without really comprehending the story arc. Still, the music was so much more meaningful – and disturbing – if you knew the lyrics.
The work contains more drama than a dozen soap operas: love, lust, betrayal, murder, revenge – it's all in abundant supply on "Hazards." In all, it's a darker work than basically anything you'll find in the death-metal bin. Yet, the musical mix of sturdy classic rock sounds and the band's traditionally bright folk-pop styles is so appealing that a listener can't turn away.
The Decemberists would return and perform many fan favorites, like "The Crane Wife 3" and "Sons and Daughters," in the second set. The offering was appealing, but it felt lightweight in direct comparison to "The Hazards of Love."
The nature of the beast – in that "Hazards" is a conceptual piece that requires guest singers and some pre-recorded vocals, and that the songs don't really work out of context – suggests that the music on "The Hazards of Love" might not be performed after this tour.
If that's the case, those fans that attended the Fox show have one more reason to pat themselves on the back for missing "American Idol."
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Weird Words #7: The Devout Skeptic
Here's a linguistic curiosity: devout skepticism.
These two words are, of course, simple when taken on their own. Their meanings are little changed in the couple of thousand years they have existed for.
devout is an adjective describing the attitude of someone who has made a vow towards the object of the vow
skepticism is a school of Greek philosophy at whose core is the idea that nothing can be known. A skeptic, therefore has a belief: that you can have evidence, and you can create theories based on the evidence, but there is no underlying knowledge corresponding to the evidence and the theory. So you are obliged to use evidence and theory in order to get by on what is a sort of best guess at a description of reality.
Historically, this places the skeptic in opposition to the religious, since the religious asserts that you can have knowledge, that knowledge comes from God, that you can be certain of this knowledge without any evidence.
You might be forgiven for thinking, therefore, that a devout skeptic was one who doubted everything on principle. But a skeptic has neither room nor need for doubt, since he is certain that true, exact or absolute knowledge is unattainable. I'm going to attempt an example:
The religious, or anyone else who thinks that things can be known, might agree with the statement:
"When there is plenty of rain and plenty of sun, the wheat grows tall, so we plant wheat in places where there is plenty of rain and plenty of sun."
This is a statement of knowledge and a related statement of action. The skeptic would view it very differently:
"We have previously observed that plenty of rain and sun coincides with tall wheat, so we will continue to plant wheat where there is plenty of rain and sun until or unless the wheat stops growing tall in such places."
The skeptic assumes that things will change. He assumes that he has not been able to observe everything.
There may be a very fine distinction here, which will look like idle semantics to many, in that many people will assume that the first statement implies the elided thought that "plenty of rain and sun are the dominant factors" – or indeed all manner of other qualifiers.
But the Greek thinkers were very careful with their words for a simple (if highly disciplined) reason. If you say "I know the sun is hot" you are assuming that your listeners realize that "I know" is a short way of saying "I have convincing reasons to suppose". But supposing one of your listeners does not realize this. You will have misled him.
In modern English we do things that would have Greek philosophers tutting into their wine and tortoise soup.
"Isn't the sun hot today, " we thoughtlessly declaim.
This statement assumes the knowledge that there are days when the sun is less hot.
The devout skeptic would be obliged to point out that:
"I am hotter out of doors today than I was yesterday, and I suppose that this is due in some way to the sun, since I am generally cooler when the sun is absent."
Nowadays we find that absurdly picky. But our ability to express ourselves clearly is built on exactly those foundations. We may have elided a lot of assumptions and qualifiers when we say "I know" . . . the problem is that many of us may not have.
To write clear prose, you need to learn to think like the devout skeptic. But to write captivating narration, you need to learn to elide all the qualifiers and assumptions. It is my theory, based on what I have observed writers and storytellers doing, that if you don't know what all the assumptions, qualifiers and implications are, then your authority as a narrator is weakened, and the reader is less captivated.
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I'm migrating from JDK1.7/Geoserver2.8.3 to OpenJDK11/GeoServer2.15.0, and have issues with ImageMosiac layers. No matter how I configure it, take from old Geoserver, upload by interface or configure by REST, it always show blank spaces where one tranaparency overlaps on other tiff's values. When I enable jaiext (shouldn't it be enabled by default according to documentation?) nothing helps, it is even worse, some grey boxes show up (they change depending on zoom level...).
Tried dozens of combinations of parameters, clean install, with enabled or disabled JAIEXT, sisabled BandSelect operation, etc, and nothing seems to work.
Clean install of Geoserver 2.8.3 with Java 7 shows it ok (attached).
UPDATE: Installed several versions of Geoserver 2.11.x - 2.15.x, it turns out that the presentation of my ImageMosaic changed from 2.13.2 (works fine) to 2.13.3 (shows transparent spaces). Both 2.13.2 and 2.13.3 installed in same environment - Oracle JAVA 8.
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Q: CDK virtual scroll has no doms I'm using CDK virtual scroll to improve the performance of a dropdown which will have huge data. I have followed all the steps as per the documentation. But when I open the dropdown I don't see any dom with in cdk-virtual-scroll-viewport component.
Here is the code from HTML.
<cdk-virtual-scroll-viewport itemSize="500" class="example-viewport">
            <div *cdkVirtualFor="let item of items" class="example-item">{{item.name}}</div>
        </cdk-virtual-scroll-viewport>

If I move the div outside the cdk virtual scroll and replace it with ngFor it works fine. Any idea what could be the issue?

A: That happens because your itemSize is too big for the container height.
virtual scroll uses itemSize to calculate the number of items that fit into your viewport.
You are setting 500px as the size for each item, which is the size of the full cdk-virtual-scroll-viewport container. Try setting a smaller itemSize.
Also, here's an example of virtual-scroll I made (it may help you): https://codesandbox.io/s/angular-virtual-scroll-biwn6

A: The problem was that the scrolling module was not imported in the correct module file. It didn't give any error but was giving just a warning.

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