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Pooley v. State
470 So. 2d 1337 (1985)
Loy Clayton POOLEY v. STATE.
4 Div. 302.
Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama.
Rehearing Denied March 26, 1985.
Certiorari Denied May 31, 1985
*1338 James A. Ward, III, Dothan, for appellant.
Charles A. Graddick, Atty. Gen., and M. Beth Slate, Asst. Atty. Gen., for appellee.
Alabama Supreme Court 84-670.
BOWEN, Presiding Judge.
Loy Pooley, the appellant, was indicted and convicted for unlawful breaking and entering a vehicle in violation of Alabama Code 1975, § 13A-8-11. Sentence was six years' imprisonment.
In October of 1983, defendant Pooley and co-defendant Jonathan David Adams were jointly tried under an indictment charging the possession of burglary tools described as "screwdriver, gloves, wire pliers and key cutters ... with intent to use the same, in the commission of an offense involving forcible entry into premises or theft." Adams was convicted and that conviction was affirmed by this Court in Adams v. State, 459 So. 2d 999 (Ala.Cr.App.1984). Pooley was acquitted. In that case, a screwdriver, pen flashlight, wire pliers, gloves and a derringer were found on Adams. A key-making device was found in Adams' automobile, which was parked nearby. No burglar tools were found on the defendant. The State proved that Keith Anthony's Honda automobile was burglarized by one man. In our opinion affirming Adams' conviction, this Court found that "the evidence thus considered constitutes substantial evidence that ... [Adams], either as the principal or as an aider or abettor, was guilty of the possession of burglar's tools with the intent to use the tools in the commission of an offense involving forceful entry into premises or theft ... as charged in the indictment."
In November of 1983, Pooley was tried separately and convicted for the burglary of Anthony's car. In that case, essentially the identical evidence was introduced as in the initial prosecution for the possession of burglary tools.
The legal principles of collateral estoppel are summarized in "Project: Thirteenth Annual Review of Criminal Procedure", 72 Geo.L.J. 249, 517-18 (1983):
"As a corollary to the prohibition of retrial after acquittal, the double jeopardy clause incorporates the doctrine of collateral estoppel. This principle provides that determination of a factual issue in the defendant's favor at one proceeding estops the government from disputing that fact in another proceeding against the same defendant. Thus, even when different offenses are charged, and the *1339 double jeopardy clause therefore would not normally bar a second prosecution, collateral estoppel may bar the second trial when a fact previously found in the defendant's favor is necessary to the second conviction. Collateral estoppel also may bar reintroduction of evidence used against a defendant in a prior prosecution when the government is attempting to use the evidence to prove a fact previously found against it. For collateral estoppel to apply both the defendant and the prosecution must have been parties to the prior case. Furthermore, the defendant must be contesting relitigation of an issue of ultimate fact previously determined by a valid and final judgment."
See generally, Annot., 9 A.L.R.3d 203 (1966). Collateral estoppel "means simply that when an issue of ultimate fact has once been determined by a valid and final judgment, that issue cannot again be litigated between the same parties in any future lawsuit." Ashe v. Swenson, 397 U.S. 436, 443, 90 S. Ct. 1189, 1194, 25 L. Ed. 2d 469 (1970). The final question a court must answer in adjudicating a claim of collateral estoppel is "whether a rational jury could have grounded its verdict upon an issue other than that which the defendant seeks to foreclose from consideration." Ashe, 397 U.S. at 444, 90 S. Ct. at 1194.
Here, the trial judge denied the defendant's "plea in bar, autrefois acquit" because "the two offenses charged, the possession of burglar tools and the unlawful breaking and entering of a vehicle are independent and distinct offenses where one can be committed without necessarily committing the other offense."
In denying the defendant's plea, the trial court obviously applied principles of former jeopardy and committed error. "Several important distinctions exist between the defenses of double jeopardy and collateral estoppel. The prohibition against double jeopardy requires identity of offenses, whereas the doctrine of collateral estoppel does not." 21 Am.Jur.2d Criminal Law § 322 (1981).
In the prosecution for the possession of the burglary tools, the State proved the completed burglary of Anthony's Honda automobile. Although this burglary was relevant and admissible to prove the defendant's felonious intent in having the tools, Murray v. State, 43 Ala.App. 5, 178 So. 2d 233 (1965), it was unnecessary.
In State v. Lewis, 599 S.W.2d 94, 98 (Mo.App.1980), it was observed:
"A conviction for the possession of burglars tools requires proof of a general intent to use the instruments for burglary. That proof is normally by evidence of a reputation for burglary. The intent for use of the tools, therefore, does not relate to a particular time or place but only to an unlawful purpose. That is to say, there is no need to prove a burglary in order to prove the unlawful possession of burglars tools." (Citations omitted).
See also Burrell v. State, 429 So. 2d 636, 638-39 (Ala.Cr.App.1982).
Here, as in Lewis, the prosecutor "undertook nevertheless to prove a completed burglary to convict for the unlawful possession of burglars tools, and not by an occasional overlap of the evidence, but by strategy and design." 599 S.W.2d at 98. In the prosecution for possession of burglary tools, the State introduced the evidence of the burglary to prove the defendant's felonious intent for having the tools. In the burglary case, the State produced evidence of the burglary tools to connect the defendant with the burglary and to prove that the defendant was guilty of aiding and abetting in the unlawful entry of Mr. Anthony's automobile. This clearly violates the principles of Ashe. See Lewis. In this case, a rational jury could have based its acquittal of the defendant in the prosecution for the possession of burglary tools only on rejection of the evidence tending to show that the defendant knew that Adams had the tools and intended to use the tools for a felonious purpose.
The constitutional policy of collateral estoppel prevents the State from attempting to relitigate a fact which underlies a prior acquittal. Ashe, supra. The judgment of *1340 the circuit court is reversed and the cause rendered.
REVERSED AND RENDERED.
All Judges concur.


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When it comes to designing student residences for postgraduates, it must be recognised that they can have very different living patterns to undergraduates, so they don't necessarily want the same kind of accommodation arrangements.
The classic student residence is a cluster of three or four rooms in a flat with a shared living room and kitchen. While this is still very popular, the University of Edinburgh has moved to create a more exciting model which recognises postgraduates' preferences.
For example, they often don't eat at the same time as their flatmates. They often just want to snack. And they have very different study patterns to undergraduate students, which impact on when they choose to eat and interact socially.
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The Alcazar re-opened just a few weeks before I visited so there were still a few things left on their To-Do list, including adding amenities like plush bath robes and furniture to round out the all-white courtyard. I loved my stay, though. I'm a sucker for the small touches and Alcazar does them well.
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Tomahawks Announce Preseason Schedule
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Just found these parts among a box of misc toys.
I know some of the parts in the first photo are Masters of the Universe, but as i never collected them thats as far as i know. No. 11 i know is from Skeletor, but which version?
18 & 21 maybe MASK?
14 has bugged me for years, it's exactly the same mold as a vintage Star Wars B-Wing gun except its shorter and is made to fit on something, the original is three times as long and one piece.
So what can you ID?
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6,7,10,& 11 All go to the Masters of the Universe toyline.
19 and 20 look like MASK missles but I am not sure.
Do you know which figures though?
Thanks for the MASK ID's.
I had the toys 13 is from too, but I can't remember what they were called. They were a space/building toy kinda like supersized legos. The cockpits plugged into the blocks and there were rings to plug different blocks together....there were cubes about 2 inches on a side and rectangles that were 2x2x3 or 4. The cockpit modules came in blue and red and the connecting rings had posts those guns connected to. The set I had also had wheels so you could make a tank like vehicle and there was a 2 person cockpit as well.
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OKAY: Archbishop Desmund Tutu prefers Hell Over Homophobic Heaven
A former Nobel Peace Prize winner and anti-apartheid activist publically stated that he would prefer an eternity of hell rather than attain entrance to what he termed a "homophobic heaven" as reported by the left-of-center news weblog The Huffington Post on July 26, 2013.
With the ecclesiastical title of The Most Reverend Desmond Mpilo Tutu, the 1984 Nobel Peace Prize winner and retired archbishop of the Anglican Province of Southern Africa has raised more than a few eyebrows with his comments at the opening of the United Nations gay rights program in Cape Town, South Africa.
Leaving little to the imagination, the longtime advocate of societal acceptance of homosexuality plainly said:
I would not worship a God who is homophobic and that is how deeply I feel about this.
I would refuse to go to a homophobic heaven. No, I would say sorry, I mean I would much rather go to the other place.
I am as passionate about this campaign as I ever was about apartheid. For me, it is at the same level.
This isn't the first time Tutu has made controversial comments regarding Christianity and presumably active homosexuality.
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You've worked your FIRE plan and are ready to retire early. Where are the top sunny places to retire where your savings will go a long way?
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I found this post where they suggest to remove and re-install all packages, which seems a little drastic to me.
All those commands La.svd(x, nu, nv), prcomp run perfectly on their own and the caret command itself runs perfectly without the pca option, i.e. :
rf.mod <- caret::train(as.factor(traincpdf$lab) ~ ., method="rf",
                       data=traincpdf, verbose = FALSE)

Anyone has any idea on how to solve this
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Yesterday for the first time in the framework of Mercedes Benz Fashion Week Russia a closed display of the capsule collection Dasha Gauser for Mary Kay . Capsule collection was created Dasha specially for beauty consultants Mary Kay® .
The show was stylized by Marina Damchenko the editor-in-chief of the magazine Fashion Collection with the support of the brand of footwear and accessories "Econika" .
"I'm very close to the philosophy of Mary Kay®, which is why I was happy to create a capsule collection. For the creation of the collection, of course, I was inspired by Mary Kay® beauty consultants. I wanted to emphasize their tenderness and femininity ", – Dasha Gauser designer of the brand Dasha Gauser.
"I have always been keen on Mary Kay®, so I decided to take part in the project. My task is to add confidence to women ", – Marina Damchenko the editor-in-chief of the magazine Fashion Collection .
Dasha Gauser for Mary Kay is a collection of red jackets and vests, as well as a capsule collection of turquoise color, created only for beauty consultants Mary Kay® .
Alla Sokolova General Director Mary Kay® Russia: "For 10 seasons Mary Kay® company is the official make-up artist of MBFWRussia Fashion Week. And we are very pleased that this season we have an opportunity to present a unique closed show, a fashion collaboration between the brand Dasha Gauser and Mary Kay®. "
Showing Dasha Gauser for Mary Kay visited: Aya (Group City 312), Olga Lomonosova, Svetlana Masterkova, Elena Kuletskaya, Archie, Renata Piotrovsky, Tatyana Kotova, Zoe Berber , Elena Borshcheva, Olympiad Teterich, Irina Medvedeva and others.


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About two million Americans buy medications from online Canadian pharmacies. "March 1, 2010 Customer Letter" (accessed April 19, 2010) (2)United States Conference of Catholic Bishops. Nor achieved it matter that my daughter's arm was inside a cast, she was clearly in pain, as well as the prescriptions came from your children's hospital down the street. His 'Banatao Filipino American Fund' provides assist with Northern California students that are of Filipino heritage, to assist them to build a future by pursuing a degree in engineering. A good pharmacist needs to tune in to what the staff expects from him or her and just what the pharmacist expects from your staff.
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Q: Django Rest Framework using the url to load specified models Is it possible to use generic url settings to implement the django rest interface for all models in django?
So instead of per model configuration:
class BlogResource(ModelResource):
    model = Blog

urlpatterns = patterns('',
    url(r'^Blog/$', ListOrCreateModelView.as_view(resource=BlogResource)),
    url(r'^Blog/(?P<pk>[^/]+)/$', InstanceModelView.as_view(resource=BlogResource)),
)

A more generic type of loading:
urlpatterns = patterns('',
    url(r'^(?P<model>\w+)/$', GenericView.render_model_list()),
    url(r'^(?P<model>\w+)/(?P<pk>[^/]+)/$', GenericView.render_model()),
)

With something that allows the system to generate the model and render it to the rest interface.

A: class BlogResource(ModelResource):
    model = Blog

urlpatterns = patterns('',
    url(r'^Blog/$', ListOrCreateModelView.as_view(resource=BlogResource)),
    url(r'^Blog/(?P<pk>[^/]+)/$', InstanceModelView.as_view(resource=BlogResource)),
)

in more general way the solution would look like this (sorry - i wrote it by hand), but you still need to import these models and form the model tuple by hand.
from django.conf.urls.defaults import patterns, url
from models import Model1, Model2, Model3

urlconf = ['', ]

for obj in (Model1, Model2, Model3):
    name = obj.__class__.__name__
    ResourceClass = type('%sResource' % name, (obj,), {
        'model': obj,
    })
    urlconf.append(url(r'^%s/$' % name, ListOrCreateModelView.as_view(resource=ResourceClass)))
    urlconf.append(url(r'^%s/(?P<pk>[^/]+)/$' % name, ListOrCreateModelView.as_view(resource=ResourceClass)))
urlpatterns = patterns(urlconf)


I got home this evening to discover that in the last two weeks, the garden has exploded.
Here's my formerly skimpy California natives bed, bursting at the seams. Check out all the weeds being crowded out by that out-of-control poppy.
In the back, weeds have grown large and lush alongside the plants (in fairness to Noel, who has been left with push hoe and vague instructions, it can be hard to tell what is a weed and what is a plant when you are not a plant person). I have my work cut out for me back there.
The orchard is doing well, except for one of the nectarines which is showing the classic signs of peach leaf curl. The only cure is spraying it before buds emerge; once the curl shows up the plant is infected and that is that. Fortunately, this tree has nothing to do this year but get established; I'm not expecting it to use any energy making fruit. I'll spray it next year.
Here's a puzzle: which of these are lilies, and which are the citrus trees? This combination worked out to be so funny to me that even though I decided earlier in the season that I wanted to move the lilies elsewhere, I almost can't bear to give up the joke.
I know it's not a terribly funny joke, but I smile every time I see them. I picked five baby lemons off the over-acheiving lemon, too. Stupid tree.
Out front the news is all good: the rose hedge is blooming like mad. More weeding to be done, and we're planning to put some hurting on the Bermuda grass in the open areas Saturday afternoon, but the roses are all looking healthy, the violets planted under them are insanely happy, and I found a bunch of little lavender seedlings while pulling some larger weeds.
I do love these big English roses. They look lush and lovely, they smell wonderful, and they just seem to be healthier than the standard tea roses. I think they fit the era of the house nicely (though of course they are all recent hybrids) while not being too-too period.
The garden is making the transition from spring to summer, which means no more rain around here until October. I am working semi-obsessively on making it artificially spring all year round with the irrigation system, but until all is installed and in place, everything (apart from the roses) has to be watered by hand. With me away at school, that's been a heavy burden on Noel, so we both have an incentive to get the irrigation installed and operating.


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Multinational and large national corporations and climate adaptation: are we asking the right questions? A review of current knowledge and a new research perspective
Alina Averchenkova, Florence Crick, Adriana Kocornik‐Mina, Hayley Leck, Swenja Surminski
Adapting to climate change requires the engagement of all actors in society. Until recently, the predominant research focus has been on governments, communities, and the third sector as key actors in the adaptation process. Yet, there is a growing emphasis internationally on understanding the role of and the need to engage businesses in adaptation given their potential to finance projects, develop technologies and innovative solutions, and enhance the scale and cost‐effectiveness of certain adaptation measures. Large national and multinational corporations are among the key actors in this respect. Already, many of these corporations are purportedly taking steps to adapt their operations to climate change. Some stated reasons for their engagement include minimizing potential impacts on value chains, improving resource efficiency, enhancing production of sustainable raw materials, and supporting customers', suppliers', and communities' climate change adaptation efforts. However, there is a paucity of work analysing adaptation actions by these corporations, their motivations and contribution to broader adaptation and climate‐resilient development efforts, as well as possible instances of maladaptation. We apply a three‐tier framework on drivers, responses, and outcomes to examine the state of knowledge according to recent literature on private sector and corporate adaptation to climate change. Our review highlights that the literature on the impact and outcomes of corporate adaptation actions is sparse and we consider the implications for future research. Our analysis concludes with a reflection on the relevance of corporate‐led adaptation—for the companies themselves, policymakers at all scales, as well as society at large. WIREs Clim Change 2016, 7:517–536. doi: 10.1002/wcc.402 This article is categorized under: Vulnerability and Adaptation to Climate Change > Institutions for Adaptation
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As Soto Zen Master Jundo says "we are all beginners". I'm coming back to thinking about Buddhism after wandering pretty far from it. So I'm going to start (and maybe stay) simple.
This seems the traditional answer. Dharma is the teaching of the true nature of reality. It is the four nobel truths and the eightfold path.
Here's a different take, Dharma is protection from suffering.
One of my favorite teachings of Dharma I believe comes from the Pali Cannon but I can't seem to find the exact place.
The Dharma is like an anchient path that leads to a majestic but abandoned city deep in the wilderness with spacious shelter and abundant fountains all ready for the inhabiting.
What do you think the Dharma is?
How can we explain the many ways the Dharma is described?
Pretty damned cool, that's what I think!
Around here? Any way we want.
"It is just as if a man, traveling along a wilderness track, were to see an ancient path, an ancient road, traveled by people of former times. He would follow it. Following it, he would see an ancient city, an ancient capital inhabited by people of former times, complete with parks, groves, & ponds, walled, delightful. He would go to address the king or the king's minister, saying, 'Sire, you should know that while traveling along a wilderness track I saw an ancient path... I followed it... I saw an ancient city, an ancient capital... complete with parks, groves, & ponds, walled, delightful. Sire, rebuild that city!' The king or king's minister would rebuild the city, so that at a later date the city would become powerful, rich, & well-populated, fully grown & prosperous."
Thanks to Samana Johann for the citation!
As Soto Zen Master Jundo says "we are all beginners".
That's hilarious. How can you call him master when he says "we are all beginners"?
Does he accept that he is regarded as 'master' by others?
If so then that would be a case of using suggestive manipulative expressions saying 'we' and 'us' to establish an attitude of subservience and acceptance of his authority in the minds of unmindful others.
Jundo is a zen teacher but no he doesn't like being called master. But that's what a lineage holder in Zen is called, isn't it? We can debate the value or worthlessness of lineages if we want.
It's also been a long time since I've studied with him so I don't remember the exact quote. Look him up on treeleaf his online zendo if you really want. He has some good videos there.
At the core, I think it's a good teaching. Enlightenment or God isn't something we ever own, at least not anymore than anyone else. Ever time we meditate or pray or practice, we encounter it anew.
If you want to get in a contest of who is more zen, you'll win. I'm a theist and don't practice Buddhism anymore.
But you posted on this thread, so please tell what you think dharma is?
Jundo is a zen teacher but no he doesn't like being called master.
How can a beginner be a teacher?
But that's what a lineage holder in Zen is called, isn't it? We can debate the value or worthlessness of lineages if we want.
I am neither interested in zen nor lineages nor this person called 'Jundo'.
Everybody knows better than everybody else. Nobody is a beginner.
I read a few of your posts on other threads. So I think what you're getting at is that liberation can't be taught, only shown.
How can you show someone liberation?
That's not a question to ask, because he doesn't, really, know the answer. He doesn't know how to show liberation and he can't show it himself. He will protest, I'm sure, but it changes nothing.
I don't know the answer, either, but I do know a good story about it. Tilopa was giving his student, Naropa, pointing out instructions to the nature of mind. Naropa wasn't getting it. At all. No matter how many times and in different ways, Tilopa gave Naropa instruction he simply wasn't getting it. Tilopa became so frustrated with Naropa, that he took off his shoe and hit Naropa over the head with it. Naropa immediately understood the instruction and became enlightened in the same moment.
Nowadays they call that physical abuse, I suppose.
There's really no difference between being taught and being shown. It's the same thing. Ground wants to confuse people by saying they are different. They are not.
I think they call that lying.
You were "interested" enough to respond to Freeds, posting about Jundo and reference to him as Zen "master".
Now you say you're not?
Also it is not necessarily a person that shows but it can be any phenomenon that shows, i.e. reveals liberation.
It is because liberation is naturally and spontaneously present. It does not have to be fabricated or constructed. It is like there would be a veiling which just has to be lifted by a beath of air so that liberation which has been present all the time can be seen.
Actually everybody has seen liberation many times in his/her life but these moments have passed by unnoticed.
Therefore a certain kind of readiness is required to see liberation when it reveals itself in the context of a phenomenon that is said to 'show liberation'.
People always think that there has to be another person involved and call it 'teaching' or 'pointing out'. But although it is possible that the phenomenon that shows is the sound of another person's voice it is not necessarily so. It can also be one's own thought in rational analysis in the context of emptiness that shows liberation or a landscape or the sound of traffic ... the possibilities are countless.
However there is this readiness, a kind of alertness ... in the context of knowing that it is already present and that it is nothing extraordinary since one has already seen it many times inattentively.
If one gets too deeply involved in the concepts of buddhism it is very likely that one lacks the ability to see liberation because one is staring at 'the finger' continually and thus misses 'the moon'.
That was a great response, thanks. It definitely makes sense why they you would object to a zen "master" or "teacher." No guru can give you liberation.
You reference the finger pointing at the moon teaching, its a classic one. But I really like your tajevin it and I agree. It's more than enlightenment being indescribable it's as you say "naturally and spontaneously present."
I'm a theist these days, but the same issue comes up in faith too. If God is omnipresent and is the creator and sustainer of the universe, then the divine Reality should be readily apparent and self evident. We shouldn't have to rely on humans to relay His messages or tell us about Him. Even if you do accept the possibility of prophecy (which I do) even then humans can only speak about God or point to God, they can never speak for God nor control His essence. Churches have no business claiming authority apart from the universal, naturally occurring revelation already available.
I'll preemptively defend my theism a bit. I do not believe in what many people really mean when they say God; a superficial super-human uberbeing that grants us promotions if we go to church. I'm a mystic and not of any one particular faith. Spinoza's God is probably much closer.
The difference between belief and liberation is that liberation is a negative phenomenon. So if one believes in liberation this is not liberation but belief and as such it is the same as any other belief like e.g. belief in God. The object of belief necessarily is a positive phenomenon. Positive phenomena habitually are clung to or grasped at.
Liberation however is a negative phenomenon that does not allow for any kind of clinging to or grasping at.
If liberation is seen it is seen as pervading all phenomena which then turn into negative phenomena too.
'negative' here is not to be misunderstood emotionally but as a quality of perceiving phenomena as ineffably absent even when they are present. The expression 'direct perception of emptiness' often is used in this context.
So 'showing liberation' actually is like showing an absence like space.
Thanks for the clarification. I think You're saying that liberation is like the cessation of suffering. Cessation isn't a thing. Right?
I do experience/believe in a fundamentally positive metaphysical reality. That's why I left Buddhism. This belief in a monad (to use a philosophy term rather than misleading term of God) exists within Hinduism but I'm not sure in Buddhism. "Buddha Nature" is a purposefully confusing concept and I don't know if it's fair to say the Buddha Nature exists or that is the ultimate reality.
Zen is still instructive though and goes well with apophatic (negative) theology. For a famous example see Thomas Merton. You touch on a vital truth. Our beliefs are not God. God's being, while positively existing, is not within our grasp. It is not a thing. Tillich says God doesn't "exist" because that would subject him to the laws of existence. God is a completely unique category. Again it's the finger pointing at the moon.
ground: "The difference between belief and liberation is that liberation is a negative phenomenon. "
Please explain what you mean by "negative phenomenon".
For example, is it like matter and antimatter? Or is it more like positive and negative ions? Or is it more like positive and negative numbers?
Phenomenon are by their very nature positive. They arise and then disappear. Therefore negative phenomenon cannot be like phenomenon at all according to that idea.
Do phenomenon become extinguished when negative phenomenon appear, like when you add +1 to -1 and get the result of zero?
Thanks for pointing out the in Nagara Sutta The City (nirvana) SN 12.65. It is a description of the Buddha's awakening that I had not seen before.
The first part describes Dependent Origin (Conditioned Arising).
..... "Then the thought occurred to me, 'This consciousness turns back at name-&-form, and goes no farther. It is to this extent that there is birth, aging, death, falling away, & re-arising, i.e., from name-&-form as a requisite condition comes consciousness, from consciousness as a requisite condition comes name-&-form. From name-&-form as a requisite condition come the six sense media... Thus is the origination of this entire mass of stress. Origination, origination.' Vision arose, clear knowing arose, discernment arose, knowledge arose, illumination arose within me with regard to things never heard before.
Then the parable in the Nagara Sutta, you quoted previously thanks to Samana Johann.
After the parable, the sutta goes on to describe Noble Eightfold Path and how to be liberated from conditioned existence.
"In the same way I saw an ancient path, an ancient road, travelled by the Rightly Self-awakened Ones of former times. And what is that ancient path, that ancient road, travelled by the Rightly Self-awakened Ones of former times? Just this noble eightfold path: right view, right aspiration, right speech, right action, right livelihood, right effort, right mindfulness, right concentration. That is the ancient path, the ancient road, travelled by the Rightly Self-awakened Ones of former times. I followed that path. Following it, I came to direct knowledge of aging & death, direct knowledge of the origination of aging & death, direct knowledge of the cessation of aging & death, direct knowledge of the path leading to the cessation of aging & death. I followed that path. Following it, I came to direct knowledge of birth... becoming... clinging... craving... feeling... contact... the six sense media... name-&-form... consciousness, direct knowledge of the origination of consciousness, direct knowledge of the cessation of consciousness, direct knowledge of the path leading to the cessation of consciousness. I followed that path.
"Following it, I came to direct knowledge of fabrications, direct knowledge of the origination of fabrications, direct knowledge of the cessation of fabrications, direct knowledge of the path leading to the cessation of fabrications. Knowing that directly, I have revealed it to monks, nuns, male lay followers & female lay followers, so that this holy life has become powerful, rich, detailed, well-populated, wide-spread, proclaimed among celestial & human beings."


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Saving motion
December 22, 2010 By urbanora in Archives and museums, Events, Preservation Tags: Silent films 2 Comments
Paolo Cherchi Usai (left) and Kevin Brownlow
On 19 January 2011 there is to be a notable event held at the Kenneth Clark Lecture Theatre of the Courtauld Institute of Art, Strand, London, by the International Institute for Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works. This august institution is devoted to promoting the knowledge, methods and working standards needed to protect and preserve historic and artistic works from around the world, but as well as the paintings, sculptures, buildings, museum artefacts and such like that are its usual concern, it also considers moving images. As one of its series of 'Dialogues for the New Century' is inviting Kevin Brownlow and Paolo Cherchi Usai to debate Saving Motion – the conservation of the moving image.
Here's how the IIC describes the event:
Motion pictures, the movies, enjoy a position of both mass entertainment and valued products of our creative heritage. From the era of silent films to today's high budget features, masterpieces abound, as do intimate personal moments and historic documentaries that capture the intangible aspects of what surrounds us.
Moving image heritage makes up a large portion of the world's memory and both commercial and personal examples are found in every country and in every size and type of institution across the world. Archives, libraries, and museums struggle to conserve these records in a manner that attempts to respect the authenticity and inherent values while assuring and encouraging broad access. As the idea of digitization presents itself as a solution to both preservation and accessibility, questions arise regarding the value of the original footage, the qualities unique to film based material, our stewardship responsibilities to preserve these works in their unique original form, and the essential role and definition of film archives.
Kevin Brownlow and Paolo Cherchi Usai will explore a wide range of issues pertaining to the preservation of moving image heritage (films, video and digital materials) as well as the particular challenges of access. This dialogue between two of the leading pioneers and experts of the preservation of motion pictures will also explore the reasons for an apparent disconnect between those pursuing the preservation of film and the larger conservation community working toward the preservation of heritage in other art forms.
Kevin Brownlow is a filmmaker, film historian, author, and Academy Award recipient, best known for his documentation of the history of silent films. He is the creator of the alternative-history film, It Happened Here and the 1975 film Winstanley. Brownlow has written numerous works on silent and classic films including The Parade's Gone By (1968). In collaboration with David Gill he produced a number of documentaries on the silent film era, including the 1983 Unknown Chaplin and the 1995 Cinema Europe: the Other Hollywood. His book The Search for Charlie Chaplin was published this year, 2010.
Paolo Cherchi Usai, is director of the Haghefilm Foundation in Amsterdam, cofounder and co-director of the Pordenone Silent Film Festival and of the L. Jeffrey Selznick School of Film Preservation at George Eastman House. He has authored numerous works on film and its preservation including Burning Passions: An Introduction to the Study of Silent Cinema (1994), The Death of Cinema: History, Cultural Memory, and the Digital Dark Age (2001) and co-author of Film Curatorship: Archives, Museums, and the Digital Marketplace (2008).
The event promises to be a fascinating one, with a strong bias toward silent film, and with two of the most prominent, thoughtful and opinionated people in our field addressing an audience of general conservationsists rather than the usual film crowd. In particular the theme of a disconnect between the conservation of film and the conservation of other heritage works promises much. Does the care of film exist in a world of its own, separate from the conservation or preservation of other media, and if so then why so, and is it a good or bad thing? If we could hang films in national galleries or museums might they be better cared for? Or might those who care for other heritage media have something to learn from how film archives manage huge problems with minimal resources while contending with thorny issues such as copyright which do not affect those caring for old masters or archaeological sites?
Previous such dialogues have been made available in transcript form on the ICC site, so if you can't be there you can still read about it. The event takes place at 19:00 and is free to all.
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Mark Newell says:
How do members of the public get in? Do we need to book or have a ticket?
urbanora says:
It says that it's open to the public, but there are no details regarding tickets, so I guess you just turn up.


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Cathedral Part 3
By Raymond Carver
At first, Robert and the narrator don't talk. The TV is still on, and the narrator is made uneasy by the way Robert trains his ear toward the set.
Then Robert seems on the verge of falling asleep and the narrator is made uneasy by the way his eyes open and close.
The documentary continues. Now it's focusing on an annual pageant in Spain. Part of the pageant is a procession with "men wearing cowls" (cowls are hoods), being tortured by "men dressed in skeleton costumes and men dressed as devils" (3.2).
(The narrator is describing Semana Santa or Holy Week, in Spain (though Semana Santa isn't only celebrated in Spain).
The narrator tries to describe the scenes for Robert.
Now the documentary moves to cathedrals, and specifically to a Paris cathedral, an Italian cathedral, and a cathedral in Lisbon, Portugal.
The narrator has a sudden thought. He wonders if Robert can understand what a cathedral is, if he can visualize one.
He asks Robert, and Robert tells the narrator what he's heard about the cathedrals from the documentary they've be hearing/watching:
It took hundreds of laborers over a century to build a cathedral. "Generations of the same families worked on a cathedral" (3.9).
Robert is smoking a cigarette and might be falling asleep.
Now he sits up and admits that he can't see a cathedral in his head and he asks the narrator to try to clue him in.
The cathedral documentary finishes and the narrator finds himself at a loss to describe the cathedral.
He tries imagining that his "life depended on it" (3.10) but it doesn't work. He can't get past "big" and "tall" (3.11).
Robert appears to be interested, so the narrator keeps trying, explaining that cathedrals are made of stone and marble.
He tells Robert that cathedrals are so tall because "In the olden days, when they built cathedrals, men wanted to be closer to God" (3.14).
Then he gives up trying to describe a cathedral.
Robert asks him if he believes in God.
The narrator says he doesn't believe in anything.
Robert says he understands.
The woman is asleep on the couch.
After the narrator repeats that he's given up trying to describe a cathedral, Robert gets a bright idea. He tells the narrator to go get "a pen and some heavy paper" (3.24).
Racing, the narrator finds pens and a paper grocery bag and brings them back to Robert.
Robert and the narrator sit on the carpet together with the paper in front of them.
The pen is already in the narrator's hand, and Robert puts his hand over the narrator's and tells him to start drawing a cathedral.
So he does.
He starts with a simple square then he starts adding the details that cathedrals have, like "arched windows" and "flying buttresses" (supports).
The narrator goes for a long time and then finally stops.
Robert feels the drawing and he says, "Doing fine."
They start again.
The woman wakes up, confused, and wants to know what they're doing.
Her husband keeps drawing, and Robert tells her they're drawing a cathedral together.
Robert tells the narrator to close his eyes. He does it, and keeps drawing.
The experience is extraordinary.
When they finish, Robert tells him to open his eyes and look, but he doesn't.
He knows he's at home, but doesn't feel like he's "inside anything" (3.49).
"It's really something" (3.50) is the final line of the story.
Head on over to "What's Up With the Ending?" if you want to read more about the ending of the story.


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