KING OF THE HILL A film review by James Berardinelli Copyright 1993 James Berardinelli
Rating (Linear 0 to 10): 8.6
Date Released: varies Running Length: 1:49 Rated: PG (Mature themes)
Starring: Jesse Bradford, Jeroen Krabbe, Lisa Eichhorn, Adrien Brody, Spalding Gray, Elizabeth McGovern, Karen Allen Director: Steven Soderbergh Producers: Albert Berger, Barbara Maltby, and Ron Yerxa Screenplay: Steven Soderbergh based on the memoirs of A. E. Hotchner Music: Cliff Martinez Released by Gramercy Pictures
In the midst of the Great Depression, in the city of St. Louis, the family of Aaron Kurlander (Jesse Bradford) is falling apart.  So Aaron is left on his own in a fleabag hotel, with no money and few friends. Life becomes a struggle for the twelve year old--the hotel wants to evict him and his meager supply of food is running dangerously low--and it's only through his remarkable resourcefulness that he manages to survive.
Rarely has 1933 St. Louis been so real. Steven Soderbergh (best known for his debut feature SEX, LIES, AND VIDEOTAPE) has taken the time and effort necessary to bring the period to life with uncompromising accuracy. Many period pieces give only token acknowledgment to the era in which they take place, but KING OF THE HILL has the Great Depression woven inextricably throughout. Flawless detail is an undeniable asset.
1993 has seen movie after movie featuring boys struggling to reach maturity while discovering an identity. AMERICAN HEART, THIS BOY'S LIFE, and SEARCHING FOR BOBBY FISCHER are a few of the better ones, but none is as impressive as KING OF THE HILL, perhaps because none has quite as simple a tale to tell. The film is what it claims to be: a series of interrelated reminiscences about the life of an abandoned child in the midst of one of this nation's most difficult times.
There is much in KING OF THE HILL to enthrall. The characters--even those we don't see much of--are rich, and the situations are, for the most part, entirely believable (I had a little trouble with a scene involving a runaway car, but that was the only sequence that struck a false note). Soderbergh has carefully developed this movie to draw out the drama without resorting to tired plot devices. The fact is, Aaron's story, no matter how plain it might initially seem, is powerful in its simplicity.
Of course, to do justice to the plot, an effective young actor was needed to play Aaron. Jesse Bradford's performance is natural and unforced and we never get the sense that he's doing more than reacting to circumstances. The film revolves around Aaron, and Bradford is up to the task, regardless of the complexity of the emotions he is expected to show. Take, for example, the touching, bittersweet relationship that develops between Aaron and a lonely, epileptic girl living down the hall. The resonance of scenes with these two is remarkable.
While no one else has nearly as much screen time as Bradford, the young actor has established actors supporting him. Foremost are Jeroen Krabbe and Lisa Eichhorn as Aaron's father and mother, each of whom does a fine job with their material. Krabbe comes across as concerned for his children, but painfully distracted by financial difficulties. Eichhorn takes pains to bring sympathetic realism to a small role.
Adrien Brody gives an energetic performance as Lester, Aaron's best friend and mentor.  The two are obviously intimate, yet they appear to have only contempt for one another. McGovern, like Karen Allen as Aaron's teacher, is underused.
It's amazing how something so deceptively uncomplicated can be so effective. The narrative is relatively straightforward; Soderbergh doesn't employ any unusual chronologies. His style is frank, not quirky, and lends itself to a number of powerful images: a starving boy cutting out pictures of food and serving them on a plate, a homeless man waving hello, a puddle of blood-tainted water seeping from underneath a closed door.
As in life, there are a few unanswered questions at the end of KING OF THE HILL, but most of these deal with peripheral issues and in no way detract from the satisfaction imparted by the film. Done with less mastery, this could have been just another run-of-the-mill coming of age story. However, with Soderbergh at the helm (confirming the ability he showed in SEX, LIES & VIDEOTAPE which some thought might have been a flash in the pan after the disappointing follow-up of KAFKA), this becomes a remarkable odyssey about a resilient young hero who uses both his imagination and his sense of reality to survive.
- James Berardinelli<EMAIL_ADDRESS>.
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TEST METHOD: GENERIC DIATOM INDICES
Revised: 30 May 2007 (first issue)
RISK ASSESSMENT
Assess the Quality, Safety and Environmental risks of each step.
OVERVIEW
Diatom assemblage data from waterbodies such as rivers, streams, wetlands, estuaries and salinas may be used to assess water quality. Assemblages of pollution/salinity/dessication tolerant diatoms may be used as an early indicator of a deterioration in water quality or quantity. The following indices are based on identification to genus. Raw data at species level may be amalgamated for use with the indices.
While using indices based on generic level taxonomy reduces the time and taxonomic expertise levels required, identification should ideally be carried out to the lowest level possible. Ecological preference data exists for a sizeable percentage of species and this information may provide further insights into the habitat.
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PRINCIPLE OF METHOD
Data collected using the diatom sampling and identification method may be assessed with these indices. The data is collated and input as "% relative abundance" of different genera. Not all genera will be used in the indices, as many genera are indifferent to pollution, or have mixed responses from member species. Genera that contain a small number of species are also excluded. Those genera assessed by Van Dam (1994) as either specifically tolerant or sensitive are used.
Indices have been developed for various impacts; salinity, pH, oxygen requirement, N metabolism, trophic state (inorganic N & P concentrations), saprobity (organic enrichment with biological oxygen demand) and dessication. The most useful index will vary, depending on what impact you are assessing. Refer to Van Dam, Mertens and Sinkeldam (1994), "A coded checklist and ecological indicator values of freshwater diatoms from The Netherlands" for an explanation of the derivation of the impact indices.
INDICATOR GENERA
Salinity Index (freshwater) |
pH (acid sensitivity) Index |
Oxygen requirement |
Sensitivity to N compounds |
Trophic status |
Sensitivity to Saprobity
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Sensitivity to Dessication |
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| Sensitive genera | Achnanthes |
Amphora |
Achnanthes |
Achnanthes |
Achnanthes |
Achnanthes
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Aulacoseira |
Aulacoseira |
Caloneis |
Cymbella |
Aulacoseira |
Aulacoseira |
Aulacoseira
|
Cocconeis |
|
Cymbella |
Cocconeis |
Diploneis |
Cyclotella |
Cymbella |
Cocconeis
|
Cyclotella |
|
Eunotia |
Cyclotella |
Eunotia |
Cymbella |
Eunotia |
Cymbella
|
Diatoma |
|
Gomphonema |
Diatoma |
Fragillaria |
Diatoma |
Neidium |
Eunotia
|
Fragillaria |
|
Neidium |
Diploneis |
Gomphonema |
Eunotia |
Pinnularia |
Neidium
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Neidium |
|
Pinnularia |
Fragilaria |
Neidium |
Neidium |
Stauroneis |
Pinnularia
|
Surirella |
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Stauroneis |
Nitszchia |
Pinnularia |
Stauroneis
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Surirella |
Stauroneis |
Surirella
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Surirella |
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| Tolerant genera | Amphora |
Eunotia |
Cocconeis |
Amphora |
Amphora |
Amphora
|
Diploneis |
Mastogloia |
Neidium |
Cyclotella |
Cocconeis |
Cocconeis |
Cyclotella
|
Eunotia |
|
Nitszchia |
Pinnularia |
Nitzschia |
Melosira |
Diatoma |
Diatoma
|
Hantzschia |
|
Surirella |
Nitzschia |
Nitszchia |
Melosira
|
Pinnularia |
|||
Nitzschia
|
Stauroneis |
CALCULATION
For each sample, record the % relative abundance of genera used in the selected Index.
Sum the % relative abundances of the sensitive genera. Sum the % relative abundances of the tolerant genera.
Plot the resulting indices for sample sites and reference sites, against themselves, on an XYplot to see any clustering.
WORKED EXAMPLE
| Generic Index (based on Van Dam) of Saprobity | ||||||
| Name | Site 1 | Site 2 | Site 3 | Site 4 | Site 5 | Reference site |
| Achnanthes | 7.43% | 4.21% | 21.50% | 15.63% | 13.92% | 1.58% |
| Aulacoseira | ||||||
| Cocconeis | 18.24% | 27.20% | 9.03% | 8.68% | 12.09% | 6.31% |
| Cymbella | ||||||
| Eunotia | ||||||
| Neidium | ||||||
| Pinnularia | ||||||
| Stauroneis | ||||||
| Surirella | 0.00% | 0.00% | 0.93% | 0.00% | 0.00% | 0.32% |
| Score (pollution sensitive) | 25.68% | 31.42% | 31.46% | 24.31% | 26.01% | 8.20% |
| Amphora | 13.51% | 14.18% | 8.72% | 20.49% | 31.50% | 27.44% |
| Cyclotella | 10.14% | 2.68% | 4.36% | 10.42% | 5.13% | 1.26% |
| Diatoma | ||||||
| Melosira | 0.34% | 0.00% | 0.93% | 0.35% | 0.00% | 0.32% |
| Nitzschia | 4.73% | 8.05% | 20.87% | 16.67% | 10.99% | 13.88% |
| Score (pollution tolerant) | 28.72% | 24.90% | 34.89% | 47.92% | 47.62% | 42.90% |
| Generic Index score | 0.89 | 1.26 | 0.90 | 0.51 | 0.55 | 0.19 |


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Don’t let Joe Casabona’s Master’s Degree in Computer Science intimidate you; he is a passionate and approachable guy.
Joe started his career almost 20 years ago as a freelance web developer and has been a team lead, system admin, and was even a faculty member at his alma mater, The University of Scranton. Podcasting has been the perfect medium for Joe to share his knowledge and build up his peers. He is not only a veteran podcaster but he helps people launch their own podcasts.
When he’s not creating courses or writing books, you can find Joe spending time with his family, enjoying baseball (go Yankees!) or watching Star Wars.
His book, HTML and CSS: Visual QuickStart Guide, 9th Edition, is out now.
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Provides functions to produce advanced ascii graphics, directly to the terminal window. This package utilizes the txtplot() function from the 'txtplot' package, to produce text-based histograms, empirical cumulative distribution function plots, scatterplots with fitted and regression lines, quantile plots, density plots, image plots, and contour plots.
| Version: | 1.0.2 |
| Depends: | txtplot |
| Published: | 2015-09-24 |
| Author: | Hien D. Nguyen |
| Maintainer: | Hien D. Nguyen <h.nguyen7 at uq.edu.au> |
| License: | LGPL-3 |
| NeedsCompilation: | no |
| CRAN checks: | NostalgiR results |
| Reference manual: | NostalgiR.pdf |
| Package source: | NostalgiR_1.0.2.tar.gz |
| Windows binaries: | r-devel: NostalgiR_1.0.2.zip, r-release: NostalgiR_1.0.2.zip, r-oldrel: NostalgiR_1.0.2.zip |
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Wavelet Applications
- Image processing [Mallat (1988)]
- Irregularly-spaced data (stellar activity)
[Frick et al. (1997)]
- 2D turbulence prediction; wavelet packet compression [Farge et al. (1992)]
- Coherent structure detection [Farge (1992), Gamage (1990)]
- Wave breaking & front detection [Liu (1994), Gamage & Blumen (1993)]
- Wavelet bases for partial differential equations
[Farge et al. (1992), Bacry et al. (1993)]
- Paleoclimate [Bolton et al. (1995), Yiou et al. (1995)]
Summary
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- Wavelet analysis is a useful addition to methods of
geophysical data analysis.
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- Most helpful in situations of locally-coherent signals,
or non-stationary time series.
- ¤
- More research is needed on the perils & pitfalls,
choice of wavelet bases, and on statistical significance.


My experiences with the benzo-family so far had covered diazepam and alprazolam while I prefer the latter as it doesn't last as long and I somehow like the effects more, even though they're pretty equal.
As I'm always loooking for drugs I haven't tried so far I was happy when I had the chance to get ahold of some 1mg flunitrazepam pills - Rohipnol, the spanish version of the roche brand. The pills are oblong, have a deep green colouring and a '542' imprint on one side. They came in the original blister so I could be sure they were real.
I ingested one pill at 10:20pm and felt the first effects kick in after about 15min. The typical benzo feeling most of you might know, you're feeling relaxed, don't care much about anything and tend to forget what you've just done. What makes Rohypnol different from other benzos is that is it stronger, and not only per mg but per unit. I'd say a single 1mg flunitrazepam pill can be compared to 2-3 1mg alprazolam pills, so even when taking a therapeutic dose you'll feel pretty wasted if having no real tolerance while with other benzos you have to take more than one pill.
Well, the point is, that's all about flunitrazepam. There's been such a media hype you would have thought there is something special about it. It isn't. If you go by street value you can better stick to Xanax or Valium as you get more for your money and will archieve the same effect. That's just my experience with it of course, but from what I read on a.d.h. most people feel the same.
What I personally dislike with flunitrazepam is it long halflife, nowhere as long as diazepam but still too long for me. I don't like waking up the next morning and still feel stupidified. So my conclusion is, if you feel like taking some benzos ingest a couple of Xanax and you'll miss nothing as compared to a Rohypnol pill.
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Some of the activities described are dangerous and/or illegal and none are recommended by Erowid.


2019 Holiday Gift Guide: Travel Journals
by Michele HerrmannEven in this digital age, it’s still nice to take a pen to paper and write down experiences rather than capturing every moment on a smartphone. With the holiday gift giving season approaching, consider buying a travel journal for your adventure-seeking loved ones to record and reflect on their memories from the road. Here is a selection of travel journals that keep on giving as keepsakes.
This sturdy journal becomes your literary travel sidekick, in keeping track of your itinerary, making lists, sketching maps and, of course, writing down impressions and discoveries. Having a lay-flat binding and a storage pocket, the journal also includes helpful advice relating to time zones, weights and measures and seasonal climate charts along with a brief guide to finding hidden wonders in a dozen of the world’s most interesting cities.
For those seeking to check off visiting every state in the U.S., this hand-screen printed journal is to help keep track of your progress. It has questions asking just about everything relating to your trip, from the date of your arrival to your deep thoughts about your experiences. However, they can be taken in any direction you please.
Designed as both a road trip planner and entry taker, this uber-luxury journal is described as having lists of hidden locations to discover. Its curated pages and quotes will get your sense of wanderlust started easily.
This tan leather bound journal from The Black Canvas, and sold through Fancy, entices notetakers with an engraved world map illustration on its cover. Its antique finish snap button on the cover flap closes up your daily entries and its 80 pages of white handmade paper makes an account of your adventures solid.
Created by Kate Pocrass, a San Francisco Bay Area artist and illustrator, this colorfully illustrated travel journal encourages its owners to explore everyday details they encounter on their journey. It contains a good amount of space for inserting addresses, itineraries, reviews and tips from locals, a reference section with time zones, measurements and other useful details and a back pocket for collecting ticket stubs or other small papers.
Even the younger set might be curious about having adventures, so get them started with some assistance from KeeKee, a globe-trotting calico kitty with a picture book series. A 28-page diary that equals out to seven days of adventures, this child-friendly journal enables young scribers to draft a daily account of what they saw and did.
This Moleskine notebook is a handy dandy travel partner, in that it’s packed with pertinent information for making the most out of your journey. It has detachable packing and to-do lists, along with other resources for mapping out each day in detail before heading out the door.
This journal is made to spark creativity by inspiring its owner to engage with their surroundings through not only the written word but also drawing. With a lightweight, durable and flexi-bound cover, each page spread features a different activity, from sketching what you see outside your window, to marking down what’s on your travel bucket list. And its elastic strap protects its pages from being damaged while being on the move.
This portable trip planner and diary doubles as a before and during trip tool. Its features not only encompass everything from A to Z – a packing list, metric conversions chart, foreign phrases guide and so forth - but also has diary pages for adding in entries while traveling. Its inside back cover pocket can store mementos, tickets, maps, receipts and other papers worth holding onto.
As a travel journal or a daily diary, this linen hardcover book becomes your very own chronicle. Each double page is lined so you can write all about your happenings – and then re-read them often.
This journal is a source of advice for adventurous females, with lined pages for journaling and sketching, and quite useful information on topics extending to personal safety, avoiding jet lag and cultural etiquette. An inside pocket holds postcards, receipts, mementos and other documents for safekeeping.


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Axial, coronal, and sagittal proton density images of the elbow were obtained.
Site: Right elbow Left elbow
Field strength: T
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Ulnar collateral ligament: Normal Mild thickening Moderate thickening Severe thickening Partial-thickness tear Full-thickness tear
Common flexor tendon: Normal Mild thickening Moderate thickening Severe thickening Partial-thickness tear Full-thickness tear
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Radial collateral ligament Normal Mild thickening Moderate thickening Severe thickening Partial-thickness tear Full-thickness tear
Lateral ulnar collateral ligament: Normal Mild thickening Moderate thickening Severe thickening Partial-thickness tear Full-thickness tear
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Palakkad, the largest producer of rice is known as the granary of Kerala. As many as eight rivers originate from the Palakkad hills. Among the rivers include Bharathapuzha, the longest river in the state. The hilly district has 136257 hectares of reserve forest including Silent Valley
The Silent Valley National Park, with its lush green forests and beautiful views of the rich flora, is a popular destination for nature and wildlife lovers in Kerala. With its long, detailed history and the unique status of a Rain Forest, this national park is truly a sight to visit. The well-planned Safari and the beautiful stop-overs around the park only make a trip to this part of Kerala more worthwhile.
The Palakkad Fort in Kerala is a beautiful historical monument that has gently integrated its high walls with its surrounding green gardens. One of the most well-preserved forts in the state of Kerala, the Palakkad fort was built in the 1766 AD by Hyder Ali and is now a protected monument under the Archaeological Survey of India. This picturesque fort is located in the heart of Palakkad town at the foothills of the Sahyadris range in a labyrinth of dense forests and crisscrossing cascading rivers.
Situated on the banks of the Bharathapuzha River, or Nila, Ottapalam is a scenic town in Pallakad, also known as the 'land of palm trees'. Ottapalam claims a rich cultural heritage and has hosted quite a few historic events. Earlier, it used to be a major town of the erstwhile Valluvanad, during the reign of the Zamorins of Calicut.
Blooming with in rare varieties of medicinal plants, orchids and fauna, the Parambikkulam Wildlife Sanctuary is hailed to be one of the best wildlife sanctuaries in South India.


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As a seasoned programmer with around 15 years of professional experience, I have a wealth of knowledge and skills in the field of software development. In fact, I began writing code long before I even learned trigonometry!
Throughout my career, I have worked primarily in game development and publishing, where I have served as a generalist, working on a wide range of different problems and projects. More recently, I had the opportunity to work at Twitter as a software engineer, where I was responsible for working on a project that helped to provide the platform as a service.
As a programmer, I have often felt that we live in the shadow of physicists and mathematicians. For this reason, I enjoy spending my free time learning math and physics, imagining that I may one day be able to make a significant contribution that encompassing all of these fields.
In addition to my interest in programming and mathematics, I also have a passion for martial arts, meditation, and surfing. I believe that these activities help me to stay grounded and focused in my work, and I always strive to maintain a healthy balance between my professional and personal pursuits.
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I’m a multidisciplinary freelance designer with 10+ years of experience in everything from traditional graphic design, UI/UX design, and design for web and mobile apps.
I love digging deep to understand complex problems and user behavior. I focus on creating modern, user-centered designs that are accessible, inclusive, and distinctive.
My career in tech began with software development, and I feel at home working with engineers to understand technical limitations and find solutions that can be implemented iteratively without compromising creative vision or user experience.
I've managed design teams at small companies, worked with start-ups and non-profits, and led work on design systems at a large enterprise company.
When I’m not designing, you can find me at the clay studio throwing or handbuilding ceramics inspired by the colors and tropical flora of New Orleans.


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Use this as a guide to organize your content into divs or sections.
Try to have at least a header, a main section, and a sub section or side bar.
Using floats and clears, arrange your content so the main content and the sidebar are next to each other on the page.


C/PHP Developer with practical experience in finite automation and maintaining small to medium sophisticated machines driven by controllers
Skills: 2 years of programming FSMs in C and PHP, 1 year of PHP OOP, 2 years in JS-based graphics
My projects
Sandbox app for testing RC aicraft designs and autopilot capabilities
Sandbox app for testing AI for real time strategy
FSM-control based app for testing optimal path of building elevators
'Build a Personal Portfolio Webpage' challenge for freeCodeCamp.org
'Build a Tribute Page' challenge for freeCodeCamp.org


The first ToryTechs Hackathon held on the 15th/16th of February 2020 at Newspeak House addressed
one theme: How can we improve MP offices?
The 25
participants at the event worked collaboratively to address various challenges faced by MPs
and their staff, resulting in 6 open-source projects, 3 of which are immediately usable by
MPs.
The teams made notes on this collaborative Google Doc, take a look at what we
learned.
Our mission is to create a community of conservative-friendly
technologists, designers, politicians & activists who want to improve British politics
through tech & collaboration - this event was the first step towards our vision.
We started ToryTechs because we believe that democracy works better when everyone has good tools. Some groups, such as Campaign Lab and the Lib Dems Software Group, have created similar communities to tackle the challenges we are currently facing as a democracy. However, there was a general feeling that conservatives were not welcome in these spaces. From this sentiment, ToryTechs was born as we recognise that conservative thinkers, creators, and technologists have a lot to offer in terms of innovative solutions, know-how, and general technological prowess. It is our goal to create a community of conservative practitioners who will build and maintain tools to help democracy.
Hackathons are weekend events for technologists, designers, and domain experts to come together and solve problems in an intensive and collaborative way. If you are unfamiliar with this type of event, you can read more about them here: https://hackathon.guide.
Hackathons are an intense and fun event format for finding innovative solutions as they bring together people with different backgrounds, areas of expertise, and abilities. They can be great for building a community around a specific problem, such as inefficiencies in government. Typically, the projects that come out of hackathons are prototypes and therefore not very practical - they are more about showing an approach to solving a problem rather than solving problems themselves. This being said, we were amazed at the immediate applicability of the projects that came out of the first ToryTechs Hackathon.
The usefulness of projects made at the event, the interest on social media, and the collaborative nature of the people who attended the event have convinced us that there is an appetite in the tech community for more events like this. As such, ToryTechs Hackathon #1 will be the first of many ToryTech events. We are excited to see how this community will evolve and the type of projects we can kickstart at upcoming events.
The creation of ToryTechs caused a buzz in the local community and attracted a fair amount of attention. The event was attended by people from many walks of life, and across the political spectrum. Many people persevered in spite of travel delays and uncharacteristically bad weather as a result of Storm Dennis. There was a great deal of engagement from attendees, and from those that were interested in the event that couldn’t make it. The ToryTechs WhatsApp group was lively and will continue to be used by the community. The ToryTechs Twitter account also had a good amount of engagement throughout the course of the event. It is our hope that our continued effort in this space will be of use to those working in government and this show of support was encouraging.
We are planning to run monthly Hack Nights (with dinner provided) at The London College of Political Technologists in Shoreditch. These events will be a space for the community to meet regularly, maintain existing projects, develop new tools, and support each other.
Like most things, going-it-alone is unlikely to render the best results and we are interested in finding ways to work with other groups to achieve maximum impact. If you would like to explore a partnership, please contact<EMAIL_ADDRESS>We are truly grateful for the outpouring of support from the community to help us make this event a reality. This hackathon was the first of many events that ToryTechs has planned and we would like to welcome you all to attend our next event, a Hack Night (with dinner) hosted by The London College of Political Technologists where we will continue to build the community and encourage existing community members to maintain tools that were built at the hackathon.
ToryTechs is looking forward to participating in an ongoing conversation about the importance of technology and democracy. We are happy that so many people have seen value in our work and our collaborative approach to problem solving - we hope to continue to be a positive force in the political-tech community.
There were a high number of useful and well thought out projects created at the event. We were impressed at the teams’ abilities to come up with user-friendly solutions that were highly applicable to the challenges that were presented.
aMPlify is a non-partisan documentation project that is all about helping MPs and their staff find resources that make them more effective. This will be an ongoing project supported by ToryTechs.
Parliament Calendar Subscription is a tool for automatically adding the agenda from calendar.parliament.uk to an MPs Outlook calendar. Up to this point, the process of updating calendars has been done manually by MP staff.
This tool extracts question deadlines from OralQuestionsRota.pdf (published by Parliament) and adds reminders to MP calendars. We hope this will help reduce manual work MP staff have to do, and will ensure MPs always get the chance to ask important questions of their peers.
LeafTrax was an experimental project that could be used in leafleting. It provides a way to link location and address to online survey responses. With the right data privacy considerations and a user dashboard, this project has the potential to become an essential tool in the belt of campaigners not just in the UK, but worldwide.
MPfree is an excellent idea that, with more development, could help constituents contact the right people faster, and reduce incoming MP office casework that should be going to councils or government departments. It’s a form that can be embedded in MP websites that directs, sorts, and tags messages in a similar way to https://www.writetothem.com/
Permit API is an ongoing project that provides a standardised interface to access permits given by local and national government (e.g. Planning Applications, Environmental Damage Permits, etc.).


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Here's a time line of Dr.A.P.J.Abdul Kalam's life:
- 1931 - Born on October 15, in Rameswaram, Tamilnadu.
- 1954 - Graduates in Physics from Saint Joseph's College,Tiruchirapalli.
- 1960 - Gains degree in Aeronautical Engineering from Madras Institute of Technology.
- 1969 - Transferred to ISRO from the DRDO.
- 1980 - India enters the space club by putting the Rohini satellite in the near earth orbit with the indegenous Satellite Launch Vehicle(SLV-III),developed under the stewardship f Dr.Kalam.
- 1980-1990 - As a chief of the Integrated Guided Missile Development Programme,he was responsible for the development and operationalisation of AGNI and PRITHVI Missiles.
- 1981 - He received "Padma Bhushan" award.
- 1990 - He received "Padma Vibhushan" award.
- 1992-1999 - He works as a Chief Scientific Advisor to the PM and Secretary of the DRDO.
- 1997 - He received "Bharat Ratna" award.
- 1998 - India conducts the Pokhran II nuclear tests in May with Dr.Kalam as the chief project coordinator.
- 1999-2001 - Principal Scientific Advisor to the Government of India.
- 2002-2007 - President of India.
- 2009 - He received the Hoover Medal from ASME Foundation,USA.
- 2012 - He received Doctor of Laws(Honoris Causa) from the famous Simon Fraser University.
- 2014 - He received Doctor of Science from Edinburgh University, UK.
- 2015 - He was laid to rest at Rameswaram with full state honors.
"Dream is not what you see in sleep.Dream is something which doesn't let you sleep."
"President Kalam's vision for the nation was anchored in freedom, deployment and strength."
If you have time, you should read more about this incredible humanbeing on his Wikipedia entry


Awareness: Wake Up to Life
Table of Contents
Here is some notes from Anthony de Mello’s program Awareness: Wake Up To Life, New York, 1986.
CD 1
On waking up
- All mystics agree: all is well. If you don’t see it, you are asleep.
- People don’t want to be cured, they want relief. Cure (waking up) is painful. Wise guru will never attempt to wake people up.
Will I be able to help you
- I don’t expect neither to help nor to damage you. You did it.
- You are never in love with anyone.
- You don’t trust anyone, you trust your judgements about the person -> blame on other: “how could you let me down?”
- Don’t try to make them happy. You only get into trouble. Banana in the ear parable.
On the proper kind of selfishness
- I’d rather be happy than have you.
On wanting happiness
- We don’t want to be unconditionally happy. We are ready to be happy provided…
- Love = freedom = peace = joy = happiness = spirituality (i.e. the most practical thing)
On psychology
- Psychology - relief
- People have to suffer enough emotionally before they are ready to wake up.
- There must be a better way (than depending on …)
- Johny and cow dung parable.
- Sign of waking up: Q: “Am I crazy or are all of them?”
- Every new idea when it began was in the minority of one, or as blasphemy. E.g.: Jesus, Buddha.
- Step 1) realize you don’t want to wake up
Neither is renunciation the answer
- Renunciation is delusion. It ties you to the object of renunciation. You give it as much power as you use to fight it. Receive your daemons.
Listen and unlearn
- Agreement and disagreement don’t matter - have to do with words, not with Truth. Truth has to do with attitude (of openness), then it will be sighted.
- Truth can’t be described, only what is not - illusions. Neti Neti.
- All I can do is help you to unlearn.
- Are you listening to get confirmation for what you already think? Or to discover something new?
- belief - security vs. faith - insecurity. Faith: open, ready to listen, ready to follow, not knowing where it leads you, no matter what is the consequences.
 Buddha: monks and scholar must not accept my words out of respect but analyze them like a goldsmith does with gold.
- Step 2) readiness to listen, understand and challenge your belief system. Maybe you’ve got the wrong ideas.
The masquerade of charity
- even your most selfless acts are masquerading as altruism. self-centeredness #1 pleasing myself, #2 pleasure of pleasing others - more refined selfishness.
- A good is never so good as when you are not aware you are doing good. Sufis: a saint is one until he/she knows it.
- Less worthy motives - awful. Worthy ones - selfish.
- Acting based on pure feeling vs based on the idea of myself.
- The same process is used to produce a saint Francis Xavier and a terrorist. Brainwashing: full of flame, zero awareness.
- You are doing something for the love of anybody in your self interest - it does give you a good feeling.
- Self-centeredness #3: some people do things not to feel guilty and call it charity.  I want to be left alone”
- We love hurting people, we just don’t want to do it ourselves because we will be hurt in return.
What’s on your mind?
- Life is a banquet but most people don’t see it and are starving. We are surrounded in happiness, joy, love. Repent (wake up) and accept the good news. You’ve committed your sins because you were at sleep anyway. Put on a new mind!
- Brainwashing: introjecting (other peoples’) ideas. Funny: you’ll be ready to die for them. Do you react emotionally, feel stunned when they are attacked -> sign of brainwashing.
- Manure parable: “how old should be the horse?”
- Attach yourself to reality instead of ideas
- “I’m not Jack. So you’ve changed your name” parable.
- All your good deeds sprang from self interested. Maybe your neighbour has coarser taste - but it is the same thing.
- Most difficult people (for Jesus to deal with) were those who were convicted how good they were.
CD 2
Good, bad, or lucky?
- Stop feeling bad. We’re all the same. It’s wonderful.
- Jesus was so much at home with sinners because he understood that he’s not a bit better. The only difference is in what we do, not what we are.

Our illusion about others
- You choose not to see through people, to see them in bright colours, because you chose not to see through yourself.
- Enlightenment is when you are ready to exchange your dreams for facts.
- “There is nothing you can do about it but wake up”
- If you want it too badly, you are in big trouble.
- You are enlightened? What does it matter?
- What do you hope for? Isn’t it just another form of desire?
Self-observation
- The only thing someone can be of help to you is in challenging your ideas.
- What you can do yourself is self-observation. Watch yourself, as if it were happening to someone else. There is no method, no technique.
- You suffer only because of identification.
- Don’t fix anything, but watch and understand.
Awareness without evaluating everything
- What you judge, you cannot understand
- When you don’t need to change anything, you don’t need to change yourself. Change will happen automatically. It requires a disciplined mind != effort, but aware life.
- Socrates: unaware life is not worth living. Majority lives mechanically.
- me/mine … got in there and I feel good/bad.
- Stop with I’m OK, you’re OK … Jesus Christ must have been pretty not OK.  So what did you/I expect?
- “You’re charming” means “I’m in good mood”.
- Every time you are in love you are running away from your self.
- Pleasing addiction. Mechanical life, button pushing - when I give others the power to make me feel good/bad by their approval/disapproval - makes one a monkey, a slave. Puts you in a cage.
- Catch yourself whenever you are receiving flattery or criticism.
- psychology: exchanging one problem for another, until you’ve fixed the problem called “you”. Bomb on the lap -> “put it under the seat!” parable.

- Eternal (= timeless, now) vs. everlasting (still in time).
- Forget your sins.
Finding yourself
- Are you listening? Maybe your daddy is. Who’s living in you? Maybe what you call “I” is a conglomeration of old experience, conditioning, programming - you’re a human computer.
- It’s painful to see your illusions shattered. That’s what repentance is all about
- remembering - memory, awareness - attention.
- I’m looking at me. “Who are you?”
Stripping down the I
- Search for the I (hint: eye - watch)
- We begin with awareness of things, then thoughts and then of the Thinker. Can the eye see itself? Can I know itself? … more practical: neti neti.
- Paddy in Belfast - gun at the back of head parable.
- Democrat/Republican - horse thief parable.
- Catholic dog mass parable.
- Labels belong to me - that constantly changes.
- Any time you identify with me, suffering begins. Now comes desire, fear. Suffering - there is something you crave for caused by identification with something.
Negative feelings towards others
- Any time you have a negative feeling towards anyone, you are living in an illusion. But generally we project (“he/she’s to blame …”).
- When negative feelings come in you go blind - “me” steps into picture.
- Be not affected emotionally but actually - act! When you swing into action it is important to act detachedly.
- Do we ever feel grief when we lose something we have allowed to be free? That we have never attempted to posses and never allowed ourselves to be attached to?
- To be attached - I made my happiness at least to some extend dependant on this thing / person.
CD 3
On dependence
- Live a life where you would be so totally alone that you depend on no one [for happiness i.e. emotionally/psychologically]
- Where there is love there are no demands, no expectations.
- My happiness does not lie in you.
 It is cured by contact with reality. Dropping one’s illusions.
How happiness happens
- Watch yourself. Understand. No one can show you how to do it. Because he would be programming you.
- I don’t know any other means of self-transformation than Awareness.
- “When the archer shoots for nothing, he’s got all his skill. When he shoots for a brass buckle, he’s already nervous. When he shoots for a prize of gold, he goes blind, sees two targets…” He thinks more of winning, than of shooting.
- Honour is a social convention.
- Success, failure means nothing to them.
- You can be happy in your anxiety, depression. It’s just you’ve got the wrong notion of happiness. You thought happiness was excitement, the thrills. That’s what causes the depression! (Q: How can I make it last?)
- To live alone.  To leave everyone free. Be special to no one. To love everyone.
- Opposite of love: desire, fear, anxiety, manipulation.
- There is only one reason why you are not experiencing bliss right now, i.e. you are focusing on what you don’t have.
Fear - the root of violence
- There is only one evil in the world - fear. There is only one good - love.
- There is not a single evil you cannot trace to fear.
- It’s only when you are afraid that you become angry (Q: What were you afraid of losing).
Awareness and contact with reality
- When there is something happening to you see it as it would be happening to somebody else. No judgement. -> I’m not affected emotionally -> Disidentified. Died to the self.
Good religion - the antithesis of unawareness
- What you are aware of, you are in control of. What you are not aware of, is in control of you. When you are aware of it, you are free from it.
- What they trained us in the course [Rogerian Psychotherapy] to become participant observer.
- When I’m listening to you it is infinitely more important to be listening to me (myself).
- OBSERVE yourself the way you would be observing someone else.
- Awareness - you are open to anything that comes to the scope of your consciousness.
- Just be aware where the focus of your attention goes.
- I observing me. Children talk: “Tony has a problem”. Mystics feel like this.
Labels
- Important is not to know who/what I is. The important thing is to drop the labels.
- Don’t seek the truth, only drop your opinions. Drop the theories.
- If you are suffering, you’re asleep. Suffering is a sign that you are out of the touch with the Truth. Suffering points out that there is some falsehood out there. It occurs when your illusions clash with reality.
Obstacles to happiness
- The main preoccupation of society is to keep society sick. They are loonies. Most of them.
 When you don’t have to apologize to anyone. When you don’t have to explain anything to anyone.  You have no worry. You are happy.
 I’ve known that for years. What did you expect?
- “Why are you happy?” Why not?
- Happiness is the natural state of little children to whom the kingdom belongs until they have been polluted and contaminated by the stupidities of our societies and cultures.
- Life is easy, life is delightful. Life is only rough on your illusion.
CD 4
Four steps to wisdom
- awareness of negative feelings.
- understand that the feeling is in you, not in reality. No person on earth, no event has the power to make you unhappy, disturb or hurt you.
- never identify with the feeling. -> depression is there. Not: I’m depressed. It is not an essential part of I. Same with horny, angry etc. your depression and your kicks have nothing to do with your happiness. Fight, do your duty but keep your heart at the lotus feet of the lord (unaffected).
- understand, that when you change everything changes.
It’s all right with the world
- When you understand, when you see, the world becomes all-right. Don’t take it personally!
- Boy, rabbit, crocodile parable.
Sleepwalking
- Swing into action, but not to get rid of your negative feeling. It is not by your actions that you will be saved/enlightened, but by your Being, by what you are.
- We see people and things not as they are but as we are! The world is as we feel. The day you are different, you’ll see them different. She seems so rude -> I feel frightened.
 The more you do the worse it gets. All you have to do is understand.
- I have no right to make any demand on any person. I’ll protect myself from consequences of your actions, but you can be whatever you choose to be.
- Lunatic: You better do as I expect you to or else I shall have negative feelings.
- Do it enjoyable, not well. Village orchestra parable (competition).

- What will happen when we wake up? Why bother?! You’ll make it a goal and you’ll be determined to get there and you’ll say I refuse to be happy until I’m awakened. It’s OK the be the way you are.
- Parable: student writing letters to Guru about what he understands… Until he stops. After a long time he inquires and the students answers: “what does it matter?”.
- Be aware of your present condition.  Be aware.
A changed person
- As you identify less and less with “me” you are more at ease with everybody and everything. You are no longer afraid of being hurt, not liked, being left. You no longer desire to impress anyone. You don’t feel the need to explain yourself, apologize (after all, what are you expecting from an ass?).
- Nobody rejects/accepts you. They reject whatever they think you are. It’s your responsibility if you pick that up.
Arriving at silence
- What will happen, when I awake? I doesn’t matter. Those who know, do not say. Those who say, do not know.
- Guru can only point out your errors. He cannot give you the truth. Taste of mango parable.

- All revelations are never more but a finger pointing at a moon.
- Little fish in the ocean looking for the ocean parable.
CD 5
Losing the rat race
- Losing the self: ever tried to lose something? You lose, when you are not trying.  You are never so ready as to forget yourself, when you are happy. Happiness releases you from the self.
- To die to the self is to understand its true nature.
- God: I am he who is. You are she/he who is not. God is the dancer, creation is the dance.
- To lose the self is to suddenly realise that you are not what you thought to be.
- Prepare the ground for the loss of the self: disassociate yourself with the transient things.
Permanent worth
- Worldly success - fragile, transitory. How we are reflected in the mirror of other peoples’ minds. One understands one’s worth when one no longer identifies in term of transient things.
- Blessed experiences make life delightful, painful experiences lead to growth. use negative feelings for understanding, watching it from outside, to disassociate from it - cut the connection with it. after some time it might not come at all, but it won’t matter.
- State of wakefulness - state where you drop desires, cravings (unless I get what I desire, I refuse to be happy), i.e. their fulfillment.
Desire not preference
- Suppress desires -> become lifeless, without energy. Desire = energy. Suppressing desire - being tied to it. Understand it, transform it into a preference.
- Happiness, dropping illusions - seeing things not as I (me) am but as they are.
- Every time you are unhappy, you have added something to the reality. Reality provides the stimulus, you provide the reaction. You’ve added something. Demand, expectation, craving.
- Changing the world won’t change you. Changing the pen won’t change your handwriting.
- Life is change, flow.  The one who would be constant in happiness must frequently change. The whole enjoyment of the symphony lies in your readiness to allow the notes to pass. Parable of Nasruding playing a guitar with one string.
Clinging to illusion
- When you cling, life gets destroyed. When you hold on to anything, you cease to live.
- A thrill comes from the fulfillment of a desire, craving. It brings anxiety. Sooner or later it brings its hangover. Feeding yourself with thrills - feeding a racehorse with cake and wine.
- Illusion: it is important, natural to be important, to belong, to love. Natural is to be free, to love.
- You become happy with contact with reality, not by being desired, important, loved.
- “You are a genius.” If you give reality to it, you will have to live up to it. Smash it.
- Life is what happens to us while we are busy making other plans.
Hugging memories
- An inner change always registers in your eyes, face, body.
- Looking at the people, world through the fixed picture of prejudice. You are more likely to respond accurately, when you see clearly. Do you really see someone you are attached to or you are afraid of? The emotion gets in the way.
- I’m conditioned, I’ve got a shopping list inside. So when I meet the person I fall in love (= desire). And you see her after you have married her. That’s when love might begin.
- Addiction is blind, love is clear-sighted.
- Every concept that was meant to help to get in touch with reality ends up becoming a barrier to reality. Unless you realise that the word is not the thing.
Getting concrete
- Concept - you have the same word for all the individuals. Example: leafs on tree. Great for finding similarities, communication, indication, science. It gives you an idea what it is not. Whatever IS is found concrete. Krishnamurthi: The day you teach the child the word for the bird he will cease to see the bird.
- Concept is always static/frozen. Reality flows (is movement, action, change). Watch! Look. Get in touch with things.
- Reality is whole, words and concepts fragment reality. Each language cuts reality differently (e.g. difficult translation of “home”).
- Concept, idea, word, thought (fragment) vs. vision, intuition (whole).
- Concept is abstract, reality is concrete. Concept is help to lead you to reality, but is not the thing -> idolatry. Concept - true and FALSE at the same time. Experience reality. God is a mystery: there is no words for reality (that is beyond words and concepts). The task of theologians is to explain everything through God and explain God as unexplainable.
- If words can’t really describe what is experienced how much more difficult is to use them to explain the experiencer (Vedanta).
- Thanks to concepts we develop intelligence, which in due time can see its own limitations. Become not children but LIKE children. We have to fall from the stage of innocence, to develop “me” thanks to concepts and then to be redeemed and to to paradise. Put off the old man and return to the state of the child without being children anymore. We start by looking at reality in wonder, but not the intelligent wonder of a mystic but the formless wonder of a child. Wonder -> boredom (along with language, concepts) -> wonder.
CD 6
At a loss of words
- Dag Hammarskjöld: God doesn’t die on the day we stop believing into a personal deity but we die on the day that our lives cease to be illumined by the radiance - renewed daily - of a wonder the source of which we can never described.
- One never quarrels about reality, we only quarrel about opinions, judgements. Don’t seek for truth, drop you prejudices, concepts, judgements.
- Ultimate knowledge of God: to know, that we do not know God. Neti-neti. Via negativa. Even our questions about God are absurd. C.S.Lewis: “Q: How many minutes are there in the colour yellow. A: 25 carrots.”
- Lose beliefs and come to faith. Sometimes the best thing for awakening is a tragedy to struck us.
- Our tragedy is that we think we know, so we never discover.
Cultural conditioning
- There are thousands of powerful words (concepts) that correspond to nothing (e.g. a country). Tree vs. India. Yet they have the power to trigger emotions in us.
- Part of our liberation is liberation from our country - cultural conditioning. They teach you to be proud of your country.  Don’t identify.
- Not being able (to not give alms, etc) - compulsion, mechanical. The beauty doesn’t come from a habit (programming, past experiences etc.) but from sensitivity, clarity of perception and accuracy of response.
- Passing through the eye of the needle - little baggage: Experience something fully, then drop it and experience new moment.
- Awareness -> understanding … imagine a human giving you always a fair deal, uninfluenced by words but only by reality.
Filtered reality
- We are constantly getting feedback from reality. But we filter it - by our conditioning, culture, past experience…
- Root of sorrow - craving, attachment.
- Programmed to unhappiness: when we were young we were drugged to need people and are trading reality for acceptance, approval, appreciation, success… Script (for creating attachments): until you get this object, you cannot be happy. When you get it you have to work to keep it.
- You gain the world, but lose your soul to non-existent things: power, prestige, winning, popularity.
- There is only one way out. Deprogramming. How? Become aware of programming. You cannot change by an effort of the will, ideals, building new habits. Your behaviour might, but you won’t. You only change through awareness and understanding. When you see a stone as a stone and not as a diamond.
Detachment
- We are striving to reorganize the world (which is always changing) to keep our attachment.
- Prison of programming, fantasies. Happiness is a state of non-illusion. Freedom - drop the baggage.
- You are going anxious, angry? Your attachment has been threatened.
- Exercise: imagine something you are attached to and say to it: “I don’t need you to be happy. I’m only deluding myself into the belief that without you I won’t be happy”
- My favourite place is somewhere else. Be here and now. And when now goes, let it go.
- Where awareness comes in, programming goes. Programming (recipes) is opposite of awareness.
- We view people through our attachments. Only when you are able to tell your best friend I don’t need you - you’ll be able to enjoy his company thoroughly. Attachment destroys our capacity to love. Love - sensitivity, consciousness, clarity of perception.
Addictive love
- How can you love people when you (emotionally) need people? You can only use them.
- I can only love people when I die to to the people, when I’m in the desert. Loneliness -> Solitude. Desert begins to flower.
- Somebody is angry with me -> we think something is wrong with me, but actually there is something wrong with you. You’re having a tantrum? I don’t have any desire to rescue you.
- Aware person - e.g. Jesus - cannot do wrong / sin. His sensitivity will not allow it.
More words
- Cold? If the thermometer would be one inch longer we would have frozen to death.
- Finnish / Russian border parable. “I could not survive one more Russian winter at my age”.
- Guru: “sit down you son of a …” parable
Hidden agendas
- Increase awareness -> conditioning decreases (FIR).
- Every time someone is sinning they are sinning under the disguise, rationalization of good.
- You can be happy in your tension. Before enlightenment I was getting depressed, after I get depressed. Don’t make it a goal, e.g. people getting tense trying to relax.
- The harder you are trying to change yourself, the worse it will get. Come to reality, to senses.
- Plan (ego) -> resistance (reality). Goal: ego glorification / promotion.
- Spiritual greed for starters. There is nowhere to go because you are there already. The day you cease to travel you’ll arrive (Japanese saying). You’ll leave change to take care of itself.
CD 7
Giving in
- resist not evil - when someone strikes you on the left cheek offer the right as well. You always empower the demons you fight. Understand (incl. consequences), don’t renounce.
- Violence might change your behaviour, but never you. Understanding, insight provides easy change, there is no residue of violence.
Assorted landmines
- To doubt (to question) is infinitely more important than to adore (to believe) -> brainwashing. Doubt is a healing bar, thought it will burn at first it will heal you.
- As soon as you start thinking as a (communist, catholic, …) you cease to think.
- Life doesn’t have a meaning. Meaning is a formula, a set of sentences a mind can understand. Meaning is only found when you go beyond meaning. Life only makes sense when you perceive as mystery.
 Bernard Shaw: it’s the only thing I’m enjoying.
- Community is founded by free people, not by slaves emotionally dependant on other people. You enjoy yourself and reality and thus everybody.
- How many people spend their lives eating the menu not food.
- “Lose your mind and come to your senses”.
- Awareness = life.
The death of me
- The only tragedy in the world is ignorance and all evil comes from there.
- Death is not a tragedy, death is wonderful. It’s only when you are afraid of life you are afraid of death.
 Dies to every moment just to be resurrected again.
- The test of your awakening is the death of your belief in injustice and tragedy.
- Changing the system will put a different set of wolfs in place, unless they are woken up. A system is about as good or as bad as the people who use it.
- Don’t change the world, first change yourself. First take the plank out of your own eye. So when you move out to change others so you come from Love (Love can be hard).
Insight and understanding
- Insight, not effort, not cultivating habits, not having an ideal (ideals do a lot of damage) - it makes you focus on what should be instead of what is (present reality).
- What happened? Was it always like this? Why did you want …? Find the skeleton in your closet - the emotions that tie you to a situation.
No pushing it
- It’s not a question of imitating Christ, but becoming what he was.
- Pushing a broken car - you are making a mess of your life. “But we did it.” Insight, not pushing, not effort.
Getting real
- Father, what you said was absolutely true but totally useless.
- Observe yourself, pick-up those negative feelings, you’ll find your own way of explaining that and you’ll change. Then you’ll have to deal with a big villain - self-condemnation.
Assorted images
- Image of insight: boat with sails. You don’t need to push it.
- There is nothing so cruel as the nature and there is no escape from it. Yet it is the heart that does the injury, the person’s own heart. When you cut water, it doesn’t get hurt. When you cut solid stuff - it breaks. You’ve got solid attitudes inside-> pain.
- If the eye is unobstructed, the result is sight. If the ear is unobstructed, the result is hearing… If the mind is unobstructed, the result is wisdom. Wisdom is not experience, not applying yesterday’s solution to today’s problem. It comes from not being experienced, not carrying over residue from past experiences but rather being sensitive to this situation/person. If the heart is unobstructed, the result is love.
Saying nothing about love
- Plato: one cannot make a slave from a free person (i.e. a wise person). If someone forces you to walk one mile, go two. Need to change exterior situation? You need to be out of prison to be free? Freedom is in the heart.
- Prison - addictions, attachments, negative emotions, conditioning.
- You can only love when you are alone. Love - to see as it really is, not as you imagine it to be (labels, projections from the past). Seeing needs a disciplined, alert mind. Take the trouble the see each situation, person in present moment’s freshness.
Losing control
- Seeing means also dropping the control the society exercises over you. To remove it is like tearing yourself apart.
- Pleasing addiction: as a child you were given taste for the drug called approval, attention, appreciation, success, prestige, power. Instead of solid nutritious food of life: work, play, fun, laughter, company of life, pleasures of senses and the mind.
- A.S. Neil (Summerhill): a sign of a sick child is always interested in persons. Healthy child is interested in things (it is sure of mother’s love).
- Awaken person: no longer marches to the drum of the society. It dances to the tune of the music that springs from within.
- Dependant on people, feeling terror when making mistakes etc.
- Sartre: hell is other people. If you are dependent, living with people is tension. Being without them, brings the agony of loneliness.
Listening to life
- Enjoy things! Healthy food of life for mind and senses. Most of people have lost the capacity for enjoyment. They need more and more expensive gadgets. No time, guilty, overworked… [back to simplicity].
- In natural state, animals don’t overeat, exercise as necessary etc. We have an inner conflict.
- When you enjoy immensely you need very little.
- Slow down, taste, hear, smell … + Awareness.
The end of analysis
- Knowledge != awareness. Information: poisonous snake on my arm (leads to effort, rationalizations, alienation from oneself). Awareness: it would get brushed off through me.
- Tasting and feeling the truth - awareness - you’ll change. When you just know it, you won’t.
- Forced change, being rigid on yourself: “You want to be a martyr, marry a saint.”
Dead ahead
- The passport for living is to die, to imagine you are in your grave.
- You don’t live, you’re just keeping the body alive. When you are protecting your life (vegetable state) you’re dead.  Life is for the gambler.
- Information - cold facts. New feel, new perspective - Awareness.
CD 8
The land of love
- If you wish to love, you must learn to see again. If you wish to see, you must give the drug away - get rid of tentacles of society. Be in the world, but not of it - free and utterly alone in the heart.
- In solitude - in the desert - the dependence on your addiction will die. Aloneness means not depending emotionally on others - no longer seeing others as means of satisfying the addiction… Asking to die.
  Having nowhere to rest your head.
- See with a vision that is clear - unclouded by fear or by desire.
- To come to the land of love you must pass through the gate of death. Get there by ceaseless awareness, by infinite compassion you’ll have for a drug addict. To develop a taste for good things of life - to counter your cravings. Love of work, which you enjoy doing, love of laugher, intimacy with people of whom you do not cling. Activities that you so much love to do, that success / approval / recognition won’t mean a thing to you. Return to nature, send the crowds away, go to the nature and silently commune with clouds, see, birds, plants…
- Man with fire parable: He was not concerned about getting their recognition or their gratitude. He was concerned about their well-being… Got killed by priests of the system and made into an idol, but there was no fire. We overemphasize “Lord Lord” but where is the fire.
- Love is generated through awareness. No other way. Love is not something you generate, you have. It has you. You surrender.
- Analysis = paralysis. Insight! Aha experience -> change.
- Living means having dropped all impediments and live in the freshness of present moment.
- Anything you are aware of keeps changing! Don’t identify with the feeling. As you do you’ll get insight why they came into place. No need to dwell in the past anymore.
- You are free to do whatever you as long as you don’t interfere with the freedom of others.
- There is no violence in the kinds, because no one has practiced violence on them. Most of our evils arrive from violence to ourselves. A.S.Neil: Every child has god within. Our attempts to mold the child will turn the god into a devil.
- Progress. Are we more loving? Or have we created people of greater speed and precision?
- A.S.Neil: “The religion that makes people good also makes people bad. But the religion known as freedom makes all people good for it destroys that self-conflict that makes people bad.” Wars come from self-conflict, we project what is inside to outside.
- A.S.Neil: “The first thing I do when a child comes to Summerhill is to destroy its conscience.” You don’t need conscience when you have consciousness. Stop making demands on yourself, stop pushing yourself.
- Nourish yourself on good wholesome food: sunsets, nature, good movie, good book, music, enjoyable work, good company and hopefully you’ll break your addiction to those other feelings. Compare those feelings. Soul feelings vs. worldly feelings.


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| GRect (int16_t x, int16_t y, int16_t w, int16_t h) | |
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| operator const ::GRect & () const | |
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| operator const ::GRect * () const | |
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| bool | operator== (const ::GRect &rect) const |
| bool | operator!= (const ::GRect &rect) const |
| void | Align (const ::GRect &inside_rect, const GAlign alignment, const bool clip) |
| GPoint | CenterPoint () const |
| GRect | Inset (GEdgeInsets insets) const |
| bool | IsEmpty () |
| void | Standardize () |
| void | Clip (const GRect &rect_clipper) |
| bool | ContainsPoint (const GPoint &point) |
| GRect | Crop (int32_t crop_size_px) |
| GPoint | FromPolar (GOvalScaleMode scale_mode, int32_t angle) |
| GRect | CenterFromPolar (GOvalScaleMode scale_mode, int32_t angle, GSize size) |
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| GPoint | origin |
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| GSize | size |
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Represents a rectangle and defining it using the origin of the upper-lefthand corner and its size.
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| x | The X coordinate |
| y | The Y coordinate |
| w | The width |
| h | The height |
Construct a GRect from a Pebble point and size
| origin | Origin |
| size | Size |
Construct a GRect from a point and size
| origin | Origin |
| size | Size |
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| inside_rect | The rectangle in which to align rect |
| alignment | Determines the alignment of rect within inside_rect by specifying what edges of should overlap. |
| clip | Determines whether rect should be trimmed using the edges of inside_rect in case rect extends outside of the area that inside_rect covers after the alignment. |
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Calculates a rectangle centered on the perimeter of a circle at a given angle. Use this to construct rectangles that follow the perimeter of a circle as an input for graphics_fill_radial_internal or graphics_draw_arc_internal, e.g. to draw circles every 30 degrees on a watchface.
| scale_mode | Determines how rect will be used to derive the circle's center point and radius. |
| angle | The angle at which the point on the circle's perimeter should be calculated. Use DEG_TO_TRIGANGLE to easily convert degrees to the appropriate value. |
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| point | The point |
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APOCALYPSE NOW A film review by Martin Urch Copyright 1994 Martin Urch
Far much more than just another war movie, Francis Ford Coppola's stunning reworking of Joseph Conrad's HEART OF DARKNESS is one of the ultimate cinematic experiences. Boldly transferring the story from 1930s' Africa to late 1960s' Vietnam, Coppola give us a bizarre and hallucinatory vision of the madness of war.
There are stunning visuals, from the opening technicolour explosions to the final climax at a ritual sacrifice. Sound is also used to full effect, as we hear the throbbing of the helicopters filling the Dolby Surround soundtrack. Coppola makes what some would consider an unusual choice by using The Doors' "The End" to bookend the film, but it works so well you may be surprised to find it wasn't written for the scenes.
Martin Sheen gives a complex performance as Lieutenant Willard, which dominates the film until the final half hour when Marlon Brando's intense, sometimes incoherent Colonel Kurtz takes over the picture and leads it in an entirely different direction. Although some critics have blasted the bloated Brando's portrayal of the monster that is Kurtz, this could be the actor's last great role.
Packed with memorable moments, such a helicopter blade blurring into an overhead fan in a cloud of marijuana smoke, this is a film you will want to see again and again. Despite not being to every one's taste, Apocalypse Now should stand as a testament to the skill of the director and the leading players.
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James Bond was a leading American ornithologist, an expert on the birds of the Caribbean. His name was appropriated by writer Ian Fleming for his fictional spy of the same name.
A Secret Service agent, Bond was a composite based on a number of commandos whom author Ian Fleming had known during his service in the Naval Intelligence Division during World War II, to whom he added his own style and a number of his own tastes. Fleming appropriated the name from American ornithologist James Bond. Bond's code number 007 comes from one of British naval intelligence's key achievements of World War I: the breaking of the German diplomatic code.One of the German documents cracked and read by the British was the Zimmermann Telegram, which was coded 0075, and which was one of the factors that led the US entering the war. Subsequently if material was graded 00 it meant it was highly classified. Fleming later told a journalist, "When I was at the Admiralty all the top-secret signals had the double-0 prefix and I decided to borrow it for Bond".
I first walked into Blockbuster videos, near my house and saw "The World is Not Enough". My first Bond film and that sparked and everlasting love for the series. Seeing what gadgets; Q would make for Bond to use against his enemies and of course the modifications to the beautiful cars. That one movie got me hooked to wanting to watch them all and then started reading the books and watching them from the beginning. James Bond got me on a path to be a better gentleman; keeping it classly and sophisticated. Wanting to drink martinis and scotch properly, to being suave with the ladies.


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We know the secret of your success
The first thing to remember about success is that it is a process nothing less
Use a past defeat as a motivator. Remind yourself you have nowhere to go except up as you have already been at the bottom.
Make a list of your achievements toward your long-term goal and remind yourself that intentions don’t count, only action’s.
Let success motivate you. Find a picture of what epitomizes success to you and then pull it out when you are in need of motivation.
So, make the decision to move forward. Commit your decision to paper, Then, go for it!
Trying to go through life without clarity is similar to sailing a rudder-less ship will happen!
Once you have a clear understanding of what you want, – specifically setting SMART goals.


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Publicity, exposure of Queen’s College pupil uncalled for –Ahmed, PTA chairman
by Lawrence MikeDuring this week, a parent of a pupil of Queen’s College, Lagos, and the security team of the school were involved in a brawl over after she was denied entry into the school for wearing artificial eyelashes and nail polish. Chairman of the school’s Parent-Teacher Association, Abbas Ahmed tells LAWRENCE MIKE about the update and the position of the association
What do you think about the recent brawl between a parent of a pupil of Queen’s College, Lagos and security guards in the school?
To be candid with you, investigations are ongoing to determine exactly what happened on that day. We are trying to look at all the perspectives and the evidence of the eye witnesses. Once the investigation is concluded, we intend to have a press briefing, where we will inform the public about what happened and the decision of the school.
It was said that the pupil in question broke some school rules, has that been established?
Yes. From the video clips available, the whole episode emanated from the fact that Queen’s College, being a disciplined institution, was actually trying to enforce its rules and regulations. That is why I said investigation is ongoing as to what exactly happened on that day but the whole issue surrounds the enforcement of laid down rules and regulations by an institution that cherishes discipline.
Who recorded and posted the video of the incident? Was it the school authority?
Absolutely no! It wasn’t the school authority. The school authority could not have posted any video. That’s why investigation is currently ongoing to know what happened, who did what, and the way forward.
For pupils who run afoul of school regulations, what forms of punishment should be meted out to them?
No. If you attended any public school, you would realise that there are various ways of penalising or punishing pupils. It could be by giving them an area of land in the school to weed. Some schools have chores like washing of corridors and toilets. It’s not about sending pupils home. It’s just about knowing that there are always penalties for violating school rules.
Were the security guards acting on the instructions of the school when they decided to send the pupil home?
I do not have the facts; that’s why I am saying investigation is ongoing to know whether she was sent home or wasn’t sent home. I wasn’t there but the school is conducting an investigation to know what happened on that day and as soon as it is done, the press will be adequately briefed.
How does the school intend to manage the situation once the investigations are completed?
The school is a self-regulated institution and if anybody is found wanting, whether the person is a pupil, parent or staff member, the school has laid down procedures for dealing with such issues and I know that Queen’s College as a proactive institution will deal with the situation appropriately.
How have other parents reacted to the situation?
As parents, we have empathy for the plight of the pupil involved because the exposure and publicity were unwarranted and could have been prevented. And on the other hand, parents were a little bit worried as to what actually warranted a pupil to dress in that manner to school in company with her parent. So they are also awaiting the outcome of the investigation to know what really happened because as journalists, you should hear from both sides before arriving at a conclusion.
You should not just arrive at a conclusion after hearing from one party. So parents are also waiting and as the chairman of the PTA, I can tell you that we waiting for the outcome of the investigation by the school management.
How did the school handle a similar case in the past?
To my knowledge as the PTA chairman, I’m not privy to any similar incident that has occurred in the past.
For some time, Queen’s College has been having issues as regards health and hygiene. Some students lost their lives to diarrhoea some years ago and this year there was an outbreak of flu. What role is the PTA playing to ensure that it doesn’t happen again?
Let me set the records straight. In the past one year, the story of flu that was in the media was blown out of proportion. Those who blew it out of proportion knew the reason why they did that. Yes, there were cases of flu. Even my daughter had flu when she got to school one week after resumption. The normal procedure is that you will be called from the sick bay and informed that your daughter has flu. You will be asked to take her home. And we took her home, treated her and she returned to school.
You know, it was during the rainy season so there was flu everywhere. And the number of pupils affected in a school with a population of about 4,000 pupils, were about 100. And it was not on one day; probably within a period of one week. The story that was woven around the flu incident was politically motivated. They were mischievous, frivolous and had a sinister motive. It was targeted at achieving a sinister motive.
The Ministry of Education visited the school and passed a vote of confidence on the health system. The school’s old girls’ association visited the school because the story in the media was that there was an epidemic. The old girls visited the school and observed that there was no epidemic. They went to the sick bay and saw that it was attending to pupils normally. Following the incident, the school has introduced a new development. After resumption of pupils to school after vacation, their temperatures will be taken. Records of their medical state will be received as they return to school to ensure that as at the time they are coming to school, they are in a good state of health.
 Or if a day before resumption, your daughter is complaining of pain or one ailment or the other, please don’t dump her in school. Treat her before coming to avoid the stress of dropping your daughter off in school and being called later to take her home. All these measures have been put in place to ensure that we do not have any ugly incident.
Have the parents of the pupil in question been contacted by the PTA?
They are in the process of contacting them. Like I told you, there are some things that may not be for public consumption now because investigation is ongoing.
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QUEEN
British BandBritish rock band whose fusion of heavy metal, glam rock, and camp theatrics made it one of the most popular band of the 1970s. Queen crafted an elaborate blend of layered guitar work by virtuoso Brian May and overdubbed vocal harmonies enlivened by the flamboyant performance of front man and principal songwriter Freddie Mercury. The members were Freddie Mercury, Brian May, John Deacon and Roger Taylor.
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Exploring my values
When I think of the times in my life where I've been the happiest, the proudest, or the most satisfied, these are the following values that come to mind:
Compassion
Having compassion for others is so important, because it allows you to empathize with someone else, understand where they are coming from and realize that we all have different experiences, strengths, and weaknesses.
Compassion allows us to see the good that lives within every person, then instead of so quickly judging others, we can begin to understand to their world view and be able to relate to them.
Values in my life:
In general, I try to live up to these values: 5.
Disagree 1 ----- 2 ----- 3 ----- 4 ----- 5 Agree
Advice:
What was the last topic that someone asked for your advice on? Not sure, but this made me realize that I often times dole out advice even when I'm not asked! I hope that's not frowned upon. I just like imparting whatever information/wisdom/knowledge I have.
The last time I was actually asked for advice was probably about switching careers.
Values and Stereotype threat:
How do you feel when you think about your values? When I think about my values, I feel like I am refocusing my mind on what is important in life.
Do you think it can help you mediate stereotype threat if you recognize you feel it? I'm not sure if thinking about my values will help me mediate stereotype threat. I think it may either distract me from feeling the threat or maybe even make me feel like some of my values are being threatened!
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amber$ cd main/Golang/\[Golang\]\ Nested\ template\ definitions
[Golang] Nested template definitions
When parsing a template, another template may be defined and
associated with the template being parsed. Template definitions must
appear at the top level of the template, much like global variables in
a Go program.
The syntax of such definitions is to surround each template
declaration with a "define" and "end" action.
Here is the demo:
HTML:
Golang:
The picture is shown as pic 1. In the nested template,
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to define the templates, use {{define "templateName"}} {{ end }} and
write the template inside, e.g. line 1-5 in html.
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to use the template, use {{template "templateName"}}, e.g. line
25-27 in html.
To use the nested template, we need to consider about the passing data.
At first, I was quite confused by this part but after a while, I figured
out how it worked.
Line 12 in Golang pass the parameter into the template or to say HTML.
The data I pass here is an array, so the parameter HTML file get is an
array without the name of the array (in this case I can't use array name
to get data), to get the element in an array, I directly loop through
"." which kind of like "this" in JS. If what I pass is a map, like
{"1":"Amber", "2": "Bob", "3": "David"}, I use {{ 0.1 }} to call data.
If I want to pass that data in the nested template, I need to add data
when we use the template, like line 26 in HTML. I want to pass all the
data in this demo, so I just use "." in line 26. If I only want to use
"Amber" and I use a map as data, I can pass {.1} in.
*** In this situation, if I pass the data wrong or use the wrong
variable to get the data, I won't get error in VScode but will not get
any data on my browser, like pic 2.
*** I made other mistakes as well. When {{if}}, {{ range }},
{{ block }}, {{ with }} are used, {{ end }} should go with it. There is
one time I missed {{ end }}. I got a panic:
http: panic serving <IP_ADDRESS>:58807: template: demo.html:27:
unexpected EOF
and browser looked like pic 3.
*** To compare the string, use eq, ne, lt, le, gt, ge instead of "==",
"!=" and so force. I made this mistake before and got a panic:
http: panic serving <IP_ADDRESS>:62197: template: demo.html:17:
unexpected "=" in operand
browser looked like pic 3.
*** To use the index in template, writing in this way {{index .Name 0}}.


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