A THOUSAND ACRES 1997 A film review by Timothy Voon Copyright 1998 Timothy Voon 2 :-) :-) Not quite King Lear, but as poignant
Cast: Jessica Lange, Michelle Pfeiffer, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Jason Robards, Colin Firth, Keith Carradine, Kevin Anderson Director: Jocelyn Moorhouse Producer: Steve Golin Screenplay: Laura Jones, based on the novel by Jane Smiley
Although this may appear to be another girly, weepy ‘chic flic', and it is, at least it comes at a reasonably high standard. Jocelyn Moorehouse (HOW TO MAKE AN AMERICAN QUILT) does not resort to cheap tricks for tears and the plight of these believable characters, are earnestly addressed on screen.
A THOUSAND ACRES is based on a novel of the same name, written by Jane Smiley. She has also cleverly entwined elements of KING LEAR into her novel. A respectable farmer, a pillar in his community, wishes to leave his farm to his three daughters. Everything seems perfect on the outside, but beneath this veneer of a happy family, lies a most horrible secret.
This is the story of three sisters torn apart by the past, the present and the future. The youngest daughter, Caroline (Jennifer Jason Leigh), is also her father's favourite. When she disagrees with his will, she is unceremoniously disinherited from the family. The two older sisters Ginny (Jessica Lange) and Rose (Michelle Pfeiffer), agree to his will and take over the running of the farm. It is here that perfection becomes to crumble, and the true nature of the family is revealed. As the father (Jason Robards), becomes rapidly paranoid and believes that the oldest daughters have stolen the farm from him and are now mistreating him. This evolves into an ugly family and legal battle, between the youngest daughter and father and the two older siblings.
 Although too numerous for a single movie to handle, the novel is available for a more comprehensive perspective.
Jessica Lange and Michelle Pfeiffer are wonderful as the competitive, and yet close sisters.
It is these cornfields of A THOUSAND ACRES which binds them all together, and which will eventually tear them apart.
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SpatialStats
SpatialStats is an ActiveRecord plugin that utilizes PostGIS and Ruby to compute weights/statistics of spatial data sets in Rails Apps.
Installation
Add this line to your application’s Gemfile:
ruby
gem 'spatial_stats'
And then execute:
bash
$ bundle
Or install it yourself as:
bash
$ gem install spatial_stats
Usage
Weights
Weights define the spatial relation between members of a dataset. Contiguous operations are supported for polygons
and multipolygons
, and distant operations are supported for points
.
To compute weights, you need an ActiveRecord::Relation
scope and a geometry field. From there, you can pick what type of weight operation to compute (knn
, queen neighbors
, etc.).
Compute Queen Weights
ruby
# County table has the following fields: avg_income: float, geom: multipolygon.
scope = County.all
geom_field = :geom
weights = SpatialStats::Weights::Contiguous.queen(scope, geom_field)
# => #<SpatialStats::Weights::WeightsMatrix>
Compute KNN of Centroids
The field being queried does not have to be defined in the schema, but could be computed during the query for scope.
This example finds the inverse distance weighted, 5 nearest neighbors for the centroid of each county.
ruby
scope = County.all.select("*, st_centroid(geom) as geom")
weights = SpatialStats::Weights::Distant.idw_knn(scope, :geom, 5)
# => #<SpatialStats::Weights::WeightsMatrix>
Define WeightsMatrix without Query
Weight matrices can be defined by a hash that describes each key’s neighbor and weight.
Example: Define WeightsMatrix and get the matrix in row_standardized format.
```ruby weights = { 1 => [{ id: 2, weight: 1 }, { id: 4, weight: 1 }], 2 => [{ id: 1, weight: 1 }], 3 => [{ id: 4, weight: 1 }], 4 => [{ id: 1, weight: 1 }, { id: 3, weight: 1 }] } keys = weights.keys wm = SpatialStats::Weights::WeightsMatrix.new(weights) # => #<SpatialStats::Weights::WeightsMatrix:0x0000561e205677c0 @keys=[1, 2, 3, 4], @weights=:weight=>1, :weight=>1], 2=>[:weight=>1], 3=>[:weight=>1], 4=>[:weight=>1, :weight=>1]}, @n=4>
wm = wm.standardize # => #<SpatialStats::Weights::WeightsMatrix:0x0000561e205677c0 @keys=[1, 2, 3, 4], @weights=:weight=>0.5, :weight=>0.5], 2=>[:weight=>1], 3=>[:weight=>1], 4=>[:weight=>0.5, :weight=>0.5]}, @n=4>
wm.dense # => Numo::DFloat[ # [0, 0.5, 0, 0.5], # [1, 0, 0, 0], # [0, 0, 0, 1], # [0.5, 0, 0.5, 0] # ]
wm.sparse # => #<SpatialStats::Weights::CSRMatrix @m=4, @n=4, @nnz=6> ```
Lagged Variables
Spatially lagged variables can be computed with weights matrix and 1-D vector (Array
).
Compute a Lagged Variable
ruby
weights = {
1 => [{ id: 2, weight: 1 }, { id: 4, weight: 1 }],
2 => [{ id: 1, weight: 1 }],
3 => [{ id: 4, weight: 1 }],
4 => [{ id: 1, weight: 1 }, { id: 3, weight: 1 }]
}
wm = SpatialStats::Weights::WeightsMatrix.new(weights).standardize
vec = [1, 2, 3, 4]
lagged_var = SpatialStats::Utils::Lag.neighbor_sum(wm, vec)
# => [3.0, 1.0, 4.0, 2.0]
Global Stats
Global stats compute a value for the dataset, like how clustered the observations are within the region.
Most stat
classes take three parameters: scope
, data_field
, and weights
. All stat
classes have the stat
method that will compute the target statistic. These are also aliased with the common name of the statistic, such as i
for Moran
or c
for Geary
.
Compute Moran’s I
```ruby scope = County.all weights = SpatialStats::Weights::Contiguous.rook(scope, :geom) moran = SpatialStats::Global::Moran.new(scope, :avg_income, weights) # => <SpatialStats::Global::Moran>
moran.stat # => 0.834
moran.i # => 0.834 ```
Compute Moran’s I without Querying Data
To calculate the statistic by using an array of data and not querying a database field. The order of the data must correspond to the order of weights.keys
.
```ruby scope = County.all weights = SpatialStats::Weights::Contiguous.rook(scope, :geom)
field = nil moran = SpatialStats::Global::Moran.new(scope, field, weights) # => <SpatialStats::Global::Moran>
data is automatically standardized on input
data = [1,2,3,4,5,6] moran.x = data
moran.stat # => 0.521 ```
Compute Moran’s I Z-Score
```ruby scope = County.all weights = SpatialStats::Weights::Contiguous.rook(scope, :geom) moran = SpatialStats::Global::Moran.new(scope, :avg_income, weights) # => <SpatialStats::Global::Moran>
moran.z_score # => 3.2 ```
Run a Permutation Test on Moran’s I
All stat classes have the mc
method which takes permutations
and seed
as its parameters. mc
runs a permutation test on the class and returns the psuedo p-value.
```ruby scope = County.all weights = SpatialStats::Weights::Contiguous.rook(scope, :geom) moran = SpatialStats::Global::Moran.new(scope, :avg_income, weights) # => <SpatialStats::Global::Moran>
moran.mc(999, 123_456) # => 0.003 ```
Get Summary of Permutation Test
All stat classes have the summary
method which takes permutations
and seed
as its parameters. summary
runs stat
and mc
then combines the results into a hash.
```ruby scope = County.all weights = SpatialStats::Weights::Contiguous.rook(scope, :geom) moran = SpatialStats::Global::Moran.new(scope, :avg_income, weights) # => <SpatialStats::Global::Moran>
moran.summary(999, 123_456) # => 0.834, p: 0.003 ```
Local Stats
Local stats compute a value each observation in the dataset, like how similar its neighbors are to itself. Local stats operate similarly to global stats, except that almost every operation will return an array of length n
where n
is the number of observations in the dataset.
Most stat
classes take three parameters: scope
, data_field
, and weights
. All stat
classes have the stat
method that will compute the target statistic. These are also aliased with the common name of the statistic, such as i
for Moran
or c
for Geary
.
Compute Moran’s I
```ruby scope = County.all weights = SpatialStats::Weights::Contiguous.rook(scope, :geom) moran = SpatialStats::Local::Moran.new(scope, :avg_income, weights) # => <SpatialStats::Local::Moran>
moran.stat # => [0.888, 0.675, 0.2345, -0.987, -0.42, …]
moran.i # => [0.888, 0.675, 0.2345, -0.987, -0.42, …] ```
Compute Moran’s I without Querying Data
To calculate the statistic by using an array of data and not querying a database field. The order of the data must correspond to the order of weights.keys
.
```ruby scope = County.all weights = SpatialStats::Weights::Contiguous.rook(scope, :geom)
field = nil moran = SpatialStats::Local::Moran.new(scope, field, weights) # => <SpatialStats::Local::Moran>
data is automatically standardized on input
data = [1,2,3,4,5,6] moran.x = data
moran.stat # => [0.521, 0.123, -0.432, -0.56,. …] ```
Compute Moran’s I Z-Scores
Note: Many classes do not have a variance or expectation method implemented and this will raise a NotImplementedError
.
```ruby scope = County.all weights = SpatialStats::Weights::Contiguous.rook(scope, :geom) moran = SpatialStats::Local::Moran.new(scope, :avg_income, weights) # => <SpatialStats::Local::Moran>
moran.z_score # => # => [0.65, 1.23, 0.42, 3.45, -0.34, …] ```
Run a Permutation Test on Moran’s I
All stat classes have the mc
method which takes permutations
and seed
as its parameters. mc
runs a permutation test on the class and returns the psuedo p-values.
```ruby scope = County.all weights = SpatialStats::Weights::Contiguous.rook(scope, :geom) moran = SpatialStats::Local::Moran.new(scope, :avg_income, weights) # => <SpatialStats::Local::Moran>
moran.mc(999, 123_456) # => [0.24, 0.13, 0.53, 0.023, 0.65, …] ```
Get Summary of Permutation Test
All stat classes have the summary
method which takes permutations
and seed
as its parameters. summary
runs stat
, mc
, and groups
then combines the results into a hash array indexed by weight.keys
.
```ruby scope = County.all weights = SpatialStats::Weights::Contiguous.rook(scope, :geom) moran = SpatialStats::Local::Moran.new(scope, :avg_income, weights) # => <SpatialStats::Local::Moran>
moran.summary(999, 123_456) # => [1, stat: 0.521, p: 0.24, group: ‘HH’, …] ```
Contributing
Once cloned, run the following commands to setup the test database.
bash
cd ./spatial_stats
bundle install
cd test/dummy
rake db:create
rake db:migrate
If you are getting an error, you may need to set the following environment variables.
bash
$PGUSER # default "postgres"
$PGPASSWORD # default ""
$PGHOST # default "<IP_ADDRESS>"
$PGPORT # default "5432"
$PGDATABASE # default "spatial_stats_test"
If the dummy app is setup correctly, run the following:
bash
cd ../..
rake
This will run the tests. If they all pass, then your environment is setup correctly.
Note: It is recommended to have GEOS installed and linked to RGeo. You can test this by running the following:
```bash cd test/dummy rails c
RGeo::Geos.supported? # => true ```
Path Forward
Summaries of milestones for v1.x and v2.0. These lists are subject to change. If you have an additional feature you want to see for either milestone, open up an issue or PR.
v1.x
- Global Measurements
Geary
’s CGetisOrd
- Local Measurements
Join Count
- Utilities
- Add support for .gal/.swm file imports
- Add support for Rate variables
- Add support for Bayes smoothing
- General
- Point Pattern Analysis Module
- Regression Module
v2.0
- Break gem into core
spatial_stats
that will not include queries module andspatial_stats-activerecord
. This will remove the dependency on rails for the core gem. - Create
spatial_stats-import/geojson/shp
gem that will allow importing files and generating aWeightsMatrix
. Will likely rely onRGeo
or another spatial lib.
License
The gem is available as open source under the terms of the BSD-3-Clause.


[gecode-users] unknown system size
Guido Tack
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Thu Aug 14 02:30:00 CEST 2014
Arrays need to have a fixed size. What you can do is to say that the sum of the array is 10, but that only the first n entries are different from 0 (you will need to express this using constraints). This is not really a Gecode question though, it's a general problem when modelling for most constraint solvers.
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8MM
** (out of 4) - a fair movie
Release Date: February 26, 1999 Starring: Nicolas Cage, Joaquin Phoenix, James Gandolfini, Peter Stormare, Christopher Bauer, Catherine Keener, Amy Morton Directed by: Joel Schumacher Distributed by: Columbia Pictures / Sony Pictures Entertainment MPAA Rating: R (strong perverse sexuality and violence, strong language) URL: http://www.execpc.com/~kinnopio/reviews/1999/8mm.htm
Graphically intense movies can be thrillers and they can be exposés, but 8MM is neither and therein lies its problem. There's too much fiction for 8MM to deliver any sort of social message about the underground world of pornography; and there's no sense of intense storytelling for 8MM to be considered a successful thriller. Instead, the latest film from BATMAN AND ROBIN director Joel Schumacher is a run-of-the-mill detective story with darkly ambitious overtones.
The movie is dark to the point of repulsion, and in this respect it is most successful. Advance word from critics and the MPAA's reasons for certification trumpeted tales of a very raw and very edgy movie; instead, Schumacher plays up the movie with smoke and mirrors. Given the horrific nature of the tale, it's a testament to Schumacher's brief moments of genius that he actually shows very little substance. Much is assumed in 8MM.
What isn't assumed are the story's basic facts, which never really change throughout the course of the movie -- destroying any hope for suspenseful thrillerism. Nicolas Cage stars as private investigator Tom Welles, who is called upon the recently widowed Mrs. Christian (Myra Carter) to investigate the contents of her dead husband's private safe. Of particular concern is an ominous reel of eight millimeter film which contains a pornographic movie that ends with a brutal murder. Mrs. Christian asks Tom to find out if the film is real, and more importantly, if the girl is still alive.
All of this is laid out in the film's opening scenes, and so the audience is not left to ask any questions. Within moments, Tom has several solid leads, one of which takes him to Los Angeles where he meets up with streetwise porn dealer Max California (Joaquin Phoenix). Max provides the movie's dark comedy, and to great effect. The Andrew Kevin Walker script handles supporting characters like Max awkwardly, thus resulting in the movie's muddled nature. It does not do well to reject the character of Max, one of the audience's only sympathetic ties to the plot, and it makes much ado about the identity of the masked man, which has no bearing on the plot's outcome.
The rest of the movie is standard fare. Nicolas Cage sleepwalks through his role and provides little entertainment benefit other than the guaranteed box office minimum for Columbia Pictures. And, despite seventeen films and twenty-five years in the film industry, it's still hard to call Joel Schumacher's work anything but goofy. For most, this will not be an essential film to see.
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Deductive Logic
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PART I.—OF TERMS.
CHAPTER IV.
Of the Law of Inverse Variation of Extension and Intension.
166. In a series of terms which fall under one another, as the extension decreases, the intension increases, and vice versa. Take for instance the following series—
Thing
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Substance
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Matter
|
Organism
|
Animal
|
Vertebrate
|
Mammal
|
Ruminant
|
Sheep
|
This sheep.
Here the term at the top possesses the widest possible extension, since it applies to everything. But at the same time it possesses the least possible amount of intension, implying nothing more than mere existence, whether in fact or thought. On the other hand, the term at the bottom possesses the greatest amount of intension, since it implies all the attributes of, an individual superadded to those of the class to which it belongs: but its extension is the narrowest possible, being limited to one thing.
167. At each step in the descent from the term at the top, which is called the ‘Summum genus,’ to the individual, we decrease the extension by increasing the intension. Thus by adding on to the bare notion of a thing the idea of independent existence, we descend to the term ‘substance,’ This process is known as Determination, or Specialisation.
168. Again, by withdrawing our attention from the individual characteristics of a particular sheep, and fixing it upon those which are common to it with other animals of the same kind, we arrive at the common term, ‘sheep.’ Here we have increased the extension by decreasing the intension. This process is known as Generalisation.
169. Generalisation implies abstraction, but we may have abstraction without generalisation.
170. The following example is useful, as illustrating to the eye how a decrease of extension is accompanied by an increase of intension. At each step of the descent here we visibly tack on a fresh attribute. [Footnote: This example is borrowed from Professor Jevons.]
Ship
|
Steam-ship
|
Screw steam-ship
|
Iron screw steam-ship
|
British iron screw steam-ship.
Could we see the classes denoted by the names the pyramid would be exactly inverted.
171. The law of inverse variation of extension and intension must of course be confined to the inter-relations of a series of terms of which each can be predicated of the other until we arrive at the bottom of the scale. It is not meant to apply to the extension and intension of the same term. The increase of population does not add to the meaning of ‘baby.’


Servo: Building a Parallel Browser
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Mozilla Research
January 16, 2015
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High level plan
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- Build a product-ready engine
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- Concurrency built in
- Other modern features: type inference, pattern matching, traits, etc
Performance
What does performance mean?
- Page load time
- JavaScript execution speed
- Responsiveness
- Power usage
Parallelize at every level
- Multiple processes (tabs, compositor, plugins, etc)
- Major systems in threads (media, network, caching, script, layout,
painting)
- Algorithmic parallelism (layout every node at once, GPU
painting)
- Data parallelism (SIMD)
Parallelism inside a page
Traditional best case
With parallel layout
Data parallel layout
DOM Layout
Parallel DOM Layout
Counterintuitive world
Robustness
What does robustness mean?
- Prevent security breaches
- Isolate failure
- Loosely couple components
- Prevent or tolerate programmer error
Robustness at every level
- Process isolation
- Sandboxing
- Memory safety
- Fail to compile when code is wrong
Example: WebAudio API
- 34 sec-critical bugs in WebAudio
- All were array index out of bounds or use after free
- All would be prevented by Rust
Current Status
Acid tests
Alexa Top Sites
Over 100 CSS features supported
- Recently landed: mix-blend-mode, filter, text-rendering,
outline-offset, word-break
- Landing soon: text-overflow, text-align: justify, CSS counters,
text-shadow, CSS 2D transforms, image-rendering, and more
- Should have all features used by 50% of web pages soon
Architectural progress
- Incremental layout
- Partial writing mode support
- Unification and safety of JS memory management
- Embeddable with Chromium Embedding Framework
- Android support
- Boot2Servo
Layout performance
Layout performance
Layout performance
Servo vs. Gecko
Servo vs. Gecko
Servo vs. Gecko
Timeline (net)
Timeline (local,nojs)
Power usage
- Running cores at lower voltage (disable turbo boost) loses 30% of
performance for 40% gain in power
- Servo can make up this performance and bridge the gap: similar
performance at 40% less power
Future Plans
- Some kind of alpha release in 2015
- Start landing Rust and Servo technology in Gecko
- More CSS features (pagination, flexbox, and popular things)
Servo needs you!
Jack Moffitt


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'Drop the knife': Winnipeg police shoot armed suspect after attempted robbery
by Danton Unger, News Writer/ProducerWINNIPEG – A male has been taken to hospital in critical condition after being shot by police after an armed robbery attempt at a 7-Eleven, Winnipeg police said.
Police said around 5:30 p.m. Thursday night, they were called to a commercial robbery at the 7-Eleven on the corner of Ellice Avenue and Arlington Street.
Police said officers encountered an armed male, and were forced to shoot the male, striking the suspect. He was taken to hospital in critical condition. Police do not have an update on his condition.
Another officer was hurt during the incident. He was taken to hospital in stable condition and has since been released.
Multiple police cruisers and ambulances remained on the scene Thursday night, and police tape blocked off the majority of the 7-Eleven parking lot.
A video shared on Facebook shows a number of police officers in the area as a person walks out of the 7-Eleven. The person recording the video appears to be driving by the scene, as people begin to yell.
“Don’t move, drop the knife,” someone can be heard yelling in the video, as a large number of consecutive shots ring out.
As the person recording the video keeps driving, more yelling can be heard from people to “drop the knife.”
The IIU has been advised of the incident and will be investigating.


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| DOSE: |
15 mg |
oral |
Methadone |
(liquid) |
| |
5.0 mg |
oral |
Pharms - Diazepam |
(pill / tablet) |
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20 g |
oral |
Lecithin |
(powder / crystals) |
| T+ 0:20 |
700 mg |
oral |
DXM |
(powder / crystals) |
| T+ 1:00 |
2.0 g |
oral |
GHB |
(liquid) |
A NEW KIND OF CONCIOUSNESS EXPERIENCED
SUBSTANCES:
Methadone: 15mg (liquid, daily.  Listened to from T: 1:15 to T:3:00 supposed to work like 'mind machines' and alter brain waves from 12-14 HZ down to 2-4 HZ during 20 minute cycle.
To start with let me explain the combination of drugs. firstly I am a methadone patient, using the opiate tolerance reversing effects of DXM I have almost gotten completely off methadone easily. I can use less methadone and some DXM and feel baseline, or use my normal dose and lots of DXM and be completely saturated with opiate goodness all day. I do the first (live at baseline) 5 days out of seven and have 2 days of good 'spiritual seeking DXM opiate doses' a week for pure pleasure. The Valium allows a smooth transition on the DXM so I dont feel any negative psychoactive effects and can enjoy it fully while 5mg leaves all psychoactive properties intact.
Lecithin contains acetyl-choline precursors and is directly absorbed into the bloodstream and into the brain. It potentiates the DXM's effects, notably euphoria (about 3x) and increases clarity and thinking to near 100% of my brains capacity instead of the suggested 10%. (this is how I feel, and so do others Iíve given it to on similar drug experiences).
I always wanted a mind machine when I heard of them, but could never afford one. I ordered a free sample of something advertised in my local paper that sounded like it might be the same concept, to use with my recent aquisition of 50gr DXM powder. It advertised the following: 'meditate deeper than a zen monk in 20 minutes, guaranteed'.
My free CD came and I set up and blanket and yoga mat, did some exercises, some yoga postures and balances to stimulate the seven chakras, and took the previously mentioned drugs, looking for an out of body experience as Iíve read in reports of 3rd plateau DXM doses and mind machines. The Setting was my loungeroom by myself, on a nice day, after completing all my set tasks and feeling quite happy and content. My mindset has been quite level in recent months, due to getting all my 'stuff together'.
When the effects were coming on to almost full strength I lay down and put on the stereo headphones and lied back eyes closed as directed. I start hearing a guy talking about how the technology works and how it creates new neural pathways in the brain etc. on top of some wierd soothing vibrating sounds and calming running water and wind chimes, like a really nice relaxing sleeping tape. Very nice, and the voice and accent was excellent too.
At this point I take a small dose of GHB and reset the cd on repeat. and this is what follows;
Within minutes of the GHB taking effect; and the DXM in full swing, and the audio technology working its magick, I enter a very pleasurable state. Iím thinking 'I cant describe this but its the most wonderful euphoric journey Iíve ever been on. Iím NOT sleeping, I am conscious, but in a different world, almost exactly like astral travel. As the cycles go thru different brain wave patterns Delta theta and alpha they say. I am in Awe. I have just found how to travel into another world at any time. Iím not in my loungeroom anymore, I am seeing fractal geometric patterns, brain movies, or I can simply walk around in which ever world I choose to imagine. As this is the first time I have used it, it tells me that the neural pathways must be formed and strengthened like a muscle or like the neural pathways you develop when you ride a bike: once you learn you never forget.
I decide to come back to earth after an hour or so and see what is happening here on earth. I find myself in complete clarity on a 3rd plateau DXM trip, with pleasurable GHB euphoria. The Air is just the right temperature, and I feel absolutely reborn. I roll around and laugh and put some music on. The sheer joy I feel is indescribable. It has never left me. I continue to repeat this experience with the advance series of the audio technology and continue to build up this brand new way of thinking and just being, completely content, on cloud 9.
In Summary: The use of DXM Lecithin and Mind machine technology in conjunction has given me a new lease on life and way of thinking. I can fall asleep easily now as these new 'neural pathways' that are developing come into easy access. I would basically describe it as having a machine you can hook yourself up to and go Astral Travelling, Anytime. Its amazing.
I must say that the eternal peace we all dream of can be found, by keeping life in balance and positive thinking and using my menagerie of drugs in moderation and building positive loving relationships with those around me I no longer have a worry in the world. People say I glow, And I love the spirit of all good hearted people. I like to leave each person I speak to a little bit better than before. Its possible to to, And I wish peace to you all.
As a last note, I am starting a new regiment of relevant co factors namely pantothenic acid (B5) and DMAE to complement the effects of the lecithin choline precursors and DXM. If anyone else has had good results with the combinations Iíve described above, Iíd love to read about it.
Experience Reports are the writings and opinions of the individual authors who submit them.
Some of the activities described are dangerous and/or illegal and none are recommended by Erowid.