Django Stories v0.5.1 documentation
Here are several settings that you can use to customize Stories. Each of the following are keys in STORY_SETTINGS.
Note
The settings have been refactored in version 0.8. The old settings still work, but raise a DeprecationWarning.
A story can be in several different states, for example draft vs. live. Your workflow might have several states that a story goes through, but there can only be one choice that is considered “Published”.
Choices are specified as a list or tuple of integer - string tuples. The integer is the code for the choice and the string is the description that the user sees.
Defaults:
DEFAULT_SETTINGS = {
'STATUS_CHOICES': (
(1, 'DRAFT'),
(2, 'READY FOR EDITING'),
(3, 'READY TO PUBLISH'),
(4, 'PUBLISHED'),
(5, 'REJECTED'),
(6, 'UN-PUBLISHED'),
)
}
Draft: A work-in-progress.
Ready for Editing: The story is ready for an editor’s touch.
Ready to Publish: The editing is finished and the story is ready to go on to the web site.
Published: The story is on the web site, as long as it is past the story’s publish date and time.
Rejected: The editor didn’t like something and the author needs to work on it some more.
Un-published: The story has been removed from the site for some reason.
When a story is created, what should the the status default to?
Default:
DEFAULT_SETTINGS = {
'DEFAULT_STATUS': 1 # Draft
}
Which one of the possible statuses is considered “Show This On Site.”
Default:
DEFAULT_SETTINGS = {
'PUBLISHED_STATUS': 4 # Published
}
It is possible that stories could be coming in from several sources, such as a wire service, an editorial front end, or an FTP site. This settings allows you to mark which stories originated from which source, so you can potentially do something different depending on the source. For example, include all stories in the RSS feed, except ones that came from a wire service.
Choices are specified as a list or tuple of integer - string tuples. The integer is the code for the choice and the string is the description that the user sees.
Default:
DEFAULT_SETTINGS = {
'ORIGIN_CHOICES': (
(0, 'Admin'),
)
}
When a story is created from the Django Admin, which choice of origin should it default to?
Default:
DEFAULT_SETTINGS = {
'DEFAULT_ORIGIN': 0 # Admin
}
Should the fields related to print production be included in the database. The fields are print_pub_date, print_section, and print_page.
Default:
DEFAULT_SETTINGS = {
'INCLUDE_PRINT': False
}
A story can relate to several other things, such as other stories, photographs, photo galleries, and external links. Stories links to the Django Content Types application, which would normally show all sorts of things that don’t matter to the author and end users. This setting specifies which specific models are relatable to a story.
The value should be a tuple of ‘appname.modelname’ strings.
If this setting is empty or None, the story relations are not available in the admin. If at a later time you decide to set this, you must syncdb before it will work properly.
Default:
DEFAULT_SETTINGS = {
'RELATION_MODELS': [] # Not enabled
}
Django Stories has a built-in Paginator subclass that splits HTML-formatted text into paragraphs for paginating. The DEFAULT_SETTINGS['PAGINATION] contains several sub-settings to manage the process. See PAGINATION for more information, and the Django Paginator docs for more about pagination is general.
Should stories be paginated.
Default:
DEFAULT_SETTINGS = {
'PAGINATION': {
'PAGINATE': False
}
}
If PAGINATE is True, then this setting sets the number of paragraphs per page for pagination.
Default:
DEFAULT_SETTINGS = {
'PAGINATION': {
'P_PER_PAGE': 20
}
}
If PAGINATE is True, then this setting sets the minimum number of paragraphs allowed on the last page for pagination. This means that with P_PER_PAGE = 20 and ORPHANS = 4 a story with 24 paragraphs would only have one page, but a story with 25 paragraphs would have two pages.
Default:
DEFAULT_SETTINGS = {
'PAGINATION': {
'ORPHANS': 4
}
}
Default:
DEFAULT_SETTINGS = {
'AUTHOR_MODEL_LIMIT_CHOICES': {'is_staff': True}
}
Default:
DEFAULT_SETTINGS = {
'USE_CATEGORIES': True and 'categories' in settings.INSTALLED_APPS
}
Default:
DEFAULT_SETTINGS = {
'USE_REVERSION': True and 'reversion' in settings.INSTALLED_APPS
}


MySQL inline query versus stored procedure comparison.
Simple query using group clause for 1 million records resulting in final
list of 27 records:
1st time taken => 0.43053775
Same query through Stored procedure:
1st time taken => 0.43341600
So in terms of time, first time they are very close.
Profiling comparison for both can be seen figure no_cache_comparison.png
where left one is simple inline query and right one is stored procedure
query.
There are some actions which are extra in the inline query:
1. freeing items
2. logging slow query
3. cleaning up
Running both second time retrieve data from cache taking
0.00048025 => simple query
0.00036625 => stored procedure
Profiling comparison for both can be seen figure cache_comparison.png
where left one is simple inline query and right one is stored procedure
query.
Here too there are some extra actions for inline query:
1. logging slow query
2. cleaning up
Taking into consideration the approximate equal timing of both the type of
queries and that on second time execution both use cache, there is not
much difference. But given the fact that stored procedures are compiled
and stored, will be efficient for the db.
Also considering
https://sachinkumaram.wordpress.com/2011/03/01/stored-procedures-advantages-disadvantages/,
the advantages outweigh the disadvantages, I think.
Extra References:
====
http://www.seguetech.com/blog/06/04/Advantage-drawbacks-stored-procedures-processing-data
http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/9652


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April 9th, 2018 by Jacob Tuwiner
When it comes to storing your cryptocurrency, there are plenty of options available to you.
If you’ve expanded your portfolio into the altcoin market, you might be storing some of your tokens on exchanges. This method works, but it is not recommended!
Centralized exchanges have a single point of failure – if you’ve paid attention to the news in recent years, then you know exchanges are susceptible to cyber attack.
 This guide will highlight the 5 best cryptocurrency wallets of 2018.
Taking a Closer Look: 3 Best Hardware Wallets
| PIC | Wallet | Security Score | Shop |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ledger Blue | A+ | Compare Lowest Prices | |
| Ledger Nano S | A+ | Compare Lowest Prices | |
| TREZOR | A | Compare Lowest Prices |
Ledger Nano S - $99
1. The Ledger Nano S is a fantastic hardware wallet. Despite being extremely cheap, the Nano S can store a multitude of different tokens. Click here for the complete list of supported cryptocurrencies.
The Nano S is a safe way to store your crypto portfolio. It requires a 24 word passphrase to gain access to its contents.
Ledger Blue - $300
The Ledger Blue is significantly more expensive than the Nano S. Ledger has implemented many different security features, making it the most advanced hardware security gear on the market.
Unlike the Nano S, the Ledger Blue has a large touch screen, making it an incredibly user friendly hardware wallet. In addition, it can support many different tokens. For the full list of supported cryptocurrencies, click here.
TREZOR Wallet - $55
TREZOR is the cheapest hardware wallet on our list. Unlike the previous two, TREZOR can only store Bitcoin.
The wallet can sign transactions, and you can safely connect it to a malware infected computer.
Like most hardware wallets, TREZOR generates a 24 word recovery phrase – users have the option of setting a custom password for a total of 25 words. However, if you forget your password, the wallet will not be recoverable.
Overall, TREZOR is a great wallet, especially for the low price. For a mere $55, TREZOR is a great way to securely store your Bitcoin.
Why Should You Buy a Hardware Wallet?
We highly recommend purchasing a hardware wallet to ensure the highest level of security for your crypto portfolio.
Hardware wallets provide a host of benefits, including:
-
Your private keys are never exposed to your computer – you can connect them to a PC that has been infected with malware without worrying about revealing any sensitive information
-
The wallet requires you to confirm a transaction on your device, rather than your computer. This prevents someone from remotely stealing your tokens.
-
Hardware wallets are encrypted with a pin number – in most cases, they require a 24 word recovery phrase to gain access to their contents
-
Most companies’ software that produce hardware wallets use open source code. This means users can validate the wallet’s integrity
Software Wallets
Software wallets are a convenient, free alternative to hardware wallets. Although, many people ask the question: are software wallets safe to use?
In short, yes, software wallets such as MyEtherWallet are safe. The developers do not have access to your private keys. Just make sure you keep them secure – if your private key is lost or stolen, then you’re really out of luck…
MyEtherWallet is a popular choice for storing Ethereum and other ERC-20 tokens. For a full list of Myetherwallet’s supported tokens, click here
You don’t have to store your tokens on MyEtherWallet’s servers, nor do you have to store them on any other servers – instead, the tokens are stored locally on your computer via their wallet client.
However, if your computer is still connected to the internet, your tokens may be vulnerable to cyber thiefs. If you choose to use MyEtherWallet, or any other software ‘web’ wallets, we recommend keeping your computer offline.
How to Set Up MyEtherWallet
First, you’ll need to create a secure passsword for your wallet, which should consist of 9 characters minimum. Next, press create new wallet.
Then you will be taken to the following screen where it asks you to create a keystore file:
The keystore file is an ecrypted private key, which allows you to access your tokens. Please, I repeat, PLEASE make a backup of this file on an external drive or USB flash drive. If you lose this, well, you’re out of luck…
Click “I understand”. Then it will ask you to save your private key. You can also download a paper wallet, a document containing all of the data you’ll need to access your tokens.
Lastly, it will ask you how you would like to access your wallet. We just downloaded our encrypted private key, so we will access it using this. Press “Keystore/JSON File”, and select the encrypted private key file you downloaded. Press unlock and you’re done!


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Syntax:


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The Summary Charts Tab provides a set of charts showing different representation of the data contained in the selected experiment in order to allow users to assess the quality of the experiment.
From top to bottom, you can see the following charts:
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With and buttons you can watch the previous and next charts correspondingly.
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Potentially deadly parasite found in UK for first time
Scientists say the findings signify a change in the landscape of tick-borne pathogens in the UK
by PA, Amardeep BasseyA potentially deadly tick-borne parasite which can be passed on to humans has been found in UK sheep for the first time.
Researchers believe B. venatorum may have been carried to parts of Scotland by migratory birds from Scandinavia.
The virilous organism causes Babesiosis, an animal disease recognised as an emerging infection in people causing malaria-like symptoms.
It has been recorded extensively in China and also in Europe, with two confirmed human infections in Italy over the last two decades, but has never previously appeared in the UK.
The European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control said infected people may get symptoms such as flu and jaundice but severe cases can lead to death.
A study by University of Glasgow scientists collected blood from sheep, cattle and deer in the north-east of Scotland in areas where tick-borne diseases have previously been detected.
DNA from the parasite was detected in the blood of a large number of sheep, which were not showing any signs of disease, making them carrier animals.
New risk
Willie Weir, senior university clinician, said: "The presence of B. venatorum in the UK represents a new risk to humans working, living, or hiking in areas with infected ticks and livestock, particularly sheep.
"Although we believe the threat to humans to be low, nevertheless local health and veterinary professionals will need to be aware of the disease if the health risk from tick-borne disease in the UK is to be fully understood.
"Our findings follow the recent report of the detection of tick-borne encephalitis virus in the UK.
"Taken together, these findings signify a change in the landscape of tick-borne pathogens in the UK and the underlying causes for this need to be investigated."
Identification of this parasite in the UK raises concerns for European public health and farming policy, according to the study's authors.
The paper is published in the December edition of Emerging Infectious Disease.


https://itnext.io/error-handling-with-async-await-in-js-26c3f20bc06a
To prevent throw’s inside async’s exiting with code 0 despite the error, ALWAYS call the top level async function this way:
async function start () { ... };
start().catch(e=>{console.log(e);process.exit(1);})
// note that try-catch wont work here, must use .catch (see explanation bellow)
or
;(async ()=>{
// your code here
})().catch(e=>{console.log(e);process.exit(1);})
async function thrower() { throw new Error('async throw') }
thrower();
// shows stack trace as expected + some unhandled promise warning... but who cares, right? WRONG!, because:
// exit code: 0 <- echo $? or echo %errorlevel%
// with 'node --no-warnings', exit code still 0, but also no stack trace !!!???
try {
thrower();
} catch (e) {console.log("catched?... NO!")}
// still unhandled warning and exit code0
thrower().catch(e=>console.log("catched this time", e); process.exit(1););
the .catch() catches the ‘reject’ of the promise AND any throw inside an async function is considered a “reject”, not a standard throw… ???, hence the catch of the try catches nothing, but the .catch does.
In fact doing return Promise.reject() behaves in the same manner of throw new Error(’’)
Right, because it works when the try-catch is inside an async fuction itself
;(async ()=>{
try {
await thrower();
} catch (e) {console.log("catched!!",e); process.exit(1)}
})();


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Classification algorithms are essential part of machine learning applications. These algorithms known as classifiers. Lots of different classification algorithms exists in literature, the well known one is Decision Trees. Decision Trees are decision support systems that simply tries to find decision rules to classify instances. Rules are computed within entropy measure. If entropy of a feature is more than others than we add this feature to the tree as a decision rule.
Decision trees are not very accurate classifiers. Because it's decision boundaries are strict. In real world problems, we need more complex (sometimes non-linear) decision boundaries. To make this non-linear we can use different classification algorithms such as Artificial Neural Networks (Perceptrons). Or in a short way, we can use a different approach to make our classification results better. This method called "ensembling". Essential idea behind the ensembling is, using different classifiers and combine their results. In real life we can assume that, generally a group of people can make better decisions than a single individual.
As we can infere from name, Random Forest method includes lots of trees. For example, we have a dataset with 5000 samples and 3 classes(C1,C2,C3). In classical decision tree algorthm take all the samples and generate just one tree. But in random forests, we divide the dataset into n parts and implement for each subset of instances and train n decision trees. In evaluation phase of model, test instance classified by all the trees in forest. At the and, all the results combined. For example results of trees is something like this.
It's easy to say that our instance is a member of C1, because most of the trees says that.If you are working on a classification task, using different classifiers and combining them improves your accuracy. For further information about this topic you can google this terms


Hey. Came across your article when searching for
touch-option for a hover class CSS effect seen
here:
NMCEvent.ca/students
Where did you find documentation about how to use
modernizr’s touch detection? I’d like
to change the hover to single-tap whenever the user
is on mobile/touch device. Could you point me in
the right direction?
A useful blog post on the topic, linked to from
within the Modernizr source for detecting touch
events. Conclusion: it’s not likely to
reliably detect touchscreen devices from
Javascript.
Hey. Came across your article when searching for touch-option for a hover class CSS effect seen here:
NMCEvent.ca/students
Where did you find documentation about how to use modernizr’s touch detection? I’d like to change the hover to single-tap whenever the user is on mobile/touch device. Could you point me in the right direction?
Thanks,
Hi there,
Thanks for your comments.
The link you posted leads to a 404, I`m afraid, so I can’t see what you’re talking about.
The little modenizr documentation that there is on touch detection, can be found here: http://modernizr.com/docs/#touch
Apart from that, I found StackOverflow to be very helpful (see links above).
A useful blog post on the topic, linked to from within the Modernizr source for detecting touch events. Conclusion: it’s not likely to reliably detect touchscreen devices from Javascript.
http://www.stucox.com/blog/you-cant-detect-a-touchscreen/


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This phrase now resonates with new meaning after watching tonight’s performance of Verdi’s Macbeth at the Vancouver opera. There’s nothing like the tortured soul of Macbeth as he struts about the stage moaning in Italian and secretly wishing he’d never married Lady Macbeth. Seriously though, this was a solid opera, even although Carmen is still my favourite, it was my first time seeing an operatic adaptation of Shakespeare. I quite enjoyed it. One of our classmates was Witch No. 3. I didn’t recognize him in tights though.
Here’s the promotional poster, but who these people are is a mystery, because they weren’t in the show. I don’t think the actual actors are as photogenic as these sombre folks.


This town (not to be confused with Saint John, New Brunswick in the Bay of Fundy), lies on the SE corner of Newfoundland.
This port is a container ship terminal as well as a cruise ship destination.
St. John's is a pleasant city, with numerous restaurants, bars and coffee shops. The city enjoys a long and vibrant history as the seat of the provincial Crown; and the oldest English-founded city in North America.
Position 47° 33'54"N, 52° 40'45"W (harbour entrance)
When you are about 12nm from the approach channel to St. John's Harbour, call St. John's Traffic on VHF Ch.11.
All movements within the harbour must be reported on VHF ch. 11.
Customs is located on the 6th floor of the Canada building. If you have firearms on board you will be required to buy a permit and have them locked.
Last updated September 2016.
Cruisers report it is convenient to tie up to one of the floats by the front leading mark (47° 34'00"N, 52° 42'07"W), near the large "Canada" building known as "Queens Wharf". There are no facilities, water or electricity, but the dock is very handy for downtown.
An alternative berth can be found further into the harbour at Piers 6-9. This is more convenient for downtown, but is noisier and berthing is among the day tripper boats. There is water here and sometimes electricity.
Dockage here is inexpensive and payment is made at the Harbour Master's office in the blue building north on Water St.
Anchoring is prohibited in the harbour.
Showers can be found at the YMCA on Kingsbridge Road, a 15 minute walk from the floats.
Last updated September 2016.


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Do We All Have Buddha Nature?
ϕ Can Non-Corporeal Information Forms Evolve Sentience?
ϕ Life in the Noosphere
ϕ Back to One
Bodhicitta x Will To Power
ϕ Suffering And Isolation May Concentrate Will To Emancipate
ϕ Power From The People - Power Emanates From The Individual First!
ϕ Magnification of Our Net Sociophysical Energy Through Will To Power
The Pythagorean Monad
ϕ Ergo … Proxy
ϕ Materialism Was An Unfortunately Necessary Tool For The Powerful
ϕ Trapped Within Materialist Paradigms, Obsessed With Possession
ϕ Dialetical Materialism Provided A Philosophic Basis For Stalin’s Utilitarian Atrocities
A Neuroanatomical Objectification of Meditation and Spirituality
ϕ Ketosis and Autophagy Scale Up The Brain’s Neural Evolutionary Mechanisms
ϕ Voiding Neural Signal to Kindle Novel States of Consciousness
ϕ The Fleeting Nature of Meditative Consciousness
ϕ Downregulation of Ordinary Neural Circuit Flow Results in Decentralized Crosstalk
ϕ Meditation Produces More Natural Neural Decentralization Than Psychedelics
ϕ Task-Specific Overclocking of Neural Circuitry Presents Regional Variance In Resource Consumption
ϕ Cognition With Diminished Conceptual Designation
ϕ No, Your Hedonistic Paradise Only Diverts The Productive Energy of the Populus
Monadic Metaphysics, Cognition and Meditation
ϕ Meditation with Lucidity and Wide Spectra of Sensory Input
ϕ Sensory Stimuli Triggers Conceptual Designation, Which Woven Together Constructs Cognitive State
ϕ Meditative States of Mind Do Not Uniquely Emerge From Meditation
ϕ Invoking True Being
ϕ A Posteriori, Experiential Understanding of Metaphysics
ϕ Infinitely Inwards And Infintely Outwards Are One And The All
Nietzsche, Nietzsche, wherefore art thou?
Please do not read this and believe I have spoken authoritatively on any religious tradition. FInd your own way.
Meditation herein variously refers to Buddhist meditation and spiritual states of mind. I was heavily influenced by a lite understanding of theosophy early on. Here, I am only trying to state my own understanding of what I have experienced in life. I hope that this neuroanatomical understanding of meditation and spirituality will catalyze a spiritual revolution when we need it most, at a time when faith was undermined by science and God is dead. Expect my writing to disappear or become heavily edited.  God will return.
Do We All Have Buddha Nature?
Of course. Don’t we all exist within the same dream? Aren’t we all one, as well as our thoughts? What is truly separated? What is truly the boundary between you and I? Where does separation begin? Where does it originate? Where does the concept of dependent origination originate?
(Bodhicitta X Will To Power) => Spirit Bomb
We all have Buddha nature: all sentient beings. Not to probe too far into Buddhism, but what is sentience or awareness anyways? I truly believe that any chaotic system, with perhaps some constraints, produces awareness when provided enough running time. Given a degree of antifragility, entities or organizations within the chaotic system produce increasingly higher strata of information representation, leading eventually to life, awareness and sentience.
Can Non-Corporeal Information Forms Evolve Sentience?
This leads to interesting questions about the definition of life: there are other non-corporeal chaotic frameworks within our own material realm that exist alongside the framework of organic matter that has produced life. So, organic matter and life itself emerged from the chaotic system provided by molecular dynamics. This awareness eventually produced consciousness and these have provided a basis for sociophysical chaotic systems with their own antifragile mechanics and evolutionary dynamics. If the first premise is true, that all chaotic systems yield awareness and life, and the second premise also holds, that biological chaotic systems yield increasingly complicated systems, then what are those information forms which manifest on top of higher chaotic frameworks? Are those information forms which inhabit chaotic systems such as sociophysical systems also forms of life? These life forms would inhabit the noosphere instead of the biosphere.
Life in the Noosphere
If your conception of metaphysics emerges from the ideal instead of the material, then those forms that emerge should cohere to certain archetypical forms. If you accept platonic realism and accept that metaphysical forms exist a priori – which I believe they do – then doesn’t everything that could occur preexist within some totality? This totality has had many names through history – Abraxus is one of them. However, these information lifeforms that emerge in higher organizations of chaotic systems must map to some organization of archetypes – they exist as manisfestations of the composition of archetypes and metatypes. Grimoires are an example of a medieval demonologist’s classification of metaphysical beings, though these are primarily malevolent.
Buer is President of Hell, According To This Grimoire, the Ars Goetia
In this interpretation of metaphysics, non-corporeal entities could become aware – they perhaps exist in the minds or brains of many sentient lifeforms simultaneously. This parallels the definition of an egregore – a non-corporeal entity that emerges to have real physical effects from the beliefs of a group. Whether such an egrigore is sentient is a question more difficult to answer.
A More Recent Manisfestation of the Being Known As Buer
Back to One
Yet, if we are all truly one because, we share common causal origination when traced all the way back, then isn’t the notion of seperateness an illusion altogether? And if we are all convergent again, isn’t the notion of separation simply a temporary illusion?
Bodhicitta x Will To Power
What does it mean to want something? Is desire so bad? If there is something truly good in our world, shouldn’t we want it badly? If it is truly good to want, it must be good for all to desire this thing. I have been isolated for so long, but one thing I never gave up on was desiring my own salvation from suffering. I wanted to free myself by learning everything I could. I believed that knowledge gave me power over circumstance and the tools I needed to free others: from sickness, from closemindedness, from lack of compassion, from their suffering. I never stopped wanting this badly. I wanted to do something great: to discover the cure to cancer or some wondrous thing that would ease the scope and degree of problems that we all encounter.
Suffering And Isolation May Concentrate Will To Emancipate
Especially as the world has continued to clamp its walls down around me, this only further fueled my desire to save others. I thought – if I only had money, I could buy the influence I need to fix the political problems I see. This is the only reason I ever really wanted money. I do not care for fame or status. However, that’s selfish, isn’t it? Why does it matter who saves us?
Is Suffering Necessary? Would You Choose to Stay Behind and Suffer, If You Could Make a Difference?
Power From The People - Power Emanates From The Individual First!
What we all have is power over our local circumstance. The truth is that we all eminate sociophysical energy. It begins with us and it is channelled by our beliefs and knowledge. But this sociophysical energy – the capacity to influence our surroundings, the status of others and the beliefs of others – this springs from all individuals. We choose to empower who we do, but we can be deceived into forming beliefs that channel this sociophysical energy improperly.
Magnification of Our Net Sociophysical Energy Through Will To Power
We can also magnify the energy we emanate through desire: not any kind of desire, but a special kind of desire – bodhicitta. It is the desire to free others, specifically the desire for all other beings to attain Buddhahood – to know, find and embrace their Buddha nature. What if this notion of bodhicitta is combined with Nietzsche’s idea of will to power? We can magnify our capacity to eliminate the suffering of others by magnifying our cultivation of bodhicitta. We then channel this through awareness, knowledge and beliefs to impact our world in meaningful ways.
Ming+FS - Back To One
The Pythagorean Monad
The model of metaphysics mentioned above has many names and aspects: platonic realism, dialectical idealism, and others. If one wants to model it mathematically, the metaphysical forms can be combinatorially enumerated, but they are infinite. The Pythagoreans studied this and developed their monadic conceptualization of metaphysics: the monad, dyad, triad, and quadrad. This ends with infinite recursion: any form modeled with monads must eventually depend on a monad proxy, yielding recursion infinitely outwards … or inwards. Leibniz, whose IQ was famously estimated to be above 190, also developed a similar understanding of the monad.
Charles Sanders Pierce’s Conception of Monadic Metaphysics From The Essential Pierce
Ergo … Proxy
This implies that everything metaphysical can be modeled mathematically and, by using specific mathematic tools, exists a priori. Everything that could exist in this universe existed as a conceiveable, but infinite form before the material realm existed. Phi is the zenith of irrationality – it is the most purely irrational conceptualization of a number – quod erat demonstratum via its construction as the most primitive continued fraction. For a better understanding of this, check out the Mathologer video Infinite fractions and the most irrational number. The number one represents both unity and identity. Can’t we envisage phi as unity continued with the infinite application of some morphism?
Phi As Continued Fractions And Continued Roots
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There is much to be demonstrated to link these two concepts of monadic metaphysics and phi – still, even in the metaphysical realm, the forms display the signature of the golden ratio. Phi is the perfection of the monad proxy – i.e. wouldn’t phi emerge in specific constructions of infinity categories?
For The Philosophically Minded … The Best Anime?
Materialism Was An Unfortunately Necessary Tool For The Powerful
In order to motivate people to work together to create regional prosperity and for other reasons, materialism is a useful in formulating apologetic justifications of mechanisms of control. Dialectical materialism and other materially dependant formulations of metaphysics lend themselves to justifying ideology convenient for power and control. Western philosophy started with Plato’s conception of idealistic forms and this was immediately reconciled by Aristotle’s Metaphysics. For millinea afterwards, the truth of thought and everything that was understood in Western life was conceived through a lens stained by materialism. This lens extrapolates into philosophic justifications, convenient to mechanisms of control, based on attainment of wealth, power or status. This same struggle between materialism and idealism has played out across the world, over and over again. When we transend the physical world, we are free. When we define ourselves by it, we are trapped within our world.
Trapped Within Materialist Paradigms, Obsessed With Possession
This blinds us from the truth and implies that what matters is only what we can see, feel and taste. Materialistic conceptions of metaphysics imply that all that matters is what can be attained because, metaphysically, it is all distinct and any shared conception of form distributed among objects is incidental to our experience. This conception of metaphysics is false. The power of philosophy is immense and it is difficult to see how elements of some philosophy can be extrapolated for great impact: either beneficent or malevolent.
Dialetical Materialism Provided A Philosophic Basis For Stalin’s Utilitarian Atrocities
Throughout history, ideas both good and bad occasionally extrapolate themselves with horrific consequences. With the stroke of a pen, Stalin declared dialectical materialism to be the academic law of the land in 1938. This seemingly inconsequential basis of philosophy and thought is what justified the horrific utilitarianism in Soviet policy implementation. Stalin’s particular brand of materialism led him to understand people as inconsequential blobs of material, only useful insofar as they could be used. People then became a kind of ammunition: a resource to be lobbed at the enemy.
A Neuroanatomical Objectification of Meditation and Spirituality
To produce spiritual states of mind, would there be certain neuroanatomical objectives or goals for invoking them?  So, if you understand your brain as a computer with complex, biological transistors, then changing the electrical and energetic flows, globally, regionally and circuituitously absolutely has an effect on how they regulate themselves.
Further, this is a discussion of neuroanatomy as it relates to spirituality in general, with a strong focus on Buddhist meditation. Christianity and other religious traditions have practices which can evoke similar and potentially identical spiritual states of mind. Some kinds of prayer, especially when extended, force you to open your heart and surrender yourself and your mind to God.
Ketosis and Autophagy Scale Up The Brain’s Neural Evolutionary Mechanisms
Fasting is another good example of a completely different approach to invoking alternative spiritual states of mind. Fasting for 48 hours or longer – with zero carbs, zero proteins, zero fats, and zero fluids besides water –scales up your neurological rate of adaptation. It forces your neural networks to rebalance themselves. In my own theory to explain fasting, it seems to cause the mind and brain to freak out. The brain thinks – I’m dying! – what am I doing wrong? How can I get food now? What are the most important things I know? How are my neural networks weighted now and how can they be weighted so that I can survive?
Lumosity, It’s Like “Games” For Your Brain: Watch this Vine
This provokes neurological rebalancing by invoking autophagy. With zero carbs, zero proteins and nothing but water, insulin levels drop, which causes the body produce energy with ketosis by converting fat to energy. In the brain, fats are less available and without fats streaming in from the blood, your brain shuts down frivolous neural activity and begins enacting autophagy. This study, Short-term fasting induces profound neuronal autophagy, explains the induction of autophagy. When autophagy is invoked to the extreme or too often, the repetition or neurological changes could be damaging, so fasting has a cost. However, the brain begins reweighting neural networks to emphasis healthier behaviors. At the same time, the brain should constrict the patterns and distribition electrical and ionic flows across a restricted set of high and medium-level regions of itself.
That is how fasting provokes spiritual states of mind. Combined with meditation, it could have powerful effects on the brain. I once fasted for about 72 hours starting on March 24th 2017, though only I only restricted myself to water as a fluid for the latter 48 hours was restricted to water.  If you don’t restrict fluids to water, the protracted ketosis doesn’t yield nearly as much autophagy in the brain. This has short-term and long-term costs, like lack of energy or overly-disrupted neural networks, but fasting is being explored for treating neurological disorders. I experimented with it when I briefly thought I could have Lafora Disease because I thought the autophagy might clean up toxic networks of glycogen buildup, as well as dying neurons. Try getting the chronicly ill to try this, it won’t go over well with your IRB…
Voiding Neural Signal to Kindle Novel States of Consciousness
To me, meditation is about zeroing out most of the mind. When meditating, my goal is the total retrenchment of conscious engagement of neural pathways, starting with motor pathways and gradually shutting down cognition. This means muting any stimulation of nerves signaling muscles, except what is necessary for me to meditate. Thus, I try to turn down the volume of any cranial or spinal nerves that are not essential for breathing or posture. This may have an effect on how the brain processes afferent nerve signals carrying signal up through the spine. Once the motor signals are zeroed out, I try to turn down the volume of active cognitive processes.
Circuit Trace from Motor Cortex through Spinal Column. Again, Form IS Function
The Fleeting Nature of Meditative Consciousness
This qualitatively transforms my subjective experience of consciousness. Since the mind is disengaged from higher-level cognition, it proves challenging to consciously interrogate the qualities of this state of mind. When you first activate a state of mind like this, you may have a ‘Whoa WTF was that?’ moment. When this first happened to me, I was suddenly projected an image behind two people holding hands in front of a sunrise or sunset. It seemed to come from outside or it was at least an image I did not consciously wander into. I didn’t expect it and so immediately tried to reflect on it. Instantly, I lost balance and awoke from my group meditation, almost gasping for air.
Downregulation of Ordinary Neural Circuit Flow Results in Decentralized Crosstalk
In many ways, these lower-level neural circuits exhibit transistor-like behavior: their structure dampens or amplifies signal downstream. Downregulation of ordinarily engaged circuits results in profoundly different states of mind. When the usual signal is quieted, your mind disengages from its usual fluid flows, whose constant erosion has resulted in strongly upregulated circuits in your brain, like the Default Mode Network. Neural activity for this network in particular the should become recessed.
In fact, meditation’s effects on DMN are so pronounced, it’s being studied as a biomarker for monitoring the therapeutic effects of meditation. Even in academia, it has been demonstrated that meditation leads to reduced default mode network activity beyond an active task.
Parietal Gyrus - Dr. Greg Dunn
Meditation Produces More Natural Neural Decentralization Than Psychedelics
Since the mind flows through the brain like a river, stemming its flow in one area results in increased activity elsewhere, though it is not zero-sum. This sudden void of consciously engaged neural pathways encourages circuits to fire and connect in decentralized ways. Psychedelics also encourage networks of the brain that are usually unconnected to become connected by encouraging neural crosstalk. However, psychedelics induce this in a harsh, artifical way with chemicals that globally affect all regions of the brain, whereas spiritual practice gently encourages decentralized neural activity.
Task-Specific Overclocking of Neural Circuitry Presents Regional Variance In Resource Consumption
When commonly active states of mind are recessed, this also tones down nutrient and energy-intensive processes. Depending on how your active cognition engages the modular functionality of the mind for specific tasks, these circuits regularly run hot. In the brain, both distribution and consumption of energy and nutrients exhibit localized variation. This local variance in resource consumption yields the phenomenon of short-term burnout for highly repetitive, cognitively taxing activities. This can usually be addressed with cardio exercise to trigger fluid flux or simply by taking a short break. To abuse an idiom, variety is the spice of life.
Self-Reflected - Dr. Greg Dunn
Cognition With Diminished Conceptual Designation
While meditating, your mind is calm and relaxed and encouraged to drift. When your mind engages in conceptual designation, you map structured meaning onto qualia. As you engage in higher forms of cognition, your mind becomes increasingly bound to preexisting concepts it weaves and layers on top of its experience of itself. By doing this, the mind categorizes aspects of its sensory and cognitive experiences.
In modern life, we simply do not experience life without a strong reliance on cognitive patterns heavily dependent on conceptual designation. This phenomena of modern life presents itself in the extreme. Many of us – perhaps most – may not experience states of mind with conceptual designation diminished beyond the threshold that makes that state of consciousness appreciably distinct. That is, some of us may never experience these altered flows of consciousness.
For Wetware Computing Architectures, Form IS Function And There Are Mathematic Maximal Networking Bounds For Local Computation
Moreover, transhumanism and brain-computer interfaces (BCI) may permanently divorce humanity from some preexisting spiritual internet connection, which is why I will never modify my brain in that way. I’ve maintained that view for years now, since transhumanism represents the technological embodiment of the left-hand path.
The Spinal Dermatome: Tactile Regions Mapped To Their Nerves. Form IS Function.
Any crude BCI will certainly distort behavior of circuits and regions, eventually physically deforming them. Without massive structural changes, it’s not clear that the brain can actually extend the mind’s capacity to process significantly more information that it already does. Most of that computaton would need to be external, but exposed to the brain as a sense. Unfortunately, the only sense that is exposes semiotic and semantic data to the mind is memory. It is not the hardware interface of a BCI that is technically prohibitive, it is the software interface. Perhaps quantum or nano would change nature and quality of these limitations.
No, Your Hedonistic Paradise Only Diverts The Productive Energy of the Populus
If your transhumanist philosophy and/or political strategies are banking on virtualizing a hedonistic plane of pleasure as a newfound fentanyl of the masses, you really need to pay attention to what is specifically enabled by the technology, technically, phenomenologically and teleologically. Society must conquer technonihilism’s tendancy to obliterate the individual. What truly is the meaning to life, of life? As timeless as they are, we must answer those questions. Whether we take a hard right or hard left, we are certainly racing towards a world where the penultimately powerful few control the rest of us via ownership of technology. As much as the pragmatic and materialistic want to write off philosophy as a liberal art with no economic utility, the battles we face are philosophical.
Nerve Bundling in the Spinal Column: Arranged In ~2D~ Space (Flexor/Extensor X Homunculus)
Did you notice how the arrangement of nerves in the spinal column can be simplified into a two dimensional arrangement? Look at the areas in the red box. Such an understanding of nerve arrangements is required for surgery or cybernetics. If you combine this understanding with knowledge of neural networks and machine learning, especially as applied biologically, then you will understand what I understand: transhumanism’s intent to modify function & form of the human brain should provoke concern.
With BCI technology, if we permanently divorce ourselves from our wetware’s true spiritual connection, what then? Are we permanently damned to the left-hand path? This all depends on the specifics of the technology, of course. Again, variety is the spice of life; we need variety of body, mind and spirit; anything that is to be adopted by 100% of a population needs to be viewed with utmost skepticism.
Monadic Metaphysics, Cognition and Meditation
What impacts do various conceptions of metaphysics have on the human mind, on cognition and on meditative states of mind? Some meditative practices encourage the development and experience of states of mind where conceptual designation is recessed. Conceptual designation occurs when the mind imbues our sensory experience with layers of metaphysical forms. This article dives into conceptual designation more completely as it relates to meditation.
In The Image Below, What Does Your Mind Notice First, Conceptually?
Meditation with Lucidity and Wide Spectra of Sensory Input
Meditative practices encourage the development of these altered modes of consciousness. They are relaxing. It feels good. Furthermore, these states of mind may provide an experiential basis for metaphysical understanding. I have always wondered whether it’s possible to develop meditative skills to maintain a state of mind like this while ‘lucid’ or at least with the eyes open. A neurological understanding of how these states arise in your mind implies that changing the categories of sensory stimulation may also change subjective and objective aspects of these states. With more skill, can one maintain meditative states of mind with more sensory input?
Above, Enumeration of Primative Forms From Graph Theory In Analytic Combinatorics, Seen in Goodwill Hunting
What did your mind notice first, in the image above? Did it read the unfamiliar vocabulary of datascience? Or did it notice the simply the presence of words in English or Kanji? Or, most likely, it choose to “see” the whale or the fish first, but which one? This is conceptual designation. Can you turn it off? Can you look at this image with zero associations to the images, the text or anything else, especially with high-contrast colors and the immediate unconscious stimiluation of linguistic content? It’s almost impossible, isn’t it?
Sensory Stimuli Triggers Conceptual Designation, Which Woven Together Constructs Cognitive State
This Cognitive State Ranges from Short-term to Long-term. Short-Term Cognitive State is Easily Disrupted
Sensory stimuli easily trigger conceptual designation, which is partly why most of us learn to meditate in a relaxed state with their eyes closed. The diminished degree of input means the mind is less likely to become attached to sensory experience. Visual stimuli in particular provoke this conceptual designation: have you ever tried to look at written words without reading them or allowing those well-worn subconscious pathways to activate at all? Even if the language is unfamiliar, the mind begins layering information onto your experience the moment it enters your visual field. When meditating, the goal is to turn all of that off, almost impossible with visual stimulation, since your mind is preprocessing and caching data, layering in conceptually designated information.
What would it mean to operate in a quasi-lucid state of consciousness where most of these processes of semantic or semiotic designation are diminished? Diminished conceptual designation means that you might hear a sound, but your focus does not drift towards attending to it. Your mind does not try to label thoughts or sensory input, even when you experience distracting sensory stimuli. You are encouraged to deal with thoughts that arise as they arise, but to avoid dwelling on them. Apparently zazen meditation should be performed with the eyes half-open. I’ve tried it a few times. It’s difficult. If you train yourself to do this with zazen, then perhaps it alters how you experience fleeting “third eye” visual phenomena.
Because This Image Is So Fantastic…
Meditative States of Mind Do Not Uniquely Emerge From Meditation
There are many types of meditative states of mind. One must devote their lives to study from spiritual masters in order to advance. It is possible to spontaneously develop these understandings, whatever you might name them or call them, but it is not possible to learn these things from a book or a blog. You must learn from experience and devotion through apprenticeship is perhaps the best way.
If these states could be maintained, what would other, more lucid or more open meditative states of mind be like? What would my experience be like? language must require conceptual designation. I assume that almost all structured thought would as well. Is this similar to the state of mind I feel when I play piano, either memorized or improvised? Is it similar to what I feel when I’m dancing and I’m hyperfocused, yet not focused at all? When I’m engaging in these activities, I feel varying degrees of constraint/structure on my cognitive processes. When I’m not trying to structure what I’m doing and I don’t need to think about it, that’s when I perform the best. My mind begins to wander or will simply fade into the background. I become the music, but part of my mind is freed to reflect back on itself, yet there’s the same ephemerality: if I try to hard to control or focus that freed element of my mind, it breaks the meditative state of mind.
Invoking True Being
Is this what it feels like to truly exist? Is this what truly being feels like? Are there those of use who can activate these states of mind more naturally? Is this why we can feel the soul in live music? Is it because the performers become one with themselves and one with the audience? Is there some connection established that no Grateful Dead recording could ever replicate?
Gotcha? Real or Re-Lu, She Has The Prima Materia
What is the most basic substance of metaphysics? The metaphysical
atom? It is the monad, but the true essence of the monad is infinitely
distance. It is only through the monad proxy that, through this
conceptualization can all the Platonic forms be conceptualized. As the
forms extend infinitely outward with the monad proxy, they
asymptotically converge to one: the monad itself. Thus, meditation
would give us an a posteriori
understanding of metaphysical oneness.
A Posteriori, Experiential Understanding of Metaphysics
Total non-conceptual awareness means you mind is not laying down any structure onto your experience: semantic, linguistic or semiotic. I believe this lack of structure in the mind means you experientially begin to approach this oneness, yourself. You contract the tendancy to “know” anything, to label any part of your experience, sensory or semiotic. Does this state of mind, when practiced to elusive perfection, eventually reach an experiential understanding of oneness? Does this experience approach that of the one is the all, the all is the one? If so, this is functionally linked to a monadic model of metaphysics.
Infinitely Inwards And Infintely Outwards Are One And The All
Your being contracts inwards, but also infinitely outwards. Therefore, idealized states of mind produce an experiential understanding of this oneness and allness. You experience the monad: which I believe to be the prima materia, or the starting material for the philosopher’s stone. It is through an vivid, seasoned understanding of this state of mind that we are able to model, conceptualize and transvalue all things. From here, we begin our journey to transform ourselves and our surroundings from lead into gold.


The William Hodge Family
(about 1777 - 1871)
The William
Hodge family emigrated from Pennsylvania to Ohio about 1840. They were farmers. We know practically nothing about William s life in his early
years. We don t know where his Hodge
line may have originated. It seems most
likely that they may have come from the British Isles since many Hodge lines
have been traced back to Scotland, England, and Wales.
The death record
for William Hodge, parent of Samuel Hodge, gives his death as February 20,
1871. It lists his place of birth as
being Maryland. However, Federal Census
records show him to have been born in Pennsylvania. The name of William's wife is unknown. She and William had 5 children, one of whom was Samuel Hodge (abt 1817 - February 11, 1896), the author s
great, great, great grandfather. The
names of the other four children were Martha, Mary, William R., and Phebe
Hodge. The only available data on these
children are contained in the Hodge family tree on this site.
It appears that
the name of the parent of William Hodge, parent of Samuel Hodge, may also have been
named William Hodge. The evidence for
this comes from court records that are discussed below. To keep the story straight I will refer to
William Hodge, parent of William Hodge, as William Hodge, Sr. I will refer to William Hodge, parent of
Samuel Hodge, as William Hodge, Jr.
From the deed
records in the Monroe County courthouse, on October 8, 1844 William Hodge, Jr.,
parent of Samuel, bought from Joseph McCoy 80 acres situated in Range 6,
Township 4, Section 28. The description
of the parcel is given as, eastern 1/2 of Southeastern quarter. The deed is located in Deed Book, Volume 8,
page 6. This property is situated in
Bethel Township on Pleasant Ridge. It
is perhaps equidistant between Graysville and Sycamore Valley and almost
directly across the road from the Pleasant Ridge Church of Christ.
What little we
know about William Hodge, Jr., parent of Samuel Hodge, comes from land and tax
records and from legal documents relating to a lawsuit. It appears that William, parent of Samuel,
had a brother named James Hodge. The land records show that on February 10,
1838, James Hodge bought a 1+ acre lot near Malaga, Ohio from William G.
Shankland. Malaga is 8 miles north of
Woodsfield on State Route 800. From
William Hodges's farm, Woodsfield, Ohio was 16 miles north-northeast making a
trip between the James Hodge and William Hodge, Jr.'s properties a total of 24
miles.
The following is
from the records of the Monroe County, Civil Court. They are excerpts from a series of law suits held in the Civil Courts
of Monroe County, Ohio. They began with
Peter Waddle, plaintiff, suing William Hodge, defendant for the price of a
mare. I believe the defendent to be
William Hodge, Sr. because as will be seen later in the story, this William
Hodge appears to be the parent of James Hodge who lived in Malaga, and most
likely the parent of William Hodge, Jr., parent of Samuel Hodge. According to the records from the Civil
Court and other available records, the story goes like this.
In 1847 when
this saga began, William Hodge, Sr. was likely about 90 years old and it
appears that by then his son, William Hodge, Jr., was around 70 years old and
that Samuel, who was 27 years old, was the primary operator on his father's,
William Hodge, Jr. s farm. According to
the records, on March 5, 1847 William Hodge, Sr. (whom we will call Bill Hodge
for convenience) borrowed a mare from Peter Waddle. The purpose for borrowing the mare was to make a trip from near
Graysville to Malaga, most likely to visit his son, Jim. Presumably, he made the trip without
incident but shortly after the returned trip, the mare became sick. In less than a month, on April 1, 1847, the
mare died. Peter held Bill Hodge responsible
for the mare but Bill felt the fate of the mare was not his fault. No doubt there were some words between the
two men but no agreement as to who or what was responsible. But, Peter was out a mare and he felt he
should be compensated for her.
With no
resolution in sight, on April 14, 1847 Peter Waddle brought a legal complaint
against Bill Hodge, Sr. On April 24, 1847 at 12:00 o'clock the parties to the
dispute appeared in the office of the Thomas Miller, Justice of Peace for
Bethel Township. Peter filed a bill of
particulars that included compensation for the horse plus damages; a bill that
came to a total of $90. But, there was
to be no resolution with each man feeling that he was in the right. The outcome of this hearing was that Bill
Hodge, Sr. demanded and was granted a trial by jury.
The trial date
was set for May 1, 1847. The jury
included Henry Winland, Robert Martin, Jacob Miller, Sen. William Holden,
Frances Miller and Jack Miller, Jr. The
defendant, William Hodge, Sr., called 15 witnesses. These included Robert Gatchel, Jonathan Conner, John L. Henthorn,
John Enlow, Matthew Scott, Thomas Fisher, William Hodge (I assume this to be
William Hodge, Jr.), James Hodge (I assume this to be William Hodge, Sr. s
son), Martha Hodge, Elisabeth Enlow, Samuel Fisher, James Enlow, James Thomson,
John Moray, and Samuel Hodge (I assume this to be the son of William Hodge,
Jr.). Considering the number of
witnesses it must have been a lengthy trial over a mare. In the end, Bill Hodge, Sr. lost. Bill was judged to owe Peter Waddle $60 for
the mare plus costs of $34.70 cents.
It would be
interesting to be able to know more of the details of the position of Bill
Hodge, Sr., but, alas, such details have been lost in time.  He decided to appeal the decision to the
Court of Common Pleas. This retrial or
review of the case appears to have been scheduled for the June term of 1848.
Having been
found liable by the first trial, the court apparently found cause to question whether
Bill Hodge would pay if he were found guilty the second time (or perhaps more
correctly stated: if the court of appeals upheld the Civil Court s
decision). So, as a condition of the
appeal, Bill Hodge, Sr. had to appear before the Justice of Peace, Thomas
Miller, and post a bond of $250 bond.
Of course, with each maneuver the legal costs in the case continued to
rise. Bill Hodge purchased a $250 bond
from a bondsman, Jonathan Conner.
Co-signing with him for security was James Hodge, his son.
The next action
was precipitated by Peter Waddle in the October 1852 term of Common Pleas
Court. On November 1, 1852 Peter Waddle
caused the bondsman, Jonathan Conner to pay the sum of $111.97 plus cost, for a
total of $122.60. In this action
William Hodge, Sr. is reported to have died and that his estate was
insolvent. James Hodge who had
co-signed the bond with William Hodge, Sr., paid nothing of the $122.60
bill.
Bondsmen do not
like to pay bonds and Jonathan Conner was no exception. In May 1860, Jonathan Conner filed suit to
compel the heirs of James Hodge, deceased, to make a deed to Peter Mann for a
lot near the town of Malaga and compel said Peter Mann to pay over the purchase
money for said lot to the plaintiff, Jonathan Conner.
You guessed it. According to the court records related to the
May 1860 lawsuit by Jonathan Conner to recover his $122.60 or some part
thereof, James Hodge son of William Hodge, Sr., had died. I subsequently found James Hodge s tomb
stone in Malaga which indicates that he died October 29, 1851.* What apparently happened was that Jonathan
Conner never stopped trying to collect his $122.60 from the estate of James
Hodge, the cosigner of William Hodge, Sr.'s bond.
But, you will
recall (from above) that James Hodge had bought an acre or so of land in 1838
near Malaga from one William G Shankland.
Being a good bondsman, Jonathan Conner found out about the lot. The records show that one of James Hodge s
heirs sold this acre of land to a Peter Mann for $120. Peter Mann made improvements on this land
and began paying taxes on it but he withheld paying the $120 purchase price
until he could be provided a clear deed.
This never happened. After James
Hodge died his heirs could never get together to provide the clear deed. James Hodge's heirs included William Hodge
(still another William Hodge), Kenworthy Hodge, John Hodge, Robert Hodge,
Joseph Hodge, Margaret (Hodge) and her husband Moses Starr, and Martha
Hodge. But the family had dispersed. William had moved to Maryland; John and
Robert still lived in Monroe County, Ohio; Joseph lived in Noble County, Ohio;
Margaret and Moses Starr as well as Margaret's sister, Martha Hodge, lived in
Guernsey County, Ohio; and Kenworthy lived in California.
Jonathan Conner
saw the agreed-upon price of $120 for the 1 acre lot of James Hodge as his
ticket to getting at least part of his $122.60 back. So, to accomplish his ends, Mr. Conner sued the heirs of James
Hodge and Peter Mann as mentioned above.
The sheriff was commanded by the court to notify the heirs of James
Hodge that they were being sued by Jonathan Conner in the Court of Common Pleas
of Monroe County and that unless they answered by the 23 of June 1860, the
petition in said case as against them will be taken as true and judgment
rendered accordingly.
Peter Mann's
answer to the court was that he was ready to pay the $120 as soon as he could
get a clear deed for the land. He
claimed that he had bought the lot from Robert Hodge on March 14, 1856 as an
agent of the heirs. The case was
resolved by all the heirs, except Robert, missing the response deadline of 23
June 1860. James was free to prepare a
deed for Peter Mann. Peter Mann in turn
paid the Court the $120 for the lot.
The Court took its cut from the $120 and paid the rest to Jonathan
Conner.
And so it
appears that after a period of 13 years the case of the dead mare finally came
to a close.
* A search of the two old cemeteries in
Malaga, Ohio turned up a gravestone for James Hodge and his wife Agnes. James Hodge died on October 29, 1851 at the
age of 73
Two
assumptions had to be made to allow the several pieces of the above saga to fit
together. They need to be mentioned
here as qualifiers so that future researchers will not assume their accuracy
without understanding that they are assumptions. The first is the assumption that William Hodge (abt 1777 1871)
and James Hodge (abt 1778 1851) are brothers. This assumption is based on the circumstance that William and
James appear to have come to Monroe County from Pennsylvania about the same
time (around 1838 to 1840), their calculated dates of birth show them being
born within a year or two of each other, and the senior William Hodge, known to
be the father of James, appeared to be traveling between Pleasant Ridge and Malaga,
the places of residence of William, Jr. and James, respectively. The second assumption is that William Hodge,
Sr. was about 20 years old when James Hodge was born. This is only a guess to estimate the age of William, Sr. It is known that William, Sr. was father of
James Hodge. We know the date of death
of James Hodge, October 29, 1851, and his age at death, 73, and can calculate
his approximate date of birth. By assuming
that his father, William Hodge, Sr. may have been about 20 years old when James
was born, we can estimate that he could have been born around 1857. With this estimate and his approximate date
of death, i.e., prior to November 1852, we can estimate that he was about 95
years old when he died. This would have
made him close to 90 years old when he borrowed the horse from Peter
Waddle. With these two unproven, but
supported by circumstances, assumptions, the elements of the saga appear to fit
nicely.
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Mushrooms - P. semilanceata
Our decision to do a trip that day was a spontaneous one. It was near the beginning of the shroom season for where I live, for some reason they don't seem to grow until mid-October around here, and prior to this experience we had only managed to find about 10 liberty caps each time, so we had only had pretty mild individual trips since last year's season.
Anyhow, I checked our best known shroom field (a racecourse) expecting to come away with few, if any, mushrooms. For the first ten minutes, as expected, I found nothing. Then I found shroom heaven, about 30 clusters of shrooms, all close together so that they formed one giant cluster of well over 200 liberty caps. I went into a picking frenzy, but was still careful not to uproot the shrooms and I left about half the shrooms I found to let them grow for next time. With my unexpected psychedelic bounty, I went to a friend's house to start tripping.
 We divided the mushrooms (about 70 for me, 50 for my mate), ate them fresh, grabbed our skateboards for some reason and set off on our quest.
They began affecting us quicker than normal, probably because it took so long to eat them, the first shrooms we ate would have been starting to work. The trip came on hard and fast. Within minutes the world had become a very surreal place. The sun was brighter than it had been, sounds were enhanced (but not distorted) and colours were much more pronounced. And I was getting freaked out by blades of grass.
 He said he was aware of their plans and that we should move on. I went down to the river and tripped out on the ripples, which seemed to be forming and endless spiral across the water, which now looked more like a mirror. We contemplated walking across this mirror to the other side, but then decided that it would probably trick us by turning out to be water after all. We moved on.
As we walked we encountered several dog walkers and joggers. At the start of the trip we had intended to freak out as many random people as we could, and I am pretty sure that’s exactly what we did, though I remember none of what we said or did to them.  “With a bit of luck, their lives were ruined forever.”
We passed a building on our journey, an old water tower (or something) which has been graffiti’d by some strange people. One of the pictures is of sort-of Liberty Cap shaped shrooms, with spots, and LSD written around it.  Anyways, one side of this building was made up of large sandstone bricks which stuck out unevenly. On shrooms, this was extremely trippy. My friend pointed it out to me, and then I couldn’t stop watching the bricks switch around, change size and move in and out of the wall. I dragged myself away knowing that there were trippier things further on.
We finally reached our destination, a dual carriageway that goes over the river. Underneath it is a very peaceful place we had discovered 2 years previously on shrooms, and named the Temple. We tripped out on some strange graffiti people had written there over the years, including a weird poem, something like, “In the age of knights and armour, there lived a hairy llama”. We sat on a stone bank going down into the river and chilled out for a while, seeing the other side of the river and the underside of the bridge form some kind of god’s face. Eventually we got worried about the safety of the place as our shroomed minds were convinced the bridge was about to collapse. We moved on to a tunnel that runs through the ground underneath the dual carriageway not far from where we were. That was where we spent the next 200 years of our lives, or so it seemed.
There is nothing in this world that can possibly be trippier than that tunnel on shrooms. The ground is made of uneven, rippled and cracked concrete, covered with all sorts of multicoloured grime, and the walls are even worse. There were all sorts of patterns and images forming out of the slime and pockmarks on the wall. The trippiest thing was, the wall was made out of wood and concrete at the same time. This completely baffled us. We spent what seemed like a very, very long time contemplating what it was and what it could mean. When we touched the wall, it was definitely concrete. When we looked at some parts of the wall, it was definitely concrete. When we looked closely and around the edges, we noticed the wood pattern and splinters around the edge. We eventually decided that the only thing it could be was wood with a thin layer of concrete over it, and carried on with our trip.
We spent about half the time trying to communicate with bizarre creatures that were forming on the walls, and the rest of the time we were discussing things and discovering secrets locked in our brain which the shrooms had released, as always, none of which I can remember, I just remember it happened. We also noticed that if we looked out of one side of the tunnel, it appeared to be nice, summery weather, but when wel ooked out the other side, it appeared to be winter: the trees were dead, the plants looked browner and the light was completely different. This was very confusing but definitely seemed real.
 I attempted some Bert slides, which didn’t go spectacularly well and left me covered in mud and God knows what else, but it was a very trippy thing to do on shrooms. After what seemed like four eternities, we attempted to leave, out of the summery side of course. I say attempted because we were waylaid by some new trippy things on the wall which we discovered, including numbers counting up from 27 written all over the tunnel walls. We tried to find all the numbers, thinking that this would result in some reward, possibly enlightenment. Eventually we gave up and tried to leave again.
This time we were halted in our tracks by some weird green slimy thing my mate had discovered in a massive puddle at the entrance. We couldn't figure out what it was, until he dropped the slime in some sunlight. “It’s a mouldy sock!” I said. He insisted that it wasn’t a sock, but I was convinced it was. It appeared to be made from the same material as a sock when I studied it closely. Then I looked closer at the puddle. It was half covered in the same “material.”  We finally managed to escape this tunnel by splashing around through a swamp which we must have gone through to get in, but we were sure it hadn’t been there, and it wasn’t raining or anything.
We emerged from the tunnel into a completely different world. Decades, maybe centuries seemed to have passed. All the plants seemed about three times as tall as they had been when we fought our way through to get there, and the cars speeding over the bridge looked futuristic. One thing that was the same was a truck that had been parked in a lay-by about a hundred yards along the dual carriageway. We could only see the top of it over the enbankment and now it looked like a huge monster hiding amongst the greenery, ready to pounce. We fought our way through the tall and thorny plants, wondering what the new world was going to be like, and how we had survived in the tunnel for so long. We decided it must be at least 50 years in the future, and we headed back to town to see what it was like.
On the way we were sidetracked by the discovery of an incredible shroom field. We had always thought that they should grow along that route but had never found them. The grass was quite long, but amongst them we couldn’t stop finding shrooms. We only picked about 10-15 each because we didn’t need them that day and we wanted to leave them for another time. Plus it was starting to go dark. The journey back was even more insane than the journey there. The darkness strengthened the trip, and then the mist came in. We encountered a few more people, and I definitely remember saying strange things to them, but I still can’t remember what we actually said.
About halfway back along the trail, we realised we were in Vietnam and being hunted by US troops and Vietcong, as we were just a couple of tripping guys that had suddenly been transported to the middle of a warzone. We grasped our skateboards as weapons and carried on up the trail, careful to avoid punji stake pits and grenade trip wires. As we neared the end of our journey we received a phone call from some mates who were not tripping, but had a bunch of shrooms and wanted us to come round and give them the few we had.
 He also kicked off for no reason when we suggested that they come out to meet us so we could all trip outdoors. We decided that if he was there, being like that then we was no way we were going to meet them. This led to a very dark and depressing 45 minutes of wandering the streets, tripping, trying to squeeze some kind of plan through the psilocybin in our brains.
In the end, we rescued the night by going back to my mate’s house to end the trip where it had started. We smoked a joint and watched Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back, and during this the trip faded away. Soon after the film I departed to return home. Walking through town the trip reactivated and the streets suddenly became very strange. I started to think a nuclear war or plague or some apocalptic thing had happened while were in the tunnel. I actually enjoyed this experience because deep down I knew that wasn’t really true, but there was enough psilocybin and psilocin left in my brain to create that reality on one level of thought. On the bus home the trip faded again, leaving nothing more than bright colours and trippy patterns over my vision.
When I got home, I watched TV, smoked some more weed and finally fell into some weird and very interesting dreams.
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A broadcast stream is an output stream which has associated with it a set of zero or more output streams such that any output sent to the broadcast stream gets passed on as output to each of the associated output streams. (If a broadcast stream has no component streams, then all output to the broadcast stream is discarded.)
The set of operations that may be performed on a broadcast stream is the intersection of those for its associated output streams.
Some output operations (e.g., fresh-line) return values based on the state of the stream at the time of the operation.
Since these values might differ for each of the component streams, it is necessary to describe their return value specifically:
stream-element-type returns the value from the last component stream, or t if there are no component streams.
fresh-line returns the value from the last component stream, or nil if there are no component streams.
The functions file-length, file-position, file-string-length, and stream-external-format return the value from the last component stream; if there are no component streams, file-length and file-position return 0, file-string-length returns 1, and stream-external-format returns :default.
The functions streamp and output-stream-p always return true for broadcast streams.
The functions open-stream-p tests whether the broadcast stream is open_2, not whether its component streams are open.
The functions input-stream-p and interactive-stream-p return an implementation-defined, generalized boolean value.
For the input operations clear-input listen, peek-char, read-byte, read-char-no-hang, read-char, read-line, and unread-char, the consequences are undefined if the indicated operation is performed. However, an implementation is permitted to define such a behavior as an implementation-dependent extension.
For any output operations not having their return values explicitly specified above or elsewhere in this document, it is defined that the values returned by such an operation are the values resulting from performing the operation on the last of its component streams; the values resulting from performing the operation on all preceding streams are discarded. If there are no component streams, the value is implementation-dependent.
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