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I am good.  I don't think I should have. No, we should never eat ice cream.
I know. Meant to make feels gross.
Because it really seems good at the time. Well, when you walk in a basket of robins and they
have s'mores ice cream, what are you supposed to do? Not eat it? Well, I didn't eat it. I had the
world-class chocolate because that's what I always have. There was your error. I had s'mores
and feel nothing but joy. You are lying. Maybe. Talk to me about this week.
about this week. Well, it was a full week, wasn't it? We had a church wide fast.
A three day fast. Talk about the opposite of eating ice cream. The opposite of eating ice cream would be drinking water.
No, it would be fasting, which is what we did for three days. Well, we drank water.
Oh, I guess I see where you were going with that. Yeah. Thank you.
Yeah, we were fasting for these in Jerusalem. The whole Israel Gaza thing.
We were fasting for the situation in Iraq, with ISIS, or IS as they're now known as.
And we were fasting for Iceland, for the volcano.
It seems like to be a lot going on in the world.
There is a ton going on in the world.
And I don't understand a lot of it.
Yeah.
All of it.
Yeah.
Me, except for the fact that Jesus is still in the throne.
Yes, thankfully.
So yes, fasting.
Yes.
fasting. I'm I used to be really into fasting. Talk to me about that. Well,
suppose it was more hunger striking than fasting really.
What your motors were all wrong? Yeah, it was like, God, I need answers to
the following questions and I'm not going to eat until you give them to me.
I didn't really have that revelation until after that that's what I was doing.
But I did do 40 day fast for a number of years in a row.
It's amazing. He wasn't moved by any of that.
No.
You're so confident in who he is. It's incredible.
Yeah.
I quite enjoyed our fast these three days.
Yeah, it wasn't bad.
I enjoyed breaking it more than doing it.
Me too. I don't think broccoli ever tasted so good as it did on Thursday.
Right. It was amazing.
It was great.
And I was quite proud of myself.
Normally, you know, you're like, what's the smart thing I could do after
fasting for three days?
I know. Staking shake.
But thankfully we didn't do that. We were quite wise.
I'm talking about we never go to steak and shake.
I know I'm using hyperbole to prove point that after not eating for long period of time, we tend to gorge ourselves.
Oh, I just thought steak and shake was fun because it rhymed and it's typically gross.
The first time I ever did a fast, like the very first fast ever, hadn't even fasted for a day.
And I felt like the Lord told me fast.
And so I decided I was going to do a 21 day fast on water.
Over the cheaper much.
And I did it with a friend and then we were.
I thought at 20 days and then we counted it up and realized we were at 23 days.
So we went to Wendy's and got a burger.
I almost went to the hospital that night.
I was in so much pain.
I should have read something about fasting and, you know, what it was going to do
to my body to do that particular thing.
Like the document I posted to Twitter.
And perhaps.
Yeah, I, for those of you 20 years ago, I don't think about fasting.
We shared a little bit about fasting at M&A on Monday night.
We'll post a link to that.
And I hop in Kansas City who knew a lot about fasting,
wrote a very helpful document about do's and don'ts
when fasting and we'll post a link to that in the show notes.
Speaking of things, we'll be up on our website.
I wrote about going to Buckingham Palace this week, babe.
Did you even know that I posted that?
I did, yeah.
I saw it.
It was like your throwback Thursday or something.
Yeah, it was a throwback Thursday.
My mother, bless her, sent me in the mail,
the original invite from Buckingham Palace.
It's not like I forgot that that happened.
Of course, I remember it happened,
but it was some 10 years ago, maybe 13 years ago
that I got invited to Buckingham Palace.
And I think at the time I completely,
it just didn't really hit me what a big deal that was.
I think maybe I must have become Americanized
by being in America,
with everybody loving the royal family.
I was like, oh yeah, that kind of was a big deal.
- It's a huge deal.
- I know, but I didn't think about that at the time.
I was like, oh, I'm going to the queen.
- Tell them where the washrooms are.
- I failed to mention in the article
that I had bleached yellow hair.
- And dreadlocks.
- No, I didn't have dreadlocks, I shaved my head
and dyed my hair yellow.
So I was there in a pin-
- With the dreadlocks before or after the shaved yellow.
- They were before.
- Duck yellow hair.
- Yeah, my duck yellow hair.
- Oh.
- The bathrooms are hidden in the walls.
Now I didn't mention this in the article,
but I'll mention on the podcast.
But when you go into the man's washroom,
so you know, men have urinals or urinals,
depending on which part of the world you're from.
And one of the hazards of using full wall urinals,
urinals is when you pee against the wall, you get splash back.
Not a bucking in palisades in general.

And any splash back gets caught by the glass.
It so doesn't end up on your treasures.
Tell them about the bunnies.
Oh, well, I mentioned that in the article.
If you read the article, you can read about my slight full
pa by using the palace of having bunnies in their garden.
When it wasn't bunnies at all, Jog went up for Jones in a
sophistication amongst royalty. Are those bunnies? What pretty bunnies?
It is very good. We've been away all weekend, haven't we? We have. Which is why we're falling
asleep. That's right. We took our wonderful team with 15 staff. School staff. Yeah, we all went
away to the middle of nowhere to Big Cabin, did a retreat. Which was awesome. It was awesome.
We had incredible food. Yes.
Shared incredible moments of joy.
Yes.
Prayed for people.
Yes.
Top people.
Yes.
And floated down a river.
We did.
We really did.
You love floating down rivers.
Yes, I do.
It wasn't a cliff jump, baby.
Well, there was no cliffs involved.
Well, it was like a 10 foot cliff.
No, it was just a rock.
Right.
It was a large rock that looked cliff like in nature.
Yes.
Yes.
Well, we didn't actually float down a river then.
We went white water rafting.
It was a slower version we went our afternoon or two.
And it wasn't fast.
We were slowly more, but it was similar.
All that really matters is that I beat tank at pool twice.
The sheet verify that statement.
Well, the truth is, well, I won both games, but it's because she
scratched on the black.
Both times.
Yeah.
It's very sad.
It's not a great way to win, but I'll take it.
Did you play a ping pong?
No, or heck no.

It was great legit.
Yeah, they were.
They were surprisingly good at ping pong too.
Yeah.
And Shelby.
Uh huh.
And Matt was doing great too.
He was.
Yeah.
All right, ping pong.
That's where it's at.
It's why I didn't play.
We have some listeners questions this week.
We have a bunch of them.
This is from Twitter user spicy BLT.
And they ask recently I've been pondering upon how to discern between wisdom
and fear.
If life is a continuous process of maturing, how do you know if you're ready to do the things
that God has placed upon your heart? What do you think?
Well, is that kind of two questions? They're pondering the wisdom.
Well, I think they're asking, saying the context, Hey, I'll be wondering, you know, what's stopping
me from moving forward? Is it wisdom or is it fear? So how do you know when
What's the question?
How do you know if you're ready to do the things God's place upon your heart?
Well, like on one level, it's got opening the doors for you to do the things that he's
placed upon your heart.
Right.
I think you're absolutely right.
You start with whatever doors open to you.
Opportunities lead to opportunities.
I think typically, as long as you, if you can be faithful in the small things that
present themselves that are in the direction that you want to
head, more doors will open for you.
I remember my first speaking gig ever was something called
Marinatha camp was a kids camp.  And I was like, yeah, I would love to teach.
And so it was just it was five days I had teach once a day.
And that little opportunity led to another opportunity led to
another opportunity. And here I am on the other side of the
world teaching a lot.
Yeah, I think sometimes people think, well, a door opening will look like somebody asks
me to come and speak at their conference or something huge.
And usually the door opening is, you know, you have the opportunity to lead a small group
or to, you know, minister with children's ministry or whatever, and to be faithful and
learn your skills there.
And then continue to walk through the doors that got open for you.
I still think my favorite thing about John Arnott is that his first
ministry opportunity, which is teaching Sunday school.
Yeah.
And he loved it.
And he said, yes.
So yeah, I think blossom where you're planted.
Yeah.
Whatever opens for you, step through the door and let your gift lead you.
I remember Isabelle Allam answering a question, like, how do you know if you're
a prophet and she was like, well, let your gift lead you.
Just start prophesying wherever you have opportunity to prophesy and just see what
happens.
Give makes way for its giver and all that.
So there you go.
Twitter user happy ever Erica asked this question.
I've had a hard time explaining to people that God doesn't have a problem
with women in ministry.
Would you please talk about that in your podcast?
I love the question.
It's like it's a very negative version of a positive truth.
God doesn't have a problem with women in ministry.
It's not that he doesn't have a problem with women in ministry.
He made a way for women to have a vital role in ministry.
and obviously that is a much longer topic than we have time for in a two or three minute
question.
We do have a teaching on that don't we?
We do.
I don't think we have recorded anywhere.
We've spoken on it a bunch of times.
We've been on the school and we've spoken on emanate.
Chris Veltin however did just teach on it at Bethel did a great job.
There's a two, I think a two session on Women in Ministry.
I'll dig that out and post the link to it in the mp3 and that should tide you over until we get a chance to tackle that one.
Cool.
That would be fun to do.
And then lastly, Twitter user,
"Palin_86" asks,
I was wondering if you might talk about the process between broken and confused
and filled continually with a love of God.
Was it a series of encounters or loads of counseling or both or something else?
Great question.
Well, I mean, I think for me, I think probably for both of us, really, it was probably a mix of both.
I had some actual counseling, some sort of supernatural counseling by way of the Lord just doing, you know,
theophistic type ministry on me while I was lying on the floor after somebody had walked by and prayed for me and that kind of stuff.
But I'd say probably it was, in my experience, about 80% of my healing probably came through
soaking and just letting the Lord wash over me, often not knowing what he was doing.
And through some of those times, having encounters with him where he would sometimes show me
what he's doing, sometimes I thought he was doing something completely different until
later on.
And then the other 20% was sitting down with people that are trained and saying, "I need
help.
I'm not getting past this particular thing."
Right.
I think God is so brilliant at everything that He loves to work.
He's not limited to one method.
And so I look back at my life and realize, yes, there have been the suddenlies of God
when something happened and He breaks in and is very powerful, but equally and probably
more so.
There's been lots of process with God.
Do you know that verse that says,
"Work out your salvation with fear and tremble."
There's a lot of process in your maturing with God.
And so yes, I can identify times that people have prayed
for me and something just instantly shifted,
but I can also identify lots of this journey with God,
which is, seems frustrating.

- Right.
And it seems for strain,
but it produces just as much fruit,
especially in hindsight.
That's probably where you build depth with God when you don't have what you think you need
and then you persevere for breakthrough. So yeah, I would agree the same. I've had moments
where the Lord just broke in amazingly and then moments when I've gone and saw other people's
wisdom and counsel and had people pray for me and deliverance and all that sort of stuff. And then
also just the sanctification process of dying, which is wonderful.
- And exercising tenacity to just keep pursuing God even when you don't understand what's
going on.
- All right, brilliant.
If you have a question for us, if you go to allonaj.com/ask, you can leave us a question.
We'll do our best to answer it next week's podcast.
Love that one to talk about our topic for this week.
We'll talk about leadership.
- Yep.

Well, it's funny because I was thinking about it in the car today and I was thinking are we talking about?
People that we would pick to be leaders or people that we would choose to follow
But I'm not sure that the answer makes any difference to that question right so I think a leader is a leader so probably things like
Being teachable being people that
hear God well being humble.

So for people to be safe, they need to have some key elements like being teachable, being
humble, pursuing God, you know, not always having to be right.
that kind of stuff is, I think, really, really important about eBay.
I'd fully agree. I remember Derek Prince saying, I'm not sure it was this statement
verbatim, but it went along the lines of never trust a man who doesn't walk with a limp.
And so I think about Jeff Dallar as a great leader. There's somebody who's super vulnerable
and super real. If you've ever been in our church, you can pick that up instantly.
and he absolutely walks with a limp in by that i mean he's not presenting himself as the answer man behold my children i have all the answers.

I love that i think now that we're in the position where we get to raise leaders of course we've been thinking very intentionally about it.
and john windber i remember john was a john on it told us the story anyway i heard a story about john windber speaking a seminar.
On church growth and so he's in the middle of the seminar you know the seminars label church growth and he's probably 15,
20 minutes into stock and one of the people that he's addressing you know in this workshop puts up his hand said i'm.
I'm sorry this workshops as you speak about church growth and you haven't mentioned church growth at all.
and jon's like no trust me i'm i'm getting there and so he keeps talking about fifteen minutes
later the same guy stands up and says i'm so sorry it feels like i'm wasting my time here
i came here to learn principles of church growth and you're just talking all about you know character
and this and that and the next thing and jon's like stay with me honestly we're getting there
continues for a little bit more than this guy gets up a third time just like seriously like i came
here to learn about church growth and jon took off his glasses and you know just asked a man this
brilliant question. He's like, this is about church growth. Let me ask you a question.
How many people do you want in your church who are exactly like you?
Now church.
And the man solemnly thought about for a second, and he said,
not many, and John said exactly and continued. And his whole point was,
his teaching was all talking about refinement and character and the need for
great character and godliness. And I think the question we have when we're thinking about
leaders is how many more people do we want like this? Because leaders replicate themselves.
You have done great things. You reproduce what you are. You teach what you know.
But you reproduce what you are. When Jeff and I were at a
Bethel a couple of years ago, now for our leaders advanced, somebody asked Stanley Silk the same
question. I love his answer. He said, "Whenever we're thinking about releasing new leaders,
the question we ask ourselves is, will this person protect the culture that empowers them?"
And I thought that gosh, that's amazing because the danger in releasing leaders is if they're
unhealed, then their focus in being a leader is, well, of course, the focus of any leaders
leading people.
But if you're unhealed, there's a temptation to lead them into your own empire that you're
building, rather than leading them towards the vision of the organization's building.
And so I think we're probably looking for people with, like you said, healed up hearts
who are humble and teachable.
That's a huge big deal.
And we try and be that as well.
Right.
You know, as leaders, right?
People that you can come to and go, Hey, actually, you know, be teachable and be able
to receive input as well.
What is our top three non-negotiables are for releasing leaders?
My item, I need a moment to contemplate that.
Do you have top three?
No, I would say.

Yeah.
Visible love for the Lord.
a demestructible of the Lord.
You're looking at them thinking,
yeah, I want more people like this.
- Yeah, I mean, that one thing makes it so much easier
to clarify it in an instant.
You know, when you can meet someone, go, yeah, I want 10,
15, 20, 50 more of you, easy.
Don't pour my life into you
and raise you up into leadership, absolutely.
- I remember, and this is slightly different,
but the principle will come through, I'm sure.
I remember when we were running the prophetic team in Toronto.
And so we would lead our team of prophetic ministers.
And I remember somebody coming up to me one Sunday morning going,
"Do you lead the prophetic team?"
And I was like, "I do."
And they're like, "Well, I want to be on the team."
And I'm like, "Oh, well, that's awesome.
You know, we do prophetic training here."
And you know, you build a fill in an application form and that.
And they're like, "Well, I'm a prophet, and I could absolutely read your mail."
And I'm like, "Oh, well, then I'm so sorry that's not what we're looking for."
And they were just astonished.
And I was like, I'm actually more interested in somebody who can represent the heart of the Father
than I am somebody that can read other people's mail. Because actually I can teach you how to
prophesy, I can teach you how to access and hear the voice of the Lord and teach you how to
see in the spirit. That stuff is easy to teach. It's more about the heart.
But humility and love and the priority on people rather than prophecy,
that's what I'm looking for. And I think the same thing, there's many, you know, talented people,
but unless the heart and the characters right the talent is going to run amok and so yeah i do love
that i think to p you're looking for people that i don't know how to phrase this that love well
horizontally not just vertically you know that that they're not just showing love and affection
for people in leadership but they actually demonstrate in their life that they love well
regardless of title, regardless of, you know, because if you are only loving and honoring
those people that are above you, then I think something's out of whack.
I don't know who it was that taught me this phrase, but it's always stuck with me.
But it was, maybe it was John.
I forget who it was that said this to me.
But they were talking about raising leaders in their ministry and they said, "To the
The degree that you want my platform is the degree that I don't want you on my platform.
If you're so focused is for...
To gain favor so you can get a lot of time.
Stage time, yeah, so that you can be seen.
Then actually that's the wrong motive.
And so if you think about the leaders that we've really pursued and promoted and released
at Grace Center, it's people who that's not their focus.
That's not what they want.
And actually our hesitancy...
It might even really not be what they were.
Right.
Our hesitance of the people that want the microphone and the spotlight because they're like,
"What are you after?
Yeah.
Or what is it that makes you?
Yeah.
Talk to me about what you think the greatest joys of leadership are.
You're in leadership full-time have been for many years.
Yeah.
Or some of the joys for you.
Seeing people's lives transformed and getting to be one of the people that gets to call
people to life.
When I reflect on my life, there's been key leaders
that if they were not or they were at the moment
that they were, I wouldn't be here.
You know? - Right.
- And I wouldn't be doing what I'm doing.
And maybe I'd be some, I mean,
maybe I'd still be somewhere doing something.
But it's been leaders calling me to life
and believing in me when I didn't believe in myself.
And so getting to do that for other people,
like getting to call people to life.
I love that.
- Mm-hmm.
- Yeah, very cool.
- That is cool.
- And I love passing along what you've been given.
- Right.
I love making room for other people.
Like I, you know, we talked about John and Carol
doing that for us.
You know, they are sealing being our floor
and just how they were in a position to make room for us
and to open doors for us and to release us.
And I love, I love looking at people.
And you know, when you're in leadership, God gives you a different perspective in many
ways.
And I love looking at people and telling them who they are.
I just, I love that.
And I love helping them along the process of releasing them into that.
That's a tremendous joy.
Yeah, I kind of love that.
I guess being parents in the natural of three small children is, there's a fairly large
crossover between leading and parenting. And I think I love that process. I love having
spiritual sons and daughters. I love having a collection of people that you get to invest in
consistently and diligently. I really like that part. And then watch what God does. I mean,
awesome. Yeah. Talk to me about some of the costs, your personal cost of leadership.

So I think some of the things that are difficult about it
are realizing that, I don't know, people misunderstand
based on the hurts that they've been through
in previous times.
- Right.
- And I also think it's, I mean, for me right now,
it's hard to balance work and family and, you know,
that our kids are really super important
that they know that they're loved
and they're not second to the church and that kind of stuff.
So the balance of wanting to make sure
that the people that you're pastoring know,
that you love them and that they feel loved well,
but also making sure that our kids know that they're loved
and loved well.
So I think those are some of the costs of the challenges.
- We would teach it on this weekend.
Part of the reason we took our leaders away
was to kind of give them a training, a boot camp training for the leadership roller,
about to step in. And I was thinking about part of the cost of leadership, a part of the,
you know, and so huge privilege. So this isn't a negative at all. But it's actually ensuring
that you have enough love in the bank so that the people you're leading, you know, when they get
hurt or they lash out at you, their heart gets absorbed by the love that you have that's an
overflow of the Father. The danger is when you're running on empty to not send a bad
example in by lashing out or responding in horror or defending yourself.
Not thinking it personally.
I think there is a burden of leadership that's very, very real, but the truth is if we are
constantly grounded in the Father's love, that burden becomes very, very light. But I
I love it. I absolutely love the respect. I can a huge privilege to get to lead people.
I think it's I don't want to do anything else. Brian Johnson tweeted this brilliant thing that
I saw in favor to the while back actually 49 days ago according to Twitter. He said this what
I've learned in leading people is if I take two extra minutes to communicate clearly, it will save
me two years of fixing problems. No, that's excellent. What would you say is the biggest thing that
you have learned about leading in the last five years.
Do you like that I'm just throwing you
these softball questions?
- Yeah, I'm like, thanks for the warning babe.
Please remember my contemplative is my second language.
The biggest thing.
- Do do do.
- The biggest thing.
- Do do do.
- Well.
- Ah, thing that you have learned then.
Let's narrow it down from the biggest thing ever,
and this better be absolutely precise, too.
What is a thing that you have learned in the last five years?
- What's anything that you have learned in the last five years?
- I have learned that my actions
can be sending disrespect messages to the people that I love
without me knowing it.
For example, as a very high doer,
high-intensity person who likes to finish a task. It is entirely feasible that I can turn up to
speak at church or conference. And my whole focus is to get my laptop set up and have my
material ready to deliver so that I can bless the people with the sermon that I've been working on
that I really think the Lord wants to bring and deliver. But I can be so focused on that task
that I may have just walked past 20, 30 people who I love, but I haven't even noticed them because
because I'm so focused.
And if I'm not careful, it doesn't matter what I say.

I've just communicated, I don't care about you.
I care about saying my laptop up.
And that isn't true.
I really do care about you.
But in that moment, I'm focused on this.
So I remember Jeff Dollar after a couple of months
of us running Amine, came to Amine one night,
and he took me saying, he's like,
"Hey, can I give you a little bit of advice?"
I was like, "Sure you can."
He's like, "I've noticed that you walk back and forth,
either the sound to ask or to the video board or whatever. I said, yeah. He says, when you do that,
walk slower. Because he said, you know, your, your, your goal is to get to the back. And of course,
I'm thinking, of course, is I want to get to the back and make sure that my stuff is working.
He said, you have it in doing that, you've just passed 50 people and you haven't acknowledged any
of them. And that's, that might seem like a trivial example, but I've realized in reflection,
Oh, God, my actions, my words, my tweets, maybe communicating something that isn't actually in my
heart. And so I actually haven't a think, okay, right.
Yeah, people need to matter more than the plan.
Right.
Right.
Is my heart communicating disrespect messages that I'm unaware of?
Yeah.
And at times they are and I'm deeply sorry if you're listening to this
that I've ever communicated dishonor disrespect to unknowingly.
And I would say I'm because we're wired fairly similar.
I would say a similar thing as I as I think about the leaders again, who
have touched my life and brought transformation. It's rarely been through their sermon. It's usually
been through a, you know, a 30 second or a couple minute connect where I felt like I was heard and
understood and I mattered. And so I could then receive from the Lord again, you know, like that
kind of stuff. So yeah, I guess slowing down and taking time for the moment.
I would say the scariest verse in scripture. Rani leader is 1 Corinthians 11 verse 1.
where Paul says, imitate me as I imitate Christ.
So the challenge for us as leaders is when we walk in and just say to our team,
hey guys, just emulate me as I emulate Christ.
I'm like, really, do I want them communicating to others the way I communicate to others?
And so it's a great benchmark that Paul set out for there.

I missed it. Anything else you want to say about leadership before we wrap this puppy up?
I think it's fun to be a leader. I think sometimes you can talk about leadership and it can sound to other people like
leadership sounds horrible. It's not horrible. It's wonderful and it's an incredible privilege.
But it is challenging and it's because you, if you want to be a good leader, you need
to constantly be examining yourself so that you're allowing the Holy Spirit to do what
He needs to do through you in order to do what He wants to do through others.
I'm going to end this with a reflection from Rick Warren to eat this out.
This is brilliant.
He said, "Great people aren't born.
They're ordinary people who become great by their great commitment to a great cause."
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We hope you have an incredible week.
We're really grateful for you as listeners and we will see you same time next week.
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MEET JOE BLACK (1998)
Rating: 2.0 stars (out of 4.0) ******************************** Key to rating system: 2.0 stars - Debatable 2.5 stars - Some people may like it 3.0 stars - I liked it 3.5 stars - I am biased in favor of the movie 4.0 stars - I felt the movie's impact personally or it stood out ********************************* A Movie Review by David Sunga
Directed by: Martin Brest
Written by: Ron Osborn, Jeff Reno, Kevin Wade and Bo Goldman
Ingredients: The grim reaper, old man, beautiful daughter
Starring: Brad Pitt, Anthony Hopkins, Claire Forlani
Synopsis: An aging, weakened, but fabulously wealthy senior news tycoon named Bill (Anthony Hopkins) utters some words to his nubile daughter Susan (Claire Forlani) about how only the experience of true love makes life worth living. The Grim Reaper who is death personified (Brad Pitt) overhears Bill's tribute to true love and becomes intrigued. He visits Bill to cut a deal. Inhabiting the body of Joe Black, a recently deceased young man, the Grim Reaper promises to delay Bill's death in exchange for Bill showing him life. Unaware that Death is inhabiting the body, Susan remembers her dad's lecture on true love and tries to start up a relationship with Joe Black.
Opinion: MEET JOE BLACK is three hours long and feels like it is three hours long. Some of the parts are done well. For example, the scenes where Bill contemplates his impending death and begins to pay more attention to his eldest daughter are sure to bring tears. On the other hand, other scenes feel odd. For example, Joe Black's height varies throughout the picture. Another example is when an old man promises a woman he will meet her for a fireworks display at the bottom of the hill. As she is waiting for him she suddenly senses something wrong. Sure enough, the old guy is dying on top of the hillside overlooking the fireworks. Seeing him stumbling at the top of the hill, the woman runs up the hill in alarm. But oddly she completely disregards the dying man when her boyfriend arrives to woo her.
Anthony Hopkins and Claire Forlani do a good job acting the father/daughter bond. And for Brad Pitt fans, MEET JOE BLACK features Brad in several nice outfits, with his trademark hairstyle.
Reviewed by David Sunga November 14, 1998
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[from a WWII Army acronym for ‘Situation Normal, All Fucked Up’] “True
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EUR/USD remains steady above 1.1060 after FOMC minutes
by Matías Salord- EUR/USD holds to modest losses, remains in a small range.
- Market participants ignore FOMC minutes, DXY unchanged.
The EUR/USD pair continued to trade around 1.1065 after the Federal Reserve (Fed) released the minutes of its latest meeting. Previously the euro spiked to 1.1081 but failed to break clearly above 1.1080 and pulled back modestly.
Financial markets remain quiet even after the FOMC minutes. Since the beginning of the week, the EUR/USD is moving in a 40-pip range.
According to the minutes, most members judged the low level of interest rates as appropriate barring a 'material' reassessment of the outlook. Most policymakers said rate cut was warranted due to global weakness seen in growth. Some favored keeping rates steady and argued outlook was favorable and inflation expected to rise. The document showed they discussed about the risks to the economic outlook remained tilted to the downside.
The US Dollar Index remains unchanged, consolidating modest gains around 98.00. US yield also kept their previous levels and equity prices in Wall Street hold to losses. Market participants ignored Fed’s minutes completely. According to the CME Fed Watch Tool, current market pricing shows practically no probability or a rate cut in December.
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EUR/USD
| Overview | |
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| Today last price | 1.1069 |
| Today Daily Change | -0.0008 |
| Today Daily Change % | -0.07 |
| Today daily open | 1.1077 |
| Trends | |
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| Daily SMA20 | 1.1081 |
| Daily SMA50 | 1.1043 |
| Daily SMA100 | 1.1093 |
| Daily SMA200 | 1.1177 |
| Levels | |
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| Previous Daily High | 1.1086 |
| Previous Daily Low | 1.1062 |
| Previous Weekly High | 1.1058 |
| Previous Weekly Low | 1.0989 |
| Previous Monthly High | 1.118 |
| Previous Monthly Low | 1.0879 |
| Daily Fibonacci 38.2% | 1.1077 |
| Daily Fibonacci 61.8% | 1.1071 |
| Daily Pivot Point S1 | 1.1065 |
| Daily Pivot Point S2 | 1.1052 |
| Daily Pivot Point S3 | 1.1041 |
| Daily Pivot Point R1 | 1.1088 |
| Daily Pivot Point R2 | 1.1098 |
| Daily Pivot Point R3 | 1.1111 |


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Following yesterday's item about The Sound Of Music, I have received if not thousands, then at least two requests to illustrate the jarring concept of holy sisters engaged in the quite atrocious practice of pretending to be Finnish. Where will it all end?


Nyzo version 570 (commit on GitHub) adds the TransactionForwardCommand and FrozenEdgeCommand to the client to allow transaction forwarding. It also improves the memory efficiency of data persistence in NodeManager.
The new commands add functionality to the client. The NodeManager persistence improvements reduce the memory requirements of the verifier.
In NodeManager, the activeIdentifiers set was eliminated to reduce memory usage. The getNumberOfActiveIdentifiers() method, used by the StatusResponse, was replaced with the more informative and more frugal getNumberOfNodesInMap() method. The unused isActive() method was removed.
Building of the activeIdentifiers set was removed from NodeManager.updateActiveVerifiersAndRemoveOldNodes().
NodeManager.persistNodes() was rewritten to use less memory. Instead of building the file contents as a list of strings and writing the list to a file, a BufferedWriter is used. The file is written to a temporary location and moved atomically to the final location to avoid potential data loss if the verifier program is terminated mid-write.
NodeManager.loadPersistedNodes() was changed similarly. Instead of reading the entire file into memory and iterating over the lines of the file, a BufferedReader is now used, and the lines are processed as they are read.
ClientTransactionUtil.sendTransactionToLikelyBlockVerifiers() now returns an array of ByteBuffer objects. This array is always of size 3, and it contains null if the information for one of the positions is missing. The middle position of the array contains the identifier of the verifier that is expected to verify the block containing the transaction. The other two positions contain the verifier before and after this verifier in the cycle. Sending a transaction to all 3 of these verifiers allows the transaction to be processed even if a verifier is added or removed from the cycle between the time the transaction is sent and the time the block is processed.
FrozenEdgeCommand and TransactionForwardCommand were added to CommandManager.
In CommandTable, the rows field was changed from an array of type String to an array of type Object. This allows numerical and boolean values to be represented properly in JSON.
In ConsoleUtil, two changes were made to accommodate the new data type of the row field in CommandTable.
In SimpleExecutionResult, some changes were made to accommodate the new data type of rows in CommandTable objects. Also, a missing call to WebUtil.sanitizeString() was added.
In SimpleExecutionResult.toJson(), considerations were added for Boolean values and for the wider possibility of types in data cells.
In BalanceDisplayCommand and CoinsInCirculationCommand, block heights are no longer converted to String objects. The does not affect their display in HTML responses, but it causes them to be displayed as numerical values in JSON responses.
FrozenEdgeCommand implements the methods required by the Command interface. It requires no arguments, nor does it require validation or confirmation. It is not long-running.
FrozenEdgeCommand provides the height, hash, verification timestamp in milliseconds, and distance from open edge.
In NttpDataGenerateCommand, the NTTP number is no longer concatenated with an empty string for the result table. This does not change the result, because this field had already been changed to a String when support for compound NTTP numbers was added in version 566.
The new TransactionForwardCommand accepts a Nyzo string of a transaction and forwards it to the appropriate verifiers in the cycle. The transaction is the only argument. The command requires validation, but it does not require confirmation. It is not long-running.
The validate() method of TransactionForwardCommand only checks to ensure that the argument provided represents a valid NyzoStringTransaction.
The run() method of TransactionForwardCommand first builds the headers for the CommandTable. The IDs of the transaction sender and receiver, along with the IDs of the expected verifier and the verifiers before and after in the cycle, are provided in both raw format and in Nyzo string format. The transaction amount is also provided, as is a value indicating whether the transaction was actually forwarded to the cycle verifiers.
The transaction is retrieved from the arguments and initial validation is performed. Warnings and errors from the validation process are provided in the response. If the transaction passes initial validation, it is forwarded to the 3 verifiers in the cycle most likely to approve it.
A row containing the result data is added to the table, and the result is returned as a SimpleExecutionResult.
TransactionSearchCommand now includes an option to search by Nyzo string.
The transaction string is now used when provided. It is used to set the timestamp for search.
The transaction string is now provided as an output for all transactions, regardless of the search method used. While timestamp is used as the primary search criterion when the transaction string is provided, further filtering is applied to ensure that only the precise transaction represented by the transaction string is returned in the search results.
Each transaction is encoded as a Nyzo string for display in the result table. Numerical values are no longer converted to String objects, taking advantage of the new ability of CommandTable to properly handle non-String values. Two unnecessary concatenations with the empty string were also removed.
In StatusResponse, the replacement NodeManager.getNumberOfNodesInMap() is now used instead of NodeManager.getNumberOfActiveIdentifiers(). This is a change in meaning: the new value is the number of IP addresses tracked by the NodeManager, while the old value was the number of unique identifiers present in the map.
This new value, while eliminating some computational overhead, is also a more useful value to observe. For in-cycle verifiers, knowing the active identifiers is important, because it prevents multiple verifier instances for a single identifier from masking connectedness issues within the cycle. However, connectedness of the overall mesh, when out-of-cycle verifiers are included, is not a concern.


(Part 4 of 8)YOGA FOR YAHOOS
Fourth Lecture - Asana and PranayamaThe Technical Practices of Yoga.
Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law.
1. Last week we were able to go away feeling that the back of the job had been broken. We had got rid of bad ways, bad wives, and bad weather. We are comfortably installed in the sunshine, with no one to bother us. We have nothing to do but our work.
Such being our fortunate state, we may usefully put in an hour considering our next step. Let us recall, in the first place, what we decided to be the quintessence of our task. It was to annihilate dividuality. 'Make room for me,' cries the Persian poet whose name I have forgotten, the fellow Fitzgerald translated, not Omar Khayyam, 'Make room for me on that divan which has no room for twain'-a remarkable prophetic anticipation of the luxury flatlet.
We are to unite the subject and object of consciousness in the ecstasy which soon turns, as we shall find later on, into the more sublime state of indifference, and then annihilate both the party of the first part aforesaid and the party of the second part aforesaid. This evidently results in further parties-one might almost say cocktail parties-constantly increasing until we reach infinity, and annihilate that, thereby recovering our original Nothing. Yet is that identical with the original Nothing? Yes-and No! No! No! A thousand times no! For, having fulfilled all the possibilities of that original Nothing to manifest in positive terms, we have thereby killed for ever all its possibilities of mischief.
Our task being thus perfectly simple, we shall not require the assistance of a lot of lousy rishis and sanyasis. We shall not apply to a crowd of moth-eaten Arahats, of betel-chewing Bodhisattvas, for instruction. As we said in the first volume of 'The Equinox', in the first number:
'We place no relianceOur common sense, guided by experience based on observation, will be sufficient.
On Virgin or Pigeon;
Our method is science,
Our aim is religion.'2. We have seen that the Yogic process is implicit in every phenomenon of existence. All that we have to do is to extend it consciously to the process of thought. We have seen that thought cannot exist without continual change; all that we have to do is to prevent change occurring. All change is conditioned by time and space and other categories; any existing object must be susceptible of description by means of a system of coordinate axes.
On the 'terrasse' of the Cafe des Deux Magots it was once necessary to proclaim the entire doctrine of Yoga in the fewest possible words 'with a shout, and with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God.' St. Paul's First Epistle to the Thessalonians, the Fourth Chapter and the Sixteenth Verse. I did so.
'Sit still. Stop thinking.  Get out!'
The first two of these instructions comprise the whole of the technique of Yoga. The last two are of a sublimity which it would be improper to expound in this present elementary stage.
The injunction 'Sit still' is intended to include the inhibition of all bodily stimuli capable of creating movement in consciousness. The injunction 'Stop thinking' is the extension of this to all mental stimuli. It is unnecessary to discuss here whether the latter can exist apart from the former. It is at least evident that many mental processes arise from physical processes; and so we shall at least be getting a certain distance along the road if we have checked the body.
3. Let me digress for a moment, and brush away one misunderstanding which is certain to occur to every Anglo-Saxon mind. About the worst inheritance of the emasculate school of mystics is the abominable confusion of thought which arises from the idea that bodily functions and appetites have some moral implications. This is a confusion of the planes. There is no true discrimination between good and evil. The only question that arises is that of convenience in respect of any proposed operation. The whole of the moral and religious lumber of the ages must be discarded for ever before attempting Yoga. You will find out only too soon what it means to do wrong; by our very thesis itself all action is wrong. Any action is only relatively right in so far as it may help us to put an end to the entire process of action.
These relatively useful actions are therefore those which make for control, or 'virtue.' They have been classified, entirely regardless of trouble and expense, in enormous volume, and with the utmost complexity; to such a point, in fact, that merely to permit oneself to study the nomenclature of the various systems can have but one result: to fuddle your brain for the rest of your incarnation.
4. I am going to try to simplify. The main headings are:
These translations, as usual, are perfectly wrong and inadequate. The real object of Asana is control of the muscular system, conscious and unconscious, so that no messages from the body can reach the mind. Asana is concerned with the static aspect of the body. Pranayama is really the control of the dynamic aspect of the body.
- Asana, usually translated 'posture,' and
- Pranayama, usually translated 'control of breath.'
There is something a little paradoxical in the situation. The object of the process of Yoga is to stop all processes, including itself. But it is not sufficient for the Yogi to shoot himself, because to do so would be to destroy the control, and so to release the pain-producing energies. We cannot enter into a metaphysical discussion as to what it is that controls, or before we know where we are we shall be moonstruck by hypotheses about the soul.
5.  We have seen that to stop existing processes by an act of violence is merely to release the undesirable elements. If we want peace on Dartmoor, we do not open the doors of the prison. What we do is to establish routine. What is routine? Routine is rhythm. If you want to go to sleep, you get rid of irregular, unexpected noises. What is wanted is a lullaby. You watch sheep going through a gate, or voters at a polling station. When you have got used to it, the regularity of the engines of a train or steamship is soothing. What we have to do with the existing functions of the body is to make them so regular, with gradually increasing slowness, that we become unconscious of their operation.
6. Let us deal first with the question of Asana. It might be thought that nothing would be more soothing than swinging or gentle massage. In a sense, and up to a certain point, this is so. But the activity cannot be continued because fatigue supervenes, and sooner or later the body protests by going to sleep. We must, therefore, make up our minds from the start to reduce bodily rhythm to its minimum.
7. I am not quite sure whether it is philosophically defensible, whether it is logically justifiable, to assert the principles of Asana as they occur in our practice. We must break away from our sorites, turn to the empiricism of experiment, and trust that one day we may be able to work back from observed fact to a coherent metaphysic.
The point is that by sitting still, in the plain literal sense of the words, the body does ultimately respond to the adjuration of that great Mahatma, Harry Lauder, 'Stop your ticklin', Jock!'
8. When we approach the details of Asana, we are immediately confronted with the refuse-heap of Hindu pedantry. We constantly approach the traditional spiritual attitude of the late Queen Victoria. The only types of Asana which offer even the most transient interest are those of which I am not going to speak at all, because they have nothing whatever to do with the high-minded type of Yoga which I am presenting to this distinguished audience. I should blush to do otherwise.  If there is any fun in the subject at all, it is the fun of finding them out. I must admit that if you start with a problem such as that of juxtaposing the back of your head and shoulders with the back of the head and shoulders of the other person concerned,(*1) the achievement does produce a certain satisfaction. But this, I think, is mostly vanity, and it has nothing whatever to do, as I said before, with what we are trying to talk about.
9. The various postures recommended by the teachers of Yoga depend for the most part upon the Hindu anatomy for their value, and upon mystic theories concerning the therapeutic and thaumaturgic properties ascribed to various parts of the body. If, for instance, you can conquer the nerve Udana, you can walk on water. But who the devil wants to talk on water? Swimming is much better fun. (I bar sharks, sting-rays, cuttle-fish, electric eels and piranhas. Also trippers, bathing belles and Mr. Lansbury.) Alternatively, freeze the water and dance on it! A great deal of Hindu endeavour seems to consist in discovering the most difficult possible way to attain the most undesirable end.
10. When you start tying yourself into a knot, you will find that some positions are much more difficult and inconvenient than others; but that is only the beginning. If you retain 'any' posture long enough, you get cramp. I forget the exact statistics, but I gather that the muscular exertion made by a man sleeping peacefully in bed is sufficient to raise fourteen elephants per hour to the stratosphere. Anyway, I remember that it is something rather difficult to believe, if only because I did not believe it myself.
11. Why then should we bother to choose a specially sacred position? Firstly, we want to be steady and easy. We want, in particular, to be able to do Pranayama in that position, if ever we reach the stage of attempting that practice. We may, therefore, formulate (roughly speaking) the conditions to be desired in the posture as follows:
Now, if you will keep these points in mind, and do not get side-tracked by totally irrelevant ideas, such as to imagine that you are getting holier by adopting some attitude traditionally appropriate to a deity or holy man; and if you will refrain from the Puritan abomination that anything is good for you if it hurts you enough, you ought to be able to find out for yourself, after a few experiments, some posture which meets these conditions. I should very much rather have you do this than come to me for some mumbo-jumbo kind of authority. I am no pig-sticking pukka sahib-not even from Poona-to put my hyphenated haw-haw humbug over on the B. Public.(*2) I would rather you did the thing 'wrong' by yourselves, and learned from your errors, than get it 'right' from the teacher, and atrophied your initiative and your faculty of learning anything at all.
- We want to be properly balanced.
- We want our arms free. (They are used in some Pranyama.)
- We want our breathing apparatus as unrestrained as possible.
It is, however, perfectly right that you should have some idea of what happens when you sit down to practise.
12. Let me digress for a moment and refer to what I said in my text-book on Magick with regard to the formula IAO. This formula covers all learning. You begin with a delightful feeling as of a child with a new toy; you get bored, and you attempt to smash it. But if you are a wise child, you have had a scientific attitude towards it, and you do not smash it. You pass through the stage of boredom, and arise from the inferno of torture towards the stage of resurrection, when the toy has become a god, declared to you its inmost secrets, and become a living part of your life. There are no longer these crude, savage reactions of pleasure and pain. The new knowledge is assimilated.
13. So it is with Asana. The chosen posture attracts you; you purr with self-satisfaction. How clever you have been! How nicely the posture suits all conditions! You absolutely melt with maudlin good feeling. I have known pupils who have actually been betrayed into sparing a kindly thought for the Teacher! It is quite clear that there is something wrong about this. Fortunately, Time, the great healer, is on the job as usual; Time takes no week-ends off;
Time does not stop to admire himself; Time keeps right on.(*3) Before very long, you forget all about the pleasantness of things, and it would not be at all polite to give you any idea of what you are going to think of the Teacher.
14. Perhaps the first thing you notice is that, although you have started in what is apparently the most comfortable position, there is a tendency to change that position without informing you. For example, if you are sitting in the 'god' position with your knees together, you will find in a few minutes that they have moved gently apart, without your noticing it. Freud would doubtless inform you that this is due to an instinctive exacerbation of infantile sexual theories. I hope that no one here is going to bother me with that sort of nauseating nonsense.
15. Now it is necessary, in order to hold a position, to pay attention to it. That is to say: you are going to become conscious of your body in ways of which you are not conscious if you are engaged in some absorbing mental pursuit, or even in some purely physical activity, such as running. It sounds paradoxical at first sight, but violent exercise, so far from concentrating attention on the body, takes it away. That is because exercise has its own rhythm; and, as I said, rhythm is half-way up the ridge to Silence.
Very good, then; in the comparative stillness of the body, the student becomes aware of minute sounds which did not disturb him in his ordinary life. At least, not when his mind was occupied with matters of interest. You will begin to fidget, to itch, to cough. Possibly your breathing will begin to play tricks upon you. All these symptoms must be repressed. The process of repressing them is extremely difficult; and, like all other forms of repression, it leads to a terrific exaggeration of the phenomena which it is intended to repress.
16. There are quite a lot of little tricks familiar to most scientific people from their student days. Some of them are very significant in this connection of Yoga. For instance, in the matter of endurance, such as holding out a weight at arm's length, you can usually beat a man stronger than yourself.  It is a question of active and passive; when Asana begins to annoy you the reply is to annoy it, to match the active thought of controlling the minute muscular movement against the passive thought of easing the irritation and disturbance.
17. Now I do not believe that there are any rules for doing this that will be any use to you. There are innumerable little tricks that you might try; only it is, as in the case of the posture itself, rather better if you invent your own tricks. I will only mention one: roll the tongue back towards the uvula, at the same time let the eyes converge towards an imaginery point in the centre of the forehead. There are all sorts of holinesses indicated in this attitude, and innumerable precedents on the part of the most respectable divinities. Do, please, forget all this nonsense! The advantage is simply that your attention is forced to maintain the awkward position. You become aware sooner than you otherwise would of any relaxation; and you thereby show the rest of the body that it is no use trying to disturb you by its irritability.
But there are no rules. I said there weren't, and there aren't.

These tricks may help or they may hinder; it is up to you to find out which are good and which are bad, the why and the what and all the other questions. It all comes to the same thing in the end. There is only one way to still the body in the long run, and that is to keep it still. It's dogged as does it.
18. The irritations develop into extreme agony. Any attempt to alleviate this simply destroys the value of the practice. I must particularly warn the aspirant against rationalising (I have known people who were so hopelessly bat-witted that they rationalised). They thought: 'Ah, well, this position is not suitable for me, as I thought it was. I have made a mess of the Ibis position; now I'll have a go at the Dragon position.' But the Ibis has kept his job, and attained his divinity, by standing on one leg throughout the centuries. If you go to the Dragon he will devour you.
19. It is through the perversity of human nature that the most acute agony seems to occur when you are within a finger's breadth of full success. Remember Gallipoli! I am inclined to think that it may be a sort of symptom that one is near the critical point when the anguish becomes intolerable.
You will probably ask what 'intolerable' means. I rudely answer: 'Find out!' But it may give you some idea of what is, after all, not too bad, when I say that in the last months of my own work it often used to take me ten minutes (at the conclusion of the practice) to straighten my left leg. I took the ankle in both hands, and eased it out a fraction of a millimetre at a time.
20. At this point the band begins to play. Quite suddenly the pain stops. An ineffable sense of relief sweeps over the Yogi-notice that I no longer call him 'student' or 'aspirant'-and he becomes aware of a very strange fact. Not only was that position giving him pain, but all other bodily sensations that he has ever experienced are in the nature of pain, and were only borne by him by the expedient of constant flitting from one to another.
He is at ease; because, for the first time in his life, he has become really unconscious of the body. Life has been one endless suffering; and now, so far as this particular Asana is concerned, the plague is abated.
I feel that I have failed to convey the full meaning of this.
The fact is that words are entirely unsuitable. The complete and joyous awakening from the lifelong and unbroken nightmare of physical discomfort is impossible to describe.
21. The results and mastery of Asana are of use not only in the course of attainment of Yoga, but in the most ordinary affairs of life. At any time when fatigued, you have only to assume your Asana, and you are completely rested. It is as if the attainment of the mastery has worn down all those possibilities of physical pain which are inherent in that particular position. The teachings of physiology are not contradictory to this hypothesis.
The conquest of Asana makes for endurance. If you keep in constant practice, you ought to find that about ten minutes in the posture will rest you as much as a good night's sleep.
So much for the obstacle of the body considered as static. Let us now turn our attention to the conquest of its dynamics.
22. It is always pleasing to turn to a subject like Pranayama.
Pranayama means control of force. It is a generalised term. In the Hindu system there are quite a lot of subtle sub-strata of the various energies of the body which have all got names and properties. I do not propose to deal with the bulk of them. There are only two which have much practical importance in life. One of these is not to be communicated to the public in a rotten country like this; the other is the well-known 'control of breath.'
This simply means that you get a stop watch, and choose a cycle of breathing out and breathing in. Both operations should be made as complete as possible. The muscular system must be taxed to its utmost to assist the expansion and contraction of the lungs.
When you have got this process slow and regular, for instance, 30 seconds breathing out and 15 in, you may add a few seconds in which the breath is held, either inside or outside the lungs.
(It is said, by the way, that the operation of breathing out should last about twice as long as that of breathing in, the theory being that breathing out quickly may bring a loss of energy. I think there may be something in this.)
23. There are other practices. For instance, one can make the breathing as quick and shallow as possible. Any good practice is likely to produce its own phenomena, but in accordance with the general thesis of these lectures I think it will be obvious that the proper practice will aim at holding the breath for as long a period as possible-because that condition will represent as close an approximation to complete stillness of the physiological apparatus as may be. Of course we are not stilling it; we are doing nothing of the sort. But at least we are deluding ourselves into thinking that we are doing it, and the point is that, according to tradition, if you can hold the mind still for as much as twelve seconds you will get one of the highest results of Yoga. It is certainly a fact that when you are doing a cycle of 20 seconds out, 10 in, and 30 holding, there is quite a long period during the holding period when the mind does tend to stop its malignant operations. By the time this cycle has become customary, you are able to recognise instinctively the arrival of the moment when you can throw yourself suddenly into the mental act of concentration. In other words, by Asana and Pranayama you have worked yourself into a position where you are free, if only for a few seconds, to attempt actual Yoga processes, which you have previously been prevented from attempting by the distracting activities of the respiratory and muscular systems.
24. And so? Yes. Pranayama may be described as nice clean fun. Before you have been doing it very long, things are pretty certain to begin to happen, though this, I regret to remark, is fun to you, but death to Yoga.
The classical physical results of Pranayama are usually divided into four stages:
1. Perspiration. This is not the ordinary perspiration which comes from violent exercise; it has peculiar properties, and I am not going to tell you what these are, because it is much better for you to perform the practices, obtain the experience, and come to me yourself with the information. In this way you will know that you have got the right thing, whereas if I were to tell you now, you would very likely imagine it.
2. Automatic rigidity: the body becomes still, as the result of a spasm. This is perfectly normal and predictable. It is customary to do it with a dog.  You can take him out and wave him around by a leg as if he were frozen. This is not quite the same thing, but near it.
25. Men of science are terribly handicapped in every investigation by having been trained to ignore the immeasurable. All phenomena have subtle qualities which are at present insusceptible to any properly scientific methods of investigation. We can imitate the processes of nature in the laboratory, but the imitation is not always exactly identical with the original. For instance, Professor J. B. S. Haldane attempted some of the experiments suggested in 'The Equinox' in this matter of Pranayama, and very nearly killed himself in the process. He did not see the difference between the experiment with the dog and the phenomena which supervene as the climax of a course of gentle operation. It is the difference between the exhilaration produced by sipping Clos Vougeot '26 and the madness of swilling corn whiskey. It is the same foolishness as to think that sniffing cocaine is a more wholesome process than chewing coca leaves. Why, they exclaim, cocaine is chemically pure! Cocaine is the active principle! We certainly do not want these nasty leaves, where our sacred drug is mixed up with a lot of vegetable stuff which rather defies analysis, and which cannot possibly have any use for that reason! This automatic rigidity, or Shukshma Khumbakham, is not merely to be defined as the occurrence of physiological rigidity. That is only the grosser symptom.
26. The third stage is marked by Buchari-siddhi: 'the power of jumping about like a frog' would be a rough translation of this fascinating word. This is a very extraordinary phenomenon.  This does happen; you are quite normal mentally, and you can watch yourself doing it.
The natural explanation of this is that your muscles are making very quick short spasmodic jerks without your being conscious of the fact. The dog helps us again by making similar contortions. As against this, it may be argued that your mind appears to be perfectly normal. There is, however, one particuliar point of consciousness, the sensation of almost total loss of weight. This, by the way, may sound a little alarming to the instructed alienist. There is a similar feeling which occurs in certain types of insanity.
27. The fourth state is Levitation. The Hindus claim that 'jumping about like a frog' implies a genuine loss of weight, and that the jumping is mainly lateral because you have not perfected the process. If you were absolutely balanced, they claim that you would rise quietly into the air.
I do not know about this at all. I never saw it happen. On the other hand, I have often felt as if it were happening; and on three occasions at least comparatively reliable people have said that they saw it happening to me. I do not think it proves anything.
These practices, Asana and Pranayama, are, to a certain extent, mechanical, and to that extent it is just possible for a man of extraordinary will power, with plenty of leisure and no encumbrances, to do a good deal of the spade-work of Yoga even in England. But I should advise him to stick very strictly to the purely physical preparation, and on no account to attempt the practices of concentration proper, until he is able to acquire suitable surroundings.
But do not let him imagine that in making this very exceptional indulgence I am going to advocate any slipshod ways. If he decides to do, let us say, a quarter of an hour's Asana twice daily, rising to an hour four times daily, and Pranayama in proportion, he has got to stick to this-no cocktail parties, football matches, or funerals of near relations, must be allowed to interfere with the routine. The drill is the thing, the acquisition of the habit of control, much more important than any mere success in the practices themselves. I would rather you wobbled about for your appointed hour than sat still for fifty-nine minutes. The reason for this will only be apparent when we come to the consideration of advanced Yoga, a subject which may be adequately treated in a second series of four lectures. By special request only, and I sincerely hope that nothing of the sort will happen.
29. Before proposing a vote of thanks to the lecturer for his extraordinarily brilliant exposition of these most difficult subjects, I should like to add a few words on the subject of Mantra-Yoga, because this is really a branch of Pranayama, and one which it is possible to practise quite thoroughly in this country. In Book IV., Part I., I have described it, with examples, quite fully enough. I need here only say that its constant use, day and night, without a moment's cessation, is probably as useful a method as one could find of preparing the current of thought for the assumption of a rhythmical form, and rhythm is the great cure for irregularity. Once it is established, no interference will prevent it. Its own natural tendency is to slow down, like a pendulum, until time stops, and the sequence of impressions which constitutes our intellectual apprehensions of the universe is replaced by that form of consciousness (or unconsciousness, if you prefer it, not that either would give the slightest idea of what is meant) which is without condition of any kind, and therefore represents in perfection the consummation of Yoga.
Love is the law, love under will.
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*3) Some Great Thinker once said: 'Time marches on.' What felicity of phrase!


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IN THE HIGH COURT AT CALCUTTA CIVIL APPELLATE JURISDICTION APPELLATE SIDE PRESENT: The Hon'ble CHIEF JUSTICE SURINDER SINGH NIJJAR And The Hon'ble JUSTICE SANJIB BANERJEE FMA No. 211 of 2008 CESC LIMITED -Versus- WEST BENGAL POLLUTION CONTROL BOARD & OTHERS For the Appellant: Mr. Anindya Mitra, Mr. Avijit Chatterjee, Mr. L.K. Poddar, Mr. Gaurav Khaitan. For the WBPCB: Mr. Kallol Basu, Mr. Talay Siddiqui. Heard on: November 12, 2008. Judgment on: November 17, 2008. SANJIB BANERJEE, J. : - The appellant is aggrieved by the dismissal of its writ petition by which it had challenged two notices issued by the first respondent requiring the appellant
to show-cause as to why criminal proceedings should not be launched against the officers of the appellant under the provisions of The Water (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Cess Act, 1977 (the said Act).
The appellant says that it would be evident from the affidavit used by the first respondent in the trial court that the notices of November 5, 1986 and November 11, 1986 were issued with ulterior motive as the first respondent had unhesitatingly acknowledged that the notices were issued to realise payment from the appellant. The appellant contends that the notices are without basis and inasmuch as subsequent to the issuance of the notices the first respondent's principal demand on account of cess had been paid, the notices had lost all force and should have been quashed as infructuous by the learned Single Judge. The appellant argues that the notices were inherently bad and could not have been issued at all.
The facts may be somewhat irrelevant in the context, but the bare essentials must be noticed to put the matter in perspective. The appellant uses water drawn from the river at two of its units in Mulajore and New Cossipore. The appellant says that at the time that the notices were issued, there was a genuine dispute as to whether the cess would be payable on the water drawn from a river by an industry without taking into account the water returned to the river after cleansing it at the post-use stage. The appellant submits that at the relevant time the appellant bona fide contended that the cess was payable only on the difference between the quantum of water drawn and the quantum of water returned to the source and that it had filed returns accordingly. It is urged that such a contention was not outlandish as other industries had taken the same stand and it required an order passed by the Supreme Court for the matter to be resolved that the water drawn by an industry would be the water consumed by the industry for the purpose of ascertaining the cess payable.
It is an admitted position that notwithstanding Section 4 of the said Act requiring an industry or a local authority to affix a meter to measure the quantum of water drawn by the industrial unit, no meter was placed at either of the appellant's units to assess the amount of water that the appellant drew. It is the common case that the Central Government has made no endeavour to place a meter at either of the appellant's units. The assessment of water drawn is made on the foundation of a formula devised by the first respondent which is based on the diameter of the water-drawing pipe at an industrial unit. There is no apparent dispute between the parties on such score.
The appellant argues that if the appellant had harboured a bona fide belief that it was required to pay cess only on the quantum of water that was retained or wasted by it in course of use at its units, it could not be said that any return on water use or quantum of cess due made on such basis was false or known by the appellant to be false for it to suffer a threat of criminal proceedings against its officers under the said Act. According to the appellant, it was nearly a decade after the issuance of the show-cause notices that the question was answered by the Supreme Court pronouncement in the judgment reported at 1995 Supp (3) SCC 385 (Delhi Electric Supply Undertaking v. Central Board for the Prevention and Control of Water Pollution & anr.).
The appellant labours to establish that if it was the endeavour of the first respondent to extract payment by threatening criminal prosecution, the first respondent had achieved its purpose upon the appellant making payment of the principal amounts claimed. The appellant says that the first respondent had levied exorbitant interest on the principal sums claimed, which the appellant sought to question before the appropriate forum. The forum did not entertain the appellant's plea merely on the ground that the challenge had been lodged beyond the permitted period and the forum did not have the power under the relevant statute to condone the delay. The appellant informs that writ petitions have been filed before this Court from the orders refusing to entertain the appellant's challenges to the demands on account of interest.
The first respondent submits that even if it is assumed that the first respondent went about issuing the notices to ensure that the money due was tendered, in the absence of the entire claim being satisfied, it cannot be said that the object of the show-cause notices has been achieved. The first respondent questions the appellant's submission that all demands have been satisfied as, on the appellant's showing, the interest due for the belated payments has not been paid.
The appellant suggests that even if its challenge to the two notices were found unacceptable, the appellant should have been afforded time by the learned Single Judge to use a reply. The appellant draws attention to the recording in the impugned order that such scaled down prayer had been made and argues that there was no basis for rejecting the innocuous plea.
To start with, there was no obligation on the part of the first respondent to require the appellant to show cause as to why criminal proceedings against its officers should not be initiated. The notices record so. The notices speak of no stipulated procedure being laid down and spell out that to avoid any subsequent complication the notices were being issued to enable the appellant an opportunity to explain its position. This opportunity, as it appears, resulted in the writ petition being filed and an interim order obtained on February 9, 1987 restraining the respondents from filing any criminal complaint in respect of the matters covered by the notices. The interim order expired on April 1, 1987 but was revived by another order of June 2, 1987 which continued till August 1, 1987. It probably escaped the first respondent's attention that the interim order stood vacated in 1987. The impugned order records that on August 28, 2003 an order was made to the following effect:
"Interim order which is already passed will continue until further orders of this Court."
The impugned order also notices that as at August 28, 2003 there was no interim order in force on the writ petition.
Courts are loath to entertain challenges to show-cause notices unless the notice is demonstrably perverse or issued without jurisdiction. In all fairness, the appellant accepts that a challenge to a show-cause notice has to be made as in a demurrer and without questioning the contents thereof.
The appellant refers to paragraph 9 of one of the show-cause notices and says that what had been said was that the returns filed by the appellant "appears to be false". The appellant says that this did not meet the exalted test required under Section 14(1) of the said Act. The appellant tends to gloss over the following sub-paragraph in paragraph 9 of the same notice where the first respondent sought to invoke Section 14(2) of the said Act.
The said Act was introduced to provide for the levy and collection of a cess on water consumed by persons carrying on certain industries and by local authorities, with a view to augment the resources of the central board and the state boards for the prevention and control of water pollution constituted under the Water (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Act, 1974. Under Section 3 of the said Act a cess is levied on industry and local authorities defined under the said Act for utilisation of water. Section 5 requires an industry liable to pay cess under the said Act to file periodic returns before such authority as may be prescribed. Section 6 stipulates the manner in which cess has to be assessed and Section 8 provides for the cess collected under Section 3 to be credited to the Consolidated Fund for distribution of a part of the proceeds to the central and state pollution control boards to enable such boards to discharge their obligations under the Water (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Act, 1974. Section 10 recognises interest being payable on delayed payment of cess. Section 11 provides for penalty for non-payment of cess within the specified time and Section 12 specifies the mode for recovery of the amount due under the said Act. Section 13 allows a person or local authority aggrieved by an order of assessment or an order imposing penalty under Section 11 to prefer an appeal to the prescribed authority. Section 14 of the said Act, the one relevant for the present purpose, reads as follows:
"14. (1) Whoever, being under an obligation to furnish a return under this Act, furnishes any return knowing, or having reason to believe, the same to be false shall be punishable with imprisonment which may extend to six months or with fine which may extend to one thousand rupees or with both.
(2) Whoever, being liable to pay cess under this Act willfully or intentionally evades or attempts to evade the payment of such cess shall be punishable with imprisonment which may extend to six months or with fine which may extend to one thousand rupees or with both.
(3) No court shall take cognizance of an offence punishable under this section save on a complaint made by or under the authority of the Central Government."
The use of the expressions "appears to be false" and "attempting to evade payment" in the notices in the context of possible offences under Sections 14(1) and 14(2), respectively, of the said Act would not merit the quashing of the notices or the muffling of the likely criminal proceedings that may ensue. If anything, the first respondent had shown restraint in not having an altogether closed mind even while issuing the show-cause notices. The authority of the first respondent in issuing the notices in not questioned. The appellant also reveals that its returns were furnished on a premise that was subsequently held to be erroneous. In such circumstances, to entertain any challenge to the notices would amount to usurping the jurisdiction of the authority that may receive the complaints if the first respondent were minded to pursue the matter.
Ordinarily no writ lies against a charge-sheet or show-cause notice. Law journals abound with judgments on such score. The reason why a writ petition is not easily entertained against a show-cause notice or charge-sheet is that at that stage the challenge may be premature. A mere charge-sheet or show-cause notice does not give rise to any cause of action as it does not amount to an adverse order affecting the rights of a party unless the same has been issued by a person having no jurisdiction to do so. It is eminently possible that after considering the reply to a show-cause notice or after holding an enquiry the authority concerned may drop the proceedings or hold that the charges are not established. A writ petition is generally entertained when some right of any party is infringed. A mere show-cause notice or charge-sheet may not infringe the right of any person. It is only when an order imposing some punishment or otherwise adversely affecting a party is passed, that such party can be said to have a grievance. The previous authorities and contemporaneous judicial thought in matters of such nature have been noticed in the judgment reported at (2006) 12 SCC 28 (Union of India v. Kunisetty Satyanarayana). Paragraphs 15 and 16 of the report are apposite:
"15. Writ jurisdiction is discretionary jurisdiction and hence such discretion under Article 226 should not ordinarily be exercised by quashing a show-cause notice or charge-sheet.
"16. No doubt, in some very rare and exceptional cases the High Court can quash a charge-sheet or show-cause notice if it is found to be wholly without jurisdiction or for some other reason if it is wholly illegal. However, ordinarily the High Court should not interfere in such a matter."
For the writ petitioner to then seek leave of court to issue a reply 20 years after receipt of the show-cause notices - when there was never any embargo on it to respond to them - was ironical and fittingly treated with disdain. There was no merit in the writ petition and there is even less in this appeal which is dismissed with costs.
Urgent certified photostat copies of this Judgment, if applied for, be supplied to the parties upon compliance with all requisite formalities.
I agree.
(Surinder Singh Nijjar, C.J.) (Sanjib Banerjee, J.)


Doubly robust estimators of treatment effects for ordinal outcomes
Author: David Benkeser
drord
is an R package that computes estimates of effect parameters that are useful for evaluating efficacy of treatments on ordinal outcomes. The effect estimates are covariate-adjusted, which means they can be used in observational settings or to gain efficiency in randomized trials.
The estimators implemented in the package are doubly robust, in that they are based on working models for the probability of treatment as a function of covariates (i.e., the propensity score) and for the CDF of the outcome as a function of covariates in each treatment arm. The latter working model is implemented via proportional odds models that are fit in each treatment arm separately. Estimates based on these two working models are combined to quantify the effects of the treatment on the ordinal outcome in three different ways:
Here we demonstrate calls to drord
to compute treatment effects using a simulated data set of COVID-19 outcomes in hospitalized patients.
library(drord)
#> drord: Doubly robust estimators for ordinal outcomes
#> Version: <IP_ADDRESS>00
# load data
data(covid19)
# estimate treatment effects
fit <- drord(out = covid19$out,
covar = covid19[ , "age_grp", drop = FALSE],
treat = covid19$treat)
# look at estimates
fit
#> $mann_whitney
#> est wald_cil wald_ciu
#> 0.5771141 0.5310594 0.6231689
#>
#> $log_odds
#> est wald_cil wald_ciu
#> treat1 -1.2441017 -1.5162963 -0.971907150
#> treat0 -0.8926670 -1.1271207 -0.658213260
#> diff -0.3514347 -0.6939725 -0.008897035
#>
#> $weighted_mean
#> est wald_cil wald_ciu
#> treat1 2.5390850 2.44680920 2.6313607
#> treat0 2.3635178 2.27899457 2.4480410
#> diff 0.1755672 0.05620494 0.2949294
There is a plot
method included to visualize either the cumulative distribution or probability mass function of outcomes.
# plot of CDF
cdf_plot <- plot(fit, dist = "cdf",
treat_labels = c("Treatment", "Control"),
out_labels = c("Death", "Death or intubation"))
cdf_plot + ggsci::scale_fill_nejm()
The black bars are pointwise 95% confidence intervals; the gray bars are simultaneous 95% confidence intervals.
A similar plot can be made for the PMF.
After using the drord
R package, please cite both of the following:
@Manual{drordpackage,
title = {drord: Doubly-Robust Estimators for Ordinal Outcomes},
author = {David Benkeser},
note = {R package version 1.0.0},
doi = {TBA}
}
@article{benkeserdiazluedtke2020,
title = {Improving Precision and Power in Randomized Trials for COVID-19 Treatments Using Covariate Adjustment, for Ordinal or Time to Event Outcomes},
doi = {10.1101/2<IP_ADDRESS>69922},
journal = {medRxiv: The Preprint Server for Health Sciences.}
}
© 2020- David Benkeser
The contents of this repository are distributed under the MIT license. See below for details:
The MIT License (MIT)
Copyright (c) 2020- David Benkeser
Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
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