Countdown to the 2011 WSOP: $50k overhyped?
We are T-Minus 4 and counting until the start of the 2011 World Series of Poker on May 31, when the $500 Casino Employees tournament and the $25,000 Heads-Up No limit Holdem Championship get underway, and in this article I'll take a look at the Players Championship and determine whether or not, in the new $100k Super-High-Roller tournament era, the $50k Players Championship is overhyped.
When it was first introduced, the idea of a $50,000 buy-in tournament was basically looked upon as the true test for the world's top poker players, but is this still the case in today's poker world, where $100k buy-in tournaments and even a $250,000 buy-in tournament are not just common occurrences, but before Black Friday were set to become a poker tour of their own? So I ask the question, is the winner of the $50k Players Championship the crowning of poker's top pro, or just some overhyped high-buy-in tournament?
It seemed like last year ESPN basically made Mike Mizrachi the poster-child for their coverage based on his Players Championship victory–although he did have a monster WSOP besides the Players Championship win, as well as going through a tough spot in his personal life in the process which made him a good storyline to follow —but it seemed to me that the rest of the poker media ate this story up as well. So, did Mizrachi deserve this kind of attention because of his win in the Players Championship?
The one thing that the $50k Players Championship has going for it is the ESPN television cameras. When the event was dropped from the ESPN schedule in 2009 –because the tournament was not No Limit Holdem which is basically the only format ESPN wants to air– attendance plummeted from regularly approaching 150 entrants down to just 95. This tells me that it's not so much the tournament, but the TV coverage that was drawing the players –players looking to cash in with a sponsorship deal.
I understand the idea that a mixed game calls for greater skill, but I'm fairly certain that none of the top players participating in the Players Championship are basing their opinions of who the best player is based on a single tournament either! So why not give the fans and the vast majority of possible entrants in the event, what they want and make the Players Championship a No Limit Holdem Event? If players are entering because of the exposure and not the prestige, why not switch to a NLHE tournament?
100 entrants is still a really good turnout for a $50k buy-in event, but considering the hype that surrounds the Players Championship you would think 200 players would not be an issue –especially when you look back at the $40k NLHE event in 2009 which drew 201 players.
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Q: How to create a 2-D array initialized with zeroes in JavaScript? Today I was porting my Python code into JavaScript and found this behavior.
Code:
var a = new Array(2).fill(new Array(3).fill([0, 0]));
for (i=0; i<2; i++) {
  for (j=0; j<3; j++) {
    a[i][j] = [i, j];
    //console.table(a); //for debugging
  }
}

What I think I should get for a (as a 2-dim array):
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[0, 0] | [0, 1] | [0, 2] |
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[1, 0] | [1, 1] | [1, 2] |
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What JavaScript gave me:
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[1, 0] | [1, 1] | [1, 2] |
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[1, 0] | [1, 1] | [1, 2] |
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It looks like there's some other type of logic used in JavaScript than what I think it should be. I'm simply assigning [i, j] to the [i][j]-th entry, but the result is not what I have in mind.

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*Have I made a mistake in the code?

*Why is the for-loop logic doesn't work in JavaScript?

*What should I do to get the desired result then?

A: If we run:

let a = new Array(2).fill(new Array(3).fill([0, 0]));
for (let i=0; i<2; i++) {
  for (let j=0; j<3; j++) {
    a[i][j] = [i, j];
    console.log(a[i][j]);
  }
}
console.log(a);

We find that there's nothing wrong with the loop's logic itself. It is going in the correct order for i and j. So what's the problem? It turns out that JavaScript's Array.fill() method creates copies by references, not values! In other words, each element is basically a reference pointing to the same array, not individual separate arrays. To fix this for your code, use Array.from():

let a = Array.from({length: 2}, e => Array.from({length:3}, e => [0, 0]));
for (let i=0; i<2; i++) {
  for (let j=0; j<3; j++) {
    a[i][j] = [i, j];
    console.log(a[i][j]);
  }
}
console.log(a);

A: You can also simply do this without creating an array with zeroes (unless you need that array with zeroes). Use the push method on arrays.
let arr = [];
let nrows = 2;
let ncols = 3;

for (let i=0; i<nrows; i++) {
  for (let j=0; j<ncols; j++) {
    arr.push([i,j]);
  }
}

console.log(arr);

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The Case for Basic Income for The Arts
A Public Letter from the Arts Community for a Basic Income Guarantee
Artists' Voices for Basic Income
On Basic Income - A poem by George Elliott Clarke
Humans of Basic Income Portraits
Toronto Arts Council supports a federal Basic Income Guarantee
Montreal Arts Council From insecurity to dignity: New perspectives on artist status
News Release: 75,000 Canadian artists unite: It's time for a basic income
Webinar: The Case for Basic Income for the Arts, July 29th, 2020 ** REPLAY **
News Coverage of The Case for Basic Income for the Arts Campaign
CARFAC Basic Income Webinar - Wednesday, 16 September 2020
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Artpreneur Keynote: basic income guarantee for creatives
Dear Prime Minister Trudeau, Deputy Prime Minister Freeland, Minister Morneau and Minister Guilbeault:
We represent tens of thousands of artists, writers, technicians, and performers from many backgrounds and regions across Canada. Our voices are united; we call upon the Government of Canada to ensure the financial well-being of all residents by implementing a permanent Basic Income Guarantee.
The pandemic's wrath on lives has been swift. Millions are still out of work. Those whose financial situation was not previously precarious find themselves sinking into financial quicksand, their lives instantly upended through no fault of their own. The arts, culture, heritage, tourism, and creative industries have been deeply affected: productions have been canceled, venues shuttered, and livelihoods lost. In these unprecedented times, millions of Canadians, including those in the arts and culture sector, exist in a precarious reality. In this new reality, we are all vulnerable to unexpected changes in circumstances and unexpected hardships. Poverty can become a reality for all of us, abruptly, without warning.
*** READ THE COMPLETE LETTER here.
Craig Berggold - Team Leader, The Case for Basic Income for the Arts, Ontario Basic Income Network
Zainub Verjee - Laureate, 2020 Governor General's Award in Visual and Media Arts, Outstanding Contribution
Clayton Windatt - Independent artist / curator
With, and on behalf of:
Canadian Arts and Culture Organizations and 270+ Individuals:
International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees (IATSE)
Canadian Federation of Musicians / Federation canadienne des musiciens (CFM/FCM)
Canadian Actors' Equity Association (CAEA)
Fédération culturelle canadienne-française (FCCF)
Kehewin Native Dance Theatre
Canadian Artists' Representation / Le Front des artistes canadiens (CARFAC)
Regroupement des artistes en arts visuels du Québec (RAAV)
Conseil québécois du théâtre (CQT)
Artist-Run Centres and Collectives Conference / Conférence des collectifs et des centres d'artistes autogérés (ARCA)
Playwrights Guild of Canada (PGC)
Independent Media Arts Alliance / Alliance des arts médiatiques indépendants
Canadian Crafts Federation / Fédération canadienne des métiers d'art
Association acadienne des artistes professionnel.le.s du Nouveau-Brunswick
Canadian Dance Assembly/Assemblé canadienne de la danse (CDA-ACD)
The Writers' Union of Canada
many more….
Artists' Voices for Basic Income
"Every year since the late 70s, I've been part of a growing movement of Ontario artists, campaigning for basic income, for a living wage. Every year, we've combined this call with urgent demands for social justice, combatting racism, sexism, homophobia -- because for all of us, these struggles are not just linked, but indivisible. In this moment of extraordinary insurrection, it's time. Let's march up the mountain, together."
John Greyson, filmmaker / video artist
"KEHEWIN NATIVE DANCE THEATRE and all the individual artists, elders and community knowledge keepers that are the core of our collective, fully support and endorse this letter."
Rosa John, Artistic Director, Kehewin Native Dance Theatre
"I participated in the 2018-19 Ontario Basic Income pilot project until its premature cancellation contrary to the election promise made by the provincial government. For my portrait series Humans of Basic Income, I asked other participants how they used their basic income and highlighted how the pilot allowed people to thrive, not just survive. We can do this, let's create a better future guaranteeing a basic income regardless of work status".
Jessie Golem, photographer
(excerpt)
No matter how rich the rich, the people own greater riches--
For our tax dollars are ours to fulfill all our wishes.
Why not weave ourselves a mass, protective web
To catch all who tumble, whether the poor or pleb,
Off the high-wire of capitalist high-jinks and low-down tricks,
The badly frayed ropes and the greasy balancing sticks.
Why not grant ourselves—because the people's money's ours—
Platforms to stand on, cushions to land on, fail-safe moors?
*** Read the poem in its entirety here.
George Elliott Clarke
7th Parliamentary/Canadian Poet Laureate
composed this poem for our campaign.
This is an ongoing portrait series featuring the residents of Ontario who were part of the prematurely cancelled Basic Income Pilot Project and their stories. Portraits taken by Jessie Golem, 2018. See more photos at the Humans of Basic Income website.
Sarah - "B.I. alleviated my stress... I am precariously employed."
Tim - "B.I. helps me stay healthy with good food. I'm ill."
* Lavie Williams - Inclusion and Anti-Racism Advisor, Human Rights Office, Queen's University
* Craig Berggold - media artist, "Has the artist been paid?"
* Lavie and Craig were not participants in the Ontario Basic Income Pilot program. They were attending a Basic Income event on 11 October 2018 in Kingston, Ontario, co-sponsored by the Public Service Alliance of Canada, Local 901 and Oxfam Canada.
Toronto Arts Council has joined the leaders of Canada's largest municipal arts councils for the very first time to advocate on behalf of the artists and residents of Calgary, Edmonton, Montreal, Toronto and Winnipeg. You can read their strong statement of advocacy on their web page here.
In an announcement in the Globe and Mail on 20 March, the councils presented their case for a basic income for artists in Canada. It begins,
"As we come to terms with the one-year anniversary of COVID lockdowns, Canada's arts community is focused on creating a brighter and more sustainable future. A future that takes advantage of the upheaval wrought by the pandemic, to repair the broken model outlined by Marsha Lederman on March 13 (Eight ways to fix the arts industry, postpandemic). To be effective, this repair will include provision of a Basic Income Guarantee."
The article can be read here.
The Globe and Mail is behind a paywall. A pdf version can be found here for those who are not subscribers.
The Toronto Arts Council also submitted a pre-Budget submission which is very strongly in favour of a basic income provision being included. That submission can be found here.
From insecurity to dignity: New perspectives on enhancing artist status
On February 1, the Conseil des arts de Montréal submitted a brief entitled De la précarité à la dignité : nouveaux regards pour améliorer le statut de l'artiste [From insecurity to dignity: New perspectives on enhancing artist status] as part of the public consultations on revising legislation on artist status.
As a funding agency and central player in Montreal's cultural ecosystem, the CAM presented the brief in an act of solidarity with artists. Thanks to its close, privileged relationship with artists and cultural organizations and workers, the Conseil is a firsthand witness to the devastation caused by the pandemic and certain systemic and structural problems observed in recent years.
Read the full introduction here.
(There is a link in the introduction that will take you to the full brief which is only available in French)

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Eine integrierte Dienstmanagement-Architektur für die qualitätsgesicherte Bereitstellung von Netz- und Systemdiensten
Christian Mayerl, University of Karlsruhe, DE, March 2001
Telecommunications Management Network - A Novel Approach Towards its Architecture and Realisation Through Object-Oriented Software Platforms
George Pavlou, University of Surrey, UK, October 1999
An Architecture for an ATM Network Continuous Media Server Exploiting Temporal Locality of Access
Kneale J. Rothwell, University of Kent at Canterbury, UK, September 1999
A Hybrid Approach to Quality of Service Multicast Routing in High Speed Networks
John Crawford, University of Kent at Canterbury, UK, November 1998
A Generic Management Model for CORBA, CMIP and SNMP
Bela Ban, Wirtschaftswissenschaftlichen Fakultaet, University of Zurich, Switzerland, 196 pages, December 1997
Policy Service for Distributed Systems
Damian Marriott, Department of Computing, Imperial College, London, UK, 132 pages, October 1997
A Component-based Architecture for Open, Independently Extensible Distributed Systems
Luca Deri, Philosophisch-naturwissenschaftlichen Fakultät der Universität Bern, Switzerland, 248 pages, june 1997
Object-Oriented Method and Architecture for Virtual Private Network Service Management
J.P. Gaspoz, Communication Systems Division, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland, December 1995, PhD Thesis no. 1446.
Towards a Distributed Architecture for Systems Management
Guy H. Genilloud, Communication Systems Division, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland, December 1996 Ph.D thesis number 1588.
Distributed Management by Delegation
German Goldszmidt, Columbia University, United States, 175 pages, april 1996.
The Management of Data, Events, and Information Presentation for Network Management
Masum Z. Hasan, University of Toronto, Canada, 192 pages, 1996
Monitoring of Distributed Systems
Masoud Mansouri-Samani, Department of Computing, Imperial College, London, UK, 173 pages, December 1995
Network Management Architectures
Aiko Pras, University of Twente, The Netherlands, 245 pages, february 1995, ISSN 1381-3617 / ISBN 90-365-0728-6.
Netzwerkmanagement mit programmierbaren, kooperierenden Agenten (german)
Jürgen Schönwälder, Technical University of Braunschweig, Germany, 174 pages, june 1996, Shaker-Verlag, ISBN 3-8265-1511-0
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Raymond McCauley is a scientist, engineer, and entrepreneur working at the forefront of biotechnology. Raymond explores how applying technology to life ""biology, genetics, medicine, agriculture"" is affecting every one of us. He is known for using storytelling and down-to-earth examples to show how quickly these changes are happening, right now.
Raymond is Chair of Biology at Singularity University, Co-founder and Chief Architect for BioCurious, the hackerspace for biotech—a not-for-profit where professional scientists, DIY bio hobbyists, and entrepreneurs come together to design the next big thing to come out of a Silicon Valley garage. As part of the team that developed next-generation DNA sequencing at Illumina, he worked in bioinformatics, cancer sequencing, and personal genomics. His work and story have been featured in Wired, Forbes, Time, and Nature.
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        out = { },
        m;

    for (m = 0; m < models.length; m++)
        _.extend(out, require('./' + models[m])(bookshelf));

    return out;
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Бакингхем () — бывший город в канадской провинции Квебек, регион Оттава. С 1 января 2002 г. включён в состав города Гатино. По состоянию на 2006 г. население Бакингхема составляло 22 078 человек

История

Основание

В 1799 г. земли, на которых сейчас располагается Бакингхем, были дарованы вышедшему в отставку британскому военному Джону Робертсону. Первые поселенцы обосновались здесь в 1823 г., тогда же была построена первая мельница. В последующие годы начался приток жителей в Бакингхем.

Начало деревозаготовительной промышленности

В 1812 г. Наполеон Бонапарт начал режим континентальной блокады, вынудившей британцев искать источники древесины за пределами континентальной Европы. Вскоре после этого в Верхней Канаде были обнаружены большие территории, где произрастали деревья строительных пород. В течение более чем столетия деревозаготовительная промышленность была основным источником доходов Верхней Канады и до сих пор остаётся важной отраслью канадской промышленности. Тем не менее, первая лесопилка, построенная Группой Бигелоу, появилась здесь лишь в 1837 г.

Династия Макларенов
В течение всей истории города важную роль в его экономике и развитии играла династия Макларенов, контролировавшая многие сферы местной экономики.

Макларены, поселившиеся в регионе Оттава с 1840 г., доминировали в лесной промышленности в течение более столетия. В 1864 г. Джеймс Макларен построил в Бакингхеме лесопилку. После его смерти в 1892 г. компанию приобрели двое его братьев. Они же в 1894 г. создали в Бакингхеме компанию по производству спичек, которая была зарегистрирована год спустя. Позднее Макларены приобрели контроль над местным рынком электричества от гидростанций, а также стали контролировать рынки недвижимости и спорта. В начале Великой депрессии они соорудили дамбу на реке Дюльевр, и ещё одну в 1950-е гг. у Массона.

Убийство профсоюзных лидеров
8 октября 1906 г. двое профсоюзных лидеров были убиты в Бакингхеме агентами семьи Макларенов. Тома Беланже (Thomas Belanger) и Франсуа Терио (Francois Theriault) были председателем и секретарём-казначеем местного профсоюза, основанного несколькими месяцами ранее.

После убийства Макларены включили в «чёрный список» всех членов профсоюза и не давали им работы до 1944 г., когда профсоюз получил официальное признание. В период до 1944 г. население Бакингхема сократилось, так как многие переехали в другие города, чтобы найти там работу.

Несмотря на могущество Макларенов, на убийство профсоюзных лидеров город ответил акцией массовой скорби. В день похорон многие магазины закрылись, люди выстроились вдоль улиц, чтобы отдать последние почести погибшим. После похорон на могилах были воздвигнуты памятники. Письма поддержки приходили со всего Квебека, а также из других мест в Канаде и США.

Упадок Макларенов
Макларены оказали большое влияние на Бакингхем и соседние территории, в честь них названы улица и парк. Тем не менее, в середине 20 в. начался их упадок, а в последней четверти века они продали часть своих активов компаниям Noranda Inc. и Nexfor.

Федерация трудящихся Квебека (FTQ) потребовала изменить название улицы Макларенов на улицу Памяти 8 октября 1906 года, в память об убитых профсоюзных лидерах, однако этому воспротивились многие жители Бакингхема.

Неудачное слияние
В период 1975—1980 гг. тауншипы Бакингхем, Нотр-Дам-де-ла-Салет, Л'Анж-Гардьен, Бакингхем-Саут-Ист, Бакингхем-Уэст, Анже и Массон были слиты в один муниципалитет.

Включение в состав Гатино

1 января 2002 г. город Бакингхем, население которого к тому времени насчитывало 12000 жителей, был включён в состав новообразованного города Гатино в рамках Законопроекта 180 — масштабного проекта по укрупнению муниципалитетов, который проводила правящая Квебекская партия. Проект внесла на рассмотрение квебекского парламента министр муниципальных дел Луиза Арель, изучив перед этим результаты исследования муниципалитетов.

В 2003 г. пришедшая к власти Либеральная партия Квебека во главе с Жаном Шаре пообещала провести референдумы о разукрупнении муниципалитетов. Референдум в Бакингхеме прошёл 20 июня 2004 г. Большинство его участников высказалось против отделения от Гатино.

Бакингхемский фестиваль

С 1991 г. ежегодно в июле в Бакингхеме проводится фестиваль «Бакингхемский праздник»,  на территории Парка Макларенов. В фестивале принимали участие известные артисты Квебека. Однако в последние годы из-за недостатка финансирования фестиваль практически угас, хотя официально не отменён.

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The contents of this document are copyright 1972, Sri Aurobindo Ashram Trust, Pondicherry, India. You may make a digital copy or printout of this text for your personal, non-commercial use under the condition that you copy this document without modifications and in its entirety, including this copyright notice.
As the crust of the outer nature cracks, as the walls of inner separation break down, the inner light gets through, the inner fire burns in the heart, the substance of the nature and the stuff of consciousness refine to a greater subtlety and purity, and the deeper psychic experiences, those which are not solely of an inner mental or inner vital character, become possible in this subtler, purer, finer substance; the soul begins to unveil itself, the psychic personality reaches its full stature. The soul, the psychic entity, then manifests itself as the central being which upholds mind and life and body and supports all the other powers and functions of the Spirit; it takes up its greater function as the guide and ruler of the nature. A guidance, a governance begins from within which exposes every movement to the light of Truth, repels what is false, obscure, opposed to the divine realisation: every region of the being, every nook and corner of it, every movement, formation, direction, inclination of thought, will, emotion, sensation, action, reaction, motive, disposition, propensity, desire, habit of the conscious or subconscious physical, even the most concealed, camouflaged, mute, recondite, is lighted up with the unerring psychic light, their confusions dissipated, their tangles disentangled, their obscurities, deceptions, self-deceptions precisely indicated and removed; all is purified, set right, the whole nature harmonised, modulated in the psychic key, put in spiritual order. This process may be rapid or tardy according to the amount of obscurity and resistance still left in the nature, but it goes on unfalteringly so long as it is not complete. As a final result the whole conscious being is made perfectly apt for spiritual experience of every kind, turned towards spiritual truth of thought, feeling, sense, action, tuned to the right responses, delivered from the darkness and stubbornness of the tamasic inertia, the turbidities and turbulences and impurities of the rajasic passion and restless unharmonised kinetism, the enlightened rigidities and sattwic limitations or poised balancements of constructed equilibrium which are the character of the Ignorance.
This is the first result, but the second is a free inflow of all kinds of spiritual experience, experience of the Self, experience of the Ishwara and the Divine Shakti, experience of cosmic consciousness, a direct touch with cosmic forces and with the occult movements of universal Nature, a psychic sympathy and unity and inner communication and interchanges of all kinds with other beings and with Nature, illuminations of the mind by knowledge, illuminations of the heart by love and devotion and spiritual joy and ecstasy, illuminations of the sense and the body by higher experience, illuminations of dynamic action in the truth and largeness of a purified mind and heart and soul, the certitudes of the divine light and guidance, the joy and power of the divine force working in the will and the conduct. These experiences are the result of an opening outward of the inner and inmost being and nature; for then there comes into play the soul's power of unerring inherent consciousness, its vision, its touch on things which is superior to any mental cognition; there is there, native to the psychic consciousness in its pure working, an immediate sense of the world and its beings, a direct inner contact with them and a direct contact with the Self and with the Divine, -- a direct knowledge, a direct sight of Truth and of all truths, a direct penetrating spiritual emotion and feeling, a direct intuition of right will and right action, a power to rule and to create an order of the being not by the gropings of the superficial self, but from within, from the inner truth of self and things and the occult realities of Nature.
Some of these experiences can come by an opening of the inner mental and vital being, the inner and larger and subtler mind and heart and life within us, without any full emergence of the soul, the psychic entity, since there too there is a power of direct contact of consciousness: but the experience might then be of a mixed character; for there could be an emergence not only of the subliminal knowledge but of the subliminal ignorance. An insufficient expansion of the being, a limitation by mental idea, by narrow and selective emotion or by the form of the temperament so that there would be only an imperfect self-creation and action and not the free soul-emergence, could easily occur. In the absence of any or of a complete psychic emergence, experiences of certain kinds, experiences of greater knowledge and force, a surpassing of the ordinary limits, might lead to a magnified ego and even bring about instead of an out-flowering of what is divine or spiritual an uprush of the titanic or demoniac, or might call in agencies and powers which, though not of this disastrous type, are of a powerful but inferior cosmic character. But the rule and guidance of the soul brings into all experience the tendency of light, of integration, of harmony and intimate rightness which is native to the psychic essence. A psychic or, more widely speaking, a psycho-spiritual transformation of this kind would be already a vast change of our mental human nature.
But all this change and all this experience, though psychic and spiritual in essence and character, would still be, in its parts of life-effectuation, on the mental, vital and physical level; its dynamic spiritual outcome (1) The psychic and the spiritual opening with their experiences and consequences can lead away from life or to a Nirvana; but they are here being considered solely as steps in a transformation of the nature.would be a flowering of the soul in mind and life and body, but in act and form it would be circumscribed within the limitations, -- however enlarged, uplifted and rarefied, -- of an inferior instrumentation. It would be a reflected and modified manifestation of things whose full reality, intensity, largeness, oneness and diversity of truth and power and delight are above us, above mind and therefore above any perfection, within mind's own formula, of the foundations or superstructure of our present nature. A highest spiritual transformation must intervene on the psychic or psycho-spiritual change; the psychic movement inward to the inner being, the Self or Divinity within us, must be completed by an opening upward to a supreme spiritual status or a higher existence. This can be done by our opening into what is above us, by an ascent of consciousness into the ranges of overmind and supramental nature in which the sense of Self and Spirit is ever unveiled and permanent and in which the self-luminous instrumentation of the Self and Spirit is not restricted or divided as in our mind-nature, life-nature, body-nature. This also the psychic change makes possible; for as it opens us to the cosmic consciousness now hidden from us by many walls of limiting individuality, so also it opens us to what is now superconscient to our normality because it is hidden from us by the strong, hard and bright lid of mind, -- mind constricting, dividing and separative. The lid thins, is slit, breaks asunder or opens and disappears under the pressure of the psycho-spiritual change and the natural urge of the new spiritualised consciousness towards that of which it is an expression here. This effectuation of an aperture and its consequences may not at all take place if there is only a partial psychic emergence satisfied with the experience of the Divine Reality in the normal degrees of the spiritualised mind: but if there is any awakening to the existence of these higher supernormal levels, then an aspiration towards them may break the lid or operate a rift in it. This may happen long before the psycho-spiritual change is complete or even before it has well begun or proceeded far, because the psychic personality has become aware and has an eager concentration towards the superconscience. An early illumination from above or a rending of the upper velamen can come as an outcome of aspiration or some inner readiness, or it may even come uncalled for or not called for by any conscious part of the mind, -- perhaps by a secret subliminal necessity or by an action or pressure from the higher levels, by something which is felt as the touch of the Divine Being, the touch of the Spirit, -- and its results can be exceedingly powerful. But if it is brought about by a premature pressure from below, it can be attended with difficulties and dangers which are absent when the full psychic emergence precedes this first admission to the superior ranges of our spiritual evolution. The choice, however, does not always rest with our will, for the operations of the spiritual evolution in us are very various, and according to the line it has followed will be the turn taken at any critical phase by the action of the Consciousness-Force in its urge towards a higher self-manifestation and formation of our existence.
1. The psychic and the spiritual opening with their experiences and consequences can lead away from life or to a Nirvana; but they are here being considered solely as steps in a transformation of the nature.
If the rift in the lid of mind is made, what happens is an opening of vision to something above us or a rising up towards it or a descent of its powers into our being. What we see by the opening of vision is an Infinity above us, an eternal Presence or an infinite Existence, an infinity of consciousness, an infinity of bliss, -- a boundless Self, a boundless Light, a boundless Power, a boundless Ecstasy. It may be that for a long time all that is obtained is the occasional or frequent or constant vision of it and a longing and aspiration, but without anything further, because, although something in the mind, heart or other part of the being has opened to this experience, the lower nature as a whole is too heavy and obscure as yet for more. But there may be, instead of this first wide awareness from below or subsequently to it, an ascension of the mind to heights above: the nature of these heights we may not know or clearly discern, but some consequence of the ascent is felt; there is often too an awareness of infinite ascension and return but no record or translation of that higher state. This is because it has been superconscient to mind and therefore mind, when it rises into it, is unable at first to retain there its power of conscious discernment and defining experience. But when this power begins to awake and act, when mind becomes by degrees conscious in what was to it superconscient, then there begins a knowledge and experience of superior planes of existence. The experience is in accord with that which is brought to us by the first opening of vision: the mind rises into a higher plane of pure Self, silent, tranquil, illimitable; or it rises into regions of Light or of Felicity, or into planes where it feels an infinite Power or a divine Presence or experiences the contact of a divine Love or Beauty or the atmosphere of a wider and greater and luminous Knowledge. In the return the spiritual impression abides; but the mental record is often blurred and remains as a vague or a fragmentary memory; the lower consciousness from which the ascent took place falls back to what it was, with only the addition of an unkept or a remembered but no longer dynamic experience. In time the ascent comes to be made at will and the consciousness brings back and retains some effect or some gain of its temporary sojourn in these higher countries of the Spirit. These ascents take place for many in trance, but are perfectly possible in a concentration of the waking consciousness or, where that consciousness has become sufficiently psychic, at any unconcentrated moment by an upward attraction or affinity. But these two types of contact with the superconscient, though they can be powerfully illuminating, ecstatic or liberating, are by themselves insufficiently effective: for the full spiritual transformation more is needed, a permanent ascension from the lower into the higher consciousness and an effectual permanent descent of the higher into the lower nature.
This is the third motion, the descent which is essential for bringing the permanent ascension, an increasing inflow from above, an experience of reception and retention of the descending Spirit or its powers and elements of consciousness. This experience of descent can take place as a result of the other two movements or automatically before either has happened, through a sudden rift in the lid or a percolation, a downpour or an influx. A light descends and touches or envelops or penetrates the lower being, the mind, the life or the body; or a presence or a power or a stream of knowledge pours in waves or currents, or there is a flood of bliss or a sudden ecstasy; the contact with the superconscient has been established. For such experiences repeat themselves till they become normal, familiar and well-understood, revelatory of their contents and their significance which may have at first been involved and wrapped into secrecy by the figure of the covering experience. For a knowledge from above begins to descend, frequently, constantly, then uninterruptedly, and to manifest in the mind's quietude or silence; intuitions and inspirations, revelations born of a greater sight, a higher truth and wisdom, enter into the being, a luminous intuitive discrimination works which dispels all darkness of understanding or dazzling confusions, puts all in order; a new consciousness begins to form, the mind of a high wide self-existent thinking knowledge or an illumined or an intuitive or an overmental consciousness with new forces of thought or sight and a greater power of direct spiritual realisation which is more than thought or sight, a greater becoming in the spiritual substance of our present being; the heart and the sense become subtle, intense, large to embrace all existence, to see God, to feel and hear and touch the Eternal, to make a deeper and closer unity of self and the world in a transcendent realisation. Other decisive experiences, other changes of consciousness determine themselves which are corollaries and consequences of this fundamental change. No limit can be fixed to this revolution; for it is in its nature an invasion by the Infinite.
This, effected little by little or in a succession of great and swift definitive experiences, is the process of the spiritual transformation. It achieves itself and culminates in an upward ascent often repeated by which in the end the consciousness fixes itself on a higher plane and from there sees and governs the mind, life and body; it achieves itself also in an increasing descent of the powers of the higher consciousness and knowledge which becomes more and more the whole normal consciousness and knowledge. A light and power, a knowledge and force are felt which first take possession of the mind and remould it, afterwards of the life=part and remould that, finally of the little physical consciousness and leave it no longer little but wide and plastic and even infinite. For this new consciousness has itself the nature of infinity: it brings to us the abiding spiritual sense and awareness of the Infinite and Eternal with a great largeness of the nature and a breaking down of its limitations; immortality becomes no longer a belief or an experience but a normal self-awareness; the close presence of the Divine Being, his rule of the world and of our self and natural members, his force working in us and everywhere, the peace of the infinite, the joy of the Infinite are now concrete and constant in the being; in all sights and forms one sees the Eternal, the Reality, in all sounds one hears it, in all touches feels it; there is nothing else but its forms and personalities and manifestations; the joy or adoration of the heart, the embrace of all existence, the unity of the spirit are abiding realities. The consciousness of the mental creature is turning or has been already turned wholly into the consciousness of the spiritual being. This is the second of the three transformations; uniting the manifested existence with what is above it, it is the middle step of the three, the decisive transition of the spiritually evolving nature.
If the spirit could from the first dwell securely on the superior heights and deal with a blank and virgin stuff of mind and matter, a complete spiritual transformation might be rapid, even facile: but the actual process of Nature is more difficult, the logic of her movement more manifold, contorted, winding, comprehensive; she recognises all the data of the task she has set to herself and is not satisfied with a summary triumph over her own complexities. Every part of our being has to be taken in its own nature and character, with all the moulds and writings of the past still there in it: each minutest portion and movement must either be destroyed and replaced if it is unfit, or, if it is capable, transmuted into the truth of the higher being. If the psychic change is complete, this can be done by a painless process, though still the programme must be long and scrupulous and the progress deliberate; but otherwise one has to be satisfied with a partial result or, if one's own scrupulousness of perfection or hunger of the spirit is insatiable, consent to a difficult, often painful and seemingly interminable action. For ordinarily the consciousness does not rise to the summits except in the highest moments; it remains on the mental level and receives descents from above, sometimes a single descent of some spiritual power that stays and moulds the being into something predominatingly spiritual, or a succession of descents bringing into it more and more of the spiritual status and dynamis: but unless one can live on the highest height reached, there cannot be the complete or more integral change. If the psychic mutation has not taken place, if there has been a premature pulling down of the higher Forces, their contact may be too strong for the flawed and impure material of Nature and its immediate fate may be that of the unbaked jar of the Veda which could not hold the divine Soma Wine; or the descending influence may withdraw or be spilt because the nature cannot contain or keep it. Again, if it is Power that descends, the egoistic mind or vital may try to seize on it for its own use and a magnified ego or a hunting after powers and self-aggrandising masteries may be the untoward result. The Ananda descending cannot be held if there is too much sexual impurity creating an intoxicant or degrading mixture; the Power recedes, if there is ambition, vanity or other aggressive form of lower self, the Light if there is an attachment to obscurity or to any form of the Ignorance, the Presence if the chamber of the heart has not been made pure. Or some undivine Force may try to seize hold, not of the Power itself, for that withdraws, but of the result of force it leaves behind in the instrument and use it for the purposes of the Adversary. Even if none of these more disastrous faults or errors should take place, still the numerous mistakes of reception or the imperfections of the vessel may impede the transformation. The Power has to come at intervals and work meanwhile behind the veil or hold itself back through long periods of obscure assimilation or preparation of the recalcitrant parts of Nature; the Light has to work in darkness or semi-darkness on the regions in us that are still in the Night. At any moment the work may be stayed, personally for this life, because the nature is able to receive or assimilate no more, -- for it has reached the present limits of its capacity, -- or because the mind may be ready but the vital, when faced with a choice between the old life and the new, refuses, or if the vital accepts, the body may prove too weak, unfit or flawed for the necessary change of its consciousness and its dynamic transformation.
Moreover, the necessity of working out the change separately in each part of the being in its own nature and character compels the consciousness to descend into each in turn and act there according to its state and its possibility. If the work were done from above, from some spiritual height, there might be a sublimation or uplifting or the creation of a new structure compelled by the sheer force of the influence from above: but this change might not be accepted as native to itself by the lower being; it would not be a total growth, an integral evolution, but a partial and imposed formation, affecting or liberating some parts of the being, suppressing others or leaving them as they were; a creation from outside the normal nature, by imposition upon it, it could be durable in its entirety only as long as there was a maintenance of the creating influence. A descent of consciousness into the lower levels is therefore necessary, but in this way also it is difficult to work out the full power of the higher principle; there is a modification, dilution, diminution which keeps up an imperfection and limitation in the results: the light of a greater knowledge comes down but gets blurred and modified, its significance misinterpreted or its truth mixed with mental and vital error, or the force, the power to fulfil itself is not commensurate with its light. A light and power of the Overmind working in its own full right and in its own sphere is one thing, the same light working in the obscurity of the physical consciousness and under its conditions is something quite different and, owing to dilution and mixture, far inferior in its knowledge and force and results. A mutilated power, a partial effect or hampered movement is the consequence.
This is indeed the reason of the slow and difficult emergence of the Consciousness-Force in Nature: for Mind and Life have to descend into Matter and suit themselves to its conditions; changed and diminished by the obscurity and reluctant inertia of the substance and force in which they work, they are not able to make a complete transformation of their material into a fit instrument and a changed substance revelatory of their real and native power. The Life-consciousness is unable to effectuate the greatness and felicity of its mighty or beautiful impulses in the material existence; its impetus fails it, its force of effectuation is inferior to the truth of its conceptions, the form betrays the Life-intuition within it which it tries to render into terms of Life-being. The Mind is unable to achieve its high ideas in the medium of Life or Matter without deductions and compromises which deprive them of their divinity; its clarities of knowledge and will are not matched by its force to mould this inferior substance to obey and express it: on the contrary, its own powers get affected, its will is divided, its knowledge confused and clouded by the turbidities of life and the incomprehensiveness of Matter. Neither Life nor Mind succeeds in converting or perfecting the material existence, because they cannot attain to their own full force in these conditions; they need to call in a higher power to liberate and fulfil them. But the higher spiritual-mental powers also undergo the same disability when they descend into Life and Matter; they can do much more, achieve much luminous change, but the modification, the limitation, the disparity between the consciousness that comes in and the force of effectuation that it can mentalise and materialise, are constantly there and the result is a diminished creation. The change made is often extraordinary, there is even something which looks like a total conversion and reversal of the state of consciousness and an uplifting of its movements, but it is not dynamically absolute.
Only the Supermind can thus descend without losing its full power of action; for its action is always intrinsic and automatic, its will and knowledge identical and the result commensurate: its nature is a self-achieving Truth-Consciousness and, if it limits itself or its working, it is by choice and intention, not by compulsion; in the limits it chooses its action and the results of its action are harmonious and inevitable. Again, Overmind is, like Mind, a dividing principle, and its characteristic operation is to work out in an independent formation a selected harmony; its global action enables it indeed to create a harmony whole and perfect in itself or to unite or fuse its harmonies together, to synthetise; but, labouring under the restrictions of Mind, Life and Matter, it is obliged to do it by sections and their joinings. Its tendency of totality is hampered by its selective tendency which is accentuated by the nature of the mental and life material in which it is working here; what it can achieve is separate limited spiritual creations each perfect in itself, but not the integral knowledge and its manifestation. For this reason and because of the diminishing of its native light and power it is unable to do fully what is needed and has to call in a greater power, the supramental force, to liberate and fulfil it. As the psychic change has to call in the spiritual to complete it, so the first spiritual change has to call in the supramental transformation to complete it. For all these steps forward are, like those before them, transitional; the whole radical change in the evolution from a basis of Ignorance to a basis of Knowledge can only come by the intervention of the supramental Power and its direct action in earth-existence.
This then must be the nature of the third and final transformation which finishes the passage of the soul through the Ignorance and bases its consciousness, its life, its power and form of manifestation on a complete and completely effective self-knowledge. The Truth-Consciousness, finding evolutionary Nature ready, has to descend into her and enable her to liberate the supramental principle within her; so must be created the supramental and spiritual being as the first unveiled manifestation of the truth of the Self and Spirit in the material universe.


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Food for Thought: France First to Ban Supermarket Waste
"France became the first nation in the world to ban supermarkets from wasting food under a new law this month," shared Tuesday by USA Today.
According to multiple reports, the law went into effect this last week after being passed through France's national assembly in December, as the legislation was first reported early 2015.
An exceptional point to acknowledge is that the passage of the law is the culmination of grassroots efforts that began with Arash Derambarsh, a local councillor who "kickstarted the fight against food waste", according to The Guardian.
As noted by the Guardian, Derambarsh had more than his fair share of backlash; in the face of being told of his apparent naivety and lofty idealism, he moved forward still, determined to persuade the EU to adopt similar legislation across its member states now that it has successfully found its place in France.
Food that was once purposefully destroyed or made inaccessible now will be purposed for distribution to food banks and charity centers through donation contracts between supermarkets 400 sq. meters or more in size and local organizations. An increase said to possibly contribute to the provision of 10 million more meals a year.
10 million.
Now there's something to chew on.
It was having once known what it is like to go hungry that Arash Derambarsh spearheaded this fight against hunger and poverty in his suburb, and the decisive actions he took to see it through that his own country now upholds his goal as law.
Imagine for a moment the landscape of the UN's Sustainable Development Goals if absent of individuals like this.
It truly does begin with one. One person, one idea, one voice, one step.
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To a world of ones,
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Barcelona is a big theatre. On the backdrop, buildings made with bizarre curves move together with the clouds in a bright blue. Futuristic towers and spires of wet sand slid off the hands contend for the top of the sky. While the sea and the streets beat the life rhythm, everyone feels as an actor of a special day.
Silvia De Gennaro born in Chianciano Terme (SI), Italy in 1961. Lives and Works in Rome/Italy. Exhibits video art regularly since 2000.


Refreshing, tart, and sweet Italian style! This cocktail is as delicous as it is pretty!
Fill a stemmed glass with ice, add Limoncello, add Prosecco to glass until almost full.
Top with a splash of sparkling water.
Garnish with a lemon twist and berries.


The purpose of the Great Falls Regional Chamber of Commerce, Inc. is to organize, guide, inspire and conserve the voluntary resources of the business and professional members of the area to their most effective use, to promote the economic, civic, and social welfare of the citizens and business community of the Great Falls Region.
Come join us and take part in making a difference in your community!
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Lucas Mariano Bareiro (born 8 March 1995) is an Argentine professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Hapoel Be'er Sheva.

Personal life
In November 2020, Bareiro revealed to the staff at Hapoel Be'er Sheva that his maternal grandmother was Jewish. Bareiro applied shortly after for Israeli citizenship via the Law of Return and received it on 12 January 2021.

Honours
Argentina U-20
South American Youth Football Championship (1): 2015

Hapoel Be'er Sheva
State Cup (1): 2021–22
Super Cup (1): 2022

References

External links

1995 births
Living people
Footballers from Buenos Aires
Argentine Jews
Jewish footballers
Argentine footballers
Israeli footballers
Racing Club de Avellaneda footballers
Defensa y Justicia footballers
Club Atlético Huracán footballers
Hapoel Be'er Sheva F.C. players
Argentine Primera División players
Israeli Premier League players
Argentine emigrants to Israel
Association football midfielders
Israeli Jews
Israeli people of Argentine-Jewish descent
Sportspeople of Argentine descent


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Q: Connection String in web.Config I am using SQL Server 2008 at my local machine have no password and username. I am trying to connect data base I have given this connection string
<add name="NGO_MS"
     connectionString="data source=.\SQLExpress;database=NGO_MS;integrated Security=SSPI;"
     providerName="System.Data.SqlClient" />

I'm getting an error.

Unrecognized configuration section add.

Kindly tell me the correct way to add a connection string.

A: That element has to go inside the <connectionStrings> element, not directly in the <configuration> element.
Example:
<configuration>
  <connectionStrings>
    <add name="NGO_MS" connectionString="data source=.\SQLExpress;database=NGO_MS;integrated Security=SSPI;" providerName="System.Data.SqlClient" />
  </connectionStrings>
  ...


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Suburban Ways: Episode 3
Hannah stood folding her arms from the morning after. She had not slept, not slept at all. In fact she did not have anywhere to sleep. "Well here I am again" she said. Mickey walked through the door. "Did you not sleep at all?"
"Does it look like that I slept all I was thinking was the abuse I got from my ex-husband!"
"Yes talking about that, you never told me!"
"You never asked" said Hannah. Hannah sat down.
"I looked at our sale figures last night and they were rocket high on the first night, if we keep going will rise by the end of month. Keep these singers, getting them notice is the best thing we could do at the minute" she said.
"Well Martha would be pleased" she glared.
"She is a part of this as us both it's in her name!"
"Who put the capital in? Tell me that whose names are on there, frankly Mickey I think she is taking you for a ride!"
"Don't whatever you doing don't make this personal against the family. This is business not a fight between your ex in laws."
Jackson sat with a cup of coffee in his hand. Martha walked into the room. "Morning" she said. "Morning, what happened to you, look like you didn't get much sleep" she rolled her eyes at him. "Where's Mickey?"
"Left quite early should have stayed there at the club if he was going to be this early" Jackson handed her the craftier. "Coffee? Looks like you need one" She got a mug from the side as he poured. "Where is everyone?"
"Asleep, still in fact I am the only one working" he said grumpily.
"I'm going to go to work and please tell mom not to bother to come because I don't have the time to –"
"Don't what!" Martha turned round as she saw her mother standing there. Jackson looked at his watch. "Oh time to go I think" he said. He got up, kissed Martha and then kissed his mother goodbye.
Scene: The Airport
"Flight B757 from Heathrow has arrived" Ken Robinson stood at arrivals waiting for his new fiancé Jasmine Blake. Jasmine had come from England to join him at Riverside. Jasmine came through the doors with open arms. "Oh hey darling" she said as she kissed him. "Hi sweetheart" he said.
"How was your flight?"
"You know the same, movies and food and drink of course" she giggled. "So tell me how was the club opening?"
"Oh it was interesting except that my darling ex wife turned up!"
"Number one or number two?"
"Number one" said Ken, she looked bemused.
Scene; the Robinson's
"As I said last night-"
"What you said last night was out of order; you had no right to tell me to withdraw. He had no idea that Hannah was part of the family and what she did to Ken."
Joyce stood twiddling her fingers. "Are you not going to listen to reason what I think, what your father thinks?" Martha shook her head and walked over to her holding her shoulders. "Mom we're growing children and we have to find out to do things on our own. Make mistakes. Well i made plenty of mistakes in the past but I am looking to the future." Joyce looked down.
"I was only trying..."
"I know you are mom, I know" she hugged her mother tightly.
Hannah was ready to leave as she did so; she saw Cassandra Robinson standing at the door in her way. "Oh it's you. We're closed come back tonight" she said.
"I am not going anywhere Miss Badhman I want to know where the father of my child is!"
Cassandra followed Hannah. "Why don't you people leave me alone?"
"Because you never left us alone!"
"I'm making a stand for them. They are my family" she called out.
"Your family, you don't have any family Cassandra they have ousted you just like they did to me and Joyce will do anything to protect her sons and daughters!"
"Its Cliff he is protecting me against people like you!" Hannah paused for a moment. "Cliff what is so special about him!"
"Cliff has looked after us!"
"But they don't know do they still. They don't know about Cody being Robert's son not Ken's!"
"Don't you put a stop to that you promised you would not tell?" She said. Hannah laughed.
"You should know me by now dear that I don't take any prisoners!"
"I just want to know where the father of my child is!"
"I make you wait just a little longer!"
"No damn you, now get out!" Cassandra left the club hysterical.
"Jasmine" said Joyce as she greeted her son's new love with excitement. "Hi Joyce" she said. "It's good to see you again" she smiled.
"How was England?"
"Oh you know the same snow, wind and rain" she laughed. "So I hear the new club opening was a blast!" They all looked bemused all except Martha and Joyce.
"Well apart from that it went fine, now come along you need some rest, food and then we can go and venture out to the club.
Mickey turned to Martha. "Your mom is causing trouble all ready, she wants to go
again tonight!"
"Look I try my best to keep her out of the way but I to do not want another shouting match with her and Hannah."
Scene: The Club That Night
A car pulled up outside the club door. He got out of the car and handed the keys to the bouncer. The man smiled and walked straight in. He noticed people dancing, drinking and having fun and that's what he intended to do. He paced over to the bar. There beside him was a blonde girl around twenty-five. He smiled. "Maxwell Burns" he said reaching out his hand. "Adele, Adele Robinson" she said. His face was stunned. "Tell me you're not related to a Joyce Robinson?"
"That's right she's my mother!" She said.
"Max!"
Max turned round. "Joyce!" Adele looked at both of them. Then another woman stood beside Joyce.
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I learned something about homemade pie crusts recently.
Most people are scared of them. And completely overwhelmed with the thought of making a homemade pie crust.
I want to know…are you overwhelmed by the thought of making your own pie crust? Have you ever considered skipping past the pre-made rolled crusts from the store? Or you an old pre at homemade crusts?
I've been making my own pie crusts for over a decade now. And yes, there was a point where I thought it crazy. Until I made one. Tasted it. And vowed only to go back on rare occasion when I'm in need of a little convenience.
One of our workshops was homemade pie crusts. What fun!
I've shared my 7 tips for making the perfect pumpkin pie…and I'd like to add 2 more tips to my list…both of which I learned and put to the test during the pie crust 101 class.
#8. When cutting in the dough, you want mostly crumb-y size pieces, but you also want some larger pieces of the fat/shortening. The larger pieces will then get rolled out into the crust, causing it to be flakier.
#9. Don't over-knead the dough. After you've cut in the butter and you fold it together into a dough ball, don't over-knead. Just form it into a loose ball and wrap it in plastic warp and place in the fridge.
If you're thinking about making your own crust for your Thanksgiving pies for the first time, don't fret. If you have questions, please leave them in the comments…or on the $5 Dinners Facebook wall. We're here to help!
TIP – Test dough for proper moistness by squeezing a marble-sized ball of dough in your hand. If it holds together firmly, do not add any additional water. If the dough crumbles, add more water by the tablespoonful, until dough is moist enough to form a smooth ball when pressed together.
TIP -For ease in rolling, wrap dough in plastic wrap. Chill for 30 minutes or up to 2 days.
Trim edges of dough leaving a 3/4-inch overhang. Fold edge under. Flute dough as desired. Bake according to specific recipe directions or use one of the methods below.
Pre-baking without weights: Thoroughly prick bottom and sides of unbaked pie dough with fork (50 times) to prevent it from blistering or rising. Bake crust in lower third of oven, at 425°F, 10-12 minutes or until edges and bottom are golden brown.
Pre-baking with weights: Thoroughly prick bottom and sides of unbaked pie dough with fork (50 times) to prevent it from blistering or rising. Chill or freeze for 30 minutes. Line pie dough snugly with foil or parchment paper. Fill with dried beans or pie weights. Bake at 375°F for 20 minutes. Remove foil and weights. Reduce oven to 350°F. Bake 5-10 minutes or until edges and bottom are golden brown.
I agree with you totally! Once you make a homemade pie crust, you will never go back! They are so easy! I use butter flavored Crisco in mine and everyone loves the buttery taste. Sometimes I just put the pie dough in the pie dish and use my Pampered Chef pie roller to roll out the dough in the pie dish. I don't handle the dough as much this way which makes an even flakier crust. Thanks for your pumpkin pie recipe with cinnamon in the crust-Mmmm!
Do I have to use shortening? Can I use sticks of butter?


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Brian Carr asks, Is Digg Broken Beyond Repair?
If you look at Digg's homepage over the course of three or four days, you'll probably end up seeing between 25 and 30 users who dominate the homepage. Seriously, it wouldn't surprise me if Digg's "top" 25 users accounted for 70% of what ends up on the homepage - meaning that us little guys have very little chance of making it up onto the homepage, no matter how good our articles are or how funny/creative/useful our submission titles and summaries are.
This is the biggest problem. Second, there are also a huge army of teens on the site that are quick to "bury" any post as spam even when its obviously not. Let's not even bother talking about all the trolls that seem to live on Digg only to declare nearly everything is lame....unless it mentions Kevin, Alex, or Leo.
I completely agree with Carr that it has turned into a "high school social clique," but even still, it certainly seems much more jaded than the cliques that existed when I was in high school.
I've given up on Digging stories and many days I just mark my Digg feed as read in Google Reader. It's not worth my time and effort, and it's probably not worth yours either.


This Purist inspired mural completed by noted Canadian artist William Perehudoff in 1953, was scheduled to be demolished along with the building it adorned in 2008; but thanks to a grassroots campaign by local citizens the mural was saved. Perehudoff was commissioned to paint the mural for the reception room of the Intercontinental Packers plant in Saskatchewan Canada by the plant's owner Fred S. Mendel, who was an avid art collector. The multi-wall mural which depicts various artisans, was completed in a Purist style, following the teachings of Amédée Ozenfant, whose art school Perehudoff had attended three years earlier.
The above images are via Mendel's Murals.
Leading art conservationist, Professor Ian Hodkinson mangaged the murals removal and relocation, which took place from August 2009 thru November 2010. A team of art conservators aided Hodkinson in removing the mural using a technique known as strappo, whereby the mural is quite literally peeled off the wall. To describe the process in short - cod fish glue is applied to the wall to which a couple of layers of canvas are attached; after the glue dries the canvas is rolled up- peeling the image off the wall; the image is then transferred to a substrate/panel using pressure and heat sensitive glue (in this case); then the fish-glued canvases are removed from the surface/face revealing the original image.
It was decided that a replica of the original room that housed the murals should be created in order to display the art. This room was temporarily built in November of 2010 for a brief showing before it was put in storage to await its final installation in the new Art Gallery of Saskatachewan (see image below). Head over to Mendel's Murals blog to see more images of the mural and the conservation process from beginning to end.
Here is a brief news video about the murals restoration.
The Mendel Art Gallery has a lot of information on Perehudoff, including some great video interviews as part of their retrospective exhibit on the artist called, "The Optimism of Colour." Check it out here.


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Q: In BDD, going from feature to user story how does it works? My background is the book BDD in action.
How one goes from Feature to Stories? More specifically I would like to understand the following:
1- When does one provide the decomposition into stories? Do you do it while spotting the examples that illustrate your feature ?
2 - If so how do you proceed in your development then: Do you first start to on work on the stories while leaving your feature pending ? Do you right the feature scenario first and then, move on the stories that comes out of it, while leaving the feature test pending ?
The key here is the process, if i do a decomposition of a feature into stories, before writing my actual scenario that spot those stories, i might be writing stories that are not relevant to the feature isn't it?
This though make me think that stories must be fleshed out in the same way as unit test/integration test are fleshed out of a user stories?
However if one does that well it is difficult to plan a feature for scrum iteration.
I understand that it is just a planning tool, but it would be interesting to understand how this planning is actually used in the context of dealing with a feature.
I believe one should not do too much upfront planning, not commit to things without being sure, but in the mean time, it seem to me that the decomposition into the different process (stories) involve into the feature process requires some upfront planning.
I would appreciate a clarification on that point.

A: Ultimately, user stories translate into software requirements, and so do features.
All high-level descriptions of software should ultimately translate into individual software requirements that are Specific, Measurable, Assignable, Realistic, and Timely.  If you get this right, then you're doing it "correctly," assuming your requirements gathering process is sufficiently thorough.
A user story is one or more sentences in the everyday or business language of the end user or user of a system that captures what a user does or needs to do as part of his or her job function.  Typically a User Story takes the form:
"As a <role>, I want <goal/desire> so that <benefit>"

For example:

As a Customer Service Representative, I want to search for my customers by their first and last names, so that I can find them in the system if they don't know their account number.

This translates into the requirement:

The Customer Service screen shall provide the capability to look up customers by first and last name.

User Stories don't necessarily have to derive from features.  Most customer service representatives already know that they need a tool to look up customers, irrespective of any feature list that may or may not be created yet.
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Amels confirms sale of 60m Limited Editions superyacht
The Dutch shipyard has announced that the second unit in the new 60m superyacht series has been sold…
Three months after the sale of the first Amels 60 Limited Editions, the Dutch shipyard has announced that the second unit of the new 60m superyacht has been sold. Named Project Witchcraft, the design was first introduced at the 2019 edition of the Monaco Yacht Show and is due to be delivered in just two years.
Moran Yacht & Ship represented the client in the sale and negotiated the build contract, wrote the technical specifications and is set to supervise the build of this new 60m project. This is the fifth time Amels has worked with Moran Yacht & Ship over the past nine years across the Limited Editions range, a relationship which the shipyard refers to as a "successful collaboration."
"We would like to take this opportunity to congratulate the team at Amels for their assistance in the sale of Project Witchcraft and we look forward to working with them throughout the build," says Sean Moran, managing director of Moran Yacht & Ship.
Having been unveiled in the lead up to Monaco Yacht Show 2019, the Amels 60's impressive exterior design has been created by Espen Øino International "The Amels 60 is a package that no-one else can offer at this time," says Espen Øino. "It's a very well thought-through design where we incorporate all the experience Amels has as a builder and we as designers. I think it is truly a design that reflects the future."
"The Amels 60 is a package that no-one else can offer at this time. It's a very well thought-through design where we incorporate all the experience Amels has as a builder and we as designers. I think it is truly a design that reflects the future."
- Espen Øino, Espen Øino International
Based on a new hybrid platform, developed by Damen Shipyards' in-house Research Laboratory, this new configuration offers a cruising speed of up to 7 knots using electrical propulsion motors. Upon completion, the new owner will benefit from very low noise and vibrations, lower fuel and maintenance costs and a reduction in harmful emissions.
Since the concept of the Limited Editions was first introduced in 2005, Amels has delivered 40 projects. According to The Superyacht Agency, Amels currently have four superyachts under construction, two of which are scheduled for delivery this year
"The Amels 60 is an exciting new take on the very best Amels knowhow and craftsmanship that has shaped everything we have done for more than 100 years," says Rose Damen, Managing Director of the Damen Shipyards' Yachting division. "Just like the global fleet of Limited Editions yachts at sea today, the Amels 60 will be a beacon of trusted reliability, quality and comfort for decades to come."
The sale of Project Witchcraft reaffirms the strength of Amels' Limited Editions offering and the proven platform upon which it is based.
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While relatively unknown to the public, Seth Klarman is a superstar in institutional investing circles. His out-of-print book Margin of Safety: Risk-Averse Value Investing Strategies for the Thoughtful Investor regularly sells for nearly $1,000 on eBay and Amazon. Why are investors so anxious to hear what he has to say? From 1983 to 2008 his hedge fund, the Baupost Group, returned 16.5% a year, outperforming the S&P 500 by more than 6% a year. In the 10 years ending Dec. 31, 2008, he beat the market by an impressive 14.5% a year. Those returns are net of all hedge fund fees and include only one losing year.
Even more impressive is that Klarman achieved this record with no leverage and minimal amounts of shorts, often while holding significant amounts of cash approaching nearly half of all funds under management.
While Klarman is at heart a traditional bottom-up value stock picker, he does often dabble in distressed debt, spinoffs, bankruptcies, SPACs and other esoteric investments. If only one word is to be used to describe what Baupost does, that word should be "mispricing", due to overreaction.
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While most individuals do not have access to invest in Klarman's Baupost Group, they can, however, use his investment acumen to manage their portfolio. The SEC publishes on its Web site the holdings of every institutional and hedge fund manager overseeing more than $100 million once a quarter in a filing known as the 13-F. Even though the data is 45 days delayed after the end of the quarter, this matters little for a manager like Klarman who holds stocks for long periods of time, thus making him an ideal target to piggyback.
Using my Web site AlphaClone, from 2000–09, simply buying his top 20 stock picks, equally weighting them and rebalancing the portfolio quarterly, when the picks became public, would have resulted in returns of 14.35% per year vs. –0.85% for the S&P 500. That tracks Klarman's performance quite nicely, and thoroughly beat the S&P in this recent "lost decade."
Klarman is a deep value investor, and he obsesses over risks. One of the metrics he focuses on is liquidation value. As he details in his book, liquidation value is a worst-case, rock-bottom value in which only tangible assets are considered and intangibles, such as going-concern value, are not. Thus stocks or other securities selling below their liquidation value are attractive to Baupost.
One example is Enron, postbankruptcy. According to Klarman's 2006 speech at Columbia University, Baupost had one analyst exclusively analyze Enron for four years. The company had lots of cash but complex liabilities intertwined among more than 1,000 subsidiaries and shell companies. While the debt traded at 15 cents on the dollar, Klarman thought he would get from 30 cents to 40 cents. In the end he received more than 50 cents.
Says Klarman: "I think to take the next step and be a portfolio manager, you need both a sense of history and a vivid sense of risk. When Warren Buffett put out a job description for his replacement, he said, 'This person will need to be able to imagine things that have never happened before.' I think that's very, very important."
Because of his long-term record of success, Klarman is an ideal investor to piggyback, or simply to use as an idea farm to cull for new stock ideas. What is Klarman buying and selling now?
One interesting stock Baupost owns is Facet Biotech (FACT). Facet is a $420 million market capitalization biotech company trading for around $16.50 a share. Facet is a classic value-investor setup that was a spinoff from parent PDL Biopharma (PDLI) in December 2008. Facet contains the former R&D operations and a stocked product pipeline including five drugs in testing for multiple sclerosis and cancers. Even more importantly Facet was spun off with a pristine balance sheet including $300 million in cash currently equating to about $13 a share. Klarman owns 3.5 million shares of Facet representing around 14% of the outstanding shares of the company.
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Biogen Idec recently made a $17.50-per-share tender offer for the stock. While Klarman has been talking about the stock since it was $6 a share, both Facet and Klarman feel the offer is inadequate, and Facet recently entered into an agreement with Baupost to increase their ownership limit from 15% to 20% of the total outstanding shares of Facet common stock.
While the company is burning cash, there is a nice share price floor due to the cash cushion and Biogen Idec offer. Klarman states, "The best investors do not target return; they focus first on risk, and only then decide whether the projected return justifies taking each particular risk."
Klarman has recently been buying shares of Enzon Pharmaceuticals , a $425 million biopharmaceutical oncology company with four drugs on the market and numerous others in the pipeline. Trading at around $9 per share, the stock is still down significantly from its 2000 bubble highs of around $70 per share, and Klarman now owns 18% of the company.
Klarman also added to his ViaSat position. ViaSat is a $1 billion satellite communications company that caters to enterprises and governments where Klarman owns approximately 14% of the company as well.
Other large positions include News Corp. , Capitalsource , Domtar and Theravance .
Mebane Faber is a portfolio manager at Cambria Investment Management and a cofounder of AlphaClone. He recently published the book The Ivy Portfolio: How to Invest Like the Top Endowments and Avoid Bear Markets.


Russian Kynological Federation started making preparations for this important cynological event since 2014, as in 2014 the venue of the Breeding Commission meeting in 2017 was chosen – Russia, Sochi.
Delegates from RKF focused on two important issues: publications of the information concerning dogs' health on the numerous websites existing on the Internet and exchange breeds databases among the NCO's - FCI members.
All the delegates who came to the FCI Breeding Commission Meeting, gave flattering review concerning the organization of the event and wished to come and to organize another meeting in Russia in Future.