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Canon Thursday: Studying Molly Hooper
This week's character study is a true labor of love, an exploration of Molly Hooper, who is played brilliantly by Louise Brealey. Like the other studies, this one was written before Sherlock's second series, but in this case, I've added a postscript because I couldn't bear to ignore the brilliant way Molly's character evolved and grew in Series 2.
Deducing Molly: A Character Study
Long, straight hair, lipstick that comes and goes, and an ironically macabre career—exploring unassuming Molly Hooper is a journey that starts with specific stories framed by the creators of the BBC's Sherlock, finds its anchor in the Sherlock Holmes canon as a whole, and winds up the wider genre of procedural mysteries. She may seem unimportant at first, but Molly's character is far from insignificant.
Molly in Sherlock
At the beginning of A Study in Pink, Molly Hooper is first introduced as a contrast to and amplifier of Sherlock's character. His abrupt, almost alien behavior as he flogs a corpse and fails to notice any normal social signals is contrasted sharply with Molly's slight attempt at humor and shy flirtation. She immediately gives the viewer a window into the detective's differences from the rest of the world—a world where a woman's attempt to impress a man with lipstick would be appreciated at best and ignored at worst. In Sherlock's world, however, facts come first, no matter what, even when it comes to the size of a woman's mouth. At the same time, Molly shows herself to be more persevering than one might expect, since she doesn't give up on Sherlock.
In The Blind Banker, Molly again amplifies Sherlock's character, this time helping to show that he is not always quite as socially oblivious as one might expect and not above cashing in on relationships to get what he wants. His blatant flirting with her in the cafeteria line not only works on a general level by capturing her attention and flattering her (a certain amount of investment in the relationship for the future), but it also leads to an immediate look at a body that he needs to see in order to complete his investigation. Though Molly appears to be completely under Sherlock's spell in this instance, readers of her blog, which is produced by the BBC and considered to be part of Sherlock canon, will have encountered the following quote:
"Oh, and Sherlock came in again tonight. And he was his usual arrogant self! And he was blatantly flirting with me and I know he's doing it and I should tell him to stop but I don't! And, of course, he was only doing it so I'd help him with something. As soon as he got what he wanted, he was off."
Molly may intermittently act as Sherlock's dupe, but she's not an entirely oblivious victim.
Along with other major arcs of the series, Molly's story comes to a head in The Great Game, when she is shown to be the unwitting pawn of two extremely clever men, neither of whom is terribly scrupulous about using her for his own ends. Sherlock once again hurts her by abruptly pointing out that her boyfriend is gay, though his offensiveness is apparently unintentional in this case. Jim's use of her is far colder and more sinister, as she becomes a part of his deadly game.
The cliffhanger at the end of the series leaves Molly hanging as much as the other characters—a woman with a preference for two men who use her, but at the same time a competent career woman who isn't as gullible as she seems.
Molly and the Holmes Canon
Virtually every incarnation of Sherlock Holmes shares the common characteristic of willingness to use innocent people to accomplish his own ends, and the BBC version expresses this quality no more ruthlessly than his original predecessor. One of the most famous and most discussed canon examples occurs in Conan Doyle's story The Adventure of Charles Augustus Milverton, in which Holmes disguises himself as a laborer and becomes engaged to a housemaid in order to find out information about a case.
John Watson is horrified by his flatmate's behavior and remonstrates with him, but instead of expressing remorse, Holmes remarks that he expects the girl to find ample consolation in the arms of another suitor. Similarly, in The Great Game, John is the one who indignantly criticizes Sherlock for his callousness toward Molly. In both cases, Sherlock does not appear to be actively malicious in his intent; nevertheless, his willingness to treat individuals as means appears almost limitless.
Most of Sherlock's flaws—such as pipe smoking, drug use, and some aspects of his sociopathy—have been portrayed as glamorous and attractive in various books and films, to the point that in many cases, they have become like backhanded strengths. His selfish, borderline-exploitation of other people, as exemplified in his treatment of Molly, however, is impossible to glamorize.
In simple terms, Molly shows the viewer an ugly side of Sherlock, one that is absolutely necessary to the character. Without true flaws, Sherlock Holmes is a caricature—an impossibly heroic genius who is good at everything and even successfully controls his vices. Molly's frequent presence on the show is a reminder that the world's only consulting detective can be selfish, thoughtless, and occasionally cruel. He may be a hero, but he is also an anti-hero, a duality that makes him one of the most intriguing characters in the world.
Molly and the Mystery Genre
The concept of flawed heroes runs through all of literature, film, and television, but mystery novels and shows have made the concept of the heroic antihero an art form. Larger-than-life detectives bring larger-than-life vices to the cases they solve. Dr. House has his Vicodin, Flavia de Luce her vindictiveness, Adrian Monk his obsessive compulsions. Arguably, most of these characters are the descendents of Sherlock Holmes, attempts by authors to capture the complex interplay of light and dark that makes up Conan Doyle's hero. The creators of the BBC's Sherlock have seen fit to soften their hero's smoking habit and take away his drug use almost entirely. Molly is essential to the show because she highlights what makes Sherlock so very imperfect—his frequent lack of understanding of people or concern for them. The things she amplifies in him make him a reflection not only of Conan Doyle's original source, but also of the mystery genre as a whole, a gray-shaded world of flawed heroes.
And yet, there's something a little bit different about Molly Hooper, a little bit independent, a little bit unwilling to give up, something in her that might even surprise Sherlock Holmes some day.
Postscript: Molly in Series 2
I've left most of these character studies as they originally were, but the revelation of Molly's true importance in Sherlock's second series, particularly throughout The Reichenbach Fall, certainly met and then exceeded fans' expectations. The part she played in Holmes's master plan has yet to be fully explained, but it's clear that by the end of the story, Sherlock considers her a major ally and confidante.
Previously, Molly's humiliation at the Christmas party in A Scandal in Belgravia had revealed an unexpectedly contrite, even sweet, side of the detective. Later on, her perceptiveness regarding Holmes's true mental state ("You look sad when you think he can't see you") helped him to understand her value. Finally, in the end, when even Watson had to be deceived, Holmes looked to her for help.
In the first series of Sherlock, Molly was a humorous character with a great deal of potential. In the subsequent series, she revealed her true nature as a multi-faceted, faithful, and intelligent friend. Her future in the series is certainly something to anticipate.
6 thoughts on "Canon Thursday: Studying Molly Hooper"
Ashli Rachelle on September 12, 2013 at 11:37 pm said:
Love this! You have amazing insight into the characters.
girlonbridge on September 12, 2013 at 11:46 pm said:
Thank you! I've enjoyed writing about each of them.
sphinxvictorian on September 13, 2013 at 5:05 am said:
Really interesting and sympathetic take on a character that I like, but have trouble getting other Sherlock fans to understand why. Thank you for elucidating her character in such an enlightening way!
I was very happy with her continuing evolution as a character in Series 2, and have found myself defending her to my spouse, among others, for being a part of the deception in RF. My spouse thinks it's reprehensible that she would lie to John, not telling him that Sherlock's dead. But as I've tried to point out, she's faithful to Sherlock, not to John, even though he's always decent to her, it's Sherlock she cares for.
I do like the way she has just decided to accept the unrequited status of her feelings for Sherlock, turning them to being absolute loyalty and faithfulness. Perhaps that's something that Sherlock/John shippers, other than myself, cannot forgive her for, that she cannot see past the shining Sherlock to the dependable goodness of John.
At any rate, thanks again for a great post!
girlonbridge on September 13, 2013 at 1:02 pm said:
Thank you for the detailed comment. In regards to Molly being willing to deceive John (or anyone else, for that matter), I assumed she understood that it was for their safety. I inferred that Sherlock would have told her that anyone who knew would be in extreme danger. She would have kept up the charade because she knew Sherlock wanted to protect his friends (and wouldn't even have put her in danger by telling her if he could have helped it). At present, I'm curious what Mycroft knows–if he's fully aware, as he is in canon, or if he's deceived like everyone else. I hope for the former.
sphinxvictorian on September 13, 2013 at 2:06 pm said:
I think Mycroft knows. There was something about the way he was turning the pages of that newspaper that said, "Oh dear, the secrets I have to keep" rather than "Oh, god, my brother is dead, and I have to keep a stiff upper lip."
On the subject of Mycroft, it is interesting, having recently rewatched the film version of Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, how Smiley-esque Mycroft is in the second series. Gatiss plays it perfectly, and I really do think there is some truth to Sherlock's statement that Mycroft "is the British government"!
I do agree totally with what you say about why Molly has to deceive Watson and the others, at least at first, and then afterwards it just becomes easier to keep the secret than to tell it, with Sherlock off goodness knows where. Even if she did tell them the truth, she couldn't prove it.
kathleenkaskawrites on September 13, 2013 at 1:46 pm said:
Molly Hooper is one of my favorite characters in the series. She's grown into the role, maintaining that innocent quality, while become tenacious and strong in standing up to Holmes; not an easy feat. I look forward to the new season.


Steven Landsburg blogs "Richard Dawkins is an international treasure and one of my personal heroes, but he's got this God thing all wrong... Darwinian evolution can't replace God, because Darwinian evolution (at best) explains life, and explaining life was never the hard part. The Big Question is not: Why is there life? The Big Question is: Why is there anything?"
I don't agree with everything Landsburg writes, but he is usually interesting.


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Eddie Slaughter
The Rev. Eddie B. Slaughter, 71, 616 Cherry St., died Sunday (Jan. 2, 2005)in Beverly Healthcare, Meadville, Pa. He was born July 7, 1933 in Opelika, Ala., a son of Henry and Annie Eckols Slaughter. He was a graduate of the Tuskegee Institute in Tuskegee, Ala. Prior to his retirement in 2001, he was the pastor of the Blackwell Chapel, A.M.E. Church in Jamestown, and had previously been pastor of churches in Buffalo, Albany, Kentucky, and Alabama. In earlier years he had been the manager of an insurance company in Tuskegee. He was a member of the Blackwell Chapel, A.M.E. Zion Church, and was a former member and president of the Kentucky Chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Always one who loved to travel, he enjoyed his life of serving the Lord by being pastor of congregations in many different areas. He took great pride in having built a church in Greenville, Ky. from the ground up. Survivors: Wife - the former Laura Reese whom he married in 1961 Sons - Robert, Gerald, and Eddie B. Slaughter, Jr. Daughters - Deborah Miller, Michelle Gillard, Wendy Pettiford, Patricia Jones, Phyllis Reese. 38 Grandchildren; 8 Great Grandchildren Brother - Milton Slaughter Sisters - Henrietta Woods and Annie Norris He was preceded in death by two sons: Anthony and Clavin Slaughter; a daughter, Jacqueline Slaughter; two grandsons: Tevon and Gerald Slaughter, Jr.; four brothers: William, Robert, Joe, and Henry Slaughter. Burial will be in Evergreen Cemetery, Opelika, Ala.
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Amy Winehouse Lioness: Hidden Treasures
By Marki	November 21, 2011
Amys posthumous album will be out in December and goes by the name of 'Hidden Treasures'. It's a collection of several unreleased tracks, recorded throughout the last few years and compiled by producers Salaam Remi and Mark Ronson. I still love her voice and can't wait for the release to come so let's have a short look at the album cover, the tracklist and listen to one song.
1. 'Our Day Will Come' (Reggae Version) (Recorded: May 2002)
2. 'Between the Cheats' (Recorded: May 2008)
3. 'Tears Dry' (Recorded: November 2005)
4. 'Wake Up Alone' (Demo) (Recorded: March 2006)
5. 'Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow' (Recorded: September 2004)
6. 'Valerie' (Demo) (Recorded: December 2006)
7. 'Like Smoke' (Ft. Nas) (Recorded: May 2008)
8. 'The Girl from Ipanema' (Recorded: May 2002)
9. 'Halftime' (Recorded: August 2002)
10. 'Best Friends' (Recorded: February 2003)
11. 'Body and Soul' (With Tony Bennett) (Recorded: March 2011)
12. 'A Song for You' (Recorded: Spring 2009)
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Amy Winehouse feat. Nas – Like Smoke


On October 14, 2012 Robert Zemeckis' latest film "Flight" made its world premiere at the closing night of the New York Film Festival. Aside from some way too real scenes of an airplane crashing, the film plays like an after school special about the dangers of becoming an alcoholic. It's extremely predictable and considering that Robert Zemeckis has made worldwide classics such as the "Back to the Future" franchise, you'd think he'd change this to an Alan Smithee film as the plane crash is not the only disaster you will see if you check out "Flight." John Goodman, though only in the film briefly, is definitely the highlight, unless you enjoy watching Denzel Washington smoke cigarettes.
But regardless of the movie failing to take off before crashing and burning (pun definitely intended), I am grateful for the experience and had fun. Plus, I even got to meet a few awesome stars at the premiere. See who after the jump.
How many weeks will this film be in a theatre before going straight to DVD? Robert Zemeckis has the answer.
Nile Rodgers, Martin Short and Piers Morgan! Thanks guys for being so cool! Meeting you was definitely the best part of the film!
Wow, Nile Rodgers – That's a biggie for you!


Things are set to get a whole lot tougher for Apple this year, as there are a number of notebooks coming to the market that hopes to make them look over their shoulder. Two such laptops are the HP Pavilion dv6 and dv7 Quad Edition series, and will go head to head with the new MacBook Pro 2011.
We know it is easy to say that a new laptop will have to compete with the Pro, but the three will make use of the Core i7 quad-core, well all but one of the Pro models. The dv6 and dv7 are almost identical, all apart from one being a 15.4-inch and the other being a 17-inch. Prices start from $999.99 and $1099.99 respectively.
Some of the mains specs are as follows: 2GHz to 2.3 GHz with Turbo Boost up to 3.4 GHz, 4 to 8GB of DDR3 RAM, and a choice of standard or SSD storage. What really makes these two laptops shine is the 1GB HD 6570 GDDR5 graphics, as well as a slight change in the case design.
The MacBook Pro is very similar in specs, however, two of the models offers a more powerful GPU, the AMD Radeon HD 6750M. You have to remember that there will be a premium price to pay for those though.
Choosing between these notebooks will come down to one thing, how much you are willing to pay for the Apple name? Having said that, once you have configured your HP Pavilion dv6 or dv7, there will not be a huge difference in the price — maybe just a few hundred dollars.
Why can't they just get it right, not only paying for the apple name, but for also the OS. Its a mac for crying out loud… Comparing apples and oranges!
i have said it once ill say it again, i dont trust HP as far as hardware goes. far to unreliable. constantly requiring reflowing of the motherboards, which is just too much to ask of the customer base.


The time for rest is over! After a possibly sketchy dinner, Dom takes a rest, Trip, Jac and Marlowe take watch. Eventually, the group loses track of their way finder, and stumbles across an abandoned building glowing with ill omen. What curious situation awaits in this building? Will our heroes be once again thrown into the unrelenting frying pan?


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The Two Churchills
After being elected to Parliament in 1900, he demanded a rolling program of more conquests, based on his belief that "the Aryan stock is bound to triumph." As war secretary and then colonial secretary in the 1920s, he unleashed the notorious Black and Tans on Ireland's Catholics, to burn homes and beat civilians. When the Kurds rebelled against British rule in Iraq, he said: "I am strongly in favor of using poisoned gas against uncivilized tribes." It "would spread a lively terror." (Strangely, Toye doesn't quote this.)
A British prison camp in Kenya in 1954, during the Mau Mau uprising.
By JOHANN HARI
Winston Churchill is remembered for leading Britain through her finest hour — but what if he also led the country through her most shameful one? What if, in addition to rousing a nation to save the world from the Nazis, he fought for a raw white supremacy and a concentration camp network of his own? This question burns through Richard Toye's superb, unsettling new history, "Churchill's Empire" — and is even seeping into the Oval Office.
George W. Bush left a big growling bust of Churchill near his desk in the White House, in an attempt to associate himself with Churchill's heroic stand against fascism. Barack Obama had it returned to Britain. It's not hard to guess why: his Kenyan grandfather, Hussein Onyango Obama, was imprisoned without trial for two years and tortured on Churchill's watch, for resisting Churchill's empire.
Can these clashing Churchills be reconciled? Do we live, at the same time, in the world he helped to save and the world he helped to trash? Toye, one of Britain's smartest young historians, has tried to pick through these questions dispassionately. Churchill was born in 1874 into a Britain that was coloring the map imperial pink, at the cost of washing distant nations blood-red. He was told a simple story: the superior white man was conquering the primitive dark-skinned natives, and bringing them the benefits of civilization.
As soon as he could, Churchill charged off to take his part in "a lot of jolly little wars against barbarous peoples." In the Swat valley, now part of Pakistan, he experienced, fleetingly, an instant of doubt. He realized that the local population was fighting back because of "the presence of British troops in lands the local people considered their own," just as Britain would if she were invaded. But Churchill soon suppressed this thought, deciding instead that they were merely deranged jihadists whose violence was explained by a "strong aboriginal propensity to kill."
He gladly took part in raids that laid waste to whole valleys, writing: "We proceeded systematically, village by village, and we destroyed the houses, filled up the wells, blew down the towers, cut down the shady trees, burned the crops and broke the reservoirs in punitive devastation." He then sped off to help reconquer the Sudan, where he bragged that he personally shot at least three "savages."
The young Churchill charged through imperial atrocities, defending each in turn. When the first concentration camps were built in South Africa, he said they produced "the minimum of suffering" possible. At least 115,000 people were swept into them and 14,000 died, but he wrote only of his "irritation that kaffirs should be allowed to fire on white men." Later, he boasted of his experiences. "That was before war degenerated," he said. "It was great fun galloping about."
Of course, it's easy to dismiss any criticism of these actions as anachronistic. Didn't everybody in Britain think that way then? One of the most striking findings of Toye's research is that they really didn't: even at the time, Churchill was seen as standing at the most brutal and brutish end of the British imperialist spectrum. This was clearest in his attitude to India. When Gandhi began his campaign of peaceful resistance, Churchill raged that he "ought to be lain bound hand and foot at the gates of Delhi and then trampled on by an enormous elephant with the new Viceroy seated on its back." He later added: "I hate Indians. They are a beastly people with a beastly religion."
This hatred killed. In 1943, to give just one example, a famine broke out in Bengal, caused, as the Nobel Prize-winning economist Amartya Sen has proven, by British mismanagement. To the horror of many of his colleagues, Churchill raged that it was their own fault for "breeding like rabbits" and refused to offer any aid for months while hundreds of thousands died.
Hussein Onyango Obama is unusual among Churchill's victims only in one respect: his story has been rescued from the slipstream of history. Churchill believed the highlands, the most fertile land in Kenya, should be the sole preserve of the white settlers, and approved of the clearing out of the local "kaffirs." When the Kikuyu rebelled under Churchill's postwar premiership, some 150,000 of them were forced at gunpoint into detention camps, later called "Britain's gulag" by the historian Caroline Elkins. Obama never truly recovered from the torture he endured.
This is a real Churchill, and a dark one — but it is not the only Churchill. He also saw the Nazi threat far ahead of the complacent British establishment, and his extraordinary leadership may have been the decisive factor in vanquishing Hitlerism from Europe. Toye is no Nicholson Baker, the appalling pseudohistorian whose recent work "Human Smoke" presented Churchill as no different from Hitler. Toye sees all this, clearly and emphatically.
So how can the two Churchills be reconciled? Was his moral opposition to Nazism a charade, masking the fact that he was merely trying to defend the British Empire from a rival? Toye quotes Richard B. Moore, an American civil rights leader, who said that it was "a most rare and fortunate coincidence" that at that moment "the vital interests of the British Empire" coincided "with those of the great overwhelming majority of mankind." But this might be too soft in its praise. If Churchill had been interested only in saving the empire, he could probably have cut a deal with Hitler. No: he had a deeper repugnance to Nazism than that. He may have been a thug, but he knew a greater thug when he saw one — and we may owe our freedom today to this wrinkle in history.
This is the great, enduring paradox of Churchill's life. In leading the charge against Nazism, he produced some of the richest prose poetry in defense of freedom and democracy ever written. It was a check he didn't want black or Asian people to cash, but as the Ghanaian nationalist Kwame Nkrumah wrote, "all the fair brave words spoken about freedom that had been broadcast to the four corners of the earth took seed and grew where they had not been intended." Churchill lived to see democrats across Britain's imperial conquests use his own hope-songs of freedom against him.
In the end, the words of the great and glorious Churchill who resisted dictatorship overwhelmed the works of the cruel and cramped Churchill who tried to impose it on the world's people of color. Toye teases out these ambiguities beautifully. The fact that we now live at a time where a free and independent India is an emerging superpower in the process of eclipsing Britain, and a grandson of the Kikuyu "savages" is the most powerful man in the world, is a repudiation of Churchill at his ugliest — and a sweet, unsought victory for Churchill at his best.
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We have to respect and honor the sentiments of every one who was a victim of terrorism and their friends and relatives who have suffered through this….
The Ground Zero Mosque is engaging the American Public and bringing out emotions and intellectualism to the forefront to tackle the issue of co-existence. The questions abound…..
In behalf of the men and women who have lost their loved ones, a few are genuinely opposing the building of the communtiy Center, a few are Altruistic and want the center to stand out as a beaocon of hope and peace and yet a few are falling prey to the political opportunists. At the end, if we envision an America that is good for all, we have to consider dropping the "me, me, and me" and yeild to what is good for America, the land of the free.
If Saudi is a bad country, why do we want to emulate them?
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Manchin Celebrates Progress On Canaan Valley Wildlife Refuge Visitors Center
Charleston, WV - Today, U.S. Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV) celebrated the progress made on the new Canaan Valley National Wildlife Refuge Visitor Center. Senator Manchin has advocated for federal funding to support the new visitor center and championed the efforts to create a new visitor center to welcome visitors to Canaan Valley. "This has been a great month for conservation and outdoor recreation, first with the enactment of the Great American Outdoors Act, and now today, as we … Continue Reading
Manchin Applauds Summit Point, Customs and Border Protection Partnership
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Manchin: Postmaster General Must Do More To Secure Mail, Election Ballots For Americans
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Manchin, Capito Announce Pollution and Hazardous Waste Control Grants In West Virginia
Charleston, WV - U.S. Senators Joe Manchin (D-WV) and Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV), members of the Senate Appropriations Committee, today announced $1,385,777 for pollution prevention, pipeline safety, and hazardous materials emergency preparedness in West Virginia. This funding is made available through both the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). "West Virginia is home to an abundance of natural resources and incredible recreation … Continue Reading
Manchin to DeJoy: Reinstate Critical Mail Sorting Machines Immediately
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Manchin Visits South Charleston U.S. Postal Service Distribution Center
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Manchin Visits Four U.S. Postal Service Locations In West Virginia
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Manchin Presses Treasury For Update On Unresolved Stimulus Payment Issues For Nearly 6,700 West Virginians
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Manchin Urges U.S. Postal Service To Address Delays, Prevent Election Mail Cost Increases
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Manchin Participates In Groundbreaking Ceremony For Marshall University Bill Noe Flight School
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Manchin, Capito Announce $5K For Arthurdale Heritage
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Manchin Urges Administration To Restore Full Funding For National Guard COVID-19 Pandemic Response
Charleston, WV - Yesterday, U.S. Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV) led 34 Senators in urging the Trump Administration to restore full funding for National Guard COVID-19 pandemic response across the United States and West Virginia through Title 32 502(f) orders.Since March, National Guard units in West Virginia have supported response to help West Virginians, from distributing much-needed food supplies to running remote testing locations and assisting as needed across the state. Last … Continue Reading
Manchin Submits Over 1,500 Speed Tests To FCC Chairman Pai
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Charleston, WV- U.S. Senators Joe Manchin (D-WV) and Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV), members of the Senate Appropriations Committee, today announced $7,262,424 for non-profits across West Virginia to help combat veteran homelessness. This funding is made available through the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs' (VA) Supportive Services for Veteran Families Program (SSVF) in fiscal year 2021, which begins on October 1."Our Veterans have served America bravely and deserve to be supported when they … Continue Reading
Manchin Presses DEA For More Information On Telemedicine Prescribing Oversight During COVID-19 Pandemic
Charleston, WV - Today, after troubling reports from West Virginia healthcare providers, U.S. Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV) requested an update from the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) on regulations in place during the COVID-19 pandemic for Medication-Assisted Treatment (MAT), which many providers are now prescribing through telemedicine. While telemedicine has been lifesaving for many West Virginians during this pandemic, abuse of this system cannot be tolerated and hurts patients who rely … Continue Reading
Manchin, Capito Announce Funding For Occupational Health and Safety Program
Charleston, WV - U.S. Senators Joe Manchin (D-WV) and Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV), members of the Senate Appropriations Committee, today announced $400,000 from the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) and Center for Disease Control (CDC) to West Virginia University (WVU) Research Corporation. This funding will support an occupational health and safety training program in Appalachia. "West Virginia's healthcare professionals have been working around the clock … Continue Reading
Manchin, Capito Announce Funding For Higher Education Across West Virginia
Charleston, WV - U.S. Senators Joe Manchin (D-WV) and Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV), members of the Senate Appropriations Committee, today announced $2,328,783 from U.S. Department of Education to support TRIO's Support Services Program at several West Virginia institutions. This funding is made available through the department's competitive Student Support Services Program."Our higher education institutions across the Mountain State provide quality education right here at home. The TRIO … Continue Reading
As Uninsured Rates Rise, Manchin Again Urges President Trump To Allow ACA, Medicare Enrollments
Charleston, WV - U.S. Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV) joined several colleagues in again urging President Donald Trump to establish a Special Enrollment Period (SEP) for the Affordable Care Act and Medicare. A recent report found that 5.4 million workers have become uninsured due to job losses caused by COVID-19. Additionally, every year there are thousands of senior citizens who do not sign up for Medicare, and therefore miss out on the insurance market for that year. With the increased … Continue Reading


Just finishing building this. Waiting for some NOS Grafton Speed Trap pedals to arrive and still not found a period correct post. I didn't want to use a Flite as I find SLR's more comfy, so bought a limited edition elements saddle. They're not period correct but with saddles comfort is more important and have a Flite sitting around if need be. Anyway I'm pleased how it turned out.
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3/31/14-Elton & David to Marry!
todayMarch 31, 2014
Sir Elton John will marry his long time partner David Furnish following changes to marriage laws in Great Britain. After 21 years together, Elton John and David Furnish are about to make it official.
Not that they wouldn't have done it sooner, but gay marriage was not legal in the U.K. until now. Furnish told the Las Vegas Journal Review that now is the time even though 'we don't feel the need to take an extra step legally. But since we're committed for life, we feel it's really important to take that step, and take advantage of that amazing change in legislation. We all live by example.'
As far as a big bash, that appears to be off. 'With the kids, everything is different. I think what we'll do is go to a registry office in England in May, and take the boys with us, and a couple of witnesses.'
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3/30/14-John Lennon's Letter Sold
A letter written by John Lennon to Phil Spector in the early 70′s has sold at auction for $88,000. Lennon was working with Spector at Capitol Studios at the time along with Who drummer Keith Moon and singer/songwriter Harry Nilsson. From the text of the letter, it is evident that Moon and Nilsson were doing some hellraising while working in the facility and Lennon was not happy with the situation, especially with the fact that Capitol had threatened to throw […]


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Say hello to Asteroid 2014 OL339, Earth's quasi-moon
Dianne Depra, Tech Times 08 October 2014, 06:10 am
What's a quasi-moon? Essentially, it's an asteroid that's entered Earth's orbit and is subsequently affected by the planet's gravitational pull. It starts to look like it's orbiting the Earth as it is close to the planet, much like the Moon.
In reality, its orbit is geared towards the Sun. At the moment, there are four quasi-moons associated with the Earth, the most recent of which was just discovered in July.
It's called 2014 OL339 and it joins 2004 GU9, 2006 FV35 and 2013 LX28 to complete the list of quasi-moons "orbiting" the Earth. Quasi-moons show orbital resonance with the planet, closely matching the path the Earth is taking as it orbits the Sun. It will also take the 2014 OL339 about a year to orbit the sun, much like the Earth.
On its own, 2014 OL339 has an unstable orbit. When it got close to the Earth, the asteroid's path stabilized, characterized by a "wobble" as it circled the planet.
2014 OL339 was discovered on July 29 by Fardi Char from the Chilean University of Antofagasta, appearing to have a size of between 90 and 200 meters. Since September, 2014 OL339 has been observed for 27 times, with observation arcs of 36 days. It entered orbital resonance with the Earth about 775 years ago and will continue for the next 165 years, approximating the duration of its co-orbital episode to be 1,000 years.
In a study, C. de la Fuente Marcos and R. de la Fuente Marcos explore the "dynamical evolution of the recently discovered Aten asteroid 2014 OL339 to show that it is currently following a quasi-satellite orbit with respect to the Earth."
The study further notes that 2014 OL339 is "quite chaotic and together with [2004 GU9] are the most unstable of the known Earth quasi-satellites." And while the quasi-moons 2004 GU9, 2006 FV35 and 2013 LX28 demonstrate Kozai-like dynamics, 2014 OL339 so far does not.
Having four detected so far puts the Earth in at second on the list of planets with the most number of quasi-moons. Jupiter tops that list with six.
Astronomers know that there are far more circling the planet and the rest of the galaxy but quasi-moons are very hard to spot given their size. In fact, it wasn't until 2004 that the first for the Earth was detected.
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"1. In the first stage the aspirant will read through the Divine Theme daily, studying the charts also, and thinking about it thoroughly as he does so.
2. In the second stage when the aspirant has the entire subject at his fingertips, actual reading becomes unnecessary, but the subject matter of the exposition will be mentally reviewed with the help of the charts when necessary.
Several years ago, a friend of mine who was only minimally acquainted with the teachings of Meher Baba asked me some very deep questions to which I responded in a series of emails. My aim was to introduce him to, by way of a summary, Meher Baba's Divine Theme. Additionally, I strongly encouraged him to also go to the source of the material itself and begin to read God Speaks, Discourses, and Beams from Meher.
Sometime later, wishing to make the material accessible to more people, I transformed those emails into an essay which I then published in this blog, Embedded with the Kali Yuga. From time to time I have tweaked that essay—I think this may be the second revision. Of course, all the material of this essay comes from Meher Baba and represents his gnosis—direct experience—of the subject and so I renew my suggestion and so strongly encourage all who are interested to go to the source itself and read all of Baba's books on the subject.
"God cannot be explained, He cannot be argued about, He cannot be theorized, nor can He be discussed and understood. God can only be lived.
"Nevertheless, all that is said here and explained about God to appease the intellectual convulsions of the mind of man, still lacks many more words and further explanations because the Truth is that the Reality must be realized and the divinity of God must be attained and lived.
"To understand the infinite, eternal Reality is not the Goal of individualized beings in the Illusion of Creation, because the Reality can never be understood; it is to be realized by conscious experience.
"To appease the intellectual convulsions of the mind," how wonderful would that be, to have a convulsion-free mind!
Meher Baba talks about ten states of God. Since nothing exists beyond, or before, or outside of God, the ten states of God include everything. To create a basic overview of these original ten states we can condense them into three states.
In the first state, God is asleep. He is so deeply asleep that He is not even aware of His own existence. It is comparable to our own deep sleep state. It is dreamless and consciousless.
In the second state, God is beginning to wake up. This is the intermediate dream state between His deep sleep state and His fully awake state. In this state, God dreams Himself to be the entire creation and everything and everyone within it. It is comparable to our own dream state.
In the third state, God has awakened and experiences His true eternal, infinite, all knowing, and all-powerful nature. God's experience of this reality is all knowing, all powerful, unending bliss. In this state, creation and all of its beings and paraphernalia are seen to have been an illusion—merely vacant dreams within the dream of creation.
Meher Baba suggests an analogy that likens God to an ocean—a shoreless, fathomless ocean. The ocean awakens drop by drop. When a drop begins the process of awakening it begins to dream the dream of creation. Baba refers to this drop as an individualized soul. The latent whim of the ocean, manifested through each drop, is expressed in the question, "Who am I?" and to answer this question God must awaken from His deep sleep and dreams. The journey of this awakening occurs in God's dream of creation through the three sequential processes of evolution, reincarnation, and involution.
In the Original First state of God, (Meher Baba calls this state the Beyond Beyond State), there is neither consciousness nor unconsciousness, though both are latent. Without consciousness, God cannot know himself as God. Consciousness is like a mirror that God uses to see Himself. It is acquired through the process of evolution, but the evolution Meher Baba speaks about is the evolution of consciousness, not the evolution of gross forms within creation that Charles Darwin described.
Consciousness and impressions—sanskaras—are bound together in a tight embrace from the very beginning. Consciousness evolves when it experiences impressions and more impressions are the result of those experiences. It is my opinion that the awareness and understanding of sanskaras is the missing link between Meher Baba's teachings and science's attempt to understand the universe.
Press your finger into soft clay and it makes an impression. Similarly, new impression are created upon the mind when, through action, consciousness experiences impressions already existent in the mind. Sanskaras accumulate on the mind like dust on the surface of a mirror and hinders the mirror of consciousness from reflecting the soul's reality as God.
Both sanskaras and consciousness are the result of gross, subtle, and mental actions instigated by the promptings of the mind. But how did it all begin? Did the first impression precede the first consciousness, or did the first consciousness precede the first impression, or were they simultaneous? And what about that first impression—If new impressions are formed when existent impressions are experienced, where did the first impression come from?
Meher Baba explained that the first impression did not arise as the result of another impression but as the result of a totally free and causeless happening that he called the Lahar, or the Whim, that was latent in the infinite ocean of God—Paramatma—the Oversoul. Why a whim? There is no cause and effect explanation for whim. A whim just happens and nothing more can be said of its why or when or wherefore.
To the question of whether precedence or simultaneity of the first consciousness and the first impression, Meher Baba explained that although for all intents and purposes the first consciousness and the first impression were simultaneous, still, the first impression was the antecedent and the first consciousness was the resultant consequent.
The New Testament speaks of this relationship between consciousness and sanskaras in the metaphor of the tarries that grow up with the wheat. It is only during the later process of involution that the wheat can be separated from the tarries.
Between evolution and involution is reincarnation. It begins automatically once full consciousness is acquired during the process of evolution and the human form is achieved.
Reincarnation is the mechanism through which the hold of the impressions on consciousness is sufficiently loosened so that during the next phase called involution the impressions can be totally removed without harming the consciousness. Gurdjieff often alluded to this when he said that the development of the latent higher qualities in man was not a process of adding anything, but of taking away that which had become unnecessary.
Meher Baba said that reincarnation occurs on other planets that support human life, but that involution only occurs on our planet, the planet Earth, and that the stages of reincarnation and involution always occurs when the soul is associating with the human form through its gross, subtle, and mental bodies. If and when Earth becomes incapable of supporting the processes of evolution, reincarnation, and involution, another planet will be chosen to take its place.
Meher Baba tells us that all of creation is comprised of three spheres of existence named the gross, the subtle, and the mental spheres. What science calls the universe, or the cosmos, with all its planets and stars, matter and anti-matter, black holes, etc. is an incomplete and inaccurate description of the gross sphere only. The subtle and the mental spheres, let alone Reality, are currently way beyond science's capacity for inquiry since their existence can only be experienced by subtle, mental, or Divine consciousness.
To experience the subtle sphere, a subtle form and subtle consciousness are necessary; to experience the mental sphere, a mental form and mental consciousness are necessary; and to experience Reality, Divine consciousness and a Divine body are necessary. This need of a proper form and consciousness to obtain a certain experience is spoken of in the New Testament parable of the man who was thrown out of the wedding—symbolizing the occasion of a soul's union with God—because he did not have the appropriate garment to wear.
The sojourn of the soul from its state of deep dreamless sleep to its fully awake, I am God state, descends without consciousness from the God state through the mental and then the subtle world to the gross world. It is there, in the gross world, that the soul's conscious journey begins, ultimately to ascend with greater and greater and more perfected consciousness back through the subtle and mental worlds to the conscious God state. An interesting fact that Meher Baba revealed is that a few souls do become conscious while descending through the mental and subtle worlds. Those who become conscious in the mental world become archangels and those who become conscious in the subtle world become angels. Meher Baba further explained that archangels and angels are not, however, God realized and that ultimately to fulfill their destiny each must take birth as a human being in the gross world.
Meher Baba names the first stage of the journey evolution. During evolution, the soul systematically associates with and dissociates from 8,400,000 gross forms— from stone to metal, vegetable, insect, fish, reptile, bird, and animal forms. Through these associations, the soul acquires consciousness. He also makes the point that association tends the soul to identify with that which it is associating. I have often wondered about this subtle distinction and its possibilities. The final evolutionary form is the human form and, being the last, contains within itself all of the previous lower forms.
While continuing to describe and explain the details of this incredible journey, Meher Baba continually reminds us however, that this journey is a journeyless journey. In reality, the soul never goes anywhere or does anything. The whole journey is, in fact, an illusion within Illusion for it takes place in the dream state of God. Yet, it is a necessary illusion. Meher Baba suggests the nature of the relationship that exists between Illusion and Reality in the dedication to his book God Speaks.
With the achievement of the human form, consciousness is full and complete—but it is not perfected. The sanskaric dust still obscures the surface of the mirror and so the soul now experiences reincarnation, the second stage of its journey.
It generally takes millions of incarnations in the human form, experiencing the endless pendulums of duality such as woman and men, rich and poor, Hindu, Muslim, Christian and Jew, etc. etc. to sufficiently relax duality's grip through identification on the consciousness of the soul. During this time, consciousness and identity continue to be centered in gross sanskaras and the soul continues to identify itself with the gross human body living in the gross world. In reincarnation, there is awareness of thoughts and feelings that emanate from the subtle and mental bodies, but there is no direct consciousness of these bodies or identification with them.
Only during the process of involution, does the individualized soul lose consciousness of the gross body and the gross world and become conscious of the subtle body and the subtle world. At this stage, the consciousness of the individual soul, while still associating with a gross human form, identifies with and begins to experience itself and the subtle world as pure energy. This experience is not a thought or a belief or a conviction, it is a direct experience and is without doubt.
Meher Baba once drew a picture of Himself as a chicken. He called it the Mischievous Chicken and explained that it was the first chicken to emerge from under the wing of the Mother Hen (the Original First Deep Sleep State of God) and journey through evolution, reincarnation, and involution to realize the Goal. After reaching the Goal the Mischievous One looked back and saw all the other chickens that had followed him out. It was there and then that he took on the burden of helping all the other chickens to realize the Goal also. The name given to this first soul to reach the Goal and take upon Himself this burden of responsibility is the Ancient One, Avatar, Christ, Rasool, or Messiah.
The Ancient One comes again and again and though the form of His message is seen to change to conform to the needs of the times, the essence of His message is always the same, "God alone is Real and the destiny of all souls is to recognize that Reality as oneself." Likewise, though the form of the work of the Avatar changes with the exigencies of time and situation, His work also, always remains the same—to give to all of creation a universal spiritual push towards the Goal and to take upon Himself the burden of the suffering acquired by each soul in its journeyless journey to Self.
Meher Baba has identified Krishna, Ram, Buddha, Zoroaster, Jesus, Mohammed, and Himself as a few of the more recent Avataric incarnations. He tells us that these historical personages are, in essence, unique garments that informed the Avataric Presence at particular times in particular places. For example, Jesus was the name of the man who informed the Christ, i.e. the garment that clothed the Avataric presence. That garment was used and then discarded. All of the garments of the Avatar are discarded and not used again. Therefore, the Avatar as Jesus will not come again, but the Avatar, the Ancient One, continues to come again and again—Meher Baba tells us, every seven hundred to fourteen hundred years.
It seems that the human mind takes great interest in the beginnings, middles, and ends of things—perhaps it is because in the Creation that the ordinary human mind dreams and finds itself immersed in—conscious of—all and everything is finite and that which is finite has and end and therefore must have had a beginning and a middle as well. But the Infinite has no beginning and therefore has no end and therefore has no middle. The Infinite exists in the Eternal moment free of past, present, and future; free of beginnings, middles, and ends.
Still, to "appease the intellectual convulsions of the mind," Meher Baba addresses the question of the beginning of Creation and the process of awakening and reveals that there somehow occurred in the Original Deep Sleep State of God a something that no word or words can adequately describe, but that Meher Baba calls the Lahar. Lahar, as best it can, conveys the sense of whim and whim suggests something beyond cause or effect. Meher Baba states that the Lahar is the first action and this first action is also the first cause. The first cause results in a first effect and thereby establishes the law of cause and effect in all of Creation's gross, subtle, and mental spheres.
Experience, guided by cause and effect, impacts consciousness, but consciousness obtained through action is necessarily always tinged by the unique qualities of that action. This tinge, retained as an impression on consciousness, is called a sanskara. Once this impression is formed, and consciousness becomes aware of it, then a need is created to experience that impression, and to experience this new impression an appropriate new action and medium is essential. Therefore, a new medium—a new form—must be created and associated with to experience this new sanskara. Meher Baba tells us that this new form is, in fact, nothing other than the consolidated mold of the impressions gathered in the previous life or form. Ironically, therefore, it can be said that we are always living—experiencing—one lifetime behind the one we are currently living.
1. Action creates consciousness and sanskaras are the by-product of the process.
2. Consciousness of the sanskaras creates the need to experience the sanskaras.
3. To experience the sanskara, a new action and a new form are necessary.
4. This action then leads to a change in consciousness and more sanskaras that need to be experienced.
This cycle characterizes the process of evolution. As stated previously, evolution is complete and its purpose fulfilled upon achievement of the human form. During the process of reincarnation that follows, the cycle continues, but with one important difference; since consciousness is already fully developed, no more consciousness remains to be achieved and consequently the sum total of sanskaras is not further increased.
The purpose of reincarnation is to loosen the hold of the already accumulated sanskaras on consciousness, and this is achieved through the spending (exchanging) of one sanskara for another. A further result is that, over time, the gross sanskaras also get thinned out sufficiently to enable involution, the next step in the process, to proceed.
During the process of involution, the consciousness of the soul enters the subtle and mental spheres and experiences the higher planes of consciousness.
The planes of consciousness are not in the gross, physical universe and the pilgrim, experiencing involution on the planes, is not conscious of the gross, physical universe or his gross physical body. Though not conscious of his body, the body is retained and other gross conscious individuals can see and interact with the pilgrim through it. For his part, the pilgrim on the planes is generally aware of gross conscious individuals, but does not see their gross, physical bodies, instead, he sees and interacts with them as expressions of pure energy or, in the case of the mentally conscious pilgrim, as expressions of pure mind.
Between the gross sphere and the first plane of the subtle world is a connective membrane that links the gross sphere to the subtle sphere. This connective membrane is the sub-subtle sphere, or what is generally called, the astral world. Once the pilgrim is fully established on the first subtle plane this link is dissolved forever.
Meher Baba tells us that every plane has a heaven. These heavens are not the heaven and hell referred to by many Christians and Muslims. Meher Baba offers this explanation: Planes are connected to each other. One journeys from plane to plane as one journeys from place to place via a railroad network. The station from which one journeys is like a railroad station in the center of a city. The station is the plane. The city, with all its unique experiences, is like the heaven. One must come to the station, i.e. leave the heaven, before they can journey to the next plane.
The pilgrim on the first plane sees gross forms as shadows. These shadows are energy because everything, including himself, is experienced as energy. The pilgrim on the first plane is bursting with inspiration inspired by unimaginable sights and visions, colors and sounds, light that dazzles and enchants him, and the celestial music of angels inhabiting the higher planes of the subtle world. The inspiration he feels affects other gross conscious people near him. Nothing in the gross sphere can match the unimaginable beauty and experiences of the first subtle plane.
It could take thousands of years for the pilgrim to progress to the next plane, but with the help of a perfect master the journey can be sped up. In the second plane, the pilgrim becomes seized by subtle powers and gradually gains control of these powers by becoming their possessor. With these powers, the pilgrim can perform at will, minor miracles like transforming a withered tree into a green one, or vice versa. He can stop moving cars or trains, prevent airplanes from taking off, or fill dry wells with water.
The section of the second plane called the heaven of the second plane has two sections and these sections are the heaven and hell states that are experienced by the gross conscious soul after death. Both the heaven and hell states are within the heaven of the second plane.
It must constantly be kept in mind, when thinking about these descriptions of the planes, that all the planes of the subtle and the mental spheres are internal states; they have no physical reality and cannot be located in gross space. Individuals in the state of reincarnation, after death, do not experience the second plane but only the subjective states of heaven and hell, in accordance with their unique sanskaric patterns. Heaven and hell are mechanisms that help individuals to balance out their sanskaras in preparation for their next incarnation.
Once the individual achieves the state of involution, the need to experience the heaven and hell states between incarnations becomes unnecessary. Pilgrims in the stage of involution, who have consciousness of the second plane, can imbibe the blissful state of heaven and avoid the pain of hell by the exercise of their will.
The third plane of the subtle world is a realm of even greater powers. This plane is where major miracles such as giving sight to the blind, speech to the mute, and hearing to the deaf are performed. Dead animals can be brought back to life and the minds of all gross conscious individuals, anywhere in the world, can be read at will.
In the heaven of the third plane, the pilgrim can see and interact with angels, for this heaven is the realm of the gods. It includes all the Hindu gods and deities who are, in fact, the Greek and Roman gods as well. As mentioned previously, archangels and angels are souls who, in their journey from the deep sleep state, become conscious while descending through the planes.
The fourth plane pilgrim stands between the subtle and the mental world with, so to speak, a foot in both. The subtle world was all about power and the mental world is all about mind. Though very advanced in power, the pilgrim of the fourth plane has not yet mastered his mind. The combination is very dangerous because if a fourth plane pilgrim so much as has a thought, then that thought is instantly actualized. Instigated by the thought itself, entire worlds can be created or destroyed and the minds of men and angels can be influenced. Obviously, the pilgrim needs help at this stage and the Nazar (watchful gaze) of perfect masters and masters of the fifth plane is on the fourth plane pilgrim. Meher Baba tells us that Kuber is the name given to a fourth plane pilgrim.
The fifth and sixth planes are in the mental world. The fifth plane pilgrim gains mastery over the section of mind that controls thought and the sixth plane pilgrim gains mastery over the section of mind that controls feeling. In fact, the fifth plane pilgrim actually becomes thought and the sixth plane pilgrim actually becomes feeling.
What does it mean to become thought or to become feeling? Thinking and feeling and being aware of thinking and feeling are not becoming. This is something quite different—unimaginable –yet trying to image, to ponder, contemplate can lead one into a very blissful place! The fifth plane pilgrim knows everything and hears the divine sound of God while the sixth plane pilgrim sees God everywhere and as everything.
All that remains for the sixth plane pilgrim is to become one with God. His state is indeed exalted, yet his journey is incomplete because he continues to experience himself as someone/something other than God. Retaining the sense of false individuality, he is still in illusion—the second state or dream state of God. Meher Baba explains that the gap, or distance, between all of evolution, reincarnation, and involution is infinitesimally smaller than the chasm that exists between the sixth plane and the seventh plane of Reality—the third and fully awake state of God.
With the help of One who has achieved the perfection of the seventh plane, the pilgrim enters the seventh plane of consciousness. He is now fully awake and experiences the infinite power, knowledge and bliss of God. He becomes God eternally. Usually, after achieving this state the pilgrim drops his physical, subtle, and mental bodies within forty-eight to seventy-two hours. This dropping of the body in no way affects the experience of the individualized soul with regard to the experience of his Godhood, but does affect his consciousness of creation. After dropping the body, all consciousness of creation is lost and no further lifetimes are lived. In other words, God conscious souls never reincarnate.
God Realization is always achieved while in a human body. After God Realization, the body can be dropped almost immediately or retained for some time as determined by the destiny of the realized soul. Whether the body is retained for hours, or days, or years, the divine consciousness of all of realized beings is the same, however, the degree of creation consciousness can be different depending upon each realized soul's duties and responsibilities with regard to the working and execution of the Avatar's Divine Plan.
There are always fifty –six God Realized beings the planet earth, five of whom are Perfect Masters. These five maintain the most creation consciousness and the most responsibility to creation—especially human beings existing on the planet Earth. Perhaps the most important duty of Perfect Masters is to bring down—to precipitate—the advent of the Avatar in the Avataric periods. The Avataric responsibility is for all of creation and for each and every soul experiencing the dream of creation—from souls associating and identifying with the stone form, from souls associating and identifying with the worm form, from souls associating and identifying with the animal forms, and then human forms experiencing all the three worlds of consciousness—the gross, the subtle, and the mental. What a responsibility is that… can we even imagine?
"God cannot be explained, He cannot be argued about, He cannot be theorized, nor can He be discussed and understood. God can only be lived. Nevertheless, all that is said here and explained about God to appease the intellectual convulsions of the mind of man, still lacks many more words and further explanations because the Truth is that the Reality must be realized and the divinity of God must be attained and lived.
The words of the Avatar are something quite different than our words. When the Avatar says something the words themselves have the power to manifest their meaning—just reading them will accomplish more than hundreds of lifetimes spent meditating, doing penances, or any manner of good works. May He be pleased with this, my humble, summary of Meher Baba's Divine Theme.
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It was a brazen shooting at a busy playground on Monday that sent kids running in all directions. Hopkinsville police are still looking for one of the gunmen.
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HOPKINSVILLE, Ky. (WTVF) — It was a brazen shooting at a busy playground on Monday that sent kids running in all directions. Hopkinsville police are still looking for one of the gunmen.
A second person involved in the shooting at Second Street Park was seen on surveillance video pointing a gun in the direction of several kids who were running away. Police say that person tried to squeeze the trigger on his gun, but it failed to fire.
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Q: Compute % sales made on weekend compared with total sales week pandas and how to deal exceptions like bank holiday I have a DataFrame with daily sales.
I want to create a KPI to understand how weekend sales influence weekly sales and how normal days influence  weekly sales.
I created a working code as an example below, It works.
But:
1) (first MAIN question) I think could be improved in a more Pythonic way but I don't know how
2) (second minor question)In case of bank holiday where sales are too low or special holiday where sales are too high should I substitute these outliers with mean or median values?
#Generating a Random Sample
np.random.seed(30)
values=np.random.randint(0,400,14)
day= pd.date_range(start='25/02/2020',periods=14)

#Creating an example DataFrame
df_input={'date':day,"values":values}
df_test=pd.DataFrame(df_input)

#From here starts what I have done on my original code
# week and day of the week are two informatio that I have to retrieve from my
#original DataFrame
#Creating a column with Week and Day Of The Week info
df_test['week']=df_test.date.dt.week
df_test['day']=df_test.date.dt.dayofweek

#Creating a Column for differencing weekend from normal day
df_test['weekend']=np.zeros(len(df_test))
df_test['weekend'][(df_test.day==5)|(df_test.day==6)]=1

#Grouping on Week to get total sales
grouped_full=df_test.groupby(['week']).sum()

#Grouping on Week And Weekend to separate normal days from weekend days
grouped=df_test.groupby(['week','weekend']).sum()

#Getting the ratio between
#the weekend and total weekly sales
#normal days and total weekly sales
ratio=grouped/grouped_full
print(ratio['values'])

This is my output:
week  weekend
9     0.0        0.666667
      1.0        0.333333
10    0.0        0.784127
      1.0        0.215873
11    0.0        1.000000

A: I spent some time trying to really understand how you're approaching the problem and if there's another way to look at it.
I'm no professional by any means so take all of this with a grain of salt:

*

*I don't think there's a more "pythonic" way to make your code.  Although extensive, I can show you a way my brain approached your
problem as I understood it:

import numpy as np
import pandas as pd

#Generating a Random Sample
np.random.seed(30)
values=np.random.randint(0,400,14)
day= pd.date_range(start='25/02/2020',periods=14)

#Creating an example DataFrame
df_input={'date':day,"values":values}
df_test=pd.DataFrame(df_input)

# group and use mean
weekdays = (df_test[df_test.date.dt.weekday.isin([0,1,2,3,4])]
                .groupby(df_test.date.dt.week)
                .mean())
# group and use mean
weekends = (df_test[df_test.date.dt.weekday.isin([5,6])]
                .groupby(df_test.date.dt.week)
                .mean())

# store in dict
d = {'weekdays': weekdays, 'weekends': weekends}

# concat and drop extra level('values')
both = pd.concat(d, axis=1).droplevel(1, axis=1)

# create new column with mean ratio differences
both['weekends_ratio'] = both['weekends'].div(both['weekends']+both['weekdays'])

print(both)

      weekdays  weekends  weekend_ratio
date
9          280     280.0       0.500000
10         247     170.0       0.407674
11          18       NaN            NaN

*I don't know if it'll help but maybe use .mean()(as you see in my code) instead of
.sum() to find the ratio difference in average sales.

A: Hi I would have liked to comment on Ukranian-serge answer but eventually it is not possible due to the 50points reputation rule but I don't care and I want to contribute anyway.
I would point out that technically your answer is responding only to the latter part of the question:

I want to create a KPI to understand how weekend sales influence weekly sales and how normal days influence weekly sales

indeed by grouping for the same week number we create the KPI with a causal relation of Weekdays --> Weekend while for doing the contrary we should use:
# group and use mean
weekdays = (df_test[df_test.date.dt.weekday.isin([0,1,2,3,4])]
                .groupby(df_test.date.dt.week)
                .mean())
# group and use mean
weekends = (df_test[df_test.date.dt.weekday.isin([5,6])]
                .groupby(df_test.date.dt.week -1 )
                .mean())

in order to find the Weekend --> Weekday causal relation

A: Question 1
A possible alternative
# Creating an example DataFrame
np.random.seed(30)
values = np.random.randint(0,400,14)
day = pd.date_range(start='25/02/2020',periods=14)
df_test = pd.DataFrame({'date':day,"values":values})

# Create week, day, weekend
df_test['week'] = df_test['date'].dt.week
df_test['day'] = df_test['date'].dt.dayofweek
df_test['weekend'] = df_test['day'].isin([5,6])# optional --> .astype(int)

# Calculate the metric
df_test_grouped = df_test.groupby(['week', 'weekend'])[['values']].sum()
df_test_grouped.groupby(level=0).apply(lambda x: 100 * x / float(x.sum()))

Question 2
It's really hard to say, it depends on the type of the analysis, the assumptions you're making, how much data you have, the scale of the outliers, etc.
Often outliers are important numbers, not just values to smooth out.
E.g. the Christmas week can provide 20% of the yearly sales of a certain product. Is that week just an outlier?

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Q: Does $f(x)=O(\log x)\implies f'(x)=O(1/x)$? Does $f(x)=O(\log x)\implies f'(x)=O(1/x)$ ?
My attempt:
Since $f(x)=O(\log x)$, then there exists $C>0$ such that $f(x)<C\log x$ for sufficiently large $x$.
What I'm proposing is that $f'(x)=O(1/x)$, but this would mean there exists $C>0$ such that
$$f'(x)<\frac{C}{x},$$
and I don't think differentiation works in general over inequalities... in which case, can we say anything at all, perhaps with some assumptions on $f$ if necessary?
Update
In response to Surb's comment below, whilst differentiation does not generally hold over inequalities, integration does, e.g. suppose $f(x)=O(1/x)$, then $$\int_1^yf(x)dx=O(\log y).$$
Proof: if $f(x)=O(1/x)$, then there exists $C>0$ such that $$f(x)<\frac{C}{x}\implies \frac{C}{x}-f(x)>0,\tag{1}$$ for $x>x_0$ where $x_0$ is sufficiently large. Then
$$\int_1^y\left(\frac{C}{x}-f(x)\right)dx>0\implies C\log(y)-\int_1^yf(x)dx>0,$$
as a result of inequality (1). Hence, $$\int_1^yf(x)dx<C\log(y)\implies\int_1^yf(x)dx=O(\log y).$$

A: It seems very difficult to obtain such conditions (now that I said it, I am sure that someone will prove me wrong, but anyway): Consider the functions $f_k(x)=\sin{(kx)}$ for some $k\in \mathbb N$. Then $f_k(x)=O(\log{x})$ for any $k\in \mathbb N$, however $$f'_k(x)=k\cos{(kx)}$$ which may take any value between $-k$ and $k$.

A: What you want doesn't hold. Any function that behaves like $O(\log x)$ but has very small but increasingly violent oscillations will not be $O(x^{-1})$.

A: I will try to address the second part of your question. I can only show the $``\impliedby"$ direction instead under various conditions on $f, f', g, g'$. I hope I get the conditions right.
Suppose $f, g:(c, +\infty) \to \mathbb{R}$ are differentiable such that
$$\lim_{x \to +\infty} f(x) = \lim_{x \to +\infty} g(x) = 0 \text{ or} \pm\infty$$
and $g, g' \ne 0$ on $(c, +\infty)$ and
$$\lim_{x \to +\infty} \frac{f'(x)}{g'(x)} = L$$
for some $L \in \mathbb{R}$. [Observe the last two conditions $\implies f' = \mathcal{O}(g')$ by the $\limsup$ characterization of big $\mathcal{O}$]
Then by L'Hôpital's rule,
$$\lim_{x \to +\infty} \frac{f(x)}{g(x)} = \lim_{x \to +\infty} \frac{f'(x)}{g'(x)} = L$$
Using the $\limsup$ characterization of big $\mathcal{O}$,
since $$\limsup_{x \to +\infty} \left|\frac{f(x)}{g(x)}\right| = \lim_{x \to +\infty} \left|\frac{f(x)}{g(x)}\right| = \left|\lim_{x \to +\infty} \frac{f(x)}{g(x)}\right| = |L| \in \mathbb{R}$$
by continuity of absolute value,
we have $$f = \mathcal{O}(g)$$

A: No, this is not the case. Consider $f(x) = \log x + \sin x$, which is clearly $O(\log x)$, but $f'(x)$ is not $O(1/x)$.
If you $f$ to be monotonous, then consider the constinuous function where if $x$ is not in an interval $[10^n-1, 10^n]$, then it is constant, while if $x$ is in such an interval, it's increasing linearly from $n-1$ to $n$. You can even smooth out the corners at points of the form $10^n-1$ and $10^n$ such that the function is differentiable everywhere, and the derivative still attains a maximum value of $1$ arbitrarily far out on the number line.

A: This is not true. Consider $f(x)=\sin x$. Then with $C=1$, you can see that $f(x)=\mathcal{O}(\log x)$, but clearly, as $x\rightarrow \infty$, $\frac{1}{x}\rightarrow 0$, but $\cos x$ does not go to zero.
In other words $f'(x)$ is not $\mathcal{O}(\frac{1}{x})$.
As to whether one can say anything at all about the order of $f'$,...No..not by just looking at $f$. One needs to look at $f'$ again. (Or in the terms you put it, any assumptions on f, cannot avoid stating something about $f'$)

A: Consider $f(x)=\sin(x^{2})$. Then $f(x)=O(1)$ so $f$ is certainly $O(\log(x))$. But
$$f'(x) = 2x\cos(x^{2}) = O(x)$$
which is certainly not $O(x^{-1})$. It is a general principle that bounded functions can oscillate very heavily (imagine any curve you like, perturbed by lots of small-amplitude but high-frequency wiggles).


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Q: Using arrow functions in MongoDB MapReduce functions I am playing with arrow functions in MongoDB to write MapReduce jobs, and I noticed some weird behaviors.
I have a collection of students as follows:
{ "_id" : ObjectId("58ff3520704bd5539fe9dc7b"), "stud_id" : "x0000003", "name" : "david smith", "class" : "InfMgt", "weekNo" : 2, "attendencesThisWeek" : 4 }
{ "_id" : ObjectId("58ff3520704bd5539fe9dc7c"), "stud_id" : "x0000003", "name" : "david smith", "class" : "InfMgt", "weekNo" : 3, "attendencesThisWeek" : 2 }
{ "_id" : ObjectId("58ff3543704bd5539fe9dc7d"), "stud_id" : "x0000001", "name" : "sean smith", "class" : "edt", "weekNo" : 1, "attendencesThisWeek" : 2 }
{ "_id" : ObjectId("58ff3543704bd5539fe9dc7e"), "stud_id" : "x0000001", "name" : "sean smith", "class" : "edt", "weekNo" : 2, "attendencesThisWeek" : 2 }

...
Now my task is to write a MapReduce job that figures out the total attendences for each student to this date, so I started to write my functions with arrow functions:
The Map function
const mapFunc = () => emit(this.stud_id, this.attendencesThisWeek)

This is not emitting anything, after looking up online, I found that the arrow function already has a this defined which makes it unsuitable as a map function here

inside an arrow function, this and arguments refer to the values of
  this and arguments in the environment the arrow function is defined in
  (i.e. "outside" the arrow function)

So I rewrote my function the "classic" way:
const mapFunc2 = function() {emit(this.stud_id, this.attendencesThisWeek)}

(I still use const to make sure nothing is modifying the function or reassigning to mapFunc2)
The Reduce function
When that was done, I though that there should be no problem with the reduce function since it is not using the this keyword.
I was wrong!
 const reduceFunc = (key, countAttendencesThisWeek) => Array.sum(countAttendencesThisWeek)

Yields quite funny looking results:
{ "_id" : "x0000002", "value" : (key, countAttendencesThisWeek) => Array.sum(countAttendencesThisWeek) }
{ "_id" : "x0000003", "value" : (key, countAttendencesThisWeek) => Array.sum(countAttendencesThisWeek) }

From going to the same stack overflow answer I read this:

ES2015 distinguishes between functions that are callable and functions
  that are constructable. If a function is constructable, it can be
  called with new, i.e. new User(). If a function is callable, it can be
  called without new (i.e. normal function call).
Functions created through function declarations / expressions are both
  constructable and callable. Arrow functions (and methods) are only
  callable. class constructors are only constructable.

My guess is that MongoDB is calling the reduce function in a way that makes it unwriteable as an arrow function, but here I need help to understand what is really happening.
I changed my reduce function to the "classic" version again:
const reduceFunc2 = function(keyStudId, attendences) { return Array.sum(attendences) }

Which is fine but leaves me wondering why here the arrow function is not usable.
Thank you for reading, this might be something of no importance for imperative programmers that learned that way, but I imagine if in years time some colleges start to teach functional first and arrow functions for example become the norm it will be quite weird for those developpers to have to adapt (if not understanding why things work that way).
see https://stackoverflow.com/a/34361380/4884034
EDIT:

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*Version of db: 3.2.7

*Interpreter version: MozJS-38

*Javascript engine: mozjs


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