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How NOT to write a book…thanks, progressed Mercury retrograde!
I blame that bout of tendonitis in around 2015.(i) I had been running no less than three blogs ( yes, mad, I agree…) since launching myself on the Web in 2008, had had one print book and four e-books published, when it struck. The only cure, which took quite a while, was to severely lay off writing, working mainly through a dictation app. NOT recommended if you wish to remain moderately sane, by the way…
I am left handed, which did not help the problem afflicting my left arm and wrist. In the end, I had to make a decision – a hard one, since by then I'd begun the research for book number 5. Either proceed to carpal tunnel syndrome, enduring the rest of my life with it and related arm and wrist unpleasantnesses – or confine myself largely to short pieces from then on. So I chose the latter. This mostly took the form of weekly pieces for only one blog at a time, writing columns (at one point I had three, deadlines falling in the same two weeks every couple of months!) and continuing to send out longer essays and articles to a wide range of magazines and journals – something I'd been doing for around twenty years already.
The result, half a Jupiter cycle later? I have actually arrived at book numero 5 anyway, albeit a very different one from originally envisaged: contents sixty published essays, columns and articles of mercurial variety. (btw I have a third house Jupiter square everything in the twelfth house, so this planet has been just a tad influential). Not only does this accidentally arrived at book have a title ie 'Postcards to the Future' and a subtitle ie 'mercurial musings 1995-2021' but it has also generated a small publishing company ie Writing from the Twelfth House Publications, and brought together a really experienced, talented production team, headed up by one V Olliver as editor.
And boy, has he been editing to within an inch of my sanity these last few weeks…but I jest… Compared to my last venture into having a print book published ie 'Jupiter Meets Uranus' by Arizona-based American Federation of Astrologers in 2009, it has been a breeze. Although I got on very well with the AFA editor, ease of technological transmission between Scotland and Arizona was much less flowing then than it is now. And I didn't know her at all when the process began. I was just about on my knees, not to mention cross-eyed, by the time that edit was completed.
This time, the esteemed Victor has been editing my work, mainly through this column, for the last five years. We know each other's literary weirdnesses. Not that I have any, of course…so book 5 edit has actually been a pleasure (well, mostly…)
It's an interesting business, writing short pieces to deadlines. Here's a flavour, extracted from one of my columns for the much-missed Dell Horoscope magazine, which you will find in 'Postcards to the Future' :
'…Anyone who has ever written a regular column will know that there are times when inspiration is – not to put too fine a point on it – notable by its absence. At other times, so many ideas are flying around that catching one by the tail to pin it down is, to say the least, tricky. And – you never know, as the last deadline is met and you can now relax for a few weeks – which set of conditions is going to prevail the next time.
So, Reader, there I was, new deadline appearing over the horizon, and…nada. Nix. No–thing. At all. Braincell dry as an old chewed-up bone. In this situation there are generally two options: blind panic – or blind faith. I have six fiery planets. This is often a curse, let me tell you, but in the matter of column deadlines, it is a blessing. So, armed with nothing but blind faith, I headed for the office…'(ii)
In the end, you simply have to have confidence and faith that your topic will appear from SOMEWHERE…in the above example, it appeared via a random phone call on the bus journey to my office – on the very day of the latest deadline. In the case of longer, more in depth subjects, the process can be rather different. As I put it in a recent AA Journal column: '…The idea usually lands in my mind either days or weeks before the deadline. If it refuses to go away and bother someone else, I know it's mine to tackle…'
My approach is simple. The third time the idea drops into my mind and refuses to go away, I give in and start work. The last essay in 'Postcards' is titled Waning and Waxing Crescents: Windows to the Future and was published in the December 2020/January 2021 issue of TMA. The idea refusing to go away was that of linking the horoscope of Mary Shelley, born in 1797 during the waning crescent phase of the 200 year traverse of Jupiter-Saturn conjunctions through the Fire element, with that of Greta Thunberg, born in 2003 during the waning crescent phase of the 200 year traverse of Jupiter-Saturn conjunctions through the Earth element. What emerged and grew from that idea drove me hard for some weeks – but the end result was truly fascinating to me, and hopefully to my readers.
The subtitle of 'Postcards' ie "mercurial musings 1995-2021" offers clues both to the author's horoscope – Mercury Ruler: conjunct, square, semi-square and sextile just about everything! – and the book's subject matter. The hardest part for me of the whole editorial process was choosing the sixty pieces which were eventually included. (Let's face it, Victor has by far done most of the other work, since I told him I'd rather pour hot melted butter into my left ear in the dark than have anything to do with anything technical…)
The range is indeed mercurial: from topics which deserve serious treatment ie 'What is my job as an astrologer?' , through a whole long section on planetary cycles, my current preoccupation, all the way to the quirky, ie 'My Mary Shelley obsession: It has never gone away' featuring unique synastry between a famous human (Mary) and a dead sheep (Dolly). Then there is a whole section titled ' Interviews: Featuring the Bacon Sandwich Motivational Technique, Plus Other Arcane Delights'. And lots more endless mercurial variety.
As I write this column, we are almost there…it's now over to Ros, our meticulously Virgoan book designer, and Cat, hard at work on what will be a brilliant cover. Well, it's all Victor's fault, really, apart from the tendonitis. He is largely responsible for luring me out from behind that twelfth house sofa…
(i) ALSO: this is a collection of sixty selected essays etc going back to 1995. My students and more than one astro-colleague began suggesting that it was time for me to go back through my large stack of varied writings and put a collection together…yes, in 2018, the very year progressed Mercury, sitting stationary on top of my restless third house Jupiter, turned retrograde. Pretty apt, eh what?!
(ii) from 'Fate, Uranus – and the astrologers' degree…'.
(This post is an edited version of my 36th Not the Astrology Column featured in the July/August 2021 Issue of the UK's Astrological Journal, edited by Victor Olliver.)
1250 words Copyright Anne Whitaker 2021
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Jupiter/Uranus in Pisces do religion: Countdown to 19 September
Posted on September 9, 2010 | 13 comments
You don't have to be a very sage astrologer to work out that one of the likely backdrops to this upcoming 19th September 2010 Jupiter/Uranus conjunction at 29 degrees Pisces (the second of three during 2010/11) is going to be that perennial sustainer, challenger, inspirer, executor and persecutor of the human race – religion.
And sure enough, it is shaping up in bold primary colours already.
A major row has been rumbling in the USA since the end of August 2010 over the proposed location of a Muslim religious centre close to the site of Ground Zero.Check out:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1304368/Ground-Zero-mosque-row-One-FOUR-Americans-believe-Obama-Muslim.html#ixzz0z2tmasLx
Last week the UK's most prominent and respected scientist Stephen Hawking grandly announced that God was not necessary in coming up with an explanation for the origins of the Universe. This could be found in the laws of physics. The book "Grand Design", set for release on September 9, has him saying: "because there is a law such as gravity, the Universe can and will create itself from nothing…."
In recent days, it has become world-wide news that the pastor of a small church in Florida, Terry Jones, is planning a less than conciliatory act of remembrance of the 9/11 atrocity by burning 200 copies of the Koran on the 11 September. This plan has been roundly condemned from USA Secretary of State Hilary Clinton downwards. See http://edition.cnn.com/2010/US/09/08/florida.quran.reaction/#fbid=lNzACjrNQ7c&wom=false
(NOTE: it just caught my eye in Google's news headlines as I was signing off after publishing this post and doing some emails, that the pastor in question has called off his protest. How interesting that this should occur on the very day that Jupiter slips from combative, fiery Aries into the soothing waters of Pisces….)
And here in the UK, that anti-messiah and self-appointed High Priest of Atheism, the scientist and polemical writer Richard Dawkins, had planned to arrest the Pope when he visits the UK during 16-19 September, just at the exact point of the second Jupiter/Uranus conjunction.
"Campaigners supported by Prof Richard Dawkins, the prominent atheist, had hoped to have Benedict XVI held over his supposed cover-up of child abuse within the Roman Catholic Church.
But leaders of the Protest the Pope coalition now admit that the Pontiff cannot be arrested as Britain acknowledges him as a head of state, granting him sovereign immunity from criminal prosecution." Read more
The fingerprints of the Jupiter/Uranus combination in Pisces are all over these events. First of all, Jupiter and Uranus are planets associated with the 'masculine' dimension of life regardless of a person's sex: outgoing and action-oriented.
Then, if we think of the mythology of Jupiter and Uranus, we have the arrogant and combative Olympian god Jupiter, who was always right, enjoyed laying down the law, (fundamentalism anyone?) and who threw thunderbolts from Mount Olympus at unfortunate humanity cowering down below. His ally Prometheus (I follow the Richard Tarnas view that Uranus in action most resembles the Greek god Prometheus) was an innovator who taught humankind the great arts of astrology, science and music.
He also decided that the gods' fire was just what the human race needed to make them all-wise and powerful (without actually consulting any of them to see if they wanted this equivocal gift!) and proceeded to steal that precious substance, hidden in a fennel-stalk. Unfortunately he got caught and spent eternity chained to a rock having his liver pecked out by an eagle.
As I point out in my book "Jupiter Meets Uranus" ( AFA 2009) the Jupiter/Uranus combination can represent the very best in human aspiration, exploration, inventiveness and the sheer exuberance of being alive. However, arrogant conviction of their own rightness when working together can make this combination inflammatory, hubristic and downright destructive. We should therefore see both the positive and negative sides of this unique conjunction during the Jupiter/Uranus year of 2010/11.
The Jupiter/Uranus combination works out of the 'left field' more than any other combination of planetary energies. Its cycle is 14 years long.
In 1969 Man stepped on the Moon for the first time under an exact Jupiter/Uranus conjunction in Libra. In 1983 with the conjunction in Sagittarius, the world's first artificially made chromosome was created at Harvard University. In February 1997 with the conjunction in Aquarius, Dolly the Sheep, the first cloned animal, was announced to the world.
2010/11 is gradually revealing unique developments too for good and ill: the Large Hadron Collider's vast experiment and what it may reveal. Craig Venter's company's creating of the first artificial living cell – using highly sophisticated computer technology. The worst man-made oil spill in history. Scientists making hubristic statements about spiritual matters which go inappropriately beyond their reductionist terms of reference. Religious (and anti-religious) fanatics behaving in ways that no-one could have guessed or believed…..
Bring it on, Jupiter/Uranus!
We are waiting with bated breath for more left-field events: with a mixture of fascination, awe, humour (sometimes if you don't laugh you just end up crying….) dismay and disbelief. Well, given that Pisces is involved, the word 'belief" has to feature somewhere….
"Jupiter meets Uranus" by Anne Whitaker (2009)
To find up-to-the minute information on 'Jupiter Meets Uranus' : New Reviews, Pre-Publication Reviews, Promotional Interviews, etc
many articles on the upcoming Jupiter/Uranus conjunctions of 2010/11
a unique, unfolding research study of the lives of 12 subjects whose ages range from late 20s to early 80s "Tales from the Wild Ride",
http://jupitermeetsuranus.wordpress.com/
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Astrology – beyond the sun signs
I am just about to depart to the South of France (Mercury Retrograde, ash clouds and general planetary mayhem permitting!) for a week of family celebrations and simply have not had time to think up something new to offer my expanding band of readers here at Writing from the Twelfth House.
Always being keen to demonstrate that the great and ancient art and science of astrology has much more to offer than its popular face in the sun sign columns would suggest, I thought I'd re-publish the following article which appears on this site on the "Not the Astrology Column" page, but which a number of new readers may not have come across. It is written for the general public with no formal knowledge, but an open-minded interest in astrology.
Check it out, and let me know what you think! See you all again early September.
11th Century Horoscope
My career as an astrologer began in a launderette in Bath, England, in the 1970s – although I didn't realise that at the time ! Befriending a little girl who came to chat whilst I did my washing, I met her parents, Gloria and Seamus; they were astrologers, they said, and would I care to come back to their place for a cup of tea? They'd like to draw up my horoscope, to thank me for entertaining their child. Well, I remember thinking, nothing better to do for the next hour…….at that stage I was scornful and dismissive of astrology, basing my judgement on the Sun Sign material in the media which struck me as general, banal and trivial. I did not know then that there was a subject of great depth and power beyond the Sun Signs.
I was puzzled by my new friends' dismissal of the Sun Sign columns – wasn't that what astrology was all about ?. "We're proper astrologers" they said firmly. " Your Star Sign (Leo, in my case) only puts one character on the stage of your life. It's impossible to describe who you are from only one factor." They wrote down my date, place, and apparently vital TIME of birth, produced various reference books and did complex-looking calculations. Then they drew up my Birth Chart or Horoscope : this was a map of the heavens for the precise time I was born. It was apparently an unusual chart – lots of planets in the twelfth house, whatever that meant, and strong Pluto, Saturn and Uranus influences. So what, I thought.
Anne W's Horoscope
Then came their interpretation into character analysis of the planetary symbols in my Birth Chart, in considerable depth and with a high level of accuracy. The experience shocked me to the core. How could they be so accurate about my career aspirations? How could they know what my deepest fears were ?How COULD they manage to describe my parents' core characteristics and some of the key effects they'd had on me ? How could they describe so vividly the restless spirit which drove me ? I had met them less than an hour ago. They knew nothing of my personal history or life experience.
Worse was to come. "You tell me you're a total sceptic," Seamus chuckled . "But your Horoscope shows that you have a deeply sensitive, spiritual side to your nature which you're currently refusing to acknowledge, preferring to identify with the intellectual and the rationalist in yourself. But I can see from your Chart, and where the planets will be in a few years, that in your early thirties the spiritual dimension will come calling. You are very likely to end up doing something like this yourself."
What nonsense, I thought. But I had no acceptable way of explaining in rational terms what had happened. Uneasily, I filed the experience away in the pigeonhole reserved for the many incidents occurring in my twenties which did not fit my existentialist world view.
For my birthday that August, a friend gave me an odd present considering my scepticism – an astrology book. It was intelligently and sensitively written; I found myself compelled. My feelings were an uncomfortable mixture of attraction, rejection, fascination and embarrassment. What COULD I say to my friends and family?
Saying nothing, I carried on reading. After a year, astrology still fascinated me. By this time – and by a series of odd coincidences – I had found out about the Faculty of Astrological Studies, based in London. It offered a year-long correspondence course with some lengthy exams at the end of it, leading to a Certificate of the Faculty.
I embarked on my studies in an empirical spirit. If astrology WAS indeed merely superstitious nonsense of little value, at least I would have arrived at a conclusion based on knowledge and practice, rather than ignorance and prejudice. I had moved on sufficiently from intellectual arrogance to the awareness that it was very unscientific, and highly irrational, to dismiss a whole body of knowledge without ever having studied it. I obtained my Certificate in 1983, by which time my studies had demonstrated to me that the astrological model had worthwhile insights to offer.
(I was to further my studies much later on, at the Centre for Psychological Astrology, by commuting by plane from Glasgow to London from 1995-1998 to complete a three-year Diploma in Psychological Astrology with renowned teacher, writer and astrologer Dr Liz Greene.)
The teaching and practice of astrology became a major strand in my self-employed career from 1985 until 2001 when, following a long health crisis, I gave up all work (except writing!) for several years.
This wonderful universe
Working with the symbolic descriptions of collective and personal life provided by astrology was, and continues to be, a source of much insight. It offers a route towards integration of the rational dimensions with the intuitive, symbolic and spiritual. Time and time again my clients used to tell me that their Readings helped them to see and to accept who they were more clearly – and to make better use of the gifts they had been given.
Good astrological practice encourages people to take responsibility for their own lives, and supports their courage to be themselves.
We have not yet found anything which provides the ultimate answer to the puzzle of our existence on this earth. Astrology is no exception – although it is a fine way of asking intelligent questions about what life may mean. It is NOT a religion. The insights it offers do not interfere with whatever religious beliefs individuals may hold. But its perspective offers two very important things.
Firstly, a picture of an holistic universe in which our movement through space and time is not random, but meaningful. Astrology's great insight is that the shaping forces or archetypes which govern all of life including human experience, are symbolically connected with the planets and their movements in the heavens as time unfolds. This is enormously comforting to those of us who cannot bear the idea that the turmoils and struggles of this life are capricious and pointless.
Secondly, from the horoscope drawn up for the date, place and exact time of birth, astrology can give individuals very useful insights into the characters who are enacting the drama of their individual life story. But it cannot tell who the director is, what the exact details of the plot are, or what the outcome of the play will be. Astrology, like quantum physics, can only deal with ranges of probability. The rest is as it will probably remain – a mystery known only to the Deity.
Note : this is an updated and slightly altered version of an article first published in Scotland's Glasgow "Herald" as "Future beyond the Sun Signs" on 20.8.96. Copyright remains with the author.
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Jupiter/Uranus 2010/11: here come the stories!
Posted on August 7, 2010 | 2 comments
(for more information, click HERE)
Those of you following the "Jupiter Meets Uranus" section of this 4-part site will know that I have been writing a series of preparatory articles, orienting readers toward the 2010/11 Jupiter/Uranus conjunctions, since the beginning of the year.
Last month I selected 12 volunteers strongly "plugged-in" to the late Pisces/ early Aries energy of the new conjunction. Then I sent them preparatory notes, followed by the first of six Questionnaires. They obligingly sent back varied and colourful feedback, and I hope now will continue to do so right through until next Spring 2011, by which time the new Jupiter/Uranus cycle will have become established.
By next Spring, then, through following the unfolding of those 12 lives, we should all have a better grasp of just how many branches can spring from the same recognisable core of the Jupiter/Uranus combo. Seeing this vital, unique essence shining through all 17 of the varied lives of my 1997 researchees made the slog of doing the research worthwhile then.
Having now stopped banging my head off the wall, moaning "Why, why, WHY am I doing this?" (Saturn/Pluto, anyone?) I am now surfing that unique wave of enthusiasm, excitement and anticipation of the new (and probably weird) which Jupiter/Uranus brings at its best.
Do join me and a great band of volunteers in following their unfolding drama over the next few months. Installments One (6.8.10) and Two (13.8.10) are now out there!
Jupiter/Uranus 2010/11: "Tales from the Wild Ride" Part One
Tales from the Wild Ride ii) : Jupiter/Uranus 2010/11
And finally, I leave you with a trenchant observation on the ups and downs of the unique, turbulent energy field we are all currently moving through – from one of the volunteers, "Fiona":
' I feel like the scales keep falling from my eyes on any number of fronts. But off we go – into the wild blue J/U yonder…..'
For a thorough and well – informed take on current collective patterns, check out Theodore White's Global Astrology Blog
and Jamie Funk's FUNK ASTROLOGY
I saw some google ads appearing with this article. I did NOT authorise them and want them off!!!
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Jupiter met Uranus 8.6.10. We're still here……
…. a fresh Jupiter/Uranus 14-year cycle has just begun…..
AND – a new astrology study is about to commence (the sequel to the one I did in 1997), with a brilliant new group of volunteer researchers joining me to share their experiences over the next year.
But first, let me set a sensible context (astrologers? sensible? It is possible…) by quoting from one of the articles I wrote and published on this site in the run-up to the Great Event of 8.6.10 : (18.5.10: Jupiter meets Uranus, sky falls in: Yes,no….or merely maybe?)
"……It is an ancient human tendency to imagine that the end of the world or civilisation as we know it is just around the corner. Maybe it is – or maybe not. We don't really KNOW what the upcoming Jupiter/Uranus conjunction and its attendant pattern will bring. It certainly represents a perfect backdrop onto which to project our burgeoning collective anxieties about the deteriorating condition of our culture and of our planet. But human life has always been turbulent, dangerous and often fatal, regardless of where the planets happen to be. So can we all calm down and just get on with life?
I trust that those few moderating paragraphs will have at least temporarily helped to reduce your blood pressure, and injected a rather needed note of philosophical detachment into your contemplation of the Summer of 2010……"
We also need to remember that, with any planetary cycle, the first time the two planets meet, as Jupiter and Uranus famously did on Tuesday, is just the beginning.
To read the rest of this article, click HERE
(Please NOTE: this is the last Jupiter/Uranus article to appear on "Writing from the Twelfth House". There is a new series running, following the ups and downs of the first year of the new 14-year Jupiter/Uranus cycle and the fortunes of a bold band of researchees, on my popular "Jupiter meets Uranus" site. See you there!)
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The summer of disruption starts here: Jupiter and Uranus team up!
Thursday 15th April, 6.50 am, Glasgow, Scotland, UK.
I am lying in bed, groggy with sleep. Our suitcases are packed. The flight for Exeter airport, Devon, UK leaves at 10.30 am. We are due to leave the house for Glasgow airport at 8.45 am. Plenty of time for a cup of tea in bed, gratefully received from my husband, Ian.
"I have some interesting news for you", he says, exuding Aquarian calm and detachment.
"What?" I ask.
"We're not going."
"What!!!" I yell, spilling my tea. "Why not?"
"There's a very high cloud of volcanic ash heading for Scotland from yesterday's volcanic eruption in Iceland. It could foul up jet engines. Glasgow airport is shut."
Friday 16th April,11.50 am, Glasgow, Scotland, UK.
As I write today, all UK airports are closed except for very few flights going to places the ash has passed over – eg the Outer Hebrides off Scotland, Northern Ireland, and Canada. There is chaos and disruption spreading across the world: Heathrow airport, London and Glasgow airport, Scotland are two major UK hubs for international flight transits.
We do not know how long the volcano will continue to spew out fiery molten rock and ash from hundreds of feet below a glacier in Iceland, which has been hurling amongst other things, "blocks of ice as big as houses". Hundreds of people from Iceland have been evacuated from their homes – flooding comes next, as the glacier melts.
Explosions, fire and flood: Jupiter conjunct Uranus in Aries/Pisces, anyone?
Volcanic Eruption Iceland April 2010
Astrologers are odd people. I had several simultaneous reactions yesterday as I lay in bed – sipping my tea, shocked, watching dramatic images of fire, belching lava, chaos….
Disappointment – for us, our relatives and friends whom we would now not be seeing for the short visit we had planned. Fellow feeling for thousands of stranded passengers and disrupted lives. Alarm at the thought of the economic fall-out which even a few days of this upheaval could inflict on already creaking world economies. But – awe at the raw power of Nature in putting us humans firmly in our place. And wonder: at the planets' unfailing ability to mirror "as above, so below".
Any planetary energy pattern involving Uranus has as its signatures shock, disruption and most of all, unpredictability. New ground is broken (in this case, literally!). As a famous astrologer once observed: "If you can predict it, it isn't Uranus…." Nevertheless, most of us can't resist trying, at least in broad brush strokes!
Last summer, in an article written for the American Federation of Astrologers AFA Interview: Jupiter, Uranus and the Purple People from Planet Zog as a promotional exercise to publicise my book "Jupiter Meets Uranus – from erotic bathing to star gazing", the editor of the AFA journal asked me for my thoughts on what the upcoming conjunctions of 2010/11 in Aries and Pisces might bring. You can read those in Jupiter conjunct Uranus: a few thoughts on the 2010/11 encounter , which was re-published on my "Jupiter meets Uranus" website on October 31, 2009, in which I commented that 'Also suggested is fiery eruption disrupting the very fabric of the Earth itself.'
Other astrologers in magazines and across the Web will have made similar comments regarding the upheavals and turbulence politically, economically, socially and personally which we can expect from the unusual and highly dynamic energy pattern involving Jupiter, Uranus, Saturn and Pluto which is currently shaping up.
Spring and Summer 2010
Jupiter meets Uranus - from http://www.cainer.com
I am currently publishing a series of articles on the "Jupiter meets Uranus" website, as the first of three Jupiter/Uranus conjunctions, at 0 degrees Aries (8 June 2010), 28 deg 43' Pisces (19 September 10) and 27 deg 02' Pisces (4 January 2011) begins to form.
Astrologers work with orbs, ie ranges of gradually increasing potency as planetary patterns approach exactitude. I decided to set a wide orb of 10 degrees for observing the effects of the upcoming Jupiter/Uranus conjunction in which I have a special interest, having written a research study of the 1997 conjunction in Aquarius – which, after a long series of unpredictable disruptions finally got published in April 2009!
At the end of March 2010, Jupiter was at 17 deg Pisces, applying to Uranus at 27 deg. Pisces: just within my observational orb. In early April 2010 we had a severe earthquake in China. This week we have had the major Icelandic event with its attendant chaos. What next, as the conjunction edges its way to exactitude at 0 deg Aries, on 8th June 2010?
As I say in my research study "Jupiter meets Uranus – from erotic bathing to star gazing"
"….The dynamic fire and air combination of astrological Jupiter combined with Uranus has a particular symbolic function in enabling evolution, which is to see no limits….."
What limits will we see breached in the coming year, on all fronts?
In the next article which will appear on the "Jupiter meets Uranus" website at the end of April 2010, ie 'Back to the Future! series: Part Three', I will be looking in more detail at the Cardinal (Aries, Libra, Cancer, Capricorn)
backdrop to the upcoming Jupiter/Uranus conjunction, and reflecting on the 14-year Jupiter/Uranus cycle, with special emphasis on individuals whose horoscopes are 'plugged in' to the upcoming series of conjunctions and its attendant 'big heavies' – Saturn and Pluto.
I have already had quite a number of volunteers contact me, prepared to tell me their stories as the observational year I have set unfolds (March 2010 to February 2011, after which the 10 degree orb fades out). So check out the site – and join in the excitement!
Changed Plans…
On Thursday morning early, we thought we were going South to Devon, England, to visit relatives and sun ourselves in that old hippy haven, the historic and scenic town of Totnes. Just over 24 hours later, we are now heading up North to the sacred Isle of Iona, Scotland, on what may turn out to be a spiritual pilgrimage. A 180 degree change of direction, in more ways than one!
Mars, planet of action and boldly-going, is 1.5 degrees of Cancer in my horoscope. Ian's is almost exactly opposite, at 2.5 degrees of Capricorn. We are both firmly 'plugged-in' to the upcoming pattern. Maybe my next bulletin will be from Alpha Centauri. Watch this space….
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A plug from Jonathan Cainer, the UK's top astrologer
Yesterday was an exciting day. I logged on to "Writing from the Twelfth House" and "Jupiter meets Uranus", my two sites, and found that traffic had shot up. Why? Had one of the comments I'd left on another site been spectacularly interesting? Not a bit of it. Jonathan Cainer, the UK's top astrologer, had taken my newly-published book "Jupiter meets Uranus: from erotic bathing to star gazing" to read on an overseas trip. Yesterday, he gave it a nice plug on his site, complete with a brilliant cartoon. Thanks, Jonathan and team! Here, with his permission, is Jonathan's comment:
Monday 16th November 2009
While I was away last week, I did a lot of reading. I've found a fascinating book by Anne Whitaker, called 'Jupiter Meets Uranus'. Although it's published by the American Federation of Astrologers, Anne is actually a Scottish author who has made a special study of this powerful event that happens once every 14 years or so. It last took place in 1997 so we're due for one next year. She thinks that, based on trends observed to date, it will bring much social change, scientific innovation and renewed optimism. I'm inclined to agree.
Astrological illustrations and Astrocat by Sally Fisher
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An Astrologer at Work: Part Three
(This is an edited version of a longer interview, published in Connections magazine,
Scotland, UK in February 1996. It appears on the website in three parts – click An Astrologer at Workto read the first two installments.)
extract from Part One…." The purpose of the "Not the Astrology Column" theme on this website is to introduce open-minded readers to the in-depth astrology which lies behind the entertainment facade offered by the Sun Sign columns. We are living in a time where awareness of the 'interconnectedness of all things' is fast returning to the forefront of public consciousness across the world. The evidence is piling up increasingly starkly: what happens in one part of our biosphere impacts everywhere.
The ancient maxim 'As above, so below' has thus never seemed more relevant. The art and practice of astrology has been based on that maxim for at least six thousand years. Astrology links what happens in the individual and collective lives of human beings to the movement of the planets through the solar system of which we are part…."
Now read on!
The Principles and Practice of Astrology
"Connections" Editor Ian Holland interviews Anne Whitaker
AW: One of the many fascinations of astrology is how it shows the ever-changing patterns of the planets symbolically reflecting different kinds of energies in our collective life. If you as an individual are strongly plugged into collective patterns – which you can assess through comparing the natal horoscope with prevailing planetary positions in the here-and-now – it seems as if you are given a wee chip of the current pattern to work with in your individual life. Let me give a specific example. From the end of 1992 until the beginning of 1995 there was a particularly difficult combination of planets, which when it shows up tends to symbolise warring, destructive energies at work in our world. I'm talking about the Saturn/Pluto combination.
Every time these planets have connected this century the collective context has been war – they were linked at the start of World War 1, then at the end of the Second World War when we were confronted with the horrors of the two holocausts, Nazi and nuclear. This combination formed a key part of the planetary backdrop to the Arab/Israeli war (the State of Israel was born under the Saturn/Pluto conjunction of 1947/48) in the Sixties; the Falklands war in the Eighties; and 1992 saw the upsurge of the Balkan War. Over the following two years we saw in Europe a fierce and brutal period of terrible carnage – as well as genocide in Ruanda and various other horrors at different locations.
(2008 update: the atrocity of 9/11 took place during the subsequent major Saturn/Pluto combination in the autumn of 2001)
From 1992 to early 1995, I observed individuals, whose horoscopes showed them to be strongly plugged into this pattern, going through deeper and darker traumas in their personal lives, much of it involving family fate issues, than I had ever seen before. Because my own horoscope involved this pattern, I had to go through some very painful and difficult times regarding my own family of origin. It seems to me that I drew to me, as a practitioner, clients plugged into the same overall pattern as myself.
Thus I was aware of having to struggle hard to keep a balance between compassionate feeling and dispassionate judgement during this period – the danger of projecting my own experience was high. But at least I was aware of that fact. This is an illustration of how astrologers need both professional supervision and, when appropriate, personal therapy to ensure that they are fully aware of their own issues and avoid as far as possible projecting them into their astrological work.
You know the Shakespearean quote – 'there is a tide in the affairs of men'…..if you practice astrology often enough, and for long enough, you can see the tides of history, the changing patterns of the times, running through the lives of individuals whose charts you read. It's fascinating…and awesome.
IH : you were telling me earlier that on the 16 Feb 1997 there's something pretty spectacular coming up for us all ?
AW : (laughs) Yes! There is no doubt in my mind that astrologers can look at the unfolding pattern of energies through spacetime, cut a section through any point or moment of the past, present or future, look at what the essence of that moment is, and speculate regarding what some of the branches manifesting in the wider world, or in individuals lives, may be.
What they can't do is see how they're going to manifest exactly. Our track record on hindsight is much better than it is on foresight, historically!
There have been some spectacularly accurate predictions made by astrologers in the public realm over the centuries; a famous one was made by Luc Gauricus in 1555 to the effect that King Henri the Second of France ( then aged 37) was in danger of death in his 42nd year, by a head injury incurred in single combat in an enclosed space. And five years later Henri duly died of a lance splinter which entered his eyes and pierced his brain.
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There have also been some spectacular failures, eg to predict that the Munich agreement of 1938 would lead to World War Two.
We do much better at describing the essence of a pattern – identifying the exact branches is much more hit and miss. Personally this cheers me, since it appears to suggest a creative balance between fate and free will in the universe – chaos theory in contemporary physics also has strong parallels with the astrological paradigm. Not everything is pinned down – both the language of astrology and the language of contemporary physics tells us that!
So you can perhaps see that I am very hesitant about both the accuracy of prediction and the wisdom of doing it at all, especially for individuals, in any more than a "describing the core and speculating about the branches" kind of way. Predicting that a specific branch WILL manifest, in my opinion closes down options rather than opening them up, also taking us into the realm of self-fulfilling prophecy….
But there are some very interesting patterns coming up, including the one you referred to a moment ago. So perhaps we can have some fun as we move to the close of this interview by playing with some possibilities !
In Feb 1997 the planet Jupiter, which concerns expansion, growth, development and opportunity, meets Uranus which symbolises the urge to break through to new levels of experience. Of the 360 degrees of the zodiac, the exact conjunction takes place at 6 degrees of Aquarius from 15 to 17 of February.
What that should mean collectively is some kind of major step forward being announced in human development and awareness at that time. Jupiter/Uranus in Aquarius is a combination which has a strong feeling of technological & scientific breakthrough about it. Here are some examples:
The first powered aeroplane flight on 17 Dec 1903 took place in Carolina, USA. There was a significant link between those two planets then. On the day of the moon landing in July 1969, there was an exact conjunction between those two planets. What we might expect is something which takes us boldly where humanity has not gone before. ……
What I'd urge your readers to do is keep an eye on the news around that time. And to further tantalise and tease everybody, I want to give a special message to people who were born when the sun was at 6 degrees of Aquarius in any year – ie those of you whose birthday is 25, 26, or 27 January – this applies to every year. All those people should experience, in a variety of different ways, the same essential unusual, unexpected opening-out and development in their life's path. Something quite out of the ordinary !
I would like people born on those days, whatever their age, to get in touch with me with their DATE, PLACE and TIME of birth, which I will then log into my computer. They could then contact me after the 15-17 February 1997 and let me know how it was for them! If I get sufficient feedback I will write it up, anonymously, as a research project.
IH : Great! I'm sure our readers will be only too glad to oblige.
(2008 update: The major event occurring a few days after the exact conjunction was the announcement to the world of a truly boldly-going scientific achievement – the creation of Dolly the Sheep, the world's first cloned animal, by a team of Scottish scientists led by Dr Ian Wilmut. Read all about this, and other exciting developments around the same time, in Anne Whitaker's book on the Jupiter Uranus conjunction of 1997.
The book, including the researched experiences of 17 people who participated in the project, is now published (April 2009) as " Jupiter meets Uranus : from erotic bathing to star gazing" by theAmerican Federation of Astrologers. If you would like to read a brief summary of its content in the meantime, click on BOOKS where the back page blurb is displayed.)
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Battery life up to 17 hours talktime and 550 hours standby. While connectivity is supported 3G HSUPA, WiFi, NFC and Bluetooth, GPS and FM radio. Colors offered Nokia 701 is a dark Steel, Light Silver, Amethyst Violet, and White.
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Q: Export multiple sheets to PDF I would like to export the sheets "Verification" and "Deisgn Overview" to a single PDF. Furthest down, the whole code can be seen.
When using
Set wsA = ActiveSheet

the code works fine. However, when I change that definition to
Set wsA = Sheets(Array("Verification", "Design Overview")).Select

the code goes down to the error handling.
Does the multiple sheet selection interfer with the strName or where does the code go wrong?
Also I would like to deselect the multiple sheets and only have the activesheet selected after exporting.
Sub Export()

Dim wsA As Worksheet
Dim wbA As Workbook
Dim strTime As String
Dim strName As String
Dim strPath As String
Dim strFile As String
Dim strPathFile As String
Dim myFile As Variant
On Error GoTo errHandler

Set wbA = ActiveWorkbook
'Set wsA = ActiveSheet
Set wsA = Sheets(Array("Verification", "Design Overview")).Select
strTime = Format(Now(), "yyyymmdd\_hhmm")

'Get active workbook folder, if saved
strPath = wbA.Path
If strPath = "" Then
  strPath = Application.DefaultFilePath
End If
strPath = strPath & "\"

'Replace spaces and periods in sheet name
strName = Replace(wsA.Name, " ", "")
strName = Replace(strName, ".", "_")

'Create default name for savng file
strFile = "Example"
strPathFile = strPath & strFile

'User can enter name and select folder for the file
myFile = Application.GetSaveAsFilename _
(InitialFileName:=strPathFile, _
    FileFilter:="PDF (*.pdf), *.pdf", _
    Title:="Select folder and filename to save")

'Export to PDF if a folder is selected
If myFile <> "False" Then
wsA.ExportAsFixedFormat _
    Type:=xlTypePDF, _
    Filename:=myFile, _
    Quality:=xlQualityStandard, _
    IncludeDocProperties:=True, _
    IgnorePrintAreas:=False, _
    OpenAfterPublish:=True
'Confirmation message with file info
'MsgBox "File has been created: " _
  '& vbCrLf _
  '& myFile
 End If

exitHandler:
Exit Sub
errHandler:
MsgBox "Could not export file", vbCritical, "Export"
Resume exitHandler

ThisWorkbook.Sheets("Design Overview").Select

End Sub

Thanks in advance!

A: If you want to select sheets, based on a variable, this is a nice way to do it:
Dim mySh As Sheets
Set mySh = Worksheets(Array(Worksheets(1).Name, Worksheets(2).Name))
mySh.Select

However, as mentioned in the comments, it is really very rare that you need to Select and Activate objects in Excel - instead you can refer to them, unite them in collections and use them to do whatever you need:
Sub TestMe()

    Dim myWs As Worksheet
    Dim wsCol As New Collection

    wsCol.Add Worksheets(1)
    wsCol.Add Worksheets(2)

    For Each myWs In wsCol
        myWs.Cells(1, 1) = "TEST"
    Next myWs

    Dim mySh As Sheets
    Set mySh = Worksheets(Array(Worksheets(1).Name, Worksheets(2).Name))
    mySh.Select

End Sub

Thus, you get two bonsues -  execution speed and better control over the code (thus less errors).

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function rayIntersectPolygon(P0, V, vertices, mvMatrix) {
    //TODO: Fill this in

    //Step 1: Make a new array of vec3s which holds "vertices" transformed
    //to world coordinates (hint: vec3 has a function "transformMat4" which is useful)

    //Step 2: Compute the plane normal of the plane spanned by the transformed vertices

    //Step 3: Perform ray intersect plane

    //Step 4: Check to see if the intersection point is inside of the transformed polygon
    //You can assume that the polygon is convex.  If you use the area test, you can
    //allow for some wiggle room in the two areas you're comparing (e.g. absolute difference
    //not exceeding 1e-4)

    //Step 5: Return the intersection point if it exists or null if it's outside
    //of the polygon or if the ray is perpendicular to the plane normal (no intersection)

    return {t:1e9, P:vec3.fromValues(0, 0, 0)}; //These are dummy values, but you should return
    //both an intersection point and a parameter t.  The parameter t will be used to sort
    //intersections in order of occurrence to figure out which one happened first
}

function addImageSourcesFunctions(scene) {
    //Setup all of the functions that students fill in that operate directly
    //on the scene

    //Purpose: A recursive function provided which helps to compute intersections of rays
    //with all faces in the scene, taking into consideration the scene graph structure
    //Inputs: P0 (vec3): Ray starting point, V (vec3): ray direction
    //node (object): node in scene tree to process,
    //mvMatrix (mat4): Matrix to put geometry in this node into world coordinates
    //excludeFace: Pointer to face object to be excluded (don't intersect with
    //the face that this point lies on)
    //Returns: null if no intersection,
    //{tmin:minimum t along ray, PMin(vec3): corresponding point, faceMin:Pointer to mesh face hit first}

    //NOTE: Calling this function with node = scene and an identity matrix for mvMatrix
    //will start the recursion at the top of the scene tree in world coordinates
    scene.rayIntersectFaces = function(P0, V, node, mvMatrix, excludeFace) {
        var tmin = Infinity;//The parameter along the ray of the nearest intersection
        var PMin = null;//The point of intersection corresponding to the nearest interesection
        var faceMin = null;//The face object corresponding to the nearest intersection
        if (node === null) {
            return null;
        }
        if ('mesh' in node) { //Make sure it's not just a dummy transformation node
            var mesh = node.mesh;
            for (var f = 0; f < mesh.faces.length; f++) {
                if (mesh.faces[f] == excludeFace) {
                    continue;//Don't re-intersect with the face this point lies on
                }
                //Intersect the ray with this polygon
                var res = rayIntersectPolygon(P0, V, mesh.faces[f].getVerticesPos(), mvMatrix);
                if (!(res === null) && (res.t < tmin)) {
                    tmin = res.t;
                    PMin = res.P;
                    faceMin = mesh.faces[f];
                }
            }
        }

        if ('children' in node) {
            //Recursively check the meshes of the children to make sure the ray
            //doesn't intersect any of them first
            for (var i = 0; i < node.children.length; i++) {
                var nextmvMatrix = mat4.create();
                //Multiply on the right by the next transformation of the child
                //node
                mat4.mul(nextmvMatrix, mvMatrix, node.children[i].transform);
                //Recursively intersect with the child node
                var cres = scene.rayIntersectFaces(P0, V, node.children[i], nextmvMatrix, excludeFace);
                if (!(cres === null) && (cres.tmin < tmin)) {
                    tmin = cres.tmin;
                    PMin = cres.PMin;
                    faceMin = cres.faceMin;
                }
            }
        }
        if (PMin === null) {
            return null;
        }
        return {tmin:tmin, PMin:PMin, faceMin:faceMin};
    }

    //Purpose: Fill in the array scene.imsources[] with a bunch of source
    //objects.  It's up to you what you put in the source objects, but at
    //the very least each object needs a field "pos" describing its position
    //in world coordinates so that the renderer knows where to draw it
    //You will certainly also need to save along pointers from an image source
    //to its parent so that when you trace paths back you know where to aim
    //Recursion is highly recommended here, since you'll be making images of
    //images of images (etc...) reflecting across polygon faces.

    //Inputs: order (int) : The maximum number of bounces to take
    scene.computeImageSources = function(order) {
        scene.source.order = 0;//Store an order field to figure out how many
        //bounces a particular image represents
        scene.source.rcoeff = 1.0;//Keep track of the reflection coefficient of the node that
        //gave rise to this source
        scene.source.parent = null;//Keep track of the image source's parent
        scene.source.genFace = null;//Keep track of the mesh face that generated this image
        //Remember not to reflect an image across the face that just generated it,
        //or you'll get its parent image.  This information can also be used later
        //when tracing back paths
        scene.imsources = [scene.source];

        //TODO: Fill the rest of this in.  Be sure to reflect images across faces
        //in world coordinates, not the faces in the original mesh coordinates
        //See the "rayIntersectFaces" function above for an example of how to loop
        //through faces in a mesh

    }

    //Purpose: Based on the extracted image sources, trace back paths from the
    //receiver to the source, checking to make sure there are no occlusions
    //along the way.  Remember, you're always starting by tracing a path from
    //the receiver to the image, and then from the intersection point with
    //that image's corresponding face to the image's parent, and so on
    //all the way until you get back to the original source.

    //Fill in the array scene.paths, where each element of the array is itself
    //an array of objects describing vertices along the path, starting
    //with the receiver and ending with the source.  Each object in each path
    //array should contain a field "pos" which describes the position, as well
    //as an element "rcoeff" which stores the reflection coefficient at that
    //part of the path, which will be used to compute decays in "computeInpulseResponse()"
    //Don't forget the direct path from source to receiver!
    scene.extractPaths = function() {
        scene.paths = [];

        //TODO: Finish this. Extract the rest of the paths by backtracing from
        //the image sources you calculated.  Return an array of arrays in
        //scene.paths.  Recursion is highly recommended
        //Each path should start at the receiver and end at the source
        //(or vice versa), so scene.receiver should be the first element
        //and scene.source should be the last element of every array in
        //scene.paths
    }

    //Inputs: Fs: Sampling rate (samples per second)
    scene.computeImpulseResponse = function(Fs) {
        var SVel = 340;//Sound travels at 340 meters/second
        //TODO: Finish this.  Be sure to scale each bounce by 1/(1+r^p),
        //where r is the length of the line segment of that bounce in meters
        //and p is some integer less than 1 (make it smaller if you want the
        //paths to attenuate less and to be more echo-y as they propagate)
        //Also be sure to scale by the reflection coefficient of each material
        //bounce (you should have stored this in extractPaths() if you followed
        //those directions).  Use some form of interpolation to spread an impulse
        //which doesn't fall directly in a bin to nearby bins
        //Save the result into the array scene.impulseResp[]
    }
}

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Are Blake Shelton and Gwen Stefani Engaged? She Insists They're Not
Tricia Despres Published: December 5, 2018
Blake Shelton and Gwen Stefani are heading into their fourth holiday season together, and gossip is still rumbling: Are they engaged? Stefani was quick to shoot down rumors during a visit to Ellen on Tuesday (Dec. 4).
"Blake (Shelton) told me that y'all are engaged now," host Ellen DeGeneres joked Stefani during an episode of The Ellen DeGeneres Show.
"No he didn't," Stefani fired back. "No we're not. No we're not. No we're not."
"Yes, he told me you're engaged," DeGeneres continued. "So let's talk about that."
"What are you talking about?" Stefani said. "We're not. We're not engaged, and we're not married. And he's my boyfriend still. I don't know. Every time I come on here, I think it's gonna be like, 'I got this.' But I don't. I don't. But I do like talking about him. He's awesome."
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Though they may not be engaged to wed, it sounds like the A-list couple's love is stronger than ever. When asked by DeGeneres about how Shelton handled handing over his title of People's Sexiest Man Alive to Idris Elba earlier this year ("that was hard"), Stefani says that it just made Shelton even sexier in her eyes.
While most of the conversation was light, things got a tad emotional when DeGeneres got real with Stefani about everything the No Doubt singer has been through.
"She deserves everything she has," Degeneres remarked to the audience about Stefani. "She deserves love. She deserves everything she has in her career because she's been through a lot."
"I love you and I hated to see what you were going through," the host added, turning to Stefani as the tears began to fall. "You didn't deserve it. You deserve everything."
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Bernard Williams ist der Name folgender Personen:

* Bernard Williams (1929–2003), englischer Philosoph
 Bernard Williams (Fußballspieler) (1908–2004), irischer Fußballspieler
 Bernard Williams (Produzent) (1942–2005), britischer Filmproduzent
 Bernard Williams (Leichtathlet) (* 1978), US-amerikanischer Leichtathlet

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Models and Methods in Cultural and Social Evolution
Elliot G. Aguilar, The Graduate Center, City University of New YorkFollow
David Lahti
Stefano Ghirlanda
Mike Hickerson
Ofer Tchernickovski
Nina Fefferman
Behavior and Ethology | Evolution
cultural evolution, language evolution, agent-based simulation, synchrony
Chapter 1 The mathematical study of genealogies has yielded important insights in population biology, such as the ability to estimate the time to the most recent common ancestor (MRCA) of a sample of genetic sequences or of a group of individuals. Here we introduce a model of cultural genealogies that is a step toward answering similar questions for cultural traits. In our model individuals can inherit from a variable, potentially large number of ancestors, rather than from a fixed, small number of ancestors (one or two) as is typical of genetic evolution. We first show that, given a sample of individuals, a cultural common ancestor does not necessarily exist. We then introduce a related concept: the most recent unique ancestor (MRUA), i.e., the most recent single individual who is the earliest cultural ancestor of the sample. We show that, under neutral evolution, the time to the MRUA can be staggeringly larger than the time to MRCA in a single ancestor model, except when the average number of learning opportunities per individuals is small. Our results point out that the properties of cultural genealogies may be very different from those of genetic genealogies, with potential implications for reconstructing the histories of cultural traits.
Chapter 2 A specific goal of the field of cultural evolution is to understand how processes of transmission at the individual level lead to population wide patterns of cultural diversity and change. Previous models of cultural copying and innovation have assumed that traits are independent of one another and essentially exchangeable. But culture has an architecture: traits bear relationships to one another that affect the transmission process itself. Here we introduce an agent based simulation model to explore the effect of cultural architecture on the process of copying and innovation. We construct a space of all possible traits and assign them pairwise, symmetric relationships of compatibility or incompatibility. We then implement different ways for agents to parse these relationships, called filters. We find that introducing this simple architecture leads to novel results. When individuals copy based on a trait's features (here, its compatibility relationships) they produce smaller, more homogenous cultures than when they copy based on the cultural model. We also find that the average compatibility of a culture produced by some filters is determined by the variance in compatibility in the space of all possible traits, a cultural analog to Fisher's Fundamental Theorem of Natural Selection. We discuss the implications of considering cultural architecture in the dynamics of cultural change.
Chapter 3 Language shift is when a group of speakers adopts a new language, and occurs as part of the larger phenomenon of language contact. It has long been observed that language change is accelerated during shift situations. The standard explanation for this accelerated change has been the introduction of novel linguistic forms by new speakers during the second language acquisition (SLA) process. This hypothesis is based on historical reconstructions of contact situations and has never been formally tested on empirical data. In this paper, we construct an agent-based model to formalize the hypothesis that L2 speakers are responsible for accelerated language change during language shift. In our simulations, a population experiences demographic change via the birth of native (L1) speakers, recruitment of L2 speakers, and death. However, only L2 speakers have the potential to 'mutate' (introduce a new variant) on entering the population. We then parameterize the model using demographic data from Maputo, Mozambique—where rapid shift from Bantu-languages to Portuguese has been occurring for the past forty years—and compare our model predictions to a rare diachronic data set on two linguistic features of Portuguese in Maputo. We find that our basic model is a poor fit to either data set. Next, we modify the model by allowing L2 speakers to introduce a novel variant at any point during their first five years in the population, a feature that represents the fact that the SLA process is not instantaneous (we find support for the five year duration in the literature). We find that the extended SLA model is a good fit to one of our datasets—we discuss plausible reasons for why the other data set is such a mismatch. Finally, we discuss typological differences between contact-induced and non-contact-induced language change and suggest that multiple introductions of a new linguistic variant by different individuals may be the mechanism by which SLA accelerates language change.
Chapter 4 From breeding to flocking, synchrony is an important feature of many social behaviors. Different measures of synchrony have been proposed for different behaviors. Here we test how well some of these measures behave when applied to what we term timing and duration variable scalar behaviors (TDVS). These behaviors are those that may vary in timing (onset) and duration, and which can be characterized by a scalar variable at any time. Using agent-based simulations, we compare the effectiveness of four synchrony measures and show that two, the Dispersion Index of Mean Behavior, and the Kappa coefficient, perform best. We also show that population size affects the statistical interpretation of these measures. Finally, we also include additional results to show the relationship between a number of these measures.
Aguilar, Elliot G., "Models and Methods in Cultural and Social Evolution" (2016). CUNY Academic Works.
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Hating What God Hates
Tue, October 11, 2022 | Author: Rod Taylor | Volume 29 Issue 41 | Share: Gab | Facebook | Twitter
These six things doth the Lord hate; yea, seven are an abomination unto Him: a proud look, a lying tongue, hands that shed innocent blood, an heart that deviseth wicked imaginations, feet that be swift in running to mischief, a false witness that speaketh lies and he that soweth discord among brethren . . . Proverbs 6:16-19
These are some of the things that God hates. Prime Minister Trudeau and his closest lackeys are guilty of all of them. The "proud look" we know only too well. The "lying tongue" has been obvious to many of us for years: from broken campaign promises about "small deficits" and "electoral reform" to unfounded accusations of racism and misogyny, this Prime Minister has not hesitated to say things that are not true in order to achieve political ends.
One lie is that abortion is a constitutional right in Canada. Mr. Trudeau has repeatedly spoken about abortion as a human right; he and his cabinet colleagues continue to maintain that a "right to abortion" is protected by Canada's Charter, but even pro-abortion media have admitted that it is not. This Toronto Star article says that the 1988 Morgentaler decision, while rejecting the existing law at the time, "did not make abortions a constitutionally protected right under the Charter of Rights and Freedoms."
That brings us to the "shedding of innocent blood." Abortion—promoted aggressively by this government and paid for by the unwilling or unwitting contributions of Canadian taxpayers—has killed over 4,000,000 little people since first legalized by PM Pierre Trudeau. It is believed that about 100,000 babies perish by abortion every year in Canada; the exact number is now difficult to obtain since abortion clinics are no longer required to report statistics in some provinces. Federal approval of chemical abortifacients has also muddied the waters as some of the killing now takes place outside of the medical system. In addition, since 2016, the killing of the vulnerable elderly and disabled by assisted suicide (MAiD) has already taken over 30,000 Canadian lives.
A "heart that deviseth wicked imaginations" is a heart or mind that sacrifices truth and common sense in support of a personal agenda; it creates institutions that are harmful to the wellbeing of others. We will not credit our current Prime Minister with creative genius (in fact, it's difficult to determine who is responsible for some of the projects initiated by this PM) but collectively, Mr. Trudeau and his Cabinet have originated or sponsored a plethora of bureaucratic channels for the dismemberment of Canadian society as we know it and especially the freedoms that must be a part of a civil democratic landscape. Currently, Bill C-11 could be seen as an outgrowth of "wicked imaginations," as it seeks to silence every voice that questions this government. The banning of "conversion therapy" likewise placed obstacles in the path of those seek to escape a destructive lifestyle.
"Feet that be swift in running to mischief . . ." can be defined as being quick and eager to do what's wrong and harmful. When the Trudeau government imposed the Emergencies Act last February, they acted presumptively and without just cause. Hopefully, that will be evident in testimony given at the public inquiry into the unprecedented use of the Emergencies Act against the peaceful Freedom Convoy. The Public Order Emergency Commission, headed by Paul Rouleau, is set to begin hearings on October 13. Other actions instituted on short notice by the federal Liberals—and without due process or significant debate—include carbon taxes, gun grabs, seizures of bank accounts, tampering with Justice (Jody Wilson-Raybould), buying off major media with hard-to-resist cash handouts . . . and more.
His "false witness" against law-abiding peaceful protestors certainly crossed the line. When the PM called freedom protestors "racists" and "misogynists," he really sought to use his bully pulpit to influence public opinion and he made no effort to be accurate. His intent was to vilify. He must have known that his claims were false, but he made them anyway, counting on his well-paid media friends to back him up. In any other setting, that would be seen as defamation of character. It also amounted to "sowing discord among brothers" when he asked rhetorically, "How long do we tolerate these people?"
His pronouncements about race have deepened the divisions between indigenous and non-indigenous Canadians. His dire threats and false claims about the "safety and efficacy" of COVID-19 vaccines have created hostility between the "vaxxed" and the "unvaxxed." His closure of churches and businesses has created divisions between parishioners in the same churches and even between family members who sacrificed relationships based on the PM's version of "the science."
In recent decades, "hate" has come to be seen as a negative emotion, never to be justified. Of course, that's when it's directed at our fellow human beings or against identifiable groups. The Bible teaches us to love the sinner but to hate the sin. We are called to love all men and women, to pray for them and to extend the hand of friendship even to those with whom we bitterly disagree. The Bible says, "As much as it lies in your power, live peaceably with all men." That does not mean we must approve of their words or actions. We do them no service by pretending that all ideas are of equal value. Our love must be reflected in truth. We ought to love the things God loves and hate the things He hates. And our actions must support our words. In politics, we vote for people who seek to see God's will done "on earth as it is in Heaven." And so we pray.
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'Callous' killer who murdered Aberdeen Scotrail worker appealing conviction
A judge ordered that Bain should serve a minimum of 16 years in prison before he is eligible to seek release following the murder.
James Mulholland
Updated 16:17, 8 APR 2022
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A killer serving life for the brutal murder of a man he met through a dating website is appealing his conviction.
Drink and drug fuelled David Bain, 28, stabbed railway employee Clifford Anderson in the heart before abandoning the fatally injured victim in his flat.
But now, lawyers acting for Bain will go to the Court of Criminal Appeal in Edinburgh later this year in a bid to have their client freed from custody.
At a hearing last month, Lord Boyd of Duncansby told Bain at the High Court in Edinburgh that he might never be released from custody.
He added: "In the early hours of the morning of August 23 2020 you arranged to meet him (Mr Anderson) through a dating website and went to his house."
"You had consensual sexual relations with him following which you stabbed him once through the heart, as a result of which he died," he said.
Lord Boyd said that according to Bain he took two knives from a kitchen drawer with the intention of inflicting self-harm and was on the way out of the flat when Mr Anderson came up behind him and he then made a stabbing motion towards the victim.
The judge told Bain he had no reason to take the knives and no reason to fend off Mr Anderson who he did nothing to help after the stabbing.
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Lord Boyd told the former labourer and slaughterhouse worker: "Your actions that night were brutal and callous."
He said: "You have struggled with mental health issues and addiction for some time, as well as issues about your own sexuality."
The court heard how Bain was seen outside in the street with a can of lager after the fatal attack in Jasmine Terrace, in Aberdeen, shouting: "I have stabbed him."
He later told police: "I just f---ing stuck it in him. He also said to officers: "I need to stop taking drugs. That's what it is."
Blood samples from Bain tested positive for alcohol, cocaine and diazepam in the wake of the fatal assault.
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Bain had earlier denied murdering Mr Anderson,60, but was convicted of the crime, which carries a mandatory life sentence, last month.
He arrived at the rail worker's home in the early hours of the morning after they made contact through the Grindr app before stabbing him in the heart, which resulted in rapid and profuse blood loss.
Bain disposed of the two knives he took from Mr Anderson's home in a bin but was still found to be in possession of a multi tool with blades when he was detained by police.
Aberdeen-born Bain told his trial that as well as drinking he would consume cocaine, marijuana, diazepam, ecstasy and ketamine. He said: "It affected my mental health quite severely."
He said he was bisexual but added: "I did do sexual things with other men but I felt ashamed about it." He said he had previously self harmed.
Bain said he had not fallen out with Mr Anderson and there was no trouble between them. He said he made "a stabbing motion" but the knife came into contact with the other man.
He maintained that he did not intend to strike the victim and said: "It all happened really quickly. After that happened I ran out the house. I opened the door and ran out in panic."
An official from the Court of Criminal Appeal confirmed that Bain's lawyers will address appeal judges later this year.
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