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New Year Aspirations
UAE: Ajman
Though some segments of Sharjah's construction industry have been affected by the global economic downturn, others can look forward to an increasingly busy new year as activity and investment is set on an upward trajectory.
Sharjah has long provided an attractive residential and business alternative to neighbouring Dubai, offering lower rental charges and living costs combined with more open space and a slower pace of life. This demand for housing and business space has helped fuel Sharjah's building industry over the last few years.
However, with Dubai's economy slowing sharply this year, it has been inevitable that some of the knock-on effects have been felt in neighbouring Sharjah, and particularly so in the construction sector.
According to a report issued in early November by investment bank HC Brokerage, Dubai's rental costs have fallen by as much as 50% from their peak in 2008. The report added that, "Former Dubai residents driven away by high rentals are returning to the emirate. A similar trend was observed during the 2001 crisis, as rent in Dubai dropped to more attractive levels."
In turn, the report says this has meant that the impetus for development in the Northern Emirates, such as Sharjah and Ajman, has fallen away.
Other experts also expect Dubai's residential market to favour renters over owners, with real estate consultancy CB Richard Ellis predicting that Dubai rental rates were expected to fall further in the fourth quarter and vacancy ratios were expected to increase, while Colliers International estimated that 25% of residential properties in the emirate were currently empty.
None of this is particularly welcome news for Sharjah and its construction sector, with weaker demand for office space or accommodation reducing the call for new construction projects in the shorter term. However, it is not all doom and gloom, with a predicted return to growth for Dubai in the coming year, which could help stimulate more activity for Sharjah's builders.
Though the tide of demand for new residential and office projects may be on the ebb now, there could be an increased flow into new tourism developments. The emirate is looking to increase its hotel room inventory by 50% by the year 2012, in order to cater to the expected growth in the tourism sector, Sheikh Sultan Bin Ahmad Al Qasimi, the chairman of the Sharjah Commerce and Tourism Development Authority (SCTDA), told local press on November 9.
"Our aim is to grow the tourism sector by 5-10% annually for the next few years," he said. "Although we currently have just the right number of hotels and hotel rooms, we need to have more in the future. Hence, the new investment will help the industry go forward."
Not only is Sharjah's hotel stock likely to be expanded – there are also plans to increase the range of tourism attractions across the emirate. Marwan J Al Sarkal, the chief executive of the Sharjah Investment and Development Authority (SIDA), said in early November that talks had been initiated with lenders to raise funds through an Islamic financial instrument to back up to $2.7bn worth of tourism developments.
While few details of the schemes to be developed have been released, $2.7bn worth of projects in the offing can only bolster the construction sector's confidence.
Another boost for the building sector, again stemming from the tourism industry, will be the construction of a new runway at Sharjah International Airport, and a proposal to build a new terminal to handle the increasing number of visitors. Airport authorities said the tender for the 4000-metre-long runway would be called early next year, with the project set to be completed by 2012.
The new terminal will soon be a matter of urgency, according to Ali Salim Al Midfa, director of the Sharjah Airport Authority, with the passenger-handling capacity of the existing facility expected to reach capacity in a few years.
"The airport's passenger traffic is growing at 10% year-on-year, even under the current economic situation," he told local media on November 13. "We have two to three years' time before the airport becomes too congested."
With some big-ticket projects coming up and investment in the tourism industry set to rise next year, demand in Sharjah's construction sector should heat up quickly in 2010, while the residential and business segments of the building trade should see a more gradual upturn.
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Q: X :compact and continuous function $f(x)\neq x$ Let (X,d) be a compact metric space and $f:X\to X$ be a continuous function such that $f(x)\neq x,\: \forall x\in X$.
Prove that there exists $\epsilon > 0$ such that $d(x, f(x))>\epsilon$, for all $x\in X$.
I don't know how to approach. Is there someone to help?

A: The function $d: X \times X \rightarrow \mathbb{R}$ is continuous for any metric space.
This implies that the function $F(x) = d(x, f(x))$ is continuous from $X$ to $\mathbb{R}$ as well, and this function never assumes $0$ and is positive. Its image is compact (as $X \times X$ is), so has a minimum $\varepsilon > 0$.

A: If not, there is a sequence $\{x_n\}_n$ of points of $X$ such that $\lim_n d(x_n,f(x_n))=0$. Pick a converging subsequence $x_{n_j} \to x_\infty$, and deduce that $f(x_\infty)=x_\infty$.

A: Consider $g:X\rightarrow X$ that sends $x$ to $d(f(x),x)$. Verify that $g$ is continuous. By the extreme value theorem, $g$ attains a minimum on $X$. Tihs minimum can't be zero  because $f(x)\not=x$ for every $x$. The minimum of $g$ is the $\epsilon$ which you are looking for.

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Q: jQuery .on deligation to non-event based functions Not really sure if this is possible but I figured I would shot it out to the community. I have function that is setup using .on and a .promise() to handle a small non-event based function:
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When anchors are added using ajax they receive click event but the promise function is not preformed. Any Thought?


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Roman Young Obituary: What Happened To Him? How Did He Die? Know About His Cause Of Death!
For details and updates on Roman Young Obituary news and to find out the whole truth of this incident, read this blog until the end.
Do you know the actual reason behind Roman's Death? Are you keen to see the cause of his death? Have you ever imagined this tragic incident to take place? Are you shocked after hearing the trending news about his death? Also, it seems that after hearing this news, especially people from the United States, wholly shaken.
Thus, to get the full details on Roman Young Obituary and the other necessary information related to the news, keep reading until the very end.
Who is Roman Young?
What Happened to Roman Young?
Find out Roman Young Cause of Death
According to various sources, Roman Young was a nine-year-old young and cheerful boy. Everyone around him would know him as a boy full of humor and loved him a lot. With his charm and presence at such a young age, he could quickly light up the environment. After hearing about the incident, people from all over the world wholly moved. One is instantly at the loss of words after hearing the tragic news of the Roman Young Death.
However, the reasons behind such an incident are completely under shelters and hidden now. Also, his obituary information is not revealed. Hopefully, it will be revealed soon with all the other related queries of internet users.
Presently, this news is taking all over the internet space, and people are curious to know why. Read the following section to find out the bit details on the complete information. Then, let's move toward the next segment, dealing with this detailed news. Words fall short after hearing this tragic news, and we can keep the young boy in our prayers for now.
Keep reading here to find out what happened to the cheerful young boy. So, recently according to various sources, a post was shared on Twitter by a Twitter user. The post's notice for the young boy's death stated a bit about the incident on 8th September 2022; the user shared the post. In that post, "the whole community went through a devastating loss with the most tragic death of a young boy, Roman Young. The post also mentioned that Roman held quite a special place in all of their hearts."
After sharing the news, the internet platforms flooded with queries about the reason behind his tragic death. Still, could be gathered no information regarding his death news and the reasons behind his death. There is not much clarity and information about the whole incident yet. Thus, the entire statement is yet to be confirmed by his family members. Therefore, the reason or the cause behind the death of Roman Young boy is unknown for now.
In the end, people are stunned by this tragic incident and curious to know How Did Roman Young Die? Though the reasons behind Roman's death news entirely hidden, hopefully, they will reveal soon. Presently, condolences and prayers to the family who suffered from this tragic loss. Also, feel free to share your condolences below.
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When you decide that it is time to plan your estate and you start to do some preliminary research, one of the first things you will hear about is probate. Probate is the legal process that must be undertaken to administer an estate, and this involves a probate or surrogate court. In a lot of cases probate is largely an administrative process when there is in fact a will in place and no one is contesting it. But if the will is contested, the arguments would be heard in probate court. This can involve anything from the validity of the will itself to the question of actual biological kinship of heirs named therein.
Probate is at the very best a time-consuming hassle, and at worst, it can be a forum for an ugly contested estate battle. Either way, probate carries another disadvantage: it is expensive. The estate has to pay extra probate fees to the court, and there will be attorney fees as well, and sometimes executor fees will be deducted from the estate. These can add up to some significant numbers, frequently in the vicinity of five to seven percent of the overall value of the estate. These expense coupled with the time it takes for probate to run its course (6 months to several years in some extreme cases) are the primary reasons why it can be advisable to avoid probate.
One very simple way of doing so is through the use of pay on death accounts (POD), sometimes called transfer on death (TOD) accounts. With this approach to inheritance planning you simply set up an account and name a beneficiary or multiple beneficiaries to whom the assets would be transferred upon your death. This can be done with bank accounts as well as brokerage accounts in some states, and in Connecticut one can actually transfer ownership of a vehicle in this manner.
Using POD/TOD accounts your heirs do not have to go through probate to receive their inheritance, making then a very useful estate planning tool that everyone should consider.


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Our Summer Migrants: An Account of the Migratory Birds which Pass the Summer ...
Por James Edmund Harting
bird-like song is again for a short time heard. Mr. Sinclair has observed the Garden Warbler at Inverkip in Renfrewshire, where the richlywooded preserves afford it a constant shelter during its summer sojourn." In Shetland, according to Dr. Saxby,1 it is a rare autumn visitor, usually occurring in September. By exercising great caution he has sometimes approached within a few feet of the bird, and watched it picking the green aphides from the sycamore leaves. It does not appear to have been observed in Orkney. Its range northwards in Europe, according to Nilsson, extends to Sweden, where it is observed to be a regular summer visitant, arriving in May and leaving in August. In all the countries bordering the Mediterranean it appears to be well known. Mr. Saunders informs me that it is common in Spain in spring and autumn; and Mr. Wright, referring to its presence at the same seasons in Malta, where it is known as the far-famed "beccafico" of the Italians, says that as many as a hundred dozen are sometimes brought in at a time.1 Lord Lilford has once found this bird nesting in Epirus.2 The late Mr. C. J. Andersson met with it as far south as Damaraland, South-west Africa. In habits the Garden Warbler closely resembles other members of the genus. Shy and restless, it differs from the Blackcap in its inferior powers of song, and from the Whitethroats in being less garrulous. It is nevertheless a beautiful songster, and will sometimes sit in the midst of a thick bush in the evening, like a Nightingale, and maintain a continued warble for several minutes without a pause. Its song is somewhat irregular, both in time and tune, but it is wonderfully mellow for so small a bird. It sometimes commences its song like a Blackbird, but always ends with its own. In some of its actions it resembles the Willow Wren, for it seems constantly in motion, hopping from bough
1 "The Birds of Shetland," p. 73.
'" Ibis," 1864, p. 67. 2 "Ibis," i860, p. 231.
to bough in search of insects, and singing at intervals. It is very partial to fruit of all kinds, but at the same time destroys vast numbers of caterpillars, spiders, and aphides. Much against my inclination I have shot a few Garden Warblers in the spring soon after their arrival, for the purpose of ascertaining the nature of their food, and can therefore affirm, from personal inspection, that they destroy quantities of insects which are destructive to foliage. Under the head of Blackcap, I have referred to the nest of the Garden Warbler for the purpose of comparison, and need only add here that it is generally well concealed, and that, unless the owner is seen near the nest, it is oftentimes not very easy to distinguish the eggs from those of its congener, which have been already described.
THE COMMON WHITETHROAT.
(Sylvia cinerea.)
I ."'AR from leading a retired life like the last-*- named bird, the Whitethroat forces itself into notice by its noisy chattering and repeated sallies into the air. We cannot walk along a country lane in May without being reminded at every twenty yards of the presence of this demonstrative little bird. With crest-feathers erect and half-extended wings, it bustles in and out, gesticulating loudly, and seems to live in a perpetual state of excitement.
The country lads call it the "Nettle Creeper," from its frequenting overgrown ditches and hedgebanks where the nettle is plentiful, amongst the stems of which it builds its nest. It comes to us about the third week in April, and remains until the end of August. It is very generally distributed in the British Islands, and is as common in Ireland as it is in England. In the north of Scotland it is said to be rare; but a correspondent of Mr. More finds it breeding regularly in Mull and Iona.1 It visits Scandinavia in summer, and is found also at that season in Russia and Siberia. It is one of the commonest birds in spring and autumn in Malta, and is occasionally observed in Corfu in September and October. In winter it is not uncommon in Asia Minor and North-east Africa. Amongst the birds collected at Aboo, North-west India, by Dr. King, in September, 1868, Mr. Hume found one which both he and M. Jules Verreaux identified at
'Cf. "Ibis," 1865, p. 25.


Fritz the golden retriever loves tasty human foods, but unfortunately, he's terrible at catching them. Fritz's human compiled a compilation of his hilarious attempts at trying to catch a steak, a donut, a chimichanga, a meatball, a taco, a hotdog, a strawberry, and more.
"Fritz shows no other signs of bad eyesight. He's much better with a tennis ball. I think he might get overly excited with the food and he commits too soon. And don't worry, Fritz does not end up consuming everything that is thrown to him. The food is intercepted and he gets a small bite. Keep in mind this is not one day's work; this is maybe once/twice a week. He's a healthy boy."
A chimichanga is one thing. A strawberry?! A FRIGGIN STRAWBERRY!!!
This is hilarious. The sound effects really pulled this together.
This is really funny but I hope he isn't normally feeding his dog those things.
OMG, read the explanation under the video BEFORE commenting!
This sadly looks like a replay of my 4 year no hitting streak in softball as a kid.
This is so not funny. I have two Goldens -- you take your time to teach them how to catch healthy food until they are as great as Airbud, the basketball catching Golden. Just awful to throw fatty disgusting food in such a way to filthy this gorgeous friend.
"And don't worry, Fritz does not end up consuming everything that is thrown to him. The food is intercepted and he gets a small bite. Keep in mind this is not one day's work; this is maybe once/twice a week. He's a healthy boy."
See what happens when you read the description rather than passing judgment?
My mastiff Goober, can't catch anything at all.


I have, on the left side of my bottom lip, as it touches my teeth, a little bump. Sometimes, I find myself running my tongue over it, and when I do, I remember how I got it.
A decade and change ago, I was booked to do some street shows at a summer arts festival in a pretty English town. One of those nice, easy gigs, where I'd roll up to the high street, there'd be a crowd already waiting, I'd do my thing, have a ball, and not have to cheapen the whole experience by asking for money afterwards.
I was scheduled to do two shows over the course of the afternoon. The first one had been really enjoyable – a big, rambunctious crowd who were as up for laughing and clapping as I was for encouraging them to do so. The second show, later in the afternoon, was bouncing along in much the same manner. Except for one kid who had pushed into the front row and was heckling.
Now don't get me wrong, I don't expect my audience – especially in a street show – to sit politely in respectful silence punctuated only by correctly-timed laughs and applause. It ain't opera. I encourage a bit of fun, good-natured dialogue.
As I've written in the past, part of the beauty of street performing is in its unpredictability, and the audience are often a key part of that. But this kid wasn't being particularly interesting, or funny. In fact, he was mostly shouting the word 'wanker' at regular intervals.
I mean, sure, funny the first time, but after the 17th, it's just getting in the way of the fun, and worse, stressing out parents who aren't super-keen for their own kids to be hearing this kind of thing. It fast becomes my responsibility to shut it down.
So, I played with the kid a bit, did some gentle put-downs, monkeyed with his hat, generally gave him the attention that he wanted, until he realised that he didn't want it any more. He vanished out of the audience, the crowd relaxed, and I finished up the show. All fine.
I start to pack my props away and I'm clapped a little too hard on my back. I turn around to see someone I know. A fellow street performer. I remember that this is his home town, so I smile and say hi. He tells me that if I ever talk to his child that way again, he'll kill me.
I look confused, until I see that his son, now standing next to him, was the kid yelling 'wanker' over and over. I'm a little flustered, and tell him that I'm sorry if he was upset, but equally, I'm a little surprised that a child of one performer would behave so badly in the audience of another.
Again, he starts telling me that he really, really should kill me. He seems fairly decided on this. Passionate about it, even. I apologise again, and tell him that, honestly, perhaps threatening to kill someone in public, in front of his kid, means he may have lost the moral high ground.
He starts pacing, balling his fists, swearing into the air. I figure it's probably best to remove myself from the situation, so I finish packing away my stuff. I put my backpack over my shoulders, swing the snowboard bag I use to carry my table over my back, and pick up my suitcase. At which point, in a blur of increasingly loud aggression, he pushes his way through the people standing in front of me, and sucker-punches me in the mouth.
I take a second to evaluate my choices. I could put down my three bags, and retaliate, to stop him doing any more damage. But then the story is 'two buskers had a fight'. No. Probably best to just get myself to the dressing room and let him cool off. I look up to find him, so I can avoid him, and see the beautiful sight of my audience, who were still milling around, since my show finished just a few minutes before, crowded around him, pinning him to the ground. His incandescent rage being subdued by a dozen or so people with their feet on his chest. It was beautiful.
That all happened a decent amount of time ago, but, like I say, when my tongue runs over the little lump in my lip that his knuckles left, I remember it. And, as you might expect, a few thoughts run through my mind.
Do I, in my weaker and lamer moments, consider the possible pleasure of a rematch under fairer rules. Shamefully, yes. Do I understand what motivated his anger? Maybe. It must be hard not being booked for a gig in your home town, and having to play nice with a colleague who was.
He's since admitted to having substance abuse problems at the time, which can blur the boundary between thoughts and actions. It was all a bit sad and shabby, and I genuinely have no hard feelings about it, except of course I do.
But it's by no means the worst thing thats happened to be while street performing. Oh, boy howdy, no. As I think I've mentioned in these columns before, I once had a woman register her displeasure at my work by walking through my audience, to the centre of my pitch, taking a dump, and leaving just as calmly as she arrived.
I've been attacked by a literal knife-wielding lunatic during a show. Remember the poll tax riots? They came through Covent Garden while I was performing. Trampled all my props flat, like a bloody cartoon. I got heckled by a very drunk young man once, only for a young member of my audience to helpfully identify him as part of a boy band, which made him hurriedly slap on his sunglasses and leave, to a huge laugh.
Over the course of the 20-plus years it was my bread and butter, I've had insults, and glasses, hurled at me. Ended my workdays with injuries to my body, my self esteem and my heart.
So why, then, will I be returning to street performing, over the next couple of months, in Canada, Ireland, and at the Edinburgh fringe?
Because even with all that said, the good still outweighs the bad a millionfold. I've worked like an idiot long and hard enough to be in the absurd position of being able to do things principally because they are fun and interesting. I have enough decades under my belt that I don't feel the need to prove anything to anyone, except to each crowd of people in front of me for any given show.
So where does that leave me? Well, I figure it leaves me wanting to make shows for the sake of making them, and do shows for the sake of doing them. If I do those things well enough, I'm hoping I'll be able to keep on making a modest living. If I can avoid the occasional idiot's fist.


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AEROSMITH: Pump CD. + bonus track. 1989 Opened, the booklet reveals a poster picture of the band! Check videos of Love in an Elevator, Janie's Got a Gun, What It Takes, The Other Side
SKU: YP-2785 Categories: All Genres, AOR, CD, Hard Rock, Search by Media Type
Recorded FebruaryJune 1989
Genre Hard rock, blues rock
Label Geffen
Producer Bruce Fairbairn
Singles from Pump
"Janie's Got a Gun"
Pump is the tenth album by American rock band Aerosmith, released in 1989.
Pump was widely acclaimed by both fans and critics upon its release. The album incorporates the use of keyboards and a horn section on many of the singles ("Love in an Elevator", "The Other Side"), and contains straightforward rockers ("F.I.N.E.*", "Young Lust"), the ballad "What It Takes", songs about issues such as incest and murder ("Janies Got a Gun") and drug and alcohol abuse ("Monkey on My Back"), as well as a variety of instrumental interludes such as "Hoodoo" and "Dulcimer Stomp."
The album has certified sales of seven million copies in the U.S. to date, and is tied with its successor Get a Grip as Aerosmiths second best-selling studio album in the U.S. (Toys in the Attic leads with eight million). It produced a variety of successes and "firsts" for the band including their first Grammy Award ("Janies Got a Gun").
"Love in an Elevator" became the first Aerosmith song to hit #1 on the Mainstream Rock Tracks chart. Additionally, it is the only Aerosmith album to date to have three Top 10 singles on the Billboard Hot 100 and three #1 singles on the Mainstream Rock Tracks chart. The album was the fourth bestselling album of the year 1990.
In the UK, it was the second Aerosmith album to be certified Silver (60,000 units sold) by the British Phonographic Industry, achieving this in September 1989.
Pump was the second of three sequentially recorded Aerosmith albums to feature producer Bruce Fairbairn and engineers Mike Frazer and Ken Lomas at The Little Mountain Sound Studios.
Pump is arguably Aerosmith's tightest album for there isn't a single filler track to be found and the flow of the album is perfect for Aerosmith's style. Aerosmith and Bruce Fairbairn took their musicality to another level ensuring that when Pump was released in 1989, it was a stellar release that would not only close out the 80s with a bang but would stand the test of time for this is one album that sounds as fresh today as it did when it was released. It was the logical choice for the new-to-Aerosmith music fan in the 90s.
Young Lust offers a solid start to Pump and offers a glimpse of what is to come. Pump wouldn't be the same without it.
F.I.N.E. an acronym for "Fucked Up, Insecure, Neurotic, and Emotional" is bloody brilliant! The upbeat rhythm is off-the-charts and the flow from Young Lust is masterful.
Going Down / Love In An Elevator has always been a favourite and the spoken word introduction is so memorable that I would suggest that Love In An Elevator wouldn't have been such a fan favourite if it had not had that innuendo-filled introduction. Love In An Elevator, however, is a solid blues-based rock and roll tune.
Monkey On My Back is brilliantly distorted and has a compellingly addictive rhythm that will see you head-bopping and toe-tapping throughout.
Water Song / Janie's Got A Gun is an incredible tune, I've always loved it, but I've never been blown away by the Water Song introduction as I feel it is superfluous.
Dulcimer Stomp / The Other Side is great and a song I adore even though it could be argued that it is overproduced.
My Girl isn't a bad song that could have quite easily been a killer 50s tune, one that would have set many a dance floor alight.
Don't Get Mad, Get Even has one of the greatest didgeridoo performances, thanks to Randy Raine-Reusch, that has ever been recorded outside of the Indigenous Australian music scene. Don't Get Mad, Get Even is a killer tune that my soul instantly connects with.
Hoodoo / Voodoo Medicine Man is another song whereby the introductory element is somewhat unnecessary and while I acknowledge the aim and that it flows relatively well into Voodoo Medicine Man, the core song is strong enough on its own with an addictive rhythmic vibe, that I simply don't think the introduction added anything to the song itself.
What It Takes is, and I make no secret of my love for rock ballads, an incredible vocal driven ballad that will appeal to fans who were captivated by songs like I don't want to miss a thing. What It Takes is the perfect closer, compelling me to play Pump again and remain within Aerosmith's extensive catalogue of music. That is, of course, until the hidden instrumental, played by Randy Raine-Reusch, appears and detracts from the listening experience. I have to admit, hidden tracks are not my favourite 'feature' and while there was an initial buzz about listening to the very end, have you ever heard a hidden track that you've felt was worthy of inclusion? I likely have, but none spring to mind.
Overall, Pump is sensational from start to finish and is, without fail, one of Aerosmith's very best recordings, if not their very best.
No. Title Writer(s) Length
1. "Young Lust" Steven Tyler, Joe Perry, Jim Vallance 4:18
2. "F.I.N.E.*" Tyler, Perry, Desmond Child 4:09 [acronym for "Fucked Up, Insecure, Neurotic, and Emotional"]
3. "Going Down/Love in an Elevator" Perry, Tyler 5:38
4. "Monkey on My Back" Perry, Tyler 3:57
5. "Water Song/Janies Got a Gun" Tyler, Tom Hamilton 5:38
6. "Dulcimer Stomp/The Other Side" Tyler, Vallance, Brian Holland, Lamont Dozier, Eddie Holland 4:56
7. "My Girl" Perry, Tyler 3:10
8. "Don't Get Mad, Get Even" Perry, Tyler 4:48
9. "Hoodoo/Voodoo Medicine Man" Perry, Tyler, Brad Whitford 4:39
10. "What It Takes" Tyler, Perry, Child 5:09
11. After the end of "What It Takes" there is a brief, untitled, instrumental hidden track composed and performed by Randy Raine-Reusch. This was not included on all the releases in all countries, but is included in this disc.
Personnel:
Steven Tyler – Lead Vocals
Joe Perry – Guitar, Backing Vocals
Brad Whitford – Guitar
Tom Hamilton – Bass
Joey Kramer – Drums, Percussion
Additional personnel
Bob Dowd – Backing Vocals On "Love In An Elevator"
Catherine Epps – Spoken Intro On "Love In An Elevator"
Bruce Fairbairn – Trumpet, Backing Vocals on "Love In an Elevator"
The Margarita Horns – Brass instruments, Saxophones
John Webster – Keyboards
Randy Raine-Reusch – Appalachian dulcimer on "Dulcimer Stomp", didgeridoo on "Don't Get Mad, Get Even", Thai naw (mouth organ) on "Hoodoo", and glass harmonica on "Water Song"
Album – Billboard (North America)
Year Chart Position
1989 The Billboard 200 5
Album – ARIA Charts (Australia)
1990 Australian ARIA Albums Chart 1
Singles – Billboard (North America)
Year Single Chart Position
1989 "Love in an Elevator" Mainstream Rock Tracks 1
1989 "F.I.N.E.*" Mainstream Rock Tracks 14
1989 "Love in an Elevator" The Billboard Hot 100 5
1989 "Janies Got a Gun" Mainstream Rock Tracks 2
1989 "Janies Got a Gun" The Billboard Hot 100 4
1990 "Monkey on My Back" Mainstream Rock Tracks 17
1990 "What It Takes" Mainstream Rock Tracks 1
1990 "What It Takes" The Billboard Hot 100 9
1990 "The Other Side" Mainstream Rock Tracks 1
1990 "The Other Side" The Billboard Hot 100 22
Year Winner Category
1990 "Janies Got a Gun" Best Rock Performance By A Duo Or Group With Vocal
5.0 out of 5 stars Aerosmith spot on.,
The album pump by Aerosmith is a masterpiece. 10 tracks of pure brilliance. catchy lyrics and spot on guitar/percussion throughout the entire album. I feel the best track on this album is 'The other side' in which Joe Perry delivers fantastic riffs, which when put along-side the great bass effects of Tom Hamilton and the legendary voice of Steven Tyler creates the ultimate stadium rock and roll hit. You will not be disappointed by this album
5.0 out of 5 stars Amongst Aerosmiths best.,
There is no doubt that Aerosmiths golden years were in the 70s with gems such as Toys In The Attic, Draw The Line and the underrated Night In The Ruts. Then the decline into drugs began along with the decline in sales.
Whilst Pumps predecessor Permanaent Vacation has some excellent songs, it is far more FM friendly, MTV orientated and commercial.
Pump is back to basics Aerosmith. Its starts Young Lust. Joey Kramer plays those drums as if his life depended on it and Tom Hamiltons bass thunders away, and Perry and Whitford are in brilliant form. Tyler sings with his usual innuendo laden way.
FINE is also a strong song and is followed up with Love In An Elevator; probably the best well known song on an album and brings back memories of Aerosmiths brilliant performance in Hyde Park in July this year.
Monkey On My Back is about Aerosmiths well known battle with drugs and is hard hitting, without preaching.
Janies Got A Gun is probably one of Aerosmiths finest moments. Mr Hamiltons brilliant bass intro and Tylers hard hitting lyrics about child abuse easily make this the best song on the album.
The next song is the funky The Other Side folowed by the upbeat, sixties sounding, My Girl.
I love the song Don't Get Mad Get Even,(my mantra and something we should all aspire to)
The African laden Whitford/Tyler comes next and Pump closes off with the most FM sounding song on the album, What It Takes.
What I love about this album is that Aerosmith sound so ALIVE and forgive the pun, PUMPed up. The whole group are on top form and a clearly having a fantastic time.
You will too if you buy this.
5.0 out of 5 stars TOP!,
Great Album! what a rock album should be – tight instruments, great vocals, and most of all, fun! it sounds like a bunch of blokes having fun. I love the first 4 tracks – doesn't let off for a second, rest of the album is great to – theres just something i really enjoy about the sequence of the first 4 tracks
5.0 out of 5 stars Pump is Aerosmiths best album so far!,
Aerosmith have been around since the year 1973 and they had some really troubled times where Joe Perry left them back in the early 80s mainly because of drugs. Steve Tyler and Joe Perry fell out they were know as the toxic twins. They all got back together again and become Americas biggest rock band ever again and even more successful then the time befor. Permaent Vacation the album before Pump had some hits and was good. Then Pump come out and was a huge hit with great rock songs like Love In An Elevator, Monkey On My Back, Janies Got A Gun, The Other Side and Voodoo Medicine Man. Aerosmith are one one of the best rock bands from America and Pump is their best album so give it a go.
5.0 out of 5 stars The most important Album I ever bought,
Late eighties and leaving school when this come out. It simply blew me away and changed the music I listened too forever. Its just sex drugs and rock n roll which is pretty exciting stuff at 15-16. The whole album gels into a single entity with the help of some neat intros, a perfect running order and 10 tracks leave no room for fillers.
If you buy one aerosmith album then buy this – it hits the sweet spot between 70s rockin' and 80s MTV hits (and beyond).
5.0 out of 5 stars Everything you'd expect from Aerosmith,
Pump is a classic album and archetypal Aerosmith; you'd be silly not to buy it.
Every single track on here is somewhere between good and great. My favourite is probably Voodoo Medicine Man. The final song (What it Takes) is, in my opinion, the weakest song on there, but its still not bad.
5.0 out of 5 stars Pump The 3rd Greatest Album,
This Album Rocks!!! It Is A Must Have!! I Recommend Young Lust, Monkey On My Back, Hoodoo/Voodoo Medicine Man & Water Song/Janie's Got A Gun. This Album Is Great!! I'd Give it 10/10
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In the early pre-dawn hour I reach from my bed and switch on the heater, it was colder than usual. I know the science behind the cold weather; east winds and clear skies. For now I cuddle under my blankets with my two dogs. As I drifted back to sleep I was thinking it will be a sunny day at the lighthouse. I will enjoy it if I dress warm enough.
Our bed. I haven't convinced the dogs that the floor is a good place to sleep.
Sadie jumps off the bed at 5:00 am demanding her walk. I do not ignore her commands. She is a mature girl of 14 years and knows when she needs to go. Like many seniors, she lacks the bladder control she once had and I move fast when she needs to go out. I throw on my coat and head lamp, slide on my muck shoes, clip the dogs to their leashes and head outside. I am already familiar enough with my neighbors to not be concerned about walking around in my fleece PJs. It is a quick walk in the dark and most likely all my neighbors are asleep.
Later in the day I pack multiple layers of clothing including, hats, mittens, scarf, earmuffs, long underwear, extra sweater and head to the lighthouse at 10:30. My shift today is 11:00 to 2:00. Surprisingly it wasn't too cold and windy at the lighthouse. The sun is out and the winds have died.
There are four of us at the lighthouse today which gives us time to stand outside and talk with the visitors. With the smooth calm waters I see many sea lions, a number of whale spouts, and I saw a falcon that routinely sits on a rock by the lighthouse. I named him/her Perry.


Home » Blog » My Favorite Things » Jewelry » November Birthstone: The Perfect Citrine Jewelry Gifts!
To brighten up the chilly month of November, two sunny choices of gemstones are made available – topaz and citrine. These are the birthstones for November babies. Both gemstones are known for their calming energies, bringing warmth and fortune to those who wear them. Interestingly, topaz and citrine look so similar and can sometimes be mistaken for one another.
Citrine is relatively a durable gemstone against scratches and everyday wear-and-tear—making it a lovely option for large, wearable jewelry. This gemstone is sometimes known as the "healing quartz" for its ability to comfort, soothe and calm. It can release negative feelings, spark imagination and manifest fresh beginnings. It's even called the "merchant's stone" for its tendency to attract wealth and prosperity.
Today, citrine remains one of the most affordable and frequently purchased yellow gemstones. Thus, giving this as a gift is not costly and is even easy to find. Below are the citrine jewelry gift choices for November babies.
These earrings are crafted with high quality stones in halo design and 925 sterling silver making it the perfect accessory for any fashion ensemble on any special occasions. The citrine and cubic zirconia makes these earrings stunning and the lever back closure makes the wearer flattering to look at. The total number of yellow stones is 72 with a weight of 1.30 carats shaped in oval checkerboard stone shape design. Thus, these stunning and delicate dangling earrings will definitely put the wearer in the spotlight.
These adorable earrings feature a natural citrine gemstone that is crafted in sterling silver finished with rhodium. These earrings can be customized as it is made by hand and will take about 7 days to complete the jewelry. The main stone of the earrings is natural citrine made in 8 x 8 mm with cubic zirconia as its accent stones.
This sophisticated and 100% natural yellow citrine and white topaz pendant with a complimentary 18 inches chain is a meaningful and relevant piece of jewelry to give to November babies. This pendant is extremely tough as it is made of real solid 925 sterling silver and is great for everyday use. This is also easy to find as it is readily available anytime. Its stunning yellow heart shaped citrine makes the pendant a head turner itself.
This original piece of necklace with flattened circles as its design provides the perfect frame for a 6 mm bezel -set Citrine. The citrine is crafted in 14K yellow gold-filled metal and the necklace comes with a 1.3 mm 18 inches cable chain. The necklace measures about 1 inch in length (excluding chain). The best part is that when this necklace will be shipped, it is wrapped in a Sada Jewels branded box along with a velvet jewelry pouch, polishing cloth and care instructions card.
This is a customized art deco Citrine wedding ring made in 925 sterling silver that can be stackable at the same time. Its dainty look with its gold plated or sterling silver ring makes this ring elegant and stunning to wear and look at. The style of this ring is inlaid stone with the whole circle making it a perfect wedding band and ring.
This sterling silver ring features a flower-shaped cluster of round genuine citrine gemstone. This ring makes a striking jewelry piece and is definitely a dazzling winner making it memorable to give and receive at the same time. Wonderful for very special occasions such as birthdays, anniversaries, weddings and even graduations. This also comes with a wonderful packaging in a nice jewelry pouch which makes a lovely packaged gift!
This delicate beaded charm bracelet in semi-precious citrine is one collection to have. Its warm glow of gold enhances and compliments the beautiful light yellow color of the gemstone citrine. This bracelet made of a faceted Citrine rondelles together with the smooth gold beads makes a truly beautiful design combination delivering a lot of natural sparkle. In addition, the absolutely gorgeous round faceted Citrine charm adds more spark to this lovely bracelet. Its oval shaped tag stamped is 14/20 marks the 14K gold filled and can fit loosely to any wrist.


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We can think of consciousness in a variety of ways. The scientifically supported vision, at least to a degree, is one of awareness as an emergent quality of competing and eating biological organisms, kind of the most aware wins. If you want to avoid being lunch you need to sense what is out there that could eat you, recognise it, and then rapidly react in a way that stops you going down its digestive tract.
At the same time you need to be aware of what is out there that you can eat, recognise it, catch it and put it down your digestive tract.
This great restaurant view of awareness and of consciousness is this simple.
At the same time an organism needs to recognise another of its own kind that it can breed and reproduce with. This biological view of consciousness is simple, the most aware, the most conscious wins. It eats more, gets eaten less and reproduces more successfully. Job done. This is a nihilistic perspective to say the least, there is no meaning to any of it, it's just what happens in competing biological systems. Philosophically the response is – get used to it and enjoy your lunch!
Arguably awareness and consciousness are functions of the second law of thermodynamics. As the universe expands unevenly there are vortices and fluctuations in the overall expansive pattern. These encourage a decrease in entropy. Increase in entropy is the natural tendency of all energy to level out and disorder to increase. In energetic vortices such as solar systems the opposite is temporarily (in astronomical terms) true, entropy decreases. As entropy decreases life (which is ordered and a decrease in entropy) has a tendency to arise. As life arises, awareness and consciousness have a tendency to arise as emergent qualities.
Awareness here is the sum possible of what one can be aware of given sensory limitations.
Consciousness is that part of awareness of which one is actively cognisant of. Attention is a focal direction conditioned and less than conscious or conscious within the field of awareness. Just the way I'm playing with these terms in this Blog. It feels worth while for me to have a way of defining these terms.
We are aware through our sensory mechanisms.
Different organisms have sense organs that make sense of the vibrational web of space-time in different ways. They are all limited and all give different perceptual capacities. From the great restaurant view they are all about not being eaten and yet eating, and also about breeding as much as possible, as successfully as possible so your offspring don't become lunch.
Organisms parse out the vibrational web of space-time in various ways. Most of us life forms have sense organs that respond to photons, all plants are phototropic, eagles can see around eight times as far as we can. Bees view life from the ultra-violet end of the electromagnetic spectrum. Some snakes, frogs and biting flies see in terms of heat patterns from the other end of the electromagnetic spectrum, the infra-red. They do this very successfully as you will know if you have ever been hunted down by mosquitoes in the dark.
The most primeval sense is the sense of smell and this has rapid and powerful effects on the brain as is evidenced by the fact there is no synaptic junction between the organs of smell and the brain. Every other sense has synaptic intervention. Many creatures have a profoundly strong sense of smell, many orders of magnitude more than ours. Bears for example are suspected of having a sense of smell that is over two thousand times more refined and robust than ours. That is a whole different world! A shark can pick up the scent of blood over a mile away. A whole different world. Scent for us is inextricably linked with memory.
Lets briefly mention hearing as of course many creatures echo locate and therefore have profound hearing, moths hear at least fifteen times better than we do, they have to dodge bats and bats are fast, hungry and very efficient echo locaters.
Catfish are around seventeen to eighteen times more efficient at tasting their environment than we are. The catfish also ranks as one of the creatures with the most refined super sense of touch. Hence the picture!
This is simply to point out that our senses give us a very limited awareness of the world around us, having said that they work for us to reproduce rather well.
Because we have another super sense, this is the sense making sense. The sense that makes sense of the other senses. This is mind, awareness, consciousness, attentional capacities, meaning making and all the functions of our nervous system. There is of course plenty of scientific evidence coming in these days that our intelligence is originated in our body, works best when we are embodied and can interocept and feel in an integrated way into our own flesh. Please read Guy Claxton's Intelligence in the Flesh.
Disintegrated awareness as if body and awareness, attention and mind were two different qualities is a product of a disembodied culture, a culture shamed and under appreciative of the fleshy organic, nature of intelligence.
Another key sense we humans have is the sense-of-self. This is largely a function of the midline cortical regions of our cortex including the default mode network, medial prefrontal cortex and anterior cingulate cortex. These synergise to give us a sense of who we are as a separate feeling organism, and how we relate to other separate-feeling organisms. An unintegrated and less than healthy version of this is self-obsessive and self-referential. Donald Trump is the iconic modern version of this. The totem for the age of Narcissus.
An integrated and healthier version of the self-sense is more fluid in terms of self-identity, self-narrative and self-referentiality. It is more interested in relationship than being right, more interested in the dance of mutual communication than being in control. This is the kind of organisation we seek for our systems through a healthy application of meditation, yoga and mindfulness. I say healthy application as some styles of practice tend to enhance and glorify spiritualised self-referentiality, we've all seen it!
Some of the upsurge of interest in psychedelics in terms of their healing properties and mind expanding properties are now being examined. One of the articles I was reading on psilocybin was theorising that it also can help reduce self-referentiality and in so doing reduce the effects of depression.
Depression is partly associated with meaninglessness, partly associated with obsessive self-referentiality, partly associated with dorsal vagal nerve over activation and deactivation of the ventral vagus and social engagement systems of the cranial nerves five, seven, nine, ten and eleven. See Stephen Porges Polyvagal theory.
Psychedelics may well help resolve depression, traumatic issues, help grow focus and efficiency (in conjunction with a meditation practice) and promote overall connection to the systemic world of other lifeform. All good stuff. Of course there are risks, one of these being to a less than healthy sense-of-self. Such work has to be approached with caution and good research to understand the parameters for positive healing effect.
Psychedelics were also being theorised as dissolving the sensorial filters and enabling us to perceive more of how the universe is as a web of vibration, a web that is parsed, filtered and semanticised by our brains. Necessary for finding lunch and a mate and not becoming lunch (at least not yet!) but not that good at understanding the paradoxical and non-dichotomous seamlessness of the vibrational web of space-time. Human brains do difference, comparison, polarity really well. They do not do seamlessness, connectivity and big picture unicity that well. It's not yet been evolved in. Psychedelics may well be part of this process of undoing the sensory hallucinations of the brain and its sense organs too. Time will tell.
So what of subjectivity in all this?
First of all it is all we have. Objectivity is a good attempt at non-subjectivity, yet limited by how much we can distance ourselves from involvement in what we are exploring and testing, which is of course hugely limited. That aside our attempts at objectivity yield remarkable results. I pray we can be honest about our incapacity for deep subjectivity. We cannot distance ourselves from the universe, we are it. My view is that honest subjectivity doing its best at objectivity is pretty good.
How does it fit with yours?
What evidence is their for me to support these with?
Can i hold experience, belief and meaning lightly?
Can they just be like the best theory of fit, flexible with incoming information?
When we are working within our sense fields and that is all we have, it is always partial information, always the best theory of fit. If we can dance in a mutuality of subjectivity whilst noticing the conditioning we have received around ours then we stand a chance of finding team efforts of working with and transcending and co-evolving our biology much more successful. The gripping of self-referential states and self-obsession (my subjectivity is better than yours!) is a high route to conflict and warfare, look at the world around you. The work of meditation and mindfulness to make self-referentiality transparent is crucial for our times.
Some yogic teaching teach about illusion. The fact is that there is nothing solid, real, defined or permanent in existence, at least nothing we can yet find. So yes everything of solidity, definition and permanence that our mind conjures up is really not so. On this level it is an illusion. It is also real. Smack your self and feel it. In terms of our neural experience and how the senses and mind make sense of everything, it is a very real illusion.
There is an old method and teaching from the yogic world that has been described as the five illusory sheaths of subjective experience. It is a method of going deeper into awareness, into more refined experiences of expansive consciousness and a tool for focusing attention. Remember the kind of yoga I understand is not interested in dogma, it is interested in direct experience and how this changes your subjective perspective. This is rooted in methods of practice. Yoga is in essence a religion of method. A way of reconnecting to the seamless nature of things, beyond the experience of separation, solidity, definition and permanence, not through dogma and belief (though these can be methods!) but through experiential methods that you can practice and weave into your life.
So what is this old teaching?
It originates as far as we know from the Taittiriya Upanishad. It is presented in many ways and I am going to present it in my own way. I accept this subjective bias. This method is the pancha maya koshas. For short they are called the koshas. The five illusory sheaths of our subjective experience. It can also be seen as five key experiences of being alive. The word kosha is often translated as sheaths of our body. The word maya means illusory, so we have the five illusory sheaths of the human experience.
These sheaths are illusory because from the perspective of subtle consciousness, they are not as solid or real as our mind would have us believe. They are all flow, flowing earth, flowing water, flowing air and ephemeral feelings and thoughts. Coming to terms with how things really are is one of the gifts of working with the koshas and working with yogic method.
Vedanta teaches that the absolute which it give the verb Brahman to, transcends and includes all these five sheaths, the unreal bodies. The koshas are sometimes understood as 'entrapments of the soul'. One of the risks of seeing these sheaths as illusory, as entrapments, is demeaning and dismissing them. The second problem here is being the soul as solid, real and defined when this sense-of-continuity in us, the sense-of-soul is also simply Brahman. This dismissal and separation is not kind and often leads to a monastic withdrawal from life. Kindness and compassion or in yogic speak 'non-harming' or ahimsa is the first rule of a yogic practitioner, everything else comes second. Kindness begins here at home in our subjective experience, not in an idea of what truth is, of what real is.
One of the powers of working with these sheaths is full embodiment in all the qualities of being alive, whilst acknowledging they are flowing, fragile, vulnerable expressions of our deeper nature and the humility that this brings.
The Taittiriya Upanishad, which also has the first known use of the word yoga, is the third amongst the oldest upanishads. It mentions the five sheaths calling them – "The self consisting of food proceeds to the self consisting of life force that proceeds to the self consisting of mind that proceeds to the self consisting of consciousness that proceeds to the self consisting of bliss" These are all verbs, flowing states and please remember after this is that which is the meta-verb – Brahman.
In Tantric literature we can find koshas as increasingly refined and subtle experiences of existence that resolve into the absolute (divinity) as a profound method to work with deepening as awareness and increasing in consciousness. They are also tools for attention, what are you attending to right now and why?
The great chain, the holarchy of being and knowing, or awareness, outlines levels of reality and levels of knowing this reality, levels of consciousness.
Cognition in western think refers to the apprehension of exterior objects. Knowledge has come to mean their classification, the capacity to reduce them to their component pieces and an understanding of the relationships that an exterior object might have with other objects, such as its ecology.
Other forms of consciousness such as insight, visions and dreams are mostly excluded from the realm of knowing in western thought. Such forms of consciousness are simply subjective experiences. Yet this is actually all we really have, our direct experience.
When specific developmental processes are studied, such as moral development, self-knowledge and so on, it is found that cognitive development is necessary, but not sufficient for these other developments, just as knowing the alphabet is necessary but not sufficient for studying philosophy. Interestingly yogic philosophy is always about finding freedom in the matrix of being. Freedom from suffering and freedom to be, freedom to live optimally. All the teachings of yoga (I include all the methods of Buddhist yoga here) are about methods to know what it is to be free from suffering, free to achieve our optimal potential as a being. Any other kind of philosophical inquiry is pretty much mind blah.
Western developmental psychology also stops at the level of formal mind and a reasonably healthy self-construct.
Post-formal, transpersonal development is that which goes beyond the healthy self-construct. This is the essence of Yoga or Yogasara. The necessary pre-condition for depth yoga, for Yogasara is a reasonably well developed, healthy enough self-construct. Without this in place there is insufficient strength to make it transparent. Making it transparent means we get to see our shadows and motives, one has to be strong and courageous and ready to do this kind of work.
The healthy self-construct is necessary but not sufficient for the job in hand. It gets you onto the yoga mat, onto the meditation cushion, reading inspirational and developmental theories and texts and then it's job is over, except to help you navigate the four dimensions of space-time and get you around.
Change moves from the conscious level, from imagination of what is possible, through intention, through the bio-energetic into the physical, the somatic. Hence the effectiveness of the process of meditation, the power of placebo and nocebo and the requirement for a clear bio-energetic (pranic) system so that the flow of consciousness through mind into embodiment is functional.
Physical illness in the yogic view is foreshadowed by blockages in the flow of life-energy as the subtle body. Healing in yogic method involves working primarily at this level of bio-energy and mind, and the body whilst appreciated, loved and respected, slowly follows suit. With the proviso that is the appropriate karmic movement for that individual. Karma is a whole different Blog. Karma in brief is the web of causes, conditions and arising consequences.
Through removing energetic blockages and correcting damage on the level of the subtle body, Tantric practitioners get to know them selves as more and more subtle experiencing and then seek to prevent physical disease and emotional and mental imbalance. This is all done whilst understanding that health is never a permanent outcome, it is always about sustaining balance, homeostasis. However a healthy body enables you to practice.
This is the sheath of food, composed of the elements earth, water and fire. For yoga geeks this equates with the guna tamas. Tamas is simply understood as the weave of appearances that manifests as solidity.
We experience this kosha as awareness when we engage in body and breath practices of semantics that take its into realisation of fleshy awareness.
Intelligence here moves as feeling and sensation. We liberate this sheath as we breathe and move and find deeper and deeper awareness in the weave of tissues as tendons, fascia, muscles and bone, organ and blood. When we can find it's miraculous and wonder full nature and yet also allow it to be as it is, neither gripping onto appearances, sensations or feelings then we find freedom in and as this kosha. When we die we willed go of the physicality of existence as the body gets heavy, cold and maybe riddled with unpleasant feeling before it goes numb. We prepare for this certainty in practice and get accustomed to letting go. We will have to eventually. We practice letting go so we can live fully in each and every moment in full courage and fearlessness. We become more than anna maya kosha, yet also it. We become spacious awareness in intimate dance with aware space and this is much more than flesh, yet fully includes all of it in all its miraculous, juicy beauty and mortality.
The sheath of bio-energy, the moist interstitial, fascial web flowing with ions from the polarised charge of space and earth is our pranic anatomy. This pranic anatomy in yoga think contains the lines of flow or nadis (meridians) and the awareness centres or chakras.
Chakras are also the conduits of connection between the various sheaths. Chakras cease to exist beyond their opening as ananda maya kosha.
Prana maya kosha is composed of the elements fire and air. For yoga geeks it is connected with the rajas guna, kinesis. Rajas is the weave of spacetime that manifests as the electromagnetic spectrum, gravity and anti-gravity.
We liberate this kosha through breathwork and pranayama, through working with vibrational practices that remind us of our direct relationship to the field of energy that everything is.
The sheath of feeling mind, cognition, perceptive position, rationality and selfing. Chitta, manas, bodhi and ahamkara. Here we find opinion, concept, belief, values, viewpoint, self-construct, story, semantics and intellect. Connected with the elements air and space, mano maya kosha is the seat of selfing in its narrative form. As such it looks down into separation, reinforcing its position and it's version of what it considers to be 'reality'.
Or, it looks deeper in inquiry and begins the movement into transcendence. It is often the cognitive appreciation of seamlessness that leads people deeper into the transparency of selfing that is a necessary part of waking up to what is. Clarifying mind through working with values and seeing the nature of belief are facets o practice that can help liberate this kosha. I find fooling and story-telling to be really useful tools too as they make obvious and the narrative constructing aspect of us humans. Ultimately it is mindfulness and meditation that brings transparency to the contents of mind, to thew self-construct and leads inexorably into the transpersonal.
This sheath of consciousness which is beyond individuation includes insight and wise discrimination. It is a deep seeing and knowing of the nature of the joined-up-ness. It sees how we react in fear in the face of emptiness. It sees that there are no causes, no thing to blame, and no one who is responsible. Yet it takes responsibility and hours the seamless, whole and therefore sacred order of things, the unicity of consciousness.
The sheath of bliss they circumference of radiant, uncluttered awareness (also called cit in Sanskrit). It is the last frontier before the recognition of the nature of the vastness of divine totality presents itself as who we truly are. Qualities of the cosmos as beingness that is also empty, bliss that is also empty, joy and all seeing wisdom that exist and yet don't exist, because they are also empty. Ananda may kosha as the very fringe of this is equated to the sattva guna, lucidity.
Ananda maya kosha also inter-penetrates all the previous sheaths and is the body of blissful consciousness experienced in pristine moments of beauty and in advanced meditation.
These koshas aren't separate layers, but mutually inter-penetrating relationships of form, consciousness, energy and emptiness. Ananda-maya-kosha can be mapped synchronously as deep in the core of our living experience, and at the same time that which permeates and surrounds our whole life, it is centre and circumference at the same time.
From the most subtle that is completely empty arises and also is luminous, all-radiating, all-pervading consciousness. Emptiness, consciousness and bliss through to the densest, most condensed form of materialised consciousness as our physical body are mapped and located through the practices of these correspondingly finer sheaths that penetrate, pervade and thus contain, the grosser ones. And it is in our physical body that we find all these sheaths. As we practice physical practices, breath and energy practices and meditation, these subtle qualities present themselves in increasing transparency and lucidity.
Matter is penetrated, pervaded and sustained by prana, it is prana. Prana is penetrated, pervaded and sustained by the forms of consciousness. Deep consciousness is penetrated, pervaded and sustained by the radiance of sublime inspiration, spiritual joy and unutterable bliss that makes all more condensed forms of consciousness temporarily fade into transparency.
And, all the levels of consciousness dissolving away into the pregnant possibility of uncluttered emptiness are finally realised as one flow, two sides of the same coin, absolute and relative, formless and form, the one taste.
This is the potency of practices such as the Maya Koshas that have time travelled, held in the Indian yogic diaspora for several thousand years.


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Big O remains high with little water leaving lake
Lake Okeechobee remains high, with water levels nearly a foot above the lake's ecological envelope.
Posted Wednesday, January 4, 2023 3:28 pm
OKEECHOBEE -- Lake Okeechobee remains high, with water levels nearly a foot above the lake's ecological envelope.
For the last week of December, most of the water leaving Lake Okeechobee was via evapotranspiration, the combination of evaporation and plant transpiration. According to the South Florida Water Management District Jan. 4 Environmental Report, 14,710 acre feet of water from Lake Okeechobee flowed west to the Caloosahatchee, 5,390 acre feet of water flowed south, and 24,180 acre feet was lost to evapotranspiration during the week of Dec. 26, 2022-Jan. 1, 2023. For that same period, 27,100 acre feet of water flowed in from the north, and direct rainfall into the lake contributed 40 acre feet of water.
No water from the lake has been released east to the St. Lucie River since April 2021.
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has set the target flow at the Franklin Lock at 2,000 cubic feet per second (cfs). The Franklin Lock is more than 40 miles from Moore Haven, where water from the lake enters the Caloosahatchee River. The flow measured at the Franklin Lock is a combination of local basin runoff and lake water.
South of Lake Okeechobee, direct rainfall is taking up most of the capacity in the Water Conservation Areas (WCAs). For the week of Dec. 26-Jan. 1, about 19,320 acre feet of water fell into the WCAs via direct rainfall. Inflows accounted for 2,960 acre feet. About 23,920 acre feet flowed south from the WCAs to Everglades National Park. As with the lake, most of the water leaving the WCAs is via evapotranspiration.
North of the lake, most of the Kissimmee Chain-of-Lakes are within their regulation schedules, although releases continue to be made from some lakes for local basin runoff. Weekly average discharges on Jan. 1, 2023, at S-65 and S-65A (where the water enters the Kissimmee River) were 1,300 cfs and 1,400 cfs, respectively, both of which had not changed from the previous week. Mean weekly water depth on the Kissimmee River floodplain decreased slightly from the previous week, from 0.59 feet to 0.57 feet.
Dissolved oxygen levels in the Kissimmee River continue to improve. The weekly average concentration of dissolved oxygen in the Kissimmee Rive increased from 5.9 milligrams per liter (mg/L) the previous week to 7.6 mg/L for the week ending Jan. 1, Levels below 5 mg/L can be stressful to largemouth bass and other sensitive species.
Lake Okeechobee stage was 16.36 feet NGVD on January 1, 2023, which is 0.03 feet lower than the previous week and 0.13 feet lower than a month ago. (NGVD stands for National Geodetic Vertical Datum, the national standard reference for elevations.) Levels above 15.5 feet are above the lake's ecological envelope. In 2022, lake stage was within the ecological envelope for 70% of the year, and above it for 30% of the year. This is the third year in a row lake stages have exceeded 16 feet NGVD at the beginning of the dry season and is the highest lake stage at this time of year for more than two decades.
When the lake is at 15.5 feet, the marshes around the edges of the lake are completely inundated with water. If the lake rises above, 15.5 feet, water stacks up against the dike. This can damage the marshes, which help clean the lake water and provide habitat for fish and wildlife. In addition, if the water rises faster than the plants can grow, this damages the lakes submerged aquatic vegetation (SAV) and lake levels below 12 feet are needed for sunlight to reach the lake bottom for new SAV to sprout.
The most recent satellite image (Jan. 2, 2023) from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Harmful Algal Bloom Monitoring System showed low bloom potential across the lake.
Lake Okeechobee, rainfall
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Herbert Hoover Dike rehabilitation complete
USACE hopes to lower lake during dry season


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