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Check that it was written, the format is YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS
Check that it was written, the format is YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS
cat /proc/acpi/alarm
cat /proc/acpi/alarm
Shutdown your machine and wait for it to wakeup
Shutdown your machine and wait for it to wakeup
shutdown -h now
shutdown -h now
Revision as of 15:52, 24 December 2007
|System Wakeup
- 1 Introduction
- 2 BIOS Setup
- 3 Using /proc/acpi/alarm
- 4 Using /sys/class/rtc/rtc0/wakealarm
- 5 Troubleshooting
- 6 Additional source of info
- 7 Extra Information
- 8 User experience
The Advanced Configuration and Power Interface (ACPI) specification is an open industry standard first released in December 1996 developed by HP, Intel, Microsoft, Phoenix, and Toshiba that defines common interfaces for hardware recognition, motherboard and device configuration and power management.
The ACPI Real Time Clock Alarm Function can be used on your mythTV system to wake-up your machine at a certain time and/or date.
- Linux ACPI interface
Kernel 2.6.22+ use /sys/class/rtc/rtc0/wakealarm
Older kernels use /proc/acpi/alarm
- No ACPI Bios
nvram-wakeup is a small program that reads and writes the WakeUp time in the BIOS. This is done via /dev/nvram or via direct ISA access. (not recommended)
BIOS Setup
You will need to have a motherboard that supports both ACPI and a Real Time Clock Alarm Functions in the BIOS. Don't forget to enable this in the BIOS. You will find a tab similar to "Advanced Power management".
The wake-up function is provided on most modern boards by the ability to "wake from RTC alarm" - setting a date and time in BIOS will cause the computer to power itself on and boot at the set time. This setting is likely found under a sub-menu of "Power Management" "APM", or "Advanced" - you just need to poke around to find it. It will likely be called something like Wake from RTC, Wake From Alarm, RTC Resume, etc.
Tip: On many boards, when this setting is enabled, it will wake only from a time set and saved from BIOS setup, and not from a time set outside of the BIOS setup environment - as we want. All of the boards the original author of this document needed this setting disabled to correctly wake with ACPI. This is the recommended starting point.
Using /proc/acpi/alarm
Check if the wakeup function works: The commands set the wakeup time to 5 minute from now, regardless of whether the RTC is in UTC or locatltime and than turns off the machine.
# echo "+00-00-00 00:05:00" > /proc/acpi/alarm # shutdown -t now
If you're machine does not start 5 minutes later, check the following:
Here are the commands to check that you have ACPI working.
$powersave -S ACPI
Check that you have the alarm function in /proc/acpi/alarm. This prints out the RTC Alarm clock from the BIOS. (Note: If you have a 2.6.22+ kernel, see next section instead.)
$cat /proc/acpi/alarm 2005-**-29 10:10:04
Check that you can write a new time to the RTC Clock Alarm (you will need to be Root) Format is YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS
#echo "2005-12-29 10:10:04" >/proc/acpi/alarm
Check that it was written, shut down and wait for it to wakeup.
#cat /proc/acpi/alarm 2005-*12-29 10:10:04 #shutdown -h now
Now go to Mythtv-Setup and setup wakeup and shutdown parameters.
Using /sys/class/rtc/rtc0/wakealarm
Beginning with kernel 2.6.22 /proc/acpi/alarm has been removed and replaced with /sys/class/rtc/rtc0/wakealarm. The key differences with the wakealarm interface are:
- Instead of accepting a formatted time, wakealarm accepts the number of seconds since Jan 1, 1970.
- If you want to change the wakealarm time, you first need to reset the time.
- You have to make sure that your bios clock is set to UTC time not localtime otherwise it will wakeup at the wrong time
This acpi-alarm script will function with the new sys wakealarm interface or the old acpi/alarm interface
#!/bin/sh # $1 is the --settime switch that nvram-wakeup normally expects # $2 is the date/time in seconds since 1970 DATE=`date -d "1970-01-01 $2 sec" "+%F %H:%M:%S" -u` SECS=`date -d "1970-01-01 $2 sec" "+%s" -u` # Save the wakeup time echo "$*" > /myth.wakeup.args echo $DATE > /myth.wakeup.time echo $SECS > /myth.wakeup.secs if [ -e /sys/class/rtc/rtc0/wakealarm ]; then echo 0 > /sys/class/rtc/rtc0/wakealarm echo $SECS > /sys/class/rtc/rtc0/wakealarm fi if [ -e /proc/acpi/alarm ]; then echo $DATE > /proc/acpi/alarm fi
If leaving the RTC wakeup alarm on the BIOS worked with the old interface, you may need to disable it when migrating to the new interface.
rtc_cmos: probe of 00:03 failed with error -16The solution is to rebuild your kernel with the above two options excluded (find them under Drivers -> Character Devices) and the various RTC interfaces (found under Drivers -> Real Time Clock) included. From a .config point of view CONFIG_RTC and CONFIG_GEN_RTC must be unset and, at a minimum, RTC_INTF_SYSFS must be set.
rmmod rtc modprobe rtc-cmos
Getting autostart using alarm can be quite frustrating. Here's some tips on getting it working.
Check your hardware
Check if your BIOS supports ACPI/RTC You will need to have a motherboard that supports both ACPI and a Real Time Clock Alarm Functions in the BIOS. Check your BIOS and look for a tab similar to "Advanced Power management".
The wake-up function is provided on most modern boards by the ability to "wake from RTC alarm" - setting a date and time in BIOS will cause the computer to power itself on and boot at the set time. This setting is likely found under a sub-menu of "Power Management" "APM", or "Advanced" - you just need to poke around to find it. It will likely be called something like Wake from RTC, Wake From Alarm, RTC Resume, etc.
Check your linux distribution
Check your kernel version
uname -a
Kernel 2.6.22 and higher use /sys/class/rtc/rtc0/wakealarm
Older kernels use /proc/acpi/alarm
Check if ACPI is enabled in your kernel and working.
$powersave -S ACPI
Check if interface exists
Kernel 2.6.22 and higher use
ls /sys/class/rtc/rtc0/wakealarm
Older kernels
ls /proc/acpi/alarm
Initiate manually
The following example will set the wakeup time to 5 minute from now, regardless of whether the RTC is in UTC or locatltime. You may not see the change in the bios, but it should still work.
- if you are using the /proc/acpi/alarm interface
echo "+00-00-00 00:05:00" > /proc/acpi/alarm
Check that it was written, the format is YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS
cat /proc/acpi/alarm
If the year part looks like "0007" instead of "2007", change +00 with +2000; Shutdown your machine and wait for it to wakeup
shutdown -h now
- if you are using the rtc interface
echo "+00-00-00 00:05:00" > /sys/class/rtc/rtc0/wakealarm
Check that it was written, the format is YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS
cat /sys/class/rtc/rtc0/wakealarm
Shutdown your machine and wait for it to wakeup
shutdown -h now
UTC or localtime
Remember, your bios time might be in UTC rather than local time using:
# echo "+00-00-00 00:05:00" > /proc/acpi/alarm
will set the wakeup time to 5 minute from now, regardless of whether the RTC is in UTC or locatltime.
Since the wake-up time given by mythtv to the mythtv wakeup command is in local time, you need to do some bash handling of the obtained time to be able to setup the wakeup time in the bios in UTC (independent of daylight savings time and such). The following bash code might help here:
#!/bin/bash stamp_file=/home/mythtv/timestamp echo $1\ $2 > $stamp_file # If using mythwelcome you can try the next line instead on the one above. #echo $1 | sed "s/T/ /" >$stamp_file # Read the date in the locale time format and add the time-zone info to the stamp_file datum=$(/bin/date -f $stamp_file +%F\ %T\ %z) echo $datum > $stamp_file # reinterpret this in utc and write to alarm utcdatum=$(/bin/date -u -f $stamp_file +%F\ %T) echo $utcdatum > $stamp_file #rm -f $stamp_file #echo $utcdatum >/proc/acpi/alarm
As you noticed the echo to the acpi-alarm is commented out by default, because it is really better to check first if everything is working correctly (time format the same on your bios and such).
An alternative script to the above is the following:
#!/bin/bash stamp_file=/home/mythtv/timestamp #just log what we get as command line parameters echo $1 $2 $3> $stamp_file #i setted mythtv to output the number of seconds since epoch #so i calculate the number of hours, minutes and seconds from #now the computer has to wakeup: sfn=$(($2 - `date +"%s"`)) #and then send it to /proc/acpi/wakeup in the format we saw above y=`(echo $(($sfn - 3600))|awk '{print strftime("+00-00-00 %H:%M:%S", $1)}')` echo "$y">/proc/acpi/alarm echo "$y">>$stamp_file echo "executed at `date`" >> $stamp_file exit
This works on a lot of different EPIA and ASUS Motherboards, and is not dependent on the timezone you use in the bios.
Disable hwclock updates (FUSSY BIOS)
If the 'initiate manual' does not work:
Most linux distributions write the current system time back to the bios when shutting down the machine. Some BIOSes refuse to wake up if the hardware clock is modified after the alarm timer has been set. To avoid that the current system time is written back to the hardware clock it required to change your startup scripts. This is distribution specific, so here are some examples:
- Ubuntu & Debian
/etc/init.d/hwclock.sh with the following will fix this problem:
stop|restart|reload|force-reload) ==> ACPITIME=`cat /proc/acpi/alarm` if [ "$HWCLOCKACCESS" != no ] then if [ "$VERBOSE" != no ] then echo "Saving the System Clock time to the Hardware Clock..." fi [ "$GMT" = "-u" ] && GMT="--utc" /sbin/hwclock --systohc $GMT $BADYEAR if [ "$VERBOSE" != no ] then echo "Hardware Clock updated to `date`." fi ==> echo "$ACPITIME" > /proc/acpi/alarm
- Fedora Core 6
/etc/init.d/halt with the following will fix this problem:
==> ACPITIME=`cat /proc/acpi/alarm` [ -x /sbin/hwclock ] && action $"Syncing hardware clock to system time" /sbin/hwclock $CLOCKFLAGS ==> echo "$ACPITIME" > /proc/acpi/alarm
/etc/sysconfig/clock holds a switch to write back system time to the hardware clock
==> SYSTOHC="yes" # Is set to "yes" write back the system time to the hardware # clock at reboot or shutdown. Usefull if hardware clock is # much more inaccurate than system clock. Set to "no" if # system time does it wrong due e.g. missed timer interrupts. # If set to "no" the hardware clock adjust feature is also # skipped because it is rather useless without writing back # the system time to the hardware clock. ==> SYSTOHC="no"
Set wakeup time two times (FUSSY BIOS)
For some motherboards, it is required that you set the wakeup time two times, otherwise it will not wake up.
echo "2005-12-29 10:10:04" >/proc/acpi/alarm && sleep 1 && echo "2005-12-29 10:10:04" >/proc/acpi/alarm
More glitches (FUSSY BIOS)
- Another possible glitch is, that the option 'Resume By Alarm' (or whatever it is called) is set to Enabled but wake up using
/proc/acpi/alarmonly works if the option is set to Disabled. Sounds weird but works with some boards.
- On many boards, when the RTC setting is enabled in the BIOS, it will wake only from a time set and saved from BIOS setup, and not from a time set outside of the BIOS setup environment - as we want. All of the boards the original author of this document needed this setting disabled to correctly wake with ACPI. This is the recommended starting point.
Additional source of info
Extra Information
Activating ACPI support when compiling your own kernel
The setup of /proc/acpi/alarm is done in kernel file drivers/acpi/sleep/proc.c and controlled by the CONFIG_ACPI_SLEEP_PROC_FS flag. You can test support for you architecture by going to you kernel source and do:
$grep -r CONFIG_ACPI_SLEEP_PROC_FS arch/* arch/x86_64/defconfig:CONFIG_ACPI_SLEEP_PROC_FS=y
( Processor type and features ---> [*] Support for hot-pluggable CPUs) so that "CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU=y" in the ".config" file. After this it is possible to set ([*] Sleep States) under ACPI support.
User experience
Moosylog - March 2007: Works fine with MSI RS482M-IL and openSUSE 10.2 after I made the following change to /etc/sysconfig/clock.....SYSTOHC="yes" to SYSTOHC="no".
Turpie: Works great with the Asus M2NPV-VM. Rad: Yep, but needs a recent bios version
Murph - April 2007: Works also great with the Legend QDI Advance 5/133E.
mythwog: No problems with ECS PT890T-A. Simply wrote wake up time to /proc/acpi/alarm, halted, and system wakes up.
Fuchur - August 2007: Had to replace the wakeup script with the one from http://www.mythwiki.de/index.php?title=HOWTO_Mythwelcome as my mythshutdown produces another time format. Otherwise it seems to work so far.
Mattwire - September 2007: Works fine with MSI K8NGM2-FID and NC6120 laptop running Ubuntu Feisty and Gutsy. Both require modification to /etc/init.d/hwclock.sh to save the wakeup time.
Dumdideldum - September 2007: Works with Epox 8rda+ running Ubuntu Feisty. It is important to disable the wakeup on rtc in the Bios and editing the /etc/init.d/hwclock.sh as described in the Ubuntu guide linked in the section below.
Pkendall - September 2007: Works fine with MSI K9NBPM2-FID running Ubuntu Feisty. As above, edit the hwclock.sh file and make sure Bios RTC wakeup is disabled.
Jmwislez - September 2007: Problem with ASUS P5GD1 motherboard (BIOS v1.014). Writing 'echo "2007-09-09 14:15:00" > /proc/acpi/alarm' works perfectly, reading via 'cat /proc/acpi/alarm' yields the expected '2007-09-09 14:15:00', but the system doesn't start at the specified time. After a manually initiated boot, 'cat /proc/acpi/alarm' yields '2007-09-00 14:15:00', with '00' for the day.
Thewizzard - October 2007: Works with MSI K7N2 Delta-ILSR, be sure to use the hwclock.sh script and have it set the time two times.
Spitzbub - December 2007: Works with Biostar NF325-A7, be sure to modify your /etc/init.d/hwclock.sh script (or equivalent) to set the wake-up time again after the --systohc, as described above under Fussy Bios.
Per Olofsson - December 2007: Works very well with Asus P5GC-VM motherboard and Debian lenny with Linux 2.6.22. I don't use the "fussy BIOS" hack since I only suspend the system instead of shutting it down.


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The gist of the case is that Sutter, a pediatrician, had a fee-for-services contract, which required arbitration for all contractual disputes. When Oxford failed to promptly pay him and other physicians, Sutter filed a class action in New Jersey. After filing, the court compelled arbitration. The arbitrator concluded that the contract called for class action arbitration. Sutter appealed to higher courts, but these appeals were denied.
The Supreme Court explained its decision as follows. First, the parties agreed to go to arbitration in their contract. Second, an arbitrator looks at the contract, makes a decision based on the contractual language, and this decision is binding. Thirdly, and most importantly, the Supreme Court explained that judicial review is limited to whether the arbitrator interpreted the contract, not whether the court agreed with the decision. Consequently, because the arbitrator considered the contract, the arbitrator's decision stands. They only way to vacate an arbitral decision is when an arbitrator strayed from his task of interpreting the contract. In other words, not when he performed his task poorly.
As a note: In prior decisions (Steelworkers Trilogy/Misco) in the labor context under the Labor Management Relations Act (LMRA), the Supreme Court had ruled that a contractual language had to explicitly allow class actions in the arbitration clause. Here, the arbitration clause did not do so.
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Finding ways to extend the human lifespan by observing certain diet and lifestyle regimens has been a centuries-old quest. Indeed, our average life expectancy has dramatically increased over time, at least in the wealthier parts of the world, due to improvements in hygiene, health care, and food supply. Yet science has still not been able to provide definite answers to what we can do to live longer.
Studies on longevity in connection with diet and lifestyle were undertaken as early as the 16th century, most notably by one Luigi Cornaro, a Venetian who was known for his hard partying until his health failed him before he reached 50. In his autobiographical book, Discourses on a Sober and Temperate Life, which is still in print today, he claims that a radical change from unrestricted indulgence to Spartan simplicity not only restored his health but also added many more years to his life. He died at 98 -- an exceptionally old age at his time.
A more systematic approach to studying the effects of diet on longevity was taken in the 1930s when scientists noticed that lab mice put on a calorie-restricted diet lived up to 40 per cent longer than their abundantly fed counterparts. But still nobody knew the exact causes of the dramatic lifespan increases, let alone whether the findings were applicable to humans.
Two relatively recent studies tested independently from each other the impact of calorie restriction on health and mortality in rhesus monkeys. Both came up with opposite results.
In 2009, a study report issued by researchers from the University of Wisconsin claimed that a calorie-restricted diet regimen did actually favor longevity in the monkeys. But three years later, scientists at the National Institute of Aging laboratory in Baltimore who conducted similar studies found no evidence that providing their monkeys with less food made any difference in terms of lifespan, as they documented in their own report.
A subsequent dispute between the two research teams over their differing study results continues today.
Regardless of what animal tests are (or are not) able to show, it remains unclear how the outcomes can be made useful for humans.
To understand the effects of calorie restriction, one has to be careful to distinguish between undernutrition, in which all the essential nutrients the body needs to function properly and stay healthy are provided -- albeit by using fewer calories -- and malnutrition, where at least some nutrients are missing, potentially resulting in harmful deficiencies over time. The latter is certainly not recommended and is not likely to have any health benefits, including for longevity.
In the light of what we know about the health effects of diet to date, we can say with reasonable certainty that moderate calorie restriction in support of weight control is healthy and in any case preferable to excessive weight gain, one of the largest health threats looming today. To what extent that implicates life expectancy remains to be seen. More important to realize, however, is the fact that health-promoting diet and lifestyle choices contribute to the quality of life at any age and become even more significant as we grow older.


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Nikodim (Milas) of Dalmatia
Nikodim (Milaš) of Dalmatia (in Serbian:Никодим (Милаш) епископ далматински, April 4, 1845 - April 2, 1915) was the Serbian Orthodox Bishop of Dalmatia from 1890 to 1912. He was also one of the greatest Orthodox canonist in nineteenth century and author of many books about canon and church law.
Nikodim was born in Šibenik as Nikola Milaš. Family of his father Trifun came in Dalmatia from Duvno (Bosnia). His mother Maria was Italian, who embraced Orthodoxy before she married Trifun.
He attented elementary school in a Franciscan monastery, but he was taking lessons in orthodoxy in Bovan's School. Nikola graduated from the Jesuit Gymnasium in Zadar and Serbian Orthodox Theological School in Sremski Karlovci in 1866. He traveled to Russia in 1867. There he was garnted a Master degree in canon law in Kiev Orthodox Theological Academy in 1871. His thesis was:Nomocanon of Patriarch Photius.
After returning to Dalmatia, Nikola was appointed professor by Bishop Stefan (Knežević) in the Theological Orthodox Institute in Zadar. The next year he was appointed rector of the Institute. The following year, Professor Milaš published a study in which he critized the inteference of the Austro-Hungarian governmant in life of Serbian Church.
Professor Nikola Milaš was tonsured on the Forefeast of Nativity 1873. He was given monastic name Nikodim. He was ordained deacon on Nativity. Two years later Dn. Nikodim was ordained presbyter. He was raised to the rank archimandrite in 1880. Under his rule the Theoogical Institute in Zadar became one of the best orthodox schools.
Fr. Nikodim was in correspondence with the greatest canonist of the Orthodox and Roman Catholic church at the time. He was fluent in German, Italian, Russian, Greek, and Latin. After publishing a new study Principles of jurisdiction in Orthodox Church in which he again critized authorities he was forced to renounce his position in 1885.
Archimandrite Nikodim spent two years in Belgrade as rector of Belgrade Seminary, from 1886 to 1887. He returned to Zadar where he finaly published his most importnant book Church and Canon Law. This book was his life work. Even today it is in use in theological studies. In the same year he published other significant book Roman Catholic Propaganda, it's foundation and rules today.
Fr. Nikodim Milaš was elected Bishop of Dalmatia on July 10, 1890 and consecrated on September 16. During his tenure he was forced struggle with aggressive Roman Catholic proselytism and with anti-orthodox authorities. He wrote once: " In Austria, there is a rule since 1868. that Orthodoxy has the same position as all other confessions in state. But the truth is that the Church (Orthodox) was just tolerated."
The reason that Bp. Nikodim wrote his book "Orthodoxy in Dalmatia" was a papal encyiclcal, in which the Pope appealed for union. Greek-Catholic Bishop of Krizevci wrote: "Nobody hates Union as much as Orthodox Dalmatians"
Bp. Nikodim refused elevation on the see of Belgrade and later of Sarajevo, because he was not elected acording to canon law.
Under constant pressure from civil authoriites and other enemies, Bp. Nikodim was forced to retire on December 21 1911. His retirement was accepted on January 19, 1912.
He moved to Dubrovnik. Kiev Orthodox Theological Academy awarded Bp. Nikodim an Honorary Doctorate of Divinity and also proclaimed him it's own honorary member. Bp. Nikodim died on April 2 1915. The only copy of his new book:The Church and the State in Austro-Hungarian Empire disappeared.
- "Historical-Canonical view on establishmant of Serbo-Romanian Metropolis of Bukovina and Dalmatia"(1873)
- "Clerical dignities in the Orthodox Church" 1879;
- "Codex canonum ecclesiae africane" (1881);
- "St. Sava's Kormchya Book" (1884)
- "Das Synodal-Statut der orth. Oriental Metropolie der Bukowina i Dalmatien mit Erläuterungen" (1885),
- "orthodox Church and Canon Law" in six volumes (first edition 1890; second revised edition 1890, translated in Russian 1897, in German 1897, in Bulgarian 1903);
- "Roman Catholic Propaganda, it's foundation and rules today" (1889;translated in Russian 1889, in Bulgarian 1890)
- "Orthodoxy in Dalmatia" historical view (1901);
- "Question of Eastern Church and task of Austria in it " (1889;Next year translated in Romanian and German)
- "Principles of jurisdiction in Orthodox Church"
- "Orthodox Monasticism" Mostar 1902;
- "Slavic Apostles Ss. Cyril and Methodius"
- "Rules (Κανόνες) of Orthodox Church with coments" (I 1895, II 1896)
- "Documenta spectantia historiam orthodoxae dioeceseos Dalmatiae et Istriae a XV usque ad XIX saeculum" (I, 1899),
Nikodim (Milas) of Dalmatia
|Preceded by:
Stefan (Knežević)
|Bishop of Dalmatia and Istra
|Succeeded by:
Dimitrije (Branković)


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Excerpted from "Islamic Principles and Rules of Debate"
Al-Manara 1994
"A debate is only justified to unveil truth, so that the more knowledgeable should impart knowledge to the less knowledgeable, and to stimulate a weaker intellect." - adh-Dhahabi
"I never talked with someone but sincerely wished that Allah guard him, protect him from sin and misdeed, and guide him; and I never debated with someone but sincerely wished that we would come upon truth, regardless of whether he or I should be the one to think of it first." - Imam al-Shafi`i
"Cooperation in seeking truth is inherent to religion, but sincerity in the pursuit of truth can be distinguished y certain conditions and signs. A diligent seeker of truth may be compared to one who is looking for his lost camel. It would be immaterial for him if he or another person should be the one to find it. Likewise, a sincere truth-seeker would perceive his partner as a helper rather than an adversary, and would be grateful to him if he should guide him to truth." - Al-Ghazali
If quoting, maintain accuracy; if claiming, provide proof. [An aphorism of Muslim scholars]
"Some scholars used to excuse anyone who disagrees with them in debatable matters, and did not insist that he should accept their view." - Ibn Qudama [Al-Mughni]
"My viewpoint is right, but can be wrong; and my adversary's viewpoint is wrong, but can be right." [An aphorism of Muslim scholars]
"I have never debated with a knowledgeable person but beaten him, and I have never debated with an ignorant person but been beaten by him." - Imam al-Shafi`i
"Let each one of the debaters accept statements of the other party supported with proof. By doing that, he would demonstrate a nobility and self-respect, and he would prove himself to be an acceptor of truth." - Ibn Akeel
"Over-enthusiasm is a mark of corrupted scholars, even when the case they are defending is true. By showing excessive enthusiasm for truth and their contempt of their opponents, the latter would be stimulated to retaliate and react in the same manner. They would be driven to stand for falsehood and to be true to the label attributed to them. If the champions of truth had spoken kindly to them avoiding publicity and humiliation they would have succeeded in winning them over. But as it is, a person who enjoys a place of prestige is strongly inclined to preserve his position by attracting followers, and the only way to that is to boast and to attack or curse adversaries." - Al-Ghazali
"I never debate with someone and he accepts my proof except that I hold him in high esteem, and I never debate with someone and he refuses my proof except that I lose all esteem for him." - Imam al-Shafi`i
"If you sit with scholars, my son, be more interested in listening than in speaking. Learn good listening just as you learn good speaking. Never interrupt a speaker, even if he takes long, until he comes to an end." -Advice of Al-Hasan ibn Ali (radhiallahu `anhu) to his son.
"Learn good listening just as you learn good speaking. To be a good listener, you should give a speaker time until he concludes, not seeming anxious to reply. Have your face and look in the direction of the speaker and try to understand what he says." - Ibn al-Muqaffa`


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More police are on social media now than ever. In a survey by the International Association of Chiefs of Police, nearly 96 percent of the 500 law enforcement agencies surveyed use social media. I looked through a number of resources for police that are using social media, and put together this GovGirl video highlighting three prominent tools.
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Another free tool is Social Mention. Cops can use this site for "situational awareness," the passive use of social media that allows for the monitoring of public sentiment and concerns before and during emergencies. Enter your department's name or hot issue, and you can learn what hashtags are hot and who the power users are in your area.
This is a Web resource by the International Association of Chiefs of Police. The site provides excellent advice, but my favorite feature is the directory of U.S. law enforcement agencies with the most Facebook likes. It's not a popularity contest, but police can learn a lot by exploring the pages of agencies that have a very large following on social media – like the Brimfield, Ohio, Police Department, for example.
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|I. The Intro: Cecil, Kain, and Castle Baron.
Items to Find: Bomb Ring (automatic), 480 Gil, Ether, Tent.
Suggested Starting Level: 10 (automatic)
After beginning a new game, you immediately meet the Dark Knight named Cecil, who is head of the Air Force for the Kingdom of Baron. Having recently seized the Water Crystal from a town named Mysidia, the Air Force flies back to the kingdom to deliver the crystal to the King, although Cecil obviously disapproves of the strong-arm tactic the King has chosen to use in his seizure of the crystal.
After fighting some monsters (automatically), Cecil has the crafts landed and talks to the King and his Chancellor. Obviously displeased, the King dismisses Cecil from his command and orders him to deliver a Bomb Ring to a neighboring town. Cecil's friend Kain steps in on his behalf and is ordered to accompany Cecil on his trip.
Once you have control of Cecil, talk to all in the rooms around you, including Kain who will get Cecil in better spirits. Down into the next area, go to the right and talk to the guard who will tell you to press the switch on the wall in order to open the room behind him, where you'll find three treasure chests. Within them are 480 Gil, an Ether, and a Tent. Some good early game goods, and cash to buy more!
The stairs going down to the right and left of the main pathway here are areas you can learn about black and white magic. Going to the right will lead you to a tower that's "off limits," although everyone in this and other areas in the castle should be spoken to so you can learn more information about what's going on with the King! On the left side of the castle, you can visit the jail (where some Mysidian mages are being kept) and ultimately get to your room in the tower adjacent to the Red Wings' housing. You'll run into two characters too - Rosa and Cid.
Once in Cecil's room, the Dark Knight will fall asleep only to awaken in the middle of the night by Rosa, who says goodbye to him. After their conversation and the night's passing, Cecil awakens and goes to the center part of the castle, where he and Kain leave to begin their journey to Mist. And so our game begins.
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Look, talking about bowel health isn't pleasant, which is why it's relegated to squeamish doctor's visits, euphemistic Pepto Bismol ads scored by fart symphonies, and the pencil-mustachioed, infomercial snake oil purveyor Klee Irwin, but we need to talk about it because, well, it's important. It's especially important if it turns out that medical, ahem, marijuana can ease the symptoms of diarrhea, which palliative effect on your digestive system may be the one thing that will finally make smoking weed completely uncool.
The Weed Blog happily reports that marijuana can be an effective treatment for mud butt, which is apparently a thing people call diarrhea when they want to be especially vivid. How do we know this is true? People in India have apparently been using marijuana as a bowel regulator since 1886, although back then they used it as part of formula comprised of "cannabis tincture, chloroform and morphine." Wild. Nowadays, just smoking weed sans heavy opiates should do the trick (if you trust the weed bloggers for medical advice). Weed can also be used, adds The Village Voice, to treat sundry other gastrointestinal ailments, such as loose stool (sorry) and Crohn's disease. Moreover, it might also be used to help make cold leftovers from two-day-old Greek take-out delicious, thereby obviating the need to reheat said leftovers and saving you money on your energy bill. Ipso facto, smoking weed is good for the environment, too.
Medical Marijuana: Can It Treat Diarrhea? [Village Voice]
Does Medical Marijuana Help Treat Diarrhea [The Weed Blog]
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I recently had my daughter Giselle's first birthday party and I thought I would share the results. The theme was princessy with lots of hits of pink and royal purples. I made the cake, matching cookies, cake pops, chocolate lolly pops and macaroons all to coordinate with the theme.
I used mirrors and different shaped glass containers for the display. Martini glasses held pink or purple candies, a large square vase doubled as a biscotti cookie jar, smaller vases held pink and purple chocolate lolly pops while two trifle bowls were filled with homemade french macaroons and berry salad. I tied the tall vases with ribbon to match the tulips, one was dedicated to pink and one to purple. "
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|Miniature daffodils are in full bloom.
Here in my USDA Hardiness Zone 6a garden in central Indiana, I have decided Spring is early this year.
To verify this, I went back through all my old bloom day posts - 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015. The only year that comes close if you look at flowers blooming around March 15th is 2012.
I also checked the temperature records for past years, including 2012, at least what I recorded, and determined the last frost in 2012 was quite early for us, around April 11th. Normally, we can't be assured of being frost free until around May 10th and I recall one year we had frost on May 25th.
So what will happen this year? Will we see our last frost in less than a month? Or will we have frost into May. No telling!
And since there is no telling, I'll just enjoy the blooms as they come because I can't make them slow down or speed up.
I've been enjoying crocuses for weeks, it seems, including these crocuses which looked much better a few days ago before they got rained on all day.
The forsythia are blooming, in spite of the rain.
Normally, I don't plant violas and pansies in pots until after St. Patrick's Day.
The hyacinth are blooming ahead of schedule, too.
Elsewhere in the garden, the Lenten Roses, Hellebores sp. are in full bloom.
Would it be wrong to hide white eggs in the garden on Easter?
I'm sure by the time Easter arrives, there will be plenty of blooms and plenty of hiding places for colored eggs. I look forward to the day.
What's blooming in your garden as Spring gets underway? Why don't you join in for Garden Bloggers' Bloom Day and show us?
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The voluntary plan allows landlords to call the Cincinnati fire department for a free inspection. Apartments and homes passing the inspection will be placed on a list maintained by the city that will be available for anyone looking for housing, The Cincinnati Enquirer reported.
City Councilwoman Laure Quinlivan came up with the idea after a fire killed University of Cincinnati students Chad Kohls and Ellen Garner on Jan. 1. She said the two students' families and friends pushed for creation of a safe housing list.
The list isn't available yet, but the first inspections began this past week.
Quinlivan said the list is intended as an incentive for landlords, and Cincinnati Fire Chief Richard Braun said it provides an opportunity to improve safety for students and other Cincinnati residents.
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Student Jaclyn Hyde said the fire that killed Kohls and Garner changed what students and their parents want in housing and safety is paramount.
UC has at least 4,000 students living in off-campus housing, according to university officials. The university plans to provide UC students and parents the link to the Cincinnati Safe Student Housing list.
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A day or so in my life as an archaeologist working for English Heritage.
Started off by working at home at Haslemere in Surrey, eating toast with tea while dealing with e-mails with Radio 4 providing the background noise. As usual, was mildly distracted by Frankly the cat who views my attempts to sit down and work at a laptop as his cue to demand food with menaces and then attention, generally in that order.
E-mails give me a few things to deal with before I do anything else. There are corrections to check on a chapter I helped to write for the forthcoming book on the Elizabethan Garden reconstruction at Kenilworth Castle. I was involved in organising the programme of archaeological and architectural research that contributed to the project, and I've co-written the archaeological chapter with Joe Prentice of Northamptonshire Archaeology, who directed the excavations, and Brian Dix, garden archaeologist extraordinaire, who advised throughout. Not much left to do – just checking that the photographs are in the right order, have the right numbers and captions, and are available in the right format for reproduction.
That done, I moved on to deal with some work on our forthcoming organisational restructuring. It's no secret that English Heritage took a huge hit in last year's government Comprehensive Spending Review. The organisation is having to deal with the impact of a net 35% cut in our grant from government. I can't say a great deal about what is currently going on, but it will come as no surprise to learn that many jobs are being lost, and that I and many of my colleagues will be put formally 'at risk' in the autumn, and will have to apply for a smaller number of jobs in the restructured National Heritage Protection group. We've been through such reorganisations before, and I know the stress that this puts my colleagues through, but the scale and scope of these changes is greater than anything we've seen so far. A lot of colleagues are having to consider other career options and paths; an unsettling time for us all.
After a couple of hours, time to trek to the station to catch the 11am to Waterloo. I've been taking a few pictures to illustrate this blog, and drew pitying looks from fellow travellers as I took a photograph of the train as it came into Haslemere station. I'm a blogger, not a trainspotter….
The train was fairly full, but got a seat and used the time to write up the blog of the day so far. Also did a little more on the draft publication strategy and synopsis for the Windsor Castle updated project design. I worked at Windsor from 1989 to 1995. We started off in the Round Tower, the shell keep that stands on top of the 11th-century motte, excavating and recording the structures as part of a major engineering project.
We'd just finished that project and evacuated our site office in November 1992 when fire broke out in the Upper Ward. That was the start of a huge programme of salvage and architectural analysis, with some excavation involved too.
The assessment of these large project archives was largely complete by the end of 1998, but work has been on hold then for a number of reasons. I've been in deep discussion with my colleague and good friend Dr Steven Brindle over the last few months, and the next stage is to get in touch with all the project specialists to let them know that the analysis may finally be about to happen. Hence the publication strategy, so they can see what we're asking them to do. By Guildford my seat was surrounded by loud and excitable children, and I was bitterly regretting having left my i-pod in my bag, which was overhead and thus inaccessible.
By bus to our Waterhouse Square offices in Holborn, where I find a seat among friends in London Region. Here I dealt with a variety of business by e-mail, including mundane admin tasks such as approving invoices and expenses. Fortunately we have quite good electronic systems for dealing with such things, so they were finished very quickly. The online press summary included a link to a Telegraph opinion piece on the listing of London tube stations. I tweeted the link with my own comments, and was later gratified to learn that my comment "Entertainingly daft Torygraph rant" appeared on the relevant page of the Telegraph website. A small but pleasing result. At this point I lost the use of the camera; my chum Dr Jane Sidell was off to give a walking tour of Roman London, and borrowed the camera to record the event.
I also had to draft a response to a member of the public who had written to say that she was disappointed to learn that we aren't running the Fort Cumberland Festival of British Archaeology event this year. I explained that this was as disappointing to us as it was to her; our free FOBA weekend event has been very popular, usually attracting c. 2000 people over a weekend to enjoy a range of archaeological and related activities. We enjoy it as much as the visitors do. We had to take the difficult decision not to hold the event this year in late 2010; by then it was already clear that we would be in the middle of a major reorganisation, and in that context it seemed unfair to ask colleagues to commit their time and energies to planning the event at a time when they were likely to be severely distracted by other events. We hope to be able to reinstate the event next year, resources permitting…
At 2pm, I took part in a Portico project team meeting. Portico is a project that aims to provide up-to-date research content on the English Heritage website for our historic properties. Enhanced content is already online for all of the free sites, and the first sets of pages for 12 of the pay sites are now available. An introduction to the project with links to the available content is available at (insert link). We were updated on progress, which remains good; the first batch of site information is now online, and all of it has been or is being updated with links to online resources. Another batch of sites is nearly ready to go online, including Susan Greaney's excellent Stonehenge pages. The next stage of the project is currently being planned; I may have volunteered to write up one or two sites myself. A day conference is being planned for London next April to promote the project. The introductory page on the EH site shows the content that's available so far – http://www.english-heritage.org.uk/professional/archives-and-collections/portico/about/
Following the meeting I had a very useful discussion with Christopher Catling about the National Planning Policy Framework, which is currently out for consultation. I think we agreed that it's a huge improvement on the earlier practioners' draft, preserving more of PPS5, but there are still some concerns, including the assumption in favour of development that permeates the document.
After that, there was time to check e-mails and deal with a few more bits of business before catching the train home. This included correspondence relating to one of last year's fieldwork projects, on the Romano-British settlement around Silbury Hill, and the forthcoming excavation at Wrest Park in Bedfordshire, where we'll be digging up parts of the French Parterre to assist in its restoration.
That was Thursday 28th July – I decided to write it up for Day of Archaeology as I was taking today off. In the event, I took a trip to Corfe Castle, which I haven't been to for far too long. Despite the long queues of holiday traffic, it was a useful and hugely enjoyable visit. I always particularly enjoy the path up to the keep, which passes through the tumbled remains of the demolished sections of the keep. It's very evocative of the sheer scale of destruction on this site.
The degree of destruction caused by slighting varies from site to site; this would appear to be off the vindictive end of the scale. The site is looking very good, but I was very disappointed by the new interpretation panels, full of rubbishy unhistorical cliches. The panel about 'oubliettes' was the worst example. It went on about the agonies of the poor prisoners abandoned in deep pit prisons. The work of Peter Brears has, of course, demonstrated beyond reasonable doubt that such structures are strong-rooms, for the safe storage of documents, money and other valuables. The reason that they often have well-lit chambers with fireplaces above them is not to provide accommodation for the better-off prisoners, but to provide a room for the clerk or steward to work in. Worst of all, having conjured up imaginary sufferings in imaginary oubliettes, the panel finished by admitting that no such chamber survived at Corfe. So the point of this rubbish was…..? Rant over.
I took some time looking at the evidence for the destruction of the site, which is a particular interest of mine. This was the subject of the thesis of a friend of mine, Dr Lila Rakoczy, and since reading her work I've become more interested in looking at the evidence for how buildings were demolished. The walls at Corfe have certainly been undermined, but there's no clear evidence for the use of gunpowder, despite the claims on a number of panels that the site was 'blown up'. The surviving unused sap at the base of the keep's latrine tower is a simple horizontal rectangular slot, which I think argues for the use of the 'burnt timber prop' method of undermining – i.e. using timbers to prop up the wall as the sap is excavated, and then burning them out to bring down the mass of masonry above. Drawings of near-contemporary saps used for explosive undermining, e.g. in Vauban's work, show that these saps tend to be hollowed out behind a small opening in the outer face of the wall, to contain the blast and thus maximise the effect of the explosion on the masonry. A bit anorakish, but it keeps me happy.
After that, I enjoyed a much faster and prettier drive home by avoiding the main roads. So there you have it – two days for the price of one, and I got to see some archaeology on one of them.
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United Nations chief Ban Ki-moon urged Israel yesterday to refrain from provocative actions at a "crucial time" in the Israeli-Palestinian peace process, as a September deadline set for a peace deal fast approaches.
"The target dates for reaching an Israeli-Palestinian agreement on permanent status issues and completing the Palestinian Authority's two-year state-building program are fast-approaching," said Mr. Ban, speaking at a regional UN meeting in Latin America, where support for Palestinian sovereignty runs high. "Yet, the Israeli-Palestinian negotiations remain at a worrying standstill."
Specifically, the UN secretary-general called on Israel to halt settlement construction in the West Bank, calling its occupation "politically unsustainable." He also urged Israel to ease the blockade on Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip, which Israel has defended as crucial to preventing weapons from flowing into the hands of militants.
"Actions that prejudge the outcome of the process must stop, including Israel's continued settlement construction in the West Bank and East Jerusalem, which is illegal under international law and which contradicts the road map," said Ban. "Demolitions of Palestinian homes in East Jerusalem and the forced transfer of its Palestinian residents erode trust. … There must also be strong action against incitement or glorification of violent acts."
Israel and Gaza militants have been engaged in a nearly two-week spate of violent clashes along the border that mark the worst violence since the 2009 Gaza war – and herald, some say, another conflict.
The Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) confirmed that it killed a Palestinian gunman and injured another on a motorcycle in a strike today on the Gaza Strip. The IDF said the men had launched a short-range rocket across the border into Israel Tuesday.
Palestinian factions, whose actions are not always coordinated with Hamas or each other, made contradictory statements about who was responsible. Islamic Jihad, a militant Palestinian faction, claimed the men as their fighters, but said the men were on their way to prayers at a mosque at the time Israel fired. Later, a group linked to Al Qaeda, Tawheed And Jihad, claimed the Tuesday rocket attack, Reuters reports.
On Wednesday, Israeli forces also bombed a smuggling tunnel Gazans use to evade the blockade imposed on them, witnesses told Reuters.
Hamas offered Israel a truce on Saturday in an effort to prevent a wider Israeli assault on Gaza, but Gaza militants and Israel have continued trading fire.
On March 25 Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Israel was prepared to use "great force" against rocket and mortar attacks, Al Jazeera notes, and on Sunday an Israeli air strike killed two Gazan fighters. The strike prompted al-Quds Brigade, Islamic Jihad's armed wing, to threaten retaliation.
The recent clashes resemble the pattern of violence that escalated into the 2009 Israeli incursion into Gaza, an Israeli official warned last week. Still, both Israeli and Palestinian rulers seem reluctant to enter into a full-blown conflict on par with that one, The Christian Science Monitor reported on March 24.
Still, with both governments facing wary populaces, it appears unlikely for now that the violence will quickly escalate into a full-blown war. Gazans still blame Hamas for escalating the deadly war two years ago. And Israeli officials – despite absorbing a week of rocket attacks and yesterday's Jerusalem bombing that killed one person and injured 30 – find the idea of a broad offensive unappealing at a time when the peace process is moribund and the region is awash in protests. …
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Economists had anticipated May would show signs the economy was putting the weak start to 2014 behind it, especially since the U.S. reported Wednesday that its output had grown by four per cent annualized during the April to June period.
But the May uptick was a little faster than even analysts had anticipated, suggesting a second quarter number of 2.5 per cent that will be bigger and in line with what had previously been considered an overly optimistic forecast by the Bank of Canada.
Analysts said the result takes the sting out of the first quarter slowdown to 1.2 per cent annualized growth and the unexpectedly weak 0.1 per cent monthly gain of April that had economists downgrading expectations for the second quarter as well.
"Looking further ahead, yesterday's stronger-than-expected preliminary U.S. real GDP reading, combined with an improving U.S. labour market, confirms our expectation of an acceleration in economic activity stateside," TD Bank economist Jonathan Bendiner said in a note to clients.
"This augurs well for Canada's export sector, which will increasingly be relied upon to fuel economic growth as domestic sources of growth are likely to wane."
There is already evidence the strong U.S. bounce is lifting Canadian economic activity.
The big winner in May was goods production, which rose 0.5 per cent and especially the auto sector that is dependent on exporting to the U.S. market. The auto assembly industry advanced by 13.5 per cent.
Overall, the troubled manufacturing sector, which is also export dependent, had a good month with a gain of 0.8 per cent from April.
While the results were encouraging for the Canadian economy ahead, analysts said they were unlikely to influence the Bank of Canada's position on interest rates since they are in line with its expectations.
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Swiss forensics examiners found sufficient traces of the deadly radioactive isotope polonium-210 in the exhumed remains of Yasser Arafat to conclude with relative certainty that the late Palestinian leader died of poisoning in 2004, Al Jazeera channel reported Wednesday.
The Qatar-based broadcaster said it had obtained exclusive access to the 108-page report of the University Center of Legal Medicine in Lausanne, which it posted on its website.
Examination of bone fragments, decomposed tissue and body fluids taken from Arafat's remains at his West Bank tomb a year ago found at least 18 times the normal level of polonium, the Swiss scientists reported.
The Swiss team was one of three given forensic material for investigation after Arafat's widow, Suha, gave Al Jazeera access to the late Palestinian leader's personal effects and medical records in 2011 in hopes of determining his cause of death, the network said. Results of the other two probes, by Russian and French experts, have yet to be reported.
Arafat died Nov. 11, 2004, at 75, less than a month after suddenly falling ill with what doctors then thought to be influenza. But the vomiting, nausea and abdominal pain that he complained of are also symptoms of radiation poisoning -- a little-known hazard prior to its use to kill KGB defector Alexander Litvinenko in London in November 2006, Al Jazeera noted.
The network's extensive report on the Swiss findings quoted renowned British forensic scientist Dave Barclay as saying he was "wholly convinced that Arafat was murdered."
"Yasser Arafat died of polonium poisoning," Barclay said he concluded from the Swiss findings. "We found the smoking gun that caused his death. What we don't know is who's holding the gun at the time."
No cause of death was announced, nor was an autopsy performed, by doctors at the Percy Hospital in Paris, where Arafat was airlifted from Ramallah and spent his last days in a coma. While there were immediate suspicions of foul play voiced at the time of his death, it was only after the Litvinenko case came to light that pressure built for French judicial authorities to open a formal inquiry into whether the Palestine Liberation Organization founder might have been killed.
Arafat's rivals for power within the fractious Palestinian communities and Israeli officials who branded the PLO leader a "terrorist" were among the chief suspects.
After disclosure of the Swiss findings, Israeli Foreign Ministry spokesman Yigal Palmor, anticipating accusations, told journalists in Jerusalem that the Israeli government had no hand in Arafat's death.
"It has nothing to do with Israel," Palmor said.
He said the investigation and its conclusion were "full of holes," and pointed to the Swiss report's equivocation in determining that there was only "moderate" evidence that the PLO leader was poisoned to death.
"This whole story is ludicrous and entirely without credibility," the Israeli spokesman said, dismissing the Russian and Swiss investigations as having been commissioned by "interested parties."
Suha Arafat, who was provided a copy of the forensics report at her home in Paris on Tuesday, reacted to the findings with renewed grief.
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She also said it was too soon to "point a finger at anyone," and that she would wait for the results of the French investigation before drawing any conclusions about who or what agency was behind her husband's death.
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The US Department of Justice has dropped a controversial proposed ruling that would have allowed them to say that records don't exist when, in fact, they do – a response that in the vernacular might simply be called lying.
"The Justice Department decided that misleading the American people would be wrong, and made the right decision to pull the proposed regulation," wrote Senator Chuck Grassley, a Republican from Iowa, in a response to the DoJ's decision.
Grassley had a dog in this fight. On October 28, he sent a letter to Attorney General Eric Holder in response to proposed DoJ guidelines that would permit that department to respond to citizens' Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests by claiming that the materials being requested simply did not exist.
The 1966 FOIA has been an effective tool for journalists and others to pierce the veil of government secrecy by providing access to information that formed the basis for a host of revelations such as FBI surveillance of activists, the lack of post-war planning in the run-up to the Iraq war, and government deception in the notorious 1964 Gulf of Tonkin incident that helped launch the Vietnam War.
The specific proposal to which Grassley – and many others – objected to was published in the Federal Register in March. It read: "When a [FOIA office] applies an exclusion to exclude records from the requirements of the FOIA ... the [office] utilizing the exclusion will respond to the request as if the excluded records did not exist."
This regulation would have been a strengthening of what has become known as a "Glomar response", named after a ruling that allowed the government to withhold information about the Soviet sub–hunting Glomar Explorer to a Los Angeles Times reporter in 1968.
The Glomar response essentially grants the government the right to not merely deny a FOIA request, but to issue a "neither confirm nor deny" response – a right that has been repeatedly challenged in court, but never rescinded.
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There's a subtle power to sound, it goes straight to the brain and a skilled musician can motivate visions, emotions and even physical responses in their listeners. Alan Lomax's book, The Land Where the Blues Began, has a great description of how the old blues players would work the crowd with their songs. By choosing music that fit what they needed, they'd get the audience into a rhythm and watch how they reacted to the music, when the time was right they'd sing lyrics that expressed what they wanted from the crowd, if it was money they'd sing about getting money, if it was food or drink they'd do the same, if they wanted someone to take home after the show, well it was just a matter of choosing the right song.
Speculative Exomusicology
While doing research for an Alarm Magazine article on "Audible Color" I had the opportunity to speak with Professor William Sethares of the University of Wisconsin at Madison. Sethares studies acoustical engineering and has spent a number of years looking at how sound is interpreted by the listener.
One of the interesting things to come out of this study is his idea of speculative exomusicology, a thought experiment that looks to recreate music from outside the Earth. This concept helps Sethares move past traditional boundaries of musical structure and allows him free reign to play with the mathematical underpinnings of tone, harmony and timbre themselves.
Immediately I think of Sun Ra and his Afro-Futurist explorations of Egyptian magic, idealized Africa and the Celestial Spaces. Talking to Sethares was an opportunity to better understand the ability to build structures and landscapes with sound and to open up new spaces through music.
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Looking at the Swans upcoming album the same can be applied to what Michael Gira has been doing. The vocals seem to drift in this landscape of sound. He looks at sound in a very physical way, and builds up layers of aural expression as one might layer stone on stone to build a wall. If you go back through the Swans catalog you can hear this interesting development of visceral sound experimentation. In his solo work, and his work with The Angels of Light, he was able to really explore the art of song-craft. On My Father Will Guide Me Up a Rope to Heaven he brings it all together with powerful results.
Jhonn Balance and Peter Christopherson of Coil used their idea of sidereal sounds to build transcelestial landscapes with their music, Medieval polyphony excites images of harmony and utopian ideals, and singers like Rene Zosso bring alive the Troubadours' highly visual music. The more I think about it, the more I start seeing the same in most artists who have truly mastered their medium. This is especially true when you look at traditional music from around the world.
Knowledge of sound's ability to build images in the mind, and create landscapes that one can travel through, seems to only be missing in the lowest forms of pop music. Most serious musicians are adept at utilizing this, spiritual movements have taken advantage of this power to bring glimpses of theophanic visions to the believer, and national movements have built idealized dreams of their nation-states on songs.
An hour or so on the phone with Professor Sethares and my mind was racing with the possibilities. Even in the visual arts the same mastery of the medium is possible. Austin Osman Spare was able to achieve this effect with his subtle use of color and ephemeral line work. Talented writers and poets do it with words. Ezra Pound's poem Sestina Altaforte has a good example of the recognition of this process, with Pound declaring at the beginnig:
En Bertans de Born. Dante Alighieri put this man in hell for that he was a stirrer up of strife. Eccovi! Judge ye! Have I dug him up again?
Here we have Pound pointing to the power of words to resurrect the dead. The duration of the reanimation would seem dependent on the artists ability to create a lasting work to carry the intention.
Integrating Sound and Image
Another enlightening exchange that came from the research was an email interview with Bryan Michael of Alka. He discussed the interplay between sound and image, and the process of integrating the two during a performance.
According to Bryan "the idea of both the visual and musical elements being conceived at the same time seems important. The trick is finding someone that can interpret and translate the tones into viewable elements without them being typical screenplay-style interpretations of the emotions evoked." Having experienced this myself during the production process and live exhibits of A Serious Inquiry into the Vulgar Notion of Nature it was very helpful to hear how he tackled the ups and downs of the process.
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This combination provides an interesting area of investigation. Sound itself is capable of so much, combined with visual elements of the same caliber and you get something like Stravinsky and Roerich's presentation of the Rite of Spring. How can we translate this in contemporary terms?
Learning more about Brian's interest in Gematria and Pythagorean musical ideas also opened up areas that I wasn't very familiar with. "The idea of reducing words and incantations to their numerical equivalency and plugging the data into sequencers for audible results" is something that he is working with more. It seems like an idea that has a number of applications across the artistic spectrum, and closely tied to the same techniques that allowed the old blues players to be so effective.
Planetshifter Magazine was kind enough to host the full interview with Bryan, so check it out and learn more about Sound and Incantation – Digital Art as Alchemy.
Broke Incantation
And on an end note – here's my own Broke Incantation, the latest bit of dabbling I've done while experimenting with awkward home recordings:


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Endura boot blk 301l 14mn endura
Designed for work and hospitality. Endura features Rossi's Endura rubber sole for maximum comfort and durability. It's heat resistant to 300oC and slip, oil and acid resistant. Combine this with our polyurethane air cushion mid sole and moulded cushioning footbed and you have an ultra comfortable boot you can wear all day, no matter what the work.
Design Features:
Extra strong leather rear pull tab. Reinforced backstrap. Durable sole, heat rated to 300ºC. For Work and Hospitality.
Full grain black oily leather
Double stitched elastic panels
Polyurethane contoured comfort
Rossi Endura Air Cushion