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According to Citrix, computing should make things possible — not impose constraints. Organizations should have the flexibility to place personnel wherever they're needed, whenever the need arises, and not be bound by rigid IT infrastructures. Information and IT resources should flow easily to the workers and locations that can get them done most efficiently, rather than being locked in place due to concerns about security and manageability. People should be free to choose the ideal place and time and device to get their work done most effectively, instead of being forced to come to a specific location on a set schedule. Possibilities like these are the essence of workshifting — and they're changing the way today's organizations do business.
Simply put, workshifting is a strategy based on getting work done in the right place by the right people at the right time. This can take many forms — and deliver a wide range of business benefits. Business processes or entire departments can be moved to new locations to tap into a broader labor pool, including employees, contractors and outsourcing or offshoring providers, to improve productivity and customer service. Mergers, acquisitions and branch office expansion can be completed more quickly and seamlessly to support business growth. Operations can be moved from one location to another — or even to a different location for each worker — in the event of a disruption to ensure business continuity. Data and applications can be centralized and completely independent of an endpoint device to improve security and manageability. Teleworking and desk-sharing programs can reduce facility and real estate costs. A more flexible work experience can help the organization recruit and retain skilled employees, improve job satisfaction and reduce turnover costs.
Given benefits like these, the question becomes: Why haven't we been workshifting all along? In the past, traditional IT computing infrastructure simply couldn't provide the flexibility, security or manageability workshifting required. Then virtual computing changed everything. Workshifting is made possible through virtual computing, a model developed by Citrix® for centralizing IT resources and delivering them as a secure, high-definition service that enables users to work whenever, wherever on whatever device.
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WINCHESTER civic chiefs are looking to invest £6 million in boosting start-up businesses across the district.
The city council has set aside the seven-figure sum to buy property from which to launch at least one 'enterprise centre,' with the potential to support an estimated 100-200 jobs.
The initiative aims to help new businesses establish themselves before moving on after at most 18 months thus freeing up space for new ones.
One potential building that has been ruled out is Avalon House, the former council planning office, that has been empty for more than five years.
The council is due to make an announcement tomorrow (WED) that it has been let for health-related use.
City councillor Stephen Godfrey, portfolio holder for finance, said: "We are looking at opportunities to buy properties in Winchester or elsewhere such as Alresford or Bishop's Waltham. We would make them available as small start-up centres to encourage enterprise on short leases on favourable terms to help grow their business, a kind of incubator."
He said the background was the need to ensure Winchester retained a diverse economy and does not become a dormitory town for the retired or commuters.
Cllr Godfrey added: "We need to make sure than high-quality employment is attracted to Winchester, money is generated and spent locally, there will be more business rates and people do not have to commute elsewhere.
"It will give us more sustainability so the next time there is an economic downturn more firms will survive.
"We are trying to make sure Winchester does not become just a heritage centre, stuck in aspic. We have to make sure we retain the character without losing its economic strength."
He said in the long-term it was unclear whether the council would look to sell the centres or see them as generating revenue.
The council has been in talks with the Winchester Business Improvement District, chamber of commerce and the Solent and M3 Local Enterprise Partnerships.
One potential site could be the Woolstaplers' Hall in Silver Hill as well as buildings on the Winnall industrial estate.
One million pounds was set aside the spending this financial year, with £5m in 2014-15. It looks unlikely the £1m will be spent in the next three months, said Cllr Godfrey.


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For Casey's small family party, we decided to employ our woodsy backyard and warm-enough January weather to enjoy a simple-but-enchanting woodland celebration.
We used natural elements from our backyard including pine cones and tree bark to set the table, accompanied by baskets, mason jar glasses and a drop cloth table covering. A chocolate ganache cake nestled in a bed of moss, as did the birch tree straws. I made the acorn and flag bunting strung between the trees out of colored card stock and twine.
My talented husband crafted and set up an A-Frame tent (using a tutorial from A Beautiful Mess) with twinkle lights over my favorite quilt, which was a dreamy place to play after cake and ice cream sundaes. The children spent hours imagining themselves as forest creatures thanks to the handmade felt woodland animal masks, and the birthday boy wore a felt bird feather crown. Other activities included trying their hand at the new wooden balance beam (also made by my husband), swinging on tree swings, coloring woodland scenes with colored twig pencils, and finding new places to explore in the outdoors.
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Thanks, Sharon! Readers, visit Sharon at Simply Montessori.
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Diversity in America: Keeping the Government at a Safe Distance
Remaking the American Mainstream: Assimilation and Contemporary Immigration
Grutter v. Bollinger
Gratz v. Bollinger
Thanks to Sandra Day O'Connor, affirmative action is still alive. Race can continue to be a factor in university admissions, although not as explicitly as it sometimes was in the past. But resistance to affirmative action remains strong, particularly within the Bush administration. The Court's recent decision will very likely face serious challenges, some of them hardly mentioned in comments on the decision so far.
By now the principal findings of the Court are well known. In the decision concerning the University of Michigan Law School, Grutter v. Bollinger, race can be a "plus" in law school admissions, so long as every candidate receives "individualized" scrutiny. In Gratz v. Bollinger, Michigan's method for admitting undergraduates was held to be unlawful since it automatically gave extra points to persons of certain racial or ethnic origins. The books under review are useful for understanding the challenges to the Court's decision that are bound to arise.
Affirmative action largely concerns race. Michigan and other universities call Hispanics and American Indians "underrepresented minorities," but the primary aim of preferential policies has been to increase the number of black students on campuses. In 1994, a white applicant to the University of Texas School of Law named Cheryl Hopwood filed a suit contending that she had been rejected by the law school because of her race. She found that black candidates with lower grades and scores than hers had been given places, one of which, she felt, should have been hers. The school replied that it had the right to encourage diversity among its students.
Two years later, however, a federal appeals court upheld Hopwood's suit, saying that the school "may not use race as a factor in deciding which applicants to admit in order to achieve a diverse student body." It based its decision chiefly on a new reading of both the Fourteenth Amendment's "equal protection" clause and the Civil Rights Act of 1964, where the operative words are "no person shall, on the ground of race, color, or national origin, be subjected to discrimination under any activity receiving Federal financial assistance."
The original aim of both the Fourteenth Amendment and the Civil Rights Act was to protect black Americans, who were being denied opportunities and benefits because of their race. Even so, the appeals court ruled that the law school had abrogated Cheryl Hopwood's right to "equal protection" since she was discriminated against for being white. Under no circumstances, the court held, could race, white or black, be used to further academic ends. Lawyers for the white plaintiffs in both recently decided Michigan cases made this their leading argument. In the Grutter case, they persuaded only four of the Supreme Court justices, and as a result Hopwood was overturned. The decision had barely been released when the University of Texas announced it would…
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Let's say we decide to race on a track $1000$ km long. You are a $100$ times faster than me, meaning if we both start at the beginning, you obviously win. To make things more fair you give me a head start of $1$m. The distance is still very small, meaning you will obviously win.
A few premises:
-For you to win the race you need to overtake me
-To overtake me you need to reach a point of equivalence
-If there is no point of equivalence you can't beat me
Let's assume it takes you $1$ second to reach 1m. However in that $1$ second, I would have travelled a distance forward-lets say I am now at $1.01$m. You haven't caught up to me- I'm still $0.01$m ahead of you. It takes you $0.01$s to travel that $0.01$m. But in that $0.01$ s I would have travelled $0.0001$m, meaning I'm still ahead of you. Therefore you can never catch up to me- the distance between us will get infinitesimally small, but never $0$. Therefore since you can't catch up to me, you can never win.
This obvious paradox has been resolved through the fact that an infinitesimal series adds up to one- however, doesn't thid simply prove both people will finish the race? How does it prove the faster person will win?
Please don't simply give me a linear solution. I do not want to know when the faster person catches up - I want to know the mathematical flaw in the paradox's logic.


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Helena Petrovna Hahn (also Hélène) (July 31, 1831 (O.S.) [(August 12, 1831 (N.S.)] – May 8, 1891), better known as "Helena Blavatsky" or "Madame Blavatsky", was an occultist, spirit medium, and author who co-founded the Theosophical Society in 1875. She gained an international following as the leading theoretician of Theosophy, the esoteric movement that the Society promoted.
- The possible truths, hazily perceived in the world of abstraction, like those inferred from observation and experiment in the world of matter, are forced upon the profane multitudes, too busy to think for themselves, under the form of Divine revelation and scientific authority. But the same question stands open from the days of Socrates and Pilate down to our own age of wholesale negation: is there such a thing as absolute truth in the hands of any one party or man? Reason answers, "there cannot be." There is no room for absolute truth upon any subject whatsoever, in a world as finite and conditioned as man is himself. But there are relative truths, and we have to make the best we can of them.
- Lucifer (February 1888)
- "There is often greater martyrdom to live for the love of, whether man or an ideal, than to die" is a motto of the Mahatmas.
- There is no religion higher than truth.
- Motto of the Theosophical Society. See for instance: Blavatsky Collected Writings, Volume 6, p. 168
- Maitreya is the secret name of the Fifth Buddha, and the Kalki Avatar of the Brahmins - the last Messiah who will come at the culmination of the Great Cycle.
- Secret Doctrine I, p. 384
- We are in the Kali Yuga [Sanskrit term meaning Dark Age] and its fatal influence is a thousand-fold more powerful in the West than it is in the East; hence the easy preys made by the Powers of the Age of Darkness in this cyclic struggle, and the many delusions under which the world is now laboring. One of these is the relative facility with which men fancy they can get at the "Gate" and cross the threshold of Occultism without any great sacrifice. It is the dream of most Theosophists, one inspired by desire for Power and personal selfishness, and it is not such feelings that can ever lead them to the coveted goal. For, as well said by one believed to have sacrificed himself for Humanity--"Strait is the gate and narrow is the way which leadeth unto life" eternal, and therefore "few there be that find it." (Matthew 7:14) So strait indeed, that at the bare mention of some of the preliminary difficulties the affrighted Western candidates turn back and retreat with a shudder... Let them stop here and attempt no more in their great weakness. For if, while turning their backs on the narrow gate, they are dragged by their desire for the Occult one step in the direction of the broad and more inviting gates of that golden mystery which glitters in the light of illusion, woe to them!
- Studies in Occultism, (1888)
- Nothing of that which is conducive to help man, collectively or individually, to live — not "happily" — but less unhappily in this world, ought to be indifferent to the Theosophist-Occultist. It is no concern of his whether his help benefits a man in his worldly or spiritual progress; his first duty is to be ever ready to help if he can, without stopping to philosophize.
- I speak "with absolute certainty" only so far as my own personal belief is concerned. Those who have not the same warrant for their belief as I have, would be very credulous and foolish to accept it on blind faith. Nor does the writer believe any more than her correspondent and his friends in any "authority" let alone "divine revelation"!
Isis Unveiled (1877)[edit]
Volume I[edit]
- We venture to say a few words in explanation of the plan of this work. Its object is not to force upon the public the personal views or theories of its author; nor has it the pretensions of a scientific work, which aims at creating a revolution in some department of thought. It is rather a brief summary of the religions, philosophies, and universal traditions of human kind, and the exegesis of the same, in the spirit of those secret doctrines, of which none — thanks to prejudice and bigotry — have reached Christendom in so unmutilated a form, as to secure it a fair judgment. Since the days of the unlucky mediaeval philosophers, the last to write upon these secret doctrines of which they were the depositories, few men have dared to brave persecution and prejudice by placing their knowledge upon record. And these few have never, as a rule, written for the public, but only for those of their own and succeeding times who possessed the key to their jargon. The multitude, not understanding them or their doctrines, have been accustomed to regard them en masse as either charlatans or dreamers. Hence the unmerited contempt into which the study of the noblest of sciences — that of the spiritual man — has gradually fallen.
- Introduction
- The discoveries of modern science do not disagree with the oldest traditions which claim an incredible antiquity for our race.
- Chapter I
- The astral perisprit is contained and confined within the physical body as ether in a bottle, or magnetism in magnetized iron. It is a centre and engine of force, fed from the universal supply of force, and moved by the same general laws which pervade all nature and produce all cosmical phenomena.Its inherent activity causes the incessant physical operations of the animal organism and ultimately results in the destruction of the latter by overuse and its own escape. It is the prisoner, not the voluntary tenant, of the body.
- Chapter VI
- The infinite and uncreated spirit that we usually call GOD, a substance of the highest virtue and excellency, produced everything else by emanative causality. God thus is the primary substance, the rest, the secondary; if the former created matter with a power of moving itself, he, the primary substance, is still the cause of that motion as well as of the matter, and yet we rightly say that it is matter which moves itself. "We may define this kind of spirit we speak of to be a substance indiscernible, that can move itself, that can penetrate, contract, and dilate itself, and can also penetrate, move, and alter matter," which is the third emanation.
- Chapter VII
- Everything lives and perishes through magnetism; one thing affects another one, even at great distances, and its "congenitals" may be influenced to health and disease by the power of this sympathy, at any time, and notwithstanding the intervening space.
- Chapter VII
- Science tells us that heat may be shown to develop electricity, electricity produce heat; and magnetism to evolve electricity, and vice versa. Motion, they tell us, results from motion itself, and so on, ad infinitum. This is the A B C of occultism and of the earliest alchemists. The indestructibility of matter and force being discovered and proved, the great problem of eternity is solved.
- Chapter VII
- Evidently Proclus does not advocate here simply a superstition, but science; for notwithstanding that it is occult, and unknown to our scholars, who deny its possibilities, magic is still a science. It is firmly and solely based on the mysterious affinities existing between organic and inorganic bodies, the visible productions of the four kingdoms, and the invisible powers of the universe. That which science calls gravitation, the ancients and the mediaeval hermetists called magnetism, attraction, affinity. It is the universal law, which is understood by Plato and explained in Timaeus as the attraction of lesser bodies to larger ones, and of similar bodies to similar, the latter exhibiting a magnetic power rather than following the law of gravitation. The anti-Aristotelean formula that gravity causes all bodies to descend with equal rapidity, without reference to their weight, the difference being caused by some other unknown agency, would seem to point a great deal more forcibly to magnetism than to gravitation, the former attracting rather in virtue of the substance than of the weight. A thorough familiarity with the occult faculties of everything existing in nature, visible as well as invisible; their mutual relations, attractions, and repulsions; the cause of these, traced to the spiritual principle which pervades and animates all things; the ability to furnish the best conditions for this principle to manifest itself, in other words a profound and exhaustive knowledge of natural law — this was and is the basis of magic.
- Chapter VII
- "True science has no belief," says Dr. Fenwick, in Bulwer-Lytton's Strange Story; "true science knows but three states of mind: denial, conviction, and the vast interval between the two, which is not belief, but the suspension of judgment." Such, perhaps, was true science in Dr. Fenwick's days. But the true science of our modern times proceeds otherwise; it either denies point-blank, without any preliminary investigation, or sits in the interim, between denial and conviction, and, dictionary in hand, invents new Graeco-Latin appellations for non-existing kinds of hysteria!
- Chapter VII
- According to the ancient doctrines, the soulless elemental spirits were evolved by the ceaseless motion inherent in the astral light. Light is force, and the latter is produced by the will. As this will proceeds from an intelligence which cannot err, for it has nothing of the material organs of human thought in it, being the superfine pure emanation of the highest divinity itself — (Plato's "Father") it proceeds from the beginning of time, according to immutable laws, to evolve the elementary fabric requisite for subsequent generations of what we term human races. All of the latter, whether belonging to this planet or to some other of the myriads in space, have their earthly bodies evolved in the matrix out of the bodies of a certain class of these elemental beings which have passed away in the invisible worlds.
- Chapter VII
- Annihilation means, with the Buddhistical philosophy, only a dispersion of matter, in whatever form or semblance of form it may be; for everything that bears a shape was created, and thus must sooner or later perish, i.e., change that shape; therefore, as something temporary, though seeming to be permanent, it is but an illusion, Maya; for, as eternity has neither beginning nor end, the more or less prolonged duration of some particular form passes, as it were, like an instantaneous flash of lightning. Before we have the time to realize that we have seen it, it is gone and passed away for ever; hence, even our astral bodies, pure ether, are but illusions of matter, so long as they retain their terrestrial outline. The latter changes, says the Buddhist, according to the merits or demerits of the person during his lifetime, and this is metempsychosis. When the spiritual entity breaks loose for ever from every particle of matter, then only it enters upon the eternal and unchangeable Nirvana. He exists in spirit, in nothing; as a form, a shape, a semblance, he is completely annihilated, and thus will die no more, for spirit alone is no Maya, but the only REALITY in an illusionary universe of ever-passing forms.
- Chapter VII
- While Moses forbids 'graven images' of Him whose name is not to be taken in vain, Spinoza goes farther. He clearly infers that God must not be so much as described. Human language is totally unfit to give an idea of this "Being" who is altogether unique. Whether it is Spinoza or the Christian theology that is more right in their premises and conclusion, we leave the reader to judge for himself. Every attempt to the contrary leads a nation to anthropomorphize the deity in whom it believes, and the result is that given by Swedenborg. Instead of stating that God made man after his own image, we ought in truth to say that "man imagines God after his image," forgetting that he has set up his own reflection for worship.
- Chapter IX
- What is imagination? Psychologists tell us that it is the plastic or creative power of the soul; but materialists confound it with fancy. The radical difference between the two, was however, so thoroughly indicated by Wordsworth, in the preface to his Lyrical Ballads, that it is no longer excusable to interchange the words. Imagination, Pythagoras maintained to be the remembrance of precedent spiritual, mental, and physical states, while fancy is the disorderly production of the material brain.
- Chapter XI
- As Mr. Wallace justly observes, Hume's apothegm, that "a miracle is a violation of the laws of nature," is imperfect; for in the first place it assumes that we know all the laws of nature; and, second, that an unusual phenomenon is a miracle.
- Chapter XII
- What proofs other than negative have we that the animal is without a surviving, if not immortal, soul? On strictly scientific grounds we can adduce as many arguments pro as contra. To express it clearer, neither man nor animal can offer either proof or disproof of the survival of their souls after death. And from the point of view of scientific experience, it is impossible to bring that which has no objective existence under the cognizance of any exact law of science.
- Chapter XII
- There is a phenomenon in nature unknown, and therefore rejected by physiology and psychology in our age of unbelief. This phenomenon is a state of half-death. Virtually, the body is dead; and, in cases of persons in whom matter does not predominate over spirit and wickedness not so great as to destroy spirituality, if left alone, their astral soul will disengage itself by gradual efforts, and, when the last link is broken, it finds itself separated forever from its earthly body. Equal magnetic polarity will violently repulse the ethereal man from the decaying organic mass. The whole difficulty lies in that 1, the ultimate moment of separation between the two is believed to be that when the body is declared dead by science; and 2, a prevailing unbelief in the existence of either soul or spirit in man, by the same science.
- Chapter XII
- The kabalists say that a man is not dead when his body is entombed. Death is never sudden; for, according to Hermes, nothing goes in nature by violent transitions. Everything is gradual, and as it required a long and gradual development to produce the living human being, so time is required to completely withdraw vitality from the carcass. "Death can no more be an absolute end, than birth a real beginning. Birth proves the preexistence of the being, as death proves immortality," says the same French kabalist [Eliphas Levi].
- Chapter XIII
- Man is not dead when he is cold, stiff, pulseless, breathless, and even showing signs of decomposition; he is not dead when buried, nor afterward, until a certain point is reached. That point is, when the vital organs have become so decomposed, that if reanimated, they could not perform their customary functions; when the mainspring and cogs of the machine, so to speak, are so eaten away by rust, that they would snap upon the turning of the key. Until that point is reached, the astral body may be caused, without miracle, to reenter its former tabernacle, either by an effort of its own will, or under the resistless impulse of the will of one who knows the potencies of nature and how to direct them. The spark is not extinguished, but only latent — latent as the fire in the flint, or the heat in the cold iron.
- Chapter XIII
- When science shall have effectually demonstrated to us the origin of matter, and proved the fallacy of the occultists and old philosophers who held (as their descendants now hold) that matter is but one of the correlations of spirit, then will the world of skeptics have a right to reject the old Wisdom, or throw the charge of obscenity in the teeth of the old religions.
- Chapter XV
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- But, if the knowledge of the occult powers of nature opens the spiritual sight of man, enlarges his intellectual faculties, and leads him unerringly to a profounder veneration for the Creator, on the other hand ignorance, dogmatic narrow-mindedness, and a childish fear of looking to the bottom of things, invariably leads to fetish-worship and superstition.
- Chapter I
- In the Book of Hermes, "Pimander," is enunciated in distinct and unequivocal sentences, the whole trinitarian dogma accepted by the Christians. "The light is me," says Pimander, the DIVINE THOUGHT. "I am the nous or intelligence, and I am thy god, and I am far older than the human principle which escapes from the shadow. I am the germ of thought, the resplendent WORD, the SON of GOD. Think that what thus sees and hears in thee, is the Verbum of the Master, it is the Thought, which is God the Father... The celestial ocean, the AETHER, which flows from east to west, is the Breath of the Father, the life-giving Principle, the HOLY GHOST!" For they are not at all separated and their union is LIFE.
- Chapter I
- Every one of the numberless religions and religious sects views the Deity after its own fashion; and, fathering on the unknown its own speculations, it enforces these purely human outgrowths of overheated imagination on the ignorant masses, and calls them "revelation." As the dogmas of every religion and sect often differ radically, they cannot be true. And if untrue, what are they?
- Chapter II
- "Tell me who it is who brings about the re-birth (the revolutio)?" is asked of the wise Hermes. "God's Son, the only man, through the will of God," is the answer of the "heathen." "God's son" is the immortal spirit assigned to every human being. It is this divine entity which is the "only man," for the casket which contains our soul, and the soul itself, are but half-entities, and without its overshadowing both body and astral soul, the two are but an animal duad. It requires a trinity to form the complete "man," and allow him to remain immortal at every "re-birth," or revolutio, throughout the subsequent and ascending spheres, every one of which brings him nearer to the refulgent realm of eternal and absolute light.
- Chapter IV
- The Buddhists maintain that there is no Creator but an infinitude of creative powers, which collectively form the one eternal substance, the essence of which is inscrutable — hence not a subject for speculation for any true philosopher. Socrates invariably refused to argue upon the mystery of universal being, yet no one would ever have thought of charging him with atheism, except those who were bent upon his destruction. Upon inaugurating an active period, says the Secret Doctrine, an expansion of this Divine essence, from within outwardly, occurs in obedience to eternal and immutable law, and the phenomenal or visible universe is the ultimate result of the long chain of cosmical forces thus progressively set in motion. In like manner, when the passive condition is resumed, a contraction of the Divine essence takes place, and the previous work of creation is gradually and progressively undone. The visible universe becomes disintegrated, its material dispersed; and "darkness," solitary and alone, broods once more over the face of the "deep." To use a metaphor which will convey the idea still more clearly, an outbreathing of the "unknown essence" produces the world; and an inhalation causes it to disappear. This process has been going on from all eternity, and our present universe is but one of an infinite series which had no beginning and will have no end.
- Chapter VI
- In the "fall of Adam" we must see, not the personal transgression of man, but simply the law of the dual evolution. Adam, or "Man," begins his career of existences by dwelling in the garden of Eden, "dressed in the celestial garment, which is a garment of heavenly light" (Sohar, ii., 229 b); but when expelled he is "clothed" by God, or the eternal law of Evolution or necessarianism, with coats of skin. But even on this earth of material degradation — in which the divine spark (Soul, a corruscation of the Spirit) was to begin its physical progression in a series of imprisonments from a stone up to a man's body — if he but exercise his WILL and call his deity to his help, man can transcend the powers of the angel. "Know ye not that we shall judge angels?" asks Paul (1 Corinthians, vi. 3). The real man is the Soul (Spirit), teaches the Sohar. "The mystery of the earthly man is after the mystery of the heavenly man... the wise can read the mysteries in the human face" (ii., 76 a).
- Chapter VI
- The inference to be drawn from all this is, that the made-up and dogmatic Christianity of the Constantinian period is simply an offspring of the numerous conflicting sects, half-castes themselves, born of Pagan parents. Each of these could claim representatives converted to the so-called orthodox body of Christians. And, as every newly-born dogma had to be carried out by the majority of votes, every sect colored the main substance with its own hue, till the moment when the emperor enforced this revealed olla-podrida, of which he evidently did not himself understand a word, upon an unwilling world as the religion of Christ. Wearied in the vain attempt to sound this fathomless bog of international speculations, unable to appreciate a religion based on the pure spirituality of an ideal conception, Christendom gave itself up to the adoration of brutal force as represented by a Church backed up by Constantine. Since then, among the thousand rites, dogmas, and ceremonies copied from Paganism, the Church can claim but one invention as thoroughly original with her — namely, the doctrine of eternal damnation, and one custom, that of the anathema.
- Chapter VII
- "The myths," says Horace in his Ars Poetica, "have been invented by wise men to strengthen the laws and teach moral truths." While Horace endeavored to make clear the very spirit and essence of the ancient myths, Euhemerus pretended, on the contrary, that "myths were the legendary history of kings and heroes, transformed into gods by the admiration of the nations." It is the latter method which was inferentially followed by Christians when they agreed upon the acceptation of euhemerized patriarchs, and mistook them for men who had really lived.
- Chapter IX
- The allegories of the "fall of man" and the "deluge," are the two most important features of the Pentateuch. They are, so to say, the Alpha and Omega, the highest and the lowest keys of the scale of harmony on which resounds the majestic hymns of the creation of mankind; for they discover to him who questions the Zura (figurative Gematria), the process of man's evolution from the highest spiritual entity unto the lowest physical — the post-diluvian man, as in the Egyptian hieroglyphics, every sign of the picture writing which cannot be made to fit within a certain circumscribed geometrical figure may be rejected as only intended by the sacred hierogrammatist for a premeditated blind — so many of the details in the Bible must be treated on the same principle, that portion only being accepted which answers to the numerical methods taught in the Kabala.
- Chapter IX
- "Noah is a revolutio of Adam, as Moses is a revolutio of Abel and Seth," says the Kabala; that is to say, a repetition or another version of the same story. The greatest proof of it is the distribution of the characters in the Bible. For instance, beginning with Cain, the first murderer, every fifth man in his line of descent is a murderer. Thus there come Enoch, Irad, Mehujael, Methuselah, and the fifth is Lamech, the second murderer, and he is Noah's father. By drawing the five-pointed star of Lucifer (which has its crown-point downward) and writing the name of Cain beneath the lowest point, and those of his descendants successively at each of the other points, it will be found that each fifth name — which would be written beneath that of Cain — is that of a murderer. In the Talmud this genealogy is given complete, and thirteen murderers range themselves in line below the name of Cain. This is no coincidence. Siva is the Destroyer, but he is also the Regenerator. Cain is a murderer, but he is also the creator of nations, and an inventor. This star of Lucifer is the same one that John sees falling down to earth in his Apocalypse.
- Chapter IX
- And is there no possibility that there was a period, and several periods, when man existed, and yet was not an organic being — therefore could not have left any vestige of himself for exact science? Spirit leaves no skeletons or fossils behind, and yet few are the men on earth who doubt that man can live both objectively and subjectively. At all events, the theology of the Brahmans, hoary with antiquity, and which divides the formative periods of the earth into four ages, and places between each of these a lapse of 1,728,000 years, far more agrees with official science and modern discovery than the absurd chronological notions promulgated by the Councils of Nice and Trent.
- Chapter IX
- The Gnostics were the earliest Christians with anything like a regular theological system, and it is only too evident that it was Jesus who was made to fit their theology as Christos, and not their theology that was developed out of his sayings and doings. Their ancestors had maintained, before the Christian era, that the Great Serpent — Jupiter, the Dragon of Life, the Father and "Good Divinity," had glided into the couch of Semele, and now, the post-Christian Gnostics, with a very trifling change, applied the same fable to the man Jesus, and asserted that the same "Good Divinity," Saturn (Ilda-Baoth), had, in the shape of the Dragon of Life, glided over the cradle of the infant Mary.
- Chapter X
- Comparative theology is a two-edged weapon, and has so proved itself. But the Christian advocates, unabashed by evidence, force comparison in the serenest way; Christian legends and dogmas, they say, do somewhat resemble the heathen, it is true; but see, while the one teaches us the existence, powers, and attributes of an all-wise, all-good Father-God, Brahmanism gives us a multitude of minor gods, and Buddhism none whatever; one is fetishism and polytheism, the other bald atheism. Jehovah is the one true God, and the Pope and Martin Luther are His prophets! This is one edge of the sword, and this the other: Despite missions, despite armies, despite enforced commercial intercourse, the "heathen" find nothing in the teachings of Jesus — sublime though some are — that Christna and Gautama had not taught them before. And so, to gain over any new converts, and keep the few already won by centuries of cunning, the Christians give the "heathen" dogmas more absurd than their own, and cheat them by adopting the habit of their native priests, and practicing the very "idolatry and fetishism" which they so disparage in the "heathens." Comparative theology works both ways.
- Chapter XI
The Secret Doctrine Volume I & II (1888)[edit]
- Separate wikiquotes page for this book
Quotes about HPB[edit]
- (On H.P.B) [Helena Petrovna Blavatsky] And we, who lived around her, who in closest intimacy watched her day after day, we bear witness to the unselfish beauty of her life, the nobility of her character, and we lay at her feet our most reverent gratitude for knowledge gained, lives purified, strength developed.
- Annie Besant, An Autobiography Chapter XIV
- Throughout the last 100 years, the Ageless Wisdom Teachings have been communicated through individuals such as Helena Blavatsky, founder of the Theosophical Society, and later by Alice A. Bailey and Helena Roerich.
- Blavatsky, who worked directly with the Masters, revealed that these perfected beings have guided humanity from behind the scenes of everyday life for countless millennia.
- One day in the winter of 1875, Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, one of the founders of the Theosophical Society, made a vow: to spread by every means in her power the teachings which she had received from several Masters of the Himalayan Lodge of the Spiritual Hierarchy of our planet. True to her vow, she set to work to inform the world of these teachings. Her books, The Secret Doctrine, Isis Unveiled and The Key to Theosophy, are testimony to her indefatigable industry and will, in the face of great physical illness. These seminal works have informed and inspired many thousands of true seekers over the years and continue to do so.
- Benjamin Creme in "The perennial light of Truth, Share International (5 September 2009)
- The Tibetan Master Djwhal Khul... between 1919 and 1949... dictated, by mental telepathy, a series of 19 books through [[Alice Bailey|Alice A. Bailey]. (Bailey herself wrote five additional volumes.) These 19 very profound, and to my mind very practical, teachings are the intermediate phase of the teachings given out by the Masters for the new age of Aquarius now beginning. The Secret Doctrine was the preparatory phase of the teachings, given through Madame [Helena] Petrovna Blavatsky, who lived and worked for some years with a group of Masters in the Himalayas. One of them was the Master Morya, her own Master, and another the Master Koot Hoomi, both very advanced Masters. These two Masters are deeply involved with humanity and, with the Master Jesus...
- Asked the human sources of his inspiration, Creme said he was a student of the writings of Helena Blavatsky and Alice Bailey, whose books have had a profound influence on that diverse range of contemporary spiritual beliefs called New Age -- a blend of elements of Eastern and Western mysticism and a strong dose of self-improvement thinking.
Madame Blavatsky, as she was known, was an aristocratic, Russian-born medium who founded the Theosophical Society in New York in 1875 and who taught, among much else, that people could contact the spiritual realm with help from higher entities called Masters of Wisdom.
- Gustav Niebuhr in New Millennium, Great Expectations New York Times (20 July 1996)
- There's ancient Indian knowledge brought forward some 100 years ago by H.P.Blavatsky, C.W.Leadbeater and others. I think it was Leadbeater who said something like "One day men of faith and men of science will stand in the same place. And the men of faith will turn to the men of science and say 'We've been waiting all this time for you to arrive.'"
- Harry Oldfield in Another piece of the puzzle, Interview with researcher and inventor Harry Oldfield, Share International (February 2013)


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This is my story
My name is Keyokah Fawn Mars-Garrick. Preserving Narragansett traditions is very important to me. That's one reason I started dancing—the other is because I love it. I first danced on my mom's hip as a baby. Later my cousin taught me the dance I do, the Eastern blanket dance, which is a courting dance.
I visit schools as often as I can to talk to third- and fourth-graders about my heritage. I teach them about our lives today as well as our history. It's important to me that they know Native Americans are still here and that they can learn about our traditions.
We are a tall family. My three older brothers played basketball, and my uncle played in the NBA. When it came to me, I told my dad I hated basketball and wanted to play soccer. He asked me to give it a year and that was all it took. University of Hartford was the perfect fit for me. I wanted to play Division I basketball, and my teammates were very welcoming. That and the size of the school made me feel very comfortable when I came here to visit.
I aspired my whole life to attend college, and now that I'm here, I've met people I will never forget. I think I actually chose the business management major a long time ago because my mom works in business. I've learned a lot about the corporate world through the internship I had and the courses I've taken. I feel very well prepared to be successful in business. I've had individual help from faculty members, too, like Assistant Professor Lillian Kamal. I'm not that great in math, but she made me feel like a genius. I got an A in her macroeconomics class.


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Donepezil in Chronic Poststroke Aphasia: a Randomized Controlled Trial
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|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT00196690
Recruitment Status : Completed
First Posted : September 20, 2005
Last Update Posted : September 20, 2005
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- Aphasia (impairment of language function due to brain damage)may be treated with speech-language therapy and drugs. Several drugs have been studied but with limited success.
- Recent data suggest that the neurotransmitter acetylcholine may be reduced in brain damaged subjects and that drugs that stimulates acetylcholine activity may help recovery of aphasic deficits particularly when paired with speech-language therapy.
- Recent evidence indicates that medicaments acting on the neurotransmitter acetylcholine may promote improvement of aphasic deficits and our previous open-label study of donepezil in post-stroke aphasia showed benefits in all patients and observed benefit were long-lasting (6 months).This study will test the safety and efficacy of donepezil (an agent acting on acetylcholine)in subjects with stroke-related chronic aphasia (more than 1 yr of evolution).
|Condition or disease
|Stroke Aphasia
|Drug: Donepezil
|Phase 4
- Prior clinical information of donepezil treatment of post-stroke aphasia comes from single-case studies, small case-series and an open-label study. In addition, an extension phase of a small open-label study also suggest that the efficacy of donepezil in chronic post-stroke apahsia is maintained at long-term follow-up. These data collectively suggest that in post-stroke donepezil is effective and well-tolerated with a limited potential for causing clinically significant interactions when prescribed with other medications. However, these results are preliminary and should be judged parsimoniously until randomized controlled trials will be performed.Moreover, recent data by our group also showed that donepezil may improve sensorimotor deficits (hemiparesis)in some patients.
- The use of acetylcholinesterase inhibitors such as donepezil in post-stroke may be justified because in vivo and postmortem studies have shown that patients with vascular dementia and lesions in subcortical and cortical structures have deficient cholinergic neurotransmission that results from interruption of cholinergic pathways linking the basal forebrain with the cerebral cortex, including the perisylvian language area.In addition, two large-scale randomized controlled trials in patients pure vascular dementia and vascular cognitive impairment found that donepezil was significantly superior to placebo on cognition, global function and activities of daily living.And the most noticeable benefits of donepezil over placebo at doses of 5-mg and 10-mg were found on the Alzheimer's Disease Assessment Scale-cognitive subscale (ADAS-Cog/11), an assessment instrument highly reliant upon language variables (6 out of 11 items).
- We evaluated the efficacy of donepezil in patients with chronic aphasia associated with stroke.This is a 20-week, randomized, placebo-controlled, double-blind parallel study that enrolled aphasic patient with more than one year of evolution. During the study all patients continued receiving two hours weekly of conventional speech-language therapy. Patients were randomized in an 1:1 ratio to donepezil, 5-mg/day, for the first 4 weeks, followed by forced dose escalation to 10-mg/day thereafter (n =13), or placebo (n = 13) and then a 4 week washout period. The primary efficacy measures were the Aphasia Quotient (AQ) of the Western Aphasia Battery and the Communicative Activity Log. Secondary efficacy measures included selected subtests of the Psycholinguistic Assessment of Language Processing in Aphasia that examined phonological and lexical-semantic domains and the Stroke Aphasia Depression Questionnaire.
|Study Type :
|Interventional (Clinical Trial)
|Enrollment :
|30 participants
|Intervention Model:
|Parallel Assignment
|Primary Purpose:
|Official Title:
|Treatment With Donepezil of Chronic Aphasia and Sensorimotor Deficits Associated to Cerebrovascular Accidents: a Double-Blind,Placebo-Controlled, Randomized Parallel Trial.
|Study Start Date :
|February 2003
|Study Completion Date :
|March 2005
- Language function (overall aphasia severity)
- Communication
- Depression
- Cognitive evaluation of language function
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|Ages Eligible for Study:
|18 Years to 69 Years (Adult, Older Adult)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
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Inclusion Criteria:
- Chronic aphasia of more than one year duration. Must be able to complete protocol.
Exclusion Criteria:
- Heart block
- Bronchial Asthma
- Hypersensitivity to donepezil
- Dementia
- Major psychiatric illness
To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the contact information provided by the sponsor.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier (NCT number): NCT00196690
|Gabinete Berthier y Martínez, Malaga, Spain. Centro de Investigaciones Médico-Sanitarias (CIMES), UNiversity of Malaga, Malaga, Spain.
|Malaga, Spain, 29001
|Principal Investigator:
|Marcelo L. Berthier, M.D., Ph.D.
|Gabinete Berthier y Martínez. Malaga, Spain. Centro de Investigaciones Médico-Sanitarias (CIMES), University of Malaga, Malaga, Spain
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|NCT00196690 History of Changes
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|First Posted:
|September 20, 2005 Key Record Dates
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|September 20, 2005
|Last Verified:
|September 2005
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Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Speech Disorders
Language Disorders
Communication Disorders
Neurobehavioral Manifestations
Neurologic Manifestations
Nervous System Diseases
Signs and Symptoms
Cholinesterase Inhibitors
Enzyme Inhibitors
Molecular Mechanisms of Pharmacological Action
Cholinergic Agents
Neurotransmitter Agents
Physiological Effects of Drugs
Nootropic Agents


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This is so very bullshit I'm not sure where to begin.
First of all, there are billions of paper books on planet earth right now, but there was never any talk about being too many, or worries the paper market was saturated. What a ludicrous concept.
Author: Do you want put publish my new book?
Publisher: I'm sorry, but there are already too many books. We can't print anymore.
Silly, ain't it?
Second, the pie isn't finite. I've heard repeatedly that people who get ereaders read more and buy more than they did with paper. Even if another person was never born, and even if another ereader was never sold, there is still a huge, untapped market for authors.
For the sake of argument, let's say I've reached 10% of those who have ereaders. I've still got a long way before I saturate the market.
But the market is growing. Fast.
When I started self-pubbing on Kindle in 2009, there were 700,000 ebooks available. Now there are over a million. So there have been about 150k added each year.
There are a lot more than 150,000 Kindles, Nooks, Sony Readers, Kobos, and iPads sold per year. So the ereader market is actually growing faster than ebooks are being published. I would guess there are more ereaders than there are ebook titles, many times over.
The pie is getting bigger. In fact, it is growing faster than new content is being uploaded. That means more and more people are going to be looking for ebooks.
Here's a nonsense representation of what I'm talking about. Keep in mind I suck at math, and my figures aren't accurate. I'm pulling these numbers out of my ass, but I'm doing so to prove a point.
Let's say ebook titles grow by 150k a year, and ereader sales grow by 5 million a year.
In 2011, let's say there are 5 million ereaders, and 1 million ebook titles.
In 2021 there will be 50 million ereaders, and 2.5 million ebook titles.
In 2031 there will be 100 million ereaders, and 4 million ebook titles.
Get the picture? The market is expanding faster than the content is.
On first glance, this doesn't appear to be beneficial to the author. Look at it from a reader's point of view. I'm a Kindle owner. Right now, I have 1 million ebooks to choose from. In 2031, I'll have 4 million ebooks to choose from. One one hand, this is good for Joe the reader, because I have more choices. On the other hand, this seems bad for Joe the author, because of all the competition.
Which begs the follow-up argument I see a lot: "With all of those ebooks available, it will be impossible to find anything, and authors will get lost."
Doesn't the same apply to paper books? Or websites? Or music? Yet people still find things they like. The imdb now has over 1.7 million titles, yet people still can find movies and TV shows to watch.
As long as websites like Amazon make browsing easy, the cream has the potential to rise to the top. You don't have to be a monster bestseller. A hardcore niche group of 10,000 fans can support a writer quite easily. Write two ebooks per year at $2.99, and three shorts at 99 cents, and you're making $50k a year.
But ebooks don't stop selling after a year. They sell forever. And good books will eventually find more than just 10,000 readers. And every new book you write will find new readers along with old fans.
Going back to the 2031 figures, an author will have a much better chance of finding those career-sustaining 10,000 readers when there are 100 million ereaders out there.
In other words, as every day goes by, authors only have to appeal to a smaller percentage of the ereading population.
Which means we won't need to be bestsellers in order to make the same amount of money we're now making by being bestsellers.
Confused? Think of it like this.
Let's call my current slice of the pie 10%, meaning I've sold to 10% of the ereading public--about 500,000 ebooks (out of 5 million potential customers). In 2031, assuming my readership stays flat, I'll earn the same as I am now with a .005% slice of the pie. (500,000 ebooks out of 100 million potential customers.)
Now these numbers assume that I'm only selling one ebook per consumer, not multiple ebooks. If I have fans who buy multiple ebooks, I need fewer fans to make the same amount of money.
These numbers also assume I won't grow my fanbase, or write anymore ebooks. By 2031, I'll have at least forty more novels completed, plus dozens of shorts and novellas.
Of course, a lot of things can happen between now and 2031, and I may be wildly off base on a lot of this. But the fact remains that the pie isn't getting smaller. If you keep writing, and keep self-publishing, chances are you'll eventually find your audience. And you won't have to be in the Kindle Top 100 in order to make a nice living.
And for those not there, remember that cream rises. If you made cream, and it hasn't risen yet: make more cream.


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Lassen is now my favorite place to camp! The drive from our home was very smooth, no traffic and no inkling of feeling lost. There is really a bit of everything here. Whether you like trees, lakes or waterfall; there are wildflowers, mountains, and yes volcanoes! Lassen offers some unique hikes. One of Lassen most popular places to visit is their hydrothermal sites. Once we arrived, we decided to do the Bumpass Hell hike. This is like entering a steamy cauldron of smelly sulfur. A nice boardwalk takes you along to see mudpots, boiling pools, and steaming ground. Such a different side of nature, but still beautiful in its own way.
The next day was quite an adventure to the Cinder Cone. I was excited to see this, but also nervous about the hike to the top. Firstly to get to the area, you'll drive on an unpaved road. (It is a nice dirt road, drive slowly if you are concern.) At the start of the hike, there is a mile long sandy trail. You'll see the Fantastic Lava Beds along the way to the volcano. Once the trees clear, the sight of the Cinder Cone stands alone and is just impressive and perfectly sculpted. Now the daunting part is to hike 700 ft up a steep angle path with no resting stop and nothing to grab on to. A few small children pass us and went up like it's nothing. Two elderly women headed up as well. So me, healthy 20-something should stop being chicken and work it like everyone else. Sigh! It was so tough. Every two steps forward is a step back due to the loose gravel. Good thing, I found a walking stick on my way to the Cinder Cone because without it, I don't know how I can manage to reach the top. I just look down at my feet and gave myself pep talks. I simply kept going and tried not to stop. This way I won't get scare and freeze up.
At the top, you'll see a magnificent landscape of wonderfully animated Painted Dunes, lava beds, and the devastation area — all created by the eruption of the volcano. You can even hike down inside the crater of the volcano too. We meet the elderly group from Washington and the East Coast who visits a different National Park every year! We enjoy a small packed lunch and walk around the rim before calling it a day. You'll be glad to know that the going down the Cinder Cone is much faster and easier. Some people even have fun sliding down. For me, I like to take it slow and steady. This is definitely the most unique hikes I've ever done.


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AMSTERDAM — Anne Frank's tragic story is returning to the stage in Amsterdam, hoping to engage a whole new generation with the Jewish teenager whose diary is the most famous chronicle of life under Nazi occupation.
Thursday's opening is the first time a theatrical production has been forged directly from Frank's actual writings since an award-winning 1950s play that escalated her tale — then little-known — to the world's attention.
"A lot of people think they know the story, but once you see this you will get to know a lot of details you don't realize," producer Robin de Levita told The Associated Press in an interview.
"We show historical footage to create a relationship between what happened in real time and what happened while they were in hiding," De Levita said. "We follow her whole life and look over her shoulder, see what she experienced."
With the blessings of the charity that owns the diary's copyright, "Anne" uses Frank's own words, including some passages excluded from the original published diary.
The play is being staged in a specially-built 1,100-seat theater in Amsterdam's west port area. The 15-meter-high (50-foot) stage includes a revolving replica of the secret canal-side apartment where Frank and her family hid for 18 months from the Nazi forces occupying the Netherlands in World War II. They were betrayed in 1944 and deported.
"You can see the relationship between the rooms, between the people, what actually happened while they were in hiding," De Levita said.
Anne died at the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp weeks before it was liberated in 1945. Her father, Otto Frank, survived Auschwitz and later published Anne's diary, which had been saved by Miep Gies, one of the Dutch "helpers" that brought the family food and other supplies.
Anne's cousin Buddy Elias, her nearest surviving relative, will attend the opening, along with the Netherlands' King Willem Alexander.
The play also features multimedia elements incorporating music and film. Although the actors speak Dutch, starting in July there will be headphone translations into several major languages, along with a synopsis for computer tablets or smartphones.
The Anne Frank Fonds in Basel, Switzerland, which owns rights to the diary and oversees the Frank family legacy, said it sought out theater-makers and scriptwriters in the Netherlands, hoping a new theatrical production could promote its mission.
"It's important to have an educational program which will bring in today's times the story of Anne Frank to a young kind of audience," said Fonds spokesman Yves Kugelmann.
The Dutch script was written by one of the Netherlands' best-known literary couples, Leon de Winter and Jessica Durlacher. Tickets range from 20-70 euros ($25-$100) but the Fond's licensing fees go to UNICEF, the U.N. children's fund.
The original Broadway play "The Diary of Anne Frank," won the Tony Award for best play in 1956 — beating out Tennessee William's "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" — and won a Pulitzer Prize for drama.
That made people re-examine the diary, which had not initially been successful. The diary has since gone on to become the most widely-read document to emerge from the Holocaust.
Durlacher said the world's understanding of the diary has changed significantly since the 1950's, when Otto Frank withheld some pages dealing with Anne's discovery of her sexuality and some of her feelings toward her mother from its initial version.
"We are the first to see and go in, to use the original text again," she said.
Rosa da Silva, who plays Anne, said it's difficult to balance Anne's vitality and keen observational powers with the knowledge that the story ends in Anne's death.
"You think: Oh! But she wanted it so bad! She would have been such a great author!" da Silva said.
Durlacher said she had gained a new appreciation for Anne as a writer.
"The thing that makes this diary so touching and so emotional is, of course, the context and the ending," she said.
The diary breaks off on Aug. 1, 1944, three days before the family was arrested by German police on an anonymous tip.
"That's not an ending," Durlacher said. "There's no ending to it, it could go on forever. It should have gone on forever."


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We are changing our name to Mass Ingenuity because it is what we are all about. Henry Ford invented the system of management we all grew up in, but it was based on the realities of a Mass Production world (making many of the same thing). The web delivered to us a world of Mass Customization (everything unique) where we have what seems like infinite choice. For companies to prosper they must be far more agile than in Mass Production days, yet our ways of managing are hierarchical in nature and slow to change and imposssible to flex. Mass Ingenuity is an integrated system of management (we call it DOING) and leadership (we call it BEING) they achieves employee engagement at a massive scale -- autonomous action occuring every day at every level of the organization yet in complete alignment with the organization's vision, values and goals. It's a wonderful place to work because it is safe, disciplined, open, human (compassionate), dynamic and inspirational. EVERYONE wants to work for an organization that has achieved a Mass Ingenuity level of employee engagement. This is NOT fluff: Companies that implement this kind of system will be 20-28 more profitable than their peers according to research done by Gallup and others. We sell to CEOs, General Managers and Business Owners with sales of under 100 million and workforces of 25-500.
- Name: Mass Ingenuity
- Tagline: Market Leadership Through Employee Engagement (does not have to be part of the logo -- but ideally the logo would work with or without it).
- Needs to include "TM" and ultimately "R) as it is a name we are protecting.
- We want an icon that visually stands alone and says what we are all about.
- Other than that, we are excited to see your creative ideas.
- It needs to work in B & W as well as be effectively reversed.
- Text-only logo
- A design or font that will become quickly dated because it is very trendy.
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(CNN) -- Manchester United manager David Moyes says he and his slumping team are "desperate" to turn things around -- and hopes the reversal of fortune begins in the Champions League.
The defending Premier League champion didn't lose any ground in the title race -- although repeating was already looking unlikely -- but the Red Devils did slip 12 points behind a Champions League spot after the most recent round of games last weekend.
And United wasn't just beaten on Sunday. It was outclassed by arch-rival Liverpool at Old Trafford, 3-0.
While Liverpool routinely threatened thanks to the likes of in-form pair Luis Suarez and Daniel Sturridge, United's high-profile duo of Wayne Rooney and Robin van Persie were never a problem for the Reds' sometimes shaky defense.
With Liverpool controlling the midfield, United struggled to gain a foothold and managed just one shot on target.
"The players are capable of turning it around," Moyes was quoted as saying by Manchester United's website. "We're all desperate to put things right and make sure we play better to give the supporters here something to shout about."
The manner of the defeat piled more pressure on Moyes, who is in his first season at the helm at Manchester United after replacing managerial great Alex Ferguson.
Former Liverpool defender Alan Hansen said Moyes is "fighting for his future" and that if United exited the Champions League against Olympiacos and then lost to Manchester City in the league, "there will be serious doubts over whether Moyes can continue."
According to British bookmaker William Hill, Moyes is the joint third favorite -- behind West Bromwich Albion's Pepe Mel and Norwich's Chris Hughton -- to become the next Premier League manager to depart. West Bromwich Albion and Norwich are struggling near the relegation zone although West Brom won Saturday at Swansea.
Manchester United faces an uphill battle to reach the last eight of this season's Champions League after a 2-0 reverse in Greece: Only once has the team lost a first leg in the competition and advanced -- in 2006/2007 against Roma.
But Olympiacos has lost all 11 of its previous encounters in England and United has won all of its home games versus Greek opposition.
Given United's position in the Premier League, winning the Champions League might be its most feasible path to appearing in next season's competition. United last failed to compete in the Champions League in 1995/1996.
"We have to go for the throat to get the win," said Moyes. "We won't be gung-ho but we will certainly go with a mindset to overhaul the deficit as quickly as we can.
"We won't be reckless as we could find ourselves with a bigger mountain to climb but we can be forceful. We have to be if we're to keep ourselves in the Champions League."
United midfielder Juan Mata, bought in the January transfer window for a club record $61 million, said United's pedigree in Europe -- it has amassed three titles in Europe's top club competition while Olympiacos has yet to make the semifinals -- could be a factor.
"Everything went bad (against Liverpool)," Mata wrote in his blog. "It was a tough defeat and I want to tell you that we will give everything we have in order to forget about this in the remaining games. And there is a very important one around the corner.
"We know the history of this club and its achievements, based on a winning spirit. That is what we need to beat Olympiacos and get through in the Champions League.
"The storm will pass and the sun will rise again," the cup-tied Spaniard also said. "I have no doubt. Besides, no one said this would be easy."


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Friday, October 30, 2009
Hammerin' Fears: "The Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires" (1974)
Hello, Pulp Friends,
Last Hammerin' Fears of the month but not last Hammerin' Fears of Pulp SUnday: there are still many great HAMMER movies to tribute, and these were too much fun to work on too :)
Today we have a personal favorite, a movie I was big fan of since I watched it the first time as a kid (and watched it over and over again since then): The Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires! Martial arts with fangs! Come'on, you can't beat that fun, can you? :)
It's close to midnight and I need to put this up so I will leave you with the synopsis of the movie and a little trailer (titled 7 Brothers Meet Dracula for the American market I think) and, of course, my little tribute to this classic :)
Can't believe this Halloween month is almost over :(
Buona Visione and have a Pulp Friday evening everyone! :)
Synopsis: Professor Van Helsing (Cushing) had been asked to help against the tyranny of skeletal creatures that are responsible for terror and death amongst the peasants in rural China. He is the only person qualified to deal with the cause of these phenomena, for the undead are controlled by the most diabolical force of all.... Count Dracula (Forbes-Robertson). But he is not alone- to aid him comes a mystical brotherhood of seven martial arts warriors.
Artwork © 2009 Francesco Francavilla.
"Hammerin' Fears" and "The Vault of Fear" © and TM 2009 Francesco Francavilla.
3 comments:
- Chuck Wells said...
That's a great pick for the final one of the month. Good job!
- October 31, 2009 at 7:50 AM
- BrittReid said...
"7 Brothers" is a (badly) re-edited version of "7 Golden Vampires" for the grindhouses, emphasizing the kung-fu. (It's 14 minutes shorter!)
BOTH versions are available on the Anchor Bay dvd (V10560) along with an audiobook from the soundtrack with narration by Cushing!
And you do a GREAT Peter Cushing!
How about doing either of the 2 Dr Who feature films?
- October 31, 2009 at 1:33 PM
- Francesco Francavilla said...
Thank you, CHuck :D There will be definitely more Hammer tributes down the road.
Thanks for the nice words and the cool info, Britt :) A Cushing Doctor Who sound a pretty darn good suggestion :D
- November 6, 2009 at 8:47 AM
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From Secret Agent 86's shoe-phone in the 1965 TV show "Get Smart" to the brick-like cell phone carried by Zack Morris on "Saved By The Bell" in the early 90s, the history of cinema can be marked by the electronic devices used on-screen.
Today, celebrities' cell phones are their most important accessory—often bringing iPhones or Blackberries on the red carpet to document the mass hysteria and then upload it to their Twitter, Facebook or Instagram accounts.
Twenty years ago they used pagers, ten years ago they texted on flip phones, and now most stars keep connected with their fans on BlackBerrys and iPhones.
We've gathered images of celebs using their phones on-screen and off over the past half a century to see how cell phones have evolved with the changing times.
And crucially, the year they stopped being a fictional plot device and started being a real accessory that stars couldn't leave home without.
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rdsrds2120 wrote:HighlanderAttack wrote:Wow, did not even realize this is not even in real suggestions anymore. Someone will start this topic again.
I am happy for DICKtator Metsfanmax he can flex his virtual muscles and move this to a suggestion not worthy of being on the front page.
HighlanderAttack, this suggestion is in the "Submitted Suggestions", which means it's been submitted to me and the programmer to actually be done! Besides that, we can be cordial to the Volunteer Team and I'm sure it will be reciprocated.
While I'm here, a minor update:
There's a process nailed down for each department, and I am now just waiting on the medal images to be made. Update coming soon(ish)!
--I took this as like an archive then. My apologies. I am glad to hear it.
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Golden Corral Responds To Gross Viral Video
Going viral as quickly as possible, a video from Golden Corral employee Brandon Huber has quickly placed a blemish on the image of the restaurant chain. Uploaded on July 1st, Huber's video exposing unsafe food handling at the Golden Corral in Port Orange, Florida has already reached over one million views.
In the video, Huber identifies himself and the Golden Corral location he works at, saying the restaurant is currently being inspected and he's taking this opportunity to show how his employers store food for an inspection. Opening the doors to the dumpster area, Huber's video shows uncooked hamburger patties, uncooked ribs, and other food out in the open next to the dumpsters,
This hamburger meat, look at all these flies, this is disgusting, all this food, all these baby back ribs. Let me get a little closer and show you just how disgusting this is. All you can eat ribs by the Dumpster. All you can eat ribs by the Dumpster. Green bean casserole, all your patty melts, your pot roast meat, your chicken, your ham, your bacon, gravy.
Just a few hours ago, Golden Corral issued a statement regarding the video, confirming its validity,
A video was recently posted showing an incident of improper food handling at our Port Orange, Florida location. None of these items were served to a single customer. All were destroyed within the hour at the direction of management,
Brandon Huber, the employee who made the video, participated in the disposal of the food. The following day, the father of the employee, posted an offer to sell the video for $5,000, which was not accepted,
The statement went on to add that the manager involved with the incident had been terminated.
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banana and blueberry muffins
- 1 packet Wholesome Banana Bread
- 1½ cups medium ripe bananas (about 4 bananas), mashed
- ⅔ cup (160ml) light-flavoured extra virgin olive oil
- 2 eggs
- 1 cup (150g) frozen blueberries
- cake mix
- Follow the packet mix instructions.
- Stir through the blueberries.
- Divide the mixture between a 12 x ⅓-cup-capacity (80ml) muffin tin lined with deep paper muffin cases.
- Bake for 35 minutes or until cooked when tested with a skewer.
- Allow to cool in the tin for 5 minutes before turning out onto a wire rack. Serve warm or cool. Makes 12.
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