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In the spirit of holiday regifting, I'm dredging up another classic holiday blog post, rewritten and repackaged with a bright shiny bow!
And then some teetotaller shows up, and I guess I'm supposed to feel bad about being on my fourth hot toddy at 11 in the morning.
So to clarify, you Christmas Vegans are a pain because your actions make me look bad. While I'm talking about the iPod I got for Christmas, you are talking about the soup kitchen you spent all Christmas working at. It makes me feel a little self conscious, and I'll thank you to stop. I feel I need to drop the phrase "reason for the season" into conversation with you, or recite the King James version of the Christmas story a la Linus from Charlie Brown.
I need you to know that I love Jesus, perhaps even more than you do. I just love eggnog, cookies, and giving (and getting) presents too. In fact, I can love presents and Jesus, because I just have lots of love in my heart. Some people have enough love for big families. I have enough love for big presents. And I'm sorry you have such a small Grinch heart so you cannot understand that. I'm not going to stop enjoying those things just because a bunch of pagans do that too. Guess what? A bunch of pagans go to church on Christmas too. There. I am justified. You have nothing on me. Enjoy your tofurky, I have a doorbuster deal to grab.
And yet…
I find myself drawn in. There are definately more Christmas Vegans this year, I've noticed. Or at least Christians who are indulging in less. Maybe it's the economy. But maybe people are genuinely tired of the Christmas rat race.
And I am starting to feel the same way. Your Christmas stinginess and scroogery is making me re-evaluate my own habits. My wife and I realized we could simplify our Christmas just by trimming the budget. Novel idea! For example, we have yet to buy a Christmas tree, ever. Our tree is a trade made with my brother. We also decided we'd trim our gifts that we purchase down by $5-$10 each. We have also made a point that we will not visit the movies on Christmas. That's just our thing, and I won't judge you if your family does go to the movies (though you are free to feel judged.)
Wow, I can see why you Christmas Vegans are going for a simpler holiday. I feel holier about myself already, just by telling you all that! Do you need to re-read that list of holy things I'm doing to get some ideas about how to improve yourself? I think I need a reward for being so awesome. Maybe a couple extra cookies tonight.
Are you a Christmas vegan? A carnivore? What's your favorite "worldly" part of Christmas? What part do you wish would go away? Are you simplifying your Christmas, or do you revel in every candy cane?


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"This barrio angel teaches us how to see behind the appearance of things and how to embrace reality with all the senses." Isabel Allende
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Winner of Mexico's Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Prize, and France's Prix France Culture, The Angel of Galilea introduces a refreshing new voice in Latin American literature to the English speaking audience.
Mona is a jaded reporter for a Colombian tabloid sent on assignment to investigate an angel sighting in one of Bogotá's most devastated barrios, where she encounters a community torn apart by a passionate conflict over a beautiful man who walks the fine line between sanity and sainthood. For the people of Galilea, this mysterious and sensual "angel without a name" represents their hope amidst desperate circumstances; for Mona, he awakens her desire to love and gives her a reason to believe. When the barrio's priest leads a revolt against the fallen angel, Mona risks everything to protect him from the gang that threatens to destroy him.
"Restrepo is a writer to treasure." Alastair Reid
"Sharply resonant." The New York Times Book Review
"Surprising, wonderful, and, for me, deeply moving."
Alvaro Mutis
Restrepo writes that she waited to write this novel, a blend of journalism and magical realism, until after the commercial popularity of angels waned. She may not have waited long enough. Whether in kitschy illustrated books or blockbuster movies like City of Angels, the cherubic entities remain hot properties for reasons that appeal to parts of the human psyche sympathetic to puppy dogs and soap operas. Modern angels are either insufferably cute infants or mysterious strangers descending from Cloud Nine long enough to stir the hearts of their human beloveds. Milton wouldn't recognize these creatures, shorn as they are of their flaming swords and supernatural fury.
Though Restrepo tries to introduce a bit of the old angelic terror into her novel, the results are lackluster, producing little more than a weak chronicle of an affair between Monita, a Colombian reporter, and a mute adolescent the Galilea townspeople consider either a divine messenger or satanic deception. There are wonderfully inventive passages in this book and the novel begins with promise. Unfortunately, Restrepo's dialogue often gets stuck in matters better left to exposition and the story itself seems overly familiar despite the author's occasional comic flourish. Ultimately, nothing here shakes the reader's presuppositions about celestial creatures or their interactions with humans.
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Pictured here is artist David Flores's super-Instagrammable and super-cute mural depicting the classic comicstrip characters Calvin and Hobbes at the Dangerbird Records building in Los Angeles. There's a mashup of graphic visions at play here. Flore's work has a impressionistic illustrative style that relies on strong clean lines that organize the surfaces of his subjects into panels in various hues of a thematic color. The challenge here is rendering that style on popular characters that have an established and easily recognizable graphic identity. Calvin and Hobbes are drawn in a style by Bill Waterson, their original creator, that is distinct. Flores has managed to faithfully render Waterson's characters and style and yet bring his recognizable aesthetic to the artwork.
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Bicycle-Shaped Bicycle Rack
There must be a word in the English language for when a thing is designed to look like another object with which it's associated in some practical way, but we can't find a suitable word. Take for example, this bicycle rack in Silver Lake, in Los Angeles. The rack is shaped like a set of bicycles. It's a nice touch that makes an otherwise mundane, utilitarian piece of street furniture into an amusing part of the urban landscape. The bicycle shape of the rack communicates its purpose, making the rack easier to visually identify at a distance and thus the search for it that much easier. As for a suitable word, we suggest creating a new, more applicable word. Our suggestion: "resembladinger." It's a portmanteau we mashed up from the the words "resemble" and the old Germanic word "ding," which means thing. We added an "-er" suffix for effect and to suggest it having a practical, tool-like quality. Any other suggestions? Let us know.
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"Deface This" Trump Street Art
These repeated black-and-white "Deface This" and "Not Norml" (sic) posters of new U.S. President Donald Trump are funny political commentary and an invitation to a form of participatory art and creative activism. We've being seeing these pop up around Los Angeles the past week or so. The ones pictured here were on a utility box on Sunset Blvd. in L.A.'s hip Silver Lake neighborhood.
Locals Only
Last weekend, we stumbled upon this throw pillow with the words "Locals Only" embroidered on it at the Mollusk Surf Shop in Silver Lake in Los Angeles. The pillow is a funny, cute mash-up of old-school, cliched surf-culture sentiment and a folksy, homespun style more fitting in grandma's living room than a surfer fort at Lunada Bay. It's not the kind of item that the average surf shop would stock, but then Mollusk is not an average surf shop and Silver Lake is not your average surf shop locale. It's not a laidback seaside surf haven. That there's even a surf shop in Silver Lake at all is an anomaly.
Mollusk originated in San Francisco where it made a name for itself that traveled far beyond the Bay Area. It established a style and a reputation for great taste. And for selling interesting, quality surfboards from shapers who made their boards by hand and were influenced by retro designs. Whether it was a shortboard, longboard for a 1970s-inspired "mid-length" board with a single fin, by and large many of these surfboard makers themselves appreciated design and style and their aesthetic tastes were reflected in their boards. (And, by the way, yes, we surf and we enjoy nerding out on this stuff.)
Then Mollusk opened up branches in LA. One is in Venice, LA's infamous and gritty (if now largely gentrified) beach town. It's not a mecca of great surfing nor great waves. In fact, the surf at Venice Beach sucks most of the time. But it is a block from the beach and central for the greater LA metro area, and it's a hub for a creative surfer community. Surfers still paddle out into the waves at the Venice breakwater most days in spite of the poor surf conditions.
Then there's Silver Lake. It doesn't have Venice's location or vibe, but there's a niche demographic overlap. SLake is home to a class of fashionable creative types (music, film, art, advertising, design), both the moneyed kind and the less-moneyed aspiring kind, and it's a magnet for a generation of hipsters, some of whom surf or pretend to. Mollusk is right at home here and yet it's also totally legit, albeit with those ironic, stylish "Locals Only" throw pillows strategically placed in the store.
"Locals Only" has come a long way. It was the kind of thing that one often encountered back in the '70s and '80s in the form of crudley spray-painted graffiti near remote or hardcore surf spots along Pacific Coast Highway or at a handlulf of certain "localised" beaches in the string of seaside communities up and down the California coast or in Hawaii. It was a warning to outsiders, one tinged with menace, not to surf that beach … or else. This localism was the harder-edged face of surf culture. So to see those words rendered on the kind of soft, cuddly pillow you might cozy up to on a sofa while sipping a cup of tea and savoring the prose of a Maya Angelou novel, well, it's funny and brilliant. Its trick is how it both deflates the inherent threat and danger associated with those words while in another way making those words even scarier.
Warm Minimalist Shelf Architecture at A.P.C.
The Parisian clothing and retail brand A.P.C. recently opened a shop in Silver Lake in Los Angeles. Like may of this French fashion label's stores, whether it's in Tokyo, Paris or New York, this new LA outpost has its own distinct interior design aesthetic, different from all the other A.P.C. stores, yet inscrutably "on brand" in its warm minimalism.
A.P.C. stores embrace the constraints and quirks of the space they occupy and subtly absorb the character of the surrounding neighborhoods they're in. At the Silver Lake store, the tiered shelving system is the foremost feature of the space. It's a piece of architecture in and of itself within the shop space, built in smack in the center of the store and easily eating up much of the architectural footprint. Customers can walk through it.
The plain distilled earthiness of the wood suggests a casual, clean organic aesthetic in sync with the Southern California "canyon spirit" style, but the thin bars of LED lights augment this with a restrained hint of the Hollywood glamor. All in all, it sweetly aligns with the the clothing brand's style of fashion.


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A survey like this will be valuable in itself, but it will be even more valuable if the consultant can integrate survey data with data gathered from discount cards. These cards typically provide information about where, when, and how often customers shop, what they buy, and how much they typically spend on each shopping trip.
If a consultant attempted to ask for this information as part of a survey, it would create two problems. First, respondents might not be able to provide accurate information about such things as how often they shop or how much they typically spend. Second, asking for such information would make the survey considerably longer, and the longer the survey, the less likely it is that people will complete it.
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In the second case, a user can upload a table for which a code or an answer must be entered to retrieve information. This could be a products table, store level table, demographic table, etc. For example, a construction company that replaces windows, siding, and gutters might have information on its products serviced by warranty number. The first question of the survey asks the respondent his warranty number. The information on the table (product category, date, service representative, price, location, etc.) is then linked to this person's responses.
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- Eric,
It does appear that way, but I doubt you know the full details of MTL's
parts' issues. It seems logical to suggest that MTL would keep those parts
in stock if it was their ability to? Any time a company utilizes some off
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company. I'd bet that MTL is addressing this issue and attempting to bring
more manufacturing back home.
In time I believe MTL will be able to rectify this problem. So it continues
to be a situation of Z scalers practicing patience.
Frustrating I know, but that is the way it currently is.
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MTL sucks with their support for thei products! Eric
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- the F7A engine that came with it, it was the 2012 MTL Xmas set
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Nets vs. Mavericks - 1/5/15 NBA Pick, Odds, and Prediction
Dallas Mavericks (25-10) at Brooklyn Nets (16-17)
NBA Basketball: Monday, January 5, 2015 at 7:30 pm (Barclays Center)
The Line: Brooklyn Nets +5.5 -- Over/Under: 206 See the Latest Odds
The Dallas Mavericks and Brooklyn Nets square off Monday night at the Barclays Center.
The Dallas Mavericks have won five straight games and will end a three-game road trip. On the season, the Mavs are averaging 109.9 points on 47.8 percent shooting and are allowing 102.6 points on 45.3 percent shooting. Monta Ellis is averaging 20.7 points and 4.5 assists while Dirk Nowitzki is averaging 18.6 points and 5.9 rebounds. Chandler Parsons is shooting 45.8 percent from the field and Rajon Rondo is dishing out 7.4 assists. As usual, the Dallas Mavericks are getting the job done on the offensive end as they've topped 100 points in seven straight games and are shooting 38.8 percent from downtown in their last five games. As long as the Mavs continue to score at a high percentage, they're going to be a tough team to beat.
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The Brooklyn Nets have won six of their last eight games and play their first home game of 2015. On the season, the Nets are averaging 96.9 points on 45 percent shooting and are allowing 98.6 points on 44.5 percent shooting. Joe Johnson is averaging 16.5 points and 3.9 assists while Brook Lopez is averaging 14.9 points and 5.8 rebounds. Deron Williams is dishing out 6.4 assists and Jarrett Jack is shooting 45.8 percent from the field. The Brooklyn Nets are playing their best basketball of the season and it starts with an offense that's shooting 46.1 percent from the field in their last five games. However, the Nets are coming off a bad Sunday road loss to the Miami Heat, so it'll be interesting to see how they bounce back.
The Mavericks are 5-1 ATS in their last 6 vs. Eastern Conference and 1-5 ATS in their last 6 games playing on 0 days rest. The Nets are 4-1 ATS in their last 5 vs. Western Conference and 1-4 ATS in their last 5 home games vs. a team with a winning road record. The road team is 5-0 ATS in the last 5 meetings and the underdog is 6-0 ATS in the last 6 meetings.
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AN AUTHOR is under fire from animal right activists after her cat was killed when she dyed him PINK.
Lena Lenina was trying to get the cat to fit in with her themed "pretty in pink party" where all guests had to be splashed with the bright colour.
But the poor moggy was poisoned after licking the toxic hair dye.
Eyewitnesses described the feline – who was a kitten at the party in September – as hysterical the whole evening and trying to get out of its owner's hands.
"The pink colour was especially chosen for its healing properties and also strengthens the cat's hair"Author Lena Lenina
Lenina has now been slammed by animal rights activists for putting her cat through such a cruel media stunt.
Shockingly the Russian writer claimed a vet told her the pink colour had healing properties.
"The pink colour was especially chosen for its healing properties and also strengthens the cat's hair," Lenina said.
"My vet told me it was a beneficial addition to him."
It's believed the 35-year-old lost interest in the cat soon after the party and gave it to a new owner.
Lenina said the cat was happy and healthy when she gave him away.
An online petition has been launched demanding that local police investigate.


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I found the root of boot loop on red screen (booting)... Its gravity box that gives problem... Uninstall gravity box and here is the bug free rom..
The only bug is we cant connect 2 sony sp running same ExistenZ rom over wifi... I used all settings but nothing help... Even hotspot connection is working with all other phones except other xsp...
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Today I installed the eXistenZ Ultra 2.0.0 ROM on my Xperia SP c5302, I followed all the steps in the guide, and even the detailed install instructions. Every thing worked fine, upto ROM installation and SuperSU fix. I the flashed the Kernel of 12.1.A.0.266 for c5302 and the turned in the phone. But now the phone is in an infinite boot loop, it starts the displays sony logo after some time, it vibrates twice and then restarts. It is happening for indefinite time. Now i am waiting for its battery to drain. PLZ help me, how can I fix it, or how can I roll back my actions, especially when no recovery is available, and flashtool is also not recognizing the device as connected.
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Dropbox is a great way to keep things synced over multiple computers and even on your phone. This is one of the first apps I download after I do a fresh install. The video above gives a good description of how it can be helpful for several uses. It is very simple and very hands off (don't you love it when stuff just works?) And the best part: You get 2GB worth of online storage for free!
You can get dropbox here.
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Marco "Ocramius" Pivetta: "I've always been fascinated by computers, and always had a computer in my household, as long as I can remember"
Our interviewing is going on and we are ready to introduce you a great foreign developer, part of the Doctrine Project core team, part of the ZendFramework CR team, open-sourcer for PHP projects - this all is about Marco Pivetta (aka @Ocramius).
Marco "Ocramius" Pivetta
- A software consultant at Roave.
- With over a decade of experience with PHP, he is part of the Zend Framework CR team, Doctrine core team, and is also active in the community as a mentor and supporter.
- When not coding for work, he usually hacks together new concepts and open source libraries, or simply provides Q&A on IRC
- Twitter, GitHub
How did you become a developer?
I've always been fascinated by computers, and always had a computer in my household, as long as I can remember. At around age 12 I started developing small video-games with a tool called BlitzBasic, which allowed me to taste the complexity of computer programming (reality-check).I then kept developing, working for companies during my summer breaks, and went to University (although I failed at it, as I'm a terrible student) to learn computer engineering.The problem is mostly that I spent much more time in working on side-project than actually working on my career and profits…
What are the most interesting and influential topics that you have spoken about?
Mostly PHP-related topics:
* Proxy pattern applications
* Coding practices
* ORM development
I did a lot of talks, but these are the ones where I did the most noise so far.
What will you talk about at the PHP Frameworks Day 2016 conference?
* Extremely Defensive PHP
* Doctrine Best Practices
Could you recommend any websites or books how to become a PHP guru?
* join room 11 (http://chat.stackoverflow.com/rooms/11/php), which is full of brilliant people, discussing complex topics every day.
* get a good list of twitter people to follow (https://twitter.com/Ocramius/lists/knowledge-roi)
* learn a functional language to challenge your way of reasoning about stateю
What do you think about the future of programming in 10 years?
Not many interesting things going on, in my opinion.Mostly, we'll get faster ways to deploy and manage large pieces of cloud-infrastructure at lower costs (cloud-sharing? :-P ). In addition to that, I see that developers finally start giving up on the idea of abstracting everything into reusable components, and instead start focusing on the real business problems. This, or else we'll just have another billion npm modules.
Is there anything in PHP programming language that should be changed or improved?
* better pre-runtime static type introspection
* advancements in the engine's inlining/performance capabilities
* enhancement in asynchronous programming/messaging
* possibly the support of multi-threaded execution for functionally pure pieces of code (requires the first one)
Please, tell a funny story from your life or the anecdote.
What do you call a software project with two domain experts?
A rebase conflict.
What is your best achievement ever?
I tricked you into believing that it was worth interviewing me!


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"But there's a story behind everything. How a picture got on a wall. How a scar got on your face. Sometimes the stories are simple and sometimes they are hard and heartbreaking" -Mitch Albom
I recently stumbled upon an interesting Facebook page that some had "liked" and I keep having show up in my Facebook feed. Sometimes it's extremely annoying when Facebook throws a post into your feed just because one of your many friends "liked" it and thus you have to look at it to whether you choose to or not, whether you like it or not. In this case, however, the unsought out post was a bit of a gift.
Humans of New York Facebook page posts random pictures and brief stories of people's lives ranging through a wide variety of experiences and perspectives. There is a collection of books associated with the page, the one I am most interested in checking out being one published last month, Humans of New York – Stories. This collection gives stories along with the pictures that seem simple but can be powerful. One of the starred reviews reads, "There's no judgement, just observation, and in many cases, reverence, making for an inspiring reading and visual experience" – Publishers Weekly
The Facebook posts caught my attention for the little flashes into a person's life. Many stories have the feel of a confession. Not perhaps confessing something they did wrong necessarily, but an unburderning of themselves by sharing the story. Many I have read have left me thinking about them afterwards.
As a writer whose job it is to create characters that feel authentic in situations that are not only believable but that also capture hearts and imaginations, these glimpses into people's lives are fuel for the fire.
I've always loved the idea of each of us being a collector of stories. We have our own stories, we have our family stories and we have other shared stories with those around us that all help to define us. When we create our characters, it's important that they too have their own collection of stories that have shaped and helped to define them.
What about you? What would you say our stories say about us? Have you built your characters with a collection of stories? Would you ever consider putting together your own collection of stories to share with others like Humans of New York? I'd love to hear about it in the comments. Feel free to share a story if you'd like.
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I am trying to find the physical index fragmentation % in a dynamic system view. I can however only find the logical fragmentation. In "sys.dm_db_index_physical_stats", the "avg_fragmentation_in_percent" is the same as the Logical Scan Fragmentation when using "DBCC SHOWCONTIG (TableName) with all_indexes"
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Wed., May 1, 1996
Several Republican congressmen want to ban sales of magazines such as Playboy, Playgirl and Penthouse on U.S. military bases, saying they undermine military families and national defense.
They are sponsoring a measure to be taken up today by the House National Security Committee that would ban the sale or rental on the bases of any sexually explicit material, including audio and video recordings and periodicals.
"Uncle Sam should not be subsidizing smut," Maryland Rep. Roscoe Bartlett said.
Bartlett, New Jersey Rep. Chris Smith and California Rep. Bob Dornan wrote colleagues last week that taxpayers are subsidizing the sale of adult magazines because the periodicals are discounted when sold on the bases.
Playboy Enterprises special counsel Burton Joseph accused lawmakers of neglecting their oath to defend the Constitution.
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Let me share my view on attraction, lust and love. Earlier we thought that only two opposite bodies attract. These two opposite bodies can be a Man and a Woman. Only this combination was considered by us as the only natural and healthy relationship. Now the situation has changed and we find that a similar attraction is being seen even in other combinations like a Man-Man and a Woman-Woman. This is where the universal social issues like LGBT are cropping up. When we don't find a meaning in a natural relationship, we try to find a meaning in an unnatural relationship. Whatever you say, whether natural or unnatural, these new relationships are becoming the new possibilities. And how far this will go nobody can say with a certainty. We have to now say that not only two opposite bodies get attracted but two opposite energy fields also get attracted. We have by now seen all the possible combinations: Man-Woman, Man-Animal, Woman-Animal, Man-Man, Woman-Woman, Man-Machine, and Woman-Machine. And the last combination that is going to be possible in the distant future is that of a Machine-Machine. And two robots will marry and will also take a divorce in the future. The latest trend in relationships, whether we call it ugly or unnatural, is that of a man and machines, and that of a woman and machines. From sex dolls and sex toys the world is now moving towards male and female robots. And in the future a man and a woman will marry and will alos take a divorce with the robots.
Let us explore and understand why these changes are taking place in modern relationships. What is the reason and meaning behind all this? All this is becoming possible because a man is not only a man but a woman too. And a woman is not only a woman but a man too. Each person is a proportion of these two energies - masculine and feminine, Shiva and Shakti, Yang and Yin. And this proportion differs from person to person. And it seems now that this natural proportion is getting distorted. A man has to understand not only the woman outside his being but also the woman inside his being. And similarly a woman also has to understand not only a man outside her being but also a man inside her own being. Everyone carries the opposite within. A man carries an inner woman within, and a woman carries an inner man within. The best way is before you try to understand the other you must first try to understand yourself first. You can never understand the other. And in that you can never understand a woman. This in fact is an impossible thing. Therefore, never try to understand a woman because nobody could understand her. And my suggestion is please don't try to understand her and try to love her. These are the two basic opposing energies within each individual. They are in fact not opposing but in some deeper way complementing each other. Therefore, understanding these two opposing energies and their nature is a great challenge. And a fusion or a synthesis of these two energies is a far greater challenge. Let us accept this challenge from the very beginning. And with this attitude there is every possibility that the journey can become easy and smooth.
There are two kinds of attractions in this. The first attraction is at the body level. And the force of attraction here is that of the force of gravity. And the second attraction is at the mental, psychological, and spiritual level. And the force of attraction here is that of grace. The same force at the body level changes to another force at the spiritual level. The force of gravity at the body level can change to the force of grace at the spiritual level. This is a reality and a great mystery really. Grace means that the force of attraction is coming from the divine and not created by us. The difference is very subtle. The force of gravity is that of pull and push, and it is coming from the outside. And the force of grace means that of surrender, and it is arising from within. Just think and ponder on this. Two opposite bodies attract but two opposite thoughts and philosophies do not attract. Only two similar thoughts and philosophies attract. And this is a paradigm. Two negative minds attract each other. Two negative thoughts attract each other. Two negative philosophies attract each other. Two positive minds attract each other. Two positive thoughts attract each other. Two positive philosophies attract each other. And there is a paradigm shift. Two opposite bodies attract but two opposite minds don't attract. This is the basic difference. The whole purpose is, can the relationship move from the body level to the spiritual level? The whole purpose is, can we move from the force of gravity to the force of grace? Can lust become love? Can sex become Supreme Consciousness? Our aim has to be to look into these possibilities. If this becomes possible then the relationship of a man and a woman can take them together to the highest level of love possible. This may take them to the very zenith of love. It may take them to the purest form of love. The purest love is formless and it takes the form only when it is full of lust. In this relationship of pure love there is not only a highest level of satisfaction at the body level but also at the spiritual level. To me except this there is no other kind of love. To me this is the only end goal of all relationships between a man and a woman. And all other kinds of relationships, whether you call them platonic or whatever, will only leave some kind of emotional discontent and dissatisfaction on the psyche of an individual, whether a man or a woman. And all pseudo relationships can never culminate into an ultimate and everlasting relationship of joy and happiness. And we will only be moving from one relationship to another by giving them various names of convenience. And platonic is also one such name of convenience. It is emanating from some kind of psychological dissatisfaction. You will never get any conclusive evidence on this. This debate is not new. This debate is going on for eternity and shall continue till eternity. All breakups are the result of these pseudo relationships where the true love was either not there or there was no effort between the partners to create true love and understanding. And please remember that all relationships in the beginning are pseudo. All of them without any exception. The couple or the partners have to really work hard to make the relationship grow and become divine. This is a greatest challenge. And both the partners have to take the responsibility. It is like a tight rope walking. And true success is possible only when we bring in a balance. All relationships are pseudo by default and can become perfect only by design.
Every woman is always seeking and searching for Mr. Perfect and every man is also seeking and searching for Ms. Perfect. But the sad part of all this is that these two 'Perfects' have never met and will never meet. This is impossible because there is nothing called perfect. 'Perfection' is a wrong word and a wrong idea. It is a dead word. It is not an alive and living word. It is not a natural word. It is a dead-end. It is not a flowing thing. It is not a moving thing. It is in fact a dying thing. Perfection has never existed and perfection will never exist. Perfection means death. It is an end of life. Perfection simply means there is no evolution and there is no revolution. The difference is very vital. Evolution means the change that is happening from the side of the nature or existence, and revolution means the change that is happening from our side. The real and natural word is 'Perfecting'. It is a continuous and on-going thing. It is a continuous process. We all are continuously perfecting. It is organic and not synthetic. The reality is that the very search in a wrong direction results only in frustration. This is like a mirage. And this is like moving from one hope to another. And every new hope again results into a new frustration. It is like the old saying that the man proposes and God disposes. Mr. Perfect and Ms. Perfect are like two parallel lines that will never meet and will never intersect. And relationship means the two lines will intersect at some point. Mr. Perfect and Ms. Perfect are like two big egos sitting on the top of two hilltops. They both are simply looking at each other and thinking and hoping that the other will come and meet. And each one feels that he or she is perfect and the other is not. This is the basic fallacy of two static things. And this is the reason why two mountains do not meet. And when they really meet they meet in the valley. The valley is a meeting point of the two mountains. The valley is a fusion of their egos. The ego is a static thing like a rock or a mountain. It is not a dynamic and changing thing like a river. The two flowing rivers meet in an ocean. And when the two rivers meet they are never two and have become one. Their individual identities are lost in that one common thing. Whereas the non-moving waters of a pond either dry-up or stink. The only reason for this is that the waters are not flowing and moving. The rivers are ready to change and are dynamic. So the real word is 'perfecting' and not 'perfection'.
There is a famous proverb on relationships and breakups. It says that the relationships are like a glass. Sometimes it's better to leave them broken than try to hurt yourself putting it back together. And it is the same thing again, you see. You will again try for another new glass. And what is the guarantee that the new glass will not be broken again? So be careful that it is a glass and it can be broken. And once it is broken it is very difficult to glue it together. The original and natural thing is lost forever. If we move with the same old thinking then there is every possibility that this new relationship will also be broken. If our thinking is the same then nothing will ever change. Only relationships will change and not the relationship. Only the bodies will change and not the minds. Nothing will change fundamentally. The break-up simply means there was either no love or there was no effort of creating love from both the sides. Love means an intersection of the bodies, minds, and hearts. Not having love is not a bad thing. Having hatred is not a bad thing. But just getting stuck at the level of no-love or hatred is a bad thing. Love is not possible without hatred and hatred is impossible with true love. Hatred can be transformed into love. Lust can be transformed into love. This is an alchemy and this is possible. Real love only unites two hearts and never breaks two hearts. Only hatred breaks the relationship and not the love. Is a relationship so cheap that it is only meant for making, breaking, and remaking?
The metaphysics is that two opposite bodies attract and two similar thoughts and philosophies also attract. This is the whole metaphysics. At the body level we have to be just the pure opposite bodies and at the psychological level we need to be similar in our thinking and philosophies. Just like two positive thoughts attract, in a similar way two negative thoughts also attract. Two opposite bodies attract. Two opposite poles attract. Two positive thoughts attract. And two negative thoughts also attract. Positive attraction is creative and negative attraction is destructive. The breaking of a relationship simply means that we have never experimented the relationship at the level of the minds and hearts. The breaking of a relationship simply means that we have never experimented the relationship at the level of our thoughts and emotions. It simply means that we have never gone beyond the body. And meeting of the bodies and meeting of the minds are two different things. Sex at the level of our bodies renews and rejuvenates the sex energy of our bodies. The meeting of the two opposite sex energies renew and rejuvenate the two bodies, and both the man and the woman have a totally new being. Normally the thinking is that the release of sex energy is a wastage of the sex energy. This is a wrong thinking and a wrong notion. A deeply satisfied sexual life gives a different aura and color to the opposite bodies. The two opposite bodies glow. When it comes to the couple, their sex has no meaning unless there is a love in their sex. And their love also has no meaning unless their is a sex in their love. In a deeply satisfied sex life the bodies of a man and a woman get a different glow. Their faces get a different glow. That is why Tantra is a natural way of meeting the God through the meeting and merging of the two bodies. It is as if God or existence has chosen this path naturally and intelligently. The whole path is moving from the meeting of the bodies to the meeting of the minds and hearts, and then becoming one with the soul. We may have two different bodies and two different minds but we have the same soul. The soul is one. My soul and the soul of my beloved are not two different entities. The whole journey of all relationships is meeting and merging in that one soul. Two rivers meet and merge in one ocean. The bodies are like two rivers and the soul is like an ocean. This is a real union of our Body, Mind and Soul. Our soul is nothing but a state of our infinite joy and happiness. It simply means that now there are no more divisions. This is how the relationship has to move. It has to first move and transform at the level of the body. It is a body-body relationship. The more opposite the bodies, the better it is. It has to then move and transform at the mind level. It is a mind-mind relationship. The more silent the minds, the better it is. It has to then move and transform at the level of the hearts. It is a heart-heart relationship. The more loving the hearts, the better it is. And finally the relationship has to move to the level of the soul. It is a common point of the two bodies. There are no two souls. At the level of the soul the two bodies have merged and melted into one. The whole ego has disappeared. The whole ignorance has disappeared. The two personalities have disappeared. All the divisions have disappeared. And hence all the conflict and chaos has also disappeared. And now there is only symphony and synchronicity between the two bodies. The two individuals may appear as two different bodies to the outside world but in their inner understanding and experience they have become one. And this is what is called a divine relationship and a divine love. The Shiva and Shakti have merged and become an Ekalinga. This is the goal of Tantra. This is the path of Tantra.
Let me share with you a miracle of a love triangle. In order to move from lust to love and to move from the bodily love to spiritual love we can use this triangle. This I call a divine love triangle. This triangle will help us to move from a conditional love to an unconditional love. This triangle will help us in purifying our lust into the purest form of love. This triangle will help us to move from sex to Supreme Consciousness. There are three kinds of love. One is take-take. Second is give-take. And the third is give-give. The first kind of love is very selfish and egoistic. It always results into a win-lose or lose-win situation. And it is a dependent love. This is a conditional love and an imperfect love. And this kind of love gives only a bondage and not a freedom. The second kind of love is very organic. It is earthly, warm, and natural. It always results in a win-win situation. It is an interdependent love. And it is a perfecting love. The third kind of a love is give-give. This is the most purest form of love. It always believes in giving first. It does not bother about taking at all. It does not actually know what is taking. It is very pure and spiritual. It is independent and gives the highest freedom possible. This is the most perfect love if we are so obsessive of using that never existing word called 'perfection'. We can always use this divine love triangle to move from the lower form of love to the higher form of love. And all this is possible only through Dhyana or Meditation.
What is the problem with the relationships today? Except nagging, blaming, and fighting they have no other common goal. Do you know why couples continuously fight? The main reason of all this fight is to show and prove who is the boss? Each one wants to create his or her own kingdom and be the king or queen. Each one wants to dominate and subdue the other. The problem is that of who is the Guru? Each one wants to become a Guru and make the other a Disciple. Each one wants to become a Leader and wishes to see the other a Follower. The whole problem is of two. The whole problem is that of duality. The whole problem is that of Dvaita. The whole problem is that of who is number One out of these Two. The whole problem is of One plus One. And the real solution actually lies in Advaita. The whole problem is of ego (Ahankara) and ignorance (Ajnana) in all its subtle manifestations and identifications. The ultimate reason is of not having true love and true understanding between the two. And one eternal question arises out of this problem. Is there really a solution to this problem? The answer is either Yes or No and it depends. As long as the couple are two (One plus One) the problem will compound and the fight for survival and supremacy will continue. And this will become a perennial problem and will remain as an eternal issue. And if the two personalities dissolve and melt in a common goal called the Divinity or God then only the Divinity will function through them. This is possible only when both the partners make a common goal and make all possible efforts in moving towards that common goal. And that IF is a life and death question. The two can strike a common goal only through Dhyana or Meditation. Just look at the construction of your own house. The four walls of a house can meet only through a common roofing or ceiling. And the same is also true with all our relationships. This common roofing or ceiling to me is like Dhyana or Meditation. Dhyana or Meditation becomes a bridge between the couple. And ultimately Dhyana or Meditation can become a bridge between us and the divine.
A small joke. A wife is very angry at the husband for no reason at all and starts yelling at him in a high pitch. The husband says, "Look honey, we can discuss the same problem silently and without making a big fuss about it". The wife responds by saying, "You know sweet heart, I always lose the game whenever I fight the game silently". This is the whole problem. The whole fight is to be the winner. The whole fight is to win the game. And all this is coming from our ugly past. All this is coming from our past programing and conditioning. The whole situation is exactly like that one beautiful Hindi film song. The lyrics of the song are like this: Rukmani, Rukmani. Shadi Ke Baad Kya Kya Hua. Kon Hara Kon Jeeta. Khidki Mese Dekho Jara (Rukmani, just tell me what has happened after the marraige. Just peep from the window and see who has won and who has lost). A good relationship is definitely better than being single. And being single is far better than going into a bad relationship. We also say that he is single and ready to mingle. And whatever that good and bad is, it is never going to be possible unless we adventure into that relationship. Please remember that relationships are created and they don't happen in the heaven. One has to work hard to create good and better relationships. The heaven and hell are not some geographic places in the outer sky. They are psychological and spiritual spaces within our own inner being. When your emotions are positive, you feel like a heaven. And when your emotions are negative, you feel like a hell. When you feel good and better, it is like a heaven. And when you feel like bad and worst, it is like a hell. One has to continuously try and work towards a blissful and beautiful relationship. The separation does not necessarily mean physical separation. The couple may be living under a single roof as husband and wife. They may be called husband and wife legally. And they may not be together with their body, mind and soul. They may be just living together as corpses. They may not be together spiritually. There can only be either of the two things: Law or Love. And both these are mutually exclusive. They can not co-exist together. You can not impose love by law. And the presence of one presumes the absence of the other. If there is love then there is no need of any law. And if there is no love then you need the protection of law. Either there is love or there is no love. And the manifestation of all that is ugly in life is because of the absence of love. Love is not a commodity that is available in the market that we can just go and buy. And love can be created. And yes, the body can be bought. A machine can be bought. And sex can be bought. Love has to be created in the deepest core of your being. And the whole endeavor of a man's living is to create love. There are only two kinds of mysteries in life. One is of love and the other is of death. The life of love is true love, and the death of love is true death. There is no physical death really. There is nothing that really dies in the whole universe. When an electron can not die how our body can die? Everything gets transformed. Hatred transforms into love, and love transforms into prayer. And true love ultimately transforms into compassion. A love marriage resulting into a separation and divorce simply indicates that there was no love and understanding at all between the two individuals. And an arranged marriage resulting into a separation and divorce simply means that love and understanding could not be created by the two individuals. And a live-in relationship which does not ultimately result into an everlasting relationship of love and understanding simply means that there was no love and understanding in the very first place between the two individuals.
There is a huge research going on in human and machine relationships. This research throws the possibility of humans marrying robots in the next 50 odd years. David Levy is an artificial intelligence researcher at the University of Maastricht in the Netherlands. He has done a considerable research on the subject of human-robot relationships. He has also done his PhD on this subject. Today sex with a robot may sound weird but this may be a possibility in the near future. According to his study there could be marriages taking place between the humans and the robots. All the present laws on marriages and divorces will undergo a drastic change in the future when marriages between humans and robots would become a reality. According to his research there is also a possibility that two robots will marry and also take a divorce. The very idea about love and romance between the human beings and their artistic creations is nothing new. If we look into the ancient times there is a Greek myth of the sculptor Pygmalion falling in love with the ivory statue he made and named Galatea. As per the mythic story the Goddess of Venus eventually granted life to this statue. This is exactly how small boys and girls during their childhood days play these marriage games of the toys. In Indian tradition we call it 'Gudda-Guddika khel', the play of the marriage of the toys as husband and wife played by small children. Well, these are all imaginations and are part of our unconsciousness. Even now the robots are being used in factories and offices and are more mechanical and not human-like. And this trend is now moving towards making robots human-like and coming in contact with humans more personally and emotionally. The future robots will have human-like appearances and they will also show emotional and psychological feelings. David Levy says in his thesis, 'Intimate Relationships with Artificial Partners', that the robots will become so human-like in appearance, function, and personality that many people will just fall in love with them, have sex with them and even marry them. He says that love and sex with robots is inevitable. Will it happen or will it not happen is not a curious question? The curious question is when it will happen? David Levy says that the psychologists have identified few basic reasons why people fall in love and all these can easily be programmed. According to the psychologists one basic reason why people fall in love is because of their similarities in personality and knowledge. Another reason why people most likely to fall in love is if they know that the other person likes them. There could be many more reasons. And majority of these reasons are programmable. To me this is really not surprising. Already there are companies which sell sex toys and dolls. Human-like robots for the purpose of love and sex is just an extension of these sex toys or dolls. This is nothing new and it is sure to happen. Henrik Christensen, founder of the European Robotics Research Network has already predicted in 2006 that people will be having sex with robots in next five years. David Levy says that this is quite likely in the near future. David Levy says that one hundred years ago interracial marriage and same-sex marriages were illegal in the United States. He further says that interracial marriage has been legal now for 50 years, and same-sex marriage is legal in some parts of the states. To me all these dynamics throw a lot of challenges to the future of humanity in terms of the benefits of these relationships and also about the ethical, legal, moral, psychological, and spiritual questions involved in the whole thing. The scientists are also talking about creating an artificial consciousness. There is one more risk in the near future with the intelligent machines. Scientists talk of a hypothetical and imaginary state of technological singularity. This state may become possible. This is a state when the robots outsmart the human capabilities. This is a state when artificial intelligence outsmarts the human intelligence. And in this state the robots will be able to think more than the human beings. What would happen in this state then? Well, the scientists say that in this state the robots will have their own wish and will, and they will have their own goals. Let us imagine and apply that in real love and relationships. The robots may destroy and kill the human beings. A male robot may become jealous of somebody's wife and may abduct and molest her. A robot may get fed up with a human relationship and may fall in love with another robot. Two robots may fell in love with each other and may marry. Two robots may just have a live-in relationship. Two married robots may apply for a divorce in a court of law. A robot may commit a rape and murder. And what If the judge is also a robot? We can take all this to any ugly dimensions possible. We really do not know whether a man will live ultimately or a machine will live. It is time to think and ponder on the merits and demerits of the science of artificial intelligence. The ultimate test is, is it a man behind the machine or a machine behind the man? The true answer to this must come from the deepest core of our being.
To me there is a huge difference between liking and loving. Liking can be for a thing, an idea or a person. Loving the other person may involve meeting of the bodies and meeting of the minds. To make it simple, liking can be for non-living things and loving can be for living things. To give some reasons for the liking of a thing or an idea is easy but it is very difficult to give a reason why we love a particular person. The fundamental question is, is true love possible out of a reason? If there is a reason for love, then is that really a love? Liking can be for a reason and sex also can be for a reason but true love can not be for a reason. Liking can be conditional and sex can also be conditional but true love can not be conditional. Love is not possible out of a reason. True love may also involve sex and meeting of the bodies and that is a different thing. It is a different thing because in the whole process we are moving from the body to the being. To me, there is a basic desire for love in all the human beings. And this desire is natural and God given. This desire gives us a direction towards loving a particular person. And this love finally and eventually evolves into a divine love because both the bodies have a common soul. Lust and sex may look ugly initially. But this is only a beginning and a starting point. There is no other way but to move on this path. There is no need to feel guilty for it or condemn it. But there should be a constant effort to evolve out of it. And this is possible only through observation and contemplation. To me, love is not available and has to be created. The higher form evolves out of the lower form. The higher form is embedded in the lower form. The 24 carat gold is hidden in the raw gold. The flower and fruits are hidden in the seed of the flower. Lust or sex is only a seed of love. And love is a flowering of lust. Love is hidden in the lust, and sex is hidden in the Supreme Consciousness. The other way of saying it is that love evolves out of lust, and Supreme Consciousness evolves out of sex. Lust and sex are the lower forms of the same divine love. Sex and lust are the lower energies of the same divine energy. This lower energy when channelized properly can move towards the love of the divine. All desire is for the divinity. All lust is for love. All sex is only for the Supreme Consciousness. In the ultimate analysis all desire is for divinity, all power is for a prayer, and all energy is for Enlightenment. And all this is possible only through the process of observation, contemplation, Dhyana or Meditation. And to move in the right direction of the desire and to give a right direction to this basic energy of life is a greatest challenge.
Dhyana or Meditation can be made into a common goal. In meditation all the impurities of the body, mind, and heart are dissolved and the result is a purest form of love. And this love is spiritual. For example, in the process of raw gold passing through the acid test and the fire test all the impurities are lost and the result is a 24 carat pure gold. It is the purest form of gold. Dhyana or Meditation works as an acid test and a fire test. Lust is the lower form of love. Sex is the lower form of Supreme Consciousness. Lust is an impurity in love. Sex is an impurity in Supreme Consciousness. In the process of Dhyana or Meditation all these impurities of the body, mind, and heart are dissolved and the result is pure love and compassion. In this process true love and friendship grows. In this process true love and trust grows. The result of all this challenge is a most beautiful and blissful relationship. And the only ingredients of an everlasting relationship are love and understanding.


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The body of the 54-year-old former politician, who served in the National Assembly between 2003 and 2007, was found Saturday by a passerby along a private road off Route 195 in Matane, about 400 kilometres northeast of Quebec City.
Provincial police are not saying if there were any signs of trauma on the body, and have not released a possible cause of death.
Police say their investigation leads them to believe she was not the victim of foul play.
A coroner will perform an autopsy to confirm the exact cause of death.
Charest (no relation to former premier Jean Charest) was defeated in the 2007 provincial election by Parti Québécois candidate Pascal Bérubé. She would go on to become a candidate for the Liberal Party of Canada in the riding of Haute-Gaspésie-La Mitis-Matane-Matapédia in the 2008 and 2011 federal elections. She was defeated both times.
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