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RANDOM SHOOTING SPREES [ Sat Dec 15 2012 8:36 PM ]
I am not a gun fanatic. I own an antique pistol that was given to me that does not function. I think there is something going on with what seems the increasing frequency of often bright and studious individuals suddenly deciding to open fire on random strangers. Part of what may constitute a pattern here is that these people frequently have no criminal history. They are, however, on antidepressants. I call bullshit on the idea that these drugs are associated with suicide to the degree that they are because a less depressed person finds the get up and go to end their life. Less depressed people are not more likely to end their lives. Sorry. There has recently been a slew of lawsuits about these same drugs regarding their association with birth defects. Add to this a growing number of people who believe that they are connected to these mass slayings. You will not find a heck of a lot about this in the mainstream media, although perhaps ironically one brief news story you can find online from FOX News shot in 2007 makes a pretty compelling case for a connection between antidepressants and these sudden eruptions of violence. [link] Antidepressants were there at Columbine and the Virginia Tech shooting and I suspect that they were present at the Dark Knight shooting and probably at this most recent nightmare as well. I think it is worth looking at this as a factor, more so than that these shooters are Manchurian candidates programmed by the government in a plot to repeal The 2nd Amendment, or that now and then an American with no criminal history will go on a shooting spree against crowds of random strangers. Re: 20 Years Ago ...
It was 20 years ago, today. Sgt. Pepper taught the band to play... [ Fri Sep 21 2012 7:09 AM ]
Nicely written compact reminiscence. Yeah things have changed entirely too fast here and in the world at large since 92. I paused on the "my 20 year-old-son was in diapers." I was like, oh my God, what happened to him?! Lol. I won the short fiction contest in 2000 and appreciate having gotten to contribute alternative press reviews to the paper as Kane S. Latranz from 2000 to 2004.~Mike.
Do Antidepressants Kill People? [ Sat Aug 4 2012 8:55 PM ]
Saying guns are bad certainly sounds nice. I don't think it's that simple. I think that antidepressants are a factor here with Holmes, too, as he was under psychiatric care from a woman who got in trouble for prescribing drugs for herself and family members. Antidepressants are readily associated with suicide as we all know, and apparently there are warnings with them that they can also result in bursts of outward violence. All of this on top of the lawsuits regarding birth defects. There is a growing body of evidence, so to speak, that a lot of people with no criminal background go off in the way that Holmes did, after they are put on so-called antidepressants. [link] Last edited [8/4/12 8:55 PM]
AURORA SHOOTING: IS MICHAEL MOORE A RACIST? [ Thu Aug 2 2012 7:00 PM ]
I want to start this off by saying that I do not, myself, own a firearm, but technically I do as I was bequeathed an antique non-functioning pistol a few years ago. I am not a "gun nut" or a member of The NRA. In many respects I would be considered liberal, but not in any card carrying sense, even as I am in no way to be considered a neo-con. I caught Michael Moore talking with Piers Morgan on CNN about gun violence in reaction to the Aurora, Colorado nightmare. To watch that show you might think the U.S., which boasts the highest incarceration rate of any country, was also the worst nation on earth for gun violence. How you frame the question makes a difference. According to Wikipedia, the highest rates of gun deaths by nation are South Africa, Columbia, and El Salvador, with the U.S. coming in at number 12 just under Mexico. [link] If you want to say that we are number one as Moore clearly does, you have to say that we are the number one "developed" nation for gun violence, those other countries not counting apparently because they are embryonic and/or fetal. According to the National Institute of Justice website, as I suspected might be the case, most U.S. gun related deaths are perpetrated by gangs in the inner cities. [link] While Moore mentioned pointedly that most guns in this country are owned by white people in the suburbs, you can hardly expect him to speak out against gangs. Obviously what happened in Aurora was not gang related, but more importantly, for Moore, or for that matter, Piers Morgan, to mention this fact would be politically "incorrect." Should there be restrictions on people under psychiatric care being able to purchase weapons, and specifically assault rifles? As mentioned on the show, should some sort of alert go out when a person like Holmes is clearly stock piling ammunition online? Absolutely. Such a remedy would be fairly easy to implement and effective, and it would bypass any need for violation of patient confidentiality in a case like Holmes. One thing I've wondered about Aurora is whether this nightmare might have any connection to so-called antidepressants and other psychiatric drugs. You know, the meds they love to dole out to a large segment of the population that are associated with suicide (How anti-depressing is that?), and for which we see legal ads on a regular basis now in their connection to birth defects. In the Virginia Tech Massacre, shooter, Cho Seung Hui, was on antidepressants. [link] There was also a connection to antidepressants in the infamous Columbine shooting. [link] None of these factors fit into Moore's far left agenda, however, so no mention of them was made. When white people are injured, traumatized, and killed, it makes headlines. In the inner city, well, that's just life, I guess. How many inner city gun deaths, injuries, and trauma involve kids who are not criminals but who had the audacity to go to school? How many Columbines, Virginia Techs, and Aurora Theater horrors unfold in this nation's inner cities every week, and involve innocent children caught in the crossfire, with nary a peep from the corporate media? Who cares about these innocent victims of gun violence? Not CNN or Piers Anthony, or, apparently, that liberal champion of truth and justice, Micheal Moore.
When and Where? RIght here, in River City... [ Thu Aug 2 2012 6:53 PM ]
Shortly after it became legal to carry a a concealed handgun here... Posted: 8/26/2005 1:53:00 PM Wal Mart shooter likely saved life Source: KRQE News 13 Watch Report ALBUQUERQUE -- A man attacking his ex-wife with a knife inside a southeast Albuquerque Wal Mart was shot and killed by a 72-year-old man Thursday evening. It all happened around 5:30 p.m. at the store on San Mateo near Zuni. There was mayhem and confusion inside a southeast Albuquerque Wal Mart as employees and shoppers were sent fleeing by the sound of gunfire. The victim in this case is 46-year old Joyce Cordova. She is in critical but stable condition at this time at UNM Hospital. Albuquerque Police say Cordova had a long history of domestic violence with ex-husband Felix Vigil. A co-worker says Cordova was working in the deli was attacked by her ex-husband. Vigil was shot to death by 72-year old Due Moore. Police won't say how many shots were fired, but some witnesses tell News 13 they heard at least three shots. Police say Moore had a concealed carry license and is a well-known volunteer with APD's cold case unit. "It's probably a very good thing he (Moore) was there," says APD Sgt. Trish Hoffman. "Ms. Cordova may not be here today if it had not been for him." Police say there was a valid restraining order in place against the victim's ex-husband. Police say Moore has been very cooperative and has not been charged with any crime
Bear Repellant [ Thu Aug 2 2012 2:27 PM ]
I sympathize, John. I have been a cab driver for almost 12 years here in town and when not in the cab I walk a lot. There are a LOT of aggressive whacked out nasty people running around, many of whom seem to feel that you owe them the shirt off your back. These people, frankly, they suck. Some of them are dangerous, and some of them are armed, for which reason I understand people wanting to have a firearm. Out of my dislike for that rash split second potential to blow someone away, and perhaps doing so mistakenly, I have dabbled in higher octane but theoretically nonlethal forms of self defense. Until I lost it crossing a bridge over the Rio Grande in Corrales on foot one time, I had bear repellant. I never had to use the big menacing red canister on anyone, fortunately, but did display it a couple times which fortunately was enough. I also had a stun gun that unfortunately has not worked since it fell out of my coat in a parking lot one time. I displayed it a couple of times as well. I will probably replace the bear repellant.~Mike. Feel free to check out my blog for another take on the subject."According to the National Institute of Justice website, as I suspected might be the case, most U.S. gun related deaths are perpetrated by gangs in the inner cities..." [link] Last edited [8/2/12 2:37 PM]
What Sweet Music They Make [ Fri Jul 27 2012 1:56 AM ]
Nice review, Mr. O' Leary. What little I've heard of the powerful soundtrack in a trailer for it by the fabulous Hans Zimmer sounded righteous, although I feel like these flicks are excessively gloomy, and the last installment seemed to me like poorly disguised propaganda for the war on terrorism. This installment sounds like a must see. Seems to me you might have addressed the stellar music, though.
DISCONNECT... [ Thu Jun 21 2012 2:40 PM ]
Nice. It was not addressed directly here but was skirted, that we are disconnected from our food, and to me that has a particular resonance where it comes to food from animal sources. I like how Max comments on having trapped and hunted for his food and yet he loved the very animals that sustained him. There is the constant illusion for us, especially us meat eaters, that food materializes miraculously wrapped in cellophane in grocery stores. We are so connected technologically now and so very out of touch in so many ways. Don't text and drive.~Mike. |
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Day four: Canterbury Wizards 274 & 251 (George Worker 41, Shanan Stewart 72, Henry Nichols 43) beat Auckland Aces 165 & 357 by six wickets.
The Canterbury Wizards refused to panic faced with a last day target of 233. They edged toward it all day, getting there with ten overs to spare.
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Opener George Worker was content to anchor the innings, using 161 balls to make 41 in the face of some tight fielding and miserly Aces bowling. Bruce Martin got through 30 of 88 overs, giving up just 2.93 an over, while de Grandhomme popped up with with figures of 10-6-11-2, at just 1.10 an over, including the crucial wicket of Dean Brownlie for 17.
The key to Canterbury's chase was their partnerships, Auckland were never able to take wickets in clumps and get the pressure on. Shanan Stewart was influential on this match yet again, but with the bat this time. He made 72 from 156 balls and the Aces were unable to get him out. His partnership of 54 with Brad Cachopa, who struck a breezy 40 from 35, saw Canterbury home - they bank 17 points from the match to put them second on the table.
Day three: Auckland 165 & 357 (Jeet Raval 107, Martin Guptill 85, Donovan Grobbelaar 51, Shanan Stewart 4-16) lead Canterbury 274 & 16-0 by 233 runs with 98 overs remaining.
The equation is simple - Canterbury need 233 to win with ten wickets left at Eden Park #2. Peter Fulton (6) and George Worker (10) will resume the Canterbury innings this morning after safely negotiating six overs on Thursday evening.
Martin Guptill immediately retired hurt on 62 at the start of day three as a precautionary measure on a tight hamstring. Raval carried on where he left off on 54, and was able to convert his 50 to a hundred from 233 balls, including 16 fours. He received support from Gareth Hopkins (26), Colin de Grandhomme (35) and Martin Guptill, who returned after the 5th fell, to add 23 runs to his total and keep his comeback from injury on track.
Ravel went on 107, and Donovan Grobbelaar (51) and Bruce Martin (29) made watchful progress to increase the Aces' lead, before Martin went caught by Peter Fulton from Todd Astle, and Grobbelaar was removed by Shanan Stewart to trigger a mini collapse. Auckland lost their last four wickets for just two runs and Stewart wound up with figures of 4-16. The Aces will be disappointed not to eek out a few more runs from their tail to set the Wizards a larger chase. As it is, the last day is poised nicely, with both teams capable of taking the points.
Day two: Canterbury 274 (Henry Nicholls 88, Brad Cachopa 69) trail Auckland (Martin Guptill 62, Jeet Raval 54) by 15 runs.
Canterbury built on their day one total thanks to Henry Nicholls and Brad Cachopa in bright sunshine at Eden Park #2. Cachopa scored nine fours in his 69, while Nicholls hit eight, patiently making his way to 88 before falling LBW to Michael Bates. Bates was the chief destroyer, taking 4-41, backed up by Dean Bartlett, who finished with 3-54.
Afer Cachopa went, caught by Bates from Bartlett, the Canterbury tail failed to wag and the innings ended on 274, a lead of 109.
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The original Netgear Inc. IP SAN was constructed with components from Bell Microproducts Inc., Seagate Technology, Marvell Technology Group and Zetera Corp., and had space for two 3.5-inch Integrated Drive Electronics drives of any size that mirrored each other. Zetera's firmware also enabled partitioning of the drives and the ability to string multiple Storage Central arrays together. At the time, the company claimed it would be theoretically possible to scale the system up to 128 petabytes (PB), but the initial version scaled up to just 1 terabyte.
In order to support the number of video files needed for the project, as well as the compute power necessary for the heavy calculations and storage of their output, "The array … will be built out over time to a massive 1.4 PB -- enough storage capacity for a high-resolution digital photo of every human being in the world," according to a press release put out by MIT last week.
"There's actually a lot of potential applications for this," said Jon William Toigo, CEO of Toigo Productions, who has been the technology's biggest champion so far. "If MIT's use goes well, it could really establish Zetera as an up and comer in the industry."
The lab affiliated with Toigo's company, TPI Technologies Inc., has been testing the Netgear equipment against other small SANs. Toigo notes the company is not paying for the research.
Rather, Toigo says he is enthused about a product that allows users to build their own SAN infrastructures from cheap commodity hardware. If it's done right, Toigo said, the performance numbers have been shown in TPI's lab to be superior to proprietary arrays including Dell Inc.'s and EMC Corp.'s AX100 products.
The system does storage service functions like replication, mirroring and RAID striping via a process called IP multicasting in which a switch sends data to multiple IP-addressed disks simultaneously. This is a proposition much less expensive than purchasing software to perform the tasks on the major vendors' arrays.
It has been pointed out that Zetera uses a proprietary version of User Datagram Protocol (UDP), rather than TCP used by iSCSI, in order to boost performance without the need for TCP offload engine cards.
"It's true that how they use it is proprietary," Toigo said. "As proprietary as any other vendor's technology inside the array -- the scheme of getting data on to and off of the disk is because of their own internal development."
Toigo also pointed out that the Netgear SAN will now support an NT file system as an alternative to a SAN file system from Data Plow Inc., in order to offer more open source options.
Other analysts more skeptical
"They very well may be on to something, but the point is there is a heck of a lot more to becoming a commercial success than spouting a statistic or a protocol in an academic environment where it's OK to play with toys," said Steve Duplessie, founder and analyst with the Enterprise Strategy Group. "InfiniBand was going to revolutionize the world a few years ago -- and it was proven to be better technically, but the business side didn't work."
"There's no question that five years from now, significant chunks of the enterprise storage environment will have moved over to entirely new IP-based products," said Brad O'Neill, senior analyst with the Taneja Group. "But it's still in the very early stages, and we still don't know what the IP architecture is ultimately going to look like -- it's going to take at least five years before a lot of this radical stuff comes off the fringe."
If the system's scalability can successfully be demonstrated, bigger enterprise users processing large amounts of data or who want to get away from proprietary replication and mirroring technology could take an interest in it. However, since the system uses UDP rather than TCP/IP as a protocol, it does not support the security standard for IP, called IPsec. Thus, it may not find as much penetration into companies with sensitive data in distributed environments.
Meanwhile, though Zetera says its goal is "to make its network storage technology the de facto industry standard," but so far its only customer traction has been in the consumer and small to midsized business (SMB) markets, where its biggest attractions -- simplicity and cost-effectiveness -- are more of a priority. It remains to be seen whether the product can break into the mainstream.
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This school is absolutely amazing! They have brought together the most brilliant and talented minds all under one roof!
Its pretty good. A lot of the kids do drugs, smoke and drink though. Its a crazy party school and a lot of kids ruin there lives here.
My school is LaGuardia. I really love the teachers here. They're so kind and understanding. I think that this school could improve by shortening school hours or getting escalators that go down.
It's a huge school but it's great! It has good academics (just watch out for some teachers) especially because it's still a Specialized High School. And obviously, it has great arts.
Overrated school, but still has it's charm here and there. I would encourage everyone to find out how long it takes to get to this school and back - you'll most likely have at least one year where you have a 10 period day, from 8:00 am to 4:10 pm. Getting home at 6:00 or even 5:30, while having an hour and a half of homework, is draining. I can only speak for art students, so for them I'll say you'll only get to the fun stuff your junior and senior year. As for the academics, they're pretty good. Like in every school, there's going to be a few teachers that just don't know what they're doing, but don't worry, you can always transfer out of those classes at the beginning of the year. As for making friends, there's no real "cliques" or anything like that, but...it still can definitely make you feel left out, if you don't know where to look. All in all, remember it's just a school - nothing to get too amped up about.
As a parent of a freshman - I was concerned about my daughter coming from a small JHS and going into this very massive HS. To my surprise, she adjusted well. She is still shy in making new friends; hopefully this will come with time. She is enjoying LAG immensely, and loves the idea of being able to do what she loves (sing) and be academically challenged at the same time. Looking forward to her sophomore year.
My daughter loves this school. She came from Poland and her dream was to attend LaGuardia High School. Now she is a freshman and really loves this school and everything associated with it. She met wonderful teachers who inspire her and encourage her to work :) She has a lot of great friends who support her and are willing to help. She now likes to learn, she has a purpose in her life and it makes me very happy. Although being both academic and artistic is very hard for students to maintain. However, as my daughter says: "This school is worth it" :)
My son is a senior in the Drama Studio at LaGuardia, and it's been a great experience for him, both in terms of the quality of the arts instruction and the academics, which have become much more rigorous during the tenure of the current principal, Ms. Bruno. Last night I attended an awards ceremony for my son's AP Environmental Science teacher, who won a coveted Sloan Foundation Award for excellence in teaching science. Tonight my son is at rehearsal for the annual musical which every year is near-Broadway quality, and presented in a theater that seats 1,100. Even if he successfully pursues an acting career, he may not get the chance to perform on such a stage again. And we really love the kids. They're great -- smart, funny, fun, creative, and very supportive of each other. The school communicates effectively with parents via a weekly newsletter which is chock full of info and written with a dash of humor (thanks, Dr. Stricklin!). And studios have monthly meetings for parents that back up to the more general PA meetings. We feel so lucky that our son had the opportunity to go to LaGuardia. He's gained so much from it over the course of his 4 years.
I have now been a LaGuardia parent for 7 years now and am still THRILLED with the way this school develops the whole student. This is due to an extremely caring staff! We were just devistated by the hurricane, yet the Guidance and tchrs have gone out of their way to give my daughter a place to belong and the help she needs as the rest of her life washed away. Although being both academic and artisitc is VERY difficult for students to maintain (don't think it will be easy), this develops the BEST kind of person. I wouldn't trade LaGuardia for any school in NYC!
Feel I must respond to the bitter assessment of LaGuardia posted below. There is no one school in the world that is perfect, and that fulfills every students every need. There will always be the good and the bad of everything. That said, I feel strongly that for my son, LaGuardia was a magnificent place to spend high school. He was challenged, and was asked to challenge himself. Self- responsibility Is required at this school, and though for some kids it might be slow in coming, it is continually emphasized by most teachers and the curriculum. It seems, that for students who are self-motivated, there is a huge menu to choose from. It is a school that has large focus and intense nurturing of the Arts ( hence the name), but based on the number of graduates who have gone on to highly competitive and exclusive colleges, and thrived, in areas that are not all Arts related, I would say the school is doing something right. I can't think of a school that would have been better for my son - and he seems to be thriving now in his Freshman year of college. Clearly, the balancing act required by the full full schedule at LaGuardia is not for everyone, but it was a gift for my son.
Both of my daughters attended LaGuardia; one is now in college and the other will graduate this year. They are very different people with different interests; yet both thrived at this school. The students at LaGuardia are bright , creative, passionate and very supportive of each other. The Principal and the teachers are very dedicated. In spite of continual budget cuts, they manage to provide the students with a fine education in the academic subjects as well as the arts. The parents are very involved, and work hard to help support the different programs. It is a wonderful community - one that I, and my family, are very proud to be a part of.
In response to the last review, the school DID NOT email parents anything about the survey. The Parents Association sent a letter that urged the parents to complete the survey. In addition the Parents Association informed all parents of the procedures to communicate with the school if they believed they had an issue that needed to be addressed. I was on the committee that wrote and distributed that letter. There are well-defined channels to deal with any issue, which include contacting a teacher, Assistant Principal, Guidance Counselor or even the Principal with your concerns. As a parent I am ecstatic that my child has the wonderful opportunity to be a part of the LaGuardia Arts High School community and has the excellent education in both academic subjects and the training in her chosen Music Studio. LaGuardia is not just a good school it is a GREAT school.
TERRIBLE SCHOOL!!! This school is not what you think it is. The academics in this school are horrific, and the school even sent me an email when the time of evaluating the school came, and told us to 'support the school' and if we had any complications, keep it to yourself or tell the main office personally. This was so the school can receive more funding. Math and English department lack severely, History being 7/10 and the best department. Teachers seem to have communication issues, or emotional problems, and can never connect with the child. My daughter recieved a 77 in Chemistry, but during PTC the teacher quickly rushed us in and out in less than a minute, saying that my daughter was top student in that class, as she barely passed other kids ( 60's ). I don't understand how you can allow your students to stay with such low grades and pass it off as you're just a harsh grader who teaches a mandatory curriculum. It's all BS.
My daughter graduated and my son is a currently a student. The kids are great and free spirited. The teachers are overburdened, and have very short class times (43 or so minutes to teach) for the most part with a few exceptions. There are a lot of AP's but they are very competitive to get into because of budget cuts. The day is crazy long - kids have lunch when it fits into their schedule (can be 10:30 or 2:30). Kids need to be hardy and very motivated to succeed here. Even if they are, they will be very tired by the end of it.
I didn't get in for fine arts which is okay because they don't really matter that much here but I'm glad im not going I'll miss my passion for the arts
After graduating from a JK-8 Manhattan private school, my son was very happy at LaGuardia. Everything about the school - teachers, students, academics, culture, opportunities, environment - was way beyond expectations. For kids with smarts, integrity, talent, focus and drive -- this is an excellent choice. My son is now at a top conservatory. And as alum parents, we continue to attend the incredible performances at the school.
I actually missed the auditions for this school, and I really want to find a way to audition before my sophmore year. I do attend another perfoming arts highschool but it is waaaaayy tooooo focused on academics and I only get ONE period of my major - which is DRAMA and I feel like the school is not focusing enough on the art...Does anyone know if it's possible for me to audition? :/ Help please!
The reputation of this school in the performing arts is excellent and the audition process to get in is highly competitive. The facilities and faculty in the performing and graphic arts are tops. The honors programs at the school are also very academically excellent. My daughter has had excellent teachers who have always challenged her and demanded much of her academically. The principal, Kim Bruno, is a recognized leader in arts education as evidenced by recent articles in the Los Angeles Times about how that city is trying very hard to lure her away to be the principal of their new flagship arts school. There is a very active parents group which raised over $300,000 last year and an active alumni association with a full time executive director with a substantial endowment. The negative side is that as a large school there is not much personal attention outside of the classroom. Parent teacher conferences are very brief and difficult to coordinate on the two assigned dates each year. The college counselor is very good but is spread very thinly over a large graduating class. But we were able to complete the college admissions process with results we were pleased with.
Wow! Igraduated from M & A 35 years ago today when we were still located on the "hill". Some of the current students comments were very insightful, while other comments sadden me. Yes, we were all artist and artistic in our own ways and that is what created our community back then. Graduating during America's bicentinnel made it an exicting year as I was a vocal major and performed quite frequently that year. With regards to the academic curriculum, at that time it was top notch. Not only did I graduate from M & A, my sister did. In fact that is where she met her husband of 41 years, as he attended the school also. Even my brother-in-law's sister graduated from M & A as well. We all received fine training and an excellent education and became productive citizens.
I'm currently a freshman, and I can honestly say after this year that I'm not interested in LaGuardia anymore. As someone said before, art has become a chore. Although my artwork has improved greatly, it isn't as fun and too technical. My classes aren't necessarily hard, but the time management is. I go in at 8 and get out at 3:15 or 2:30 every day, and it's draining and I have no time to balance homework, studying and sleep. Many of my teachers teach directly from the textbook, teach terribly and don't know what they're talking about. I travel from the southernmost part of Brooklyn. I feel like most of the kids here are full of themselves because they're in an "art" school and act very artificial. This may be in any high school but here it's amplified due to the studios. If you're not at least somewhat "hipster", you just don't quite fit in. I'm so sick of waking up at 5am and getting home at 5pm every day. I wish I had never come. I give it 3 stars because many others succeed here - just not me.
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Scrying (also called seeing or peeping) is the practice of looking into a translucent ball or other material with the belief that things can be seen, such as spiritual visions, and less often for purposes of divination or fortune-telling. The most common media used are reflective, translucent, or luminescent substances such as crystals, stones, glass, mirrors, water, fire, or smoke. Scrying has been used in many cultures in the belief that it can divine the past, present, or future. The visions that come when one stares into the media are thought to come from one's subconscious and imagination,[1] though in the past they were thought to come from gods, spirits, devils, the psychic mind, depending on the culture and practice.
Although scrying is most commonly done with a crystal ball, it may also be performed using any smooth surface, such as a bowl of liquid, a pond, or a crystal.
Scrying is actively used by many cultures and belief systems and is not limited to one tradition or ideology. The Ganzfeld experiment involves sensory deprivation which might be seen as comparable with scrying. Like other aspects of divination and parapsychology, scrying is not supported by mainstream science as a method of predicting the future or otherwise seeing events that are not physically observable.
The visions that scryers say they see may come from variations in the medium. If the medium is water (hydromancy), then the visions may come from the color, ebb and flow, or ripples produced by pebbles dropped in a pool. If the medium is a crystal ball, the visions may come from the tiny inclusions, web-like faults, or the cloudy glow within the ball under low light (e.g., candlelight).
One method of scrying using a crystal ball involves a self-induced trance. Initially, the medium serves as a focus for the attention, removing unwanted thoughts from the mind in the same way as a mantra. Once this stage is achieved, the scryer begins a free association with the perceived images suggested. The technique of deliberately looking for and declaring these initial images aloud, however trivial or irrelevant they may seem to the conscious mind, is done with the intent of deepening the trance state, in this trance the scryer hears his own disassociated voice affirming what is seen within the concentrated state in a kind of feedback loop. This process culminates in the achievement of a final and desired end stage in which rich visual images and dramatic stories seem to be projected within the medium itself, or directly within the mind's eye of the scryer, something like an inner movie. This process reputedly allows the scryer to "see" relevant events or images within the chosen medium.
One of the most famous scryers in history lived in the 16th century and was known as Nostradamus. He used a bowl of water or a "magic mirror" to "see" the future in it, while he was in trance.
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The Shahnameh, a historical epic work written in the late 10th century, gives a description of what was called the Cup of Jamshid or Jaam-e Jam, used in pre-Islamic Persia, which was used by wizards and practitioners of the esoteric sciences for observing all of the seven layers of the universe. The cup contained an elixir of immortality.
Latter Day Saint movement[edit]
In the late 1820s, Joseph Smith, Jr. founded the Latter Day Saint movement based in part on what was said to be the miraculous information obtained from the reflections of seer stones. Smith had at least three separate stones, including his favorite, a brown stone he found during excavation of a neighbor's well. He initially used these stones in various treasure-digging quests in the early 1820s, placing the stone in the bottom of his hat and putting his face in the hat to read what he believed were the miraculous reflections from the stone.[2] Smith also said that he had access to a separate set of spectacles composed of seer stones, which he called the Urim and Thummim. He said that, through these stones, he could translate the plates that are the stated source of the Book of Mormon.[3]
In folklore[edit]
Rituals that involve many of the same acts as scrying in ceremonial magic are also preserved in folklore form. A formerly widespread tradition held that young women gazing into a mirror in a darkened room (often on Halloween) could catch a glimpse of their future husband's face in the mirror—or a skull personifying Death if their fate was to die before they married.
Another form of the tale, involving the same actions of gazing into a mirror in a darkened room, is used as a supernatural dare in the tale of "Bloody Mary". Here, the motive is usually to test the adolescent gazers' mettle against a malevolent witch or ghost, in a ritual designed to allow the scryers' easy escape if the visions summoned prove too frightening.[4]
While, as with any sort of folklore, the details may vary, this particular tale (Bloody Mary) encouraged young women to walk up a flight of stairs backwards, holding a candle and a hand mirror, in a darkened house. As they gazed into the mirror, they were supposed to be able to catch a view of their future husband's face. There was, however, a chance that they would see the skull-face of the Grim Reaper instead; this meant that they were destined to die before they married.
In the fairytale of Snow White, the jealous queen consults a magic mirror, which she asks "Magic mirror on the wall / Who is the fairest of them all?", to which the mirror always replies "You, my queen, are fairest of all." But when Snow White reaches the age of seven, she becomes as beautiful as the day, and when the queen asks her mirror, it responds: "Queen, you are full fair, 'tis true, but Snow White is fairer than you."[5]
Modern uses[edit]
- The Ganzfeld experiment involves sensory deprivation which might be seen as comparable with scrying. According to the small community of parapsychologists, it provides the best known evidence for psi abilities in the laboratory.[6]
- The Dr. John Dee of the Mind research institute, founded by the parapsychologist Raymond Moody, utilizes crystallomancy to allow people to experience an altered state of consciousness with the intention of invoking apparitions of the dead.
- Contemporary mass media, such as films, often depict scrying using a crystal ball, stereotypically used by an old gypsy woman.
- In J. R. R. Tolkien's fictional universe of Middle-earth (especially in The Lord of the Rings), the Palantír is a stone that allows a viewer to see what any other Palantír sees, and the Mirror of Galadriel is used as a scrying device to see visions of the past, present, or future.
- In the videogame Clive Barker's Undying, Patrick Galloway (the player) is shown in possession of a green crystal, The Gel'ziabar Stone, which allows him to scrye visions and sounds from the past, that are vital to the various missions.[citation needed]
See also[edit]
- ^ Psychoanalysis, Culture and Society: A postgraduate conference
- ^ Richard Bushman Joseph Smith: Rough Stone Rolling
- ^ Smith, Lucy Mack (1853). The History of Joseph Smith by His Mother. p. 101.
- ^ Bill Ellis, Lucifer Ascending: The Occult in Folklore and Popular Culture (University of Kentucky, 2004). ISBN 0-8131-2289-9
- ^ Besterman, Theodore. Crystal Gazing: A Study in the History, Distribution, Theory and Practice of Scrying..
- ^ Modern Ganzfeld Uses. "Scrying Without Crying". PaganPath.com. Retrieved 19 February 2014.
References and further reading[edit]
- Scrying, A Short Course in
- Psychomanteum
- A Symbolic Representation of the Universe: Derived by Doctor John Dee Through the Scrying of Sir Edward Kelly ~Aleister Crowley, Adrian Axwirthy
- Crystal Gazing: Study in the History, Distribution, Theory and Practice of Scrying ~Theodore Besterman
- Scrying for Beginners: Tapping into the Supersensory Powers of Your Subconscious ~Donald Tyson
- Crystal Gazing: Its History and Practice with a Discussion on the Evidence for Telepathic Scrying ~Northcote W. Thomas
- Andrew Lang, Crystal visions, savage and civilised, The Making of Religion, Chapter V, Longmans, Green, and C°, London, New York and Bombay, 1900, pp. 83–104.
- Shepard, Leslie A. Encyclopedia of Occultism and Parapsychology. Gale Research, Inc.
- http://www.themystica.com/mystica/articles/c/captromancy_or_enoptromancy.html
- http://www.agnosticwitch.catcara.com/divindex-part1.htm
- Armand Delatte, La catoptromancie grecque et ses dérivés (1932)
- Scrying and Divination Methods
- Techniques and methods of Hydromancy[dead link]
- http://skepdic.com/scrying.html


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Art and computers are naturally intertwined for De Robinson.
The junior at Belleville East High School recently created a piece that allows people to use cell phones to scan a bar code, access a webpage and see his cartoon character come alive.
"I wanted to do animation, but I couldn't figure out how to get it on canvas," said De, 16, of Belleville. "So I thought about (making it interactive)."
De is one of more than 100 students from 16 high schools in Southern Illinois who are displaying their work at Schmidt Art Center at Southwestern Illinois College.
The annual High School Art Exhibition and High School Congressional Art Competition are running concurrently through April 4. The public is invited to an opening reception from 6 to 8 p.m. today.
The show includes nearly 150 pieces, ranging from sculpture to painting, photography to drawing.
"The quality of work is phenomenal," said Schmidt curator Nicole Dutton. "We've had a lot of good comments. People come in and they're amazed that these are high school students."
De is the son of Matt and Tammy Robinson. He's been cartooning since grade school and plans to study art in college.
"When I was younger, I used to say I didn't want to carry around a briefcase when I was older," he said. "It was almost a fear."
De's piece, "Gravitas," consists of 15 squares that repeat a cartoon drawing of an astronaut with a bubble-like helmet and computer backpack.
A 16th square contains a QR code ("quick response" or two-dimensional bar code).
"You can use an app on your phone or camera to scan it, which will take you to a webpage where the figure is animated," De said.
Belleville East junior Hannah McCoy, 17, created an assemblage, called "Evolve," for the exhibit. She stood a wooden Schweppes crate on its end and filled it with objects, including deer antlers.
"My dad and my sister hunt, and I like deer antlers," she said. "I think they look cool, and we just had some laying around the house."
Hannah lined the bottom of the crate with moss and tacked up old black-and-white photos of Chicago (a city she would like to visit). She hung tiny bottles from the antlers and spelled out the word "EVOLVE" with cardboard letters.
Hannah's favorite part is a verse that she wood-burned into the top of the crate.
"It's a quote form Camp Ondessonk," she said. "It's carved into one of the rocks, and it says, 'This is a reminder to all that pass this way to tell those around you how much you love them before they drift away.'"
Hannah is the daughter of Jeff and Kelly McCoy, of Belleville.
Another eye-catching piece in the exhibit is "Jesse," a close-up drawing of a dog's face by Annie Parkinson, 18, a senior at O'Fallon Township High School.
"We have two dogs, and this one's name is 'Jesse,'" she said. "When you're taking his picture, he just sits still and stares at you."
Annie is the daughter of Susan and Wayne Parkinson. Jesse is a mixed breed they adopted from a shelter.
Annie drew his picture from a photo using colored pencils. The eyes, nose, mouth, ears and whiskers are highly detailed.
"It was maybe 2 1/2 or three weeks of class time," Annie said. "Then I took it home almost every night, just to make sure it was perfect."
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What: High School Art Exhibition and High School Congressional Art Competition
Where: Schmidt Art Center at Southwestern Illinois College, 2500 Carlyle Ave. in Belleville
When: Opening reception from 6 to 8 p.m. today; the exhibit runs through April 4
Hours: 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Mondays through Wednesdays, 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. Thursdays, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Fridays and 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturdays
Admission: Free
Information: Call 618-222-5278 or visit swic.edu/sac.


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Geographically Distributed Development (GDD) is a common strategy in the software world today. Organizations are gaining experience in developing software globally and are discovering that the competitive demand for best-in-class, high quality applications requires greater agility in quality management. Unfortunately, IT budgets are not keeping up with the staff required for quality management and the response is to accelerate quality management by leveraging global teams. This article compares and contrasts agile GDD testing strategies for affecting quality management.
IBM has one-third of a million employees worldwide and we've succeeded at GDD for more than 15 years. Most importantly, we've had the opportunity to try out a range of development strategies in practice, strategies which many organizations are just considering today. Our strategies in agile quality management elaborated in this article will focus on the intimate link of requirements and change management. We will explore three strategies for geographically distributed quality management, the associated challenges with doing so, and how to address these challenges.
Quality Management
Quality management is the process of ensuring that the defined business requirements have been successfully translated into a working product. In traditional environments, quality teams often find that a significant amount of their work is not aligned with business requirements, but instead in testing unintended changes to the end product as a result of breakdowns in communication and human error. In this state, the role of the quality engineer is reduced to a "last line of defense tester." Quality teams operating in this lower state of existence are failing to realize the significant value they can bring to their software delivery organization.
{sidebar id=1}Quality engineers require intimacy with the business domain, requirements, and stakeholder motives just like developers. Traditionally, when business analysts write requirements, they may leave out minute, important details assuming they are "common knowledge" in the business domain. Relying only on a requirements specification proves to be risky in practice. One agile approach is to capture requirements as "customer tests," what traditionalists would refer to as function tests, whenever possible. By doing so you arguably eliminate the gaps that are introduced by statically capturing requirements and then recapturing the information as tests - in short, you cut out the documentation "middle man." However, not all requirements can be captured as tests and confirmatory testing (validation against requirements) is just part of the overall quality picture. More to come on this issue below.
The Challenges with GDD
Common approaches to agile software development have everyone involved in delivery collaborating together in one location. This is definitely preferable, but in practice this isn't always an option. A common strategy is for organizations to have independent quality teams which validate the work of development teams, even when the development teams are doing Test-Driven Development (TDD), and those independent testers aren't always co-located with the developers. When quality teams are geographically distributed from the developers, who in turn might even be separated from the stakeholders, it becomes very difficult for them to stay in synch with changes to requirements and application code. This results in a lot of cross-talk when the remote quality team isn't working with the most recent version of the system.
The result is risk to the integrity and quality of the end product. In order to reduce the risks of remote quality management and offshore testing, you must ensure that everyone has a common focus and stays in synch. Both development and quality management are driven ultimately by new and changing requirements and as a result it's critically important that these teams have visibility and are a collaborative part of the change management


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The coaching game
Mike Keegan - 8/31/2007
There are some moronic game shows on television these days. So, let's spice it up a bit. Let's borrow a format from "The Dating Game," put some actual life-changing stakes on the line and see how it unfolds:[Cue the theme music]
Announcer: Good evening and welcome to America's favorite game show: The Coaching Gaaamme!!! And heeeerrre's your host — Todd Cheeseball!
Cheeseball: Welcome to The Coaching Game. Today, our first participant is an athletic director at one of the nation's top men's Division I lacrosse programs. Her university's team is in contention for a national title every year, and their head coach just retired. Give a warm welcome to Shelley Fakeperson.
Fakeperson: Thanks Todd.
Cheeseball: So, your storied lacrosse program has a vacancy. As one of only a dozen or so programs with the funding, administration and alumni support to compete year in and year out, the head coaching spot must be pretty enviable.
Fakeperson: Absolutely.
Cheeseball: Let's get started. On the other side of that wall are three applicants who all want to be your head coach. Ask them some questions.
Fakeperson: This question is for everybody. Each of your résumés has some issues that concern me. Convince me you're our guy.
Applicant No. 1: Although I've never been a head coach, I have turned down head coaching positions at lesser programs to help my current team contend for a Division I national title. My postseason experience and getting to work with the best players will be invaluable when I take over your program.
Applicant No. 2: As an assistant, I coached in the postseason and recruited the best high school players. Now I'm head coach at a second-tier DI program. Although we haven't made the postseason yet, I've learned what it takes to be the boss.
Applicant No. 3: I trump both these chumps. Not only have I been a head coach for years, I've taken my team to the NCAA Division III Final. I might not have much experience recruiting the best of the best, but it will be easy for me to sell them on your great school.
Cheeseball: Okay, thanks for your answers. Ms. Fakeperson, time to make a final decision.
Fakeperson: Oh boy.
[The drumroll starts. A bead of sweat drips down Applicant No. 2's face. The crowd is silent. Fakeperson's eyes bounce between the three applicants.]
Fakeperson: I like them all, but I've made a decision.
Cheeseball: Here it is, the most exciting part of The Coaching Game. Who's it gonna be?
Fakeperson: After some long, hard thought, I've decided not to hire any of them. We're just gonna promote our top assistant.
[The crowd erupts in boos. The applicants jump out of their chairs in stunned disbelief.]
Cheeseball: Unbelievable. Just when you thought you had it all figured out, something crazy happens. Oh well. That's the way it goes in the high-pressure stakes of The Coaching Game. Good night everybody.
It's no game show, but battling your way to the top of the Division I coaching ranks can be brutal. With only 56 programs, and only 12-15 with the resources to succeed on a national level, competition for the best jobs is tough.
"We all know what great jobs we have," says Princeton's Bill Tierney. "I'm not going anywhere. Dom Starsia's not going anywhere. Richie Meade's not going anywhere."
So, everybody else is left to bust their butts and strategize the best way to get to the top. And, apparently, there are a number of ways to go. Take a look at the applicants in our game show.
Applicant No.1 is a top assistant at a great program with no head coaching experience. Sounds an awful lot like Navy's John Tillman and Princeton's Dave Metzbower.
Applicant No. 2 has worked as an assistant at a top program, then taken over a mid-level team, just like Penn's Brian Voelker, Stony Brook's Rick Sowell and Lehigh's Kevin Cassese.
And Applicant No. 3 has plenty of head coaching experience, but not in Division I, just like Salisbury's Jim Berkman and Washington's J.B. Clarke.
When the next big-time DI coaching position opens, any or all of those guys could be in the running. But do the decisions they've made and the path they've followed matter at all?
"For the 10 or 12 real plum jobs, I'm not sure one direct route can be better than any other," says Marc Van Arsdale, who left a head coaching job at Penn to return as an assistant at Virginia. "When those hirings come up, it basically comes down to the opinion of the guy pulling the trigger."
So, just like in The Coaching Game above, sometimes the guy closest to the AD gets hired. Jeff Tambroni was Dave Pietramala's assistant at Cornell when Petro left for Hopkins. Then he slid into the position and has done an incredible job ever since.
So, with no clear blueprint for success, what should a young coach do? Well, Hofstra Athletic Director Jack Hayes, who recently hired Seth Tierney and his Applicant No. 1-like résumé, has some sound advice.
"You have to seek out the types of programs you want to be a part of," says Hayes. "And you have to meet as many people in the field as possible. You've got to meet Seth Tierney and Dave Pietramala and Dom Starsia. And when you meet them, let them know if you'd like the opportunity to join their staff. If you went out of your way to meet them, they'll keep tabs on you. And they'll know when the timing allows and your experience allows you to come and be an asset to their staff."


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Definition of ledge in English:
Line breaks: ledgePronunciation: /lɛdʒ
- 1A narrow horizontal surface projecting from a wall, cliff, or other surface: he heaved himself up over a ledgeMore example sentences
- Next month we'll look at those tricky double ledges where a second ledge is close behind the first.
- The water droplets that remain on surfaces leave mineral deposits that form little ledges that collect more mineral deposits and scum each time the shower is used.
- It has a rich and varied flora due to a combination of limestone ledges and limey soils, and separate areas of non-limy glacial deposits.
shelf, sill, mantel, mantelpiece, mantelshelf, shelving; projection, protrusion, overhang, extension, ridge, step, prominence, spur, jut, bulge, flange - 1.1A window ledge.More example sentences
- He had to climb out of the window onto the next ledge to get away from the fire.
- Thyme, oregano, basil, tarragon, and parsley are all likely contenders for windows with ledges at nose height.
- She thrust one hand through the window, gripping the ledge inside, and heard a soft grunt of surprise as her fingers grazed softness.
- 2An underwater ridge, especially of rocks beneath the sea near the shore: a reef ledgeMore example sentences
- Cleaner wrasses set up cleaning stations near rocks or under ledges on the reef.
- Turtles rest on the reef top or on ledges beneath coral overhangs, though they can often be seen cruising along the reef edge.
- My buddy enthusiastically pointed out a lobster beneath a ledge, as well as a miniature version that was only about 3cm long!
- 3 Mining A stratum of metal- or ore-bearing rock; a vein of quartz or other mineral.More example sentences
- They were only cobbles and small, irregular outcrops, not large ledges of obviously layered strata.
- Claims in the Gilman area to the north of Red Cliff were being developed on steeply dipping veins in granite and on gently dipping ledges in both quartzite and dolomite.
- More example sentences
- When a ledged and braced boarded door is used as an external door, the boards should face outwards.
- Almost all styles are available off the shelf and some, such as ledged and braced, can be bought in kit form.
- However, one cannot fix a mortise lock to an internal oak ledged and braced door.
- More example sentences
- It is most common in the yellow pine woods, although rather plentiful on ledgy northerly slopes higher up.
- It passes through sections where semi-open and ledgy ground requires a moment's study to stay on the trail.
- Likewise, the uppermost ledgy interval grades into the more distinct ledges of the overlying Wah Wah Limestone.
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