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A pick-up truck is just a pick-up truck, right? Not according to the Ford Atlas concept, which debuted this morning at the North American International Auto Show and introduces some intriguing ideas to this possible future F-150.
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The boss of a Chicago heroin ring should receive extra prison time for his alleged involvement in three killings and an attempted murder, federal prosecutors say.
Domingo "Mingo" Blount, who's been arrested more than 40 times, pleaded guilty to federal drug charges in November.
Blount was the suspected shooter in a Chicago murder in 2000, according to the government. Prosecutors also are raising the possibility that he was involved in Chicago killing in 1991 and a third one in Cincinnati in 2011.
Blount, 39, was never charged in those slayings, but federal prosecutors are using evidence of them — and a .40-caliber pistol recovered from his home in 2011 — to ask for a higher sentence in his drug case.
Blount admits he sold more than 10 kilograms of heroin between 2010 and 2011. At a hearing Friday, the government will seek a sentence of 25 to 30 years.
His attorney, Gerald Collins, says Blount should receive the mandatory minimum sentence of 20 years.
The shootings "have nothing to do with the charged conspiracy," Collins said in a court filing.
But assistant U.S. attorney Sheri Mecklenburg pointed out that while Blount provided letters from supporters for the court to review, those letters "have nothing to do with the conspiracy for which he is being sentenced."
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Rasheed Wallace's playing career is official over, for good this time. The Knicks announced today that Wallace has retired. He tried to return from a foot injury that kept him out for four month. But after he aggravated it in Monday's loss in Charlotte Wallace has decided to call it a career. "Rasheed has given this team everything he had," Mike Woodson said in a statement. "He is a winner, true...Read more »
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Iman Shumpert's hairstyle -- a high-top fade -- has been an attention-getter all season, and last week it got the league's attention. Shumpert had an adidas logo cut into his the lower left side of his fade, and the league told him he couldn't have a commercial emblem on his head. Shumpert apologized and had the logo removed....Read more »
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Lionel Messi's ninth hat-trick of the campaign saw the Argentine break Gerd Muller's 39-year old record for goals in a European season as Barcelona thrashed Malaga at the Nou Camp.
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41. Suite Française by Irène Némirovsky (397 page e-book, Read July 9-22)
Instead of the book in mind I have the introduction from the French edition by Myriam Anissimov (which is at the very end in my Kindle Edition), and then the journal notes Nemirovsky wrote as she wrote the book, where, somewhat awkwardly, we read things she almost certainly never intended to share, her private thoughts on how the book would evolve, including the parts she was never able to write.
But before all that I read the terrific first two parts of a projected four or five part, 1000 page novel, one Nemirovsky saw as an effort toward a masterpiece. With vivid, and often hysterical characters, she chastises all ranks of Parisians for what is exposed as they flee Paris in front of the German invasion in 1939. This is easy reading, but fun and striking. In the second section she writes of occupation with the same penetrating depth of observation, but with a sincerity that rises above the humor.
I wonder what to make of the sum total, this window in France under German occupation, unfinished because the author was exterminated. This is not a political work. There is nothing Jewish in the novel, and there is nothing inhumane about the Germans. They are merely flawed young men, soldiers. It is a very human book, and it does, as she hoped it would, reach something timeless. This book is as good now as it would have been in 1942, or will be to one who, in some future somewhere, won't have any clear notion of this world war.
I wanted to like this, but found the audio wasn't holding my attention or interest. I stuck with it for a bit and got a little over halfway through before giving up. This is one that I've been wanting to read for years, and I might try it again with the actual book. But for now, the audio goes on the gave up shelf.
What a beautiful book and how sad that it wasn't finished. This unfinished novel was published in 2006 but was written by Nemirovsky during WWII. Nemirovsky was a Russian Jew who had converted to Catholicism and lived her whole adult life in France after her family fled the Bolshevik revolution. She was arrested and ended up being taken to Auschwitz and killed there. The manuscript for this book was saved by her daughter who was hidden by family friends during the war. The book is two complete parts of a novel that was intended to be 4 or 5 parts in total.
I was afraid that the back story of this novel would overshadow any merits of the writing, but I didn't find this to be the case. I really loved the characters, writing, and description of events. The first part is about the arrival of the Germans in France and the fleeing of the French. The second part explores the occupation and relationships between the French and the German soldiers in one small country village. Unfortunately, the two sections deal mainly with a different set of characters that are only partially connected. You can see how she intended to draw them all together, but it is in no way a completed work. This 369 page book should be a highly readable 1000 page novel. I thought is was pretty amazing that she was writing this as events were unfolding. When you read her diary entries that are included in an appendix, they drive home the point that this woman didn't know how the war would end while she was writing the book. It's hard to remember that since we know Germany lost in the end, but when she was writing this living in occupied France, that must have seemed hard to imagine.
Assigning a rating and reviewing any book can be a difficult task. There's the subjectivity of it: a bad meal or the rebound from a really good read can harm any decent book. There's the pressure of knowing that while my opinion probably won't sink any author, it may be one of the many stones that eventually capsizes someone's career. Add to that my own fears of rocking the boat in an industry I hope to someday be a part of. Ratings are difficult. It certainly doesn't help when the author's work was published posthumously, far from finished, and the author herself died in the Holocaust. Yeah, that fact alone probably boosts the average rating of this novel by one, I figure.
This is my second Irène Némirovsky book. I'm glad it wasn't my first. This was meant to be Némirovsky's War and Peace, and I can totally see it taking shape: an epic of more than a thousand pages in five complete and wonderful segments. Némirovsky never had the chance to finish Suite Française. Not surprisingly, none of it really comes together. Had she had the time, I have no doubts this would've been a fabulous book. As it is, it's really just an unfinished outline told in beautiful sentences.
Némirovsky was a very talented writer. I would've loved to have been able to read the completed novel; alas, that is an obvious impossibility. This is the closest thing we have, and I appreciate the notes that were included in the appendices. Though the author's notes do not go into details for what would've occurred in the following sequences, they give ideas of not only the overall direction the novel would go, but of Némirovsky's brilliant mind.
So no, Suite Française isn't really a four-star book. It's jumbled and confusing, it lacks any resolution. But that doesn't make it any less meaningful or majestic. Personally, I wouldn't recommend this as an introduction to the work of Némirovsky; Suite Française is for those who already know her work, or are merely curious about first-hand accounts of World War II. And if you do decide to pick it up, don't skip the appendices; this is where you'll find the more interesting of the two stories, though sadly, it does have an end.
It's possible I'll go back to this one when I'm in the right mood, but I just couldn't get into it.
Irène Némirovsky wanted Suite Française to be a five-book cycle about the occupation of France, but only completed a draft of two books before the Nazis sent her to Auschwitz, and to the gas chambers, in 1942. Her manuscript was lost in a basement for sixty years until her daughter, who had been pursued by Nazis through the French countryside as a child, discovered and published it. And now, impossibly, we can read the two books of Suite Française.
Less a Wheel than a Wave
French critics hailed "Suite Française" as a masterpiece when it was first published there in 2004. They weren't exaggerating. The writing is accomplished, the plotting sure, and the fact that Némirovsky could write about events like the fall of Paris with such assurance and irony just weeks after they occurred is nothing short of astonishing.
THIS stunning book contains two narratives, one fictional and the other a fragmentary, factual account of how the fiction came into being. "Suite Française" itself consists of two novellas portraying life in France from June 4, 1940, as German forces prepare to invade Paris, through July 1, 1941, when some of Hitler's occupying troops leave France to join the assault on the Soviet Union.
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This is the first in a series that details our schools efforts to implement the Common Core State Standards. Before we get to that, now is a great time to mention our free webinar on October 17, sponsored by TenMarks, on the topic of Common Core math assessments. Register NOW!
So, from what I've heard and have been reading, districts and schools across the country are in the beginning stages of transitioning to the Common Core State Standards. They're examining crosswalk documents to compare the expiring state standards to their replacements, learning about the shifts and standards of practice, and other exploratory measures. In short, they're baby-stepping their way toward 2014-15, the first school year during which the new common assessments will be administered.
Well, that's one way to do it. At our school we're taking a different approach to the Common Core. We're going all in. Our steps are Godzilla, not baby, sized. And like a 20 foot tall lizard hell-bent on destruction, we are diving in with a similar commitment to changing teaching and learning in the way that the Common Core calls for. Ok, maybe that's the worst analogy ever, but I think you get the idea.
Here's our reasoning…
We Own It
All the hard work will be ours. Everything we build will be designed specifically for our students. It won't be our teachers trying to fit a round curriculum into a square hole. It will all be built by us, for us.
A Sense of Urgency Exists
Right now, the spring of 2015 seems a long way off. But when you examine some of the sample items for the third grade test, and you look at our current first grade students, you realize how much they have to learn. And you realize that it's foolish to think spring 2015 is an eternity from now. It will be here before we know it. These six-year-olds will be nine-year-olds in a snap. And if we don't hurry up and start trying to transition, we'll be behind. And we owe it to these six-year-olds to have them as ready as possible for a test that looks like it's going to be daunting, to say the least. If the test in 2015 is the first time they see the kinds of shifts that the CCSS call for in terms of depth and rigor, then we have failed them miserably. We have to start now.
Failure is a Good Thing
Ok, let me be clear. I'm NOT talking about kids' failure. I'm talking about stumbling and making mistakes in the transition phase. We don't fear this sort of failure, we welcome it. It's from failure that we'll learn the most. If we dive in now and make the changes ourselves, instead of passively waiting for the changes to happen to us, we are certain to fail in some way. But with an attitude that welcomes failure and mistakes and views them as learning opportunities, the idea of messing up becomes less something to fear and more something to embrace.
It's certainly going to be an adventure. I'll be keeping you posted, so stay tuned for more posts. I want to share everything we've learned, maybe it will help you. And be sure to subscribe to our blog for plenty more updates and resources for Common Core.
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Neat, but how in the world is it done?
Magic is all about misdirection. You're palming the other handkerchief in the opposite hand. Hence saying it teaches you how to work with both hands. Notice that the fingers on the right hand are always curled up? That's because they're holding another handkerchief in there.
Not necessarily; it says there is a gimmick used and if you practise magic much you probably know what it is.
i think one hankercheif is a different color on each side, so hence theres 2 of them involved
Actually, I had one of these handkerchiefs. At the end of it is a hole where you pull the other side with the different colors out of causing the previous colors to disappear. In reality, it just goes inside of itself. You can see in the second picture that he is pushing it inside of itself. The reason he keeps his fist closed is that he is hiding the opening or "hole" that's at the end or when doing a color exchange the hole is in the middle. Does that make sense? Lol.
Yea i had one of those things when i was like really little, they are pretty cool.
actually i think a thumb tip is used
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Review of 2010
January 2011. Almost three hours after the third day of the year. What a nice time for a review. Problem is I don't remember most of 2010. I have a bunch of random thoughts about this past year so better start with that…
Lot of stuff happened… Hajime finished and was sold, we worked on Warlords 2 and Async Racing with Ben Olding, we finished two major contracts and started a couple of other ones.
I must say that project wise I have split feelings. On one hand we did put a lot of stuff out. On the other hand most of our time was used with client IPs, which can be heaven or hell, but never our heaven or hell.
Couple of other small victories I reckon… not entirely relevant for the company has a whole.
I don't know the exact figures of 2010 yet, but I'm pretty much sure we grew more than 100%. This would mean that 2010 was the year of our stability. While this is somewhat true it is not that black and white. Right now my predictions are that we will match 2010 in the 1st quarter of 2011 and still I'm not happy. My biggest concern is related to passive income. We have not yet found a way to have a steady passive income and the rest simply has too many variables, plus taxes…
Yes, 2010 was good, but we are growing and in a very decisive year in VGS, so we need to really be less dependant of overall market… stuff…
VGS Most Valuable Player
I bet we are the only company in the world with more than two people where 50% of the people are named Pedro Santos. While none of 'our' Pedro Santos are in fact and legaly employees of Vortix, both of them have the same spirit of the three guys that started up Vortix: they put their effort into something and make it happen, which is a rare thing nowadays. In my opinion 'The Pedros' share the MVP place in 2010.
The Flash Game Space MVP
I really have to make this special note here… There's this Ben guy better known has benologist. He bootstrapped something we know as Playtomic, which is pretty much awesome and that I won't describe because you either know it or you should follow the link. When devs were bitching and whinning about blocked links he put pressure on portals and created Portal Blacklist.
And still managed to release games… no doubt, my personal choice for Flash Game Space MVP.
And one last word
Marco, my partner, friend and brother. You are one in a million mate. If we find the other 6000 that are like you, we'll rule the world! Keep up the good work!
Posted: January 3rd, 2011
at 3:23am by Vlad
Tagged with Ben Olding, Contracts, FlashGameBlogs, Making a Living, Success and Failure
Categories: The life of VGS
Comments: 2 comments
Business Model Activity: Conclusions
So after all the walls of text I just put up, what does this all mean? Let me start by saying that Vortix was not born to be a flash game development studio. It was born to be a game development studio. For the last two years we have focused on flash the same way we may focus on some other technology. We do what we have to do to develop games. That is what we want to do. But to be successful we need to be able to monetize it. It is pointless to create a commercial project if it isn't to be commercial and no, you don't have to sell your soul to do it.
To be successful we have made decisions. We developed our own activities:
1. Sponsorship and licensing because it is our current form of monetizing our core business and our core business is creating games.
2. Collaboration projects as an low-risk extension of #1.
3. Contracts as a very-low-risk activity that would allow us quick and steady monetization.
Everything we did, was done with a purpose. There are a bunch of things you can do as a flash or game developer. Some devs operate portals, some devs create software that helps other devs, some devs have a day job, all is fair game, but doing things with a purpose allowed us to set goals and each goal that is achieved is a step forward into that purpose.
It boils down to this:
Do whatever you have to do to be able to do whatever you want to do.
Less than that it's either a hobby or a bad model. What you need to ask yourself is:
1. What do you do best? Capitalize on that.
2. What do you want to do? Improve on that.
Never stop moving, choose what you have to do and choose what you want to. Be smart, create value, raise the bar, raise your worth.
To finish, keep in mind that you, like us, are probably small fish in a world of sharks. Here's something worth reading: The Bootstrapper's Bible. That should put it in a wonderful, motivating new perspective.
Posted: August 5th, 2010
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Tagged with Contracts, Developers, FlashGameBlogs, Making a Living, Portals, Sponsorship and Licensing, Success and Failure
Categories: Business
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Business Model Activity #3: Contracts
Last activity after Sponsoring and Licensing and Collaboration Projects in this Business Model series. Contracts were our last and most revenue generating activity. Our contract works went from small to huge (so huge that none of the bigger projects as yet been released) and from bad to great. Contracts start with a prospect client, someone that approaches us with a project. We analyse and present a price based on the following:
1. We determine cost, scope and time frame. Only once we were given a budget and it worked alright, but we prefer to determine the cost ourselves.
2. Cost to the prospect client is directly related with scope and time frame. If we assume we do the contract it is because we have the skill to do it and it is not our content, this is purely engineering/design work, nothing else. This means that any other related factor is irrelevant for us. We don't care what is the content or entertaining value, we don't care if we are considered cheap or expensive and we don't care if anyone thinks we are having too much profit.
3. We care about the end result and will not charge extra if any requested change or additional feature is within scope and time frame.
4. Larger projects will be paid by milestone while smaller projects will be paid on delivery.
5. Payments on delivery are not dependent of anything, like developers getting their game sponsored. We delivered, if it is accepted we expect immediate payment.
Sounds a bit harsh doesn't it? That's because our core business is creating our own games. A client-centric company needs the clients to survive since they are dependent of contracts. A flash game developer creates (or should be able to create) its own content, therefor its own value. If we have an agreement, we will do the project as if it was our own, the client is not treated as a client (in a bad way), but as a partner, unless of course they treat us as supplier (in a bad way also). The problem with a couple of contracts or contract discussions was exactly this: some clients (or prospect clients) tend to consider flash game developers as a lesser entity, like they were amateurs. Our experience says that this is more evident in the flash game space where prospect clients started the discussion by saying "I don't think you are good enough". Great, find someone else that is…
Bottom line is that contracts, if not done with the right people are problematic. The right people are the ones that are don't consider to be in a higher position because they pay but that consider hiring us as an added value to their project. These are the clients we want to deal with, the ones that the points raised above are "nothing special".
Still the worst part of contracts is getting started. We feel that announcements (blog and forums mostly) served very little for getting new contracts. On the other hand, word of mouth was what brought us more contracts. I think I won't be far from truth if I say that all contracts started by either our games being known which led to good collabs or by speaking with people directly thus creating network. I can recall a couple of emails we got from our forums, but those never left the proposal stage.
Now you know how the activities of our business model work to us. I'll finish this series by wrapping it all up, drawing some conclusions and babbling on how you can adapt your own reality to your own business model.
Posted: August 3rd, 2010
at 12:38pm by Vlad
Tagged with Contracts, FlashGameBlogs, Making a Living, Sponsorship and Licensing, Success and Failure
Categories: Business
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Business Model Activity #2: Collabs
Following the Business Model series that started some days ago and after rambling about Sponsorships and Licensing, it is now time to ramble how and why we see Collaborations as an activity separated from Sponsorship and Licensing.
Most flash game developers, be it coders or artists, usually lack the other side of the coin. Many coders don't have design and/or artistic skills and many designers/artists don't have coding skills. This gap became deeper with Actionscript 3 for well known reasons.
Collaborations the activity that we planned the most. The main goal was to monetize schedule holes. To do this we started by marketing it at FGL. First slowly and carefully, we were absolutely clear that we were not looking for "any game", but rather targeting potentially high profile projects. We behaved a lot like a sponsor, checking every proposal we got by email, discussing the pros and cons of each. About a handful of projects never started, one was never sold (or put to sale as far as I know) and a couple did well.
Now it is important to determine what "doing well" exactly means. Maybe you are imagining that doing well is getting 5 million plays or we earning $5000 per game. It isn't. We clearly defined the objectives we wanted from Collaborations:
1. Our collaboration must create enough value in the game so that the developer that proposed the game makes more money than he would if it wasn't for us. All games that were sold achieved this.
2. Our percentage of the collaboration must cover our cost. I didn't crunch numbers on this one, but I think we rarely achieved this. It is always a win situation for us since like I mentioned earlier, our initial motivation was to monetize schedule holes that would never make any money.
It was a bit disheartening that as soon as developers create a hit game with us they prefer to hire us. I admit that from a commercial point of view that is the right call and we say from the beginning that we don't won the IP in any way so we really have no take on the subject. But from a personal point of view, I feel sad that our share of risk and support is left behind and given a lower priority against money… I don't let these personal feelings get in the way and I share the same amount of respect and even friendship, but it's a bit… sad…
Final thoughts on collabs and why we did it this way: we monetized, created value for ourselves and developers that worked with us which was exactly what we wanted to do. To achieve this we didn't consider this activity as part of sponsoring and licensing since we never owned the process of production and sales. Collaborations are half sponsorship and half contacts. That was the only way to fit it into our business model.
Posted: August 2nd, 2010
at 12:26pm by Vlad
Tagged with Contracts, Developers, FlashGameBlogs, Making a Living, Sponsorship and Licensing, Success and Failure
Categories: Business
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Business Model… the missing link…
I have to say I'm still doubtful if I should address this in our blog. I will not go into the details of what a business model is what it is not, how it influences strategy and all that stuff. For that a Wikipedia link to Business Model is more than enough.
As I think it notices in other posts in our blog, I still feel that developers are not fully aware of where they are positioned in the flash game market. I'm not 100% sure but I think that what I spoke most with other developers was about business. I admit I feel quite comfortable with the business side of things and I understand that with the average age and work experience of most flash game developers, business is not something they feel comfortable or knowledgeable.
On the other hand there's the problem of developers that feel they have a life of experience because they sold one game for $100. They use the word "noob" like there were no mirrors left on Earth. I would add to these a significant number of developers that advice others not to do something that they haven't tried.
And where does a business model fit into this? Well, most of what defines a business model is well known by developers. What is relevant to discuss, in my opinion, is what are the options available in terms of activities and revenue. Many developers ask me how did Vortix achieve this or achieve that. How do we do it? How much do we earn… stuff like that… I can only be theoretical about it because I'm not fully aware the most sensitive piece of information: THE DEVELOPER!
You need to know yourself, you need to understand, not business but your business and you need to neglect all opinions that are negative in nature to what models, activities and revenue streams that are available to you as a flash game developer.
In the next few days I'll address Sponsorship and Licensing, Collaborative Projects and Contract Projects as activities and their revenues but I feel that what is important is how do these activities affected us at Vortix so you can relate to your own business model. Because there is no perfect or good business model, there's only YOUR business model.
Posted: July 30th, 2010
at 6:43pm by Vlad
Tagged with Contracts, FlashGameBlogs, Making a Living, Sponsorship and Licensing, Success and Failure
Categories: Business
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Patience (or forbearing) is the state of endurance under difficult circumstances, which can mean persevering in the face of delay or provocation without acting on annoyance/anger in a negative way; or exhibiting forbearance when under strain, especially when faced with longer-term difficulties. Patience is the level of endurance one can take before negativity. It is also used to refer to the character trait of being steadfast. Antonyms include hastiness and impetuousness.
Scientific perspectives[edit]
In evolutionary psychology and in cognitive neuroscience, patience is studied as a decision-making problem, involving the choice of either a small reward in the short term, or a more valuable reward in the long term. When given a choice, all animals, humans included, are inclined to favour short term rewards over long term rewards. This is despite the often greater benefits associated with long term rewards.
In a 2005 study involving common marmosets and cottontop tamarins, animals of both species faced a self-control paradigm in which individuals chose between taking an immediate small reward and waiting a variable amount of time for a large reward. Under these conditions, marmosets waited significantly longer for food than tamarins. This difference cannot be explained by life history, social behaviour or brain size. It can, however, be explained by feeding ecology: marmosets rely on gum, a food product acquired by waiting for exudate to flow from trees, whereas tamarins feed on insects, a food product requiring impulsive action. Foraging ecology, therefore, may provide a selective pressure for the evolution of self-control.[1]
Patience of human users in the online world has been the subject of much recent scientific research. In a 2012 study [3] involving tens of millions of users who watched videos on the Internet, Krishnan and Sitaraman show that online users run out of patience in as little as two seconds while waiting for their chosen video to start playing.[4] The study also shows that users who are connected to the Internet at faster speeds are less patient than their counterparts connected at slower speeds, demonstrating a link between the human expectation of speed and human patience. These and other scientific studies of patience have led many social commentators to conclude that the rapid pace of technology is rewiring humans to be less and less patient.[5][6][7]
Religious perspectives[edit]
Patience and fortitude are prominent themes in Judaism. The Talmud extols patience as an important personal trait. The story of Micah, for example, is that he suffers many challenging conditions and yet endures, saying "I will wait for the God who saves me." Patience in God, it is said, will aid believers in finding the strength to be delivered from the evils that are inherent in the physical life.[8]
In the Hebrew Torah, patience is referred to in several proverbs, such as "The patient man shows much good sense, but the quick-tempered man displays folly at its height" (Proverbs 14:29, NAB); "An ill-tempered man stirs up strife, but a patient man allays discord." (Proverbs 15:18, NAB); and "A patient man is better than a warrior, and he who rules his temper, than he who takes a city." (Proverbs 16:32). The emotion is also discussed in other sections, such as Ecclesiastes: "Better is the patient spirit than the lofty spirit. Do not in spirit become quickly discontented, for discontent lodges in the bosom of a fool." (Ecclesiastes 7:8-9, NAB).
In the Christian religion, patience is one of the most valuable virtues of life. Increasing patience is viewed as the work of the Holy Ghost in the Christian who has accepted the gift of salvation. While patience is not one of the traditional biblical three theological virtues nor one of the traditional cardinal virtues, it is part of the fruit of the Holy Spirit, according to the Apostle Paul in his Epistle to the Galatians.
In the Christian Bible, patience is referred to in several sections. The Book of Proverbs notes that "through patience a ruler can be persuaded, and a gentle tongue can break a bone" (Proverbs 25:14-16, NIV); Ecclesiastes points out that the "end of a matter is better than its beginning, and patience is better than pride" (Ecclesiastes 7:7-9, NIV); and 1 Thessalonians states that we should "be patient with all. See that no one returns evil for evil; rather, always seek what is good for each other and for all" (1 Thessalonians 5:14-15, NAB). In the Epistle of James, the Bible urges Christians to be patient, and " see how the farmer waits for the precious fruit of the earth,...until it receives the early and the late rains." (James 5:7-11, NAB). In Galatians, patience is listed as part of the "fruit of the Spirit": "love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control. Against such things there is no law". (Galatians 5:21-23, NIV). In Timothy, the Bible states that "Jesus might display his unlimited patience as an example for those who would believe on him and receive eternal life".(1 Timothy 1:15-17, NIV).
Patience with steadfast belief in Allah is called sabr (Arabic: صْبِرْ ṣabr), one of the best virtues of life in Islam. Through sabr, a Muslim believes that an individual can grow closer to God and thus attain true peace. It is also stressed in Islam, that Allah is with those who are patient, more specifically during calamity and suffering. Several verses in Quran urge Muslims to seek Allah's help when faced with fear and loss, with patient prayers and perseverance for Allah. For example:[9]
Be sure we shall test you with something of fear and hunger, some loss in goods or lives or the fruits (of your toil), but give glad tidings to those who patiently persevere; who say, when afflicted with calamity: "To Allah We belong, and to Him is our return".—Quran, [2:155–156]
It is not righteousness that you turn your faces towards the East and the West, but righteousness is this that one should believe in Allah and the last day and the angels and the Book and the prophets, and give away wealth out of love for Him to the near of kin and the orphans and the needy and the wayfarer and the beggars and for (the emancipation of) the captives, and keep up prayer and pay the poor-rate; and the performers of their promise when they make a promise, and the patient in distress and affliction and in time of conflicts-- these are they who are true (to themselves) and these are they who guard (against evil). O ye who believe! Retaliation is prescribed for you in the matter of the murdered; the freeman for the freeman, and the slave for the slave, and the female for the female. And for him who is forgiven somewhat by his (injured) brother, prosecution according to usage and payment unto him in kindness. This is an alleviation and a mercy from your Lord. He who transgresseth after this will have a painful doom.—Quran, [2:177–178]
Similarly, patience is mentioned in hadith Sahih Bukhari:
Narrated Aisha: I asked Allah's Apostle about the plague. He said, "That was a means of torture which Allah used to send upon whomsoever He wished, but He made it a source of mercy for the believers, for anyone who is residing in a town in which this disease is present, and remains there and does not leave that town, but has patience and hopes for Allah's reward, and knows that nothing will befall him except what Allah has written for him, then he will get such reward as that of a martyr."
In Islamic tradition, Job (Ayyoob) illustrates a story where he demonstrated patience and steadfast belief in Allah. Ibn Kathir narrates the story in the following manner: Job was a very rich person with much land, and many animals and children — all of which were lost and soon he was struck with disease as a test from Allah. He remained steadfast and patient in his prayers to Allah, so Allah eventually relieved him of the disease, gave him double the money he lost, and raised to life twice the number of children who had died before him.[10]
In Buddhism, patience (Skt.: kshanti; Pali: khanti) is one of the "perfections" (paramitas) that a bodhisattva trains in and practices to realize perfect enlightenment (bodhi). The Buddhist concept of patience is distinct from the English definition of the word. In Buddhism, patience refers to not returning harm, rather than merely enduring a difficult situation. It is the ability to control one's emotions even when being criticized or attacked.[11] In verse 184 of the Dhammapada it is said that 'enduring patience is the highest austerity'.[12]
Patience and forbearance is considered an essential virtue in Hinduism.[13][14] In ancient literature of Hinduism, the concept of patience is referred to with the word pariksaha (patience and forbearance, Sanskrit: परिषहा),[15][16] and several other words such as sahiṣṇutā (patient toleration, Sanskrit: सहिष्णुता),[17] titiksha (forbearance, Sanskrit: तितिक्षा),[18][19] sah or sahanshilata (suffer with patience, Sanskrit: सह, सहनशीलता)[20][21] and several others.
Patience, in Hindu philosophy, is the cheerful endurance of trying conditions and the consequence of one's action and deeds (karma).[22] It is also the capacity to wait, endure opposites - such as pain and pleasure, cold and heat, sorrows and joys - calmly, without anxiety, and without a desire to seek revenge.[23][24] In interpersonal relationships, virtuous titiksha means that if someone attacks or insults without cause, one must endure it without feeling enmity, anger, resentment or anxiety.[25] The concept of patience is explained as being more than trust, and as a value that reflects the state of one's body and mind.[26] The term pariksaha is sometimes also translated as test or exam, in other contexts. Some of these concepts have been carried into the spiritual understanding of yoga. Sandilya Upanishad of Hinduism identifies ten sources of patience and forbearances: Ahimsa, Satya, Asteya, Brahmacharya, Daya, Arjava,Kshama, Dhriti, Mitahara and Saucha. In each of these ten forbearances, the virtuous implicit belief is that our current spirit and the future for everyone, including oneself, will be stronger if these forbearances are one's guide. Each source of those ten pariksaha (patience and forbearances) are:[27][28]
- Ahimsa (non-violence) is not being violent to any human being and any living being at any time through one's action, with words one speaks or writes, or in one's thoughts.[26]
- Satya is expressing and acting with truth.
- Asteya is not coveting of another's property through any act of one's mind, speech, or body.
- Brahmacharya is willingness to remain a bachelor by one's actions of mind, speech or body.
- Daya is unconditional kindness to everyone and all creatures.
- Arjava is the refusal to deceive or wrong others either by the performance or by non-performance of actions of one's mind, speech or body.
- Kshama is acceptance of suffering while forgiving all pleasant or unpleasant things, such as praise or blow by others.
- Dhriti is the will to remain of calm mind and spirit during periods of gain or loss of wealth or relatives.
- Mitahara is moderation and restraint in consumption of food, drinks and wealth.
- Saucha is the cleansing of the body by earth and water; and of the mind by the pursuit of understanding oneself.
The classical literature of Hinduism exists in many Indian languages. For example, Tirukkuṛaḷ written between 200 BC and 400 AD, and sometimes called the Tamil Veda, is one of the most cherished classics on Hinduism written in a South Indian language. It too discusses patience and forbearance, dedicating Chapter 16 of Book 1 to it. Tirukkuṛaḷ suggests patience is necessary for an ethical life and one's long term happiness, even if patience is sometimes difficult in the short term. Some of the verse excerpts from this book are: "our conduct must always foster forbearance"; "one must patiently endure rude remarks, because it delivers us to purity"; "if we are unjustly wronged by others, it is best to conquer our hurt with patience, accept suffering, and refrain from unrighteous retaliation"; "it is good to patiently endure injuries done to you, but to forget them is even better"; "just as the Earth bears those who dig into her, one must with patience bear with those who despise us", and so on.[29][30][31]
Philosophical perspectives[edit]
In Human, All Too Human, philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche argued that "being able to wait is so hard that the greatest poets did not disdain to make the inability to wait the theme of their poetry." He notes that "Passion will not wait", and gives the example of cases of duels, in which the "advising friends have to determine whether the parties involved might be able to wait a while longer. If they cannot, then a duel is reasonable [because]...to wait would be to continue suffering the horrible torture of offended honor...".
See also[edit]
|Look up patience in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
|Wikimedia Commons has media related to Patience.
- ^ USA. "The ecology and evolution of patience in two New World monkeys". Pubmedcentral.nih.gov. Retrieved 2012-08-30.
- ^ "Video Stream Quality Impacts Viewer Behavior, by Krishnan and Sitaraman, ACM Internet Measurement Conference, Nov 2012.".
- ^ "Video Stream Quality Impacts Viewer Behavior, by Krishnan and Sitaraman, ACM Internet Measurement Conference, Nov 2012.".
- ^ "CNN: Online viewers ditch slow-loading video after 2 seconds, November 2012". Retrieved 2014-07-03.
- ^ "NPR Morning Edition: In Video-Streaming Rat Race, Fast is Never Fast Enough, October 2012". Retrieved 2014-07-03.
- ^ "Boston Globe: Instant gratification is making us perpetually impatient, Feb 2013". Retrieved 2014-07-03.
- ^ "Patience is a Network Effect, by Nicholas Carr, Nov 2012".
- ^ Firestone, Reuven. "Patience". Retrieved 2008-06-12.
- ^ see also: [Quran 3:195–200], [Quran 41:24–35], and [Quran 11:114–115]
- ^ Ibn Kathir. Stories of the Prophet. Dar Al-Manarah. pp. 157–160. ISBN 977-6005-17-9.
- ^ "Alexander Berzin, The Ten Far-Reaching Attitudes in Theravada, Mahayana, and Bon, 1995". Berzinarchives.com. 2012-06-08. Retrieved 2012-08-30.
- ^ Buddharakkhita, Acharya. "Dhammapada, 184". Access to Insight. Buddhist Publication Society. Retrieved 24/12/2014. Check date values in:
- ^ See virtues discussed under article on Sanatana Dharma Encyclopedia Britannica (2009)
- ^ Madigan, T. (2009), Schopenhauer's compassionate morality, Philosophy Now, 52, 16-17
- ^ see PariSahA, Sanskrit Dictionary, Germany
- ^ Search for sanskrit word pariSahA Monier Williams Translation of Sanskrit Concepts, University of Koln, Germany
- ^ Sanskrit words related to "Patience" in Sanskrit Dictionary, Germany See also Monier Williams Translation of Sanskrit Concepts
- ^ Hunter, A. (2007), Forgiveness: Hindu and Western Perspectives, Journal of Hindu-Christian Studies, 20(1), 11
- ^ Titiksha Sanskrit Dictionary, Germany
- ^ Sahanshilata Sanskrit Dictionary, Germany
- ^ see entry for SAH 3rd column, Page 343, Macdonell Sanskrit Dictionary
- ^ Shankaracharya's Vedānta Ernest Wood, ISBN 978-1425482596, see Chapter 4, under GNYANA-YOGA, pp 73-74
- ^ R.S. Nathan (2000), Hinduism that is Sanatana Dharma, ISBN 81-7597-065-0
- ^ Tattvabhushan, S. (1898), Sankvracharya (His life and teaching: a translation of Atma-Bodha), 2nd Edition, The Society for the Resuscitation of Indian Literature
- ^ Hunter, A. and Rigby, A. (2009), Gandhi and the virtue of forgiveness, Gandhi Marg 30 (4), see page 430
- ^ a b Kaneda, T. (2008). Shanti, peacefulness of mind. C. Eppert & H. Wang (Eds.), Cross cultural studies in curriculum: Eastern thought, educational insights, pages 171-192, ISBN 978-0805856736, Taylor & Francis
- ^ Swami, P. (2000). Encyclopaedic Dictionary of Upaniṣads: SZ (Vol. 3). Sarup & Sons; see pages 630-631
- ^ Ballantyne, J. R., & Yogīndra, S. (1850). A Lecture on the Vedánta: Embracing the Text of the Vedánta-sára. Presbyterian mission press.
- ^ Tirukkuṛaḷ Translated by Rev G.U. Pope, Rev W.H. Drew, Rev John Lazarus, and Mr F W Ellis (1886), WH Allen & Company; see section 1.2.12; pages 19-20
- ^ Tirukkuṛaḷ see Chapter 16, Book 1
- ^ Tirukkuṛaḷ Translated by V.V.R. Aiyar, Tirupparaithurai : Sri Ramakrishna Tapovanam (1998)


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Real Madrid's first big summer signing?
Sometimes you feel that your club has got it exactly right with a certain transfer. At other times you can feel uncomfortable about whether they got the right man.
In this case, if reports are to be believed, then we think Real Madrid have got it spot-on.
Because reports in Spain suggest that the club is in advanced talks to bring Bayern München midfielder Toni Kroos to La Liga.
The 24-year-old German has been in sensational form over the last two years but hasn't been able to agree on a new contract at his current club, who have a strict cap on player wages.
Manchester United have also supposedly targeted the player over the last few months but Real Madrid have seemingly stepped up their interest in the international, who is currently in Brazil at The World Cup.
Real Madrid are on the verge of making their first signing of the summer in the shape of Toni Kroos. The player has agreed a five-year deal worth €5 million (after tax) a season at the Bernabéu following a meeting between his agent and the 'Los Blancos' higher-ups in Madrid.
This probably spells the end for Sami Khedira at Real Madrid as they are very similar players and we expect Kroos to play in the defensive midfield role. That is not a certainty as Kroos can operate just as well as an attacking midfielder or in the number 10 role.
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Let's have a look at him in action. Real Madrid fans: good signing if it happens?
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Real Madrid is the Team i have been watching all along. I would six of RM players to be among players if dream will be true,: Cristiano Ronaldo, Karim Benzima, Gareth Bale,Toni Kroos, James Redgrez, Luis Suarez, these players can punish most claim big clubs in Europe


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A film director has been cleared of raping a sleeping woman at his central London flat.
Reg Traviss, 35, who was the boyfriend of singer Amy Winehouse when she died, denied raping the woman twice early on New Year's Eve 2011.
She told Southwark Crown Court she was too drunk to stand and would not have had sex with him.
But Mr Traviss said she had seduced him after a night's drinking and the sex at his Marylebone flat was consensual....
Leaving court, Mr Traviss hit out at the authorities for not stopping "the train" of a very weak prosecution.
Calling for anonymity for defendants in rape cases, he said: "In a nutshell she [the complainant] is either mentally ill or she is evil and had an agenda.
"Whether or not that worked out or would be fulfilled, she was also on that train and had to see it through to the end."
The trial heard the complainant often talked about being "skint".
Mr Traviss said he believed if he had been convicted the complainant may have tried to sue him.
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"She might have perceived it as a one-night stand and felt ashamed and tried to justify it by saying I have taken advantage of her.
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