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Educational Service District 112's PREVENT! Coalition received a Drug Free Communities Support Program Continuation Grant from the Office of National Drug Control Policy.
PREVENT! Coalition, the Substance Abuse Prevention Coalition of Clark County, will receive $125,000 per year for five years to continue addressing substance abuse among Clark County youth.
The grant is a continuation of a five-year grant that ended this month. PREVENT! also received a continuation of the Drug Free Communities Mentoring grant, an additional $75,000 over the next year to mentor two other coalitions, Prevent Together: Battle Ground Prevention Alliance and the Skamania Community Mobilization Against Substance Abuse.
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Band impress with marathon show.
Concert season at Sunderland's Stadium of Light kicked off in style last night, as thousands of fans of US rock gods Bon Jovi flocked to see their heroes take to the Wearside stage.
And the music giants didn't disappoint, with a spectacular three hour set featuring all of their classic hits, including 'You Give Love A Bad Name', 'Wanted Dead Or Alive' and 'It's My Life', along with songs from their latest album 'What About Now'. Charismatic frontman Jon Bon Jovi even sported a red and white striped stage outfit, which certainly didn't go unnoticed at the home of Sunderland AFC.
Over 45,000 die-hard fans travelled from as far afield as Australia for the Stadium of Light show, one of only five venues on the UK leg of the worldwide Because We Can tour - and their memorable night was topped off with a rousing rendition of the band's iconic anthem 'Livin On A Prayer', which brought the show to a stunning climax.
SAFC commercial director, Gary Hutchinson, said: "It was a fantastic show and a great way to kick off our summer concert season. There's a huge amount of work that goes on behind the scenes to get a stadium show up and running and to see it come to fruition in such style is really pleasing.
"Once again, as a city we've demonstrated that by working together we can deliver major events in spectacular fashion, but with two more shows next week we certainly won't be resting on our laurels."
Sunderland's Stadium of Light will welcome R&B superstar Rihanna on Thursday 20 June, followed by the biggest pop show ever staged in the region, North East Live, featuring JLS, The Wanted, Little Mix, Rita Ora and host of top acts, on Saturday 22nd June.
A limited number of tickets and hospitality packages are available for both shows, see www.safcconcerts.com for details.

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So, I keep a spreadsheet of all of my bowling scores and how I do on each frame. To show that I got a split, I use "#s", where # is how many pins I knocked over, but I want to replace all of these with characters like ②, which would have the respective # in the circle. I have tons of scores in my spreadsheet, so changing everything by hand would take ages. Any advice?
This is assuming that you are using Excel 2007 or newer.
You can use the keyboard shortcut Ctrl-H to perform a find-and-replace (hold Control (Ctrl) on the keyboard, and press H at the same time). In the "Find what:" box enter your #s (such as 2s) and in the "Replace with box:" paste in your circled # (②). Click the Replace All button.
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UNIVERSAL CITY, California — You've got to envy the Nick Nolte placard. Not only does it have one of the best seats in the house — right next to Heidi Montag, directly in front of the Pussycat Dolls — but on Saturday (May 31), that simple piece of poster board also got an up-close-and-personal view of performances by both PCD and Coldplay, as the acts rehearsed (and rehearsed … and rehearsed) their sets for Sunday night's MTV Movie Awards.
On Saturday, the Gibson Amphitheatre was a constant whir of stagehands, producers, Steadicam operators, talent wranglers, construction workers, seat fillers and just about anyone you could imagine that would have anything to do with the pulling off of a live awards show. Plus, there was a pair of acts that, combined, have sold more than 13 million copies of their most recent albums. And then there's the canned chaos that is the production truck, a mobile TV studio with monitors from wall-to-wall, directors and producers squeezed in, gazing above it all. Everyone's working out the kinks, ironing out the last-minute details, doing things over and over until they're right, all trying to get everything perfect for the big show.
Rehearsal day is remarkable not just for the sheer amount of stuff happening all around you, but also because it's the rare time when some of the biggest acts in the world perform to an audience that either isn't listening (the crew, which is usually checking levels, moving lights or talking on headsets) or isn't real at all (the majority of seats inside the Gibson are taken up by placards — like Mr. Nolte's — which mark where each celeb will be seated during the show). And as such, you get a rather intimate, not to mention fascinating, look at the inner-workings of those acts.
In the case of the Dolls, it's really amazing to watch them work, because of the complexity of their choreography, the synchronicity, the sheer amount of movement they manage in 5-inch heels. And while we can't give too much away, we can safely say that Sunday's performance (of "When I Grow Up," the first single from their upcoming album) is gonna be a doozy, and if rehearsals were any indication, they better be getting hazard pay.
Under the watchful gaze of PCD mastermind Robin Antin and her army of choreographers (not to mention a giant tub of Golden Popcorn located at stage right), the Dolls ascended platforms, descended stairs and ducked walls of flame, all while a massive screen behind them popped with images of flashbulbs, tabloid headlines and diamonds. This went on for nearly two hours, and it didn't always go smoothly. Doll Jessica Sutta (she's the brunette one) was battling a series of blisters so severe that she limped offstage and had a series of padding added to the inside of her heels. Ever the trooper, she managed to gut it out, and by the end of their rehearsals, PCD — plus a group of special guests who we're not allowed to mention just yet — had a fierce and fiery performance locked down.
Meanwhile, the evening's other act, Coldplay, entered the Gibson (cutting quite the unassuming figure for a band that has sold more than 30 million albums worldwide, we might add) and caught the last few minutes of the Dolls' rehearsal. Amazed — and half-joking, we assume — frontman Chris Martin turned to a sea of producers and laughed, "Now I see: You booked us for eye candy."
Fast-forward roughly an hour (rehearsals go very slowly), and Coldplay are standing in the middle of the Gibson stage, a constant wash of stagehands flowing around them, moving amps, setting lights and testing a massive video screen. Perhaps a bit bored (or maybe because he was so impressed by what he saw earlier), Martin wandered over to a keyboard and began plinking out the opening notes to PCD's hit "Don't Cha," then proceeded to warble out the song's hook — "Don't cha wish your girlfriend was hot like me" — to the amazement of pretty much everyone.
A bit later (again, things move slowly), everything was set, and Coldplay launched into "Viva la Vida" — the title track from their new album, which hits stores June 17. Above a massive din of strings, bells and timpani drums, Martin sang about dead kings and failed dreams, skipping about while a Steadicam spun around him. The sheer size of the tune — it's joyously massive, really — was only amplified by the near-empty amphitheater, and as the final notes bounced around the seats and up into the rafters, Martin and the rest of his band stood once again in the middle of the stage, looking a bit shocked. Sunday's show will be the first time they'll play "Viva" live, and you get the feeling that even they were amazed by just how big it sounded.
But then, just as soon as the moment was over, the stage was filled once again with producers and lighting techs, and the whole circus started up again. Sure, that was great, but let's do it again. And again. After all, it's gotta be perfect.
It's a wrap! Now that you've watched the MTV Movie Awards, find winners, red-carpet photos, videos, movie exclusives and much more at MovieAwards.MTV.com. And check out Movies.MTV.com for the latest movie news, trailers, photos and more!


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Autumn Ember - PrologueA pair of small hands brushed back the thin curtain leading to the Queen's chamber, excited that they had finally been allowed to see her. Two pairs of bare paws struck the marble floor as they ran over to her bedside, looking over the side of the bed at the cloth she held in her hands, wide eyed and curious. The Queen looked over to the two with a soft smile on her feline features, showing them what was swaddled in the cloth.Autumn Ember - Prologue More Like This
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NISCAIR Online Periodicals Repository Collection: JSIR Vol.70(08) [August 2011] http://nopr.niscair.res.in/handle/123456789/12480 Special Issue on Water Management, Biomass Production and Sustainable Energy Systems for Rural Development The Collection's search engine Search the Channel search http://nopr.niscair.res.in/simple-search Entrepreneurialising solar lanterns to solve energy poverty in India – Potential and limitations http://nopr.niscair.res.in/handle/123456789/12510 Title: Entrepreneurialising solar lanterns to solve energy poverty in India – Potential and limitations

Authors: Wong, Sam; Mathur, V

Abstract: This paper presents two solar lantern projects in rural Rajasthan, India, and examines success and limitations of entrepreneurialising development model in providing energy services in rural communities. Training local villagers to become entrepreneurs could provide job opportunities, improve livelihoods by clean energy and create a sense of project ownership.Without adequate support from donors and NGOs, any serious technical break-down of solar lanterns would undermine the incomes of entrepreneurs, and that would affect continuity of services. This paper promotes a genuine bottom-up approach in energy service provision, by getting entrepreneurs and villagers involved at the beginning of projects.

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Authors: Gosenpud, Jerry; Srinivasan, Ravi; Prasad, Sameer

Abstract: This study presents key business success factors relating to a water reclamation experiment ( fertigation) using minimal technology in rural settings and identifies elements of social enterepreneurship in such endeavors.Various forms of organizational setups are reviewed in their capacity to implement small scale water reclamation projects and derive both economic and environmental returns. A carbon footprint/sequestration calculator and web based simulation models are presented as a way for organizations and entrepreneurs to assess the interplay economic and societal returns.

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Abstract: Successful conversions of wastelands into productive arable land, requires physical barriers for protection from grazing and encroachment. Such barrier possesses desired functionality and be sustainable for local conditions (soil, climatic, and social). In the long run, agriculture has to be environmentally sustainable in terms of inputs (energy, water, carbon footprint) and outputs(carbon sequestration, nitrogen fixation). In this study, viability of bio-fencing is examined in terms of functionality, implementation issues, and economic and environmental returns.

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Abstract: This study presents a two stage process to determine suitable areas to grow fuel crops: i) FAO Agro Ecological Zones (AEZ)procedure is applied to four Indian states of different geographical characteristics; and ii) Modelling the growth of candidate crops with GEPIC water and nutrient model, which is used to determine potential yield of candidate crops in areas where irrigation water is brackish or soil is saline. Absence of digital soil maps, paucity of readily available climate data and knowledge of detailed requirements of candidate crops are some of the major problems, of which, a series of detailed maps will evaluate true potential of bio fuels in India.

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Intel Xeon Phi comes in at 150 in the Top 500 list
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CHIPMAKER Intel has seen a cluster powered by its Xeon Phi chips debut on the Top 500 list at number 150.
Intel's Xeon Phi, the firm's rebrand of its Many Integrated Core (MIC) architecture, has finally been deployed in a cluster and shown that it can at least run the Linpack benchmark. The firm's Discovery cluster has 9,298 cores, with Intel claiming that each Xeon Phi accelerator delivers 1TFLOP of double-precision floating point compute performance.
While Intel bought Cray for its Aries interconnect, at this time all the firm would publicly say is that its Discovery cluster uses Infiniband to connect the 72 racks full of Xeon E5-2670 processors and Xeon Phi accelerators.
Rajeeb Hazra, VP of Intel's Architecture Group said its Discovery cluster is a prototype that still needs hardware and software tuning. Hazra said Intel is "on track to have Xeon Phi introduction on the market by end of 2012".
For Intel, all its Xeon Phi powered Discovery cluster shows is that the firm actually has working Xeon Phi boards. While the firm has seen Xeon Phi enter at 150 on the Top 500, it is a position that is hardly going to set the world on fire, especially as Nvidia's Tesla accelerators continue to dominate the upper echelons of the Top 500 list, despite the next generation Tesla K20 accelerator being still a few months off.
Intel needs two things to happen in the coming six months. The firm needs not just more Xeon Phi powered clusters in six months but ones that are in the top 30, and it needs to show that hardware and software tuning can produce tangible improvements in Xeon Phi performance if it's going to compete with Nvidia's upcoming Tesla K20 boards. µ
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For students in the fall play, learning their lines, marks and choreography was relatively easy — it was mastering an Irish accent that proved the biggest challenge.
Students are performing in
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tonight, tomorrow and Saturday at 7:30 p.m. in the auditorium. And as they ran their lines and scenes Wednesday night for dress rehearsal, they proved they'd gotten their Irish accents ready.
The Cripple of Inishmaan
is set in 1934 off the west coast of Ireland. It focuses on a young man with a withered hand and foot; he's known by the locals as 'Cripple Billy.' He is played by Zack McCabe '15.
The play was written by Martin McDonagh and premiered in December 1996.
The show has a relatively small cast — just about nine characters — and that was appealing to some of the actors taking part.
"I wanted to get involved in this production because I love theater and I knew that working with such a talented and small group would be a great experience," said Suzanne Egertson '15, who last year starred in the winter musical
. She said the most challenging part of her experience, aside from mastering an Irish accent, is becoming the "violent and angry girl I play."
The show includes some relative newcomers — Sathvik Sudireddy '15 said he first tried acting last year and loved it, so he decided to try out again. It also includes some theater vets like Lauren Zoppo '13, who has been a part of several productions during her Brooks career.
"I love the fall play; it is always a great group of people who I normally would never get to spend time with. It is usually a small cast, and together we experiment, encouraging each other to go deeper into our characters," said Lauren.
She plays Eileen, Billy's aunt. She said it was difficult, but exciting, to be part of discovering who Eileen is. "The script gave very little direction in terms of who Eileen was (besides her being a mid-60s aunt who loves candy) so it has been exciting to experiment and come up with my own interpretation of who she is," said Lauren.
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Zack McCabe is in good company. Actor Daniel Radcliffe — best known for playing Harry Potter on the big screen — will play Cripple Billy in a London production of
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2001-02 --As a junior in cross country last fall, Young ran in the Pac-10 (39th) and NCAA West Region (63rd) meets ... Ran in six invitationals, highest placement was 8th at the CS Fullerton II Invite ... In track, Young ran personal-best times of 1:52.48 (800m) and 3:52.39 (1500m).
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1999-00 -- In cross country, ran at the Long Beach State Invite (14th) ... In track ran times of 1:54.48 (800m) and 4:09.31 (1500m).
1998-99 -- Redshirt in both cross country and track.
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Recognized for utilizing only the freshest ingredients in daily specials on their "Fresh Sheet", Humboldt has recently launched a new bar-specific fresh sheet focusing on releasing drinks weekly. The drive behind the cocktail sheet was to empower bartenders to exercise their freedom and creativity.
A recent fresh sheet was made up of concoctions such as the Violet Nail, a modern riff on the old Rusty Nail. Scotch, Drambuie, crème de violette are mixed with simple syrup and lemon juice.
The Spiced Paloma is tasty enough to become a staple on the regular drink menu. Equal parts of tequila and fresh-squeezed grapefruit juice (2 oz. each) are mixed with lime juice (1/2 oz.), jalapeno simple syrup (1/2 oz.), and then topped with citrus soda. The drink is perfectly balanced with spicy, sweet, and tart.
Humboldt's ongoing cocktail menu has been crafted with considerable thought. One of the most popular cocktails is the King of Montenegro. They created the King of Montenegro, featuring W.L. Wellers bourbon, amaro, lemon, Humboldt's own house-made grenadine (reduced pomegranate juice, pomegranate molasses, and orange juice), and ginger beer which is then garnished with Luxardo cherry. The drink itself was prompted by the sweetly-bitter tang of the Italian herbal liqueur amaro.
Humboldt spent extensive time developing a drink to pair specifically with Washburn oysters farmed for them. As homage to its Boston namesake, they came up with The Union. The "Oyster Cocktail" is made with a Laphroaig scotch rinse, lemon bitters, and Pearl gin. When eaten with one of the Washburn oysters, the drink sparks the salinity of the bivalve.
While sipping away the day, a few of Humboldt's most popular menu and happy hour food selections pair so well. Nibble on the Smoked Trout Dip served with homemade potato chips. Smoked trout is mixed with cream cheese and topped with a sweet onion jam.
The Humboldt Burger was awarded best burger by Westword. The burger features a balanced Crystal River grass fed beef-bacon blend, garlic aioli, and Tillamook cheddar. The juicy burger is topped with a thick pickle slice.
All of Humboldt's cocktails, nibbles, and entrees are found online. Rumor has it, the bar will soon be offering a "secret menu" only for those in-the-know. Belly up to the bar to check out the day's cocktail fresh sheet and enjoy!


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1) Action against the building inspector (most likely your remedy would be limited to whatever you paid for the inspection). Most of the service contracts like that would expressly limit any liability to only the cost of services as they wouldn't want to be liable for the purchase price of a home that they incorrectly inspected.
2) Action against the seller.
Generally sellers are required to disclose all defects that they know of (latent defects). It is clear that the seller was aware of these defects at the time of sale, so you are faced with the issue of showing/determinging that these were in-fact defects.
Your next stop might be to research what consitutes a 'defect'. Look to the general theory of what a defect is (maybe as broad as something which would prevent a building from 'meeting code') instead of an enumerated list.
Posted 28 February 2013 - 08:20 AM
Second, it would be helpful to know whether you received a termite inspection report and a home inspection report prior to the close of escrow. These reports are standard practice in most states.
If nothing was disclosed, and no reports were provided, you may still have a claim against the seller and the real estate brokers involved (if any) for failure to disclose patent defects. A patent construction defect is one which would be noticeable during the course of day to day living in the house.
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If you had a termite inspection (which you should have had) then the responsibility to treat the termites is on the company that failed to notice them I would assume. The seller isn't responsible for that aspect. It sounds to me like you didn't have your own real estate agent? The seller could be found guilty of concealment if they knew about the holes and did not disclose depending on what your specific state laws are. If you did have an agent or attorney helping you with your purchase, reach out to them first. If you did not have anyone helping you, I strongly suggest a consultation with an attorney before getting too deep into things. Good luck, sounds like a tricky situation.
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These are Posts and Questions associated with the product, MapleSim
I have some data for a model in MapleSim that I would like to use a time look up table with. I've found that the two options for interpolation are linear and 1st derivative, but the data was intended to be interpretted as piecewise constant. Is there any way to acheive this option in MapleSim?
I tried to import the modelica library Buildings1.6 from the modelica website and get always the error "Nothing found in the modelica library".
Is it possible to import modelica libraries?
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Does MapleSim 6 cover temperature dependent fluid media? In the modelica standard library (MSL), there is for example a medium model for T-dependent properties, defined by tables or polynomials (Modelica.Media.Incompressible).
Is it included in MapleSim 6 or can be somehow modelled?
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Assume that we have partitioned [0,a], into N equidistant subintervals and in each subinterval we have M sets of polynomials of arbitrary form[say bij(t)](a.e Taylor series, or Bernstein series,…)
for Example with N=4, M=3 and by Taylor series we have:
now we want to approximate a function, asy f(t), in this interval with following form:
If we have:
(Tau is a constant number) then: How can we find L and Z matrices using maple? Is it any way? (or other softwares?)
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I was given that solitary initial state to see how it will deform as time goes on. am struggling to get my code so that I can get video frames. please help on how I can generate my code
uo(x)= a0x2(1-x)2 for x (less than or equal to) x (less than or equal) 1
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the video clips will be representing the function u(*,t) :x to u(x,t)
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Maplesoft regularly hosts live webinars on a variety of topics. Below you will find details on some upcoming webinars we think may be of interest to the MaplePrimes community. For the complete list of upcoming webinars, visit our website.
Hollywood Math (with more new examples!)
Over its storied and intriguing history, Hollywood has entertained us with many mathematical moments in film. John Nash in "A Beautiful Mind," the brilliant janitor in "Good Will Hunting," the number theory genius in "Pi," and even Abbott and Costello are just a few of the Hollywood "mathematicians" that come to mind.
Although the widespread presentation of mathematics on the silver screen is not always entirely accurate, it does serve as a great introduction to the study of mathematics in general. During this webinar Maplesoft will present a number of examples of mathematics in film. See relevant, exciting examples that you can use to engage your students.At the end of the webinar you'll be given an opportunity to download an application containing all of the Hollywood examples that we demonstrate.
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Applications of Symbolic Computation in Control Design
You may already use Maple and/or MapleSim within your organization to solve various problems, but did you know that they have capabilities for control design as well? In one of our upcoming featured webinars for this month, we will explore the Control Design toolbox including the ability to extract symbolic equations of plant models, perform symbolic linearization, design symbolic controllers, and generate very fast code for HIL testing.
The following examples will be demonstrated:
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I have a complex set of mechanical linkages and components, and I am trying to create a feedback control system for trajectory-tracking with the end-effector. They system is driven by a set of prismatic joints (representing ideal series-elastic actuators). At this stage I am simply trying to establish the control parameters and the required forces to achieve desired positions/velocities in the workspace, and have not yet inserted any realistic actuator characteristics.An open-loop solution can be found using translational position control on the prismatic joints, this is no problem. However to close the loop properly, I need to convert the system to use a differential input, such as a velocity driver. At this point everything becomes very finicky and highly dependent on initial conditions. Generally Maplesim gives up, claiming that no solution can be found. Due to the complexity of the system, there is no way for me to guess a priori the appropriate initial conditions of all the joints and linkages. I was wondering if anybody had any tips for either pre-determining the initial parameters, or alternatively for relaxing the solver in some way to allow for a wider exploration of possible solutions. Or any other ideas!So far: I have tried setting up an open loop position-driven system with the same trajectories and using Maple to read all the initial conditions, then transferring them as guesses to my closed-loop system. But this has not worked. As a temporary workaround I am using position drivers on the SEAs, which are in turn driven by a velocity controller (with an integrator term). However this is suboptimal. Any help would be much appreciated!
Hi, this question is for Samir Kahn or other maplesoft staff.
Is there a way to use modelica biochem or any other chemical path library into maplesim? Do you plan to integrate this library in future versions of maplesim? Wolfram systemModeler has this library already integrated as does symbiology in matlab. Mr Kahn, I hope that your background in chemical engineering help you push for this new development in maplesim and help this product be even better than the competion. thank you and let me know as soon as possible.
Recently I started to learn to use maplesim. I wanted to set up a feedback system which is used to control the speed of DC motor. I don't know how to build it. Please give me some advice. I really appreciate your help.
I want to create a linearied model for a single or multi degree of freedom vibration system by MapleSim. i faced a lot of problem such as causalize ports, i search the user manual but i didn't find it useful. i attach a very simply one degree of freedom vibration system. i wondering if every one create a linearized model for it. my final goal is governing the equation and determine the natural frequency with nyquist plots. i have mapleSim 6.2 and Maple 17. Thanks
MapleSim 6.4 includes more powerful tools for creating custom components, performance enhancements, and enhancements to the model generators for Simulink® and FMI.
We have also made important updates to the MapleSim Control Design Toolbox. This toolbox now offers a more complete set of algorithms for PID control, new commands for computing closed-loop transfer functions, and numerous improvements to existing commands. These enhancements allow engineers to design a greater variety of controllers and controller-observer systems while taking advantage of the greater flexibility and analysis options available through the use of symbolic parameters.
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After simulate the model of MapleSim, I can only know the curve of where I need to know about. I need the specific parameter(each point value), like a piece of sheet. How I can put it of in an Excel of Word?
Is MapleSim 6.1 fully Modelica 3.1 compliant? If not, which features does it miss for the moment?
Lookup tables? (modelica ones, not maplesim's)
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The first plant tissue samples were taken from the Advanced Astroculture experiment inside the U.S. laboratory Destiny. Air, water, soil and plant samples will be brought back to Earth for scientists to study and will be compared to crops grown on Earth. The EarthKAM experiment completed its observations for this expedition and was deactivated Saturday after the digital camera took 425 pictures last week. The experiment has allowed middle school students on the ground to remotely take about 2,271 pictures of the Earth's geographical features from a vantage point 240 statute miles high. The last reading for the Hoffmann Reflex experiment was taken this week. This experiment measures the ability of the spinal cord to respond to a stimulus after being exposed to microgravity and may provide input to improve exercise during long spaceflight missions. Eight crewmembers from expedition crews have participated in this experiment. Only post-flight observations remain for the current station crew.
The crew began packing used and unneeded equipment into the Progress resupply vehicle docked to the aft end of the Zvezda service module. The Progress spacecraft will be jettisoned from the station Tuesday and will burn up upon re-entry into the Earth's atmosphere. A new Progress resupply vehicle will launch from the Baikanour Cosmodrome in Kazahkstan March 21 and will arrive at the station three days later.
An audit is taking place on board the station in preparation for the next space shuttle visit in April. Using an electronic inventory management system, station crewmembers are organizing equipment to enhance efficiency. When the space shuttle Atlantis docks to the space station next month, there will be a total of 10 crewmembers working throughout the spacecraft, now the size of a three-bedroom house, for almost a week.
Walz and Bursch also operated the station's robotic arm, Canadarm2, to observe the exterior of the station via cameras located on the arm. The cameras focused on the claw-like latch cradle assembly mounted on the Destiny module. The crew also used the cameras to inspect the station's radiators and solar arrays. During STS-110 next month, Canadarm2 will be used to move the S-zero truss segment from the shuttle's payload bay to the latch assembly on Destiny to be installed during four planned spacewalks. Flight controllers on the ground continue to monitor the arm's operation after it experienced difficulties with the primary avionics system last week. The arm functioned successfully on the secondary system this week.


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How do you stay on top of your online activity - e.g. posting on questions, answers, comments on various forums?
Sometimes it takes take to compile a decent reply or a follow up comment, but by the nature of online world - if it were posted within a few hours is likely to get much more attention than if it were posted two days later.
Also it gets even more complicated with a long running discussions spread over a weeks where it gets difficult to maintain a context of a discussion?
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NISCAIR Online Periodicals Repository Collection: IJBB Vol.46(3) [June 2009] http://nopr.niscair.res.in/handle/123456789/4560 The Collection's search engine Search the Channel search http://nopr.niscair.res.in/simple-search Antioxidant status in polycystic end-staged renal diseased patients and antihemolytic effect of Boerhaavia diffusa http://nopr.niscair.res.in/handle/123456789/4591 Title: Antioxidant status in polycystic end-staged renal diseased patients and antihemolytic effect of Boerhaavia diffusa

Authors: Sathyapriya, K; Vijayachandrika, V; Parameswari, C S

Abstract: Chronic renal failure (CRF) induces anaemia by shortening the life-span of erythrocytes, due to an increase in oxidative stress, which is considered to be one of the major risk factors in CRF patients undergoing hemodialysis. In the present study, the antioxidant status of the end-staged renal disease (ESRD) patients was investigated. The antihemolytic activity of Boerhaavia diffusa on the erythrocytes of the patients was also studied. Protein, lipid peroxides (LPO), reduced glutathione (GSH) levels and glutathione peroxidase (GPX) and glutathione-S-transferase (GST) activities were measured in the hemolysate from 55 polycystic ESRD patients (Group II) and compared with normal subjects (Group I). The antioxidant status was found to be significantly reduced in the patients as compared to normal healthy volunteers, due to increased oxidative stress. Also, aqueous extract of B. diffusa showed a significant antihemolytic activity on the erythrocytes of the polycystic ESRD patients.

Page(s): 269-272 Single-stranded megaprimer splicing through OE-PCR: Construction of full-length Aspergillus niger arginase cDNA http://nopr.niscair.res.in/handle/123456789/4590 Title: Single-stranded megaprimer splicing through OE-PCR: Construction of full-length Aspergillus niger arginase cDNA

Authors: Jayashri, T N; Anuradha, R; Punekar, N S

Abstract: A useful variant of PCR technique was devised to generate full-length Aspergillus niger arginase cDNA for expression. Briefly, a 450 bp amplicon was first constructed through overlap extension PCR (OE-PCR) by splicing in a 101 nucleotide long single-stranded megaprimer, facilitated by inclusion of an additional, shorter forward primer in the reaction. The amplicon was suitably cloned into pBlueScript to obtain pArg440 and the insert sequenced. The full-length arginase cDNA was subsequently assembled in pArg440 and moved into pET23a for heterologous expression. An interesting feature of this strategy was not to stoichiometrically incorporate the oligonucleotide megaprimer, but use it only as an early template. This OE-PCR strategy to utilize long single-stranded megaprimer may prove handy in terms of efficiency, yield and sequence choice.

Page(s): 266-268 Buffering capacity and membrane H+ conductance of protease producing facultative alkaliphilic bacterium Bacillus flexus from mangrove soil http://nopr.niscair.res.in/handle/123456789/4589 Title: Buffering capacity and membrane H+ conductance of protease producing facultative alkaliphilic bacterium Bacillus flexus from mangrove soil

Authors: Kannan, P; Ignacimuthu, S; Paulraj, M Gabriel

Abstract: A facultative alkaliphilic protease-producing gram-positive rod-shaped bacteria (EMGA 5) was isolated from mangrove soil and confirmed as Bacillus flexus by the 16S rDNA sequence. Buffering capacity and membrane H+ conductance of this alkaliphilic isolate were investigated for the cells grown at pH 7.2 and 10.5 using acid pulse technique. Suspensions of B. flexus cells grown in poly peptone yeast glucose medium at pH 10.5 exhibited higher cytoplasmic membrane buffering capacity values (70 µmol H+/pH unit/mg protein at pH 9.9) than the cells grown at pH 7.2 (41 µmol H+/pH unit/mg protein at pH 9.9). B. flexus grown aerobically at pH 7.2 showed higher H+ conductance values than the cells grown at pH 10.5 (0.032 µmol H+/s/pH unit/mg protein at pH 9.9 and 0.028 µmol H+/s/pH unit/mg protein at pH 9.8, respectively). The present study revealed that the buffering capacity and membrane H+ conductance of the B. flexus isolates were influenced by pH of the medium.

Page(s): 261-265 Photoinhibition and photosynthetic acclimation of rice (Oryza sativa L. cv Jyothi) plants grown under different light intensities and photoinhibited under field conditions http://nopr.niscair.res.in/handle/123456789/4588 Title: Photoinhibition and photosynthetic acclimation of rice (Oryza sativa L. cv Jyothi) plants grown under different light intensities and photoinhibited under field conditions

Authors: Vaz, Janet; Sharma, Prabhat Kumar

Abstract: Thirty-days old rice (Oryza sativa L. cv. Jyothi) plants grown under the greenhouse (150-200 µmol m-2 s-1) or shade (600-800 µmol m-2s-1) were exposed to 7 days of full sunlight and compared with plants grown under direct sunlight (1200-2200 µmol m-2s-1).Transfer of greenhouse and shade plants to full sunlight for a day resulted in a decline in their photosynthetic efficiency (Fv/Fm) and an increase in non-photochemical quenching (qN). The decline in Fv/Fm was much greater in transferred greenhouse plants (33%) as compared to transferred shade-plants (20%). Sun-plants did not show much variation in the Fv/Fm ratio (4%) from their predawn measurements (control). The sun-grown plants showed a higher pool of xanthophyll pigments (violaxanthin + antheraxanthin + zeaxanthin). Transfer of greenhouse and shade-plants to full sunlight resulted in an increase in lutein, Chl a/b ratio, antheraxanthin (A) and zeaxanthin (Z) content. Increase in A and Z was correlated with the increase in the qN. The increase in the A and Z content was due to increase in the activity of violaxanthin de-epoxidase. Greenhouse and shade plants on exposure to sunlight showed an increase in lipid peroxidation (LPO). Prolonged exposure of greenhouse and shade plants up to 7 days resulted in recovery of the Fv/Fm, an increase in Z and A and a decline in the LPO. The study demonstrated that rice plants grown at lower light intensities initially underwent photoinhibitory damage on exposure to full sunlight, but were able to acclimate to the high irradiance by dissipating the excess light through various mechanisms such as an increase in lutein, high Chl a/b ratio and xanthophyll cycle, suggesting use of energy dissipation as a mechanism of protection against high irradiance, but to different extent and to some extent by different processes. The study was unique, as plants were grown and photoinhibited under natural conditions rather than the artificial light, as was the case in most of the studies so far. Results showed better adaptation of high-light grown plants and suggested role for chl a/b ratio and lutein, in addition to xanthophylls cycle in shade plants. Low-light grown plants could also completely adapt to full level of sunlight within 3 days of the treatment and xanthophylls cycle (measured as V, A and Z) and activity of de-epoxidase seemed to be important in this adaptation.

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The MIT Press has published a new collection of essays in game studies, Debugging Game History: A Critical Lexicon, co-edited by Henry Lowood, Curator for the History of Science & Technology and Film & Media Studies.
Wednesday, June 8, 2016
Stanford Libraries' Assistant University Archivist Josh Schneider has been appointed to the American Archivist Editorial Board. The Society of American Archivists (SAA) promotes the value and diversity of archives and archivists. The SAA are the preeminent source of professional resources and the principal communication hub for American archivists.
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You are cordially invited to join the Art staff for a tour of the new Bowes Art & Architecture Library in the McMurtry Art & Art History building. This building is the home of both the Library and the Department of Art and Art History, and serves as an interdisciplinary hub for the arts at Stanford. In addition to the Bowes Library, the McMurtry building also includes art studios, media arts studios, screening spaces, film editing rooms, faculty offices, lounges, and exhibition spaces. The building opened for classes in Fall 2015.
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The Reds went into the match on the back of three straight defeats without scoring but took the lead on 17 minutes when Chris O'Grady ran onto home defender Chris Gunter's awful backpass, rounded goalkeeper Alex McCarthy and found Stephen Dawson who fired into the top right corner.
Reading were level four minutes later after Kelvin Etuhu – playing at right-back on his first game since December 29 – was adjudged to have fouled Pavel Pobregnyak who netted from the spot. It was a very soft penalty and Barnsley's Liam Lawrence appeared to have been fouled in the build-up.
The Reds won the match in the first 12 minutes of the second half. Reuben Noble-Lazarus, brought on up front at the break for the injured Marcus Pedersen, fired into the left top corner from the edge of the area on 53 minutes after a superb flick from Tomasz Cywka. It was 3-1 four minutes later when Jennings smashed a stunning strike into the same corner.
Barnsley goalkeeper Luke Steele was only tested once in the final half an hour – when he brilliantly pushed an Alex Pearce header over the bar – as the Royals produced a poor performance after which they were booed by their own crowd.
The Reds moved above Millwall who are now bottom. Those two sides and Yeovil each have 32 points and are three behind Charlton who won at Nottingham Forest.


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Back to Mysticism Section
New Light on Mormon Mysticism
By Kerry A. Shirts
(A Note: Tom Nibley, Hugh's son, wrote me and told me his father wrote this in the late 1950's and just hasn't had a chance to update his views on mysticism. He has changed his mind on some significant issues concerning this subject. In that sense, my approaching Nibley's stance as if it were written yesterday, has to be seen within this new light. I can only write on what I have available to me however.)
Dont let the title scare you much. I am reminded of Lao Tzus rather famous little ditty, "those who justify themselves do not convince."1 He knew exactly what he was saying since to the great Taoists such as Lao-tzu and Chuang-tzu obviously one could not always be right without also being wrong at the same time, because both the two were as inseparable as back and front.
I will try and practice, with this essay, what R. Buckminster Fuller says, "Dare to be naive."2 Allow me to explain for a moment. I have always been a fan of Hugh W. Nibleys writings. His insights and knowledge are truly remarkable. A perennial favorite of his writings with most LDS is his book The World and the Prophets. I at first found myself pretty much in agreement with his chapter on mysticism. Through the years as I have continued my own studies into arcane and different, divergent, and for myself, amusingly entertaining paths, the need to update and fill in the areas which Nibley left out continually nagged at me. In this paper I will correct some of Nibleys unintentional misperceptions, which, in turn, inevitably led me to another conclusion than Nibley came to.3 I have tried to present a more full range of analysis on mysticism and how it relates to prophets, and, something Nibley didnt do, namely, analyze the realms of mysticism within Mormonism itself. Some new light has come to bear on this relationship since Nibley wrote his excellent study, and new conclusions are drawn based on new knowledge.
First off, the impressions one gets from reading this particular work of Nibley is an almost fanatic desire to separate totally and absolutely Gods prophets from anything else. It is as if we cant show they dont stand alone, prime and unique, that they cannot be considered prophets. Nibley makes some outstanding comparisons and contrasts of prophets to every other type of human, and they alone come out on top. I dont think this distinction is so necessary however. I may be mistaken, so I am willing to be corrected if it can be shown.
When Nibley asks if mysticism is a form of revelation and then condemns it to the negative, I believe he is operating in a rather negative view, in order to try and keep anything other than a prophets communication with God in the field of revelation.4 I think this narrow definition is only used to serve his own particular purpose in this. At times Nibley can maximize the fullest and broadest possible range of meaning in order to fulfill a requirement he feels needs fulfilling. Consider his definition, understanding and use of the concept and idea of translation with the Joseph Smith Papyri as an illustration.5 I personally agree in this instance he is justified in showing ideas of translation are not so narrow as critics of the papyri try and force them. I also believe Nibley is forcing his definitions of mysticism into a narrowness that is misleading as well.
Nibley comments that the universality of mysticism and its experience means it is all the same thing. Yes, a tenth-century Persian and thirteenth-century French lady as well as a seventeenth-century Englishman and a modern Hindu all report similar unusual sensations, and use identical words to describe this experience.6 But it is precisely at this point that the new research into mysticism sheds remarkably strong light which Nibley was unaware of, and which changes the entire nature of this thing. I will get to this just shortly.
I think his remarks that he says specialists in mysticism all say that mystic practices of various religions Hindu, Buddhist, Shamanistic, Taoistic, Sufistic, etc., "always refer to Neoplatonism as supplying the best illustration", are remarkable.7 He says all these came about because of the western influence of the schools. This is simply false. What Nibley does here is quite inaccurate according to everything I have ever read concerning mysticism in Buddhism or Hinduism, etc. Nibley mentions these Eastern mysticism traditions, and then drops the matter cold. Not once again does he ever refer to the East, and what they are doing. He never once uses any authorities on Buddhism mysticism or Hindu, Sufism Taoism, etc.He stays strictly in the West, which is all right, had he said that is what he is going to do. Mentioning Eastern Mystical traditions in with the West, and then just condemning the Western mysticism only, is just using guilt by association, which, especially in the case, is far from accurate.
The impression one gets is that all mysticism, whether in the East or in the West is simply a comedown from revelation, and thus quite unimportant and insignificant in the first place. It is almost as if Nibley assumes that any individual having this experience is simply deceived and not really receiving revelation. The word for this in the East is Enlightenment, and it is a false cry from the West to assume this is not revelation. Buddhists would be astonished about this assumption or presumption as it might really be. This is simply a false impression if one is including worldwide mystical traditions, including the East, which Nibley does not do. Now from the western viewpoint, I can understand the influence of Neoplatonism, but from the East? Not a bit of it.
I think Nibley is on very safe ground when he notes that "The fundamental metaphysics in which the doctrine of Christian mysticism is grounded is Greek rationalistic metaphysics, formulated by Socrates and his great successors, Plato, Aristotle, and Plotinus."8 But this is not the same thing whatever concerning the issues about Taoist mysticism or Hindu or Buddhist ideas. Nibley stays in the West, because Mormonism shows an apostasy in the West. But his mentioning the Eastern mysticisms opens a new door which I will explore here in fairly thorough detail, as it deals directly with Mormonism in a unique way, overlooked by all Mormon commentators to date.
Nibley brought up Shamanism yet what the world authority on the subject, Mercea Eliade
says is " the shamanic experience proper could be evaluated as a mystical experience by virtue of the cosmological concept of the three communicating zones it is a universally disseminated idea connected with the belief in the possibility of direct communication with the sky."9 In other words, revelation, which Nibley has denied to mysticism in his essay here. In fact, almost ironically as it were, Nibley used Eliades observations in his book I am using, many years later in 1990, to show that Shamanism ties in with Abraham and the Egyptian hypocephalus, and agrees that it is personal revelation.10
Nibley goes on to show that in Western mysticism there are vague feelings and somehow just shadowy impressions without anything really significant going on. With a prophet however, there is a message to deliver. There is physical contact of heaven and earth
and physical reality going on here, as if physical reality were the only reality there is. Yet in the newest study of Shamanism in print, we read in the direct context of Shamanism, "However, physical is not the only criterion of truth: there are psychic truths which can neither be explained nor proved nor contested in any physical way. These truths have to do with the reality of the psyche and are not addressed to the reality of the physical world."11 Eliade has also noted that the Shaman is an expert in ecstasy. He is able to go out of his body and take mystical journeys into the cosmos as well as the underworld, and be a psychopomp for the souls of men. "In a word, the shaman is the great specialist in spiritual questions the shamanist complex represents that which is usually known in the more highly developed religions as mysticism and mystical experience."12 Indeed, this is the precise experience, this mystical journey into the cosmos which Abraham himself, among others anciently, experienced, and as Nibley has also noted.13 I just honestly dont find Nibleys argument on mysticism in this regard to be convincing.
Rudolf Otto says "the essence of the mystica theologia in the distinction from the usual theologia lay in the fact that it claims to teach a deeper mystery, and to impart secrets and reveal depths which were otherwise unknown."14 Now this is worth noting in light of Nibley contending that "There is nothing in the mystic experience that can be conveyed to others."15 Because his experience is incommunicable (sort of like receiving a testimony in Mormonism, it is also non-transferable as Nibley pointed out in another place) Nibley then goes on to compare the prophets. "The whole calling of a prophet is to communicate the will of God to men; he is a mouthpiece and a witness, and he tells what he has seen and heard; he is a man with a message. The mystic, on the other hand, has no such message."16
I believe Nibley is wrong on all counts here. The mystics experience is communicable, but the question is how? Is the spoken and written word the only allowed expressions to humanity? Nibley completely ignores the utterly tremendous and magnificent art Indian Civilization produced, unlike anything else on the planet. The message is in the symbolism, exactly as it is in the ancient symbolism of Egypt, Japan, and even Medieval Alchemy, Hermeticism, and the Tarot Cards. Joseph Campbell has demonstrated how the symbolism is the message in India quite impressively, and whats more, the entire civilization of billions of people have understood it.17 Nibley completely overlooked Heinrichs Zimmers magnificent work detailing the significance and message of Indian art and symbolism.18 Its more than interesting when our eyes fall on the dancing Shiva, or the magnificent rock carving of Vishnu on Ananta at Deogarh, that this symbolism is so complex, so intricate and all encompassing. The Indians believed that "the greater the suggestive quality of the symbol used, the more answering emotion it evokes in those to whom it is addressed [in this case, the entire country], the more truth it will convey..Its appeal will not be to the clever brain, but to the desirous heart, the intuitive sense, of man."19 In fact, the Buddha after he attained this mystical enlightenment, came back to do what with it? Teach it, of course. He teaches using symbols, masks as it were. There are numerous recent examples of all this in Joseph Campbells intereview with Bill Moyers in Campbells wonderful book The Power of Myth. 20 Campbell specifically shows that both Indra and Brahma came to Buddha and asked him to return and teach what he had learned. He said it cannot be taught, and yet he came back to teach it! But he noted "What I will teach is not Buddhism, it is the way to Buddhism."21 Sort of like the prophets here. They dont teach you heaven, they teach you the way to heaven.
The mystic most definitely has a message, which certainly is incommunicable that is in words or writing. But it is taught and learned through art, every bit as worthy a means of teaching as anything on planet earth. In fact, symbols teach far better than words do. We hear it said a picture is worth a thousand words. Go to India, youll see mysticism being taught in grand splendor and artistic beauty. There are also plenty of books to show you. Huston Smith, the great authority on world religions, has shown that esoteric mysticism of the Tao leads to revelation for the individuals who practice it. They must be selfless, clean and emotionally calm before they receive their full knowledge. They also deeply meditate.22 And one more item before I move on to the main point of this essay. If mysticism cant be taught, if it is not a revelation, then how could Joseph Campbell possibly have described it, to of all people, the Mormons ourselves! He gave a lively and wonderful demonstration of Kundalini Yoga at BYU, which is printed by the BYU Religious Studies Center.23 I believe the assumption that communication can only occur by word or writing, as Nibley has written is weak.
In fact, what about the first time, the very first time, for a Mormon going and taking his/her endowments out of the temple? Is that honestly communicable? Anyone can actually read the endowment on the Internet these days, but is that honestly the same as the actual experience of going through that magnificent experience? Is it truly communicable? Even if you could describe the actual building, the inside of the temple, the various people who help you out and through it, the learning of the information etc., would anyone honestly say that is its message? Wouldnt it essentially by the same thing, i.e. incommunicable on your 5th time through, your 15th, or 100th or 1000th? Yet it surely has a message. I think, perhaps, at this point, I am beating a dead horse. I am reminded also of Huston Smiths conversation with Bill Moyers in the video series The Wisdom of Faith: Confuscianism. Toward the end, they are discussing Yoga and what does it actually do for the person? Smith simply says telling about it wont give you the knowledge of what it does for you. You have to experience it. It is a spiritual experience which language and words are just honestly not adapted to describing.
I would argue the same for mysticism as well as our own endowment experience.
And finally to the main point of my paper, namely that Mormonism is mystical in the truest sense and description of mystical experience and definition. I also believe this is picture perfectly presented to us in our own scriptures, namely that magnificent revelation of D&C 138, Joseph F. Smiths vision of salvation for the dead. But first to Steven Katz and his concepts concerning Mysticism.
A main point in Katzs argument, and perhaps why Mormonism shys away from anything to do with mysticism, is the common misperception about the mystic as a great rebel against the prevailing religious authority, who places his or her doctrine above that of the church which the mystic operates within. This is simply false, and has no evidence to back it up.24 Katz demonstrates at great length that the mystic has his experience, his revelation, insight, epiphany, whatever you want to call it, within the traditions in which the mystic has been brought up, whether culturally or religiously. This is crucial to understand my own point concerning mysticism within Mormonism as I shall show shortly.
Katz demonstrates that a Hindu mystic has his experience in his own familiar language with which to describe such, within the parameters of Hindu theology, namely a vision of Brahman, not that of Christ. A Christian mystic does not identify some reality out there which is conveniently labeled "God" but rather, has a prefigured Christian experience of God, or Jesus, and so forth with the other mysticisms.25 "The nature of the Christian mystics pre-mystical consciousness informs the mystical consciousness in such a way that he encounters Jesus, the Trinity, or a personal God rather than the non-personal, not this, not that, Buddhist doctrine of nirvana."26.
Robert M. Gimello also declares it a mistake to think that mysticism stands on its own, as an autonomous whole experience with its own independent rules, values and truths.27 Gimello goes on to demonstrate that for the Buddhist mystic, the supposedly correct mysticism is that which will attain to enlightenment of Buddha consciousness, because, naturally, this notion "actually determine the kinds of realizations they have."28 Annemarie Schimmel demonstrates the exact same thing with Sufism in the Islamic tradition where she notes "Islamic mysticism developed out of the meditation of the Koran and the faithful imitation of the actions of the Messenger of God." She further notes that "the words of the Holy Book [Koran] were the spiritual nourishment on which the pious lived so that Pere Nwyia rightly speaks of a koranization of the memory, which enabled the Sufis to understand everything in the light of one or another Koranic sentence."29
Katz shows "there is an intimate even necessary connection between the mystical and religious texts studied and assimilated in each mystical tradition there is an inherited theological-mystical education which is built upon certain agreed sources."30 He shows for Jewish mystics this was the Song of Songs, with God as the beloved lover. And because of this, what the Kabbalistic mystic saw "was not independent of what he had studied in order to see he sought what Solomon described, and he found what Solomon had said was there to find."31
Notice here that there is no mixing up of mystical visions, revelations, or enlightenments. The Jews do not see Buddha or Vishnu, but Yahweh. The Buddhists do not see Jesus or the Trinity, but Buddha Consciousness. The Christians do not see Buddha or Vishnu, or Yahweh, but Jesus and the Trinity. And the Mormon prophets do not see the trinity or Buddha either. But they do see their mystical visions within the parameters of their own educational backgrounds! Consider D&C 138.
Here we read of Joseph F. Smith pondering on Jesus and the atonement. He then opens the Bible, which he had read from childhood up. And then in verse 11 a vision comes to him, this magnificent vision of the work of the dead. He then notes in verses 38ff, that he also saw some of the great Biblical Patriarchs, again because this was within his upbringing traditional religious knowledge, namely, Adam, Eve, Abel, Noah, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, etc. In verse 49 he then notices the great prophets who were among the Nephites, again, because this was akin to his religious upbringing and understanding. He then also sees, in verse 53, Joseph Smith, Hyrum Smith, Brigham Young, John Taylor, Wilford Woodruff, etc., again conforming to his knowledge he had learned since childhood.
This beautifully conforms to the mystical revelation tradition. There are no wires crossed at all. Nothing is mentioned of Buddha, Vishnu, Yahweh the Trinity, Jesus as lover, etc. It is all within the Mormon tradition. Notice, no other tradition ever sees the Nephites as Joseph F. Smith did. None of them ever claim or have claimed to see Joseph Smith, etc. Each and every mystical tradition is operative within the bounds and confines of its own traditions and expectations of knowledge. The Sephiroth of the Zohar is never mentioned by Joseph F. Smith in this vision at all. There is no mixing whatever with other traditions, and this is as it should be. There is no sexual-anthropomorphic union imagery in this vision as there was with the rabbinic mystics. As Katz has noted with other mystical traditions, and which I include Joseph F. Smiths vision here within the parameters of Mormon soteriology, "Rather they experienced what they had learned to experience, what their piety, training and education had prepared them to experience "32 This is the reason why the medieval Christian mystics saw Jesus as their own lover, yet this is never seen in any other mystic traditional experience, of say Buddhists, Hindus or Mormons. The medieval mystics used the Song of Songs as their base text of understanding their relationship with Jesus, and hence that is precisely who and what they experienced.33
Katz demonstrates that western mystics do not experience God in neutral or monistic ways. In fact, Christians do not experience God the Father as their lover, but only Jesus as such. "The concrete meetings of mystic and beloved in Christian tradition, moreover, are almost always with the Christ whose physical body and wounds, etc., are seen and felt by the Christian initiate."34 There is nothing like this in any other mystical traditions, including the Mormon one.
But there is more to Katz study to help us understand why mysticism is not on the opposite pole of revelation, as the north end of a bar magnet is from the south end. Katz describes the mystic leader and his relation to the community, as well as his own mystical experience within the cultural context.
What all these traditions have in common, including our own Mormon tradition is what Katz has described as:
"they have directly experienced what scripture describes or prescribes (whichever text they hold to be scripture) their experiential assertions and reports are both meant by them and understood by the larger faith community to which they belong and in the midst of which these proclamations are made as confirmations of the inherited, authoritative tradition of scriptural interpretation(s), and not as heretical assertions that threaten the pillars of the regnant orthodoxy."35
In other words, Joseph F. Smith had a vision of the redemption of the dead, because that was Mormon understanding of the scriptures. He saw Nephite prophets because that is what he had read about, not Krishna, since he probably had not bothered with the Bhagavad Gita and understood Krishan as being present with Arjuna on the battlefield of Kuruksetra. The Gita nowhere mentions anything concerning the Old Testament God as being present either, let alone the Markavah or throne of God as the Jews experience.
Yet Joseph F. Smiths mystical vision cannot be said to be the displacement of scripture, in this case the Bible. It is rather, as Katz has noted, as in all mystical traditions, "a re-interpretation."36
Another most enlightening point, which Katz makes, is on the individuals themselves who have these mystical revelation/visions, such as Joseph F. Smith had. Their nature is such that they themselves become ideals. I could not help but have Mormon prophets in my mind throughout this part of Katzs presentation. Follow with me and see if you do not see this also. Keeping our own Mormon prophets in mind, here is Katzs elucidation of mystic individuals as models.
"By model here I do not mean a theoretical construct as in the physic sciences, but rather the nature of individuals who become norms for their tradition in a variety of ways. Such individuals become Ideals; their individuality becomes categorical; their biographies didactic. [note this! We have the Teachings of Spencer W. Kimball," The Life of Joseph F. Smith, etc.] The normative individual is the medium of the universal teaching; the instrument for the revelation of more general truths. Every religious community, and every mystical movement within each community, has a model or models of the ideal practitioner of the religious life."37 Here is Katzs list:
The individual provides an instantiation of the proper attitude and practice to be imitated or approximated by the faithful.
The model is a representation of the tradition.
He demonstrates the lived reality of the doctrinal truth, both in showing that the doctrinal truths can be lived, and he points to the source of the revelation for those doctrinal truths
The model is proof of the continuing presence of the Reality of the tradition, whatever the reality is understood to be.
The model stands as a critique of existing attitudes and practices, setting a standard of perfection against which to measure the actions of the faithful.
The model may, though need not always, bring a new revelation or a new doctrine.
The model may be seen as revealing a new interpretation of an older doctrine.
The model is often a founder of a religious community. [in our case, Joseph Smith]
The model provides an authoritative picture of "reality"
The model is a bridge between above and below.
The model brings together in a lived, and hence liveable, way the theory and the practice, the ideal and the real.
The model is a moral paradigm.38
There is not one single category of Katzs that our Mormon Prophets do not fit in, they are included in every single item! But doesnt this "relativistic mysticism" mean there is no "objective reality"? Not at all. Does this mean one of these traditions are lying and another telling the truth? Not at all. Truth is objective reality to all these cultures within their own cultural constructs, to them. Einstein demonstrated that two people can describe the same event in completely different fashions and both are seeing it objectively to themselves and describing it truthfully. Thus a man standing still on the ground sees a train going by at 100 mph. Another person in a car traveling at 60mph records the train going by at 30 mph, and they are both correct.
But dont these traditions merely record what they already believe is reality? Isnt this just subjective wishing? No. We now understand that an observer actually does create the reality for themselves. The world is either particles or waves, all depending on what magnification is used. The experimenter himself enters into the equation of whether the test produces particles or waves.39 The mystical observers are doing just that.
As Mormons we understand that God reveals to any of his children who seek after him. He also reveals what they are capable of understanding concerning truth and reality. Hence, these traditions make sense within their own parameters. The new studies also demonstrate quite conclusively, that mysticism is revelation, in the truest sense of the word, and that this revelation can be communicated, and certainly is. Far from being a troubling thing to find it within Mormonism, it actually reaffirms the religious heritage of our Restoration.


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