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New OCLC report on effective management, access and delivery of e-collections
As a library cooperative, OCLC works closely with member institutions to help inform our strategic direction and respond to community matters. OCLC's E-resource Advisory Council (EAC), is a group of library leaders who are helping to guide the cooperative in advancing its electronic resource management strategy. The group began its third term in August with an expanded membership base to continue work on strategy and related solutions.
Over the last two years, the council has helped inform the development of OCLC solutions for the acquisition, exposure, management and access of libraries' electronic collections.
OCLC will release a new report with a means of exploring the challenges that managing e-resources represents and which further extends the conversations of the EAC across the community - helping libraries find new ways to address these issues.
The report presents case studies of the experiences shared by the members of the EAC, structured around key tasks in the e-resource management workflow, including: selection, acquisition, describing, discovery, access and renewal of licensed content.
The study examines the core tasks that make up this workflow and gives examples of the typical challenges encountered. Each case study considers what an ideal future might look like, and reflects on some of the developments that might be required to bridge the gap.


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On this day (Dec. 17) in 1944, troops of German Lt. Col. Joachim Peiper's SS battlegroup shot and killed some 100 American soldiers who had surrendered on this second day of the Battle of the Bulge in the medieval Belgium town of Malmedy.
This "Malmedy Massacre" took place during Nazi Germany's last, desperate counter-offensive of World War II on the Western Front.
Adolf Hitler had, on Dec. 16, ordered the more than 200,000 battle-tested troops of Field Marshal Gerd von Rundstedt's Sixth SS Panzer Army and Gen. Hasso von Manteuffel's Fifth SS Panzer Army to attack the American line through the hilly, thickly wooded Ardennes Forest. Specifically, Hitler ordered his battle-weary troops to drive a wedge between the British/Canadian armies in Belgium and the American armies in northern France, and then to seize the vital Allied supply port of Antwerp.
Allied commander Gen. Dwight Eisenhower and his staff at SHAEF Headquarters were caught completely off guard as the German attacking forces were able to quickly and easily over-run the American line, thinly held by six divisions of recently arrived troops.
American forces, in and around the town of St. Vith, where the Americans lost 8,000 of the 22,000-man garrison, were forced, after a determined defense, to retreat. However, elements of the 28th American Infantry and 101st Airborne Divisions were able to hold out stubbornly, heroically and famously at Bastogne against the determined efforts of three German panzer divisions to capture the strategically located town.
It was at Bastogne that American 101st Airborne Division commander Gen. Anthony C. McAuliffe responded with his now-famous one-word answer, "Nuts," to the German demand to surrender.
The initial Dec. 16 to Dec. 23 German successes, in this the largest land battle fought by American armed forces in World War II, was due in part to the belief, among Allied commanders, that an attack through the Ardennes Forest would not be possible because of its heavily-wooded, impenetrable terrain, and therefore they assigned only six divisions to defend the region.
Also, luckily for the Germans, bad flying weather initially prevented the Allies from using their overwhelming air superiority. However, by Dec. 23, good flying weather returned, and this enabled the Americans to bombard German tank columns and supply routes.
By Dec. 25, the German advance had been halted. By Jan. 16, 1945, the battle lines were back to what they had been on the first day of this historic Battle of the Bulge (the "Bulge" was the 40-mile-wide and 60-mile-deep German penetration of the American line).
Also hampering initial American response was the fact that the Germans had used English-speaking German troops dressed in U.S. uniforms as Military Police to spread confusion and misinformation on bridge and road junctions. However, finally the Americans were able to bring their superior air power and hastily assembled reinforcements (especially from George Patton's Third Army and Courtney Hodges' First Army) to halt Hitler's ambitious gamble to push the Allies back from German home territory.
In this monthlong (Dec. 16 to Jan. 16), battle American casualties were about 40,000 compared with more than 200,000 suffered by the attacking German forces. The Battle of the Bulge was considered, on balance, an American victory mainly because the American losses, although tragically high, were replaceable whereas the German losses of men and equipment were irreplaceable.
• Crystal Lake resident Joseph C. Morton is professor emeritus at Northeastern Illinois University and author of "The American Revolution" and "Shapers of the Great Debate at the Constitutional Convention of 1787." Email him at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Hugh S Lamont, Ph.D
Assistant Professor of Exercise Science
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Prior to working at CLU (Fall 2012) I worked as an Assistant Professor of Exercise Science at the University of Mississippi (Fall 2006 - Summer 2010)for four years and for two years as an Assistant Professor of Sport and Exercise Science at East Tennessee State University (Fall 2010 - Summer 2012). My main areas of expertise are Applied Neuromuscular Physiology, Strength and Conditioning, and assesment of Human Performance. I have taught classes ranging from Exercise Physiology to Neuro-Motor Control at undergraduate and graduate levels. At CLU I have taught Functional Anatomy, Exercise Physiology, and Senior Capstone. My reaserch interests include acute measures to fascilitate power expression using whole body vibration , maximal voluntray contractions, and ballistic jumps. Target subject populations have included reacreationally trained males and females, as well as Division I and know Division III athletes.
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Doctor of Philosophy, The University of Oklahoma, Field of study: Exercise Physiology. Norman, Oklahoma, USA. Aug 2002 - July 2006.
Research Assistant, Department of Physical Education, University of Edinburgh. Field of Study: Physio-mechanical aspects strength / power training in national level athletes. Edinburgh, Scotland. May 2001 - June 2002.
Master of Science, The University of Wolverhampton, Field of Study: Applied Sport and Exercise Science. Wolverhampton, England. Sep 1999 - March 2002.
Bachelor of Science, The University of Wolverhampton, Field of Study: (Biomedical Sciences) Physiology and Pharmacology. Wolverhampton, England. Sep 1995 - May 1999.
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Associate Editor, Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research 2009 - Present
Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research
Medicine and Science in Sport and Exercise
European Journal of Applied Physiology
European Journal of Sport Science
Journal of Experimental Biology
Scientific World Journal
Journal of Geriatric Physical Therapy
Journal of Sport Performance
NSCA (National Strength and Conditioning Association)
ACSM (American College of Sports Medicine)
SWACSM (South West American College of Sports Medicine)
ISBS (International Society for Biomechanics in Sports)
Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist (CSCS) (National Strength and Conditioning Association).


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Background: Transforming U.S. Energy Innovation Report
A Report with Recommendations for Improving Energy Innovation in United States
Fact Sheet, Energy Technology Innovation Policy Project, Belfer Center
November 9, 2011
Authors: Laura Diaz Anadon, Associate, Environment and Natural Resources Program, Matthew Bunn, Professor of Practice; Co-Principal Investigator, Project on Managing the Atom, Gabe Chan, Former Research Fellow, Energy Technology Innovation Policy research group, 20122015, Melissa Chan, Former Research Fellow, Energy Research, Development, Demonstration & Deployment Policy Project, Energy Technology Innovation Policy research group, January 2009December 2010, Charles Jones, Former Associate, Energy Technology Innovation Policy research group, 20112013; Former Research Fellow, Energy Technology Innovation Policy research group, 20082010, Ruud Kempener, Former Research Fellow, Energy Technology Innovation Policy research group, 20092011, Audrey Lee, Former Research Fellow, Energy Technology Innovation Policy research group, 20092011, Nathaniel Logar, Former Associate, Science, Technology, and Public Policy Program (STPP)/Energy Technology Innovation Policy research group (ETIP), 20122014; Former Research Fellow, STPP/ETIP, 20092012, Venkatesh "Venky" Narayanamurti, Benjamin Peirce Research Professor of Technology and Public Policy, Science, Technology, and Pubic Policy Program
Belfer Center Programs or Projects: Energy Technology Innovation Policy; Environment and Natural Resources; Science, Technology, and Public Policy
Transforming U.S. Energy Innovation can be accessed here: http://belfercenter.ksg.harvard.edu/publication/21528/. A policy brief based on this report can be accessed here:http://belfercenter.ksg.harvard.edu/publication/21527/.
Background of Report
The report, Transforming U.S. Energy Innovation, released on Nov. 22, 2011, is the result of a three-year Energy Research, Development, Demonstration, and Deployment (ERD3) project of the Energy Technology Innovation Policy (ETIP) research group at Harvard Kennedy School's Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs. The ERD3 project was funded by a grant from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation to produce and promote a comprehensive set of recommendations to help the U.S. administration accelerate the development and deployment of low-carbon energy technologies.
The ERD3 project began in 2008 with three primary goals:
- To develop a methodology for assessing opportunities in energy research, development, and demonstration (ERD&D) investment and to produce a set of comprehensive recommendations for the U.S. administration's investment in ERD&D;
- To prepare an annual analysis of and set of recommendations for the Department of Energy's ERD&D budget, including, but not limited to, climate-change-related technologies; and
- To understand the private sector's current role in the carrying out and funding of ERD&D and in the drawing of conclusions about effective structures of public-private undertakings, areas of opportunity, and strategies for international cooperation in energy technology innovation.
Over the past three years, the ERD3 project has worked to develop and to implement a methodology for designing an expanded portfolio of federal ERD&D activities; has investigated the role that the private sector and public-private partnerships play in energy innovation in the United States; has identified ways to improve the effectiveness of public energy innovation institutions; and has analyzed how the U.S. government could improve the effectiveness of its international collaboration efforts on energy innovation. This research was informed by interviews, surveys, modeling exercises, and literature reviews.
In addition to this report, the members of the ERD3 project evaluated the U.S. federal annual spending on energy research, development, and demonstration. This effort built on earlier efforts of the ETIP group, which has been monitoring the federal ERD&D expenditures for more than a decade.
Transforming U.S. Energy Innovation contains the project's final analysis and recommendations on how to transform U.S. energy innovation.
This report will be released on Tuesday, November 22, 2011, at the American Association for the Advancement of Scoience (AAAS) headquarters in Washington, D.C., during an event co-sponsored by Harvard Kennedy Schools Belfer Center and the AAAS.
Introduction to the Executive Summary: Transforming U.S. Energy Innovation
The United States and the world need a revolution in energy technologya revolution that would improve the performance of our energy systems to face the challenges ahead. A dramatic increase in the pace of energy innovation is crucial to meet the challenges of:
- Energy and national security, to address the dangers of undue reliance on dwindling supplies of oil increasingly concentrated in some of the most volatile regions of the world and to limit the connection between nuclear energy and the spread of nuclear weapons;
- Environmental sustainability, to reduce the wide range of environmental damages due to energy production and use, from fine particulate emissions at coal plants, to oil spills, to global climate disruption; and
- Economic competitiveness, to seize a significant share of the multi-trillion-dollar clean energy technology market and improve the balance of payments by increasing exports, while reducing the hundreds of billions of dollars spent every year on importing oil.
In an intensely competitive and interdependent global landscape and in the face of large climate risks from ongoing U.S. reliance on a fossil-fuel based energy system, it is important to maintain and expand long-term investments in the energy future of the United States even at a time of budget stringency. It is equally necessary to think about how to improve the efficiency of those investments, through strengthening U.S. energy innovation institutions, providing expanded incentives for private-sector innovation, and seizing opportunities where international cooperation can accelerate innovation. The private sector role is key: in the United States the vast majority of the energy system is owned by private enterprises, whose innovation and technology deployment decisions drive much of the country's overall energy systems. Efficiently utilizing government investments in energy innovation requires understanding the market incentives that drive private firms to invest in advanced energy technologies, including policy stability and predictability.
The U.S. government has already launched new efforts to accelerate energy innovation. In particular, the U.S. Department of Energy is undertaking a Quadrennial Technology Review to identify the most promising opportunities and provide increased coherence and stability. This report offers analysis and recommendations designed to accelerate the pace at which better energy technologies are discovered, developed, and deployed and is focused in four key areas:
- Designing an expanded portfolio of federal investments in energy research, development, demonstration (ERD&D), and complementary policies to catalyze the deployment of novel energy technologies;
- Increasing incentives for private-sector innovation and strengthening federal-private energy innovation partnerships;
- Improving the management of energy innovation institutions to maximize the results of federal investments; and
- Expanding and coordinating international energy innovation cooperation to bring ideas and resources together across the globe to address these global challenges.
For information on the ETIP research group, click here>
For information on ETIPs ERD3 project, click here>
The full report, Transforming U.S. Energy Innovation, will be available on the ETIP website on November 22, 2011.
For more information about this publication please contact the Belfer Center Communications Office at 617-495-9858.
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UN Resident Coordinator Speaks at the Parliamentary Hearings "Equal Rights between Men and Women"Oct 16, 2013
Dear Chairperson, Madame Minister, Members of the Parliament, distinguished panelists, ladies and gentlemen.
I am honoured to be here today and grateful for the opportunity to convey the joint statement of the UN system in Ukraine on the topic of equal rights between women and men.
Let me reiterate that the United Nations system in Ukraine remains at the disposal of the Government and stands ready to join efforts of the Parliament of Ukraine, ministries and governmental bodies, civil society and all engaged stakeholders and actors to multiply measures and activities towards gender mainstreaming, promoting of gender equality and women's empowerment, and ensuring full enjoyment of human rights and fundamental freedoms for all citizens of Ukraine
In 2014 Ukraine will submit its report on the progress in implementation of the Convention on Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women to the CEDAW Committee. There are a lot of positive developments and achievements to report on .
The statements I am going to deliver today are indeed shaped to address what could be accelerators' factors for further advancement of the gender equality agenda in Ukraine. To these effect, I would like to put the accent on 5 key messages:
1. Our first point is a reiteration of the basic principle that Ensuring gender equality is a human rights issue that concerns every member of the society.
Women's empowerment, their equal access to financial services, infrastructure, full range of health services, including sexual and reproductive health and rights; the right to own land and assets; elimination of discrimination and equal pay for equal work; equal voice in decision-making – these all are crucial factors and prerequisites for country's development, its progress and achievement of sustainable growth.
Gender equality drives development. It resounds worldwide. And it is applicable to Ukraine. As the quote goes : "Women hold half of the sky" and we should empower them to do so
2. Our second point is of appreciation
for the recent adoption of the State Programme on Ensuring Equal Rights and Opportunities for Women and Men, 2013- 2016.
We hope that this important policy document developed through an inclusive consultative process, which the UN was privileged to be a part of, will facilitate mainstreaming of gender equality into all areas of life in Ukraine.
The task at hand now is to operationalize this policy. To ensure that there are annual targets and indicators with which to measure progress, as well as sufficient allocation of financial resources for meaningful implementation.
As per the Outcome Document of the fourth High Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness held in Busan, Republic of Korea, in 2011, Ukraine is responsible for establishing a system of adequate financial allocations for gender equality that target and benefit both women and men.
The UN system stands ready to assist the Government in operationalizing the State Programme, as well as to ensure a mechanism for sustainable financing of gender equality, including through introduction of a gender-responsive budgeting at the national and regional levels
3. Let me now move to Point Number 3:
Researches and surveys indicate that gender based occupational segregation and pay gap continues to persist in the country. We are therefore encouraged by the fact that a major thrust of the State Programme is equal participation of women in the labour market.
The UN also commends recent initiatives launched by the Ministry of Social Policy to overcome gender stereotypes and boost women's labour force participation through flexible work arrangements and amendment of laws to introduce temporary special measures such as the quota system.
4. On women's participation in decision making which is the 4th message we would like to convey,
Let me on behalf of the UN, welcome the modest increase in women participation in the Parliament (from 9% to 11% ) but also note that a great deal more needs to be done to reach women's representation at the level of 30% among the elective bodies (including the Parliament) and high-level executives.
Affirmative action on the part of the Government and all engaged are strongly supported by the UN and here too the UN can provide necessary technical support to make these initiatives a reality. We hope these efforts will go a long way not only in addressing some of the structural inequalities that exist but also further bolster the country's international obligations towards fulfilling requirements and recommendation of internationals conventions, treaties and frameworks, including Convention on Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, ILO and other conventions, Beijing Platform for Action, MDGs, and will pave the way towards greater democratization and European Integration
5. With reference to the gender based violence, our 5th message :The prevalence of gender-based violence and human trafficking continues to be a concern to the UN.
90 % of violence cases in Ukraine are cases of violence against women. Research indicates that only 1 of 4 women, who survived domestic violence in Ukraine, seek support from law enforcement and the legislative system.
In this regard the UN looks forward to the expeditious approval of the new version of the Law on Preventing and Combating Domestic Violence, compliant with international standards. We also look forward to the ratification of the Istanbul Convention, which would also be in line with the Recommendation of the Universal Period Review. We are of the opinion that these actions will give Ukraine the opportunity to improve legislation and to build a comprehensive system to help such women and their families, as well as to protect women from all forms of violence.
We thank you for your attention and look forward to continuous advancement of the agenda of women equality and working with all partners for the cause at stake.


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Maui police say a 61-year-old man from Lake Oswego, Ore. was bitten Friday morning on his left calf in waters off Kihei by what he described as a 10-feet-long shark.
The man was snorkeling about 250 yards offshore of 1750 Halama Street at around 9:35 a.m.
After he was bitten, the man got up on his paddleboard and was escorted to shore by family and some local canoe club members.
A preliminary investigation reveals that the man sustained a deep laceration to his left calf. Medical personnel who responded confirmed the injuries were consistent with a shark bite.
Authorities said the victim was taken to Maui Memorial Medical Center for treatment.
Officials closed the beach from Kamaole III to Waipuilani Park following the incident.


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In the Appendix to "Q. B. L. or The Bride's Reception" I have shown the possibility of arranging the Twenty-two Trumps of the Tarot on the Paths of the Tree of Life so that the Astrological Attributions are in perfect order, and I shall now trace out the Symbolism of the Cards themselves, and attempt to show that this arrangement is the Original one, long lost in the mists of antiquity.
The Diagram of the Tree of Life, with its attributions according to this re-arrangement, forms the basis of our present study.
Kether, The Crown of Light, is called AHIH or Eheieh which means Pure Being, that which Is, prior to "existence" or the "standing out" or "coming forth" of the manifested Universe. It is also call The Concealed of the Concealed, and the Supreme and Concealed One which is therefore AMOUN. In Egyptian the hieroglyphic is two feathers, which represent AA. From this we obtain the idea of The One First and the One Last, similar to Alpha and Omega. This sign also represents the inherent idea of possible duality, or the apparent duplication of the One. But again it may be translated IU and is therefore the Root of "The Ever Coming One" of a dual nature. From this idea sprang that of IU-PATER or Jupiter as the Father, and Io, the root of Jove or Jehovah, which also symbolizes the Number Ten, or the Ten Sephiroth inherent in the Being of the One.
Kether is also called the Sphere of the Primum Mobile, the First Whirling Motion. It represents the Living Substance; being potentially both Life and Substance in the Pure form of Light.
From Kether proceed the Ideas of the Father, Mother, and Holy Spirit or Son.
The First ray produced Yod, in Chokmah, the next He in Binah, and the third Vau in Tiphereth, and from this proceeded the final He, the Daughter, in Malkuth.
On the Path from Kether to Chokmah is the Tarot Trump called "The Wheel of Fortune," the Key of Destiny which is one with the True Will, and also, some say, with Chance. This is the Card of Iu-Pater, Jupiter the Father, and it symbolizes the Great Wheel of Life; the Whirling Forces of the Primum Mobile, which resulted in a System of Revolving Orbs, the Star Universe or Sphere of the Zodiac, in Chokmah.
This Card depicts the Three Principles of Alchemy, Mercury, Sulphur, and Salt; the Three Gunas, Satva, Rajas and Tamas; the three forms of Force, Radiation,
Conduction and Convection; the States of Peace, Activity, and Sloth. These are symbolized by the Sphinx, Hermanubis and Typhon upon the rim of the
Wheel; while the "Centrum in Centri Trigono" is concealed within.
This Life Force is active in the One Substance, which becomes differentiated into the Four Elements as symbolized by the Four Cherubic Beasts at the Corners or the Card. Also this is the birth of Tetragrammaton, the Word of the Elements, coming into Existence, or Becoming, as shown by the Letters Yod, He, Vau, He on the Wheel. On this we also find the letters TARO or ROTA and the suggestion of the Beginning of Law as THORA.
This Ray of Light is the Essence of Wisdom, the Higher Will or Purpose of the Universe, and as the Star Universe this becomes apparent in Chokmah, the Sphere of the Zodiac, the Second Sephira. It is the root of the Jupiter-Amoun Tradition of the Fatherhood of God as a Supreme and Concealed Force, which on that account was little comprehended by those who accepted the Tradition of a Mother and Son, with the Son preceding the Father.
This Ray is the Essence of Light, but it becomes represented in Chokmah as Grey, a mixture of colors which partially concealed the Supreme Essence, thus causing the Root of Duality. From this Path cometh the Tradition of the Light as the Word or Logos, who was in the Beginning with God and who was God.
The Path from Kether to Binah is attributed to the Trump called "The Universe" corresponding to Saturn, Kronus, or Time. This represents the early tradition of SUT, who later became identified with Set or Satan. Here we have the beginning of the Tradition of the Fatherless Child and the Mother, the Sut-Typhonian Mystery, as we shall see more clearly later on.
The Card shows a Female Figure as the Mother of All Things, but this conceals a figure of Dual-Sex, or the Idea of the Two-Sexed Son, which afterwards became the Twin Horus, and later the Two figures Sut-Horus, as Darkness and Light, and the Two Horizons. The Ellipse shows the beginning of the Time Cycle, for Saturn or Kronus was the Devourer of his Children, the Hours. It also indicates how the Gods, the Tellers of Time, were to be born from the Elementaries or Elements, under which form the earliest ideas of the gods existed. The Card indicates the essential natures of the Four Elements in the Undifferentiated Substance from which they proceeded; or in the Womb of Time. The Four Beasts at the corners again show this clearly, and the Card itself is called "The Great One of the Night of Time." In this Path "The Light shineth in Darkness but the Darkness comprehendeth it not," for the Children of Time know not the mystery of the Here and Now.
This Card is the synthesis of the Elemental Forces; the Figure in the center directs the Positive and Negative Currents. It is attributed to Saturn and symbolizes the Influence from the Crown which resulted in the formation of the Sphere of Saturn or the Sephira Binah, the Great Mother. The early tradition connected the idea of the Great Mother with Typhon the Mother of Sut.
Binah is the Sphere of the Substance of all things, and it balances that of Chokmah wherein is concentrated the Life Force. Together they represent Living-Substance, the Father-Mother from which all proceeds.
Binah is also called The Great Sea. All is said to have been produced from Water brooded over by Spirit.
Uniting Chokmah and Binah we find the Path attributed to "The Star" and the Sign Aquarius. This Sign is Ruled by Saturn, and it will be noticed that it is connected with that Sphere. But it also represents the mystery of the Star Universe, which symbolism is derived from Chokmah.
The old G.D. Ritual (although attributing this card to the wrong Path, as in the old order) states: "This Key represents a Star with seven principal and fourteen secondary rays, altogether twenty-one, the number of the Divine Name AHIH. (Notice AHIH is the Divine Name of Kether immediately above.) In the Egyptian sense it is Sirius, the Dog-Star, the Star of Isis-Sothis. Around it are the seven planets. The nude figure is the symbol of Isis, Nepthys, and Hathoor. She is Aima, Binah, and Tebunah, the Great Supernal Mother Aima Elohim pouring upon Earth the Waters of Creation. In this Key she is completely unveiled. The two urns contain the influence of Chokmah and Binah. On the Right springs the Tree of Life, on the Left the Knowledge of Good and Evil, whereon the bird of Hermes alights, therefore the Key represents the restored world."
This symbolism is so clear according to the Restored World Plan of the Paths that it would seem to need little comment. But there is much more that might be said.
The earliest calculation of Time centered in the revolution of the Serpent round the Dog Star. The First Mother is said to have given birth to the Seven Elementaries, who became the Seven Gods or Planetary Intelligences, the tellers of Time. I may go into this aspect more fully later on.
I have purposely made no mention of the Path from Kether to Tiphereth, as this will be better understood if we first deal with those from Chokmah to Tiphereth, and from Binah to Tiphereth.
According to the Tarot Keys these are "The Sun" and "The Devil"; the twins of Light and Darkness.
The Card of "The Sun" represents the Influence of Chokmah or the Star Universe upon Tiphereth. The old G.D. description may again be quoted, but how different it appears when the card is in its proper place. "The Sun has twelve principal rays which represent the Zodiac (Chokmah), these are divided into 36 Decanates, and again into seventy-two Quinaries. Thus the Sun itself embraces the whole Creation in its rays. The Seven Hebrew Yods falling through the Air refer to the Solar Influence descending. The Two Children, standing respectively upon Water and Earth, represent the Generating influence of both, brought into action by the Rays of the Sun. They are the two inferior and passive elements, as the Sun and Air above them are the superior and active elements of Fire and Air. Furthermore these two Children resemble the Sign of Gemini."
Now, if we place the "Key" in position on its proper Path, glancing for a moment at the complete diagram of the Paths, we shall be able to draw some further conclusions.
The Sun, as a Star from the Sphere of Chokmah, is seen descending to take up his Office in Tiphereth, as the Son of the Father. The symbolism of the Sun shows the corrected division of Time according to the Precession of the Equinoxes, viz.: the Osirian calculation of the 365 Ľ days in the Year, instead of 365 according to the Sut-Typhonians whose calculations were made by the Dog-Star. Gerald Massey states "There is an Egyptian legend which relates how Osiris in the 365th year of his reign came from Nubia accompanied by Horus to chase the Sut-Typhonians out of Egypt. By this we may understand that the perfect Solar Year of 365 Ľ days was made to supersede the Sun and Sirius Year of 365 days. In the battle for supremacy Horus was aided by Taht, the Lord of the luni-solar reckonings."
The two Children, or Twins, represent the twin theories, and also the Horus Twins, and the Two Traditions, which resolve themselves in Tiphereth.
Also the Wall of Red with its Blue Top represents the Barrier and the Waters of Death. The Path attributed to the Key "Death" is that from Chesed to Geburah, and it crosses this Path of "The Sun." Again the Twins appear on the Path of Gemini, which runs from Tiphereth to Hod.
Rider's Pack shows a different symbolism. The Sun and Wall appear as before, but the Twins are replaced by a Child on a White Horse. This is the Crowned Child, the Son of the Sun, who has overcome Death and is the ruler of this Aeon.
Chokmah is the Root of Fire and this Card is called "The Lord of the Fire of the World" showing the Sun as representative of the Star Universe while ruling the World or Malkuth the Tenth Sephira.
This is the Path of the Tradition of Light.
We may now examine the Path from Binah to Tiphereth which is represented by "The Devil" and the Sign of Capricorn which is ruled by Saturn from whose Sphere it springs.
This Key is called "The Lord of the Gates of Matter, the Child of the Forces of Time," and it represents the Birth of Matter from the Great Sea, or Mother, the One Substance. This is the Way of the Children of Time, Saturn or Kronus. It is the Path of the Tradition of Darkness, the twin-brother of Light, of Lucifer, the Satanic Saviour who Fell from Heaven. This gave birth to the idea of the Sun as the Devil or Satan, for it represents the Sun in his material aspect, the Red Disk of Atum.
The Key shows the Twins chained by Time, while those of the "Sun" Card are Free, since they receive the influence of the Divine Will from Chokmah. The Italian Pack clearly shows The Devil standing upon the Sun, and so does Levi. This is the Card of Ayin, the Eye. It represents the Eye doctrine rather than that of the Head or Heart. The Sut-Typhonian calculation of Time was incorrect in representing the Year by 365 days.
Notice in this card there is also a Wall, but the color symbolism is reversed. This again indicates the Wall of "Death" whose path this one crosses in the same manner as that of the Sun on the opposite side of the Tree.
This Path of "The Devil" represents the Sut-Typhonian tradition of Set or Satan, as its ruler was afterwards called. The Path of "The Sun" represents the tradition of the Jupiter-Ammonians with Horus as its ruler. Horus of the Star is the reconciler between them.
Both the traditions of Light and Darkness as opposed to each other sprang from the Primal Idea of the Pure Spiritual Light of The Ever Coming Son, IU, the Holy Child of Kether. So we may now examine the Path from Kether to Tiphereth, that of the Influence of the Supreme and Concealed Father of All becoming Manifested in the Son in whom Glory and Suffering are identical.
This, by Tarot, is the Card called "Judgment" attributed to the Letter SHIN, the true Fire of the Spirit, and the progenitor of the Sun behind the Sun. This is the equilibrated Triple Flame of the Supreme Godhead, the Winged Globe of the Three Supernals, the Head of the Staff of the Universal Mercury, the Absolute Reason of All Things.
The Influence of this Path causes the Dead to rise from their tombs in the Resurrection of the pure Spirit and the Regeneration of Matter. It passes through the Path of "The Star" as the Child of Chokmah and Binah which overcomes Death. It is the Path of the Ever-living One coming into Manifestation, it represents the Absolute and Universal Tradition of the Golden Age. "It is called the Card of Perpetual Intelligence because it regulateth the motions of the Sun and Moon (Tiphereth and Yesod) in their proper Order, each in an orbit convenient to it" (Sepher Yetzirah).
The Paths of "The Sun" and "Devil" merely suggest man's attempts to discover the true Motions and Order of the Universe, and to translate them into Time. This Path actually regulates these motions, therefore suggests, perhaps, the true calculation of the Course of the whole Solar System round the invisible Center of All.
It is said in the Old G.D. Ritual: "This card is a glyph of the powers of fire. The Angel crowned with the Sun is Michael, the Ruler of the Solar Fire. The Serpents which leap in the Rainbow are symbols of the Fiery Seraphim. The Trumpet represents the influence of the Spirit descending upon Binah (this according to my opinion should be Tiphereth), the Banner and Cross refer to the rivers of Paradise."
But in this Card we are able to trace the symbolism of the Divine Breath of Kether, not whispering the Work in Chokmah, but coming to us through the Trumpet of the Sun, ever proclaiming the Brightness of the Lord and Giver of Life to all men. And this Trumpet is the Horn that is exhalted for ever. The Path combines the Mysteries of the Death and Resurrection as shown in "The Sun"; and the Erection and Re-erection of "The Devil" with the Generation and Regeneration of the Spirit.
As shown in "Q. B. L.," Shin represents the Roots of the Elements, the essences of Kether, Chokmah and Binah, concentrated in Tiphereth. It also represents "Number," the first of the Three Creative Sepharim of the Sepher Yetzirah.
Having dealt with the most direct influences descending upon Tiphereth, and we must next consider the supporting Pillars and the indirect influences through Chesed and Geburah.
Let us take the Path from Chokmah to Chesed, and then follow the one from Chesed to Tiphereth, thus completing the Right side first.
The Key to the Influence between Chokmah and Chesed is called "Temperance" and is attributed to the Sign Sagittarius. A Figure is seen pouring fluid from one urn to another. It represents "Preservation," as opposed to the "Destruction" of the Path of the "Blasted Tower" on the opposite side, while the equilibrated Path in the Center is that of "Creation" and "Regeneration" as before noticed.
Sagittarius is the Sign symbolized by the Archer who is half man, half horse. The Horse is said to be the gift to man of the Goddess of Wisdom, viz.: Chokmah. This Sign is Ruled by Jupiter and it receives the Influence of the Path of IU-PATER through Chokmah. It is also connected directly with the Sphere of Jupiter or Chesed. This gives us some indication of the dual-symbolism of the Forces of Life in the two Urns held by the figure on the Card. We may also glimpse some idea of the Ascending and Descending Arrows of the AA or IU. Again we have the ascent and descent of the Wheel of Life or Zodiac which revolves, so to speak, as Chokmah, between the two Jupiterial influences.
The Figure is clothed in Red and Blue, for Chokmah is the "Root of Fire" and Chesed the "Sphere of Water." It stands on Water, or Chesed, but the Robe immediately above the Water is Red, for Sagittarius is a Fiery Sign.
In Rider's Pack we actually see a "Path and a Sun" to the left of the Figure, just where the Path of the Sun comes in this arrangement. The Sign of Fire is on the Breast of the Figure, above which is faintly seen the Hebrew IHVH, the Word of the Father, Chokmah.
Chesed is the Sephira of Mercy (opposed to that of Severity, Geburah) and also that of Authority for it Transmits or reflects the Word of the Father or Logos.
The Path from Chesed to Tiphereth is that of "The Moon" by Tarot and is attributed to the Sign of Pisces, which in turn is Ruled by Jupiter. Through this Path came the Piscean Tradition of the Fish-God, another aspect of Horus as the Solar Deity or Son.
The Card itself is described in the old G.D. Ritual as follows (we should place the card in position on the Tree and study the symbolism carefully):
"It represents the Moon in its increase in the side of Gedulah (Chesed), it has sixteen principal and sixteen secondary rays. Four Hebrew Yods fall from it (4 = Chesed the representative of the Law of the Father). There are two Watchtowers, Two Dogs and a Crayfish. The Four Yods represent the letters of the Holy Name (transmitted from the breast of the Figure of Temperance). The Crayfish is emblem of the Sun (Tiphereth) below the horizon, as he ever is when the Moon is increasing above."
As we shall see later the Path of the "Sun" is that of the Setting Sun. The Moon God was known as "Sin" whose word is restriction, and this has been characteristic of the Piscean Age just passed. The true tradition of the Sun became clouded in that age.
The Moon transmits some Light even if it is but a reflector of the Sun. The Word of Sin being Restriction, we may notice how the influence of "Preservation" became that of "Repression" which is but a partial understanding of the idea.
On the other hand, we should next study the Path from Binah to Geburah and then the one from Geburah to Tiphereth. These represent the opposite tradition of Over Indulgence, or "Destruction" through Waste of Life.
The Path from Binah, the Primal Mother, to Geburah the Sphere of Mars, is by Tarot "The Blasted Tower" and it is attributed to the Planet Mars. Here we see another aspect of Horus as the God of War and Vengeance.
The G.D. Ritual says: "It represents a Tower struck by a lightning flash proceeding from a rayed circle and terminating in a triangle. It is the Tower of Babel. The flash exactly forms the Astronomical Symbol of Mars. It is the power of the Triad (concentrated in Binah, 3) rushing down and destroying the Column of Darkness (the Pillar of Severity, also the Dark Tradition). The men falling from the Tower represent the fall of the Kings of Edom."
"On the Right Hand side of the Tower is Light and the representation of the Tree of Life by Ten Circles, on the Left Hand is Darkness, and eleven Circles symbolizing the Qliphoth."
Here the tradition of Light and Darkness is clearly indicated. The fall of the Tower of Babel resulted in the loss of the Universal Language, since when confusion has prevailed. The Sons of Darkness for a time retrogressed, while the followers of the Tradition of Light were advancing. This is the result of the Positive and Negative Currents from the "Path of Saturn" through Binah the Dark Sphere.
The influence of Mars, passing through Geburah, the Sphere of Mars and of Severity, is transmitted to Tiphereth by the Path of Aries, or "The Emperor." Aries is Ruled by Mars and is the House of the Exaltation of the Sun. The Ram or Lamb was sacrificed as a substitute for Man, so this path represents "Substitution" as that of Pisces, on the opposite side, represents "Reflection." Both are partial truths. This Path also transmits the "Personal Will" of Geburah to Tiphereth. When the Personal Will is substituted for the Divine or True Will trouble arises. In Tiphereth, The Heart, both the Personal and True Wills are harmonized, or apparently so.
Aries and Pisces are seen with the Sun, or Tiphereth, as reconciler between them, as in the beginning of the Great Cycle, with the Sun in His Natural place, unaffected by the Precession of the Equinoxes. In this position the Jupiter-Ammonian, and the Sut-Typhonian controversy is temporarily harmonized.
The Reciprocal Path from Chesed, Mercy, to Geburah, Severity, is that of "Death" the Great Transformer. The Sign Scorpio is its Yetziratic attribution, and this is Ruled by Mars the Destroyer. Death is both the enemy and the friend in one, for in truth there is no "death," but only a "Change of Life." The Card shows a Skeleton with a scythe, he is cutting down heads (one of which is crowned) but the "rise again" as soon as he passes over them, for the Influences of the Paths of "Resurrection," "Regeneration," and "Re-erection" all play upon this one. The Path of Shin, equilibrating Light and Darkness, rules over all, for this Path is that of the Influence of IU the Ever-coming Son, the true Horus whose appearance in Aries is as the Lamb, in Pisces as the Fish, or in the earlier Signs as The Lion, The Beetle, The Twins, or the Bull.
We have seen how the Influence of the Tradition of Light flows down into Tiphereth through two channels. The Paths of IU-PATER, Chokmah, and The Sun, and those of IU-PATER, Chokmah, Sagittarius, Chesed, and Pisces.
We have likewise traced the Tradition of Darkness through the Paths of Saturn, Binah and Capricorn, to Tiphereth; and also through Saturn, Binah, Mars, Geburah, and Aries, to the same Sphere.
The Universal Tradition which transcends both the Light and the Darkness, descends from Kether-Pure Being, by the Path of Shin or Spirit, through the Path of Aquarius, The Star of Hope, and that of Scorpio, Death and Despair, directly upon Tiphereth. This is the Line of Equilibrium between the Balanced Ideas of Good and Evil; Light and Darkness; Preservation and Destruction, etc. This is the Path of the Doctrine of the Heart, which unites with those of the Eye and the Head (Ayin and Resh) in Tiphereth the Sphere of the Heart, or the Son, wherein all things are Beautified and Harmonized.
It should be noticed that the Direct Influence of the Supernals upon Tiphereth comes from the Paths of Resh and Ayin uniting with those of Shin and Tzaddi. The Numerical Value of these Letters added to Tiphereth is 200 + 70 + 300 + 90 + 6 = 666, the Grand Scale Number of The Sun, and of the Beast or Man. Again, the Descending Triad of the Sephiroth Binah, Chokmah, Tiphereth is 326 [i.e. by concatenating the numbers of those Sephiroth.-B.R.] the Numeration of ISHVH the Redeemer, the formula of the Descent of Shin into IHVH or of Spirit into Matter. 326 is also the Numeration of PARChVAL in the oldest form, which became PARZIVAL who is 418 in the New Aeon; thus connecting him with ABRAHADABRA, the Word of the Aeon, and the Reward of Ra-Hoor-Khuit; as will be more fully discussed later on. For the moment we should notice that The Beast, The Word of the Aeon, and Parzival are Harmonized in Tiphereth, as are all aspects of the Sun and the Son, although there may appear to be "division hither homeward."
The Sephiroth and Paths so far taken into consideration, form the great Heavenly Hexagram, the Center of which is Spirit, although this central point is not indicated by any Sephira, but only by the Path of Shin. In the Tarot Key "The Judgment" this Invisible Breath of Spirit proceeds from the Mouth of the Trumpet in the Center of the Card.
If we examine this Hexagram, we notice that the Hebrew Letters on the Paths forming the Hexagon, are as follows: Kaph, Samek, Qoph, He, Pe, Tau: or 20+60+100+5+80+400 = 665 which is the number of BITh HRChM, meaning The Womb. This does represent The Womb of Creation, for these paths outline the Circle of the "Key of Life" or Ankh, upon which the Tree of Life is built.
We should notice also the peculiar arrangement of the Hexagram. There are four interior Paths, forming the bases of four similar Triangles. These Paths are those of "The Star," "The Sun," "Death" and "The Devil". They may be said to symbolically represent the Sun in the Four Quarters. Thus, "The Devil," although the basis of the Tradition of Darkness, represents the Rising Sun of the Eastern Horizon; for SUT is the "Opener" of the Day. This Dark Tradition gradually resulted in a Lurid Dawn. The Path of "The Sun" represents the Setting Sun, since the tradition of Light tended to become "Twilight." This is the Path of Horus, Lord of the Western Horizon, who closed the Day. Together they are Sut-Horus the Twin Lion Gods. The Path of "The Star" represents the Sun of Midday, at its height; thus "The One Star in Sight" during the Day. This position of the Sun has been called AHATHOOR, and in the Tarot Card we see that Goddess. But AHA is also a title of Horus, as is HAR and HAR-MAKHU, which means Horus of the Star. This is his Name as Opener of the Year, and it is His Influence which descends through the Path of Shin, as the Sun behind the Sun.
The Path of "Death" represents the Sun of Midnight, in the Underworld.
There came a period in Egyptian tradition when Four Suts were recognized as those of the Four Quarters, these were then called the Children of TUM, the Setting Sun, who became ATUM, and afterwards ATUM-RA, the Solar Deity as Father of All Things. This was the period when the Supreme and Concealed Father had been entirely lost to the followers of the Tradition of Light, while the Doctrine of the Mother and Child as First Cause had fallen into disrepute as representing the Tradition of Darkness. The Influence of the Supreme still descended upon Tiphereth, the Sun, through IU, but was only recognized by the few followers of the Universal Tradition of the Golden Age. All these traditions became merged in Tiphereth and there Harmonized, though the result was not an absolutely true one. An attempt to establish the truth was made by Amenhatep IV, or King Khu-en-Aten, who revived Aten Worship in place of that of Atum Ra, or Amen Ra; but he was ahead of his time, and it remained for the Present Aeon to re-establish the truth, as we shall endeavor to show more clearly further on.
We may remark, however, that the Universal Mercury is said to be "All present in Heaven and in Hell" so that we find the Ideas of Lucifer or Satan as the Sun, blended with those of the Sun of Light, and the Sun of the Universe, in the Heart of Man. Also we may notice how the Higher Will comes down to Tiphereth from Chokmah, and the lower or personal will through Geburah. These are both blended in Tiphereth, the Heart.
The "Circle" of the "Key of Life" having been formed; now follows the "Cross" which completes the Ankh. But at this point we shall notice a "Passover" or Crossing over of the dual Currents, for the "Middle Pillar" is the Caduceus, and the twin-serpents, while knotted together in Tiphereth, cross and re-unite lower down. This is symbolized clearly by the Three Mother Letters of the Elements, or the Three Sepharim of Number, Writing, and Speech; as explained in Q. B. L.
These are Shin above Mem, above Aleph. We have already dealt with Shin as IU, which it symbolizes perfectly, since if we place the "I" inside the "U," the letter Shin is formed. These are the letters of the Father and Son, who are united in Tiphereth.
Let us now trace the Currents as they "cross-over". The Influence from the Path of Aries, joining Geburah and Tiphereth, passes through the latter and emerges as a channel from Tiphereth to Netzach. This in the Tarot is the Key called "Strength" and it is attributed to the Sign Leo which is Ruled by the Sun.
The Card shows a Woman closing (or opening) the mouth of a Lion. This is clearly the Woman of Venus, or Netzach, united with the Lion of the Sun or Tiphereth. The Ram, or Lamb (another form of Horus) has been sacrificed as a substitute, and passes through the Solar Fire at the "Passover." In the City of the Sun it may truly be said that "The Lion lies down with the Lamb"; both are aspects of Horus, their paths are seen united in Tiphereth.
This Lion may be called "The Green Lion" where the Path meets Netzach (Emerald Green), and "The Red Lion" as he approaches the Sun. Again we find symbolism of the Twin Lions of Horus (as later they appear as the twin Sphinxes of the Charioteer). We see the "Strength" of Geburah, transmitted through the Ram and the Sun, to this Path, where its Animal Nature becomes subdued by the Pure Love of the Woman of Netzach. Thus the Dark tradition becomes purified through this process.
On the other hand, the Path from Chesed to Tiphereth ("The Moon" by Tarot, or Sign of Pisces) emerges from its Solar Bath, as the Path of "The Lovers" or Gemini, which unites Tiphereth with Hod. Gemini is Ruled by Mercury whose sphere is Hod. We may then trace the "Wisdom" from Chokmah, through paths of Light, as it flows into this reservoir of pure Reason, carrying with it the ideas of the "Pairs of Opposites" from "Temperance", "The Moon" (with its twin towers), and "The Lovers" or Gemini.
This Key, "The Lovers", depicts the Symbolism perfectly. The Card shows the Sun above the heads of the Figures, just as they are relatively to Tiphereth. Beneath it are the Twins, the same Children we saw in the path of "The Sun" transmitting the Tradition from Chokmah. They have overcome the illusion of the "Moon" with its restrictions. Cupid is seen with his Bow and Arrow (perhaps the Bow of the Moon and the Arrow of Sagittarius). Sometimes this card is shown as symbolizing a Man between two Women representing Virtue and Vice (so-called). He must learn to treat them both alike, and harmonize these ideas in the Light of Tiphereth, the Heart. This was a very necessary lesson for the followers of the White Tradition to learn, for the twilight had made their view narrow and restricted, therefore an elements of Sin (the Moon God) had entered, and the earlier Wisdom had been lost.
We may now consider the Influence of the Side Pillars. On the one hand we find "Justice" or Libra which is Ruled by Venus, bringing down the Mercy of Chesed to Netzach the Sphere of Venus. Here we see the Law of Love coming into operation under the Will of Chokmah, as it is written, "Love is the law, love under will". Love needs to be Balanced in Netzach, thus avoiding extremes. Opposite to this Path is that which transmits the Strength of Geburah to the Sphere of Mercury or Hod. The Influence herein operative is that of "The Hermit" or Virgo, which is Ruled by Mercury. One must be reasonable in regard to one's Virginity, but the Power of the Virgin is great.
Herein we find the Dark Tradition transformed into a wise Reserve or Secrecy. The Hermit merely conceals the Light in his Cloak, while he carries his Staff in his hand. This represents a better adjustment of the Life, which is the Substance of Light; the excess of the Path of the "Tower" is tempered down to a wise control. This refers also to the Control of Speech; the Tower was that of Babel, and its destruction caused the confusion of tongues, while here we see a re-adjustment as this path enters the Domain of Mercury, which contains the influence from Chokmah, the "Word" lost to the Dark Brothers for a time.
Few realize the secrets of the Tradition of the Widow's son, and the Substitute, and the Lost Word, as depicted in this Left Hand side of the Tree.
Uniting the Sephiroth Netzach and Hod is the Path of "The Hierophant", the Initiator into the Mysteries of Osiris the Bull. This Path is attributed to the Sign Taurus which is Ruled by Venus or Netzach. Venus and Mercury are herein united in a Wise and Initiated Love of a reciprocal nature. We see two Figures in this card, presided over by the Hierophant who is blessing them in the Sign of the Trinity.
There is yet another Path from Tiphereth to Yesod which crosses this one and influences it. This is the Path of "The Hanged Man" attributed to the Letter Mem, and the Element Water. It refers to "Writing" as the second Sepharim, and by means of Written Tradition have the true mysteries been transmitted, even thought the "writer" may never have been recognized or known to men.
Here we see a figure of a Man suspended by one foot from a gallows, his head and arms forming a triangle, above which his legs form a cross. He is the Sun of the Sun, bringing down the Light as far as Yesod, the Subconscious Mind of Humanity. His body is reversed, as if reflected in the Waters, his Head is surrounded by Glory, the reflection of Tiphereth and Kether. His Head is thus in Yesod, the Sphere of the Moon which reflects the Sun upon the Earth, or Malkuth. The shape of the Figure in Rider's Pack perfectly symbolizes this position on the Tree.
His is the power of the Redeeming Love, usually considered as self-sacrifice, but more truly representing the Justified One, who says: "This is my body which I destroy, in order that it may be renewed." The Mysteries of the Rose Cross are transmitted through this Channel, the Initiation being attended to by "The Hierophant". Two other Paths exert their influence directly on Yesod, the Foundation, or Sphere of the Moon; one leading from Netzach, and the other from Hod. The Coils of the Twin Serpents fold back again here, the Current having absorbed the influences of the Paths of the Side Pillars through these two Sephiroth.
The Path from Netzach to Yesod continues the Influence from the Path of Leo united with that of Libra. By Tarot it is "The Chariot" which is attributed to the Sign Cancer, ruled by the Moon (Yesod). This is a very important card indeed. The Hebrew letter attributed to it is "Cheth" which is 418 the number of the Word of the Aeon ABRAHADABRA. The Charioteer is one aspect of the Lord of the Aeon, and he is in a certain sense the Initiator, for in this age the Influence of the Constellation of Taurus comes to use through the Sign Cancer according to the Precessional. He has harnessed the Black and White Sphinxes, the Traditions of Darkness and Light, and he uses them to draw his Chariot. He is under the Starry Canopy of Love. He is the Child of the Powers of the Waters, for he has descended by devious channels from the Great Sea; he is also the Lord of the Triumph of Light in its higher sense. He has the Strength of the "Lion" and the balance of "Justice" combined with the Power of Love.
Dual Moons are shown on his shoulders, for, as Cancer, he is closely connected with The Moon. The Lingam-Yoni and Winged Globe appear on his cubical Chariot which represents "The Foundation" or Yesod.
Opposite to him on the Tree is the Path from Hod to Yesod, that of "The High Priestess" or "Priestess of the Silver Star". This is attributed to "The Moon" with which Sphere it unites. This is the Channel of the Serpent of Light winding back from Hod and bringing with it the Influence of the Paths of Gemini and Virgo.
The High Priestess knows the secret powers of the "Lovers" and of the "Virgin". These she has under control in the same sense that the Charioteer controls the Sphinxes. She is truly his Counterpart. On her Lap is The book of the Law, the lost Thora of the Wheel of the Tarot, transmitted so wonderfully from the Path of IU-Pater through Chokmah, "The Sun", Tiphereth, "The Lovers", and Hod. Note that the Descent of this Law upon Tiphereth through Chokmah, was by the Paths of Kaph (20) and Resh (200) and that Liber CCXX is the Book of the Law; also that from Tiphereth, which is 6; representative of the Father 10 and the Mother 5 (as Wisdom and Understanding or IH) which make 15 and again through addition 6; it passed into the path of Zain (The Sword) 7 and to Hod 8, thus 15 = 6 and through Gimel 3 (6 + 3 = 9) to Yesod 9, where it entered the Subconscious Mind of Humanity as a seed of the Aeon.
The "Priestess of the Silver Star" is the Pure Influence of the Higher Self on the Subconscious Mind, transmitting the secret of the Star Universe and of the Silver Star. She is the Initiator into the Mysteries of Nuit, as "The Charioteer" indicates those of Hadit.
Our work, so far, has led us to an understanding of how the Universal Tradition has been imbedded in the Subconscious Mind of Humanity; built into its very Foundation and Substance. It is our Great and Glorious Heritage from the Past, made up from the Universal experience of the Race. But all men are not yet aware of this. It is still "Unconscious" in most.
Now we come to the final stages of our Journey, wherein these ideas are Manifested on the Material Plane. Malkuth, The Kingdom, is the Sphere of the Elements, and is saturated with the subtle influences, whereby the Fallen Daughter may become the Mother and bring forth Man as the Crowned Child of the Aeon.
The Path from Hod to Malkuth is by Tarot "The Magician" attributed to Mercury. This is the Wisdom and Will of the Father in Heaven brought down to the Kingdom of Earth. (Have we not prayed "Thy Will be done on Earth as it is done in Heaven" and has it not been answered "Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law"). The Magician controls the Elements by means of his Four Elementary Weapons under the Direction of the Higher Will, as shown in the Card by the Wand, the Cup, the Sword, and the Pentacle. His is the Path of the Magic of Light and of Occultism. He is then the representative of the Great Father upon Earth, and his influence is within every father who realizes that he is a star.
The Path from Netzach to Malkuth is that of the "Empress" and of Venus. She represents the Love which regenerates the Kingdom when properly understood. The key shows her crowned with the Diadem of Stars. She Transmits the Understanding of the Great Mother. (So long misunderstood and thought of as the unmated and despised Woman of the Dark Sphere). Hers is the Path of Mysticism and Devotion, and of those who would be absorbed in the Absolute. She Represents the Great Mother upon Earth and is the Influence within every mother who knows Herself to be a Star.
Thus is this Kingdom supplied with Wisdom and Love, and lastly with Power, for we must finally consider the Path from Yesod to Malkuth, that of the "Pure Fool", and the All-Wandering Air, the Reconciler in all things. This is the Path of the Crowned Child of the Spirit who is in the Heart of all Humanity when he is brought to birth upon the Earth. This is the Path of those who follow neither the way of Magick nor of Mysticism, but the "Way of the Tao". These are the Masters of both Will and Love for they UNCONSCIOUSLY do the Work of the Father. Just as a Child naturally rules over his parents and is able to obtain his slightest desire, without effort, so must all Serve the Crowned Child the Lord of the Aeon.
This Path transmits the Universal Tradition of the Central Pillar-the Pillar of Mildness and Peace. This is the Pathway of the Light to be discovered amid the contending forces and the darkness of matter. This Path of the Holy Spirit of the Sun behind the Sun is that of the Letter Aleph. In it the two A's of the Beginning have become One. It is the Path of Air, the third Sepharim, or of Speech. But this is the Power of Speech in the Silence, of Harpocrates hidden within Horus. It is also the true Power, as it is written;
Unity uttermost showed,
I adore the Might of Thy Breath,
Supreme and Terrible God
Who makest the Gods and Death
To tremble before Thee,
I, I adore Thee.
This is the Path of IU, Horus-Harpocrates, the Ever Coming One, and of Har-Machis, Horus of the Star, the Opener of the Ways of Eternity. This is the Path of the Here and Now, transcending those of Time and Space. This is the Path of Truth, which Is Now, as It Was in the Beginning, and Ever Shall Be, MALKUTH without End. AUMN.
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Well after watching my DVR
Danica's wreck looked vicious. Glad she was ok. She did exactly what I thought she should had. She kept her car clean, ran the bottom almost the whole time, which I figured was the safer area to be at not to be swept up if someone got turned. Ironically her being on the bottom is what got her. McMurray came down on Aric taking out Danica. She raced smart though & didnt do any silly crap that some new drivers does on these tracks. So kudos to her.
I see Ryans team still hasnt figured out his overheating problem. (Which tony didnt seem to have) Ryan I guess said his car had no power before the overheating, so hopefully they figure something out when they replace their engine. Also I hope TG goes over & asks Addington for some secrets on keeping the car cooler. Ryan never tried to tandem draft or do anything that typicaly over heats these engines. In fact he was running by himself when the car was over 290 degrees.
I know Nascar likes the idea of wrecks here so it inspires the standard fan, but putting teams in a box so their engines blow because they have to stop the tandem (safer) racing, is BS. The 500 is a longer race with more cars. Which means more time at the higher RPM's & less clean air to cool the cars. This is a recipe for disaster. Nothing like crowning a winner through attrition.
So congrats to Tony, good Job Danica for driving a smart race. The innocent always seems to get wrecked while the guy causing it races on, at plate tracks. & Please God help Gibson to get a car to make it 500 miles.
I am glad the car lasted so Ryan could salvage a 9th place finish.


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Managing a large software project is a challenge. Code is constantly being changed: bugs surface and are fixed, branches are created and merged — it's no small task to keep things coherent. It's even trickier if the developers are geographically distributed; if a development team keeps their code away from everyone else for a month or two, it's likely that when they check it in you'll enter integration hell, with painful merges, conflicting interfaces, and a bevy of dependency problems.
There's no silver bullet for this problem. However, one practice that may help keep things under control is continuous integration. That sounds nice, since the software has to be integrated at some point — but what does continuous integration mean practically, on a day-to-day basis?
UltraLog is a large Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) project. The purpose of the project is to "extend the open source COUGAAR cognitive agent architecture using a layered, integrated approach with technologies in robustness, security, stability, and scalability." More importantly for this article's purposes, the UltraLog project is written in Java, by developers from over a dozen companies distributed around the United States. We needed something to help avoid integration problems; we needed a status page. So we put together the "Dashboard."
Figure 1. The Dashboard (Click for larger view)
There's lots of stuff related to the UltraLog project that, while important in its own right, doesn't make it onto the Dashboard.
So, what does the dashboard show?
That's an overview. But if you've put together an hourly build, you know that there are a lot of details involved. Let's look at some of the technical issues we encountered while hooking things together.
First of all, the whole process is driven by Ruby scripts and a Jakarta Ant build template. There's no room here to discuss those products, so I'll summarize by saying that Ruby is an excellent open source scripting language and that Ant is an excellent Java build tool.
The most important item on the Dashboard is compilation success/failure. If we can't compile the code, we can't do much else. So compilation status is displayed in color — a strategy that has added phrases like "[some project] is back in the green" to our lexicon. This allows someone to come to the Dashboard and see at a glance whose code is not integrating cleanly. It's an excellent motivational tool.
Technically, the Ant
javac task takes care of the compilation.
Once it's done and the report is written to an XML file, the Ruby script that
drives the process parses that report, determines success or failure, and
counts the number of deprecated methods. This allows a developer to see that while the code may have been compiled, there may be newer methods to use. It
helps to reduce the integration load when new releases occur.
Ikko is a little templating engine written in Ruby. It's fine for small projects that don't get heavy traffic. In the case of the Dashboard, the web page gets rebuilt once an hour, so template caching is not a requirement.
You can see examples of Ikko's simple operation on the Ikko home page. Here's an example of loading a file and plugging in a couple values:
require 'ikko'
puts fm["people.html", {"name"=>"Fred", "age"=>"25"}]
Here's the HTML file for the above snippet:
<!--Fragment key="name"--> is <!--Fragment key="age"--> years old.
Specify a file name and a Ruby Hash object and you have templated HTML.
JavaNCSS provides a command-line interface and an XML output format. We
used the Unix
find utility to gather up a list of files:
$ find . -name *.java > files.txt
and then executed JavaNCSS with the XML flag:
$ javancss files.txt -xml > report.xml
With the help of the Ruby REXML library, the result can be parsed in a line of Ruby:
ncss = (REXML::Document.new(File.new("report.xml"))).elements["ncss"].text
and then it's plugged into an HTML template for display in the final report page.
This process is representative of how the other items are handled. The Ruby script invokes an Ant target or a command-line tool, a report is generated, and the Ruby script parses the result and plugs it into the HTML page.
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Showing recent CVS history proved a bit tricky. In order to display commits
by branch, we had to use
cvs-exp.pl, an open source Perl script
that wraps the output of the CVS
log command. We further wrapped
that in a homegrown Ruby CGI script that allows the recent commit history to
be rendered to HTML.
Since we use CVS for revision tracking, there are numerous open source tools available to create reports. We use the StatCVS tool to generate charts and graphs of CVS history. Again, we use a small Ruby script to drive the report generation. Here's the line of code that runs StatCVS itself:
$ java -jar statcvs.jar -output-dir path/to/html/dir/
project_name project_module/cvslog project_module
Since StatCVS comes in one .jar file, there are no dependencies to track. We run this report nightly, since it takes about 20 minutes to run on all our repositories.
PMD is a Java static analysis tool that checks for unused code, empty catch
blocks, and so forth. We run a subset of the standard PMD rules, and we've
also written a couple of custom rules to check for
Socket creation, and various other coding practices
that are not appropriate for this project. The documentation for the PMD Ant
task is straightforward, but one thing we found helpful was to always delete
the report file from the previous hour before generating a new one. That way,
if the code being checked goes from five errors to zero errors and no new file
is generated, the previous file won't linger around.
The Dashboard Ruby script then parses the PMD HTML report and determines the number of errors by simply counting the number of rows, as illustrated in this snippet:
File.new("pmd_report.html").each("<td ") {|x| count += 1}
ruleViolations=(count/4) unless count==0
This result is then displayed on the front page and hyperlinked to the full report.
CPD is a Java duplicated-code checker that comes bundled with PMD. We run CPD to check for sequences of more than one hundred duplicate tokens — quite a few, considering that CPD discards whitespace, comments, and various uninteresting sequences like import and package statements. Since CPD has an Ant task, integrating it into the build was similar to integrating PMD.
Note that OnJava.com has published several articles on both PMD and CPD, so there's a lot of information out there on both tools.
JUnit is a popular Java unit testing tool. Some of the developers have
begun to write JUnit tests for their code. To encourage this, we run those
tests and post the results on the Dashboard. In order to standardize a bit,
all tests are to be named by appending
Test to the class name
FooTest), and placed in a separate, parallel directory tree.
This lets the Ant task easily find the tests, and it keeps test code separate
from the production code. After the tests are run and the results sent to an
XML file via the JUnit Ant task's
<formatter type="xml"/>
element, the Ruby script parses out the number of tests passed/failed:
def parseJunitFile(filename, result)
"build/target/task/message[@priority='info']") do |info|
if (info.text =~ "Tests run: ") != nil
tmp = info.text.split
result.testsTotal=result.testsTotal.to_i + tmp[2].to_i
result.testsFailed=result.testsFailed.to_i + tmp[4].to_i + tmp[6].to_i
This allows the totals to be displayed neatly on the Dashboard.
Generating Javadocs is also a straightforward operation with Ant. It's a fairly time-consuming task, though, so we only run it every four hours. Note that Javadocs can consume a considerable amount of disk space; all of the Javadocs on the Dashboard together take up around 500 MB.
We've found it handy to build an hourly drop of the class files and source
files in case someone wants to browse or run the latest code without checking
it out and compiling it. Since the code has to be compiled anyway, creating
these .jars is a simple matter of using the Ant
zip task:
<target name="srczip" if="tic.build.usesSrcZip">
<delete file="${tic.build.srcZip}"/>
<zip destfile="${tic.build.srcZip}" basedir="${tic.build.srcDirForZipFile}"
<target name="jar" depends="compile">
<jar jarfile="${tic.build.jarFile}" baseDir="${buildDir}"/>
<signjar jar="${tic.build.jarFile}" keystore="/var/build/signingCA_keystore"
alias="privileged" storepass="keystore"/>
Note the dependency in the
jar task; there's no need to attempt
jar things up if the compilation step fails.
What else could be added to the hourly build page? In some projects, a test coverage report (a report on the percentage of the code that the unit tests actually cover) has been found useful. Several tools exist to provide such a report — Clover comes to mind. Of course, such a report isn't very useful unless a decent number of unit tests have been written.
Folks who are familiar with the Jakarta open source build tool Maven may notice some similarities. It might be possible to use Maven to do some of the things the Dashboard does, but Maven was not very far along when we first began putting the Dashboard together. It might be worth revisiting Maven to see if that's possible now.
We've discussed some things can make a large Java project hard to manage. We've looked at one large Java project — UltraLog — and how an hourly build status page helped keep things under control. We've also done a quick overview of some open source tools that you may find to be a useful part of your hourly build page. Give them a try!
Thanks to all of the folks who have donated their time and energy towards the various open source tools mentioned in this article.
Tom Copeland started programming on a TRS-80 Model III, but demand for that skill has waned and he now programs mostly in Java and Ruby.
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BELLAIRE – The Village of Bellaire's new water intake project got under way Monday as crews removed one well to make way for the intake.
Village administrator Dan Marling said he expects a full crew to be on board starting Monday to kick the process in to high gear.
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T10 WMV Tutorial by Narvin
Update: Video Tutorial is available at http://psyomcs.com/wordpress/?p=5
Dear T10 customers,
I am new here as I recieved a Samsung T10 for Christmas. As I am aware a number of people seem to be shrouded over how to correctly play WMV files on their T10. Currently there is a fine line for what encoding can be used so for those out there scratching their heads dont despair. I will now outline the steps required to correctly encode your video files using Windows Media Encoder 9 Series, which is a free tool released by Microsoft.
Firstly you will need to download and install Windows Media Encoder 9 Series by visiting
After installation run Windows Media Encoder, which can be found under Windows Media in your start programs menu. You will be faced with a "New Session" popup, under "Wizards" tab choose "Custom Session" and click "Ok".
Under "Session Properties" and "Sources" Tab find the option "Source from" and select "File". Click "Browse" and locate your video file you want to encode. Wait for the video to load, depending on your system it may take a minute or two. Note the program may appear to "lock up" this is fine on my system. After completed select "Output" tab, unselect "Pull from Encoder..."
and select "Encode to File", click "Browse" and choose a suitable location for your encoded file and give it a name. Note do not save in the same location of your original video if you wish to keep the same filename and extension.
Hit "Save".
Select "Compression" tab and select "Edit..." Under "General" tab and "Media Types" select "Audio" and change "Mode" to "CBR", change "Codec" to "Windows Media Audio 9.2".
Select "Video" and change "Mode" to "CBR", change "Codec" to "Windows Media Video 9". Unselect "Script", Select "NTSC (29.97/30 fps)"
Select second tab mine says "378 Kbps" yours may differ.
Under "Audio format" change to "128 Kbps, 44 kHz, stereo CBR"
Change "Video size:" to 320 x 240
Under "Video bit rate:" type either 282K, 340K, 548K, 764K or 1128K you may use your own number system however use those as a guide.
Select "Use default"
"Video smoothness" may be a number between 0-100, higher the number better the quality.
Under "Decoder complexity:" select "Simple"
Select "Ok"
Select "Apply"
Review your settings then when ready select "Start Encoding"
Video will now comence encoding, which may take a while depending on video length, quality and your system.
Once completed you may place file into video directory of yout Samsung T10.
Edit: Do not use Samsung Media Center for file transfer it will only try to convert the video into .svi before transfering, use your windows explorer instead. You may be prompted with a message box explaining it cannot support the file please disregard it.
A video Test File WMVTEST.wmv(Right-Click "Save Target As")
Feel free to ask any questions, hope that all helps. Below are some images for reference.
Yours Faithfully,
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Last edited by Narvin; 06-02-2008 at 06:14 AM. Reason: Video Tutorial Added
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Just to make note, Files compressed with a DivX Codec will usually fail to convert in Windows Media Encoder, to bypass this you can do what I do.Go to
http://www.erightsoft.com/SUPER.html and download Super for free. This program converts almost all formats, except WMV9 for the T10. You can convert your DivX video to another format, I usually go for MPEGII and then convert that new file using the above tutorial.
If you need help with Super just ask.
I thought, the Samsung T10 (and all other samsungs) needs the SVI-WMV-Format?
I tried your methode with Windows Media Encoder, but the encoded did't run on T10 (on PC it runs).
Hey aoiss,
T10 supports both .svi and .wmv extension. This tutorial is strictly for .wmv file format. Ive encoded 5 film length videos allready and they run perfectly on my T10. Have a thorough glance over your Windows Media Encoder settings.
Here is a quick recap.
Audio: CBR Windows Media Audio 9.2 128kbps 44kHz, stereo.
Video: CBR Windows Media Video 9 NTSC 29.97fps 320x240
Decoder complexity: Simple
Buffer Size: Use default
Video Bitrate: Try 640K or 512K or 256K I use 640K for better quality.
Ensure the following are unselected:
-Allow Interlaced processing
-Allow nonsquare pixel output
-Same as video input
If you still run into problems you are free to send me a video file that you have converted so I can anylize your settings.
Ill upload a demo file also for you to try on your T10 to show you wmv files in action.
Hey aoiss
Do not use Samsung Media Center for file transfer it will only try to convert the video into .svi before transfering, use your windows explorer instead. You may be prompted with a message box explaining it cannot support the file please disregard it.
A video Test File WMVTEST.wmv(Right-Click "Save Target As")
Cheers, hope everything works out alright for you.
thank's for your great support, narvin.
your file runs :-), so I can check where is the difference.
I don't use sms, I use only drag'n'drop. I hate all these mediacenters (iTune...).
The T10 is a great peace of fun, and at now my favorite player, with excellent sound that drives also big loudspeakers (I have also the ipod nano, but T10 is the first).
Do you know about operating-system-patches for samsung? because my videos are divx or xvid, and its not funny to convert ...
T10 WMV Tutorial by Narvin
Your cute little program built the .svi file, but it wont let me copy it over.
Is it because of what is inside my .svi file?
They started on my canon digital camera. One was an mpeg4 I think, and the others avi's. Window movie maker cant make a compatible WMV out of them thats for sure. I guess I will try the Windows encoder front end next.
I just wish there was one perfect and quick way to do it!!! I wish that Samsung would put out a product that worked easily
There is and I hate to say it...Samsung's own EmoDio!
I just tried to transfer a few mp3's with Emodio. Transfer was succesfull, when I went to open them in the player "file not found".
I drag and dropped it in explorer and prest-o change-o they transfered faster and actually played (I am sure this is an error on Samsung's part).
Emodio is crap. It's just an extra step and use of resources for what should be a drag and drop process.
this file, converted with prism - www.nchsoftware.com - did't run on my T10 (your file runs). maybe you can find the fault? thx
sorry, I must check how to upload this file. can I send it to you via email? it is only 250 kb.
encoding experience 2:
encoding with win-media-encoder in ntsc: it runs on T10
encoding with win-media-encoder in pal: no run on T10
resumee: T10 video functions not useable in europe, because to much encoding work.
critic: samsung T10 is still a favorit player, but the technical specifications on samsung homepage and are a little bit inaccurate and backwarded.
Hmm. For the amount of time it took to encode a 24 minute anime episode at 384K (19 minutes for 56 MB plus 5 minutes loading the file and messing with settings), and comparing it to the SMS .SVI at 300K (~9 minutes for 72 MB), I'm going to venture a preference for SMS's .SVI format simply because the 20 megs the WM9 Encoder saves is hardly worth the extra 20 minutes it took to encode it. Thank you to Narvin for the incredibly detailed walkthrough, the file plays perfect in wmv format on the T10 (tho i might even say the svi looks better, but thats a matter of personal taste, its easier to read subtitles on the svi).
hi zolxen,
sorry, I am from china, it's my fault but i did't understand the essence of your opinion right well. please can you say it in other words for me?
how old are you?
Hey Zolxen,
Thanks for your comments, the video file uploaded on this forum was a 240Kbit video with 60 percent sharpness, I would be glad to upload a high quality video, I have compared my wmv to svi and WMV is much better quality, simply because of the high bitrate. The T10 seems to be quite powerful being able to play 30fps at my tests of 640Kbit quality without any hassle. Im hesitant of testing videos at higher bitrates only becuase the video files preloaded on the T10 are roughly 840Kbit including audio bitrate.
In terms of render times I found both svi and wmv encode very fast, my system was able to render a wmv 1hr 40min video in 35min. I didnt take note of the time of the svi however I remember it was roughly the same time. I would be interested to know what computer system setup you all have?
My system:
CPU: Intel Core 2 Duo E6750
Mobo: Asus Striker Extreme
Ram: Corsair Twin2X 2GB PC2-6400 ddr2
VGA: MSI Diamond Plus 256Mb 8600GTS PCI-e
Hey aoiss
I dont like Media Centers either, ive uninstalled SMS due to conflicts with other programs. You say you have troubles with DivX and Xvid? My only workaround with those codecs is to convert them twice, try http://www.erightsoft.com/SUPER.html to convert your DivX and Xvid to an MPG, then convert the MPG into wmv from there using windows media encoder.
Cheers to you both.
I do agree that .wmv does look better in many ways (.svi artifacts a lot) but on the T10's screen the .svi format is fine for me (subtitles were clearer in .svi). Also, the new update for the codec pack in SMS lets you choose your bitrate when you go to put the file on the player. Ranges from 150 Kb to 1024 Kb quality (audio included).
My system:
CPU: AMD Athlon 64 3500+ Prescott Core
Mobo: Asus A8V-XE Socket 939
Ram: Ultra PC3200 2x 512 MB 400 MHz DDR in Dual Channel
VGA: HIS ATi Radeon x1650 Pro 512 MB GDDR2 PCI-e
(I could run down all the specs but that would be boring , built this one from scratch, some specs are slow, but i built this from new parts about 6 months ago for less than 500 bucks (including dual DVD burners, 200 gig HDD, 650 w PS, case, fans, everything)
Haven't tried a bigger file yet, and didn't specifically time the .svi transcoding.
And aoiss, basically, all I said was that on my computer, the time it took for SMS to encode a movie, and the time that Windows Media 9 Converter took was vastly different and I preferred SMS's .svi format. ^^ And I'm 25 with a degree in Computer Systems Engineering.
has anyone knowing about the qualitydifference and encodingtime on divx/xvid and wmv on lower bitrates? (...500 kbps.., 320 x 240, 25 or 15 pps)?
Hi, I have found a good front end for Windows Media Encoder. It is called M2PMCEncoderZX and can be found here: http://www.marauderzstuff.com/progra...x/default.aspx
It is what I would describe as being very 'noob friendly'. It uses Media Encoder to convert videos to wmv format. Although it was designed for Creative PMC, the output format is perfect for T10. The res is 320x240 and all vids i have converted with it look great. You can't convert videos straight from flv (youtube's format) but if you use vixy.net to convert them to avi first, it works fine. It is the best solution for those who don't want to worry about setting up their converter since it is simple and user friendly.
1128K for video doesn't work for T10. It should be 768K. Nothing else works, in fact.
For audio you can use anything you want. If the sound quality is comparable to that of a DVD, I suggest you select 320kbps, but it has to be CBR (constant bitrate), however.
People familiar with AViSynth can write a script with the best possible settings. Windows Media Encoder can read those scripts easily. WMV looks exquisite on T10 if compared to SVI. I converted a couple of DVD music videos and they just look tres bon. Or whatever they call it in French
I encoded a South park episode(something like 22mins) with M2PMCEncoderZX...it's really easy to use...it' can't be easier!it needed 45mins to do so and outputted a file of 30mb with the lower quality settings... agaist the 45Mb of SMS,obliouvsly in low quality...on the other hand SMS do it a bit faster(30mins)...but the quality on the player is the same and so now i can put 3 instead of 2 episodes in the same 90mb without quality loss
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