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How long will your skills last? Depends on your job
Two-thirds of children entering primary school in 2016 are likely to find themselves working in jobs that do not yet exist.
This new environment of technological, demographic and socio-economic disruption is transforming industries and reducing the shelf life of workers' skills, according to the World Economic Forum's Future of Jobs report .
Researchers find that as the employment landscape changes, it becomes more important for businesses and workers alike to keep skills relevant and up to date. Some of the most in-demand skills today did not exist as recently as 10 years ago.
In fact, the pace of change is so fast that it's easy to fall behind. The chart below shows the rise and fall of the job market's most popular skills, with the demand for creativity and the ability to negotiate expected to increase dramatically over next four years.
It's estimated that by the year 2020 , "more than a third of the desired core skill set of most occupations will be comprised of skills that are not yet considered crucial to the job today".
Creativity and critical thinking, for example, will be required by more than a third of all jobs in 2020. Whereas physical strength will only be valued in one in twenty jobs.
Some industries are more at risk of skill instability than others. The Financial Services and Investors sector is likely to see the most disruption, with more than 40% of the skills currently needed to perform well in the industry soon becoming redundant.
This chart shows which job sectors have the highest turnover of skills – or put more simply, which jobs will take the most retraining just to keep up.
So, in which areas will you get the most mileage out of your skills? Media, entertainment and information are the best placed, with almost three-quarters of the skills currently required to be good at your job likely to still be relevant in 2020.
The Future of Jobs report highlights that our ability to anticipate future positions and identify the skills we'll need to get them, is critical if we're to survive job disruption over the coming decades.

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No, I am just visiting
An African proverb says, "If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together." I often think of that proverb when I consider the work we're doing around the world together.
We are unifying people, businesses, nonprofit organizations and government agencies around a movement of hope. We're going far, and we're doing it together.
Once as I was walking through immigration in Ethiopia, I learned I had mistakenly omitted the answers to a few questions on the admittance form. The security agent asked, "Occupation?"
I replied with a little chuckle, "No, I am just visiting."This is the mindset of all who are involved with Convoy of Hope. We'll travel to the ends of the earth to give of ourselves — not as occupiers but as visitors working together.
Alazer, a young boy in our feeding program in Ethiopia, is the reason we do what we do.The red dust on the playground swirls into the air as Alazer, 5, leads a group of about 30 children in dancing in circles and singing at his school in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
"Come, follow me!" he tells them.
It's evident Alazer is a leader as the boys and girls fall in line behind him, following him around in circles.
Alazer and the other children in Convoy of Hope's Children's Feeding Initiative at his school just received a lunch meal of injera (traditional Ethiopian bread) and sauce. Their energy level is high as they play.
"When I did not have food in my lunchbox, I was sad," says Alazer, an aspiring doctor. "Now I am happy and satisfied."
Genet Abay, program coordinator in Ethiopia, says 400 children are now being fed every school day in Ethiopia.


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Last month, I installed an O2 Deutschland SIM card in my Galaxy S6 Edge. It was set up for voice and data. I had no problem dialing calls and sending texts if I entered the correct number ("0" "City Code" "Number"). The problems occurred if I tried to dial a contact or send a text from my contacts. All my contacts are listed as "+" "Country Code" "City Code" "Number". I tried calls and texts with and without Assisted Dialing turned on. When I dialed a German number (Cell of Landline) from contacts, the phone added the prefix "491149" rather than "0" the correct direct dial prefix. This also happened when I sent texts from my contacts. It was acting as if I were dialing the numbers from the US with a "1149" international prefix and country code AND adding an extra country code at the front.
I modified my contacts first by dropping all the prefixes so that the numbers were: "City Code" "Number" and then with "0" "City Code "Number". This caused the same problem. When I typed in the number and sent a text, it would go through, but when I responded to the reply, it added "491149" and the text failed. No changes in assisted dialing, or the prefixes in contacts fixed the problem.
I also had a 3 Ireland SIM in the phone. I only had a problem with assisted dialing turned on. If I turned off assisted dialing and changed the contact number to "0" "City Code" "Number" both texts and calls could be dialed from contacts.
My S6 Edge has Android Version 5.0.2 installed.
Does anyone have any idea what is going on?


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ANIL MITRA PHD, COPYRIGHT © 2001 AND February 2013
Introduction – what this map is about
The World: Approach from the abstract and the general
Relation to the concepts of the Absolute, of Substance
The accidental nature of the individual
Accident or magnificent, regardless, you are real
What, then, is the relationship between the absolute and our world?
Using quantum dynamics and physical cosmology
The Nature of Being: approach from the immediate
The Nature of Death / on Immortality
The Dynamics of Being and of the Real
Points incorporated by the map and the metaphysics of presence
A Map of My World: My Immediate World
Is Finite Being an Incarnation or an Expression?
The Fundamental Tenet of Religion
A Map of My World: The universe, the larger world
Document Status February 11, 2013
An outline of essentials
This map is the beginning of an outline of essentials
Other characterizations below
[written later but preliminary]
Wednesday 11.28.01
A map of my world is a map of the world. How so – that sounds self-indulgent! When an author writes a book entitled, say, "The Nature of Reality" he writes from his own awareness. Let's not quibble about the merging of his awareness with the cosmic, in the everyday worldview he writes from his own awareness. Of course, his awareness includes his experience of the world and what he has learnt of the world from the various traditions of experience and learning – oral, written. However, it remains true that, in a sense, "The Nature of Reality" is a part of the "Map of His World". Thus, my concept of "A Map of the World" is part of a map of my world. Of course, if individual and cosmos are one then the maps are identical
Introduction – what this map is about
Personal: what is real and important for me?
Universal: a simple map of all being that connects with my personal map; and contains the essence of fundamental metaphysics
Reality and the good life are the same: action in balance with feeling. Feeling includes thought and emotion. Without action, feeling is empty; without feeling, there is no action. The moment insight begins to be codified it is lost; insight is ever a process – and needs balance by action
More than this, there is no ultimate knowledge as knowledge, belief as belief. Knowing arises in relation to the process of adaptation; knowing exists only in continuity with action – and action only in continuity with knowing
The state of My World
The ideas are essentially complete
Onward to Experiments in the Transformation of Being
A Universal Map
This is about basic metaphysics and ontology. We state it in the form of
Foundations of the Map
The World: Approach from the abstract and the general
A foundation of the world is in nothing – nothingness, the void
Nothing – is that a simple or a complex concept. Just as spaces of many dimension challenge the imagination, so does nothing. Nothing goes beyond "no-thing"
Space and time without things and events can be pictured; that picture is not a picture of nothing although it may be a picture of no-thing. It is not implied that space-time without being is possible or meaningful
There is a sense in which void, chaos and "uniform grey" – meaning a world without distinction – are equivalent
There is no principle that is violated in saying that the world is equivalent to nothing
In nothingness there is and can be no causation and no determinism
If nothing remained so – that would be both causation and determinism
Neither causation nor determinism can reign in the final realm of infinity of infinities, eternity of eternities which is equivalent to nothing
Universal causation – and therefore, any thought of universal determinism – must be abandoned in the temporal domain. This is [?] trivially equivalent to: all being º nothing [ B º F ]. Mechanism, causation, determinism are products rather than the generators of original creation; they are also products of "selective perception"
Common origins provide an explanatory principle due to unity. Common origins from no-thing is deeper than origins from something, a substance
The essentially new, that which is not contained in what came before, requires indeterminism and a-causal process… and selection. Evolution – variation and selection are necessary [why and for what] and precede determinism and mechanism – even at the most fundamental/basic level of creation… and of the origin of the universe[s]. Just as a-causal process precedes cause
There is a way for structure to arise from indeterminism, absence of causation. This is described in the previous point and above. This is contrary to what many have written: that, while determinism may be empty since it does not allow choice, indeterminism is also empty because it does not allow form or the creation of form. But, the error of the argument that indeterminism does not allow form or the creation of form has been made manifest. Additionally, while form is consistent with determinism the creation of form is not
There is, was and will be one universe. The universe is that which has no cause – and requires no cause for its understanding. Causation is essentially a part of the universe and the mode of being of the universe. In the absence of the [manifest] universe, in the presence of nothing, there is no cause; and, in the absence of being, cause and determinism, manifestation is necessary. This has truth even in the temporal domain
There is spontaneous eruption of transient elements from nothing. This necessarily involves transient becoming-decaying of elements in occasional relation; here are the primitives of being, of process, of relationship – and so of primal category [if such exists], primal time, primal space
The manifest universe is of transient existence, based in selection of near symmetric, near stable structures – away from absolute symmetry; evolution is possible; near symmetry makes for greater variety. "Regarding transience, what is a moment to God may be an infinity to a finite being"
"Facts", categories, patterns and Laws are in a process of mutual creation. The bulk of the creation of Law may according to its kind, physical, biological… be strongly focused at a particular epoch
While Law is not symbolic or iconic, law, the human expression of Law is intuitive, iconic, symbolic…
While law is human expression and Law is the form or the form of the dynamics of our [phase of the one] universe, we may think of LAW or LAW as the form, or the possibility of form of all universes or, rather, all phases and epochs of the universe. This leads to the idea of a "Platonic Universe of Ideas behind the real universe." This idea is an approximation to the concept of a Platonic Manifold that is part of the one
The formation of more-than-merely-transient structures is self-selecting. More than-than-merely-transient means: exists long enough to form combinations
A world with variety will be one with repeated microelements "atoms", "elementary particles" – atomism is necessary! [Why and for what?] [ Note on June 6, 2003: as noted in Journey in Being, I no longer think that atomism is necessary. In Journey in Being I note that in a continuum, the problem of interaction is solved because every "element" has structure]
The initial elements are seed
More-than-merely-transient means, also, relative but not absolute stability
Relative stability requires near symmetry. Nearer to symmetry implies greater stability, the potential for greater variety, slower becoming and decaying, i.e., slower evolution but with more variety. Variety depends, also, on the initial condition, immediately after the void and upon the creation of causality. In the limit of absolutely symmetric foundational [elementary] structure: the universe would be absolutely stable; the rate of evolution, of change, of coming into or going out of existence and variety would be zero; in an infinite amount of time there would be infinite variety; the world would be perfect, beautiful but frozen. So much metaphor there. And: this is why we like imperfection. But: perhaps I misunderstand time and process: perhaps in the eternity of eternities there is a perfect world of the Gods. Perhaps that is not merely a metaphor
The coming into existence of the "elements" is neither causal nor deterministic. However, it is self-selection that results in structure-in-process-and-relationship. Thus, there is an origin of near causation; and there is an origin of phases of near determinism. It is often thought that indeterminism is mere randomness and therefore cannot lead to form and structure. This shows the error
Coming into existence of the world may be interpreted literally. Then we would be interested in the variety of kinds and ways to know. We would not be mere empiricists or mere rationalists or mere pragmatists. Or, coming into existence – since the world is equivalent to nothing – could be a way of understanding the world. This is just as the posited mechanisms of biological evolution can be seen the actual mechanisms or as a way of understanding – or both
The elementary constituents, due to their primal ability to interact, part of the requirement of existence, may combine and recombine. The process includes trial and selection. This leads to increasingly complex structures. Selection leads to the following: structure codes world. This means that a merely or apparently mechanistic universe can lead to intelligence, design, teleology; these are at least local. However, the stamp of mechanism violates the fundamental equivalence of the world and nothing. This in itself is not an argument for other kinds of cause, especially teleologic cause. It simply means that the categories of mechanism, of teleologism, of substance, of process are phases of the world; are not ultimately substantial
The basic mechanism of evolution, of the origin of the essentially new in the temporal domain, is trial and selection. Trial and selection has a number of characterizations: variation and selection, destabilization and equilibrium, indeterminism and determinism. Without further specification, the meanings of the various terms are metaphorical. Talk of determinism in the temporal domain refers to a phase or a mode but not to an ontological character. In a super-temporal view or domain, determinism reigns. Any approach to a finally determinate state is through indeterministic process
Thus being: the existence of being requires it to be in the triadic relation: being-relationship-process. However, this does not follow, here, from the requirement of being or of observation of the world but from the origin in nothing. Requirements of being and observation can corroborate this
The world is made up of distributions of kinds of being. Being can be thought of as in the triadic relation: being-relationship-process. Alternatively, being may be thought of as constituted of the elements in that triad
To understand the world we will understand the kinds and the distributions – and their relations and processes. Causation and determinism [in the phases of their reign] are found in being-process-relationship
There is third way to see being: it is the "integration" of the triad: the cumulative or historical development of being-relationship-process that gives meaning. Alternatively, we can write: being-meaning-action, or structure-relationship-process…
This [concept of] being stands above process, extension, and relationship. The actuality of nothingness, which is equivalent to all being, also stands above process, extension, and relationship. What else dwells in this realm of "standing above process, extension, relationship"?
From the point of view of a mind that consciously sees across from one epoch, one moment of universal-existence to another far removed: universal causation and determinism at a super-temporal level. The metaphysics of presence shows the possibility of this kind of mind
Being may be regarded as the historical cumulation over beings-meanings-actions, or, rather [being-meaning-action]'s. There is now an interesting point regarding determinism and causation. The full particular history of being from nothing is neither causal nor deterministic – although phases of history may approximate to determinism and may be capable of causal explanation. But when we look at all history over all being, as being cycles through phases of being and non-being [nothing] we may see at this level a non-temporal determinism and causation: all possibilities are visited; and having been visited once, they will be visited again. This is the matter of the "myth" of the eternal return. In this sense, everything is given, determined. Causation requires reference to the metaphysics of presence below
To know, speculate, hypothesize the nature of primal being we look to proximate being, to "our presence in the world"
From the Metaphysics of Presence [§§ 8, 9 of notes 2001,] the essence of mind is present in original creation. The genesis of thought – especially new ideas – is similar to the genesis of being. The origin of a new idea is an elementary "spark" that is cultivated and guided by the existing matrix of [stable] thought patterns
Being == One == Zero == Blank Mind == Creation
Relation to the concepts of the Absolute, of Substance
The first general idea of the Absolute is that of substance whose necessary mechanisms produce the world. The absolute º nothing
Substance: undifferentiated or minimally differentiated, enduring, not transmutable in its intrinsic nature but variable in its forms and transformations and manifestations. Necessary: from the nature of that un-differentiation, that non-specification. Nothingness º the essential substance
This is at once the first cause and no cause - and this eliminates any paradox of original causation…these are realms in which causation cannot be pinned down to its immediate and contingent manifestations; similar and temporal paradoxes are removed in that it is apparent that it is atemporal and the origin of time
These concepts are related to the "noumenon," the thing-in-itself. There is something contradictory about the concept of the thing-in-itself. The contradiction is not that what is known is not "in-itself" and therefore even if the thing-in-itself exists it is not knowable. The reason that this is not a contradiction is that being in-itself does not imply un-knowability; it does imply, though, that mere apprehension of a thing does not mean that the apprehended-thing is a thing-in-itself. The apprehended thing may be a "thing-in-itself" coincidentally; but the "in-itself-hood" may be required to be known by other means. That this other means is yet "another picture" does not imply that we can not get out of the loop of apprehended-ness
The contradictory aspect is as follows. On an atomic view the assignment of Thinghood to some collection is to some degree conventional because there is always some circumstance in which the "thing" ceases to be a thing. Therefore the only absolute things are [1] atoms or monads and [2] the absolute or the all; all other things are "relative." Further, it is not clear that there are atoms. At least the fundamental building blocks of science [mind, matter] are not clearly fundamental. There may however be a logic of atomism based in the possibility of existence from nothing-hood; such an atomism would be Logical in nature; but the Logic would not stem from given logic or logical systems but from Possibility. At the same time, the relative Thinghood of things does not make them ephemeral [to mortal men.] The Thinghood of things, though relative to an absolute universe-scape, is highly real in a practical way
To understand the noumenon, the thing-in-itself – start with this absolute based in nothing; timeless, it contains the seeds of time; spaceless, it contains the seeds of space
The noumena include the absolute, the one, and the no-thing behind the world. The absolute is equivalent to [the] no-thing. In this sense the world is equivalent to and has origin in the absolute, in the no-thing
The accidental nature of the individual
There is a profusion of philosophies and scientific viewpoints that give accidental status to the existence of the individual. The individual is an ontological accident. This point clearly needs to be separated from the psychology of the individual – one day feeling potent, another day feeling insignificant… separated from the phenomenon of the "powerful" who feel lonely and depressed, the "insignificant" who feel euphoria from an "accident" of brain chemistry. It is not that there is no relationship between true and felt power. One assumes that there is a healthy state where felt power corresponds to real power
But what is real power?
From the equivalence of the world to no-thing, the individual is no more accidental than the entire world, the entire cosmos
There is no power in material things or the material universe. [This refers to Power, not to Watts or something of that nature.]
The Power in things is assigned. Rather, it has a dual status of being assigned and being real that coincide in the healthy person. This generalizes to agency – replace "person" by "agent," "being," "mind…"
Power = Agency
[Power = "healthy" agency.]
Accident or magnificent, regardless, you are real
… and always potential in the womb of being, the absolute, the state of no-Thinghood
1. 1. You are real
2. 2. You are a product of the state of no-Thinghood, of the absolute, of Being
3. 3. You are eternally potential within Being – which as no-thing is unchanging
Note that in any corner of "the" universe there is the potential of eruption of a universe from an infinitesimal part that is no-thing
What, then, is the relationship between the absolute and our world?
4. 1. The structure of our world [including culture, human nature, values, art – but also the natural universe...] is not "necessary"
5. 4. But from the general character of the absolute [no-Thinghood, determinism, indeterminism, structure-variation... emergence], we can understand general features [the principles apply at multi-levels] and conceive change/or accept change based in absolute principles
Is there a role for combinatorial growth?
For the absolute the origin of the world is not an effort or an action?
On Space, Time and Causation
The nature of cause, space, time [space-time] and relationship. Space and time themselves are not real. Relationships are real and space-time is a [mental] grid that is employed in description. Here, a comment on the reality of, say, causation and theories. Both causation and scientific theories are arrived at by induction. We dealt with Hume's and Popper's treatment in Hume's brilliant error where we saw that Hume's mistake was to think of science as necessary truth rather than the process of discovering nature's patterns: as a process it is ongoing and no stage is regarded as final. We may have to be satisfied with the contingency of the predictive ability and the beauty of explanation from science. However, although science is tentative and even if we can find no better foundation of knowledge than representationalism, we are of the world and we assert the existence of patterns and their discernment. Of course, we may be unable to provide an "external" foundation for that discernment but, being of the world, we also realize that the demand for external foundation is unrealistic even if the hope is not. These thoughts apply to causation, theory, and understanding in the realm of our world. But, above, we have been talking about causation in the realm of the entire world: the cosmos and not merely the "physical" cosmos. We saw that there can be no universal causation in the temporal sense that includes The Creation. In fact, although causation my reign in certain realms or epochs that is part of actual the pattern of that realm or epoch and, while it may reign well, its reign is not absolute. For a universe may originate in my eyelash; and that that has not been seen and does not fit with "the pattern" does not mean that it has not happened or could not. We also saw that there can be and is causation in a super-temporal sense. This causation is absolute and necessary though not all-pervasive and is not subject to Hume's argument: it is not the projection or induction of a mind; and, as far it is dependent on mind [presence] it is still necessary since mind [presence] is the heart of being
The universe
There is one universe but there may be causally isolated domains and distinct realms corresponding to different fundamental constituents, different fundamental laws, and different historical branchings
The entire universe is equivalent to nothing. In the manifest phase, it is possible for a spontaneous eruption of an intrusive universe; what is the likelihood?
Suppose we have a complete physical theory of one realm of one causal domain. This does not at once or at all give us a complete science of that domain. If we knew the fundamental physical theory of our universe, we would not thereby be able to predict or understand chemistry, the course of life on earth, the history of humankind or a given society. Complexity and history would remain partially refractory to the physical theory of our universe
Is it possible to write down one "fundamental theory" for the eruption of a universe from nothing; or the possibilities of fundamental constituents and laws of all realms and causal domains? Practically the variety is, likely, an order infinity that means that there is no capturing the essence of reality other than actuality: the actuality of the one universe. Can we say anything theoretically? There must be a Gödelian argument to show that such a kind of completeness cannot be reduced to an algorithm
What are necessary elements of dynamics of an "abstract" universe? Consider elements from [1] The abstract and the general: near symmetry, seeding and repeated structures, the origin of causation, interaction and relation [force-space-time], variety and hierarchy, and [2] The immediate: as below
Using a principle of locality
The foundation of particle, and string / m-theory
Every point of gradient in the universal continuum has it own time. These times are correlated through the dynamics
Using quantum dynamics and physical cosmology
This section, Using quantum dynamics, is not an essential part of this development
The most basic state, the ground state, is the vacuum state which is not void, not nothing, certainly not no-thing. The universe will visit the base state
Between the void and the base state is the a-causal realm before physics and law: likely before 10-43 seconds, the Planck time. It is a "time" of history – history in the sense of something that does not follow a linear, predictable pattern something that is not predicted in the temporal domain but may be understood in retrospect. Something that we often mistake for a pattern and attempt to base design upon it. In the extreme: there is no prediction, no pattern, just pure happening. Again, in the super temporal understanding or realm, where there is democracy among and inevitability of all worlds [literary license: I mean all possibilities], there is that meaning and that sense in which determinism reigns as does causation as more than a projection of a mind
As noted elsewhere, quantum dynamics lends support to the variation + selection paradigm in the causal epochs. Classical dynamics is largely a "variation" paradigm?
Time exists in the quantum vacuum. I.e. there is process; a grid for process would be very irregular. Thus there are "epochs" of time
There is perhaps no co-ordination of process in the a-causal realm before physics and law. In this sense, time has origins
Language, logic, mathematics. Propositions and propositional calculus. Groups…
Linguistic domain…
These are some possibilities for the symbolic representation of the original or near original dynamics
Local and differential dynamics; local and discrete dynamics; co-foundation
A classic map
The Encyclopaedia Britannica provides a classic map. I would modify that map:
§ § According to the metaphysics of presence
§ § According to the principles of Journey in Being; especially the integration of Knowing and Acting
§ § "Psychology" would be replaced by "mind" or "psyche"
§ § The sciences physical through social would be one section
§ § Art, technology, religion would be one
§ § Humanities and the symbolic sciences would be combined as philosophy; the union of the natural and the symbolic would be emphasized
§ § Emphasis on "written record" is arbitrary. History would not, therefore, be the story that it is regarded to be. History, and the story would be written as one
The Nature of Being: approach from the immediate
In the previous section "The World", I approached the "Map" from the high vantage point. Here we look to the immediate. But, details are developed elsewhere
We see that
The essence of the ultimate can be seen and is in all beings. Every being contains that essence
We saw that mind is at the core of being; value or ethics. However, not mind-as-I-know-it nor ethics-as-we-have-it. Rather that appears as a primitive in the "elements of being" described above. That primitive, I called "presence"
Presence corresponds, in the quanta of being, what at the level of our being – animal, human – is the subjective [relation]; but presence also has objective existence. It is not other than matter
This is not the absurd and traditional caricature of pan-psychism that finds "little minds", rather like ours, at the core of being – any more than materialism would be the idea that there are little Empire State Buildings at the core of matter. Also, note that materialism ought to be called pan-materialism. The materialists are sophisticated with regard to matter but [deliberately?] primitive with regard to the understanding of mind
So: mind is part of Mind; being part of Being
Good and evil [though not good-and-evil-as-we-have-immediate-and-enculturated-experience-of-it] is at the core of being, at the core of the elements of being. Fact and value are not distinct
Comment on the immediate
Although the suffix -as-I-know-it seems to make things complex it is simplifying. First, we do not become committed to mind-as-I-know-it, matter-as-I-know-it… as ontologies. Second, it clears the way for universal understanding through abstraction and the transcendental analytic. The transcendental analytic is, in one essence, argument from effect to cause, from circumstance to foundation… The abstraction cancels the loss from the accidents of history. As far as interpretation, one can think of the results of transcendental argument as fact or explanatory principle. The transcendental analytic sounds esoteric and is often presented as such "Kant's introduction of a first truly philosophical mode of argument." But, that kind of argument pervades our every moment to moment existence under the guise of intelligibility and discovery
But, if I step back from the "-as-I-know-it" as something fixed; we can see the identity of mind and matter even in the proximate realm
The Nature of Death / on Immortality
The foundation of the universe, of all being in "nothing" immediately calls into question the nature of death. What is death? The various biological, medical and legal definitions of death, though necessary and practical, are not to the point. What is the concept of death? Absolute cessation of being?
The foundation of being in nothing: being is connected to, merged with, part of Being. Death is cessation, but not final cessation. While death is cessation, here and now it is also a door to the ultimate. But, not the only door. There is no need to imagine cycles and hypercycles of birth and death. Hypercycles? They are the cycling of being, through Being, through BEING, through BEING. And, also, the achievement of greater perspectives: individual life, the perspective over multiple lives, over all being
Now consider the fact of an individual's existence – your existence. You are here, alive, sentient and existing as such. You were born. If you always existed despite the appearance to the contrary, birth is not associated with coming to be, to exist. Therefore, assume that you did not exist at some time before your birth. You came into existence from a place where you did not exist. The fact of your existence shows that your coming into existence from non-existence is possible in this universe. Therefore, it is possible again. One could argue that the universe has changed slightly and therefore it does not follow that your coming to be is possible again. That seems to be splitting hairs, the universe has not truly changed that much. But, it can be argued, an individual is unique and so coming into existence again is, at least, unlikely. That assumes, however, that the universe itself is a unique event in some sense – it will cease to exist or be subject to an eternal frozen fate at some time in the future. But, the idea of the universe being a unique event itself is subject to the same argument regarding the individual. If the universe will die, it can be born. If it can be born, it can be born once more. If it can be born once more, you can be once more
Death and suicide are conceptual in nature. From the point of view of the real, i.e. not from the usual cultural vantage point, the concepts of death and suicide as commonly held are laden with delusion
Death is not absolute; death is the door to the infinite
The universe is equivalent to nothing. That is not merely logical: the universe could have come into being from nothing. You are part of that which came into being from nothing. The probability that you will come into being in some specific manifestation is more than zero. Therefore, the probability that you will manifest again in the infinite number of future manifestations is "one," i.e., your future [and past] manifestations are certain; and certain over and over again. There is always the potential for a universe to manifest that has no contact with this universe. But it will always have the potential to interact with this universe. It will not be a truly distinct universe. There is one universe but there may be infinitely many causally separate "universes." Causal separation at one time does not imply causal separation in eternity
The argument so far produces a result that is not interesting. All individuals will manifest again, and again… In this manifestation one is not aware of other manifestations. I know people who claim to have lived before but have never met anyone who claims to be aware of past lives. The claim is of the form "because I instantly recognized something – a place, a person – I must have known it before." I tend to view with suspicion claims of actual knowledge of past existence by human beings. I cannot "rationally" discount those claims and there may be some prejudice involved – they are uneducated, I find them uninteresting… Perhaps I find my own thoughts on "immortality" more real, more interesting. The realm of the possible is more interesting – because I can do something with the possible. Regardless of the truth, assume that human beings do not have awareness of past lives. Then, the result so far is not interesting because the argument merely shows the eternal rebirth of the same being – or a similar being who knows nothing, truly, of eternity and possibility. Even if one were aware, the result would be quite boring – rather like having only one cinema and seeing it again and again. Eternal rebirth would not be quite as boring as that – there could be an infinite number of you and you could meet: think of the possibilities. And if you have been able to create some novel, grand ideas or machines in one life think of what might be possible with an infinite number of you. It might be interesting, it might be quite dull
What will make the eternal cycle interesting, exciting? The possibility that the individual could come back in different forms – including some forms of which we are not currently aware. As a being that can see or even integrates past and future existences – a "higher" form and the limit: the individual manifests as all being. It does not seem at all impossible but it does not follow in the clockwork way that eternal rebirth follows. Since all being is equivalent to nothing, there is some reason to the claim that a frog is the equivalents of tiger or a human of a dolphin or of a star, but that reason applies only to actual beings and not to ones imagined to be possible
For that argument we have to turn to an alternative approach in the following section The Dynamics of Being and of the Real. That section will show a much more interesting, exciting form of higher being, of the immortal – one of which no actual being has guarantee. That is, indeed, more exciting for anything that is guaranteed is, in the end, dull. That is not totally true. Familiarity can be good. But the actuality in the present case is a middle ground. Even if "destiny" is guaranteed its security, time, place, manner of achievement are uncertain, require effort, labor, application of the full faculties of the whole organism
First, however, note that it is important to consider the form of immortality. Eternal rebirth of a rather ignorant being [human being is quite limited so far especially in the perceptual realm – of course the limit is not absolute because we do not know the true boundaries of human being] is not true immortality. The form of immortal is: that which is and truly knows that it is immortal
There is a similar issue regarding "God." There are circles in which it is considered to be in bad taste to discuss God: it is a personal issue – certainly not one that has any academic value… discussing God would be a pollution of academic or of rational values. But what is it that we are not to discuss? It is an idea – and to say it is an idea is not a commitment to existence or non-existence of a corresponding object. For example, God is the god of some religion. That may be a rather confused concept because the canons of religion are not logical treatises; but we can tolerate contradiction – a confused concept is a concept. We can focus on some relatively clear aspect of the God of [a] religion. I will not do that here because the God of religion is tied up in historical accident – that does not mean that the idea is devoid of power – and politics of various kinds
In the 11th century, St. Anselm said "that than which nothing greater can be conceived" must exist in fact as well as in thought, for if it existed only in thought and not in fact, something greater than it could be conceived, namely the same thing existing in fact. God necessarily exists, because the idea of God is the idea of that than which nothing greater can be conceived. This is the argument later known as the ontological proof. This is an argument that uses the form of the idea. However, we cannot jump from the argument from form to the form of the scripture. There is, however, a real problem with arguments from form and that includes the kind of argument given here. There are in fact, two problems. First, the meaning of terms of comparison is unclear – what does "greater" mean? Second, linguistic designation need not imply existence. Consider "that than which nothing greater can be conceived." Assume it exists only in thought. Now "something greater than it, the same thing existing in fact" – is that a concept? It is not clear that it is
The Creative Principle
Human being is of the universe. The creative "principle" [not to be reified] behind creation and evolution is, in human being, conscious. Is this the limit to that creative principle?
Likely not. This does not imply that the ultimate is not accessible to human being
The universe may become a conscious designer
What does this say about mechanism vs. teleology?
In that ultimate state, what next? It is the realization of the state that is significant rather than the state
Beyond the ultimate, there is again, the a-causal realm. There is no design or designing in that realm. Nor is there mechanism or teleology
Should we call that ultimate state, God? Or, should we say that god as the creative principle permeates all being. Or that god and God are equivalent though not identical? And, why use "god" at all?
There is a role for the ultimate. It may design a reduction not quite to the a-causal realm but to a near place from which evolution to a higher phase of being is more likely, the ultimate of that phase beyond the previous ultimate. These relative ultimates may or may not be capped; if capped, that defines the Ultimate
Note on June 6, 2003: nothingness requires no imposed creative principle; it that is not nothingness which is required to be given or fixed even if it is a given zero
The Dynamics of Being and of the Real
This is the approach to understanding the concept of limits and the actual limits of [human] being. From: an understanding of knowledge as actually and conceptually bound with action; from experiment with knowledge and with [one's] being; from the testing of possibility; from an understanding of the temporal and spatial boundaries of being… we come to approach the understanding and knowledge of the limited reality of limits
Other Approaches
The two above are sufficient to provide a foundation of a map of the world
It is not necessary for a separate approach from "mind", from "matter", from "physics", from "biology", from "culture, society", from "ethics", from categories and substances… these are of course interesting, provide elaborations
Saturday 10.13.01
This is about what is real for me and what is important – and places I might travel. If you are thinking geography in its literal sense then you should be interpreting 'map' also metaphorically
I want this to be simple, from the heart. I was thinking first of myself in my immediate world – my feelings, what I want as a human being with a desire for love, comfort, hardship as it comes my way or in the service of some ideal… as I walk at work and in the forest. This comes first – and since it comes from the heart, it is real: I can use explanation but this is alien to proof. But, my immediate world is in, is integral with, is of, is connected to, is the larger world which is also my world. That, too, will be part of the map
I am wanting to put down the simple picture, the intuition, that is the dynamic world of how I live and act – a world of intuition, feeling, imagination, words – many elements all a little too complex for any rationality based only in abstract symbols. Sometimes these elements control the center… and at other times the center is the primary influence and the elements include the unconsciousness which has many meanings
[Sometimes we use the word 'conscious' when 'verbal' ought to be used. And, so, when feeling enters it seems to have an unconscious origin.]
Some elements of the map:
§ § Visible – forest / trees / pine needles
§ § Dynamic – relates change in being to cause and cause to being… and world: at least on an intuitive level
§ § Cycles through – the primitive elements of myself / the ultimate
§ § Recognizes, holds the identity: Atman = Brahman
§ § All modes of thought, feeling, perception, experience, intention, action, including the unconscious and the sub-conscious
And, finally,
§ § The metaphysics of "presence"
The essence of all being is in every being. Every being contains the essence of all being. This is implied by the metaphysics of presence and by the principle that all being taken cumulatively is equivalent to nothing. All beings participate in the ultimate. The ultimate can be seen and read in every being. Existence requires delusion
Points incorporated by the map and the metaphysics of presence
The following points have been incorporated and may be eliminated. They are maintained for possible future use
§ § Abandonment of universal causation and, therefore, obviously of any thought of determinism
§ § Therefore, all being º nothing [ B º F ]. This is trivial in view of the absence of universal determinism, causation and mechanism. That is, mechanism, causation, determinism are products rather than the generators of original creation
§ § "Transient" existence based in selection of repeated near stable, near symmetric structures [near symmetry makes history and evolution possible]. Regarding transience, what is a moment to God may be an ¥ to a finite being
§ § There is a way for structure to arise from indeterminism, absence of causation. This is described in the previous point and above. This is contrary to what many have written: that, while determinism may be empty since it does not allow choice, indeterminism is also empty because it does not allow form or the creation of form. But, the error of the argument that indeterminism does not allow form or the creation of form has been made manifest. Additionally, while form is consistent with determinism the creation of form is not
§ § Mind is at the core of being. Value at the core of existence. But, not in the forms of mind-as-we-have-it or value-as-we-have-it
§ § From the point of view of a mind that consciously sees across from one epoch, one moment of universal-existence to another far removed: universal causation and determinism at a super-temporal level. The metaphysics of presence shows the possibility of this kind of mind
§ § The dynamics of being and the real
§ § The nature of cause, space, time [space-time] and relationship. Space and time themselves are not real. Relationships are real and space-time is a [mental] grid that is employed in description. Here, a comment on the reality of, say, causation and theories. Both causation and scientific theories are arrived at by induction. We dealt with Hume's and Popper's treatment in Hume's brilliant error where we saw that Hume's mistake was to think of science as necessary truth rather than the process of discovering nature's patterns: as a process it is ongoing and no stage is regarded as final. We may have to be satisfied with the contingency of the predictive ability and the beauty of explanation from science. However, although science is tentative and even if we can find no better foundation of knowledge than representationalism, we are of the world and we assert the existence of patterns and their discernment. Of course, we may be unable to provide an "external" foundation for that discernment but, being of the world, we also realize that the demand for external foundation is unrealistic even if the hope is not. These thoughts apply to causation, theory, and understanding in the realm of our world. But, above, we have been talking about causation in the realm of the entire world: the cosmos and not merely the "physical" cosmos. We saw that there can be no universal causation in the temporal sense that includes The Creation. In fact, although causation my reign in certain realms or epochs that is part of actual the pattern of that realm or epoch and, while it may reign well, its reign is not absolute. For a universe may originate in my eyelash; and that that has not been seen and does not fit with "the pattern" does not mean that it has not happened or could not. We also saw that there can be and is causation in a super-temporal sense. This causation is absolute and necessary though not all-pervasive and is not subject to Hume's argument: it is not the projection or induction of a mind; and, as far it is dependent on mind [presence] it is still necessary since mind [presence] is the heart of being
A Map of My World: My Immediate World
My immediate world is the world I live in and what has importance, meaning to me. Meaning can be clarified, enhanced; but I was born with the capacity for meaning. That requires no justification. It would be nice to show that meaning and the ability for meaning are not accidental and alien. The metaphysics of presence and its logic show just that; that is nice but not necessary for me to have and find meaning. The usual distinctions need to be made: meaning-as-I-experience-it and Meaning; the historical [non-linear, contingent, lacking in predictability] or temporal origin of meaning vs. meaning at a super-temporal level
Meaning is both created and given. The logic behind that that statement is the logic of the Metaphysics of Presence
Meaning is created by the universe. It is jointly created by individuals and the world; individuals, minds, the world are in the universe
The appearance of meaning is meaning. This has a deep and a cheap interpretation
My world, in a casual sense, is my immediate world – the world I live and what has importance, meaning to me; and my knowing and knowledge of that world and the ability to know that makes negotiation, participation in the construction of meaning and of my own being possible
Here is what has significance for me – it is an answer to the question of who I am:


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Decided to take a day off from legs, since I've been killing them lately. But kept with my upper body and abs workouts. Today I had a chance to get to the gym. Most of these moves were done with 10-12lbs dumbbells besides the low rows.
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Every New Year's Day (Shogatsu) in Japan, the nation plays Kaltas or Hiyaku Nin Ishu (A Hundred Poems by a Hundred Poets), a card game in which players must match the halves of a hundred poems. Derived from an eighth-century anthology of poems (tanka) that was converted into its present-day card set in the fifteenth century, the game is a traditional New Year's entertainment, and children throughout the country still memorize the series of poems in school.
Chris has now written an alternative set of cards––the Shibuya Set! (THE KANTOCLES: A Hundred Verses by One Hundred Shibuyan Sages). Walking around his neighborhood of Shibuya, the indisputable hub of Tokyo, he chose fifty guys and fifty girls from the streets and wrote poems as if each one was in the voice of each of those characters, with Chris serving as the conduit for those many voices.
Now Chris is collaborating with the photographer Yuriko Takagi (who has worked extensively with the fashion designer Isse Miyake) to compile a bilingual visual set (translated by Yusuke Nakanishi) that will be released in the coming year.
Think of it: In a thousand years' time the nation will be settling down on New Year's Day to play their traditional game of Kaltas––but those eighth-century sages will have been updated, for out will come the cards (the wham-bam-bombardment version)––the Shibuya Set!


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With India having already sealed a place in the finals and Afghanistan already eliminated, few would have expected the game to have piqued as much interest as it eventually did. Afghan keeper-batsman Mohammad Shahzad produced a scintillating hundred as the two teams Tied the match on September 25, in Dubai. The toss was won by Afghanistan, wherein there was a surprising albeit familiar sight in the form of MS Dhoni standing-in for Rohit Sharma in his 200th ODI as a captain.
Of the opening stand of 65, Shahzad scored 56 runs while his partner Javed Ahmadi could only score a meager 5 off 30 deliveries. The introduction of the spin duo of Ravindra Jadeja and Kuldeep Yadav brought smiles back into the Indian dressing room as they began dismantling the Afghan top and middle order, reducing them from 65/0 in the 13th over to 82/4 in the 16th. Gulbadin Naib forged a 50-run partnership with the swashbuckling Shahzad but perished off a Chahar delivery while on 15. After Nabi's departure, India did extremely well to peg Afghanistan back, conceding merely 9 runs off the final 3 overs, restricting Afghanistan to 252/8. Shahzad was obviously the pick of the batsmen with his 124 off 116 balls, complete with 11 boundaries and 7 towering sixes, giving his idol Dhoni a lot to worry about throughout the innings. Jadeja and Kuldeep were the picks of the Indian bowlers, returning with figures of 3/46 and 2/38 off their quota of 10 overs respectively.
Chasing 253 off their 50, India looked set on course for yet another comfortable victory in the Asia Cup. The opening duo put on a stand of 110 within 18 overs, scoring twin half-centuries with ease. However, Rayudu's dismissal in the 18th over brought forth a slew of wickets as the Afghan spinners tore into the Indian middle order Dinesh Karthik tried to hold fort at one end, knocking the ball around en route to a sedate 66-ball 44, before being caught leg-before by Nabi, which was seen in replays to have been a dubious decision by the umpire. That left India at 207/6 at the end of the 40th over, with the required run rate in control, but Jadeja being the only recognized batsman left. The pressure from the Afghan bowlers also ensured that the required rate crept up, and with 3 overs remaining, India needed 17 with 3 wickets in hand and Jadeja and Kuldeep at the crease. Captain Asghar Afghan then turned to Rashid Khan, his ace, to bowl the 48th and 50th overs.
The last over Jadeja with 7 to win off Rashid's last over with tail-ender Khaleel for company. However, the tension seemed all for naught when Jadeja hoiked the second ball over mid-wicket, for what looked like a score-leveling sixer, but was judged by the third umpire to be merely a boundary. A couple of singles off subsequent deliveries brought India's score level at 252. However, off the fifth ball, needing merely one run to win, Jadeja- who had till they made a very sensible 25 – managed to hole out to Najibullah Zadran, the only man Asghar had left outside the 30-yard circle. Zadran came running in to catch Jadeja's mistimed shot and kept running with the smile of a victor, smiles that were shared by the entire Afghan team. They may not have won a single match in the Super Four stage of the Asia Cup, but their spirited performances showed that they belonged on the stage, and the tie against India ensures that they would at least take a point home from the contest.
Shahzad was deservedly awarded the Man-of-the-Match award, with his swashbuckling effort in the midst of wickets collapsing at the other end, winning plaudits all around. India, meanwhile, would be licking their wounds from this tie, seeking solace from the fact that it was a second-string side they featured, as they look forward to tomorrow's clash between Bangladesh and Pakistan to see who it is that shall face them in the final.


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On the 5th June, 1975, the British public voted in a referendum regarding membership to the EEC, The European Economic Community, which was founded on the 25th March 1957 by Benelux, France, West Germany and Italy and sold to the British nation as a free trade agreement between member states. The sinister agenda of the EEC was intentionally kept secret from the British public, by Prime Minister Edward Heath and Margaret Thatcher, as they were well aware, even then that the masses would not accept a policy of an "ever closer political union in Europe" which was the agenda from day one!
On the 13th March, 1979, the ERM, European Exchange Rate Mechanism was founded, with the intention of reducing exchange rate volatility in Europe and bringing the countries closer to economic union. The UK did not join at that point, as that was just after the 'Winter of discontent' and our economy was in pieces. We did however join the ERM in October 1990, but this was to prove catastrophic for the UK, it led to us being plunged in to a recession that lasted for 5 quarters, which was then followed by months without any growth, until one day, on the 16th September 1992, known as 'Black Wednesday' our currency was under attack by speculators, the Chancellor Norman Lamont doubled interest rates and was then left with no alternative but to leave the ERM.
That should have been a lesson in Geo-Economics, but it was not. Spurred on by the staggering cost of re-unification, Germany was determined to exploit the economies of other European nations, to save itself from bankruptcy. In the first instance, Germany continued to champion the ERM, which as this point was directly leading to the introduction of the Euro.
The first part of Germany's plan was to champion the accession of Turkey as a European Union trading partner in 1995. This would allow Turkey to trade freely with Europe, without joining, this would give Germany a source of cheap goods and manufacturing, but also, without being restricted by EU bureaucracy, Turkey had a trading advantage over the European states. This was to become a major factor in the decline of many industries in southern Europe.
The Euro was introduced as an electronic currency on the 1st January 1999, with physical currency coming in to circulation on the 1st January 2002. This was good for Europe wasn't it?
Germany was still struggling with the cost of reunification and therefore, on entry in the Euro, Germany pulled one of the greatest economic acts of deception on history, it entered the Euro, significantly undervalued, in terms of trading within the EU, this was HUGE. This meant, that the German people had a sense of poverty and needed financial prudence, whilst other nations that joined at a higher rate, suddenly had a false sense of wealth, that encouraged them to spend more. Also, due to the fact that Germany had entered much lower than it should, German goods appeared cheaper and therefore they outsold many other European goods. The other countries needed assistance to keep purchasing, but Germany was happy to lend to them and slowly, enslave them to debt.
Germany pulled one of the greatest economic acts of deception on history
Fast forward 2 decades and the southern European nations have lost most of their textile and light industries to Europe, they are in serious debt to Germany, they have lost control of issues that matter most, but worst of all, after 2 decades of left wing in-doctrine, many people now believe that we would be cast in to economic wilderness without the EU, this is simply not true.
European leaders who are not elected, not accountable to anyone and conduct their decision making in private, without even having minutes of their meetings recorded. People are under the illusion that just because there is a European Parliament, that the EU is a Democracy……..IT IS NOT! It is one of the most arrogant, authoritarian and corrupt institution in the Western world.
European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker says 'stupid nationalists' are 'in love with their country' & hate foreigners
Leaving the EU would offer a chance to put the UK in charge of our own destiny and laws again — and restore our status as a sovereign nation.
According to the Commons Library, up to 60 per cent of regulations originate from the EU and the 28-member Commission in Brussels — none of whom were elected. Britain's Commissioner, Lord (Jonathan) Hill, is a former lobbyist and Tory researcher who has never stood for elected office in his life. Nor had his predecessor, Cathy Ashton, a Labour appointee and Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament official.
We'd be free to negotiate our own trade deals — especially with the world's emerging new economies.
Since we import £89 billion of goods more annually from other EU countries than we sell to them, the EU stands to lose more than Britain if it seeks to impose tariffs post-Brexit. We are a crucial export market for Germany, the EU's most powerful country, which would be the post-Brexit deal-maker.
There are an estimated 3.3 million British jobs 'linked' to our membership of the EU. By the same measure, there are more than five million jobs on the Continent that are linked to trade with Britain. This includes one million jobs in Germany, 494,000 in France, 309,000 in Italy and 421,000 in Spain.
We pay far more into the EU budget than we get back — making a net contribution of around £8.5 billion last year (£23 million a day), which is more than we spend on the police service or border controls.
The NHS costs £8.5 billion a month and the Health Service would get an extra £5 billion a year as a result of Brexit.
Also, almost £1 billion of British cash goes to the EU for international aid.
Currently there's no upper limit on migration and no proper control of our borders. More than three million EU migrants live in the UK — double the number in 2004 when the EU expanded to include Eastern European countries, who have sent more than a million people here (despite the last Labour Government saying it would be only 13,000 a year.)
Net migration from EU countries to the UK, according to official figures, is 184,000 a year — enough to fill a city the size of Oxford. David Cameron has never hit his target to reduce net migration to the tens of thousands — and most agree he never will if we remain inside the EU.
Under EU law, we must let in any EU citizen regardless of their qualifications. The result? Businesses can't get work permits for highly skilled or educated people from the Commonwealth, U.S., Australia and elsewhere outside the EU.
Using a new points-system, every applicant to live here would be treated on their merit rather than on their nationality. Equally, we'd be able to accept more genuine refugees.
Parliament is powerless, under EU treaties, to defend itself against the rulings of the European Court of Justice — which has interfered in everything from the price of beer to the right to deport terror suspects.
The UK has lost three-quarters of the cases it's challenged since 1973. This makes a mockery of the idea that the UK's Supreme Court is supreme.
Thanks to Brussels diktats, some of the EU's most evil killers, rapists and drug-dealers have been allowed to remain here — because their right to free movement has been put ahead of keeping the British public safe.
A report by the Labour-led Commons Home Affairs Committee said the number of foreign criminals who had not been deported could fill a 'small town'. British jails hold almost 10,000 foreign prisoners — including 1,000 Poles.
UK law stops anyone from outside the EU entering Britain if their presence is deemed 'not conducive to the public good', but Brussels says EU citizens can only be turned away if there is a 'serious, credible and present threat'.
Thus the list of criminals able to come here include a Latvian who murdered his wife before moving to the UK, where he killed a 14-year-old girl. Over the past decade, UK officials have only been able to turn away 11,000 EU nationals.
The EU's Frontex border security agency has warned that jihadists are exploiting the Union's open borders and the migrant crisis to sneak into the continent and plot atrocities. Two of the attackers responsible for last year's outrages in Paris used exactly this approach.
The British head of Europol also said that as many as 5,000 Islamic State-trained jihadists are moving freely in Europe. And Sir Richard Dearlove, ex-head of MI6, said we could be safer outside of the EU as it would be easier to deport fanatics. Leaving the EU would still allow us to work with U.S. intelligence agencies — as the so-called gold standard 'Five Eyes' intelligence-sharing partnership consists of Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the U.S. and the UK.
David Cameron has repeatedly refused to drop his government's support for Turkey — which has 77 million citizens — joining the EU.
Yet he's said that at the current rate it won't join until the year 3000 — despite the European Commission announcing last week that Turkey's membership application was being 'accelerated'.
Before the referendum campaign, the PM said his wish was to 'pave the road from Ankara [Turkey's capital]' to Brussels. Turkish citizens are already being given visa-free access to mainland Europe after a deal that saw the Turks getting £4.6 billion in aid.
Campaign group Migration Watch has warned an extra 100,000 Turks would flock to Britain every year if the predominantly Muslim country joined the EU.
Last year — for the 21st year running! — the EU Court of Auditors admitted that Brussels expenditure was compromised by irregularities, with 'a persistently high level of payment errors, which means too much money is still not spent in accordance with the EU's financial rules'.
By the end of last year, the UK economy was 6.8 per cent larger than it was at the start of 2008, whereas the EU economy was only 1.9 per cent bigger (France's grew by 2.9 per cent and Italy's is 8.8 per cent smaller than in 2008)).
Also, unemployment in the UK is five per cent — less than half the 10.2 per cent jobless rate in the eurozone. (In Greece, it is 24 per cent — with youth unemployment at a desperate 51 per cent — and 20 per cent in Spain).
Treasury research has shown that the EU's 'single market' rules could impose costs of seven per cent of GDP on the UK economy. At £125 billion a year, that's the equivalent of £4,639 per household. Only 6 per cent of British companies export to the EU — but all must comply with EU 'single market' legislation.
Small businesses — the lifeblood of our economy — suffer most, whereas big firms can lobby Brussels.
Freedom of movement rules mean we have no idea many foreigners settle here — which means it's impossible to plan the necessary health, education, transport and housing requirements for them. This has led to intense pressures for anyone trying to get a school place for their child or a GP appointment.
Rents are rising and first-time buyers struggle to get on the housing ladder as prices soar and supply diminishes.
With five more nations — Turkey, Serbia, Montenegro, Albania and Macedonia — hoping to join the EU, this will only get worse.
According to its own statistics, 1.3 million people claimed asylum in the EU last year. Some 363,000 came from Syria. Applicants who get EU citizenship are free to move to the UK.
Despite contributing 12.5 per cent of the overall EU budget, the UK sees just 7 per cent of the Common Agricultural Policy budget spent here. By contrast, France gets 16.4 per cent, Spain 11.6 per cent, Germany 11.3 per cent, Italy 10.1 per cent and Poland 8.8 per cent.
The EU's farm subsidy system meant that prior to 2003, the so-called Single Farm Payment was linked to how much farmers produced — leading to massive over-production and waste.
Now, farmers don't have to produce a set amount — they are paid automatically for keeping land in 'agricultural condition'. As a result, it's been reported wealthy landowners absurdly get Brussels payments for having pony paddocks.
Following the EU's ban on incandescent light-bulbs, many people suffered epilepsy from the flickering, supposedly eco-friendly fluorescent bulbs. Equally controversially, vacuum cleaners sold in the EU have been limited to an output of 1,600 watts. This directive is expected to be extended to kettles, toasters, hair-dryers and other domestic appliances.
Under EU rules, once a product is liable for VAT, any EU member government is not allowed to abolish that tax without Brussels' approval. Thus, the lowest VAT Westminster can impose is 5 per cent — which imposes hardship on some British families with VAT charged at 5 per cent on energy bills. (Our Government even had to seek permission to scrap the levy charged on tampons.) Brussels pockets around 0.3 per cent of VAT paid.
EU membership has devastated our fishing industry — halving the number of fisherman to fewer than 12,000 since 1975. Under international law, each nation enjoys an 'Exclusive Economic Zone' extending 200 miles from its coast. However, the Common Fisheries Policy pools the zones of member states into a single zone.
The first 12 miles is restricted to a nation's own fishermen, but the area from 12 miles to 200 miles is open to the fleets of any EU member state.
Spanish vessels last year got a quota of 15,546 tonnes of hake for a large area of the Atlantic off Scotland while UK vessels were allowed just 7,131 tonnes. Leaving the EU would allow us to fish our own waters — and breathe new life into harbour towns.
These are the words of Jean-Claude Juncker, basically saying that his is not concerned with Europeans, he is more concerned about the migrants pouring in from Asia and Africa, which is part of the bigger plan of course.
They don't like those coming from far away, I like those coming from far away… we have to act in solidarity with those who are in a worse situation than we are in. Jean-Claude Juncker
As we have seen from the behaviour of EU officials as well as Pro-EU campaigners, they cannot construct a logical argument and in true cultural Marxist fashion they resort to abuse, insults, name calling and labels. Racist, Fascist, Xenophobe and many more. Leavers have been making an argument to leave, why they want to leave and what they would want, the remainers on the other hand, have revealed their contempt for Democracy, for the Nanny-state, for thought control which has always been the same. There has never been a period in history when so many people are using their democratic right, to vote for an end to Democracy!
'Today... should have been the day we left the EU': Geoffrey Cox tells MPs it is 'last chance' to deliver Brexit as Boris U-turns AGAIN to say he will back May's deal in decisive vote - after No 10 warns alternative is a FIVE-YEAR delay and an election
It is my assertion that May was put in to sabotage Brexit. She was a remainer, she has close ties with the Rothschilds who are behind open borders and world government, so there is no way that this woman should have been put in charge of this sensitive process.
The first thing she did was to throw away her majority by calling an election when she had no reason to, then she has allowed nearly THREE YEARS to pass, in which time the fanatical remain camp has been waging a war of fear and disaster in every way possible. We now have an army of fanatical people desperately upset because we do not want to give up our sovereignty.
Most people do not actually realise that we DO NOT need a deal, WE ARE the deal, the EU needs the UK more than the UK needs the EU, trade is covered by the WTO and trade, employment agreements are not the issue here, the issue is that the political classes do not want us to leave.
On March the 25th, Greece was celebrating its independence day from the Ottomans, (even though they have since handed ultimate sovereignty to the EU) yet the UK had people protesting to RELINQUISH our independence!
Let that sink in!
Had we left with a hard Brexit back in 2016, the dust would have settled in a matter of weeks and everything would have been running smoothly since. I doubt very much that we will leave now, we will either be fobbed off with a reversible token gesture, or May will call an election which will be won on the basis of a second referendum (on that note, why do we not use the same argument with a general election, after all, 2/3 years later, we could argue that many people who voted have died and all those how have reached 18 since the last election need a voice?) and the next referendum will be won by remainers, not because they are a larger number, but because they are fanatical in their will to give up our sovereignty and at the same time, disillusioned Brexiteers will not bother to vote, after all…………….what's the point?
May's Brexit deal is CRUSHED: PM suffers biggest government defeat EVER by 230 votes as Tory rebels join forces with Labour in Commons showdown – and now she faces no-confidence battle
Mr Corbyn said the confidence vote would allow the Commons to "give its verdict on the sheer incompetence of this government". A Democratic Unionist Party source has told the BBC's Laura Kuenssberg they will back Mrs May in a confidence vote. In normal times, such a crushing defeat on a key piece of government legislation would be expected to be followed by a prime ministerial resignation. But Mrs May signalled her intention to carry on in a statement immediately after the vote.
"The House has spoken and this government will listen," she told MPs.
She offered cross-party talks to determine a way forward on Brexit. President of the European Council, Donald Tusk, said he regretted the outcome of the vote and that he urged the UK government to "clarify its intentions with respect to its next steps as soon as possible"
If MPs vote to back a no confidence motion, the government, or anyone else who can command a majority, would get 14 days to win a further confidence vote. If they can't win that, a general election will be then held. Some 118 Conservative MPs voted with the opposition parties against Mrs May's deal
In my opinion, it was a mistake to appoint a 'Remainer' to be the ambassador for Brexit, why did she call an election when she didn't need to, giving away her majority, this has done little more than to give the UK nearly three years of uncertainty, with our pound slipping constantly and people not knowing where they stand.
Had she incorporated all EU law in to British law immediately, rather than announcing that policy months later, then making emergency provisions for a hard Brexit, the dust would have settled long ago. Instead, we have been subjected to months and months of scaremongering, uncertainty and division.
We are not out of the woods yet!
Lexit the Movie: there is a big lie we want to challenge, and we need your help to do it, and we need to do it fast.
Politicians and journalists up and down the country have a simple message for you: voting Leave is for eccentric Tories and nationalist UKIPers. Voting Remain is for decent, progressive, internationalist Labour folk.
This is a falsehood, a very big one. And we're going to make a film to explain why.
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Women must realize that pregnancy is a great phase in their lives and they must focus on staying healthy. Pregnant women must follow strict dietary plans for a healthy baby and pregnancy that is easy and free from undesirable complications. Right from conception to the delivery, it is important for a woman to pay special attention to her diet for ensuring the healthy growth of her baby.
In pregnancy, your doctor would be advising you to boost your overall calorie intake. You need to consume a lot of veggies and fruits in order to get the required minerals and Vitamins. Pregnancy necessitates a well-balanced diet so that the body is strong enough to withstand the stress and pressure due to pregnancy. Let us explore the chief reasons why iron supplements play a pivotal role during pregnancy and they must be consumed for a smooth pregnancy and a healthy full-term baby.
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The PCR or the Polymerase Chain Reaction helps in the prenatal diagnosis of fetal anomalies. PCR seems to be a cost-effective method and also, completely automated. It is great for invasive prenatal diagnosis at reasonable rates. It is important for pregnant women to go through all necessary tests to rule out any fetal issues. Get in touch with https://www.mybiosource.com/ for affordable medical testing methods. You could avail high-quality ELISA Kits, peptides, antibodies, and proteins from this reputed resource, a one-stop-shop that provides research reagents.
- Basic Constituent of Blood: Hemoglobin, chief constituent of blood is made up of iron. It helps the blood to transport oxygen to the different parts of your body. Moreover, the fetus would be requiring iron for making blood for itself.
- Build Immunity: Iron supplements need to be consumed for fortifying immunity for the mom and the baby. Immunity is integral to staying healthy by keeping diseases and illnesses at bay. If the mother has a robust immune system she could be preventing all sorts of illnesses not only to herself but also for her baby.
- Manufacture Enzymes: Iron is necessary for the production of important enzymes that help in the smooth running of the human body. Enzymes are used in various functions of the body.
- Build the Connective Tissue: Iron is required for the synthesis of a protein known as myoglobin that is known to supply oxygen to not only the muscles but also other connective tissues.
- Make Additional Blood: During pregnancy, your body would be requiring more blood as compared to normal times. So you must consume iron supplements as prescribed by your doctor so that there is a production of some extra blood.
- Necessary for the Fetus: Iron supplements are required by the fetus during your pregnancy's second and third trimesters. The fetus would need adequate iron for building its muscles and synthesizing proteins. Most doctors would be boosting the iron dosage during this stage.
- Reduce Risks Associated with Pregnancy: If the pregnant lady has an adequate supply of iron in her blood, it would automatically mean that the risk of pregnancy-related complications would be reduced to a great extent. Moreover, adequate blood supply makes sure that the mother is clinically in perfect condition in the event of blood loss during delivery.
It is a good idea to strictly stick to your gynecologist's guidelines who would be recommending you the right dosage of an iron supplement that would be suitable for your needs. Remember to abstain from self-medication. Do not exceed the daily dosage of iron as excessive iron is supposed to be quite harmful to your system.
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Making The Choice Between School & My Mental Health
Learning to come to terms with allowing my health to come before my education
For as long as I can possibly remember, I've always wanted to do everything all at once. I wanted to be the emotional equivalent of Wonder Woman. I've been like this since I was a child and it's most likely some overcompensation of ability due to me being disabled.
In my sophomore year of college, I was diagnosed with depression. It was no surprise because I'd dealt with those feelings as a kid. However, I thought my depression would just go away with medication and I continued with school as if everything was cool. Except it wasn't and that was proven when I failed out of school.
See, even though I was mentally ignoring my depression: my body wasn't and for the longest time I wondered why I didn't see the obvious back then: I was suffering from burnout. Physically, mentally, emotionally, I was maxed out as a human (as is common with mental illness)
Depression is a monster. So is college and I see now, I should've battled one monster at a time, but I didn't because I wanted to maintain my Wonder Woman status. In life that happens, in the society we live in now; lots of people take on a lot and forget the word "No" exists. We go and go and go, but sometimes don't realize until we feel like absolute shit.
My sophomore year is a blur, I can't even tell you how old I was; I only remember certain (and sometimes painful) moments and in all honesty, a part of me is glad because it's almost as if my brain protected itself from something I would still be hurting from. The only thing, I wish I understood was that my health was ten times more important than my education, I still would've graduated a year later like I did anyway, but I would've done it healthier.
Burnout sucks and for the sake of all sanity, you have to avoid it. It's just tiredness or extreme fatigue, it's aches and pains and not eating. There is only one of you on this planet, and no one takes up the slack of living for you, so take care of you, learn to say no to others and yes to yourself more often.


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Just got in the car and pushed the start button.
Big yellow message in the little screen on the dash: SMART REMOTE BATTERY IS LOW!
Along with a little "low battery symbol", kind of like I see on my phone from time to time.
Ok, how do I replace it? Hmm, there a little slider thing on the back. Push that. Nothing happens. Play a bit more. Ok, I see. That releases the key hidden inside the keyless remote. Now what? There are no visible screws or anything.
Ok, I give up. If all else fails, read the instructions. Find the owners manual in the 3rd or 4th place I look. That's above average for me; I usually find things in the first place after having been to a dozen others after the first look.
Owners manual is utterly unhelpful. It's actually quite slender, the full manual being on DVD. Rather than stick the DVD in the computer (or find where I copied it to a couple of years ago, I Google: Honda Smart Remote Battery
YouTube comes up. A guy whose first language is not English has solved it. You pop the hidden key out and use it to pry the fob apart, revealing a battery. CR2032, an extremely common and cheap type. Which I have in the junk drawer. Problem solved.
The alternative would have been going to the dealer, 45 miles away, when we are in the vicinity on Monday. What do you suppose they'd have charged?
Now I just need to get another battery for the other fob.
Stuff that amuses me: It's a Honda (Japanese Brand) made in Ohio. The Fob was made in Mexico. The old battery was Panasonic made in Thailand. The new battery is Energizer made in SorryIForgotToLook. It's a global economy.


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Zheltikov Monastery in Tver'
In the summer of 1910, Russian photographer Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii (1863–1944) traveled and photographed extensively in Tver' Province northwest of Moscow. Among the places he visited was the Dormition-Zheltikov Monastery on the Tmaka River near Tver'. Established in 1394 by Bishop Arsenii of Tver', the monastery gained its first masonry building, the Dormition Cathedral, in 1406. After the founding of Saint Petersburg in 1703, the monstery served as a transit palace for the ruling family in trips between the new capital and Moscow. Peter the Great frequently visited the monastery, and his son, Tsarevich Aleksei, had chambers there. This view taken from the west centers on the Church of Saint Aleksii, Man of God, built in 1709. To the right is the main dome of the Dormition Cathedral, which was rebuilt in 1713–22. Also visible is a bell tower (1709). On the left are corner towers of the monastery walls. The Aleksii Church was razed in 1931, and most of the other buildings were demolished during World War II. Prokudin-Gorskii used a special color photography process to create a visual record of the Russian Empire in the early 20th century. Some of his photographs date from about 1905, but the bulk of his work is from between 1909 and 1915, when, with the support of Tsar Nicholas II and the Ministry of Transportation, he undertook extended trips through many different parts of the empire.
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- Prokudin-Gorskii's photographic work survives primarily in two forms: 1,901 black-and-white triple-frame glass plate negatives, made with color separation filters, which Prokudin-Gorskii used to make color prints and lantern slides; and 12 albums of sepia-tone prints, made from the glass negatives, which Prokudin-Gorskii compiled as a record of his travels and studies. The Library of Congress purchased the glass plate negatives and the albums from the Prokudin-Gorskii family in 1948. In 2004, the Library of Congress had digital color composites made from all the surviving glass negatives using a software algorithm to automatically align the color components. As with most historical photographs, title and subject identifications are corrected and enhanced through new research. Current information on the collection is at http://www.loc.gov/pictures/collection/prok/.
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