Yesterday, eyebrows, "eyeboos". This morning, juice, "doos". She really watches our mouths sometimes and tries to mimic the sounds. She also said her first 2 word phrase a week or so ago ... daddy hum. She was asking me if Daddy was home or coming home or something. Since then, she constantly points out Dada in pictures and any sound we hear, especially at the front door, she says "da da!" She's definitely missing him when he's not here now instead of only being aware of him when he's here. She also does a high pitched "mee" for meow and "oof" for woof.
She's had a low grade temp at night on and off this month. I'm hoping it's just been a few little bugs in a row. Maybe the camping trips didn't help. Maybe taking her to the gym daycare in the mornings sometimes (her temp's always down then and she seems fine) wasn't helping her get all the way better either. We went to the doc on Tuesday and turns out she has a sore throat. We've laid low this week. The last two days, she's also had 3 poopy diapers (it's usually 1 or 2 max) and they've been a bit softer with undigested food. Her fever's continued to be up between 100.3-100.6 each night since Tuesday and back down in the morning. The doctor has me keeping a record of her evening temp for 3 weeks so we can see if it's just related to the sickness right now or something else going on. So, a little worried in general about all this, but we'll just wait and see for now.
Cam's Aunt Patti sent a huge box of books for Reagan and Aunt Bethany knitted an adorable dress that Uncle Danny brought along with a Dr. Suess book that she loves too. Here she is in the dress checking out her new cool stack of books. She really loves the one where you slide the wheel to find the baby animal to match the mama animal.
We lost a bit of sleep the first night in Tahoe, waking up every few seconds to make sure she didn't need another layer or to put her hat back on her (still) bald head. We had plans for 2 nights in Tahoe but decided there was no sense losing sleep again ... we knew she could sleep fine in the tent and we'd already done everything we planned to do - gondola at Squaw for dinner with a view, hiking part of the trail to Mt. Tallac, and a buffet dinner at the top of Harrah's Casino in South Lake Tahoe - but I like buffets! Notice a lot of eating and a little hiking in our plans ... and I wonder why I can't drop the rest of the weight!!
Here, we stopped hiking to let Reagan have some fun... little rock climber
Good morning ... this fun jumpy bed is still here!
Anyway, on Angel Island, our view was fantastic and it was really wild to look at San Francsisco and both bridges and Alcatraz while we sat at a camp site roughing it. We saw tons of Deer (or as Reagan calls them, "Dee") and they were so much less skiddish than usual since they don't have any predators on the island. We also saw lots of birds (Reagan flaps her arms for them). Since Reagan wasn't willing to be in the hiking backpack that long, Cam stayed at camp while she napped in the tent and my Dad and I hiked to the top ... even greater view. It took about 45 min to go up and 30/35 to come back down.
Hiking up to camp from the Ferry dropoff point (Ayala Cove)
My Dad at the top, Tiburon in the background Our site
View of SF from our site (enlarge this or you can't really see SF in background) (it was really cool at night all lit up) Reagan's make-shift high chair ... she only lasted a couple minutes like this, but it was funny :-)
Morning hike down to the beach (where we saw a lovely sea lion carcass washed up on shore ... that smelled good!). "So, we sit on this like a chair, huh Grandpa?" Took her a while to go down for a nap, but checking out the iPod & making a few calls on my cell wore her out.
As soon as she realized this water spicket was here, it was non-stop "hand-washing" time
Heading home ... with less stuff, so we were able to squeeze Reagan into a bike trailer and all ride our bikes down to the ferry. Sooo much faster than the walk up! Here's the happy camper:
Ferry ride back to Tiburon
Reagan zonks from a tiring weekend
Still zonked through half our lunch at Cheesecake Factory
We also encountered the "smart" racoons, as the ranger put it with a smirk. We put our food in the food locker thinking it was there to keep food safe ... ya know, like the bear lockers do at yosemite, right? wrong!! They managed to pull 5 bananas, 2 apples, 3 peaches, and 6 hot dog buns through the 1/4 inch gap at the bottom of the food locker door! I am not joking. It certaintly wasn't an easy task ... they obviously struggled based on the insane sounds we heard ... a half shrieky, half growly, really frustrated/mad sound ... we could have swore a pack of lions were fighting outside our tent. We finally heard my Dad unzip his tent (he later told us he sat and contemplated this for a while though) ... and good thing, cause we weren't going out there! :-) ... and he yelled and threw a couple rocks to scare them away. He only saw one racoon ... found it had chewed into the baggie holding the dish sponge. So, he wedged the food locker door shut at the top with a thick stick. There. Now they won't be able to get anything. Ha! That was before the afforementioned feast. After enjoying our bunless hotdogs for lunch the next day, we meant business the second night. They were trying to get serious too... approaching our campsight before it was even dark! One of them was really daring and would come within 10 feet of us. Holy crap, this is war! We wedged a tent stake in the food locker door, wedged a huge log against the front doors so they couldn't be pulled open at all - no 1/4 inch gap this time! - and we didn't store anything on the bottom shelf this time... oh and my Dad rounded up an arsenal of rocks to throw to scare them off. We never heard a peep and everything was untouched in the morning. Ha, we won!
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Happy Birthday to me! Cam got me an iPod nano, an arm pouch so I can run with it, and a wireless pedometer that tells you your progress on your ipod, both visually and audibly - calories, distance, pace. Then, when you sync with your computer, it logs your workout data and tracks it for you over time. So cool and definitely helping in the motivation department for running!
Last weekend, we camped in Tahoe as a practice run for our upcoming Angel Island trip. I'm falling asleep at the computer, so I'll blog separately about that later... oh, and all the chatting Reagan's been up to too.
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She repeated this back to me several times when I said we were going home to see Dada.
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We've been able to discern a word from the strange new language Reagan speaks! She's also started calling us by name and Dada is even Daddy sometimes.
She also seems to heading in the direction of weaning from nursing ... which would be good, I was really hoping she'd do it on her own ... I didn't want to force it on her, but was starting to lay down some deadlines in my mind ... 18 mos... 2 yrs ... I wasn't sure. We've been down to 4 times/day (morning, nap 1, nap 2, and bedtime) for a while now and she's almost 100% down to 1 nap a day, so by default, that took it down to 3 times/day (morning, nap, bedtime). Today, however, a real sign that it's becoming less important and needed ... when I was feeding her before her nap, she sat up after maybe 1 minute - literally just over the time it took me to sing Rock-a-by Baby - and put her hand to the side of her face (her sign for "sleepy") while saying "dat" in a long drawn out, tired sort of tone. I promptly stood up, walked her over to her crib while saying night, night, love you, give mama a kiss (she did), have a good sleepy, etc and she did her usual ... sat there, stuck her passy in her mouth ... paused a minute ... then laid down and snuggled teddy bear. and that was it! She really did just want to go to sleep and didn't need to nurse... Crazy!


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Change is coming to beauty, including everything from circular systems and AI influencers to value-focused brand strategies and personalization—all with the consumer and climate front-and-center.
1. Beauty Goes Circular
During the recent Luxe Pack Monaco event, one name kept popping up over and over in discussions with packaging suppliers: Ellen MacArthur. The retired English sailor isn’t yet a household name, but the foundation that bears her name has become the defining force in the circular economy concept.
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Whilen materials and sourcing, the Ellen MacArthur circular economy concept is notably process- and design-driven. In fact, during the 2019 Luxe Pack Monaco show, one packaging supplier noted, “We cannot rely on 350 million [Americans] to individually figure out recycling. What we need are better systems, processes and technologies.”
A sobering report from May 2019 from National Public Radio’s Morning Editionb feature. In the report, Harrison examines the clamshell packaging encasing a head of lettuce a grocer’s aisle. The shell features the numeral 1 inside a triangle, signaling that the design comprises polyethylene terephthalate (PET). Reporter Rebecca Davis notes that many American consumers incorrectly believe the numeric designations on packaging signal recyclability, when in fact they merely designate the resins contained within. Therefore, a bottle with a “1” designation may be recyclable, while a clamshell made of the same material may not be. Not to mention the particular requirements of local municipal recycling programs.
For instance, Henkel’s European group has introduced the EasyD4R-Evaluation tool, which quickly assesses the recyclability of packag e, allowing designers to optimize material combinations by composition and individual weight proportions of components such as basic materials, closures, labels, colors, etc.
Meanwhile, L’Oréal to supply the beauty giant with its ultra-pure recycled polypropylene (UPRP), which is produced from technology that utilizes waste polypropylene—often disposed of in landfills—to produce virgin-like polypropylene. PureCycle is establishing a U.S. facility where it will have capacity to recycle 119 million pounds of polypropylene. It is currently evaluating European sites for a second plant.
The move was in support of L’Oréal’s Sharing Beauty With All program forall of its new products. In 2018, 79% of new or renovated products had an improved social or environmental profile, per the company.
“For L’Oréal, the agreement” says Philippe Thuvien, vice president, packaging and development, L’Oréal Group. “L’Oréal’s ambition is that, by 2025, 50% of the plastics used in our packaging will either be bio-sourced or of recycled origin, which encompasses all plastic types, polypropylene being a major milestone.”
Eastman is also focused on the circular economy. In October 2019, the company was honored at Luxe Pack Monaco in the initiative category for its circular economy system. The recognition came as the company presented the next generation of its engineering bioplastic, Tre-va, and its new line of Cristal Reve-l copolyesters, which contain PCR material. The latest Tre-va generation retains its aesthetic and performance qualities but now comprises


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First Draft Perfection Syndrome (FDPS) is chronic among "high performing" and "ambitious" high schoolers, those tracked early into gifted and accelerated programs, but can appear within any student population. The causes of this ailment are manifold, but can ultimately be traced back to one root: frequent exposure to "high-stakes" writing environments.
I am of the rather unpopular belief that the top ten percent of our student population stagnates, on average, as much or more so than the bottom ten percent. The reason we don't notice is because the evidence for this is in many ways obfuscated by arbitrary "ceilings" placed on high-performing students through the "far left" column of traditional writing rubrics. In short, "honors-level" students learn early in their academic careers what constitutes "A-level" writing, and in turn perpetually write to that level, rarely venturing outside the safety of that assumed paradigm. The fact that these students continue to receive high grades on their writing speaks less to their growth than it does to their systemic conformity and survival instincts. Why attempt something new, they rightfully rationalize, when this safe approach has garnered them the grades they desire?
Avoid high-stakes first drafts. While one could reasonably entertain the argument of a few exceptions here, namely timed-writing in AP or standardized test preparation (another post, Matt, another post for another day), presenting first-draft writing as a "high-stakes" assessment is, in both the short- and long-term, a dangerous and philosophically compromising practice. Safe writing is, more often than not, bad writing, as torturous to write as it is to grade. By presenting the concept of drafting as one of many steps along the way to quality writing, we encourage an attitude of risk-taking in an historically risk-averse approach. Tangentially, we reinforce several "soft skills" such as perseverance, pride in craft, and developing a growth mindset.
Reward "Functional Failure." Challenge "Fear of Failure." And not just in a motivational poster, lip-service sort of way. Give substantial credit for attempting a skill. Operating under a skill-based model, I give a full seventy percent of the credit for attempting (and, essentially, failing at) a skill. The student's worst (read: first) draft is only thirty percent away from full credit. Getting on the board with that "failure credit" can often serve as catalyst for genuine skill development.
Assign Fewer Papers. If our goal is to improve our students' writing abilities, it is counterintuitive to have them write ten different papers, one draft apiece. We know that writing instruction must be recursive and reflective, but we often feel beholden to the flipping of the school calendar. If you must assess a different strand of skills (reading comprehension, for example) through writing, try to do so without assessing the writing skills incorporated. The National Writing Project's Kristen Hawley Turner refers to this as the difference between "tuxedo writing" and "pajama writing." My sophomores only have three required papers: an argumentative paper, literary criticism, and personal/creative narrative paper; yet they're doing as much (if not more) writing due to the expectation of multiple revisions than when I assigned a paper at the end of every class novel.
Present Revision as an Essential Step, not a "Bonus Opportunity." When I had subscribed to the one-and-done, high-stakes first submission approach, I often offered the opportunity of revision for a recovery of some points to those students who received low grades. I don't do this anymore, for several reasons: it implies revision is a secondary path for poor writers; it assumes that high-scoring submissions cannot be improved; most tragically, it creates an even broader schism between "good" and "bad" students. Revision must be presented (at the very least) as a step as essential to the process as the initial writing itself, and for all students. To paraphrase English education guru Heather Rocco, genuine differentiation means that we meet every student where they are and push them to be a little better.
Allow Students Genuine Choice in Topics. Not every (or, I'd make the argument, any) paper needs to be "superglued" to a course text; all argumentative papers need not focus on the same issue or event. Not to belabor the point, but if our goal is the development of writing skills that are applicable beyond the limits of our class content, it shouldn't matter what topics students are writing about. From personal experience, grading a hundred papers on the significance of Holden's red hunting hat wasn't exactly a sublime experience, and I found myself frequently factoring the validity of their literary interpretations into their writing skills. This generates "fuzzy grades" (which will be discussed in a later post) and is in my opinion the primary cause of evaluative ambiguity in the English classroom. "Genuine choice" does not mean "choose from a list"; it suggests an organic decision framed by the student and potentially reinforced, narrowed, or clarified by the teacher. Providing too much in the way of prompting eir own claim, purpose, or mission for their writing.


Something many new keepers get dismayed or worried about is their tarantula’s tendency to lose hairs on their abdomen, leading them to ask why their spider has developed a bald spot.
Tarantulas bald because they either lose urticating hairs or continually rub against something abrasive. Some New World tarantulas can develop a bald spot on their abdomen because this is where their patch of urticating hairs is located. They kick these hairs in an attempt to defend themselves whenever they are feeling cornered or provoked. The more often they kick the hairs away the more apparent the bald spot will become, and it won’t fill back in again until they molt.
What are the hairs on a tarantula called?
Can all tarantulas develop a bald abdomen?
Why does a tarantula kick hairs?
Do urticating hairs contain venom?
Can you stop a New World tarantula from kicking hairs?
Is a bald spot harmful to a tarantula?
Will a tarantula always have a bald spot on top of their abdomen?
Final Thoughts on Hair Flicking
Tarantulas don’t have hair, they have setae. However, in this post, I’ll be referring to them as hairs because it’s far more common to come across people asking questions about “urticating hairs” versus “urticating setae.” The area where a tarantula typically becomes bald is where their patch of urticating hairs is located, which is correctly referred to as urticatious setae or urticating setae.
Any tarantula can develop a tiny bald patch underneath their abdomen if the abdomen is constantly dragging because they were overfed to the point of being obese. However, not all tarantulas can develop a bald patch on the top of the abdomen.
Not all tarantulas have urticating hairs, and only the species that have abdominal urticating setae will have the ability to develop a bald abdomen due to the loss of urticating hairs (there are five different types of urticating hairs that can be found on the abdomen). Old World tarantulas do not have urticating hairs. With a few exceptions, almost all New World tarantulas have these defensive hairs.
This is what the paper, The Urticating Hairs of Theraphosid Spiders published by the American Museum of Natural History, says about urticating hairs being found outside of New World tarantulas (pg 4):
“Urticating hairs appear to be restricted to New World representatives of the theraphosid subfamilies Ischnocolinae, Grammostolinae, Theraphosinae, and Aviculariinae, but do not occur on every species. So far as we can determine there is nothing to suggest that urticating hairs are found outside the New World and certainly none was present on the extensive material we examined.”
Some examples of NW genera that lack urticating hairs include Psalmopoeus, Dolichothele, and Tapinauchenius. Notice how the aforementioned genera contain species that are known to be teleporters or to have a feisty temperament?
This is usually the tradeoff when a tarantula lacks the line of defense that urticating hairs provide. The genus Avicularia possesses urticating hairs, but they don’t flick them.
Urticating hairs are intended to be a deterrent for predators. A tarantula will employ them when they feel threatened, which may translate into when they are being handled, if they are accidentally breathed on, manipulated with a paintbrush, being rehoused, or if they are startled during spot cleaning.
New World tarantulas also use their urticating hairs as protection against predators while they are molting. They will lay down a molting mat of thick webbing and kick a bunch of hairs onto it so that they are surrounded by a dense patch of them. This is one of the reasons why many keepers use gloves and a mask to perform cage maintenance for NW specimens.
The urticating hairs on a tarantula do not contain venom or any other chemical toxin to create the irritation. The hairs are barbed and highly irritating to mammalian mucous membranes and skin. There are different types of hair structures, and each one has a varying configuration and size of these barbs.
While there are multiple types of urticating hairs present across tarantulas, the irritation that they all cause is due to the mechanical damage that they create and the subsequent allergic reaction a person may experience.
People who are sensitive to them are reacting to the proteins found in the structure of the hairs, not to a chemical that is on the hairs. Some species, like those found in the genus Theraphosa, are known to produce particularly strong reactions.
Over time, it’s possible that you may become more sensitive to urticating hairs if you regularly interact with New World tarantulas. This is why I always recommend wearing protection (such as gloves, long sleeves, safety glasses, and a mask) during cage maintenance and any interactions.
You cannot completely stop a tarantula from kicking urticating hairs. However, you can minimize the things that provoke them into kicking. For example, if your tarantula is primarily kicking hairs because you are attempting to handle them, then this is a good indication that you should stop doing that.
I personally try to keep interactions with my tarantulas to a minimum because I feel that it is best for the spider. This means that I wait to do any cage maintenance until they are in their burrow or under their hide.
I also make sure that I remove any live feeders after 24 hours because I have seen my tarantulas flick hairs at crickets that become too much of a nuisance. Usually, this is enough to keep most of them from developing bald abdomens.
Unfortunately, some specimens will still startle easily and begin kicking the moment the lid is disturbed. You can’t avoid this.
Kicking urticating hairs is a completely normal behavior for New World tarantulas. It is not harmful for them to have a bald spot, and even though it is unsightly, it doesn’t mean that anything is wrong with the spider.
However, if the bald spot is due to repeated friction because the tarantula is constantly rubbing on something, then you should take the time to double check that there’s nothing sharp or overly abrasive in the enclosure.
Although it may seem like your NW tarantula has a perpetual bald spot, they really don’t. Every time the tarantula molts, the new exoskeleton will have a complete patch of urticating hairs. How long it will take for the tarantula to make their abdomen bald again will vary between individuals.
The haggard appearance that some New World terrestrials take on because of their predisposition to flicking hairs is a deterrent for some keepers, leading them to prefer species that lack urticating hairs as a defense.
Some specimens are more prone to hair flicking than others, and will immediately begin kicking after they harden up from a molt. For example, my Aphonopelma chalcodes and my Grammostola pulchra almost never flick hairs, so their abdomens don’t end up looking scruffy and bald between molts.
In comparison, all of the Aphonopelma marxi that I have will readily flick hair if I start opening the enclosure. My Chromatopelma cyaneopubescens are prolific hair flickers – I rarely see them with a fully covered abdomen.
Don’t let hair flicking deter you from keeping popular New World species! Just know that it’s perfectly normal for them to not always look as pretty as they did right after a fresh molt, and make sure you keep yourself safe by minimizing your exposure to the hairs.
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November 01, 2005|By TRUDY RUBIN
PHILADELPHIA -- The suspense is finally over. The case against f, is much bigger than who outed CIA operative Valerie Plame. It lays bare the White House determination to discredit anyone who punched holes in its rationale for war.
The Plame case, in which Mr. Libby is charged with lying to FBI agents and the grand jury by telling them he learned Ms. Plame's name from the press, is a bizarre tale of White House pettiness with enormous ramifications.
Ms. Plame apparently was targeted to get back ad White House claims about Iraq's prewar nuclear program. For this reason, she was considered "fair game," in the immortal phrase of President Bush's close aide, Karl Rove, who remains under investigation in the case.
To reprise: In February 2002, the CIA dispatched Mr. Wilson to Niger. His task: to investigate the story that Niger had sold uranium to Iraq in the 1990s. The White House wanted to use the Niger story to buttress its casam.
Mr. Wilson reported back to the CIA that he doubted any uranium had been sold to Iraq. Independent of his report, the CIA and the State Department repeated on Niger, including British intelligence. In October 2002, CIA Director George J. Tenet warned the president off referring to African uranium in a speech. Yet Mr. Bush cited the Niger claim in his 2003 State of the Union address.
By March 2003, the documents on which the Niger charges were based were revealed to be crude forgeries, passed to the CIA by foreign sources. Post-invasion controversy grew over whether theused specious evidence.
In May 2003, Mr. Wilson fueled the controversy with leaks to the media about his trip to Niger. On July 6, he published an op-ed in The New York Times . Shortly after it ran, the administration admitted the uranium claims had been mistaken. Then came the retaliation against Mr. Wilson.
administration officials" told him that Ms. Plame was behind Mr. Wilson's trip to Niger. The implication was that Mr. Wilson's trip was a case of nepotism.
The point of the Plame affair is that a CIA operative was outed to get even with her husband.
Special prosecutor Patrick J. Fitzgerald is apparently unable to prove that White House officials knew Ms. Plame was an undercover spy, which could make her outing a criminal offense. It's hard to believe Mr. Libby didn't get this information when he queried the CIA about the Wilsons. It's also hard to believe Vice President Dick Cheney didn't learn Ms. Plame's status when he discussed her with Mr. Tenet in June 2003 and then with Mr. Libby.
Mr. Fitzgerald stressed at a news conference Friday that Mr. Libby's alleged perjury has thwarted discovery of which officials did leak Ms. Plame's status. The whole Plame affair is about White House reluctance to provide accurate information on issues linked to the Iraq war.
There was plenty of evidence that the Niger uranium story was false before the 2003 State of the Union address. But the White House didn't want or seek to know it. The FBI has yet to complete its investigation into the Niger forgeries.
The charges against Mr. Libby imply that the White House is still stonewalling in the Plame case. But, as with the Niger forgeries, the truth is bound to come outaddress is trubin@phillynews.com.
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But as bottles are drained and plates cleared, the evening devolves into a well-dressed bacchanal. Kitty Foil, a tiny teen actress who had taken one too many trips to the bathroom to “powder her nose,” starts to bemoan how she’s been “box blocked,” which, if you don’t know, is like “cock blocking but with girls.”

And, as any multitasking New York woman would, Froelich’s also working on a sequel for Mercury in Retrograde. Though she’s only written the first chapter, she has the second installment of the book almost entirely mapped out. But that’s not to say, of course, that the juicy details of last night’s party couldn’t find their way onto its pages. “The book is more about female friendships and how women evolve, and how friendships evolve,” she says. “What happens today could totally make it in tomorrow.”


I think the check needs to be a bit more thorough: we need to also check all the elements of the list are `np.ndarray` (or at least the first one), according to the warning at least.
I added a check for the first element, but here are my thoughts about it:
Iterating through the full list doesn't seem helpful - what would you do if half of the list is `List` and the other half is `np.array`? It would still be more efficient to call `np.array` in such a case.
It's the same thing for checking just the first element, but at least the check doesn't have the cost of iterating through the full list.
Therefore, I think that it's fine to always pass the list to `np.array` without checking it.
already fixed on master.
Thanks again forailwind Styled Components
username_0: Hi there guys, thanks for your great job!
Please, can you explain how can we add support to Tailwind Styled Components?
const Block = tw.div`p-20 bg-gray-100 text-3xl`;
That kind of classes are not detected by defaucustom regex using `headwind.classRegex`: https://github.com/heybourn/headwind#headwindclassregex
<issue_comment>username_2: Has anyone done a custom regex yet? I'm failing!
<issue_comment>username_3: Same here - my regex skills aren't great! </s> <issue_start><issue_comment>Title: unless expression loses the required parenthesis for proper code generation
username_0: The perl "unless" construct generated an "if not" in python, but it fails to keep the parenthesis so it's probably wrong code:
   			unless (($area_hidden) || ($area_rtr_hidden) ||
					($intf_hidden) || ($link_hidden)) {
    if not (area_hidden) or (area_rtr_hidden) or (link_hidden):
but the "not" only applies to the first part of the expression - it needs to be applied to the whole thing.
<issue_comment>username_0: Fix in sub control of pythonizer:
      gen_chunk($ValPy[$begin]); # gen initial keyword
      if( $ValPerl[$begin] eq 'unless' ) { gen_chunk('('); }	# issue 20
      $k=expression($start,$limit,0); # last bracket was erased.
      return -255 if ($k<0);)'); }	# issue 20
      gen_chunk(':'pover is shown on top of MudDialog
MudPopover / MudDialog
If a popover is opened (i.e. MudSelect) and you open a dialog, the opened popover is duplicated and shown by158/140708023-7579e2c5-7184-444e-9923-e84bf5b0d6df.png)
However, the popovercontent of the app is taken over249-6691c55e-79ce-4b2d-b61c-132ac25b0e16.png)
Ideally the popover would close, when opening a dialog.
But it would be enough, if the popover just stays out of the dialog.
https://try.mudblazor.com/snippet/QkwPlvOCGNTduLGN
1. Click the MudSelect to open the Popover. Don't close it
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Norman Baker is spending a lot more time with his music these days and thoroughly enjoying it, having closed the door on elected office after 28 years. Every week he presents two shows on nearby Seahaven FM. The first, Anything Goes, covers jazz, blues, western swing, pop, well anything really, between 1920 and 2015. This is also syndicated to Uckfield FM. The second, The Hidden 60s, broadcasts great tracks from that decade that somehow you may have missed. He is looking forward to being back on Rocket FM.
Norman’s band, The Reform Club, is presently gigging, and had a new album, Never Yesterday, out in January. This follows his EP, Animal Countdown, out last year.
He has also recently released a new book, Against the Grain (Biteback Publishing).
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According to President Trump, every new story and development involving his team’s contacts with Russia is nothing more than a “total witch hunt.” “The Democrats are overplaying their hand,” he said in a statement last night reacting to. “They lost the election and now they have lost their grip on reality.” But who has the firmer grasp on reality — the Trump White House or those who are waving their arms that something here doesn’t seem right?
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"I'm happy to see many women sharing certain pastoral responsibilities in accompanying persons, families and groups, and in theological reflection," Francis said, "and I've voiced hope that spaces for a feminine presence that's more capillary and incisive in the church will be enlarged."
At this point it's natural to ask: How is it possible to grow the effective presence [of women] in so many ambits of public life, in the world of work and in the venues where the most important decisions are adopted, and at the same time maintain a presence and a preferential attention, which is extremely special, in and for the family?
The negotiations have gone on for hours or months or years. A deal is at hand. And now, the other side mentions for the first time that the approval of some previously unremarked person is required, or there is no deal. Could you have prepared for this?Do you have options at this point?Are you, perhaps, the negotiator making the dread announcement that you must respond to a higher power before a deal’s a deal?
Your case is complicated; it involves specialized knowledge, and without some help, the judge probably won’t understand it and the jury certainly won’t. Furthermore, your chances of negotiating a settlement depend on getting some degree of shared understanding with the other side of what the facts are. So you’ve hired your expert, and the other side has hired its expert—and now the experts themselves are locked in combat. Could you avoid this next time?In the meantime, what do you do now?


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Shuffle up and deal, because the World Series of Poker is coming to a city near you. Or, more specifically, right into your very own home with "Tournament of Champions," Activision's latest entry in the next-gen poker wars. Featuring the most top professionals ever in one game, inside tips and strategies from Chris "Jesus" Ferguson, and a new digimask option that enables Xbox Live Vision Cam owners to map their likeness onto a custom character, "Tournament of Champions" may just be the most comprehensive poker title on the market. But is it really worth the $40 price tag when Xbox Live is offering their own version of the popular table game for only ten bucks?
The pace of the single-player is brutally slow, and though the tutorial doesn't tell you this, searching through the menu screen will reveal an option to speed up gameplay, as well as activate the ability to skip through AI decision making. And let me just tell you that it's well worth it. Unfortunately, the AI system isn't quite as impressive the one that was highlighted in this year's other major title, "Stacked." The computer players are overly aggressive, which leads to them winning more hands on lucky flop draws. Equally upsetting is that the pro players seem to follow the same pattern, and while the likeness of the characters is there, their playing style is not. So are you really playing with the pros?
Still, "Tournament of Champions" shouldn't be completely discounted for these problems. The game is great at delivering a solid poker experience, and when it comes down to it, isn't that what fans really want?


Red Rocks - Rugs - Riches
Text and Photos by Howard Sheldon
As the early morning sun is absorbed by the red rocks of Sedona, a warm glow is spread throughout the small city. The surrealower colors compose a symphony of nature around every corner.
The rust-red color of the landscape, the burble of Oak Creek, the red penstemon, the yellow daisies, the pale-pink wild lilies mingled with golden poppies along the roadside are an exquisite assault on the five senses. It's little wonder that the awe-inspiring views surrounding Sedona stir reverent feelings in its visitors.
If you arrive in Sedona via Highway 179, you will be visually awestruck by Bell Rock on the north side of the road. Bell Rock and Cathedral Rock are two popularly photographed features of Sedona's red rocks.
US Highway 89A, through Oak Creek Canyon, was Arizona's first designated scenic highway and was named by Rand-McNallBefore you are dangerously distracted by the beautiful scenery, pull over! There are many areas along the highways to get off the road and park. Get the camera or your phone out and record your trip. Take your time getting your pictures or videos. There have been numerous fender-benders due to drivers being distracted by the beautiful scenery. It can be deadly to drive and canvass nature's wonders at the same time.
Sedona contains an assortment of artists, crafts ts, world-class resorts, mansions, museums and a myriad of art galleries and gift shops. Travelers from all over the world in brightly colored clothes with cameras around their necks file up and down the streets and walkways with armloads of newly acquired treasures. Just listen, and you can hear the chatter of foreign tongues on the streets, in the gift shops and restaurants.
There is one detail that you may find frustrating while shopping in Sedona. It's the lack of adequate parking. The number of daily visitors well exceeds the number of available parking spaces. Bring good walking shoes!
At an altitude of 4500 feet, Sedona misses the searing heat of the lower deserts and receives an occasional dusting of snow in the winter. The beauty and climate of the area make sightseeing, hiking, golf, tennis, horseback riding and jeep-touring year-round activities.
However, what is now a bustling tourist attraction and artistic community was something much different at the turn-of-the-century(It incorporated as a city.) Their home was on Oak Creek where highways 89A and 179 now intersect. Their restored home is on the grounds of the Los Abrigados Resort and Spa. You can actually spend the night in the "Stone House," the Schnebly's original home, for a small fortune. If they were alive to see today's Sedona, they would not recognize the town they founded.
Sedona has much to offer for the enjoyment of so many different people. There are endless opportunities for gift shopping. There are enough diverse recreational activities to satisfy any nature lover, old or young. There are numerous places to find solitude. Sedona will unlock powerful creative energies and stimulate your imagination. As the sun tracks across Sedona's Navajo-turquoise-blue skies, the ageless mountains, spires, boulders, trees and occasional intermittent waterfalls that surround it will display more colors than any ambitious rainbow.
The red rocks of Sedona have a song all their own. Hear their song, join in their chorus. Once Sedona is in your heart it stays there. Some call it "Red Rock Fever.". . Enjoy your sojourn.
Red Rock State Park  Sedona, Arizona just 5 miles west of Sedona off Highway 89A on the Lower Red Rock Loop Road. A wide variety of special programs are available for school groups and private groups; the picnic areas and classrooms may be reserved for public or private functions. To protect the fragile vegetation, the park asks that you stay on designated trails, that you pack out your trash, and that you leave your pet at home while visiting Red Rock State Park. Swimming and wading are activities reserved for local wildlife only. This is a day-use park, so there are no general overnight camping facilities available.
Visitor Center: 9 am to 5 pm MST
Park Phone Number: 928 282-6907
Slide Rock State Park - Sedona, Arizona
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Park Phone Number: 928-282-3034
Arizona State Parks Water Quality Hotline: 602-542-0202.
Updated daily to provide current water quality conditions for the Slide Rock State Park swim area. Slide Rock has been closed to swimmers in the past due to bacterial contamination from an unknown source.
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Don't be alarmed by its name; this state park is located next to the community of Cottonwood in the scenic Verde Valley, and is alive with animal and human activity. Perhaps best known as a "nest" for bird watching, the park is also favored for picnicking, camping, canoeing, horseback riding, and stream and pond fishing. Walking trails are established along the shady banks of the Verde River. The park, with its full-facility campground,in and around the Verde Valley.
Visitor Center: Hours vary
Fort Verde State Park  Camp Verde, Arizona. Its officers' quarters are open to visitors interested in learning what life was like on the frontier. The fort's museum, located in the old headquarters building, exhibits artifacts that explain the history and methods of frontier soldiering. The park is in the town of Camp Verde, 3 miles east of Interstate 17.
Visitor Center: 8 am to 5 pm MST.
Jerome State Historic Park  Jerome, Arizona
The 1916 mansion of James "Rawhide Jimmy" Douglas sits regally atop a hill overlooking the scenic Verde Valley. The mansion served as , as well as home to the Douglas family. Once Arizona Territory's most productive copper mining area, Jerome lost its sheen when prices plummeted during the Depression. The mansion's well-appointed interior and adobe-brick architecture reflect the copper mining high-life before the fall. Displays feature local mining history and methods. The park, located in the town of Jerome off State Route 89A, has a number of intriguing historic attractions nearby.
Munds Mountain Wilderness: East of Sedona.
Red Rock-Secret Mountain Wilderness: 20 miles south of Flagstaff.
Sycamore Wilderness: Sedona Ranger District.
Prescott and Coconino National Forests.
Tuzigoot Indian Ruins: Clarkdale, Arizona.
Montezuma's Castle and Well: McGuireville.
Verde Canyon Railroad: Clarkdale, Arizona.
Jeep and Gold Panning Tours: Sedona, Arizona.
Fishing, Mountain Biking, Horseback riding and hiking.
There are six campgrounds in Oak Creek Canyon
173 sites total on a first come first served basis
No electrical hookups or shower facilities
Contact Sedona Ranger Station 520-282-4119 for more information or the Sedona Chamber of Commerce
For more details on Sedona and directions on how to get there, please visit Sedona's web site.
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Home/Page to Stage/You've Produced a Reading, Now What?
It's after a reading of your play, and you may be faced with many notes of things said by actors and audience members. There may be a mix of comments both positive and negative. Some comments may confuse you completely—you're not even sure into which category they fit. How do you process that feedback and what do you do with it all?
Step Two: Filter. Sorting through all the comments and questions about your play to decipher which things really are helpful and can improve your work is the key to getting the most out of a reading. Aunt Bessie's comment about one actor's nasal quality is irrelevant and has nothing to do with your writing. So, discard any comments such as these.
After you finish your re-writes, have another reading with a mix of people who have heard the earlier version and those who are completely new listeners to your work. This will give you multiple perspectives on the piece. Those who have heard a previous reading can let you know if the new version works more fluidly than the last one. New listeners can bring a fresh perspective without the bias of having heard another version. Once you have gone through a few readings and re-writes of a work and get it to a place with which you are happy, then you can begin submitting the work to theatres and contests.
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Kim Stinson is the Noy, an MA in theatre from Miami University, and a BFA in technical theatre from UNC School of the Arts. Stinson's plays, "Courageous Paths," "Appalachian Geisha, and "Santa Lost His GPS," Stinson also receivedo write a play about Catawba County women. Stinson's monologue, "Dance it Out," e. "Post Partum Blue," a one-act play, was published in The Louisville Review (TLR) in the spring 2008 issue. More recently, in November 2015, her short play, "Plasticity" was published in the TLR. Her most recent scholarly work was a chapter in Polio, Pitchforks and Perseverance which is a collaboration of authors from different disciplines looking at the ".
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By Marlea Leary, LCSWDecember 3, 2017Counseling, Self-Esteem
How are you feeling about yourself today? Many of us experience a daily roller coaster of the highs and lows of may change on any given day, depending on an interaction with our spouse, child, co-worker or friend. Our feelings of worth and success may vary dramatically depending on the number on the scale or the amount of money in our bank account. We may struggle with our self esteem for days, weeks, or months at a time, if we have experienced a recent conflict, crisis or loss. Those days can feel very dark and full of doubt and judgement.
From a very young age, many of us are taught that high self-esteem is important. As children, we are encouraged to do our very best in every activity, whether it be school, sports or the role we play in our families or other relationships. This mindset carries on into adulthood. We should be confident in all our endeavors and if we fall down, then we should get back up, shake it off and keep going. But what about the days we just can’t shake it?
The answer is self-compassion. This concept was developed by Dr. Kristin Neff, PhD. Her book, Self Compassion, is an excellent resource about this topicparts. First, self-kindness. Even when we are struggling to find our purpose and worth, we can be kind to ourselves and give ourselves whatever we need and deserve. If we are having a bad day, ake a choice to be kind to ourselves. Self-kindness may be having a cup of tea, taking a bath, enjoying a sunset or allowing ourselves just to sit and be still. Secondly, self-compassion also recognizes common humanity. We are not alone. We have all struggled and suffered in one way or another. We can stop comparing ourselves to others and we don’t have to feel a hardship. It is easier to get through obstacles when we know we are not alone in our journey. Lastly, Dr. Neff encourages mindfulness. In practicing mindfulness, we focus less on critiquing our negative thoughts, feelings and experiences. Instead of pushing those sad, angry or guilty feelings away, we can simply observe them without judgement.
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Expressway through A Building - Gate Tower, Osaka
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Highway running through a building is a not a very common feature of highway engineering. Such occurrences are rare and are usually due to compromise between landowners and the highway authorities specially in the congested areas where the demand for for office/residential space is high and where highways are equally essential for faster and safer movement of the traffic.
In 1983 the company owning a depilated building and the appurtenant land wanted to construct a new commercial complex on the spot but the city authorities had plans to use the land as expressway area. Ultimately after five years of negotiation the present solution was arrived at, to the satisfaction of all and the building was completed in 1992.


The singer is promoting her new album Norman Fucking Rockwell with popsicles and vinyl.
Lana Del Rey has some genuine treats in store for fans this weekend. First and foremost, tomorrow marks; so in a savvy promotion to help get the word out, Lana Del Rey–themed ice cream trucks are scheduled to roll out “up and down the coast” (who knows how far) over the long Labor Day weekend.
“Goi,” the singer shared on Instagram. “lime. Steve Berman is driving,” she added, with a photo of the vice chairman of Interscope Records behind the wheel.
In the Insta post, Del Rey herself can be seen handing out the icy treat. Given her penchant for getting up close and personal with fans, don’t be surprised if she pops up in one of the trucks before it’s all said and done.
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Everyone has been asking for an update on the adoption, and the truth is there's just not much that's changed since my last "adoption post". I've continued to update the timeline to the right as any baby milestones have been completed. So here all that is in paragraph form!
We have completed our parent training which we were allowed to do online so we could finish it as quickly as possible. We had our last visit with our social worker for our home study, which was the home visit. It went really well and the highlight was probably Miller asking the social worker if she'd like to smell our dog's bed!I have NO IDEA where that came from other than she and her brother must hold each other down and force the other one to smell it when I'm not looking. Miller kept insisting and finally our social worker had say, "um, no thank you!" That child!
And what a hamster wheel it is!Know how you feel. Praying things will speed up for you.......
Thank you for the update Maggie. The FBI is very slow...we are praying with you for God's timing in this. Just can't WAIT!


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Yes, spying on your competitors for backlink search is a great idea. In fact, it’s among my top featured and use-proven tricks in the sphere of the Search Engine Optimization. I mean you can simply use your competitor’s backlinks at your own ranking advantage. Using a wise combination of free tools you are always free to benefit from the advanced backlink search and check for standing out of the competition, no matter how tight it could actually be.
Who knew that running a competitive backlink search could be so efficient? Most commonly, I’m using this strategy on every new online project, first and foremost. Well, let’s have it - competitor backlink search doesn’t need any learn spinning or too sophisticated software tools. In fact, it would be perfect even for those guys still new to the process of link building, as well as the very concept of SEO. As a result, you are going to benefit from the best backlinks of your top 10 market opponents all leading the way to your own lucky website.
And here we are finally coming to the point - competitor backlink search and analysis itself. For that moment your main list of backlinks is most likely to become pretty bulky. That’s why you should have a double check to make sure you are going to pick out only the best samples for achieving their maximum efficient performance. That way, pay attention and figure which backlinks are just indexed by Google, and which ones have got a certain PR value with them. Of course, the latter ones would be a number one priority for our backlink search. At the same time, note that merely anything indexed in Google must be good enough to be linked to your web pages.
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Now it’s time to reproduce the backlinks of your competitors to your own web pages. All you need here is to work persistently on each single link at a time. Delve into the process of your competitors’ link building and open each backlink in the Internet browser. That way, you will understand in what way each market opponent earned his best backlinks. Should it be a blog comment, you will just have to post a new comment of your own. In case it’s a forum post, you will have to pass the registration and simply join the current discussion. Sometimes it might as well be a guest blogging post, so you will have to send the email and invest some time in submitting a new guest post of yours. Simply go through this “list of replica, ” and you will get an overall understanding of the process.


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MLA style: "Beyond conception: ontic reality, pure consciousness and matter.." The Free Library. 2015 Ashton and Rafferty 24 Mar. 2019
Chicago style: The Free Library. S.v. APA style:I have put Jung's depth psychology in dialogue with Patanjali's yoga philosophy in an attempt to form a bridge between dualistic and nondualistic models, which may lead us to integrate contemporary science within a holistic picture of our Being in this world.
Patanjali appears to rely upon a well thought out metaphysical schematic, which can be abstracted from his text, the Yoga Sutras (YS). Two key terms to understand in Patanjali yoga are purusa, pure consciousness, and prakriti, nature or psycho-physical being and its source. Mind for Patanjali is a part of prakriti, as is anything phenomenal, whether subtle or gross. When read through a nondual lens purusa and prakriti are seen as distinguishable, separable but not separate. Dualism in Classical Yoga is falsifiable: the dualities are expository and used for the process of, and means to, realignment or yogic union. [1]
In Patanjali's world pure consciousness, is the fundamental ontological reality, which is self-illuminating (YS 4.19, 4.22), singular (YS 2.25, 4.34), eternal (YS 2.5), and absolute (YS 4.18). [2] Patanjali uses the terms perceiver (drastr) and seeing (drs) interchangeably with pure consciousness throughout his work, implying an equation between these terms. The methodology in Patanjali's text revolves around, and resolves to, a crucial discernment between two orientations of consciousness. For Patanjali there is a discernable difference between pure consciousness abiding in its true essential nature (YS 1.3), and consciousness when it is not resting there but rather assuming the modifications of the mind and its contents (YS 1.4). Another way to say this would be that for Patanjali there is a distinct difference between our experience of ontic reality and our experience of epistemic states.
I like to use an exercise to elucidate this point further. Think for a moment about standing in front of a window. When you are standing in place A, you are at a certain angle and the light is just so, whereupon no reflection of yourself comes back to distort that which you are perceiving. If you move just a hair, and stand in place B, the angle changes and your reflection comes into the frame obstructing the clear view. When pure consciousness is known or embodied in experience, it looks directly through a lens of perception without reflection, akin to standing in place A at the window. All distortions are removed from the lens and clarity of perception ensues.
Epistemic states are psychological in nature, they occur in the reflection of the mind. Reflected consciousness is not pure consciousness though, just as moonlight is not sunlight. If you can imagine living in a cave and only exiting at night you would have no idea it was the light of the sun illuminating the moon. When we are entrenched in orientation B our perception of the world is similar. We have no understanding about the relationship between pure consciousness and reflected consciousness. Patanjali's methodology aims at getting our minds to exit the cave for good.
Although both Jung and Patanjali attempt to ground their work in the direct experience of life, and guide us towards wholeness, looking at Jung through the lens of nonduality, wholeness appears beyond reach. Jung believes that God, the collective unconscious, or the Self can never be known directly. Comprehension comes about through objects of experience. Furthermore, for Jung, "." [4] On the other hand, Patanjali's yoga soteriology aims to lead one to kaivalya. Patanjali's kaivalya is unveiled when the mind is stilled and all objects are removed from the horizon of our awareness. While kaivalya is most often understood as liberation, Indian philosophical scholar Sthaneshwar Timalsina clarified that, "This term does not convey the same semantic resonance as moksa, which literally means liberation. The term kevala, having the suffic valac in the meaning svartha (itself or oneself) from the base ka, is basically 'to rest upon oneself'." [5] Resting upon oneself, or one's-own-ness, allows us to directly experience nondualism and the totality of our true nature. Any kind of splitting or binding influences cease and the tormenting effects of the opposites comes to rest.
Jung recognized yoga's ability to "create a psychological disposition" which allows for prajna, while acknowledging how the West, "finds itself in a real dilemma" because of its "h." [6] Jung stated, with regard to the mind body problem, "The ay." [6]
Jung works toward a nondual vision throughout his career. For example, through the lens of alchemy, which was highly influential to his work, Jung entertained the "inner unity, or experience of unity" expressed by mystics "in the idea of the unio mystica." [7] In his collaborative work with theoretical physicist Wolfgang Pauli, they "coarisey to which they cannot be reduced to and to which direct empirical access is impossible." [8] Although Jung never proved empiric consciousness to be a unity, his legacy aims in that direction.
Although Jung doesn't make any concise statements, or theories, about the mind heart connection as Patanjali does in YS 3.34, Jung does speak throughout his texts on feeling and affect and researches love alongside religious factors and symbols of transformation. In reference to how love appears in Christianity Jung stated,
Accordingly, love would seem to be no trifling thing: it is God
himself. But, on the other hand, "love" is an extreme example of
anthropomorphism and, together with hunger, the immemorial psychic
driving-force of humanity. It is, psychologically considered, a
function of relationship on the one hand and a feeling-toned
psychic condition on the other, which as we have seen, practically
coincides with the God-image. [12]
Coming to terms with the feeling-value of psychic contents, in addition to their intellectual value, "is an indispensable prerequisite for wholeness," according to Jung. [13] The value of our emotional and affective life is woven throughout his work. In reference to alchemy Jung noted, "The a." [14] Furthermore Jung emphasized that "the purely intellectual attitude must be abandoned." [15] Revisioning and understanding our intellectual life and heart center are two strong bonds between depth psychology and Classical Yog
Although he repeatedly denied any metaphysical or ontological claims, Jung's depth psychology hypothesized an unconscious agent, which we can never know directly. Jung's assumption, that we can think and act without a metaphysical premise, indicates his alliance, or attempt to be compliant, with the materialist science worldview. Empirical science rests on the foundation that we can formulate our worldview by means of researching phenomena, without any metaphysical implications. As British-born philosopher Alan Watts noted in direct reference to Jung, "Unconscious metaphysics tend to be bad metaphysics." [8] Although not explicitly stated in his theory, for Jung the unconscious is ontically real. [19]
In addition to the disagreement on the ontological nature of the unconscious, there are other notable differences between Jung and Patanjali's models. For instance, in Jung's world ego-consciousness has evolved out of the unconscious, which, once again, for Jung is ontically real. For Jung, it is the ego, a center in the psyche of each individual, which is the seat of consciousness. "Consciousness is inconceivable without an ego," Jung says, because in his view, "i." [20]
Because the ego is ontically false in Patanjali's world, the ego concept can be completely deconstructed (YS 3.47). For Patanjali, ego, like mind, is a content of consciousness. Realization of the ontic reality of pure consciousness comes through discriminating consciousness from the contents of consciousness. This is not to say that we do not need instruments of perception to be in the world. The mind itself is not the issue. It is how we understand those instruments, and identify with them, that is all-important.
Patanjali understands pure consciousness to be self-illuminating, eternal, and absolute, with the human mind and body as instruments of perception, or vehicles for consciousness. Pure consciousness isn't transforming in Patanjali's work: Movement is acknowledged as the evolution of the fundamental attributes (gunas) of nature (prakriti), in particular their smallest expression, anu. The slight movement of anu appears to take on a transformation of consciousness. This is the crucial discernment that Patanjali is asking practitioners of yoga to make. Again, with no unconscious, acitti, Patanjali points to avidya, absence of vision, or lack of knowledge, to explain dualistic and constrained worldly life. If one does not experience nonduality, it is not because one is unconscious: our vision is blocked by phenomena, thereby inhibiting and/or distorting the view. Remove the inhibition and the view clears. Phenomenal consciousness comes to rest as pure consciousness. To state this in a different way entirely, instead of focusing on the way things appear, we are able to be at rest with the way things are, whereupon we have clarity of perception and act in total alignment with our true nature. Once again it is evident that Patanjali is crystal clear in regards to a crucial discernment between psychological experience and ontological reality.
Patanjali explained, explicitly, what one experiences through the subject object worldview, and he never resorted to modeling this processing of contents in terms of conscious and unconscious. It is Jung's assertion of an unconscious that notably sets him apart from Patanjali. By comparing Jung and Patanjali, it appears that a model devoid of pure consciousness, coupled with an ego that can never completely dissolve, alongside a Judeo-Christian God that does not consult with his own omniscience essentially resolves to a human species that is superior to pure consciousness and nature herself. If Patanjali's model is correct, the unconscious may be the Achilles heel of Jung's overall vision.
In order to elucidate the foundational differences between Jung and Patanjali further, I'd like to suggest an exercise. Imagine yourself standing in front of a mirror. You will see only a partial reflection of yourself. Depending upon the angle with which you stand in front of the mirror, different aspects of you, different phenomena, will be illuminated, reflected, able to be perceived. Now imagine you and a friend standing in front of the same mirror, and both of you changing your angles and looking at your own reflections, and the reflection of the other. Again, depending on the angle that each of you takes, some phenomena will be able to be perceived by one or both, and some phenomena will not be able to be perceived by either. The mutual process of shared experience from the perspective of the mundane human mind is like this: an eternal dance of phenomena that are reflected and observed, or stripped from view. Stripped from view does not mean they are not there, or from the perspective of Patanjali yoga, that they are unconscious. It means they are not perceived, or reflected through a particular angle or lens of perception. Accepting this metaphorical view, it becomes clear that what Jung calls the unconscious is not actually unconscious at all but a form of veiled phenomenal consciousness. Comparing this to Patanjali's model where obscured phenomenal consciousness is already fully aligned with the light of never-collapsing pure consciousness resolves to seeing Jung's whole model as resting on a very shaky foundation, or false view. In other words, Jung's model rests on the presupposition that the ego and the unconscious are real.
While Jung acknowledges and emphasizes the teleological function of the psyche and synchronicity, both of which are in alignment with Patanjali's yoga psychology, Jung's focus is on discovering the unity of psyche and matter, not the unveiling of the nondual nature of pure consciousness
and nature. The focus of Patanjali's methodology focuses on the latter. Pure consciousness through Patanjali's lens can be seen as both pervasive, and continuously in harmony with reflective consciousness from orientation A (YS 2.21, 4.24); Even without our understanding or reflected knowledge of the process when we are in orientation B. Just as the sun is continuously in harmony with the light of its reflection off the earth and the moon regardless if we are existing only in the cave. We do not understand the nature of light when our perception is off, but that doesn't change the nature of light. Hence why from the perspective of yogic alignment ontic reality outweighs epistemic states. In contradistinction to Jung, synchronicity and the union of psyche and soma are not researched but known to Patanjali. Patanjali informs us that we will understand synchronicity and nonduality too, once we have obtained the knowledge born of discrimination (YS 3.54, 4.23). That is to say, looking through a yogic lens, when we are within orientation B, focused on the plane of intellectuality (vijnanamaya), engrossed in the modifications of the mind (citta vritti), we search for the true reflection in various ways. Hence Jung's search for the unity of psyche and matter, can be seen to reside in Patanjali's orientation B.
Although Jung seeks a unifying model throughout his career, for Jung ego-consciousness and the resultant subject/object distinction remain steadfast. For Jung pure consciousness was impossible to know or experience: he thought pure consciousness was an idea which signified that Eastern intuition had overreached itself. [23] He believed that any practices aimed at fully releasing egoic attachments would lead one to unconsciousness.
Jung began to formulate the theory of synchronicity after many decades of engagement with the paranormal. In Jung's world, synchronicity is a formal factor in nature, which is "the meaningful coincidence of an absolutely natural product with a human idea apparently independent of it." [24] In addition to "meaningful coincidence" Jung also describle." Synchronistic phenomena appear meaningfully related, but not causally so. Jung explained,
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Jung's work with the complicated phenomena of synchronicity was never completed. Contemporary Jungian analyst David Tresan has noted that Jung's synchronicity "signaled an incomplete picture of reality and serves as the goad to discovering a fuller one." [26]
Because all information resides undivided and whole, there is no subject standing in relation to an object ontically. Duality only appears psychologically through the psychological splitting of opposites. Using the analogy of the sun and moon, we can talk about day and night, but ultimately they are not distinct. Borderless, one flows effortlessly into the next.
Coupled with the mechanism of manifestation, or unity of modification, in Classical Yoga the modifications of the mind are always known due to the eternal and absolute nature of their master, purusa. Seeing can be veiled but it cannot be blinded. No matter how we attempt to dissect the physical world through discrete observation at the level of our human awareness, it is still one indivisible All Knowing. Fully. Conscious. Whole. Once this is experientially understood, in Patanjali's world any form of objectifying phenomena becomes unsatisfactory, as it is known to be inhibitory. Epistemic states dissolve into ontic reality. Dualistic psychological experience comes to rest and Being is understood through embodiment.
With Jung and Patanjali's ideas of synchronicity in mind, theoretical physicist Juan Maldacena's holographic vision becomes interesting to explore. If the Upanishadic tradition is correct, and pure consciousness is the ontological reality, then from this perspective, reality can be envisioned more like a holograph than the 3D world we are used to imagining it as. Using a holographic model as a heuristic devise can aid our understanding not only of synchronicity but also allows us to envision how "pure consciousness can be everywhere, and everywhere the same, yet ignorance can be somewhere and somehow." [29]
The reflection we see of ourselves is vital to the vision we have of ourselves and our world. In order to transform into the next level of our potentiality, I believe we must see ourselves in new ways. Looking closely at the work of Jung and Patanjali helps us understand the differences between dualistic and nondualistic notions of our world and has the potential to stimulate us to contemplate our orientation. If we are able to perceive the world both dualistically and nondualistically, through which lens does it feel most comfortable in our lived experience of Being? Where can we find rest, harmony, joy and peace? Through re-visioning the relationship between our dualistic and nondualistic models, reorienting to, and aligning with pure consciousness, it is possible we may uncover deeper insights into how we might better live our lives.
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[18.] Alan Watts, Psychotherapy East and West. (New York: Ballantine, 1971), 26
[19.] C. G. Jung, Memories, dreams, reflections (R. Winston & C. Winston, Trans.) (A. Jaffe, Ed.). (London: Fontana Press, 1995), 371.
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But summer in Sweden is best for putting your feet up. We spent a weekend cycling in the surrounding country-side, passing through farms, villages and forests. The beach is only 7km away, so cycling there is on the agenda for the coming weekend. And if you’re lucky, you’ll be invited to a Kräftskiva, a traditional crayfish party. (At least, it’s officially about the crayfish; it’s actually about the schnapps.)
We settled into Lund surprisingly easily. While most grocery labels, television programmes, bus signs and restaurant menus (and washing machine instructions) are in Swedish, most people speak fluent English, and are happy to help. Apart from a greater selection of fish (try the smoked herring), supermarkets would look very familiar to South Africans. (Oddly, chicken is not very popular.) Drinking is a favourite past-time, especially now that the students have returned. (Stellenbosch students would feel right at home: all first-years wear pretpakkies during their introductory week.) And somehow the Swedes remind me of South Africa in the early 1990s: I can’t exactly put my finger on it, but this ad which currently airs on Swedish TV provides a clue.
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I am not the least surprised to see you comparing Sweden to SA – it is not the first time! That said, after my own travels to Denmark and Sweden, I can definitely share many of your sentiments. On a more touristy note, I highly recommend that you go to the Louisiana Modern Art Museum in Copenhagen, if you haven’t yet been there. It is the first place I will return too when I go back to Copenhagen. That said, I am big on museums, however their modern art is more accessible than the likes of the Tate Modern for instance. It’s about 20 minutes by train outside of central Copenhagen. Buy a ticket at the central station, it worked out (albeit two years ago) a tad cheaper.
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