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The processor world is currently in an on-going battle between the powerhouse Intel, and its once inconceivable rival, AMD. Each company has a new generation of processors, Intel with the Pentium 4, and AMD with its Palamino.
The first thing we need to understand is Intel's competition, as well as their other processors that are available. Currently the fastest processor (In terms of clock speed) from Intel is the 1.8GHz Pentium 4. AMD currently has the 1.4GHz Athlon.
After reading that, you should have two questions in your head. One, if the 1.8 GHz chip is available, why are we reviewing the 1.7GHz chip? The answer to that question is quite simple, by the time we could finally get Intel to send us a Pentium 4 to review they only had a 1.7GHz chip available, even though we did ask for a 1.8. Not only that, but if you have ever read some of the other Pentium 4 reviews with pictures of the chip, you may have noticed that they say "Intel Confidential". This means that the processor is an engineering sample and the multiplier lock has been taken off, which isn't like that on a retail chip. Without a multiplier lock, it would have allowed us to overclock our sample, but unfortunately Intel didn't send us an engineering sample. Actually the D850GB motherboard, which Intel was nice enough to include didn't seem to have any options to change the FSB or voltage settings anyway. We hope that by the time this review is posted, Intel can set aside a 1.8GHz chip for us to take a look at, if that does happen, be sure to see a review on it soon afterwards. Also as a quick side note, according to Intel's roadmap, their 2GHz Pentium 4 is slated to be released sometime in Q4, most likely in September to be more specific.
The second question you should be thinking is how come AMD has a chip that runs only 1.4GHz, while Intel has one at 1.8GHz…Wouldn't that make Intel a clear winner? Not necessarily, today clock speed doesn't guarantee a performance winner as there are a lot more aspects to what is faster. We will talk about some of the hard numbers and comparisons between the processors later in the review when we start getting into the benchmarks.
Now that I have given you a bit of an introduction to the review and the background of where the processor world is currently at, lets start talking about the technology that goes behind the Pentium 4. Since this is our first actual processor review, and specifically of the Pentium 4, we have published a separate in-depth article today on the technology itself. The article is written by Paul Mazzucco, our processor/technology editor. He is also helping me out with a couple aspects of this review. You can check out the article by clicking here. In case you really aren't interested in going in-depth with the Pentium 4, the next page is a brief overview of what the technology behind the chip offers.
Hyper Pipelined - One of the secrets to a high-performing CPU is to pipeline the execution of instructions. While this increases latencies, and has other negative side-effects, it greatly increases the throughput of a processor, by allowing it to execute issue instructions every cycle. The Pentium 4 is, by Intel, considered to have "Hyper pipelined technology." The Pentium III and Athlon, by comparison are merely "Super pipelined." All this means is that the Pentium 4 breaks the execution of the instructions into smaller pieces, so as to allow the processor to reach higher clockspeeds.
Better Branch Prediction - The longer the pipeline, the more it hurts when dealing with branches in code, because the penalty for guessing wrong is greater. On the Pentium III, the Branch Prediction Unit had an efficiency of about 90-91%. Because the Pentium 4 has a pipeline length that is twice that of the Pentium III (even more if there is a Trace Cache miss), the penalty for guessing wrong in branches is greater than on the Pentium III. To help combat this, Intel improved the Branch Prediction Unit of the Pentium 4 over that of the Pentium III.
Rapid Execution Engine - The "Arithmetic Logic Units" (ALU) run at twice the base clock speed of the processor. This means that a 1.7ghz Pentium 4, which has two double-pumped ALUs, running at 3.4ghz! The most basic, and most used instructions, add, subtract (which is mathematically addition), Logical AND, and Logical OR, can be completed in one ALU cycle, which means that they complete in the time of one-half the base frequency.
Trace Cache - The Trace Cache, as implemented in the Pentium 4, has a storage capacity of approximately 12,000 micro-ops (RISC-ish instructions that are simpler to execute, and of uniform length, unlike x86 instructions). This has the benefit of lowering the branch penalty that the Pentium 4 would otherwise have, due to the fact that in the case of a Trace Cache hit, the instruction doesn't have to be decoded all over again. The other major benefit is that code is stored contiguously in the order that it was executed.
Quad Pumped FSB (100mhz, 400megatransfers) - The Pentium 4 has bandwidth like no other x86 CPU. A major reason for the massive bandwidth is due to the fact that the Pentium 4 has a quad pumped front side bus. Though it's not as good as a real 400mhz FSB (the latencies aren't as low as a theoretical 400mhz FSB), a quad pumped FSB provides 3.2Gigabytes per second of bandwidth. When paired with 2 channels of PC800, main memory matches perfectly with the bandwidth of FSB, unlike the Pentium 3 and the i840 chipset, which has the same theoretical main memory bandwidth, but is bottlenecked by a much slower, 1Gigabyte per second front side bus.
Advanced Transfer Cache - As stated above Intel's Pentium 4 is a bandwidth hog. As such, Intel opted to beef up the L2 cache even beyond that of the remarkable "Advanced Transfer Cache" used in the Pentium III (256Kb, 256-bit wide, 8-way associative, non-and blocking - for more info, see http://www.systemlogic.net/articles/00/10/cache ). The Pentium III's Advanced Transfer cache was 256bits wide, but could only transfer data every other cycle. The Advanced Transfer Cache of the Pentium 4 transfers data every cycle, thus providing twice the bandwidth per clock cycle over the Pentium III, resulting in a whopping 54Gigabytes per second of bandwidth to the core when at 1.7ghz. Even if a Pentium III managed to get up to 1.7ghz (which would be unbelievably difficult), it would only manage about 27Gigabytes per second of bandwidth from the L2 cache.
Hardware Prefetcher - Part of the reason why the Pentium 4 needs such huge amounts of main memory bandwidth is due to the fact that it implements a hardware-based prefetcher. The Pentium III introduced integer instructions that allowed a programmer to call instructions into a cache before it is actually needed. The only downside of this method is that it requires software support, which isn't always easy to come by, and it also can introduce slight code-bloat. The hardware prefetcher requires no such software support, and automatically fetches some instructions before they are needed. This uses bandwidth, and if there isn't enough, can actually cause main-memory bandwidth contention. The massive main memory bandwidth afforded by the Quad Pumped FSB allows the hardware prefetcher to basically "trade" excess bandwidth for lower average latencies.
iSSE2 - Similar in concept to MMX, 3dNow! and iSSE, iSSE2 is a SIMD technology. This means that if the same operation needs to be performed on multiple data elements, with SIMD, only one instruction is needed. The difference here is that iSSE2 provides double-precision floating point and 64-bit integer SIMD, using 8 new, 128-bit wide registers specifically for the technology. It, like its predecessor, is also fully IEEE compliant (meaning you get the results that one should expect according to a universal standard), while 3dNow! is not fully IEEE compliant (meaning the results from using 3dNow floating point operations can be ever-so slightly off).
Thermal protection - The Pentium 4 has an internal thermal diode which will throttle back the CPU if it gets exceedingly hot (such as if the fan dies on the heatsink). This protects the CPU from overheating as a Thunderbird Athlon would. Also, if the temperature exceeds 135 degrees Celsius, the CPU will shut itself down, so that it won't burn out. The Palomino core has a thermal diode as well, so future Athlons shouldn't have the same growing pains that the Thunderbird.
Before presenting the benchmarks, there is one issue that needs to be discussed. We had some issues getting some comparable processors in the labs, as mentioned before, this is SystemLogic.net's first processor review. In our benchmarks we only used the P4 1.7GHz and a 1.1GHz AMD Athlon (200MHz FSB). We will be forced to recommend you a few other sites benchmarks for some comparison, but make sure to keep our numbers on the Pentium 4 in mind. We will also be referring to various sites benchmarks as well. In our next processor review there should be no problems in terms of having a few comparable processors available.
Another issue that came up had to do with 3D performance in Windows 2000. The tests that were run on any 3D performance benchmark (Eg: Quake III, Aquakmark, 3DMark) all scored very low numbers. In fact, Aquamark kept on freezing on us. Since the issue showed in just 3D performance, the first thought that comes into mind is that it is an issue with the video card, which happened to be a Visiontek GeForce 3.
We contacted Intel right away and sent over the numbers. Intel's performance engineers went over them and stated that they were getting the same sort of results over there as well, and that it was mainly because of Windows 2000's lack of gaming support. They were using a GeForce 2 in their tests with an older driver version, and said that the GeForce 2 would perform better than the GeForce 3. I thought this was a bit of an odd conclusion, considering the fact that we looked on some other sites benchmarks for 3D performance in Win2k, and their numbers seemed fine. Just to make sure, we threw a GeForce 2 into the system, and still had the same results, so we're not sure if it was a video card driver issue, a motherboard issue, or what, but we decided not to post 3D performance results in Windows 2000 until we found out.
Each system had a formatted hard drive with clean installs of Windows 2000 Proffesional SP2 and Windows Millenium Edition in a dual boot format. All necessary updates to the operating system were made VIA Windows Update. Each benchmark was installed, run, and uninstalled. After each uninstallation the drive was defragmented, and the next benchmarking program was installed.
For Quake III Arena benchmarks, we used Q3Bench to automate things.
SYSmark 2001 has "real-world" usage built into it. It uses scripts and timing delays to perform the tasks similar to how a real person would, performing tasks a real person would do.
MS Word2k - Opens a document, adds some graphics, text, backgrounds, and prints.
MS Excel2k - Sorts data, and creates charts.
MS PowerPoint2k - Makes a presentation, formats, previews the slides as they go along, and adds a background.
MS Access2k - Loads the database and reorganizes material, processes information, and opens/prints the results.
*Netscape 6.0 - Opens a web-file, does a word search, views the source code, then views a web-based power point presentation.
Dragons NaturallySpeaking Preferredv.5 - Transcribes a *.wav file in the background.
WinZip 8.0 - compresses some videos in the background.
McAfee VirusScan 5.13 - Scanning files in the background.
* While this is a personal opinion, and while I certainly support competition, there is no good reason to use Netscape 6.0 instead of MS Internet Explorer (5.0 or greater). While Netscape is still prevalent, it has nowhere near the installed user base as Internet Explorer, and it is well known that Internet Explorer is faster to load, and faster to use. I see no good reason why Netscape 6.0 was chosen over the MS version, as they used MS products for everything else in this part of the test. In my humble opinion, it would make sense to include Internet Explorer into this group (perhaps in addition to Netscape 6.0), simply because it is the more-used browser.
Adobe Photoshop 6.0 - Opens a large picture, does sample filters, tests resizing/orientation, adds other effects and resaves as a jpeg, and prints.
Adobe Premier 6.0 - Makes a video, adding effects and is then compressed.
Macromedia Flas0h 5 - The user creates a movie file.
MS Media Encoder 7 - Takes a video and encodes in the background.
Video/Resolution: Creative Labs GeForce Annihilator 2 with 32 MB DDR onboard memory, 1024x768 resolution, 16 bpp color, 75 Hz monitor resolution.
Disk: 30 GB ATA 100 IBM DPTA-373420.
As a "Power user" myself, some of the descriptions above sound realistic for someone who knows how to get the most out of their machine in terms of multi-tasking to get as much done in as short a time as possible. However, the average corporate user does little more than type up some reports, browse the web, or check email. The majority of PC users do not do many of these tasks simultaneously (some, they wouldn't do at all). However, as people become more computer literate, the described workloads become more realistic.
Despite this, there are users who fit the profile given above. In such cases, the aforementioned usage stresses the memory subsystem more heavily than running only one program at a time, due to the number of applications running in the background, and due to the user switching between programs. As an example, doing such causes the L1 and L2 cache to change their contents much more frequently than running one applications at a time, stressing both memory latencies, and bandwidth (as well as, of course, the CPU itself).
We can see here that Windows 2000 performs better on both processors, this generally occurs in most of the benchmarks that we ran. In Win2k there's about a 35% improvement in over the 1.1GHz Athlon. Make sure to take in mind that the Athlon is using a 200MHz FSB rather than a 266MHz FSB. Not only that but the memory is PC133 SDRAM rather than DDR, which can improve performance by sometimes as much as 15%.
On other sites benchmarks there is about a 10% speed difference between the P4 and a 1.4GHz Athlon. That's a pretty big difference, and Intel is usually known to do pretty good with multimedia type applications over business type applications, where AMD usually does better.
Here we can see what I mean by AMD processors usually doing better in office type applications. The gap between the two processors is about 12%, over a previous gap of 35%, that should prove a lot.
Taking a look at some other sites benchmarks for other processors scores, the Athlon 1.4GHz tears the Pentium 4 apart. In fact, even lower speed Athlons like the 1.2GHz come very close to the Pentium 4 1.7GHz.
Now we know that each processor has it's strong points in certain types of applications, but overall the Pentium 4 came out on top, but not by much. Actually, taking a look at some other sites scores and averaging them out, the Pentium 4 only edged out by less than 5% in some cases. In the introduction, I mentioned clock speed isn't everything anymore, here's the proof.
Quake 3 has been one of the staple benchmarks of review sites since the games inception. While it is getting a bit on the old side, there are other games which use its engine, such as American Magees "Alice," and Star Trek: Elite Forces. While benchmarking all the games would be best, sometimes triage must be performed with respect to a reviewer's time. So we've stuck with the tried and true Quake 3 to be representative of OpenGL performance, and the other great bonus is that it's popular, and many scores to compare with elsewhere.
Quake 3 also has the distinction of having the ability to change visual complexity by increasing the number of polygons that are rendered in a scene. It also has multithreaded support, though it is somewhat limited. While we didn't test the former simply because no hardly anyone (at least that I know of) uses it, the latter due to lack of a dual P4 platform, this bandwidth intensive game is also greatly affected by the speed of the processor, especially in the lower resolutions in the same way that the 3dmark tests were.
Quake III Arena is one of the tests that we usually see Intel perform really well in. As you can see from the charts, the Pentium 4 performs almost twice as fast at the lower resolutions. Note, that the lower resolutions are more important as they tend to use more processing power, rather than the video card. The higher the resolution, the more dependant on the video card it is. Other sites tests aren't really setup nearly the same way ours was, but you can see that the Pentium 4 really just pulls away here.
While 3dmark2001 is based off of a very current game engine (Max Payne reviews have already started popping up), Aquamark is a benchmark of an actual game: Aquanox. Aquanox is a DX8 game, and has extremely advanced visual features. This might lead one to believe that it should be totally video-card bound - other sites (Example here) have shown that only a GF3 can make use of its T&L engine for this demo. If this is indicative of the real game, then, on systems without a GF3, the CPU itself will limit the gaming performance. This should lead one to believe that, though the game is indeed very much graphics-card bound, even if the system has a GF3, performance should improve considerably with a faster CPU. Our results below indicate this as well.
Since AquaMark is a DirectX 8 application, it does use a lot of the GeForce's 3 power over the processors, although we left the pixel shader off so that it would not depend on the video card as much. The Pentium keeps a 30% - 35% lead here, but when looking at other sites, the Athlon totally wrecks the Pentium 4. Even a 1.2GHz does better, and the use off DDR memory helps the Athlon substantially. The one thing we do notice is that the numbers overall aren't very gapped throughout a lot of the clock speeds, which just shows that the video card is really doing a lot of the performing.
There are a few points that need to be touched on to put everything into perspective. Intel has a great chip here that performs relatively well. At higher frequencies, the Pentium 4's performance is able to distinguish itself from Intel's previous archtecture, and can easily outperform the lower end Athlons. AMD's 1.4GHz processor performs close as well, sometimes performing better than a 1.7ghz Pentium 4, sometimes slower, as other sites have shown. Note that AMD will release faster clock speeds by the end of 2001 which may close any gap that we see right now. On the other hand, Intel should be moving to 2GHz with the Pentium 4, so we'll have to see what kind of numbers each of those higher-end this generation chip boasts.
The main concern with the Pentium 4 is its price comparison to an almost as fast Athlon. Is it worth twice as much money? At this time, we can honestly say no, but there are a few paths. First of all, even though the Athlon may cost cheaper and perform better, there will a huge percentage of people, whether they are home users or corporate users, that will stick to Intel because of the name. For corporate users, even if you personally believe that the Athlon route is the way to go, your boss may want solely Intel products. In that case, in terms of performance the Pentium 4 is a great buy over an older Pentium III. Looking at it this way, the Pentium 4 is very much exceeding the performance of their highest performing .18 micron Pentium III's. If you must stick with an Intel chip for performance, there's no reason to choose a .18 micron Pentium III over a Pentium 4.
For the rest of you, our best recommendation is to wait until Northwood and Palamino come out. With the Northwood Pentium 4 there are a few things that will make a big difference from the current Pentium 4. The main thing is that, like all new architectures, the comparatively large Pentium 4 is itching for a smaller process. This means that it should scale in frequency much better in .13 compared to the Pentium III than it did on .18, and thus, scale better in terms of absolute performance. This means that the Northwood should perform a lot better. Not only this but there will be no needed for a new enclosure (although you still need a new power supply). Also, it will be socket-478 rather than the current socket-423, which is planned to die out. The Northwood should also be cheaper to make, so the price savings go directly to the users, so prices should be lower.
For the final words, the chip is great, although right now the costs are just too high compared to the Athlon, and it makes sense to wait a little while longer for either Northwood or Palamino.

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It is seen as a clever move by Blackberry maker Research In Motion whose smartphone is seen as the phone of choice among this sector.
"This is one of the most exciting times in our history," said Mike Lazaridis, RIM chief executive officer.
"RIM set out to engineer the best professional-grade tablet in the industry with cutting-edge hardware features and one of the world's most robust and flexible operating systems," added Mr Lazaridis.
"RIM's Blackberry Playbook tablet looks to be a real challenger to Apple's iPad, playing on its business credentials, rather than being just another joy machine'," Stuart Miles, editor of mobile technology website Pocket-Lint told BBC News.
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The iPhone's share of the US market was 23.8% and Google's Android was 17% for the quarter ending in July.
"It's by far the most exciting thing we've seen from BlackBerry for a while and for once the buzz seems to have been justified," said Kate Solomon of mobile news and views site Recombu.com.
What remains to be seen is whether RIM can keep the price realistic for everyday users - despite all the high quality features, a high price tag will put a lot of people off and convince them that a tablet is a superfluous gadget that they don't really need."
One contender looking to put a dent in the iPad's lead is HP.
At a nearby conference called TechCrunch Disrupt, Todd Bradley, the company's executive vice president for the personal systems group said tablets are going to be a huge market.
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My grandfather was Harry S. Bierly. He was born April 1, 1891in Eckley, Luzerne County Pennsylvania. In 1916 he was stationed at Ft. Riley, Kansas as part of C Co.1st Engineers which became part of the 1st Infantry Division in France in 1917.
He participated in at least 4 major campaigns: Montdidier- Noyon, 9–13 June 1918; Aisne – Marne, 18 July – 6 August 1918; St. Mihiel, 12–16 September 1918; Meuse-Argonne, 26 September – 11 November 1918. He was awarded Silver Star, a purple heart with an oak leaf cluster, and the World War I Victory Medal.
After the war, he earned a degree in Civil Engineering from Drexel and took a job in St. Petersburg, FL with the Veterans Administration helping to design their new hospital.
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I served with the first Engineers, from 84-86. Participated in Reforger, as well as numerous "vacations" to the Mohave. I have been looking for a Michael Campbell from Iowa that I had served with. Any help would be appreciated. " Through these drros, pass the best combat Engineers in the world". Anyone remember that sign above Charlie companys doorway to the barracks?
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Child seats save lives, so what are we waiting for?
August 2, 2015 The issue of making the use of child seats mandatory arose in light of recent accidents involving children.
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On virtually every vacation I take, a trip around the local used record stores is a must. I usually come out with 10+ discs that I may or may not listen to for quite awhile; often they are filling blank spots in the collection. A trip to Portland, Or last year was no different. It took exactly a year to finally get around to listening to the second album by The Cure, Seventeen Seconds. Sharing the same sparse minimalism as the debut, Three Imaginary Boys, Seventeen Seconds leaves behind some of that album’s punky roots and moves the band into its gothic phase.
“Play For Today” with the chorus, “and wait for something to happen” bears the most resemblance to what appeared on the debut. “In Your House” features an almost jangly guitar line that Johnny Marr would become famous for a few years later. The instrumental “Three” has a menacing vibe that sees the band moving in a new darker direction. Single “A Forest” adds a bass propulsion to the sound that makes it the standout track and “M” contains the most conventional alt rock sound on the album.
Through no fault of its own, Seventeen Seconds is not the record that the casual fan of The Cure would reach for, myself included. It’s good, very good in spots, but with so many other great albums by The Cure, this one will virtually always get lost in the shuffle outside of the most diehard of fans.


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In the film debuting at SXSW 2014, Aly Michalka plays a young woman with a terminal illness who plans to take her own life among the redwoods.
She got her start on the Disney Channel, but Aly Michalka -- she of musical sister-act Aly & AJ and The CW's cheerleader drama Hellcats fame -- graduates to something a little grittier in Sequoia, a new indie drama bowing at SXSW 2014.
Riley is headed to California redwood country to end her life on her own terms when she meets Ogden (90210's Dustin Milligan), a sensitive musician just dreamy enough to make her second-guess a plan to OD on antidepressants.
Sequoia also stars noted easel comic (and onetime Ang Lee muse!) Demetri Martin as Steve, geeky romantic foil to Riley's mom (Joey Lauren Adams, who has never looked more like Ellen Barkin). There's also a brief glimpse of Lou Diamond Phillips in a leather jacket and fedora, looking on the verge of imparting some crucial third-act wisdom.
From first-time feature director Andy Landen working from a script by Andrew Rothschild, Sequoia makes its world premiere at SXSW on Sunday, March 9 at 5 p.m.


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Playwright David Henry Hwang is not aware of this, but as a journalist I have long looked up to him as an older brother type figure. That would be appropriate in the Chinese culture from which we both are descended, and even in the American culture to which each of us has assimilated. He is not only a bona fide writer; he is a commercially successful one. Hwang’s big hit, M. Butterfly, has been revived on Broadway with a touched-up script, directed by Julie Taymor of Lion King fame and Spiderman infamy, starring Clive Owen, the cerebral action hero in movies such as Children of Men and the BMW short ads. I saw it immediately, and I was impressed. What follows is an appreciation, not a proper review. Hwang and I have had maybe a half-dozen conversations since as a student a decade younger I invited him to speak on campus, and he told me as I drove him from the airport that his parents had wanted him to become a lawyer. We are friendly enough I would not presume to evaluate his work. His achievement deserves admiration though: he has expressed what many of us have thought halfway but not been able to put into words clearly. There is nobody else doing what he does.
M. Butterfly, which cannot be reduced to a stunt, was inspired by the news that a French embassy attaché had carried on an affair with a Chinese opera singer, without being aware that she was a spy — and, what is a worse affront to straight masculine pride, a man. The defrauded diplomat maintained his ignorance if not innocence, up to the embarrassment of legal proceedings brought against them. His humiliation, in reality as in retelling, was representative. He and "she" symbolized East and West. They had no alternative.
The “meta” level of the play cannot be escaped. Hwang has framed it as a flashback. Owen as Gallimard breaks the fourth wall to acquaint the audience with his story. He wants it to be emphatically his story. He is in prison for his crimes. But he revels in memories of a romance to exceed any he could have expected.
This new version adds spectacle to scandal. A play usually is opened up in a movie. This play is opened up in its latest rendition. It is similar to Hwang’s Chinglish, which has been produced with one of the lavish sets that you marvel at for its technical accomplishment even as it illustrates the importance of background — in that show, the electrical outlets were accurate in the configuration of the plugs. Here, a series of screens open and close, and banners drop from the ceiling, described in what I hope Hwang rolled his eyes at, the effect of a “Chinese box.” (Note to the set designer: the screens might be weighted at the bottom to prevent the shakiness that distracts from the intended elegance.) They boast the budget for ballet dancers who, in bit roles, perform en pointe. Among the changes is the cringe inducing gory detail about the “how” of the charade. The union even brought forth a baby. The pregnancy was a plot point mirroring the outré history.
Yet M. Butterfly is all about context. It is about how we perceive one another in relationships that are more in our own minds, narcissistic and solipsistic. The disaster of deception lies not in how we fool others but how we dupe ourselves. Taymor deserves credit. She reportedly advised Hwang to rethink his female personalities.
Hwang has matured. He has reached twice the age he was when he premiered this piece. (He also survived an attack in New York City in which he was stabbed in the neck.) The people he portrays are fleshed out, not merely figures animated by their argument. The author has been willing to improve on himself. His Golden Child, which ran as part of a retrospective of his career at the Signature Theatre five years ago, similarly benefited from a rewrite. Hwang has done that service for others. He amended Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Flower Drum Song, the musical about Chinatown revues that mimicked the mainstream perfectly, by adding autonomy for the artists. His original M. Butterfly happened to have just closed in Baltimore. In one of those “truth is stranger than fiction” coincidences, its director met the French courier who was the model for his higher-ranked stage counterpart.
In this provocation, Owen has been preceded by John Litgow (much acclaimed for chemistry with his leading “lady”), Tony Randall (whom I saw), Jeremy Irons (in the unconvincing movie by David Cronenberg), and Anthony Hopkins (in London). He is more subdued than taciturn, the persona he typically has projected. The “female” lead is inhabited by Jin Ha. Brad Wong began his career as that persona, becoming “B.D.” in the credits to cover the secret. Some observers have objected to Ha as less effeminate than Wong. That disparagement, apparently prompted by Ha’s more angular chin, disregards the allure of our fantasies. To Gallimard’s eye, probably visible stubble would have been excused. The audience is requested to suspend disbelief.
Hwang is not alone as an Asian American who would dare a career in theatre. Frank Chin and Philip Kan Gotanda are his elders. There are a half-dozen, from Christopher Chen to Young Jean Lee, who have followed. Like Hwang, they have remade classics from the Kurosawa movie Rashomon to Shakespeare’s Macbeth. These are no mimics.
But none have exceeded Hwang in M. Butterfly. Its themes are as timely now as a generation ago. They are all the more compelling.
Despite the disclaimer that I am not the ideal critic, I would like to be on the record with a rave. Although at least one audience member with whom I chatted had bought tickets sure she was about to see the 1904 Puccini crowd pleaser, I predict this rare speciman of lepidoptera will be at least as much a hit as the original. The rise of China assures that. People, meaning Westerners, want to comprehend what they must compete against.
That in a sense is what Hwang represents. As with the lady leaving the theatre who mentioned to me there were some songs that seemed to be missing, the point may be lost in the cliche that we all look alike. His message, in all its iterations, is Asian American, not Asian. It is akin to the man pretending to be the woman pretending to be a man. The playwright is the Asian American who cannot but be an American impersonating an Asian. That is hardly a criticism. It is a compliment. Perhaps the most noble American is the ideal of the Asian. He imagines that the dream can be real. Any of us can join this experiment in diversity and democracy. We can achieve equality through individuality. To the Asian the concept is risible. To the average American it is honored in the breach.
The potential to write your own life is what the leads, irrespective of their gender, testify to. They are not the shame of their respective nations. They are individuals constrained by circumstances. But they also are members of a movement more threatening to authority: the class of souls who are creative. They imagine, if in vain, a destiny different than what is assigned. We choose to collaborate in that illusion. Otherwise we, like they, are destroyed by what others force us to do. Who would not be sympathetic to the sentiment?


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The NDDC Board spent a good portion of their time at the November and December meetings reviewing 2008 Accomplishments, discussing potential Work Plans, and prioritizing Action Steps for 2009. As always, the accomplishments and actions were organized by the Main Street Four Points.
The November meeting focused on a critical review of the Accomplishments and an unconstrained consideration of Work Plans. The December meeting was a progression to greater specificity and emphasize on the Top Priorities for the upcoming year.

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Imagine a little kitten. It is entirely possible for a person to find some positive feelings in his or her heart towards this kitten. Now, if someone were to encourage you to engender a positive feeling in your heart toward our kitten and place these positive feelings at the very center of your life. You are being encouraged to submit yourself in complete and total devotion to this baby cat. You are told that this kitten is the fourth person in the god-head and that it is a living incarnation of Jesus. You are further told that all of your love and devotion to Jesus is meaningless if you don’t live your life for this kitten.
I would guess, that as a Christian, you would have some serious philosophical, theological and Scriptural objections to this suggestion. I would further guess, that none of these objections would be mitigated in the slightest if you were told that in some mysterious way, this kitten and Jesus are one and the same.
But more importantly you would have a devotional objection. As a Christian you would say that Jesus is already the center of your life and that you lack nothing in the Trinitarian god that you worship. You would say that your relationship with the divine is complete and that there is nothing that your god is missing that a relationship with this kitten could supply.
If one of the followers of the kitten were to tell you that if you give your heart to the kitten you will become a greater messenger for Jesus, you will find a deeper assurance of your right standing for eternity and that your relationship with Jesus will be greatly enhanced, would you feel that he answered your devotional question? Or would you say that this follower of the kitten has no clue about what you feel in your heart toward Jesus?
P.S. Was David missing anything with God?
As far as I know there is no mention in Tanakh or in the rabbinic literature of David having a relationship with a kitten or a cat.
1 Samuel 17:34-36 – David killed a cat.
Haha! A very large one. Not quite in the kitten league.
Awesome article by Rabbi B!!!
I would like to expand on your kitten thought experiment in the following way.
י דֹּב אֹרֵב הוּא לִי, אריה (אֲרִי) בְּמִסְתָּרִים.	HE IS A BEAR LYING IN WAIT FOR ME, A LION IN HIDDEN PLACES. – This verse says plainly that god IS a bear and a lion in one. It doesn’t say LIKE a bear or LIKE a lion but that god IS both a bear and a lion.
So according to this verse, god incarnated into a bear and a lion in the lifetime of Jeremiah.
And you MUST Believe in the lion, if not, you the son won’t accept you.
The Kitten is the visible image of the Lion of Judah. He existed before anything was created and is supreme over all creation. You cannot believe on the Lion of Judah, if you don’t believe in the Kitten of Judah as well, because the lion is a foreshadow of the kitten, and you cannot believe in a lion if he was not first a kitten. Believe in the Lion, believe also in me, the kitten. The kitten is the way the truth and the life, no one can come to the lion, unless through me (the kitten). If the Word and the Way are Truth, so the Kitten is truth. Prrrr to the Messiah redeemer through the Kitten, for all things were made through him, but My People (the Church) rejected me, the source of Purrs and lasagnas!
Behold the Kitten of god who takes away the fur balls of the world!
לה אַתָּה הָרְאֵתָ לָדַעַת, כִּי יְהוָה הוּא הָאֱלֹהִים: אֵין עוֹד, מִלְּבַדּוֹ.	35 Unto thee IT WAS SHOWN, that thou mightest know that the LORD, He is God; there is none else beside Him.
ז כִּי יְסִיתְךָ אָחִיךָ בֶן-אִמֶּךָ אוֹ-בִנְךָ אוֹ-בִתְּךָ אוֹ אֵשֶׁת חֵיקֶךָ, אוֹ רֵעֲךָ אֲשֶׁר כְּנַפְשְׁךָ–בַּסֵּתֶר לֵאמֹר: נֵלְכָה, וְנַעַבְדָה אֱלֹהִים אֲחֵרִים, אֲשֶׁר לֹא יָדַעְתָּ, אַתָּה וַאֲבֹתֶיךָ.	7 If thy brother, the son of thy mother, or thy son, or thy daughter, or the wife of thy bosom, or thy friend, that is as thine own soul, entice thee secretly, saying: ‘Let us go and serve other gods,’ WHICH YO HAVE NOT KNOW, YOU NOR YOUR FATHERS.
יד יָצְאוּ אֲנָשִׁים בְּנֵי-בְלִיַּעַל, מִקִּרְבֶּךָ, וַיַּדִּיחוּ אֶת-יֹשְׁבֵי עִירָם, לֵאמֹר: נֵלְכָה, וְנַעַבְדָה אֱלֹהִים אֲחֵרִים–אֲשֶׁר לֹא-יְדַעְתֶּם.	14 ‘Certain base fellows are gone out from the midst of thee, and have drawn away the inhabitants of their city, saying: Let us go and serve other gods, WHICH YOU HAVE NOT KNOWN.
I would also ask my friend why he is so sure that the cat is an incarnation of god – did the cat somehow prove its divinity to him? Or does he believe in the cat because he tried worshiping it and the results feel godly to him?
i don’t know if judaism believes in ghosts or evil spirits , but imagine if someone said that god incarnated into an invisible ghost. now how is it possible for the christian to say, “oh that is the flesh nature….”?
Robster – you would have to google “ghosts and evil spirits in Judaism”. I personally have no experience with them. If they exist, I don’t know about them and they are irrelevant to me and to anyone I know.
Alan, you cannot understand, because you are double blinded. First, you have to believe in Jesus. Christians are also blinded, because the spirit of Kitten had to reveal the kitten to them. You HAVE to believe in the pentunity (also refered as quinquity, quinity, penta-unity and complex unity of god at second level) of god.
I guess I’m just not meant to be Catolic. I’d like to see the Catechism for this new religion.
Very elusive! Extremely Elusive, is the for of the spirit of the kiteen.4. The Spirit of the Kitten reveals the truth concerning the Kitten, and all Christians are doomed to hell without him.
For the Kitten so loved the world, that he’s going to make you burn if you don’t accept him.
Yehuda I am not sure how I would respond – perhaps with a parable about a frog who is actually an incarnation of a kitten. What are you thinking about?
So I have long wondered how – strictly from the perspective of the charge of idolatry – a christian would refute a fellow christian who takes “Gods fullness” to a next level – a kitten perhaps. I’d like to know what scriptures they would point to saying this is idolatry, that could not be pointed squarely back at Jesus and for precisely the same reasons. I’m not saying they wouldn’t construct other arguments based on any number of other scriptural allusions to Jesus that kitty may not satisfy. But I wonder how they would support the blunt charge of “you are worshiping an unauthorized entity” without imploding?
I read the article. This is the article you were remembering.
It is brilliant. I would have thought that Rabbi B wrote it if it didn’t say it was by Thomas.
I specifically remembered this comment Thomas made in the comments to the post which I thought was great.
After all, froggy, might be the “croak” of the Lord.
LOL Also, brilliant. Thank you for this!
RT, you are on a roll!
The croak of the Lord, that’s awesome, Yehuda!
“I warn everyone who hears the words of the prophecy of this scroll: If anyone adds anything to them, God will add to that person the plagues described in this scroll.” Rev 22:18.
Your kitten was an addition to the writings and we know it is not the truth because of this verse. By the way, that’s what the Christians do with Mormons. This is the same argument Jews have with Deuteronomy 4, and if they would be honest as well.
If you watched Dr Browns Debates, you can see, also, how dishonest he is. He keeps on referring to the messiah, as he would be a normal human being (not god in the flesh). He totally ignores that he believes in a triune god, and that the messiah is a second god of the trinity. Why? Because he wants to appeal to the Jews. If he would be honest and say that he prays to Jesus and that he believe the servant is god himself in the flesh, but different in nature, then he would lose all his credibility. He is dishonest, hopping that a few Jews will pray and accept Jesus before knowing the facts!


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The GetFishing.com.au tournament allows kids to be part of an online fishing club and compete every time they hit the water.
Participants register online, retrieve their monthly tournament code and compete from their favourite fishing locations anywhere in the country.
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Barnes Regional Airport Manager Brian Barnes addresses residents Monday about changes in noise levels around the airport.
WESTFIELD - Changes in flight operations at Barnes Regional Airport, both military and private aircraft, have resulted in changes in the noise impact levels on homes in and around the airport.
That is what residents living near the airport were told at a workshop Wednesday night at North Middle School.
Those changes have resulted in a reduction of about 50 percent the number of homes that will now qualify for noise mitigation proposals offered by the Federal Aviation Administration.
Airport Manager Brian Barnes told the nearly 200 residents Monday that changes at the airport involve flight patterns, upgrades and improvements to runways at Barnes and newer and less noisy engines on corporate aircraft. Also, Barnes said there has been a significant "cut back in the number" of F-15 Eagle fighter jet operations by the Air National Guard's 104th Fighter Group that calls the airport home.
Overall, Barnes said the airport saw 120,000 operations annually in the 1990s but now only handles about 42,000 flight operations annually.
"What has happened here is nothing new," Barnes said. "It happened at Westover Air Reserve Base and Burlington, Vt.. Those bases also experienced similar decreases in flight operations over the years."
The noise mitigation program at Barnes Regional Airport is being directed by Wyle Laboratories of Arlington, Va.
The mitigation project started here in 2010 with 364 residential homes are the airport identified as eligible for mitigation, either through acquisition or upgrade. Eligible were 52 homes for outright acquisition by the FAA and another 312 homes targeted for noise mitigation ranging from sound proofing to extensive renovation.
Since 2010 Wyle has completed the purchase and demolition of 10 homes and noise mitigation to 84 homes.
"That would leave about 240 homes in the original program but changes in the noise impact now only identifies about 124 homes for the project," Barnes said.
Patricia Madamas has lived directly in the main flight path of Barnes Airport since 1979 at 340 Holyoke Road.
"I am here because I am curious to see how things have changes," Madamas said. "My home was evaluated in the first study and I am now waiting for them to purchase my home. I turned down noise mitigation and I planned on a spring acquiisition.
"Recently I was notified that will be delayed but I expect them to still honor the acquisition," she said.
The airport manager told residents that the FAA will dictate the scope of the noise mitigation project and data now being collected by Wyle through the new noise study and resident input from Monday night and ongoing comments from the public will be presented to the FAA for review.
"We are still soliciting comments and people are urged to submit comments or contact us to discuss issues," Barnes said.
Jane W. Verbeck, Wyle project managered assigned to Barnes Regional Airport, was busy Monday night handing out mitigation applications to several residents.
The noise map associated with Barnes Airport must be updated every four years, officials said.

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NOTE: I WILL BE GOING ON VACATION FOR TWO WEEKS BEGINNING JULY 1. LOOK FOR ME TO BE BACK ON LINE AFTER JULY 15.
IN THE MEANTIME, BLESSINGS TO ALL AND ENJOY YOuR SUMMER.
I AM LEAVING YOU WITH TWO MASTERS TO REFLECT ON. ONE IS RUMI, AND OF COURSE WE ALL LOVE HIS POEMS THAT RETAIN THEIR SPIRITUAL POWER AFTER ALL THESE YEARS. THE OTHER IS AN ENERGY WORKER FROM CROATIA NAMED BRACO, WHO SEEMS TO HAVE AMAZING HEALING POWERS. BOTH, I FEEL, CAN CREATE A SPECIAL ENERGY FIELD THAT DOES WONDERS TO HEAL BOTH BODY AND SPIRIT.
The family darling comes home!
Braco hails from Croatia and is reputed to have wondrous healing powers, though he does not call himself a “healer.” Rather, he prefers to be known as one who acts as a conduit for the divine energies from Source. Braco does not speak--rather he holds “gazing sessions” in which he appears before a vast audience and gazes into their eyes. He is well known in Europe and attracts huge crowds wherever he goes.
He does all of this in silence, and his “gazing sessions” last only five minutes, though he repeats these throughout the day.
He does not charge for his services when he appears in Europe, but there is a small charge (about $6.00) when he travels to other countries. He visited California recently, then went on to Hawaii and Japan.
Is he authentic? Many believe so, and his record seems to support this. How could such a being appear in our midst?
For one thing, I think the veils between the worlds are indeed growing thinner, and things that might have been impossible only a few years ago, now are becoming more frequent, just as more and more people are awakening to spiritual reality.
For another, I am convinced that in such gatherings, a marvelous vibrational field is created by the crowd itself, for people are truly in an altered state and each amplifies the emanations of the others. And such energy infusions (of love) are healing, whatever the source.
In any event, the process helps many people in all sorts of ways.
And--finally--I think this is how the world itself is undergoing massive transformation. Great energetic fields are being created, impacting larger and larger numbers of people. As more and more are drawn to participate in these “higher” vibrations, the field becomes larger and more intense, until at last the vast majority of the populace is involved.
This may seem fanciful, but why not? If it can happen on a lesser scale, why not across the entire planet? And thus we will experience global Kundalini initiaton as the instrument by which we will together enter a new stage of evolution of consciousness. Far fetched? Perhaps, but no more farfetched than many of the other major transitions into new levels of consciousness humanity has undergone in past eras.
To read more about Braco, look him up on google or check him out on YouTube. Whatever or whoever he is, he is a fascinating phenomenon on the world scene --we need more like him.
Of late, I have thrown caution to the winds, and am writing things I might not have been bold enough to share a few years back. I do not consider myself a channel or a prophet, but sometimes I seem to get "hits" or glimpses of how things might be. Where we might have come from, where we may be going, and--now--how the change will happen.
This is whatI think. I don't think that the "end" will be as traumatic or frightening as one might suppose. If we are indeed at the end of an era, or possibly the end of planet earth, then this is how we may--as individuals and groups--experience it. I think that vast numbers of people will be--in effect--cast into an altered state, a dream state, if you will, and together we--possibly the entire population of the planet--will easily and effortlessly move together into our next level of consciousness. Some might see this as death, a vast tragedy afflicting earth. But I think otherwise.
Many writers in the past have spoken of evolution of consciousness in terms of actual "root races" that preceded our present status. In fact, some, such as Madame Blavatsky, have described different "races" existing in ancient times, all predating by many eras the appearance of "humanity" on earth. In order to move into a new state of being--to become a transfigured version of the prior self--the old condition must be surrendered, to make way for the new reality.
I am putting this forth not as solid truth, but rather as grounds for speculation. I once experienced death as it came about in a past life. At the (actual) time, I was receiving a massage, but in my "dream body" I knew that I was a monk lying prone, undergoing the transition from "life" to "death." The passage was very easy. As my fellow monks surrounded me, I drifted in and out of consciousness, and slowly made my way--effortlessly and painlessly--into the other realm.
This notion may seem untenable, but my bottom line--as always--is that if what happened to me so unexpectedly (K. awakening) some 30 years ago then anything is possible. Anyone who has had experience well outside the norm will likely be convinced of this. Whether it is sudden ecstasy, altered consciousness, or near death--even alien contact--one is changed forever in terms of acceptance of the "possible" in a way one simply could not accept before.
And more and more are having such key experiences. These are the yeast transforming the dough into the bread, the seeds that have been sown sometimes years ago that now are opening in full bloom.
Kundalini is, I believe, the key ingredient for the transition itself, for through the years it transforms the nervous system in astonishing ways, preparing the self for the move into yet higher realms.
Last night I watched the Science Channel, where first I learned that "String Theory" (the universe is composed of an infinite number of vibrating "strings" (beads) had been for a time discredited in favor of Super Gravity--then, when the idea of 11 dimensions (instead of 10) was accepted the two theories appeared to be complementary instead of contradictory.
The 11th dimension is said to be infinitely long but extremely thin--a fraction of a millimeter across. Thus it is very, very close to everything in the universe.
Also, somewhere in all of this theorizing is M theory--the notion that the universe is a giant membrane--although some (skeptics?) interpret "M" as Magic or Mystery or Mother of All, or even Madness.
But the theory of the weakness of gravity led to the notion of parallel universes. Some were cylindrical or membranes with holes in them--there seem to be an infinite number of membranes with untold parallel universes. Some of these parallel universes may be quite close to us but we are not aware of them.
Indeed, I would add that when I described in a recent entry those of us who feel we are " not at home" in consensus reality might be seen as inhabiting a "parallel universe" of a kind, since we occupy the same space as the "others," yet we experience the world in a totally different fashion.
Indeed, science is sounding more and more like science fiction--in fact, I think it is time to look at the Seth books again--Seth spoke of matters similar to these notions. And we should not forget the Spanda Karika of ancient India--in which vibration itself is the basis of all that exists (or seems to ) in the cosmos.
The bottom line is that Kundalini (vibration of source) is the ultimate reality, and when we connect with it (or are connected to it) we too "vibrate" with that reality which is the final mystery. If we are not prepared, we may suffer serious consequences. But if we are in the right alignment, we can know unsurpassed bliss of union.
Today I was in a bookstore and picked up the latest book by Drumvalo Mechizedek--"Serpent of Light." I read only a bit of the introduction, but found some interesting observations there. First, he talks about the Kundalini of the Earth as changing. Now, of course, other writers and mystics have spoken of the Kundalini of earth itself, so this notion (that earth also possesses Kundalini) is not brand new.
Drumvalo says that once every 13,000 years, the central base of earth's K. energies shifts to a new location--and that this shift is sometimes accompanied with an actual polar shift, with all that that entails. He feels that in the present era ("now" is swiftly becoming the previous era), this spiritual center was located in India and Tibet, but that at present it is shifting to Peru and Chile, a place somewhere high in the Andes.
I have no idea whether this theory is or is not correct, but we do know that India and Tibet have been special energy centers for many centuries. Why these would now move to a new location on earth is not clear.
Drumvalo also says that this big shift will occur in the next few years--perhaps even in 2011 or 2012. In this respect, he is clearly in line with the many other prophecies from various seers and traditions speaking of this as a time of major change.
And, like many others, he sees this shift as both positive and negative. As outer structures collapse, new spiritual formations are emerging--the phoenix of change rising once more from the ashes of decay.
One of these changes is the shift from male dominated to female dominated culture. The notion of the resurgence of the feminine aspect of humanity has been with us for some time now. Many years ago, gender studies became a significant topic in university classes. Now, it seems to be gaining ever more strength, as more and more women take on positions of authority in various social institutions, more women spiritual teachers have emerged, and the divine feminine is acknowledged as central to our salvation as a society. In fact, one popular magazine currently features an article entitled, "Are Men Obsolete?" Personally, I think this is going a bit far, for we know many men who successfully embrace their "feminine" aspect, as well as some women who seem to be more "male" in their drive to power than some men. But on the whole, it is interesting to see such notions grow from small beginnings to mainstream themes in contemporary society and more and more people become aware of the need to balance the male and female energies within. The balancing of the opposites--including male and female aspects of self--is essential in virtually all initiatory systems.
I then discovered that if you look up Drumvalo's "Serpent of Fire" on Amazon, you can actually read a good portion of the book there and gain even further insights as to his theories.
Last night, I attended a party to remember. It was not the typical gathering of persons attempting to connect with "chitchat" about irrelevant topics, but quite the antithesis. Held at the home of Tami Simon, founder and publisher of the Sounds True company, it celebrated the twenty-fifth anniversary of that firm. Sounds True pioneered the recording and distribution of major spiritual teachers and musicians, and has since its beginnings grown into a major presence in the spiritual world, an institution recognized as at the forefront of the creation and distribution of both CD's and books on spiritual topics.
SoundsTrue is the publisher of "Kundalini Rising," the anthology of writings on Kundalini which has been called the essential Kundalini handbook for our time. I was delighted that such a book was published and honored to be a contributor (see sidebar.) Tami herself has experienced Kundalini and writes about this awakening in her introduction to "Kundalini Rising."
This party was unlike any other I have ever attended, for it included many well known luminaries in the field of spiritual development and expansion of consciousness, as well as others who were devoted employees or friends of SoundsTrue. Suddenly, people I had admired from a distance were real and palpable and lovely in every way. And it seemed that everyone, famous or not, was part of the same "tribe," the forward thinkers or "evolutes" of our time. One could approach virtually anyone present and feel quite at home discussing topics of mutual interest, for we were all working (each in our own way) for the expansion of awareness of humanity as a species.
For me, it began with a surprising synchronicity. I had arrived early, in the hopes of meeting Tami and perhaps speaking with her briefly. When I entered her home, she was no where to be found. There was an intriguing sign at the bottom of the stairs announcing that something called a "NexNeuro" was available above. My friend and I went up to investigate and learned that this was the name of a relaxation bed that combined vibrations with music. The presenter announced that I would be next in line to try out this device. Although I was fearful that by waiting to experience this novelty, I would miss my chance to meet Tami, I waited out of curiosity and politeness. After a few minutes, the door opened, and out walked Tami, with a bright glow on her face. Obviously, she had loved her session on the bed.
I talked briefly with Tami and then I had my session, followed by a long talk with the local distributor of the bed. He and I exchanged life stories as we sat next to one another downstairs, and he mentioned that he often sold books at various alternative health conferences and in fact might be interested in including copies of "Unmasking the Rose."
Later, in that same location (a circle including several well known musicians and writers), Jonathan Goldman (someone I have long admired for his work in sound healing) took a seat. I was especially delighted at this, since I have for years listened to his music, which is designed specifically to awaken the energy centers within. At one time, I listened to his CD's as my major meditation--"Trance Tara" in particular used to put me into deep ecstasy daily, so I was grateful to be able to tell him how much his music meant to me.
Then we all partook of a dinner consisting of catered Indian food. It was not hot and spicy as so often is the case, but just right, and in fact, it was the best Indian food I have ever eaten.
Later, we gathered outside for a short talk by Tami, who of course was in a state of glory as she told of her long relationship with her firm, which she described as her "consort," a lover who gives constant inspiration and encouragement.
The final speaker was Clarissa Pinkola Estes, the beloved and famous author of (among others) "Women Who Run with the Wolves." Clarissa and Tami have a long standing connection, and clearly are deeply devoted to one another. Among other things, Clarissa stated that we (about 200 people gathered together) were the prototypes for the future human. After she finished, she stepped down and then she offered a private blessing to Kabir, the musician/kirtan singer I so respect, as he stood before her. When she finished, I told her how pleased I was to meet her and how moved I was by her presentation. She then asked me what I did, and, after I explained that I was a poet/writer who offered help and encouragement to those undergoing Kundalini awakening, she asked me to bless her. Of course, I was quite surprised and deeply honored to bless a woman of such stature and standing, one who has given so much to the betterment of our world.
To meet and speak with so many distinguished persons I have so long admired was of course quite gratifying for me, almost like a dream. I am still in a bit of a daze from all this spiritual nectar.
Sometimes it happens that way.
Are there two different kinds of humans?
I have often discussed this mystery with many friends. Why do some seem to stumble blindly (or perhaps easily) through their lives, accepting the dictums of society, conforming easily to the given norms and expectations, apparently happy in their paths, while others are never really comfortable in their efforts to "fit in," often sensing that they are "different" in ways they can't quite describe.
At times, it seems as though there are two different races or strains among the group we name "the human species." Why are some more aware, more sensitive, more in touch with invisible realms?
Recently, I considered the theory that space travelers from other planets did indeed visit earth at some point in ancient history, and implant a new set of genes in what became the human race. Perhaps some of us now have more of those genes "turned on" in our systems, while others do not. Everyone carries this potential within, but some already are living this awakened state.
Tonight, watching another episode of Morgan Freeman's "Through the Worm Hole" (on the Science Channel), I was again fascinated by the notion of time travel. One researcher has discovered that it is possible to send a signal (from one device) to another--and the latter picks up the signal slightly before it is actually sent. This was presented as an example of "travel into the past."
However, it occurs to me that from the perspective of the "receiver", it might as well be seen as an example of "travel into the future." Indeed, one experiment in telepathy at a major university asked a human subject to press a lever when a signal was sent--some were very good at this, and some could even anticipate the signal, pressing the lever a split second before the signal was sent. Did these subjects literally travel into the future, sensing the event before it became the "present" in normal space/time?
Now--here is my clincher--if the familiar laws of space/time can be set aside in these various experiments, can they not also offer possible explanations of such things as intuition of coming happenings, premonitions, visions of the "future" in waking or dreaming states?
Unfortunately, the scientists who are working on these issues do not seem to connect their theories with happenings well documented in the storehouse of human experience. There are many such examples, some involving well known historical figures, some involving ordinary people, perhaps those we ourselves know--or even ourselves. How often have you known who is on the phone before you pick it up, or think of someone who then gets in touch shortly thereafter? How often do you dream of something that happens later, including details that were included in the dream (as if time were reversed)? Science seems to disregard all evidence that does not occur in a laboratory under controlled conditions, but we do not live in laboratories, and our lives occur in totally unregulated environments.
And--here is another even more radical theory. One of the scientists on Freeman's program commented that if time travel were possible, we would be inundated with visitors from the future. My question: how do we know that these visitors are not already here, living more or less undetected among us, looking and acting pretty much like the rest of humanity? Indeed, how do you know that we--the ones more open, more seemingly "awake," more "sensitive' in ways unfathomable to the "throng"--are not in fact "visitors from the future," infused with ways of perceiving and knowing beyond the comprehension of the "regular folk" who represent the majority among the masses of humanity?
If we are not in fact "visitors from the future" we are certainly representatives of the next stage of human evolution, when expanded consciousness will characterize everyone. If nothing else, we are here to point the way, to enable others as they enter this transformed state.
I am not insisting that any of these notions is true. But Freeman's program does awaken speculation on some central issues--in particular, how it is that the "two tribes" of humanity are so different from one another in so many ways.
that is taking place within me?
but it cannot explain it.
unbounded in its awesome greatness.
This lovely poem was written by an early Christian mystic, yet in many ways it could be describing the experience of Kundalini awakening today. We know Kundalini (divine flow within) not by thinking or reading about it, but by "participation." The hand cannot write out an adequate description, the mind can know what is happening, yet cannot accurately convey its nature and power to others. It is indeed an "awesome mystery" taking place within us.
Symeon the Theologian is one my favorite early writers--I have often wondered if indeed he did not experience Kundalini in his own life, but used a different vocabulary to express it.
Sometimes Kundalini itself brings us such moments of joy and transcendence. It is then that we feel our cells dance, and we see the "beauty beneath the beauty." It is then that every pebble sparkles, and the mundane world lights up with the beauty of the sublime. At those times we "see with saint's eyes" and know that we are blessed.
Someone has asked me to write on the topic of "catharsis." We know that the awakening of Kundalini can bring into consciousness all sorts of issues and feelings, many related to disturbing events of the past. Sometimes it feels as though we are literally re-experiencing sensations or feeling states from these earlier experiences.
So--what do we do with these deep states of "remembering" that have arisen so strongly and are asking to be dealt with in present time?
To begin, I am not a certified therapist, so what I will say next will be strictly a subjective or intuitive response. But here are some of my thoughts on this subject.
First, let them come through in full force. Don't try to "squash them down" or pretend they are not happening. They are happening and are saying loud and clear, here I am, I linger in your cells, and this is the time to attend. Tibetan Buddhism tells us not to skirt pain, but to enter it fully--feel it, allow it, and move through it. Once that happens, relief may come.
Acknowledge them ("yes, I know, you are still angry; yes, I recognize this as continuing grief"--and so forth). Name them for what they are. That sometimes is in itself enough to lessen their intensity.
But even more important--release your feelings in any way possible--crying is really good, if you can cry. Or screaming or hitting a pillow, if you are dealing with anger and are in a safe environment.
This is a perfect time to seek professional help on these issues. So if you can, see a reliable therapist, one who will give you appropriate techniques to allow these emotions to come through and then find release. If possible, find one who knows about Kundalini as spiritual transformation--stay away from those who see it as an "illness." If you are afraid to tell your therapist about Kundalini (that is, if they are still ignorant of this subject), you don't have to go into the details of this part of your awakening--you can focus on the feelings themselves. Surely they will understand grief, anger, basic feeling states. Don't let them focus entirely on talk therapy--that can be good, but you need to get right down to your gut sensations, your bodily responses--your cellular body wants relief. So find a therapist who combines bodily release techniques with mental exploration.
And by all means, write it out in a personal journal. You can say things there you never told anyone or even said to yourself before. You may be amazed what will come forth. You can, at times, even be more or less your own therapist in this way.
Until these basic issues are pretty much resolved and inner healing occurs, you cannot make the kind of progress you desire on your spiritual path. These are the blockages that can cause "Kundalini pain"--both mental and physical--once they are released, you can make speedy progress, with fewer of the "down" periods of the K. process.
I am sure there are many other techniques of use here--I have offered only what occurs to me at this moment. Even certain yoga and meditation teachers might have useful advice. Find what works for you.
And keep in mind that you are dealing with an entire lifetime of struggle and challenge--so be patient for the change to occur.
And always remember--it is not enough to 'know it" mentally--you must experience it at its deepest level and thus experience the actual connections.
But it could be an "a-ha" moment, when you not only see but feel the root cause, and from that time on, everything can change.
And don't give up--I finally discovered my own "root cause" of suffering and self-rejection after years and years of not knowing--and after that, everything changed. I literally became a different person, free at last of the anxiety and self-doubt that had plagued me all my previous life. Kundalini was at last free to weave its full magic, as I gained confidence and discovered (what we all need to know) that we need not depend on others for our sense of self-worth, but can in fact be "our own person," and become who we truly are.
There seems to be a great deal of discussion these days about "intention." Apparently, the idea is to set your intention for whatever it is you want and then it will come to you. One man decided he wanted a million dollars, so he pasted a copy of a million dollar bill over his bed so he would see it first thing each morning. He did get his million--in fact, he made many millions through a popular book he wrote, and bought himself a multimillion dollar house and fancy car(s).
Now, I have nothing against "asking the universe" for what you need, but I am mystified that so many seem to think the technique is to be used to gain excessive material wealth. Little is said about desiring to be closer to the divine or doing work that is true to one's soul purpose. In fact, it seems that for the most part "God" (the divine, source, reality, ultimate essence, whatever you wish to call it) is simply ignored.
I have indeed asked the universe for things I truly needed in the past. I once got a car this way--not a fancy expensive one, but a "pre-used" model that was quite inexpensive and was perfect for my needs. I also found an ideal apartment when I moved a year ago--indeed it was the first one I looked at--and I had in fact asked for "outside help" for this.
However, I am not sure we should focus on this technique to the exclusion of other interests and avenues. I feel our best "intention" is to be open to what the universe brings us--whether friends or activities or transcendent meditations or progress on our spiritual path. If we need a new (or any) job, indeed we should ask. If we are hungry, we should ask for food. If we are lonely,we should ask for friends.
But--asking to become a millionaire? Whatever happened to "lay not up treasures on earth"--an admonitions once most honored.
My daily prayer is "Give me the strength to do what I am supposed to be doing on this earth and the good sense to know what that is."
I also believe that those of us who have been blessed with Kundalini awakening have already received the greatest possible gift the planet offers, and thus our overall intention should be--surely--to deepen our own spiritual connection and to contribute in whatever way we can to the welfare of the world around us. I see many who do this in various ways--sometimes they drive old cars, wear the same clothes for years, live in modest houses. Some give through their art or other forms of service. Some dedicate their own spiritual practices to raising the overall planetary vibration. They are our models and our inspiration.
They bless and are blessed for they understand and practice true dedication.
Our descent into the world is made. Tendrils of fear and hope entwine as we slowly and carefully unite with the tiny form that will be our home for the forseeable future. Tenderly and with great care, we explore this newly made one within whom we are the expected guest. Who will we be now? Will we manage to fulfill our contracts this time? So much longing resides in this new journey. Will our courage carry us through? Will we re-member what we came to do? Sweetly and with great gentleness we expand our light until this new form accepts our presence with trust. Now the waiting begins.
I am eager to see the new faces of my parents. Long have we been together in our soul group and on earth as mother, father, daughter, son, sister, brother, friend. I hope they have remembered our agreements and that we have a home in the forest, far from the city energy and the tension that it carries. Soon we will be together again. Perhaps this time our ascent will be a beautiful journey into expressing fully who we truly are. My prayers flow back to our Source. May we be a blessing to the world. May we walk in beauty all the days of our life.
She is the kind of person you wish you could get to know. There is something about her, something subtle yet present, something you can't quite name. You sense that she has lived deep, has mysteries she could unveil if she wished.
When she speaks, everyone listens, for she dispenses wisdom in her quiet voice. Beautiful poetic images roll forth, like nuggets retrieved from far beneath earth’s surface. When she is cast in the role of leader, she has a quiet command, a presence that calls others to attend, for they know that something of significance is taking place, that they are being offered bountiful gifts.
Her lineage is one with ancient roots, but her role as a female leader in this primarily male domain defies all the traditional prescriptions. She accepts her position easily, for she knows this is a cloak that fits. She has prepared for her role for many years, both as a student and as one who has explored life at a deep level. She is a pioneer, a risk taker, a poet whose tongue has been kissed by spirit. Her commitment to her calling is complete, and compels respect and love from those who come into her orbit.
Above all, she is not afraid to express love. She has found the secret and her eyes sparkle with that knowledge, for she carries a wisdom born from both pain transcended and ecstasy revealed. She is open to visions, for she is an authentic mystic. For her, the veils are thin, and she travels where others are afraid to venture. She is protected. She gives fully of herself to others, and is blessed with their love in return.
I received this note today from a friend who is herself experiencing K. awakening, and thought I would pass her letter along to you. The area of the mystical experience and its relation to Kundalini is always a fascinating one. Many of the mystics speak of the deity as the "Beloved" and use the language of love to express their connection with the divine. One is never sure if, for them, the "Beloved" is simply a useful metaphor to express their feeling of Oneness, or whether they are actually experiencing this love in their bodies as inner rapture or bliss.
In any event, as Mary points out, the similarities with Kundalini bliss are obvious. Once more, I am reminded of the best definition of Kundalini that I have heard: "Kundalini is God moving through your body."
I found myself in the car today listening to a CD I've had for several years. Today the lyrics jumped out at me as never before. Wonderful expressions of kundalini energy. I'm sure you've heard these by now but just in case you haven't here's the lyrics from 3 of the songs.
Since I am in you and you are in Me.
And you shall delight in body and in soul in My Love.
Sing to me Your Lover’s song.
The more beautiful I am.
I love you often. I love you long.
I can be no other way.
And forever in my heart it sings.
And together we fly in the sweet clear air of your flowing love in me.
You come to set my spirit free.
playing in a new key.
When Gregory Orr was young, he accidentally shot and killed his brother in a hunting accident. This event haunted him for life. He is now one of our most distinguished poets.


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I certify that I currently do not hold a USAC Annual license (active or expired).
I understand that if I do not race that I forfeit my entry fee. Refund for One Day entry only if there is a weather cancelation.


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Errors saying ‘could not copy “obj\Debug\this.exe” to “bin\Debug\this.exe’ as well as ‘Unable to copy file “obj\Debug\this.exe” to “bin\Debug\this.exe”‘ when I try to rebuild in Visual Studio Community 2013.
Performance test a .NET app in different scenarios – l’m lost on how to achieve this.
A question regarding IEnumerable and in general the ToList/ToDictonary/ICollection interfaces.
The garbage collector keeps disposing my shader.


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Herman Bell stands in front of a prison photo backdrop in 2013.
On March 13, Herman Bell was granted parole by a three-member panel of New York State’s Board of Parole. A former member of the Black Panther Party, Bell was convicted for the 1971 murder of two New York City police officers, Waverly M. Jones and Joseph A. Piagentini. Bell was sentenced to 25 years to life; he has currently served nearly 45 years, after having previously been denied parole seven times.
“I think the parole board recognized that Herman Bell satisfied all the criteria for parole; which is whether it’s probable that he would lead a crime-free life if released,” said Robert Boyle, Bell’s attorney.
The parole board’s decision has set off fierce reactions. A statement from NYC Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association (PBA) president Patrick Lynch said that members were “disgusted, offended and extremely angry with this parole board’s decision,” using words like “domestic terrorist” to describe Bell. “Today, it is accepted that, absent a constitutionally viable death penalty, the appropriate sentence for anyone who intentionally murders a NYC police officer is life without parole,” Lynch wrote.
The patrol board’s guidelines for granting parole includes institutional adjustment (which in itself includes program goals and accomplishments, academic and vocational achievements, therapy and interpersonal relationships), and availability of adequate release plans, including community resources.
The board also mentioned a Feb 20 letter from one of slain officer Jones’ children, calling it “noteworthy.” “[Parole] would bring joy and peace as we have already forgiven Herman Bell publicly,” the parole board quoted the letter as stating.
However, Diane Piagentini, Joseph Piagentini’s widow, does not support Bell’s release. “The message being sent devalues the life of my brave husband who was taken from his two daughters and for whom there is no parole.” she wrote in a statement that was released in association with the PBA statement, describing Bell as “animalistic.” And on March 20, the New York Daily News published an interview with Jones’s siblings, who spoke against parole.
Boyle took issue with what he described as the media re-characterizing the issue as a debate between victims’ families. “That is also inflammatory and exploiting the grief felt by the families, for their own purposes,” he said.
Boyle also expressed concern for Bell’s safety, especially as, according to a March 15 article in the New York Post, the PBA sent their members a safety alert in which they were urged to remain vigilant in the event of Bell’s release. Boyle called the safety alert outrageous. “That’s basically putting out a hit on Herman Bell,” he said.
There has been wide community support for Bell’s release. A recent CBS New York poll indicated that 86 percent of the 6,000 respondents agreed with the decision. Over 80 organizations signed a statement of support for the parole board’s decision. A letter of support from hundreds of artists and cultural workers is expected to be released on March 23. According to Boyle, Bell himself has declined to comment on his pending release, out of respect for the families of the victims.

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Meal planning around my house often involves random pieces of notebook paper, the backs of kindergarten student work, and a bunch of sticky notes stuck to my bag. When I am ready to go shopping or order groceries, the first hurdle is to hunt down my collection of notes. It can be frustrating. Then, I bought the Erin Condren Meal Planner.
The Erin Condren Meal Planner is one of her recent editions of the Petite Planner. What I love about these individual themed planners is they fit in the On The Go Folio. The whole folio stays in my bag and my meal planner is right there for those quick reminders for meal planning.
What is inside the Erin Condren Meal Planner?
1. Weekly Menu planner. The left side of the weekly layout has the Breakfast-Lunch-Dinner plan for the week. I like this because I cook for dinner and for leftovers for lunch. With both of us having Celiac disease, we both need our own food at work. Having the entire week available is a must.
2. Shopping list and Meal Prep. The right side of the weekly layout is the place for a shopping list and meal prep strategy. I feel like this page was made for me. I love to meal prep on the weekend. It saves me a lot of time during the week. Because I have this in my bag at work, I can keep my random meal prep ideas in one place.
3. Dinner party planning. In the back of the menu planner, Erin Condren includes 6 dinner party planners. Whether I’m hosting a faculty holiday party, a family event, or small-group parties, this planner is great for organizing all the details. There is a guest list, menu, shopping list, and cooking schedule.
4. Recipe log. This is the only drawback of the meal planner and it’s simply a logistical barrier. I actually need entire books for recipe logs but that’s why I have the bookmark tool and Pinterest. The Meal Planner has space for 14 recipes. This is where the most-used recipes should live for easy access.
5. Price Tracker. I never knew I needed this. Do you ever find something in the store and wonder if the price is better at another store or online? This happens a lot, especially with gluten-free items. The prices are almost always more expensive and I want to be sure I’m getting the best deal. I keep prices for Amazon, Thrive Market, the local Manna Grocery, and Whole Foods.
6. Conversion chart. This is a handy guide to help with substitutions.
If you’re new to Erin Condren, feel free to sign up for an account and receive a $10 off your first purchase. The Erin Condren Meal Planner is available and the 2019-2020 Life Planner launch is coming up in a few weeks!