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I had a great walk this morning. Not a long one, but a fun walk with my smaller camera as my companion. I found some gems!
For instance, this perfect fruit, that was growing on a very well tended cactus.
This is the biggest prickly pear cactus I’ve ever seen. It was roughly ten feet tall, and growing in an alley near my home.
I love the growth of this big, old tree.
It was fun looking up through the branches of this pine, too. I took many other pictures. Not bad, considering it’s all within a few blocks of my house!
I’ll admit it, I’ve been a coward.
I’ve run from dangers both real and imagined. I’ve refused challenges, told myself it wasn’t worth it, and given up on golden opportunities.
Because I didn’t want to jeopardize my self concept or my bodily self.
Running from those scary things, refusing to learn to master my fear, and turning away from those challenges have jeopardized me and my self concept more than those activities ever could have.
So one challenge at a time, I try to turn into the face of fear and tell it “you are not my master, you are the product of my self and I am your master.” I look into the monster’s eyes until it disappears. Then I am free.
Sometimes I succeed. Sometimes I fail. But now, I try.
Finally, my coloring book is back!
I had this all done, then we noticed there was something that needed to be improved on the back cover. We got partially through improving it, then the graphics computer’s CPU died. Now the new CPU has been bought and installed and the back cover has been fixed. So everything is good to go!
This coloring book is all about dragons, 30 original illustrations, all full page. It’s great for anyone who likes to color. I donated the last copies of the ones with the improvement-needed back cover to flood relief in Texas, in hopes that some kids might at least have fun with them.
If anyone wants to get a better look, or buy one, click on the link here!
Daily Prompt: Youth – Do You Feel Young?
I’ve heard it said that you’re only as young as you feel. There’s how you feel in your body, of course. Do you feel creaky? Limber? Pained? Strong? Since starting to exercise again, I feel younger physically than I did a year ago. Even six months ago, I felt sluggish and my back hurt most of the time. Amazing how much difference even twenty pounds can make. Even though I’m still in the obese range, my blood pressure is lower, my back doesn’t hurt as much, and I feel younger. It makes me want to lose more and become stronger. Exercise helps me shed my premature age.
Youth is a mental state as well. You can be naturally young due to age, you can freeze in time at a certain point, perhaps sixteen or twenty, and not age from there. You can be eighty and enjoy a second childhood – whether from dementia or enlightenment. I aim for a conscious maturity, though I never want to devolve into ossification. I stay active, mentally and physically. I want to be like the willow, strong and supple throughout my life.
How old do you want to feel?
How did a maple learn to fly?
of flight, in early seed-hood.
but stretches yearning branches high.
and landing, settled to the ground.
Who first taught a tree to fly?
of dizzy joy and pure delight!
Sometimes work, no matter how monotonous, can be enriching.
I work at a mail order pharmacy. I get my share of grumpy people, usually grumpy for very good reasons. And I hear my share of silly customer tricks. Most people are pretty nice if you treat them that way, but it’s not always easy. I work long hours and get really tired of the pinch of my headset, and of staring at a computer screen all day. It was hard to get where I am, and people in general often take me for granted or don’t respect what I do. However, I’ve found it’s all worth it in the end.
I have learned some things from my job and I have found some precious treasures that I’d like to share. I’ve taken a few moments to hear war stories from a 90 year old vet, and been glad to thank him for his service. I’ve taken secret delight in telling a grumpy patient ‘happy birthday,’ and hear them sound just a little less grumpy. I’ve seen the couple who have been together for sixty plus years, one spouse calling in orders for the other, and saying in passing “I’d be lost without her.” The sheer love I hear in that simple declaration is humbling. I can only aspire to that.
Sometimes I find someone who is really upset, and very hard to deal with. Once I find out the root cause of their frustration, and let them know I want to do anything possible to help, they almost always calm down. People, in general, aren’t that nasty on purpose, they just want to know that they are heard and also to know they aren’t powerless. That’s been a very good lesson for me. It’s enough to make me want to go the extra mile, help as much as I can, and if I can’t help, give them any other options or information available.
Among the hours of answering questions and dealing with boredom, I feel so privileged to witness certain things. So grateful to be a small help, and to touch a life, even for a moment.
I have found, most of all, that it’s good to be the person who spends time explaining a difficult concept and who is allowed to treat an elder with the respect that they so often lack. If you are reading this, smile at someone today. Offer a kind word. If you already do it, be proud!
My grandmother is nearly 97.
In many ways, she is a lovely person – but at the same time, she has held on to so much of her timidity and worry about life that she has little left at this point. She had to be a strong person when she was younger, and she went through hardships. Sometimes she did everything without a husband to help her, including raising eight kids.
She’s fairly deep in dementia now, and I find it sad to see how so much of her good memories have gone and how she focuses on her worries more than her joys. I think of her when I need a reason to be positive. And I write her letters, so she knows she’s not forgotten. I want to lay up such a store of positive, empowering thoughts that when I am old it will still be there to sustain me, and my twilight will be a good one. In a way, I wrote this bit of free verse for her.


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This one should be simple for the experienced...but for me, I'm struggling.
First, I just bought a 2008 BMW 335i with a professional head unit. I have a fiberoptic system and the MOST bus. I simply want to enable my CD changer and install the GROM aftermarket kit that allows me to tie in an Ipod and a bluetooth capability.
Installing the hardware is not a problem. The coding is where I'm stuck. I believe I have all of the software needed, as well as the correct cables...but I am stuck. Can anyone provide me some guidance on how to proceed?
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As a native speaker of English with an academic background in German, linguistics and literature, as well as having worked in Germany for over 24 years, my cultural and linguistic knowledge of both English and German is excellent.
The foundation to my translation skills was initially laid as part of my university studies at Melbourne University in Australia. After moving to Germany in 1990, I worked as a professional freelance German–English translator, language consultant, and educator alongside completing my Magister Artium at the University of Hamburg. I continued my freelance writing, editing, and translation activities alongside my appointment as an English language lecturer at the University of Hamburg, where I taught students of English language and literature content-based language courses in literature and linguistics. Amongst the courses I taught were academic writing, using webtools for writing, research and education, essay and advanced literature interpretation, essay writing for linguistics, and basic and advanced translation skills. I was also a member of the university team preparing and setting the translation examination texts for the statutory teaching exams for Hamburg.
Since returning to Australia, I have returned full time to translation, writing, and editing, with one of my more recent completed major projects being the translation of a linguistics text book.
Editors WA (formerly Society of Editors, Western Australia): Current member, former committee member 2014–2016, WA Coordinator of the IPEd National Mentoring Program from 2014–2017.

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Don’t you hate it when the pictures you get back from your print service or from your printer just don’t look like what you saw on your screen? Understanding color calibration still remains one of the most frequent questions we get.
Colors are very perceptually driven. What you and I mean when we think of a red car may vary between the bright red of a Porsche and the wine red of a Dodge minivan. Last year we talked about the difference in “color spaces”, as hopefully you will recall. sRGB, AdobeRGB and ProPhoto RGB are all attempts to map the larger range of colors our eyes can see into electronic instructions our monitors and printers can display or reproduce. We know that making sure your camera accurately records the colors depends on having your white balance correctly set in camera or by correcting it through the use of something like the xrite Passport, which Roger and I both use.
When you are sitting in front of your monitor(s) looking at an image, there are a lot of factors which influence how it looks. First, is the ambient light; if you are sitting in a brightly lit room it takes more power on your monitor to make the image stand out. Ideally, you should work in a room with controlled and consistent light, and it should be fairly dim. Second, you need to consider what color are your walls? Seriously, the reflected light will influence the colors you see on your screen. Finally, we get to your monitor. Hopefully by now you have upgraded to LED monitors. They have much more even light and it provides much finer controls. Additionally, they don’t require warm up time to settle in. One of the first things you should do, is turn down the brightness level of your screens. Remember, prints are seen in reflected light not in the backlight glory of electronics. Next it is important to actually calibrate your monitors. It’s important to do this regularly; I try and do it every two weeks. Now the new very high end monitors come with built-in calibration sensors which automatically communicate with the controls. Since I don’t have $3K hanging around for those kinds of monitors, I take a much more practical approach.
Tools such as the Spyder line, range from monitor only, to monitor and printing devices. The lens hangs over the screen and the software generates color commands. The sensor reads the screen and helps you adjust the monitors RGB values. Lots of people ask about calibrating their laptop monitors. In my opinion, it is almost a waste of time. Laptop screens are far less accurate just because of the additional stresses inherent in their design. First, your color perception depends on viewing angle, second screen brightness is subject to power stability and often is impacted by how much power the computer is using elsewhere in the system. Next week we will discuss Part 2 of this topic; calibrating your printing devices or the digital equivalent if you send your images out for printing.
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January 13, 2015 by Mark Segal.
I’m not much of a pyromaniac by nature, but there is something very cool about watching the way flames ripple and change. For a very long time, people have found that creating realistic looking fire in Photoshop was very, very hard. In one of the new features introduced during the October update, Adobe introduced a new “Flame” Filter along with some others. You can find it under the Filter>Render>Flame Menu.
In order to use it, you need to create a path or a shape using the Pen or Shape tools. Once you have one, select the filter and it will bring up this very detailed menu panel.
As you can see, it gives you a lot of choices. Starting with the Flame type, you can really adjust the style, length, direction and the violence of your fire. You can also use custom colors for some eerie looking effects.
I started out with the simple path as shown in the flame panel. Then I created some 3D text and wasn’t happy with the results.
I wanted the flames to follow the outline a little more closely, so I created another layer and played with the path I had built, by adding some more control points and then re-ran the filter with more violent settings.
Just to keep playing with it I created a new image and used the Shape tool to create a wavy arrow.
I set the flames to run parallel with the shape.
I kept the same shape and on a new layer, filled in the arrow and applied some layer styles to it giving it an embossed look. I then duplicated the flame layers and ran a motion blur filter on it. I added some background elements as you can see from the layers view.
As we keep saying, the best way to learn these features is to just start trying them out. You never know what you will come up with. Here by the way is my final result. Not very useful, but lots of fun.
Posted in Post, Tutorial and tagged with Photoshop, Filters, Flames.
November 11, 2014 by Mark Segal.
Last week I wrote about the basic techniques used in compositing. When you are trying to combine very different elements into a brand new creative image it requires more techniques and even some preplanning. As humans, our optical systems are pretty amazing. Over millennia, we have evolved the ability to detect when something is just not right in a scene. We might not recognize just what it is, but we know when something is off.
The most critical and immediate thing we notice is where the shadows don’t make sense. Shadows are a natural consequence of the blocking of light. Our brains see where the light sources are and then know where the corresponding shadows should be. What is usually the biggest light source? The sun, of course. Now for the tricky question; how many suns do we have? That’s right, only one. Why then do so many composite fails look like they were shot on Tatooine? Yep, people put images together with competing suns.
Here are two images that I want to put together. The model was from last year’s Photoshop World Westcott Lighting both, while the other is a river in New Mexico. As you can see her lighting came from high up on the right side. Unfortunately, the lighting for the river scene comes from the opposite direction. If you just put them together and mask out her black background, it doesn't look natural.
Luckily, since we are not trying to be photojournalists you have options to correct this. The easiest thing to do is just flip one of the images on its axis. Since there is no text in either image it doesn’t matter which one. I flipped the background and…voila!
Posted in Tutorial, Post and tagged with Composite.
September 3, 2014 by Mark Segal.
Two weeks ago we talked about selection techniques. Isolating specific elements from an image is one of those capabilities which Lightroom just cannot do. It requires a pixel level editing program like Photoshop or even elements. The ability to place things and then work on different layers is also one of those capabilities where Photoshop rules. Building composite images takes full advantage of these three elements.
In my mind there are three basic categories of composited images. We are going to cover the first two types in this blog. The first are the simple replacements—ooh, I don’t like that sky and so I will put in a new one.
. Starting with this nice happy image from the Taos cemetery, I just used the “color range” selection for the sky to create this mask. I inverted the selection to keep only the ground.
I then took another big sky image I shot from that same trip and opened it up as a smart object. Why as a smart object? Well I wanted to be able to resize it without damaging the original file.
With the sky as a new layer beneath, it’s a much more dramatic image.
The other two types are more artistic in scope. The creative composite, where images and effects are layered and blended together and you intend for the viewer to be able to see this as part of your message. Using that same cemetery base shot and the same mask I created a completely different look. I shot this at Epcot Center during a fireworks display. I keep it tagged in my effects and colors.
When you make this into the sky, you need to add an orange cast to the markers themselves. I just picked out a color from the new sky and then created a new fill layer on top. I then reduced the opacity way down, just to give it a little glow.
The last one, which we are saving for later, is where you take various elements from multiple images and create a seamless effect that could be a photograph from a completely different world.
Posted in Post and tagged with Composite.
August 26, 2014 by Mark Segal.

industry_corpus2: Computing & Telecommunications


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Brunico is the main town in the Puster Valley at 838 m above sea level. It includes the hamlets of San Giorgio, Stegona, Villa Santa Caterina, Lunes, Ameto, Teodone and Riscone.
The city is located at the shores of Rienza River with Plan de Corones, the main mountain of Brunico, reigning over the city. Plan de Corones attracts thousands of tourists in summer and winter.
Brunico is an enchanting historical city with lots of interesting sights. Some are the Civic Museum, the castle and various churches of great artistic interest. Don't miss out on a stroll through the medieval old town with a lively and characteristic shopping street and picturesque buildings.
The village of San Giorgio at the entry to Valle di Tures was already populated during prehistoric times. Proof of this early settlement are various findings on two hills just above the village. S. Giorgio was an independent community until it was incorporated into Brunico in 1928.
Villa Santa Caterina is located north of Brunico at 840 m above sea level at the entry to Valle di Tures. In 2001 a flint blade was discovered in this little village just below the church.
The hamlet Stegona in the western part of Brunico is like the suburb of the city. Stegona developed however as a Roman settlement. Once a year in October, a huge market takes place. The history of this market dates back to the 11th century.
Teodone is located in a valley basin with roads leading to the Aurina Valley and Alta Pusteria. In this hamlet of Brunico you can visit the most beautiful outdoor museum in Europe, the Museum of Ethnography in Teodone.

industry_corpus2: Travel & Geography


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Peter Serafinowicz made his broadcasting debut in 1993 on the Radio 1 show The Knowledge, a spoof documentary about the music industry. From there he went on to perform in Radio 4 shows Week Ending, Harry Hill‘s Fruit Corner, Grievous Bodily Radio, The Two Dannys and A Whole New Ball Game.
In 1999, he made a number of appearances in Channel 4 sitcom Spaced, playing principal character Tim Bisley’s (Simon Pegg) nemesis, Duane Benzie.
In 2001 Serafinowicz took the lead in BBC Two sitcom World of Pub, playing the same character as he had done in the show’s run on Radio 4. The following year he played a scientist in the critically acclaimed Look Around You, a series of 10-minute 1970s school science video spoofs.
He starred in the cult British rom-zom-com Shaun of the Dead, playing Pete, the tidy flatmate of principal characters Shaun and Ed.
In the week before the 2006 Academy Awards a video circulated on the Internet of a fake news item about a new Oscar statue, in which Serafinowicz imitated Alan Alda, Paul McCartney and Al Pacino. A second video later appeared parodying the 2006 Apple Corps v. Apple Computer lawsuit. This attracted the interest of the BBC, and a pilot was commissioned for The Peter Serafinowicz Show. A full series was broadcast on BBC Two in 2007 (with a Christmas special in 2008). For his performance, Serafinowicz was presented with the Best Entertainer prize at the 2008 Rose d’Or ceremony. The series was also nominated for Best Comedy Programme at the 2009 BAFTA Television Awards.
In 2008, Serafinowicz was working with Robert Popper on a new television series, as well as a website, based on a spoof religion “Tarvuism” for US network Adult Swim. In 2009 he appeared in Couples Retreat as Sctanley, the manager of the Eden Resort, directed by Peter Billingsley.
In 2010, Peter Serafinowicz directed the music video for Hot Chip’s song ‘I Feel Better’, their second single from the album One Life Stand. He followed this up in 2012 when he directed the music video for the band’s song ‘Night & Day’, the first single from their album In Our Heads.
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It was the day before PaizoCon 2011 begins in Bellevue, and Wolfgang Baur was hosting a get-together of creatives at the upstairs loft of the Rock Bottom Tavern in downtown Bellevue. While most of the regulars at the bar were cheering the NBA championships (and later listening to a fairly bad cover band), the Open Design Krewe pushed together a staggering number of tables so the 20–25 or so Deep Geeks could talk about games, gaming, and the Open Design product.
Wolfgang Baur was holding down the center of the table, but also present were Brandon Hodge, Jeff Grubb, the mighty Stan! Brown, Adam Daigle, layout guru Crystal Frasier, artist Chris McFann, and Matt Forbeck as a late arrival. Imagine about a half-dozen alcohol-fueled nerd discussions, and you have the small riot that was staged in the upstairs loft.
Beers were quaffed! Nachos were consumed! Old games were exhumed! Midgard! Art! Vril batteries! Kobolds! And a good time was had by all (at least, until the cover band showed up).
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Professor Tod Machover, B.M., M.M.
Tod Machover has recently been called "America's most wired composer" by the Los Angeles Times. Since 1985, he has worked at the MIT Media Lab where he is currently Professor of Music and Media and head of the Lab's Opera of the Future group. Machover has been awarded some of the world's most prestigious awards for his music and inventions, such as a "Chevalier" (Knightship) in France and the first Ray Kurzweil Prize for music and technology. Machover is noted for inventing new technology for music, especially his Hyperinstruments that use computer algorithms to augment musical expression and creativity. He has designed these Hyperinstruments for musicians from Yo-Yo Ma to Prince, as well as for the general public and children, as in the Toy Symphony project.
Richard Resnick is a ten-year entrepreneur in the software industry, with demonstrated ability in business planning, fund raising, team building, technology development management, and P&L management. After running the R&D software development group for Wyeth Pharmaceuticals, he founded and grew Mosaic Bioinformatics. Mosaic was acquired by NetGenics, Inc., where Resnick contributed to the raising of $60 million in venture capital and managed half of the company in the large-scale development and launch of their flagship product. He has held senior management and consultative positions in a variety of software startups, including Gene-IT and Blackstone Computing. Resnick received his M.S. in Computer Science from Worcester Polytechnic Institute and his M.B.A. from the MIT Sloan School of Management's Management of Technology program.
Nick Pettinella is a senior financial executive with 25 years of experience in financial reporting, processes, controls, and management. He has participated in raising over one hundred forty million dollars in financing through public equity and private debt and equity, negotiated and managed the purchase, sale and divestiture of nine companies, and has been through the IPO process twice managing the financial affairs and investor relations of a publicly owned company. Pettinella served as the CFO of ideaLogix, Inc., a wireless video and sensor monitoring development company, CFO of IronBridge Networks, Inc., a later-stage terabit router development company, and CFO of Intermetrics/AverStar, Inc. (name change), an established $200 million software development and software services company acquired by The Titan Corporation. He began his career as a CPA with Coopers & Lybrand, now PricewaterhouseCoopers, in their Boston office. Pettinella received his MBA from Babson College and his BS in Accounting from Bentley College. He also completed the programs of Corporate Financial Management at Harvard Business School and Executive Financial Management at Stanford University.
Mary Farbood, B.M., M.S., Ph.D.
Mary Farbood is the author of the Hyperscore software and a Ph.D candidate at the MIT Media Lab. Mary’s research focuses on algorithmic composition and interactive music systems. She has worked on a number of projects that combine music and technology including the Future Music Blender, an interactive music installation at the Brain Opera Exhibit at the House of Music in Vienna, and Palestrina, a software application which analyzes and generates sixteenth-century-style counterpoint. After spending seven years at the Juilliard School concentrating on piano performance and composition, she went on to receive her B.A. in Music and Computer Science from Harvard University in 1997. Mary is an accomplished composer, pianist, and harpsichordist.
Dr. Kevin Jennings, M.A., B.Mus, B.Sc, H.Dip.Ed, Ph.D.
Kevin Jennings is a musician, teacher and music educator, and a graduate of both Trinity College Dublin and the National University of Ireland. As a classical guitarist he has performed as a soloist and chamber musician throughout Ireland, the UK and Europe. He has taught extensively in Ireland, the UK, Europe and the US in both school and out- of-school settings, and has been extensively involved with childrens’ choirs, orchestras, music theater productions and other childrens’ performing groups. He is currently a Research Fellow at Trinity College Dublin where he lectures in music education and is completing a Ph.D in the application of computers and graphical technologies to music teaching and learning.


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A ‘whole-systems approach’ was adopted at the state-of-the-art “green” office development at 44 on Grand Central, opposite the Gautrain Midrand station. It was important to the developers that at the outset all facets of the project were integrated and connected – from the site itself to energy, buildings, transport, ecosystems, people, water and waste. Recyclable steel as well as a fly ash concrete mix was used in construction. The building makes use of daylight harvesting with daylight sensors as well as energy-efficient lighting both inside and out. It also deploys energy-efficient motors, pumps and fans. Temperature is regulated with external shading, roof insulation and air conditioning zoning. It also features drought-resistant landscaping with rainwater harvesting for irrigation, low volatile organic compound (VOC) paint and carpets as well as a waste management plan. The building is designed to Green Building Council of South Africa (GBCSA) 4-star Green Star rating specifications.
With 2 400 employees using this building every day, it has been designed for transparency and a healthy, stimulating working environment. The office component consists of eight large floor plates, a central core and two enclosed atriums connected by link bridges spanning across the atrium. Skylights draw natural light into the office areas. Work stations generally have a view of the outdoor environment and the internal atrium, encouraging staff productivity and wellbeing. The design of the building utilises the site to its full extent and incorporates lush xeriscaped landscaping and indigenous low water consumption plants. The building provides a wide variety of staff amenities. It makes use of rain and grey water recycling, passive heating and cooling and an engineered façade design. It was awarded the Best Overall Development at the SAPOA (South African Property Owners Association) Innovative Excellence in Property Development Awards for 2013. It has also achieved a 4-star Green Star rating from the Green Building Council of South Africa (GBCSA).
The initial brief called for renovations to the existing community centre. However, it soon became apparent that the full potential of the site could only be achieved through demolition and a new-build. One of the chief challenges was finding a balance between providing the best quality building materials and meeting the tight budget provided by the Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality. Key to the design of this new complex is the creation of a community plaza designed to complement a proposed adjacent urban park. From this plaza the public are ferried into an enclosed community street which houses community offices, a multi-use sports hall and sub dividable community hall. The inclusion of environmentally-friendly characteristics such as automatic electric light management, heat pumps, rainwater harvesting and wall and roof super-insulation added to the sustainability of this project and play an integral role in the design. It received an award for outstanding design from the Eastern Cape Institute of Architects (ECIA).
The upgrade of an old diamond mine in Sierra Leone posed both a dilemma and challenges for Collis and Associates. Often little thought is given to the environment or the communities who will be affected by the building of supporting infrastructure at mining sites. Collis and Associates decided to keep as much as possible to their principles of sustainability when they undertook the project which included designing houses for mine employees, a clinic, a police station, other community infrastructure and workshops. Solar thermal control was achieved by correct site placement of the various buildings. CA minimised the importation of materials while maximising the use of local materials and labour, and recycling mine waste materials wherever possible. Kimberlite rock from the mine was used in the making of concrete, bricks, blocks, tiles and as base material for roads and building platforms. Sourcing of local labour and materials redistributed resources back into Sierra Leone’s economy.
Lakeside 3 is the first existing building in South Africa that has been redeveloped with the intention to obtain a Green Building Council of South Africa (GBCSA) 4-star green rating. Directly opposite the Centurion Gautrain Station, the refurbished building intelligently reuses original building structures, transforming it into innovative A-grade office space that embodies the principles of environmental preservation and liveability. It has given new life to a tired building while creating a healthy, inspiring working environment. The renovated building encloses its core space through a glazed atrium from which there are views over Centurion Lake. The façade was extensively replaced in order to lighten the face brick façades of the original building and a light-weight walling structure has become the new envelope. This has enhanced thermal efficiencies while the redesign of the windows has enhanced the internal light quality. It incorporates numerous sustainable features such as energy efficient air-conditioning, heat pumps and lighting, water saving fixtures, a waste recycling facility, low volatile organic compound (VOC) paints and adhesives, recycled and locally-sourced building materials and cyclist facilities. It won the overall green award at the 2013 SAPOA (South African Property Owners Association) Innovative Excellence Awards for Green Development.
This is the Tshwane University of Technology’s first green building. The new architectural department consists of three sections: a sculptural auditorium situated on the western side, a southern wing with offices and studio spaces and a northern wing with a material lab, model building facilities and studio space. The wings run in thin, multi-levelled halls from east to west, allowing for maximum exposure to the northern sun. Windows make up the walls along the northern side which is enclosed by removable louvers. The louvers also act as light shells that reflect light into the building without using power. The south and western sides of the building are fitted with a mist system to cool the air, creating a microclimate. The sprayers are fuelled by rainwater collected in reservoirs from the roof of the building and pumped by a motor that runs off of solar panels. The exterior northern side of the building encloses a paved courtyard; an area designed to collect heat from the sun. The true gem in the building’s crown is its auditorium, the only one in the country that has no HVAC system installed.
The SAPS Radio Control Centre is designed to be efficient and self-sufficient. The building’s face brick edges and galvanised steel frame exude resilience, while expansive glass windows offer SAPS personnel 360-degree views. Behind the pavilion, a 50-metre tall white and red communications tower connects the centre to other SAPS units around the country. The pioneering building is made to house 187 people at full capacity. At its core is a 10111 call centre. From the outset, project architect Neil Fisher pushed to include sustainability elements in the design. A central building management system (BMS) controls and monitors electricity and water consumption along with the air conditioning. The west side of the building features a double-glazed façade fitted with low-emissivity glass to reduce solar heat gain and glare. It was engineered to be self-sustaining and continue its functionality in the event of municipal power or water outages. Additionally, the roof hosts a syphonic rainwater collection system for irrigation purposes. It received an award for outstanding design from the Eastern Cape Institute of Architects (ECIA).
This Seed (Supplementary Extended Education Device) is a semi-permanent building in the courtyard of a school in Alexandra which re-thinks the traditional library model. The design uses two shipping containers stacked perpendicularly to form a cross-shaped plan. The ground floor houses the books while the upper floor makes accommodation for reading and study rooms as well as outdoor reading spaces via a deck which is also used as a stage for school assemblies. The bright, bold colours and visual construction methods make for an aesthetic that is exciting. The shipping containers were chosen for their ease of transportation as well as for their sustainable green benefits. Retrofitted insulation, cross ventilation and passive cooling extend the architecture’s success to a level of technical, functional and aesthetic resolution. This modular construction method meant that the library could be put up four months, which also means that the SEED can be planted in other locations with ease.
The project followed a responsible, environmentally-aware design approach. Conservation of natural resources, material selection, natural lighting and ventilation informed the design from inception to completion. Designed with expansive double-glazing, classrooms maximise natural daylight and reduce lighting energy consumption. Rainwater is harvested in storage tanks which provide water for the flushing of the toilets. Landscaped rainwater retention ponds slowly filter water down into the subterranean aquifer, minimising wastage to the municipal drainage. The building has significantly improved the appearance and social spaces of the campus and create a harmonious learning environment for students.
Wood is one of the most environmentally sustainable building materials in the world. Building with renewable timber is an effective way for the construction industry to play a positive part in the reduction of atmospheric carbon, resource depletion and environmental degradation. South Africa is currently a concrete, steel and brick building culture but a shift to product from well-managed timber plantations would be better for the environment. Vernon Collis’s research promotes best practice and aims to help develop a timber culture in the construction industry. It ranges from investigations of how and why timber structures and elements fail to transferable timber technologies for economic housing while challenging government on its impending forest reduction programme.
This six-storey office building, which houses Government Communication and Information Systems (GCIS ), is located in the historic precinct in Hatfield in Pretoria and is the first building in Africa to use a solar façade to generate electricity thanks to solar photo voltaic cells within the building’s laminated glass facades. The external skin is a combination of high performance glazing with PV panels incorporated on the east, north and west facades. Although the technology has been used in Asia, Europe and the US, this particular type of PV is a first for a building in Africa. The Façade Solar Research Project – a partnership with the University of Johannesburg and the University of Edith Cowan in Australia – looked at solutions to some of the technical challenges. The findings could become a strategic model for the future implementation of cost-effective PV panels in Southern Africa.
Recycling reduces environmental damage, landfill pressure, resource depletion, damage to roads and CO2 emissions while also creating employment. However, less than half of Cape Town’s construction waste is recycled. This is due in part to the fact that there’s no inclusive best practice on how to evaluate, deconstruct, test and specify construction waste. Without this, architects and engineers are limited when informing clients or projects where recycling is possible. For the past 20 years Collis & Associates has sought solutions to this problem, investigating a ‘cradle to cradle’ process using construction waste and maximising on labour. The research provides a sustainable approach to conserving concrete aggregates through the use of excavated sand, recycled bricks and concrete.
The Vukuzakhe research aims to develop systems for the delivery of an alternative building typology in the eThekwini Municipality. It is hoped that this will accelerate the delivery of public buildings – including community halls, libraries and resource centres as well as sports, educational and health facilities - with an environmentally responsible design while stimulating local economic development. The system can be replicated and installed with ease in remote and varied locations and integrates architecture, site, foundations, structure and services.
AfriSam is a leading producer of building materials in Southern Africa. The company has committed itself to protecting the environment through conscientious and responsible manufacturing processes and a responsible attitude towards the impact of its business operations on the community and the environment. As the sponsor of this award, AfriSam is proud to be associated with the South African Institute of Architects (SAIA) in recognising outstanding achievement in sustainable architecture.
The South African Institute of Architects (SAIA) is a voluntary association of affiliated and regional institutes established in 1996 and incorporates the previous national and regional institutes. SAIA is a member of the Africa Union of Architects, the Commonwealth Association of Architects, the International Union of Architects, the International Commission on Monuments and Sites, and the International Committee Documentation and Conservation of buildings, sites and neighbourhoods of the modern movement. Membership of the Institute is open to all architects through the relevant regional institutes, the only prerequisite being a recognised academic qualification, a minimum of 24 months practical experience and an examination in professional practice. The South African Institute of Architects and the Regional Institutes are committed to maintaining the highest standards of professionalism, integrity and competence.
For further information, please contact Jeremy Briar (jeremy@totalexposure.co.za) or Fiona Walsh (fiona@totalexposure.co.za).


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June Favorites 2015 | Healthy Food, Natural Beauty, Apps, and More!
The month of June has come to an end and that means it's time to talk June Favorites! This month I have a couple healthy food favorites, plus a new fav mason jar shape, natural perfume, fun apps, a podcast, and a movie!

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“Home” is the brand new solo album from Sleep Orchestra (Christopher Pegg) featuring guests, Rune Sagevik (Pjusk & Project Pathfinder) and Shay Nassi (mise_en_scene).
"After composing odd tracks that didn't really connect to each other in a cohesive album-esk manner, I wanted to find something that I could use as an overall concept for a brand new project.
I was coming home from work one day when it hit me, What exactly makes a home?
A sense of comfort and security and knowing whats around you perhaps?
Once I had a realisation of this, these new tracks just started to flow and connect to each other more clearly. It quickly became a way for me and my collaborative friends to musically realise our own feelings of whats makes our homes, feel like 'Home'."


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The Leibniz Centre for Tropical Marine Research (www.leibniz-zmt.de) in Bremen is a member of the Leibniz Association, which is supported by the German Federal and State Governments. Through its research, ZMT contributes to developing science-based strategies for sustainable use of tropical coastal systems.
for the project TRAFFIC (Trophic TRAnsfer eFFICiency in the Benguela Current). The PhD - position with a term of three years is planned to commence on September 1st 2018 or asap.
TRAFFIC is an integrated, multi-disciplinary and multi-institutional research project with German, Namibian and South African partners. Overall objective of TRAFFIC is to broaden our knowledge on processes that drive the trophic systems of the northern and southern Benguela upwelling sub-systems (nBUS and sBUS) and associated feedbacks to fisheries and climate. The aim is to study the food web structure and its functional links, to analyse the trophic transfer efficiency (TTE), and the associated effects of the biologically mediated CO2 uptake. We hypothesise that a more efficient TTE increases the CO2 uptake in the sBUS, and that human induced changes in the pelagic food web structure favoured the CO2 emission in the nBUS. Results will be used to develop conceptual models of the BUS explaining how changes in ecosystem structure affect the biologically mediated CO2 uptake as seen in the two subsystems.
The position advertised here is part of the TRAFFIC sub-project 2 "Comparison of the biologically mediated CO2 uptake in the northern and southern Benguela upwelling system". Research work will be conducted in close cooperation with the National Marine and Information Research Centre in Swakopmund, Namibia (NatMIRC) and the Universit�t Hamburg, Germany.
For additional information, please contact: Dr. Tim Rixen (tim.rixen@leibniz-zmt.de) or Dr. Niko Lahajnar (niko.lahajnar@uni-hamburg.de).
The candidate will be on a three years Contract. Salary will be paid according to the German TV-L EG 13 (if the personnel requirements are fulfilled). The post will be filled as a PhD (66,6%) position.
ZMT is an equal opportunity employer. Applicants with a migration background are welcome. Handicapped applicants are especially considered if equally qualified for the job; a minimum of physical fitness, however, will be required because of travelling overseas and participating in research cruises.
Please send your application until September 1st 2018 as a single pdf file with the reference number "82 - TRAFFIC" to Mrs. Lena Oehlmann, E-Mail: bewerbung@leibniz-zmt.de. Beyond that date, advertisement may remain open until a suitable candidate is selected.
Leibniz Centre for Tropical Marine Research, Fahrenheitstra�e 6, D-28359 Bremen.
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NAIL, JAMES H. (1856–1928). James H. Nail, rancher and cattle raiser, the son of William N. Nail, was born in Fannin County, Texas, on March 26, 1856. He was educated in the public schools and became a rancher and cattle raiser. He shipped his first cattle from Denison to Chicago in 1873. In 1880, after Fannin County was too thickly settled for range operations, he moved his cattle to Indian Territory but returned to Texas after the territory was opened to settlement. He purchased ranchland totaling 100,000 acres in Shackelford, Mitchell, Midland, and Martin counties. Nail married Chloe A. Black on September 13, 1893; they became the parents of two children. He was a director of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas. Nail died at his home in Fort Worth on August 2, 1928.
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DIY Affirmations work just as well as any powerful Affirmation Software.
Affirmations is the 2nd most important thing when it comes to the manifestation of your dream.
If you haven’t read my article on DIY Visualization (most important step) read that first.
If you want to accelerate the time it takes to manifest something into your life, follow my DIY Affirmation steps. Once again, I’ll provide you with examples from my life. All you have to do is duplicate it with affirmations that pertain to what you want.
Do you think you have the worst luck? Do you feel like nothing ever goes your way? Do you tell your friends & relatives that?
Did you know that if you controlled your thoughts & changed the words you use, you’d get the things you want a lot faster? I’ll tell you why & prove it a little later on.
I can’t stress enough the importance of getting into the habit of always Saying and Thinking positive things. It’ll accelerate the speed of your success.
Everything you Think or Say gets embedded into your Subconscious Mind. It’s your Subconscious Mind that’ll help you the most. Your Subconscious Mind doesn’t have the ability to distinguish between what’s a joke and what’s not. It also can’t distinguish between what’s the truth and what isn’t. In other words, your Subconscious Mind attracts the things it hears you think & say.
So what actually happens when you tell the people you know that nothing ever goes right in your life? What happens when you constantly think that everything is always going wrong? Your subconscious mind doesn’t bother leading you towards the things that could improve your life. I guess you could say you’re sending you subconscious on vacation.
Have you ever thought or said any of the following 7 things? If you have, these are the affirmations you have to stop. Actually you have to put on end to all the things you think & say that are negative.
I’m sure there are other negative statements you say and think or even joke about. Believe it or not, you’re actually instructing your subconscious mind to lead you directly to all the resources you need to increase that.
How fast do you want to get the things you’ve always dreamed about? The more negativity you get rid of in your life, the faster you’ll see your dreams turn into reality.
a) Make a list of all the negative things you’ve heard yourself talk & joke about concerning what you want most.
b) Now, make another list of all the negative thoughts you’ve found running through your mind about the same thing.
c) Under each one, write down a Positive Affirmation that you can replace each one with.
I’ll give you an example from my life when I was trying to lose weight. You just have to replace the things I did with what you want to manifest.
1. My body effortlessly burns excess fat every day.
2. I’m looking better & better every day.
3. Foods that are unhealthy or high in calories taste terrible to me.
Use your positive affirmations a few times throughout the day. Along with saying them, visualize them. For example, I visualized myself at a party. I looked around the room. I saw myself having a better figure than everyone else there. I could see all the heads turn when I walked into the room. I could hear people commenting on how good I looked.
Speaking & thinking daily affirmations isn’t good enough. Really feel how happy you’ll be when you finally see your dream turn into reality. Feel that excitement.
1. I can’t wait to get there so everyone can see how great I look.
2. I’m so glad my metabolism is constantly working in high gear.
3. I just love the fact that I can wear anything & look great in it.
The secret here is, you have to believe it. One of the hardest things to do is to ignore your conscious mind. It’s your conscious mind that comes up with all the lousy thoughts. Thoughts like, I’m never going to lose the weight I want.
Remember, your Subconscious Mind doesn’t know if what you’re saying is true or not true. Also remember, it’s your subconscious Mind that will help you the most. So, let’s give it a little extra help.
IMPORTANT: I want to make something very clear. If all you’re going to do is just say a bunch of affirmations & not take any action, your dream will probably take a lot longer to materialize. In my example above, every time I thought of something that would help me lose weight, I wrote it down. It’s surprising how many ideas your subconscious mind can come up with for you. When I was on the internet (not looking for diet tips), I just happened to see a free calorie counter that I still use today. Once again my subconscious mind was helping me notice these things. I set up a diet plan for myself. In other words, I took action. Constantly saying affirmations kept me motivated & focused on losing weight. It increased the speed of reaching my goal.
This is just an example of how your subconscious mind helps you. I’ll tell you how to Power Your Subconscious Mind a little later on. Right now, it’s important to know how it works.
Let’s say you’re going on a vacation. I don’t know about you, but when I’m going on vacation I keep telling myself, ” What else do I have to take?” Every time I think of something, I write it down.
In this case, my AFFIRMATION is (what else do I have to take). My subconscious mind hears this & automatically goes to work thinking of things I’ll need.
You might open up a drawer and see your hair blower or passport. Your Subconscious Mind automatically triggers your conscious mind that you’ll need these things for your holidays. You could be walking through your house & all of a sudden you’ll think of something you’ll need. That’s your subconscious mind working for you again.
Here’s one more example. Did you know that your memories are stored in your subconscious mind & not your conscious mind?
Let’s say a song comes on the radio. Someone asks you what the name of the song is. You know that you know the name of the song but you just can’t think of it. You think & think & you still can’t come up with it. A little later on, the name of the song just seems to pop up out of nowhere. That’s your subconscious mind helping you again.
Power Your Subconscious Mind: Remember me telling you that your Subconscious Mind believes everything it hears you think & say? So, kick out all the negativity from your life & replace it with words & thoughts about what you want to manifest into your life. This is how we Power Our Subconscious Mind. We keep fueling it with the things we want. The more your subconscious mind hears what you want, the harder it works at attracting it for you.
Don’t Confuse Your Subconscious Mind: As soon as you start letting the negative words & thoughts creep back in, your Subconscious Mind stops working or even worse, it’ll start to attract those things instead. Then your rate of success will slow down considerably. That’s why it’s important to keep the negative thoughts & words out of your life. I know I don’t want to wait 5 years to get something I want. I’m sure you don’t either.
WHAT ARE YOU ASKING YOUR SUBCONSCIOUS FOR? I hope it’s nothing negative. Don’t defeat Yourself with your negative talk.
Make a Positive Affirmation List. Now take each one of those affirmations & write it on a sticky note or cut a recipe card in half and write them on that. Even better, put a picture of what you want and an affirmation on a recipe card.
I’ll use the weight loss example again. I would use both sticky notes and recipe cards.
a) I would put a picture of how I want to look on a recipe card. The affirmation on the card would say, My metabolism is always working in high gear.
b) I would put a sticky note on my closet door that would say, “I’m so happy & grateful I look great in everything I wear.
I put a different affirmation on each of the sticky notes & recipe cards throughout my house.
IMPORTANT: If you really don’t want sticky notes around your house, make sure you’re at least thinking & saying the law of attraction affirmations that you wrote down earlier. Don’t just say & think them once a day. Say them several times throughout the day. It’s easier with the notes because you’re constantly running into them. You’re constantly being reminded of what you want to manifest. The affirmations will help you to stay focused & motivated. You’re actually fueling your subconscious mind to help you even more.
Now it’s time to practice. Don’t just do it once throughout the day or even worse, once a week.
The trick here is to be conscious of what you’re saying & thinking. Get into the habit of replacing everything that is negative with a positive affirmation.
■ BELIEVE: Believe what you’re saying. Don’t use a positive affirmation & be rolling your eyes at the same time. Also, don’t be thinking, “I just bet this is going to work” (sarcastically). The more you convince your subconscious mind that what you’re saying is the truth, the faster & harder it’ll work for you.
■ FEEL: This is the important one. Feel the excitement. Imagine how you’d feel if someone just gave it to you. Every time you see and read an affirmation, recreate that same feeling.
■ HABIT: Do your affirmations several times throughout the day. If you catch yourself saying or thinking something negative, replace it right away. It’s crucial to turn Affirmations into a habit.
■ TAKE ACTION: Make a plan. If you can’t come up with a plan right away, that’s okay. Just keep saying your affirmations. It’ll help to keep you focused on what you want. As Ideas pop up, write them down. I always write down 3 things that I’m going to accomplish each week to take me closer to my goal. Make sure their doable.
So many things can help you get what you want. You could be at the right place at the right time. You just might meet someone that can give you some great advice. You might find something very useful on the internet. So many things seem to fall into place when you’re focused on what you want.
Do Affirmations Work? Read the research done by Psychology Today.
Using Subliminal Software is an alternative to my DIY Affirmation Program.
Why do People Use Subliminal Affirmations? Some people just don’t like or have time to write out affirmations. That’s okay. Some have people around them that aren’t very supportive when it comes to the Law Of Attraction. Some people use subliminal affirmations to increase their speed of success even more. Then there’s the fourth type of person. They try their hardest but they just can’t seem to keep the negative thoughts out of their heads.
There are a couple of alternatives that you can try. Yes, I still do my DIY Affirmation program but I usually add subliminals to increase my focus & motivation even more. You don’t have to do both. My affirmation instructions above, work just fine by themselves.
When it comes to subliminal software, there are two programs that have worked great for me. Both programs will override your conscious mind that gives you all those negative thoughts. It’ll go directly to your subconscious mind.
MINDZOOM – My #1 Pick is MindZoom. Not only is it a great product, it’s also one of the less expensive programs I found so far. I’ll just quickly summarize what it does. The link to my personal detailed review is below that.
Mindzoom is a SSM (silent subliminal messaging) software program. What I like the most about this program is you don’t need to set aside time every day. You just turn it on whenever you’re on your computer.
You can pick from their affirmations or use your own. The affirmations flash across your screen & are also spoken to you. You don’t hear or see them but your subconscious mind does. The affirmations totally skip your Doubting Conscious Mind. Think of it like a dog whistle. When you blow the whistle, your dog hears it but you don’t.
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The one place we all hold most private, most wholly belonging to our selves, is the inside of our minds, our hearts, our consciences.
Right from our beginning here I must advise readers that this notion of a self is now being substantially re-evaluated and doubted by scientists in cognitive neurological research who delve into the phenomenon of consciousness.
Nevertheless and despite the doubt, I will go on with my intention of writing about the interiority of our self-identity and its meaning for human events.
“There’s a place, where I can go… And it’s my mind, and there’s no time, when I’m alone…” are lines from a Beatles song (1963) that left a deep impression on my thinking from an early age. “Inside,” my mind was my most secure possession, I could confidently assert.
In Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Tom’s master screams in rage, “I own you, body and soul!” Tom, dying, tells Simon Legree that Legree may own his body, but he can never own Tom’s soul. Again, this is a memory of learning I experienced long ago, and has stayed with me as a formative notion of my self and soul.
Greek philosophy premised a soul (psyche) dwelling in the body (soma); the mystic mathematician Pythagoras taught that the soul could migrate from body to body in the process of metempsychosis. Ancient Indian religion taught the doctrine of the wheel of death and rebirth of the soul (atman), and of karma.
Wherever one has picked up the notion that a personal interior belongs to one’s self alone, and within that space a spark of immortality might reside, I would doubt there is anyone in the Western civilization ― or any part of the world deeply penetrated by Western ways of thinking ― who does not hold this view of the interiority of the self.
It has been argued that humans may not have had this sense in prehistoric and ancient times, but by the time of Jesus of Nazareth, it seems that the notion of an interior person was well developed among Greeks, Romans, and Israelites, founders of our intellectual ancestry.
“The Lord God formed the man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life and the man became a living being.” (Genesis, c. II, v. 7) According to the foundation mythos of the Western civilization, in the Old Testament, a human being receives the breath of life from God, and it is this that makes the human a being. Interestingly, “being” appears as “soul” in some translations, but that choice of English word creates a problem, because it indicates the presence of a Greek idea, soul, in an ancient Hebrew context where it does not belong. The English word being is the better choice.
Christian dogma, developed long after the ancient Israelite text of Genesis was written, asserts that our soul is given by God – that God put a soul in humans when Adam was created a “living being” (but our own actions might cause us to lose it to Satan.) Christianity after Jesus was immersed in Greek thinking.
Professor Julian Jaynes hypothesized that humans did not know God was outside, and Self inside, until the last millennium BCE; before that, humans thought with a “bi-cameral” mind, and thought was experienced as God within. The Jaynes Hypothesis has no standing among neuroscientific researchers now. There simply is no evidence for the sudden transformation of human cognition that Jaynes argued for.
Descartes famously said, “I think, therefore I am.” His existence, he declared, was in no doubt because he knew his thoughts and his thought was his own. His era was a time in the West when a paradigm shift in our view of human life and the human world was underway, the so-called Scientific Revolution and the Western Enlightenment. God was on the way to becoming irrelevant in the thought of the elite minds and powers of the West, and soon to be pronounced dead by several philosophers, most famous of whom was Nietzsche.
The twentieth-century West brought the world “scientific psychology.” With the psychoanalytic research and theories of Sigmund Freud and the various genres of mind studies (psychology, neuroscience), we enter the familiar realm of talking about our “selves” and our “personalities” – a focus of endless fascination for the post-modern human. Anyone viewing typical content on social media knows this to be true.
The commonplace word for referring to the self in normal speech had been “I” for centuries; now people also began to refer to this as “my ego” after Freud used it in his models of the human mind. Egotism is not admired, but certainly one is expected to possess something called a “healthy ego.” Narcissism, extreme self-focus, has been labelled an epidemic of our age by some.
Each one of us, believing in the reality of a unique self, has a story about that self. The story is based on selective memories, and in general attempts to show how one’s life has some meaning and some purpose, some mystery and some sense.
Yuval Harari argues that some genetic mutation in sapiens brains made it possible for us to employ symbolism, which is necessary for language and the create of vast networks of “fictions” such as gods, nations, and corporations, and from this ability, we invent “intersubjective reality” about intangible things that have no actual reality beyond our belief in them.
If humans underwent some form of radical change in our brains’ ability to use symbol, it may be at this point in history that the concept of selfhood became possible for a human; the notion of our private interior evolved from then onward not as a genetic inheritance but as a meme.
So, to re-cap my argument so far, human interior aptitudes, our method for understanding the single individual human, has evolved over time. We think “self” is a pretty obvious concept, an idea which is real as our body is real.
It may not be scientifically accurate to call the self a real thing. But so long as science has not solved the “hard problem of consciousness”, so-called by neuroscientists, then it is still possible that our sense of self is a reality and not a fiction. Again, I refer the interested reader to research “the hard problem” by going online and browsing among the thousands of references to this paradox.
I cited Harari, author of the bookSapiens, in the section above, because he is at present somewhat of a celebrity intellectual and ubiquitous in his appearances online, in talk shows, in Youtube videos, and in print media. I have assigned his book as a text in a history course I am teaching.
Harari is very confident in his thesis that humans rule the world because we can believe in unreal things, fictions, social constructs, myths. He is as much a social philosopher as a historian, I would say, and he has declared that humans always have an ideology that functions as religion does, even when we say we are not believers in any religion. Harari thinks he can describe the dominant modern global religion held unconsciously by secular people today.
(1) I am a unique individual, “individual” meaning not-divisible.
(2) I know myself as no one else can know me, and I can know no other as I know myself.
(3) The individual possesses “rights” – human rights – that are “inalienable.” Rights are, according to Harari, another fiction humans invent to erect an “intersubjective reality” that is not the same reality as physicists deal with.
As anyone who has grasped Harari’s own measure of values will know, Harari does not allow that these dogmas are in any sense “real” – they are simply made-up “stories we tell ourselves.” Most of his argumentation for this view is set forth in his sequel to Sapiens, his best-selling tome Homo Deus.
Harari makes himself known through so many media interview panels, on conference stages and at other public forums, to talk about his perspective on our coming crises of transformation into some other species, that his work as an historian is fast becoming a minor piece of his reputation.
How humans hold their personal, individual place in a vastly complicated, pluralist, and populated global civilization ― within the religion of liberal humanism or within older religious traditions such as biblical religion -- is through story. Story is not theory, philosophy, or ideology, but contains elements of these within it, and the teller and the story are fused. The story makes the teller as much as the teller makes a story.
Story is a connected narrative into which one can inject the ego, telling “me” how my life makes sense and meaning in the larger human tale. I know of no author more lucid on the subject of “the stories we tell ourselves” than Charles Eisenstein, but there are many. Joseph Campbell and Robert Bly are others.
Harari says meaning has become more rare in the modern West within the religion of humanism, and we have made a bargain to give up perceiving any meaning in life. This is possible because materialist science has such power over the outer world.
“The modern world's covenant exchanges meaning to get power.” This is a celebrated quote from Harari. We are gaining in power, and losing meaning in our lives.
Clearly, in the West, our science and the technologies and instruments our science makes possible, has indeed bestowed power upon humans unimaginable only 200 years ago. Medical breakthroughs, space travel, and nuclear weaponry are examples of our power over material that have made humans approach “godlike status” according to Harari.
But life is not full of meaning merely because we have power. The Story we have told ourselves is, that humanity has made progress by gaining control over Nature.
Charles Eisenstein, an author and thinker much less-known than Harari (undeservedly, in my opinion) has said many profound things about the Story we have told ourselves about being human. The Story of Separation and the Story of Power (or Control) are reasons humanity is in a crisis on many fronts at present. Harari and Eisenstein share a deep concern for our crisis, but that is where their similarity ends.
The Story in Eisenstein’s sense of the word uses History as part of its narrative -- but History as a subject of study is not the same as The Story of the People.
What people of any culture believe is their Story of the People is not a story made up by accident. It has some facts about the people’s past. But it is not all the facts of that past. The Story has to be put together skilfully to make the People proud. A particular social role is assigned to those whose profession is to tell the Story of a people. The Celts had Druids, ancient Israel had scribes, in India it was Brahmins, in medieval Ireland it was ollamhs and sennachies, and among the Scandinavians it was skalds. Pagan gods were responsible to inspire the storytellers; for the Greeks, Clio was the Muse of History.
The Story is part history, part fantasy, part aspiration, part boast. It pictures an ideal people, with many symbols and images of their greatness and their purpose. It is a Story into which each member of society can fit themselves. It tells people how to understand life and how to live it.
Humans have not outgrown the need to have a Story of this nature, for such a story gives us meaning for our lives, and meaning is a necessity for humans.
Now, every modern citizen of a Western nation who has received an education from institutions like schools, or learned from the media, or has simply educated themselves by reading books and listening to lectures, has learned some history. What is history?
History as a word came into the English language from a Greek word, historia, rational inquiry; history does not mean “his story” as so many commonly would say. History may indeed contain stories, but it is not a “meta-narrative” (or the Big Story in the sense Eisenstein uses that term.) History is a profession in the modern West. Professors of history command some respect. Some are quite “ivory tower” and their writing is remote from popular interest, others are writers for the popular taste, like Barbara Tuchman and Yuval Harari.
What do historians tell us they do when they present history to the public? In accord with Western Enlightenment values, they say they are embarked on the great work of finding out truths about the past.
A great voice of the Enlightenment was the French philosophe and personal advisor to the great Prussian king Frederick II, Voltaire. “History is a pack of lies agreed upon,” according to Voltaire. He makes a good point. History as we learn it at the level of public education is a set of facts about which there is consensus. The community of scholars establishes historical facts, which facts are valuable to know, which facts add up to a meaning – but the powers of a society, its elites in culture and politics and economy, decide what the Story of the People shall be. A nation needs some kind of collectively-agreed pack of … well, not lies perhaps, but stories about how the nation came to be and will be.
Canada has a consensus history, known because it is taught in our public schools.
The past is always dark to the present, we cannot know it as we know this time when we are alive, and is like a foreign country we can visit but not know as the inhabitants of that country know their habitat.
Therefore, we will only know fractions of the past and throw light only on the aspects for which we have “evidence” and about which we are motivated to ask questions. Whom we make famous, whom we celebrate in the present with statues and by putting their names on public edifices and into our children’s schoolbooks, are decisions reached over decades, decisions historians help the elites to develop and propagate among the people.
Is Sir John A. Macdonald a historical figure worthy of celebration by Canadians? This is a hot-button issue suddenly because a minor elite, the unionized schoolteachers of Ontario, have resolved at a union conference to call for removal of Macdonald’s name on the schools of their province.
Why do the teachers demand this revision of Macdonald’s reputation? Because he was a racist against the aboriginal First Nations of Canada, as “proven” by the fact that he was prime minister when the first Indian Act was legislated. I think this is an example of truly poor reasoning and weak thinking.
That Canadian Indian Act was fully in harmony with its time and the culture of European civilization. Nineteenth century European scientists were convinced that they understood the march of human history and evolution, and were in general agreement that the advanced people of the West were the cutting edge of progress to which all other peoples must be led. Humanity was advancing; the native peoples of the lands seized and occupied and ruled by European empires were being brought forward by the colonial governments. Charles Darwin and his new scientific proofs for the origins of humanity gave Europe confidence that because of the West’s power over the globe, the people of the West were proven by history to be the most adapted, most fit, humans.
Rudyard Kipling put the idea of taking care of the primitive and retarded cultures of the world into a notorious poem, The White Man’s Burden. He famously called the subjects of colonial rule “half-starved, sullen children” who would not understand that the European empires and economies were taking over the natives’ land for the good of the natives.
This is the world, the culture, the scientific and political consensus, among the citizens of the democratic West, among whom Euro-Canadians proudly counted themselves. Why would anyone today expect the prime minister of Canada, the one Canadian politician whom (historians can agree) deserves to be called the first Father of Confederation, would think 21st-century thoughts about the rights of aboriginal people? The very notion reeks of the stupid assumption by the present that this moment is superior to the past.
I digressed a little in that last section, but it is important that we know how to situate ourselves in a community history, and one of our communities is the nation-state called Canada – which is one of those wonderful imagined realities Harari calls a fiction.
This autumn, I am again leading a history course with seniors as students, in the Learning in Retirement program at Selkirk. I have told the students that they are in a unique period of time for two reasons: they are at an age when they have lived through a fair bit of history, and have a personal history within that time. The other fact is that this time in history is uniquely ominous due to quite verifiable problems like climate change, nuclear weapons, and capitalist market fragility. We know it and we are made anxious or at least disquieted by what we know of our world, and we want to fit our story into the larger tale of human history. We still tell ourselves stories and make meaning and sense of life from that.
This is where Eisenstein and Harari are quite distinct, since the latter is addressing his deepest thoughts and speculations to people with power in politics, science, and the economy, while the former thinks more about masses of people and the stories people carry in their minds. Eisenstein wants to replace the old story of materialist Progress and Power with the new story of Interbeing. Harari wants to alert the powerful to immense change at hand due to AI rendering many people “useless” to the economy, to the quest for immortal lifespans, and to our supposed new religion of dataism. Bliss, divinity, and immortality, are the three driving forces of human desire that will determine our future, Harari asserts.
Conclusions: which kind of story are you inclined toward?
Harari clearly does not believe that the story Eisenstein criticizes as obsolete, the tale of control, is outmoded. Harari wants to prepare for the consequences of that ideology continuing to rule our intersubjective reality.
Eisenstein wants to transform human reality by going into our consciousness with a new story, Interbeing, which respects all other sentient life and understands we are all connected in a web of life.
In all these currents of our past, our present, and our future, each of us still has a notion of self. Eisenstein says we must transform that notion profoundly to allow a porous boundary between self and other selves, other life-forms.
Harari wants policy to be planned, to ensure science is not just the tool of the most wealthy and privileged, and that we might all benefit from its advances – but one does not get the idea he is an optimist about our chances of that.
I know my preference is for Eisenstein’s new story to transform humanity and change our behaviours so radically we can turn aside from the various brinks into the abyss that appear just now to crowd around the human prospect. He is clear, any project for change that assumes we must defeat “the Other and the opposed side” and “be in control of change” is only going to prolong our human predicaments until there is some form of collapse.
Harari wants the old systems established in history to be brought under the control of good people who will not misuse science. He sees that homo deus has a fearsome and terrible aspect as well as a benevolent one, but his solution is to talk to the elites and try to make them behave in ways that do not repeat the precedents of the past.


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scripture for the upcoming Sunday service.
Other topics may also be discussed. Potluck usually follows. Everyone is invited to attend.
"Properly practised, knitting soothes the troubled spirit and it doesn't hurt the untroubled spirit either."
sewing, etc. There's a project for everyone.
Come and join the fun & fellowship.
12 - 4 pm every Tuesday at Goodwood United Church.
in Shirley Baster's home at 4689 Concession 8, of Uxbridge.
The focus of this ministry is to provide prayer shawls for those experiencing difficult times. We have also created dolls for a medical mission that goes to Ghana. We work on our own projects, as well.
This activity will be revisited at a later date and further information will be posted.
But you are invited to borrow soft and hard-cover books from our lending library shelves when the church is open.
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