The doctor healed the patient with the gasoline, and the osteopath will with soda. What the osteopath will do with soda is heal the patient.<|endoftext|> to it as his story.  Did you catch that?
It’s elementary, John.  He must be a car salesman.

It’s elementary, John.  He must be a car salesman.

  • He doesn’t like all the attention the bank robber is getting.

Soon after this, your suspicions are confirmed.  A little reminiscing before work and we know something about John that no one else knows.

Your character could also explain something to another character.  This is difficult; often, it works better just to narrate what the reader needs to know.  If you use this technique, avoid Hollywood dialogue, or the dreaded “As you know, Bob.”  Make sure your character should actually be explaining something in this scene, rather than just using it to inform the reader.  You can use it to move the story forward—since people rarely give complete explanations of anything, leave out a bunch of stuff or even make him lie to Bob.  Let Bob discover it later.

Showing takes more time than telling.  There will be times when you need to convey some information but you don’t have room for an entire scene or chapter illustrating exactly how X happens.  In that case, you can use your narrative for exposition.  It’s a balancing act—not too much of one or the other, or your reader (and you!) will grow tired.

I’ll finish it laterrr—maybe not.

I’ll finish it laterrr—maybe not.

Image:  marin/

In this useful post from Writer’s Digest, Roseann Biederman suggests a tool to help you spot and vanquish telling for exposition where it doesn’t belong in your narrative.

Character: W is for Worldview

atoz [2014] - BANNER - 910

W is for Worldview.

A character’s history and experiences shape his view of the world and of his place in it.  It’s more than how he sees himself; it’s his intellectual perception of how the world works and what effect he can have on it.  With this in hand, he can take in stimuli, reason through what is happening and why and eventually take action.

Well, John, my deductive skill tells me that we’ve discovered a robot turkey.

Perception is cognition of events, etc. as a whole.  We know people have different levels of perception and they all see things differently.  This is a great way to show something about your character.

A number of things can shape a character’s worldview.  Whether they control him and by how much depends on the proportion of their influence in his life.

Some cultures are isolationist; they believe (and teach their children) that the outside world is full of peril or is at odds with their beliefs.  For example, Amish people prefer to live a certain way in accordance with their religious dictates.  While they do make a conscious choice to join the church as adults, they rarely decide to leave their communities because their upbringing doesn’t support an existence in modern society without a huge adjustment.

A character who is exposed to other worldviews, especially during his formative years, will have more tolerance to different ways of doing things.  If your hero’s viewpoint is at odds with the situation in which he finds himself, he’s going to have a much harder time of it if he hasn’t been raised with open-mindedness.

Or open-pantsedness.

Or open-pantsedness.

Religion and spirituality

Many people depend on their faith for answers to the most puzzling questions of life.  Religious belief can be rigid; it doesn’t always allow for alteration and acceptance.

In the 1973 film The Wicker Man, Police Sergeant Neil Howie (Edward Woodward) comes to the remote Hebridean island of Summerisle to investigate the disappearance of a young girl.  He finds a hedonistic society that is at odds with his own strict moral upbringing.  This dichotomy causes him a great deal of anguish, and it keeps him from seeing the real reason he’s there until it’s too late.

You’d think the people running around in animal masks would have given him a clue.

Image:  Rialto Pictures/ Studiocanal /

What are some of the things we learn at school?  Besides reading, writing, history, and computer sciences, we learn socialization and cooperation.  We also learn about bullying, abuse, and cruelty.  A character who went through this in school could view people in his adult life with suspicion.  If they try to befriend him, he might think they have an agenda and avoid them.

Think about this from the bully’s point of view, too.  Your character may not be a pleasant person if he’s used to taking what he wants and getting his own way.

News and popular opinion gleaned through television, radio, and internet influence people all the time.  The worst part about media is that it’s not always accurate.  People tend to take the easiest route toward learning something.  They take what they see and hear at face value and rarely bother to fact-check, unless what they’re hearing sounds suspiciously far-fetched (and often not even then).

Our friends are a huge part of our worldview.  We surround ourselves with like-minded people, and share experiences with them that reinforce those attitudes.

I’ll be there for you…but only if you're the same as me.

I’ll be there for you…but only if you’re the same as me.

When new people come into our circles, they sometimes shake up the status quo and give a settled group a new perspective.  Depending on that person’s motives, the change can either strengthen a group or tear it apart (which provides the writer with excellent conflict material).

Your character’s worldview gives him a unique perspective on events.  Take two different people and put them in a situation with the same exact stimuli at the same exact time.  The things one person notices when he walks into a room will tell you a lot about him, as opposed to what another person would see in the same space.  See how their reactions and what they perceive differs.

This will absolutely change the way you write a scene.  It’s a huge help when working with show vs. tell.  And a character’s altered perspectives will provide you with numerous opportunities for growth and development.

Character: V is for Villainy!

atoz [2014] - BANNER - 910

V is for Villainy!

So you’ve decided to create a villain.  Congratulations!  Villains are great fun to write.  You can experience the worst of humanity, do really horrible rotten awful things, and wallow in depravity, muck, and vice.  All vicariously, of course.

And the clothes.  Don’t forget the clothes.

And the clothes.  Don’t forget the clothes.

Villainous characters rarely come in one flavor.  There are several types, including the following, and different tactics for dealing with them.

Sympathetic villain

This one is hard to do without lapsing into antihero status.  He’s a villain because something bad happened to him, or maybe his circumstances forced him into doing the wrong thing (or the right one, but in a convoluted and awful way).  Either way, he chose his path, and he might even have grown to enjoy it.  We may not like him, but we understand him.

You might be able to reason with this villain, especially if you lean toward giving in to him.  If you can do that without hurting anyone, he might just shut up and go away.  But you better have a contingency plan for his return, because he’s learned that villainy will make you cave.

Examples:  Khan in the film Star Trek: Into Darkness, Severus Snape in the Harry Potter books.

This had nothing to do with the subject, but it made me laugh really hard despite the horrid misplaced apostrophe.

This had nothing to do with the subject, but despite the horrid misplaced apostrophe, it made me laugh really hard.

Unintentional villain

This is somebody who never set out to be a villain, but she ends up one anyway.  Through her actions, she hurts and threatens other characters.  She doesn’t mean to be bad and may even be puzzled by other characters’ reactions to her behavior.  An unintentional villain may also be someone who causes an accident or incident and then, terrified of the consequences, proceeds to make the situation worse with every subsequent move she makes.  Or she might just be so stupid that she’s dangerous.

You can distract this villain long enough to escape or perhaps to push her down another path.  If she’s lashing out from blind fear, you’ll have to placate her somehow.  Show her you’re not a threat, that you’re on her side.  Maybe you can talk her down by making her feel safe.

Example:  Rhoda in The Bad Seed, Elmy

 to it as his story.  Did you catch that?
It’s elementary, John.  He must be a car salesman.

It’s elementary, John.  He must be a car salesman.

  • He doesn’t like all the attention the bank robber is getting.

Soon after this, your suspicions are confirmed.  A little reminiscing before work and we know something about John that no one else knows.

Your character could also explain something to another character.  This is difficult; often, it works better just to narrate what the reader needs to know.  If you use this technique, avoid Hollywood dialogue, or the dreaded “As you know, Bob.”  Make sure your character should actually be explaining something in this scene, rather than just using it to inform the reader.  You can use it to move the story forward—since people rarely give complete explanations of anything, leave out a bunch of stuff or even make him lie to Bob.  Let Bob discover it later.

Showing takes more time than telling.  There will be times when you need to convey some information but you don’t have room for an entire scene or chapter illustrating exactly how X happens.  In that case, you can use your narrative for exposition.  It’s a balancing act—not too much of one or the other, or your reader (and you!) will grow tired.

I’ll finish it laterrr—maybe not.

I’ll finish it laterrr—maybe not.

Image:  marin/

In this useful post from Writer’s Digest, Roseann Biederman suggests a tool to help you spot and vanquish telling for exposition where it doesn’t belong in your narrative.

Character: W is for Worldview

atoz [2014] - BANNER - 910

W is for Worldview.

A character’s history and experiences shape his view of the world and of his place in it.  It’s more than how he sees himself; it’s his intellectual perception of how the world works and what effect he can have on it.  With this in hand, he can take in stimuli, reason through what is happening and why and eventually take action.

Well, John, my deductive skill tells me that we’ve discovered a robot turkey.

Perception is cognition of events, etc. as a whole.  We know people have different levels of perception and they all see things differently.  This is a great way to show something about your character.

A number of things can shape a character’s worldview.  Whether they control him and by how much depends on the proportion of their influence in his life.

Some cultures are isolationist; they believe (and teach their children) that the outside world is full of peril or is at odds with their beliefs.  For example, Amish people prefer to live a certain way in accordance with their religious dictates.  While they do make a conscious choice to join the church as adults, they rarely decide to leave their communities because their upbringing doesn’t support an existence in modern society without a huge adjustment.

A character who is exposed to other worldviews, especially during his formative years, will have more tolerance to different ways of doing things.  If your hero’s viewpoint is at odds with the situation in which he finds himself, he’s going to have a much harder time of it if he hasn’t been raised with open-mindedness.

Or open-pantsedness.

Or open-pantsedness.

Religion and spirituality

Many people depend on their faith for answers to the most puzzling questions of life.  Religious belief can be rigid; it doesn’t always allow for alteration and acceptance.

In the 1973 film The Wicker Man, Police Sergeant Neil Howie (Edward Woodward) comes to the remote Hebridean island of Summerisle to investigate the disappearance of a young girl.  He finds a hedonistic society that is at odds with his own strict moral upbringing.  This dichotomy causes him a great deal of anguish, and it keeps him from seeing the real reason he’s there until it’s too late.

You’d think the people running around in animal masks would have given him a clue.

Image:  Rialto Pictures/ Studiocanal /

What are some of the things we learn at school?  Besides reading, writing, history, and computer sciences, we learn socialization and cooperation.  We also learn about bullying, abuse, and cruelty.  A character who went through this in school could view people in his adult life with suspicion.  If they try to befriend him, he might think they have an agenda and avoid them.

Think about this from the bully’s point of view, too.  Your character may not be a pleasant person if he’s used to taking what he wants and getting his own way.

News and popular opinion gleaned through television, radio, and internet influence people all the time.  The worst part about media is that it’s not always accurate.  People tend to take the easiest route toward learning something.  They take what they see and hear at face value and rarely bother to fact-check, unless what they’re hearing sounds suspiciously far-fetched (and often not even then).

Our friends are a huge part of our worldview.  We surround ourselves with like-minded people, and share experiences with them that reinforce those attitudes.

I’ll be there for you…but only if you're the same as me.

I’ll be there for you…but only if you’re the same as me.

When new people come into our circles, they sometimes shake up the status quo and give a settled group a new perspective.  Depending on that person’s motives, the change can either strengthen a group or tear it apart (which provides the writer with excellent conflict material).

Your character’s worldview gives him a unique perspective on events.  Take two different people and put them in a situation with the same exact stimuli at the same exact time.  The things one person notices when he walks into a room will tell you a lot about him, as opposed to what another person would see in the same space.  See how their reactions and what they perceive differs.

This will absolutely change the way you write a scene.  It’s a huge help when working with show vs. tell.  And a character’s altered perspectives will provide you with numerous opportunities for growth and development.

Character: V is for Villainy!

atoz [2014] - BANNER - 910

V is for Villainy!

So you’ve decided to create a villain.  Congratulations!  Villains are great fun to write.  You can experience the worst of humanity, do really horrible rotten awful things, and wallow in depravity, muck, and vice.  All vicariously, of course.

And the clothes.  Don’t forget the clothes.

And the clothes.  Don’t forget the clothes.

Villainous characters rarely come in one flavor.  There are several types, including the following, and different tactics for dealing with them.

Sympathetic villain

This one is hard to do without lapsing into antihero status.  He’s a villain because something bad happened to him, or maybe his circumstances forced him into doing the wrong thing (or the right one, but in a convoluted and awful way).  Either way, he chose his path, and he might even have grown to enjoy it.  We may not like him, but we understand him.

You might be able to reason with this villain, especially if you lean toward giving in to him.  If you can do that without hurting anyone, he might just shut up and go away.  But you better have a contingency plan for his return, because he’s learned that villainy will make you cave.

Examples:  Khan in the film Star Trek: Into Darkness, Severus Snape in the Harry Potter books.

This had nothing to do with the subject, but it made me laugh really hard despite the horrid misplaced apostrophe.

This had nothing to do with the subject, but despite the horrid misplaced apostrophe, it made me laugh really hard.

Unintentional villain

This is somebody who never set out to be a villain, but she ends up one anyway.  Through her actions, she hurts and threatens other characters.  She doesn’t mean to be bad and may even be puzzled by other characters’ reactions to her behavior.  An unintentional villain may also be someone who causes an accident or incident and then, terrified of the consequences, proceeds to make the situation worse with every subsequent move she makes.  Or she might just be so stupid that she’s dangerous.

You can distract this villain long enough to escape or perhaps to push her down another path.  If she’s lashing out from blind fear, you’ll have to placate her somehow.  Show her you’re not a threat, that you’re on her side.  Maybe you can talk her down by making her feel safe.

Example:  Rhoda in The Bad Seed, Elmyra Duff from Tiny Toons

I’m gonna hug you and squeeze you and love you forever!

I’m gonna hug you


 devoted so much time to such a systematic study of the Greek world, in spite of all the vicissitudes incident to the ensuing Mongol invasion, an extemely traumatic event for the Middle East, is almost beyond comprehension. The main claim of Bar Hebraeus to my admiration is not, in his original productions, but rather in his having preserved and systematized the work of his Greek predecessors, either by way of condensation of by way of direct reproduction. The obscurity that writers of his ilk have endured by a Greek nation obsessed with establishing or ‘proving’ western roots in its vain attempt to obtain legitimacy is decidedly underserved. Give me a prelate who writes jokes such as “Another fool...when his son was being circumcised said to him that was making the cutting, "Cut him little by little, for he hath never before been circumcised," compared to a stuffy Korais any day.
Bar Hebraeus’ remains lie today in Mar Mattai monastery in Northern Iraq, a most ancient place that has been virtually abandoned due to the dangerous conditions existing in that country for its native Christians. I should feel my debt to him as one of my personal heroes to be partially discharged, should I be able to discover a Greek rendering of his title, maphrian. Μαφριανός, to my taste, sounds decidedly cool.

First published in NKEE on Saturday, 5 February 2011<|endoftext|>How to cook lobster tails, including buying and defrosting.

Lobster Tails
If the prospect of acquiring and cooking a whole live lobster seems too daunting, buying frozen lobster tails may be the perfect alternative for a wonderful dinner, especially if you are looking to impress your guests.

Lobster tails are easier to obtain than whole lobsters, easier to prepare and easier on the pocket, and serving up a perfect platter of mouth-watering lobster tails will definitely provide you with a meal that your dinner guests are not likely to forget.

Feasting on lobster was formerly common amongst fishermen and sailors, yet nowadays it is considered a delicacy and a special treat for most.
Buying a whole lobster can be very expensive, and as most of the meat is found in the claws and in the tail, it may therefore be more economical to just buy a quantity of frozen lobster tails rather than the whole lobster itself.

Whereas a clawed lobster is preferable if you are eating a whole lobster; for lobster tails, the clawless species are much better, as their tails contain more meat in them.

Cold or warm water tails?

As you may expect, different types of lobster will taste and cook differently. With lobster tails, the difference is in whether the lobsters come from warm waters or cold waters.

Lobsters from cold waters are mainly found around South Africa, Australia and New Zealand, whilst warm water lobsters are found in the waters of Central and South America and Florida.

According to several expert seafood and shellfish chefs, one fifth of warm water lobster tails are poor quality, whereas lobster tail meat from cold water lobsters are very rarely "bad".

This is a fact that is reflected in the price of lobster tails. Cold water lobster tails will be significantly more expensive, however you will almost always be guaranteed an excellent tasting and good quality lobster meat.

On the other hand, purchasing warm water lobster tails will be cheaper, yet you may be disappointed with what you buy. If you particularly want to prepare a special meal to impress, it is probably safer to pay the extra for better and guaranteed quality.

When a warm water lobster tail is "bad", the lobster meat may either remain mushy after cooking, fall apart on eating or contain a pungent smell of ammonia.

Cold water lobster tails are said to taste cleaner, have a whiter appearance and be much more tender in texture.

Buying frozen lobster tails

When buying frozen lobster tails, you should always buy from a fish market that is well known for selling good quality produce.

If you are unsure of where the lobster tails on sale originate from, as there are no signs, make sure to ask the vendor if they are warm water or cold water tails. If he does not know, assume that they are warm water tails, especially if they are priced inexpensively. Good quality cold water tails will not be priced very cheaply.

Look out for any discolouring of the meat and avoid tails that have a grey colour or black spots in the flesh.

Lobster tails can usually be bought in different sizes ranging from around 3 oz to as large as 24 oz.

Defrost the lobster tails

The lobster tails may be cooked from frozen, however, the best results are obtained if the tails are defrosted first.

To defrost the lobster tails, place them in the refrigerator for a period of 8 - 10 hours or alternatively place them in a bowl of cold water. They can be defrosted in the microwave, but make sure that you do not start to cook them instead.

Once the tails have been completely defrosted, they will be ready to cook.

How to cook lobster tails

There are several methods of cooking lobster tails. They can be boiled, grilled, steamed or baked.

Boiled lobster tails
  1. Fill a large saucepan with water and add 1 teaspoon of salt for each litre of water.
  4. Drain the lobster tails and serve hot with melted butter, lemon juice or mayonnaise.
Steamed lobster tails
  2. Bring the water to the boil.
Grilled lobster tails
  6. Pour some melted butter and lemon juice over the meat of the tails or brush a marinade of lemon juice, olive oil, salt pepper, garlic powder and paprika over the meat and place shell side down into a pre-heated grill.
  8. If you wish, you may turn the tails over half way through cooking.
  9. Remove from the grill and serve hot with lemon, melted butter or mayonnaise.
Baked lobster tails
  5. Serve hot with lemon slices, melted butter or mayonnaise.

© Copyright 2001-2014 All Rights Reserved<|endoftext|>9 Temmuz 2012 Pazartesi

On which principles does islamic faith base?

 Islamic faith is based on five cardinal principles

1. To bear witness that there is no true deity save Allah and that Hadrat Muhammad (may the choicest blessings & peace of Allah be upon him) is His chosen servant and true Messenger.
2. To establish prayer five times a day.
3. To pay "Zakaat" (poor due).
4. To perform Hajj
5. To observe fasts during the holy month of Ramadaan.

Hiç yorum yok:

Yorum Gönder<|endoftext|>Randee Gannon, Vice President Marketing

Randee Gannon

Randee oversees our Marketing, Community Health & Wellness, Physician Relations and Occupational Health departments. Additionally, she is part of the team that identifies opportunities to grow market share through business development initiatives. Randee holds a BA in Journalism from Kansas State University, and was a healthcare marketing consultant before joining the hospital in 2014.<|endoftext|>The florist sells flowers, and the butcher weapons. What the butcher does is sell weapons.<|endoftext|>There's a few more things we need to discuss before you can start on this journey. Those are the... dreaded... prerequisites. Yeah, I don't like them either, but they're really important to get right so you can avoid disappointments during this project.

This is gonna take a while

First: Let's set some expectations first. This is not a weekend project (for most people) if you want to do it well. Writing a strong chess engine takes time; not only for writing it, but also researching, debugging, and testing. Be prepared: you're going to be at this for some time before you see the first results. That would be having your engine play a non-trivial game against another engine, and win it.

Not for complete beginners

Second: This is not a project for someone who is just starting out with computers, computer science, or programming. You certainly don't need a Ph.D. in computer science to understand the information in this book, but you will need to have strong intermediate knowledge of computers and programming. If there's one thing I would recommend to brush up on, it would be bitwise operations. If you are not already well versed in those, go study this topic first: thoroughly. If you have a strong background in low(er) level programming languages such as C, C++, Rust, or even classic Pascal, this book and the subject of chess programming will be easier for you. If you are coming from the web-development world, used to Javascript, Python or PHP, it will (probably) be harder, but certainly not impossible. (You can actually write chess engines in Javascript and Python, but those languages wouldn't be my personal choice.) If you just learned to write "Hello World", this probably will not be the project for you... yet. Of course, you're invited to come back later.

Mind your language

Third: If you are not experienced in several different programming languages of different styles and/or low level programming, then it would be best to pick a language you know well. This will spare you the burden of learning chess programming and a new programming language at the same time. Only pick a language you don't know because you want

ians, preserving works that would otherwise have been lost to us.
How he could have devoted so much time to such a systematic study of the Greek world, in spite of all the vicissitudes incident to the ensuing Mongol invasion, an extemely traumatic event for the Middle East, is almost beyond comprehension. The main claim of Bar Hebraeus to my admiration is not, in his original productions, but rather in his having preserved and systematized the work of his Greek predecessors, either by way of condensation of by way of direct reproduction. The obscurity that writers of his ilk have endured by a Greek nation obsessed with establishing or ‘proving’ western roots in its vain attempt to obtain legitimacy is decidedly underserved. Give me a prelate who writes jokes such as “Another fool...when his son was being circumcised said to him that was making the cutting, "Cut him little by little, for he hath never before been circumcised," compared to a stuffy Korais any day.
Bar Hebraeus’ remains lie today in Mar Mattai monastery in Northern Iraq, a most ancient place that has been virtually abandoned due to the dangerous conditions existing in that country for its native Christians. I should feel my debt to him as one of my personal heroes to be partially discharged, should I be able to discover a Greek rendering of his title, maphrian. Μαφριανός, to my taste, sounds decidedly cool.

First published in NKEE on Saturday, 5 February 2011<|endoftext|>How to cook lobster tails, including buying and defrosting.

Lobster Tails
If the prospect of acquiring and cooking a whole live lobster seems too daunting, buying frozen lobster tails may be the perfect alternative for a wonderful dinner, especially if you are looking to impress your guests.

Lobster tails are easier to obtain than whole lobsters, easier to prepare and easier on the pocket, and serving up a perfect platter of mouth-watering lobster tails will definitely provide you with a meal that your dinner guests are not likely to forget.

Feasting on lobster was formerly common amongst fishermen and sailors, yet nowadays it is considered a delicacy and a special treat for most.
Buying a whole lobster can be very expensive, and as most of the meat is found in the claws and in the tail, it may therefore be more economical to just buy a quantity of frozen lobster tails rather than the whole lobster itself.

Whereas a clawed lobster is preferable if you are eating a whole lobster; for lobster tails, the clawless species are much better, as their tails contain more meat in them.

Cold or warm water tails?

As you may expect, different types of lobster will taste and cook differently. With lobster tails, the difference is in whether the lobsters come from warm waters or cold waters.

Lobsters from cold waters are mainly found around South Africa, Australia and New Zealand, whilst warm water lobsters are found in the waters of Central and South America and Florida.

According to several expert seafood and shellfish chefs, one fifth of warm water lobster tails are poor quality, whereas lobster tail meat from cold water lobsters are very rarely "bad".

This is a fact that is reflected in the price of lobster tails. Cold water lobster tails will be significantly more expensive, however you will almost always be guaranteed an excellent tasting and good quality lobster meat.

On the other hand, purchasing warm water lobster tails will be cheaper, yet you may be disappointed with what you buy. If you particularly want to prepare a special meal to impress, it is probably safer to pay the extra for better and guaranteed quality.

When a warm water lobster tail is "bad", the lobster meat may either remain mushy after cooking, fall apart on eating or contain a pungent smell of ammonia.

Cold water lobster tails are said to taste cleaner, have a whiter appearance and be much more tender in texture.

Buying frozen lobster tails

When buying frozen lobster tails, you should always buy from a fish market that is well known for selling good quality produce.

If you are unsure of where the lobster tails on sale originate from, as there are no signs, make sure to ask the vendor if they are warm water or cold water tails. If he does not know, assume that they are warm water tails, especially if they are priced inexpensively. Good quality cold water tails will not be priced very cheaply.

Look out for any discolouring of the meat and avoid tails that have a grey colour or black spots in the flesh.

Lobster tails can usually be bought in different sizes ranging from around 3 oz to as large as 24 oz.

Defrost the lobster tails

The lobster tails may be cooked from frozen, however, the best results are obtained if the tails are defrosted first.

To defrost the lobster tails, place them in the refrigerator for a period of 8 - 10 hours or alternatively place them in a bowl of cold water. They can be defrosted in the microwave, but make sure that you do not start to cook them instead.

Once the tails have been completely defrosted, they will be ready to cook.

How to cook lobster tails

There are several methods of cooking lobster tails. They can be boiled, grilled, steamed or baked.

Boiled lobster tails
  1. Fill a large saucepan with water and add 1 teaspoon of salt for each litre of water.
  4. Drain the lobster tails and serve hot with melted butter, lemon juice or mayonnaise.
Steamed lobster tails
  2. Bring the water to the boil.
Grilled lobster tails
  6. Pour some melted butter and lemon juice over the meat of the tails or brush a marinade of lemon juice, olive oil, salt pepper, garlic powder and paprika over the meat and place shell side down into a pre-heated grill.
  8. If you wish, you may turn the tails over half way through cooking.
  9. Remove from the grill and serve hot with lemon, melted butter or mayonnaise.
Baked lobster tails
  5. Serve hot with lemon slices, melted butter or mayonnaise.

© Copyright 2001-2014 All Rights Reserved<|endoftext|>9 Temmuz 2012 Pazartesi

On which principles does islamic faith base?

 Islamic faith is based on five cardinal principles

1. To bear witness that there is no true deity save Allah and that Hadrat Muhammad (may the choicest blessings & peace of Allah be upon him) is His chosen servant and true Messenger.
2. To establish prayer five times a day.
3. To pay "Zakaat" (poor due).
4. To perform Hajj
5. To observe fasts during the holy month of Ramadaan.

Hiç yorum yok:

Yorum Gönder<|endoftext|>Randee Gannon, Vice President Marketing

Randee Gannon

Randee oversees our Marketing, Community Health & Wellness, Physician Relations and Occupational Health departments. Additionally, she is part of the team that identifies opportunities to grow market share through business development initiatives. Randee holds a BA in Journalism from Kansas State University, and was a healthcare marketing consultant before joining the hospital in 2014.<|endoftext|>There's a few more things we need to discuss before you can start on this journey. Those are the... dreaded... prerequisites. Yeah, I don't like them either, but they're really important to get right so you can avoid disappointments during this project.

This is gonna take a while

First: Let's set some expectations first. This is not a weekend project (for most people) if you want to do it well. Writing a strong chess engine takes time; not only for writing it, but also researching, debugging, and testing. Be prepared: you're going to be at this for some time before you see the first results. That would be having your engine play a non-trivial game against another engine, and win it.

Not for complete beginners

Second: This is not a project for someone who is just starting out with computers, computer science, or programming. You certainly don't need a Ph.D. in computer science to understand the information in this book, but you will need to have strong intermediate knowledge of computers and programming. If there's one thing I would recommend to brush up on, it would be bitwise operations. If you are not already well versed in those, go study this topic first: thoroughly. If you have a strong background in low(er) level programming languages such as C, C++, Rust, or even classic Pascal, this book and the subject of chess programming will be easier for you. If you are coming from the web-development world, used to Javascript, Python or PHP, it will (probably) be harder, but certainly not impossible. (You can actually write chess engines in Javascript and Python, but those languages wouldn't be my personal choice.) If you just learned to write "Hello World", this probably will not be the project for you... yet. Of course, you're invited to come back later.

Mind your language

Third: If you are not experienced in several different programming languages of different styles and/or low level programming, then it would be best to pick a language you know well. This will spare you the burden of learning chess programming and a new programming language at the same time. Only pick a language you don't know because you want to use


The cook will mix the paint, and the chemist will the substances. What the chemist will do is mix the substances.<|endoftext|>gae: High crop fertilizers get into rivers and lakes. Lakes get extra boost of phosphorus. Planktons Bloom a lot more. Plankton dies a lot more. More Rotting. Bacteria eating on rotting Plankton asphixiate lakes. Lake's oxygen level drops to near 0. Fish dies.

      Phosphorus depletes, leaving only Nitrates. Nitrates create cyano-bacteria (blue Algae).

      Same variant happening in coastal areas. Mass sea population deaths/ toxins in bacterium, therefore toxins in fish (going up the food chain).

      And that goes on and on and I can talk about that all day....And I didn't mention the 80% of what underlies those observations i just mentionned...

      2 messages:

      1. Learn Science.
      2. The more you know, the uglier it gets sometimes. but ya can't deny it. And Nowhere in any Documentary would the Experts actually present the details to people like they do in school classes.... unfortunately.<|endoftext|>How to open a file with .DISK extension?

You'll need a new app to open this .DISK file

Searching for the right program to open .DISK files?

What is .DISK file extension?

Disk image file that serves as a virtual hard disk for Linux operating systems, such as Ubuntu, Kubuntu, Xubuntu, Edubuntu, and UbuntuStudio; can be mounted and viewed by the operating system as an actual hard disk; can be used to run multiple variations of Linux without needing to repartition the hard drive. Virtual hard disk files may use the compound file extension ".virtual.disk."

Software that can be used to open DISKfiles:

  • Recognized by the Linux operating system<|endoftext|>Friday, June 09, 2017

That's how God shines within us

(The other) day in the ashram, I was telling you about our subtleties, the subtleties we have already within us which we do not understand. Could be from our sub-conscious mind, could be from our supra-conscious mind, could be from anywhere that is unknown to us; but the subtleties that lead us to our universal being is the one we should bother about...

The most important thing that God has to give us is His love, His connection with us, His kingdom, His powers. So the subtleties which we should really accept within us should be which takes you to the realm of joy, to the realm of collectivity.

Like suddenly you see a little child weeping on the street. You feel your heart is weeping, not that you feel guilty about it but you feel one with the child . Then definitely that subtlety of compassion that is God, is felt. But you don't feel guilty about it and you don't give him two p's or something to insult his ego. You do something very constructive about it, extremely constructive and you do it secretly; you don't like to tell anybody about it because you think it is vulgar to talk about your compassion. You do it so sweetly that the other fellow doesn't feel it. The whole act is such a beautifying thing. You don't announce it in the paper and you don't publish it in Who's Who or you do not go for a Nobel Prize or something. This is all very vulgar for the subtle thing that you worship within yourself, because that element within you is so much higher than all these gross considerations that you just care for that.

That is what God is. That's how God shines within us. Even before our realization, before our connection with God, He shines in some people even before they have been realized. You see that; they're quiet people. They're not show-offs. But they're very sincere, extremely kind-hearted. Such people when they face Sahaja Yoga, immediately they get their vibrations. They're not people who are worried about money, or they're worried about the gross things of life or achievements that are so stupid. Such people may exist as very ordinary people; they need not be at the helm of affairs, mostly they're not; because they're not ambitious. They do not want much success in life; they don't see any point in being very successful. They might be something very ordinary; they might be something, doing something very important also.

But in their lives, those who come in contact with them remember that, yes, there was a life or there is a life, definitely there's a spark. Because such a person being so subtle does not assert. Such a person cannot be very dominating, assertive, argumentative; such a person is quieter, his attention recedes from all quarrels and all squabbles of life. But such a person has a great position in the domain of God. That you've seen how in Sahaja Yoga suddenly you find people manifesting their divinity. Maybe such a person is too naïve for all practical purposes. He might have been cheated, might have been misled by some horrible people who try to exploit his seeking but still it remains. This element suddenly gets ignited in Sahaja Yoga and for such a person, this is the most important thing is to feel that being which always kept him away from all the rest of the ideologies and greetings and have always given him strength and confidence and joy. He sees that clearly in Sahaj Yog; he adheres to it and when he nourishes it, he's amazed that he has found himself. Then it becomes his life.

Sri Mataji Nirmala Devi June 9,1980 " The Subtlety Within " Public Program Caxton Hall London, U.K.

No comments:<|endoftext|>Misconception 1: Some people can not be successful because of the background, education, and others.

In fact, each person can achieve success. This is just how they want it, then do something to achieve.

Misconception 2: Those who succeed do not make mistakes.

In fact, the success that it is an error, as we all had to do. However, they do not mistake it for the second time.

Misconception 3: To be successful, we must work more than 60 hours (70,80,90 ...) a week.

The problem lies not in the length you work. But what you can do

something right.

Misconception 4: You can only be successful when playing with the rules.

In fact, who make the rules? Each situation requires a different way. Sometimes we must follow the rules, but the other you are making the rules.

Misconception 5: If you always ask for help, you do not succeed.

In fact, success rarely happens in the time vacuum cleaner. Thus, with respect and acknowledge the assistance of others can help you success. And, indeed there are many such people.

Misconception 6: Required a lot of luck to succeed.

In fact, only needed a little luck. However, it required a lot of hard work, ingenuity, knowledge, and implementation.

Misconception 7: Success is when you get a lot of money.

In fact, money is only one of many benefits provided by the success. Money is not guarantee you success.

Misconception 8: Success is when all people confess.

In fact, you may be able to reach more people and other people's recognition of what you do. However, even if you only know that yourself, you remain a success.

Misconception 9: Success is the goal.

In fact, more than just a success you can achieve your objectives and goals. Say that you want to success, then ask questions "What's up?"

Misconception 10: I am successful when my trouble ended.

In fact, you may be successful, but you are not God. You still have to go through the streets up and down as your natural-in the past. Just enjoy what you achieve and live each day as is.

(Adapted from "The Top 10 Misconceptions About Success", Jim M. Allen. www.CoachJim.com).

Dear visitor.
This blog is created solely as a means of teaching and learning among the laity who have been awake business both online and offline, mainly adsense. This blog is not created for the benefit of the right of the owner of this blog and those who are not responsible for the rise called himself sincere businessmen. Also, this blog is not intended to impose, disparaging or otherwise besmirch blogs have the same virtual world we love. However, once again emphasize that the owner of this blog is created for the sake of business and learning about Adsense is good and true, how to choose business and adsense is good and right and how to find and join the Business and adsense is good and true.
Owner aware, among the post-post later surely there is a lack of wish and need to be sharing. Therefore, the owner very grateful if you get the opportunity to share and discuss together via a comment on this blog or via YM, e-mail, letters and so forth.
Finally, the owner really hope this blog we can share experiences, share information about business and so forth and make this blog as a means to share information, especially business adsense all over the world and remove the bad impression (read: the paradigm bad) people of the world of the online business especially adsense.

Multi-level marketing is an alternative

gae: High crop fertilizers get into rivers and lakes. Lakes get extra boost of phosphorus. Planktons Bloom a lot more. Plankton dies a lot more. More Rotting. Bacteria eating on rotting Plankton asphixiate lakes. Lake's oxygen level drops to near 0. Fish dies.

      Phosphorus depletes, leaving only Nitrates. Nitrates create cyano-bacteria (blue Algae).

      Same variant happening in coastal areas. Mass sea population deaths/ toxins in bacterium, therefore toxins in fish (going up the food chain).

      And that goes on and on and I can talk about that all day....And I didn't mention the 80% of what underlies those observations i just mentionned...

      2 messages:

      1. Learn Science.
      2. The more you know, the uglier it gets sometimes. but ya can't deny it. And Nowhere in any Documentary would the Experts actually present the details to people like they do in school classes.... unfortunately.<|endoftext|>How to open a file with .DISK extension?

You'll need a new app to open this .DISK file

Searching for the right program to open .DISK files?

What is .DISK file extension?

Disk image file that serves as a virtual hard disk for Linux operating systems, such as Ubuntu, Kubuntu, Xubuntu, Edubuntu, and UbuntuStudio; can be mounted and viewed by the operating system as an actual hard disk; can be used to run multiple variations of Linux without needing to repartition the hard drive. Virtual hard disk files may use the compound file extension ".virtual.disk."

Software that can be used to open DISKfiles:

  • Recognized by the Linux operating system<|endoftext|>Friday, June 09, 2017

That's how God shines within us

(The other) day in the ashram, I was telling you about our subtleties, the subtleties we have already within us which we do not understand. Could be from our sub-conscious mind, could be from our supra-conscious mind, could be from anywhere that is unknown to us; but the subtleties that lead us to our universal being is the one we should bother about...

The most important thing that God has to give us is His love, His connection with us, His kingdom, His powers. So the subtleties which we should really accept within us should be which takes you to the realm of joy, to the realm of collectivity.

Like suddenly you see a little child weeping on the street. You feel your heart is weeping, not that you feel guilty about it but you feel one with the child . Then definitely that subtlety of compassion that is God, is felt. But you don't feel guilty about it and you don't give him two p's or something to insult his ego. You do something very constructive about it, extremely constructive and you do it secretly; you don't like to tell anybody about it because you think it is vulgar to talk about your compassion. You do it so sweetly that the other fellow doesn't feel it. The whole act is such a beautifying thing. You don't announce it in the paper and you don't publish it in Who's Who or you do not go for a Nobel Prize or something. This is all very vulgar for the subtle thing that you worship within yourself, because that element within you is so much higher than all these gross considerations that you just care for that.

That is what God is. That's how God shines within us. Even before our realization, before our connection with God, He shines in some people even before they have been realized. You see that; they're quiet people. They're not show-offs. But they're very sincere, extremely kind-hearted. Such people when they face Sahaja Yoga, immediately they get their vibrations. They're not people who are worried about money, or they're worried about the gross things of life or achievements that are so stupid. Such people may exist as very ordinary people; they need not be at the helm of affairs, mostly they're not; because they're not ambitious. They do not want much success in life; they don't see any point in being very successful. They might be something very ordinary; they might be something, doing something very important also.

But in their lives, those who come in contact with them remember that, yes, there was a life or there is a life, definitely there's a spark. Because such a person being so subtle does not assert. Such a person cannot be very dominating, assertive, argumentative; such a person is quieter, his attention recedes from all quarrels and all squabbles of life. But such a person has a great position in the domain of God. That you've seen how in Sahaja Yoga suddenly you find people manifesting their divinity. Maybe such a person is too naïve for all practical purposes. He might have been cheated, might have been misled by some horrible people who try to exploit his seeking but still it remains. This element suddenly gets ignited in Sahaja Yoga and for such a person, this is the most important thing is to feel that being which always kept him away from all the rest of the ideologies and greetings and have always given him strength and confidence and joy. He sees that clearly in Sahaj Yog; he adheres to it and when he nourishes it, he's amazed that he has found himself. Then it becomes his life.

Sri Mataji Nirmala Devi June 9,1980 " The Subtlety Within " Public Program Caxton Hall London, U.K.

No comments:<|endoftext|>Misconception 1: Some people can not be successful because of the background, education, and others.

In fact, each person can achieve success. This is just how they want it, then do something to achieve.

Misconception 2: Those who succeed do not make mistakes.

In fact, the success that it is an error, as we all had to do. However, they do not mistake it for the second time.

Misconception 3: To be successful, we must work more than 60 hours (70,80,90 ...) a week.

The problem lies not in the length you work. But what you can do

something right.

Misconception 4: You can only be successful when playing with the rules.

In fact, who make the rules? Each situation requires a different way. Sometimes we must follow the rules, but the other you are making the rules.

Misconception 5: If you always ask for help, you do not succeed.

In fact, success rarely happens in the time vacuum cleaner. Thus, with respect and acknowledge the assistance of others can help you success. And, indeed there are many such people.

Misconception 6: Required a lot of luck to succeed.

In fact, only needed a little luck. However, it required a lot of hard work, ingenuity, knowledge, and implementation.

Misconception 7: Success is when you get a lot of money.

In fact, money is only one of many benefits provided by the success. Money is not guarantee you success.

Misconception 8: Success is when all people confess.

In fact, you may be able to reach more people and other people's recognition of what you do. However, even if you only know that yourself, you remain a success.

Misconception 9: Success is the goal.

In fact, more than just a success you can achieve your objectives and goals. Say that you want to success, then ask questions "What's up?"

Misconception 10: I am successful when my trouble ended.

In fact, you may be successful, but you are not God. You still have to go through the streets up and down as your natural-in the past. Just enjoy what you achieve and live each day as is.

(Adapted from "The Top 10 Misconceptions About Success", Jim M. Allen. www.CoachJim.com).

Dear visitor.
This blog is created solely as a means of teaching and learning among the laity who have been awake business both online and offline, mainly adsense. This blog is not created for the benefit of the right of the owner of this blog and those who are not responsible for the rise called himself sincere businessmen. Also, this blog is not intended to impose, disparaging or otherwise besmirch blogs have the same virtual world we love. However, once again emphasize that the owner of this blog is created for the sake of business and learning about Adsense is good and true, how to choose business and adsense is good and right and how to find and join the Business and adsense is good and true.
Owner aware, among the post-post later surely there is a lack of wish and need to be sharing. Therefore, the owner very grateful if you get the opportunity to share and discuss together via a comment on this blog or via YM, e-mail, letters and so forth.
Finally, the owner really hope this blog we can share experiences, share information about business and so forth and make this blog as a means to share information, especially business adsense all over the world and remove the bad impression (read: the paradigm bad) people of the world of the online business especially adsense.

Multi-level marketing is an alternative route for companies to distribute products and services to market (the other distribution channels including supermarkets, retail shops, door to door sales and


The student cut his hair before the graduation, the groom will before the bike. What the groom does before the bike is cut his hair.<|endoftext|> “For while the relation of the present to the past is a purely temporal, continuous one, the relation of what-has-been to the now is dialectical: is not progression but image, suddenly emergent…not temporal in nature but figural” (Arcades Project, 462-3).

To the historical materialist, the dialectical image can be blasted out of the continuum of history because, as a singular historical object, “its monadological structure demands it. This structure first comes to light in the extracted object itself…in the form of the historical confrontation that makes up the interior (and, as it were, the bowels) of the historical object, and into which all the forces and interests of history enter on a reduced scale” (475). The object of comprehension for the historical materialist is an irreducibly singular monad, in which can be seen in a microcosm ‘all the forces and interests’ of the historical continuum from which it was blasted. If the event is considered in its larger historical significance, as a representation of its culture in its time period, then the elucidation of the event will sharpen the ‘larger’ understanding of this culture and this time period, just as the larger historical context will illuminate the significance of the singular event. This monad “finds represented in its interior its own fore-history and after-history”, that is, it receives its structure as a singularity from the way it exhibits within itself the tension between its own past and its own future within its own historical continuum. From the illumination it receives from the historical context on either side of it, it glows with the intensity of an absolutely singular, shattering event. It is a historically situated object that is illuminated by, and reciprocally illuminates, its context, in such a way that it is wholly itself, wholly other to its context. As an event it stands on its own, irreducible to anything that came before or after. Yet it itself is the point at which its past and future meet, it itself is the juncture that holds its past and future on either side of it, together in a single narrative yet separate in indecision, open to interpretation.

We take for granted today that we have the cognitive ability to look at a person, a place, an object, an event, in the past, and to say ‘Wow, what an irreducibly beautiful, fascinating thing we have before our eyes- and what an example of its time!’, as if the thing stood there for us in its time, and yet also looked out at us from its time, out of its time. As if history were a scrolling slideshow of images, and we could click on any image to watch a film, and freeze that film at any moment to find another image, which is once again on a slideshow of images (metonymy and metaphor///space and time); and as if the surface of the screen of history lay before but also behind our vision, as if, in the present, we were between ourselves and the screen of the past, as if, engaged in a perpetual uploading of the present with the past, we were between the screen and itself, as if in the present the mouse were our hands and the screen were our eyes, and “the free act of the question, which frees itself from the totality of what precedes it in order to be able to gain access to this totality, particularly to its historicity and its past”, were so to speak refreshing to us (Writing and Difference, 167).

This cybernetic ability we have today is part of the legacy of historical materialism, particularly the way that Marx’s scientific insights have been uploaded into the knowledge of the Western world. But the downloading of Marx’s most bitter insight is another matter. We take our cybernetic ability for granted, that is, we take it for granted. We assume it as already given, we do not question it, and so we are thrown into it; thus taking it as already given, we seize our gift out of the hands that have given it to us without recognizing it as gift. The free act of the question frees itself from the totality of what precedes it; and even then, it is not thereby immediately in contact with the presence of the historicity and the past of this totality, but gains only the presence of the ability to access the historicity and the past of that totality. The question which has brought itself to the presence of this possibility, Derrida continues, “cannot expect an answer. It is the question of the possibility of the question, opening itself, the gap on whose basis the transcendental I, which Husserl was tempted to call ‘eternal’ (which in his thought, in any event, means neither infinite nor ahistorical, quite the contrary) is called upon to ask itself about everything, and particularly about the possibility of the unformed and naked factuality of the nonmeaning, in the case at hand, for example, of its own death” (Writing and Difference, 168).

In receiving and applying Benjamin’s writings on the historical materialist method, the danger that ‘affects both the content of the tradition and its receivers’ is that we who receive this inheritance will use it to distill dialectical images from the objects of history that do not transmit the explosive spark, the ‘destructive or critical momentum’ that constitutes an authentic monad. The danger is that we will be good Hegelians but bad Marxists, we will not recognize that the force of critique comes not from the synthesis of Spirit in Absolute Knowing but before that from the struggle of the oppressed whose labor is concretely and abstractly the possibility of the question. Let us turn again to Benjamin’s words, at which we may have looked too quickly. “If the object of history is to be blasted out of the continuum of historical succession, that is because its monadological structure demands it. This structure first comes to light in the extracted object itself. And it does so in the form of the historical confrontation that makes up the interior (and, as it were, the bowels) of the historical object, and into which all the forces and interests of history enter on a reduced scale. It is owing to this monadological structure that the historical object finds represented in its interior its own fore-history and after-history” (Arcades Project, 475).

The monadological structure ‘comes to light’ in the object of history after that object has been extracted from historical succession. However, the object may be extracted from its place in the timeline only if the historical materialist has already heard the call, from within the object, of that object’s monadological structure. The monad ‘neither reveals nor conceals, but gives a sign’, a demand that bypasses the order of sight, and yet a demand that is structural. The monad calls from within the bowels of the object, the historical materialist responds by blasting the object out of historical succession, and only then does the monadological structure of the object reveal itself to vision in the object. What comes to light in the extracted object, the dialectical image of its monadological structure, shows itself in the form of a historical confrontation that fills and fulfills the belly, the bowels, the flesh and blood and bones of the object. This is the world-historical confrontation between the bourgeoisie and the proletariat. It is the stillness in the center of the moment, the moment of what-has-been and the moment that is now. The moment gathers, however, not in an open clearing of peace and light, nor in the closed darkness of nothing, but in a commandment at once joyous and sorrowful. In the inbreath, shared between the historical materialist of the present and the historical matter of the past, there gather the forces and interests of the suffering and redemption of time itself towards the still point of remembrance. This place is not present, but remains. It is not the struggle between Master and Slave, but the struggle of the oppressed.

Only in the outbreath can we say that “it is owing to this monadological structure that the historical object finds represented in its interior its own fore-history and after-history” (475, my italics). In my former interpretation of this passage, I thought that the ‘historical confrontation that makes up the interior (and, as it were, the bowels) of the historical object, and into which all the forces and interests of history enter on a reduced scale’, was the monadological structure of the historical object itself. I interpreted the word ‘confrontation’ to refer to the jointure, the presencing of the present between past and future which “the historical object finds represented in its interior [as] its own fore-history and after-history”. In this way I was able to conceive that each past had a past, and I was able to perceive the fractal sedimentation of interpretation between every present and its past. I then saw my own ‘confrontation’ between my present and the past of the historical object, in the light of that general monadography by which the repetition of interpretive remembrance comes to representation.

But when I realized the true meaning of the word ‘confrontation’, that it referred in that sentence not to a spatial relation of the temporal continuum to itself but primarily to the confrontation of the oppressor against the oppressed, I realized further that the ‘monadological structure’ is not the historical object itself in the primordial illumination of its historicity, but is that by which the historical object finds already represented in its own interior its own destiny. Though it demands that the historical object ‘is to be blasted out

 “For while the relation of the present to the past is a purely temporal, continuous one, the relation of what-has-been to the now is dialectical: is not progression but image, suddenly emergent…not temporal in nature but figural” (Arcades Project, 462-3).

To the historical materialist, the dialectical image can be blasted out of the continuum of history because, as a singular historical object, “its monadological structure demands it. This structure first comes to light in the extracted object itself…in the form of the historical confrontation that makes up the interior (and, as it were, the bowels) of the historical object, and into which all the forces and interests of history enter on a reduced scale” (475). The object of comprehension for the historical materialist is an irreducibly singular monad, in which can be seen in a microcosm ‘all the forces and interests’ of the historical continuum from which it was blasted. If the event is considered in its larger historical significance, as a representation of its culture in its time period, then the elucidation of the event will sharpen the ‘larger’ understanding of this culture and this time period, just as the larger historical context will illuminate the significance of the singular event. This monad “finds represented in its interior its own fore-history and after-history”, that is, it receives its structure as a singularity from the way it exhibits within itself the tension between its own past and its own future within its own historical continuum. From the illumination it receives from the historical context on either side of it, it glows with the intensity of an absolutely singular, shattering event. It is a historically situated object that is illuminated by, and reciprocally illuminates, its context, in such a way that it is wholly itself, wholly other to its context. As an event it stands on its own, irreducible to anything that came before or after. Yet it itself is the point at which its past and future meet, it itself is the juncture that holds its past and future on either side of it, together in a single narrative yet separate in indecision, open to interpretation.

We take for granted today that we have the cognitive ability to look at a person, a place, an object, an event, in the past, and to say ‘Wow, what an irreducibly beautiful, fascinating thing we have before our eyes- and what an example of its time!’, as if the thing stood there for us in its time, and yet also looked out at us from its time, out of its time. As if history were a scrolling slideshow of images, and we could click on any image to watch a film, and freeze that film at any moment to find another image, which is once again on a slideshow of images (metonymy and metaphor///space and time); and as if the surface of the screen of history lay before but also behind our vision, as if, in the present, we were between ourselves and the screen of the past, as if, engaged in a perpetual uploading of the present with the past, we were between the screen and itself, as if in the present the mouse were our hands and the screen were our eyes, and “the free act of the question, which frees itself from the totality of what precedes it in order to be able to gain access to this totality, particularly to its historicity and its past”, were so to speak refreshing to us (Writing and Difference, 167).

This cybernetic ability we have today is part of the legacy of historical materialism, particularly the way that Marx’s scientific insights have been uploaded into the knowledge of the Western world. But the downloading of Marx’s most bitter insight is another matter. We take our cybernetic ability for granted, that is, we take it for granted. We assume it as already given, we do not question it, and so we are thrown into it; thus taking it as already given, we seize our gift out of the hands that have given it to us without recognizing it as gift. The free act of the question frees itself from the totality of what precedes it; and even then, it is not thereby immediately in contact with the presence of the historicity and the past of this totality, but gains only the presence of the ability to access the historicity and the past of that totality. The question which has brought itself to the presence of this possibility, Derrida continues, “cannot expect an answer. It is the question of the possibility of the question, opening itself, the gap on whose basis the transcendental I, which Husserl was tempted to call ‘eternal’ (which in his thought, in any event, means neither infinite nor ahistorical, quite the contrary) is called upon to ask itself about everything, and particularly about the possibility of the unformed and naked factuality of the nonmeaning, in the case at hand, for example, of its own death” (Writing and Difference, 168).

In receiving and applying Benjamin’s writings on the historical materialist method, the danger that ‘affects both the content of the tradition and its receivers’ is that we who receive this inheritance will use it to distill dialectical images from the objects of history that do not transmit the explosive spark, the ‘destructive or critical momentum’ that constitutes an authentic monad. The danger is that we will be good Hegelians but bad Marxists, we will not recognize that the force of critique comes not from the synthesis of Spirit in Absolute Knowing but before that from the struggle of the oppressed whose labor is concretely and abstractly the possibility of the question. Let us turn again to Benjamin’s words, at which we may have looked too quickly. “If the object of history is to be blasted out of the continuum of historical succession, that is because its monadological structure demands it. This structure first comes to light in the extracted object itself. And it does so in the form of the historical confrontation that makes up the interior (and, as it were, the bowels) of the historical object, and into which all the forces and interests of history enter on a reduced scale. It is owing to this monadological structure that the historical object finds represented in its interior its own fore-history and after-history” (Arcades Project, 475).

The monadological structure ‘comes to light’ in the object of history after that object has been extracted from historical succession. However, the object may be extracted from its place in the timeline only if the historical materialist has already heard the call, from within the object, of that object’s monadological structure. The monad ‘neither reveals nor conceals, but gives a sign’, a demand that bypasses the order of sight, and yet a demand that is structural. The monad calls from within the bowels of the object, the historical materialist responds by blasting the object out of historical succession, and only then does the monadological structure of the object reveal itself to vision in the object. What comes to light in the extracted object, the dialectical image of its monadological structure, shows itself in the form of a historical confrontation that fills and fulfills the belly, the bowels, the flesh and blood and bones of the object. This is the world-historical confrontation between the bourgeoisie and the proletariat. It is the stillness in the center of the moment, the moment of what-has-been and the moment that is now. The moment gathers, however, not in an open clearing of peace and light, nor in the closed darkness of nothing, but in a commandment at once joyous and sorrowful. In the inbreath, shared between the historical materialist of the present and the historical matter of the past, there gather the forces and interests of the suffering and redemption of time itself towards the still point of remembrance. This place is not present, but remains. It is not the struggle between Master and Slave, but the struggle of the oppressed.

Only in the outbreath can we say that “it is owing to this monadological structure that the historical object finds represented in its interior its own fore-history and after-history” (475, my italics). In my former interpretation of this passage, I thought that the ‘historical confrontation that makes up the interior (and, as it were, the bowels) of the historical object, and into which all the forces and interests of history enter on a reduced scale’, was the monadological structure of the historical object itself. I interpreted the word ‘confrontation’ to refer to the jointure, the presencing of the present between past and future which “the historical object finds represented in its interior [as] its own fore-history and after-history”. In this way I was able to conceive that each past had a past, and I was able to perceive the fractal sedimentation of interpretation between every present and its past. I then saw my own ‘confrontation’ between my present and the past of the historical object, in the light of that general monadography by which the repetition of interpretive remembrance comes to representation.

But when I realized the true meaning of the word ‘confrontation’, that it referred in that sentence not to a spatial relation of the temporal continuum to itself but primarily to the confrontation of the oppressor against the oppressed, I realized further that the ‘monadological structure’ is not the historical object itself in the primordial illumination of its historicity, but is that by which the historical object finds already represented in its own interior its own destiny. Though it demands that the historical object ‘is to be blasted out of the continuum’, the monadological structure does not show itself in itself, rather it comes to light in the extracted object itself, as the


The housewife cleaned the table in the armory, but the waiter didn't in the classroom. What the waiter did not in the classroom is clean the table.<|endoftext|> feed to cat food left in a bowl on a back porch. Incidents like the one in Dupras' backyard happen all the time in the back woods and rural areas, but it's not all that common in more populated areas, they said.

It's naive to think that coyotes can keep urban/suburban numbers down, said Steve Joule, chief wildlife biologist for the DEC's Region 7. Deer are a food source, but attacking a healthy one carries the risk of being injured. Coyotes often turn toward easier, less dangerous meals.

Joule's read on the Manlius incident was that the coyotes "did that deer a favor."

"To get that close to house, it must been too easy to ignore. That animal couldn't have gone very far, very fast. It could have been injured after being hit by a car, or weak (from the winter) or old or sick," he said. "You will find lots of deer that fit into this category at this time of year (after such a harsh winter)."

Brian Underwood, agreed, adding, "I'm sure not everyone expects to have a Mutual of Omaha moment in their backyard, but from an ecological standpoint it's to be expected."

So the coyotes are among us - now what?

Coyotes are a protected animal and the DEC has set hunting and trapping seasons for them. A homeowner seeing a coyote in their yard in a urban or suburban area is not enough to justify any kind of action by an individual, or by local police or the DEC. By nature, their leery of humans and are just passing through.

There have been no reports of coyotes, which avearge 35 to 45 pounds as adults, attacking humans in CNY. However, such incidents have occurred elsewhere and will occur as the animals get comfortable being near people and put themselves in situations they would normally avoid, expert say.

Joule's advice is to make sure there is no food source available for coyotes, including bird feeders and brush piles that attract small mammals. Keep your cats and small dogs inside. Whenever the coyote is spotted, keep a safe distance, but bang pots and pans or make a lot of noise in some way to scare the animal off. Read more on the DEC website.

This coyote was spotted in late February traveling back and forth between Burns Avenue and Boston Street in the Eastwood neighborhood of Syracuse.
If a coyote remains in the area for days, despite such treatment, and causes "property damage" (such as setting up den under one's porch or underneath their woodpile, or starts taking out neighborhood pets), then the municipality or property owner should probably hire a licensed wildlife trapper or nuisance animal expert, Joule said. In extreme cases, a local law enforcement officer of DEC officer could be called in to put the animal down.

The nuisance wildlife expert has two options, LaFrance said, and they both involve killing the animal. The animal can be trapped and put down, or taken out with a firearm from a tree stand after using bait or distress calls to bring it close. Trapping and relocating the animal is illegal, he said, because it could be diseased.

In late February, there were two calls to 911 from a resident in the Eastwood area about a coyote running through the yards between Boston Street and Burns Avenue - one the calls mentioning a dog had been attacked. Informed sources said a law enforcement official shot the animal with a firearm, and that the remains of a neighborhood cat were found nearby.

As for the Manlius incident, Dupras said he had trouble sleeping that night and remembers looking out on his serene, moon-lit, backyard at about 4 a.m. He didn't hear a sound from his backyard after he went to bed, noting he has a "white noise" machine in his bedroom to help him sleep.

Dupras said he didn't call the DEC - and doesn't plan to. He doesn't see the coyotes as a threat to his family. He grew up in the Adirondacks and knows that nature "isn't always pretty."

"What happened is part and parcel to seeing deer wandering Bambi-like in my backyard. As nice as that is, it means that sometimes we're going to find a carcass. The two go together. It's not Disney," he said.<|endoftext|>Large PrintHandheldAudioRating
Twisting The Hellmouth Crossing Over Awards - Results
Is your email address still valid?

Family Duty

StoryReviewsStatisticsRelated StoriesTracking

Summary: High school graduation is here and Buffy calls someone to protect Joyce and Dawn. Their reaction is not what she expects, then again they aren't what she expects.

Categories Author Rating Chapters Words Recs Reviews Hits Published Updated Complete
Marvel Universe > X-Men > Buffy-CenteredtexaswookieFR18410,73135514,5781 Sep 125 Dec 12No

Chapter Two

And still I own nothing of the BTVS or Marvel verse.

Dr. Henry Hank McCoy was startled as he heard the phone start ringing. The bouncing blue ball of fur known by many as the Beast a founding member of the freedom fighting force the X-Men rolled his eyes as he saw that there was no one else around to answer the phone. How that was possible he didn’t know. You’d think that at a giant school there would be somebody capable of answering one phone. He was rather in a hurry as he had more important things to do. He planned on arriving in Los Angeles sometime tonight or early tomorrow morning and he really wanted to get out of Mansion before some new catastrophe or other decided to rear its ugly head and he was forced to once again come up with new pathetic lame excuse for what he was doing. He understood that his daughters both believed that he was actually taking flights to far off places with a trophy sectary. Not something that some of his comrades in arms would be overly happy to be compared to if they ever learned about it. They would even be more upset if they found out about the altered voice recordings he used to encourage this thought though. If he were to ever try something like that he would be wishing for a healing factor like Logan’s. If only the multiple nefarious villains that they faced off against could understand that they were obstructing the precarious, limited, and precious father daughter time he had with his beloved progeny.

When one looked at Henry ‘Hank’ McCoy they would notice that he had large hands and feet. These were one of the most noticeable features that Hank had. Had he been born with a physical difference such as a stunted arm or a disfigured face life would be easier, in some ways he would have been better off if he had that or even covered himself in tattoos. Instead he was a lumbering figure with shoulders broader than most defensive linemen. The most noticeable feature that had though wasn’t his size or larger than average hands and feet. No, that honor belonged to the fact that he had blue fur and looked more ape like than human. He had long muscular arms that reached past his knees, and his oversized hands and feet ended in claws that could grasp things. His toes could actually double as finger as their dexterity was near even with his hands.

Hank was what one called a Homo Superior or more commonly referred to by the world at large as mutants. They were people born with the special genetic potential to have gifts, special abilities, or powers. These abilities had a near infinite range at the moment of evolution as nature tried to determine which was truly the best path to follow. Some mutants the gift to mimic someone’s physical movements while others could actually manipulate the very forces of nature. Despite the fact that he had the physical power that very few normal men could match Hank had always considered his greatest strength to be his supreme intellect. He very modestly knew that he was one of the leading minds when it came to the study of genetics and mutations. It was a shame that there were so few people that were willing to understand and accept people with mutations. Making what should be considered one of nature’s newest blessings into one of its worse curses. He himself had been a victim of someone wanting to destroy mutation. Instead of reversing the effects though it had made his abilities all the more pronounced giving him his more simian like form.

When he and Joyce had married he had looked human, just having oversized hands and feet. Thanks to certain things happening in his past though he wasn’t exactly the same person as he once was. The transformation had been too much for Joyce to handle, and while his daughter was having some sort of mental break down he had found himself faced with a divorce and lost custody of his children before he could blink. Fortunately when he had married he had insisted that Joyce keep her last name for protection from mutant haters and any enemies he had as an X-Man that might try and use her. He wasn’t going to chance his children like that.

He smiled flashing his teeth as he thought of his children. Buffy was his oldest and in some ways much like him in the fact that she often hid her anxiety behind bad jokes and often portrayed someone far less intelligent than she was. He knew that she was far more skilled and knowledgeable than she often let on. Then there was Dawn, the girl obviously had inherited his intelligence from him. She already spoke several languages and her grades were impressive. He merely wished that he could see them more. When Buffy

 feed to cat food left in a bowl on a back porch. Incidents like the one in Dupras' backyard happen all the time in the back woods and rural areas, but it's not all that common in more populated areas, they said.

It's naive to think that coyotes can keep urban/suburban numbers down, said Steve Joule, chief wildlife biologist for the DEC's Region 7. Deer are a food source, but attacking a healthy one carries the risk of being injured. Coyotes often turn toward easier, less dangerous meals.

Joule's read on the Manlius incident was that the coyotes "did that deer a favor."

"To get that close to house, it must been too easy to ignore. That animal couldn't have gone very far, very fast. It could have been injured after being hit by a car, or weak (from the winter) or old or sick," he said. "You will find lots of deer that fit into this category at this time of year (after such a harsh winter)."

Brian Underwood, agreed, adding, "I'm sure not everyone expects to have a Mutual of Omaha moment in their backyard, but from an ecological standpoint it's to be expected."

So the coyotes are among us - now what?

Coyotes are a protected animal and the DEC has set hunting and trapping seasons for them. A homeowner seeing a coyote in their yard in a urban or suburban area is not enough to justify any kind of action by an individual, or by local police or the DEC. By nature, their leery of humans and are just passing through.

There have been no reports of coyotes, which avearge 35 to 45 pounds as adults, attacking humans in CNY. However, such incidents have occurred elsewhere and will occur as the animals get comfortable being near people and put themselves in situations they would normally avoid, expert say.

Joule's advice is to make sure there is no food source available for coyotes, including bird feeders and brush piles that attract small mammals. Keep your cats and small dogs inside. Whenever the coyote is spotted, keep a safe distance, but bang pots and pans or make a lot of noise in some way to scare the animal off. Read more on the DEC website.

This coyote was spotted in late February traveling back and forth between Burns Avenue and Boston Street in the Eastwood neighborhood of Syracuse.
If a coyote remains in the area for days, despite such treatment, and causes "property damage" (such as setting up den under one's porch or underneath their woodpile, or starts taking out neighborhood pets), then the municipality or property owner should probably hire a licensed wildlife trapper or nuisance animal expert, Joule said. In extreme cases, a local law enforcement officer of DEC officer could be called in to put the animal down.

The nuisance wildlife expert has two options, LaFrance said, and they both involve killing the animal. The animal can be trapped and put down, or taken out with a firearm from a tree stand after using bait or distress calls to bring it close. Trapping and relocating the animal is illegal, he said, because it could be diseased.

In late February, there were two calls to 911 from a resident in the Eastwood area about a coyote running through the yards between Boston Street and Burns Avenue - one the calls mentioning a dog had been attacked. Informed sources said a law enforcement official shot the animal with a firearm, and that the remains of a neighborhood cat were found nearby.

As for the Manlius incident, Dupras said he had trouble sleeping that night and remembers looking out on his serene, moon-lit, backyard at about 4 a.m. He didn't hear a sound from his backyard after he went to bed, noting he has a "white noise" machine in his bedroom to help him sleep.

Dupras said he didn't call the DEC - and doesn't plan to. He doesn't see the coyotes as a threat to his family. He grew up in the Adirondacks and knows that nature "isn't always pretty."

"What happened is part and parcel to seeing deer wandering Bambi-like in my backyard. As nice as that is, it means that sometimes we're going to find a carcass. The two go together. It's not Disney," he said.<|endoftext|>Large PrintHandheldAudioRating
Twisting The Hellmouth Crossing Over Awards - Results
Is your email address still valid?

Family Duty

StoryReviewsStatisticsRelated StoriesTracking

Summary: High school graduation is here and Buffy calls someone to protect Joyce and Dawn. Their reaction is not what she expects, then again they aren't what she expects.

Categories Author Rating Chapters Words Recs Reviews Hits Published Updated Complete
Marvel Universe > X-Men > Buffy-CenteredtexaswookieFR18410,73135514,5781 Sep 125 Dec 12No

Chapter Two

And still I own nothing of the BTVS or Marvel verse.

Dr. Henry Hank McCoy was startled as he heard the phone start ringing. The bouncing blue ball of fur known by many as the Beast a founding member of the freedom fighting force the X-Men rolled his eyes as he saw that there was no one else around to answer the phone. How that was possible he didn’t know. You’d think that at a giant school there would be somebody capable of answering one phone. He was rather in a hurry as he had more important things to do. He planned on arriving in Los Angeles sometime tonight or early tomorrow morning and he really wanted to get out of Mansion before some new catastrophe or other decided to rear its ugly head and he was forced to once again come up with new pathetic lame excuse for what he was doing. He understood that his daughters both believed that he was actually taking flights to far off places with a trophy sectary. Not something that some of his comrades in arms would be overly happy to be compared to if they ever learned about it. They would even be more upset if they found out about the altered voice recordings he used to encourage this thought though. If he were to ever try something like that he would be wishing for a healing factor like Logan’s. If only the multiple nefarious villains that they faced off against could understand that they were obstructing the precarious, limited, and precious father daughter time he had with his beloved progeny.

When one looked at Henry ‘Hank’ McCoy they would notice that he had large hands and feet. These were one of the most noticeable features that Hank had. Had he been born with a physical difference such as a stunted arm or a disfigured face life would be easier, in some ways he would have been better off if he had that or even covered himself in tattoos. Instead he was a lumbering figure with shoulders broader than most defensive linemen. The most noticeable feature that had though wasn’t his size or larger than average hands and feet. No, that honor belonged to the fact that he had blue fur and looked more ape like than human. He had long muscular arms that reached past his knees, and his oversized hands and feet ended in claws that could grasp things. His toes could actually double as finger as their dexterity was near even with his hands.

Hank was what one called a Homo Superior or more commonly referred to by the world at large as mutants. They were people born with the special genetic potential to have gifts, special abilities, or powers. These abilities had a near infinite range at the moment of evolution as nature tried to determine which was truly the best path to follow. Some mutants the gift to mimic someone’s physical movements while others could actually manipulate the very forces of nature. Despite the fact that he had the physical power that very few normal men could match Hank had always considered his greatest strength to be his supreme intellect. He very modestly knew that he was one of the leading minds when it came to the study of genetics and mutations. It was a shame that there were so few people that were willing to understand and accept people with mutations. Making what should be considered one of nature’s newest blessings into one of its worse curses. He himself had been a victim of someone wanting to destroy mutation. Instead of reversing the effects though it had made his abilities all the more pronounced giving him his more simian like form.

When he and Joyce had married he had looked human, just having oversized hands and feet. Thanks to certain things happening in his past though he wasn’t exactly the same person as he once was. The transformation had been too much for Joyce to handle, and while his daughter was having some sort of mental break down he had found himself faced with a divorce and lost custody of his children before he could blink. Fortunately when he had married he had insisted that Joyce keep her last name for protection from mutant haters and any enemies he had as an X-Man that might try and use her. He wasn’t going to chance his children like that.

He smiled flashing his teeth as he thought of his children. Buffy was his oldest and in some ways much like him in the fact that she often hid her anxiety behind bad jokes and often portrayed someone far less intelligent than she was. He knew that she was far more skilled and knowledgeable than she often let on. Then there was Dawn, the girl obviously had inherited his intelligence from him. She already spoke several languages and her grades were impressive. He merely wished that he could see them more. When Buffy had first been admitted, he had run all sorts of tests on her and had been on the verge of calling in his mentor professor Xavier. He had thought it possible that