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www.sunriseandrooftops.comSunriseandrooftops.comhttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-5261392446775961990.post-47700962551691778092017-09-09T14:47:07.379+01:002017-09-09T14:47:07.379+01:00Glad you enjoyed reading.Glad you enjoyed reading.Molara Brownhttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-5261392446775961990.post-58752974306376991812017-06-29T18:30:22.895+01:002017-06-29T18:30:22.895+01:00Loved your insights about our very own choices we ...Loved your insights about our very own choices we make and the pride we should carry not depending on what society says is a good choice. I appreciate your open mind and I hope this will be an eye-opener for everyone to stop putting other people into boxes they think they should belong. Thanks for sharing it, enjoyed reading it a lot!Kristinahttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-5261392446775961990.post-66492289451398172952017-05-14T05:03:19.184+01:002017-05-14T05:03:19.184+01:00ell said Lara.Holidays have become some sort of br...ell said Lara.Holidays have become some sort of bragging right- only as long as that holiday entails an immigration stamp. I guess it's always been like that.These days anywhere that's clocking more than a 4hour trip feels like a chore to me - irrespective of how serene/blissful the destination is. So me,i cannot be arsed and I'm happy with weekend spa breaks at the local retreat centers down the road. I know - I'm getting old and lazy. lolT.Noteshttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-5261392446775961990.post-66549247549381822912017-05-10T22:33:06.835+01:002017-05-10T22:33:06.835+01:00Thank you for reading ma.Thank you for reading ma.Molara Brownhttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-5261392446775961990.post-77280594891400914102017-04-28T18:30:56.174+01:002017-04-28T18:30:56.174+01:00I love this post! You captured it all! I am not a ...I love this post! You captured it all!
I am not a traveller!
I admire you and others who are bold enough to go on several journeys around the world!
No be beans!
A comedian once said, traveling is knowledge and is the solution to ignorance. Because travellers learn a lot about other cultures, laws and different way of living that will make them objective and open-minded.
Well done! firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-5261392446775961990.post-9366207824423192462017-04-28T14:58:03.172+01:002017-04-28T14:58:03.172+01:00Nice piece. Very well said. "To each his own&...Nice piece. Very well said. "To each his own"Highly Favoredhttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-5261392446775961990.post-14528025288538157912017-04-25T10:05:21.690+01:002017-04-25T10:05:21.690+01:00I agree travelling is not for everyone, for me I w...I agree travelling is not for everyone, for me I was the cliche go to the uk/us traveller dreamer but the way I am now, I would rather experience africa and go for smaller trips that cover several places at a budget that would buy me just a USA ticket. Just like you I am also learning I am not necessarily a budget traveller even though i'm a broke traveller..lol.x

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China Wary of Choking on Dollar Driving Hong Kong Dim Sum Bonds
Reflecting a trend, McDonald's Corp. issued 200 million yuan of debt in August 2010, marking the first Dim Sum deal by an overseas nonfinancial company.
Bond sales by Caterpillar Inc., Volkswagen AG and Tesco Plc, leading a charge of over 80 issuers, could bring total sales to 230 billion yuan ($36 billion) this year, a sixfold jump from last year, according to HSBC. The lender forecasts Dim Sum bond sales could total as much as 310 billion yuan in 2012.
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So happy things are going well, breech baby aside! As a fellow type 1 diabetic and 23 weeks pregnant, I've been lurking and reading your blog for a while, and finding it so useful. Thank you for sharing.ReplyDelete
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A British woman, identified as Jane Doe, has accused singer, Nelly, of sexual assault. She claims that the singer masturbated in front of her and made obscene remarks at his meet and greet following his concert in Southend, Essex in December 2017.
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Ever since I started using my Dad's binoculars decades ago, my passion for optical lenses has grown tremendously. I got to experience clear and detailed views of objects that were so far away, and this experience got my attention.
There have been incredible improvements in scope technology ever since Hans Lippershey made the first telescope back in the 17th century. These improvements in technology have led us to the present-day optical systems of rifle scopes. The first rifle scope made by Morgan James and John Chapman around 1835. These early scopes had low optical power and no adjustments for height or windage. Over time, rifle scopes have become very powerful and convenient to use.
The Reticle
Early reticles were basic materials such as horse hair and spider webs. In the mid-1800s etched reticles were first produced, first by hand and then later by chemical etching. The outline of these reticles was more defined thus producing finer detail. The development of Photographic etching then improved the reticles tremendously, and is now commonly used in the latest scopes. Laser etched style reticles are very common in modern scopes today. Reticles can collect microscopic particles floating in the tube thereby obscuring the field of view. They can also be affected by temperature changes. That being said, the detail and information that we can obtain from the modern reticle is excellent.
Significant improvements in lens development have taken place over time. The introduction of multi-coatings and changes in glass work have been some of the main factors for the improvements. Today, the physical properties of light transmission, even in poor lighting, have significantly improved. We have also experienced improved observation angles, longer eye relief, etched reticle systems, and illuminated reticles. Parallax disorders can now be elevated and controlled easily. All these developments have made rifle scopes more functional and helpful.
Most people, when buying a rifle scope, gather crucial information regarding the scope, such as its light gathering capabilities, reticle type and ease of use. Many people, however, do not get to know that their scopes have nitrogen in them
When warm air hits a cold surface, for instance, a lens, it condenses and forms tiny water droplets. It is okay when the condensation happens on the outside of the glass, but when it is on the inside of the glass, it causes fogging.
This is where nitrogen comes in. Nitrogen is an inert gas and is heavier than air. When mixed with less than 1 PPM H2O it becomes denser and thus less susceptible to temperature changes. Also, pure nitrogen has less water content than air and is, therefore, less likely to cause corrosion. This is why nitrogen is used to prevent moisture damage to the coated lens surface.
There are various ways for manufacturers to inject the nitrogen into the tube. One of the ways is to draw nitrogen via a vacuum line and into the tube and then putting the gas under pressure. Once the required pressure has been attained, the tube is then closed up tight. As long as the tube is airtight, the nitrogen will remain in the tube for a reasonable period. The under-pressure gas also forces any microscopic particles onto the inner tread walls of the tube.
When subjected to temperature changes, scopes consequently lose pressure due to expansion and contraction. In fact, I have seen very few scopes in the 30 years I have been repairing scopes, that still have their nitrogen seal airtight.
Both the inside and outside of scopes are exposed to temperature changes. We do have ways of preventing further damage from already present moisture. One of these ways is silica gels that come packed in a container or a small bag. The fact that moisture and scopes don't work well together cannot be stated enough.
Never Spray Oil on Your Scope
Many scope owners instinctively spray oil into the tube to prevent it from rusting. This is highly discouraged. As I have mentioned, there are very few scopes with airtight nitrogen seals, especially the ones that have been used for quite some time. If your scope is showing signs of rust, then it probably does not have a nitrogen tight seal. Spraying oil into the tube or other parts of the tube (e.g. windage and elevation adjusters) can cause damage to the interior of the scope. A combination of moisture and oil can damage the lens set inside of the scope, and it is advisable to have your scope checked if you suspect this has happened. This will avoid further damage to the scope.
Windage and Elevation Adjustment
Turning the windage and elevation adjusters once in a while is recommendable in order to expose the components to some movement because the grease inside turns hard due to a lack of mobility. For you to return them to the central position, count the number of turns you do either right or left, and then do the same number of turns in the opposite direction. Depending on the quality of the scope, you may have to do a bore sight before using it. Some manufacturers install an opposing spring to compensate for the adjustment. The spring weakens over time because of consistently being subjected to pressure. I recommend that you back off the windage/elevation adjuster if the scope is to remain unused for long periods.
Cleaning Lenses
If you notice particles or dirt on your lens, do not clean it with your handkerchief. Instead, gently blow the lens with your mouth or preferably by the use of a puffer brush. Particles on the lens, if not removed, can cause minute scratches on the lens coating which with time can alter the refractive order of the lens.
After you do the preliminary cleaning, finish with gently spraying isopropyl alcohol (lens cleaner) on the lens, which removes any film or grease. When walking through the woods, cover the it with the lens cap to help stop dirt from getting onto the lens. The lens cap also prevents direct sunlight from entering the tube thereby preventing heat buildup.


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I Couldn't Love You More
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President Cyril Ramaphosa has announced that the country will officially move to alert level 3 lockdown from 1 June. He also warned that some places could go back to levels 4 or 5, depending on their progress. With this level, alcohol will be sold for home consumption, and would be on sale on some days during certain hours. The sale of tobacco will however remain prohibited.
Guest: Ralph Mathekga, Political Analyst
Topic: Level 3 unpacked
From the continent: A Malawian Story of What Happens When Two Cultures Collide
Guest: Sokhu Sibiya, Editor - Africa.com
The Independent Police Investigative Directorate has a new boss after Parliament's police committee approved the nomination of Jennifer Dikeledi Ntlatseng. Ntlaseng will take up the job, replacing Robert McBride. Police Minister Bheki Cele said the process to find a suitable candidate was a long and tedious process. He said after three attempts to recruit an IPID boss, he'd finally decided on Ntlaseng. IPID has been without a permanent boss since the departure of Robert McBride in February last year. This came after MPs refused to back any decision to renew his contract.
Topics: New IPID boss - Jennifer Dikeledi Ntlatseng
Guest: Eldred De Klerk, Senior policing and Social conflict specialist at Africa Centre for Security and Intelligence
Host: Africa Melane, Early Breakfast
The Centre for Early Childhood Development will be hosting a SnapScan Mandela Day Donation Drive-by in aid of their #PPEforECD campaign, helping struggling ECD centres get the mandatory Personal Protective Equipment in order to re-open. The centre says although the High Court has ruled that ECD centres are legally allowed to open, many are still not able to do so due to the expensive PPE requirements. In many cases, R4000 is more than an ECD principal's salary and is a huge amount to pay after receiving no salary for four months. With their Mandela Day Donation Drive-By, the centre aims to raise enough funds to support 200 ECD centres at R 4000 each, to open their doors.
Topic: PPEs for ECDs
Guest: Chanel Fredericks, Programme Manager at Centre For Early Childhood Development
Host: Africa Melane, Early Breakfast
Guest: Sokhu Sibiya, Editor - Africa.comLISTEN TO PODCAST
Topics:From the Continent: The Women Who Left their Families to Guard Kenya's Wildlife
Guest: Sokhu Sibiya, Editor - Africa.com
The Covid-19 pandemic has decimated tourism revenues and left donor-funded wildlife conservation hanging in the balance. In neighbouring Tanzania, many rangers have lost their jobs as tourism has dwindled, putting more pressure on Team Lioness and other community rangers because they are forced to patrol larger areas. There are fears that fewer rangers could prompt a spike in poaching, threatening the delicate balance of the ecosystem and future tourism. Part of the ranger's job is to relay information to the national Kenya Wildlife Service, and talk to the community to gather intelligence – though this activity has become more difficult during the pandemic
In a recent press briefing, the Basic Education Director-General Mathanzima Mweli said that out of more than 25 000 schools in the country, 8 047 were in hotspots and 6 995 of these were public schools. Most of Gauteng's and the Western Cape's schools are in hotspots. In a statement issued on Tuesday evening, the Department defended the decision to reopen schools amid the pandemic: One of the main reasons for the phased-in reopening of schools was to make sure the unfettered right to basic education for all children is equitably provided. During Alert Levels 5 and 4 of the national lockdown, most children from the most rural and remote areas of the country, especially learners from quintiles 1-3 schools, could not access any form of online teaching and learning.
Guest: Mathanzima Mweli, Director General at Department Of Basic Education
Topic: DBE reacts to SADTUs call to close schools
Host: Africa Melane, Early Breakfast
The team at SA Harvest uses refrigerated vehicles that they utilize to deliver perishable and non-perishable food to their network of organizations to assist them in providing nourishing meals to their people.
Guest: Ozzy Nel, Operations Manager at SA Harvest
Topic: #67000litres for Mandela Day
Host: Africa Melane, Early Breakfast
For Mandela Day every year, the NGO builds 100 waterproof dog kennels from scratch. They then give these to dogs who don't have shelter along with a bed or blanket and a 5kg bag of dog food. This year, the NGO says time is against them and they have so far only produced 43 of these kennels.
Guest: Imogen Tarita, Volunteer at Cluny Animal Trust
Topics: Kennels for Mandela Day
Host: Wasanga Mehana, In - for Africa Melane, Early Breakfast
President Cyril Ramaphosa has announced an immediate ban on alcohol sales. Ramaphosa has also announced that a curfew will once again be imposed between 9pm and 4am. President Ramaphosa say the suspension of the sale, purchase and distribution of alcohol has been suspended with immediate effect to ensure that alcohol-related trauma does not strain the stretched hospital resources. Long-distance taxi trips will have to adhere to 70% load capacity while short trips will increase to 100%. Ramaphosa says this will only happen if the taxi industry to adhere to safety regulations. Ramaphosa says building owners are now legally obliged to require people to wear face masks.
Topic: Alcohol out, curfew back
Guest: Ralph Mathekga, Political Analyst
Host: Wasanga Mehana, In for Africa
The non-profit organisation ChangeMakersHub, has invited 30 businesses to donate R 5 000 each that will be matched by the NPO to buy over 15 tons of ingredients. These ingredients will be used to pack and distribute 67,000 meals on Mandela Day on the 18th of July. Over 100 beneficiary feeding communities in the Western Cape from Atlantis to Dunoon to Joe Slovo to Phoenix to Brooklyn, Bonteheuwel, Mitchel's Plein, Lavender Hill and Khayelitsha will all be gifted with soup packs to cook up for their vulnerable communities. The team at ChangeMakersHub believe that the achievements of the last 14 weeks can be done in one week. Over 100 beneficiary feeding communities in the Western Cape from Atlantis to Dunoon to Joe Slovo to Phoenix to Brooklyn, Bonteheuwel, Mitchel's Plain, Lavender Hill and Khayelitsha will all be gifted with soup packs to cook up for their vulnerable communities
Guest: Michelle Korevaar, Founder of ChangeMakersHub
Topic: 67 000 meals for Mandela Day
Host: Wasanga Mehana, In-for Africa


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Artisan install Masterframe sashes in conservation area B&B for over £1000 a window
Tuesday, April 09th , 2013
Denbigh-based Artisan Conservatories, Windows and Doors recently replaced 10 windows with Masterframe's Bygone Collection PVC-U sashes in a townhouse in Conwy. "The property is a Bed and Breakfast in a world heritage site within the walls of Conwy Castle," explains Artisan's owner, Ian Gibson. "It's a beautiful conservation area. We took a sample window to the planning department so they could be sure that these windows were in keeping with the property, and complied with building regulations. The customer, Mr Naughton, paid over £1,000 a window - the margins on Masterframe's sashes are impressive."
Mr Naughton says the benefits outweigh the costs: "The windows are superb. They're in keeping with the original Victorian style of the timber sashes we had taken out. They look like traditional sash windows but noise is reduced, and they're easy to clean. Our B&B, The Town House, is three stories high on a busy main road, so noise was a problem. We also couldn't get them cleaned because the window cleaner's ladder would have to be in the middle of the road - far too dangerous. Customers who have been visiting our B&B for years have been surprised at how much difference the windows have made to the house. It not only looks better, it's much quieter inside."


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The challenge is not in technology, but in influencing the hearts and minds of London market players to embrace technology…
Attending the 2016 Verisk Risk Symposium in London this month, I was struck by the fact that, so far as I am aware, I was the only analytics professional in the room. It occurred to me also that, in the world of insurance, IT is not perceived as a sufficiently sexy topic for discussion. As one of the speakers present pointed out, the challenge is not in the technology itself, but in influencing the hearts and minds of London market players to embrace that technology.
But what exactly does this mean for the Lloyd's market?
In the first place, there is a perception problem to overcome. The task of modernisers is to demonstrate to underwriters that IT is not as mundane as it may seem and that, from an underwriting perspective, it has the potential to drive breakthrough changes in the London market. The industry has invested much time and effort in developing a common language for loss; and as new coverage capacity/opportunities emerge, the challenge remains to understand the limits of our knowledge.
In a drive to remain competitive in international markets, Lloyd's has embarked on a modernisation and growth agenda with the focus on addressing the following key issues:
- Electronic trading
- Delegate authority
- Risk placement platform
- Structured data capture
You could be forgiven for thinking that, Yes, of course, electronic trading, placement platform and structured data capture should be a given. Well… not necessarily in the world of Lloyd's. Even in 2016, this honourable institution is still considered a paper-based market, with the emphasis on face-to-face interaction – it brings to mind the old Mary Poppins movie I watched as a child.
That said, there is definitely something I like about the face-to-face approach in British culture; deals still happen on the strength of a handshake. It is a personable and warm way of doing business, especially when it comes to insurance. To this end, when influencing hearts and minds, it is important to remember that many people perceive the face-to-face tradition as vital to the industry, and, quite rightly, it is not something they would want to lose. The aim is to complement rather than to replace.
The main challenge facing the London Market today is over capacity. Lloyd's is therefore seeking to expand internationally. This involves looking at new disruptive technologies – such as distributed ledger – commonly labelled as 'block chain' – which allows the full history of a transaction to be tracked without having to use traditional data storage approaches.
But, all things considered, is the London Market really about to become the Silicone Valley of insurance?
It's true that currently Accenture is heavily involved with Lloyd's TOM (Target Operating Model), but, sitting in the room during their presentation, I couldn't help feeling more than a little sceptical. We were treated to the usual stuff from the geeks on the subjects of data modelling and cyber risk, which included the same tired warnings about 'deterministic' and 'probabilistic' risk. (The first time I read about this subject was in 1990, shortly after NASA published its report on risk relating to the fatal failure of the Challenger space shuttle – i.e. nothing new in terms of thinking.) What really made me smile was when one of these 'experts' highlighted the correlation between the number of employees in a business and the potential increase in cyber risk (of course, more passwords in circulation, etc…) I need to confess, the feeling in the room was, 'Yeah guys, don't tell us you've cross-checked your cyber data when the two parties involved have a common interest to succeed'.
Welcome to the UK, folks. You may be able to wing it in America, but the London crowd did not look as impressed as the guys might have hoped.
Conversely, we all know that cyber is a growth area in an industry that does not like to be associated with 'mundane' technology. The UK cyber market is estimated at 1.8GWP (Gross Written Premium) and according to PWC it is set to grow to £7.5bn by 2020. Despite this, no one really understands how to model cyber, as it can be:
- Operational, e.g. a break in trading because of a hacking attack
- Informational, e.g. risk to the data held
- Physical, e.g. the sprinklers in the building have gone off because a hacker has broken into the system and activated them…
The next subject up for discussion was data protection, particularly in the light of the new EU General Data Protection Regulation.
The feeling in the room was that whether or not the UK Leaves the EU, companies will still have to deal with EU businesses and therefore would still need to comply with EU regulations. There was a lot of discussion about the concept of breach notification.
All in all, it was an interesting day, but hardly exciting. There remains a strong resistance to technology, it being perceived as boring and simply not as sexy as pure underwriting.
With this in mind, any changing of hearts and minds will require much time and effort.
At Giroux, we are actively engaged in bridging this perception gap, while bring a unique approach to the issues faced by the industry.
Just last Monday, I ran a workshop with a team of underwriters to help them design their own data warehouse for their business – armed with nothing more than a pad of yellow stickers and rolled up sleeves!
If nothing else, the Verisk Symposium has inspired me to press forward with my mission of positioning GIROUX as the true catalyst for IT in the insurance industry. Bridging these two very different worlds is unequivocally our raison d'etre.
The good news is that underwriters are smart people; persuading them to embrace technology as part of their day-to-day work may present a challenge, but I'm confident it is about to happen very soon.
Thanks for reading.
Eric Giroux, Founder and Managing Director, GIROUX


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THE JAIL NOTEBOOK AND OTHER WRITINGS by Bhagat Singh (in 1929)
LeftWord Books, 2007 (compiled and with an introduction by Chaman Lal)
These notes by Bhagat Singh became part of national folklore because they were jotted on foolscap sheets of papers and were the published as 404 pages of The Jail Notebook. The Notebook was received on 12 September 1929 when an agreement was made between the hunger strikers and Special Jail committee.
In the book, Bhagat Singh quotes the poet Morozov, and says:
Naked walls , prison thoughts ,
How dark and sad you are!
How heavy to tie a prisoner in active,
And dream of years of freedom
Later he quotes Engels when he says:
Not only the ancient and feudal, but also the representative state of today is an instrument of exploitation of wage labour by capital.
MY YEARS IN AN INDIAN PRISON by Mary Tyler
Littlehampton Book Services, 1977
In this 192-page book, Tyler describes the prisoners from Hazaribagh and Jamshedpur jails. She says:
"Nearest to the bars slept Bulkani, old, skinny and asthmatic, a retired colliery worker, in prison without trial for three years already, on a petty theft charge."
She cites the case of 55-year-old Gulabi:
"Together with four other labourers she had been harvesting paddy on a landlord's field, unaware that the ownership of that particular land was disputed by his cousin who promptly had all the labourers, and the man who had employed them, arrested for stealing his paddy. Ironically, the two landowners settled their quarrel and Gulabi's employer was released from jail, while the labourers remained behind bars. Gulabi had been in prison for nearly three years… without once seeing the magistrate."
Tyler goes on:
"A child was brought into our care. Her father, a widowed coal miner, had gone on hunger strike outside the colliery manager's office after being redundant. On the fifth day he had been arrested and since there was nobody to look after his three-year-old daughter, he had been obliged to bring her to jail with him."
CAPTIVE IMAGINATION: LETTERS FROM PRISON by Varavara Rao
Penguin Books India, 2010
This slim book is a collection of 13 essays or meditations from Vara Vara Rao's time in prison, where he spent more than 10 years, as a political prisoner during the Emergency period. Originally penned in Telugu inside the prison cell, the book has been translated into English. There exists a literal translation in Hindi as well.
The foreword to Captive Imagination is by the Kenyan novelist Ngugi wa Thiong'o.
As Varavara Rao stated during the launch of Colours of the Cage, his poetry and his politics flowed into each other in prison.
He says on page 80 of his book:
Poetry is an open secret
That destroys the disquiet
Stirring in my heart.
It reaches in a trice
Those it is meant to reach.
Suddenly the ones who need to,
Will understand.
Rising in my thoughts,
It inspires movements.
The secret is,
My poetry was born
From the pangs of struggle.
Cover it if you must –
You will see it escape through
The spaces of your fingers,
Its vibrant, anguished notes
Snapping in anger,
Setting tears on fire
And flowing forth –
A river of blood-red syllables
Later, at the launch, while answering a question from the audience at the Press Club, he tells us, his writing was a exploration of the experience of prison, and how prison transforms into a metaphor for the innumerable curtailments of freedom in the world outside it.
He says: "You are in a small jail whereas we are in a big jail. That is the only difference."
MY DAYS IN PRISON by Iftikhar Gilani
Penguin Books India, 2005
Iftikhar Gilani is a scribe and he worked with newspapers like The Indian Express, The Pioneer and Tehelka. He was taken into custody on 9 June 2002, and finally released on 13 January 2003.
My Days in Prison is an account of those days. The book describes the days (and nights) that Gilani spent in Tihar Jail, following his arrest under the Official Secrets Act. The Urdu translation of My Days in Prison won the prestigious Sahitya Akademi Award.
Siddharth Varadarajan in his foreword to the book writes,
"The shocking story that this book tells is not just an indictment of the capriciousness and arbitrariness of power, or a grim chronicle of the sheer viciousness of the Indian State. It is also a depressing account of how all the so-called estates of society – including the Fourth – came face to face with an obvious injustice and were found wanting."
Varadarajan continues:
"For seven months, Iftikhar – Delhi bureau chief of the Jammu-based daily Kashmir Times and a well-respected journalist in the Capital – was imprisoned without bail under the draconian and much-abused Official Secrets Act (OSA). His crime — possessing out-of-date information on Indian troop deployments in "Indian-held Kashmir" culled from a widely-circulated monograph published by a Pakistani research institute."
Gilani says about his days in prison:
"I was beaten up many times while inside the prison. For 41 days, I worked as a labourer. It was good that I had such an experience. Recently some of my journalist friends visited Tihar jail and wrote reports about the life inside the prison but it's entirely a different experience through the eyes of a prisoner."
Gilani speaks about the days there were raids conducted at his home in Delhi. He says:
"My children were in Kashmir. My wife is a homemaker and had never ventured out alone in Delhi. It was a painful experience for us … but she coped with the situation. She met my friends; organized things with the lawyer. She was the only visitor to the prison as the prison rules were very strict regarding visitors. It was indeed a tough time but we had the support of family and friends."
by Anjum Zamarud Habib, Zubaan Books, 2011
Prisoner No. 100 is Anjum Zamarud Habib's account of her years in jail, most of which was as an under trial. She was falsely implicated under POTA in 2003, jailed and released in the winter of 2007. The four years of torture at the Tihar Jail and her tryst with the other inmates led to the book, Prisoner no.100: The Story of My Ordeal in an Indian Prison.
Her self-description is:
"I am an ordinary, middle-class, educated Kashmiri woman. I am no writer and I do not know what the art of writing is. I wrote what I could, but at times I felt that my mind registered much more. It seemed like the thoughts were flowing and it was difficult to capture all of it."
Anjum Zamarud Habib is the founder of the 'Muslim Khawateen Markaz', which was established in 1990 to lend support to Kashmiri women. She looks back at her time in prison and makes five points:
- Jail culture has rules and regulations of its own. There are customs one needs to follow.
- Tareeq means a lot in the life of a prisoner; it decides the fate of the prisoner. A court date is a very unnerving process.
- I shared a very strange relationship with the people in there. We used to fight and then talk. You can't escape people — sooner or later one has to come to terms with the other.
- Nobody is interested in anyone else's life beyond those four walls. All one wants is to move on. The absurdity of it all is a learning experience.
- Incarceration can bind physically but cannot bind one's conscience; no jail can cuff one's thoughts or imagination.
THE BAD BOYS OF BOKARO JAIL by Chetan Mahajan
Penguin Books India, 2014
The Bad Boys of Bokaro Jail is about the CEO who learnt more about the big bad world in prison than his MBA degrees. It is about the CEO who understood humans better through inmates in jail than from colleagues who adorned Ralph Lauren jackets and Aldo shoes.
The Bad Boys of Bokaro Jail began in Bokaro Chas Mandal Karawas, the Bokaro Jail. Chetan Mahajan was hoping to be released the next day. But that was not to be. It was vacation season for the courts and so, he had to wait for weeks before his case came up for hearing. To remain sane, he wrote a daily journal, which became his memoir, which dates back to the days of 2012 when he was divisional head of Everonn, an education firm owned by the Gems Group, a conglomerate from the Middle East.
Chetan Mahajan was caught in the cross-fire for "a white collar crime" which had to do with an IIT entrance coaching chain called 'Toppers', that had a strong presence in Bokaro, Jharkhand. One thing led to another; and Mahajan was in prison.
Mahajan says:
"Corruption is rampant; if you have money, you get anything. Prison guards and cops are part of the game. Jail officials use the powers vested in them to make money. Those who can't pay suffer. Some inmates are so poor that they can't even pay for their bail – so end up being in jail needlessly."
Mahajan adds:
"The jail doctor is a fraud. He never touches a patient. Never picks up his stethoscope or looks into anyone's eyes, ears or throat. He sees about 30 patients in 30 minutes."
He concludes,
"A realization for me is that even now, we all live in a jail at some level. That is the jail of the limitations we put around ourselves. And we all have the potential to gain release from that prison if we can start thinking a little differently about life."
Today Chetan Mahajan is a free man. He is CEO of HCL Learning. The legal proceeding against him was quashed in March 2013.
Colours of the Cage: A Prison Memoir by Arun Ferreira is published by Aleph Book Company. The perfect bound, softcover book of 176 pages has been printed by Replika Press.


text: Politics Social Justice Marriage equality advocates launch new campaign for same-sex marriage in Ohio By Olivia Miltner Posted on October 27, 2013 7 min read 0 0 497 Marriage equality has made significant progress in the past few years, as nine states and Washington, D.C. have legalized same-sex marriage since 2011, President Barack Obama announced his support for gay marriage in May 2012 and the Supreme Court ruled against the Defense of Marriage Act and California's Proposition 8 in June 2013. Now many eyes have turned toward the movement in Ohio as supporters work to gather support for a constitutional amendment on the November 2014 ballot. The amendment would define marriage as a "union of two consenting adults not nearer of kin than second cousins, and not having a husband or wife living, and no religious institution shall be required to perform or recognize a marriage," and needs 100,00 signatures to be put on the ballot. Ian James, co-founder of the pro-marriage equality political group FreedomOhio, believes that this amendment has a few key advantages that could help encourage its success. "Our amendment assures that religious institutions have freedom to reject and not to recognize marriage," James said. "We also have a very smartly and constitutionally sound amendment that is short and easy to understand." This is the first effort to change Ohio's state constitution, and people like James are hopeful about its future based off of polling data. A Saperstein poll in March 2013 for the Columbus Dispatch reported that 54 percent of Ohioans support amending the state constitution in favor of gay marriage. However, a more recent survey done by the Public Religion Research Institute in September 2013 found that the public was split on the issue of gay marriage, with both the supporters and opposition tying at 47 percent. Advocates agree that they need to rally and gather support for their amendment. One way they are doing this, according to James, is through "the process of having the conversation of why marriage matters." The educational campaign associated with this message, called Why Marriage Matters Ohio, was created through a collaboration of both local and national organizations, including Equality Ohio, the national Freedom to Marry, the Human Rights Campaign Foundation and the ACLU Foundation of Ohio. It launched on Sept. 9, 2013 and its goal, according to Grant Stancliff, communications director for Equality Ohio, is to gather more backing for a move toward marriage equality. "Why Marriage Matters Ohio is a campaign to tell stories about regular, everyday Ohio couples that happen to be same-sex. We need to increase public support for same-sex marriage in order to make it a reality in Ohio," Stancliff said. However, Stancliff also noted that increased activity surrounding marriage equality also prompts those who disagree with gay marriage to speak out against the amendment. "The spread of awareness about marriage equality is two-sided. It helps grow support, but it also mobilizes the opposition. We have to be careful, intentional, and act only when the polling says we have sufficient support," Stancliff said. "We can't afford to lose." Despite the opposition, the marriage equality movement has found some bipartisan support. For example, Rob Portman became the only sitting Republican Senator to back same-sex marriage after changing his stance earlier this year because of his own son's sexuality. A marriage equality amendment in Ohio's constitution, according to Stancliff, could have a powerful impact on the same-sex marriage debate in other states, as Ohio is "a state that can have a major impact on other states." James agrees with the importance of Ohio's stance on marriage, and also thinks that the changes seen in other areas like New Jersey's law legalizing same-sex marriage and the Supreme Court ruling have encouraged action in Ohio. "The saying 'As Ohio goes so goes the nation' holds true…the momentum from New Jersey, the momentum from the Supreme Court only helps the campaign" James said. "There used to be a sense that it can't be done…but that sense of impossibility has given way to a sense of inevitability."


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For Ben Cain, a fourth-year in journalism, it was his love of writing that first led him to music.
The music Cain wrote when he began playing in eighth grade was sad, something he said he thinks is common for young, hormonal teens. Now, Cain has shifted toward an upbeat indie-pop sound that he hopes will connect with audiences.
"I want to feel good and I want to play on things that everyone can relate to," he said. "I want to play on what unites us as people and create that transcendental feeling."
Part of this shift was a response to playing live with a band.
"When you write this depressing music it's really easy to do that when you're by yourself in a room," Cain said, "but then when you go to play it in front of a crowd of people, they might not wanna do that. They came to a rock show, they want to have fun, it's their weekend. And there's merit to that."
Cain's band, Wild Things, has only been together since 2015, but has already opened for some of Cain's biggest influences, such as New Politics and Foster The People. Its newest single, "Don't Wanna Feel It," is currently playing on the SiriusXM Hits1 radio station.
Although Cain now lives in Columbus, the rest of Wild Things is based in Cain's hometown of Buffalo, New York.
This can pose some challenges for the band — limited time with each other and a writing process that often consists of sending material back and forth — but ultimately, Wild Things makes it work.
"We have the right tools in place," said drummer Jeff Crawford, who has been playing with Cain for about seven years. "We have a good method to our madness and we're doing the right things at the right times and I do feel proud of the music we write."
After graduation, Cain said he hopes to take time to tour with Wild Things, pursue music professionally and "see where things go."
Wild Things plans to put out a four-song EP this summer, which will be the band's second studio release.
Editor's note: Ben Cain previously wrote for The Lantern as part of his journalism curriculum.


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A Catholic priest of the Sacred Heart Parish in Obomkpa, Delta State, Reverend Andrew Anah, has been kidnapped for a second time by gunmen.
National Daily gathered that the Reverend Anah was kidnapped in 2017 and was released after alleged payment of undisclosed amount of ransom to the kidnappers.
It was further gathered that indigenes of the community complained that the Obomkpa, Ukwu-Nzu and now Onicha Olona Axis of Aniocha North have been notorious for high frequency of kidnapping; pointing out that the area is the same zone the reverend was kidnapped the first time. However, it was indicated that the circumstances of the fresh kidnap are still hazy.
It was disclosed that previous victims of kidnapping in the area include the Managing Director of a construction company, as well as the Chairman of the Aniocha North Traditional Rulers' Committee, Obi Sunday Olisenweokwu.
Delta State Police Public Relations Officer, Andrew Aniamaka, was said to have confirmed the kidnap incidence on Thursday, acknowledging that this is the second time the same priest is being kidnapped.
The Police, however, assured that the Force will do everything to ensure that the culprits are brought to justice and the victim is rescued.


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The Quincy Unitarian Church Home Page.
The list of Selected Sermons.
Presented January 31, 2010, by Mike Flanagan
Listen to a recording of "Experience the Moment"
36:41 minutes - 14.7 MB - Experience the Moment .mp3 file.
Hannah Arendt: The Life of the Mind (pp. 105-106):
"The metaphor, bridging the abyss between inward and invisible mental activities and the world of appearances, was certainly the greatest gift language could bestow on thinking and hence on philosophy, but the metaphor itself is poetic rather than philosophical in origin. It is therefore hardly surprising that poets and writers attuned to poetry rather than to philosophy should have been aware of its essential function. Thus we read in a little-known essay by Earnest Fenollosa, published by Ezra Pound and so far as I know never mentioned in the literature on the metaphor: "Metaphor is . . . the very substance of poetry"; without it, "There would have been no bridge whereby to cross from the minor truth of the seen to the major truth of the unseen.""
(The essay, "The Chinese Written Character as a Medium for Poetry," edited by Ezra Pound in Instigations (1967).)
Alan Watts, from the last book he wrote, Tao: The Watercourse Way (p.96):
". . . Buddhists and Taoists alike speak of the sage as one who has no desires . . . is it even possible not to desire? Trying to get rid of desire is, surely, desiring not to desire. Any project to suppress desire would . . . imply that "I" am some separate potency which can either subdue desire or be subdued by it. Wu-wei is to roll with experiences and feelings as they come and go, . . . This is called "flowing with the moment," though it can happen only when it is clear that there is nothing else to do, since there is no experience which is not now. . . ."
There is a passage from James Joyce's Ulysses (Episode 3 - Proteus) that I want to read to you. I hope it will serve as an illustration of some of the ideas I want to present to you here, today. Any reading from Ulysses needs some preparation and explanation. Joyce is just that rich. Stephen Dedalus is an autobiographical character based upon Joyce's own experiences. Stephen at age twenty-two, is a self-conscious young man whose identity is still in formation. That's the first important parallel to the subject of this talk. I'm going to ignore the poetry of Joyce's speech, and his amazing vocabulary. And I'm going to ignore the larger context of Ulysses: Joyce's chronicle of Dublin on the day of June 16, 1904.
What I want us to notice in this short passage, is that Stephen is conducting a thought experiment, he is walking along a beach, late in the morning, by himself. In this scene, Joyce presents us with a stream of consciousness. We will hear Stephen talking to himself, see that Stephen and "himself" are in a dialogue with each other. Stephen is by "himself." Actually there is a third voice in this passage. It is the voice of a narrator who inserts a couple of lines to illustrate and describe the scene. Joyce begins the episode with these words: "INELUCTABLE MODALITY OF THE VISIBLE: AT LEAST THAT IF NO MORE." And as the opening paragraph comes to an end:
"Shut your eyes and see.
Stephen closed his eyes to hear his boots crush crackling wrack and shells. You are walking through it howsomever. I am, a stride at a time. A very short space of time through very short times of space. Five, six: the nacheinander (one after the other, in succession, in a series). Exactly: and that is the ineluctable modality of the audible. Open your eyes. No. Jesus! If I fell over a cliff that beetles o'er his base, fell through the nebeneinander (next to each other, side by side) ineluctably. I am getting on nicely in the dark. My ash sword hangs at my side. Tap with it: they do. My two feet in his boots are at the end of his legs, nebeneinander. Sounds solid: made by the mallet of Los Demiurgos. Am I walking into eternity along Sandymount strand? Crush, crack, crick, crick. Wild sea money. Dominie Deasy kens them a'.
Won't you come to Sandymount, Madeline the mare?
Rhythm begins, you see. I hear. A catalectic tetrameter of iambs marching. No, agallop: deline the mare.
Open your eyes now. I will. One moment. Has all vanished since? If I open and am for ever in the black adiaphane (opacity, opaque, opaqueness - not transparent or apparent). Basta! I will see if I can see.
See now. There all the time without you: and ever shall be, world without end."
A thought experiment. Stephen played peek-a-boo with the world of appearance. Close your eyes and the world disappears. Open them again, will the world still be there, or will all be blackness? It was a very small moment in Stephen's life. And we've barely scratched the surface of its richness. It was a moment overflowing with meaning for the "Stephen" who experienced it. Joyce's re-telling of that moment adds its richness to the literature of the English language, and to the lives of each of his readers.
Today, I want to share with you a moment that I experienced once when I was a self-conscious young man whose identity was still in formation. My moment, much like Stephen's was a thought experiment. My surroundings were quite different from Stephen's. I wasn't walking along the beach at Sandymount Strand. And I didn't close my eyes. I was simply sitting on the grass, in Golden Gate Park; staring, meditating upon the scenery in front of me. Nothing more than a stand of trees. It was a comfortable day. Cool and overcast, as San Francisco often is, but not chilly. Visually, we could note that it wasn't a bright, sunshiney day; the light wasn't harsh, it was diffused and muted.
The specifics of the physical surroundings have little to do with the moment that I experienced. But it is easier describing anything physical than it is trying to describe a moment in thought. What sort of language can I use to describe what goes on inside my mind? It is more difficult for me than for James Joyce. I don't possess his wonderful and amazing facility with languages.
The first concept we need to address this morning is this thing called time. A specific kind of time is our subject today. Time, as it is experienced by human beings. I'm not going to talk about history here. We are going to be talking about the kind of time that we human beings experience.
There are many memories that are fun to recall. I have fond memories from the mid-1960s when I began spending my Sunday mornings in this very space. I remember the first time I saw Leann. I remember when Laura was born. Other memories are not so happy. I can recall vividly, the impact that the deaths of JFK, Martin Luther King, and Bobby Kennedy had on me.
Memory is tied to the past. I have no memory of tomorrow, yet. Tomorrow, I hope that I will awaken, like I did today. I expect that many of the daily routines that I've practiced in my past will play out again during my tomorrow. Next week; that's more iffy. We try to visualize - to plan - in our imaginations - some of what we want to do next week. We know that our plans are contingent upon many factors over which we have no control. What we can control, we control using a mental faculty that is often called, will. Today, we want to take note that this mental faculty called will is tied to the future in a manner similar to the way memory is tied to the past.
Today, we are going to spend a lot of time talking about that tiny little space in the middle. The "moment" between the past and the future. I've chosen to call it a "moment." Others have called it, "Now," "The Present." You can call it anything you want. There are big moments, and then there are little moments. Remember that we're not dealing here with the historical moment. Today, we are dealing with human perceptions; our human perception of time; the way time seems to us. We're dealing with that tiny space between the past that has gone and the future that does not yet exist.
What were you thinking just then? During that moment when there were no words floating through this air for all of us to share? That was one particular kind of human moment. Can you re-call it? Does it seem trivial to you?
Can you remember a day that went by so fast that you simply didn't know where the time went? Most days? How about a moment when everything seemed to be happening in slow motion? Have you ever experienced one of those moments when it seemed that time stood still? The kind of moment I want us to concentrate on this morning, is a very tiny thing. And then we want to look at the phenomenon of the stream of these tiny moments that can make time seem as if it is happening in slow motion. Think about a time when your life was in danger. I can recall times when I was avoiding an accident. Times when I thought that a crash was in my immediate future. It seemed that there was an endless string of decisions that had to be made. All of those decisions had to be made correctly and acted upon correctly, or else I was going to crash. It is the most extreme case, and it is driven by fear. Can you recall a moment like that without having to recall the fear in it? Can you just pay attention to how it seemed to you that time was passing. How it seemed that each tiny moment was separate and distinct.
Let's try to find another example. Let's see if we can move away from our dependence upon fear. There are sports figures who make those minute decisions one after another during the course of their game. For sports stars there is first, a level of elevated concentration; and then there is the quality of the series of perceptions, decisions and responses that separate the stars from the merely good. This past fall, I attended a high-school reunion. Visiting with a former high school basketball star, he told how he had started his career as a coach, and turned out to be not very good at it. He made the distinction between his being quick to understand what he could do in a game as a player, and his inability to communicate that understanding to others as a coach. He became a school administrator, instead.
Maybe a better example would be a Jazz Musician, improvising. Though each piece of music has structure, is based upon some familiar tune and upon a given pattern of chords; the individual musician is attempting to place an instant of sound or an instant of silence, very precisely, into the mood of the room. Ideally, I would hope that there would be no fear here; and no competitive desire, either. Ideally, I would hope that each player was simply tuned to be a conduit between the reality of this moment, and a necessity for the next moment to be "right."
But we've missed our mark, again. I'm looking for an activity, which is done without a "Will," without a desire, without a plan, without a pre-conception about the future. Without anything else to do. Perhaps there isn't a good example for what I want to tell you about.
The one characteristic that my examples have in common is the tiny-ness of the slice of time that these moments occupy. Inherent in each of these examples is a desire to influence the future; an exercise of the will. Think back to Stephen Dedalus, walking along the beach, closing his eyes, listening to his footsteps crushing the sand-dollars as he walked, and think of him observing how his mind was interacting with his perceptions. He didn't have anything else to do.
I think it may be impossible to imagine not thinking; to imagine not remembering, to imagine not desiring, to imagine not imagining. It may be impossible to imagine purposelessness. But please try to conjure in your imagination, this man, much younger, sitting on the grass, staring at the trees, expecting nothing from the next minute, or the next hour. Content to stay right where he is, not knowing nor wanting to know when he might take a notion to move. Sitting, staring, meditating, motionless, lost in thought. Think of it as a narcissistic exercise if you must, but understand that this young man was totally absorbed both in his own thoughts and in examining the content of his thought. Like James Joyce's Stephen, I was of two minds. I was there in the moment. And there was a "myself" beside me who was examining my thoughts as they flowed through my consciousness.
As I try to re-imagine this scene, I think about how I must have appeared to a passerby; I think of a squirrel who has just noticed a movement or a danger. He stops, seemingly aware of being watched. He freezes in place and compares his moments one with the next, looking for signs of movement and threat. The squirrel's twitchy tail stops twitching. He is motionless. When I think back to that day, I probably looked a little bit squirrely.
So, I'm sitting on the grass. It is a comfortable day. The sound of city traffic is not far away, but it is not distracting. Myself is observing how my visual perception - Joyce's "Ineluctable modality of the visible" - enters into my consciousness. There is a sort of elasticity in my visual perception. As I stretch towards the woods in front of my eyes, I somehow leave behind both the "myself" that is looking over my shoulder, and the "me" that is seeing the woods. It feels as if I "Enter Into" the scene and leave all of my thoughtfulness behind. In this moment, it is almost as if both I and myself cease to exist. All thought, all memory, and all desire are gone and the woods before me pops into a super-reality. The scene is vibrant and vivid. It is as if a fog has been lifted, a cataract has been removed.
The "myself" looking over my shoulder seems involuntarily to raise a question, "What just happened?" Curiosity draws me to look once again at the scene I saw, but now the veil has been restored, the vivaciousness of the scene is no longer there. I sit there playing with the content of my stream of consciousness, I stretch, for a second time, into that surreal view of the moment, and I find it is a different moment than the one that I saw before. I can tell, because the memory of that first moment isn't the same as this newer memory I have of this newer moment.
I stretch again through that veil of consciousness, and enter into the scene of yet another moment. Again I compare it to other moments in my memory, it too changes and becomes yet another memory of this, the newest moment. And my thoughts turn into confusion. My clarity leaves me and I am no longer able to continue. The whole experiment becomes but a memory. An imperfect re-collection of a stream of moments.
There were three "me's" in that thought experiment: First, there was a me, very much like the me you see before you, here and now. There was also a sort of super-me, who was looking over my shoulder, making comments, observing my actions and observing my consciousness. And then there was a third "me." And this is the one that is a rarity. I think of it as a very primitive, animal "me." The me that perceives my surroundings. A "me" that isn't primary until thinking, and memories, and imagination, and desire can all be brought to a halt.
William Blake, in his The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (Plate number 14) described this phenomenon by saying: "If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to man as it is, infinite. For man has closed himself up, till he sees all things thro' narrow chinks of his cavern."
It is time to quote Hannah Arendt again. I read her book, The Life of the Mind, last summer, and she handed me both the logical framework to make sense of this long-ago experience, and some of the vocabulary I've used to express it.
Memory is the mother of the Muses, and remembrance, the most frequent and also the most basic thinking experience, has to do with things that are absent, that have disappeared from my senses. Yet the absent that is summoned up and made present to my mind - a person, an event, a monument - cannot appear in the way it appeared to my senses, as though remembrance were a kind of witchcraft. In order to appear to my mind only, it must first be de-sensed, and the capacity to transform sense-objects into images is called "imagination." Without this faculty, which makes present what is absent in a de-sensed form, no thought processes and no trains of thought would be possible at all. . . While thinking I am not where I actually am; I am surrounded not by sense-objects but by images that are invisible to everybody else. It is as though I had withdrawn into some never-never land, the land of invisibles, of which I would know nothing had I not this faculty of remembering and imagining. Thinking annihilates temporal as well as spatial distances. I can anticipate the future, think of it as though it were already present, and I can remember the past as though it had not disappeared.
I found it significant that inside of this wandering mind of mine, I discovered the profound distinction between that vivid and surreal perception of a moment on the one hand, and the memory of that perception on the other! I think of my experience as a discovery, as a natural scientist might. It is a phenomenon I observed "in the wild." It is a very "down-deep" reflection of a self's consciousness. A kind of self-consciousness that I'm not able to imagine being experienced by just any squirrel. I wonder if it is a style of self-consciousness that is peculiarly human.
I was so pleased to read Hannah Arendt's intellectually rigorous telling of what happens in the stream of consciousness - when she says it, it all seems obvious. As I read Hannah Arendt's book I found words that made my experience more coherent, more easily understandable; in a certain sense, more real - than I had been able to conjure in all these years, since.
As I continue to process my memory of that long-ago experience, I am drawn to wonder if the presence of the "myself" that is beside me and looking over my shoulder, might be what others call their conscience. Perhaps there are others who think of it as the presence of God, a personal God? I'm speculating. When I try to make sense of what goes on inside my head, I'm not at all sure that others will understand the terms I use to describe my experience. It is an extremely complicated subject to survey.
There probably have been others who have had something to say about these things. James Joyce is a tough read, and I don't understand everything of his that I read; but James Joyce probably got it mostly right. I read quite a bit of Freud, many years ago. Quite frankly, I didn't "Get it." When he spoke of the Id, the Ego and the Super-Ego, it didn't connect with me. I think it was because it seemed he was talking about what he observed in others that I found him distant and remote. It probably just went over my head.
I found resonance and congruence in the work of Hannah Arendt. I can confirm, from my own experience, that the workings of this human's mind have been accurately represented by Hannah Arendt in her book, The Life of the Mind. I needed to see myself reflected in the mirror of her words before I could even attempt communicating that rare experience from so many years ago. Her words, her metaphors found a space to resonate in my memory of that experience of the moment.
"I want to work in revelations, not just spin silly tales [for money]. I want to fish as deep down as possible into my own subconscious in the belief that once that far down, everyone will understand because they are the same that far down."
-- Jack Kerouac
The Quincy Unitarian Church Home Page.
The list of Selected Sermons.


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All that sitting down might be killing you. Slowly.
Those countless hours you spent in Main Stacks? That 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. job you're holding over summer? As it turns out, both are extremely bad for your health. But it's not the lack of sunlight, the slow depletion of endorphins or the dreary routine of corporate culture that threatens your life — it's the sitting. That's right; the passive position of scholars and desk workers everywhere is bad for you. Just how bad? Well, some of the negative effects include, in a roughly ascending order of severity: weight gain, obesity, diabetes, cardiovascular disease and endometrial cancer. Yeah, we thought that was a pretty dismal list, too.
What's worse, the negative effects start almost immediately upon sitting— and the consequences only increase in severity as you prolong your sitting. When you first sit down, the rate at which you burn calories decreases to about a third of what it is when walking. If you sit for over six hours a day, your body starts to increase production of fatty molecules and bad cholesterol; after two weeks of that, muscles start to atrophy. Weight gain and high cholesterol will eventually plague your health, and if you continue this for 10 years, your chance of dying from heart disease increases by 64 percent.
Thankfully, modern life and scholarship doesn't have to be unhealthy. If you stand once during an hour of sitting and get a half hour of activity a day, you'll combat its negative effects. In addition, you don't have to sit while you study or work — height-adjustable, stand-up desks are becoming increasingly available, and makeshift stand-up desks are always easy to make. Some of UC Berkeley's libraries have also confirmed the existence of stand-up desks, which they've mentioned are usually unoccupied. And in case the positive health effects and availability of stand-up desks don't convince you to change your sedentary habit, rest assured that great writers have stood up to sitting down. According to PR Daily, Ernest Hemingway and Vladimir Nabokov (among other great authors) were both known for their stand-up writing, and while we don't promise that you'll be the next Nabokov, standing up may lead to great heights (in more ways than one).
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