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This article is excerpted from the chapter Emotional Processing in Shadow Tech.
The awareness work that we’ve been speaking of so far is quite cognitive in nature, but there is an emotional side to shadow work that is equally or even more important than cognitive awareness work. If we could share anything with anyone regarding shadow work, we’d want that to be what we’ve learned about processing emotions. Emotional energy is very heavy and dense and may be the most powerful source of power for our parasitic programming. If we don't clear our repressed and mis-channeled emotional energy, our spiritual evolution will be totally blocked once we reach a certain stage, and in many cases, we can't even get started until we clear some of this garbage out first. If we are suffering from physical pain or disease, emotional clearing may be more important than anything else.
The method we have found most helpful so far is taught by John Ruskan in his book Emotional Clearing (2003). This book should be a mainstay of spiritual methodologies but is currently under recognized. Another author, Michael Brown has a similar method called The Presence Process. We came into both of these authors through synchronicities and interestingly, we were already doing a similar kind of work intuitively when we came into these authors. We recommend them everywhere we go.
The idea behind emotional clearing is incredibly simple but can be challenging. When we find ourselves to be emotionally triggered, we use the trigger as a doorway into our emotional body and we hold it open until our emotional energy flows out and integrates into our mind-bodies. Normally we are always repressing at least some emotional energy, and in some cultures we are repressing high amounts of emotional energy in general. In western society, we don’t have a healthy acceptance of our lower nature, and we certainly don’t have an acceptance of our woundedness. Adding the increasing stress that our culture places upon us, we have a blueprint for destruction. Healthier outlets for emotional energy like work, sports, sex and entertainment express some of our pent up emotions, but they can easily become addictive cycles. We also displace our internal entropy through emotional outbursts, raging, bullying, passive-aggressive behavior or through episodes of depression, drug and alcohol addictions and generally self destructive moods and behavior.
Looking honestly at my own American society, I can see that we are repressing massive amounts of emotional energy which is not only manifesting in increasingly destructive behavior but it’s holding back the entire society from evolving. We are culturally trapped in an arrested state of consciousness that we will not advance from until we process the emotions we are repressing. Every society is harboring deep shadow energies at this stage, but America is unique in that we are simultaneously technologically and economically advanced while being heavily emotionally and psychologically depressed and repressed. As individuals we have the choice to take matters into our own hands. As we process our psychic garbage, we clear the entire eco-system of our culture. The absolute best thing we can do for “the planet” and for the “evolution of consciousness” is to clear and manage our destructive psychic energy.
We are all acting as power nodes of destructive energy that we transmit to each other continually. As we become more sensitive, we begin to feel and sense our own destructive energy cycles, and those of others more easily. The authors believe that emotional clearing, within any spiritual container, may be the most important thing we can do for personal and cultural health. As we will discuss, physical disease is very often the result of repressed shadow energies, making clearing essential for those suffering from ailments as well.
How it's done:
Anytime we feel an emotional pressure within us we have the opportunity to clear an old wound. We might have found ourselves arguing with our significant other about an issue that has never been resolved. Or perhaps we have received news that a friend has blamed us for their own irresponsibility. Maybe our children have failed an important class in school. Maybe we have been reprimanded by our boss and feel angry, depressed or scared that our job may be threatened. Maybe we cannot stand traffic, or loud noises, or crowds, or when our coffee is not made right. There are infinite ways in which we can be emotionally triggered. Sometimes we are only mildly triggered and the annoyance passes quickly, or maybe we cannot get our emotions straight for days. Regardless of the trigger, it's intensity or length of time, it’s an opportunity to clear an old wound and to move displaced energy into coherence. The victim-victor cycle that we discussed is largely fueled by our repressed emotional energies.
When we find ourselves emotionally charged, we simply find a safe and quiet space to process. This could be on the couch at home, parked in our cars, or anywhere that we can be left alone undisturbed. If we cannot do this at the time we feel the highest charge, we can return back to the feeling the next day, or at any time, and allow ourselves to revisit the thoughts and feelings related to the triggering event.
In this method, we simply sit with the negative thoughts and feelings and we give them permission to come up completely. We ignore opposing thoughts that tell us we don’t have time to do this process and we stay present, allowing our feelings to flow freely through our bodies. If we have the impulse to act out, say with rage, we resist this, but crying is extremely beneficial. We hold our space and allow the emotions to fully emerge. In some cases we will feel intense anger overtake us. Other times we may cry in deep sadness for a long time. If we don’t experience a sizable release at first, our emotions may initially sit in our bodies making us feel uncomfortable. This discomfort is a sign that processing is going on. Our emotions might be feelings of fear, anxiety, grief, or any emotionally painful feeling. Some emotions may shift over several minutes to reveal deeper core emotions behind them. Anger often gives way to deep sadness or grief.
No matter what the emotion, we allow it to totally emerge and flood our consciousness. We permit our feelings to stay with us for as long as need be. After a successful session, no matter if it's 3 minutes or 3 hours, we will feel a sense of clarity and lightness. This is sometimes present soon afterwards, but it also may take a day or two to be recognized. Regardless, each clearing session will have an effect and will be the impetus for increasing psychic clarity. Our ability to release may start small, but will increase as we do the practice repeatedly.
Emotional clearing can sometimes invoke a Kundalini rush which comes on quickly, or it may be spread out more evenly over time. We will find ourselves experiencing joy more easily and we will simply feel lighter and less burdened as we continue to process. There are many ways that this process can affect us and we can expect external alterations in our outer world as well. Over time, we become less triggerable, more emotionally stable and more grounded. Anxiety, fear, anger and insecurities will decrease as we continue to use our triggers as doorways into clearing.
Shadow work in general requires both cognitive awareness and body based emotional clearing. The methods we are discussing are those that have come to us and are working for us. We recognize that there may be other effective methods, such as indigenous shamanic practices or modern versions of them like Lama Allione’s Feeding Your Demons process, and we encourage you to experiment, but we would tend to be skeptical of any process which attempts to push away destructive thoughts and feelings. We must go directly into the cave of the dragon to inherit the key it is holding.
This said, the dragon at the base of the cave is more of an illusory chimera than we might expect. Every organism naturally moves away from pain and towards pleasure, so it's understandable that we want to avoid going into old wounds. Also, we unconsciously remember the pain that accompanied our wounds when they originally occurred and we don’t want to relive that pain. As adults, when we consider going back to those old feelings of victimhood, we naturally choose not to. This is a natural instinct, but the truth is that as adults we will usually not experience the childhood pain again by going into it. We have an adult level of separation now and we have the ability to go into our feelings in small doses. We are not victims of circumstance anymore and we can choose exactly how and when we want to process our emotions. We are in a much safer and more mature state now.
From an adult place, when we go back into the cave, we can go with our flashlights, our spelunking tools, our maps and compasses. We have tools and discretion that we didn't have back when our emotional energy was first blocked. We also don't need to use any kind of force. Simply allowing our feelings to fully flow releases their signature elements allowing the body to integrate them properly.
Once our repressed energies are released and allowed to flow again, our bodies will move to integrate them and transform our patterning. We will have to face our uncomfortable feelings many times to fully process them, and this is challenging, but the process is definitely less painful than we might imagine. Watching from above as we process our emotions, our higher awareness stands close to us, acting as a beneficent and wise parent. We essentially re-parent ourselves and send ourselves a sense of accepting compassion, which is the antidote to the virus we carry.
We are trained by our culture to repress and deny our emotional states. We are told that we have to stand tall and “get over” our emotional wounds. Men are especially taught this, but women are also deprived of their ability to process their emotions because their male counterparts often don’t have high emotional awareness. Men will often deny their partners’ and children’s ability to fully experience their emotional states. This is not to insult men; this is just a common situation in patriarchal cultures. When we experience a deep emotion, the best thing we can do is to feel it as fully, as deeply and as often as necessary until it is processed. In this way, the channels of our nervous systems remain clear and we don't develop the problems we now have. Children especially need to be able to experience their full emotional states without fear of judgment or punishment. Children often experience natural developmental issues at various stages, but cyclical destructive behavior in children is often related to shadow cycles in parents which need to be cleared. If parents are not carrying their own psychic viruses, which can exacerbate a child’s emotional wounding, children should be able to process and move on in a normal amount of time. Eckhart Tolle suggest that parents who are awakening to the existence of their family pain bodies (psychic parasites), openly discuss the situation with their children who will learn to recognize their parents’ pain bodies as well as their own, and the family can awaken and heal together.
If we consider repressed emotional energy caused by childhood wounds and other disharmony to be garbage, would we want to simply “get over” that garbage? Stepping over garbage means leaving it to fester and rot. As we know, when we leave old organic material to rot, we get an infestation. Indeed our repressed emotional energy is a potent source of food for the parasitic ecosystems of the psyche that live in the shadow. Our repressed emotional energies are a fantastic source of energy for the victim-victor life cycle of our viral shadow programming.
Most of our earliest traumas we will not remember as we process them. We may simply cry or experience fear or anger without any associated old memory. On the other hand, we may remember the event that caused a trauma or a newer memory that’s linked to it. When we sit and allow our triggered emotions to fill our states, we may have thoughts that relate to our stories of belief that we have been living through. Thoughts may appear that tell us how our pain is someone else’s fault or about how inadequate we are. This is ok. We simply watch our thoughts as objectively as possible. Over time we become more comfortable with the realization that our thoughts are stories or programs and not an objective reality. Our pain lives within the context of our stories. If our stories were different, our emotional states would be different and if our emotional states were different, our stories would be different.
As we process our emotional energy, our stories naturally change as a consequence, and when they do, this allows us to see their subjective nature. Over time we learn to recognize that our entire experience is caused by the programs we are running and not due to the external world and circumstances alone. It is through our inner programs that our outer world and relationships become personal experience. When our internal state is altered, our experience of the world, or reality is altered. This is a well known ancient truth, and has made its way into New Age philosophy, but unless one integrates their repressed psychic garbage, that energy continues to fuel powerful viral programming which severely limits our transformation.
Relationship as a container
Melissa and I have found our relationship to be a very effective container for emotional clearing. Through counseling others on this practice, we have found that it's much more effective if both people are actively involved. If one partner is active and the other is at least aware of what their partner is doing, this will suffice, but if one partner is totally in the dark, it will limit progress, possibly heavily. This type of work is based on internal integrity, openness and honesty. Total transparency is needed within an intimate relationship if it is to mature to its highest potential. One partner may not want to engage in the process at first, but if they are at least aware that the other is working on processing their emotional cycles, this may be all that’s needed at first. Later on, the other may want to join in, and if they do, a powerful alchemical vessel will have been created. If they do not, one’s own trans- formation will alter the relationship accordingly.
We have to come to terms with the possibility that our partners may or may not be ready when we are. No matter what the outcome, the increased clarity and maturity we experience will serve us as the relationship evolves in whatever way it does. If we become impatient with our partners, should they not decide to join us, we can add those frustrated thoughts and feelings to our awareness work and simply release the emotional fear that underlies them. Our impatience will decline.
When Melissa and I first began this work, we were experiencing a destructive cycle that would repeat every few weeks. It would usually start with something that I would say or do that would give her the impression that I had different intentions behind my words and actions. She would take my words and actions to be clues that I was using her, or alternatively, that she was not what I was looking for in a mate. Either way she would find herself experiencing deep emotional pain that would cause intense emotional outbursts. This was an old family program still running.
My response to her behavior was usually anger. I would feel that her reactions were uncalled for and that she was creating needless chaos. I would then transform into an angry “father thing” to scold her. The cycle would conclude with her feeling hurt and me feeling guilty for being a jerk.
We had turned one full round of the victim-victor cycle and our shadow parasites had been fed. A few weeks later, they would be hungry again and the cycle would repeat.
This cycle was actually not unique to our relationship but was active in both of our prior relationships and in our parents’ early relationships. We were still living with the same shadow cycles that had turned many times before, in many prior generations, through the ages. I should say that even from the start, our cycle was somewhat less toxic than in prior relationships because we had both matured, but regardless, the cycle was still present and we were being drawn into it again. This time though, we were both the experimenters and the experiment, and we would switch back and forth as we fell unconscious then re-awakened again.
We would begin by reacting to an unconscious trigger that would begin the cycle, becoming totally pulled in and reactive. Then at some point we would wake up and see that we were running the old program and try to remove ourselves from the cycle. Usually one of us would wake up first, and when that happened, they would try to pull the other back into the conflict. I tried many times to run away from a fight and lock myself in a room to begin to begin to process the emotions, but Melissa would run after me and bang on the door. Later on she would admit to not having been in control. Other times she would wake up first and I would be the one to carry on, continuing to yell and project angry words.
Sometimes I would begin the cycle, and in my case, this was often when I found myself emotionally sensitive. When my cycle wants to begin, I become easily irritated and begin to speak with a harsh sharpness. Now we both recognize this as my viral pain body seeking energetic food.
As we studied this cycle, realizing that it was viral and parasitic in nature, we began to recognize that it was sourced in our old emotional wounds that we had been carrying since childhood. I discovered that had an angry little boy in me that we named Austin (after a teddy bear I had been using as a puppet), and that Melissa had a neglected and unloved little girl in her that we called Little Melissa. We began talking about these characters and noticing when they were active in each other. It was these old programs that were engaged in our fights. These were psychic programs that were fractured off in our development and had turned dark. They were feeding on the same destructive energies they were formed out of.
Austin and Little Melissa are not cute little children. They are rabid, destructive shadow entities that can only live on the negative energies formed by turning the victim-victor cycle. By turning the cycle, these viral programs live on and thrive, but as we eventually found, “The Heart is Toxic to the Virus”.
I remember one instance where in the middle of an argument I awoke to the deeper nature of Melissa’s behavior. I suddenly saw her clearly as a wounded six-year old girl. First I saw it, and then I felt it. A sense of compassion came over me that neutralized my anger. Usually it's hard to feel com- passion while we are charged with anger, but this spontaneous awareness of her as a child did the trick. I was unable to feel anger at a six-year old girl, and in the middle of our charged, emotional argument, I embraced her with a loving and protective hug. Suddenly she froze and her emotional state calmed immediately. The cycle had ended and we both cried and then talked about what had happened. We had successfully neutralized the energy of fear and anger with the polar opposite vibration of loving compassion and this was the first time we realized that we had the ability to end our cycles through an internal shift.
Although this technique works, and we repeated it again, it's not something that we have been able to administer easily. It's difficult to activate compassion while feeling angry or wounded. I used the image of Melissa as a child to activate this state on a couple of occasions, but I also found it to be difficult to manifest. Using John Ruskan’s Emotional Clearing is a much more effective method over the long term.
These days, when we awaken to a destructive cycle, we tell the other that we recognize the cycle is happening and that we want to go sit and process. Then we simply remove our energy from the argument, recognizing it as a program, and go sit down. We might still be experiencing thoughts of wanting to blame the other, but we simply allow them to be present and we go sit and process. This takes practice. Usually our inner stories keep the cycle going, but once we understand the total fictional nature of our internal stories, this becomes easier. Now that Melissa and I have done it enough, when one sees that the other has left the game, we usually respond in turn and we both go sit and process.
This process of waking up and exiting the game is not a smooth one, because the shadow energies want to persist. In the beginning we could not stop a cycle even when one left the room. After a fight, we needed a day or two to “come down”. Now we don’t allow emotional garbage to linger after a conflict. We learned to process as much as possible immediately afterwards, and then we discuss all of our destructive thoughts and feelings with each other, if not that day then the next.
As of the time of this writing (2015), our cycle has been reduced to a much less energetic state. Currently, the way a parasitic cycle will come to the surface is usually through a subtle wave of internal anxiety, fear or anger. When this happens, the other person certainly picks it up, but we do not project it on to the other nearly as much anymore. When we are triggered, one of us usually notices and brings the situation into the open. Then the triggered party quietly goes and processes and we wait it out. After a while the cycle ends. Sometimes it’s a bit more dramatic, but still far reduced in intensity. We have seen a drastic reduction in destructive cycling after two years of processing.
I should point out that when one of us is triggered, it coincides with an opposing charge in the other that supports that triggering. So if one of us needs to process, the other should also examine their own state to see what they may be holding on to as well. These cycles do not happen in isolation, so any conflict within our experience points to energy in ourselves that we need to process. This can take time to fully accept.
We have also come to realize that we cannot physically escape any outside situation that we are triggered by because it will just be duplicated in another place and time. Whatever emotionally charges us pulls conflict into our lives. Anything that makes us insecure or angry in a repeated fashion is linked to an old wound that has to be cleared. When we clear that energy, our bodies restructure themselves for a new electro-chemical reality which replaces the old state. We then attract and repel energy in our world according to the new state. This takes time but does occur. When we attract abundance and security it’s because electro-chemical programs which model that reality are active and clear within us. When we attract conflict and despair that's because those electro-chemical programs are strongly present within us.
Our mind-bodies are a vast energetic community and we want that community to be healthy and in balance. Just like a local community, when we do not take care of each other, our community members become wounded, criminals or addicts. When we do not nurture our internal mind-body community, those same patterns are created within us. Our psychic imbalances give rise to internal criminals and addicts — programs within us that plague us until we get to the source wound that created them. In all cases of addiction and criminality, we find abandoned and unloved children. Where are those children within our own psyches, and what have they become?

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Delivery drivers living in fear
Updated On: Jan 06 2012 10:18:17 PM CST
Food delivery people are on edge thanks to a rash of robberies.
Reading police say two delivery drivers were robbed at gunpoint Thursday night.
They say the first robbery happened in the 700 block of Moss Street at around 8 o'clock.
Then about an hour and a half later the second robbery happened in the 500 block of Locust Street.
Fortunately, nobody was hurt.
People are taking precautions.
The owner of one pizzeria has decided to have two workers in each delivery vehicle.
"This is terrible for the community," said Carlos Salguero who owns Russo's Pizza. "Not only for the delivery people, for all of the people who living here. We got to continue work because we need to make a living."
Police say there have been about a half-dozen of these robberies in a month and a half.
No arrests have been made.
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DA: Missing Lehigh County woman found dead; stepfather charged
Gunman opens fire inside barbershop; 4 people shot
Black ice a worry overnight with flurries lingering Thursday morning
Man killed after being struck by vehicle in Bethlehem
Trucker charged with vehicular homicide in crash that killed 3 on I-78
Jackknifed truck closes snow-covered road in West Penn
Snow forces postponement of Easton-Pburg football game
Two teens wounded by gunshot in Tamaqua
Expert says residents should not be alarmed about recent missing woman cases
Crews battle snow to fight Lehigh County fire

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Step-Panther’s ‘Nowhere’: Strange But Very, Very Nice
Sometimes you get an itch, an itch that can only be scratched by some good old thrash-y unapologetic garage rock – the men who can give you that are Sydney trio Step-Panther. They’ve released their first single “Nowhere” from their new album Strange but Nice, which is out on HUB The Label via Inertia. If you’ve been to one of their awesome shows before, you’ll be familiar with “Nowhere” because it’s a real doozy, and now it’s available digitally to soothe those of you having Game of Thrones withdrawals (lead singer Stephen Bourke admits it was partially inspired by the medieval fantasy epic). If you’ve not yet been lucky (or brave) enough to see them live, here’s your chance! They’re giving “Nowhere” an official debut with two shows, one in Melbourne and one in Sydney, both with special guests.
Melbourne: Sat 28th June @ The Workers Club, Fitzroy (w/ Warmth Crashes In + ESC)
Sydney: Fri 4th July @ Brighton Up Bar, Darlinghurst (w/ Adults + Doom Mountain)
“Nowhere” is out 6th June on HUB The Label through Inertia


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A major exhibition of Renaissance master Veronese opens at London's National Gallery on Wednesday, bringing together for the first time in centuries around 50 works from the world-revered painter, AFP reports.
It is Britain's largest ever exhibition devoted to the artist, and is expected to enjoy similar success to the gallery's blockbuster Leonardo da Vinci show in 2011.
The works, which largely comprise dramatic religious scenes and portraits of high-society gentlemen, have been brought in from France, Spain, Italy and Spain and will be on show until July 14.
The gallery promises an insight into the "magnificence in Renaissance Venice" as documented by one of its greatest ambassadors.
"We've reunited paintings that used to be together, but that haven't been together for 300-400 years, and that have probably never been seen together since they were first painted in Veronese's studio," explained curator Xavier Salomon.
Paolo Caliari was born in Verona in 1528, and later took on the name of his birthplace.
Although not the most famous painter of the Italian Renaissance, he is, according to Salomon, "the most representative painter of Renaissance Venice."
"He shows all the opulence and grandeur of that society, of how people would have liked to appear in front of the world, how they dressed and how they went about in their life," he explained.

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Health care law imposes unrelated taxes
The Obama health care law has imposed 18 new taxes that will be effect on Jan. 1, 2013, that will financially harm not so much the rich class, but the middle and poor classes. You can check this out on the Internet and read the law on these new taxes. I just wanted to mention the home sales tax of 3.8 percent, which no doubt affects the seniors who wish to sell their property and move to a warmer climate or a state with cheaper property taxes.
For an example, a $300,000 home taxed at 3.8 percent equates to $11,400. The other taxes deal with many personal financial transactions, etc. Obama, Reid or Pelosi pushed this law through the Democratic Congress without anyone reading what's in the law. As Nancy Pelosi said, " just sign it and read it later."
Tell me this: What are all these new taxes, especially the home sales 3.8 percent tax, doing in this health care law? The reason is to pay for this monstrosity so aliens and illegals, and any non-citizen, can have free medical services. Your vote is needed in November to stop emperor Obama.

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Menopause is a natural biological process that marks the end of a woman’s reproductive years. Although it is an inevitable stage in every woman’s life, menopause can bring about various physical and emotional changes that may be challenging to navigate. In this blog post, we will discuss common symptoms of menopause, treatment options, and self-care tips to help women manage this significant life transition.
Understanding Menopause and its Symptoms
Menopause typically occurs between the ages of 45 and 55, with the average age being 51 in the United States. It is defined as the absence of menstrual periods for 12 consecutive months. The transition to menopause, known as perimenopause, can begin several years before menopause itself and is characterized by hormonal fluctuations that can cause various symptoms. Some of the most common symptoms include:
- Hot flashes
- Night sweats
- Sleep disturbances
- Mood swings
- Vaginal dryness
- Decreased libido
- Weight gain
- Thinning hair
- Dry skin
It is essential to note that every woman’s experience with menopause and its symptoms will be unique, and the severity and duration of these symptoms can vary widely.
Treatment Options for Menopause Symptoms
There are several treatment options available to help manage menopause symptoms, including:
- Hormone replacement therapy (HRT): HRT involves taking medications containing estrogen and, in some cases, progesterone to help balance hormone levels and alleviate symptoms. It is essential to discuss the potential risks and benefits of HRT with your healthcare provider to determine if it is a suitable option for you.
- Non-hormonal medications: Some non-hormonal medications, such as antidepressants, can help manage specific menopause symptoms like hot flashes and mood swings. Consult with your healthcare provider to explore these options.
- Vaginal moisturizers and lubricants: Over-the-counter vaginal moisturizers and lubricants can help alleviate vaginal dryness and discomfort during sexual activity.
- Alternative therapies: Some women find relief from menopause symptoms through alternative therapies, such as acupuncture, herbal supplements, or relaxation techniques. It is crucial to discuss these options with your healthcare provider before initiating any alternative treatments.
Self-Care Tips for Managing Menopause Symptoms
In addition to medical treatments, there are several self-care strategies that women can adopt to help manage menopause symptoms:
- Maintain a healthy lifestyle: Eating a balanced diet, exercising regularly, and getting adequate sleep can help improve overall well-being and reduce the severity of some menopause symptoms.
- Stay cool: To minimize hot flashes and night sweats, dress in layers, use fans, and keep your bedroom cool at night.
- Practice stress management: Engaging in relaxation techniques, such as deep breathing exercises, meditation, or yoga, can help manage stress and improve mood.
- Stay sexually active: Regular sexual activity can help maintain vaginal health and alleviate some symptoms related to vaginal dryness and decreased libido.
- Seek social support: Connecting with friends, family, or support groups can provide valuable emotional support and a sense of camaraderie during this transitional phase of life.
Navigating menopause may be challenging, but with the right information, treatment options, and self-care strategies, women can manage their symptoms and maintain their overall well-being. Always consult with your healthcare provider to discuss your specific needs and develop a personalized plan for managing menopause symptoms.

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03 Oct 2017
October’s Item of the Month looks at a prescient work of fiction from 1898, Morgan Robertson’s Futility (RMG item ID: PBF5926).
“She was the largest craft afloat and the greatest of the works of men. In her construction and maintenance were involved every science, profession, and trade known to civilisation. On her bridge were officers, who, besides being the pick of the Royal Navy, had passed rigid examinations in all studies … they were not only seamen, but scientists.
Unsinkable – indestructible, she carried as few [life] boats as would satisfy the laws.
In view of her absolute superiority to other craft … she would steam at full speed in fog, storm, and sunshine, and on the Northern Lane Route, winter and summer…”
You may be forgiven for thinking you know the ship being described above. However, it is not the Titanic. This is, in fact a description of the fictional steamship Titan from the 1898 novella, Futility.
Beyond the prophetic naming of the Titan, author Morgan Robertson also accurately predicted the largest vessel afloat, carrying the minimum number of lifeboats required under the current regulations, and able to travel as swiftly as any ship in service.
With all these similarities, it may not come as a shock that the Titan also has a fatal encounter with an iceberg, claiming the lives of nearly all of the 3,000 on-board.
The central character of the story is a troubled member of the Titan’s crew, a lookout who is caught up in an on-board conspiracy after the Titan runs down and destroys a smaller sailing vessel. The lookout later survives the Titan’s own demise and lands on the iceberg together with a small girl. A dramatic encounter with a ferocious polar bear on the surface of the iceberg gives him an opportunity for some heroism and the chance to care for the child, who turns out to be the daughter of a love interest who had previously spurned his advances.
Whilst the melodrama found in the personal relationships of the protagonist may not be the stuff of a literary classic, Futility remains a fascinating piece as it begs the question: how was Morgan Robertson so able to predict a disaster that would not happen for another 14 years with so much apparent accuracy?
In Alexander C. Brown’s article “The Titan and the Titanic: 1898 novel predicted 1912 disaster but no one listened!” (Daily Press New Dominion, September 24, 1972) gives some brief biographical detail of Robertson, who was born in 1861 and spent a decade of his life at sea in a variety of American registered ocean-going vessels. After this, he pursued a career as an author, writing a number of maritime titles.
With his first-hand experience of life at sea, it is likely that Robertson had an interest in maritime developments and technology. The race between the great powers to build larger, faster and more luxurious liners to compete on the profitable North Atlantic route would have been the cutting edge of technology and subject to public interest. As with some of today’s disaster movies, Robertson was able to fashion a plausible catastrophe to form part of his narrative.
The Caird Library’s collection also contains an example of the 1912 re-print of the novel, retitled as The Wreck of the Titan or, Futility. The horrifying parallels of the fiction to the actual events of 15 April 1912 saw the resulting re-print gaining a wider circulation than the first edition.
Morgan Robertson is reported to have died in 1915, three years after the loss of the Titanic. Quite how he must have reacted to the disaster so closely resembling his work of fiction is unknown.
The Caird Library has a wide range of printed material relating to the loss of the Titanic. A helpful overview of the collections can be found in our online research guide.
Gareth Bellis, Archive and Library Manager

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We are building a humanoid robot at the MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. It is a legless human sized robot and is meant to be able to emulate human functionality. We are particularly interested in using it as vehicle to understand how humans work, by trying to combine many theories from artificial intelligence, cognitive science, physiology and neuroscience. While undergoing continual revisions in its hardware and software the robot has been operational in one form or another for over three years. We are working on systems that emulate both human development and human social interactions.
Desyncronized tele-robotics by virtual reality technology has been studied by many researchers. This approach does not couple an operator and a slave robot directly like bilateral master-slave teleoperation system, so the smart search of the remote environment by autonomous slave robots is strongly required. In this paper, we propose a method which can measure the mechanical impedance and shape of a target object and environment with the robot under impedance control by adding perturbation to the virtual trajectory. First, it is considered what kind of perturbation is necessary and realistic for that purpose. Then, we show that the robot with a single force sensor is insufficient for simultaneous estimation of mechanical impedance and shape, and that the measurement of force at plural points on the contact surface is essenstial. The validity of the method is checked by a 2DOF real robot.
This research is concerned with a compensation method of a mobile manipulator using a neural network for moving operation and with the tracking control performance. The mobile manipulator can spread its working area widely and improve its working efficiency. Several papers of mobile manipulators have been presented and assumed that the traveling terrain is flat. But, irregularities exist even on an artificial floor in factories and buildings, and it is difficult to measure exactly the shape of the terrain. When the end-effector of the mobile manipulator tracks desired trajectory during the mobile manipulator travels on an unknown irregular terrain, it is subjected to the effect of the disturbance torques derived from influences depending on the terrain. Furthermore, the disturbance torque derived from the change of payload disturbs the accurate trajectory control. Then, a compensation method for the two kinds of the disturbance torque must be considered. First, for the change of the payload, the adaptive controller is constructed for the mobile manipulator. Second, the control performance of the adaptive controller is examined. Third, for the disturbance depending on the terrain, the compensator using a neural network is proposed. Finally, the validity of the adaptive controller with a neuro compensator is clarified through simulation experiments.
Manipulators are equipped with several joints and it is possible to operate along any given trajectories. This flexibility is essential advantages and valuable studies are conducted for trajectory planning to effectively control manipulators. However, manipulators belong to a class of complex nonlinear dynamic systems and the application of trajectory planning leads to substantial difficulties. Therefore, various methods are proposed to solve optimal problems by adding or neglecting adequate constraints. However, they do not seem to offer generalized trajectory formation methods. This paper discusses trajectory planning of point-to-point operations under condition that only an initial and a final states are given. Performance criterion is defined by consumed energy dissipated in operations and motor torque limit is considered. Mathematical formulation to calculate optimal trajectories is proposed and simulation is conducted for a 2 degrees of freedom manipulator. Amount of energy dissipation is discussed in relation with optimal and various operating time for typical manipulator movements. Besides, merit of trajectory planning based on a minimum-energy criterion and operating time is stated. Finally, characteristics of energy consumption in human arm movements is discussed and formulated trajectories are verified that they show similar features with human arm trajectories in relatively fast movements.
Hyper-redundant manipulator has a very large or infinite degrees of kinematic redundancy, thus possesses some unconventional features such as the ability to enter a narrow space while avoiding obstacles. In this paper, we propose a new technique for a planar hyper-redundant manipulator to avoid the existing static obstacles in environment while performing a payload-location task from point to point. It is based on analysis in the defined posture space, where three parameters were used to determine the hyper-redundant manipulator configuration. The scheme is verified by computer simulation in case of using the model of the developed Hyper-R Arm. It shows that our method works perfect and the obstacles are well avoided globally.
A model-based system to implement force-feedback based teleoperation with long time delay is presented. Such a system usually requires a precise model of the real world. However, the precise model is difficult to be realized; the system should be designed with some robustness against errors. In this paper, we propose a model-based space teleoperation system with robustness against geometrical modeling errors. The system consists of a master arm, a slave arm, and a virtual arm which are controlled independently by velocity command. Each arm has autonomy to switch between force and velocity control for contact and non-contact modes, respectively. The operator can feel contact force reflected from the virtual arm. The slave arm realizes the commanded force and, consequently, safe operation is guaranteed. By using a master arm without backdrivability and with high gear ratio, the operator can feel hard contact very well. The experimental results show that a sample ORU task and a door opening task can be realized very effectively, in spite of the long time delay.
To capture a target on orbit is a fundamental task for space robots. As the target doesn't have a fixed base, it might be bounced away before the capture procedure is completed. When the target is much heavier than the robot hand, the manipulator controller gain affects such dynamics. This paper uses two measures for evaluation, namely, 1) contact time (duration until the target is bounced off) and 2) final relative velocities (target velocities relative to the hand when the target drifts away) . Analytical approximations of the two measures are derived and validated through numerical simulations and hardware experiments.
A new type of cooperation called mutual handling is introduced in this paper, which enables a multi-robot system to achieve an advanced functionality that cannot be realized by a single robot, and as an application of mutual handling, a method of cooperative transportation for two autonomous mobile robots to climb over a large step by operating each forklifts cooperatively is proposed, which cannot be overcome by a single robot. Then, a forklift mechanism for mutual handling is designed, and two autonomous mobile robots equipped with the forklifts are developed. Finally, a cooperative transportation method in which two autonomous mobile robots are controlled based on communication is presented, and the step-climbing motion by cooperative transportation is proved feasible by showing the experimental results using the developed omni-directional mobile robots.
In this paper, we propose an environment for developing autonomous robot brains in which the developer can describe a brain based on an abstract model in a generic programming language, and verify it immediately on a multi-processor system. We define BeNet, an abstract module network model, for describing a robot brain completely and claim that it is an appropriate model for designing brains and simulating them on multi-processor systems. Since a BeNet is a static network of asynchronous modules that interact each other at regular intervals, it represents a dynamical system completely and concisely and can be simulated efficiently by various multi-processor systems. You can describe a brain frexibly as a BeNet out of desirable modules. We describe our model and show how to implement our environments for developing BeNets for robot brains to show that they are simulated efficiently by multi-processor systems. Our environments make it possible to describe brains in C or C++ in a simplified manner, verify the behaviors of them in the real world and modify them in a short term to develop desirable systems.
The metal hydride (MH) actuator is based on a new concept using the reversible reaction between the heat energy and mechanical energy of a hydrogen absorbing alloy. As the MH actuator is driven by heat, the response speed depends on the heat conductivity of the alloy layer in the MH container. Changing the alloy layer thickness directly influences the hydrogen absorption speed, and the addition of Cu-powder to the alloy layer contributes to improve heat conductivity. The MH actuator is characterized by large output per weight of the unit, that is, compactness, noiseless operation and smooth action. As an actuator suitable for use in rehabilitation equiment, we have developed a large-output MH actuator that is driven by heat from eletric heaters and tapwater, and then applied it to a toilet seat lifter and investigated its adaptability. It is expected that such MH actuators will play important roles in the development of various types of rehabilitation equipment.
A new method to generate familiar behavior of a robot is proposed and verified. Familiar behavior of a robot is important under human-robot symbiosis in order to make a user feel comfortable and to avoid putting stress on a user. The method described is based upon a hypothesis that passive reactions produce familiar and comfortable impression in human beings. The results of psychological experiments verifies the validity of the method. A stuffed robot is made for the experiments. Impressions produced by the behaviors of the robot are analyzed quantitatively using the semantic differential method. Utilizing the robot behavior for generation familiarity will facilitate human-robot symbiosis.
We propose a position estimation method for non-stop navigation of an autonomous mobile robot. The proposed method is based on the maximum likelihood estimation. To cope with the time delay in the sensor data process, we introduce a retroactive positioning data fusion method. The proposed technique is implemented on our small size autonomous mobile robot. An experimental result is shown, in which the robot could navigate itself without stopping even when it takes several seconds of processing time to recognize landmark from external sensor data.
With the depletion of global energy resources, saving energy has become an important aspect in design of energy consuming equipment. Hence, this paper deals with an optimal time of operation of a manipulator which minimizes the energy dissipated in the actuators. When the manipulator is operated in a vertical plane, the system is highly non-linear due to gravity and an analytical solution can not be found. Therefore, the system is first linearized around various equilibrium points and the existence of an optimal time is investigated theoretically. The theoretical results resemble the simulation of the non-linear system except for a slight difference in the optimal time. The theoretical results and simulations show that an optimal operating time exists when the first link of the manipulator traverses the stable equilibrium point and that it does not exist when the first link traverses the unstable equilibrium point. Finally, a non-linear optimization method is applied to ascertain the accurate optimal time of operation.
This paper describes one of the control methods which attain robust positioning performances of a parallel manipulator. Pneumatic cylinders are employed as a driving actuator by focusing on its rectilinear movement which makes it easy to construct a manipulator and high power/weight ratio and so on. In positioning control schemes of a parallel manipulator, almost of them are based on the inverse kinematics, a map from a position/orientation of the platform to displacement of links, since inverse kinematics has an analytic solution contrary to the serial link manipulator. This method has an advantage that a complicated manipulator's dynamics is not needed, but the influences of interaction force and manipulator's dynamics, which act as disturbances on the positioning servo, must be lowered to improve control performances. Basically pneumatic actuator is controlled by pressure, therefore if pressure would be generated so as to cancel the influence of disturbances, then disturbances would not affect on the control performances entirely. Therefore positioning control system employing 2 disturbance observers is constructed based on the pressure control. If dynamics of the platform could be adjusted based on the hand coordinate system, its field of use would be spread out extremely. In this study, a control system based on the hand coordinate system is also constructed. The validity of these control systems are confirmed through some experiments and analysis.

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Sequoia Living Coronavirus Update: June 26, 2020
Case and Testing Highlights
Yesterday we received a positive COVID-19 test result for a staff person at The Sequoias Portola Valley. We are doing contact tracing and notifying individuals who may need to self-isolate. We will be deploying a third-party service to deep clean specified areas of the community.
The two Tamalpais staff members who recently tested positive are self- isolating and recovering at home. They are doing well. There are still zero resident cases of COVID-19 in our communities.
Since March, 547 staff members and 1079 residents have been tested for COVID-19. Our low numbers of positive cases are thanks to our COVID-19 Action Plan and the vigilance of staff and residents.
Staying Safe with High Tech
We have ordered three Skytron UV-C disinfection robots, which use high intensity ultraviolet light to destroy viruses such as COVID-19, norovirus, C.Diff, and influenza. They will be powerful tools against infection as our communities begin to open up.
Surveys and Sequoia Steps
Results from the staff survey will be shared next week. The deadline for CCRC resident surveys has been extended until July 1. Our Sequoia Step Plans are also being reviewed this week with residents.
SIP with Sara on Saturday, July 11
SIP (Shelter in Place) with Sara is back on Saturday, July 11. This will be a Zoom video call for CCRC residents, so there will be more opportunity for Q&A and conversation. Look for a Zoom meeting invite next week.
New Viamonte Video
This week, we released a Viamonte Update video that highlights some of the plans to make Viamonte’s activities, programs, and dining spaces both enjoyable and safe for new residents.
Grocery Delivery Gratitude
This is the final week of Sequoia Living’s grocery delivery program, which provided boxes of free groceries to Sequoia Living Affordable Housing residents during the Shelter-in-Place order. Many thanks to Morrison Living, Ken Yeung, Affordable Housing staff and Service Coordinators, Gina Rodriguez, Melissa Kinslow Parker, Paul Chilvers, David Madson, Dave Latina, staff and resident volunteers at The Sequoias San Francisco and Portola Valley, and Preferred Movers for making this possible.
Face Coverings Required in California
This is one of the best ways for us to safeguard ourselves and others. Face coverings are required to be worn in all public spaces.
This weekend San Francisco celebrates Pride. Please join me in celebrating the LGBTQ community, their lives, and their contributions—not just this weekend, but always.
Strong Storms, Deep Roots
A dear colleague emailed me a wonderful quote from Dolly Parton: “Storms make trees take deeper roots.” It made me think of how all of us are responding with resilience and grace to COVID.
When a tree sways in a gust of wind, it causes the tree’s roots to grow deeper into the soil. The deeper the roots grow, the stronger the tree becomes. It isn’t just one storm that helps a tree grow stronger—it’s multiple storms over time.
Like a tree blowing in the breeze, when we respond with flexibility and openness to life’s storms, we become stronger and more rooted.
With gratitude to you all for being resilient, digging deep, and staying strong,
President & CEO
This memo was sent to Sequoia Living residents, staff, and customers on June 26, 2020. Download a PDF version of this post.
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Reading is a great past time. When you get the opportunity to read a good book your world expand. Here are the top 10 books according to BCCN1. There is new research that reading actually improves the memory. This may be a good time to start. As we age our minds need to be exercised as well as our bodies. Here are the Best Sellers for the Month of May 2011:
The #1 Non -Fiction Hardcover Book: “Passing It On ” by Myles Munroe discusses forming new leaders. The book is a wake-up call. Myles Munroe wants all leaders to focus on building the right team for the future and to make it a top priority because the process is not a quick one. Properly mentoring the right people to ensure the continuation of an organization is actually a process that must be woven into that organization over a span of years or even decades.
Chapter topics discussed include:
- The Chaos of Transition
- The Leadership Dilemma
- Living Beyond Your Generation
- The Principles of Mentoring
- If you are looking for basic guideline this is the book to pick up.The book is written in a simple walk through method.
The # 1 Fiction Paperbacks A+ Attitude is a children’s book. The Morgan Love Series is a chapter book series written for girls, 7 – 9 years old. The series provides moral lessons that will aid in character development. It will also help young girls develop their Vocabulary, English and Math skills as they read through the stories and complete the entertaining and educational exercises provided at the end of each chapter and in the back of the book. Over the years books have become less and less a focus point of young readers. This is a great start for your daughters. You may even use it as an evening read.
All books on the list are available for Nook and Kindle.
If you need to know what you should read check out the following reviews: Book Review: Black Woman Redefined and 8 Steps To Encourage Your Teen To Read also read the review for “All Up In My Business” Is Real Business.
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Over the past two years, I’ve researched sex education in the public schools and then Critical Race Theory. I’ve gathered signatures to change Washington state’s sex-ed laws and contacted my representatives in the legislature.
For the past year, I’ve followed my local school board with its four woke members and one lone conservative. I joined a group of local citizens to lobby for change in curriculum and school policies.
I’ve concluded that the best course of action is for all conservative parents to pull their children out of the public schools. The Left’s hold on the education system is too strong and too deep to reform. Time to jump ship.
Reasons to pull your kids out of the government schools.
- Poor Academics: For decades, news pieces have announced that students perform poorly on standardized tests. The US stands in the middle of the pack when compared to other nations.
- Lack of Safety: Despite all the anti-bullying programs, bullying continues.
- Pornographic Sex Ed: Comprehensive Sexuality Education is taught in many states. These curricula go beyond teaching the birds and the bees. They teach children how to seek sexual pleasure. Watch a few Amaze videos to see what middle schoolers are exposed to.
- LGBTQ Ideology: schools of education have been training future teachers “that ‘inclusivity’ in education requires teachers and administrators to stamp out ‘heteronormativity’ and ‘cisnormativity’ in their schools.”i Pro-LGBTQ teachers recruit children to join the deviant lifestyle—and it’s working. In the past, only two percent of the American adult population identified as LGBTQ. In 2020, the number reached an all-time high of 5.6 percent, and 15.9 percent of young adults, ages 18 to 23, identify as nonheterosexual. About 9.5 percent of teens consider themselves LGBTQ.
- The Cult of Transgenderism: The “Genderbread Person” and now the “Gender Unicorn” explain to young school children that their bodies and minds may not match. These learning tools instruct students in the concepts of gender identity, gender expression, sexual attraction, romantic attraction, and “sex assigned at birth.” Students fill out worksheets to demonstrate their understanding and to identify where they land on the spectrum. Such teaching encourages gender dysphoria and leads children to do permanent damage to their bodies.
- Hostility Towards Religion: The Christian foundation of the US history and government has been erased. Science is declared as the only source of truth, or truth is relative to one’s experience. Students of faith are shamed or attacked in the classroom. Thus, 35 percent of Generation Z, today’s teens, identify as atheists, agnostics, or nones (Barna Group, 2018).
- Social Activism has Replaced Patriotism: Rejection of Western Civilization began in the universities in the 1960s. Today, children are taught to hate America and embrace globalism. In social studies classes, students discuss the conflicts between oppressor and oppressed groups, identity politics, and environmentalism. Being a good citizen means being an activist.
- Loss of Parental Rights: The government schools want to replace the family by meeting the child’s needs. They provide free meals, health care, a listening ear, and connections to community social services. All this without parental notification in Washington and some other states.
- School Secrets: In some states, such as Washington, parents can’t be told that their child has transitioned unless the student gives the school permission to do so. Johnny gets on the bus, but when he arrives at school, he is now Sally.
- School Health Care: In Washington state, once a child is 13, his parents have no say in his health care. A child can receive sexual health care at any age without the parents’ knowledge. This includes abortions and cross-sex hormones.
- Digging for Sensitive Information: Some schools survey the youth and ask about living situations, family beliefs, sexual behavior, and drug use.
- Religious Training in Critical Race Theory: Students are being taught that there is only one way to see the world, and that is through the lens of race and gender identity. Anyone who disagrees must be reprimanded or even canceled. White children are taught to hate themselves and to walk on eggshells around nonwhites in fear of committing microaggressions.
- Psychological Control with SEL: Social Emotional Learning (SEL) dominates discussions at my local school board. Teachers function as lay therapists who analyze students for possible emotional, relational, or mental problems. Instruction is based on feelings, not truth, and “[p]rogressive social norms become their [students’] moral authority.”ii
The deck is stacked against children in public schools. Even if all communities elected conservative school boards this year, the change wouldn’t happen fast enough for those currently enrolled. It took decades for the prevalent worldview to become entrenched. It will take decades to return to a traditional Judeo-Christian worldview if it is possible at all.
Moreover, the colleges continue to roll out teachers who have been trained in the toxic philosophies that have transformed our schools from halls of learning to woke madrasas. Even if some returned to traditional pedagogy, the teachers’ unions wouldn’t let schools fire tenured teachers.
Opting out of sex ed or another curriculum won’t remove your child from the toxic school culture. The courts rarely support parental rights. The public schools are beyond reform. It’s time to abandon ship.
Homeschool your children.
Many privates schools, even Christian ones, have also bought into the social activist worldview. If you chose a private school, carefully vet the campus culture and the curriculum they use.
Conservative church and community leaders need to support parents to use alternative educational options: homeschooling, hybrid schools, homeschool co-ops, and online schools. This could mean providing scholarships or free childcare for working parents.
The free daycare provided by public schools isn’t worth the loss of your child’s mind and soul. Get out now!
i Cited in Hasson, Mary Rice, and Theresa Farnan. Get Out Now: Why You Should Pull Your Child from Public School Before It’s Too Late. New Jersey: Regnery Gateway. 2018. p. 44.
ii Ibid. p. 140.
When I taught in public school, most of the teachers in my building were at least nominative Christians, and some were strong Christians. Perhaps I was just fortunate even for that time. Though I am retired, I know that is not the case here, where I live now. The schools are dominated by leftist thought and ungodly agendas. Unless the family is VERY strong in their outreach and their children can deal with wrong thinking, public school attendance probably won’t have a good outcome. There are simply too many evil concepts put out as normal in public school today.
However, I still feel that Christians should run for the school board and try to turn this cultural mess around, rather than surrender it to the Enemy. I feel it is entirely appropriate for a home schooling parent to run for School Board.
Thanks for the comments, Nancy.
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the adventures of two boys and their Moms....
Great pics...great collage!
i seriously love that toliet paper one, he's so rockstar about it!
The toilet paper one is the cutest! It's like he's concentrating very hard on it, and pointing at you saying "Go now, I must figure out what this stuff is. It's fascinating!" You might have a little scientist on your hands :-)
you seem to have done quite well with white. :)the toilet paper is great, but i really love the snow. so early.
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Kim Jong Un’s test of an ICBM capable of striking the U.S. mainland is putting renewed pressure on a U.S. missile defense system racing to keep up with North Korea’s quickly evolving military threat.
While the U.S. “completely obliterated” a mock intercontinental ballistic missile in a late May test of its $36 billion ground-based defense system, according to the Missile Defense Agency, outside analysts call those tests choreographed events that don’t reflect real-world scenarios. That would require knocking down an unexpected launch, with a warhead possibly masked by sophisticated decoys launched under adverse conditions.
And while the two latest U.S. missile defense tests have succeeded, the two before that failed to destroy their target.
“Missile defense, even if it worked perfectly, is not a get out of jail free card,” said Laura Grego, the senior scientist for the Global Security Program at the Union of Concerned Scientists, who follows missile defense issues closely. “The homeland missile defense system doesn’t work perfectly and hasn’t demonstrated a real-world capability.”
Even missile defense advocates have concerns.
“It’s a good thing to currently have a defensive capability against missile threats to the homeland, but make no mistake — relative to where we are today, the current program of record is not outpacing North Korea’s ambitious missile efforts,” said Tom Karako, a missile defense expert with the Center for Strategic and International Studies. “More will need to be to be done in the way of reliability, capability, and capacity improvements.”
In the interim, that means President Donald Trump still needs more nonmilitary options to persuade Kim’s regime to back down or face the potentially devastating repercussions of renewed war on the Korean peninsula, since any U.S. strike would prompt a North Korean fusillade against Seoul.
Marine General Joe Dunford, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, outlined to lawmakers last month the likely human cost of a pre-emptive U.S. military strike — Seoul residents would face casualties “unlike anything we’ve seen in 60 or 70 years” as North Korea retaliated. Seoul residents are “within range of thousands of rockets, missiles and artillery pieces along the border,” he added.
The Pentagon said Wednesday that North Korea’s July 3 missile test was of a variant not previously seen, with a range in excess of 5,500 kilometers (3,400 miles). Even though that’s only about half the distance to Washington and would fall short of reaching Hawaii, it is approximately the distance to Anchorage, Alaska.
No ‘Fig Leaf’
While North Korea claimed previous missile launches in 2006, 2009 and 2012 with an ICBM-class missile were to test commercial satellite launch capabilities, Sunday’s launch “didn’t even have that fig leaf of legitimacy,” Navy Captain Jeff Davis, a Pentagon spokesman, told reporters Wednesday. “This was very clearly an ICBM.”
But one successful test doesn’t mean North Korea has worked out all the bugs in its system, or that its missiles can deliver miniaturized warheads.
“We’ve still not seen a number of things that would indicate a ‘full-up’ threat,” meaning North Korea can demonstrate “the ability to mate a nuclear warhead to the missile,” Davis said. “Clearly they seek to do it. This is an aggressive research and development program.”
Davis’s comments followed a Defense Intelligence Agency assessment in May that North Korea must still overcome “important shortfalls” in developing a nuclear-armed ICBM.
In May, Vice Admiral James Syring, the Missile Defense Agency director, said the latest U.S. test showed the military’s ability to “outpace the threat” and that a new warhead to be deployed by 2019 “will be the next step to improving reliability and performance against the evolving threat.”
The Pentagon’s combat testing office said the May 30 test was the most realistic to date. David Duma, the office’s acting director, wrote Defense Secretary Jim Mattis on June 6 that based on the positive test results and improvements to U.S. sensors and radar, his office upgraded its assessment of the system’s potential effectiveness.
Since 2012 the test office said the system possessed only a “limited” capability to defend the U.S. from small numbers of North Korean ICBMs. Duma told Mattis the ground-based system now has demonstrated the capability to defend the homeland from a small number of ICBMs when the U.S. “employs its full sensors/command and control.”
In the last Pentagon test, the element of complete surprise was missing. Army National Guard personnel who conducted the intercept from a U.S. Northern Command site in Colorado were aware the test was scheduled within a launch window of several hours, Syring said, although they weren’t tipped off when the dummy missile was launched.
Instead, they were alerted to the launch per standard procedure by the early warning SBIRS satellite and cued by tracking radar on Wake Island in the Pacific and an X-band precision radar floating in the Pacific on a platform.
With pressure growing on the Trump administration days before the president meets Chinese leader Xi Jinping in Germany, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley demanded an emergency Security Council hearing Wednesday afternoon on the North Korean threat. While Trump has called on China to do more to rein in its neighbor and trading partner, the U.S. president has shown increasing frustration with Beijing.
“Trade between China and North Korea grew almost 40% in the first quarter. So much for China working with us – but we had to give it a try!,” Trump said in a Twitter post Wednesday, just before departing for a meeting of the Group of 20 nations in Europe.
Kim, however, is unlikely to be deterred by diplomacy, sanctions or U.S. threats.
“Kim views nuclear weapons as a key component of regime survival and a deterrent against outside threats, Scott Bray, the National Intelligence Manager for East Asia at the Office of the Director of National Intelligence said in a June 26 speech. “Kim probably judges that once he can strike the U.S. mainland, he can deter attacks on his regime and perhaps coerce Washington into policy decisions that benefit Pyongyang and upset regional alliances — possibly even to attempt to press for the removal of U.S. forces from the peninsula.”


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Though you would usually find her at outdoor concerts, street markets and festivals - Henna by Hailey will be in the reFIND Studio showcasing her incredible freehand henna body art abilities! Select from various original designs ranging from $5 (simple) to $40 (intricate) and in a matter of minutes you will have a work of art to display! Hailey uses all-natural henna dye and is ICNHA certified.
Age restriction: must be 13+ or have a parent present.
Here's how it works:
1. Drop into the studio betwen 10am - 4pm on Saturday July 28.
2. Choose a design (prices range from $5-40).
3. Allow Hailey to work her Henna-magic!
4. Leave the henna paste on the skin for a few hours. The longer you leave it, the darker the stain will be.
5. Remove the henna from your skin and admire.
Henna body art is temporary and usually lasts 1-3 weeks.
Time: 2-10 minutes/peson
Where: reFIND Studio - 58 Mill St. West Elora (right across the street from our retail shop!)
NOTE: This is a DROP-IN class & there is no need to register! Feel free to come anytime between 10-4pm!
DROP IN Henna Body Art - Saturday July 28 10-4pm
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Mayor threatens to sue if Trump deports young Caribbean ‘Dreamers’
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New York Mayor Bill de Blasio is threatening to take legal action if the Trump administration follows through with reports that it would end the programme under which illegal Caribbean nationals, living here and known as 'Dreamers', are deported.
"Two hundred miles away in Washington, DC, something horrible is going to happen. I can't believe we're going to await an announcement about who's going to take away the right of our young people," de Blasio said as he addressed the pre-Caribbean Carnival Parade Breakfast on Monday.
"It does not matter if they were born in another country," he added, flanked by his wife, Chirlane McCray, who traces her roots to Barbados and St Lucia.
"They're waiting for an announcement that'll dash their hopes and dreams - many of those are from the Caribbean. We're not taking this lying down. We're going to the courts and fight for the rights of 'Dreamers'. We'll fight in Congress. So, when you march, remember Caribbean immigrants, the 'Dreamers.'"
Late last week, top US executives at a number of companies, business groups and academic institutions collaborated in voicing support for Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), a five-year-old programme, instituted by former US President Barack Obama, which offers a reprieve from deportation to nearly 800,000 people, including Caribbean nationals, brought to the US as children, known as 'Dreamers'.
In an open letter, more than 350 executives and other organisation leaders urged Trump and congressional leaders to preserve the programme.
"Dreamers are vital to the future of our companies and our economy. They are part of why we will continue to have a global competitive advantage," they said in the letter.
The business executives said that denying Dreamers work authorisation could result in the loss of US$460.3 billion from the US economy and US$24.6 billion in Social Security and Medicare tax contributions.
The White House has also faced pressure to end DACA from critics of the programme who complain that it wasn't authorised by the US Congress and is an overreach of executive authority.
President Trump was expected to announce yesterday his decision regarding the programme.
Congressional Republicans expect the administration to unveil some version of this stopgap solution on Tuesday.

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Federal Anti-Discrimination Agency urges strengthening advice centres against racist discrimination
Ahead of today’s (Wednesday's) hearing of the Cabinet Committee for the fight against racism and right-wing extremism, the independent Federal Anti-Discrimination Agency urged for clear strengthening of consultation services against racist discrimination across Germany.
“The State has the intrinsic responsibility towards those affected to make this happen. It must ensure that all persons can live in Germany without fear of discrimination or racist hostility, and participate in society as equals,” said Bernhard Franke, acting head of the Federal Anti-Discrimination Agency in Berlin on Wednesday. Franke referenced in this context the surge in requests for consultation against discrimination. The Anti-Discrimination Agency alone had received more requests by mid-August than in the entire year before. Non-governmental bodies reported a similar trend.
Therefore, the Anti-Discrimination Agency sees the need to, first, stabilise the human resources of the Federation’s consultation services and, second, set up a Federation-Länder programme for the expansion and long-term financing of non-governmental advice centres. In a key issues paper presented at today’s (Wednesday's) meeting of the Coalition Committee, the Anti-Discrimination Agency also advocated strengthening legal protection against discrimination.
“We are seeing that the discrimination ban is perceived as weak, because people feel they have been left to fend for themselves when it comes to enforcing it. I wish to cite only two examples: Deadlines for claims to be asserted must be extended as these are far too tight and by the time people report an instance of discrimination to us, it is often already too late to take action. In addition, providing qualified associations and, where relevant, the Anti-Discrimination Agency with separate rights to sue, as in place in many neighbouring countries, may lessen the impression that the General Equal Treatment Act is a toothless tiger,” said Franke.
To be successful, a strategy would have to reach deep into mainstream society and not confine itself to the undoubtedly necessary action against extremism and radical fringes, Franke added.
“The mainstay of such a strategy is a strong protection against discrimination that can be felt in everyday life.” At the same time, discrimination has to be addressed by preventative action in order to avoid social division, for instance through nationwide anti-discrimination campaigns. The data pool on discrimination would have to be improved as well. In combination with measures taken by security agencies, the promotion of diversity and a broad-based approach to nurturing democracy, protection against discrimination was also instrumental in fighting racism and right-wing extremism.
The key issues paper that translates as “Against racism, for equal treatment: proposals by the Federal Anti-Discrimination Agency to strengthen the protection against discrimination in Germany (“Gegen Rassismus, für Gleichbehandlung: Vorschläge der Antidiskriminierungsstelle des Bundes zur Stärkung des Schutzes vor Diskriminierung in Deutschland”) can be accessed (in German) here.
The Federal Anti-Discrimination Agency is an independent contact point for persons affected by discriminatio. It was established in 2006 when the General Act on Equal Treatment entered into force. The Federal Anti-Discrimination Agency does public relations work and research on the topic of Discrimination and offers legal initial counselling for people who have been discriminated against on grounds of ethnic origin, religion, ideology, sexual identity, age, disability or gender.


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Abstract: A switch for making multiple contacts formed as an elastomeric molded body having a base with a ring of material molded therewith to the base, and attached to the base by a web. An interior cylindrical member is supported within the ring of material by another web. Electrically conductive media is formed on the ring and on the interior cylindrical member. The switch is mounted on a board having multiple stationary contacts that can be contacted by the conductive surfaces on the ring and the conductive surface on the interior cylindrical member.
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November 10, 1998
Staco Switch, Inc.
John W. Berger, Ted L. Nichols, Andry Kertatama, James F. Gust
Abstract: A pushbutton switch having an illuminated display or other instrumentation data or control display device is made compatible both with unassisted night time vision of the display as well as vision assisted by a night vision imaging system or night vision goggles. The display is backed with a plurality of selectively activated light sources. Each light source is characterized by a spectral range. At least one of the light sources has a spectral range compatible with the night vision imaging system. At least another one of the light sources has a spectral range compatible with unassisted night vision. In the preferred embodiment, the light source is comprised of a conventional incandescent bulb disposed within a domed glass filter. The domed glass filter has a spectral transmissivity which is compatible with the night vision imaging system. In particular, the filter has a transmissivity approximately equal to either ANVIS Green A, ANVIS Green B, or Yellow.
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Date of Patent:
January 26, 1988
William E. Brannon, James F. Gust, Henry Castro


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Another walk-off in doubleheader sweep for Dickinson
Dickinson and Glendive played two games but with slightly modified squads.
On the heels of a doubleheader split against Bismarck Wednesday night, the Dickinson Roughriders took the field Thursday afternoon as Glendive, out of Montana, came to town.
However, it was a more relaxed doubleheader as both teams had members from their “B” squad on the “A” squads for this one as both coaches had an opportunity to evaluate some younger talent.
Dickinson wound up winning both games, 14-4 in game one and 5-4 in game two, which ended in a walk-off victory for the Roughriders.
The Roughriders put their stamp on game one early as they scored four runs in the first inning. It was a 6-1 lead going into the fifth inning as the Blue Devils put up three runs of their own in the top of the inning.
Dickinson responded with four runs in the fifth and four more in the sixth to make it a 14-4 victory in six innings. Drew Kovash had four RBIs and Isaac Daley chipped in three. Colin Tschetter and Troy Berg led the team with two hits apiece.
Riley O’Donnell, who has not pitched for Dickinson all summer, got his chance to shine on the mound and went four and a third innings with two strikeouts and was scoreless in his first three innings.
Glendive committed five errors as the Roughriders had nine hits to the Blue Devils’ seven.
Only five innings were scheduled to be played in game two as both teams put up three runs in the first inning. Nathaniel Jilek scored on a wild pitch and Landon Olson had a two-run single to score the runs for the hosts.
In the bottom of the third the bases were loaded for the Roughriders, but couldn't get the timely hit needed as the game remained tied.
Glendive took a 4-3 lead in the fourth as Dickinson looked to pull off another walk-off victory in the bottom of the fifth inning.
With runners on first and second, Jadon Bast laid down a bunt to advance both runners, but would reach first base himself as the Blue Devils first basemen made a charge for the bunt and forgot to cover his base.
This loaded the bases for Drew Kovash who delivered with a two-RBI single to walk-it off for the Roughriders, their third of the summer.
Jilek pitched all five innings with five strikeouts while Berg had three hits.
Chase Selle was one of the new faces that Dickinson head coach Tyler Frenzel was impressed with on the day.
“He hasn’t been up with us this year and caught a great game,” Frenzel said. “Had a couple hits and did some nice things for us. It’s nice to evaluate those guys and see if they can play at this level.”
The Roughriders will wrap up their week in Minot on Saturday for a conference doubleheader.
“Always tough games, have to be ready to go,” Frenzel said.

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