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In principle this would seem reasonable. There’s safety in numbers after all and eating out in a city you don’t know is fraught with problems and let’s face it, an appetite is a terrible thing to waste!

Secret sauce

TripAdvisor won’t reveal exactly how their algorithm works but the way they rank restaurants and hotels is based on the scores in reviews submitted, with checks designed to root out fake reviews, and a certain weighting given to the ‘velocity’ of reviews, so a new place has a chance of ranking against long-established places with a huge body of reviews.

Check your own city

One easy way to decide whether you can trust the rankings for a city you’ve never been to is to look instead at those for a city you live in. Do you agree, in general, with the rankings given? A year or so ago Prague had 6 Indian restaurants in the top 30. Based on my own experience of them there’s no way most these places deserved to be there. Since then TripAdvisor seem to have improved their fake review detection. Right now I agree with the restaurants in Prague’s top 10, by and large, though their positions aren’t necessarily representative. In first place is Bellevue, which admittedly does have great views, especially if you get a window table, of Charles Bridge and Prague Castle. But if you take the view away, V Zatisi, owned by the same group and located a very short walk away, is far superior in my opinion. Bellevue draws the TripAdvisor crowd because of the views though.

Restaurants is a broad category

You’ll find that wine bars, cafés and cocktail bars in the top 10, not just restaurants. It’s nice that they’re in there but it can be a bit confusing.

Who is writing the reviews?

One thing you’ll notice is that locals very rarely write reviews, it’s usually people on vacation who make reference to TripAdvisor and then return to write their own review. TripAdvisor features reviews by travellers from all over the world, so a place that might appeal to a particular nationality might not be to your taste.

Self-reinforcing system

This means that ‘velocity’ aside, if a place ranks in the top 10 then it’s hard for it to be toppled providing it performs at least acceptably – places in the top 10 get more reviews because more TripAdvisor users go there.

Do your homework

If you’ve picked out a few places from TripAdvisor’s list, read through some of the reviews and see how well they’re written. Is it in poor English? Overly effusive with praise? Do you trust the individual reviews and how does that affect your perception of the rest of the reviews. It’s also worth checking online for reviews by professional reviewers (many cities in Europe have English-language newspapers, such as The Prague Post and you can sometimes find reviews of far-flung restaurants in the travel section of the NYT, Telegraph and other newspapers’ websites). Food bloggers can also be an invaluable source for independent reviews. At the very least you’re likely to see what the dishes look like (also check for photos).

So, can you trust TripAdvisor’s restaurant reviews?

If you approach the reviews as what they are – comments written by people like you, visiting a city, and often only eating at a place once, then they provide a useful pointer on places to eat. After that do a little extra research of your own to confirm your selections.

Planning a trip to Europe? We’d love to put together a Europe travel package just for you. Get in touch to find out more!

Charlie takes care of the marketing side of things at JayWay Travel. A long-term Prague resident, his interests are cooking, eating out, cycling, skiing and travel.

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Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers: Just Coolin’ (Blue Note)

A review of the unreleased 1959 album from the drummer-led group

Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers: Just Coolin'
The cover of Just Coolin’ by Art Blakey & the Jazz Messangers

This previously unreleased March 1959 studio session captures the Jazz Messengers in a period of transition. Benny Golson had departed; Wayne Shorter had not yet arrived. In the interim, the tenor chair was filled by Hank Mobley, who’d been a member of the original Messengers, appearing on their breakout albums At the Café Bohemia, Volumes 1 and 2, recorded in 1955 and released the following year.

 Jazz itself was also transitioning during this time; bebop had morphed into the funkier, more roots-driven hard bop (due in no small part to Art Blakey and the Messengers’ pioneering work), and the even rootsier Saturday night/Sunday morning amalgam that became known as soul-jazz was on the horizon (several musicians here, including Lee Morgan and Bobby Timmons, would be central in this development).

Appropriately, then, these six tracks—half of them penned by Mobley—are buoyed by a hip, streetsy swagger, striding along the nexus between hard bop and soul-jazz. Mobley, alternately beguiling and blues-drenched, sounds in places almost like a tenorized Lou Donaldson, his characteristic flashes of humor adding both spice and hipster irony to his lines; Morgan imbues his usual technical virtuosity with fiery emotionalism, as if to give a workshop in the ongoing bop/hard-bop evolution. Timmons’ solo work is slyly understated but punctuated with spiky jabs, scurries, and curlicues. Blakey may be a bit more restrained than usual, yet he remains determinedly in control, relentlessly inspiring (compelling?) the soloists to alter their mood or rhythmic approach—or, sometimes, just ratchet things up to a higher level—with a well-placed kick, cymbal fusillade, or press roll.

Until now, the only extant documentation of this Messengers unit had been At the Jazz Corner of the World, recorded at Birdland by Alfred Lion a few weeks later. Although the “without-a-net” creative tension of a live performance is necessarily missing here, this is an invaluable opportunity to hear a short-lived but significant incarnation of one of jazz’s most fabled groups.

Learn more about Just Coolin’ on Amazon!

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David Whiteis

David Whiteis is a critic, journalist, and author based in Chicago. He is the recipient of the Blues Foundation’s 2001 Keeping the Blues Alive Award for Achievement in Journalism. His books include Southern Soul-Blues (U. of Illinois Press, 2013) and Chicago Blues: Portraits and Stories (U. Of Illinois Press, 2006). He is currently at work completing a book on contemporary Chicago blues and a co-written autobiography of the late soul singer Denise LaSalle.

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Cory Smythe: Accelerate Every Voice (Pyroclastic)

A review of the pianist's second album on Pyroclastic

Cory Smythe: Accelerate Every Voice
The cover of Accelerate Every Voice by Cory Smythe

File under jazz? New music? Classical? Free improvisation? Try all of the above. The sonic language that Cory Smythe has brought to his own recordings as leader, and to his work as a collaborator and sideman, blurs any lines.

Smythe’s multifaceted, cerebral approach to music-making isn’t a surprise, considering that he’s played with Anthony Braxton, Tyshawn Sorey, and Vijay Iyer. A trio of records under his own name (2011’s Pluripotent, 2017’s A U T O TROPHS, and 2018’s Circulate Susanna) demonstrated the command he possesses on piano and electronics. Now he’s taking his compositional techniques to a new level with Accelerate Every Voice, his second effort for pianist Kris Davis’ Pyroclastic label.

According to the press release, Smythe may have been inspired by Lift Every Voice, Andrew Hill’s exquisite 1970 album that married jazz with a large choir, but Accelerate Every Voice occupies its own realm. Alongside a vocal quintet of Kyoko Kitamura (voice), Michael Mayo (voice, looper), Raquel Acevedo Klein (voice), Steven Hrycelak (vocal bass), and Kari Francis (vocal percussion), Smythe creates hectic, feathery sound-worlds that rest on a similar improvisatory plane to the music of Amirtha Kidambi, Ka Baird, and Fay Victor. His knotty, playful lightning-speed passages and hypnotic dronescapes are the perfect backdrop for the lush layers of vocal acrobatics that dart and dance throughout these nine compositions.

The spasmodic “Northern Cities Vowel Shift” kicks the program off with a dizzily intricate blast of wordless vocals. The title track follows with even more chaotic time signatures and turbulent conversational interplay that improbably and sublimely meshes. “Marl Every Voice” and “Vehemently” combine melody with psychedelic abstractions and textural beauty, while “Kinetic Whirlwind Sculpture” is an intense drony rumble. The record concludes with “Piano and Ocean Waves for Deep Relaxation,” a 19-minute sprawl of ambient tones. Expansive sound, cutting-edge vision.

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January 5th, 2013

2013 rolls in with a bang
while I crawl back into daydreams

and back to the routine:
email, email, report
issue, error, report

freedom rings in with evening indigos and strawberry milkshakes
she's off!
to lightsabers, biochemistry books, and stuffed germs

2013 rolls in with a whisper
while I resume wrestling with daydreams

and back to the routine:
fear, frustration, sadness
optimism, adventure, joy

He lives
and I live, too
this is where I stand

and deep down inside, I sense
a faint calling
a faint blending
art without canvas, brushes, or paint
mono no aware

2013 rolls in with a smile
while I sit and chat with my daydreams

Characters by many names

When I was in middle school, I crafted many characters. Sometimes I drew them, other times I wrote a character profile, and still other times I imagined scenes. The scenes were more like screencaptures than moving plot lines. It seems that I came up with a new character every day! The A-wing pilot, the medieval musician, the Ellis Island employee, etc. I loved naming them and charting out their eye color, age, interests, etc. At various times, I tried to work these characters into stories, but the pieces never quite seemed to come together. I much preferred leaving them as static entries in a character encyclopedia, harmonizing each with my current moods and interests. They didn't necessarily have dreams or goals - just colors and tones. I felt that each had a very distinctive personality.

I, however, feel more like a chameleon than a personality. I'll be minding my own business and then *magnet* I'm suddenly drawn with an incredible force toward some interest. I quickly tune into the frequency and converse with the interest for some time. My time, money, thoughts, and activities all revolve around it. Then, without warning, it fades into the distance and I continue on my way, devoid of the energy, curiosity, and loyalty that had once strengthened me for the pursuit. I forget what I'd been so obsessed about and forget the adventures I took in the course of exploring that foreign landscape. All the while, I find it hard to picture myself in a holistic way. I still see myself in screenshot, rather than in motion.

Will I be able to see myself in a larger context this year? Will I be able to put the character facets together and find the whole? Will I learn to live in motion? There's only one way to find out.

She picks up her helmet and says to the droid, "Let's go, G2-4T!" His binocular eyes turn to follow, but she's already hopped out the door.

"Wait for me!" he honks.


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April 11th, 2013

jehoshabeath (old Hebrew)

Wait, I say, on the LORD!

Psalm 39:7
And now, Lord, what do I wait for? My hope is in You.

Psalm 130:5
I wait for the Lord, my soul waits, And in His word I do hope.

Micah 7:7
Therefore I will look to the Lord; I will wait for the God of my salvation; My God will hear me.

Isaiah 25:9
And it will be said in that day: "Behold, this is our God; We have waited for Him, and He will save us. This is the Lord; We have waited for Him; We will be glad and rejoice in His salvation."


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(More) about goals and success

Before my last site was taken down as I didn’t want to give them money anymore, I had a post about measuring success vs goals and so on. Being the lazy punk I can sometimes be, I decided it better to write a new post (because new is better) instead of digging the old one back up.

Much of this has been prodded to my recent endeavor of devouring Felicia Day’s memoir “You’re Never Weird on the Internet (Almost).” Why? Because she is a person I admire who has had great success in fields either directly related to things I want to do, or things very similar. I like examining people who are more successful than I am so that I can feel miserable about how I haven’t made anything work (specifically in my writing) and now I am 37 and not getting anywhere.

Oh my god I am a failure.

Reminding myself that I am not really a failure is tough. After all I just read about Felicia who is 6 months my junior and is hugely successful in her own right. (I am using Felicia as my example for this post, but there are others… I am using you, Felicia!) I have to remind myself often that my life is VERY different from the others I compare myself to. I didn’t grow up like Felicia did (despite both of us being military brats) and even though we may be similar in ways, we are entirely different in other ways. Comparing can be good, but in these cases, it is downright dangerous. In fact, I had even put a note on an old notebook to never compare to avoid these pratfalls.

I need to look inward to see why I am a failure… and you know what? Something else shows.

My life is the following:

  • I am married with a son
  • I have a full-time job that allows my wife to stay home and raise our son.
  • I have worked full time or more (often 2 jobs and even 2 full time jobs at one time) since I was 18.
  • I’ve worked over 8 years alone in an engineering/leadership role (all without a BS degree)
  • I am currently employed as a technical manager (again, w/o a BS)
  • While working full time since 18, I had over 8 years of also attending college at least with a half-load of courses.
  • I attended an Ivy League school (although I dropped out) while I worked an engineering level job.
  • I have written 3 full novels so far, several novellas, several short stories, and more all while dealing with family, work, school, etc in addition to the numerous projects in varying stages.

The above list isn’t entire in what I’ve done or where my life is. What it does say is that I am not a failure. But when I look at paltry to nonexistent sales on my books and even fewer views on my site or profiles, it is hard not to see me as a sham. Oh what have I done with my life?!

But, it is all about with how I choose to measure my success. As I want to make my career in writing, my measure of success is tied there. Thusly I look like I am a failure.

Obviously based on the above information, I am anything but.

But that is where I need to change how I look at the entire concept of success. Let’s say for instance that I was unmarried, had no kid, worked only a retail job (no insult to those who work retail, I am just in a higher-level job now), didn’t go to college, and lived with my parents, then I would definite reasons to call myself a failure for my writing. But when I have gotten as far as I have, it really does not matter that I haven’t made it yet with my writing career.

I have to be comfortable with that.

That’s where this all leads me. No matter who you are and where you’re at in regards to dreams, you must take a look at what you have accomplished not just in your quest but also in your life as a whole before even considering yourself a failure. It is most certainly not to make excuses; it is to illustrate that success is measured in multiple ways. So you’re not a blockbuster novelist or a singing sensation, but you’ve raised a family while working and going to school? Cut yourself some slack. Keep at it and some day it just might work out. And if it never does, then just change how you measure success and it’ll all be just fine.

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JFrog Jumpstarts Asian Expansion in China

Press Release, February 23, 2017

The Company Behind The Universal DevOps Solution is Entering the Chinese Market

BEIJING, Feb. 23, 2017 /PRNewswire/ — JFrog, the leading DevOps accelerator, is announcing its expansion into the Chinese market. With the expansion, JFrog is announcing Jiewa (“the magnificent frog” in Mandarin) Technology, which will also provide local technical support and DevOps services.

JFrog is on a mission to empower companies with the ability to release software faster through universal solutions for the management, distribution, and security scanning of binary software artifacts. With its new expansion, JFrog is continuing to solidify its status as a global solution for software development organizations, in multiple industry sectors throughout the world.

A Chinese-language website will be launched to support the local community, jfrogchina.com, which will include JFrog’s technical documentation and will also be hosting marketing events and webinars throughout China.

The company has already begun working with some of China’s top companies, including Huawei Technologies, China Merchants Bank, Tencent, and Didi Chuxing.

China’s leading ‘High efficiency Operations’ (GOPS) community Founder, and DevOpsDays China co-establisher Xiao Tian Guo said: “The timing is perfect for JFrog to enter the Chinese market. JFrog already has a significant number of important customers in China and this is just the beginning of JFrog’s growth as local enterprises realize the value of fast software releases and automation. China’s largest enterprises are embracing DevOps, and JFrog is the leading universal solution to accelerate this adoption.”

JFrog is the leading universal solution for software management and distribution for all DevOps needs. JFrog’s four products, JFrog Artifactory, the Universal Artifact Repository, JFrog Bintray, the Universal Distribution Platform, JFrog Mission Control, for Universal Repository Management, and JFrog Xray, Universal Component Analyzer, are used around the world and available as open-source, on-premises and SaaS cloud solutions. Customers include some of the world’s top brands, such as Amazon, Google, MasterCard, Netflix, Barclays, Cisco, Oracle, Adobe and VMware.

“It was important for us to begin our Asian expansion in China, as it’s one of the most advanced and competitive markets for software development,” said Shlomi Ben-Haim, CEO of JFrog. “We already have some of China’s top companies as enterprise clients who implemented Artifactory and Bintray, and we plan on continuing to provide a truly universal solution for the DevOps world. We’re excited to announce our local leadership team in China, headed by George Hurn-Maloney. George brings an amazing combination of vast experience in the DevOps domain and the Chinese market. George will lead the local team that will build an access road connecting the local DevOps community in China with JFrog.”

The company received $50 Million in funding at the beginning of 2016, that is deployed into its hyper growth. JFrog is privately held and operated from Israel, California and France. More information can be found at jfrog.com.

About JFrog:

Founded in 2008 JFrog happily serves over 3,000 customers, and powers the open-source community with over 1.3 Billion downloads of binaries a month. JFrog was also recently ranked by Deloitte as one of the top 50 fastest growing technology companies for the second year in a row, and voted as one of Silicon Valley’s fastest growing private companies.

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Jean Yamashiro Honored by Jikoen Buddhist Women’s Association

On the February 2, 2019, the Jikoen Buddhist Women’s Association honored Jean Yamashiro for the work she has done to sustain Jikoen. Her unfailing good humor, patience, kindness, and willingness to work combine to create a place of warmth and support. Jean’s life is truly an example of a Buddhist life of gratitude and love.

Jean Yamashiro, A Buddhist Life

Jean was the first of four children. She lived on Liliha Street when it consisted of grocery stores and small businesses. The household Jean grew up in was simple. For example, her family did not have a phone. They went to the grocery store to receive and make phone calls. The family’s mode of transportation was the bus until 1948, when they purchased their very first car. On very special occasions, they took the taxi, which had a mini-fan on the dashboard! This precursor to air conditioning was considered a luxury.
Jean attended Liliha Elementary School where she starred in both, “Tubby the Tuba” and “Hansel and Gretel” at the LEAD! The fact that Jean was a budding actress is little known but true. The family moved to Kapahulu where she attended Kaimuki Intermediate and graduated from Kaimuki High School in 1954.
Being the oldest, Jean had the responsibility of boiling several pots of water for the family’s baths and cooking dinner Monday through Saturday. Her mother did not get home from work until 9:00 pm. Like her mother, Jean was a very hard worker. Not only did she do her chores, but also worked at Bill’s Bakery on Kapahulu Ave. after school.
After graduating from the University of Hawaii with a degree in Nursing in 1958, she started her career at The Children’s Hospital on Kuakini Street, which is now the Rehab Hospital of the Pacific. She then went on to work as a Registered Nurse at Windward Pediatrics.
She met a handsome young man, Katsuo Yamashiro, while on a moonlight picnic at the beach. Jean and Katsuo were married on October 8, 1960. They have two sons, two daughters, seven grandchildren and five granddogs. They have been on many adventures together. They have traveled to the Big Island, Kauai, Maui, California, Oregon, Washington, Alaska, Colorado, Arizona, Nevada, Washington DC, Japan Okinawa, Australia, and Europe. They also have done a tour of the National Parks.
After their children became independent, Jean and Kats decided to seek spiritual guidance, which led them to Jikoen. Jean is a very caring and nurturing person, always there to help and care for her grandchildren. She finds time even with her busy schedule to watch her grandchildren at gymnastics, swimming, baseball and volleyball. Her most satisfying moments come from watching her grandchildren grow into young men and women. She also enjoys crossword puzzles and jigsaw puzzles.
It is fitting the Jikoen Buddhist Women’s Association honors and thanks Jean for her tireless work on behalf of Jikoen Temple. When you are in the presence of her smile, her kindness, her patience, and her great caring, you know instantly that you are in the presence of a Buddhist life unfolding. Thank you, Jean, for all you do for Jikoen.


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Asset Protection Manager (Sears 1654 - Media, PA) in Media, PA at Sears

Date Posted: 8/3/2020

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Req/Job ID: 997929BR
Employing Entity: Transform SR LLC
Employment Category: Regular, Full-time
Job Function: Asset Protection/Loss Prevention
Store ID: 01654: Sears Media PA

Non Negotiable(s)/Critical Success Factors: • Owns shrink and safety results for assigned area(s) and supports the Loss Prevention five play strategy • Manages the training, detection, investigation and successful resolution of all internal high dollar and sensitive investigations within assigned store. • Ensures all training in the detection and detention of shoplifters including certification has been completed in assigned store • Conducts assessments of Loss Prevention and operational performance that impacts shortage control. Actively works with store team in the development and implementation of action plans to improve performance. • Knowledgeable in the areas of safety, food safety (Kmart/Essentials/Grand), OSHA and environmental programs, and ensures implementation and compliance in assigned store • Reviews safety and food safety inspections (Kmart/Essentials/Grand) on a regular basis. Ensures the timely and accurate reporting of results and assists in the development and implementation of corrective actions. • Recruits, hires, trains, and supervises the Loss Prevention Associates and Leads within assigned store • Ensures accurate and timely report writing, record keeping and retention of evidence by conducting periodic reviews • Ensures the proper operation and repairs of alarm, EAS and CCTV equipment • Educates and motivates store associates to achieve shrink, workers compensation and general liability goals • Works as a liaison between the store and the criminal justice community • Demonstrates courageous leadership by identifying and communicating potential ethical or safety issues that must be addressed at a higher level. • Manages and ensures reporting of critical incidents in assigned area of responsibility • Ensures follows-up on required inventories and audits in order to control costs and shrinkage

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Requirements -Excellent communication (both verbal and written) and presentation skills -High ethical standards -Understanding of retail as it relates to inventory control, safety, and profit contribution -College degree or equivalent experience


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State Licensed Plumber - Qualifier (MO) in St. Louis, MO at Sears

Date Posted: 7/13/2020

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Req/Job ID: 995679BR
Employing Entity: Transform SR Home Improvement Products LLC
Employment Category: Regular, Full-time
Job Function: Repair/Installation
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If you’re at all familiar with discussions in contemporary spirituality in general or Integral Spirituality in particular, then you know that “spotting the shadow” and “integrating the shadow” are essential aspects to obtaining the sought-after goals of integration and wholeness.

Integralists didn’t invent this concern with the human shadow (credit there goes to the Jungians who used the term to refer to an unconscious portion of the personality or collective). What they did, notably, was insist that the psychological process of incorporating the shadow needs to be honored within any path of human development that deserves the evaluation of “integral”.

Although this point seems common sense to many of us today, it was a bold assertion at the time. The streams of wisdom that go by the names of psychology and spirituality have often flowed down entirely separate sides of the mountain. Religious thinkers and philosophers had been opining on the nature of the human good for thousands of years without having formulated an elaborate theory of the unconscious mind.

To say that 20th century depth psychologists starting especially with Freud had created something so important and enduring in significance that it needed to be elevated into the very definition of good spirituality was tantamount to heresy for many people. After all, the tradition of psychoanalysis apart from the Jungians was not known to be friendly to religious belief (Freud having notably damned religion as “the future of an illusion”).

So anyone today who steps into the Integral Spirituality lineage inherits a complex array of influences that don’t obviously go together: Buddha and Freud, Yahweh and Jung, psychoanalysis of the shadow and the Cosmogenesis of de Chardin. In developing  coherent theories to merge psychological and spiritual insights, several new ideas had to emerge: the spectrum of consciousness, the pre/trans fallacy, the quadrants, the shadow 3-2-1 process, the unique shadow, shadow in trauma theory, etc., in a constantly emerging process (Ken Wilber, the leading integral theorist in our day, has gone through at least five major periods of evolution in his philosophy).

One of the most important ways that psyche and spirit meet in Integral Spirituality is in the notion that the psychologists and sages are both pointing us towards the need to reconcile polarities of human experience. In No Boundary, Ken Wilber wrote:

If you disregard the technical jargon of any shadow therapist, and just listen to the overall drift of his conversation, you will find that what he says follows a certain pattern. If you say you love your mother, he will say you unconsciously hate her. If you say you hate her, he will say you unconsciously love her. If you say you can’t stand being depressed, he will say you actually court it. If you say you hate being humiliated, he will say you secretly love it. If you are passionately involved in a religious, political, or ideological crusade to convert others to your beliefs, he will suggest that you don’t really believe in them at all, that your crusading is merely an attempt to convert your own disbelieving self….

This starts to sound silly, but under all the apparently convoluted logic, therapists, whether they realize it or not, are simply confronting you with your own opposites…. Since the opposites cannot exist without each other, if you aren’t aware of both of them, you will send the rejected pole underground. You will render it unconscious, and thus project it. You will, in short, create a boundary between the opposites, and thus generate a battle. But this is a battle that can never be won, only perpetually lost in way after painful way, because the two sides are actually aspects of each other.

The shadow, then, is simply your unconscious opposites.

4 shadows or 5?

Now if I wasn’t basically on board with all that, I wouldn’t be writing a blog about Integral Spirituality. And for sure, I’ve spent many hours in shadow work containers and men’s work groups listening to feedback that helped me to spot my shadow. Looking into the psychological shadow when it shows up to cause problems is necessary and valuable. I don’t feel a particular need to reinforce this point, nor do I want to attempt to add to the considerable high-quality psychological theory on the subject from Jungian and Wilberian angles. If this is new territory for you, check out “The Shadow Series” on Ken’s blog and the chapter on shadow work in Integral Life Practice.

Instead, what I want to do is tell you a new story about the human shadow that I have found useful in my own life. As with many of the stories I tell, it is derived from an analysis of Lingua-U and The Kalendar, the Integral Konstructs that I am bringing into the world. It does not necessarily align with what others have told you about shadow. If you find that it is a bit shocking, don’t be distressed. It took me a while to get used to this story and allow it some room to dance as one of the dancers on the dance floor, one possible perspective to take.

Here goes. I realize you don’t have the benefit of seeing the entire Konstructs laid out before you at this time, but there is no reason not to show the cards I’m holding. So just take what works for you and leave the rest behind.

If you are obsessed with psychodynamic shadow work, you are dwelling in the dramas of The Golden Egg, probably in a stuck place at the Week of the Shark (see the fin! it was here a minute ago, now it’s gone! bet you can’t see the whole shark!) In terms of the Integral colors, this is the §4.6 perspective, near the beginning of “Teal” in the STAGES model (although in my model it’s still the tail of the Green dog). The first-person: “I”. The second-person: “you”. The third-person: “it”. The fourth-person: “the system”. But now that system is in eclipse, half hidden by the emergence of a fifth entity, unseen and unknown. That is the shadow.

The Golden Egg is just one of Nine Months! Shadow work is not central to any other month of the entire sacred calendar, just this one. But every month has something similar in its make-up: a point around the §X.6 perspective where the month’s most threatening disruption has just appeared (at the deep end of §X.5, usually at the Majestic at the Seat of Motion) and sent everything haywire. Now, at this perilous moment, the month’s essential drives reassert themselves at the Seat of Actualization. If the story of each month were a screenplay, the Seat of Actualization would be around page 60 or 65, probably tied to the fullest-yet appearance of the villain in the story.

In The Black Stone, the purest yang of any month, at §1.6, the Throne of Agency, the Protective-Mind has experienced its Personhood and sensed the emergence of Polarity within itself, thus given rise to Passiveness and awareness of the Past in view to the Present. Before §1.6, you might say that the Passiveness was basically the shadow of the first major consciousness structure. The Passiveness is the yang to the yin of Power, what it secretly desires and fears. It was hidden behind a mask of pure yang, but it had not yet arrived at mature Agency. At last, the implicit “I” emerges, but the “you” is veiled from sight. Shadow isn’t really the best term, is it? This is a story about the Body and its Primordial drives and impulses, its finding its own perspective and place, and not complex psychodynamic maneuvers.

In The Red Jewel, with yin at the second mark giving an intellectual air, at the deep end of §2.5 the Formal-Mind experiences a focus on Theorizing, Theosis, and Theology in response to even more primordial Fear drives. In turn, this gives rise to §2.6, the Throne of Thaumaturgy, which comes face to face with death (Thanatos). Thanatos takes the role of a villain who can wipe out the Faith and Theology. The “I” and “you” were known, but now “it” has shown itself with the roar of Thunder and it seems formidable and unknowable. It is basically the shadow of the second major consciousness structure, though really what we are talking about here is not a highly complex psychodynamic process of repression and projection. We are talking about a growing awareness of the Fragility of life and the need for Thaumaturgical (magical, ritualistic) responses in order to Synthesize an adequate response.

In The Brown Sword, with yung at the second mark, the deepest crisis — at the deep end of §3.5, is suggested by the words Torque, Torah, Torture, Torn, and Toll. Basically what we are talking about is the pain linked to self’s obligations to society and various dualisms including deity/devil, creating a twisting and turning motion that threatens the integrity of the self. Thus, at §3.6, the Throne of Truth, the villain of Tabulations and Taxes and Tallies and Tangents appears. In a world which had been dominated by three perspectives only — the “I”, “you”, and “it”, there is now obviously something else that is keeping score. It holds cards at the table as an unseen player, and it can be… terrifying and tormenting. The fourth-person perspective is coming into awareness now, leading to the awareness of Trinities and Triune realities through the pursuit of Truth.

Arriving at last at The Golden Egg, the deepest crisis is suggested at §4.5 by the words Showing Up, Shogun, Showmanship, and Shoulders. Picture, if you will, the actor starring in an ad for a pharmaceutical designed to treat social anxiety disorder. Or, like the Atlas of Greek myth, he feels that he must carry the burdens of the whole world on his Shoulders. She or he is us, at §4.6, beset with the need to manage our lives amidst increasingly complex social relationships perceived in both inner and outer dimensions. In response, the villain appears in a new guise, not Passivity, not Thanatos, not Tabulations/Taxes, but Shadow. What lies beyond the “I”, “you”, “it”, and “system”? It is the awareness that systems are arranged in a pattern matching the spirit of Evolution. The “meta-system” is stalking from the future.

Nothing the Systemic-Mind has known has quite prepared it for addressing a thrilling force that threatens to make everything Shambles, razing it to Shunyataa with the force of 10,000 Shambhala Warriors. The fifth-person perspective is on its way now. The wizard Gandalf has called for Shadowfax, but the White Horse is nowhere yet to be seen.

They’ve told you that shadow is simply your unconscious opposites. That explanation worked for a while, but it’s too simple, isn’t it? That’s the concept of shadow only, not shadow itself. Or, shadow as it feels like in this particular measuring-spoon, anyways.

Shadow is better described, I feel, as the Shunting of Additions Which Have Not Yet Been Dualized.

Shadow Work is not really making the unconscious conscious. It is better described as a Shagging of Dualisms Through the Ethos of Shambhala, the Spiritual Warrior.

Shadow isn’t really the universal phenomenon as depth psychologists and Integral theorists alike have made it out to be.

Yes, shadow work is central to resolving the crisis at §4.6 in The Kalendar model of human nature; it is key to the work of the ArcheStation of The Evolutionary.

Before the rise of The Evolutionary, it was not an important concern to any one of the three major ArcheStations or nine minor ArcheStations.

After this station, The Polisher/The Educator, in the other 5.33 Months of The Kalendar, and the remaining five major ArcheStations and 16 minor ArcheStations … well … we’ll see, won’t we?

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Online retailers need customer focus to bridge trust gap

The greatest hurdle to E-Commerce in Kenya is the retailers inability to surmount the trust threshold which is the deep, dark abyss that exists between sales inventory and purchase intent. The West cut their teeth on the mail order retail system which exists in many countries, and it was this system that laid the foundation and infrastructure to usher in online retail successfully.

When we approach the journey through the lens of the Brand Asset Valuator model then the marketing solutions required become clear to us. The Brand Asset Valuator is arguably the most extensive research ever done around brand equity and it is based on 4 key pillars, namely differentiation, relevance, esteem and knowledge.

As you wrap your mind around this sophisticated marketing jargon, remember that the first port of call for all marketing programmes is the customer, whom you must firmly place at the front and centre of all your strategies. Currently, customers are weary of the online retail infrastructure and doubt the ability of the vendors to meet their demands.

Negative stories about credit card fraud, incomprehensible product catalogues, hidden fees, unexplainable delays and dubious delivery men tend to fuel their fear. Don’t imaging for one minute that there will be a paradigm shift and massive uptake of internet shopping without a 180 degree swing of the present narrative.

Aspiring brands and new concepts need to be founded on differentiation in order to make headway into the market because look-alike products deliver mediocre financial performance. In this case differentiation means that the shopping experience should encompass the razzmatazz afforded by new communication technology through web solutions, mobile applications and intuitive user interfaces.

The online platform that you employ is possibly the greatest factor in the shopping experience as it is practically the first stop that the customer will make. They will not return to your shop if browsing your inventory catalogue compares to solving a Rubik’s Cube or if they require computer science qualifications to review the product specifications and make a simple purchase.

Relevance plays a very important role and this refers to the options and variations that you offer to the customer as well as the logistics systems that are put in place. For heaven’s sake don’t be like the Ford Model T which came in any colour as long as it was black, or limit door-to-door deliveries to Nairobi and Mombasa, covering only 10% of the population as if the rest of the country is just chopped liver.

If your foray into murky waters of online retail is at all to be successful then you must touch the hearts and minds of your customers and nurture them to become brand advocates, and this is where esteem comes in. Nothing kills the self esteem of any self respecting individual than having their integrity questioned… nothing.

So when an order or delivery goes wrong, drop the blame game and promptly replace the product and send them a discount voucher for their next purchase. Remember it is this customer who will pen your internet shop’s review and thus make or break your reputation, so be nice and don’t break their heart.

With those 3 critical pillars in place its only remains to inform the market of your presence and scale up the knowledge of you product among your target audiences. A heavy advertising programme with expansive reach as the objective will get you there. Bare in mind that if it can’t be seen, then it doesn’t exist.

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The film consistently pokes fun at zombie conventions, with the vegan, health-conscious hero very unwilling to shoot infectees in the brain in case there’s a cure and a neat set of plot twists built on the fact that the infection-by-bite depicted in 90% of zombie movies is medically very unlikely (‘you’d have to have a gushing wound actually inside your mouth and even then …’).  Thayer, who has been a supporting comedienne in the likes of Forgetting Sarah Marshall but is here promoted to star, makes an amusing, likeable, sexy heroine and there’s a certain Bringing Up  Baby touch to her teasing of the uptight Ryan, who turns out to be the estranged scion of the pollutuing water company tycoon (Ray Wise, an always-welcome Rankin regular) who is responsible for the plague in the first place and more concerned with keeping the fact quiet that doing anything to help save the town.  Deb is on the sidelines as the Waverly family – including goonish brother Chaz (Chris Marquette), eager to go into survivalist shoot ‘em in the brain mode – and the snippy Stacy continue their longstanding arguments as drooling, brain-hungry zombies stumble after them.

The third act allows a redemptive arc for the leads, as Deb gets to fulfil her lifelong ambition to be in front of the camera to broadcast the news from inside the quarantine zone – but there are also good jokes about the zombified staff of the local TV station, including an ever-smiling newslady whose face is full of so much botox she can’t rot.  It has gore gags and a few trace elements of poignance, but mostly keeps the tone charming and funny.  Given the wide acceptance of zombie movies, this ought to find an appreciative audience as a change of pace within an overcrowded sub-genre.  Author Orson Scott Card (Ender’s Game) has an amusing cameo as a book-hawking pundit in a satirical montage of media reactions to Deb’s broadcast revelations.  Co-written by Andy Selsor.

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Photoville has been showcasing photography in Brooklyn for many years now. They include a vast array of artist’s work, photojournalism and lectures…all about photography. Penumbra Foundation has been shooting tintypes there for almost as long. This year I volunteered to shoot with them for a few hours. It’s almost like shooting at the beach in mid summer, minus the bathing/wet suits and surfers.


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Hagia Sophia, Istanbul, Turkey (National Botanical Garden)

Hagia Sophia miniture constructed of plant material

In 2010 the model railroad display at the National Botanic Garden in Washington, DC features famous structures from around the world. The structures in the display are built using plant materials and display amazing detail.

In this image you can see a modern train streaking across the top of the back drop from left to right. Towards the center right you can see a switch locomotive leaving the tunnel.

This image was captured without the use of a flash or a tripod. It was taken with a Nikon D300 using a Sigma 10-20 mm f/4.0-5.6 lens. ISO 1600, Exposure 1/15 sec at f/6.3.


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A fundamental contradiction for many women in dating

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I’ll tell you a fundamental contradiction in nearly all women seeking men. Though glaringly obvious, most women (and men) I mention it to have never noticed it before.

Point 1: Women don’t want to be evaluated only on appearance

I don’t think I’ve ever met a woman who wants to be evaluated only on her appearance. Every one I’ve talked to wants people to know her personality, history, dreams, etc.

Point 2: Women don’t like men approaching many women

I haven’t met many women who support men approaching and flirting with lots of women. They tend to presume guys who do are looking for superficial relationships.

Contradiction: How does a man learn about a woman besides her looks without talking to her?

You can fantasize that every first meeting will result in two people falling in love, neither ever having to approach or learn about another. Since the world isn’t full of marriages of childhood sweethearts, I think nearly all cases go otherwise.

If women want men to know more about them than their appearances, I think they have to support men approaching different women.

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  1. That’s easy! Talk to one woman at a time.

    Like if I’m at a party and watch a man talk to all the women in the room. Talking to them only for 10 minutes, ask for their numbers and then leaves to talk to the next woman, I won’t give him my number if he comes up to me.

  2. There is a difference in your terminology from your initial point “lots of women” vs “different women” in your conclusion.

    Also, I reread your observation whilst switching women for men and vice versa in each sentence and I think that holds true as well.

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Week Twenty-one! I always had this thought that being more mindful of my time, and being intentional would lead to a sense of time going by slower–since you’re taking everything in and thinking slowly. But time is going by for me just as quickly as ever–I can’t believe July is almost over! Of course, maybe it’s just because it’s good weather, as the cold Canadian winters always feel like they’re at a snail-pace, no matter how much I’m procrastinating.

This week has been rather uneventful, I feel. I’m currently in the Ruby league on Duolingo with a 60-day streak, and I feel like I’m actually beginning to learn French for the first time. Of course, I need to actually apply ways of immersion and application far beyond linguistic and grammar studying.

I also had a small emergency early in the week, and was surprised to see only two of my systems having non-legit derailments because of that. A good sign that I actually am beginning to know what I’m doing. Speaking more on that, the past few months feel like a trial run–showing to myself (and others) that I’m capable of consistent, routine work. Instead of constantly restarting, I have a bit of a foundation now, which is good! But it is just foundation.

I require of myself more concise guidelines for my future: 1-year-plan, 5-year-plan, 10-year-plan, etc. These have a lot more gravity to them than just a daily system. I’m reminded of a quote from E. L. Doctorow:

“Writing is like driving at night in the fog. You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.”

I wish life was like that, and I suppose a sort of life is, but I feel like long-term vision is mandatory when creating momentum for yourself. I’ve noticed it’s almost universal that success is a compound phenomenon–wherein the longer you work at a singular objective, the more exponentially it grows. But that requires both intelligence and wisdom, because there are also conversely those that work on something for a really long time and don’t really have anything to show for it–perhaps because of the sunk cost fallacy.

Anyways, that all being said, I have plans to centralize all the small projects I’m working on (warsaw mountain, journal bar, wander notebook, etc.) in an attempt to unify my work and have something that could actually make an income for myself. I’m really looking for communities (digitally, mostly) of similar-minded people to try to expand my plans, but that’s been rather difficult. I don’t even know where to start with that.


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TY - JOUR AU - Horrocks, Abie AU - Horne, Paul A. AU - Davidson, Melanie M. PY - 2018/07/28 Y2 - 2020/08/07 TI - Demonstrating an integrated pest management strategy in forage- and seed-brassica crops using a collaborative approach JF - New Zealand Plant Protection JA - NZPP VL - 71 IS - 0 SE - DO - 10.30843/nzpp.2018.71.118 UR - https://journal.nzpps.org/index.php/nzpp/article/view/118 SP - 112-120 AB -
An integrated pest management (IPM) strategy was compared with farmers’ conventional pest management practices on twelve spring- and autumn-sown seed and forage brassica crops. Demonstration trials were conducted in Canterbury from spring 2015 to autumn 2017 by splitting farmers’ paddocks in half and applying the two management approaches side by side. A farmer participatory approach was used, with management decisions based on monitoring pests and biological-control agents. Farmer and adviser training with a focus on monitoring and identification was carried out. Biological-control agents capable of contributing to pest control were identified in all brassica crops. There was a 35% reduction in the number of insecticides applied under IPM compared with conventional management, negligible crop yield differences, and the type of insecticides applied was different. IPM adoption at these farms was high by the end of the 3-year project with 11 of the 12 farmers implementing IPM across 90—100% of their brassica crops. This project was a starting point for an industry-wide change of practice to IPM, which has become more widespread since its completion.
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