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Provides guidance to researchers and developers when assessing the suitability of different methods for various applications. The authors focus on the practical aspects of the methods available, such as time complexity and robustness. They also provide multiple examples of parameterizations generated using different methods.

Knowing the Real analytically and critically approaches two themes central to John Hick''s thought: the cognitivity of religions and religious pluralism. Hick''s early attempts to conceive that which can count as a verifying eschatological experience led him to call for a Copernican revolution in theology. In response to criticism that this call aroused, Hick developed a theory of religious pluralism, based on a reading of Kant, that he calls the pluralistic hypothesis.

The poems in Ray of Blue began to shape themselves from the radiance of fullness in the first weeks of the global shutdown in March 2020 brought on by the coronavirus pandemic. Their source didn''t change while humanity confronted, for the first time, its fragility and excesses as a global communal event. These poems arrived as messages from the supreme source of strength and balance. These poems are transcripts of spiritual insights and revelations, which came to me while meditating. Some of the poems are flush with symbolism and rhetorical flourishes while others are plain and didactic. Some arose as multihued jewels from the flaming treasury of the divine consciousness while others reveal truths unadorned with imagery whispered by the supreme teacher within. The verbal jewels appeared on my computer screen as they arose within me with little elaboration. In the didactic poems, I explore a meditative insight in order to amplify its wisdom. To see these poems as revelation is to use a religious expression to suggest that poetry, in its most exalted performances, is a prophetic medium. Poetry is the seeing of the seers and the hearing of the hearers. Whether the poetry of revelation is labeled as poetry or scripture, it is a transmission from the innermost depths of Being. As such, poetry moves on lines of transmission that philosophy at its most intense sees only as a mystery arising on the other shore of its most skilled analyses. And to such heights, science cannot attain, unless it rides upon a chastened philosophy with a humble openness toward those sacred depths, which open their gates only to hearts and minds tutored in devotion and surrender to what ultimately is. I have discovered that I can prime the pump of intuitive revelation by using metrical forms. In The Cloud Stairs, I wrote lines of eight syllables, as is usual in much of Sanskrit poetry (but without noting stress). I have found that waiting for words to arrive under this limitation stills the mind and chastens its fabulist movements. Soon, with the void of silence, syllables appear as revelations of the primordial wisdom, which has guided us from before the dawn of consciousness. Because I am a seer and hearer before I am a poet, the content of the revelatory and visionary seeing that evokes these poems is primary. More important for me than the poetic virtues of these poems is their visionary content. Sometimes poetic skill and revealed imagery converge, while at other times the visionary element is stronger than the words. I let these poems stand because the revealed content overrides the weaknesses of form and style. There is a mystical undercurrent in much poetry, which is a twofold way of using language, first to strip language of its familiar conventional forms, and second, to strip language of itself. This process of linguistic purification allows for verbal free sailing into whatever it is that ultimately is. This is exhilarating when it happens-when reading Zhuangzi and the Upaniṣads, for example. These poems are vehicles for the mind to rise in flight to Spirit, to Brahman, to the Dao, to God, and to the Self. Attend to their imagery in reverent attention until the divine light awakens in you and restores you to unity with itself.

State-regulated investor-owned utilities serve over 70 percent of electricity to final end-use retail consumers in the U.S. Prior to the 1990s, all states used a “cost of service (COS)” regulation regime in which investor-owned utilities were allowed to recover prudently incurred costs plus a rate of return on capital expenditures. From 1996-2000, some states passed electricity market “restructuring” that, over time, required utilities to separate the generation portion of their operations and allowed customers to purchase power from third party providers. This is commonly referred to as “retail choice.” This empirical research examines the effect of restructuring on electricity prices to final consumers. While these policies were generally advertised to reduce rates for final customers, in fact rates increased in restructured states relative to plausible counterfactual synthetic controls. We also find evidence that retail rates in restructured states are more responsive to natural gas price changes, the marginal fuel source during the period of analysis.

"The Morococha district is situated in the Andes of Central Peru, Department of Junin, four miles east of the crest of the Western Cordillera, which there forms the Continental Divide. The town of Morococha is at an elevation of 14,800 feet and is connected by rail with Callao, the port of Lima, ninety miles to the west, and with La Oroya, the smelting center, thirteen miles to the east. The Peruvian Central Railway ascends from Lima along the valley of the Rio Rimac to Ticlio (15,665 feet) where it tunnels through the Divide and descends the Yauli Valley to La Oroya. From Ticlio, a branch line, crossing the Divide at La Cima (15,800 feet), enters Morococha from the west and continues through it to join the main line again at Cut-Off, six miles to the southeast"--Location, leaf 2.

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