That tender discipline: spacing, structured nothingness & kumbhaka

In the discussion that follows here, I will attempt what I have decided to call an onto-poetic reading of the yogic practice of kumbhaka. I choose the double-barrelled nomination 'onto-poetic' since I would like to use my experience of kumbhaka both to think of certain current ontological paradigms and implications, and also to allow myself the flexibility and discipline that I associate with the poetic register. I will draw on three particular thinkers, namely Alain Badiou, Jacques Derrida and Luce Irigaray. Badiou makes very explicit metaontological claims that, I believe, have something to contribute to a reading of kumbhaka. Derrida, for his part, has written extensively about phonologocentrism and its inherent links with speech and breath in the history of phallocentric metaphysics. Irigaray, finally, demonstrates a way to think unity, breath and praxis so as to bring these conceptual strands together in a kind of elegant, but urgent, agency.
What can the very practice of kumbhaka help me to think? And how can such thinking impact on what happens when I practice pranayama that involves kumbhaka? Kumbhaka can be situated as a practice within the broader discipline of Yogic pranayama. Yoga, as it often encountered in this historical moment in the so-called West, can appear to emphasize physical posture (which are certainly as aspect of its breadth). Yoga, however, as a technology of existential and ontological inquiry, has often, throughout its long and meandering history, made use of the manipulation of, and abstinence from, breath. I will begin by cursorily outlining the place of pranayama itself within the yogic canon of practice. Then, I will go on to explain specifically the technology of kumbhaka, before embarking on my onto-poetic discussion.

Evaluation of tender solutions for aviation training using discrete event simulation and best performance criteria

This paper describes a novel discrete event simulation (DES) methodology for the evaluation of aviation training tenders where performance is measured against “best performance” criteria. The objective was to assess and compare multiple aviation training schedules and their resource allocation plans against predetermined training objectives. This research originated from the need to evaluate tender proposals for the Australian Defence Aviation Training School that is currently undergoing aviation training consolidation and helicopter rationalization. We show how DES is an ideal platform for evaluating resource plans and schedules, and discuss metric selection to objectively encapsulate performance and permit an unbiased comparison. DES allows feasibility studies for each tender proposal to assure they satisfy system and policy constraints. Consequently, to create an objective and fair environment to compare tendered solutions, what-if scenarios have been strategically examined to consider improved implementations of the proposed solutions.

Problemas elípticos com potencial que pode tender a zero no in?nito

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Invitation to tender, information for bidders contractor's proposal, contract, bond and specifications. Contract no. P. 1 -

"Bulletins" included in some nos.

Invitation to tender, information for bidders contractor's proposal, contract, bond and specifications. Contract no. 1 -

"Bulletins" included in some nos.

Invitation to tender, information for bidders contractor's proposal, contract, bond and specifications. Contract no. G. 1-

"Bulletins" included in some nos.

United States Treasury notes a legal tender.

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A collection of above three hundred receipts in cookery, physick, and surgery : for the use of all good wives, tender mothers, and careful nurses /

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Tender grass for little lambs /

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