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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/57400 | Monday, September 7, 2009
Throttling colleagues
I'm not normally a violent person. The title of this post isn't about my rage issues. It's about what we all need to do to support each other sometimes. I was up on Denver not too long ago, having dinner at Mike Bateman's home. Mike's another writer and Clarion West grad. We talked about quitting and when that's a good idea. I explained to him that I'd throttle him if he even dared try to quit.
Writers talk about quitting all the time. I don't think I've ever met anyone at any stage of their career who doesn't at least joke about it. With a few exceptions, writing require more work for less money than a person can make elsewhere. In law, I could write one memo and earn the same amount I'd get for a first novel advance. It's easy, especially as one watches their stack of rejection letters grow, to want to give up.
It's also impossible. I joke about writing being an obsessive disorder, but I'm not really joking. The feeling that the world isn't okay unless you've spent time with your imaginary friends is a sign that you aren't altogether normal. Now, there are writers without the obsessive disorder who can, and sometimes do, quit. I'm not in that category. My options are to try to sell my writing, or to just let the stories and novels build up on my hard drive and do nothing with them. That would make me depressed. Writer is the one career I want.
I won't speak for Mike, but I think his story's similar. What then, do you do if you can't sell things? I don't know the answers, but I can list some stuff that comes to mind. First, join the club. That's normal. Nearly everyone goes through that, and a lot of it. There are a few who hit a home run on the first try, or seem to, but if you question them, you usually find out about all the little half-written stories and ill-conceived novels mouldering on their hard drive.
Second, don't give up and listen to the people who support you. During the dark times, these people seem like they're just going through the motions, telling you what you want to hear. You can't give in to negative thoughts like that. It's important to remember how difficult you are to deal with while you're complaining about your lack of sales. Anyone who's still encouraging you either means it or is a masochist. (Maybe a little of both.)
Third, have the crises you need to have. We've all seen the movie or read the book about the struggling artist who hits bottom, produces something from the heart, and then makes a ton of money from it. That happens, but more often than not, we hit bottom, have a breakthrough, and still don't sell. Hitting bottom isn't a once in a lifetime experience. Nor is it a momentary, transitory thing. People spend months at "bottom", working through the issues that are preventing their progress. It's a necessary, if unpleasant process. Every now and then it'll net you a sale, but nearly every time it helps you improve and gets you that much closer to netting sales.
Obviously, I don't have all the answers. I guess the only other thing I can think of is that you always need to be honest with yourself about why you write. If you do it for yourself, then do you really need sales? Some people seem to get fulfillment from the act of writing, nevermind who reads it. I'm not in that category. Writing is the only job I've ever really wanted, even if it means bad contracts, hideous cover art, disappointing sales numbers, and little money at the end. All this makes me happier than working my way to partner at a law firm - something I would have achieved this year if I'd stayed on track. I don't and don't think I'll ever regret giving up law. I'd always regret not trying to make it as a writer, and in the end of the day, that's what I need. I need to know that I tried as hard as I could, that if I never make a living this way, it wasn't because I gave up on myself. As long as I do all I can, I can be content with who I am.
Anyhow, those are my random thoughts. Other people will have better, no doubt.
1. Emily, you've got a great way of writing your blogs, I added you to my list. Now, to make a comment on this post....Here is why writers long to be published, even if it does mean bad contracts, covers, sales,etc...(ugh, bad covers are the absolute WORST)...because the process isn't complete unless we have readers, and that's what we hope the publisher will get for us.
It really isn't having our words finally wrapped up in that lovely package called a book. We want people to actually read that book, and hopefully connect with us someway. Why do you think we're all out there blogging? We want to complete the writing process and connect with readers.
Otherwise, what's the point?
2. I think you nailed it, Karen. And thanks for your kind words. I call my blogging style "trying to string together coherent thoughts over the course of an hour while doing three other things at the same time".
It's very nice to meet you, virtually!
3. Same here, and from now on I'll comment on your more current posts instead of the third one down. But I couldn't resist this one. |
global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/57412 | The latest version of EvoSuite is 1.0.6, released on 06/04/18. EvoSuite is compiled with Java 8, and should work on Mac, Linux, and Windows. The source code is released under the LGPL license, and can be found on Github at: Every time we make a new release, we validate it on the SF110 Corpus. That is a collection of more than 23k classes from 110 different open-source projects. Coverage results of this benchmarking can be found here (note, that webpage is several MBs big).
To run experiments with EvoSuite, or to integrate it with other tools, you can download a standalone executable jar that can be used from the command line.
• Executable: evosuite-1.0.6.jar
• Runtime test dependency: evosuite-standalone-runtime-1.0.6.jar If you compile (e.g., “mvn package”) the latest snapshot from the Git repository, then the executable will be in the “master/target” folder with name “evosuite-master-.jar”.
Stable Plugins
Maven plugin
The Maven plugin is automatically downloaded by Maven after the pom.xml files are configured. See Documentation.
IntelliJ IDEA plugin
There is a plugin for IntelliJ IDEA 15. Note: This plugin has only been tested on Mac OS X and Windows 7. It may not work properly on other operating systems. The plugin is hosted directly in the JetBrains plugin repository. See Documentation.
Experimental Plugins
Eclipse plugin
There is a basic experimental Eclipse plugin. Note: This plugin requires Java 8 and has only been tested with Eclipse Mars and Luna, and may not work on other versions of Eclipse. To install it, use the following Eclipse update site:
Jenkins plugin
There is a basic experimental Jenkins plugin available here. To install it, Jenkins provides an “Upload Plugin” option in the “Manage Jenkins” menu, where the evosuite.hpi file can be uploaded and installed. Once installed, the EvoSuite Jenkins plugin runs as a “post-build” step, in which the output of the EvoSuite Maven plugin is displayed on the Continuous Integration (CI) web interface. Note: It requires Jenkins v1.626 or later. |
global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/57413 | Tuesday, April 18, 2017
5 VR Games To Keep You Fit - Exergaming
Doing whole body exercises is clearly one of the best forms of exercises you can do, and boxing is right up there with the best of them. Using your own VR headset you can get pretty active, although I'm not sure how much you'll want to sweat with a headset on. Seems to me to be a good way to get more activity in, or therapy, but not necessarily vigorous exercise. Time will tell! Either way I'd like to challenge an octopus to fight!
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/57441 | Language School Courses
If you are interested in studying in the UK, most universities require you to have a certain level of English language proficiency. If you do not meet this level, or you just want to improve your English before you start your main course, taking an English Language course in the UK is often the best way to learn quickly.
There are a number of different courses you can take, varying in length, intensity and qualification. Here you can find all the information you need to make sure you choose the right course for you.
Why Should I Choose an English Language Course?
Foreign students who do not have English as their first language but want to study at university in the UK are required to prove that they have a good level of English Language proficiency before they are accepted onto most courses. The two most common qualifications used to prove this proficiency are the ‘International English Language EnglishTesting System’, or IELTS and the ‘Test of English as a Foreign Language’, or TOEFL.
For the former, most universities require non-English speaking students to have a score of between 6 and 7.5. For the latter, students can take a paper based test, which requires a score of 550-620 at most universities, or an internet based test which students need to get between 80 and 105.
If your English language levels are not up to this standard then there is no better way to improve them than by attending an English Language course in the UK. By studying English Language in the UK you can learn far quicker, as you become immersed in the language whilst staying in England.
To find out if what level of English your university or college requires, either check their website, or have a look at our directory of the top universities in the UK.
What Different Types of English Course are there?
There are a number of different types of English Language course available to foreign students, and they all last for different lengths of time.
There are English Language Schools and colleges all over the UK. Within the courses that are offered, students have a huge number of choices. Students can study in any way they wish, from part time during evenings and weekends, to full time courses 15 hours a week, to intensive courses 30 hours a week. Similarly
you can study for as long or short an amount of time as you like, ranging from just a couple of weeks, all the up to a whole year.
Many universities offer courses designed specifically for foreign students who are soon starting a degree at that university. These are generally run during the summer before the Englishnext academic year begins in September/October. These ‘Preparatory English Language Courses’ are aimed at students who already have some knowledge of English but just need to improve it. They generally last between 2 and 10 weeks, and each week students will have roughly 20 hours teaching time. Most universities run them between July and September.
Many universities also run longer courses that can last up to 9 months for foreign students. Often these help you with your English language in close connection to the degree you are going to take the next academic year. For example, if you hope to do a Business undergraduate degree starting in 2012, then you could study an English Foundational Programme with Business for nine months in 2011. These not only improve your English, but help you with the academic language that will likely be very important to your undergraduate degree.
Once you have begun your undergraduate or postgraduate course, many universities also offer ‘In-sessional Support’ for foreign students. These are usually free sessions that are run once or twice a week and can be used to keep your English language at a good level.
Once you have decided to take an English language course in the UK, the next step is to choose an institution and apply to it. For a step by step guide to applying, visit our Language School applications section.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/57461 | Search Engine Optimisation – what on earth is that?
It’s a scary phrasSearch Engine Optimisation - SEOe “Search Engine Optimisation” but is so important when building and running a website. It is also known as SEO. This technique makes your website more visible to search engines e.g. Google, Yahoo, Bing etc.
When people are searching for a service on the internet, they will use a word, words or a phrase to find something particular. For instance, if you are looking for a florist who does bouquets in Canterbury, you may use the following words or phrases to find the right service(s).
1. Florist local to Canterbury 2. Canterbury florists 3. Florist bouquet Canterbury 4. Bouquet florist in Canterbury Kent 5. Kent Florists.
It is what we all do but we are more likely to use certain words and phrases to find a particular service. These are known as key words/phrases.
Google can give guidance on words and phrases that people are more likely to type into their search engine. A web designer uses this information to build suitable words and phrases into the design and content of the website to make the website more search friendly and aid its Google ranking.
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Designer Hayes - Saturday, February 28, 2009
A week is a long time in politics. There is always plenty of scope for change - and often that change can be for the better.
I have just returned from the Global Peace Assembly, held in Taiwan at the instigation of the Vice President of Taiwan, Annette Lu. The main speakers were five Nobel Peace Prize Laureates, the largest gathering of such Laureates in east Asia. The Assembly's overall intention was to generate ideas for improving relations between Taiwan and mainland China. The Assembly was very successful in that task.
At the Assembly's opening session I was struck by the wisdom of the remark by the former British Prime Minister Harold Wilson that "a week is a long time in politics". Each of the five Laureates had an inspiring story to tell about the changes they created.
Frederik de Klerk was born into South African politics and in due course became the President of South Africa in 1989. He realized that the old ways of running South Africa on racial lines could no longer work and so he began the process of creating a multiracial South Africa. He released Nelson Mandela (then the world's longest-serving political prisoner) and in 1994 the country held its first free election. Mr Mandela became the President and Mr de Klerk became the deputy president.
Dr Joseph Rotblat was born in Poland and went to England just prior to World War II. He was one of the creators of the atomic bombs. Like Albert Einstein he later developed doubts about nuclear weapons and worked with Einstein in campaigning for general and complete disarmament.
Oscar Arias Sanchez was elected President of Costa Rica in 1986. He played a leading role in bringing peace to a number of Central American countries caught up in conflicts.
Lech Walesa was an electrician in the shipyard at Gdansk in Poland who in 1980 led strikes for political reform against the communists. He formed the Solidarity movement in 1981 and he became President of a free Poland in 1990.
Jody Williams describes herself as an "ordinary working class American". She was the founding co-ordinator of the International Campaign to Ban Landmines in 1992. The campaign led to the creation of a treaty to ban landmines in 1997 (one of the first decisions of the incoming Howard Government in Australia was to ratify the treaty).
Listening to each of these inspiring stories I was struck by how each person has made the world a better place by their determination to make a difference. Each person began in a small way in taking on an immense task. But they were not deterred by the size of the task - and they have been successful.
By the way, our host Vice President Annette Lu has her own inspiring story and also bears out the truth of Harold Wilson's comment about the pace of change in politics. In 1979, at a time when her country was a dictatorship, she made a 20 minute speech on human rights and was then sent to prison for 12 years. After five years in prison she developed cancer and was released to undergo treatment. In the late 1990s, Taiwan became a democracy. She entered politics and became Vice President in March 2000 - the highest-ranking woman to be elected to office in 5,000 years of Chinese history.
The moral of all this: is that individuals can make a difference and that one should not be deterred by the size of the challenge to make the world a better place. |
global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/57473 | On this day: Lake Peigneur Drained
In a major industrial ‘oops’, on this day 34 years ago, a man-made disaster drained Lake Peigneur in Louisiana. Although the exact cause isn’t known, it is believed that an oil rig miscalculated its position and drilled into a vast…
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On this day: Geography Awareness Week
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On this day: First Person to go over Niagara Falls in a Barrel
On October 24, 1901, Annie Edson Taylor became the first person to survive a trip over Niagara Falls in a barrel. A cat used as a test subject a couple of days earlier survived with only a cut to the…
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On this day: World Egg Day
Scrambled? Fried? Poached? However you like them, today is World Egg Day. What better way to celebrate than with the self-proclaimed ‘World’s Largest Egg‘ in Winlock, WA? This 4m (12’) egg would make a lotta omelette if , you know,…
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On this day: Talk Like a Pirate Day!
ARRRRRRRRRRRRR! It be talk like a pirate day. Afore ye find yerself becalmed, feast yer eyes on this grand vessel used in a nightly pirate-themed show at the finely-named Treasure Island casino in Las Vegas (Avast! That’s nowhere near the…
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/57493 | Saturday, November 16, 2013
Article: A Year of Reading Around the World
I have done a number of challenges, but Ann Morgan, a journalist and author, took on the idea of reading one book from every single country in just one year. That's one book per 1.87 days!
I just think it's so great that she did it, had awesome interactions with people around the world about it, and I hope it inspires me to branch out a bit more in my reading. I do fairly well at reading books from outside the US, but I could definitely do better.
Here is an article about her experience
Here is the list of books she read by country
And here is a link to her blog, A Year of Reading the World.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/57508 | So, you are using the e text editor and try to run a bundle only to be confronted with the following:
ruby: no such file to load – ubygems (LoadError) ruby: no such file to load – ubygems (LoadError)
After doing some digging it turns out the cause is the RUBYOPT=-rubygems environment variable that is set by the Windows one-click Ruby installer. Now, if you have not got rubygems installed you might be able to get away with simply unsetting the RUBYOPT environment variable (although YMMV).
However, as e text editor makes use of Ruby via Cygwin, another solution is to modify your .bashrc file:
Try this:
Go to the cygwin bash prompt. If you don't know how to get there, use Start -> Run -> c:\cygwin\cygwin.bat.
echo unset RUBYOPT >> .bashrc
. .bashrc
If you see:
You should be good to go.
But what worked for me - and I don’t know whether this has anything to do with me having Ruby installed under Windows and under Cygwin - was making the same changes to .bashrc outlined above to my .profile script (so simply replace .bashrc with .profile in the quoted text above).
Hopefully at least one of these methods should work for you. |
global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/57516 | Marijuana and Panic AttacksCredit: Photo by WahoogaCredit: Photo by Wahooga
Marijuana use is a subject of confusion for many people. In some countries, it’s legal while in others it’s a banned substance. It’s sometimes used to treat chronic illnesses like cancer, AIDS and other sicknesses that come along with chronic pain. In fact, looking back, marijuana was historically used by many native tribes as a relaxation drug. So why is there a strong advocacy against its use Today? Well, today marijuana and panic attacks seem to almost go hand in hand and that is a big part of the reason why many health bodies and governments are against its use.
To understand better the changes to marijuana over the years that has made it become a banned substance in many places, we need to look at its history and then its effects on the brain, and how anxiety disorders and marijuana related problems started to happen. Let’s start by looking at how it has changed over the years.
Natural marijuana, what you would grow in your garden, is actually a drug that in its pure form has the same effect that you would get from having sex or eating a piece of chocolate. It goes to the pleasure centres in the brain and triggers relaxation and a feeling of mild euphoria, transforming one into a state where they can think more clearly. Some history says that Chinese men of old, whose wisdom has come down the generations, would sit together, smoke natural marijuana and then ponder over a matter until they found an answer to it. It had good uses back then.
The active chemical that causes this reaction is delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol or THC. Over the years though, as commercialism increased, people found out that by adding various other chemicals, marijuana would cause addiction and therefore trade would increase as addicts would keep coming back for more. The only problem with this is that the chemicals that are added have negative effects on the brain. They work completely differently from the way natural marijuana would. There are now numerous compounds in street-bought marijuana and the problem is that it’s almost impossible to tell which they are; different people will add different chemicals, and the more addictive it gets, the more chemicals they put in. That’s why you will find so many anxiety disorders and marijuana related complications.
The effect of this kind of adulterated marijuana on the brain brings us to the connection between marijuana and panic attacks. When one inhales marijuana, it moves quickly through the lungs to the blood stream and into the brain, targeting areas that have cannabinoid receptors. Some areas of the brain have more receptors than others and the ones that have the most are the ones responsible for pleasure, memory, thinking, concentration, sensory and time perception, and coordinated movement. In some people though, the receptors will react in the opposite manner, making them get hallucinations, imagine that they are in danger, lose their breath and generally get panic attacks and marijuana related problems.
In fact, more than half of marijuana users will admit to a panic attack at least once in their lifetime. This happens because with continued ingestion of all the additional chemicals, the brain starts to change from its natural state. Where it would have felt pleasure and relaxation, it now starts to send messages of fear, feelings that are heightened and perceptions that are not real. The result, of course, is that since the user is on a high and has little control over their actions, their bodies will react to these messages and they will go off into some kind of spin which is basically a panic attack. Some people will in fact become violent and lash out.
Can Marijuana Directly Cause Panic Attacks?
As described earlier, yes, especially with continued use. If you are a user there is one thing that you MUST be aware of. The people who manufacture the marijuana that you buy keep on adding chemicals into it that make it addictive. The result is that you keep going back for more, and the more you take, the more you alter the natural state of your brain and your reactions. You will find that you cannot do without it and this means that the damage will continue on and on until you stop.
What If You Have Panic Attacks And Use Marijuana?
You are at great peril. This is one of the fastest ways to trigger an attack. Remember what causes your panic attacks in the first place; it’s your brain seeing things out of proportion. A small danger or even no danger at all is magnified and you go into “fight or flight” mode, but at the same time your muscles seize and you find that you almost cannot do anything about the perceived danger.
What marijuana does is alter your brain even further, and by great degrees, so that your panic attacks are more frequent. They don’t necessarily have to happen when you are smoking it; your brain cells and nerve function are permanently altered so you can get panic attacks anywhere and any time. You might find that you go as far as being suicidal—the combination of the perceived fear and the feelings of helplessness lead you to a point where you think it would be better to end it all.
Are You Helpless If You're Already An Addict?
Not at all. It first starts with your will to stop. No one enjoys getting panic attacks and if yours are connected to marijuana use, you should admit to yourself that you have a problem and then make a commitment to start working on it.
Your local hospital will definitely be of help. They usually have programs for people who are willing to kick addictions, so long as you stick with the plan they give you and stay strong. You can definitely beat your addiction and see your panic attacks and marijuana use reduce. In fact, you may be left with just a little of the panic attacks but you will work with a health practitioner to see that these completely go away.
It’s not an easy thing to do, to kick an addiction, but thousands and thousands of people have done it and you can too if you are willing to make a change. |
global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/57539 | Here’s to the crazy ones.
How high can birds fly?
Flying in a plane recently I realised I’d never seen a bird outside the plane window.
I assumed it was because birds didn’t fly that high.
Turns out I was wrong. There are birds that fly at the altitude of commercial aircraft.
For one, the Rüppell’s griffon vulture which has been seen at 37,000 feet.
Even the common crane flies to 33,000 feet which it does when flying over the Himalayas to avoid eagles in the passes when migrating.
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So the reason you don’t seem them at this height is because they only do it where necessary. Or rarely. Eg there are very few Rüppell’s vultures remaining.
Chasing up Vermeers in New York
I was reading this Google Editorial What’s so special about Vermeer’s Girl with a Pearl Earring?
It reminded me of one day in New York (probably in my 2nd year there) I found I’d got a free Saturday. So, as I had an annual membership of the Met (top tip – you can actually get in for free – you don’t need to pay the $25 per visit fee that they promote – that’s optional – they just require a donation), I made it a quest to chase down every Vermeer in New York.
Vermeer didn’t create a lot of paintings so they’re pretty rare to find.
There’s actually a website that lists where all the Vermeers are!
Turned out there were 7 in New York – 5 at the Met and 2 at the Frick Collection.
Possibly the worst Machine Learning story I’ve read in public
I cannot believe the column inches this article got. The title is:
Even algorithms are biased against black men
whereas it should have read:
Poorly designed algorithm incorrectly predicts bias but rather than getting a smack on the hand and getting some machine learning experts to do the job properly we’ll blame the problem on the software and create some confusion and mass hysteria by publishing it in the national press
Just because the authors of this algorithm were from ProPublica does not make the algorithm correct. The only sentence worth a modicum of merit in the entire piece is the first sentence of the last paragraph which reads:
The big puzzle is how the bias creeps into the algorithm.
However, it’s not a big puzzle. It’s simply a bad machine learning algorithm.
We might be able to understand how if we could examine it. But most of these algorithms are proprietary and secret, so they are effectively “black boxes” – virtual machines whose workings are opaque
And this is just scare-mongering. The solution is called validation data.
For those wanting to read this piece of claptrap go here:
John Naughton and the Guardian should be ashamed of themselves. This type of rubbish belongs in the Sun.
Horses, Cars and Doctor’s Surgeries
I believe that within 50 years the vast majority of all physical doctor’s surgeries will have disappeared.
Why’s that?
Simply because people will be using their mobile phones to connect with their doctors.
Now I can see a lot of people that come up with instant arguments such as:
• but what about something that needs physical examination like a knee problem OR
• but people prefer to see their doctor’s in person
I’m not even going to attempt to try and answer these. My view is that there will be answers to these questions. I don’t necessarily know what they are but some people out there do know these answers (if you’re one of these please leave a comment!).
We’re roughly in the pre-mass-market car era. I guess that would be somewhere in the 1920s?
According to this article ( in the USA in 1915 there were 20 million horses. By the 1950s and 1960s this had dropped to between 1 and 3 million. Note that now this has increased to around 7 million (I’ll come back to that).
Back then, if you talked to someone and said that in 50 years time between 85% and 95% of all horses would have disappeared to be replaced by cars people would have looked at you as if you were mad. There would be questions like:
• what if you got a puncture?
• why would anyone want to drive to a distant gas station and spend a huge amount of money on gas when you can simply put your horse out to graze on your land?
It seems easy to answer these now. But back then, trying to answer them clearly and successfully would have been really difficult. For example, if you answered, you would get a mechanic to drive out to fix a puncture, they would answer but there aren’t any local mechanics. If you answered that you would have to fix it yourself, they would say but that would require some complex skills. Fixing a horseshoe is very simple. And there are loads of horse vets in every town. And loads of spare horses if you need a new one.
Back to the 7 million current horses. Why has this gone up? For various reasons:
1. there was a correction. In the 1950s it would have seemed obvious that horses should completely disappear. However, horses have found a niche. For example, they’re a great way for police to establish a presence in a not-too threatening way. They are also being used for racing rather than as a source of power (i.e. a work horse).
2. the GDP of the USA has increased tremendously since 1915 ( Hence why horses have an increasingly large role in the leisure sector as race horses.
So, my belief is that the vast majority of doctor’s surgeries will have disappeared in 30 to 50 years time. There may be a correction but it will be for a particular niche.
Disclosure: whilst this doesn’t change anything about this post and my beliefs, I have equity in a telemedicine startup called Dr Medy.
What sort of exercise is best for the brain?
Many people already know that exercise is good for you.
Studies show it changes the structure and function of the brain. E.g. studies in animals and people have shown that physical activity generally increases brain volume and can reduce the number and size of age-related holes in the brain’s white and gray matter.
It also augments adult neurogenesis (i.e. the creation of new brain cells in an already mature brain). Exercise doubles or even triples the number of new neurons that appear after exercise in the animals’ hippocampus, a key area of the brain for learning and memory, compared to the brains of animals that remain sedentary.
Scientists believe that exercise has similar impacts on the human hippocampus.
A recent study however compares exercise types – distance running, weight training and high-intensity interval. You can read more about it here
but, in a nutshell, distance training does the magic. And the greater the distance an animal runner covered during the experiment, the more new cells its brain now contained. From the study, sustained aerobic exercise might be most beneficial for brain health also in humans.
Youth and Social Issues
A few organizations I’d like to highlight that work with Youth on social issues (referred by a colleague at the United Nations):
Technology leader in Africa with a handful of products that serve people with limited access in hard-to-reach places. HQ Nairobi.
Data collection and visualization experts. Based in Nairobi.
Innovative approaches to communication to increase civic engagement & prevent violence in Kenyan communities. Also based in Nairobi.
Social messaging tool allowing people to respond to polls, report issues, support child rights and work as positive agents of change. India.
An example of the platform in use. The Zambia U-Report platform provides confidential, free of charge, individualized and interactive counseling services on HIV and STIs to adolescents and youth.
The ICT, Urban Governance and Youth report is the fourth report in the Global Youth-Led Development series.
Newbie programmers
I had a chat with some friends last weekend about how people get into web programming. They were hardly newbies but probably had 3 or 4 industry years under their belts.
Having worked in the web industry for over 20 years I’ve accumulated a ton of knowledge along the way. I said I thought it must be hard for newbies to get into web programming.
Their response was that there were more facilities available now – e.g. coding courses are online and that I had had to learn from a book.
This was partly true. I had learned some stuff from books. However, there were other tools about in my time such as IRC and, believe it or not, websites! The whole web thing was being invented as I got into programming.
However, this doesn’t answer the problem.
It’s not just about learning to program. The issue is you’re going to run into a ton of issues en route. For example, say you develop on a Mac. Here are a very few issues you’ll encounter:
It’s just one reason why StackOverflow is so wildly successful.
But I don’t think StackOverflow necessarily answers questions with any depth. It promotes copy and paste fixes with little to no understanding. Not to say I don’t use SO or Google’ing – I do.
But it takes a lot of time to develop the filters that help you realize which answers are useful and which aren’t – there’s an awful amount of rubbish out there! |
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STEP 6: Disadvantages
D&D 3e to HERO System Conversion Steps
Step 5: Gear, Followers,
Step 6: Disadvantages Step 7: Finishing
Step 8: Character
This conversion resource assumes that the campaign limits set forth in Step 1 are in affect and the maximum points a Character can have from Personal Disadvantages is 75 points.
If a Character does not take 75 points worth of Disadvantages then they will have correspondingly fewer Character Points with which to buy abilities. For instance if a starting Character with 50 Base points only takes 50 points of Personal Disadvantages, then that Character has 100 Character Points (50 Base + 50 from Disadvantages) available to them rather than the 125 points they could have had.
NOTE: In this context "Personal Disadvantage" refers to any Disadvantage which does not stem from a Character's Race Package Deal. This is a specific exception to the HERO System rules, wherein Disadvantages from all Package Deals do count towards a Character's Disadvantage limit. If your GM is uncomfortable with this exception they will let you know how to handle the discrepancy.
Personal Disadvantages
Character Disadvantages are a concept not found in D&D 3e and therefore appropriate Disadvantages must be approximated from aspects of Characters that are left mechanically undefined in D&D 3e. The primary purpose of Disadvantages is to add flavor and context to a Character, and to give the GM story hooks with which to involve your Character with the setting.
In many cases it's a Character's quirks and flaws that make them stand out rather than their capacity to kill things, manipulate a fictional magical system, or use arbitrarily determined skills and abilities. Have fun with your Character's Disadvantages rather than taking them just to get more Character Points.
In D&D 3e the closest thing to a mechanical representation of a Character's behavior is the Alignment system. Depending on how the GM intends to handle the concept of Alignment in the HERO System, Characters with particularly strong Alignment orientations may take Disadvantages appropriate to model their particular Alignment.
Suggestions for how to handle Alignment in the HERO System are addressed in the Alignment Considerations document for the GM's benefit; as a player consult with your GM prior to converting the Character to discover how they intend to handle Alignment in their own campaign..
The best source of Disadvantages for your Character are their background stories, things that occurred to them during the course of play prior to converting them, and the way their personality has been depicted by you in the past.
Consider if the Character has any driving obsessions, urges, fears, credos by which they live, or predictable behaviors; these are all good sources of Psychological Disadvantages.
Is your Character particularly recognizable, infamous, hunted, under scrutiny, subject to orders, owe fealty, or practice a profession that is not legal? All are good sources for Distinctive Features, negative Reputations, Hunteds or Watcheds, and Social Limitations.
Does your Character lose control of themselves, feel a need to compete with others of a certain profession or specialty, suffer from unfortunate luck, or have a dependency of some sort? All justifications for Enrageds, Rivalries, Unluck, and Dependence.
And so on. If you can't mine your Character's background, exploits, and personality for a mere 75 points of solid and valid Disadvantages either your character isn't that interesting or you just aren't trying very hard.
When finished selecting your Character's Disadvantages, tally the Disadvantage Total and move on to Step 7. |
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/57574 | Sitecore MVP 2018 Nomination Form
That is it! MVP 2018 Nomination Form is now open so hurry up and good LUCK! After a year full of Sitecore Community Collaboration now it is the time to enroll and be blessed with a recognition (fingers crossed 😀 ). It was a tough year for me. I took care of my wife … Read moreSitecore MVP 2018 Nomination Form
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/57585 | Saturday, February 27, 2016
ASCLA Member? Please Vote!
The ALA Elections are starting soon.
If you're a member of ASCLA (the Association of Specialized and Cooperative Library Agencies) please consider voting for me for - I'm running for Secretary.
The full slate of candidates is at the ASCLA blog.
Thank you!
Wednesday, February 03, 2016
Review: How It Went Down
How It Went Down by Kekla Magoon. Henry Holt. 2014. Review copy.
How It Went DownThe Plot: Tariq Johnson, sixteen, dies from two gunshots fired by by Jack Franklin. Tariq is black; Jack is white.
There are many people who know Tariq, who know Jack. Who saw them before the shooting and after. Each has a their own story to tell, about what they know.
The Good: There is an old saying, that for every two people there are three sides to their story. Their versions, and the truth.
The problem, of course, is figuring out what that truth is and is not.
Here, there are those who say that Tariq was just a teen with a chocolate bar. And others who say he had a weapon. And some that say that Jack was justified. And others who say it was murder.
How It Went Down is told in many voices, friends, family, acquaintances. It's the story of Tariq's life and death and the aftermath, but we also find out about the lives of those who in telling Tariq's story tell their own. What I like about these multiple narratives is it doesn't give any answers of what really happened. It's up to the reader to decide who is right -- but the thing is, it's clear that everyone is right. Or, rather, everyone believes that they are right in what they know, what they saw, and what they believed.
And it's not just the shooting of Tariq, and whether or not it's the self defense that Jack claims. It's also whether, as the story unfolds, Jack's claim of self defense is made in part not because of anything that Tariq did or did not do but because Tariq was a black teenager and so Jack assumed and believed things about Tariq. And along with that is how the others react to Jack's claims, including the police who release him. And then the community reaction, because a black teenager is dead and the white shooter is released.
From the start, the reader knows that Tariq is dead. Knowing that doesn't lessen the impact of this death, or feeling the sorrow and grief of his family and friends. It does make one wish "if only, if only." And while this will be a good book discussion book because it allows for the readers to say what they believe happened, it's also a good book discussion book because it allows the reader to take a closer look at their own beliefs. Who do they believe? And why?
How does one's own perspective influence their memory? What they see? And what they believe?
Monday, February 01, 2016
Review: The Lake House
The Lake House: A Novel by Kate Morton. Atria. 2015. Library Copy.
The Plot: 1933 Cornwall. A eleven month old baby disappears from his crib during a house party at an estate. He's never found.
2003. A police detective is visiting her grandfather in Cornwall. She stumbles upon an abandoned house and hears the local story: how decades ago, a child disappeared and the family left and never came back.
A lost child, deep family secrets, the ties between mother and child, the choices made. And a mystery that was waiting to be solved, by the person willing to ask the right questions.
The Good: I loved this book so much. It had everything I love in a book.
Their are three main narrators, and two main time periods.
Alice Edevane was sixteen the summer her brother Theo was taken. The summer on the Cornish estate was as magical as any Alice had ever had at the beloved family estate, Loeanneth, and even more wonderful because its the year she falls in love for the first time and the year she decides to embrace a life as a writer, and writes her first mystery.
In 2003, Sadie Sparrow's visit to her grandfather isn't entirely voluntary. There were problems for a recent case involving a young mother who disappeared, and Sadie refused to believe the woman left her small child behind. When faced with the truth of the woman abandoning her child, Sadie made foolish mistakes and now is waiting in the country for things to get resolved in the city.
When she starts to investigate the mystery of Theo Edevane, she finds out that the home is now owned by Alice Edevane, also known as A. C. Edevane, a famous mystery writer. After the reader encounters the young, brilliant, hopeful Alice on the brink of life, they next encounter her as woman pushing ninety, succesful, but wiser about people than she was as a child.
Then there is Eleanor Edevane, mother of Alice and Theo, and her voice joins the story.
The book jumps from time to time and narrator to narrator, and this flow of story is brilliant. Morton is careful about what and when she tells the reader, but part of the reason is because each person knows only their own story and is limited to their own impressions, their own memories, their own knowledge. As a mystery, Morton deftly guided me so that I was guessing "who" or "what" or "why" just pages ahead of Sadie, so that I felt as clever or more so than Sadie. And then, with Sadie, realized when I was wrong, because I learned something new.
The Lake House is a mystery, but it's also a story of family. Of the brilliant Edevanes who at first seem like something out of a PBS Miniseries. The family had once had a grand house, and Loeanneth, grand as it seems, is the small house that is all that is left of that manor. The house is important to Eleanor and her husband, Anthony; to their children, Deborah and Alice and Clemmie and Theo; and part of the punch in the gut tragedy of the present is how the house was abandoned after Theo's disappearance.
Pull back, and it's more than a handsome couple and their beautiful children and the fairy tale estate. Fairy tale in part because the child Eleanor inspired a beloved children's book.
But no fairy tale is all sun and sunshine. As Sadie delves further into the past, as Alice reexamines her own memories and impressions, and as Eleanor steps forward and shares her story, secrets are uncovered. Because as anyone who does the math can figure, the Great War had ended just 15 years before. And what was the far away past to a sixteen year old Alice was very much part of the lives of her parents.
I don't want to give too much away, because as I said part of the joy of this book is the structure of what is revealed when and why and how. I will say this about those reveals. They aren't "aha" moments of crimes and terrible deeds. Rather, they are about perspective and knowledge. Eleanor's children see her as a certain type of mother, and their father as certain type of man, and yes -- the father is the favorite. As the story unwinds, it becomes clear that part of this is because Eleanor did what was necessary to give her children a safe, happy, childhood, at any cost. And she was so good that Alice, decades later, still didn't quite realize what her mother had done -- how her memory of a wonderful, carefree day was, to her mother, a day fraught with danger.
One of my Favorite Books of 2016. I now want to read all of Morton's books.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/57589 | An Intelligent Accent That Masks Origins [Disguise]
Ever wanted to speak and sound intelligent, but make sure that no one knew where you were from? This might occur in a situation when you are working as an agent. The following can be very helpful for masking your origins and creating a intelligent facade.
[Y]ou get the accent in one of three ways:
1. Learn the accent on purpose (actors used to do that).
2. Grow up or live on both sides of the Atlantic (but that can lead to even stranger accents, like those of Loyd Grossman and Madonna).
3. Pick it up at a top boarding school in America before the 1960s.
Transatlantic English goes something like this:
1. Start with a mainstream American accent.
2. Drop your r’s at the end of words, like in “fear” and “winner”.
3. Say all your t’s as t’s not d’s (like in “water” and “butter”).
4. Use RP (British) vowels. So “dance” becomes “dahns”.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/57604 | Acer 3300S user manual
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Aspire 3300S
Service Guide
Service guide files and updates are available
on the AIPG/CSD web; for more information,
please refer to
PART NO.: ------------------------- PRINTED IN TAIWAN
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Revision History Please refer to the table below for the updates made on Aspire 3300S service guide. Date Chapter Updates ii
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Conventions The following conventions are used in this manual: Screen messages Denotes actual messages that appear on screen. NOTE Gives bits and pieces of additional information related to the current topic. WARNING Alerts you to any damage that might result from doing or not doing specific actions. CAUTION Gives precautionary measures to avoid possible hardware or software problems. IMPORTANT Reminds you to do specific actions relevant to the accomplishment of procedures. iv
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Preface Before using this information and the product it supports, please read the following general information. 1. This Service Guide provides you with all technical information relating to the BASIC CONFIGURATION decided for Acer's "global" product offering. To better fit local market requirements and enhance product competitiveness, your regional office MAY have decided to extend the functionality of a machine (e.g. add-on card, modem, or extra memory capability). These LOCALIZED FEATURES
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Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Features. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Front Panel Aspire 3300S . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Rear Panel Aspire 3300S . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 System Block Diagram (Aspire 3300S) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Main Board Layout (Aspire 3300S) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
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Chapter 1 System Specifications Overview ® The Aspire 3300S supports Intel Pentium 4 (Willamette 478/Northwood) Flip Chip-Pin Grid Array 2 processor (FC-PGA2) based Micro ATX, IBM PC/AT compatible system with PCI/AGP bus. Chapter 1 1
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Features Performance Intel Pentium® IV processor with Intel NetBurst™ micro-architecture and integrated 256KB/512KB on-die L2 cache memory in Flip Chip 2 (FC)-mPGA 478 socket form factor, with supporting CPU clock up to 2.4GHz+. System Front Side bus speed:400 MHz. Maximum of 2GB DDR RAM within 2 DIMM sockets. Integrated LAN Controller. 3.5-inch and 5.25-inch floppy disk drives. CD-ROM/DVD-ROM /CD-RW drives 1x/2x/4x AGP slot High capacity, Enhanced-IDE hard disk Power management f
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Expansion 3 PCI slots + 2 DIMM slots + 1 AGP slot Upgradeable memory and hard disk Human-centric design and ergonomics Slim desktop form factor Separate computer stand and rubber stands for quick and easy positioning Accessible I/O ports Smooth and stylish design Low emission and low radiation Chapter 1 3
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Front Panel Aspire 3300S The computer’s front panel consists of the following: Label Icon Color Description 1 Floppy drive light-emitting diode (LED) 2 3.5-inch floppy drive 3 Floppy drive eject button 4 CD-ROM/DVD-ROM/CD-RW Headphone/Ear- phone jack. 5 Volume control tuner 6 CD-ROM/DVD-ROM/CD-RW LED 7 CD-ROM/DVD-ROM/CD-RW tray 8 CD-ROM/DVD-ROM/CD-RW emergency eject hole 9 Stop/Eject button 10 Black USB ports 11 Pink Microphone-in port (front)* 12 Lime Headphone-out port 4 Chapter 1
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Label Icon Color Description 13 Hard disk drive activity LED 14 LAN Activity LED 15 Power LED 16 Power switch NOTE: *The system has two microphone-in ports (front and rear). However, you cannot use both of them at the same time. The default setting for your system enables the microphone-in port in front and disables the one at the back. Chapter 1 5
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Rear Panel Aspire 3300S Label Icon Color Description 1 Power supply 2 Voltage selector switch 3 Keyhole 4 PS/2 mouse port Green 5 Network port Gray 6 Parallel/Printer port Burgundy 7 Game/MIDI port Gold 8 * VGA port 9 Black Handset/telephone line ports (optional) 10 Power cord socket 6 Chapter 1
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Label Icon Color Description 11 Purple PS/2 keyboard port 12 Black USB ports 13 Teal or Serial port Turquoise 14 Lime Audio-out/Line-out jack 15 Light blue Audio-in/Line-in jack 16 Microphone-in port (rear)** 17 Expansion slots NOTE: * The CRT monitor port is automatically disabled when an add-on VGA card is installed into the system. Connect the monitor to the VGA port instead. ** The system has two microphone-in ports (front and rear). However, you can not use both of the
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System Block Diagram (Aspire 3300S) INTEL P4 CPU Willamette / Northwood X86 Legacy Signals (FC-PGA2_478) 400 MHz Host Bus 4X AGP Bus 133MHz AGP Slot 66-MHz SIS 650 64-bit DDRAM North Bridge 2XDIMMs VGA connector 33MHz,32-bit Primary PCI Bus SIS 961 South Bridge LPC SUPER I/O PCI Slot K E PCI Slot Y B H H O D D LAN P S S A D D RTL8100L PCI Slot A E E R D R R R F / A I I C C D USB FWH M USB L A A 3 X PCI Slot D D (BIOS) D O L L L R R AC' 97 U USB O O USB E S Audio Codec M M L A B 1 X
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Main Board Layout (Aspire 3300S) Component Function ATX Power Supply/JPW1 ATX power connectors JKBMS1 Mouse/keyboard connector USB Connectors Connecting to USB devices COM A & COM B Serial port connector VGA DB 15-pin Connecting to VGA monitor LAN Jack (optional) Connecting to LAN devices LPT1 Parallel port connector FDD1 Floppy disk drive connector J8 Chassis intrusion switch connector 10 Chapter 1
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Component Function IDE 1~IDE 2 Hard disk connector JCD1/JAUX1/JMD1 CD/AUX/Modem-in connectors CPUFA/SYSFA Fan power connectors JFP1/JFP2 Front panel connectors JAUD Front panel audio connector JUSB1/JUSB2 USB front connector JIR1 IrDA infrared module connector JBAT1 Clear CMOS jumper AGP Slot Connecting to AGP cards PCI Slot Connecting to expansion cards CNR Slot Connecting to expansion cards Chapter 1 11
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Keyboard The keyboard has full-sized keys that include separate cursor keys, two Windows keys, and twelve function keys. No. Component Description 1 Programmable keys Help you directly access a URL (Web site) or launch any program, file, or application in your system. The fifth key is set to launch the media player. To configure the settings of each key, right-click on the Magic Keyboard icon located on your Windows desktop. 2 Internet/Suspend keys Consist of three buttons: •Email : launch
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No. Component Description 4 Volume control/Mute Controls the speaker volume. Turn it clockwise or counterclockwise to knob adjust the volume. Press it to toggle between mute and sound. 5 Scroll Lock When activated, the screen moves one line up or down when you press the up arrow or down arrow respectively. Take note that [may not work [ with some applications. 6 When activated, the keypad is set to numeric mode, i.e., the keys function Num Lock as a calculator (complete with arithmetic opera
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Hardware Specifications and Configurations Processor Item Specification Type Intel® Pentium IV processors with mPGA478 package Slot Socket mPGA478 Speed Internal : 1.5~2.4GHz+ External: 400MHZ Data Bus Frequency Minimum operating speed 0 MHz (If Stop CPU Clock in Sleep State the BIOS Setup is set to Enabled.) Voltage Processor voltage can be detected by the system without setting any jumper. BIOS Item Specification BIOS code programmer Award BIOS version V6.0 BIOS ROM size 2MB Support protocol P
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/57631 | Tuesday, May 12, 2009
HI...thanks for visiting my blog...this is my second blog and marks a denovo of MJ 2.0
MJ 2.o is my attempt to make my first blog DENOVOS more professional, I would post only in BTM (not the BTM layout in bangalore :) i .e Business Technology & Marketing and post all the personal stuff ...things i like,things i love ,things which i want to share with others ... here.
Although DENOVOS is primarily subject oriented i do post personal stuff sumtimes and evrytime i do that i get a lot of comments so i suppose visitors find my personal posts more interesting than the conceptual posts.
So i hope u will like this blog the same way u liked DENOVOS or even more than that..pls do comment and keep visiting...
1. I always tell u not be modest...u are a Rockstar...one whos always there for friends and groupmates....very creative and i dnt need to say more ..the blog itself speaks volumes about ur capabilities.....and i declare I am an ardent fan of this blog and its writer.....
and i do agree that personal stuff about u is more entertaining than subject related blogs.....
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/57651 | This is How I Feel About....eBook Prices
This is How I Feel About eBook Prices
This is something that has been bugging me lately.
Now, I love my kindle.
I lovveeee to read and love having a kindle, but eBook prices are ridiculous.
Let's think this through.
Costs to make a physical book:
-distributing to stores
-author & publisher costs
Costs to make an ebook:
-author & publisher costs
No paper. No ink. Just words in cyber land. Please tell me why then, are ebooks hardly any cheaper than a physical book??? I understand that all books costs something to publish. You have to pay the author and the publisher for their time/advertising/etc. But to physically distribute and make eBooks costs next to nothing. Why then, do they cost almost the exact same as physical books!!
I read this whole series recently. But, the cost for the kindle book was MORE than a hardback. How is that even possible!!??
I sniff price collusion. You sly little publishers...I'm onto you. NOT COOL.
1. I'm so with you on this! I love my kindle but seriously, the prices put me off even using it! Unless its to make notes or doodles, which is such a waste of money, I really thought the price of ebooks would reflect the actual cost of what is in a sense a large email!
2. I feel the same way. I see the convenience, but I don't understand why the prices are the same...totally ridiculous.
3. I don't have an ereader, so I can't add to this (although that is some nifty chicanery they're pulling there)...but I am curious how you numbered your comments :)
4. oooooh, honey, there are way more than author and publishing costs. Trust me, as a writer I've done ALL the homework. Did you know you have to have an agent just to potentially get a book published? Yep! You can't submit a manuscript to a publisher. They will trash it. You have to submit to an agent, hope they will accept it, and let them submit it to publishers for you. Only about .2% of books actually get published. And as far as ebooks go, when the costs are all said done, and everyone gets their share, authors only receive about .96 cents per ebook sold. I follow agent and author blogs like crazy. They break it all down. Nathan Bransford just did a blog post about this.
5. Here is Nathan Bransford's post, breaking it all down. If you really want to know why ebooks cost equal or more than the hardcover, check it out.
6. I know that there are a lot of other factors in costs and etc., but at the bottom line it still does cost less. and I'm not just making this all up either, i've read about it in the wall street journal how publishers were being investigated for price collusion.
7. I hear you, however one of the reasons I love the Kindle is the fact that you can get so many books under $5 that you would even be able to find anywhere else. I am not so much a best seller reader. I am a history buff and I was able to get the entire Ulysses S. Grant Memoirs for .99 vs. $50 in the book store with all the pictures included.
8. Another good reason not to own a Kindle
9. What I don't like is that they can remotely delete stuff from your eBook, that you've paid for! In the link below, they refunded customers, but the fact that they can do this seems wrong to me.. <-- very interesting, and kind of ironic given the book they deleted! |
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Iceland – one of the Scandinavian countries, located in the Atlantic Ocean between Europe and North America. Iceland is included among the Arctic.
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Anthony Schultz is Pro at Skateboardin'
I've got to admit, I've never really thought much about Anthony Schultz. Maybe It's because I didn't care, maybe it's 'cause I never met the guy, or maybe I was just sleeping. Whatever the case, his pro-debut part for Slave pysched me out. I mean fuck, over a full size fence? I've seen that handrail in a thousand-million-bazillion videos with every stupid figgy-feeble and I'd never even considered the possibility (un-possibility?) of going up and over. Rad.
Introducing the #BluntBrothers.
Andrewpaulsen said...
that part was ILL!!!
wheelbite said...
i think it's funny that slave uses the stock footage and filters and whatnot to fuck up the nice pretty HD colors.
Wylie Tueting said...
Anthony Schultz, in my book at least, has just been added to the genre of Wes Kremer, Austyn Gillette, Clint Peterson, etc.; that part was sick and so refreshing! I am glad he is done with his scraggly-hair, I-can't-find-good-ways-to-express-myself phase; Alex Olson once went through such a similar phase also. |
global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/57712 | 5 Creepy must see shows on Netflix right now
I'm an avid fan of shows based on true events,suspense movies, thrillers and romance but sometimes you've got to get that adrenaline pumping and well creepy/horror kind of does the job. I don't jump out of my seat, I don't look for monsters under my bed and I most certainly do not sleep with the lights on. Horrors have my attention, I'm not sure whether it's because of the suspense or maybe I'm just at a point where I've watched so many they have no effect on me anymore. Either way, I just can't get enough and there are a few shows on Netflix UK that I've thoroughly enjoyed, shows I'm sure you'll love too.
1. American Horror Story: Asylum
I overlooked this show countless times and what a shame that was. After completing all 5 seasons in just two weeks, American Horror Story: Asylum has easily become my favourite show of all time. This is by far the most intense season of them all. It's dark and thrilling, keeps you guessing all the way through and gets you hooked on the absolutely insane characters. This show taps into your psyche with an electric storyline that will give you the shock of your life, definitely worth a watch.
2. iZombie
Who's wants brains for breakfast? Liv, an over-achieving medical resident sure did! I wouldn't say iZombie is scary, at least it wasn't for me, but it is quite gory. Nevertheless, the story line is utter genius. When I first started watching the first episode, I was expecting the generic zombie based story that always ends in outbreak and heartbreak. Uh wrong! iZombie delivers a fresh take on zombie horrors, the use of comic-book-style illustrations is different and refreshing. I might just watch it from the beginning all over again.
3. Bates Motel
This show presents the creepiest mother-son relationship I've ever seen which is exactly what gets you hooked on watching all the seasons currently available on Netflix. The first few episodes are a bit slow but don't stop, keep going, things get very interesting. After all we all go a little mad sometimes.
4. American Horror Story: Murder House
Can you tell just how highly I recommend American horror story? It's made a second appearance on my list, this time with 12 episodes of Murder house, an outrageous season that will give you chills. Murder house plays with your emotions quite a bit, the creaky floor boards and twisted plot doesn't help lessen those goosebumps on your arms.
5. Hemlock Grove
I actually finished this show yesterday, phew, that was a lot to take in! Its gory, gothic and that little bit dark, enough to keep you guessing. There's nothing more I can say, you just have to watch it and see for your self.
& that's it. If you've watched any of these shows, I'd love to hear your thoughts.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/57713 | 12 Year Old Boy Arrested After Deliberately "Breaking Wind" in School Class
Posted on: January 27th, 2009 103 Comments
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A 12-year-old student from Florida was arrested for breaking wind during class and disturbing his classmates by shutting off their computers at Stuar’s Spectrum Jr./Sr. High School. The police called this a “deliberately passed gas to disrupt the class” and “disruption of a school function”
County Sheriff’s Office report, a copy of which you’ll find below, notes that the 4′ 11″ offender admitted that he “continually disrupted his classroom environment by breaking wind and shutting off several computers.”
The student was placed under arrest but released shortly after to his mother. Get useful psychotherapeutic interventions with psychiatry books and proper living.
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103 Responses
1. liter says:
The adults involved in this situation need to die. This is the epitome of ignorance.
2. donnis says:
Kid looks like a real gem. Nothing wrong with giving him a tour of the jail. Make it easier the next 10-20 times he is there. I appreciate this proactive training of our juvenile delinquents.
3. boo says:
I didn’t know the police had that much time on their hand, time to fire some o them. Maybe they won’t be so useless anymore.
4. Anonymous says:
What every happen to in school detention? Police action is not warranted for a student passing gas. It is also waste of police resources. This type of thing can easily be handled in house by the school. The Local Police Department Should Be Ashamed of Themselves. The arresting officer should have used better judgment and told the school to stop wasting his time.
5. Respect says:
I would have called the police myself if that were my son. Kids need to learn some respect. I hope he learned a lesson.
• Deidredit says:
Really? you would have called the police? So you would rather them waste their time and his because of something ridiculous he did in class? Meanwhile, there are several other crimes probably happening in the area at the same time, while police are too busy taking care of your child’s flatulence issue. How about we do the parenting ourselves instead of calling the police to handle it.
• Brandon says:
You’re a crazy parent, no wonder why your children hate you. Passing gas is something that we can’t control sometimes so you need help. Seriously
6. Fool says:
How about actually teaching your kids manners at HOME before you call the cops….Your kids, your responsibility, not every other taxpayer.
7. DF says:
Ok you douchebags obviously have never raised a boy…. it’s what they DO… They fart and they laugh about it.
8. Neil says:
“Ok you do*chebags”
First of all, it is a dou*he (space) bag.
Secondly, I hope you do not have any children. The last thing we need is people like you raising our future and teaching them to talk to complete strangers like this. Who cares what male nature is, teach some manners!!!
9. south says:
The boy needs a spanking, not arresting.
10. over reaction says:
Overreaction on the part of the school? Unless he was farting knives out of his butt, he shouldn’t have been arrested.
11. trut says:
just one more step towards our “free” nation becoming a totalitarianistic police state. we will all be on leashes before we know it. wake up.
12. Mezamashii says:
Don't they have principals & detention at school anymore? yeesh.
13. Guy says:
LOL that’s some funny stuff, I’m happy to see our tax dollars at work, in arresting 12 year olds for being nothing but themselves. The kid is 12!! Get over it.
Second, who gives anyone the right to say that the parents for that 12 year old should die? How ironic that someone should say that.
On the plus side, we get to see our fine men going to work and arresting 12 year olds, since evidently the school districts can’t even handle their own problems.
14. om says:
how twisted is our society becoming???? what a waste of police resources and court time this is going to be —– is there no common sense left in this country????
15. Mili says:
nothing mentioned here about the reality of a human function such as passing gas, its a normal human function the average person passes gas at least 15 times a day.i do belive however the student should be repremanded for his behavior on disrupting the classroom.but passing gas , come on officers and school officials, lets get real and do a reality check do you not too pass gas??? in the school office and police station?? the first time my kid ever got arrested for passing gas ill tell you it would be the last time—i wouldnt stop till something was done about it but disrupting the class is another whole different story ever heard of standing in corners or cleaning the class room after class was finished or detention?? the schools needs a whole new different approched to the kids now days it looks to me they need to let the kids teach them for awhile, maybe they will learn how to handle these situatins on their own without calling the police, the world has more problems on its hands than passing gas in school – gas by the way sometimes just happens it cant be forced – if its not there , its not there– i too didnt know the police had so much time on their hands either.hope there wasnt and emergency somewhere while they were arresting this 12 yr. old boy , what ever happened to sitting in the principals office till class was over?
16. Anonymous says:
To gas is natural….stop overreacting about such a silly thing. The way in which the school and the police overreacted is just down right disturbing…
17. Anonymous says:
Ok, I think that yeah he does need to be taught some manners, but not arrested. Thats crazy, and way out of line. He is 12, it is to be expected that the try to be funny, and seeing as i have 4 little brothers, i understand, to some extent, why they believe that fart is the funniest thing. But, for him to be arrested? That’s, as I said, way over the line. When the poor kid goes and tries to get a job, and the job sees that he was arrested, it makes it a whole lot harder to get a job, or a good school. They may not actually look into why he was arrested, and that was for farting. I think the need to loosen up a little.
18. Litter says:
I AGREE with “Unless he was farting knives out of his a*s, he shouldn’t have been arrested.” Detention Hall would have been more than enough!
19. Cica says:
These Ridiculous Arrests of Minors are done just to demonstrate to the Citizens that the Police State is in charge and they will arrest you, charge you, Tazer you, and Kill you at anytime and anywhere they want.
The States are claiming that they are running out of Funds to Balance their budgets, but there will always be enough money somehow to support this kind of BullS??t.
20. Charlie says:
When I was a kid, I would’ve gotten a swift kick in the a@@ for behavior like this kid. Obviously now, the teacher would be arrested, they need some type of control. I also think the headline is a little misleading, it wasn’t the farts as much as shutting down other students computers, students who may have wanted to actually learn! The old saying of one kid taking attention away from the rest of the class applies here. Nothing wrong with putting a little scare into these troublemakers. Maybe if more school districts had a similar policy, we’d see less videos on the Internet of students beating up teachers, and themselves.
21. Anonymous says:
fuck those cop assholes in the background
22. Anonymous says:
To those of you that are saying the kid deserved it and the parents are to blame if anyone shows me a kid that doesnt fart and laugh or distract the class everyonce in awhile but sit there being quiet and “good” I’ll show you a future seriel killer or just another kid hopped up on riddilin because the school thinks he needs it boys are ment to be loud obnoxious and dirty if they didnt do that they wouldnt be able to handle getting dirty as f*** constructing your buildings fixing your cars fighting your wars so before you throw the blame at anyone other than the school system slap yourselves in the face
23. Mayor McCheese says:
i should have been arrested every single day of my first two years of highschool [went to an all-boys school, farting was funny, and there were no girls to impress]
This is so fucking dumb, but I’m glad these cops weren’t hanging around, preventing crime with their presence, or doing some real police work and stop actual crime, I’m also happy that the school spent at least a full day consulting with lawyers to issue a full statement.
24. Anthony says:
I think you’re all vastly overreacting to this. The officer was a school resource officer – in other words, a police officer ASSIGNED to the school. They didn’t “call the cops” on this kid; he was being disruptive (by shutting off computers), so the officer assigned to the campus dealt with it.
The passing gas seems weird to include, but if you look at the charge on the report, it was for disrupting school functions, which his computer behavior definitely classifies as.
Let’s not make this into something absurd.
• Sasha says:
The arresting officer may have been the school resource officer, but there are multiple cops in the picture so they obviously called in more officers. Also I don’t think anyone commenting is overreacting (except maybe the few who said the parents/teachers should die) What is an overreaction is the fact that the school had a student ARRESTED for disturbing class, instead of punishing him or suspending him. I definitely think that is a gross overreaction. It’s not the cops jobs to keep people from misbehaving in school, it is the schools, unless of course there is violence involved. I think that this is so stupid, and now this poor kid will have an arrest record for doing what the majority of kids do growing up…act like jackasses.
25. trainer says:
26. dude says:
I think this is a great idea. Children need to learn to behave. Teacher’s haven’t any way to make them without possibly being sued. Perhaps the young man had detention before that had not corrected the problem.
If I was a student in the class I would not like to be farted on or have my computer shut off while I was working.
• Sasha says:
Then suspend him… why screw up his record for something he did when he was twelve? I did a lot of dumb things when I was twelve and I didn’t have to get arrested to turn out ok
27. Anonymous says:
You people are idiots. It’s a fucking kid. Detention would be plenty. If it gets worse, suspension. Getting arrested for that? that is bullshit. Schools are way too fucking strict. I hated it back then and everyone hates it now. And it keeps getting worse. I would complain to the school til that shit got changed.
28. Mike says:
Its too late. This is absurd. As a teacher i would have been embarrassed to have to call police (from down the hall or across town)because a child passed gas in my class. Only in America.
29. mike Foster says:
Well well, in my day he would’ve been sent to the principle’s office grabbed his ankles while he was spanked until he teared, sent back to class and later home with a note to his parents. And dad would’ve probably taken Jr. somewhere private and lectured then spanked him again if indeed his attitude was less then humble.
30. Anonymous says:
To be honest, in my opinion it says that its continual. So, yeah, its a funny thing at first. You do it a couple of times end of.
But he’s repeated it and it’s not funny anymore.
Maybe it escalated to too much of a punishment.
But he still needs to be taught a lesson in any case or as he grows up it’ll be repeated in worse circumstances.
31. Anne says:
“trainer said…
I’m sorry, is this going to become something racist? Yes, well since i don’t know where you are from, i’ll cover my bases. A kid majoring in chemistry had an in-home lab. He lived in canada, and the police arrested him because some neighbors who didn’t like him called him in on “running a meth lab”, he was arrested, had all his chemistry materials taken away(valued over $4000″, and now that there is no proof that he had meth, is kept under house arrest until further evidence is brought in. That was Canada. If you are British, you can’t claim you are a member of a perfect country. If you’re polish…well…carry on.
32. Anonymous says:
That are the socalled leaders of the free world for ya! LOL
Well at least they didn’t taser him to death, he got lucky…
33. Ketosis Junkie, AKA Warmonger Hippie Hawk says:
This boy will grow up to be a Great Man. Mark my words. He is presidential material.
BTW, I run a Meth Lab…For fun and profit.
34. Amy says:
Interrupting a school function, I believe that applies to assemblies and graduations. “Normal” Classroom interruptions should not necessitate arrest, with an associated juvenile record. Using a sledgehammer on a gnat. Even if he were a habitual offender, in school suspension, 3 or 10 days suspension is reasonable. Another example of our failing school system directing resources poorly.
35. Anonymous says:
Nice scare tactic. Kids these days know exactly what theyre doing and know they can get away with it. I personally think we need more of these types of lessons.
36. Anonymous says:
oh lets all pick on the cops… next time you hypocrites get mugged don’t you dare call the cops to help you… and if you did i hope they read the shit you write about them and they never turn up to save your sorry ass! i’m glad that kid got what he deserved! if it were me i would have his ass sewn up!
• Sasha says:
I think you are disturbing my evening with your shortsightedness, maybe you should be arrested.
• Jen says:
Last time I checked, mugging is a crime and worthy of getting arrested, disruption of school function is a civil matter and needs to be handled by the school and boys parents, that’s why they have principles and things like detention, iss, and oss
37. Anonymous says:
Land of the free, yeah right.
38. Ghost|BOFH says:
“Yo, whachoo in fo’ gansta?”
“Yo man, you know…shuttin’ down computers n’ fartin’ in the classroom…fo’ real. Whachoo in fo’ g?”
“I killed my family.”
“Oh shit…ain’t they got a beginner’s cell?”
39. Anonymous says:
As a schoolteacher myself (ok, but not in the USA)… just tell him not to do it, send him to see the principal, make him sit outside the class and do some other work, give him a detention, tell his parents, in an extreme case suspend or expel the kid. Only call the police if he’s selling drugs at school (and even then, only after you’ve talked with his parents) or assaulting other students.
40. Anonymous says:
this kid is my hero…
like that is just epic
i would be laughing so fuckin hard as that cop!
41. Anonymous says:
This just goes to show that teaching staff and school officials no longer no how to handle themselves. What happened to good ol’ fashioned parent teacher conferences or just basic discipline(i.e. detention)? Obviously this kid is distracting his class as a call for attention. Calling the police is only making matters worse for the poor kid and it shows how little control the people who are “teaching” young children actually posses.
42. Anonymous says:
Only in Florida. What a redneck state.
43. Jim says:
Passing gas should have been ignored as it is only a way to attract attention. Turning off computers is another matter, but one that should have been handled by the school, not the police.
What is scary is that we are entrusting the education of our children to people no more intelligent or with better judgment than this.
44. K. M. says:
Well okay, as flabbergasted as I am that they’d actually take a kid to jail for something like this, I’m surprisingly more concerned that there are people who feel the need to assert their supposed intelligence and superiority by pointing out, for example, that there’s a space in “douche bags.”
Whoever that ‘Anonymous’ is, I have to hand it to you: I’ve never seen someone invalidate the point they were trying to get to so effectively in their first sentence. Kudos. 😛
45. Morons says:
“Farts is funny, I don`t care who you are…farts is funny”
Larry the Cable guy
If I was the kid I`d go in to school the next morning and drop a turd on the principals desk and ask him what he intends to do about ‘that’.
Morons !!!
Or is it Morans !!??!!
46. WWZ says:
Farting knives would hurt
47. redneck says:
What? Florida Isn’t a red neck state it’s like old people beach house state.
48. Kid says:
another useless child destined to be ignore authority until he is homeless and robbing the rest of the kids who were not disruptive. Where is my kid safe to go school without kids like this interrupting? There is nothing funny about this. It’s pathetic. And his Halo playing parents are probably just as messed up.
• Sasha says:
Judgemental much?
• Jen says:
This is the biggest pile of trash I’ve ever read in my life, so of course I”m going to say something, shall we begin?
first off, there will always be children in every single school, that will interrupt a class thinking they are a jokester. I’m pretty sure your kid is not a saint either, things like this are part of living and growing up as well as being a parent. As for the “safe” side, I’m most certain that a child being disruptive has never killed or mentally damaged someone, actually quite the opposite, for it usually plays out as such: kid does something stupid, teacher warns him, kid laugh, kid does something stupid again, teacher sends him to the office, class carries on. disruptive kids do not rob people and end up homeless simply cause they were disruptive. and secondly, there’s no such thing as a “useless” child, wtf how could someone with a kid of their own think a child could be useless? do you think the same thing about yours? or are you one of them egomaniacs who thinks your shit don’t stink and youre the most perfect people in the world? you sound more messed up then that kids “messed up halo playing parents”
49. Who are you? says:
Anonymous from 4chan?
50. Bogie says:
If all we do is post comments and don’t take action our kids can be next, this shit is pathetic, getting arrested for farting in class wtf is wrong with them.
51. riceroni says:
Are you kiddin’ me? These moronic Krispy Kreme gobblin’ fucktards actually did this? If I lived in that city I’d be outraged that my tax dollars are being used to actually pay these useless assclowns.
52. Bob says:
hey i dont no what the big deal everyone passes wind so y should this little boy get arrested like seriously the onli thing he did was pass wind to belt someone or kill some its not a crime to pass wind cause if it was we ALL would be getting arrested every day seiouly thats just bullshit the need to worry about the proper shit like robbers and fighters not worrying bout people passing wind!!!!
53. LOL says:
AHAHAHAHA!!! Man if you all went to my school back in the day, hell you might get a death sentence if passing gas is SUCH a CRIME! WOW! I shall never fart again. What if the kid constantly belched and had a laugh bout it? Would that get him arrested too? Or is belching ok and not considered disruptive? Even massive fights were dealt with by the principal and student teacher faculty round here. Did the kid endanger anyones life?
Come on man, grow up!
So he switched off some computers? Give him detention, tell his parents/guardian and let them deal with him.
Unless they were just trying to inflict fear on the children, but then again, isn’t that going a little too far to get their message of discipline across? I thought Americans had limitations too?
54. Anonymous says:
P.S – Kid, your my HERO!
55. Anonymous says:
fuck all the boy was doing is not to be a complete fag and now he got arrested for aint being gay
i guess it was some of the schools staff (i mean like teachers or shit) who called the pigs, and that is the first point you should worry about and a point that deserves an extra article for itself, i mean the fact a teacher calling the police because of a 12? y old doing some shit makes people with an iq above 30 wonder about the competence of the teacher
second, the officers(people who like take it up the arse) put !handcuffs! on the boy, i mean what the bloody hell, do they think that will prevent him from farting?
they think that will serve him a lesson to respect authorities, but it rather serves a lesson to more people to question those authorities
@ the little fag who would call the cops if his/her son did this: fuck your shithole, i hope your children survive your upbringing of them without becoming perverted weakling fags with mothercomplex…damn im gonna give you the shock of your life,but your children are watching porn!!!! and if they angry they swear even at authorities…and at u
56. Anonymous says:
thats just another case of the easiest solution: call the cops.
57. John kiss says:
I want to go to that school and fart as much as I can
58. Anonymous says:
WHO DIED AND MADE THAT PRINCIPAL PRESIDENT!!! Oh I’m mister “I CAN FILE CHARGES ON WHOM EVER FARTS IN MY SCHOOL”. I think that the parent of that child should sue that person for filing charges on a NATURAL OCCURENCE.
I farted in school and i got a write up for it! THATS WHAT I CALL “BS!!!” Nothing ever happend. It got torn up. . . because i took care of it.
59. Anonymous says:
god those fucking teachers and principal are PATHETIC…this is why i plan on home schooling my son…and those officers should be stripped of their badges
60. Anonymous says:
This is new. They need to arrest people and stick 'em in handcuffs for having gas?
Maybe it IS time to fire some of them…
61. Anonymous says:
What is wrong with you people? Teaching him "manners" isn't near enough a good excuse for arresting a 12 year old boy. He went to JAIL for passing gas! I can't believe the school actually made an effort to call the police and tell them to arrest the poor boy.
62. j says:
I farted… come and get me coppers … you will never take me alive
63. Anonymous says:
LOL. I bet he'll squeese his butt cheeks together and hold in the next fart
64. Rant says:
In response to the 2/02/09 16:47, the cops ARE rather useless. Think about it; If you get mugged, there's no way a cop will save you unless he/she happens to stroll down the street and see you (don't hope for that miracle). If you defend your health or life from a violent mugging and somehow succeed, YOU will be arrested for assaulting someone because there is no proof that you were defending yourself unless you convince an onlooker to stick around (I highly doubt the mugger would let you ask someone to be a witness, much less speak altogether). We are left with no choice but to throw ourselves at the mercy of a worthless excuse for public service and hope we don't die either at the hands of the mugger or the cop. (although the cop may let you live, you may spend undeserved time in a cage with the very people you were imprisoned for defending yourself against) Whew…done ranting for now.
65. OMG says:
To everyone who thinks this is true you are idiots.
the same picture can be found at http://www.apfn.org
66. no hope says:
See WhyHope.com to know that some apparently conservative police are willing to obstruct justice and harm people with developmental disabilities just because idiots like the last Anonymous let some of the police get away with acting like thugs. I secretly recorded things which happened because I am the one at a disadvantage and police have guns and powers I do not have.
67. Rev.Sleezy says:
Funny! WTF. It's a sick reflection on ourselves. Arresting for farting. OMG!
68. FYI says:
Dont these pigs have anything else to do, FYI, Anarchy will someday bring peace.
69. They are says:
70. Anonymous says:
Its good this boy was takin to jail, he was on his way to bein a gangbanger or killer obviously if he was not corrected before too long.
71. Time Wasting says:
someone should have beat his ass…not wasted the cops time.
72. Anonymous says:
Okay, what this article fails to mention is that Spectrum Jr./Sr. High is not an ordinary school. It is Martin County's 'last-chance' school. It's a school designed for students that were expelled from the other area schools but didn't do enough to warrant a juvenile detention center sentence. The kids that attend this school are already on their way down the wrong path and need to be corrected ASAP. I agree this is over the top, but we coddle children too much in this generation.
73. AH says:
74. Kids says:
omg wow i just love how a 12 year old gets arrested for farting in class, and there is kids at my school who pop pills in the middle of class and the teachers dont care. at ALL.
75. Deserved says:
that is first of all imature for the kid to do that. then again i think the school took that way over the edge.
76. Anonymous says:
Just Pull his Pants down and Spank his Ass and Whatever else you can think of
77. Rly? says:
Is this for real?
78. Anonymous says:
what the hell is wrong with you people muslams can kill 3000 then build their trophy mosque and we are cuffing 12 year old boys our priority are messed up
79. Brittany says:
you know what, im a 17 year old girl. if i had to let out a fart, i would in class. i respect people, but im not going to sit there feeling uncomfortable just so adults can feel satisfied. if you think that he shouldve been arrested, you have some serious fucking issues. you bastards are ridiculous. the cops should be called if theres a fire, or to save a life, or to report a crime you nut fagots. what is ur guys problems? for real????? over reacting much? this is police brutality. it needs to stop.
80. WORTHLESS says:
It takes 2 cops to arrest a boy for farting in class. And cops wonder why their is so much crime getting around them. oooops he just let one rip go arrest him while that bank is getting robbed. WORTHLESS.
81. beano says:
They should put him into foster care! LOL, or make him attend _ _ _ _ yourself anonymous meetings!
At least get him into DEtox, or on the Beano program.
If I got arrested for every stinker in the sixth grade, I would be getting out in about 10 years, and I'm 50!
I love this country!
82. Jes says:
wow, that school is crazy. i can't believe this seriously happened
83. Susan says:
if a 12 year old is farting in class and shutting off computers i think its kinda pointless to get arrested unless there is a law thats state you cannot fart at school
84. I understand your concern and believe me Im am concerned as well!We have a dirty rotten bunch of snakes that think they are smarter than us running this country.
85. Davie Jones says:
This country is a dissapointment
86. Gigan says:
Meanwhile, a girl is raped, a man is murdered, a bank is robbed… but the police are too busy arresting a 12-year-old boy for farting. This school is in desperate need of a principal.
87. terry wagar says:
Police are pedophiles and they train children while their young to fear them!
88. valy says:
so i are living in freedom country ? ha ha ha .
89. people says:
90. Jess says:
I farted.l OH NO SONT ARREST ME!! Absalute idiots…
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Proving Guilt Beyond A Reasonable Doubt: The 4 Elements Of A Crime Explained
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When a crime is committed, prosecutors have one goal: prove, beyond a reasonable doubt, that the defendant is guilty of a criminal act. Though courtroom dramas and police procedural shows make this look quite simple, life isn't very much like TV; criminal defense lawyers and legal defense teams work their hardest to defend their clients and push the reasonable doubt to the best of their ability.
Regardless of which side is "right," there are rules to follow; that's where the four elements of a crime come in. An element of a crime is one of a set of facts that must all be proven to convict a defendant of a crime. Prosecutors are tasked with providing evidence that is credible and sufficient to prove (beyond a reasonable doubt, of course) that the defendant committed each element of the particular crime charged. Let's break them down.
• Mental state (mens rea): Mens rea refers to the crime's mental elements, specifically those associated with the defendant's intent; the criminal act must be voluntary or purposeful. Mens rea is almost always a necessary component in order to prove that a criminal act has been committed.
• Conduct (actus reus): Actus reus is required for all crimes. That is, a criminal act (or unlawful omission of act) must have occurred. Basically, this means you can't be punished for thinking criminal thoughts if you've never acted on them.
• Concurrence: Mens rea and actus reus must occur at the same time; the criminal intent must precede or exist at the same moment the criminal act occurs. For criminal liability to occur, there must be either overt and voluntary action.
• Causation: Many crimes include an element where actual harm must occur. For example, homicide requires a killing, and aggravated battery requires serious bodily injury -- without those respective outcomes, the crimes could not have actually been committed.
From DUI law to hard-hitting criminal offenses, legal defense teams and criminal attorneys will be there to inform defendants of their rights and provide counsel. Whether you're defending yourself from a crime or are seeking to convict someone else of committing one, you are always entitled to legal representation: the Sixth Amendment guarantees it. |
global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/57808 | Three years of dreaming...
[by Dan]
Since the time he could point, Jude has wanted to be a pilot. We would sit outside of our house and he would look for aircraft as they started their approach to the San Antonio airport and point toward the sky every time he spotted one.
He had his first flight suit at 2, which he quickly grew out of, and his second at 5 which he wore today on his first private airplane ride.
A guy I work with is a former Marine Corps Harrier pilot and he offered to take Jude up for a ride. Can you really have your kids in better hands than with a Marine Aviator?
Here is the flight crew: Pilot Mike B., co-pilot Jude, and the crew chief, Indigo:
Mike showed Jude how to do the entire preflight inspection, including the fuel check. He took his job quite seriously. This was at the Fredericksburg airport where we landed after our first leg.
Here is how the rest of the morning went.
Jude checking in with his passengers:
3500 feet AGL (above ground level... have to get the lingo right if you're going to be a pilot).
Approach on the way back to Boerne Stage Field north of San Antonio:
The crew chief (Indigo) and I sat in the back. Based on her expression, flight school is not in her future.
Post flight lunch:
I have never seen Jude so excited to do anything in his life. He popped out of bed this morning at zero-dark-thirty and said, "Dad, I'm just so excited to fly today I wanted to get up early. I had a dream that my flight suit was too big!"
He was confident, listened to Mike's instructions to the letter and finally got to realize his dream. I'm proud to be his dad. I love you buddy! Mike, thanks a million. You really can't imagine how special this was for him.
1. Awesome! You are one Brave Momma! And pretty cool too :)
2. What an amazing day for Jude! He looked SO professional in his pint-sized flight suit and mighty cute too! :)
Indi's expression on board was priceless!!
I'm sure this is something he will NEVER forget!!
3. OH, that's AWESOME!!!!! WOw, Jude- so cool that you got to do that. What cool parents you have!!! You look pretty darn adorable in the flight suit too- I see the future!!!
4. Fantastic! So great that y'all are encouraging his dreams like that!
If you're ever near Houston, you MUST come get a tour of the space center...
5. Now, how special is that!!!!!??? What an experience.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/57818 | 20 Parenting Books Later, and This is What I Remember
Apr 14, 2016
Last Sunday, we were sitting in church, and Clark didn't get to put his little plastic sacrament cup back in the tray like he wanted to. It was basically the end of the world for him. Instead of covering his mouth though or telling him to be quiet or rushing him out of the chapel, I whispered in his ear, "You wanted to put the cup in the tray. It was your cup, and you wanted to do it. You didn't want mommy to do it. You wanted to do it." Within seconds, his cries had stopped and he was back to his normal self.
A tantrum had been narrowly avoided, and as I was thinking about it, I realized that in that moment, I'd applied the one piece of advice I remember from when I read The Happiest Toddler on the Block: Narrate what they're thinking. Most of the time, they just want to know someone knows why they're so mad, so just say it for them again and again and again.
Over the past eight years, I've read my share of parenting books. Most of them completely motivate and inspire me while I'm reading them (and for maybe a couple of weeks after), and then I promptly forget everything except for maybe one or two takeaway messages. (And sometimes, sadly, even with books I liked very much, I really do forget the entire thing. It's mom-brain at it's finest.)
Today I thought it would be fun, or maybe depressing, to see what has stayed with me from some of the books. In each case, I haven't looked back at my review, which surely would have helped me remember a lot more (and sometimes, it was very tempting to take a quick peek, but I'm a girl of my word).
The Happiest Baby on the Block by Harvey Karp
To sooth a crying baby, try one (or several) of the five S's: Swing, Swaddle, Shhhh, Suck, and . . . dang it, I can't remember the last one!
Healthy Sleep Habits, Happy Child by Marc Weissbluth
Put your baby to bed earlier, and he'll sleep longer.
Love and Logic Magic for Early Childhood by Jim Fay and Charles Fay
When you want your child to do something (for example, leave the park), give him a choice, "Would you like to leave now or in five minutes?"
The Happiest Toddler on the Block by Harvey Karp
Your toddler is like a little caveman. When he is upset, mimic his words/feelings in short, primitive sentences.
Parent Power by John Rosemond
There should never be any question that it is the parent who is in charge.
The Parenting Breakthrough: A Real-Life Plan to Teach Kids to Work, Save Money, and Be Truly Independent by Merrilee Browne Boyack
It's the parents' responsibility to teach their kids how to work and to raise successful adults out of them. This is best accomplished through an organized plan. (For example, at three, teach them how to get dressed; at seven, teach them how to use the microwave; at twelve, teach them how to schedule appointments, etc.) I modified the plan she outlined in the book to fit our own family, and we still reference it every year.
Free-Range Kids: How to Raise Safe, Self-Reliant Children by Lenore Skenazy
My kids won't die if they eat cookie dough.
Baby-Led Weaning: The Essential Guide to Introducing and Helping Your Baby to Grow Up a Healthy and Confident Eater by Gill Rapley and Tracey Murkett
It is better for babies to learn how to handle real food at six months when their gag reflex is at the front of their tongue rather than at nine months when it has moved farther back. Cut up food into stick shapes at the beginning for early success.
Be very careful not to label your kids, especially when they can hear what you're saying. You might think they don't have a natural inclination towards ______, but if they hear you say so, they most certainly won't. (Full review here)
Bringing Up Geeks: How to Protect Your Kid's Childhood in a Grow-Up-Too-Fast World by MaryBeth Hicks
If my parents were to write a parenting handbook, it would be this book. (Full review here)
Kids don't need to eat a snack fifty times a day. One snack, that's it. It's okay for kids to be hungry before meals. (Full review here)
Boys Adrift: The Five Factors Driving the Growing Epidemic and Underachieving Young Men by Leonard Sax
Most active boys do not have ADHD and do not need to be medicated. Boys are active because they're boys. Video games should be severely limited or avoided altogether. Boys thrive on competition. (Full review here)
Validation! Also, I'm terrified to have teenagers. (Full review here)
Raising an Emotionally Intelligent Child by John Gottman
It is not bad to feel mad or sad or scared. Those emotions can be a catalyst for growth and change. (Full review here)
Basically the same book as Raising an Emotionally Intelligent Child but easier to read and with more practical, hands-on tips. Reflect back your child's feelings rather than force them into a different emotion: "I can see you're feeling angry right now. Why don't you go take a break in your room?" Not, "Get into your room, and don't you dare come out until you're happy!"
A mistreated book is not worth freaking out over. (Full review here)
Calm and Compassionate Children by Susan Usha Dermond
Get a pet. (Full review here)
Strong Mothers, Strong Sons: Lessons Mothers Need to Raise Extraordinary Men by Meg Meeker
Your son should never ever ever question your love for him. Never. (Full review here)
MotherStyles: Using Your Personality Type to Discover Your Parenting Strengths by Janet P. Penley
I am an ISTJ. I can't come up with imaginative ways for my kids to eat their food or get ready for school. But I can make a long list of summer goals, check them all off, and have fun doing it. (Full review here)
Little Men by Louisa May Alcott
Taking the time to have one-on-one, weekly interviews with your children will go a long way in raising productive, successful, faithful adults. (Full review here)
This list represents hundreds of hours of reading. I can remember forcing myself to painstakingly read every word of The Power of Positive Parenting by Glenn Latham, and you'll notice that it didn't even make the list because I couldn't remember a single thing from it. That's sad. It almost seems like it's not worth all the time and effort if I'm just going to forget it all anyway.
But here's the thing: Reading is as much an experience as a memory. As I read each of these books, they influenced and shaped me. Some of that influence was retained as a tangible phrase that I could apply in tricky parenting situations, but some of it actually changed who I was, and that is harder to measure.
Which books have shaped you as a parent? What are some of your mantras in moments of crises? Do you have any fail-proof tips you use to calm a screaming toddler or to get your kids to stop fighting? Please share!
And bonus! Here are a few other parenting books I've read that didn't make the list because they were so memorable I couldn't remember anything. Oops.
1. I really enjoyed this post--this was a fun idea. I wish I had a better memory for parenting books!
2. Super fun post! Have you not read Nurture Shock? That was a fun parenting book I read a few years ago, although all I remember from it is that you can screw up your kid from praising them too much. Reading through the bits of advice you remember was fun, although seeing it all laid out like this was also a little depressing (I don't do that, I didn't do that, ooh, I should probably work on that...). I've got some reading to do!
1. Yes, I've read Nurture Shock, but it's been such a long time, I couldn't remember anything (and I couldn't even link to a review because I read it before I started blogging). But of course, now that you mentioned the effect of praise on kids, I can remember that. Was there also a chapter on giftedness? I've actually thought about that a lot because I remember the book talking about how schools should wait to test for giftedness until third grade (which is where we're at right now with Aaron because our district retests everyone prior to third grade for the gifted programs). So I guess I actually do remember something from it!
3. What a great idea for a post! I liked "Raising an Emotionally Intelligent Child" but skimmed some of it and remember liking the ideas but maybe not how it was written so I'm thinking I should check out "How to Talk so Kids Will Listen...". Do you feel like you remember books better since you started this blog (without taking a peek at the review, of course)? Just curious.
It's interesting that you've forgotten most of "The Power of Positive Parenting" that one along with "Bringing up Geeks", "Nurtureshock" and "Protecting the Gift" are the ones that have been the most memorable for me. I looked over my list and remember really loving some of the parenting books but not remembering much from them now.
1. I don't know that I necessarily remember books better just off the top of my head (although probably?), BUT having the reviews definitely helps me recall a lot of things that would have been lost otherwise. That's why I purposely didn't let myself look at my reviews for this post because I know I would have remembered so much more if I had.
I know! I remember liking The Power of Positive Parenting (although it felt long), and I wish I could remember it.
4. Pleasantly surprised to see that you read The Parenting Breakthrough by Merrilee Boyack! I just read that one a couple months ago. I really liked it. It was so *actionable* I've found myself repeating the mantra "we are raising independent adults" to myself and to my husband and to my kids. I knew I needed to revamp our chore system, and I feel like it really empowered me to do so and it's working great. I'm also using her advice about allowance and earning money with the kids. Loving that, too! I guess I should review the book, eh? I mentioned it a bit in one of my posts: http://www.evereadbooks.com/2016/02/my-kid-reads-too-much-one-important.html But it really deserves it's own post now that I'm finding it so helpful.
1. Oh yes, it's such a good one!
You know why I think I remember the pet bit from Calm and Compassionate Children? Because we read it for my education group, and one of the moms actually got a dog for her kids after reading it! I think I didn't even know about that when I wrote my review, but I think it's funny also that that's what has stayed with me and not any of the other great things in the book. ;-)
5. p.s. Also found it funny that you didn't mention getting a pet in your full review of Calm and Compassionate Children. But I think maybe we should get a pet.
6. My favorite parents books are "parenting books" but a few memorable paragraphs in books like Steven coveys book 7habitd of highly effective people and all the piano practicing books I have been devouring to help my piano students. They each have one of two pages that are really focused on parenting and because it isn't a deluge of information...and I take notes on every self help book I read...I have been able to really wrap my mind around all the details in the book very clearly and try to use them. Loved your list. I can't wait to get two of them and read them.
1. That's actually why I included Little Men at the end of my list. Even though it's a novel, it had so many powerful parenting lessons for me in it. Parenting books definitely don't have to be labeled as such to make a big impact!
7. Really want to read Free Range Kids. Own Bringing up Geeks and it is fantastic. Also own Last Child in the Woods and love it, my take away is how important time outdoors is for our children. give it another chance :-)
1. I think you'd like it, Erin! Also, just because I couldn't remember anything specific from Last Child in the Woods doesn't mean I didn't like it (although I think I did feel like it was fairly repetitive). I actually liked all of the books I listed at the end, but for one reason or another, they didn't stay with me in a long-term way.
8. I'm glad I'm not the only one who reads a parenting book and loves it, but then forgets most of the book within a few weeks :) I read If I Have to Tell You One More Time... a little while ago and I loved it but all I can really remember now is to turn everything into a positive and to spend one on one time with your kids each day.
1. Haha, yes! Glad you can relate! That book sounds very good and like something I could use right now!
9. My favorite parenting book is "Boundaries with Kids" by Cloud and Townsend, but the only specific thing I remember is that we're supposed to have some. ;)
Loved this list!
1. Thanks for the recommendation, Karen, and for your kind comment!
10. I live in MN which is the Mecca of Early Childhood and Family Education for academics-- it's a world center for it. There's a highly revered researcher named Mary Sheedy Kurcinka who wrote little book called "Raising Your Spirited Child" that was a game changer for me. I was having a difficult time getting my head around the (delightful and difficult) behavior patterns that one of my kids started to exhibit as a toddler, and intensified over time. This book helped me understand the separate facets that make up a personality (I think there are 7 that are commonly defined in academic circles), and identify what the specific trouble spots were that we were experiencing rather than just feeling like EVERYTHING WAS CRAZY AND OUT OF CONTROL! So now I understand some insightful things about my son, like he has strong negative first reactions to almost everything new, he has a difficult time with transitions, and on average his mood is more intense than most kids. This has become so helpful because I can anticipate points that will be difficult for him, and guide him through how to deal with things that are uncomfortable. As he has gotten older he's become more independent at navigating things with a steady head because we've had many years to practice life skills that are really specific to his personality needs. Great book for us!
Also, Stephen R. Covey has been a great model to me for learning empathic listening- a parenting skill that was not intuitive to me but has been key for connecting with our kids as individuals. The audio versions of his books are highly impactful to me because you get to hear his own inflections and emphasis. The original 7 Habits, and 7 Habits of Successful Families are books that my husband and I revisit.
The audio of How to Talk So Kids Will Listen... is great also because there's so much real emotion that goes into difficult parenting situations that the reader portrays and models so well.
The Susan Cain book Quiet isn't a parenting book, but it has become like an owner's manual for understanding one of my kids.
1. These are all amazing suggestions, Jayne, and it's so inspiring to hear about how you've sought out ways to help and support and love each of your kids. I've been meaning to read Stephen Covey for YEARS, and this might just be the push I finally need! And I agree that Quiet is an amazing glimpse into the life of an introvert and can help with understanding children and adults alike.
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By Jonathan Spira on 20 July 2018
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Back in the day, when I was in high school secretly reading car magazines instead of the approved reading assignment, the battle for the best luxury sedan or coupe was a fairly big deal. One of the leading car magazines of the period would refer to the winner as “King of the Hill” and typically pitted a Cadillac Eldorado against a Lincoln Continental Mark VII or, later, Mark VIII.
The Lincoln-versus-Cadillac rivalry became less significant once BMW and Mercedes-Benz and, later, Lexus and Infiniti, became substantial players in the U.S. luxury car market. In many people’s minds, American luxury cars had been relegated to the dustbin of history… that is, until now.
The 2018 Lincoln Navigator changes all that. Making its point of departure the striking and luxurious Lincoln Continental, the Lincoln Navigator is the largest (albeit not the longest, even at 221.9” or 5,636 mm for the long-wheelbase model) and most luxurious Lincoln ever sold by the brand. It is also the heaviest and the first non-limousine Lincoln to offer seating for more than six. (The title of longest Lincoln ever sold goes to the 1977-1979 Lincoln Continental thanks to its 5-mph bumpers.)
Although it is shorter than the Cadillac Escalade, it is noticeably larger than any of its European competitors. Size does matter.
The Lincoln Navigator has been around since the 1998 model year (in its first year, it helped Lincoln overtake Cadillac in annual sales), this, the 2018 model, is not your father’s Navigator.
All new for 2018, the Navigator is the epitome of understated elegance with clean lines and a tasteful application of chrome. The grille, reminiscent of the new Continental’s, sports an homage to the star logo used on the Continental Mark II in the 1950s. This one, however, lights up à la Mercedes-Benz.
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'Matrix' Co-Director Explains Why They Ruined 'The Matrix' [Movies]
(Warning: This article contains spoilers for the Matrix Trilogy)
While The Matrix remains a classic scifi action flick, the second and third movies in the series were a disappointment to many fans of the first film. Specifically, many people were upset by the developments in Matrix Reloaded and Matrix Revolution that revealed that the Machines orchestrated the prophecy of Neo, and that his role as the One was intended to enslave humans, not free them. On a recent press tour for the Wachowski brothers' ( the writer/director team of the Matrix trilogy) new movie Cloud Atlas, Lana Wachowski (formerly Larry Wachowski) explained their reasoning behind overturning the prophecy of the One, something so many people loved about the first Matrix.
"What we were trying to achieve with the story overall was a shift, the same kind of shift that happens for Neo, that Neo goes from being in this sort of cocooned and programmed world, to having to participate in the construction of meaning to his life. And we were like, 'Well, can the audience go through the three movies and experience something similar to what the main character experiences?' ... So the first movie is sort of classical in its approach, the second movie is deconstructionist and an assault on all the things you thought to be true in the first movie ... and the third movie is the most ambiguous, because it asks you to actually participate in the construction of meaning."
Translation: "We took everything people liked about the first movie, and destroyed it in the second and third movie." Smart move.
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1. I guess I'm the only one who wasn't disappointed. I enjoyed all three movies. They didn't need to make a sequel, but I enjoyed both II and III.
2. I didn't like the second one mostly because it seemed more like a video game then a movie. Go here and fight these bad guys to get the magic key then go here and do this...it literally put me to sleep.
3. Sounds like a lot of fancy words just to say, "We had a cheat sheet for the first one. The other two, not so much."
I think the Matrix trilogy is a perfect example of what happens when storytellers depend too heavily on something as blueprinted as the Hero's Journey arc when they're cutting their teeth, then try to veer away in an attempt to prove they can. Compare to JK Rowling, who decided to stick with it and just keep using the Monomyth formula with each Harry Potter installment to wild success.
4. Great films...I love the Harry Potter movies.
5. I am big on symbolism, when it comes to stories like this. Though I ultimately didn't enjoy where the story led, I had fun connecting the dots and seeing the bigger picture. The first was still my favorite. Neo is an awesome superhero.
6. I loved the second and third movies. Thought they were brilliant.
7. I agree, JW. There's a reason the Hero's Journey is so popular, just like all story archetypes. If you change it, you risk losing the audience.
Thanks for commenting!. |
global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/57849 | 26 December 2007
Movie: Enchanted
I saw Walt Disney's Enchanted the other day and couldn't switch off my built-in HR filter.
First of all, Enchanted is a very beautiful movie with some funny moments. The only complaint I have is that there's hardly any cynical jokes (that's usually my problem with beautiful movies). And any singing in Disney movies still drives me crazy.
New situations and how to react
Here's what happens at the very beginning of the movie: the Princess Giselle is thrown out of her perfect fantasy world and appears in New York. The Prince follows her to bring her back.
Both their situations and the way they react are different.
The Princess: passive and dependent on others
The princess doesn't realize what is happening to her and reacts in a passive way. Instead of trying to take control of her fate she just waits for the prince to rescue her, letting circumstances and other people make decisions for her.
The Prince: dumb, arrogant and focused
The heroic prince starts the search for Giselle the second he arrives in New York. Since he's arrogant and stupid, he doesn't take even a few minutes to assess the situation and adapt to his new surroundings, but at least he's focused and determined to reach his goal.
What we can learn from this
Even if you find yourself in a new and unexpected situation, a general attitude of readiness can help a lot. Try to take control instead of being the ball in a game of pinball.
A goal will give you a direction and help you focus. If you can't make things happen on your own (e.g. the princess needs the prince to save her), at least try to find a way to help (e.g. make sure the prince will find her when he shows up).
Additional observations
Here are other things I noticed while happily munching some popcorn:
• saying nothing but "no" isn't a good long-term strategy
• being angry from time to time can be very liberating
• calling everybody a "peasant" might be resented by some people
And finally a warning: I'll probably watch Alien vs Predator 2 in a few days...
24 December 2007
Quote: Travel Abroad (Dave Barry)
Posting a quote is still a quick and painless way to increase your post count, especially if you have neither the time nor the desire to come up with something clever ;-)
Source: Dave Barry quoted by Tim Ferriss.
Frohe Weihnachten allerseits!
23 December 2007
Quote: Saying "No" (Your HR Guy)
Posting a quote is a quick and painless way to increase your post count. Besides, I love quotes. So here we go:
I am in the business of telling people «no» all day. What makes them think I am actually going to not say «no» to a person that gives me a good reason to do so?
Source: Your HR Guy
21 December 2007
J-2: Scare Your Friends While Making Your Enemies Happy
This is a guest post by my friend Johnny. He knows stuff about me. So I let him use my blog...
By Jaded Johnny (J-2)
Scaring your friends is fun. And it's also a great way to find out who really cares about you.
If you're a man with long hair, some or all of your co-workers will ask you stupid questions like "When will you finally cut your ugly hair?" Here's what you should reply:
I'll cut my hair the day I'll start looking for a new job.
Don't say this too often. And select the right people to say it to.
Ideally, they shouldn't know you too well, so they won't be 100% sure whether you're kidding or not. They must also have a good memory, so they will remember what you said when the time is right. And finally, they should like to talk to people from other departments. This way, the day they remember what you said, the news will spread like wildfire all over the company.
Of course, this takes a lot of careful preparation and you can't rush it. But when you're sure that the time is right: Go and cut your hair!
If you don't have long hair, growing a beard will be faster (and probably just as ugly).
Women can play this game too. It's less dramatic with the hair, but it can work if you never put on make-up or wear a miniskirt.
And it's also great for teamwork. Find a partner in crime and have this person ask the question in a public situation. Possibilities are a meeting with people from other departments or at the cafeteria when everybody is pretending not to listen to your private conversation.
Be creative. Do evil. Have fun!
20 December 2007
Link: Krusty for CEO
Wally Bock at Three Star Leadership mentions in "Your Concerns Are Their Concerns" how less and less people will really tell you what they think the more you move up the hierarchy.
I just had to quote this paragraph, both because I believe that's it's true and because I love the way Wally formulates it:
The higher you move up the hierarchy the more people tell you what you want to hear, filter the information that you get, and avoid telling you unpleasant truths. The natural human reaction to this is to believe that everyone agrees with you and that you're doing a great job, even when they hate you, think you're a jerk and think the place would be better off with Krusty the Clown at the helm.
Challenge: Asshole Rating Self-Exam (ARSE)
In my last post about Robert Sutton's book "The No Asshole Rule" I challenged all HR Professionals to do the ARSE and report their personal score in the comments.
Congratulations to all the courageous ones who disclosed their scores! Here's an update
• 7 people participated with an average score of 5.43
• no Certified Assholes participated
• Laurie came up with the (not yet) scientific term AQ (Asshole Quotient)
I've published some statistics here.
Both in the book and in the online ARSE, the test consists of a total of 24 questions to the following topics:
• What are your gut reactions to people (8 questions)
• How do you treat other people? (10 questions)
• How do people react to you? (6 questions)
All "true" statements are counted which leads to the following possible results:
• 0-5 true: you're not a certificed asshole (if you answered honestly)
• 5-15: borderline certificied asshole
• 15 or more: full-blown certified asshole
To make my little statistics project possible I tweaked the categories to 0-5, 6-15 and 16-24.
The challenge is still open! Don't be afraid and don't be shy!
18 December 2007
Book: The No Asshole Rule
I finally finished reading the famous book by Robert I. Sutton (PhD), professor at Stanford University. Bob's book is called "The No Asshole Rule".
Professor Sutton won't bore you with politically correct, scientific lingo. In fact, the first sentence of the book is:
When I encounter a mean-spirited person, the first thing I think is: "Wow, what an asshole!"
This book manages to combine scientific research with real world stories in a way that everybody can understand and relate to.
You will get information about studies regarding bullying, emotional abuse and harassment at the workplace. But in the end, Sutton will still call the "über-jerks" (see chapter 3) by their real name: assholes.
The book contains descriptions and definitions of abusive bosses and co-workers, examples and tips for surviving and leaving an asshole-infested work environment and, probably most important of all, recommendations that will help you realize that you're an asshole or help you avoid becoming one.
Chapter 6 is almost shocking as it describes the advantages of behaving like an asshole. But this only shows that Sutton analyzes a topic from every possible angle as the true scientist he is.
Here are some of the references that the trivia fans and celebrity addicts will enjoy: The Godfather, Virgin's Richard Branson, Disney's Michael Eisner, Google's Sergey Brin and many more.
(Prize question: which ones are the assholes? Oh, I forgot to mention Steve Jobs!)
And still, in the end there's no doubt that this book is not trivialized pop-science, but rather solid research explained in a way that even I can understand.
Bob Sutton's blog: Work Matters
The Self-Test from chapter 4 is also available online:
ARSE (Asshole Rating Self-Exam)
It's not really about "Am I an asshole or not?" but rather "where do I, or may I, behave like an asshole?".
2 weeks ago I was a 4 ("You don't sound like a certified asshole"). Today I'm a 5 ("You sound like a borderline certified asshole"). I'm not as nice as I used to be...
Do the test and post your score in the comments!
The Morning After (The Office Party)
Office parties have been a hot topic these last days. Here's my morning-after-advice.
You made a fool of yourself at the office party and feel embarrassed, maybe even guilty. Now what to do?
First of all, don't come to me.
If nobody complained to HR (me), then I don't want to hear about it.
If you feel that you should apologize to somebody, then do it.
But don't do it in public. Otherwise you might further embarrass yourself if there was nothing to apologize about in the first place. And if you actually did behave in an inappropriate way, the other person certainly doesn't want to be reminded of it in front of everybody else.
If you think that other people talk behind your back, take it like a man (or woman).
Perfect people only do perfect things. The rest of us learn from our mistakes and live with the consequences.
Like I said, don't come to me.
If you crossed an important line then I don't have time to talk to you since I'm preparing your termination. In this case you'll hear from me as soon as I'm done.
And if it was only something really funny or stupid, then I probably already heard about it, closed my office door and laughed my ass off.
17 December 2007
Tag: Christmas Meme (And: Who Wants To Be My Friend?)
I've been tagged by HR Wench so now I need to answer some questions about Christmas.
The Rules
• Share Christmas facts about yourself
The Meme
1. Wrapping or gift bags?
I usually do the packing at my parents' house 30 minutes before the gift distribution so I have to use what's left (my parents don't buy bags).
2. Real or artificial tree?
No tree at all. Artificial looks stupid and real makes too much of a mess. My parents happily stopped buying a tree as soon as my brother and I refused to do the decorating.
3. When do you put up the tree?
The what?
4. When do you take the tree down?
About 15 years ago for the last time.
5. Do you like eggnog?
I never had any, but Stephen Colbert enjoyed it on his show in huge quantities last year. So It must be good.
6. Favorite gift received as a child?
Money to buy my first bass guitar (although it wasn't at Christmas and I was a teenager).
7. Do you have a nativity scene?
Nope, but I have a Matrix scene all year long with Morpheus, Trinity, Neo and Tank. And also a Star Wars scene with figures from Kinder Schokolade eggs.
8. Worst Christmas gift you ever received?
A pair of socks and some milk chocolate (the most boring kind).
9. Mail or email Christmas cards?
I hate writing cards so I don't do it.
10. Favorite Christmas movie?
The Long Kiss Goodnight with Samuel L. Jackson and Geena Davis. Closely followed by Die Hard 1.
11. When do you start shopping for Christmas?
I try to "gift pool" so somebody else does the shopping. When it doesn't work it's usually 2 hours before the shops close.
12. Favorite things to eat at Christmas?
Whatever my brother cooks. Every year he treats us with fantastic dishes we never ate before.
13. Clear lights or colored on the tree?
Stop it already with the stupid tree questions.
14. Favorite Christmas song?
Idlechatter's punk-rock version of "Frosty The Snowman". And the Roten Rosen album "Warten Auf's Christkind".
I'm Tagging
I should tag 7 random people, but I hate harassing innocent bystanders. And since I work in HR, I have very few friends by definition. So I'll only tag 3 people:
Deb at 8 Hours & A Lunch and my HR blogging heroines Evil HR Lady and Ask A Manager.
Do You Want To Be My Friend?
I have currently 4 slots left for people who want to be my friends. Just post a link to your meme in the comments and I'll retroactively tag you ;-)
Guest Post: Rachel On Communication For Managers
This is a guest post by Rachel from The Employment File.
Rachel posted her Deathbed Managerial Advice in response to my "5 Things to say to Managers" challenge. Then I challenged her on her #5 "COMMUNICATE".
I must have said something like "this is great advice, but how do you motivate managers to really communicate when most of them will say that their voice mail is always available and that they have an open door policy (they usually say this when they work in an open space)."
Without missing a beat, she sent back the article below and allowed me to publish it. Since I like to have the last word, I wrote back some feedback, but she qualified my suggestions as "selling and schmoozing" to managers.
...and she challenged me to write a follow up post on "selling an idea to managers".
HR Advice to Managers: Communication
Having your door open or your lines clear is not communicating. There's nothing wrong with being available for these types of communication, but they should not be your primary communication vehicle. Communication is a two way road. While on the one side of the road you have employees "driving" towards you, that lane should be relatively free. On the other side of the road, you're approaching the employee, that lane should be bumper to bumper traffic.
So, let's say that you're on the road and you're ready to initiate communication. If it doesn't happen in voice mail and email where does it happen? Hopefully it's face to face. However, we're aware that it's not always easy to get face time with an employee. You should have set times to communicate with the employee on a weekly basis and work "on the fly" on a day to day basis. It means stopping for a second and checking in. What do you check in about? Well, think of how angry you would be (or your spouse would be) if you came home from work every night, asked how their day was, and then moved on to read the paper. While this is communication, it is communication at a very basic level. This is not the level of communication you want to give your employees or your spouse. Instead of, "how are you" try something like "I know today must have been hard for you working alone. I want you to know I appreciated it." Or instead of "This is the new policy, make sure you follow it" try "Here's the new policy, take a day to read it and come up with questions and then we'll have a staff meeting where I can address your concerns." See the difference?
One of the best ways to communicate with an employee is to provide them with feedback. Everyone loves to be praised! Make sure you reinforce their behavior when they do something right. This does not mean going on about how your administrative assistant can measure coffee, it means telling that assistant that you appreciate her getting your coffee with a smile when you know she'd rather be working on a more challenging project. Now, the opposite of praise is criticism. Don't worry! People don't hate criticism as much as they say. Most people want to better themselves and the best way to do that is to receive criticism. Now how you communicate that criticism matters. Don't tell Jim that watching him do a presentation is like watching paint dry. Tell him that he should look into it, and then....give advice on how to do that. Make sure criticism is always followed by advice on how to improve. It's just good communication.
As for HR, since full communication can be difficult to maintain, we like to give you reminders to keep you on the right path.
08 December 2007
Employees 2.0 And HR In General
This is a guest post from a friend of mine. He prefers to remain anonymous, but he swears that everything is true.
Thank you for writing all this stuff about HR "persons" being also employees, this really opened my eyes. It would never have occurred to me that people in HR are also employees (let aside humans).
Recently, I've heard the term "Employee 2.0". It's about the future employees who are now attending schools or universities and who use "new" technologies. The rationale goes like this: a company has to keep up with these "new" technologies and integrate them in the work flows as not to alienate the future workforce. The idea is that these employees will be more productive if they encounter familiar tools like Blogs, Podcasts, Wikis and YouTube clones.
Personally, I believe it's only an excuse for the IT guys to introduce new toys and seem innovative instead of solving the real problems. In my company, they even introduced something similar to YouTube and started a pilot with portable players for Podcasts. They're just crazy bastards!
Last week I met a friend who works at a company of the [bleep] group in [double bleep]. I was quite surprised at how much he praised their HR. It seems that they are not understaffed (maybe they don't have enough beds so some HR people actually have to do some work) and they do more than just hire and fire resources, sorry, employees. It seems they really help you plan your career at their company. This seems odd since I had never heard that this was a task for HR ?!?
Additionally, the yearly employee survey is at over 85% satisfaction and they want to introduce measures to increase it even more. In our company, HR gets a big bonus and starts partying if we are over the destructive mark (which actually hasn't happened in the last few years).
06 December 2007
Turnover And Retention: Be Careful What You Google For
When researching information online, you can sometimes come up with true gems. But you'd better choose your search words wisely...
This was definitely not the kind of retention information I was looking for:
Determination of rumen fill, retention time and ruminal turnover rates of ingesta at different stages
(link leads to a pdf file).
Link: Career Advice For HR Professionals
The wise but evil HR Lady replied to a reader question from an HR professional who doesn't know how to continue his career.
The article is awesome as always and the comments are also full of great recommendations to think about:
• there's no clear career path for HR, but the possibilities are almost endless
• what do you really want and what are your strengths?
• management / leadership with a more strategic role or continue to get your hands dirty?
• ...and much more!
Funny fact: specialist / generalist is mentioned a few times. I don't know about other countries, but in Switzerland an "HR Specialist" is usually the most "generalist" you can get.
04 December 2007
Turnover: A Quick And Dirty Online Search
A quick and dirty online search confirms that there's a lot of interest for turnover and that it's very difficult to calculate its costs.
Absolute costs of turnover
Many opinions about the costs of turnover range from 25% to 250% of a position's annual salary costs.
How to measure the costs of turnover
Elements that can be included in the calculation are:
• job ads
• recruiting agencies
• temporary staff
• salary of interviewers
• lost productivity
• training of new hire
• severance costs
• ...and many more
The Internet is also full of online tools for calculating the costs of turnover. Most of these tools are developed by consultants who will sell you their services once you realize how much money you loose due to turnover.
As everything out there in the Cloud, some tools may be very good while others are probably a joke. But they can give interesting input for developing one's own list of costs elements or calculation tools.
How much turnover is too much?
Specific figures are tricky since in one situation 10% can be a lot while in another it can be absolutely acceptable. A good idea could be to find info about the industry average or the turnover rates of direct competitors. But in general, an increasing turnover rate is mostly bad.
Why isn't turnover always bad?
A bad performer may be replaced with a better one (although it's usually the good ones who leave). Or an exit could give the opportunity to promote a rising star.
And I even heard that there are still a few companies where employees stay for 20 or more years. In this case low turnover can become very costly due to continuous salary raises over a long period of time. And since new employees often bring new ideas, innovation could also suffer.
Turnover or retention rate?
Some articles recommend to measure the retention rate instead of turnover. This way you can analyze who is leaving when and after how much time instead of just measuring how many percent of your staff are leaving.
What I learned from my short virtual trip
• turnover exists (I read about it on the Internet!)
• it costs a lot, but nobody really knows how much
• consultants love turnover
• zero turnover shouldn't be the goal
• "retention rate" sounds like something worth looking into
02 December 2007
Quotes: Too Much TV
I've been watching some tv and stumbled across the following quotes:
First of all, a quote from The Patriot. I saw it on a German channel and when researching it online, I didn't find the final script (only drafts), but what I heard in the movie goes something like this:
A shepherd needs to be there for his herd. And sometimes, he also needs to keep the wolves away from the sheeps.
(The Reverend, when joining the militia)
What it tells me: I spontaneously thought of assholes. I'm currently reading Robert Sutton's book "The No Asshole Rule". Managers need to protect their employees from abusive jerks.
Don't take it personally, just take it seriously.
(Gordon Ramsay on Kitchen Nightmares, season 1 episode 9)
What it tells me: not often enough, but still occasionally, some people may tell us what they really think. Take it seriously, it's a great chance to learn something. Don't be annoyed, don't pout. Consider it. If they're wrong, forget about it and move on. But if they're right, do everything you can to learn from it and become a better person and a better professional.
There's 3 choices in this life: Be good, get good or give up.
(Dr. House to a dying punk-rocker on House, season 4, episode 9)
What it tells me: Some are born good at what they're doing. I don't know many of them. Others give everything they got to become great. But sometimes the best thing you can do is quit. And then you can focus all your energy on things that can really make you successful and happy.
This reminds me of Seth Godin's "The Dip: a little book that teaches you when to quit (and when to stick)".
That's all, folks.
01 December 2007
Poll: Why did you start working in HR?
I love polls. "Do you like a, b, or c better?". Somebody wants to hear my opinion? No problem, here you go... But why did you start working in HR?
If you're anything like me, you won't be able to resist clicking on the little button.
The only downside: you have to go to the blog page (you can't vote from an RSS reader).
Admittedly, I've predefined the possible answers, but if you take this survey with a grain of salt, you will certainly have fun.
And if I get more than 10 answers, I will create a pie chart and post it on the Companion Page. |
global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/57862 | Saturday, November 21, 2009
Total Death
Thinking about getting this for my new tattoo. Like, full back piece. Y/N?
Props to Kirk Shelton for designing the Brutal Tooth font. And check out this short but sweet interview with Christophe Szpajdel, the designer of over 7000 death- and black-metal logos. These logos seem like they are about as simple as design work can get. . . until you try to make one.
katarina said...
Wholehearted "yes" vote over here.
dylan reibling said...
aaron said...
Enjoy THIS silence, motherfucker! |
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Dodonna Chapter #24 annually presents scholarships to deserving high school seniors. Additional projects have included an AHEPA-Daughters Scholarship Fundraiser Luncheon, Founders’ Day and Past President observance, Community Christmas Celebration, Christmas Tree decorating, Apokreatiko Scholarship Fundraiser Luncheon,, Festival of Tables/Trees, Palm Sunday Bake Sale, Mother’s Day Dinner with Philoptochos, AHEPA-Daughtes-Philoptochos Graduate Sunday/AHEPA Day.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/57915 | Friday, January 11, 2013
Good clean fun (literally!)
Hey y'all! It has been weeks and weeks since I have blogged. Between the wedding, holidays, and illness, I am barely keeping my head above water. Things are looking up and here I am blogging on Friday.
I decided to do something totally kid (and mom) friendly. Shaped soap. You can look up directions on how to actually make soap, but this is the wayward way to do it quickly and with the children
You need some Ivory soap and some cookie cutters. Optional supplies include glitter, scented wax or essential oil, and wax.
Here's what to do:
Finely chop or grate 1 or 2 bars of Ivory soap. Here it is finely chopped, but it would have melted better grated. The soap is very soft, so your little ones could cut it with butter knives.
Put your soap in a double broiler and let it melt. (I tried some the microwave, too. It was another fun experiment. It bubbles up really big! The kids would love it.) I added a little water. This is when you would add a few drops of oil or scented wax.
Let it melt. I only waited until it looked like mashed potatoes. It may have melted further. You know us wayward folks!
Next I patted out the 'dough' into a circle and cut out stars and snowflakes. (Spray the cutters with Pam or oil.) For a few of the shapes, I pressed the soap into the shapes rather than cutting them out. Carefully press them out of the cutters.
I sprinkled a tiny bit of glitter on them soap. You can dip the glitter side in melted wax if you want to keep it off your hands.
Clean up is easy. Let water take the soap out of the pans you used. Throw the scraps and the kids into the tub and tell them to bubble up!
1 comment :
Just Jaime said...
Fun! I love the glitter!
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# Web Dev Trends 2018
The web dev industry changes quickly - we got new trends and new frameworks coming up every day. What’s worth diving into and what can you ignore safely? Here’s a list of must-watch web dev trends for 2019!
Obviously, as with all such lists, it’s important to keep in mind that this is a highly subjective list of topics. It reflects my thoughts and ideas. Please absolutely join the discussion below the YouTube video you find at the top of this page!
# Understand the Basics
HTML, JS and CSS will stay important This might be a strange trend but it’s just so important!
As a modern web developer, it’s actually easy to get lost and dive into advanced topics without understanding the basics first.
But what are the basics?
You should know HTML, CSS and JavaScript of course but I’d argue that Node.js also is kind of a must-know basic ingredient of modern web development.
Node.js is not just a JavaScript runtime that can be used to write server-side applications. Instead, it also powers modern build tools like Webpack and enables solutions like Electron or Ionic/ Capacitor to do their jobs.
Want to learn the basics? Here are some helpful pages:
Make sure you understand the role of each of these basic technologies and also make sure you understand the base syntax and features.
You certainly don’t have to become a CSS expert if you mostly work with JavaScript and React.js. But it won’t hurt if you understand how styling works as this will also influence how you write your components or templates.
And it’s the same for the other basics: Obviously you don’t have to master everything. But by knowing the fundamentals you’ll not only be a better developer yourself but you’ll also be able to work efficiently with other developers focusing on the parts you’re not so keen about.
# Learn GraphQL
GraphQL - a great alternative to REST APIs Today’s web development landscape is all about APIs and microservices. With a broad variety of clients connecting to our backend services (mobile apps, SPAs, desktop apps) we often don’t need to return HTML from our server-side code.
Instead, you want to exchange data, typically encoded in JSON format.
For that, REST APIs are often the common solution. And this kind of API is there for a good reason of course. You decouple your frontend and backend and you only exchange data without keeping any client data on the server. That allows you to serve a broad variety of clients with one and the same backend.
But REST APIs do have their issues.
The core idea of having a couple of endpoints (paths + Http verbs) to serve all needs of your frontends (clients) quickly shows some weaknesses. Clients are simply too diverse and evolving too quickly for REST APIs to keep up.
Often, you therefore end up with APIs that send too much data which then has to be filtered on the client.
Check out my full project series where we build a complete project with GraphQL, Node.js, MongoDB and React.js to learn more about GraphQL and how to use it: Building an Event-Booking API from Scratch
GraphQL is a query language invented by Facebook that solves this issue.
Sometimes, people think GraphQL is a language to query Facebook’s data or that GraphQL can only be used with React.js.
Both is wrong!
A GraphQL API is simply an alternative to a REST API.
It exposes one endpoint to the clients but parses a rich query sent by the clients. And on the server, you set up logic that can return different slices of your data based on the query sent by the client.
This high flexibility makes GraphQL a great choice for rich client-side applications and hence GraphQL is soaring in popularity.
Over the last year, it also became way easier to learn since we now have a decent set of tutorials as well as great “official” docs over at graphql.org.
The stage is set for GraphQL. And whilst there of course still are plenty of use-cases for REST APIs you should absolutely have a look at GraphQL for your next API backend.
# Dive into Frontend Frameworks (Angular, React, Vue)
Angular, React and Vue - there to stay Frontend frameworks like React (yes, it’s a library…), Angular and Vue are ruling the world of client-side web development.
And they do so for a good reason of course!
Frontend web development is difficult - at least for anything beyond very trivial applications.
Updating the DOM (efficiently) when data changes is hard. Managing state is hard. A lot of things are hard!
And when you have to focus on all the nitty-gritty details, you will lose time to implement features and logic your users will love.
That’s where frameworks fill the gap. By giving you powerful tools to build your web app, you can focus on providing a great, reactive and highly dynamic user experience.
With the web being the primary platform for many apps, knowing the tools to develop these apps is invaluable.
Want to learn one of these frameworks? I got you covered of course!
And it’s not just the web!
Web technologies (HTML, CSS and of course JS) are also used to build desktop (with Electron) or mobile (with Ionic, React Native or NativeScript) apps.
And of course building such apps also demands for tools that help you focus on your business logic rather than the data/ state management and DOM updates.
Therefore frontend frameworks were extremely important in 2018 and they will stay important in 2019.
And I’ll even go as far as to say that we’ll be talking about the same three major frameworks (React, Angular, Vue) by the end of 2019 as we are right now. npmtrends.com shows strong growth for all three major frameworks (Angular, React, Vue) # Web Components & Compilers Web Components - Build your own custom HTML elements I already predicted Web Components (custom HTML elements) to be a trend in 2018 in my Web Dev Trends 2018.
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I was not totally wrong but we also didn’t see a total breakthrough.
That will certainly change in 2019 though.
Because we now have great browser support and amazing tools that make building native web components way easier - Stencil.js is leading the way here. It does not only create native web components but it also adds functionality to automatically load polyfills older browsers might require to use the web components. And it ships with automatic code splitting (i.e. only code for components that are being used is downloaded).
The large selling-proposition of web components is that you have to use no framework to deploy them in your app. You can use tools like Stencil but these tools also just spit out native (vanilla JS) web components.
That allows you to easily re-use your custom HTML elements across projects. No matter if you use React in project A and Angular in project B - you can use your web components in both of them without any changes needed!
# Explore the JAM Stack
JAMStack - JavaScript, APIs and Markdown What is the JAM Stack?
• JavaScript
• APIs
• Markdown
The JAM Stack is all about building static web pages that only use HTML, CSS and JS. You have no server-side language that generates your views/ pages.
Instead, you use static page generators like Gatsby.js to generate all pages in advance. You can thereafter deploy your statically built app to a static host like AWS S3.
Static pages? Does that mean you got no dynamic data in there?
That’s where the API and Markdown come into play.
Static page generators of course allow you to tap into dynamic resources. You often use markdown (because it’s easier to work with for non-web-devs) to write your blog posts, product descriptions etc. The static site generator then parses these markdown files and converts markdown to HTML. Add CSS and JS and you got a web app.
The A (API) is then important for your running app. Your running app is a bunch of statically generated pages that turns into a SPA once loaded in the browser. And you can then interact with the API to fetch updated data whilst your app is running.
Or you communicate with that API for user-created content, purchases or signup logic.
You get the best of both worlds therefore: Speedy delivery of SEO-tuned pages that don’t need to reach out to an API right at the start just to get something onto the screen. But once loaded, you have a SPA with all its advantages and you can therefore provide a highly dynamic and reactive user experience.
This is actually exactly how academind.com works by the way!
# Build Hybrid/ Cross-platform Apps
Build mobile and desktop apps with web technologies. I already mentioned it earlier - frontend frameworks are now used for more than just web apps running in the browser.
We now have solutions that allow us to create mobile and desktop apps with these web technologies, too.
For desktop apps, you can use Electron, for mobile apps, you got Ionic, React Native and NativeScript.
These tools follow different approaches regarding how they achieve that these web technologies can be used to create native apps but they have one thing in common: They ensure that you can use your web dev knowledge to build cross-platform apps!
Don’t miss my detailed comparison of React Native vs Ionic vs NativeScript. Also explore Progressive Web Apps to use native device capabilities directly from inside your browser-based web apps.
All these tools/ frameworks do a lot of heavy lifting behind the scenes to enable you to stick to the technologies you know (HTML, JS, CSS).
Being able to quickly build cross-platform apps (that can still tap into the advantages of the platforms they’re running on) is invaluable.
It saves time, money and frustration and therefore it is very likely to stay a strong trend in 2019.
# Use Serverless Services
Run your code in the cloud without managing servers. Serverless does not mean that there are no servers involved anymore. It instead means, that you don’t have to manage these servers.
You don’t have to pay them either.
You only pay for what you use and you only deploy the code that contains your logic. Less boilerplate, more focus.
Serverless services typically follow an event-driven model. You deploy code and define when it should run (e.g. when a file is uploaded or when a certain Http request reaches an endpoint).
That code then runs and does its job. That’s it!
It’s a very simple yet powerful concept and it holds many huge advantages: Cost savings, time savings, separation of concerns, event-driven architectures and much more!
Serverless services are offered by all big cloud providers (AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, …) and we’ll certainly see further strong growth in that area in 2019.
There are many reasons to jump into serverless development or at least have a brief look into it. Serverless backends also work great with the JAMStack by the way. The “A” would be your serverless API - for example built with AWS Lambda and AWS API Gateway.
Want to learn more about building serverless applications on AWS? Join my full course on Udemy!
# Watch Machine Learning, AI & Bots
Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence Machine Learning (ML), Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Bots - these are terms you encounter a lot these days.
There is a lot of hype around these topics but you can’t doubt that ML and AI will change many businesses - it probably also holds opportunities for you, to serve your users or customers more efficiently.
It is not easy to tap into the advantages of ML/ AI in your own apps though. But there also is no single formula you could add or follow.
AI means many things. You can add a chatbot. You can label and scan uploaded images. All these things are already possible and thankfully, it becomes easier and easier to add such capabilities to your apps.
We got projects like tensorflow.js that help you build ML models with JavaScript. And we got ready-to-use services like AWS Rekognition and others (also on the other big cloud providers of course) to quickly add certain capabilities to our apps.
Definitely keep an eye on these technologies and explore them. Play around with them! There are many packages and services available which you can use without writing any complex ML logic.
Adding image recognition is only a few clicks away these days. Who knows what’s really easy to do by the end of the year 2019!
Therefore, this is a topic to watch and explore in 2019! |
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The project was conducted by the Montana-Wyoming Foundation for Medical Care (MWFMC) in collaboration with HCFA.
Beneficiaries who received a letter from MWFMC were more likely to have a claim for vaccination than those who did not receive a letter both among persons who were vaccinated in 1993 (OR=1.2; 95% CI=1.2-1.3) and those who were not vaccinated in 1993 (OR=1.4; 95% CI=1.3 to 1.4). |
global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/58006 | Three Poems by Gregory Kimbrell
These poems by Gregory Kimbrell take the language and tropes of tech, sci-fi, and ancient myth to create a new parable of identity and self-construction, suggesting the timelessness of our struggle to impose inner and outer meaning and order on experience: This is the fate of love/ against a background/ of cinema/ and nuclear destruction.”
by: Gregory Kimbrell
Translation: Trauma・Layer
The security door is closed, but the bar
is still crowded. And like words written
in the memo, the brain-enhancing drug
is inert, yet not wholly harmless. Vapor
travels through the steel frame filled by
electric lights with a white fluorescence.
In an automated system like this, it’s all
too easy to sublimate a need into a vice,
self-reflexive vacancy that locks in only
on built-in targets. Our weapons wreck
ground and air, but we congratulate the
android simply for obeying its directive.
The hostname in hexadecimal language
means assassin. It’s a corruption of our
most ancient game. This petrochemical
gas burns everyone’s eyes so they don’t
open, but it smells like death. However
safe the area, droplets of blood inside a
clear glass jar aren’t clear. The hands of
the black clock move counterclockwise.
Translation: Biophoton・Fog
When the yellow poison collects inside
my heart, the cells change into a brittle
surface. Lost in that yellow network of
fever, I’m scared. I’m not chasing after
the shadow of death. But under yellow
light, new, yellow sediment results. It’s
moored in my body, dependent on the
network for assembly. I’ll go to the lab,
enter my pyramid. I won’t be executed.
Light didn’t erode the night. The night
was made of fire. Cell God, dark silver
wheel, I listen to the name in my mind.
What hope could you have for me still?
You overtook my skull, found the way
to lift the spinal armor and capture the
light. You’ll destroy my brain the same
way. You can manipulate death. Under
my flesh’s enthusiasm you are fire, and
the water flows down, like flame, from
heaven to me. We all are opportunities.
In the heat of summer,
brain fluid reeks of belief.
The tube explodes,
and soldiers open doors.
Whether you want God’s light
or the devil’s fleshy desire,
the wind at midday
is hot.
The creeping of time
dries and yellows bone.
The devil entertains us,
cutting open his head
and letting out
the cats.
They descend
on the lion road
to where we live
in the housing complex.
You taught me to love
the hidden fire.
If names leave my mouth,
none will be yours.
The lion’s command
is not divine.
An iron hand
holds my head to the block.
In the breach of winter,
the bones disappear.
This is the fate of love
against a background
of cinema
and nuclear destruction.
Even a bad man
wants to destroy evil
in others
and open a path in the dark.
Gregory Kimbrell is the author of The Primitive Observatory (Southern Illinois University Press, 2016), winner of the 2014 Crab Orchard Series in Poetry First Book Award, and The Ceremonial Armor of the Impostor (Weasel Press, forthcoming). His poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Abyss & Apex, Fearsome Critters, IDK Magazine, Impossible Archetype, The Operating System, Otoliths, and elsewhere. More of his writing, including his sci-fi/horror magnetic poems and erasures, can be found at
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/58013 | Migraine,Disease,Headache,Neurological disease,Acutreatment,cure without medicine,Cure,Medicine,ἡμικρανία,hemikrania,Pain,Signs and symptoms,Prodrome phase,Aura phase,Pain phase,Postdrome,Genetics,Triggers,Physiological aspects,Physiological,Dietary aspects,Environmental aspects,Pathophysiology,Diagnosis,Aura,Abdominal migraine,Differential diagnosis,Prevention,Medication,Alternative therapies,Devices and surgery,Analgesics,Triptans,Ergotamines,Prognosis,Epidemiology,Nausea,Vomiting,Sensitivity,Headache affects,Headache phase
Person having a migraine headache
Person having a migraine headache
Migraines are believed to be due to a mixture of environmental and genetic factors. About two-thirds of cases run in families. Changing hormone levels may also play a role, as migraines affect slightly more boys than girls before puberty, but about two to three times more women than men. The risk of migraines usually decreases during pregnancy. The exact mechanisms of migraine are not known. It is, however, believed to be a neurovascular disorder. The primary theory is related to increased excitability of the cerebral cortex and abnormal control of pain neurons in the trigeminal nucleus of the brainstem.
Initial recommended management is with simple analgesics such as ibuprofen and paracetamol (also known as acetaminophen) for the headache, an antiemetic for the nausea, and the avoidance of triggers. Specific agents such as triptans or ergotamines may be used by those for whom simple analgesics are not effective. Globally, approximately 15% of the population is affected by migraines at some point in life.
Signs and symptoms
Migraines typically present with self-limited, recurrent severe headache associated with autonomic symptoms. About 15–30% of people with migraines experience migraines with an aura and those who have migraines with aura also frequently have migraines without aura. The severity of the pain, duration of the headache, and frequency of attacks is variable. A migraine lasting longer than 72 hours is termed status migrainosus. There are four possible phases to a migraine, although not all the phases are necessarily experienced:
2. The aura, which immediately precedes the headache
3. The pain phase, also known as headache phase
4. The postdrome, the effects experienced following the end of a migraine attack
Prodrome phase
Prodromal or premonitory symptoms occur in about 60% of those with migraines, with an onset that can range from two hours to two days before the start of pain or the aura. These symptoms may include a wide variety of phenomena, including altered mood, irritability, depression or euphoria, fatigue, craving for certain food(s), stiff muscles (especially in the neck), constipation or diarrhea, and sensitivity to smells or noise. This may occur in those with either migraine with aura or migraine without aura.
Aura phase
An aura is a transient focal neurological phenomenon that occurs before or during the headache. Auras appear gradually over a number of minutes and generally last less than 60 minutes. Symptoms can be visual, sensory or motor in nature and many people experience more than one. Visual effects occur most frequently; they occur in up to 99% of cases and in more than 50% of cases are not accompanied by sensory or motor effects. Vision disturbances often consist of a scintillating scotoma (an area of partial alteration in the field of vision which flickers and may interfere with a person’s ability to read or drive). These typically start near the center of vision and then spread out to the sides with zigzagging lines which have been described as looking like fortifications or walls of a castle. Usually the lines are in black and white but some people also see colored lines. Some people lose part of their field of vision known as hemianopsia while others experience blurring.
Sensory aurae are the second most common type; they occur in 30–40% of people with auras. Often a feeling of pins-and-needles begins on one side in the hand and arm and spreads to the nose–mouth area on the same side. Numbness usually occurs after the tingling has passed with a loss of position sense. Other symptoms of the aura phase can include speech or language disturbances, world spinning, and less commonly motor problems. Motor symptoms indicate that this is a hemiplegic migraine, and weakness often lasts longer than one hour unlike other auras. Auditory hallucinations or delusions have also been described.
Pain phase
Classically the headache is unilateral, throbbing, and moderate to severe in intensity. It usually comes on gradually and is aggravated by physical activity. In more than 40% of cases, however, the pain may be bilateral and neck pain is commonly associated with it. Bilateral pain is particularly common in those who have migraines without an aura. Less commonly pain may occur primarily in the back or top of the head. The pain usually lasts 4 to 72 hours in adults, however in young children frequently lasts less than 1 hour. The frequency of attacks is variable, from a few in a lifetime to several a week, with the average being about one a month.
The pain is frequently accompanied by nausea, vomiting, sensitivity to light, sensitivity to sound, sensitivity to smells, fatigue and irritability. In a basilar migraine, a migraine with neurological symptoms related to the brain stem or with neurological symptoms on both sides of the body, common effects include a sense of the world spinning, light-headedness, and confusion. Nausea occurs in almost 90% of people, and vomiting occurs in about one-third. Many thus seek a dark and quiet room. Other symptoms may include blurred vision, nasal stuffiness, diarrhea, frequent urination, pallor, or sweating. Swelling or tenderness of the scalp may occur as can neck stiffness. Associated symptoms are less common in the elderly.
Rarely, an aura occurs without a subsequent headache. This is known as an acephalgic migraine or silent migraine; however, it is difficult to assess the frequency of such cases because people who do not experience symptoms severe enough to seek treatment may not realize that anything unusual is happening to them and pass it off without reporting any problems.
The effects of migraine may persist for some days after the main headache has ended; this is called the migraine postdrome. Many report a sore feeling in the area where the migraine was, and some report impaired thinking for a few days after the headache has passed. The patient may feel tired or "hung over" and have head pain, cognitive difficulties, gastrointestinal symptoms, mood changes, and weakness. According to one summary, "Some people feel unusually refreshed or euphoric after an attack, whereas others note depression and malaise." For some individuals this can vary each time.
The underlying causes of migraines are unknown. However, they are believed to be related to a mix of environmental and genetic factors. They run in families in about two-thirds of cases and rarely occur due to a single gene defect. While migraines were once believed to be more common in those of high intelligence, this does not appear to be true. A number of psychological conditions are associated, including depression, anxiety, and bipolar disorder, as are many biological events or triggers.
Studies of twins indicate a 34% to 51% genetic influence of likelihood to develop migraine headaches. This genetic relationship is stronger for migraines with aura than for migraines without aura. A number of specific variants of genes increase the risk by a small to moderate amount.
Single gene disorders that result in migraines are rare. One of these is known as familial hemiplegic migraine, a type of migraine with aura, which is inherited in an autosomal dominant fashion. Four genes have been shown to be involved in familial hemiplegic migraine. Three of these genes are involved in ion transport. The fourth is an axonal protein associated with the exocytosis complex. Another genetic disorder associated with migraine is CADASIL syndrome or cerebral autosomal dominant arteriopathy with subcortical infarcts and leukoencephalopathy.
Migraines may be induced by triggers, with some reporting it as an influence in a minority of cases and others the majority. Many things have been labeled as triggers, however the strength and significance of these relationships are uncertain. A trigger may be encountered up to 24 hours prior to the onset of symptoms.
Physiological aspects
Common triggers quoted are stress, hunger, and fatigue (these equally contribute to tension headaches). Psychological stress has been reported as a factor by 50 to 80% of people. Migraines have also been associated with post-traumatic stress disorder and abuse. Migraines are more likely to occur around menstruation. Other hormonal influences, such as menarche, oral contraceptive use, pregnancy, perimenopause, and menopause, also play a role. These hormonal influences seem to play a greater role in migraine without aura. Migraines typically do not occur during the second and third trimesters or following menopause.
Dietary aspects
Between 12 to 60 % of people report foods as triggers. Evidence for dietary triggers; however, mostly relies on self-reports and is not rigorous enough to prove or disprove any particular triggers. A clear explanation for why food might trigger migraines is also lacking.
Regarding specific agents there does not appear to be evidence for an effect of tyramine on migraine, and while monosodium glutamate (MSG) is frequently reported as a dietary trigger, evidence does not consistently support this.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/58016 | Verify Your ISP Internet Speed
For Most is the usual site to verify ISP/Telco speed. how accurate is it I’m not sure .but I’m sure of one thing . when you are running a speedtest you run it against your provider ! so in this case you measure the speed to your provider network ! not the external internet speed ! .
what is the catch . some providers give speedtest ( the local hosted one ) more priority so when you perform a test you will always get higher speed ! . but when trying to browse the internet you will feel it slow .
some providers throttle Torrent and other kind of apps which we can speak about later .
there is a new site that measure the speed and experience in different way which personally I like . they don’t download a file or do ping only . they perform multiple tests such as running youtube in different quality ( SD,HD) . in addition they started to give ranking to providers in Kuwait for example
they are not the best but they are very cool . try them and tell me what do you think 🙂 . link below
also they have iPhone,andrio app |
global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/58029 | Guess The Airline – December 1999 answer
(This was, in fact, the very first Guess The Airline!)
Are you ready to view the advertisement that has probably kept you bugging forever… well, actually for a whole month? It is obvious that it is an advertisement for an Asian airline. Many of you submitted answers as varied as Singapore Airlines, JAL, Thai, Korean Air and Garuda Indonesia… This advertisement was brought to you by visitor Jakrin A.
Korean Air Lines advertisement titled: 'Meet the Korean family', year unknown, featuring Korean flight attendants in a traditional Korean costume and pilots in uniform.
How to guess it?
It was an advertisement for Korean Airlines, in the old Swan livery. There weren’t many things to indicate you the airline. To the clever one, all you had to do is read the tiny little text, almost impossible to read. You could find out that the mystery airline flew to “eleven [international] destinations in Asia”, among them “Japan, Hong Kong, Thailand, Philippines, Taipei, and of course, our homeland, _____”. By thinking a little bit you find out that it is NOT an airline from Japan, Hong Kong, Thailand, the Philippines or Taiwan, since they’re not the homeland.
After eliminating JAL, Cathay Pacific (which flew the L-1011 instead), Thai, Philippine Airlines, and China Airlines, it was all a matter of luck, trying each one of the other major Asian airlines that are flying or have flown the DC-10. That aircraft type was barely recognizable on this ad! But, for the cultivated person, you can find out that the flight attendants are wearing the national Korean costume (thanks to Jakrin for the info!).
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/58036 | Archive for 11/06/08
Spanish songwritting history: Some terms
(Note: this is a little serial about the 60-70’s Spanish folk and songwriting movement I’ve been writing evenly in this place. If you want to read it in Spanish, you don’t need more than clicking here : it takes you to the directory of entries in Spanish. Enjoy it!)
1.- Some terms
Before beginning this history, I shall clarify some terms I will use.
Firstly, the term “protest-song” is not conform for that, because not all here is protest. So, indistinctly, I’ll use terms as “anthropological song”, because the songs talks about the human beings, or “songwritings”. In any way, I think there’s no definition that could be conform at all.
• Conventional songwriter: a songwriter who likes of composes a pop music for his words. For example, Joan Manuel Serrat, Víctor Manuel or Patxi Andión. Any way, the term is not pejorative.
• Austere songwriter: it points to those songwriters who, generally, was accompanied only by a guitar, a piano (at least on the stage) and maybe a second instrument. Some names that conforms to this model are Labordeta, Mikel Laboa or Pablo Guerrero.
• Experimental songwriter: those who, besides their literary inspiration, explores their musical inspiration. Pau Riba is the great example, but also Pi de la Serra, Bibiano, Hilario Camacho or Lluís Llach.
• Folk songwriter/ group: that or those who take their musical inspiration from traditional music.
• Root music songwriter/ group: that/ those who play/ s traditional music as pure as possible. We must differentiate:
1. Folk: genre that allows variations and performances of traditionals themes.
2. Root Music: that which is just a play of traditional music.
• Protest “Cantaor”: that singer who uses Flamenco for protesting (cantaor -untranslatable Andalucian word-variation of cantante– is a word that references only to a flamenco singer). Between them, José Menese, Manuel Gerena or Enrique Morente.
• Singer-Performer: that who doesn’t sing his/ her texts. There are three kinds of them:
1. Of other singers: that who sings songs from his/ her companions for publicizing the songs and their authors. For example, Rosa León or Massiel.
2. With a fixed writer: that singer who has his/ her own writer. For example, Moreno Galván wrote the most of the words that José Menese sings.
3. Of poets: the most numerous and usual; that who composes music for a poem of other. Paco Ibáñez is our great example.
• Songwriting Muse: (this is a name I invented) points to female singers that usually sings themes from other authors. For example, Ana Belén, Marisol and Massiel.
• Self-sufficient songwriter: songwriters that generally only sings their own texts. Aute, Guerrero or Labordeta are good examples.
• Songs-providers: those songwriters that, besides, gives some of their songs to other singers. Luis Eduardo Aute, Pablo Guerrero or Hilario Camacho gave some of their best songs to other singer.
2.- Definition of Songwriting
Like Torrego Égido and González Lucini (from both I’ve taken some ideas) I neither find a definition which could be exactly for this style of singing. Let’s see why:
• Protest song or Political song: both terms, very specially the second, were invented by people, journalist and musical critics, close or in accordance to Franco’s regime with pejorative intentions. Firstly, it’s true that, in appearance, the most abundant is the political theme and the protest; but not everything is political -in a strict sense of the word-, but there are philosophical reflexions and not so political protests as humanists. It would be wrong saying that Raimon was a political singer and Serrat a romantic one: Raimon could write poems as romantics and tenders as his companion, and vice versa, Serrat could be as rebel as his friend.
• Songwriting (Sp. Canción de autor; lit. Author’s song): this is a term more accepted, but has its troubles too. Although the word (in Spanish) is a translation from a French term that means “singer of texts, of messages”, in the translation seems that anybody is a songwriter, because, in a wide sense, means “that singer who writes and composes his/ her own songs”: in this way, even Enrique Iglesias is a songwriter. The other trouble is that not all the songwriters are similar: it is not possible consider as same to Xerardo Moscoso, Laboa or Celdrán as other songwriters that maybe could be named conformists: they don’t talk about the same things, or in the same way. And, in the other side, with this definition, stay out people as important as Paco Ibáñez, who never or rarely has sung a text by his own, but from great Spanish and Latin-Americans in Castilian language poets: but Paco is a songwriter, there is no doubt.
• Anthropological song is a term that González Lucini likes. It seems right to me, because they are songs that talks about Human-hood in general, of quotidian life and of what to it and to that one affects. The problem is that is very complicated to explain what this term means, and, besides, is very unpopular because nobody knows it and, even, could seems a little cold.
For that, I will use any of the two last definition (maybe “protest song”, but no “political song”), because, although no one of them explains it exactly, between them they complement each other.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/58053 | When people speak of the Bible as inspired, they are referring to the fact that God divinely influenced the human authors of the Scriptures in such a way that what they wrote was the very Word of God. In the context of the Scriptures, the word “inspiration” simply means “God-breathed.” Inspiration means the Bible truly is the Word of God and makes the Bible unique among all other books.
While there are different views as to the extent to which the Bible is inspired, there can be no doubt that the Bible itself claims that every word in every part of the Bible comes from God (1 Corinthians 2:12-13; 2 Timothy 3:16-17). This view of the Scriptures is often referred to as “verbal plenary” inspiration. That means the inspiration extends to the very words themselves (verbal)—not just concepts or ideas—and that the inspiration extends to all parts of Scripture and all subject matters of Scripture (plenary). Some people believe only parts of the Bible are inspired or only the thoughts or concepts that deal with religion are inspired, but these views of inspiration fall short of the Bible’s claims about itself. Full verbal plenary inspiration is an essential characteristic of the Word of God.
The extent of inspiration can be clearly seen in 2 Timothy 3:16, “All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness, so that the man of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work.” This verse tells us that God inspired all Scripture and that it is profitable to us. It is not just the parts of the Bible that deal with religious doctrines that are inspired, but each and every word from Genesis to Revelation. Because it is inspired by God, the Scriptures are therefore authoritative when it comes to establishing doctrine, and sufficient for teaching man how be in a right relationship with God. The Bible claims not only to be inspired by God, but also to have the supernatural ability to change us and make us “complete.” What more can we need?
Another verse that deals with the inspiration of the Scriptures is 2 Peter 1:21. This verse helps us to understand that even though God used men with their distinctive personalities and writing styles, God divinely inspired the very words they wrote. Jesus Himself confirmed the verbal plenary inspiration of the Scriptures when He said, “Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them. I tell you the truth, until heaven and earth disappear, not the smallest letter, not the least stroke of a pen, will by any means disappear from the Law…” (Matthew 5:17-18). In these verses, Jesus is reinforcing the accuracy of the Scriptures down to the smallest detail and the slightest punctuation mark, because it is the very Word of God.
Because the Scriptures are the inspired Word of God, we can conclude that they are also inerrant and authoritative. A correct view of God will lead us to a correct view of His Word. Because God is all-powerful, all-knowing, and completely perfect, His Word will by its very nature have the same characteristics. The same verses that establish the inspiration of the Scriptures also establish that it is both inerrant and authoritative. Without a doubt the Bible is what it claims to be—the undeniable, authoritative, Word of God to humanity. |
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/58065 | According to a recent Ziff-Davis article, Mac Laptops cost about twice as much as a comparably equipped Windows machine, desktop models almost three times as much.
And, as far as I know, you still “can’t do it all” with a Mac – unless, of course, you run Windows on it!
I remain convinced that a well-built (not the cheapest box in the book) Windows machine that is reasonably maintained (hey, that is where I can help), can perform as well as any.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/58073 | TOTW: Drugs
• Posted on: 6 May 2019
• By: thecollective
This week we’re talking about drugs.
As an anarchist what do you think about drugs and drug use in the radical community and society at large? What is your relationship to drugs like? How have drugs shaped (or not) your approach to anarchist ideas?
What can we do as anarchists to help our friends and family make it through some difficult drug related issues, like anarchist alternatives to alcoholics anonymous, needle exchanges, the opioid crisis, and other resources to help through dark times?
In your idyllic anarchist bolo, what would drugs look like?
Let me trouble the question... why are these sorts of questions only about drugs that get you high? As if only psychoactive drugs are a problem.
*Whispers* Mother, give me your opioid suppositories or else I shall curl up in a foetal position,,,,,but you would like that WOULDN'T YOU!!!
dammit, who are you and what happened in your life that led you to find that funny enough to sporadically post it on this site?
i struggle to imagine you, you improbable being
*Whispers* I am the invisible ghost of euphoria who has been abandoned by the capitalists, replaced by an alcoholic pharmacy of destructive negative numbing drugs which create no joy or e.u.p.h.o.r.i.a. in the living and dreaming experience.
I don't like it when anarchists are high in public, I mean at meetings, and the like. That's a personal preference for myself too, I like to have my wits about me in public.
My own drug use has not really impacted my anarchism except for noticing how drug laws are useless and enforced mostly to control minority populations, and then noticing that about most laws.
The issue is addiction more that drugs per se. And we in this culture have addictions to more things than drugs, like fossil fuels, the internet, speed (as in traveling fast), being right & feeling superior. Anarchists have not escaped these, for the most part. So for myself the question becomes, how do we undo addiction as a survival strategy? As well as how do we undo addiction as a coping mechanism.
speaking of the Internet, a lot of casual talk around "dopamine hits". speaking of traveling fast and fossil fuels, so called "adrenaline junkies" and motorsports.
even if not addicted, some drugs, or a combination of them, allow people to find life pleasurable or bearable.
the daily grind or hustle is how to get them.
what would make people need or want more less of each drug? what would a better way to make them and get them than what is currently being done?
lead is a powerful neurotoxin. kids in Boyle Heights and in East L.A. were found to have high levels of lead in their body due to living nearby a battery recycling plant.
is “addiction” a useful framework to curtail use, but more importantly the production of electronics (since the amount of devices with batteries pollute more or less the same regardless of if the person is addicted or not)?
it's a broad topic. many different things are drugs.
they can be produced and consumed in different ways.
some are addictive, some are not. they have different effects.
even picking one specific drug at random, and limiting the conversation to that, it's still a complex topic with a long history that can fill volumes. this can be said about many topics, it doesn't make it less true.
to contrast, last week's topic was around a specific scenario. maybe someone or each can think of specific scenarios they would have dealt with and think and comment around that.
i'll mention those that come to mind:
-medicines, including those to treat chronic conditions and illnesses and health insurance
-coffee, caffeine, and energy drinks in the context of work/jobs night shifts
-adderall use by students
-sugar in everything, refined sugar and high-fructose corn syrup
-heroin use in the context of homelessness
-ecstasy and electronic music festivals
-hallucinogens in rituals
-drinking and driving
-recreational uses of drugs, risk reduction, guidelines for good experience, user's/consumer's guide
-production, trade, legal framework, FDA, environmental impact, economic aspect
Okay, let’s get this party started.
First off, let’s just say that I think recreational or medical drug use is not related at all to anarchist practice. Having said that, I can see how experimentation with drugs can help deepen the ideas behind ones anarchist practice or whatever, or how if you really want to dig deep come up with anarchist projects around drugs / drug cultivation / sales / spirits (all legal of course, dear officer).
Related to the practice, it seems like some of the big anarchist informants over the years have been people who have had a problem with drugs and it was used against them. Can you trust anyone anymore or do you need to remain Stone Cold Steve Austin #1 stunna 3:16 24/7?
In the MSM, Denver is thinking of legalizing the sale of magic mushrooms this month as other states in the USA seem to heading towards legalization / decriminalization of marijuana., it’s also just been reported that researchers in Bolivia found a 1,000+ year old 3 fox snouts satchel of drugs containing “the presence of multiple psychoactive compounds—cocaine, benzoylecgonine (the primary metabolite of cocaine), harmine, bufotenin, dimethyltryptamine (DMT) and possibly psilocin (a compound found in some mushrooms)—from at least three different plant species (likely Erythroxylum coca, a species of Anadenanthera and Banistesteriopsis caani).” Pretty fucking cool, that cool shit like this has been going on since like, forever.
One thing for sure, today - the marijuana industry is smoking and making a ton of money. So are small breweries and vintners as local bevs become the go to. Here is, within it all, for me, one of the most evil parts of drugs: the history of modern medicine, pharmaceuticals, capitalism, and the State. All that shits gotta go. Except modern medicine is pretty cool (diseases what not, although, research can be pretty fucked up as well, need to know more before drawing line in pen).
Hey y’all if for some reason you are wondering what's wrong with 12 step programs look at this zine we just put out. "Theses 12 steps Could Kill You: An Anti-Authoritarian Critique on Alcoholics Anonymous".
Printable Zine
Online Readable Zine
Great read, thanks for the contribution.
I found several typos while reading it, just a heads up.
Maybe they can be corrected in time before they're available at the Green Scare Anarchist Bookfair May 11th-12.
"several typos" is quite generous. while i appreciate the content of the zine, it is embarrassing to "publish" something so poorly edited. spend 10 minutes cleaning it up, please.
It looks like we uploaded the unedited version. We just fixed it. Thank you for helping out! All the best!!!
RedPanther/BadKitty? anything?
The ugly truth about big cats on drugs!
Lions trippin' bad dude!
are so radically different than anything else called a drug, that I don't like to discuss them under the general topic of "drugs".
A lot of this depends on your motives for working with LSD and/or psilocybin.
Totally not a drug, rather, a key to the doors of perceptuon (Huxley)
i would add peyote to acid and mushrooms in that box you are creating (though why you feel compelled to do such categorization is beyond me).
i agree, truly psychedelic experience is life-changing and dramatically different from most other "highs" i have experienced (which are plentiful). and while i would prefer a world without human-made chemicals, acid has been my favorite since i first tried it at 14. at close to 60, i find much less desire these days for such experiences, but i still will chip a bit once in a while.
isn't man-made. It grows wild free of charge.
The Authorities will give me a break on my sentence if I rat out my dealer.
My "dealer" is God, and God doesn't even charge me anything.
And so, a warrant for the arrest of God, that nefarious global psilocybin kingpin, will be issued.
But, but . . . you CAN'T arrest God, God is infinite.
"That's BESIDE the point, we HAVE to stamp out these TERRIBLE drugs!"
Something I noticed here. Nature provides psychedelics ALREADY in high doses, which is the appropriate way to work with them. Not only are they non-addictive, psychedelics have built-in anti-addictive properties: if you take them every day (inappropriate) they quickly have no effect.
Nasty narcotics like cocaine (a venal "high"), and crack (never tried it), are the result of lots of artificial refinement. The coca leaves nature provides are low dose, and I suspect less harmful.
I'm with Bad Kitty on that... As far as your drugs come straight from the wild and weren't "doctored" by some jackass chemistry graduate students with highly-dubious ethics, I would encourage anyone to at least experience those, for pushing the doors of perception. Just salvia divinorum made me see things that completely shake up your perception of reality.
Leary was partly right when saying that everyone should be handed over LSD. Even if I did have a really good, funny time doing LSD back in the days, I wouldn't recommend such chemical shit. Leary was a shill for one of the first major drug lords of the US and also a reckless promoter of the pharma industry, yet the underlying claim that mind-expanding substances would help overthrowing the social relationship is correct, imo.
I've been a druggy a lot of my teenage and adult years, the only difference is that I've switched the drugs. Now adays my thang is black tea, CBD products, a little bit of alcohol. Overall I don't like marijuana even if i end up smoking it sometimes, weed now adays is very strong and fucks with my head, fuels some of my other shitty personality tendencies. I also have a more difficult time paying attention if im stoned in general, however, sometimes it does the exact opposite, and I'm hyper focused, spiritually high.
I assume that all drugs effect everyone different, even if certain drugs have a nature. I've never understood on a personal leve the appeal of heroin and pain killers, i've tried them both and i just didn't like how numb they make me feel.
The problem is never the drugs, it's the people who use them, and the culture surrounding the drug use. Native americans didn't do drugs in the same way we do until the colonization occurred. In america we there's generally people who believe that excessive drug use is appealing, good, crazy, cool, i no longer feel this way after having done so many drugs...
As another poster mentioned, for some people adrenaline has become their drug of choice, AND ITS FREE, but at the cost of making life unbearable for everyone around them with their hyped up hysterical narcissistic behavior and over the top shallow relationships which lack depth and any element of empathy. Loud, alpha roaring petrol addicts projecting and compensating for their own inadequacies, sad :(
as someone who would like to drop 98% of alcohol consumption (damn are belgian, german beers, bourbon, and rum from barbados delightful sips with a book or a good film tho) for cbd and thc when i do imbibe smoke or an edible (an entirely different substance of the plant processed by the liver in its own specific way) it’s so dose dependent on the strain. i really don’t want to feel stoned unless i’m alone (and therefore comfortable to all of the projections of past and future the plant can make one confront about personal trajectory). just a little goes a long way, unless i can guarantee it’s the strain best for me to remain completely mind and body balanced.
meditation helps. also just letting go, which is what psychedelics teach one. one doesn’t have to acknowledge all of one’s thoughts (not only meditation but stirner can help teach not to sacralize Thought), nor act on thinking, or read too much into ones train of thoughts. being, and breathing are more important than abstractions. great for improvisational music, or where all of the trains of thought the plant shows can be acted on, taking risk, with little consequence in such musical formats designed to challenge formal narrative.
it’s the same with the algorithm screen. it presents a heightened reality, that needs your negativity so you’ll participate, helping it financially. one has to learn to filter signal versus noise. humans make a lot of noise, and a lot of artificial blue light. the constant bombardment to compare one’s self with others inculcates a most toxic, desperate narcissism in the face of a wide chasm of loneliness (due to how much time one is now devoted to a glowing box).
there is no such thing as a "drug problem" as i see it. it's all human problems. the ways people choose to self-medicate are infinite, drugs just being one set of many. what about the straight-edgers who binge on sugar and caffeine (both are drugs, btw)? the "recovered" alcoholic who smokes 3 packs a day? the sex addict who shoots up so they don't run out to get laid 3 times that night?
a much more interesting question is: why do so many feel the need to medicate?
at least one answer: modern industrial capitalist mass society.
there are some elan musk types who think that one day we will be able to avoid death. Whelp, some progress has been made unfortunately...
Its actually a work problem, workaholics. Inadequacies and low self-esteem brought about by the modern industrial capitalist society's majority of proles never having the opportunity to develop a self-awareness and individualist pride in their own power. They are just rats on a treadmill whose minds have not perceived broader possibilities. Ohhh if only Stirner had been read at kinder school, life on Earth would be soooo immaculate, sigh :>(
some take them to cope with stress, some take them to cope with boredom, some take them to cope with illness, some take them to cope with trauma.
what cause the stress, the boredom, the illness, and the trauma?
It's almost like the TOTW is so broad it's like a rorschach test
I was gonna say it's like we're all blind and only in touch with part of the elephant.
But I think most of these responses so far are touching on crucial issues, even if some seem contradictory to others.
Like one day I'm motivated to get high to escape but on another day I'm motivated by wanting to connect, as a simple example.
This is the sort of topic that would benefit from f2f discussion.
lol i never get high nor connect, nor motivated
stress from the creation epic stored at the earth's core that extends into biological life and makes matter inherently unstable. There is a star burning in the center of the earth as hot as the sun. The earth has always been dynamic and so are we. The problem I see is an excess of power, the world is awash in solar radiation, some people shoot dope with it some inhale smoke and others swallow shit. Read this and you'll have the whole story:
A Brief History of Geotrauma
you kooky kooky wingnut
i’ll have to say that i’m proud of myself, this i time i didn’t read your link, i clicked through, only skimmed it, and managed not to throw up while i was reading it
what a load of nonsense
modern technological, capitalist life! at least that's a huge part of it.
It's work and running on fumes. Stress and pressure coming from far too many angles of attack simultaneously. Is there a significant gap between the evolution of our brains and what we are made to put up with in modern society? Is an opioid crisis or a mass shooting surprising in the same world where shopping is marketed as a form of therapy? I more often hear people talking about the need to dissociate after work, whereas it used to be called 'relaxation', often in the form of netflix, instagram, or youtube. Ex facebook engineers admitted to building the system of 'likes' to induce a dopamine hit. Drugs and alcohol have been used by governments to quell rebellions or to further the genocide of so called surplus populations. We are only beginning to try to muster enough wherewithal to understand what a project of subverting the cybernetic imposition on our lives could look like beyond "just destroy it", and frankly, I don't see that happening.
If we equalize everything, then yes heroin is no more of a problem than refined sugar. But tell that to someone trying to kick a junk addiction. Sweets dont make you rob your own family. I dont think what you are saying is a gotcha against straight edge, sobriety, or recovery. There is differences in degree of addicitive substances or acitivities and their consequences. I agree that modern industrial capitalist mass society is one of if not THE driver of addicition or finding ways to cope. I don't fault people for not being able to wait till we are rid of this world to try to get their head clear some amount. So maybe framing things in terms of addiction isn't the most useful. Its not all or nothing. Anarchists right now, sadly, don't have a lot going on as a colorful and enchanted alternative to the dreary numbing world we inhabit. Some of my best natural highs have been in the world of anarchy.
There's sooo much hype about drug wars and terrorist wars when its actually the State creating diversions and redherrings from its own mega-addiction to accumulating money and capital and raping and pillaging the whole planet of its energy and resources. Its come down to a total rampant parasitic group of minority power brokers who are addicted to status, power and wealth. THAT IS THE ADDICTION WHICH SHOULD BE TARGETED!!!
but some people run into problems when they put all their eggs in one basket and fail to diversify. I found myself living only to drink at one point and I had to reinvent myself as a sober person to get past it. Another problem is the loss of culture and social life that results from switching from street drugs to pharmaceuticals. I personally never was into pill mills and big pharma but some people I know switched over and didn't have any friends except doctors and nurses which in my opinion is a lower quality of life than a bustling drug scene.
So these are incomplete thoughts but:
The "Rat Park" study was interesting but, humans aren't rats (duh). It's nice to think about what drugs would look like in an idyllic bolo-bolo type world because the alienation from the manufacture of them & the limits on their proliferation would be drastically different (so, in that world there would just be less drugs to go around). The amount of land you need to grow some of them & the chemicals you need to make some of them would either be absent without our current marketplace (no centralized chemical production) or utilized in other ways (ie, land used for food production, or just left as wilderness).
The social isolation aspect that has a compounding impact on addiction would also be lessened in such a world (you do live in a somewhat stable community of 500). Also lessened would be the alienation from specialized fields of study/production (ie, not a whole lot of what makes up daily life in that idyllic world is off-limits to people so, probably a lot less boredom & repetition).
If a persons' (or bolos' for that matter) worth is based on reputation & you have some kind of semblance of community that doesn't drop the ball on you then it seems like those are other reasons that addictions might not play out like they do in this dystopian world.
In a world like Bolo-Bolo there would probably also be less of a reason to make yourself seem "edgy & cool" which is probably one kids experiment with drugs in the first place.
"The "Rat Park" study was interesting but, humans aren't rats (duh)."
YOU FOOOOOL, OH YES THEY ARE YOU HUMANIST CRAWLING BIPEDAL PIECE OF HOMINID EXCREMENT (SHIT) ALL OF THE PILLS AND CHEMICALS HAHA I AM ON ARE derived from tests on cuddly little rats Heheheeee SO DON'T YOU DECLARE TO THE WORLD WE RAT LOVERS HAHA ARE DUH NOT HUMAN OHHH NOO YOU DONT MY BROTHER was born in a laboratory and they filled him full of inhibitors cancer cell annihilators and mega pain destroyers at 50 times the recommended dose AND HE SURVIVED HAHA SO THEREFORE I COULD BE CURED FROM THE DISEASES CAUSED BY THE TOXIC CAPITALIST INDUSTRIAL MILITARY COMPLEX HAHAHAAAA human were cannibals before the humanist christians MADE THEM WEAK SNIVELLING FUCKING RAT HATERS THEY BLAMED THE PLAGUE ON US HAHA but it was their own filthy living standards in crowded merchantile societies the proto-capitalist squalor of London WE RATS USED TO LIVE CLEAN LIVES IN COLONIES BESIDE THE RIVER AND HELPED CLEAN UP THE HOMINID FILTH OF HUMAN SHIT WASTE so take it easy on my rat family they are soooo human hahahAAAHHAaaaaaHaaaAAAhhhhhHaaaa!!
Ha. So funny. You should do stand up. Comic gold right here. Please keep commenting, I don’t want to miss your next hilarious post. Good stuff.
Umm, I've been commenting on here for many years, my best posts are deleted, COS THECOLLECTIVE LACK A NIHIL-ESQUE DROLL SENSE OF HUMOR!!!
i hope you're being sarcastic, that was most boring faux-eco-extemist rant i've ever read
Yo celeb-nihil gettin' green jealous woooo!
I worked for 15 years in a secretive elite military division specialized in carrying KILL tasks all over the globe within 3 hours. We got operatives working for the Command in the world's major cities, just waiting in their private spas in high-rise luxury lofts with tigers, Neomesopotamian deco and prostitutes of all ages, races and creed (including communist and even anarchist) to fuck whenever they want. Yeah and we get the finest meat and Scotch whiskey from every region. When I joined the service they were calling me Tough Guy.... but when I left it for joining the private corps everybody who knew me... they called me Tough Guy Killer. We don't care about you internet tough guys as just with one snap of fingers we can storm your place and turn you to ashes before you even call your mom...
Cmon I'm bored I need my adrenaline hit baby or I'll have to go visit mommy ,,,,*whispers* mommy dearest give me your opioid suppositories there's this wrealy scarewy tough guy gonna ashe me oooOOooo and I'm werely scwared mommy, AND IF YOU DON'T REMEMBER THE TIME WITH THE RATTLE SNAKE I INSERTED INSTEAD , so he's on his way, NOW DO IT!!! ;)
if i was jealous i wouldn't have said anything...that's how much of a celeb i am, i don't want anyone to detect my resentments cuz that will drop my sales hardcore, especially when i use this forum as my only place for spamming and advertising yo
Totally was, I’m so sick of the weird caustic comments on this site. I’m not sure if it’s just right-wing assholes trying to overwhelm interesting conversations but it feels like that.
CelebrityNihilsm is a crazy troll he's been deleted a lot, he's anti communist anti fascist though a one of a kind Stirnerian rebel not a right wing that's so 60s lol.
Thecollective do a good job deleting caustic rants its better than the bland sites where everyone is falsely polite even when a neoliberal thread is spreading its toxic nauseous message which I find more disgusting.
Stirner rejoices at Euro trash disco as much as Euro anarcho insurrecto.
no joke!
"As an anarchist, I refuse to tranquilize the chaos of my jouissance with inebriation"
Joking aside though, it is true that the building of a relationship and intimacy between people is spoilt and made toxic by alcohol or tranqualizers. There is nothing worse than having a drunk slobbering and groping with ones body thinking they can just invade sovereign individualist space because they are so dumbed down by drugs. Courting and getting to build relationships is meant to have that chaotic anxious element in it, not the head strong demanding patriarchal drunk approach.
also it is often false.
there are often many worse things.
"Courting and getting to build relationships is meant to have that chaotic anxious element in it"
meant to? meant by what/whom?
Meant by horny people listening to their chaotic breeding instincts to fornicate and perform their genetic duty to the species survival by reproduction anywhere and with any other member of the OPPOSITE SEX hahaaa even wives or men who are married or amoral.
often like drugs, is part of that chaotic anxious element...and yeah i don't know where op is going with this, sometimes alcohol is just a social activity, where the users aren't drinking enough to get really "fucked up", op is just ranting some straightedge bs, drugs and alcohol are not THAT BAD, the people who use them are waaaay worse, i don't exclude myself from this
Like they say, in moderation, I know that sounds so fucked up paternalistic, but its true.
all things in moderation, including moderation, see how i moderate this saying to make it less paternalistic? But whatever, I ain't no celebrity, LeWay just is prone to spastic bouts of religious exuberance and poetic prose
I had a host of fair weather friends. No matter how antisocial I became there were always people to hang out with. After I quit drinking I continued to smoke for another year and there were still people around though a different crowd. When I quit smoking nobody ever came to see me again.
Did you used to ramble at them about "geotrauma"?
know about geotrauma yet, it was in the early 90s before I got an uplink and started my machine learning. I had other theories to propound...
is earth crisis. Karl Buechner already knew about it in the 80s and the zeitgeist is shaped by it.
from watching the first two Terminator movies so that's what I was into getting ready to fight emerging AI like Sarah Connor. Destroy the machines.
i have a feeling you would really love the movie eXistenZ, this touches on so many of the issues that you struggle with. Imagine plugging in a biological video game system into your body as a spinal tap, made out of the guts of frogs! Good shit
Gaia blew my imagination and thwt's enough for me about geological/ climatic influences, but everyone their own scientific fetish;)
she is un-explainable, eternally creative, cruel, expedient
that is some truly ignorant generalization right there. first of all, alcohol and tranqs only? what about meth or other uppers?
but primarily, your broad brush is pathetically lacking in bristles. are you aware that:
a) different drugs have different effects on different people
b) doing drugs of any sort does not equate to overuse of said drugs. overuse is completely subjective, but i would say that overuse of any drug - whatever "overuse" means for each individual - is probably not giving one the most useful effects of the drug. unless the drug is morphine and one is using it to purposely kill themselves.
believe it or not, your apparently very limited exposure to the wide variety of drugs and people using them, has given you a massive case of myopia. no need to generalize and moralize when all you are really seeming to want to say is: it ain't cool to get slobbered on by a drunk. i would agree with that.
is my hero but this PDF seems incomplete, please confirm.
Sports Mode
they are in full control of their body, mind and soul is full of fucking shit!
and it’s a song about driving a car
i only drive one because i have to in my current living situation, they are a deeper form of TK's "technological slavery" than computers.
I have a place for cars if they are older and parts are freely available and they can be worked on and repaired by oneself and used just for long journeys which have to be made carrying many things *takes a bow* But push bikes are better and now I find myself seduced by the new electric motor assisted pushbikes.
But best of all, the foot play of perambulating, the supreme mode of travel.
And your reminding me of how close I am to having to learn how to change my car's brake fluid
sound interesting. I never had a car until I was 30. I always got a ride to work and rode bikes or skateboards. I wish I didn't have a car because everything requires maintenance but I have to. I keep a car, bike and longboard operational.
do you ride you geobike to your technowork going hyperfast?
more of a long distance person. After I quit drinking I got into endurance sports so now I'm a hybrid athlete but I keep a steady pace because at 50 my goal is longevity not high output.
You do you! #sensiblystillactive #lifebeginsat50
A bit out of context, but i found this video of you going back and forth with the anews trolls in the the comment section.
not even out of context, remember this is a drug TOTW, you tube videos are drugs. You gave me drugs, through anarchist reciprocity i give you more.
Bikes do require more or less regular maintenance, especially with the loads of crappy recycled rubber that were spread on the markets these days. Tho the huge difference with cars is how they're easy to work on, and the parts are pretty cheap. Afaik, any means of transportation you can't move around with your own body is bad technology in the first place.
the bike share graveyards in China? Its a massive example of overproduction and underconsumption. Capitalist production spun into a backlash.
Not sure that's the right way to analytically frame it. Rather messy chaotic production due to lack of proper management and lousy business practices.
These bikes are abandoned for the same reason they'd be in the Western cities. Municipal public bieks are CRAP, lol. Nobody except yuppie idiots like to ride these bulky, heavy, unstable monstrosities. Get a decent '70s chromo road bike for 50$ off craigslist or some street thug, then use a community bike shop to maintain it, maybe turn it into a fixe, and you'll have a great urban transport for years that costs you a fraction of what a city bike does while being twice as fast.
low cost, high speed. wow, you are really stepping outside the status quo thinking there.
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give up capitalism and that it stands for including addiction, that's mutualism in action.
"mututalism", "capitalism", "action"...
giving up capitalism returns humility to a more elevated status. It's not who you know or your unique and genius innovations, but your egoist desire to be in service of other members of your IRL community and yourself. We can only "defeat" capitalism through this bare-bones reality.
reproductive labor is integral with the economy which couldn't function without it. If we can make money as anarchists without sacrificing our identities we could finance altruistic projects without being collaborators. There are some viable anarchist business models; bookstores, coffee shops, warehouses maybe even detox and addiction services since there's already some of that going on in places but without a substantial welfare state anarchy needs to be a business in order to keep growing.
i agree, within the status quo it needs to be a business in order to subsist, let alone keep growing. but business as a mode of subsistence, or growth, and even the notion of “growth” itself, has been put into question and contested from different perspectives.
yet this proposal is more sensible than the other outlandish things you like to link. i’m not sure it’d do anything to challenge or change the status quo, but more jobs and needed services amirite. it’s valid as anything else.
A tepid response but I'll take it as a compliment. You must have read me when I was C¥B€RPØ$!T!V€. It comes and goes, sometimes I put on my anarchy hat and talk shop plus I live on the gulf coast which is a world away.
that anarchists need to participate in capitalism, i have to make money just like everyone else here, of course the concept of how anarchists function within the capitalist economy is something that needs to discussed (not this broad idea, but i leave it up to people to talk about how they could be better making money, or making money in a better way)
No one has to MAKE money. When land and food is free as it was in the indigenous economy, there was no work or wage currency, there may have been bartering standards, but not money per se.
Now leave me alone to my meditations within my zone of grace, I don't want either of you two chatterboxes disturb8ng my tranquil repose, mmkay!!
Don't confuse with as a means of base survival.
to play the game. There is some free play here and there for marginal lifestyles in the urban areas but the simulacra makes naked and afraid look like a desert of the real.
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I can't stop doing it!!!
You need rehab, develop an intimate meaningful relationship based on sex :)
and occasional masturbation is therapeutic. I have heard of sex addicts though so be careful. Too much of anything can be deleterious.
they have a saying "meetings, meditation and masturbation".
i find moralism to be a far more interesting "addiction" than other drugs, in terms of how it impacts the thoughts and actions of others. i would much rather do a project with a "functional" addict than a ("functional"?) moralist.
AA typically means "functional" also just as generically being able to show up at a job and be normal. The biggest thing about AA is that you come in and identify as "an alcoholic", if you don't do that it's mostly just going to feel incredibly pointless. I joined GA a little bit when i had a gambling problem in my early 20's.
There's been a lot of journalistic work that shows that the AA approach only works in the long term for about 10% of its members, for the rest all the moralistic talk about alcohol and addiction just makes them want to drink again.
was safe harbour in early recovery but eventually I began to chafe under the conservatism so I moved on. When I got an uplink to the outside world I wasn't so dependent on the program and now I stay busy with forward progress so I don't sink in the mud.
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• If a bus, it would travel right if in Britain and in many other lands.
But I agree with those commentors who say it’s not a bus. I say it’s a UFO.
• I could not figure this out and I am usually quite good at such puzzles, but Phil’s comment explains why. I am a Brit that has lived 25 years in the UK (driving on the left) and 30+ years in Austria (driving on the right), so it’s no wonder I did not get it. We will not mention my age, which does not help, so it seems!
• The apocrypha I have heard to explain why some countries drive left, and others right:
We all rode on the left, to have our right (sword-bearing) arm available for a melee in the middle.
Then Napoleon wanted to show that he had pacified Europe and decreed that we all ride on the right.
The UK, Sweden etc, who were NOT conquered by him, kept riding on the left. (Sweden changed quite recently)
Then, the various countries exported their systems to their colonies and the rest is history.
(Obvious problem: America.)
• I often wonder why America is seen as a problem even as it is called upon to right wrongs caused by others (in their attempts at empire) or rooted in ancient animosities.
But the response is, I suppose, clever and witty.
• Perhaps it was. Your apocrypha is similar to one I had been given as a child (by a teacher, no less) that maintained that it (driving on the left) was a throwback to the days of jousting. Until I found that jousters rode on the right, not the left, and the lance was presented across from right to left. Destroyed my faith in teachers, I tell you. I almost went back and analyzed just why 2+2 equalled 4.
I could understand why the US decided to ride/drive on the right. After all, we had rebelled against the Crown. But why did Canada make that choice?
• “……..But why did Canada make that choice…….?”
Because Canada, being The Great Satan’s next-door neighbour, didn’t really have a choice.
• @Phil
so, basically, Canadians are wimps? Yet they still add that extra (and unnecessary) “u” in color and humor, etc. Why, then, does India, among others (even Hong Kong) retain that left-handedness?
• The “sword hand” seems logical on the one hand (no pun intended) but it would seem to me that you would want your shield side facing, not your sword, unless… you are the attacker.
1. Either way, it’s not going very far. Its wheels don’t seem to be attached to the chassis, and without some sort of axle, it won’t be long before the top rolls off and falls onto the road.
2. The first question should have been “What is this?” in order to determine how many kids vs. how many grownups would have identified this thing as a bus in the first place.
And like Vince already touched on, my first reaction was that it’s a trick question, as the vehicle is obviously going nowhere because the wheels aren’t attached.
As to the invisible door, the bus could be going either way depending on whether it’s an American or a British model. Besides, it could be backing up.
But true, I wasn’t thinking of the door. There seems to be no windshield either, so no matter which way the bus travels, it is bound to crash into something sooner or later.
3. I didn’t even see a bus. I saw an air-conditioned camper parked at Sun City in Arizona with an old guy sitting inside eating tuna from a can and watching baseball on a small TV in July. I can smell the tuna. That’s obvious.
Preschoolers are stupid. This is the reason that they don’t get to ride the bus alone downtown.
4. I would have been in the 10% of preschoolers who got it wrong. Not sure I even knew the difference between right and left in those days.
Who know what sort of subliminal (at least to adults) are being conveyed in Thomas the Tank Engine, Bob the Builder, and Spongebob if kids see things that we don’t!
5. Children see certain things that adults overlook because their mental slates have not been filled up yet. Not even close. But the concept that a door must exist on a bus? That seems odd, almost engineer-ish, for a pre-schooler to perceive. And, as others have pointed out, simultaneously ignoring the lack of wheels being connected to the bus or a windshield for the driver to see or even the existence of a driver.
I might have said “It’s not moving in any direction, there is no driver!”
6. There are two Eskimos sitting on a fence – a big Eskimo and a little Eskimo.
The little Eskimo is the son of the big Eskimo, but the big Eskimo isn’t the little Eskimo’s father.
Who is the big Eskimo?
7. “……..90% of the preschoolers had the correct answer……….”
Aspersions are being cast on the veracity of this by certain individuals I’ve conveyed it to.
Are you able to direct me to an authoritative source?
• Andreas,
Chain emails often contain threats, such as “if you break this chain, your Blog will be deleted from the hard drive and not one thread will be left upon another.”
Did you break the chain?
• The story of the “pre-schoolers and adults” has a whiff of urban myth about it (so you appropriately hedged by using the word “apparently”).
The claim that “90% of the preschoolers had the correct answer” should discourage any parent from admitting the their child did not think of the missing door.
After a search of the internet I found this other version of the “bus illusion”
8. @Douglas.
Sorry this answer has to be so far down the page, but there were no more “reply” threads.
“………Yet they still add that extra (and unnecessary) “u” in color and humor, etc. Why, then, does India, among others (even Hong Kong) retain that left-handedness………?.”
Any deleterious economic consequences for Canada in spelling the English way, are minuscule compared to what they would be if Canada drove on the other side of the road.
Think only of all those many thousands tractor-trailers which go back and forth between Canada and the US each day. They just couldn’t do this if the sides of the road where you drive are different in Canada and the US.
Remember, the natural trade routes between Canada and the US are north-south (crossing the border), not east-west (where you don’t).
The huge issue of commercial road transportation is why Canada is the only country from the old British empire not to drive on the left.
• Regarding my previous comment:
“………. natural trade routes between Canada and the US………”
This should have read “…….natural trade routes in North America……..”
• Based on what I have gleaned from Wikipedia, it was the Romans who, through empire, spread the left-hand driving; the British who first codified it (that we know of so far); and the US who first resisted it (for reasons of commerce, it appears).
Wikipedia supports your quite logical explanation of why Canada shifted to right-hand. Though it appears to have occurred while the US was still the Lesser Satan or maybe even No Threat At All to the world.
Nova Scotia, however, resisted until 1923.
On an aside, when I visited Hong Kong and Japan back in the late 60’s, I found I had to be very cautious when crossing the street. In right-hand countries, one looks left then right when starting across. Not so in left-hand ones.
Wiki has an interesting blip about countries changing from left to right and vice versa.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/58078 | Imagine if someone built a way to aggregate and illegally use a group of smartphones’ computing power to mine cryptocurrency. First up, that would have to be a large amount of smartphones – a really large number. Secondly, some sort of malware needs to be installed so that the hacker can gain access to target smartphones and use their processors. Sadly, that kind of malware is real.
Security outfit Trend Micro has discovered that two types of malware that illegally harness the processing power of smartphones for cryptocurrency mining are back in the Google Play Store again, and they’ve tagged it as ANDROIDOS_JSMINER and ANDROIDOS_CPUMINER. Apps with these malware have been found and reported to Google already.
Once installed, the malware will contact the hacker’s server, fetch a configuration file, load a JavaScript code, and start mining using the hacker’s own site key. During these times, the smartphone’s CPU usage will be exceptionally high. This means increased wear and tear, reduced battery life, and very slow performance when using your phone.
While these apps have been reported, users still need to be extremely careful about the apps they install. The app samples Trend Micro discovered include apps that teach you how to pray the rosary, and even apps that seemingly provide HD wallpapers.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/58101 | Who is the Heavenly Father? Part 3
Knowing God:
One day I was just hanging out with the Lord and I started asking questions. I love to ask the Lord questions and He always answers me. We are blessed to have this opportunity.
I asked the Lord if He could help me to understand the depths of His Love.
Quickly after I asked, He said.. “I love all My creation, even the creatures under the earth.”
So I stop and thought.. The creatures under the earth? Who are they?
Then it popped in my mind… The enemy and all his followers?
So, I asked the Lord if He meant, that He loved them?
And I heard Him say, Yes.
That day I was able to truly understand who God was and His love.
He is PURE Love, and because of that, He can not stop loving.
Even though the enemy does evil non-stop, God still loves them but He doesn’t love the evil they do.
God can’t stop loving. He is Love.
This revelation of God touched my heart, and I hope it touches yours’ also.
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Export to C code
asked 2011-02-07 01:26:21 -0600
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Is it possible to export the result of a calculation to C source code? To be more specific, I have a very long equation emerging from a Sage calculation which I need to feed into a C simulation program, but C doesn't understand the x^2, x^3, ... syntax. I ended up using the re module to manually replace the terms with the proper pow function calls, but I thought maybe there is a more elegant solution to this.
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answered 2011-02-08 12:45:31 -0600
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updated 2011-02-08 15:32:35 -0600
If I understand you, then you're looking for the equivalent of maple's CodeGeneration package, which nicely turns Maple functions into fortran or C code which you can then include in your own code (done this many times myself). Unfortunately I couldn't find what you're looking for.
(1) I tried looking at the existing expression conversions (for sympy, maxima, etc.) but none of them seemed to need to do this.
(2) Apparently there are tricks to do it from maxima (using the "subst" command), but I couldn't get any of them to work, at least not via the Sage-Maxima interface. My Maxima-fu is pretty weak, though. Unfortunately Fortran has the "**" operator, so using maxima.fortran wouldn't help!
(3) I don't think Cython will be that useful here, because the C code that it generates is pretty messy, and parsing it to recover something that you could insert in a non-Cython C code -- though doable -- would be much harder and more error-prone than simply turning (a)^(b) into pow((a), (b)) in the first place!
This would be a very useful feature, though; doing algebra in a CAS and then moving it to code used to be one of the main things I used Maple for.
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I'm upvoting this since I think I misunderstood the original question.
cswiercz gravatar imagecswiercz ( 2011-02-09 11:23:02 -0600 )edit
answered 2011-02-07 02:29:00 -0600
updated 2011-02-07 02:31:50 -0600
Cython (included with Sage) converts Python-like code into C which can then be compiled into a shared-object library and used by Python / Sage. It's intended use is to write code that is easy to use like Python but is optimized to use fast C data types instead of slower Python data structures. However, one could certainly just write Python without any optimizations and have Cython generate the C equivalent.
Create a .pyx file containing your code and execute
$ sage -cython -a mycythonfile.pyx
This will output a corresponding .c file which can be compiled into a shared object library and imported in Python along with an.html file that neatly shows the C equivalent of each line of code.
Be warned that the corresponding C code, though optimized, looks really messy.
For more information on compiling Cython code, take a look at the Cython compilation documentation.
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Is there a way to do this from a Sage notebook? To make myself more clear: I want to feed the result of a (symbolic) Taylor expansion from a Sage notebook into a C program, which I have already written.
hennes gravatar imagehennes ( 2011-02-07 04:08:00 -0600 )edit
Type `%cython` at the top of a notebook cell to have Cython convert and compile the contents of the cell. (It will automatically link the .so to the currently running notebook session.) Two links will appear as the cell output. One is a link to the C-source. The other is the handy html guide to what happened in the Cython-C conversion process.
cswiercz gravatar imagecswiercz ( 2011-02-07 04:25:00 -0600 )edit
I somehow don't get to grips with Cython. Could you point me to a minimal example of using it from within a Sage notebook? I tried something like %cython x=0; x^2; , but it doesn't convert x^2 to pow(x,2).
hennes gravatar imagehennes ( 2011-02-07 08:01:56 -0600 )edit
Take a look at and follow the instructions. I hope this is what you're looking for and not me misinterpreting your question.
cswiercz gravatar imagecswiercz ( 2011-02-07 10:16:24 -0600 )edit
answered 2013-02-21 19:58:00 -0600
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Just to chime in here on this long abandoned question, the code generation module that DSM mentions is now included in Sage. Here's a short example:
sage: f = x**2 + sin(y)/sqrt(5*x+9*y)
sage: fs = f._sympy_() # convert to a sympy symbolic expression
sage: [(c_name, c_code), (h_name, c_header)] = codegen(("f", fs), "C", "test")
sage: print c_code
* Code generated with sympy 0.7.1 *
* *
* See for more information. *
* *
* This file is part of 'project' *
#include "test.h"
#include <math.h>
double f(double x, double y) {
return pow(x, 2) + sin(y)/sqrt(5*x + 9*y);
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Hooray! This is one of the things which you seldom need, but when you do need, it's uber-handy.
DSM gravatar imageDSM ( 2013-02-22 06:04:20 -0600 )edit
Thanks for this great solution. Just a detail, this line is also required before calling codegen: from sympy.utilities.codegen import codegen
louisgag gravatar imagelouisgag ( 2016-10-07 06:47:15 -0600 )edit
Another comment @benjaminfjones : this line fs = f._sympy_() is really necessary ? I've noticed that even if I exclude it the conversion gets done and the code returned is identical... ANSWERING MY OWN COMMENT: yes sympy is necessary, in some cases I would get an error if not converting to sympy, so you can ignore my comment...
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answered 2011-06-02 15:16:19 -0600
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It looks like sympy 0.6.7 has a codegen package, but the version in Sage (0.6.4 in Sage 4.7) doesn't. We should upgrade and make sure it works with ._sympy_(), this is a very useful feature.
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Very interesting. I know that some of the Sympy folks have been involved with f2py, a Fortran to Python wrapping utility. Quite interesting that they have a C codegen as well!
cswiercz gravatar imagecswiercz ( 2011-06-03 06:27:27 -0600 )edit
answered 2011-06-02 13:14:20 -0600
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If you just add %cython to the beginning of the notebook it gives a c file. The file is a bit messy but you can always include it in other c files and call functions.
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Just to add to the list of answers, I'm linking a post I've made which shows how to expand Benjamin Jones' solution to a system of functions and their gradients:
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answered 2011-06-02 12:14:34 -0600
Hi Hennes,
Did you ever figure out how to translate Sage code into C code? I have the exact same problem and can't find a way to do that. Besides, the link cswiercz gave is now broken.
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Which link are you talking about? They work fine for me.
cswiercz gravatar imagecswiercz ( 2011-06-02 12:48:44 -0600 )edit
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There's a lot of confusion in the CBD world around dosing and it's not surprising. All the talk around milliliters and milligrams and how many milligrams per milliliter - it's overwhelming! We're here to clear it up.
The short answer is: there is no standard dose for CBD. There are general recommendations to start anywhere from 10-25mg per dose but it really comes down to each person's endocannabinoid system (ECS). We've talked about the ECS before, but as a refresher, it's a series of receptors that runs through our body that is responsible for many of our most basic functions: mood, sleep, appetite, nervous system and more. When you take CBD you are bringing balance to that ECS and allowing the systems it's responsible for to function more affectively. It's why many people experience multiple benefits when supplementing with a top quality CBD product.
The thing is, everyone's ECS system has a different sensitivity level. So that's really what determines what dose you should take. It's not based necessarily on typical things like size, weight, gender, age etc. It's based on how sensitive your ECS is.
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The other aspect to take into account is that different forms of CBD have varying levels of bioavailability. Bioavailability is just a fancy word for how much your body is able to actually absorb. Vaping and smoking have some of the highest bioavailability at between 34-45%. Next up are tinctures which are between 12-36%. Tinctures are best held under the tongue for 30-60 seconds. And last are edibles. Edibles go through your digestive system and have bioavailability anywhere from 6-20%.
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“My kids all were pretty excited about going back to school. However, I think the nerves got to my 1st grader and she cried about everything that morning. Back to school picture gold. She ended up having a great day, but my second grader who was most excited out of the three said it was ‘boring.'”
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/58172 | I can't get any GUI so I can't properly configure it :/
It's emulators all the way down (emulator is macintoshgarden.org/apps/silho, a Nintendo-internal SNES emulator for PPC)
Super Mario world doesn't seem to run, it hangs on the first text box and the start screen is all messed up
Mario Kart runs but the track doesn't display (probably because Mode 7 stuff isn't implemented) and the karts don't seem to actually go
Super Metroid! I couldn't skip the intro and this emulator doesn't seem to properly blank the screen, so unless something's drawn to it it stays white, but everything that does get drawn looks great
Huh, Mode 7 seems to work in Metroid
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/58228 | Eduard Gallego
Associate professor at UAB
Research area: Geometry
PhD in Mathematics obtained at UAB
My principal research interest is in Integral Geometry and Convexity. In the 90’s we solved some problems on the asympotic behaviour of convex set in hyperbolic spaces and Hadamard manifolds. Related with this questions I started to work on Crofton and Kinematic formulas in real and complex hyperbolic spaces. In the present time my work is related with Algebraic Integral Geometry and the study of valuations.
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• Geometry
• Integral Geometry
• Differential Geometry
• Convexity
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• Abardia, Judit; Gallego, Eduardo; 2013. Convexity on Complex Hyperbolic Space. Journal of Convex Analysis. 20. p. 329 – 338.
• E. Gallego, G. Solanes, E. Teufel; 2013. Linear combinations of hypersurfaces in hyperbolic space. Monatshefte für Mathematik. 169. p. 329 – 354.
• J. Abardia, E. Gallego, G.Solanes; 2012. The Gauss-Bonnet theorem and Crofton type formulas in complex space forms. Israel Journal of Mathematics. 187. p. 287 – 315.
• E. Gallego, A. Reventós, G. Solanes, E. Teufel; 2010. A kinematic formula for the total absolute curvature of intersections. Advances in Geometry. 10. p. 709 – 718.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/58230 | Erroneous Opinions Imputed to the Apostles.
A species of candour which is shown towards every other book is sometimes refused to the Scriptures: and that is, the placing of a distinction between judgment and testimony. We do not usually question the credit of a writer, by reason of an opinion he may have delivered upon subjects unconnected with his evidence: and even upon subjects connected with his account, or mixed with it in the same discourse or writing, we naturally separate facts from opinions, testimony from observation, narrative from argument.
To apply this equitable consideration to the Christian records, much controversy and much objection has been raised concerning the quotations of the Old Testament found in the New; some of which quotations, it is said, are applied in a sense and to events apparently different from that which they bear, and from those to which they belong in the original. It is probable, to my apprehension, that many of those quotations were intended by the writers of the New Testament as nothing more than accommodations. They quoted passages of their Scripture which suited, and fell in with, the occasion before them, without always undertaking to assert that the occasion was in the view of the author of the words. Such accommodations of passages from old authors, from books especially which are in every one's hands, are common with writers of all countries; but in none, perhaps, were more to be expected than in the writings of the Jews, whose literature was almost entirely confined to their Scriptures. Those prophecies which am alleged with more solemnity, and which are accompanied with a precise declaration that they originally respected the event then related, are, I think, truly alleged. But were it otherwise; is the judgment of the writers of the New Testament, in interpreting passages of the Old, or sometimes, perhaps, in receiving established interpretations, so connected either with their veracity, or with their means of information concerning what was passing in their own times, as that a critical mistake, even were it clearly made out, should overthrow their historical credit? -- Does it diminish it? Has it anything to do with it?
Another error imputed to the first Christians was the expected approach of the day of judgment. I would introduce this objection by a remark upon what appears to me a somewhat similar example. Our Saviour, speaking to Peter of John, said, "If I will that he tarry till I come, what is that to thee?" (John xxi.22.) These words we find had been so misconstrued, as that a report from thence "went abroad among the brethren, that that disciple should not die." Suppose that this had come down to us amongst the prevailing opinions of the early Christians, and that the particular circumstance from which the mistake sprang had been lost (which, humanly speaking, was most likely to have been the case), some, at this day, would have been ready to regard and quote the error as an impeachment of the whole Christian system. Yet with how little justice such a conclusion would have been drawn, or rather such a presumption taken up, the information which we happen to possess enables us now to perceive. To those who think that the Scriptures lead us to believe that the early Christians, and even the apostles, expected the approach of the day of judgment in their own times, the same reflection will occur as that which we have made with respect to the more partial, perhaps, and temporary, but still no less ancient, error concerning the duration of Saint John's life. It was an error, it may be likewise said, which would effectually hinder those who entertained it from acting the part of impostors.
The difficulty which attends the subject of the present chapter is contained in this question; If we once admit the fallibility of the apostolic judgment, where are we to stop, or in what can we rely upon it? To which question, as arguing with unbelievers, and as arguing for the substantial truth of the: Christian history, and for that alone, it is competent to the advocate of Christianity to reply, Give me the apostles' testimony, and I do not stand in need of their judgment; give me the facts, and I have complete security for every conclusion I want.
But, although I think that it is competent to the Christian apologist to return this answer, I do not think that it is the only answer which the objection is capable of receiving. The two following cautions, founded, I apprehend, in the most reasonable distinctions, will exclude all uncertainty upon this head which can he attended with danger.
First, to separate what was the object of the apostolic mission, and declared by them to be so, from what was extraneous to it, or only incidentally connected with it. Of points clearly extraneous to the religion nothing need be said. Of points incidentally connected with it something may be added. Demoniacal possession is one of these points: concerning the reality of which, as this place will not admit the examination, nor even the production of the argument on either side of the question, it would be arrogance in me to deliver any judgment. And it is unnecessary. For what I am concerned to observe is, that even they who think it was a general, but erroneous opinion of those times; and that the writers of the New Testament, in common with other Jewish writers of that age, fell into the manner of speaking and of thinking upon the subject which then universally prevailed, need not be alarmed by the concession, as though they had anything to fear from it for the truth of Christianity. The doctrine was not what Christ brought into the world. It appears in the Christian records, incidentally and accidentally, as being the subsisting opinion of the age and country in which his ministry was exercised. It was no part of the object of his revelation, to regulate men's opinions concerning the action of spiritual substances upon animal bodies. At any rate it is unconnected with testimony. If a dumb person was by a word restored to the use of his speech, it signifies little to what cause the dumbness was ascribed; and the like of every other cure wrought upon these who are said to have been possessed. The malady was real, the cure was real, whether the popular explication of the cause was well founded or not. The matter of fact, the change, so far as it was an object of sense, or of testimony, was in either case the same.
Secondly, that, in reading the apostolic writings, we distinguish between their doctrines and their arguments. Their doctrines came to them by revelation properly so called; yet in propounding these doctrines in their writings or discourses they were wont to illustrate, support, and enforce them by such analogies, arguments, and considerations as their own thoughts suggested. Thus the call of the gentiles, that is, the admission of the Gentiles to the Christian profession without a previous subjection to the law of Moses, was imported to the apostles by revelation, and was attested by the miracles which attended the Christian ministry among them. The apostles' own assurance of the matter rested upon this foundation. Nevertheless, Saint Paul, when treating of the subject, often a great variety of topics in its proof and vindication. The doctrine itself must be received: but it is not necessary, in order to defend Christianity, to defend the propriety of every comparison, or the validity of every argument, which the apostle has brought into the discussion. The same observation applies to some other instances, and is, in my opinion, very well founded; "When divine writers argue upon any point, we are always bound to believe the conclusions that their reasonings end in, as parts of divine revelation: but we are not bound to be able to make out, or even to assent to all the premises made use of by them, in their whole extent, unless it appear plainly, that they affirm the premises as expressly as they do the conclusions proved by them." (Burnets Expos. art.6.)
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/58238 | I follow a protocol to get protein from E.coli cells after sonication.
I used to grow 6 litres of large cultures and add IPTG to express the protein. I centrifuge for 10 mins at 8,000 rpm and get the pellets. Then I do sonication and centrifuge again at 20,000 for 1 hr.
My question is: can I do the last step of centrifugation at 4000 rpm for 2 hr? The centrifuge is no longer working at high speed (20,000rpm)
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$\begingroup$ It is better to indicate centrifugation speeds in terms of g instead of RPM. We basically want to know the centrifugal force acting on the sample. The RPM required for a particular amount of centrifugal force depends on the rotor radius. $\endgroup$ – WYSIWYG Nov 27 '18 at 12:29
No, if you use only centrifugation to separate proteins from other parts of the (bacterial) cell, you need very high centrifugal forces. The actual speed (in rpm) you need to separate soluble proteins from the rest of the cell is mostly dependent on the rotor of the centrifuge, because both together determine the acceleration you get, which should be in the order of at least 10,000 - 100,000 g.
If you do not have a (working) ultracentrifuge available, you could try to precipitate your proteins from the lysate, which would allow you to use a normal centrifuge to collect it. However, this won't be an option if your protein can't be properly re-folded and you need it functional.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/58239 | Properties of Dp-actin [Dronpa (Dp)-labeled actin] in MCF-7 cells
Range diffusion coefficient of Dp-actin 13.7μm^2/s: halflife of mobile fraction 41ms: mobile fraction 79%
Organism Human Homo sapiens
Reference Kiuchi T, Nagai T, Ohashi K, Mizuno K. Measurements of spatiotemporal changes in G-actin concentration reveal its effect on stimulus-induced actin assembly and lamellipodium extension. J Cell Biol. 2011 Apr 18 193(2):365-80. doi: 10.1083/jcb.201101035. p.367 right columnPubMed ID21502360
Method P.366 right column 2nd paragraph:"In this study, [investigators] describe a novel approach for measuring time-dependent changes in G-actin concentration in live cells and provide evidence that G-actin concentration is an important parameter in determining the extents of stimulus-induced actin assembly and cell expansion."
Comments P.367 right column:"The rate of fluorescence decay was much faster than the turnover rate of actin filaments (Theriot and Mitchison, 1991 McGrath et al., 1998 Watanabe and Mitchison, 2002), indicating that the FDAP [fluorescence decay after photoactivation] values measured under these conditions reflect G-actin concentration (but not F-actin disassembly). By fitting the time curve of fluorescence decay (Fig. 1 E), the diffusion coefficient of Dp-actin, the half-life of the mobile fraction, and the mobile fraction were determined to be 13.7 μm^2/s, 41 ms, and 79%, respectively." Wiki:"MCF-7 is a breast cancer cell line isolated in 1970 from a 69-year-old Caucasian woman. MCF-7 is the acronym of Michigan Cancer Foundation-7..." Springer link link :"Mobile fraction denotes the percentage of fluorescent molecules in a sample available to contribute to fluorescence recovery during the time course of a FRAP (fluorescence recovery after photobleaching) experiment. Note that this measure is used to assess the mobility of fluorophores within a continuous compartment."
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/58245 | Spot Reduction Myth
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Probably the biggest misconception about exercise is the notion of being able to spot reduce fat. A lot of the credit to why some believe that spot reduction is possible is based upon those infomericals you hear on television about the so-called new revolutionary device that will give you 6 pack abs.
While the equipment may strengthen your abdominal muscles, the fat that surrounds your abs is not 'owned; by those particular muscles. Simply based upon that general anatomy fact spot reduction of fat is by no means possible. Fat is lost in the body mainly dependent on their genetic makeup. When an individual exercises and begins to burn fat it turns into free fatty acids, FFA; which is then sent into and through the bloodstream to the working muscles. Because the fat is not 'owned' by a particular muscle group that is being used the body burns fat from throughout the whole body.
So if you are wanting have your 6 pack abs show through don't just rely on doing 1000's of crunches but in turn focus on doing full body work and cardio exercises to burn fat.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/58261 | Studying in the USA
You’ve heard time and again that admissions officers want to see you take the most rigorous curriculum that you can handle and that your high school offers. Great, so that might get you the coveted acceptance letter, but does all your hard work in these college-level courses get you anything more? Will you get credit or placement at U.S. universities for IB or Cambridge exams? It surprises me how many students are eager and willing to take these challenging courses to impress the admissions committee, but few ever take note as to which universities may be more generous in awarding credit or placement for enrolling students with certain exam results. You’ve worked hard for it! Knowing how your exam results will be treated by different universities could make the difference between repeating courses, having the opportunity to take upper-level courses sooner, and maybe even graduating from college in less time!
It’s a universal fact that colleges recognize IB and Cambridge curriculums as evidence of academic ability. So doing well in either program is a great way to demonstrate your readiness for college. But with advance research, students can also form an application list based on those colleges that are more generous in their rewarding of exam results. If you haven’t done this in advance, I would certainly suggest you compare your admission offers by the credit/placement policies before deciding where to study in the USA!
Like all things college-related, one size does not fit all when it comes to policies regarding IB and Cambridge exams results. A certain score on the IB Diploma could grant you 30 credit hours (the equivalent of one full year of study!) at some colleges, while at others, they may only look at the 6s and 7s earned on Higher Level exams (and perhaps only on specific HL exams). That’s a significant difference! If your goal is to accelerate through college on an expedited timeline, you should know the policies of the college before applying.
So how do you know what a college will award for your exam results? It is tedious work. The best, most accurate resource is the college’s own website. A simple internet search of “[College Name] IB/Cambridge credit policy” should do the trick to take you directly to the school’s policy. But if you don’t yet know which colleges to look up, you can use the IBO website and Cambridge International site for a big-picture view and to compare universities. Download the PDF from the IBO’s titled, “University Policy Index,” for a list of self-reported policy information provided by universities across the globe for IB results (note that this was last updated in October 2015, so policies may have changed). There are PDF resources for Cambridge exams that highlight many policies for AS & A Level recognition by country. Here is the link for US institutions. These sites are a good starting point for a quick reference when comparing institutions and forming your college list, but you should double check the findings directly on each college’s website of interest.
So moral of the story here is doing well in these programs and exams can really pay off in terms of admission decisions and credit/placement policies with enough advance planning. Don’t forget that getting in to college is only the starting point; getting through college may be advantageous at certain colleges who reward your hard work in high school.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/58278 | Stupid Compiler
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[SHA, Right] The Algorithm
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SHA-0 (or something more clever here)
SHA-0 was specified in the first Secure Hash Standard (SHS) (current draft) issued in 1993. Two years later, NIST issued a small change to the SHA-0 expansion function; the new function is known as SHA-1. There was no justification for the updated function, but it is assumed the NSA found a collision attack.
Structure of the Hash Function
The SHA hash function works on blocks of 512 bits and outputs a hash value of 160 bits. The function proceeds as follows:
1. Pad the message by adding a single 1 bit and then a string of 0 bits suffixed with the length (in bits) of the message without padding (represented as a 64-bit big endian integer). The number of zero bits is chosen as the minimum number to evenly pad the message to the next 512 bit boundary.
2. The five state variables are initialized to fixed constants:
A = 0x67452301
B = 0xefcdab89
C = 0x98badcfe
D = 0x10325476
E = 0xc3d2e1f0
3. For each message block, call the compression function using the current state, A through E, and the current block. The compression function will return the new state. Pseudocode:
state[i + 1] = compress(current_block, state[i])
4. The output of the function is the concatentation of the state variables. Pseudocode:
return A ++ B ++ C ++ D ++ E
The Compression Function
The compression function is where all the “good stuff” happens.
compress(M, h) is computed as:
1. Divide the 512-bit message block, M, into 16 32-bit words W_0, W_1, \ldots, W_15.
2. Expand the 16 words into 80 words using the expansion function defined by the recurrence relation:
W_i = W_{i-3} \oplus W_{i-8} \oplus W_{i-14} \oplus W_{i-16}
3. Initialize the state variables, A, B, C, D, E, using h
4. For each word in W, W_i, compute the new state as:
\begin{align*}A_{i+1} &= (W_i + A_i \lll 5 + f_i(B_i, C_i, D_i) + E_i + K_i) \mod 2^{32}\\B_{i+1} &= A_i\\C_{i+1} &= B_i \lll 30\\D_{i+1} &= C_i\\E_{i+1} &= D_i\end{align*}
The function f_i(B,C,D) is defined below.
5. The output is given as:
(A_0 + A_80, B_0 + B_80, C_0 + C_80, D_0 + D_80, E_0 + E_80)
The function "f_i(X,Y,Z)" and "K_i" are defined as:
If i is in the range:
[ 0, 20) "IF" f_i = (X & Y) | (X & Z) K_i = 0x5A827999
[20, 39) "XOR" f_i = X ^ Y ^ Z K_i = 0x6ED9EBA1
[40, 59) "MAJ" f_i = (X & Y) | (X & Z) | (Y & Z) K_i = 0x8F1BBCDC
[60, 79) "XOR" f_i = X ^ Y ^ Z K_i = 0xCA62C1D6
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/58279 | Stupid Compiler
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Installing SMLNJ on Cygwin
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Today, I spent a few hours trying to figure out why my SMLNJ install kept failing. For the benefit of others who may have run into this problem, I’m going to record my solution (which I haven’t seen anywhere).
Issue 1:
I had a native Win32 install of SMLNJ at some point and my first failure looks like:
$ ./config/
//fs01/Home/dblazakis/projects/smlnj/bin/.link-sml: line 45: c:smlnj/bin/.arch-n-opsys: No such file or directory
Notice the native windows path — once I saw that I remembered I had SMLNJ_HOME set. So, from bash, ‘unset SMLNJ_HOME’.
Issue 2:
With that out of the way, I figured I was golden… but I was wrong. The next error:
$ ./config/
./config/ CM metadata directory name is ".cm"
exception raised during init phase: SysErr: No such file or directory [noent]
//fs01/Home/dblazakis/projects/smlnj/bin/.run/run.x86-cygwin: Fatal error -- Uncaught exception SysErr with <unknown> raised at <stat.c>
./config/ !!! Boot code failed, no heap image (sml.x86-cygwin).
This one is more troublesome. First thought is that it is a path issue, so I add a few echos to the install script and everything looks correct to me. Next, I add a strace to the call in the install script which is failing (a call to generate the initial heap image containing the preloaded modules). This generates a ton of output even after masking to output only syscalls. Sifting through it, it appears the first open or stat call after reading the PIDMAP uses a single ‘/’ instead of the usual double ‘/’ to denote a network share.
340 27275136 [main] run.x86-cygwin 2956 normalize_posix_path: src /fs01/Home/dblazakis/projects/smlnj/sml.boot.x86-unix/smlnj/init
Poor cygwin — it tries so hard. This appears to be a bug in the SMLNJ SrcPath module (cm/paths/srcpath.sml), but this is the first time I’ve waded through the SMLNJ code.
Long story short, I decided to move my build to a local directory (instead of a network share) and it worked on the first try.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/58281 | Sunday, February 19, 2017
Having trouble “hearing” from God?
Every once in awhile we receive emails from people who complain that they "can't hear God." I received such an email yesterday, and here was my response to this lady:
Wow, your question is a doozy - hard to answer! The only thing I can say to that is, perhaps you're not recognizing when He "speaks." I don't mean, necessarily in an audible voice (which is truly RARE); rather in "ways." I'll explain in a second, but I just want to say it's GOOD that you're "not" hearing from Him because that means you're not like many folks who can be deceived easily, or believe their every thought and dream is "from God" and they make stupid decisions based on what they THINK or dream….
When YHWH "speaks" (through dreams or thoughts or in "ways") you'll KNOW it because it either has a happy ending for you/yours, or it serves to teach you a lesson (even if it hurts sometimes), or it causes a major change in your life (i.e., you couldn't get a job for YEARS, until you finally followed “that urge” to move somewhere else).
Here’s an example about something that could be easily overlooked as a "God thing":
One morning you oversleep and miss your bus to work, and you panic and become a nervous wreck and knock yourself out to find a cab in hopes of still making it in time because, in your particular job, you cannot be late because YOU are the one who … for instance, opens the doors to the store (and you don't have a car at home because you're a one-car family and your husband took it to work). Instead of remaining calm and taking it all in stride and asking God for His shalom in this, you get yourself all worked up and end up with a sprained ankle while hailing a cab, because you weren't looking where you were going. When you finally get to work, someone calls to find out if you're okay, because they just heard that the bus you usually ride at that time in the morning, was hit by a train as it was crossing a railroad track….
Do you see what I mean? We miss YHWH in the little things! Just because we don't see Him performing some miracle giving us the outcome WE desire about something, or giving us a vivid dream or whatever, doesn't mean He's not at work. Since we have the Holy Spirit within, He is ALWAYS with us! It's just that He allows us humans choices - the choice to do things HIS way, or not … and when we feel He's remaining silent, it's because He's often sitting back and watching us grow through our mistakes as we study Scripture and become more and more adept at "hearing His Voice" (no matter what form it's in).
It's kind of like that little ditty that was going around not too long ago about a guy stranded on top of his house because it was surrounded by a flood. He prays, "Please God, get me out of this!" Pretty soon some guy in a little motorboat comes along and offers him a ride, but he refuses. "No, thanks. God will provide!" Later a guy in a helicopter comes along, and again, he turns it down. So, the flood rises and he drowns, and when he gets to heaven, he yells at God, "I prayed to you! Didn't you hear me? Why didn't you help me?" And God says, "Well, I sent you a boat and a helicopter…."
So, don't worry about "hearing from ADONAI." He hears YOU! And I'm positive He's working in your life, or else you wouldn't be so eager to learn more about how to be holy and how to please Him, etc.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/58284 | Panel 1: A transparent foil with dots showing "LED", a needle with a thread, and scissors are shown. Subtitle: "The advanced OLED research brought new highly sophisticated textiles, which made it possible to change their design on demand." -- Panel 2: A female model is shown in three different outfits. Subtitle: "Combined with wireless technology, everything required to change one's appearance is a computer." -- Panel 3: A woman with a laptop is sitting at a park bench, venmously grinning. In front of her stands a shocked man in underpants. Subtitle: "Still, whenever there are computers, there are also hackers." |
global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/58303 | Angel Wings
Wings of angels are thought to be earned and as a soft bell chimes, another angel gets wings. Magical is the thought of devine angels flying above through the stars or gently sitting on the a white, puffy cloud.
I believe that angels are also here on earth, providing us with many positive moments and guiding ways to wellness. Angel interventions are many as I seem to run into a few in my many walks down the green meadows of life. I have two special spirit angels; Anne and Angeline who are frequently by my side.
I see angels in nature, through the wings of butterflies and in refections where I see spirit peeking through. As I walk through nature I find colors changing in the slumber of a fall day in colors of yellows, browns and oranges that let me know spirits are here with me. |
global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/58306 | Don't let yourself be motivated by personal grudges. We heroes don't have the authority to make arrests or dole out punishment. It's only because of advances in Quirk regulation that we can use our Quirks at all. But vigilantism is strictly against the rules. And if you're caught going off on your own, that's considered a major crime.
Masaki to Tenya Iida in "Kill Em' Dead"
Masaki Mizushima (水島 正規 Mizushima Masaki?),[1] also known as Normal Hero: Manual (ノーマルヒーロー マニュアル Nōmaru Hīrō Manyuaru?), is the current No. 222 Pro Hero[2]. He is based out of Hosu, Tokyo.
Masaki is a man with messy brown hair and black eyes. His hero costume consists of a blue and white, skin-tight, long-sleeved shirt that tucks into his orange gloves. He wears dark pants, white boots, and sports a signature helmet that features a fish-like fin and blue visor.
Manual has a very kind, attentive and ordinary personality. He has an inspiring attitude, as he wants to become a role model for all modern heroes and can complete any tasks simply. In the extras, it is revealed that Manual chose Tenya Iida because he feels similar to Tenya.[1] He also has a very keen mind and could figure out the reason that Tenya chose his office was to find Hero Killer: Stain.[3]
Some time ago, Manual was called into a meeting with Best Jeanist, Shota Aizawa, Death Arms, Snipe, Thirteen, Endeavor, Air Jet, Midnight, Ingenium and Gunhead. Together, they spoke about the victimized civilians injected with the Trigger drug.
Vs. Hero Killer Arc
Following the U.A. Sports Festival, Manual sent Tenya Iida and the internship opportunity at his very own Hero Agency in Hosu City. Tenya accepts,[4] and on the first day of their field training, Manual takes Tenya out on patrol. He tells Tenya that he is very excited to be mentoring Ingenium's younger brother, and is confused as to why Tenya would not have chosen a more famous hero to intern with.[5]
Manual and Tenya
Manual pleads for Tenya not to pursue the Hero Killer.
When they return to Manual's office at night, he tells Tenya that the city remains on high alert so the criminals have been reluctant to come out.[6] When they patrol Kyoto together the next day, Manual admits that he knows Tenya only chose his agency to avenge his brother.
The Hero Killer: Stain attacked Ingenium in Hosu City, and Manual was able to deduce that Tenya only wanted to intern in Hosu to go after him. He says that he's glad Tenya chose his agency, but he also informs Tenya that he shouldn't be pursuing personal grudges. He goes on to lecture Tenya about the regulations on Quirks, and states that a hero must not use their Quirks for themselves because if they did, it would be a very serious crime. Tenya replies that he understands, and so Manual lets it go and they continue patrolling.[7]
When chaos ensues in Hosu and buildings start going up in flames during their patrol, Manual receives a message that villains have appeared in the city. He responds and decides to head to the battle zone himself. He tells Tenya to accompany him,[3] but does not notice that he has run off by himself until he arrives at the center of the destruction.
Manual and several other Pros face off against the culprits, two Nomu with incredible strength. With just the two of them, the Pro Heroes have their hands full. Manual notices Tenya is missing and calls out to him, but is forced to put his focus on fighting the fires created by the monsters.[8]
During the battle between the heroes and the monsters, Manual notices one of them about to crush a fellow hero. He calls out to her, but Endeavor arrives to save the day.[9]
Manual punishes Tenya
Manual reprimands Tenya for ignoring his warning.
Once the chaotic incident finally ceases, Manual and Gran Torino visit Tenya, Shoto Todoroki and Izuku Midoriya at the hospital. The three of them managed to defeat the Hero Killer but were still liable to repercussions. Police Chief Kenji Tsuragamae explains all six of them including Endeavor would be punished if the incident went public.
However, Kenji allows the incident to remain confidential and thanks the boys instead. Afterward, Tenya takes a moment to apologize for neglecting Manual's advice. Manual sheds a tear, knowing he has to take responsibility as a supervisor for his negligence. He chops Tenya in the head, telling him to never do it again.[10]
Manual's Quirk
Manual using his Quirk to put out fires
Unnamed Water Quirk: Masaki's Quirk allows him to control water. He appears to need an outside source of water and is unable to produce it himself.[8]
3/5 C
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3/5 C
3/5 C
3/5 C
Masaki's stats, according to the Ultra Archive Book
Battles & Events
Battles & Events
• He likes balance and houseplants.
• Horikoshi states that he likes drawing Manual despite him being a side character.
• Manual's Pro-Hero name is not belittling according to Horikoshi.
• From Mizushima, 水 means water and 島 means island. From Masaki, 正規 is read as Masaki, but can also be read as Seiki, which means regular/normal.
• He shares the same voice actor with Ken Ishiyama.
1. 1.0 1.1 My Hero Academia Manga: Vol. 6 (p. 126).
2. My Hero Academia Manga: Chapter 256.
3. 3.0 3.1 My Hero Academia Anime: Episode 28.
4. My Hero Academia Manga: Chapter 46.
5. My Hero Academia Manga and Anime: Chapter 47 and Episode 27.
6. My Hero Academia Manga: Chapter 49.
7. My Hero Academia Manga: Chapter 50.
8. 8.0 8.1 My Hero Academia Manga and Anime: Chapter 51 and Episode 29.
9. My Hero Academia Anime: Episode 30.
10. My Hero Academia Manga and Anime: Chapter 56 (p. 13-19) and Episode 31.
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has superior advantages, particularly on the score of arrangement—and is, on the whole, better adapted for the use of schools.
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Much is said in some parts of our country on the propriety of discarding Murray's system entirely, and of adopting what are regarded as more philosophical views. But after considerable reflection on the subject, the writer is satisfied that nothing would be gained, but much lost, by such a procedure. Indeed he is satisfied that what are thought by some to be more philosophical views are not so in reality. We accord due praise to the celebrated Home Tooke for tracing the derivation of many of our small words; but the more interesting question, after all, is, not what were these words originally?—but what are they now? If, and, and but may have been originally verbs in the imperative mode; but this does not prove that they are such now. They are osed, at present, as connective particles, and the name *onjunctum is very fitly applied to them. A or an may be derived from one; and the may come from that or these; but these particles are now used in connexions where the adjective pronouns cannot be substituted for them with any tolerable sense or propriety, and consequently •hould be regarded as distinct parts of speech.
The writer has no difficulty with those who have means and leisure, and are disposed to amuse themselves with investigating the roots of English words; but they, who urge the results of such investigations to •verturn the established principles of our language, allowing but two or three parts of speech; making oo distinction between active, neuter, and passive verbs; admitting only three modes and tenses; with other innovàtions equally unfounded and ridiculous; and whe would bring all this into common schools, under the imposing title of scientific and philosophical grammar;-such persons, he honestly thinks, might be better em
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English Grammar is the art of speaking and writing the English language with propriety. ...
It is divided into four parts, viz. OrthogRaphy, Etymology, Syntax, and Prosody.
Orthography teaches tire nature and power of letters, and the just method of spelling words.
A letter is the first principle, or least part of a word.
The letters of the English language, called the English Alphabet, are twenty-six in number.
Theee letters are the representatives of certain articulate sounds, formed by the organs of speech, and are divided into vowels and consonants.
A vowel is an^articulate sound, that can be perfectly uttered by itself; as, a, e, o, which are formed without the help of any other sound.
A consonant is an articulate sound, which cannot be perfectly uttered without the help of a vowel; as, b, d,f, I, which require vowels to express them fully.
The vowels are, a, e, i, o, it, and sometimes »e, and y.
W and y, are consonants when they begin a word or syllable; but in every other situation they are vowels
Consonants are divided into mutes and semi-vowels
The mutes cannot be sounded at ali, without the aid of a vowel. They are I, p, t, d, kt and e, and g-, hard.
The semi-vowels have an imperfect sound of themselves. They are /, I, m, n, r, v, s, z, x, and c, and g, soft.
Four of the semi-vowels, I, m, n, r, are called liquids, from their readily uniting with other consonants, and flowing, as it were, into their sounds.
A diphthong is the union of two vowels, pronounced by a single impulse of the voice; as, ea in beat, ou in sound.
A triphthong is the union of three vowels, pronounced in like manner; as, eau in beau, tew in view.
A proper diphthong is that in which both the vowels are sounded; as, oi in voice, on in ounce.
An improper diphthong has but one of the vowels sounded; as, ea in eagle, oa in boat.
What is English Grammar ?—Into how many parts is it divided ?—What does Orthography teach ?—
Questions on the Review. What is a letter?—How are the letters divided?— What is a vowel?—What is a consonant?—When ar« in and y consonants?—How are the consonants divided?—Which are the mutes?—Which of the semi-vowels are called liquids?—What is a diphthong?—What is a triphthong?—What is the difference between a proper and an improper diphthong?—Is there a diphthong or triphthong in the word heaven'!—Is it proper or improper?—How many vowels in the word wonder!—Is ther« a diphthong or triphthong in the word youth'?—Is it proper or improper ?—
A Syllable is a sound, either simple or compounded, pronounced by a single impulse of the voice, and constituting a word, or part of a word: as, o, an, ant.
Spelling is the art of rightly dividing words into theii syllables, or of expressing a word by its proper letters.
The following are the general rules for the division of words into syllables.
'1. A single consonant between two vowels must be joined to the latter syllable: as, de-light, bri-dal, resource; except the letter x: as, ex-ist, ex-amine; and except likewise words compounded: as, up-on, un-cven, dis-ease.
2. Two consonants proper to begin a word must not be separated: as, fa-ble, sti-fle. But when they come between two vowels, and are such as cannot begin a word, they must be divided: as, ut-most, un-der, in-sect, er-ror, cof-fin.
3. When three consonants meet in the middle of a word, if they can begin a word, and the preceding vowel is pronounced long, they are not to be separated: as, de-throne, de-stroy. But when the vowel of the preceding syllable is pronounced short, one *>f the consonants always belongs to that syllable: as, dis-tract, disprove, dis-train.
4. When three or four consonants, which are not proper to begin a syllable, meet between two vowels, such of them as can begin a syllable belong to the latter, the rest to the former syllable: as, ab-stain, com-plete, em-broil, trans-gress, dap-ple, con-strain, hand-some, parch-ment.
5. Two vowels, not being a diphthong, must be divided into separate syllables: as, cru-el, de-ni-al, so-ci-e
6. Compounded words must be traced into the simple words of which they are composed: as, ice-house, glowworm, over-power, never-the-less.
7. Grammatical, and other particular terminations, are generally separated: as, teach-est, teach-eth, teaching, teach-er, contend-est, great-er, wretch-ed, goodness, free-dom, false-hood.
Words are articulate sounds, used by common consent, as signs of our ideas.
A word of one syllable is termed a monosyllable; a word of two syllables a dissyllable; a word of three syllables a trisyllable; and a word of four or more syllables a polysyllable. i _ ,, .
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/58328 | Uploading files from iPhone to ASP.net web site
Hello All,
As a coder sometimes I have to crush my head on the desk for not finding a feasible solution to a problem. One problem that almost had me finished is uploading image files from iPhone to asp.net website. Both the website and iPhone application was developed by me and thus I had to find both the solution –
• Uploading file data to the site
• Then collecting that data and saving to folder
• Passing additional parameters so that I can run security checks about the user who is uploading the file and also track for which item the file is being uploaded.
After Googling a lot I came to two very important posts at stackoverfow that helped me figure out the process of doing this. It was a long time ago so, I can’t remember the addresses of the post, so I just thought I can summarize the full process so that anyone who is about to break his skull can get some help. Ok, enough talk, lets see the process.
1. Selecting files from iPhone
First you need to able to select files from your iPhone. Anyone who has come this far can easily design a view that can select a file with the UIImagePickerControl. I used a UITextBox that was used to select the image. When user click on the textbox the image picker is shown and user then selects the image. After selecting the image the image is shown in a UIImageView under the textbox for review. Here is the code sample that does it ( I have removed unnecessary codes, so just copying won’t work, you have to merge it).
- (BOOL) textFieldShouldReturn:(UITextField *)textField{
[textField resignFirstResponder];
return TRUE;
- (void)textFieldDidBeginEditing:(UITextField *)textField{
if(textField == filename){
[description resignFirstResponder];
[filename resignFirstResponder];
//show file select dialog
UIImagePickerController * imagePicker = [[UIImagePickerController alloc] init];
[imagePicker setDelegate:self];
#ifdef __i386__
[imagePicker setSourceType:UIImagePickerControllerSourceTypeSavedPhotosAlbum];
[imagePicker setSourceType:UIImagePickerControllerSourceTypeCamera];
[self presentModalViewController:imagePicker animated:YES];
- (void)imagePickerController:(UIImagePickerController *)picker
didFinishPickingImage:(UIImage *)img
editingInfo:(NSDictionary *)editingInfo{
[picker dismissModalViewControllerAnimated:YES];
[self.image setImage:img];
- (void)imagePickerControllerDidCancel:(UIImagePickerController *)picker{
[picker dismissModalViewControllerAnimated:YES];
Don’t worry about the #ifdef used here, this is just a check that If the app is running from the simulator then it will not throw an exception. Here textField is the text field used to select the image and self.image is the UIImageView used to preview the image to the user. This also has a hidden use, I also used it as the image data cache when sending the file data to the server.
2. Sending file data to server
At the server, I just used a .aspx file to catch the uploaded file and then write a response to indicate if the file was collected or not. I will discuss about the page later, lets just see how we are to send the data to the server.
Once, the user selects the file, the image data is saved in the UIImageView used to preview the image. I just collected the data from the UIImageView and sent it to the server by manually appending into a HTTP post request.
- (IBAction) Upload{
NSData *imageData = UIImagePNGRepresentation([self.image image]);
NSString *urlString = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"http://%@/iphone/Upload.aspx?wid=%@&sskey=%@",[[SettingsManager instance] nurl],[[SettingsManager instance] wid],[[SettingsManager instance] sskey]];
NSMutableURLRequest *request = [[[NSMutableURLRequest alloc] init] autorelease];
[request setURL:[NSURL URLWithString:urlString]];
[request setHTTPMethod:@"POST"];
NSString *boundary = @"---------------------------14737809831466499882746641449";
NSString *contentType = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"multipart/form-data; boundary=%@",boundary];
[request addValue:contentType forHTTPHeaderField: @"Content-Type"];
NSMutableData *body = [NSMutableData data];
[body appendData:[[NSString stringWithFormat:@"--%@\r\n",boundary] dataUsingEncoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding]];
[body appendData:[[NSString stringWithString:@"Content-Disposition: form-data; name=\"userfile\"; filename=\"ipodfile.jpg\"\r\n"] dataUsingEncoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding]];
[body appendData:[[NSString stringWithString:@"Content-Type: application/octet-stream\r\n\r\n"] dataUsingEncoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding]];
[body appendData:[NSData dataWithData:imageData]];
[body appendData:[[NSString stringWithFormat:@"\r\n--%@--\r\n",boundary] dataUsingEncoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding]];
[request setHTTPBody:body];
NSData *returnData = [NSURLConnection sendSynchronousRequest:request returningResponse:nil error:nil];
NSString *returnString = [[NSString alloc] initWithData:returnData encoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding];
if([returnString isEqualToString:@"Success"]){
UIAlertView * alert = [[UIAlertView alloc] initWithTitle:@"Upload" message:@"File successfully uploaded" delegate:self cancelButtonTitle:@"Ok" otherButtonTitles:nil];
[alert show];
[alert release];
UIAlertView * alert = [[UIAlertView alloc] initWithTitle:@"Upload" message:@"File upload failed" delegate:self cancelButtonTitle:@"Ok" otherButtonTitles:nil];
[alert show];
[alert release];
[returnString release];
The task is pretty simple, just grab the image data from the imageView, then append manually with the boundary, set the content type for the HTTP request and post the data. Don’t worry about the values used from SettingsManager class, this is a singleton class that I used to save data cache, nurl is the url to be used for sending data, wid is the id that will be associated with the file and sskey is the session key used to check for security. Just ignore the if part here we will discuss it later. We are now halfway through, now all we need a aspx page to save the file content. The next section will do that.
3. Saving file content
The aspx is very simple page with the following code at the page load to save the file content. I took the wid, and sskey from the url and the file from the httpinput stream and saved as necessary.
public partial class iphone_Upload : System.Web.UI.Page
protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
String wid = Request.QueryString["wid"];
String sskey = Request.QueryString["sskey"];
//some check for the security
HttpPostedFile file = Request.Files.Count > 0 ? Request.Files[0] : null;
if (file == null)
Response.Output.Write("No file found");
//Get an entry for file upload
string fileName = Utility.GetID(IDType.File);
String[] names = file.FileName.Split('.');
string src = fileName + "." + names[names.Length - 1];
file.SaveAs(Server.MapPath("~/userhud/uploads/") + src);
catch (Exception)
The code is simple. Just get the file and other values and manipulate as necessary. One thing you might notice I outputed ‘Success’ or ‘Failure’ directly to the stream and closed it. In this case that If block that we used in 2, will come in hand to notify user about successful or failed uploads. The Utility.GetID() is a method I used to generate a unique id for each file uploaded to overcome the fact that I might overwrite s file while uploading.
4. Conclusioin
In this post I have tried to summarize the process of uploading image files from iPhone to ASP.Net web sites. Hope that this might be helpful for you. Your suggestions are always welcome.
18 thoughts on “Uploading files from iPhone to ASP.net web site
1. tyegah
Thanks for the tutorial. What if i want to save the image as binary to sql server? should i convert the httpinput to base64? and can i send the data as a string and just convert it to base64 on the server side? which way do you think is better?
1. Mahmudul Islam
Apology for a delayed reply, The example here is an old one, I am trying on a new implementation to upload larger files, may be 1 GB.
if you send data using httprequest, then ASP will handle the file upload for you and the drawback is that there is a limitation on size, however if you upload binary chunks then you have to maintain the stream yourself and this also gives you the option to upload larger files.
1. Mahmudul Islam
This post is for all kinds of file uploads, so of course video will be uploaded too, but however video files are usually larger in size and thus you might wanna use partial upload (instead of appending the whole file body, append parts of it and then use the same technique to upload the other parts and at server, join them to create the whole file) or try increasing request/response allowed byte size. I am working on a better version of it, but haven’t been able to finish it as I am experiencing some busy schedule.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/58343 | Plotters, Pantsers, and…Me
Everyone says that there are two kinds of writers, right? Plotters and pantsers. Plotters are the ones that plan and outline everything before they start, and pantsers are the ones that write “by the seat of their pants.” Well, I’m basically a pantser who tries to be a plotter. I try (try being the key word) to be so organized when I write. I’ve known the overarching plot for this series since before I started the very first version of The Stone of the Eklektos, five years ago. I knew, even then, that there would be at least four books because there are four major book-long ”things” (I’m trying not to give anything away) that have to happen before the “thing” at the end of the series. (I’m starting to feel like Erastos with all of this vagueness.) But…every time I try to be “good,” and make all of my outlines beforehand, my characters just like, “Hahahahaha, you can’t make us,” and go completely off course for the majority of the book. And let me just tell you: those months without a plan are terrifying. Fun. But terrifying. But then, the coolest thing happens. You reach this one point in the book, and everything just clicks into place. And suddenly, there’s structure. A new structure—one you didn’t plan—and it’s better than the one you did plan. And it’s so cool. I just reached that point with this book, so I’m pretty giddy about it right now (which is a wonderful release from the lowness that I’ve been feeling for weeks now). I wish I could be a well-behaved plotter and be organized throughout the entire process, but at the same time, this is pretty freaking cool. ❤️
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/58353 | B: 12th Sunday in Ordinary Time
Speaking to God
June 21, 2009
Mark 4:35 – 41
Normally we are quite respectful when we speak to God. Controlled and subservient we place our needs before the Lord. “Dear Jesus, help my son be accepted into the college he prefers.” “Gracious God you know I’ve lost my job, help me to find a new one.” Now there’s nothing wrong with speaking respectfully to God. But one of the things that today’s Gospel shows us is that this kind of respectful prayer is not the only kind of prayer; nor is it necessarily the best.
Jesus and the disciples are crossing the Sea of Galilee and a huge storm comes up. The boat is tossed from one wave to another, and the waves are breaking over the side. It has become apparent to the apostles that this boat is going down with everyone in it. Jesus, however, is asleep in the stern on a cushion. What do the apostles do? Do they quietly walk to the back and tap Jesus on the shoulder and say, “Lord I know you’re sleeping, but we have a problem?” Do they gently shake him and say, “Master sorry to disturb you but the waves are getting a little rough?” No. They cry out with accusation. “Master, do you not care we’re going to die?” Now Jesus gets up and stills the storm of course. But I do not intend today to reflect on Jesus’ actions but rather the apostles’ prayer, because this prayer can be a model for us.
Sometimes the best prayers are those which are blunt and seemingly irreverent. The best prayers are those that express what we really feel, and sometimes what we feel is not polite. We have many examples of this kind of prayer in the Old Testament. The Book of Psalms is the prayer book of the Jewish people. Time and again the psalms attack God for a seeming lack of care. The psalmist yells out, “Why Oh Lord do you stand so far away from me?” “How long, Lord, will you ignore my prayer?” Or the famous psalm that Jesus prays on the cross, “My God, My God why have you forsaken me?” When the Jewish people prayed they asked for what they needed. They were not afraid to demand from God an answer when it seemed what they needed was being forgotten.
You and I need to be able to pray in this manner. We can pray with this kind of strength and emotion because we must pray as the people we really are. If we are angry, it is valid to express anger when we address the Lord. If we are fearful, that fear should not be held back from what we say. If we are disappointed with what God is doing in our life, it is beneficial to express that disappointment when we address God. We need to be the people that we are. It might seem to be preferable to put our best foot forward when we speak to God, but it is more important to be real then to be polite. The only person God can love, the only person God can answer, is the real person that we are. Therefore, it is much better to pray as a real sinner then a fake saint.
Although we might think that emotion and accusation are out of order when we address the creator of the universe, such emotion and honesty is not a sign of disrespect. It is a sign of intimacy. We are polite to strangers. We are brutally honest with the people closest to us, with the people with whom we live. Just remember for a moment the kind of language we use with one another in our own homes: “You did what? Where the # %$ were you? Don’t you ever try that again!” We can speak with that kind of honesty because we are close. We don’t waste our emotions on people we consider unimportant. But we are painfully honest with the people on whom our survival depends. We speak to them as family. God wants us to speak in prayer as family. God wants us to speak what we truly feel because it is a sign of being connected. We should pray not with politeness and aloofness but with honesty and intimacy.
So when we are angry, when we are upset, when we are disappointed, it is important to tell God how we feel. When life dumps on us one more time, it is valid to ask God what the heck is going on? We need to be as brutally honest as necessary to be the people we really are before the Lord. We do not need to worry about God’s feelings. God is big enough to handle it. God wants us to speak as sons and daughters. God wants us to be close enough to speak the truth, to bluntly cry out in our need.
So we need to tell God what is in our heart, both when it is pretty and when it is not. Because it is only after we tell God how we truly feel that we will be able to hear the answer that God gives.
God in the Foxhole
June 21, 2015
Job 38:1, 8-11
Kurt Vonnegut once commented, “There is a saying: There are no atheists in foxholes. Most people think this is a good argument against atheists, but (Vonnegut continued) I personally think that it is a much better argument against foxholes.” What Vonnegut’s comments imply is, if our faith is based on protecting ourselves—if we believe because we want to be safe as the bullets fly by and the bombs explode around us—that faith is incomplete and unworthy.
Now don’t get me wrong. God loves us and we believe that God cares for us. God often blesses us with health, family, and security. But if we believe in God only to receive those good things, if our faith becomes a kind of insurance policy to protect us in the foxhole, then that faith is flawed. Moreover, it doesn’t work. That was made painfully clear to us this week by the events in Charleston, South Carolina, when a young man pulled out a gun and killed nine people at a bible study group. The people who were killed were all believers. They had placed their lives in God’s hands and trusted in God’s care. Yet they were all gunned down in their own church building. If faith is an insurance policy against harm, those nine people should get their money back. Faith does not promise us to keep evil away.
So why, then, do we believe? What is faith about? This is the issue in the Book of Job from which today’s first reading comes. Job was a good, moral man who praised God and served his neighbor. Yet in his life he received only evil. His business failed, his loved ones died, and he was afflicted with serious diseases. Job cried out to God, “Why should I believe in you? Explain to me why I have received so much evil when I have been a good and faithful servant.” The startling thing about the Book of Job is that God never provides Job with an explanation. This is the bible’s way of telling us that there is no explanation for the presence of evil and we would be better served to admit that we do not know why evil exists rather than come up with phony ways of making sense of it. In other words, it is better for us to say that we do not know why bad things happen to good people than to suggest that they happen because people are not good enough or that they do no pray enough. It is better to say that evil is a mystery we do not understand than to say that evil is what God uses to teach us a lesson, or that evil is some good in disguise. None of these things explain evil and none of them are true. So when good things happen to us we immediately and rightly say that they are blessings from God. But when bad things happen to us, when evil strikes us, the Christian response is to simply admit we do not know why this happens.
In this light, the Book of Job tries to move our faith to a deeper level. It readily admits that believing in God will not protect us from evil. So why then should we believe? Today’s first reading poses a question: who made the sea and sets limits on it? The answer to the question is God did, because God is Creator and God is Savior. Therefore, God deserves our praise and glory even in a world where evil exists.
Believing in God is no insurance policy against harm. We believe because God is God, and God can be trusted. Now I know that trusting in God’s goodness in a world where we know that evil can touch us is not easy. It requires a mature faith. But the only alternative is to stay in the foxhole. |
global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/58457 | Writers On Writing – Frances Hwang
Sometimes words appear when you need them most. Kelcey of PhD in Creative Writing posted the latest in her excellent series of writer interviews today and interviewee author Frances Hwang has some pithy words for the panickers and procrastinators, of whom I am one.
You can only progress as a writer if you write, and the more you write the more you understand and trust the process of writing. I’d urge you to get into the habit of finishing work. The temptation to abandon a piece can be great (and no doubt there are times when you do need to let something go), but you learn more and feel a real sense of accomplishment when you complete something. If you get stuck and are overwhelmed by the ambitious plans you have for your work, I suggest taking a less grandiose approach. Try to write the story in a way that comes naturally and that is most accessible to you. Otherwise, there’s a real danger of never writing the story at all. |
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Conferences and workshops
Each year, the fellows of the Collegium de Lyon organize scientific events such as international conferences, workshops, symposia, roundtables, etc..
Those events are planned in partnership with the laboratories and research teams in the academic site of Lyon Saint-Etienne. They may be mainly academic or be intended for a broader audience. They may be supported by and/or intended for socio-economic partners (private or public firms, associations, public decision-makers, local public authorities, etc.) or they can be developped as part of a doctoral training.
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Ettore Tito, Giochi in riva al lago (also known as Giorno di Festa)
Material and technique
oil on cardboard
49 x 71 cm
Augusta Monferini
More than a final work, this appears to be a study or note for constructing a composition around the boldly foreshortened image of the point of dark land projecting onto the water. The black strip of land on which the boat is drawn up is extended in the silvery light of the lake. A group of children – three little girls and two boys – are running towards the water. One boy has fallen to the ground and lies among a constellation of flowers that form a vivid contrast to the stern and rocky shore. The second boy, farther off, advances towards the boat. Two of the girls are shown from behind, a visual choice that the artist borrowed from Sorolla and Zorn, masters he encountered in Venice in the cosmopolitan atmosphere of the first Biennali of the 1890s. The third girl turns her amused face towards the boy whom she has pushed to the ground.
The scene illustrates the children’s play, their festive running, as suggested by the girls’ garments, undulating and puffed up by air. It is an action scene, and in fact the study of movement was characteristic of Tito’s artistic investigation from the 1890s onwards, giving a new and modern distinctive character to his interpretation of realism.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/58514 | Changing Unchangeability
One of the things readers of scripture have to discern is which practices or statements or rules in scripture are “timeless” and which are shaped by the culture and practices of the era. Sometimes this is easy, sometimes not.
One of the things that can cause us difficulty is recognizing things that are unchanging, say an attribute of God, but which are done in different ways at different times. Today we’ll look at an example.
As Karl Barth wrote, ” He [God] does not will to be God without us”. I think Barth is correct but the ways in which God is with us have changed. Here is what I mean in broad brush strokes.
God is personally present to individuals in Genesis. Adam, Eve, Jacob and Joseph. God (and others) refer to God as the God of your fathers; the father of Abraham and Isaac. This is a relationship with an individual. Certainly more than the one individual are involved in God’s plans but God appears to work in and through one particular person.
In Exodus things begin to change. God,through a personal relationship with Moses, becomes particularly present to a larger group of people. There are now many more descendants of Abraham and when they leave Egypt they are joined by a mixed multitude of folks. God is now involved with a bigger bunch of people, and Israel is now a larger community. And all of them, Abraham’s descendants, the mixed multitude and God have to figure out how to live with each other. This increased number of people increases the complexity of relationship and seems to call for more structure and some guidelines about how to live life together. Since Israel has no land, God travels with them and guides them via the tabernacle. Later as history progresses and nomadic ways shift to settled communities, God is present through the Temple.
And then “in the fullness of time” God joins humankind even more intimately as Jesus. God becomes one of us and lives among us. Jesus tells us how to live with God and each other. Jesus enters into relationship with anyone who is willing.
And so God’s relationships expand even more- God is not just the God of Israel but the God of Gentiles too. God is not just the God over a particular nation but of the entire world. After the ascension, God sends the Holy Spirit. God is now present with each one of us. Everyone is included.
So God is present right from the start until now, but the way God is present has changed. God’s intentions haven’t changed in scope- in Genesis 12 God tells Abram that through him all the families of the earth will be blessed. In Exodus God tells Israel they are chosen to be a priestly kingdom and a holy nation (Exodus 19:6). Jesus includes the gentiles and marginalized, as does the early church.
Does God change? Yes and no. The ways God interacts with us, the ways God responds to us, the way God engages us- yes that changes.
Does the reality of God’s love change? No.
Does God’s desire for relationship with us change? No.
Does God’s presence with us change? No.
Changing Unchangeability. What do you think?
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1. Well written. Nice to see someone quote Karl Barth. Have you ever read Jacques Ellul? He was also inspired by Barth. Have a great weekend.
1. Thanks. Now through the wonder of inter library loan, it’s on its way! -Hoping I got the it’s and its correct 😉
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/58516 | On saturday, my wife and I canned a few bushels of apples by making applesauce. We did not, however, do a water bath afterwards - the hot contents of the sauce appeared to make a seal with the jars. Its been three days since we canned them; can the applesauce safely be reprocessed with a boiling water bath? Or do we need to write-off the jars which we did not refrigerate?
They can be reprocessed, but you will need to at least double the processing time, and you should be prepared to sacrifice one jar of preserves. If you have a pressure cooker, that is the most preferable way to go. If you don't, then a large double-boiler will do. Time your first batch of jars. As you water bath them, allow them to boil for an hour, then open one jar to check the temperature with a cooking thermometer. You need to be sure that the very center of the applesauce gets hot enough to kill bacteria. Once it reaches that temperature, keep boiling the jars for at least another twenty minutes to ensure a complete kill. Your temperature-testing jar should not be kept, so that's the one to use right away.
If, like me, you recently broke your thermometer in an unfortunate accident with a wildly enthusiastic stick-loving canine and haven't replaced it yet, water-bath your jars for at least three hours to make sure they have reached the sweet zone for temperature.
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Sudden Changes, Quantum Jumps
“Great things don’t happen in tiny little increments. You know they happen when someone thanks completely differently.” –quote from “Shameless,” (season 3, episode 9)
While visiting Boulder, Colorado this month, I got to thinking about the idea of how sudden jumps and big changes can occur everywhere. I mulled this over while staying at the Hotel Boulderado, which is a bit like a museum. And while thinking about history, I got to thinking about how things don’t generally seem to happen in tiny increments so much as larger ones.
I looked at historic pictures from a century ago showing a great flood when Boulder Creek flooded in the “Great Flood” of May 31, 1894. That flood is now considered to be a 100-year flood, which at the time was the largest flood the city of Boulder had experienced. “Boulder Creek on a Rampage,” the Daily Camera reported, adding “The Windows of Heaven Opened and Boulder was Submerged.” The flood was caused by a dastardly combination of steady rain combined with heavy snow melt, which fed Boulder Creek so much water that bridges collapsed, train yards flooded, and Boulder was cut off from the outside world for several days. This flood happened suddenly, and Boulder residents at the time were caught completely by surprise.
Don’t Mess with Mr. In Between
I’m intrigued that we don’t see in-between phases between such things as horse and buggy and automobile, or firemen pulling their own fire carts and fire engines. Perhaps such in-between phases do exist. But most people probably moved to the next big thing, such as the automobile. Looking at old pictures hanging on the walls at the Hotel Boulderado, I contemplated the period of time in the 1800’s when guests visiting the hotel arrived in horses and buggies and carriages, long before invention of the car–at a time when even the firemen didn’t have fire trucks. They instead pulled carts with 250 feet of hose down streets to a water plug, where they attached the hose and nozzle to put out fires–all without help from fire engines.
It turns out that nature works similarly, with big leaps to new solutions, rather than steady incremental transitions. We find evidence for such quantum jumps with E.Coli bacteria that can instantly make a huge evolutionary change and basically evolve itself into a form of bacteria that could then digest the only food presented to it that it could not eat before–lactose–which is what the scientists were giving it. So if we think in terms of evolution, a lot of us have believed, as Darwin proposed, and according to classical physics it makes sense that instead of these huge steps–these huge jumps of evolution where there are missing links–you’ve heard that phrase–we would expect to see lots of little in-between phases, where a species would evolve gradually. That is not, in fact, what we’re finding in the laboratory right now, with bacteria. It’s not what we would expect.
When we think about how quantum computers are being built and we see evidence I’ve shared previously in this blog Welcome to the Quantum Age, and in my book, Quantum Jumps, it’s clear that all quantum phenomena are quite possibly occurring at every level of reality.
You can see the YouTube summary welcoming us to the new Quantum Age here:
We thus start to get an idea about how quantum phenomena are likely occurring at every level of reality–not just on the ‘quantum scale.’ Which means that when I get an email from someone, as I did recently, informing me that Willie Nelson died many years ago according to this person–while in our reality at this time both the person who emailed me and myself note that Willie Nelson is alive. So the thing to think about is how is it possible that we sometimes get different reality?
Reality ShiftsThe “Mandela Effect” phenomenon where we see someone alive again, such as I first reported in print in 1999 in my book, Reality Shifts: When Consciousness Changes the Physical World, has been noticed by people making reports of such things for many years. When we view the archaeological record and evolutionary jumps, we see possible signs that many evolutionary leaps might be quantum jumps. Biologists have noticed that instead of finding tiny little steps that make evolutionary changes look like a slope–they instead tend to see HUGE jumps that is more like a staircase with giant steps, rather than a smooth slope composed of much smaller intermediary steps. And the large evolutionary jumps we find is what we would expect to see in a quantum universe–a universe which primarily operates according to quantum logic, and in which quantum phenomena are observed at every level and scale.
The idea that people can “fake it til they make it” is being studied at Harvard at their new placebo research center. We’re actually seeing information coming forth from all fields of science now about this to support these ideas. And so what I’d like you to think about is the big changes in your life and the big Mandela effects you might have seen where you might have observed something that can’t possibly be true in this reality, because when you do the fact-checking, and do the google search, you don’t see that there’s been any kind of steady progress of, for example, Willie Nelson was reported dead–and “Oops! They made a mistake, and actually he’s fine.” No, there’s nothing like that. There’s not even any report that there had been confusion–aside from these Mandela effect videos, blog posts, articles, and so forth. What you’ll see is he’s always been here. There is a continuous history that goes all the way back. That’s also what I’m saying is happening in all fields of all of our sciences from cosmology, to biology, to chemistry–you name it.
I believe that we all have quite a great deal to be grateful for. And a good way to look at your life is to look back not with regret on the past, but with gratitude–especially for things you’ve had a part in. And to the degree that we can all keep asking, “How good can it get?” we can absolutely start seeing exactly that.
You can see the YouTube summary of this blog post here:
Amazing Rise of the Mandela Effect
The phrase “Mandela Effect” has been trending upward at an exponential rate between July 2015 and July 2016, as seen when viewing a graph produced by Google Trends. Part of what is fueling the rapid increase in discussion about this phenomena is that some of the reporters writing articles about the Mandela Effect are experiencing it, too. One reporter noticed that an oft-remembered cheesy love sequence between two characters in the James Bond movie, Moonraker, no longer exists–despite his recollection (and mine) that “Dolly has braces”!
While many are surprised by the recent surge of interest in the “Mandela Effect,” those of us who have been researching and writing about this phenomenon of reality shifts and alternate histories have long been anticipating just such a rise of interest. The “Mandela Effect” is named after South African anti-apartheid revolutionary Nelson Mandela, who became a topic of interest in the year 2010 by people noticing with surprise that he was alive at that time–since many people remembered him having died while incarcerated. I had published similar accounts of the dead being observed alive again in my 1999 book, Reality Shifts, and reporting first-hand accounts on the RealityShifters website from people all around the world noticing many dead people alive again. Observations of dead people alive again are just one of many types of Mandela Effects, with other notable examples including changes to song lyrics, movie dialogue, movie scenes, physical geography, physiological anatomy, and product names.
The Mandela Effect is one of those things most people won’t believe in until it happens to them. Like falling in love or going through heartbreak, the Mandela Effect is something you have to experience in order to fully embrace. And even then, it often takes more than one or two experiences to break through the resistance most of us have to accepting the existence of something that fundamentally challenges our unspoken foundational assumption that facts and historical events don’t change. This bias has been poetically expressed in the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam:
“The moving finger writes; and, having writ, moves on:
nor all thy tears wash out a word of it.”
Google trend graph for “Mandela Effect”
When we encounter something indicating evidence that in fact, history has changed–it feels shocking to discover some of the lines have been canceled and washed out! We seem to be approaching ‘tipping point’ where it’s getting harder for scoffers to say there’s no such thing as the Mandela Effect / reality shifts / alternate histories. The term “Mandela Effect” originated with blogger Fiona Broome in 2010 after she attended a conference where many people talked with her about remembering how Nelson Mandela had died many years earlier–though official recorded history at that time indicated no such thing had actually occurred.
Dolly and Jaws in “Moonraker”
Thanks to articles written by some Mandela Effect experiencers, the Mandela Effect shows evidence of increasing in popular awareness. Mandela Effect articles have been written by experiencers including the Lewiston Sun Journal’s Mark LaFlamme (“The Mandela Effect is Freaking Me Out“) who noticed a change on which side of his father he’s standing by in an old family photo;the New Zealand Herald’s Karl Puschmann (“Berenstein or Berenstain? The Riddle Making Book Lovers Mad“) who is certain the popular children’s books ought to be spelled “Berenstein” and not the way they’ve supposedly ‘always been spelled’ as Berenstain; and San Diego City Beat’s Tom Siebert (“Technology and Memory Down the Rabbit Hole“) who noticed a change to a memorable scene in a James Bond movie, “Moonraker,” in which the girl with the braces who fell in love with another character with shining teeth no longer has braces. I watched The James Bond film “Moonraker” several times while in college, and also remember the memorable scene in which the blonde girl named “Dolly” who wears glasses and braids shares a cheesy moment with Richard Kiels’ character, “Jaws,” when they notice how his shiny teeth complement the shiny braces on her teeth. Except now, she doesn’t have any braces on her teeth.
Taken individually–the way such observations of discrepancies between what we remember and recorded historical evidence have always been noted up until now–a single person feeling unsettled by noticing such a change would have been chalked up to their having made some kind of cognitive error. When such “mis-remembered” recollections are considered collectively, we are presented with the possibility that we are witnessing collectively agreed-upon awareness of differently remembered historical facts that we can start to take notice of.
Some scoffers have leapt to the conclusion that Mandela Effect experiencers who are noticing long-familiar words in movies, TV shows, books, and products are most likely suddenly sharing ‘false memories,’ due to the fact that human memories are not fully reliable. Such an explanation allows us to leave unquestioned some old assumptions that have quietly started to crumble at their very foundations since the advent of quantum physics just over a hundred years ago. While quantum physics shows us there can be no such thing as an objective observer, and now that two thirds of physicists recently surveyed agree that you and I and everything that exists does so in a superposition of states–we clearly need to revise both our scientific methodology and our assumptions about reality.
While I agree with the observation that human memories often do not match current historical records, it’s clear that stopping the thought process at that point is premature, and does not match what we are learning about the primacy of quantum logic in the natural world.
I’ve been researching this phenomena since the 1990s. It was originally called “reality shifts,” and first appeared in print in the book “Future Memory” by PMH Atwater to describe common (yet strange) experiences that near-death experiencers frequently have. I have been reporting on individual recollections of alternate histories involving everything from changes in books, to dead people alive again, to changes in the way motor memory works since 1999, in the earliest edition of my first book on this subject, Reality Shifts: When Consciousness Changes the Physical World, and in my free monthly Realityshifters ezine. I’m currently pursuing this Mandela Effect / reality shift topic in interviews with experts in the fields of quantum biology such as JohnJoe McFadden, quantum cognition such as Jerome Busemeyer, and quantum cosmology such as Yasunori Nomura on my blog and “Living the Quantum Dream” radio show. What I’m noticing is that this phenomenon appears to not be new, but rather we have reached a point in society where for the first time we are able to share memories with others that are different from the collective whole–and sometimes our memories show the same kind of alternate pasts that physicists such as Stephen Hawking have told us exist.
When we consider the matter of “confabulation” and “false recollections” at this dawning of the new Quantum Age, we see that we may eventually call such things “alternate recollections,” in recognition of awareness of the fact that we know that each and every one of us exists in a superimposed state, with access to many possible alternate histories, presents, and futures. The idea that the many worlds of quantum physics might be one and the same as the multiverse has been proposed by such esteemed physicists as Dr. Yasunori Nomura and Dr. Raphael Bousso of UC Berkeley, and increasing numbers of scientists are feeling optimistic that we might yet find evidence that we indeed live in a multiverse.
Finding Evidence of Many Worlds in Alternate Histories
There is an exciting human side to the subject of alternate histories and parallel worlds. While we don’t yet have technology to show photos from your past with evidence of parallel universes impinging on the very fabric of reality since the day you were born, we can look to see what kinds of evidence we are able to collect more easily. If we were feeling the effects of parallel universes, we would expect to occasionally notice that history doesn’t stay put. Occasionally, we’d have very different ideas of what happened than we’ve had before, or than others have had before. What would such alternate histories be like?
JFKcar1963nov22Dr. Robert A. Burton recounts a fascinating experience in his book, On Being Certain, of attending a medical school reunion dinner in which conversation turned to where people were when they heard the news that Kennedy was assassinated. Burton and his classmates had all been in their second year of medical school, attending similar classes and hanging out together. An argument broke out amongst the reunion attendees as a urologist thought they were all at lunch, an internist remembered they’d been in the lab, and a pathologist remembered being at a pub down the street from the med center. With classmates turning to Burton to be the tie-breaker, setting history straight, the pathologist and urologist both agreed on one thing as they announced in unison, “Everyone remembers the Kennedy assassination.”
If this was the first time such differences of memory related to significant events occurred, we might dismiss it as a humorous aside. But the fact of the matter is that researchers are increasingly becoming aware of what they call “false recollections.” With the advent of the Quantum Age, we may eventually call them “alternate recollections,” indicating awareness of the fact that we know that each and every one of us exists in a superimposed state, with access to many possible alternate histories, presents, and futures.
Challenger_1AUlric Neisser and Nicole Harsch conducted studies of Emory University students’ accuracy of recollections of events at the time of the Challenger space shuttle explosion, starting by collecting first-hand accounts from 106 students the day after the disaster detailing how they’d heard of the explosion, what they’d been doing at the time, where they were, and how they felt. The researchers followed up with the same students two and a half years later, and were startled to find that students achieved a mean score of 2.95 compared to a perfect score of 7. Less than 10% of the students were able to exactly match their original recollection of events, and over half of the students got a score less than 2.
The most noteworthy findings in this “flashbulb” memory study were student reactions when confronted with conflicting accounts. Many students persisted in confidently claiming that their current memories of events were completely accurate, even when confronted with their own hand-written journal entries. One student summed up what happened succinctly,
“That’s my handwriting, but that’s not what happened.”
It’s important to note that in this new Quantum Age, such cases of alternate histories are to be expected. They provide evidence of the superposition of states that we and everything around us exists within, so we can expect to occasionally see documented records from the past that differ from what we recall. In the Quantum Age, we understand that seeing our own handwritten notes that aren’t at all what we remember is one way that alternate histories become known.
Physicists Agree: You’re in a Superposition of States
When we understand that our belief structures are creations of our minds, we start noticing how varied individual belief structures can be from person to person. What one person considers to be realistic and matter-of-fact might seem outrageously peculiar to another. Even the idea that other people actually see images in their minds may seem outlandish to some people, let alone what those people see. When enough people shift their belief structures to look at the world in fresh, new ways, cultural paradigms shift.
Staying current with new scientific findings can help. While most non-physicists would likely see a solid physical object such as a table or a chair as only what it currently appears to be, a remarkable 2/3 majority of physicists interviewed in 2011 stated they believe that all objects can exist in superimposed states—much the way we know quantum ‘particles’ exist as energetic probabilities as much as physical particles we can measure and observe. University of Portland, Oregon, physics professor, Maximilian Schlosshauer summarized this remarkable agreement thus,
“More than two-thirds believed that there is no fundamental limit to quantum theory—that it should be possible for objects, no matter how big, to be prepared in quantum superpositions like Schrödinger’s cat. So the era where quantum theory was associated only with the atomic realm appears finally over.”
A Scientific Basis for Instantaneous Adaptation in Stressful Times
John Forster Cairns
The scientific assumption that organisms experienced random mutations was seriously shaken by Harvard professor John Forster Cairns 1988 proposal that the organisms themselves were preferentially producing beneficial mutations. Cairns conducted experiments with E. coli bacteria that demonstrated that in times of stress, when the bacteria were starved from food they were capable of digesting, they made “adaptive mutations” to be able to receive nutritive sustenance from a food source they’d never been able to consume before. This phenomenon in which E. coli mutated exactly the most optimal genes precisely when that mutation was required had no known basis nor explanation from established theories in genetics–and indeed seemed to contradict one of the central dogmas of molecular biology, that information only flows in one direction during transcription from DNA out to proteins to a cellular organism environment. John Cairns and Julie Overbaugh and others proposed a mechanism that what might be happening is that “the cell could produce a highly variable set of mRNA molecules and then reverse-transcribe the one that made the best protein.”
If reverse-engineering mutations by bacteria in times of starvation so they can start digesting lactose sounds crazy, it might help to know there exists a similar proven case of successful quantum biological adaptation: photosynthesis. Those who expect modern human technology to be faster and more efficient than the rustic natural world are quite surprised to learn that our best photovoltaic cells are only 20% efficient, compared with photosynthesizing plants and bacteria that regularly achieve 95% efficiency rates for transforming sunlight into energy. Plants have existed on Earth for millions of years, so it’s not too surprising to find that their natural process of photosynthesis likely utilizes quantum coherence to speed things up. In decades past, scientists believed that excited electrons carried energy randomly through photosynthetic systems in plants, hopping from one molecule to the next. More modern measurements of energy in the new field of quantum biology studying photosynthesizing plants indicates something much more efficient is going on. What appears to be happening is that electrons take advantage of the fact that energy can move not just in the material form, but in pure energy form, too, and entire systems of molecules can become entangled to allow the formation of a coherent wave that tries out different pathways simultaneously, until the most efficient route is very quickly determined. The quantum magic happens in each of a photosynthetic cell’s millions of antenna proteins that are surprisingly efficient and robust at routing energy with very little lost in transit.
University of Toronto biophysicist Greg Scholes published his findings of room-temperature quantum coherence behavior in common marine algae in Nature. Scholes describes an analogy of driving home through rush hour traffic to explain what these cells are doing:
“… you have three ways of driving home through rush hour traffic. On any given day, you take only one. You don’t know if the other routes would be quicker or slower. But in quantum mechanics, you can take all three of these routes simultaneously. You don’t specify where you are until you arrive, so you always choose the quickest route.”
Advantages of experiencing alternate realities
My point is that everyone is experiencing reality shifts that usually get brushed aside with the assumption from most social settings being that there has been confusion or misperception (with both parties assuming the other has made some kind of mental mistake). The reason I raise the topic of flashbulb memories in my book, Quantum Jumps, is to share the extraordinary findings of researchers who asked college freshmen immediately following the Challenger space shuttle explosion to write down where they were, what they were doing, and who they were with when they heard the news of this disaster very soon after it first occurred. Then some time later, these same students were again asked the same question before they were allowed to look at their own hand-written accounts. As some put it, “That’s my handwriting, but that’s not what happened.” Thanks to this research and stunning placebo effect results, we now have an opportunity to acknowledge that rather than explaining such reality shifts away as ‘memory lapses’ or confusion, we have always been witnessing the way quantum phenomena occurs at ALL levels of reality, and not only below the so-called “von Neumann cut.” I have a sense that research in these fields is about to lead us to a new level of awareness that facts can change–yet understanding of our true identity as being consciousness can help us best find our way forward in experiencing various possible realities.
What Would You Notice if You’re in a Superposition of States?
What would it feel like to exist in a superposition of states? How could you tell? You might notice things like: markedly different childhood memories from your siblings; spontaneous or speedy healing from illness or injury; different movie dialogue, writing in books, product names, song lyrics, TV shows, and celebrities alive again after being reported dead. In fact, this is precisely what people are reporting with such commonly recognized examples as:
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• “Mirror mirror on the wall” VS “Magic mirror on the wall”
• Mr. Rogers sings, “It’s a beautiful day in THE neighborhood” VS “It’s a beautiful day in THIS neighborhood”
• Darth Vader says to Luke Skywalker, “Luke, I am your father” VS “No, I am your father”
Mandela Effect Reports on the Rise
In addition to some of these commonly reported shared experiences of alternate histories, some people are also remembering other things differently, such as: “If you build it, they will come” instead of now, “If you build it, he will come” and “Jiffy” peanut butter instead of “Jif.” As increasing numbers of honest reporters and authors start running into their own experiences with the Mandela Effect–both the private experiences that only they recognize, and the more publicly shared varieties–we will continue the growing conversation about the Mandela Effect, and why increasing numbers of people are noticing it now.
And in the meantime, I recommend that you keep asking “How good can it get?” to harness imagination and your ability to provide yourself with self-guidance from your highest levels of consciousness. Asking this question helps ensure we are honoring a longer-term, fuller and more harmoniously interconnected optimal experience. We can trust our highest, largest, most comprehensive levels of consciousness, and in so doing we will continue to experience different pasts and instantaneous transformations as we move through these stressful times to more optimal realities.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/58572 | SELinux blocks podman container from talking to libvirt
I received this bug report this week.
"I see this when I try to use vagrant from a container using podman on Fedora 29 Beta.
Podman version: 0.8.4
Command to run container:
sudo podman run -it --rm -v /run/libvirt:/run/libvirt:Z -v $(pwd):/root:Z localhost/vagrant vagrant up
Sep 30 21:17:25 Home audit[22760]: AVC avc: denied { connectto } for pid=22760 comm="batch_action.r*" path="/run/libvirt/libvirt-sock" scontext=system_u:system_r:container_t:s0:c57,c527 tcontext=system_u:system_r:virtd_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023 tclass=unix_stream_socket permissive=0
This is an interesting use case of using SELinux and containers. SELinux is protecting the file system, and the host from attack from inside of the container. People who have listened to me over the years understand that SELinux is protecting the label of files, in the case of containers, it only allows a container_t to read/write/execute files labeled container_file_t.
But the reporter of the bug, thinks he did the right thing, he told podman to relabel the volumes he was mounting into the container.
Lets look at his command to launch the container.
He told podman to go out and relabel /run/libvirt and $(pwd)/root with a private label generated for the container, that is what the ":Z" means, system_u:object_r:container_file_t:MCS. Well sadly this is not the right thing to do and will probably cause him issues going forward. Since /run/libvirt is probably used by other processes outside of the container, he might have broken them. libvirt running as virtd_t is not probably not allowed to write to container_file_t. The $(pwd)/root directory is probably fine, since this is not likely to be shared with other confined daemons.
Ignoring that this was the wrong thing to do,
SELinux still blocked the container, Why?
SELinux does not only block access to files on disk. While SElinux would allow container_t to write to a unix domain socket, "/run/libvirt/libvirt-sock", labeled container_file_t, a second SELinux check happens between the processes. SELinux also checks whether the container can talk to the daemon, libvirt, running as virtd_t.
Since there is no allow rule for container_t to connectto virtd_t, the connection fails.
Currently in situations like this I tell people to just disable SELinux separation inside this container, rather then fooling around with the labels.
sudo podman run -it --security-opt label=disable --rm -v /run/libvirt:/run/libvirt -v $(pwd):/root localhost/vagrant vagrant up
Notice I removed the :Z. This will cause podman to run the container as spc_t, which is an unconfined domain, and all confined domains are allowed to communicate with it.
Since this is not a full disablement of SELinux, it does not make me cry. :^)
In the future Lukas Vrabek is working on a better solution, udica, where you could simple create a new type based on container_t, and then run your container with it.
udica should allow you to generate container_vagrant_t which would be allowed to write to /run/libvirts labels and communicate with virtd_t, and still have all other SELinux confinement. Then you could execute something like this:
sudo podman run -it --security-opt label=type:container_vagrant_t --rm -v /run/libvirt:/run/libvirt -v $(pwd):/root localhost/vagrant vagrant up
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20/20 VISION
by Lisa Dela Rosa |
The year 2019 just passed by in a blink of an eye, and now we enter a new year. This only means that another set of New Year's resolutions and goals are up and waiting to be fulfilled...or not.
Let’s admit it, how many times did you set up a New Year's resolution and goal and actually doing it? Perhaps, you were able to have a successful streak for a couple of weeks? Or perhaps not? Because tendencies are people tend to forget about them after days of trying. Now, as we enter the year 2020, let’s hope for a better year of self-improvement and a “20/20 vision” to achieve our goals.
Why “20/20 Vision”, you ask? Well, here’s our take on it:
The introduction may sound discouraging but let us say this from the get-go; there is nothing wrong in setting up your resolutions and goals this year. We even encourage you to write everything you want to achieve this year. Write everything you want to change (attitude, bad habits, etc.) and the things you want to achieve so you can keep track of your progress.
But here is the catch, just keep it to yourself. Spare us the time of you telling us what you would do this year. Why? Because “sight” is and should be activated this year. What the heck does this mean? Well, just keep reading.
We all know that it is easier to drop words of promises here and there to the point that people find it hard to trust them, and you should too! Never trust your words of promises! At this point, people trust actions more than words.
“To see is to believe” as they say.
So, drop the talking and start doing your goals and the things you want to change. Do this with one foot after the other. Take “small steps” of actions if you want. You could tumble a little bit along the way but always charge to experience. Continue to take this road towards your goals until it becomes a habit. And, a habit of doing things regularly becomes your character. You’d be surprised that the things you find hard to do before eventually becomes your second nature.
Most of all, never disregard your progress no matter how small they may seem, and always trust the process, may it be a process of quitting your vices or a process of fulfilling your vision. And, always work in silence. The outcome of your hardwork will eventually speak.
And I say, do better at fulfilling your resolutions and plans this year. Bounce back. This time, do not abandon your goals and promises. This time, be better at translating them into actions because there will always be a regret for the things that you wish you did when you still have time. So, drop your excuses and execute. |
global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/58581 | Factual Series
The 'Stories in Stone' series visits the Cornwall largely unknown to many visitors, revealing the wealth of built heritage and historic landscapes from prehistoric sites, medieval buildings and mining sites to recent military remains.
Written and presented by former tin miner Emlyn Glanmôr-Harris, the creator of the BBC radio drama series 'The Sexton's Tales', the series is produced by Dead Interesting Productions, Cornwall.
This episode 'Ancient Places' was short listed for the 2014 Celtic Media Festival. |
global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/58588 | Carl Trueman: Consumerism and the church
There is an exert of an interview with Carl Trueman, professor at Westminster Theological Seminary, on the Q portal which I though interesting, so I have reproduced it in full below:
Q: You argue at great length about the negative impact of consumerism on the Church. How has it influenced us?
A: In economies that depend upon people buying things, there is a need on the one hand to instill the notion that, in some sense, the meaning of life is to be found in the acquisition of goods, or, perhaps to be more precise, the process by which one acquires goods; on the other hand, there is a need to constantly recreate markets or find new ones. The impact of this is huge and I cannot give an exhaustive account here, but the following would be examples, in no particular order.
In society in general:
First, it fuels the the infantilisation of society. Youth is a huge market, and the selling of goods to such a market not only appears to have fostered a view among young people that they are of central importance and much wiser than their elders, it has also created a situation where the desire to be young and trendy percolates through all age brackets. That flies in the face of biblical teaching, where a premium is generally placed on age and experience.
Second, it encourages huge levels of personal debt. Economists know that a certain level of debt is good: it oils the wheels of the economy, fuels creativity, helps with social mobility, etc. But unsecured debt linked simply to purchasing can very quickly grow to a level where it is actually hindering all of those things. When the values of the culture link status to possessions, and when credit is easy to obtain, the recipe for bad debt is clear; and that, of course, is a large part of the economic problem, both macro and micro, with which we are facing today.
Third, and more subtly, it produces notions of truth and ethics that are as malleable as the market place. By placing individual purchasing power at the heart of the system, public morals are made dangerously vulnerable to all manner of transformation. The right of private choice, the centrality of consent, and the need to avoid hindering the economy are all related to consumerism. We see this in the arguments in California about how anti-gay marriage legislation is bad because it impacts the economy by discouraging gay tourism; similar arguments can be, and have been, made about abortion. If it makes my life better and does not hurt anybody else, how can it be wrong (see the current debate about the Columbia professor who had an incestuous relationship with his adult daughter)? And if it helps the economy as well, surely it must be right?
In the church all this is evident in a number of phenomena: the obsession with youth culture; a model of ministry that judges success in terms of numbers, not faithfulness; a culture which disregards the past; a dislike of anything approaching discipline, as the church is there for my needs, to scratch where I am itching. When church is just one more product to buy or leave on the shelf, then marketing, not theology, become the driving forces in her life.
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The Source SDK is freely available to all owners of Valve's core Source games. For a list, see this page.
Downloading and Installation
To install the Source SDK:
1. Open the Steam window.
2. Click on the Tools tab.
3. Double-click on the Source SDK entry.
4. The Source SDK will then be downloaded to your computer via Steam.
Once it has been fully installed, you will be able to launch it in the same way you installed it (from the Tools tab).
You can also create a desktop shortcut for the Source SDK by right-clicking on the Source SDK entry and clicking Create desktop shortcut from the context menu.
Note:For the SDK to function correctly, it is important that any games you wish to edit are fully up-to-date. You can make sure of this by running the game before launching the Source SDK. Simply launching the game then quitting after you get to the main menu is sufficient.
Where do I go from here?
Bugs and Issues
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/58613 | Fast color transfer based on image statistics
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Color transfer is a long-standing problem that seeks to transfer the color style of a reference image onto a source image. By using different references, one can alter the color style without changing the original image content in order to emulate different illumination, weather conditions, scene materials, or even artistic color effects. It can be used for color correction for rendered imagery, artistic style transfer, turning a day scene into a night scene, image analogies.
Color transfer task defines the following inputs:
• A content image — the image we want to transfer the color palette to;
• A style image — the image we want to transfer the color palette from;
• A generated image — the image that contains the final result.
A lot of research over the last years has focused on this task. The best results were obtained using deep learning techniques inspired by the idea of semantic-guided transfer. In this case, the network architecture VGG-19 is used for extracting content feature maps. But the number of weight parameters are quite large and the models are very heavy (over 533MB). Due to its size, the deploying VGG is a difficult task especially if you are looking to deploy a model to run locally on mobile. Therefore, we need a fast statistical method that you can easily deploy on mobile platforms.
We present a new method of color transfer based on simple statistics. The main idea of the proposed method is to sort separately content and style image pixels by its brightness, get some statistics from 5-10%, 24-26%, 49-51%, 74-76% and 99-99.5% quantiles of the brightness distribution. We choose the transformation to match the covariance and mean of quantile distribution.
In particular, let x_i = (R, G, B)^T be a source image pixel. Each pixel is transformed as:
x_{S'} = Ax_s + b
where A is a 3×3 matrix and b is a three-dimensional vector. New data points x_{S'} will have the desired mean and covariance:
µ_{S'} = \frac{1}{n} \sum_{i}^{}x^i
Σ _{S'} = \sum_{i}^{} (y_i - µ_i)(y_i - µ_i)^T
We went to find some A and b to satisfy the matching of the style and result image statistics. Hence, the transform is:
x_{S'} = Σ_S^{\frac{1}{2}}Σ_C^{-\frac{1}{2}}(x - µ_C) + µ_S
To compute the square root of the matrix we use a 3D color matching formulations. First, let the eigenvalue decomposition of a covariance matrix be A = UΣU^T . Then, we define a matrix square-root as: A^{\frac{1}{2}} = UΣ{\frac{1}{2}}U^T . Then, the transformation is given by A = Σ_S^{\frac{1}{2}}Σ_C^{\frac{1}{2}} .
At the next step we need histogram equalization and use it to improve the contrast of the source image. Then, we apply linear interpolation to find the covariance matrix and mean for each pixel and calculate new pixel values. And at the last step, we need to clip any values that fall outside the range [0, 255] and merge the channels back together.
However, our method still has limitations. It may mismatch some regions which exist in the source but not in the reference, and thus cause the incorrect color transfer. Our color transfer is suitable for semantically similar images. So, it may lead to some unnatural color effects for image pairs without a semantic relationship, such as the yellow water in the 3rd failure example
This simple algorithm can be easily implemented using different rendering frameworks. You can speed up transformation calculation using GPU unit and achieve 30 fps for 600px*400px frames on the Apple A10 Fusion GPU.
About the author. Anna Khanko is a Machine Learning researcher at She received her MS in Computer Science at the National Technical University of Ukraine where she was doing the research on Natural Language Processing. These days, Anna continues to work on NLP and Computer Vision areas, she developed an information retrieval system, chatbots, and image processing applications. Anna is always keen to learn new things and broaden her professional horizons.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/58616 | HTTP to HTTPS – Deploy SSL for Free Using Cloudflare
How to Convert HTTP to HTTPS for Free Using Cloudflare
Since Google has announced a policy to preferential treatment of HTTPS-compliant sites ranking, it seems that websites are constantly making SSL/TLS advancing at a tremendous speed. Now SSL/TLS, which had been charged, services that are now issuing free SSL/TLS certificates such as CloudFlare, Amazon Certificate Manager and Let’s encrypt.
CloudFlare is a CDN (Content Delivery Network) that uses the concept of a reverse proxy. Therefore, you need a name server to install CloudFlare. CloudFlare’s account creation itself is free, but in order to actually use CDN, you need a domain that you own and a name server (DNS) that you can change the reference destination freely. This is because CloudFlare is a CDN using a mechanism called a reverse proxy.
How Cloudflare works
CloudFlare improves the security and response of the Web server by managing the name server of the domain of the target Web server. CloudFlare is provided by manipulating name server, not direct method ‘nameserver’.
Three Types of Requests from Cloudflare to the Server
Flexible – It is used only when SSL /TLS is not applied on the server side. Most of those who are planning to use Cloudflare’s SSL will use this method.
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Full – Between users and Cloudflare, as well as the way to communicate with the server with HTTPS. The validity of the certificate used on the server side is irrelevant. It can be an olele certificate. Since it can be an olele certificate, it is totally secure from Flexible if you can set the certificate on the server side. It is double encryption.
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Full (Strict) – Like Full, users, Cloudflare and servers are HTTPS communications. However, it differs in that the certificate used on the server side must be valid. Personally, it may be better to turn it off if a valid certificate is available on the server side. Because it encrypts double, it sounds somewhat to the performance.
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How to set up a website on Cloudflare infrastructure and how to get on HTTPS for free
Step 1 – Setting Up a New Site – After you sign up at Cloudflare, the first thing to do is to add a domain and scan the DNS records.
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Step 2 – Once the scan is completed, all the DNS records on the domain will be displayed. One can make modification and select the sub-domains to enable Cloudflare on.
Step 3 – Select the free plan and continue.
Step 4 – Next, you’ll need to change the nameservers on your domain registrar to the Cloudflare provided ones.
Here’s how it looks like in Namecheap:
Step 5 – Now you must wait for the nameserver changes to finish propagating. To check whether your site is active on Cloudflare ‘Click on Recheck Nameservers’.
Step 6 – Once your nameserver updates have been validated by Cloudflare, your site becomes active on the service.
Step 7 – If you want to be absolutely sure that your DNS settings have propagated everywhere, what’s My DNS provides a way to check what IP address your domain resolves to in different locations. One can also use dig or nslookup in the command line to verify your domains DNS configuration.
By this, you check that whether the website traffic is now being routed through Cloudflare. Prior configuring Cloudfare one should keep in mind that the browser is not using the old DNS records from its cache.
To be activated it may take up to 24 hours, and once the certificate is activated load it in your browser.
Cloudflare renews the certificate automatically. If you want to get more information about the certificate One can go and check Certificate Authority that issued it and the expire date. |
global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/58627 | Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item:
Title: Kappa Delta sister, Caroline Philhower, studies abroad
Authors: Kappa Delta Sorority
Keywords: Kappa Delta Sorority;Study abroad;Images;Sororities;Greek life
Issue Date: 2010
Publisher: Memphis, Tenn. : Rhodes College
Abstract: Kappa Delta sister Caroline Philhower enjoys her study abroad experience.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/58629 | DocValues are a way of recording field values internally that is more efficient for some purposes, such as sorting and faceting, than traditional indexing.
Why DocValues?
The standard way that Solr builds the index is with an inverted index. This style builds a list of terms found in all the documents in the index and next to each term is a list of documents that the term appears in (as well as how many times the term appears in that document). This makes search very fast - since users search by terms, having a ready list of term-to-document values makes the query process faster.
For other features that we now commonly associate with search, such as sorting, faceting, and highlighting, this approach is not very efficient. The faceting engine, for example, must look up each term that appears in each document that will make up the result set and pull the document IDs in order to build the facet list. In Solr, this is maintained in memory, and can be slow to load (depending on the number of documents, terms, etc.).
In Lucene 4.0, a new approach was introduced. DocValue fields are now column-oriented fields with a document-to-value mapping built at index time. This approach promises to relieve some of the memory requirements of the fieldCache and make lookups for faceting, sorting, and grouping much faster.
Enabling DocValues
To use docValues, you only need to enable it for a field that you will use it with. As with all schema design, you need to define a field type and then define fields of that type with docValues enabled. All of these actions are done in schema.xml.
Enabling a field for docValues only requires adding docValues="true" to the field (or field type) definition, as in this example from the schema.xml of Solr’s sample_techproducts_configs config set:
<field name="manu_exact" type="string" indexed="false" stored="false" docValues="true" />
If you have already indexed data into your Solr index, you will need to completely re-index your content after changing your field definitions in schema.xml in order to successfully use docValues.
DocValues are only available for specific field types. The types chosen determine the underlying Lucene docValue type that will be used. The available Solr field types are:
• StrField and UUIDField:
• If the field is single-valued (i.e., multi-valued is false), Lucene will use the SORTED type.
• If the field is multi-valued, Lucene will use the SORTED_SET type.
• BoolField:
• If the field is multi-valued, Lucene will use the SORTED_BINARY type.
• Any *PointField Numeric or Date fields, EnumFieldType, and CurrencyFieldType:
• If the field is single-valued (i.e., multi-valued is false), Lucene will use the NUMERIC type.
• If the field is multi-valued, Lucene will use the SORTED_NUMERIC type.
• Any of the deprecated Trie* Numeric or Date fields, EnumField and CurrencyField:
These Lucene types are related to how the {lucene-javadocs}/core/org/apache/lucene/index/DocValuesType.html[values are sorted and stored].
There is an additional configuration option available, which is to modify the docValuesFormat used by the field type. The default implementation employs a mixture of loading some things into memory and keeping some on disk. In some cases, however, you may choose to specify an alternative {lucene-javadocs}/core/org/apache/lucene/codecs/DocValuesFormat.html[DocValuesFormat implementation]. For example, you could choose to keep everything in memory by specifying docValuesFormat="Memory" on a field type:
<fieldType name="string_in_mem_dv" class="solr.StrField" docValues="true" docValuesFormat="Memory" />
Please note that the docValuesFormat option may change in future releases.
Lucene index back-compatibility is only supported for the default codec. If you choose to customize the docValuesFormat in your schema.xml, upgrading to a future version of Solr may require you to either switch back to the default codec and optimize your index to rewrite it into the default codec before upgrading, or re-build your entire index from scratch after upgrading.
Using DocValues
Sorting, Faceting & Functions
If docValues="true" for a field, then DocValues will automatically be used any time the field is used for sorting, faceting or function queries.
Field values retrieved during search queries are typically returned from stored values. However, non-stored docValues fields will be also returned along with other stored fields when all fields (or pattern matching globs) are specified to be returned (e.g., “fl=*”) for search queries depending on the effective value of the useDocValuesAsStored parameter for each field. For schema versions >= 1.6, the implicit default is useDocValuesAsStored="true". See Field Type Definitions and Properties & Defining Fields for more details.
When useDocValuesAsStored="false", non-stored DocValues fields can still be explicitly requested by name in the fl param, but will not match glob patterns ("*"). Note that returning DocValues along with "regular" stored fields at query time has performance implications that stored fields may not because DocValues are column-oriented and may therefore incur additional cost to retrieve for each returned document. Also note that while returning non-stored fields from DocValues, the values of a multi-valued field are returned in sorted order (and not insertion order). If you require the multi-valued fields to be returned in the original insertion order, then make your multi-valued field as stored (such a change requires re-indexing).
In cases where the query is returning only docValues fields performance may improve since returning stored fields requires disk reads and decompression whereas returning docValues fields in the fl list only requires memory access.
When retrieving fields from their docValues form (using the /export handler, streaming expressions or if the field is requested in the fl parameter), two important differences between regular stored fields and docValues fields must be understood:
1. Order is not preserved. For simply retrieving stored fields, the insertion order is the return order. For docValues, it is the sorted order.
2. For field types using SORTED_SET, multiple identical entries are collapsed into a single value. Thus if I insert values 4, 5, 2, 4, 1, my return will be 1, 2, 4, 5. |
global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/58631 | Implementing Xpath in Mapping
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Use Case Name
Handling XPATH in Mapping
Brief Description
XPATH is an essential concept that is required when implementing mapping and transformations. XPATH access nodes in a hierarchical structure as represented in the XML file. Click here to know more about XPATH.
Implementers, Developers, Partners
Organisation Creation & Connection Creation
Note: In case of Custom Apps Touchpoints is needed to be created first for implementing Tracking.
Basic Flow
1. Navigate to the touchpoint after login, for which the Mapping is to be done.
2. Click on the Transform button on the touchpoint you have selected. The user will now be able to view the Transform screen of that touchpoint.
3. Expand the Transform node till the Complex Objects and the ComplexObjectsCollections are visible.
Note: In this case the touchpoint Business Partner add is used for the connection Magento2 and SAP B1.
4. In the ComplexObject BPAddresses, XPATH has been provided for mapping the attribute Street.
Note: The XPATH should be provided based upon the INPUT packet generated after the sync process. As a prerequisite, the touchpoint should be synced for viewing the XML nodes structure hierarchy.
5. The XPATH mapped is { {street/item[1]} }. [1] indicates the first position instance of the node item under the element street shall be accessed.
6. For easy know-how, view the input packet provided below. xpath-usecase2
Note: XPATH can be mapped in any entity, be it a ComplexObject, ComplexObjectCollection or an attribute. XPATH can be used for mapping in variables too.\
The user can view the successful sync of the touchpoints for the connection Magento2 and SAP Business One.
Exception Courses
The user can view the error logs in the RESYNC Bucket of the agent (Cloud and OP), if the touchpoint fails to sync. Click Here to know more about the troubleshootings.
Frequency of Use
The user can implement rendering when required for any touchpoint.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/58632 | Table of Contents
Table of Contents
Creating Model Layouts
Creating Model Layouts
Introduction to Model Layouts
Sometimes you might want to view your model with different layouts. For example, perhaps you have a model with multiple floors. (Floors can be created by using the Plane object.) With a multi-level simulation model, you might want to build your model with all the floors on the same flat plane, but still be able to view it with the floors stacked on itself. You can use model layouts to quickly change between different model views:
You will use the Model Layouts tool to create these different views. This topic will explain how to use the Model Layouts tool in more detail.
Opening the Model Layouts Tool
To open the Model Layouts tool:
1. On the main toolbar, click View, then select Model Layouts.
2. The Model Layouts tool will appear in the bottom of the left pane, under the 3D Library:
Adding and Renaming Layouts
To add a new layout:
1. In the Model Layouts tool, click the Add Layout button.
2. By default, the new layout will be named Layout 1. Double-click the layout name in the Model Layouts menu and type in a more descriptive name. Press enter to save the changes.
Deleting Layouts
To remove a layout:
1. Select the layout from the Model Layouts menu.
2. Click the Delete Layout button.
Setting and Viewing a Layout
To set a layout:
1. Put the 3D objects in the model in the position you'd like them to be set.
2. Select the layout you want to set from the Model Layouts menu.
3. Click the Set button.
To view a different layout, select it from the Model Layouts menu. |
global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/58634 | Splunk® Enterprise
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Introduction for Windows admins
Splunk is a powerful, effective tool for Windows administrators to resolve problems that occur on their Windows networks. Its out-of-the-box feature set positions it to be the secret weapon in the Windows administrator's toolbox. The ability to add apps that augment its functionality makes it even more extensible. And it has a growing, thriving community of users.
How to use this manual as a Windows user
This manual has topics that will help you experiment with, learn, deploy, and get the most out of Splunk.
Unless otherwise specified, the information in this manual is helpful for both Windows and *nix users. If you are unfamiliar with Windows or *nix operational commands, we strongly recommend you check out Differences between *nix and Windows in Splunk operations.
We've also provided some extra information in the chapter "get the most out of Splunk on Windows". This chapter is intended for Windows users to help you make the most of Splunk and includes the following information.
Deploy Splunk on Windows provides some considerations and preparations specific to Windows users. Use this topic when you plan your deployment.
Optimize Splunk for peak performance describes ways to keep your Splunk on Windows deployment running properly, either during the course of the deployment, or after the deployment is complete.
Put Splunk onto system images helps you make Splunk a part of every Windows system image or installation process. From here you can find tasks for installing Splunk and Splunk forwarders onto your system images.
For more information
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When you get stuck, Splunk has a large free support infrastructure that can help:
If you still don't have an answer to your question, you can get in touch with Splunk's support team. The Support Contact page tells you how to do that.
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