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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/74637 | The Best Way to Prep & Enjoy Tomatillos
Tomatillos are plump green fruits that don’t get enough attention.
Our enchiladas are here to remedy the situation–appropriately enough, on Cinco De Mayo!
One of the reasons that tomatillos get neglected is that they don’t look so friendly. Though they’re related to tomatoes, they lack that fruit’s welcoming red or yellow luster. Instead, they’re covered in brownish-green papery husks, enough of a fence to put even an enthusiastic try-anything cook off of them.
But like all good things, it’s what’s inside that counts. And inside that husk you’ll find a fruit that looks very much like a firm green tomato. Unlike a ripe tomato, tomatillos aren’t at all juicy.
Once you peel off the husk, you’ll find the surface of the fruit is a bit sticky. Just give them a rinse and that’ll disappear. After that, there are a few different ways to use tomatillos. You can chop them up raw to make a piquant green salsa. You can boil them, to mellow their color and flavor. Or, you can do as we do in our enchilada recipe and roast them up, to give them an earthy, fiery undertone, same as you’d get if you were cooking on a comal in Mexico.step2
After that, you can finely chop (or blend) the tomatillos, and add them to a pan where garlic and onion are sautéing. A slightly hot pepper, like a poblano, helps balance out the pleasant tartness of the tomatillos.step4
And then–boom! Layered with tortillas, chicken, beans, and cheese, the green sauce creates an epically delicious platter of enchiladas. We hope you enjoy! |
global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/74657 | Review: The Dark Tower (2017)
A movie reel
In the center of the universe stands a dark tower that protects the universe from chaos and destruction. Although we see the tower only briefly, the film The Dark Tower from 2017 shows repeated attacks that threaten the worlds that it protects. Earthquakes and mysterious lights in the sky are becoming more frequent in New York and other cities.
The Man in Black is orchestrating these attacks, trying to use the minds of children which he believes could destroy the tower and unleash devastation and death. The movie begins with a horror sequence showing an attack. We see the tower assaulted by an energy beam, but the tower is sturdy. Jake is woken from a troubled dream by the ensuing earthquake.
The characters of the movie, the Man in Black, played by Matthew McConaughey, the Gunslinger, played by Idris Elba, and Jake, played by Tom Taylor, battle over the tower. To connect the different sites of the story, door-like portals allow travel between worlds.
When the movie opens, children are in a playground until a klaxon sounds and alarms on a few children’s wrists activate. The kids walk robot-like into a dark building with a conical roof. Soon, the reason for their alarm becomes clear.
As the movie progresses, the Gunslinger’s prowess with a six-shooter becomes more and more amazing. For his part, the Man in Black can control other people with a whisper. For example, he can tell someone to stop breathing or probe their memories to help find Jake. Early in the film, Jake escapes from the Man in Black’s agents who are identified by a seam in the fake skin covering their face.
The movie struggles to balance the horror genre, westerns and fantasy. The three aspects dance around each other, starting the movie in horror and ending with a fantasy western style. As the story unfolds, we see more and more of the Man in Black’s powerful skills. The Gunslinger is empowered by the Gunslinger’s Creed that forms the foundation of his talents. As the film progresses, Jake discovers his own power, his shine.
At his mother and stepfather’s home, Jake is tormented by vivid dreams. He has been compulsively drawing scenes from the dreams because they are too real to be a dream. His family blames the visions and psychological distress from the death of Jake’s father. However, when Jake meets the Gunslinger, he learns that his dreams have been real.
Sometimes when I see a movie trailer, I’m not interested in learning more. This movie is an exception to that pattern. In the trailer, I saw a scene of an attack on the tower. I was hoping for more appearances of the tower, but those scenes are precious and kept brief and infrequent. Perhaps the attacks on the tower would seem repetitive and lose their horror if they were over-done.
As a film, The Dark Tower is successful and meeting its promise of a battle between good and evil. Evil seems to have the upper hand throughout the movie because of the Man in Black’s extraordinary skills. He can catch bullets and kill people with a phrase. The Gunslinger is tentative in his abilities, but Jake inspires him to continue fighting.
A Great War: Scorched Earth
The second phase of the war has already started: Decimation. |
global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/74671 | Basic ideas and inverse operations in the big wide world!
What is a ‘basic idea’ in maths?
Liping Ma (2010) states that inverse operations are one of the most basic ideas of maths. A basic idea is really just a basic attitude a person has or a basic mathematical principle. A person who holds a profound understanding of fundamental mathematics (PUFM) is able to build these basic ideas as strong foundations for more advanced mathematics they may come across. In a person with PUFM these basic ideas become so intrinsic in their mathematical thinking, that they no longer have to think about them at all! This leaves all their brain power free to work on the tricky stuff.
What are inverse operations?
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Luckily not one of these!
“The word ‘inverse’ means reverse in direction or position. It comes from the Latin word ‘inversus,’ which means to turn upside down or inside out. In mathematics, an inverse operation is an operation that undoes what was done by the previous operation.” (, 2015)
The four operations of adding, subtracting, multiplying and dividing are the basic foundations for all mathematics. The inverse of addition is subtraction, and the same is true in reverse, and the inverse of multiplication is division, and the same is also true in reverse here too.
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Let’s look at some examples…
If….5 + 12 = 17, then the inverse of this would be 17 – 12 = 5
As you can see this takes us right back to the start.
And, if….7×3 = 21, then the inverse of this would be 21 ÷ 3 = 7
And lastly… If 10² = 100, then the inverse of this would be √100 = 10
You can find a short clip to explain this in more detail here.
Lets see if we can find inverse operations in the big wide world…
A man, let’s call him Frank, goes out to a bar for the night. On his way there he stops off at the cash machine and takes out 3 X £10 = £30. When he gets to the bar he orders a drink while he waits for his friends. It costs £3. His friends are late. Frank orders another drink and some peanuts, it costs £3.95. He’s still waiting… He orders another drink now, a double whisky, that costs £7.50. Then he decides he’s had enough and he’s going to go home where drinks are cheaper!
Frank gets outside and realises he can’t drive home because he’s been drinking (sensible Frank!). So he has a choice of walking or getting a taxi but he’s not sure if he has enough. Frank uses the inverse operation of addition to work out if he has enough:
So, when he took money out addition was used:
£10 + £10 + £10 = £30
Now he wants to work out how much is left…
£30 – £3 – £3.75 – £7.50 = £15.75
Which means, using the inverse operation of addition (which is what he did when he started) Frank has worked out that, not only does he have enough money for a taxi, he also has enough to buy a kebab too!
But, but do inverse operations only occur in the pub?!
No, inverse operations are everywhere!
We can take this basic principle of inverse operations to an even more basic level.
Black – is the inverse of – White
inverse zebra
Heavy – is the inverse of – Light
heavy light
Hot – is the inverse of – Cold
hot cold
The list of inverse operations that can be found in the big wide world could go on and on.
I wonder how many you can identify next time you have some spare time.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/74681 | Chemical reactions with macro photography
The creator Nano Lab is "a French atelier who creates immersive macro worlds of hypnotic abstract imagery based on a variety of physical phenomena and chemical reactions." Their work is evocative of the beautiful in-camera effects Darren Aronofsky created as plates for The Fountain, an underrated movie.
Lots more on the Nano Lab channel.
Chemical Poetry by NANO (Vimeo / Nano Lab) |
global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/74687 | Writing and More
NaNoWriMo | What I Use to Write
Hi everyone! I just wanted to take a break from being sick and trying to write to share with you some of the things I use to help me write and stay on track.
I use this site as a vision board. I pin people that might look like my characters or places I see them in. I may even tag some clothing I think my characters might wear. I am a very visual person so having a place to organize it all is very helpful for me.
This writing program always has a free trial during NaNoWriMo and I use it each time. I find it to be very organize and I can easily navigate through my novel. It is very helpful when I need to reference a detail or I am fuzzy on what I wrote a few nights ago at 2 in the morning.
I did not take this picture, if you know who did please let me know so I can credit them.
I don’t know about you, but sometimes my writing ideas don’t always hit me when I am near my computer. That is why I always carry around a notebook. I am currently using a Moleskine Harry Potter Marauder’s Map notebook and I am loving it. This round of NaNoWriMo I have filled about a quarter of this notebook.
Google play
A good playlist always puts me in a good mood or a bad mood. It all depends on what is happening in my story. Music really helps me get into the mindset to set an appropriate tone. If I am writing an epic fight scene or a scene where one of my characters are being self reflective I am not going to be playing the same type of music. Having music set for a particular part or mood really helps me focus on my story.
What do you use to help you write?
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/74692 | SpyBugs are a type of bug encountered in Claptastic Voyage.
While technically hostile, SpyBugs do not directly attack. Shortly after spawning, SpyBugs will become invisible and roam the area near its targeted Vault Hunter. Though its red dot remains visible on the minimap and its flying sounds can still be heard, it is impossible to see an invisible SpyBug, thus making it extremely difficult to target.
After roaming around for a random length of time that could be almost instantly or several minutes, the SpyBug will approach (usually from the sides or behind) its targeted Vault Hunter, suddenly become visible and flash a bright white light with the sound of a camera shutter. This will briefly blind the affected Vault Hunter and stagger them, causing a brief burst of violent screen wobble.
While they cause no direct damage, the violent screen wobbling caused by a SpyBug's flash can severely affect targeting abilities and leave Vault Hunters open to attack from more dangerous enemies. Due to their complete invisibility, SpyBugs are nearly impossible to directly shoot while invisible. While technically possible with any weapon, weapons that fire multiple pellets or feature large splash damage are the most effective against them.
Athena's Kinetic Aspis is able to auto track them the same way it would any enemy. As long as Athena is facing the bot's general direction the Aspis will be able to hit it, and even if it doesn't destroy the bot, it will indicate the general location.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/74695 | Brad Weil Law > Blog > Chapter 11
Which Types Of Bankruptcies Can Individuals File?
There are actually several types of bankruptcies, each with their pluses and minuses. Individual consumers are primarily eligible to file for Chapter 7 or Chapter 13 bankruptcy, and occasionally for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. There is also another option called Chapter 12 bankruptcy, but it is rare in Los Angeles. It’s appropriate for farmers and fishermen. |
global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/74700 | workout programming
Some of the best coaches with expertise in hypertrophy, bodybuilding, and physique can be found in these podcasts. New ones added regularly. A great reference source for enthusiasts and trainers.
Brad Borland talks about how to build muscle as quickly as possible in the latest Six Pack of Knowledge podcast.
The differences between strength training and hypertrophy start deep inside our bodies, at the physiological level.
The majority of workouts promoted online are too aggressive for a new beginning. Here's one way you can make a transition from a sedentary lifestyle and put yourself on the path to better health.
With everything you are going through physically and mentally, the last thing you need is a trainer who isn’t being considerate of the new realities you're facing.
Programming is the heart of your gym's business; Here's how to keep it pumping.
Fran is a classic CrossFit beatdown with a potent match-up of bodyweight and barbell work. Use this program to blow away your personal best.
If you want to get stronger, you have to focus on strength work. Here's exactly what to do. |
global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/74702 | “Our copy doesn’t connect with our ideal customer”
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We created our company website and it's not driving a lot of leads and sales. It doesn't connect with our customers, nor does it give a story of how what we do helps them.
Does it sound familiar?
If yes, stay with me.
Buckle up. Everyone goes through this.
It doesn't matter if you call yourself a small business owner, an entrepreneur, an independent consultant, a coach, a startup founder, or something else.
The scenario is nearly identical for every first-time business owner under the sun:
Scene One You create a website on your own or you hire someone to do it for you at the cheapest possible rate. The point is simply to "have a website". You have neither the money nor the time to make that website too sophisticated. We've all been there.
Scene Two You "launch" your website and get traffic only to find out that something is getting in the way of sales. That's when you realize: "Our website doesn't connect with our customers!". And you feel stuck.
Why is it happening?
Mainly because 9/10 times small businesses or entrepreneurs jump onto the product offer: "Here buy this! It's awesome because it does this and that!"
Do you know what this is like?
It's like those people on Tinder who start the conversation with a… photo of their private parts. Or, a “cute” pick-up line:
Yep. Dating and sales have a lot in common. I mean, A WHOLE FREAKIN' LOT!
Pickup artists and skilled salesmen know they have a very low chance to, umm… score if they start with the “offer”.
That's why the pro pick-up artist doesn't ask for sex right away. Instead, he follows a very simple principle:
After all, everyone's favorite subject is themselves.
― Neil Strauss, The Game: Penetrating the Secret Society of Pickup Artists
To connect with your target customer, to grab their attention and keep their interest, you have to think like a pickup artist. You have to talk about your client's favorite subject—themselves.
And you are only allowed to talk about your product or service in terms of how it helps them achieve what they want and get what they need.
“Great, Gerry, that’s like the 10-bazilion-th post about that. Now tell me exactly HOW to do that…”
Sure, read on!
3 tips to help you pick up connect with your target customer like a pro
…And begin to talk about your product or service from their point of view.
Tip #1: Learn to speak their language
Get crystal clear on who you’re targeting and learn their language.
Because people buy from people and brands they can relate to. One of the goals of your copy is to resonate with your target customer or client, attract them and repel everyone else.
Let’s see how it works.
Take a look at this Marlboro ad. You can tell who it's for, right?
But the man who could relate to the photo in that ad and bought Marlboros was definitely NOT the man who bought Chesterfields:
I’m pretty sure the Marlboro guy would NEVER use grease.
Marlboros aren’t for everyone. Chesterfields aren’t for everyone.
That's the effect you're looking for with your images, as well as with your copy. Make your marketing content super-specific to one audience.
Don't fall for the "our ideal customer is everyone" trap. It will cost you money.
How to learn their language?
Plunge into the most popular Internet forum where they hang out. Read carefully any pre-sales correspondence you have. Read the blogs they read. Read the magazines they read. Listen to the podcasts they listen to.
Make notes and save the most interesting phrases in a text document.
Use them in your copy.
Yes, I do mean "use the phrases you saved in your copy"… I mean it in a very literal way.
Tip #2: Start with Why
The ads I showed you above don't start with Why. It’s because smoking was so deeply ingrained in the 50s culture that people didn't need to be convinced they should smoke. Cigarettes were (and I believe still are) a commodity product.
But digital services and products are NOT commodities.
When you’re marketing something that isn’t a commodity, your ideal customer is in a “problem-aware” state. They recognize the problem but they haven’t been taught to recognize the solution immediately.
That’s why, to connect with the digital products and services buyer, you have to remind them WHY they need what you’re selling.
The reason WHY they hire you or buy from you is their biggest pain point.
If that's news to you, write it down somewhere because it's virtually the basis of all your marketing. 🙂
If you don't start with the pain point, if you don't remind people of that painful problem you're solving for them, they won't pay attention and they won't believe your sales pitches. You copy won’t resonate.
And they will leave.
Let me illustrate this point
I’ll use a product which, also, isn’t a commodity.
The other day I watched a TV ad that started with "Do you want to lower your chances of getting wrinkles?"
I listened… You can't blame me, I'm a lady.
The ad was about a collagen supplement which I later bought.
I do have some vague idea that my body needs collagen so that I don't get wrinkles BUT if they had started with their supplement, with WHAT they're selling, I wouldn't have listened.
They started with WHY and I listened.
Tip #3: Promise them what they want and need
Look around this website. What do you see?
"conversions… conversions… leads… sales… leads…"
I'm not trying to teach you how to write copy because you don't really care about that, do you?
I'm talking about copywriting from the perspective of the results YOU are after.
How do you think I know what results you want?
Frankly, I wish my answer was "I have psychic superpowers" because that would've made things 10x easier.
Alas, I was only endowed with is the ability to do research.
If I hadn't done my due diligence, I'd be talking about the wrong things in the wrong context. And you wouldn't be reading this far. We wouldn't connect in any way.
That's why I always find out what the target customer wants and needs before putting down a single word of copy for me or for my clients.
If you're your own copywriter, I encourage you to do the same.
How to find out what your ideal client wants and needs?
Mine popular forums, review sites, your email correspondence with them. Notice what they’re trying to achieve with products and services like yours, e.g. get more leads, sales, conversions in my case.
Use this info for your value prop.
A value prop can’t be we-focused and tool-focused (e.g. “We sell collagen supplements”). It’s supposed to be benefit-focused (e.g. “Get wrinkle-free glowing skin today”).
There are 3 core things to do to connect with your audience:
1. Learn their language. This will make your copy resonate and will attract them.
2. Find out their biggest pain point(s) and always start with that. It's their WHY. It's what will make them pay attention.
3. Find out what results they want and need and hook your sales pitches, blog posts, emails, etc., on that.
To do all this, learn to mine internet forums, blogs, emails, magazines like a pro.
Sign up for the free training below if you want to develop this skill. (Or waste your time trying to figure it out on your own, if you prefer. :))
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/74703 | Geometric Probability
Geometric Probability: Level 2 Challenges
The dartboard above is made up of three concentric circles with radii 1,3,1, 3, and 5.5. Assuming that a dart thrown will land randomly on the dartboard, what is the probability that it lands in the green region?
A point (a,b)(a,b) is randomly selected within the triangular region enclosed by the graphs of 3y+2x=6 3y + 2x = 6 , x=0 x = 0 and y=0 y = 0 . What is the probability that b>a b > a ?
Give your answer as a decimal!
Two people stand around a circular duck pond which has radius RR meters. They are placed randomly (uniformly along the circumference of the duck pond) and independently.
What is the probability that they are more than RR meters apart from each other?
Dave and Kathy both arrive at Pizza Palace at two random times between 10:00 p.m. and midnight. They agree to wait exactly 15 minutes for each other to arrive before leaving. What is the probability that Dave and Kathy see each other?
If the probability is ab \frac ab for coprime positive integers, give the answer as a+ba+b.
A real number xx is chosen randomly and uniformly from the interval [2,10].[2,10]. What is the probability that the greatest integer less than or equal to x2\frac{x}{2} is even?
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/74721 | Why We are Different?
Why We are Different?
What Makes buyselllet.ae Property Portal Different From Other Portals?
The following are the top reasons why developers should choose buyselllet.ae property portal instead of other portals for advertising their projects.
• 1. We are the ONLY portal in Dubai that offers content in 3 different languages.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/74755 | Heroic Kitty Protects Human From Fake Attack
Who says that dogs can be the only one that’s going to defend you from being attacked? Isn’t it awesome to have someone that is always to the rescue when you’re in trouble especially when it’s cute, fluffy and has this innocent vibe? Yet, is willing to give cute attacks just to defend you? How can we not adore this heroic cat?
Check the video below to see how this orange-and-white cat came to the rescue when it saw its human mama being attacked by her husband. What an amazing and loyal cat!
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/74781 | Daily Archives: Tuesday, February 25, 2014
• How To Fix Verizon FiOS Problem Connecting To Websites
Feb 26, 2014 Update:
Verizon appears to have solved the problem on their end
and an MTU of 1500 will work again. The original problem lasted from at least the beginning
of Feb 24, 2014 until mid-day Feb 26, 2014.
Verizon’s escalation team later called me back and provided the following information:
New uplinks were installed in Lewisville and Plano which were improperly configured and the configuration has been corrected.
The information below remains for historical information on the problem and a workaround.
Verizon Reports the Outage is Resolved
Verizon Reports the Outage is Resolved
Background on the Problem
I live in the Dallas market for Verizon FiOS which is where it seems the problems are happening.
The issue manifests primarily for me as an inability to play content reliably on YouTube,
but I had many other issues on other CDNs. Trying to view other sites, such as MitchRibar.com, would never succeed for some other FiOS subscribers and me.
The error displayed in Chrome was ERR_CONNECTION_RESET.
List of sites affected
The following sites were reported affected by friends, others on the Internet, and me:
I called Verizon multiple times and they were no help of course. Since a ping worked and since a traceroute exited their network they said that the problem was either on my side or YouTube’s side and didn’t care that it affected multiple sites. I tried to explain the difference between ICMP and a TCP session but they aren’t that smart, of course. They wouldn’t even talk to me until I plugged in their router which is a terrible piece of equipment I haven’t used for years. I obliged and that’s when I got the above from them. They would not let me talk to a higher tier of support.
However, after finding out some friends had the same issue, I was tipped off to this forum post by started by another Verizon customer. You’ll see most if not all in the thread are from the Dallas market.
I did some ping tests to validate that the problem is the MTU setting. Somewhere in Verizon’s network, close to the DFW side of the route, someone has messed up the MTU and reduced it from the default of 1500 to 1496. Keep in mind that there is a 28 byte header so the successful (non-fragmented) ping size + 28 = MTU.
In the below paste, -f prevents fragmentation of the packet and -l 1472/1468 sets the ping packet length. Keep in mind that the IP header adds 28 bytes and also ping parameters are different on different platforms. This example is from Windows, but check the parameters for your platform to set these options.
>ping mitchribar.com -f -l 1472
Pinging mitchribar.com [] with 1472 bytes of data:
Request timed out.
Ping statistics for
>ping mitchribar.com -f -l 1468
Pinging mitchribar.com [] with 1468 bytes of data:
Reply from bytes=1468 time=42ms TTL=55
As you can see, 1472 (which equates to a 1500 MTU [1472+28=1500]) did not work. Lowering it until I got to 1468 worked, which equates to an MTU of 1496, so you can see, because of Verizon’s now-broken network, we must lower the MTU from the default of 1500 to 1496 to ensure the packets traverse the network correctly.
I don’t use Verizon’s router (I use DD-WRT and changing the MTU is easy: Setup -> MTU) but Jake Smith provided these screenshots to me that I edited to show the steps. They come from a regular Verizon FiOS router.
Steps to Change the MTU
You should not need to change router settings unless this problem has happened again after Feb 26, 2014. Please see the note at the top of the page.
Connect to your router using a web browser
There are many resources available to find out what your router’s LAN IP address is. Connect to this address in your router. Your FiOS router has the default password printed on it if you have not changed it.
My router’s IP is, but yours may (and probably will) be different. With my example, I would navigate to in my web browser.
Click My Network
Step 1: Click My Network
Click Network Connections
Step 2: Click Network Connections
Click Broadband Connection or the Pencil Icon to Edit
Step 3: Click Broadband Connection
Click Configure Connection
Step 4: Click Configure Connection
Change MTU to Manual and 1496
Step 5: Change MTU |
global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/74784 | We're just over half-way through 2018, and I've noticed a disturbing trend: the Christianity SE community is voting much less than it has in the past. Here are the results from SEDE for the first six months of 2015–2018:
Upvotes Downvotes Total Posts (inc. deleted)
1/15 – 6/15 10429 4936 15365
1/16 – 6/16 10097 4280 14377
1/17 – 6/17 9961 2478 12439 3180
1/18 – 6/18 6493 1769 8262 2814
The downward trend in votes has been present for several years, but the drop-off from one year to the next has been particularly severe in 2017–2018. Compared to last year, overall voting on questions and answers has dropped by 34% (or 24% per post).
Though there are surely several factors at work here, to me this indicates that it's time for a reminder of the value and importance of voting.
Why Vote?
Personally, I'm often discouraged at the apparent lack of impact that my vote has in political elections. I only get a single vote in each one, and the number of elections (even local elections!) decided by one vote is vanishingly small.
But that's not the way it works here! Unlike "real life," everyone with at least 15 reputation gets lots of votes – at least 30 per day. Distributing them freely makes a big difference in the life of this site and its community. Here's how:
Voting determines visibility
Ultimately, our mission is to help people find answers to their questions. Writing great questions and answers is an important first step, but without voting, such content remains effectively invisible – buried in a mass of poor and mediocre content. Voting changes this:
• Within questions, voting causes great answers to rise to the top, and poor answers to drop to the bottom
• Voting on questions makes the best ones rise to the top of the "votes" and "unanswered" tabs of the Questions page
• Downvoting poor questions makes them disappear from the front page
• Highly voted questions and answers get additional visibility through our newsletter and twitter account
• Voting on new content increases the likelihood of it hitting the "Hot Network Questions" list, bringing in traffic and, sometimes, new contributors
Voting encourages great content
Voting is a powerful feedback mechanism for content creators, which increases the overall quality of content on the site.
• By upvoting good content, you express your appreciation of its author and, in a small way, communicate your hope that s/he continues to post questions and answers of similar quality.
• On the other hand, downvotes encourage users to reevaluate their approach to asking and answering questions, often resulting in improvements, or, at least, fewer poor contributions.
• Not voting on content leaves contributors in limbo – is the content useful or not? Is anyone actually reading this stuff? Is it even worth continuing to contribute?
Voting enables community moderation
Elected moderators, like myself, are meant to be "exception handlers" – taking action in a relatively limited number of situations. In a smoothly running community, the vast majority of moderation is done by users who have earned reputation – most commonly, by having their good questions and answers voted up.
Voting makes you famous
Maybe not famous famous, but consider:
• There are lots of great badges available to those who vote, including one that has been handed out to just ten people in the history of this site – there's an exclusive club. And if you're looking for a gold badge, this one isn't too tough to get.
• Prolific voters appear at the top of the voters page, where the entire community can see who is helping the site most by taking advantage of this valuable tool
• Top voters in coming months will be recognized in an answer to this post
Practical steps
Hopefully you're convinced that voting is important, but if you need more convincing, read the relevant page in our help center. Now, let's talk about putting this into practice.
It isn't complicated: just vote more. But for those looking for a little more guidance, here are some suggestions:
• If you read it, vote on it. Even if you aren't an expert, it's almost always possible for you to judge if a question or answer is helpful or not. Ask: Is it clear? Is it relevant? Is it well-researched?
• Sometimes we might hesitate to vote if we aren't familiar with the subject, particularly answers. Reliably judging the quality of such content can be difficult, but remember, the best answers will make this easy by citing appropriate sources. And there's nothing wrong with judging an answer "unhelpful," and downvoting, because it lacks sources for its claims.
• Still, there are times when not voting makes sense: For example, if you'd like to clarify something or ask for sources, it may be worth leaving a comment without voting (at least until the author responds). Also, it's often considered unwelcoming to "pile on" downvotes on a new user's post – particularly if you aren't going to make a point to come back and reverse your vote if improvements are made.
• Vote wisely. Many new users find that Vox Populi badge tempting, not to mention Electorate, but that's no excuse for voting randomly. Remember the impact your votes have on the community and site at large, and use them wisely. Take time to read and evaluate the content, then vote on its merits.
• Downvoting answers costs 1 reputation point, but this is almost always trivial in the long run, in part because it's refunded when the post gets deleted (which happens quite often).
• Encourage healthy voting patterns. Don't discourage those who are doing a good job of voting. Here are a few ways to help:
• If you get a downvote, don't harass the downvoter or complain about how unjust the world is. Reevaluate your content, consider how it might be improved, and, if you think you can withstand further scrutiny, ask for improvement ideas on meta.
• Don't revenge vote. This should be obvious, but always vote based on content, not the user.
• If you see comments that harass other users or the community at large for their votes (whether up or down), flag them. Moderators will clean them up and address the behavior.
• Consider the possibility that voting is just as valuable as writing a post – because it often is. You may do much more good for the site, its community, and its readers if you take 30 minutes to read posts and vote instead of using that time to write something.
This post is already ridiculously long, so I'll close with some cliches that are actually accurate.
• Your votes matter.
• If you don't vote, don't complain
• Vote early and vote often.
• Get out the vote.
• And of course: the future of this site depends on your votes.
• Maybe mention that unlike in politics where you get to vote once and then go home, you get 40 votes a day here and using them keeps the "economy" alive. As such active voters who keep the currency flowing have much more influence over the site than passive observers. – Caleb Jul 7 '18 at 10:10
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I'm all for this, but I wonder if our nature is part of the problem. I'm active at Worldbuilding and people shovel votes over there (almost too much). However, here... I rarely can comment on, answer, appreciate, or approve questions outside my denomination. That might be true for many of our participants. Which, by itself, could seriously slow down the voting, especially if there's been a similar trend upward in the choice to impose denominational constraints on more questions. In the effort to avoid the 1900-year-old-shouting-match, we might be reducing the community's voting to a whisper. – JBH Jul 7 '18 at 10:12
• @JBH Why do you feel you can rarely vote outside your denomination? – curiousdannii Jul 7 '18 at 12:28
• Any chance you'd be able to edit the SEDE query to give an average votes per post figure for each year? – curiousdannii Jul 7 '18 at 13:02
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@curiousdannii, while there are some aspects about other faiths I understand (or pretend to understand), for the most part just to appreciate the question I need to perform primary research (time). Then I need to understand the answers to judge if they are of good quality (time). Now, to be completely honest (and having had some sleep), I could up/downvote questions based solely on the quality of the construction of the question. I may not understand the subject at all, but it meets all our criteria and deserves recognition. But the answers? – JBH Jul 7 '18 at 16:28
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Good thoughts @JBH – I'll edit a bit to see if I can address them. I do think it's possible to vote outside your tradition, even answers, with a small amount of effort – for example, once you know that the Catholic Catechism is authoritative, you can normally judge if a quote from it is relevant and answers the question about Catholicism. But I'll try to expand on this a bit more in the question. – Nathaniel is protesting Jul 7 '18 at 19:01
• @curiousdannii I thought about that, a search on our site didn't reveal a huge difference in the number of posts from 2017 to 2018 (using created:2017..2017-06-30 for example). To be really accurate, we'd need to include deleted content and deleted votes. I'll see what I can find. – Nathaniel is protesting Jul 7 '18 at 19:03
It might be worth mentioning that this is a common pattern on many SE sites - voting drops off over the years.
One reason that voting dropped here is that the (former) most active voter mostly drifted away from voting on this and most other SE sites. Having a lot of people who are somewhat active voters is better than having a few very active people is better all around: it's the foundation of a crowd-based system like SE, and it avoids a few people having such a big impact.
It's worth having some posts like this one to try to encourage more people to vote more often, hopefully it will have some impact.
As a fairly new contributor to Christianity Stack Exchange I have discovered that very few new questions are getting through. Lots of interesting questions are being put on hold and closed. So I've stopped bothering to look at them. The minute the moderators come in with reasons why the question should be put on hold is the minute I move on elsewhere. Except there are very few new questions getting through. Have a wee think about that.
I vote up (hardly ever down) on answers to questions where I have some knowledge about the subject. That means my scope to vote is quite limited. I wouldn't dream of voting on answers to questions about Catholicism, for example, since I am of the Protestant persuasion and I do not pretend to know enough about Catholic beliefs to vote either way.
What is the point in spending time on research so you are in a position to vote up or down, when the very question you've been spending time on might be closed down?
I'm even beginning to question my participation on this site. At the risk of inviting the wrath of the moderators, might I suggest some of you lighten up a bit and cut the rest of us (who are not professors or doctors of divinity but just ordinary Christians) some slack?
Seems to me that a few people here are control freaks and perhaps that's why participation is dropping off. For my part, I will continue to vote whenever I find a question about Christianity that interest me - but I think the more serious issue is the actual number of new interesting questions that are being allowed to stay up.
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It seems like your focus here is on this site's relatively strict guidelines, which, incidentally, is what the community and the elected moderators enforce. These guidelines didn't develop overnight, and in many ways are the reason that this site has so much valuable content compared to other sites of this nature. If you have examples of how you think the community should "lighten up," you can raise them on meta, but I'd encourage you to review this site's history – you will find that most of the time, proposals to loosen standards have been rejected by the community. – Nathaniel is protesting Jul 9 '18 at 18:23
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Also, a couple voting related things: I'd encourage you to consider that few of us are "experts" in any sense, particularly outside our own traditions, but many of us still vote on the basis of clear writing and high-quality sources – no additional research required. You also seem to equate "participation" and voting – while the two are related, other indicators suggest that participation is stable. It's possible that as some long-time contributors have "retired," the new users replacing them haven't picked up the same voting habits – which hopefully this post can help remedy. – Nathaniel is protesting Jul 9 '18 at 18:39
• @Nathaniel - Fair comments which I take on board. However, my time here may be short-lived because a change of email provider is about to happen so I won't be able to log into this account. Don't know how to get round that one. – Lesley Jul 10 '18 at 8:08
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@Lesley You can easily add an additional login email: christianity.stackexchange.com/help/edit-credentials – curiousdannii Jul 10 '18 at 9:57
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Before you choose to leave the site, please consider my own experience. I once thought as you did and felt as you feel. I couldn't understand "why can't we just help them with answers?" After getting poked, prodded, and occasionally slapped (I deserved it), what I began to realize is (a) in the beginning, it's difficult for many users (like me) to separate proselyting/preaching from answering questions. (b) A major goal of the site is to avoid agrument/debate. (c) SE's model is Q&A, not discussion. (d) A lot of "new users" are just trying to start arguments. (*continued*) – JBH Jul 11 '18 at 16:08
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And (d) some questions actually don't belong here, even if you can tell the OP is feeling anguish. I still don't always agree when a question gets closed, but I understand and see the value of it. Rather than moving on, may I suggest that a goal is to help teach OPs how to write more suitable questions and if you feel strongly about a particular closure, to bring that up in Meta. Rules aren't quite as rock-solid as they may seem and no one here claims perfection. The site is a bit slow, but there's value here. – JBH Jul 11 '18 at 16:12
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@JBH Perhaps I need a bit more poking, prodding and slapping for the penny to drop (I'm a bit thick-skinned). However, I'm also persistent so I will persevere. As Churchill said: "The secret of success is to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm." Appreciate your counsel. – Lesley Jul 11 '18 at 16:25
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Have a wee think on this Lesley: it's OK to up vote if an answer is helpful. I know very little about Greek Orthodox belief, similarly Calvinist belief, but when I read an answer that helps me to understand I up vote. Mouse over the text: "this answer is useful." That's all the criteria you need for an up vote. "Is absolutely right" is NOT the criteria. – KorvinStarmast Aug 17 '18 at 13:00
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I have thought about it and I have mended my ways! I am now giving up- votes to helpful answers, even if I might not agree with everything that has been said. It's about learning and understanding other perspectives. I'm also giving up-votes to interesting questions. – Lesley Aug 18 '18 at 10:44
Thanks to all those who have taken the time to vote! Here are those who have voted the most,* by time period.
July 2018: curiousdannii, user477343, and Thunderforge
August 2018: Ward, curiousdannii, and Lesley
*moderators excluded
• Also excluding votes on deleted posts I assume? – curiousdannii Aug 1 '18 at 12:59
• @curiousdannii I don't think so – this is based on counts from the Voters page, which I believe includes votes on deleted posts. – Nathaniel is protesting Aug 1 '18 at 13:08
• Oh, I always assumed votes on deleted posts weren't counted. – curiousdannii Aug 1 '18 at 13:20
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@curiousdannii I think the profile and voters pages are consistent, and the profile at least includes deleted posts: meta.stackexchange.com/questions/117846/… Edit: Yes, Nick confirms that deleted ones are included on the voters page in a comment on that answer. – Nathaniel is protesting Aug 1 '18 at 13:25
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• Carrie (2013) [Carrie White]: Crushed underneath the wreckage of her house when Chloë uses her telekinetic powers to make it rain stones from the sky, which then proceed to cave in the house, with her inside it. Chloë's grave is later visited by Gabriella Wilde; the vandalized tombstone cracks, and Chloë's screams can be heard, hinting that she's alive.
Television Deaths:Edit
• American Dad: Steve and Snot's Test Tubular Adventure (2013; animated) [Honey]: Shot in the back by Seth MacFarlane as she runs away from him and crashes through glass (a parody of Joanna Cassidy's death in Blade Runner).
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/74811 | IE8 Idiotic Session handling
By , April 20, 2010 10:45 am
As you may be aware Internet Explorer 8 will share session among its different instances (even if you start new instance by clicking IE Desktop icon). Why on Earth this was done is described in this article. The only way to start a new session is to use obscure File -> New Session option in menu, interesting choice, considering that in IE8 menu is hidden by default.
But this is not the end. Quoting the article:
Relying on closing the window to clear the session is not a recommended way to implement proper logoff for an application. Because this clearly will not work if there is another window that is sharing the session.
True, buy why, pray say, session isn’t cleared for one application if its window closed, but another window remains open, pointing to a completely different application, on different server in different DOMAIN?!
Do try this:
1. Login to any app that that requires user login.
2. Open a new browser, and point it anywhere to a completely unrelated link.
3. Close original app window from Step 1.
4. Open new browser window and go URL of app from Step 1.
5. Surprise, surprise, you’re still logged on.
Also, aren’t they aware that 99.9% of all users will simple close browser window instad of going thru logout process even if it takes only one click? And in many scenarious, including one above user will stay logged in.
2 Responses to “IE8 Idiotic Session handling”
1. joe says:
So what? that is how it should be. Your session still exists because you never closed the application. You opened the second browser prior to closing the first and then closed the first. Why would you expect the session to be forgotten? By your expectations, every new tab or new window would not be logged in.
2. Yuriy says:
I’d expect, logically, when all browser windows pointing to one application are closed – that application session should cease to exist. Why should browser remember my credentials to EBay if I have Google open in another window? I don’t care what is happening under the hood, and this is a correct way to behave from the developer point of view. From user point of view this is a security risk.
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Output's histograms - How to interpret each index?
Good afternoon,
I’d like to know more about the meaning of each index through their respective histograms.
I’m using a Micasense Altum camera so I have few different outputs available to me. Since most of those indexes are related to vegetation’s health, where the minimum values mean unhealthy vegetation, soil, roads, etc and the maximum values mean healthy vegetation.
My question is: how about the Thermal output? It usually gives me a minimum value of 29000 and a maximum value of 30000. Does the histogram range from the minimum temperature to the maximum temperature captured in said Thermal output?
And if yes, how is this associated with ºC/ºF temperatures?
In another note, NDVI for example ranges from -1 to 1 but most of my generated NDVI’s range between other values, for example, -0.15 to 0.15. I assume fields tend to use the minimum and maximum registered values on each project, instead of using default values, in this case, -1 to 1 for NDVI.
Any feedback regarding these aspects would be highly appreciated!
Best regards,
Hi James,
The thermal pixel values need to converted to degree C with the formula Thermal_ir=(lwir/100)-273.15
The values will be between that range -1 to +1. Since -0.15-0.15 is within that range it is correct. The range will differ for each project with min-max NDVI values as the range, as you mentioned.
The values I have for the NDVI range is -0.28 to +0.38 and when the formula is used it does not make sense. Can you elaborate on this a bit, I’m very new to all this stuff?
In my case lwir= +0.38 correct?
Best regards
If you range of NDVI is from -0.28 to +0.38, it’s good. The NDVI range should be between -1 to +1. Stones, concrete, etc can have negative NDVI values and vegetation will have more than 0. Can you explain why you say “when the formula is used it does not make sense”?
For LWIR, +0.38 seems a very weird value, if after using the formula, Thermal_ir is 0.38, that would make sense as maybe the temperature of some object/pixel was 0.38 degree Celcius.
Can you send me a screenshot showing the NDVI and LWIR values?
Perhaps I should backtrack here a bit, I’m using the Sequoia camera and you are mentioning LWIR (Long-Wave Infrared).
Our goal is to estimate defoliation on Balsam fir and maybe I am using the wrong spectrum. Pardon me but I am quite new to this.
Here is a screen cap of my NDVI for one of my flights.
Oh I thought you are using Micasense altum, my bad! Then you can generate all the indices that have green, blue, red, rededge and NIR bands like the ones you have generated above. Your NDVI looks good, the range is within -1 to +1 which means it is correct.
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1. Glory is related to the liver!
The root of the Hebrew word for ‘glory’ is related to that for ‘liver.’ This appears to be a strange starting point from which to explain what we consider to be such an exalted word as ‘glory.’ The word liver – kabed in Hebrew – is found fourteen times in the Old Testament mainly in association with animals offered for sacrifice (for example, Exodus 29:13 and 22,) but it is also associated with humans (for example, Proverbs 7:23 and Lamentations 2:11.)
The root of the word means ‘heavy’ and it was associated with the liver as the heaviest of the internal organs. The relationship between ‘heavy’ and ‘glory’ is also seen in a number of Old Testament passages such as Exodus 17:12 ‘But Moses’ hands were heavy (kabed); and they took a stone, and put it under him, and he sat thereon’ (KJV). And Psalm 38:4 ‘For mine iniquities are gone over mine head: as a heavy (kabed) burden they are too heavy for me’ (KJV).
2. Glory developed into the concept of splendour
The root meaning behind ‘kabod’ then developed from the idea of heaviness in a physical sense to wealth in the sense of being ‘heavy with riches.’ Thus in Isaiah 10:3 we read, ‘To whom will you flee for help, and where will you leave your wealth (kabod)?’ (RSV).
In the KJV the word ‘wealth’ is translated ‘glory.’ So kabod is here being used in reference to actual material assets. But the word continues to develop, moving from the concept of material wealth to the non-material concept of honour and splendour. In Malachi 1:6 God asks, ‘A son honours (kabod) his father, and a servant his master. If I am a father, where is the honour (kabod) due to me?’
The sense of splendour inherent in kabod is seen in Joseph’s encounter with his brothers. Joseph had been promoted to a position in Egypt second only to Pharaoh and now he revealed who he was to his brothers and said to them, ‘You must tell my father of all my splendour (kabod) in Egypt, and of all that you have seen. Make haste and bring my father down here’ (Genesis 45:13 RSV).
Glory was then came to be recognised as a characteristic of God, and frequently we find the word associated with God, especially in the phrases ‘the glory of God’ – ‘The heavens declare the glory of God’ (Psalm 19:1), and ‘the glory of the Lord’, ‘Arise, shine, for your light has come and the glory of the Lord rises upon you’ (Isaiah 60:1).
3. The glory of God reveals the presence of God
dr-jim-1116-cThe phrase, ‘the glory of God’ is identified with ‘the presence of God.’ When the tabernacle was set up at Sinai, God’s presence in it was described in this way, ‘Then the cloud covered the Tent of meeting, and the glory of the Lord filled the tabernacle’ (Exodus 40:34).
In the same way, when Solomon’s temple was dedicated we read in 1 Kings 8:11, ‘The priests could not perform their service because of the cloud, for the glory of the Lord filled his temple.’ The cloud is often associated with the glory of God; it possibly served as a ‘protective covering’ so that the pure glory of God was concealed (compare Exodus 33:18.)
The cloud also served as a visible sign of the glorious presence of God. In some way God’s presence is revealed in his glory, and to encounter the glory of God is to encounter God himself. Ezekiel confirmed this when he wrote, ‘And the glory (kabod) of the Lord was standing there, like the glory (kabod) I had seen by the Kebar River, and I fell facedown’ (Ezekiel 3:23 NIV).
4. The glory of God is present in his guiding
When the Israelites left Egypt and entered the wilderness, God guided them in that experience by His glory in two ways; first by a pillar of cloud by day and a pillar of fire by night (Exodus 13:21). That these were visible signs of God’s glorious presence is confirmed by Moses statement to the people in Exodus 16:7 and 10, ‘“In the morning you will see the glory of the Lord” … they looked toward the desert, and there was the glory of the Lord appearing in the cloud.’
Apart from the presence of God, the people’s wanderings in the wilderness would have been aimless and their destination unattainable. But God not only gave them direction – He was also gloriously present with them and such knowledge would have been comforting to them.
When we are obedient to God’s guidance, we can be confident that we are living in the glory of his presence.
5. The glory of God is the theme of our lips
In the Psalms David uses the word kabod in a most unusual way. Consider the following psalms in which I have replaced the English word ‘glory’ with kabod:
• 16:9, ‘Therefore my heart is glad, and my kabod rejoices; my body also dwells secure.’
• 30:11-12, ‘You have turned for me my mourning into dancing; you have loosed my sackcloth and girded me with gladness, that my kabod may praise thee and not be silent. O Lord my God, I will give thanks to thee for ever.’
• 57:8, ‘Awake, my kabod! Awake, O harp and lyre!’
• 108:1, ‘My heart is steadfast, O God, my heart is steadfast! I will sing and make melody! Awake, my kabod!
Some translations use the word ‘glory’ (KJV) in these verses, others use the word ‘soul’ (RSV) and still others use ‘heart’ and ‘tongue’ (NIV). Some commentators argue that what is meant is that the glory is God’s and we are to rejoice in it.
The key to understanding its use in these psalms is found in Acts 2:26 in the sermon Peter gave on the day of Pentecost when he quoted Psalm 16:9 in this way, ‘Therefore my heart was glad, and my tongue rejoiced; moreover my flesh will dwell in hope.’ In Hebrew the word kabod is used, but the Greek Septuagint translation (that was done by Greek speaking Jews between the 3rd century BC and 132 BC) translated the Hebrew word kabod with the Greek word glossa (which means ‘tongue’). In quoting the Greek translation Peter obviously considered that this was the intended meaning of the verse.
In this context glossa is an appropriate synonym for ‘glory’ for the Christian because it is a reminder that God wants us to use our tongues to glorify and praise him, to declare his glorious works, and to ‘declare the praises of him who called you out of darkness into his wonderful light’ (1 Peter2:9).
6. The relationship between glory and suffering
Not only are the Hebrew words for ‘glory’ and ‘suffering’ linked etymologically but they are also interwoven theologically. Both words come from the same Hebrew root word and as we trace their usage through the Bible, we discover a relationship between glory and suffering.
The concept of heaviness in relation to ‘glory,’ as mentioned previously, is often associated in the Old Testament with suffering. For example, in Job 6:2-3 Job laments, ‘If only my anguish could be weighed and all my misery be placed on the scales! It would surely outweigh the sand of the seas …’
And Job 23:2, ‘Even today my complaint is bitter; his hand is heavy in spite of my groaning.’
In these passages the words ‘outweigh’ and ‘heavy’ are from the same root word as ‘glory’ but here they are related to the suffering that Job was experiencing.
The idea of anguish related to the bearing of an intolerable burden is seen in 1 Kings 12:10 where the people, hoping that the load Solomon had placed on them would be eased when his son Rehoboam became king, appealed to him for relief. But Rehoboam’s advisors said to him, ‘Tell these people who have said to you, “Your father put a heavy yoke on us, but make our yoke lighter” – tell them, “My little finger is thicker than my father’s waist”’ (1 Kings 12:10). Again we find the word ‘heavy’ – (kabed) – being used in association with suffering.
The theme of the relationship between suffering and glory is a frequent one in the Old Testament, and we see it particularly in many of the Psalms. Psalm 22 is a good example of this. So too are the ‘Servant Songs’ in Isaiah. The ‘Servant’ is a Messianic figure whose divine mission was to the world. It is apparent, however, that the office of the ‘Servant’ involves him in suffering. This is particularly clear in Isaiah 53:3-4,
But the Servant’s suffering was not as a result of his own sin – it was substitutionary and redemptive:
This was something that the Jews found difficult to accept – that the Messiah would suffer. They believed that the Messiah’s glory would be demonstrated by resplendent power while, in reality, the scriptures teach that the Messiah’s glory would only be established through suffering.
There is a clear identification between the ‘Suffering Servant’ and Jesus whose mission was brought to a glorious conclusion through suffering. On the evening of Resurrection Day, as Jesus walked with the disconsolate couple on the way to Emmaus, He said to them, ‘Did not the Christ have to suffer these things and then enter glory?’ (Luke 24:26).
The writer of Hebrews has commented, ‘But we see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels, now crowned with glory and honour because he suffered death, so that by the grace of God he might taste death for everyone. ‘In bringing many sons to glory, it was fitting that God, for whom and through whom everything exists, should make the author of their salvation perfect through suffering.’ (Hebrews 2:9-10) It was God’s plan to save us and to bring us to glory, and the way he chose was through suffering. Shortly before he was crucified, Jesus said, ‘“The hour has come for the Son of Man to be glorified. … Father, glorify your name!” Then a voice came from heaven, “I have glorified it, and will glorify it again”’ (John 12:23, 28).
The New Testament writers also revealed that for us too there may be a relationship between suffering and glory. Peter wrote to those who were suffering as Christians, ‘Rejoice that you participate in the sufferings of Christ, so that you may be overjoyed when his glory is revealed’ (1 Peter 4:13).
And Paul, in that magnificent verse, Philippians 3:10, wrote, ‘I want to know Christ and the power of his resurrection and the fellowship of sharing in his sufferings, becoming like him in his death.’ The phrase, ‘the fellowship of sharing in his sufferings’ makes sense when we see it in terms of glory.
I have more fully expounded this theme because many Christians consider that suffering and glory are contradictory terms whereas, as we have seen, the interaction and relationship between the two is very strong.
7. The glory of God was revealed in Jesus
Though no one can see the full glory of God, yet His magnificent splendour and the glory of his presence was seen in Jesus Christ. ‘The Son is the radiance of God’s glory and the exact representation of his being’ (Hebrews 1:3).
dr-jim-1116bThe birth of Jesus revealed God’s glory. When Jesus was born, the glory of God shone around the shepherds in the fields (Luke 2:9) and the choir of angels sang about God’s glory (Luke 2:14.)
John wrote concerning Jesus, ‘The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us. We have seen his glory (Greek: δόξαdoxa) the glory of the One and Only, who came from the Father, full of grace and truth’ (John 1:14).
In fact the glory of God was with Jesus even before the incarnation; indeed the eternal glory of the Father and the glory of the pre-existent Christ were the same thing, as Jesus prayed in John 17:5, ‘Father, glorify me in your presence with the glory I had with you before the world began.’
Jesus’ life and ministry revealed God’s glory. The first miracle he performed was at the wedding at Cana where he changed the water into wine; we read, ‘He thus revealed his glory, and his disciples put their faith in him’ (John 2:11). It became apparent that the glory of Christ was also the Glory of God.
In Hebrew 2:3 we read, ‘The Son is the radiance of God’s glory and the exact representation of his being.’ Jesus said to the disbelieving Jews, ‘…even though you do not believe me, you should at least believe my deeds, in order that you may know once and for all that the Father is in me and that I am in the Father’ (John 10:38 GNB). The works of Christ were not only a demonstration of the power of God but also of the presence of God – and where God is present so too is his glory. Thus Jesus was able to say to Philip, ‘Anyone who has seen me has seen the Father’ (John 14:9).
dr-jim-1116dJesus’ death, resurrection and ascension revealed God’s glory. After Judas left the table to betray Jesus and thus begin the final countdown to his crucifixion, Jesus said to the disciples, ‘Now is the Son of Man glorified and God is glorified in him’ (John 13:32).
The cross, an object of shame and defeat, became a symbol of glory and victory as God demonstrated His abounding love for mankind. The resurrection too revealed his glory. Paul wrote that ‘Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father’ (Romans 6:4). The breaking of the power of the grave revealed the power of the glory of God. God’s glory was also present after Jesus commissioned his church, promised the coming of the Holy Spirit and then ascended to the Father.
We read in Acts 1:9 that ‘a cloud hid him from their sight.’ I suggest that this is the same cloud that was seen in the wilderness, in the tabernacle and in the temple – the cloud which acted as a protective barrier between human eyes and the dazzling glory of God.
8. The glory of God will demonstrate the triumph of God
The hymn, ‘Thine be the glory, risen, conquering Son’ reflects the theme of that day when God’s triumph will be clearly seen throughout the earth. God’s plans will be completed and his purposes will be victorious. This was something the prophets understood.
Likewise Isaiah, looking forward to the splendour of the coming reign of God when all His enemies will be defeated and he will be victorious, wrote, ‘And the glory of the LORD will be revealed, and all mankind together will see it’ (Isaiah 40:5).
9. The glory of God is the illumination of heaven
In the book of Revelation the word ‘glory’ (δόξα) is found seventeen times – fifteen times in direct reference to God. The great anthems of heaven will be about the glory of God; for example, ‘You are worthy, our Lord and God, to receive glory and honour and power… Worthy is the Lamb, who was slain to receive power and wealth and wisdom and strength and honour and glory and praise! … Let us rejoice and be glad and give him glory!’ (Revelation 4:11; 5:12; 19:7).
Furthermore, as we live eternally in the nearness of God’s presence, this glory-filled heaven will be illuminated by the resplendent light of God’s glory. ‘The city does not need the sun or the moon to shine on it, for the glory of God gives it light, and the Lamb is its lamp’ (Revelation 21:23). This is the same vision seen by Isaiah who wrote, ‘The sun will no more be your light by day, nor will the brightness of the moon shine on you, for the Lord will be your everlasting light, and your God will be your glory’ (Isaiah 60:19).
The word here translated ‘glory’ is not kabod but one that means beauty and splendour. The Message translation captures the meaning well: ‘You’ll have no more need of the sun by day nor the brightness of the moon at night. God will be your eternal light, your God will bathe you in splendour.’
The fact is that not everyone will experience that glorious splendour for the scriptures say in 2 Corinthians 4:4 that ‘The god of this age [that is, Satan] has blinded the minds of unbelievers, so that they cannot see the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God.’
Only those who put their trust in Jesus Christ will be among those who will not only discover the grandeur of God’s glory in the future, but who will also, here and now know something about it for, if we live in close fellowship with him, we will ‘reflect the Lord’s glory,’ while we ‘are being transformed into his likeness with ever-increasing glory, [literally ‘from glory to glory’] which comes from the Lord, who is the Spirit’ (2 Corinthians 3:18).
Dr Jim McClure, author of several books and Bible study series, welcomes questions from Christians seeking enlightenment on biblical perspectives. Love, Marriage, Divorce and Remarriage will shortly be available in an electronic version in EPUB, Kindle and PDF formats with hyperlinks (as is Dr Jim’s well-researched Grace Revisited) and is offered free.
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This Might Be the Key to Ridiculously Sculpted Cheekbones
Meet your new morning routine.
By: Hannah Baxter
Photography: Tim Buol
Videographer: Tim Buol
You know those girls on Instagram who always seem to have cheekbones cut from marble? Well, we’ve got a little secret for you—it’s not just contouring that’s giving her such defined bone structure. Makeup helps, of course, but if you really want to coax your cheekbones out of hiding for all the world to see, then it’s time you incorporate facial massage into your routine.
Depending on the aesthetician you speak with, or the subset of beauty you prefer (K-beauty, J-beauty, TCM), there are a multitude of different massage techniques that promise to lift and sculpt your face. There are some commonalities across all cultures, however: moving upwards, repetition, consistency, draining your lymph nodes. After speaking with numerous experts, this editor has developed her own bizarre little routine, and I must say, my skin is grateful (and glowing) ever since I took five extra minutes to get ready in the morning.
To make it even easier for you, we consulted two top aestheticians for their massage tips: Georgia Louise and Cecilia Wong, both of whom utilize facial massage in their in-office treatments. We’ve tried each of them, and they’re good. These are two self-massages that use some of their favorite techniques—one for a long, leisurely Sunday afternoon when you’re free to baby your skin for as long as you please, while the other is an express version for your weekday mornings. Try them, change them up, use tools if you want (kansa wands and gua sha stones are two of our favs), and reap the multitude of benefits. Among them are lifting, from manual manipulation of the skin and decreased inflammation; brightening, from increased circulation and oxygen; and de-puffing, from removing toxins and excess fluid via lymphatic drainage. Basically, you’re left with an overall more radiant complexion. Who doesn’t want that?
Most of all, massage is just a small way to shower yourself with self-love and some much-deserved relaxation. The steps for both methods are below, and be sure to follow along with our videos for proper placement and technique.
This massage takes five minutes or less. Repeat each of the steps a few times if you can, giving each area of the face at least ten seconds of attention. Your hands work great for this type of massage, but Louise also recommends an ice roller for particularly puffy mornings.
Use medium to firm pressure throughout this massage.
1. Apply an oil cleanser using small circular motions, working from the inside of the face outwards.
2. Cross your hands and rest them on the clavicle area (the soft tissue above the bone), pumping lightly.
3. With your hands in a prayer position, lightly press your fingertips under the jaw, moving outwards with gentle pressure.
4. Sweep the hands across the brows and forehead, moving from the center out towards the temples.
5. Use your thumbs in a counterclockwise motion around the eye using firm pressure.
6. Glide hands down the neck starting from the edge of the jaw, below your ear.
7. Use fingertips to sweep the hands outwards from the nasolabial folds up towards the cheekbones in the “butterfly” finger technique.
8. Pump above the clavicle area to activate the lymph nodes and drain excess fluid.
Had a stressful week? Wong recommends putting on some relaxing music, lighting a few candles, and even lying down with a comfy pillow while you perform this massage. Take your time, allowing each gentle press or sweeping motion to last for 30 seconds, or repeat it up to nine times. Just don’t rush through the steps on either the face or neck section—remember, this is meant to be pampering.
Use gentle pressure throughout this massage.
At the jawline:
1. Place both middle fingers in the center of the chin, and gently press nine times.
2. Press in a circular motion for 30 seconds.
3. Sweep both fingers from the middle of the chin to the corner of the mouth in a lifting motion. Repeat this nine times.
At the center point between the lips and the nose:
1. Press for 30 seconds.
2. Massage in circular motion nine times.
At the lower cheeks (below the cheekbones):
1. Place each hand on each cheek right below the bone.
2. Using the tips of the fingers, press upwards toward the cheekbone. Repeat this nine times.
3. Gently massage in a circular motion for 30 seconds.
At the nasolabial groove (the groove where your nostril meets your face):
1. Press on both sides with the middle finger for 30 seconds.
2. Massage in a circular motion nine times.
At the ears (at the depression before the supratragic notch, which is right above the tragus of the ear, closer to the face):
1. Press for 30 seconds.
2. Massage in a circular motion nine times.
At the eyes (directly under the pupil):
1. Press for 30 seconds.
2. Tap softly nine times with your fingertips.
On the outer corner of the eye:
1. Press for 30 seconds.
On the inner corner of the eyebrows:
1. Press for 30 seconds with your middle finger, then...
2. Sweep towards the outer corner of the eyebrows. Repeat this nine times.
Between the eyebrows:
1. Gently press down for 30 seconds, then gently massage with the tip of the middle finger in slow counterclockwise circles.
At the forehead (from above the eyebrows):
1. Use both hands to sweep upward towards the hairline; repeat nine times, then...
2. Repeat on both the left and right sides of the forehead.
On the temples:
1. Use both middle fingers to gently massage in circular motions eight to nine times, then...
2. Gently sweep the hands down to the end of the neck.
Behind collarbone:
1. Cross your hands, and find the soft area behind the collarbone on the opposite side.
2. Apply a half-circle stroke, coming down to the collarbone and scooping slightly inward to the middle of the neck. Repeat this stroke nine times.
The neck:
1. Cross both hands on the neck above the collarbone.
2. Pump for 30 seconds and repeat nine times.
Side of the neck:
1. Cross hands on the opposite side of the neck, placing it (flattened) on the side of the neck towards the front.
2. Massage a half-circle back towards the fingertips and down the neck. Repeat this nine times.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/74860 | “How-To” 4th finger training
In the “How-To” series this is the first post.
Here we will discuss the training of the 4th finger.
The 4th finger is often regarded as the weak finger.
In runs and trills the 4th finger is often omitted, replaced by choosing another position.
When we would train this finger it can grow to be a worthy companion to fingers 1, 2 and 3.
Here are 2 suggestions on how to train the weak finger and make it strong.
Practice this as often as you can, you will experience much benefit from it.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/74866 | Let's say two people have the same edition of the same magazine. The knowledge that the magazine will be used as a one time pad is secret.
Is there any risk to using this as opposed to randomly generated numbers?
It does not seem to me that any additional risk is introduced, besides running a brute force with real phrases from common books, but that could also lead to a number of inaccurate "descriptions".
So, then, from a cryptographic perspective, are "real sentences" less secure?
There are two major risks, one of which is very difficult to quantify. So let's start with that.
Kerckhoffs' principle states that you have to assume that only a key is secret, not the means of communication. There's you and your friend, lover or co-conspirator and you communicate. The state knows this, and a search of your properties reveals a OTP was used, generated from some magazine. Assume you read a lot so you have many mags, say 10,000 as you have a rather large bookshelf. Guessing the correct one is only equivalent to guessing a ~13 bit key. That's not a lot. Granted you then have to work out which parts of the magazine were used, but you can see that the state is closing in on you. There are other pragmatic issues to quantifying this like eating the magazine afterwards, but still... Compare that to an electro-mechanically generated key of the length of a Twitter message. That's 1280 bits, which is oodles better.
Another risk is that the entropy rate of the key material must >= entropy rate of the plain text. This is the fundamental requirement for a OTP to preserve perfect secrecy. If your magazine is about fishing or football, the entropy rate of the text will be quite low, say just ~2-3 bits/character. An article by Umberto Eco will fare better, but not by much. Your secret message will have to have a correspondingly low entropy rate. So if you were to try and encrypt binary data approaching 8 bits/byte, perfect secrecy is impossible. Your message would be capable of being easily brute forced. You can mitigate this by using randomness extraction on the magazine text to condense the entropy to 8 bits/character. That still leaves my first and main risk though.
This is one of the fallacies about using such key material, and it's perfectly understandable given human senses. You think that finding the exact magazine is so hard it borders on impossible. It's only 13 bits improbable, whilst to us 10,000 magazines seems a lot. Compared to truly random keys, it's no security at all.
Absolutely it is weaker.
You are effectively in the same spot as if you used a true OTP to encrypt both the magazine and your message. That is, (magazine XOR message) equals (magazine XOR true_otp) XOR (true_otp XOR message). So if you search for reusing a one-time pad, you will find a variety of ways to determine the two messages, or in your case the magazine and the message. If you are not using exclusive-or, the details will change, but most of the underlying techniques will still work.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/74872 | Is there any graph theoretic result for recognising graphs whose complement has no odd holes ? I know about perfect graphs but they have the extra criteria being odd-hole free.
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$\begingroup$ This is equivalent to asking whether a graph has an odd-hole; currently this is open. Polynomial-time algorithms are known for special classes of graphs; also there is a structural result about the odd-hole-free graphs. $\endgroup$ – Hsien-Chih Chang 張顯之 Jan 30 '14 at 17:49
• $\begingroup$ Thank you for quick reply.Are there any similar (Like strong perfect graph theorem) result for graphs which are not subclass of perfect graphs ? $\endgroup$ – Dibyayan Jan 30 '14 at 17:53
There is a structural result for odd-hole-free graphs by Michele Conforti, Gérard Cornuéjols, and Kristina Vušković:
Decomposition of odd-hole-free graphs by double star cutsets and 2-joins, Discrete Applied Mathematics, 2004.
Basically what it says is either the odd-hole-free graph belongs to a kind of basic class, or we can decompose the graph into smaller pieces using two kinds of decompositions. The proof of the strong perfect graph theorem follows the same spirit, and similar results are also known for various classes, e.g. even-hole-free graphs.
The interesting thing is that although the structural theorem of even-hole-free graphs leads to polynomial-time recognition algorithms (1, 2), the corresponding implication is not known for odd-hole-free graphs. However if we add the restriction that the clique number is bounded then we do have such a result.
$^1$ The first decomposition-based algorithm. $^2$ The fastest algorithm currently known.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/74907 | MicroHoo – what about the customers?
MicroHoo – the term lots of bloggers are using to describe the merging of Microsoft and Yahoo is in the news again. I’ve avoided talking about this takeover bid right from the beginning because I wanted to see how it would roll out. In all of the jabbering there seems to be an element missing or at least not getting the coverage it deserves. What impact would this have on the customers of each company?
There has been lots of talk about such things as shareholder value – Yahoo’s would go up, Microsoft’s would go down according to some market analysts. Workplace cultures are different at each company so there would be clashes. The value to Microsoft would be a billion dollar online advertising platform. Microsoft would be buying themselves a seat (or lots of them) on the Web 2.0 bus. Yahoo would receive benefit of senior management direction and vision from Microsoft . . . and the list goes on. But nowhere (that I could find in any case and certainly not in the daily news) was there any mention of what value MicroHoo would deliver to their customers.
Businesses exist because of their customers. They thrive by giving customers what they want and whither and die by not delivering what their customers need in the way of goods and services. As a customer of both companies (I’ve been a Yahooligan for longer than I can remember!) I ask a simple question – what’s in it for me?
Maybe it’s a good thing they didn’t merge since they both seemed to be focused on things other than their customer base.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/74917 | Reconciliation: Consistency over Complacency
Some Sunday Morning
“As a minister of the gospel, I am ashamed to say that eleven o’clock on Sunday morning … is the most segregated hour in America, and Sunday school is the most segregated school of the week.” Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. We are killing ourselves I had a few people talk behind my back when … More Some Sunday Morning |
global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/74923 | Premium Plan: Summary of Changes for Renewal Customers
This summary of changes is for customers who are renewing a previous Maps API for Business or Maps APIs for Work license with the new Google Maps Platform Premium Plan, which became available in January 2016. For more information about the Premium Plan, see Premium Plan Overview.
Scaled access to APIs You now have access to our suite of services with a single usage quota.
Maps APIs Credits Base prices include a common pool of Maps APIs Credits; all requests to APIs consume credits from this pool.
Usage model
Usage rates Requests to Maps APIs consume Maps APIs Credits; usage rates vary by API.
QPD The free daily QPD limit for web service requests is a shared 100,000 requests, instead of separate limits for each API.
QPS QPS has increased from 10 QPS to 50 QPS for all web service APIs, including the Places API. Learn how to optimize web service usage or request a QPS increase.
Client-side requests Client-side requests are now charged the same usage rate as web service requests.
Map loads Page views for the Maps JavaScript API under the previous Maps APIs for Work and Maps API for Business offerings has been replaced by map loads. Map loads consume Maps APIs Credits only when a map is actually instantiated on a page.
Places API Both client-side and server-side requests for the Places API, including Place Autocomplete, consume Maps APIs Credits.
Credits usage reporting You can view usage of Maps APIs Credits in the Google Maps Usage Reports tool in the Google Cloud Support Portal and the Google Cloud Platform Console.
Application development
Provisioning All Google Maps Platform will be automatically provisioned with an API project in the Google Cloud Platform Console. You'll receive both a Google Cloud Platform Console project ID and a client ID.
API keys You can now use an API key with any Maps API. Or, you can choose to use a client ID with any Maps API, except the Places API, Roads API, Geolocation API, and Mobile SDKs.
Mobile SDKs You no longer need to have the Google Maps Mobile SDK for Work enabled on your Google Cloud Platform Console project to access premium mobile features. You can now access these features in the Maps SDK for Android and the Maps SDK for iOS.
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Statistical Natural Language Processing
Lecture Master
Humanity generate exabytes of data every year. Most of this data is available in some rendition of natural language (in particular text). Hence, the inclusion of textual data sources is of growing importance in large-scale data-driven applications. A popular application scenario for this use are personal assistants (Siri, Google Home, Cortana, etc.), which rely partly on Web pages to extract of select answers to user questions. Processing large amounts of text in a semantically sound manner however turns out to be rather difficult for machines. The goal of this lecture is to provide students with insights in approaches based mostly on probabilistic models, which aim to facilitate the implementation of pipelines for processing natural language text. The lecture is structured as follows:
1. Finite-state automata
2. Language models
3. Spell checkers
4. Deduplication
5. Classification
6. Hidden Markov Models
7. Grammar and semantics
8. Parsing natural language
9. Word Sense Disambiguation
10. Distributional semantics
The course consists of:
1. A lecture
2h/week, slides uploaded after the lecture
2. Six series of coding exercises
Evaluated automatically through an online platform. Students are required to reach at least 50% of the points and submit at least 60% of the exercises to be allowed to participate in the exam. The exercises are discussed during a bi-weekly seminar.
3. A mini-project
The goal of the mini-project is to apply the content of the lecture to a practical problem and to implement a non-trivial solution to said problem. Groups of up to 3 persons are allowed, as long as the portion of the work carried out by each student can be identified clearly. The solution is evaluated automatically on a benchmark against a non-trivial but baseline solution to the same problem. Students must outperform the baseline to be allowed to participate in the exam. Moreover, a short document (12-15 pages, written using the provided LaTeX template) explaining the solution implemented by the students and a link to clearly commented code are a prerequisite to complete this requirement for the exam.
The exam lasts 90 minutes. The students are expected to answer both theoretical questions (e.g., what are the time and space complexity of a particular algorithm) and practical questions (e.g., write a regular expression to extract all occurrences of “mouse” from a piece of text).
Course in PAUL
L.079.05702 Statistical Natural Language Processing (in English)
Discussion forum in PANDA
go.upb.de/snlp (or PANDA link)
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/74934 | TY - JOUR AU - Moreno-Castilla, Carlos AU - Pérez-Cadenas, Agustín F. PY - 2010 SN - 1996-1944 UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10481/31915 AB - Honeycomb monoliths consist of a large number of parallel channels that provide high contact efficiencies between the monolith and gas flow streams. These structures are used as adsorbents or supports for catalysts when large gas volumes are treated,... LA - eng PB - Molecular Diversity Preservation International KW - Carbon-coated honeycomb monoliths KW - Integral carbon honeycomb monoliths KW - NO removal KW - Volatile organic compounds removal TI - Carbon-based honeycomb monoliths for environmental gas-phase applications DO - 10.3390/ma3021203 ER - |
global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/74948 | Call for Cultural Arts Teachers
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/74949 | Create Database Recovery Request (classic)
THIS TOPIC APPLIES TO: noSQL Server yesAzure SQL DatabaseyesAzure SQL Data Warehouse noParallel Data Warehouse
Recover an Azure SQL Database.
The recommended REST commands to work with SQL Database are the Resource Manager based Azure SQL Database REST API. While there is no change to SQL Database, be aware that the classic deployment model command in this article is scheduled for deprecation on December 1, 2019. For a table providing links to the specific new commands you should use, see Operations for Azure SQL Databases.
The Create Database Recovery Request must be specified as follows:
• Replace {subscriptionId} with your subscription ID.
• Replace {sourceServerName} with the server name where the recoverable database is located.
Method Request URI HTTP Version
POST{subscriptionId}/servers/{sourceServerName}/recoverdatabaseoperations HTTP/1.1
The time to recover a database will vary depending on the size and attributes of the specific database. Use Database Operation Status (classic) to check the status of a recovery operation.
URI Parameters
Request Headers
The following table describes the required and optional request headers:
Request Header Description
x-ms-version Required. Specifies the version of the operation to use for this request. This header should be set to 2012-03-01.
x-ms-client-request-id Optional. Provides a client-generated, opaque value with a 1 KB character limit. Using this header is highly recommended for correlating client-side activities with requests received by the server.
Request Body
The format of the request body is as follows:
<ServiceResource xmlns="">
The following table describes the elements of the request body:
Element Name Description
SourceDatabaseName The name of the database to recover.
TargetServerName The name of the server to recover the database to.
TargetDatabaseName The name of the database to recover to.
The TargetDatabaseName must not be the name of a live database already on the server. The {sourceDatabaseName} and {targetDatabaseName} should not use system reserved names, such as master, tempdb, model, msdb, for example.
Status Code
Response status code 201 (Created) indicates the request succeeded.
Response Headers
Response Header Description
x-ms-request-id A value that uniquely identifies a request made against the database management service. This request id is used for request tracking. If a failure occurs that requires the user to contact Microsoft Support, the request id should be provided to Microsoft to assist in tracking and resolving the failure for the request.
Response Body
The following is an example response body:
<ServiceResource xmlns="" xmlns:i="">
<Name i:nil="true" />
<SelfLink i:nil="true" />
<ParentLink i:nil="true" />
The following table describes the elements in the response body:
Element Name Description
SourceDatabaseName The name of the database being recovered.
TargetServerName The name of the server where the database will be recovered to.
TargetDatabaseName The name for the recovered database.
To check if a specific database is available for recovery, see Get Recoverable Database (classic). For a complete list of databases that can be recovered, see List Recoverable Databases (classic).
See Also
Recover an Azure SQL database using Geo-Restore with REST API
Common REST API Error Codes
Azure SQL Database
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/74955 | LACY (Lossless Activation Chamber Y): The Future is Strain Specific
LACY (Lossless Activation Chamber Y)LACY (Lossless Activation Chamber Y)
Have you ever had an edible that felt exactly like your favorite strain of weed? Imagine an OG Kush edible that gives you the distinct uplifting and euphoric effects of smoking a fat bowl of OG Kush. Or a Grape Ape capsule that gives you the relaxed, hungry and sleepy high that you’ve come to expect after consuming your favorite Grape Ape strain. Welcome to the future of edibles. Welcome to LACY (Lossless Activation Chamber Y).
Harvest Direct Enterprises is the first company in the world to develop a manufacturing method, LACY, that lets you capture an entire cannabis strain in a capsule. Founded in 2016 by brothers and Pittsburgh natives Zeyead and Ahmed Gharib, Harvest Direct Enterprises is a cannabis technology company based out of Seattle, Washington that focuses on manufacturing methods that produce the first true full-spectrum, strain-specific edibles. The Gharib Brothers have invented and developed a state-of-the-art proprietary device named LACY that can activate cannabinoids for various formulations without losing or degrading any of the hundreds of medically-viable compounds that give each cannabis strain its unique and distinct effects and characteristics.
This technological breakthrough marks the biggest innovation in cannabis science since the introduction of cannabis concentrates. LACY allows for the formulation of the first cannabis edibles to truly harness the entourage effect LACY produces the only cannabis edibles designed to include the hundreds of therapeutically relevant compounds found in cannabis, as opposed to just THC or just CBD. As a result, products produced by LACY are more effective at smaller doses and have more therapeutic uses than traditional cannabis edibles.
LACY (Lossless Activation Chamber Y)
Above is a graphic depicting the terpene content of cannabis activated and infused via LACY on the left, and the three top-selling capsules in Washington State on the right: THCaps by Northwest Cannabis Solutions and Double Delicious’ Hybrid and Indica capsules. As you can see, these products are virtually void of terpenes, essentially lacking the cannabis profile of the strain they started with. On the other hand, products produced by LACY are shown to have a much greater terpene content and diversity and more importantly, they contain the exact profile of the Blue Dream strain they were made from. That’s the magic of LACY.
LACY (Lossless Activation Chamber Y)
Do you notice how the starting materials terpene pie chart and the LACY pie chart look almost exactly the same in the graphic above? This shows, without a shadow of a doubt, that LACY (Lossless Activation Chamber Y) is able to fully activate cannabinoids while maintaining the strain profile of the plant we started with. Additionally, the Ardent, the most popular home cannabis activator currently on the market, is easily surpassed by LACY’s superior terpene content and profile retention during activation. The same can be said for the traditional methods sample which was activated via heat. These samples were analyzed by Confidence Analytics in Redmond, WA.
Harvest Direct Enterprises is represented by the largest and most respected intellectual property and patent law firm in the country. This powerhouse firm represents clients such as Apple, Starbucks, Amazon, and a dozen other internationally recognized brands and have taken Harvest Direct Enterprises on as their exclusive client in the legal cannabis space. They plan to broker acquisition or licensing of this proprietary technology by pharmaceutical companies once cannabis is legalized nationally for recreational and medical use. It should also be noted that LACY is not limited to producing cannabis edibles. In the same way that Tesla is producing cars to showcase the capabilities of its state-of-the-art battery, Harvest Direct Enterprises is producing edibles to showcase the capabilities of their proprietary manufacturing method and technology.
For more information on LACY and Harvest Direct Enterprises please see this pitch deck. If you have any additional questions or would like to discuss investing or licensing, please contact Harvest Direct Enterprises at: [email protected] |
global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/74980 | Out Of Control
Today as you scroll through your social media feed, inevitably you’ll find some story of yet more innocent lives tragically and violently ended. I just read one such story myself. I won’t bother to give the details because by the time you read this it will have been replaced by yet another story of similar magnitude. For the same reason, I don’t bother to read the comments on such stories anymore because those too tend to get recycled, and heated, and hateful, so why bother? But remove yourself from the social media age and some of those comments reveal themselves as universal, asked and asked again throughout the ages when tragedy strikes. One such question goes something like this: “Where was God in all of this?” It’s a logical question. From an observer with any moral fiber, seeing such unwarranted tragedy makes them question the validity of a loving and all-powerful god. If he can stop it, why doesn’t he?
The canned answer provided by many believers throughout those same ages has gone something like this: “God is in control.” Theologically correct? To a degree. Comforting? Not really. Given only this little nugget of truth to go by, the same observer may conclude that God either caused the tragedy or allowed it to happen. He is either guilty of murder or manslaughter. In any case, God is either toying with us or has abandoned us altogether. Is it any wonder then why people want nothing to do with God, if this really is our best answer? So the real question, the deeper question, is whether or not God really is in control.
From the very beginning control itself has been a struggle. Originally designed by God to steward the Earth, humanity was fooled into thinking that wasn’t enough. They were convinced that they needed more – more wisdom, more knowledge, more power. They didn’t want to have to trust God. They took control for themselves, a decision that still plagues their decedents and the planet they inhabit. In a perfect world, our control over the Earth would have been pure, God-centered and good for all. Instead, with the continual influx of sin, our control is warped into mere survival and greed. We not only struggle with ourselves, but nature itself struggles against us (Romans 8.20-21).
Ultimately, yes, God is in control in that his plan has been and will be worked out to perfect completion. But part of that plan was to give the pinnacle of his creation – mankind – control over the Earth. In our sin and selfishness, we’ve decided that we don’t want God to intervene in how we run this ship, that we’re good enough and smart enough to do it ourselves, thank you. And in doing so we’ve reaped the reward of that decision with chaos, destruction, and death. Yet when the next school shooting or personal tragedy hits, we dare to ask, “Where was God?” We ask God not to intervene when things are going well, then turn around and accuse him for not intervening when things have gone sideways. We can’t have it both ways. Either we invite God to intervene in everything or in nothing. And if our current situation reveals anything, it’s that we’ve chosen to kick him out altogether. So don’t be surprised at the results.
The one thing we must realize is that, in fact, we are not in control. No matter how much we fool ourselves, how advanced we become, how deep our thinking delves, how loving we proclaim ourselves to be, our control is a fleeting shadow. It’s just enough to influence the space and time around us, but in the end, our control remains in the dirt when we leave. To have any true, lasting influence in this world, we must yield our meager control to the Creator, the one who has eternal, final control. Only then can we hope to have any resemblance to the image-bearers he designed us to be.
So can God stop it? He can, and he did, through Christ who overturned the rule of sin. But that plays out through us. We must accept his rule in us to let him rule through us. So as long as tragedy continues to roll off your Twitter feed, know that it’s not God who is causing it. He made a way out. It’s we who are failing to run through.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/74995 | Dalla Corte - Eight Inc.
Dalla Corte.
Putting Meaning into an Identity.
Dalla Corte is an Italian professional espresso machine manufacturer, whose founders have been responsible for many of the most crucial innovations in the sector for the last 70 years. Paolo Dalla Corte and his father Bruno set up their own company in 2001, and have continued to push the boundaries of excellence in the sector while also redefining the standard for ethical production processes.
Prior to the launch of a new product, Mina, Dalla Corte invited Eight Inc. to assess the current state of the brand, and reimagine how to best position it to maximize the potential of the new machine, and the organization itself. |
global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/75008 | I want to input 90 number-series starts from 1, here is what I did:
type enter 90 times
C-u C-x r N Enter %3d Enter
The output is like this:
Is there a way to set the amount of output? (I don't want to hit enter / or hold enter for 90 times.)
It's tiny's time to shine:
will expand (with tiny-expand) to what you want.
There's also rich formatting and templating that can be applied.
• m5|%02d:
00 01 02 03 04 05
• m7|%(expt 2 x):
1 2 4 8 16 32 64 128
• m1\n5|*** TODO http://emacsrocks.com/e%02d.html:
*** TODO http://emacsrocks.com/e01.html
*** TODO http://emacsrocks.com/e02.html
*** TODO http://emacsrocks.com/e03.html
*** TODO http://emacsrocks.com/e04.html
*** TODO http://emacsrocks.com/e05.html
• m\n3|* TODO Wash dog\nDEADLINE: <%(date "Oct 14" (* x 4))>
* TODO Wash dog
DEADLINE: <2015-10-14 Wed>
* TODO Wash dog
DEADLINE: <2015-10-18 Sun>
* TODO Wash dog
DEADLINE: <2015-10-22 Thu>
* TODO Wash dog
DEADLINE: <2015-10-26 Mon>
tiny is available in MELPA.
• Wow, this is really a powerful package. We should let more people know this package. – Nick Dec 23 '14 at 0:46
• I'll do a post about it on oremacs.com soon. – abo-abo Dec 23 '14 at 8:27
As another answer suggests, you can insert 90 new lines using prefix argument 90 like this: C-u 90 RET. Then insert the number list using C-u C-x r N as you did. However, if you want a more flexible format of numbered list, you can use Keyboard Macro counter.
I included some exercises in my guide. Here is one:
Exercise 1: Creating incremental header prefix
• Step 1 of 5: ...
• Step 2 of 5: ...
• Step 3 of 5: ...
• Step 4 of 5: ...
• Step 5 of 5: ...
Keyboard macro can help us generate such text pattern effortlessly.
• F3 to start recording.
• F3 again to insert the first counter value, which is - Step 0 of 5:
• RET to move to the next line.
• F4 to stop recording.
• Now press F4 as many time as you want and see header prefix got inserted with incremental values. You can insert the text any value by simply set the counter with C-x C-k C-c.
Of course, instead of enter - Step %d of 5:, you can just enter %d. If you want the macro to repeat 90 times, just supply 90 as prefix argument.
To make it easier for you to use macro, remember that all macro commands have C-x C-k as prefix.
• Thank you very much for the explanation on macro counter. Although it requires many steps, it may be useful in other places as well. – Nick Dec 23 '14 at 0:48
Tu Do's answer is very good and well worth remembering for custom counter formatting, but potentially (depending on the actual use-case) a little excessive for this particular example, given that %d is the default format for the counter.
The output can therefore be achieved like so:
• <kbd>M-90<\kbd> needs to be <kbd>C-u 90<\kbd> for it to work on my machine. – user2699 Dec 22 '14 at 6:22
• @user2699 Are you using Emacs in terminal? – Tu Do Dec 22 '14 at 8:10
• Ah, interesting. I find that C-<n> doesn't function in my terminal, but M-<n> does work, which is why I've taken to using the meta bindings in answers. C-u is always an alternative, of course. Which OS & terminal do you use? – phils Dec 22 '14 at 9:22
• Note that by M-90 I mean M-9 M-0. I think this is the first time I've tried to condense that sort of sequence into a single kbd tag, and perhaps M-90 is too easy to misinterpret? – phils Dec 22 '14 at 10:59
• Actually, M-90 works, what I tried the first time was M-9 M-0, but I've rebound M-0, and that's what caused it to fail. I've only ever seen C-u used for repeats, so this is a great thing to learn. – user2699 Dec 22 '14 at 20:51
You can use a numeric argument to avoid typing RET 90 times. Just do M-9 0 RET to insert 90 newlines.
Alternatively, you can write a simple function that creates a range of numbers and loops over them using number-sequence and dolist:
(defun insert-numbers (start end)
(interactive "nStart: \nnEnd: ")
(dolist (ind (number-sequence start end))
(insert (format "%d\n" ind))))
Just for the sake of diversity:
1. C-x * c (Starts the calculator).
2. 1RETv b90RET creates a vector 90 elements long.
3. V U + calls to accum Calc function which acts similar to reduce, putting the intermediate results into positions of the elements which generate those. At this point you have a vector which looks like [1, 2, .... 89, 90].
4. Copy the vector into the file you are editing.
5. C-x f3 this will set fill-column to be 3 elements wide.
6. Select the contents of the vector and press M-q to fill paragraph (this will put every number on a separate line.
This is obviously more cumbersome than just using a recorded macro, but it has its perks in that you can create more complicated number sequences :)
• By default the keyboard macro counter increases by 1, but you can use any number to add to the current counter with C-x C-k C-a. – Tu Do Dec 22 '14 at 8:09
• @TuDo Well, you can't make a Fibonacci or factorials... :P – wvxvw Dec 22 '14 at 12:15
• well if it's that complicated then isn't it better to use straight Elisp? But even so, you can bind a command that can inserts arbitrary number (such as the sequence you suggested) into the buffer at point and use it with a macro. – Tu Do Dec 22 '14 at 15:00
• @TuDo that wasn't a serious comment. I don't think any sane person will want to number lines using Fibonacci numbers :) (However, I would probably use Calc rather than numbers in the macro simply because I never remember the command for it, and I use Calc often enough to perform the above from memory). – wvxvw Dec 22 '14 at 15:42
• Fair enough :) But it's nice to see something unusual. – Tu Do Dec 22 '14 at 15:51
If you turn on the CUA minor mode (cua-mode), you can select a column of text and then fill it with a sequence of numbers using "cua-sequence-rectangle" (bound to M-n by default).
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/75017 | David Marshall Lang
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David Marshall Lang (6 May 1924 – 30 March 1991), was a Professor of Caucasian Studies, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. He was one of the most productive British scholars who specialized in Georgian, Armenian and ancient Bulgarian history.
Lang was born in Bromley, educated at Monkton Combe school and St John’s College, Cambridge where he was a Major Scholar and later held a Fellowship. At the age of 20, having graduated from Cambridge, he was an officer in Iran when he was appointed in 1944 as acting Vice-Consul in Tabriz, Iran, where he acquainted himself with the city's Armenian population. In 1949 he was the member of staff for the School of Oriental and African Studies at University of London. He began as Lecturer in Georgian language, then as Reader and in 1964 he became Professor of Caucasian Studies. In 1953 he held a Senior Fellowship at the Russian Institute of Columbia University and in 1965 he was a visiting Professor in Caucasian Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles. Between 1962 and 1964 he was Honorary Secretary of the Royal Asiatic Society of London. He visited the Soviet republic of Armenia three times during the 1960s and 1970s. It was on one of these visits to the Soviet Union, in December 1963, that he was allegedly recruited by the KGB, according to KGB files copied in Moscow by archivist Vasili Mitrokhin.[1] The archivist also refers to his alleged career as an operative of English counter-intelligence which, according to the dates in The Mitrokhin Archive, would have been before he was 20 years old. The accuracy of the allegation has not been proven. Nevertheless the historian Donald Rayfield has alleged that Lang befriended Alexi Inauri, the head of the Georgian KGB, who might have instigated him to denounce anti-Soviet dissidents in Georgia.[2][3] The factual basis for this is not clear.
For a long time, he directed the Caucasian Studies Department at the University of London,[4] and lectured in Caucasian languages and history at Cambridge and various universities around the world.[5]
Notable work[edit]
• The Last Years of the Georgian Monarchy, 1658-1832 (New York: Columbia University Press, 1957)
• First Russian Radical, Alexander Radischev, 1749-1802 (London: George Allen & Unwin, 1959)
• A Modern History of Georgia (London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1962)
• The Georgians (New York: Praeger, 1966)
• Armenia: Cradle of Civilization (London: George Allen & Unwin, 1970)
• The Peoples of the Hills: Ancient Ararat and Caucasus by Charles Allen Burney and D.M. Lang (London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1971)
• Bulgarians: From Pagan Times to the Ottoman Conquest (London: Thames and Hudson, 1976)
• Lives and Legends of the Georgian Saints (New York: Crestwood, 1976)
• The Armenians: A People in Exile (London: Allen and Unwin, 1981)
• Armenia and Karabagh: the Struggle for Unity (London: Minority Rights Group, 1991)
1. ^ Armenians in Mitrokhin's KGB notes
2. ^ Rayfield, Donald (2012). Edge of Empires: A History of Georgia. London: Reaktion Books. p. 375. ISBN 1780230303.
3. ^ Edgar, Robert (21 September 2017). "Donald Rayfield on Researching Georgia, Literature & Politics". Georgia Today. Retrieved 28 September 2017.
4. ^ Georgian Literature in European Scholarship by Prof. Elguja Khintibidze
5. ^ Library of Congress website
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/75025 |
What about the word "badge"?
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and here's the verb (refers to noun):
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That's very interesting that the verb is not from the action of the animal itself, but that of another creature towards the animal. Oh, and the animal is named after the item "badge". Thanks! – jscs Apr 26 '11 at 20:43
The same is not true of cow, grouse, and quail, and (less surprisingly) swallow, sow, and bear — the animal and the verb are etymologically unrelated.
The verb butterfly is a culinary term meaning to cut something open, so it (vaguely) resembles a butterfly, said of mostly shrimp and chicken breast. It's the only example I have found of an animal name meaning "to make resemble the animal", unless you count spread-eagle.
• Great background info! – jscs Apr 26 '11 at 20:42
This happens to be my last name so when I was researching my families geneology I learned that it also means "peddler" someone who sold wares from a cart. It is also used to annoy,be bothersome or abusive- "Don't badger the witness" You wouldn't ever want to corner one, they can be quite nasty.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/75033 | The lure of dark literature
Why are we attracted to dark literature?
You and I, me!
You bemoan our thoughts,
never resonating.
I delight in the footsteps
always rhyming.
You read to lose yourself
in your books –
their similes, metaphors
and the images.
I seek to find myself
in everything I peruse –
subtexts, layers,
and pauses between pages.
Looking for magic
in a reality mundane,
you let out a sigh.
Perceiving reality
in everything magical
gives me a high.
That romantic song
you listen to
tapping your foot,
reminds me of a dirge
of exhumed memories
You embrace
the brilliant sun,
when I serenade
the lilting moon.
A sensitive son
who will inevitably
fall through.
You are the detached reason,
I the reckless action.
A virile daughter
consumed by her
insatiable passion.
Always in dissonance,
you plot a sweet revenge.
Introspecting afterthoughts
though desire you to change.
I am no different in that
intimate scheming aspect,
disgust I may show,
but for you
I have unfounded respect.
And we were destined to meet
between the gray horizons,
in the vast meadows of oblivion,
where the sagacious stars shone.
Wavering between
a grueling duel
and a riveting duet,
when the flaws
glowed lucid
in our cogent arguments
making us fret,
making us look beyond,
the facade
and everything
we thought we knew.
And then I saw the mirror,
I saw you, as I see you,
and sadly you did too,
as you do too.
Denouement of escapism
the fences created to
keep out the others
boundaries invented for
a safety even further
limits exerted when
imagination flew unchartered skies
comforting are these ploys
but that which keep ourselves in ties
the secrets concealed for
sustenance of conscience
excuses invented to
avoid the inevitable finds
furtive glances when
passion soared in immoral skies
deluding are these schemes
of a bruised ego that forever lies
the space offered to
bloom out of a romantic gloom
tranquil voids invented for
absorbing the incessant clamor
distances extended when
reason reigned the moonlit skies
these are the circumventing expanses
in which a suffering love dies
it’s not darkness
because you closed your eyes
it’s not silence
because you stopped listening
it’s not the fences,
secrets or distances that stand
when your soul judges
and you have nothing to defend
Reflections in the dark
There is a sense of foreboding rife in the night air. Tonight there is no moon or stars, not even the distant lights that shine in his dark eyes when he searches for her. The absence of the celestial lights is not due to clouds either. The clouds from south are yet to arrive, there must be another explanation. He might be going blind. This inability to rationalize is always disconcerting, it makes him ask questions. Indulging the unknown by asking questions makes it tolerable. What is it then that holds the night together in the absence of the moon and the stars? It is not the dark sky that seems too big to care, no the sky never cared. Maybe what keeps the night alive is its arrogant defiance of light. It is only in the blatant disregard to doubts that the absolute is ever achieved.
He must learn more from the night. He must learn to swallow the light even though it burns within, leaving the taste of charred regrets. He knows he must go on till he devours the last of the wavering wisps of pride. The enemy, she had told him, lies within. He had then spent ages trying to fight it, fight them, looking for her approval. Each victory felt a load off, expunged, they became shadows. Even in the dark of this night, he can see their silhouettes. Memories don’t have a shape, structure or silver linings, they just have these haunting silhouettes. Her eyes move rapidly as if excited in his forays, but he can see from within. Beyond the eyelids, beyond the eyes, the vision she finds difficult to fathom, a vision that betrays the disappointment in him.
She was never afraid of the shadows, it’s the reflections that disturbed her. She defied them, but not with conviction. Since a young age she would stare deep into the mirror, trying to look for a movement, and often trying to gauge the depths of her soul. Is the reflection exactly as she appeared to others, or do they see more? We don’t always need mirrors to see ourselves, he had said, sometimes the reflections in our mind show us graver truths because in this case the mirror is made of our conscience. All we need is a calm mind, and a calm mind is like a black mirror. It absorbs all the light, all your essence, rendering you void. The only proof of your existence is in the reflection, but to see the reflection emanating from the black mirror requires an assimilation into the void. She must go further to look for him, before he wakes up and she becomes one of his reflections.
He feels his mouth dried up, the tongue feeling the back of his parched throat. She must be probing again, he could feel himself drained out of life. The dryness progressing further, reaching his now withered heart. He is convinced it would spread further leaving him with a shriveled soul. The prospect is comforting. But he must exist, not because he loves her. He must exist so that she has a purpose as she sleeps keeping his night alive. He takes a last longing look at her and retreats back into the depths of the night, before she can find him and destroy them both.
The irresistible charm of music
There is just one thing that philosophers from various schools of thought and inclinations agree upon. It is the questions that they collectively ask, questions that arise from philosophical ruminations. The topic of these questions range from life, universe, God, existence, behavior, dreams and cover just about everything a human mind is capable of inquiring about. The nature of such questions are universal in nature, in the sense that they don’t discriminate between instances. Questions about existence, for example, applies to all individuals equally. The same goes for enquiry into the metaphysical aspects of an emotion, say love between two individuals, the same question applies to both the parties involved, or the whole population.
This plethora of questions has kept on piling up, forcing mankind, starving for answers to take refuge in science, faith, religion and such systems of well structured beliefs. The reason why we have failed to address these questions in a satisfactory way lies in the conflicting premises of these questions and their probable answers. The questions may be universal, but the answers as it is more or less established are existential in nature. Philosophers who have attempted to create an universal model have usually failed. This unique combination, however; brings to the arena the human endeavor of art. Art fits so well in this situation that the lines between art and philosophy have been flimsy since the earliest known civilizations.
Art, in its various forms attempts to answer the philosophical questions but it does that by taking a path that is not straightforward. The artist tenders the answers for mass consumption but stops short from getting down to the details, the intention and thesis is neither defined nor defended. This indirect approach makes art susceptible to attack from the philistines and fundamentalists, alike. On the other hand, this circuitous nature of the presentation allows the individual to investigate further without external aid, it acts as a guidance on the path to discovery of the answers to the posed questions, paradoxes and dilemma. The individualistic aspect of art might explain our fascination for it, a fascination that has pervaded time and space. To further elaborate on the idea, let’s take a painting and its import on the individual. It might evoke a feeling of longing, act as an exposition of love for one, while another person may derive a sense of peace, or an answer to the question on the apparent futility of existence.
Comprehension is essentially a sensory phenomenon, or at least it is stimulated by the senses. The wise men and seers may advocate detachment from senses and urge us to inculcate a method of understanding that comes from insulated meditation. What they also say, which is usually found in subtext is you need to envisage the world with enough lucidity as presented to you through the senses to appreciate the inadequacy of the sensory perception.
Art in its attempt to come up with answers to the eternal questions appeals to the senses, at least at the first glance. The purpose is half fulfilled in this appeal, as it triggers the latent sensibilities and inchoate profundity present in every human. What follows then is the path taken by the individual beyond the realms of physiological limitations of the senses and psychological limitations of a cognitive mind. This realm is visceral, a personal space that obliterates the existence of everything else, one that transcends the conditioning received over ages, it is that world within that defines the essence of the individual or soul as the romantics and poets would prefer to call.
Most forms of art are about visualization, they are meant for the eyes and even if it is not the case, they would require one to keep the eyes open. The intended transport to the surreal world happens with intermittent closing of the external eyes and opening of inner ones. But it is still intermittent, one can’t get away without the visuals and in this process one is inadvertently aware of the external world thereby impeding one in the unobstructed flight, the dive into the soul.
Music may be the only art that doesn’t rely on eyes for perception, it actually demands the listener to close the eyes and feel the art. As soon as we do that, we are cutting off the rest of the world, people around us, emotions we struggle with and the questions that confound us. The quest is expedited by the prerequisite. It’s easy to critique or discuss a painting, a book, a poem, dance, sculpture and almost about every possible form of art, because the critic visualizes the piece in juxtaposition to the external or peripheral reality. Thus the criticism is understood by masses since they also perceive it in similar circumstances, similarly a discussion on a piece of art remains pertinent. When it comes to music, and here we might leave out the lyrics which might require a rephrase. So, when it comes to pure music it’s almost impossible to critique, discuss, analyze or do anything that might require others to be in the same plane as you, or having the same perception as yours. At the best, one may only give the verdict, that the piece of music is good or it is not. Equally impossible it is to find a person who doesn’t enjoy music.
Mirth of the insane
When love, that doesn’t remember the dawn,
forever smolders but refuses to burn,
when blemishes in time and space
reek of a festering eternity,
the enervated horizon manages to
shine with the grey shade of insanity.
Rambling on in the fjords of a bruised ego,
and the confounding shores of dusky scruples,
battling the waves of a rising conscience,
a shattered mast, a tattered sail, an unanchored life,
yet the despondent crew hang on to faith, undeterred,
intoxicated, by the dark bottles of insanity.
A quiver of nascent ideas waits for a story,
the mesmerizing past, the non-committal present,
a fairy land that longs for a scorching desert,
these crumpled notes in my recycle bin, on the floor,
once that craved for a closure, are exasperated,
as they seek solace in an edifying touch of insanity.
When the kiss of the lover’s lips seems cloying,
making love no longer douses the raging desires,
when the parched throats seek no wine,
and sips of the pinot evoke the same sweet faces,
when the gods start to seem too distant to fail,
and your prayers seem impersonal, and almost cruel,
guilt laden bliss is easier to endure, you feel,
in the soothing ignominy of insanity.
The story of life
My poem got published on Sudden Denouement Collective. It is a great collective of writers and artists, each with a unique style and aesthetic, including me 🙂
The story begins
not in the present,
not with any intent,
but in the mind of the writer,
lost, perusing his tomes,
as he creates a new history
with words filtered through
experiences and such
prismatic domes.
Continue to read here. |
global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/75035 | the following execution of my smart contract function runs out of Gas on the Ropsten network, but works fine on Rinkeby, do you have an idea why this happens?
struct vehicleData{
string status;
uint timestamp;
string mileage;
string gps_position;
string soc_relative;
uint soc_absolute;
string sessionId;
mapping(string => vehicleData) private data;
function setVehicleData(string memory vin, string memory status, uint timestamp, string memory mileage, string memory gps_position, string memory soc_relative, uint soc_absolute, string memory sessionId) public{
data[vin] = vehicleData(status,timestamp,mileage,gps_position,soc_relative,soc_absolute,sessionId);
this is what I do in my Javascript Code:
const gasLimit = 100000;
const gasPrice = '2';
const txObject = {
nonce: web3.utils.toHex(txcount),
gasLimit: web3.utils.toHex(gasLimit),
gasPrice: web3.utils.toHex(web3.utils.toWei(gasPrice, 'gwei')),
to: storeAndCheckAddress,
data: contractStoreAndCheck.methods.setVehicleData(vin, status, timestamp, mileage, gps, soc_relative, soc_absolute, sessionId).encodeABI()
const tx = new Tx(txObject)
//sign transaction with private key from sender
const serializedTx = tx.serialize()
const raw = '0x' + serializedTx.toString('hex')
//send tx
web3.eth.sendSignedTransaction(raw,function(error,result){if(!error){return result}else{console.log(error)}});
Success on Rinkeby: https://rinkeby.etherscan.io/tx/0x86c3cfc3a5fb058810cc1854b6231b51224346e9fdd2ef835b336dff0e3796a4
Failure on Ropsten: https://ropsten.etherscan.io/tx/0xd48a369d549b8248383f5bd4bcf937cd1c727b6393bf2e7609ae6013258b11a6
• The code is different between the two, so that seems like a more likely culprit than a difference between the networks (though that's also possible). – user19510 Apr 10 '19 at 19:00
• I did check the code with a text diff tool and it is the same.. where have you spotted a difference? – Felix Apr 10 '19 at 19:08
• mileage is a string in Ropsten and uint in Rinkeby. – user19510 Apr 10 '19 at 19:14
• Thank you so much - I would have checked for ages. Deployed a new contract to all networks, but forgot to change the address for Rinkeby in the Code. Somehow for my text comparison I used the new contract, thats why i didn't see the difference. – Felix Apr 10 '19 at 19:19
• Now both run out of gas - do you see why that can be the case? – Felix Apr 10 '19 at 19:45
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/75093 | Post 2019.06.22 14:48
Probe scanning equations
Rhiannon Ad Astra recently asked me for anything I knew about the mathematics of a target being probe scanned. Here are what remains of my research notes. (This used to exist as a forum thread, but the forums get autopurged.) A graph that used to accompany this was lost.
Over on the "Exploration and Wormholes" board (which isn't public), I've been soliciting the help of Unistas in trying to figure out the mathematics of the new probe equations that went into effect in either Incarna or Crucible (I forget which). The research isn't done, yet, but I decided that it might be a good idea to publish results-to-date for the general EVE Online public. Once this has been figured out, players can better evaluate (on a theoretical basis) which probe formations are better than other probe formations. For example, is it always better (for the purposes of signal strength) to have 8 probes in a cube formation rather than 7 probes in a north-south-east-west-up-down-center formation?
That and some of my YouTube subscribers might have been silently wondering why I haven't been making videos, recently. Well, this is what I'm working on, right now. :P
Step One
For one probe seeing one target and in the limit of low signal strengths (<25%), the new probe signal strength equation seems to be:
Signal strength from single probe = Constant * F * Probe strength * Target Signature Radius / (Target Sensor Strength * Probe Scan Radius)
• "Signal strength from single probe" is here expressed as a decimal. 1 in this equation is a 100% strength, and 0.0435 would be a 4.35% signal strength.
• Constant = 0.00128 AU / meter (If you want to insist upon expressing the signal strength as a percent, then this is instead 0.128 AU % / meter and you should treat "%" as a measurement unit.)
• F is a function of the distance divided by the probe scan radius. F is 1 if the target is right on top of the probe, and 0.4 if the target is exactly at the edge of the scan radius.
• Probe strength is the "Base sensor strength" of the probes as shown to the probe user in SHOW INFO on the probes actually in his launcher. Note that for display purposes, it will cut off decimals, always rounding down. This does take rig bonuses, ship bonuses, Astrometric Rangefinding, and (I presume) implants into account.
• Target Signature Radius is the Signature Radius of whatever the probe user is trying to scan down.
• Target Sensor Strength is the Sensor Strength of whatever the probe user is trying to scan down, but is not allowed to be more than 90% of the signature radius.
• Probe Scan Radius is the current Scan Radius setting of the probe. For a Combat Scanner Probe, this could be anywhere from 64 AU to 0.5 AU.
A lot of this is going to look familiar from my last thread on this subject two years ago (that link will only work for members and alumni), but there are changes. First, the constant has changed from 0.0025 AU/meter to 0.00128 AU/meter. Second, the target's sensor strength in points is capped at 90% of the signature radius in meters. So, if the signature radius is 100 meters, then all sensor strengths above 90 points are treated as equal to 90 points, instead. (This is the limitation that makes any ship probable, now, but you need the full Low-Grade Virtue implant set and everything else, too.) Third, this equation seems to hold when the single-probe signal strength is below 25%. If it's more than 25%, then the result deviates downwards from what this equation predicts; I will describe that next. Fourth, the single-probe case isn't capped at a signal strength of 50%.
Step Two
Let's call the result of the above equation the "Old Signal". This Old Signal is what you get for one probe seeing one target and the result being 25% or less, and this can be predicted given the probe strength, distance to target, scan radius, signature radius of the target, and sensor strength of the target.
Above 25%, however, the actual signal strength deviates from this prediction, resulting in what I'll call "New Signal". I started with the assumption that, if Old Signal is more than 25%, then the game takes Old Signal and puts it through a mathematical function to get New Signal. So, I decided to plot y=Log(New Signal,2) versus x=Log(Old Signal,2), and the curve seems to fit y = -4 / (x+4) reasonably well given the slightly noisy data.
Log(New Signal,2) = -4/(Log(Old Signal,2)+4)
New Signal = 2 ^ (-4/(Log(Old Signal,2)+4))
For clarification, Log(A,B) is the B-base logarithm of A. 2^6 = 64 therefore Log(64,2) = 6
After adding a column to my spreadsheet to compare this new theory to the experimental data, I did find that predictions for "New Signal" were off by anywhere from +0.34 to -1.65 percentage points on the signal strength, but the deviations from this refined theory don't follow a smooth pattern. I don't know if this is due to noisy data, or if the equation is close but not quite right.
Step Three
If two probes can see a target, then the total signal strength is not the sum of the signal strengths of each probe (unless the two probes are directly opposite from each other). Consider the case where each probe, by itself, would give an equal signal strength on the target. (An unusual situation, to be sure, but this simplifies the explanation.) Probe 1 - Target - Probe 2 forms an angle, and as this angle increases, the overall signal strength increases. When the two probes are seeing the target from exactly the same direction (a zero-degree angle), one probe eclipses the other. When the two probes are exactly on opposite sides (a 180-degree angle), then their individual results are added. For angles in-between, the amount of contribution from the second probe follows an overlapping-circles equation:
Probe Crucible Hypothesis.jpg
The general equation for circle-circle intersections may be obtained from MathWorld. If we then take into account that the center-to-center distance between the probes is dictated by the probe-target-probe angle (call it "theta"), then the fraction overlap of one circle with another is:
1 - theta/(pi * 1 radian) - sin(theta) / pi
The fraction of each circle that isn't overlapped is:
theta/(pi * 1 radian) + sin(theta) / pi
(Engineers and students thereof: Please observe appropriate unit conversions, here. The result should be dimensionless.)
For example, if two probes both see a target, and are at right angles to the target, and each probe would be 10.00% signal strength by itself, then the non-overlapped fraction of the second circle is 0.818 and the two probes combined give a signal strength of:
10.00% * (1 + 0.818) = 18.18%
In practice my data has been noisy for reasons I haven't been able to determine. Some angle measurements were done by flying the probe ship around the target on-grid and launching probes, and even those signal strengths vary by amounts that don't have a pattern that I can discern. So, when you try this, it might not be exactly 18.18%, or exactly 1.818 times a solitary probe.
Future work
This is still a work in progress. For two probes with unequal solitary signal strengths, an overlapping circles equation still works, but the ratio of the radii to use for the overlapping calculation is not merely equal to the ratio of the solitary signal strengths; I've only studied this briefly. Also, I haven't figured out exactly how the calculations work for three or more probes seeing a target. I can calculate an overlap factor for each pair of probes, but figuring how out that works into the overlap factor for three or more probes is still puzzling me. |
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Hi all glad to have met a awesome server - Kinda got bored from PH and DR so hope to see u all once I get Unbanned and get use to TTT.
I do apologies for the kills that have happened so Ill take the ban and Hope to get myself use to this so I can be a pro TTT player.
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Computer Crashed, I need help!
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My dad sent me his 99 Micron Computer. As old as it was, it worked very well until last week. It had Windows 98 on it. I was on the internet, and all of a sudden, I lost my desktop and the computer was running slow. I shut everything down to restart, and now the whole operating system does not work.
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5. If I click those windows off, there is nothing but the old wallpaper.
6. It also says that it could not find a DLL file and Kemel32
I have tried to go and set it up in MS-DOS mode, but I don't know much about that. Can someone please help me! I need my PC. Can I still save it? Also, what happened? did I get a virus?
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• \$\begingroup\$ This is a great question for area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/6243/startup-business, if it ever gets out of beta. It's not really a game-specific question, however. \$\endgroup\$ – Cyclops Aug 11 '10 at 1:03
• \$\begingroup\$ you can also take a look at this site to get answers: answers.onstartups.com \$\endgroup\$ – Chris Aug 11 '10 at 8:55
• \$\begingroup\$ Thanks for the pointers. I committed to startup-business and I might also pop into answers.onstartups.com. In the meantime, especially considering the answers I have received, I figure this is at least relevant enough to GameDev that several people have experienced similar scenarios and have something to say on the matter :) \$\endgroup\$ – Erlend Aug 11 '10 at 15:01
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\$\begingroup\$ Sorry, but it's still way off-topic. For instance, if many programmers have problems with spilled Coke in their keyboard, that doesn't make it game-dev related. As this Question says (meta.stackexchange.com/questions/14470/…): "The fundamental rule is you can't just stick 'for programmers' on a question to make it programming related." Your question is, "How can a startup company of professionals with different talents, divide up the equity?" The fact that those professionals are programmers, is irrelevant. \$\endgroup\$ – Cyclops Aug 11 '10 at 15:50
• \$\begingroup\$ Point taken. I'd be okay with this moved elsewhere / into community wiki (still don't 100% get how that works). \$\endgroup\$ – Erlend Aug 12 '10 at 18:26
• \$\begingroup\$ "As between the coders and the designers, if people feel the others don't work hard enough you have the wrong team." That is, in essence, what I already knew but needed spelled out for me. Thanks. I think we're basically down to equal shares, or 'each our separate ways'. \$\endgroup\$ – Erlend Aug 11 '10 at 15:39
• \$\begingroup\$ I guess what helped is that we actually quit our jobs and started a company. That way you can be relatively ensured people will put in all their effort as it's a) their dream, and b) do or die. Of course this is a risk and luxury one often can't afford to take. \$\endgroup\$ – Kaj Aug 11 '10 at 17:28
• \$\begingroup\$ Another problem with basing it on "hours" is that you're actually handing out significant monetary bonuses for working slowly and inefficiently. This isn't the sort of behavior you want to reward. \$\endgroup\$ – ZorbaTHut Aug 13 '10 at 2:46
I would say it is a very interesting problem to have.
• \$\begingroup\$ This rewards someone to browser reddit all month while implementing some code that could have been a couple of DAYS with proper motivation. \$\endgroup\$ – DFectuoso Aug 11 '10 at 0:54
• \$\begingroup\$ Not really, because you then earn less points than coding that days, so those all are weighted. And browser in reddit won't give you any grades. \$\endgroup\$ – awildturtok Aug 11 '10 at 14:17
• \$\begingroup\$ @Seshiro I am interested in your system of grades and perhaps some guidance on how to decide them. Thank you. \$\endgroup\$ – Discipol Jul 6 '14 at 0:03
• \$\begingroup\$ But if I'm honest these systems will cause concurrency in the workforce and cause more trouble than discussing a fixed share at the beginning of the project and reevaluating at milestones. Sorry to disappoint you, that was just hubris of a 15y/o feeling self important \$\endgroup\$ – awildturtok Jul 7 '14 at 7:33
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/75151 | / Biblical Basis? Temptations of Christ / Andrew Kerr
Bible-Based Christianity?
In reading through the Temptations of our Lord in Luke, I was struck in a fresh way, by the Devil's intimate Bible knowledge.
Satan, Luke recounts, is a master-twister of Scripture: the Dark Prince can sugar-coat any suggestion with a plausible religious veneer by a footnote with a text.
For several millennia now, he has memorized the Bible verbatim, studied the contexts exhaustively, and engaged in careful word-studies, so he knows Scripture back-to-front!
He is expert at quoting flawlessly, omitting words cleverly, ripping verses out of context, misapplying their teaching and bolstering them with smatterings of theological half-truths.
He was able to deceive the First Glorious Human, Theological Professor of Eden Seminary, Doctor Adam, by tricking his secretary Eve. Only One Man ever floored him in theological debate.
The Father of Lies misled every rabbi, including Gamaliel, Paul and Nicodemus, as to the true meaning and thrust of God's whole counsel - at least at first.
If these things are true, there are many applications that follow: let me just suggest some that spring to mind in order to close this piece:
1. Pray for the assistance of the Holy Spirit to give you light and power to read, learn, study, understand and relate Scripture.
2. Beware of spring-board theology - the sort that almost quotes a biblical text correctly and then writes a book or series of books based on that misunderstanding (there are some popular examples of bible teachers like that).
3. Be cautious writing papers or sermons to make your own cause or advance your own case - sheep follow Christ's voice in shepherds who are faithful not false.
4. Watch out for temptations that make you try to find a verse that excuses conduct that you know (or sense) in conscience may be wrong. Like a person intent in succumbing to the evil of fleshly lust who piously and often cited the Jeremiad word to exiles: "For I know the plans I have for you, declares the LORD, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope" - Jeremiah 29:11!
5. When pressing a truth make sure your reasons argue soundness - beware of what one of my dear friends calls '1,000 leaky buckets' that don't hold any water.
6. Strive to master and memorize the big ideas of the Bible - its narrative flow, the progress of redemption; how a text plugs into the the mother-promise of Genesis 3:15; be able more and more to outline, summarize and state the succinct theme of each book (the ESV Study Bible is a great resource in this respect, but better is your own work); ask, in all honesty, what do the plain words of the verses and chapters mean in their Grammatical and Historical sense; and how does the section in question harmonize with other clear parts of Scripture.
7. Learn large chunks of the Bible as early in life as you can: take on-board as much of the Scriptures verbatim as you can throughout your days, praying for a willing, Christlike heart in this respect. For the parts of the truth that you will not memorize (like Chronicles perhaps), try to always have your sword to hand by your bed or by your side.
8. Above all, lift your eyes, to the Supreme, Exalted, Glorified Bible Professor, at the right hand of God, as you pray for needed help. "Lord Jesus Christ, you are both the author and central message of Scripture! Teach me its meaning, and supply all grace that I need to pray it into my heart and then outward into my life."
9. If you teach or lecture you need to ask for special help - it is just at this point, when on the front-line, advancing truth for Christ, that Satanic hits are hardest, fiercest, most-frequent and intense: if he can derail you, make you a casualty or put you off the field of play, it serves his purpose well, to undermine the cause of Christ. And finally...
10. If you have erred, strayed, misquoted, twisted, supplemented, disobeyed or de-contextualized truth (that is all of us without exception, to various degrees, I think), let us rejoice that there is One who never did any such thing - the perfect Bible Scholar, Lecturer, Teacher, Pastor and Author - who always had the right text at the right time used in the right way to repulse Satan's attack, all the way to, and past, the Cross! In light of that event, to which Christ fully commits (the Devil was unable to make Jesus deviate from His gloriously loving and merciful, God-ordained, course), He has borne our errors, grants us full remission, and now supplies strength to penitent preachers and practitioners if they ask. So get back to the text in order to spread the truth. Repent and believe the Good News.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/75207 | Owl on the Prowl
Owl on the Prowl
Medium : Gouache on illustration board
Image Size : 10.875” x 10.875”
Circa : 1968
You could hang this picture on your ceiling and call it off-the-wall art! Let's pretend you're a caterpillar crawling along the ground in the dead of night. Glancing upward, you catch a split-second glimpse of one frame from this fast-action sequence: the great horned owl's radar has locked onto a running rodent that's about to become another link in the food chain. You must have seen hundreds of pictures of this event, but did you ever see it from the worm's-eye-view?
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/75211 | Deliverance From Demonic Oppression – Monica’s Testimony
Listen to Monica’s healing testimony from demonic oppression after involvement in the occult and new age medicine. Monica used to be in demonic bondage to insomnia, fibromyalgia, and demonic oppression. She had no peace of mind. She used to have to take the date-rape drug just to get a good night sleep because of the insomnia. Monica received deliverance healing prayers against demonic torment, and she won her freedom. Take a minute and watch her healing testimony on how she received freedom from demonic oppression.
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Monica shares her healing testimony from demonic torment and heaviness – Video Testimony (1:31 min.)
Monica now has freedom from demonic oppression through deliverance. You can have spiritual freedom as well through deliverance.
The Bible says that the devil seeks to devour believers (1 Peter 5:8), and Satan and his demons “scheme” against Christians (Ephesians 6:11).
Many times people get oppressed by demonic spirits through the following ways:
• Sin
• Disobedience
• Fooling around with occult modalities
• Not discerning our thoughts and believing the lies
• Unforgiveness towards others, God or self
• Praying to other gods
You need to pray sincerely to the Lord that He will forgive your sin, cleanse you, be your Saviour and Lord and baptize (fill) you with the Holy Spirit (I John 1:8, 9John 1:12Luke 11:13Acts 1:8). The Holy Spirit will give you the power to overcome demon bondage, activity and influence. You will be free. You can experience an abundant, full, meaningful life with the joy and purpose God desires for you (John 10:10).
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/75218 | Have you ever felt like a visitor in your own life? As though you don’t belong anywhere? Not among any group of people, not in any situation, relationship, space or time? A deep rooted feeling of not belonging. Unable to shake. Unbearable to carry.
Yet this is my life.
For as long as I can remember I never felt like I fit in. Not in school, not at a job, not with friends, not in romantic relationships, and not even with my family. I have always felt like “that one over there.” People kind of like me, or maybe they like the idea of me, yet no one wants to claim me. No one wants to call me their own, part of their tribe, a piece of their puzzle.
I can only get so close to people. I can only do so well at work. I can only do so much for others. Still going unnoticed, head down, and constantly fighting for a place in this world.
Being a loner hasn’t always been self imposed. It’s just that you get tired of feeling less than. It hurts more to stand along the fray of the crowd than to omit your translucence from the picture. It hurts more to stare at the phone waiting for someone to care enough to ask how you are and really want to know. And it’s crippling to continue to put trust in the wrong people who are all to quick to take advantage of your generosity and kind heart.
This is why I long to live between the mountains and the fields. My bones ache to feel more connected to the earth than to its people. The sun a more steady presence than most, and the moon more faithful than any man I’ve ever been with.
I yearn to come and go as I please, answering to no one, asking for comfort from the stars and kisses from cool breezes.
I don’t belong here. I’ve never belonged anywhere. And no one would miss me if I were gone.
Some day my time to roam will come. Some day I will find a sense of belonging within myself, and there I’ll make a home.
Not Mine.
I envy freedom. It’s a taste I’ve long since forgotten.
My life is no longer my own.
No, I cannot.
No, I will not.
But, oh, how I took my freedom for granted.
Caffeinated Confessional #1
Our household was unfortunately struck down by a really nasty virus over the weekend. My birthday weekend of all times. What a lovely gift to be given. A test of health.
We survived.
But something more happened to me. And it may seem silly to some people to think something as simple and common as a winter virus could throw me into such a tale spin but it’s happened.
Not being able to eat much for days, the pain of even trying, the nagging calls for satiation, they were so familiar. So longed for. Comforting.
Something I’ve tried to swear up and down about is never going back to my eating disorder. I’ve thrown out every cliche reason you could think of. I’ve talked an incredibly good game.
I never believed myself.
So when the numbers slowly start to tick in the opposite direction and the silent thrill zaps deep into your bones, it’s not easily ignored.
It’s been four years, entering the fifth, since I defiantly made the decision. Thousands of days, even more hours. Tripping and falling and getting back up yet never quite regaining the same steam.
Then these easy entrance ways open up, and the aroma of that sweet poison washes over me like a cloud. And I’m trapped between two doors. Going back to what is comfortable, disastrous, alluring and exciting. Or staying in this cycle of will I or won’t I, am I or aren’t I, can I or can’t I.
And my body starts to shake, expelling any good sense I’ve got left trapped inside of me. It hovers over me as though I’m in danger of taking my last breath. Choose wisely.
I feel:
I tempted fate.
I tested myself. I tasted that sweet sweet hunger, and its calls were deafening.
I’d be lying if I said I never prayed to fall back on it. I’d be lying if I said I didn’t miss the anguish, the tremors, the incessant pangs. No, I’d be lying if I said I didn’t miss it, if I didn’t call on it, if I didn’t kneel down and grovel for just a touch of it.
As far away as I may run, it’s still right behind me. As much lightness as I keep near to me, its darkness is never far.
I hear it whisper in the winds. I hear it under every footstep. I feel it coursing through my veins the longer I go without.
And I’d be lying if I said I didn’t miss it.
I feel as though I’m faced with an impossible decision. Sheepishly cower backward into the arms of my deranged former self. Or stand in who I am in this moment. Unsure. Vulnerable. Missing and incomplete yet forward facing.
To anyone who’s never been strangled by their own mind the decision would seem clear. Cut and dry. But when something promised to love you so, never to leave your side, never to abandon you the way anything or anyone else ever has, it feels weighty.
I’m looking over my shoulder longingly. I want to cry out. I want to keep it locked safe inside of me.
It’s always been mine. Mine to keep.
I’m not sure what to do with all of this.
Intellectually, sure, the ‘right’ decision would be to root deeper into recovery. Allow this to teach a lesson about self love, distance and depth, forgiveness, resistance.
No one ever said people who’ve suffered eating disorders always think rationally.
This certainly won’t make sense to most people but it makes perfect sense to me. |
global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/75221 | Interface ICompletionProposal
• All Known Implementing Classes:
CompletionProposal, TemplateProposal
public interface ICompletionProposal
The interface of completion proposals generated by content assist processors. A completion proposal contains information used to present the proposed completion to the user, to insert the completion should the user select it, and to present context information for the chosen completion once it has been inserted.
In order to provide backward compatibility for clients of ICompletionProposal, extension interfaces are used to provide a means of evolution. The following extension interfaces exist:
• ICompletionProposalExtension since version 2.0 introducing the following functions:
• handling of trigger characters other than ENTER
• completion proposal validation for a given offset
• context information can be freely positioned
• ICompletionProposalExtension2 since version 2.1 introducing the following functions:
• handling of trigger characters with modifiers
• visual indication for selection of a proposal
• ICompletionProposalExtension3 since version 3.0 introducing the following functions:
• provision of a custom information control creator
• provide a custom completion text and offset for prefix completion
• ICompletionProposalExtension4 since version 3.1 introducing the following functions:
• specify whether a proposal is automatically insertable
• ICompletionProposalExtension5 since version 3.2 introducing the following function:
• Allow background computation of the additional info
• ICompletionProposalExtension6 since version 3.4 introducing the following function:
• Allow styled ranges in the display string.
• ICompletionProposalExtension7 since version 3.11 introducing the following function:
• Emphasize ranges in the styled display string of the proposal that match the token at the current caret offset.
This interface can be implemented by clients. By default, clients use CompletionProposal as the standard implementer of this interface.
See Also:
• Method Detail
• apply
void apply(IDocument document)
Inserts the proposed completion into the given document.
document - the document into which to insert the proposed completion
• getSelection
Point getSelection(IDocument document)
Returns the new selection after the proposal has been applied to the given document in absolute document coordinates. If it returns null, no new selection is set. A document change can trigger other document changes, which have to be taken into account when calculating the new selection. Typically, this would be done by installing a document listener or by using a document position during apply(IDocument).
document - the document into which the proposed completion has been inserted
the new selection in absolute document coordinates
• getAdditionalProposalInfo
String getAdditionalProposalInfo()
Returns optional additional information about the proposal. The additional information will be presented to assist the user in deciding if the selected proposal is the desired choice.
If ICompletionProposalExtension5 is implemented, this method should not be called any longer. This method may be deprecated in a future release.
the additional information or null
• getImage
Image getImage()
Returns the image to be displayed in the list of completion proposals. The image would typically be shown to the left of the display string.
the image to be shown or null if no image is desired
• getContextInformation
IContextInformation getContextInformation()
Returns optional context information associated with this proposal. The context information will automatically be shown if the proposal has been applied.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/75240 | How to Dig Up Peony Plants to Move
Peonies require careful digging to avoid damage.
Peonies require careful digging to avoid damage.
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Peonies (Paeonia spp.) flower for only a short period in early summer, but these perennials can survive 20 years or more in the garden. Although most peony varieties grow best in cooler regions, a few cultivars such as “Blaze” and “Festiva Maxima” can thrive in U.S. Department of Agriculture plant hardiness zones 8 through 10. Peonies rarely require division and don't tolerate root disturbance well, but you can dig, move and even divide them if necessary. Wait at least 10 years between digging and disturbing the plants, when possible.
Cut back the peonies after the foliage begins to die back in fall. Trim back each stem to within 6 inches of the ground with clean shears.
Insert the tines of a garden fork into the ground around the base of the peony plant, about 8 inches away from the central stems. Work around the peony clump, loosening the soil with the fork.
Lever the peony plant out of the ground with the fork, taking care to damage as few roots as possible. Shake the plants gently to remove the soil from the roots.
Inspect the roots of large clumps if you want to divide them or if they flowered poorly the previous spring. Locate the buds or growing eyes on the roots, which resemble swollen nodes. Cut apart the clumps with a sharp knife into two or three sections, with each section containing three to five buds.
Break up the soil in a well-draining, full-sun bed to a 12-inch depth. Dig a planting hole in the loosened soil for each peony plant that is as deep as the root system. Space the holes approximately 3 feet apart.
Set each peony in a prepared hole so the root buds are approximately 2 inches beneath the soil surface. Fill in the hole with soil and water thoroughly to moisten the dirt.
Things You Will Need
• Garden fork
• Knife
• Spade
• Recently moved peonies may grow and flower poorly the first year after transplanting, but they usually bounce back in a year.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/75260 | Van Morrison - "Whenever God Shines His Light With Sir Cliff Richard" lyrics
Whenever god shines his light on me
Open up my eyes,so I can see
When I look up in the darkest night
Then I know everything is gonna be alright
In deep confusion,in great despair
When I reach out for him,he is there
When I am lonely as I can be
Then i know that god shines his light on me
Reach out for him,he'll be there
With him your troubles,you can share
If you live the life you love
You get the blessing from above
Heals the sick and heals the lame
Says you can too in jesus' name
And he lifts you up,and he turns you around
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Ruby On Rails
What exactly is Ruby on Rails? It’s basically a web application development tool – a framework written in Ruby programming language that provides a clear structure for your code.
Programmers like Rails because it helps them to abstract and simplify common repetitive tasks everyone has to deal with at one point or another. But that’s just one good reason for why you should learn Rails – here are six others to give you an idea what kind of benefits Rails can bring you.
It’s fast
Some say that launching a website with Rails can take as little as six weeks! Whether it’s true or not, one thing is clear – Rails can significantly speed up the development process. It gives you a cleaner code base (less redundant code) and allows you to reuse its existing components, rather than forcing you to build them all from scratch.
Rails also provides lots of plugins called Ruby Gems, which you can use instead of features that you’d normally have to create first. This, together with its integrated testing tools and scaffolding features, makes Rails both so efficient and approachable.
It’s cost-effective
With increased speed come the lowered costs – in this case, you save up on both time and money. Rails is highly automated and effectively helps to cut out significant sections of the whole project, helping developers to concentrate on specific problems instead of first having to get a firm grasp on the framework itself.
Due to its speed and flexibility, Rails allows companies to immediately benefit from new market trends – speeding up projects that in a regular corporate environment would take ages to organize and implement.
Ruby itself is a great choice
Even if it’s not the easiest programming language around, Ruby is pretty impressive. Not only does it combine some of the best characteristics of dynamic languages, but it also incorporates excellent solutions from static languages.
Thanks to its object-oriented paradigm, Ruby is a perfect language for getting things done – as opposed to writing a lot of code. In short, Ruby is a language that simply fosters productivity.
It’s wonderfully open-source
This is what I find great about Rails – both the framework and the majority of its libraries are open-source. Rails itself runs on Linux, which is open-source too. This means that a project realized on Rails won’t involve any licensing costs – another cost-effective strategy.
Open-source also means that there’s a thriving community behind it and lots of people ready to help you if you’re stuck with something.
It’s very flexible
After launching your Rails-made web app, you’ll be able to modify it easily. Adding new features, applying changes to data models and making other modifications can all be done at a very fast pace – again, saving you both time and money.
It’s productive
Rails is a self-documenting framework, which basically means that it’s easy for other developers to pick up a project and know exactly what has been done to it so far. The code is highly readable – another feature that helps in the process of project re-assignment.
All in all, Rails is a great solution that has a bright future – in the next few years, we will see it helping developers in launching web apps within a short time frame and limited budget. Take the cue from web giants like GitHub, Slideshare or Goodreads, and embrace the wonders of Ruby on Rails right now.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/75283 | Sitting under a Banyan Tree
Women on the other hand slogged all day and night in the homes tending to hearth, rearing multitudes of children, milking the animals, and so many other things. Only time they were together was when they gathered at the village well for fetching the water in the pitchers. There they will banter about their travails and amorous things and other scandalous things like who had run away with whom and illicit liaisons. They spent long time there. Another activity which brought them together was washing the clothes on the stones or steps of the shores of rivers, tanks and wells.
Most important of the trees where the menfolk whiled away their time was Banyan tree which almost every village had near a temple or any other religious place. Mostly elderly people sat there. The name Banyan is derived from the “Bania” which is trading community and they used to take rest under these trees while going from village to village.
Banyan is a very large tree, spreading by aerial roots which as they age eventually become additional trunks and help in sucking the nutrients and thus expanding the girth of the tree. In fact the secondary roots act like its feet and the tree can over the years walk from its original location. They have a very long life span. Older trees can reach more than 200m in diameter, covering an area of some hectares with a height of 30 meters.
In contrast to its huge size, the fruits – called figs are only about 1.8cm in diameter orange-red turning scarlet when ripe. They have hardly any stalks so grow very close to the branches. The ripe fruits are very popular with birds and monkeys and are eaten by humans in times of famine.
The tree is commonly found in south east Asia and venerated particularly by Hindus and Buddhists. It is known by many names like Banyan in English, Bahupada, vata in Sanskrit, Bar, bargad, bor in Hindi, Bar, bot in Bengali, Vad, vadlo, vor in Gujurati, Vada, wad, war in Marathi, Marri, peddamarri, vati in Telugu, Al, Alam in Tamil, Ala, alada mara, vata in Kannada, Alo, vatan in Malayalam.
Its botanical name is Ficus benghalensis and it belongs to the fig family Moraceae.Generally, it cohabits with another sacred tree called Pipul.
In Hinduism, tree represents immortality and there are many stories about it in ancient literature. In a song called the ‘Bhagavad Gita’ or ‘Song of the Lord‘, Krishna uses the banyan tree as a symbol to describe the true meaning of life to the warrior hero Arjuna. Banyan is viewed by Hindus as the male plant to the closely related peepul or bodhi tree (Ficus religiosa). It is regarded as a sin to destroy either of these trees. It is commendable for a person to plant a young banyan close to a peepul, and this is done with a ceremony similar to that of marriage. It is customary to place a piece of silver money under the roots of the young banyan.
The tree parts like stem and leaves are used to make many medicine in India. |
global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/75285 | Authors who need to revise their papers should look at the most common mistakes below and correct them before sending their papers again.
Most common mistakes were:
• Missing affiliation where authors are listed.
• There should be NO special initials at the introduction.
• Spacing and referencing: there should be a space between the last character and bracket. Example: as seen in [3].
• References should be listed in IEEE standard format.
• 6 pages max.
• Page numbers are not required.
• Copyright mark should be at the bottom of the first page in the middle.
The paper should be written strictly in accordance with the PES Author’s kit and submitted in PDF format.
Guidelines for a Poster Session Presentation
Poster Template (pptx)
Preparation of the final version of accepted papers:
The papers presented at ISGT2016 will be included in IEEE Xplore. In order to do this, the final version of accepted papers both for Oral and Poster Presentations will have to be prepared as follows:
• Before Creating a PDF add the copyright notice to the bottom of the first page of your source document. The appropriate copyright clearance code notice is to appear on the bottom of the first page of each paper according to the guidelines set forth in the Cataloging/Copyright Instructions for an IEEE Conference Proceeding. If necessary, contact Boštjan Blažič at for the appropriate copyright notice.
• For papers in which all authors are employed by the US government, the copyright notice is: S. Government work not protected by U.S. copyright
• For papers in which all authors are employed by a Crown government (UK, Canada, and Australia), the copyright notice is: 978-1-5090-3358-4/16/$31.00 ©2016 Crown
• pdf of your final paper created using the IEEE PDF eXpress tool (plus). In order to build this pdf go to the PDF Express plus site. If you are a new user click in New Users, and enter the code 38141XP, that is the Conference ID of the ISGT2016 Conference, enter your email and set a password. If you are already registered in PDF eXpress then login, input your password and write the Conference ID 38141XP. Then for each conference paper you coauthored, click in “Create New Title”, enter the title of the paper and upload your word source file. Afterwards, you will receive an email regarding file conversion. In case of successful conversion, file is accessible on your PDF Express plus site and should be approved for collection. During the process of approval proper file name should be chosen, as using following naming convention:
First word of title(hyphen)second word of title(hyphen)presenting author’s last name(dot)PDF. For example, if the paper’s title is “Systematic approach to enhanced innovation structures”, and the presenting author is Colleen Edwards, the file should be renamed: Systematic-approach-Edwards.pdf
In case file wasn’t compatible with IEEE standards correct the detected problems and submit again the word source file. After the process is successfully done, checked file is available for download. It should be downloaded and renamed using same convention as published file;
• Fill and sign a IEEE copyright form regarding each paper you coauthored. You will find the blank pdf copyright form. Print, fill TITLE OF PAPER, COMPLETE LIST OF AUTHORS and IEEE PUBLICATION TITLE (2016 IEEE PES Innovative Smart Grid Technologies Conference Europe (ISGT-Europe)), sign and digitalize it. |
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/75324 | Benefits of Istighfar (seeking forgiveness)
Istighfar : Benefits of seeking forgiveness (Istighfar), an article about asking forgive In Islamic beleive, what is it,
how Muslim aking Allah forgive him, what is the benefits of Istighfar, all from Quraan.
frequently words in this article (forgiveness, rain, Istighfar, strength, wealth, quran)
Besm Ellah Arahman Araheem
Praise be to Allah “They (angels) said: Glory be to You, we have no knowledge except what you have taught us.
Verily, it is You, the All-Knower, the All-Wise.” and prayer and peace be upon His Messenger Mohamed Ibn Abdellah.
Supplicating for the forgiveness of sins from Allah (saying Astaghfar Allah Al Adheem) does not only return on you with the elimination and forgiveness of sins.
No it could be a remedy for many other worldly problems.
Problems that you may spend nights awake thinking for a way out.
While the way out is so easy and only takes few minutes, over and above you certainly gain Devine reward for spending those minutes in saying Astaghfar Allah Al Adheem.
“(And to preach thus), seek ye the forgiveness of your Lord, and turn to him in repentance;
that he may grant you enjoyment, good (and true), for a term appointed,
and bestow his abounding grace on all who abound in merit but if ye turn away, then I fear for you the Penalty of a great day;”. (Quran 11:3)
“And O my people ask forgiveness of your Lord, and turn to him (in repentance):
he will send you the skies pouring abundant rain, and add strength to your strength: so turn ye not back in sin” (Quran 11:52)
” Saying, Ask forgiveness from your Lord; for He is Oft Forgiving; He will send rain to you in abundance;
Give you increase in wealth and sons (the literal Arabic translation of this sentence is to provide you with money and children);
and bestow on you Gardens and bestow on you rivers (of flowing water).” (Quran 71 10-12)
We derive from the above mentioned noble verses the following:
· Allow you to enjoy lawful benefits of this life until a termed appointment (death). In other words, you shall be able to feel the enjoyment and stasifaction with what you have.
· Each one shall be rewarded for his /her good deeds accordingly.
· Allah shall send abundant rain in an indication to wealth.
However, if you feel the sense of the verse,
the wealth shall be bestowed in general and not only on one who is supplicating for forgiveness.
In this case, you will benefit he people around you as well.
· You will gain physical strength.
· A confrimation to providing rain in an indication to flourshing environement, rain helps plants grow, which will be invested of course.
You may say that it will help in case of difficulties of businesses, work and other similar situations.
· Then Allah continues to explain the outputs of saying “Astaghfar Allah Al Azeem”, He will also provide money and children.
· Again he verse refers to gardens and reiver in a sign to natural resources. |
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/75369 | Earn 2% Interest with Singapore Savings Bonds
Published on February 2, 2018
It is a voluntary way for individuals to lend money to the government, with 2-3% interest (as of Feb 2018).
Singapore Government is borrowing not because it is poor. She is “borrowing” because many individuals save too much cash in the bank, which doesn’t grow, so the government wants to help by making better investment for them.
In return, Singapore Government gives a interest of 2-3%, but at near zero risk.
Personally, I make my first SSB investment in the Feb 2018 bond issue, which coincidentally is the first time in history that the bond is oversubscribed!
As of March 2017, more than 40,000 individuals hold more than S$1.1 billion of SSB on aggregate. So on average, an individual invest $27,500 in SSB. Should you do the same?
Why should you put your money in SSB?
1. Because the interest is better than fixed deposit or bank’s interest.
2. Because you can withdraw whenever you want.
3. When you withdraw, you take the principal sum back in full.
4. And it is very very low risk.
As mentioned in Ray Dalio’s All Weather Portfolio, he allocates 40% of his money in long term government bond.
SSB is a long term government bond (up to 10 years), and you should use it to form the foundation of your investments.
Check out this month’s bond.
I took the following screenshot of the interst rate over 20 years, for the Mar 2018 issue:
Mar 2018 Bond Issue
The interest rate is tiered, with coupon payments increasing every year. If you hold to maturity (10 years), then the effective interest rate is 2.11%.
More SSB FAQs.
Guide to Buying
You need these to get started:
1. CDP Account
2. DBS/POSB, OCBC or UOB bank account
3. $500-$50,000 cash to buy :)
Apply through your bank’s internet banking. I applied via my DBS.
A $2 transaction fee is charged by the bank.
To redeem your bond early, you have to submit your request via your bank’s internet banking. You will receive the full principal sum by the following month 2nd business day, with pro-rated interest.
Other Notes:
• You may buy a maximum of $50,000 in each bond issue
• You may hold a maximum of $100,000 in total
• Therefore, you can buy 2 x $50,000
• A new bond will be issued every month (at least up to year 2020)
• Handy Calendar & Calculator
Singapore Government Securities (SGS), is another government bond that we could invest in.
Singapore Government and MAS introduced SGS way back in 1998.
SSB is another effort, introduced in 2015, with the following unique features:
SSB bond price is fixed, never traded in open market (unlike SGS), and investors may redeem anytime.
These SSB features is to appeal to individuals with low risk appetide yet favoring liquidability.
SGS and SSB interest rate is similar. The difference is that for SGS, when you redeem the bond early, you run the risk that the bond price is lower, therefore you might sell your bond at lower than your full principal sum. |
global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/75370 | Satan: Mankind’s Worst Enemy
Satan Mankinds Worst EnemyUnlike the descriptions of the devil in Christian doctrine, Shaytan (Satan:The Devil) is not a fallen angel; rather he is a Jinn (A creation of Allah that was created before humankind from smokeless flame. They are referred to at times as spirit beings, banshees, poltergeists, phantoms and so forth) who can think, reason and has free will.
Allah allowed him to reside amongst the Angels, but because of his pride and arrogance he despairs of ever knowing Allah’s mercy and has vowed not to inhabit the depths of Hell alone. Satan’s wish is to take as many human beings with him to the Hellfire as he can. Make no mistake about it; Satan is mankind’s mortal enemy. He is cunning, crafty and supremely arrogant.
The Qur'an warns us of his enmity over and over
“O children of Adam. Let not Shaytan deceive you...” (Quran 7:27)
“Surely Shaytan is an enemy to you so take him as an enemy...” (Quran 35:6)
“...And whoever takes Shaytan as a protector or helper instead of Allah, has surely suffered a manifest loss.” (Quran 4:119)
It is important to understand that even Satan himself recognises the Oneness of Allah and His right to be worshipped. Allah has informed us that the promises of Satan are nothing but deceptions and lies, and Satan concurs, for he can offer nothing.
“And Shaytan will say when the matter has been decided: "Verily, Allah promised you a promise of truth. And I too promised you, but I betrayed you. I had no authority over you except that I called you, and you responded to me. So do not blame me, but blame yourselves...” (Quran 14:22)
Every act of disobedience that is hated by Allah is loved by Shaytan, he loves immorality and sin. He whispers into the ears of the believers, he disrupts prayer and the remembrance of Allah. One of Islam’s greatest scholars, Ibn ul Qayyim, may God have mercy on him, said: “One of his (Satan’s) plots is that he always bewitches people’s minds until they are deceived, he makes attractive to the mind that which will harm it”.
Satan has wide-ranging experience in the field of deception; he has tricks and temptations and he whispers relentlessly. Satan is able to pinch and poke, implanting thoughts and desires. However Allah has not left humankind defenseless. He has provided us with weapons and one of the greatest is information. Satan is our mortal enemy and in order to combat his tricks and illusions we need to know him well. The long term goal of Satan is to deprive as many people as possible of Paradise and to lead them to Hell. To achieve this aim he has set many short term goals. Being aware of these goals means we are able to arm ourselves with weapons of defence.
Short Term Goals:
1.To cause people to commit the great sin of shirk. Everyone who worships something other than Allah, be it an idol, a statue, the sun, the moon, a person or a principle, is in essence worshipping Satan.[Sh.Omar al Ashqar in The world of the Jinn and Devils.]
2.To encourage people to commit sins and acts of disobedience. When Satan despairs of ever being worshipped he is content with being obeyed in matters that seem insignificant.[At-Tirmidhi, Saheeh Muslim] He loves immorality and sin because it has a direct effect on a person’s religious commitment.
3.To prevent people from doing good deeds. Satan not only causes people to commit sin and acts of disobedience, he is also content with preventing them from doing acts of good. Satan is patient; he lays in wait, filling our minds with doubts, and superstitions. When a person is planning on doing a good deed or action, he whispers to them to avoid it and plants small nagging doubts in their mind.
4.To damage acts of worship. If Satan is not able to prevent people from obeying Allah and performing righteous actions, he strives to corrupt their acts of worship. When a person is praying he whispers and distracts him. Satan’s desire is to prevent a person from taking their reward for praying with kushoo and eventually to lead him or her away from Allah altogether.
5.To cause mental and physical harm. In addition to causing believers to commit acts of shirk, Satan also aims to cause physical and mental harm. For instance he sends bad dreams to cause a person distress and fear. He disturbs people from the time they are born right up until the moment of death. In their final moments, he continues his whispering and harassment to prevent a person from calling on Allah and confirming their belief in God alone.
The means used by Shaytan to misguide people
By instilling doubts. Satan does not want anyone to turn to Allah in repentance, regretting (past mistakes) and turning towards what is right and good.Instead he wants to divert people away from Allah by using many kinds of temptations and baseless arguments. He instills doubts to make a person feel anxious and uncertain.
Encouraging negligence.If the believer adheres firmly to the straight path and calls on Allah to protect himself, Shaytan is prevented from leading him astray or misguiding him.However, if he is negligent or lazy Shaytan takes full advantage to attack while the believer’s defenses are down.Immersing oneself in all the aspects of Islam is the way to be safe from Shaytan. Being negligent about our Islamic obligations keeps one away from the constant flow of Allah’s mercy. When a person grows strong in Islam and his faith is firmly entrenched in his heart, Shaytan is the one who is afraid.
Arabic Terms:
Shaytan- sometimes spelled shaitan or shaytaan.It is the word used in Islam and the Arabic language to denote the devil or Satan, the personification of evil.
Kushoo - the act of being completely solemn, submissive and humble towards Allah during the prayer. |
global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/75386 | List Library - Best Practices for Messages
The following are suggested best practices associated with sending email to List Library email lists.
Crafting the Message
• Start by determining who is the target audience. Why are you sending the message? What do you expect readers to do once the email is sent?
• Always use a clear, specific and non-empty subject line.
• Clearly identify in the body of the message the originating unit or individual, the scope of individuals being emailed, and the purpose of the message.
• Messages should be clear and concise. Make additional information available via a web link in the text of the email. See below.
• Be clear about what the audience should do with the information.
• Do not include or attach personal, confidential or sensitive information.
• Include contact information for the individual, group, or organization in the message of the email. For example, "For more information, please contact…"
• Proofread for spelling, grammatical and content errors prior to distribution.
• Carefully target lists of recipients to minimize the number of people who receive any given bulk emailing.
• Send collaborative messages with other units at the University when possible to avoid redundancy.
• Consider additional communication channels to reach those who do not have access to a computer.
• The content of the message should be an appropriate topic and not violate University policies.
Use of Links
If there is substantial content underlying an email message (policy, procedures, news story, etc.) this content should be housed on a website, with URLs rather than attachments included in the email. Use of URLs will also help mitigate the transmission of computer viruses and improve compatibility with email clients. Hyperlinks should include the fully qualified (include the http:// part) protocol to assure that most recipients will see the "active" links in your message.
If the full URL is long, use the URL-shortening tool to streamline your message. It will generate a “” that redirects to the longer URL, but keeps the trusted domain and preserves click data. It is also a good idea to enclose URLs in less-than and greater-than symbols to avoid problems with word wrapping. See Mass Email - Policies & Criteria. If you use the URL shortening tool (, you will have open data but not click through data. Test your email prior to sending, if possible, to several people who use different tools to view their email.
Plain Text vs. HTML
In general, email sent within the campus community (to and from campus addresses) will and can be HTML with no ramifications for deliverability or readability. All current email clients, including mobile versions, accept HTML messages without problems. Also, even a simple, copy-only (no graphics) email generated in a current email client or tool is an HTML email.
These tools also usually include embedded code to deliver plain text if the recipient has configured their client to only accept text versions.
HTML messages being blocked for delivery by email systems is, for the most part, an outdated issue and generally not applicable for intra-campus email. Problems will only (potentially) arise when the message contains HTML coding errors – more typical for manually-coded, image-heavy messages used for email marketing.
A best-practice recommendation for employee emails is to create your email within a current email client or tool, with concise copy and minimal use of images. This is not to say images should not be included – see below for use of branded templates – but keeping it simple will minimize load time for mobile viewers and help your copy stand out.
Use of Images
Campus communicators encourage limited use of images in mass emails. Chief considerations when deciding whether to use images are readability, mail-ability and filtering. While they can enhance readability by illustrating a point or breaking up copy, images can also detract from the message, particularly if viewed out of place or disproportionately on a smaller device. For that very reason, always provide alternative and title text. Use smaller image files so the image is neither overpowering nor too small to read. Inserting images can also (depending upon mailer) alert spam filters and keep your message from being delivered. If you use an image (in addition to an html header), test the message by sending it to example email accounts commonly used by your audience.
Language / Translation of Messages
Official Messages, whenever possible, should be translated by Cultural Linguistic Services (CLS) and made easily available to view and print in multiple languages. Contact CLS for further guidance.
It is recommended that Informational Messages are also translated by CLS, particularly when the target audience is the full campus community or a similarly broad distribution. Alternatively, communicators may consider providing Google Translate on their web page(s) corresponding to the informational email.
Managing Subscribe / Unsubscribe
Official Messages – while these emails will use the “no opt-out” list library, all emails will carry a footer that clarifies that recipients cannot unsubscribe and why. The WiscList system will add the following:
You are receiving this communication because you are a UW-Madison employee and included on distribution lists for official university correspondence. Employees are not able to unsubscribe from these lists.
Note: When using digital signatures, the footer must be added manually.
Timing of Mailings
Consider your audience and urgency of your message when determining the best time to send your message. When are they most likely to receive and read it? Consider sending large quantities of bulk email during non-business hours to expedite delivery.
Analytics are not automatically sent to the sender. If analytics are required, the request must be sent to University Communications –
Use of the List Library is subject to the UW-System - Acceptable Use of Information Technology Resources.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/75413 | The canonicity of Esther (Esther 10)
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During its early history the book of Esther had a controversial status within the canon of the Hebrew Bible. Esther is the only book in the Old Testament not represented in the Dead Sea Scrolls, suggesting that the Qumran community may not have viewed it as Scripture. Although the celebration of Purim (the holiday initiated in Esther 8:17-17 to commemorate the deliverance of the Jews) was inaugurated in the book of Esther, the rabbis of the second century A.D. cited a text called Megillat Taanit – not Esther – to defend its celebration. This suggests that the book of Esther was not held in as high esteem as this late (first century A.D.) work.
The status of Esther has been debated in Christian circles as well. Esther is not listed in the oldest Christian canonical catalogue, that of Bishop Melito of Sardis (ca. A.D. 167). Neither was it recognized by other Christian leaders, including Athanasius (A.D. 295-373) and Martin Luther, who proposed that Esther be removed from the canon of Scripture. On the other hand, early church fathers such as Origen (ca. 185-254), Augustine (354-430), Innocent (401-417) and John of Damascus (675-745) did count Esther among the accepted books of the Old Testament. And the councils of Hippo and Carthage officially recognized Esther’s canonical status in the Christian Scriptures in A.D. 393 and 397, respectively.
Later, the canonicity of the Greek version of Esther (containing 107 verses not found in the Hebrew text) was debated. The additionns were designated by the Protestant church as Apocryphal and omitted from the Protestant Bible during the Reformation. However, the Roman Catholic Council of Trent (1546) labelled the additions to Esther as Deutero-canonical, and the Roman Catholic Church continues to include them after the book of Esther proper.
Jewish and Christian objections to the canonicity of Esther have been many and varied. Some readers have objected to the omission of ant reference to God. Within the book there are nearly 200 allusions to the king of Persia but not a single direct reference to God! There is likewise no mention of prayer, the law, the covenant, Jerusalem or any of the several other themes we would expect to find in a canonical work. Other scholars identify the book either as a parable os as a composite of two or more Persian and Palestinian myths. In addition, early Jews and Christians may have objected to the canonicity of Esther because of the prevalent drunkenness that often accompanied early celebrations of Purim.
Despite these objections, there are solid reasons for accepting the canonicity of Esther:
• The book is driven by implicit accounts of God’s faithfulness and sovereignty, even though His name is unmentioned. From beginning to end the reader understands God’s hand to be at work to deliver His people from the threats of foreign enemies. The events are not “miraculous” in a supernatural sense, but they suggest divine intervention.
• The omission of themes like observance of the law, sacrifice, the temple in Jerusalem etc. do not create an insurmountable objection when it is remembered that the book’s events occurred during the exile. The Jews were living in Persia, far from the altar in Jerusalem, which, since the reformations of king Josiah, had been the only acceptable site for sacrifices to Yahweh. That these themes would go unmentioned, therefore, is understandable. The Jews’ familiarity with their sacred traditions, however, is clear from the evident knowledge of the efficacy of communal fasting (4:16 cf. 2 Chronicles 20:3, Jeremiah 36:9) and from the theme of providence that underlies the entire book.
• To Jews living under foreign oppression until the time of Christ, or to Christian living in the present age, the book of Esther demonstrates God’s care for and action on behalf of His people. It affirms, in fact, that all human affairs are ultimately under Hid dominion.
With the exceptions noted above, the majority of Jews and Christians have accepted the book of Esther as Scripture for over 2,000 years. Its transmission and message demand that ut remain a fundamental portion of God’s message to His people.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/75414 | How to clear Windows Update Download Cache in Windows 7
If you have problems where windows 7 “hang” or “freeze” when it`s installing updates this fix will help you.
1. Go to “C:\Windows\SoftwareDistribution\Download”
2. Select all files and folders, and delete them
3. When prompted to confirm, click yes.
4. Restart your computer to complete the process.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/75476 | Looker’s Table with Subtotals tabulates the subtotals of specific measures in a given table. The visualization groups query results by measures and pivots, and subtotals are displayed on the first row of each group. Users are able to dynamically collapse/expand each group.
This chart reduces the need to create multiple tables for various groups, and makes it easy to compare totals for multiple groups on the same chart.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/75501 | I want to setup Magento 2 with docker and system of containers are ubuntu.
Can anyone help me, how to setup docker file?
I've been using for the last 6 months the docker images created by Fabrizio Balliano It works nicely on ubuntu. And you have a readme file explaining what you need to do to get it running.
• The project readme says "if someday we'll be able to deploy this infrastructure in production..." This implies it is not production-ready. Is it recommended to run Magento 2 in docker on production servers? – MountainX-for-Monica Dec 7 '19 at 1:39
You can use those files to setup you docker environment easy to use visit link - https://github.com/markoshust/docker-magento
You can setup on both environments windows and mac. I hope so it will help you.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/75508 | Pop PIE for ages 8-12
Mandarin through Pop culture, Individual Expression for 8-12 year olds
In our Pop PIE program, we use the children’s desire to communicate with each other as the motivational basis for learning Mandarin. The language will be taught via topics that revolve around pop culture, social activities and games. Children will be taught the tools to further their own language learning independently such as Han Yu Pin Yin and how to use the Chinese dictionary. We continue to use flashcards and project work as teaching and memory tools. Classes are offered from beginner (Level 1) up to advanced (Level 3).
在Pop PIE项目中，我们利用孩子想要与他人交流的动机为基础来学习中文。通过围绕流行文化、社会活动以及游戏的话题来教授语言。我们还会教授他们汉语拼音以及如何查字典，这些可以帮助他们自主地进一步学习中文。作为教学和记忆工具的闪卡和项目活动将继续使用。我们的课程包括初级（Level 1）到高级（Level 3）。
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to Clare B.
Clare didn’t wear
green trousers anymore.
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other colours were
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as she sat on the cross.
Her face had lots of
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some glue.
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Clare didn’t say much but
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/75579 | The spiritual implication of human cloning: What could GOD’s perspective be?
With ongoing presumption that scientists have cloned, might have cloned, or would clone human beings after successfully cloning animals, what could be opinion of mankind’s creator about cloning? What could GOD’s perspective be?
But first, what is cloning?
Cloning is a process in which genetically identical or similar-looking entities of the same organism are produced, either naturally, or artificially—as is the practice in laboratory experiments carried out by medical scientists.
Naturally, many organisms produce clones by asexual reproduction. Artificially, medical scientists have been producing clones, or exact copies of cells, or parts of DNAs.
It is believed that if medical scientists can grow organs of the human body, then they can use the same knowledge to regrow a complete human body and produce an exact genetic copy—a human clone.
However, despite this belief, there is a widely held opinion that human cloning hasn’t yet been achieved, despite many claims to the contrary.
The dawn of artificial cloning
The term “cloning” made lots of air waves and headlines in 1997 when Ian Wilmut (Roslin Institute of the University of Edinburgh) successfully cloned “Dolly the sheep”.
Wilmut was able to achieve this great feat by producing an exact genetic copy of an original sheep after taking a cell from it, extracting the DNA from its nucleus, and inserting the nucleus into an egg cell.
Not long after Wilmut’s achievement, many groups around the world followed his lead and cloned a wide variety of animals, including horses, cats, cattle, mice, goats, pigs, dogs, etc.
It’s on record that the first, second, and third generations of the clones exist.
What about human cloning?
Since artificial cloning started, there have been a number of reports and claims that human cloning has been successfully achieved.
On the other hand, other reports claim that any claims about success in human cloning are probably bogus claims which haven’t been proven yet.
If the statement in the previous paragraph is true—although we shouldn’t rely on it—then we can assume that no scientist has successfully cloned any primate, talk-less of a human being.
If human cloning has been successful, even though it hasn’t been authenticated, then what could be the spiritual implication for using such an unnatural process that doesn’t seem to emanate directly from GOD?
What would be the reaction of the world’s great religions? What would GOD feel about it—what, what, what?
What do religious/spiritual texts state?
If we observe the stories of creation in different religious texts, it is quite clear that GOD made just one path for human beings to procreate or produce offspring in the world: by sexual reproduction. This seems to be the only provision GOD made for souls/spirits and the animated parts of bodies (both human beings and animals) to incarnate here on Earth.
But we know that mankind always has a tendency to seek its own plan, which in many cases, is far apart from that of GOD and tends to be more self-destructive: in this regard, medical science might have already found another way to reproduce human beings through human cloning.
The skepticism surrounding human cloning
If judged by spiritual beliefs, skepticism will likely arise around cloning because it doesn’t give an answer whether souls or spirits animate the cloned bodies of organisms.
The soul or spirit, as we know it, is the invisible and immaterial essence that animates the physical bodies of human beings, and probably other organisms. The soul doesn’t seem to be created here on Earth.
And without a soul, no body wouldn’t be able to do anything.
Just like natural living bodies are full of life, successful clones are also full of life, and are as lively and animated as the complete body of the organisms they were cloned from.
But do the animated (spirit/soul) parts of clones come from human beings, or from GOD? Are they real or not? And who created such souls, if they really exist in the first place?
For sure, it’s already here, or it’s already on the way
One of the long-held dreams of certain medical scientists of the twenty-first century, is to create human beings from possible man-made processes.
Like we hinted earlier, it is either that human cloning has already been achieved, or it is yet to be achieved.
It’s possible that scientists have already achieved human cloning successfully, but are hiding evidence about it—for whatever reason(s) best known to them.
Regardless, doesn’t the spiritual implication look scary when it’s obvious mankind has been, or could be able to create new life forms—not through incantations, magic, or prayers, but through knowledge and advancements made in the field of medical science?
Should scientists mind what they seek for?
Although medical science has advanced tremendously, and it looks obvious that mankind has/would have an artificial process for reproducing life in an unnatural way—a way not provided by GOD—shouldn’t scientists mind what they wish for?
When we read the stories of GOD’s anger and wrath after fallen angels (who were not human) bore offsprings after mating with mankind, wouldn’t anyone tend to think that science could be erring greatly by discovering and using a process GOD did not design for mankind.
What could be the public’s view about human cloning?
If human cloning becomes possible to an appreciable degree, it might meet social obstacles. How well will it be accepted? Do people think that cloning people is a moral act? Is it ethical to clone fellow human beings?
My personal opinion is that many religions will oppose human cloning, in the same fashion that the Catholic Church opposed test tube babies back in 1978 when Louise Brown became the first baby in history to be conceived in a test tube.
If the public speaks up and rises against human cloning, then most governments would definitely pass laws to ban human cloning technology; or, at best (for scientists or proponents of human cloning), most governments could regulate human cloning with tight fists.
On the other hand, if human cloning is widely accepted, then at most, it’s likely that only few people would be clones, in just the same way that few natural clones exist in the form of identical twins and triplets—so the hype about human cloning might gradually wear off.
What is GOD’s opinion about the animated part (soul or soul-less?) of a clone?
With the knowledge we have about cloning, we know that many questions could spring up whenever the subject of GOD and human cloning are mentioned in any discussion. Questions like these could arise:
• If human bodies are duplicated, will the spirits that animate the human bodies also be duplicated or cloned?
• Will cloned human beings have a spiritual life? Will they be recognized by GOD?
• If a human being is cloned, will it have any memory? (It has been widely reported that clones have no memory.)
• Will cloned spirits have a record in GOD’s record book of human life on Earth?
• Are the medical scientists who practice cloning distorting the true human image of GOD?
Thank you.
Human cloning is a topic that could be difficult to agree with, especially when religion and GOD are mentioned. That’s why any possible comments about your opinion(s) will be highly appreciated in the comment section.
Author: Ihagh G. T.
73 thoughts on “The spiritual implication of human cloning: What could GOD’s perspective be?”
1. I think human cloning is a very scary, dangerous thing! It is playing with fire. First of all, I think it is morally wrong and is likened to playing God. But what really scares me about human cloning, is WHO might be cloned. There are enough crazy, sick people out there who idolize horrible people, and they just might decide those people who be the ones to be cloned. Who would determine who to clone and not to clone? Human cloning is just opening the floodgates to hell and should not be done under any circumstances.
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1. I’m very delighted to be reading your detailed and thoughtful comment—and what in my opinion contains brilliant advice for scientists and mankind… cloning seems good from the outside, but it’s inner parts could contain all things unsavory and distasteful.
Thanks so much for visiting and taking time to make such a meaningful comment.
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1. Thanks alot for reading and making a positive remark. I’m sorry for responding quite late. I just saw your comment in my spam box; I don’t know how such an innocent comment ended up there. Much appreciation and regards.
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2. I am of the understanding that what we call God is unlimited, unimpeded awareness. Right/wrong, moral/immoral is irrelevant to Beingness. However, in the realm of this earth plane, cloning is presents a real dilemma, another possibility that ignorance of unintended consequences may cause great harm. Just because we can, doesn’t mean it should be done. And the question to me is, why do we need to clone entire humans? I have no good answer for that.
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1. Your brilliant and thoughtful comments, are highly appreciated. I agree with you that just because cloning is possible, scientists shouldn’t jump into it. Although, I also wonder why cloning should be done, cloning has advantages because healthier or stronger DNAs in cells could be selected, and use to produce more fit or healthier clones… all the same, irrespective of any advantages, and because of the spiritual aspect attached (which mankind doesn’t know much about), human cloning should be left alone.. .
Thank you for visiting, reading and commenting.
3. You make an interesting point with the question, “is cloning going to distort God’s image of man.” The bible does say God made Man in his image.
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1. Frank, thank you for your positive observation of that point, and it’s relationship to what GOD’s word (the Bible) says…GOD’s image has an essence that is more spiritual and less physical, as GOD won’t die or decay; so one wonders whether the spiritual part of clones would really be in GOD’s image…
Thank you for visiting, reading and commenting.
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4. Interesting subject! I believe as you stated in the article, the soul and spirit can’t be copied / cloned and that’s enough, we are created for a reason and we’ll die when our time come, the clones will be jut puppets created my human to copy the way we look probably not more than that! And it’s freaky and not really ethical!
I believe they should use the technology to be more useful to humanity to be honest, many diseases that need cure, people that lost parts of their bodies in war or else, they should even find a way to stop the wars and famine before cloning more humans Regarding the animals, to be honest I don’t care if like Dolly the sheep they did many animals as you mentioned, but also it’s useless, they should let things live and grow naturally I guess, especially that we don’t need more humans or more animals. We need better humanity and we need a better world for these humans to live
Thank you for sharing
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1. Huguette, thank you for your, once again, very thoughtful comments; so many interesting points. I agree with you completely that scientists should use this technology and their time to do other things that are much more important… actually there are many diseases and problems that need attention, and adding clones to the current high human population, won’t help the world much…
and although its proven that clones dont have memories, one still wonders what animates the full body of a clone, or what would animate a human clone for instance; whether a human body would be animated by a spirit/soul, or not; and whether or not GOD approves such.
Thank you for taking time to visit, read and make meaningful comments.
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5. People are already cloned naturally whenever “identical” twins are born. Inevitably, people will be cloned by human intervention, the same as that humans have resulted from in-vitro fertilization. Each individual human being that results is now, and will in the future be no more or less human than anyone else. They are now, and will continue to be individuals that will develop their own lives, and feel and experience the same things as everyone else.
I believe the words go, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.” I don’t recall the, “…unless they are a ,” part.
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1. Thanks alot for your sensible comments, which, if interpreted correctly, seems to imply that cloned human beings would have real spirits/souls that would be recognized and accepted by GOD; and no matter which way human beings are produced, naturally or artificially, GOD won’t have any issue with it.
Thank you for visiting, reading and commenting.
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1. My point, exactly. Even “identical” twins with exactly identical genetics are different, if by virtue of nothing more than life experience. No two people are identical — not even two cloned people. Each individual person is a distinct human-being, and thus fully worthy of treatment as such.
What concerned me enough to leave a comment here is that debating who has a “soul” in the eyes of some arbitrary interpretation of a God, any God, is tantamount to assigning varying values of “human-ness” to different groups of people; and that has been the at the crux of the most singularly destructive events in human history. It has been the excuse for everything from slavery to mass-murder. The early US, the Constitution counted African slaves as but 3/5 of a person, justifying the denial of basic human rights to an entire group of people. In 1939 Germany, such institutionalized dehumanization resulted in far worse. We shouldn’t be searching for ways to repeat he same mistakes. Any God that I would care to associate myself with would care for ALL people just the same… even if they share the genetics of another.
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1. I appreciate your own views, but would like to point out something in your comment that is waaay off the content and intention of this article: NO DEBATE IS GOING ON HERE; NO arguments, just personal opinions are expected. There is nothing imposing here; That’s why the following statements were made at the ending part of the article:
“With the knowledge we have about cloning, we know that many questions ‘could’ spring up whenever the subject of GOD and human cloning are mentioned in any discussion. Questions like these could arise:
Are the medical scientists who practice cloning distorting the true human image of GOD?”
non-imposing and personal views are desired because of the questions raised above—which could certainly spring up in the minds of those who believe in “a GOD”—not everyone—much less those who don’t believe.
Another thing: this article didn’t interpret anything real or arbitrary about “a GOD or any GOD”, except if you are referring to another post somewhere else.
The article expects every interested person to give their own views. nobody on this platform—much less the author—is attempting to assign, or impose, varying values of any humanness to different groups of humanity—humanity that was created by one GOD—as accepted by only those who believe?
When a post is published on a sensitive issue like cloning, and people’s opinions are asked, it doesn’t imply that the post is tantamount to assigning values. anybody who read the post well, would sense that there is no attempt to assign or impose values that have lead to mass murder, slavery, denial of human rights, and repetition of any types of past mistakes.
Even if cloned humans exist/will exist, there is no way the author of this posts—in his real nature—would treat them differently, or support that they be treated differently from humans that are not cloned, especially when he is used to treating animals, plants, the natural environment, and inanimate man-made objects with high regard that is even similar to, and comparable with the way he treats “uncloned” human beings.
The post doesn’t frown, or intend to either frown at, or support cloning, or discriminate human clones—if they exist, or whenever they would exist.
—the intention of the post can be perceived by understanding the ending part of the title: What “could” (note: could) GOD’s perspective about cloning be?
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1. Thank you for your positive remark, and contribution: your belief that human cloning will never ever be possible. We have to accept that it’s possible human cloning will never be able to take place.
I appreciate the time you’ve taken to visit, read and comment.
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6. An interesting post and thought-provoking…I do not believe science will stop if they have cloned animals humans have or will be next…Do I think it is the right thing to do…I am not sure…I think if a scientist is that brilliant then their efforts would be better employed on the existing population and curing their ills…
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1. Thank you for your meaningful comments. I’m in complete agreement with every point you raised: science won’t stop at cloning of animals; they will go further, but it would be more beneficial for mankind if scientists use their time, intelligence and knowledge to solve other more-pressing issues.
Thanks for visiting, reading and commenting.
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7. “But we know that mankind always has a tendency to seek its own plan, which in many cases, is far apart from that of GOD and tends to be more self-destructive” this words of your strikes me the most.
My daughter and I were discussing this topic a few days ago, starting from surrogate pregnancy and really there were some questions left unanswered.My curious daughter in fact googled most, especially the moral and ethical parts.But after reading this article of yours I came to realized about humans tendency to seek its own plan from the beginning of creation. And we seemed never to learn! We keep repeating the same mistake always.
Well, I guess the best is to stick to the reason why we are here for us, for we know that in all things God works for good for those who love Him 🙂
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1. Thanks for your positive remark regarding that quote from the post. After observing the history of mankind from the past to the present, I’ve always been bothered about how mankind uses knowledge self-destructively; that’s why I was occupied with the thought till I had to pen it down during writing…
👏👏👏for very strong points from your comments: we don’t seem to learn from the past; we keep making the same mistakes; and the best path for us is to occupy ourselves with the reasons why we are here…good lessons and points.
Thank you for visiting, reading and making meaningful comments.
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1. 😀… there could a very good (but mystical) reason that only GOD knows about—maybe it’s in our nature to err whenever we insist on choosing some paths GOD didn’t give us directly.
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8. Thanks for all the inspiring words. I also wanted to let you know that I nominated you for the Mystery Blogger Award. Congrats! You deserve it! No worries if you don’t have time to write an award post. Have a great week!
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1. Thanks alot for the nomination. It’s my first time I’m being nominated for this particular award. I will search to find out the conditions for accepting the award and know the decision to make. I tried opening your web page to read about it, but isnt opening. I will search other blogs to find out the rules. sometimes, I’m discouraged from accepting awards because of the number of bloggers we as nominees are asked to nominate—that’s the main thing my eye will be on when I search.
Thanks alot for the nomination.
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9. It’s a lot to think about, and I have no doubt that sooner or later, humans will be cloned. If it can be done, someone will do it, of that we can be sure. So it is something that will have to be dealt with.
I’m of the mind that if someone/something is self aware, can make moral choices, they have a soul. An I suppose we would have to see how a human clone (or android) conducts their life to make that decision. On the other hand, there are, and have been, human beings on this earth that I’ve wondered whether or not they possess a soul.
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1. Thank you very much for your strong points, especially the one which states that “if someone /something is self-aware, can make moral choices, they have a soul”. I am complete agreement with it. on the other hand, I wonder whether such a soul/souls are from GOD; or whether they will be recognized by GOD.
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1. oh, you did a research on the ethical/etc. impact of human cloning, or cloning generally…that would have been very interesting to experience. thanks alot for your encouraging/closing remark.
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1. I am in complete agreement with your great point, which they may never see because of their ambition to achieve something spectacular, but which won’t be so useful to mankind’s progress.
Let me use this opportunity to inform you that recently, I’ve been commenting on your post, and that of other bloggers, but noticed that the comments disappear, a few seconds after I make them. I contacted over the issue, but their reply was that the bloggers have to approve them, or either luckily or unluckily, they fall in spam folders as is the case with emails.
So if you don’t see my comments, then the fault is beyond my control. on the other hand, I will appreciate if you check your spam folder as well. Because of this recent experience, I have been checkin my spam folder, only to see a mix of good comments, and real spam comments. I approved the good comments and deleted the spam comments containing unnecessary information and links.
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1. Ok, you mean the comment appeared? then that’s alright. actually, humans would find it difficult to achieve anything worthwhile in a polluted, uncared-for and environmentally-unchecked environment.
2. Your answer is so so true. those monies would be best helping hunger, better healthcare, homelessness etc, no need to attempt to create more humans when we hardly care for the ones we already have.
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10. I’m not for human cloning. It would not surprise me that it has already been performed and the public doesn’t know. From a Christian point of view: During the days of Enoch the angels that had children with humans begat giants. Today that is what we refer to as demons. Thus, when we go outside of the plan of God we can’t excape the consequences of those choices. Again, a Christian prospective. 🙂✌️
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11. I agree with your take on it, it probably should not be done for those same reasons you mentioned….what about the spiritual component…Will these clones be able to exist and adapt as humans are apt to do, will they be law-abiding citizens, will they possess emotional intelligence? The knowledge of good from evil? …Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it and take the rest of humanity along for the ride.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/75584 | In the baptism/murders sequence at the end of the Godfather, Clemenza is seen firing his shotgun into the elevator car twice, however there were three people in the elevator car- Don Stracci, his underboss, and an elevator operator. Does anyone know if Clemenza shot the operator offscreen?
We don't know but probably not.
If you look at the screen you can see that the elevator operator is shielded from the shotgun blasts as he is standing to one side by the controls.
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The shots are fired straight ahead and so would be unlikely to spread to the side that much.
Of course, it's possible that Clemenza finished him off and disposed of any possible witness off-screen but we have no information on that.
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I don't think they cared about the witness. Because when Moe Greene is killed it was only him and not the massager. – Rahul Jan 13 '19 at 15:12
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• For some venues, where the PA isn't ideal, I do find myself using a noisegate between guitar and effects, just to get rid of some of the unwanted bleed from stage wiring, lighting switch gear etc- this at least gives a clean input to my effects. – Doktor Mayhem Apr 17 '11 at 9:31
• I'm an NS-2 fan as well, although sometimes it is a wee bit slow in very noisy situations. – Doktor Mayhem Apr 16 '11 at 21:00
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• Have and use one myself, dont know what i would do without it. – Bella Jun 6 '11 at 23:05
In terms of differences between products, some noise gates are made strictly for noise reduction, and others can be used more as an effect. Some have been known to mildly affect the tone of the guitar. I've used the NS-2, but I'm partial to the ISP Decimator II (it's better suited to pure noise reduction).
I like placing a noise gate after my reverb pedals. It gets rid of the reverb tail, which gives a tighter and somewhat bigger sound i.e. not as washed out. It's a subtle effect, but it's definitely a use case.
Source: http://equipboard.com/posts/the-best-noise-gate-pedals
So much depends on the pedals. There are 8 pedal groups. O.dr/ dist. 2. Modulation 3. Ambience 4. Pitch altering 5. Sound altering 6. Filtering 7. Effects delay (compression/sustain, loopers & noise suppressers) 8. Tuner pedals. I use #'s 2,3,6,& 7. W/TC Helicon V.H. Singer & A Digitech Trio. My MXR N. SUPP. Is in the center of my P. Chain. after my modulation (phase) & Ambience (Delay). Tuners should always be first in the chain, before the N. Gate/Supp.
• When I added The Digitech Trio, I had to have Noise Gate due to the on board Stack Effect ... It is designed to give your amp the boost and effect of a 1/2 Stack. Well I tried it and it is AWESOME... BUT... after shutting it down I had a radio station playing Goerge Strait through my amp...I contacted Digitech Support... They were quite helpful... I simply reset to factory settings... I won't use that again... :) – Eddie Kidd Mar 25 '16 at 22:48
I have used the Boss NS-2 for a long time. I currently use 2 noise gates. The NS-2 before the amp input, The TC Electronics Iron Curtain is at the begining of the fx loop. I did a number of things before deciding to do that. I have 3 pedal boards. A: main pedal board that is using a SKB Stage Five pedalboard case. I reorganized the power layout, and improved my cabling. At the time, I started building my pedal board (A) I didn't have a multi-channel amp. I added a Boss MS-3 Switcher, which greatly improved my board. I was able to remove my NS-2, EQ, TU-2, and compressor. Which later ended up on another pedal board (C).
The Boss MS-3 added stereo fx, and a NS-2 within the unit. The amp like OD pedals are in 3 loops, that are programmable now. This setup is run all in line after the MS-3 Switcher. So, the MS-3 gives me some "AUX" fx. Momentary fx are assigned to the channel button. Also, in manual mode, other fx are assigned, across the other buttons. The MS-3 that controls all the gain overdrives, quiets the overdrives and gives me an auto compressor on just the clean channel. The stereo outs go to my first series of stereo fx, TC Electronics Nova Dual Modulator, then into a Stereo Eventide Pitch Factor, then stereo TC Electronics Nova Delay, then finally a DigiTech Polara Reverb. The SKB Stage Five has a nice patchbay built in, along with other nice features: Cable tester, headphone monitor, several ways to organize you signal going to fx loops, etc. I send a stereo cable to a rack mount converted into an amp head style box. A stereo tube preamp, analog stereo speaker simulator and a MosValve stereo power amp. I was getting a hum, so I use a Nady Hum eliminator stereo box that is patched at the inputs to the tube preamp. Now, all I hear is the fan on the amp.
My other pedal board (B) was built with out the need for multiple amp like OD / Distortions. I only use a BD-2 and Xotic SP compressor to push the amp, gently. I mounted a TC Electronics Iron Curtain Noise Gate inside my Mesa Nomad 100. I have dual lock Velcro to keep it in place. This starts the signal at the fx loop. Then, I use an Empress ParaEQ located on top of the amp, to sculpt out some of the excessive mids and allow fine tuning of adding tighter bass and additional brightness when needed. Recently, I mounted my NS-2 in the Mesa Nomad 100, for knocking out any noise going in to the amp after the fx in front of the amp. I use a mini volume box, after the EQ. This is where the FX send goes to the first of a series of stereo fx: modulation, pitch, delay, then Reverb. Left output of fx goes to Mesa Nomad 100. The Right output goes to a 2nd amp. (Musicman HD 150 or Orange Micro Terror). I use a Two Note Torpedo Captor 8 (reactive load)speaker simulator and a Hughes and Kettner Red Box Classic. The 2nd noise gate was a great option and makes Mesa Nomad 100 Rig quiet. The pedal board (B) is just a DigiTech Drop, wah, and DigiTech FS3X (remote switch for Eventide Pitch Factor. I also squeeze in a TC Body Rez, Parametric EQ, and DI box for piezo signal to PA.
I have tried many other noise gates. The old Boss version of Noise gate, Rocktron The Hush, Rolls Noise gate, Behringer NS-2 style plastic junk! I have been interested in the ISP Decimator, and TC Electronics Noise Sentry. One time I thought my NS was broken when it was a faulty power supply. After that experience, I decided to review my power needs. I found some affordable options. I like the Vitoos DC 8 isolated power supply, and a Dinosaur power supply. I use that for my Mesa Nomad 100 fx at the amp. I have only had to Y a few devices. Some 18 volt fx and 12 volt fx. I wish I could afford a power regulator. I have a couple of Monster Home Theater surge power protectors, that work very well. I also need to get the EBtech Hum X, that safely removes ground.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/75599 | There seems to be a significance of one bar, certain notes happen every bar at roughly the same position. But how can I calculate how many ticks there are per bar using ticks per beat of the song and and tempo of the track?
Since the bars are lined up for all tracks, I assume that ticks per bar is independent of tempo.
• Can you define ticks here? Not sure what that is in a musical context. Song tempos are usually marked in BPM (beats per minute) so quarter note = 60BPM would be a beat every second. If the time signature is 4/4 (the most common) you get a bar every 4 seconds. A beat every second. – b3ko Jun 26 '19 at 19:45
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@b3ko A tick is a unit of time used in MIDI. – Todd Wilcox Jun 26 '19 at 22:03
• @todd_wilcox ah, i missed the midi tag. – b3ko Jun 27 '19 at 1:14
• @ToddWilcox - a unit of time - rather like a beat is a unit of time? Timing rather than time? And can any number of ticks be assigned to a beat? – Tim Jun 27 '19 at 10:49
• @Tim Basically, yes, although it must be a positive integer, and I think there's a maximum. Also, ticks per beat cannot be changed during a song. In other words, the MIDI spec requires exactly one ticks per beat setting for an entire file. I think for most systems, pulses-per-quarter-note (PPQ) and ticks per beat are the same thing. It looks like many software packages have "standardized" to 960 ticks per beat. Notice 960 is divisible by 3, 4, and 5, allowing easy duple time, triplets or compound time, and quintuplets. – Todd Wilcox Jun 27 '19 at 13:23
The number of ticks in a bar is just the number of ticks per beat multiplied by the number of beats in a bar. If you are in 4/4 time and have 4 ticks per beat then you have 16 ticks per bar.
This has nothing to do with the tempo.
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A cyclic ring is a cyclic group /n\mathbb{Z}/n\mathbb{Z} or \mathbb{Z}, equipped with its canonical commutative ring-structure induced from multiplication in the integers.
(hm, bad terminology, need disambiguation with the other meaning of cyclic ring)
For nn a prime number this is a prime field.
e.g. example 5 in these notes: pdf
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Ruth is set in the time of the Judges and, in a non Hebrew bible, is found directly after the book of Judges. A family from Bethlehem goes to live in Moab, because of a famine in their land. The husband and wife are Elimelech and Naomi. Elimelech dies in verse 3 and his two sons marry Moabite women, Orpah and Ruth. In verse 5, the two sons die, not surprisingly, because their names, Mahlon and Killion mean sickness and vanishing, which does not bode well for either of them.
So, as is the case with the American TV series Mad Men, it looks as if the story will be about the men, but it’s really about the women.
The survivors, as is well known, are Naomi and her Moabite daughters-in-law. Learning that the famine has ceased in Judah, Naomi resolves to go home and, speaking affectionately but firmly to Ruth and Orpah, she urges them to return to their families,
where they may, God willing, marry again and have children.
There is a midrashic tradition that Orpah and Ruth were sisters, the daughters of King Eglon of Moab (Ruth Rabbah 2:9) who, in turn (according to the same midrash), was the son of Balak.
The expression ‘the land of Judah’ in verse 7 is not used very often until the division of the kingdom following Solomon’s reign when Judah became the name of a kingdom. Prior to the time of Ruth, this expression occurs only once1and designates the land occupied by the tribe of Judah. It occurs also in David’s narrative, where Judah becomes important, being David’s own tribe and the centre of his eventual kingdom.
Naomi says ‘Turn back’ three times to her daughters-in-law2 corresponding to the discouragement given to prospective converts who present themselves to the Beth Din.3 We can see why Orpah might go, but why does Ruth stay? She is the template for all converts. Why is she so insistent? Is it about Naomi or about the ephemeral Mahlon, or about Torah?
Midrash claims that Orpah becomes the grandmother of Goliath, and depicts her in a negative light, as exceedingly promiscuous. There is no basis for this in the book of Ruth, but midrashic literature often takes a binary approach; if one of a pair is the hero, the other must be the villain. This is especially noticeable in midrashic narratives about Esau and Jacob.
On arrival in Bethlehem, they become the centre of attention for the women. Naomi expresses her bitterness at the way God has treated her, taking her husband and sons, and tells the women to call her Marah – bitter – instead of Naomi, which means pleasant.
The barley harvest is around the time of Pesach. The narrator emphasises Ruth’s foreignness, not only calling her Moaviyah, a Moabite woman, but adding, perhaps tautologically, that she comes from Moab.
The second chapter introduces a new character: Boaz, a relation of Naomi’s late husband. Boaz is a name associated with strength, and, as any freemason will know, is the name of one of the pillars upholding the porch of Solomon’s temple.
Gleaning the harvest from the corners of a landowner’s field was the right of the poor, in accordance with Leviticus:
It is Ruth who offers to go and glean corn which will be a means of subsistence for herself and Naomi. Naomi’s reply in verse 2 is Go my daughter, lah lechi. This is the feminine of lech lecha, an expression associated with significant events. Naomi calls Ruth biti, my
daughter, but we have already seen that she called both Ruth and Orpah her daughters.
How does it happen that Ruth gleans in the field of Boaz, the very person who is related to her father-in-law? The Hebrew is vayyiker mikreyah – ‘it so happened’. Furthermore, Boaz singles out Ruth for attention, but instead of asking ‘Who is this young woman?’ he asks ‘Whose young woman is this?’ To whom does she belong? In Ruth’s particular case, there is no male person to whom she belongs. Husband, father, father-in-law are conspicuously absent. So to whom does Ruth belong?5
The servant’s answer is that she is a girl from Moab. Perhaps the servant’s implicit answer to Boaz’s question is ‘Nobody we know.’
Boaz extends his protection to Ruth, telling her to glean only from his field, and when she asks what she has done to deserve this, Boaz reveals that he knows the story of Ruth and Naomi, and how Ruth left her homeland. His next words are the origin of those traditionally spoken to proselytes:
Ruth thanks Boaz for treating her kindly, even though she is a foreigner; her exact words being ‘You have spoken kindly to your maidservant, though I am not like one of your maidservants.’
Boaz continues to give her protection and generous opportunities for gleaning. She takes a quantity of barley back to Naomi, who remarks that Boaz is their kinsman and that the situation looks promising.
In the third chapter, Naomi has formulated a plan concerning Ruth and Boaz, who may have obligations to them beyond generosity, namely, the duty of levirate marriage.
The Hebrew for ‘his name should not be blotted out’ is lo yimacheh shemo. The name of Mahlon is interestingly cognate with the verb mem het hé, to blot out.
Naomi’s plan seems rather compromising for Ruth. It involves lying down with Boaz in the middle of the night, an action which seems guaranteed to attract his attention.
So what’s the motivation behind Naomi’s cunning plan? Is it Ruth’s happiness, their future security or the fulfillment of the law? And what is Ruth’s motivation in following Naomi’s instructions to the letter?
Ruth goes to the threshing floor where Boaz, who has been drinking, is asleep, uncovers his feet and lies down. It is not certain whether she lies next to him, or, perpendicularly, at his feet. When Boaz wakes, startled, asking who is there, Ruth identifies herself and then says ufarashta kenafecha al amatecha, literally ‘Spread your wing over your handmaiden.’
Note that Boaz has already spoken of Ruth the proselyte as seeking refuge under the wings of the Shechinah. Now she seeks refuge under Boaz’s wing – kanaf – translated as ‘skirt’ in the KJV.
Ruth tells Boaz the reason why she has a claim on his protection: ki goel atah, ‘for you are a redeemer’ or ‘a near kinsman’ or ‘close relative’. The term goel is used in Leviticus in this specific sense of redeeming the property of a relative, so that it remains in the family:
If your brother becomes poor and sells part of his property, then his nearest redeemer shall come and redeem (goel) what his brother has sold.7
Are we looking at a romantic episode, prompted by love or desire or at a halakhic issue, complicated by the fact that Boaz is not Ruth’s brother-in-law, that the property of Elimelech is involved and that Ruth is a convert?
Boaz praises Ruth – in fact he calls her an eshet hayil – much as Judah praised Tamar when she alerted him to his duty towards her as the widow of his sons:
We will see from the genealogy at the end of Ruth that Boaz is himself a descendant of Judah and Tamar, through their son Perez.
At this point in the narrative, we do not know that there is an inheritance involved, and Ruth’s approach to Boaz seems to be connected with the law of yibbum, or levirate marriage.
When brothers live together, and one of them dies childless, the dead man’s wife shall not be allowed to marry an outsider. Her husband’s brother must cohabit with her, making her his wife, and thus performing a brother-in-law’s duty to her. The first-born son whom she bears will then perpetuate the name of the dead brother, so that his name will not be obliterated from Israel.9
The quandary of Henry VIII was in weighing up this verse against Leviticus:
The continuation of the Deuteronomy text shows that there is some disgrace attached to the man who refuses to marry his brother’s childless widow.
There is a great deal of Talmudic and medieval commentary on yibbum and halitzah, which is the loosening of the shoe.
Now, Boaz tells Ruth that she has a kinsman more closely related than himself. This other kinsman must be given the option of performing his duty and Boaz says he will speak with him in the morning. Meanwhile, he asks Ruth to stay the night. Have they slept together? Will they sleep together? Rashi, in his commentary on Ruth, quotes a midrash thus:
Rabbi Judah said: His evil inclination was contending with him, “You are single, and she is single; be intimate with her” ; and he took an oath to his evil inclination, saying ‘As the Lord lives, I will not touch her.13
For the sake of appearances, she left before daylight, so that nobody else would know she had spent the night there. Before she left, Boaz gave her six seahs of barley, to take back to Naomi. This is a large and heavy quantity, a single seah being currently estimated as 7.33 litres. One thinks of Rebecca performing the demanding task of watering Eliezer’s camels.14
When Ruth returns to Naomi, the first thing Naomi says is ‘Who are you, my daughter?’ Ruth answers by telling Naomi everything that has happened and Naomi wisely tells Ruth to wait patiently, as Boaz will attend to the matter that very day.
In Chapter 4, Boaz goes about the business of sounding out the other possible goel. He sees this man at the gate, which was the public area where men of affairs conducted transactions and exchanged news. Curiously, Boaz does not address this man by name; at least, the narrative withholds his name, as Boaz calls him Ploni Almoni. This is the biblical and Talmudic equivalent of John Doe or Joe Bloggs, the designation for an unnamed person. Translations will vary. ‘Friend’ reflects better on Boaz than the KJV ‘Ho such a one!’
Boaz has Ploni Almoni and the elders seated at the gate and explains the following: Naomi has returned from Moab and is selling a piece of land which she inherited from her husband Elimelech. Ploni Almoni has first refusal, but, if he doesn’t want to buy the land, Boaz will
do so. However, Ploni is willing to buy. Boaz then explains that, if he buys the property, he also acquires Ruth the Moabitess, the widow of Elimelech’s son, in order to maintain the name of the dead in connection with his inheritance. Ploni now withdraws from the
What is Ploni’s motivation? The targum suggests that he was already married, which seems a very good reason, but his direct speech is ‘I cannot redeem it for myself, lest I impair my own inheritance.’ The suggestion is that he considers marriage to a Moabite transgressive, which seems to be the implication of the verse in Deuteronomy which states:
Rashi finds this reasoning faulty, commenting:
He should have interpreted: ‘an Ammonite, but not an Ammonitess; a Moabite, but not a Moabitess.’ Yet he said, ‘lest I mar my heritage.’
In fact Rashi believed this error was the reason why the man’s real name was obliterated from the text.
We saw that, according to Deuteronomy 25, a man who refuses to marry his brother’s widow has his shoe loosed in a ritual called halitzah, the ceremonial release from levirate marriage. Rashi explains that what occurs here, which does not correspond precisely to
halitzah, is an act of acquisition. There are of course other views – Rabbi Louis Jacobs, for example, wrote:
Boaz confirms before the witnesses that he has bought the inheritance of Elimelech, Mahlon and Chilion from Naomi, including Ruth, whom he will marry to raise the name of the dead on their inheritance.
The witnesses express their blessing, and say ‘May your house be like the house of Perez, whom Tamar bore to Judah.’ Not only are is there a similarity between the union of Judah and Tamar and that of Boaz and Ruth, but also, Boaz, as we will see, is a descendant of
Boaz marries Ruth and they have a son. One might expect the people to say this is a son for Mahlon, which would be the form in a levirate marriage. In fact the women say ‘There is a son born to Naomi.’ This does not indicate that Naomi was the biological mother of the child.
The nursing17 of the child by Naomi does not mean that Naomi had breast milk, as omenet can mean foster mother.
Most important is that a redeemer has been found for the entire family of Elimelech, the dead and the living.
The child Obed becomes the father of Jesse who was the father of David. Boaz’s descent from Perez is attested in the final verse of the book. Thus David is a descendant of Judah on one side and, on the other, of Moab. This would be extremely controversial if the book of
Ruth was written in the post-exilic time18 of Ezra and Nehemiah who actively opposed the intermarriage19 of Israelites with Canaanites, Ammonites, Moabites and all the neighbouring peoples. There is a case for considering that the book of Ruth is a subversive anti-Ezra document, supporting intermarriage and making polemical use of David’s putative descent from Ruth.
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Col. Harry Generous Organized CT Air National Guard/ Cousin & Brothers Led Generations of Family Service to USAF
Posted on May 18, 2015
By Jacqueline Bennett Since near the dawn of American aviation members of the Generous family have taken to the skies to serve their country. Harry, Al and Oliver (“Bunker”) Generous had roles in American aviation history. Commencing in the early half of the 20th Century to the present day, four generations of the Generous family have a proud lineage of USAF service that spans close to a century, in the U.S. Air Corp which became the U.S. Air Force, and in the Air National Guard. Last Memorial Day I wrote a piece for newsandviewsjb titled “Quiet Heroes from Connecticut’s Quiet Corner” about two of my mother’s brothers who served during World War II, with a focus on her brother Oliver “Bunker”…
Mary & Al Generous – WWII Army/Air Force Nurse & United States Airman, A “Greatest Generation” Love Story
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Article by Jacqueline Bennett “Yesterday, December 7, 1941 – a date which will live in infamy – the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan.” President Franklin D. Roosevelt, spoke these words upon asking the U.S. Congress for a declaration of war against Japan, thus marking the entrance of the U.S. into World War II. Those who victoriously faced down the despotism of that era have come to be known as “the Greatest Generation.” With World War II raging overseas and American casualties mounting, in the early 1940s “Uncle Sam” put out an urgent appeal for military nurses. Between December of 1941 when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor and the end… |
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Structuring biofilms
One of the major physical characteristics distinguishing biofilms from planktonic bacteria is that bacteria in biofilms are arranged with well-defined, fairly fixed spatial structure. Little is known about how spatial structure impacts biological characteristics of biofilms. Here is a link to a short newsletter article my student and I wrote about using laser trapping to control biofilm structure, and how this could allow determination of the effects of biofilm structure on biofilm biology.
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Chart below shows the Federal Reserve holdings of Treasuries, a weekly change (black columns) and total holdings (red line) during QE1, QE2, Operation Twist, QE3, QT, and “Not QE”. Got it?!? This current “Not QE” explosion in QE is like some kind of old time vaudeville act (like the old Abbott and Costello bit, “who’s on first, what’s on second, I don’t know’s on third”).
But looking more widely, the chart below shows the total Federal Reserve balance sheet (blue shaded area), bank excess reserves (red line), and the delta between the Fed’s balance sheet and excess reserves…also known as direct monetization. As the Fed restarted “not QE” but did not go through the façade of attempting to stock the new money away as “excess reserves”, this new money is flowing straight into assets, like monetary heroine.
Below, a close up of the components above solely in 2019 (through November 6th). Balance sheet soaring once again since the Fed’s sudden pivot, excess reserves continue falling…and the difference in freshly digitized cash in the hands of banks and the like…ready to be levered up.
So, monetization (yellow line) versus the Wilshire 5000 (green line) from 2014 through last week. For those not familiar, the Wilshire 5000 total market index, is a market-capitalization weighted index of the market value of all US stocks actively traded in the US.
And fascinatingly, since the beginning of 2018, the Wilshire 5000 and direct monetization are becoming more attuned to one another. And in mock shock, the new record close in the Wilshire just happens to be accompanied by a new record in direct monetization!?! Almost as if the addition of $320 billion in fresh digital cash since mid August Fed U-turn had something to do with the $2.2 trillion rise in US equities over the same period (a leverage ratio of about 7x). Hmmm.
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American Hangul was invented by Aidan Conner with one purpose in mind: to make the world more literate. He did this by taking the second most widely spoken language, English, and the world's easiest written language, Hangul, to make a modified version of Hangul that would work better with English. It is his hope to modify Hangul to fit all languages one word at a time.
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아뜨뜨 후만 베인긋 아레 볼느 끄레에 안드 에뿌아뜨 인딕닡유. 트헤유 알에 엔도외엗 외잍흐 레아손 안드 촌스치엔체 안드 스호우뜯 앛트 토외알듯 오네 아놑 헬 인 아 스피맅 오끄 브롵헬호옫.
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SCENE: Somewhere in the woods. Past. Snow White is running from two of the Evil Queen’s guards. They spot her and begin to chase her.
Guards: Hurry! After her! Stop!
Snow White: (She stops running when she reaches the edge of a cliff) Uhh! Oh! Really?
Guard 1: You're a long way from home, Snow White. Did you really think you could hide from the queen here?
Snow White: Actually, yes.
Guard 1: (As he and the second guard unsheathe their swords) Well, don't worry. We're here to take you back. The queen is eager to see you again.
Snow White: Not gonna happen. (Goes to the edge of cliff)
Guard 1: No, no, no! Wait! (Run towards the edge of the cliff to get her, but she jumps off before they can catch her. The guards watch as Snow White plummets into the water below with a splash. Transition to her under water, drowning. A pair of arms grab her and bring her to the surface of the water. When she’s pulled up to the surface she gasps for air. She swims around to face her saviour)
Snow White: Thank you.
Ariel: No problem. You might wanna try diving in calmer waters next time. (Snow White looks down at the water and notices Ariel has a tail)
Snow White: You're a...
Ariel: Yeah. I'm a mermaid. Name's Ariel. (Transition to opening sequence)
SCENE: Neverland. Present. At a camp. Emma is standing in front of an unlit campfire, concentrating.
Regina: Focus. Concentrate.
Emma: It's kind of hard when you're talking in my ear.
Regina: And when the wind blows or it's raining, or... someone's shooting arrows at you. Yes, concentration's hard. That's the point. Find your anger and use it to focus.
Emma: No. There has to be a way without going dark.
Regina: You're such a pathetic waste of ability.
Emma: And you're a monster.
Regina: ...Smell that?
Emma: What?
Regina: Smoke. (Emma looks at the campfire, which has no lit)
David: (Sighs) This is a bad idea.
Mary Margaret: She has it in her. She should learn to use it. We just have to trust her.
David: Yeah, it's not Emma I don't trust. (Hook enters)
Hook: (To Mary Margaret and David) We need to talk. Pan paid me a visit. He, uh... He told me that Neal is alive, that he's on this very island.
Mary Margaret: Emma saw him. He was shot. He fell through a portal. No one could survive that.
Hook: Well, he did, and now he's here. He said he took him from this very camp while we were off in his cave.
Mary Margaret: According to Pan, if he's telling the truth.
David: And, uh, why would he tell you? What does he hope to gain?
Hook: Who knows why he does anything? He has his reasons, but it's a sure bet they're not good ones.
Mary Margaret: He's telling the truth. Tracks... and a scuffle. Someone was here while we were gone. We have to tell her.
David: No, no, no. She already lost Neal once. And if this is a game, we can't put her through losing him again.
Hook: He's right. Either way, telling her is what Pan wants, which is why we shouldn't do it.
Mary Margaret: You want to find him without letting her know?
Hook: Why hurt her unnecessarily?
Mary Margaret: I've never lied to her before.
Hook: You're not lying. You're just keeping a secret until confirmation.
Mary Margaret: Secrets always seem to keep us from the people we really care about.
David: And sometimes secrets protect the people we love.
SCENE: Prince Eric's Castle. Past. Snow and Ariel are by the shore.
Ariel: What on earth would possess you to jump like that?
Snow White: You ever been chased by an evil queen?
Ariel: I can't say that I have.
Snow White: Makes you do crazy things.
Ariel: Well, that I know.
Snow White: Are you on the run from someone?
Ariel: More like on the run to someone.
Snow White: What's his name? Come on. The one thing that makes everyone crazy is love.
Ariel: Eric. He's a prince in this kingdom.
Snow White: So wait. He... Lives on land? He's human?
Ariel: Okay. Here's the thing. About a year ago, his ship wrecked, and I rescued him. I do that. He was unconscious. We never spoke, but... When I looked at his face, I just... I knew.
Snow White: Love at first sight.
Ariel: It sounds dumb. I know.
Snow White: No. It doesn't sound dumb at all. (Ariel empties her bag, which surprises Snow)Interesting.
Ariel: I collect things... And I found this. (Shows her a piece of paper) There's a ball at his castle tonight... the annual under the sea celebration honoring the sea goddess Ursula... And I was hoping to meet him there.
Snow White: How are you planning on doing that? With a tail? How did you do that?
Ariel: You really know nothing of your mermaid mythology, do you?
Snow White: Uh, probably about as much as you know about people mythology, I think.
Ariel: Good point. Well, anyway, every year at the highest tide, the legend says that the sea goddess Ursula grants our kind with the ability to walk on dry land until the next high tide.
Snow White: Which is when?
Ariel: Twelve hours. Enough time for dinner and dancing and...
Snow White: Twelve hours? Why don't you ask this Ursula for a little more time?
Ariel: Well, no one's seen her in a thousand years. She's a bit of a myth.
Snow White: Well, myth or no myth, you saved my life. The least I can do is help you find the love of yours.
Ariel: Thank you. But can you keep a secret?
Snow White: Mm-hmm.
Ariel: I'm a mermaid.
Snow White: Yeah, I got that.
Ariel: But Eric doesn't know that. So... Can we just maybe... Keep that under the sea for now?
Snow White: Isn't that something he eventually needs to find out?
Ariel: Just let him fall for me first, okay?
Snow White: Okay. Your secret's safe with me.
SCENE: Neverland. Present. David, Mary Margaret, and Hook are all getting ready to head out.
Mary Margaret: If we're gonna hide this, we need a good cover story.
David: Done.
Hook: That's no problem.
Emma: Where you guys going?
Hook and David (at the same time): Firewood. To get water.
Emma: Guys, what's going on?
Mary Margaret: Neal's alive.
Emma: Neal i... is... Alive?
Mary Margaret: Maybe. (To David and Hook) Sorry, she deserved to know. (Transition to Gold somewhere else on the island, in deep concentration)
Peter Pan: You can't see the future here. It's impossible to see the future in a place where time stands still.
Gold: I may not see the future here, but I can make one happen.
Peter Pan: Was that a threat? (He scoffs) And here I made you your favourite breakfast... eggs in a basket. I thought you could use it. You looked a little down in the dumps.
Gold: I'm fine.
Peter Pan: Sure you are, Rumple. You lost your son, Neal. Again. And Henry's unattainable because... Well, you'd have to go through me, and we both know you can't. You still like the yolk runny, don't you?
Gold: What do you want?
Peter Pan: Well, if you won't eat, then I will. (Takes a bite of food) I'm just trying to point out the silver lining in your cloudy life.
Gold: That by killing you, all our troubles end?
Peter Pan: We both know that's not going to happen, because the only way to do that is for you to die, too. You can go, leave the island.
Gold: And abandon my son? And Henry? I don't think so.
Peter Pan: Look, even if you did save them... which you won't... what would be the point? They'll never forgive you for all the horrible things you've done.
Gold: You don't know that.
Peter Pan: Have you forgiven your father? ...You see my point? Back to that silver lining... you have a nice girl waiting for you back in Storybrooke. Belle, is it? Stop this foolishness and go back to her. Make a new start. She looks fertile. Maybe a new child? You and I both know that's the only future for you... Assuming you want to live. Enjoy the eggs. (Transition back to Emma and the others at the camp)
Regina: This is a waste of time. He's toying with us.
Mary Margaret: I don't think so. Look. More scuffling. Someone was definitely resisting.
Emma: How do we know that means Neal?
Mary Margaret: Well, then someone was fighting for his life.
Regina: Are you really going to fall for this? Fine. You wanna follow the Evil Munchkin's dirt road? Be my guest.
Emma: Wait. Where are you going?
Regina: To save our son.
Emma: We need to stick together.
Regina: (She laughs) No, we don't. You may be prepared to risk Henry's life over some heartbroken fool's errand, but I'm not. I'm tired of waiting around.
Emma: What if she's right? Pan could be lying.
Mary Margaret: Just because it seems too good to be true doesn't mean it is. Don't give up. You owe it to Henry to find out if his father's still alive, and you owe it to yourself.
SCENE: Maritime Kingdom. Past. Inside Prince Eric's Castle. Snow White and Ariel are both wearing ball gowns.
Ariel: Wow! It's even better than I imagined. Do I look okay? Is this how people dress?
Snow White: You look fantastic.
Ariel: Does it fit right? Because it just feels a little...
Snow White: Tight? That's a corset. It's supposed to be.
Ariel: How do you know all these things?
Snow White: In another life, I was a princess.
Ariel: Well, perhaps you'll be one again.
Snow White: I doubt it. But tonight, you can be. (Ariel laughs softly. Snow White picks up a fork) Remember what I taught you. (She shows Ariel the fork) What's this?
Ariel: Mini-trident. ...Salad-trident?
Snow White: Fork. Salad fork. (Ariel pockets the fork) Oh. It's really not that valuable.
Ariel: There. Look.
Snow White: Is that him?
Ariel: (She laughs) Yes. That's him. He's just as I remembered. Less wet... But more handsome. (They meet eyes and smile at each other)
Snow White: Go to him.
Ariel: Just... walk over there?
Snow White: Love at first sight doesn't need much prompting. (She pushes Ariel forward. Ariel walks over toward Prince Eric but trips over her own feet)
Ariel: Oh! Uhh! (Eric approaches her)
Prince Eric: Would you like to dance? (He holds out a hand and helps Ariel get up) Might be easier than walking.
Ariel: (She laughs nervously) No one's dancing.
Prince Eric: Well, that's one of the perks of being the prince. If I want to dance, (He holds out his hand) I can. (He nods to the musicians and music starts to play) I'm Eric.
Ariel: Ariel.
Prince Eric: You look familiar. (He bows and she curtsies) Have we met?
Ariel: I don't think so.
Prince Eric: (A look of realisation forms on his face. He takes her hand and they begin to dance) I know where it's from.
Ariel: Where?
Prince Eric: I was in a shipwreck. I nearly drowned. Someone saved me. I didn't see them, but... I've had a recurring dream since then, of a face. Your face.
Ariel: That can't be. I'm new in town, so... How could I have possibly saved you?
Prince Eric: I know. Ursula's the one who saved me. And in doing so, she showed me a vision of my future. That's the face I saw. That's you.
Ariel: Ursula is just a myth.
Prince Eric: Is she? 'Cause you're right here in front of me. Now what brings you to our kingdom?
Ariel: Well... I wanna see the world.
Prince Eric: Then you and I have something in common. I'm leaving in the morning... a grand expedition... to do just that.
Ariel: What?
Prince Eric: I've been planning it for years. This shall be my final Ursula ball, for tomorrow, I'm exploring the unknown lands... the desert from this realm to Agrabah.
Ariel: You're actually doing it. I've always wanted to see the world.
Prince Eric: Then come. I see it in your eyes. You want to. Unless I've misread things.
Ariel: No. Um, I mean... Yes. I mean no.
Prince Eric: I'm pressuring you. That's unfair. How about this? Tomorrow morning, I'll wait for you. If you show up, I'll be filled with joy. If you don't, well... I may be heartbroken, but I'll understand. So nice to meet you, Ariel. (He bows and she curtsies, and the crowd applauds. Ariel walks away toward Snow White and a full length mirror)
SCENE: The Evil Queen's palace. Past. The Evil Queen and the two guards from earlier that were chasing Snow White are looking into the Magic Mirror at Snow White speaking to Ariel.
Evil Queen: Uck.
Guard 1: That's the woman that rescued Snow White. The red hair. It's unmistakable. I thought she had a tail, but yes, I'm sure.
Evil Queen: Next time you let someone fall to their death, make sure they're actually dead.
Guard 1: She looked dead.
Evil Queen: No. Death looks more like this... (She flicks her wrist and the guard's neck snaps, and he drops dead)
Guard 2: Sh-shall I lead more knights after Snow White?
Evil Queen: You boys have proved unequal to the task. (She is about to kill him, but then her face changes and she smiles) ...No. I've got a new idea.
SCENE: Neverland. Present. Peter Pan is looking through a telescope, and Felix is standing next to him. Through the telescope Peter sees Mary Margaret, Emma, and the others heading through the woods.
Peter Pan: Look at them go. So determined to find their missing friend.
Felix: Speaking of that friend... What should we do with Neal?
Peter Pan: It's time to move him. Take him to the Echo Caves. (Felix gestures to several Lost Boys, signalling for them to lower Neal's cage) The game is about to get interesting. (Transition to Gold and Belle)
Belle: You don't know what to do, do you?
Gold: No, I don't.
Belle: Come home to Storybrooke.
Gold: And just leave... Henry, my family behind?
Belle: Come with me, and we can start a new family. Our own family. That's what I want. Don't you?
Gold: No, you... you can't want anything. You're just a figment of my self-conscious.
Belle: No. No. I'm really here. Take my hand. Believe in our love, and we can go back. Take it, Rumple. Please. Come home to me. (Belle starts choking, and Regina approaches, her hand stretched out as she chokes Belle with her magic)
Regina: Enough of this.
Gold: Regina!
Regina: Are you really going to fall for this?
Belle: Rumple, st... stop her.
Regina: Don't listen to him.
Gold: What are you doing?
Regina: Showing you the truth.
Belle: (Belle collapses) Aah!
Gold: No! (Belle is consumed by a cloud of smoke and it is revealed to actually be the Shadow, which then flies away)
Regina: Look who you're really dealing with.
Gold: (surprised) Pan. (Transition to Emma and Mary Margaret)
Emma: I kissed him.
Mary Margaret: What? Who?
Emma: Hook. I kissed Hook.
Mary Margaret: Oh! Well... Why?
Emma: I... I don't know. I... I was... It's been a while. I was feeling good. I don't know.
Mary Margaret: Did it mean anything?
Emma: It... it was just a kiss.
Mary Margaret: I'm sure Neal will understand.
Emma: If he's still alive.
Mary Margaret: Emma, I get what you're doing, you know. You don't want to open yourself up to the hope that he's alive, but you should.
Emma: Why?
Mary Margaret: Because you deserve a happy ending, Emma. And happy endings always start with hope.
SCENE: Maritime Kingdom. Past. Snow White and Ariel are sitting on a bench in the ballroom, talking to one another.
Ariel: This was a terrible, terrible mistake.
Snow White: You met him. It's a start.
Ariel: More like an end. I can't ask him to give up his dream for someone he just met.
Snow White: Maybe you're the dream.
Ariel: Maybe. But I can't make him choose. It's not right.
Snow White: You can't make him choose? Or you don't want to make him choose? You're afraid.
Ariel: Of what?
Snow White: Of his choice.
Ariel: There is nothing about any of this... that's easy.
Snow White: So take my advice. Do the hard thing. Be honest. No secrets. Open your heart to love. It is so worth the risk, even if you get hurt. Then you'll know... you'll know you tried.
Ariel: I just need some time to think.
Snow White: Well, you have three hours. So I'll be here if you need me. (They take smile, take each other's hands, and then Ariel walks away)
SCENE: Maritime Kingdom. Past. By the ocean shore. Ariel, in her human form, is back in her regular clothes and standing by the water.
Ariel: What should I do? That's right, I'm talking to you, Ursula, mythical goddess of the sea. He thought you brought us together, but we both know that's lie, so... Tell me, between girlfriends, what do I do? Nothing, huh? Well, what should I expect from a long-dead myth? You gave me legs, but that's it, right? No answers? Thanks... for nothin'. (The Evil Queen emerges from the water. She has tentacles like an octopus') Ursula?
Evil Queen: Hello... Ariel.
SCENE: Neverland. Present. Regina and Gold face each other.
Regina: What is this? Amateur hour? Did you really believe that was Belle?
Gold: Why are you here?
Regina: Well, for starters, it appears I'm saving your ass. You were about to be Pan's lunch.
Gold: Oh, what do you care?
Regina: I care because I've been camping with the Charmings for a week and getting nowhere. If we're gonna get Henry, I need you. I need Rumplestiltskin.
Gold: Well, the problem, dearie, is that Rumplestiltskin can only stop Pan by dying.
Regina: You're not gonna die at anyone's hands but my own. We're the two most powerful practitioners of magic who have ever lived. The Evil Queen and the Dark One joining forces? I'd say we can find another way to handle one smug teenager.
Gold: You've never faced him. I have. And I know what killing him requires. And that is–my life.
Regina: Well, as much as I want to, maybe we don't have to kill him. If that's the case, then... Maybe we can find another way... something to contain him, some other fate.
Gold: A fate worse than death.
Regina: Now we're talkin'. There's my malevolent imp. Is there a spell you know? Something we can enact?
Gold: No. But back in my shop, I might have just the thing.
Regina: Well, why didn't you bring it with you in the first place?
Gold: Because I came here to kill him and die in the process!
Regina: (She laughs) Well, I could've told you that wasn't gonna happen. You forget, dear. I've known you a long time. I know all about your survival instincts.
Gold: Yeah, well, they just kicked in.
Regina: Good. So now we just need a change of plans. We need to get back to your shop, pick up this magical item, and then all of our problems are solved.
Gold: Crossing realms? Is that all?
Regina: Yes. That's all.
SCENE: Maritime Kingdom. Past. Ariel on the beach, staring at the Evil Queen, who is disguised as Ursula.
Ariel: You're... real.
Evil Queen: (She laughs) As real as the legs you're standing on.
Ariel: I'm sorry if I was rude before. I...
Evil Queen: My dear sweet child. Don't fret. I understand. But you're also in luck. I can help with your... dilemma.
Ariel: With Prince Eric? I have to tell him the truth, don't I?
Evil Queen: Bah! Your friend was mistaken.
Ariel: Are you sure?
Evil Queen: Of course I'm sure. If you tell him the truth... that you're from two different worlds... he won't accept that. Or you.
Ariel: How is this helping again?
Evil Queen: What if I told you that you could keep your... legs? That you can walk on land, be a part of his world... Forever, without ever telling him your secret, that you're a mermaid? Would you be interested?
Ariel: Of course. (The Evil Queen laughs to herself)
SCENE: Maritime Kingdom. Past. At the docks. Snow White is sitting at the edge of the docks, and Ariel runs up to her.
Snow White: What is it? What happened?
Ariel: Something amazing. And not just for me, but for the both of us.
Snow White: What are you talking about?
Ariel: I received a gift... a gift that will allow me to spend the rest of my life with Eric, and a way for you to escape your evil queen.
Snow White: How is that possible?
Ariel: Look. (Pulls out a bracelet and puts it on Snow White's wrist)
Snow White: What are you doing?
Ariel: This is no ordinary bracelet. (A dark green smoke forms around Snow White's legs) Look.
Snow White: Ohh..
Ariel: (She helps Snow White sit down) Here.
Snow White: What's happening? Oh! Oh! (Her legs turn into a mermaid's tail. She starts to fall, but Ariel helps her to stay upright)
Ariel: You're a mermaid.
Snow White: Ariel... What have you done?
Ariel: The bracelet is magic. I got it from Ursula. By wearing it, you get my tail, and I can keep my legs. That's the price, but it's a good price. Don't you see? You can escape. You can travel to my land... a land where the evil queen cannot follow. And you can have a life, a wonderful life, under the sea.
Snow White: Ursula gave you the bracelet?
Ariel: Yes.
Snow White: Ursula is a myth. She hasn't existed for thousands of years. She's not real.
Ariel: Yes, she is.
Evil Queen: Actually... It's not entirely true.
Ariel: What's going on?
Evil Queen: Well, well, well. Look at the catch of the day.
Ariel: Ursula?
Snow White: No, this isn't Ursula. This is Regina, the Evil Queen.
SCENE: Neverland. Present. Outside of Echo Ccave
Mary Margaret: The tracks lead directly into that cave. This must be where Pan is keeping Neal.
David: If the cave is some sort of prison, why aren't there any guards posted to stop us?
Hook: Because this prison doesn't require guards. Echo cave.
Mary Margaret: You know it?
Hook: All too well. I lost half my crew inside those rock walls. The only way to rescue someone from inside is to reveal a secret.
Mary Margaret: A secret? That's all?
Hook: Your darkest secret. Echo cave derives its name from an old saying... "the deeper the lie, the more truth in its echo." The cave demands that you reveal a truth about yourself. A secret you would never admit to anyone.
Emma: This is ridiculous.
Hook: Don't kill the messenger, luv.
Emma: Even if we spill our guts, how do we know Neal's still alive in there?
Hook: Because this is what Pan wants. He wants us to rescue him.
David: Why?
Hook: So that we reveal our secrets. He believes once we do, our secrets will destroy us.
SCENE: Maritime Kingdom. Past. At the docks.
Evil Queen: Having trouble with your fin?
Snow White: I'll figure it out!
Ariel: Snow, the bracelet. (Snow White attempts to remove the bracelet)
Evil Queen: The wearer can't take it off. Oh. Did I leave that detail out? For once, Snow, you won't be able to run away.
Ariel: You tricked me?
Evil Queen: You went to a long-dead octopus for advice, and you're going to blame me for your problems?
Ariel: This is wrong.
Evil Queen: Unh-unh-unh. Sorry, dear. You're not helping her.
Snow White: Ariel, get out of here.
Evil Queen: For once we're in agreement. Get out of here, mermaid!
Ariel: Not if you're gonna hurt my friend.
Evil Queen: You have a choice. Your friend's going to be hurt either way. The real question is whether you're going to join her. Or are you going to run off and get your happy ending? Hmm? Go on. There are no second chances.
Snow White: It's okay, Ariel. I can't keep running forever. You have a chance at happiness. That's something the queen will never have. Eric is going to leave any moment. Go to him.
Evil Queen: Listen to her, Ariel! Are you really going to give up the love of your life...? For a friend?
Ariel: I'm sorry. (She walks away)
Evil Queen: Now... Where were we? Oh, right. The catch of the day. (She uses her magic to start choking snow White, who gasps for air. Ariel runs up and stabs the Evil Queen in the neck with a fork. Regina cries out in pain, and Ariel runs up to Snow White, takes the bracelet off, and throws it into the ocean)
Snow White: What are you doing? (Her tail changes back into legs, and Ariel regains her tail)
Ariel: Hold your breath. (She dives into the water with Snow White, and they swim away)
SCENE: Neverland. Present. In Echo Cave. Emma, Mary Margaret, David, and Hook enter. Moving forward, on the other end of the cave, locked in a cage and unreachable because of a gap in the cave floor, is Neal.
Neal: Emma!
Emma: Neal.
Mary Margaret: It must be a hundred feet across.
David: Even if we fashioned some sort of rope, there's nothing to attach it to. No way to swing over.
Emma: So what do we do?
Hook: I told you what needs to be done. Consider this the moment of truth, literally. Now... who wants to kick things off?
Emma: So, what? Someone tells their secret and they sprout wings?
Hook: I don't know the particulars, only what I've been told.
David: Well, how do you know it'll work? (Hook takes a deep breath and turns to face Neal)
Hook: There's only one way to find out, I suppose. (He turns back to face everyone) I kissed Emma. (Emma rolls her eyes)
David: You did what?
Mary Margaret: David, now is not the time.
Emma: I already told Mary Margaret, so technically it's not a secret. But it was just a kiss. How's that your darkest secret?
Hook: It's what the kiss exposed. My secret is, I never thought I'd be capable of letting go of my first love... of my Milah... to believe that I could find someone else that is, until I met you. (The ground quakes and a large chunk of rock grows from the floor, forming a partial bridge to reach the part of the gave where Neal is)
David: Uh... Mary Margaret...
Mary Margaret: No, no, no. Me next. Ever since the curse broke, since we found each other, since we found Emma... And all of that happiness, there is something I haven't wanted to admit. Our daughter is a beautiful, smart, amazing woman whom I love very much, and of whom I could not be more proud. But she's all grown up. And... As much as I wanna pretend I'm okay with that, I'm not. We missed it, David. What we have with her is unique, but it's not what I wanted. We were cheated out of everything... her first step, her first word, her first smile. We missed it all.
David: What are you saying?
Mary Margaret: When we get off this island and get back to Storybrooke, I want another go at it. I wanna have another baby. (The ground quakes and the bridge extends)
David: Nothing in this world would make me happier, and I know with all my heart that you would make... An amazing mother. But it can never happen... At least not with me.
Mary Margaret: What do you mean?
David: When Hook and I went to search for the sextant, he was really taking me to find a cure.
Mary Margaret: A cure for what?
David: Dreamshade.
Mary Margaret: The lost boys, the arrow... you pushed me out of the way–
David: –I wasn't fast enough. I was hit. Hook was able to find a cure, but it comes at a price. I can't leave Neverland. If I do, I'll die. (The bridge finishes forming. Emma unsheathes her sword and carefully walks across. Half-way across, when she's sure it's sturdy, she runs the rest of the way and bends down to face Neal)
Emma: You okay?
Neal: Yeah. But Henry...
Emma: I... It's okay. We're gonna take care of him. Just need to get you out of there first. (She takes her sword and starts hacking at the bamboo bars, though she does no damage)
Neal: Wha... Emma, Emma, Emma, Emma! (Emma stops) You know that's not how this works. It's okay. You can tell me anything.
Emma: When I heard you might be here, and that you might still be alive, I knew I should be happy, but I wasn't. I was terrified. I didn't understand why until now. From the moment I saw you in New York, in the instant you stepped back in my life, I knew. I knew I'd never stopped loving you. And before I even had a chance to take a breath, I... I lost you once more, and all that pain that I had pushed down for all those years, it just came... rushing back, and I... I didn't know if I could go through it again. I love you. I probably always will. But my secret... Is that I was hoping that this was a trick. I was hoping you were dead... Because it would be easier for me to put you behind me than to face all the pain that we went through all over again. (The bars of the cage dissolve, and Neal gets out and hugs Emma. Transition outside of Echo Cave, which everyone is emerging from.)
Neal: Thank you.
David: Well, don't thank us yet. We still have to save Henry.
Hook: We found your star map, so the real question is, do you know how to get off this island?
Neal: Well, if we can find Henry, I can get us home.
Hook: Let's go get Tinker Bell and... retrieve the boy. (He, Mary Margaret and David walk ahead, and Emma and Neal stay behind)
Emma: You all right?
Neal: Yeah, I'm fine.
Emma: About what I said...
Neal: Hey. Hey, Emma, it's okay.
Emma: No, it's not. I wish I could change how I feel more than anything, but... I can't. I'm sorry.
Neal: Don't be. After everything I've put you through, you don't ever have to apologize to me about how you feel. Hey, I'm glad you told me. I have a secret, too, Emma. I'm never gonna stop fighting for you. Never. (Neal walks away, and Hook is hiding behind the brush, having listened to the entire conversation. Transition to Mary Margaret and David up ahead)
David: (To Mary Margaret) Look, I know I should've told you...
Mary Margaret: Don't. Just... not now.
SCENE: Maritime Kingdom. Past. The beach. Ariel is in the water, and Snow White crawls onto the shore.
Ariel: I am so sorry, Snow. Are you okay?
Snow White: (She takes a deep breath) Yeah. I'm fine! But you need to go.
Ariel: What?
Snow White: Eric... tell him the truth. Go to him.
Ariel: The caravan is probably long gone by now, and we're miles from the docks.
Snow White: I saw how he looked at you at the ball. He'll wait as long as possible.
Ariel: You think he's still there?
Snow White: There is only one way to find out. Go!
Ariel: Thank you, Snow!
Snow White: Go! Just go! (Ariel dives underwater)
SCENE: Maritime Kingdom. Past. At the Castle. Prince Eric is waiting on a balcony.
Man: Your Highness... It's time.
Prince Eric: Just a little longer.
Ariel: (She moves her mouth to speak the following, but no noise comes out) Eric! (She touches her throat) Eric! Eric? Eric? (Unable to hear her, Eric walks away) No, please, no, Eric! (Eric leaves and Ariel shakes her head)
Evil Queen: I told you there'd be no second chances. (Ariel looks up at the docks, where the Evil Queen is standing, looking down at her. The Evil Queen takes a seat) Hmm? (Ariel touches her throat) Oh, that. Your voice. I took it. The only thing worse about telling your prince how you feel and rejecting you is... Never telling him at all. Never knowing. Never even having... a chance at true love. That's right, dear. He's gone. Time to swim back home... Little mermaid. (Ariel dives back underwater)
SCENE: Enchanted Forest. Past. In the Dark Castle. The Evil Queen is walking and then stops when she hears a voice coming from a full-length mirror.
Ursula: Hello, Regina.
Evil Queen: You. You're real?
Ursula: (Her tentacles emerge from the mirror and she wraps them tightly around the Evil Queen) Next time you claim to be me, you'll find out just how real I am.
Evil Queen: (As the tentacles tighten) Oh!
Ursula: Don't ever do that again. (She withdraws her tentacles)
SCENE: Neverland. Present. The beach. Regina and Gold are walking along the shore, and Regina stops when she sees a conch, and picks it up.
Gold: If you think summoning a giant squid is the answer, I've already tried that.
Regina: Oh, you've had fun, haven't you? I have no intention of ordering calamari. (Regina whispers into the conch. Ariel surfaces from the water) Hello, Ariel. Long time.
Gold: It's true mermaids can travel across realms. But they can't be trusted.
Regina: This one can. We have history together.
Gold: Well, that would explain the distasteful look on her face.
Regina: And now she's going to help us.
Ariel: (She mouths "no")
Regina: Oh, right, your voice. (She waves her hand)
Ariel: Why would I help you?
Regina: Because I can give you what you want. (She puts out her hand, and the same bracelet from earlier appears in Ariel's hand) I can give you legs, Ariel, and this time, control over them. But more importantly, I can give you what you need most.
Ariel: What?
Regina: The place I'm sending you... among its residents... is your Prince Eric.
Ariel: What's the name of this place?
Regina: Storybrooke.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/75711 | The Masoretic Text is the authoritative Hebrew and Aramaic text of the Tanakh for Rabbinic Judaism. It was primarily copied, edited and distributed by a group of Jews known as the Masoretes between the 7th and 10th centuries CE. The Masoretic Text defines the Jewish canon and its precise letter-text, with its vocalization and accentuation known as the Masorah.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/75712 | Monitorix: The Lightweight System Monitoring Tool
This article introduces readers to Monitorix, which can be a boon to systems administrators as well as those who like to keep tabs on their systems.
Administrators and, for that matter, typical users, often need to monitor servers for system resources like disk or CPU utilisation and other parameters to know how well the system is performing. There are many sophisticated system monitoring software such as Cacti, Munin and Nagios. Monitorix is a free, open source, lightweight system monitoring tool, designed to monitor many services and system resources.
Written in Perl, Monitorix has an inbuilt HTTP server. It consists of two programsa collector called monitorix, which is a Perl daemon that is started automatically like any other system service, and a CGI script called monitorix.cgi.
Here is a list of Monitorixs main features. For a more complete list, refer to the official site.
• System load and system service demand
• CPU/GPU temperature sensors
• Disk temperature and health
• Network/port traffic and netstat statistics
• Mail statistics
• Web server statistics (Apache, Nginx, Lighttpd)
• MySQL load and statistics
• Squid proxy statistics
• NFS server/client statistics
• Raspberry Pi sensor statistics
• Memcached statistics
• Fail2ban statistics
• Monitors remote servers (Multihost)
• Enables users to view statistics in graphs or in plain text tables on a daily, weekly, monthly or yearly basis
• Offers the capability to zoom graphs for a better view
• Has the capability to define the number of graphs per row
For this article, I have chosen CentOS 6.6, 64-bit version, with minimal installation, which is equivalent to Red Hat 6.6. The steps are the same on CentOS 7 with just a few modifications in the commands.
1. Check the status of SELinux by using the command sestatus. If it is not disabled, then turn off SELinux, simply by changing Enforcing to Disabled in the /etc/selinux/config file.
If it is in the enabled state, then graphs are not visible and you will get tons of error messages in the /var/log/messages or /var/log/audit/audit.log files about access denied to RRD database files.
Till rebooting the system, SElinux is in temporary disabled mode. After rebooting it is permanently get disabled.
2. Install the EPEL repository for extra package dependencies and enable it:
## RHEL/CentOS 6 64-Bit ##
# wget
If it is not enabled, set enabled=1 in /etc/yum.repos.d/epel.repo
Monitorix user interface
Figure 1: Monitorix web interface
Memory allocation
Figure 2: System load average, active processes and memory allocation
Installing Monitorix on RHEL/CentOS
Log in with root privileges. Download the monitorix rpm package, as follows:
#wget -c
Install the required packages:
Globel kernel usage23
Figure 3: Globel kernel usage
File system usage
Figure 4: File system usage and I/O activity
Install monitorix rpm:
To install monitorix rpm using yum should be at the same path where rpm package is downloaded. Remaining at the same path where monitorix rpm downloaded, run below command:
#yum install monitorix-3.6.0-1.noarch.rpm
Start the Monitorix service:
#service monitorix start
To make Monitorix start at boot time, type:
#chkconfig --level 345 monitorix on<a href="" rel="attachment wp-att-16172">
etho interface traffic
Figure 5: eth0 interface traffic
Network port traffic
Figure 6: Network port traffic
The main configuration file is /etc/monitorix/monitorix.conf. Before changing parameters, take a backup of this file:
#cp -pRvf /etc/monitorix/monitorix.conf /etc/monitorix/monitorix.conf _org
We can change the various parameters like the title, hostname, authentication, host allow, host deny in the config file.
To make the changes, type:
title = <-------Set Title
hostname = <----Set hostname
enabled = y
host =
port = 8080 <---------Set to required port
user = nobody
group = nobody
log_file = /var/log/monitorix-httpd
hosts_deny = <-------- Ip from which not to allow web link access
hosts_allow = <-------- Ip from which to allow web link access
enabled = n <--------- set to y
msg = Monitorix: Restricted access
htpasswd = /var/lib/monitorix/htpasswd <------------htpasswd file Location
This is what you get after the changes are made:
title = diamond Monitorix
hostname =diamond
enabled = y
host = diamond
port = 8080
user = nobody
group = nobody
log_file = /var/log/monitorix-httpd
hosts_deny =
hosts_allow =
enabled = y
msg = Monitorix: Restricted access
htpasswd = /var/lib/monitorix/htpasswd
To enable graph based statistics for a particular service, e.g., Apache, make the changes under # Graphs (de)activation section from n to y.
apache = y
. </graph_enable>
And, finally, restart the Monitorix service whenever the changes are made to the config file.
#service monitorix restart
User using the system
Figure 7: User using the system
How to secure Monitorix
To secure Web link access with authentication, set enabled = y under the <auth> section and create a file /var/lib/monitorix/htpasswd
#touch /var/lib/monitorix/htpasswd
#htpasswd -d /var/lib/monitorix/htpasswd username
which will add a user with Force SHA encryption of the password.
Now point your browser to http://ip-address:8080/monitorix/
In our case,, it will ask for the user name and password. After entering both, you will be able to see the Monitorix main page, as shown in Figure 1.
You can check out the screenshots given in Figures 2 to 7 for system statistics.
[1] Official site:
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/75716 | A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Quebec
All the above photos are taken from Theresa May’s official Facebook page uploaded a few hours ago. Her and Phil apparently in the back of a Hercules flying to Quebec across the Atlantic, the Red Box strapped into the military transport, her thanking the pilot after arriving safely in Quebec. And then getting off an Airbus 330 Voyager kitted out for VIPs at a cost of many millions…
Hold on, the pictures above released on her official Facebook page show her roughing it in the back of a Hercules military transport. Yet Guido also has these pictures, showing Her Majesty’s Lobby holding power to account over some G&Ts in the luxurious surrounds of a VIP Airbus Voyager…
Are we being played? What is really going on?
UPDATE: Explanation from Number 10: She travelled to Canada on the Voyager, and then across Canada on a C130.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/75738 | 9th March 2017 – Legacy Statement/Crown Apology wānanga
This wānanga is held at Te Niho o Te Atiawa, 5.30pm
It will focuse on the Legacy Statement/Crown Apology and Name for Deed of Reconciliation
The last day for feedback is 24th March 2017.
Please send your feedback to [email protected] or handwritten to PO Box 929 Taranaki Mail Centre New Plymouth – no later than 24 March 2017!
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/75757 | Joseph Beth Booksellers is having a SALE on The Murphy-Cam Project Book! Prices will be marked down 35% and there are signed copies on hand. Stop by your local Joseph Beth and get your own copy soon. Quantity’s are limited, and thank you for your support on our continuing adventure. Cheers, from the Murphy-Cam Project! |
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