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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/77185 | ZEPA When passion meets method
Care for detail - the result of over 40 years of experience in the sector - is combined with production logics, focused on the maximum efficiency
By Stefano Troilo
With more than 40 years of experience in the hobs sector, Zepa represents the bridgehead of Teka group in Italy. The production cycle is concentrated at Pianezze (Vicenza), in an area of about 15,000 square meters. The incoming raw material passes through various stages of processing, until it assumes the appearance of a complete and functional hob. Fifty percent of production is destined to the head office; the second half is divided between OEM and kitchens distributors. In 2014, 200,000 hobs were manufactured, with a turnover of about 20 million euro. 95 percent of the company’s products are exported worldwide. In this interview Filippo Rossi, general manager of Zepa, tells to home appliances world which are the main characteristics of a Zepa’s appliance.
If the ability of listening to the market is important, how it is possible to “read” the new trends among the lines of the current demand?
To be part of Teka group, which has about 5,000 employees overall, with a very developed commercial area, is undoubtedly an advantage. Our colleagues, active in several local markets, give life to a global network with a high listening skill. This allows us to monitor our competitors and to catch the different trends anywhere in the world.
What tools allow you to meet the needs of buyers and customers?
Market asks faster and faster times of response and production. Therefore, we have invested in a CRM system, with which tracking the customers’ requests, as well as in a new assembly line that will further increase the performance of our production cycle.
On a global market, what characteristics allow a product to stand out?
The life cycle of products is decreasing. If in the past it was normal to realize items to be sold successfully for over ten years, nowadays it is necessary to constantly realize new ones. Thus, it is crucial the interaction between the commercial division and the technical one. Who follows the sales must be able to catch the needs of the market, transmit them in the form of specifications and requirements to those who will have to develop the product.
Innovation allows to catch the latent needs of the market. In some countries, for example, we found that in many houses there are two kitchens: one to show to the guests, one for actually preparing the dishes. So much can be done in terms of aesthetics and design. All the more for Zepa, that produces in Italy.
In what direction are you orienting the research and development activities?
Energy saving is becoming more and more relevant: all our products meet the most stringent regulations concerning the burners efficiency and the electrical components on stand-by. Another driver is simplification. In the vision of Zepa and Teka, cooking must be a pleasure, not a mere functional action. We are developing easier and easier to clean surfaces and “plug and play” hobs with a simplified installation. Last, but not less important, is the customization: as it happens in the automotive sector, our product platforms allow us to adapt production to the most specific needs.
Is the drop in consumption, caused by the crisis, water under the bridge, or does it still condition the market?
The drop in consumption has undoubtedly been felt all over Europe. But today we find signs of recovery from Spain, where the Teka group is headquartered. And crisis, I think, has been an opportunity to strive to be more competitive and evolve.
In your opinion: how was the balance repositioned among industry, trade and consumer?
Consumer, who has been “prey” for companies for years, is much more selective and informed. As a result, the cost he pays for purchasing a good, must be offset by the benefit that the same gives him. In this process, the role of trade is crucial. Industry could not be capillary on the territory, nor stimulate the demand in a suitable way which, however, the distribution is able to do excellently, through strategies and commercial initiatives.
Like it or not, we cannot do without e-commerce. Even in our sector, consumer look for information through the Internet about the characteristics of the product, then he goes to the store to test with his hand the actual plusses of it. I think the shop should evolve: from place where products are promoted to structure in which public receives support and help to choose.
What objectives do you prefix to reach, if not yet achieved?
Zepa has always been export-oriented. quality and design of its production is recognized all over the world, but less in Italy. I would like to transfer to our Country the passion we put in the development of hobs. Another desire of mine is to be able to transform the home appliance from a work tool to an entertainment center. Kitchen, after all, remains the “heart” of each house. I would like that, through our appliances, it became an attractive magnet for families and groups of friends who wish to spend some time together.
Flexible: because the delimitation of the spaces and rooms is less and less marked.
Integrated: because the Internet of things will increase the correlation among household appliances, information systems and users.
Predictive: analyzing the data of my day, the information system of the house will be able, for example, to ask me if I like a steak for dinner. If so, it will see to make me find it already thawed on my return. In short, a sort of butler who interprets my wishes.
Hobs with "touch control" technology - that Zepa produces for Teka group - were among the first to introduce the electronic touch control in a gas system. Acquiring, in actual fact, the same characteristics of the induction models. The timer, for example, allows to set the desired cooking time for each dish. Very useful is also the buttons safety lock, which prevents children from lighting the fire and facilitates the cleaning operations. The absence of knobs, moreover, helps to keep the hob extremely clean. In the presence of traditional knobs, it would have been impossible to have these functions. Another distinctive feature is the system of self-ignition. If the flame is extinguished for accidental reasons, the system attempts to reactivate it for three times, after which it closes the passage of gas through the burner, without however turning off the others eventually in function.Touch control
The electronic touch control does not need a mechanical connection with the burners: in the future perspective, Filippo Rossi explains, remotely controlled hobs could also be develop. In 2015, these products have been awarded by the Chicago Athenaeum Museum of Architecture and Design with the Good Design ™ Award.
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12th February 2018
This month contains National Toothache Day. Who knew there was such a thing? A toothache can be one of the worst pains we can experience and often results in more painful (and expensive!) dentistry, which we all want to avoid.
But did you know that the health of your teeth and gums can have a huge impact on your overall health? Gum disease can increase your risk of conditions such as heart disease, stroke, diabetes, dementia, rheumatoid arthritis, and problems in pregnancy such as premature birth and low birth weight. According to Dr. Nigel Carter, Chief Executive of the British Dental Foundation “The link between oral health and overall body health is well documented and backed by robust scientific evidence. Despite this, only one in six people realises that people with gum disease may have an increased risk of stroke or diabetes. And only one in three is aware of the heart disease link.”
While the exact mechanisms are still debated, it’s thought that bacteria cause plaque build-up which can trigger inflammation that enters the bloodstream. Over time this inflammation slowly damages blood vessels in the heart, brain and other systems in the body.
Not all bacteria in the mouth are bad, however. As with the rest of the body, most of the bacteria present in our mouth is or should be beneficial. The problems arise when what we eat, drink or use disturbs the delicate balance. For example, a new study indicates that mouthwash can destroy beneficial bacteria that can protect against obesity and diabetes, and that those who use mouthwash twice per day have a 30% increased risk of developing diabetes. Alcohol, tobacco, sugary foods can also destroy beneficial bacteria.
So, looking after your teeth and gums is not just vanity. Follow these simple guidelines to protect your health:
1. Brush teeth for 2 minutes twice per day, and use dental floss or dental brushes
1. Cut down on sugar and sugary drinks and high carbohydrate foods
1. Eat slowly and chew your food well to increase saliva production. Saliva contains enzymes that kill bad bacteria
1. Eat foods which provide plenty of beneficial bacteria e.g. vegetables, whole grains, beans and pulses, low sugar fruits, plus fermented foods such as yogurt, kefir, sauerkraut etc
1. Vitamin D is important for the strength of bones and teeth to get out in the sun in summer, take a supplement in winter, and eat eggs, oily fish, butter, mushrooms.
1. Rather than use mouthwash, consider dissolving the probiotic powder in using that as a mouthwash. If you have a gum infection, you can mix the powder with a little water to make a paste and apply it to the area of infection. In fact, you can now buy toothpaste which includes probiotic bacteria, such as PerioBiotic Toothpaste by Designs for Health
1. Consider “oil pulling” to pull bacteria out of gums and strengthen and whiten teeth. First thing in the morning put a tablespoon of sesame oil (non-toasted) or coconut oil in the mouth and swill it around your teeth for 20 minutes, then spit it out.
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Emperor Sorean[edit]
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Emperor Sorean is the ruler of the High Entia and resides in the High Entia city of Alcamoth. Emperor Sorean is Father of Kallian and Melia. First introduced in the game in one of Shulk's montage visions, the party meets the Emperor officially when they come to the city of Alcamoth for the first time.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/77251 | @article {Li:2018:1947-2935:1028, title = "Preparation and Properties of Glass Fiber/Plant Fiber Reinforced Cementitious Composites", journal = "Science of Advanced Materials", parent_itemid = "infobike://asp/sam", publishercode ="asp", year = "2018", volume = "10", number = "7", publication date ="2018-07-01T00:00:00", pages = "1028-1035", itemtype = "ARTICLE", issn = "1947-2935", url = "https://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/asp/sam/2018/00000010/00000007/art00014", doi = "doi:10.1166/sam.2018.3288", keyword = "PRETREATMENT, HYDRATION PERFORMANCE, GLASS FIBER, PLANT FIBER, MECHANICAL PROPERTY", author = "Li, Shengbin and Hu, Bingxu and Zhang, Fan", abstract = "Because of its low cost, easy access and reproducibility, plant fiber has a wide range of applications in the field of synthetic fibers. Synthetic fibers are added to cement-based materials, which can improve their mechanical properties and give the material new functionalities and applications. Cement-based materials and glass fibers constitute a glass fiber/cement-based composite material. The effects of plant fiber composition and structure on the hydration and mechanical properties of cementitious composites were studied. During the experiment, a variety of rice straw fibers were selected. Straw fiber was subjected to steam explosion and bleaching pretreatment. The results showed that the maximum hydration rate of glass fiber/cement-based composites was reduced after 10 wt.% of rice straw fiber samples were replaced by equivalent amounts of glass fiber/cement matrix composites. The time to reach the maximum hydration rate was prolonged. The prolongation of time increased with the degree of fiber pretreatment. From rice and bamboo pulp, cellulose is extracted as a reinforcing fiber. Vacuum dehydration method was used to prepare cellulose/glass fiber reinforced cement composite material. The introduction of cellulose can reduce the bulk density of the glass fiber/cement composite by 15% to 35%. The mechanical properties of glass fiber/cement composites are improved. When the content of cellulose is 8 wt.%12 wt.%, the bending resistance of cellulose modified glass fiber/cement composites can be optimized.", } |
global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/77260 | Ex Pune : (01 Night / 02 Days )
Ashtavinayaka means 'Eight Ganeshas' when translated in Sanskrit. Lord Ganesha, the Hindu God of unity, remover of obstacles, learning and prosperity. The Ashtavinayaka Yatra covers eight holy temples of Lord Ganesha which are located around Pune. Each temple has its own individuality and mythology. The deities in each temple are distinct from each other. Some of these deities are described as 'Swayambhu' figurines. This is to point the truth that no human created these deities; they were formed completely by nature.
According to Hindu Shastra, you will have to visit the Moreshwar temple at Morgaon first and then in sequence visit the temples at Theur-Siddhatek-Ranjangaon-Ozar-Lenyadri-PaIi and Mahad. This will complete your Ashtavinayak Yatra. Wherein your overnight stay will be in Pune.
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On your arrival at Pune airport or railway station, you will be met by an ITH representative who will assist you and handover the necessary documents. This day proceed to Morgaon where Moreshwar temple is located along the Karha River A temple that looks like a tiny fort from a distance, is situated in the Baramati Taluka Of Pune district in Maharashtra This region is also known as Bhuswananda. Shaped as a peacock, this region has in the past seen an abundance of peacocks and is therefore known as Morgaon. In hindi we term Peacock as "Mor".
Later proceed to Theur_ At Theur is a temple dedicated to Chintamani Vinayak The village is situated along the river Mulamutha_ Ganesh as Chintamani is god who brings peace Of mind and drives away all perplexities of the mind. It is believed that Brahma, the creator once felt tharva that is restive. To still his mind he called upon Lord Ganesha. The place where Brahma achieved the quietude he was looking for is known as the Sthavar region or as Theur After your visit, stop enroute at a local restaurant for Lunch.
Further drive onto Siddhatek. This is a remote little village along the river Bhima. The god Siddhivinayak is considered a powerful deity It is believed that it was here on the Siddhatek Mountain, that Vishnu acquired Siddhi Later drive onto Ranjangaon. The Maha Ganpati is the most powerful representation Of Lord Ganesh The idol is depicted as having eight, ten Or twelve arms. It is after invoking this form of Ganpati that Shiva vanquished the demon Tripurasur and so he is also known as Tripurarivade Mahaganpati Night stay at Pune hotel.
Day 2
After Breakfast proceed to Ozar. On the banks of the Kukdeshwar river, Ozhar is where Lord Vighneshwar resides. Lord Ganesh is known as Vigneshwara or the remover of all obstacles, this he achieved by vanquishing the demon Vighnasura. After darshan, leave for Lenyandri. Lenyadri, it is to the North of Pune along the Kukdi River. The Ganesh puran calls this place as Jirnapur or Lekhan Parbat. Girijatmaj Vinayak refers to the Ganesha as the son of Parvati. Girija is another name for Parvati & Atamaj means son. This is the only temple of the Ashtavinayak which is on a mountain and is set in a Buddhist cave-temple. After darshan, take a halt for lunch. Then proceed to Pali. Among the Ashtavinayakas, Ballaleshvara at Pali is the only Ganesh who is famous by the name of his devotee and who is dressed up as a brahmin. Village Pali is situated in the Sudhagad taluka in the district of Raigad. This place is nestled between the fort Sarasgad and River Amba. After Darshan drive to Mahad_ Mahad is a pretty village set in the hilly region Of Konkan in the Raigarh district and the Khalapur Taluka of Maharashtra. Ganesha as Varad Vinayak fulfills all desires and grants all boons. This region was known as Bhadrak or Madhak in ancient times. A nandadeep has been lit in this temple which has been continuously lit since 1892. Night drop at Mumbai Airport / Railway Station with memorable experiences of the tour.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/77309 | A doctor reveals the hangover cures that actually work 2 years ago
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Suka banget sama challenge dari Beth Fish Readers ini, tema tiap challenge unik-unik. Dan untuk tahun lalu saya berhasil menyelesaikannya, yeay! Berikut listnya:
1. Summer at Willow Lake (topographical feature)
2. Fly To The Sky (something you'd see in the sky)
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Classification: Malware
Category: Trojan Horse
Status: Active & Spreading
Spreading: Moderate
Removal: Easy
Platform: W32
Discovered: 04 Feb 2002
Damage: Medium
Characteristics: W32.Foxma is a Trojan horse that replicates itself to the \Windows\System folder. It arrives as Windows.exe. This Trojan horse is also known as W32/Foxma.worm, Win32.HLLW.Foxma, W32/HLLW.Foxmango, Win32.Foxmagno, W32/Foxmagno, WORM_FOXMA.A, PE_HLLW.FOXM.A. It was first discovered on February 4, 2002.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/77444 | An interview with Julie Holmes, co-founder of Hey Mic!
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Tell us a little bit about your company. What is your business in your own words? How long has it been running?
I’m Julie Holmes, the creator and co-founder of a company called JUST Innovate Ltd which manufactures and sells a neat little gadget called Hey Mic!. Hey Mic! is a Bluetooth wireless microphone explicitly designed to connect with smartphones to capture great audio with your videos.
Our business has two founders: Steve Clarke and me. We’re both professional speakers who decided to work together early last year, and we’ve been running since June 2017. We launched Hey Mic! within 90 days!
Was there a lightbulb moment?
It happened when I was working at a trade show, where I was speaking to a group of about 200 people. I wanted to capture some audio of the essential messages I had put together for this presentation and the questions asked by the audience so that I could share them back with other people in my business, namely sales and marketing.
I’d done recordings on my phone before, but they were never good enough to be used as it was often hard to hear in big, busy rooms. I knew at that moment I needed to create something that would make it easy for me to capture and reuse the audio, so that’s where the idea of Hey Mic! was born.
Were there any big pain points when you were starting up the business?
One of the most significant challenges we had was purely finding time to get things off the ground.
Both Steve and I are busy, full-time speakers and business leaders, so carving out and creating another company was incredibly hard. So, as you can imagine, we were both working evenings and weekends as we tried to get Hey Mic! off the ground and it often felt like there weren’t enough hours in the day – we got tired! But we believed in our product, so knew we had to make it happen.
What has the high point been so far?
We donated a couple of Hey Mic!s to the Professional Speakers’ Association in the UK to help raise funds for their Foundation, which collects money from its members via auctions for other speakers when they fall on hard times, or just need a helping hand.
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why do my lips and tongue feel weird after eating popsicles?
When i eat the flavor ices that start as liquid and you put in the freezer my lips and tongue swell a bit. the popsicles had been in the freezer for a while so it could just be that but my chest and stomach also feels very cold. the reaction disappears after about 15 minuets.
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This could be an allergy to a dye or flavoring in them.
Do you get this reaction to other cold foods, or other types of popsicles? If it's only those, then it's probably a reaction to something in them, and not just because they'd been in the freezer.
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Hello~It sounds to me like you are allergic to one of the chemical flavors in the Popsicle, I would ask your doctor and in the meantime, just avoid them or try a different type of frozen treat and see if you have the same reaction.
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Since the Industrial Revolution in the 1700s, human activities (e.g. burning of fossil fuels and deforestation) have dramatically increased CO2 concentrations in the atmosphere. High CO2 levels in the atmosphere contribute directly to climate change. In 2005, global atmospheric concentrations of CO2 were 35 percent higher than they were before the Industrial Revolution. (Source: EPA / Photo: Flickr)
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First Annual MobileIron / Hack the Valley Security Challenge
October 31, 2017
First Annual MobileIron / Hack the Valley Security Challenge
On November 12th, MobileIron and Hack the Valley are excited to announce that they're teaming up to host the first annual MobileIron — Hack the Valley Security Challenge. This cybersecurity competition is open to all comers, and pits Silicon Valley’s top security professionals against each other to determine who are Silicon Valley’s Top Security Ninjas. Come for the title, the prize, and the street cred.
The contest will be using a standard Jeopardy style Capture the Flag (CTF) format which has become the format of choice at security events (conferences, meetups, university tournaments, etc). For those who have never seen or participated in a CTF, it is an event where points are scored for hacking into various systems, which are intentionally vulnerable to various types of attacks. This gives you experience on a variety of security issues. Successfully retrieving the flag (a secret answer) will reward your team points! Categories such as reverse engineering, cryptography, reconnaissance, forensics, OWASP Top 10, mobile security, and security trivia require teams to have strong cross-disciplinary cybersecurity skills. We're here to challenge and learn, so you can be sure that answering that 500 point cryptography question will require a crypto guru.
The ultimate prize is knowledge, but we've thrown in a $1,000 prize pool to keep things interesting. CTF contests are designed to give security professionals a glimpse inside the heads of the black hat. Through this they gain first-hand experience in how attackers go about attacking systems, and in turn how to protect against such attacks. This is accomplished by offering security problems of increasing complexity, which mimic real world scenarios. For example, one clue may be that there is something funny on The player may start by running a vulnerability scan on the system in question only to discover that the system is unpatched and vulnerable to CVE-2003-0352. From there, the player fires up her remote exploit kit, which has a module to exploit that vulnerability to gain access to the system. Once on the system, she quickly discovers a file named “secret answer” (aka the flag). In the secret answer file is the text “Magilla Gorilla.” The player types “Magilla Gorilla” into the online scoring system, and the team is awarded 200 points. The team pulls into first place, and the player now knows the value of keeping system patches up to date.
The MobileIron Security Challenge will offer both advanced and beginner contests. In the spirit of education, plenty of security experts from both the MobileIron Security Team and the Hack the Valley organization will be around to give hints, but never enough to propel a team to first place. Come be a part of the opposition for the day, and challenge the depths of your skills and knowledge.
Check your Twitter feed for up to the minute details during and after the event.
Anthony Ungerman
Anthony Ungerman, VP, Security Engineering at MobileIron
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How to Have Less Oily Skin
Oily skin is a natural type of skin characterized by a higher production of sebum by the sebaceous glands compared to other skin types. It can be difficult to care for, but only becomes problematic when there is simply too much sebum being produced. Irrespective of how oily your skin is, you cannot exactly get rid of it because that is how it naturally is. What you can do instead is reduce sebum production for a less greasy appearance and learn to control shine as well as prevent, to a certain extent, acne and related skin problems. And in order to understand how to care for and have less of an oily skin, we must first understand what causes the excess sebum.
What causes excessively oily skin? For the most part, genetics and levels of certain hormones as well as life events that are characterized by fluctuating hormone levels, such as pregnancy, are the two major causes of oily skin. Diet and its impact on the endocrine system also contribute to excess sebum. The next equally important cause is lack of proper care often stemming from a lack of knowledge on how to care for your skin type properly. Because, believe it or not, some of the best oily skin advice are counter-intuitive. Here are the steps on how to have less oily skin.
Reduce oily skin
Step 1: Exfoliate. By exfoliating the skin periodically you help remove old skin cells and allow new skin cells to take their place. This is a vital step for reducing oily skin problems because accumulation of sebum, old skin cells as well as dust, dirt and other particles trapped in pores promotes bacterial growth and can lead to acne, subsequent scars, blemishes or sensitization of skin. Exfoliation further helps unclog pores, remove blackheads and leaves the skin soft. Not to mention that by exfoliating you get to a fresh layer of skin that is more responsive to moisturizing. It helps to exfoliate at least two times a week, but some people with excessively oily skin may benefit from exfoliating three times a week.
While there are so many great products out there, a lot of them contain micro-beads which are harmful for the environment. Fortunately you can get excellent results by using products in your pantry such as sugar or salt. In my opinion, sugar is better because salt may cause a slight irritation of the skin should the exfoliation be too much at times. You can use it plain or combine it with other ingredients for various benefits, but keep in mind that ingredients you may use should provide gentle care and nourishment and not be harsh on the skin.
For example, a great face scrub can be obtained by mixing 1 tablespoon of sugar with 1 tablespoon of honey. Gently apply the product on a clean face and massage with the utmost care so as to not hurt the skin. Face exfoliation should always be done extremely careful because even the slightest pressure is enough to remove old skin cells and debris. More than this results in skin damage. If you’d like your face scrub to have a slight lightening effect in case you have uneven skin tone, I enjoyed good results when using a light-colored honey such as acacia honey (see other honey varieties). The benefit of using honey is that it has an acidic pH which deters bacteria growth, antimicrobial constituents, trace amounts of micronutrients which nourish the skin while the natural sugars help retain moisture. As soon as you’re done exfoliating, wash the face with warm water.
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Step 2: Gentle face and body wash. A lot of people with oily skin make the mistake of using harsh products on their skin. They assume that all the excess sebum is removed when the skin feels almost dry and that harsh face and body washes are the only ones that can accomplish this. This is actually not a good approach because you want to work with your skin, not against it. Exfoliating removes old skin cells and other debris as well as excess surface sebum. Washes have to be gentle and only clean what may be left on the surface of the skin.
Harsh products dry the skin which is unnatural and can trigger the exact opposite reaction we want: more sebum. Remember that sebum has a protective role. Washing is only a form of maintenance of the skin, removing sweat and excess surface sebum which may feed bacteria populations and lead to acne and infections. But sebum needs to be produced to keep skin healthy.
Step 3: Moisturize. Freshly exfoliated skin absolutely requires moisturizing. A lightweight body lotion is great for providing moisture without leaving an oily film. Personally, I find that olive oil makes an excellent natural moisturizer even for oily skin. Applied on a clean, dry skin, it provides long-lasting, natural hydration and feeds the skin healthy unsaturated fatty acids such as Omega-3, with both antioxidant and anti-inflammatory properties. A water-based serum, preferably with collagen and vitamins such as vitamin C, vitamin E or vitamin A, followed by a lightweight face cream are a must following exfoliation.
Moisturizing after you’re removed sebum from the surface of the skin helps to balance the skin’s own oil production. Essentially the skin will respond by producing significantly less sebum. It’s also vital that you use high-quality serums and face creams, preferably enriched with nutrients, because the newly exfoliated skin is highly responsive to the nutrition and hydration it receives and will absorb everything faster because the old cells on the surface were removed and the pores cleaned.
Step 4: Intensive care. This is not done everyday, but periodically to build a healthy skin. For the oily skin types which produce a lot of sebum, water-based serums containing collagen, hyaluronic acid and vitamins C, E and A are ideal choices to provide intensive hydration without leaving a greasy finish. These can be applied 2-3 times a day, after cleaning the face. Alternatively, other oil-free skin care products may be used. For oily skin types that do not produce quite as much sebum as well as mixed types, you can use both water-based serums like those mentioned above and an oil-free, lightweight, intense moisturizing face cream.
Of course, face creams are best applied in small amounts after cleaning or exfoliating, then allowed to be absorbed and only reapplied if skin still feels dry. This is done in the morning and before going to sleep. Natural oils can be used in the same way. Even oils as simple as olive oil can have an intense hydrating effect as well as help nourish the skin, reduce inflammation and help it regenerate. As little as 2-3 drops of oil may be needed. The best time to use olive oil is at night, leaving the oil overnight to produce its effects and resuming normal skin care routine the next morning. But because not all oils are suited for every skin, you will have to choose the right one for you based on your skin’s individual response to it.
Step 5: Other advice for oily skin management.
1) Clean and hydrate your skin every morning and evening before going to sleep.
This is essential for reducing sebum production, preventing sebum buildup, acne and other problems.
2) Your towels are your own. Don’t share.
3) Change pillowcase 2-3 times a week.
4) Wash hair 2-3 times a week to prevent the dirt it accumulates to clog pores.
5) Wash pillowcase and towels in hot water, at 90 degrees Celsius to eliminate bacteria.
6) Avoid touching your face. Chances are it will turn into a habit which may undermine your efforts to keep acne breakouts under control.
7) Drink plenty of water to help hydrate the skin from within.
8) Eat food you prepare yourself from fresh ingredients and avoid anything processed as much as possible. Include healthy fats in your diet from nuts and seeds, eat plenty of fruits and vegetables and foods rich in vitamins A, C, D, E and B complex vitamins.
What you will observe after as little as one week:
1) Your skin will become less oily as the sebum production is balanced according to the moisture it receives through your skin care routine. Consequently, your skin will produce less oil.
2) You can better control shine and makeup will last longer and look better.
3) Acne will dry naturally, reduce in severity and breakouts will occur less frequently.
4) Pores will have a better appearance, look cleaner and be less visible.
5) Skin will be softer, better hydrated, more luminous and less uneven-colored.
For the most part, excess sebum is produced in oily skin when the skin care routine is incorrect. A lot of people wrongfully assume that if they have greasy skin, they don’t need to moisturize it. But if you remove the natural oils without replenishing them, then the more sebum your skin will produce in response and the greasier it will be. The key to having less oily skin is to up your skin care routine to provide intense hydration with the help of concentrated serums with collagen, hyaluronic acid and vitamins A, C and E, oil-free moisturizing creams, lightweight lotions and the occasional natural oils intensive treatment, along with regular exfoliation and good hygiene.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/77616 | Why Front Wheel Drive Is A Smart Choice
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Lexus recently released a Lexus Insider article on Front Wheel Drive and how it makes a smart choice for winter driving. We found the article to provide important information on something we do not think about too often living in South Texas, but with the climate changing and polar vortexes getting a little too close for comfort recently, we thought it would be a smart choice for us to share the details covered by this article.
Lexus RX 350 Front Wheel Drive at Lexus Dominion
Front Wheel Drive Lexus RX 350 at North Park Lexus Dominion
Weight Matters
Front-wheel drive saves weight and allocates it precisely where needed when driving in slick conditions. The saved weight not only helps to improve fuel economy and allow for more interior space (especially for sedans) but the placement of the weight is directly over the drive wheels for front-wheel drive vehicles which greatly improves traction. When driving on slippery roads, a front engine, front-wheel drive configuration is ideal because there’s more weight on the front wheels, which propel and steer the car.
Front wheel drive Lexus ES 350 F SPORT at Lexus Dominion
The 2019 Lexus ES 350 F SPORT is front wheel drive
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Another smart reason for driving a front-wheel drive vehicle is the cost-of-ownership benefits. You will see better fuel efficiency, as we mentioned earlier, but the real benefit is with maintenance and repairs. The front-wheel-drive engine and transmission have fewer components that need routine repair which can greatly lower your cost of ownership.
When it comes to drivetrain packaging, front-wheel-drive delivers smart returns that every driver can appreciate. And, since the redesigned Lexus ES 350 and ES 350 F SPORT are front-wheel-drive, this gives us one more reason to upgrade to the new model. Thank you, Lexus.
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Extreme weather conditions can affect rail travel. For example, a fallen tree may damage overhead lines, or fallen leaves can cause slipperiness in combination with rain or oil. This can have consequences for travellers.
Slippery tracks
Fallen leaves, moisture and rust can cause slipperiness on the tracks. As a result, the wheels of the trains have less grip on the rails. This means that engineers need to take more time to brake and accelerate. For passengers, this may mean that departure and arrival times change by a few minutes in the autumn.
'Square' wheels
In a video on YouTube, ProRail explains the causes and consequences of slippery tracks. Slippery conditions on the rails can cause the train's wheels to stop turning, which in turn causes uneven wear, or the so-called 'square wheels'. This not only produces an unpleasant clunk-clunk noise, but also results in damage to the train and tracks. Fortunately, we have the technology to make 'square' wheels round again
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Prostitution has been around for a long time, but it is illegal in Kentucky. People who are charged with it face a Class B misdemeanor. They can face a fine of up to $250 and up to 90 days in jail. While this might not sound like a harsh punishment, it is still a mark on the person's criminal record.
Child pornography charges require a firm defense
Child pornography is illegal in all states in this country. It is very easy to access materials that meet these requirements because they are prevalent on the internet. Just because they are easy to find doesn't mean that you should view them. It is possible that a person might face a criminal charge for child pornography even if they accidentally navigate onto a page that has it.
False accusations of rape are more common than you think
When people hear that someone is facing a rape charge, they assume the worst. This is one thing that can be especially damaging to the defendants because there is always the chance that the accusation was false. Unfortunately, this is something that is more common in this country than what some might realize.
Impairment and intoxication can negate sexual consent
There is some confusion as to what constitutes rape. Some people think that it means that a person uses violence to force a person to do sexual acts; however, this might not be the case. In the simplest terms, a rape occurs when there isn't consent by one party, and there is penetration of the anus or vagina by any body part from the other person. There is also a provision that makes penetration by an object rape if it is forced into the victim by the rapist.
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Sex crimes come in many different forms. While some of these involve penetration and physical contact, others don't. One example of a criminal act that doesn't require any contact is indecent exposure. You might not think much about this crime, but it can have serious impacts on your future if you are convicted.
Registered sex offenders have serious limitations
Being convicted on some sex crimes requires that the person be placed on the sex offender registry. This designation means that the person has to comply with some very strict laws. Failing to obey those laws can mean that the person might face new criminal charges that have serious consequences.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/77642 | How to Season a New Smoker
Seasoning a new smoker before initial use is crucial to laying the foundation for great BBQ results. Doing so removes unwanted odors from the production process, protects the smoker from the elements and cures the paint, which helps it look new for years to come. Read on for six simple steps to successful seasoning.
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1. Coat the entire interior of your new smoker with a high burn-point cooking oil like canola or grapeseed oil. Don't forget to include the racks, lid and walls.
2. Fill one chimney with charcoal and light them using a fire starter. The chimney should be fully engulfed in smoke within 10 minutes, give or take a few.
3. While the chimney heats up, add more charcoal to the firebox on the smoker. Once the chimney is fully ignited, pour the lit coals into the firebox.
4. Make sure the exhaust and intake are completely open to allow for the greatest amount of airflow. You will take the smoker to a (slightly) higher temperature than normally used when smoking.
5. Allow the smoker to reach at least 275-300 degrees Fahrenheit for 2-3 hours. This'll ensure any leftover production chemicals and solvents burn off.
6. Allow the smoker to cool down completely before cooking on it.
Hot TipIf you want to add wood to the firebox while seasoning, make sure to use the same kind of wood you'll for smoking. Wood that isn't normally used for smoking can add harsh flavors to meat during your next cook.
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Materia Magica is a free, feature-rich text-based multiplayer fantasy where action, adventure, and immersive role play occur in real time, twenty-four hours a day.
Explore over eight million locations within the vast world of Alyria, select from a vast variety of fascinating weapons, armor, and artifacts, meet and interact with thousands of unique creatures, all while experiencing the adventure simultaneously with hundreds of other players!
Materia Magica is multiplayer interactive fantasy, which means you are taking an active part in a living story. The choices you make can shape and mold the world around you. Since the game is text-based, you aren't limited by someone else's vision - your own imagination is all that is required to vividly illustrate the life and experiences of your character.
Online for over ten years, Materia Magica is one of the longest-running, constantly-developed games out there. And it's free! No monthly dues, no hidden fees - this game is entirely supported by contributions from its players.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/77661 | Charles Dickens (1812-1870)
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Charles Dickens, pen-name "Boz", was the most popular English novelist of the Victorian era, as well as a vigorous social campaigner. The popularity of Dickens's novels and short stories has meant that they have never gone out of print.
Many of Charles Dickens' novels first appeared in periodicals and magazines in serialized form and he often composed his works in parts, in the order in which they were meant to appear. Such a practice lent his stories a particular rhythm, punctuated by one minor cliffhanger after another, to keep the public looking forward to the next installment. |
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In the first quarter of 2017 Peru saw some extreme weather conditions with heavy rains, extensive flooding and dangerous flash floods throughout most parts of the country.
And while the worst is over and the press coverage died down, support and aid for the victims continue, the reconstruction of the affected areas has started and only now the whole extent of the catastrophe becomes apparent.
Having assessed 95% of the damages left by the coastal El Niño, Peru’s National Emergency Operations Center (COEN) informed recently that 158 people lost their life due to the rains and flooding.
293, 071 people were severely affected by the disaster, meaning they lost all their worldly possessions and are (were) homeless.
Additionally, 1,372,360 people were affected, meaning they suffer(ed) from damages and are (were) in need of immediate help. |
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1. What is Placer County’s “Good Cause” requirement?
2. How long does the new Concealed Carry Weapon process take?
3. How can I help the Sheriff's Office process my new CCW application quickly as possible?
4. I recently had my Live Scan (fingerprints) done for another organization. Do I need to get fingerprinted again for my new CCW application?
5. Where should I get my Live Scan (fingerprints) done?
6. Where can I get the correct Live Scan form for a new Placer County Carry Concealed Weapon application?
7. What are the standard fees for a Carry Concealed Weapons Live Scan (fingerprints)?
8. How do I schedule an appointment for a new carry concealed weapon (CCW) license with Placer County?
9. Is there any way of getting a sooner appointment or being placed on a waiting list?
10. May I come to the Sheriff’s Office and wait for no shows or cancellations of appointments?
11. I have filed a restraining order and need a Carry Concealed Weapon license now. How do I get an appointment?
12. How will I know if my particular circumstance will allow me to obtain a CCW License?
13. Do I need to bring my weapon to my appointment?
14. What do I need to bring to my appointment?
15. Where do I go to complete the Carry Concealed Weapon license process?
16. What do I do if I am denied?
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/77743 | Do You Need A Statin?
These cholesterol-lowering drugs are helping millions of Americans. Maybe they could help you too
If your high LDLs don't respond to lifestyle changes, then a statin probably is the answer for you. Heart experts estimate that millions of Americans--including many people with high cholesterol, those who've had previous heart attacks or signs of heart disease, as well as most people with type 2 diabetes--take one. Generally, statins are very safe--one expert calls them "the new aspirin."
Should you take a statin? Here's what you need to know:
What are they? Statins--a class of drugs known as HMG CoA reductase inhibitors--are the first-line choice for lowering high LDL cholesterol.
How do statins work? These drugs work by reducing the amount of cholesterol produced by the liver, which triggers liver cells to absorb more cholesterol from the bloodstream.
Statins also seem to improve the health of your heart and blood vessels by improving overall bloodflow and acting as a powerful antioxidant and anti-inflammatory to control plaque deposits in artery walls. Statins seem to stabilize these deposits so they're less likely to break free and cause a blockage that could lead to a heart attack or stroke.
Should I take a statin? You may be a candidate for a statin if:
• You've had a heart attack or get chest pain (angina)
• You've had bypass surgery or artery-clearing angioplasty
• You have heart disease and your LDLs are higher than 100 mg/dL.
• You have diabetes
• Your LDLs are over 190 mg/dL despite lifestyle changes
• You have multiple risk factors for heart disease beyond high cholesterol--such as a family history of heart disease (heart attack in a brother or father before age 55; in a mother or sister before age 65), high blood pressure, cigarette smoking, overweight, a sedentary lifestyle or an unhealthy diet
Note: You should NOT take a statin if you are pregnant, have active or chronic liver disease, or are allergic to statins.
What should I do if I do take a statin?
Keep following a healthy lifestyle. Exercise, eat a diet that's moderate in fat, maintain a healthy weight--or lose weight if necessary (see Prevention's Body Mass Index Calculator)--and quit smoking.
Take your statin between supper and bedtime. Statins change the way liver cells absorb and produce cholesterol by interacting with a key liver enzyme. This enzyme is more active at night--so you want to have the highest concentrations of statins in your bloodstream at that time.
Talk with your doctor about regular cholesterol checks, and the need for liver-function tests. Among people taking statins at high doses, 1 to 2 percent develop abnormalities on liver tests. Results return to normal when you stop taking the statin.
Watch for side effects. In very rare cases, statins can cause nerve or muscle damage. If you experience aches, pains, weakness, or fatigue once you've begun taking a statin, consult with your doctor immediately.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/77749 | Korean Red Ginseng (Root)
Ginseng, commonly known as Asian ginseng or, even more specifically, Chinese or Korean ginseng, may look like a thin, human-shaped potato with no arms, but it provides many benefits to sexual health such as increased erectile functioning, stamina, libido, and decreased fatigue.
Ginseng, known as the “king of herbs”, originated in the Far East. Its record of enhancements dates back as far as 3000 B.C. through inscriptions found on tortoise shells and bones. Medicinal use began around 500 A.D. and Ginseng has been used throughout Korea, China, and other regions of similar inhabitants, since then.
A high-quality variant produced from this magnificent plant, scientific name Panax Ginseng, is the Korean Red Ginseng. Currently, there are three ginseng plants, two of which are true ginseng plants. These plants include the Asian, Korean, or Chinese ginseng, the American ginseng (Panax quinquefolius), and the Siberian ginseng (Eleutherococcus senticosus), which is not a true ginseng plant.
Studies have shown differences between the Asian and American ginsengs, namely stimulating vs sedating effects, respectively. Asian ginseng contains more Rg1 ginsenosides, i.e. has more yang, while the American ginseng has an increased amount of Rb1 ginsenosides, i.e. has more yin.
The sexual health benefits of Korean Red Ginseng are numerous and each will be outlined below.
Increased Erectile Functioning
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Ginsenosides have been shown to increase penile erections by relaxing the smooth muscles of the penis’s corpus cavernosum and dilating the blood vessels. This is a two-fold process that leads to increases in the erection’s girth, length, and sustainability. The majority of the penis is made from spongy, highly expandable, tissue called the corpus cavernosum. Within the corpus cavernosum are two subsections called the corpora cavernosa and the corpus spongiosum. Unlike the concept of large amounts of free time and work, the corpus cavernosum only fills in relation to the amount of blood flow. In many men, these cave-like sections are insufficiently filled due to constricted blood flow or inability of blood to enter the penis, resulting in poorer erection sustainability, lower confidence, and smaller erection. Through Korean Red Ginseng’s ability to widen the arteries and relax the muscles of the penis, more blood flow is directed to the penis and allowed to enter. Due to Korean Red Ginseng’s herbal nature and, most often, reduced side effects, this may help apprehensive men try this supplement rather than rail against taking medications.
Ejaculation Or Orgasm
There are three overarching categories of difficulties with ejaculation – premature, inhibited, and retrograde. Premature ejaculation occurs within a short period after erection. Inhibited leads to little, or slow, ejaculation, and retrograde causes sperm to flow back to the bladder rather than exiting through the urethra. These are troublesome events but can be remedied. Though it is believed throughout the Western world that ejaculation and orgasm go together, this is not the case. Ejaculation can occur without orgasm. For instance, men who have been paralyzed can achieve ejaculation without sensation or orgasm. Oftentimes, men who learn to separate orgasm from ejaculation may experience multiple orgasms and continued firmness of erection during the same sexual encounter.
Korean Red Ginseng can also lead to increased sperm and motility. During each ejaculation, if sperm count is less than 20 million than that ejaculation is considered to be incapable of supporting procreation. In regards to motility, Korean Red Ginseng may straighten the spiraled trajectory of sperm traveling to the woman’s ovum, therefore returning the sperm’s path to its regular, straight, state.
Providing a plethora of other benefits related to erectile dysfunction, Korean Red Ginseng may lower blood sugar levels, leading to sustained erections; regulate the hypothalamus, increasing testosterone which may fight the stress hormone, cortisol; and reduce depression, leading to higher levels of libido, sexual desire, motivation, and increased pleasure in sexual encounters and life, in general.
Libido Boosts
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Korean Red Ginseng is an adaptogenic aphrodisiac. Though there are many groups of ginseng available throughout the world, it contains multiple groups of saponins and ginsenosides, which increase its ability to target a variety of sexual and non-sexual health issues.
When purchasing Korean Red Ginseng or supplements that contain Korean Red Ginseng, it is recommended to look for matured herbs, as the younger roots may not provide enough potency to support benefits, fully. To assist your needs, supplements that include Korean Red Ginseng are made with root extracts procured from plants that have been growing for six years.
Discuss all new supplements, or dosage changes, with your physician. While taking sexual health supplements it is also recommended to get eight hours of sleep, reduce stress, consume more vegetables and vitamins A and E, and enjoy the experience of sex with undivided attention. Maintaining eye contact is another excellent way to boost intimacy.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/77767 | Pretty Time of Day
Implements an S3 class for storing and formatting time-of-day values, based on the 'difftime' class.
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The hms package provides a simple class for storing durations or time-of-day values and displaying them in the hh:mm:ss format. This class is intended to simplify data exchange with databases, spreadsheets, and other data sources:
• Stores values as a numeric vector that contains the number of seconds since midnight
• Supports construction from explicit hour, minute, or second values
• Supports coercion to and from various data types, including POSIXt
• Can be used as column in a data frame
• Based on the difftime class
• Values can exceed the 24-hour boundary or be negative
• By default, fractional seconds up to a microsecond are displayed, regardless of the value of the "digits.secs" option
# Alternatively, install just hms:
# Or the the development version from GitHub:
# install.packages("devtools")
The following example showcases ways of using the hms class standalone or as a data frame column.
hms(56, 34, 12)
#> 12:34:56
#> 00:00:01
#> 12:34:56
#> 16:45:12.828186
#> [1] "1970-01-01 00:00:01 UTC"
data.frame(hours = 1:3, hms = hms(hours = 1:3))
#> hours hms
#> 1 1 01:00:00
#> 2 2 02:00:00
#> 3 3 03:00:00
hms 0.4.2 (2018-03-10)
• Adapted tests to pillar 1.2.1.
hms 0.4.1 (2018-01-23)
• Preserve NA when converting to character (#51, @jeroen).
• Adapted tests to pillar 1.1.0.
hms 0.4.0 (2017-11-16)
Breaking changes
• as.hms.POSIXt() now defaults to the current time zone, the previous default was "UTC" and can be restored by calling pkgconfig::set_config("hms::default_tz", "UTC").
New features
• Pillar support, will display hms columns in tibbles in color on terminals that support it (#43).
• New round_hms() and trunc_hms() for rounding or truncating to a given multiple of seconds (#31).
• New parse_hms() and parse_hm() to parse strings in "HH:MM:SS" and "HH:MM" formats (#30).
• as.hms.POSIXt() gains tz argument, default "UTC" (#28).
• as.hms.character() and parse_hms() accept fractional seconds (#33).
Bug fixes
• hms() now works correctly if all four components (days, hours, minutes, seconds) are passed (#49).
• hms() creates a zero-length object of class hms that prints as "hms()".
• hms(integer()) and as.hms(integer()) both work and are identical to hms().
• Values with durations of over 10000 hours are now printed correctly (#48).
• c() now returns a hms (#41, @qgeissmann).
Documentation and error messages
• Fix and enhance examples in ?hms.
• Documentation is in Markdown format now.
• Improved error message if calling hms() with a character argument (#29).
hms 0.3 (2016-11-22)
• Fix lubridate test for compatibility with 1.6.0 (#23, @vspinu).
• NA values are formatted as NA (#22).
hms 0.2 (2016-06-17)
Minor fixes and improvements.
• Subsetting keeps hms class (#16).
• format.hms() right-justifies the output by padding with spaces from the left, as.character.hms() remains unchanged.
• Times larger than 24 hours or with split seconds are now formatted correctly (#12, #13).
• Sub-second part is printed with up to six digits, for even smaller values trailing zeros are shown (#17).
hms 0.1 (2016-04-30)
First CRAN release.
• Values are stored as a numeric vector that contains the number of seconds since midnight.
• Inherits from difftime class.
• Updating units is a no-op, anything different from "secs" issues a warning.
• Supports construction from time values, coercion to and from various data types, and formatting.
• Conversion from numeric treats input as seconds.
• Negative times are formatted with a leading -.
• Can be used as a regular column in a data frame.
• Full test coverage.
• Test for arithmetic with Date, POSIXt and hms classes.
• Test basic compatibility with lubridate package (#5).
• Interface:
• hms() (with rigorous argument checks)
• as.hms() for character, numeric, POSIXct and POSIXlt
• for character, numeric (implicitly), POSIXct and POSIXlt
• is.hms()
• (forwards to
• format.hms()
• print.hms() (returns unchanged input invisibly)
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Q&A: Blasphemy against the Holy Spirit
QPlease explain the blasphemy against the Holy Ghost (Matt. 12:30-31) as it relates to sins not being forgiven? How does this co-exist with the thought of the blood of Christ forever dealing with all sin?
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AThis is an excellent question, and I would like to broaden my response to include the common concern about this issue with regard to eternal security. The text is Matthew 12:30-31
“For this reason I say unto you, Every sin and injurious speaking shall be forgiven to men, but speaking injuriously of the Spirit shall not be forgiven to men. And whosoever shall have spoken a word against the Son of man, it shall be forgiven him; but whosoever shall speak against the Holy Spirit, it shall not be forgiven him, neither in this age nor in the coming one.” (Matthew 12:30-31)
Who can commit blasphemy against the Holy Ghost? Strictly speaking, these verse apply to those to whom the Lord was speaking; the class of apostate Jewish leaders who had witnessed first-hand the ministry of the Holy Spirit. The Lord is speaking to a class of persons, later called "this generation" (see note). However, He does say "whosoever" bringing forward the consequences for individuals who find themselves in that class. Hebrews makes it clear that the testimony of the Holy Spirit continued after the Lord was on earth; "so great salvation; which at the first began to be spoken by the Lord, and was confirmed unto us by them that heard him; God also bearing them witness, both with signs and wonders, and with divers miracles, and gifts of the Holy Ghost, according to his own will…" (Heb. 2:3-4). It is not even possible, technically speaking, to blaspheme the Holy Ghost today, as the Lord and His apostles are no longer here.
What about today? However, there is a solemn passage in Hebrews which applies this same principle to Christianity. "He that despised Moses' law died without mercy under two or three witnesses: of how much sorer punishment suppose ye, shall he be thought worthy, who hath trodden under foot the Son of God ...and hath done despite unto the Spirit of grace" (Heb. 10:28, 29). In this sense, it is possible for a person today to commit despite to the Spirit of grace. Who can do that? Only an apostate. An apostate is one who once had a profession of Christianity and partook of its blessings, but then fell away from "the faith", never truly having possessed "saving faith". Merely rejecting the gospel does not constitute blasphemy against the Holy Ghost. There were those who "were once enlightened, and have tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Ghost, and have tasted the good word of God, and the powers of the world to come" and yet remained unconverted. If they were to reject that testimony of the Spirit, "it is impossible… to renew them again unto repentance." Incorrect use has been made of this verse to teach that the believer's security is conditional, and that it is possible, once saved, to be lost again. This is false, for it denies many other scriptures, such as John 10:27-29. Only an unbeliever could really say with open-eyed, deliberate hatred toward God, that the Holy Spirit is demonic.
Governmental Forgiveness vs. Eternal Forgiveness. We must bear in mind that there are several aspects of forgiveness. Eternal forgiveness is not spoken of prior to the cross. It is most often governmental forgiveness that is taken up. Governmental forgiveness is divine exemption from the governmental consequences of our sins in this life. A person may remain under the government of God until death, perhaps due to an unforgiving spirit, but then go to heaven (Matthew 6:14-15). Here the Lord is speaking to the leaders of apostate Israel. Israel will never again be forgiven this blasphemy and restored to Jehovah en masse. To be clear, they will be nationally restored (Rom. 11:26), but it will be through a remnant. You can see that it is governmental forgiveness because the Lord jumps forward to the millennium; "neither in that age which is to come". Certainly, those who he was speaking to have long since died. But that same moral class will be present at the close of this epoch, and they will not be allowed to enjoy the blessings of the Spirit in the Millennium. They had "tasted" of the Spirit's grace, and rejected it. And while a remnant will be brought into the full enjoyment of the Spirit in the Kingdom, the apostate ruling class will be cut off in the Great Tribulation judgment. However, in that the individuals within the class of "blasphemers" are apostates, the consequences are eternal; for "it shall not be forgiven him".
Sin against the Holy Ghost. What about believers? What word does this subject have for our conscience? The Holy Ghost is on earth indwelling the House of God. We are exhorted to walk uprightly in light of this fact "And grieve not the Holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption" (Eph. 4:30).
One particular evil that has pervaded the Church is clericalism. The clerical principle is a special kind of sin against the Holy Spirit, because it denies the Spirit's place in the Church, and replaces Him with a false system. The clerical principle states that all true ministry flows from the clergy, and any lay preaching is from the Devil. You can see how this evil is of the same character as what the Jewish leaders were guilty of in Matthew 12:30-31. As Israel spoke injuriously against the Spirit in their dispensation, so Christendom has denied the Spirit in our dispensation. The Church has effectively denied the presence and power of the Holy Spirit on earth. Collectively, the Jewish system came into judgment in 70 A.D., and one day the clerical system of Christendom will come into judgment as well, at the middle of Daniel's seventieth week. While we wouldn’t call the clerical principle "blasphemy" against the Holy Spirit, we can see that it is "sin" against the Spirit, and certainly the dispensational counterpart to what Israel was guilty of.1
If a believer committed this sin, could they lose their salvation? No. None of the elect will ever commit this sin. We know based on the doctrine of election that every person is either a "vessel of wrath" or a "vessel of mercy". If you are a vessel of mercy, you were chosen in an eternity past and He gave you the faith to believe when the time came. You were elected. A vessel of wrath is a person that was not elected, but when given the opportunity, hardened their heart (like Pharaoh, read Romans 9:14-24) and thus fitted themselves for judgment, despite God's long-suffering. Later, God hardened Pharaoh's heart, hence the phrase "it is impossible." Since none of the redeemed can or will ever commit this sin, there is no contradiction with 1 John 1:7.
A couple helpful realizations that help with this type of question:
• There are two aspects to the atonement of Christ. Propitiation is the aspect in which Christ died to perfectly satisfy God. In this aspect He died for the whole WORLD. Substitution is the aspect in which Christ died for ME. In this aspect He only paid for the individual sins of those who would be SAVED.
• Whenever we come to two verses that seem to contradict each other, we need to accept both as true, even if we can't comprehend how they can both coexist. For example; "blasphemy against the Holy Ghost shall not be forgiven unto men" is 100% true and "the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin" is 100% true. What I have started to do is simply accept the Word of God, and then ask him to make it clear to me if it pleases Him. And He usually does.
1. Darby, J. N. The Notion of a Clergyman: Dispensationally the Sin against the Holy Ghost. Bible Truth Publishers.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/77779 | A Dynamic Compendium of Interesting Japanese Literary and Publishing Facts
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Japan’s first magazine, Seiyo-Zasshi, was launched in October 1867
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Seiyo-Zasshi, Japan’s first magazine was launched by Shunzo Yanagawa in October 1867. The magazine’s name means Western Magazine.
The 10-page magazine, which consisted of a collection of translations of western scholarly articles, was published in booklet format, printed on Japanese paper, using woodblocks, with a folio binding.
The definition of the word magazine is “a periodical publication containing articles and illustrations, often on a particular subject or aimed at a particular readership”. Before the digital age it generally referred to publications with paper covers.
The word magazine comes from the French word magasin which itself comes from the Italian word magazzino, meaning store or storehouse. Seiyo-Zasshi clearly fell within this definition of a magazine and certainly aspired to become one.
According to historians, the earliest international example of a magazine is said to be Erbauliche Monaths Unterredungen, Edifying Monthly Discussions, a literary and philosophy magazine, launched in 1663 in Hamburg almost 200 years before Japan’s first such publication.
The Gentleman’s Magazine, is generally cited as the world’s first general-interest magazine. Its first issue was published in London in 1731; its publication continued for almost 200 years.
In contrast, the life span of Japan’s first magazine, Seiyo-Zasshi, was much more short lived. The original plan was for it to become a monthly publication as it became established, but the magazine folded after just 6 issues in September 1869, two months before the international journal of science, Nature, was launched in London that year.
Despite its short life and lack of commercial success, Seiyo-Zasshi’s publication was an important historic milestone that coined the Japanese term used for magazine Zasshi, which is made up for two letters (characters) – ‘mixture’ and ‘to note or register’. The publication may no longer exit, but its name lives on.
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Critically assessing lights is highly complex
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Wouldn't it be great if there was a really consistent and accurate way to assess different film and video lights? Unfortunately it's a highly complicated problem. Here's why.
There seems to be some controversy over how we should be assessing lights. As every schoolchild knows, the most important thing about standards is that we have the widest possible selection of different ones to choose from. That’s the situation we’ve ended up with in colour quality systems for lighting, with CRI, TLCI, TM-30 and SSI all vying for acceptance. CRI is both the most widely recognised and the one that makes more or less every product look good, so there’s an unfortunate tendency to use it regardless of how accurate it is.
The giant HMI cluster in the background actually doesn't have brilliant colour quality, but most people understand how it behaves
But this isn’t going to be about which one’s best. To clear that up, at this point, we might as well go with TLCI because it’s far better than CRI and has achieved at least some acceptance. The problem is, all of these things (with the exception of parts of TM-30 and arguably the standard presentation of TLCI) often try to express how good a light is as a single number. It’s a really nice idea and an easy promotional tool, to be able to state two scores and demonstrate that one thing does better than another thing. Sadly, that is, as with so many attractive ideas, a little misleading.
Here’s why.
It's difficult to express a (bad) spectrum like this, shown on the Sekonic C700, with a single number, much as it's hard to describe the profile of the Alps with a single number
Human eyes can see wavelengths, depending on the individual, from about 380 to 740nm (some sources say a little more; perhaps up to 1000nm, a super-deep red, under the right conditions). A decent pocket colour meter will output a measurement every 5nm, for a total of something like 72 readings over the visible spectrum. Most pocket colour meters of the type we use while wandering around international trade shows don’t literally sample every five nanometers; that would ideally require 72 different detectors behind 72 carefully-made filters.
This image, distributed by Philips, shows the spectrum of a ceramic metal halide light of the type often found in retail premises. The 8 indicates an 80-something CRI - not pretty.png
If we wanted that sort of precision, we’d use a lab-grade piece of gear using a completely different principle, but that’s not the sort of thing you can slip in a pocket and take to NAB. Most pocket devices use just a few sensors behind a few filters and interpolate the rest using clever mathematics. That’s not ideal: 72 samples across the entire visible spectrum isn’t that many. The difference in colour between two adjacent samples might be visible.
TM-30 does actually work pretty well, with the circular plot indicating where the test light source (in red) may be deficient compared to an example (in black).JPG
Even so, 72 samples are enough to describe a pretty complex spectrum. It could have almost any shape, almost any combination of peaks and troughs. Some real-world light sources are that complicated; we’ve all seen graphs of fluorescent tubes and LEDs. Yes, we can express how good a white light source is in an incredibly general sense, but that doesn’t really tell us anything about exactly how it might look wrong. One poorly-scoring light source might lack yellow. Another might lack green. Both might score the same number in at least some of the colour quality systems we’ve seen, but they might look completely different, especially on camera and especially when used to illuminate brightly-coloured objects.
So, sorry about this; there is no one true way to evaluate lighting, especially given that cameras all have their own idiosyncrasies with colour. More or less the only way to figure out whether a specific light will illuminate a specific object so that it looks good on a specific camera is to get that light, that object and that camera into the same room and try it. Systems like TM-30 try a little harder to show us what’s going on, displaying a circular plot of an example light source, with the light source under test superimposed. It’s a useful system and might show how any two light sources compare, but it doesn’t tell us anything about how that might interact with a particular subject or with a particular camera.
There are better ways to express the quality of a white light source, and there are worse ways to do it. There is no perfect way to do it.
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I crave the single narrative that will make everything clear: Everything is race. Everything is class. Everything is moral rot caused by godlessness. They say that fundamentalism is rigid and authoritarian. I say to them: Yes! I want fundamentalism. Please wrap me in that rigidity. Otherwise, I have no coherent self.
Catastrophizing is my mindset. Catastrophizing is pure: Society is totally corrupt. The “system” is totally rotten. I am terrified by ambiguity and ambivalence, the idea that the glass might be only half full. I seize on the extreme example of anything and take it to be the typical case. In this way I create my truth. An immigrant committed murders, so immigrants are murderers.
People are not defined by individual traits but by group ones. Individual persons are too complicated, but groups are abstract and easy to stereotype. Every human being gets reduced to some category, preferably the cunning ones I despise: the libs, white males.
I need leaders and spokesmen who will never show uncertainty. I want leaders who tell simple blame stories. It’s the bankers! It’s the immigrants! I want intellectual put-down artists who will crush the other side and let me vicariously enjoy their triumphs on YouTube.
My moral system is simple, too. Up is evil, and down is good. People above me on the status hierarchy are venal, while those of us in my group are their victims. The existence of any hierarchy itself is prima facie proof of injustice.
From the abstract vantage point of my computer screen, I see a world in which my opponents are elite oppressors and my kind are oppressed. They have their exclusive cliques, and I am disdained. And here we get to the ultimate injustice: Why are they recognized while I am not? This is the molten core from which my indignation flows. The status quo does not respect me, and therefore I despise it.
So my politics is not really about issues; it’s epic wars for recognition. I don’t deal with the complexities of economics or foreign affairs. I seize upon the minor missteps made by my opponents in order to discredit their kind. Owning the libs spares me the terrifying ambiguity of actually getting to know one.
I’ve lost faith in reason. Communication is for condemnation and arousal. Forgiveness has become foreign to me. Sometimes you have to be vicious for justice. If I afflict the comfortable, I have served justice. I don’t have to worry about comforting the afflicted. If I attack faraway wrongdoers, I don’t have to worry about tutoring a child.
And yet ... somehow it’s not working. Somehow politics doesn’t fill my soul, bring me peace or end my existential anxiety. I have helped create a harsh world in which vulnerability is impossible and without vulnerability there can be no relationship. Relationship is the thing that I long for the most and that I make impossible. I have cut myself off from the only thing that can save me.
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Android Lollipop has just been released and it seems, just like any other software that gets sent out into the world, that there are a few bugs to sort out because some the update is draining the power on some older phones.
This is according to Google’s issue tracker, which notes that the new OS might be causing faster battery depletion than it should be doing. One good example is the Nexus 5 where having the Wi-Fi active causes the phone to use up more power than it should.
Google Android Open Source Project Senior Developer Programs Engineer* Trevor Johns said this in a blog post:
We are continuing to investigate this issue.
So if you are having trouble with your newly updated Lollipop-running device that’s the problem. Either try and keep Wi-Fi switched off, or look into downgrading your OS until a fix is found.
*Try and say it five times very fast
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/77884 | October 22, 2019
It's October, which means that it is the beginning of InkTober. InkTober is a month long art challenge that allows for artist to produce creative works and improve drawing skills throughout the month of October. The challenge was created by Jake Parker and any artist is encouraged to participate and post their works online. You don’t have to be a high class artist to participate, you can just do it for fun.
I am a part of the Studio 72 Living Learning Community, which is an LLC for anyone interested in art. Studio 72 allows for open creativity for students and any art they want to produce. Here are some of the works to celebrate.
Day 1: Ring
Done by James Kiscaden
Done by Ishraqobamaniqua Quasem
Done by Courtney Bailey
Done by Diana Manu
Done by Genovi Jones
What’s great about these prompts is that it’s up to the artists interpretation of the word
given and how they want to draw it. It’s a great way to express creativity and any artist of any
skill level is encouraged to join; it's not too late! The official list is not the only one. There are
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/77935 | My local Costco started carrying commercial cookware, so now in addition to dubious non-stick frying pans by the multi-pack I can buy baking pans that are larger than my entire stove.
But those big rimmed baking sheets actually make nice work trays. I often deal with VM-filled fleece by sitting on the couch with a box and a flicker, so this is basically a much larger box. (Put a towel under it, that metal is cold!) I can also see kitchen table fiber painting happening.
This photo was thrown together for demonstration, but that indeed is some filthy Suffolk fleece that will be turned into socks:
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/78051 | Thursday, December 24, 2009
Poet's Korner: Holiday Season Edition
I bet you I’ve drunk a thousand
gallons of water in my life
Ten bucks says I’ve eaten
hundreds of pounds of food
Wager: I’ve been alive for
millions of seconds
I bet you I’m the best
wherever I’m from has to offer
I’m the toast of my
particular milieu
You wanna make this bet interesting?
Then put your fancy watch on the line
I sense hesitation but
I don’t blame you for a moment
You know I’m right plus you don’t
want to be chronologically compromised
I may be a lot of things but
I’ll never reach your rung of pragmatism
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/78072 | The Very Spring and Root
An engineer's adventures in education (and other musings).
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Students: Take Advantage of the BSO
Lesson Plan: Conservation of Energy using a Music Video
Lesson 2.2: Exploring Conservation of Energy
Unit: Work and Energy, Component 2 – Conservation of Energy
Date: January 10th, 2013
Day/Block: Day 1 – A/E/F
Time Available: A 58min / E 48min / F 65min
You will be able to design and analyze a Rube Goldberg Machine using the Law of Conservation of Energy.
Criteria for Success:
Can I design my own machine that transfers mechanical energy between objects through work?
Can I use the Law of Conservation of Energy to explain how my design transfers energy?
Handout with machine design and analysis questions.
[10 min] DoNow:
The complicated chain of events in the music video is called a “Rube Goldberg Machine”. These machines use many transfers of energy between a whole lot of objects in order to do a very simple task.
Invent your own small (2 objects) Rube Goldberg machine. How would you use one object to make another object do something else? Where is there work and energy? How does one object transfer energy to another?
[10 min] Discussion: Music Video
Show OK Go’s music video for “This Too Shall Pass”: (4 min)
Note: Watching the video was assigned as homework the previous night, along with the following guided questions: Where do you see work? Where do you see energy being transferred from one form to another? Write down at least 1 example (note the video time), and make sure to explain what object is doing work on what other object, what kind of energy is being transferred, and how you know.
Talk to a partner next to you and share 1 example of work and energy being transferred from one object to another. I will ask several students to share an observation that their partner noticed, and explain to me what object is having work done on it and what kinds of energy are involved.
Possible questions to ask:
What did you see? Be specific, tell me what happened to the object that makes you think there was work done. What kinds of energy do you think that the object has? How do you know that the object has that kind of energy?
Record student observations on the whiteboard.
[15 min] In-Depth Analysis: Tire
Show video clip of the tire section twice (7 second clip starting at 1:03). Ask students to write down exactly what they see happening to the tire. Have students share their observations, and assemble a record of the tire’s journey on the board to refer to later. (Make sure that the bucket hitting the tire is included.) Hand out the worksheet for scaffolded analysis of the tire scenario.
Refer to your handout. Take 30 seconds to answer the first question by yourself. Ask one student to share what they wrote with the class.
1. At the beginning of the scenario, does the tire already have mechanical energy? If so, what form(s) is it in, and how do you know?
Take two minutes to answer questions 2 and 3 with a partner. Ask one or two pairs to share, depending on time.
2. During the scenario, is work done on the tire by any other object? Is this work positive or negative, and how do you know?
3. What happens to the tire’s total mechanical energy when the work is done to it?
Take four minutes to answer questions 4 and 5 with a partner. Ask one or two pairs to share, depending on time.
4. Describe what happens to the tire’s GPE, KE, and total ME as it goes through the scenario.
5. What happens to the tire’s mechanical energy at the end of the scenario?
[15 min] Creative Activity: Design and Analyze
Turn over your handout. Now you have a chance to design your own Rube Goldberg machine! Draw your machine in the space provided, and use the Tire Analysis as a guide to answer the analysis questions below. The questions are due tomorrow for stamps. If you don’t finish in class, please complete the analysis questions as homework.
6. Draw your own piece of this Rube Goldberg Machine that uses 1 object. You must include at least 1 transfer of energy from one object to another.
7. What is your main object in this scenario? :
8. Describe what happens to your object’s GPE, KE, and total ME as it goes through the scenario beginning to end..
9. Where is work done on your object or by your object? How does this work change your object’s total mechanical energy?
10. Explain how your machine obeys the Law of Conservation of Energy, MEi + W = MEf.
I Cannot Bear Your Suffering”
“I Cannot Bear Your Suffering”
Malcolm Jamal King, Juliet Buesing, Janella Isaac.
Composed and recorded August 29th, 2012
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/78092 | What is EIGRP Protocol (Enhanced Interior Gateway Routing)?
EIGRP (Enhanced Interior Gateway Routing Protocol) is an improved version of the original IGRP protocol developed by Cisco Systems. Cisco-specific EIGRP routing technology combines the advantages of link-state protocols with the advantages of distance vector protocols.
EIGRP maintains the same distance vector algorithm and original IGRP matrix information; however, considerations regarding convergence time and expansion capacity have been significantly improved. EIGRP and IGRP use different matrix calculations. EIGRP multiplies the IGRP matrix by a factor of 256. This is because EIGRP uses a 32-bit metric and IGRP uses a 24-bit matrix. EIGRP information can be duplicated or divided into 256 for easy exchange with IGRP. The maximum number of skips of the IGRP is 255. The maximum number of hops in the EIGRP is 224. This is more than enough to support large networks.
EIGRP provides features such as VLSM support and route summaries not available in IGRP. In addition, it offers features in protocols such as OSPF, such as partial incremental updates and reduced convergence time. As with the IGRP protocol, it only broadcasts routing table information to neighboring routers.
EIGRP contains the following three tables:
• Neighbors Table
• Topology Table
• Routing Table
Neighbor routers are discovered through a simple Hello protocol for neighboring routers for the same physical network. Hello uses the multicast address to change greeting packets. Once neighboring routers have been discovered, it uses a reliable transport protocol to ensure that information and routing table updates are transmitted accurately and regularly. A router follows its own connected paths as well as all common routes of neighboring routers.
Based on this information, it can select the most cost-effective route to a destination efficiently and quickly and make sure that the route is not part of a routine cycle, which is chosen as the main route, called the successor. By storing the routing information of neighboring routers, the network is redesigned more quickly in the event of a connection error or other topology modification.
In this case, the routing information is moved using the transport protocol. The EIGRP transmission defines a reliable protocol for broadcasting, validating, and requesting to ensure that reception and routing information is properly distributed to all neighboring routers.
When changes occur in topologies, it uses DUAL (common update algorithm) to provide fast convergence between routers and distributes its routing tables to neighboring routers in alternative ways.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/78098 | Keyword Phrase: "Network"
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/78112 | While Away
Wednesday, January 15, 2014
When the satellite signal berserks, the conversations
Begin. Today’s devotional: Windex scattershot, ecstatic
Gasp of the punctured cat food tin. It seems everything
Within earshot has something to say. The linoleum unpeels
Itself, an obscene gesture clearly meant for the wood floor
Gloating in the hallway. The hallway, a throat choked with
Orchid & its own wool tongue. The orange peels & cayenne
Drop a dime on the cat. The pink of the disposable razor ignites
An unwinnable debate with the pangs of pocketchange
Loose in the dryer. The shower curtain remembers
Then forgets to hide the clawfeet, then chucks its rings
Into the tub like breadcrumbs, like laughter.
Broil is the oven’s only talent. It’s silk when I slip
My hands into that heat, like testing a stocking for holes.
Well what do you expect when you give a house a name?
Let’s review: first, I am redundant with bleach. Next,
The gutters are drunk again. Finally, even the wildlife
Know better than to put a lock on something
Made of glass. When your kiss turns
Lemon-fresh, I will know to wipe you clean.
Wednesday, January 15, 2014 |
global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/78168 | I’m currently researching the myriad ways to analyse social media activity and my God, there are a lot.
Throughout my merry investigations I’ve read quite a lot of articles debating the use of Klout and Peer Index scores as measurement, heard tell of job adverts listing “raising our Klout” as part of the job description and been flabbergasted to learn that there was a party to which you can only be invited if you have a good enough Klout score!
Really, what is the world coming to? I have a vision of a gutter full of modern day Cinderellas outside a club, all frantically tweeting via their iPhones, imploring their fairy godmothers to turn their tatty, uninfluential tweets into shiny powerful beacons of influence through the magic of multiple retweets and link clicks.
I'll admit I find some of the breakdowns on Klout really quite useful and interesting – seeing who you influence for example, and monitoring the growth of the individual metrics such as “amplification” can help you see if your reach is expanding. However, placing a single score value on all your activity seems reductive, and in my mind your own business goals of conversions, web visits, event attendance, whatever, should dictate your metrics.
During advertising campaigns via TV, print, radio, etc, no one attempts to give a company one encompassing score of how influential their advertising is, so why do it with online activity?
In my opinion, Klout and Peer Index et al have invented a problem and given it a (sometimes faulty) solution.
The party policy highlights the inflated sense of self-importance these scores can create. Sure, influential bloggers can be great connections for PR purposes, but in terms of business, having a high score doesn't automatically translate into sales. If all the Cinderellas in the gutter decided they didn’t care about Klout scores and gave each other their Twitter handles and Linkedin URLs think of the party they could have.
So what’s your take? Do you use these scores as goals or measures, or for benchmarking against competitors? Do they add any value to your strategy?
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/78247 | The Little Red Chairs by Edna O’Brien
The cover to The Little Red Chairs by Edna O’BrienBoston. Little, Brown. 2016. 320 pages.
What if?
What if Radovan Karadžić—the mastermind of the infamous forty-four-month Siege of Sarajevo in which 11,541 Sarajevans perished—what if Karadžić did not in the war’s aftermath go into hiding for a decade in Serbia, as he is thought to have done?
Also, what if he did not there grow a white beard and play the role of “new age” physician, specializing in the treatment of sexual disorders, as reported? What if he was not arrested in Belgrade, as, indeed, he was?
What if, instead, he went to Ireland? Then what?
Celebrated Irish writer Edna O’Brien tells us in her latest, oddest, and yet strangely compelling novel.
Her story starts in a “freezing, backwater” Irish village, whose settled, edge-of-modernity rhythms are suddenly disrupted by the arrival of a mysterious, white-bearded stranger. Dressed in black, he looks like a holy man. He talks poetry, talks mysticism, talks medicine, and offers to the publican whom he initially meets a business card that reads Healer and Sex Therapist
He calls himself Dr. Vladimir Dragan, and, when first asked, he says he’s from Montenegro. However, later, when pressed by a garda (policeman), he says he was born in Alexandria, and his name is common in Transylvania. “Is it related to Dracula?” the garda asks.
The novel’s other main character is Fidelma McBride, the attractive, forty-year-old wife of a draper. Her life, like her village, is in a maddening stasis at the time of the doctor’s arrival. Not long ago, her high-end, high-fashion boutique was shuttered. She had incurred debts, which angered and overwhelmed her sixty-year-old husband. The two are childless, and that’s the biggest emptiness of all in Fidelma’s life.
Before long, of course, Fidelma is impregnated by the doctor—in the oldest of old-fashioned ways. And, then, just after that, he is arrested by international police and uncovered for the demon he is—the fugitive mastermind of the Siege of Sarajevo, the man known worldwide as the Beast of Bosnia (historically, Karadžić).
That’s just the beginning of O’Brien’s alternative history, a story that blends conventional history with romance and homage to Bram Stoker. Yes, let’s not forget that Dracula’s author was an Irishman, as it will be helpful in understanding O’Brien’s strange, compelling, what if? of a novel.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/78293 | State and federal laws govern billboards and other types of advertising along major highways. Regulations differ from state to state, but all states are required to have and enforce a system of advertising control regulations. Businesses that violate these laws -- knowingly or not -- can face hefty fines.
Federal Advertising Control
State advertising control laws are mandated by the federal government under the authority of the Highway Beautification Act of 1965. This act requires all states to have a system of outdoor advertising control, but 23 states also participate in the additional requirements of the Federal Aid Highway Act of 1958 and receive bonus highway funds for doing so. Both systems of advertising control establish a number of requirements for what types of signs can be placed along interstates and primary highways, the size of permitted signs and other limits.
State Advertising Control
Before putting up a billboard or a sign along a highway, a business owner must contact her state's Department of Transportation to find out the rules for her state and her particular business. For instance, the Illinois Department of Transportation requires a permit for any sign visible from an interstate highway even if the sign is not erected along the highway. In states that only regulate signs within 660 feet of the interstate, advertisers may put up huge signs just beyond that point that are visible from the interstate.
State and federal laws regulate many details of outdoor advertising, and a business owner who fails to research the regulations could be in violation without realizing it. For example, a sign on the property of the business owner might require a permit, but a sign off the property would also need to meet size, lighting and location requirements. The U.S. Department of Transportation requires state governments to look for signs in violation of the rules and remove them.
Business owners can contact their state Department of Transportation for information about how to obtain a permit and what it costs. For example, Washington state requires a $300 fee to apply for a commercial billboard permit as of this publication date, but it offers five-year permits to advertise agricultural products, such as corn or apples, along state highways for $50. Illinois requires no permit for signs on the property of the business owner unless the sign can be seen from the highway.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/78346 | Amoebophrya grassei
Super Group:
Cachon 1964
Diagnosis_Genus: Amoebophrya Koeppen 1984. Intracellular parasites. Smallest trophonts observed have 3 µm long, a gymnodiniales form, with a large hypocone and a small rudimentary epicone. The hypocone broadens at its base and forms a cup-shaped circumvallation, turning in spiral. The hypocone starts to cover the epicone (in other word, the epicone becomes progressively invaginated into the hypocone, forming a cavity, the mastigocoel, which is a characteristic of the genus Amoebophrya. This mastigocoel remains open by a small aperture at the apex of the trophont. Sporogenesis starts rapidly during this transformation. The inner surface of the mastigocoel is furnished with helically coiled ridges as a result of a continuous lengthening of the previous dinospore girdle during the trophic growth. Along these ridges countless flagella are inserted. Flagella of future dinospores (the free-living stage of the parasite) are produced inside the mastigocoel. At the end of the intracellular maturation, flagella started to beat, and what was the epicone at the origin, directed through the aperture of the mastigocoel, moved forward. This evagination make the flagella outside the structure, which is now called the vermiform. This action breacks out the host membrane, releasing the vermiform outside. This vermiform is closed forward (at the epicone side), but open in the back. When release, this part forms a large digestive vacuole that contains what remains from the host. This vermiform considerably strechs out with time. The spore chain forming the vermiform rapidly separates to produce spores (gymnodinial shape), generally of two different sizes (macrospores and microspores). These spores have a large epicone and a reduced hypocone (the reverse of what is observed during the first stage of the trophont).
Diagnosis_species: Amoebophrya grassei Cachon 1964. Hyperparasite infecting Oodinium poucheti (only young individuals, less than 20 µm). Multiple infections are often observed, sometime with more than 12 trophonts per host, with different sizes. Only 1-3 trophonts will end their intracellular maturation. These parasites are cytoplasmic, they never penetrate into the nucleus. Nucleus are composed of 6 v-shaped chromosomes visible during the prophase and only at the end of the sporogenesis. When release, the vermiform produces a large digestive vacuole that contains what remains from the Oodinium host: pedoncule, nucleus, other trophonts of Amoebophrya in case of multiple infections. Other engulfed trophonts are generally digested. Some of them, however, may finalize their development and during their own evagination will include the first mature parasite. Both macrospores (5-6 µm long) and microspores (3.5 µm long) are produced. One trophont produces one spore type only.
Body_spores: 5-6 µm (macrospores)
Body_spores: 3-5 µm (microspores)
Type species
The type species (lectotype) for this genus is Amoebophrya acanthometrae Borgert 1897.
Type illustration / Type locality / Type specimen
Type_locality: Alger bay, Algérie.
Type_Host: Oodinium poucheti
Substrate_spores: planktonic
Substrate_trophont: endozoic
Sociability_spores: solitary
Sociability_trophont: solitary
Sociability_trophont: colonial
Salinity: marine
Salinity: variable (estuary)
pH: neutral
Feeding: hyperparasitism (by phagotrophy)
Life cycle
Phases_alternance: haplontic
Generation: <1 month
Reproduction_mode: asexual
Symbiont: horizontal_active-penetration
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/78393 | Monday, May 20, 2019
New Outside Column, Plus Bike Tech Analysis!
I've got a new Outside column published on the World Wide Internet and it's about how just because you don't see something that doesn't mean it's not happening (and yes, that's a double-negative, or maybe even a triple negative):
And no, I don't know why the image they used is an ebike in the desert, so don't ask.
Moving on, this past Friday I engaged in BIKE TEST SCIENCE! First of all, after a solid couple weeks of riding my new-to-me titanium bike on an almost-daily basis, on Friday I switched to my almost-brand-new plastic Fred Sled and was thus able to make a back-to-back comparison:
Before I go any further, I do realize this isn't really science, because:
1) I didn't use any deflection-measuring apparatus (although arguably my highly calibrated perineum might qualify);
B) Both bikes have different wheels and parts, in that the titanium bike features sort of a "greatest hits" of early 21st Century Fredness, whereas the plastic bike is all OEM aluminum and crabon save for the Dura Ace group.
Nevertheless, both bikes have tires of similar width, and both tires just happen to be from Specialized, though the plastic bike has Turbo something-or-other and the titanium bike has Roubaix something-or-other. And, aesthetic considerations aside, the two bikes are actually pretty similar in terms of size and geometry.
Anyway, after comparing both bicycles back-to-back, I have drawn the following highly scientific conclusion:
The titanium bike definitely rides better.
That doesn't mean the plastic bike rides poorly; in fact quite the opposite. It's a light, smooth, and great-handling bike, and I feel super-duper fast on it, even though I'm slow as a leaky GU packet on a cold day. The titanium bike however is quite noticeably smoother on rough pavement, of which there is a lot around here. So while the plastic bike is absolutely ideal for riding fast around the park in circles (which is precisely what I got it for), when it comes to choosing a bike for a long, meandering ride the titanium bike is a total no-brainer. (I mean the titanium bike would also be great for riding around the park in circles I'm sure, but I'd need to change the cassette and chainrings for that at the very least, and I'd prefer not to do that since I'm enjoying the low gearing that's on there now, plus from what I can tell the new Campagnolo chainrings are both expensive and hard to find.)
But again, it's always possible that the parts are helping to inform this impression to some degree, and to know for sure I'd have to equip both frames with exactly the same parts, which I'll never, ever bother to do.
And while I was deep in the throes of science, I also briefly switched wheels on the titanium bike:
This I did for three (3) reasons:
1) I'd been hearing a troublesome noise, and I wanted to see if was coming from the wheels (it looks like it was, and so far ditching the dainty Mavic skewers for some proper ones seems to have done the trick);
B) I wanted to see if Campagnolo 10 speed will indeed shift a 10-speed Shimano cassette (It shifted with about 90% accuracy without my making any adjustments, so I imagine with a couple turns of the barrel adjuster it would work fine);
III) I wanted to see if the titanium bike had room for 28mm tires, which indeed it does:
I'd been worried about the rear brake as the spring protrudes beneath the caliper arms, but in practice it appears that won't be a problem. This made me happy, because it means this 18 year-old titanium bike just happens to be pretty much exactly what I'd want if I were ordering a custom road frame, in that it has a threaded bottom bracket, a standard head tube, and adequate tire clearances. (I mean sure, maybe I'd consider disc brakes since it's all going that way anyway, but in the meantime I'm more than happy with my primitive rime breaks.)
Then over the weekend I confirmed my test results by racing the plastic bike on Saturday and enjoying a peaceful morning ride on Sunday:
Well, peaceful apart from the goose attack. See, all the mother geese were out with their goslings:
And at one point, on a narrow section of path where I had no choice but to pass a family of them somewhat closely, an enraged anatid came at me, hissing like a puncture. Fortunately it didn't make contact, but as I closed my eyes and ducked this was all I could see in my mind:
The horror, oh the horror.
skydave said...
Serial Retrogrouch said...
...the future is PLASTIC!
Anonymous said...
Some guy from upstate said...
No worries, having thoughtfully removed your pie-plates, I'm certain you were safe from goose attack.
Farmer's Daughter was fabulous again, thanks for asking. There was a couple (I don't know if they were a "couple", it was a man and woman with similar kit and matching bikes) up from "the city" with some really elegant artisanlly-lugged cantilever-braked bikes, which remained oddly clean due to studious avoidance of all the muddy off-road sections. The bikes were beautiful, but I'm not sure the point of attending an event like this with a bicycle you don't want to get dirty.
Bender said...
why the image they used is an ebike in the desert?
mikeweb said...
I began to embark on a ride Sunday a.m. along just about that same route as yours, but alas, the front derailleur on my early-90s vintage Paramount refused to shift to the small ring when I reached the ascent of Riverdale ave. shortly after 230th St. Upon inspection, one of the pivot pins was... missing. Ugh.
Anyway, I did the ride later on my plastic fred-sled.
Riding south on the old Putnam trail through Van Cortland I came to the conclusion that the NYC parks dept. really needs to apply a bit of TLC to it. Not necessarily paving it, but removal of the old railroad ties then grading it and applying some small gravel would do the trick.
dancesonpedals said...
What is it with you and noises in the bike? Did it ever occur to you that the bike is fine, but your ears are ringing? Before you try one more home remedy for the creaking frame, please go to an audiologist and get this checked out. it's probably all that rock and roll you listened to as a kid.
Pist Off said...
Perineum-based testing and measurement? Oh, you mean scranalysis.
BikeSnobNYC said...
I actually do have pretty bad tinnitus, probably for exactly the reason you posit, but if anything that should drown out the noise and not the other way around.
They need to just pave it. I'd love a more groomed unpaved surface, but I imagine it wouldn't be ADA compliant. Plus the entire South/North County is paved so it makes sense to have a paved connector.
--Tan Tenovo
Coincidence? I think not said...
" . . .even though I'm slow as a leaky GU packet on a cold day."
You must have seen ME out riding this weekend - I am that description.
Dooth said...
I have a Cinelli titanium stem in my spare parts bin, if you’re double titanium a metallic double negative?
Rick said...
You "duck"ed when a goose attacked? After that, did you run around a circle of your friends?
Anonymous said...
Yeah what he said
Anonymous said...
Have fun with this!
BikeSnobNYC said...
Anonymous 2:59pm,
I did, in 2016:
--Tan Tenovo
Anonymous said...
With the Renovo being shipped out, you need a new nickname. Here are a few suggestions
- Ti Tanium
- Ti Lightspeed
- Ti L. Speed
- Tuscany Ti
- M. Tipollini
- Tiscranusaurus Hex
ktache said...
Is it wrong to like the look of the late 80s early 90s Bianchi MTB.
Anonymous said...
Congrats on getting "rats fucking" into a major outdoor recreation magazine!
huskerdont said...
In my continual back-and-forth undecidednessfullishness, this week I've come to the temporary permanent conclusion that I will not get a titanium bike ... because I don't want one. But I've found my plastic bike to be a little smoother than the steel bikes on bumps unless I take about 10% out of the air out of the tires from my regular overpressurizing. With a little less pressure, they're about the same.
Sunday I got the custom-steel-that-shall-not-be-ridden-in-the-rain out (the yellow one with brazes so fine that bees try to mate with it) and fixed the front shifting problem by replacing the brake cable. Then I went for a hill ride without first checking the rear shifting. Because I'm smart. The 11-speed had turned into a 9-speed, which I discovered on the first steep hill. The barrel adjuster was all the way out, so I decided to ride it out and fix it on the stand rather than fiddling with it. I continue to find new ways to pull defeat out of the jaws of victory.
Rime breaks over dicks, or dicks over rimes? I time and place for everything.
der blaue Reiter said...
Dude, the illustration photo Outside chose is obviously a biblical reference: the e-bike is wandering in the desert, waiting for the messiah to liberate it from the mayor’s oppressive ban... I’ll grant you it was a more metaphorical choice than i would have expected.
PS, still think the world could use your take on the new pool noodle “hack”.
James Thurber said...
I've got two sons (that I know about). One swears by titanium, the other . . . carbon. They claim that their bikes are THE best and the other guy's? Total garbage.
I'm retired, a former public school teacher, so it's really a question of money. I ride steel. Water can be a problem, sweat even more so. But this "rapidly turning orange" rusty hulk has taken to Banff, up and down the Icefield Parkway, a lengthy tour of the Pacific Coast, and on several races across Oregon. So it works.
But assuming I come into some money would you suggest Ti for a future ride? Titanium is rapidly coming down in price. Carbon? Cheap? Sure, if it's built in China and before the TTC hits (TTC = Trump Tariff Crap) Thanks for listening. PS: That is my real name, not a nom de plume (as it were).
Chazu said...
Life beyond my windshield?
You're referring to the universe within my television/phone/laptop/tablet, right?
Well, I have that covered, because I watch "my shows" while driving. So, I'm clearly a fully engaged member of society. Ain't no tasking like multitasking, baby!
Anonymous said...
Good luck with the sock puppets.
STG said...
@Snob you may want to replace the return spring on your record rear brake. That spring eventually fails and when it does, it can rip rip the tire open. Seen it a couple times, might as well be proactive.
huskerdont said...
Surprised any pizza delivered by eBike would be hot enough to burn your mouth.
For Mr. Thurber, apparently the royalties from "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty" etc. were not enough to afford crabon or Ti.
skydave said...
Looking at your segment PR's, one would have to conclude that the titanium bike is actually faster than the plastic!
Apple Watch isn't very Fredly, you'll have to get a Garmin 1030 or whatever the latest computer is.
Beck the biker said...
"Pocketa pocketa pocketa." Rare to find to opportunity to drop that reference these days, thanks huskerdont. My random thoughts on the dual Outside/BSNYC posts... The war on bikes has never stopped, there's backlash all around, while America wallows in congestion and certaintity that the bike lanes are what's causing all the hassle with their commutes....Titaninum omdirectionally compliant..... Carbon is like aluminum's snobby frat boy cousin.....don't sweat the unscientific comparisions, which is is kind of what makes BQ's reviews so rollicking and readable... I have a strict rule against purchasing bikes that doesn't have threaded bottom brackets, standard head tubes, and adequate tire clearances....I wonder, given the trend toward bigger tires on road bikes, when higher end gruppos start coming with LR brakes and standard reach get relegated like single pivots to the dust bins of history. "Pocketa pocketa pocketa."
Anonymous said...
I work as a mechanic (the greenest and slowest one) in arguably one of the better shops in my area. I ride several bikes per month of this make with the same components and similar tires as my Bianchi Vigorelli (steel w/ carbon fork). All of them have carbon forks, none of them are lighter, some are significantly heavier, but they all damp high frequency vibration better than my bike, not that I'm hung up on that.
Die free said...
Clearly the goose didn't think you were maintaining appropriate passing distances.
Come to think of it I respond similarly to close automobile encounters. You are lucky the goose was in a forgiving mood and just reminding you to not be like an arsehole driver.
JLRB said...
Duck, Duck, Scranus
Anonymous said...
The argument to Bike in New York (or anywhere they are deemed a Nuisance)is that it's a new paradigm. When Trolley and trains first appeared it was assumed that if people went faster than 16-18MPH they would pass out and crash. When cars first appeared they were afraid they would Spook the horses (and maybe they did, but I think horses got used to them)
We shouldn't just have a knee jerk reaction to Scooters, Share Bikes or E-bikes, we should just sit back and see how things develop. When a critical mass is achieved the way forward will be clear and a consensus more easily reached.
AND maybe E-bikes are riding on the sidewalks, because the streets are overcrowded with cars and unsafe!!! Ya think????? masmojo |
global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/78406 | Saturday, May 31, 2008
Working Toward the Center
The plaques are coming along on this; the light pink and light blue for the flower outlines in the dense ones are done. It seems the middle plaques, with the least stitching to do, are the ones falling behind. I've done some work since this picture was taken, but not much. For some reason, I haven't really stitched this week.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/78407 | 5 unheard rules about traveling in Asia
5 unheard rules about traveling in Asia 1
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Every country has its unique set of cultural DOs and DON’Ts. As a traveler, you might be able to bypass some of these cultural differences as long as you look different, dress differently, or are obviously a tourist from the way you exude that extra excitement in every little thing that seems extremely normal to the locals. However, things might get a little tricky when you can pass off as a local in whichever place you’re visiting. Locals come up to you rolling a chain of foreign language off their tongues and your one-word reply “Sorry?” could set the conversation back into a series of sign and body language, carefully contorted and interjected with awkward smiles to express whatever both parties want to convey. Whether you fall into category A’s “I’m obviously a tourist” or category B’s “I look local but am actually a tourist”, the following tips could help you to avoid some of the cultural pitfalls or gain some brownie points in your quest to experience a foreign country like a local.
1. No tipping in Japan
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While you might come from a culture that leaves you feeling uneasy if you exit a restaurant without tipping, Japan has no tipping culture. Whether you’re in a taxi, restaurant or any other service-providing entity, tipping is not required. In fact, it is considered rude to tip – everything that is required has already been included in the price tag. If you do want to appreciate and show your gratitude for the good service rendered, consider buying the service staff a drink instead!
SEE ALSO: 7 Best Travel Apps for Your New Apple Watch
PS. If you’re only interested in the right way to eat sushi, check out this video by Chef Yasuda.
2. No sticking your chopsticks into rice in China
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As depicted in the picture above, the proper way to put down your chopsticks is to lay it atop your bowl, both in China and in Chinese restaurants anywhere in the world. Sticking it vertically upright into your rice or noodles is considered extremely rude because it is associated with funerals. People generally stick chopsticks into uncooked rice (or joss sticks in the sand) in its vertically upright position at their loved one’s tomb so that they can feed them in their afterlife as spirits.
Read more: Ten Things Never to Do in China
3. No raising of feet in Thailand
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When it comes to bodily conduct, it is important to note that you shouldn’t touch someone else’s head nor raise your feet up to point to others, especially towards people older than you. These are taboos based on Buddhist beliefs, which is the religion followed by most Thai people. The reason for this is because the head is considered to be the most sacred part of one’s body, while the feet is deemed the lowliest, which can be insulting when you point them to other people.
Read more: 10 Thai Customs To Know Before Visiting Thailand
4. Time is extremely stretchable in India
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Yes, there is such a thing as Indian Standard Time. 15 minutes could well become 2 hours later. While its congested traffic could be a reason for this, it is more likely to be a culture that has been deeply ingrained in the Indian society. So just keep your time expectations really low!
SEE ALSO: This Week on Explore: A Hot Air Balloon and a Fish, Amongst Other Things
Read more: 8 India Essentials to Know Before You Go
5. No to many things in Singapore
Finally, the last one on this list is especially worth mentioning. Rules are almost synonymous with Singapore, which perhaps have helped to govern its peace and prosperity. Singapore has also been popularly known as a fine city. Fine in many ways and also because you could be fine for doing almost anything. For instance, fines (hefty fines, to be precise) can be imposed for the following and thus should be avoided at all costs – littering, eating on the subway, importing or selling chewing gum, spitting, jaywalking, smoking under a sheltered area, and the list goes on. And while there are many no-nos in Singapore, there are also various cultural “yes, you may”s, which may come across as absurd. One of them is how it is absolutely acceptable to reserve a table at a food centre using just a packet of tissue. Definitely an interesting country to be traveling to!
Read more: How To Travel In Singapore Without Getting Caned (Yes, such articles about Singapore exist)
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/78415 | Thursday, March 27, 2014
Legal Documents that Promise Too Much
I wrote in an earlier post about the fact that most estate planning trusts are simply unable to deal with the wide variety of ways in which incapacity —usually dementia of one sort or another—shows its ugly face. Despite the best efforts of trust designers, families still end up asking a court to intervene, and when that happens the trust can make solutions harder rather than easier. I think that we elder law lawyers are asking our documents to do too much.
I have written before about the role of legal forms in the practice of law and where lawyers get their forms. I completely rewrote my forms a couple of years ago to shorten and simplify them. I started doing it because a client asked me to simplify a long trust (a trust from a national provider of forms). As I went about taking out clauses that I had never seen anybody care about, I realized that my own forms were also bloated with clauses that had found their way into trusts decades ago and had simply been copied from one trust to another with no regard to whether they served any real purpose.
In the process of shortening and simplifying my estate planning forms—and translating them from legalese into plain human English at the same—I discovered that not only were my forms bloated as a matter of prose style, but most of the forms I use substantively attempted to do too much.
A will identifies your heirs (the people who would get your money if you had no will) and then tells the court who you want to get your stuff. The will may also tell the court who gets your money if one of the persons mentioned in your will dies before you do. I have had clients get seriously carried away with this question of out-of-order deaths, asking me what would happen if they were at a family reunion and all their relatives were killed by a meteor crashing into earth. I can answer that question, but I really don't want to put the answer in a will.
Life is unpredictable. The math of large numbers says we should treat highly improbable events as impossible. The same math says that when the numbers are large enough, the highly improbable event is also inevitable. Thus, the chances of winning the Powerball lottery are so small that it is reasonable for any person to consider it impossible. Nevertheless, when enough people play, it is inevitable that someone will eventually win.
Time spent preparing for low probability events takes time away from preparing for more probable dangers. Legal documents that attempt to anticipate all possibilities, I believe, are worse for a client than those that limit their scope to the most common situations. The complex language and legal structures built into estate plans designed to meet every contingency become less effective because of the complexity. An estate plan that anticipated every possible situation that life could throw at a person would be thousands of pages long. It would be unreadable, ignored, and worse than no estate plan at all.
The situation is akin to the parent who keeps his child in doors in front of the television all the time to avoid the risk of abduction by kidnappers—a low probability event—and as a consequent risks obesity and poor health—a fairly common risk.
I am moving toward an approach in which legal documents should be humble. They should acknowledge that they cannot anticipate every eventuality—life being simply too unpredictable—and rather than trying to take courts out of the plan, attempt to embrace what the court system offers.
Estate planners write trusts that anticipate capacity and plan for it. Incapacity, however, comes in too many ways and forms. I suggest that we trust writers continue to plan for the common case, but rather than attempting to make a trust that will never end up in court, we write our trusts to embrace the court system when unanticipated situations arise. Rather than trying to avoid conservatorships at all costs, the trusts could admit that some times they cannot be avoided and allow for the management of trust assets by a conservator during the lifetime of the incapacitated elder.
Similarly, I think people writing wills ought to quit tax planning for people who don't currently have enough wealth to pay estate taxes, quit writing trusts for minors who are unlikely to ever receive anything, and rely more on the law of intestacy. Planning for events that have a low likelihood is not harmless. It complicates and weighs down the plan, making it worse than it otherwise would have been.
It is time, I think for those of us who do this sort of thing to take a course in humility and write short, plain English documents that do a couple things well rather than everything badly.
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Musically, I’ve been confounded by the need to separate sound art and pop music. One has been deemed
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In first considering how to bring music into the gallery, I settled on time as a conceptual framework for
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/78470 | Tuesday, February 10, 2009
Greetings friends and neighbors. After yesterday's post I have my very first lackey. In honor of being the first, she gets prizes. (AHA, had you known that, you might have voted sooner. But those of you who did not, do not despair. I may be feeling magnanimous later too. You never know. The whole Overlord thing has gone to my head, making me fickle.)
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Cathy and I are both going to the RT convention in Orlando where there will be much merriment. Is anyone else going?
I'm busy writing away. So is Cathy. Books will be produced. Deadlines will (hopefully) be met. RAWR.
Lucky the Wonder Dog has a new "No Pull" harness. AND IT WORKS!!!! For those of you who do not know about Lucky the Wonder Dog, this is an issue. She is a Catahoula Leopard Hound cross with something a little bit bulkier, so that she is large, strong, and a handful. (She is also very protective of me, which is a good thing. (And if you want to see a photo of my baby girl, you can go to my myspace page here myspace.com/ctadams and look in the pictures.) Anyway, I got it AND IT WORKS!!! WOOT! (Have I mentioned how much I like this?)
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Verse (20:113), Word 5 - Quranic Grammar
The fifth word of verse (20:113) is divided into 3 morphological segments. A conjunction, verb and subject pronoun. The prefixed conjunction wa is usually translated as "and". The form II perfect verb (فعل ماض) is first person plural. The verb's triliteral root is ṣād rā fā (ص ر ف). The suffix (نا) is an attached subject pronoun.
Chapter (20) sūrat ṭā hā
and We have explained
CONJ – prefixed conjunction wa (and)
V – 1st person plural (form II) perfect verb
PRON – subject pronoun
الواو عاطفة
فعل ماض و«نا» ضمير متصل في محل رفع فاعل
Verse (20:113)
The analysis above refers to the 113th verse of chapter 20 (sūrat ṭā hā):
Sahih International: And thus We have sent it down as an Arabic Qur'an and have diversified therein the warnings that perhaps they will avoid [sin] or it would cause them remembrance.
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The DCC Aeneid Vocabulary List is based on Henry S. Frieze, Vergil’s Aeneid Books I-XII, with an Introduction, Notes, and Vocabulary, revised by Walter Dennison (New York: American Book Co., 1902). The frequency data derives from a human inspection and analysis of every word in the Aeneid (Perret's text) carried out by teams at the Laboratoire d'Analyse Statistique des Langues Anciennes (LASLA) at the Université de Liège. The Frieze-Dennison lexicon was revised and combined with the LASLA frequency data in 2014 at Dickinson College. Lara Frymark edited the OCR of Frieze-Dennison using ABBYY Finereader, and created a spreadsheet in Excel. Tyler Denton created a preliminary match between Frieze's headwords and those of LASLA. The interface was built in Drupal by Ryan Burke. Christopher Francese edited the whole, is responsible for remaining errors, and would appreciate being notified of such at Support for the revision and digitization was provided by the Roberts Fund for Classical Studies at Dickinson, and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, through a grant for digital humanities at Dickinson College. The content is available for download and reuse under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike license (CC-BY-SA 4.0).portrait of Henry Frieze
Several changes were made in Frieze's headwords and definitions:
• In many cases definitions in Frieze-Dennison had to be disaggregated to conform to the headwords used by LASLA, as recorded in Joseph Denooz, Nouveau lexique fréquentiel de latin. Alpha-Omega. Reihe A Bd 258. Hildesheim/Zürich/New York: Georg Olms Verlag, 2010 (BMCR review). (The 1981 version, the Dictionnaire fréquentiel, is available online and has the same lemmatizations.) The LASLA headwords are almost invariably more specific that Frieze’s. For example, Frieze's single entry under laevus -a -um embraces five separate LASLA headwords: laeva (adv.); laeva, -ae, f. (sc. manus); laeva, -ōrum, n.; laevum (adv.); and laevus, -a, -um. Each of these was counted separately by LASLA, and we have five separate headwords with Frize's (disaggregated) definitions and LASLA's figures.
• We removed some of Frieze’s headwords that do not actually occur in the Aeneid (trānsabeō, superimpōnō, niteō, nonne, hedera, quidam, impendeō). The issue here was sometimes textual, sometimes to do with lemmatization. niteō, for example, is used in the Aeneid only as the participial adjective nitēns, which is lemmatized separately by LASLA.
• We removed some overly literal first definitions given by Frieze for the sake of etymology, but which do not actually occur in the Aeneid (for example, agnoscō, “to know a second time or again”; exōrdior, “to stretch the warp for weaving”; Lyaeus, “one who sets free.”)
• We changed the punctuation in references from commas to the more modern period: 5, 345 became 5.345. All citations refer to Books and lines of the Aeneid.
• The English was occasionally modernized, for example, “am, art, is, are vexed,” became “I am, you are vexed.”
• Occasionally the language of the definitions was clarified, based on consultation of the passages in question. For example, “to season (others, harden in the smoke), 11.553,” became “to temper (a spear) in fire, 11.553.”
• Grammatical terminology was put into parentheses to distinguish it clearly from translations. For example, “In perf. and cognate tenses, know, knew, etc., 4.423, et al.,” became “(in perf. and cognate tenses), know, knew, etc., 4.423, et al.”
• Etymological information was put at the end of entries instead of the beginning.
The resulting data was used by Bret Mulligan and collaborators at Haverford College in The Bridge, an application that allows users to create custom vocabulary lists, for example, for a range of lines in the Aeneid, including or excluding core vocabulary, or vocabulary previously learned from various introductory Latin textbooks. I would like to express my heartfelt thanks to LASLA, Lara Frymark, Bret Mulligan, and all those who helped with this project. It would not have been possible without the great dedication and scholarly acumen of Henry Simmons Frieze (1817-1889), whose work I have found on close inspection to be worthy of the highest respect. The obituary written by M.L. D'Ooge and published in The Classical Review 4.3 (Mar., 1890), pp. 131-132, is a fitting tribute.
--Chris Francese, Sept. 16, 2014.
Image: Henry Simmons Frieze (University of Michigan Faculty History Project) |
global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/78547 | BMW 3 series E30
Since 1983-1994 of release
Repair and car operation
- 1. The maintenance instruction
1.1.2. Overall dimensions
1.1.3. A place of the driver
1.1.4. The panel of devices
1.1.5. Keys for the car equipped with an immobilizer
1.1.6. Стеклоподъемники
1.1.7. Safety pillows
1.1.8. The onboard computer
1.1.9. Indexes
1.1.10. The voltmeter
1.1.11. A tachometre
1.1.12. The counter of the total passed way
1.1.13. A sound signal
1.1.14. 3-step automatic transmission
1.1.15. 4-step automatic transmission
1.1.16. A mechanical transmission
1.1.17. A manual brake
1.1.18. The period обкатки the car
1.1.19. Fuel
1.1.20. Threefold каталитический neutralizer
1.1.21. Engine oil
1.1.22. Brakes
1.1.23. Rules of placing of cargo in a luggage carrier
1.1.24. Start-up of the engine and driving
1.1.25. Driving receptions
1.1.26. Trailer towage
1.1.27. Actions at refusal of start-up of the engine
1.1.28. An order of start from the additional battery
1.1.29. If the engine has decayed during movement
1.1.30. Actions at an engine overheat
1.1.31. Actions at a wheel puncture
1.1.32. Towing rules
1.1.33. Pressure check in tyres
1.1.34. Check of a condition and replacement of tyres
1.1.35. Shift of wheels
1.1.36. Installation of winter tyres and chains
1.1.37. Check of an external condition of the battery
1.1.38. Battery gymnastics
1.1.39. Specifications
+ 2. Maintenance service
+ 3. The engine
+ 4. Cooling system
+ 5. Heating and ventilation
+ 6. Fuel system
+ 7. An exhaust system
+ 8. Transmissions
+ 9. Coupling
+ 10. Brake system
+ 11. A running gear
+ 12. A body
+ 13. An electric equipment
+ 14. A good advice
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1.1.22. Brakes
Brake system with the main cylinder тандемного type
The car is equipped by two-planimetric hydraulic system of brakes with the main cylinder тандемного type. At refusal of one contour braking is carried out by means of other contour, but the way of braking thus increases and the effort which is necessary for putting to a brake pedal increases. The control lamp of refusal of brakes Besides, lights up.
Driving with one serviceable contour is forbidden. Immediately repair the refused hydrodrive.
The vacuum amplifier of brakes
It is intended for increase of effort to the piston of the main cylinder at the expense of depression created by the engine. If at driving the engine decays, brakes work from pressing a pedal. In the amplifier the vacuum which can suffice on 1–2 braking, but no more remains.
The prevention
It is forbidden to press constantly a brake pedal at the decayed engine. By each pressing the depression reserve decreases.
Even at a total disappearance of depression of a brake keep working capacity, but the effort which is necessary for putting to a pedal thus increases and the brake way increases.
Antiblocking system (together with a control lamp)
The antiblocking system is intended for растормаживания wheels at sharp braking or at braking on a slippery road covering, raising controllability the car in so critical situation.
The system starts to work at achievement of speed of the car of 10 km/hour. At speed less than 5 km/hour the antiblocking system ceases to operate.
At once after engine start-up, or after a start of motion, from a motor compartment clicks which mean the beginning of a mode of self-examination of antiblocking system reach, but do not specify in malfunction.
At work of antiblocking system pulsations of a pedal of a brake can be felt and be listened noise. It is necessary to keep in this situation only a pedal, applying a little большее effort. It is forbidden to release and press a brake pedal. Pulsations of a pedal of a brake from antiblocking system can specify in a dangerous condition of a road covering. In spite of the fact that according to the destination the antiblocking system raises controllability the car, all the same it is necessary to be careful at movement so the overall performance of the given system depends on variety of objective factors.
Efficiency of braking depends on coupling of tyres with a road covering.
At turn fulfilment at great speed, or sharp maneuver, the driver not always can manage to drive on certain road coverings, even at serviceable antiblocking system.
Avoid movement with a great speed on wet road. The antiblocking system cannot eliminate sliding on a film of water and loss of coupling with a covering.
Always observe a distance to ahead going transport. The brake way of the car equipped with antiblocking system can exceed a brake way of the car without antiblocking system in following cases:
– At movement on rough, covered with gravel or snow to road;
– At movement with the chains established on wheels;
– At movement on bumpy road, or on an inclined track.
Control lamp
The control lamp of antiblocking system lights up at key turn in position On and after 3 seconds dies away.
Presence of one of specified below indications testifies to malfunction of those details which condition is supervised by a lamp. In this case it is necessary to hand over the car immediately in car-care centre service:
– The lamp does not light up (as is described above) or does not die away;
– The lamp lights up at movement.
Even at faulty antiblocking system of a brake will keep working capacity.
Indicators of deterioration brake колодок
When deterioration of overlays of disk brakes will exceed norm, the noise published by the indicator of deterioration is distributed.
If at movement squeal or a howling sound immediately address in service of car-care centre for check or replacement brake колодок is distributed.
Avoid a long trip when the indicator publishes a sound.
Long driving with worn out to a limit brake колодками will lead to the accelerated deterioration of an expensive brake disk and to increase of effort to a pedal for preservation of a brake way. |
global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/78594 | Thursday, October 17, 2013
What's Doin'?
I haven't heard (or used) that term in a while, but it popped into my head.
What IS doin'?
What's doin' at your house? Really. I want to know. Let's sweep some dust off the comments box and heat her up!
Monday, October 14, 2013
Sock Pattern Sale!
We liked the sweater pattern sale last month so much that we put all the sock patterns up for BOGO too!
I am so, so sorry not to have already told you that all during October all 14 of our sock patterns are on sale.
Just use this code at checkout:
Choose two regular Figheadh sock patterns or
Figheadh Fundamental sock patterns (scroll to bottom of page) and one of them is
And why haven't I already let you in on this sale? Been so busy! I promise to come back in a couple of days and give you a peek at what I'm working on for Knit Fit and otherwise.
Now, back to work for meeeeee...... |
global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/78595 | Tuesday, February 15, 2011
The Fiji Shark Dive - Tough!
Just thought I'd share some of today's hardship.
Bloody tough - but somebody's gotta do it! :)
Click for detail!
OfficetoOcean said...
Things like this don't make my wait any easier you know Mike :(
However, I will be there to film the day you get 100+ on a single day, it's written in the stars you know...
(Tiger)Lily said...
Completely awesome! : )
Richard Ng said...
It IS a dirty job, but aren't you glad you're doing it : )
July seems like forever now, thanks to you Mike! |
global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/78636 | Monday, April 26, 2010
Facebook Open Graph has an impact on me!
Watching the live F8 coverage, I had some vision about Facebook new Open Graph. I remember that part when FriendFeed CEO talked about his experience and the magic 5 (on average, a new user won't become active unless he/she find 5 friends using the same site). I thought at that moment: "Oh well, sound amazing. The Open Graph with all the new social plugins will be good". It's not really true.
Today, when I visited a site. I was stunned seeing a few (Facebook) friends of mine did some activities on that site. OMG. It's a really strange feeling!
I believe the Open Graph with all the new social plugins will be GREAT! The idea is just... brilliant. Except the issue about privacy: the Instant Personalization is opt-out (which means everybody has it turned on automatically, user must explicitly turn it off, more about opt-out). Many people complained about it and they are warning people to turn off in order to protect privacy but I think most of them will just leave it on because they don't read all those nerdy sites. And basically, most of 500 million people is... quite a lot! I'm having it on anyway, the personalize experiences are fun and useful, love it!
Saturday, April 24, 2010
Facebook loves
Just recently, Facebook has messed up all instances of a unicode character "à" (latin small letter A with grave, code: U+00E0). My biggest guess is they (Facebook Team) ran into a UI problem so they decide to make dirty str_replace before sending output for both the main site and mobile site. I said it's just some kind of search and replace for the output because getting posts directly with Facebook API works just fine
The replacement originally is " " but for some reasons, it gets displayed as "?nbsp;". FYI, is a html entity which means "no break space". What the hell is it? Normally, all browser will ignore multiple spaces placed together. This is used as a trick to bypass character count in replying post: just type an emoticon (":D", 2 characters), hold the space bar for a few seconds to generate around 20 spaces, type anything else (a period is enough). The post will be displayed with only 1 space between the emoticon and the period. Note that if you don't type the period, it's high chance that the post will be trimed (remove spaces at the beginning and the end) so your post will failed the character count validation. Back to , using it just like space but browser will keep them as it. You put 20 of them, they will be displayed all. Some people even used to indent their stuffs! Actually, it's sometime useful to use , for example when you have to leave an empty <div>
or <td>, you should place a inside to make the XHTML document validated. See the demonstration below: they both have 20 spaces between the emoticon and the period.
• Using spaces: ":D ."
• Using : ":D ."
Anyway, a bug has been filed but I think Vietnamese users will have to wait. Stay calm, everybody.
Thursday, April 22, 2010
OAuth with Google, Twitter and... Facebook!
This is sick!
At that moment, I was so excited with all the ideas but actually it has no real world benefit so I just left it there... Until today, in the F8 (says "fate") conference of Facebook, I was stunned finding out that Facebook implements OAuth too! That's so awesome! Oh, actually, Facebook implements a newer version of OAuth (2.0, which hasn't been well documented yet) but no problem. I managed to rewrite the universal script to handle all Google, Twitter and Facebook now. If you want to check it out, follow these links:
1. For Google:
2. For Twitter:
3. For Facebook:
The 3 scripts must be seperate because each one use different configuration (the ID, the secret string, etc) but they shares the same class and each scripts has the same structure like this (from facebook.php)
I'm still looking for the best way to implement something useful. Let's see
Monday, April 19, 2010
Buy me an "iDevice"
Buy me an iDevice (which including iPod Touch, iPhone, iPad) and you will get 70% of whatever I build with it for 3 years. That's the deal ;)
Sunday, April 11, 2010
Implementing Quick Sort
I never wants to re-implement classical stuffs as it will be useless but this time, it's an assignment at the college so... here it is. Quick Sort implementation of mine which supports arrays and lists.
Using the class's (static) methods is very simple.
For those who don't know what the heck Quick Sort is, check it out here. Have a nice day!
Saturday, April 10, 2010
Survival Simulator Game (a closer look)
As mentioned earlier (in this post), I have built several modules for a Survival Simulator Game. You can see it in action in the old post. And now, I have finished documenting the source files (my modules only) and you can get source file and document from MediaFire or BlueHost. You can also view document online here: Using the TextUserInterface is very simple (code copied from, provided by the instructor):
Using my GraphicalUserInterface is pretty the same way:
There are 2 notes:
1. I modified the Game class ( to make it run infinitely
2. If you double click the gui.jar file, you won't be able to view debug messages. If you want to view them, you have to invoke from console using something like this:
java -jar gui.jar
Friday, April 9, 2010
Survival Simulator Game
Ran into this from a note by mr Ha. Pretty interesting assignment and now I have finished completely. I'm so glad!
Thursday, April 8, 2010
vBulletin 4.0.3
vBulletin 4.0.3 has just been released with a new feature: Facebook Connect. Well, this thing kinda pissed me off the first time I read about it but it turned out to be not a big deal. The really near future plan is to make YAFB connected users vBulletin Core feature connected users. Well, I will see since I haven't had a version of 4.0.3 yet. Yay me.
Tuesday, April 6, 2010
Keyboard Shortcut for vBulletin
It started from a night (like tonight) when I'm reading a lengthy thread some where and then when I wanted to go to the next page, I pressed K just like in Gmail when I want to go to next conversation. But unfortunately, it didn't go to the next page. Well, I thought for a moment then decided to do this: Keyboard Shortcut for vBulletin (both version 3 and version 4). I hope someday I can use keyboard shortcuts with my favourite sites, in my favourite threads. Uh oh. Some screenshots:
Firefox. vBulletin 4. Forum display page
Google Chrome. vBulletin 4. Album page
Safari. vBulletin 4. Picture page
And of course, Internet Explorer. vBulletin 3. Forum display page (again)
Monday, April 5, 2010
Lazy developer
Have you ever heard a joke about developers? Actually it's not a joke since I personally think it's true (at least to me) but it's always fun to hear: Developers are very lazy. (Oh yeah, I'm). They can't afford to finish a 15-minute job at all. (Oops). They will spend 3 hours coding to be able to finish that job in 1 minute. (Uh oh, that's 14-minute laziness. LOL)
I have an example here: got an exercise in discrete mathematics which involve using the Dijkstra algorithm to find the shortest way between a vertex to another in a graph. There are enough vertex in the graph that made me lazy (5, LMAO). Oops, I have just opened up the source code and found out it's about Hamiltonian path, anyway, I was lazy and finally came up with this PHP script to solve the problem quickly (hundreds millisecond is considered quick, isn't it?)
The script is intelligent enough to sort out all duplicated paths. Lazy meeee!
Thursday, April 1, 2010
Reason why it is great to be a geek!
You must have read many articles saying how bad a geek is in a relationship: He loves the computers more than everything. Nothing else matters once he gets stuck with a few (hundred?) lines of code. It's very high chance that he shows up in front of your home just in time for a dinner with your parent (with untidy clothes and messy hairstyle). And so on... Well, it sounds really scary, isn't it?
And then you can read other articles also, saying how great a geek in a relationship, specifically in bed (oops). I don't have references for the first type of articles but with this one, I have plenty of them, go check it yourself:
1. Why geeks make the best lovers
2. 7 reasons to date a geek
3. 10 reasons you should marry a geek (wow!)
4. and so on...
Hell yeah, everything has advantages and disadvantages. If you want to take something, you have to accept both the positive and the negative things. The problem is you have to decide if it's worth to take the risk. Right?
To me, it's so great to be a geek (or at least, I claim myself one). Why? Because Sylvie Truong has just posted a blog entry in her My Opera blog. It showed her interest in geeks, pretty much! That's more than enough for me. A really good reason, isn't it? |
global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/78645 | lunes, febrero 16, 2015
The Lunch Question
By Ian Morris
February 11, 2015 | 09:00 GMT
At an event in Beijing last November, I had the good fortune to meet the French economist Thomas Piketty, who has sold 1.5 million copies of his book, Capital in the Twenty-First Century, since it was first published in 2013. Pacing up and down in front of a packed auditorium, Piketty explained that because the rate of return on capital is now higher than the growth rate of the global economy, the proportion of the world's wealth that is owned by a small elite will likely keep increasing; in other words, we should expect to see a divergence of wealth as the rich get much richer. As his book says, "capitalism automatically generates arbitrary and unsustainable inequalities that radically undermine the meritocratic values on which democratic societies are based."
No strategic forecaster can afford to ignore this alarming prediction — or the enthusiastic response it got from the audience in Beijing. In the 20th century, the two world wars were the only force powerful enough to reverse the concentration of wealth in the elite and the mounting class conflict; in the 21st century, we seem to be falling back into a comparable world of revolution, political extremism and mass violence.
It was hard to be sure whether the members of the audience were enthusiastic because they thought Piketty was forecasting the collapse of Western democratic economies or because they thought his words applied equally well to their own society. After all, China could almost be the poster child for the process Piketty described.
When Mao Zedong died in 1976, post-tax and -transfer income inequality stood at 0.31 on the Gini index. (The Gini coefficient runs from 0, meaning everyone in a country has the same income, to 1, meaning one person earns all the country's income and everyone else earns nothing.) By 2009, China's income inequality score had soared to 0.47, where it stubbornly remains after peaking at 0.51 in 2003. Though Chinese tax returns are too opaque to make reliable calculations regarding wealth inequality, or the uneven distribution of assets as opposed to income, he is almost certainly correct that this figure has risen even faster than the country's income inequality.
When a group of us withdrew for lunch, though, our Chinese hosts pushed back against Piketty's thesis: Hadn't Deng Xiaoping taught us that getting rich is no sin? Isn't rising inequality just the price China must pay to escape from poverty? Though Piketty would agree that there is nothing inherently wrong in accumulating a lot of wealth, he would also insist that it is very bad indeed if that accumulation results in too much inequality. The big issue in our discussion — what I have come to think of as "the lunch question" — is whether the world is now crossing into an era of too much inequality.
We failed to reach a consensus as we ate, but after thinking about the question for a few more months, I would like to use this column to make some suggestions. I suspect that our biggest mistake during that lunch was that we failed to analyze the question from a sufficiently long-term perspective.
Piketty's research looks back nearly 250 years, but to see the whole picture we need to consider the last 15,000 years, going back to the age before agriculture was invented. When we do, we begin to see that each age seems to get the inequality it needs. To put it more precisely, different economic systems function best with different levels of inequality, creating selective pressures that reward groups moving toward the most effective level and punish those moving away from it. It is also clear that transitions between systems can be particularly traumatic, and it is possible that we are on the verge of such a transition now.
A Brief History of Inequality
Let me take a moment to sketch what inequality has looked like over the past 15,000 years. Before the dawn of agriculture, mankind was made up of hunter-gatherers who captured the energy they needed to survive from wild plants and animals. This economic system rewarded those who lived in tiny bands and moved around constantly, and punished those who tried to live in large groups and stay in one place (they simply starved). It was very difficult to create permanent inequality because foraging bands had no room for kings and aristocrats and little more for accumulated wealth.
Consequently, foragers tended to be desperately poor, but equally so. (Though the comparison is rather misleading, British economist Angus Maddison suggested that the typical hunter-gatherer had a daily income equivalent to $1.10 in 1990 U.S. values.) Anthropological studies of today's few remaining foraging societies suggest that their Gini coefficients for both income and wealth inequality averaged around 0.25 — well below Maoist China's score — and archaeological evidence for prehistoric foragers seems consistent with this figure.
Farming began around 9600 B.C. in what we now call the Middle East, appearing some 2,000 years later in Pakistan and China, another 1,000 years later in Mexico and Peru, and later still in several other parts of the world. Living off domesticated plants and animals changed man's way of life and provided far more energy than foraging had. Bigger stores of food were able to sustain more people, for longer amounts of time, and the global population shot up from 6 million in 10,000 B.C. to 250 million in 1 B.C. Large social collectives that stayed in one place working their fields now flourished at the expense of smaller and less sedentary groups. (The Roman Empire had about 60 million subjects, 1 million of whom lived in the city of Rome itself.) Between 9600 B.C. and 1750 A.D., nearly all of the world's foraging societies went extinct.
Although average incomes rose in agricultural communities (reaching an average of about $1.50-$2.20 per day, by Maddison's calculations), the economic structure also rewarded societies that became less equal. The age of farming required much more complex divisions of labor than the foraging world, and while free markets did make a certain amount of specialization possible, laws backed by state violence played an even larger role. Some people became aristocrats or godlike kings, while others became peasants or slaves, and economic inequality surged. The average Gini coefficient for income inequality in agricultural societies was around 0.45, nearly twice as high as in foraging societies. The Roman Empire's score probably lay between 0.42 and 0.44; in 1688 England, it reached 0.47; and in France on the eve of the revolution, it was an agonizing 0.59. Wealth inequality leaped higher still: Gini scores regularly topped 0.80, and one Roman plutocrat who died in 8 B.C. left in his will 7,200 oxen, 257,000 other animals, 4,116 slaves and enough cash to feed half a million people for a year.
The Industrial Revolution changed everything once again. The awesome power of fossil fuels released a new flood of energy as steam and electricity drove machines that vastly augmented human and animal labor. New factories churned out previously unimaginable quantities of goods and liberated people from much of the manual drudgery that characterized the agricultural age. As when farming displaced foraging, our ancestors converted part of their newfound energy into more people and part into higher incomes. (In A.D. 1800 there were fewer than 1 billion people in the world; now there are more than 7 billion. The global average income also rose roughly tenfold over that period, reaching around $25 per day in 1990 U.S. values.)
Exploiting fossil fuels effectively requires even more complex divisions of labor than farming, and the failures of fascism and communism suggest that societies in which the free market takes the lead rather than the state tend to perform better. But this economic system produces its own tension: On the one hand, specialists providing crucial services can convert their expertise into political and economic power, which drives up inequality; on the other hand, wealth in a market society depends on the existence of an affluent middle class that can buy an abundance of goods and services. Too much inequality carries the risk of killing the goose that laid the golden egg.
Like the farming and foraging civilizations before it, our fossil fuel world has an equilibrium point — a "right" level of inequality — and societies that move toward this optimum balance will flourish while those that move away from it will not. The most successful governments often recognize this, using progressive taxation and other fiscal transfers to push economic inequality toward what they hope is the sweet spot. For example, the member states of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development drove post-tax income inequality down into hunter-gatherer territory by 1970, reaching an average Gini coefficient of 0.26, but economic difficulties and voters' rightward shift in the following decades suggest that this may have been too low. By 2012, the bloc's average post-tax income inequality had drifted back up to 0.31, and new waves of economic difficulty and public anger are now suggesting that this level is too high.
A Question With No Easy Answer
It is tempting to conclude from our historical overview that we are in a position to answer the lunch question. It seems clear that the governments of modern fossil fuel economies should aim to keep post-tax income inequality between 0.25 and 0.35, and to keep wealth inequalities between 0.70 and 0.80. Today, many countries are at or above the upper bounds of these ranges, suggesting that Piketty is right to see trouble ahead.
Still, long-term history also suggests that there is more to the story. At least four additional forces will help shape the direction our current society takes.
The first is increasing scale. Between the foraging and the farming ages, the typical size of economically integrated populations grew from a few dozen people to a few million, and integrated territories grew from a few hundred square kilometers to a few hundred thousand. Since the Industrial Revolution, integrated populations have expanded into the billions and integrated territory is beginning to encompass the entire planet. This means that within-nation inequality, which has long drawn economists' attention, is no longer the main story. Now we must pay at least as much attention to global inequality, where the picture looks very different.
Between 1820 and 1950, a handful of nations in Europe and North America transitioned from farming to fossil fuel economies, pulling far ahead of the rest of the world. According to economist Branko Milanovic, global income inequality nearly quadrupled during this period to reach a Gini score of 0.55. After 1945, as the Industrial Revolution spread to the rest of the world, the global Gini coefficient leveled off and has even dropped since 2000 as Brazil, Russia, India and China have taken off. The rich are getting richer, but the poor are getting richer faster. Piketty is clearly correct that within-nation inequality has risen since the 1970s, but if present trends continue, by 2050 the Gini score for between-nation income inequality will be heading back toward the 0.25-0.35 range, where fossil fuel economies work best.
The second force is effective demand. Fossil fuel economies depend on having affluent middle classes that are able to pay for vast amounts of goods and services, and rising inequality threatens that. Although rich countries have seen only sluggish GDP growth and their populations' richest 1 percent has captured the bulk of the profits over the past four decades, their citizens have generally seen stagnating rather than declining incomes. European and U.S. demand remain enormous, and 2 billion Asians are quickly joining the global market. Inequality is uncomfortably high, but if effective demand grows rapidly enough to absorb the world's output, we can reasonably hope that the 21st century will escape some of Piketty's darker predictions.
The third force involves new class structures. Since the rise of the first states 5,000 years ago, small political and economic units have been constantly absorbed into larger ones, creating dramatic consequences for local elites. When a tribe was taken over by a larger empire, its chief might find himself impaled or perhaps just marginalized, unable to compete in a bigger, more sophisticated and often more vicious struggle. Then again, he also might suddenly find a larger stage for his ambitions, on which he could rise to become the governor of a rich province, or perhaps a senator at the imperial capital, or even an adviser to the emperor himself. Similarly, a poor man might find himself ground down into debt bondage or slavery, or he might find new options as a merchant, mercenary or migrant in a wider world. There have always been winners and losers.
In the 21st century, we are working from the same script. For some, the globalization of the fossil fuel economy has presented extraordinary opportunities to join an international, Anglophone, tech-savvy elite, or at least to move from rural poverty to a better-paid factory job. For others, downward mobility has become a danger (at times, even a reality) as the number of qualified applicants for slots in the global elite and middle class expands at a faster rate than the number of available positions. As Jay Ogilvy put it in his recent Global Affairs column, alarming numbers of people are being "left behind."
The fourth force — and potentially the most important of all — is the possibility that we could be on the verge of leaving the age of fossil fuels altogether. New energy sources, technologies that erode the boundaries between mind and machine, and shifts toward living in virtual rather than physical spaces may all threaten — or promise — to make the 21st century the biggest rupture in human history, dwarfing the agricultural and industrial revolutions. A century from now, trying to find the right level of inequality for a fossil fuel society might seem as irrelevant as determining the right level of inequality for Neanderthals does today.
All things considered, long-term history suggests that answering "the lunch question" will not be as easy as I initially thought. Each economic system of energy capture has an ideal level of inequality, and perhaps we can even specify that in the fossil fuel world it is a Gini coefficient of 0.25-0.35 for income and 0.70-0.80 for wealth. However, running the numbers and looking for ways to stay in the right range is only the beginning. The real problem, as history shows, is that everything is connected to everything else. Tensions between those who are making it and those being left behind could easily exacerbate the "arbitrary and unsustainable inequalities" that Piketty identifies. Then again, a shift from regional economies to a global market coupled with the ongoing expansion of effective demand could soothe them. Or perhaps in a post-fossil fuel and partly post-human world, inequalities far beyond those Piketty imagined might start to seem entirely reasonable.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/78647 | Thursday, October 6, 2016
Boston: Dine at a Discount with GoPapaya App
Go Papaya
Patty Chen
Pork Dumpling "Ramen" at PC Dumpling Room
The discount does not include alcohol (because Massachusetts law) but otherwise there's no restriction and you can order whatever you want. This way it is better than some Groupons where you have to do a special prix fixe menu.
I've used it at India Pavillion, also in Central Square, which was offering 20% off for lunch.
The discount is automatically taken off your bill, so there's no awkward "can I get your voucher number" moment (in case you're trying to impress a date!)
They are still growing the list of participating restaurants, but even now there are quite a few near my work in Cambridge. Other places that I've been meaning to try in other parts of town that are listed are Holly Crab, Limoo Tea Bar, La Voile, and Swish Shabu.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/78653 | Joseph Addison
English Essayist, Critic, Poet, Playwright, Politician and Man of Letters
Author Quotes
We would establish our souls in such a solid and substantial virtue as will turn to account in that great day when it must stand the test of infinite wisdom and justice.
There are many virtues which in their own nature are incapable of any outward representation; many silent perfections in the soul of a good man, which are great ornaments to human nature, but not able to discover themselves to the knowledge of others; they are transacted in private without noise or show, and are only visible to the great Searcher of hearts. What actions can express the entire purity of thought which refines and sanctifies a virtuous man? That secret rest and contentedness of mind which gives him a perfect enjoyment of his present condition? That inward pleasure and complacency which he feels in doing good? That delight and satisfaction which he takes in the prosperity and happiness of another?
Some virtues are only seen in affliction, and some in prosperity.
It is not the business of virtue to extirpate the affections of the mind, but to regulate them. It may moderate and restrain, but was not designed to banish gladness from the heart of man. Religion contracts the circle of our pleasures, but leaves it wide enough for her votaries to expatiate in. The contemplation of the Divine Being, and the exercise of Virtue, are, in their own nature, so far from excluding all gladness of heart, that they are perpetual sources of it. In a word, the true spirit of religion cheers, as well as composes, the soul; it banishes indeed all levity of behavior, all vicious and dissolute mirth; but in exchange fills the mind with a perpetual serenity, uninterrupted cheerfulness, and an habitual inclination to please others as well as to be pleased in itself.
A person, therefore, who is possessed with such an habitual good intention, as that which I have been here speaking of, enters upon no single circumstance of life, without considering it as well pleasing to the great Author of his being, conformable to the dictates of reason, suitable to human nature in general, or to that particular station in which Providence has placed him. He lives in a perpetual sense of the Divine Presence, regards himself as acting, in the whole course of his existence, under the observation and inspection of that Being, who is privy to all his motions and all his thoughts, who knows his “down-sitting and his uprising, who is about his path, and about his bed, and spieth out all his ways.” In a word, he remembers that the eye of his Judge is always upon him, and in every action he reflects that he is doing what is commanded or allowed by Him who will hereafter either reward or punish it. This was the character of those holy men of old, who, in that beautiful phrase of Scripture, are said to have “walked with God.”
There are many more shining qualities in the mind of man, but there is none so useful as discretion; it is this, indeed, which gives a value to all the rest, which sets them at work in their proper times and places, and turns them to the advantage of the person who is possessed of them. Without it, learning is pedantry, and wit impertinence ; virtue itself looks like weakness; the best parts only qualify a man to be more sprightly in errors, and active to his own prejudice.
Nature does nothing without purpose or uselessly.
Renowned for conquest, and in council skilled, their courage dwells not in a troubled flood of mounting spirits, and fermenting blood: Lodged in the soul, with virtue overruled, inflamed by reason, and by reason cooled,in hours of peace content to be unknown. And only in the field of battle shown: To souls like these, in mutual friendship joined, Heaven dares intrust the cause of humankind.
Great souls by instinct to each other turn, demand alliance, and in friendship burn.
Hope calculates its scenes for a long and durable life; presses forward to imaginary points of bliss; and grasps at impossibilities; and consequently very often ensnares men into beggary, ruin and dishonor.
There is not any present moment that is unconnected with some future one. The life of every man is a continued chain of incidents, each link of which hangs upon the former. The transition from cause to effect, from event to event, is often carried on by secret steps, which our foresight cannot divine, and our sagacity is unable to trace. Evil may at some future period bring forth good; and good may bring forth evil, both equally unexpected.
Artificial intelligence will never be a match for natural stupidity.
In doing what we ought we deserve no praise, because it is our duty.
Content thyself to be obscurely good. When vice prevails and impious men bear away, The post of honor is a private station.
There is nothing more requisite in business than dispatch.
We all of us complain of the shortness of time, saith Seneca, and yet have much more than we know what to do with. Our lives, says he, are spent either in doing nothing at all, or in doing nothing to the purpose, or in doing nothing that we ought to do: we are always complaining our days are few, and acting as though there would no end of them."- On the Right Use of Time.”
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Monday, July 14, 2008
The other night the girlfriend and I decided to treat ourselves like high class citizens and enjoy a nice evening snack of Chili Cheese Burritos from Taco Bell fine cheeses, crackers and smoked salmon.
On the menu was one of my personal favorites, Agour. We also picked up Sage Derby (which isn't as tasty as I remember it), a Brie, and a new one I had never heard of called Tomme Noir. It's a very buttery cheese, yet mild too. It reminded both of us of Havarti. Highly recommended.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/78679 | 7. Desire in the Waste Land
In Bloomingdale's I fall apart completely
It is to Bloomingdale's that Miller traces the "origin" of the "Arabian zero" that becomes the "writing machine" of Tropic of Cancer and Tropic of Capricorn:
There is a condition of misery which is irremediable--because its origin is lost in obscurity. Bloomingdale's, for example, can bring about this condition. [....] In Bloomingdale's I fall apart completely: I dribble onto the floor, a helpless mess of guts and bones and cartilage. [....] The smell of linoleum, for some strange reason, will always make me fall apart and collapse on the floor. It is the smell of all the unnatural things which were glued together in me, which were assembled, so to say, by negative consent.[52]
In the presence of Bloomingdale's "discordant fullness," its "zero degree whiteness," the composite self "assembled, so to say, by negative consent" is dissolved, leaving the pinpoint "immutable ego" to begin a schizophrenic flight which starts off as disease but quickly turns into a celebration of freedom:
It is this microscopic chaos which brings on my morganatic ailments. In the street I began to stab horses at random, or I lift a skirt here and there looking for a letter box, or I put a postage stamp across a mouth, an eye, a vagina. Or I suddenly decide to climb a tall building, like a fly, and once having reached the roof I do fly with real wings and I fly and fly and fly, covering towns like Weehawken, Hoboken, Hackensack, Canarsie, Bergen Beach in the twinkling of an eye. Once you become a real schizerino flying is the easiest thing in the world; the trick is to fly with the etheric body, to leave behind in Bloomingdale's your sack of bones, guts, blood and cartilage; to fly only with your immutable self which, if you stop a moment to reflect, is always equipped with wings. Flying this way, in full daylight, has advantages over the ordinary night-flying which everybody indulges in. You can leave off from moment to moment, as quick and decisive as stepping on a brake; there is no difficulty in finding your other self, because the moment you leave off you are your other self, which is to say, the so-called whole self. Only, as the Bloomingdale experience goes to prove, this whole self, about which so much boasting has been done, falls apart very easily.[53]
Miller thus abstracts commodity desire from the structure of Bloomingdale's, hoping to find a space for his own "flight" of writing as it spills over, beyond Bloomingdale's, to cover the urban American landscape. While he invokes Bloomingdale's as an analogue for his narrative aesthetics with an ambivalence akin to Fitzgerald's rendering of Gatsby's library--obliquely intimating that the freedom narrative promises may be as illusory as the freedom of a shopping trip--he does not finally question commodity desire as a form of human desire upon which to found the New Novel. If the modern Waste Land is to be understood at all, it will be known through narrative, a narrative that transpires on the site of Bloomingdale's, exceeding it in substance, but not in form. Through Miller's art, the freedom to desire is to be rescued from commerce, but not from commodification.
Fitzgerald's and Miller's representations of commodity desire differ primarily as tropes: the manner in which they point beyond themselves. Both are situated in the same ideological matrix: The Waste Land, "late world-city" of New York, a modern material world organized by the pursuit of illusion as it gives way to nothingness. But the novelists find the illusion achieved and organized differentially. The synecdochic commodities of Gatsby's house betoken an ultimate fulfillment of desire, whereas the metonymic commodities of Miller's Broadway promise an endless freedom to desire. Advancing rival aesthetics, Fitzgerald and Miller abstract and preserve the tropological structure of their favored commodity forms in the moment in which their promises prove empty. Two distinct novelizations of this "modern moment" produce competing articulations of commodity desire; multiplying its discursive forms, they enhance its ideological power. We are offered a choice which novel's "reality" we find persuasive, but neither choice exits the culture of consumption, which remains intact, naturalized amid all that differentiates Fitzgerald's and Miller's "New York."
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+ Colonised+ Dark Avenue + The C-Bombs
Enigma Bar, Adelaide
Friday, August 12, 2016
+ Rat Carcher + The Pro-Tools
The Metro, Adelaide
Saturday, August 13, 2016
Mandy Tzaras photos
For a variety of reasons I only caught a few minutes of Colonised and Dark Avenue. I’ll have to rectify this as both looked good and I do apologise to the bands. Their Facywacybuk sites are here and here
Spare a thought for Tony, the C-Bombs singer. Half his time is spent in his shop Retro-Bait in the famous wine-making region of the Clare Valley, a couple hours’ drive north of Adelaide. So he shuts his shop at the end of the day, clambers into his car and hurtles down the blacktop through the rush-hour, gets changed and hurries back out.
So the The C-Bombs should, by rights, do woeful Friday night gigs, right? Also, the Enigma, I don’t like it as a venue. Kinda wanna-be bikie and wanna-be chicky-babe chic, always reminds me of the place you go to when you don’t think you deserve anything better and should be charged more for less. The "all-ages" gig (presumably replete with old-age pensioners armed with Zimmer frames, colostomy bags and all going berko on prune juice and shandy) hammers away behind the apparently cardboard wall at the back of the room, making conversation a screaming match above and beyond most gigs - even between bands in our room.
Despite this Darrell (spelling? Daryl?) the sound guy performs a miracle with the sound; hardly any of the bands are familiar with the amps onstage, and I’m sure you’d expect chaos to result.
Nah. The C-Bombs played their best gig I’ve seen yet; Szkolik looked gangsterish and sounded tuff, Phill made the skins cry and Sean Tilmouth (how many outfits is he in now?) made the speakers do what they should never be allowed to do. Fuck they were good.
Tony, of course, is the vulnerable, self-conscious reluctant hard-torn singer; their opener, "Black Eyed Bruiser", may as well have been written for him. Moving like a punch-drunk boxer somewhere between about to start a riot and a brutalised little-boy-lost with the grace of a young bear, it’s hardly surprising that he commands the stage, even when he’s carefully placing his tinnie on top of a speaker. It’s at this point that I first think of Darby Crash, the man’s evident intelligence at war with the manimal in himself. The Bombs have a squirming, laid-back ferocity about them and they’re an ugly, beautiful, charming, clumsygraceful treat.
Their Fuccywukkybuk site is here and The C-Bombs’ CD is a cracker.
So, Leadfinger have jobs. They get up rather earlier to do their jobs, get to Sydney to get a plane to get to Adelaide. We love them for it. They deserve, of course, greater attention and acclaim, and they’re so fucking good at what they do I should imagine there are bands seriously scared of sharing a stage with them.
Leadfinger have a specific sound to them, but tonight they’re playing with unfamiliar amps. Darrell does a great job balancing out the sound and from the first chords the band are swinging in an incisive, heavy-gorgeous way. The synchronisation of this outfit is spectacular; hearing it all on a record is one thing, but watching it all snap together like finely-machined parts is an amazing spectacle.
Tonight I noticed quite a lot that I hadn’t noticed last time they were here, and that’s partly due to the newer songs. Dillon and Reggie are locked-in to each other by osmosis or something, they’re a tight unit. Yet Stewie and Mick seem to be more connected with Reggie onstage, like there’s some sort of emotive umbilical there …
Stewie and Mick have worked damned hard as well. Mick’s guitar is bloody good, they synch in so tightly there’s simply no room for another nut or wafer… in between the painstakingly constructed songs (so deftly set up, they just flow naturally) there are a few moments where Mick and Stewie’s guitars enter into a call and response situation, it’s engaging and exciting, not knowing where it will all end up.
The crowd - many new to Leadfinger - all loved the headliners. It’s hard not to. Their method and pace varies and they all make this glorious series of songs topple over and over like boulders down a hill. Afterward, they all looked somewhat tired, above and beyond the gig. I think if I’d put in a full hard week the last thing I’d want to do is piss off to Adelaide and play a gig. It’s a lot of damn work and effort.
Does it show? Not in the band, nor their performance. A great night out. We left early and I still didn’t get to be until 0230. (Cue that chorus of sympathetic noises, please.)
Ho to the Metro where I had the kangaroo and apparently the chicken curry was also excellent. The Metro is one of the best venues in town; there aren’t that many to come close with the position, food, drink and quality service. I love this place.
This is Rat Catcher’s fourth gig and … honestly, every now and again you see a band in the early stages of their development and you think, this is the beginning of something big. Sometimes that turns out to be true, too; I felt it with The Sputniks in ’79 (the drummer was Clare Moore, the singer, Dave Graney) and the Lizard Train (dammit, they almost made it) and the Boys Next Door (who went against expectation so thoroughly that over two thirds of the crowd had left by the third song, and the band loved it).
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Rat Catcher are, I was told, punk pop. Well, no, they’re not. They have the punk tag because people need a nail in the wall to hang their shitty leather jacket on, but what they do is closer to power pop, fed through the structuring of some of the better UK or US punker outfits like GBH or Descendants. That said, it wouldn’t surprise me in the slightest if these blokes had never heard of either of those two bands.
Rat Catcher are fucking good. At the Metro tonight is a similar amp problem: the room is a bit too small for these FUCKINGLOUD amps so instead of cranking up the lesser amp, the band go to some trouble to turn down to a level they can all work with together. That’s really fucking smart. They care about their songs. And so they should. I hope they’re recording soon, I need them on my car cd player.
The singer has a distinctive Australian twang - to hear him is familiar and real, rather than hokey Ocker. He stands there, rather shy, concentrating on remembering the words and fitting them in to the band’s rapid-fire delivery, his eyes mostly closed or looking at our shoes. But he’s incredibly captivating - because he’s working hard. As are the two guitarists and the bass player. Two guitarists? Yep. And the return of the term ‘twin guitar assault’ is upon us. I wasn’t going to mention it, despite the clangour of Leadfinger which well and truly fits the definition, but Rat Catcher really go to town with the concept.
Each song is perfectly crafted and set up, there’s no song the same at all, they burn rubber and rip into each like today is their last day. The bass player is spectacular, driving us into the wall, the drummer knows the entire kit and can’t stop, the two guitarists ensure they both play contrasting parts which interlock - it’s the fucking intelligence of the music which grabs you as much as the band’s power and force, but the difference of this quiet chap at the front, delivering smart, pithy lyrics about the people they know and the world as they see it… it’s another country.
Rat Catcher need to release a swag of singles, cos they’re clearly a singles band. If I had to compare, I’d say a more complex and diverse Meanies, bordering on later Buzzcocks. But fuck that. Comparisons don’t mean shit. Rat Catcher have their Fartywartybuck page here and I urge you most emphatically to travel from anywhere in this country to see them. Port Hedlandites, get your socks on.
(Barman, I know that four of the five Rat Catchers have beards, but this is because they forgot to shave for a couple of months and…)
pete howlettPoor promoter and Pro-Tools leader Pete ‘“The Stud” Howlett (pictured right) has had a cold. Last night he took over the door, and was the most unconvincing door bitch I’ve ever seen, not least because of the facial fuzz. So tonight he really has to push it out.
Normally, the 'Tools seem to play more or less straight-forwardly, but tonight they’re absolutely pushing the limits of endurance. There are endless moments where Pete’s singing to his chest rather than the mike - again I’m reminded of Darby Crash; the famous thought that they considered stapling the mike to Darby’s lips would be useless here of course, Pete leaps about like a just landed fish, throwing his guitar about like a twig; any stapling to the mike would be torn out within seconds.
There are moments when Pete looks like he’s about to fucking explode, he’s so full of pressed-in energy. When he pleads with Andy McQueen "Can we do a slower one, please?’ his band mate laughs and comments that Pete looks like he’s about to have a heart attack, the room roars and from then on we’re all joining in the jeers and comments between the songs which belt out like batmobiles on steroids. Nick Spaulding makes a smart comment, Pete comes back with "Shut your mouth, Nick! You’re not too old I can’t put you over my knee and spank you!".
The band spend half the night joking and swearing and they play like they’re fucking drowning in sweat. Pete looks like he’s having a bath up there. “How’s my hair?” he asks. Given that his blonde rooster crop is squashed flat over his forehead, the inevitable answer is ‘terrible’, so he snarls out a comb, fixes his hair and tosses the comb (with his keys attached). The next song starts and his proud pomp lasts for four seconds before clinging to his face again like dead yellow seaweed.
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This set is the best I’ve seen, too; mostly powerful originals in which the covers are fun but second-best by comparison with the powerhouse on stage, self-deprecating savagery and rough banter.
Petition the The Pro-Tools on Facebook. Demand an album. Demand four. Book The Pro-Tools for someone’s wedding, particularly someone who doesn’t like loud, obnoxious music. Book The Pro-Tools for the funeral of someone you really hate.
Leadfinger follow, and, while slowing down the pace a bit, radiate power and confidence and most of us have sore feet by the end.
Again the set is mostly drawn from “Friday Night Heroes”, and slotted in there is a rendition of Brother Brick’s “Chokito”, and a version of “Gimme Shelter” which segues into “Down on the Street”, and back to “Shelter”. One of the most impressive things about them is, of course, that complex yet down-to-earth essence of themselves which they bring to the stage. If they ever get the chance to tour the US or Europe, they’ll still - always - be a band of blokes who do what they do for the love of it. Money always changes things, but with Leadfinger I doubt it’s possible they’ll change dramatically. The simple way in which they engage the entire room with just a few words and notes, that talent is something few possess.
There is much amusement as Leadfinger now come to grips with the amp problem. Stewie’s amp is on the lowest possible setting and it takes the Metro’s sound man, Nigel, to intervene to crank up Howlett’s patented Pro-Tools brand amp appropriately; weirdly, at one point Mick has his guitar plugged in but turned off and Howlett’s amp was still squealing.
Leadfinger, it’s strange to say it but their new album “Friday Night Heroes” is a very different animal from the live beast, which is a very special treat to watch. Leadfinger are one of those bands which you can actually watch for hours (and apparently they’re used to doing three hour-long sets in their home terrain), focusing on the drums and bass for a long period, then the interaction between the guitars, and so on.
Apart from being absorbing to watch, everyone in the crowd except your faithful reviewer is part-way hammered and dancing like idiots; women have wandered in from the street and within seconds they’re doing creditable imitations of Elaine Benes, complete with kicks. It’s one of those nights, where it seems time stops and the new day will never begin.
Tonight, Leadfinger don’t want to leave, they keep pulling off their guitars and realising they want to keep going, so they and play until they realise they’ll be shut down if they continue. I’m embarrassed to tell you what time I got to bed.
If they don’t come back soon, I’ll have to go to them.
Leadfinger can be found at this website and on Facebook. Gentle readers, open your wallets, pull out your plastic, and add to your collections.
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February 26, 1969
MR. DYMOND: We call Lieutenant Edward O'Donnell.
MR. ALCOCK: In connection with the testimony of the next witness, Your Honor, I would respectfully request the Court, since it only encompasses ten pages, to read the testimony of Perry Russo relating to this testimony, and perhaps we can do away with this stop, stop, stop and start.
THE COURT: Let me understand what the situation is. You may understand what it is, but I don't.
MR. ALCOCK: As I appreciate the testimony of this witness, Your Honor, is to be for impeachment purposes relative to certain statements Perry Russo allegedly made to him, which questions were asked of Perry Russo when he was on the witness stand and he responded to -- the State feels that he responded affirmatively to every one of them. Now it only encompasses ten page of the transcript and I would respectfully request of the Court to read that over before this witness takes the stand so we would not have to stop after each question and allow the Court to read the question propounded to Mr. Russo and his reply, and I have the pages marked.
MR. DYMOND: We certainly have no objection.
THE COURT: From 447 --
MR. DYMOND: 447 through about 457.
THE COURT: If some persons want to leave now, Sheriff, you can let them leave now. Let's see if Lieutenant O'Donnell is available.
THE SHERIFF: He is outside.
THE COURT: All right.
MR. ALCOCK: I submit to the Court having read those pages, that the witness did distinctly admit making the statement.
MR. DYMOND: I don't really believe we can generalize on questions like that.
THE COURT: Why don't you two gentlemen come into my chambers and I will show you what I am reading and let the Jury remain here.
(Whereupon, a recess was taken.)
THE COURT: Call your witness, please.
LT. EDWARD O'DONNELL, having been first duly sworn by the Minute Clerk, was examined and testified as follows:
Q: Lieutenant, if you will bend the microphone up towards your face a little, then you will be able to speak right into the end of it. For the record, Lieutenant O'Donnell, would you please state your full name.
A: My name is Edward Mark O'Donnell.
Q: What is your occupation, sir?
A: Police Officer, Lieutenant, Assistant Commanding Officer, Homicide Division, New Orleans Police Department.
Q: How long have you been affiliated with the New Orleans Police Department?
A: Seventeen years.
Q: Lieutenant O'Donnell, on or about June 19, 1967, did you have occasion to have a conversation with Perry Raymond Russo?
A: Yes, I did.
Q: During the course of your conversation, did you ask him why he had testified as he did at the preliminary hearing which was conducted in this proceeding?
A: Yes, I did.
MR. ALCOCK: What page are you on, Mr. Dymond?
MR. DYMOND: Page 449.
Q: Did he give you an answer to that question, Lieutenant?
A: Yes, he did.
Q: What explanation did he give you?
A: He stated that he had all intentions that when he came into the Court for the preliminary hearing he was going to tell the truth, that when he got here and you started talking to him and asked him questions, you turned him on, particularly when you got to the point when you asked him about did he believe in God, and he explained that this was a sensitive area with him, and to quote his own words, you turned him on, and he had at this time decided that he was going to bury you.
Q: Bury me?
A: Bury you.
Q: During that same conversation, Lieutenant O'Donnell, did Perry Russo express any desire to know the entirety of Mr. Garrison's case against Mr. Shaw?
A: Yes, he did.
Q: Did he give you any reason for wanting to know the rest of the case?
A: Yes.
Q: What was that, sir?
A: He asked me if I could let him see the case which Mr. Garrison had against Mr. Shaw, and I asked him for what reason, and he said if he could see what kind of case Mr. Garrison had, it would help him to arrive at a decision to determine whether or not Mr. Shaw was involved in this particular matter, and I told Perry Russo that the only way he should arrive at this decision is to examine his own conscience and determine what the truth is, and then arrive at a decision, that he should not have to lean on the investigation, what Mr. Garrison has or does not have.
Q: Now, did you make these facts known to the District Attorney's Office?
A: Immediately after this interview with Perry Russo, I went upstairs and I spoke with Mr. Garrison and Mr. Alcock and I made this information pertaining to this interview to them available, to them, in fact I told them what happened, and the following day I made a typewritten report and I brought this upstairs to Mr. Garrison and gave him a copy of it.
MR. DYMOND: We tender the witness.
Q: Lieutenant O'Donnell, did you make a tape recording of this interview with Perry Russo?
A: No.
THE COURT: You may proceed.
Q: Did you make a tape recording of this interview with Perry Russo?
A: No.
Q: When you were in the District Attorney's office in the presence of Mr. Barnes, Mr. Russo and Jim Garrison and Mr. Sciambra, did you repeatedly tell Perry Russo that you had made a tape of it?
A: I asked him if he would like to hear a tape play-back of our conversation because at that time Perry Russo had denied that he ever told me that Clay Shaw was not at Dave Ferrie's apartment, and I told Perry Russo at that time "Would you like to hear a tape of our conversation" in an effort to reenforce Perry Russo into admitting the truth, not admitting the truth, but admitting to what he told me when I interviewed him, and then I was in your office on that occasion Perry Russo had done a double take and denied that he ever told me this.
Q: Did you repeatedly say that you had a tape recording of this conversation and he asked you "Let me hear the tape"?
A: I asked him if he would like to hear the tape, and I don't have any tape. In fact, Mr. Sciambra asked me the same question -- excuse me, before I left your office that afternoon, I told Mr. Sciambra I did not have any tapes.
Q: Why did you keep asking Mr. Russo if he wanted to hear the tapes?
A: I don't know how many times I asked him.
Q: Why did you keep asking him that if you didn't have any tape?
A: I just explained why.
Q: But you had no tape. Is that correct?
A: That is correct.
Q: How many reports did you make up of this conversation?
A: Oh, how many reports or how many copies of a report?
Q: Well, how many copies?
A: Four, five.
Q: Four or five copies?
A: Yes.
Q: How many copies did you give to the District Attorney's Office?
A: I believe I gave them one copy.
Q: Where is the original, where is the original now?
A: The Chief of Police should have it.
Q: And how many copies do you have?
A: I have one copy.
Q: One copy?
A: Yes.
Q: Where are the other copies?
A: The Chief of Detectives should have one also.
Q: Where are the rest of them?
A: Excuse me?
Q: Where are the rest of the copies?
A: If that is four, I don't have any other copies.
Q: Well, do you have a copy or not, Lieutenant?
A: Do I have one? Yes, I have one.
Q: You have one copy?
A: Yes.
Q: And you gave one to the District Attorney's office?
A: Yes.
Q: And Chief Giarusso has a copy or the original?
A: I don't know if you got the original or whether the Superintendent got the original.
Q: Now, who else did you give a copy to?
A: The Chief of Detectives.
Q: Who is that, Morris?
A: Yes.
Q: Now, to whom else did you give a copy?
A: No one else.
Q: No one else?
A: No.
Q: Did you give a copy to anyone else?
A: No one else.
Q: You gave one copy to Chief Giarusso, one copy to Major Morris, and you have a copy. Is that correct?
A: That is correct. Now, you have a copy.
Q: And we have a copy.
A: Correct.
Q: And you don't know where the original is?
A: Either I gave you the original or the Superintendent has the original.
Q: Now, you stated on direct examination that Perry Russo said he was going to tell the truth until, as you termed it, Mr. Dymond turned him on. Is that correct?
A: This is what Perry Russo told me, yes.
Q: He said the truth?
A: Yes.
Q: Is that in your memorandum?
A: Oh, I can check my memo, I have a copy in my pocket.
Q: Take a look at it, about the middle of Page 2.
A: You want me to read that part?
Q: No, is the word "truth" in there as you testified to?
A: No, it is not.
MR. DYMOND: If the Court please, we will ask that portion of it be read. I think if there is a synonym for "truth" in there, this Jury is entitled to know about it.
THE COURT: But I can't tell him how to conduct his examination. He asked him for a very specific wording, not for a synonym. I overrule the objection.
Q: Is it a fact that during your conversation with Perry Russo he told you about being bombarded by newsmen such as Mr. Phelan, Mr. Sheridan, Mr. Townley and others?
A: Oh, yes, during this conversation with Mr. Russo he stated he was under extreme pressure from the news media and from Jim Garrison.
Q: He said Jim Garrison?
A: Yes.
Q: Is that in your report?
A: No, it is not.
Q: Why not?
A: It is not in there.
Q: Is there any reason why it is not in there?
A: Oh, in the report it states that he is under pressure, but I did -- what he explained to me, well, I asked him for an explanation of what pressures and he explained that he was under pressure from the newspapers, the magazines, television and from Garrison's office.
Q: But you did not put that in your report?
A: It merely states that he stated he was under pressure.
Q: This isn't a complete, then, account of what was said on that occasion, is it?
A: Oh, word for word, no, it is not.
Q: Just the essence of what was said or the highlights of what was said?
A: This is the essence of what was said, that is correct.
Q: Do you recall making this statement during the interview in Mr. Garrison's office, or whatever office it took place in, "If necessary I will produce a tape of his conversation," can you recall that?
A: Oh, it is possible I said that.
Q: How could you say that if you had no tape?
A: I explained my reason for that.
Q: Well, I would like to hear your reason.
A: Explain it again?
Q: Yes.
A: Because at that time Perry Russo had done a retake on what he had told me in my office on June 19, while he was in my office on June 19 he told me Clay Shaw was not at Dave Ferrie's apartment.
Q: Without qualifications?
MR. DYMOND: We are going to ask that the witness be permitted to finish.
THE COURT: You have a right to give your explanation.
THE WITNESS: The day that you, not you, but Mr. Sciambra falsely led me to come to the District Attorney's Office under the pretense that I was to give a test to Perry Russo, when I got there this was not the motive for this meeting whatsoever. I waited approximately one hour, finally Mr. Garrison and the other people who worked for him came into the office with Perry Russo, I was invited into this office, Mr. Garrison had his secretary taking notes of the conversation, everything that was said, and at this time Mr. Garrison asked me do I have a copy of the report which I gave to him, and I said "Not on me," and he said "Well, I don't have my copy, one of my assistants has it, he is out of town, can you get me a copy," which I did, I went downstairs to the Chief of Detectives' office and got a copy and brought it back upstairs, and Garrison asked me if I would let Perry Russo read my report, and I gave it to Perry Russo, and after Russo read the report he was asked is there anything in this report that is not true, and Perry Russo said "Most all of it is true, except I did not tell O'Donnell that Clay Shaw was not at this apartment," this was in direct conflict with what Perry Russo had originally told me on June 19. In an attempt to reenforce Russo into telling the same thing which he told me when he and I were talking by ourselves, because he had already expressed a fear to me of being charged with perjury by Garrison, I made that statement relative to I had a tape, I do not have tapes, there was no tape going in my office during the conversation I had with Russo.
Q: In other words, you were lying, you were lying at the time about a tape?
A: Well, you have the notes of the conversation. I don't know whether I said I have a tape or I asked him would you like to hear a tape, Mr. Garrison's secretary was there taking these notes down.
Q: I am gong to -- I will let you read this particular statement attributed to you. Now, Lieutenant O'Donnell, I am going to show you a document which I will ask you to peruse and see if you recognize that document or what is depicted in the document, rather.
A: What is the letter "R," what does it denote here, you have "G" and "R"?
Q: Probably Russo, O for O'Donnell, S for Sciambra.
A: All right (witness reading statement).
THE COURT: The witness has apparently refreshed his memory.
(The last question and answer was ready by the Reporter.)
Q: Have you had an opportunity, Lieutenant, to read the memorandum?
A: Yes, I did.
Q: Does it refresh your memory or does it accurately reflect what you recall?
A: Oh, it is pretty close to what occurred, yes.
Q: Do you recall having made the statement that you did in fact have a tape?
A: According to these notes which Mr. Garrison's secretary took, if that is a transcript of her notes, the notes state that I said "Would you like me to produce or I could produce a tape," and, as I said, I don't have a tape.
Q: Do you recall reading on the first page, quoting you, "I taped the conversation with you," do you recall making that statement?
A: There was something said similar to this.
Q: But that is not saying "I will produce a tape," that is saying you actually had a tape and taped the conversation, isn't it?
A: I might have said this, I have no argument with that.
Q: Now, Lieutenant O'Donnell --
THE COURT: Let me interrupt you just a second. Now that we have covered that particular single legal item, I suspect after you finish your cross-examination, I suspect there may be redirect and recross, so I think this is a good time to take a recess.
It is about 22 or -- 22 minutes or so to 6:00.
Let everybody have a seat, Gentlemen. Gentlemen of the Jury, we are going to recess for the evening. Again I must instruct you and admonish you do not discuss the case amongst yourselves or with anyone else until it is finally turned over to you for your decision.
Let everybody have a seat, Sheriff. Take charge of the Jury, if you will, please, and let them be safely escorted and have them back here tomorrow morning at 9:00 o'clock.
(Whereupon, the Jury was removed.)
THE COURT: I wish to make a statement, I want to make it out of the presence of the Jury. First of all, you are excused, sir, and I ask you to come back tomorrow at 9:00. Do not discuss your testimony with any witness who has testified or any witness who is to testify. You may consult with your own attorney if you care to, and you are excused.
THE WITNESS: Yes, Your Honor.
THE COURT: Gentlemen of the news media, I was requested by Bill Reed and Bob Jones that after the afternoon session was over with, as it is now, and after the spectators have left, to place one of the exhibits up so that you could take a photograph of it. I told them I would do so when we take a recess. Will you get your photographers here as soon as possible and I will let you take a picture. I think they want a picture of the blown-up signature card. Mr. Shaw, you are released under you same bond.
9:00 o'clock tomorrow, Gentlemen.
1426 (30)
February 27, 1969
. . . . Pursuant to the adjournment, the proceedings herein were resumed at 9:00 o'clock a.m. on Thursday, February 27, 1969, appearances being the same as heretofore noted in the record . . . .
THE COURT: Lieutenant O'Donnell is resuming the stand.
Note for the record that the Defendant is present, all counsel are present, and I am reminding the witness that his previous oath is still binding. All right. You may proceed, Mr. Alcock.
Q: Lieutenant O'Donnell, can you tell us the first time that you spoke to Defense Counsel in this case?
A: Yes, sir. I can't give you the exact day but it was after the start of this trial, just a few weeks ago. I spoke with Mr. Wegmann.
Q: And you had no contact with them through anyone prior to that time, to your knowledge?
A: No, sir, I haven't.
MR. ALCOCK: No further questions.
MR. DYMOND: That is all, Lieutenant.
THE COURT: Let me ask you gentlemen, is Lieutenant O'Donnell relieved from the obligations of his subpoena?
MR. ALCOCK: Yes, Your Honor.
(Witness excused.) |
global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/78750 | I am a philosopher and writer. I write about the good life, animal ethics, parenthood, gender, and whatever else happens to interest me. I teach philosophy at Southern Methodist University in Dallas. You can reach me at [email protected].
I've written three books. In 2007 I published The Weight of Things: Philosophy and the Good Life with Wiley-Blackwell. In 2010 I published Animalkind: What We Owe to Animals with the same publisher. In 2017 I published The Philosophical Parent: Asking the Hard Questions about Having and Raising Children with Oxford University Press. Find out more at the tabs above.
Other stuff: I am an editor, columnist, and contributor at The Philosophers' Magazine. (Here's my most recent contribution.) I write about news and ethics at The Prindle Post. I also occasionally write a Psychology Today blog. (Here's one about when parental obligations cease.) |
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/78776 | Wednesday, June 9, 2010
Stuntman Mike's 10,000 Lives
I first wrote about Glasgow band Stuntman Mike this past January after discovering them on DJ Bluetone’s webcast from Scotland. If you missed that blog, you can click here or simply read the following excerpt, as it’s more to the point:
... I can’t gush enough about Stuntman Mike... one of those
bands that manage to make pop music which stings a bit - with
catchy, memorable hooks that, while easily digestible, go down
more like really strong, black espresso than the way-too-sugary
soft drinks we’re typically served. Each song takes off from the
first note and races ahead, pulling one along by the viscera.
They’re loud and driving, with lots of pounding drums, thumping
bass notes and searing vocals. And for a quartet their sound is
surprisingly rich and full, their recordings incredibly well-produced
and their live performances faithful to their studio work...
Now I often write these blog entries in the wee hours of the morn - say between 4 and 5am. As a result, my observations are sometimes insomnia-driven and born upon a hazy wave of semi-somnambulism. In other words, I sort of sleepwalk my way through much of this and, once in a while, upon waking, realize that some of my initial observations, while sincere at the time, were also a bit baseless. In other, other words, I often find myself scratching my head and musing aloud: “What the hell was I thinking?”
Not so, in the case of Stuntman Mike. And, although it is roughly 5:14am as I write this, I’ve been awake since 3am, so I’m definitely in at least marginal control of my reasoning faculties and steadfast in my affirmative stance as regards Stuntman Mike. Indeed, after listening to the band’s music for the first time in several months, I can easily say that I continue to stand by my initial assessment of the band’s appeal and musical acumen.
This is especially true of their recently released single, “10,000 Lives,” a song that I’ve listened to dozens of times and still find it as compelling and listenable as I did from the first. If you question my opinion, I invite you to visit Stuntman Mike in MySpace-land and judge for yourself. For that matter, you might look to Youtube for further evidence of my assertions. Then, you may click on the following banner link and download “10,000 Lives” from iTunes.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/78779 | I dont wanna waste your time
but some kind of play or lie
so im gonna be here
and say whats on my mind
you're the finest thing in the club
all the fellahs be showing you love
baby watching you but you be watching me
if you're down,
there's a place where we can go
its not to far from here
I got the whip parked just outside
girl if you like it we can ride
let me get you in the mood
lets have a drink or two
shawty do what you came to do
baby I dont wanna play no games
I just want to know
cause tonight its all on you
tell me what you wanna do
tell me if you're feeling me
cause girl im feeling you
but tonight its all about you
tell me what you wanna do
I see its getting kind of late
but baby dont hesitate
lets get to the VIP where we can talk
I know you came with your friends
but tell them that you're leaving with me
shawty let yourself be free do what you wanna
[repeat bridge] ...
[repeat chorus] ...
[hook] x2
anywhere you wanna go
girl I will take you there
and nobody has to know
we can keep it on the low
[repeat chorus] ...
we can keep it on the low
Vídeo incorreto? |
global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/78799 | With God, all is permitted
churchmoralsHow do you decide what is right or wrong when you’re an atheist? Sam Harris addresses the issue in his book The Moral Landscape. He discusses why he thinks science is the best tool to evaluate and promote human welfare, and subsequently, the best tool to help us discover proper moral behavior. Christians like apologist William Lane Craig, however, disagree. He feels that Harris has merely outlined a way to determine what is good for humans without addressing moral obligations. Craig writes, “[s]een in this light, his claim that science can tell us a great deal about what contributes to human flourishing is hardly controversial. Of course, it can — just as it can tell us what is conducive to the flourishing of corn or mosquitoes or bacteria.” For Dr. Craig, the issue is not how to maximize human welfare, but why we should. “If God does not exist, why think we have any moral obligations to do anything? Who or what imposes these moral duties on us? Where do they come from?” You can read Craig’s full article here.
The answer to Dr. Craig’s question is simply, “us.” Our moral obligations come from us because we are the ones affected by these acts, and some acts create positive outcomes for us, while others do not. It seems that those in Craig’s camp, however, find humans too fickle to be a valid source of moral obligation. They feel an outside, “objective” authority is required. If you leave it to humans, they fear, all moral rules will be subjective, and can be defeated by mere differences of opinion.
Subjectivity works
Take human welfare. Although it is true that human welfare is a subjective goal, a subjective goal can nonetheless lead to objective rules, so long as that subjective goal is largely agreed upon by those involved. For example, take the rules of football: that the rules of football are the way they are, is purely subjective–they’re merely the way the inventors of the game wanted them to be. There is no objective reason, for example, that a first down must be 10 yards rather than 9. Yet within the subjective rules of football where a first down is 10 yards, we can objectively determine whether a team has made it to first down. Similarly, the goal of human well-being may be entirely subjective to humans (alligators care not a bit whether we are well), but that subjective framework enables us to create objective “oughts,” and these oughts comprise what we call morality. Just as God is not needed for us to determine who won the Superbowl, God is not needed to establish what we objectively ought to do. But what happens if we do add God to the mix?
God’s character and the Euthyphro dilemma
The Euthyphro dilemma asks 1) does God command something because it is good, or 2) is something good because God commands it? If we choose #1, the standard for good exists independently of God, making God contingent on that standard and morally superfluous, since we could discover this standard without God. If we choose #2, then good becomes arbitrary, since it would be whatever God decides that it is. In the short video below, Dr. Craig attempts to solve the dilemma on the One Minute Apologist:
Notice that Craig claims to have presented a 3rd option by referencing God’s nature. Yet this is merely option 1 in disguise, with “good” being replaced with “God’s nature.” Rather than being bound by an outside definition of good, God is now bound by his good nature. This is a difference without a distinction. It matters not that this standard has been relocated to God’s nature, for the result is the same: God is bound to act according to something over which he has no control, whether we call it his nature, or an independent standard of what is good (and if we argue that God can change his nature, then we are back to problem #2). Yet by defining God’s unchanging, unchangeable nature as good, we leave a gaping moral chasm that can swallow us whole: what is God’s nature? What does this nature dictate that he will do?
Nobody expects the Spanish inquisition
It is surprising to me that Christians can rest comfortably in their god’s alleged goodness, while not knowing what their god will do next. They say God is good, and then expect that God will be good to them. But why? If God’s goodness is based solely on his nature, and not on any outside measure of his actions, then any act that God performs must be called good, regardless of the effects of those actions on Christians or anyone else. If God decides that a Christian’s family member should die a horrible death, what can the Christian say except “Hallelujah?” Pretend for a minute that you are sitting in the Garden of Eden before the Fall, speculating with Adam about the good nature of God, and what acts a God with such a nature might do. And say someone gave you the following list, and asked you to check off each item you expect God might do one day:
1. Flood the earth to kill all of its inhabitants
2. Create a lake of fire to torment the disobedient
3. Require a father to kill his son as a test of faith
4. Command genocide
5. Demand blood sacrifice for appeasement of sin
Which of these would you check? Let’s say we made a new list today, to predict what God might do in the next 7,000 years. What divine acts should we expect to see on that list?
Skin in the game
You could argue that humans are just as capable of the actions listed above, and you might be right. In our capacity for cruelty, we truly are made in God’s image. But who ultimately is in a position to decide whether actions that affect humans are good or bad? An omnipotent God whom nothing can harm, who has never known fear or uncertainty, or experienced mortality or irreparable loss–is this being in a position to understand, much less judge, what humans need? I submit that it is only those that are affected by moral acts–those that will actually gain or lose, or live or die–that have the experiential knowledge needed to judge the effects of actions on themselves and their own groups. That is why the list above is shocking when considered from a human perspective. It is only when we look at it through the eyes of God, that these acts become “moral.”
So who imposes moral duties on humans? The only ones qualified to do so: humans themselves. There will be disagreements and abuses as history has shown, and we are always in danger of self-destruction. But there is a limit to the danger we pose to ourselves: there is no limit with God. Those who reference Dostoevsky on this have it backwards: it is only with God, that all is permitted.
11 thoughts on “With God, all is permitted
1. You are right for feeling the way you do. All that churchy stuff gets in the way of you establishing a relationship with God. Have you heard of Andy Stanley? Do yourself a big favor and just watch the first 20 minutes of his first message in his new series. Go to Buckhead Church (all one word) Dot Org and go to messages. Watch the new series. Have fun!
2. It seems as if another way to pose the Euthyphro question is to ask whether we are created in God’s image or the other way around? If we are created in the image of God, as the statement above suggests, “In our capacity for cruelty, we truly are made in God’s image.” This suggests that God is cruel. Or, are we living in an ambiguous world, broken by the narrative played out in Genesis? It does seem to be a cruel joke, creatures created in your image and then tell them not to play with fire or they will get burned. In this case, the knowledge of good and evil? Could they handle it? Were they being rebellious if they were warned? Should everything be scrapped and God start over, or is this the grand narrative of the kind of ambiguity we live with in a moral universe, which by the way, implies life and personality, and not just a mechanistic universe that imposes its cold will on us when we least expect it? It seems to me that the very fact that there is even a debate about this that bothers people implies that the possibility exists that we are moral creatures and there is a moral God in whose nature also exists the standard of right and wrong. Or, you can opt for a mere mechanistic universe where we are judged merely by the laws of nature. Which alternative seems to fit reality as we see it in the world? Is this a broken world where real ambiguity exists for good and bad where people cry out for justice? I think the Genesis narrative can weigh in here. If we created God in our image, then we are claiming to be the center of morality and all standards of right and wrong begin with us. The only problem is, I did not create myself or the universe, so I might like to think that I am the center of morality, but it is a bit pretentious to believe that.
1. Hi Gary, thanks for your post. I do not think whether we created ourselves has anything to do with what’s moral. That sentient beings had no hand in their creation does not give them less of a moral right to judge their treatment. Similarly, the fact that another being created them does not automatically mean that anything that other being does to them is moral. I start my definition of morality where the rubber hits the road: the effect of actions on those that are affected. I submit that those who are affected by the actions are the only ones that have the right to say whether those actions are moral.
2. If God is ‘The Morality’ and is cruel and affectionate, then we just need to get over it and stop pretending otherwise. Even the Bible says that Jesus endured the cross FOR THE REWARD. Altruism must be in there, as God seems to enjoy extremes of everything in his activities.
3. So, if a person murders a family, and the father survived and determined that the action was neither moral or immoral, just an act (barring all motives), then the act committed is subjectively neither moral or immoral, unless the father determined that it was one or the other? Should a court of law be summoned to determine whether there should be punitive measures if the father says no?
1. Hi Gary. You are correct that there are humans who view moral acts very differently than others.
However, the question of “what acts are immoral” is greatly compounded when you add God to the mix.
With humans, we at least have shared experiences, common physical tolerances, and common emotional reactions to things. We all love our kids, and we all hate to be hungry or imprisoned. From this we can construct a norm, and can judge moral actions against this norm. Sure, the process is not perfect, nor is there perfect agreement on what the norm should be. But our shared human experience does allow us to get quite far in defining these norms, which is why laws, for example, work for the most part if they are enforced.
With God, however, we have no such markers or norms. What can we say to a god who decides it’s okay to wipe everyone out with a flood, or to turn someone into a pillar of salt, or to wipe out 70,000 people because their king took a census? Because we know nothing of the motivations or needs of a god, we are left with no moral guideposts when God is in charge of morality. White can be black as easily as black can be white, for who among us can say which it should be, and for how long?
As imperfect as human-based morality can be, it is far more firmly rooted and predictable than that based on the unknown, unpredictable nature of a god.
4. I think I understand your position. And the reason that you can say that there are humans who view moral acts very differently is that, as you have stated, you only assign a moral interpretation to the receiver of the act, and you reject any independent referent for morality apart from the recipient. I believe you infer that norms are constructed and that we can judge moral actions against this norm or set of norms? You also question the acts assigned to God in the OT, such as the flood, destroying a city, etc., as somewhat superfluous, and not qualified to be judged by humans as acts of morality? I see the disconnect here. We cannot know that there are any moral absolutes, so you can never come to an absolute agreement on ethical issues, just periodic judgments based on constructed norms. Would it be true to say that just as the picture on a TV screen is not identical with the reality that it represents, to call something moral or immoral is not identical to the act? In other words, there is a disconnect between the act and the assigned value, the assigned value being relative only to the recipient of the act? Is this view similar to Kant’s phenomenological and noumena distinction? God is outside the phenomenological/sense world, and we cannot know anything in the noumena realm.
5. Hi Gary. I’m saying that these acts of God, such as flooding the earth, are not moral by any human standard, and no amount of divine justification can change that. Was it moral in God’s eyes? Sure, if he divorces morality from the human experience. Since God is a law unto himself according to DCT proponents like Craig, without obligation to anyone else, anything he decides to do is necessarily moral as to him. That does not mean it is moral as to us.
You mention the noumena. I think this is an interesting philosophical concept, but totally unhelpful to any discussion about morality. Morality must be grounded in phenomenon, that is, the observable affect on the sentient beings being affected. To ground it in noumena would be to ground it in something we know nothing about, which would be the same as grounding it in nothing. However, I’m glad you brought it up. God’s character seems to be a noumenon. To ground morality in something you know nothing about, and cannot predict, is one of the great dangers in religion that my post was meant to highlight.
6. It is a common theme throughout the ages that atrocities committed are not supposed to be atrocities if the perpetrators say God told them to do it. However their god is still supposed to be good. Gods don’t seem to have any moral standards to guide them. If they do it, it is right just because they do it. Yet creatures supposedly made in a god’s image cannot do the same things their god does or it is immoral. How do they know it is immoral if a good god does or commands it and it’s ok? I am trying to say the whole idea of morality coming from God makes no sense. We can’t follow God’s example! And the commandments God supposedly gave do not apply if people can say God said to do it. An example is murder. Murder is forbidden yet how many murders have been committed with the perpetrators saying God said to do it? We still have to work morality out ourselves. It is kind of easier to do without a God in the background supposedly commanding clearly immoral acts.
7. I never really understand the notion that morality is some subjective human construct. I think all human beings in all times in all cultures can determine right/good from wrong/bad and we do so precisely because morality is objective. Morality is not something created, rather discovered or realized. It is not based on some democratic process or on the laws of some higher being. It is based on acknowledgment and acceptance of the world we live in and man’s relationship with this world we live in. It is something all men can know via observation and reason.
Just because some cultures or societies may agree or decide to do something contrary to what is moral (ie: abortion or the holocaust) does not mean those things aren’t objectively immoral. It simply means some culture or individuals got it wrong. This is evidenced in how those engaging in the immoral behavior have to change the wording to make it acceptable to themselves or others.
For example the only way the extermination of Jews could even be possible was to dehumanize the Jewish people. Even Germans knew it would be wrong to kill the lives of innocent people. Even the pro abortion argument rests on the belief abortion isn’t killing a human life, rather a clump of cells, because everyone agrees it is wrong to kill an innocent life.
I disagree that we have to work morality out for ourselves. It isn’t something we have to work out.
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Blogging for the LIFT’07 Conference
I just put up my first Meet the speakers post over at the LIFT blog. It’s a short profile of Julian Bleecker, who will talk about building and inhabiting meaningful online communities.
I’ll put up a couple more Meet the speakers posts at the LIFT blog before the conference starts on 7 February. And as I’m one of the conference bloggers (Laurent, do we get an official looking badge or something?), I’ll be posting during and after the conference too, so all you lazy buggers fine, hard-working people can enjoy the conference from within the comfort of your own sitting-room.
I plan to take a couple pics and vids with my N93; waving a cool technogadget in famous people’s faces is #97 on my List Of Things To Do Before I Die, and it’s what this brick of a phone was built for after all.
1. nchenga wrote:
i’d like to be a conf blogger as well. Who do I need to pester?
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2. Matthias wrote:
@nchenga, you’d have to contact Laurent Haug. I’m sure he’s got a contact address somewhere on the site.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/78841 | Laing School located here from 1868 to 1953 was founded in 1866 by Cornelia Hancock, a Quaker who had served as a nurse with the Union Army during the Civil War. First housed in Mount Pleasant Presbyterian Church, Laing Industrial School was named for Henry M. Laing of the Friends Association for the Aid and Elevation of the Freedmen. The 1868 school destroyed by the Charleston Earthquake of 1886 was replaced by a school which stood here until 1954. Early instruction at Laing with its motto “Try to Excel” combined academics with instruction in industrial, farming and homemaking skills. A new Laing Elementary opened at King and Greenwich Streets in 1945; the high school remained here until a new Laing High opened on U.S. Hwy. 17 North in 1953. Laing High closed in 1970 with the desegregation of county schools. That building later housed Laing Middle School when it opened in 1974. |
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/78876 | Land preparation
Demarcation marker
Demarcation marker
Demarcating and Fencing
The school site is located about 7km west of Lodwar town along the Lodwar-Lorugum road, towards Uganda. The 5Ha (12 acre) plot was originally purchased in February 2010 and in the months that followed, the demarcation and fencing took place. In November 2012, based on the recommendation of the school board of govenors, an additional hectare (3 acres) was added and the school fence extended accordingly.
Land Clearing
After the initial fencing of the school plot, one of our main tasks was to clear the land for building construction. As is the case with most of the terrain in the area, the plot was covered in a thorny shrub (Prosopis juliflora), called Eterai in Turkana, which can become a tree growing to 15m. This shrub/tree, native to Central America/Mexico, was introduced into the Turkana District in the 1980’s as part of a strategy to inhibit the advancement of desertification and soil erosion. It is a very fast-growing multipurpose tree/shrub used for feed of livestock, shade, windbreak, charcoal, live fences, and firewood. Despite its valuable prospects, the shrub is jeopardizing the daily life of the Turkana by invading farmlands and rangelands, narrowing roads, and the spines attack livestock and people when they collect the pods or pass-by. Clearing the land became a time-consuming task requiring much skill, determination and stamina. Just check out the thorns and roots in the photos below and imagine what it must be like to uproot this nasty beast.
Staking out Buildings
After clearing much of the land, it was then possible to stake out the school buildings based our facility plan.
Tree Planting
To create shade from the intense desert sun and replace the unwanted and inaccessible thorny Eterai, we planted over 100 trees on the school plot, mostly Neem trees (Azadirachta indica) native to South Asia, along with a few indigenous species. The Neem tree thrives in most parts of Kenya and is noted for its tolerance of a wide range of soils and its drought resistance. It is fast growing and typically reaches a height of 15-20m. Also dubbed Arobaini (forty) by Kenyans because it is believed to cure 40 diseases, the Neem tree is renowned for its medicinal and pesticidal properties. As a human medicine it has a vast range of uses in folk remedies, but is particularly prescribed for skin conditions such as acne, eczema, and fungal infections, typically through the inclusion of Neem Oil in cosmetics such as soaps, shampoo, balms, and creams. It can also be used in treating intestinal worms through drinking the rather bitter ‘tea’ made with the bark and/or leaves. Some claim that it also treats headlice and scabies, viruses and infertility. Neem twigs have also long been used for brushing teeth.
To protect the young saplings from the wind, intense sun, and livestock, we employed a group of Turkana women from the community who constructed a small nyumba, made with dry thorny sticks/branches tied together by palm leaf fronds, around each sapling. |
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/78896 | Saturday, 8 October 2011
Under ideal conditions there is a constant stream of data on the network and every call to pgm_recv returns data and there is no data loss or dropped packets. Ideal conditions are rare though, we might see bursty data from senders, senders may close or crash, packets may be lost.
At the most basic level we need to be maintained that the senders exist, senders notify their presence by repeated broadcast of SPM packets. Packet loss, closed or crashed applications would cause an absence of SPM broadcasts and this situation can be caught by a timer. If no packets are seen within say 30 seconds we consider the sender to no longer to be operational.
The receive window extends beyond that to monitor every incoming packet, NAK elimination to prevent transmission of duplicate NAKs from the same or different receivers, and retransmission of NAKs for when the retransmit request itself was lost in the network. Each state is driven by configurable timers or timeouts.
This means that as soon as a single packet from a sender is received the common return values expected are PGM_IO_STATUS_NORMAL for data and PGM_IO_STATUS_TIMER_PENDING for no-data or receive-state transitions.
Assuming non-blocking sockets, the return value PGM_IO_STATUS_WOULD_BLOCK appears when the call to pgm_recv cannot immediately return due to no available contiguous data.
The important note about this return value is that it indicates that there are no known senders and the receive state engine is waiting for starting data packets to begin processing.
When calling pgm_recv the return value for indicating data was successfully read is PGM_IO_STATUS_NORMAL, this is obviously the ideal case and assuming a constant stream of data to read from the network.
OpenPGM follows a reactor model, calling pgm_recv will then read a packet from the underlying UDP or RAW socket. If the packet is an original data packet, called ODATA, it will be inserted into the receive window and if-and-only-if the sequence is contiguous to the current lead the payload can be returned to the application.
Friday, 8 July 2011
4. Non-operational IPv4 adapters
So the question arises, if we detect an adapter that is not "operationally up" and hence with no prefix, if we can assume that IPv4 link-local addresses always have a 16-bit prefix what are the others?
First obvious candidate would be a static configured host IP address with the "media disconnected", i.e. no network cable.
Let's see how much information Windows grants the typical CJ.
Ethernet adapter Local Area Connection:
Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :
Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : C4-2C-03-21-78-AB
Autoconfiguration Enabled . . . . : Yes
We see that the adapter exists and absolutely no indication of an address other than DHCP is disabled. Let's look at the results of IPv4 adapter enumeration using the GetAdaptersInfo API.
Info: #13 name {12D5DC53-E214- IPv4
scope 0 status UP loop NO b/c YES m/c YES
Info: #11 name {61F5BC1C-1D95- IPv4
Info: #10 name {FFF6B15A-5B5C- IPv4
Info: #19 name {D8ED3DA1-9FAC- IPv4
The Ethernet adapter is index #11 and the Windows 2000 API returns the host IP address as Let's look at the Windows XP API, GetAdaptersAddresses, excluding IPv6 addressing.
Info: #13 name {12D5DC53-E214- IPv4
scope 0 status DOWN loop NO b/c NO m/c YES
Info: #11 name {61F5BC1C-1D95- IPv4
Info: #11 name {61F5BC1C-1D95- IPv4
Info: #10 name {FFF6B15A-5B5C- IPv4
scope 0 status UP loop NO b/c NO m/c YES
Info: #19 name {D8ED3DA1-9FAC- IPv4
Info: #1 name {846EE342-7039- IPv4
scope 0 status UP loop YES b/c NO m/c YES
Windows is returning two different interfaces for the adapter, one is a IPv4 link-local prefixed address, and the other is the configured static host IP address
In conclusion we find that Windows cannot provide the netmask or network prefix for any adapter that is not marked "operationally up". The older Windows 2000 API cannot even report the IP address of such adapters, the newer Windows XP API fairs a little better but we can only determine the prefix of IPv4 link-local addresses without additional information.
Thursday, 7 July 2011
A Cupcake and a Teredo
IPv6 is starting to garner more interest around the world with a multitude of options being presented for co-operation with existing IPv4 hosts. Several schemes already deployed are targeting how to ensure the IPv6 Internet is accessible to IPv4-only users. When you try to access an IPv6 website such as and an IPv6 address is returned the scheme will tunnel the request over the IPv4 Internet to a host that can speak both IPv4 and IPv6 that forwards the request onto the IPv6 target.
IPv6 similar to IPv4 was designed with a specific spit between which part of an address refers to the network and that to the host.
"Unicast and anycast addresses are typically composed of two logical parts: a 64-bit network prefix used for routing, and a 64-bit interface identifier used to identify a host's network interface."
However there is this is purely a recommendation not an in concrete part of the protocol addressing. As implied non-unicast addresses may have a different network prefix size, for example multicast addresses have a 8-bit prefix.
As it turns out different adapter types also can have different network prefixes. A common example is a tunnel such as a VPN, typically a point-to-point communication between your computer and a VPN concentrator. A point-to-point link has no multicast, broadcast, or sub-networking and hence will have a full 128-bit prefix. Then, we have Teredo, and a cupcake.
A Cupcake
A raspberry tiramisu cupcake from "Cupcake Wars".
When configuring computer networking most CJ's will be aware of the basic required numbers, a host IP address, a subnet mask, and a default gateway. Here is a typical view on a Windows host with the ipconfig command.
Ethernet adapter Local Area Connection:
Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :
Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . :
On OSX the ifconfig command might generate something similar.
en0: flags=8863<up,broadcast,smart,running,simplex,multicast> mtu 1500</up,broadcast,smart,running,simplex,multicast>
inet netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast
As you can see the tuple of address and netmask is quite visible for both. A trip over to MSDN with the GetAdaptersInfo function presents an API to enumerate adapters The API returns a linked list of IP_ADAPTER_INFO objects for each adapter with an IP_ADDR_STRING for each interface on the adapter containing the host IP address and subnet IP address. As you might note the MSDN articles indicate that Windows XP developers should use the GetAdaptersAddresses function as this also presents IPv6 addresses and makes it easier to determine unidirectional adapters such as satellite Internet connections.
The Windows XP API generates a list of IP_ADAPTER_ADDRESSES objects which vary in size depending on which Windows version is operating. The list of interfaces per adapter is found in the IP_ADAPTER_UNICAST_ADDRESS list but includes no netmask. On Windows Vista and later a field called OnLinkPrefixLength is provided, the prefix indicating the length of the network IP address, presumably to reduce user errors in specifying illegal masks such as So what about Windows XP developers?
A list of IP_ADAPTER_PREFIX objects is provided for Windows XP SP1 users, indicating that nothing is available pre-service pack. The list is one prefix per interface and with Windows XP has been a one-to-one mapping with the unicast interface list. With Windows Vista this list has been expanded, breaking compatibility with early assumptions.
"In addition, the linked IP_ADAPTER_UNICAST_ADDRESS structures pointed to by the FirstUnicastAddress member and the linked IP_ADAPTER_PREFIX structures pointed to by the FirstPrefix member are maintained as separate internal linked lists by the operating system. As a result, the order of linked IP_ADAPTER_UNICAST_ADDRESS structures pointed to by the FirstUnicastAddress member does not have any relationship with the order of linked IP_ADAPTER_PREFIX structures pointed to by the FirstPrefix member.
On Windows Vista and later, the linked IP_ADAPTER_PREFIX structures pointed to by the FirstPrefix member include three IP adapter prefixes for each IP address assigned to the adapter. These include the host IP address prefix, the subnet IP address prefix, and the subnet broadcast IP address prefix. In addition, for each adapter there is a multicast address prefix and a broadcast address prefix.
On Windows XP with SP1 and later prior to Windows Vista, the linked IP_ADAPTER_PREFIX structures pointed to by the FirstPrefix member include only a single IP adapter prefix for each IP address assigned to the adapter."
Notice the wording, the list "includes" prefixes but no order or existence is guaranteed. So lets investigate some adapters and see what results are provided by this API.
1. The Loopback Adapter
Windows prefers to hide the loopback adapter and interfaces from ipconfig but other platforms aren't so shy.
lo0: flags=8049<up,loopback,running,multicast> mtu 16384
inet6 fe80::1%lo0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x1
inet netmask 0xff000000
inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128</up,loopback,running,multicast>
Notice OSX adds a link-local interface to the loopback adapter contrasting with Windows and Linux.
lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr: Mask:
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
We have the standard IPv4 address with a network prefix of 8-bits, IPv6 comes with address ::1 and full prefix of 128-bits. Now back to the Windows XP API.
There is no IPv6 subnet IP address as presumably an optimisation to not having a subnet, the host IP address, and multicast address; IPv6 does not not include broadcast. On IPv4 we have the subnet IP address, host IP address, subnet broadcast IP address, all-host multicast and broadcast IP addresses.
2. Active IPv6 adapter
In IPv6 land there are usually two interfaces per adapter, one link-local, and one global-scope.
A new entry appears not documented on MSDN, the IPv6 unspecified address ::/0 which a zero length prefix indicating that this adapter hosts the default route for IPv6. There is no IPv4 equivalent ever listed (, and the prefix only appears when global-scope addresses are enabled.
Surprisingly the Windows Vista and later API returns a prefix length of 64-bits for a Teredo sourced address despite the routing table showing 32-bits and all documentation referring to standard prefix of 2001:0::/32. This is assumed to be a defect in Windows 7 SP1.
3. Point-to-point tunnels
Continuing the optimisation seen hiding the subnet IP address for when there is no subnet with PTP interfaces with no support for broadcast or multicast traffic then the only prefix listed is for the host IP address.
This address is actually a IPv4 mapped link-local IPv6 address for a IPv4 PTP VPN tunnel.
4. Non-operational IPv4 adapters
It is common to find that many hosts these days contain network adapters that are not in use, for example additional Ethernet ports, Bluetooth, and even virtual WiFi or virtual machine host-only adapters. Surprisingly Windows has a special treatment for these adapters.
As the adapter is non-operational Windows is hiding the IPv4 address from the prefix list hence making it impossible to determine the prefix length and netmask. Bizarrely though IPv4 all-host multicast and broadcast addresses are still returned. This may be an artifact of IPv4 link-local addressing on Windows that permits the use of IPv4 broadcast and multicast over a non-configured adapter for device discovery. Therefore you can pull the unicast address and detect for a link-local address and assume the standard 16-bit prefix.
With a static address interface that is non-operational it appears the only method to determine the network prefix length, and hence the netmask is to use the older Windows 2000 GetAdaptersInfo function.
Tuesday, 26 April 2011
Real-Time Linux
Real-Time Linux, a set of patches to improve scheduling consistency and available in SUSE Linux Enterprise Real Time and RedHat Enterprise MRG.
Linux latency in microseconds at 10,000 packets-per-second one-way.
Y-axis is latency in microseconds, X-axis is time in seconds. Chart records test of 10,000 packets-per-second send out and received, a total of 20,000 datagrams-per-second. The left hand side shows Linux 2.6.36 with normal scheduling (SCHED_OTHER) with a tight grouping around 200μs; the right hand side shows Linux 2.6.26 with real-time scheduling (SCHED_FIFO) with tighter grouping at 200μs but larger spread of outliers.
Linux latency in microseconds at 20,000 packets-per-second one-way.
Normal scheduler shows a tight grouping at 250μs with minor spread of outliers; real time scheduling shows grouping at a better latency of 200μs but higher spread of outliers.
Linux latency in microseconds at 30,000 packets-per-second one-way.
Normal scheduler shows grouping at 250μs with spread from 200μs-1ms; real time scheduling shows spread of grouping 200-250μs with outliers to 1ms.
Linux latency in microseconds at 40,000 packets-per-second one-way.
Normal scheduler shows grouping 200-600μs with outliers spread to 2ms; real time scheduling shows grouping 250-300μs with outliers spread to 1.5ms with a strange gap from 1.0-1.3ms.
Wherefore art thou IP packet? Make haste Windows 2008 R2
How camest thou hither, tell me, and wherefore?
Lest the bard fray more, the topic is of PGM haste in the homogeneous environment, and the unfortunate absence of said haste. We take performance readings of PGM across multiple hosts and present a visual heat map of latency to provide insight to the actual performance. Testing entails transmission of a message onto a single LAN segment, the message is received by a listening application which immediately re-broadcasts the message, when the message is received back at the source the round-trip-time is calculated using a single high precision clock source.
Performance testing configuration with a sender maintaining a reference clock to calculate message round-trip-time (RTT).
The baseline reading is taken from Linux to Linux, the reference hardware is an IBM BladeCentre HS20 with Broadcom BCM5704S gigabit Ethernet adapters and the networking infrastructure is provided by a BNT fibre gigabit Ethernet switch.
Latency in microseconds from Linux to Linux at 10,000 packets-per-second one-way.
The numbers themselves are of minor consequence, for explanation at 10,000 packets-per-second (pps) there is a marked grouping at 200μs round-trip-time (RTT) latency. The marketing version would be 20,000pps, as we consider 10,000pps being transmitted, and 10,000pps being received simultaneously, with a one-way latency of 100μs. Also note that the packet reflection is implemented at the application layer much like any end-developer written software using the OpenPGM BSD socket API, compare this with alternative testing configurations that may operate at the network layer and bypass the effective full latency of the networking stack and yield to disingenuous figures.
20,000 feet (6,096 meters) Sir Hillary
Onward and upward we must go, with an IFG of 96ns the line capacity of a gigabit network is 81,274pps leading to the test potential limit of 40,000pps one-way with a little safety room above.
Latency in microseconds from Linux to Linux at 20,000 packets-per-second one-way.
At 20,000pps we start to see a spread of outliers but notice the grouping remains at 200μs.
Latency in microseconds from Linux to Linux at 30,000 packets-per-second one-way.
At 30,000pps outlier latency jumps to 1ms.
Latency in microseconds from Linux to Linux at 40,000 packets-per-second on-way.
At 40,000pps you are starting to see everything start to break down with the majority of packets from 200-600μs. Above 40,000pps the network is saturated and packet loss starts to occur, packet loss initiating PGM reliability and consuming more bandwidth than is available for full speed operation.
Windows 2008 R2 performance
Here comes Windows. Windows!
Latency in microseconds from Windows to Linux at 10,000 packets-per-second one-way.
Non-blocking sockets at 10,000pps show a grouping just as Linux at 200μs but the spread of outliers reaches as far as 2ms. This is highlights the artifacts of a low scheduling granularity and an inefficient IP stack.
Spot the difference
A common call to arms on Windows IP networking hoists the flag of Input/Output Completion Ports or IOCP as a more efficient design to event handling as it depends upon blocking sockets, reducing the number of system calls to send and receive packets, and permits zero-copy memory handling.
Latency in microseconds from Windows to Linux at 10,000 packets-per-second one-way using IOCP.
The only difference is a slightly lighter line at ~220μs, the spread of latencies is still rather broad.
Increasing the socket buffer sizes permits the test to run at 20,000pps but with heavy packet loss requiring the PGM reliability engine yielding 1-2 seconds average latency.
High performance Windows datagrams
All the popular test utilities use blocking sockets to yield remotely reasonable figures. These include netperf, iperf, ttcp, and ntttcp - Microsoft's port of ttcp for Windows sockets. These sometimes yield higher raw numbers than iperf on Linux which considering the previous results is unexpected.
• iperf on Linux yields ~70,000pps.
• PCATTCP on Windows yields ~90,000pps.
• ntttcp on Windows yields ~190,000pps.
• iperf on Windows yields ~20,000pps.
There appears to be either a significant driver flaw or severe Windows limitation in transmit interrupt coalescing as the resultant bandwidths from testing yield ~800mbs to a Windows host, but only ~400mbs from a Windows host. Drivers for the Broadcom Ethernet adapter have undergone many revisions from 2001 through to present, all consistently show weak transmit performance even with TCP transports.
Windows registry settings
To achieve these high performance Windows results the following changes were applied.
• Disable the multimedia network throttling scheduler. By default Windows limits streams to 10,000pps when a multimedia application is running.
Under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\WindowsNT\CurrentVersion\Multimedia\SystemProfile set NetworkThrottlingIndex, type REG_DWORD32, value set to 0xffffffff.
• Two settings define an IP stack path for datagrams, by default datagrams above 1024 go through a slow locked double buffer, increase this to the network MTU size, i.e. 1500 bytes.
Under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\AFD\Parameters:
• FastSendDatagramThreshold, type REG_DWORD32, value set to 1500.
• FastCopyReceiveThreshold, type REG_DWORD32, value set to 1500.
• Without hardware acceleration for high resolution time stamping incoming packets will be tagged with the receipt time at expense of processing time. Disable the time stamps on both sender and receiver. This is performed by means of the following command:
netsh int tcp set global timestamps=disabled
• A firewall will intercept all packets causing increased latency and processing time, disable the filtering and firewall services to ensure direct network access. Disable the following services:
• Base Filtering Engine (BFE)
• Windows Firewall (MpsSvc)
Additional notes
The test hardware nodes are single core Xeons and so Receive Side Scaling (RSS) does not assist performance. Also, the Ethernet adapters do not support Direct Cache Access (DCA) also known as NetDMA 2.0 which should improve performance by reducing system time required to send or receive packets.
To significantly increase the default socket buffer size you can set a multiplier number under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\AFD\Parameters:
, type REG_DWORD32, value set to 0x400.
Saturday, 29 January 2011
Strawberries and a Python through the Looking Glass
How do we get OpenPGM on Windows? This is an obvious question popular with new developers. The stumbling blocks tend to be that OpenPGM is written to the ANSI C99 specification and Microsoft's Visual C++ 2010 compiler only supports ANSI C89 or C++ 2003.
Convexing Cross-Compiling of C
Microsoft hasn't the only C compiler vendor targeting Windows, and it also isn't necessary that the compiler actually runs on Windows, by a process called cross-compiling the Windows platform can be targeted from another. This also tends to be scary for many Windows developers as they need a second operating system, learn how to use a new compiler, and finally you have additional compiler dependencies when bringing back the library on Windows.
Priceless Princely Patch for Progress
As it so happens cross-compilation has its pros and cons, on the plus side it means one code base and one build system; on the negative side it means the resultant library brings in additional libraries for the cross-compiler and its compatibility layers, and debugging is made rather inconvenient.
So the benefits of a native build are strong but how much effort is required to modify C99 code to get it working in a C89 compiler and how difficult is a native build system? Well the differences from one compiler to the next can be managed with a patch cluster. The build system is similar to Automake and SConscript build components as the Autoconf comparables are constant to Windows XP SP3. We choose a build system that can target agnostic to Visual Studio compiler version for greatest compatibility to minimize maintenance overhead.
CMake Make Make
With Microsoft Visual C++ 2010 installed we need to install some extra software to start, first the build system called CMake which has a simple Win32 installer with minimal options, it is recommended to allow it to update your system PATH so you can use immediately. Next are two critical build dependencies for OpenPGM, we need both the Perl and Python 2 scripting languages both of which offer x86 and x64 builds depending on your platform architecture.
Extract the source for the latest OpenPGM archive into somewhere convenient, for example C:\>
CMake generating Makefile.
By default CMake is creating a Makefile with debugging enabled, you can use cmake-gui to update the parameter for a release build.
CMake-GUI updating configuration parameters and regenerating Makefile.
With a successfully generated Makefile we can start the build process using Microsoft's standard command line tools.
Generating C89-compatible source files.
The build process continues automatically by first patching all the source files for C89 compatibility, the C89-compatible source files are fed into the compiler, finally the object files are linked together into the native library.
Generating object files and final libpgm library.
Now complete we can start to use the library to build the example applications and start development. An additional feature of the CMake system is called CPack which allows us to create a Windows installer we can use to install OpenPGM binaries on other systems.
First download the latest NSIS package and install with full options, then simply run cmake package to produce the Windows installer.
Building an OpenPGM Windows installer with CPack and NSIS.
What is PGM? What is OpenPGM?
Well lets start by saying PGM is the name of a internet, lower-case "i", communications protocol, and OpenPGM is an implementation of that protocol. A communications protocol being the definition of how two or more computers or electronic devices communicate with each other. For example you just enjoyed a good slice of cherry pie and damn fine cup of coffee and you wanted to tweet it to your friends, you tap the message into your phone and hit a button, then by magic the message appears on your microblog. Between your phone's Twitter app' and the Twitter website your tweet message has been sent following a predefined communications protocol.
There is a subtle difference between the Internet, upper-case "I", and an internet, lower-case "i", the former is the name for the public network where we can access Facebook and Twitter, the latter is the generic term for a group of interconnected networks. This means we could find PGM on the Internet or we could find it on other non-public networks such as within a stock exchange's trading system or communicating physics of the Higgs Boson at the Large Hadron Collider.
So what is special about PGM?
The erhu is a Chinese two-stringed bowed musical instrument and not commonly found in Western music. If you wanted to listen to a recital of Sanmen Capriccio a convenient choice might be to watch a performance by Yang Ying on YouTube. For a live performance you might tune in the radio and listen alongside other fans of huqin. On the Internet you may find an Internet radio station to listen on but there is fundamental limitation on how many fans can be plugging in. Say Girls Generation announced a online concert tonight the stampede from eager fans may overload the site and crash the network as the concert site has to stream a duplicate copy of the event to each and every listener. The PGM protocol allows one sent stream of data to be received by multiple recipients, the fan-out of the stream to each recipient being managed by the network instead of say the host concert site.
Why should I choose OpenPGM?
So PGM is the protocol on paper, digitally at least, you need an actual implementation for something to start looking like it will work. There are a selection of vendors providing commercial solutions, including Microsoft, IBM, and TIBCO, and a variety of open source projects as long as your preferred platform is FreeBSD. So an open source implementation that works on multiple platforms, is compatible with existing vendor solutions, and is even faster and more flexible sounds like a good choice, then have a look at OpenPGM. |
global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/78901 | Long before Zika virus made it a household word, the birth defect called microcephaly puzzled scientists and doctors — even as it changed the lives of the babies born with it during the pre-Zika era.
But new discoveries reported by an international team of scientists may help explain what happens in the developing brains of babies still in the womb, causing them to be born with small brains and heads.
The findings may also help scientists who are frantically trying to figure out why the Zika virus causes the same issue in some babies born to mothers who catch the virus from a mosquito bite.
In two new papers in the American Journal of Human Genetics, the researchers report new findings about a key protein involved in the process that generates the many new cells required to build a normal size brain. Though the new studies didn’t involve Zika-related microcephaly, they may provide clues that other scientists can use to investigate how Zika virus disrupts brain development.
Stephanie Bielas, Ph.D., a University of Michigan Medical School assistant professor of human genetics who helped lead the new research, says the findings also provide insight into what is required for brains to develop normally.
“There’s so much we don’t understand about human brain development that we’re just starting to uncover,” she says. “This shows the devastating impact of interrupting cell biology critical for this process.”
Interrupted cell division
Both of the new papers focus on the role of citron kinase, a protein important during the process of mitosis, where one cell divides to make two cells. Cell division is the foundation of normal growth and development.
CIT, as the protein is called for short, helps in the final stages of cell division that separates the two “daughter” cells, called cytokinesis. That’s when the two new cells, each with their own copy of the DNA from the original “parent” cell, sever the connections between them.
Years ago, research in animals showed that problems with the gene that contains the instructions for making the animal form of citron kinase could lead to microcephaly. But until now, that link hadn’t been proven in humans. The researchers now say that CIT is critical to building a normally sized human brain.
To make this discovery, the researchers turned to families from Egypt, France and Turkey that had one or more microcephalic babies. Some of them died soon after birth, the others developed intellectual disabilities that result from having a too-small brain.
Studying these babies’ genes and brain tissue gave clues to the importance of CIT, and the problems that arise when the CIT gene is mutated. Where normal brain cells have only one nucleus – the pouch containing the DNA and other important structures – many cells in microcephalic brain tissue had multiple nuclei. This suggested that something had happened to prevent new cells from dividing properly.
Stem cells help the search
Another tool helped the researchers take the study even further: stem cells. With the parents’ permission, they obtained skin cells from the surviving children and used relatively new techniques to transform them into induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs). This essentially turns back the clock on the cells, making them able to develop into nearly any type of cell.
The researchers then grew the iPSCs under special conditions that coaxed them to develop into neural progenitor cells – the kind of cells that in a developing embryo grow and divide rapidly to become the future child’s brain.
“There’s a lot of evidence now that in microcephaly, there aren’t sufficient numbers of neural progenitor cells to build the normal-size brain,” says Bielas. “Since the cells that form the structures of the brain, and develop into the different types of cells are born from this pool of actively dividing cells. This aspect of human brain development is a key issue to study.”
Bielas points out that studying rare spontaneous cases of microcephaly – such as those in the families that took part in the study – offers a chance to identify genes important for brain development and understand the impact of deleterious small genetic mutations.
“Often in genetics, we identify seemingly obscure genes as the genetic basis of disorders; we don’t know what they do or where and when they’re active,” she notes. “But in the case of citron kinase, we knew what a mutation in the gene did in animal models. These newly published findings confirm that CIT mutations are not only linked to severe microcephaly in humans, but are also associated with a smooth, unfolded brain surface – a condition known as lissencephaly – that isn’t usually seen in brain disorders linked primarily to defects in neural progenitor cell mitosis.”
Bielas and her colleagues are now growing brain “organoids” – balls of brain tissue grown from iPSCs or human embryonic stem cells with edited genes – to study this issue further. The hope is that by studying microcephaly’s origins in human cells that mimic the developing brain, they can see what might be going on more clearly in human brain development that wouldn’t be detected in animal models. Some Zika researchers are also using this promising model system to study the virus’s effect on human neural progenitor cells.
Bielas is also seeking more families whose babies have been born with non-Zika microcephaly, to contribute skin and DNA samples that may yield even more clues about the condition’s origins. “We need to know how microcephaly genes are contributing to such a profound human disorder,” says Bielas. “It’s a puzzle. So let’s figure it out.”
Reference: American Journal of Human Genetics, Volume 99, Issue 2, 4 August 2016, Pages 501–510 and 511-520, doi:10.1016/j.ajhg.2016.07.004 and doi:10.1016/j.ajhg.2016.07.003 |
global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/78916 | 01 October 2007
You’ll have your victory tomorrow…
or the next war is free.
We are blessed to live in a relatively stable society. One of the blessings of this stability is a great deal of predictability. That is, most of us are able to live fairly predictable lives, predictable in a good way.
The city nearest to my present location is 32 miles away. I can tell you just about exactly how long it will take to drive from a specific building here to a specific building in that nearest city. When I leave for work in the morning, I know exactly what time I need to leave because I know exactly how long it takes from the time I walk out my door, arrive at the building I work in, and make it to my desk – twelve minutes. Not ten. Not fifteen. Twelve.
When I mow the grass here, I know how long it will take. When I put something in the microwave I know just about how many minutes it will be before I’m eating. When I go to make a pot of coffee, I know how long it will take. When I sit down to watch the news, or anything else, I know how long I’m going to sit and watch before it’s over. If I take a trip to my parents’ house, I know almost exactly how many hours that trip will take. When I mail something, I have an idea when the package will arrive at its destination. When I see a crew break ground on a new building, I can fairly well predict how many days, weeks, or months it will be before the building is completed (assuming weather conditions are favorable). And unlike countries with parliamentary democracies, we also know how long our administrations are going to be in power.
Yes. We live fairly predictable lives.
We ask, “How long will it take?” and are accustomed to getting an answer that sticks. And if it takes longer than the time we were given we may get a discount, or better: “Your pizza in thirty minutes or its free,” “When it absolutely, positively has to be there overnight,” “Your pictures tomorrow or they’re free,” and so on.
There are some disadvantages to living in such a stable society, however. One such is that it can give some people certain unreasonable expectations. Some people think its absurd not to be able to predict how long anything and everything will take. Like, for example, a war.
A caller to Rush Limbaugh’s show (2nd hour, 26 September 2007) wanted to know how much longer its going to take to win in Iraq. Limbaugh told the young man that we’ll have to remain there until we win. (What other answer can we expect?) The young man (I think his name was Mike) asked Limbaugh to define winning in Iraq. To each formulation of an answer to the request for that definition, Mike replied, “Yes, but how long is that going to take?”
Four times, at least, he asked: Yes, but how long is that going to take? How long is that going to take? How long is that going to take? How long is that going to take?
This young man is clearly a product of the times and therefore thinks successfully finishing up a war is something like nuking something in the microwave.
How long is this war going to take?
Actually, no it isn't. Now that I'm thinking about it, I recall reading something by Isaac Asimov (well, I'm pretty sure it was Asimov) a few years before he died. Asimov was lamenting the fact that it was becoming difficult to retain young scientists. The reason? They were too impatient. Scientific breakthroughs take a great deal of time, if they ever come. These young scientists were not interested in working for indefinite lengths of time before achieving success.
The fault is not entirely theirs, I suspect: very little in our society is designed to instill patience ("long suffering") in people.
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Big Ten Network
Big Ten Network
Big Ten Network Logo.svg
LaunchedAugust 30, 2007 (2007-08-30)
Owned byFox Sports Media Group
(Fox Corporation)
Big Ten Conference (49%)[1]
Picture format720p (HDTV)
Downconverted to letterboxed 480i for SDTV feed
SloganThis is Big Ten Country, This is Where it Lives
CountryUnited States
Broadcast areaUnited States
HeadquartersChicago, Illinois
Sister channel(s)Fox Sports 1
Fox Sports 2
Fox Soccer Plus
Fox Deportes
DirecTV (U.S.)610 (HD/SD)
610-1, 610-2, 610-3 and 610-4 (HD/SD)
1610 (VOD)
Dish Network (U.S.)410 (HD)
5441-5447 and 9500 (HD)
410 and 588-591 (SD)
Shaw Direct (Canada)265 (HD)
410 (SD)
Consult your listings for channel placement
Available on most other U.S. and most Canadian cable systemsConsult your local cable provider for channel availability
(or visit btn.com/about/btn-channelfinder/
or btn.com/about/btn-channelfinder/)
AT&T U-verse1650 (HD)
650 (SD)
Overflow: 1691-1699 (HD)
Verizon FiOS585 (HD)
85 (SD)
Overflow: 330-331 (SD)
VMedia (Canada)408 (HD)
Streaming media
BTN2Go, Fox Sports Go (requires login from eligible pay television provider to access content)www.btn2go.com
AT&T TV Now"Max" package
PlayStation Vue"Core" package
HULU + Live TVbase package
YouTube TVbase package
T-Mobile TVisionbase package
The Big Ten Network (BTN) is an American sports network based in Chicago, Illinois. The channel is dedicated to coverage of collegiate sports sanctioned by the Big Ten Conference, including live and recorded event telecasts, news, analysis programs, and other content focusing on the conference's member schools. It is a joint venture between Fox Sports and the Big Ten, with Fox Corporation as 51% stakeholder and operating partner, and the Big Ten Conference owning a 49% stake. It is headquartered in the former Montgomery Ward & Co. Catalog House building at 600 West Chicago Avenue in Chicago.[2]
Big Ten Network is carried by most major television providers and as of 2014, had an estimated 60 million U.S. subscribers--a number had been boosted by the addition of Rutgers University and the University of Maryland to the conference.[3][4]
Big Ten Network was the second U.S. sports network to be devoted to a single college sports conference, having been preceded by the MountainWest Sports Network one year prior to its launch. BTN was later followed by rival cable channels by the Pac-12, SEC and ACC with a similar array of programming.
The network's foundation traces back to 2004, following negotiations between the Big Ten and ESPN on an extension of the conference's broadcast contract with the network. With three years remaining in the existing deal, the conference sought a significant increase in rights fees. ESPN, however, balked, causing Big Ten commissioner Jim Delany to begin exploring the creation of his own network.[5]
The launch of the Big Ten Network was announced on June 21, 2006, as a 20-year joint project between the Big Ten Conference and Fox Entertainment Group.[6] At launch, the conference owned 51% of the network, while Fox owned a minority interest and handled its operations. The network was positioned to be the first ever cable channel dedicated to a single collegiate conference.[7] The network also has a commitment to "event equality", stating it would produce and distribute an equal number of men's and women's events across all platforms, within three years of its launch.[8] The deal was meant to replace the Big Ten's television contract with ESPN's ESPN Plus regional television package. ESPN Plus games were typically only seen on one broadcast television station in a team's local market (for example, the Illinois Fighting Illini aired its games on Champaign, Illinois CBS affiliate WCIA (channel 3)).
Original logo used from 2007 to 2011.
Big Ten Network was launched at 8:00 p.m. Eastern Time on August 30, 2007, with Big Ten Tonight as its inaugural program. The network aired its first live telecasts two days later on September 1, which included a football game between Appalachian State and Michigan - the game gained national attention for its upset victory; being the first win by a Division I FCS team over a ranked Division I FBS team since Division I was split into two subdivisions by the NCAA in 1978.[9][10] On September 2, the network aired its first women's sports event (a soccer match between Syracuse University and Michigan State) and its first men's non-revenue sports event (a soccer match between UCLA at Indiana).
The new network suffered from limited carriage on its launch, as it was only carried by two major television providers. By the following year, the network had reached its goal to attain carriage on the "extended basic" tiers of cable providers in all Big Ten markets.[11] While no specifics were revealed, Fox increased its stake in the Big Ten Network to 51% in June 2010, acquiring majority control, using a provision in its contract with the conference.[12] In time for the 2011 college football season, the network unveiled a new logo and branding (which incorporates the "BTN" acronym), and introduced a new TV Everywhere service known as "BTN2Go," which offers live streaming of BTN telecasts and other programming through a web browser or mobile app. The service was initially available to subscribers of Time Warner Cable, Charter Communications, DirecTV and Dish Network.[13]
BTN and Dish Network were involved in a dispute leading up to the expiration of the satellite provider's contract with the network in August 2012, a day before that year's college football season began.[14] The network was temporary blacked out for eight days beginning on September 14,[15] giving way to a new agreement that restored BTN on Dish Network on September 22.[16]
In July 2017, as part of a new six-year agreement that made Fox the primary television rightsholder of regular season Big Ten football games, Fox's contract to run BTN was extended through 2032.[17]
On December 14, 2017, 21st Century Fox announced it would sell a majority of its assets to The Walt Disney Company, owners of ESPN, SEC Network and the upcoming ACC Network, in a transaction valued at over $52 billion. 21st Century Fox's stake in the Big Ten Network was not included in the deal and was spun off to the significantly downsized Fox Corporation, along with the Fox Broadcasting Company, Fox News Channel, Fox Business Network and Fox Sports 1 and 2.[18] The deal was approved by Disney and Fox shareholders on July 27, 2018 and was completed on March 19, 2019.[19]
Original programs
• Big Ten Tonight - a weekly half-hour show airing on Sundays that is similar to ESPN's SportsCenter; it offers highlights and discussion of Big Ten sporting events. The program is currently anchored by Dave Revsine, Rick Pizzo, Mike Hall and Lisa Cornwell. Other reporters and analysts appear depending on the sport being discussed.
• Big Ten Football Saturday - a program airing Saturdays (with pre-game, halftime and post-game editions) during the college football season, which features discussions and highlights of the day's games. It is hosted by Dave Revsine, with analysis provided by Gerry DiNardo (nicknamed by the hosts as "Coach") and Howard Griffith.
• Big Ten Tailgate - originally titled Friday Night Tailgate, it is a Friday night program that takes a lighthearted and irreverent look at campus life surrounding the weekend of a Big Ten football game. It was host was Mike Hall, with correspondents Charissa Thompson and Chicago-area improv actors Jordan Klepper, Steve Waltien, and Tim Baltz. 90-minute In 2010, the show was cut to 60 minutes and was renamed as Big Ten Tailgate.
• Big Ten Tip-Off Show - a pre-game show airing during the regular season from November to March discussing the day's basketball games; it is hosted by Dave Revsine, with analysis provided by Gene Keady, Jimmy Jackson, Tim Doyle and Kendall Gill.
• Coaches Q&A - a program featuring excerpts from the week's press conferences around the conference.
• The Big Ten's Greatest Games - a showcase of classic football and basketball games, with editing of some non-essential game action out to fit time constraints.
• The Big Ten Women's Show - an hour-long Monday night program covering women's sports throughout the conference.
• The Big Ten Quad - a weekly sports discussion show with Big Ten legends.
• Big Ten Cookout - a half-hour live cooking/tailgate show on Saturday mornings, taking place at a different university campus within the conference each week; it is hosted by Melanie Collins, alongside chefs Julius Russell and former Hell's Kitchen season five contestant Ben Walanka.
• The Big Ten's Best - a weekly countdown show with lists of the top 10 Big Ten teams or players in a certain category, such as "best running backs of the 1990s" or "best quarterbacks of the 1980s"; hosted by Charissa Thompson.
• Various coach's shows
• University Showcase - a program block of non-sports campus produced programs; each school has equal time.
• Student U - Game broadcasts produced by university broadcast departments involving students controlling production and play-by-play which are usually seen only on closed-circuit campus cable networks.
• "Big Ten Frozen Fridays" - a hockey pregame show on Friday nights, airing before most Big Ten hockey game telecasts, featuring game previews and highlights from around the Big Ten Conference
• Big Ten Football: Breakdown - a weekly series airing on Tuesdays in which Big Ten coaches and players review the previous week's game footage, with network analysts providing a look at the nuances of the game and what affected the teams' success.
• Big Ten Football: Sites & Sounds - a Wednesday night program that includes segments from press conferences, media interviews and the games, as well as other behind-the-scenes footage, hosted from the network's Chicago studios.
• Big Ten Football: Behind the Schemes - airing Thursday nights, it is a breakdown featuring the network's resident head coach analysts, analyzing footage of the previous week's games and putting together game plans for games being held that week.
• Big Ten Football... & Beyond - a Friday night program previewing the weekend's upcoming games with reports from each Big Ten stadium and a look at key national matchups that could impact the conference postseason.
• Big Ten Film Vault - a program, hosted by Dan Dierdorf, showcasing a vintage Big Ten film from the 1940s to the 1970s.
• Big Ten Icons - a series highlighting a Big Ten athlete from a wide range of sports and history. Notable subjects include Jesse Owens, Jack Nicklaus and Steve Alford.
• The Journey: Big Ten Basketball - a Sunday night documentary-style series following multiple teams each week throughout the conference's 10-week basketball season.[20]
• Big Ten Treasure Hunter - a program starring memorabilia collector John Arcand in which he travels around Big Ten territories and make negotiations with fans to buy Big Ten memorabilia.
• Big Ten Hoops: On Campus - an hour-long Friday night program (hosted by Mike Hall, Jim Jackson, Tiffany Simons and Natalie Kane) featuring visits to different campuses each week to showcase the loyalty and tradition behind Big Ten basketball and its fans.
• This Week in Big Ten Basketball - a Sunday night program providing comprehensive breakdowns of the week's college basketball action involving Big Ten teams; it was hosted by Dave Revsine, Jim Jackson and Dan Dakich.
Sports coverage
Big Ten Network holds national broadcast rights to all of the conference's home football games and televises approximately 35-40 football games each season. Each team is guaranteed to appear a minimum of two times annually on the network, one of which must be a conference game.
The network holds national television rights to all men's basketball conference home games; all non-conference and exhibition games are either televised or streamed on bigtennetwork.com. Each of the conference's men's basketball teams appear on the network approximately 10-20 times a season; it carries approximately 60-65 in-conference match-ups, as well as select tournament contests.
Big Ten Network also televises approximately 50-60 regular season women's basketball games annually, along with approximately nine Big Ten Basketball Tournament games. Each Big Ten team appears on the network approximately 8 to 10 times during the season. The network streams dozens of games live on its website, giving Big Ten women's basketball the most exposure of any conference in the country. The network maintains a set on-site during the Big Ten Men's and Women's Basketball Tournaments in Indianapolis, Indiana with anchors providing coverage and analysis of each day's game action during the event.
Other sports
A Big Ten Network camera operator at work during a 2011 field hockey game
Big Ten Network televises approximately 25 of the conference's baseball games each spring, with each team making approximately 5 to 8 appearances annually. In 2009, the network televised the entirety of the Big Ten Baseball Tournament.
In the 2013-14 season, Big Ten Network expanded its coverage of college ice hockey due to the Big Ten Conference beginning to officially sponsor the sport, broadcasting 27 games as well as the Big Ten tournament, and adding associated studio programs.[21] The Big Ten Network televises more than 170 NCAA-sponsored Olympic events in both men's and women's sports such as hockey, soccer, volleyball, track and field, swimming and diving.
In April 2016, it was announced that BTN and Riot Games would organize a collegiate League of Legends event, the BTN Invitational, between teams representing Michigan State and Ohio State. The event was held at PAX East in Boston, alongside the semi-finals and finals of Riot's own college championship. Michael Sherman, head of Riot's collegiate competitions, stated that "there was actually a student group at Penn State that was looking to run a Big Ten Tournament, and the Big Ten Network got word of it and through that we actually connected to each other and saw that we had a lot of interest in sort of building an event together."[22]
In January 2017, BTN and Riot announced that it would hold a season of conference competition between teams representing 12 Big Ten schools, culminating with a championship whose winner would receive an invite to Riot's college championship. The competition was primarily be streamed online, but later rounds were televised on BTN.[23] In January 2018, Riot and BTN announced an extension of the partnership through 2019, complete with scholarship funds for teams ($35,000/team yearly) and the addition of Penn State and Nebraska, bringing all full conference members to the partnership.[24]ESL became a partner with BTN's competition for 2019.[25]
Tournament and championship events
The Big Ten Network televises 21 Big Ten Championships and Tournaments, including baseball, men's and women's basketball, men's and women's cross country, field hockey, men's and women's golf, men's and women's gymnastics, rowing, men's and women's soccer, men's and women's swimming and diving, men's and women's tennis, men's and women's indoor and outdoor track and field and wrestling.[26]
In February 2017, the NCAA announced that Big Ten Network had acquired rights to the Women's Frozen Four--the NCAA national championship of Women's ice hockey, beginning in 2017 under a four-year deal. BTN broadcast the finals in 2017, and began airing the semi-finals beginning 2018.[27]
On-air staff
Current on-air staff
Ice hockey
Former on-air staff
Other services
High definition and 4K
Big Ten Network launched in both standard definition and a 720p high definition simulcast. All of its original programs and studio shows are broadcast in HD, as well as nearly all of its sports telecasts and some of its university-produced coaches and campus shows. The channel has produced all of its football games in HD since 2009.[31]
In September 2017, BTN revealed plans to televise selected games from the 2018 Big Ten men's basketball tournament in 4K.[32]
Streaming platforms
BTN2Go was Big Ten Network's TV Everywhere service, which offers online streaming of BTN programming to subscribers on qualifying television providers.[13] Beginning in the 2017-18 season, BTN2Go content is also available within Fox Sports' TV Everywhere service Fox Sports Go.[33][34]
In July 2019, it was announced that the BTN2Go branding would be dropped, with all TV Everywhere streaming migrated to FoxSports.com and the Fox Sports app. This comes as part of the acquisition of 21st Century Fox by Disney, as the Fox Sports Go platform was included in the sale and bound to the Fox Sports regional networks (which are being sold to a group led by Sinclair Broadcast Group). The BTN2Go app will be transitioned to an app for BTN Plus--a subscription over-the-top streaming service for non-televised Big Ten events.[35][36]
Football overflow feeds
On many Saturdays during the football season, the Big Ten Network produces multiple games that air at the same time. The network designates one game as its national game, which is shown on the main channel on satellite providers. The remaining games air on the main channel in the local markets and on the extra overflow channels in the remaining markets. Most cable systems inside the Big Ten's eight states offer these Big Ten Network overflow or "out-of-market" feeds to provide additional football games. All of the additional overflow feeds for the network's various football telecasts are available nationally on DirecTV and Dish Network; and regionally on AT&T U-verse, many Comcast systems, and several other cable providers. Some providers only carry the overflow feeds in standard definition, and providers outside of the U.S. provide them in out-of-market subscription packages.
Carriage negotiations with several major cable providers were stalled for several months due to their interest in placing the channel on a sports tier, with the providers only wanting to charge customers who wanted to subscribe to it; Big Ten Network, however, wanted providers to carry it on their extended basic tiers so that subscribers would not have to pay an extra fee to receive the network. Comcast, the largest cable provider in the U.S., reached a deal to carry the network on June 19, 2008,[37] and began adding the channel to its systems on August 15, 2008; other major providers in states with universities in the Big Ten Conference (including Charter Communications and Time Warner Cable) would soon follow suit. Additionally, the Big Ten Network is an associate member of the Caribbean Cable Cooperative.[38]
Carriage agreements
DirecTV and AT&T U-verse were the only major television providers to carry the channel at launch;[39] however, 250 smaller cable systems (including those that are members of the National Cable Television Cooperative) also carried BTN at launch. Dish Network added the channel one week later in early September 2007.[40]
During the late summer and early fall of 2008, several larger cable companies within states where a Big Ten university was located reached agreements to carry Big Ten Network, expanding its carriage to every major cable provider in those areas. On August 23, 2008, Mediacom (which services most of Iowa, including Iowa City, where Big Ten member, the University of Iowa, is located) was reported by Cedar Rapids newspaper The Gazette to have reached an agreement in principle to carry the network according to sources close to negotiations; the deal was announced on August 28.[41][42]
On August 25, Time Warner Cable and the Big Ten Network announced in a joint statement that the two parties had reached a carriage deal. Time Warner Cable carries the channel on its expanded basic service in the eight states where Big Ten universities are located.[43][44] These deals were later followed by carriage agreements with Charter Communications on August 26[45] and Cox Communications on August 28.[46] Also on August 26, 2008, The Indianapolis Star reported that Bright House Networks was "very close to a deal" to carry the channel.[47] On September 30, Broadstripe added the channel to its systems in Michigan.[48]
On June 23, 2009, Cablevision added the channel in standard and high definition to its Optimum systems.[49] The following month on August 25, the network reached a carriage agreement with Atlantic Broadband, which added the network's standard and high definition feed on September 1, 2009 to its systems in central and northern Pennsylvania.[50] On December 28, 2009, Charter Communications reached an agreement to provide the network to its systems in St. Louis and Southern Illinois on the provider's expanded basic-digital tier.[51]
On July 24, 2017, the Big Ten Network announced they would be available on Hulu Live TV and YouTube TV.[52]
On April 11, 2018, Comcast dropped Big Ten Network in a number of "out-of-market" states that fall outside of the conference's direct geographical footprint, with other selected markets dropping the network on May 10, 2018. This notably includes the 23,000 Comcast customers in New York,[53] despite the recent addition of Rutgers University in New Jersey having been used to market the conference and BTN in neighboring New York City.[54][55]
Canadian carriage
In September 2008, the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission approved a request by Shaw Communications to allow carriage of BTN in Canada on its specialty television services. While CTVglobemedia filed a concern that it would create undue competition (which is prohibited between foreign and domestic services) with its mainstream sports channel TSN, the CRTC determined that Big Ten Network's specific scope in sports programming would not cause it to compete directly with domestic mainstream sports services such as TSN.[56] The network became available to Shaw Cable customers on December 3, 2008. The channel became available on Rogers Cable systems in Ontario and New Brunswick on October 22, 2009.[57]
As of 2020, Big Ten Network is available through the following providers: Cogeco, Eastlink, Rogers Cable, Shaw Cable, Shaw Direct and VMedia.
Similar channels
Other channels that show only college sports include:
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/78934 | Machine IR (MIR) Format Reference Manual
This is a work in progress.
This document is a reference manual for the Machine IR (MIR) serialization format. MIR is a human readable serialization format that is used to represent LLVM’s machine specific intermediate representation.
The MIR serialization format is designed to be used for testing the code generation passes in LLVM.
The MIR serialization format uses a YAML container. YAML is a standard data serialization language, and the full YAML language spec can be read at
A MIR file is split up into a series of YAML documents. The first document can contain an optional embedded LLVM IR module, and the rest of the documents contain the serialized machine functions.
MIR Testing Guide
You can use the MIR format for testing in two different ways:
• You can write MIR tests that invoke a single code generation pass using the -run-pass option in llc.
• You can use llc’s -stop-after option with existing or new LLVM assembly tests and check the MIR output of a specific code generation pass.
Testing Individual Code Generation Passes
The -run-pass option in llc allows you to create MIR tests that invoke just a single code generation pass. When this option is used, llc will parse an input MIR file, run the specified code generation pass(es), and output the resulting MIR code.
You can generate an input MIR file for the test by using the -stop-after or -stop-before option in llc. For example, if you would like to write a test for the post register allocation pseudo instruction expansion pass, you can specify the machine copy propagation pass in the -stop-after option, as it runs just before the pass that we are trying to test:
llc -stop-after=machine-cp bug-trigger.ll > test.mir
If the same pass is run multiple times, a run index can be included after the name with a comma.
llc -stop-after=dead-mi-elimination,1 bug-trigger.ll > test.mir
After generating the input MIR file, you’ll have to add a run line that uses the -run-pass option to it. In order to test the post register allocation pseudo instruction expansion pass on X86-64, a run line like the one shown below can be used:
# RUN: llc -o - %s -mtriple=x86_64-- -run-pass=postrapseudos | FileCheck %s
The MIR files are target dependent, so they have to be placed in the target specific test directories (lib/CodeGen/TARGETNAME). They also need to specify a target triple or a target architecture either in the run line or in the embedded LLVM IR module.
Simplifying MIR files
The MIR code coming out of -stop-after/-stop-before is very verbose; Tests are more accessible and future proof when simplified:
• Use the -simplify-mir option with llc.
• Machine function attributes often have default values or the test works just as well with default values. Typical candidates for this are: alignment:, exposesReturnsTwice, legalized, regBankSelected, selected. The whole frameInfo section is often unnecessary if there is no special frame usage in the function. tracksRegLiveness on the other hand is often necessary for some passes that care about block livein lists.
• The (global) liveins: list is typically only interesting for early instruction selection passes and can be removed when testing later passes. The per-block liveins: on the other hand are necessary if tracksRegLiveness is true.
• Branch probability data in block successors: lists can be dropped if the test doesn’t depend on it. Example: successors: %bb.1(0x40000000), %bb.2(0x40000000) can be replaced with successors: %bb.1, %bb.2.
• MIR code contains a whole IR module. This is necessary because there are no equivalents in MIR for global variables, references to external functions, function attributes, metadata, debug info. Instead some MIR data references the IR constructs. You can often remove them if the test doesn’t depend on them.
• Alias Analysis is performed on IR values. These are referenced by memory operands in MIR. Example: :: (load 8 from %ir.foobar, !alias.scope !9). If the test doesn’t depend on (good) alias analysis the references can be dropped: :: (load 8)
• MIR blocks can reference IR blocks for debug printing, profile information or debug locations. Example: bb.42.myblock in MIR references the IR block myblock. It is usually possible to drop the .myblock reference and simply use bb.42.
• If there are no memory operands or blocks referencing the IR then the IR function can be replaced by a parameterless dummy function like define @func() { ret void }.
• It is possible to drop the whole IR section of the MIR file if it only contains dummy functions (see above). The .mir loader will create the IR functions automatically in this case.
Currently the MIR format has several limitations in terms of which state it can serialize:
• The target-specific state in the target-specific MachineFunctionInfo subclasses isn’t serialized at the moment.
• The target-specific MachineConstantPoolValue subclasses (in the ARM and SystemZ backends) aren’t serialized at the moment.
• The MCSymbol machine operands don’t support temporary or local symbols.
• A lot of the state in MachineModuleInfo isn’t serialized - only the CFI instructions and the variable debug information from MMI is serialized right now.
These limitations impose restrictions on what you can test with the MIR format. For now, tests that would like to test some behaviour that depends on the state of temporary or local MCSymbol operands or the exception handling state in MMI, can’t use the MIR format. As well as that, tests that test some behaviour that depends on the state of the target specific MachineFunctionInfo or MachineConstantPoolValue subclasses can’t use the MIR format at the moment.
High Level Structure
Embedded Module
When the first YAML document contains a YAML block literal string, the MIR parser will treat this string as an LLVM assembly language string that represents an embedded LLVM IR module. Here is an example of a YAML document that contains an LLVM module:
define i32 @inc(i32* %x) {
%0 = load i32, i32* %x
%1 = add i32 %0, 1
store i32 %1, i32* %x
ret i32 %1
Machine Functions
The remaining YAML documents contain the machine functions. This is an example of such YAML document:
name: inc
tracksRegLiveness: true
- { reg: '$rdi' }
body: |
liveins: $rdi
$eax = MOV32rm $rdi, 1, _, 0, _
$eax = INC32r killed $eax, implicit-def dead $eflags
MOV32mr killed $rdi, 1, _, 0, _, $eax
RETQ $eax
The document above consists of attributes that represent the various properties and data structures in a machine function.
The attribute name is required, and its value should be identical to the name of a function that this machine function is based on.
The attribute body is a YAML block literal string. Its value represents the function’s machine basic blocks and their machine instructions.
Machine Instructions Format Reference
The machine basic blocks and their instructions are represented using a custom, human readable serialization language. This language is used in the YAML block literal string that corresponds to the machine function’s body.
A source string that uses this language contains a list of machine basic blocks, which are described in the section below.
Machine Basic Blocks
A machine basic block is defined in a single block definition source construct that contains the block’s ID. The example below defines two blocks that have an ID of zero and one:
A machine basic block can also have a name. It should be specified after the ID in the block’s definition:
bb.0.entry: ; This block's name is "entry"
The block’s name should be identical to the name of the IR block that this machine block is based on.
Block References
The machine basic blocks are identified by their ID numbers. Individual blocks are referenced using the following syntax:
The following syntax is also supported, but the former syntax is preferred for block references:
The machine basic block’s successors have to be specified before any of the instructions:
successors: %bb.1.then, %bb.2.else
The branch weights can be specified in brackets after the successor blocks. The example below defines a block that has two successors with branch weights of 32 and 16:
successors: %bb.1.then(32), %bb.2.else(16)
Live In Registers
The machine basic block’s live in registers have to be specified before any of the instructions:
liveins: $edi, $esi
The list of live in registers and successors can be empty. The language also allows multiple live in register and successor lists - they are combined into one list by the parser.
Miscellaneous Attributes
The attributes IsAddressTaken, IsLandingPad and Alignment can be specified in brackets after the block’s definition:
bb.0.entry (address-taken):
bb.2.else (align 4):
bb.3(landing-pad, align 4):
Machine Instructions
A machine instruction is composed of a name, machine operands, instruction flags, and machine memory operands.
The instruction’s name is usually specified before the operands. The example below shows an instance of the X86 RETQ instruction with a single machine operand:
RETQ $eax
However, if the machine instruction has one or more explicitly defined register operands, the instruction’s name has to be specified after them. The example below shows an instance of the AArch64 LDPXpost instruction with three defined register operands:
$sp, $fp, $lr = LDPXpost $sp, 2
The instruction names are serialized using the exact definitions from the target’s * files, and they are case sensitive. This means that similar instruction names like TSTri and tSTRi represent different machine instructions.
Instruction Flags
The flag frame-setup or frame-destroy can be specified before the instruction’s name:
$fp = frame-setup ADDXri $sp, 0, 0
$x21, $x20 = frame-destroy LDPXi $sp
Bundled Instructions
The syntax for bundled instructions is the following:
BUNDLE implicit-def $r0, implicit-def $r1, implicit $r2 {
$r0 = SOME_OP $r2
$r1 = ANOTHER_OP internal $r0
The first instruction is often a bundle header. The instructions between { and } are bundled with the first instruction.
Registers are one of the key primitives in the machine instructions serialization language. They are primarily used in the register machine operands, but they can also be used in a number of other places, like the basic block’s live in list.
The physical registers are identified by their name and by the ‘$’ prefix sigil. They use the following syntax:
The example below shows three X86 physical registers:
The virtual registers are identified by their ID number and by the ‘%’ sigil. They use the following syntax:
The null registers are represented using an underscore (‘_’). They can also be represented using a ‘$noreg’ named register, although the former syntax is preferred.
Machine Operands
There are seventeen different kinds of machine operands, and all of them can be serialized.
Immediate Operands
The immediate machine operands are untyped, 64-bit signed integers. The example below shows an instance of the X86 MOV32ri instruction that has an immediate machine operand -42:
$eax = MOV32ri -42
An immediate operand is also used to represent a subregister index when the machine instruction has one of the following opcodes:
In case this is true, the Machine Operand is printed according to the target.
For example:
def sub_32 : SubRegIndex<32>;
If the third operand is an immediate with the value 15 (target-dependent value), based on the instruction’s opcode and the operand’s index the operand will be printed as %subreg.sub_32:
%1:gpr64 = SUBREG_TO_REG 0, %0, %subreg.sub_32
For integers > 64bit, we use a special machine operand, MO_CImmediate, which stores the immediate in a ConstantInt using an APInt (LLVM’s arbitrary precision integers).
Register Operands
The register primitive is used to represent the register machine operands. The register operands can also have optional register flags, a subregister index, and a reference to the tied register operand. The full syntax of a register operand is shown below:
[<flags>] <register> [ :<subregister-idx-name> ] [ (tied-def <tied-op>) ]
This example shows an instance of the X86 XOR32rr instruction that has 5 register operands with different register flags:
dead $eax = XOR32rr undef $eax, undef $eax, implicit-def dead $eflags, implicit-def $al
Register Flags
The table below shows all of the possible register flags along with the corresponding internal llvm::RegState representation:
Flag Internal Value
implicit RegState::Implicit
implicit-def RegState::ImplicitDefine
def RegState::Define
dead RegState::Dead
killed RegState::Kill
undef RegState::Undef
internal RegState::InternalRead
early-clobber RegState::EarlyClobber
debug-use RegState::Debug
renamable RegState::Renamable
Subregister Indices
The register machine operands can reference a portion of a register by using the subregister indices. The example below shows an instance of the COPY pseudo instruction that uses the X86 sub_8bit subregister index to copy 8 lower bits from the 32-bit virtual register 0 to the 8-bit virtual register 1:
%1 = COPY %0:sub_8bit
The names of the subregister indices are target specific, and are typically defined in the target’s * file.
Constant Pool Indices
A constant pool index (CPI) operand is printed using its index in the function’s MachineConstantPool and an offset.
For example, a CPI with the index 1 and offset 8:
%1:gr64 = MOV64ri %const.1 + 8
For a CPI with the index 0 and offset -12:
%1:gr64 = MOV64ri %const.0 - 12
A constant pool entry is bound to a LLVM IR Constant or a target-specific MachineConstantPoolValue. When serializing all the function’s constants the following format is used:
- id: <index>
value: <value>
alignment: <alignment>
isTargetSpecific: <target-specific>
where <index> is a 32-bit unsigned integer, <value> is a LLVM IR Constant, alignment is a 32-bit unsigned integer, and <target-specific> is either true or false.
- id: 0
value: 'double 3.250000e+00'
alignment: 8
- id: 1
value: 'g-(LPC0+8)'
alignment: 4
isTargetSpecific: true
Global Value Operands
The global value machine operands reference the global values from the embedded LLVM IR module. The example below shows an instance of the X86 MOV64rm instruction that has a global value operand named G:
$rax = MOV64rm $rip, 1, _, @G, _
The named global values are represented using an identifier with the ‘@’ prefix. If the identifier doesn’t match the regular expression [-a-zA-Z$._][-a-zA-Z$._0-9]*, then this identifier must be quoted.
The unnamed global values are represented using an unsigned numeric value with the ‘@’ prefix, like in the following examples: @0, @989.
Target-dependent Index Operands
A target index operand is a target-specific index and an offset. The target-specific index is printed using target-specific names and a positive or negative offset.
For example, the amdgpu-constdata-start is associated with the index 0 in the AMDGPU backend. So if we have a target index operand with the index 0 and the offset 8:
$sgpr2 = S_ADD_U32 _, target-index(amdgpu-constdata-start) + 8, implicit-def _, implicit-def _
Jump-table Index Operands
A jump-table index operand with the index 0 is printed as following:
tBR_JTr killed $r0, %jump-table.0
A machine jump-table entry contains a list of MachineBasicBlocks. When serializing all the function’s jump-table entries, the following format is used:
kind: <kind>
- id: <index>
blocks: [ <bbreference>, <bbreference>, ... ]
where <kind> is describing how the jump table is represented and emitted (plain address, relocations, PIC, etc.), and each <index> is a 32-bit unsigned integer and blocks contains a list of machine basic block references.
kind: inline
- id: 0
blocks: [ '%bb.3', '%bb.9', '%bb.4.d3' ]
- id: 1
blocks: [ '%bb.7', '%bb.7', '%bb.4.d3', '%bb.5' ]
External Symbol Operands
An external symbol operand is represented using an identifier with the & prefix. The identifier is surrounded with ““‘s and escaped if it has any special non-printable characters in it.
CALL64pcrel32 &__stack_chk_fail, csr_64, implicit $rsp, implicit-def $rsp
MCSymbol Operands
A MCSymbol operand is holding a pointer to a MCSymbol. For the limitations of this operand in MIR, see limitations.
The syntax is:
EH_LABEL <mcsymbol Ltmp1>
CFIIndex Operands
A CFI Index operand is holding an index into a per-function side-table, MachineFunction::getFrameInstructions(), which references all the frame instructions in a MachineFunction. A CFI_INSTRUCTION may look like it contains multiple operands, but the only operand it contains is the CFI Index. The other operands are tracked by the MCCFIInstruction object.
The syntax is:
CFI_INSTRUCTION offset $w30, -16
which may be emitted later in the MC layer as:
.cfi_offset w30, -16
IntrinsicID Operands
An Intrinsic ID operand contains a generic intrinsic ID or a target-specific ID.
The syntax for the returnaddress intrinsic is:
$x0 = COPY intrinsic(@llvm.returnaddress)
Predicate Operands
A Predicate operand contains an IR predicate from CmpInst::Predicate, like ICMP_EQ, etc.
For an int eq predicate ICMP_EQ, the syntax is:
%2:gpr(s32) = G_ICMP intpred(eq), %0, %1 |
global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/78950 | The legend of Noor Inayat Khan
The legend of Noor Inayat Khan is worth repeating for those unfamiliar with her heroism. Noor was the first female radio operator sent into Nazi-occupied France during the Second World War by the Special Operations Executive (SEO). Her life ended under the crushing brutality of Nazism.
Born in Moscow on January 1st 1914 to an Indian father and American mother. Noor was also a descendant of Tipu Sultan, who died in the eighteenth-century in opposition to the British. Shortly after her birth, the family moved to England before settling in France.
Khan’s father was a Sufi teacher, pacifist, and musician. A father who imparted the lessons of non-violence and religious tolerance. The environment encouraged her to study music and medicine. But her talents lay in the written word and published children’s stories.
With the outbreak of war, Khan fled France for England and joined the Women’s Auxiliary Air Force (WAAF) in late 1940.
Khan’s bilingual skills made her an ideal candidate for the SEO and she agreed to become a British special agent in 1942. A year later, Khan entered Paris under the code name “Madeleine” and joined the Prosper Network. But soon after arriving, the Gestapo arrested various members of the Prosper Network.
Fearing infiltration, SEO recommended that Khan return to England. But she refused, as she was the only radio operator left in the group. Khan evaded capture for three months before betrayal turned into arrest.
NoorUnder the pain of torture at Gestapo headquarters, she remained silent. But Gestapo officers discovered her code book and used it to feed the SEO false information.
Khan escaped from the Gestapo’s Paris headquarters, but her freedom was short lived. She soon found herself in Pforzheim prison in November 1943.
The Gestapo subjected Khan to ten months of solitary confinement, brutalisation, torture and starvation. Yet, it did not break her. To the frustration of her captors, Noor remained silent.
A year later, Khan (and three other female SEO agents) found themselves in Dachau concentration camp. On September 12 1944, Khan met her death at the hands of an SS firing squad, her final words were “Liberte”.
Khan’s bravery was posthumously honoured with a George Cross in 1949. In France, she received the Croix de Guerre, two memorials, and an annual ceremony.
Noor’s remarkable courage was not motivated out of love for Britain. But born out of opposition to Nazi totalitarianism.
The legend of her wartime heroism grew thanks to various books and documentaries. A statue of Noor now rests in Gordon Square Garden.
In 2014, the Royal Mail honoured Khan with a stamp to commemorate their ‘Remarkable Lives’ series.
On October 17 2014, I found myself re-immersed in Noor’s story, when attending the armed forces Eid reception.
Due to the weather and transport issues, guests were unable to view the documentary of her story ‘Enemy of the Reich’.
My conversations with members of the Navy and Air Force covered Noor, Living Islam, and Muslims in the armed forces.
One unnamed individual linked Noor’s selfless heroism to Alan Henning.
Alan Henning and Noor Inayat Khan died 70 years apart. But their stories are two of the many bright flickers extinguished in the darkness of totalitarian ideologies.
Neither had to enter conflict zones but did so for a greater good – and paid the ultimate price. But the flames of their heroism are always rekindled in times of remembrance and grief.
Noor Inayat Khan is also a role model for young Muslims. A role model whose shared faith (and ethnicity) can help the alienated redefine their identity. |
global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/78970 | The continued brainwashing of America’s youth
Propaganda is defined as “information, especially of a biased or misleading nature, used to promote or publicize a particular political cause or point of view.”
Wikipedia has enlightening information how the Nazi’s effectively used propaganda to brainwash the minds of the German people to embrace Nazism:
“The propaganda used by the German Nazi Party in the years leading up to and during Adolf Hitler’s leadership of Germany (1933–1945) was a crucial instrument for acquiring and maintaining power, and for the implementation of Nazi policies…”
The public school system is one of the main tools for leftists by which America’s youth is systematically being brainwashed to accept anti-American ideologies. This article is the latest example of how LGBTQ fascist tyranny is being force fed down the throats of the unsuspecting.
This is government sanctioned propaganda, American styled. Setting the course for the complete, total, and absolute brainwashing of the youth in America. Few in this country understand the very late hour we find ourselves at in this wicked, perverse country known as “America.” |
global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/78986 | Wednesday, November 30, 2011
One Way Out
Recently I chatted with a dear friend who is deep into the NaNo experience. She's going to make the word count this year. Congrats, you-know-who! I'm so proud of you.
But we weren't talking about NaNo or word counts. The topic of conversation was one that anyone who's written a book knows intimately...
That's right. We were talking about the dreaded dragging middle. She's stuck in the middle, hating the experience and looking for some way out.
Me? I'm no help. I call it as I see it. No gilding the writing lily from me, sorry.
My advice...keep the butt in the chair. Deal with the draggy bits. Make them exciting, even if you hate them. Annoying characters? Give them a face lift, a keyboard makeover. Pull 'em back into line. Remember, you're the boss of this expedition. You drive the bus--tell those suckers sitting behind you to shape up...or else!
The only way to get to the Valhalla of writing words, "The End", is by going straight through the middle. There's just one way out if you expect that fabulous idea, cast of oh-so intriguing characters and fat file to actually become a decent book. Keep your butt in the chair. Keep writing. No shortcuts.
And, you don't have to like every moment of the process. I think some people think that writing a book is a lark. It's not. It's hard work.
But, if you keep at it, those two beautiful words are the last you'll write before pressing the save button. You know the words. Me, too. Currently I'm dragging a boatload of zombies through a jungle, working my way toward The End.
After reading this post, you'll probably never approach me for writing advice, will you?
Oh, boy. So, what's going on with you?
Wishing you a peaceful day!
Shearer's Girl said...
This is so true. People do have a romantic view of writing and crafts as well. There's a lot of hard work and backache goes into these enterprises. I love the image of the bus!
Wendy said...
Your advice is exactly what I need! Oh, and have fun with those zombies slogging through the jungle. :)
Anonymous said...
Your advice is perfect. Tell it like it is!
Sue W.
Melissa McClone said...
Great advice!
Mary said...
Your advice must work. You keep writing great books. I can't wait to read your swimming zombies!! |
global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/78998 | Section §164.308 of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) covers security management and assigning overall responsibility for security policies to an individual in the organization. This article focuses on the required HIPAA administrative safeguards covered in subsections §164.308(a)(1) and (a)(2) describing policies and responsibilities. Section (a)(2) is a simple requirement. The organization must identify an individual as the Security Official who is responsible for the policies and procedures that bring the organization into compliance with the law. The Security Official is responsible for communicating these policies effectively to all workforce members. These policies must also cover the workforce and training requirements discussed in section §164.308 which will be covered in a later article. In order to be HIPAA compliant,[…] |
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