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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/80166 | Sarah was excited. She had not seen her in years and she wondered what it would be like to see and talk to her after all these years.
Today she was going to meet her college friend. The one she had formed a nice connection back then. They were still in the same city for a few years after college. But then they had separated into different cities. They had tried to keep contact for a while, but that also started phasing out. And now, they had not heard from each other in a long time. Until her friend found her and contacted her because apparently now she had a job that made her travel a lot and she wanted to learn where she lived, in case she visited that city. And today she did. Today, she called her and now they were going to meet soon.
As Sarah took another sip from her coffee as she waited for her friend, she saw her walking towards her. Both smiled at each other. Both had changed, but not in a way that made them unrecognizable. They hugged and sat down. They talked. They laughed. Then, they continued talking. Then they laughed again.
Nothing had changed. They were still college besties. Who said time machine was not invented? |
global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/80171 | 19 Bible verses about Controlling Your Thoughts (J2000)
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19 Bible Verses about Controlling Your Thoughts
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Luke 6:45
2 Corinthians 10:3-5
For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war after the flesh (For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God for the destruction of strong holds), casting down reasonings and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God and leading captive every thought into the obedience of the Christ
Philippians 4:6-7
Be anxious for nothing, but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known unto God. And the peace of God, which passes all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.
Proverbs 4:25
Let thine eyes look upon that which is right, and let thine eyelids straighten thy path before thee.
Psalm 101:3
Mark 7:20-22
For he had said that it is what comes out of the man that defiles the man. For from within, out of the heart of men, come forth the evil thoughts, the adulteries, the fornications, the murders, the thefts, the covetousness, the wickedness, the deceit, the lasciviousness, the evil eye, the slander, the pride, the unwiseness:
Philippians 2:2-8
fulfil ye my joy, that ye be likeminded, having the same charity, unanimous, minding the one thing. Let nothing be done through strife or vainglory, but in humility let each esteem others better than themselves, with each one not looking to their own things, but also to the things of others.read more.
Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus, who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God, but emptied himself, taking the form of a slave, made in the likeness of men, and being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross .
Romans 8:5-7
For those that are according to the flesh know the things that are of the flesh; but those that are according to the Spirit, the things that are of the Spirit. For the prudence of the flesh is death, but the prudence of the Spirit, life and peace, because the prudence of the flesh is enmity against God; for it does not subject itself to the law of God, neither indeed can it.
2 Corinthians 2:16
to the one we are the savour of death unto death and to the other the savour of life unto life. And who is sufficient for these things?
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/80172 | 36 Bible verses about Sexual Immorality (J2000)
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36 Bible Verses about Sexual Immorality
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Ezekiel 16:26
Thou hast also committed fornication with the sons of Egypt, thy neighbours, great of flesh, and hast increased thy whoredoms, to provoke me to anger.
Matthew 19:9
And I say unto you, Whosoever shall put away his wife, except it be for fornication and shall marry another, commits adultery, and whosoever marries her that is put away commits adultery.
1 Corinthians 10:8
Neither let us commit fornication, as some of them committed and fell dead: in one day, twenty-three thousand.
Jude 1:7
Even as Sodom and Gomorrha and the cities about them in like manner, giving themselves over to fornication and going after strange flesh, were set forth for an example, having received the judgment of eternal fire.
Revelation 2:14
But I have a few things against thee because thou hast there those that hold the doctrine of Balaam, who taught Balac to cast a stumblingblock before the sons of Israel, to eat things sacrificed unto idols and to commit fornication.
1 Corinthians 5:11
But now I have written unto you not to associate with anyone calling himself a brother if he is a fornicator or covetous or an idolater or a railer or a drunkard or an extortioner; with such a one do not even eat.
Revelation 9:21
And they did not repent of their murders nor of their witchcraft nor of their fornication nor of their thefts.
Revelation 2:21
And I have given her time to repent of her fornication, and she repented not.
Numbers 25:1
And Israel abode in Shittim, and the people began to fornicate with the daughters of Moab,
2 Corinthians 12:21
lest, when I come again, my God will humble me among you, and I would have to mourn over many who have sinned already and have not repented of the uncleanness and fornication and lasciviousness which they have committed.
1 Corinthians 5:10
yet not altogether with the fornicators of this world or with the covetous or extortioners or with idolaters, for then ye would need to go out of the world.
Galatians 5:21
envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like; which I denounce, as I have also told you in time past that those who do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.
Acts 15:29
that ye abstain from foods offered to idols and from blood and from things strangled and from fornication; from which if ye keep yourselves, ye shall do well. Fare ye well.
Acts 21:25
As touching the Gentiles who believe, we have written and concluded that they observe no such thing, except only that they keep themselves from things offered to idols and from blood and from that which has been strangled and from fornication.
Hebrews 12:16
lest there be any fornicator or profane person as Esau, who for one morsel of food sold his birthright.
1 Timothy 1:10
for fornicators, for homosexuals, for kidnappers, for liars, for perjured persons, and if there is any other thing that is contrary to sound doctrine,
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Deuteronomy 22:21-24
then they shall bring out the damsel to the door of her father's house, and the men of her city shall stone her with stones, and she shall die because she has wrought folly in Israel, to fornicate in her father's house; so shalt thou put evil away from among you. If a man is found lying with a woman married to a husband, then they shall both of them die, both the man that lay with the woman and the woman; so shalt thou put away evil from Israel. When a damsel that is a virgin is betrothed unto a husband and a man finds her in the city and lies with her, read more.
then ye shall bring them both out unto the gate of that city, and ye shall stone them with stones, and they shall die; the damsel because she did not cry out, being in the city, and the man because he has humbled his neighbour's wife; so thou shalt put away evil from among you. |
global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/80173 | How those are to be Admonished who have had Experience of the Sins of the Flesh, and those who have Not.
(Admonition 29.) Differently to be admonished are those who are conscious of sins of the flesh, and those who know them not. For those who have had experience of the sins of the flesh are to be admonished that, at any rate after shipwreck, they should fear the sea, and feel horror at their risk of perdition at least when it has become known to them; lest, having been mercifully preserved after evil deeds committed, by wickedly repeating the same they die. Whence to the soul that sins and never ceases from sin it is said, There is come unto thee a whore's forehead; thou refuseth to be ashamed (Jer. iii.3). They are therefore to be admonished to take heed, to the end that, if they have refused to keep whole the good things of nature which they have received, they at least mend them after they have been rent asunder. And they are surely bound to consider, how many in so great a number of the faithful both keep themselves undefiled and also convert others from the error of their way. What, then, will they be able to say, if, while others are standing in integrity, they themselves, even after loss, come not to a better mind? What will they be able to say, if, when many bring others also with themselves to the kingdom, they bring not back even themselves to the Lord who is waiting for them? They are to be admonished to consider past transgressions, and to shun such as are impending. Whence, under the figure of Judæa, the Lord through the prophet recalls past sins to the memory of souls corrupted in this world, to the end that they may be ashamed to be polluted in sins to come, saying, They committed whoredoms in Egypt; they committed whoredoms in their youth: then were their breasts pressed, and the teats of their virginity were bruised (Ezek. xxiii.3). For indeed breasts are pressed in Egypt, when the will of the human soul is prostituted to the base desire of this world. Teats of virginity are bruised in Egypt, when the natural senses, still whole in themselves, are vitiated by the corruption of assailing concupiscence.
Those who have had experience of the sins of the flesh are to be admonished to observe vigilantly with how great benevolence God opens the bosom of His pity to us, if after transgressions we return to Him, when He says through the prophet, If a man put away his wife, and she go from him and become another man's, shall he return to her again? Shall not that woman be polluted and contaminated? But thou hast played the harlot with many lovers; yet return again to me, saith the Lord (Jer. iii.1). So, concerning the wife who has played the harlot and is deserted, the argument of justice is put forward: and yet to us returning after fall not justice, but pity is displayed. Whence we are surely meant to gather how great is our wickedness, if we return not, even after transgression, seeing that, when transgressing, we are spared with so great pity: or what pardon for the wicked there will be from Him who, after our sin, ceases not to call us. And indeed this mercifulness, in calling after transgression, is well expressed through the Prophet, when to man turned away from God it is said, Thine eyes shall see thy teacher, and thine ears shall hear the word of one behind thy back admonishing thee (Isai. xxx.20, 21). For indeed the Lord admonished the human race to their face, when to man, created in Paradise, and standing in free will, He declared what He ought to do or not to do. But man turned his back on the face of God, when in his pride he despised His commands. Yet still God deserted him not in his pride, in that He gave the Law for the purpose of recalling man, and sent exhorting angels, and Himself appeared in the flesh of our mortality. Therefore, standing behind our back, He admonished us, in that, even though despised, He called us to the recovery of grace. What, therefore could be said generally of all alike must needs be felt specially with regard to each. For every man hears the words of God's admonition set as it were before him, when, before he commits sin, he knows the precepts of His will. For still to stand before His face is not yet to despise Him by sinning. But, when a man forsakes the good of innocence, and of choice desires iniquity, he then turns his back on the face of God. But lo, even behind his back God follows and admonishes him, in that even after sin He persuades him to return to Himself. He recalls him that is turned away, He regards not past transgressions, He opens the bosom of pity to the returning one. We hearken, then, to the voice of one behind our back admonishing us, if at least after sins we return to the Lord inviting us. We ought therefore to feel ashamed for the pity of Him Who calls us, if we will not fear His justice: since there is the more grievous wickedness in despising Him in that, though despised, He disdains not to call us still.
But, on the other hand, those that are unacquainted with the sins of the flesh are to be admonished to fear headlong ruin the more anxiously, as they stand upon a higher eminence. They are to be admonished to be aware that the more prominent be the place they stand on, so much the more frequent are the arrows of the lier-in-wait by which they are assailed. For he is wont to rouse himself the more ardently, the more stoutly he sees himself to be vanquished: and so much the more he scorns and feels it intolerable to be vanquished, as he perceives the unbroken camp of weak flesh to be set in array against him. They are to be admonished to look up incessantly to the rewards, and then undoubtedly they will gladly tread under foot the labours of temptation which they endure. For, if attention be fixed on the attained felicity apart from the passage to it, the toil of the passage becomes light. Let them hear what is said through the Prophet; Thus saith the Lord unto the eunuchs, Whoso shall have kept my sabbaths, and chosen the things that l would, and kept my covenant, I will give unto them in mine house and within my walls a place and a name better than of sons and of daughters (Isai. lvi.4, 5). For they indeed are eunuchs, who, suppressing the motions of the flesh, cut off within themselves affection for wrong-doing. Moreover, in what place they are held with the Father is shewn, forasmuch as in the Father's house, that is in His eternal mansion, they are preferred even before sons. Let them hear what is said through John; These are they which have not been defiled with women; for they are virgins, and follow the Lamb whithersoever He goeth (Rev. xiv.4); and how they sing a song which no one can utter but those hundred and forty four thousand. For indeed to sing a song to the Lamb singularly is to rejoice with Him for ever beyond all the faithful, even for incorruption of the flesh. Yet the rest of the elect can hear this song, although they cannot utter it, because, through charity, they are joyful in the exaltation of those others, though they rise not to their rewards. Let those who are unacquainted with the sins of the flesh hear what the Truth in person says concerning this purity; Not all receive this word (Matth. xix.11). Which thing He denoted as the highest, in that He spoke of it as not belonging to all: and, in foretelling that it would be difficult to receive it, He signifies to his hearers with what caution it should be kept when received.
Those who are unacquainted with the sins of the flesh are therefore to be admonished both to know that virginity surpasses wedlock, and yet not to exalt themselves above the wedded: to the end that, while they put virginity first, and themselves last, they may both keep to that which they esteem as best, and also keep guard over themselves in not vainly exalting themselves.
They are to be admonished to consider that commonly the life of the continent is put to shame by the action of secular persons, when the latter take on themselves works beyond their condition, and the former do not stir up their hearts to the mark of their own order. Whence it is well said through the Prophet, Be thou ashamed, O Sidon, saith the sea (Isai. xxiii.4). For Sidon is as it were brought to shame by the voice of the sea, when the life of him who is fortified, and as it were stedfast, is reproved by comparison with the life at those who are secular and fluctuating in this world. For often there are some who, returning to the Lord after sins of the flesh, shew themselves the more ardent in good works as they see themselves the more liable to condemnation for bad ones: and often certain of those who persevere in purity of the flesh seeing that they have less in the past to deplore, think that the innocency of their life is fully sufficient for them, and inflame themselves with no incitements of ardour to fervour of spirit. And for the most part a life burning with love after sin becomes more pleasing to God than innocence growing torpid in security. Whence also it is said by the voice of the Judge, Her sins which are many are forgiven, for she loved much (Luke vii.47); and, Joy shall be in heaven over one sinner that repenteth more than over ninety and nine just persons which need no repentance (xv.7). Which thing we the sooner gather from experience itself, if we weigh the judgments of our own mind. For we love the land which produces abundant fruit after thorns have been ploughed out of it more than that which has had no thorns, but which, when cultivated, yields a barren harvest. Those who know not the sins of the flesh are to be admonished not to prefer themselves to others for the loftiness of their superior order, while they know not how great things are done by their inferiors better than by themselves. For in the inquisition of the righteous judge the quality of actions changes the merits of orders. For who, considering the very outward appearance of things, can be ignorant that in the nature of gems the carbuncle is preferred to the jacinth? But still a jacinth of cerulean colour is preferred to a pale carbuncle; because to the former its show of beauty supplies what the order of nature denied it, and the latter, which natural order had preferred, is debased by the quality of its colour. Thus, then, in the human race both some in the better order are the worse, and some in the worse order are the better; since these by good living transcend the lot of their lower state, and those lessen the merit of their higher place by not coming up to it in their behaviour.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/80174 | The Gospel Feast
After these words the Evangelist adds, "And this He said to prove him, for He Himself knew what He would do." Thus, you see, our Lord had secret meanings when He spoke, and did not bring forth openly all His divine sense at once. He knew what He was about to do from the first, but He wished to lead forward His disciples, and to arrest and open their minds, before He instructed them: for all cannot receive His words, and on the blind and deaf the most sacred truths fall without profit.
And thus, throughout the course of His gracious dispensations from the beginning, it may be said that the Author and Finisher of our faith has hid things from us in mercy, and listened to our questionings, while He Himself knew what He was about to do. He has hid, in order afterwards to reveal, that then, on looking back on what He said and did before, we may see in it what at the time we did not see, and thereby see it to more profit. Thus He hid Himself from the disciples as He walked with them to Emmaus; thus Joseph, too, under different and yet similar circumstances, hid himself from his brethren.
With this thought in our minds, surely we seem to see a new and further meaning still, in the narrative before us. Christ spoke of buying bread, when He intended to create or make bread; but did He not, in that bread which He made, intend further that Heavenly bread which is the salvation of our souls? -- for He goes on to say, "Labour not for the meat" or food "which perisheth, but for that food which endureth unto everlasting life, which the Son of man shall give unto you." Yes, surely the wilderness is the world, and the Apostles are His priests, and the multitudes are His people; and that feast, so suddenly, so unexpectedly provided, is the Holy Communion. He alone is the same. He the provider of the loaves then, of the heavenly manna now. All other things change, but He remaineth.
And what is that Heavenly Feast which we now are vouchsafed, but in its own turn the earnest and pledge of that future feast in His Father's kingdom, when "the marriage of the Lamb shall come, and His wife hath made herself ready," and "holy Jerusalem cometh down from God out of heaven," and "blessed shall they be who shall eat bread in the kingdom of God"?
And further, since to that Feast above we do lift up our eyes, though it will not come till the end; and as we do not make remembrance of it once only, but continually, in the sacred rite which foreshadows it; therefore, in like manner, not in the miracle of the loaves only, though in that especially, but in all parts of Scripture, in history, and in precept, and in promise, and in prophecy, is it given us to see the Gospel Feast typified and prefigured, and that immortal and never-failing Supper in the visible presence of the Lamb which will follow upon it at the end. And if they are blessed who shall eat and drink of that table in the kingdom, so too blessed are they who meditate upon it, and hope for it now, -- who read Scripture with it in their thoughts, and endeavour to look beneath the veil of the literal text, and to catch a sight of the gleams of heavenly light which are behind it. "Blessed are your eyes, for they see; and your ears, for they hear; for verily I say unto you, that many prophets and righteous men have desired to see those things which ye see, but have not seen them; and to hear those things which ye hear, and have not heard them." "Blessed are they which have not seen, and yet have believed." Blessed they who see in and by believing, and who have, because they doubt not. Let us, then, at this time of year[1], as is fitting, follow the train of thought thus opened upon us, and, looking back into the Sacred Volume, trace the intimations and promises there given of that sacred and blessed Feast of Christ's Body and Blood which it is our privilege now to enjoy till the end come.
Now the Old Testament, as we know, is full of figures and types of the Gospel; types various, and, in their literal wording, contrary to each other, but all meeting and harmoniously fulfilled in Christ and His Church. Thus the histories of the Israelites in the wilderness, and of the Israelites when settled in Canaan, alike are ours, representing our present state as Christians. Our Christian life is a state of faith and trial; it is also a state of enjoyment. It has the richness of the promised land; it has the marvellousness of the desert. It is a "good land, a land of brooks of water, of fountains and depths that spring out of vallies and hills; a land of wheat and barley, and vines, and fig-trees, and pomegranates; a land of oil, olive, and honey; a land wherein thou shalt eat bread without scarceness; thou shalt not lack any thing in it; a land whose stones are iron, and out of whose hills thou mayest dig brass." And, on the other hand, it is still a land which to the natural man seems a wilderness, a "great and terrible wilderness, wherein are fiery serpents, and scorpions, and drought, where there is no water;" where faith is still necessary, and where, still more forcibly than in the case of Israel, the maxim holds, that "man doth not live by bread only, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of the Lord doth man live."
This is the state in which we are, -- a state of faith and of possession. In the desert the Israelites lived by the signs of things, without the realities: manna was to stand for the corn, oil, and honey, of the good land promised; water, for the wine and milk. It was a time for faith to exercise itself; and when they came into the promised land, then was the time of possession. That was the land of milk and honey; they needed not any divinely provided compensations or expedients. Manna was not needed, nor the pillar of the cloud, nor the water from the rock. But we Christians, on the contrary, are at once in the wilderness and in the promised land. In the wilderness, because we live amid wonders; in the promised land, because we are in a state of enjoyment. That we are in the state of enjoyment is surely certain, unless all the prophecies have failed; and that we are in a state in which faith alone has that enjoyment, is plain from the fact that God's great blessings are not seen, and in that the Apostle says, "We walk by faith, not by sight." In a word, we are in a super-natural state, -- a word which implies both its greatness and its secretness: for what is above nature, is at once not seen, and is more precious than what is seen; "the things which are seen are temporal, the things which are not seen are eternal."
And if our state altogether is parallel to that of the Israelites, as an antitype to its type, it is natural to think that so great a gift as Holy Communion would not be without its appropriate figures and symbols in the Old Testament. All that our Saviour has done is again and again shadowed out in the Old Testament; and this, therefore, it is natural to think, as well as other things: His miraculous birth, His life, His teaching, His death, His priesthood, His sacrifice, His resurrection, His glorification, His kingdom, are again and again prefigured: it is not reasonable to suppose that if this so great gift is really given us, it should be omitted. He who died for us, is He who feeds us; and as His death is mentioned, so we may beforehand expect will be mentioned the feast He gives us. Not openly indeed, for neither is His death nor His priesthood taught openly, but covertly, under the types of David or Aaron, or other favoured servants of God; and in like manner we might expect, and we shall find, the like reverent allusions to His most gracious Feast, -- allusions which we should not know to be allusions but for the event; just as we should not know that Solomon, Aaron, or Samuel, stood for Christ at all, except that the event explains the figure. When Abraham said to Isaac, "God will provide Himself a lamb for a burnt offering," who can doubt this is a prophecy concerning Christ? -- yet we are nowhere told it in Scripture. The case is the same as regards the Sacrament of Baptism. Now that it is given, we cannot doubt that the purifications of the Jews, Naaman's bathing, and the prophecy of a fountain being opened for sin and all uncleanness, have reference to it, as being the visible fulfilment of the great spiritual cleansing: and St. Peter expressly affirms this of the Deluge, and St. Paul of the passage of the Red Sea. And in like manner passages in the Bible, which speak prophetically of the Gospel Feast, cannot but refer (if I may so speak) to the Holy Sacrament of the Lord's Supper, as being, in fact, the Feast given us under the Gospel.
And let it be observed, directly we know that we have this great gift, and that the Old Testament history prefigures it, we have a light thrown upon what otherwise is a difficulty; for, it may be asked with some speciousness, whether the Jews were not in a higher state of privilege than we Christians, until we take this gift into account. It may be objected that our blessings are all future or distant, -- the hope of eternal life, which is to be fulfilled hereafter, God's forgiveness, who is in heaven: what do we gain now and here above the Jews? God loved the Jews, and He gave them something; He gave them present gifts; the Old Testament is full of the description of them; He gave them "the precious things of heaven, and the dew, and the deep that coucheth beneath, and precious things brought forth by the sun, and by the moon, and the chief things of the ancient mountains, and the precious things of the lasting hills, and the precious things of the earth, and the fulness thereof," "honey out of the rock, and oil out of the flinty rock, butter of kine, and milk of sheep, with fat of lambs, and rams of the breed of Bashan, and goats, with the fat of kidneys of wheat, and the pure blood of the grape[2]." These were present real blessings. What has He given us? -- nothing in possession? all in promise? This, I say, is in itself not likely, it is not likely that He should so reverse His system, and make the Gospel inferior to the Law. But the knowledge of the great gift under consideration clears up this perplexity; for every passage in the Old Testament which speaks of the temporal blessings given by God to His ancient people, instead of conveying to us a painful sense of destitution, and exciting our jealousy, reminds us of our greater blessedness; for every passage which belongs to them is fulfilled now in a higher sense to us. We have no need to envy them. God did not take away their blessings, without giving us greater. The Law was not so much taken away, as the Gospel given. The Gospel supplanted the Law. The Law went out by the Gospel's coming in. Only our blessings are not seen; therefore they are higher, because they are unseen. Higher blessings could not be visible. How could spiritual blessings be visible ones? If Christ now feeds us, not with milk and honey, but "with the spiritual food of His most precious Body and Blood;" if "our sinful bodies are made clean by His Body, and our souls washed through His most precious Blood," truly we are not without our precious things, any more than Israel was: but they are unseen, because so much greater, so spiritual; they are given only under the veil of what is seen: and thus we Christians are both with the Church in the wilderness as regards faith, and in the Church in Canaan as regards enjoyment; having the fulfilment of the words spoken by Moses, repeated by our Lord, to which I just now referred, "Man shall not live by bread only, but by every word which proceedeth out of the mouth of God."
Now, then, I will refer to some passages of both the Old Testament and the New, which both illustrate and are illustrated by this great doctrine of the Gospel.
1. And, first, let it be observed, from the beginning, the greatest rite of religion has been a feast; the partaking of God's bounties, in the way of nature, has been consecrated to a more immediate communion with God Himself. For instance, when Isaac was weaned, Abraham "made a great feast[3]," and then it was that Sarah prophesied; "Cast out this bondwoman and her son," she said, prophesying the introduction of the spirit, grace, and truth, which the Gospel contains, instead of the bondage of the outward forms of the Law. Again, it was at a feast of savoury meat that the spirit of prophecy came upon Isaac, and he blessed Jacob. In like manner the first beginning of our Lord's miracles was at a marriage feast, when He changed water into wine; and when St. Matthew was converted he entertained our Lord at a feast. At a feast, too, our Lord allowed the penitent woman to wash with tears and anoint His feet, and pronounced her forgiveness; and at a feast, before His passion, He allowed Mary to anoint them with costly ointment, and to wipe them with her hair. Thus with our Lord, and with the Patriarchs, a feast was a time of grace; so much so, that He was said by the Pharisees to come eating and drinking, to be "a winebibber and gluttonous, a friend of publicans and sinners[4]."
2. And next, in order to make this feasting still more solemn, it had been usual at all times to precede it by a direct act of religion, -- by a prayer, or blessing, or sacrifice, or by the presence of a priest, which implied it. Thus, when Melchizedek came out to meet Abraham, and bless him, "he brought forth bread and wine[5]," to which it is added, "and he was the priest of the Most High God." Such, too, was the lamb of the Passover, which was eaten roast with fire, and with unleavened bread, and bitter herbs, with girded loins and shoes on, and staff in hand; as the Lord's Passover, being a solemn religious feast, even if not a sacrifice. And such seems to have been the common notion of communion with God all the world over, however it was gained; viz. that we arrived at the possession of His invisible gifts by participation in His visible, that there was some mysterious connexion between the seen and the unseen; and that, by setting aside the choicest of His earthly bounties, as a specimen and representative of the whole, presenting it to Him for His blessing, and then taking, eating, and appropriating it, we had the best hope of gaining those unknown and indefinite gifts which human nature needs. This the heathen practised towards their idols also; and St. Paul seems to acknowledge that in that way they did communicate, though most miserably and fearfully, with those idols, and with the evil spirits which they represented. "The things which the Gentiles sacrifice, they sacrifice to devils, and not to God; and I would not that ye should hold communion with devils[6]." Here, as before, a feast is spoken of as the means of communicating with the unseen world, though, when the feast was idolatrous, it was the fellowship of evil spirits.
3. And next let this be observed, that the descriptions in the Old Testament of the perfect state of religious privilege, viz. that under the Gospel which was then to come, are continually made under the image of a feast, a feast of some special and choice goods of this world, corn, wine, and the like; goods of this world chosen from the mass as a specimen of all, as types and means of seeking, and means of obtaining, the unknown spiritual blessings, which "eye hath not seen nor ear heard." And these special goods of nature, so set apart, are more frequently than any thing else, corn or bread, and wine, as the figures of what was greater, though others are mentioned also. Now the first of these of which we read is the fruit of the tree of life, the leaves of which are also mentioned in the prophets. The tree of life was that tree in the garden of Eden, the eating of which would have made Adam immortal; a divine gift lay hid in an outward form. The prophet Ezekiel speaks of it afterwards in the following words, showing that a similar blessing was in store for the redeemed; -- "By the river, upon the bank thereof, on this side, and on that side, shall grow all trees for meat, whose leaf shall not fade, neither shall the fruit thereof be consumed. It shall bring forth new fruits according to his months, because their waters they issued out of the sanctuary; and the fruit thereof shall be for meat, and the leaf thereof for medicine[7]." Like to which is St. John's account of the tree of life, "which bare twelve manner of fruits, and yielded her fruit every month; and the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations[8]." And hence we read in the Canticles of the apple-tree, and of sitting down under its shadow, and its fruit being sweet to the taste. Here then in type is signified the sacred gift of which I am speaking; and yet it has not seemed good to the gracious Giver literally to select fruit or leaves as the means of His invisible blessings. He might have spiritually fed us with such, had He pleased -- for man liveth not by bread only, but by the word of His mouth. His Word might have made the fruit of the tree His Sacrament, but He has willed otherwise.
The next selection of gifts of the earth which we find in Scripture, is the very one which He at length fixed on, bread and wine, as in the history of Melchizedek; and there the record stands as a prophecy of what was to be: for who is Melchizedek but our Lord and Saviour, and what is the Bread and Wine but the very feast which He has ordained?
Next the great gift was shadowed out in the description of the promised land, which was said to flow with milk and honey, and in all those other precious things of nature which I have already recounted as belonging to the promised land, oil, butter, corn, wine, and the like. These all may be considered to refer to the Gospel feast typically, because they were the rarest and most exquisite of the blessings given to the Jews, as the Gospel Feast is the most choice and most sacred of all the blessings given to us Christians; and what is most precious under the one Dispensation is signified by what is most precious under the other.
Now let us proceed to the Prophets, and we shall find the like anticipation of the Gospel Feast.
For instance, you recollect, the prophet Hosea says: "It shall come to pass in that day, I will hear, saith the Lord, I will hear the heavens, and they shall hear the earth, and the earth shall hear the corn, and the wine, and the oil, and they shall hear Jezreel. And I will sow her unto Me in the earth[9]." By Jezreel is meant the Christian Church; and the Prophet declares in God's name, that the time was to come when the Church would call upon the corn, wine, and oil, and they would call on the earth, and the earth on the heavens, and the heavens on God; and God should answer the heavens, and the heavens should answer the earth, and the earth should answer the corn, wine, and oil, and they should answer to the wants of the Church. Now, doubtless, this may be fulfilled only in a general way; but considering Almighty God has appointed corn or bread, and wine, to be the special instruments of His ineffable grace, -- He, who sees the end from the beginning, and who views all things in all their relations at once, -- He, when He spoke of corn and wine, knew that the word would be fulfilled, not generally only, but even literally in the Gospel.
Again: the prophet Joel says, "It shall come to pass in that day that the mountains shall drop down new wine, and the hills shall flow with milk, and all the rivers of Judah shall flow with waters, and a fountain shall come forth of the house of the Lord, and shall water the valley of Shittim[10]." How strikingly is this fulfilled, if we take it to apply to what God has given us in the Gospel, in the feast of the Holy Communion!
Again: the prophet Amos says: "Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, when the plowman shall overtake the reaper, and the treader of grapes him that soweth seed; and the mountains shall drop sweet wine, and all the hills shall melt[11];" that is, with God's marvellous grace, whereby He gives us gifts new and wonderful.
And the prophet Isaiah: "In this mountain shall the Lord of Hosts make unto all people a feast of fat things, a feast of wines on the lees; of fat things full of marrow, of wines on the lees well refined." And again: "Surely I will no more give thy corn to be meat for thine enemies, and the sons of the stranger shall not drink thy wine, for the which thou hast laboured; but they that have gathered it shall eat it, and praise the Lord, and they that have brought it together shall drink it in the courts of My holiness." And again: "Behold My servants shall eat, but ye shall be hungry; behold My servants shall drink, but ye shall be thirsty[12]."
Again: the prophet Jeremiah says: "They shall come and sing in the height of Zion, and shall flow together to the goodness of the Lord, for wheat, and for wine, and for oil, and for the young of the flock and of the herd; and their soul shall be as a watered garden, and they shall not sorrow any more at all. . . And I will satiate the soul of the priests with fatness, and My people shall be satisfied with My goodness, saith the Lord[13]."
And the prophet Zechariah: "How great is His goodness, and how great is His beauty! corn shall make the young men cheerful, and new wine the maids[14]."
And under a different image, but with the same general sense, the prophet Malachi: "From the rising of the sun even unto the going down of the same, My Name shall be great among the Gentiles; and in every place incense shall be offered unto My Name, and a pure offering, for My Name shall be great among the heathen, saith the Lord of Hosts[15]."
Further, if the Psalms are intended for Christian worship, as surely they are, the Prophetic Spirit, who inspired them, saw that they too would in various places describe that sacred Christian feast, which we feel they do describe; and surely we may rightly call this coincidence between the ordinance in the Christian Church and the form of words in the Psalms, a mark of design. For instance: "Thou shalt prepare a Table before me against them that trouble me. Thou hast anointed my head with oil, and my Cup shall be full." "I will wash my hands in innocency, O Lord, and so will I go to Thine Altar." "O send out Thy light and Thy truth, that they may lead me, and bring me unto Thy holy hill, and to Thy dwelling; and that I may go unto the Altar of God, even unto the God of my joy and gladness." "The children of men shall put their trust under the shadow of Thy wings. They shall be satisfied with the plenteousness of Thy house, and Thou shalt give them drink of Thy pleasures as out of the river. For with Thee is the well of life, and in Thy light shall we see light." "Blessed is the man whom Thou choosest and receivest unto Thee; he shall dwell in Thy court, and shall be satisfied with the pleasures of Thy house, even of Thy Holy Temple." "My soul shall be satisfied, even as it were with marrow and fatness, when my mouth praiseth Thee with joyful lips . . . because Thou hast been my helper, therefore under the shadow of Thy wings will I rejoice[16]."
The same wonderful feast is put before us in the book of Proverbs, where Wisdom stands for Christ. "Wisdom hath builded her house," that is, Christ has built His Church, "she hath hewn out her seven pillars, she hath killed her beasts, she hath mingled her wine (that is, Christ has prepared His Supper), she hath also furnished her table (that is, the Lord's Table), she hath sent forth her maidens (that is, the priests of the Lord), she crieth upon the highest places of the city. Whoso is simple, let him turn in hither; as for him that wanteth understanding, she saith to him. Come, eat of My Bread and drink of the Wine which I have mingled[17]," -- which is like saying, "Come unto Me all ye that labour and are heavy laden and I will refresh you." Like which are the prophet Isaiah's words; "Ho, every one that thirsteth, come ye to the waters, and he that hath no money, come ye buy and eat, yea, come, buy wine and milk without money and without price[18]." And such too is the description in the book of Canticles: "The fig tree putteth forth her green figs, and the vines with the tender grapes give a good smell" . . . . "Until the day break and the shadows flee away, I will get me to the mountain of myrrh, and to the hill of frankincense" . . . "I have gathered My myrrh with My spice, I have eaten My honeycomb with My honey, I have drunk My wine with My milk; eat, O friends, drink, yea drink abundantly, O beloved[19]!" In connexion with such passages as these should be observed St. Paul's words, which seem from the antithesis to be an allusion to the same most sacred Ordinance: "Be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess, but be filled with the Spirit," with that new wine which God the Holy Spirit ministers in the Supper of the Great King.
God grant that we may be able ever to come to this Blessed Sacrament with feelings suitable to the passages which I have read concerning it! May we not regard it in a cold, heartless way, and keep at a distance from fear, when we should rejoice! May the spirit of the unprofitable servant never be ours, who looked at his lord as a hard master instead of a gracious benefactor! May we not be in the number of those who go on year after year, and never approach Him at all! May we not be of those who went, one to his farm, another to his merchandise, when they were called to the wedding! Nor let us be of those, who come in a formal, mechanical way, as a mere matter of obligation, without reverence, without awe, without wonder, without love. Nor let us fall into the sin of those who complained that they have nothing to gather but the manna, wearying of God's gifts.
But let us come in faith and hope, and let us say to ourselves, May this be the beginning to us of everlasting bliss! May these be the first-fruits of that banquet which is to last for ever and ever; ever new, ever transporting, inexhaustible, in the city of our God!
[1] Easter.
[2] Deut. xxxii.13; xxxiii.13-15.
[3] Gen. xxi.10.
[4] Matt. xi.19. Luke vii.34.
[5] Gen. xiv.18.
[6] 1 Cor. x.20.
[7] Ezek. xlvii.12.
[8] Rev. xxii.2.
[9] Hos. ii.21-23.
[10] Joel iii.18.
[11] Amos ix.13.
[12] Isa. xxv.6; lxii.8, 9, lxv.13.
[13] Jer. xxxi.12-14.
[14] Zech. ix.17.
[15] Mal. i.11.
[16] Ps. xxiii.5; xxvi.6; xxxvi.7-9; xliii.3, 4, lxv.4; lxiii.6-8.
[17] Prov. ix.1-5.
[18] Isa. lv.1.
[19] Cant. ii.13; iv.6; v.1
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/80195 | There's a famous quote by Agatha Christie: "I don't think necessity is the mother of invention — invention, in my opinion, arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness".
The fact is, people keep saying "there's an app for that" but that's not always true. That's why here at Aptoide, we decided to kickstart a brainstorming session to come up with ideas to solve the laziest problems we're faced on a daily basis.
Consider this challenge: Let us know which lazy app ideas you have in mind. In the meantime here's some inspirational apps and potential app ideas to get your creative juices flowing.
1. Clothes Matching App
Selecting clothes is such a drag. Colors need to match. You need to keep an eye on trends too. And then you still need to match the clothes that you have available on that day. Not an easy task - and it's just boring, right? No more. Just load this app with all your wardrobe data. Actually, ideally, all your clothes should already be smart and communicate their color and cut style automatically via RFID obviously - because who would have the time or patience to go through all the clothes to add them to the system? Oh, and guess what - it actually exists on Aptoide: it's called MyDressing, and you can get it on Aptoide.
2. What Should I Eat Today App
You wake up really late on a Saturday. You too tired to go shopping, and you have no idea what to eat. No problem, just tell this hypothetical app what you have in your fridge and it'll tell you what you can cook. Oh sorry, I know you're too lazy for that. Screw it. Just go out for lunch by randomly selecting a restaurant type. Or in alternative just check our "too lazy to cook" app selection on Aptoide.
3. The Clean My House For Me App
Your house is dirty but you're feeling too lazy? It's all good. Just grab this one called, well, called Lazy. This is actually a platform to look for the best cleaners in town. Simply choose someone and they'll be at your doorstep in no time. Ideally you could even leave the door open and tell them to show themselves in so you can take that so deserved nap.
4. Scoop My Dog Poop For Me App
I love my dog but I just hate picking up his poop. I mean it's already bad enough that I have to get out of the house and walk my dog every single day (actually twice a day), and I still have to scoop his poop? Hell no. There must be a better way. Yea, this one was all over the news a while ago, but it turns out it's actually fake. But honestly, I love the idea. If any of you guys can code, then please, please, make this dream come true for me.
5. Speak With Your House Like HAL 9000 App
Did you hear that one about the man that spent 11 hours trying to boil water for his tea out of a smart Kettle? Sounds funny? That's what you get by trying to be lazy. He also had to dinner with the lights off because they were performing a firmware update.
In all seriousness, loads of Internet of Things controlling apps are available on Aptoide, allowing you to control everything in your house without leaving your sofa. Here's one.
Just consider yourself lucky if your smart "lazy proof" house - or spaceship - doesn't become self-aware and goes Skynet on your ass by locking you out. Just imagine if it happens on a smart spaceship during your first trip to Mars with Elon Musk. It sucks that you can't survive in space. Bummer.
6. Decider App
Making a decision involves thinking about the problem, which of course is a lot of work. What if you could, not just delay your decision, but also completely avoid it. There's an app for that, which is, the appropriately called, The Decider.
7. Girlfriend Check In App
I know you love your girlfriend. But isn't it a pain in the ass when your just hanging with your bros and you have to text her? No more. With The Bro you can do your regular check in with your girlfriend automatically. Just tell him which sweet message he should send and at what time.
8. Short Distance Uber App
I know we already have Uber, which is quite useful. You no longer have to go through the effort of yelling for a cab which already saves you a lot of effort. But, ideally, you shouldn't even need to go through the effort of walking towards your Uber car, or carrying yourself out of the house. I mean what if there was a Uber for super short distances... like... across the street for instance. That would be just great. Who wants to develop this one? Also, bring me the remote too.
9. Doppelganger App
What if you could simply send one of your clones to do your tasks? That would be sweet right? It would actually be the ultimate laziness hack. What if it was possible? Picture this: An app that scrapes Facebook looking for your look-alike. Everyone has a double somewhere in the world but most of us don't ever meet that person. This app could be the solution.
Of course, convincing him/paying him to represent you would be another challenge, though. Just make sure he doesn't take over your life.
While we're pretty sure this app still doesn't exist, feel free to check all the existing attempts available on Aptoide.
10. Candle Blower
If it's my birthday, then why does it have to be me going through the hassle of blowing the candles? Preposterous. But no sweat, there's probably an app for that. Yep, you guessed it, it's called Yet Another Air Blower, and it literally saves your breath.
Forget the previous one, this is the ultimate lazy app!
We hope these ideas can help you come up with better ways of achieving more by doing less! |
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APIs: Your Company's Secret Weapon to Widen Your Competitive Advantage
Posted by Katy Schamberger on Nov 11, 2015 10:47:19 PM
APIs, once the sole domain of tech-savvy developers, are now moving into the boardroom. The use cases—and business benefits—are compelling, including helping companies learn more about their customers, adding robust functionality to existing software and mobile apps and improving their competitive advantage through better visibility, insight and performance. If you aren’t yet tapping into the full power of APIs, now’s the time to start.
What Is an API?
An API, or application-programming interface, “is a set of programming instructions and standards for accessing a Web-based software application or web tool. A software company releases its API to the public so that other software developers can design products that are powered by its service.”
For example, IFTTT.com uses APIs from several products and platforms like LinkedIn, Yammer, Etsy, Nest thermostat and Fitbit so that users can create connections, or recipes, between channels. Recipes are typically built around an “if/then” formula: if it rains tomorrow, send me an email. Or if you change your Facebook profile photo, then automatically update your Twitter profile photo. In essence, you’ve created a pathway and a new action using the existing functionality of these channels.
What Can APIs Do for Businesses?
A critical shift in the way APIs are viewed has not only introduced a new set of prospective use cases, but is also driving an increased awareness of the true potential of APIs.
“APIs have been elevated from a development technique to a business model driver and boardroom consideration,” according to Deloitte’s Tech Trends 2015 report. “An organization’s core assets can be reused, shared and monetized through APIs that can extend the reach of existing services or provide new revenue streams. APIs should be managed like a product—one built on top of a potentially complex technical footprint that includes legacy and third-party systems and data.”
What makes APIs so valuable to the business? In part, their versatility. APIs can be used to add features and functionality to products and services. And because they work to bridge the gap and enable connectivity between devices and software, APIs are widely considered to be important building blocks in a larger Internet of Things strategy.
When it comes to using APIs, they’re not unlike other types of technology in that a company needs to first define the business need that’s driving the API implementation. Once that strategic foundation is in place, companies can find the APIs—and, in many cases, the related solutions—that will deliver the best results.
APIs in Action: The DSI Platform
In many cases, APIs are used to help leverage data, whether it’s customer demographic information or real-time working conditions, to name two examples. Yet what happens to that data once it’s collected? To analyze and act on that data, you need to be able to put it in the context of your larger business data and processes by creating a seamless flow to your company’s back-end system. And that’s where the DSI platform can help.
One of the longtime attributes of our platform is enabling secure, seamless integrations to leading enterprise software systems, as well as other software solutions. We focus on getting you the information that you need, when you need it, regardless of the system from which it originates. As a result, someone could write a web or mobile app, then use our platform to integrate that app’s functionality into an ERP system, creating an uninterrupted flow of information between the two. That pathway works in reverse, too, if an app needs to make a particular function call to a back-end system, then deliver that information in the front-facing web app.
The DSI platform also includes a Web services connector, which supports SOAP and RESTful protocols to enhance the functionality of mobile apps with contextualized information like flight or weather tracking. One of DSI’s newer solutions, the DSI Product Locator App, incorporates mapping APIs to enable location mapping and leverage other geographical data. As a result, users have rich, contextual business information accessible in a robust user experience that could, for example, provide an inventory-aware map of product locations so that a customer could quickly and easily make a purchase This pertinent business data, including asset locations, product placement and job conditions, not only enables real-time visibility and execution regardless of location, but also provides the informational foundation for operational insights that can improve business performance and, as a result, sharpen a company’s competitive advantage.
Interested in learning more about APIs and how the DSI platform can help you better leverage the API economy for your own business? Contact us anytime.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/80212 | Installing 32bit AutoCAD Civil 3D 2011 on 64bit Windows 7, Windows 8 and Windows 10
NOTE: This blog post specifically solves issues related to these error messages on installation…
• “This operating system is not supported by AutoCAD® Civil 3D® 2011”
• “This is a 32-bit AutoCAD® Civil 3D® 2011. It cannot be installed on 64-bit Windows”
Installing AutoCAD Civil 3D 2011 32bit on Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 8.1 or Windows 10 64bit can be very easily defined in these short steps…
NOTE: These steps do not bypass normal Autodesk licensing/authorization, you should expect to use your own serial numbers in the normal way.
1. Obtain your copy of the Longbow Converter here
2. If you have CDs:
1. Using Windows Explorer, copy Disk 1 of your Civil 3D 2011 CD to your hard drive, to a folder path c:\Autodesk\Civil3d2011
2. Next, copy Disk 2 of your Civil 3D CD directly over the top of Disk 1, overwrite all files in your previously copied c:\Autodesk\Civil3d2011 folder
3. Same again for Disk 3
3. If you have a single self extracting exe downloaded from Autodesk
1. Run the exe, it will ask to unzip to a folder inside of c:\Autodesk, make a note of the folder for later use (we’ll refer to it from here as c:\Autodesk\Civil3d2011), now click OK. Wait until all of the files have extracted, when they do, the Civil 3D 2011 setup will automatically launch – simply close it and move to the next step.
4. Now, start the Longbow Converter tool, select the 1st tab, pick the c:\Autodesk\Civil3d2011 folder, and click the Convert button.
5. Once the conversion process is complete, click Install/Run Setup to start setup. Simply install as normal.
6. Windows 8, Windows 8.1 and Windows 10 users: Once the installation process is complete, go back to the Converter, select the 3rd tab, pick the newly installed C:\Program Files (x86)\AutoCAD Civil3d 2011 folder, then click Fix.
7. Now you can happily run your Civil 3D 2011 32bit on Windows 10, Windows 7 and Windows 8 64bit.
Installing the 32bit Civil 3D Service Packs
We recommend that you download and install the latest Service Packs from Autodesk which can be found here (you will need the 32bit versions) –
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/80223 | Python 101 – Day 1
I’m working on a bit of a pet project this week and without going into an explanation of what I’m working on (mainly because I’m kind of figuring it out as I go :)), I’m going through some training to formally learn Python. I’ve dabbled with it before but I wanted to do something a bit more structured to cover all the bases so I’m taking some Pluralsight courses. I thought it would be good to post up a few notes each day with items worth sharing and/or saving for later when I forget. Like tomorrow. So day 1…
Beyond basic helloworld, data types, loops, string manipulation, and other basic programming tasks, day 1 had some development environment learnings I wanted to note. While the course I’m taking is mainly using PyCharm, I wanted to use VS Code. There’s a Python extension for Code so all is good there. I also prefer to use WSL, which added some wrinkles.
WSL is currently running Ubuntu 16.04, which means to get Python 3.6 installed you either need to build it locally or pull it down from a PPA. Using a promising post I found, I first tried to build locally and then quickly “reminded” myself that I don’t have a c compiler installed. So I punted and went the PPA route. Now my WSL environment has Python 2 (2.7.12) and 3 (3.5.2 and 3.6.3) installed. Golden.
Keep in mind I didn’t install Python in Windows, just WSL. This means (as I found out) a few things won’t work as desired:
• Intellisense in Code doesn’t work as I think it picks up hints from the Windows Python installation
• Debugging in Code doesn’t work
• “Run Python file in terminal” functionality in Code doesn’t work (tries running Windows python)
That last one is exacerbated a bit due to me running WSL as my terminal in Code. So I can manually execute python3 and run my code in the IDE, but none of the built in tooling works to make it seemless. I tried to figure out if I could trick Code into using my WSL version of python through some settings, but that didn’t help. Below is as close as I got, but it’s still using a Windows path instead of Linux path format.
So until we can run VS Code directly within a WSL environment, I think my ideal dev environment isn’t possible. Bummer, but I’ve been meaning to spend more time on my Fedora machine anyway, so looks like the rest of this week will be on that OS.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/80228 | 163 Sonlight Superlatives: The Best Books from Preschool to Level J
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163 Sonlight Superlatives: The Best Books from Preschool to Level J
Sonlight is all about great books—biographies, novels, non-fiction, poetry anthologies, picture books, and reference volumes. Each book is carefully chosen and has to pass Sarita's Seven-Part Test:
1. Real/realistic characters
2. Solid character development
3. Content that adds to the reader's cultural literacy.
4. Intriguing, multi-dimensional plot
5. Emotionally compelling
6. Verbally beautiful
7. Re-readable
So you can be assured that each title in a Sonlight curriculum package is high quality, both in terms of academics and moral quality.
So it's a nearly impossible task to select the best Sonlight books.
They are all the best. Truly.
But every book in Sonlight has special qualities that make it a superlative in its own right. Here is a list of 163 unique superlatives taken from the Sonlight catalog of homeschool curriculum.
The Best from the Preschool Package
1. Best picture book about the glory of reading: The Bee Tree
2. Best picture book for search and find: Cars and Trucks and Things That Go
3. Best picture book about friendship: George and Martha
4. Best party book of all time: Go, Dog. Go!
5. Best bind-up of classic picture books: Harper Collins Treasury of Picture Book Classics
6. Best picture book on faithfulness: Horton Hatches the Egg
7. Most highly decorated bind-up: Make Way for McCloskey
8. Best picture book to gently explain death: Nana Upstairs and Nana Downstairs
9. Best animal conservation picture book: Noah’s Ark
The Best from the PreKindergarten Package
1. Most detailed and creative look at human diversity: People
2. Easiest way to gently teach about giving: Stories from Africa
3. Best large-format art book: A Child’s Book of Art
4. Best subversive stories told by enslaved people: The Classic Tales of Brer Rabbit
5. Most perennially popular Victorian stories and illustrations: The Complete Adventures of Peter Rabbit
6. Most cheery art collection: Eric Carle’s Animals Animals
7. Best way to easily check a student’s learning readiness: Developing the Early Learner
8. Best science book of all time: The Berenstain Bears’ Big Book of Science and Nature
9. Best introduction to machines: How Do You Lift a Lion?
10. Most creative geology book: How to Dig a Hole to the Other Side of the World
11. Best introduction to the size of the universe: Is a Blue Whale the Biggest Thing There Is?
12. Best early elementary introduction to subatomic particles: What’s Smaller Than a Pygmy Shrew?
13. Best look at seasonal changes in the northern United States: The Year at Maple Hill Farm
The Best from History / Bible / Literature A
1. Most comprehensive and interesting children’s Bible: Egermeier’s Bible Story Book
2. Best time travel graphic novel: Game On in Ancient Greece
3. Best story of a tragic accident redeemed: Out of Darkness
4. Best elementary book that will make you both laugh-out-loud and weep: Adventures with Waffles
5. Best illustrated Mother Goose: The Arnold Lobel Book of Mother Goose
6. Best book on small home living: The Boxcar Children
7. Most unusual pet: Capyboppy
8. Best book on the magic of math: A Grain of Rice
9. Best book on thoughtless bullying and the power of forgiveness: The Hundred Dresses
10. Best stories about good-hearted BFFs who always end up in trouble: In Grandma’s Attic
11. Most memorable animal stories: James Herriot’s Treasury for Children
12. Best book about life on a lighthouse: The Light at Tern Rock
13. Most unexpected use of chewing gum and a toothbrush: My Father’s Dragon
14. Most charming book on manners: Richard Scarry’s Please and Thank You Book
15. Sweetest introduction to World War II: Twenty and Ten
The Best from History / Bible / Literature B
1. Most astonishing story of God’s provision: George Muller
2. Most simple and memorable introduction to King Tut: Tut’s Mummy: Lost and Found
3. Best overview of the archaeological process: Archaeologists Dig for Clues
4. Best book for the future architect or contractor: Wonderful Houses Around the World
5. Best story of unexpected friendship: Charlotte’s Web
6. Best tutorial on good story-telling: Gooney Bird Greene [not sure if Sonlight is for you? Get this one free!]
7. Best story of a boy and his dog: Henry Huggins
8. Best story of a boy and his skunk: Homer Price
9. The poetry book that will make your children ask for more: National Geographic Book of Animal Poetry
10. Funniest stories of predators as pets: Owls in the Family
11. Best example of empathy gone too far: Understood Betsy
12. Most practical science fair experiment: The Year of the Baby
13. The way we all wish we could teach: The Year of Miss Agnes
14. Most unusual dwelling: Kildee House
15. Most wise shepherd and most heroic sheep: Mountain Born
The Best from History / Bible / Literature C
1. Catchiest, stick-in-your-mind songs to learn geography: Audio Memory Geography Songs
2. Most unqualified missionary who went on to do astonishing things: Gladys Aylward
3. Best updated prayer guide: Window on the World
4. Best story of using your skills and gifts, even if they don’t seem that amazing: About Average
5. Largest collection of stories over two millennia old: The Aesop for Children
6. The best celebration of opera and insects: The Cricket in Times Square
7. An astonishing opportunity to see a person in the face of the enemy: The Little Riders
8. Best summer vacation story: The Penderwicks
9. Best story of Italy, an island, and a discovery: Red Sails to Capri
10. Best book about publishing a book: The School Story
11. Best book about retirement gone wrong: The Twenty-One Balloons
12. Astonishing story of cultural transformation: And the Word Came with Power
The Best from History / Bible / Literature D
1. Best American history books from an unusual angle: Landmark History of the American People, Vols. 1 and 2
2. Best book about how mathematics can change the world: Carry On, Mr. Bowditch
3. Outstanding historical fiction about the Boston Tea Party and the American Revolution: Johnny Tremain
4. Best horse-racing book from early America: Justin Morgan Had a Horse
5. Best story of the lumber trade down the Mississippi: Swift Rivers
6. Most thought-provoking book on the nature of slavery and freedom: Walk the World’s Rim
7. Best book to ask, “Just what was so bad about the Quakers?”: The Witch of Blackbird Pond
8. For all who yearn to make their living space just a little prettier: The Journeyman
9. Most unusual book of the intersection of ancient and modern Peruvian culture: Secret of the Andes
10. Most exciting story of the thwarting of an assassination attempt: Phoebe the Spy
11. Best book on wishing for rain: Sarah, Plain and Tall
12. Most astonishing story about prophetic dreams: Sarah Whitcher’s Story
13. Most fascinating book on early American transportation: Timmy O’Dowd and the Big Ditch
14. Best cameo appearance of a famous American: The Cabin Faced West
15. Most moving ending of a simple book: Stone Fox
16. Best book on the trials and promises of an inventor: The Story of Eli Whitney
The Best from History / Bible / Literature E
1. Most inspirational story of abolition across the pond: One Voice
2. Best collection of well-known songs from American history: Wee Sing America
3. Outstanding age-appropriate overview of two cataclysmic events: The World Wars
4. Gorgeous look at Bible translation and the resulting transformation: In Search of the Source
5. Best overview of the Civil War, including the western theater: Across Five Aprils
6. Most delightful settler story: Caddie Woodlawn
7. Most outrageous cattle drive: The Great Turkey Walk
8. Astonishing story of a large-scale and temporary public works project: The Great Wheel
9. Best view of immigration, integration, and baseball: In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson
10. Fantastic story of the boy who moves west and breaks ten toes: Little Britches
11. How making maple syrup dispels depression: Miracles on Maple Hill
12. Most inspirational story of how to live in the midst of broken racial relations: Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
13. Best book to make you want to see an eclipse: Every Soul a Star
14. Most gutsy move by a 19-year-old old: Bruchko
15. Most rollicking adventures during the Gold Rush: By the Great Horn Spoon!
16. Best story set in an art museum: From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
17. Best scientific inquiry into a common allergen: George Washington Carver
18. Most triumphant story from an unlikely hero: Helen Keller
19. Most lucky breaks for two young entrepreneurs: Henry Reed, Inc.
20. Best story for budding epidemiologists: Hero Over Here
21. Most interesting coming-of-age story using good business: The Seventeenth Swap
22. Biggest breakthrough for two bicycle repairmen: The Wright Brothers
The Best from History / Bible / Literature F
1. Best overview of 100 strategic cities you’ve mostly never heard of: 100 Gateway Cities
2. Most moving introduction to the art of paper folding: Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes
3. Most unexpected looks at everyday objects: All the Small Poems
4. Best book to make you thankful to live where you do: Breaking Stalin’s Nose
5. Best book with interwoven plot points: The Horse and His Boy
6. Most unexpected book from the country that once built the largest empire the world has ever seen: I Rode a Horse of Milk White Jade
7. Most moving memoir of a Vietnamese boyhood: The Land I Lost
8. Hardest example of a moment of inattention gone wrong, and the redemption afterwards: Rickshaw Girl
9. Most outstanding Cinderella story set in Arabia: Seven Daughters and Seven Sons
10. Best revision of a classic story: Shadow Spinner
11. Most outstanding book that captures a slice of life in a specific time: Young Fu of the Upper Yangtze
12. Best single-minded purpose through an exotic locale: Daughter of the Mountains
13. Most delightful mix of Chinese folk tales, beautiful illustrations, and a successful quest: Where the Mountain Meets the Moon
14. Most dramatic story of falconry: Ali and the Golden Eagle
15. Best book to practice a wide range of accents: Around the World in Eighty Days
16. Most resilient survival story of a life under siege: Burying the Sun
17. Best book for thoroughbred lovers: King of the Wind
18. Most intense pursuit of the perfection of paper, sticks, and wind: The Kite Fighters
19. Best look at the difficulty of growing rice: Li Lun, Lad of Courage
20. Longest delay of absolution (but it comes in the end): A Beautiful Lie
The Best from History / Bible / Literature G
1. Most amazing expansion of a single line from the Bible to a complete and compelling story: God King
2. Most dramatic triumph over an evil relative: The Golden Goblet
3. Best adventure story: The Great and Terrible Quest
4. Most creative look at the reason behind the world’s most famous painting: The Second Mrs. Giaconda
5. Best introduction to a country-specific ceramic art: A Single Shard
6. Most fascinating look at an unexpected warfare innovation: Black Horses for the King
7. Best single source to get a wider perspective on biblical times: The Bronze Bow
8. Best spy story: Mara, Daughter of the Nile
9. Most unexpected use of Medieval Catholic belief in the afterlife: A Proud Taste for Scarlet and Miniver
10. Fascinating look at a sport most likely to have PETA protestors: Shadow of a Bull
The Best from History / Bible / Literature H
1. Most insightful look at why not all roads lead to God: But Don’t All Religions Lead to God?
2. The challenges of being female in a male-dominated world: The Breadwinner
3. Best detective work to stop contamination: The Great Trouble
4. Most delightful story ever set in a choir: A Murder for Her Majesty
5. Most charismatic protagonist of all time: The Sherwood Ring
6. Best story to make you want to climb a mountain: Banner in the Sky
7. Funniest Christmas story that will also make you think: The Best Christmas Pageant Ever
8. Best book about art conservation, both in times of war and afterwards: Under the Egg
9. Most dramatic look at the aftermath of the Battle of Dunkirk: The War That Saved My Life
10. Most moving story of surviving the genocide before the Nazis: The Endless Steppe
11. Best book to never take potatoes for granted again: Nory Ryan’s Song
12. The greatest escape of gold bullion: Snow Treasure
The Best from History / Bible / Literature J
1. Most unexpected look at how people fared when God spoke clearly to them: Disappointment with God
2. Most exciting look at the unmatchable gift of God: What’s So Amazing About Grace?
3. Best real life sabotage story: Bomb
4. Best explanation of why Darwin’s work doesn’t hold together: Evolution 2.0
5. Most reluctant missionary: Ida Scudder
6. Best description of eating chocolate: Stuff Matters
7. Best secret code in wartime: Code Talkers
8. Most interconnected story about a harmonica: Echo
9. Best book about life with dyslexia: Fish in a Tree
10. Most gorgeous story of a musician in training: The Mozart Season
11. Best book of nature poems with photos to match: National Geographic Book of Nature Poetry
12. Best Shakespeare revisionist history: Shakespeare’s Secret
13. Most classic ghost story: A Christmas Carol
14. Best look at varying levels of technology: Enchantress from the Stars
15. Most interesting look at how painting a door can change your life: The Gammage Cup
16. Most memorable stories about dandruff, snakes, and fighting for Greece in WWII: Going Solo
17. Best Maid Marian: The Outlaws of Sherwood
18. Best trickster tale: The Thief
19. Best book for pun-lovers: The Westing Game
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/80241 | Consciousness seems mysterious. By this we mean that while life in general can be explained by physics, chemistry and biology, it seems that whenever one tries to explain the relationship between the brain and the subjective events that are experienced as feelings—what philosophers often refer to as “qualia”—something appears to be “left out” of the explanation. This apparent divide between the brain and subjective experience is what philosopher Joseph Levine famously called this the “explanatory gap,” and how to bridge that gap is what philosopher David Chalmers called the term “hard problem of consciousness.”
We study primary consciousness, the most basic type of sensory experience. This is the ability to have any experience or feeling at all, what philosopher Thomas Nagel called “something it is like to be” in his famous 1974 paper “What is it like to be a bat?”
Over the last few years, we have tried to “demystify” primary consciousness by combining neural and philosophical aspects of the problem into a unified view of how feelings are created in a naturally biological way. Our analysis leads us to the view that the puzzle of consciousness and the explanatory gap actually has two related aspects: an ontological aspect and an epistemic aspect and that both have a natural and scientific explanation.
First, we consider the ontological aspect of the problem. This part of the puzzle entails what philosopher John Searle called the “ontological subjectivity” of consciousness. This is the idea that consciousness has a unique and fundamentally “first-person” ontology—or mode of being—in that feelings only exist when experienced by an animal subject. The implications of this view would be that no manner of objective scientific explanation, no matter how complete, would “explain away” the neurobiologically unique subjective feelings that are associated with certain brain states—in other words how things feel. The challenge here is to explain this unique aspect of feelings in a way that is consistent with an entirely scientific world view and do so without invoking any new or fundamentally “mysterious” physical principles.
Credit: Reprinted with permission from ©Mount Sinai Health System
Our explanation of this first aspect of the explanatory gap invokes two factors. The first factor is that consciousness and the creation of feelings are fundamentally grounded in general life functions. Just look at all the basic commonalities between life and feelings. For instance, both rely on complexly organized chemical and physiological processes, and both are embodied; that is, each living thing has a body with a boundary from the outer world. So just as life requires a bounded body for survival, consciousness requires such a body for the creation of a personal (first-person) point of view (See, for instance, Evan Thompson’s book Mind in Life).
Then, beyond the general life functions, we see that conscious feelings also need an animal body with many cells, a nervous system and even a basic, core brain, although these things are not enough for consciousness.
The second factor in our explanation of the ontological aspect of the explanatory gap is that to these general features are added numerous and neurobiologically unique special neurobiological features of complex nervous systems, especially of complex brains, that all together create consciousness. The special neurobiological features that we identified include an explosion of senses (eyes, good hearing, keen smell), a multitude of new neural processing subsystems, more combining of information from the different senses, more levels of information processing at the top of the brain, more back-and-forth communications between brain levels, and more memory. From these neural features arise consciousness in a way comparable to how the complex property of life naturally arises from the interactions of its chemical and cellular components.
But how do we identify these particular features as indicators of consciousness? We first assumed that any animal that uses complex senses to create a mapping of the body and the world has the capacity to create mental images, and these feelings are considered by many writers on the subject including Gerald Edelman and Antonio Damasio to be one marker for sensory consciousness. These mappings are often referred to as isomorphic maps, and include among others the “somatotopic” maps of the body, the retinotopic maps of the visual system, and the cochleotopic maps of the auditory system (Figure 2). Second, we posited that an animal that shows complex operant conditioning (learning from experience based on rewards and punishments) possesses positive and negative feelings or affects.
Figure 2. The image-based kind of conscious feelings stems from mapped representations of the sensed world in the brain. At center are the human brain and spinal cord. The brain’s cerebral cortex processes mapped signals from many senses: from the visual sense whose mapping of the visual field is called retinotopy; from the touch senses whose mapping of the body regions is somatotopy; from the smell sense, which forms an odor map like a bar code; and the hearing sense, whose mapping of sounds by their tones is called tonotopy. The picture at right shows that all these kinds of sensory signals reach the cerebral cortex through a chain of several nerve cells, with each path maintaining its point-by-point mapping over the entire way. Some animals lack a cerebral cortex yet have such maps in other higher brain centers. (From Consciousness Demystified, MIT, 2018). Credit: Reprinted with permission from ©Mount Sinai Health System
In our analysis we found that the only animals that passed both tests were the vertebrates (including fish), arthropods (insects, crabs, etc.) and cephalopods (e.g., octopus, squids). When we looked more closely at these animals we find that they share all the special features we listed above.
The important point is that these features are unique to conscious brains and indeed unique in all of nature. Therefore, it is not surprising or mysterious that something unique in nature—like feelings—could emerge from their unique neurobiology.
So the solution to the ontological aspect of the explanatory gap is that all feelings are both uniquely personal via their connection to life, and they have a unique neurobiology through the special features. And the two in combination create the unique feature of conscious feelings. Note this explanation requires no supernatural intervention nor any new “fundamental property” or principle of physics.
We support our natural solution to the ontological subjectivity of primary consciousness by showing that there is no gap in the evolutionary sequence that led from life to feelings. By scrutinizing the fossil record, we can trace the evolution of consciousness and brains in an unbroken chain from blind and brainless worms to the first arthropods and vertebrate fish in the ancient seas, from about 540 to 520 million years ago. This was during the Cambrian explosion, when the first animal-on-animal predation led to rapid evolution (Figure 4)
Figure 3. Proposed stages in the evolution of consciousness, as smooth and continuous. At center are three animals with primitive nervous systems - hypothetical ancestral animals but roughly based on a sea anemone, an acorn worm, and a fish-like invertebrate called amphioxus. The two animals at right are a shark and a wingless insect called a bristletail. (From Consciousness Demystified, MIT, 2018). Credit: Reprinted with permission from ©Mount Sinai Health System
However, while there was a seamless and natural evolution of consciousness, we also find that feelings and their neural substrates are extremely diverse and widespread. This is true within a brain: in mammals, for example, the brain areas for the many kinds of perceived images (cerebral cortex) largely differ from those for the many kinds of affects or emotions (subcortical areas). As elegantly shown by the work of evolutionary biological Richard Northcutt, this diversity is also true across animal groups: the vertebrates, arthropods, and cephalopods evolved their brains independently and the regions involved with consciousness are in different relative locations in their brains. Thus, conscious feelings can stem from very different brain substrates. Most importantly for our theory, all this neurobiological diversity—in the types of feelings and in their widespread neural substrates within and across species—means that there is no single, parsimonious neurobiological explanation of feelings and there are many and varied pathways to the creation of feelings.
But there is another aspect to the explanatory gap, which arises from the ontologically subjective existence of feeling that we addressed above. This second aspect is an epistemic (knowledge) gap between subjective first-person experience and third-person explanations of brain processes. The aspect of the gap also involves the differences between subjective, first-person experience, and objective, third-person explanations of brain processes, but is not quite same as the ontological questions. We attribute this second epistemic aspect to the barriers of auto- and allo- irreducibility (Figure 2).
Figure 4. The second, epistemic aspect of the explanatory gap comes from auto- and allo-irreducibilities, which are knowledge barriers (Xs). Credit: Reprinted with permission from ©Mount Sinai Health System
Auto-irreducibility means that once conscious is created, we have no knowledge of what neural processes are causing our experiences. In other words, we have no direct access to our neurons, only to the experiences they create. This barrier was first pointed out by Gordon Globus who called this an aspect of the “world knot,” a term coined by Schopenhauer to describe the multiple enigmas that are confronted when trying to explain the relationship between the brain and consciousness.
But there is nothing mysterious about auto-irreducibility. This gap exists because, as pointed out by Globus, the brain does not encode or represent “in any way its own structure. (The nervous system has no sensory apparatus directed to its own structure).” Therefore, auto-irreducibility has a clear physical explanation: the neural connections are simply not there. But unlike the first gap, this is an epistemic gap, about knowledge, because we do not have knowledge of the physical neurons that are creating our experience.
Allo-irreducibility is the reciprocal epistemic barrier; namely, when we take on an objective, third-person point of view, we cannot directly know someone else’s conscious feelings as they subjectively experience them. This creates an additional epistemic gap between first- and third- person perspectives on the brain. But once again this epistemic gap has a non-mysterious explanation: for one thing, there is no physical connection between separate brains.
We conclude that the “mystery” of consciousness and Levine’s “explanatory gap” and the “hard problem” can be naturally and scientifically explained. Our theory hinges on the propositions that consciousness and subjective feelings can be ontologically subjective and neurobiologically unique yet scientifically explainable, and that this creates an unbridgeable yet scientifically unproblematic divide between first- and third- person knowledge of the brain. At the same time, it continues to explain how while subjective experience is unique in nature, there is no need to invoke unknown forces, either physical or nonphysical, to account for its creation.
Suggested reading
Chalmers, D. J. (1996). The conscious mind: In search of a fundamental theory. New York, NY: Oxford University Press.
Edelman, G.M. (1992). Bright air, brilliant fire: On the matter of the mind. New York: Basic books.
Feinberg, T. E., & Mallatt, J. (2016a). The ancient origins of consciousness: How the brain created experience. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
Feinberg, T. E., & Mallatt, J. (2018). Consciousness demystified. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
Globus, G. G. (1973). Unexpected symmetries in the “world knot.” Science 180, 1129-1136.
Levine, J. (1983). Materialism and qualia: The explanatory gap. Pacific Philosophical Quarterly 64(4), 354–361.
Thompson, E. (2007). Mind in life: Biology, phenomenology and the sciences of mind. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. |
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"Got one piecee wife," remarked Wang unemotionally, and marched off, turning his back on the wharf and the great world beyond, represented by the steamer waiting for her boats.
Heyst learned presently that Wang had persuaded one of the women of the Alfuro village, on the west shore of the island, beyond the central ridge, to come over to live with him in a remote part of the company's clearing. It was a curious case, inasmuch as the Alfuros, having been frightened by the sudden invasion of Chinamen, had blocked the path over the ridge by felling a few trees, and had kept strictly on their own side. The coolies, as a body, mistrusting the manifest mildness of these harmless fisher-folk, had kept to their lines, without attempting to cross the island. Wang was the brilliant exception. He must have been uncommonly fascinating, in a way that was not apparent to Heyst, or else uncommonly persuasive. The woman's services to Heyst were limited to the fact that she had anchored Wang to the spot by her charms, which remained unknown to the white man, because she never came near the houses. The couple lived at the edge of the forest, and she could sometimes be seen gazing toward the bungalow, shading her eyes with her hands. Even from a distance she appeared to be a shy, wild creature, and Heyst, anxious not to try her primitive nerves unduly, scrupulously avoided that side of the clearing in his strolls.
The day—or rather the first night—after his hermit life began, he was aware of vague sounds of revelry in that direction. Emboldened by the departure of the invading strangers, some Alfuros, the woman's friends and relations, had ventured over the ridge to attend something in the nature of a wedding feast. Wang had invited them. But this was the only occasion when any sound louder than the buzzing of insects had troubled the profound silence of the clearing. The natives were never invited again. Wang not only knew how to live according to conventional proprieties, but had strong personal views as to the manner of arranging his domestic existence. After a time Heyst perceived that Wang had annexed all the keys. Any key left lying about vanished after Wang had passed that way. Subsequently some of 'Aran—those that did not belong to the storerooms and tile empty bungalows, and could not be regarded as &e common property of this community of two— were returned to Heyst, tied in a bunch with a piece of string. He found them one morning lying by the side of his plate. He had not been inconvenienced by their absence, because he never locked up anything in the way of drawers and boxes. Heyst said nothing. Wang also said nothing. Perhaps he had always been a taciturn man; perhaps he was influenced by the genius of the locality, which was certainly that of silence. Till Heyst and Morrison had landed in Black Diamond Bay, and named it, that side of Samburan had hardly ever heard the sound of human speech. It was easy to be taciturn with Heyst, who had plunged himself into an abyss of meditation over books, and remained in it till the shadow of Wang falling across the page, and the sound of a rough, low voice uttering the Malay word "makan" would force him to climb out to a meal.
Wang in his native province in China might have been an aggressively, sensitively genial person; but in Samburan he had clothed himself in a mysterious stolidity and did not seem to resent not being spoken to except in single words, at it rate which did not average half a dozen per day. And he gave no more than he got. It is to be presumed that if he suffered constraint, he made up for it with the Alfuro woman. He always went back to her at the first fall of dusk, vanishing from the bungalow suddenly at his hour, like a sort of topsyturvy, day-haunting Chinese ghost with a white jacket and a pigtail. Presently, giving way to a Chinaman's ruling passion, he could be observed breaking the ground near his hut, between the mighty stumps of felled trees, with a miner's pick-axe. After a time, he discovered a rusty but serviceable spade in one of the empty storerooms, and it is to be supposed that he got on famously; but nothing of it could be seen, because he went to the trouble of pulling to pieces one of the company's sheds in order to get materials for making a high and very close fence round his patch, as if the growing of vegetables were a patented process, or an awful and holy mystery entrusted to the keeping of his race.
Heyst, following from a distance the progress of Wang's gardening and of these precautions—there was nothing else to look at—was amused at the thought that he, in his own person, represented the market for its produce. The Chinaman had found several packets of seeds in the storerooms, and had surrendered to an irresistible impulse to put them in the ground. He would make his master pay for the vegetables that he was raising to satisfy his instinct. And, looking silently at the silent Wang going about his work in the bungalow in his unhasty, steady way, Heyst envied the Chinaman's obedience to his instincts, the powerful simplicity of purpose which made his existence appear almost automatic in the mysterious precision of its facts.
DURING his master's absence at Sourabaya, Wang had busied himself with the ground immediately in front of the principal bungalow. Emerging from the fringe of grass growing across the shore end of the coal-jetty, Heyst beheld a broad, clear space, black and level with only one or two clumps of charred twigs, where the flame had swept from the front of his house to the nearest trees of the forest.
"You took the risk of firing the grass?" Heyst asked.
Wang nodded. Hanging on the arm of the white man before whom he stood was the girl called Alma; but neither from the Chinaman's eyes nor from his expression could any one have guessed that he was in the slightest degree aware of the fact.
"He has been tidying the place in this labour-saving way," explained Heyst, without looking at the girl, whose hand rested on his forearm. "He's the whole establishment, you see. I told you I hadn't even a dog to keep me company here."
Wang had marched off toward the wharf.
"He's like those waiters in that place," she said. That place was Schomberg's hotel.
"One Chinaman looks very much like another,'
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/80274 | Reflux Still Designs Explained: Part 1
Reflux Still Designs Explained: Part 1
Posted by Rick on Aug 30th 2017
There can be a lot of debate among distillers over which type of moonshine still is the best. Although there are differences between them, each still was designed with a particular purpose in mind. The following is an excerpt from Rick's book, " The Joy of Home Distilling" from pages 67-76. In this section, he explains the different types of reflux stills and why he prefers the vapor management method, which is the style he used in designing Brewhaus' reflux columns. Below, he first details how reflux works in general, and then breaks down several of the most common reflux still designs.
What's a Column Still (Fractionating Still)?
Quite simply, as the vapors rise in the column, they will lose heat, partly due to the cooler air surrounding the column, but even more so due to the exchange of heat with the falling (refluxing) liquid. As the vapor temperature drops below the boiling point of a specific component, that particular fraction will condense and begin to fall back down your distillation column, while the remaining vapor will continue to rise. This continues all the way up the column, with each fraction pulling itself out of the rising vapor when the temperature drops below its boiling point. As the liquid falls, it will gain heat from the rising vapor while simultaneously cooling the rising vapor (heat exchange). The process is assisted by having material in the column, known as column packing, that will stop the refluxing liquid from simply collecting along the walls of the column while the vapor rises in the center of the column. Column packing pulls the liquid away from the walls of the column, slows the liquid’s descent, and essentially closes off parts of the path, forcing the vapor and liquid to utilize the same space. The falling liquid will continue to increase in temperature until it again reaches its boiling point, at which time it will turn back into vapor and begin to rise in the column. Each time that this happens, the fractions become more and more defined. Components with similar boiling points will often not separate on their first cycle of refluxing, so the more times that this takes place the purer each fraction becomes. The number of times that this takes place is called the reflux ratio, and it is relatively equal to a similar number of distillations with a pot distiller. Components with the highest boiling point (which are nearest the bottom of the column, as they are the first to fall below their boiling points) will usually not gain enough heat to reach their boiling point before falling back into the boiler. As water and alcohol make up an extremely large percentage of the total volume of your wash, this leaves plenty of room for all the other components, mostly by-products of fermentation, to separate and remain in the distillation column throughout the process.
The goal in a column still is for your column to be tall enough to separate all the components, leaving only a single fraction at the top of the column, which you will then capture and condense. This is why column height (relative to the diameter) is considered the most important factor in purity. If the column is too short, then you will not get sufficient separation and the resulting distillate will be of lower purity. If the column is too tall, then you will need to increase the speed of vaporization by adding more heat, which increases the cost of operating your still.
Diameter of the distillation column primarily affects the amount, or volume, of vapor that the column can effectively handle. Consider this at its most simple—your column has a defined and unchanging capacity (volume). It takes time for the separation to occur in the column, so if you feed vapor to it too quickly, it is unable to effectively perform this task. To increase the time that your column has to control x amount of vapor, you need to increase the capacity (volume) of your column. This can be done by increasing the height of your column, but most of us have limits on the reasonable workable height of the column. Ceilings often play a profound role in this. Also, as we are working with a cylinder, consider the volume calculation for a cylinder:
volume = π r 2h
Did you notice that the radius is squared? This means that increasing the diameter can have a far more profound effect on the column volume than increasing the height by a similar amount.
In fact, increasing from a 2-inch diameter to a 3-inch diameter (standard hobby still size) will increase your column volume by 2.25 times! To get this same increase in volume, you would need to increase a 36-inch column to 81 inches. That is nearly 7 feet! Just imagine what this means on a commercial scale. An optimal height to diameter ratio is 15:1 to 20:1. If you fall much below the bottom end of this range, you may have difficulty obtaining adequate separation, resulting in lower purity distillate. Increasing the height to diameter much above 20:1 will result in the need for added heat to get vapor to the top of the column, which is quite simply an added operating cost on top of the added cost of material to build the column....
What's a Forced Reflux Still?
Forced Reflux Still or Vapor Management Still Diagram
....Probably the most well-known and still most effective forced reflux still designs is the “cooling tube” design. In this design, tubes run directly through the column and cold water is run through them. The reason that this design is so effective is because the cooling lines are in direct contact with the rising vapor. When the vapor comes into contact with these cold lines, it is instantly condensed, forcing it to fall down the column until if vaporizes and rises back up for another shot at getting past the cooling lines. This will take place several times until only the fraction with the lowest boiling point remains. The goal in this type of system is to force the maximum amount of vapor to come into contact with the cooling lines or to flow very near them, so that the “coolness” that radiates from the line cools the vapor. The speed of distillation, and therefore the reflux ratio, is controlled by the speed and temperature of the cooling water being run through the lines.
In the past, most of these designs used two cooling lines, one in the middle to lower portion of the column and another directly above it near the top of the column. The drawback to this design was that the lower cooling line affected mostly the higher boiling point fractions, such as water, which would not reach the upper portion of the column anyway. This lower cooling line was actually only of value in a system that was drastically overpowered and producing more vapor than the column could effectively control. However, this was changed a few years ago by Brewhaus America, when they raised the lower cooling line to be near the top of the column and subsequently began crossing the cooling lines in an “x” formation to increase the amount of vapor actually affected by the lines. They later increased the number of cooling lines in this formation to further improve efficiency. The result is that a very high portion of the rising vapor will either contact a cooling line or be affected by the cool temperature radiating from them. When this type of column is run properly, and the vapor does finally get past the cooling lines, it is usually of very high purity.
A system that is often marketed as an improvement on the cooling line design is one in which a cooling water jacket is placed over the outside of the column, allowing cold water to flow between the jacket and the distillation column. While visually more appealing, the system is far less effective than the internal cooling lines on anything but a very small diameter column, as very little vapor will be affected by the cold water. In fact, only the vapor at or very near the walls of the column will be forced to cool, leaving the majority of the vapor to rise to the condenser and exit the system. Increasing the lack of efficiency is the fact that the walls of the column are usually made of a considerably heavier gauge metal than that used to build cooling lines in the more traditional design, dramatically reducing the heat transfer rate. As a result, this is in essence just a very slight improvement on the simple column still, as little forced reflux actually takes place. The marketing for such designs often boasts increased distillation speed, but this is merely the result of a decreased reflux ratio, so the resulting distillate is usually of lower purity. Because the systems above are, to varying degrees, controlling the rising vapor, they are commonly known as vapor management stills.
External Valved Reflux
This is an extremely popular design that is widely used by people building their own columns. As the name suggests, the forcing of reflux takes place outside of the main column body. The column rises from the boiler with either a 90 degree elbow, or more commonly a tee fitting, at the top of the column. A thermometer is installed at the top to read the temperature of the vapor at the head (top) of the column. The vapor, having nowhere else to go, travels across the tee fitting to the reflux head. The reflux head consists of a tee fitting with a short rise on the upward facing section. This section houses a coil, usually made of copper, which has cold water running through it. The vapor will come into contact with the coil, and the refluxing liquid will then drip straight down into the lower portion of the tee fitting. This lower portion of the tee fitting will be capped with a needle valve installed in the cap. The needle valve allows the user to control the speed at which distillate is collected, and in doing so also control how much of the refluxing liquid is returned to the column. Leaving the valve open entirely collects all the distillate, with the only active reflux being that which is inherent in any simply column still, while closing the valve completely will return all refluxing liquid to the column. While it does give complete control over the reflux ratio, this type of system is not without its flaws.
The primary issue with such a design is that the lower portion of the tee fitting (where the condensate drips into) has a reservoir that holds the distillate to be collected. All rising vapor that reaches the top of the column will be condensed when it reaches the cooling coil, and that condensate will then drip into the reservoir. This means that even the vapor requiring further purification will be mixed with the other distillate in the reservoir, reducing the purity of the final distillate to at least some degree. This can be remedied by replacing the tee fitting with a 90 degree elbow so that this collection area is eliminated.
Internal Valved Reflux
Liquid Management Still aka Bokakob Reflux Still Diagram
While fundamentally the same as the external valved reflux still, the internal valved reflux still is a variation in which the forcing of reflux is brought inside the main column. The result is a better, sleeker appearance, but this does not substantially alter the performance or basic operation of the column. With the internal reflux design, you still control your distillation with a needle valve, which controls the speed at which you collect your distillate. Even the actual design inside of the column is altered very little, despite the substantial difference in appearance. In fact, aside from a very slight modification, that being that you must create the reservoir for the condensate to collect, you can essentially just move the reflux head of an external reflux still to the top of the column to create the internal valved reflux still. Because the design is fundamentally the same, it has the same benefits and drawbacks of the external valved reflux column.
Since the external reflux and internal reflux designs allow you to control your reflux and distillation through the speed at which you collect the refluxing liquid, these systems are generally known as liquid management stills.
You can read our second part of this 2-part blog here, or you can read more of our articles written for those new to distilling here. |
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Me and The Syllabi Syndrome (too much too fast)
The Syllabi Syndrome is the overwhelming experience of being presented all your work in a short period of time. Maybe like me you experienced this in college. It’s the first week of classes and each professor provides you their class’s syllabus. But you take more than one class. So, over your first two days of classes, you have 5-6 syllabi (I learned the plural of syllabus is syllabi in college).
Bolded deadline dates from your five classes looks intimidating. That overwhelmed feeling is Syllabi Syndrome. When experiencing said syndrome it doesn’t matter that all the work is not to be completed in a week but over a four-month period. Or you’ll learn to skim the two thousand pages of reading that’s required.
Instead, you see and feel the expectations of five professors all at once. And you think to yourself, “How I am ever going to get this done?”
The Syllabi Syndrome is not limited to the freshman college experience. It’s for all of us who have entered a new situation, and in that new situation, feel like there’s so much to be done. So many people to meet. So many details to follow-up on. So many expectations!
I’m suffering from Syllabi Syndrome now. I have a new job. New church. New home. New city. New state…you get the idea. So, to self soothe and perhaps provide some practical takeaways for some of my readers who are in a similar situation (or will be), I’d thought I give some thoughts about how to maneuver through it.
When you’re faced with a lot of “new” in short period of time and feel the need to find a pathway to performance…
1. Take a deep breathe. Literally and figuratively. Literally, long deep breaths have many positive effects. You can read about those through smarter people than me. And figuratively, create some margin to back away from the tyranny of the urgent.
2. Set simple systems. Don’t take it all on at once. Set short-term low goals. If you have two thousand pages to read, well, you have four months in your semester to read it. So, take 120 days divided into your 2,000 pages to be read, and you have your short term low goal of reading 16 pages per day.
3. Get commitment clarity. Avoid committing to anything that’s not required. When people give you things to do, seek clarity. Am I required to this? If so, what’s the timeline? You may learn what you think is required or expected, was closer to a suggestion and really shouldn’t even be considered.
4. Remind yourself you’re not indispensable. Particularly if you’re having the syndrome feelings in a new job. Remind yourself that you haven’t always been here, and in most cases, they were managing without you.
5. Look for sympathy, better yet, empathy. Find people who have been in the same situation and get a little perspective from them. They’ve been there the previous semester. They’ve been the new guy or gal on staff. They know what it’s like to drink from a fire hydrant. And they also know the fire hydrant eventually runs out of pressure.
So, if you’re experiencing this made-up syndrome like I am, then join me in using these steps to get out of it.
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The Pride In Our Busyness
What if busyness is caused by our pride?
The Killer P’s are a part of pastor and author Kevin DeYoung’s reason behind the state of busyness most of us live in. Reading his book Crazy Busy would be worth your money and time (it’s cheap and “mercifully short”).
DeYoung first points out there are no “quick fixes” to busyness. Especially as Christians, because “We ought to know better [than quick solutions] because we understand that deep down that the problem is not just with our schedules or with the world’s complexity—something is not right with us.”
And in the “Killer P’s” chapter of his book, he argues that typically the “thing not right” with us is a manifestation of pride. He says “Our understanding of busyness must start with one sin that begets so many of our others sins, pride.”
In a brief two pages, DeYoung names twelve manifestations of pride related to busyness. But to even be briefer than he, let me do a Dodridge-download on just four of “the P’s” that tend to manifest in my life (and perhaps yours).
4 Killer P’s
Pats on the back. This is living for praise and DeYoung says it’s often motivated by a “desire for glory.” Now, must of us would not say we’re doing things to pursue glory. But can you hear yourself saying this sentence DeYoung wrote, “If I take on this extra assignment, I’ll be a hero to everyone in the office”?
Pity. If we let everyone know how busy we are, well, they’ll feel sorry for us…they’ll take pity on us. If our busyness generates sympathy and pity, then that means we’re getting attention. Because of the sinfulness of pride, for some reason someone saying to you, “You work so hard, I bet it’s really hard to find time for yourself” seems to create a buzz for us. Rather, it should be a shock effect to say “Get out of that unhealthy busy rhythm!”
Power. DeYoung’s associated statement for power is, “I need to stay busy because I need to stay in control.” The lie we tell ourselves is that in order to fully control something and get the desired results, we have to control every part of it. And to do that, well, we keep everything under our watchful (busy) eye. This leads to becoming an indispensable person (I’ve written on the dangers of that before).
Position. When I read DeYoung’s associated statement I knew he had named one of my Killer P’s. It’sI do too much because that’s what people like me are supposed to do.” Can you hear yourself saying that?
This is where our intentions can sound good, even God-glorifying. But ultimately it’s a prideful way of recognizing our own contribution to something. You may be the “responsible one” in your workplace. You’re the person who goes the extra mile. You’re the execution ninja! But each of those good qualities have a shadow side, and these good qualities become manifestations of pride quickly. And once you start these prideful expressions, it further perpetuates the feeling of you needing to keep up the standard of busyness.
Be brave enough to name the “killer P’s” you’re prone to. Name it (them) and then ask for help with your pride. Ask God to speak to you his version of what busy looks like. Ask a friend to call you out when they see you manifesting the killer P’s.
Busyness doesn’t have to be wrong or sinful, but if pride is the source of that busyness, well…
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Title-less Leadership
If you didn’t have a job title associated with your name, what changes?
What changes if there’s no longer a title to give you purpose? If there’s no title to give you authority? If there’s no title to give you prestige…what becomes of you?
For several years, the sign pictured in this blog has been outside my office door. And as I write this, that title will soon not be mine. (If you need some context, you can read my last post, The Irrational Decision In (my) Ministry Leadership). So, I can’t yet fully answer the questions I posed above, and therefore this is an aspirational post.
Yet, I felt like while I will be the one living title-less, it could be helpful for you to at least consider title-less living, even if theoretically.
Title-less Influence
A review of history often tell stories of people who did great things and led effectively before they ever assumed positional leadership. They had influence before they had the title, and usually that leadership contribution got them a title. Quality leadership typically indicates a positional title is coming.
So here are a few reminders for me, and perhaps you…
Lead with or without your title. Don’t make them put a sign outside your door before you begin to lead effectively. There’s nothing magical about a title or nameplate, and in some cases, it can actually be a hindrance.
Don’t equate title with value. I believe with all my heart that God loves (me) you before you did anything. There’s no earning, and God is certainly not waiting on you to get a title to show His love.
Surround yourself with people who love you (and don’t really care about your title). For every person you direct in your titled job, make sure you also have someone present in your life who you don’t direct. You need people in your life who don’t need your titled-self and what comes with that title. When you lead, you’re often needed by others. And that’s great. But it’s also taxing. You need people who when they see you, don’t come with a need or agenda, but come to you because they like you (with or without your leadership acumen).
(Life hack: if you try to use your titled-self amongst this group of people, well, hypothetically, you might be told, “Brian, I don’t need an executive pastor in our kitchen.”)
Maintain a title that’s a match. Sometimes our ego wants a title that reflects our accomplishments and tenure. We want it to match the hard work we’ve done. But to do this, the job often has to change. To have the more impressive title, you have to modify your role. And now you have a great title, but no longer a role that matches your desire or skills. You become susceptible to the “Peter Principle.”
God called you to lead. He gave you skills to do that well. And with or without a title, you’re valuable to God, you’re valuable to others, and your contribution is needed, even if it’s title-less contribution.
We know God’s Kingdom work is not only accomplished through titled-people (and pretty often He operates outside of that), and we need to work toward what He has for us whether we wield a title or not.
If you have a title, great, I bet you earned it. But could you still find value and purpose without it? It’s a road I’m walking, and might be good for all leaders to consider the theoretical title-less test.
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Matthew 6:21
As a final reflection during the period of Lent, consider our heart’s desire. What do we desire in and of life? Do we desire a heart filled with compassion and empathy? Do we desire a gentle and generous spirit that reflects a sincere kindness towards our neighbor? Do we desire a connectedness with heavenly things that bring peace and certainty? A heart pointed towards these things will instantly reject that which is material, self-interested and seeking personal gain. In rejecting that which will tempt us off our life’s purpose, we put away those things of the world that inevitably lead to life’s discontent.
Points of Reflection
• What do you desire in life and how will you achieve these goals?
• What are your biggest obstacles to achieving a life with God?
• What changes can you make to achieve your life goals?
Blessings, until next time,
Bruce L. Hartman
Photo by Ben White
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== Behind the Scenes ==
== Behind the Scenes ==
Revision as of 15:15, January 13, 2014
As Neanderthals are to human beings, the Turok-Han are to vampires. They're a primordial, ferociously powerful killing machine, as single-minded as animals. They are the vampires that vampires fear. An ancient and entirely different race, and until this morning, I thought they were a myth.
―Rupert Giles[src]
The Turok-Han, largely referred to as "übervamps" by the Scooby Gang, were an ancient and powerful breed of vampire.
They were a race of ancient powerful vampires, possibly created by the Old One Maloker, stronger and fiercer than the regular vampires, described as the vampire equivalent to Neanderthal man. Judging by Rupert Giles' description of them, they were monsters even amongst vampires.
Buffys1 ubervamp
The first Turok-Han rises
The First Evil, via its Bringers, first used the combined blood of Jonathan Levinson and Spike to open the Seal of Danzalthar, thus releasing the first Turok-Han.
Buffy Summers's first encounter with the primordial vampire nearly killed her as she was caught off-guard, tired from two days lack of sleep and worried about the fate of her friends. Their second encounter happened after the Turok-Han killed one of the first Potential Slayers sent to Sunnydale for protection. Buffy spent most of this time avoiding the vampire rather than fighting it but it nevertheless beat her to a bloody pulp.
The Turok-Han fearlessly faces Buffy on a one-on-one fight
In between its fights with Buffy, it spent most of its time brutally torturing a captive Spike. After Buffy discovered the First's infiltration of the Potential Slayers, he told them that he would have the Turok-Han go after them. The Turok-Han broke into the Summer's residence fought through a barrier created by Willow Rosenberg. Buffy, her friends and Potential Slayers then fled to the streets. As the Turok-Han caught up with them, Buffy tried to hold it off though, the Turok-Han directed its attention the Potentials after a brief struggle. Following them to the construction site, the Turok-Han was pursued by Buffy who, after a long battle, managed to the kill the vampire in front of the Potential Slayers.[1]
The Shadow Men later showed Buffy a vision of thousands of Turok-Han living below the seal. The First Evil apparently planned to open the Hellmouth and release them all, allowing them to conquer the world. The First would have taken physical form when its "forces" (presumably referring to the Turok-Han) outnumbered humanity in this world.
The Turok-Han army
Eventually, a few more Turok-Han were released.[2] Still more waited under Sunnydale for the time when the First would be able to free them all.
Buffy and the other Slayers went into the Hellmouth itself to fight the Turok-Han.[3] In the end, all of them were apparently killed, including thousands by the mystical amulet that entrapped Spike. Spike remarked that, along with "decent punk bands" and his relationship with Drusilla, the Turok-Han were part of a list of "things that just don't exist anymore."[4]
Physiology and powers
The Turok-Han resembled pale, bald humanoid beings with the pronounced browridges shared by their human hybrid cousins. Their eyes were clear save for a black slits, similar to cats or reptiles. They had flat, bat-like noses, a fully sharpened set of teeth, pointed elf-like ears, and long nails. Each Turok-Han was clad in black, leathery outfits. Just like modern vampires, the Turok-Han's bodies and clothes turn to dust upon death.
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The Turok-Han faces Buffy
The Turok-Han possessed the conventional powers of vampires, though to a considerably higher level. The first Turok-Han released was able to easily overpower Buffy and nearly kill her, forcing her to use every possible resource to defeat it the second time around. However, Buffy was also weakened and exhausted from two days lack of sleep and was caught unprepared.
A Turok-Han Vampire about to break down Willow's protective spell.
The Turok-Han was able push an entire wheelbarrow filled with timbers and tools out of its way by a mere shove of its hand and punch a cinder block into dust to no ill effect. They were also incredibly resilient; the first one immediately recovered after having a whole mess of steel pipes dropped on it, and kept continuing to fight after Buffy impaled it through the eye with a crossbow bolt.
When in Buffy's house, Willow created a force field to hold it off, though the Turok-Han broke it down in a matter of seconds. However, Dawn Summers later implied that Willow intentionally let the force field fail. The Turok-Han could also leap long distances without aid, doing the same distance as the one Buffy pole vaulted to. Also, according to Anya Jenkins, a Turok-Han's claws could shred flesh.
Despite being near-mindless animals, the Turok-Han possessed enough intelligence to follow orders from the First and even to forge their own weapons[3]
Turok-Han vampires disintegrating under the sunlight.
Despite their great power, even the Turok-Han possessed some of the common weaknesses of vampires. Though they were unaffected by crosses and were able to enter human residences without an invitation, the Turok-Han were still vulnerable to sunlight and decapitation. Additionally, due to their denser sternums, it was more difficult to stake them, though not impossible (Anya described it like trying to pierce steel with wood).
Holy water appeared to be effective to the Turok-Han as regular vampires, Anya herself claimed from her achieved information that holy water "seems to run off their guys [Turok-Han] like they've been scotch-guarded". However, it was shown to only cause minor burns which deterred it only for seconds.
Additionally, although their strength is wuthout a doubt superior to most vampires and even Slayers, towards the confrontation with the first, even regular humans like Dawn and Xander, given proper training, could match and defeat Turok-Han vampires in combat.
Buffyverse The Turok-Han article has a Photo Gallery.
Behind the Scenes
• They were given the nickname of Übervamp by the Scooby Gang, more specifically Anya. 'Über' was first commonly used by German philosopher Nietzsche who coined the phrase 'Übermensch' – which referred to the higher state that man may aspire to, and has come to be used synonymously with "superman". An Übervamp is therefore a "supervampire".
• The Turok-Han army's performance in the final battle of the series is noticeably worse than the performance of the first Turok-Han. While the first Turok-Han was able to nearly kill Buffy, forcing her to use every possible resource to defeat it the second time around, the later Turok-Han seem evenly matched against the newly activated Slayers and even normal humans such as Xander and Dawn. In the audio commentary for the episode, creator Joss Whedon explains he is aware of the continuity issue with the Turok-Han's powers. He acknowledges that early in the season the demon was nearly unstoppable, yet in the final episode the Slayers can defeat the Turok-Han much more easily. Whedon explains that the story behind the season/episode he wanted to get across to viewers was more important than the continuity.
• In the original shooting script for "Get It Done", the vision shown to Buffy by the Shadow Men was originally supposed to be a ravaged, post-apocalyptic Sunnydale overrun with Turok-Han. [5].
• The term übervamp was first used by Charles Gunn in a season 3 episode of Angel describing what Darla and Angel's child (Connor) might be, but was not a reference to the Turok-Han who Gunn was unaware of the existence of.
• Dark Horse comics interestingly enough obtained the rights of the comic book Buffyverse and the prehistoric hero known as Turok (previously owned by Acclaim/Valient) around the same time. Turok-Han was not connected to Turok though and is only a Buffyverse canon term for the prehistoric Vampire breed, that coincidentally lined up with the Dark Horse acquisition of Turok.
1. "Showtime"
2. "End of Days"
3. 3.0 3.1 "Chosen"
4. Alone Together Now
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/80286 | Opened 14 years ago
Closed 14 years ago
Last modified 14 years ago
#1126 closed defect (invalid)
addOnLoad does NOT provide functionality of body onload
Reported by: dave_nga Owned by: anonymous
Priority: high Milestone:
Component: General Version: 0.3
Keywords: Cc:
Blocked By: Blocking:
Developers depend on a mechanism to execute code AFTER the WHOLE page has loaded; after the Document has been completely constructed in the browser; then and only then, can elements be reliably fetched and operated on. The suggested approach regarding this issue so far is to tie the event to a dojo element directly, wrap the function call, etc. OK, but what if the element (e.g. a DIV) is NOT a dojo element. How do I ensure that arbitrary javascript code is executed in the same manner as if I tied it to the body's onLoad event?
In Firefox, the following simple code snippet demonstrates the simple problem. Internet Explorer can also be used to demonstrate issue and has the added twist of resulting in a javascript error within Dojo code - not sure what that's about -- does not appear in firefox javascript console...
Anyway, here's the code: ================================================ <html> <body><head> <script type="text/javascript" src="/js/dojo3/dojo.js"></script> <script type="text/javascript">
function myinit() {
elem = document.getElementById('content'); alert("I would now call some operation to update the content DIV. getElementID reports that div is: " + elem);
var djConfig = {
baseRelativePath: "/js/dojo3/", isDebug: true
dojo.addOnLoad(myinit()); </script> </head> <div id="content"></div> <a href="javascript:myinit()">click here now that page has loaded</a> </body> </html> =================================================
I'm in the process of dojo'fying an existing application and only want to take advantage of the dojo calendar object, but I have some very basic ajax already in place that works, so I don't really want to retrofit my whole application with dojo at this time. Thus, I need access to the body's onLoad event...
Change History (3)
comment:1 Changed 14 years ago by bill
Resolution: invalid
Status: newclosed
Not a bug. Call
instead of
comment:2 Changed 14 years ago by guest
Thanks a lot. This works. Kind of silly of me to miss that mistake. Obviously, my code example sends the result of the function to addOnLoad, rather the function itself. Duh... was used to the eval'ish use when setting body.onload.
Thanks for your quick response.
comment:3 Changed 14 years ago by sjmiles
This is perhaps odd to note here, but this kind of problem can be avoided by using an anonymous function as argument to addOnLoad, like so:
dojo.addOnLoad(function() {
elem = document.getElementById('content');
alert("getElementID reports that div is: " + elem);
I would like more Dojo standard code to use this idiom. It spares the global namespace from 'init' and leaves no confusion as to the invocation of the function (i.e. in the original example, it's perhaps non-obvious where 'init' is invoked).
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/80287 | Opened 9 years ago
Closed 9 years ago
#12205 closed defect (wontfix)
dojox.form.FileUploader having issues with Flash Player 10.1.x
Reported by: sunny87india Owned by: Mike Wilcox
Priority: high Milestone: tbd
Component: DojoX Uploader Version: 1.5
Keywords: FIleUploader Cc: [email protected]
Blocked By: Blocking:
File uploading not working with 10.1.x version of flash player while the same code is working fine in 9.x and 10.0.x versions.
Change History (4)
comment:1 Changed 9 years ago by Mike Wilcox
What does "not working" mean exactly?
I have version 10,1,102,64 installed, and it works here.
comment:2 Changed 9 years ago by sunny87india
Sorry i mentioned the version of Dojo as 1.5 but i just verified and we are using 1.2.2
So can u please check for that and suggest me something..
comment:3 Changed 9 years ago by sunny87india
"Not working" means file Uploader works fine with 9.x and 10.0.x versions but not with 10.1.x
comment:4 Changed 9 years ago by Mike Wilcox
Resolution: wontfix
Status: newclosed
The FileUploader? version 1.1 and 1.2 is no longer supported. FileUploader? 1.2 programmatically called the Flash browse() method which Adobe soon after removed for security reasons.
See the docs for how you can update that release with a later edition of the FileUploader?.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/80317 | Satellite symposium 4: Canadian Neurophotonics platform satellite meeting
Organiser: Mario Méthot and Ed Ruthazer
Date: 2020/05/31
Length of event: Full day
Location: Hotel Bonaventure Montreal
Brief description of event:
The 6th Annual Canadian Neurophotonic Plateform Satellite Meeting
This all-day short course will highlight new imaging and optogenetic-based methods for the study of brain function across several model organisms. The invited speakers will present novel data from their research programs, but with an emphasis in providing pedagogical accounts of the photonic approach for the community’s benefit. Presentations will cover broad topics ranging from optical interrogations of brain function across different scales, from synapses to behavior, and novel hardware development. A particular emphasis will be given to provide an updated and critical coverage of the expanding number of viral strategies now available to the community to express in the brain the exploding palette of available opsins and optical reporters. |
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The mother gently cuts the nails of a calmly sleeping child with the help of special scissors. Nail cutting is important in terms of preventing scratches.
Clipping nails is quite a challenge to every mum, regardless of the baby's age. At the beginning it is much more difficult, as nails are thin and sharp as paper and they bend all ways. Fortunately, they become harder in time, while we become more skilful and confident.
How and how often should you clip nails?
Fingernails should be clipped round, and toenails straight, to prevent growing in. Remember not to remove skin around the baby's nail.
Toenails grow rather slowly, and it is sufficient to clip them once a week or a fortnight. Fingernails, on the other hand, grow quite quickly. For my daughter I clip them 1 - 2 times a week. Remember, however, you do not need to adhere to a strict schedule. It is the best to clip nails when they are long, as their growth is an individual thing.
Scissors, clipper or file?
Scissors, a nail clipper or a nail file? For the youngest babies I recommend special scissors with rounded tips and not very thick blades. They are much safer than normal scissors for adults. Toddlers can have their nails clipped with a nail clipper. A file is the best for uneven ends.
When should you begin to clip nails?
There is no simple answer to that question, but one thing is certain - you should not hurry with it. In newborns the nail is very often connected to the finger tip by a very fine membrane. A nail is very thin, soft, and you can easily hurt the baby while clipping it. Doctors suggest the first clipping should take place after 2 - 3 weeks from the birth, when the nail hardens a bit. During that time the nails continue to grow, of course, so you can put scratch mittens on baby's hands, to prevent him from scratching his face or head. Opinions about scratch mittens, however, are divided. Wearing the gloves night and day, especially in the summer, is very uncomfortable for the baby. Furthermore, we deprive him of a natural calmer, i.e., possibility to suck his hand or finger, and a newborn maintains habits from his foetal life, thus he likes to suck his fingers. You must therefore consider pros and cons, and select what you think best for your baby. You must also remember not to clip nails at a hospital, as even in case of the smallest cut, the risk of catching some infection is much higher.
The best time for clipping nails?
In infants, it is the best to clip nails while they are asleep. Then a baby is quiet and does not wriggle, and thus you will not harm him.
The older the child, the more difficult it is, as he is not always willing and it is not so easy to make him have his nails cut. Certainly, you need to find the right moment. If clipping nails interferes with his favourite activity, like playing, I can guarantee it will end up in a struggle, crying or unevenly cut nails. It is best to wait until the baby is calm, i.e., immediately after waking up, or focused on something. A good method is to cut nails "with a cartoon". For us that method worked perfectly. My daughter, focused on her favourite hero, gave me each finger without any problem.
It is very important not to force the baby, so he is not discouraged. If you do not succeed today, try on the next day. Having "long" nails for one more day will not harm the baby.
In time, my daughter ceased to treat clipping nails as something bad. I tried to explain to her that clipping nails was nothing terrible. I tried to clip my own nails in her presence, to get her used to the idea. In time, she started to treat that activity as something normal and now there are no problems at all. Hearing "Nail clipping time" she sits obediently on my knees and one by one we clip finger and toenails.
Useful advice
If the nails split or break, apply baby oil or olive oil, having strengthening properties. Irregularities and brittle nails may be a sign of a disease or deficiency of some minerals. Thus it is worth mentioning to the paediatrician during a visit.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/80343 | Intuition As Of Late
It’s been coming up around me a lot. It’s been a thought, or a feeling, or something I hear. I’ve been called in by my intuition.
She’s asking me to focus, ground myself.
To find the lost gems of lessons I’ve already learned.
I feel it. A shift.
I’m being called to reflect and review. Many things have happened, changed, transformed. Many things and people come and gone. Lessons learned and overlooked. Opportunities presented; taken, or rejected.
Perception shifting. Taking a step back to move forward.
I ask myself why it is so normal to be afraid of risk; afraid of taking a step back to leap forward. We tend to focus on the what if’s and the possibilities of what could go wrong. These thoughts tend to spiral and cause blocks. We fail to see beyond taking a step back and are unable to take the leap.
When we are present, we are here, in the moment and are able take each moment as it comes while simultaneously letting it go. Being present means we can roll with the punches and keep it moving. You are able to take the leap and trust yourself.
Set yourself free, to flow with life itself and find harmony in your being. Trusting in the outcome of your intentions and ability to co-create. Furthermore, surrender is the act of trusting the higher self, intuition, and spirit. Following through with the feeling in your gut or the random thought of encouragement or guidance.
Surrender is trust. Surrender is freedom.
All of these experiences I have had and lessons I have learned and yet, intuition says go back and take another look. So here I go re-evaluating all that I thought I knew or learned. Looking for a new angle or missing information.
You see, intuition for me is the life force energy that is always around me. The silent, invisible force that guides me and aids me on the path to divine purpose and awareness. I have learned repeatedly that when you allow trust to be a part of you, to guide you, then you are able to experience true freedom. The freedom to be your best self. Whatever that means for you, has the ability to bring pure joy, happiness, and purpose.
Intuition is not only the life force energy that is all around us. It lives within us as well. It’s accessible to us all if we are willing to listen and to trust; to be present and open to new ways of viewing and experiencing the world around us.
There are many ways to tap into intuition. Prayer, meditation, journaling, energy work/medicine, crystal work, tarot/oracle cards etc. Whatever methods you use have the ability to bring you to the present moment and in presence we can truly connect to ourselves and intuition in a way that is safe and fun.
Let’s center ourselves, truly ground and be present. Be aware of your thoughts and intentions. Do they match what is in your heart? Does it make you feel uncomfortable or does it feel right and good? How is your higher self, intuition, spirit guiding you?
How will you respond?
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1. I need to learn to be able to trust my intuition. I second guess myself continually. I want to feel content more often and be able to go with the flow, be able to listen and trust. Thanks for sharing!
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/80354 | Today’s Devotional: Turning Worry into Worship
She is clothed with strength and dignity; she can laugh at the days to come.—PROVERBS 31: 25
I think I have the worry gene, and I’m sure I got it from my mother. She passed down to me her aqua-blue eyes, her slightly crooked smile, and her tendency to worry.
When I was a teenager, I thought it was strange that my mom couldn’t go to sleep until I got home. Then I got married, became a mom, and then years later, my children became teenagers. And guess what? Now I do what my mom did: sit on the couch appearing to watch television while my mind rehearses the quickest route to the hospital.
We moms can find endless reasons to worry. Kids. Marriage. Finances. Health. Relationships. The future. If we let our thoughts run wild, we can concoct all sorts of terrible scenarios, all starting with “what if.” What if my husband gets laid off? What if my aging parent needs to live with us or move into a nursing home? What if my teen makes a bad choice? What if something is wrong with my baby’s development?
Over time I’ve noticed something about worry: 99 percent of my past fears never came to pass. However, I spent oodles of time fretting about them. How I wish I could redeem that time and do something productive instead! What if I had turned my worry into worship?
Contrast my attitude with the woman in Proverbs 31: 25: “She is clothed with strength and dignity; she can laugh at the days to come.” There’s no weariness in her thoughts and actions. She laughed at the days to come—not in a careless sort of way, but with a confidence that came from God.
Because she wore strength and dignity due to her faith in God, she had a smile on her face and laughter in her heart when she considered the future. She trusted in God, whose faithfulness in the past assured her He would work out circumstances in the future.
God can use our tendency to worry to grow our faith. As we learn to turn our panic into fervent prayer and praise, trusting God’s plan and timing, our relationship with God will be strengthened. Each time we turn worry into worship, we will find it easier to laugh at the days to come, like our Proverbs 31 sister.
God knows our future as well as He knows us. Our act of trust is to seek to know Him more as we place our future in His hands.
Oh, and to laugh a little more often.
Dear Lord, help me turn my worry into worship, believing that You are in control of the future. May I rest in Your loving arms, knowing You have my best interests at heart. In Jesus’ name, Amen
• What are your three greatest worries as a mom? List them.
• Take each of those three worries and pen a prayer to God instead.
This was taken from the devotional Pressing Pause: 100 Quiet Moments for Moms to Meet with Jesus
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/80362 | The Natural Capital Protocol
Ano: 2016
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The Natural Capital Protocol (hereafter the “Protocol”) is a framework designed to help generate trusted, credible, and actionable information that business managers need to inform decisions.
The Protocol aims to support better decisions by including how we interact with nature, or more specifically natural capital, in decision making. Until now, natural capital has for the most part been excluded from decisions and, when included, has been largely inconsistent, open to interpretation, or limited by moral arguments. The Protocol responds by offering a standardized framework to identify, measure, and value impacts and dependencies on natural capital.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/80390 | I know there are explanations galore in Meta and in the FAQ, we still have people coming around that refuse to accept the idea that this is not a Christian site - that it's not about Truth, but rather about learning about Christianity.
At any rate, this would likely need to be rephrased in such a way to make it acceptable, but I'd like to make a suggestion to help those new potential members avoid thinking that this should be a Christian site.
Would you really want this to be the place for a potential converts or new believers to learn about Truth?
I wouldn't. Assuming that there is one Truth, this isn't the place to find it. We have many active users, all with different backgrounds and beliefs. Since this site is meant as a place for sharing ideas, any question a seeker asks will likely have many different answers, all of which the answerer thinks is the Truth. A seeker will find nothing but conflicting answers and confusion here. To avoid confusing people on topics that may have, as Christianity believes, eternal consequences, it's best to clarify that this site is not meant to be a place to find that kind of Truth.
What I'm asking is for the community to decide whether this should be included inthe FAQ in some way or another (and likely if someone can phrase it better.)
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I've answered questions on JW beliefs which I certainly don't think are Truth. I think my answers are true representations of JW belief, but that those beliefs themselves are mistaken. I've also talked a bit about Christian Paganism (ish). I don't agree with that either, but I can still talk about it. – TRiG Jan 2 '13 at 14:09
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Exactly. There's a distinction between truthfully representing creationist argument, for example, and answering whether Creationism is Truth. How do Young Earth Creationists counter scientific evidence for an old earth? – David Stratton Jan 2 '13 at 23:34
• "Many different beliefs ... conflicting answers and confusion." I've been around the block enough times to realize this is all we ever have, even if (especially) if we think we can retreat to a denomination/ congregation/ cellgroup/ message board where everyone is orthodox or bible-believing. – pterandon May 17 '13 at 15:42
• I think it should be. You know I am new so this very post helpex me even better understand the "rules". I have been involved in making policy, hand books and manuals ...to say the least the best one can do is spell things out in crayon and in kindergarden speech as much as possible ... the KISS principle....but now that I see the date Im guessing my comment is long past needed...haha... – rob Feb 24 '14 at 22:19
• Funny after reading the other posts and thinking....I have given more answers about things I do not believe are truth than what I think are....makes one go hummmm.... (0: – rob Feb 24 '14 at 22:21
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Would I really want this to be the place for a potential converts or new believers to learn about Truth? Yes. Whyever not? I'd also like it to be a place where people have freedom of speech (as long as it doesn't get rude or offensive etc), which currently they don't, since the rules are getting in the way of people asking straight forward questions about truth, the most important subject available to man. – George Tomlinson Mar 28 '14 at 12:32
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I think this is a great place for new believers to learn. What would it mean to say otherwise? Wouldn't that mean saying that new believers can only be properly formed in a highly controlled environment verging on indoctrination, an environment that is not open to questions and criticisms? Having truth is not having an insecure and fragile white-knuckled grasp, it involves an openness to new arguments, considerations, and criticisms. I would be wary of any brand of Christianity that wants to keep its new members away from scholarly sites such as this one. – zippy2006 Jan 4 '15 at 21:30
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As a Catholic I don't consider Protestant to be a faithful Christian in term of their belief but I do consider them as a person capable of discernment. So it'd be proper for me to answer question regarding Evangelicalism, Mormonism, or about JW as long as I answered them objectively. If the questioner asked about what a particular group believed I can't give my opinion as a Catholic but must answer it following that particular group belief. This site can be helpful for all: believer to defend the faith, seeker to search the historic Christianity, and agnostic to check if Christianity is true. – Adithia Kusno Feb 13 '15 at 16:28
the question of whether its a good place for new believers to learn is moot because they will come here anyway so the site needs to be prepared to help them understand that not everything they see here is true and why its not true
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/80409 | The Social, Political & Economic Effects of the Reconstruction Era
Reconstruction was the period following the Civil War in which the national government attempted to reintegrate the Southern states that had formed the Confederacy back into the United States. From 1865, when the war ended, until 1877, the national government worked to establish order in the South. In the process, the nation passed the Thirteenth, Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments to the Constitution that ended slavery, defined citizenship and protected the right to vote.
There were actually two periods of Reconstruction. The first, referred to as Presidential Reconstruction, began with the ending of the Civil War. As the commanders-in-chief of the military, President Abraham Lincoln, and then his predecessor, President Andrew Johnson, initiated the return of the Southern states back into full union with the country. This phase of Reconstruction lasted from 1865 to the spring of 1866, when Congress overtook the project. Congressional Reconstruction, the second phase, remained in effect until 1877.
Thirteenth Amendment
The Thirteenth Amendment became law on December 6, 1865, making slavery and involuntary servitude unconstitutional. All American workers would be paid wages. Though outlawing slavery and servitude, the Amendment allowed for their imposition as punishment for crimes. As a result, most Southern states, where former slave owners needed workers, adopted Black Codes that created a series of new crimes. These crimes ensnared many recently freed African Americans, most of whom had little funds to pay bail. In turn, states could use these former slaves as laborers. The South remained largely agricultural during, and after, Reconstruction, with many mired in a cycle of perpetual poverty through a system known as sharecropping, in which the poor grew crops on another’s land in return for wages paid after the harvest. Having recently been freed with no financial resources, African Americans had to accept credit each year to pay for seeds, tools and other supplies. In the end, most sharecroppers remained in debt. State peonage laws made it a criminal offense to leave before settling debts, restricting the mobility of workers as had been the norm during slavery.
Fourteenth Amendment
Incensed over the Black Codes, Congress began its own Reconstruction in 1866. The Fourteenth Amendment, ratified on July 9, 1868, was an essential part of this period. This Amendment made anyone born in the United States a citizen of the nation and his state. Furthermore, states could no longer pass laws denying citizens equality under the law. Opponents, nevertheless, seized upon the Amendment’s weakness through laws that provided, at least theoretically, separate, but equal, treatment. Later, Congress passed the Civil Rights Act of 1964 making racial segregation illegal.
Fifteenth Amendment
To provide greater access to political power, Congress adopted the Fifteenth Amendment on February 3, 1870. This Amendment made it unconstitutional for states to deny the right to vote for reasons related to “race, color or previous condition of servitude.” Fulfilling the spirit of the Amendment, Congress eventually authorized the Voting Rights Act of 1965, during the height of the civil rights movement, ending major obstacles to voting for racial and ethnic minorities. |
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/80442 | Can no longer resize Storyline!
I'm wondering if anyone else has run into this. I've submitted it to support. More on that below the description.
I've used a program called Sizer for a few years now. It came at the recommendation of a very knowledgeable person who uses it all the time. When launched, it sits in the background and allows you to size application screens perfectly. I've used it alongside Camtasia Studio (TechSmith) to size my windows appropriately during video recording.
Today I tried to use it alongside Storyline and Screenr. It wasn't working well, so I exited the program. Suddenly, I could no longer resize Storyline. That is, I can minimize, maximize, and restore to the size I'd been using when I exited Sizer, but I cannot make the Storyline window any other size. The double-edged arrows APPEAR, but don't work.
By the way, no other programs have been affected. All work as they always have.
Support suggested that
1. I uninstall Sizer and reboot. I did
2. Then uninstall Storyline and reboot, which I did.
3. Then use the link they provided to install SL, Update 1 (I was using Update 1 previously), which I did.
4. And see if I could resize SL. I can't.
I reported back to them, but haven't heard anything. I assume they're working on it. In the meantime, I wondered if any of you have run into this bug and if you know how to resolve it? I assume something's been written to the registry somewhere?
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Matthew Graham
According to their website, sizer works by storing configuration information in your computer's registry. He also states that it's based on "how things are supposed to work" which would make me a little apprehensive about using it. It makes me worry that it may be rather unpredictable and not overly supported. And judging by the site's name, it looks to be a one-man projects, which means it may be difficult to get ahold of them.
If nobody has a better answer, you may want to have an IT person investigate removing Sizer's presence in your registry. It may be stuck on for some reason.
Sizer stores its configuration information in the registry under: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Sizer.
Simon Perkins
You could try using Revo Uninstaller to uninstall both SL and Sizer before reinstalling both as normal. Revo gives you the option of digging up and removing all kinds of stuff that doesn't get deleted when doing a 'traditional' uninstall. The upshot is you might just end up getting rid of some registry 'badness' (if that is the cause of course).
Rebecca Fleisch Cordeiro
Thanks, Matthew and Simon,
Matthew, re: "Sizer stores its configuration information in the registry under: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Sizer."
Thanks. I'd also seen this earlier and checked it out. After uninstalling Sizer, there isn't any info in this registry key. That is, Sizer isn't here. If only it would have been so easy.
Also, just an FYI, I've been using Sizer for 2.5 years with absolutely no problems
Simon, thanks for the Revo suggestion. I'm still hoping to hear back from support; but this may be my next steps.
Thanks to you both.
Leslie McKerchie
Hi Maria and welcome to E-Learning Heroes :)
Thanks for reaching out and letting us know that you are running into a similar issue.
It looks like the original post referred to a 3rd party program.
Are you having difficulty using another piece of software or are you having an issue within Storyline?
If it's within Storyline, would you be able to explain the issue you are currently seeing as well as the steps to replicate? We would be happy to take a look. |
global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/80458 | Log Analytics 2019 - Coralogix partners with IDC Research to uncover the latest requirements by leading companies
Node.js Winston
You must provide the following four variables when creating a Coralogix logger instance.
Company ID – A private key which is used to validate your authenticity, this key will be sent to your mail once you register to Coralogix and should not be transferred outside your company.
Private Key – A unique ID which represents your company, this Id will be sent to your mail once you register to Coralogix.
Application Name – The name of your environment, for example, a company named “SuperData” would probably insert the “SuperData” string parameter or if they want to debug their test environment they might insert the “SuperData– Test”.
SubSystem Name – Your application probably has multiple components, for example: Backend servers, Middleware, Frontend servers etc. in order to help you examine the data you need, inserting the subsystem parameter is vital.
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npm install –save coralogix-logger-winston
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/80467 | 0:00 / ???
1. The Words I Speak
The world we have is not all right
I see your heart, can you see mine
I have this truth I need to share
But please stop fighting
Oh please stop fighting
The way you think is not all right
But you don't want to hear from me
The words I speak, they sound so wrong
What's natural is not the best
If I go play my songs for the dead
You'll see them dancing
You'll see them dancing
And this is not just all self-righteous
You know I'm really on your side
Every single thing I've said to you
Was only helping
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/80468 | Natural Treatment Path
Well, I had yet another doctor tell me I am imagining all the effects PCOS is having on my body, most of which are plain to see just by looking at me. I am very open and honest about the effects of this horrible condition, but I do not allow PCOS to rule my life. Even though I try not to allow it to effect me, but it does. The stares, the looks, the whispered conversations.
So, after being told I am imagining the symptoms that I have had for over half my life, the unwanted body hair, the hair loss, the PCOS pooch, irregular cycles, absent ovulation, mood swings, miscarriages, deeper voice and an insulin resistance, to name a few. So, to the internet I went, in search for other options to treat it.
I have tried everything in the book the medical worls has to offer, creams, hormone pills, birth control pills, water pills, everything, and nothing worked.
So, starting tonight, I have gone back to the herbal way of dealing with it. In the past I have only taken the Saw Palmetto, but, alone it only lessens the symptoms, so I have addes to it.
This is what I have come up with:
Saw Palmetto, two 450mg twice a day
Cinnamon plus Chromium- two 500mg tabs twice a day
Fish Oil with Omega-3- 1200mg (360mg Omega) twice a day
Royal Jelly- 500mg three times a day
I will see how these work before adding others. I hope this helps control the symptoms and the effects of this condition. You know, since I am imagining them all. |
global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/80471 | Three Coyotes, by Charles Wood
Saturday Dad and Mister were waiting in the rendezvous area and didn’t like it when Holtz and I showed up. Soon Mom with her cauliflower left ear arrived. Mom muted their exuberance in greeting her, showing even Dad her teeth. Dad took a break to roll in sand. They all went up the hill to wait. Eventually Dad and Mister came down while Mom watched, prone on the hill with her head on her paws and a bored expression. The last scene shows Mister intently staring while Dad messages and then walks off camera to scrape dirt as Mister takes a look around. Eventually they all went to their nest area.
Dad’s stint in the sand was typical of how they, when engaged with me, will frequently get distracted. They get distracted by their fleas, each other, by pack members possibly hiding from my view and by sounds from farther away, to name a few. They don’t forget that I am there, yet intruder notwithstanding, Mister on Saturday allowed himself a moment to read his father’s ‘tea leaves’, so to speak. Likewise, Dad seemed ready to openly cavort though he couldn’t get Mom to forget just for a moment about Holtz and me. Dad seemed disappointed with her rebuff, licking his lip and quivering his head from side to side in order to come to terms with what to him may have seemed as a pointless refusal by Mom to play. For a second, Dad almost looked like he felt he did something wrong. I’m tempted to give Dad a voice in the video at the point just after Mom shows her teeth: “What! Teeth? Oh yes, the man, of course, and the dog, well, they are still there, I see that, yes, of course Mother, but, you know, they haven’t moved, never do really move you see: they don’t, haven’t that is, the dog is sitting after all and not even looking exactly at us. But I see what you are saying, of course, of course. Well then…we’ll see, what to do about it and when; when is important, so let me… oh! I itch, first things first then.”
I did notice in a photograph I took that Dad’s four lower right premolars are worn to nubs. I’m beginning to accept that he is a beat up old coyote. Would that Mom would cut him some slack.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/80472 | A Raspberry Pi is a pretty nice and average priced SoC. The best thing about the Raspberry Pi is the community and software support behind it. The version I’ll be using today is a Raspberry Pi 3B (2015, v1.2) and as a little extra on top of it a FEZ Hat (Rev 1.1).
If you never owned one and you’re planning on purchasing one, check out this page for a detailed comparison between all models.
What to do with it?
I always end up having spare Raspberry Pi’s laying around from Hackathons or all sorts of giveaways or purchased from older projects. The Raspberry Pi is not necessarily the most powerful SoC on the market, but the performance/price ratio results in a value product.
In this post I’ll be covering the following:
• Headless start (no keyboard and no screen)
• SSH Server (with key auth)
• Starter packages
• Other generic & utility stuff
• Environment setup (shell, aliases, …)
• PiHole (to disable all the nasty adds on all devices)
For the time being these simple initial setup steps will do. In future posts I’ll be covering in more detail other projects I have in store for the Raspberry Pi. For example:
• Who is home (by scanning the network)
• Ambient logging (using the Fez Hat)
• Web server and API
• File-dumping server
• Front door camera
• With web feed and alerts
You’ll obviously be needing a Raspberry Pi (pretty much any model works), a power supply (make sure it’s ~5.1V and between 0.5-1A depending on the connected peripherals), a microSD card and a means of connecting it to an already functional machine.
On the software side, you have to download an Operating System for the Pi, my personal recommendation is Raspbian (a Debian based OS, with plenty of software and great community support) or you can see a list of supported OS-es here.
Now that you have the image (.img) of your choice of OS, it’s time to “burn” it onto the microSD card. For this you’ll need special software on your master machine.
After the microSD is ready, you should see a mounted media called /boot. Upon entering it a series of files will be located, the most important of these files are:
• The Firmare (split across most of the files)
• kernel.img (the kernel of the operating system)
• config.txt (this is used the VideoCore to initialise the system)
• It’s advised not to mingle in here unless you know what you’re doing
At this point we are not yet done with the microSD, inside the /boot/ directory create a file named ssh. Yes, an empty file. (touch ssh when inside the directory). This will allow you to connect using the default user (pi with password raspberry) over ssh.
Another thing you might want to do is setup a WiFi connection for your Pi. This can be achieved by creating another file called wpa_supplicant.conf. In which you’ll have to write a config like this:
I don’t really like the hassle of dealing with WiFi before having access to the system and I always have access to an ethernet cable, but in case you don’t, that’s all you need to do.
Let there be light
Now your Pi should be ready to boot. Safely remove the microSD from your machine, place it in the Pi (make sure there his no power source connected to it), plug in the ethernet cable and then the power cable.
At this point you should have a red light on (telling you that power is present) and a green LED (the ACT LED) telling you the operating system it doing its thing.
Time to connect to your Pi. If you created the ssh file inside the microSD /boot directory, you should now be able to run the following command ssh [email protected]. This command may not work on some networks as the hostname lookup might not work or other pi’s might be present on the network. To be sure your machine is even connected to the network perform a network scan an use the IP directly to connect (nmap --help).
When sshing into your Pi, you will be promoted to type a password, as we mentioned above the default password for pi is raspberry.
Tada! Now change that default password so you don’t expose yourself to unwanted intruders later down the road. Do this by typing passwd. A prompt will ask for your current password and then the new password + a confirmation.
Changing password for pi.
(current) UNIX password:
Enter new UNIX password:
Retype new UNIX password:
You should probably also change the password for the root user. sudo passwd root, but make sure you don’t forget this one. And to be extra safe no root incidents happen, lock the account using sudo passwd -l root.
A great utility tool that comes with Raspbian is raspi-config. You can run this as sudo raspi-config and a nice curses gui will appear. From here you can do the initial setup of your Pi.
• Go to 2 Network Options > N1 Hostname
• Change the hostname from raspberry to something more meaningful. I like using the periodic table for labelling my machines (more on this on a different post).
• Go to 4 Localisation Options
• Change your Locale, Timezone, Keyboard Layout to your preferred style
• Go to 7 Advanced Options > A1 Expand Filesystem
• This will ensure that all of the microSD space is used
• Click Finish and agree to having your system rebooted
Next time you’ll be logging in over ssh remember to use your new password.
Update time
The version of the OS you got definitely contains outdated packages and you should almost always update. This is done by using apt-get on any Debian/Ubuntu OS-es.
Before starting this, make sure your Pi is connected to the internet and power and the chances of these two getting disconnected is as close to 0% as possible.
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get update
Now depending on your internet speed, how many packages must be updated and the mercy of the E͕̣͇l̹̖̙̯̬̫̗ḏę̻̭̺̜̜̹r͇͈̯͓ ̧̜G̨͍̮̺̦̳͕͓o̴̮͎d̤͖͈s̵̠̞̲̺̝, this may take a while so go make a tea or something.
Just to be safe run the commands above again! Don’t play around with package managers, they can make your life easy but they can also make it a living nightmare.
After the updates are done and the Universe hopefully didn’t reach Heat death by that point, you can safely reboot your Pi (sudo reboot). And connect to it again after it boots.
Goto packages
On pretty much any system I setup or own I want to have the following packages:
• ufw - Nice and simple firewall rule management, allows you to block undesired connections (such as your housemates trying to DOS you :) ).
• sudo ufw allow 22 - ssh
• sudo ufw allow 80 - http
• sudo ufw allow 443 - https
• sudo ufw allow 53 - dns
• sudo ufw allow 123 - ntp
• sudo ufw default deny incoming
• sudo ufw default allow outgoing
• htop, iotop, iftop - Monitor different resources on the Pi
• vim - Not meaning to start any wars here, but how can some people use emacs, right?
• git
• golang - I’ll be using it to create the web/network projects/tools.
To install a package use sudo apt-get install <package name>.
Secure Secure-SHell
The default login authentication method for ssh is password or key. A more secure way of dealing with ssh is by enforcing key only auth (this renders any brute forcing or dictionary attacks useless).
Before we enforce key auth only, we should make sure key auth works, with the password as a safety net.
Generate yourself a ssh key or use an existing one. This step should be done on your master machine, or you’ll have to transfer the private key from the machine. To generate a key run ssh-keygen, when promoted for a file to save the key in use the default one, then type in a strong but easy to type and remember password.
Inside your ~/.ssh/ directory you should now have a private key id_rsa and a public one NEVER SHARE YOUR PRIVATE KEY. Inside the ~/.shh/ dir, create a file called authorized_keys and inside it you can paste the public keys which are allowed to connect to this machine and user using their respective private keys (each line can be a public key).
Now exit/close the ssh connection and then try to log back in, this time if you properly configured your ssh keys (this is a topic that goes beyond the purpose of this post), the Pi shouldn’t prompt you for any password. If this is the case, you can now disable password auth.
In order to change the sshd configuration, type sudo vim /etc/ssh/sshd_config (or nano) and modify the following lines:
PasswordAuthentication no
LoginGraceTime 1m
Other settings might look interesting, such as changing the default listening port. Feel free to look around and modify it to your liking. But beware, playing with sshd configuration can leave you locked out of your system, forcing you to start over (or mount the filesystem and change the configurations).
Message of the day, is the message which shows up whenever you login. By default on a Raspbian machine that is:
the exact distribution terms for each program are described in the
permitted by applicable law.
And it can be changed by editing /etc/motd. I like putting some ASCII ART in there just to cheer me up (might work on a “auto updating” MOTD with ASCII art, that would be awesome and probably someone already did it).
Having a well configured shell is more than just the looks, it helps you navigate your system faster and more efficiently. A shell package like oh-my-zsh gives you out of this world auto-completion, highlighting and utilities.
In order to install it:
• sudo apt-get install zsh, first install the zsh (shell)
• sh -c "$(curl -fsSL", and then download and execute their install script
For more details on configuring it, check out the projects repo page on GitHub.
With this I’ll try and tie things up as this post is already a blob of text and ramblings. Pi Hole is a cool little project that acts as a DNS for all the devices you want to connect to it, filtering out known advertisers DNS queries and then keeping these that interest you. It has a nice dashboard to view all the stats of your usage.
It has a simple setup process, only requiring you to execute the following:
curl -sSL | bash
And then allowing you to configure some very basic things.
Wrap up
With all of the above in mind and hopefully you looking forward to some more well planned posts about different projects I’ll be working on in the upcoming months, I hope this helped to some degree. The Raspberry Pi is a fun little tool that is both good for learning and real-world applications. Be creative and learn as much as you can on this simple, controlled environment while at the same time setting up all kinds of useful projects.
While a Raspberry Pi might look like a nice little powerful thing. It’s not. Sure there are plenty of nice and ingenious projects you can put together using one, and plenty of production-grade software available for it, this doesn’t mean you SHOULD do X. I’ve heard plenty of unfeasible ideas and even tried out some myself just to be disappointed. Use your head and don’t stop at “Can I do X?” but also ask “Should I do X?”.
Sure you can run a Kubernetes cluster on 10 Raspberry PIs, but should you?
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No, really. Why didn't that prevent him from running for President?
From our archives, earlier this year: "Ben Carson says that even if Trump is a bad President, it's only four years."
You can't make this stuff up. The Hill reports that Dr. Ben Carson has turned down a job with the Trump administration because he doesn't have any experience.
Business manager and close friend Armstrong Williams said Carson won't join the incoming Trump administration and would only serve as an unofficial adviser....
"Dr. Carson was never offered a specific position, but everything was open to him," Williams told The Hill in a phone call.
"Dr. Carson feels he has no government experience, he's never run a federal agency. The last thing he would want to do was take a position that could cripple the presidency."
Remember that Armstrong Williams is Ben Carson's co-grifter in chief. Remember that Carson suspended his campaign to go on a book tour. Carson was always in it for the money, and can continue that con with his TAX-DEDUCTIBLE contributions to his "My Faith Votes" group.
Indeed, ANOTHER tragedy about the Trump election, is that now the GOP has no motivation to fix their "running for President for profit" problem. If Trump had lost, they could have done a "require tax returns" thing to prevent another Trump-type candidacy.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/80487 | When In The Course of Human Events
When in the course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation (Declaration of Independence). A very interesting beginning to a subsequent list of causes by a people, of which, it could be said individually and or collectively, have perhaps become guilty of violating while in the course of human events; slavery, civil war, suffrage, civil rights, women’s rights, LGBTI rights, immigration…etc. If in fact we are a people under God why is it that humankind imposes such abuses on humankind? Perhaps we should first declare our faith in God without boundary and without restriction that we may be so bold as to reach out on behalf of one another, because in doing so we reach out to God. Whether we relate to the unnamed hemorrhaging woman, Jairus the synagogue official or any one of today’s marginalized people, every battle great and small is a struggle for some kind of freedom or independence. So let us also celebrate a spiritual independence to rightful action, that we may encourage each other to be who God has graciously called us to be and live for his purpose and glory and not our own. |
global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/80496 | On MathOverflow, Timothy Gowers asked a question titled "Demonstrating that rigour is important". Most of the discussion there was about cases showing the importance of proof, which people on CSTheory probably do not need to be convinced about. In my experience proofs need to be more rigorous in theoretical computer science than in many parts of continuous mathematics, because our intuition so often turns out to be wrong for discrete structures, and because the drive to create implementations encourages more detailed arguments. A mathematician may be content with an existence proof, but a theoretical computer scientist will usually try to find a constructive proof. The Lovász Local Lemma is a nice example [1].
I would therefore like to know
are there specific examples in theoretical computer science where a rigorous proof of a believed-to-be-true statement has led to new insight into the nature of the underlying problem?
A recent example that is not directly from algorithms and complexity theory is proof-theoretic synthesis, the automatic derivation of correct and efficient algorithms from pre- and post-conditions [2].
Edit: The kind of answer I had in mind is like those by Scott and matus. As Kaveh suggested, this is a triple of something people wanted to prove (but which wasn't necessarily unexpected by "physics", "handwaving", or "intuitive" arguments), a proof, and consequences for the "underlying problem" that followed from that proof that weren't anticipated (perhaps creating a proof required unexpected new ideas, or naturally leads to an algorithm, or changed the way we think about the area). Techniques developed while developing proofs are the building blocks of theoretical computer science, so to retain the value of this somewhat subjective question, it would be worth focusing on personal experience, such as provided by Scott, or an argument that is backed up by references, as matus did. Moreover, I'm trying to avoid arguments about whether something qualifies or not; unfortunately the nature of the question may be intrinsically problematic.
We already have a question about "surprising" results in complexity: Surprising Results in Complexity (Not on the Complexity Blog List) so ideally I am looking for answers that focus on the value of rigorous proof, not necessarily the size of the breakthrough.
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$\begingroup$ Don't we see/do this every day? $\endgroup$ – Dave Clarke Oct 12 '10 at 17:21
• $\begingroup$ What exactly is meant by "underlying problem?" Do you mean to suggest only problems where there is a deeper problem than a particular statement? I had been thinking of any problem that involves the constructive proof of the existence of an algorithm (e.g., the AKS primality test to establish that PRIMES is in P) would lead to "new insight" via rigorous proof, but if you are talking only about smaller statements within a problem, that wouldn't make sense. $\endgroup$ – Philip White Oct 12 '10 at 18:16
• $\begingroup$ Just to make sure I understood your question, are you asking for a triple (statement S, proof P, insight I), where the statement S is known/believed to be true, but we obtain a new insight (I) when someone come up with the new proof P for S? $\endgroup$ – Kaveh Oct 12 '10 at 19:00
• $\begingroup$ [continued] E.g. in the LLL case, we had nonconstructive proofs for LLL (S), but the new constructive proof arXive (P) gives us a new insight (I). $\endgroup$ – Kaveh Oct 12 '10 at 19:05
• $\begingroup$ Hmm... What about starting with specific algorithms and then using them as data points to generalize? Such as, people design a few greedy algorithms, and eventually the field develops a notion of a problem with optimal substructure. $\endgroup$ – Aaron Sterling Oct 13 '10 at 3:01
András, as you probably know, there are so many examples of what you're talking about that it's almost impossible to know where to start! However, I think this question can actually be a good one, if people give examples from their own experience where the proof of a widely-believed conjecture in their subarea led to new insights.
When I was an undergrad, the first real TCS problem I tackled was this: what's the fastest quantum algorithm to evaluate an OR of √n ANDs of √n Boolean variables each? It was painfully obvious to me and everyone else I talked to that the best you could do would be to apply Grover's algorithm recursively, both to the OR and to the ANDs. This gave an O(√n log(n)) upper bound. (Actually you can shave off the log factor, but let's ignore that for now.)
To my enormous frustration, though, I was unable to prove any lower bound better than the trivial Ω(n1/4). "Going physicist" and "handwaving the answer" never looked more appealing! :-D
But then, a few months later, Andris Ambainis came out with his quantum adversary method, whose main application at first was a Ω(√n) lower bound for the OR-of-ANDs. To prove this result, Andris imagined feeding a quantum algorithm a superposition of different inputs; he then studied how the entanglement between the inputs and the algorithm increased with each query the algorithm made. He showed how this approach let you lower-bound quantum query complexity even for "messy," non-symmetric problems, by using only very general combinatorial properties of the function f that the quantum algorithm was trying to compute.
Far from just confirming that the quantum query complexity of one annoying problem was what everyone expected it to be, these techniques turned out to represent one of the biggest advances in quantum computing theory since Shor's and Grover's algorithms. They've since been used to prove dozens of other quantum lower bounds, and were even repurposed to obtain new classical lower bounds.
Of course, this is "just another day in the wonderful world of math and TCS." Even if everyone "already knows" X is true, proving X very often requires inventing new techniques that then get applied far beyond X, and in particular to problems for which the right answer was much less obvious a priori.
Parallel repetition is a nice example from my area:
A Brief explanation of parallel repetition. Suppose you have a two-prover proof system for a language $L$: Given input $x$, known to everyone, a verifier sends question $q_1$ to prover 1, and question $q_2$ to prover 2. The provers answer with answers $a_1$ and $a_2$, respectively, without communicating. The verifier performs some check on $a_1$ and $a_2$ (depending on $q_1,q_2$) and decides whether to accept or reject. If $x\in L$, there exists a provers strategy that the verifier always accepts. If $x\not\in L$, for any provers strategy, the verifier accepts with probability at most $s$ ("error probability").
Now suppose we want a smaller error probability. Maybe $s$ is close to $1$, and we want $s = 10^{-15}$. A natural approach would be parallel repetition: let the verifier send $k$ independent questions to each prover, $q_1^{(1)},\ldots,q_1^{(k)}$ and $q_2^{(1)},\ldots,q_2^{(k)}$, receive k answers from the provers $a_1^{(1)},\ldots,a_1^{(k)}$ and $a_1^{(1)},\ldots,a_1^{(k)}$, and performs $k$ checks on the answers.
The history. At first, it was "clear" that the error probability had to decrease like $s^{k}$, just as if the verifier would have made $k$ sequential checks. The legend says it was given to a student to prove, before it was realized that the "obvious" statement is simply false. Here is an exposition of a counterexample: http://www.cs.washington.edu/education/courses/cse533/05au/na-game.pdf. It took a while (and several weaker results), before Ran Raz finally confirmed that the error probability indeed decreases exponentially, but has a slightly complicated behavior: it is $s^{\Omega(k/\log|\Sigma|)}$, where the alphabet $\Sigma$ is the set of possible provers answers in the original system. The proof used information theoretic ideas, and was said to be inspired by an idea of Razborov in communication complexity. A messy part of Ran's original proof was later beautifully simplified by Thomas Holenstein, resulting in one of my favorite proofs.
Insights for the problem and more consequences. First there are the immediate things: a better understanding of the quantitative behavior of parallel repetition, and the role that the alphabet $\Sigma$ plays, a better understanding of when the provers can use the parallel questions to cheat, a better understanding of the importance of independence in parallel repetition between the $k$ pairs of questions (later formalized by Feige and Kilian).
Then, there are the extensions that became possible: Anup Rao was able to adapt the analysis to show that when the original proof system is a {\em projection game}, i.e., the answer of the first prover determines at most one acceptable answer of the second prover, there is no dependence on the alphabet at all, and the constant in the exponent can be improved. This is important because most hardness of approximation results are based on projection games, and unique games are a special case of projection games. There are also quantitative improvements in games on expanders (by Ricky Rosen and Ran Raz), and more.
Then, there are the far-reaching consequences. Just a few examples: An information theoretic lemma from Raz's paper was used in many other contexts (in cryptography, in equivalence of sampling and searching, etc). The "correlated sampling" technique that Holenstein used was applied in many other works (in communication complexity, in PCP, etc).
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$\begingroup$ This is a nice example ! $\endgroup$ – Suresh Venkat Oct 13 '10 at 14:25
Another good example of rigor (and new techniques) being needed to prove statements that were believed to be true: smoothed analysis. Two cases in point:
• The simplex algorithm
• The k-means algorithm
For both methods, it was "well known" that they worked well in practice, and for the first, it was known that it took worst-case exponential time. Smoothed analysis can be seen as having "explained" the good empirical behavior in both cases. In the second, while it was known that the worst-case complexity of $k$-means was $O(n^{c \cdot kd})$, it was not known whether there were lower bounds that were exponential in $n$, and now we know that's true, even in the plane !
I think the following example spawned a lot of research which had results of the kind you are looking for, at least if I follow the spirit of your LLL example.
Robert E. Schapire. The strength of weak learnability. Machine Learning, 5(2):197-227, 1990.
This paper resolved the question: are strong and weak PAC learning equivalent? I can not tell you for certain whether the people in that circle (Schapire, Valiant, Kearns, Avrim Blum, ..) felt strongly one way or another (i.e. if this is already an instance of what you seek), though I have some suspicions, and you can form your own by looking at the papers around then. Briefly (and approximately/probably), a problem is PAC learnable (by a hypothesis class, for a distribution) if, for any $\epsilon>0, \delta>0$, there exists an ('efficient') algorithm which can produce with probability at least $1-\delta$ a hypothesis with error at most $\epsilon$. If you could satisfy the $\epsilon$ but not the $\delta$, then as long as $\delta$ was not trivial ('triviality' depends on some details, since i'm leaving out the meaning of 'efficient'), repeated trials would boost the confidence $\delta$. But if instead you could only achieve some $\gamma$ advantage over random guessing (same 'triviality' condition applies), could you somehow cleverly boost this result to attain arbitrarily good error?
Anyway, things became very interesting after Schapire's paper. His solution produced a majority-of-majority over hypotheses in the original class. Then came:
Yoav Freund. Boosting a weak learning algorithm by majority. Information and Computation, 121(2):256--285, 1995.
This paper had a 'reproof' of Schapire's result, but now the constructed hypothesis used only a single majority. Along these lines, the two then produced another reproof, called AdaBoost:
Yoav Freund and Robert E. Schapire. A decision-theoretic generalization of on-line learning and an application to boosting. Journal of Computer and System Sciences, 55(1):119-139, 1997.
The weak/strong learning question started out as a primarily theoretical concern, but this sequence of 'reproofs' resulted in a beautiful algorithm, one of the most influential results in machine learning. I could go off on all sorts of tangents here but will restrain myself. In the context of TCS, these results breath a lot of life in the context of (1) multiplicative weight algorithms and (2) hard-core set results. About (1), I'd just like to clarify that AdaBoost can be seen as an instance of the multiplicative weights / winnow work of Warmuth/Littlestone (Freund was a Warmuth student), but there is a lot of new insight in the boosting results. About (2), I'd like to clarify that although Russell Impagliazzo was graduating Berkeley around when Kearns was visiting and the Kearns+Vazirani learning theory book appeared (Kearns had thought a lot about boosting, and material appeared in the book), I have a few reasons to believe that Russell produced his results essentially independently (further work along these lines relied on the Boosting results more closely).
For historical accuracy I should also say that the dates on my citations are maybe not what some people would expect, since for a few of these there were earlier conference versions.
Back to the nature of your question. The key value of 'rigor' here was in providing the hypothesis class one learns over (weighted majorities over the original hypothesis class) and efficient algorithms to find them.
This example is along the lines of Dana and Scott's answers.
It is "obvious" that the best way of computing the PARITY of $n$ bits with an unbounded fan-in circuit of depth $d$ is the following recursive strategy. When the depth $d$ is 2, there's nothing better you can do than write out the CNF (or DNF) of all $2^{n-1}$ terms. When $d$ is greater than $2$, break the set of input variables into $n^{1/(d-1)}$ parts, guess the parity of each of the parts (take an OR of fan-in $2^{n^{1/(d-1)}}$), and for those guesses which add up to parity $1$, recursively solve the problem on each of the parts (take an AND of fan-in $n^{1/(d-1)}$) with a depth $d-1$ circuit. If you alternate at each level of recursion between doing an OR of $2^{n^{1/(d-1)}}$ ANDs and doing an AND of $2^{n^{1/(d-1)}}$ ORs (taking the complement), you end up with a circuit of depth $d$ and size $2^{O(n^{1/(d-1)})}$ that computes PARITY.
In 1985, Hastad proved that the "obviously best" depth-$d$ circuit is optimal up to constants in the exponent. To do this, he proved the Switching Lemma which has been a very valuable tool in proving lower bounds for circuits, parallel algorithms, and proof systems. This is one of the few instances where we know that a particular natural algorithm is optimal, and it led to a very detailed understanding of the power of $AC^0$.
Rasborov and Rudich's paper "Natural Proofs" offers a rigorous proof of (a formalization of) the painfully obvious statement "It's really hard to prove that P≠NP."
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$\begingroup$ "It is really hard to prove that P≠NP" is not equivalent to "natural proofs most likely won't prove P≠NP". There are other barriers such as Relativization and Algebrization. Actually, there could be infinitely many more barriers. $\endgroup$ – Mohammad Al-Turkistany Oct 12 '10 at 20:54
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$\begingroup$ Relativization is just "It's hard to prove P≠NP." Algebraization came later, but it's a formalization of "It's really really hard to prove P≠NP." (Ha ha only serious.) $\endgroup$ – Jeffε Oct 12 '10 at 21:48
The idea that some algorithmic problems require an exponential number of steps, or exaustive search over all possibilities, was raised since the 50s and perhaps before. (Of course, the competing naive idea that computers can do everything was also common.) The major breakthrough of Cook and Levin was to put this idea on rigorous grounds. This, of course, changed everything.
Update: I just realized that my answer like the nice answer of Turkistany addresses the title of the question "rigour leading to insight" but perhaps not the specific wording which was about "rigorous proof to a theorem".
Alan Turing formalized the notion of algorithm (effective computability) using Turing machines. He used this new formalism to prove that the Halting problem is undecidable (i.e. Halting problem can't be solved by any algorithm). This led to a long research program which proved the impossibility of the Hilbert 10th problem. Matiyasevich in 1970 proved that there is no algorithm that can decide whether a integer Diophantine equation has an integer solution.
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$\begingroup$ @Kaveh, What is MRDP? $\endgroup$ – Mohammad Al-Turkistany Oct 12 '10 at 19:05
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$\begingroup$ There are uncomputable recursively enumerable (RE) sets (such as the Halting problem). Matiyasevich proved that any recursively enumerable set is Diophantine. This immediately implies the impossibility of Hilbert's 10th problem. $\endgroup$ – Mohammad Al-Turkistany Oct 12 '10 at 20:04
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$\begingroup$ @Kaveh, Why didn't you subject the first answer to your "rigorous" tests? As far as I know, Natural proof is not the only barrier preventing us from proving P vs NP. $\endgroup$ – Mohammad Al-Turkistany Oct 12 '10 at 20:16
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$\begingroup$ @Kaveh, "It is really hard to prove that $P\ne NP$" is not equivalent to natural proofs most likely won't prove $P\ne NP$. There are other barriers. $\endgroup$ – Mohammad Al-Turkistany Oct 12 '10 at 20:38
• $\begingroup$ I think it is a nice answer. $\endgroup$ – Gil Kalai Nov 16 '10 at 16:03
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If you go out and consume a whole pot of coffee at once, you are likely going to feel pretty awful, unless you have a huge tolerance to caffeine.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/80525 | So I am implementing Word2Vec for the first time, and I have a set of training data that I would like to train a word2vec model on. Predictably, the problem is the dataset is rather large, and I have more limited computational power than I would like. This is a very common problem of course, but are there any ways to minimize the input text without too horribly affecting the performance?
For example, if I had the example sentences:
Mr. and Mrs. Dursley, of number four, Privet Drive, were proud to say that they were perfectly normal, thank you very much. They were the last people you’d expect to be involved in anything strange or mysterious, because they just didn’t hold with such nonsense. Mr. Dursley was the director of a firm called runnings, which made drills. He was a big, beefy man with hardly any neck, although he did have a very large mustache.
I could do some thing like take out the stop words... but as I googled, that's a bad idea according to one link and a good idea according to another... so which is it? I also looked into text summarization but that seems harder than implementing word2vec. Another idea I naively had was to randomly take out X% of sentences from the text. But that would obviously be a performance hit in the model, and I'm not sure how big.
So, are there any general methods for trying to do this, and is stop word removal a way to do it?
I don't think there really is a right or wrong answer to the "removing stopwords" question. Some people will argue that throwing away information will reduce model performance, while others argue that it'll increase noise.
I personally follow a simple rule of thumb. If my model depends on sentence structure, then I keep stopwords. If i'm modeling topics and more interested in important phrases, then I remove them. This seems to work well.
If you're looking for ways to reduce you matrix, then yes removing stopwords is a perfectly acceptable idea. Another thing you can do is apply common feature reduction techniques like LSA or chi2 to find the most important words and reduce your input space to the most meaningful words. However, doing this may dramatically effect the performance or your word2vec model. But if it is your only choice, then why not give it a go.
• $\begingroup$ Good info, thanks! When you say LSA, you are referring to this correct? $\endgroup$ – ocean800 Jan 23 '18 at 0:43
• $\begingroup$ Yep! That is what i'm referring too. $\endgroup$ – Tophat Jan 23 '18 at 11:50
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/80548 | Towers Puzzle
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Place a number representing a tower of height in each empty square subject to the following conditions:
1. , where is the initial number of empty rows.
2. In each row and in each column, the heights are all different.
3. A number in the left column counts how many tower tops are visible, looking horizontally from the left.
4. Similarly, the same as 3 is true looking from the right column, looking down from the top row, or looking up from the bottom row.
Copy the puzzle and print it, fill in the blank spaces and then check your solution.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/80562 | Applicaster offers an array of advertising functionality for customers to use for monetization. Video ads are typically handled by the player plugin, and for the Applicaster Player, video ads are currently part of core SDK and coupled to GAM (Google Ad Manager). However, we’ve made display ads (banners and interstitials) fully pluggable so that developers can build advertising plugins which can take advantage of this functionality. This means for customers who prefer to work with options other than GAM, plugins can be built and supported and these can be used to deliver display ads within the apps. The functionality provided includes:
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/80564 | Insert link permission
Alan Isaacson asked on May 3, 2016 15:10
I have a user that I need to allow access to add links via the CMS. However they get the error
Information Your UI profile is not granted with permission to access this section. Please contact the administrator. I cannot see where there is an option in Kentico 9 to allow the adding of links. The icon is on the toolbar, this message only appears when clicking it.
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Insert links button opens many tabs that need additional permissions/ui personalization such as Attachments, Media libraries, etc. If you don't want to struggle with it, you can disable the UI personalization completely to have just permissions applied (Security & Membership > UI personalization > Enable UI personalization). Or you can enable the Security debug to find out what permissions to grant (System > Debug > Enable security debug).
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/80570 | Tag Archives: France
Friday Poem – Grief
griefToday’s poem is called “Grief” by Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-1861) and she was one of the most prominent poets of the Victorian era.
I had intended to do a poem about grief and loss today because my lovely cousin was called to heaven earlier in the week, but after the horrific events of last night in Nice and the recent bombings in Iraq and Bangladesh this poem seems to have even more significance today.
The poem’s meaning is all about the fact that true grief is draining on all emotions because there is no hope left.
I TELL you, hopeless grief is passionless;
That only men incredulous of despair,
Half-taught in anguish, through the midnight air
Beat upward to God’s throne in loud access
Of shrieking and reproach. Full desertness,
In souls as countries, lieth silent-bare
Under the blanching, vertical eye-glare
Of the absolute Heavens. Deep-hearted man, express
Grief for thy Dead in silence like to death–
Most like a monumental statue set
In everlasting watch and moveless woe
Till itself crumble to the dust beneath.
Touch it; the marble eyelids are not wet:
If it could weep, it could arise and go.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/80573 | Month: September 2017 CEO Q&A Series: Kieran Snyder of Textio
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textio CEO Q&A Series: Interview with Kieran Snyder, co-founder of Textio 1. You previously worked at Microsoft and Amazon and have a PhD in Linguistics and Cognitive Science. Today, you and your team run Textio, an augmented writing platform that has been used by companies such as Atlassian, NVIDIA, Square, Starbucks, Twitter and Vodafone. How did you and your co-founder and CTO Jensen Harris come up with the idea for Textio back in 2014? We […] |
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SubjectRe: Can we drop upstream Linux x32 support?
On 12/14/18 22:41, Thomas Schöbel-Theuer wrote:
> On 12/14/18 22:24, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
>> I'm talking about x32, which is a different beast.
> So from my viewpoint the mentioned roadmap / timing requirements will
> remain the same, whatever you are dropping.
> Enterprise-critical use cases will probably need to be migrated to
> KVM/qemu together with their old kernel versions, anyway (because the
> original hardware will be no longer available in a few decades).
Here is a systematic approach to the problem.
AFAICS legacy 32bit userspace code (which exists in some notable masses)
can be executed at least in the following ways:
1) natively on 32bit-capable hardware, under 32bit kernels. Besides
legacy hardware, this also encompasses most current Intel / AMD 64bit
hardware in 32bit compatibility mode.
2) under 64bit kernels, using the 32bit compat layer from practically
any kernel version.
3) under KVM/qemu.
When you just drop 1), users have a fair chance by migrating to any of
the other two possibilities.
As explained, a time frame of ~5 years should work for the vast majority.
If you clearly explain the migration paths to your users (and to the
press), I think it will be acceptable.
[side note: I know of a single legacy instance which is now ~20 years
old, but makes a revenue of several millions per month. These guys have
large quantities of legacy hardware in stock. And they have enough money
to hire a downstream maintainer in case of emergency.]
Fatal problems would only arise if you would drop all three
possibilities in the very long term.
In ~100 years, possibility 3) should be sufficient for handling use
cases like preservation of historic documents. The latter is roughly
equivalent to running binary-only MSDOS, Windows NT, and similar, even
in 100 years, and even non-natively under future hardware architectures.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/80591 | Introducing Pluggable Protocols
The Microsoft .NET Framework provides a layered, extensible, and managed implementation of Internet services that can be integrated quickly and easily into your applications. The Internet access classes in the System.Net and System.Net.Sockets namespaces can be used to implement both Web-based and Internet-based applications.
Internet Applications
Internet applications can be classified broadly into two kinds: client applications that request information and server applications that respond to information requests from clients. The classic Internet client-server application is the World Wide Web, where people use browsers to access documents and other data stored on Web servers worldwide.
Applications are not limited to just one of these roles; for instance, the familiar middle-tier application server responds to requests from clients by requesting data from another server, in which case it is acting as both a server and a client.
The client application makes a request by identifying the requested Internet resource and the communication protocol to use for the request and response. If necessary, the client also provides any additional data required to complete the request, such as proxy location or authentication information (user name, password, and so on). Once the request is formed, the request can be sent to the server.
Identifying Resources
The .NET Framework uses a Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) to identify the requested Internet resource and communication protocol. The URI consists of at least three, and possibly four, fragments: the scheme identifier, which identifies the communications protocol for the request and response; the server identifier, which consists of either a Domain Name System (DNS) host name or a TCP address that uniquely identifies the server on the Internet; the path identifier, which locates the requested information on the server; and an optional query string, which passes information from the client to the server. For example, the URI consists of the scheme identifier http, the server identifier, the path /whatsnew.aspx, and the query string ?date=today.
After the server has received the request and processed the response, it returns the response to the client application. The response includes supplemental information, such as the type of the content (raw text or XML data, for example).
Requests and Responses in the .NET Framework
The .NET Framework uses specific classes to provide the three pieces of information required to access Internet resources through a request/response model: the Uri class, which contains the URI of the Internet resource you are seeking; the WebRequest class, which contains a request for the resource; and the WebResponse class, which provides a container for the incoming response.
Client applications create WebRequest instances by passing the URI of the network resource to the Create method. This static method creates a WebRequest for a specific protocol, such as HTTP. The WebRequest that is returned provides access to properties that control both the request to the server and access to the data stream that is sent when the request is made. The GetResponse method on the WebRequest sends the request from the client application to the server identified in the URI. In cases in which the response might be delayed, the request can be made asynchronously using the BeginGetResponse method on the WebRequest, and the response can be returned at a later time using the EndGetResponse method.
The GetResponse and EndGetResponse methods return a WebResponse that provides access to the data returned by the server. Because this data is provided to the requesting application as a stream by the GetResponseStream method, it can be used in an application anywhere data streams are used.
The WebRequest and WebResponse classes are the basis of pluggable protocols — an implementation of network services that enables you to develop applications that use Internet resources without worrying about the specific details of the protocol that each resource uses. Descendant classes of WebRequest are registered with the WebRequest class to manage the details of making the actual connections to Internet resources.
As an example, the HttpWebRequest class manages the details of connecting to an Internet resource using HTTP. By default, when the WebRequest.Create method encounters a URI that begins with "http:" or "https:" (the protocol identifiers for HTTP and secure HTTP), the WebRequest that is returned can be used as is, or it can be typecast to HttpWebRequest to access protocol-specific properties. In most cases, the WebRequest provides all the necessary information for making a request.
Any protocol that can be represented as a request/response transaction can be used in a WebRequest. You can derive protocol-specific classes from WebRequest and WebResponse and then register them for use by the application with the static WebRequest.RegisterPrefix method.
When client authorization for Internet requests is required, the Credentials property of the WebRequest supplies the necessary credentials. These credentials can be a simple name/password pair for basic HTTP or digest authentication, or a name/password/domain set for NTLM or Kerberos authentication. One set of credentials can be stored in a NetworkCredential instance, or multiple sets can be stored simultaneously in a CredentialCache instance. The CredentialCache uses the URI of the request and the authentication scheme that the server supports to determine which credentials to send to the server.
Simple Requests with WebClient
For applications that need to make simple requests for Internet resources, the WebClient class provides common methods for uploading data to or downloading data from an Internet server. WebClient relies on the WebRequest class to provide access to Internet resources; therefore, the WebClient class can use any registered pluggable protocol.
For applications that cannot use the request/response model, or for applications that need to listen on the network as well as send requests, the System.Net.Sockets namespace provides the TcpClient, TcpListener, and UdpClient classes. These classes handle the details of making connections using different transport protocols and expose the network connection to the application as a stream.
Developers familiar with the Windows Sockets interface or those who need the control provided by programming at the socket level will find that the System.Net.Sockets classes meet their needs. The System.Net.Sockets classes are a transition point from managed to native code within the System.Net classes. In most cases, System.Net.Sockets classes marshal data into their Windows 32-bit counterparts, as well as handling any necessary security checks.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/80611 | Content Import
This module offers you limited import possibilities. You can not compare it with Feeds CSV import. Still...
It can not:
1. update exisitng nodes. Always new ones are made.
2. only taxonomy is multiple useable
3. no content reference
4. seperation not to choose
Let's start with the CSV file. As the name says it is comma seperated. Not ";". Excel uses this so don't use the CSV from Excel as it is. Change the ";".
As it uses a comma to seperate, in text strings a comma has to be used adding " " at start and end of the whole string. HTML can be used.
The colomn names are exactly the same as the machine names of the fields. Title and langcode are necessary.
In the taxonomy field the vocabulary has to be mentioned. One can add multiple terms. Not existing terms are made. Look at the example.
For image fields, the name and extention of the image will do the job. The images have to be present at the server in the folder public/name of the content type/images. Only one image possible. Damn..
Look at the configuration:
Text, multiple taxonomy, images, boolean,...all fields possible except content reference. For content reference there is an other module. Import through CSV. It imports only reference fields. Damn again.. |
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Feldman Documents, Notes and Research on Gerardus van der Leeuw, between 1965-1980
Identifier: M145.06.0014.0022
Overview This folder contains Burton Feldman's research on Gerardus van der Leeuw. This research was not included in the final draft of the book ''The Rise of Modern Mythology: 1680 - 1860.'' The research may have been considered for the book when the scope of the project was larger, or it may have been collected to be used in a potential sequel.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/80644 | Is the Bible Divinely Inspired?
Studies in Hermeneutics—Lesson 2
By Reta Halteman Finger
"Mount Sinai" Photo by Mohammed Moussa
Mount Sinai in the Sinai Peninsula, Egypt. Traditional site where Moses received the Ten Commandments.
Photo by Mohammed Moussa, September 12, 2013. From Wikipedia Commons.
In the previous lesson, I mentioned that the Mennonite Church USA was being torn apart by the LGBTQ issue. But this is hardly unique. Not long ago, members of EEWC-CFT had a conversation on our EEWC Community Google Group about the history of our organization and the pain we all experienced when some members left EEWC in 1986 to form Christians for Biblical Equality (CBE). In both cases, and in many more we might name, disagreement over same-sex sexuality was only the presenting issue. Various tensions relating to theology, biblical interpretation, or ethics had no doubt been simmering under the surface for years. But I am not surprised that sexuality, which lies deeply at the core of who we are, is a topic that brings these tensions into the open.
Many practicing Christians base their theological and ethical beliefs on the Bible or on interpretations of the Bible that their church teaches. Those who believe the Bible to be “inerrant” (without error) or at least “infallible” have a much easier time explaining their position against homosexual practice or gay marriage than do Christians they consider “liberal,” who must explain a different and supportive position. Although references to same-sex sexual expression in either Old or New Testaments are few, the texts are uniformly negative. Marriage is always between a man and a woman, not same-sex persons. God set up the pattern in Genesis 2:24, so what is there to argue about? This is the reasoning of many Christians.
Behind Sexuality to Interpretation and Inspiration
In these lessons, however, I am interested in the larger question of biblical hermeneutics. How should we interpret the Bible? In what way is it, or should it be, authoritative in the lives of Christians? Wrestling with these more basic questions can help us know how to think about controversial ethical or theological issues. And it can help us better understand the assumptions of people with whom we may disagree.
We can begin with inspiration. Is the Bible divinely inspired and thus authoritative? Discussions on inspiration often start by quoting 2 Timothy 3:16 from the New Testament. The NRSV reads, “All scripture is inspired by God and is useful for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, so that everyone who belongs to God may be proficient, equipped for every good work.” This is the usual translation, but it is not the only one. A footnote in the NRSV includes this alternative: “Every scripture inspired by God is also…”
The difference is significant. The alternative says that when a scripture is inspired, then it is also useful for teaching, reproof, and so on. It implies that not all scripture is necessarily inspired. However, either translation is acceptable because Greek sentence structure often omits the verb “is.” English requires a main verb, but in this case the Greek does not tell us where it should go.
There are two further limitations. One is the purpose of inspired scripture. It is “useful for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness.” The goal in verse 17 is ethical—so that believers can be equipped to do good works. Note that nothing is said about scientific or historical accuracy. For example, is the theory of evolution compatible with Genesis 1 or 2? That is beyond the scope of 2 Timothy 3:16-17.
Further, when 2 Timothy was penned, there was no New Testament canon, and some of those books were not yet written. This text refers only to the Hebrew Bible—or more likely to the Greek translation called the Septuagint. But the Septuagint also includes what we call the “Apocrypha,” or the inter-testamental writings. Neither the Hebrew Bible then (or now), nor the Protestant Bible today, include these writings in their canon of scripture. So what “scripture” is 2 Timothy 3:16 referring to?
Here come the experts!
While teaching an introductory course on the Bible to first-year college students, I would often show them parts of a video called “Who Wrote the Bible?” Act I of this series deals with inspiration. The first example quotes Aron Tendler, an Orthodox Jewish rabbi who emphatically stresses that God dictated every word of the Torah to Moses on Mount Sinai, “as someone dictates a letter to a secretary.”
The late Jerry Falwell of Liberty University follows with, “I believe God used human beings to write the Bible because God’s word was to humans. Each of the forty-some authors wrote verbatim—totally verbatim—as God instructed, but through their own personalities.”
A burning campfire introduces the last option. Stories and genealogies, told and retold around communal campfires, “were conveyed verbally from generation to generation.” Dr. David Barr suggests schools of writers or bands of prophets put strands of various stories together in connected sequences, and then wove them into longer sequences, which scholars today try, with difficulty, to unweave.
My students generally preferred Falwell’s statement, even when I pointed out that it was a contradiction, since “verbatim” means word-for-word dictation. Well, then, some would suggest, God knew their personalities well enough to dictate the texts to make them sound like the authors’ own personalities! So much for human agency…!
In the next lesson, we will trace the development of the role that authoritative texts played in the history of the People of God.
Questions for Discussion and Reflection
1. What did or does your church community believe about biblical inspiration? Is a particular theory taught, or just assumed?
2. When you discuss controversial religious or ethical issues with other Christians, can you deduce their view of biblical inspiration?
Reta Halteman Finger
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/80647 | For the quest of the same name, see Clavicus Vile (Quest).
Clavicus Vile (in Daedric script, Daedric CDaedric LDaedric ADaedric VDaedric IDaedric CDaedric UDaedric SDaedric VDaedric IDaedric LDaedric E), also known as the child-god of the Morningstar[UL 1] and the Prince of Bargains,[1]is one of the seventeen Daedric Princes. He is best known for granting wishes and entering into pacts with mortals.[2] He is the Daedric Prince of Power, Trickery, Wishes, Serenity, and Bargains.[2][UL 1] His plane of Oblivion is known as The Fields of Regret.
The summoning date of Clavicus Vile is 1st of Morning Star.[3] Clavicus most often takes the form of a small, impish man, with a pair of horns, though he has also manifested as a red mist.[source?]
Clavicus' dealings with Mundus are usually with individuals who wish to have something and, by summoning him, Clavicus gives it to them. However, he is known to take back his deals at inopportune times (for the summoner, not Vile). He loves toying with mortals, generally for his own entertainment rather than for any particular purpose,[4] and has been said to be fond of mortals' souls.[5]
Clavicus has been known to split off portions of himself to create sentient objects or entities. While the permanent binding of spirits into objects is the usual process of creating Daedric Artifacts and Lesser Daedra,[6][7] Vile's creations have shown more independence than that of most other Daedra's creations. These independent fragments are discussed below.
Main article: Barbas
Barbas is a shapeshifting Daedra who houses a significant proportion of Vile's power.[8] He most often takes the form of a dog, but has been known to appear as a Scamp called Creeper.[9] It is possible that Barbas has a degree of precognition, as he warned that returning the Umbra Sword to Vile would bring trouble to his realm,[9] foreshadowing Umbra's escape and the creation of the floating city Umbriel. Despite being of use to Vile, Barbas has been known to bore or annoy the Prince, driving him to abandon Barbas in the Fourth Era.[10]
Main article: Umbra
Originally created as the Umbra Sword, Umbra is either a part of Vile that gained its own sentience within the sword, by accident or design,[11] or a being that Vile somehow trapped within the sword.[5] It ultimately broke free of Vile's will, creating a body for itself but remaining trapped within Vile's Realm. In order to escape, it forged a pact with the Dunmer mage Vuhon, providing the power necessary to create the floating city Umbriel.[5]
Thanks to his penchant for deals and gifts with mortals, Vile has a large number of Daedric Artifacts associated with him. These are listed below.
Bitter Cup
Main article: Bitter Cup
The Bitter Cup is an artifact associated with Clavicus Vile, and is known for being highly sacred to his followers. It was believed lost in the ruins of Ald Redaynia.[5] It is possible that it was recovered by the Nerevarine in the Third Era.
Main article: Feyfolken
A piece of fiction written by Waughin Jarth which tells the story of a scribe and an enchanted quill. The scribe had been having trouble selling his stories to his employers and was not making any money; in a last ditch effort to making things better for himself, he took his quill to some mages who offered to enchant the pen. They infused the quill with the spirit of a Daedra called Feyfolken, who was, unbeknownst to everyone there, a servant of Clavicus Vile. Since the quill had been enchanted, it gave great benefit to the Scribe, but sooner or later Feyfolken got into the Scribe's head and drove him insane, and even convinced the man to take his own life. When that finally happened, Clavicus took the enchanted quill, along with the Scribe's soul.[12][13]
The Masque of Clavicus Vile.
Masque of Clavicus Vile
Main article: Masque of Clavicus Vile
Originally made from a deal between Vile and a disfigured noblewoman, the Masque makes its wearer more persuasive,[14] and has been seen around Tamriel throughout the Third and Fourth Eras.
Rueful Axe
Main article: Rueful Axe
The Rueful Axe was allegedly given to a wizard named Sebastian Lort, who asked Vile for a way to cure his daughter's lycanthropy.[15] It later found its way into Vile's possession as a gift for his champions.
Umbra Sword
Main article: Umbra Sword
The Umbra Sword was created by Naenra Waerr to trap souls,[14] at Clavicus Vile's request. As part of the creation process, Vile embued it with part of his essence. Over time, the part of Vile within the sword became a sentient being with its own will, calling itself Umbra.[11] Eventually, Umbra broke free of the sword, creating a body for itself. A fragment of Vile may remain attached to the sword, meaning it still traps souls even in Umbra's absence.[11]
Second Era
N'Gasta and Cyrus
Clavicus Vile - Daggerfall
Clavicus Vile and Barbas in Redguard.
Circa 2E 896, Clavicus is recorded dealing with N'Gasta, the Sload Necromancer of Stros M'kai. N'Gasta created "Soulsnare," which gathered lost souls. The Daedric Prince Clavicus Vile granted N'Gasta favors with every soul sent to him. Cyrus the Redguard hero, in his desperate quest to find his sister, managed to destroy N'Gasta by using the Flask of Lillandril. Using N'Gasta's Necromancy Book, he performed a ritual to transport himself to Clavicus' realm in Oblivion.[16]
In order to make a gate to Oblivion appear, Cyrus had to mix Orc's blood with Amber (jacinth – rising sun), mix the Unicorn's horn with Hist Sap (snow – grass), mix the Daedra's heart with Ectoplasm (night - mid-day sky) and then poured the mixtures on the symbol in the center of the N'Gasta's room, in that order. Then a gate appeared. Cyrus went through the gate and was taken to Clavicus' realm.[16]
There he dealt with Clavicus, who was the holder of his sister's soul. Expecting to get back his sister's soul, Cyrus gave the Flask of Lillandril, but instead Clavicus returned with a riddle. If Cyrus could answer it he might get back his sister's soul, but if he failed Cyrus' own soul would be Clavicus'. Cyrus answered him correctly and retrieved his sister's soul.
Third Era
Hero of Daggerfall
Daggerfall clavicus
Clavicus Vile in Daggerfall.
The masque was owned by the Agent of Daggerfall, sometime around the year 3E 410. Vile asked the hero to slay a certain werewolf. After the deed was done, the hero was rewarded with the masque.[3]
The Hero of Kvatch and Umbra
Circa 3E 433, the Hero of Kvatch approached the Shrine of Clavicus Vile and managed to deal with the Prince. Clavicus asked the champion to procure Umbra.
Shrine of Clavicus Vile in Cyrodiil.
Clavicus claimed that the sword contains the soul of a hero he had been dealing with sometime before, and wanted to finish it. For procuring Umbra, Clavicus offered his Masque to the champion.[17]
The hound statue of Clavicus jumped into the champion's bag, and introduced itself as Barbas. It claimed that it would be best if Clavicus were not to receive the sword from the champion at all. Somehow returning the Umbra Sword to Clavicus would be a mistake, likely to cause great ruin to Clavicus' domain. Barbas also states that whenever Clavicus deals with Umbra, nothing good comes of it.
The Manifesto Cyrodiil Vampyrum notes that Clavicus altered the Vampire blood of the Cyrodilic vampires, enabling them to walk in daylight, and more importantly, blend into mortal society undetected, and rule it from within—if they were well fed.[18] The details of the contract forged between Vile and the Vampyrum Order is unknown.
Fourth Era
Umbriel Crisis
Sometime prior to 4E 40, Umbra stole a part of Vile and negotiated with the Dunmer mage Vuhon to create Umbriel, a floating city, out of a fragment of Vile's realm. This allowed Umbra to escape Vile's grasp.[5]
Sul and prince Attrebus retrieved Umbra sword to defeat Vuhon and save Tamriel from Umbriel's threat. However, they were trapped in Sathil castle's dungeons by Nirai Sathil. Sul sensed that he could use Umbra to open a portal to Vile's realm.[11]
Yet, they were summoned by Vile before they could try anything. They were greeted by Barbas, who guided them to Vile. Vile demanded that Sul give him the sword, but Sul offered a contract. He offered to stop Umbriel and return it back to Vile's realm. Clavicus Vile wanted a deal, so Sul offered his soul. Before Sul could end his proposal, Attrebus told Vile that there wouldn't be any conditions, Vile needed their help as much as they needed his help. Vile accepted that deal and teleported them to his shrine in Cyrodiil.[19]
Attrebus and Sul managed to enter Umbriel. Mere-Glim guided them to the ingenium, and Attrebus wielded Umbra to destroy it. Right immediately, Vile possessed Attrebus. He was in power of Umbra again. Sul prayed the Daedric Prince to let Attrebus go, but Vile demanded a sacrifice. Sul attacked Vile, but he stabbed him with Umbra. With his last breath, Sul remembered the fury that had driven him for forty years and grabbed the hilt of Umbra. He pulled himself up the blade, and with everything left in him he struck Attrebus in the jaw. Attrebus dropped the sword, and Vile was expelled from his body.[20]
The Dragon Crisis
Barbas was estranged from Clavicus Vile in 4E 201, and sought out the Last Dragonborn to unite him with Vile. The pair then traveled to Haemar's Shame, which was occupied by worshipers of Vile who had been plagued with vampirism. After disposing of the vampires, Vile then asks the Dragonborn to retrieve the Rueful Axe. Clavicus offers the axe to the Dragonborn in exchange for killing Barbas. If they do not, Clavicus will give his mask to them; if they do so, Clavicus claims Barbas should have "picked a better friend." Barbas will become part of the statue no matter which option the Dragonborn chooses.[8]
• Clavicus is likely based on Mephistopheles from the German tale Faust, since they both grant wishes, but twist them so that they aren't exactly what the wisher desired, and tend to be dangerous and/or tragic to the wisher.
• In The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, Clavicus is voiced by Stephen Russell, who is also the voice of Mercer Frey among other characters.
Popular opinion and worship
Despite his reputation as a trickster spirit, Vile is one of the more popular and tolerated Princes among the denizens of Tamriel. He is known for receiving veneration from merchants, traders, bankers, politicians, and bureaucrats, and while he doesn't appear in any of the Tamrielic pantheons, his worship is most prominent in High Rock, Cyrodiil, and Elsweyr. Many mortals believe it is unwise to make deals with Prince Clavicus, and while this is a fair affirmation to make, the Daedra has been known to keep his word on occasion. In the case of Cyrus the Redguard, when he travelled to the Fields of Regret, Vile gave him the opportunity to win his sister's soul back, provided he answer a riddle. During the Third Era, when Uriel VII still reigned over Tamriel as Emperor, the Elder Council were known to forge covenants with Lord Vile, although they were warned against drinking from the Bittercup[UL 1].
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Here are a few items/tips that I’ve found helpful when dealing with a dying phone battery.
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Mophie Powerstation External Battery: This charger is about the size of an average phone. Charge it before you leave home and use either end to charge a phone or laptop without needing a power supply when you are away from your office or home – or your home office.
Turn your phone to “airplane mode”: If your phone is quickly losing power, go to “Settings” and turn on “Airplane Mode”. This is the setting that should be used when you fly and it’s also a good tip for closing programs and not allowing calls or texts until you can get to your charger source. If your battery is low and you have an external charger, turning on Airplane Mode will charge your phone faster (I find it charges about twice as fast with it on). Remember that won’t be able to receive texts or phone calls when it is on so if you need to be accessible, use this mode for an emergency quick start of the battery and then turn the feature off and continue charging.
When working remotely, remember to bring your charger with you and put an address label on each charger. This seems so basic but its something many people forget to do. Have a packing list for all electronic items that you need to take with you while traveling or working outside of your office. Using a laptop? Remember to bring the charger as public areas such as coffee shops and libraries often have strained Wi-Fi that can eat up your battery. |
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/80666 | Churchill and the counter-revolutionary intelligence of the British bourgeoisie, Part 2
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The discussion that follows was prompted by the article: Churchill and the counter-revolutionary intelligence of the British bourgeoisie, Part 2. The discussion was initiated by Fred.
As we go on celebrating all the magnificent wars, past and present and to come, and Britain's continuing and always heroic contribution to them, but not forgetting helpful allies like the US, let us also pause and take our hats off to famous men, great leaders, those who have done so much and worked so hard to preserve and protect the rule of the bourgeoisie. Yes, of course, I mean the astonishing Churchill. The great and powerful Bull Dog Churchill; Defender of the Bourgeois Faith; the implacable enemy of the working class, and of any who threatened the mighty British Empire upon which - once upon a time at least - the sun never dared set. Where is his like now? Who is there now who has his vast cunning and brilliant insights into the minds of the enemy, whether this be the Nazis, the Indians (who MH tells us Churchill loathed almost as much) or the ever threatening working class: the greatest menace of all?
If only we had him with us now! Let the Palestinians, the Israelis and yes the mighty ISIS too tremble at the thought, and sigh with relief at his absence. The tediously slow destruction through shelling and rockets of the Gaza ghetto by Israel today, and the slow starvation of its civilians...? Forget it! Churchill and the Americans under his impeccable guidance would have pulverized both Gaza and Israel if necessary in a matter of days had the decision been made. All bombed into a magnificent and massively consuming firestorm, like Hamburg and Dresden. People sucked into the blaze for miles around. No mercy. Similarly, today, the impassive Churchill would set the Middle East ablaze.No dithering. No messing about with mock truces. To hell with both your houses: Jews and Arabs alike.
And as to ISIS - just blundering fools and fanatics. He who was able to maneuver both Uncle Joe Stalin and the dithering Roosevelt, and bend them to his wishes in the defeat of Nazi Germany would have no trouble at all in seeing off the band of troublesome youths calling itself ISIS, both them and their absurd caliphate.
But this is to digress from the real subject matter which is Winston Churchill himself. Saint Winston! MH has written a plain straightforward article which presents him to us as he really was, with all his achievements laid carefully bare for all to scrutinize. This is a must read. The truth about war. The truth about Churchill. |
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The Gulf of Gonâve (French: Golfe de la Gonâve; Haitian Creole: Lagonav) is a large gulf of the Caribbean Sea along the western coast of Haiti.[1] Haiti's capital city, Port-au-Prince, is located on the coast of the gulf. Other cities on the gulf coast include Gonaïves, Saint-Marc, Miragoâne, and Jérémie. Several islands are located in the gulf, the largest being Gonâve Island, followed by the much smaller Cayemites.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/80698 | ''Erin Brockovich'' coins ''Krispy Kreme''--the insult, not the donut
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Coined by Julia Roberts’ curvy title character in Erin Brockovich, the not-so-sweet phrase was tossed off as an insult to Brockovich’s meddlesome (and portly) coworker. (Usage: ”Bite my a–, Krispy Kreme!”) Not to be confused with the delectably sticky doughnut confections — though a distinct cause-effect connection is evident. |
global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/80716 | Computer Science
Morgan McGuire: Best Paper Presentation Award
Posted March 18, 2014: Associate Professor of Computer Science Morgan McGuire and his coauthor Louis Bavoil of NVIDIA were awarded the best paper presentation award at the 2014 ACM Symposium on Interactive 3D Graphics and Games for their work on Weighted, Blended Order-Independent Transparency, published in the Journal… Continue reading »
Morgan McGuire: Improving Quality in Video Games
Posted May 29: McGuire, “Ambient Occlusion Volumes” in proceedings of ACM SIGGRAPH/Eurographics High Performance Graphics, June 2010 This new paper by Morgan McGuire describes an algorithm for generating images with proximity shadows and other ambient occlusion effects that is 4000 times faster than the current ray tracing algorithms that produce… Continue reading »
Kimberly Springer: On teaching race and new technologies
Posted May 18: Kimberly Springer, Sterling Brown Visiting Professor in Africana Studies, encouraged student in her course, Blackness 2.0: Race & New Technologies, to use new media to produce dynamic, creative projects on race and video games. Students situated their own experiences with video games in critical race, gender, and… Continue reading » |
global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/80724 | Supernatural: The Prisoner
May 19, 2015 11:01 AM - Season 10, Episode 22 - Subscribe
Sam and Dean say good-bye to another member of their "family" with a hunter's funeral. Dean hunts down the Stynes to get revenge. When Sam realizes he has new information, he continues to work on trying to find a cure to the Mark of Cain through the Book of the Damned. Rowena renegotiates the terms of her deal with Sam.
posted by cfoxhi (9 comments total)
The Stynes were surprisingly short-lived characters, but perhaps we will see them again. I did like how they used the teenage Styne as a representation of Sam. Is it a precursor for Dean following in Cain's footsteps?
It was fun to see Crowley act all evil again. I almost believed he was going to kill Sam. I might have believed it if it wouldn't have interfered with the Mark of Cain storyline (if Sam dies, it has to be caused by Dean).
Sam seems to be underestimating Rowena, while Rowena is underestimating her son.
The fight between Castiel and Dean reminded me of the heartbreaking brawl between Sam and Dean in season 4. Dean must be getting really powerful.
Very excited about the season finale.
posted by cfoxhi at 11:10 AM on May 19, 2015 [1 favorite]
I was thinking Castiel got his ass kicked awful easy, and it seemed like he bled a lot. (Do angels bleed? Is that a thing we've seen before?) But then my girlfriend reminded me that Cas isn't back up to full power yet, if he ever will be, and when he got his grace back the shadow of his wings was all raggedy and missing feathers. So there's that, and maybe he was holding back a whole lot. I can see him being more ready to take abuse than to smack Dean around.
I was talking with the GF the other day, trying to figure out how this season will wrap up, and we had no idea. We had a suspicion Rowena dies, but maybe not. It seems like somebody's gonna die, and she'd be the only one they could kill off without radically changing the show. (Although they killed off Bobby, so maybe characters like Castiel or Crowley aren't really safe either.) It would seem logical for Dean to go full demon, but that's awful close to the LAST cliffhanger.
At least we know Death comes back. Yay for Death!
posted by Ursula Hitler at 5:41 PM on May 19, 2015
There was a lot to like in this episode but I just can't get over the fact that they fucking fridged Charlie. If nothing else Charlie of all people deserved a better send-off. Not as a passive victim. Ugh. I mean it's not altogether surprising, this being the show that it is, but still...
posted by brundlefly at 2:20 PM on May 20, 2015 [1 favorite]
I was an off and on again fan of Charlie. Sometimes I liked her character, sometimes it felt as if the writers were just waving a sign, "Look, it's Felicia Day!" I thought the farther we got away from her original appearance the more developed Charlie became as a character. That the writers went and killed her in a fairly unnecessary manner, ticked me off to no end. I get that there's this whole phenomenon of people who get close to the brothers meeting terrible ends, which they even raised in the season finale, but C'MON. They are aware of the running sadjoke that is the death is coming for any female character on the show, aren't they? It's a miracle they haven't killed off Sheriff Mills and I think that rests entirely on the premise that she hasn't appeared enough on the show.
I'm just completely disappointed by the killing off of Charlie. That burned up a lot of good will on my side.
posted by Atreides at 7:45 AM on May 23, 2015 [3 favorites]
So I am a Netflix watcher hence I am just getting to this episode. The main thing that annoyed me about this episode was Cas saying "the Dean I know wouldn't have killed that kid." And I call bull shit on that. Dean has like, no shades of grey when it comes to monsters v humans. The codes the ever got was dealing with Crowley - and even then he was basically a demon at that point. Jewel Staite was a kindly monster, and so was her kid - and they both had to go. Maybe Benny got a pass - but even Sam was questioning that decision. The Dean we know and love is not a nuance kind of guy and would absolutely kill the Styne kid just to be thorough.
Also - if Rowena's spells don't impact Crowley like they should - why did all of her hex bags work giving him nightmares and planting seeds of doubt when he was in hell?
posted by Suffocating Kitty at 12:10 PM on October 26, 2015
Good points. One must wonder if the effort to "de-monsterize" monsters was to help give acceptance to the whole Bloodlines or whatever it was called spinoff that spectacularly failed to take off that was set in Chicago.
posted by Atreides at 2:14 PM on October 26, 2015
That spinoff was such a botch job. It seemed pretty obvious that it was a totally unrelated script that somebody figured they could just plug into the Supernatural universe for a spinoff. But why the hell would you do that? Supernatural has a decade of lore and characters and settings to play around with! The monsters in the spinoff didn't even seem to work the same way as the monsters in Supernatural, the rules for shapeshifters and stuff seemed different. So, so odd.
Maybe I'm just bitter that we're probably never going to get a spinoff with the two lady sheriffs, or the Ghost Facers. The two lady sheriffs in particular really felt like a spinoff waiting to happen... and while it probably wouldn't play with the CW's teen-ish demographics, if they moved it to CBS a horror dramedy about an odd couple of middle-age policewomen who secretly slay demons might just be a hit!
posted by Ursula Hitler at 5:31 PM on October 26, 2015 [1 favorite]
"... a spinoff with the two lady sheriffs..."
My dream spinoff is the two lady sheriffs with Mrs. Tran running logistical support.
posted by brundlefly at 10:06 PM on October 26, 2015 [1 favorite]
And once every other season or so, the Ghost Facers could come through town and they'd all team up. And I forgot all about the brunette sheriff's adopted, recovering vampire daughter, who's sure to be a handful too! How is this not a show??
posted by Ursula Hitler at 10:40 PM on October 26, 2015 [1 favorite]
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/80733 | Stature estimation from partial measurements and maximum length of lower limb bones in Koreans
The aim of this study was to develop regression equations for stature estimation using the lower limb bone in Korean individuals. A total of 105 samples (55 men and 50 women) obtained from cadavers were used for developing equations. Bones with obvious pathologies or healed fractures were excluded. The coefficient of determination (r2) of the variables was generally higher in men than in women. Femur length (MLF) in men and the distance from most the proximal point of the intercondylar fossa to the midpoint of the lesser trochanter (IFLM) in women, were found to have the highest r2 value. Moreover, the regression equation using a stepwise analysis in a sample of combined sex using partial segments was based on IFGP (distance from the most proximal point of the intercondylar fossa to the most proximal point of the greater trochanter) and EBF (epicondylar breadth of the femur) (r2=0.760). This method can be used to estimate stature when unidentified human bones are found at excavation sites.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/80745 | children school stress support your child
Anxiety UK claim that 1 in 6 young people experience anxiety. At no time is this stress felt more than during the exam season.
As a parent, you want to ensure that you are well-equipped to support your child and reduce feelings of stress as much as possible. However, it is also reasonable and healthy for anyone to express a certain level of stress.
This article will talk you through the things you can do to prevent high levels of stress arising in your child, as well as how to recognise anxiety and how to help your teenager through it.
Remember, it is common for children and young people to feel stressed due to school or university work, especially during deadlines or exams. However, it is important to remember that schoolwork may not be the cause of their anxiety. Your child may feel increased anxiety if you assume that they are worrying about their academic results – so try not to make any assumptions about the cause. Once you have spoken to your child about their stress levels, then you can identify the causes together.
Preventative measures
It is advisable to be aware of steps you can take to reduce the chances of mounting stress in a child or teenager which becomes harmful.
1. Communication:
Encourage your son or daughter to talk to you about their concerns and worries. They don’t have to tell you everything about their life, but if they know they can rely on you for support and ‘debriefing’ that can be a huge relief. You may be able to take some of their burden if they feel they are experiencing a stressful situation, or you may be able to explain why a situation is not necessarily as stressful as the child is viewing it.
2. Energetic activities:
Not all children love sport, but if you can encourage your son or daughter to do some form of activity (swimming, running, tennis etc.) which gets their heart racing then that could be a good chance for them to relax and clear their mind. Regular exercise has been continually proven to promote physical and mental well-being.
3. Hobbies:
Enjoying a hobby such as yoga, art, photography or theatre are also ways to unwind and have a break from schoolwork, as well as to develop their passions and outside interests.
4. Environment:
If possible, ensure your child or teenager feels their bedroom is a safe space designed to help them relax, free from loud surrounding noise and threats. Ideally the bedroom should be an area just for sleeping in, rather than working in or watching TV in, though of course this is not possible for everyone and my teenagers have always preferred to work in their bedrooms.
5. Bedtimes & routine:
To make sure your child or teenager is getting enough sleep, try and stick to a fairly fixed and stable daily routine and encourage them to do the same. Going to bed at a similar time each night, perhaps after having had a mug of milk, can help with the body recognising the end of the day and supporting a healthy sleep pattern. Encourage them to switch off and remove phones and any other distractions before going to bed.
6. Nutrition:
Eating healthily has also been linked to lower stress and anxiety levels. Try to get your children to eat five a day, plenty of whole grains (brown spaghetti, rice, bread etc.) and generally stick to a balanced diet free of processed foods. Rather than banning foodstuffs, ‘all things in moderation’ is a good motto to stick to. Keep blood sugar levels to a fairly stable rate in order to avoid dips in the day that could trigger depression and fatigue. Achieve this by avoiding sugary or caffeinated foods and drinks and by eating or drinking regularly.
Recognising stress
The symptoms of stress can be physical and/or mental. Your child may not recognise that they are stressed, so it is helpful if you can be on the lookout for the signs.
Physical signs can be:
• Headaches
• Muscle tension or pain
• Dizziness
• Profuse sweating
• Overactive bowels
• Sleep problems
• Fatigue
• Increased or decreased appetite.
Mental and emotional signs can be:
• Feeling of being overwhelmed
• Irritability
• Nausea
• Shakiness
• Anxiety and fear
• Low self-esteem
• Racing thoughts
• Constant worrying
• Difficulty concentrating
• Difficulty making decisions.
Helping your stressed child or teenager
Firstly, ask your child if they feel stressed. They may not like to admit it, not realise they are stressed, or it could be something else altogether.
Suggest that you take a break, perhaps together. The break could be treating them to a hot chocolate in a café, or going for a short walk, or visiting a grandparent if you have the time. Whatever you chose, removing them from the stressful environment and talking on neutral ground is a good option.
Work together to make a plan on how to reduce their workload or solve the problem that they feel stressed about. Explain that stress is normal, but that it shouldn’t be overwhelming and that you want to support them so that they feel well enough to continue.
Recognising an anxiety disorder
You may not realise immediately that your child or teenager is suffering from anxiety. People experiencing anxious conditions may not realise themselves what they are going through.
Anxiety is often longer term than stress, though they are similar in many respects. Your child or teenager may be experiencing similar symptoms to those mentioned above, but on a long-term, regular basis possibly without a specific trigger. Or, they may be especially prone to regular anxious periods.
Symptoms that your child may have an anxiety condition:
• The anxiousness they are experiencing is uncontrollable and long-lasting.
• The child’s daily life (school, hobbies and socialising) is being affected – by avoidance, reluctance to participate or by a change in behaviour or motivation.
• They have difficulty concentrating, feeling blank,
• They are suffering muscle tensing (e.g. jaw clenching)
• Your child is tired easily and often/seems unhappy
• The symptoms described above are being experienced regularly.
If you suspect your child has Generalised Anxiety Disorder, your GP should be the first port of call. Anxiety conditions are treatable by medication which many find helpful. However, there are also many other ways to cope with long-term feelings of anxiety that don’t involve medication.
Coping Mechanisms
If your child has a disorder, or is experiencing a period of anxiety or stress, the following are some wonderful things you can encourage them to do to reduce their stress levels.
1. Breathing exercises
These could be done whilst stretching, in a yoga class, or using a mindfulness resource, or just on your own.
2. Taking regular physical exercise
This doesn’t have to be strenuous, but it’s good to gain some endorphins and release some adrenaline.
3. Keeping a diary
Releasing and evaluating your thoughts and feelings can be a good way to see them in perspective. Or it can be a way to keep track of your emotions and to spot triggers and causes for certain feelings or behaviours. The act of writing down your worries can be therapeutic in itself. If your child doesn’t like writing, suggest they try talking to someone else regularly – a friend or family member.
4. Keeping stable blood sugar levels
This should avoid any sudden energy dips that can increase feelings of depression and anxiety.
5. Getting enough sleep.
This, again, helps avoid fatigue and heightened symptoms resulting from lack of energy.
Panic attacks
Panic attacks can have many medical and emotional triggers, including severe stress, with women twice as likely as men to be diagnosed with panic disorder – which is classified as repeated and unexpected panic attacks.
How to help your child with an panic attack
1. Stay calm
2. Gently let them know what you think is happening and remind them you are here for them.
3. Practise breathing exercises with them: counting, or asking them to watch whilst you raise and lower your arm can be calming.
4. Encourage them to stamp their feet to release some tension.
5. Encourage them to sit down.
Don’t pressure them to ‘feel better’ immediately or to calm down. Allow them to take their time.
Don’t instantly use logic or rationale to dispel their fears – this can increase their anxiety. Remember, the child isn’t choosing to be anxious.
Ask them about their experience of worry and anxiety.
Find out more about anxiety on or at Anxiety UK to show them that you recognise they are suffering and want to help as actively as possible.
Be patient and loving.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/80764 | Keep Conversation Alive
We are at a place in our society that if there is ever a lag or pause in conversation most people immediately jump on their phone and start entertaining themselves. This happens in marriages and families, social functions or out with friends. Instead of letting the conversation die so we can feed our Facebook obsessions, let’s actually put some effort into getting to know the people around us.
Some might try to claim “We have known each other so long there is nothing new to talk about”. This is complete BS and let me tell you why.
1. People are extremely unique and complex creatures. Seeing the surface of who they are is only the beginning. There is always another layer to explore.
2. We are all constantly changing. Everyday new experiences and influences impact our life and effect what we think, what we believe and our perspective on situations or the world around us. You can never know all there is to know about a person because that person is not the same today as they were yesterday.
3. Finally, there are more hypothetical “what if” scenarios to theorize about than any one person can possibly cover in a life time.
My husband and I are never at a loss for interesting conversation. That is not to say we don’t put work into it. Sometimes the conversation just flows from topic to topic seamlessly as our thoughts and discussion morph the original idea down fascinating rabbit trails. Other times a topic ends and a new topic must be conjured up and put out there consciously. I feel you can learn a lot about a person through discussion of hypothetical scenarios. You might discover dreams or interests you didn’t know they had or personality traits even they didn’t know they had. The possibilities are endless! Any random thought can become lively conversation. If you have a hard time creating a topic off the top of your head you can start out simple, asking “what would you do if you won the lottery and why” can lead to hours of fun dialog. Anything and everything can become a “what if” topic and you never know what other subjects one random question might lead to. You also never know what might come of it, I recently asked my husband “if you had a TV show what would it be about?” he thought about it for a minute and then started rattling off the idea that popped in his head. Now, a week later, he has a team of people he is working with to actually make his brilliant idea a reality. All because I sparked a conversation with a random question.
I have come to find the more random the topic the more fascinating and entertaining the conversation, but you have to be willing to be open with it. If either person becomes self-conscious or feels judged it can lead to a fight rather than the fun it was intended for. As with any deeper than the surface conversation trust, respect and kindness are key.
So put the phone, tablet or computer down and go start a conversation that will lead to great memories and a deeper connection to those around you!
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(2017-02-23, 11:57)querty1000 Wrote:
(2017-02-22, 20:43)Korrigan Wrote:
(2017-02-14, 23:02)querty1000 Wrote: Nice to hear, the NUC6CAYH definitly doesn't work.
Same here, NUC6CAYH - Frame Packed 3D doesn't work. It flickers between the 2 pictures and stutters.
Also have a RPi3 (same TV, same HDMI cable, same HDMI port, same MVC 3D files) that works.
It looks like generally:
- boards with HDMI1.4 working fine, but don't get 4k at 60 fps
- boards with HDMI2 (equipped internally with a DP to HDMI converter) playing fine 4k 60 fps google tesclips, but don't work on 3D
Safcsat reported earlier in this thread Intel NUC7i3BNK does work. Could someone confirm that 4k and 3D is working on same HDMI2 for NUC7i3BNK?
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1. @FlintSG Right, Samsungs have format forced and tied to sample rate on Android 9 and 10 (3.5 output / USB dongle): - 48/16bit (DVC works) - 192/24bit (DVC works) - 384/32bit (DVC doesn't work)
2. @MarkusMarkt 16 bit - this is how Meizu implemented it. Higher sample rates not accepted.
3. @FlintSG On Note 9 (and generally on mid and high-end Samsungs) hi-res works fine in Poweramp.
4. Alternative album art sources (+ simple API to add 3rd party sources) is a planned (short term) feature. Thanks!
5. На Android 10 для кнопок "Включить", "Изменить" в выборе папок используется системный диалог доступа к папкам. Этот диалог мог быть отключен ранее, или может отсутствовать в некоторых прошивках, либо может не функционировать по другим причинам. Пожалуйста, убедитесь что данное системное приложение не отключено на вашем устройстве (потребуется открыть список системных приложений / всех приложений в настройках устройства): Файлы (Files, com.google.android.documentsui) Данный системный диалог можно также восстановить путем установки приложения Google Files из Play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.apps.nbu.files&hl=ru
6. @6b6561 you're not wrong about the possibility of non-fully copied files being scanned. Unfortunately there is no way we can know if file is fully uploaded or not (unless another we scan again and compare file sizes). This is why by default Poweramp waits for all uploads to end and only then it tries to rescan. You can have better results by disabling auto scanning options in Settings / Library / Scanner to prevent auto scans and then simple rescan from Library header menu will be enough - no full rescan will be needed.
7. In Poweramp settings / Background you can set single resulting color (image will be blurred down to 1 pixel).
8. First, something is wrong with your text colors, is this some 3rd party skin? Poweramp works ok on Samsung version of Android 10, but as always, after the major update, Restore Defaults is recommended for Poweramp settings / Audio / Output page and Direct Volume Control (DVC) page. Otherwise some Android 9 specific settings may be carried over. Sbc label there is just for informational purposes. Poweramp just displays what is used by Android bluetooth subsystem. In your case most probably Absolute volume control is in effect, making DVC and equalization non effective (see Poweramp settings / Audio / Direct Volume Control for the details).
9. @magixian try to exclude Poweramp from battery optimization as it’s xiaomi.
10. If it clips for flat equalizer preset and other settings like preamp tone/reverb settings reset to 0 - then I guess issue is outside player (dvc or no-dvc won't matter). Thanks!
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Cyrillic names bug
It works this way: - utf-8/unicode encoding - works out of the box, no settings - 8-bit encoding - supports just one language. To select encoding, use Settings / Library / Scanner /Tag Encoding (e.g. win-1251). By default this is set according to the phone region settings at the moment of Poweramp installation. Thanks!
12. @Fennec Enabled absolute volume means Android sends 100% volume audio samples to BT device. BT device then changes volume on its side. While it has added benefit of one point volume control (your end BT device), it makes signal processing on phone side less viable, as almost all tracks out there are already using all available dynamic range. So there is no headroom to increase basses and otherwise do signal processing which increases signal amplitudes. If you don't use Equalizer/Tone or use them moderately you'll be good with no-dvc and the default settings (-6dB headroom by default) or even with no headroom (0dB - so no default decrease of volume). This is fine for e.g. car headunit with own tone controls and DSP. For headsets, if you're going to use Bass tone or substantial equalization (>6dB) I recommend disabling Absolute volume control (Media sync on Samsungs @Android 8-9). In this case full dynamic range is available to Poweramp with DVC On, and no need for extra headroom, but you'll get 2 points of volume control (phone and end BT device). In your case, Absolute volume is enabled. Either it's enabled or not becomes known when BT device is connected (or even only when it's actively playing). Thanks!
13. @Lando Both Poweramp and Samsung ROMs have many builds for the year passed from Jan 2019, so yes a lot of development there. As for possible issue with sound on Samsungs, it's usually incorrect audio output, DVC, Media Sync (absolute volume) settings. Restore defaults + disabling media sync should resolve everything. Thanks!
14. @Devilo Is this for some specific tracks, for all of them, or just happening randomly? What is your audio output and output device? If it hi-res have you tried non hi-res output? My test Huaweis (wide range of devices up to Mate 30 Pro) work OK with latest builds. Thanks!
15. @MotleyG Interesting, I tuned that specific behavior for navbar toggling on LGs - I can't reproduce any artifacts now on my LG6/7/V30 (Android 8/9). Do you use 3rd party skin? Thanks!
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• Hello everyone !!! I have a question if someone can answer ?
I am a car freak so I have added many many vehicles to my game
I experienced one thing that If you add many add-on vehicles to your game there are few things that stop to work:-
1:- Micheal's car the obey tailgater would not spawn in traffic anymore.
2:- If you or any other ped in the game tries to ride a bicycle he/she glitches out every-time he enters or leave the bicycle even Micheal's son JIMMY
3:- Ponsonbys and some other shops won't work.
Can anybody tell me what's the problem here I mean is this something to do with excessive add-on or some other thing
Thanx in advance for looking into my query.
• @Raval I suggest to make the title of your thread more descriptive. Just "One Question here" is as dumb as "Help!". Also, this doesn't belong in the "General Modding Discussion" section but to "Installation Help & Troubleshooting".
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1. You shoud replace the tailgater with the original file , maybe it's too much high poly for your game to spawn it, or check in popgroups.ymt
2. I guess it's in vehicles.meta , compare the line with original and use the original bikes
3. Thats the gameconfig file I guess , just use less things , and choose only car models which are optimized.
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But here is my reply to this
1:- my tailgater is 100% stock I haven't changed anything
2:- all my bikes are stock too
3:- I'll check on this one
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Maybe you have custom tuning part for the tailgater that don't work with original tailgater.
You checked in vehicles.meta ? see if bikes have the same lines than original ?
• @cgz ok I got you
And no I haven't checked it yet but I'm going to check it.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/80810 | I'm playing Pokemon Go but I'm concerned about how much data it uses. How much data does it use on average?
I've been monitoring the data used of Pokemon Go to further test how much data is actually being used. Between the release and as today, Pokemon Go has accumulated 65.43MB worth of data. Roughly 90% of that was used while using 3G rather than connected to Wi-Fi. Most of the time I was in a sedentary environment hoping Pokemon would come my way, but I was also out-and-about a good bit of the time.
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I have reviewed a few different sources and they all say Pokemon Go will use a good amount of data.
10 Best Ways to Reduce Data Usage
Pokemon Go will require a Strong Wi-Fi or network connection to play. Unless you have an Unlimited Data Plan or expect to play only in areas where Wi-Fi is available, you will need a Data Plan to play Pokemon Go. Your phone will also need to meet certain requirements.
Pokemon Go can average anywhere from 2MB - 8MB+ of data per hour, dependent on a variety of gameplay factors (Eg. Battling, Capturing, Walking).
Based on this information, if half of a 2GB data plan is allocated to playing Pokemon Go, users can reasonably expect to play four to six hours per day without an any issue. If Pokemon Go is played for more than six hours per day, an upgraded data plan may be needed
Best Ways to Reduce Data Usage
The main purpose of this article is to enable users to enjoy Pokemon Go without having to constantly monitor Data usage. Every Pokemon Go Trainer should be able to travel the world freely without fear of exceeding data limits. Fortunately, there are many ways Data usage can be reduced or limited.
1. Download Applications and Updates only Using Wi-Fi
2. Play Only in Areas where Wi-Fi is Available
3. Set a Data Limit
4. Browse Mobile Versions of Sites
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• Doesn't seem that bad, thanks for the info. – Ave Jul 8 '16 at 3:07
• To the layman, that really isn't much. I am on a bad data plan, in a country where data is considered expensive, and still would not have any problems with that kind of usage. By comparison, playing Pokemon Go for an hour is the equivalent of watching 1 or 2 YouTube videos. – user106385 Jul 8 '16 at 3:54
• I can second that. Have about 55 MB since I started playing about 1.5 weeks ago. – Kovah Jul 20 '16 at 21:38
It has used exactly 120 MB of data in roughly 10 hours of non-wifi play time. And I was walking at a pretty fast pace for the large majority of that time.
So, in short, expect 10-15 MB per hour. Which, in my opinion, is really not a lot considering the nature of the game.
I have used google maps's feature of pre-downloading a section of the world map for offline usage (in my case, I downloaded my whole city). No idea if Pokemon GO makes use of this
I used about 200 MB of data on a 75 minute walk playing the game.
• Highly unrealistic.. – Insane Jul 18 '16 at 21:47
• @Insane not really. If they walked too fast, they might have downloaded too much map data, resulting in 200mb, however I'd really like to see a screenshot like other answer shows too - other apps might have used data too. – Ave Jul 18 '16 at 21:49
• @ardaozkal No. I drive with the game open (no power saver) so imagine the map data I'm downloading -- and I've not passed 100mb total usage much less 65 minutes walking. – Insane Jul 18 '16 at 21:50
• @Insane well, I guess that clarifies it. Dear user156639, please edit in a screenshot :) – Ave Jul 18 '16 at 21:54
• @ardaozkal That would be nice. I confirmed and I'm at 105mb total usage, which if you want, I can upload a screenshot. – Insane Jul 18 '16 at 21:56
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@SciresM SciresM released this Dec 7, 2019 · 88 commits to master since this release
0.10.0 is Atmosphère's twenty-third official release.
fusee-primary was last updated in: 0.10.0.
With thanks to the @switchbrew team, Atmosphère 0.10.0 is bundled with hbl 2.2, and hbmenu 3.1.1.
• Please note: Atmosphère 0.10.0 is currently in pre-release.
• If any bugs are reported while Atmosphère is in pre-release, they will be fixed and the build will be updated.
• 0.10.0 will transition to release after a short amount of time has passed without pressing bug reports.
The following was changed since the last release:
• Support was added for 9.1.0
• Please note: The temporary hid-mitm added in Atmosphere 0.9.x will be removed in Atmosphere 0.10.1.
• Please ensure your homebrew is updated.
• The Stratosphere rewrite was completed.
• libstratosphere was rewritten as part of Stratosphere's refactor.
• Code responsible for providing and managing IPC services was greatly improved.
• The new code is significantly more accurate (it is bug-for-bug compatible with Nintendo's code), and significantly faster.
• ams.mitm was rewritten as part of Stratosphere's refactor.
• Saves redirected to the SD card are now separated for sysmmc vs emummc.
• Please note: If you find any bugs, please report them so they can be fixed.
• Thanks to the rewrite, Atmosphere now uses significantly less memory.
• Roughly 10 additional megabytes are now available for custom system modules to use.
• This means you can potentially run more custom system modules simultaneously.
• If system modules are incompatible, please ask their authors to reduce their memory footprints.
• Atmosphere's configuration layout has had major changes.
• Configuration now lives inside /atmosphere/config/.
• Atmosphere code now knows what default values should be, and includes them in code.
• It is no longer an error if configuration inis are not present.
• Correspondingly, Atmosphere no longer distributes default configuration inis.
• Templates are provided in /atmosphere/config_templates.
• loader.ini was renamed to override_config.ini.
• This fixes the longstanding problem that atmosphere updates overwrote user configuration when extracted.
• Atmosphere's process override layout was changed.
• Atmosphere now uses the /atmosphere/contents directory, instead of /atmosphere/titles.
• This goes along with a refactoring to remove all reference to "title id" from code, as Nintendo does not use the term.
• To make this transition easier, a temporary functionality has been added that migrates folders to the new directory.
• When booting into 0.10.0, Atmosphere will rename /atmosphere/titles/<program id> to /atmosphere/contents/<program id>.
• This functionality may or may not be removed in some future update.
• This should solve any transition difficulties for the typical user.
• Please make sure that any future mods you install extract to the correct directory.
• Support for configuring override keys for hbl was improved.
• The key used to override applications versus a specific program can now be different.
• The key to override a specific program can be managed via override_key.
• The key to override any app can be managed via override_any_app_key.
• Default override behavior was changed.
• By default, atmosphere will now override the album applet with hbl unless R is held.
• By default, atmosphere will now override any application with hbl only if R is held.
• The default amount of applet memory reserved has been slightly increased.
• This allows the profile selector applet to work by default in applet mode.
• The way process override status is captured was changed.
• Process override keys are now captured exactly once, when the process is created.
• This fixes the longstanding issue where letting go of the override button partway into the process launch could cause problems.
• The Mitm API was changed to pass around override status.
• Mitm services now know what keys were held when the client was created, as well as whether the client is HBL/should override contents.
• An extension was added to pm:info to allow querying a process's override status.
• Thanks to process override capture improvements, hbl html behavior has been greatly improved.
• Web applets launched by hbl will now always see the /atmosphere/hbl_html filesystem
• Support was added to exosphere for enabling usermode access to the PMU registers.
• This can be controlled via exosphere!enable_user_pmu_access in BCT.ini.
• An enormous number of minor bugs were fixed.
• dmnt's cheat VM had a fix for an inversion in opcode behavior.
• An issue was fixed in fs.mitm's management of domain object IDs that could lead to system corruption in rare cases.
• The Mitm API no longer silently fails when attempting to handle commands passing C descriptors.
• On previous atmosphere versions, certain commands to FS would silently fail due to this...
• No users reported any visible errors, but it was definitely a problem behind the scenes.
• These commands are now handled correctly.
• Atmosphere can now display a fatal error screen significantly earlier in the boot process, if things go wrong early on.
• The temporary hid mitm will no longer sometimes cause games to fail to detect input.
• Mitm Domain object ID management no longer desynchronizes from the host process.
• An issue was fixed that could cause service acquisition to hang forever if certain sm commands were called in a precise order.
• An off-by-one was fixed that could cause memory corruption in server memory management.
• ... and too many more bugs fixed to reasonably list them all :)
• General system stability improvements to enhance the user's experience.
For information on the featureset supported by 0.10.0, please see the official release notes.
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If you want to spike you hair like Sum 41. You should get some Got 2 B hair gel. First, you need to make sure your hair is dry before you sure you use the gel. Next, put a handful of the gel in your hands and slick the gel through your hair. Make sure you spread the gel around. Move your hands up through the back so it gives it a spike from the back. It does not take much to spike it. Just take your finger tips and pick at your hair into spikes. If you want big individual spikes, take a section, and twist it at the end. If it's heavy and wants to fall down, let it dry a little and then continue to spike it. Let this dry out and you will have your spiked out look. You can also take a blow dryer to your hair to make it dry so it does not fall over. Hang your head upside down so they don't fall to the side when blowdrying. This should not take lots of time!
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/80889 | Using Frankenstein's Creature Paradigm to Build a Patient Specific Atlas
Abstract : Conformalradiotherapyplanningneedsaccuratedelineations of the critical structures. Atlas-based segmentation has been shown to be very efficient to delineate brain structures. It would therefore be very interesting to develop an atlas for the head and neck region where 7 % of the cancers arise. However, the construction of an atlas in this region is very difficult due to the high variability of the anatomies. This can generate segmentation errors and over-segmented structures in the atlas. To overcome this drawback, we present an alternative method to build a template locally adapted to the patient's anatomy. This is done first by selecting in a database the images that are the most similar to the patient on predefined regions of interest, using on a distance between transfor- mations. The first major contribution is that we do not compute every patient-to-image registration to find the most similar image, but only the registration of the patient towards an average image. This method is therefore computationally very efficient. The second major contribution is a novel method to use the selected images and the predefined regions to build a "Frankenstein's creature" for segmentation. We present a qual- itative and quantitative comparison between the proposed method and a classical atlas-based segmentation method. This evaluation is performed on a subset of 58 patients among a database of 105 head and neck CT images and shows a great improvement of the specificity of the results.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/80919 | To Plugin (legacy)
Configure the settings for the legacy To Plugin (legacy) destination component.
The To Plugin allows you to use an external plugin executable.
• Click the Edit Channel button
• Enter your settings and click Save Changes
Iguana starts executable
• Select this option to start the plugin when the channel is started and shut it down when the channel is stopped
Note: If the option not selected, the channel waits for a connection from the plugin
Full executable path
• Enter the location of the plugin executable
Tip: You can use an environment variable in the path, i.e., ${iguana_dir}myfile.exe will include the Iguana working directory in the path:
This same technique can be use in any directory path in all Iguana settings
Working directory
• Choose the directory type from the listbox
• If you chose Use alternate directory you will need to enter the directory
Executable parameters
• Enter startup parameters for the plugin
• These macros can be included as executable parameters:
Macro Description
$hostname$ The host name of the Iguana Server.
$port$ The port number of the Iguana Server.
$channel$ The name of the Iguana channel.
$component$ Set to source if the plugin is communicating with a source component (as it is here), or to destination if the plugin is communicating with a destination component.
$clientid$ A string consisting of the channel name with source1 appended (for example, mychannelname.source1). This macro is provided for plugins that use the deprecated connect method, which expects this as a parameter.If you are creating a new plugin, use $channel$ and $component$ instead of $clientid$.
Tip: You can include environment variables in the Executable parameters field, i.e., ${name}, where name is the name of the environment variable.
Startup timeout
• Enter the time in milliseconds to wait for a connection from the plugin after it has been started
Note: After this time has elapsed an error is logged and the plugin is terminated
Shutdown timeout
• Enter the time, in milliseconds to wait for the plugin to be shut down after a shutdown request has been issued
Plugin timeout
• Enter the time in milliseconds to wait after an event is sent to the plugin before an error is logged
Diagnostic tools
• Click the Monitor executable output link to display the output that is being written to the plugin
Legacy database logging [top]
Legacy database logging
• Check the box to enable logging
Database API
• Select the database to use from the listbox
Data source
• Enter name of the database
Database username
• Enter the username (if required)
Database password
• Enter the password (if required)
Log table constant
• optionally type a constant to uniquely identify the database tables that will contain log information.
Note: This constant will be added as a prefix to the name of the database table containing log information, and will be added as a postfix to the name of the database table containing the index information. If you leave this field blank, the default is to use the channel name, converted to lower case and with white space removed, as the log table constant.
For example: If your channel is named plugin and you do not specify a Log table constant, the log table is named plugin_dest1_inb_exe_mes_suc and the index table is named log_indices_plugin.
Purge logs
• Select this option to automatically purge the log table for you
• Enter the number of days to wait before purging log table entries
Note: This field only appears if you select the purge option
Custom DB columns
• Enter the names of additional columns contained in the table (names must be separated by semi-colon “;” characters)
Reconnect to DB
• Choose if you want Iguana to try and reconnect to the database wen the connection is lost
• If you select Yes, with limit you must specify the number of retries
Reconnection interval
• Enter the delay between retries in milliseconds (default = 10000 milliseconds)
Note: this field is only displayed if you choose Yes, with limit above
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/80922 | Groups at their most basic level allow you to create and manage different types of groups in your church. Groups can function as powerful tools for providing pastoral care, communicating between leaders and reporting on attendance. You could create groups for your small groups that meet during the week, hobby groups or ministry groups, for example.
Group Leaders
Each group can have assigned leaders and assistant leaders. As a leader of a group, you’re able to create group events for the Events Calendar, view activity about what changes have been made to group information, and see when people are added. You can also edit group information and submit attendance reports.
As discussed in the Access Permissions article earlier, it’s also possible to lock down leaders so they can only view the groups they lead.
My Groups
Groups can be enabled in the Member area, allowing group members to see which groups they’re a part of and who the other members are and who the leaders of the group are. This allows group members to communicate with each other directly.
The difference between Groups and Departments
Groups are not to be confused with Departments. Keep in mind that Groups are used for any type of people group, and Departments are used to record the different areas in church where volunteers serve.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/80925 | Sie sehen sich Hilfeinhalte der folgenden Version an:
A model contains a set of data types that define the properties that will ultimately be rendered by content services. A model also defines the relationships between other models in order to enforce data integrity.
As a Developer, you should be familiar with the Model structure in repository. You can create you own models and entities as per your app requirement.
Creating Model Types
There are two system provided model types under /libs/settings/mobileapps/model-types. If you want to override the system model types a mobileapps/model-types node will need to be created under the configuration node you wish the override to occur on.
For example, if you have created configurations at /conf/myconf1 and /conf/myconf2 and want to override the system model types on conf1 only, you would create a mobileapps/model-types node under the settings of conf1.
If you want to allow data types to be added to a model the model type must have a child node named 'scaffolding' of type 'cq:Page' and a resource type of wcm/scaffolding/components/scaffolding.
The scaffolding page must also include a dataTypesConfig property on the PageContent node which indicates the data types models created from this type will be allowed to use.
Scaffolding is a page that defines the data types that can be edited by an entity based on the model. Each data type can also be configured to define how the field will be presented in the UI as well as how the data value will be persisted.
Data Types Config
The data types config node contains a list of data type items. Each data type item specifies how a data type will appear in the model editor as well as how it needs to be persisted for eventual rendering by an entity.
Property Name Description
fieldIcon class of CoralUI icon to represent data type
fieldPropResourceType component that will render out all the properties for configuring the data type
fieldProperties multi-value list of property components that are used when the fieldPropResourceType is mobileapps/caas/gui/components/models/editor/datatypes/field
fieldResourceType resourceType of the persisted node for the data type (that is, the component that will render the property in the entity editor)
fieldViewResourceType component to use for rendering data type in model editor view (fieldResourceType will be used if this property is omitted)
fieldTitle name of the data type that will be displayed in the model editor
multiFieldResourceType resource type to use on persisted node when multi-value is selected
renderType rendering clue for client-side rendering
Data Types Config Overlay
The 'dataTypesConfig' property supports Sling resource merging. This means the data types used by the system model types (or even custom model types) can be customized by using overlay nodes.
An overlay of /libs/settings/mobileapps/models/formbuilderconfig/datatypes will need to be created and then customized as desired.
For example, an overlay for the String data type could be added in order to change the fieldResourceType to a custom component.
For more information on Sling Resource Merging see, Using Sling Resource Merger in AEM.
Data Types
A model data type is a form component that is capable of including data to be included when posting a form. The data type component can be as complicated as desired. An example of a custom data type could be an address block for a particular country to avoid having to recreate it all the time using the primitive data types.
See '/libs/mobileapps/caas/components/form/contentreference' as an example of a custom data type.
All the primitive data type make use of existing Granite form components. See:
Any custom data type can then be added to a data type config for use by the model editor.
Creating Models
You can start creating models once all the desired model types and data types have been developed. The authors will ultimately use models to create entities from which content services uses to render its data from.
Creating a model consists of picking an allowed model type based on the current configuration and then providing a title and description.
To learn about creating and managing a model from the dashboard, see Creating a Model under authoring section for Mobile Apps.
Properties of a Model
The following table shows the properties defined for a model:
Property Name Description
Model title name of the model
Description description of the model
Thumbnail thumbnail image of the model
Model Type type of the model (this can be a simple string or a path to an actual component)
Allowed Children path of a template that is allowed to be a child of this template
Allowed Parents path of a template that is allowed to be a parent of this template
The allowed children and allowed parents properties follow the same rules as Page templates. For more information, see Page Templates.
In reference to Model Type property, all models must have a super type of mobileapps/caas/components/data/entity but can have a sub-type which allows the content delivery to be customized. Ensuring all model types are unique may also help clients of content services to distinguish between objects in the data.
Editing a Model
Editing a model involves opening the scaffolding dialog form associated with a model for editing. Generally the scaffolding is a child node of the model but it can be located outside of the model if desired by specifying its path using the 'cq:scaffolding' property. This is uselful, if you want to share the same scaffolding between multiple models that need to have different properties.
When the scaffolding for the model is located the model editor will render whatever is found under 'jcr:content/cq:dialog/content'. Currently only an up to 3-column fixed layout is supported by the client-side formbuilder engine. To the right of the rendered form dialog will be a list of all the data types specified in the data types config. Data types can be edited by clicking on them. The right rail will then switch to the properties tab for the selected data type. New data types can be added by dragging them onto the preview canvas. Clicking Save propagates the changes to the server. Clicking Cancel closes the model editor.
All models are Templates, so they follow all AEM Templating rules. This allows using properties such as allowedParentsand allowedChildren properties. These are effective while creating new Entities based on a model. The template rules will ensure entities can only be based on certain models depending on their hierarchy.
To learn about editing a model from the dashboard, see Creating a Model under authoring section for Mobile Apps.
System Models
Two types of pre-defined system models are provided for simple content re-use. These models cannot be edited.
Pages Model
The Pages model provides a quick method to re-use existing content from Sites for delivery by content services.
The resourceType of entities based on the Pages model is: mobileapps/caas/components/data/pages
Path: Path to a Sites page. Contents from this path (and its children) will be rendered by content service handlers.
Assets Model
The Assets model provides a quick method to re-use existing content from Assets for delivery by content services.
The resourceType of entities based on the Pages model is: mobileapps/caas/components/data/assets.
Asset List: List of paths from Assets. Each asset will added as a child entity node with a resourceType of wcm/foundation/components/image.
To learn more about using these templates for creating models from the dashboard, see Creating a Model under authoring section for Mobile Apps.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/80939 | My extract beers are good, I think better than most commercial beers that I buy. Extract takes less time, less equipment and seems to produce great quality beers. Why do people do full grain?
All grain is cheaper (in the not-so-long run), you get way more flexibility on your grain bill and mash, I'd argue it's more fun, and it's really easy to do.
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But it takes a lot more time, right? – CLJ Nov 10 '10 at 0:09
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My all grain days take 4 hours from start to cleanup. My extract days usually take 2 hours. So yes, it's double the time. But it's worth it to me. – sgwill Nov 10 '10 at 0:48
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It's definitely for the fun and satisfaction of it. There is something very rewarding about taking grain, hops and yeast and turning it into a great beer. If I just wanted beer as quickly as possible I'd go to the pub. – Simon Nov 10 '10 at 0:50
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Yeah, it takes more time, but we don't brew for the sake of conveniece, right? :) – pkaeding Nov 10 '10 at 0:51
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There's a giant misconception that all-grain brewing is somehow complicated and takes way more time. The only major extra time comes from mashing; the rest is pretty much the same. – Jeff L Nov 11 '10 at 22:36
After ten years of kits and extracts, I finally went all-grain 6 weeks ago. It is so much fun! If you enjoy what you're doing now, I'd say give it a try because there is so much more to enjoy. I've brewed on 5 of the last 6 Saturdays, and had a great time each time.
I only spent about $150 on extra equipment, and that includes a grain mill. I can buy my grain uncrushed in bulk and save a lot. I can now brew a batch of beer for about $14 of ingredients.
It doesn't get much better than this.
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Can you explain more about what you're brewing at $14/batch? Granted I live in a place where things are marked up more than average, but even my extremely small and simple beers come out around $25 (at 5.5 gallons or so on average). – eyelidlessness Nov 22 '10 at 5:36
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The bulk grain I get costs about 80 cents a pound. So ten pounds of that is $8. The hops I get are about $2 per ounce. With a dry yeast or a re-used liquid yeast, it ends up about $14. – Jeff Roe Nov 22 '10 at 16:52
Personally I think our all-grain batches taste better. This might be due to the better grains we are using, or the fact that we are better brewers now.
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Mike is right. All grain brewing will make you a 'better' brewer. You stop making other peoples' recipes and start thinking about making your own beer. The number of variables you can control during mash is incredible and forces you to really think about what you are trying to make. – thebeav Nov 20 '10 at 0:08
I've had some tremendous partial mash beers. If you have good quality extract and supplement with some specialty grains, I think you can get very high quality results.
I think the biggest downside is that you have less control over the final beer and thus are more limited in what you make.
So I would say stick with extract until the idea of doing a full mash sounds appealing.
I agree with PVM and Jeff about the costs and time issues. I also agree about the fun factor. I find it to be a very relaxing and enjoyable morning when I brew. I brew outside on the patio under my deck. So I tend to do most of my brewing in the spring and fall. I work around the weather as needed. A morning spent brewing reminds me a lot of a morning at a tailgate. There's a moderate amount of activity to hold your attention and when you have free moments you can kick back with a beer and enjoy the fresh air (and smell of beer brewing).
I agree with mike. I think all grain is even a step up from extract.
And Tim's right - it's for the person who wants more control of the process/outcome. I have the choice of Munich or Vienna or biscuit or any other mashed grain in any proportion I like. It's hard to impossible to do with extract + specialty grains.
My advice: Try partial mash recipes to get the feel for it. The rest is pretty easy: just scale up. Or don't. You'll at least have a great feel for what the process is.
On the other hand, what's simpler than extract to get a really tasty beer? You're right, it's better than many store-bought beers.
My primary motivation was to have more choices in what contributes to the flavor of my beer. I only brewed two extract beers before I started all-grain, because I found the extract choices extremely limiting. I've taught several friends to brew since, and have never started with extract. None of them regret it, and none have had any interest in reducing the brew time for its own sake.
My secondary motivation (related to the first) was to be "closer" to the process of brewing. I took an interest in home brewing because I wanted to produce the kinds of beer that I want to drink. I have more involvement in what I'm brewing when I use "raw" ingredients. (Yes, I realize that I'll have even more control in this respect when I begin making my own malts, or even growing my own ingredients.)
As someone who's also made very good extract beers, I've experienced a notably better taste, quality and freshness with all-grain. But even more than that, it's given me a whole lot more freedom to experiment. Of course you can experiment with extract, but you can only go so far. I was nervous, too, but as you can read on this list, it's WAY more fun...
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Earthworms improve the texture of soil by aeration.
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Blood worms (Lumbricus rubellus) are a species of common earthworm found in many temperate ecosystems. Because they consume a large amount of organic material, they are good at aerating and mixing soil, which is beneficial to your garden. These segmented worms range from about 1 to 4 inches in length and have smooth, reddish skin. They are sometimes called red worms or red wigglers, and not to be confused with Glycera dibranchiata, a midge larva that lives in tidal marshes and goes by the same name.
Blood worms are classified as segmented worms, Class Annelida, which includes approximately 9,000 species. Of those, earthworms comprise about 2,500 species. Terrestrial earthworms are classified according to where they live in the soil. Litter dwellers live in the thin layer of decomposing material just below the surface; topsoil dwellers live in the top 6 to 24 inches; and deep burrowers live as much as 6 feet deep. Blood worms are a topsoil-dwelling species, usually living 6 to 12 inches below the surface.
As blood worms burrow through the soil, they ingest decaying organic matter. This brings subsoil to the surface and mixes topsoil with organic matter. Called oxygenation or aeration, this process improves the texture and structure of the soil by creating cracks and channels that allow nutrients to enter the soil. This loosens compacted soil, helping plant roots to grow deeper, improving drainage and allowing water to reach plant roots more efficiently.
Castings are the organic matter that pass through the blood worms after it completes digestion. Blood worms derive nutrition from decaying plant matter and decomposing remains of animals, leaving behind castings. This process leaves organic matter, beneficial bacteria and enzymes, minerals and cellulose in a form that is accessible to plants, resulting in healthier plants. Blood worms can produce their own weight in castings every 24 hours.
Attracting Earthworms
To attract blood worms to your garden, provide food sources that encourage them. You can do this by creating a compost pile that includes grass clippings, old newspapers and vegetable and fruit waste. Do not over-water your garden, and avoid over-tilling and using fertilizers high in nitrogen. Worms are more active at room temperature than at cooler temps. The best temperature range for blood worms is 71 to 89 degrees Fahrenheit.
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What is UML?
UML is an acronym for Unified Modeling Language. UML is widely accepted as the de facto standard description language for the specification and design of object-oriented software systems. UML is a family of “languages”, or diagram types, that attempt to bring together the “best in breed” software specification techniques for describing software systems. Users and practicioners of UML can choose which members of the family are the most suitable for their application domain.
Personally, I have become associated with UML through my years and years of specifying software products. Several of the UML diagram types that I will discuss below are among my primary tools for communicating application and system requirements and software designs to programmers.
I do not advocate, nor do I personally practice, an over-attachment to UML. Like many of these project management and requirements management techniques, there is a time and a place for the proper introduction of these types of UML artifacts into the software development process. Programmers may be unfamiliar with the UML diagram types and symbology, and so if you are a business analyst, project, program or product manager, and you are using these types of project deliverables with a new staff of engineers, be prepared to explain the UML diagram type you are using, keep the introductions down to one or two different new UML “Languages”, or diagram types, at a time.
I also recommend that if you insert UML diagrams into your functional specification documents, and I recommend that if you have invested the time to properly prepare UML diagrams that you do leverage them into your spec docs, make sure that you include an explanatory prose component into your accompanying functional specification document’s text.
There are nine different types of UML languages, or diagram types:
1. Use Case.
2. Sequence.
3. Collaboration.
4. Statechart.
5. Activity.
6. Class.
7. Object.
8. Component.
9. Deployment.
Five of these diagram types render behavioral views, the use case, sequence, collaboration, statechart and activity diagrams, while the remaining four diagram types are concerned with architectural or static aspects of the software design.
How does UML help in specifying a software design?
UML is a graphical language that is based on the premise that any software system can be described in terms of interacting business entities and that various aspects of these entities and their interactions, can be described visually using one or more of the above nine types of UML diagrams.
Use Case diagrams represent and document the dialog between external (to the system under discussion, as in an embedded system) actors and the system.
Sequence and collaboration diagrams describe interactions between objects.
Activity diagrams illustrate the flow of control between objects.
Statecharts represent the internal dynamics of active objects.
What is UML 2.0?
UML 2.0 is a revision to Unified Modeling Language that incorporates several improvements to UML. UML 2.0 is only just now beginning to supplant UML as the de facto standard.
A shorthand description of UML 2.0 is that it is designed for more rigor of specification, and it can sometimes be too much, or too much of a fine-grained distinction to bandy about when in an actual day-to-day, working software development environment. You are very likely to be working with only a subset of the UML languages, or diagram types, I outlined above at any one given point in the development project.
UML 2.0, when the diagrams are laid out in a software program such as VisualUML or others, can actually be used to generate working object code. If the business analysts have developed their proficiency enough with UML diagramming software, they can actually construct and output from these programs working java (or other programming language) object code.
In order to obtain this level of integration with application programmers, UML 2.0 had to have more access to a more robust and constrained specification language. The improvements to UML 2.0 include:
1. New base classes that provide the foundation for UML modeling constructs.
2. Object constraint language, a formal method that canbe used to better describe object interactions.
3. An improved diagram meta-model that allows users to model systems from four viewpoints:
a. Static models (e.g., class diagrams)
b. Interaction (e.g., using sequence diagrams)
c. Activity (i.e., to describe the flow of activities within a system)
d. State (i.e., to create FSMs, or Finite State Machines, using state charts)
UML has always been used to not only specify software systems for systems and application programming, but also specification for embedded systems as well. This emphasis on the notion of time and state is evident in the way that sequence diagrams are implemented in UML, and indicates the special considerations that were undertaken to support embedded systems design in the original conception of UML.
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Agenda 21 & the Illuminati’s Enduring Quest for World Government
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Agenda 21 and the United Nations
In 1992, at a Venezuela conference, the United Nations passed something called “Agenda 21,” for which the elder US President, George Bush, publicly gave his support.
It referred to something called “Sustainable Development,” but what this plan laid out very clearly was a one world government.
This idea of One World Rule is not new to the Bush clan, or even to the modern day Illuminati. It has been around at least since the times of the Roman Empire, and before.
Even the Christian bible suggests that the anti-Christ would attempt to install a one world government, although that specific term is not used.
There is an apocalyptic vision in the book of Revelations, but then John goes on to describe the ruler of a vast empire as having power and great authority, given to him by Satan himself (Revelation 13:2), being followed by and receiving worship from “all the world” (13:3-4), and wielding power over “every tribe, people, language and nation.” (13:7).
Babylon, a city built with a monument at its center, to men’s lower instincts instead of to God (or their higher spirit), notoriously fell, and it is no mistake that the EU Parliament building in Strasbourg has a similar appearance; it was deliberately modeled on the unfinished tower of Babel in Genesis 11.
There are numerous historical, architectural, literary, and artistic references to a one world rule paradigm, or a Universal Agenda, such as this.
The tower of Babel
Paul McGuire, the author of a book entitled The Babylon Code explains:
The plans within the UN’s Agenda 21 are not that dissimilar from the long-term plans of the Romans as they expanded their empire, though their ultimate ‘kingdom’ was subdued and eventually divided.
How Close Are We to One World Governance?
A One World government isn’t far from what we are already experiencing. It centralizes the monetary system, executive branches of our current government, judiciary, and military under one authority that would rule the entire planet.
Just who would be deemed the ‘ruler’ while the rest of the inhabitants of the planet are anointed the ‘ruled,’ is perhaps a pertinent and looming question. It seems obvious enough that the majority of the earth’s people would be meant as vassals while a few elites would wield dominion over us.
We are already experiencing this to a great degree with elections that offer the illusion of choice, but that are largely predetermined, a media controlled by a handful of corporations, and a few banking families controlling the majority of the world’s wealth, while creating wars to keep their coffers overflowing.
Many have compared the modern-day corporate United States to the failed Roman Empire, and for good reason. The similarities between their rise and fall are uncanny, and once you realize the OZ behind the curtain of each super power, you can easily unravel their doomed demise as well.
G. Wells, Winston Churchill, Jimmy Carter, Robert Kennedy, Richard Nixon, David Rockefeller, Mikhail Gorbachev, George Bush, George W. Bush, Tony Blair, Gordon Brown, and many other notable figures have all called for a “New World Order“ or “One World Government“.
Henry Kissinger has even said, “There is a need for a new world order,” but this idea is not new.
History of One World Governance – Failed Attempts
Since the fall of one attempted One World Government, Babylon, there have been other attempts to build a power that would rule all.
There was the rise of Persia in 538 BC, and this country’s rulers had a free-for-all for at least two hundred years before the conquests of Alexander the Great gave rise to Greece.
Greece was able to maintain a one world government for more than a century, but the King of Macedonia was eventually crushed by Roman armies.
From this war, ensued the establishment of the Roman Empire. We can see remnants of a one world governance within the Vatican, even today.
Rome, as do the many Popes, failed to realize an entire world governance, though she tried to enslave every nation from the Persian Gulf to the British Islands to North Africa.
Rome was harassed by barbarian tribes for six centuries, in an attempt to rid the planet of zealous rulers. Finally, in 476 A.D., the imperial city of Rome fell before the onslaught of Odoacer, King of the Heruli.
Since that time, Rome was divided into four separate kingdoms, and like branches of the Illuminati families, have attempted repeatedly to reform into a singular power.
Interestingly, some call the ‘R&R’ or Rothschild and Rockefeller families – visible controllers of the singular media, corporate, and banking cartels currently running the planet, fronts for the Italian and Spanish black nobility headed by the Borgia, Medici, Orsini and Del Banco (Warburg) families.
Though there are many arguing over the true bloodlines (Roman Papal, Jesuit, and others) running the planet, there is no mistake that the UN’s modern motives are ancient, and numerous elite families have argued over who will take the helm.
There is no paradise awaiting us when the world is taken over by a singular rule. The UN’s promises are empty.
As Preston James explains:
“The plan has been to elicit zionism and Muslim extremism movements to battle it out and destroy each other so that Jerusalem and the surrounding Arab areas can be demoed, allowing a new temple to be made for the New World Order Luciferian ruler, the “New Caesar of the Ages” to be seated so he can assume world rule.
Though we are increasingly a more connected planet, due to the internet and other technologies, we need not be ruled by an elite class, or a modern-day Caesar.
In fact, this modern-day Guttenberg press will likely be the demise of the cabal. It unveils their true agenda – Agenda 21.
We can instead rule ourselves. Individually. This is our task as human beings on the planet now. To rule our own consciousness, so that no other can impose their will upon us. It is no longer the age of iron.
It is the age of enlightenment. We’ve all sacrificed more than enough, and the time is ripe for us to overthrow this lineage of darkness, making room for the light. |
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/81052 | Otto’s ‘MAdLLN’ – to his Mum with love
imgOtto's mandala20180318
by Otto, aged 7 years
The last drawing in the Red Book
The mandala is an archetypal image whose occurrence is attested throughout the ages. It signifies the wholeness of the Self. This circular image represents the wholeness of the psychic ground or, to put it in mythic terms, the divinity incarnate in man.”
Carl JungMemories, Dreams and Reflections
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/81062 | One of the most common objections to evangelical Christianity today is the question of why a “good God” wouldn’t just save everybody. If God was truly loving, why would he let anyone perish?
The Apostle Paul had this objection in mind when he said,
“But who are you, a mere man, to talk back to God? Will what is formed say to the one who formed it, ‘Why did you make me like this?’ Or has the potter no right over the clay, to make from the same lump one piece of pottery for honor and another for dishonor?”
– Romans 9:20–21 CSB
If God uses our own free choices—in this case, the choice to reject him—in order to set up a display of his glory, then none of us can accuse him of injustice. And, if we say, “A good God would have had different plans for his creation,” Paul answers, “Really? You think you are as wise and smart as God?”
“What if God, wanting to display his wrath and to make his power known, endured with much patience objects of wrath prepared for destruction? And what if he did this to make known the riches of his glory on objects of mercy that he prepared beforehand for glory?”
– Romans 9:22–23
In other words, the ultimate end that God pursues in all things, including our salvation, is his glory.
Tim Keller writes in Romans 8–16 for You,
“If God had mercy on all or condemned all, we would not see his glory. I don’t think Paul is giving us much more than a hint here, but it is a very suggestive hint. For the biggest question is: If God could save everyone, why doesn’t he? And here Paul seems to say that God’s chosen course (to save some and leave others) will in the end be more fit to show forth God’s glory than any other scheme we can imagine.”
Frankly, that’s hard to wrestle with—and that’s because we’re used to thinking of ourselves and our interests as the most important element in the universe.
But we are not. God’s glory is the most important thing in the universe. If you find that hard to believe, then take a clue from the structure of the universe itself. The human race is a collection of fragile organisms on a tiny speck of dust in a remote corner of a medium-sized, backwoods galaxy that is but one of billions of such galaxies. God is the center of it all.
Go outside at night, and look up. The whole creation is designed to scream at you, “You’re not the point!”
The exaltation of God’s glory is not just the most important thing; it is also the greatest good in the universe. That might offend us in a culture where it’s customary to think we’re special, unique snowflakes. But offensive or not, it’s true.
Astronomers say it is a good thing for us that the sun, not Earth, is the center of the solar system. If Earth were at the center, it would never have the gravitational ability to hold the rest of the solar system in orbit, and we’d all die.
Because the sun is 30,000 times bigger than Earth, and because it is an independent source of heat and light, it can sustain an orderly solar system that enables us to have life.
So, if the sun were a person, the most loving thing the sun could do would be to keep itself at the center.
And so it is with God and us. If God is the pinnacle of joy, then having him at the center, recognized for his worth and importance, is the most loving thing he can do for us.
We are not the point. God’s glory is. |
global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/81067 | Explore the Endeca Configuration Repository with WebDav
With Oracle Endeca Commerce, the Workbench application is storing all its configuration files inside a configuration repository. That includes typical workbench configurations used by the MDEX, Experience Manager configurations such as cartridges XMLs, landing pages and also media assets accessible by the Media Banner cartridge.
While Endeca provides scripts in the control project folder to upload content to that configuration repository, such as set_media, set_editors_config, set_templates and import_site, one less known fact is that you can connect to the repository through a WebDav client and have a direct access to all the files and folders.
The reason it’s possible is because the technology underneath the Endeca Configuration Repository is Apache Sling, a REST web framework built on top of the Java Content Repository Apache JackRabbit. If you use Windows, you can download a client such as CloudSafe to connect to it. On Mac, Cyberduck supports it (in theory MacOS X is supposed to support the WebDav protocol natively but for some reason when trying to connect to this WebDav repository, I can’t establish the connection).
Once you are ready to connect to the WebDav server, the URL to use is the link stored in the config file WorkbenchConfig.xml for the IFCR component.
If the URL is: http://localhost:8006/ifcr, you should add /sites/name_of_your_project at the end.
So for the reference application, it would be http://localhost:8006/ifcr/sites/Discover . The user/password is be the same as the one stored in that same config section (admin/admin by default).
WebDav configuration to access Endeca Configuration Repository with CloudSafe
WebDav configuration to access Endeca Configuration Repository with CloudSafe
Once you are logged in with WebDav, you can start transferring files back and forth between the config repository and your own hard drive. I wouldn’t advise to change the XML config files stored in that config repository without knowing exactly what you are doing but there is a clear use case for managing your media assets (such as pictures and videos) that are accessible through the Media banner cartridge in Page Manager. While Endeca provides the set_media control script to upload files, being able to drag and drop files and delete them as you want directly into the config repository is much more easier and natural to do with a user interface than having to re-run that control script every time you want to make changes to your media files. You might as well consider giving access to that repository to your business users so that they can easily start managing the media files that they will need to use when creating the landing pages.
Here is the list of folders visible from a WebDav client when logging in on the Configuration Repository
Endeca Configuration Repository on a Webdav client
Let me know in the comments if you can think of other interesting use case to use the Endeca Configuration Repository through a WebDav client!
7 Responses to “Explore the Endeca Configuration Repository with WebDav”
1. Chris S Says:
Brilliant! I tried the ‘ifcr’ directory (which used to work in the past), but the addition of ‘/sites/Discover’ did the trick!
Thanks a lot!
2. Nayeemuddin Mohammed Says:
Excellent, I am able to view the content xml files created by content collections, but cannot view content in triggers folder which would be json files. Also few folders are inaccessible like tools/Thesaurus. Can you please let me know how can I view json files too. This approach can be useful to propagate specific content across apps in Endeca
3. Sony Thomas Says:
I think the Cloudsafe client is no more available to download. I tried to connect to Endeca 3.1.2 Configuration Repository using the Cuberdeck [ https://cyberduck.io/?l=en ] client. But I cannot connect. Is this because it is not supported in Endeca 3.1.2 ?
4. Sony Thomas Says:
I tired to map the url to a drive in Windows 7. But that too didn’t help me.
5. Sony Thomas Says:
I am able to connect using the cyberduck by selecting the option ” WebDAV ( Web based Distributed Authoring and Versioning )” in new Connection
6. Shubh Says:
nice article and insight on ECR.
7. tam_thuong77 Says:
There is a problem with endeca v11.2, exception issue in ifcr.log:
*ERROR* [ [1480952373225] PROPFIND….HTTP/1.1] org.apache.sling.engine.impl.SlingRequestProcessorImpl service: Uncaught Throwable java.lang.UnsupportedOperationException: Not yet implemented
at com.endeca.ifcr.workspace.impl.node.WorkspaceAwareNodeImpl.getDepth(WorkspaceAwareNodeImpl.java:1082)
at org.apache.jackrabbit.webdav.simple.DavResourceImpl.getParentElements(DavResourceImpl.java:862)
Please, do you have any ideas about these exceptions?
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/81091 | Hunting for a Story|Review of “The Hunt”
While my review of The Hunt is my opinion (they don’t reflect the views of any person or organization) and I didn’t receive anything in return (except a “Thank you”), Seb Jenkins did request a review.
Fair warning: There may be spoilers.
The Hunt a Wattpad story by SebJenkins and ShaunAllan (and a few surprise authors) takes the reader into a near future world where fox hunting has been banned. In its place, people (that’s right, humans) can volunteer to be the “fox” while hunters aim to kill them. The volunteers, whether they win or not, receive a money prize.
What makes The Hunt different from other collaborations is that the authors switch each chapter with no foreordained story. The two do not discuss plot or anything with each other; each must pick up where the other left off–sort of like those old campfire games.
At first, I was a bit skeptical about this story. I’ve read my fair share of stories written by multiple authors. They can either be very bad or very good. In a lot of cases, even though both writers work on the story, there is usually a “lead” author who after the story is complete edits the story so that it sounds more like one voice.
In the case of The Hunt, the authors have no idea what’ll happen until the chapter is published. I was a bit worried that the story would at worst be a patchwork of confusing tone and plot; or at best, flow like someone learning how to drive a stick shift filled with stop-and-go jerks as the authors flipped writing duties.
So, to be honest, I started reading because I was bored; I had some extra time and nothing else to do. Nothing seemed interesting.
I took a chance on the first chapter and found it promising. Then, came the second chapter. I was pleased to see that the chapters did flow into each other. The tone and voice seemed to match the pervious chapter. And the trend continued.
One problem I came across is that the plot twists are a little too unexpected. Normally, authors will leave clues to a twist well before the actual event. For instance, in a mystery, the author leaves clues to the perpetrator’s identity so that when the reveal happens the reader feels like it made sense. Also, the reader wants to guess at the criminal’s identity so that they can feel like they are part of the story. In the case of The Hunt there isn’t a lead up because the authors themselves don’t know what’ll happen. So when a twist does happen, it can feel like you got sideswiped by a train.
But, sometimes these shocking twists can work to the story’s advantage. If done right, such as the shock characters Marcus and James receive, it can also shock the audience and make them feel part of the story (or even feel like they are the characters). However, it can cause the reader to become confused; such as if someone that seems like a main antagonist (or at least a possibly recurring one) is suddenly dealt with early on, it can make the reader feel as if the story ended. Or they are left feeling unsatisfied. Kind of like if Batman stopped the Joker in the first panel and the rest of the comic was just scenes of Batman polishing the Batmobile.
But, at the moment, the story is unfinished, so it gets a pass on the antagonist issue. Maybe what happens next is the equivalent of Batman stopping Joker then going home to the Batcave to polish the Batmobile only to have the Riddler, Two-Face, and Penguin announce to the world that they will set off a nuclear bomb unless Batman surrenders. You don’t know what’ll happen; and that is the beauty of The Hunt. Anyone can die at any moment; alliances can change; and secrets can be revealed. At any moment, you can step on a bear trap.
To conclude (because this review is getting way too long), if you’re hunting for a story with twists, suspense, and moments that’ll blow your mind because you’re not expecting them…try a Batman comic. No, I’m kidding; though Batman comics are enjoyable. But, they are planned out (and thus can be predictable), unlike The Hunt which offers a read where the unpredictable can and probably will happen.
4.7/5 (as of this moment)
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/81093 | Tag: Grief
How To Help Those That Are Grieving
One of the worst experiences we are faced with in life is loss and bereavement. Some people will be fortunate to have never experienced any kind of grief and unfortunately others are all too familiar with the feelings of loss and bereavement.
The Oxford English Dictionary defines grief as “intense sorrow, especially caused by someone’s death.” This is as good a description as any, though I’m unsure any words can truly describe the feelings of grief.
We all deal with it in our own ways whether it be to talk about it or to hide away from the world until we’re forced back into society. There is no right or wrong way to deal with grief though there are perhaps methods that are better in some respects. The trouble comes when you are not the person experiencing the grief but the one trying to support the bereaved through their loss.
What should you say? What should you do? Will anything you say or do actually be what they need? All one can do is try.
Here are a few ideas on how to help:
• Never tell someone how they’re feeling, because grief is incredibly individual. Just be there to support them.
• Don’t be afraid to mention the person who has died. Often people will avoid mentioning them or their name because they don’t know what to say or feel awkward, however this can often be more painful than a stroll down memory lane to remember the good and happy times.
Let the grieving person guide you. If you are there to be a support, allow their grief to guide you along the correct path of comfort.
If you need any help or advice, please don’t hesitate to get in touch.
Grief and its Power
There’s no escaping it. When grief arrives in our lives in its various forms there is no hiding from it, though some may try. At its worst it can be all consuming and feel as if we will never escape from it and for others, it can make them feel empty and a shell of their former selves.
There are many definitions of grief as the word can encompass so many things. Whatever the situation, grief is a normal emotional reaction to loss or change of any kind. It can also be the conflicting feelings caused by the end or change of something familiar.
Obviously, the most common cause of grief is the loss of a loved one. The primary emotion caused during this time is tremendous sadness as well as sometimes relief that perhaps a long-suffering family member is no longer in pain or perhaps anger that someone was taken too soon.
Everyone grieves in their own way and at their own pace. Some will welcome help and comfort and some will shy away from it. But, how do you begin to even cope with grief?
One of the first and most difficult things that must happen is the acknowledgement and acceptance of the feelings that you have. Many people will try and avoid them because they don’t feel comfortable with them, but this can lead to further psychological problems later on. You need to find a safe place be that alone or with someone, find what works for you, sit down and acknowledge how you are feeling.
It may sound like a cliché but talking does help. It will either provide an outlet for the feelings that you have or remind you that just because someone has passed it doesn’t mean they cannot live on through their memories. Find someone you trust or perhaps an outsider you feel comfortable with like a counsellor or support group and push yourself to go. Struggling to cope alone is never the best option but find what works for you, the best tools to help you deal with the emotions that come hand in hand with grief. Don’t push people away – take some space for yourself but don’t sit alone forever.
Give yourself time. There is no set time for grieving. It is different for each person. You will perhaps try and fill the space or void that you are feeling but unless you have accepted the feelings of grief, it will be impossible to fill as it once was. Techniques such as practising mindfulness may help as they teach you how to focus on the positive thoughts you have and pop the negative ones like bubbles floating on a breeze. The most important thing to do is move forward but at a pace you’re happy with and before too long, you’ll start to feel the sunshine on your face once more.
If you’re suffering through grief and loss and would like someone to talk to, please do get in touch and I’d be happy to talk and help you through the difficult time you are having. |
global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/81101 | I hope that the meta mi yodea is the right place for this. I noticed that a question, this, is considered as duplicate. That is not my question (bu I am Nogea Badavar because I tried to answer this question). It seems that an error occured because it is obviously not a duplicate, the subject is treated in two part in tosfot Nazir and gittin. I have send a comment to say it but no response was given. I wondering, perhaps is that the rule, no discussion after decision? If it is the case, I can try to understand. May be also that I do not see the duplication. But a good response is welcome.
1. A girl, Sarah do not know if his father married his daughter (Sarah) when she was younger than 12. Someone offer a gift and we have a doubt (Sivlonot topic, See the explanation of Rashi and Tosfot in massechet Kidushin 50B). See the explanation of the problem here.
2. We know that the above-cited problem exists. A man looks for a women to be his bread. He asks if there is uncertainty about every women because, perhaps she received mishloach manot as child, and if it is the case, her deceased father can not raise the doubt about kidushin.
The second case is the deleted question.
• Meta is the right place to bring concerns like this. Thank you for doing so! And no, we definitely don't have a "no discussion after closure" rule; we're all human, and if you disagree with a decision about a particular question please do bring it up. In this case I think the distinction between the two questions isn't clear to people; feel free to edit the one that's on hold to clarify the difference. (I'm commenting rather than answering because I don't yet have an opinion on this question itself; I'm just responding to the "process" part of your question.) – Monica Cellio Mar 21 '16 at 12:52
• @MonicaCellio I understand, I agree that the second topic is not a real good question but I realy think that it was the question. I matter of Chashat it is weak, but this denote the need to know the second sugia. Thanks for your post – kouty Mar 21 '16 at 13:02
It seems to me that the two questions are asking basically the same thing. How can a man avoid getting into an issue with kiddushin when sending a woman a gift? The example in the newer question is slightly more specific, but it's the same thing. It could be that you have two different sources for this type of question. That sounds kind of normal.
Could you maybe explain why you think it's not a duplicate?
• for the orphan girl toward all men, for everybody toward all girls. See please the tosfot itn nazir that I tried to explain – kouty Mar 21 '16 at 5:37
• I explained in details the difference. – kouty Mar 21 '16 at 6:55
• explained in the OP I hope that it is the original meaning of the Dude's question. – kouty Mar 21 '16 at 7:06
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/81124 | “Listening In” Interview with Warren Cole Smith on “Reading” Films
In spring 2018, Ken Boa led a session for the Colson Center for Christian Worldview on “How to ‘Read’ a Film.” Warren Cole Smith, who facilitated the course, decided to sit down with Ken afterward and discuss more in-depth his 10-part process for evaluating films. This was the second time Ken was a guest on Smith’s show this year (earlier, he spoke to him about his book Life in the Presence of God).
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What Makes a “Good Movie”?
Whether you deem a movie to be “good” or not depends on your definition. It also depends on your approach to movies. Read about the five main approaches to film watching in the Christian world, ranging from an abstinence mindset to seeing films as dialogue-starters or even “divine encounters.” Also, Ken discusses questions of agenda and worldview as they relate to films.
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100 Greatest Foreign Films
In this top 100 foreign film list from DigitalDreamDoor, we highlight films also on Ken Boa’s list of recommended films due to their combination of artistic merit and spiritual/moral themes.
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Teaching Approaches and Learning Styles
Ken Boa explores seven approaches to teaching/learning, all used by Jesus, that demonstrate the importance of variety and unpredictability in our communication delivery methods. The seven methods are lecture, stories, visual aids, Q&A, discussion, drama, and projects. These are useful to anyone, but especially those who teach, preach, or mentor on a regular basis.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/81128 | Podcast 70: Jessica Tye - Let Food Be Thy Medicine.
Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food... Jessica didn't come up this quote but she wished she did. She talks about how food helped heal her, her son and her journey to better health.
Jessica became inspired by the healing powers of food. She became a Nutrition Therapy Practitioner to help others find healing with good nutrition.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/81154 | Implementation Science Resource Hub at University of Washington
University of Washington, Department of Global Health’s Implementation Science Program - Implementation Science Resource Hub
Use this implementation science resource hub from University of Washington to learn:
• Basic principles, definitions and concepts of implementation science.
• Theories, models and frameworks - what they are, what they aren't and methods to decide which to use.
• Implementation science training opportunities at UW
• Grant writing tips and potential funding mechanisms to move your research forward. |
global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/81174 | Old Advice
The tortoise and the hare. I’m definitely guilty of being the hare, trying to sprint through a long race and coming out worse off than the plodders.
Slowing down in order to with the race wasn’t on my mind back when I was ruminating upon time investment in April. It seems like a sound strategy though. A little insurance that I’ll still be going strong in 10 years rather than selling out, because ultimately that’s how to make a bigger difference.
Tonight I was home by 6pm. I reached a natural stopping point at work and decided to leave rather than starting something else. It was great! I chatted with my mother, blogged, made some blog notes for tomorrow, threw in some laundry, and am now going to relax over a simple yet delicious supper and read Guns Germs and Steel.
I would love to hear how other people find time to slow down. If you’re a sprinting hare, how’s it going for you, and what motivates you?
EDIT: Ok, I’ll write another quick post I meant to write earlier today, and then I’ll go relax. Seriously! I’m going now!
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/81178 | What is the Function of a Corporate Lawyer in Thailand?
A brief overview of the functions and responsibilities of foreign and Thai corporate lawyers in the Kingdom of Thailand.
Tips for Doing Business in Thailand
Interested in doing business in Thailand? This brief article and video provides good information for those thinking about setting up a business in Thailand.
Thailand Corporate Law: Winding Down a Thai Company
When doing business in Thailand it sometimes proves necessary to wind down a company's operations.
Domicile and Corporate Registered Addresses in Thailand
Information about registered addresses for corporate domicile purposes in Thailand.
Information About Company Directors in Thailand
An overview on issues associated with corporate directorships in Thailand.
The Importance of Thai Administrative, Secretarial, and Corporate Services
Information about the various types of services which can be provided to companies wishing to do business in Thailand.
Is Financial Technology (Fintech) the Next Major Sector in Thailand?
Fintech has been the topic of intense discussion in Thailand.
New Information Associated with the Thai Foreign Business Act
Recent high level discussions have revolved around changes to the FBA.
Thai Labor Law and How it Impacts Employer-Employee Relations
The Labor code in Thailand has a tremendous impact upon how some businesses are run.
Thailand Work Permits: Corporate Financial Requirements
Financial requirements necessary to maintain a work permit in Thailand. |
global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/81200 | Every night I tell myself, 'well I just stand up and do my morning routine'. My morning routine is efficient and brilliant, it contains a workout, coffee, and always plenty of time to start the day without a hurry. But I'm annoyed about the amount of time it takes from the first alarm bell till I actually manage to force myself out of bed. I tend to snooze.
• :-) it helps that my alarm clock lets me snooze for only half an hour (once every five minutes. imagine! how annoying!)
• :-) it sometimes works for me to count myself down from ten to zero, but
• :-( I trick myself, slowing down the count so much so that I fall asleep again before I get to zero and
• :-( I rarely even think of doing this.
• :-( it does not work to put the alarm clock somewhere else, forcing me to get up and walk around.
How can I reduce the time between first alarm bell and getting up?
EDIT: what has helped best is understanding that snoozing is totally habitualized and therefore, waking (and staying up) on the first beep also is. Simple, but not easy. Thank you everyone for awesome ideas!
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Hi petz, Welcome to Lifehacks.SE. Don't use snooze and reduce your count from ten to three. – Stan May 22 '18 at 15:46
• See the invention at youtube.com/watch?v=pqGTtFIZm5Y . Skip ahead to 1:00 to see it in action. – DrMoishe Pippik May 23 '18 at 1:50
• Get smart lightbulbs. You can program them to light up when you want, so it is harder to fall asleep again – Mario Garcia May 29 '18 at 10:38
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I actually had this problem. I used to time myself about 2 hours ahead of my scheduled arrival to work. Getting to the office is about 15 to 20 minutes. So that leaves me about 1 hour and 30 minutes to do anything I want. The problem was that I had 1 hour and 30 minutes to do anything I want. Reduce your preparation time. That way you will not take a snooze and go do what you actually need to do. When I wake up in the morning it goes directly to sitting down on the bed. Prepare all the stuff I need to bring while sitting on the bed. Then getting up and taking a shower, get dressed, get my stuff and move out. This takes me about 30 minutes to do.
A great solution I found to this was placing the alarm clock at the foot of my bed beyond my reach. I therefore had to get out of bed to hit the snooze button. I found that once I was actually out of bed, I naturally wanted to stretch and begin my daily routine.
The way I look at it is this: I have a drop-dead time that I need to be out of bed in the morning in order to get to work on time. Let's say that's 07:00.
If I get out of bed after 07:00 I'll miss the train and then be late for work.
Why would I set my alarm for 6:30 and have luxury of "snoozing", when I could have the luxury of actually sleeping from 6:30 to 07:00? Set the alarm for the last moment that you know you can perform your morning routine and still get to where you need to be. Sleep, then, when the alarm wakes you, there is no scope for pressing snooze - you need to be moving!
Those 30 minutes will be quality sleep and will mean you are getting more sleep and better sleep.
Some days, you might find that you start to wake before the alarm goes-off. This will only happen if you've had enough good-quality sleep. THEN you can check the clock, see that you have 30 minutes until drop-dead time, and make a decision whether to revel in your well-earned "snooze-time" or get-up early and have a more leisurely morning routine.
• One thing to add: if you revel in your snooze time, you have a tendency to keep extending your time until you're late. – Trajan Espelien May 24 '18 at 17:17
• @TrajanEspelien Exactly right. For me, I jump out of bed at the first bleep of the alarm, happy that I've slept to the very last second that I'm able to do so. – Lefty May 24 '18 at 17:31
I once had an alarm clock that had to be physically thrown across the room to shut the h*** up. (one of those miniature football ones) The exercise woke me up. But as I got older, and included other people in my life and home, my girlfriend started putting sh** that can break around my... I mean our bedroom. Now I just have her. But she does deliver coffee to me before I even consider getting out of bed, and that usually helps. Either by the caffeine content, or spilling hot liquid on my chest - both works.
Is there anything that will keep you awake? For example, put your favorite game open on your computer before you go to bed and put it by your alarm, which is further away from your bed. Then when you wake up to turn off the alarm, you'll want to play which will wake you up more.
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this is a great idea. but I can't think of anything. I don't play, especially not video games. I might try solving a puzzle or just do handstands. – petz May 28 '18 at 5:21
It may be the case that you are not getting enough and/or good quality sleep. [I've found out that I need to sleep a certain amount of time and if I don't I want to snooze for the rest of the time I've missed sleeping (and this has nothing to do with what time I go to bed).] Maybe what you need to do is reschedule your inner clock (there is a lot of useful information on the internet on how to do that) so that you go to bed earlier and get the actual amount of sleep you need, or reconsider you overall sleeping routine so that you get better quality sleep (there is a lot of information on that, too), or both.
In addition to the other's advices, I think it's important to consider another aspect of the morning routine : being rigorous and forcing you to do stuff to wake up might not be the solution for everyone.
You need to give yourself the WILL to wake up, by setting everything you need in the morning the day before, at bedding time.
For instance set a timer on your coffee machine if you're a coffee lover, the smell can help, use a nice sunlight dimmer lamp, set all your clothes for the day ready to wear, keep your place clean and things easy to find.
Another thing you might want to try is opening a window/curtain. Having sunshine directed at you right after the alarm clock, can really help for waking you up.
Also, the urgency trick and allowing enough sleep time and quality works well for me too.
If you are running late then make your bed in bed.
.First pull your covers to where you want them to go.
.Then roll out of bed
. Fluff your pillows
> And you're done!!!
I use a wake-up light without a snooze button. Now, I built mine myself and the plans aren't ready yet, but I suspect you can get something like that on the market.¹ It's not necessary that the unit fully wake you up—if it does not, it will still make your body more prepared to be awake when your other alarm rings.
Speaking of which, an older trick is to set a very loud alarm to ring 5 minutes after your primary alarm. You are supposed to want to wake up at the first alarm, because the second is so loud and annoying. You need to turn it off before it rings. This should be a different device than your first alarm, so it acts independently and can be placed outside your room—all the better to motivate you to take care of it before it rings. Put it in a window, and you'll know you're annoying neighbors if you don't turn it off.
[1] For the wake-up light, I suggest a unit with LEDs, because an incandescent unit will show different brightnesses depending on which bulb you buy. Or to imitate this solution, put a lamp on a timer, but it will induce a degree of discomfort which isn't present in a light that brightens according to something like brightness = (minutes until alarm / 20)³. I had a Philips light, but didn't like it much.
Firstly, there should be in your mind that how much sleep do you require in a day. -there should be at least a gap of one hour between your taking dinner and going to bed. -Before going to bed, drink some water. -There should be suitable temperature and air crossings in the room. -Ensure that there is not any kind of noise or disturbance. -Make an alarm of 15 minutes before the getting up time. -Not total darkness, a very dim light should be there in your room. -Go to bed 15 minutes before your sleeping time. -You should awake up on the alarm ring and be in the sitting position immediately and should be out of the bed well before 15 minutes of the alarm ring.
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