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SQL*Loader is a client tool. It runs on your desktop and connects to the database over SQL*Net. It’s part of the Oracle Client installation. It reads one or more files, parses the data, and loads it to your tables. A control (CTL) file that defines how the data is to be read does most of the hard work. Actually, you’ll do most of the hard work by creating the CTL file. Are my strings single or double-quoted? What delimits a value, commas or pipes perhaps?
I think one of the reasons folks tend to stick with ‘the GUI’ is that they like running a wizard, answering a few questions, and then hitting ‘Go.’ I’m guessing you didn’t know you could use SQL Developer’s Import Data Wizard to look at your data, build the CTL file, and then give you a batch or SH file to execute to kick things off. I’m guessing that because until today, I didn’t know either 🙂
Here’s what a CTL file can look like
load data
infile 'C:\Users\jdsmith\Documents\table_exports\beer_pipe_delimited2.dsv' "STR '\r\n'"
into table BEER_COPY
fields terminated by '||'
trailing nullcols
( BREWERY CHAR(4000),
STATE CHAR(4000),
COUNTRY CHAR(4000),
CITY CHAR(4000),
ID CHAR(4000)
This file was created by SQL Developer. Now the ‘beer_pipe_delimited’ file was ALSO created by SQL Developer via the Export Wizard. Once I have a pipe-delimited file, what the ‘best’ way to load that to Oracle?
If you have access to your database server, then I’d say an External Table is probably a good way to go. But, if you’re just a ‘lowly developer’ who can’t put stuff on the server and you don’t have a SAMBA directory setup, then SQL*Loader is a nice fall-back position.
Building the SQL*Loader Control File
It’s not JUST for Excel!
Once you open the Import Data wizard from your table context menu, you’ll be asked to supply the file that holds the data to be loaded.
Define the Record and String Delimiters
Get this right!
If you have the settings correct, you should see your records in the grid. If they look ‘funny,’ stop. Don’t pass go. Make sure the Enclosure and Delimiter settings are correct. Otherwise you’re going to have some bad data inserted, if it happens to insert at all.
If your data looks kinda ‘funny,’ then make sure your file Encoding scheme is right. If it’s set to Unicode and your file isn’t Unicode, you’ll know right away you have a problem.
Choose Your Import Method
You want the one that says ‘SQL*Loader Utility’
You’ll notice that ‘Insert’, ‘Insert Script,’ and ‘Staging External Table’ are also available. Insert will work just fine, but if you’re dealing with a large amount of records, it will take much longer to run than SQL*Loader or using an External Table.
Map the Columns
The wizard defaults to loading the source columns to the target table columns. If they are named differently, you’ll just need to map them manually using the dropdown control.
Defining the SQL*Loader Options
Where to put the log file, where to write the generated files to, etc
You’ve already done the ‘hard’ work. Now you just need to tell SQL Developer where to write the CTL and batch script files to. And where you want to log the SQL*Loader session to. And how big to make the buffer and to ID the characterset.
Once you click ‘Finish,’ you won’t find your new records in your table. No, what you’ll find are the files you need to start your SQL*Loader session.
The Generated Files
You’re almost there!
You’ve already seen what the CTL file looks like. Since I’m on Windows, let’s take a look at the generated .BAT file.
sqlldr CONTROL=beer_pipe_delimited2.ctl LOG=C:\Users\jdsmith\Documents\beer_pipe_delimited2.log BAD=C:\Users\jdsmith\Documents\beer_pipe_delimited2.bad skip=1
This basically tells Windows to fire up ‘sqlldr,’ which is the EXE that runs SQL*Loader. It sends the CTL file, tells it where to LOG, where to write failed records to.
Now on my machine, I had a problem. I don’t have $ORACLE_SID setup, because Oracle isn’t running there. So to get this to work, I needed to put in my connect string. So I modified the file to
sqlldr hr/[email protected]:1521/orcl CONTROL=beer_pipe_delimited2.ctl LOG=C:\Users\jdsmith\Documents\beer_pipe_delimited2.log BAD=C:\Users\jdsmith\Documents\beer_pipe_delimited2.bad skip=1
Gotta love that password, huh? Of course you can use this batch file or create your own. The expected parameters will show if you run SQLLDR by itself.
SQL*Loader: Release - Production on Wed Aug 15 16:52:15 2012
Valid Keywords:
userid -- ORACLE username/password
control -- control file name
log -- log file name
bad -- bad file name
data -- data file name
discard -- discard file name
discardmax -- number of discards to allow (Default all)
skip -- number of logical records to skip (Default 0)
load -- number of logical records to load (Default all)
errors -- number of errors to allow (Default 50)
rows -- number of rows in conventional path bind array or between direct p
ath data saves
(Default: Conventional path 64, Direct path all)
bindsize -- size of conventional path bind array in bytes (Default 256000)
silent -- suppress messages during run (header,feedback,errors,discards,part
direct -- use direct path (Default FALSE)
parfile -- parameter file: name of file that contains parameter specification
parallel -- do parallel load (Default FALSE)
file -- file to allocate extents from
skip_unusable_indexes -- disallow/allow unusable indexes or index partitions (D
efault FALSE)
skip_index_maintenance -- do not maintain indexes, mark affected indexes as unus
able (Default FALSE)
commit_discontinued -- commit loaded rows when load is discontinued (Default FA
readsize -- size of read buffer (Default 1048576)
external_table -- use external table for load; NOT_USED, GENERATE_ONLY, EXECUTE
(Default NOT_USED)
columnarrayrows -- number of rows for direct path column array (Default 5000)
streamsize -- size of direct path stream buffer in bytes (Default 256000)
multithreading -- use multithreading in direct path
resumable_name -- text string to help identify resumable statement
resumable_timeout -- wait time (in seconds) for RESUMABLE (Default 7200)
date_cache -- size (in entries) of date conversion cache (Default 1000)
no_index_errors -- abort load on any index errors (Default FALSE)
PLEASE NOTE: Command-line parameters may be specified either by
position or by keywords. An example of the former case is 'sqlldr
userid=scott/tiger'. One may specify parameters by position before
but not after parameters specified by keywords. For example,
position of the parameter 'log' is correct.
The Output
Ok, so I have my batch file ready to go. I just double-click on it, Windows launches SQL*Loader and I sit back and watch! But it’s a very short show. It takes less than 2 seconds for Oracle to load the almost 12,000 beer records.
11955 Rows successfully loaded.
0 Rows not loaded due to data errors.
0 Rows not loaded because all WHEN clauses were failed.
0 Rows not loaded because all fields were null.
Space allocated for bind array: 240120 bytes(12 rows)
Read buffer bytes: 1048576
Total logical records skipped: 1
Total logical records read: 11955
Total logical records rejected: 0
Total logical records discarded: 0
Run began on Wed Aug 15 16:55:38 2012
Run ended on Wed Aug 15 16:55:40 2012
Elapsed time was: 00:00:01.79
CPU time was: 00:00:00.31
This is a good bit faster than loading my data via the Excel importer, which is the same as doing a bunch of straight INSERTS. If you want to know why this is faster, we can go back to the docs.
I Realize You Probably Will Still Like the Excel Importing Better
But, I hope you also know you have alternatives available when you run into problems with Excel imports. You can easily save an Excel file to CSV and load it up as an External Table or with SQL*Loader.
Can we make our interfaces with SQL*Loader and Data Pump better? Let us know about it in our Exchange or here via the comments section.
1. SQL*Loader: Release – Production on Tue Dec 24 11:55:19 2019
Path used: Direct
^Z^CSQL*Loader-2028: load discontinued to user interrupt (Ctrl-C) [4]
please help in resolving above error
2. This may seem to be a very basic question. Once the batch file is generated, where do you run the script? Sorry I am new to this.
• thatjeffsmith
That bat script is going to call sqlldr.exe which has a command line interface…so you’re going to do everything from a CMD window (assuming you’re on Windows OS)
3. Avinash Nagawade Reply
Very helpful information Jeff!!
I have nclob column in my table, when tried to export table data into csv file I am getting “File contains invalid format data”.
can you suggest how we can handle thins ?
Avinash Nagawade
• Avinash Nagawade
Hi Jeff,
I tried to export data using the sql develope’s loader option, got succeed into data export but failed into reimport.
Data export from sqldeveloper exported the nclob data of each row into separate file with the different -different file names and reference of those files added into the main loader file.
example – “0|TEST_LOADER_NCLOBcfe88253-0163-1000-814d-ac1839e22321.ldr|”
when I tried to reimport the data sqldeveloper imported the rest of data perfectly but nclob column is showing the filename(“TEST_LOADER_NCLOBcfe88253-0163-1000-814d-ac1839e22321.ldr”) instead of actual data in the file which is created separately to store nclob data.
I am not sure what did I missed. please help.
• thatjeffsmith
Ok so it sounds like it’s all working up until you go to import it. If you open one of the NCLOB data files, is the data there as expected?
>>when I tried to reimport the data sqldeveloper imported the rest of data perfectly but nclob column is
This doesn’t make sense. Did you mean when you tried to reimport the data, SQL Loader…?
• Avinash Nagawade
Sorry, yes you are right.
4. Hi jeff,
I ran the bat file with correct user name and pw, still i am getting the error
SQL*Loader-128: unable to begin a session
ORA-01017: invalid username/password; logon denied
can you please help on this.
• thatjeffsmith
might be a TNS issue, can you get sql*plus to connect using the same connect string? You might need to set ORACLE_SID in your session.
5. Julia Wiener Reply
Hello, just a quick note to say the links to the Oracle help center in your post describing the different methods do not work (ERROR 404), in case you would like to update it.
6. Hi Jeff.
I find it strange that when SQL Developer generates the SQL*Loader control file using the “import” wizard, it uses CHAR(4000) as the type for all of the columns (I know the size of the buffer can be modified), but when the control file is created by the “export” wizard, the data types are defined according to the actual columns’ data types.
Is there a reason for that behavior?
• thatjeffsmith
Using 17.3.1 – running, SELECT * FROM LOCATIONS, export to Loader, I don’t see this. I see each column sized as it’s defined in the table.
• Yes, that is exactly my point.
When you export, the loader control file is created with the appropriate data types, but when you import, the control file that is created creates always CHAR() columns.
• It shows CHAR(4000) as the type for all of the columns in the CTL Files. Thanks
7. Sanket Kelkar Reply
Hi Jeff,
Thanks for the awesome information.
However, I am stuck at one thing. I have Oracle server 11g and SQL Developer client 3.2. When I follow your steps, under Import Methods I can not see sqlldr option. I have kept sqllder.exe in sql developor’s BIN folder (which is right or wrong I am not sure).
Can you please let me know from where I can download sqlldr file which is compatible with sql developer 3.2 ? Or will I need sql developer re-installation ?
Waiting for your inputs on this.
Sanket Kelkar.
8. Dhanalakshmi Palaniswamy Reply
In SQL developer I am trying to import XML file into my database using import data option.
When I browsed for my XML file I get the Open File Error ‘Could not open File____ because of the error:null’ Please help.
9. Thanks for finally talking about > Using Oracle SQL Developer
to Setup SQL*Loader Runs <Liked it!
10. M. Whitener Reply
Hi Jeff – great post! I’m running a very recent version of SQL Developer (I really like SQL Developer BTW) on a text file and it’s just saying:
File _______ cannot be opened due to the following error: null
I’ve tried a couple of different files and tables. The files look fine. They are pipe-delimited text files and the tables were correctly created.
• @M. Whitener I received the same error. My solution was to rename the file from .txt to .csv. Unfortunately, the interface is strongly type to a file type. You’d think that a person could just click a few buttons to setup an import with a .txt file or what not.
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/3003 | How to Craft Powerful Yoga Themes in 3 Steps.
As a yoga teacher trainer, one of the things newer yoga teachers often ask me about is how to find the right words to teach for a theme. As a new teacher, it's sometimes hard enough to simply get left and right correct. Well, let's be honest, some days it's hard no matter how long you've been teaching. This post is intended to give new teachers a method for finding the right language to land a theme.
Here are the important steps in doing that.
1. Find a theme that is easily universalized. There will be a wide range of students in your class who have differing life experiences. Try not to assume that just because you have had an experience, or learned a specific lesson, that it will also be a part of what they are also curious about. Pick something that is broad and think of the various ways that a person could experience your theme. It is helpful if you find a theme that allows each person in the room to have their experience. For example, you could pick something like mindfulness. There are a million different ways a person can experience this and the container of this experience will come from the way you define it. The dictionary defines it as: a mental state achieved by focusing one's awareness on the present moment, while calmly acknowledging and accepting one's feelings, thoughts, and bodily sensations. Let's use this definition for the rest of the exercise.
2. Explore how the theme can be known through movement. The theme should also relate to how you move as this allows the students to have a felt sense of the theme. So, for example, with mindfulness, you could have the students explore how to slow down their movements and notice the movement through the muscles. This gives enough space that each student can have the experience of feeling their own body without you defining what that means to them. The inquiry is simply what they see when they slow down.
3. Move with the theme in your body and then journal about it. Notice how this feels in your body. Write about any times that you have felt this. What are the words that start to come up as you write? Can you use these words to create cues for your class? For example, when I move more slowly, it feels as though I am moving through honey or that I am in a slow-motion video. It feels like the movement trickles through my muscles like a slow wave. The cues would become, move slowly, as though you are moving through honey.
The most powerful people in the world are poets. Through their use of language, they shape and create a new reality for people. Our imagination is a super powerful tool for a yoga teacher to play with. It can create some really fun experiences as teachers. It is hard to teach something you haven't experienced. Let your practice of life and your mat be your guide. I always keep a journal handy to write down the good ideas or things I am exploring.
The last step here is the most important. PRACTICE. It has taken me years to learn how to deliver a yoga class with seamless language. And even still, I sometimes don't nail it. But each class is a learning experience. And I keep track of what works and what doesn't work. If you treat your practice of teaching in the same way that you treat your physical practice, each time you step into the role of teacher will feel a little more easeful and familiar. You absolutely don't have to be perfect every class to impact your students. You just have to be you.
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/3017 | At least once every year, I develop an unforgiving cough and congestion so bad I have trouble hearing. Each time, as I burrow under my favorite blanket and clutch onto Sudafed and Mucinex for dear life, I wonder: Why again? And why always when I have fun weekend plans? It doesn’t take me long to realize—I’m burnt out. True to form, I’ve agreed to too many responsibilities and side gigs on top of my fulltime job, and my body is not happy.
I know I’m not alone. As a reporting and evaluation manager for an employee wellness company, one of my responsibilities is to identify and analyze top health risks for the thousands of individuals our programs serve. And usually, stress ends up in the top three (out of 15).
While it’s true that a little can be good for you, the consistent presence of it is not. “Chronic stress, of course, has been shown over and over to be a bad thing for body and brain,” says Alice G. Walton, a Forbes science and health writer. “It actually seems to suppress the generation of new nerve cells and inhibit memory, not to mention increase one’s risk for being overweight; developing heart disease and possibly cancer; developing addictions; and experiencing depression, anxiety, and sleep problems.”
Well, that sounds exciting (read: horrifying). But minimizing levels of it is easier said than done, as it can be difficult to notice when you’re overdoing it—most likely because you’re so busy you can’t keep tabs on how you’re feeling.
But if you identify with any of the following five signs, it may be time to take a step back.
1. You’re Snapping at Everyone (for No Good Reason)
When your co-worker poses a simple question—“Hey, can you proofread this memo for me?”—and you act like she asked you to read the employee handbook to her. You huff and puff and silently wonder why she’s so very stupid. Instead of calmly responding with a “Sure” or “Give me a few seconds to wrap this up,” you answer with venom-laced words: “Um, I’m kinda busy right now, but sure, whatever.”
Later on, you realize you severely overreacted, and the embarrassment sets in. Christine Porath, a professor at Georgetown University’s business school, explains that a lot of people have no idea they’re being rude to others. And it’s probably “because they're so stressed and overwhelmed that they don't have the mental bandwidth to consider other people's hurt feelings.” (But just because you’re not the only drama queen doesn’t give you the excuse to be Cruella.)
2. You’re Thinking About Work All the Time
Your hours may be nine to five, but your mind is occupied with work 24/7. During your commute, while eating dinner, when you’re trying to fall asleep, in your dreams—you know the drill. It’s the sole topic of conversation when talking with friends and family, and the only thing you can think about when you’re pretending to listen to them (smile, nod, smile, nod).
I’m not saying you should limit every thought about it to specific days and times—you’re not a robot (if you are, though, no judgment here). But as Adrian Granzella Larssen, Editor-in Chief of The Daily Muse says, “bringing too much work home—even if that work is just rolling around in your head—can quickly make you an anxious, sleep-deprived, pretty boring dinner guest.” And no one wants that!
3. You Can’t Focus Enough to Actually Be Productive
It’s time to get down to it, but you just can’t seem to make any progress (or even get started). Countless thoughts are bouncing around inside your head at lightning speed, and you have no idea how to control them. And so begins the vicious cycle—you’re overwhelmed because you’ve got a lot to do, but you’re fretting about it so much that you can’t accomplish anything.
You can blame this frustrating situation on your body’s response to regular anxiety, which is really helpful when you need survival mode to kick in, but not so helpful when it’s impairing your concentration.
4. You Aren’t Sleeping Well (or at All)
You’re exhausted at the end of the day, but when you finally retire for the night, you spend hours staring at the ceiling. At last, you drift off (hopefully), but you toss and turn all night. When you wake up the next morning, you’re just as tired as you were before.
“When we’re stressed,” says Lindsay Holmes, Deputy Healthy Living Editor for The Huffington Post, “our minds race with thoughts instead of shutting down at night, inhibiting important functions involved in memory, muscle repair, and mood (yikes).”
It gets worse, says Holmes. It can also lead to persistent insomnia and a malfunctioning immune system (which explains that nagging cold I get each year). Weird dreams are also a common symptom—such as that time my subconscious explored the ins and outs of PowerPoint, which was super riveting and enlightening.
5. Your Entire Body Feels Sore
When there’s too much tension in your mind, it’ll manifest itself in your body in several ways, as well—pain and stiffness in your back, neck, hips, and shoulders; headaches; a clenched jaw; and more.
“When the brain senses a threat, it activates the sympathetic nervous system and signals the adrenal glands to pump out adrenaline, cortisol, and other hormones that prime the body for action,” shares Melinda Beck, a health contributor for The Wall Street Journal. “Together, they make the muscles tense up, the digestive tract slow down, blood vessels constrict, and the heart beats faster.”
And when your body has this reaction unnecessarily—like to an overflowing inbox rather than to a saber tooth tiger—your muscles will remain contracted for a prolonged period of time (hence all those knots in your upper back).
Listen—you can’t avoid feeling this way all the time. It’s part of life, and sometimes very important. But when it’s long-term, the effects can be harmful. So, while you can’t eliminate it completely, you can prevent it from spinning out of control and taking over your life. The first step? Being aware of your behavior and how you feel.
And then, figure out the best way to manage your to-do list, remember to take (frequent) breaks, disconnect fully on a regular basis, and when you need to—ask for help. Learning how to successfully manage stress is key to a happy and healthy life. So, go on, conquer it! It’ll pay off big time.
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/3036 | Did you know that Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry served in WWII with a pilot named Kim Noonien Singh and lost…
Khan Noonien Singh, also known only as Khan, was one of the greatest villains in the notorious Star Trek universe. He was originally portrayed by Ricardo Montalban ever since 1967 before he was replaced by Benedict Cumberbatch in 2013. The character was so well developed that he was featured among the top 10 most notorious villains in the film industry.
The very first draft of the character’s story introduced him as John Ericssen. By the time the last draft was finished he was an Indian named Khan Noonien Singh. Star Trek’s creator and producer, Gene Roddenberry, had a friend named Kim Noonien Singh. They both served as pilots during the World War II, but Roddenberry lost touch with his friend after the war was over. In a desperate attempt to get back in touch with him, he decided to name his villain after him. Roddenberry was hoping that the real life Noonien Singh might hear the name and look for his long lost friend.
It’s not clear if Roddenberry ever heard of his friend again.
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Practical application of DIN and miniDIN connectors in electronics
In electronic equipment, we can come across numerous types of connectors and specific interfaces assigned to them. An example is the HDMI connector, which in principle only serves the purpose of transmitting audio-video signals through an HDMI interface. However, this is not always the case, as there are many more universal connectors, designed for transmitting different types of signals. They include DIN connectors and miniDIN connectors, which are described in this article.
590-0300 DELTRON
590-0300, DIN plug, DELTRON
4850.1310 SCHURTER
4850.1310, miniDIN plug, SCHURTER
DIN connectors – a brief history
DIN connector, also known as a “circular connector”, owes its origin to a German industrial standard. Initially, many different connectors were referred to as DIN, but it was only after some time that it was accepted that the term "DIN connector" describes a connection made according to the DIN 41524 standard, which has now been replaced by IEC 60130-9. In electronic equipment we can also find miniDIN connectors. This is a miniaturized version of the DIN connector, which was also developed by the German Institute for Standardization.
DIN connectors – identification
DIN connectors are marked by a three-digit code, the first digit of which indicates the number of pins and the two subsequent digits indicate the angle at which pins are arranged. The most popular DIN connectors are: 545 – used in megaphones, 590 – used as a headphone connector, and 560 and 660 – used for power transmission.
Discover DIN connectors available at TME
miniDIN connectors – types and number of pins
miniDIN connector is the successor to the standard DIN connector. Officially, there are seven types of connectors with three to nine pins. This is achieved by different pin layouts, an extra plastic element of different shapes and sizes, and the placement of additional pins on the shielding body.
In addition to the official seven types of miniDIN connectors, there are also those "unofficial", non-standard ones with an additional pin. In terms of construction, they have identical features as the official types – a shielding body and a diameter of 9.5 mm. However, these connectors are described as non-standard because they have not been approved by the German Deutsches Institut für Normung (German Institute for Standardization.
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miniDIN & DIN connectors – application
DIN and miniDIN connectors are applied in a wide range of electronic devices. Most often we can find them in audio equipment or as sockets in older computers.
Application of DIN connectors in speakers
DIN sockets and plugs are associated with audio equipment for a good reason. It is thanks to this field that they have become popular. The first to appear was a two-pin DIN 41529 connector, but it had quite a disadvantage – lack of external reinforcement. As a result, the connector was very easy to pull out. It happened that even a slight pull of the cable resulted in unplugging the connector. Nowadays, DIN connectors are manufactured using completely different technological processes, so we can find them in various sound systems. It is worthmentioning that they were used in radio systems installed in Mercedes-Benz cars.
Application of DIN connectors in peripheral devices (computer mice, keyboards)
Another quite popular application of DIN connectors, or, to be precise miniDINs, was connecting the mouse and keyboard to the computer. This was possible thanks to the 6-pin connector, which is also referred to as PS/2. The keyboard was connected to a purple socket and the mouse to a green socket. Currently, computer miniDIN sockets have been replaced by USB ports, but we can still find them in older models.
Application of miniDIN connectors as video outputs in graphic cards and laptops
Custom 7-pin miniDIN connectors were mainly used in older graphics cards and laptops. Such connectors were fully compatible with ordinary 4-pin S-Video cables, however, after connecting a special adapter supplied by the manufacturer, the full potential of the 7-pin connector could be used. Additional contacts were mostly used as lines of auxiliary and synchronizing signals as well as signals such as YPbPr, SPDIF in some Dell laptops.
Application of DIN connectors in film projectors
DIN connectors were also used in the film industry. They were mainly applied as speaker outputs in older types of 16 mm projectors.
Connectors for 3D liquid crystal glasses
3-pin DIN connectors were applied, among others, in 3D TVs. They were used to connect active "shutter" 3D glasses. Such a solution was used quite shortly, because watching films with glasses permanently connected to the TV set was rather uncomfortable. Manufacturers very quickly decided to place appropriate batteries in the glasses in order to power them wirelessly.
DIN & miniDIN as power connectors
DIN plugs and sockets are also quite commonly used in various types of lighting systems, mainly as power supply interfaces for LED systems and halogen lamps. Moreover, DIN connectors were also widely applied in theatre analogue lighting systems. Over time, as the digitisation progressed, they were replaced by digital lighting control systems.
Barcode readers
The above mentioned devices are commonly used in practically every retail store as well as in many companies. Not everyone knows about it, but we can also connect them to a cash register or other device thanks to the miniDIN connector. Nowadays, however, this type of connectors is more and more often replaced by USB ports.
Application of DIN connectors in MIDIs
MIDIs are also quite often fitted with DIN connectors. These sockets are installed in many audio devices, such as synthesizers, keyboards, audio cards and many others. Before the MIDI interface was developed, the issue of communication with musical equipment was solved individually, and it was only after its development that DIN sockets started to be commonly installed to facilitate and standardise connections between devices.
In conclusion, despite the passage of years, DIN and miniDIN connectors can be found in numerous application. Thanks to their versatility and lack of assignment to a specific communication interface, they are still successfully used in many devices. However, due to progressive digitization they are gradually being replaced by more common connectors such as USB. It should be remembered, however, that when designing our own devices or systems, we can use DIN and miniDIN connectors without hesitation.
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Five Stories with an Audacious Premise
If science fiction is a genre that asks “what if?”, then the authors of these five books have really outdone themselves. These are novels that go beyond the ordinary to ideas so outlandish that lesser authors might have rejected them as too insane. But these books aren’t comedies. These aren’t the kind of oddball concepts that just devolve into nonsense. Instead, these books take their audacious premises seriously, and bit by bit, explore the consequences to the characters and to humanity at large.
Darwinia, Robert Charles Wilson
Darwinia Robert Charles WilsonEurope disappears. It’s there one day in 1912, and gone the next. The land itself doesn’t vanish, but ships trying to arrive in port discover an untamed and unnatural wilderness where the continent once stood. Out of fuel, the ships are stranded there with no easy way back. And the millions of people who used to live there? Gone.
The Flicker Men, Ted Kosmatka
the-flicker-menThere’s a common misconception about quantum physics that reality doesn’t actually exist until it is observed. It’s the stuff of quack pseudoscience, but Kosmatka uses it as his premise: If this were really true, then what would we find when we studied the phenomenon? Would all humans be able to collapse the wave? What about animals? Children? The unborn? It’s a simple premise that kicks off a whirlwind of implications and follows them to far-reaching conclusions.
The Three-Body Problem Cixin Liu Ken LiuSince this book just won the Hugo Award, nobody needs me to tell them about it! It has lots of ideas, but the one audacious one that caught my attention: A character begins to see a countdown in every photograph he takes (but not in the photos his wife takes with the same camera). A countdown to what? That’s the question.
The Chronoliths, Robert Charles Wilson
The Chronoliths Robert Charles WilsonI didn’t want to repeat an author in this list, but Wilson is practically the king of audacious premises. (His novel Spin could easily make the list as well.) In this book, a huge monolith suddenly appears in Asia commemorating the victory of an unknown leader in a battle to take place 30 years in the future. Was it sent back in time? Will it really happen? Is it a hoax? Then a second monolith appears, mapping further conquests. And a third…
The Time Traveler’s Wife, Audrey Niffenegger
The Time Traveler's Wife Audrey NiffeneggerA man has a unique ailment: He travels in time. Uncontrollably. Frequently. Without warning, he jumps to some place and time important to him, frequently meeting his wife before he actually met her. It creates an incredible skein of mismatched cause-and-effect as he and his wife experience the major events in their relationship in a different order from each other. And incredibly, it all ties together perfectly.
Novels like these are some of the most exciting things science fiction can offer: ideas that no other genre can match. Ideas that are not only creative, but that dig deeper, delving into how the world around us works, and what makes us human.
David Walton is the Philip K. Dick Award-winning author of the 2015 quantum physics thrillers Superposition and Supersymmetry, a pair of books with audacious ideas of their own. You can read more about his work at his website.
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How to Create Useful Content that Ranks in Google
Monday, August 3rd, 2020 by Kristina McGovern
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The first and most important step in creating blog content that’s useful is knowing who you’re creating content for. For contractors, the target audience is most likely homeowners, commercial property owners, realtors, insurance adjusters, home inspectors, or all of the above. We understand that you may not have all the time in the world to dedicate to content creation or research, which is why we broke down several helpful tactics for you.
In this post you’ll learn about three major factors for creating content that’s valuable, useful, and ranked highly in Google.
1. Understand your audience
Knowing your audience is the first step in creating useful content. If you have five minutes then you have time to research. Here are a few tactics we suggest to collect useful data about your target audience:
Treehouse Resources: When it comes to researching useful content, there is a lot already available at your fingertips. In the Business Center, you have specific Reporting Widgets that are keeping track of your website’s data, keywords included.
• Explore It Widget: A word cloud that shows you what the top keywords on your website are, and vary in size based on how often they appear.
• Content Analysis: A list of your websites most visited pages, to give you a better idea of where viewers are going to find information.
Beyond what's available at your finger tips within the Business Center is Google's autocomplete. Research how your customers think by looking at the keywords that they are searching for on Google. Go to Google in an incognito window and type in your search queries (or keywords) one at a time. As you begin typing in the search box you’ll see predictions appear. This feature is known as Google autocomplete (or autosuggest).
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Google published a product update in 2018 explaining how autocomplete works. This is what they said:
“We look at the real searches that happen on Google and show common and trending ones relevant to the characters that are entered and also related to your location and previous searches.” This means Google will show you how potential customers are searching!
Another Google resource is its related questions feature. Look for the “People also ask” box on the search results page. This shows searches that are similar to your query in an attempt to answer your question. Clicking on a question and expanding it will trigger more related questions to appear. Make a note of the questions that best relate to your topic or services and write new blog posts or update existing posts to answer some of these questions.
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Google related searches: Scroll to the bottom of the search results page and look at the “Searches related to” links to see other search queries related to the topic you searched.
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Google Trends also allows you to see related topics and queries for a given search term and the results can be filtered by region, time range, category, and the type of search (web, image, news, etc.).
Tactic: Check out 3rd party discussion boards and forums. Customers often go to these sites in their own research for service industry answers. Read the questions and comments that your potential customers are posting on discussion boards and forums, such as Reddit, Houzz, Facebook, etc. and create related content.
Resource: Websites such as Answer the Public provides you with a list of questions that your potential customers are searching for related to your industry or keyword. After you’ve collected data about who your ideal customers are and what they’re looking for, you can then use this information to create click-worthy titles and engaging blog content.
2. Give your audience (and search engines) what they want
It’s important to focus on giving your ideal customers what THEY want – not what YOU want or what you THINK they want. Create content that answers their questions and solves their problems.
Focus on topics instead of keywords
It’s hard to talk about SEO and not talk about keywords and keyword research. Keywords tell searchers (and search engines) what your content is about. While keywords are still important for creating content that ranks in search engines, with advancements like Google’s RankBrain as explained in this article from Search Engine Land, Google can better understand the intent of a search query and the concepts on a web page based on the relationships of words using a machine-learning artificial intelligence system. Ask yourself what questions your potential customers might be asking about the topic and research those terms.
Use long-tail keywords in your content
Now that you know who your ideal customers are, what topic you’re focusing on, and why they are looking for a solution, put your keyword and related terms in the title, subheadings, image alt tags, and throughout the content of your blog post - without over-optimizing or keyword stuffing. Remember not to focus on a single keyword, but rather on answering the question your audience is asking.
Create local content
Small businesses, such as contractors, can compete in the local search results, improve rankings, and increase conversions by creating location-specific content. Write about local events that your business is hosting or sponsoring, company trainings, new products or services, projects, or customer testimonials. Your Treehouse website is already using the organic content you upload through the widgets, and generating geotargeted results as a customer views your website. Meaning the content that John Doe is viewing on your website is from work that is closest to him geographically. This gives viewers the sense that you’re a local contractor.
Tip: Make sure to mention specific towns and cities in the title of the post, throughout the content, and in image alt tags.
3. Engage your audience
The ultimate goal is to create unique, quality content that engages your audience and converts them into customers.
Focus on the intent: Useful content is clear, practical, and solves a problem. You should avoid jargon and keyword stuffing and make sure that your storytelling connects to your topic.
Use visuals: Adding photos, images, and infographics makes your content more digestible. Visual elements are proven to make people spend more time on your post and increase engagement on social media.
Promote your content: Don’t forget to promote your useful blog content on social media networks that are relevant to your industry and your audience.
For more ideas, check out this blog post where we explain how PR can impact your SEO efforts.
Once you understand who your ideal customer is, you can then create content that resonates with your audience and that’s ranked highly by search engines. If your audience finds your content useful, then Google will too.
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Tuesday, March 14, 2017 - 11:25am11:50am
Jeff Barber and Shie Erlich, Facebook
Real Time Infrastructure is a set of systems within Facebook that enables real time experiences on Facebook products, such as sending payloads to/from devices, real-time presence, push notifications, real-time delivery of comments and likes on News Feed, comments and reactions on Live (video) and many more across Facebook, Messenger, and Instagram. With more than 1B daily users on Facebook, Real Time Infrastructure is a very large scale affair – on the surface, these features seem to “just work,” while on the backend this is a complex system that we designed to work at scale that makes it run smoothly. This talk will focus on architecture, and how we design our systems at scale for low latency while reducing the risk of failure, and making it easier to recover when failure does occur.
Jeff Barber, Facebook
Jeff was writing code before Al Gore invented the Internet. Starting in college with building game engines for no games, his passion led him directly into infrastructure. After starting a company, doing a tour of duty at Amazon working on S3, Jeff landed a sweet gig at Facebook working on Real-time Infrastructure.
Shie Erlich, Facebook
Shie is an Engineering Leader for Facebook’s Real Time Infrastructure, which powers many large-scale real time experiences across Facebook, Messenger and Instagram. Previously Shie led engineering teams in Amazon’s S3 and Microsoft’s Windows Azure and has shipped software across the stack from cloud services and large scale distributed systems, through web development to RT/embedded systems.
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During the Industrial Revolution the British Empire was ruled by Queen Victoria, you can find out more about her by following the links below.
Task 1 - Find definitions for the following words:
This will help you with Task 2, so it really is worth doing.
Task 2 - Write a short biography about Queen Victoria, focusing on 5 key events in her life. You might want to focus on the subheadings below, or you could always choose your own.
Early Life, Marriage, The British Empire, Assassination Attempts, Later Life and Death.
Task 3 - Country of the British Empire factfile.
Following your research into how Queen Victoria ruled the British Empire, you can now use atlases and the internet to fill in the factfile below for a former member of the British Empire.
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Think about what the following means: consumer, producer, prey.
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Do any of them fall into more than one category? Can you put them in the correct order.
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/3129 | Dave Fletcher has a report on his blog about some of the technical choices by Utah State IT departments. He reports Brad Brown at ABC is pushing .NET while other departments are moving toward more Linux (which, with the Mono project could still be using .NET, of course). I think this is instructive.
Brad runs one of the most heavily retail environments in State government. He's got stores and a warehouse. Most of his infrastructure is built on Windows because the business driver, supporting retail operations, pushed them in that direction. In that environment, it makes perfect sense to invest in .NET on the back-end. There's tremendous leverage there.
I've long held that large organizations are going to have a difficult time saying "we're a .NET shop" or "we're a J2EE shop." Most IT organizations are going to be both. The beautiful part is that it just doesn't matter. With SOAP and WSDL, I can integrate a .NET app just as easy as I can integrate a J2EE app. So, I think Dave's right about standards, but I think the State can move beyond thinking about a standard on development platforms and get to a true reference profile that says "no matter what development platform you use, here's the standards you'd better be prepared to support."
An example of why this works is TCP. Back in the day, there were big arguments about what hardware to buy based on what network you used. Now we buy any hardware and know it will talk to the network. TCP solved these problems at one level in the network stack. Web services does the same thing further up the stack. We have the freedom to stop talking about .NET vs. J2EE vs. Whatever. That's a good thing.
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World War II Today: January 22 - British Censor Newsreels1940
Destroyer Exmouth torpedoed off Wick, Scotland by U-22; all hands killed.
British Ministry of Information begins censoring newsreels.
The Destroyer HMS Hyperion sunk by mine off Cape Bon.
Tobruk surrenders to British and Australian troops who capture 25,000 Italians, along with 208 guns and 87 tanks. Combined British and Australian losses were about 450. The British government now orders Wavell’s XIII Corps to capture Benghazi.
World War II Today: January 22 - Rommel Panzer Army Afrika
Rommel’s command is redesignated as Panzer Army Afrika. German panzers capture Agedabia and trap part of the British 1st Armored Division in the Antelat – Sannu area, destroying about 70 of its tanks.
General MacArthur orders the withdrawal of US and Filipino troops to the Bagac-Orion line, which is the final defensive position in Bataan. After dark the Japanese make two Battalion sized landings at Quinauan Point and Longoskawayan Point to the rear of the US-Filipino positions in Bataan. However, U.S. and Filipino reserves successfully contain these beachheads.
Japanese forces are routed at Sanananda, putting paid to their resistance in Papua. On Guadalcanal, the Americans make important gains in the battle round Henderson field.
The Battle of Anzio begins with an Allied amphibious landing in the region of Anzio and Nettuno, with the objective of outflanking German forces at the Winter Line and setting up a drive on Rome.
The Battle of Rapido River ends in German defensive victory.
Walter Model replaces Georg von Küchler as commander of Army Group North.
The land route from India to China through Burma is declared free of Japanese and now open to convoys.
The Red Army captures Insterburg and Allenstein in East Prussia.
Four squadrons of RAF Spitfires destroy a factory in Alblasserdam that manufactured liquid oxygen for German rockets.
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One of the most important qualities of friendship is unflinching support.
What About Your Friends?
Thanks to the current season of Insecure, all you've got to do is hop onto Twitter—Black Twitter, I mean—put in the words "Issa" and/or "Molly", and you're going to see a real-discussion-sometimes-war about what it means to have a real friendship. A good example of what I mean is Exhibit A.
Shoot, everything has actually gotten so intense to the point where executive producer Prentice Penny has come to the defense of Molly in the article, "'Insecure' Showrunner: Season 4 Backlash Against Molly Is 'Unnecessary'". Hmm. As someone who has been an avid watcher of the show, pretty much since day one, I've gotta say that "unnecessary" is a bit of a stretch (more on that in a bit). Then there is Issa Rae, the show's co-creator and her take on their dynamic. In one interview, she said, "They are friends, they are real-life friends, but there exists a specific dynamic in their friendship that both of them have gotten accustomed to. They're college friends who have taken on different paths." Real friends. That's an interesting conclusion to me as well.
I don't know about y'all, but I personally think the reason why a lot of what Issa and Molly have going on has us so triggered is because (thanks to this season's impeccable writing) we either have experienced what they are going through before or, perhaps we're recognizing that the Issa or Molly in our lives has us putting up with more than we actually should. And while their relationship has a billion-and-one takeaways, for me, I think what stands out, quite possibly the most, is it seems like they both could stand to gain a bigger grasp on what it means to be a supportive friend in someone else's life; especially if you profess that they are your best friend. If you give me a sec, I'll unpack a bit more where I am coming from by sharing some thoughts on what a supportive friend should actually do.
A Supportive Friend Makes You Stronger
While I'm not going to make this entire piece about Issa and Molly, I do think they both apply to my first two points really well. On the "make you stronger" tip, to tell you the truth, I think it's Issa who could stand to remember this particular point. Although Molly really has showed her ass in a lot of ways, one area where I totally get where she is coming from is Issa doesn't seem to be the most self-aware person on the planet. There have also been times, throughout all seasons of the show, when she comes across as extremely entitled and selfish, like when she automatically assumes that Molly is going to pick up the tab while they're out (like after the Kiss 'n Grind or when Issa wrecked her car and they went through a drive-thru to get something to eat). For Molly to get to the point where she is like "enough is enough" and "grow TF up" with her bestie, that doesn't make her evil or a bad person. It's just that her timing sucked in choosing to do it when Issa was in a bind. Plus, I'm not completely convinced that Molly's motive was pure. Without a doubt, she is passive aggressive as hell, with EVERYONE. She also isn't wrong in her eyes, hardly ever. But more on that in the second point.
Anyway, for Molly to want to pull back some so that her friend doesn't always treat her as her "get out of jail free card" is a form of being supportive, because if someone is always your crutch, if they are always enabling you, how are you going to mature and evolve?
The animal kingdom has all sorts of examples of mamas who, after a time, leave so that their babies can learn how to survive on their own. If we want our friends to be able to stand on their own, sometimes that means telling them "no". Not out of spite, but out of the sincere desire for them to embrace their own capabilities. That's one of the ways that all of us become stronger individuals.
A Supportive Friend Challenges You
If I had to choose between describing myself as being aggressive or passive aggressive, I'm definitely rocking with aggressive. I don't say "I'm fine" when I'm not (or act like things are fine when they aren't). I don't hold things in while waiting for someone to read my mind. I don't seek out to emotionally punish people who hurt me. Sarcasm isn't my first language. I'm not big on giving people the silent treatment. Meanwhile, Molly? Let me tell it, she's about all of these things. And since she sucks at being forthcoming about her feelings, wants and needs—and/or acts like folks should just automatically know about them—by the time she's suppressed to the point of being fed up, she comes across as mean…if not almost evil. She was like that with Jared (the Enterprise manager). She was like that with Jidenna's character (the lawyer). She was like that with Dro. She was like that with her dad when she found out that he did the same thing that she did (he cheated while she helped someone cheat). In this season, she did it with Issa (and she tries to do it with Asian Bae, Andrew). In fact, while I can't remember where I read the comment, a man by the name of Walt Bionick brought up another great point about how Molly tends to get down when he said, "Molly is the kind of person who invalidates your feelings if they conflict with her feelings." (I mean...)
Then, whenever all of these people bring to her attention that she could stand to look at herself and acknowledge that she's the clear common denominator in her relationships, she goes on the attack and acts like a victim (when Andrew apologized to her for helping out who is supposed to be her friend only "babied" her more into her toxic coping mechanisms, if you ask me. *le sigh*). Indeed, if anyone is the walking definition of not being able to take what they and their sharp tongue can dish out, it's Molly. Hmph. Perhaps if she listened to the people who truly cared about her, it could help her to get out of the cycle of constantly suppressing and then being resentful to the point of sabotaging so often—and so much.
Believe you me, some of the biggest "ouches" I've experienced have come from people who loved me enough to call me out on my ish. Anyone who thinks that a supportive friend shouldn't do that might want to mosey on over to Proverbs 27:6(NKJV) where it says, "Faithful are the wounds of a friend, but the kisses of an enemy are deceitful." I once read that this means a real friend will tell you about yourself without broadcasting their views to others because their intent is to challenge you to become a better person without putting you on full blast in the process. A mature individual will get that this is a form of support because if you only want people to see you as you do, there will probably be blind spots that will certainly hinder your progress—if not now, eventually. Friends want to see their friends thrive in life. Growing pains can be hard, so we have to be challenged, sometimes by our friends, along the way.
A Supportive Friend Is Lovingly Rather Than Brutally Honest
As direct as I am, personal growth is teaching me to dislike the phrase "brutally honest" more and more. I know folks are out here bragging about being savage and everything, but goodness—that is a really harsh word. While savage can mean "fierce", cruel, uncivilized and criticizing to the point of not knowing when and how to let up define it too. And you know what? All of this defines what it means to be a brutal individual. And who would want a friend, someone who professes to love and care about another individual, to speak from this kind of head and heart space?
I don't care if it's advice on a relationship or job, offering up some news that can be difficult to hear or being frank with someone about their personality or character, a supportive friend isn't going to lie. At the same time, what they also aren't going to set out to do is be honest in a way that ultimately does more harm than good. After all, one definition of support is to hold someone up. How can you do that if your words are so damning that all you actually end up doing is tearing your friend down?
A Supportive Friend CONSISTENTLY Wants to See You Win
One of the reasons why I wrote articles on this site like, "5 Signs Your Closest Friends Are The Most Envious Of You", "6 Signs A New 'Friend' Is Nothing But An Opportunist" and "10 Signs You've Got A Close (TOXIC) Friend" is because, make no mistake about it, deception is real, alive and kicking out in these streets. And the thing you've always going to remember about deceit is it's designed to look like the real thing…even though it's nothing more than a fraud.
How can you know when someone who claims to be a friend of yours is anything but? One sign is if they don't show any signs of wanting to see you win in life. You set goals and they automatically look at the obstacles—whether real or actualized—in order to discourage you. You ask for help and they are rarely available to assist. You end up with something (or even someone) that they wanted and they aren't enthused, they act shady or they even completely go ghost on you. It's like, so long as they are on top or you are "in the struggle" it's all good. But when success is within your grasp (or you've obtained it), now there's a problem. And that? That is a problem. By definition, a supportive person encourages, a supportive person helps, a supportive person rallies on your behalf. You know what else they do? They celebrate you in your wins. Not every once in a while, either; consistently so.
I've had some people in my life who wanted to be there so that I could support them. But when it came to me and my needs, I couldn't name one way that they were of assistance. That is wack. That's also (one of the reasons) why I released them too. A good friend is a great cheerleader. If you've got a "friend" who you can't say that about, I'd encourage you to rethink the role and position that they play in your life.
A Supportive Friend Loves You in Spite of Yourself. Period.
Is it just me or would it be super shocking if Insecure's Tiffany was hiding a secret about her baby, Simone? As a doula, while I must say that they are penning postpartum in a really realistic way (bravo!), Tiffany has always seemed to have a shady side to me. I mean, she did know that Lawrence and Condola were dating and didn't let Issa in on it. I also remember when her husband, Derek said he had to get "rid" of the co-worker Fred. Plus, Tiffany once said they had separated before but didn't want to talk about it (dun, dun, dun, dun). Chile, we shall see. But whatever is up, if there is one thing that the girls—Issa, Molly, Kelli and Tiffany—at least strive to do (even if it isn't always perfectly) is love one another…warts and all. Just as a supportive friend should do.
I don't know about you, but I've been in situations where I thought I was in a friendship. However, those people only acted like my friend so long as I had the same views, did the same things or approached life in a similar way to them. But when I wanted to do my own thing, even if that meant making some mistakes along the way, it's like I was penalized, if not emotionally punished for it. That made me want to be my authentic self with them less and less—and when you can't be genuine with someone, the relationship ends up being pretty unhealthy. And unhealthy eventually becomes unnecessary.
Another definition of supportive is sympathetic. That's when someone tries to understand how you feel. It's also when they extend compassion whenever possible. If your friends ain't doing that, if you're not doing that for your friends, support is severely lacking. And if you're not able to lean on each other and have each other's back—really, what are y'all doing? Why do you even call each other "friends" to begin with? Because, if at the end of the day, supportive isn't a top defining word for your friendships, it really is time to shift—possibly even move on. If anyone runs into Issa and Molly, relay the message, OK? I appreciate it.
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/3154 | TVXQ! – Five In The Black
Release Date: 14 March 2007
Label: Rhythm Zone
1. Zion
2. Sky [MV]
3. Begin [MV]
4. Choosey Lover [MV]
5. Dead End
6. High Time
7. Proud
8. 约束 (Promise)
9. Miss You [MV]
10. “O” 正.反.合 (“O” Thesis.Antithesis.Synthesis.)
11. I’ll Be There
12. Step By Step [MV]
13. Hello Again
14. Begin (A Cappella Version)
15. Miss You (Ballad version)
After a pretty mediocre third album in Korea, the boys of DBSK returned to Japan under their Jpop moniker TVXQ (or Tohoshinki). With their sophomore effort, Five In The Black, the quintet was hoping to shed some of the baby fat and give audiences a more mature and sophisticated side of themselves.
Expectations, as you can imagine, were pretty high, considering the success of their prior albums and the audience they’d managed to amass with their debut Japanese album. Five In The Black needed to be something the buying Jpop public had never heard before, and for the most part the boys delivered. The production team on the album seemed to be comprised of people who had a very keen knowledge of their American pop music history, songs ranging from high-energy pop (Zion, Step by Step), classic Jpop (Sky, High Time), and sophisticated balladry (Begin, Proud).
Though the obvious selling point of the quintet is the vocals, much has to be said about the production of Five In The Black. It’s some of the group’s most expressive and mature. The Rhythm Zone team showed themselves for the brilliant production team they are. With work that’s very reminiscent of classic 90s R&B from the legendary team Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis (geniuses behind Prince’s sound in the 80s and Janet Jackson’s most successful albums) with track Choosey Lover, and an uncanny understanding of the Jpop scene and the music people were listening to, enlisting songwriting team H.U.B. for tracks Sky, Dead End, Promise, Miss You, Step by Step, and Hello Again.
Of course, TVXQ would be nothing without the ability for the group to blend with the flawless precision that had set them apart from every other group in the market. Some incredible songwriting by Mai Osanai and composition by Jin Nakamura pushed Five In The Black from simple bubblegum to a surprisingly sophisticated piece of pop music. This songwriting/composing duo offered a sound we hadn’t quite heard from the boys up to this point. Songs Proud and Begin highlight the powerful vocal of the group but also give listeners a glimpse into the intricacy of their harmonization. The composition of the ballads allowed fans and newcomers alike a peek into how intrinsic their sound is to the core of their success…
And they proved that with flying colors.
But what’s more impressive about Five In The Black is just how complete the album sounds. There are songs on here for every type of music fan; however, the album isn’t incoherent. Each song has a place and a purpose. The album starts with Zion, a smoother dance track that entices but then hits a high note of energy that carries through to the following track. It’s the perfect track to set the high-energy pace of the album. The ballads provide an incredible compliment to the faster-paced songs, seamlessly melting into the next track and giving depth and balance to the more pop-heavy tracks.
With the surprising combination of exciting pop and mature balladry, catchy production and smart composition, Five In The Black stands as the group’s most solid, most well-conceived album to date, and a testament to the power of high-quality pop and good, old-fashioned talent.
Rating: ★★★★¼
You can listen to Five In The Black on Xiami. You can buy it at YesAsia, DVDHeaven,iTunes, and Synarra.
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/3220 | Social identity theory
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/3236 | Frank Huguenard
At the end of the day, I'm just a dude, trying to figure out life without making too much of a mess of things, just like everyone else.
I'd like to think of myself as a philosopher, scientist, spiritual anthropologist, humanitarian and a documentary film maker. After spending 30 years in silicon valley as a technologist and entrepreneur, I wanted to give back to society by using my background in high tech to produce films that combined the knowledge of all the great wisdom traditions on the planet with the latest in research in consciousness studies along with findings from modern physics and quantum mechanics.
I have passion is something I call spiritualology, a discipline that includes the research, examination, interpretation, distillation and subsequent re-synthesis of science, religion, spirituality, philosophy, psychology, anthropology into a comprehensive new model of reality that can use to possibly explain and understand our biological and spiritual our existence. My goal is to contribute to the evolution of human consciousness that is happening on the planet right now by helping people to become aware of, nurture and ultimately evolve their own consciousness.
I've been known to have a wry sense of humor, I've has created a phenomenal new team sport, I've dabbled a bitin heirloom tomatoes, operated a gourmet "Indian" pizza restaurant, wrote a little ditty about devotion and invented some very disruptive technologies in the telephony industry. The technologies I invented included in 2002, years prior to the release of the iPhone, a precursor to Visual Voicemail, a 'Siri-like' Mobile Voice Recognition Services & Universal Voicemail and in the year 2000, years before the introduction of Skype & YouTube, I developed a video communications platform that, feature for feature, had all of the functions of both.
D I S C H O O P S (invented by me)
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D E V O T I O N (Words & Music by Frank Huguenard)
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/3237 | author = "Cohen, Marcelo Cancela Lisboa and Alves, Igor Charles Castor and
Fran{\c{c}}a, Marlon Carlos and Pessenda, Luiz Carlos Ruiz and
Rossetti, Dilce de F{\'a}tima",
affiliation = "{Universidade Federal do Par{\'a} (UFPA)} and {} and
{Universidade Federal do Par{\'a} (UFPA)} and {Center for Nuclear
Energy in Agriculture (CENA)} and {Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas
Espaciais (INPE)}",
title = "Relative sea-level and climatic changes in the Amazon littoral
during the last 500 years",
journal = "Catena",
year = "2015",
volume = "133",
pages = "441--451",
month = "Oct.",
keywords = "Amazonia, Mangrove, Organic matter sources, Palynology,
Sedimentary facies.",
abstract = "An integrated approach focused on sedimentology, geochemistry,
palynology, C and N isotopes and radiocarbon dating of a sediment
core from an herbaceous plain not flooded by tides of the Amapa
littoral, near the Amazon River mouth, allowed identification of
two phases with marine and terrestrial influences. Mangroves
occurred over tidal mud flats with marine influence between
>5610-5470 and 470-310 cal yr BP. The absence of mangrove
vegetation since 470-310 cal yr was followed by the transition of
brackish water organic matter to terrestrial C-3 plants. Also, the
geochemical data indicate a decrease in sea water influence during
this last time interval. Likely, the displacement of mangrove
forest to lower surfaces was caused by a relative sea-level fall
that may be associated with drier conditions with less rainfall
during the second part of the last millennium. As suggested by
this work, slight relative sea-level fluctuations caused by
regional or global climatic change may affect significantly the
current mangrove area.",
doi = "10.1016/j.catena.2015.06.012",
url = "http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.catena.2015.06.012",
issn = "0341-8162",
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/3253 | Rummanah Aasi
Thanks to the Top 10 meme hosted by The Broke and the Bookish, I look forward to Tuesdays. Today's topic is composing of list of horrible character names. I can empathize with those who have unfortunate names. I spent the whole year of kindergarten trying to write my name correctly. Honestly, dad, did you have to include 2 'm's and lots of 'a's? I can't tell you how many times my name has been misspelled and mispronounced. To this day, I remember a math teacher who never uttered my name. The only way I knew he was talking to me was if he was looking directly at me. No joke. You've probably noticed some of my friends call me "Rum" when they post a comment. It's a nickname a few of my friends came up with because they were lazy to spell it out and then I guess it stuck. Hey, at least it's short and recognizable unlike some of these names.
Top 10 Most Unfortunate Character Names (in no particular order)
1. Minnie May from the Anne of Green Gable series by Lucy Montgomery. I couldn't stomach the book series, but I loved the TV miniseries. It's been a family tradition to watch the series during Thanksgiving/Christmas break at home. One of my favorite line of the movie is: "Minnie May, hold your tongue." Whenever someone at home gets out of line, this line can heard. I always thought that was her nickname, but not that's her full name. No wonder she was spoiled and bratty. Can you blame her?
2. Bartleby from Bartleby, the Scrivener by Herman Melville. Okay, technically this is a short story, but I always thought this name stuck out as a sore thumb. I guess if you're name was Bartleby then you're excused from doing anything.
3. Renesmee Carlie Cullen from Breaking Dawn by Stephenie Meyer. Enough said.
4. Ms. Hisslepenny from the Parasol Protectorate series by Gail Carriger. I absolutely love this series, but this name cracks me up every time she appears. Like her name, her sense of fashion is atrocious.
5. Frodo from the Lord of the Rings trilogy by J.R. Tolkein. Really, Tolkein? You want me to have faith and root for a character named Frodo to save Middle Earth? It's bad enough the poor guy is a hobbit!
6. Elwin "Leper" Lepellier from A Separate Peace by John Knowles. *Sigh* Nice, poor kid, who never had the chance.
7. Shakespeare Shapiro from Spanking Shakespeare by Jake Wizner. Yup, that's his full name. His parents were having too much fun (if you catch my drift) when they named their children. Don't worry his younger brother, Gandhi, can commiserate with him.
8. Ponyboy Curtis from The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton. I adore this book and love the movie adaptation, but there were definitely strange names.
9. Bearstein Bears from The Bearstein Bears by Stan and Jan Berenstein. As a kid who loved this series, I was always upset that the family was never given any names. You would think that a husband and wife writing team would come up with any name besides Father Bear, Mother Bear, Sister Bear, and Brother Bear. Come on!
10. Biff and Happy Loman from The Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller. I was probably the only one in my sophomore English class that loved this play, but couldn't Miller come with better names. And can someone tell me how a guy named Biff can be a lady's man? As for his brother...*shakes head*
6 Responses
1. HAHAAHA - I had Sodapop on mine. Oh, that S.E. . .
-Linds, bibliophile brouhaha
2. Kelly A. Says:
Good call on the Bernsteins!
I also thought Bartleby was the strangest name ever. Didn't help that I absolutely hated that story anyways :)
3. lol I can't believe I forgot Ponyboy! what a horrible name.
I think I'm one of the only people that actually liked the name renesmee.
4. Loni Says:
Renesmee was on my list. I've seen Ponyboy and Soda Pop on a few too. Someone actually named a character "Leper". What were they thinking?
5. danya Says:
LOL so true about Biff & Happy.
Also Renesmee popped up on so many lists, can't believe I did not think of it. That is a truly terrible name combination.
6. @Kelly A: I wanted to say "I prefer not to" when we were told to read the story for sophomore English. :P
@Must Love Books: I think you're definitely in the minority, dear. ;)
@Loni: You know right off the bat that he's going to have a sad story.
@Danya: :D
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/3255 | We’ve been ’round and ’round about this, my friend, but I’d like to put my side of our dialogue down on paper, where we can see it and where, perhaps, it’ll seem more convincing.
Technique is ideology.
There it is. Technique, by which I mean the set of skills with which a person orients herself and upon which she draws in the performance of an expressive act, always embodies and expresses a certain relationship to the world. This relationship may or may not be compatible with the creative intentions of, say, the dancer that employs the technique, but the technical vocabulary itself always bears its own meaning alongside the expressive utterance it is used to convey.
That is why some techniques are better suited than others to express certain specific ideas or to traverse certain expressive terrain. The most successful pairings of technical vocabularies with expressive content come about when the former bursts forth from the imperatives of the latter. Punk and bebop both exhibited this explosive development of a technical vocabulary as a creative response to social and political ferment. Something new had to be said, and a language was forged to say it.
But the processes of their creation also indelibly marked those techniques. Charlie Parker’s heroin-fueled conflagrations, or Bad Brains’ walls of noise, wouldn’t work to express, say, Joni Mitchell’s countercultural yearnings, or the swaggering Afrocentricity of funk.
That technique is ideological is not in and of itself problematic. Every human practice or body of knowledge can be argued to be expressive of some ideology, to encode certain relationships to the world in which it develops. In fact, it is only because technique is a vector of ideology that art can do the cultural work which we depend on it to do.
You claim that the ballet technique which you continue to work so hard to acquire is ideologically neutral. That good ballet technique simply allows a dancer to make a wider range of expressive choices than, perhaps, other techniques. That ballet technique is a strong foundation upon which any expressive edifice can be securely built. Further, you argue that ballet is constantly evolving in response to the changing expressive demands of its practitioners.
If you’ve followed my argument this far, you will see why I disagree with these statements. Ballet was created in response to specific historical and social imperatives. It is a technical vocabulary that encodes very particular ideologies about the body, about an individual’s relationship to other individuals, about the relationship between performers and the audience, about gender, and about the nature of time and space and man’s place in them. To those committed to the claim that ballet technique is ideologically neutral, and simply constitutes ‘good physical training’, this may sound critical, but that is not the spirit in which I write it (isn’t it funny, though, how the central myth of the Classical arts is their ‘naturalness’, their absence of ideology).*
So, if I claim to be unconcerned with the fact that ballet technique is ideological (aside from the simple assertion that it is, in fact, ideological), and I claim to withhold judgment about what I understand to be the content of its ideology, why go to all this trouble?
Because I perceive a dissonance between your expressive intentions as I see them and the language you’ve chosen to articulate them. You seem to have become so convinced that ballet is a vocabulary that you must first master in order to say anything that you have allowed it to dictate what it is you wish to say. My remedy is to try to convince you that ballet, like punk or bebop, can only effectively say certain things, and that those things are not really the things that you want to say. Find yourself a language that suits you better, as a person, as a mover, and as a creator. Don’t fetishize a technique that will only, in the end, prove incompatible with your creative intentions even as it silently subjugates those intentions to its own.
* Brief disclaimer: I am aware that meanings change over time, and that different people make different meanings from the technical resources available to them. Camp is a classic example of these processes. Nonetheless, a residue of the original ideology always remains. This is true in ballet particularly, especially considering the ‘high-culture’ use to which most modern audiences (and, arguably, dancers) still put the form.
Loren Ludwig is currently completing his PhD in Music History at UVA, focusing on 17th Century Consort Music, and Hip-Hop. He performs nationally and internationally on the Viola da Gamba, and is on faculty at the Amherst Early Music Festival.
originally published in the Focus Section on “Technique”, Bourgeon Vol. 2 #3
To read Rob Bettmann’s reply to Loren Ludwig, click here.
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/3260 | 1. Thursday, November 10, 2005
dear dirty laundry in my trunk,
i know that you want to get out of there and be clean laundry but the mexicans in this hi rise loft are working against me and i knew i shoulda came into work early to beat them at their own game, but alas im slow. i wish i knew what slow was in mexican but i dont.
how are you laundry? did you have fun in canada? some of you got to go to the great white north with me, so holla to you, but for the others who didnt what can i say, you missed out.
some clothes are my favorites but they get worn early in the clean clothes cycle and didnt get to make the trip with me because they were already dirty, so sorry. i’ll make it up to you when i go to chicago in two weeks.
two weeks. my does time fly.
do you like being my clothes?
i would imagine you would. i mean youre pretty ugly and cheap and wrinkly and horrible. most of you i got free and i imagine on a regular man you’d be nothing more than workout tshirts or rags to wash their mercedes, but on me youre like my daily shit. you get to go to cool concerts and on hot dates, and if youre lucky you get to see me dance around all tom cruise like after said events as i sing along to bob segar and the silver bullet band.
oh clothes. do you like it that i never iron you or does that get you depressed?
its funny i havent been depressed in a long time. knock wood i havent been sick in years. i dont see how thats possible. as you know, now that i have had a car for a few months i eat almost exclusively from drivethrus and dollar chinese joins.
last night i got some chinese at a donut + chinese place and it smelled so bad that i ate it super quick before i got grossed out. i didnt even spill any on you, clothes, thats how fast i ate that shit.
and now i smell the mcdonalds breakfast from this morning even though its 2pm. i smell it cuz i never eat my whole serving of hashbrowns cuz the grease just eats away at my large intestines.
clothes are you happy or sad that i dont work out and get you sweaty? are you happy or sad that girls who sleep over steal you away from me? are you happy or sad that i dont fold you or put you in drawers, but instead stack you in sloppy piles in the closet or keep you in the laundry baskets that i folded you up and put you in after washing and drying your asses.
do clothes have asses?
do clothes wish they were something else, like upholstry?
do clothes have dreams of being turned into something cool and wonderful like AIDS blankets or axl rose scarves or patches in designer jeans?
do clothes ever want a little jelly spilled on them, or a little blood so they can keep it real?
is bleach your enemy?
do you secretly hate the hot water option?
oh clothes do you deep down wish that i would donate you to good will so you could make a nice poor person warm or an nice hipster super hip and ironic?
clothes, thanks for costing less than $5 normally.
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/3288 | Bettie Page Battles the Beyond in 2018 Halloween One Shot
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Bettie Page Halloween One-Shot
Of all the comics creators who have been in the industry, we can never overstate the debt we owe to the great Dave Stevens, gone ten years now, for his lasting contribution to the comic books. Yes, we'll remember his Rocketeer and I for one will never forget his pinup covers for DNAGENTS and CROSSFIRE & RAINBOW.
But it's largely because of Dave Stevens work that the community remains aware of a real life character, Bettie Page, a stag film model with a look that transcended time. She was the girlfriend of his Rocketeer, but has since gone on to become a heroine in her own right, thanks to Dynamite Entertainment.
The lead story in this one shot is simply a fantastically told standalone story. Bettie continues to model, and we see her doing a set with the photographer who helped make her famous, Irving Klaw. But Bettie is also an assistant to a government agency, and the cases she assists on are otherworldly. Yes, Bettie Page basically works for an early version of The X Files!
The case presented to her is one of an artist -- Richard Pickman -- who is turning out paintings of horrific looking monsters. The thing is, the agency recognizes these alien creatures as beings from another dimension, and they want to find out how Pickman is seeing them. Seeing as how a painter needs models, enter Bettie Page as "Pickman's Supermodel," a clever play on the H.P. Lovecraft short story of the non-super name.
Sure enough, Pickman's got a way to see through to the elder gods. He has a book -- an old book -- called the Necronomicon. Bettie needs to get her hands on that and return with it, assuming she can survive her encounter with Pickman and the elder god Yog-Sothoth! David Avallone and Julius Ohta bring us this tale of action and spunk.
The backup story in this piece is a bit more lighthearted. Bettie brings her friend to what is supposed to be a Halloween party thrown by a famous casting director. Bettie's costume is both clever and risque, and the shock on her friend and her immediate response is cute enough to forgive the anachronism of having someone dial 9-1-1 in the 1940s.
Ultimately, "Hautning in Hollywood" reveals that Bettie was supposed to be the only guest at this "party" where the monsters seem more real than special effects could create. Or are they? The twist ending has a twist all its own, making this backup from Leah Williams and Fernando Ruiz a fun comic short.
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/3295 | I promised Gear Girl I would do an episode thing for Clash so I watched it tonight and I wish I hadn’t said I would write about because there is almost nothing to make fun of this episode.
Also I hate watching it.
So this is probably gonna be shorter than most of these that write. I’ll talk about a couple things, and I’m gonna tell you about the wasp that showed up halfway through this episode.
Clash is the first and only episode with Captain Marvel in it. He joins the League, and meets Superman and the two don’t exactly hit it off, even though when they first meet Captain Marvel is ready to cuddle up next to Superman and play with his little hair curl.
Lex is working on becoming president and has built a little city for poor people which he calls Lexor City, which is like christ, what a goddamn ego. And Superman has a goddamn stick up his ass the entire damn episode and everyone is arguing all the time and goddammit you guys.
Captain Marvel though, I gotta say, if I were a little kid and someone gives me the power to turn into a superhero with lightning, man fuck school.
And if they’re like “oh you need to get an education to be a good role model” then I’ll be using that Wisdom of Solomon to get my GED, thank you very much, now I’ll be off beating the crap out of dudes this is so awesome.
Billy’s teacher was talking about a dictator in 1939, which I at first thought may have been a reference to Vandal Savage in The Savage Time, but now I’ve decided that it probably wasn’t for reasons I am too lazy to type.
So this wasp right? I notice my cat keeps batting at my shoes that are on the floor and I’m like “what the hell” then I see there’s a bug there and then I look and oh sonofa it’s a wasp and it is probably going to start stinging the shit out of my cat except this retarded wasp was apparently just very determined to get on my shoe, so Fram picked the shoe up, knocked the wasp off and then killed it with the shoe. Nice try though, cat. This is the second wasp that’s been in our house in a like a month and a half. The first one was in the dishwasher, and was subsequently covered in soap.
Anyway, back in Lexor City, Superman has shown up for the grand opening…thing. After saying some bullshit words, Lex gets up and goes over to Mercy where he says something about t-minus so many seconds and then something else about an escape route. So Superman starts looking and sees something that looks like it could maybe blow up, buried deep beneath Lexville. So he starts ripping up a playground for some goddamn reason and this is the point where I can no longer watch this episode.
Captain Marvel shows up and they start fighting
and Superman throws him into a hospital and the whole thing crashes down and buildings are falling down everywhere and GOD SOMEONE USE YOUR FUCKING BRAIN FOR LIKE A 10TH OF A GODDAMN SECOND.
Like, ok, Superman? Lex tells you it’s an energy device and not a bomb. Ok? You ask him why he needed lead shielding then. What you should’ve asked is why he needs an escape route. I swear to god you are so goddamn stupid.
And as the whole city crumbles around them and it turns out Lex was telling the truth I just cringe and that is why I almost never watch this episode, even though there are some great lines in it and Batman makes this awesome face.
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/3320 | 3 Best Places to Eat Mexican Food in San Diego
Published: November 25, 2013
When you're a college student in San Diego and you go to a Mexican restaurant for the first time, it's usually an unforgettable experience. San Diego has some of the best all around cuisine to offer in California, but the area is especially known for its Mexican food. In this list, I'll cover 3 really good places to eat Mexican food in San Diego, focusing primarily on the Clairemont and Clairemont Mesa area.
1. Vallarta Mexican Express
It's 3 in the morning and you're writing a paper for your Humanities class. Where do you go when you have the late night appetite? Vallarta Mexican Express on Balboa and Genesee Avenue of course! Vallarta is open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week and is easily accessible from the UC San Diego campus by car. There are also busses that go there, but obviously the bus line shuts down after a certain time. If you are a UC San Diego student, you definitely need to check this place out and get a California burrito.
2. Cotixan Mexican Food
Again, it's 3 in the morning, and you're doing another Humanities paper. You're hungry, but you don't want Vallarta. Where can you go? Cotixan has a menu that is similar to Vallarta but with a different flavor. It's true, most of the popular items on Cotixan's menu are very similar to the popular items on the Vallarta menu. However, Cotixan is a different restaurant that uses different ingredients. You'll definitely be able to taste the difference, and it's another highly recommended Mexican restaurant.
3. Lolita's Taco Shop
Lolita's is probably all around one of my favorite Mexican restaurants in the state of California. They offer a lot of really good food for a decent price. Every day, they also offer a combination that you can purchase that is generally worth it. The inside is pretty spacious, which is a good thing because the restaurant gets crowded during the rush periods. The carne asada fries are amazing, as are their burritos and tacos. Lolita's is the only restaurant on this list that is not open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week but it's definitely worth your time and money.
I highly recommend each of the Mexican restaurants on this list. Because it offers the best food at the best price, my favorite restaurant is Lolita's. There's one in the Clairemont Mesa area, and additionally if you're a baseball fan, there's also one next to Petco Park. Feel free to check each of them out. |
global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/3335 | Re: Revisiting Petrarch and Giotto
That makes sense, Jim, based on the Charles VI's clouds. But it's not a city, it's a bunch of castles on hilly terrain. I don't know what the 15th century image of Heaven was, but I don't think the preachers said it was castles and hills. Why would they need castles in Heaven? It's a place of peace. Unless they needed to defend themselves against raids by devils. I never heard of that happening. In a chivalry-based Magic Kingdom, I suppose it could. Olympus came under attack. Valhalla fell. Camelot fell, I think. Are they a bunch of Grail Castles, ready to send their chosen fighters out to fight evil? I've never heard there was more than one--well, except Camelot. By now, if they read this, the preachers would be tearing their hair. I'm still puzzled.
Re: Revisiting Petrarch and Giotto
Now I have another thought, as long as we're in the Unicorn Terrace. O'Reilley, in her survey of late medieval virtue and vice stories (Studies in the Iconography of the Virtues and Vices in the Middle Ages, pp. 59ff), mentions a 15th century German encyclopaedic ms. Casanatensis 104 f. 27f. Here is what she says on her p. 61:
F.27r, for example, includes two castles defended by the four Cardinal and three Theological Virtues; similarly, in a late fourteenth century German tapestry from Nuremberg, the Vices are despatched on symbolic beasts to capture two castles defended by the four Cardinal and three Theological Virtues...The Psychomachia features neither the Cardinal and Theological Virtues nor a besieged castle, yet its scenes of the Virtues returning to camp after battle to flush out Discordia and of the building of the Temple of Wisdom under the supervision of the warrior maidens, give rise to ms. pictures of fortified New Jerusalems. In commenting on the 'trimphant Psychomachia' sculpted pairs of Prudentian Virtues and Vices on the twelfth century font at Southrop, Miss M.D. Anderson drew attention to the series of domed, castellated structures in which each pair is set: 'These may be considered as half-way houses between the New Jerusalem of Prudentius and those 'castles' defended by Virtues which figure in early allegorical poems, such as the thirteenth century Sawles Ward and later morality plays like the Castell of Perseverance.
In that sense, the scene in the circle on the Charles VI card could be seen as a picture of the world in moralized, conceptual, even "archetypal"--in its original Middle Platonic sense (Philo of Alexandria uses it)--terms. As archetypes, the virtues exist as personnages in an ideal world, against equally archetypal enemies. Yet the struggle is in our world, too, as our souls partake of both sides. In that sense, the card might be a picture of the human soul--and of that "ladder of virtue" in which devils try to keep the soul from attaining wisdom, which is also the tarot sequence.
Re: Revisiting Petrarch and Giotto
Are they castles or urban centres - they are conventional for the time for representations of urban centre, like on a map - wavy lines -= river, 'castles' urban centres (towns, cities)... representing not castles but towns / cities (each of which nonetheless might be associated with a castle perhaps) within a region (such as that which may fall for example under the duchy of milan).
T. S. Eliot
Re: Revisiting Petrarch and Giotto
Well, that's true, too, for some of the castles on the Charles VI. For that card, it would be like the region of Tuscany, which indeed is hilly. So is that to say that Heaven, the land above the clouds, is being depicted like the most beautiful aspect of Tuscany, a bunch of towns on hills? The hill towns there are rather heavenly.
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In reference to the putti world depiction: putti holding things up are conventional from the renaissance on; and become a decorative infestation by the Rococo period. My instant emotional dismissal of putti comes from this later period, when they've become decorative muzak.
But do they mean something more serious in this earlier period? In Dionysus the Areopagite, and Christian angelology in general, cherubs are the second highest order of angels, they signify divine wisdom, and are represented as the tetramorph. if putti, sapientia figures, and tetamorphs are the interchangeable tokens of cherubs, maybe the various iconographies of the world all mean the same thing?
As to fortifications: The heavenly city in Jewish and Christian mysticism exists in relation to the thone of God and the heavenly temple. The basic text is the Ezekial vision of the chariot. At its most fundamental level, this vision depicts the ark, God's earthly throne, being assumed into the heavenly throne at the fall of Jerusalem to the Neo-Babylonians. The heavenly temple is at the foot of the heavenly throne, just as the Jerusalem temple was the footstool of the lost ark. With the assumption of the ark, the job of priests was to rise through the spheres to the heavenly temple and create a link from it to the earth. It is always assumed that this rise was contested by demons, and that it required a form of spritual warfare -- the spheres of heaven were fortified, as was the heavenly Jerusalem.
The Talmudic rabbis downplayed merkabah mysticism as much as they could, but this strain of post-biblical Jewish mythology does make it into medieval Christianity almost undistorted.
Re: Revisiting Petrarch and Giotto
Well maybe we look for the more difficult answer for the countryside circled in a plate-like depiction.
What was Humanism?
A part of that word is what was or is called Classical Republicism or now is regarded as Civic Humanism, Aristotle said...
When several villages are united in a single complete community, large enough be nearly or quite self-sufficing, the state comes into existence, originating in the bare needs of life, and continiuing in existence for the sake of a good life. (Politics Vol.1)
In any travel books about Tuscany you can read a somewhat similar opening statement of the following..
Renowned for it's art, history and evocative landscape, Tuscany is a region where the past and present merge in Harmony. Hill towns gaze across the countryside from on high, many encircled by Etruscan walls. Handsome palaces testify to the regions past and present wealth (no mention of earthquakes and Euro dollar crisis) while medieval halls indicate a long standing tradtion of democracy and self Government.
edited to add the card with the clouds is evocative of Martin Luther King's speech...I Have a dream or in the days of the card I have a vision of a state.
Eden Phillpotts
Re: Revisiting Petrarch and Giotto
Nicely put, Jim and Lorredan: for the PMB, the heavenly city (and perhaps also a dream for Milan?); for the Charles VI, a dream for Tuscany and Northern Italian smaller places in general. The background of the CY card could be seen in this light, too: a dream of Lombardy, stretching peacefully to the sea (and so taking over Genoa) as a network of towns, castles, and countryside. If only Wisdom prevailed here as it does in Heaven!
I have been reading about the virtues and vices with an eye to the material in this thread. What I am going to say here is mostly facts, of the sort that would fit in the "researcher's study" category.
First, I notice that my assignment of Despair to the Hanged Man is backed up by numerous examples discussed by O'Reilley (Studies on the Virtues and Vices in the Middle Ages 1972, pp. 142-149). On the one hand, it was an extreme example of Acedia (see for a definition of the sin, inaccurately translated as "sloth"):
Because it stemmed from self-loathing and therefore despair of the mercy of God, the death of Judas became a particularly well-known example of this branch of Acedia...This popular association of Judas' suicide with the sin of Despair is understandable...but there were a number of problems involved in using Judas as the image of such despair, particularly in art...
The main problem was the extreme gravity of Judas's sin in committing suicide, which was considered even worse than his betrayal of Christ (p. 244f). One solution was to show Judas's despair as the opposite of Hope. In Italy, OReilley observes (p. 147), this took the form, starting in the 14th century, of putting a little Judas at the bottom of a depiction of Hope. The CY Hope card is an example of this tradition, I would observe.
Second, Envy was for some writers particularly associated with Satan, according to Rosemond Tuve ("Notes on the Virtues and Vices, Part 2" (Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes 1964, p. 48) along with Superbia, Pride (p. 61); so the assignment of Giotto's Envy to the Devil card is supported.
Otherwise, I have been investigating when and where the depiction of the virtues was done in the way they are in the CY and PMB. I wanted to be sure that these depictions were not introduced too late to affect my projected earliest time of 1428. For example, Kaplan says (vol. 2 p. 168)
Wolff (1974) indicates that although the iconography of a woman and a lion had no precedent in fifteenth century Italian representations of Fortitude, the image was used in French illustrations of the time. Bembo, or the patron who specified the cards, may have known of the French tradition.
I assume it has to be an actual lion, as opposed to a representation of a lion on a shield, a in Giotto. To see how old this "French" tradition is, I turned to Adolf Katzenellenbogen, Allegories of the Virtues and Vices in the Middle Ages, 1939. I see in the Meuse School, c. 1160-1170, we have a winged Fortitudo "vanquishing a lion" (p. 50); also first half of 12th century, Flemish, "Fortitudo tears open a lion's jaws" (p. 32). Then in Verona, the bronze door of S. Zeno, late 12th-early 13th century, fortitudo is "overcoming a lion" (p. 51); Bamberg Cathedral, c. 1237, fortitudo "conquering the lion" (p. 52); St. Marks, Venice, c. 1200, fortitudo "conquering the lion." Verona and Venice were not in France the last time I checked. I notice that Fortitudo and Prowess, i.e. Strength, appear to be interchangeable terms.
On the web, I see a Nicola Pisano sculpture of Hercules and the lion, Pisa c. 1260, also not in France (, identified as Hercules at 11-12-04).
O'Reilley adds details (p. 198):
Sometimes it [the lion] is trampled underfoot (e.g. the fourteenth century Beleville Breviary); frequently its jaws are wrenched open in Herculean fashion (e.g. the twelfth century Klosterneuburg altar piece or the fourteenth century Chantilly ms. of Bartolomeo di Bartoli);...
These authors do not describe Fortitudo as taming a lion. But at Chartres, according to a picture posted by Jean-Michel David ( ... hread=1678), it looks like that's just what she's doing
In manuscripts, the first indication of Fortitude as taming that I find is 1450, O'Reilley's plate 10a, an illustration of the livre des quater vertus cardinauls, showing her taming a small dragon kept in a small tower next to her. There is also a similar one of 1470, her plate 9, which she says is a copy of one from 1403. This is the "new iconography," which I can't see as influencing the CY.
Justice was associated with the balance very early, in "Carolingian times," Katzenellenbogen says (p. 55). Only one of numerous representations of Justice discussed by him has a sword, the relief on the tomb of Clement in Bamberg Cathedral, c. 1237 (p. 52). At St. Mark's, Venice, it's a strong-box and balance (p. 53). In one place it's a scroll and balance. At Chartres it's a scales (p. 80).
Temperance in the 9th century holds a torch and pours out a jug of water--"Ignem libidinosae voluptatis extinguit", so as to extinguish lust, I think that means. But (p. 55):
Temperantia's attributes were exchanged in the course of the eleventh century, for a cup and bottle. Mixing water with wine, the virtue reduces the over-potent drink to one of moderate strength (Figs. 33, 34).
Katzenellenbogen gives numerous examples, e. g. "Temperantia mixes the contents of two vessels" in Valenciennes, Biblitheque Munisipale, Ms. 512, fol. 4v; "Temperantia mixing wine and water", the Eilbertus Altar from the Guelph Treasure, c. 1150-60 (p. 45). (But I don't know how one tells if the bottom vessel has anything in it.) Sometimes she merely holds two vessels (p. 33, 45,46, 51, 52). The San Zeno door in Verona is one of those with two vessels. At Chartres she has a dove (p. 80).
On the web, Marco on ATF posted an image from Venice,, from the Embriachi workshop. That workshop existed from 1390 until at least c. 1431 ( I notice that Duke Gian Galeazzo Visconti (d. 1402) collected Embriarchi ( Perhaps the PMB card, and so the CY before it, derives from that time, though intermediaries. According to M. J. Hurst at viewtopic.php?f=11&t=71&start=40#p1819, all the Embriarchi virtues have wings (although I can only see two). I notice that elsewhere, in Katzenellenbogen: sometimes all, more often none. So one need not draw too many conclusions from the wings, I don't think--although over time, no doubt people did, associating her with some goddess or other.
Prudence, in the 9th century, is shown with a book, "the impressive symbol of the discernment between good and evil," says Katzenellenbogen (p. 55). In the 12th century, she has a book and snake at Cologne, and book with cross-staff at Autun (both p. 33). She has a dove on the Eilburtus Altar from the Guelph Treasure; in 1329 it's a snake and book (p. 46), also at Hildesheim Cathedral (p. 49); snake alone at Darmstadt (p. 50) and a different place in Cologne (p. 53); two snakes at St. Mark's, Venice. c. 1200 (p. 53). At Chartres she has a book (p. 80).
At Brussels c. 1160, Spes (Hope) has an olive-branch and a disc with a cross on it (p. 48). At Tongres, she has a branch and a disc with a cross on it. At St. Mark's in Venice she has a scroll and a sceptre of blossom (p. 53). At Chartres she is looking up to heaven (p. 80).
On the Ramaclus Altar, c. 1150, Fides (Faith) holds a baptismal font (referring to Ephesians 4:5, says Katzenellenbogen, p. 45). Also at Brussels, c. 1160 (p. 48). At Cluny, Fides is shown "kneeling to receive the host" (p. 53). At Chartres she is "catching the blood of a lamb in a chalice" (p. 80).
In the Ramaclus cycle, c. 1160, Caritas (Charity) offers bread and wine to the faithful (p. 45). At Brussels she has a loaf and vessel (p. 48). At Hildesheim c. 1200 she has "a cross and a sceptre of blossom" (p. 50). At St. Marks in Venice, she has a sceptre. At Cluny she "gives alms out of a strong-box." At Chartres she is "giving away her garment" (p. 80). At Lyons Cathedral, c. 1220, she is clothing the naked.
Sapientia (Wisdom) is the Sedes Sapientiae, the throne of wisdom, depicted as enthroned Mary (Brixen, mid-13th century (p. 42). In another place, she stands on an edifice of seven columns (p. 43). I take those to be the seven virtues. At Gurk Cathedral, c. 1260, Sedes Sapientia is again the enthroned Mary (p. 53). At Auxerres she has a book (p. 83).
Tuve (p. 59) adds that the Virgin as Sapientia, the highest rung on the ladder of Gifts, was at the same time the chief exemplification of Humility, the ladder's lowest rung.
But meanwhile the ladder of Gifts from Humility to Sapientia--also figured by the Virgin, Sedes Sapientiae--emphasized the Virgin's supreme exemplification of both, from earliest times.
I think that explains why illustrations of the Virgin of Humility look so much like the images of Christ as Sapientia.
On Hope, O'Reilley has some useful additions (pp. 178-180). In a relief at Amiens
this Theological virtue is stretching up to receive the crown poised above her head in the top right hand corner of the relief
(Fig. 53 in Male's Gothic Image). She says the same representation was in Paris at Notre Dame. And in Italy four fourteenth century Italian mss. described by L. Dorez, the figure "Judas desperatus", shown with a hang-rope, is shown vanquished by Spes (p. 147). In one of them, Bartolomeo di Bartoli's Canzone, she adds later, (p. 179):
...heavenly hands hold a crown and a scroll inscribed with the Corporal and Spiritual Beatitudes over the head of already crowned figure of Spes who sits enthroned over 'Judas desperatus' with his hang-rope...
She says that the crown is derived from the crown of life shown at the top of the "ladder of virtue" which the successful monk receives at the end of his climb (p. 176). On p. 147 O'Reilley also mentions the anchor, which is conspicous in the CY card:
In John Daye's Book of Christian Prayers, 1578, Patience with a cross stands on Wrath who stabs himself, while Hope with her traditional anchor, overcomes Judas who haned himself.
The only thing in the CY Hope card that hasn't been mentioned is the heavenly body shining its rays down, which it has instead of the crown.
The CY Faith seems related to the Cluny and Chartres images of that virtue. I notice that the Embriachi did some work for Cluny.
I have already mentioned that the motif of Caritas breast-feeding an infant seems to have been introduced in Florence in the 14th century by two pupils of Giovanni Pisano.
So I am reasonably content that the motifs shown on the CY existed before 1428, although the card might have added the innovation of the heavenly body on Hope. The object that I take to be a mirror held by the CY's Caritas is unprecedented and never happens again that I can find. I hypothesize that it was a mistake, confused with Prudence's mirror.
And one other thing: in most cases cited by Katzenellenbogen, if three of the cardinal virtues were present, so was the fourth. But there a few exceptions. In two of them, a different virtue substituted for Fortitudo: in one it was Pax (p. 48) and in the other it was Pietas (p. 49). In another (p. 32), Sapientia substituted for Prudentia and even had her attribute, the book. It seems to me that the illuminator considered Sapientia to be equivalent to Prudentia, as in Cicero. In another case (p. 50), Fides substitutes for Prudentia, And in the fourth case (p. 51), the bronze door of St. Zeno's in Verona, it's just the three, Justice, Fortitude, and Temperance. So there is some small precedent for the tarot's omission of Prudentia.
Re: Revisiting Petrarch and Giotto
Kings representing vices overcome by the virtues had an established tradition:
The idea of making certain famous men incarnations of Vices seems to have come from Italy. J. von Schlosser has cited two fourteenth-century manuscripts, both Italian, in which the Virtues trample heretics, philosophers and tyrants. Justice has Nero underfoot; Fortitude has Holofernes; Temperance has Epicurus; Prudence, Saranapalus; Charity, Herod; Hope, Judas; Faith, Arius...
The Hours of Simon Vostre [c1507] contains the first French examples of the Virtues crushing their most famous enemies underfoot. Faith has Mahomet under hers, Hope has Judas, Charity has Herod, Prudence has Sardanapalus, Temperance has Tarquinius, Justice has Nero, Fortitude has Holofernes. We see that only two names, Machomet and Tarquinius, differ from those found in the Italian manuscripts. The relation thus seems clear and presupposes numerous intermediaries. end quote from:
Religious Art in France: the Late Middle Ages by Emile Mâle, translated by Marthiel Matthews. Princeton University Press, 1986
Re: pre-15th century examples of Fortitude with lion, the Notger bible c. 10th century shows fortitude as an angel with the Lion:
the other two 'tarot' virtues are also on the cover - an early example of the three as a group in and of themselves (without prudence).
And here is an early Italian example with lion:
From an Allegory of Virtues and Vices c.1355 by Nicolas de Bologna in a manuscript in the Ambrosian Library, Milan.
Note too the order : Justice, Fortitude, Temperance.
T. S. Eliot
Re: Revisiting Petrarch and Giotto
The virtues over vices tradition brings up an interesting question about the cary yale visconti virtues Fortitude, Hope, Faith and Charity btw which was previously raised in a discussion on AT with Lorredan -- The theological virtues show the corresponding vices, but Fortitude does not -- if they were part of the same set wouldn't one expect that they would follow the same iconographic pattern (ie, all would show their corresponding vices) ?
You can see better images of the cards here:
T. S. Eliot
Re: Revisiting Petrarch and Giotto
mikeh wrote: But it's not a city, it's a bunch of castles on hilly terrain.
quote from AT post:
"From 1391 Uberto [decembrio] was secretary to Peter of Candia, who later became Archbishop of Milan and later Pope Alexander V. Peter of Candia was a habitue of the Visconti court during the first decade of the 15th century, and it was through him that Uberto came to act as one of Giangaleazzo's leading publicists in his propoganda wars with Florence....
"Whatever motives may have brought the first Latin Republic into being in 1402, it is clear that by the time Uberto composed his own dialogues De Republica libri IV around 1420 he was reading the work as justification of signorial government...
"But what counts as a healthy state for Uberto is far different from Plato's account. For Uberto, the natural commonwealth is not a city-state, but a regional state (like Milan) made up of interdependent cities and their surrounding territories; only when a state has the resources of several urbes vel nationes can it truly be independent. Whereas for Plato, the healthy state, being simple in its desires, has no need for foreign trade, for Uberto the economy of a healthy state is highly diversified, and needs merchants, roads, inns, seaports, shipyards, and a merchant marine as well as a variety of other trades. For Plato, war is the consequence of the 'fevered' states lust for wealth and of the envy and greed it excites among its neighbours; for Uberto, every healthy state must defend itself, and so needs knights, mercenaries, and war industries such as armour manufacturing (a leading industry in Milan), and horse-breeding. Finally, Uberto's healthy state is ruled by a prince, who protects religion, safeguards the laws and public morals ..." [Hankin, James: Plato in the Italian Renaissance].
It is this image I suggest, of the region of Milan as interdependent cities and their territories, its ships and its princely ruler, that we see on the Cary-Yale world card.
end quote
Here too we have instead of aan idealized city, an ideal region of interdependent hillside towns. The buildings are not naturalist portrayals of actual buidlings but ones of convention meant to represent urban centres so we have a state with the resources of several urbes vel nationes, a representation of a 'healthy state' as defined by Uberto Decembrio above.
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Gasoline Maxine – that look on your face when the bankers (and the world) discovers you don’t know what the hell you’re doing.
As my Irish cousins might say, Maxine Waters is a feckin’ eegit.”
The California congresswoman who doesn’t even live in her own congressional district just to happens to chair the House Financial Services Committee.
Long story short, Waters had the CEOs of some of the largest banks in the nation to testify before the same committee she chairs, she seemingly held the bankers to task for the $1.56 trillion of student debt racked up by 44 million Americans that don’t know how to budget their money or control their urges to apply for credit cards so they could party.
As the chairwoman asked (video below);
“What are you guys doing to help us with this student load debt? Who would like to go first?”
That was a question that Gasoline Maxine realized quite quickly she should have NEVER been asked.
As the old saying goes both in Congress and amongst lawyers, never ask a question that you don’t already know the answer to.
Unbelievable as it seems, Waters fails to realize that it was the Obama Administration that nationalized student loans ten years ago.
In other words… don’t blame the banks, blame Barack Obama and the Democrats. |
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/3439 | DOCTOR OF SEXOLOGY : written by Constance Holden (A profile of Dr. John Money) Source: Psychology Today ; May 88 A Risqilly BBS reprint (203-644-4236) It is likely that no person has probed so deeply into the mysteries of sex and sexual identity as John Money, who for 37 years at Johns Hopkins University has done pioneering research in a field where, for all society's alleged liberation, titters are still aroused at the notion of "sexology." Indeed, there still seems something mildly shocking about the way the man smoothly natters on about micropenises and strangulation paraphilias in his urbane New Zealand accent. Money, 67, has a calm, academic manner, but one would never mistake him for a conformist as he sits in an office adorned with Third World artifacts, including larger-than-life-size wooden hunting sculptures from Mali. An emeritus professor for the past two years, Money still carries on several research projects on sex-related birth defects, especially abuse dwarfism, a growth hormone disorder resulting from child neglect and abuse. He also counsels families of children with gender disorders and continues to churn out books the latest being "Gay, Straight, and in Between",more than you ever wanted to know about homosexuality, which was published in April. Another recent book "Venuses Penuses", a collection of his writings ("My publisher said no book has ever had the word 'penis' or 'vagina' in its title," he says so he developed a hokey Latin-sounding title.) Money, who immigrated to the United States in 1947, launched his career at Harvard University with a dissertation on hermaphroditism and soon afterwards came to John Hopkins to work with Lawson Wilkins, who had founded the world's first pediatric endocrine clinic. There Money became the first pediatric psycoendocrinologist. He is still one of very few. "It's not been a field with a high degree of growth potential in it," he says with a sardonicism that is never far from the surface. You want to know why it's so hard to get money for sex research?" He brings out a book with pictures of young monkeys having sexual intercourse and of young children similarly engaged. "You have just become a criminal by looking at those pictures of children." In this kind of moral atmosphere it is difficult to get a levelheaded look at sex. "It's sort of like physics before the atomic age." The sexual revolution of the '60's, he says, was really more of a "reformation". But now we are already in the counterreformation." In a field as small as his, Money has chalked up many firsts. He cofounded the Gender Identity Clinic at Hopkins and designed the first curriculum in sexual medicine for medical students. In 1965, he collaborated with the surgeon on the first sex-change operation at the university. He introduced the hypothesis (now widely accepted) that androgen is the libido hormone for both sexes. He was a pioneer in hormonal treatment to improve self- control of sex offenders and was the first to explore what he calls "behavioral cytogenetics" .. the psychological concomitants of sex chromosome disorders. A greater coiner of terms, Money is responsible for "gender identity", now a staple term in the language, and others such as "lovemap" (what you need to get turned on). Since sex is intrinsically interesting, one would think that a lot of what Money has to say would be common knowledge. That men and women have different sexual turn-ons, for example, because men's brains, more so than woman's, are wired for visual stimulation. That pornography is not responsible for sexual degeneracy since people's lovemaps are pretty much set by the age of 8. That homosexuality is not a mater of choice. Money has had an uphill struggle against popular sexual taboos and misconceptions but also against simplistic notions held by experts in related fields. First there are the enviornmental determinists, who have held much of psychology in their grip since Freud, and now there are the behavioralists. Psychologists and other social scientists ..... even sex therapists ... have "a very difficult time dealing with anything that is labeled biology," Money says. "They don't know how to incorporate it into their system of thinking." In the 1950's, he says, when he was publishing papers on the behavioral influence of prenatal sex hormones, "many people in various branches of the social sciences were just enraged at the idea that hormones in the bloodstream before you were born could have a sex differentiating influence on you." People are starting to come around, but it is slow going. Money has also done battle with the physiological deterinists, with whom he has dealt on cases involving babies with ambiguous sex organs. These specialists "are totally convinced that the testicles dictate everything ... and don't want to hear anything about psychological determinants." Such reductionists, for example, want to treat cases of babies born with micropenis (fully formed testicles but vitually no penis) with male hormones and rear them as male. But, says Money, each case should be decided individually. While it is possible to manufacture a functional penis for these people, they can be successfully reared as heterosexual women with the aid of surgery and hormone treatment. Gender, Money emphasizes, is a "multivariate and sequential process." There are chromosomal sex, gonadal sex, prenatal hormonal sex, internal genital sex, external genital sex, pubertal hormonal sex, assigned sex and rearing and gender identity/role. With all these variables, it's a wonder so many people manage to develop unequivocal sex organs, much less routine heterosexuality. The reasons for going off on the wrong track are far more complex than portrayed in the nature vs. nurture debate. Indeed, Money says the correct concept is more like "nature .. critical period hormonization, when the fetus becomes masculinized or not masculinized. Masculization of a female fetus (when it is flooded with an excess of androgen), for example, will result in a hormonal syndrome that may be manifested both physically and behaviorally ... in an enlarged clitoris or even a fully formed penis, and in tomboyishness and lesbianism. Another critical period is late infancy and earl childhood, when environmental determinants, including sex rehearsal play and parental sexual problems, can have a profound and lasting effect on sexual identity. "One must never forget there's a biology of learning and memory too," says Money, "and it's just as permanent as if you've put it in with the genes and chromosomes." He compares gender identity with native language: The basic structure enabling language learning is laid down before birth; the specifics are installed afterwards, through the senses. This is why homosexuality is so difficult to explain. The evidence suggests that it can result from prenatal hormonal events or from early childhood conditioning in a vulnerable individual. One thing that has been established is that sex- hormone levels are no different in gays than in straights. If hormones are responsible for homosexuality they are prenatal hormones. The situation is very tricky, as Money illustrates with a film about a sheep experiment at the veterinary school at Edinburgh University. The sheep were exposed in utero to implants of androgen at the precise time when their sex organs had already been formed but "their brains were still open to being influenced by androgen." The result ? "One hundred percent perfect lesbian ewes," who urinated like rams and engaged in mating behavior just like rams. "These sheep are incredibly important theoretically because even though they behave like rams, they have only female hormones coming out of their ovaries. So the female hormone turns on the brain, but the pattern laid down in the brain is how to behave like a male." Of course, it's simpler with four-legged species than with primates, Money says. "You can't do that with monkeys or humans because their lovemap isn't finished by the time they are born." Thus, a homosexual direction could could be established in early childhood, but not later. Gays talk of "sexual preference," says Money, but there is no choice. Money is acquainted with several cases involving "sissy boys" in which early childhood experiences are likely to tip the balance toward homosexuality in vulnerable children. In one case a psychiatrist asked for consultation about his son, who was becoming a sissy. When the man showed up with his wife, it became clear at once that "the relationship was one of extreme antagonism." The father liked to go out at night to hear loud rock music, which his wife couldn't stand. So he brought the 5- year-old boy along for companionship. "the question came up to what I thought the prognosis would be for this little boy, who really did want to be a girl. I said I am never totally pessimistic about a child as young as this. And the father looked at me and said, really shaken, `Why am I feeling so angry with you for telling me that?' " He then acknowledged it was "probably something he didn't want to hear." This was a tremendous insight for Money. "This suddenly gave me an understanding of why fathers of these sissy boys have not lived up to their stereotype," which is being disgusted with their sons for not being more macho. In truth, says Money, it is almost always the mothers who get alarmed enough about their sissy son's to seek help. In this case, "the father was getting an understudy, so to speak, so that this little boy would be a companion, a replacement for his wife, a little bride." The boy had figured out that "daddies come home at night because mommies are there, so if you play the wife, then Daddy won't leave." In a similar case, the parents of a sissy boy fought all the time. he underlying cause was the father's reluctance to have sex. On Money's instructions, they ceased overt hostilities. "Within a week all the sissy behavior disappeared." Money likes to talk about tribes in East Melanesia and New Guinea as illustrative of the amazing and still little-understood plasticity of the sexual response. It seems that in one village in East Melanesia all boys go through a period of exclusively homosexual activity as part of their passage into manhood, from the age of 9 to 19. After that, they get married and become heterosexual. One tribe in New Guinea has a similar set-up. "They have their own folk medical story, which is that a child needs it's mother's milk to thrive when it's born, and then, to become a man and a head-hunting warrior he has to have a man's milk." So part of the ritual of going through puberty is to solicit semen from other young men. Says Money: "It's tremendously important that any theory of how people become heterosexual or homosexual or bisexual be able to account for this phenomenon of cultural bisexuality." Money often compares modern attitudes unfavorably with those of primitive cultures. He attributes most pathological sexual behavior to society's "antisexual" attitudes. One of the most damaging of these, in his opinion, is the belief that "childhood erotic rehearsal" is bad. When monkeys' juvenile sex play is prevented, they do not grow into normal heterosexuals. The same is true of other primates. This attitude, according to Money, plays a large part in the formation of parahilias, the psyciatric and biomedical word for sexual perversions. These generally occur when young children, whose brains are vulnerable for reasons yet unknown, undergo experiences that make their wiring jump the normal tracks, and inappropriate stimuli, such as physical pain, get permanently associated with erotic responses. Men, because of the way their brains are made, tend to have visual paraphilias ... such as transvestophilia in which they need to wear women's clothing to perform sexually. Women are more likely to have "touchy-feely, masochistic." paraphilias. Money is one of very few researchers who have done the kind of detective work necessary to track down the origin of a paraphilia. One thing all paraphiliacs have in common is the inability to form a romantic love bond. "I think the basic theorem of all the paraphilias is that probably from the time of childhood sexual rehearsal play, lust gets separated from love. Anything below the belt is lust and punishable, and love, affection and poetry go above the belt with kissing." Money believes we have barely progressed from the days when aberrant sexual behavior was ascribed to demonic possession. "Everything in sex and sexual medicine is influenced by the fact that we have sexology .... the science of sex ... which is not very well developed, and we also have sexosophy [another Money neologism]. Every society had it's own sexosophy as part of it's religion millennia before it got down to having any science of sex." And unlike most other branches of science, where religious explanations have given way to scientific facts, our "sexosophy" continues to dictate many of our attitudes. "We don't believe in demon-possession theories, we've given up the mid 18th-century idea that you degenerate yourself by losing your vital fluids. So now we're absolutely certain we know what causes all this weird sexual behavior: pornography." Anyone who thinks otherwise need only look at the work of the pornography commission headed by Attorney General Edwin Meese, which "totally disregarded" scientific testimony from several witnesses, including Money. Money says pornography, contrary to persisting beliefs, is not "contagious" and isn't going to make you do anything you didn't want to do anyway. "the only kind of pornography you can like is that which corresponds to your own lovemap. An example I give in lectures is that I could shut you up in a room for five hours of coprophilia movies and there's no chance you'd eat shit sandwiches for breakfast in the morning." Money has earned the ire of some feminists by insisting that Women Against Pornography "was one of the biggist catastrophes that happened to the women's movement... It let the cat out of the bag that these women really hated men. They put ammunition into the hands of the archconservatives, who were able to say with total justification that women are not really equal to men, they're very weak and sensitive and need to be protected from men's pornography." (Over the past two years, however, new women's groups have emerged that support pornography, particularly pornography for women, Money says.) Again and again Money reverts to religion, with it's concepts of sacrifice, guilt, and atonement, as being twisted in with pathological sexual attitudes and behavior. "It's quite uncanny how many rapists and lust murderers come from homes that were rigidly religious and antisexual." He cites one case of child abuse in which the mother was atoning for her sin by sacrificing her child: Her sin was that she had been conceived by incest between her father and her sister. Or take lust murderers. Money suspects that a common theme in their backrounds is having had sex forced on them as little boys by older women. Murdering the sex object is the expiation for the childhood sin. Money thinks probably all superrighteous moral crusaders are kinky. In a 1985 book, "The Destroying Angel", Money recounts the history of antisex crusader John Harvey Kellogg, the originator of Kellogg's breakfast cereals, which were developed to quell lust. According to Money's interpretation, it seems Kellogg was a man who eschewed sex with his wife and got his sexual gratification from enemas .. known as klismaphilia. "When I see someone who cares self-righteousness to excess, I just automatically say if I scratch the surface on this one, I'll find the sin under there." Although Money has often written about the need for a "sexual democracy" characterized by a realistic and unbiased approach to sexual problems, he won't say just how much taboo is a good idea. He muses over possible benefits: "What if we did what some of the tribal peoples do and at least felt good about kids discovering their sexuality?" But asked if it would be a good idea to encourage unbridled sexual play among children, he finally says: "No. Because I don't think our society would know how to do it yet. They would all fight each other." Money does have some specific ideas on what to do about AIDS. He thinks the gays themselfs had the right idea ... before AIDS made it's appearance ... when they started masturbation clubs that enable sexual stimulation without body contact. "What we should be doing as a society is giving very explicit and strongly positive messages to young people getting ready for puberty on the positive joys of masturbation ..... not general instruction, but very explicit teaching." There is no chance of that in the present moral climate, Money says. "I just sit here sometimes totally dumbfounded ... I see a nation sitting around complacently watching itself being destroyed by AIDS and not really doing very much about it." Money is seen by many as a bit of an eccentric, in part because of his general iconoclasm, perhaps in part because he never seems to tire of talking about sex. But there is abundant testimony to his stature as a scientist ... including 25 years of continuous funding from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, and the American Psychological Association's 1985 Distinguished Scientific Award for the Applications of Psychology. Says Money serenely, "I don't mind being wrong a few times because I'm right most of the time." |
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Re: [Xen-users] Error "Device 0 (vif) could not be connected"
On Mon, Nov 07, 2005 at 09:05:23PM -0500, wei huang wrote:
> The udev -V command outputs nothing on my system. And udevinfo -V
> outputs 039. So I believe the else
> branch gets executed. And I check that xen-backend.agent is there in
> /etc/hotplug. Is this the problem? Do I have to install a newer version of
> udev to make the whole thing work?
That makes sense. I think the intention here is to use udev if it is version
059 or greater, or to use the older hotplug approach otherwise. Your system
should be using hotplug, in that case. From the log message below, it looks
like your hotplug is OK, since the vif-bridge script is running.
> I tried manually copy your xen-backend.rules to rules.d but it doesn't
> seem to help.
> And I find entry like this in /var/log/messages after xm create fails:
> Nov 7 20:40:56 c5xen kernel: e100: peth0: e100_watchdog: link up, 100Mbps,
> full-duplex
> Nov 7 20:40:56 c5xen kernel: ip_tables: (C) 2000-2002 Netfilter core team
> Nov 7 20:40:57 c5xen kernel: xenbr0: port 2(peth0) entering learning state
> Nov 7 20:40:57 c5xen kernel: xenbr0: topology change detected,
> propagating
> Nov 7 20:40:57 c5xen kernel: xenbr0: port 2(peth0) entering forwarding state
> Nov 7 20:41:44 c5xen ntpd[3633]: synchronized to LOCAL(0), stratum 10
> Nov 7 20:42:47 c5xen logger: /etc/xen/scripts/vif-bridge: brctl addif xenbr0
> vif1.0 failed
So this line here says that we have failed to add the vif to the bridge. Do
you intend to use bridged networking? If so, is the bridge up? You can check
using brctl show.
Usually, your bridge would be brought up by the network-bridge script, which
would be run by xend at start-of-day. This is configured in
/etc/xen/xend-config.sxp, in the network-script option. If you are using this
option, then presumably the network-bridge script is failing.
You can run the network-bridge script manually like this:
/etc/xen/scripts/network-bridge start
and then check your /var/log/messages for error messages again.
The network-bridge script has a few options. These are discussed in the Xen
distribution's example xend-config.sxp.
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Post by Aonghus » Sat Dec 16, 2006 9:00 pm
The bare minimum of table wear you should have for an event (be it indoors or a camp out) is a wooden bowl, a sharp knife, and a spoon. With these you can pretty much get through any feast with out too much of a hassle. You can eat with your knife in place of a fork. You can drink out of your bowl if you have to, and the spoon pretty much speaks for itself.
Of course no self-respecting Celt would be without a nice drinking horn. And though a bowl can replace it in many cases, a plate is often more desireable to eat off of.
You are expected to bring your own feast gear to events. Should you forget, you may get lucky and find a member who has an extra mug or plate, but don't count on being lucky. And as a side note..... if you do borrow someone's gear it's common curtesy to return it clean.
And a note to all: We all know how groggy we get after a good feast and how easily distracted we get at our fun-filled events... but nothing is more unsightly than a heap of unwashed dishes strewn about camp....
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/3518 | NPCs Are the Worst
pretty and vacant
Pretty and vacant. Kind of like Megan Fox!
I’ve been having a difficult time playing video game RPGs lately. Sure, many of them are great. Some of them have interesting stories to tell, but what takes me out of the experience every time are the non-player characters. Yep, those mindless characters with 5-6 lines of dialog that either wander around endlessly or stand in one place.
Take Skyrim, which is considered the best video game RPG by many. I was in one of the villages when a dragon attacked. The dragon killed some NPCs before I was able to slay it. As I inspected the bodies I noticed that the mother/wife of one of the families had been killed. I went to talk to each of the characters in the woman’s family; I even took her body home for them to lay it to rest.
You know what those NPCs did? The same things they always did. Telling me about the best places to buy weapons, and how scary things had gotten in the world lately. No mention of the death of their mother/wife. No sorrow. Just aimless wandering. Same dialog.
And it completely pulled me out of the game. Because there are no stakes. If the NPCs don’t seem like they care about each other when they die, why should I care about them? Why even save the world? Why redeem something so devoid of life and emotion?
John was playing Destiny‘s beta the other day. He told me that he was totally into the gameplay, but as soon as he had to talk to an NPC, he was over it.
MMO NPCs are really the worst. I remember playing World of Warcraft and watching these random computer people walking around spouting their one line of dialog. Meanwhile, hundreds of decked out warriors flooded into their city. They didn’t care. It seemed really out of place. (WoW is weird. There’s a lot of war, but very little NPC industry. I’m not sure how that economy even moves. Who is making everything? Growing the food?)
I’ve outlined what I want from an MMO RPG before. I want a game where the PCs basically run everything because video game RPGs just don’t have the AI yet to run realistic NPCs yet.
Maybe I’ve been ruined by tabletop roleplaying games. Probably. But, I feel like video game RPGs have been doing the same thing for nearly 30 years. NPCs are basically the same as they were back in Final Fantasy. It’s time for NPCs to be improved.
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1. […] into mediocrity. I’ve gone over it before, but in light of some recent experiences, and TJ’s post, I want to get into really specific detail about what bothers […]
2. Jason Smith says:
When NPCs lack character it removes a necessary part of the game landscape with it. To me an unrealistic NPC in a game would be like fish being seen swimming on the land or having a horse being ridden on by its own hooves. With disconnection from characters and their world realism and depth is lost.
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/3553 | Insulin and Type 2 Diabetes
If you have type 2 diabetes and your healthcare provider just put you on insulin, you may feel upset. You may be upset that lifestyle changes and diabetes pills weren’t enough. Or you may think that you should have tried harder to manage your diabetes. But don't blame yourself. Many people with diabetes need to change their treatment plan at some point. There are benefits to this. For example, taking insulin can make it easier to manage your blood sugar. And it can prevent complications of diabetes.
Why do I need insulin now?
Diabetes changes over time. When people first have type 2 diabetes, their pancreas is often making plenty of insulin. But their bodies can't use the insulin that is made. This is called insulin resistance. It can lead to a buildup of sugar (glucose) in the blood. A healthy diet, regular exercise, and weight loss may help. When these steps aren’t enough, diabetes pills can often help. They can reduce insulin resistance. Or increase the insulin the body makes.
But after a few years, things can change. Over time the pancreas may make less and less insulin. Insulin resistance may also get worse. You may be eating right, exercising regularly, and taking your diabetes pills. But it can still be harder to reach your blood sugar goals. At this point, your healthcare provider may switch you to a different pill. Or you may need to take more than one type. You may need to take insulin shots. These shots replace the insulin that your pancreas is no longer making.
What should I know about insulin?
There are different types of insulin. These include long-acting, intermediate-acting, regular- or short-acting, and rapid-acting. Your healthcare provider will work with you to select the insulin that’s right for you. He or she will show you how to inject it and tell you how to store it. You may need to take more than 1 shot each day to reach your blood sugar goals. A new form of inhaled insulin is now available for quick doses before meals. But it must be used along with injectable long-acting insulin if you have type 2 diabetes and use long-acting insulin.
The insulin will lower your blood sugar. How quickly this happens depends on the type of insulin. And where on your body you inject it. Your provider will work with you so that you know how much insulin to take. And how close to a meal or snack you should take it.
Once you start taking insulin, you may still need to take diabetes pills. You should stick with your healthy diet and get exercise on most days. Your medicine, diet, and exercise all work together to keep your blood sugar controlled. And to keep you at your healthy best.
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From Hospitals to Surgery.
by Ferdinand III
Without the Catholic and Christian ‘Middle Ages’, there would be no modern world. Science, mathematics, naturalism, modern botany and medicine are all derived, directly, from medieval knowledge, practicality and technology. Newton a devout Christian, stood on the shoulders of previous giants. Pope Benedict XVI, ousted in a Vatican coup to install the insipid globalist Pope Francis, once state that to be a Christian, was to be someone who understood real history. Sadly too many Christians and Catholics are ignorant about the past and allow Atheists and non-Christians to establish revisionist and erroneous themes. Hospitals for example are a 2nd century Christian innovation. By the 4th century Nestorian medical training centres were famous. Few know this.
Medicine is one area where the Christian legacy is disregarded or worse, degraded. Catholic historian Dave Armstrong summarises some aspects of Medieval medicine that would lead directly to its modern variant. Some edits have been added.
…”(genesis of which is the) remarkable knowledge of the biblical writers regarding germ theory, which was basically only understood in science in the 19th century.
But did the hospitals in the Middle Ages actually have any effective treatments? Yes! Monks intensely studied and experimented medicinal properties of plants. This scenario — let’s not forget — produced Gregor Mendel, who discovered genetics in the 19th century, by studying peas. Healing herbs were widely available. Books of such herbal remedies were written by monks.
Translation of texts and curiosity to improve
In the 12th century, many medical texts from ancient Greece and Islamic medicine were translated into Latin, and the practices and treatments described therein began to be implemented. In the late 13th century, surgery — however primitive — greatly advanced and began to be practiced much more than formerly.
The practice of medicine in the early Middle Ages was empirical and pragmatic. It focused mainly on curing disease rather than discovering the cause of diseases. Often it was believed the cause of disease was supernatural. Nevertheless, secular approaches to curing diseases existed.
Evidence of pagan influence on emerging Christian medical practice was provided by many prominent early Christian thinkers, such as Origen, Clement of Alexandria, and Augustine, who studied natural philosophy and held important aspects of secular Greek philosophy that were in line with Christian thought.
Using natural medicine and extending trade routes
In exchanging the herbal texts among monasteries, monks became aware of herbs that could be very useful but were not found in the surrounding area. The monastic clergy traded with one another or used commercial means to obtain the foreign herbs. Inside most of the monastery grounds there had been a separate garden designated for the plants that were needed for the treatment of the sick. A serving plan of St. Gall depicts a separate garden to be developed for strictly medical herbals.
Monks and nuns also devoted a large amount of their time in the cultivation of the herbs they felt were necessary in the care of the sick. Some plants were not native to the local area and needed special care to be kept alive. The monks used a form of science, what we would today consider botany, to cultivate these plants. Foreign herbs and plants determined to be highly valuable were grown in gardens in close proximity to the monastery in order for the monastic clergy to hastily have access to the natural remedies.
Libraries, accretion of knowledge
The Middle Ages contributed a great deal to medical knowledge. This period contained progress in surgery, medical chemistry, dissection, and practical medicine. The Middle Ages laid the groundwork for later, more significant discoveries. There was a slow but constant progression in the way that medicine was studied and practiced. It went from apprenticeships to universities and from oral traditions to documenting texts. The most well-known preservers of texts, not only medical, would be the monasteries. The monks were able to copy and revise any medical texts that they were able to obtain.
Urban growth, Universities
Western Europe also experienced economic, population and urban growth in the 12th and 13th centuries leading to the ascent of medieval medical universities. The University of Salerno was considered to be a renowned provenance of medical practitioners in the 9th and 10th centuries, but was not recognized as an official medical university until 1231. . . . the Universities of Paris (1150), Bologna (1158), Oxford (1167), Montpelier (1181) and Padua (1222), extended the initial work of Salerno across Europe, and by the 13th century, medical leadership had passed to these newer institutions.
Moreover, Christians who were experimenting in (primitive but notable and relatively sophisticated) scientific techniques throughout the medieval period, were responsible for a host of new medical innovations. I cite a small representative sampling:
Paul of Aegina (c. 625 - c. 690) was perhaps the greatest Byzantine surgeon, and developed many novel surgical techniques and authored the medical encyclopedia Medical Compendium in Seven Books. The book on surgery in particular was a definitive treatise for hundreds of years.
Hunayn ibn Ishaq (809-873) [Nestorian]. His monumental developments on the eye are found in his innovative book, Ten Treatises on Ophthalmology — the first systematic book in this field. He explained in minute details, eye diseases and their symptoms and treatments. He accurately described cysts and tumors and wrote about how to treat various corneal ulcers through surgery; also about how to repair cataracts.
St. Hildegard von Bingen (1098-1179; Doctor of the Church) wrote botanical and medicinal texts.
Theodoric Borgognoni (1205-1298; bishop) He developed an antiseptic approach, with wounds being cleaned and sutured to promote healing. Bandages were pre-soaked in wine as a form of disinfectant. He promoted the use of anesthetics in surgery. A sponge soaked in a dissolved solution of opium, mandrake, hemlock, mulberry juice, ivy and other substances was held beneath the patient’s nose to induce unconsciousness.
The myths that atheists spread about medieval Christianity and science (including) are wild charges and simply unsubstantiated. It’s the same old tired saw of “Christianity — especially when it was the dominant cultural force — was supposedly anti-science, anti-intellectual, and opposed to the impulse and “curiosity” of investigative science or any other sort of learning.”
In addition to being a slander of historic Christianity (Catholicism and Orthodoxy), this is also an indefensible and reprehensible slander of the entire period of the Middle Ages. The inquiring, investigative, proto-scientific spirit of this innovative period is rarely examined in any depth or seriousness. Many atheists would rather caricature and broad-brush from a distance.
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Christopher Hitchens vs. Tony Perkins on National Day of Prayer Being Unconstitutional
April 16, 2010 on CNN
(Thanks to JSAC)
1. Saying that this is a tradition which goes back to our founding fathers is a horrible argument. Does that mean slavery has some justification behind it? And like Hitchens said, people would be appalled if the government had a "National day of fasting" or other non-christian ritual.
Either they don't understand that it's a clear violation of seperation of church and state or they feel like christianity doesn't have to abide by it.
2. The National Day of Prayer goes back, at best, to 1952. The last time I checked the founding fathers were long in the ground by the 1950s, making that argument an outright lie, not just a horrible argument.
3. This guy cited the Lemon test and stated that it focuses on coercion. Wrong. The Lemon test focuses on Govt. endorsement, the Lee test focuses on Coercion. District court judges due set precedent which then gets reviewed by the higher courts. This guy does not belong on a major television network.
4. You see that chin raise on him, lol, hitchens got him enraged. Man religious people are just stuck in this incredibly stupid loop of retardedness. Sigh, this guy needs to pull his head of his self righteous ass.
5. <span>Ugh... WOW. Notice that Perkins tried to smile, or at least grin throughout the entire thing - and especially through his aggitation: "See kids? Christians are always HAPPY!!!" His references to history were sketchy at best, and it's inaccurate to declare any definite number of American Christians - past or present. In both past and present, many nonbelievers closet their views because of discrimination and persecution by Christians and other believers.
What's also ignored here is the selection of nonbelievers who are actually repulsed by Christianity (myself included). I don't have kids, but if I did, I'd be upset that they had to see their own government call them to religious action, as though it's something wholesome to take part in. With that in mind, I'd like to know from Mr. Perkins, how he and his Christian peers would react if, to counteract, the government chose a day to ask the nation NOT to pray. Because doing, not praying, makes this world a better place to me. Let's see how they'd like being asked by the government to act against their beliefs, as Atheists are continually prompted to do in a plethora of instances.</span>
6. Why wouldn't a district judge have greater wisdom and know better than all past presidents?
Today they have the country's entire history available for their review and even some of past presidents' private thoughts, giving a better perspective than any single president before.
7. Last word, always! Perfect intolerance!
Notice how the frc guy is smiling like an idiot and hitchens looks like he's interrogating a murder suspect
8. Man I am so fucking mad at that liar Perkins right now. My face is red with anger. Of all the lies he was telling I think the biggest one that pissed me off the most is how he kept trying to claim that a district court judge issuing a ruling that a thing is unconstitutional is somehow overstepping her bounds because only the supreme court can do that. Well, no, actually - PETITIONING THE SUPREME COURT DIRECTLY IS NOT POSSIBLE YOU LIAR. ANY SUCH CHALLENGE MUST BEGIN AT A LOCAL DISTRICT COURT AND ONLY GETS ELEVATED TO THE SUPREME COURT IF IT GETS APPEALED AT THE LOCAL LEVEL AND ESCALATED --- AND YOU KNOW THIS YOU LITTLE LYING PRICK GIVEN HOW MANY TIMES YOUR ORGANIZATION HAS BEEN INVOLVED IN THE SAME PROCESS YOURSELF!!!
This is why the FFRF started their petition at their own local district - the Western Wisconsin Federal district that this judge rules over. They know perfectly well that it will get appealed and thus eventually end up at the supreme court. THAT'S THE ONLY NORMAL PROCESS FOR GETTING TO THE SUPREME COURT.
This little lying putz has tried to take the normal procedure of the federal judicial system and tried to portray it as some maverick activist judge taking the law into her own hands. Liar.
And no, he's not merely honestly mistaken. He knows this is how the system works because its exactly the same system he's been involved in himself before. He's lying for the camera because he knows that his supporters *don't* necessarily know how the normal procedure works and he figures this dishonest rhetoric that this was some activist judge coming out of the blue making this ruling is a good way to rally support. Note how he doesn't mention that she was ruling on a case brought before her by the FFRF. Noe how he doesn't mention that given how the FFRF exists in her district that she's dealt with many FFRF cases before as part of the normal chain they are required to use to reach the supreme court. Note how he doesn't mention that she doesn't always rule in their favor. That would ruin his bullshit narrative that she's some maverick activist judge who did this herself on her own.
Those who lie for political gain do not deserve respect.
9. Damn, The Hitch is butting heads with the religious nutjobs a lot these days. Seems like there isn't a single day that he isn't commenting on the pope or some religious law. Keep up the good work!
10. Some help from James Madison on the separation of church and state may be found at the page of Madison quotes. Note the section, at the page bottom, on "Phony James Madison Quotations Popularized by David Barton of WallBuilders, Inc."
Also, Chris Rodda's book Liars For Jesus contains these lines in her discussion of Madison's "Detached Memoranda" (ch 9): "Madison made clear his objections to mixing religion and government in even the smallest ways. A few of the practices he singled out as being unconstitutional or potentially dangerous were tax supported chaplains in congress and in the military, and government proclamations of days of prayer and thanksgiving. Religious right American history authors hate this document and usually attempt to discredit it in some way before even getting to its actual content."
According to Madison's Wikipedia page, he's the "Father of the Bill of Rights." He's important to separation of church and state issues.
I again link to Judge Crabb's decision.
11. Michael Kingsford GrayApril 18, 2010 at 2:21 AM
Aren't you totally embarrassed by the likes of this retarded juvenile cretin?
Why on earth do you give these idiots air-time to spew their uninformed lies?
12. An absolutely brilliant perfomance by Hitchens. Brilliant.
13. If this whole thing gets overturned and National Day of Prayer is recognized, then we should push for our national day. We should have National Day of No Prayer. No one would be making anyone not pray, they can pray. BTW, I have to give credit to Stephanie who comments above for the idea.
That would be hilarious to have a National Day of No Prayer. How about National Day of Burning "Holy" Texts? Well, that last one we should just have regardless if it's nationally supported. |
global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/3586 | Microsurgery is a delicate surgery requiring the use of a magnifying lens or microscope.
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Laparoscopy can be diagnostic, where you inspect the abdominal organs and place a diagnosis or operative where you perform a surgical procedure.
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Robotic surgery
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The name is derived from the words “Hystero”, which in Greek means uterus and the word “scope” which in Greek means to look. So hysteroscopy is a procedure where you view the internal cavity of the uterus (the endometrium) and the cervical canal.
Hysteroscopy can be used for diagnostic purposes to confirm an intrauterine or cervical pathology or in order to treat certain conditions (operative hysteroscopy).
How is Hysteroscopy performed?
Diagnostic hysteroscopy can be performed in the office without anesthesia, especially if a flexible hysteroscope is available.
Operative hysteroscopy is performed under anesthesia, which is usually done in a hospital setting. The cervix is dilated to the appropriate diameter in order to accommodate the hysteroscope. The hysteroscope is a specialized telescopic camera that has 2 small canals. One canal is used to dilate the coaptating endometrial cavity with fluid (normal saline) in order to view the endometrium and the other canal is used in order to pass miniscule instruments. In more complicated hysteroscopic procedures electrosurgical instruments can be used. The procedures usually last a 10-30 minutes.
How is the recovery after the procedure?
After the procedure the patient feels minimal crampy pain (like menstrual cramps) that dissipates within 1 day and spotting for a few days. All hysteroscopic procedures leave on the same day. You can return to most of your usual activities including work within 1 day.
Vaginal surgery
Vaginal surgery refers to any surgery performed via the vaginal approach. Gynecological surgeons can perform an excision or repair through the tight space of the vaginal canal.
The major advantage is that there are no visible incisions and the recovery is better. This has been one of the first minimally invasive procedures performed before the use of laparoscopy. It is still considered the best minimally invasive option when it comes to hysterectomy if that is feasible.
Vaginal surgery is used to repair several pelvic organ prolapse problems like cystocele, rectocele, enterocele or uterine prolapse or treat urinary incontinence.
Cryoablation is a process that uses extreme cold to destroy certain tissues.
Hollow instruments (cryoprobes) with an internal circulating system for liquid nitrogen cool the tip of the instruments to extremely cold temperatures. The cryoprobe is placed adjacent to the tissue to be destroyed superficially. Once the desired results are achieved the probe is warmed back to normal temperature and removed.
Anesthesia usually is not needed.
In gynecology cryoablation is used for lesions of the cervix, vagina and genital warts. In certain cases it has been used for the induced necrosis of symptomatic fibroids.
At Athens Reproduction we offer this procedure in our offices to all women requiring it.
Thermoablation is a process that uses extremely hot temperatures to destroy tissues.
The heat produced is achieved with electrical current or laser beams.
Thermoablation is used in surgeries for coagulation and in office procedures for superficial destruction of tissues like cervical lesions or genital warts.
Endometrial thermoablation can be used to ablate the endometrial lining in women that experience heavy menstrual bleeding and are adamant to medical treatment. These patients must have completed their child bearing, have a biopsy confirmed benign endometrium and a normally shaped cavity. It is a good alternative to patients that previously had no other choice than to undergo a hysterectomy. |
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Here is the link to the sign up genius for the popcorn sale. This is a great way to raise lots of money for upcoming trips and summer camp. We have boys that raise enough to pay for over a full year including summer camp.
Money raised from the troop booths are split evenly among the boys who do them, by the hour. Individual sales go to the boys who make them. If you have any questions, please let me know.
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Sharps Disposal
People use needles, syringes and lancets, also called sharps, to treat all sorts of medical conditions at home, including diabetes, allergies, cancer and others. Sharps may also be associated with illegal drug use. Safely disposing of sharps protects residents, sanitation workers and the environment, but more and more frequently they are found improperly disposed of.
What Can I Do If I Find a Needle or Syringe?
You can report large amounts of discarded sharps by calling 311, or for small amounts dispose of as outlined here. With a few household items, you can dispose of these needles and help keep our community safe
What Equipment Do I Need?
• Gloves - leather utility or vinyl
• Grabbers, tongs, pliers or tweezers
• Sharps container or other rigid plastic container
• Tape
• Waterproof marker
How Do I Safely Dispose of a Needle or Syringe?
• Put on gloves and place sharps container on a stable surface near the needle.
• Pick up the needle with grabbers/tongs/pliers or tweezers, keeping the needle tip pointed away from you.
• Put the needle into a sharps container, bleach or laundry detergent container or plastic peanut butter jar.
• Tightly seal the container using tape to secure the top. Do not fill the container more than 2/3 full.
• Label container “Sharps - Do Not Recycle” with a waterproof marker.
• Keep container away from children and place in regular household trash cart.
• Wash hands with soap and water.
• NEVER handle needles with bare hands - assume they are contaminated.
• NEVER attempt to snap, remove or bend needles, or put the cap back on.
• NEVER place sharps in a glass or light plastic container or a milk carton that could break or allow needles to poke through.
• NEVER allow children to handle needles.
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/3612 | Tuesday, June 15, 2010
The Cross and Social Mercy, Pt. 1 - Social Justice or Social Mercy?
I am not the only one troubled by the following two truths:
(1) 35,000 children die every day in this world from starvation and preventable diseases. The HIV virus threatens to be an actual pandemic in Africa. Two billion people in the world live on less than 2 dollars a day. And so on. You've all heard the statistics. Hopefully they trouble you too.
(2) While more and more evangelicals are awakening to these miserable realities, there is a large group especially in the Reformed community that reacts against this evangelical awakening. These folks have reasonable concerns, but in general I think they are wrong. I'll explore some of that in detail later.
It is with these two truths in mind that I am starting this series on how a right theology of the cross will lead Christians to passionately pursue what we commonly call "social justice" ministry.
But we shouldn't call it that. What we should call it is "social mercy" ministry. Here's why:
"Justice" is a term the Bible usually uses for the faithfulness that He exhibits and His people often fail to exhibit in keeping His laws. That's why it is often paired with words like "righteousness" (Gen. 18:19), it is what we do when we refuse to accept bribes (Ex. 23:2; Deut. 16:19; 1 Sam. 8:3), and it is what God enacts when He punishes sinners (Job 8:3) or maintains by punishing Christ in their place (Rom. 3:21-25).
It is harder to pin down a consistent biblical definition of "mercy", but let's borrow Grudem's definition of it as an attribute of God: "God's goodness toward those in misery and distress." Compare this with God's grace, which Grudem defines as "God's goodness toward those who deserve only punishment." It is frankly impossible to argue that the Bible maintains such precise definitions of these two terms. It doesn't. These are merely helpful ways of categorizing two truths about God that are indeed biblical. The language is just meant to organize our thinking.
In any case, we should always recognize that words (biblical or otherwise) have ranges of meaning rather than some fixed dictionary definition. That's why there are multiple dictionaries, multiple definitions for words, and why dictionaries are always being updated, expanded, and even contracted--words just don't have fixed, inflexible meanings. A perfect illustration is my paragraph about "justice" above: there are multiple uses of the word in just those few examples.
In any case, "social justice" is not necessarily a helpful term because it suggests that the poverty that it aims to eradicate is always caused by injustice, which is debatable at best. The better way to talk about it is "social mercy". So that's the term I'm going to use. It's not the biggest deal in the world, and most of us know what each other means as we use the term "social justice", but I figured I ought to explain why I'm using the term I am.
The next post in this series will begin to argue that the cross demands that the church practice social mercy. I'm looking forward to the interactions we'll have about this massively important topic.
Highanddry said...
I'd like to know how you can say that 'injustice' is not at the heart of the world's needs. To deny this fact would seem to abdicate the proper responsibility of the wealthy (computer owning) people and our complicity in the injustices of the world.
Andrew Faris said...
I knew that was going to happen: you jumped way, way ahead.
So are you arguing that all poverty is because of rich white people and their computers?
David A. Carlson said...
I look forward to the rest of the posts -
Ian Clausen said...
If you accept the definition, as I do, that in the cross of Christ God's mercy and God's justice converge, leaving aside any sustained explication of what that means, then how might you Christianly maintain the neat bifurcation of mercy and justice in ethical deliberation?
That's the abstract question. Now for your response to Highanddry. I doubt anyone would reduce matters of injustice to possession of electronic equipment. Yet such examples are almost always meant to be instructive of larger social structures that either directly or indirectly promote injustice. In that sense, I have to disagree initially with your reaching for mercy instead of justice to describe Christian social action. Indeed, mercy is often (though not exclusively) understood to pertain to the spontaneous act of providing for one's immediate needs, whereas justice entails (among other things) judgement about what is to be done, which can be characterised as merciful or, simply, as necessary and due. So I may reconsider, for example, my use of the computer right now, and come to a decision on whether its possession and use promote certain forms of injustice (obviously, I do not, or not enough to concede the computer). That's participating in social justice, which is a broad concept entailing many facets. I'm not sure, then, why mercy should supplant that term in our social ethics. It seems to restrict our view to individual acts of justice without illuminating all that justice demands and entails.
More to be said, but that's my two cents for now.
Highanddry said...
My attempt at blog humour has come off as being unhelpfully glib for which I apologise.
My question is in regards to the suggestion that poverty's link to injustice is only debatable at best. Poverty (imho) is always at its root linked with inequity, power, resources and so on, and as such, necessarily stems from injustice.
Charlie said...
I like the phrase "social mercy" for the range of ministry ideas that it brings to mind. It's also quite true that the phrase "social justice" has a lot of historical baggage attached and has been co-opted by liberal churches who primarily see it in terms of giving marginalized people political power.
It's also questionable to me whether justice is an achievable goal in our broken world, though I think the Scriptures nevertheless call us to work for and live out justice to the extent that we have the power to do so.
Good start. I'll look forward to what you have to say.
HomeBuilding Team said...
Similar to Charlie...
We are called to live justly and mercifully for sure. But I don't necessarily think one of our goals is to eliminate injustice and suffering. I wonder how this idea connects with the recent book the blogs were talking about (by Hunter?)where "faithful presence" is the advocated way for Christians to interact with culture?
Steve Hayes said...
I am reminded of something once said, or said to have been said by Dietrich bonhoeffer: "When a madman is driving through the streats running people over, it is not enough to follow in an ambulance picking up his victims. I should do all in my power to stop him driving at all. This is not to say that all poverty is caused by injustice, but a great deal of it is.
greenyuppie said...
There can be no justice until we rid ourselves of the passive voice and needless syntactical manuevering. :)
But more seriously, I look forward to the next post... which since I'm reading backlog, may very well exist. |
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Intellectually Giant but Emotionally Dwarf
While attending a service today, I was struck when the presider said that many among the young children of today grow as intellectually giants but emotionally pygmies. And while I was listening to him, I slowly nodded my head in affirmation. And to add to that, I think the only legacy that any parent can leave to his children is the examples of being a good and kindhearted individual.
Sometime last week, I remember reading it online that a son of a very well known intellectual family committed suicide since he did not find any consolation anymore in the family. What were normally brought during table conversations were topics on achievements, figures, big amount of money, etc. and he was feeling left out since at that very moment, he was already sensing like being choked in the neck. What he needed at that time was a breather and not all those accomplishments, greatness, incentives etc..
On the other hand, there was another sad story of a very intelligent man who became so famous in the world of entrepreneurship yet due to later pressures in his life, decided to abandon his family to prove to his detractors that he was right with his theories in the business. These are but just two examples of people who have enormous intelligence yet they ultimately failed for they were not able to cling to what is essential in life.
Thus for parents and for other adults, you perform a crucial role to the total formation of your children and the other young ones around you. The best examples then that you can give to them is by living all those good ideals and values in life. Constantly teach your children well and let them realise that being successful in life is not merely gauged by medals and awards but also on how you treat other people especially those who seem to be lower than you in social, financial, psychological and other status in life.
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Update: Is this worthy to become a feature request: Old-looking Flex 3 Apps?
Matt Chotin makes a great moment for everyone who want to improve our beloved Flex technology and so put more power in the Flash Platform: today is the Flex Elections day! This means you are unbelievably welcome to vote for any of the Flex Bugs / Features in the Adobe JIRA Flex Bug-tracking System, even for issues with “Deferred” status. Go and help Adobe to help You!
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/3657 | Saturday, June 9, 2012
As any good Dr. Who fan knows, the TARDIS can go anywhere anytime Xavier's universe is no exception.
This is the evolution of the TARDIS in Xavier's room.
Xavier said I was cheating by using tape to make my lines straight.
I used all 750 ml of this blue paint. I'm glad I got the big bottle!
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/3669 | Happy Carl Sagan Day!
This would have been Carl Sagan’s 77th birthday, and to honor him today has been declared this the annual Carl Sagan Day. Inspired by the 1939 World’s Fair in New York, Carl Sagan’s curiosity about the natural world and the universe took him on an amazing journey, not the least of which was his television series, Cosmos.
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1. Why did TellTale games used Carl Sagan as Doc who burned down a speakeasy in Hill Vally?
2. Um... Was this the Back to the Future game? I didn't play past the intro to the first chapter. Sounds like a scientist joke tho.
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Porting a C# NES emulator to Rust
November 20, 2015 - rust emulation
Many years ago, I created a simple NES emulator in C# using SDL and Mono. For fun, I wanted to see what it would be like to port that emulator to Rust. A couple weeks later, after poking on it on and off between packing for a move, I was able to get it working.
Image of Super Mario Bros 1 on emulator
What I did
Loading a binary file
Loading the types of files commonly used in emulators requires us to work with binary files. To do so, we need a way of loading the raw data both as just plain bytes and also as numbers. Rust, by default, comes with a fairly slim API for dealing with binary data. No matter, Rust is also very flexible and allows you to build on additional parts to the API to suit your needs.
I started there, and built out a few functions that would let me read in the numbers from the file both using big-endian and little-endian.
pub trait BitReader {
fn read_u32_be(&mut self) -> Result<u32, io::Error>;
fn read_u32_le(&mut self) -> Result<u32, io::Error>;
impl BitReader for File {
let mut buffer = [0; 4];
try!( buffer));
Ok(buffer[3] as u32 + ((buffer[2] as u32) << 8) +
((buffer[1] as u32) << 16) + ((buffer[0] as u32) << 24))
let mut buffer = [0; 4];
try!( buffer));
Ok(buffer[0] as u32 + ((buffer[1] as u32) << 8) +
((buffer[2] as u32) << 16) + ((buffer[3] as u32) << 24))
Once I had the trait, I could import it where I wanted to use these extra read capabilities on File.
With these extra methods in place, I could plow through the binary file loading with a mix of the File read functionality and the BitReader trait.
I did notice I used the odd concoction buffer.iter().cloned().collect() to convert from an array to a Vec of the same contained type:
for _ in 0..(num_prg_pages*4) {
let mut buffer = [0; 4096];
try!( buffer));
There may be a more Rust-native way of doing it. Personally, I think it'd be nice to be able to read directly into a Vec, so you could elide that step.
Side-by-side porting
One of the first things I did after I had file loading in place was to start porting over the CPU emulation. Because I wanted the code to be fairy clean, I opted to not do a literal port. Instead, I opened two separate editor windows: one for the original C# source, and one for the new Rust source. Tedious, but I hoped that a port focused on what would fit better with Rust would be less error-prone.
There's another reason not to do copy/pasting of code when porting: too many little things needed to be changed to the Rust style. For example, Rust-friendly names often differ from the C# equivalent (eg the ReadChrRom method would need to be read_chr_rom to match Rust naming conventions). Like-wise, little things that help readability in Rust, like the "no parens around if guards" means that copy/pasted code would need to be touched up. All told, a minor frustration, but it gave ample time to make the code look a bit cleaner in the transfer so likely a net win.
Feeling more comfortable with Rust's use of expressions, I could write code in a more dense way. For example, here is some code from the ROR or Rotate Right opcode in C#:
if ((valueholder & 0x1) == 0x1)
bitholder = 1;
bitholder = 0;
valueholder = (byte)(valueholder >> 1);
if (carry_flag == 1)
valueholder = (byte)(valueholder | 0x80);
carry_flag = bitholder;
if ((valueholder & 0xff) == 0x0)
zero_flag = 1;
zero_flag = 0;
if ((valueholder & 0x80) == 0x80)
sign_flag = 1;
sign_flag = 0;
and here's what it became in Rust:
let bit = (value & 0x1) == 0x1;
value = (value >> 1) & 0x7f;
value += if self.carry {0x80} else {0};
self.carry = bit; = value == 0;
self.sign = (value & 0x80) == 0x80;
Some of these changes could have been done in the original C#, but I didn't notice them at the time. Still, I think the result Rust is still pretty readable, even though it's more compact.
While we're talking about bit rotation, one of the annoyances I experienced working on bit manipulation code is that Rust is more vigilant about overflow checking. In hindsight, this is actually a good thing, but coming from languages like C# and JavaScript that are less vigilant, it was a bit of a headache to adjust to. I ended up doing some of my own bit masks so I didn't have to worry about it, but I noticed that they've added a number of "wrapping" operations in Rust 1.4 that allow you to work around the overflow checks.
Hitting the first ownership error
A few days into the port, I hit my first ownership error. Here's a quick rundown of the NES, so you can see why that might be so:
Now that we have the parts, here's how they talk to each other:
All the subsystems, in essence, need to be able to talk to each other at some level. Which is exactly how I set up the C# project. Singleton objects with references to each other. When I ported over to TypeScript a few years ago, similar idea.
But in Rust, ownership needs to be clear. If you call a method, you can't also pass something you own to that method, like so:
The net result is that I went back to the drawing board and thought long and hard about what was actually necessary for each component. After a couple of refactorings, I think I landed on a solution that's both cleaner and clearer. Every object has one owner, and I don't do any ref cells or ref counting.
Deriving debug
There are a few tricks that I loved in Haskell that I wished other languages would pick up. One of them is the ability to automatically be able to print out objects for you.
In Rust, you can do this using the 'derive' command:
struct Foo {
x: u32
let foo = Foo { x: 10 }
println!("{:?}", foo);
By deriving Debug, you have the ability to output a debug format of that structure, which is output using {:?}.
This is very handy to help bootstrap a project, when you quickly want to look at the contents of what is working so far. After a while, I found I ended up removing these helpers and putting in my own, customized implementations.
Using SDL was dead simple. I used the SDL2 Rust bindings. After a few tries to follow the directions to install SDL2 carefully, I had it working in both Windows and OS X. After it's installed, the bindings "just work".
I'd never used SDL2 before, but after looking through the examples directory, especially the texture sample, I was good to go.
What I didn't do
Chase crashing bugs
After wrestling a few ownership errors, I largely spent my time on correctness. I ended up having a few hard-to-find issues where I flipped the boolean logic on a check or discovering I forgot to implement a piece of the machine that was required. After many hours pouring over the code side by side, or looking at the output log, I finally managed to get the outputs similar.
Just as in the C# and JavaScript versions of the emulator, I didn't worry about any crashes. A few times I had an arithmetic overflow or error accessing a vector out of bounds, but those were easy to fix.
After I got the emulator working, I let it rip. The result was something unplayably fast. Not bad for a first try.
In hindsight, this isn't too surprising. The CPU gets to work directly with the MMU. Ditto with the MMU and the PPU. The systems can call functions in each other without any abstraction, VM, or GC. By default, the core structs sit on the stack.
Using Rust had nudged me into doing what would have made sense for a decent C-based approach, without the risks. Of course, it's not like Rust prevents you from adding in a hefty abstraction layer, but the defaults seem to push you in the right direction.
Unit test
For this to feel like a real Rust project, though, it needs some tests. I asked Patrick Walton, the author of probably the first NES emulator for Rust, about testing emulators with Rust unit tests, but he didn't use them for his project either.
Still, I suspect there's a way of creating fairly testable, and still performant, parts of the emulator. For example, opcodes could each have their own unit test if there was a way, possibly with traits, to decouple them from working so closely with the MMU.
Add audio support
In Patrick's video about his emulator, he mentions that he took it on to show that Rust can do real-time processing. For an emulator, that means that the audio is emulated properly and sounds correct. I haven't added any audio support, but it would be a fun project at some point.
Precisely emulate the machine
The never-ending rabbit hole for any emulation project is to see just how precisely you can emulate the hardware. There's plenty of work here.
What I've learned
I'm getting a little more comfortable with Rust. Thinking through an ownership refactoring can still take a while, but it's starting to feel like the hurdle you take on so that you can worry less about safety and performance. I still have a ways to go before it becomes second nature.
Cargo shines again, and the SDL bindings were easy to put in place and worked as expected. No complaints there.
Feels like I'm still scratching the surface. There are likely some slick spots to use traits and macros to cut down on the redundancy and coupling, repectively. But I'm happy with the progress. |
global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/3721 | Fyodor Dostoevsky: Crime and Punishment
3. CHAPTER III (continued)
"Upon my word, I am not," answered Svidrigailov laughing. "However, I won't dispute it, let me be a braggart, why not brag, if it hurts no one? I spent seven years in the country with Marfa Petrovna, so now when I come across an intelligent person like you--intelligent and highly interesting--I am simply glad to talk and, besides, I've drunk that half-glass of champagne and it's gone to my head a little. And besides, there's a certain fact that has wound me up tremendously, but about that I . . . will keep quiet. Where are you off to?" he asked in alarm.
Raskolnikov had begun getting up. He felt oppressed and stifled and, as it were, ill at ease at having come here. He felt convinced that Svidrigailov was the most worthless scoundrel on the face of the earth.
"A-ach! Sit down, stay a little!" Svidrigailov begged. "Let them bring you some tea, anyway. Stay a little, I won't talk nonsense, about myself, I mean. I'll tell you something. If you like I'll tell you how a woman tried 'to save' me, as you would call it? It will be an answer to your first question indeed, for the woman was your sister. May I tell you? It will help to spend the time."
"Tell me, but I trust that you . . ."
"Oh, don't be uneasy. Besides, even in a worthless low fellow like me, Avdotya Romanovna can only excite the deepest respect."
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/3747 | Thursday, July 28, 2011
'Mama said there'd be days like this...
...there'd be days like this Mama said.'
OK, so maybe MY mama didn't say it and I can't remember if the song was about good days or bad days so maybe I should have picked another title, but I'm committed to it at this point so, WHATEVER!!
Take a gander at this:
I have never, repeat NEVER, seen a day of BG readings like this!!
Sure, Bean's average for other days might have looked like the day was a 'good' one but if you looked at the actual readings, not so 'good.'
In the interest of full disclosure, she was at 252 when I checked her at 11pm, but that's because I didn't have her cover all of the carbs in her snack at 8:30pm when she was at 74. And I'm totally OK with that number since I'm pondering overnight correction factors and basal rates because they seem to be 'off' again.
Yes, I'm fully aware that by putting this out there Bean's numbers could quite possibly be total CRAP for the next week, but this is the first time I've EVER gotten the chance to see numbers so pretty that I just had to share!
1. Yay for those pretty numbers!!!! And I'm sending very strong "anti-blog-curse" vibes so those numbers stay looking pretty!! :)
2. So, I guess you are pretty good at staying under 200!!! Congrats!
3. How do you wistle in writing?!?! Cuz those numbers are purdy!!!
4. Lovely!!!!
And is it bad to want to switch to Omnipod, just because I love, love, love the PDM?? :)
5. :) So happy for you guys! :)
6. It's always nice to see those lovely under 200 numbers!
7. We like seeing pretty numbers too, so kudos to you and thanks for sharing!
8. Frame that baby and hang it up in a prominent spot in your house. Add a sign that says "Mad pancreatic skillz happening here" and you have a masterpiece. Woot Woot!
9. Yay! There really is nothing more rewarding and encouraging! Congrats!
10. Take the good! Celebrate! This is so awesome.
And encouraging for me since we've had a bunch of highs lately.
You R-O-C-K!
11. AWESOME job Momma!! WOOT!! <3
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/3794 | SEGA wants you to take down your Sonic Boom TV episodes on YouTube
If you’re one of the people who’ve uploaded Sonic Boom TV episodes or clips, take heed because SEGA is about to throw down the YouTube claim hammer.
In a post on the SEGA Blog today, Sonic the Hedgehog social media manager Aaron Webber wrote, “Soon, a small handful of you may be getting messages from us on YouTube about your ability to upload and maintain certain Sonic Boom TV show content. Don’t panic! We’re not the kind of bullies that want to have your accounts damaged or your rings stolen just because you like the Sonic series.
“In the short term, we’ll be sending some letters to people who have uploaded full episodes of Sonic Boom TV Show content, so that they can remove them without needing to worry about getting a copyright strike on their account. Users who don’t remove them on their own will have them taken down.”
This is actually a pretty cool way of dealing with copyright claims, and it would be great if more companies sent notices and messages to those people to remove them before they issue copyright notices through YouTube, which can damage a person’s YouTube standing and possibly even have it closed altogether.
Chris Powell
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Popping in short and sweet. Normally I just post on Fridays. But its safe to say I missed you. (: Fun Fact! In middle school my nickname was " Big Smiley". Given by my gym teacher. He would often comment on how every time he saw me I had a " Big Smile". I feel like as I've gotten older. I am still known by my smile. But unfortunately I have to be reminded to. Well that has changed for me this year. I've sorta made a oath with myself to smile more and let go. Refocus the Focus. When I feel myself getting worked up by life's anxieties. I just redirect that energy into a smile. A genuine smile. Because there is always something to smile about. As a result? Well look for yourself....
I hope today's post made you smile! Take control of your own energy. See ya Friday babes.
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Amazon’s leadership principles
By March 20, 2014 One Comment
I’m a big admirer of Amazon as a company (and a holder of their stock). That admiration comes in large part from their relentless focus on good execution and their leadership principles are another good example. First I like that they are clear that everyone at Amazon is a leader – so the principles are for everyone. Secondly the list is a good one. There are fourteen items on it in total, and a lot of them are what you’d expect (e.g. think big, hire the best) but a four of them are maybe not widely understood/accepted:
1. Invent and Simplify
2. Are Right, A Lot
3. Dive Deep
4. Have Backbone; Disagree and Commit
It’s particularly important to remember 2 and 4. Fast paced accurate execution is critical to startups’ success and that depends on good judgement, honest and open debate, and then commitment to decisions. |
global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/3847 | Security company FireEye recently examined iOS and Android apps to determine whether they are vulnerable to the recently publicized FREAK attack. FREAK is a security flaw that allows a 2,048-bit SSL/TLS (Secure Sockets Layer/Transport Security Layer) encryption key to be downgraded to a weaker 512-bit key.
Via a man-in-the-middle attack, a hacker can use the FREAK expolit to intercept HTTPS connections and force the vulnerable clients to use the weakened form of encryption. Once compromised, the hacker potentially can access the sensitive data being transmitted via HTTPS.
Apple fixed the iOS FREAK vulnerability in iOS 8.2, but some apps remain vulnerable as they utilize their own OpenSSL libraries and connect to servers that remain unpatched. FireEye examined more than 14,000 popular iOS apps and found that 5.5% remain vulnerable to a FREAK attack.
On the iOS side, 771 out of 14,079 (5.5%) popular iOS apps connect to vulnerable HTTPS servers. These apps are vulnerable to FREAK attacks on iOS versions lower than 8.2. Seven these 771 apps have their own vulnerable versions of OpenSSL and they remain vulnerable on iOS 8.2.
Our take on the news:
App developers are slowly patching their apps, but the pace can be slow. This can put customers at risk when developers ignore or are slow to respond to these security threats. |
global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/3850 | Illustrate the term b2c-b2b and b2g
Briefly illustrate the term b2c, b2b and b2g?
B2B signifies for business-to-business which illustrates marketable transactions among businesses like between a web development reseller and a firm. These transactions are huge in volume and therefore b2b is prosperous these days the most. B2C signifies for business-to-consumer and illustrates transaction among consumer and business. It can be better explained through defining retail in which touchable goods are sold from stores or set location directly to the consumer. B2G signifies for business-to-government and is a copied of B2B and is illustrated as transaction among business and government in which a business entity supplies goods or services to a government division or firm and can be stated as public sector marketing.
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Subject: Larry Lake (musician), Toronto
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Canadian Electronic Ensemble
Canadian Electronic Ensemble
Origin Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Genres Electronic
Years active 1971 (1971)–present
Website .comcanadianelectronicensemble
Members David Jaeger
Larry Lake
James Montgomery
Paul Stillwell
Rose Bolton
John Farah
Past members David Grimes
The Canadian Electronic Ensemble (CEE) is a Canadian electronic music ensemble based in Toronto, Ontario. Founded in 1971 by David Grimes, David Jaeger, Larry Lake and James Montgomery,[1] it is the oldest continuously active live-electronic performing group in the world.[2] In 1984 they performed at the International Society for Contemporary Music's World Music Days Festival.[3] In 1986 they joined the Toronto Symphony Orchestra to perform the world premiere of Steven Gellman's Universe Symphony.[4] The ensemble has also appeared in concerts with the Orchestre Métropolitain de Montréal, the Ottawa Symphony Orchestra, and the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra. Since 1974 the CEE has presented an annual concert series in Toronto. They have also given regular international tours since 1975.[1] Since 1985 Lake has served as the CEE's Artistic Director. The ensemble's other current members are Jaeger, Montgomery, Paul Stillwell, Rose Bolton, and John Farah.
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/3928 | Pliable Professor
Chr. I can better conceive of them with my Mind, than speak of them with my Tongue: but yet, since you are desirous to know, I will read of them in my Book.
Pli. Well said; what things are they?
Chr. There is an endless Kingdom to be inhabited, and everlasting Life to be given us, that may inhabit that Kingdom for ever.
Pli. Well said; and what else?
make us shine like the Sun in the firmament of Heaven.
Pli. This is very pleasant; and what else?
I believe the following Scriptures describe those Pliable professing Christians whose theological convictions resemble a plate of jell-o or a bean-bag cushion.
A certain group of poets have stated that many have “no spiritual-ear like when corn is cob-less.” We have experiential knowledge of a few rootless and entangled ones.
“And when they had found him on the other side of the sea, they said unto him, Rabbi, when camest thou hither? Jesus answered them and said, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Ye seek me, not because ye saw the miracles, but because ye did eat of the loaves, and were filled. Labour not for the meat which perisheth, but for that meat which endureth unto everlasting life, which the Son of man shall give unto you: for him hath God the Father sealed” (John 6:25-27).
Pliable desireth the loaves, but not the Giver of the loaves.
Whether biologically male or female, there are many Pliable professors of true Christianity who are spiritual “silly women laden with sins, led away with divers lusts, ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.”
As a heretical poet of Pliable’s own has sung:
“So you wanna go back to Egypt where it’s warm and secure. … Eating leaks and onions by the Nile. Ooh what breath, but dining out in style. … Well there’s nothing to do but travel, and we sure travel a lot. ‘Cause it’s hard to keep your feet from moving when the sand gets so hot. … So you wanna go back to Egypt, where old friends wait for you. You can throw a big party and tell the whole gang, that what they said was all true”
We continue with the correspondence of Pliable and Christian:
Pli. Well, my good companion, glad am I to hear of these things; come on, let us mend our pace.
Chr. I cannot go so fast as I would, by reason of this Burden that is upon my back.
Now I saw in my Dream, that just as they had ended this talk, they drew near to a very miry Slough, that was in the midst of the plain; and they, being heedless, did both fall suddenly into the bog. The name of the slough was Despond. Here therefore they wallowed for a time, being grievously bedaubed with the dirt; and Christian, because of the Burden that was on his back, began to sink in the mire.
Chr. Truly, said Christian, I do not know.
Pli. At that Pliable began to be offended, and angrily said to his fellow, Is this the happiness you have told me all this while of? If we have such ill speed at our first setting out, what may we expect ‘twixt this and our Journey’s end? May I get out again with my life, you shall possess the brave Country alone for me. And with that he gave a desperate struggle or two, and got out of the mire on that side of the Slough which was next to his own house: so away he went, and Christian saw him no more.
I believe Bunyan would not say that his Christian was converted yet — since he’d not yet arrived at the Wicket Gate — but a “Christian” in name only (i.e., a nominal Christian). Next Page
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Why Am I a Technical Writer?
Because of how many great open-source projects have empty readme files.
Because I like open-source software, but I’m not a developer. Even when projects are documented, it’s written for other developers. The assumed level of knowledge is that of the person who wrote it. I think like a user, not a dev.
Because when beginners enter issues on GitHub, they’re met with scorn instead of compassion. And when answers are given, the goal seems to be to give as little information as possible, and make the user chase down the real answer from clues and hints.
Because I hate being told “RTFM“. If I’m asking, I’ve already read the man page. The problem is, a man page generally only lists the options, and briefly explains what they are. Not how to use them, or why you would want to.
I’m a technical writer because I want to use great software without having to know how it was built in order to use it. Because the high learning curve associated with Linux comes in part because its users hoard their knowledge, and belittle those asking for a helping hand.
I’m a technical writer because I want everyone to be able to use the software they want.
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/3942 | Heartful Brainful Me
What percentage of our brain power do we use? There’s this assumption that it is not more than 10%. Is that true? At least we grow up trying to use more.
As I was growing up, like most other dads, my dad too was a great advocate of using one’s brain. Looking into my eyes, he used to put his finger at his temple, knock it and suggest, “Use your brain”. Say, if he had assigned me some challenging maths problem or was helping me with my homework, then the solution was as easy as saying – ‘Use your brain’. At this, I would look dreamily and thoughtfully at the distance with narrowed squinting eyes and act as if I was indeed thinking hard and using my brain.
That was childhood. But as we grow older, we women have our hands more on our sighing hearts rather than on the temples of our brain. In school, where irrespective of our gender, we are allowed to be intelligent and so women do very well in academics often better than boys. While still single, most girls begin their career well and establish a ground. But I’ve seen this phenomenon time and again, that soon, as they get married, when it comes to demands laid by their newly-formed family, women end up using their full hearts much more than their full brains.
In pursuit of best possible care for their family, many of these sensitive souls end up putting their brains in their kitchen wardrobe or in their baby’s toy-box, or else wrap their brain in their teenager’s marks-sheet and forget to take it out. Finally when they do take the ‘walnut‘ out of its closet, it is already distorted and crumpled due to its lack of use or less use than required, or sometimes misuse.
And given the current scientific assumption that even high-achievers have used only 10% of their brain, we can deduce that those women (and men) who have neither fully utilized their educational qualifications nor achieved their career to its full potential, well they have not even used 10% of their brain. What they could have achieved in their career or life, they’ll never ever know. It’s a different matter altogether that what they gain by spending maximum time loving and caring for their children, is much more than any full brain achievements.
There is another category of people who use mainly their heart, hence the brain goes ignored. They are ‘people in love‘. With illogical infatuation, the brain goes into the bin and heart becomes the king. Brain sleeps while heart sighs and cries and sings and laughs. Most people in love use only 2.83% of their brain, that too neither in academics nor in any creative pursuits. But possibly they are happy with what they get – an experience of being in love. Ask a dumped lover if he/she should not have got carried away too much, they will always justify, “It’s better to have loved and lost than not to have loved at all”. No regret for all the time wasted.
There is another situation when we cannot use our brain to its fullest and cannot further add any constructive knowledge to it. Well folks, if something is already full up to the brim, can there be any space left for putting anything else in it? Gibberish like stray unhealthy thoughts, redundant ideas, unproductive day-dreaming, constant worrying about others – all these occupy so much space in our brain that at any particular moment of time or hour or day, our unintelligent thoughts are running hay-wire.
And since our actions are the products of our thoughts, with faulty thoughts we often end up walking in the wrong direction. Even in this wrong direction taken, we are unable to do our very best if we are bothered about office politics or neighborly disputes, or if we look here and there and let others run our life. Unfortunately, most people do have vulnerable brains like that and hence most people use their brains very less, or else guided by others they use it in the wrong direction.
Besides all the above criteria, of course there are many other reasons why we do not use our brain to its fullest potential. Lethargy, lack of direction, lack of motivation, lack of right resources, ill-health – there can be any number of valid reasons.
So where do I stand in all this? Did I or did I not used my brain to its fullest?
If I had not encountered at least some of the above negating factors, if I could get back my lost years, could regain my lost opportunities and if I could turn back time and spend my life in one city focusing on one career, then I would like to set many things right. I would use my brain to establish an excellent career in any one of my favorite fields, but from an early age. Due to changing circumstances, I got to experience many different work areas, thus becoming a Jill of many trades. The result was people consider me heavily multi-skilled, well versed in most. But am I a super veteran in one? Something that is possible even for mediocre brains to achieve if, year after year, they stay solely dedicated in their singular field of work. Therefore, those who judge others on the basis of positions and awards a person had, would not understand me. But there are others who will tell me I’ve been rather lucky. After all, it’s one life and it’s great to have experienced life in its myriad forms. In fact, gaining myriad skills and jobs is like using all parts of one’s brain a lot, rather than only left brain or right brain. Not bad.
If I could use my brain to its fullest, I would also like to write such wonderful books that even in this brain-dead era of social media addiction, after reading my books, all these netizens would willingly desert their non-smart smartphones, will forget about enlightening others with their copy-paste FB quotes and jokes, even temporarily forget to take selfies but would eagerly que up outside the bookshops to purchase my next book, only to discover at the counter that they just got sold-out.
But right now, even with whatever writing ability I have, there is lack of focus, motivation or will to logically organize the pages upon pages of poems and essays that I have written in my computer folders. One needs the use of full brain so as to practically and diligently put one’s written documents in a meaningful order so that the chaos can be called a ‘book’. But the brain-using-ability I have right now is only 7.69% or less.
There is another creative side of my brain which again I have used only 5.12%. I would like to compose my music and sing it too, such music that leaves Beethoven and Mozart open-mouthed in awe and will make Hollywood or Bollywood all sign me up for their next song.
Of course, the list is endless. Would like to do portraits and landscapes in oils and acrylics, something learnt long ago but not pursued, even after winning awards. Knitting and sewing are also the tasks that had rather become a cause of shame for the younger me, as I always opined that these are not meant for the academic me. Not applying myself fully into it, meant anytime I began knitting a cardigan I had to leave it unfinished, for I could simply not grasp the intricacies of shaping a neck using multiple knitting needles and threads. In cooking I would like to learn some versatile international cuisines. Creating a visually appealing as well as nutritious food also demands the use of more than 10% brain, actually 16.87% to be more precise. That’s if we could measure our brain usage in percentages.
Having said all this, I personally feel we do not use our brain merely 10%. We use our brain as well as our heart much more than the assumed 10%. It varies from person to person and from time to time.
In good humour, I categorised the above few kinds of people who do not use their brain 100%. There is a possibility that they do not want to use their brain to its fullest. That’s because it is too much an effort to keep trying to use our brain to its fullest. Is it better to live life as it comes along?
Really. People should be allowed to do what they want. Full brain is necessary to discover a vital cure for deadly cancer, or to discover and research the whole physical universe. But a good heart is as vital as a good brain. It makes this world a better loving place, if all the down-trodden are looked after by some self-less kind hearts.
And see what my poetic heart says:
Using my brain 100%
makes me
Using my heart 100%
makes me
brain dead
heart vs brain
brain vs heart
Not one wins
As I use both
but none 100%
And that’s the
Heartful Brainful Me
~~Alka ~~
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This 1985-1989 series on ABC was arguably the coiner of the term Dramedy. It starred Cybill Shepherd as Maddie Hayes and a then-relatively unknown Bruce Willis as the wisecracking David Addison.
The premise was simple. Model Madelyn Hayes found out that her accountant had embezzled her fortune and run off with it. Her only remaining assets were a series of losing businesses maintained as tax write-offs. The worst of the lot was the City Of Angels Detective Agency. Maddie, with no prospects and not the first idea of how to run a detective agency, decided to close it down to pay off quickly rising debts. Visiting the agency to deliver the pink slips introduced her to the quirky Agnes DiPesto, who answered the phone in rhyme, and the zany, wisecracking David Addison, who wasn't ready to let the agency go without a fight, even renaming it the Blue Moon Detective Agency in order to connect it to the most prominent role of her modeling career - the "Blue Moon Shampoo Girl". Despite his oil-and-water chemistry with her, he was able to persuade Maddie to continue operating the agency, insisting that it could be profitable if it was permitted to be; however, Maddie insisted on working in the agency directly.
But what really made the show stand out was its penchant for Breaking the Fourth Wall, where on occasion the characters would talk to the audience or otherwise show knowledge that they were characters in a television show ("Don't go much lower. They'll take us off the air."). This progressed in later seasons to become a pure No Fourth Wall series.
It's perhaps best known for being the classic example of how a show can fall apart when Unresolved Sexual Tension is resolved, or how a hit show collapses due to a perfect storm of behind the scenes chaos. When the fifth season was shortened due to a TV Strikes, ABC put the show down.
(Not to be confused with Moonlight, a 2007 Vampire Detective Series.)
Tropes used in Moonlighting include:
• Alternate Reality Episode / Deliberately Monochrome / Rashomon Style: "The Dream Sequence Always Rings Twice". Dave and Maddie hear of an old murder case (inspired by the notorious Ruth Snyder case) in which a wife and her lover kill the husband, and then blame each other after they're caught. The latter two-thirds of the episode, shot in black-and-white, consists of Dave and Maddie dreaming of the case from the perspective of (respectively) the man and woman involved. The episode featured a short introduction by Orson Welles, in his very last job, as he died of a heart attack only a couple of days later.
• Amateur Sleuth: Maddie. Dave actually is a licensed private investigator.
• Animated Actors: Whenever they break the fourth wall, David and Maddie always refer to themselves as "David" and "Maddie," never Bruce Willis and Cybill Shepherd. At the end of one episode, they walk off the set and into the studio parking lot, but are still in character, meaning that they are fictional characters playing themselves in a show called Moonlighting.
• Aw, Look -- They Really Do Love Each Other: Several instances between not only Dave and Maddie, but also Agnes and Herbert in later seasons.
• Beauty Is Bad: In "The Bride Of Tupperman," a man looking for a bride asks David and Maddie for help; they each pick one (David's is much hotter than Maddie's) and he winds up picking both... only for one to die in an accident. It's the hot one, and it turns out to be a BIG aversion, because the plain one is just as bad as... Tupperman himself.
• Belligerent Sexual Tension: Dave and Maddie took this Up to Eleven.[1]
• Beta Couple: Agnes and Herbert.
• Chivalrous Pervert: David, especially towards Maddie. See Aw, Look -- They Really Do Love Each Other.
• Clip Show: "The Straight Poop", a No Fourth Wall episode (although David and Maddie never broke character) dealing with the production delays that were widely reported in the media at the time. In the end David and Maddie promised the viewers a new episode next week and bloopers kept interrupting the credits, implying that all available footage had been used for this episode.
• Convenient Miscarriage: The Dave-Maddie baby is lost through miscarriage.
• Costumer: The Film Noir pastiche "The Dream Sequence Always Rings Twice"; the send-up of Shakespeare's Taming of the Shrew: "Atomic Shakespeare"
• Creative Differences: This was the first time Cybill Shepherd feuded with a showrunner (creator Glenn Gordon Caron) and eventually had him fired. It would not be the last.
• Destructo-Nookie: the last five minutes of the episode in which Dave and Maddie finally resolve their sexual tension.
• Dramedy
• Dream Sequence
• End of Series Awareness: The last episode is interrupted by news that the series has been cancelled. Suddenly the characters have to deal with their reality falling apart, as sets are being dismantled all around them.
• Executive Meddling: Subverted and played straight with "The Dream Sequence Always Rings Twice"; ABC at first threatened to veto the episode due the fact that it switched to black and white for half the episode and even threatened to air the entire episode in color, against the wishes of the creative team. To get around this, they shot the dream sequences on black and white film rather than color film which would then be turned black and white to keep the suits from undoing the conversion process. However, the network forced them to do a disclaimer at the start of the episode, which led series creator Glenn Gordon Caron to hire Orson Welles to do an introduction where he praised the show for doing the flashback sequences in black and white.
• Expy: Remington Steele[2], albeit a lot more edgy and willing to break status quo, which is why ironically Pierce Brosnan liked it better than the show he was doing.
• Filler: In season four and five, with ABC demanding new episodes on schedule and Sheppard and Willis off-set due to pregnancy and injury/filming movies, the show's producers were forced to film filler episodes that focused solely on supporting cast members Allyce Beasley and Curtis Armstrong's characters Agnes and Herbert.
• Framing Device / Separate Scene Storytelling: "Atomic Shakespeare", an Affectionate Parody of The Taming of the Shrew.
• Gaussian Girl: When they showed Maddie in a solo close-up it was often very fuzzy in a 40's movie style. It can be very jarring when they switch between close-ups of Maddie (fuzzy) and close-ups of David (clear).
• Getting Crap Past the Radar: In "The Dream Sequence Always Rings Twice", David/Zach tells Maddie/Rita that they go together like "Astaire and Rogers, bagels and lox, hot dogs and donuts..."
• When Maddie starts insulting Dave's various body parts: "Don't go much lower. They'll take us off the air."
• Gratuitous Iambic Pentameter: Dave would randomly launch into a sort of Dave-only jivetalk, but in one episode, he had an entire conversation with a maître d'hôtel in rhyme invoking Dr. Seuss.
• Hot and Cold: Subverted with Maddie, who's just hot without the cold.
• Keep Circulating the Tapes: For ages, the show was unavailable on video and was withheld from syndication due to the low episode count (barely 60 some episodes). Anchor Bay released the pilot in the late 90s but it wasn't until 2007 that the series FINALLY got a DVD release as all five season came out.
• Love Hurts: Dave, who admitted his feelings and denied them in turns (usually more than Maddie did; she could distract herself with her numerous suitors).
• Love Makes You Crazy: The entire Blue Moon crew at one point or another.
• Love Triangle: Towards the end of the show's run, the writers decided to introduce a love triangle plotline to try and recapture the romantic tension between David and Maddie via having Maddie marry a stranger on a train.
• Mystery of the Week
• No Fourth Wall: Dave for the most part
Guard: You can't burst in here like that!
Dave: Yeah? Tell it to the writers.
• Noir Episode: "The Dream Sequence Always Rings Twice"
• No OSHA Compliance: In one episode Agnes ends up in an industrial laundry with large bags of laundry swinging around suspended from the ceiling. At some point she ends up inside on of the bags and is taken on a Conveyor Belt O' Doom ride where she gets lowered into first a tank of cold soapy water then almost lowered into a tank of boiling water when she is saved by her Temporary Love Interest who Cut the Juice after the villain throws the Big Red Button out of reach.
• Noodle Incident / Running Gag: The mysterious Anselmo case, often mentioned (many times by David as an excuse for not being where he was supposed to be), but never explained. The final episode ended with the following message: "Blue Moon Investigations ceased operations on May 14, 1989. The Anselmo Case was never solved… and remains a mystery to this day."
• Pie in the Face
• Pretty in Mink: Maddie owned a handful of fur coats, like a lynx coat, a crystal fox coat, and a white fox coat.
• "Previously On...": Spoofed in season three, when (due to production delays) the third season suffered major gaps between new episodes, resulting in the show having to run a disclaimer at the start of one episode to remind viewers of what happened in previous episodes.
• Reality Subtext: Allegedly (much like their characters), Bruce Willis and Cybill Shepherd did not like each other, despite their in-show romantic involvement.
• Actually Bruce Willis notes that immediately prior to doing a screentest for the show, he flirted with Cybill in the elevator, which for him was the real audition. Cybill Shepherd supports this in her autobiography by claiming that they almost had 'a thing' but chose to keep it non-sexual. YMMV on whether or not any of this is true, because she claimed in the same autobiogrpahy to have turned down Jack Nicholson, Robert De Niro, among others.
• School Play: "Atomic Shakespeare"
• Sibling Rivalry: While they aren't siblings, the same principle applies...
• Slap Slap Kiss: It immediately follows the most intense of the Dave-Maddy snarkfest and precedes definitively answering yes to Will They or Won't They?.
• Soundtrack Dissonance: An episode focused on an unborn child being prepared for birth by his guardian angel. When asked why he should ever leave the womb for the big scary outside, the angel shows him a completely straight "Wonderful World" montage of all the good things to expect in life.
• Theme Tune:
Some walk by night
Some fly by day
Nothing can change them
Set and sure of the way...
1. In fact, it was more like "Belligerent Everything Tension".
2. which Moonlighting creator Glenn Gordon Caron had been a writer for
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/3958 | Judgement is Existentially Harmful
The judgement we know is one of overt criticism towards another or oneself; the thoughts that lead to the action of actually verbalising the judgement. The judgement methodology is an ancient one, inherently in it there is the “compare and despair” mentality. It consists basically of you reasoning and gathering evidence of why it isn’tContinue reading “Judgement is Existentially Harmful”
Would you like to feel fulfilled in your existence? I refer to the word “existence” considerably as it encompasses from being born to senior stages of our lives. I am aware that it is important to stretch our perception of time once in a while, otherwise, we might get too stuck in particular unhelpful andContinue reading “PSYCHOLOGICAL FREEDOM” |
global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/3966 | Anonymous asked in Entertainment & MusicPolls & Surveys · 2 months ago
Is the way I act at my job the way you're supposed to act?
If someone who has a position above me tells me to do something, I'll agree 100 percent with them and do it right away. If someone at my level or below me tells me to do something, I'll still do it but I might give my opinion on occasion. I've never said "no" or disagreed with a VP.
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/3981 | [WP34S] Chi-Square Functions Broken in 2935
Sorry to harp on the old stats distributions again, but this is a fundamentally serious bug, not discourse on improving accuracy, etc.
In short, the CDF and PDF return zero, irrespective of the arguments entered. The inverse CDF returns a roughly close result, quickly--presumably the unrefined initial estimate.
This occurs in both the real calc and the emulator and is new. It was working fine in 2932. The regularized incomplete gamma function still works fine, FWIW, so, at least in the CDF, the problem doesn't lie there.
Thought you'd like to know ASAP about a glitch so basic and important!
I can see the problem here.
The cause eludes me for the moment. The chi^2 code hasn't changed between those two versions which means something more subtle is at fault.
- Pauli
Uh oh...
I've changed some of the inner workings in the command dispatcher (there was a nasty bug lurking) and it is possible that it has broken things. I'll check.
I can't see a problem with my Windows emulator here:
(Tracing is still not perfect as is the display of <= but that's not the point here.)
Put 0 in register 00 and it will work! There was a typing error in chi2.wp34s, confounding x[<=]0? with x[<=]? 00. You can see it in the trace after the BSRF 001 command (replace the space by <=).
Will be fixed in the next build.
Edited: 3 May 2012, 4:42 a.m.
My error :-( Nice find too.
I was suspecting something uninitialised being the root cause here. At home I wasn't reproducing the problem....
- Pauli
Man that is subtle!
Sure enough, Reg 00 in both my calcs AND the emulator were nonzero due to some detritus left by user programs of my own I was running.
I verily thought I was losing my mind. Glad the fix was so easy, if tough to find.
P.S. I am delighted to see work on the upper-tail distributions in progress. When computing inverses for cumulative probabilities close to 1, it will be much more accurate to work with an upper tail probability close to 0. One can already do this for the normal, t, and F. The first two are symmetrical and it boils down to working with the a probability less than .5 and flipping the sign later if necessary. The F distributions tails are related by swapping the numerator and denominator dfs and taking the reciprocal of the quantile. The challenging one with the existing calculator configuration is chi-squared, but this is simply a special case of the right-sided incomplete regularized gamma, which in the upper tail is very rapidly and accurately computed by its continued fraction. Indeed, I vote that the calculator offer the right-sided incomplete gamma explicitly so that it can be calculated accurately deep into the upper-tail if desired. I have no expertise with the other less common distributions so can't comment. My 2 euros.
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Wöstmann, Lui, Friese, Kreitewolf, Naujokat and Obleser demonstrate that the vulnerability of working memory to auditory distraction is rhythmic.
Previous research has shown that the attentional sampling of target stimuli is rhythmic at ~3–8 Hz (e.g. Fiebelkorn et al. 2013; Landau & Fries, 2012). In the present study, Malte Wöstmann and colleagues tested to what extent the suppression of distractor stimuli would be rhythmic, as well. Indeed, two measures of distraction – memory recall accuracy and the distractor-evoked N1 ERP component – were periodically modulated at slow frequencies (~2–4 Hz) by the temporal onset of a distracting speech stimulus.
In a follow-up experiment, the rhythmic distractibility could be replicated: In a visual match-to-sample task, memory recall accuracy was periodically modulated at ~2.75 Hz by the onset of a distracting noise stimulus during memory retention.
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/4030 | Can You Breed for Temperament?
Temperament and Personality are so closely related that they (probably) get confused by many. Temperament describing aspects of one's personality that you would be born with: shy, or outgoing. Personality refering more to behavioral choices and learned behavior as in one's reactions to outer stimuli: curious or frightened.
So, my question is: Can you breed for specific Temperament traits?
(note: I am not a breeder, possess absolutely zero knowledge about breeding, and only ask this out of curiousity because the thought presented itself to me. I would, however, truly appreciate the chance to learn about this through our forum breeders discussions, education, and experiences on the topic.)
@elbrant said in Can You Breed for Temperament?:
Temperament and Personality
Yes, you definitely can. Like physical characteristics, you can select parents with traits that you want to amplify. Of course, every pup in a litter will have a unique inheritance of genes and therefore may differ from siblings, but you can certainly increase the likelihood of the traits you are trying to pass on. Of course, environment will play its part in how temperament is expressed.
What's interesting is the relationship between temperament and physical characteristics. The Russian Fox experiments were eye opening in this regard. Breeding for friendly foxes resulted in physical changes, including ear carriage and coat colour.
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For sure you can breed temperament/personality.... however that said, how pups are raised by their breeder in those early days/weeks and how they are socialized before going to new homes and most important socialization after going to their forever homes is the most important key. And treating each pups as their own "person" and learning what works for them.....
Can you breed for temperament? Absolutely. That's been demonstrated with the fox project in Russia which turned foxes into proto-dogs. With 100% certainty? Absolutely not. More a tendency, with pups in the same litter having different basic dispositions. In some ways it's the same as breeding for specific physical characteristics, which is the usual case.
It's a bit of a moot question because breeders have traditionally breed for conformation, which may cut against a desirable temperament. (Note the temperament characteristics in the fox project resulted in physical characteristics, and this likely cuts the other way). One issue is that it's hard or impossible for buyers to judge temperament. I've been told that some puppy mill type breeders will tell customers that they'll pick a puppy with exactly the temperament they want -- at a few weeks of age! Right. LOL
Totally agree with Tanza that temperament is the starting but not the end point.
Goes back to the big debate of NATUE vs NUTURE!
Of course you can ! Selecting parents carefully is always essential, regardless if what you are trying to breed in (or out !).
But in the first 6 weeks of a pups life - SOCIALISING is the watchword. Breeders can reinforce the temperament attributes or lack of them by socialising the pups in the first few weeks. There is no substitute -
@donc - Not true that breeders traditionally breed for conformation only. Breeders (responsible breeders) breed for health, temperament and conformation. Health/temperament is at the top of the list. Breeders do of course look for certain conformation but that does not exclude Health & Temperament.
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/4031 | “Merciful like the Father”
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Many thanks to the SJT community for reflecting on the OLW “merciful.” Please join us; please share your insights. Thank you!
“Be merciful, just as your Father is merciful. ” (Luke 6:36)
“So be perfect, just as your heavenly Father is perfect.” (Matt. 5:48)
Thanks to Pope Francis, the Catholic Church is sponsoring a Jubilee Year of Mercy from December 8, 2015 to November 20, 2016. All are invited–no exceptions.
In announcing this Jubilee, the Holy Father wrote beautifully about God’s Mercy and our need to respond to His Mercy. You can read his words here.
In response to the Jubilee, my OLW has been “mercy,” which, Providentially, we had explored as the SJT community last Fall. In retrospect, I see that writing about mercy and reading others’ posts on mercy was a wonderful preparation for the Jubilee.
Because we recently had reflected on “mercy,” I did not submit that word as my OLW–not that there are not always wider and deeper ways of reflecting on God’s Infinite Mercy. No. But I was not wanting to write a SJT post on “mercy” again.
Nevertheless, as we came to the end of our OLW schedule, Holly and Carol encouraged me to submit my OLW “mercy.” I proposed building on the “mercy” reflections we had done; I requested taking “mercy” a step further, in the form of the OLW “merciful.”
First, as an adjective, “merciful” speaks to me of being full of mercy. As a participle, “being merciful” speaks to me of putting into action, of demonstrating, of distributing that mercy of which one is full. In keeping with the Jubilee theme “[Be] Merciful like the Father,” I am grateful that Holly accepted to present this week’s OLW as “merciful.”
Jubilee logo
(The Mercy Jubilee logo (created by Jesuit Father Marko I. Rupnik), based on the Jubilee motto “Merciful Like the Father” (taken from the Gospel of Luke, 6:36) is found on the Vatican Jubilee website, specifically on this page, which contains a beautiful explanation of the Scriptural basis for the intricacies of the logo.)
For most of my spiritual journey, starting from my earliest years, I found the Scripture, “So be perfect, just as your heavenly Father is perfect (Matt. 5:48) totally daunting. On the one hand, I felt the weight of the Lord’s command. I needed to be “perfect.” As an only child born to a super-perfectionist older father, I felt great paternal human pressure to be “perfect,” and so the Scriptural requirement seemed perfectly understandable–but none the less unachievable.
And yet, that unachievableness wasn’t just a lack of ability on my part to be the perfect child of my human father and my Heavenly Father. No, it was deeper, and led to a troubling contradiction that, in retrospect, I should have “called” the adults on. But I didn’t.
Knowing that I was a nervous, anxious child, my parents and teachers would tell me to stop trying to be perfect–just to do my best. Spiritual teachers would say that because we are “only human,” of course, we cannot be perfect. Only God is perfect. And the contradiction between “So be perfect, just as your heavenly Father is perfect,” on the one hand, and it is prideful to think that you can be perfect, on the other hand, definitely made my head spin. Why would God call me to a personhood I never could–or shouldn’t even be presumptuous enough to try to–attain?
And then it happened! At a particular noonday Mass in a Jesuit retreat house, the priest explained that the perfection we are called to in the verse “So be perfect, just as your heavenly Father is perfect (Matt. 5:48), as revealed in the parallel discourse, is mercy: “Be merciful, just as your Father is merciful” (Luke 6:36). (Honestly, it never even occurred to me to compare or to juxtapose the Lord’s parallel discourse in Matt. 5:43-48 and Luke 6:31-36 in that way!)
To say I was relieved and jubilant is an understatement. The unattainable burden of trying to be perfect was lifted for me. Being merciful seemed a lot easier than being perfect–even if the priest said that the terms were interchangeable in that parallel Scripture context.
In the years since I first heard those words, I have done much reading about God’s Mercy, particularly once I became introduced to the Divine Mercy Devotion. Most recently, I have been reflecting on the Holy Father’s Jubilee announcement. I realize how naive I was to think that being Merciful like the Father is easier than being perfect. But still, for whatever reason, my comfort in that thought continues.
In this Jubilee, the Holy Father has encouraged us to be merciful like the Father by performing corporal and spiritual works of mercy, as he details in his Jubilee “Bull of Indiction”: Misericordiae Vultus (Face of Mercy), [#15, internal paragraphing and itemizing, mine]:
“Let us rediscover these corporal works of mercy:
• to feed the hungry,
• give drink to the thirsty,
• clothe the naked,
• welcome the stranger,
• heal the sick,
• visit the imprisoned, and
• bury the dead.
“And let us not forget the spiritual works of mercy:
• to counsel the doubtful,
• instruct the ignorant,
• admonish sinners,
• comfort the afflicted,
• forgive offences,
• bear patiently those who do us ill, and
• pray for the living and the dead.”
For me, the hardest work of mercy is to forgive others, even though I continue to pray: “Forgive [me my} trespasses as [I] forgive others their trespasses against [me].” Scary.
For He makes the sun (His sun) to shine on the good and bad and the rain to fall on the just and the unjust; whereas, if it were up to me, I would deny the sun to the “bad” and rain to the “unjust,” condemning myself, because I, too, am “bad” and “unjust.”
As the Holy Father points out (#9): “Jesus affirms that mercy is not only an action of the Father, it becomes a criterion for ascertaining who his true children are. In short, we are called to show mercy because mercy has first been shown to us. Pardoning offences [sic] becomes the clearest expression of merciful love, and for us Christians it is an imperative from which we cannot excuse ourselves.”
Thank God for His Mercy, which embraces us first in His forgiveness so that we can be merciful to others. I could write much more about my response (or lack thereof) to the call to be merciful every day of my life.
For now, I will end, knowing that there is no end to God’s mercy, no end to my need for that mercy, and hardly a beginning to my being truly merciful as my Heavenly Father is Merciful.
Merciful like the Father…those are Infinitely BIG SHOES to fill. I take heart that when I was little, I would dance with my human father by standing on his shoes, and I would move along with him. Maybe that’s what I need to do now–to ask the Lord Jesus, Who the Holy Father says is “the face of the Father’s mercy,” to dance me–to lead me–into being merciful like our Heavenly Father.
Thank you for considering and responding to my O[BIG]LW: merciful.
May God lead us all to become “perfectly” merciful!
p.s. Here is one of my favorite quotes from the Pope’s Jubilee message: “With our eyes fixed on Jesus and his merciful gaze, we experience the love of the Most Holy Trinity.” (#8)
Here, too, are a couple of my favorite “merciful” Scripture quotes:
“The Lord is gracious and merciful, slow to anger and abounding in mercy.” (Psalm 145:8)
“The Lord is just in all His ways, merciful in all His works.” (Psalm 145:17)
“Blessed are the merciful, for they will be shown mercy.” (Matt. 5:7)
“But the tax collector stood off at a distance and would not even raise his eyes to heaven but beat his breast and prayed, ‘O God, be merciful to me, a sinner.’” (Luke 18:13)
And, “of course”:
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1. I can tell you’ve given this a lot of thought and reflection, Bobbie. Mercy/ being merciful is indeed a big one-little-word, but the picture you leave us with, of you standing on your father’s shoes while he leads you in the dance is what I find ever so meaningful. May we all dance with our heavenly Father that way – to the tune of mercy, or love, or hope, or patience or any of the graces He leads us in.
• bobbietaylor says:
🙂 Amen! Thank you so very much for reading and affirming that remembrance. So glad it resonated with you! Funny how the Lord (in this case unexpectedly!) brings to mind some things from our past to provide transfer-images to lead us closer to Him. I like the way you broadened the dance to include other steps and rhythms! Thank you for giving my OLW extended meaning. God bless you!
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2. hollymueller says:
Like Violet, I loved this image:” I take heart that when I was little, I would dance with my human father by standing on his shoes, and I would move along with him. Maybe that’s what I need to do now–to ask the Lord Jesus, Who the Holy Father says is ‘the face of the Father’s mercy,’ to dance me–to lead me–into being merciful like our Heavenly Father.” I’m glad we were able to explore this word with you. It’s such a beautiful word and concept – especially when it is put into practice! Those Luke verses are ones to put everywhere where we can see them!!
• bobbietaylor says:
Thank you for sharing my OLW and for taking time to read and to comment on the image that struck you. God bless you; you are most merciful like the Father!
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11 September 2013 marks the 10th anniversary of the entry into force of the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety. The theme for the anniversary is: "10 Years of Promoting Safety in the Use of Biotechnology". 1
To commemorate the anniversary, the Secretariat has developed a short video highlighting the main achievements of the Protocol. We invite you to use the video to raise awareness about the importance of biosafety.
A statement by Mr. Veerappa Moily, Indian Minister of Environment & Forests, and
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A series of short video clips from representatives of Parties and relevant organizations highlighting some of the the successes and lessons learned with regard to the implementation of the following provisions of the Protocol are also presented below.
Subtitles for this video are available in all of the official languages of the United Nations (Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Spanish and Russian).
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Angela Lozan from Moldova talks about Capacity-building activities; Helmut Gaugitsch from Austria and Martin Batič from Slovenia talk about Risk Assessment and Risk Management.
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Casper Linnestad from Norway talks about Socio-economic Considerations; Julieta Fe L. Estacio from the Philippines and Ernesto Ocampo of the UNEP-GEF BCH Project talk about the Biosafety Clearing-House.
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Natalya Minchenko from Belarus, Johansen T. Voker from Liberia, Li Lim Lin and Li Lim Ching of the Third World Network talk about Public Awareness and Public Participation.
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Esmeralda Prat from Bayer CropScience NV and Amanda Gálvez Mariscal from Mexico talk about Handling, Transport, Packaging and Identification of LMOs, and Jimena Nieto Carrasco from Colombia talks about the Nagoya Kuala-Lumpur Supplementary Protocol on Liability and Redress to the Protocol
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Metaphor for bad science
1. Roger,
epicycles use a model that presents orbits as perfect circles. They simply aren't. If you are using a model where the physical reality isn't what the model proclaims, I really don't give a fig how good or 'useful' your numbers are, as it misleads those who use it into even more complications down the road when they build their own theories based on something that simply isn't so.
This is the reason modern day physics is in such trouble, countless theories and models and billions in research funding built upon erroneous previous models which has backed them into a corner where they can't account for almost 98 percent of the universe without ridiculous fudges like 'dark matter/energy' (we can't locate it, but it has to be there since our math can't be wrong!!)
2. As for your example of erroneous science, try the atom. The Rutherford model is still used to explain almost all chemistry and atomic structures to students, despite it being outright wrong theoretically and structurally. For griefs sake, most people actually think electrons are magical, as they can do almost anything desired from 'electron bonding' to orbiting in shells. This is very damaging to science because the wrong model leads to wrong assumptions and conclusions such as strong/weak nuclear forces etc. These are just black box/place holder kludges to prop up a model's inability to explain contradictions of contemporary atomic theory.
3. Broadly speaking, anything that makes a categorical mistake.
(i) The Mind-Body Dichotomy, with a body-primary position: Regarding living beings as purely material things. Examples: Regarding conscisousness as nothing more than a chemical process. Same error of denying the mind, but in a different form: Describing the universe solely in the mechanistic terms, and thinking that the description is complete.
(ii) The Mind-Body Dichotomy, with a mind-primary position: Regarding all material things (or their actions) as if they were a manifestation of a more fundamental mental/spiritual phenomenon. More broadly, the error of extending the attributes of living beings proper, to non-living beings as well. For instance, the theory that angels are needed to keep planets pushing in their orbits. Another one would be: spontaneous life. BTW, is Intelligent Design regarded as extending to the orderly motion of the planets as well? Also, the theory that external bad spirits are primarily responsible for those diseases that are in fact caused by germs (or other causes). Indeed, the theory that there was a creator to the universe.
(iii) More tough to understand are certain methodological errors. Again, they may be regarded as MBD, though the issues here are more abstract. For instance: Regarding the universe to be literally infinite in extent. Imagining as if physical laws derived at a certain scale apply without any alteration to any other scale. The fallacy of the large numbers. Assuming that randomness physically exists. Etc.
(iv) Lesser ones. They are not bad theories because they are not so much theories. They are just bad explanations: Spontaneous combustion (of people). Spontaneous generation (of life). Etc.
No, I don't agree with all the positions taken by skeptics. But guess, visiting their Web-sites, one could get a more comprehensive list of things gone wrong.
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What is the strongest antibiotic cream over the counter?
Neosporin is the best antibiotic cream on the market for over the counter use!.
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What is the fastest way to heal an open wound?
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What is the best ointment for open wounds?
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Does Vaseline heal skin?
For the best results, always apply petroleum jelly when your skin is damp. Help injured skin heal. For minor wounds such as cuts, scrapes, and scratches, use petroleum jelly to keep the wound moist. This helps prevent the wound from drying out and forming a scab, as scabs take longer to heal.
How many days in a row can you use Neosporin?
Use the ointment for as many days as recommended on the label or by your doctor, even if your symptoms start getting better. Your symptoms may improve before the infection is completely cleared. Call your doctor if your symptoms do not improve after 7 days of treatment, or if they get worse while using Neosporin.
When should you not use Neosporin?
Neosporin can cause redness and swelling at the wound site. If you notice this and aren’t sure if it’s an allergic reaction, stop using the product and call your doctor right away. If you think your symptoms are life-threatening, stop using the product and call 911.
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Is too much Neosporin bad?
Side Effects and Considerations While the occasional use of Neosporin is unlikely to cause any harm, the ongoing use of the ointment for every cut, bite, or scrape should be avoided. Moreover, you should never use Neosporin on large areas of skin.
Do wounds heal faster with Neosporin?
Why do dermatologists hate Neosporin?
Neosporin and Polysporin Our skin is very sensitive, and people can develop an allergy to bacitracin zinc and gramicidin slowly, over time, and they might not even notice. The initial allergic reaction is often delayed, sometimes up to a week, so patients don’t make the connection.
Is Vaseline good for healing wounds?
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/4186 | The Bonfire of the Vanities
Wolfe, Tom
Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 1987
p. 54
Millionaire bond salesman Sherman McCoy, tried to rationalize his adultery: “Technically, he had been unfaithful to his wife. Well, sure…but who could remain monogamous with this, this, this tidal wave of concupiscence rolling across the world. …A Master of the Universe couldn’t be a saint, after all…it was unavoidable. …You can’t dodge snowflakes, and this was a blizzard! He had merely been caught at it, that was all, or halfway caught at it. It meant nothing. It had no moral dimension.” |
global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/4187 | Under God: Religion and American Politics
Wills, Garry
Simon & Schuster, 1990
p. 285
Wills quotes the Marquis de Sade, who says it is the duty of any woman (or girl) to submit to any man’s sexual desire at any time and in any form. Nature has proved it by making men stronger. To deny the urge to conquer others, or the right to do it, is “Sade’s version of the ‘fall’ of man into the ‘perversion’ of self-denial.” |
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6:00 PM
@ircmaxell yeah, that's the standard way to do that.
@NikiC thanks! I appreciate it.
the only issue there is that we then can't have static inlines/macros to directly access it.
I just discovered a Chrome bug. Thought I was on to something, searched, and found the bug reported 2 years ago. It has 2 years worth of "me too" comments, then someone closed it as a duplicate of a closed bug that didn't even seem related. And the bug still exists. I found a work-around, think it's worth reporting it to Chrome again?
@ircmaxell I'd love your feedback too by the way on chat.stackoverflow.com/transcript/message/23966574#23966574
posted on June 18, 2015 by kbironneau
/* by Cris Strong */
6:02 PM
which then has call convention overhead which is expensive … well at least compared to a simple register+offset indirection fetch @ircmaxell
@ircmaxell I think it will be I am a I am a
@NikiC Any reason why we aren't allowed to class_alias() internal classes?
@bwoebi We aren't? ^^
(Which is to say: No idea)
I mean, does it have any implications to add a class alias ce?
probably the only issue is that it wouldn't be removed upon rshutdown?
(which IMO is a solvable thing)
I actually wanted to class_alias("Exception", "Throwable"); in pre-PHP-7…
@bwoebi wouldn't it be inlined?
6:11 PM
@ircmaxell If it's a call to a function body defined in a .c file… no.
(If you only function signature I mean)
because these are only resolved in linking step later… after the object files are built.
yeah, good point
which means that you'll either make it slow or "unsafe".
@BenjaminGruenbaum Another one: github.com/benjamingr/RexExp.escape/issues/18 (Though I already know that one to be bogus ^^)
Awesome, I'm afk - I'll look when I'm not on shitty mobile chat
@NikiC I'm unsure, but I thought you couldn't use \10 as a backreference… it's actually a backreference to \1, followed by a zero, no?
6:23 PM
@bwoebi I think it will be treated as an octal (decimal?) escape
@NikiC yeah, octal escape, right.
actually, (in PCRE at least), the safe way to access a subpattern is actually \g{125}
which can't change it's meaning dependent on consecutive chars.
so, to be sure, we'd have to prefix a .{0} to clearly mark a difference
I'll note that on the issue…
or just add a non-capturing group…
@BenjaminGruenbaum seems reasonable
@rdlowrey thoughts on this github.com/fredemmott/hhvm/commit/… ?
I wanted to disable SSLv3 usage by default for 5.6 but folks said, "no wait it might break things for people"
Then POODLE happened
Currently php-src will only negotiate SSLv3 if nothing else is available (and the protocol wasn't explicitly disallowed)
The safest bet at this time is to just specify the exact protocols you want to allow as a bitmask
6:40 PM
@rdlowrey Drop in 7?
e.g. ...
@NikiC well we can't drop support for SSLv3 entirely because (for example) I might want to use php for penetration testing
drop it by default
But we can make it so that the default crypto settings won't negotiate it and you have to explicitly specify that you want it enabled when you setup the stream context.
@rdlowrey I mean never negotiating it without being explicitly told to
yeah that
6:41 PM
@rdlowrey yes, please. disable by default is a great idea.
I'm way behind on openssl things right now (so busy) but I will get to them in the next few days because I don't have any other choice :)
@rdlowrey you wanted to do proc things too!
Meh, the proc stuff isn't going to happen
… :-(
The proc_open() shortcomings can be worked around in userland (for our purposes) and they only affect windows environments anyway so who cares.
6:44 PM
@rdlowrey they can…? reliably…?
Yes, with a dispatcher library that keeps worker processes open instead of spawning a new one for each separate task.
(as long as you don't have control of the called binary.)
yeah well… that's doing the hard way in favor of an easy one
For me the easy way is userland -- I don't have any familiarity with the windows APIs needed to make it work in C ...
And the userland functionality is useful for other purposes and something I've been meaning to do anyway
6:47 PM
I suspect that I have a severe case of mental masochism: fir the past hour I have been watching videos of Eric Hovind
@rdlowrey please tell me that majority or people in US do not agree with that knucklehead
@tereško oh, lol, I know lots of people who would. ~50% of my extended family is totally down with creationism. I don't think the majority of sane people can logically entertain those kinds of ideas, though.
that is fucking scary
can i get some likes on my answer:
A: PDO - Fatal error: Call to a member function fetch() on a non-object
php_purestIt happens when the table doesn't exist also. make sure it actually exists, and isn't just a holder in the database due to hard drive errors.
The nice thing about science is that it's true whether or not people believe it.
@rdlowrey (except faked results…)
6:51 PM
@rdlowrey I don't believe that!
@bwoebi but it's not science at that point, though ;)
@rdlowrey the hard part though is… knowing that it indeed is not. ;-D
science is a lot more theory than fact - frequently it's only a matter of time until "scientific facts" get proven false
Of course. Science is about preponderance of evidence/data. Not absolutes. Because speaking in absolutes is foolhardy pretty much everything is a "theory."
@AllenJB emm ... do you know what "theory" is ?
I think you meant "hypothesis"
6:55 PM
@AllenJB of course. Science means that things are true… in a certain reference environment. Just like it'd be insane to use general relativity for usual applications …
@AllenJB scientific fact is "things fall down"
a theory is what explain how it works and makes predictions
why is saying that " Fatal error: Call to a member function setFetchMode() on a non-object" happens from a database not actually existing a bad answer?
@php_purest because it ignores why
how can i make it more complete?
@tereško no. scientific fact is "objects with a mass approach other objects with a mass"
6:57 PM
.. I was simplifying again
@tereško there's nothing like falling down. It's rather us coming 1 meter towards earth and earth moving by 10^-42 or whatever meters towards us.
@ircmaxell how so?
@tereško And it's these things where you have a certain frame so that you can say "things on earth fall down" [except … etc.]
@bwoebi even that is a dubious fact at best
7:00 PM
@bwoebi what if we are not moving and it's just the space between things expanding or shrinking? :P
there are no scientific "facts". There are only axioms. Everything else is based on perception, measurement and theory, all of which can (and have) change over time
stackoverflow.com/questions/19017682/… - the dupe has a decent answer already...
@ircmaxell if you think it exists, you should check to make sure it does
the good thing about science is that lies tend to expire quickly :)
7 mins ago, by AllenJB
7:01 PM
@ircmaxell yeah, I know… they even might refrain from each other when space grows faster than they're approaching etc.
emm .. so .. @AllenJB, case to elaborate ?
@tereško Usually only constraints on the region of applicability of a model are tightened, rather than anything being entirely falsified
so the question was a duplicate
@php_purest that's one possible cause of the error, of which there can be literally thousands
How to kill a party in one easy step: start talking about heteroskedasticity in your data set.
7:02 PM
the question is too broad then
@rdlowrey interesting… may you explain more concretely? << That's the answer you then get, right?
lol, no, the usual answer is "So did you hear what Kim Kardashian actually did?" ... I need new friends I think.
come to Europe
@rdlowrey looking up… no, that answer definitely isn't interesting.
This is one problem with not working in an office surrounded by smart people ... it's not always easy to find folks with similar interests.
7:08 PM
well, since you have begun using word "folks", it might get easier soon
why does SO let you answer duplicate questions?
@DidierFuentes hi
I still have hopes to live without knowing who is Kim Kardashian. Last week I still believed Miley Cyrus was a citric drink (til open the wrong link on twitter).
@php_purest It doesn't? Just when you've already started writing before closing, you usually have some edit window to finish up first.
@php_purest it doesn't, once it's marked as a duplicate
7:10 PM
@bwoebi I have only vague grasp on who those people are .. and definitely am not able to recognize them outside of specific memes
aww, so someone didn't help the community well
the answers came up first
7:29 PM
REQUEST: a kickstarter-funded study to estimate the historical cost (in USD) of programming errors resulting from NULL-terminated strings.
@rdlowrey ahahahaha
I mean seriously. We're probably talking about billions of $$$, right? Maybe more?
@rdlowrey do you know of any sites with bad certificates that can be tested against?
length encoded strings for the win…
@ircmaxell define "bad certificates"
7:32 PM
a certificate that would fail verify_peer
Like, expired or specifically malicious in some way?
and name matching
@ircmaxell this might interest you: github.com/damz/public-certificates
@ircmaxell I don't know of any off the top of my head -- I can fire up a server locally and forward the port in my router if you want to test something specific.
no, not testing locally
7:35 PM
Is this for an automated test?
there we go: tv.eurosport.com
"Unknown cipher in list: ALL"
FYI the easiest thing to do (if you do need automated tests) is just to start a stream socket server in PHP using a certificate of your own creation and then connect to it with whatever options you like
@ircmaxell for forcing a name issue, you just pick an arbitrary site and use the IP to access it. If you want a self-signed you can hit basically any Win box that provides OWA, smbs generally don't pay for a cert
@PeeHaa ping
@DaveRandom I found one :-)
7:50 PM
@ircmaxell also IIRC the PHP test suite contains a few certs in varying states of validity for testing behaviours with those scenarios (some of which are basically testing OpenSSL and not PHP but meh)
@DaveRandom You said "bum". Teehee.
@rdlowrey I put in a work order with the wifey. We'll see how long it takes to be fulfilled.
@LeviMorrison it's really not pressing and I feel bad hassling you about it. The efforts are appreciated nonetheless
1) Update PHP7 branch to use Throwable
2) Break Travis build because PHP7 nightly not yet updated
3) ???
4) Profit!
Wrote up a guide for contributing to the PHP docs. Did I miss anything? :) sammyk.me/how-to-contribute-to-php-documentation
8:05 PM
I have checked out the docs repo exactly once
in general, I just use edit.php.net, and commit directly
o/ SammyK
@ircmaxell Yeah, it's hella faster that way. :)
Hello @Joe!
@Joe I've got to pop off here in like 5 mins, but was it pretty straight-forward to get your UG set up as a state-level nonprofit?
I haven't done it for a UG, but I've set up state nonprofit 3 times, and took one of those to 501c3
IN a nutshell, incorporate as a nonprofit first, then go for 501c3.
In TN, it's a mutual benefit nonprofit -> get Tax ID from IRS -> apply for 501c3 through the EZ form, don't use legal zoom (IMHO, IANAL)
Gotcha. Thanks for the direction! :) Want to come on the PHP Roundtable again and discuss running a rocking user group? :)
lol rocking may be relative, but certainly :D
8:16 PM
@DaveRandom did you have a chance to look at the ini issue? I tested to see if I could break it up into two entries since docs say the disable_functions directive appends, but seems it does not do that within the config file. Only the first one is processed. If it makes it easier maybe just allow multiple declarations of it? That is the only directive I see having such a large string.
Sweet! I've got it tentatively scheduled for early October, but I'll let you know closer to the date to nail down an exact time & date. :)
I'm out! Peace!
@PeeHaa Current Firefox doesn't send Origin for form submissions, so I have to implement a CSRF token. :(
8:47 PM
Oh I remember, I think it only sends it for HTTPS connections.
9:15 PM
@SammyK "If you see a bunch of output that ends with an ASCII cat picture, you're in business." :)
@SammyK looks mostly fine (your blog post)
The karma section is pretty wonky though, there is only one way to ask for an account+karma and that's via the form. Ask on Twitter, IRC, the lists, you'll be redirected to the form if you don't already have an @php.net account.
All of those other places are great for chatting, getting help, etc. but they won't help with doling out accounts.
Newbie here. For a WordPress site, where do you save a python file?
My python file is called hello.py which consists of
print("Hello World!")
I am trying to call the python script in Wordpress by pasting this in a php file in my Wordpress theme
exec("python hello.py");
ummm... why?
also: don't do that
hmm why not?
@SammyK the build times information is outdated too, changes are built and synced to mirrors daily.
@salathe true, but talking is basically a requirement to getting the karma approved, right?
9:24 PM
@SammyK for PHP 7 we have a sort-of up to date TODO list at github.com/gophp7/gophp7-docs/wiki/TODO
@ircmaxell sure but talking isn't a way to get karma, which is what the article says
@SammyK on ^^ that note, ask people to talk to us (wherever they like) and have some patches under their belts before asking for karma... the single best thing they can do is talk to us on the docs list.
@SammyK btw, +1000 internet points for you :)
I need to have updated prices for 100 products. I want to fetch a prices from other websites and display it on my website - what would I use to accomplish this? PHP? Python?
9:39 PM
@kelunik If that is the case it shouldn't be a problem right?
@AlmaDo pong
@rdlowrey Support technician says to give it a try.
@BenjaminGruenbaum I'm somewhat drunk now so if it can wait till this weekend it would be tits
@samaYo Just keep bugging me so I will pick it up soon. FWIW I'm thinking about postponing some work soon for a couple of weeks so I can pick up some projects
@marcio ok. nope, I didn't expect it to be so trivial honestly. The only problem will be explaining variance for nested stuff like callable(callable(callable(A)))
@SammyK Nice job. I could do with a reference to doc bugs for people looking for something to do
9:53 PM
@SammyK s/I/it
Damn edit window :(
@LeviMorrison give a try to what?
@bwoebi Leviathon should be up.
Actually @rdlowrey needs it, not me… but he seems to be to the gym right now.
esdiscuss.org/topic/… …… wow … that's so true… also for PHP.
<=> … .
sometimes… when I look at how ES changes over time… I wonder why they didn't just create a new language…
10:23 PM
I was thinking about this just a few hours ago.
> They are no longer felt by those discussing the new feature. Infinity + 1 === Infinity.
@marcio I've already given that up long ago in PHPs function library… but please… keep the language clean :-(
if you need a weird new operator, just do a damn function…
Actually, I had this impression when in first contact with C++.
@marcio hence I dislike C++.
That's very much why I'm that reluctant to add typing etc. to PHP.
but, well. It's now in :s
@bwoebi most of the things that clutter PHP are not really useful stuff... `nproc`
10:27 PM
(see again, markdown -.-)
or are you referring to shell_exec shortcut?
I'd really like to clean some parts of the language up.
@bwoebi making the type system more robust is something useful, things like `` aren't.
But I really fear I'd be hammered away by a ten ton BC break card.
@marcio adding proper classes to Javascript is too. adding let. Adding Symbols… just to name a few from ES6 standard oh … well. These are all useful.
but no, we don't need them.
10:31 PM
did you ever see a wild ``? :)
keep shit simple.
@marcio yes. I even used it … ^^ but not because it was good, just because it was shorter.
@bwoebi disagree, classes in javascript makes me cry.
people have been adding classes to js with processors, why clutter the language with it now?
@marcio preprocessors you mean? yeah… and I think that's why they ended up adding it ^^
But at least Javascript isn't typed yet.
PHP made the mistake.
sure, it's all nice with types. But it makes things so much less simple.
oh, look the replies below the post.
Yes, PHP's dynamic typesystem has some quirks… but.
@marcio which one concretely?
10:38 PM
@LeviMorrison totally working now -- got some good results too. Very much appreciated :)
@marcio you mean the macros?
@bwoebi I like the current type expansion we are having, it allows php to be safe while you still have the dynamism if you wish.
@bwoebi yep, the high level macros
@marcio +1, I feel the same way.
@marcio the current is okay. What I'm worried about is where we're heading to.
10:47 PM
what addition concerns you? union types, fn prototype, enums? (it looks like 7.1 will be very type related)
@marcio how strict we will go in enforcing types.
especially when we ever add e.g. generics etc.
@marcio no, near future is okay. I'm rather worried about the… more extravagant plans.
I changed my mind about generics, not a fan anymore at least for PHP.
Ultimately I envision the future in full-program type analysis.
so that you just need to add simple types in your fcalls/return types and the program will infer what you are concretely having everywhere, even caller tree dependent etc.
and that way it will be able to trace you back at compile time where you are changing the implicit generic type of an array in a way that it may be ultimately breaking much later in an application
(and with full program analysis I mean not only analyzing types, but also their values, what branches may be takes, how that will change values etc.)
That's what I dream about.
@rdlowrey have you already got the sensation that every function without a return type looks "handicapped"? xD
(IDK what's the socially acceptable term in English)
making complex types (Generics etc.) superfluous and being completely type safe at the same moment.
@marcio Still using PHPStorm 8… Every function with return type looks handicapped xD
11:01 PM
when they will have php7 support? I wanna try phpstrom again
@bwoebi xD
@marcio the EAP has partial support for some things.
can you $something->use($otherSomething) without errors already?
@marcio nope (At least the issue is still open in their tracker)
ok, gotta wait a bit more
@marcio I'm annoyed that $closure = static function () { ... } is still broken after being reported almost 3 years ago.
11:05 PM
@Trowski we should have removed it in PHP7, but seem to have forgotten it.
@bwoebi I was referring to PHPstorm. Why would you remove it?
@Trowski because it is completely useless.
I thought it avoided the overhead of closing over $this.
@Trowski oh, please. Tell me what the overhead is.
Quantify it.
I suppose it's virtually nothing.
11:08 PM
@Trowski correct!
As most micro optimizations go.
It's not even a microoptimization
hmmm... to hack or not to hack
@ircmaxell context?
@Trowski :O is this a thing 3v4l.org/I7u1s ?
11:09 PM
can't really talk about it. But I'm leaning on yes ;-)
@ircmaxell Work related?
then why can't you talk about it!?
@marcio because PHP
@bwoebi because embargo :-)
@ircmaxell < even more confused :o?
11:12 PM
what's the point of static function(){}? #lazyweb
@marcio inexistent.
there's no point in it.
sure, but what was the intention?
@marcio It doesn't close over $this and you can't bind an object to the closure.
@marcio I have no idea.
Someone told me that it was a lot faster and to always do it if I didn't need $this, but I promise you that they didn't know as much about internals as @bwoebi.
11:15 PM
@Trowski "a lot faster"...
@ircmaxell Ah ok
that should be your first clue that something's wrong
I've never actually used a static closure. I had planned on it, but now I won't bother.
@ircmaxell I only know embargo from a context of being prohibited something. But ultimately nobody is prohibiting you, it's your own decision.
@bwoebi it's an agreement
11:17 PM
this looks like a thing that could be optimized automatically, not by shoving a "static" before the closure declaration.
@marcio 1) what's the optimization? 2) you can't detect at compile time if a closure will be rebound
yeah. Totally fine. But an embargo in the sense of the word how I know it is being prohibited something by another party and you can't do anything against, but have to comply.
wow, hhvm has a lot of dependencies
@ircmaxell you can actually rebind a static Closure… to a static context.
@bwoebi sure
11:19 PM
means you can bind to an userdefined class and then call its private static methods.
just no $this-binding
@ircmaxell 1) I'm assuming that there might be an optimization otherwise this wouldnt exist 2) does it has RFC, I still don't get the point of it :P
@marcio there is no optimization, it exists because it was done prior to RFC process.
@marcio I can assure you, it would be faster without static existing at all, because that'd avoid one or two branches in every Closure creation.
That's it, I have to read the src now.
because we actually need extra checks to avoid a straightforward copy+addref which may be faster than an eventual branch predictor miss…
@marcio go straight to zend_create_closure.
11:24 PM
found it already
@bwoebi Hmm... if a closure has static variables, it has to allocate another hash table for them?
@Trowski it's a very normal function in that sense
@Trowski the $this is stored directly on the struct: lxr.php.net/xref/PHP_TRUNK/Zend/zend_closures.c#37
@Trowski so, yes.
@bwoebi I was looking at the source and noticed that. I'm using a static variable in a closure where I could just use a class parameter.
11:28 PM
@Trowski Actually, feel free to prefer the static vars. The HashTable is anyway initialized at CT.
@ircmaxell Wow, so making a closure static is next to pointless. That'll teach me to listen to people at conferences, lol
@Trowski who said that at a conference?
@bwoebi But in a closure?
if they don't have commit access to Zend, don't listen to them, if they do, then I'm scared
@Trowski sure.
not sure.
need to verify.
11:30 PM
@bwoebi This makes me think it's allocated when it's created: lxr.php.net/xref/PHP_TRUNK/Zend/zend_closures.c#506
@ircmaxell It was a guy from Guzzle... not naming names... but you can probably figure it out, lol
@Trowski yeah, was on the wrong track.
yup, it gets compiled to a hash table lxr.php.net/xref/PHP_TRUNK/Zend/zend_compile.c#3405
@Trowski sigh
@bwoebi So I would actually be better off making it a class param, since then it will just go in that hash table.
He wrote SuperClosure. He prob means that static closures are much faster to serialize.
which is true
Oh I'm sure they are. Though I never really saw the point of that library.
Looked more like a technical exercise than something useful.
@ircmaxell We were actually talking about Guzzle's promise implementation though.
11:34 PM
@Trowski it's pretty good, now
@ircmaxell For what they're using it for, yes, it's very nice.
@ircmaxell What are your thoughts on trying to get the various promise implementations to use this: github.com/thenable/Thenable
wow, HHVM really has a lot of dependencies
@Trowski push it for a PSR standard
@ircmaxell we're wrong sometimes too or underestimating the work of some functions. Sure, we have some knowledge from our callgrind analyses, but we aren't always right.
@ircmaxell Should I try to do that right away? I wasn't sure if I should attempt to get libraries to use it first, or go for a PSR.
@bwoebi definitely. But I don't really trust anyone with performance
11:39 PM
@Trowski keep it simple… I strongly prefer Amp's when().
@Trowski go for PSR directly
@bwoebi when is a different function than then
@bwoebi when() goes against every other promise implementation.
@ircmaxell sure, but it ultimately serves the same.
@Trowski the implementations in PHP you mean?
which all copied from each other?
@bwoebi no it doesn't
@bwoebi Specifically I'm thinking of JS, though I've seen promise implementations in Objective-C, Ruby, Python, etc. that used then() in the same way.
11:41 PM
When, as AMP uses it, pushes the success/failure decision on the callee. Whereas promises (thenable) pushes it on the sender
@bwoebi no, Promises in every other language
@ircmaxell the when callable is always called, then then() callables are only calling the fitting callable
there are a few different implementations, but all I've seen until Amp::WHEN distinguish success from failure
@bwoebi which is a good thing
@bwoebi Which I think is much better. Avoids writing unnecessary logic in the callback.
@Trowski and what's with the shared logic?
where does it go?
what shared logic?
11:43 PM
@bwoebi Rarely do I perform the same action on failure as I do on success.
very rarely do you have shared logic between success/failure. And if you do, it's likely abstracted (or should be) anyway
And if I do, there's (in my implementation) cleanup().
^^ that
@Trowski the only thing I would add in a standard is a progress callback
@ircmaxell which really doesn't fit into then().
put it in an extra method, but no point in having it in then().
@ircmaxell Promises/A+ did away with the progress callback.
11:46 PM
hmm, actually, the when() in other languages is rather used for getting the promise from promisor…
I think progress is a separate issue that has too many ways to be handled to be part of a promise standard.
@Trowski yeah, but I have seen usages. Either way, that's fine
@bwoebi precisely.
or as a combinator (and) when(promiseA, promiseB).then(...)
@ircmaxell I wanted to try and stick to the JS spec, as I think that makes the most sense and is the most likely to be accepted.
@ircmaxell Also note that as Thenable is written in that repo, an implementation could have an optional progress callback on then() and still conform to the interface.
e.g., React's promises could implement that interface with no changes.
Just looked at Aerys… It uses ->when() 3 times in cases the Promise must never fail… once we need to do an if/else on exception and once we need the code to be always executed.
Must never fail???
You haven't been programming long, have you? :-P
11:55 PM
@ircmaxell it'd be a programming error if the promisors were failed.
I stand by my statement
@ircmaxell In the sense of… the promise will never be failed, the connection just will be killed and the promisor unset.
Uh huh
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Another tragedy prevented by gun violence! I guess guns really are the answer. Hear me, people of Springfield! I come from yet another distant future... where gun violence has destroyed the very earth itself!
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/4240 | How to Attend
We can't meet in person — but we can still meet! We've put together what we believe will be a rewarding conference for you. To make the most of it, here's a quick reference on how to participate:
1. If you haven't already, register. Then, peruse the presentations and presenters from the Breakouts Schedule page to get an idea for which you want to attend.
2. All live sessions will be held using Zoom. If you've never used Zoom before, go to this Zoom test site to make sure your computer or tablet is ready.
3. You should have received an email with the Zoom and Calendar Links page. Use that page to add your chosen breakout sessions to your personal calendar.
4. When the day of the conference comes, click the Zoom link either from your calendar or the Zoom and Calendar Links page. As you go from session to session, you'll be leaving one Zoom meeting, and clicking the link to enter another.
5. During the conference, check the homepage of this website for any announcements: conference.sealaskaheritage.org.
6. Getting Help. If you didn't get an email with the Zoom and Calendar Links page, or if you have any questions at all, you can reach the conference staff through one of the following:
Getting the Most Out of a Zoom Conference
For many of us, interacting in Zoom is new. Here are some tips to help you get the most out of the conference.
1. Speaker/Gallery View. In a Zoom you can change your view between gallery and speaker view. There are also a number of other options you can learn about in the Zoom Help Center.
2. Mute/Unmute.Know how to mute and unmute yourself. Unless you're speaking, you'll want to keep your microphone on mute so that all other participants don't hear your incidental sounds while others are talking. So, make sure you know where that mute button is and how to push it.
3. Turn your camera on. Presenters love seeing their audience, so if you're comfortable, turn your camera on so they can see you nodding in understanding and encouragement. If you want to make sure to look your best, face a window or light source.
4. Raise your virtual hand. When you're in a Zoom, you'll see a button labeled "Participants." Click it to open a window that shows all participants. At the bottom there are buttons, one of which lets you raise your hand. This tells the meeting hosts that you have a question or would like to make a comment. You also may be asked to use the Yes or No buttons to answer questions from presenters.
5. Edit your name. Also in the Participant window, if you put your mouse over your own name, you'll be able to rename yourself. Make sure your name in Zoom reflects the name you registered with. During the conference you might be called on to add your city to your name.
6. Speak into your microphone. If you do raise your hand and you are called upon, make sure you know where on your computer or tablet your microphone is, and speak loudly and clearly into it.
7. Use the chat. The chat box in Zoom is a great place to engage with other participants and have sidebar conversations. You'll find the button to open it near the Participants button. Some presenters may ask you to put comments and questions in the chat, so make sure you know how to find it.
8. Be on time — or early. When a participant joins a Zoom, the hosts and presenters hear a chime. Once a meeting has begun, this chime can be distracting, so if you can make sure to join your Zoom sessions on time or a little early.
9. Ensure equity of voice. In some sessions a group may be broken up into smaller breakout rooms. This is an excellent to engage with fellow participants, but make sure everyone who wants to speak is given that chance.
10. Adjustments for low bandwidth. If you have low bandwidth, there are a couple things you can do:
• Turn off your video and,
• Use the option to join the audio portion of the meeting by dialing in on your phone instead of connecting over Internet audio. |
global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/4242 | Bovine spongiform encephalopathy
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A cow unable to stand due to BSE.
Commonly known as “mad cow disease," bovine spongiform encephalopathy is a slowly progressive, incurable disease affecting the central nervous system of cattle, first diagnosed in the United Kingdom in 1986. BSE belongs to a family of diseases known as the transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSEs). Consumption by cattle of animal feed containing TSE-contaminated meat and bone meal has been cited as one possible means of transmission. Scientific evidence supports a causal relationship between BSE outbreaks in Europe and more than 170 recent European cases of a human TSE, variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (vCJD). TSE animal diseases are found in the United States, including scrapie in sheep and goats and chronic wasting disease in deer and elk. Since 1989, USDA has prohibited the importation of live ruminants from countries where BSE is known to exist in native cattle. In 1997, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) prohibited the use of most mammalian protein in ruminant feeds. It is possible for this disease to spread asymptomatically. BSE has an incubation period of 5 years, but cows are slaughtered at 18 months. This results in asymptomatic transmission to humans.[1]
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Experimental confirmation of the IsoRedShift at sunset and sunrise, with consequential absence of the universe expansion and related conjectures1
In this paper, we recall the mutation of the Minkowski spacetime for empty space into the covering isospacetime caused by physical media; we recall its experimental verifications via the isoredshift of laser light in a metal pipe containing air at pressure, as well as additional experimental verifications in other fields; and we present, apparently for the first time, experimental confirmations of Santilli's 1991 prediction of the isoredshift as the primary origin of the redness of direct Sunlight at Sunset and Sunrise without any appreciable relative motion between Earth and Sun, said isoredshift being proportional to the distance traveled by Sunlight in air. Absorption is dismissed as a source of said redness of the Sun because air predominantly absorbs red, as experimentally established, without dismissing minor contributions, e.g., for the shape (but not the shift) of wavelengths. The widely accepted conjecture that scattering is the origin of said redness of the Sun, without dismissing minor contributions, is shown to be inapplicable for direct Sunlight, to have no representational capability for the needed very large shifts (measured up to 200 nm), and to have been dismissed experimentally at the cosmological level with recent measurements via Hubble's telescope, as well as on Earth by recent scattering measurements by some of us. Since intergalactic spaces are far from being empty, and physical laws must be the same throughout the universe, the preceding experimental results are shown to be evidence for the absence of the expansion of the universe, the absence of the acceleration of the expansion, the absence of the big bang, and the elimination of the far reaching conjecture that space itself is expanding as needed, from Hubble's law, to prevent a return to the Middle Ages with Earth at the center of the universe. It is finally shown that the same experimental confirmations of Santilli isoredshift imply the absence of dark matter and dark energy since the universe is nowhere empty, with consequential universal validity of Santilli isospacetime and its Lorentz-Poincaré-Santilli isosymmetry. |
global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/4252 | F5 Oracle RAC Load Balancing
I’m briefly going to show you the recommended settings by both F5 and Oracle for a RAC Load Balancing setup. But it’s important to mention before implementing any configuration into production, always test since all environments are different, well most. It’s important to work with all teams who are in charge of the settings on the server side and Oracle side because there are buffer settings and timeouts that you will need. For example, see below for both Oracle 12c and the OS which in my case is RedHat 7:
Oracle 12c Defaults and Best Practice:
TCP.CONNECT_TIMEOUT = 60 Seconds (F5 keeps mentioning that Oracle states this should be 10 seconds but I couldn’t find it anywhere. Even their best practice/tuning doc states 60)
From Oracle’s Best Practices for Database Performance and Scalability Guide:
Oracle TCPTimeout
From Oracle’s Documentation:
Oracle SQLNETExpire
Redhat Linux 7:
net.core.rmem_default = 262144 = 256K
net.core.rmem_max = 4194304 = 4096K
net.core.wmem_default = 262144 256K
net.core.wmem_max = 1048576 1024K
From RedHat’s Documentation:
RedHat Specs
Let’s get to the configuration.
Health Monitor:
Interval = TCP.CONNECT_TIMEOUT x 3 + 1 (60 x 3 + 1= 181)
Work with your Oracle DB’s to get the Send, Receive, Connecting Strings.
Receive Row/Receive Column is used for returns from the SQL query that may have multiple results. I used 1.
F5 OracleRAC Health
Action On Service Down = Reject
Load Balancing Method = Least Connection(node)
Priority Group Activiation = Less Than
Available Members = set to 1 :this is the minimum number of nodes at a specific Priority Level that should be available before the pool chooses a lower priority level
Add the member nodes and don’t forget to give them specific Priorities. In this case PRIMARY=100 STANDBY=50
F5 OracleRAC Pool 1
F5 OracleRAC Pool 2
TCP Profile:
There are two TCP Profiles, one for the Client and one for the Server.
Maximum Syn Retransmissions = TCP.CONNECT_TIMEOUT = 60 Seconds = DID NOT TOUCH
Idle Timeout = SQLNET.EXPIRE_TIME = 10 Minutes = Changed to 660 which equals 11 Minutes since it needs to be slightly larger
Send Buffer = SEND_BUF_SIZE = OS Dependent = For me I’m looking at RedHat Linux 7 which is 256K but I set the F5 to RedHat’s max
Receive Window = RECV_BUF_SIZE = OS Dependent = For me I’m looking at RedHat Linux 7 which is 256K but I set the F5 to RedHat’s max
F5 OracleRAC TCPProfile Client
F5 OracleRAC TCPProfile Server
Virtual Server:
Protocol Profile (Client) = oracleRAC_client_tcpprofile
Protocol Profile (Server) = oracleRAC_server_tcpprofile
Source Address Translation = Auto Map
Default Pool = oracleRAC_primary-standby_pool
Default Persistence Profile = dest_addr
Fallback Persistence Profile = source_addr
F5 OracleRAC VS1
F5 OracleRAC VS2
F5 OracleRAC VS3
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/4258 | Thanks Bush Family
1. Mark:
Don't forget to thank Congress. Budgets can't become law without Congress.
2. stan:
Bush is a dictator. Paul Krugman said so and he's a Nobel prize winning economist.
3. Mike:
Looks like a hockey stick graph. :)
4. Mike:
Looks like a hockey stick graph. :)
5. feeblemind:
One wonders how much, if any, the graph would change had the other side been elected president during those years. Perhaps this was the best(?) outcome?
6. joewxboy:
How are the outlays categorized? Which categories had their spending increased disproportionately? How much of the increase was due to war, and should that be factored out? Does the increase in outlays correspond to an increase in the growth of government, or just temporary spending? How much of that is due to an increase in tax revenues due to a decrease in taxes?
7. bbartlog:
I suspect, though, that he is using the official inflation figures, which are no longer reliable. Which means that the graph really shows two problems at once - undercounted inflation and increased federal outlays. |
global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/4259 | Sidetracked for a Day: Making Planets
I guess I am easily distracted by geeky stuff. Yesterday I needed a fake / fantasy planet for a piece of art I am working on. So I thought I would just go find something open-source-ish someone else has done. That would have been the obvious 60-second solution.
But then I saw this site, which apparently is one for enthusiasts of - you guessed it - making planet and space art. So I thought I would play around with it. About 6 hours on the computer later, I have a planet and a lot of tools to make more, and actually had a surprising amount of fun doing it. First, the planet, click to enlarge:
The image you get when you click on it is only about a quarter of the full resolution of 5000x5000 of the original.
This is all done in Photoshop, faking the 3D and lighting effects, though there are tutorials and that same site discussing how to do this even better using 3D rendering. To make this, I started with a planet map using this tutorial. The land image I used as a texture seed is here. The final map looks like this (again I had to cut the resolution by 75% from the original 8000x4000).
The above was a bit dark so I ended up stacking two on top of each other with the top set to blend mode "screen" and this really made it pop. The cloud map I used a portion of is apparently a favorite among planet illustrators -- you can find it here. Again, here it is but reduced in size:
From these last two we select a large circle (of the same size from each) and spherize them in Photoshop.
Here it is before the atmosphere and shadow effects, which are layered on and can be adjusted after the fact
Then, follow the second half of this tutorial when he talks about atmosphere and shadows to get the final result.
And the shadow can go the other way as well:
If anyone is really interested, I can send you the photoshop file with all the layers so you can see how it works. Update: The files are huge, about 500MB each, in part because I leave copies of all the resources I use in hidden layers. But here they are, one for the flat map and one for the planet: test.psd and here:
1. Frank Waleczak:
2. hanmeng:
I believe you need a license to create your own planet. The authorities should be contacting you shortly.
3. Roy:
Your planet will have very strong winds.
4. Andrew:
Haha, "for enthusiasts of space art". This right here. This is why I love the internet.
Thanks for sharing.
5. Peter:
Now if you could only get the mice to build the full size version for you.
6. caseyboy:
Six hours huh?
Can you cause your planet to heat up??
I understand the sister website can be used to build your own "missing link".
7. IGotBupkis, Legally Defined Cyberbully in All 57 States:
As far as the darkness or lightness of an image, it's a lot easier to adjust that with "levels". It's the more general form of adjusting the brightness and contrast on an image.
8. Smock Puppet, 10th Dan Snark Master:
>>> "I believe you need a license to create your own planet. The authorities should be contacting you shortly."
As a god, you don't need a license from mere mortals. Not even Federal ephtards.
9. Mad Rocket Scientist:
Do you have a copy of Bryce?
10. SuperMike:
It's more fun than art, but you might enjoy the Kerbal Space Program. |
global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/4265 | What is a utility model?
A utility model is a result of intellectual activity of a person in any sphere of technology, i.e. object of which can be the product, process or any new applicability of earlier existed product or process.
A utility model shall only meet the following requirements:
• novelty,
• industrial applicability.
The patent cannot be granted for the utility models that contradict public order and principals of humanity and morality.
PCT national phase in Ukraine
How to protect your utility model?
1. Before applying for a patent, the patent search shall be conducted to check if the applied object satisfies the requirements provided by law and to determine the existence of similar objects.
2. Upon sufficient results of the patent search, the application can be drafted and filed.
Patent searches in Ukraine
The following information is required for application filing:
• name, surname, address of the applier of the object (if the author and the applier is not the same person, name, surname, address of the author);
• description of the utility model (and schemes if they were addressed in the description);
• formula of the utility model;
• claims;
• Power of Attorney (signed and sealed), if the applicant is a non-resident of Ukraine.
3. After the submission of the application, the formal examination is conducted by the Ukrainian Patent Office, which is meant to check if the application meets formal requirements. Substantive examination is not conducted by the Office.
Upon the successful result of the examination, the decision as to granting the patent is issued.
The patent is issued after the official fee is paid.
Term of protection
10 years.
Official fees
The application fee is paid within 2 months after the submission of the application.
Fee for issuance of the patent is paid within 3 months.
The annual fee is required to maintain a patent in force. |
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