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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/4273 | A Divine Plan
See, I am sending you out like lambs into the midst of wolves. Carry no purse, no bag, no sandals… Luke 10:1-11; 16-20 Whatever it is we think we need – to do God’s work means absolutely nothing to God. No matter how much we think we can accomplish with what we believe is “necessary,” – God has accomplished far greater with far less!
We Are The House
As the scripture in 2 Samuel continues, David did not get to build that house of cedar. Essentially I believe David’s heart was in the right place but his concept was wrong. Neither do we get to build the walls in which God’s spirit dwells, because it is suppose to dwell within us, so that where ever we go God’s presence goes with us. It is this kind of reconciliation that is God’s greater plan. As builders for God, we have a responsibility to build this house he has generously given, that being our life through Christ. Perhaps God may have believed that David was in danger of creating a physical structure, that in the end was more of a hindrance to his plan and God needed David to know and it is important for us to understand that God’s presence is not the structure. God’s presence is not the riches. God’s presence is our life in Christ. It is a life that loves God and loves neighbor as self. It is why we often say that church is not the building. Church is the people in order that the gospel is not restricted to one place and is made accessible to everyone. Otherwise we risk the walls we build becoming more important than the people they were intended to serve. Any “walls” that we build (internally or externally), God will surely cause to tumble when they prevent access to him.
I believe the good news for us today is that God understands that our journey will be challenging and much like Moses, David, the disciples and others; will be imperfect at times. However, I believe God is well pleased when we choose to remain on the journey and continue to maintain and reconcile the house that is the body of Christ. |
global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/4295 | A New Thought on the Lord’s Model Prayer
Matthew 6:9-13 NASB
Bear with me for a pause from Hebrews. Sharing with friends about having a bad attitude and trying to head it off, one replied, “I am working on my own attitude. I just read, “Instead of counting to 10, try saying the first 10 words of the Lord’s prayer several times.” Sounds good!”
I thought so too and began immediately! But I was led to add the next 14 words, 24 total.
It dawned on me as I said those beloved words, that if we truly grasp what this first part of our Lord’s outline says, we are set for Life!
God’s Kingdom and His will is to Father us. That has always been true. His is not the role of any old dad, though. We can take the descriptions of all the greatest dad’s, add all we can imagine in the makeup of dad-greatness, and we will never come near to understanding and grasping that of our Daddy-God.
Not only is He truly the Father who knows (and does) best, but He is GOD. Our God is higher and greater than we can fathom, the one we can run to day or night. Even running into His throne room unannounced, with no greater desire than to sit on His proverbial lap and be near Him for a bit, we will always find His scepter ready to receive us in mercy and love, as the king did for Esther.
Beloved, I believe this is the greatest truth about our God that there is. His will and desire is and has always been that we recognize and honor Him as our true Father, our One True God, the Good Shepherd we look to and follow. That is Who He is. Think of all that those role-descriptive words imply and know God. When we grasp hold of this truth and choose Him, desiring all He has for us, the remainder of the prayer is unnecessary, for the rest of the outline is fulfilled in Him.
He is Daddy God, our Shepherd, ready, willing, and able to tend our every need to perfection, according to all He knows is best. He is also King, ordering our steps and giving us purpose. We can run with that, having no need to pray the middle, because His will is to take care of us, leading, guiding, and directing our path to His full supply. His desire for us far exceeds all we can fathom, deeper than our greatest thoughts.
When we can trust Him enough to be still and know God, we can skip to the end and worship His glory, honor, and praiseworthy Presence with us, fully satisfied in and by Him. Is this not the picture given us in Holy Writ of Heaven’s splendor?
Revelation 21-22
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/4306 | For those of you who are not in the book community, November is NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month). This means that every month many writers across the Nation challenge themselves to write an entire novel in just one month. For example, the famous book, Fangirl, by Rainbow Rowell was written during this event.
During NaNoWriMo you can write about anything, fiction or nonfiction. So, you should definitely participate this month! At you can make an account and write your novel on their platform or you write your novel on paper. However, it might be helpful to write your novel on NaNoWriMo’s website because it can track your progress and create a customized plan so you can finish your book on time.
Here you can get more information:
If you want more guidance or lessons on how to write a novel, NaNoWriMo’s YouTube is a great resource to check out!
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/4331 | Eau de Parfum Édition Soir La Panthère
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Eau de Parfum Édition Soir La Panthère
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A dazzling interpretation of the La Panthère fragrance, the Eau de Parfum Édition Soir refreshes the iconic gardenia accord and illuminates it with a subtly powdery musk. A radiant, floral accord.
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/4350 | ListGatewayRoutes - AWS App Mesh
Returns a list of existing gateway routes that are associated to a virtual gateway.
Request Syntax
GET /v20190125/meshes/meshName/virtualGateway/virtualGatewayName/gatewayRoutes?limit=limit&meshOwner=meshOwner&nextToken=nextToken HTTP/1.1
URI Request Parameters
The request uses the following URI parameters.
The maximum number of results returned by ListGatewayRoutes in paginated output. When you use this parameter, ListGatewayRoutes returns only limit results in a single page along with a nextToken response element. You can see the remaining results of the initial request by sending another ListGatewayRoutes request with the returned nextToken value. This value can be between 1 and 100. If you don't use this parameter, ListGatewayRoutes returns up to 100 results and a nextToken value if applicable.
The name of the service mesh to list gateway routes in.
Required: Yes
The AWS IAM account ID of the service mesh owner. If the account ID is not your own, then it's the ID of the account that shared the mesh with your account. For more information about mesh sharing, see Working with shared meshes.
Length Constraints: Fixed length of 12.
The nextToken value returned from a previous paginated ListGatewayRoutes request where limit was used and the results exceeded the value of that parameter. Pagination continues from the end of the previous results that returned the nextToken value.
The name of the virtual gateway to list gateway routes in.
Required: Yes
Request Body
The request does not have a request body.
Response Syntax
HTTP/1.1 200 Content-type: application/json { "gatewayRoutes": [ { "arn": "string", "createdAt": number, "gatewayRouteName": "string", "lastUpdatedAt": number, "meshName": "string", "meshOwner": "string", "resourceOwner": "string", "version": number, "virtualGatewayName": "string" } ], "nextToken": "string" }
Response Elements
The following data is returned in JSON format by the service.
The list of existing gateway routes for the specified service mesh and virtual gateway.
Type: Array of GatewayRouteRef objects
The nextToken value to include in a future ListGatewayRoutes request. When the results of a ListGatewayRoutes request exceed limit, you can use this value to retrieve the next page of results. This value is null when there are no more results to return.
Type: String
The request syntax was malformed. Check your request syntax and try again.
HTTP Status Code: 400
You don't have permissions to perform this action.
HTTP Status Code: 403
The request processing has failed because of an unknown error, exception, or failure.
HTTP Status Code: 500
The specified resource doesn't exist. Check your request syntax and try again.
HTTP Status Code: 404
The request has failed due to a temporary failure of the service.
HTTP Status Code: 503
The maximum request rate permitted by the App Mesh APIs has been exceeded for your account. For best results, use an increasing or variable sleep interval between requests.
HTTP Status Code: 429
In the following example or examples, the Authorization header contents (AUTHPARAMS) must be replaced with an AWS Signature Version 4 signature. For more information about creating these signatures, see Signature Version 4 Signing Process in the AWS General Reference.
You need to learn how to sign HTTP requests only if you intend to manually create them. When you use the AWS Command Line Interface (AWS CLI) or one of the AWS SDKs to make requests to AWS, these tools automatically sign the requests for you with the access key that you specify when you configure the tools. When you use these tools, you don't need to learn how to sign requests yourself.
The following example lists gateway routes that are associated with the virtual gateway named myVirtualGateway in the apps service mesh.
Sample Request
GET /v20190125/meshes/apps/virtualGateway/myVirtualGateway/gatewayRoutes HTTP/1.1 Host: Accept-Encoding: identity User-Agent: aws-cli/1.16.298 Python/3.6.0 Windows/10 botocore/1.13.34 X-Amz-Date: 20200608T190053Z Authorization: AUTHPARAMS
Sample Response
HTTP/1.1 200 OK x-amzn-requestid: b82c3691-a7a9-4d99-acf6-0f9a81db9beb content-type: application/json content-length: 393 date: Mon, 08 Jun 2020 20:52:25 GMT x-envoy-upstream-service-time: 26 server: envoy Connection: keep-alive { "gatewayRoutes": [{ "arn": "arn:aws:appmesh:us-west-2:123456789012:mesh/apps/virtualGateway/myVirtualGateway/gatewayRoute/myGatewayRoute", "createdAt": 1.591642091122E9, "gatewayRouteName": "myGatewayRoute", "lastUpdatedAt": 1.591642091122E9, "meshName": "myApps", "meshOwner": "123456789012", "resourceOwner": "123456789012", "version": 1, "virtualGatewayName": "myVirtualGateway" }], "nextToken": null }
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/4351 | Interprets a string as a JSON value and returns the value as dynamic.
This function is better than extractjson() function when you need to extract more than one element of a JSON compound object.
• json: An expression of type string. It represents a JSON-formatted value, or an expression of type dynamic, representing the actual dynamic value.
An object of type dynamic that is determined by the value of json:
• If json is of type dynamic, its value is used as-is.
• If json is of type string, and is a properly formatted JSON string, then the string is parsed, and the value produced is returned.
• If json is of type string, but it isn't a properly formatted JSON string, then the returned value is an object of type dynamic that holds the original string value.
In the following example, when context_custom_metrics is a string that looks like this:
then the following CSL Fragment retrieves the value of the duration slot in the object, and from that it retrieves two slots, duration.value and duration.min (118.0 and 110.0, respectively).
| extend d=parse_json(context_custom_metrics)
| extend duration_value=d.duration.value, duration_min=d["duration"]["min"]
It's common to have a JSON string describing a property bag in which one of the "slots" is another JSON string.
For example:
let d='{"a":123, "b":"{\\"c\\":456}"}';
print d
In such cases, it isn't only necessary to invoke parse_json twice, but also to make sure that in the second call, tostring is used. Otherwise, the second call to parse_json will just pass on the input to the output as-is, because its declared type is dynamic.
print d_b_c=parse_json(tostring(parse_json(d).b)).c |
global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/4353 | Release Notes: 2017-01-18
If you're in the London area, come and visit our UK team at UKNOF, taking place on January 19th, 2017. Check out for more details!
Cloud Agent expansion
We've continued to expand our Cloud Agent presence in Canada by introducing two new locations in Ontario: Kitchener/Waterloo and Ottawa. These Agents are immediately available to customers with paid subscriptions.
Instant Tests
We’ve revamped the Instant Tests feature to make it accessible from more locations in the application, and easier and more flexible to configure Instant Tests, based on configuration of existing scheduled tests. Moreover, Instant Tests now look and feel more like scheduled tests. You can now save and share data produced by Instant Tests.
Check out the Knowledge Base article Working with Instant Tests for more information.
Minor changes and features
• In the Endpoint Agent Session Details view, we've renamed the "Organization" column to "Network", and renamed the "Network" column to "Private Network", to more appropriately reflect the data being presented
• We've added VPN and proxy destinations to the quick links shown on the Endpoint Agent Path Visualization interface.
• We've increased the maximum Alert Rule expression length from 1024 characters to 7000.
• We've corrected an issue that could cause number widgets used in reports to display an incorrect number when the "both directions" option is used while defining the widget.
• We've corrected a problem with the BGP sparkline chart of the tests dashboard widget which rendered aggregate reachability for both the target BGP prefix and any covered prefixes, when the "Include covered prefixes" option was used in test settings.
• We've corrected an issue causing the cursor on a time series report widget to become out of sync with the mouse.
• We've fixed a problem that caused API access by regular users to the v6/reports/{reportId}/{widgetId} endpoint to be incorrectly rejected with a 401 status code.
Enterprise Agents
We've introduced a new username to the Enterprise Agent, which is used to run the BrowserBot component of the Agent. This "browserbot" user will be automatically created upon update to the latest Agent version, and will be completely transparent to end users. This update applies to all versions of the Enterprise Agent including Virtual and Physical Appliances, and package-based installations except Enterprise Agents running on CentOS/RHEL 6.x. |
global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/4372 | Andrei Sakharov: Soviet Physics, Nuclear Weapons, and Human Rights
Small book cover: Andrei Sakharov: Soviet Physics, Nuclear Weapons, and Human Rights
Andrei Sakharov: Soviet Physics, Nuclear Weapons, and Human Rights
Publisher: American Institute of Physics
Andrei Sakharov, the father of the Soviet Union's hydrogen bomb, went on to struggle for human rights, peace and democracy, sacrificing his high position for exile and repression. His remarkable pilgrimage is explained by his biographer and illuminated with rare photos.
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/4406 | Running PHP on Heroku with mbstring
Heroku is PasS environment which supports PHP unofficially. It is missing some of extensions initially. One instance is mbstring. However I noticed that mbstring is able to build on heroku run bash and can be loaded from project local php.ini configuration.
I put the on github. If you need it, just copy into your project and put php.ini which include:
This application is running on heroku with mbstring.
Enjoy php on heroku!
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/4419 | Cybertruck, Apple’s M1 chip and the Godot Game Engine where all topics that was popular with my readers these past two years.
I though I’d do a little overview and discussion of the Medium stories I wrote this year and last year that turned out most popular:
1. Why is Apple’s M1 Chip So Fast? This was the big one. By far my most popular story for me this year. I tried to unpack the microprocessor jargon for the average technology interested reader.
2. Is Making Advanced GUI Applications with Godot the Future? In this article I explore the possibility of using an open source game engine for GUI application development. This sounds odd, but the Godot tools for GUI design are surprisingly strong.
3. Why is the Cybertruck so Cheap? Many people where surprised by why the Tesla Cybertruck with all its features, size and power could be promised for such a low price. …
Real-world experience with the new M1 Macs has started ticking in. They are fast. Real fast. But why? What is the magic?
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On YouTube, I watched a Mac user who had bought an iMac last year. It was maxed out with 40 GB of RAM costing him about $4,000. He watched in disbelief how his hyperexpensive iMac was being demolished by his new M1 Mac Mini, which he had paid a measly $700 for.
In real-world test after test, the M1 Macs are not merely inching past top-of-the-line Intel Macs, they are destroying them. In disbelief, people have started asking how on earth this is possible?
If you are one of those people, you have come to the right place. Here I plan to break it down into digestible pieces exactly what it is that Apple has done with the M1. …
C is a widely used language used to program anything from OS kernels to cryptography libraries. Is it time for a replacement?
The C programming language is even today among the most popular languages in usage despite having been released all the way back in 1972, and having quite a number of limitations and flaws by today’s standards.
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Programming language popularity, 2020 by TIOBE
This is the key reason why C ought to be replaced. Too much critical software is written in C/C++ which has wide ranging implications. One example is bugs in libraries such as OpenSSL. C is notoriously bad at catching problems such as buffer overruns. C is a language allowing you to shoot yourself in the foot in too may ways.
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We could look up the dictionary definition of Lexical:
of or relating to the words or vocabulary of a language, especially as distinguished from its grammatical and syntactical aspects.
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Partial Application
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Tools which help searching code, counting lines, viewing documentation and many more
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Tree — tree
Shows a tree view of a directory.
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/4451 | In this volume, S. Douglas Woodward, with contributions by his friend and co-author Douglas W. Krieger (co-authors along with Dene McGriff of The Final Babylon), provides for the reader’s consideration what he asserts is “uncommon sense.” Gathering seven essays from his various books and updating them into a synergistic manifesto, Woodward argues that Americans lack an understanding of why our nation has wandered down a path to ruin. Short of repentance and revival, Woodward argues that America stands destined for disaster. The essays cover a broad spectrum of seldom known facts of our national story that tell the unvarnished history of the past two hundred years right up to the present day: • America has a penchant for the paranormal, leading the world through its New Age “gospel” propagating an overt mysticism, the morass of the occult worldview, and a technological defense for spiritualism that proposes an extraterrestrial explanation for why we exist. • The economic enslavement of our world through foreign aid that casts third-world nations into endless debt, finances totalitarianism to keep the oppressed in their place, and bespeaks corruption that enriches the elite and impoverishes everyone else. • The destruction of national sovereignty spurred by Nazi renegades from justice six decades ago, assisted by the Vatican’s “ratlines,” and arguably at the behest of old-world monarchies. • The separation of church and state leading to the capitulation of Christianity in the face of a “war against the weak”—the abrogation of human rights and individual liberty—personified by Adolf Hitler and destined to be repeated in our day by the figure the Bible calls Antichrist. • A deception of “lying wonders” which may be disclosed at the revelation of this Antichrist as a means of promising hope for the future and potentially, immortality through the scientific advances known collectively as transhumanism. • The devolution of evangelicalism into a new mysticism—promising divinity to the masses by the elimination of doctrinal distinctions and the promise of “inclusiveness” and tolerance. Uncommon Sense: A Prophetic Manifesto for the Church in Babylon provides an analysis of what went wrong and what we must do about it. It calls upon true Christians to recognize the apocalyptic times in which we live and the need to proclaim the imminent coming of the Kingdom of God, an indispensable element of the gospel of Jesus Christ and the only true hope for lasting change in our culture, our society, and the personal lives of everyone on this planet. |
global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/4486 | Not a bug
Cycle time effects timer counting 3.18
Kevin Arscott 5 years ago in IQANsimulate updated by Gustav Widén (System support) 4 years ago 5
I have an application (1 MC3) that uses a timer which seems to count 10000 ms correctly with real time when the cycle time is set to 50ms. This is how I would expect it to behave.
When I reduce the cycle time of the application down to 5ms the time taken to get to 10000ms in the MC3 application takes approx. 20000ms in real time. Its almost as if the timer counting has slowed down when I reduce the cycle time.
I have tried as a new application file with simply just a timer counter in and no other logic as I wondered if I was approaching the processing limit but the inaccuracy still appears present?
I haven't tried previous versions of software and been unable to test in a real application so I can only assume this could be an issue with simulate and not IQAN Design?
Not a bug
Yes, this is an issue only in IQANsimulate since it runs on Windows, which is not a real-time operating system. Many factors can affect the time counting in the simulators, especially if you use short cycle times.
I am having a possibly related issue in 4.03: when I run my project in IQANsimulate, the timer counts in real time but when I send it to an MC3, it counts ~2.5x slower, meaning it cannot cope with a real time input stream. The project is mainly written in QCode and comprises ~60 math functions i.e. not an obscene number of calculations, running with a cycle time of 50 ms.
If the timer is not running as expected on the real master module, you should measure the System information channel cycle utilization to check that it is not exceeding 100%.
The application you are describing does not seem to be very large, at 50 ms cycle time it would take a quite large application to exceed 100 % cycle utilization.
When 100% cycle utilzation is exceeded, the first consequence is that the module will skip the next cycle, and this affects the timer. But if it takes even longer, then the next thing that will happen is that the module will stop due to a watchdog reset.
Is an MC3 slow at processing because of its safety checking? We have an MD4 connected to the system that could do the processing, but I would imagine the values calculated and transmitted via APPIN/OUT couldn't be validated because its not a safety controller? The only other real solution is to have a second MC3 and share the calculations to bring the cycle utilisation down?
Is there an alternative module that could allow calculations quickly and safely besides the MC3?
Yes, the IQAN-MC3 is slowed down by the cyclic checks it has to go through to meet the requirements on diagnostic coverage. The IQAN-MC31 uses the same hardware and is faster because it does not run the same set of tests as the MC3 does. But that also means that the MC31 does not have any SIL level, so it is not really an option for European machines.
Correct, if you want to maintain the SIL2 integrity level of the IQAN-MC3, you should not do any safety critical calculations on the MD4 either, the entire chain from input to output must be on modules that meets your required PL/SIL. Sending over APPOUT/APPIN between IQAN-MC3 modules is fine, but if you involve another module that is not certified, that will limit the level you can claim on your safety function.
I did a small test to see what it would take to get an IQAN-MC3 running at 50 ms to exceed 100% cycle utilization and get to the point where it skips cycles, but still completes before the watchdog timeout. It will vary depending on the type of channels and objects used, but I got my test application to a component count of abut 5000 before reaching the 100% error level.
The IQAN-MC4x-FS modules that were shown at Bauma fair earlier this year will become an alternative to IQAN-MC3 that has both safety certification and improved calculation capacity. But these modules are still in development. |
global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/4488 | gml 1.4
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Teleport station problem
Hi! What's up? Before explainning my problem I have to say, 1. English is not my maternal language, sorry if I have mistakes! 2. This is my first post, sorry if i don't follow any rule. Well, my problem is that I'm developing a game with a few friends, everything was going (almost) excellent...
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[SOLVED] Get pitch from two 3D vectors (What's going wrong? D: )
Hello, i'm trying to get the pitch or vertical angle between two vectors. The thing is: What's going wrong?. I've investigated, and the suposed formula to do it is: void getAxisAngle(EntityPlayer a, EntityPlayer b, out double yaw, out double pitch){ double deltaX = a.posX - b.posX...
3. KamilSeven
GML (SOLVED)Flying/Hovering Enemy A.I. Motion Planning (Like in Super Create Box)
Hi! I want to build a flying enemy motion planning for a side view game (Super Crate Box clone for learning purpose). I've tried using a simple motion planning line to achieve it. But the issue is, mp is creating the shortest path to the target, so it doesn't give the effect of flying/hovering...
4. Acid Reflvx
GML How do I find the precise number for when I set my track's position in GameMaker 1.4?
I am making a game with a level editor, sort of like Geometry Dash. I've been trying to add a Geometry Dash feature to the game; being able to play music at certain points instead of having to play music and wait until it gets to the part you want to test. Here is my problem: I don't know what...
5. yvodlyn
GML mini map on infinite parallax (view/room)
Hello everyone! For my game, I made a mini map. Everything work. However there issue I can't solve. When the game start, we can see objects on the mini map. however, as the game room/view has no limit, objects from the mini map go away (the leave the mini map) I would like to know if someone...
6. K
SOLVED Player spawning to wrong x,y position upon loading
This is my first forum post here, so if I neglect to put any important code please tell me and I'll try to include what's needed. I'm working in GameMaker v1.4.1804. I've followed Shaun Spalding's JSON based save/load tutorials and I'm run into a problem. Whenever I load my game, when I go to...
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GML [1.4.999] Preventing # from going next line
I am trying to prevent hash character from going next line. I have already tried string_pos(ord("#"), message), keyboard_check_pressed(ord("#")), and string_pos(ord("\n"), message), but apparently they do not work. How can I check if # key is pressed? Or is it not possible at all?
8. MatteKudasai
SOLVED Problems with Place_meeting on 1.4
I'm trying to make my character mount on a horse when I press "K" close to it. The way I would able to do is making another object, the character on the horse, and create it when I press the button, while destroy the char off the horse, and it worked but I'm trying to limitate to just when is...
9. Null-Z
GML trouble with creation code(SOLVED)
I'm trying to make an object with empty variables in the create event that I can fill in the creation code event. After managing to get it running and not immediately giving an error, I found the object in question was not creating the desired object designated in the creation code. currently I...
10. Null-Z
Legacy GM (Please Don't) Exit stage left. SOLVED!
For my Boss object, I have a phase where it hovers over the player before dropping down. I want it to move back and forth around the player's X before dropping. the problem? it just float's away seemingly ignoring the conditions I set for it. What am I misunderstanding? Functioning code
11. Liam Earles
Legacy GM Need help coding the punch mechanic!
I really need help right now with this character I'm doing for my game, and it's getting very frustrating. I'm trying to code Idle, Walk, Jump and Punch animations together, but with one of the playable characters it's not working. Every time I crouch (Which is a cartwheel technique BTW), and...
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Need help implementing state machines
Hey, so I have been working on a top down RPG and I am trying to implement a state system to switch the players states i.e ( idle, movement, sprint,attack,etc). I'm fairly new to GMS(I'm using GMS 1.4.9999) and have some minor coding experience. The problem I am stuck with is that when the...
13. S
Legacy GM State Loading issue
I'm currently having trouble getting my load game script to work across all of my rooms. It's very odd and no matter how much I rack my brain I just can't seem to figure out what is going on! Technically everything is loading in fine except my inventory which I'm just using ds lists to...
14. Andrew R. C. Beck
Legacy GM [SOLVED] Movement being interrupted by other buttons
Howdydiddly all! I am having an issue in which the user controlling a ship should be able to move left and right as they wish whilst maybe using other buttons, but everytime another button is pressed as well as the left or right move keys, the movement is interrupted until they press move again...
15. Null-Z
Particle Problems(CLOSED)
I'm trying to create an "after image" effect for a projectile object. the problem is the projectile itself changes it's angle on creation to point toward the player object. I've tried but that does nothing. (obj_ParticleExper is the object I want the particle to match angle orientation.) what...
16. LanderMiskolczi
Legacy GM Camera Wont Shake
For some reason my camera wont shake, when I press H the screen should shake, but instead it stays still like normal. Here is the step event /// Follow the player if (instance_exists(oPlayer)) { var xTo = (oPlayer.x - x) / 25; var yTo = ((oPlayer.y - 16) - y) / 25; } x += xTo; y += yTo...
17. shostifrosty
Falling Sprite not working as expected
Hi there! So I'm a little bit of a noob with GML (and programming in general, unfortunately) and through several tutorials and looking up the manual, I'm trying to figure out how to make the basic movements of a platformer game. The thing is, I made it work basically – movement, jumps...
18. Liam Earles
Legacy GM Particles keep disappearing
So, I was working on a snow particle effect for my game, and while the particle is created successfully, it would only be created once. I'm trying everything I could to loop the effect but I can't find anything about recreating the particle effect after being created once. Here's the piece of...
19. royer14
GML how to create animation in scale
Hello, I have an Object Obj_box Now I have created a 64x64 sprite and what I want is that in step event the animation is similar to the one in the image below Well I do not want to use so many sprites for the animation and my goal is to do it with gml, could you help me? var scale = 1.4 while...
20. Divinik
GML Looking Through Two Arrays for Duplicates?
So I have a ds_grid that holds all items in the game. In the Inventory's Menu, there are tabs that copy certain "Types" of items from the master grid and creates it's own ds_grid for that tab. I'm trying to figure out how to delete the same item from from the sub arrays and the main array when... |
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Query has drastic slowdown following upgrade from MySQL 5.6 to 5.7
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Following an upgrade from MySQL 5.6 to 5.7, the following query went from running in <2 minutes to taking over 30 minutes.
SELECT DISTINCT Name,,deviceType,issuedBy, description,avNum,CompanyName, BrandName,dwNumber,quant,discDate,Type FROM table_one d JOIN table_two i ON =;
I have tried a variety of things to diagnose the issue.
* I compared optimizer_switch settings between 5.6 and 5.7, and switched "off" the new settings:
SET optimizer_switch='condition_fanout_filter=off'; SET optimizer_switch='derived_merge=off'; SET optimizer_switch='duplicateweedout=off';
* I compared configuration/variable settings between the 5.6 and 5.7 servers. Where applicable, I made the 5.7 settings match 5.6. I made quite a few changes to variables (more than I can list here) and none seemed to have much of an impact, better or worse.
* I enabled the performance_schema tables and compared results.
The 5.7 instance shows many calls/time spent in something called "wait/synch/sxlock/innodb/hash_table_locks". This led me to look more closely at InnoDB and storage.
* The two servers are in AWS RDS. As a comparison, I started two identical EC2 instances. One with MariaDB 10.2.21 (InnoDB version 5.7.24), and one with MySQL 5.7.25 (InnoDB version 5.7.25) using out-of-the-box config.
The 5.7 server still takes 30 minutes in this configuration, but like our 5.6 server, MariaDB took only 60 seconds! This makes me think 1) it's not a storage contention issue, and 2) InnoDB doesn't appear to be a limiting factor, because it works fine within MariaDB.
My thinking is it must be something different in the query execution plan chosen by the 5.7 server. I'm having trouble verifying this though.
The EXPLAINs for both are pretty similar. MariaDB has a "using where" and reverses the order of the tables. However, when I force the same table order in the 5.7 query (using STRAIGHT_JOIN), it doesn't get any faster.
MySQL 5.7 (and 5.6):
The 5.6 EXPLAIN is identical to the 5.7 EXPLAIN, even though they don't behave in the same way.
Apologies for posting an external link, but I've gathered some more data, including my table definitions, here:
Does anyone know what might be going on? I've been stuck on this for nearly a week, and I don't think diving into the source is going to be a productive exercise for me, so I'm blocked. I'm really interested to understand what is going on here. The performance hit is quite significant for such a straightforward query.
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/4507 | TapaTime in Catalunya
A while back we went somewhere east of Barcelona, in Catalunya, to check out the wineries that were opening their doors to the public for a weekend. After visiting an amazing one (Bodega Torres, that not only makes great wine but also is environmentally friendly) we decided to have a snack. Technically an “aperitivo”, or “tapas” here in Spain.
Spanish Jamon is incredible, but you have to know what you’re buying and be careful not to get ripped off!
Did you know that tapas were originally a measure ordered by the King (at the time Felipe III) to stop the poor being drunk all the time? Apparently way way back the farmers and sailors and soldiers and workers were so poor that they often had to make a choice between food and drink for lunch, and would always choose drink. So Felipe decided that enough was enough – he didn’t ban drinking but he ordered the bars to serve a small something to eat with every drink they sold, so as to avoid complete inebriation.
chips, some kind of salami and leaves of cheese with raisins. Yum-my!
The legend goes on to say that the name tapa, that means “cover” or “lid”, was given to this “snack” quite some time later, when Alfonso XIII stopped in Cadiz to have a glass of wine. It was so windy that day that the bartender, not wanting to get sand in the King’s drink, covered it with a slice of ham. The King was quite impressed and when he ordered another, he asked for a “glass of wine with the cover”. So says the legend.
Of course, we had some rioja wine. It was good, but the label was quite creepy.
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/4511 | Parable of the Ten Bridesmaids Tag
Here Comes the Bridegroom!
You can’t borrow someone else’s faith. You can learn from my faith, but you can’t use my faith. Even though I’m saved, I cannot become your Savior. Even though you have received the Grace of God, you can’t impart the grace of God to anyone else. I can give my life for you, but I can’t live your life, and you can’t live mine. God has children, but He has no grandchildren. You can’t borrow faith from your parents or grandparents. They can instill God’s Word in your heart and train you in the things of God, but they can’t give you their faith. You have to choose to follow Jesus on your own. |
global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/4523 | A Guide to Being a Happy Roommate and Having a Happy Roommate
by Isabella Lin ’18
Prior to coming to George School, I never experienced having a roommate let alone living away from home. As a result, I had no idea what to expect from a roommate, so I envisioned an entire scenario in the days before moving in… I would open the door to my beautiful dorm room, somehow already decorated, and upon seeing me, my roommate would throw up her hands and we would squeal and scream at each other in excitement, instantly becoming the best of friends.
In other words, I believed that roommates were destined to immediately feel a bond, get along perfectly, and live together in bliss and harmony for the rest of the high school years. Spoiler alert: This is likely impossible in all roommate scenarios. However, I do have proof that it’s entirely possible to live in blissful contentment with your roommate when you put in some effort and give it more time than one day.
When I met my roommate Ale, there wasn’t screaming or hair-braiding – we were two awkward and nervous sophomores, hoping that our roommate didn’t have an odd habit that would drive the other crazy. It isn’t an easy task to be assigned to live with someone you’ve never met, and it isn’t supposed to be. But remember, once you conquer high school boarding, college dorm life will be a breeze.
Tip #1: Acknowledge your roommate’s presence! I know this sounds silly, but a simple “good morning” and “good night” can go a long way to build a strong foundation for a long term roommate relationship. Not only does it feel natural to greet someone when you see them first thing in the morning, but it helps to create a friendly and home-y environment in your room.
Tip #2: Work out a sleeping time and waking time. Chances are, you and your roommate will have different sleeping schedules. Discuss this with your roommate as soon as possible so you both have correct information, and you and your roommate will have a happy year of undisturbed sleep. If you are an early-bird, gather your things the night before and position your alarm so that you don’t keep hitting snooze. If you stay up late, find another light source and invest in headphones or earphones.
Tip #3: Get a small bedside light. This correlates with the tip above. If you or your roommate needs a later night than the other, having a small bedside light is a great solution to problems with keeping the room lights on. A small, movable light doesn’t disturb the sleeping roommate, and gives enough light for the awake roommate.
Tip #4: Get a mini fridge and share it. Just do it. And be kind and share it, or if it’s your roommate’s fridge, nicely ask to share it. Stock it up with everything that makes you smile on a Monday. It’s a guaranteed mood-booster for both of you.
Tip #5: Have deep, existential conversations at night. Maybe not as deep as existential reflections, but open yourself up to listen to your roommate’s thoughts, or speak your own. When two roommates are lying awake at night, sometimes conversation is what feels the most natural. Don’t worry, this feeling is mutual, you won’t be left hanging. Talk about stress, interests, hopes, dreams, homesickness, or anything else that comes to mind in the moment. It’s a great way to bond with your roommate, and trust me, losing an hour or so of sleep talking with your roommate is worth it.
If you’re wondering, while I didn’t get my big, magical, and unreasonable moment of meeting my roommate, at the end of the year, I did gain a cherished friend for life. Good luck and happy boarding!
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🚀 Fast and simple Node.js version manager, built in Rust
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Single file, easy installation, instant startup
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🤔 Works with .node-version and .nvmrc files
Using a script (MacOS/Linux)
For bash, zsh and fish shells, there's an automatic installation script:
curl -fsSL | bash
On OSX, it is a simple as brew upgrade fnm.
On other operating systems, upgrading fnm is almost the same as installing it. To prevent duplication in your shell config file add --skip-shell to install command.
Set a custom directory for fnm to be installed. The default is $HOME/.fnm.
Skip appending shell specific loader to shell config file, based on the current user shell, defined in $SHELL. e.g. for Bash, $HOME/.bashrc. $HOME/.zshrc for Zsh. For Fish - $HOME/.config/fish/conf.d/
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curl -fsSL | bash -s -- --install-dir "./.fnm" --skip-shell
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brew install fnm
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scoop install fnm
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cargo install fnm
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/4545 | This Race Is Finished Before It Started
Ryan Hall, father of four adopted Ethiopians, is a record-holding marathon runner. He suffers from clinically low testosterone levels. He and his wife, Sara (also a runner), are Christcucks. They have no biological children. There is no claim that she is infertile.
There is a revealing blurb in their story that one social worker in their hometown is the traitorous nexus actively organizing and helping to import Africans into America.
Though the Halls’s Northern California community of Redding is small, they know at least 30 other Ethiopians in the area, including four Ethiopian children adopted by another family four years ago who are now good friends of the Halls’s children. The families shared the same social worker to help with the adoptions.
Lessons: Don’t run. Lift. Don’t marry a psychocuck. And take any social workers in your community on helicopter rides. Future America will thank you.
1. I can’t wait to hear the stories of when these girls start dating ‘their own kind’ and the parents can’t handle the vibrancy.
Oh that’s right the news won’t report it.
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1. There’s no need for white men there, they’re black chicks. There are plenty of church-niggas in all black churches, they will find they may-un
2. These white families that are taking in these kids drive me nuts. I know of one family that took in a bunch of these castaways and are now paying for it with the abject misery these kids bring about when they decide to return to their own people, and hate the very people that raised them.
It’s really sad, but I’m tired of feeling sympathy for these people.
Stick your hand in a alligators mouth and it’s going to get bit off.
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1. Like Kaepernick. Raised white as snow in ‘Sconsin by a white family. Trying to outblack Shaft in order to overcompensate for his white shame. Could have just played ball, banged tens and had money for life but he had to rid himself of his white shame.
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1. There are a lot of melanin-adopters in the Upper Midwestern states. Mostly in the cities of course. Big virtue points to be scored with one another.
It’s gotta rankle the pets to know they’ll never, ever, fit into this thing that they can see and well know is better.
It’s gotta rankle to have one’s own “parents” let you know in a million ways that they adopted you because, without them, you’d never be any good, nor would make it on your own.
It’s gotta rankle to know this is true. Day in, day out, like a thousand tiny caltrops in your shoes.
Blogger MG Miles has a top notch piece on this progressives as the new Racial Realists:
3. So much dumb in one picture. The dogs are definitely the high point morally, intellectually, and aesthetically there.
1. I definitely feel sorry for the dogs. They are unwilling victims in the middle of this shitstorm. The “social worker” made her money and has moved onto the next pair of suckers while these two are prime candidates for one of those crime shows where the “kids” kill their “parents”.
4. I wonder if running and low-t typically go hand-in-hand. I have a friend who is a marathon runner who never had his own kids and recently married a single mother and now raises her three kids.
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1. I’m pretty sure it does; long-distance running is a favourite amongst the shitlibs, because men and women are relatively equal in this category.
2. A quick look at the average long distance runner is enough to demonstrate that this is so. Most of them look like they would lose a fight with a folding lawn chair.
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3. Long distance running. Sprinting not so much. Non-at all with a speed chute. Good at the end of of a leg day for the extra burn.
5. There aren’t that many googles in Redding, but there is a cult-like mega church that imports people of varying degrees of stupidity from around the world. This church is committed to bringing the Kingdom of God to earth one city at a time. They have snagged a city council seat and infiltrated the public safety community. Redding is economically depressed and slowly being turned into cuckistan by these idiots.
6. Ry’s testosterone issues have alleviated since quitting the sport and he’s jacked now that he’s lifting weights. But is that a 1-to-1 2:4 digit ratio I see on his right hand? Androgycuck.
7. I ran into a similar couple in a very small white town in Montana. They had brought in two very surly looking African boys to raise. It ruined my experience there that these people would drop this giant turd into an otherwise beautiful place.
We need to bring back public shaming and ostracizing. People that bring in outsiders to ruin and prey on a community need to be shunned and punished.
8. The way things are going they might as well go ahead and make Somalia and Ethiopia the 51st and 52nd states — would save a lot of taxpayer-funded airfare.
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9. Nothing like seeing african mohameddan niggers strolling the streets of a beautiful far norther White city.
Their burquas, large broods of pickaninnies, and of course the leering stares of the sub-80 IQ males is just so much winning.
Why are huWhites so fucking stupid?
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1. The Jew-owned & controlled MSM Conglomerates push this anti-white BULLSHIT on em. Some people are mentally strong enough to see through it, some aren’t like this woman’s fag husband
10. A friends (not in usa but white country) adopted three ukrainians war orphan kids. But adopting ukrainians do not virtue signsal that much
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/4547 | Direct Representation is an electoral formula designed both to be simple and to achieve a close match between the number of votes a candidate receives and their voting power in the legislative body. In this last respect, Direct Representation is similar to Proportional Representation.
Direct Representation essentially uses direct voting (as in direct or pure democracy) but voters are allowed to give their vote to a group or individual to vote in their place.
Citizen Voting
All voters get one vote to use in the legislature, which may be used directly or delegated to a representative. Representatives may be either individuals or groups which have binding rules to decide how to use votes which have been delegated to them.
The size of the legislature is set at a specific number. The candidates who receive (by delegation) the highest number of citizen votes receive the right to vote in the physical legislative building until the size of the legislature. For example, if the size of the legislature is set at 100, the first 100 candidates with the highest number of votes receive the right to vote at the physical legislative building. Candidates who are not amongst the top vote recievers and individuals who do not choose a representative do not receive the right to vote in the physical legislative building, although they may be granted that privilege, but they do retain the right to vote in some distance voting system, such as voting by mail or internet voting.
Legislative Voting
In the legislative body, group and individual representatives and vote on legislation using the votes delegated to them. Legislation rules are based on specific fractions of the total vote. For example, legislation could require 55% of the vote in order to pass. Fractional voting is permitted. For example, a representative may vote 60% of their votes yes and 40% of their votes no on a piece of legislation. This allows more creative and freeform uses of votes by representatives.
Because the total number of voters in an election will change, the total number of votes that can be cast on legislation will change every election. Therefore, it is more useful to refer to the fraction of the total votes that a representative has than to refer to the number of votes they have.
Political Parties in Direct Representation
In Direct Representation, parties are formed as groups with a particular platform, and they must have constitution which provides a well defined rule for deciding how it votes in the legislature with the votes that have been delegated to it. Parties are free-form in the sense that parties make up their own rules for voting and intra-party activities through defining their constitution. In Direct Representation, unlike other systems, political parties can receive and use votes directly.
Examples of party rules used to decide voting:
• Plurality voting amongst a set of delegates
• Unanimous voting amongst a set of delegates
• Delegate voting, all delegates decide the use of some fraction of the party vote
• Random voting, the party votes by fliping a coin
A different type of party may also exist; individual candidates or groups may label themselves as belonging to a party, much like parties in the U.S., but the candidates will still retain their own constitutions.
Differences between Direct Representation and Proportional Representation
In Proportional Representation, votes (or seats) are always held by individuals and each individual may only have one vote. In Direct Representation, both individuals and parties can hold votes (though not the same votes), and both can hold multiple votes.
Combination with other electoral formulas
Direct Representation is not limited to electing whole legislatures; it may be combined with other formulas to create the whole legislative body. For example, in a bicameral system, Direct Representation may be used to distribute the votes in one house, and another formula, for example, plurality voting by district, may be used to distribute the votes in the other. |
global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/4555 | I’m not making this up. Honest.
I’ve been ranting a lot here and elsewhere about the sorry state of ebooks from indie authors, relating to the (apparent) lack of editorial skills (paid or otherwise) applied to those ebooks. I decided to provide concrete examples from the book I’m currently trying to read. I say trying, because I want to read it, I want to enjoy it, but the appalling number of errors is really harshing on my serenity, dude.
I won’t name names or titles, or say where I got the book. I will say I’m glad I didn’t pay for it, though. If I’d parted with any money for this I’d be pretty upset. More upset than I already am. At least having paid nothing for it, I can’t bemoan the loss of money I could have spent on, I don’t know, food or gas or something useful. All I’m losing is time.
These, then, are actual errors from an actual book. I’m not making this up. Honest.
I will note that I’m only 25% of the way through the book, according to my Kindle. I took a tip from another editor and started highlighting errors as I came across them. What an eye-opener that was! I mean, I knew there were errors; I can’t not see them. Proofreading is hardwired into my brain. However, highlighting them makes them seem that much worse. Now I really can’t not see them.
Some of them I’ll explain, some I’ll let speak for themselves. By all means comment if you don’t understand why I’ve called something an error. I’ll do my best to enlighten. I will also state that I’m not quoting full sentences, but only the portions containing the error. It’s also important to know that the writer is from the UK, so some of the mechanics just drive me batty on principle and some of the word choices are unfamiliar to me.
no sights, no sound (For parallelism, I’d change that to “sounds” in this description of a setting.)
standing next to it, was M (Delete that unnecessary comma.)
lit up the lens of his glasses (Unless he’s wearing a monocle, he has lenses, plural.)
gunge (As an American English speaker, I didn’t know this word. It’s a UK term that I figured out contextually and then checked against a dictionary online. If I had been editing I might’ve queried it even after finding the definition. Therefore, this isn’t so much an error as a language issue–but I’m still pointing it out as something that can stop readers in their tracks.)
” . . . we can-.” (Oh, dear me. No. Not even in British usage. If the sentence/thought isn’t finished, there’s no period, no full stop, whatever you wish to call that dot at the end. Also, rather than a hyphen, I’d have used an em-dash to indicate the sudden breaking of the thought/speech. This particular mechanical error occurs throughout the book. I cheated and looked ahead, so I know.)
“Just one . . . at a time”. (Again, no. The period’s at the end of the spoken sentence, so it goes inside the closed quotation mark. I’ve read quite a few blogs lately about US vs. UK mechanics, and quotation marks with other punctuation is one of the most confusing things on both sides of the pond. However–no. It’s a sentence; it has a definite end; put the period inside the quote.)
alright (It’s not all right to use this. It’s all wrong. Two words. Always. All right? Thanks.)
small with a blue studs on top (It’s either a single stud, or perhaps this is a possessive missing its apostrophe and its object. I think it’s the first, and I’d delete that “s” on the end of “stud.”)
industrial sized Hoover (Adjectives made from two words–called compound adjectives–are often hyphenated. “Industrial-sized.” To a point this comes down to the editor’s preference in conjunction with a style guide, such as the CMoS. I far prefer the unambiguous hyphenation to an open version that in some cases leads to confusion or misunderstanding. That, and I like the look of the hyphenated form. So there. I suspect that in this case one might argue that “industrial-sized” is a temporary compound. I’ve not looked for the term in any dictionaries, so I can’t say. The concept is familiar to anyone who shops at places like Sam’s Club or Costco, though.)
give a once over (The idiom is hyphenated. “Once-over.”)
cotton weaved interior (I’m not entirely clear on the intent, here. I think the writer means the interior of this particular wig is woven from cotton. I’d have suggested changing it to “woven cotton interior.” On further discussion with the writer, I might have ended up with something more like “woven cotton cap,” since I believe that’s what the base of a wig is called–the part that fits the head like a cap, that is. I’m indulging in conjecture, of course.)
cheers and laughter . . . was a cacophony (I’d recast this, because while it seems a quick fix to say “were” and have the plural form for the plural subject, we’re also in that messy area of reciprocity. The sentence can’t be easily reversed using the same words (“cacophony” as the subject requires “was,” but “cheers and laughter” as the subject require “were”). I’d suggest recasting the sentence entirely to avoid the issue, and perhaps use the verb “created” instead of the form of “to be,” which is the heart of the problem.)
To the greying ice cream man, he couldn’t help but think . . (The greying fellow is the “he” following the comma. The sentence needs to be recast to eliminate the clumsiness. Perhaps “To the greying ice cream man the crowd looked like nothing so much as a cross between . . . .” Trust me, that’s where the sentence was going. I didn’t want to type the whole thing as it appears in the book, though.)
white-clothed (Again, this needs a hyphen.)
The driver slammed the breaks (No he didn’t. He slammed the brakes. A live proofreader would’ve caught this one.)
her inner thighs ran red raw from . . . (It took me a while to realize what’s needed here, I think because I was getting numb from the number of errors assaulting my editorial senses. Inserting a comma after “red” helps quite a bit, but I still would query the “running red” part. I know the condition the author’s describing, and I wouldn’t use the term “running” with it. “Were chafed and red,” perhaps. The way it’s written sounds like a hemorrhage.)
marine life getup (Another case here of needing a hyphen to create an adjectival compound. “Marine-life.”)
baggy (Pants are baggy. The plastic bag is a “baggie.”)
un-amused (Here’s one of the hyphens that was missing from the compound adjectives. It doesn’t belong in this word; “unamused” is a closed form.)
pre-occupied (Here’s another one. Delete it and close the space. “Preoccupied.”)
buy one get one free offer (Now we’re back to needing hyphens. “Buy-one-get-one-free offer.”)
collapse on to the floor (Usage problem. One could say “collapse on the floor” or “collapse to the floor,” but “collapse on to” is just poor usage.)
oxidisation (Aside from the UK s-for-z spelling issue, this just isn’t a word. The one the writer wanted was “oxidation.”)
pressed him for a minutae (sic) more (Just–no. No. One cannot have “a minutiae.” “Pressed him for more minuitae” preserves the author’s word choice and is grammatically correct. I had originally written another suggestion with a different word entirely, but I like this one much better. And I corrected the misspelling.)
spaghetti bolognaise (If you’re going to write about a food, know how to spell it. Particularly when the food is regional Italian, like “spaghetti Bolognese.” Capitalize the “B” because this is a proper adjective.)
That’s where I stopped taking notes for the time being. You’ll notice I’m not fussing about pacing, or characterization, or plot, or any of those bigger things. I’m not a story/fiction/developmental editor. I’m a copy editor and a proofreader. I see these little things that many people seem to consider “nitpicking.” They’re far from nitpicking, though. They’re signs of someone with an imperfect grasp of grammar and mechanics who would have done well to have hired someone like me–or any other professional copy editor/proofreader–to look over the work before publication. Then, readers like me wouldn’t find themselves becoming irritated and unable to enjoy the story because of the plethora of errors in the “nitpicky stuff.”
I’ll also say: I learned a new phrase from this book. “Keep schtum” means “keep quiet, particularly if you’ll get in more trouble otherwise.” While it sounds Yiddish, it apparently came from the criminal culture of the UK. It might come in handy someday, so I’ll tuck it away for later.
I would hope that this has shed some light on how a typical copy editor’s brain works while they’re reading. (I think I’m typical, anyway. I’m damned good at what I do, but I don’t think I’m all that special when compared to other professional copy editors.) That’s why I did it. Not to point at a writer and chastise his work. Not to complain for no reason. To point out the kinds of errors commonly made, to explain how I would correct them and why, and to provide an example of why writers really should drop some cash on professional editing and proofreading for their hard work. That’s all, really.
Thanks for reading.
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1. Wow, there were some pretty intense grammatical atrocities in that piece. I’ve definitely read my fair share of unedited works, and it takes a trained eye to spot many of the errors you listed. I’ll admit though, I’m on the fence about “all right” vs. “alright.”
Even though style guides may disagree, I think there’s a pretty big difference between “Eh, it was alright,” and, ” Eh, it was all right (but I certainly didn’t enjoy it).” I know language is constantly in flux, but truthfully I’d never heard that there was a real problem with “alright” until reading this blog! I think I’m going to have to read a few more opinions on the subject before I make a personal judgment call.
Great post!
2. Josh, I will now attempt to knock you off that fence. Don’t worry—it won’t hurt. It’s true that some dictionaries (mostly online dictionaries) and style guides say that “alright” is a variant spelling of “all right,” but even they are quick to note that such usage is informal at best and will still be pooh-poohed by most writers and editors. In my opinion (shared by the Chicago Manual of Style, among other sources), “alright” is not a word and should not be used in writing. The end.
As you point out, though, “alright” has taken on a new meaning of “acceptable” or “satisfactory,” so that saying a book is “alright” means that you sort of like it, whereas saying a book is “all right” means that it is completely correct. Maybe the language is indeed changing to allow “alright” as a synonym for “satisfactory,” but seeing that spelling in print still bugs me.
1. And then there’s the dialect of “a’ight.” I say it myself in jest at times, or to make a point in a light-hearted way. I swear, if I find it in a manuscript and it’s not clearly dialect? I’ll hurt someone. Badly. With a spoon, because spoons hurt more.
1. I will now admit to using the variant “arright” in a novel manuscript. It is clearly dialect, though.
3. Another reason not to trust grammar checkers in word processing programs: “cheers and laughter . . . was a cacophony “. Whatever was in the elipse probably looked like a singular noun to the grammar checker the author used. EEEESH!
1. “The cheers and laughter of so many children was a cacophony.” One could argue that “cheers and laughter” should be taken as a single entity, I suppose. I happen to disagree. Hence, my suggestion to recast the sentence entirely to eliminate the problem.
4. Alright just hold on a sec here. Why is alright a prob but not always? Is it not inconsistent? If all right then surely all ways? Phaps we need to move with the times.
It seems to me that alright is widely accepted in UK English and its the Americans who are having a problem with it. Which is funny because its usually the Americans who like to make things less laborious.
1. Shtum
Personally I prefer to spell it shtum. That ‘c’ is unnecessary and confusing. I know it as a Yiddish term in South Africa from Lithuanian immigrants. The Yiddish shtum very possibly has its roots in German. So the UK schtum may have come from Yiddish or directly from German or some other Germanic rooted language.
1. I can see why the “c” might be confusing, because so many words that start with “sch” pronounce the c (like “school”). But I put “schtum” in the same category as words like “schlep” and “schtick” — which all seem to be derived from Yiddish, and which all ignore the “c” in pronunciation.
5. JP, I can’t comment on the popularity of “alright” in the US vs. the UK, but the word isn’t really accepted yet. You’re right that times change, and maybe “alright” will soon become as standard as “always” or “altogether,” but it hasn’t happened yet.
6. What a joy to find someone who agrees with me about alright vs all right!! Always is, of course, a completely different thing… and all right should only be compared with all wrong (or all together, I suppose). I get quite tired of being shown the dictionary, when I correct alright.
And I was quite interested to discover that spoons hurt more!
As always, not only enjoyable, but helpful. Thank you, Karen.
1. Hi, Laurie!
Well, there’s “all together” meaning “as a group,” and there’s “altogether” meaning “completely” (as in “he gave up altogether”). Those spellings and meanings/usages are well established.
All right? 🙂
7. Because I know you want to fix this, I’ll point out that it’s “minutiae” (two i’s), not “minutae.” (Singular “minutia.”) Also, I don’t see why a Brit author should follow US punctuation rules rather than the ones taught in his/her schools. I wouldn’t much like going through a piece changing all my punctuation to Brit style.
8. I realize this is no excuse for bad grammar and punctuation, but most of us indie authors simply cannot afford professional editing services.
1. You’re right, it’s no excuse.
My clientele is exclusively indie authors at this point. I set my rates very low on purpose, because I know no indies are made of money.
If you can’t afford an editor, I strongly suggest using a team of beta readers, at the very least. Get some who are well grounded in English. Use the spell checker built into your word processing software. Find one online. Same with grammar checkers. They’re mostly useless, but better than nothing at all.
I am positive that if someone other than the author had read the material I drew from in this specific post, most of these errors would have been caught. Positive. It doesn’t take a PhD (or even a master’s) to see them.
There ARE resources available. Honest. There are.
9. I’m no editor and these things can yank me out of a story. If they’re bad enough, or frequent enough they cause me to stop reading a work, and in some extreme cases, the author, completely.
I’m pretty forgiving mostly, but gross errors seem just lazy to me. I say this as an indie author. Have some respect for your readers people. More than one great story has been ruined for me by what I feel is just laziness on the part of the author.
1. Hey, you! Nice seeing you here. I use a plugin to tweet a link to a post every four hours. It’s totally random, so some of them can be pretty dusty. (And yes, sadly, that’s all still true. I still see it.)
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/4615 | To Be a Machine, by Mark O’Connell
Summary: Believe it or not, transhumanism (the alteration of humans using technology in order to improve upon the human in some way), is becoming more and more mainstream. In this well-researched book, journalist Mark O’Connell records his journeys through transhumanism conferences, meetings with rich, well-connected transhumanist individuals, and a crazy bus-ride with a person who was “running for president” and wanted to make people live forever.
My thoughts: Like the author, I am skeptical that transhumanism is really a great development for mankind. It feels a little – well – wrong to change one’s body to “improve upon it.” And I don’t want to live forever. However, I think the book was very interesting and expressed some interesting arguments in favor of transhumanism. Despite the author’s skepticism, he portrayed transhumanists in a positive light, and remained impartial. The book was well-researched, and I certainly feel more educated on the subject now. I would suggest this book to people who are interested in technology waves of the future with a dash of philosophy.
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1. I tend to be very interested in these technological/Philosophical looks at the future. I also worry about this trend. I remember that Steven Pinker wrote about it in a couple of his books. In his usual optimistic way he argues that it will mostly turn out positive.
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SO - What Does the Mueller Report REALLY Say? Nothing Good for Donald Trump - Part 2: Obstruction
Updated on May 12, 2019
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Legitimate Investigation
Part 1 of the this series was about the Conspiracy (Vol 1) of the Mueller investigation report. Part 2 is regarding Volume 2 - Obstruction of Justice.
Right out of the box, in the second paragraph, Robert Mueller puts down the Republican and AG William Barr's scenario that there was some sort of illicit FBI conspiracy that started the FBI investigation into the Trump Campaign. He says:
"Papadopoulos suggested to a representative of that foreign government [Australia] that the Trump Campaign had received indications from the Russian government that it could assist the Campaign through the anonymous release of damaging information to the Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton. That information prompted the FBI on July 31, 2016, to open an investigation into whether individuals associated with the Trump Campaign were coordinating with the Russian government in its interference activities."
How much clearer can it be what the genesis of the investigation really was? Nevertheless, the Republicans continue to question the probes legitimacy in order to give Trump cover. The worst offender by far, because he is supposed to be neutral, is Attorney General William Barr. Barr is not neutral but a partisan defender of Donald Trump. Barr has read the report yet he says he is opening an investigation into how the probe started even though the DOJ Inspector General is already doing so - the question is why, doesn't he trust his IG? In Congressional testimony, Barr also said that the Trump campaign was "spied" upon, even though the intelligence community had previously said that he hadn't been. What gives? The only reasonable explanation is that it is true that William Barr is not doing his job as an impartial AG, but is firmly in the "protect Trump" camp (similar to Sen Phil Graham).
Did Donald Trump Obstruct Justice?
According to the Mueller Report - Probably. My feeling, and it is only that, is had the DOJ's Office of Legal Council not opined that "you cannot indict a sitting president", then Special Council Robert Mueller would have done just that! Let me explain why.
On May 6, 2019 over 400 former federal prosecutors signed an open letter declaring that Trump should be tried for obstruction - if he were a private citizen. In explaining why Elie Honig wrote:
"Each of us believes," the letter states, "that the conduct of President Trump described in Special Counsel Robert Mueller's report would, in the case of any other person not covered by the Office of Legal Counsel policy against indicting a sitting President, result in multiple felony charges for obstruction of justice."
And this wasn't a Democrat writing this (I don't know if Honig is a Democrat or Republican), the signatories came from both Republican and Democratic administrations. This was a broad condemnation by those who know what the law is and what they read in the Mueller report tells them that Trump probably broke the law.
One of the most condemning lines in the 400+ page report is when Mueller wrote
Yet the Mueller report remained deafening silent when it had the chance to clear Donald Trump of the obstruction charges. It really is a binary choice - either there is insufficient evidence to indict or there is sufficient evidence to indict. Clearly, Mueller thinks there is enough evidence to indict (otherwise he says he "would have so stated"). But, as pointed out elsewhere, long-standing DOJ policy prevents him from doing so for a sitting president - therefore he was forced to punt.
But even there, Mueller didn't want to let it go. He pointed out that even though he can't be indicted now, Donald Trump can be indicted after he leaves office. Why would he add that if he didn't think he had a case?
Volume II - The Case of Obstruction of Justice Against Donald Trump
Volume II, the investigation of Obstruction of Justice, begins with these two, overriding points:
• It is not permissible, according to Department of Justice's Office of Legal Council's (OLC) opinion that a sitting president may not be indicted because it would "undermine the capacity of the executive branch to perform its constitutionally assigned functions" in violation of "the constitutional separation of powers."". This opinion has never been tested in court.
• At the same time, however, the OLC "recognizes that a criminal investigation during the President's term is permissible." This has been held up in court, several times.
This leaves Robert Mueller's team on the horns of a dilemma. That is, they may investigate Donald Trump for obstruction but, if they find sufficient evidence to indict - they are not permitted to.
Mueller addressed this problem with two additional points.
• Because the team was not able to indict Trump, should the evidence warrant it, then, in fairness to Trump, they are not allowed to conclude that Trump committed a crime. They couldn't because Trump had no opportunity in court to rebut the charges and bring his own evidence. Hence, the phrase "while this report does not conclude that the President committed a crime, it also does not exonerate him."
• Why no exoneration? Because the investigation did turn up evidence of a crime. If it had not then, as Mueller points out in his fourth point
Mueller drives that point home even further when he says:
"The OLC opinion also recognizes that a President does not have immunity after he leaves office." (hint, hint)
This leaves Mueller open to undeserved criticism by those who know better, including Attorney General William Barr, that he didn't follow the mandate he was given by Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein. One can presume that Mueller was blindsided by his long-time friend Barr when Barr accused Mueller, in Congressional testimony, that Mueller failed to do his job. Barr further subverted Mueller's work by 1) finding there was not evidence of obstruction - when there clearly was - and 2) mischaracterizing Mueller's conclusions. I suspect they are no longer friends. Mueller felt so strongly about this that he wrote a letter to Barr effectively chewing him out for his subterfuge (of course Mueller said it nicer than that but his point was clear).
In all, Mueller's team found 11 instances of where Donald Trump sought to impede or obstruct the investigation into Russian interference and his Campaigns involvement in it. Let's take a look.
The following are a brief synopsis of the "key issues" Mueller's investigation into Trump's obstruction of justice looked into. This will be followed by a more detailed discussion of each.
The Campaign's response to reports about Russian support for Trump
Questions about possible Russian support for the Trump Campaign emerged during 2016. When it was reported that the Russians were responsible for the Wikileaks stolen email dumps, "Trump publicly expressed skepticism that Russia was responsible for the hacks ..." Nevertheless the Trump "... Campaign officials privately sought information about any further planned WikiLeaks releases." At this time Trump, on several public occasions, "... denied having any business in or connections to Russia ..." He said this despite the fact that, as Michael Cohen later testified, "... the Trump Organization had been pursuing a licensing deal for a skyscraper to be built in Russia ..." as late as June 2016. Later, his personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani admitted it might have been as late as Oct 2017. Trump also expressed concerns people may not think his "win" was legitimate (which, in my opinion, looks to more and more not to be the case).
Conduct involving FBI Director Comey and Michael Flynn
Incoming National Security Advisor Michael Flynn, in mid-January 2017, lied to, among others, Vice President Pence about meetings he had with Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak ... about Russia 's response to U.S. sanctions on Russia for its election interference." The "among others" includes the FBI. On January 27, "... the day after the President was told that Flynn had lied "... the President invited FBI Director Comey to a private dinner at the White House and told Comey that he needed loyalty."
On February 14, "... the President cleared the Oval Office to have a one-on-one meeting with Comey. Referring to the FBI's investigation of Flynn, the President said , "I hope you can see your way clear to letting this go, to letting Flynn go. He is a good guy . I hope you can let this go." Comey didn't. Later, Trump asked "Deputy National Security Advisor K.T. McFarland draft an internal letter stating that the President had not directed Flynn to discuss sanctions with Kislyak." Because she didn't know if that was true, she declined.
The President's reaction to the continuing Russia investigation
On March 2, 2017, Attorney General Jeff Sessions recused himself. "In early March, the President told White House Counsel Donald McGahn to stop Sessions from recusing." - that would be obstruction. Trump "...expressed anger at the decision and told advisors that he should have an Attorney General who would protect him...." Trump made several more attempts over the ensuing months to get Sessions to "unrecuse" himself. As we know, he didn't and Trump ultimately fired him.
In March, Comey told a congressional hearing, in public, that there is an FBI counter-terrorism investigation of "the Russian government's efforts to interfere in the 2016 presidential election, ..." This includes links between the Trump Campaign and the Russians, In response Trump:
• "Reached out to the Director of National Intelligence and the leaders of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and the National Security Agency (NSA) to ask them what they could do to publicly dispel the suggestion that the President had any connection to the Russian election-interference effort."
• Trump "... twice called Comey directly, notwithstanding guidance from McGahn to avoid direct contacts ... " Because Comey had assured Trump the President wasn't being personally investigated Trump asked him to publicaly "lift the cloud " of the Russia investigation. Comey wouldn't - and then -
The President's termination of Comey.
On May 3, 2017, Comey wouldn't tell Congress whether "... the President was personally under investigation." or not. Shortly thereafter, Trump fired Comey in a very unprofessional, insulting manner. In the process of preparing to fire Comey, Trump:
• "Insisted that the termination letter ..., state that Comey had informed the President that he was not under investigation."
• The day of the firing, Trump publicly told America he fired Comey from "recommendations from the Attorney General and Deputy Attorney General that Comey should be discharged for mishandling the Hillary Clinton email investigation."
• Trump later contradicted his public statement by publicly saying he "had decided to fire Comey before hearing from the Department of Justice."
• "The day after firing Comey, the President told Russian officials that he had 'faced great pressure because of Russia, ' which had been 'taken off' by Comey's firing."
• "The next day , the President acknowledged ... that he was going to fire Comey regardless of the Department of Justice's recommendation ... was thinking that 'this thing with Trump and Russia is a made-up story.' "
The appointment of a Special Counsel and efforts to remove him.
Once Special Counsel Robert Mueller had been appointed, because of the firing of FBI Director James Comey, Donald Trump began a long-term campaign to discredit and even get rid of the Special Counsel. In the process. Trrump:
• Demanded "that Sessions resign." When Sessions tried, Trump did not accept it.
• "The President told aides that the Special Counsel had conflicts of interest and suggested that the Special Counsel therefore could not serve." Even though his "advisors told him the asserted conflicts were meritless and had already been considered by the Department of Justice.". he continued his assault.
• "On June 17, 2017, the President called McGahn at home and directed him to call the Acting Attorney General and say that the Special Counsel had conflicts of interest and must be removed. McGahn did not carry out the direction , however, deciding that he would resign rather than trigger what he regarded as a potential Saturday Night Massacre"
Efforts to curtail the Special Counsel's investigation.
After McGahn, referenced above, "... the President made another attempt to affect the course of the Russia investigation." On June 19, 2017, he met with Corey Lewandowski, his former campaign manager, "... and dictated a message for Lewandowski to deliver to Sessions." "The message said that Sessions should"
• Publicly announce that ... the investigation was "very unfair" to the President,
• The President had done nothing wrong
• Sessions planned to meet with the Special Counsel and "let [him] move forward with investigating election meddling for future elections."
Lewandowski deferred from doing what Trump asked and asked a month later about it Lewandowski said it "would be delivered soon." It was at this point that Trump "publicly criticized Sessions" and "issued a series of tweets saying "Sessions's job was in jeopardy." In the end, the message was never delivered to Sessions. Lewandowski passed the job on to a "... senior White House official Rick Dearborn ..." to do the deed, but Dearborn never did.
Efforts to prevent public disclosure of evidence.
It finally came out, in the summer of 2017, that senior Campaign offices, Donald Trump Jr., Paul Manafort, and Jared Kushner met with Russians on June 9, 2016 in Trump Tower. The rational for the meeting was for the Trump Campaign to collect "dirt" on Hillary Clinton as "... part of Russia and its government's support for Mr. Trump." While the meeting did not produce the information the Trump Campaign had been hoping for, the Trump White House nevertheless tried to cover it up. "Before the emails [about the purpose of the meeting] became public, the President edited a press statement for Trump Jr. by deleting a line that acknowledged that the meeting was with "an individual who [Trump Jr.] was told might have information helpful to the campaign". The resulting memo only said "... that the meeting was about adoptions of Russian children. When the press asked questions about the President 's involvement in Trump Jr.' s statement, the President's personal lawyer repeatedly denied the President had played any role."
Further efforts to have the Attorney General take control of the investigation.
Trump made another attempt in early summer 2017 to change the course of the Mueller investigation. He "... called Sessions at home and again asked him to reverse his recusal from the Russia investigation. Sessions did not reverse his recusal." Again, in December 2017, "... the President met with Sessions in the Oval Office and suggested, ..., that if Sessions unrecused and took back supervision of the Russia investigation, he would be a '"hero." The President told Sessions, "I'm not going to do anything or direct you to do anything. I just want to be treated fairly." " Sessions did not unrecuse.
Efforts to have McGahn deny that the President had ordered him to have the Special Counsel removed.
When McGahn refused to have Mueller fired and threatened to resign if Trump pushed it, he had White House officials tell McGahn "... to dispute the story and create a record stating he had not been ordered to have the Special Counsel removed. McGahn told those officials that the media reports were accurate in stating that the President had directed McGahn to have the Special Counsel removed." Faced with that resistance "... The President then met with McGahn in the Oval Office and again pressured him to deny the reports." McGahn refused.
Conduct towards Flynn, Manafort, (Redacted but probably Stone).
"After Flynn withdrew from a joint defense agreement with the President and began cooperating with the government,..." Trump did the following:
• Left a message for "... Flynn 's attorneys reminding them of the President 's warm feelings towards Flynn, which he said "still remains," and asking for a "heads up" if Flynn knew "information that implicates the President."
• When told they couldn't do that, "... the President's personal counsel said he would make sure that the President knew that Flynn 's actions reflected "hostility" towards the President."
Conduct involving Michael Cohen.
Michael Cohen, Trump's former lawyer and fixer, once famously said that he "would take a bullet" for Trump. When Trump turned on him after the FBI raided Cohen's home's and offices and he became a cooperating witness. "In 2017, Cohen provided false testimony to Congress about ..." Trump's Moscow tower project. Cohen said he lied "... in an effort to adhere to a "party line" that Cohen said was developed to minimize the President's connections to Russia. While preparing for his congressional testimony, Cohen had extensive discussions with the President 's personal counsel, who , according to Cohen , said that Cohen should "stay on message" and not contradict the President." After the FBI raids in April 2018, "... the President publicly asserted that Michael Cohen would not "flip," contacted him directly to tell him to "stay strong," and privately passed messages of support to him." When Cohen did "flip" Trump tweeted that he was a "rat," and suggested that his family members had committed crimes."
It is with these instances of obstruction where Mueller built his case against Donald Trump.
Obstruction Without an Underlying Crime
The Mueller Report begins its detailed review of their obstruction of justice case by laying out why they can proceed with this aspect of the investigation even though they found that there was not enough evidence to convict Donald Trump, or anyone in his Campaign, of conspiracy. The following are the points that were offered:
• Some of the obstruction issues, such as firing Comey, are within a presidents Article II authority
• "At the same time , the President's position as the head of the Executive Branch, provided him with unique and powerful means of influencing official proceedings, subordinate officers , and potential witnesses - all of which is relevant to a potential obstruction-of-justice analysis."
• Normally, the purpose of obstruction of justice is to cover up a crime. In this case, Mueller was not able to establish beyond a reasonable doubt "that the President was involved in an underlying crime related to Russian election interference".
• That said, "obstruction statutes do not require proof of such a crime" and therefore "requires consideration of other possible motives for his conduct."
• One of the things Mueller's team considered to establish obstruction are Trump's public statements - "... many of the President's acts directed at witnesses, including discouragement of cooperation with the government and suggestions of possible future pardons, took place in public view." That said, Mueller states "... no principle of law excludes public acts from the reach of the obstruction laws. If the likely effect of public acts is to influence witnesses or alter their testimony, the harm to the justice system's integrity is the same."
• This is important - "Although the series of events we investigated involved discrete acts, the overall pattern of the President's conduct towards the investigations can shed light on the nature of the President 's acts and the inferences that can be drawn about his intent."
• Mueller's team chose to consider Trump's actions in two parts: 1) from "the President's first interactions with Comey through the President 's firing of Comey." and 2) and the period involving Trump's "public attacks on the investigation , non-public efforts to control it, and efforts in both public and private to encourage witnesses not to cooperate with the investigation."
• During the first part that time , "the President had been repeatedly told he was not personally under investigation." The second part began when, "after the firing of Comey and the appointment of the Special Counsel" Trump "became aware that his own conduct was being investigated in an obstruction-of-justice inquiry. "
• Trump's personal counsel raised both statutory and constitutional defenses which Mueller considered. In the first case, they found that, indeed, statutes do provide for the investigation of a president for obstruction of justice. In the second case, Mueller found, bottom line, that "Under applicable Supreme Court precedent, the Constitution does not categorically and permanently immunize a President for obstructing justice through the use of his Article II powers ." Therefore, Mueller can investigate.
• While Mueller makes clear in his commentary that he is prohibited from forming a judgement as to Trump's guilt as to whether he obstructed justice or not he does lay the ground work for others to do so, either through impeachment or prosecuted after he leaves office. He makes the following five observations to this end.
• 1 - "The evidence we obtained about the President's actions and intent presents difficult issues that would need to be resolved if we were making a traditional prosecutorial judgment."
• 2 - "At the same time, if we had confidence after a thorough investigation of the facts that the President clearly did not commit obstruction of justice, we would so state." - and they did not make such a statement.
• 3 - "Accordingly, while this report does not conclude that the President committed a crime, it also does not exonerate him."
• 4 - "The conclusion that Congress may apply the obstruction laws to the President 's corrupt exercise of the powers of office accords with our constitutional system of checks and balances and the principle that no person is above the law." - this would be the call for Congress to impeach Trump if they so determine.
• 5 - "The OLC opinion also recognizes that a President does not have immunity after he leaves office" - this would be the call for future prosecutor to go after Trump if the facts that Mueller presents warrant it.
The Evidence
This article is getting a bit long and this next section will be just as long. Consequently, please go to Part 3 to see the evidence that Mueller presents.
© 2019 Scott Belford
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19 months ago
President Trump chuckled and joked when a supporter at his Florida rally suggested shooting immigrants as a way to decrease migrant crossings at the southern U.S. border on Wednesday night.
Ranting about the recent influx of asylum-seeking migrants before a crowd in Panama City, the president complained about how “crazy” it is that those seeking asylum in the U.S. get to see judges before claiming there are only “two or three border security people who are brave” that are forced to deal with “15,000 people marching up.”
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“Don’t forget, we don’t let them and we can’t let them use weapons,” Trump continued. “We can’t. Other countries do. We can’t. I would never do that.”
Asking how to “stop these people,” a rallygoer close to the stage shouted: “Shoot ’em!”
The crowd erupted in laughter as the president grinned and shook his head. Without condemning or condoning the suggestion, Trump attempted to brush it off with a joke.
“That’s only in the Panhandle you can get away with that statement, folks,” he exclaimed. “Only in the Panhandle!”
While the president hasn’t endorsed using gunfire to deter migrants from approaching the border, he did tell Fox News’ Sean Hannity in March that it could be a “very effective” method.
“Now we are capturing these people,” Trump said. “We are getting them but we don’t do it like other countries. Other countries stand there with machine guns, ready to fire.”
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He added: “We can’t do that. I wouldn’t want to do that, OK? It’s a very effective way of doing it, but I wouldn’t want to do it. We can’t do it.”
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Scott Belford
19 months ago from Keystone Heights, FL
Thank you Doris and your comment is so true. The best is yet to come as I get down to Mueller's analysis.
I say this in an article a little bit ago.
"With almost every day that passes, Trump is providing a glimpse of how American government might look under a President who disdains the principles and pillars on which it is built."
I guess there had to be a point in history when America has to come to terms with being a dictatorship under Trump and the conservatives or a representative democracy split between patriot Republicans like Sen Burr, Independents, and Democrats. It comes down to the courts now and the voters in 1.5 years.
• bradmasterOCcal profile image
19 months ago
The Russians sued Special Counsel and Democrat “fixer” Robert Mueller. And that poses a major problem for him.
Because unlike low-level Trump associates, the Russians aren’t intimidated by Mueller. They aren’t worried about an FBI raid of any law offices, or having 29 G-men wake them up at 2 am with SWAT vehicles shining lights on their residences.
With Mueller having no leverage against the Russians, he has only one defense: the Russians hacked me.
• bradmasterOCcal profile image
19 months ago
I read the report and did an 8,000 word article on it. I responded to his own accusations, and you won't argue any of his points.
The investigation exonerated any crime from the original investigation. All the is left is obstruction that can't be proved and obstruction that never happened, and claims of obstruction for an investigation that should have never be created because it wasn't based on facts, and Mueller couldn't find any.
The report doesn't speak for itself, as it is not an indictment, in fact it isn't even evidence for an indictment.
And if Mueller's report does your thinking, then you are just a reporter.
You don't have any independent thought.
You are just an Anti Trumper, Anti American that just repeats the democrat crap line.
You are dreaming, there is no comparison between the Comey investigation of Hillary and the 5 investigations of Trump, including the Mueller report.
Actually, Comey twice obstructed justice with the Hillary investigation.
The statutue 793 f doesn't require intent, it only requires negligence.
And Hillary did her crime when she was Secretary of State.
You and Scott are married to anti Trumping, and loving Hillary how pathetic.
Scott your part L comment was thank you, nothing else.
del if u wish, but that won't change the truth.
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Doris James MizBejabbers
19 months ago from Beautiful South
You've written an accurate summary of the events covered by the Mueller Report. Frankly, I was glad to see Comey get his comeuppance because if he'd left well enough alone, Hillary probably would have been president today, and this country wouldn't be going through this mess. Of course, the Republicans wouldn't have left her alone, so there would have been some other disturbance that she would have had to fight. I'm not sure that we will ever again have a peaceful presidency in this country. A job well-done, Scott.
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Scott Belford
19 months ago from Keystone Heights, FL
As I think I said then, Brad, I will say now, read the report - it tells you everything you need to answer your questions. But thank you for your comment.
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19 months ago
Part 1 was a big hit, and now that you did part 2, you might comment on what I wrote for part 1 before I comment on part 2.
Where was the tie in to the Russians? What were the Russians doing and this was hearsay on the part of a coincidentally encounter between the two.
And then what happened? fast forward to the results of the Mueller report? No ties from the Trump campaign and no influence in the election."
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ICD-10-CM Code H60.593
Other noninfective acute otitis externa, bilateral
Billable Code
| ICD-10 from 2011 - 2016
H60.593 is a billable ICD code used to specify a diagnosis of other noninfective acute otitis externa, bilateral. A 'billable code' is detailed enough to be used to specify a medical diagnosis.
The ICD code H60 is used to code Otitis externa
Otitis externa (also known as external otitis and swimmer's ear) is an inflammation of the outer ear and ear canal. Along with otitis media, external otitis is one of the two human conditions commonly called "earache". It also occurs in many other species. Inflammation of the skin of the ear canal is the essence of this disorder. The inflammation can be secondary to dermatitis (eczema) only, with no microbial infection, or it can be caused by active bacterial or fungal infection. In either case, but more often with infection, the ear canal skin swells and may become painful or tender to touch.
Specialty: Otorhinolaryngology
MeSH Codes: D010032, D010032, D010032, D010032, D010032
ICD 9 Codes: 537.1, 547.3, 112.82, 380.1, 380.2
A severe case of acute otitis externa. Note the narrowing of the external auditory channel, the prominent amounts of exudate and swelling of the auricle.
Source: Wikipedia
MS-DRG Mapping
• DRG Group #154-156 - Other ear, nose, mouth and throat diagnoses with MCC.
• DRG Group #154-156 - Other ear, nose, mouth and throat diagnoses with CC.
• DRG Group #154-156 - Other ear, nose, mouth and throat diagnoses without CC or MCC.
Other acute otitis externa (approximate match)
This is the official approximate match mapping between ICD9 and ICD10, as provided by the General Equivalency mapping crosswalk. This means that while there is no exact mapping between this ICD10 code H60.593 and a single ICD9 code, 380.22 is an approximate match for comparison and conversion purposes.
Parent Code: H60.59 - Other noninfective acute otitis externa
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/4640 | Mission Statement
The Idaho Foundation for Parks and Lands is a statewide public benefit privately-funded organization whose mission is to preserve and protect open space lands and unique natural, scenic settings for public benefit through various flexible conservation methods.
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Assist in setting aside quality lands for future generations including acquisition and management of Idaho properties for public use and/or wildlife benefit. |
global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/4646 | Softmax function instead of Sigmoid in binary classification
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Hi. I am new to data science and image processing. I want to create CNN model with Keras for binary image classification.
I know that Sigmoid function is widely used in binary classification problems due to its output range (0 .. 1). But can I use the sigmoid function as final activation function instead?
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Hi @Max16Neil
For binary classification, it should give almost the same results, because softmax is a generalization of sigmoid for a larger number of classes. One difference may be in computation time, if you have a really large dataset. In this case, I would suggest you to use the old Sigmoid function.
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Thanks, got it. Actually, I have tried several different activation functions for the output layer of my neural network. This gave an understanding of why we should use sigmoid or softmax for classification functions instead of, for example, ReLu. ReLu is very good for hidden layers of neurons, but it cannot be used for the output layer in classification. Also, I was struggling with the problem of single class prediction when using softmax. I was really disappointed by the fact that my neural network always predicts the same class, disregarding the input. Eventually, I have figured out that I need to have 2 output neurons when using softmax in binary classification. And in general, one neuron for each class should be defined for multiclass classification with softmax. But I really detected that for binary classification it is better to use the sigmoid function as the final activation in many cases. Probably, my thought here will help someone who has similar tasks and issues.
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/4663 | Job Demands Analysis (JDA)
A JDA is a quantitative, objective summary of the physical and cognitive demands of a job. This may also be termed a Physical Demands Analysis (PDA) if only the physical component is quantified. It can be used for:
• Job Match - Cross referencing the requirements of a job relative to a worker’s limitations
• Inclusion with Job Postings
• Providing Health Care Providers (e.g. physiotherapists, physicians) with an overview of a job so that they can tailor their treatment plans accordingly
• Determining modified work tasks for a worker with physical limitations (i.e. returning to work following a work or non-work related injury)
• Submitting to the Workplace Safety & Insurance Board (WSIB) to assist with claim adjudication or return to work planning
• Submission to 3rd party insurance providers to assist with developing return to work plans following Long Term Disability
• The basis of an ergonomic analysis of the risks for injury
JDAs typically require a half day on site to interview worker(s), observe, measure and photograph the essential duties of the job and another half day to create the report. |
global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/4667 | currently reading
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Currently Reading: 『手紙』by Keigo HIGASHINO
I will stick to my resolution to always be reading a book by Keigo HIGASHINO. I found that reading several books at the same time in Japanese is the best way to avoid loss of interest or discouragement.
『手紙』, 東野圭吾, 文春文庫
I am so sure that I will love any book by Higashino that I just pick them randomly and never read the summary on the back cover. But I am surprised by『手紙』. It is hard to tell where the story will lead us, and I suspect the book to be more a social portrait than a crime novel. I already noticed that Higashino gives a social dimension to some of his books, and I would not be surprised if 『手紙』fell in this category.
The book is divided into 6 chapters, and I have only read the first one. To me, this book is like a focus on what is usually dismissed in crime stories: the daily life and hardship of the persons involved. Usually, a novel would concentrate on the plot, the investigation, and while it lets us glimpse at the suffering of the actors involved, especially the ones surrounding the victims, it rarely bothers to show us how, say, the brother of the murderer adjusts to his new condition and goes on with this life.
I think that this is what 『手紙』will do, though the novel might still change direction. In any case, it is a little different from what I expected, but I enjoy reading it all the more.
• It depends on the book, but yes of course! I don’t struggle too much with unknown kanji in Higashino’s novels for example, that’s why I love reading them. But of course, there are novels that are full of unknown kanji and that I find very difficult to read, or sometimes even give up.
This being said, there are a lot of kanji that are not “unknown kanji” but still not “known kanji”. Typically, I cannot pronounce them but either I know exactly what they mean, or I have at least an idea of their meaning. This plus the context allow me to understand enough to keep going without the help of a dictionary.
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/4680 | Summer Characteristics
by Class / Level, Gender, Ethnicity, Age, Registration Status, Matriculation Status, Residency
This interactive report contains descriptive profile information about undergraduate students enrolled by class (freshman, sophomore, junior, senior) and graduate students by degree level. Users can choose to view characteristics such as age, ethnic origin, gender, matriculation status, and residence status. |
global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/4706 | TY - JOUR T1 - Mitochondrial NCKX5 regulates melanosomal biogenesis and pigment production JF - Journal of Cell Science JO - J. Cell Sci. DO - 10.1242/jcs.232009 VL - 132 IS - 14 SP - jcs232009 AU - Zhang, Zhao AU - Gong, Juanjuan AU - Sviderskaya, Elena V. AU - Wei, Aihua AU - Li, Wei Y1 - 2019/07/15 UR - http://jcs.biologists.org/content/132/14/jcs232009.abstract N2 - Oculocutaneous albinism (OCA) is a heterogeneous and autosomal recessive hypopigmentation disorder, which is caused by mutations of genes involved in pigment biosynthesis or melanosome biogenesis. We have previously identified NCKX5 (also known as SLC24A5) as a causative gene for OCA type 6 (OCA6). However, the pathogenesis of OCA6 is unknown. We found that NCKX5 is localized to mitochondria, not to melanosomes. Pharmacological inhibition of mitochondrial function or NCKX exchanger activity reduced pigment production. Loss of NCKX5 attenuated Ca2+ enrichment in melanosomes, which compromised PMEL fibril formation, melanosome maturation and pigment production. Thus, we have defined a new class of hypopigmentation attributable to dysfunctional mitochondria and an impairment of mitochondrial Ca2+ transfer into melanosomes. Thus, it is possible that mitochondrial function could have a role in the graying of hair in older people and formation of hypopigmented lesions in vitiligo patients. ER - |
global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/4718 | During a trip to Israel to meet with former JGH fellows in head and neck surgical oncology, Dr. Alex Mlynarek (left), Dr. Michael Hier (second from left) and Dr. Richard Payne (centre) of the JGH visited the Western Wall in Jerusalem with Dr. Limor Muallem-Kalmovitch, a former fellow, and her husband, Dr. Boaz Kalmovitch, a trauma surgeon.
December 2017Feature articles
Three JGH doctors reunite with former fellows in Israel
The Chief of the Department of Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery and two of his JGH colleagues have visited Israel to see how much their former fellows have accomplished. |
global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/4729 | Some California poetry- I want to see you again
I want to see you again.
A Poem by Coyote Poetry
Good days become sweet dreams with time.
I want to see you again.
The powerful Pacific ocean hide the love stories of fearless lovers.
I wandered the beaches of Monterey.
I looked at faces. Chasing ghosts of old lovers and sweet kisses.
Longing for the embrace of sweet lovers lost in time.
I sit with my sweet red wine. I wander to better days and beautiful faces.
I remember my beautiful Beatrice. She loved the sea.
We would hold each other tightly.
Listening to the music of the waves and the breeze.
The empty beach was our paradise.
We needed some wine and a blanket to protect us from the cold night.
I remember my beautiful Beatrice dancing alone with the ghost of unknown past.
She would bring me up and we would dance like free Gypsies with no fear of tomorrow or yesterday.
Beatrice told me. “Life isn’t a guarantee my love, so my friend. Drink the wine and lift the bottle of tequila.
Drink to the new day. Drink to life and chance. Let death wait awhile for us.”
I want to see you again. Sweet Beatrice.
You set a fire of hope in my mind and heart and I wish to dance under a full moon with you in my arms.
Drink some good wine and strong tequila.
Allow the ocean to keep us safe from the unclean world.
The moon is full tonight.
Many people watching the stars and the waves.
Waiting for no-one.
I looked to the sky.
I prayed my Beatrice is alive and well.
Touched her dreams and goals.
I would like to thank her.
Thank her for showing me love and kindness is the way.
Best day are free.
Sit by the sea with lovers and family.
Life is to be lived and enjoyed. |
global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/4731 | Write me: [email protected]
Man in the Mirror
Man in the Mirror
I spent much of my life avoiding mirrors. Those that I looked into, I only did so briefly, maybe to check my hair, see what I was wearing, or how I presented. But I never saw me.
I have spent the better part of 6 decades seeing the reflection of the person I believed others saw when they looked at me. I have no idea if it was what they saw, but regardless I was filled with fear that they were repulsed. And in that I found ways to look back with a cruel and judgmental stare. It felt like a game of image tennis, as I could walk down a road and see people look my way and create stories of what MUST be going through their minds about me, and in turn I would serve back critical ignorance.
Even if someone smiled I wondered why, felt there must be a reason beyond goodness or attraction as I found ways to move away from connection and hide in fear and inanity.
As I have awakened and started seeing those around me change, the hard judgmental faces I used to see are being replaced with kindness and empathy, and even in my own reflection I see more of who I am.
The lines around my eyes, or wrinkles near my mouth are no longer signs to me that I am breaking down or less than I should be, they are part of my history each drawn through an event I didn’t just survive but conquered. I see my life now not in my face, because I can see beyond the skin. I have spent more time looking into my own eyes and searching for what’s behind the stare.
Mark Twain once wrote “The two most important days in your life are the day you are born, and the day you find out why.”
Maybe that’s it, that as I see beyond just how I think I should appear to be and instead at the man I am and becoming, I am discovering why.
Namaste my Friends
I hope you have found your why too |
global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/4734 | Test the Grasp Reflex
Grasp REflex (6)
Babies are born with several reflexes, such as the rooting reflex (turning to follow with an open mouth if the side of the mouth is touched) and the Moro reflex (that particular, funny way in which babies startle).
But perhaps the cutest is the grasp reflex. Your little one’s tiny hand is remarkably strong, and if you stroke the palm, those mini fingers will grasp tightly.
Grasp Reflex (3)
Test your baby’s reflex at a quiet moment by placing your pointer finger in his or her palm. Almost certainly the little hand will clench shut. Snap a pic if you can, and encourage siblings to test out how strong the newest member of the family is, too! Not only are you creating a sweet memento, but you’re double-checking your baby’s healthy reflexes in the process.
Grasp Reflex (1)
Print out the photos and place in a small frame. These would be lovely to display somewhere in the nursery… Or tuck them into your newly created Memory Box!
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Change Status – Confirmation Items
Datafile 2019 and above, Diamond and Premier only
When manually change a order status the system can be configured to prompt for a comment as to the reason for the status change.
This new feature allows you to define up to five items for confirmation when the order status is changed and to tie these into a change from/to selected status codes. For example, when changing a Q-Quote to A-Active you may want to prompt for the reasons why you won the quote or to prompt for items such as customer order references, when changing from Q-Quote to L-Lost you may prompt for reasons as to why you lost the quote.
Application User Facilities
Application User Facilities
To define the confirmation items, select Installation from the main menu followed by Application Manager and then Application User Facilities. Select the appropriate Order Processing application before selecting Enter/Amend Orders, Advanced Input Facilities and Optional Features. The new status confirmation items are available on screen 6.
You can define up to ten status change rules with a corresponding five confirmation items.
From Status – select the original status code for which this rule is to be applied. You can leave this item blank if required (though a ‘To’ status must then be set).
To Status – select the new status for which this rule is to be applied. Again, you can leave this item blank but a ‘From’ status must be applicable.
Item – select the Order Header data item to be prompted for.
Mandatory – select whether the item requires input or can be left blank/zero
Status Rule Changes are checked in order but only one rule is applied to any one change. For example, in the example above the system is set to prompt for the reason why a Quote was lost when changing from Q->L but for a change from Q to any letter the system will prompt for the Customer Reference – when changing from Q->L only the lost reason will be prompted.
Note that User-defined status codes are treated as per the defined letter and not the ‘behaves as’ code and that the items are only prompted for code changes via the Change Status functions and not for options such as A->C when a delivery/invoice is processed.
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Again: 2002-Jul-06
Again: 2005-Sep-19
The USB subsystem now has a substantial section in "The Linux Kernel API"
guide (in Documentation/DocBook), generated from the current source
code. This particular documentation file isn't particularly current or
complete; don't rely on it except for a quick overview.
1.1. Basic concept or 'What is an URB?'
The basic idea of the new driver is message passing, the message itself is
called USB Request Block, or URB for short.
- An URB consists of all relevant information to execute any USB transaction
and deliver the data and status back.
- Execution of an URB is inherently an asynchronous operation, i.e. the
usb_submit_urb(urb) call returns immediately after it has successfully
queued the requested action.
- Transfers for one URB can be canceled with usb_unlink_urb(urb) at any time.
- Each URB has a completion handler, which is called after the action
has been successfully completed or canceled. The URB also contains a
context-pointer for passing information to the completion handler.
- Each endpoint for a device logically supports a queue of requests.
You can fill that queue, so that the USB hardware can still transfer
data to an endpoint while your driver handles completion of another.
This maximizes use of USB bandwidth, and supports seamless streaming
of data to (or from) devices when using periodic transfer modes.
1.2. The URB structure
Some of the fields in an URB are:
struct urb
// (IN) device and pipe specify the endpoint queue
struct usb_device *dev; // pointer to associated USB device
unsigned int pipe; // endpoint information
unsigned int transfer_flags; // ISO_ASAP, SHORT_NOT_OK, etc.
// (IN) all urbs need completion routines
void *context; // context for completion routine
void (*complete)(struct urb *); // pointer to completion routine
// (OUT) status after each completion
int status; // returned status
// (IN) buffer used for data transfers
void *transfer_buffer; // associated data buffer
int transfer_buffer_length; // data buffer length
int number_of_packets; // size of iso_frame_desc
// (OUT) sometimes only part of CTRL/BULK/INTR transfer_buffer is used
int actual_length; // actual data buffer length
// (IN) setup stage for CTRL (pass a struct usb_ctrlrequest)
unsigned char* setup_packet; // setup packet (control only)
// Only for PERIODIC transfers (ISO, INTERRUPT)
// (IN/OUT) start_frame is set unless ISO_ASAP isn't set
int start_frame; // start frame
int interval; // polling interval
// ISO only: packets are only "best effort"; each can have errors
int error_count; // number of errors
struct usb_iso_packet_descriptor iso_frame_desc[0];
Your driver must create the "pipe" value using values from the appropriate
endpoint descriptor in an interface that it's claimed.
1.3. How to get an URB?
URBs are allocated with the following call
struct urb *usb_alloc_urb(int isoframes, int mem_flags)
Return value is a pointer to the allocated URB, 0 if allocation failed.
The parameter isoframes specifies the number of isochronous transfer frames
you want to schedule. For CTRL/BULK/INT, use 0. The mem_flags parameter
holds standard memory allocation flags, letting you control (among other
things) whether the underlying code may block or not.
To free an URB, use
void usb_free_urb(struct urb *urb)
You may free an urb that you've submitted, but which hasn't yet been
returned to you in a completion callback. It will automatically be
deallocated when it is no longer in use.
1.4. What has to be filled in?
Depending on the type of transaction, there are some inline functions
defined in <linux/usb.h> to simplify the initialization, such as
fill_control_urb() and fill_bulk_urb(). In general, they need the usb
device pointer, the pipe (usual format from usb.h), the transfer buffer,
the desired transfer length, the completion handler, and its context.
Take a look at the some existing drivers to see how they're used.
For ISO there are two startup behaviors: Specified start_frame or ASAP.
For ASAP set URB_ISO_ASAP in transfer_flags.
If short packets should NOT be tolerated, set URB_SHORT_NOT_OK in
1.5. How to submit an URB?
Just call
int usb_submit_urb(struct urb *urb, int mem_flags)
The mem_flags parameter, such as SLAB_ATOMIC, controls memory allocation,
such as whether the lower levels may block when memory is tight.
It immediately returns, either with status 0 (request queued) or some
error code, usually caused by the following:
- Out of memory (-ENOMEM)
- Unplugged device (-ENODEV)
- Stalled endpoint (-EPIPE)
- Too many queued ISO transfers (-EAGAIN)
- Too many requested ISO frames (-EFBIG)
- Invalid INT interval (-EINVAL)
- More than one packet for INT (-EINVAL)
After submission, urb->status is -EINPROGRESS; however, you should never
look at that value except in your completion callback.
For isochronous endpoints, your completion handlers should (re)submit
URBs to the same endpoint with the ISO_ASAP flag, using multi-buffering,
to get seamless ISO streaming.
1.6. How to cancel an already running URB?
There are two ways to cancel an URB you've submitted but which hasn't
been returned to your driver yet. For an asynchronous cancel, call
int usb_unlink_urb(struct urb *urb)
It removes the urb from the internal list and frees all allocated
HW descriptors. The status is changed to reflect unlinking. Note
that the URB will not normally have finished when usb_unlink_urb()
returns; you must still wait for the completion handler to be called.
To cancel an URB synchronously, call
void usb_kill_urb(struct urb *urb)
It does everything usb_unlink_urb does, and in addition it waits
until after the URB has been returned and the completion handler
has finished. It also marks the URB as temporarily unusable, so
that if the completion handler or anyone else tries to resubmit it
they will get a -EPERM error. Thus you can be sure that when
usb_kill_urb() returns, the URB is totally idle.
There is a lifetime issue to consider. An URB may complete at any
time, and the completion handler may free the URB. If this happens
while usb_unlink_urb or usb_kill_urb is running, it will cause a
memory-access violation. The driver is responsible for avoiding this,
which often means some sort of lock will be needed to prevent the URB
from being deallocated while it is still in use.
On the other hand, since usb_unlink_urb may end up calling the
completion handler, the handler must not take any lock that is held
when usb_unlink_urb is invoked. The general solution to this problem
is to increment the URB's reference count while holding the lock, then
drop the lock and call usb_unlink_urb or usb_kill_urb, and then
decrement the URB's reference count. You increment the reference
count by calling
struct urb *usb_get_urb(struct urb *urb)
(ignore the return value; it is the same as the argument) and
decrement the reference count by calling usb_free_urb. Of course,
none of this is necessary if there's no danger of the URB being freed
by the completion handler.
1.7. What about the completion handler?
The handler is of the following type:
typedef void (*usb_complete_t)(struct urb *)
I.e., it gets the URB that caused the completion call. In the completion
handler, you should have a look at urb->status to detect any USB errors.
Since the context parameter is included in the URB, you can pass
information to the completion handler.
Note that even when an error (or unlink) is reported, data may have been
transferred. That's because USB transfers are packetized; it might take
sixteen packets to transfer your 1KByte buffer, and ten of them might
have transferred successfully before the completion was called.
NOTE: ***** WARNING *****
NEVER SLEEP IN A COMPLETION HANDLER. These are often called in atomic
In the current kernel, completion handlers run with local interrupts
disabled, but in the future this will be changed, so don't assume that
local IRQs are always disabled inside completion handlers.
1.8. How to do isochronous (ISO) transfers?
For ISO transfers you have to fill a usb_iso_packet_descriptor structure,
allocated at the end of the URB by usb_alloc_urb(n,mem_flags), for each
packet you want to schedule. You also have to set urb->interval to say
how often to make transfers; it's often one per frame (which is once
every microframe for highspeed devices). The actual interval used will
be a power of two that's no bigger than what you specify.
The usb_submit_urb() call modifies urb->interval to the implemented interval
value that is less than or equal to the requested interval value. If
ISO_ASAP scheduling is used, urb->start_frame is also updated.
For each entry you have to specify the data offset for this frame (base is
transfer_buffer), and the length you want to write/expect to read.
After completion, actual_length contains the actual transferred length and
status contains the resulting status for the ISO transfer for this frame.
It is allowed to specify a varying length from frame to frame (e.g. for
audio synchronisation/adaptive transfer rates). You can also use the length
0 to omit one or more frames (striping).
For scheduling you can choose your own start frame or ISO_ASAP. As explained
earlier, if you always keep at least one URB queued and your completion
keeps (re)submitting a later URB, you'll get smooth ISO streaming (if usb
bandwidth utilization allows).
If you specify your own start frame, make sure it's several frames in advance
of the current frame. You might want this model if you're synchronizing
ISO data with some other event stream.
1.9. How to start interrupt (INT) transfers?
Interrupt transfers, like isochronous transfers, are periodic, and happen
in intervals that are powers of two (1, 2, 4 etc) units. Units are frames
for full and low speed devices, and microframes for high speed ones.
In Linux 2.6, unlike earlier versions, interrupt URBs are not automagically
restarted when they complete. They end when the completion handler is
called, just like other URBs. If you want an interrupt URB to be restarted,
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/4761 | Draining Earth’s oceans, revealing the two-thirds of Earth’s surface we don’t get to see
Three fifths of the Earth’s surface is under the ocean, and the ocean floor is as rich in detail as the land surface with which we are familiar. This animation simulates a drop in sea level that gradually reveals this detail. As the sea level drops, the continental shelves appear immediately. They are mostly visible by a depth of 140 meters, except for the Arctic and Antarctic regions, where the shelves are deeper. The mid-ocean ridges start to appear at a depth of 2000 to 3000 meters. By 6000 meters, most of the ocean is drained except for the deep ocean trenches, the deepest of which is the Marianas Trench at a depth of 10,911 meters.
Credit for files used:
Lead animator: Horace Mitchell (NASA)
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/4776 | The Webby Awards announced their Nominees and Honorees today. I got a chance to go through their Nominees list. I’ve already posted about some of them, and I did discover a couple of new sites that would be accessible and helpful to English Language Learners.
They are:
Math Moves U, a pretty cool looking series of interactive math activities that would be accessible to Intermediate English Language Learners.
Electrocity, where players can create their own cities and see the environmental consequences of their design decisions.
Later today I’ll try to get a chance to look through the longer list of Honorees. |
global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/4802 | When the BBC Attacks (And When They Won’t…)
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It seems that almost every day we hear some comment or action that insulted or offended someone that has been either dealt with using the criminal code (as in most of Europe) or within an increasingly intolerant court of public opinion, as in North America. It seems also that every day the old media go through hoops deciding what not to cover; which outrage (that they want us to believe) is worthy of our contempt, and which outrage (that they would rather we not know about) is only fit to bury.
As sharia codes continue to descend upon England, as an all-eoncpmassing and completely submissive life-system (as 1,400 years of scholars profess it to be), I grin sideways at the blatant attempt to ignore its progression. As of this writing the BBC have duly ignored the attached story for what can almost be called a modern cliché: “imagine if it was reversed?”
The positive I can take from this is that the story [see here] has been shared in some format nearly 22,000 times on the Mirror website. The positive is that people have figured out that they are not getting the full truth when it comes to sharia and what it really means. Well – being turned away from a multiplex because you are not the right religion – that’s just a little slice of sharia for the folks in Birmingham to savour. And despite the best efforts of some media outlets to avoid and hide this abject act of racism, bigotry and prejudice, it seems that an awful lot of people already know the truth in any case.
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/4811 | This is how the world is supposed to work: When you say something false, and you are corrected on it, you recognize that you have to conform to the facts, not the other way around. If you really screwed up, (even if it was done without malice), you apologize, and you work to correct yourself. Anderson Cooper did what was right, and I appreciate it. If more journalists would follow his example, I’d be more impressed with what passes for news in this country.
The inimitable Fred Clark has a post up on the opposite behavior, and then explores how a conservative Christian goes about defending blatant liars. Because of issues like this, another glaring inconsistency in conservative Christian rhetoric has become increasingly clear to me: extremely conservative Christians are the real post-modernists.
(Digression: I am using post-modernist to refer to a specific genre of thought that responded to the modernist critiques of modernity by concluding that we can’t know anything for sure, it’s all relative, etc etc etc. Think of the Sokal hoax. I think that most of the academic disciplines have made great strides since the 1950s in responding to the post-modernists and re-understanding themselves and the world with much more nuanced epistemology and ontology at their core.)
Extremely conservative Christians (ECCs, for short – I don’t care if they call themselves fundamentalist, evangelical, or plaid, they’re a discernible subset) insist on young earth creationism and insist that it is really, literally, true. They also tend to like to wave their arms and shout until they’re red in the face about how evil, evil liberal learning and science are teaching our children that everything is relative, there is no basis for morality or ethics, we can’t know anything for sure. ECCs claim that the rejection of young earth creationism leads directly to what they call “post-modernism,” and which they claim is responsible for most of the behavior they don’t like – abortion, homosexuality, etc. ECCs insist that they are defending Reality and Truth from those who would willfully deny the facts.
In the ’80s, I saw a lot of these ECCs who were very wrapped up in Ken Ham’s kind of pseudoscience, and some of them were perfectly convinced that non-ECC science was a giant evil conspiracy pushing this silly “relativism” stuff as facts. But today, I see more and more ECCs who know – they demonstrably know – that science and young earth creationism cannot coexist. Some of them have stopped trying to hijack scientific methods and are blatantly stating that for them, the Bible trumps the facts.
These people are the real post-modernists. They claim that your worldview creates your reality, to such an extent that nothing science proves is relevant or applicable to them. Their original description of post-modernism was a straw man, because even the publishers in the Sokal affair had to be embarrassed. But now the ECCs have mutated into that straw man – they insist that physics can’t disprove them, and that deep down, physics can’t “know” anything.
They are the real post-modernists. And that, to me, explains a lot of why they are despairing and desperate. They know, deep down, that when you fight reality, in the long run, you lose. |
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Title: The Best Recipe: By the editors of Cook's Illustrated
Publisher: Boston Common Press
Published: 1999
Price: U.S. $29.95, Canada $39.95
I spent two months drooling over the book on various shelves...it features a cool, blue background, with a perfect looking flan in the foreground.
The name of the book sounds rather terribly self-indulgent, but they take great pains to explain what they mean.
Apparently whenever the folks at Cook's Illustrated want to cook something, they first lay out what the defining characteristics of that dish are.
Brownies? Thick, fudgey, gooey chocolate that's not quite cake, not quite fudge, all delicious. But what could we improve?
And that's always the question. What could be improved about any given dish...flan, brownies, chicken and dumplings, steak, etc.
Each recipe in the book is prefaced with a page or two explaining the process they went through to arrive at their solution, things they tried, what worked, what didn't, and often why. Not only do they test things out in the kitchen, but they consult culinary chemists on why foods react under certain conditions...
In other words, these folks are like engineers of cooking. If they say it's the Best, it's only because it's the best thing they could come up as a group after a battery of tests and try-outs. So perhaps the title should have been The Best We Could Find...
This is what they have to say on the subject:
• "One might comment that any cookbook titled The Best Recipe has a great deal to prove. On the face of it, the notion that any one cookbook has the "best" recipes seems far-fetched, even outrageous. Yet, in choosing this title, our intent was to convey the process by which the editors of Cook's Illustrated magazine develop recipes. We start with a stated goal - the "best" meatloaf or the "best" chocolate pudding - and then proceed to a blind taste test in which a half-dozen or so recipes are sampled from various cookbooks. We then set out what, for us, is the ideal version of the recipe under consideration and proceed to develop it through a long, arduous process of testing and research. This does not mean that reasonable folks can't disagree on what defines the ideal chocolate chip cookie or the perfect roast chicken or that we always achieve our goals. Yet this group process does rule out methods that are less successful and recipes that are less than foolproof. In fact, this process has led us to the conclusion that much of cooking is indeed objective. One can say something definitive about roasting temperatures for different cuts of meat; one can clearly taste the difference between butter and vegetable shortening in cakes and cookies. These discoveries are the foundation of good cooking, on which one can layer elements of personal taste."
• So far, every recipe I've made from the book has been delicious. Often different from what I'm used to, such as in the case of the banana bread, but still well worth doing. A further warning: This is not a book for people looking for health food...it's a full cook book, making rich stuff, and is only for those who want to muck about with the type of thing that will have you washing all of your heavy pots a couple of times...in other words, fun.
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/4844 | If Latin America Had Been a British Enterprise
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Si América Latina hubiese sido una empresa inglesa (Spanish)
If Latin America Had Been a British Enterprise
Jorge Majfud
In the process of conducting a recent study at the University of Georgia, a female student interviewed a young Colombian woman and tape recorded the interview. The young woman commented on her experience in England and how the British were interested in knowing the reality of Colombia. After she detailed the problems that her country had, one Englishman observed the paradox that England, despite being smaller and possessing fewer natural resources, was much wealthier than Colombia. His conclusion was cutting: “If England had managed Colombia like a business, Colombians today would be much richer.”
The Colombian youth admitted her irritation, because the comment was intended to point out just how incapable we are in Latin America. The lucid maturity of the young Colombian woman was evident in the course of the interview, but in that moment she could not find the words to respond to the son of the old empire. The heat of the moment, the audacity of those British kept her from remembering that in many respects Latin America had indeed been managed like a British enterprise and that, therefore, the idea was not only far from original but, also, was part of the reason that Latin America was so poor – with the caveat that poverty is a scarcity of capital and not of historical consciousness.
Agreed: three hundred years of monopolistic, retrograde and frequently cruel colonization has weighed heavily upon the Latin American continent, and consolidated in the spirit of our nations an oppositional psychology with respect to social and political legitimation (Alberto Montaner called that cultural trait “the suspicious original legitimacy of power”). Following the Semi-independences of the 19th century, the “progress” of the British railroad system was not only a kind of gilded cage – in the words of Eduardo Galeano -, a strait-jacket for native Latin American development, but we can see something similar in Africa: in Mozambique, for example, a country that extends North-to-South, the roads cut across it from East-to-West. The British Empire was thus able to extract the wealth of its central colonies by passing through the Portuguese colony. In Latin America we can still see the networks of asphalt and steel flowing together toward the ports – old bastions of the Spanish colonies that native rebels contemplated with infinite rancor from the heights of the savage sierras, and which the large land owners saw as the maximum progress possible for countries that were backward by “nature.”
Obviously, these observations do not exempt us, the Latin Americans, from assuming our own responsibilities. We are conditioned by an economic infrastructure, but not determined by it, just as an adult is not tied irremediably to the traumas of childhood. Certainly we must confront these days other kinds of strait-jackets, conditioning imposed on us from outside and from within, by the inevitable thirst for dominance of world powers who refuse strategic change, on the one hand, and frequently by our own culture of immobility, on the other. For the former it is necessary to lose our innocence; for the latter we need the courage to criticize ourselves, to change ourselves and to change the world.
Translated by Bruce Campbell
* Jorge Majfud is a Uruguayan writer and professor of Latin American literature at the University of Georgia.
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/4849 | Courage and StrengthThe following article is the third installment in a four part series. These “4 Marks of Man” are not THE ONLY 4 marks of manhood but men would do well do commit to at least these 4. For those who are not familiar with this site: the three co-authors write from the premise that God created us as male. What does it mean to be a man, specifically a Christian man?
A third mark of leadership directly relating to men is clearly articulated as God tells Joshua, “Be strong and courageous. Do not be frightened, and do not be dismayed, for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go” (Joshua 1.9). The reason this particular admonition is of interest is because “be strong and courageous” is only used eleven times in the Bible: seven of those are directed to Joshua as he prepares to take over for Moses as leader of the Israelites (three times in Deuteronomy 31 and four times in Joshua 1). On one occasion Joshua encourages the men of Israel to “be strong and courageous” (Joshua 10.25). On two different occasions, King David instructs his son, Solomon, to “be strong and courageous” (1 Chronicles 22.13 and I Chronicles 28.20). A final use of this encouragement is used by King Hezekiah when he calls the people of Israel together in the midst of battle. He encourages them in II Chronicles 32.7, “be strong and courageous.” Additionally of the eleven times it is used, five times it is accompanied by the admonition, “Do not be afraid!” (see Joshua 1.9, 10.25, 1 Chronicles 22.13, 28.20, and II Chronicles 32.7).
There are two clear instructions connected to this third mark: be strong and be courageous. At this point, I would like to spend a few minutes to highlight each of them individually. However, this will simply be a beginning to the conversation. Each of these topics (strength and courage) deserve a much longer conversation.
Be strong. There is a segment of American culture that suggests the following, “In order to be a man you must drive a big 4-wheel truck, shoot guns, hunt, fish, have a dog, and bench press 300 pounds.” Here’s the problem: while none of that is forbidden in the Bible, none of it is suggested. No where does the Bible explicitly define manhood within those parameters. Most of us, even those of us that consider ourselves Christians, have allowed the culture to define manhood. At this point, the conversation could go in a number of directions: Hollywood, gender roles, etc. Let me return to the primary concern of strength and ask you, the reader, to think about the men who are your models of manhood. Who typifies the classic “man” in your mind? I would venture to guess that he is not 25 years old and bulked up like Arnold Schwarzenegger. It is probably an older man, who has wisdom and mental fortitude; a man who speaks wisdom and lives according to the principles of which he speaks. Here’s my point: in his final letter to Timothy, the Apostle Paul calls him a “son” and encourages him by saying, “You my son, be strong in the grace that is in Christ Jesus.” The strength that men must contain is not solely a physical strength. We must be strong in the grace that is in Christ Jesus. Our identity must be rooted in Christ, and it is in the strength of that identity that we must live boldly. Here’s another question that I’ll ask: is the wheelchair-bound Christian less of a man because his physical strength is limited? I would suggest that the result of Sin (I am not saying that his condition is a result of a specific sin, but that in a fallen world Sin has taken a massive toll and is wearing away at our physical bodies, See Romans 8.18-25) has taken away some of his physical strength while he is on earth. Therefore, he is not “less of a man;” he is fully able to live in the strength that comes from grace in Christ. “Be strong in grace.”
Be courageous. What does it mean to “be courageous”? There are a number of different definitions. However, each one points to an uncommon strength in the midst of fear, illness, pain, danger, etc. It may be an uncommon strength in conviction specifically when others have a different conviction. For example, Sir Nicholas Winton showed uncommon courage in Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia. If you are unaware of his story, you can learn more here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c0aoifNziKQ. While many of us are convinced that we would show the same strength, the reality is that the great majority of people did nothing. The reason that strength and courage are listed together is because they are connected. Courage is uncommon strength.
In conclusion, these three marks of leadership in men seem to connect well together: be a man of action, accept responsibility, be strong and courageous. The connection can go full-circle: when a man rises up to take action, he will accept responsibility. In his responsibility he must be strong and will often be required to demonstrate courage while standing firm in the action and carrying responsibility. It can be illustrated this way:
However, the lack of these three marks can result in a negative spiral as well: fear leads to passivity. Passivity causes men to blame-shift and pass responsibility. Denying responsibility leads to a lack of strength and courage resulting in cowardly behavior.
Which will you be? Will you be a man of action, responsibility, strength and courage? Or, will you be passive, irresponsible and cowardly? I don’t think it’s much of a question really. So, stand up, take action, accept responsibility and walk in strength and courage!
MARK #1: Be a Man of Action
MARK #2: Be a Man Who Accepts Responsibility
MARK #3: Be a Man of Strength and Courage
MARK #4: Be a Man Who Makes Disciples.
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/4899 | New breakthrough for the kilogram
In this article about new scientific developments to redefine the kilogram and remove its link to a physical object, Ronnie Cohen writes about recent reports about a new scientific breakthrough in getting the most accurate estimate of Avogadro’s constant to date, which can help to redefine the kilogram. These reports have been published in the last few weeks and you can find a list of sources at the bottom of this article.
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# Submitting Homework Assignments
This document describes the basic procedure for completing and submitting homework assignments.
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## Initial Setup
All of the coding exercises in this class with use Python3 (NOT Python 2!!!). Python 3 is installed on all of the CSIL machines and you can install it on your own computer by downloading it here:
On your personal computer, you probably navigate your hard drive by double clicking on icons. While convenient for simple tasks, this approach is limited. For example, imagine that you want to delete all of the music files over 5 MB that you haven't listened to in over a year. This task is very hard to do with the standard double-click interface but is relatively simple using the terminal. All of the instructions in this class will assume access to a terminal interface whether windows, linux, or macos. It is your responsibility to get familiar with using your available terminal.
There is a great tutorial linked here on accessing the Python interpreter from your command line:
## Git
The purpose of Git is to manage a project, or a set of files, as they change over time. Git stores this information in a data structure called a repository. A git repository contains, among other things, the following: A set of commit objects. A set of references to commit objects, called heads.
Git is installed on all of the CSIL computers, and to install git on your machine follow the instructions here:
Every student in the class has a git repository (a place where you can store completed assignments). This git repository can be accessed from:
[<your cnetid>.git]
The first thing to do is to open your terminal application, and ``clone`` this repository (NOTE skr is ME, replace it with your CNET id!!!):
$ git clone cmsc13600-submit
Your username and id is your CNET id and CNET password. This will create a new folder that is empty titled cmsc13600-submit. There is similarly a course repository where all of the homework materials will stored. Youshould clone this repository as well:
$ git clone cmsc13600-materials
This will create a new folder titled cmsc13600-materials. This folder will contain your homework assignments. Before you start an assingment you should sync your cloned repository with the online one:
$ cd cmsc13600-materials
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$ git pull
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Then, we will tell you which of the pulled materials to copy over to your repository (cmsc13600-submit). Typically, they will be self-contained in a single folder with an obvious title (like hw0).
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/4933 | PETA upset at Obama
President Obama swatted and killed a fly on television, and PETA is upset about it. In case you think I’m making this up, here is the link from MSNBC. Let me quote:
I’m all for the ethical treatment of animals, but not insects, and especially flies. This is truly unbelievable. I wonder what their position is on mosquitos. Anybody know?
5 comments on “PETA upset at Obama
1. I think that’s called “Press release opportunity!!!”
I’m sure they’re just being annoying, like they always are.
2. I thought not killing insects was about awakining compassion within oneself, not advertising. I think I’ll send a book on Buddhism to PETA.
3. I’m an animal rights activist, but I’m not a fan of PETA. I think they’ve done some great things (i.e. uncovered the torture of KFC chickens, utterly appalling abuses at slaughterhouses, such as the inhumane slaughter of cows at a Kosher plant, bringing attention to unethical practices in the farming industries, such as gestational crates and battery cages, among many other things), but they tend to be too fanatical for my taste. This Obama fly thing is a good example. I’ll be honest, I don’t kill flies. I chase them to the window and open it to let them out. With spiders and other insects, I trap them in plastic bags and dump them outside. So maybe Obama should have left the fly alone. But by bringing so much attention to such a minor thing, people become less-inclined to listen to the real stories of cruelty that PETA is very good at uncovering, but maybe not so good at winning public sympathy for.
Personally, I’m more of a fan of The Humane Society and The Fund For Animals (founded by my hero Cleveland Amory), as well as IFAW and WWF (not the wrestling). 😀 I think that their approach is more effective among most people than PETA.
4. When a group gets too fanatical, it actually harms their cause, IMO. On the other hand, I’ve heard of PETA, but not IFAW or WWF. I know some people believe any publicity is good publicity, but I’m not one of them.
5. I just happened to hear an interview with the PETA spokesman by Mark Levin. As a regular listener, I was catching up on last Thursday’s show and was suprised when he actually interviewed the guy. Apparently, the spokesman draws the line at parasitic insects such as mosquitos and cockroaches. Although, his wife is in favor of capturing cockroaches and freeing them outside. He admits that he is not “perfect” with regard to all creatures in that regard, but that we should all try to be “better”. The interview was more interesting than I thought it would be anyway. Knowing how Mark gets, I thought he would just go off on him, but he was actually very polite, though maybe a little patronizing. If you are interesting in listening to the interview, you can find it (June 18 show) online at marklevinshow.com or you can download the podcast at iTunes. The actual interview is about an hour and 35 minutes into the show and lasts about 10 minutes.
I, for one, feel quite comfortable with killing insects which invade my home and those outside which will not leave me alone.
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The story of Abraham’s attempted sacrifice of Isaac is one of the most perplexing moral dilemmas in all of scripture. It has long been held up as an example of Abraham’s faithfulness. Orthodox members do not question the traditional interpretation of the story. They seem to reason that if God wants you to do something, you should do it with unquestioned obedience. I am not always an orthodox believer, so I find a lack of questioning the story quite unsatisfactory.
I was recently referred to a post from a more orthodox member in which he is convinced this story is quite intentional on God’s part. For me, this particular post doesn’t answer any of the qualms I have about this particular story. The article starts off pretty well, attempting to tackle some issues that “theological liberals” have. The article states (note, formatting changed):
1. Making this story less comfortable is the fact that Abraham never seems to challenge the source of his revelation.
2. Indeed, there is no ‘source of revelation’ mentioned at all in the story.
3. We are matter-of-factly told that God tells Abraham to sacrifice his son, and Abraham clearly has no doubts it is God.
4. He never asks “is Satan deceiving me?” or “am I losing my mind and hearing things?”
While acknowledging points that “liberal” believers have qualms about the story of Isaac, I find that orthodox believers also never question the source of revelation either. Instead, the author states rather matter-of-factly that “The New Testament then holds up this story as a supreme example of what it means to have faith in God.
Later on, there seems to be an attempt to reach out to someone like me: “I can see why this story is so troubling to theological liberals and non-believers. This story simply leaves no room to ethically explain it away.” There is even a provocative question: “So why is this story held up as an ultimate example of what it means to have faith in God?” Great question! I’d love an answer!
“I am not sure I know the answer to that question.” Thud. While truthful, this answer is entirely unsatisfactory to me.
I know this story is held up as an example of faith as the author states: “We walk by faith on so many different and even invisible things.” I understand that God’s ways are not man’s ways. I understand that we can’t always explain God’s actions. But I don’t think there is anything in this post, or in orthodox thought in general, that satisfy me. For me, a liberal interpretation–one that is grounded in both scriptural principles, as well as historical fact–is much more satisfactory.
Before I get to the points I want to make, I want to correct one statement that didn’t quite sit right with me. “Theological liberals are terrified at the thought that this is what it means to have faith in God.” I think this is an unfair characterization of liberals–certainly it does not describe me. I have faith in God. I’m not terrified at what it means to have faith in God. I am terrified of misreading God’s will (especially if God told me to kill my son), and it seems to me that this actually might be the case of Abraham (and subsequent prophets) misreading God. Misreading God does terrify me–especially if I’m going directed to kill someone; having faith does not terrify me at all. I have faith. I walk by faith. I believe, even if my belief is not typical or orthodox.
Let’s start off with scriptural principles that I can get behind. (1) God is the same yesterday, today, and forever (Mormon 9:9; Hebrews 13:8). To me, this means God is consistent. (2) We should liken the scriptures unto ourselves (1 Nephi 19:6, 23.) For me, the story of Abraham’s attempted sacrifice causes these two to principles collide from an orthodox interpretation. However, with an unorthodox interpretation, I can reconcile these two principles.
(1) If I believe that God is the same yesterday, today, and forever, why would he tell Abraham to kill his son, and not tell me to do the same? This is not a consistent God. (2) If I am to truly liken this scripture unto me, I would have to ask if God would ever ask me to kill my own son. Would God ask me to kill my son? I’m quite inclined to say no. I can’t accept either of these propositions, so if such a thing did happen to me, it would force me to ask if this was a real revelation from God. There have been some that have claimed God told them to kill their children. In today’s world, we call them either evil, or mentally ill. We do not hold these people up as an example of faith. There is no modern day exception. If Abraham lived today, he would be jailed for child endangerment (if Isaac was a child) or attempted murder. He would either be locked up in jail or locked up in a mental institution. So the orthodox telling of the story fails both of these principles. The orthodox telling of this story says (1) God is inconsistent (and was different yesterday than he is today), and (2) we should not liken this story unto us by killing our children.
Let’s switch to an unorthodox interpretation of this tale (as I blogged about in a post 5 years ago.) Rabbi Yosef Ibn Caspi of Spain in the early 14th century wrote that Abraham’s “imagination” led him astray, making him believe that he had been commanded to sacrifice his son. Ibn Caspi writes “How could God command such a revolting thing?” Ibn Caspi says the attempted sacrifice is not really the point of the story. Rather the point of the story is the fact that God intervened, sending an angel and a ram for Abraham to sacrifice. God loved Isaac so much, he intervened to prevent his untimely death. The real spiritual nugget of this story is the angelic visit, not Abraham’s unquestioning obedience. I can get behind this interpretation, because it doesn’t violate the two principles above. (1) God is consistent. He would never ask me or Abraham to sacrifice his son. After all, the scriptures state that “Thou shalt not kill.” God wasn’t happy when Cain killed Abel. Consistent. I like it. It follows scriptural principles. (2) I can liken the rabbi’s interpretation unto myself. If I ever misinterpret God, I hope I have enough faith that God will intervene (as he did with Abraham) before I make a major mistake. This is much more satisfying interpretation than saying “I don’t know why God would command such a revolting thing.” I can confidently say, “God didn’t command this revolting thing.”
But I know my orthodox friends will have qualms with my interpretation. Is there any evidence that Abraham’s imagination led him astray? Yes there is. (1) Human sacrifice among Jewish peoples was actually quite common in Abraham’s time. (a) We know that Abraham’s own father attempted to kill him (the LDS Book of Abraham, as well as Jewish Midrash and Islamic writings confirm this.) Furthermore, archaeological evidence confirms this. As stated in my previous post,
William Dever, Professor of Near Eastern Archaeology, University of Arizona, “Child sacrifice was fairly common throughout the ancient near east. And in fact at Carthage in North Africa, a Jewish cemetery has been found with small urns containing the burned bones of infants and the inscriptions accompanying these burials make it clear that parents had sacrificed a child to one or another of the gods to bring them good fortune.”
Scholars have sought to probe the seemingly baffling mystery of how any parent could sacrifice his own child?
Brettler, “As horrific as this might be to us, we can really see this as a very significant religious notion, where a person is coming and is saying to God, ‘God you have given me that which is most valuable, namely a child. I am going to return it to you.’”
Dever, “I think the editors wanted for us to believe that child sacrifice was never practiced. And yet the very critique of the prophets against it is proof of the fact that the practice was common. You don’t complain about something unless there was a real problem.”
I think that Abraham was not the only Jew that has been deceived in regards to human sacrifice. Evidence of ancient Canannite/Jewish were frequently decieved and perfromed human sacrifice is pretty strong, especially in Abraham’s day. It is highly likely that Abraham’s culture influenced him. In fact, one scholar even goes so far as to claim that Abraham wasn’t necessarily a true monotheist.
Walter Zanger, a Jewish scholar. “Every other country in the world, every other civilization had gods whom you had to feed, to sacrifice to them. Abraham had a god who gave him law and behavior. The introduction of a single moral law for king, for commoner, and even for God is a milestone in the history of the world.”
“It’s hard to talk about Abraham as a monotheist. Abraham had an agreement, a covenant with his one god, who is the Lord. Abraham didn’t say, or believe as far as we know, that there weren’t other gods. All the evidence is that there were other gods for other people. And Abraham’s god never insisted on exclusivity.”
I’m not so sure I’d go quite as far as Zanger here, but I do think that Zanger’s comments about Abraham growing up in a culture in which child sacrifice was common could give us a considerable amount of evidence that Abraham’s culture led him to believe that God wanted him to kill Isaac. I do think that we “see through a glass darkly” as Paul said in 1 Cor 13:12. I also believe that Abraham wanted to believe that God was the source of the revelation. I mean who wants to admit they were deceived?
Some orthodox folks still won’t like this interpretation. Some will say that no prophet has supported this interpretation. However, the prophet Jeremiah, in condemning child sacrifice among his people some 1500 years after Abraham, described the problem of child sacrifice in Jeremiah 32:25
Did you catch that? God says that child sacrifice was NOT commanded by him, NEITHER CAME IT INTO MY MIND. Has God forgotten the story of Abraham? Is it better to say that God is consistent, and never wanted child sacrifice? Is Jeremiah lying? I’d love to hear some orthodox folks interpret this.
I will grant that Jeremiah is somewhat of a minority opinion, but that minority opinion does jive with the liberal interpretation of this event. There are scholars that believe the story of Issac is actually a condemnation of this idea of child sacrifice. Abraham never actually sacrifices Isaac–God stopped the abomination. Once again, this interpretation makes God a consistent God.
The orthodox post states:
Every Theological liberal I’ve talked to … would prefer that we make a rule that we can discern revelation based on the morality of the content. This story specifically undermines that desire.
First of all, what’s wrong with making rules to discern revelation based on the morality of the content? If God tells me to commit adultery, kill someone, do drugs, embezzle money, am I not supposed to question the morality of the revelation? I see nothing wrong with discerning rules based on morality. Tell me why I’m wrong here.
Secondly, I take issue with “This story specifically undermines that desire.” No, your interpretation undermines the desire. My interpretation does not undermine this desire. My interpretation actually makes more sense than your interpretation. Once again, my interpretation is consistent. Yours is not.
Here are some questions for proponents of a traditional understanding.
1. Is God consistent? Is God the same yesterday, today, and forever? If so, why would God make such an inconsistent demand of Abraham?
2. If this story is true, why would God be so cruel to Isaac? Can you imagine the psychological trauma Isaac must have felt? How can a loving God be so cruel to Isaac? Why is Isaac completely ignored in the interpretation of the story? Some biblical commentators note that Sarah dies quickly after this incident–they speculate that Sarah might have died of a broken heart for Abraham’s senseless act. Such a god does seem to be cruel, not loving. Such a god seems to act capriciously like Zeus, or Molech, or Baal. Is this really the revelation of our Heavenly Father?
3. Is there a point where this example of Abraham’s faith is too extreme? If it is not too extreme, would you kill your son if God told you to do it?
You are welcome to say “I don’t know” to these questions. But know that “I don’t know” is a completely unsatisfactory answer to me. I much prefer my liberal interpretation. My interpretation leaves no such ethical dilemmas. Help me see the error of my liberal interpretation.
10 comments on “Abraham for Liberals and Conservatives
1. Granted, as you state, Abraham may have been deceived, and this is a discussion that provides an alternative lesson from the story, but I can’t agree with much of your assumptions.
Just because god is consistent (same today, yesterday and tomorrow) does not mean that he tells all people (throughout time) the same thing, or give them the same laws/rules to follow. If so, we would still be practicing blood sacrifice and polygany.
God says “thou shalt not kill” but then commanded the israelits to kill many different peoples while settling the promised land. By your reasoning above, this is inconsistent behavior that God is incapable of doing.
Blood sacrifice of children was common in Abraham’s time. He, himself, was offered on an altar by his father. It is feasible that Abraham did not have written commandments to follow as we do now. It is obvious that many no longer followed the path of righteousness (including his father). If the principle of sacrifice had been altered from that of animals (as representations of Christ) to the firstborn child (as a representation of Christ) then it is entirely conceivable that Abraham had no reason to no believe it was God giving him a commandment.
Though no blood sacrifice is required today, we are required to sacrifice our families (leave them behind) if necessary to follow the commandments of God. This is contrary to many commandments and principles, especially the one about honoring your parents. Another apparent contradiction. Pioneer history is a good example of families splitting up as one member wished to follow the gospel. Temple marriages are often another means to split a family as non-member parents and siblings are not allowed to attend.
In modern times, God has given commandments that were then rescinded after the people failed to complete the tasks. If God is all knowing, he already knows that we will fail in the assigned task, then why give the task? We can also ask the same of Abraham, but in this case, God knew that Abraham would do as commanded, so why give the task? Is it truly commanding child sacrifice if God knew that he would rescind the order before it was accomplished?
Perhaps, Abraham needed to know the pain and agony of sacrificing a son (as would God) in order to gain additional faith? Perhaps Abraham did believe in multiple Gods and sympathized with the practices of others and needed to learn the truth about his God? As a quick aside, if my memory serves correctlty, the story of the sacrifice is the last time that we really hear from Abraham. Perhaps Abraham became sulky and resentful. Muslim tradition tells of Abraham helping his son Ishmael build Kaaba in Mecca, while Isaac stays and builds the Israelite holy land.
and to your final question, no I would not kill my son. Though I would point out that we hear of countless stories of people who do it throughout the country, quite regularly it would appear. As such, it would mean that our time is not that different from Abraham’s. Though I would not kill my son, I would call the cops on him if necessary if I felt his safety (or others) were threatened by his actions. It is difficult to compare faith, let alone faith without understanding cultural contexts. Abraham’s time regularly had (and apparently accepteed) such actions. Our time is different, thus requiring different tests of our faith.
2. Alex, thanks for commenting. I picked the moniker “heretic” for a reason, so don’t be surprised that I have alternate explanations for many things in the scriptures. For example, I question whether blood sacrifice was EVER necessary. A more likely scenario for me is that the ancient Jews adapted blood sacrifices from pagan religions and put them in a Jewish context. I also have a problem with polygamy.
You read me pretty well. I question the idea that God commanded the Israelites to kill every man, woman, child, cow, and any other livestock. We call that genocide. I do not believe that God commands “holy war” (I even wrote a post about Joshua’s Unholy War.)
You ask some good questions. I don’t know why God commands us to do things we will fail at. Sure, we learn from mistakes, but we can also get discouraged and quit trying. I think we attribute things to God (and Satan) that God (or Satan) had little to do with. My God is often a non-interventionist. Why did he intervene on Abraham’s behalf, yet we have a cemetery of children in North Africa where God did not intervene? Why did God save Isaac, and not some unnamed child? These questions are impossible to answer. But my liberal interpretation feels more right to me than the traditional interpretation. I have fewer gaps of understanding and faith to fill.
3. The D&C actually teaches that giving a conditional commandment and then revoking it is completely consistent with the understanding of God.
“Wherefore I, the Lord, command and arevoke, as it seemeth me good;” (D&C 56:4)
While your liberal interpretation “feels more right to you,” I fear that it lack sufficient saving grace and power. Joseph Smith/ The Lectures of Faith taught that “Let us here observe that a religion that does not require the sacrifice of all things never has power sufficient to produce the faith necessary unto life and salvation.” If we believe that God is limited by our own sense of morality and is incapable of asking us to sacrifice or do things with which we are uncomfortable, we lack the faith necessary to lead to our salvation and exaltation.
I would add that there is nothing wrong with verifying that revelation is truly from the Lord. Joseph Smith hesitated to begin to practice polygamy, Nephi hesitated to kill Laban etc… One of the best examples is Abraham (the same Abraham) discussing with the Lord whether the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah was justified. What sets these men apart is not that they questioned the Lord, but that once they KNEW the will of the Lord they acted.
4. Symphony of Dissent, I don’t deny that God asks us to do what is uncomfortable (in fact I would say that voicing these opinions of my own are uncomfortable in an orthodox community), but I think this discomfort should be within the bounds the Lord has set. I don’t think we should murder our children–that seems out of bounds to me, and is beyond simple discomfort. It is out of bounds.
5. My interpretation is very different. I see the Abraham and Isaac events as simply a teaching story for that time. There was absolutely no need for the Lord to test Abraham. As Words of Mormon 7 states the answer is obvious: ” . . .The Lord knoweth all things which are to come. . .”
It is probably, as you surmised, from a time when child sacrifice was accepted and more than likely pseudographic as one would expect that Abraham would not have actually considered such an act. It was simply a story to encourage obedience that made it into the Old Testament
6. […] on we agreed to ‘take it public’ because its such an interesting topic for discussion. His response to my post is found here. He then posted it on W&T […]
7. Abraham was hundreds of years before Moses and the Ten Commandments, So possibly the thou shalt not kill injunction was not in place.
8. Abraham wasn’t before Cain, and God was much displeased when he killed Abel.
Could it be that God NEVER told Abraham to Sacrifice Isaac?
All of these questions are answered in this Teaching:
• The Common Understanding of this record
• Why is this “Test” Questionable?
• Did God Tempt Abraham?
• Burnt Offering vs. Sacrifice
• Satan’s Deception
• Not the first time Abraham Miscomprehended
• How old was Isaac?
• Other Important things to Note
-Andrew Davis
10. The very first thing anyone must do when it comes to revelation is to know the source of the revelation, i.e. is it really from God. Was Abraham deceived??? This prophet who talked with God?
Were James and Paul both deceived in the New Testament concerning their understanding of those scriptures concerning Abraham?
It is interesting that Jesus never took occasion to correct this error, if it were in fact an error, although he spoke of Abraham repeatedly.
Or maybe, just maybe, Paul knew what he was talking about when he said in reference to Abraham’s decision to obey God’s voice that Abraham was “Accounting that God was able to raise him up, even from the dead; from whence also he received him in a figure.” (Hebrews 11:19)
I have more misgivings over the story of Jepthah and his daughter, where an actual sacrifice is recorded as having taken place, but Jepthah is noted to have been a righteous man.
I don’t buy the explanation linked to by Andrew Davis about the daughter having been offered up to be a priest and having to remain celibate all of her mortal life. Firstly, the priesthood is only recorded to have been had among the male Levites, and the Levite priests did marry.
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O’Connor studies how exercise intersects with mental health as well as cognition and mentioned that studies show that distracted workouts hamper the good mental-health side effects.
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The main thing that we should remember, is because we are only known through our account numbers which are verified through our cell phone numbers and pin codes, it is not all that difficult to steal our identities and withdraw money from our accounts or even steel our identities.
I would like to give you some very basic tips to help prevent you from getting scammed.
Firstly, never click on any links in emails that ask you to enter your password or other information, rather type the address into the browser yourself.
Never let your physical credit card leave your sight when you make a payment at a restaurant or shop of any kind.
It takes less than a second for your card to be cloned.
When you throw away bills, try and tear them up into as many pieces as possible. Remember, the information on your bills is often used to verify your identity.
Only buy from well-known online shops that you can trust and that have a good reputation.
At this early stage of online shopping I am still weary and I only purchase from companies I can trust.
There are many out there that you can buy from without any worries.
Always remember that our lives are being run by computers and networks sharing information about you, your life, what you do each day, what you buy and at times even every move you make. Thieves know all this and you need to be safe. |
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As professional programmers (or aspiring beginners) we are expected by nearly everyone in our professional lives to be knowledgeable and savvy of not only today's standards but those emerging on the horizon. Clients expect not only scalable, cost-effective and user-friendly interfaces but also a site that will function on tomorrow's browsers and be scalable with regards to emerging technologies and the standards dictated by the issuing authority designed to make those technologies function.
Making use of PHP's ability to be ambiguous when it comes to HTML design is the first step toward achieving this goal of scalability. Commonly-used mark-up is wrapped in nice user-defined functions or defined in constants or variables. The goal being a template able to conform dynamically to any user agent or be updated to fit any emerging standard future and past. This is especially vital in a large project in which updating thousands of pages to conform to a new standard would be costly in terms of both time and money and not to mention the programmer's sanity.
It is also especially vital to pick up on HTML standards early on. In earlier versions of HTML mark-up was designed very loosely with regards to case-insensitive tags, optional quoting of attribute values, single-tagged objects. But the latest and future versions are challenging this inherent looseness more and more. Things like XML and XHTML won't function on this loose-lipped syntax. Even though HTML is not really a language but a method of describing how a page looks it is closely tied to the world of real-language programming, delimiting a value with quotes now not only makes sense in programming terms but also allows HTML to fit in more with its cousins, PHP, ASP, JavaScript... etc.
[u]The HTML authority:</u>
Like PHP there is a group of people assembled to discuss, plan and create what HTML standards are. The difference between PHP and HTML (besides the obvious) is this group of people does not excerpt complete control over the language, but merely makes recommendations as to how it should be designed, implemented and utilized to the gigantic companies and their proprietary technologies that make use of it. The first stop for any html/css-related question should be the W3C (World Wide Web Consortium) website.
[u]Good practice, how to write standards compliant HTML:</u>
[u]Document Type Declaration:</u>
First there is the Doctype setting. It is a single statement issued at the beginning of an HTML document before the opening HTML tag. It dictates to the browser what method of 'looseness' to allow in the proceeding HTML code. This is new to HTML and should accompany any well-formed HTML document. Different settings do different things. The strict setting does not allow the use of deprecated tags (<br>, , etc), it corrects many of the inconsistencies between the different browsers with regards to how positioning and size are rendered. Albeit there are still minor (and very annoying) inconsistencies but the setting does help.
[u]Case-sensitive tags:</u>
The looseness of HTML and the quickly emerging XML created somewhat of a clash when it came to marrying the two. For this reason the W3C has made the recommendation that tags be case-sensitive. Again, when it comes to programming this seems the only natural progression and path of evolution for mark-up to take. For that reason tags and attributes should be written in all lowercase letters which will avoid namespace problems when and if a transition to XHTML or XML is made. HTML is rapidly moving toward becoming intertwined with XML, this is where XHTML comes from and this will be the HTML of tomorrow.
See also:
[u]Quoted values:</u>
All HTML attribute values should be delimited with quotations.
Should now be:
<form method="post" action="some_page.php">
<form method='post' action='some_page.php'>
Single or double quoting doesn't matter. And when used within the context of PHP the one should be used that would eliminate the need to escape the quote.
See also:
[u]Single name attributes:</u>
Scattered throughout HTML are a few oddball single name attributes. This is called attribute minimization. Attribute minimization has also been deprecated.
Should now be:
<input type="checkbox" name="my_box" checked="checked" />
<input type="checkbox" name="my_box" checked="checked">Some checkbox text</input>
checked="checked" is back-wards compatible and XHTML compliant.
Ending a tag with '... />' is the XHTML compliant method of closing a tag, since XHTML requires both an opening and closing tag this syntax is provided as a shortcut when only one tag is required. As long as the tag is written as '<br />' with a space in between the last letter and forward slash, this method is also backwards compatible.
See also:
[u]Other examples of transitioning from the old method to the standards compliant method:</u>
<select name=my_select multiple>
<option value=option1>option1
Should really be written:
<select name="my_select" multiple="multiple">
<option value="option1">option1</option>
Some formatted text
This tag is now deprecated and should now be translated to a CSS equivilent:
<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">Some formatted text</span>
<p style='font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;'>
Style sheets are a much easier method of declaring fonts as well as a smörgåsbord of other visual elements.. borders, margins, padding, positioning, etc.
is also a deprecated element and should be translated to a CSS equivalent:
<span style="margin-left: 5px;"></span>
<br> is now <br />
All single name tags should use the slash method to close the tag.
See also:
An example of a standards-compliant image tag:
<img src="some_picture.jpg" alt="HTML 4.01 now requires alt text" style="width: 100px; height: 100px;"/>
Alt text is required to accommodate people with visual disabilities and is now part of the HTML 4.01 standard.
[u]Argument separators:</u>
URL argument separators should also be standards compliant, the W3C recommends that a semi-colon instead of an ampersand be used to separate URL embedded arguments. PHP.net recommends that & be used (which does not require a php.ini change).
The url argument separator is a directive that can be set in php.ini and can be made to either recommendation.
[snip from php.ini]
; The separator used in PHP generated URLs to separate arguments.
; Default is "&".
;arg_separator.output = "&"
; Default is "&".
;arg_separator.input = ";&"
See also: http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/appendix/notes.html#h-B.2.2
See also: http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.urlencode.php
And: http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/#C_12
[u]XML Compliant Delimiters:</u>
The W3C also has recommendations for the use of SERVER-side language delimiters.
<?php ?> - Is XML compliant, gauranteed to be portable and is the preferred method.
<? ?> - (short tags) NOT XML compliant, not gauranteed to be portable as this can be deactivated in php.ini
<% %> - Asp style delimiters, not XML compliant, and again not gauranteed to be portable as this is another php.ini setting (off by default).
<script language="php"></script> - (JavaScript style delimiters) NOT XML compliant but is gauranteed to be portable.
See also: http://www.php.net/manual/en/language.basic-syntax.php
[u]Further resources:</u>
Wrox's HTML 4.01 is a very fine book and discusses this subject in depth.
[After doing some research I found that book was one of the many bought by Apress - I have no idea if it is still available]
Contributions, questions, challenges and comments welcomed!
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Would this be an acceptable question?
I've read Are requests for references on-topic?, but that one is quite old and without a clear answer.
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• Well, ok... It doesn't seem to be much activity here on politics, so I'll just try. – Alex Jan 3 '15 at 13:43
One disconnect is that your politics.SE question isn't asking for a list of references - it's asking for a list of theoretical models for some kind of behaviors.
This sounds like a great example of a "good subjective" question. It can easily be answered by an expert with the appropriate background. Looking at the question as it is written, it looks like something that is easily answerable in a concise way. Nothing about it seems particularly broad - so long as you approach it with a theoretical mindset.
As an example of a similar kind of question, see Should an elected official feel obligated to vote on an issue based on the majority opinion of his constituents?. The wrong way to approach this would be (as someone pointed out in your original question) to create a list of all elected officials in the world and try to describe, person by person, what their obligations are.
A better way to answer is to start with the theory that has already been laid out and apply that here. In this case I already knew of an existing way to think about these models (from Edmund Burke) and the answer was easy.
Questions about empirical theory are just as straight-forward. However, they require that the person writing the answer have a background in political science (or similar discipline).
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If you're just asking for a list of resources on a topic, I would consider that to be somewhere between too broad/off topic, similar to how software recommendations are off topic on Stack Overflow.
But, if you're asking for references to back up an answer on a specific question, then that's fine.
I would recommend asking the question, and making it clear that you need references.
It would also be helpful to note why you need references. (maybe you need to relay the answer to someone else, and need something to demonstrate that the information is good information.
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• Thanks, I've asked it a while ago: politics.stackexchange.com/q/6596/4868 and updated it now. Would this question be good enough? Can I improve it in any way? – Alex Jan 4 '15 at 3:15
• @Alex Your edit didn't fundamentally change the question. You still seem to be asking "where are the resources" than you are about any specific question about policy – Sam I am says Reinstate Monica Jan 4 '15 at 17:50
• Ah, now I understand what you meant, I read your answer with my optimistic-bias goggles. Then let me rephrase the question, I think I can make it fit... – Alex Jan 5 '15 at 3:19
• I have now rephrased my question so that I think it fits. – Alex Jan 5 '15 at 15:11
In fact, the linked Q and its answers provide with several good points about reference requests.
My suggestion is below, but let me summarize the key points we need to take in our consideration:
1. This site is far behind "healthy" status of questions per day criteria. So anything on-topic and objective is welcome;
2. Site users often ask questions without proper "own research attempt", so chances of dupes and semi-dupes are higher. A good collection of entry-level information would be valuable.
3. The referenced documents may be large. A brief quotation may be insufficient for answering certain questions.
1. Like Michael Kingsmill's answer says, sets of references tend to be biased, according to the answerer's own political views;
2. Referring Alenanno's answer, Politics is a bit different to Linguistics since the political situation may change dramatically. Think, for example, how useful today would be references about "Russian reset" of 2009. They're totally obsolete now;
3. Counter Pro#2 in list above, people who don't research well on the Internet may also fail to search for existing reference-listing answers here (if we allow these);
4. Also, questions/answers on literature requests may become targets for deliberate downvoting by those whose political views are opposite (here in Politics this is a bigger problem than on other SE sites).
So, we see that there are contradicting requirements, and it is not that easy to tell whether or not literature requests are good or bad.
What we can do is:
1. Allow such questions;
2. Forcibly make them Community Wiki;
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• As I see it, this is perhaps the only way forward for this site. There are many, many things which we cannot reasonably answer about politics. Questions about what the state of Political Science, however—and its sister disciplines as they relate to politics—is something we can answer. It seems to me to be well worth it to not only accept, but to encourage questions about citations. The solution to the issues in the cons is to press the use of peer reviewed references, or peer reviewed-like. News articles are quickly obsolete, and have no obligation to take opposition voices seriously. – The Pompitous of Love Jun 6 '16 at 14:45
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Are cinemagraphs the new video?
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A cinemagraph, however, is not meant to replace the video. Its function: to tell your brand story in a superbly looped clip. Almost like a wavy focal point frozen in time, a cinemagraph is somewhat hypnotic and alluring.
Why choose a cinemagraph over video, then? Because you have the visual injection of video, without the dreaded play button. Yes, it is intrinsically a GIF, but the cinemagraph offers much more depth and comprehension to a brand’s identity. This relatively new advertising tool soars on social media platforms, and when well executed, it does a pretty good job gaining traction.
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Keep it short, sweet and meaningful.
Cinemagraphs are most powerful when they capture a simple, short and subtle moment of action. A brief loop that tells a story through a dress shifting in the breeze or wine poured for a friend can convey a lot of meaning in just a moment.
A cinemagraph is worth 1,000 words.
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Part 2
The latest thrilling instalment! Warning: it's pretty much impossible to construct a square of this size without using some obscure words that you might have to look up.
“Where is the formula?” the man they called Gilgamesh demanded, as I struggled vainly against my bonds. “I don't want to hurt you. I am not a cruel man.”
“Tell that to the American civilians who died in the bio-attacks along the Eastern ________!” I shouted defiantly.
“Oh, and you blame me for that? I'm almost flattered. But what would you know about it? I thought you were a humble ________, not some kind of spy.”
I wanted to tell the truth, but if he knew for sure that I really was a businessman, maybe he'd just kill me. “And I thought you were an investor, not an Islamist terrorist!”
“Me? I abandoned my faith long ago, and was cast out as an ________. It is money that makes the world go around. The Greeks and the Turks, they say their religions make them different, but they are all the same. I learned that as a smuggler, plying my trade through the Dardanelles and the Strait of ________.”
“You? Working for a living?”
“Do you think I got this rich by lounging around and eating stuffed ________ like a decadent towel-clad Frenchman? I worked hard for my money, and I will use it as I please.”
“What are you seeking?”
I laughed sardonically.
“Oh no,” he clarified. “I don't mean an end to violence. I mean inner peace. ________. When I am a billionaire, then I can take care of the people I want to protect. Only then can I rest easy.”
“I must say, you have an impressive vocabulary,” I said, trying to build some rapport.
“Oh, I am a man of many talents. I can master whatever I set my mind to, whether it be tuning and ________ an outboard motor for optimum performance, tasting wine, or riding a horse. Would you believe I once thought to compete in a ________ event at the World Equestrian Games?”
I tried to imagine it, but I could not.
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$\begingroup$ How much time did you spend in the word square. 8-by-8 isn't trivial... $\endgroup$ – CG. Mar 2 at 16:55
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$\begingroup$ I wrote some C++ code to generate word squares, found three word lists on the internet, and merged them in the hope of creating new combinations. The program found (over a few hours) seven eight-by-eight squares, including this one, and another that was identical but with a 't' replacing the first letter of the first word. It found no nine-by-nine squares, unfortunately. $\endgroup$ – user3153372 Mar 2 at 17:56
I believe this is the answer :
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1. Easter Seaboard
2. Humble Exporter fits the bill
3. Apostate - a person who forsakes his religion
4. Bosporos - The strait between Greece and Turkey
5. The birds Ortolans are eaten in the series Billion
6. Ataraxia is Greek for "undisturbed" or "untroubled"
7. Tuning and retuning
8. Dressage is one of the official equestrian events
The strait of Bosporus was the simplest to find. Then, there are only a few equestrian events, and only Dressage matched. Then followed Apostate which was fairly simple with the other two in place. Ataraxia was found using a synonym list. Ortolans required an online crossword helper, since I've never heard of the word and couldn't think of anything that matched. The rest was not that hard, since almost all letters were filled in. Exporter was the last word I found, since it could also have been Importer.
It all seems simple in hindsight, but it took me quite some time. Overall a very nice puzzle.
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• $\begingroup$ One letter wrong... $\endgroup$ – user3153372 Mar 2 at 13:57
• $\begingroup$ Fixed the typo :) Nice puzzle! $\endgroup$ – CG. Mar 2 at 14:03
• $\begingroup$ I have a feeling there could be an alternate answer for this, is that so, @user3153372 ? $\endgroup$ – Ébe Isaac Mar 2 at 14:28
• $\begingroup$ @ÉbeIsaac It wouldn't surprise me if the pre-corrected version (the 'u' was given as an 'o') is a valid alternative spelling... $\endgroup$ – user3153372 Mar 2 at 15:34
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/5171 | ASP.NET Web API routes not working in Sitecore 7.5
After upgrading to Sitecore 7.5, some or all of your Web API routes have stopped working.
A new pipeline step in the initialize pipeline might be your problem.
The pipeline step (re-)configures Web API routes, overriding some (all?) previously configured routes and/or handlers.
It is patched into the initialize pipeline via the config include file “/App_Config/Include/Sitecore.Services.Client.config” (search for ServicesWebApiInitializer).
You may experience this issue if some or all of the following apply to your project:
• You’re registering Web API routes via the Sitecore initialize pipeline, likely inspired by Patrick Delancy’s excellent article on the subject.
• You’re not using a Sitecore include file, e.g. you’ve inserted your route registration pipeline step directly into the Web.config file.
• Your route registration pipeline step is patched in before the new ServicesWebApiInitializer for any reason, e.g. you’ve explicitly patched in your pipeline processor after the Sitecore.Mvc.Pipelines.Loader.InitializeRoutes pipeline step.
The project where I’ve experienced this issue uses a custom IHttpControllerSelector implementation which was removed/replaced by the new pipeline step.
1. Continue to use Patrick Delancy’s excellent solution.
2. Place the config include file described in Patrick’s article in a subdirectory of the “/App_config/Include” folder, to ensure it’s included after “/App_Config/Include/Sitecore.Services.Client.config” — e.g. save it as “/App_config/Include/My-Company/WebApiRoutes.config”.
3. Use /sitecore/admin/showconfig.aspx to verify that your route registration processor is patched in after the ServicesWebApiInitializer.
As mentioned above the important thing is to register your routes after the Sitecore.Services.Infrastructure.Sitecore.Pipelines.ServicesWebApiInitializer pipeline step when running Sitecore 7.5.
The Sitecore 7.5 initialize pipeline vs. the old Sitecore 7.2 version are shown below, MVC and Web API route registration steps highlighted for convenience.
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CCS includes tools for code generation such as C compiler,an assembler and a linker. The main buses program memory bus and data memory bus are also accessible from outside the chip, providing an additional interface to off-chip memory and peripherals.
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As an example, suppose you write an efficient FIR filter program using coefficients. Figure a proceessor how this seemingly simple task is done in a traditional microprocessor.
Digital Filters Match 2: In fact, most computers today are of the Von Neumann design. Since the buses operate independently, program instructions and data can be fetched at the same time, improving the speed over the single bus design.
Specifically, within a single clock cycle, it can perform a multiply step prkcessoran addition step 12two data moves steps 7 and 9update two circular buffer pointers steps 8 and 10and control the loop step 6. First, let’s look at how the instruction cache improves the performance of the Harvard architecture.
architscture The desired amount of multiplication can be obtained by selecting a proper divide by N network,where N is an integer. Components and Equipments used: VCCA accepts supply voltages from 0. Most present day DSPs use this dual bus architecture. Why so many circular buffers?
Due to features like PWM waveform synchronization with the ADC unit, the C line is well suited to many tmsc architecture control applications. Block diagram of frequency multiplier: |
global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/5197 | So, I am looking for disassembler code for MIPS commands, for example: if the program gets word of command like 3c1d8010, I want to get the name of the command and the registers, which it uses: lui sp,0x8010
examples: 25080268 addiu t0,t0,616 40806800 mtc0 zero,$13
I know, that it is possible to write by myself, but maybe somebody has done it already.
Many thanks in advance!
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I typed your title into Google, and while the first hit was a commercial product, the second one has the description "mips-dasm is a mips disassembler written in C. It accepts lines of 32-bit numbers that it decodes into their MIPS32 instruction equivalent, through stdin or input file.". On github, so free & with source. – Jongware Oct 7 '16 at 14:46
Try capstone. They have a good documentation with samples like the following:
# test1.py
from capstone import *
CODE = b"\x55\x48\x8b\x05\xb8\x13\x00\x00"
md = Cs(CS_ARCH_X86, CS_MODE_64)
for i in md.disasm(CODE, 0x1000):
print("0x%x:\t%s\t%s" %(i.address, i.mnemonic, i.op_str))
Output sample:
$ python test1.py
0x1000: push rbp
0x1001: mov rax, qword ptr [rip + 0x13b8]
According to the docs they support MIPS and of course they have code on GitHub.
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If you want to have quick access without installing anything, try The online disassembler.
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you can try radare2
E:\R2>rasm2.exe -a mips -e -d -
addiu t0, t0, 0x268
mtc0 zero, t5, 0
use mips.gnu to get the output you queried
E:\R2>rasm2.exe -a mips.gnu -e -d -
addiu t0, t0, 616
mtc0 zero, $13
rasm2 -h should show the switches
-a = arch (use -L to list the numerous architectures it supports)
-e = to tell that the input is Big-Endian
-d = Disassemble
- = to provide input from Stdin
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/5199 | website, blog and vanity nexus of writer R F Brown
Media Log: 01.20.2012
New Show on Fox: Alcatraz
(television) Alcatraz. I kind of thought I was going out to Alcatraz to find what was new from the producers of Lost. Lostwas an ensemble show about seemingly normal people crashing into an impossible situation and, by the end, confronting paranormal forces. What’s behind the disappearance of the prisoners of Alcatraz Island, and their reappearance fifty years hence, may also turn out to be paranormal. The first two episodes that premiered this week are closer in genre to tv cops shows than to Lost. Alcatraz early on seems like it’s part of a trend in cop tv cops that are built around a single story telling concept: Numb3rs – every week mathematics are used to solve a crime, Without A Trace – every week somebody goes missing, Person of Interest – the good guys try to stop a bad guy before the crime happens. My problem with this kind of show is that often the characters are slaves to the gimmick and things get worn out very quickly. Alcatraz – the cops have to stop a new/old criminal every week. Maybe Alcatraz will reach a little higher over time but right now the gimmick is already a bore, the dramatic situation of the cast is illogical, and the crime solving has been implausible. I’m not done with Alcatraz yet but I am, so far, disappointed… Golden Girls, DOROTHY’S NEW FRIEND (S3, Ep.15) Dorothy is befriended by a local novelist and starts brushing off the other girls to rub elbows with intellectuals. She learns to value her friends when the novelist turns out to be a snob and an anti-Semite. This is a pretty funny episode as normally only simple-minded Rose goes full retard.
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/5208 | Community Voice
Amplifying Voices
The Partnership will double down on efforts to engage to broad array of community voices and qualitative data to inform the collective work. The following approaches will be enhances and/or developed:
“There is something fundamentally amiss about building or rebuilding a system without consulting at any point those it is designed to serve.”
– Alison Cook Sather |
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Racial Microaggresions
A microaggression is the casual degradation of any marginalized group. The term was coined by
came to encompass the casual degradation of any socially marginalized group, such as the poor or the
Theme Microaggression Example Implicit Message
1) Criminality: A person is If something comes up missing You are a criminal.
presumed to be dangerous, or a fight ensues, a Black or
criminal, or deviant based on Latino person is assumed to be
their race, nationality and/or the culprit.
sexual orientation
2)Denial of individual prejudice: “I’m not racist. I have several I am immune to racism because
A statement made by those Black friends.” I have friends of color.
with social privilege to deny “As a woman, I know what you Your racial oppression is no
that they have that privilege or go through as a racial minority. different than my gender
any oppressive thinking oppression. I can’t be a racist.
I’m like you
3)Myth of meritocracy: We all know she got hired Women are not as qualified as
Statements which assert that because she is a woman! (often male candidates; Gender was
race, class, gender, abilities or said in a male dominated field) "used" as a way to get ahead.
sexual orientation do not play a
role in life success
4)Religious or cultural You are engaged to someone Your traditions are ridiculous.
superiority: When a person you never met? What about Your parents don't care about
assumes that their race, falling in love? You didn't stand you. The only way to get
religion, or culture (broadly up for your independence? married is the way we do it
defined) is better than others’ here.
5)Environmental The only options for gender on Transgender individuals do not
microaggressions: Ways in university forms are "male" and belong or matter here
which larger systems beyond "female"
the individual realm (such as
institutional policies and
practices) work to maintain
systems of privilege and |
global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/5230 | Magical & Sacred - Gifts & Wares
Home | Navigation | Site.GroupBar
< Notify | Variables | Page Variables >
Where the variables are available as wiki markup they are shown as Variable value "{$VariableName}".
The name of the function used to convert WikiWords into normal, spaced strings. Defaults to 'AsSpaced'.
$AsSpacedFunction = 'MyAsSpaced';
$Author is currently ""
Set to the current reader, who is potentially an author (see discussion). See also $EnablePostAuthorRequired.
The WikiGroup for user profiles. Defaults to 'Profiles'. This variable is implicit in the markup [[~AuthorName]]
$AuthorGroup = 'Users';
For sites using user-based authorization, tracks the "reader" or login name.
if( isset($AuthId) ) { // this person has been authenticated
Request for documentation, meanwhile see here(approve sites).
if( isset($AuthPw) ) { // this person has entered a password
$BaseName is currently "PmWiki.BasicVariables"
Allows population of the {$BaseName} PageVariable. The key to the hash is the pattern to be replaced and the value is the replacement string.
# If {$FullName} is 'Group.Page-Draft' then {$BaseName} is 'Group.Page'
$BaseNamePatterns['/-Draft$/'] = '';
# If {$FullName} is 'Comments-Group.Page' then {$BaseName} is 'Group.Page'
$BaseNamePatterns['/^Comments-/'] = '';
The WikiGroup used for categories. Defaults to 'Category'. (See Categories). This variable is implicit in the markup [[!CategoryName]]
A string prefix to be prepended to cookies set from PmWiki scripts. It defaults to '', but can be set to a different value to avoid conflicts with similar-named cookies from other applications, or to allow multiple wikis from the same domain to store separate cookies.
$CookiePrefix = 'pmwiki_'; # set cookie prefix to 'pmwiki_'
If you have a WikiFarm, use the following in each field's config.php to get a unique prefix for each field in the farm, thus isolating each field's cookies.
$CookiePrefix = substr($tmp = md5(__FILE__), 0, 5).'_';
$DefaultGroup is currently "Main"
WikiGroup used by default (on startup) when no group is specified in the URL.
$DefaultName is currently "HomePage"
Name of the default HomePage of each WikiGroup. Used when the group doesn't have a page with the same name as the group.
Note that the behavior will differ based on whether the page exists or not. Probably you want to alter $PagePathFmt in addition to $DefaultName if you really want it to take effect.
Note: See comment below under $DefaultPage re the order how this must be defined within your (farm)config scripts - this must be set prior to any call of ResolvePageName().
Startup page when PmWiki is called without a specified page, normally $DefaultGroup.$DefaultName.
Note: for $DefaultGroup, $DefaultName and $DefaultPage variables to work, they should be defined in the beginning of (farm)config.php, before any call to the function ResolvePageName(). This means, before any script from PmWiki and before any recipe that might be using this function. This also means it cannot be set in a per-page or per-group customization script - ResolvePageName() is called before these are loaded.
Please note that this variable is intended to be set in (farm)config.php, not in individual groups. Trying to use different $DefaultName, $DefaultPage or $PagePathFmt settings in different groups will cause cross-group linking anomalies.
Allows/disables local/config.php customizations (usually for a farm's wikis). Can be set to zero in local/farmconfig.php to prevent the farm's wikis' local/config.php from being loaded.
$EnableLocalConfig = 0; # disable PmWiki's local/config
Disables scripts/stdconfig.php and a large part of the core functionalities provided by the scripts in the pmwiki/scripts directory and outlined in the core documentation, unless included by your own local configuration (notably core markup rules, page history, skins, uploads). Allows you to completely reshape the way PmWiki behaves, if you need to.
$EnableStdConfig = 0; # disable many standard features
Allows/disables per-page and per-group customizations. Can be set to zero in any local customization file to prevent remaining page/group customizations from being loaded.
$EnablePGCust=0; # turn off per-page/group configs
When enabled (default), causes page redirects to automatically be performed by the browser. Setting $EnableRedirect to zero causes PmWiki to pause and issue a "Redirect to link" message instead. This is sometimes useful when debugging recipes to be able to see the results of actions before page redirections occur. Not to be confused with $EnableRedirectQuiet.
Enable WikiWord processing.
Enables a markup rule that causes lines with leading spaces to be treated as sections of preformatted text. If set to a value greater than 1, indicates the minimum number of leading spaces required for this treatment.
$EnableWSPre = 1; # leading spaces are preformatted text
$EnableWSPre = 0; # leading spaces are normal lines of text
$EnableWSPre = 4; # 4+ spaces are preformatted text
Can be used to override the default date format used by the "ftime" function. The default $FTimeFmt is $TimeFmt. (See Markup Expressions)
The regular expression pattern used for valid WikiGroup name specifications. Defaults to allowing any group name beginning with an uppercase letter, but can be set to limit the valid group names (see Cookbook:LimitWikiGroups).
# limit groups to Site, SiteAdmin, PmWiki, and MyGroup
$GroupPattern = '(?:Site|SiteAdmin|PmWiki|MyGroup)';
#for case-sensitive group names, note the ?-i switch:
$GroupPattern = '(?-i:Site|SiteAdmin|PmWiki|MyGroup)';
If set, then bare WikiWords in a page are automatically linked to pages of the same name. Note that this value can also be affected by the (:linkwikiwords:) and (:nolinkwikiwords:) directives.
$LinkWikiWords = 1; # turn on WikiWord links
$LinkWikiWords = 0; # disable WikiWord links
Identifies the page to which the visitor should be sent after an ?action=logout. Defaults to the current page.
$LogoutRedirectFmt = 'Site.Logout'; # ?action=logout target
An array of cookie names to be removed when ?action=logout is invoked.
The regular expression pattern used for valid page names. Defaults to allowing pages beginning with an uppercase letter or digit, followed by sequences of alphanumeric characters, hyphens, and underscores.
A variable that gives the name of the current page.
To access inside a Markup callback function, use
It is also accessible via
global $pagename; # if you use it inside a function
$pagename = ResolvePageName($pagename);
See + for more information, including when it's possible to use this variable.
Once you have $pagename, page variables become accessible:
$page = PageVar($pagename, '$FullName'); # =$pagename
An array controlling how the default group home-page name will be determined.
Default Setting:
$PagePathFmt = array('{$Group}.$1','$1.$1','$1.{$DefaultName}');
Setting to use if you wish $DefaultName to actually be the name of your group home-pages:
Do note that if the Groupname.Groupname page does exist but Groupname.Defaultname does not exist, then Groupname.Groupname will still take precedence. You may remove the '$1.$1' entirely to require Groupname.Defaultname to be the group homepage - that would look like this:
$SiteGroup is currently "Site"
Default group for storing configuration and utility pages such as Site.Search, Site.EditForm, Site.PageNotFound, etc.
Default group for locked administrative pages such as SiteAdmin.AuthList, SiteAdmin.AuthUser, SiteAdmin.ApprovedUrls, etc, defaults to 'SiteAdmin'.
The name of the directory containing the skin (theme) files, default "pmwiki". See Skins.
If set, then WikiWords in pages are automatically spaced according to $AsSpacedFunction. Note that this value can also be affected by the (:spacewikiwords:) and (:nospacewikiwords:) directives.
$SpaceWikiWords = 1; # turn on WikiWord spacing
$SpaceWikiWords = 0; # turn off WikiWord spacing
The format to use for dates and times, in strftime()(approve sites) format. The default value is '%B %d, %Y at %I:%M %p', which gives dates of the form "September 8, 2005 at 10:57 PM".
$TimeFmt = '%B %d, %Y'; # dates as "September 8, 2005"
$TimeFmt = '%Y-%m-%d'; # dates as "2005-09-08"
$Version is currently "pmwiki-2.2.126"
A string representing the release version of PmWiki.
$VersionNum is currently "2002126"
A number representing the release version of PmWiki, with the major and minor release components padded with zeroes to produce three digits. Thus, release "pmwiki-2.1.40" will have $VersionNum set to 2001040.
The first digit is a 2, the next three digits are the major release number, and the last three digits are the minor release number. Beta releases use 900-999 for the minor release number. Thus:
2.1.0 2001000
2.1.1 2001001
2.1.27 2001027
2.2.0-beta1 2001901
2.2.0-beta2 2001902
2.2.0-beta18 2001918
2.2.0 2002000
The pattern that describes a WikiWord.
This setting controls how Page variables in included pages are understood by PmWiki.
$EnableRelativePageVars = 1; # PmWiki current default
In this case {$Name} displays the name of the physical page where it written. If {$Name} is in an included page, it will display the name of the included page. (This is currently PmWiki's default.)
$EnableRelativePageVars = 0; # revert to previous default
In this case {$Name} displays the name of the currently browsed page. Even if {$Name} is in an included page, it will display the name of the browsed page. This was PmWiki's default in versions 2.2.8 and earlier, and changed in 2.2.9, but you can revert it back with this line in config.php.
{*$Name} with an asterisk always displays the name of the currently browsed page, regardless of $EnableRelativePageVars.
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/5252 | Masters Thesis
Effects of Increasingly Complex Enrichment on the Behavior of Captive Malayan Sun Bears (Helarctos malayanus)
All zoos grapple with challenges of keeping captive animals engaged in natural behaviors, especially for bears which prove to be among the more challenging species to keep stimulated. In captivity, a common indicator of poor welfare is the presence of stereotypic behaviors. In this study, we test whether providing increasingly complex feeding enrichment decreases the duration of stereotypic behavior and increases enrichment interaction for three adult female sun bears (Helarctos malayanus) at Oakland Zoo in California. We compared the effects of two different feeding enrichment devices- presented to the bears at three complexity levels- on sun bear stereotypic behavior. After three weeks of baseline data collection when no complex enrichment was present, we introduced the complex enrichment three times a week per level over six weeks. In addition, we measured each bear’s interaction with the enrichment devices to examine the effect of complexity on enrichment use. Providing increasingly complex enrichment decreased the duration of stereotypic behavior when compared to the baseline phase. Across the six weeks, the duration of stereotypic behavior was significantly less on the complex enrichment days compared to the days when complex enrichment was absent. Increasing enrichment complexity had variable effects on enrichment use. Our results indicate that providing complex enrichment decreased the duration of stereotypic behaviors, however, the effects of complex enrichment did not carry over on the days when the enrichment was no longer present. These results suggest that providing increasingly complex enrichment may have a positive influence on the behavior of captive bears. |
global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/5262 | RAT00 – Pilot
RAT00 – Pilot
Random Anime Tapes
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00:00 / 14:48
Rewind 30 Seconds
Random Anime Tapes
Episode 00 – Pilot
This is an introduction to Mark D (@coolmarkd) and Random Anime Tapes, the podcast. Mark is an IT guy, dad, and generally poor nerd with limited anime experience and he’s going to explain who he is, with regards to anime, so that there’s some context when he starts talking about the tapes in the box in his house.
intro song
1・2の3・4 demo vocal edition
Trial & Error
Producer: Sakagami Souichi
Homepage: http://www.tandess.com/en/music/
E-mail: [email protected]
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/tandess.music/
twitter: @tandess
[adult swim] bump
Loyalty Freak Music
Recorded and produced by Mark Diaz using Reaper |
global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/5267 | Rain song
The slick sharp shapes of the city are blurred out of focus. The pale bright sky darkens. And then the rain comes. Sudden. Violent. An eviction. There is thunder. Lightning. I sit up. Turn my eyes to the sky, press my nose to the glass. There’s something thrilling about a storm which makes me feel like a child.
I listen to the rain pelt out tinny drum beats on the coloured metal roof tops. I wait. For it to wash everything away: dirt, sin, hope. I wait for it to end. I don’t want it to end. My eyes are bleary with colour block walls and mischievious gods with kohl lined eyes, scorpions which light up in the dark. Wary children with shy smiles and women who turn their backs to me, flashing brightly coloured teeth which nibble at proud whipped crowns. And banana leaves and teak trees, lush highland greens. Limestone mountains jutting into the sky. The electric blue of a birdwing butterfly. And smells I want to jumble up and strike onto hot night time pavements like firecrackers, inhale like anodyne: ripe melon, chrysanthemum tea, steamed yellow corn. Petrol and incense and ginger flowers. Fried banana doused in vinegar.
And the rain. I want to feel the warm rain on me. Sliding down my cheeks and the back of my neck, bouncing off my toes. I want the force of it to perforate me, punch me out onto an unknown landscape. I want to lean into it, let it prop me up, a cut out doll. I want it to drench my clothes to the outline of my flimsy body, dissolve me into a sugary puddle and suck my flip flops off my feet. I remember once, dancing in the rain. There was music. I was laughing, turning, my face and hands reaching to the sky, feeling the happiest I might have ever been. The rain can be a shelter for your loneliness. It can be freeing that way.
Outisde is all colour. Strange and rattling. But inside is quiet. Black and white. And it feels like I’ve slipped back into some watchful heart space, tender and fragrant as a kiss from a frangipane baby. I slouch against the cushioned seats. Soon, the roads are slushy canals. Sharp needles drill out dents in the pocked concrete. The downpour is exhausting. It slants across my vision, sends me into a cross-eyed daze.
We stop outside a restaurant. I see a group of men sitting and eating with their hands, bare foot, cross-legged. Flexing their toes like lizards.
It’s a slow crawl to the hotel, just 5o yards away. But no-one seems to mind about the hold up very much. No-one seems angry, or in a hurry. After all, they know. They’re no match for the sky around here. They wear patience on their sun-beaten faces like masks. A couple of horns beep pathetically and the rain drums on.
We shrug forwards and it calms, picks out a slower, more accidental rhythm. It builds again to the chorus, another unexpected rush of sound. A rising fury. Crescendo. This happens once, twice, three times.
A verse, a chorus, a song, of the rain.
© Emily Hughes, 2018, image and words.
7 Comments on “Rain song
1. Wonderfully told Emily! I experienced exactly such a storm here this afternoon and also had my nose against the window to watch the tremendous rain.
2. This is quite an evocation of some tropical paradise in a rainstorm….especially those smells! And all the sensory images that add so much to the scene. You make me want to go back to the tropics! Happy holidays and a positively creative new year to you, Emily!
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/5276 | Craig Groeschel - Find Your Why
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Craig Groeschel - Find Your Why
How many of you know the purpose of an athletic cup? Just type in the chat I do, if you know the purpose. Raise your hand. How many of you know the purpose of an athletic cup? I thought about holding one up to demonstrate, but I thought that might look a little bit weird today. In fact it's challenging to describe it in a way that's both accurate and appropriate. What I did is I went online and I looked for a definition, the exact definition of an athletic cup, and guess what, I couldn't find one anywhere. I went all over the World Wide Web and couldn't find a single definition of an athletic cup anywhere.
Now, I could find a definition for an athletic supporter or for a jockstrap, but not for an athletic cup. After extensive research and reflection, I came up with my own definition. The best definition I could come up with is an athletic cup is a triangular plastic cup that boys wear playing sports to prevent personal injuries. Imagine a catcher, if you will, actually don't imagine a catcher if you will, but it's a triangular plastic cup that boys wear to prevent personal injuries. Is that a decent definition of an athletic cup? It's important that you understand this. It's a little cup, it's got little holes in it and such.
When I was in the 5th grade, I lived next door to a girl named Missy. Missy was in the 6th grade, she was an older woman, and Missy had a crush on me, and I might have had a crush on Missy. She was older, she had a crush on me. She is what we call a cougar back in the day. Missy came over to my house one time and I told you before that my dad was a professional baseball player, played in the minor leagues, and then he continued to play very competitive fast pitch softball in which he would occasionally wear a triangular plastic cup to protect him from personal injury. Well, my dad left an athletic cup, for some reason, sitting out in the living room in plain sight, when Missy, the older 6th grader, came over to our house.
Well, low and behold, as you would know it, she saw it, didn't know what it was, walked over and picked it up, put it in her hand, and said, "What is this"? We all gasped, as you can imagine, and then she figured out what she believed the purpose was of an athletic cup. She said, "Oh, I know. It's an oxygen mask". The moment she said that, all the oxygen in the room immediately vanished and she put the mask to her face and started breathing in and out, and she said, "Oh, it's an oxygen mask". Very disgusting story to prove a very important point.
If you're taking notes, wherever you are, if you don't know something's purpose, you'll likely abuse it. If you don't understand the purpose behind the creation of a thing, you're very likely to misuse and abuse the purpose of the thing. That's the very reason why some of you today are frustrated. You don't understand your purpose. What's the reason? I don't get it. What's the point? Why bother? It might be in a job that you're busting your tail at and nobody seems to notice or care. What's the point, why do I do this? It might be you're trying to guide your teenagers and all they show you is rebellion and disrespect.
What's the point, why do I do this? It might be you're fighting for your marriage and your spouse doesn't even seem to care at all, and you wonder what's the point, what's the reason, why am I doing this? Maybe there are some of you, you're trying to serve God and you're trying to be faithful, and no matter what you try and how faithful you are, life just continues to seem to go wrong for you, and you think, why bother, why do I even try? What's the purpose? I don't know why, anybody say why? I don't why I try.
The title of today's message is "Find Your Why". There is a reason. There is a purpose. What's your why? Find your why. Father, we ask in the name of Jesus, that as we look at your word, your Spirit would speak to our hearts to motivate us, God, according to your divine purpose to do your will, God, for which we were created. God, help us find our why. In Jesus's name we pray, everybody said, amen. Type it in the comments, amen, amen, amen. This is not something we observe. We're going to participate wherever you are.
Let me show you a scripture in the New Testament that I think is really cool and really powerful. Luke was writing the book of Acts. In Acts 13 verse 36, there's one little verse where he talks about David in the Old Testament, this was David, the man after God's own heart. This was the little boy who grew up to be King David. He said this of David. He said, "Now when David had served God's purpose". Somebody say served God's purpose. Served God's purpose. Whenever "David had served God's purpose in his own generation, he fell asleep", which is a nice way of saying he died, "When David had served God's purpose in his own generation, he fell asleep, he was buried with his ancestors and his body decayed".
Now the last part of that's kind of gross. His body decayed. The first part is amazing. He served God's purpose in his own generation. He found his calling. He understood his why. He accomplished his what. He served God's purpose. In fact, Dr. Myles Munroe is a preacher from the Bahamas. It was in the early '90s I first heard him talk about purpose. In fact I've got notes, and his teaching influences my teaching even today. He said this. He said, "The greatest tragedy in life is not death, but a life without purpose". The greatest tragedy in life is not dying, but it's living without a reason, without understanding your why, not knowing your purpose.
In fact I would argue that perhaps for many of you, that's one of the things about COVID-19. This season is so incredibly frustrating to you because none of us saw this coming, and it's really, really difficult to understand what's the purpose behind this? I mean here we have this massive global panic. So in order to protect people, we're gonna shut the whole world down. In an effort to save lives, of which we will save some, we end up killing the economy, and so we save some lives and we ruin other lives and you start to wonder what's the purpose? In the early season there was a lot of fear and anxiety. What's going to come? That has moved in some places to frustration. I can't take this anymore.
I know some of you, you're setting in to the rhythms and the routines and you're actually kind of enjoying this, and now you've finally got used to it in time to maybe go back to work and the way it was. Ah, I just got into this. But I have a friend who was just so frustrated, and he said, "No matter what, I just can't get going. I'm not motivated. I don't feel any sense of purpose". The very thing he was saying is I've lost my why. I don't have a reason that drives me and motivates me and compels me to a life outside of myself. He lost his why. He's not finding his purpose.
What I want to do today is I want to show you three principles of purpose. David served his purpose in his generation. The first principle of purpose, if you're taking notes, is this. Number one, your purpose isn't for you. Your purpose is God's purpose. Super important. Your purpose is not for you, it's not about you. Your purpose is God's purpose, and David understood this. You can even see him saying it when he was running from Saul in the Old Testament, in Psalm 57 verse two. He said, "I cry out to God Most High, to the God who will fulfill his purpose for me".
Your purpose isn't for you, your purpose is God's purpose. What I love about David is he wasn't trying to find his purpose, what's my purpose, he was fulfilling God's purpose for him. In other words, your purpose isn't for you, your purpose is God's purpose. Now, what is purpose? If we're gonna clearly define it, purpose is original intent. There is an original purpose by a designer who designed you and created you for a purpose outside of yourself. The challenge is if you don't know something's purpose, you'll likely abuse that very thing.
If you don't know the purpose of an athletic cup, whatever you do, do not put it up to your face and pretend like it's an oxygen mask. Don't do that, in the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit, just say no. In fact the very purest definition of sin, in the church world we talk about sin a lot of times, and people think that's just like something gross and horrible that we do, and yes, sin is gross and horrible, but the purest definition for sin, it comes from the Greek word hamartia, which is an archery term that means to miss the mark or to miss the target. What sin is, is it's missing the purpose. It's an abuse. It's a violation of purpose. It's doing something with our lives outside of the God-given unique purpose and calling for us. That's what sin is.
The very reason why so many people fall into sin is they don't know the purpose, so they're always searching, looking for some type of validation. I'll try this job, maybe that will make me happy. I'll try this relationship, I'll go perhaps on this vacation, I'll get this experience, I'll try to get this brand. Maybe off white will make my light shine bright and then I'll finally be happy, whatever it is, and all of life is reduced essentially to just one big experiment. I'm just looking for something, anything that brings me fulfillment and joy because we don't understand the original intent. We're missing the why behind the reason why God created us.
So we experiment and we search and we treat yourself and we pamper yourself. It's all about you, and you do you, boo boo. We look around and we see all these people that have what we think we're looking for and yet they're not even happy when they have what we think we want. You know people, they're popular, and yet they're miserable because they're missing their purpose. They may be powerful, but they hate their own life. Why, no purpose. They may be prosperous, they may be financially blessed, and yet they're still incredibly dissatisfied because there is no purpose.
What do we need to understand is that we are created for heaven, but so many of us are living for this world. We're searching in this world for something this world cannot provide. That's why we have to embrace our why. Understand our purpose. Your purpose isn't for you. Your purpose is God's purpose. He created you for his will, for his purpose and for his glory. Number one, your purpose isn't for you, your purpose is God's purpose. Number two, if you're taking notes, you don't find your purpose, you serve God's purpose. This is so important. You don't just find your purpose. Instead you serve God's purpose.
When you look at David, I love this, he wasn't pursuing his dream. It wasn't all about I've gotta live my bucket list. What he did, Scripture said, is he served God's purpose. In fact I believe it's no coincidence at all that Luke, under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit in the book of Acts, used that phrase served. He served God's purpose. David served God's purpose. In fact, let me show you some examples. If you go back to the Old Testament, whenever Samuel the prophet was looking to choose, under the inspiration of God, who is the next king that's going to rule and reign.
So Samuel the prophet went to the house of ben Jesse and looked at the oldest son who was handsome and strong and smart and scored really high on his ACT and had everything. God said, no, that's not him. And the next son, the next son, the next son, and Samuel couldn't find the one that God wanted to choose. What do you think David was doing whenever Samuel anointed him to be the next king? Let me tell what David was not doing. He wasn't building his resume. He wasn't strategizing about how we was gonna expand his brand to get known everywhere. He wasn't trying to get noticed. He wasn't trying to get discovered. He wasn't looking for his big break. He wasn't making the perfect TikTok video that he was sure that was going to go viral.
What was he doing? He was simply taking care of the sheep. That's what he was doing. He was serving his purpose, taking care of sheep. In fact, this is what Scripture says in Psalm 78 verse 70, that God "chose his servant David, calling him from the sheep pens". Some of you are trying to get in the spotlight when you should be in the sheep pens doing what God created you to do. "He took David from tending the ewes and the lambs and made him the shepherd of Jacob's descendants, God's own people, Israel". Where was David when God called him to his purpose? He was serving, doing what he was faithfully called to do. He wasn't seeking a position, he was serving a purpose.
If you remember whenever Goliath basically held a whole war hostage and everybody was afraid of him. David walked up and ended up, under the power of God, defeating Goliath. Why do you think God chose David in that moment? Again, little David was just probably a teenage boy. He wasn't the biggest, he wasn't the most ripped warrior, he wasn't verified with over 100,000 followers, right? He wasn't the richest, he wasn't the most powerful. He wasn't the business person who just closed the latest deal. What he was is he was a little boy, he was a teenager, who was bringing Lunchables to the warriors on the front line. He was the guy who was faithfully doing what he was asked to do. He was serving when God chose him for that moment. He wasn't hoping for his big break, he was faithfully serving.
What did David do? David served God's purpose. He served God's purpose in his generation. I hope you'll feel this. You may feel locked down in quarantine, but your purpose is not for you. Your purpose is God's purpose. You don't find your purpose, you serve God's purpose. Now, how do you do that? If I want to serve God's purpose, how do I go about doing his will, glorifying and serving his purpose?
Number three, if you want to serve God's purpose, start serving God's people. This is so important. If you want to serve God's purpose, start serving God's people. I feel some people right now going that's so lame. I wanted something big, something important. I don't want to just serve God's people. I want to write a book, tell my story. I want to be an entrepreneur. I want some followers. I want to make six figures. I want to be an influencer. That's so lame. It is never lame to love. If you want to serve God's purpose, you start serving God's people wherever you are.
If this is not below Jesus, when he came, he said, "Here's my purpose". He said, in Mark 10:45, "For even the Son of Man didn't come to be served", didn't come to be important, "but came to serve and to give his life as a ransom for many". If you want to serve God's purpose, start serving God's people. Do it today. It's not about you, it's not for you, it's not for your glory. David was a man after God's own heart. Serve God's people. Get in the game.
Those of you who want to be involved in business and want to be involved in business, don't make it about you. I want to be important. I want to be a CEO. I want to make a name for myself. I want to have a lot of money. No, no, no, no, no. Listen to me, create a product that serves people. Create a service that blesses people, and when you think about blessing people and giving them something that they value, they'll be so excited they'll give you money in exchange for that which you created to bless them, and suddenly you have a business. If I create something valuable to you and you're so excited about it, then I have a little business. If I create something better and the two of you come to me, I've got a little bigger business. If all of you get excited about the value of the product that I've created, I've got a bigger business.
Then suddenly what happens is I can hire somebody else to help me run the business. They're not here to help fulfill my vision, I'm helping them have a job that adds value to their life. It's all about other people. Those of you that are business people, I hope you feel that what you're doing is God-honoring. You're kind of like the guy that that God gave two talents and you multiplied it to four, or God gave you five, you multiplied it. This is God-honoring. What you're doing is you're investing what you have to serve people.
The same is true with content. I want to have a great YouTube following. I want to be verified on Instagram. I want everybody to follow me because I'm so great. No, no, no. You don't start with that. It's not about you. It's about creating something that impacts someone's life. If could even be that it entertains them and just helps them relax. It could be that it helps them get better or closer to God. It's about creating content that serves and blesses people. When I started a leadership podcast, it wasn't like, hey, I want to have the biggest leadership podcast around. It's what I want to do sincerely, and I hope you feel it, is create content that helps you grow better as a leader. If it helps you, you tell people and suddenly there's value in helping other people along the way. You don't serve your own ideas, you serve God's purposes.
Same with those of you that want to build that big ministry. Don't start with that. That's almost insulting to God. I want to build a big ministry. No, just love somebody faithfully. Serve them when nobody's looking. Love one person faithfully, and if their life is blessed, they're gonna tell someone else, and suddenly you're loving and serving two people faithfully, and then all of a sudden more people want to join you, and we're coming together saying together we can make a big difference in this world. It doesn't start with what I want, it starts with what God wants. It's you serve his purpose. You get involved where you are. You serve to make a difference, and that's where the fulfillment is. You feel locked down, you feel frustrated because you can't do what you want to do. Don't let the devil rob you of your why.
Serve where you are today. You aren't called to seek a platform or power or position, you're called to serve God's people. Get creative wherever you are. Pick up groceries for a neighbor and deliver them to serve them, to make a difference. Make masks for someone who needs a mask. Volunteer to deliver prescriptions to somebody. Become a prayer warrior right where you are. Nobody has to know. Just God, just you. Get down on your knees and believe for healing for somebody who's sick. Serve at church online. There's 170 or 80 services every week, and we're reaching people, and you're out of the game. Get in the game and make a difference. Do an online life group. Give a gift to someone, write notes to those who maybe are stuck in a nursing home. Get in the game.
Here's the thing. You don't have to launch a non-profit. I'm gonna have my own little organization. No, no, no, no. Just go. Do what Amy did. Go pick up a gift card, sneak over to a widow's house who's on a fixed income, can't get out of the house because she's at risk, drop the gift card in the mailbox, no note, no credit, no name, just drop and run and smile. You served God's purpose. Do what my daughter, Joy, did. Get a bunch of friends together, make a bunch of cookies, write a bunch of notes for leaders who have blessed them in the church. Then go drop the cookies and the notes off in their mailbox and run and smile. But when you do that, save a cookie for your dad. Because my daughter didn't save a cookie for her dad.
Do what my son, Sam, did. He posted a Scripture online and a girl asked a spiritual question. She said, I'm not a believer, and engaged in an on-going dialogue through DMs, and she ended up recognizing her need for Jesus and he led her to Christ like that. Do what my son, Steven, did. Reach out to someone who's down and discouraged and pray for them, encourage them, lift them up. Don't let the devil talk you out of your why. Why might you feel a little empty right now, like you're missing something? It's because maybe you're missing something. You're missing the opportunity to do what you were created to do, to serve someone.
Have you ever found that the greatest joy in life, the greatest thrill is when you're used by God to make a difference in someone else's life? You can get that something you want. I finally got the watch, I finally got the shoes, I got the purse, the brand. It's fun for about that long. You can go to some great place. We finally went there, and it's refreshing, and I hope you do that, but it wears off. Whenever you find yourself in the lives of someone else, making a difference, there's fulfillment. That's your purpose. That's your purpose. That's your purpose. Your purpose isn't one big future event. I'm gonna write a book. I'm gonna produce movies one day. No, no, no, no, no. Your purpose is being faithful to Jesus today. It's faithfully serving today.
I told you about Paco. Paco is my workout partner. I said, what's the hardest thing on you with this whole COVID deal? He's in construction, so he's still working and he's excited about that. He said, I just miss church. I loved hearing that, like yeah. He said, I miss church. I asked him, what do you miss about church, because I knew he was going to say I miss seeing you preach in person. He didn't say that. I knew what he was gonna say. I miss the worship, worshiping with all the people. He didn't say that. What Paco said was, he said, I miss serving. I miss serving. I miss hugging the people and helping them feel love. I like serving them. You don't get paid for that. Nobody gives you an award. There's no, like, you're the best servant. I mean you give your time for free and all you get is a red shirt? I miss serving because there's nothing in life that fulfills you as much as doing what fulfills God's purpose.
David served his purpose in his generation. He served God's purpose. If you don't know the purpose of a thing, you'll likely end up abusing it. What's your purpose? Your purpose isn't to binge watch Netflix. Your purpose isn't to save up whatever money you have. Your purpose isn't to become famous or well known or powerful. Your purpose is always for God's glory. You serve his purpose. What was David doing? He was taking care of the sheep, he was serving his brothers bringing lunch. Wherever you are, don't let the devil talk you out of it. Are you going to have to be creative? Yeah, be creative. Use your brain. Get innovative. If you love people enough, you will find a way. You can make excuses or you can make a difference, but you can't make both. Tell the excuses to get behind you, tell the devil to get behind you and serve God's purpose.
David was a man after God's own heart, and that's why he served God's purpose. I couldn't be more thankful for a church of people that are God-centered and others focused. You are generous, you are prayerful, you are evangelistic in heart. This isn't a season that we're trying to get through. This is a season that we're maximizing. I charge you to fulfill your purpose today. You will never find more joy than when you share God's love. It's not about you. It's never supposed to be about you. David served God's purpose. I pray you would do the very same thing.
Father, today we ask in the name of Jesus that your Spirit would speak into kitchens and living rooms and bedrooms and back porches through mobile devices and televisions and computers today, and that you would stir up your church to move from frustration with what we can't do to passion to do what you've called us to do, God. We're not gonna wait for a red shirt and church to be open to serve. We're gonna sense your Spirit and follow your voice and do what you've created us to do today, God. Stir within the hearts of your people.
Living rooms, bedrooms, wherever you are, those of you who say, yeah, I want to serve God's purpose, just by faith lift up your hand. It may be seem silly right now. There's a lot of things silly. Just do it. Type in the chat, I'm in, I'm in, I'm in, I'm in. I want God's purpose. I want to serve God's purpose. Just type it in.
Father, I pray that there wouldn't be a day go by that we wouldn't see divine opportunities to serve someone in need. God, not for our own glory, not just for our own benefit, but, God, to do what you created us to do, to honor you in every way, fulfilling the purpose for which we were created. God, help us to serve you by serving others. God, I thank you in advance for all the ways that people are gonna be blessed, both those who are receiving and those who are blessed by being a blessing. God, may we be a church full of people more blessed because we give more to make a difference for your glory in this world. God, use us wherever we are to serve your purpose.
As you keep praying today, wherever you are, some of you may realize I'm empty, I'm hurting. I feel alone, I feel desperate, I feel afraid. Maybe your life has been an experiment. Maybe you've been missing God's purpose. What is sin? We talked about it. Sin is missing the mark, and the reality is that every single one of us, we've all sinned. You've sinned, I've sinned, we've messed up. Why do you feel that sense of guilt? How does it just happen? It's because God created you for him, for his glory, and you recognize, even if you're not a Jesus person, you feel a sense of I did something wrong.
The truth is all of us have sinned. But the good news is God sent Jesus, who fulfilled his purpose. Jesus was the Son of God, who never ever sinned. He came to serve and to give his life as a ransom to pay back, to purchase the forgiveness of our sins with the shedding of innocent blood. When someone sins, someone must die. We sinned, and Jesus died in our place. The good news is our God raised him from the dead, so that anyone, everyone, this includes you. It doesn't matter who you are, it doesn't matter the questions you have, it doesn't matter the doubts in your mind, it doesn't matter how ashamed you are of what you've done, what you said, what you thought, what you feel. Anyone who calls on that name, the name of Jesus, the name that is above every name. God will hear your prayer. He will forgive every sin you've ever created. He will fill you with his Spirit, and you can start serving God's purpose today.
Those who say, I need him, I want his forgiveness for my sins, I want his Spirit to lead me, I want to serve his purpose today, I turn from my sins, I turn toward Jesus. Jesus, I give you my life. God, I want to serve your purpose. That's your prayer. You can lift your hand wherever you are. You can type it in the chat. I'm giving my life to Jesus. I'm giving my life to Jesus right now. I can feel it. I can't see it, but I can feel you all over the world saying, yes, Jesus, I surrender my life to you, and I would love all eight people in this room just to join your faith with those around you and pray this aloud where you are. Just everybody pray.
Heavenly Father, forgive my sins. Jesus, save me and make me new. Fill me with your Spirit so I can live for you, so I can serve your purpose. My life is not my own. I give it all to you. Use me today and every day to serve your purpose by serving people for your glory. In Jesus' name I pray.
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A singer is a person who sings. Anyone who is singing is a singer. Some people do it as a job (professional singer), others may sing without being paid (amateur singer). Singers may sing anything: songs, opera etc. They may be accompanied by an instrument or an orchestra. Some singers also play a musical instrument such as piano, guitar or harp while they sing (they accompany themselves). Singing is important in movies and in the theatre.Example : ( cherian george XI A )
The lead vocalist (lead vocal or lead singer) is the member of a band who sings the main solo vocal portions of a song. The lead vocalist may also play one or more instruments, and is usually the "leader" of their group, often the spokesperson in interviews and before the public. The lead vocalist is sometimes referred to as the frontman. For example, Jerry Garcia was the lead singer and frontman for the Grateful Dead.[1]
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A good singer will have to think of a lot of different things in a performance. Good vocal technique, a large vocal range, as well as feeling the song through emotional language and breathing, and also acting to provide a song with meaning. A good singer may be able to learn a song quickly, but it may take some time before they really feel it has become "part of them". A lead singer has to be a strong singer since other vocalists must sing accordingly.[2]
Tom Jones a world-famous Jazz singer
Singers can sing as a solo, or in a group or a choir. Choirs can include gospel music, church music and even pop songs where there are usually two groups of singers, soprano and alto. Sopranos have a higher range and altos have a lower range. Combining these two can create various harmonies which add textures to songs and make them more interesting to listen to.
People who want a career in singing should start young. This means having lots of experience in music, including being able to read music and learning to perform music with other people. Serious vocal training should only begin when the body is more mature (mid- or late teenager).
People may feel like singing for various reasons. They may want to share their feelings with other people. They may be feeling happy about something, or sad, or excited, frustrated or angry. Singing is an art in which mood is expressed through the voice.
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1. "The Grateful Dead Biography". The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum, Inc. Retrieved 29 January 2015.
2. Rachel L. Lebon, The Professional Vocalist: A Handbook for Commercial Singers and Teachers (Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 1999), p. 69
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/5333 | LAMP Stack on an ARM ChromeBook
UPDATE: Please click here for a new, and better, approach to LAMP on your ARM (or really, any) ChromeBook
tl;dr: Skip to the step by step setup instructions.
This article explains how to get a fully functional LAMP stack running on a Samsung ARM-based ChromeBook. I’m indebted to many, many sources for pieces of what you’ll find below – please see the “References” section below for a complete list of sources used in this post.
Please note that this article is not for those who wish to boot (or dual-boot) a complete linux distribution on their ARM ChromeBook. For that, see this post about ChrUbuntu. There’s also this post about using an ARM ChromeBook as a development platform for Go, for those interested in that.
One of my key projects at present is the Annotum project, a scholarly authoring and publishing platform built on WordPress. Most of my work is done on a PC. I use git to access the Annotum source code repository on GitHub, a local editor to edit php, css, js, and other files (I use notepad++), ‘office’ applications such as Excel and Word for documentation, and an image editor for logos and the like (I use Photoshop Elements on my PC).
For WordPress and Annotum development on my PC, I use a handy WAMP stack called Server2Go to run local instances of Apache, MySQL, and php; there’s even a packaged version of Annotum called Annotum2Go that I use for testing and local demos.
So, when I got my new ChromeBook a few weeks ago, I was interested to see how capable this small, light, and very inexpensive machine would be for my daily work. I loved the simplicity of both the hardware and software – it has great battery life, the performance is fast enough not to be noticeable, and the size and weight remind me of a Macbook Air (at around a quarter of the price). The ChromeBook is truly a joy to use in day-to-day web browsing, email, and other lightweight tasks. But what about as a software development workstation?
ChromeOS allows me to do much of my work out of the box: I can use Google Docs (or Office Web Apps) instead of Word and Excel, and Pixlr Editor for image editing. With developer mode enabled, I can even open a shell and edit local files using vim (albeit a very limited, minimal version included with ChromeOS).
I looked around for some browser/Chrome Apps that would edit text, but eventually settled on using VIM. VIM has a steep learning curve, but it is ubiquitous on linux systems and worth learning. However, as I got into the VIM tutorial, I realized that many of the nicer features of VIM (such as visual mode) are not included in the version compiled with ChromeOS.
On other linux distributions, I’d normally use a package management system such as apt-get, yum, or emerge, to get a more complete version of VIM installed, but ChromeOS does not include any such tool. I realized that if I could get a package mangement tool up and running, I could probably get not only VIM and git, but also Apache, MySQL, and PHP as well. So I set out to make this happen.
After a relatively short period of googling, I hit upon this gist, which is really the key to this whole approach. Rather than re-partitioning the drive and installing an entire OS including the boot/kernel portion, this approach let me keep all the cool ChromeOS stuff, while still accessing my ‘real’ development toolkit at the same time. I can’t thank chrisavl enough for this!
Project Objectives
• Retain access to ChromeOS features – run the Chrome browser and all other built in tools and features of ChromeOS
• Run a complete linux distribution, in particular one with a package management system
• Add development tools such as the full version of VIM, git, etc. Check out, edit, test, and commit code changes both locally and back to GitHub.
• Install and run a complete apache/mysql/php/smtp stack locally
• Install and run a local copy of WordPress
Step-by-step setup instructions
1. Set your ChromeBook to developer mode
• Hold down [esc] and [refresh] and tap the power button. This will bring up the scary ‘recovery’ screen.
• Press [ctrl+d] to go into developer mode (there’s no prompt – you have to know to do it). Note that all local settings and data will be wiped.
• After the machine reboots into developer mode, you’ll be at the scary ‘not verified’ startup screen. Wait 30 seconds for it to boot, or press [ctrl+d] to start immediately.
2. Set up a local arch linux environment
cd /usr/local
sudo mkdir arch
sudo chown chronos.chronos arch
cd arch
sudo tar xzvf /home/user/*/Downloads/ArchLinuxARM-imx6-latest.tar.gz .
• Create a script containing the following commands (you can use vi which is already installed).
vi ~/
Put the following commands into your script:
# - switch from ChromeOS to Arch Linux
if uname -a | grep -q SAMSUNG ; then
echo "Changing Root to Arch Linux"
sudo cp /etc/resolv.conf /usr/local/arch/etc/resolv.conf
sudo mount -o bind /dev /usr/local/arch/dev
sudo mount -t devpts -o rw,nosuid,noexec,relatime,mode=620,gid=5 none /usr/local/arch/dev/pts
# link to the chronos home so it's accessible from arch linux
# (including the Downloads folder)
sudo mount -o bind /home/chronos/user /usr/local/arch/root
sudo mount -t proc proc /usr/local/arch/proc
sudo mount -t sysfs sys /usr/local/arch/sys
sudo chroot /usr/local/arch /bin/bash
sudo umount /usr/local/arch/dev/pts
sudo umount /usr/local/arch/dev
sudo umount /usr/local/arch/proc
sudo umount /usr/local/arch/sys
sudo umount /usr/local/arch/root
# don't change to arch linux if it's already running!
echo "You're already running `uname -a`"
exit 0
• Now you can enter arch linux from the ChromeOS terminal shell by typing
. ~/
• After you run the script, you’ll be running arch linux, and most importantly you’ll have access to the pacman package installer.
• To exit arch linux, simply type
to get back to the regular ChromeOS shell.
Note: if you want the home directory to be executable (for example, if you will be compiling programs or writing scripts and storing them there), you will want to add a line like the following to your .bashrc file:
sudo mount -i -o remount,exec /home/chronos/user/
See this gist for a more complete .bashrc example that I use.
3. Install the LAMP stack
Install Apache
Before installing any of the LAMP programs, update the package manager:
pacman -Syu
IMPORTANT: If you get errors running pacman, try enabling a different mirror.
Once the update is complete, we can install Apache:
pacman -S apache
Open up the apache configuration file:
nano /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf
Comment out the unique_id_module (you can use ctrl+w to find it quickly in nano):
#LoadModule unique_id_module modules/
Restart Apache:
/etc/rc.d/httpd restart
Using Chrome (in another tab than the one running the shell), navigate to http://localhost – which should display an (empty) auto-index directory. Add a sample index page:
nano /srv/http/index.html
Include this text (or whatever you’d like):
<body><h2>Hello World!</h2>
Welcome to Arch on ChromeBook!
Navigate to http://localhost/index.html to see the new page.
Install MySQL
pacman -S mysql
Start it up
rc.d start mysqld
Run the MySQL set up script:
Press [enter] when asked for the root password (which isn’t set yet), and enter a new root password if desired. After that it’s easiest just to say Yes to all the options. At the end, MySQL will reload and implement the new changes.
Install PHP
pacman -S php php-apache
Add php to the apache configuration file:
nano /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf
Paste in this text block within the config.
# Use for PHP 5.x:
LoadModule php5_module modules/
AddHandler php5-script php
Include conf/extra/php5_module.conf
Check the PHP setup with a phpinfo page. Create a new blank file:
nano /srv/http/info.php
The file should contain:
<?php phpinfo(); ?>
Save and Exit, then restart apache so that all of the changes take effect:
/etc/rc.d/httpd restart
And finally navigate to http://localhost/info.php to see the result.
IMPORTANT: if you will be installing WordPress (see below), you need to install and enable php-gd:
pacman -S php-gd
Update php.ini to enable gd:
nano /etc/php/php.ini
Uncomment the following line:
4. Install phpmyadmin and sSMTP
IMPORTANT: this is all wide open and may be insecure. This configuration is only appropriate for a local dev system that is appropriately firewalled. Use at your own risk, YMMV, etc.
Install phpmyadmin
Install the phpmyadmin and php-mcrypt packages:
pacman -S phpmyadmin php-mcrypt
Configuration Copy the example configuration file to your httpd configuration directory.
cp /etc/webapps/phpmyadmin/apache.example.conf /etc/httpd/conf/extra/httpd-phpmyadmin.conf
# phpMyAdmin configuration
Include conf/extra/httpd-phpmyadmin.conf
Adjust access rights. To allow access from any host, edit /etc/webapps/phpmyadmin/.htaccess and change
deny from all
allow from all
Note security caveat from above!
Enable mysqli and mcrypt (if you want phpMyAdmin internal authentication) modules:
nano /etc/php/php.ini
Uncomment the following lines:
Install sSMTP
sSMTP is a simple mail transfer agent or MTA – it will send, but not receive mail. I install it so that my WordPress installation can send mail (Annotum relies on email notifications for some workflow features).
These steps will enable sending mail via a Gmail account using sSMTP
pacman -S ssmtp
nano /etc/ssmtp/ssmtp.conf
Comment out everything, and add the following lines (thanks, Tombuntu!):
Test sSMTP by sending a test message:
Subject: test email
hello world!
Note the blank line after the Subject, and finish with a [ctrl+d] to send. Check to see that you received the email. Note that the from address in the received email can be modified via the instructions found on this page (search for “Change the ‘From’ text”). Note that there are various other configuration options on that page, but I didn’t find any of them (apart from editing the ssmtp.conf file) to be necessary to get up and running on my ChromeBook.
5. Install and run WordPress
Create a database by navigating to http://localhost/phpmyadmin and logging in with ‘root’ and the password you created for the root user above. Click on ‘users’, ‘add a user’, name it, click the button to generate a password, and finally check the box to create a new database with the same name and grant all privileges. Copy the generated password for later use.
Once the db is created, get the latest WordPress:
cd ~
tar -xzvf latest.tar.gz
mv wordpress /srv/http
Navigate to http://localhost/wordpress and follow the prompts, first to create a configuration file, then entering the database information. Use the database and user names you created in phpmyadmin, and ‘localhost’ for the server. Finally, paste in the generated password.
Follow the rest of the WordPress installation, and soon you should be able to log into your new WordPress site on ChromeOS!
If you set up sSMTP correctly, you should also get an email at the address you gave for the admin user.
Note: if you cannot select different image sizes when attaching media to posts (e.g. you only see an option for “Full Size” and no “thumbnail” or “medium”) make sure you have installed and enabled php-gd as described above.
6. (optional) Install other tools using pacman
I use VIM and Git, so I install them with
pacman -S git vim
7. Finishing up
For my implementation, I like to manually start and stop apache and mysql, so I wrote this easy pair of scripts to do that: - starts Apache and MySQL
rc.d start mysqld
/etc/rc.d/httpd restart - stops Apache and MySQL
rc.d stop mysqld
/etc/rc.d/httpd stop
Many, many thanks to the creators and maintainers of the following resources, without which this page would not exist.
Questions, comments? Please contact me @gcto, comment here, or use the contact form above.
Happy LAMPing!
50 thoughts on “LAMP Stack on an ARM ChromeBook
1. Thank you so much for this great article! This is what convinced me to go ahead and give Chromebook a try.
I’m having several issues, though, that no one else seems to be having. I’ll just start with the first one, as the other issues may stem from it.
When I run, I see bash: sudo: command not found. Then I’m dropped into root@localhost. It appears that the line that is causing the “bash: sudo: command not found” is the chroot line. I typed each line into the command prompt manually, and each line worked until that line, which gave me the same result as running the script.
I’m literate in unix/linux, but by no means an expert. I hope this question is not out of place.
Again, thank you so much for this article!
2. The gist by chrisavl and your own instructions both say to use the ARM imx6-latest. Upon checking out the site they have a different download listed specifically for Chromebooks (ArchLinuxARM-chromebook-latest.img.gz) under the heading of ARMv7 where I’m making the assumption that the earlier imx6 means ARMv6. a) Would using this work? b) Would using this work exactly the same as using the other version? b) If it would work, is there any reason to pick one or the other?
1. a) Give it a try and see!
b) I have no idea if it would be the same. Usually later versions work fine, but not always.
b) (c?) If it would work, I’d use the one that’s chromebook-specific and/or newer.
It’d be great if you’d give this a try and reply back here.
1. 1) Forgive my delay, I thought I’d automatically get an email when my comment was replied to so I only just checked this now. Did I just miss a checkbox?
2) So the Chromebook-specific image is a .img.gz to be written to an SD card or USB3 drive whereas your image is a .tar.gz. I’m inexperienced enough to know neither if one can nor how to go from one to the other. Some quick Googling and trying commands didn’t work, so I’ll have to look into it more later.
3. I’ve been trying this, but I can’t seem to get further as step 2.
I’m running chrome on the Acer C7.
When I made the go to script, it gives me the message that I’m already running linux. It does execute some of it’s functions but it does not enable me to run pacman and I’m still in the normal shell environment.
Any idea what I’m missing? the files are all in place in /usr/local/arch/
1. I found out after reading a bit more carefully, the script is based on the samsung machines, see the str SAMSUNG, change it to something which matches the chromebook, I used 847
4. I’ve completed the steps up to the point of being able to run the script and enter the Arch Linux chroot environment. I am able to run pacman and other command line utilities, however name resolution is not working. I.e. “ping” results in unknown host As a result, pacman and other utilities are pretty much useless because they can’t connect to the mirrors to obtain updates and new packages.
5. Is their a way to install a gui in this thing? I’m relativley new to linux, and liked the idea of having linux in a chrome tab. But when I try to use Allegro, a game library, it does not compile. I think it need the x window system or something.
1. Definitely have a look at crouton which will get you set up with Unity or another graphical environment. It uses Ubuntu and not Arch Linux, but it is another (and simpler?) way to use chroot to install a linux distribution on a Chromebook.
1. Thank you so much! I had Chrubuntu running on an sd card but the fact that I can easily switch between crouton and chrome os and not have to reboot made crouton better.
6. Hi Thank you so much for these instructions works great. One question maybe you can help. I have everything running but in Apache I want “/root/Downloads/ApacheWWW” to be my DocumentRoot but I keep getting the Permission Denied error in localhost. I have tried chmod for the directories but still no go, is there anyway to do this? Basically I want to have a visual file system for the HTML files.
Thanks Again for the great work.
1. Ok figured it out, I had to chmod /root to prevent the apache error “Access Denied” when accessing /root/Downloads/ApacheWWW as my Document root, also added “Allow access all” to the conf. Now I can just drag files from GDrive or Flash drive to my ApacheWWW folder and they will execute on the server.
Thanks again.
7. Once you have LAMP running, how do you develop? It seems all the IDE’s in the Chrome Store are just links to online stuff. Is there an easy way to type code and save into the appropriate httpd directory without having to be a command line guru?
1. Personally, I use vim and command-line git for all of my PHP/CSS/JS development, and for editing images. I’m no guru, but I find that vim, grep, git, and the like are relatively easy to learn and use — help is usually a quick google away.
8. Dear sir, thanx for that page, as a total noob, i managed to get to the step 2, i’m blocked at : vi ~/
when i do that i have a column of ~ coming and i can’t figure out how to start typing the script in here.
Does any of you linux masters have any tips to COPY/PASTE that script into it, or how can i start typing in it , it looks like the main cursor is locked and produces a slight “tilt” sound whenever i try to type something.
1. vi can be a little tricky to use at first. The main things you need to know are:
• Type esc, then :q to quit (notice the colon “:”)
• Type :w to write changes (save)
• To enter new text, press i to enter ‘insert’ mode.
• In the bash shell on ChromeOS, in vi, in insert mode, you can press CTRL+SHIFT+V to paste text you copied from the browser.
You can also just type the commands in manually, get into arch linux, then use pacman to install a simpler editor such as nano that can be a bit easier to use.
For more on vi/vim, see:
1. @Mike – I’m working through a modification of your revised script to get past the “can’t restart crosh” problem once I run Arch and then exit all the way out of all shells and close the terminal tab. Can you shed a little more light on how you are tracking mount/umount and the locks in your script?
1. Carl,
Have you been able to come up with a solution for the issue where you cannot open another crosh tab without rebooting? I tried adapting the linked gist, but it didn’t seem to help me.
1. Carl,
I found that the issue had to do with the mounting options for devpts. I changed the line to match the original mounting options, and I am able to open simultaneous crosh/chrooted terminals with no problems.
1. Fantastic – works great!! I’ve updated the appropriate line in the original example code.
Thank you so much for following up and posting back.
9. Hello again,
I’m finding a PATH issue that I thought you might have an idea about. For example, the vim text editor is already installed under the ChromeOS “shell”. It’s a minimal version, so I used pacman to install vim (7.3.754) myself. I then noticed that setting $HOME/.vimrc has no effect. I also notice that typing vi instead of vim will still invoke the ChromeOS version. How can I clear things up here? Is it possible to remove the ChromeOS PATH from the archlinux PATH? Is that the right thing to do? Help me sever the chains!
10. Wow, this is exactly what I was looking for, no need to mess around with partitioning or alsa! When I exit Arch and then try to open a new terminal however, I get the message “Opening crosh process failed. The command crosh completed with exit code 1. Please close this window at your leisure.” It seems like this is an issue of not mounting the ChromeOS filesystem on the exit of this script, but I’m only moderately knowledgable in this area of Linux. What can be done so that a new terminal window can be opened after closing the Arch one?
11. Thanks again. Now I’m wondering why you don’t call in there too. Do you not always want to run under archlinux?
Btw. sqlite was needed by mercurial, but I get a 404. Also, after installing clang, running it gives an error as can’t be found. It seems like the latter is known anyway;
One other question: I should mount my SD card as I will certainly run out of space in a few months. (Can’t believe I just upgraded the 40 GB of my broken ASUS 1000 netbook for 16 GB.) Which filesystem systemwould you recommend? Root already seems to be using ext3, but I believe ext4 is supported; also by Google themselves.
It’s a good question! I actually have the script aliased as go so it’s quick to get into Arch; I suppose one reason is that since I’m still tweaking my settings, it’s nice to be able to exit out to the ChromeOS shell and then go back into Arch.
As to your SD card question – that’s a bit beyond me. I would choose whatever will work with any other system(s) to which you may need to transfer your SD card.
Personally, I’m not storing much of anything locally on the ChromeBook – I put most code and work in progress either on Google Drive or on GitHub. I’m also looking at using the FUSE over Amazon to mount some AWS S3 space as local storage.
12. Thanks. I’ve also had no problem with those messages and am totally chuffed with all this. I can do a lot of C++ and Haskell coding with this. GCC 4.7.2 (the latest release) thanks to pacman. Nice.
One thing you might help me with: the original chronos home looked a bit messy, so I make a new directory (work) there and thought I’d do everything in there. When I run archlinux I tried
cd $HOME/work/cpp
and then compiled hello world using GCC.
g++ hello.cpp
This results in the expected a.out, but if I try to execute it, I am am told:
Permission denied.
If I don’t do that cd, and just compile hello.cpp in the / directory, the result is executable. Perhaps my new “home from home” should be within /home? I could just
mkdir myname
and cd there after I run your script.
1. My experience is as follows: Within $HOME, I have a directory called local-dev.
If I cd ~/local-dev and run g++ hello.cpp I also get a.out – which runs fine.
One piece that may be missing for you is the .bashrc that I run, which you can find in this gist. Note that on line 12 of the .bashrc file, I [re]mount the home directory with
. That lets me execute scripts and programs within $HOME, regardless of whether I’m using arch linux or ChromeOS “linux”.
As an aside, the gist also contains some prompt fun for use with git and a few aliases that I use.
13. This is very interesting as I’m leaning towards a chromebook for personal LAMP stack development. I’m interested to know how it’s going. Is the 2GB of ram enough to run everything you need for extended amounts of time? How about storage issues? Do you use an external hardrive or usb flash drive? Basically I’m looking for a followup “so I’ve been doing LAMP staack dev on my chromebook and this is how it’s going” Pros and cons kind of thing.
1. Hi Greg,
I won’t pretend that I’m doing hard core development by any means, but for my needs – editing php/js/CSS, phpmyadmin, and running and testing WordPress, this setup works really well. Performance is excellent; it feels comparable to a fairly new Thinkpad running win7 and the server2go wamp stack. Git, vim, and other tools are snappy as well. I’d be curious to hear how the ChromeBookArmLAMP performs with larger databases or load, but for me it has been great.
One real advantage of not dual-booting with another distro is the savings on disk space. I have a good 8gb free even with all the tools and LAMP installed.
Thanks for the comment,
14. Amazing. Thankyou. It all works very nicely. I have one question. When running pacman I often get a few warnings such as:
warning: could not get filesystem information for /mnt/stateful_partition: No such file or directory
warning: could not get filesystem information for /usr/share/oem: No such file or directory
Do you have any idea about them?
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/5335 | I managed to get Protools 8.05 working on Mavericks. I installed protools first then, Mbox_2_USB_10_3_3_Driver_79050-2 Its the driver for Protools 10. To get play back through the headphones go to playback engine and crank the buffer to 2048. I tried the other buffers ->1048 is scratchy and anything under this there no audio whatsoever.
Does anyone know how to get buffer setting under 2048 without having to revert back to the previous version of Mac OS?
• Mbox 2 Mini does not work correctly -- if at all -- with Mavericks. I used it use a mini with my MacBook Pro and as soon as I upgrade it stop working. I couldn't even get sound out of it. I did a Google search and found that it's not supported in Mavericks and Avid did not and will update the drivers for it. – Jae Oct 22 '14 at 3:42
• I did have it working though only with the buffer at 2048 on the original Maverick that was released. This was pointless though and I have reverted back to OS 10.8.5 so that I can use my Mbox 2. – uplearnedu.com Oct 22 '14 at 5:34
I think the only way to get good buffer and full functionality of protools is to revert to Mountian Lion for now till Avid comes up with an update. I have gone back to Mountain lion and I'm using protools 8.05. It works great without any problems. I also discovered that for Windows 7 64-bit Protools 8.0 works and my friend uses 8.01 and says it works well too ( I have not tested 8.01 yet but will when I have more data.
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• Yeah most definitely, PT 8 le works fine on windows 7 64 as I've used many times with the mbox 3rd gen no issues at all. And that's running boot camp on my mbp.. However if you check out the compatibility page for pro tools and osx you'll find that it says 10.6x was the last osx that supported PT 8.0.5, unfortunately, and I like to use Mavericks or Yosemite. So I just use PT on windows at the mo. – Chris Phillips Leeds Met Jun 19 '15 at 12:05
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/5352 | Using SQLA
Situation: - Client database contains FKs with cascading deletes. - Oracle consolidated contains same FKs, but not with cascading delete clause. - error occurred during ML sync when deleting a row with child rows.
My Initial Assumption: - When I issue a delete on a parent row, the cascading delete option causes deletes to be issued for each child row. - these deletes will be in the transaction logs, and thus used by MobiLink. - ML orders the upload data stream by examining FK definitions to insure referential integrity will be maintained. - Therefore, the upload stream will issue child deletes on the consolidated database before the parent row. - MobiLink will have done all the work for me and life will be good.
But the error tells me my Initial Assumption must be faulty. I am asking 2 questions: 1. Where did my Initial Assumption get off track? 2. If I merely add “ON DELETE CASCADE” to the FKs on the consolidated, will that eliminate the error?
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to your first question:
Trigger-generated actions are not contained in the updload stream by default. This can be changed by the SendTriggers extended option. Note that all RI actions (except RESTRICT), i.e. CASCADE, SET NULL and SET DEFAULT, are implemented by system triggers.
You may also check the similar question will-a-publication-upload-trigger-generated-data-to-mobilink.
To your second question: I guess this should work but I do not know the Oracle implementation. I remember having had some trouble with cascading deletes and ML used between SQL Anywhere and MS SQL Server, though. In that case, SendTriggers might be the easier solution...
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Thanks Volker. This is good to know (RI via system triggers).
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/5357 | At the time when Brother James of Fallerone, a man of great sanctity, was dangerously ill in the Convent of Moliano, in the custody of Fermo, Brother John of Alvernia, who was then living in the Convent of Massa, hearing of his illness, and loving him as his dear father, began to pray for him, imploring God most devoutly in prayer to restore to Brother James the health of the body, if such were for the good of his soul. As he prayed he was rapt in ecsasty, and he saw in the air a great army of angels and saints above his cell, which was in the forest; they were surrounded by such splendour and glory, that all the country round was illuminated. Among the angels he saw the said Brother James, for whom he was praying, clothed in white and shining raiment; he saw also the holy father St Francis, with the sacred stigmata of Christ on his hands and feet, most glorious; he likewise beheld Brother Lucido the holy, and Brother Matthew of Monte Rubbiano, and many other brothers whom he had neither seen nor known in this life. And as he contemplated with great delight that holy band of saints, it was revealed to him that the sick brother for whom he had been praying would die of the disease whereof he was lying ill, and that his soul would be saved; but that he would not go straight to heaven after death, as it was necessary he should be purified for a time in purgatory. And this revelation made to Brother John filled his heart with such joy that he did not grieve over the death of Brother James, but experienced great sweetness in his soul; and he said with himself: "Brother James, my sweet father; Brother James, my sweet brother; Brother James, faithful servant and friend of God; Brother James, companion of the angels and one of the army of saints!" And s he was thus rejoicing he came to himself; and leaving the convent immediately, he went to visit Brother James at Moliano, and found him so much worse that he could scarcely speak. Then he announced to him the death of his body and the salvation and glory of his soul, of which he was certain through divine revelation; and Brother James received him most joyfully, thanking him for the good news he brought, and praying him devoutly not to forget him. Brother John begged him after death to come to him and tell him where he was and how it fared with him, which Brother James promised to do if it should please the Lord.
The moment of his death approaching, Brother James began to repeat with great devotion the verse of the psalm, In pace in idipsum dormiam et requiescam; which signifieth, "I will go to sleep in peace, and will rest in life eternal"; and having said these words, he left this world, with joyful countenance. When he was buried, Brother John returned to the Convent of Massa, and there awaited the accomplishment of the promise of Brother James that he would appear to him after death. As he was in prayer on that same day, Christ, the blessed one, appeared to him surrounded by a multitude of angels and saints; but Brother James was not with them, which thing greatly surprised Brother John, who recommended him most devoutly to Christ the blessed. The following day, as he was again praying in the forest, Brother James appeared in the company of angels, his countenance beaming with joy; and Brother John said to him: "O most dear Father, why didst thou not appear to me on the day thou promised?" Brother James answered: "Because it was necessary that I should be purified in purgatory; but at the same hour that Christ appeared to thee, and in which thou didst recommend me to him, he granted thy prayer and I was freed from all suffering, and I appeared to Brother James of Massa, a holy lay brother, who was serving Mass; and I saw the consecrated Host, when the priest lifted it up, changed into a beautiful living child; and I said to him, This day I shall go with him to life eternal, where none can go without him.'" And having said these words, Brother James disappeared, and went up to heaven with the holy company of angels, and Brother John was greatly comforted. The said Brother James of Fallerone died on the Vigil of St James the Apostle, in the month of July, in the above-named Convent of Moliano; and through his merits the divine Goodness wrought many miracles after his death. |
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Mourning of the soul
I cried the other day.
I needed a hug I could drown in.
When they shut the borders down
The symbol of freedom lost, had my heart like Jack after Jill, tumbling right after.
It was like every door they locked when they announced lockdown, bottled up my soul in a space only my demons resided in.
That void space was my house, my home.
And the demons were a family
A family who forged stones and boulders
Trickles of memories I would rather find a way to forget
Ironic, how a global pandemic inhibited my ability to make a run for it but dug deep to get to the core of what had been bleeding my heart and mind
Feeling caged in, is exhausting.
Just, gasping for air in the very place you sleep.
God put so much oxygen in the air and yet your life is suffocating you?
Doesn’t it seem ironic?
Hands of anxiety wrap around your neck like a bow tie presenting you as a prized possession
Pretty and polished.
You ask your African mother for help
Only to hear her say the dishes in the sink are as depressed as you are, clean them, help them, they need your tender sunlight love
When really all you were asking for was hers.
A love you could feel hopeful swimming in, joyful playing in and grateful praying about.
Mental health in an African household is like walking a tight rope, with a bucket of water on your head and your hands tied behind your back.
Your conscience is always like
“why are you crying”
“there’s no such thing as depression”
“you don’t even know how to spell anxiety”
“Insomnia is an old folk tale they tell in ghost towns”
“you’re breathing so your fine”
You’ll hear your father say words like
And your mother support his comment with a statement like
“if I can’t see the wound, how do I kiss it better?”
When you know
It’s the mere mention of a kiss, nonexistent.
But you can’t blame them
They themselves suffer from wounds that have long turned into itching scars
So you can’t ask Job to scratch your itch when they have had their own to surrender to.
Being a child is like being beat and baptized into a weight of expectations that if placed on your head could crush your soul, so instead they place them in your mind to swat away your hopes of self-awareness.
But being a child whose mental health is wobbling is like having no courage
but still holding your hand out
in the still darkness
with the moon shining light on your head
hoping somebody notices
The carcass you have become.
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How to Create a Billing Batch and Transfer to QuickBooks
BlueFolder tracks all of the data necessary for customer billing, including materials, labor, expenses, and tax associated with a work order. After the details for each work order have been finalized, you can select a group of work orders that are ready for invoicing and export them to QuickBooks as invoices.
Creating a Billing Batch
1. Click on the Billing tab on the main navigation bar.
2. Click the New Billing Batch button/link.
3. Use the filtering criteria to locate and select the work orders you want to include in the batch.
4. You can specify options that control what details are included in the batch by clicking the Batch Options button.
5. When you've finished selecting everything to be included in the batch, click the Save Batch button.
6. You now have a saved billing batch that is ready to be transferred to QuickBooks or QuickBooks Online.
Transferring a Billing Batch to QuickBooks Online
1. If you haven't established a connection between BlueFolder and your QuickBooks Online account, you must do that first. Click here for instructions on setting up a connection to QuickBooks Online .
2. If you're not sure if you already have a connection to your QuickBooks Online account, just keep going and BlueFolder will prompt you to create a connection if needed.
3. On the "Billing Batch" page where you can see that batch you created, click the "Transfer Batch" button.
4. BlueFolder will immediately connect to your QuickBooks Online account and begin transferring the first invoice in the batch.
5. As each batch invoice is transferred to QuickBooks Online, the status of that invoice will be updated on the "Billing Batch" page.
6. Once all the invoices have been transferred, the page will refresh to indicate the status of the batch transfer:
• If all invoices were transferred successfully, the batch status will be "Transferred Successfully".
• If 1 or more of the invoices failed to transfer, the batch status will be "Partially Transferred". You can examine the list of Batch Invoices to determine which invoice(s) failed and why.
• If none of the invoice were transferred, the batch status will be "Failed". Again, you may check the Batch Invoices list to determine the specific errors for each invoice.
Importing a Billing Batch into QuickBooks Desktop
1. On the "Billing Batch" page where you can see that batch you created, click the "Download Batch" button.
2. BlueFolder will present you with a download file. Save the file to a location on your computer's hard drive.
3. Download and install the BlueFolder QuickBooks Import Tool onto the computer where you use QuickBooks (this step must only be performed the first time you setup a computer to import BlueFolder billing files).
4. Start QuickBooks and open the company file you want to import your BlueFolder data into.
5. Run the "BlueFolder QuickBooks Import Tool" and select the export file that you downloaded in step 3.
6. Click the "Start Import" button to begin importing the BlueFolder data into QuickBooks.
7. If this is the first time you are importing data into QuickBooks, you will be prompted to grant the "BlueFolder QuickBooks Import Tool" access to your QuickBooks company file. You can choose to grant access each time, or give permanent access so you won't be prompted again.
Supported Versions of QuickBooks
The BlueFolder QuickBooks export process outlined here is supported by QuickBooks Online, and QuickBooks Desktop 2006 and newer. Older versions of QuickBooks are not supported. To find the latest updates for your version of QuickBooks, visit http://www.quickbooks.com/support/updates.html .
Mac Compatibility
Unfortunately, Intuit (the company that makes QuickBooks) only provides tools to integrate with the Windows version of QuickBooks. The Mac version of QuickBooks is not supported. We recommend using QuickBooks Online instead.
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FAQ: SnapShot and SnapSync (KBA1014)
What is a Snapshot and how is it different to SnapSync?
A Snapshot is a "point in time" copy of a source database. The source database may be an external source or a Virtual Database created using the Delphix Engine. Snapsync is the process used by the Delphix Engine to create a Snapshot.
An initial SnapSync is performed to create a copy of data on the Delphix Engine. Incremental SnapSyncs are performed to update the copy of data on the Delphix Engine.
What is the difference between SnapSync and LogSync?
SnapSync allows multiple point in time snapshots of a linked source. In a practical sense the UI provides one or more points in time (SnapShots) from which you can provision.
LogSync enables you to select any time between two Snapshots. Collecting redo log data from the source and applying that to the dSource (backups) enables this functionality.
What is really stored in a Snapshot?
Each time a snapshot is initiated either manually or through a SnapSync the accumulated source database changes are captured in the resulting snapshot.
In the case of Oracle dSource, the initial Snapsync and snapshot captures a level 0 (full) RMAN backup of the source database inclusive archive logs. Subsequent Snapsync operations take incremental backups of the source database capturing only those Oracle data blocks which have changed since the previous Snapsync. The latest set of changed blocks are then ingested and recovered by Delphix to produce a read only file system level snapshot presenting a consistent view of the Oracle datafiles as of the snapshot time. Along with the incremental backup, Delphix will capture any archive logs generated during the backup interval. Each Snapsync will result in a new time card appearing in the GUI. Delphix also guarantees the engine has a complete set of archive logs including all sequences from all threads of redo that have been generated by the source from the oldest SnapYync through to the newest SnapSync through its log sync operations.
In the case of Microsoft SQL Server, the mechanism used to capture the initial backup and subsequent incremental backups is different. SQL Server dSources exist as a staging database on staging host referred to as a pre-provisioning target (PPT). Source data is ingested at the staging database through SQL Server transaction logs which are gathered by the engine from the source database via the Delphix Connector. After the initial backup of the source database is taken and restored to the staging host the initial time card is created. Transaction logs are then fed to the staging database which then recovers transactions as the logs arrive. Performing a SnapSync triggers a database backup. This backup can be a new full database backup taken by the Delphix Engine or some other full or differential database backup captured of the source database. Each time card associated with a SQL server dSource represents a read only file system level snapshot of the staging database within the Delphix Engine as at a specific point in time.
How are Snapshots used in the provision of a VDB?
At the time a virtual database (VDB) is created, the time card and the specific point in time selected within the GUI (or CLI) determines which of the read-only file system level snapshots will be cloned to create a new read write file system copy of the snapshot. This new copy at the file system level is then presented or pushed out to the target machine via NFS in the case of Oracle and iSCSI in the case of Windows and SQL Server. The read/write copy of the database can then be started and will exist in a state on the target as of the time selected for VDB creation. The VDB on the target host will be comprised of the file system snapshot blocks associated with the changes captured in SnapSyncs and the shared blocks that have not altered between this snapshot and the original snapshot taken at the dSources creation. To attain a specific point in time for VDB creation some recovery of redo or transaction logs would also be applied to the VDB.
What is the impact of taking a new SnapShot of a dSource?
The dSource is altered by the latest Snapsync operation. Any changes that have occurred in the source database would be captured through an incremental backup. This backup taken by the Delphix engine is used to establish a new file system level snapshot that can in turn be used as the starting point for a subsequent provision operation. This file system level snapshot then becomes a part of what Delphix considers to be the "dSource". In practical terms a new timeflow card will be visible against the dSource and available as a point in time from which to provision a new VDB.
Does the initial load of a database allow for normal operation on the database?
The initial load of a database does not interfere with other operations on the database.
How does SnapSync work with RMAN?
SnapSync links with production databases via standard RMAN APIs and requests all files and logs for the initial snapshot and compresses them in Delphix. Subsequent snapshots load only blocks changed since the last snapshot. Each snapshot generates full TimeFlow that can be instantly provisioned as a VDB.
Does Delphix work in environments that have other applications using RMAN?
Yes. Delphix does not interfere with other applications interacting with RMAN. It is advised to have SnapSync jobs be scheduled at different times from these applications to ensure mutual optimal performance.
Why are there are no RMAN incrementals (backup pieces)?
Where do they go on the Delphix Engine and why don't we see them (given that we are using RMAN on the source to push incrementals)?
A backup stream from the SBT device on the source is captured by java on the engine side (transported in more recent versions over DSP for SnapSync). When the stream comes in our DataFileBuilder implementation checks if the datafile (referenced in the header of the backup stream) resides on ZFS.
If the datafile does not exist on ZFS it means this must be the initial full backup. If the file does not exist we construct a new one (without holes) based on the stream.
If a datafile does exist on ZFS it means the stream from the source is going to be incremental.
So how do we construct a viable datafile using an incremental source ? - We use a ZFS snapshot of the previous full backup (in the initial snapsync) and then update on the changed blocks in the datafile from the incremental stream.
Should the customer force a full backup, our implementation will recognise a new file does not need to be created, we will size the new datafiles appropriately and push the stream.
How does retention affect the available Snapshots?
The number of of SnapShots available is subject to retention. Once a Snapshot is expired, it will be purged as a part of retention. Once removed, that SnapShot can not be recovered. The first snapshot taken during dSource creation is not subject to retention and will always be available.
What is the default retention policy for the snapshots and logs?
The default retention for snapshots and logs is a week. It can be changed using the Policy Management Screen. New Retention policies can be created and applied to dSources as well as VDBs.
What is the default SnapSync schedule?
By default, SnapSync runs at 3:30 AM (in the timezone used for the Delphix Engine) and has 4 hours to run. New SnapSync policies can be created and applied to dSources with different start times as well as durations.
What happens when the SnapSync does not complete within the allotted duration?
The SnapSync job is suspended and restarted during the next run SnapSync time slot. For initial loads, the job continues from where it was left off. For subsequent incremental SnapSyncs, the job will start from the beginning. Because SnapSyncs after the initial load are usually incremental, starting a suspended job from the beginning should not result in full scans of the database if BCT is enabled.
Can SnapSync be scheduled to run multiple times in a day?
Yes. Specify "By Hours or Minutes" Schedule type when creating or modifying a policy in order to schedule the SnapSync to run at a fixed interval.
Can we have multiple SnapSync policies to a dSource?
Yes. This has to be done from the CLI though. For information see the 'policy' subcommands in the "Delphix Engine Command Line Reference" document.
Can a snapshot be taken outside of a policy window?
Yes. A snapshot can be initiated outside of a policy window for a database. This can be done clicking the camera icon for the database:
How can we disable a SnapSync?
You can disable SnapSync from the Policy Management screen. Choose a None policy under SnapSync for the database of interest.
What does unlink (detach) of a dSource do?
Unlinking (detaching) disassociates a dSource from its source database, in effect it removes the link that ties the 2 objects together. You can leave a dSource unlinked indefinitely and the dSource will reflect the state of the source database as of the remaining snapshots and archive logs. An unlinked dSource is still subject to retention policies unless you explicitly remove them. You can relink (attach) to the same source database or to a different source database assuming that the new database is the same OS and Oracle version and has the same incarnation ID. So, for example, moving a dSource between primary and standby versions of the same database.
Does SnapSync use Block Change Tracking (BCT), an Oracle native feature?
BCT is an Oracle feature that tracks changed blocks in a small file on the linked database. Although it has no benefit for the initial SnapSync Snapshot, it may significantly improve performance of and reduce resource consumption on the linked database for subsequent snapshots.
SnapSync will work if BCT is not enabled also. Without BCT, RMAN will read all data files and logs to identify changed blocks, which can consume compute resources on the host. Only the changed blocks will be sent to the Delphix Engine over the network but a full scan of the database will be performed to identify these changed blocks. Hence, enabling BCT is recommended.
For more information on BCT refer to Block Change Tracking and Delphix.
My scheduled SnapSync(s) are running slowly, what should I do?
Network and database performance are the two most common areas to consider when SnapSync is thought to be running slowly.
SnapSync utilizes the Delphix Service Protocol (DSP). Testing DSP performance and paying attention to RECEIVE throughput is a good first step. Comparing the result of that test to any earlier runs may provide insight or at the very least allow this aspect to be ruled out.
Assess the source database performance in a general sense. A poorly performing source database will certainly hold back Snapsync throughput.
Understanding whether BCT is enabled on the source database is another reasonably important check when investigating SnapSync performance.
select * from v$block_change_tracking ; exit
Lastly, checking the CONTROL_FILE_RECORD_KEEP_TIME set on the source may hint at the underlying cause of a long running SnapSync.
show parameter control_file
A low value set forCONTROL_FILE_RECORD_KEEP_TIME would mean full backups of datafiles are aged out regularly. When the data files are aged out a full backup is forced even when an incremental is requested. In this sense a SnapSync job which normally runs for a few hours may run for much longer as the incremental backup is converted to a full backup, something which obviously takes more time.
Adjusting theCONTROL_FILE_RECORD_KEEP_TIMEvalue to something much higher will not solve the issue until such time as the first full backup has completed after the configuration change.
Where does a VDB hook run in relation to the VDB operations - does a post-refresh hook run before or after?
VDB refresh is followed by SnapSync.
This hook will run after the virtual dataset has been started, after the Configure Clone hook. This hook will not run if the refresh or Pre-Refresh hook operations fail.
Note that these operations can restore cached data after the refresh completes.
The following image details the hook sequence:
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While the above list is far from exhaustive, it does cover the more common scenarios relating to long running SnapSync jobs.
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I realize that there has been a bit of talk already about water purification but I found this blog and wanted to share this with you. I'll paste it in and also the link if anyone is interested. There's a lot of good stuff there, just like here, I figure we need all the help we can get.
WATER PURIFICATION. This subject is a product jungle, with advertisers threatening all kinds of deadly disease if you fail to buy their wonderful gadgets: Filters that cost hundreds and constantly need replacing. The best systems are WATER DISTILLERS, which collect the evaporated droplets of water, free of the contaminants which do not evaporate, but leave the contaminants which do evaporate (chemicals, fluoride, etc.) They cost between $600 - $1100. They also use huge amounts of electricity (~700 watts), are slow (12 hours per gallon), and require constant cleaning. To get the remaining contaminants out, you need a REVERSE OSMOSIS FILTER. These are as expensive as the distillers, and need constant replacement of filters, which are also expensive. Obviously neither of these fill the bill for practical survival.
A Cheap Solution: Stick 3 coffee filters over the base of a plastic planter/flower pot (with holes at the base); put a second pot over this to hold the filters in place. Turn topside-up, fill with water & let it trickle through into a pitcher. This will eliminate the greater part of physical contaminants, even microscopic ones, and it's cheap. Then boil the filtered water 7 to 15 minutes to kill off any remaining organisms, if necessary. For long term water storage, add 16 drops of bleach - "sodium hypochlorite" - type (such as "Clorox") - per gallon of water. Water thus treated should be good for 1 year or more. (The bottle must remain sealed).
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/5430 | I’m a wet lab scientist through and through, but once you do data-generating experiments, you’ve got some stats-y stuff to do. And this can lead me to get confused about STANDARD DEVIATION & STANDARD ERROR OF THE MEAN, and when each should be used! And I’m confident I needed a refresher on CONFIDENCE INTERVALS. So, since I was refreshing myself, I thought I would share with my non-self.
Scientists often may seem wishy-washy when discussing results, saying things like “it’s likely that” or “while we cannot rule out other causes…” It’s not because we don’t have confidence, it’s just that we know that we can never really be certain of anything. BUT we can be more or less certain & we need a way to express how certain or uncertain we are. We can do this with a few different statistical terms depending on what we’re trying to show:
• if we want to show the distribution within a sample of the thing we’re measuring, we use STANDARD DEVIATION (SD) (for example, if we were measuring heights, the spread of heights in the group we sample would be the SD)
• if we want to show how representative the value we calculate from a sample is of the overall population, we use STANDARD ERROR (SE) (how much variation is there between the average heights of different samples from the same population. how accurate is your estimate?)
• if we want to show where we’re pretty sure that the true population value lies, we use the CONFIDENCE INTERVAL (e.g. we’re 95% sure that the average height is between x & y).
So, SE can kind of tell us how confident we are that we know what the true average (aka mean) is. But it doesn’t tell us whether the non-average people are really short/tall or only kinda short/tall, or if there’s a wide range with some of them all! And confidence interval? We’ll get back to that later. First let’s look at a couple examples.
Most of the examples you’ll find for this sort of thing are population-based studies. You take several samples of a population, measure something, and want to show how much variability there was in the thing you were measuring (standard deviation) and how much variability there was between samples in the “final” calculations you got from the thing you were measuring in each (standard error).
note: whenever a standard deviation is calculated for a statistic, we call it a standard error. So you can have a standard error of a slope or a median or anything. But, most commonly, standard error is used for means, where “mean” means the average you get if you add up all the individual things and divide by the number of things. (it’s basically what probably first comes to mind when you think of “average”).
Normally, they’re in terms of people populations, and I’ll give you one of those in a minute, but I’m not really a people person… Instead, one of the only times I deal with “populations” is with insect cells, so let’s start there….
I study proteins & in order to get proteins to study, I express them in insect cells. We grow them in flasks & they multiply quickly. So they can quickly get too dense (too many cells competing for too little food & space). Therefore, you have to check them regularly to see when you need to add more media (liquid food) & split them into more flasks so they have more breathing room.
If I wanted to know the true *population* density (how packed together are cells in the whole flask), I’d have to count every cell in the flask & divide that # by the total volume in the flask. Not only is this not practical, it would waste all our cells! So, instead, I check them by removing a SAMPLE – a small amount of liquid from the flask (which has our population) & counting them under a microscope.
To help, I use a hemocytometer, which has a little grid to help me count & I can use a clicker to keep track of counts. The grid has a bunch of different “mini-grids” you can use to help you count. So you can choose which mini-grid to count. Sometimes there are randomly more cells in some grids than others, so if I counted # of cells in the exact same sample, but from different grids, I’d get different numbers. I can average them together to get the mean (add them and divide by # of samples), & how close together the measures are to this calculated mean is a measure of variability within the sample (and a measure of precision of my measuring skills, which depends on my patience & eyesight). We can calculate variability between measurements of a single sample as the STANDARD DEVIATION (SD)(σ)
There’s this useful rule of thumb called the 68-95-99.7 rule: 68% of the data are w/in 1 SD of the mean (either above or below), 95% are w/in 2SD, & 99.7% are wi/in 3 SDs (when your data is normally distributed (shaped like a symmetrical bell curve). A normal curve is symmetric, but it can be steeper or flatter, depending on how spread out the data are. The more “squished” the curve, the larger the SD.
SD isn’t really that useful in this particular situation, because we don’t really care that much about the variation between the different mini-grids. What we really care about is how representative that mean is of the population mean. And, right now, we kinda have no clue! We’ve only tested a single sample. We’d feel more confident if we got similar results from multiple samples (and this confidence would be reflected in a lower SEM). So let’s take some more!
So, now, imagine you were to take a DIFFERENT RANDOM SAMPLE from the same flask and count it multiple times. This sample might, by chance, have more or less cells than the previous sample. The SD shouldn’t change much, because that was pretty random anyway, so differences in average values you count BETWEEN SAMPLES reflect variability in the POPULATION (i.e. its something about the sample itself & not the measurer or measuring method that’s different)
If we only take a couple random samples, & our population’s not well-mixed, we might get 2 that are much denser than the “true” average, etc. so we can get an inaccurate average density. BUT the more samples we take, the better our estimate – the more dense cancel out the less-dense and our calculated average (from the samples) gets closer & closer to the true population average. We can describe this using STANDARD ERROR of the MEAN (SEM) -> mathematically, SEM = SD/√(sample size). When you divide by a bigger number, you get a smaller number, so the more samples you have, the lower the SEM
To summarize: SD measures variability in data we used to get 1 average (in this case, cell counts). If we then average a bunch of averages (in this case average cell counts from different samples) we can use SEM to describe the variability in new average.
So, in that situation, SD by itself didn’t really tell us much that was biologically interesting, but sometimes it can. So let’s look at a different situation, one you might be more familiar with: consider an experiment to find average heart rate (HR) of Americans. To get the true answer, you’d have to measure the HR of every single American. That’s not practical, so instead you measure a sample of Americans.
Assuming your sampling’s RANDOM (you’re not only measuring Americans visiting cardiologists) the spread of HRs within your sample (SD) should reflect the spread of HRs among all Americans
So if you were to take another RANDOM sample, it should have a similar spread w/in the sample (similar SD). If the SDs are NOT similar, you may have biased samples (I told you not to ask at the cardiologist’s office!) AND it should have a similar average to the 1st sample’s (low SEM) since they’re sampling the same population
SD: if you were to randomly select a person in the study, how close to the sample average are they likely to be? (how certain are we that they’re are good representative of the sample?)
SEM: If you were to take the average of another random sample, how close is it likely to be to the real average? (how certain are we that the average from a random sample is a good representative of the entire population?)
SD can be really helpful in medicine because it can be used to determine whether some value is “normal.” So, for example, doctors don’t just measure your HR for fun – they want to see if it’s “abnormal” which could indicate a problem.
If they only compared your measured HR to the average heart rate, that wouldn’t be that useful. Because just knowing the average doesn’t tell you about the spread. Think about it – the type of average we’re talking about is the mean, which is where you just add up the values and divide by how many values you added up. So as long as you have something bigger to exactly cancel out something smaller, the mean won’t change no matter what is going on in either side.
For example, these all have the same mean:
4, 4, 4: (4+4+4)/3 = 4
1, 4, 7: (1+4+7)/3 = 4
3, 4, 5: (3+4+5)/3 = 12
So if your mean is 4 and you measure and get a 1 is that abnormal? In situation 2, not really. But, in situations 1 or 3, it is (obviously with just 3 values you can’t really know, but hopefully you see what I’m getting at). So, we need to know the spread of “normal” – we need a normal curve! (that’s not why they’re called normal curves, but…)
There have been a number of studies to try to determine what’s normal for resting heart rate. Here’s an example I found that was recently published. https://bit.ly/311kzBC
They took a bunch of people wearing fit bit heart rate monitors and calculated their average resting heart rate (RHR). They found it varied a lot between people based on things like age, weight, sex, etc. and they broke it down further for those groups. But, overall, they found that the average RHR was 65.5 ± 7.7 bpm.
If we look at our 68-95-99.7 rule (68% of the data are w/in 1 SD of the mean (either above or below), 95% are w/in 2SD, & 99.7% are wi/in 3 SDs) and apply it here, we get that
68% of values are between (68-7.7) and (68+7.7), so 71.3-75.7
95% of values are between (68-(2*7.7)) and (68+(2*7.7)), so 52.6-83.4
and 99.7% are between (68-(3*7.7)) and (68+(3*7.7)), so 44.9-91.1
So, if your average RHR is below 44.9 or above 91.1, you might wanna get that checked out…
But how sure are we that we actually know the true average? What if we were to find the averages calculated for a bunch of different similar studies. Then we could find the average of that. And we can calculate the SEM and then, as promised, the CONFIDENCE INTERVAL, which tells you where you’re pretty sure that the true value is – typically, 95% sure. What a 95% CI means in the strict statistical definition sense is that, if you were to take a random sample, there is a 95% chance that the value you calculate for that sample will fall within that interval. In a more intuitive, though not strictly linguistically accurate sense, CI can be interpreted as saying: we’re 95% sure that the true mean falls somewhere in this interval. The higher the confidence level, the wider a net you have to cast.
CI is calculated from the SE. SE varies based on how many samples you measure – the more samples, the lower the SE (and more confident you are). You get the CI from the SE by multiplying by a value called the t-value. You can find charts of t-values and they tell you what the t-value is for a certain confidence level and a certain # of samples. For a 95% CI, for n above 10, the t-value is pretty close to 2, so you can estimate the 95% CI by doubling the SE. But, for n below 10, the t-value varies, getting higher the fewer samples you have. This makes sense because the fewer samples you have, the less sure you are that your samples are really representative and that they contain the “true” population value. Therefore, you’re gonna have wider error bars (larger CI) which you get by multiplying SE by larger values. A benefit of CI is that it gives you a way to standardize and directly compare calculated values with different n-values.
⚠️ But be careful: a ± sign is used to show SD OR SEM or CI! -> e.g 21 +/- 1 g Look to the figure legend to see what they’re using.
And speaking of that ± business… how many digits to use? That +/- is an indicator of certainty and you certainly can’t be more certain than the measuring device. So when it comes to sig figs, with error you just get 1! Even if your calculator says the error is 1.12836 you only report the 1. If your measuring device only lets you report 20 or 21 or 22, there’s no way that 21.112836 could ever get reported. In that case the number that the device would record would be 21.1. more on that here: http://bit.ly/33hkCd8
I got the figures I used from for the examples in the graphics from this really great paper I encourage you to check out: “Error bars in experimental biology” https://bit.ly/39O4MdH
more on sig figs: http://bit.ly/2T1zN5r
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/5454 | Summarizing from memory: Jaynie, obsessed with the boyfriend who dumped her for a California girl, travels to Scotland and gets possessed by the spirit of the only survivor of Macbeth’s murder spree, which leads to her plotting to kill her new boyfriend because she thinks he’s a Macbeth descendant.
My copy of this is faded and battered and gorgeous.
Actual recap: Jaynie arrives in Scotland, jet-lagged and exhausted, having flown there from Cincinnati. She’s staying with Evelyn and Evelyn’s parents; Evelyn was a recent exchange student who stayed with Jaynie’s family.
Jaynie is still brooding about her break up with Tim. She’d thought they were in love, and then he went to California and met “that other girl.” She spends literally the entire book still upset about this, which I guess is realistic for a teenager but was still annoying to read. It does play into the plot, though, because the spirit haunting the Beattie family’s castle is…the ghost of a girl whose fiance was murdered by Macbeth.
No, I don’t get it either.
The entire point of the book is that Jaynie’s hurt feelings about her break up make her vulnerable to being a conduit for the revenge-seeking spirit. But…okay, look, I’m old and cranky and have lost patience with teenage drama, I guess, because I can’t imagine even for a second thinking that being dumped by some high school guy I dated put me in some sort of similar category to listening to my fiance and his entire family and their guests being slaughtered.
Anyway. On her first night there she goes to bed in the guest room with creepy photographs. That’s my kind of interior decorating, right there: put all the nightmare-inducing stuff in the spare room. Your guests will appreciate it!
“It’s a figure. In a white robe. Isn’t it? A person under water! Is it a dead body? Or just a double exposure?”
“Well,” sighed Evelyn. “I think it’s a double exposure but it’s supposed to be a ghost.”
“A ghost?”
“Liz claims she caught the spirit of Fiona, the Highland princess who committed suicide by jumping off this rock centuries ago. It’s an old legend and all I know about it is that Lady Fiona jumped from the rock into Loch Ferm, the lake, and drowned, when she discovered that her lover had been murdered.”
“Her lover was murdered?” Jaynie interrupted. “How terrible! I can’t imagine how awful that must be to have your—” Her voice broke off suddenly as she realized that she knew exactly how it would feel. Tim wasn’t dead, of course, but he may as well have been. Jaynie shivered. (pp. 12-13)
Oh, good grief.
Naturally that night Jaynie hears her name being called by a voice from the photograph, and she gets out of bed and stares at it for a while. She does this EVERY NIGHT, so as the book goes on she’s steadily getting more and more sleep-deprived and obsessed. It is well-written, enough so that you can almost feel her confusion and exhaustion.
The next day they go visit Fermleven castle to meet up with Evelyn’s boyfriend Craig Selkirk and the Beatties, Brian and Liz. Liz is the dreamy, thin, white-haired photographer who took the haunted picture, and Brian is the guy Evelyn’s planned to set Jaynie up with. Which is…helpful?
On the drive over Jaynie confessed to having nightmares about murdering someone, and Evelyn wonders if it was Tim. Uh. If my friend was dreaming about murdering her ex I might hold off on pushing her at a new guy, but I guess Evelyn is more optimistic than I am. Or she’s read fewer novels about murders, whichever.
Liz worries me, but Jaynie (and apparently everyone else including her parents) is oblivious to what sounds like SUICIDAL IDEATION every time she opens her mouth.
“I was looking at your photographs last night. Evelyn says you’re quite serious about your photography. Do you plan to make a career of it?” she asked as Brian began to clear the table.
“No, there isn’t time. Not enough time, I don’t think.” Liz offered that faint, out of place smile again. (p. 30)
Between conversations like that, and her obsession with the legend of Lady Fiona, I was so worried about Liz that I kept yelling at the characters to get her some help. But of course they couldn’t hear me, so they find her body in the loch on page 72.
Following Liz’s suicide (or possibly the ghost got her? but to me it reads like suicide), Jaynie’s nighttime visions intensify, and also start including familiar quotations: “sleep no more” and “Macbeth doth murder sleep.” (p. 75)
So Jaynie starts reading Macbeth, and talking to Uncle Angus (the Beatties’ somewhat sinister relative/employee/faithful retainer) about Macbeth and the legend of Lady Fiona. She becomes convinced that the Beatties are descended from Macbeth, and gets steadily more obsessed with the injustice of their owning the castle that should have belonged to Fiona’s (murdered) family.
She’s also dating Brian, which is hugely unhealthy. She causes a car accident while thinking/hearing a voice say it’s her “chance,” and Brian ends up injured. No one blames her, even though she sort of kind of tried to get him killed. Also Evelyn catches her carrying a dagger in her purse, which….COME ON, Evelyn, get your friend some help.
Evelyn doesn’t even twig that carrying the dagger is damned worrying behaviour; it’s only when she realizes Jaynie has been lying to Brian about it (claiming she cut herself on scissors in her bag instead of admitting it’s a dagger) that the seriousness of it all sinks in at all.
Evelyn DOES interpret Jaynie’s facial expression (huh?) as being that of a person “crying out for help—to prevent her own suicide.” I;ll be damned if I know what kind of look you could have on your face to convey that specific information, but I’m inclined to believe Evelyn about Jaynie’s mental state. Evelyn does NOTHING ABOUT THIS, though, most particularly not TELLING anyone, like maybe her parents.
Finally at some open house thing at the castle Evelyn and Craig convince Brian that Jaynie’s planning to stab him with a dagger. There’s the dumbest confrontation ever down at the Loch on the spot where Liz killed herself, and Jaynie attacks Brian with the dagger (he confronts her ALONE, because why the hell not). Brian tells Jaynie that he loves her, and that’s all it takes to de-possess her of Fiona’s ghost.
There’s an epilogue in which Jaynie explains how much she identified with Fiona because she too felt betrayed, but now that she knows Brian loves her she thinks she’s safe, because she no longer feels that desire for revenge. It would make me back away slowly and then run for the hills if I were Brian, frankly.
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For most of the book I alternated between wanting to shake Jaynie and wanting to get her some psychiatric care, because she read like a) a whiny wet blanket but also b) a suicide risk, and on the brink of becoming an actual physical danger to the people around her as well. I wonder if I would have found her more sympathetic when I was her actual age? |
global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/5459 | Posterior Heel Spur
• Osteophyte formation at the insertion of the achilles tendon.
• Generally this occurs with overuse particularly in sport and can take many years to form without being painful.
Diagnostic tips
1. Pain directly over the bone at the back of the heel.
2. Prominent lump is sometimes present.
3. Stretching the Achilles tendon may cause symptoms.
4. It may be painful first thing in the morning or on getting up from a chair after a rest.
5. Retrocalcaneal bursitis may occur concurrently.
Tests and Imaging
1. Clinical examination and a detailed history allow diagnosis.
2. X-rays will identify if there is any spur or if the bone is prominent.
3. Ultrasound or MRI may identify tendon damage.
Immediate Treatment
1. Advise appropriate shoes.
2. Acute pain may be relieved by a period of immobilisation in a cam walker.
Possible Referral
1. Podiatry for footwear advice, padding, and advice on eccentric strengthening program.
2. Extracorporeal shockwave therapy has been shown to be effective for this condition.
3. Foot and ankle surgeon in severe cases for removal of bone spur. |
global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/5489 | UX Projects & Techniques
When you are asked to put together a presentation for an interview, it can be confusing to identify what should or shouldn’t go into the presentation. Just like pruning your resume, over the years I have become better about reducing the types of work I show, in order to better communicate my UX skillsets.
The following is an example of a presentation that I used in the last six months: |
global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/5498 | Why is there restlessness to such a terrible degree seen in the world today?
Nearly 1,600 years ago, St. Augustine had the answer: “Our hearts were made for Thee, O Lord, and they are restless until they rest in Thee.”
3 thoughts on “Restlessness
1. It all comes down to, for me at least, this darn pride that’s seemingly so impossible to conquer. Sacred Heart of Jesus, be Thou my love. Immaculate Heart of Mary, be Thou my salvation!
2. Immaculate heart of Mary be thou my salvation? Jesus Christ is our Salvation
Acts 4:12
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/5506 | I will move to the Netherlands soon, I plan to live in Utrecht and I will use the train everyday to go to my work. So what is my best choice here? Does the OV-chipkaart cover all the transportation companies? And what is the cost of this card if I will subscribe by month?
• The card itself costs a few euros. The monthly cost will depend on your journey. – CMaster Jul 1 '16 at 8:37
• What If I want unlimited access to trains and buses in Utrecht ? – Ahmed Ragheb Jul 1 '16 at 8:40
• This question is better suited for Expats SE. Also, please edit your question instead of asking further questions in comments. – mts Jul 1 '16 at 8:45
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There is an English version of the OV-chipkaart website: https://www.ov-chipkaart.nl/home-1.htm
In my experience, not a whole lot of companies will give out a business card. Also, it is not possible to buy a subscription for unlimited access in both buses and trains. The OV-chipkaart can be used for both trains and buses but there is no subscription that covers unlimited use for both as they are different companies.
For trains you will need an NS subscription, for buses you will need a Connexxion subscription.
Try to figure out what you will need to use most and which will be most expensive. Complete unlimited use is quite expensive though, unlimited access to buses in Utrecht is about 500 euro a year.
For information about NS subscriptions: https://www.ns.nl/producten/en/abonnementen
And a general tip; get a personalised card, not an anonymous one. It has a lot of benefits such as being able to review your expenses and remote updating.
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• so if my company give me a business card and I will have to use train and bus everyday, What is the best option here? or this is a wrong question as I will pay my invoice according to my usage? – Ahmed Ragheb Jul 1 '16 at 9:41
• Basically all the business card does, other than a regular card, is creating monthly invoices so your company can pay this. (Your company usually pays part of your travel expenses, depending on how far away you live from your work. They will pay a part and deduct the rest from your salary) Even if you have a business card you will still need to 'add' a subscription to the card if you want, for example, a monthly free route subscription. – Kelly Jul 1 '16 at 9:50
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plus a personalized card allows for easier refunds if the system messes up and you can't check out after checking in. – Sumurai8 Jul 1 '16 at 14:57
If you take the train every day, it is best to get a season ticket for the specific route you're using, e.g. a Traject Vrij Monthly card. It is sent to you by mail on its own chip card, and payments are by automatic bank transfer each month (you can see the bills online). Cost depends on the destination.
These cards cover all kinds of public transport, any travel you use them for that's not in your fixed route is added to your monthly bill automatically.
It's going to be hard to order this from abroad (for instance because of the need for a local bank account), so use a normal card at first.
However, if you already have a job lined up, ask them. Business cards with season tickets loaded on them are a thing, and many companies reimburse travel costs like these.
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• Thanks for your reply, So If I work in a company I can ask for a Business card and it should cover my using to all public transportation with monthly fixed price or I will charge separately for each trip ? excuse me for asking many questions but I am trying to calculate everything before moving to Netherlands – Ahmed Ragheb Jul 1 '16 at 8:50
• Some companies buy them for their employees, others pay a monthly amount, some do nothing -- you should ask them if there is any compensation for travel to work with public transport. – RemcoGerlich Jul 1 '16 at 8:54
• Anyway a monthly card as I described above is always cheaper than paying separately for each trip. – RemcoGerlich Jul 1 '16 at 8:55
• This is an NS subscription and covers trains only, it does NOT cover bus. – Kelly Jul 1 '16 at 9:31
• @Kelly: but they can be used on them as normal chip cards, but I agree that I could have been clearer on that. – RemcoGerlich Jul 1 '16 at 9:32
Around Utrecht there is another option, which ties in to the OV-chipcard, which is to get a montly subscription to the regional transport network "U-OV".
You could get for instance the U-OV Gemak Utrecht Stad Maand, i.e. "U-OV Comfort Utrecht City Month" at https://webshop.u-ov.info/nl_NL/webshop/product/details/product/60/tariff/221. It gives you free transport in the area bounded by the 4 highways around Utrecht, for a fixed fee (around 80-90 euro IIRC). This is fine if you travel around the centre of Utrecht, not so much if you need to visit the suburbs like Nieuwegein every day.
There are some caveats: you need to have certain products on your chipcard, and NOT have certain other products, otherwise you can't buy the product. You also have to have the card already, otherwise you (again) can't buy the product. It's probably best to contact them by phone during business hours and discuss the matter or go to their office with the card and have them help you get the right items.
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• Convenience is a better translation of gemak in this context. – phoog Jul 1 '16 at 17:42
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/5529 | Improving Our Bird Brains, Part 2: Great White Egret
A Great White Egret standing in a sawgrass meadow, Everglades National Park.
We’re improving our bird brains, by studying up on some of the weird-ass birds my wife and I encountered in Florida.
In this here Part 2, we get learned about the Great White Egret.
This majestic, albescent bird is also known as the Great White Heron, or simply, the Great Egret. They’re found in the southern United States, from the eastern seaboard all the way west to California. They’ve been known to migrate as far north as Massachusetts, and many Great Egrets migrate to South America in the winter.
We saw a ton of them in Florida, but about a hundred years ago they were scarce. You see, egrets have long, white plumes, called aigrettes, and during the late 19th and early 20th centuries these aigrettes were in high demand. Ladies used them to adorn their ostentatious hats. Hell, you were nobody if you didn’t have a big white feather in your hat.
Marie Antoinette’s head looks very attractive with aigrettes in her cap, don’cha think?
So hunters in those days sought these plumes, to sell to the ladies. And they decimated about 95% of the egret population. Conservationists became alarmed and waged a campaign to save the Great Egret from extinction. They succeeded, and this beautiful white bird made a great comeback, and also became the symbol of the National Audubon Society.
Here’s some trivia that is probably not worth including in this post: Did you know that Frank Sinatra kept a few egrets in a home aviary? Well, he sang about this in one of his hits, with the lyrics, “Egrets, I’ve had a few, but then again, too few to mention . . .”
They’re not called Greats for nothing. Great White Egrets exceed three feet in length, with a wingspan more than four feet.
In Florida, their nesting habitat is primarily on mangrove islands within Great White Heron National Wildlife Refuge, and Key West National Wildlife Refuge. Both of these refuges are in the Florida Keys.
This egret is fishing near mangroves, in Mrazek Pond, Everglades National Park.
Their nests tend to be high up, and like a chauvinist, the male selects where to build it. He courts the female by making calls (after first obtaining her cell number). He also flies around in a sexy circle. And to really get her going, he stretches his long neck way up in the air, pointing his slender beak skyward. I think men can relate to this particular technique.
It can be rough, growing up as an egret. You tend to have two or three siblings, and if food is scarce and you’re the weakest, one of your big brothers or sisters will kill you. But if you manage to survive that, then after about 6-7 weeks of drinking your parents’ vomit, you can fly away and start a life of your own.
Then you can do things your way, and perhaps have a few egrets of your own.
Some juvenile Great White Egrets have gray plumage that gradually transforms to white.
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/5532 | I'm trying to use a grep command with the --only-matching flag, but it's not behaving as I would expect it to.
This command:
echo "1/2/3/4/5" | grep -oE "^([^/]+/){0,2}"
Gives this output:
I was expecting just 1/2/
What's going on..? 3/4/ shouldn't match "^([^/]+/){0,2}" because it's not at the beginning of the line..
(running GNU grep 2.5.1)
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This gives just 1/2/ for me on Debian Squeeze with GNU grep 2.6.3. Maybe you should add some more specific details about your distro and grep version. – Arrowmaster Mar 9 '11 at 4:05
• as @Arrowmaster, tested on Ubuntu 10.10, with grep 2.6.3-3 – simon Mar 9 '11 at 4:45
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Tested on GNU/Linux with GNU grep 2.5.1 and showing result as @Acorn . – chanchal1987 Mar 9 '11 at 6:14
• Works for me with GNU grep 2.5.4 – zarkdav Mar 9 '11 at 7:07
• @ Zarkdav,its not working for me on GNU grep 2.5.4 echo "1/2/3/4/5" | grep -oE "^([^/]+/){0,2}" 1/2/ – sush Mar 9 '11 at 7:11
It was a bug in versions of GNU Grep earlier than this commit (i.e. earlier than GNU version 2.5.3).
Quoting the relevant part of the changelog:
Previously failing tests relative to left anchors (^ and \<) and -w should now pass.
The initial commit that described the bug also added a test for it:
# End of a previous match should not match a "start of ..." expression.
grep_test "word_word/" "word_/" "^word_*" -o
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This bug, where grep -o/grep --only-matching allows a caret to match after the end of a previous match instead of only at beginning of line, is still present in Mac OS X 10.9.4. – Robert Tupelo-Schneck Aug 22 '14 at 13:22
• This bug is still present today at the end of 2020, in Mac OS X Catalina 10.15.7. That's 9 years, 8 months after this question was posted. This was driving me crazy: surely there can't be a BUG IN GREP??? But alas, there is. – David M. Perlman Nov 26 at 6:48
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