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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/9791 | Banana Plantations Threatened by Fungal Disease
About four million tons of bananas are imported into the EU each year. A fungal disease is now threatening banana plantations, and plant breeders have not yet succeeded in developing resistant cultivars. Many hope that genetic engineering can offer a solution. At this point, such projects are still only in the greenhouse.
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Mobile Miner 55V is typically used in large size access tunnels up to 5,5 x 5,5 meters for mine development and material haulage. Thanks to the continuous mining technique your project becomes easier to plan and more time efficient than using the drill and blast method. Some of the available automation features are laser navigation, remote monitoring/control and automatic rock cutting of the face.
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/9819 | Show Posts
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Applications / [withdrawn] Greymalkin, Orc Mistweaver.
« on: 24, September, 2018, 10:02:38 »
0. Why would we want you to join us? *thinks deeply*
1. Is this an application for raiding, social or super secret espionage purposes? Stealing from the guild bank. This character is my horde alt. I always liked monks and healing and I really wanted to experience the "other half" of the content of this expansion, so I transfered my monk to Horde. I guess that means that "espionage" is not off the table. My main is a Resto Shaman, same name (don't judge) on Sylvanas. Currently 5/7 heroic. This will limit my availability, but I am perfectly content with being a social and sometimes filling a slot if you'd have me and need me. I currently raid twice a week with my "main" guild: Thursday and Sunday or Tuesday. The overlap with your schedule on Thursday is pretty hard to overcome on a regular basis. My guild is currently on Sylvanas but we started 12 years ago on Ravenholdt. I never changed my guild. I was one of the original members.
2. Who, where, and what are you in real life? Name, age, number of ears and all that stuff. My name's Pietro, I live in Italy but I'm half Canadian. I'm a research slave fellow at my University (computational linguisitcs).
Name: Greymalkin
Class: Monk
Level: 120
Race: Orc. That might change.
Hair colour: since I can't do that IRL, this changes basically every few days.
4. Is this your main character? What other characters do you play actively? As I said, this is NOT my main. That doesn't take away dedication but DOES limit the amount of days I could be raiding.
5. What is your favorite drinking song, cooking recipe, toothpaste brand or conspiracy theory? Vivaldi's 4 Seasons, I'm classy that way. Anything that contains kimchi (that's Korean for smelly garlic cabbage). I can cook several Italian dishes with minimal additional job load for the local ER. Last two questions are linked: I do believe that toothpast is turning the frogs gay. So I wash my teeth with frogs.
6. What's the reason you're on RPPvP Scarshield Legion (or whichever connected realm you're on)? I'm on Ravenholdt. I was a roleplayer. I still like to, when I have the time.
7. Why do you want to join Ferus? I liked the advertisement on looking for guilds. It seemed serious and the application template looks funny but not demented.
8. Do you know any of our current members? If so, what filthy lies did they tell you? I do not. But I know the boy-king serves at the master's table. Three lies he will offer you
9. What guild(s) have you been in before, and what was the reason(s) you left? As I said, I basically never left my guild. HOW ABOUT THAT as loyalty?! HUH? HUH?
10. Which aspects of the game do you find the most enjoyable? Raiding. I like mythic raids, but they tend to be a tad overwhelming for my tastes. I like that point in progression where you ALMOST, ALMOST make it. I like the social, interactive aspects of raiding.
11. Whence tell granule purple and maybe little flicker? I thought you'd never ask! 42.
12. What did we forget to ask you about? I'm a Gemini.
13. Anything else we should know about you? "I'm not perfect but I'm perfect for you". I take very little space in game. You won't even see me or hear me unless you want to. I'm bendy IRL. PLEASE DON'T LEAVE ME GUILDLESS.
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/9821 | Gen Y Threatens To Rewrite All The Retail Rules
Gen Y, a loose term for younger shoppers ranging in age from about 14 through 28, is a demographic that most retailers are unprepared for. That's partially because this is the first segment that has never not known of the Internet and also because most retail executives have such a radically different worldview.
In addition, many Gen Y shoppers have never known—or believed they had—any privacy, so they are dramatically more willing to give up or sell personal data in exchange for something they see as having value. Their attention span is short, their multi-tasking skills are high and many find the idea of paying for software quaint and old-fashioned.
They can prioritize how they pay (Paypal's popular) over how much they pay as well as how they want to interact with businesses—in as many ways as possible: text on their phones, IM on their laptops, posts for them on MySpace, video pitches in YouTube and avatars in SecondLife.
John Hiraoka, the chief marketing officer at Epicor, has become an expert on Gen Y, partially because of a nearby teacher: his teenage daughter. During a speech at his company's user conference this week, Hiraoka told a room full of retail execs that they needed to look at the retail world through his 14-year-old's eyes for a moment. He was right.
He made a slide out of a picture of her desk in a remarkably neat and tidy room. (The neatness of the room, he said, was the result of a bribe that Hiraoka declined to specify. As the father of a girl in the same age range, I can confirm that the casual approach to room organization seems to be a younger Gen Y trait.)
The point of the picture was to display her personal electronics, which—CPU-wise—rival what NASA had just a few years ago. It included her desktop computer, an iPod, Game Boy, cell phone, digital camera, CD burner, DVD burner, six USB drives and two wireless devices. And a dolphin, although I'm not sure what the point of the dolphin was.
Hiraoka argued that retailers need to hire a lot more Gen Y employees and listen to them. He promised execs that it would be a very different perspective: "These are the so-called digital natives," he said. "They've grown up with no newspapers, catalogs or phonebooks."
That's all true, but prioritizing these consumers has many risks. How far can one go in communicating with them before alienating older demographics, many of which have a lot more money to spend?
Hiraoka counters that the Web theoretically allows retailers to communicate with many consumers individually, with a different approach and format for different demographics.
That is true and appropriate. But it's also very expensive and would require a very different approach. Will retail execs agree to this tactic, on the say so of much less experienced employees? If so, will those execs rename the demographic as Gen Y-oh-Why?
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Contents of Learning Resources Maths Link CubesSnap together Math Link Cubes set with 100 multilink cubes in 10 different coloursChild playing with Mathlink Activity Set
What do you do with Mathlink Cubes?
We have lots of conversations about Mathlink Cubes in our shops. When parents see them, they often remember them from their own childhood but forget exactly what they were used for.
Mathlinks Cubes are used for a wide range of maths activities; counting, 3D shapes, times tables, fractions, graphing. They are one of the most flexible maths tools and are used to help children understand many basic concepts. You can break them into single units to use them as counters, snap them into sets or thread them onto a lace to create patterns. They also have a great tactile appeal so the memory of handling the cubes lasts longer than specifics of the lesson.
We love the way Mathlink cubes can be used to make maths visual and concrete, if you have a child who needs more confidence with numbers, this is a must-have hands-on resource. There are hundreds of activities and work sheets available on line to give you ideas of how you can use them at home but we’ll start you off with some of our favourites:
Race To The Top
Skills: Counting/Addition
Required: Mathlink Cubes & Dice
Players race against each other to be the first to complete a tower of 20 Mathlink Cubes. Players take turns rolling the die and adding that number of cubes to their tower. The first player with 20 cubes is the winner.
Snap To It
Skills: Subtraction
Required: Mathlink Cubes
Each player makes a stick of 10 Mathlink Cubes. On the signal “Snap” the children put the sticks behind their backs and break them into two parts. Players take turns to display one of the sticks while keeping the second piece out of sight. The first player to shout out the correct number of cubes missing from the stick wins.
Skip Counting
Skills: Times Tables
Required: Mathlink Cubes
Have the players race to see who can make up the most sticks of 5 cubes in a minute. When the minute is up, put the sets together and count in groups of 5 . Do the same with 2, 3 and 10’s to practice those tables.
Measure Up
Skills: Measuring & Estimating
Required: Mathlink Cubes, Household Articles, Pencil & Paper
Put an everyday object like a book, toothbrush or shoe on the table. Have the players guesstimate the length of the object in Mathlink Cubes and write down their number. Line up the cubes to find the actual number and the player closest.
There’s plenty more resources for Math Link Cubes out there, but if you’re short on time, then check out this box set with everything you needed to get started with these chunky cubes. The Math Link Cubes Activity Set is a great introduction to early maths concepts.
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Egyptian Healer God
Also known as Hike
God of Medicine, Magic and Medicinal Magic
This son of Atum was advisor to priestly doctors, who wouldn’t even bandage a finger without consulting him.
If anyone could cure the common cold, it’s Heka.
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Gender: Male
Type: God
Celebration or Feast Day: Unknown at present
In charge of: Healing
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Pierre Drevet studied engraving in Lyon and Paris and excelled at portrait engravings, particularly those after his friend and fellow artist, Hyacinthe Rigaud. Drevet was appointed as Graveur du Roi to Louis XIV in 1696 and eventually given housing at the Palais du Louvre. He was accepted into the Royal Academy in France in 1703, though he did not complete his reception piece until two decades later, when he submitted an engraving of Robert de Cotte. Drevet had several pupils, including his son Pierre-Imbert Drevet and his nephew Claude Drevet. Together, the three family members helped to advanced the genre of reproductive portrait prints in France during the 18th century.
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/10001 | Finally, a Solution to the Great Swiss Cheese Riddle
The hole truth and nothing but.
Scientists at agricultural institute Agroscope (in Switzerland, naturally) say they have an answer as to how Swiss cheese got its holes. Little particles of hay dust create gaps in the cheese as it matures. As more cheese makers eschew the old fashioned pump-n-pail for more advanced milking machines, a spokesperson for Agroscope told The Guardian, less hay gets in the mix, leading to fewer holes. Adding more hay back in lead to more holes.
This finding stands to overturn some of the other Swiss cheese hypotheses, like the roughly 100-year-old idea that bacteria expelling carbon dioxide bubbles make the holes. Packers fans can take solace in the fact their cheese hats don't represent the product of bacteria passing gas, just dirty milk.
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VW behaving badly.
I now cover this issue in more detail in my podcast!
The EPA (The US government's Environmental Protection Agency) recently issued Notice of Violations regarding the emissions from Volkswagen cars. Volkswagen is actually a group of brands, therefore the Notice affects other cars such as Audi, Porsche and Skoda.
A lot of the focus has been on what was going on in Volkswagen, for example who knew what was being done? Did the VW testers know? Did they pass the details on etc.
What interests me is the wider issue of how this could have been possible for so long? (Since 2009) If so many cars were affected and for so long, why didn’t we hear about this sooner? Why isn’t there a team of people assigned to finding this stuff out... Oh wait, there is...
In the UK these emissions tests are governed by the Vehicle Certification Agency, answering to the Department of Transport.
One might expect the manufacturer to be less inclined to investigate the cars emissions, after-all testing costs money (less profit). I might also expect them to exploit the test rules and tolerances as best they could. This behaviour, while not ethical, is explainable given their motivations and incentives.
I'm even understanding of the mistaken belief that they can 'prove' their cars are compliant. This is highlighted in this quote from Vauxhall/Opel/GM when the BBC asked about possible irregularities in their vehicle NOx emissions:
"We have in-house testing that proves that the Zafira 1.6 meets all the legal emission limits."
A curious statement, Given that the systems concerned are software controlled, and as Dijkstra put it: "Testing shows the presence, not the absence of bugs".
An independent tax-funded regulatory body is in theory acting in our interests, the vehicle buyers and breathers of the emissions. So why did they not discover the issue? A closer look at the 'tests' themselves gives some clues. Here are a few points worth noting:
1) The test is carried out in a controlled temperature of 20-30 degrees centigrade. At first this might seem OK to non testers. But if you look-up the average temperatures, in the hottest month, of a few European locations:
Bonn August 18°C (64°F)
London July 19°C (66°F)
Lisbon July 24°C (74°F)
Paris July 20°C (68°F)
Brussels July 18°C (64°F)
Rome July 26°C (78°F)
Vienna July 19°C (66°F)
Stockholm July 18°C (64°F)
You begin to see that this rule is suspect. E.g.: In Paris, in the hottest month, approximately half the time will you meet this criteria in real life.
2) The relevant UK/EU test dates back to 1996. Some parts of the test date back 40 years. Odd, given that the Engine Control Units, usually responsible for managing emissions behaviour, were introduced in the 1980s & 90s (<40years ago).
3) The procedure is highly predictable and repeatable - it always took 20mins 20secs to complete.
4) The rules require the 'driver' to stay within 2km/h (1.2mph) of an 'ideal' speed throughout the test.
In summary, old, highly scripted and rigidly enforced checks were performed in an unrealistic environment. The emissions-test isn't really testing at all. The procedure is a successful attempt to provide a repeatable scripted acceptance-test of a systems behaviour.
A systems behaviour was developed so when the car was driven in a defined manner, all the checks passed. The car can pass the test, but this provides no indication as to whether this is normal behaviour, or what might occur in any number of other realistic situations.
On a BBC Panorama programme, A former Automotive Type Approval Engineer talking about how cars have been only passing the emissions tests in the most unrealistic of conditions, is quoted as saying:
"...Testing the wrong things, in the wrong way, for quite a while"
This wasn’t testing, But it was done in the name of testing. Sound familiar?
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/10040 | Frog Pond Water Play
Frog Pond Water Play
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1. Fill a sand table or a large container with water. Gather plastic animals or bath toys that you might find in a pond. I found a few large rocks from the yard and cut lily pads out of green craft foam.
2. Have your child help you arrange the items in the "pond" or set it up beforehand as a surprise. Either way, your child will be excited to play!
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/10074 | Home >Opinion >Time to stem the ‘corruption’ in scientific studies
According to The Economist, one estimate puts the number of questionable papers without peer review at over 400,000. Photo: Bloomberg
Time to stem the ‘corruption’ in scientific studies
It's better to state the profit motive and let the market guide where money is spent
Two magazines that I skimmed this week, The Economist and Wired, carried articles about the compromising of scientific research. While the former stated that some scientific journals, which claim to perform a “peer review" on the papers they publish, do not actually perform one, the latter spoke of how the liquor lobby has been able to compromise a study into the cardiovascular benefits of consuming moderate amounts of alcohol.
Journal editors, who oversee peer-reviewed journals, are supposed to send submissions to some of the author’s peers, usually to test whether the claims the author is making can be replicated by the reviewers independently in their own laboratories. According to The Economist, one estimate puts the number of questionable papers without peer review at over 400,000!
In an eerie reflection of the internet today, where anyone on a social networking site or messaging app can quickly write up a “false news" story and make it go viral, behind this ballooning of questionable scientific papers is a change in the way many journals make their money. Over the past decade, many have stopped selling subscriptions. They instead charge authors a publication fee and then permit people to read the papers for nothing. This business model risks corrupting true scientific knowledge. Jeffrey Beall, a librarian at the University of Denver, now maintains a list of such “predatory journals" in an attempt to temper this corruption.
This sounds similar to the “free access" model that is provided by many social networking sites and messaging apps so that they can make their money through targeted advertisements instead —and the social network’s users are actually the products for sale. In addition, until recently, there has been next to zero policing of the content that users might post on such sites or messaging platforms, justifiably leading to a backlash against such platforms and increased regulatory scrutiny across the globe.
The other example, from Wired, cited a $100 million, 10-year-long study that was run by the US’s National Institutes of Health (NIH) named the Moderate Alcohol and Cardiovascular Health Trial. Investigative reporters at The New York Times uncovered some time ago that researchers under the supervision of NIH had aggressively sought funding from the liquor industry to conduct the study, while implying that it would turn out to be favourable if liquor companies paid up. This problem is a more familiar one—the blurring of ethical lines when supposedly “independent" scientific researchers accept money from industry. NIH initiated an audit and has now pulled the plug on the multi-year study.
Both these are economic externalities caused by today’s modes for the funding of science. Science was long considered a bastion of independent research—and relied on funding either from governments or from no-strings-attached grants from trusts. My take is that the steady drying up of such funding is what has caused these anomalies to occur.
Interestingly enough, one does not see this anomaly in the technology world and in some areas of the life sciences, like pharmaceutical research. The reason is simple. Businesses directly invest in research only if they see the potential of economic returns from it. Pharma companies spend billions on research and development and, after they have a successful drug, many more millions on promoting it—partly by sponsoring research papers that doctors will read. All this spend is transparent. In other words, the fact that profit is the motive is always clear, and the market ends up being the final arbiter of whether a new technology or a new drug is a money spinner.
My conclusion from both these examples is that we need to take the “independent" veil off research spending and publication in science. We would be a lot better off if we stated the profit motive from the get-go and allowed the economics of the market to guide where research money is spent.
I realize this is not a black and white discussion. Nonetheless, taking a polarized position allows for debate. My brother-in-law, a researcher and professor of medicine in the US, vehemently disagrees with me since he feels that the system is already transparent and does not need change.
But, in the words of an old B.B. King song, “As long as I’m paying the bills, I’m paying the cost to be the boss."
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/10102 | Cell Residence Central heat – Decide on the Appropriate A single To get The Home
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Spiders and Scorpions
Charles M. Hendrix
Spiders of medical importance in the USA do not inflict particularly painful bites, so it is unusual for a spider bite to be suspected until clinical signs appear. It is also unlikely that the spider will remain in close proximity to the victim for the time required for signs to develop (30 min to 6 hr). Almost all spiders are venomous, but few possess the attributes necessary to cause clinical envenomation in mammals—mouth parts of sufficient size to allow penetration of the skin and toxin of sufficient quantity or potency to result in morbidity.
The spiders in the USA that are capable of causing clinical envenomation belong to two groups: widow spiders (Latrodectus spp) and brown spiders (mostly Loxosceles spp).
Widow Spiders:
Widow spiders usually bite only when accidental skin contact occurs. The most common species is the black widow spider, Latrodectus mactans, characterized by a red hourglass shape on its ventral abdomen. In the western USA, the western black widow, L hesperus, predominates, while the brown widow, L bishopi, is found in the south, and the red widow, L geometricus, is found in Florida.
Venom from these spiders is one of the most potent biologic toxins. The most important of its five or six components is a neurotoxin that causes release of the neurotransmitters norepinephrine and acetylcholine at synaptic junctions, which continues until neurotransmitters are depleted. The resulting severe, painful cramping of all large muscle groups accounts for most of the clinical signs attributed to envenomation.
Unless there is visual confirmation of a widow spider bite, diagnosis must be based on clinical signs, which include restlessness with apparent anxiety or apprehension; rapid, shallow, irregular respiration; shock; abdominal rigidity or tenderness; and painful muscle rigidity, sometimes accompanied by intermittent relaxation (which may progress to clonus and eventually to respiratory paralysis). Partial paresis also has been described.
An antivenin (equine origin) is commercially available but is usually reserved for confirmed bites of high-risk individuals (very young or very old). Symptomatic treatment is usually sufficient but may require a combination of therapeutic agents. Calcium gluconate IV (10 mL of a 10% solution is the usual human dose) is reportedly helpful. Meperidine hydrochloride or morphine, also given IV, provides relief from pain and produces muscle relaxation. Muscle relaxants and diazepam are also beneficial. Tetanus antitoxin also should be administered. Recovery may be prolonged; weakness and even partial paralysis may persist for several days.
Brown Recluse Spiders:
There are at least 10 species of Loxosceles spiders in the USA, but the brown recluse spider, L reclusa, is the most common, and envenomation by it is typical for the genus. These spiders have a violin-shaped marking (or “fiddleback”) on the spider’s dorsum, the cephalothorax, although it may be indistinct or absent in some species. In the northwestern USA, the unrelated spider Tegenaria agrestis reportedly causes a clinically indistinguishable dermonecrosis in people and presumably in domesticated animals. Brown recluse spider venom has vasoconstrictive, thrombotic, hemolytic, and necrotizing properties. It contains several enzymes, including a phospholipase (sphingomylinase D) that attacks cell membranes. Pathogenetic mechanisms of the characteristic dermal necrosis are poorly understood, but activation of complement, chemotaxis, and accumulations of neutrophils affect (or amplify) the process.
A history of a bite by a brown recluse spider is useful but rare. A presumptive diagnosis may be based on the presence of a discrete, erythematous, intensely pruritic skin lesion that may have irregular ecchymoses. Within 4–8 hr, a vesicle develops at the bite wound, and sometimes a blanched zone surrounds the erythematous area, producing a “bull’s-eye” appearance to the lesion. The central area sometimes appears pale or cyanotic. The vesicle may degenerate to an ulcer that, unless treated in a timely manner, may enlarge and extend to underlying tissues, including muscle. Sometimes, a pustule follows the vesicle and, on its breakdown, a black eschar remains. The final tissue defect may be extensive and indolent and require months to heal. However, medical authorities claim that not all brown recluse spider bites result in severe, localized dermal necrosis.
Systemic signs sometimes accompany brown recluse spider envenomation and may not appear for 3–4 days after the bite. Hemolysis, thrombocytopenia, and disseminated intravascular coagulation are more likely to occur in cases with severe dermal necrosis. Fever, vomiting, edema, hemoglobinuria, hemolytic anemia, renal failure, and shock may result from systemic loxoscelism.
In known spider bites, early treatment can be successful, but unfortunately, many cases are not recognized until cutaneous necrosis has become extensive; treatment at that stage is less rewarding but is still of value. Immediate application of cold packs is beneficial, and if administered early, corticosteroids protect against cutaneous necrosis by stabilizing cell membranes and suppressing chemotaxis. Corticosteroids also tend to protect against systemic involvement. Radical excision has been advocated, but its value is questionable. Dapsone, an inhibitor of leukocyte function, which is frequently used in the treatment of leprosy, is currently considered the drug of choice for brown recluse spider bites. In people, it is administered at 100 mg, bid, for 14–25 days. Broad-spectrum antibiotics are useful in preventing secondary infection, and tetanus immunoprophylaxis should be considered.
Tarantulas (many assorted genera and species) are common throughout the USA and South America. They are increasingly being kept as household pets throughout the world. Along with many other exotic arthropods, they are frequently sold in exotic pet stores.
Tarantulas should not be mixed with or allowed contact with other domesticated pets. Fine hairs (setae), present over much of the tarantula’s abdomen, may be discharged (or cast off) by the tarantula as a defense mechanism against larger creatures. If these fine hairs make contact with unprotected skin, they can produce contact allergic reactions. Care must be taken to keep these fine hairs from entering the eye, particularly the cornea, because they can be quite difficult to remove. In addition, the bite of the tarantula can be fatal to dogs or cats, which are very susceptible to tarantula venom. Safety of the tarantula is another reason to keep these spiders separated from other pets, because a dog or cat can easily injure or kill a pet tarantula.
Most of the scorpions found throughout the USA possess posterior abdominal stingers that connect to venom glands. The stinger and its associated venom can be used both as mechanisms of self-defense and of predation. For the most part, the stings of these scorpions are considered to be innocuous in most domesticated mammalian species, because the amount of venom is too minute or the venom has very little pharmacologic potency. The sting of these arthropods is analogous to an insect sting/bite, with pain and swelling at the site of the injury.
Relative to pharmacologically potent scorpion stings in domesticated animals, there are two geographic scenarios of veterinary clinical importance. The first involves Centruroides sculpturatus, commonly known as the Arizona bark scorpion. This venomous arthropod can be found in all counties of Arizona, into western New Mexico, southern Utah, southern Nevada to the Las Vegas vicinity, California along the Colorado River (where it is rare), and down to the area of the state of Sonora, Mexico. It has been reported to produce envenomation in dogs; however, its sting is similar to that of the venomous hymenopterans, producing local pain and swelling with the possibility of associated hypertension. Most animals recover without a problem, but more severe reactions are possible.
The second scenario involves myriad geographic locales (eg, desert-like and jungle ecosystems) throughout the world where many venomous scorpions abound. People with penchants for hiking the world should be warned to be wary of visits to these areas, and traveling with canine companions in such scenarios should be strongly discouraged.
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Definition of hydrophobia
1 : rabies
2 : a morbid dread of water
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Recent Examples on the Web Later symptoms include trouble swallowing, fear of water (hydrophobia), paralysis, seizure, coma, and eventual death. Bill Laitner, Detroit Free Press, "Rabies cases double in Oakland County's wildlife; officials warn, 'Stay away!'," 8 Sep. 2018 At that point, a person can show symptoms like confusion, abnormal behavior, hallucinations, insomnia, drooling, difficulty swallowing and hydrophobia, fear of water. Minali Nigam, CNN, "Most rabies infections in the United States come from bats, CDC says," 12 June 2019 Over time, symptoms that are more specific to brain dysfunction appear and may include difficulty sleeping, anxiety, confusion, hallucinations, agitation, partial paralysis, difficulty swallowing, and hydrophobia, a fear of water. Keith Matheny, Detroit Free Press, "Michigan health officials see uptick in bats with rabies," 3 July 2018
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Late Latin, from Greek, from hydr- + -phobia -phobia
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1 : a morbid dread of water
2a : extreme fearfulness of swallowing liquids that is symptomatic of rabies and results from painful spasms of the throat In classic cases, there is a fear of drinking liquids, or hydrophobia, despite thirst due to spasm of the throat muscles.— Lawrence K. Altman, The New York Times, 24 Aug. 1993
b : rabies Rabies victims at first feel a general malaise and restlessness, then grow increasingly agitated with painful spasms of the throat. … Soon they cannot drink, which is why rabies has been called "hydrophobia."— Wayne Biddle, A Field Guide to Germs, 1995
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Even if we know turning imperfections in to opportunities
and striving hard for them leads to ultimate contentment .
Why do we procrastinate to embrace those imperfections ??
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/10174 | Flee From Idolatry 1 Cor 10:14-33
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Paul’s exhortation in 1 Cor 10:14-33 is very simply to flee from idolatry. The reasons are fairly straightforward. We must flee from idolatry because:
We are partakers of the Lord’s table [v.21] – 1 Cor 10:14-18 – in 1 Cor 10:14, Paul said, “Wherefore… flee from idolatry,” referring back to verse 7 and verse 11. Idolatry is a sin we are admonished not to commit. Those who had eaten of the same spiritual meat and had drunk of the same spiritual drink [1 Cor 10:3-4], who also committed idolatry, were overthrown in the wilderness.
Paul further explained that when we observe the Lord’s Supper (our spiritual meat and drink), “the cup of blessing” is the “communion of the blood of Christ,” since all saints are saved by his blood. The “bread” is the “communion of the body of Christ,” since we are all members of his body.
Therefore, we are partakers of the Lord’s table [1 Cor 10:21] when we remember his sacrifice for us in communion [1 Cor 11:23-26] in the same way that those who ate the peace offerings in the Old Testament were “partakers of the altar.” See Lev 7:11-17.
We mustn’t partake of the devils’ table – 1 Cor 10:19-22 – in verse 19, Paul reminded the Corinthians that an idol is nothing and that which is sacrificed to idols is nothing [1 Cor 8:4, 8]. However, he added that Gentile sacrifices are to devils and not to God. When Aaron made the golden calf, he said, “Tomorrow is a feast to the LORD,” [Ex 32:6]. Despite saying the feast was to “the LORD,” the sacrifices were, in fact, to the devil, as all sacrifices of the Gentiles are. See also Lev 17:7, 2 Chr 11:15. And we should not “have fellowship with devils,” [2 Cor 6:15-16].
There is a “cup of the Lord” and there is a “cup of devils.” There is the “Lord’s table” and the “table of devils.” The cup of the Lord and the Lord’s table are a reference to the Lord’s Supper where we remember the death of the Lord Jesus Christ [2 Cor 11:23-26]. The Lord’s table is a memorial and not a sacrifice.
By contrast, the Eucharist in the Catholic church is observed as a “sacrifice” where the fermented wine in the cup is believed to become the blood of Jesus Christ and the bread is believed to become the literal flesh of Jesus Christ. This supposedly happens through a process called transubstantiation. However, drinking blood is forbidden in Gen 9:4, Lev 17:10 and Acts 15:20. Eating human flesh is cannibalism. This is obviously not the Lord’s table. This cup is the cup of devils and this table is the table of devils. Their “sacrifice” foreshadows the sacrifice of Rev 17:4-6. See also Ps 16:4.
Paul asked two questions in verse 22. The answer to the first is “yes,” [Ex 20:5] we provoke the Lord to jealousy. The answer to the second is “no,” we aren’t stronger than the Lord.
We must edify rather than offend others – 1 Cor 10:23-33 – just because it is now lawful for us to do “all things,” not everything that we can do will edify others. So, our concern when deciding whether to do anything should be the “wealth” of others. We should ask, “Will this help them; or could it offend them?”
Paul dealt with two specific problems among the Corinthians. The first was buying meat in the shambles. The shambles was the meat market. He instructed the Corinthians not to ask whether the meat had been offered to an idol. That way their conscience wouldn’t bother them. After all, “the earth is the Lord’s,” [Ps 24:1; 1 Tim 4:3-5]. In other words, even if it had been offered to an idol, the meat is still the Lord’s.
The second problem dealt with eating meat at an unbeliever’s feast. Paul said to eat and not to ask whether it had been offered to an idol. However, if someone reveals that it was offered to an idol, then they shouldn’t eat it. It’s still the Lord’s; but Paul wanted them to forbear for the sake of the others who think a Christian shouldn’t eat it. That would keep them from being “evil spoken of” and being “judged of another man’s conscience.”
Paul said we are to give none offense to Jews, Gentiles or the church of God. These are the three categories of people on earth. If you are saved you are neither Jew nor Gentile; you’re the church of God [Gal 3:28]. As the church of God, we should be more concerned about the salvation of others than we are about enjoying our liberty for personal profit. We should withhold personal liberties for the sake of our testimony that might help another person come to Christ.
We must do all to the glory of God – 1 Cor 10:31 – the foremost reason for fleeing idolatry is that we should “do all to the glory of God.” In everything we do, whether its eating, drinking or whatever, we should do it to God’s glory. And if he’s not glorified, then we shouldn’t do it.
Conclusion: so, Paul’s instructions on fleeing from idolatry are easy for us to implement, today. Observe the Lord’s Supper but don’t take the Eucharist. Don’t offend others with your liberty. Do all to the glory of God. Seek the profit of many, that they may be saved. That’s it. |
global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/10176 | Country Size Comparison
Armenia is about 3.5 times smaller than Virginia.
Virginia is approximately 102,548 sq km, while Armenia is approximately 29,743 sq km, making Armenia 29.0% the size of Virginia. Meanwhile, the population of Virginia is ~8.0 million people (5.0 million fewer people live in Armenia).
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/10187 | Anti-Inflammatory Medications May Slow Macular Degeneration, But Are They Safe?
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Researchers have found that taking anti-inflammatory medication may slow the progression of macular degeneration. But, there are concerns about the safety of this “solution.”
A study published in the journal Eye describes how corticosteroids, nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs), immunosuppressive agents (e.g. methotrexate and rapamycin), and biologics could help those with AMD. Source
A caveat to the research indicates that there are concerns about the long term safety of taking such drugs. At Natural Eye Care we are very concerned about the way that prescription and non-prescription pharmaceuticals can harm the eyes.
For example, NSAID drugs like aspirin, ibuprofen, and naproxen can cause eye hemorrhaging, glaucoma, and cataracts. |
global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/10191 | Plastic Bags Traded In for Benches in Northern Virginia Community
The historic town is solving two problems: limited seating along the river and sending too many plastic bags to the landfill
If you're like most people, you probably have a stash of plastic bags somewhere in your house.
Occoquan, Virginia, has a creative plan for those leftover grocery bags, dry cleaning bags and bread bags: trading them into a company in exchange for benches.
Occoquan is collecting tens of thousands of bags for the project. Participants must provide 500 pounds' worth of plastic bags to receive each bench, provided by the Trex company in Winchester.
Although the benches themselves are not actually made from plastic bags, they do contain more than 90 percent recycled content, including post-consumer materials such as milk jugs and laundry detergent bottles, said a spokesperson on behalf of Trex.
Occoquan's first bench is already in place, and they're getting close to adding a second.
"I think everyone's really excited. They've gotten everyone involved," said Merial Currer, owner of Patriot Scuba, a local shop collecting the bags. "You know, like I said, they really feel ownership in it, and they get excited when they bring bags in and want to know how far we are."
While many cities and towns already recycle plastic, many of them don't recycle plastic bags, so Trex is trying to fill in the gaps, the spokesperson said. Trex uses the plastic bags to make decking.
CORRECTION (Sept. 3, 2019, 1:02 p.m.): An earlier version of this story said the benches are made from recycled plastic bags. In fact, the bags are traded in for the benches.
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/10193 | Hebrew Voices #52 – Heroes of 9/11
David Brink standing in front of the name of Todd M. Beamer, who stopped the terrorists from crashing Flight 93 into Washington DC.In this episode of Hebrew Voices, Heroes of 9/11, First Responder Detective David Brink (NYPD Retired) takes us on a private tour of the 9/11 Memorial Museum at Ground Zero and walks us through the events of that day. He also shares how he ran into the "9/11 Church" to find refuge from the cloud of toxic dust that formed when the Twin Towers collapsed and gives us a glimpse into how his faith gave him strength during such difficult times. Danilo wrote: “This episode is very revealing, and is a perspective I never heard.” Continue reading
The Tower that Still Stands – Nehemia Gordon (Open Door Series – Part 11)
The Tower That Still StandsIn The Tower That Still Stands, Nehemia Gordon tells the story of how he found the name of God with full vowels as the Twin Towers were falling on 9/11, and how we can find strength in the Migdal Oz, the “strong tower” that still stands. Sarah wrote: "This episode gave me chill bumps, again and again! I just had to stand up and shout!" Continue reading |
global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/10196 | An Earth-sized rogue planet discovered in the Milky Way
An artist's impression of a gravitational microlensing event by a free-floating planet.Jan Skowron / Astronomical Observatory, University of Warsaw
An Earth-sized rogue planet discovered in the Milky Way
London, November 2, 2020
Over four thousand extrasolar planets have been discovered to date. Although many of the known exoplanets do not resemble those in our solar system, they have one thing in common - they all orbit a star. However, theories of planet formation and evolution predict the existence of free-floating (rogue) planets, gravitationally unattached to any star. Indeed, a few years ago Polish astronomers from the OGLE team from the Astronomical Observatory of the University of Warsaw provided the first evidence for the existence of such planets in the Milky Way. Writing in Astrophysical Journal Letters, OGLE astronomers announced the discovery of the smallest rogue planet found to date.
Exoplanets can be only rarely directly observed. Usually, astronomers find planets using observations of the light from the planet's host star. For example, if a planet crosses in front of its parent star's disk, then the observed brightness of the star periodically drops by a small amount causing so called transits. Astronomers can also measure the motion of the star caused by the planet.
Free-floating planets emit virtually no radiation and - by definition - they do not orbit any host star, so they cannot be discovered using traditional methods of astrophysical detection. Nevertheless, rogue planets can be spotted using an astronomical phenomenon called gravitational microlensing. Microlensing results from Einstein's theory of general relativity - a massive object (the lens) may bend the light of a bright background object (the source). The lens' gravity acts as a huge magnifying glass which bends and magnifies the light of distant stars.
'If a massive object (a star or a planet) passes between an Earth-based observer and a distant source star, its gravity may deflect and focus light from the source. The observer will measure a short brightening of the source star' - explains dr Przemek Mroz, a postdoctoral scholar at the California Institute of Technology and a lead author of the study. 'Chances of observing microlensing are extremely slim because three objects - source, lens, and observer - must be nearly perfectly aligned. If we observed only one source star, we would have to wait almost a million year to see the source being microlensed' - he adds.
This is why modern surveys hunting for gravitational microlensing events are monitoring hundreds of millions of stars in the Milky Way center, where the chances of microlensing are highest. The OGLE survey - led by Warsaw University astronomers - carries out one of such experiments. OGLE is one of the largest and longest sky surveys, it started operations over 28 years ago. Currently, OGLE astronomers are using a 1.3-meter Warsaw Telescope located at Las Campanas Observatory, Chile. Each clear night, they point their telescope to the central regions of the Galaxy and observe hundreds of millions of stars, searching for those which change their brightness.
Gravitational microlensing does not depend on the lens' brightness, so it enables the study of faint or dark objects such as planets. Duration of microlensing events depends on the mass of the lensing object - the less massive the lens, the shorter the microlensing event. Most of the observed events, which typically last several days, are caused by stars. Microlensing events attributed to free-floating planets have timescales of barely a few hours. By measuring the duration of a microlensing event (and shape of its light curve) we can estimate the mass of the lensing object.
The scientists announced the discovery of the shortest-timescale microlensing event ever found, called OGLE-2016-BLG-1928, which has the timescale of just 42 minutes. 'When we first spotted this event, it was clear that it must have been caused by an extremely tiny object' - says dr Radoslaw Poleski from the Astronomical Observatory of the University of Warsaw, a co-author of the study. Indeed, models of the event indicate that the lens must have been less massive than Earth, it was probably a Mars-mass object. Moreover, the lens is likely a rogue planet. 'If the lens were orbiting a star, we would detect its presence in the light curve of the event' - adds dr Poleski. 'We can rule out the planet having a star within about 8 astronomical units (the astronomical unit is the distance between the Earth and the Sun)'.
OGLE astronomers provided the first evidence for a large population of rogue planets in the Milky Way a few years ago. However, the newly-detected planet is the smallest rogue world ever found. 'Our discovery demonstrates that low-mass free-floating planets can be detected and characterized using ground-based telescopes' - says Prof. Andrzej Udalski, the PI of the OGLE project.
Astronomers suspect that free-floating planets actually formed in protoplanetary disks around stars (as "ordinary" planets) and they have been ejected from their parent planetary systems after gravitational interactions with other bodies, for example, with other planets in the system. Theories of planet formation predict that the ejected planets should be typically smaller than Earth. Thus studying free-floating planets enables us to understand the turbulent past of young planetary systems, such as our solar system.
The search for free-floating planets is one of the science drivers of the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, which is currently being constructed by NASA. The observatory is scheduled to start operations in the mid-2020s.
Because of the brevity of the event, additional observations collected by the Korea Microlensing Telescope Network (KMTNet) were needed to characterize the event. KMTNet operates a network of three telescopes - in Chile, Australia, and South Africa.
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/10197 | 5 reasons not to root Android
5 reasons not to root Android: Android is well known for its seemingly never-ending customization options and its permissive rooting credentials (well, among other things). Distributions that cannot be modified to enable elevated permissions are quite rare, as enthusiasts seek to have virtually every possible feature available at their disposal. But should you pursue that path? Does root provide what you need, or what you think you need?
There are a couple of good reasons why you probably should root Android. I’ve explained them in a past article. But, on the other hand, root is not for everyone, as the risks can far outweigh the benefits and you are likely to regret your decision once things get messy (and they can get messy). So here is why you should not do it. |
global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/10202 | Where are all the giants?
27 September 2003
THE largest marsupial and rodent ever to walk the earth have turned up in two fossil studies. The two extinct behemoths are raising questions about why no giants from each group exist today.
The marsupial (Diprotodon optatum) resembled a massive wombat and died out in Australia around 35,000 years ago. Few fossils exist, so researchers had been unable to estimate its size accurately. Now Stephen Wroe at the University of Sydney and his colleagues have developed a new method for putting a figure on the animal’s bulk. They calculated the relationship between limb bone measurements and total size in 18 …
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/10235 | Bon MacDougall
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04 Aug 1901
Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
11 Dec 1970
Sun City, California
United States
Indy 500s:
1 (1926)
Also a stunt pilot and one of the early Hollywood cameramen, he was also a airport owner and ran a pilot school. First name Ronald. As well as running the school and airport, he supplied aeroplane parts. He also formed the TWA Sprint 13 Black Cat stunt flying group, which were based in Burdett Airport, California. As well as MacDougall, well-known riding mechanic Spider Matlock was one of the thirteen pilots. MacDougall's only Indianapolis 500 ended in disappointment when he was forced to retire with a water leak, having started 9th. As well as his aviation background, MacDougall invented a coin-operated pinball machine game based on baseball, Major League, which came out in 1934, and can still be found (albeit in vintage form only) today.
Biography last updated 12 Aug 2016 |
global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/10236 | How Does In Chair Teeth Whitening Work?
Teeth whitening is a long established dental practice, and it continues to be one of the most popular cosmetic dental procedures around. The reasons for its popularity are obvious. White teeth give off an impression of health, youth, glamour and hygiene. On the other hand, yellowed and brown teeth can often give an impression of poor health and lack of hygiene.
All of these are of course ridiculous—white teeth aren’t actually a sure sign of good dental health—but that doesn’t change the fact that everyone wants white teeth. All of the movie stars, models and high profile people have beaming smiles so why shouldn’t you enjoy one?
Well, with in-chair teeth whitening it is possible to gain a whiter smile. But how exactly does in-chair teeth whitening work?
The Method
There are a variety of teeth whitening methods but the most effective and widely used form is known as light accelerated whitening. This type of whitening works chiefly through the combination of hydrogen peroxide and laser light. The hydrogen peroxide is applied in the form of a gel and the laser light is then applied to excite the molecules, which bleach the teeth.
The combination of the light and peroxide means that the whole process moves a lot faster than other at-home procedures, which require the hydrogen peroxide to be applied to the teeth for a long period of time.
The beauty of this method is that it only requires one appointment and the results are visible right away.
In-Chair and At-Home
In-chair and at-home teeth whitening methods use the same technology, except that the at-home methods don’t use a light source. As such, the whitening process takes a lot longer when using the at-home methods. The at-home procedures are less expensive than in-chair procedures but for those with severe discolouration the in-chair procedure will provide far quicker results.
How Effective Is It?
Teeth whitening is a tried and tested option for lightening teeth colour. However, its effectiveness varies from person to person. For those that have suffered severe dental trauma or decay, the teeth may be so damaged that bleaching them won’t change the colour. In this case, veneers may be a better option.
Can Everyone Have Their Teeth Whitened?
Teeth whitening is a completely safe procedure, however as with most medical and dental procedures there are some underlying conditions, which may preclude some patients. Some of these conditions include:
• Acid erosion
• Sensitive teeth
• Receding gums
• Hydrogen peroxide sensitivity
• Tooth decay
• Anyone younger than 16
• People with visible fillings, veneers and crowns
Possible Side Effects of Teeth Whitening
All treatments and procedures carry possible side effects. When it comes to teeth whitening, side effects are incredibly rare and rarely serious but it’s worth talking to your dentist if you’re worried about any of the following:
• Mucous Membrane Irritation: Hydrogen peroxide can potentially irritate the tissue in the mouth and gums. This most commonly occurs during at-home treatment as the bleaching agent leaks out and comes into contact with the tissue.
• Hypersensitivity: This is the most common side effect of teeth whitening and it typically stops soon after treatment. If it doesn’t your dentist can provide you with treatment options that are very effective.
• Spots: This is more of an aesthetic issue than a medical issue but it is quite normal for the colour to be uneven soon after treatment. The colour will usually even out but it is important you avoid food and beverages that stain your teeth to prevent uneven colouring.
• Damage to Enamel: Some over-the-counter teeth whitening treatments can affect tooth enamel. This is usually caused by whiteners containing fruit acids and abrasives such as baking soda. In-chair treatments only use hydrogen peroxide so damage to enamel is not usually a problem with this type of treatment.
In-chair treatment is a relatively simple procedure that offers great results. Just keep in mind that the procedure is entirely aesthetic—it won’t improve your overall health or wellbeing, and it won’t improve your dental hygiene or make your teeth healthier.
If you’d like to advantage of our in-chair teeth whitening procedure, then simply contact Dr Olstein’s surgery to find out more.
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/10269 | How to Make a Storage Battery How to Make a Storage Battery
Have you ever heard of storage batteries? There’s a type of battery that can store electricity by recharging from another power supply. The mechanism we’ll learn about in this experiment is a bit different from commercial rechargeable batteries, but we can still learn how electricity can be stored, discharged, and recharged using familiar household materials and some regular dry batteries.
Required time: 30 mins Required time: 30 mins
Ages: 11 Ages: 11
Difficulty level: Easy Difficulty level: Easy
Before we begin… Before we begin…
Materials you’ll need
1 Aluminum foil: 24 cm x 28 cm x 10 pieces, 19 cm x 33 cm x 9 pieces
2 10 x thin plastic A4 file folders
3 1 x LED (an energy-saving low-power LED is used here)
4 3 x alligator-clip wires
・4 x D- or C-size dry batteries
・1 x 4-cell battery box
Cut the aluminum foil into two sizes, which we’ll call “A” and “B”, as below:
A: 24 cm x 28 cm size x 10 pieces
B: 19 cm x 33 cm size x 9 pieces
These are approximate sizes when using an A4 plastic file folder.
With the longer, open side of the folder facing towards you, insert a sheet of A-size foil in the same orientation as the folder (long side facing you). Position it so there’s about 2 cm of foil hanging out of the open top end of the file. Keep the foil’s long edge parallel to the long edge of the folder.
Next, take a sheet of B-size foil and lay it over the top of your folder cross-wise, with the short edge facing you. The B-size foil is longer than the A-size sheet inside your folder. Position it in the center, so there’s an equal amount of foil hanging over the long edges of the folder. Take another folder, slip in a sheet of A-size foil exactly the same as you did before, and stack it over the first folder, with the B-size sheet sandwiched in between. Keep this up, alternating layers of A-size and B-size sheets until all your folders and foil sheets are used up. You should have an A-size folder on the bottom and top of your pile. Be sure to align all your foil sheets neatly.
The A-size foil must never touch the B-size foil. If they do, heat will be generated. In some cases, it can be dangerous enough to cause a burn.
Take a red (+) alligator-clip wire and clamp it onto an exposed corner of your A-size foil bundle. Do the same thing with the B-size sheets using your other black (-) alligator wire.
Use a clothes-peg to secure your sheets in a neat bundle as you work.
Attach the other end of the black (-) alligator clip onto the outer negative terminal of your battery box, and the opposite end of your red (+) alligator-clip wire to the outer positive terminal at the other end of your battery box. Some battery boxes have four terminals and four batteries, so you’ll need to connect the batteries in series. Clip a third alligator lead onto the inner positive and negative terminals to do this. Next, we’re going to charge the foil. Leave the wires attached to the battery box for about 30–60 seconds.
If you detect a burning smell after connection, most likely the aluminum foil plates are in contact. Disconnect the battery box immediately and stop the experiment.
After a minute of charging the foil, disconnect the alligator-clip wire from the battery box and clip an LED between the wires where the battery box was. It should light up for a moment, proving that carefully arranged foil can be charged and discharged, just like a store-bought rechargeable battery.
An LED has positive and negative polarities. Be sure to connect the long (positive) leg to the battery’s positive terminal, and the short (negative) leg to the negative battery terminal to correctly make a circuit.
Troubleshooting Troubleshooting
If your LED did not light up…
• Check the layers of aluminum foil. Are they properly layered and aligned? Check to see if the foil is wrinkled. Creased foil won’t work well. Keep it as flat as possible.
• Check the LED’s orientation to the alligator clips, as LEDs have positive and negative polarities. The longer leg is the positive terminal (connect to the red wire) and the shorter leg is negative (connect to the black wire).
• To reduce the amount of electricity that escapes through the desk, try placing the lid of a polystyrene box or Styrofoam plate under the foil battery.
Let’s get technical! Let’s get technical!
How was electricity stored?
When aluminum foil and a power supply are connected, negatively charged electrons move. Because our plastic folder separators do not conduct electricity, the electrons flow out of the battery, through the black wire, and into the B-size foil sheets, which become negatively charged. The other sheets of foil are drained of electrons and gather a positive charge. When the battery is disconnected, electricity remains in the two stacks of foil sheets because the positively and negatively charged particles attract each other through the plastic barrier, but can’t go anywhere. Our sheets of foil and plastic separators have turned into a storage battery. When we connect the wires to the LED, a circuit is formed, allowing the electrons to move through the wire, light up the LED, and enter the positively charged foil sheets where the electrical charges cancel each other out. Congratulations, you just made a simple, low-capacity rechargeable battery using a mechanism called a capacitor.
What does a capacitor do?
A capacitor is a structure that lets conductive materials (which let electrons flow with minimal resistance, such as some kinds of metal) to be placed opposite each other between an insulator (material that is non-conductive, like our plastic files). As well as storing electricity, capacitors can be a part of other electronic assemblies, where their function is to adjust the rate of current flow. Because electricity is stored on the metal’s surface, it makes sense that the greater the surface area of conductive material we can use, the more electricity we can store. That’s why we used so many sheets of aluminum foil in our experiment.
Battery basics
• When metal plates face each other with an insulator in between, electricity can be stored. This is the basic structure of a capacitor.
More fun challenges!
• If more aluminum foil and plastic file folders are used, the amount of energy you can store increases proportionally. If you added more sheets, what effect do you think would it have on the LED? How about if you reduced the number of sheets? What’s the minimum amount you need to illuminate the diode? Find out!
• What happens if you use thinner material such as a plastic bag or saran food wrap instead of plastic file folders? Experiment with different plastic insulators to see what results you can observe.
Do not use objects that can conduct electricity as an insulator. Try plastic file folders of different thicknesses, plastic bags, etc. Excess current is dangerous. Use caution when performing this experiment to prevent heat generation, smoke and/or fire, and burns.
Battery science in the real world Battery science in the real world
Introducing the rechargeable battery
Although they might use a different, more efficient capacitor mechanism to the basic one we made, store-bought storage batteries can be discharged and recharged over and over again. They are called secondary batteries and the types vary depending on the electrode material (the part of the battery that works like a long-lasting fuel). Nickel-metal hydride batteries use an oxidized nickel compound for the positive pole and a hydrogen compound, or a hydrogen-storing alloy, for the negative pole. They are used in devices such as cameras, portable audio players, and laptop computers. Some nickel-metal hydride batteries are the same size as regular dry batteries. These will probably be the secondary battery type you’re most familiar with.
The most common manganese battery mechanism The most common manganese battery mechanism
Note for parents, guardians, and teachers Note for parents, guardians, and teachers
• Take extra care not to let the A-size foils contact the B-size foils. Also, be careful to avoid touching the wire connected to the battery box, or contacting the terminals or leads with other metals. Clip the wire onto the foil first, then connect the other end to the battery box. When the battery box is disconnected, do not allow the terminals to contact metal objects. To be safe, remove the batteries from the battery box. |
global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/10293 | Read all about it!
I don’t know about you, but every week, around Wednesday or Thursday, I get excited to pick up my copy of our local newspaper. Once a month, I have the same excitement when our local magazine arrives in my post. It is a feeling of delight, which I just don’t get from reading Flipbook, Quora or any other on-line publication.
I understand how valuable time has become and the ability to leisurely read every communication that comes across your desk is next to impossible, but sitting down with a local paper is a luxury we have to embrace, otherwise community newspapers will go the way of the VHS recorder.
Like most of you, I subscribe to the big papers on-line, magazines and on my IPad, news briefs to my inbox. Like most of you, if I read everything out there, I would be sitting in a chair, with my phone or tablet on perma-charge 24/7.
Why do I look forward to receiving our community newspapers every week? That is a simple one to answer; it brings me up to speed on all the news of the community I live in. Where else can I find out what exciting events are coming up that I can take advantage of, what local politicians are spending their time (and our money) on or, what did Mabel and Ken have for their 50th anniversary dinner?
I cringe when I hear people complain about the quality of writing, the class of photography and the odd typo in our local rags, but can you appreciate what these dispatchers of information are up against? The papers are free; the only money paid to reporters, photographers, editors and publishers comes from advertising, and yet people complain.
I remember not that long ago, we had two papers per week, from two different publishers. They used to cost a dollar (give or take), and then they dropped to one delivery a week, now they are free. Think where we would be without the information in local newspapers and magazines. How would you know what new things are happening, how would you know who to call in case you need a handy person? Are you going to call the funeral home to get the weekly obits?
Next time you have an issue with something written in local press, instead of complaining; why not send a letter to the editor, or a thumbs down, with your opinion… as long as it’s not about my column.
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/10325 | Alexander Tschuggel
Forerunner To The Antichrist
While I was peering through green boughs,
even as do men who waste their lives
in hunting after birds
Purgatorio XXIII
Being a Translation of the First, Second, and Third Books and Selections from the Seventh and Eighth Books of the Policraticus of John of Salisbury
Chapter Four. Hunting, Its Origin, Its Forms, and Its Practice, Lawful and Otherwise
THE THEBANS, if we may credit history, were the first to decree that the knowledge of hunting should be imparted to all. They in particular formulated the rules of this profession, or shall we call it vice? As a result of this the Theban people became an object of suspicion to the world, as befouled with parricide, incest, deception, and perjury. They it was who transmitted the knowledge to the Phrygians,an effeminate, spineless people, fickle and utterly lacking in modesty. The Thebans were held in little esteem by the Athenians and the Spartans (peoples of greater dignity, who clothed in the ornate veil of mythology historical facts, the secrets of nature, and the origin of customs). Their tales, however, served the useful purpose of admonition against defects of character and conduct, and the charm of their poetic form gave pleasure.
They fabled that the Dardanian hunter (i) had been caught up to heaven by an eagle, to serve first as Jove's cupbearer and then for purposes of illicit and unnatural love; quite properly, seeing that volatility is the characteristic of a winged creature and that pleasure, blind to sobriety, blushes not to prostitute itself indiscriminately. A Theban
Perhaps a goddess was chosen to preside over hunting because the people did not wish to degrade their gods by making them preside over an activity characterized by self-indulgence and vice. Venus, herself a hardy huntress, mourned the destruction of Adonis by the tusks of a boar. Maro, (ii) making a mockery of the hospitality of lofty Carthage, knew not how to consummate the desires of Aeneas and Dido until their companions were scattered in the hazards of the hunt, when he unlocked for the lovers the secrecy of a sylvan bower; possibly it thus happened because such a pursuit, owing to its consciousness of guilt, shuns the light, while the joy of lawful wedlock is illumined by the fire of hymeneal torches.
Can you name any man of distinction who has been an enthusiast in the sport of hunting? The heroic son of Alceus, (iii) although he pierced the bronze-hoofed hind and brought sweet calm to Erymanthus' grove, (iv) had in view not his own pleasure but the general good. Meleager slew the boar that ravaged Caledonia, (v)not to give pleasure to himself but to free his country from the scourge. The founder of the Roman race (vi)laid low the seven huge stags not to sate his vanity and pleasure but to keep himself and his followers alive. It is from their purpose and result that deeds are judged. An act is seemly if the cause that preceded it is honorable. Who ever formed an army of hunters and dogs except for the purpose of battling beasts with courage not his own? Why shouldn't he? Perhaps he will bag a tiny beast, a timid hare, with his elaborate equipment. But if the booty be more glorious, a deer maybe or boar, and the hunter's efforts be conspicuous, spontaneous applause bursts out, the huntsmen are wild with joy, and the head of the victim with the usual trophies will be born before the conquering hero. One would think that the capture of the king of the> Cappadocians (vii) was being celebrated, to judge by the blare of trumpet and squeal of pipe proclaiming the victory. When a female animal is caught, then gloom prevails, or when a noble beast is laid low by the cunning of the trappers rather than by their prowess.
If a wild goat or hare be the victim, it is thought unworthy of the glory of a triumph. Then, too, there are no exultant blasts of horn or trumpet from the eighth grade of Capricorn until the beginning of Gemini. (viii) The triumphant pipe and horn are silent unless a wolf or lion, more dreadful foe, or tiger or panther becomes our prey — a triumph which, thank God, is rarely ours. Despite this, the long space of the year is taken up with the various interests of the hunt.
In Asia the Albanians (ix) possess dogs more powerful than lions, which they fear as little as the most timid beast, thanks to the courage of the hounds and their own skill. In fact, there is no wild beast known braver or stronger than these dogs. They were brought into Asia from Africa by Hercules(x) after he had vanquished the three-headed monster Geryon, (xi) and he bequeathed to them, as it were, the prowess of downing lions. In addition, this butchery requires skill and exacts it. It possesses its artists at whom you will marvel as he "Gesticulates with brandished knife," (xii) and now with blunted sword, should you chance to be present at their sacred rites. Be careful, however, not to misuse any of their hunting jargon in speaking, for you will be flogged or be branded with ignorance of all propriety in displaying your lack of knowledge of their technique. In our day this knowledge constitutes the liberal studies of the higher class. This forms the underlying principles of rectitude; this is the short cut for the blessed to the acme of happiness, a goal which our ancestors taught could be reached only by climbing the steep and laborious path of virtue.
The Gauls scoff at the people of Emilia and Liguria, asserting that they make their wills, arouse the neighborhood, and pray for arms if an invading tortoise threatens their frontiers. This reputation has risen from the fact that no attack of any kind has found them unprepared. How can our own people avoid derision since, with still greater commotion, more worry, trouble, and expense, they think it proper to proclaim formal war against wild beasts? Yet they pursue with less ferocity those beasts which mankind justly regards as its greatest and most malignant enemies. The wolf, the fox, the bear, and all harmful animals are undisturbed while others are slaughtered, and are allowed to commit their depredations before the very eyes of the huntsmen.
Hannibal is said to have slain a Roman who at his bidding had killed in singlebidding had killed in single combat an elephant. (xiii) He remarked that the Roman was unworthy of living in that he could be forced to enter a contest with beasts, although it is nearer the truth to say that he did not wish a captive to be rendered famous by the glory of an unprecedented triumph, nor those beasts by whose valor he had terrorized nations to be maligned. Is one then worthy of life whose sole interest in it is the trivial one of waging cruel warfare against beasts?
Those who delight in that type of hunting in which birds are taught to pursue their kind, if you think that this sort of bird-catching is to be included in the term hunting, are afflicted with a milder form of insanity but with similar levity. Hunting on the ground, as it is more dependable, is also more profitable than that in the sky.
Devotees of hunting cite from ancient authorities Ulysses as the originator of their preoccupation. He was the first after the destruction of Troy to introduce into Greece birds equipped with bronze spurs and to incite them to attack their kind to the surprise and delight of the spectators. They have indeed chosen a potent patron and one
Who saw the ways of many men and towns. (xiv)
No foe escaped unharmed from his snares. His unarmed host raised the glory of Greece higher than did the armed crews of the thousand ships.
But he himself gave Circe credit for this art, the woman who is said to have worked by charms and potions upon the minds of men for the reason that she won them by her artful words and agreeable ways and transformed them to suit her every purpose. And so the poisonous cup of illicit pleasure was passed to the Greeks, but when the cautious Ithacan had tasted he would not drink for fear that, degraded and spiritless, he be forced to live under a harlot's sway. But because in his wisdom he had had experience in every field, this wary man foresaw how, when his labors and his wanderings had ended and when his chaste Penelope and his dear Telemachus failed to recognize him, he could make good to Greece the loss of his companions, of whom she had been deprived by their long exile.
Admiration should also have been expressed for his faithful dog, from whom alone of that numerous household the lapse of even twenty years had not obliterated the memory of his master, and who had joyously greeted him on his return; there would, however, have been the danger that the fame of the hunting pack be enhanced had praise been lavished upon Argus.
Ulysses enjoined his son Telemachus to abjure this new type of amusement, remarking that he had introduced it only for the entertainment of those who, by loss of their fathers, had felt the burden of the Trojan war. I infer that the art of hunting is unprofitable inasmuch as a man of his prowess had not wished to impart it to his only son. And this you as well as I may infer from the fact that the inferior sex excels in the hunting of birds. For this you might be inclined to blame nature did you not know that inferior creatures are always more prone to rapine. Hunting is indeed a silly and very trying business and never balances the losses of its extravagance by the advantages of its successes.
It may be that such large numbers of men engage in hunting in order that under cover of it they may cut down their expenditures, rarely dining at home, often with their acquaintances. They court solitude, wandering about forest glades and lakes clothed in coarse garments, content with cheap food. The sight of their inane amusement is the only consolation they have to offer their relatives and dependents who are being worked to death, starving and ill-clothed. As a matter of fact, Athens' first fall was at the date when she decreed that the edict forbidding hunting be rescinded and that the art of hunting both animals and birds be recognized by the state, and practiced.
The seer of Mantua (xv) is said to have asked Marcellus, when the latter was enthusiastically engaged in playing havoc with birds, whether he preferred that a bird be produced for the capture of others or a fly be fashioned for the purpose of exterminating its kind. Referring the point to his uncle Augustus, on his advice Marcellus chose that a fly be formed to drive flies from Naples and free the city from an intolerable pest. The same was in fact accomplished, clear evidence that the common weal should take precedence of the individual's pleasures.
In the cave of the Centaur Chiron, (xvi) if entire credence is to be given the Greeks, Achilles was taught to play the lyre and cithera. (xvii) He was then taken into the forest and amid the slaughter of wild beasts, becoming inured to killing and to eating disgusting food, he lost his awe of nature and fear of death. Are we not told that Bacchus had the same trainer? In truth those who have such inclinations and desires are half-beast. They have shed the desirable element, their humanity, and in the sphere of conduct have made themselves like unto monsters. From levity to lewdness, from lewdness to lust, and finally, when hardened, they are drawn into every type of infamy and lawlessness.
Repose is sought after labor. Amusements are more delightful if hardships precede. Organisms utterly exhausted recruit themselves with greater avidity. To this day hunters smack of the Centaurs' training. Rarely is one found to be modest or dignified, rarely self-controlled, and in my opinion never temperate. They were indeed imbued with these characteristics in the home of Chiron. Hence the warning to shun the Centaurs' feasts, (xviii) from which no one goes unscathed.
If credence may not be given to the stories which poets have distorted with figments of their imagination, we must at least believe that which, written by the hand of God, has acquired indisputable authority among all nations. First, therefore, must be counted Nimrod, (xix) a stout hunter before the Lord. (xx) We do not doubt that he was in disrepute, since all scholars condemn him. It is stated that he rose to such a pitch of pride that he feared not to scorn the laws of nature in that he reduced to servitude those of his own status and race whom she had created free and equal. Therefore tyranny, initiated by a huntsman to insult the Creator, finds its sole source in one who, amid the slaughter of beasts, wallowing in blood, learned to feel contempt for the Lord. He began indeed to grow powerful in the land for thus it was written: For the reason that he did not expect to receive power from the Lord. (xxi)The beginning of his rule was Babylon and he spread into the land of Sennar where, when the whole earth was of one tongue and the same speech, the tower of Babel arose to the heavens. It was constructed not of stone but of brick covered with bitumen. It was not built upon a rock, on the firm foundation of which alone every edifice that is constructed waxes strong in the Lord. But shameless indiscretion, destroying harmony, also destroyed the unity of tongues and richly deserved the confusion that ensued in that it preferred to glory in itself rather than in the Lord. Hence the proverb: Even as Nimrod, the stout hunter before the Lord, (xxii) possibly because he was so inflated with pride that the lesson of the recent flood failed to teach him not to wax haughty in the eyes of the Lord and not to claim defiantly for himself the obedience which man owes to God; since it is a fact that the flood preceded the confusion of tongues. Babylon (xxiii) hath indeed made drunken all the earth with her golden cup. Against Jerusalem (xxiv) which is above, she hath pitched a camp doomed to inevitable destruction and they that serve therein are damned by the eternal curse of the blessed.
Esau (xxv) also practiced hunting and deserved to be cheated of his father's blessing. In the forest he became hungry, with the result that in his ravenous desire for food he sold his birthright for a mess of pottage, and passed on to his descendants the yoke of voluntary slavery so that they bent their necks to the younger brother who remained at home. Esau's hands were covered with a thick growth of hair; he was rough in action, with boorish manners, and had left at home his fine garments since he incessantly engaged in hunting and had cast aside the garb of virtue. He thirsted for his brother's blood and yet, placated by gifts, he was not ashamed to be courted by him who he knew was preferred by divine grace to himself in the matter of his father's blessing.
They boast that the originator of hunting with falcons was Maccabeus. It is generally believed however that, engaged as he was in more serious occupations, he passed his life without this diversion. He waged successful wars, restored freedom to his brothers, improved the laws, revised ceremonies, cleansed the holy places, adorned the façade of the temple whence he believed victory had come to him with garlands of gold. Into none of his acts
Did selfish pleasure steal and claim a share. (xxvi)
Finally, falling in battle in defense of his brothers, he left them heirs to a righteous war.
You upon whom nature from the earliest years has enjoined the rule of reason, consider the patriarchs, pass on freely to generals, proceed to judges, advance to kings, peruse the long line of prophets, examine the duties and pursuits of a devoted people; do you read in the whole range of ancient documents of anyone who has been a professional hunter? To be sure the Idumeans, (xxvii) Ishmaelites, and the tribes that knew not God. "Where are they that take their diversion with birds of the air?" (xxviii) asks the prophet or, if you will, his scribe, provided he be inspired. It is as if he makes the suggestion, though he does not say it, that those whose life is but sport have vanished along with their birds; and he does say in so many words that they have gone down into hell. Question your parents and they will cite your ancestors and say that they have never read of a hunter-saint. If, however, you should show partiality for the term hunter because the prophets promise that the Lord will send hunters (xxix) to chase from the forests and high places those who have wandered astray, then you should know that it is the life of bestial men that is reproved, and not the vanity of hunters that is commended. Nor should the fact that, as you assert, on the authority of pious but not canonical writings, Placidus (also named Eustachius), (xxx) a glorious martyrhom nature from the earliest years has enjoined the rule of reason, consider the patriarchs, pass on freely to generals, proceed to judges, advance to kings, peruse the long line of prophets, examine the duties and pursuits of a devoted people; do you read in the whole range of ancient documents of anyone who has been a professional hunter? To be sure the Idumeans, (xxxi) Ishmaelites, and the tribes that knew not God. "Where are they that take their diversion with birds of the air?"49 asks the prophet or, if you will, his scribe, provided he be inspired. It is as if he makes the suggestion, though he does not say it, that those whose life is but sport have vanished along with their birds; and he does say in so many words that they have gone down into hell. Question your parents and they will cite your ancestors and say that they have never read of a hunter-saint. If, however, you should show partiality for the term hunter because the prophets promise that the Lord will send hunters50 to chase from the forests and high places those who have wandered astray, then you should know that it is the life of bestial men that is reproved, and not the vanity of hunters that is commended. Nor should the fact that, as you assert, on the authority of pious but not canonical writings, Placidus (also named Eustachius),51 a glorious martyr indeed, was visited while hunting by the Lord impress you overmuch. This would be as foolish as to praise the madness of the persecutors of the Church for the reason that from among them Paul was called to be an apostle and became one of the distinguished preachers of the gospel.
Granted that there have been distinguished men who were devoted to hunting, an Alexander or perhaps a Caesar, you will never find among them a philosopher or one deemed a sage among his people. Nor were Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Seneca, Soranus,52 or he whose wisdom and virtue centered admiration upon himself and who made as nothing all the marvels not only of his own city but of the world, Archytas of Tarentum.53
But to return to those of our own fold who excel in respect to the truth of their doctrine, the example of their virtue, and the authority of their faith, we find no Saint Augustine, Lawrence, or Vincent; in fine no one of the band of Christian Fathers troubled by this crazy mania of hunting. We are instructed by painful examples in our own period also to guard against this type of feverish activity, in that divine wrath by many authentic miracles has smitten leaders while engaged in the hunt; for they who lived while they could like beasts have often died like dogs.
Kings themselves54 have not been spared by the hand of God, which, for their wickedness, has inflicted deserved and signal punishment. We do not mention their names and the circumstances not because of lack of instances — perhaps indeed because of the difficulty of choosing amid such abundance — but in reality that we may avoid, by touching wounds still sore, causing additional pain to the smitten hearts of those still mourning. We have in fact many instances at home.
Some inspired by this form of vanity have gone to such extreme of madness as to become enemies of nature, forgetting their own condition and scorning divine judgment by subjecting God's image to exquisite torture in enforcing their claim to wild beasts; for a beast's defense they have not feared to destroy man, whom the Only Begotten Son of God hast redeemed with his blood. Wild animals, which are gifts of nature and become the lawful property of those who get them, are claimed by presumptuous man even under the watchful eye of God; and the uniform right over all of them wherever they exist is upheld by him as though he had thrown his encircling net around the whole universe. A fact that excites surprise is the frequent practice of declaring it a crime to lay snares for birds, to weave nooses, to allure by tunes or whistle, or to trap them in any manner whatsoever. The punishment prescribed is confiscation of goods or loss of life or limb. You have heard it said that birds of the sky and fishes of the deep are common property, but those that hunting claims, wherever they nourish, belong to the royal treasury. Stay thy hand; touch them not; for under pain of treason thou mayst fall a victim to the hunter.
Farmers are kept from their fields that wild beasts may have liberty to roam. That feeding ground for them may be increased farmers are deprived of their fields of grain, tenants of their allotments, the herds and flocks of their pasturage. Hives are excluded from flowery places and the very bees are scarcely allowed to roam at liberty.
You are correct in saying that although the gadfly and other pests which do not annoyying that although the gadfly and other pests which do not annoy wild beasts but the pets of the mighty, cannot be driven off by them with all their might; even the gnat employs its weapons to avenge man and properly turns its sharp sting against wild beasts. In this way, if you should be here you will be compelled to buy up or lose your own fields, year by year. Choose whichever you prefer of the two fundamental rights of citizenship, you are threatened with the loss of life or property, one or the other.
If any hunter should pass through your estate, set before him without delay and with due respect what you have on hand. What you have not and your neighbor has,55 purchase for his use for fear that in accord with power conferred by edict he may carry away your possessions despite you, and because of irreverence and contempt force you in the court of the hundred or that of the sheriff or of the king's itinerant justice or possibly in the king's court itself, to answer the charge of high treason. For the royal treasury is enriched while the family is forced to go into debt to meet its obligations as well as it can.
That it may be evident that I am attacking with my pen hunting and other diversions of courtiers judiciously rather than in a spirit of hatred, I would gladly agree to count hunting among things called indifferentia (neither good nor evil) were it not for the fact that the inordinate pleasure that it causes impairs the human mind and undermines reason itself. It should not, however, be indiscriminately condemned on this score; wine intoxicates but the intoxication is the fault of the one who drinks; the old often exhibit a senility that is not the result of age but of their own defects. Therefore it is quite possible, depending upon the circumstances, time, manner, individual, and purpose, for hunting to be a useful and honorable occupation. For it is the individual that glorifies the pursuit when following the path of duty and not infringing upon the rights of others. That activity of a man is most seemly which is in greatest harmony with his duty. The philosopher, describing seemly conduct for individual cases, puts it admirably: "That which is most consistent with his character is most seemly for each."56
What have you or I to do with the business of hunting? For one to neglect his own business and to devote himself with excess of enthusiasm to another's, is a disgrace indeed. For what has one whose distinction is based upon his public service to do with a private, not to say rural, occupation? A people should follow its leader; the teacher should disseminate knowledge; the judge should check delinquency; the industrious should be rewarded with the gift of power; private individuals should pursue humble, the well-born higher, servants menial, occupations.
For that which will be base for Seius and For Titius, men of honor each, will be Quite seemly for Crispinus.57
Thus, though a body have several members, all do not have the same function; each has its own to perform. Why therefore do you who do not surrender yours to the hunter claim the right to his? Would you not deem it unseemly should the hunter aspire to the regal or papal throne? It would be even more unseemly to descend from either of these exalted positions to the filthy and bloody work of the hunter. For innate love of virtue always strives to rise; inversely, vicious impulses naturally tend downward.
Its purpose may redeem an act if it be based upon necessity, if effective in point of utility, or conspicuous for its integrity, since intention has the power to change its entire complexion. For, remarks the philosopher, one's attitude stamps its character upon one's work. Esau went out to hunt at the bidding of his father,58 hence without blame, in order to appease his father's hunger and obtain the promised blessing as the just reward for his obedience. If this could not have been done without guilt, such a patriarch as he would never have sent his son on such an errand, whom by virtue of his blessing he proposed to place over the nations. But perhaps delay brought on its own peril in that Esau tarried longer than permissible, though in a permitted task, since he was enamoured of this bad habit. No one may be deemed at fault who, under the sharp goad of necessity is forced to sustain life by following a lawful pursuit.
They who shun inactivity, who prepare themselves for the business of life by inuring their bodies to hardships, who do not allow themselves to become physically unwieldy and who maintain their personal dignity in all situations, are immune to sharp rebuke. An action becomes criminal not in itself but from its intention. No display of virtue gives an act distinction if its origin is rooted in pleasure. Pleasure is indeed a spurious source for virtue. I am not speaking of the pleasure which is the fruit of peace, patience, kindness, forbearance, and delight in the spirit of holiness.59 I refer to pleasure which, devoted to feasting, drinking, banquets, song and dance, sport, over-refinements of luxury, debauchery, and varied types of defilement, weakens even robust souls and, by a sort of irony on nature's part, renders men softer and more corrupt than women. Circumstances also palliate the blame attached to hunting or even justify its pursuit. Granted these circumstances, justification for the action is derived from them as it is in the majority of cases. Hunting then may be untimely from the point of view of religious ceremonies, natural order, or obligation of duty such as ought not to be neglected and should take precedence of other activities. But enough of this, as our purpose is not a formal treatise on hunting but that of deriving a little amusement at the expense of the frivolities of courtiers. Consideration must be given to place also; that is, hunting should be pursued on preserves, on common or on public land, provided that no injury is done the community and provided the locality is not exempt from such disturbance by reason of its sanctity or renown. For the bold trespasser is caught in the law's net and punished. The activity, however, is laudable when moderation is shown and hunting is pursued with judgment and, when possible, with profit, with the result that the advice of the dramatist Terence is followed: "Moderation in all things." (xl) For 'tis also true,
The wise is called a mad man, the just unjust, If he pursue e'en virtue beyond the realm Of sense. (xli)
For nothing is less becoming than to cause a smile to pass over the countenances of the spectators as you with excess of zeal devote yourself to an activity of which you have no knowledge or, for that matter, which you have no intention of mastering. It is as if to be amusing, you should attempt to speak a tongue of which you are utterly ignorant.
There are indeed persons who are forever excluded not only from this but from certain other pursuits which are still more trifling and frivolous; for instance, those who are in holy orders and those who hold high judicial appointments. For conduct which, in the case of some, might appear a slight lapse, in the case of such as these would convey the impression of guilt. Indeed those considerations are always more weighty which break agreements entered into than those which hinder their formation. Furthermore the pursuit of hunting not only precludes advancement in holy orders for its votaries but even disqualifies one who has already attained the highest rank therein.
The following is a striking statement among many such attributed to Themistocles: "Magistrates should be forbidden the public games and other frivolities that the state may not appear trivial and advertise its own shortcomings by such lapse of dignity. If, however, it should happen that those of the governing class be unhampered by duties — a rare occurrence — they are permitted during the years of young manhood, by the dispensation of youth, to depart a little from their customary dignity and be somewhat more lenient toward themselves, because as they advance to maturity they will make amends to the state by their service to it." Such are his words. Would that our own statesmen gave ear to it, for then, having attained years of discretion, they would allow serious affairs of state to take precedence of their own diversions. The state would then feel a surge of strength course through its entire frame and the appearance of perfect harmony would impart charm and it would attain the perfection of an exquisite beauty,
If each part keep, as it is meet, the part Allotted to it, (xlii) and if there be no confusion, but perfect harmony, in its various functions. This result may be attained if we but follow an unerring guide, nature. (xliii) As it is Workmen try the doctor's trade and doctors Handle tools, (xliv) and our public servants are drafted from among hunters, from those of more humble pursuits, and even from criminals. With the rashness of ignorance the uninitiated dare to dabble in affairs of state.
(i) Ganymede. 22 Actaeon.
(ii) I. e., Virgil. See Aen. iv. 160 ff. (L. C. L., I, 406).
(iii) Ibid., vi. 802 (L. C. L., I, 562).
(iv) Ibid., 803-04 (L. C. L., I, 562).
(v) Ovid, Met. ii. 499 (L. C. L., I, 426ff.).
(vi) Virgil, Aen. i. 184ff. (L. C. L., I, 128).
(vii) Horace, Ep. I. vi. 39 (L. C. L., p. 288).
(viii) A period approximately from January 1 to May 22.
(ix) The inhabitants of ancient Albania, a district east of the Caspian Sea. See Solinus, Polyhist. xv. 6-8; cf. Pliny, N.H. VIII. xl. 149.
(x) Justin, xlii. 3.
(xi) Virgil, Aen. viii. 202 (L. C. L., II, 74).
(xii) Juvenal, Sat. v. 121, 122 (L. C. L., pp. 121-22).
(xiii) Pliny, N.H. VIII. lxi. 6, 7.
(xiv) Horace, A. P. 142 (L. C. L., p. 462).
(xv) I. e., Virgil, who was regarded as a magician in the Middle Ages. For this incident see Comparetti, Vergil in the Middle Ages, translated by Benecke, p. 267.
(xvi) Ovid, Met. ii. 633 (L. C. L., I, 104); Fast. v. 380 (L. C. L., p. 288); c£. Claudian, On the Third Consulship of Honorius, 61 (L. C. L., I, 274).
(xvii) Statius, Achilleis i. 106ff. (L. C. L., II, 516).
(xviii) Ovid, Met. xii. 213 ff. (L. C. L., p. 194).
(xix) The account of Nimrod, the tower of Babel, and Nimrod's tyranny is taken by John from Rufinus' version of Josephus. For the original Greek see Josephus, Antiq. i. 115 (L. C. L., IV, 54ff.).
(xx) Gen. x. 9.
(xxi) Ibid., 10.
(xxii) See above, n. 41.
(xxiii) Jer. li. 7; Apoc. xvii. 4, 5.
(xxiv) Gal. iv. 26.
(xxv) Gen. xxv. 27ff.
(xxvi) Lucan, Phars. ii. 391 (L.C.L., p. 86).
(xxvii) Ezek. xxxii. 29, 30.
(xxviii) Bar. iii. 17.
(xxix) Jer. xvi. 16.
(xxx) A Christian martyr of the reign of Hadrian.
(xxxi ) A distinguished Greek physician. As to the question whether there were four persons of this name cf. Smith, Dictionary of Classical Biography.
(xxxii) For one marvel that Archytas made for his city see Aulus Gellius, X. xii. 9 (L.C. L., II, 244).
(xxxiii) E. g., William Rufus, King of England; Richard, Son of Robert, Duke of Normandy; Fulk, Count of Anjou, King of Jerusalem; and John II, known as John the Good
(xxxiv) Cf. Juvenal, Sat. iv. 55 (L. C. L., p. 60).
(xxxv) Cicero, De Off. I. xxxi. 113 (L. C. L., p. 114).
(xxxvi) Juvenal, Sat. iv. 13-14 (L. C. L., p. 58).
(xxxvii) Gen. xxvii.
(xxxviii) Gal. v. 22.
(xxxix) Terence, And. 60 (L. C. L., I, p. 60).
(xl) Horace, Ep. I. vi. (L. C. L., p. 286).
(xli) Horace, A. P. 92 (L. C. L., p. 450).
(xlii) Cicero, De Amic. 19 (L. C. L., p. 128).
(xliv) Horace, Ep. II. i. 115-16 (L. C. L., p. 406). |
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Concentration of solution: Dilute and Concentrated Solution
Concentration of solution: Dilute and concentrated solution.
Solution of different concentrations can be produced by mixing more or less solute and solvent in the solution. The solution is called dilute or concentrated depending upon the concentration level of the solution. Now, let us make solutions of different concentrations.
Task: To make concentrated and dilute solution and differentiate them.
Required accessories: Two glass beakers, a stiffer, measuring flask, spoon, sugar and water.
Procedure: Clean the two beakers by washing. Take 100 milliliters of thinking water in beaker using a measuring flask. Pure 1 spoon of sugar in one beaker and 3 spoons of sugar in the other one and stir them gently. Now test the sweetness of the solution of sugar juice by taking 1 spoon from each beaker. (The majority of chemical substances are injurious to human-body. So it is not wise to test by drinking or eating any solution or chemical substances without thoroughly knowing about them.)
The beaker in which 3 spoons of sugar were added has the mixture that test sweeter. Like sugar juice, out of the two solutions of same volume the solution which one has comparatively more amount of solute is called concentrated solution and the other solution which has comparatively less amount of solute called dilute solution.
Again if it happens so that keeping the amount of sugar (1 spoon) the same in both the beakers the amount of water is increased, the solution in the beaker having less amount of water will be sweeter. In this case too, the solution with less amount of water is concentrated solution. And the beaker in which the amount of water is more will be less sweet and we may call this dilute solution.
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“I don’t want you to do anything you don’t want to do.” Oliver’s voice shook, and the sound of his doubt reached my soul.“Christ. Is that what you think? That I don’t want you? Because wanting doesn’t even begin to cover how I feel about you. Crave. Need. I don’t think a word exists that explains how much I want you.”
Something between a sigh and groan escaped him. His fingers trembled as he stroked my cheek, and I shivered from head to toe in response to his touch. His other hand cupped the back of my head, massaging the tense muscles in my neck.
“So what are we going to do about it?”
The whispered question hung in the air between us, sweet and ripe and too tempting to resist. I leaned closer, savoring the anticipation for every last second I could stand it, then brushed my lips on his. Mother. Of. Christ. Heat surged through me in a rippling wave. I kissed him again.
In my fantasies when I kissed Oliver, it was a frantic, frenzied, ravenous devouring. Rough and hot and full of pent-up desire. But when my mouth actually landed on his, not one of those things mattered more than the fact that I wanted to savor him. Anything beyond a light brushing of our lips would have been too intense. As it was, my cock pulsed each time I made contact.
Oliver didn’t seem to be in a rush either. He seemed perfectly content to let me take my time. Unable to wait another second to taste him again, I dragged my tongue across the swell of his lower lip. His happy noise corresponded with a hip swivel that sent his cock sliding against mine. Two layers of briefs and denim did nothing to mute the sensation, which was enhanced by my brain’s willingness to provide an immediate and vivid montage of that cock naked and erect.
Licking my way into his mouth took a degree of patience I didn’t know I possessed. What I did know was I didn’t want to rush any of this. I’d wanted it—all of it, all of him—so long and so badly. More than I ever could have admitted to him or myself. And now that I had him, right there, warm and sweet and real, I wanted to take my time.
His tongue met mine for a tentative swirl that sent our hips rocking in synch again. The sweet, pure flavor of him was like a drug I knew might be addicting but had a high so irresistible, I was willing to take the risk. I explored his mouth, aware of every single response—fingers slipping through my hair, breath hitching when I gave a light suck, and that swivel—Jesus Christ, that swivel of his hips had me imagining him in every position known to man and a few that may have been physically impossible but seemed awfully fucking tempting in theory.
Oliver’s soft groan lured me out of fantasy and into the reality of his tongue stroking mine. Gripping his hip, not wanting to risk losing one square centimeter of contact between our bodies, I inched him backward a few feet until he was leaned against the fridge. The cool metal grazed my knuckles as I raised the back of his T-shirt. He hissed, arching away from the cold and into me.
I breathed the word into his mouth, and he answered with something that sounded enough like “Yes” to make my heart skip a beat. Magnets and photos scattered as I pressed him harder against the refrigerator door and his tongue resumed its dance with mine.
Need hummed through me, and the deeper we kissed the more I realized it wasn’t need for sex or contact, it was need for him. My fingertips tingled as I moved a shaky hand over the contours of his face. The face I’d spent the past month memorizing but somehow saw more clearly now than all the times I’d studied it with my eyes.
My brain filtered out every sensation that didn’t involve Oliver. His taste. His smell. His rasping breaths. His fingertips massaging my scalp. I pulled away, needing to look at him, to process the visual along with everything else.
Disheveled hair, flushed cheeks, eyes wild, pupils a mile wide, lips wet and swollen. He looked as wrecked as I felt, and all we’d done was kiss. I tugged at his shirt, and he raised his arms, letting me slip it over his head. It fluttered to the ground as we reached for each other’s waistbands.
I’d never been so grateful not to be wearing a belt, because fumbling with his was more than enough of an obstacle. Steadying my hands took serious effort, but I got it undone and not a second too soon because once he got my fly undone and shoved my pants past my hips I was no longer capable of any thoughts.
Desire consumed me.
I don’t remember stepping out of pants or even moving back toward each other. I just remember the impact. His mouth on mine, my hand braced against the fridge, my erection sliding against his. Jesus. Smooth, hot, slick. The rumble in my throat echoed in my ears, filling the room with the sound of our lust.
It occurred to me that we could go to my room, my bed, hell, even the couch, but I couldn’t stop humping against him long enough to really consider which location would be best. His pants and whimpers weren’t doing anything to unscramble my brain. I reached between us, roughly circling both our cocks and trying to coordinate our movements. So much heat. The air, his body, his cock, each thing incrementally hotter than the next.
I groaned into his mouth, feeling precome stream across my knuckles, adding to the slick heat as we bucked together. Holy hell. Maybe we should head for some furniture before one of us passes the fuck out.
Oliver didn’t seem to want to move. He gripped my neck harder, kissing me with renewed determination. I breathed his breath, keeping up with both his manic tongue and the increasingly purposeful thrusts he was making in my hand. The muscles in my stomach flooded with warmth, and my thighs shook. Ready didn’t begin to describe how I felt. I needed to come. Hard. Soon.
“Fuck.” The word came out of Oliver as a whisper, but I felt it in every inch of my body.
“Yeah.” I pressed my forehead to his. Knowing we were both gazing down at the frantic gyrations of our cocks pushed me right to the brink. “Can’t hold off.”
“Don’t.” He widened his stance, hips moving faster, increasing the friction. And I was gone.
Cue full-body explosion. No exaggeration. Everything from my scalp to my toes tingled like I’d somehow managed to excite every single nerve in my body. Semen jetted out of me with such force, I convulsed against Oliver, shooting all over him, myself, and the door of the damned fridge.
Wordless sounds poured from him as he continued thrusting against me, pumping his cock against my palm like his life depended on it, then erupting in a fevered gush. His mouth found mine, wet and sloppy, as our tongues tangled, breaths ragged, come landing in warm splats on my thighs.
Oliver’s breathing slowed along with his tongue. He closed with a sweet, lazy kiss before pulling back, hair wild, eyes even more swirly than usual, with a look behind them I hadn’t seen before. Satisfaction? Desire? Whatever it was he wore it well. It was sexy as fuck, and I didn’t want to look away.
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Kennedy doesn’t want the good guy when we fuck. She wants the Duke that bends her over a desk, spanks her in a kitchen and will come in her mouth on demand. I turn my face into her palm to place a kiss in her soft, small hand. There’s the bite of a callous from working with paper day in, day out. Clasping her hand, I guide it to my throat. I add pressure and watch her expression.
I can see the moment she fully understands what I’m asking her to do. I drop my hand. A second later she rests her cheek against mine.
“You’re still hard.”
“You’re still breathing.”
Her chuckle is rough as she shifts again to lay her forehead is against mine. “I don’t want to hurt you.”
I squeeze her middle, trying to play off the disappointment. “Okay.”
Her fingers seem to dig into me as she brushes her fingertips along my face. “Can I like squeeze your balls instead? Really hard.”
I take her face in my hands, a laugh fighting its way out, and kiss her. She moans, falling into our mouths’ mating like it’s a salvation. I slouch lower then rock up into her. “Yeah, you can do that.” My insides tighten. “I’d like that too.”
She rolls her hips, and I pull back my head to bite down on my lip. It’s not what I need, but I’ll take it. Fuck, I almost convince myself it’s all that I need the harder I sink my teeth in.
Her sigh washes over me. She stops moving to run her thumb over the bite marks I’ve left on my lip. “Show me.”
Kennedy clenches around me. Instinctively I thrust into her.
“You want it,” she murmurs and it tangles into a moan when I stroke inside her again. She puts her hand on my throat. There’s no tremble in it, but I hold her gaze to see if she’ll back down.
She puts her mouth to mine. “Show me.”
I place my hand over hers and once again guide her to close her fingers around my throat with enough pressure to make my heart kick with excitement. “You can’t hurt me.”
Her gaze softens. “Saying it doesn’t make it true.”
“You won’t.” With the weight of her hand on the hollow of my throat, my dick pulses. “Keep fucking me.”
I squeeze tighter and tighter until all I can feel is my pulse throb throughout my body, Kennedy’s pussy wet and snug around me. My world shrinks to those sensations.
My dick swells, gets harder than granite. The throb ringing through my body is deeper, sharper. It hurts. So fucking good. I squeeze tighter until the thud of my heart seems to suspend. I can’t think of the parts I cut out of me. I can’t remember what weak is and why I should avoid it. I’m now that next slow thud.
It’ll come and so will I. I loosen her hand so I can catch enough breath to gasp, “Tits. I want to come on your tits.”
Without argument or questions, she’s between my knees and pushing her tits together. In the back of my mind I have so many goddamn questions. The Kennedy I fucked blushed at the thought of dirty talk and catching my come with her mouth. This Kennedy doesn’t blink when I tell her I want to come on her tits after a little bit of breath play.
The next heartbeat hits and the thoughts turn into a haze. I’m too goddamn close to linger on anything but the way the tip of my cock darkens. Swirling my thumb over the head and slit, I coax myself to the very edge. My fist is tight. Slicked with my precome. She leans forward, brushing her shoulders against my legs. There’s just a roar in my head as I slip my dick between the crease of her tits.
Everything centers on how hard her nipples are, how her breath catches, and how the white of my come against her flushed skin looks like depraved art. She moans for it.
I know. I know. She’s likely doing that just to make the moment better. This does nothing for her physically. The fact she would still moan so I can come, to hold the fantasy—fuck me.
I paint her tits pale and get the pleasure of her tongue when I’m spent. I’m not myself when I murmur, “Rub me into your skin. Don’t shower. I want to smell myself on you every time I take a deep breath until we get home.”
“Is that what you need?”
“Yes,” I breathe.
She kisses me, and I know she’ll do what I ask.
I can feel the depth of that. It’s better than her hand on my throat.
But I know she’s going to ask why I need it. She’s going to question everything about me. I’m not going to be a good guy and she’ll run away.
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A mother and her 10-year old daughter are trapped in a forest. There is something in this forest. Something unlike anything they have heard before. Something the lurks in the darkness and it’s coming after them.
Genres: Horror
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Artist: Alan Forbes
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Venue: The Fillmore
City: San Francisco, CA
Year: 2007
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Dimensions: 13" x 19"
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Referring to the act of pranking by sending Rick Astley's "Never Gonna Give You Up" music video instead of the anticipated website.
Rick Roll
Other definitions of Rick Roll:
• Tricking someone into clicking a link that sends them to the song "Never Gonna Give You Up" by Rick Astley on YouTube. The song has a drum roll intro that is quite recognizable, so person being tricked should instantly know they have been tricked. This video now has over 700 million views due to the prank.
• The delightful prank of linking Rick Astley's "Never Gonna Give You Up" on YouTube instead of the warranted link. The person who opens it has been "Rick Rolled".
• A harmless internet prank that began in the early 2000s. This one involves sending someone a very popular music video called "Never Gonna give you up" on YouTube. This song by Rick Astley was popular when it originally came out over 30 years ago, and has exploded due to the prank.
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• Person 1: Here's that link to that new movie trailer you're excited about.
Person 2 (after clicking link): Oh, you got me. Rick-rolled.
• I rick rolled the whole company with a corporate email that they couldn't trace back to me.
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/10526 | Connect directly to Google Sheets in Tableau 10
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Connecting to your Google Sheet from Tableau
To connect to your Google Sheet, simply select the option under “More Servers…” on the Connect menu.
After entering your Google Sheets credentials, you will see the list of available sheets.
Select your sheet and click “connect.”
If you have many Google Sheets and want to find a particular sheet, you can use the search bar to narrow the results. In the example below, I narrowed the results to only sheets containing “consumer” in the name.
If you aren’t sure if this is exactly the sheet you are looking for, you can open it in a web browser by selecting the “open in Google Drive” link below the preview pane.
Once the sheet has been loaded into Tableau, you can drag out the individual sheets from your Google Sheet and join or union them together. You can also union and join Google Sheets with other data sources.
From there you can do all the classic analyses you would on any other data source!
Share your Google Sheets for fast collaboration
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To open a Google Sheet you’ve received via a link, simply paste the link into the search bar and click "search." The shared sheet will now be selected for you in the list of sheets.
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/10534 | A method of determining the location and the uncertainty in the location of a mobile robot to subpixel resolution on a map grid has been devised. The method is applicable to a robot equipped with stereoscopic vision equipment for mapping the local terrain and with sensors for determining its orientation. The method involves fitting a parameterized surface (usually a normal distribution) to the peak of a likelihood function in the space of possible positions.
This method is built upon the method described in "Localization by Maximum-Likelihood Matching of Range Maps" (NPO-20392) NASA Tech Briefs, Vol. 22, No. 10 (October 1998), page 86. The localization problem is formulated as one of seeking a maximum-likelihood match of two maps: (1) a local range map generated by processing of images of the terrain in the immediate vicinity acquired by stereoscopic video cameras mounted on the platform and (2) a previously generated map of a larger surrounding terrain area (a "global" map). The global map could have been generated either by use of panoramic imagery from the robot or by combining the information from previously generated local maps. The points on the local range map are binned in a three-dimensional occupancy-grid representation of the surroundings, at a known orientation with respect to the global-map coordinates. In a subprocess that amounts to high-pass filtering of vertical-position data, the local average of the heights in each bin is subtracted from each cell. This subprocess reduces the computation time needed for localization by eliminating the need to search over vertical translations; in other words, as a result of this subprocess, it suffices to search over horizontal coordinates only.
The degree of matching between the global map and the local occupancy map is quantified by use of a likelihood function defined by the equation
where Di is the distance from the ith occupied cell in the local map to the closest occupied cell in the global map, X is the trial position of the robot (expressed as the trial position of the local map) relative to the global map, p(DiX) is a probability distribution function (PDF), and n is the number of occupied cells. The most likely position of the local map relative to the global map [that is, the position, X, that maximizes L(X)] is taken to be the position of the robot. The search for this position is started on a relatively coarse grid, from a position that has been estimated, for example, by deductive reckoning. The estimate of position is then refined in a subprocess that involves recursive division of the search space into smaller cells and pruning of cells that cannot pass the maximum-likelihood test.
As described thus far, this method is nearly identical to the method described in the noted prior article. The distinct aspect of this method lies in the provision for both subpixel localization and characterization of uncertainty in the localization. Inasmuch as the likelihood function expresses the probability that each position in the pose space (the space of possible positions) is the actual robot position, the uncertainty in the localization is quantified by the magnitude of the decrease of the likelihood function with distance from the peak. Subpixel localization in the discretized pose space can be performed by fitting a parameterized surface to the peak that occurs at the most likely robot position.
For the purpose of this fitting, it is assumed that in the vicinity of its peak, the likelihood function can be approximated and parameterized as a normal distribution. The fitting then yields both the subpixel estimate of position (namely, the center of the normal distribution) and an estimate of uncertainty (namely, the standard deviation of the normal distribution) centered at the nominal peak location.
The uncertainty is further characterized by a probability that a qualitative failure has occurred. Such a failure could occur, for example, in an environment in which recognizable landmarks are sparse and consequently many locations appear very similar to the robot. The probability of qualitative failure is estimated by comparing the likelihood scores under the tallest peak with the likelihood scores in the rest of the pose space.
This work was done by Clark F. Olson of Caltech for NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. For further information, access the Technical Support Package (TSP) free on-line at www.nasatech.com/tsp under the Information Sciences category. NPO-20657
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/10564 | Who doesn’t enjoy hearing that they did great work? Sure, you might respond awkwardly on occasion, but considering how nice it is to receive compliments, you’d assume it’d be pretty easy to dole out.
And yet—it’s not.
And that’s usually because you want to avoid coming off like a suck up. You don’t want to tell your boss you admire something she did, only to have her think you’re a teacher’s pet. You don’t want to tell your colleague he did something great, and have him assume you’re trying to get a lead role in his project. And you don’t want any direct reports thinking you’re trying to be the cool boss.
So, how can you praise others in a professional setting and strike the right note? Keep these tips in mind:
1. When It’s Your Boss
There’s nothing wrong with wanting to praise your manager; however, there is something wrong with making up compliments that couldn’t be further from how you really feel.
Don’t say, “Your notes on the client presentation were really helpful,” when you disagreed with all of them. You might think getting on her good side will make it easier to push back, but it’ll actually make things more complicated. Either she’ll notice you ignored her revisions and think you’re full of it; or else, she’ll think you understood completely and expect different work the next time around.
When your manager teaches you something—directly or by example—that’s a worthwhile thing to mention. After all, the best bosses want to see their employees succeed. So, when you share that she’s giving you the tools to be successful, it’ll make her feel good (and—bonus!—reinforce that you’re acquiring new skills).
The trick here is to get specific. So, if she helps you compose a tricky email, say, “Thanks so much on your advice for what to write back to Jane. I can definitely see how the line about what an additional week would allow us to accomplish would instill confidence that everything is on track.” By coupling your appreciation with a takeaway, you’re giving genuine praise.
2. When It’s Your Teammate
There are two things you want to avoid when you compliment a teammate. The first is a bunch of empty comments that make it seem like your only goal is to be well-liked. This approach will undermine any true, valuable feedback buried in the piles of kinds words.
The second is coming off authoritatively. If you’re constantly judging a teammate’s work—even to say it’s great—you’ll start to sound like you think it’s your job to evaluate her, making you seem power-hungry. So, skip overly formal lines like “That was a valuable contribution,” or statements that put the other person below you, even “You’re really good at your job” (because that shouldn’t come as a surprise).
There’s a lot to be said for praise among equals. It feels good when your colleagues see you as a valuable teammate. My favorite approach is to share something I’d like to emulate (e.g., telling a colleague you always take notes when he gives a speech, because he connects so well with his audience).
If your colleague saved the day with a skill you’re not planning to learn—e.g., his website updates made your clients happy, but you’re not about to tell him you want to start programming, too—discuss impact. You could say, “I’ve received five separate calls and emails from clients, just in the last two hours, to say how much they love the new website.” When you share specific, positive results, praise feels much more genuine than when you tell someone he’s “so great.”
3. When It’s Your Employee
Not all compliments are created equal, and employees want meaningful feedback. Praising everything to get a direct report to like you can send mixed messages.
For example, if someone’s been struggling with punctuality and she makes a change and suddenly shows up on time every day for two weeks, you should compliment her efforts and tell her you noticed. But if she’s been punctual since day one, and is working really hard on a new initiative, and you praise her in equal measure for getting to work on time and developing a new operating system, it’ll diminish the overall value of your praise.
Employees want to know they’re doing good work and exceeding their boss’ expectations. But the only way for them to know where they stand in your book is for you to tell them. So, look for moments when someone’s demonstrating growth and let her know you notice.
When a direct report suggests a new way to do things, wraps a successful project, or is making consistently making strides in an area that has needed improvement (like speaking up in multiple meetings or proofreading all of his work), compliment these positive changes. If you single out something he’s been working on, he’ll know you’re being sincere.
4. When It’s a Networking Contact
Hopefully, your network includes at least a couple people you think of as career superheroes. You look up to these people and they do big, impressive things like write posts that go viral, win awards, or speak at cool events.
And so, when you gush over their awesomeness, you’re not sucking up—it’s totally genuine. However, as flattering as idol-worship may be, it doesn’t make for a worthwhile networking relationship.
Even if you’re not an in-demand keynote speaker, you have a unique set of skills and ideas that are valuable. So, if you want to praise someone impressive—and forge a more memorable (or growing) connection beyond being a member of the fandom—think of what you can include in your exchange beyond praise.
So, let’s say you just read a brilliant LinkedIn post your contact wrote. Yes, you can tell her you loved it, but to separate yourself from everyone who’s saying that just to suck up, think of something else you can include in that email. Did it remind of something else you’d read? Have you seen other resources on a problem he pointed out? Is there someone you connect her with who you think she’d really enjoy meeting? By taking the time to couple praise with a value add, you’re demonstrating you aren’t just shooting off blind compliments.
The fact that you constantly find reasons to want to praise the people around you is awesome—you sound like an optimistic, thoughtful addition to a team. Just remember that overdoing anything (even saying nice things) can get a little Boy-Who-Cried-Wolf. In this case, it may seem insincere, which defeats your whole purpose. So, use the tips above to give constructive praise that’ll make people feel great, and avoid the impression that you have ulterior motives. |
global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/10577 | Blue Lollipop Tunicate
The blue lollipop tunicate goes by many names, all of them referring to the creature’s appearance. Often called blue cauliflower corals or lollipop corals (even though they are not corals), these beautiful creatures live in colonies in the shallow waters of the Indo-Pacific region, especially around Indonesia. They prefer waters that are rich in nutrients such as planktons and bacteria, where they can satisfy their enormous appetite.
The body structure of blue lollipops is similar to the structure of other tunicates – they have thick stalks that are attached to the substrate and support the head of the tunicate. The head is actually not a homogenous part – it is composed of many small polyps called zooids. The name tunicate derives from the presence of a thick, hard and leather-like skin that looks like a tunic worn by the animal. Blue tunicates live in colonies – in many cases, as many as several thousand zooids join to form smaller or larger mounds.
These bright-blue colored critters belong to a class of tunicates called ascidians – bottom-dwelling tunicates that are firmly attached to the substrate and are unable to move. They are filter feeders, which means that they feed on the nutrients they filter out from the water column. They take in water through a tube-like organ on the upper part of the body called the oral siphon, then the water passes through the animal’s mouth and gill slits where it gets filtered by the sticky mucus inside that traps small food particles and then it is eliminated through the atrial siphon, also found on the upper body.
Blue tunicates, like most other ascidians, are hermaphrodites, meaning that each individual has both male and female reproductive organs. Individual tunicates release their reproductive fluids into the water column, where fertilization takes place. Blue tunicate larvae float freely in the water until they find a suitable spot of substrate where they can settle. In the early stages of development, the larvae resemble tiny tadpoles and they have a rod-like notochord – feature that accounts for the blue tunicate’s inclusion into the phylum of chordates. However, the cord disappears in later stages of development, after the larva has found a place to attach itself to and the adult blue lollipop tunicate has no features that would make it look anything like an animal that once had a nerve cord.
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/10588 | Includes: 2 CD set, plus 52-page guide:
About This CD: Chanting led by Yogacharya Dr Ananda Balayogi Bhavanani with support by Yogacharini Devasena Bhavanani, Yoga Chemmal Meena Ramanathan and Yogacharini Dr Sangeeta. Recording engineer and flute by Shri Rajkumar Rajamanickam
Disc 1: A Meditative Experience: Invocation to Maharishi Patanjali, Samadhipada, Sadhanapada, Vibhutipada, Kaivalyapada and 108 OM chants
Disc 2: A Learning Experience: Invocation to Maharishi Patanjali, Samadhipada, Sadhanapada, Vibhutipada, Kaivalyapada
Why do we chant the Yoga Sutra’s of Maharishi Patañjali? When we write things out and deal with the written word, we are dealing with external forms. The written form is the grossest level of interpretation of oral traditions. When we chant we use our vocal apparatus to produce the sound. This process brings us into the eternal NOW. When we write, a long lapse of time can pass between the time of writing and our re-reading it. When we chant, the action brings us in the present moment. The process of chanting demands full attention, at least at the physical level. There is also the question of resonance. Chanting evokes and invokes resonance in letters and words. All mantra’s can be chanted in three forms: the manasika form (chanting in the mind) is the subtlest of forms, the vachika form (chanting externally, uttering sound) is in between, and the likita (writing), which is the grossest. The subtlest way to approach the sutra’s would be to chant them at the level of the mind. Yet, this requires full knowledge of what one is doing. It follows that when we chant we are in the NOW, we are vibrating, and we know what we are uttering so that when we move to the subtlest plane and we chant without uttering sound, in our mind, we are as close to the most perfect sound as possible.
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African Wild Dog
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African Wild Dog
The African wild dog or African hunting dog, Lycaon pictus, is a carnivorous mammal of the Canidae family, found only in Africa, especially in scrub savanna and other lightly wooded areas. It is also called cape hunting dog, painted dog, or painted wolf in English, Wildehond in Afrikaans, and Mbwa mwitu in Swahili. It is the only species in the monotypic genus, Lycaon.
Anatomy and reproduction
The wild dog has a pelage (fur) with an irregular pattern of black, yellow, and white, distinctive for each individual. Lycaon pictus means "painted wolf" in Greek. It is the only canid species to lack dewclaws on the forelimbs.
Adults typically weigh 17-36 kilograms (37-79 pounds).A tall, lean animal, they stand about 30 inches (75 cm) at the shoulder, with a head and body length averaging about 40 inches (100cm) and a tail of 12 to 18 inches (30-45cm). Animals in southern Africa are generally larger than those in the eastern or western Africa.
There is little sexual dimorphism, though judging by skeletal dimensions, males are usually 3-7% larger. They have a dental formula of - for a total of 42 teeth. The premolars are relatively large compared to other canids, allowing them to consume a large quantity of bone, much like hyenas. The heel of the lower carnassial M1 is crested with a single cusp, which enhances the shearing capacity of teeth and thus the speed at which prey can be consumed. This feature is called trenchant heel and is shared with two other canids: the Asian dhole and the South American bush dog.
A study by Wroe et al established that the African Wild dog had a Bite Force Quotient of 142, the highest of any extant carnivorous mammal. The BFQ is essentially the strength of bite as measured against the animal's mass.
Wild dogs reproduce at any time of year and peak between March and June during the second half of the rainy season. 2-19 pups can be born per litter, though 10 is the most usual number. The time between births is usually 12-14 months, though it can also be as short as 6 months if all of the previous young die. Pups are usually born in an abandoned den dug by other animals such as aardvarks. Weaning takes place at about 10 weeks. After 3 months, the den is abandoned and the pups begin to run with the pack. At the age of 8-11 months they can kill small prey, but they are not proficient until about 12-14 months, at which time they can fend for themselves. Pups reach sexual maturity at the age of 12-18 months.
Females will disperse from their birth pack at 14-30 months of age and join other packs that lack sexualy mature females. Males typically do not leave the pack they were born to.[1] This is the opposite situation to that in most other social mammals, where a group of related females forms the core of the pack or similar group. In the African wild dog, the females compete for access to males that will help to rear their offspring. In a typical pack, males outnumber females by a factor of two to one, and only the dominant female is usually able to rear pups. This unusual situation may have evolved to ensure that packs do not over-extend themselves by attempting to rear too many litters at the same time.
A captive breeding and translocation program at Mkomazi Game Reserve, the first of its kind in East Africa, was founded in 1995 to provide dogs for a multinational effort to stabilize their numbers and to reintroduce the species to its traditional homeland. The dogs are allocated to four breeding compounds to maximize genetic diversity. An extensive veterinary program has been set up to improve their immunity to disease.
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/10650 | Here’s a Gaming PC You Can Build for the Price of a Mac Pro Stand
$999 can buy all the computing power most people need.
June 4, 2019, 4:11pm
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Apple power users cheered when the company announced a new, upgradable Mac Pro at its WWDC event Monday. The new Mac Pro is a powerful computer for "creative professionals" and priced starting at $6,000. No one in that room was expecting a budget-friendly presentation: the Mac Pro is all about spending more to get more, but even in that context, there were audible gasps of shock from the audience when Apple announced a $999 stand for its $5,000 monitor.
$5,000 is a lot of money for a monitor. But if we expect anything from Apple, it's that it will make an overengineered, incredibly powerful piece of tech and charge a lot of money for it. The Pro Display XDR follows this model: amazing specs, brag-worthy details, and a huge price. This is the deal we make with Apple. But $999 for a monitor stand?
The Pro Stand is sexy as hell. Sleek, metal, and smoothly articulated. It's also a monitor stand. It holds up your screen. For as beautiful as the Pro Stand is, it still feels like Apple is once again dramatically overcharging for something basic based on the strength of their brand name. With that in mind, I set out to find out how much of a PC I could build for the same price as the Pro Stand.
My first stop was PC Part Picker, an excellent site I personally rely on whenever I build a new PC. One powerful build list caught my eye. Cheap, relatively powerful, and with plenty of juice to run and stream demanding PC games. Price: $990. For the price of the Pro Stand alone, you could build yourself a new gaming PC that can run all the latest games and easily handle the vast majority of your computing needs. It has the following specs:
• CPU: Intel Core i5 9600K 3.7 GHz 6-Core Processor
• CPU Cooler: Cooler Master Hyper 212 Black Edition
• Motherboard: ASRock Z390 Phantom Gaming 4 ATX
• RAM: 16GB G.Skill DDR4-2666
• Solid State Disk: 480GB ADATA
• Hard Drive: 2TB Hitachi Ultrastar
• Video Card: GeForce RTX 2060
• Case: Phanteks P300 ATX Mid Tower
• Power Supply: Corsair TXM Gold 550W
To be clear, this PC isn't nearly as powerful as the new Mac Pro. I'm not trying to claim that an entry-level PC can compete with Apple's $6,000 high-end computer. The Mac Pro is powerful enough that it can chew through 4K video projects and render 3D animation with one arm tied behind its back. That's what you're paying for.
But what exactly are you paying for with the $999 Pro Stand? To compare, this monitor stand on Amazon sells for $30 and also, according to the reviews, does a good job of keeping a screen from falling over. Sure, the Pro Stand is fully adjustable and can easily rotate from landscape to portrait orientation. The $30 option also adjusts and rotates—the same performance at only 3% of the price. In college, I spent too much money on a new flatscreen monitor and spent a few months propping it up against a stack of old paperback books. That pile of rumpled sci-fi novels was almost as functional as the new Pro Stand. |
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Rated: E · Poetry · Action/Adventure · #2039631
A rap version of a well known English Fairy Tale.
Author's Notes: this was one of the first things I wrote. It was never intended to be published and created purely as a sort of writing exercise that combined a number of genres: Poetry, rap and short story. I realise that Jack and the Bean stalk has probably been done to death but I thought (at the time) it would be fun to give it a rap motif. It generally follows the same type of rhythmic beat as Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five's "Don't push me 'cause I am close to the edge" rap (perhaps showing my age a bit now but back then they were still quite popular). Anyhow I've broken it up in two parts to make it easier to digest. Any feedback (positive or otherwise ) would be appreciated). So without any further ado here's my 1980's rap version of Jack and the Beanstalk (aka Rapping the Beanstalk).
*Vine1* *Vine2*
*Vine1* *Vine2*
*Vine1* *Vine2*
*Music2* Once upon a time lived a boy named Jack
Lived half a mile from the railway track
His mother wasn’t rich; in fact she was poor,
Wrote I.O.U.s to the grocery store.
Now one-day Jack’s Mother she say
“Jack-go down to the knackers today
And sell the mule: The one in the yard"
Poor old Jack took the news hard.
“Please I beg you not to get rid of the mule,
It’s been my friend since I started school!”
He pleaded and sobbed, and felt quite robbed
Kicked dirt with his shoes and gave another sob.
“I’m sorry there Jack but we need the money
We’re all out of bread and all out of honey.”
So with his head hung low he said to the mule
“You’re days are numbered friend, off to the kill.”
Both were silent as out the gate they walked
Little was said and nothing talked.
The poor old mule sensed that things were wrong,
As Jack started whistling a death-march song.
Now after awhile to the market they come,
Both were sweating from the sun
Jack dawdled over to where they skin the mules.
There sat a man with his tanning tools.
“Jack my boy, what’s going down?”
“You reckon this mule will fetch a crown?”
The tanner looked the mule up and down,
Shook his head “Ain’t worth half a crown.”
"Please kind sir, it’s money we need
Our family’s large, lots of mouths to feed"
“Sorry there, Jack, but it’s not my fault,
If your stupid mule’s got a shabby coat.”
He tried other people, but same result
No one wanted a mule with a shabby coat
Without a sale, there'd be nothing to eat
Then all of a sudden this old man he meet.
“Excuse me there boy, a second of your time.”
Said the old man, reeking of wine
“A fine mule you have, what a fine beast,
Worthy of owning, I’d say, or hiring at least.
“I don’t suppose you want to sell the thing?”
But Jack retorted: “It ain’t a thing!”
“Look I’ve got no money-but something keen;
How’d you like to have yourself a magic bean?”
“Its money we need," said Jack "And we need it today"
“Maybe two or three, what do you say?”
“No, kind sir, see-we’re really poor.
Pay money instead, I implore!”
“Listen here kid; they’ll make you money,
In no time at all, you’ll be eating bread and honey.”
So after a humming and a haring and a little bit of sighs,
The mule became the old man’s prize.
Jack snatched the beans and back home he ran
To tell his Mother about the ‘Get rich plan’
He showed the beans and told the tale
But she blew him up like a terrible gale.
She took the beans and threw them outside
Then took a hickory switch to poor jack’s hide
“You little monster, you silly fool,
You must have been mad, to trade beans for a mule!”
The very next day, out the window Jack looked,
Eyes budging out like an egg over-cooked.
Where the beans had landed a stalk had grown
Higher than any bird had ever flown.
Jack rushed out and started a beanstalk climbing.
Came across a squirrel; upon a bean, reclining.
At last, below him, was nothing but cloud.
He thought of his efforts and felt quite proud.
Then all of a sudden he reached the top
Felt so exhausted, he did a fainting flop.
When he came round again, in a strange land he was,
The clouds were eatable, like candyfloss.
Jack, he searched, and he did explore,
Gave himself a personal tour.
He found lolly bushes to eat and stones to kick,
Chocolate flowers to munch and ice-cream trees to lick.
“I reckon this is the life, the life for me,
Don’t have to do as I’m told, oh boy- I’m free!”
Then just as everything seemed to be going his way
A giant appeared, to his dismay.
The giant looked big, big as a house
Jack trembled and cringed, like a cornered mouse.
Jack thought quickly and dove in a creek,
With a booming voice the giant, he did speak.
“Feedy, fidey foedy fum,
I smellith blood from an Englishman.
Be he alive, or be he dead,
I’ll grind his bones to make my bread.”
Now the giant he started to look around,
Jack was quiet; didn’t make a sound
Finally the giant gave up looking
And started back home, to do some cooking.
With curiosity, Jack began to tag behind,
Had to run to keep up, but didn't mind.
The giant he opened the door with a shove;
Upon each hand was a leather glove.
The door slammed shut with a mighty ‘crash!’
Puffing and panting, Jack slowed his dash.
He managed to squeeze through a gap in the door,
Then scampered across the unswept floor.
The giant, he sat and kicked off a boot,
Whilst his dear old wife cooked pumpkin soup.
Jack was quiet, quiet a s a mouse;
Best watch yourself, in a giant’s house.
Suddenly the giant spotted poor little Jack,
Grabbed the boy, nearly broke his back.
Jack, he struggled with fits of rage,
The giant just laughed and hurled him in a cage.
(to be continued - will Jack escape? find out if you can be bothered, in Part Two)
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/10716 | Respiratory Acidosis: Easy-to-Understand Explanation of Causes, Symptoms, and Treatment
Learn about respiratory acidosis, including: causes of respiratory acidosis, respiratory acidosis symptoms, respiratory acidosis treatment, compensated respiratory acidosis, and partially compensated respiratory acidosis.
What IS Respiratory Acidosis?
Respiratory Acidosis is a medical condition that occurs when the lungs can’t remove enough Carbon Dioxide (CO2) from the body, which causes the blood pH to decrease below 7.35.
When too much CO2 stays in the blood, it causes a chain reaction that increases the amount of Hydrogen ions (H+) floating around. This increase in H+ is what makes the blood pH drop, which makes the bloodstream more acidic.
Basically: more CO2 = more H+ = more acid = lower pH
Your blood can become acidic for other reasons, too. But when it becomes acidic because of the CO2 levels, that is what makes it Respiratory Acidosis.
What causes Respiratory Acidosis?
The primary way that our lungs get rid of CO2 is by exhaling. Therefore, we can deduce that the causes of Respiratory Acidosis HAVE to involve our lungs NOT exhaling enough CO2. We call this “retaining CO2 because our the CO2 is being retained in the body.
Why do I explain this first? Because it’s better to understand the pathophysiology behind a condition, rather than simply memorizing a list of causes. You’re more likely to remember this way, AND you’re better able to critically think your way through test questions. That’s why I prefer to divide the causes of Respiratory Acidosis into related categories.
Lung Disease: Infectious OR Non-infectious
Most often, especially for nursing school purposes, the reason that the lungs can’t exhale enough CO2 is due to a lung disease. The disease process could be infectious (i.e. pneumonia, bronchitis, RSV, etc), or non-infectious (i.e. COPD, emphysema, asthma, etc).
For infectious causes, the illness symptoms can prevent O2/CO2 gas exchange from taking place at normal rates in the alveoli. This could be because of inflammation, or excess mucus blocking the gas exchange.
For non-infectious causes of Respiratory Acidosis, there is usually a functional problem that makes the lungs less able to exhale CO2. For example, Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disorder (COPD) leads to scar tissue in the lungs, which makes the lungs less pliable (aka less able to stretch and move). When the lungs can’t move well, they can’t squeeze together to exhale as much CO2 as healthy lungs can.
Pharmaceutical Causes
Certain medications can be causes of Respiratory Acidosis, too. This includes any substance having the potential to chemically suppress the respiratory rate or otherwise interfere with the brains ability to tell the lungs to breathe.
A perfect example is morphine, an opioid which carries the risk of respiratory depression. If enough morphine is taken to suppress the patient’s breathing rate, then CO2 would be retained and Respiratory Acidosis could easily develop.
Neural Problems
Problems with the central and peripheral nervous systems are also potential causes of Respiratory Acidosis. For example, if a spinal cord injury or brain tumor slowed or stopped the signal from the brain telling the lungs to breath more frequently, then retained CO2 would result.
Obstruction in the Lungs
Sometimes there can a physical obstruction that prevents the lungs from exhaling CO2. For example, a tumor that blocks one of the bronchi or bronchioles could physically prevent the lungs from expelling enough CO2.
What are the different types of Respiratory Acidosis?
Uncompensated Respiratory Acidosis (Acute)
Uncompensated Respiratory Acidosis is an acute condition that usually comes on suddenly and can be life threatening. Under normal circumstances, the kidneys help the lungs maintain correct blood pH by retaining or producing bicarbonate (HCO3). However, because acute respiratory acidosis can develop so quickly, the kidneys don’t have enough time to respond and balance out the pH.
The result is that there is too much CO2 in the blood, a normal amount of bicarbonate, and the blood pH dips below 7.35 to become more acidic.
Fully Compensated Respiratory Acidosis (Chronic)
Fully Compensated Respiratory Acidosis is usually a chronic condition that comes on gradually. The slower pace of this imbalance allows time for the kidneys to retain (or produce) enough bicarbonate to accommodate any increases in CO2 and H+.
Since the total bicarbonate level has time to increase and counterbalance the pH, the results are that there is too much CO2 AND bicarbonate in the blood, but the pH remains in the normal range of 7.35-7.45. The pH will lean towards the acidic side however, so you’re more likely to see a pH of 7.35-7.39.
Partially Compensated Respiratory Acidosis
Partially Compensated Respiratory Acidosis is more of an “in-between” stage for when a patient is moving from Uncompensated Respiratory Acidosis into Fully Compensated Respiratory Acidosis.
As the lungs are less able to get rid of CO2 and H+, the blood pH gradually decreases and becomes more acidic. At the same time, however, the the kidneys begin compensating by retaining or producing bicarbonate to balance out the pH.
However, for Partially Compensated Respiratory Acidosis, the kidneys have not had time to completely compensate for the lungs yet (if they had, then this would be called Fully Compensated Respiratory Acidosis ?)
So you end up with too much CO2 AND too much bicarbonate, but the pH is still abnormal and in the acidic range (<7.35).
What are signs of Respiratory Acidosis?
Nursing textbooks (and professors) are great about listing LOTS of Respiratory Acidosis symptoms. The problem is, many of these signs and symptoms of Respiratory acidosis are rather generic, and could be true of many illnesses that are completely unrelated.
That’s why I prefer to identify Respiratory Acidosis symptoms that are specific and unique to this condition…and then understand why they occur (a.k.a. the pathophysiology). The most specific and unique Respiratory Acidosis symptoms include:
• Dyspnea, with a rapid and shallow breathing pattern (similar to hyperventilation)
• Hyperkalemia (discussed in more detail under the “complications” section)
• Abnormal ABG results: PaCO2 > 45 and pH < 7.35 (or pH < 7.39 if Compensated)
The more generic symptoms of Respiratory Acidosis include:
• confusion and decreased level of consciousness
• restlessness
• tremors
• tachycardia
• nausea and vomiting
Do you see how impossible it is to identify these generic Respiratory Acidosis symptoms? They also occur with just about every other illness you’ll study in nursing school. Which is why exams will always highlight the specific and unique symptoms…and you should focus on them when you study, too!
What complication is associated with Respiratory Acidosis?
It’s easy to think of symptoms and complications as separate things, but in reality they are a continuum. In nursing school we tend to identify complications as the more advanced and serious symptoms, or when a patient develops a separate disorder that was caused by the primary disorder (kind of like how left sided heart failure can cause right sided heart failure).
With that in mind, one major complication of respiratory acidosis is hyperkalemia. This potentially severe complication occurs later in the disease process, after CO2 has increased so much that it starts trading places with K+ ions that would normally have stayed inside the body’s cells.
This “trading places” is initially helpful because it decreases CO2 in the blood. But if the root cause of Respiratory Acidosis is left uncorrected, then hyperkalemia can develop with all of the symptoms (and complications!) that go along with it.
How is Respiratory Acidosis treated?
Like any disease process you’ll face in nursing school, Respiratory Acidosis treatment is twofold:
1. Manage the urgent symptoms
2. Correct the root cause
Managing the Symptoms of Respiratory Acidosis
Dyspnea is either an Airway or Breathing issue (remember your ABC’s?), so it’s one of our priorities. If there’s a blockage, then your first concern is to maintain a patent airway. Also, since CO2 is increasing in the blood, then arterial 02 is likely to be decreased. This decrease in 02 may require that supplemental oxygen be administered.
If Hyperkalemia is present, then it definitely needs to be addressed so that the patient doesn’t develop additional complications from that, such as dysrhythmias. There are many ways to handle Hyperkalemia, but when it occurs with Respiratory Acidosis then you may receive an order to administor Sodium Bicarbonate.
Sodium Bicarbonate is a base that will help reduce the blood acidity by binding with some of the free H+. This causes the H+ that has already “traded places” with the K+ to trade back, thereby lowering levels of K+ in the blood.
Correcting Root Causes of Respiratory Acidosis
The original causes of Respiratory Acidosis will influence the Respiratory Acidosis treatment, too. For example, if it was caused by respiratory depression related to an opioid like morphine, then the treatment would obviously involve discontinuing the morphine and possibly administering an antidote such as naloxone (Narcan).
If the cause was a lung infection such as bacterial pneumonia, then the Respiratory Acidosis treatment might involve administering an anabiotic. If the cause was viral pneumonia, however, then antibiotics would be inappropriate and only supportive measures might be used while the viral pneumonia runs its course.
As you can see, there are at least as many possible Respiratory Acidosis treatments as there are possible causes. That is why knowing and understanding pathophysiology is so important!
Is Hyperventilation Respiratory Acidosis or Alkalosis?
Like many diseases you study in nursing school, Respiratory Acidosis can be paired with and studied with an “opposite” disorder. In this case, the “opposite” disorder is Respiratory Alkalosis. Since everything is going in “opposite” directions with these two disorders, it is confusing to keep some things straight! Hyperventilation is one of the potentially confusing causes/symptoms.
It’s true that hyperventilation can occur in BOTH respiratory acidosis and respiratory alkalosis. The difference is when hyperventilation occurs during these two disease processes.
For respiratory acidosis, hyperventilation is the result of the illness, so it is considered a symptom. CO2 has accumulated in the blood, and needs to be reduced. The rapid, shallow breathing is an attempt to “blow off” some of the excess CO2.
On the other hand, hyperventilation is a potential cause of respiratory alkalosis, which is characterized by low CO2 in the blood. Since hyperventilation can be very effective at “blowing off” CO2 from the body, it is also very effective at causing low bloodCO2.
To summarize, hyperventilation is a symptom associated with Respiratory Acidosis, but hyperventilation is the main cause that can lead to Respiratory Alkalosis.
Summary: What you NEED TO KNOW about Respiratory Acidosis to be a safe, effective, beginning Nurse
• Group the causes of Respiratory Acidosis into categories
• Identify unique symptoms of Respiratory Acidosis
• Recognize abnormal ABGs (CO2 > 45 AND pH is acidic)
• Explain pathophysiology of potential complications
• Understand the relationship between Respiratory Acidosis and Respiratory Alkalosis
• Including the role that hyperventilation plays in both!
• Respiratory Acidosis Treatment, and how it changes depending on the root causes (pathophysiology is key!)
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1. Excellent work here! I’m a retired hospice nurse…so all this became irrelevant over time. Now old, w/too many medical issues…and now the Covid-19 virus , I’m pretty much giving up and trying not to overload the medical system. So…thank you SO,SO much!!
Trying to figure weird things out!
Jane Bellesorte, California
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/10729 | Fixed Style Properties - Display Order - Save and... stay on the page
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I've never reported this bug. I'm not sure it's really one, but even if it's almost nothing, it's quite annoying:
In the Style Properties when we click on "Display Order" and modify the order of our properties, clicking on "save page" doesn't bring us back on the property list.
I prefer the way XenForo Options are managed. After changing order, we are brought back to the option page.
With Style Properties we are stuck since the "cancel" button doesn't bring us back neither.
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I'd adjusted the breadcrumb here to let you get back to where you were, but reloading the same page is ok here, as it might take a few passes (and it's a developer-only feature). The cancel button is actually to reset the form, so I've renamed that. |
global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/10733 | Nipsey Hussle
Priya, Year 10
• Drawing
• Coloured pencil
• A4 portrait
This is a drawing of late rapper Nipsey Hussle. I wanted to pay tribute to Nipsey as I have a lot of admiration for him - he was a visionary, yet still remained humble and gave back to his community. I've also grown up listening to rap music, so his music is very important to me. In this drawing, I focused a lot on texture (for example the beard and the coat) so that it feels more realistic. |
global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/10757 | May 23, 2020
"Complex" rhythms are simple when danced: Balkan pop-folk music with 5 beats per measure
To further underscore the inseparability of music and dance, let's look at meter, or how many beats there are per measure (i.e., before the pattern repeats).
This is the aspect of music that cerebral nerds fixate on and screw around with to produce "weird" time signatures -- prog rock, math rock, etc.
But it turns out that plain old folk music can produce unusual time signatures without a cerebral orientation -- indeed, from a purely corporeal approach, which simplifies the process. Alternating the number of steps within a pass in a dance -- e.g., a 2-step followed by a 3-step, and repeat -- actually provides motivation for an unusual time signature -- rather than pulling it out of your ass to showcase your brainpower.
The fundamental meters have either 2 or 3 beats per measure, with main stress on the first beat and weak beats trailing after: "ONE two, ONE two" or "ONE two three, ONE two three".
The standard is 4 beats per measure, but you actually hear it and move your body to it as though it were two pairs of two beats apiece, each pair having stress on the first beat and a weak beat after, but with the first pair's stress being even stronger than that of the second pair. This yields three degrees of stress -- strong on 1, medium on 3, weak on 2 and 4. "ONE two, THREE four, ONE two, THREE four".
If you don't subdivide the measure into those two pairs, and try to preserve only one degree of stress, that would yield 1 stressed beat and 3 weak beats. For example, "ONE two three four". It's not impossible, but those three consecutive weak beats trail off a little too long. The natural tendency is to break up three weak beats in a row, and give one of them stress -- albeit to a lesser degree than the main stress. Hence grouping them into two pairs, each with its own stress (strong, weak, medium, weak).
Before getting to the unusual meters, let's ground the discussion of 4 beats in a kinesthetic activity. Normally I'd say marching in place to the rhythm, but that won't work if we're using 2 or 3 weak beats in a row. For walking or marching, one foot marks the strong beat, the other marks the weak beat. Two or three weak beats in a row would require putting the same foot forward for 2 or 3 steps -- doesn't work. So instead, try hopping -- hop on one foot for a strong beat, hop on the other foot for a weak beat. There's nothing impossible about hopping on the weak-beat foot for 2 or 3 times in a row.
Now try hopping to a count of "ONE two three four" -- strong foot once, then weak foot three times in a row, and repeat it over again. There's too many weak hops in a row, and only one strong hop to relieve the monotony! It feels like you're going to keel over in the weak-foot direction, or buckle under the pressure, or otherwise shut down your activity level.
But alternate back and forth, so that the 3rd beat gets the strong foot, and it feels totally natural and sustaining of your activity level. If your strong foot hits equally hard on 1 and 3, that's really just a 2-beat meter. So try to give the 3rd beat only medium strength -- more than the weak foot does, but not as forceful as the main 1st beat. Now you've got a 4-beat measure that's subdivided into two pairs, with primary and secondary stress.
We've solved the mystery of why 4-beat measures in music almost always get subdivided into two pairs -- because 3 weak beats in a row, with only 1 strong beat to relieve them, is conceptually imaginable, but corporeally destructive. It shuts down your dancing activity. Solution: subdivide 4 beats into 2 pairs with strong and medium stress, and suddenly you can alternate your feet and thereby preserve your energy level and balance. Musical choices are constrained by the requirements of dancing.
So why allow 3-beat measures, with their 2 weak beats in a row? Don't think, just give it a try -- hop on the strong foot once, then hop on the weak foot twice, and repeat. It's not as awkward as three weak beats in a row. It does throw you slightly off-balance, but not so much that you can't recover. And it does drag your energy down slightly, but not as much as when there are three straight beats worth of low-energy motions.
If we want any departure at all from the simple "ONE two, ONE two" meter, and its "RIGHT left, RIGHT left" motions, let's only depart as minimally as possible, just to keep it grounded. And in fact, you're getting a lot more leeway than you'd think. With "ONE two three..." the number of strong beats is the same, but now you've got twice as many weak beats -- a 100% increase. That's plenty.
* * *
This brings us naturally to a meter with 5 beats per measure. We're fine with a 2-beat pair, we're fine with a 3-beat triplet, and we're fine with combining 2 pairs into a 4-beat measure. So why not try another minimal combination? -- two groupings as before, but instead of 2 + 2, it's 2 + 3, which gives us 5 beats total. There's still stress on the first beat of each grouping, and still primary stress on the first grouping, and secondary stress on the second grouping. Then it's, "ONE two THREE four five, ONE two THREE four five".
To dance to this rhythm, hop on your feet: strong weak, strong weak weak. Again, on the 3rd beat, your strong foot should only get medium-level force, not as much as on the 1st beat, but clearly more than on the weak beats. And if that's too difficult at first, just give your strong foot the same force on both 1 and 3. Having medium force on the secondary stress is more important when there's 4 beats per measure, where using the same force on 1 and 3 would make it sound like only 2 beats per measure.
When there's 5 beats, subdivided into 2 + 3, there's no way to confuse the first and second grouping because each has a different number of beats. So distinguishing the first from the second grouping does not depend so much on varying the force delivered on the stressed beat of each one, and differing primary from secondary stress is not necessary. (But it does help emphasize the different groupings.)
In the comments later, I'll add some thoughts on why 2 + 3 is more natural than 3 + 2, the other possible way to combine a pair and a triplet together to make 5 beats. It's not relevant now, though. But it does derive from the mechanics of dancing.
For a more interesting dance, rather than just hopping in place, try moving sideways in a line. Move in the direction of your strong foot, so that you land on a strong beat. For the weak beat, just hop in place on your weak foot. So it goes: "STEP hop, STEP hop hop" and repeat. Maybe it's more of a jump than a step to the side -- something more forceful than the hop.
And that's it -- "unusual" time signatures with 5 beats per measure are not so strange if the music is motivated by dancing, like Mother Nature intended. We could do 7 beats per measure, but it would break down according to the same principles -- e.g., combine a pair, a pair, and a triplet. The sideways dance would go, "STEP hop, STEP hop, STEP hop hop" and repeat.
These asymmetrical meters allow for some pleasant variety in the rhythm, while also keeping us from falling all over ourselves. It mixes things up while still keeping them in a simple, orderly structure.
* * *
Now for some actual music with 5 beats per measure, driven entirely by dances that involve a 2-step and then a 3-step movement. The ground zero for their popularity seems to be Thrace, which is today split between Bulgaria, Greece, and Turkey, in Southeastern Europe. From my cursory survey, 5-beat meter seems to be a fairly reliable marker of Indo-European lineage, but that's a topic for another post.
National folk music saw a resurgence after the end of the Communist era in Eastern Europe, and in Bulgaria this was mixed with pop music to produce "pop-folk". It also went under the name "chalga," but that label has rapidly changed in meaning over the past 10-15 years to mean generic international genres that are mixed together (techno, rap, etc.), without a strong Bulgarian folk influence. The songs below are from before that transition, and the instrumental backing band hails from Thrace (Yambol).
The singer in the first one was a Turkish-speaking Gypsy of Bulgarian nationality -- talk about being at the crossroads between Europe and Asia. It may be hard to hear the 2 + 3 rhythm at first, but wait until the clarinet solo when there's just a spare bass rhythm otherwise. The primary stress is on 1, then a rest or silence on 2. There's a little offbeat before 3, the secondary stress on 3 itself, which builds through weak beats 4 and 5, then crashes down again on 1.
Try tapping your fingers in order to the rhythm. If you use only your four fingers, and not your thumb, you'll notice that the main stress falls on a different finger from one measure to the next. Namely, the next one in order from whatever it was previously. If it were a 4-beat measure, it should fall on the same finger each time. Since it's moving over one finger each measure, that means there's 1 more beat than 4 -- 5 beats per measure.
If you start with your pinky, that gets the heavy stress, the ring gets a rest, the middle gets the secondary stress, and the fore and thumb get two weak building-up beats, before cycling back to the heavy stress on the pinky again. Slow it down in YouTube if you need to. That also goes for getting used to dancing to it.
The second song is a little harder to hear, but it's the only other example I could quickly find while browsing a country's music that I'm pretty unfamiliar with. It's also a faster tempo than the first example, so try this one out after you've got the first one down.
The first music video brings back memories of the good ol' days here, where the band was ugly guys who could compose and play instruments well, a cute songbird on the microphone, and random babes moving their bodies to fully integrate dance with music and singing, as Mother Nature intended.
"Kaynana" by Reyhan and Orchestra Kristal (2002):
"Limon" by Toni Dacheva and Orchestra Kristal (1993):
1. I associate prog/math rock more with changing the time signature within the song. It's not really music intended for dancing.
The most well-known sort of dance with a time signature other than 4/4 is the waltz. Blue Rondo a la Turk is supposed to be a borrowing of a traditional Turkish rhythm which the local street musicians claimed was as familiar to them as blues would be to an American (although it shifts into conventional 4/4 time for a while before switching back). Take Five off the same album is in 5/4 the whole way through and is presumably inspired by classical rather than folk influences.
2. "Take Five" has a 3+2 rhythm, pretty danceable for beatnik music. You could actually cut a little rug to it -- and most of the chicks there would definitely be paying attention to the only dude who knew how to dance in the room, especially to such a "complex" rhythm.
It starts with the higher-pitched piano flourish, and ends on the lower-pitched flourish. There's a little offbeat between 2 and 3. (And the piano actually hits a bit before the 2 beat, for syncopation.) Main stress on 1, secondary stress on 4:
ONE two and three, FOUR five
The dance goes "strong weak weak, strong weak" and repeat.
It's not really high-energy, but the tempo is pretty fast, so you don't have to make wide steps or jumps on the strong foot, and don't have to hop off the ground on the weak beat. You can just glide or shuffle your feet along the ground, bouncing down on each beat.
If your strong foot is right, you shift right on 1, lightly bounce or press your left foot in place on 2 and 3, shift right again on 4, and light bounce in place with left foot on 5. To mark primary from secondary stress, make a wider shift on 1, and a smaller shift on 4.
Your hips can naturally move along with your legs and feet. To get your arms into it, just extend them sideways, and on the stressed beats, bend your elbows and snap the upper arm in toward your sides, extending them back out during the weak beats.
You'll have those bohemian babes snapping their fingers in no time, daddy-o.
Waltz is in a simple rhythm, with just 3 beats per measure and no subdivisions necessary.
The point about prog/math rock is that it's so niche precisely because it's entirely divorced from corporeal motivation -- whether normie dancing or hard-rock headbanging and moshing. It just doesn't resonate.
3. 2+3 feels more natural than 3+2 because it breaks up the weight more evenly b/w the two groups.
This is due to there being two degrees of stress, strong and medium, and the overwhelming tendency -- no matter what meter -- is to put the strongest stress on 1.
In 3+2, it looks like:
ONE two three, FOUR five
The weak beat in the rhythm goes with a weak, winding-up kind of motion in the dance. It's a beat for anticipation rather than delivery of full force.
After two weak beats in a row, we've built up more anticipation and have wound up our body more -- e.g., raising your winding-up leg higher after two weak beats than after just one. So it's natural to want the strong stress afterward, to release all that anticipation, and deliver the force from a more highly-wound-up body.
But with 3+2, the two weak beats in a row are followed by the medium stress, and that leaves us unfulfilled. All that extra anticipation and winding up our body, only to get paid off with the smaller of the two stresses?
Or you could reverse-engineer the dance move. The greatest delivery of force should hit on the strongest stress, and of course a greater delivery requires a greater time and effort to wind up that body part. So the strong stress must be preceded by two weak beats, to allow enough bodily preparation.
If I were trying to really get into dancing to a 3+2, I'd probably shift the strong stress to 4, and make 1 the medium stress. It would sacrifice the intuitiveness of starting with the strongest stress, but it's worth it to not feel unsatisfied every measure after the relatively weak pay-off of a medium stress after two weak beats.
Or if you wanted to sacrifice complexity, you could just use equal stress levels for both 1 and 4 -- both the musicians playing, and the people dancing. Again, differing stress is unnecessary to distinguish the two groupings, since they're already clearly distinguished by how many weak beats they have, unlike say 4/4.
But why do that, when you've got 2+3 as an alternative?
ONE two, THREE four five
Now we have the two consecutive weak beats followed by the strong stress -- there's a greater pay-off to the longer build-up, and the heaviest delivery in the dance has more time to prepare for. Plus, this longer build-up and greater release also wraps around from one measure to the next -- like a cliffhanger ending, and cathartic beginning of the next episode of a TV show.
That's how you build up and release tension! And without having to sacrifice stress complexity (still two degrees), or sacrifice strong stress at the start (1 is strong).
4. Here's an example of a percussionist adding complexity to a rhythm outside the context of math/prog rock, or even European (even counting Turkey as honorary member) musical tradition:
He's performing for tourists, and as Randall Collins would put it the attention is focused on him rather than any dancers.
I had mentioned Kevin Simler's post on the evolutionary origins of human music (other species presumably have other reasons for their calls). It makes one wonder how far back it goes. And today youtube recommended this video of chimpanzees observing some drumming:
One of them gets into it, moving rhythmically back and forth, sometimes clapping. The others just continue sitting there.
5. Dancing also favors 2+3 rather than 3+2 for maintaining momentum. Weak beats can serve to either stabilize after a stressed motion, or wind up in preparation for a stressed motion. But you don't want the stabilizing beat(s) to over-stabilize -- that would kill the momentum, and grind the dance to a halt, requiring a restart. And you don't need much of a wind-up for a minor motion, compared to a major motion.
Since stabilization is needed more after the primary stress than the secondary stress (a greater force to recover from), the weak beat(s) after 1 will serve as stabilizers.
And since winding-up is needed more in advance of the primary stress than the secondary stress (a greater force to build up with potential energy), the weak beat(s) before 1 will serve as preparers.
In 3+2, there are two weak beats after the main stress on 1, meaning stabilization lasts for two beats. That can be too long of a recovery process, and is more likely to dampen or halt the momentum. And at the end of the measure, there's only one beat worth of prearation (5) in advance of the major stress when 1 arrives again.
So 3+2 has the priorities backwards -- it over-stabilizes after the primary stress, draining the momentum, and it offers too brief of a preparation for the major stress, limiting its impressive strength.
Don't worry, 2+3 to the rescue. It has only one beat of stabilization after the primary stress -- enough to briefly recover from the largest shock, but not so much that the body gets slowed down and shut down. And it has two beats worth of preparation at the end of the measure, in advance of the primary stress on 1 -- allowing greater strength to be delivered when it is needed most.
You can hear these differences among weak beats in the Balkan pop-folk songs, especially the first one. After the heaviest beat on 1, the 2 beat is a rest -- rhythmically almost non-existent. There is no bass drum, and no pulse from the bass guitar. There's only a snare drum (which is like the backbeat in Western rock music, hitting on a weak beat). That makes it dovetail with a bodily rest, recovering from the major motion on 1.
During the other weak beats 4 and 5, there's still no bass drum since they're meant to be weak. But they do have support from the bass guitar, building up the riff to the cliffhanger before resolving it with the return to 1. And the 5 beat also has a snare drum (again like a backbeat in rock). Unlike the rest on weak beat 2, the weak beats 4 and 5 are more of a gradual build-up in rhythmic potential energy or tension.
That's because they are not stabilizers -- they're not after the major stress -- but preparers, coming before the major stress.
6. "Blue Rondo" vs. "Take Five" is corporeal vs. cerebral rhythms.
"Blue Rondo" was inspired by a Turkish street dance. It's corporeal, folk, dance -- and it has the longest foot or grouping at the end of the measure. It has 9 beats, subdivided into 2+2+2+3.
Although made of 9 rather than 5 beats, it's the same general principle as in the Balkan pop-folk -- the most wind-up at the end, in preparation for the biggest stress on the return to 1, and the briefer periods of rest at the start, to rest from the main stress while not over-stabilizing and killing the momentum.
"Take Five" was developed by sophisticates and is cerebral, elite, and body-at-rest. It has the longest foot at the beginning, over-stabilizing after 1 and not allowing sufficient wind-up at the end of the measure.
"Blue Rondo" is palpably more lively and body-engaging than the laid-back, disembodied-ghost-floating-through-space "Take Five". And the tempo is actually greater in "Take Five" -- 160 bpm, vs. 114 for "Blue Rondo".
Evolutionarily, the inspiration for "Blue Rondo" -- and the larger class of folk dance music in the region -- has survived through a much more challenging test. I don't think "Take Five," and other sophisticated schemes with the longer feet up front in the measure, are going to survive as well.
Already, "Take Five," and prog rock for that matter, are more of a novelty or curiosity than a phenomenon that caught on broadly and will endure similar tests of survival.
And it's not because "Take Five" and prog require higher IQ, limiting their mass appeal -- "Blue Rondo" and many other Balkan folk dances plainly have more complex rhythmic structures than "Take Five" or garden-variety prog. It is not brainpower, but cerebral orientation, that limits their appeal. They are too divorced from dance to survive as well as the corporeally oriented musical styles that are interconnected with dance.
7. More 5-beat songs from Balkan pop-folk, in 2+3. See 3:17 and 27:23 below. Same singer, band, and year as in the second song from the OP.
8. Mission Impossible theme is 5 beats in 2+3. From the Swinging Sixties, the asymmetric rhythm gives it that exotic feel, and the 2+3 (rather than 3+2) gives it a more lively, action-packed groove than "Take Five". The MI theme also resonated with audiences better at the time and since then.
Although the intent was to exotify and "mod"-ify the rhythm, it's actually deeply rooted in the culture of the makers and the audience -- going back at least to the Thracians, and likely earlier. Interestingly, the composer was an Argentine Jew, not an Indo-European, but his teachers and influences were mainly Indo-European, rather than a Jewish or other Hamito-Semitic source.
As in Balkan pop-folk, main stress is on 1, a brief rest on 2 (but not enough to over-stabilize the momentum), secondary stress on 3, then gradual build-up on both 4 and 5, allowing enough time to prepare for the main stress on the return to 1.
Technically, the rest on 2 is not a full note, and the medium stress on 3 comes in just a tad early for jazzy syncopation -- but basically the same as 2+3, crucially putting the two consecutive weak beats at the end rather than middle of the measure.
It's only 50-some seconds, so not enough full development to be able to really get moving to, but it's one great seed of a dance song.
9. Do you see a potential for credential deflation (and hence a halting of elite overproduction)?
10. Aurinkoinen6/29/20, 8:35 PM
"It has 9 beats, subdivided into 2+2+2+3."
All of your balkan examples of 5 beat music sound like they actually have this - rather than being a true 5, they are in four with the fourth beat being a one-and-a-half length beat - known as daichovo in Bulgaria (though there is often a secondary stress on the second subdivision of the fourth beat: ONE and TWO and THREE and FOUR AND a).
The Bulgarians do have a true five, but it is a fast five: the paidushko - the divisions into 5 are too fast to dance to, so they are grouped into two steps, a short one and a long one: one TWO and one TWO and, etc.
11. It's 5 beats of equal weight. Use the 4-finger tapping test. Start with the pinky, then ring, middle, pointer, and back to the pinky again, using the same length of time on each finger.
If the beats are of equal weight, then the 1st beat will shift forward by 1 finger after each measure. If the beats only add up to 4.5 units of weight (or 9 if you double them), then the 1st beat will shift by only 1/2 finger after each measure.
Go to 3:45 in "Kajnana" and start tapping a single finger to get used to the tempo. Then when the clarinet solo starts around 3:54, and the rhythm is very clear to hear, start tapping the count on 4 fingers in order, starting with the pinky.
Do this for many measures in a row, not just one. It's easy to hear how long the measure is because the bassline starts with a pulse, then a rest, and rises through the end, before it repeats.
Sure enough, the 1st beat shifts by 1 finger after each measure.
Another way: how many measures are needed before the 1st beat returns to the pinky finger? If the beats are equal weight, then it will return after 4 measures are completed. If they only add up to 4.5 (or 9) units of weight, then it will return after twice as many measures -- that is, after 8 measures.
Sure enough, the 1st beat returns to the pinky after only 4 measures. The solo begins around 3:54, and by around 4:02 the 1st beat is back to the pinky, 4 measures later.
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/10760 | Magento Product Export Not Working - getting "No Valid Data Sent" error
Are mysteriously corrupt records causing your exports to fail?
Sometimes Magento Community Edition version (and perhaps other versions) throw an error when you try to use the built-in product export feature. I've been able to find the particular product SKU's in my catalog that are causing the export routine to bomb, but I couldn't for the life of me figure out what was wrong with these records. I could not trace a specific condition back to the problematic records for something to blame, such as simple versus complex product types, attribute sets, funky characters or encoding, missing values - nothing. It seemed as if there was some sort of invisible problem with certain records that would cause the product export to fail.
I looked in the exception log and saw this super-helpful error message:
Setting Magento Developer Mode through htaccess file not working on shared hosting?
Why can't I get Developer Mode enabled through the htaccess file?
While following the "Weblog" demo found on Magento for Developers Part 5 - Models and ORM Basics from Magento Commerce, many people have been following the instructions to enable developer mode to intentionally throw errors when an include file is missing.
On MagePsycho .com there is a blog post suggesting seven steps to enable dev mode if you are having trouble. I followed those steps and still couldn't get it to happen.
New version 1.8 of Magento Community Edition coming out next week
Magento Community Edition 1.8 and Enterprise Edition 1.13 Improvements
Magento announced the official release of Enterprise Edition version 1.13 at Imagine 2013 which includes some long-awaited and desperately-needed enhancements to the way indexing is performed. Now indexed items can be updated "in isolation" which means you don't have to rebuild the whole index every time it becomes invalidated. Instead, you can index only the changed items, and much of this happens automatically now instead of waiting for you to do it manually.
Review of "Magento Performance Optimization How-to" from the PACKT Publishing INSTANT Series
Instant Magento Performance Optimization How-to
I bought an "Instant" book from PACKT Publishing once. ONCE. I'll never do it again. Why? In a previous blog post I detailed the lack of, well... anything contained in another PACKT "Instant" publication. These things are like the primer to the primer - the most shallow introduction it is possible to print and still have any ink on the page.
Solr 4.1 does not work (yet) with Magento EE 1.12 - use Solr version 3.6 for now!
This will be a short post, I just want to let people know how much trouble I've had trying to find something definitive that calls out how the Magento Solr integration built-into Magento Enterprise Edition v1.12 does NOT SUPPORT Solr version 4.1 - in fact, I still can't find any "smoking gun" documentation to confirm this, only a handful of reports about various bugs when using 4.1 such as this one regarding "Unknown commit parameter waitFlush" found on Stack Overflow:
It's surprising that there's not clearer (any?) documentation specifying the major revision of Solr to use. It's probably out there, and I suppose someone will rub my nose in it soon, but we've been scouring the Internet and haven't found anything that makes this more obvious.
The following code will do just that:
SELECT prodName.`value` AS name,
FROM catalogsearch_fulltext AS searchIndex
LEFT JOIN catalog_product_entity_varchar AS prodName
ORDER BY relevance DESC;
Magento is slow. Really, really slow. Slow slow slow slow slow. Magento is slow.
I just figured I would state this once to make sure it was lodged in my SEO results. Because Magento is S-L-O-W and everybody pretty much knows it!!! So, if you're one of the people posting to Magento forums asking why it is so slow, please do some due diligence and read up about the gizzilion ways to try to improve its speed. Perhaps I will collect a list of resources here for people to check out...
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I started writing this stuff in 2011, but the date each little bit was written is clearly indicated on the page.
I claim the copyright, not as part of a master plan to make money from the words, but because they are my children. I have grown rather attached to them, even if they do frustrate me at times; they don’t always come when I call for them. I don’t want my children exposed in a way that might be harmful to them. I want to protect them, to keep them from being abused by people I don’t know, people I haven’t given permission to be their guardian.
Perhaps you can have real children. If you are human, probability tells me that you can. Well, I cannot. So be happy. Play with your children and enjoy them while they are young. One day my children may reach the age of majority. They’ll be all grown up and can decide with whom they associate. Until then, I will protect and cherish them.
Having said that, if you want to play with my children, all I ask is that you ask. I’m likely to give permission, since I want my children to get out into the world and be exposed to others. That is the only way they will grow.
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yvk.1.1 c The Vedi hath come to the sacrificial straw, Made by Manu, fashioned with the Svadha call.
yvk.1.5 Manu established it; therefore did Manu prosper; therefore offspring are said to be Manu s.
yvk.1.5 a I gaze on offspring, Offspring of Ida, connected with Manu; May they all be in our house.
yvk.1.6 h O Agni, kindled by the gods, kindled by Manu, with sweet tongue, I touch the head of thee, the immortal, O Hotr, for increase of wealth, good offspring, strength.
yvk.1.7 By the whole sacrifice the gods went to the world of heaven; Manu laboured with the cooked offering; the Ida went to Manu; the gods and the Asuras called severally upon her, the gods directly, the Asuras indirectly; she went to the gods; the cattle choose the gods, cattle deserted the Asuras.
yvk.1.7 e Or Vayu thee, or Manu thee, The seven and twenty Gandharvas; They first yoked the steed; They placed swiftness in it.
yvk.2.2 Too much splendour is produced they say, he is liable to become a leper he should insert the verses of Manu s; whatever Manu said is medicine [2]; verily he makes medicine for him.
yvk.2.5 Kindled by Manu he says, for Manu kindled him after the gods.
yvk.2.6 Manu desired what of earth was sacrificial.
yvk.2.6 Offspring of Manu he says, for Manu first saw her [3].
yvk.3.1 g Manu divided his property among his sons.
yvk.3.2 To Prajapati, to Manu, hail! Vat! To him who approveth himself homage.
yvk.3.3 c May Ida who summoneth the gods, Manu who leadeth the sacrifice, d May Brhaspati recite the hymns and acclamations.
yvk.3.4 f Weave ye without a flaw the work of the singers; Become Manu; produce thou.
yvk.3.4 Become Manu; produce thou the host divine ,he says; offspring are connected with Manu; verily he makes them fit for food.
yvk.4.1 a Purpose, Agni, impulse, hail! Mind, intellect, Agni, impulse, hail! Thought, knowledge, Agni, impulse, hail! Discrimination of speech, Agni, impulse, hail! To Manu, lord of creatures, hail! To Agni Vaisvanara hail! b Let every man choose the companionship Of the god who leadeth; Every man prayeth for wealth; Let him choose glory that he may prosper; hail! e Be not broken, nor come to harm; Be firm and enduring; O mother, daringly show thy heroism [1]; With Agni wilt thou do this deed.
yvk.4.5 d Be merciful to us, O Rudra, and give us delight; With honour let us worship thee, destroyer of men; The health and wealth which father Manu won by sacrifice, May we attain that, O Rudra, under thy leadership.
yvk.5.4 Manu piled the fire; with it he did not prosper; he saw this re piling, he piled it, with it he prospered; in that he piles the re piling, (it is) for prosperity.
yvk.6.2 Manu was wont thrice to take drink, the Asuras twice, the gods once [3].
yvk.6.6 Indra caused Manu to sacrifice with his wife; after she had been encircled with fire he let her go; therewith Manu prospered; in that he lets go (the victim), (for Tvastr with the wives, the sacrificer prospers with the prosperity with which Manu prospered.
yvk.7.5 The gods made Indra sacrifice with it, and therefore is it Indra s pressing; men made Manu sacrifice with it, and therefore is it Manu s pressing.
yvk.7.5 As Indra among the gods, as Manu among men, becomes he who knowing thus sacrifices with this sacrifice.
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/10789 | Who is Benjamin Radford?
Deputy Editor of Skeptical Inquirer science magazine
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/10813 | The Romans never conquered Ireland, though some free-lance legions seem to have settled in Ireland, notably at Clogher in Co. Tyrone, but as the Empire declined, Roman Britain was often the target for piratical raids from Ireland. The Ballinrees Hoard, buried underground and found by a labourer in 1854, may well have been booty from such a raid. It comprised over 1500 Roman silver coins and 200 ounces of silver plate and ingots, and is now divided between the British Museum and the Ulster Museum.
A similar raid brought Saint Patrick into the country sometime in the fifth century, and he was the greatest figure in the conversion of Ireland to Christianity. Brought to Ireland as a slave, he returned voluntarily to spread the gospel. There is a strong tradition that St. Patrick tended to sheep on Slemish Mountain where it is thought he was kept as a slave, and when he returned he certainly travelled widely in the province, baptising many people at a holy well in Templepatrick.
At Dunseverick, he was reputed to have baptised Olchan, a local man who became Bishop of Armoy. An inscribed standing stone cross is thought to mark the site of a church founded by St. Patrick’s at Duncrun, near Bellareena. Inscribed on the ancient stone, known as “Old Patrick” and enclosed in a circle, are the letters “chi” and “rho”, the first two letters of the name “Christ” in Greek. This shows the Celtic Church knew Greek and links it with European thought. What makes the stone unique in Western Europe is the fact that the same symbols appear on the other side, but with “rho” reversed.
The next great figure in Irish Christianity was St. Columba, or Colm Cille, who was born in Donegal. He founded the monastery of Iona, and, about 590 AD, organised the Convention of Drum Ceatt, held at the Mullagh, close to Limavady. This was to settle disputes between the Dal Riata and the Ui Neill and, according to one account, to prevent the poets being expelled from Ireland.
The introduction of Christianity did not bring an end to internal conflict. In the fifth century, the earliest period of recorded history, as opposed to myth and legend, Ulster was dominated by the Ulaidh, who controlled the whole North of Ireland. However they lost ground continually to the Uí Néill, a Connacht dynasty founded by Niall of the Nine Hostages. The great epic poem, the Cattle Raid of Cooley, written several centuries later, seems to reflect this inter-provincial struggle, but changes the ending so that, thanks to Cuchullain, Ulster emerges victorious.
In reality, the Ulaid were pushed into Counties Antrim and Down, and the Uí Néill became the dominant power in the northern half of Ireland. The Ulaid in Antrim, were divided into two groups, the Dál nAraide, or Cruthin, and the Dál Riata. This latter group began the Gaelic invasion of Scotland. This happened about 502 AD led by Fergus and his brothers Lorne and Angus. They gave Scotland its name (from scotti or raiders); its religion (through their Kingsman St. Columba) and its Kings From them were descended the Scottish Kings and Queen Elizabeth II is of the same lines, who, for over a century ruled a kingdom which straddled both countries. The final downfall of the Ulaidh came in the Battle of Moira in 637, which brought an end to King Congall Caech the One-Eyed., and his doomed attempt to become king of all Ireland.
Christianity suffered from the ravages of the Vikings, who, from about 800, staged many violent and destructive raids on Irish monasteries, but they also had a constructive side, opening trading posts that became the first Irish cities. They were responsible for the founding of Larne, known originally as Ulfrek’s Fjord. They made less of a mark on Ulster than on the other provinces, because Ulster armies were more successful against them. The Viking invasions necessitated the building of round towers as safe refuges for monks. The ruins of a round tower can be seen at Armoy, a topless stump beside the Church of Ireland parish church. Little more than the base survives of the Tamlaght round tower, beside the ruins of a sixth-century monastery, near the village of Ballykelly. |
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For me, it’s just too much (more) of the daily routine we see on every one of the broadcast networks (particularly cable) – lots of speculation, and heavy use of questions to substitute for statements. That’s an old trick, and actually quite powerful at times. Often, the brain simply changes the order of the first two words (for example) to turn the question into a statement: “Is it time for Trump to be impeached?” becomes, “It is time for Trump to be impeached.” In this article’s case, it’s “Will America’s Civil War Begin In California?” (which becomes a stated “fact” within the reader’s brain, at least in some corners of one’s thought process: “America’s civil war WILL begin in California).
An absolutely brilliant psychiatrist (now dead for about 4 decades, sadly) developed his own unique type of hypnotherapy. He used language in very unique ways, getting much deeper into people’s minds than is possible in “normal” communication. Questions such as the above are an example. If people even bother reading the article, they probably already had at least some beliefs similar to the author (Dave Hodges). If they didn’t, and they read the headline question above, their internal mental answer would likely be something like “No,” or “I doubt it.” But someone who’s more likely to read his article will also be likely to answer the question inside their own brains with, “Yes,” or “Probably.” And everything in the article following the reader’s internal answer to the headline question will then tend to be automatically accepted as verification of the reader’s “conclusion” that the civil war will indeed start in California.
I could go on for probably pages, but won’t for obvious reasons. But I will also point out such absurdities as, “Even more telling in article, Reynolds states that Trump will likely have to send the 101st Airborne to California to quell the open rebellion.” Uh, what about Posse Comitatus (not to mention the absurdity of a sky full of parachutes descending on an American state?
For me, the article is simply a non-starter. There’s far too much speculation, suggestion, rhetorical questions (which, as shown above are designed to produce internal answers in the reader), and shadowy unnamed “powerful” people with expertise, whose names we never learn. It reminds me of the financial trash generated from the many companies controlled by a guy named Porter Stansberry (Agora Financial, now Casey Research since his buyout, etc.), and one of their big “experts” always with “inside” information: Jim Rickards – always an imminent crisis. And really, the bottom line is: even if the civil war starts in California, we’ll simply have to deal with our own local consequences anyway – no matter how difficult.
Just way too much speculation, hype, and suggestion to be meaningful for me. But your mileage may vary. |
global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/10861 | Crew Notes from the Field
“Corps work can be a lot of things, intense is one of those things. Picture this, I’m in the river with a chainsaw. Mycrew photo1 fingers are wrapped around the pull cord and as I prepare to swing my elbow back, everything goes white as a lightning flash bangs the whole crew. We began our retreat back to camp in between lightning flashes. Everything is wet, a raindrop slides down my chin as a smile breaks across my face. I felt so alive.
Working hard everyday with the people who become a sort of family to you and experience the thrills and funnies of the job is the stuff good stories are made of. We are all having this grand personal adventure along side each other on a project where on an even grander scale we all remain anonymous.
We do it with purpose, we do it for the thrill, we are the Boulder Creek Crew.” -Conservation Crew Member, 2014crew photo 2
Many groups are working hard to eliminate Russian Olive in the southwest. The main problem being that this non-native species can grow rapidly and easily out compete other species, especially in riparian ecosystems. The species also can easily spread by seeds dispersed by animals or sprouting by adventitious buds, which occur on the roots. In riparian areas where Russian olive becomes the dominant species, the quality of wildlife habitat is vastly inferior to habitat provided by native plant species. Thanks Canyon Country Youth Corps and all the volunteers for all your hard work out there! |
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Simple Way to Budget
Simple Way to Budget
Budgeting your money could sound intimidating, but this short blog will give you a guideline of what to do.
1. Grab a piece of paper and at the top of it label it BUDGET in big letters
2. At the top right part of the paper write out “expenses” and then list out what you have to pay and when they are due. Make sure you don’t leave a single expense out! For example,
1. 1/1 rent due,
2. 1/5 phone bill due
3. 1/10 phone bill due
3. At the top left write your paycheck due date and the amount that you’re expecting to receive (low balling is always better to be safe for worse case scenario) then in the middle of the page list your expected paycheck due date and amount (same as first part, just put it in the middle of the page for space)
4. Begin allocating the funds – look at your expenses (top right) and start deducting them from your paychecks
5. Once you have figured out how much you will have remaining after all your expenses are paid then DIVIDE! Divide the number remaining by how many days left you have until your next paycheck day.
1. Example – if you have $400 remaining you would do $400/14 (assuming you get paid every two weeks) = $28.87
This is just a very simple way to budget your money, I would suggest taking a picture of the sheet of paper and saving it on your phone. It should be saved somewhere easily accessible. There are also many apps that you could use to budget.
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/10883 | /* * Copyright (C) 2005-2008 Andre Noll * * Licensed under the GPL v2. For licencing details see COPYING. */ /** \file filter.h Filter-related structures and exported symbols from filter_chain.c. */ /** * Describes one running instance of a filter. */ struct filter_node { /** The number in the array of available filters. */ unsigned filter_num; /** The filter chain this filter node belongs to. */ struct filter_chain *fc; /** * Each filter may store any filter-specific information about the particular * instance of the filter here. */ void *private_data; /** The output buffer. */ char *buf; /** The size of the output buffer. */ size_t bufsize; /** The number of bytes currently loaded in \a buf. */ size_t loaded; /** The list of registered callbacks. */ struct list_head callbacks; /** A pointer to the configuration of this instance. */ void *conf; }; /** Describes one running instance of a chain of filters */ struct filter_chain { unsigned int num_filters; /** * The number of channels of the current stream. * * Set by the decoding filter. */ unsigned int channels; /** * Current sample rate in Hz. * * Set by the decoding filter. */ unsigned int samplerate; /** The list containing all filter nodes in this filter chain. */ struct filter_node *filter_nodes; /** * The input buffer of the filter chain. * * This is set to point to the output buffer of the receiving application (the * buffer used to read from stdin for para_filter; the output buffer of the * current receiver for para_audiod). */ char *inbuf; /** * The output buffer of the filter chain. * * Points to the output buffer of the last filter in the filter chain. */ char *outbuf; /** Contains the number of bytes loaded in the input buffer. */ size_t *in_loaded; /** Contains the number of bytes loaded in the output buffer. */ size_t *out_loaded; /** Pointer to the error variable of the receiving application. */ int *input_error; /** Pointer to the error variable of the writing application. */ int *output_error; /** The task associated with the filter chain. */ struct task task; }; #define FOR_EACH_FILTER_NODE(fn, fc, i) for (i = 0; i < (fc)->num_filters \ && (fn = (fc)->filter_nodes + i); i++) /** * Used to manage grab clients. * * An application using paraslash's filter subsystem may register any number of * callbacks for each filter_node. It is possible to attach a filter callback * while the filter is running. This is used for stream grabbing in * para_audiod: Whenever a client sends the 'grab' command, para_audiod adds a * filter callback to the list of callbacks for the filter node specified in * the grab command. */ struct filter_callback { /** All callbacks are organized in a doubly linked list. */ struct list_head node; /** * Private data. * * May be initialized by the application before registering the callback. This * pointer is not used by the filter subsystem. It is provided for use within * the input/output/close callback functions. */ void *data; /** * The input callback. * * In not \p NULL, the filter subsystem calls this function whenever the filter * consumed some or all of its input buffer. A pointer to the buffer of consumed * data, its length and a pointer to the own \a filter_callback structure are passed * to \a input_cb. The input callback is expected to return a negative value on errors. */ int (*input_cb)(char *buf, size_t len, struct filter_callback *fc); /** * The output callback. * * If not NULL, this is called whenever the filter produces output. A pointer * to the output data, its length and a pointer to the own \a filter_callback * structure are passed to \a output_cb. Like the input callback, the output * callback is expected to return a negative value on errors. */ int (*output_cb)(char *buf, size_t len, struct filter_callback *fc); /** * The callback close function. * * This gets called whenever the input/output callback returned an error, or if * the filter chain is going to be destroyed, e.g. because the end of the * stream was encountered. It is assumed to succeed. */ void (*close)(struct filter_callback *fc); }; /** * The structure associated with a paraslash filter. * * Paraslash filters are "modules" which are used to transform an audio stream. * struct filter contains pointers to functions that must be supplied by the * filter code in order to be used by the driving application (currently * para_audiod and para_filter). * * Note: As several instances of the same filter may be running at the same * time, all these filter functions must be reentrant; no static non-constant * variables may be used. * \sa mp3dec.c, oggdec.c, wav.c, compress.c, filter_node */ struct filter { /** The name of the filter. */ const char *name; /** * Pointer to the filter init routine. * * This function is only called once at startup. It must initialize the * other non-optional function pointers of this structure. */ void (*init)(struct filter *f); /** * Open one instance of this filter. * * This should allocate the output buffer of the given filter node and do any * other filter-specific preparations like initializing the private_data member * of \a fn suitably. The open function is assumed to succeed. */ void (*open)(struct filter_node *fn); /** * Convert (filter) the given data. * * Pointer to the converting function of the filter. It should convert the * given input buffer \a inbuf which is of length \a len to the previously * reserved output buffer of \a fn. On success, it must return the number of * bytes it consumed from \a inbuf. On errors, a negative number indicating the * kind of the error must be returned. * * A zero return value just means that nothing was converted (probably because * the input buffer was too small). This is not interpreted as an error. */ ssize_t (*convert)(char *inbuf, size_t len, struct filter_node *fn); /** * Close one instance of this filter. * * Free all resources of associated with \a fn that were previously allocated * by the open() function. */ void (*close)(struct filter_node *fn); /** * Print the help text for this filter and exit. * * This is optional and it is not necessary to initialize this pointer if * the filter does not have a help text. */ void (*print_help)(void); /** * A pointer to the filter's command line parser. * * If this optional function pointer is not NULL, any filter options are passed * from the main program to this command line parser once at application * startup. The command line parser should check its command line options given * by \a argc and \a argv and abort on errors. On success, it should return a * pointer to the filter-specific configuration data determined by \a argc and * \a argv. */ void *(*parse_config)(int argc, char **argv); }; void close_filters(struct filter_chain *fc); void filter_init(struct filter *all_filters); int check_filter_arg(char *filter_arg, void **conf); void filter_pre_select(__a_unused struct sched *s, struct task *t); static inline void write_int16_host_endian(char *buf, int val) { #ifdef WORDS_BIGENDIAN *buf = val >> 8; *(buf + 1) = val & 0xff; #else *buf = val & 0xff; *(buf + 1) = val >> 8; #endif } /** \cond */ extern struct filter filters[]; #define DECLARE_EXTERN_FILTER_INIT(name) \ extern void name ## _init(struct filter *f) #define FILTER_INIT(filter) { \ .name = #filter, \ .init = filter ## _init, \ .parse_config = NULL, \ .print_help = NULL \ }, /* filters that are always present */ DECLARE_EXTERN_FILTER_INIT(wav); /* wav is always the first filter */ #define WAV_FILTER_NUM 0 DECLARE_EXTERN_FILTER_INIT(compress); /* next the optional filters */ #ifdef HAVE_MAD DECLARE_EXTERN_FILTER_INIT(mp3dec); #define MP3DEC_FILTER FILTER_INIT(mp3dec) #else #define MP3DEC_FILTER #endif #ifdef HAVE_FAAD DECLARE_EXTERN_FILTER_INIT(aacdec); #define AACDEC_FILTER FILTER_INIT(aacdec) #else #define AACDEC_FILTER #endif #ifdef HAVE_OGGVORBIS DECLARE_EXTERN_FILTER_INIT(oggdec); #define OGGDEC_FILTER FILTER_INIT(oggdec) #else #define OGGDEC_FILTER #endif /** \endcond */ /** define an array of all available filters */ #define DEFINE_FILTER_ARRAY(filters) struct filter filters[] = { \ FILTER_INIT(wav) \ FILTER_INIT(compress) \ MP3DEC_FILTER \ AACDEC_FILTER \ OGGDEC_FILTER \ { .name = NULL } }; |
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Regnecentralen logo
All the Regnecentralen logos I have found everywhere else are of really poor quality, so I have made some high-quality versions of Regnecentralen's logo. The logo has been scanned from a binder and cleaned up by hand in GIMP. The logo was designed in 1967 by Erik Blom-Nielsen. Please feel free to copy and use these logos. I've made four versions of the logo:
Classic Regnecentralen logo in black and orange colors used in brochures etc.
A more photo-realistic version of the black and orange logo that resembles the logo used on RC computer model tags.
Regnecentralen logo with the characteristic "RC brown and beige" colors. This logo has a very distinctive 70s-look.
Outline logo which was used in black & white printed documentation. There is also a hires-version of the outline logo (3903x4079 pixels).
Regnecentralen logo as vector graphics (SVG), 1.3 KB.
Outline logo as vector graphics (SVG), 1.6 KB. |
global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/10912 | Mandibles of early Homo and robust australopithecines
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For anthropologists, Africa was a point of exceptional diversity between 2 million and 1.5 million years ago. In both East and South Africa, the fossil record presents evidence of several different hominin species. Some fossils belong to our own genus, Homo, and others belong to robust australopithecines.
These two forms seem like they should be easy to tell apart. Robust australopithecines had extraordinarily large mandibles compared to living humans. Consider:
• The main part of the mandible, which holds the teeth, is called the mandibular corpus. In robust australopithecines, this is often extremely thick and tall, with a large distance from the inferior border of the mandible to the teeth.
• The portion of the mandible that extends upward to articulate with the temporal bone is called the mandibular ramus -- with one on both left and right sides. The mandibular ramus of many robust australopithecines is exceedingly tall, reflecting the very vertically tall faces of these hominins.
• Robust australopithecines have hugely expanded premolars and molars, and greatly reduced incisors and canines. Early Homo has overall larger teeth than in living humans, but the proportions between the molars, premolars, incisors and canines is very much like people today.
However, despite these obvious differences, the mandibles of early Homo and robust australopithecines are not always so easy to tell apart. This station has several mandibles from robust australopithecines, mainly from Australopithecus robustus from Swartkrans and Kromdraai, South Africa. There are also several mandibles of Homo erectus here, and a handful of mandibles that are likely early Homo but not definitely H. erectus.
Can you tell them apart? Try seriating these from most humanlike to most robust australpithecine-like. Is there a clear dividing line between the two, or are there questionable specimens? |
global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/10922 | Field of Science
The many ways bacteria move
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Anonymous said...
Bacterial movement is amazing. One of the ongoing projects in my lab is the actin based motility of Shigella. Polymerising host actin into 'comet tails' similar to Listeria the Shigella is able to spread cell-to-cell directly from one cytoplasm to another. The Shigella picks up enough steam to burst from one cell into an adjacent cell wrapped in two membranes, one from the old cell and one from the new. It then has to escape to continue its infectious lifecycle.
Lucas Brouwers said...
The most important question I now have: if I put a flagellar, contractile, growing protrusional, growing and rotational moving bacteria in a racing contest, who would win ;)?
Seriously, great post. If you would put all your blog posts of the last 2+ years together, you'd have one of the best and most fun to read text books on bacteriology!
Lab Rat said...
@diseaseoftheweek: The actin comet-tails are amazing, if you know any good papers about it, email them over because I'm not sure I've ever been told exactly *how* the bacteria polymerase host actin behind them.
@lucas: if you put them with gas vesicle bacteria and headed the race upwards the vesicles would win hands down! They bob up frighteningly fast :p
In terms of a book - gawd don't encourage me! Writing a book is one of my childhood dreams, and until January I really need to put all my effort into lab work. There are issues with simply conglomerating posts concerning picture/diagram copyright, and finding a publisher is massively difficult - I'd be tempted to just go for LuLu and sell it through the site, but that means I can't just sell my blog posts which are already up for free...
Lucas Brouwers said...
Don't worry about the fact that your blog posts are available for free already - the whole point of selling such a book would be to bundle and integrate these separate bits of knowledge. Sure, people could take the effort to look up specific blog posts, or they could just quickly search in that awesome bacteria book! Just look what Carl Zimmer has done with is recent brain-book.
I think going with Lulu is a great idea. Self publishing really is one of the important emancipatory steps in the dissemination of knowledge! And I'd buy the lab rat compendium, promised ;).
Sean B said...
Nice post, I did a Bioinformatics research project on Chitinophaga pinensis, which is believed to use the same gliding motility mechanism as Flavobacterium johnsonaie. I believe I was the first to characterize those sequences for that species, lab work is currently being done to support that research.
Lab Rat said...
@Lucas: You are *very* convincing :p If it happens, it will be after January...and it really might do as then I will be a) desperate for cash and b) only working part time, so able to concentrate more on the blog...
@Sean: Thanks for the reply! It's always great to hear that the less famous bacteria are being worked on, and good luck with your research work.
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Just a quick note to let you know that your post is included in the latest Scientia Pro Publica. Thank you for sharing it. |
global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/10944 | Seven Awesome Things You Can Easily Know From Exploring Investment Holding Company
Secondary markets for reveals of companies exist. Penny equity providers are much cheaper than the shares that are traded in the primary substitutions.
Entrepreneurs here who purchase these kinds of stocks are actually certainly not called for to pay any rewards. In simple fact, they may certainly not get any type of returns in all if the firm falls short to gain a revenue. This may certainly not seem like a really desirable proposal, numerous individuals acquire these supplies simply since they have an opportunity of switching an income.
The Monte-Carlo earnings potential that arises from having these types of firms is actually appealing to real estate investors, especially to those that perform certainly not have adventure in the share swap. They are even more liquid and also typically bring in more cash in a much shorter duration of time given that these companies have a lower risk element. Clients who are less experienced in the organization field typically switch to these kinds of services to make a revenue.
If you are fascinated in purchasing reveals, there is actually no necessity to fret concerning the reliability of the company. There are actually a variety of real estate investors that are eager to invest in any business that meets their criteria. Consequently, the ownership of an investment keeping provider is typically quite stable, since the provider performs certainly not need to struggle financially to keep in business.
Some WordPress capitalists also find that the threat variable connected with financial investment holding is actually significantly less than acquiring various other types of organizations. A number of these providers return remittances or even pay for rewards in money and are actually certainly not demanded to market share if they are actually certainly not making profits. Some investment securing companies offer share that is bought through a little volume on a month to month basis.
The rewards paid out through the different firms are figured out through an assortment of factors. There are actually a number of income tax perks connected with paying out returns. A lot of real estate investors find it much less risky to invest in firms that pay out reward remittances.
Dealing shares in these providers is actually extremely similar to getting and marketing cooperate business that are listed in the standard stock market. There is actually commonly a swap of details between the business as well as the financier.
Financial investment holding business possess some features alike with exclusive firms. They are actually confidentially owned corporations that have actually made an investment in an openly traded body. Their major conveniences is actually that they carry out not spend tax obligations on their revenue as a benefit from the assets.
As a general rule, a financial investment storing firm possesses the very same set of basic civil liberties and duties as every other business. The only distinction is actually that they don’t must spend taxes on it. This is an essential benefit, as it may help all of them increase the funds they require in a a lot more efficient fashion. Nonetheless, there are actually a handful of various other characteristics that produce expenditure holding firms one-of-a-kind. They perform possess particular differences from a public provider, although this doesn’t make all of them different coming from each various other.
A primary difference between a public as well as investment having company is actually that people has actually limited responsibility and the various other has no liability whatsoever. The kind of security provided through a limited responsibility having provider is actually a property that is actually protected if the owner ends up being bankrupt. On the contrary, a provider that possesses no obligation is often made it possible for to utilize their personal funds. Moreover, the income of an investment holding provider comes coming from a combination of dividends as well as interest. This implies that the proprietors of an investment keeping company can easily receive a bigger amount of income than a person that is actually an only manager. They carry out possess a more significant threat of losing the entire quantity invested in the provider, so they often pay much higher costs of interest than an only owner.
An expenditure keeping business, nevertheless, performs not possess to file the very same document as a social provider. These providers are actually enabled to function in several parts of the country without possessing to pay for any kind of type of fees.
The investment storing firm likewise has their personal investors that have ballot civil liberties and possess the right to purchase or offer allotments of assets. These investors additionally possess the capacity to spend straight or indirectly. their financing in to a specific provider or fund.
As was actually stated previously, the profit of an investment holding company performs certainly not have actually to be actually taxed. These business must pay for capital increases income tax when the worth of their assets increase.
Some other attributes that distinguish a financial investment carrying firm from a public provider to include the demand that the annual economic declarations be actually accepted the SEC and the requirement for a yearly file on the condition of the firm. This information is actually needed to have for tax purposes. Personal providers are not demanded to provide these reports.
Since they carry out not possess to panic about paying out tax obligations on the rate of interest made on the funds they put in, a financial investment securing business is a prime choice for some financiers. Some firms can pay a much lower price of tax when they hold the exact same quantity of resources equity as a social provider.
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/11004 | SX firmware to control 3 stepper motors
From Just in Time
Status so far:
• 3D Bresenham line drawing algorithm has been programmed on-chip.
• text parser has been implemented
• serial port VP has been integrated
• keyboard and switch driver has been implemented
• "emergency stop" and end-keys have been implemented in a way. Currently movement just stops if one of these keys is pressed.
You can view the source here.
So What Does It Do
The firmware assumes the following:
• Three stepper motors connected to rc (x and y) and rb.4-7 (z)
• Some serial communications device attached to ra.3 (SX sending) and rb.0 (SX receiving). The software is configurable to work either through a MAX232 ic or by connecting the pins directly to some rs-232 device. In the latter case, out- and input actions become active-low.
The firmware communicates through the serial port and assumes a 9600bps 8N1 connection (this is configurable, but must be tuned with the clock frequencies, because some some bitrates are not possible with some clock speeds).
At boot, the SX will send a welcome message and a prompt. The other end of the communciations line (the driver) is supposed to send ascii commands over the serial line, separated by newlines (ascii code 13). The SX will only accept commands when it has sent a prompt charachter ('>'). The driver should therefore always wait for a prompt before sending a command. Internally, there is one command buffer, so that the SX can execute one command and receive the next command at the same time.
The ultimate (and currently the only-) command is the 'move' command:
m shhhh,shhhh,shhhh
'm' denotes the 'move' command and directs the controller to perform a number of half-steps on each axis. 's' stands for an optional sign character, 'h' means an optional hex digit. Instead of comma's, any non-hex character can be used. There is no need for whitespace after the command, or in fact at any location at all. Examples of valid move commands are:
m de,-10,-ff
Movement is specified in half-steps, relative to the current position. |
global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/11020 | What is Human Factors?
Human Factors Engineering (HFE) and the related discipline of Engineering Psychology (EP), is the study of how people interact with different objects in their environment. Human Factors Engineers consider the physical and mental capabilities, limitations, and aspirations of humans to design and improve products and systems. The overall goal of HFE/EP is to design and build products or systems that are easy, safe, and enjoyable to use.
The Study of Human Factors
HFE/EP is an interdisciplinary field that incorporates aspects of engineering, psychology, computer science, cognitive science, kinesiology, and others. The Mechanical Engineering and Psychology departments co-host the Human Factors Engineering and Engineering Psychology programs at Tufts. Students from both the School of Engineering (HFE) and School of Arts and Sciences (EP) can choose to major in HFE or in EP.
Human Factors in Industry
Human Factors Engineers hold a variety of jobs in many different industries. HFE has some of its roots in the military, and there are still many jobs in HFE that relate to military work. For example, a military HFE project might be to redesign a certain type of pack so that it fits both male and female soldiers or to design the systems/methods through which a soldier might interact with a swarm of surveillance drones. There are also a lot of HFE jobs in medical devices, where safety is a top priority. Similar to the military, a big part of medical HFE is considering the physical and mental state of the user, as well as specific environmental concerns. For example, ER nurses are under a considerable amount of stress in their day to day work, and their attention is often split between triaging patients, responding to alarms, and interacting with other ER staff. Another big industry for Human Factors Engineers is computers and technology more broadly, either as UI/UX developers for software companies, or working on human-computer interaction for robotics.
If you are interested in learning more about HFE/EP overall, the programs at Tufts, and what HFE/EP majors do after graduation, read our FAQ. |
global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/11069 | Solve Word Puzzles and Crosswords with Ease at WordNavigator.com!
Definition of urolagnias, meaning of urolagnias
10 letters in word "urolagnias": A A G I L N O R S U.
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/11102 | Wednesday, November 24, 2010
People & Power - Magic and Murder
November 24, 2010 on Al-Jazeera English
People&Power investigates infanticide by voodoo ritual in the African republic of Benin.
1. wow, some people say that atheists are cynical. yeah, that's why (at least when it comes to religion and "culture"). Makes you wonder though, in what ways one might be deluded and not even suspect it.
2. These people are so out of touch with the rest of the world. How long before these people can become part of a global community?
3. why is every black person shown on this sight doing something like killing babies? |
global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/11115 | “Murder Most Foul”: “…. play “Hello, Goodbye; …. play American Pie”
The Covid-19 virus is merely an opening act for the next pandemic:
Covet-20 is on it way, with those who covet authoritarian power and corporate largesse dispersing their delayed reaction viruses and time-lapse memes with hypnotically enhanced algorithms.
Meanwhile, self-imposed quarantines would be a lot easier to endure if radio stations would occasionally play two songs back-to-back:”Murder Most Foul” and “American Pie.” Bob Dylan’s influence on Don McLean was fairly obvious when McLean cranked out a song that began as a mournful tribute to Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and “The Big Boppe,” but turned by the second verse into a generational lament.
In “Murder Most Foul,” Dylan pays indirect tribute to McLean with a litany of famous and obscure songs that mark “the day the music died” in November, 1963. Less than 25% of the American pubic can remember where they were when they heard the news that JFK had been shot; it’s likely that less than 10% — and possibly less than 5% — can identify the cultural figures and references in Dylan’s song. If the assassination remains a blurred event:
“It happened so quickly, so quick, by surprise
Right there in front of everyone’s eyes
Greatest magic trick ever under the sun
Perfectly executed, skillfully done”
then the cauldron of popular culture is adroitly smudged by Dylan, too.
Maybe ten percent of the American population recognizes Wolfman Jack and “Don’t Let Me Be Misunderstood,” but anyone betting the rent money that five percent of the American population can identify half of the following people must have a profound yearning to be served an eviction notice.
Etta James
Thelonius Monk
Oscar Peterson
Stan Getz
Dickey Betts
Art Pepper
Charlie Parker
Bud Powell
For that matter, how many can identify Buster Keaton or Harold Lloyd? This kind of roll-call brings to mind Dylan’s early work as a collage lyricist. “Murder Most Foul” will not dislodge “Desolation Row” from the list of Dylan’s best songs, but he has done us the service of a playlist that no D.J. in the United States has ever featured on his or her show. The trick for millennials in assembling the complete playlist cited by Dylan will be to remember that lyrics to songs that aren’t mentioned by title are also in his song: “You make me dizzy, Miss Lizzy” and “Wake up, little Suzy.” If one were to compile a very quirky tape of songs, in fact, one would blend in the songs mentioned or alluded to in McLean’s song as well.
Post-Script: The title of Dylan’s song comes from a phrase uttered by the ghost of King Hamlet to his son, but the earliest significant use of Shakespeare in regards to JFK’s assassination was Barbara Garson’s play, “MacBird!” |
global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/11125 | Wednesday, December 12, 2012
Published Letters To The Southland Times, Eggs
The Southland Times editor recently wrote about ending "battery cages". Notice the number of "egg producers", meaning the 47 different farms in all of New Zealand, and NOT the actual female Hens who PRODUCE their EGGS inside their bodies! :-) They're just "livestock" you know, thousands of birds at each farm, property of "THE Egg Producer" :-)
My friend Jenny ALSO had a letter published in the newspaper, about being Vegan for christmas:
Seizing the chance, I wrote a reply to the editor, taking issue with the mention of "47 egg producers"
Notice also the "Meat-filled Christmas" reply to Jennys letter. "Humane Killing", two words which cancel one another out. Euthanasia, certainly, but killing someone healthy because we want to eat their body as part of a religious tradition? No thank you.
I've written a reply to Annette, informing her of the wonderful Vegan meals that are possible, sharing details of and a link to our Invercargill Vegan Society potlucks as example.
My letter was abridged, my best jokes were taken out! :-) I wished the our friends the Guyton family well, three Guyton Jr's, and each graduated top of their year, well done!
My full letter, bold text was removed from the printed selection:
"Yesterday's editorial stated there are a whopping 47 New Zealand "egg producers". A closer figure was also stated, of over 3 million egg producers in this country, female birds.
The lions share treated as batteries, linked together in parallel fashion, wire above and below.
Hen Friends are A+, not AA. If you confuse the two, expect a lack of electrical power for your cordless toaster, and a sharp nip to your fingers.
Eggs are the product of the female reproductive cycle. Whether deposited internally or externally, they are equally unappetizing.
I came home from our monthly vegan potluck last night and checked my Hen Friends were ok. I heard a noise exactly like a kettle boiling itself dry. Obviously the correct batteries had been been installed!
"HSSSSSSSSSsssssssssssssssssssss". Home Hen finished laying an egg, a painful and upsetting process which involves a hard white shell filled with fatty cholesterol oils being squeezed from her ovary and out of her bottom.
It's rather easy to live without eating Hens eggs, just as we somehow manage without gulping down Thrush, Kiwi and Tuatara eggs :-)
Try the egg free recipes on our website, and support businesses who provide animal friendly Vegan options, like Waxy O'shea's, Zookeepers (the best kind of zoo, in name only), Pita Pit, Hell and Subway. Ask your favorite restaurant what culinary delights the chefs can prepare that do not involve animals, and prepare to be delighted.
Go Vegan :-)
Jordan Wyatt
"all animals are equal"
P.S Well done Guyton family on your achievements, this letter is about respecting Hens, but Dux should be congratulated too!"
About the abridged note
""At the risk of stating the obvious, the 47 egg producers we cited were businesses, rather than individual hens - Editor"
Theres nothing "obvious" about the millions of Hens in New Zealand, 3 million being the figure stated. These Hens are the true "producers" of eggs, the eggs entirely belong to the birds, they come from inside their ovaries, they pass through their bottoms, they are Hens eggs, not "humans eggs" :-)
I've written a second letter, trying to be fit in the ~200 maximum word limit. Given more space, I'd mention that "Egg Farmers" are no golden goose, they produce no eggs themselves, caring only for pooping out gold, taking our money" etc.
Lets see if my second letter is included tomorrow :-)
"What animal products at the supermarket show how they are actually "made"? Cheerful cows, peaceful pigs and happy hens are shown, the last often surrounded by her chicks!
The lions share seen as batteries, Hens are linked together in parallel fashion, wire above and below.
Hen Friends are A+, not AA.
She'll never have been "allowed to keep" her eggs, and a laying hen will never see daylight, much less a male bird in her man made miserable life.
Jenny Moxham has a great suggestion for Annette Gunther - try a Vegan holiday feast :-). The religious reason for the season is to celebrate life, correct? So why horrifically kill and butcher other animals?
Do you care for Cats and Dogs? Are they possessions to fence and cage, an "it", or do you respect and recognize them as a "he" or "she"? A member of the family, or an ingredient in the feast?
The Invercargill Vegan Society is having an animal friendly celebration, similar to our monthy potlucks
Cranberry cashew loaf, pecan and pumpkin pies, lasagne, calzone...... and great friends. It'll be superb.
Jordan Wyatt
***UPDATE Second letter published as well :-)***
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1. Those letters are flowing, Jordan, like water. Nicely penned too. One response today has you munching on leaves, despite your appealing menu...
It's quite a time to be talking food.
Thanks for your comments about my bright off-spring. I'm basking.
Thank you for posting a comment :)
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Why yes, I’m running a deep learning system on a MacBook Air. Why?
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Yep, that’s Python consuming almost 300% of my CPU – guess what, I guess that means this machine has four processing cores, since I saw it hit over 300% – running the TensorFlow tutorial. For those that don’t know, “deep learning” is a relatively recent type of learning which uses improvements in both processing power and learning algorithms to train learning networks that can have dozens or hundreds of layers – sometimes as many layers as neural networks in the 1980’s and 1990’s had nodes.
For those that don’t know even that, neural networks are graphs of simple nodes that mimic brain structures, and you can train them with data that contains both the question and the answer. With enough internal layers, neural networks can learn almost anything, but they require a lot of training data and a lot of computing power. Well, now we’ve got lots and lots of data, and with more computing power, you’d expect we’d be able to train larger networks – but the first real trick was discovering mathematical tricks that keep the learning signal strong deep, deep within the networks.
The second real trick was wrapping all this amazing code in a clean software architecture that enables anyone to run the software anywhere. TensorFlow is one of the most recent of these frameworks – it’s Google’s attempt to package up the deep learning technology it uses internally so that everyone in the world can use it – and it’s open source, so you can download and install it on most computers and try out the tutorial at home. The CPU-baking example you see running here, however, is not the simpler tutorial, but a test program that runs a full deep neural network. Let’s see how it did:
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Well. 99.2% correct, it seems. Not bad for a couple hundred lines of code, half of which is loading the test data – and yeah, that program depends on 200+ files worth of Python that the TensorFlow installation loaded onto my MacBook Air, not to mention all the libraries that the TensorFlow Python installation depends on in turn …
But I still loaded it onto a MacBook Air, and it ran perfectly.
Amazing what you can do with computers these days.
-the Centaur
1. bagustyo bagustyo
hi there ..
I currently intresting with TensorFlow, but I just have macbook Air
which is i tought not strong eanough as other macbook
by reading your blog , now I re-thinking to install TF on my mac 😀
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/11159 | Manga Review - One Piece Volume 1
Released in 1997, One Piece has become a world wide phenomenon and I have finally realised why. In 14 years, I must sadly admit that I had not read a single volume or watched a single episode of One Piece.
That is, until today. I have just finished the first volume of One Piece and the first thought I had when I closed the back cover was "yeah, I get it". I immediately understood why One Piece has sold more that two hundred and forty MILLION copies since its release making it the most popular manga series of all time. In fact, the English language copy that I read was the SEVENTEENTH printing from Viz.
One Piece is written and illustrated by Eiichiro Oda and, like so many other popular manga series, started its life in Weekly Shonen Jump. It quickly became the most popular series in Shonen Jump before becoming the most popular manga series of all time. It has gone from being a comic in a boys magazine to an incredibly successful franchise consisting of manga, anime, video games, music CD's, light novels and even a highly successful themed café.
I've been delaying my leap into the world of One Piece for fear of the financial outlay. With so many volumes of manga and anime available, I just know that it's going to cost a pretty penny. After reading volume 1 do I have an ounce of regret? My word no! I can't wait to jump into volume 2!
Initially I was surprised by how much the art reminded me of Hiro Mashima's (Fairy Tail, Rave Master). That is, until I read that Mashima-san had actually taken tutelage from Oda-sensei! The art is both action packed and comedic. It appears reasonably basic and the lack of screentones is notable. They are seen in action scenes but are more or less missing from every other panel. This isn't a complaint by any means. It actually makes the panels appear less busy and therefore highlights when action is taking place. In a way its simplicity is part of its endearing quality. That is not to say that the art is simple, but it is much less cluttered than many others that I have read.
What made me immediately fall in love with One Piece is the characters and characterisations of just about every individual that shows up in its pages. Somehow, Oda-sensei gives a personality to every single character on the page regardless of whether they are a protagonist or just a passing extra in a scene. This helps to flesh out the fictional world that Oda-sensei has created. Our hero, Monkey D. Luffy, begins the story as an angry and determined boy who dreams of being the King of the Pirates at all costs. He later evolves into an equally driven young man but without the anger and angst that would have eventually turned Monkey into an unlikeable Anakin type of character (boo hoo, everything makes me grumpy!). In a single volume Oda-sensei manages to introduce Monkey's first mate, potential nemesis and who I'm assuming will be his navigator. All of these characters are visually distinctive are also individuals in their own right. Their personalities are immediately prevalent and set the tone for the series and coming story arcs.
Throughout, One Piece is chock full of laughs and characters that you just need to know better. Not only did I immediately understand why One Piece is such a successful manga, but I also understood why it translated so perfectly into a highly successful anime series of over 500 episodes. Oda-sensei created a book that is so cartoony that it basically begged for the animation treatment. Although it has a cartoony feel, One Piece transcends age and should definitely not be overlooked by us... ageing folk. Regardless of age, One Piece is a blast.
One Piece Volume 1 was incredibly enjoyable. I immediately fell in love with Monkey, Koby and tough guy Roronoa Zolo. There is one gigantic flaw that I can note with One Piece, and sadly it is entirely my fault. I refused to jump on the bandwagon and now... I have a hell of a lot of catching up to do.
Thankfully Madman have released both the manga and the uncut version of the anime locally.
On the subject of Hiro Mashima, Madman have also just announced that Fairy Tail will be released in January 2012.
1. Great review, I hope I can enjoy the reviews of every other volume from you, too.
And I am somehow suprised: While I personally loved the first volumes, a lot of fans seem to agree that the series really kicks off around volume 8-10. But I'm sure that if you liked this volume, you'll love the upcoming once. Enjoy these 60+ volumes of pure joy and romanticism.
2. I really did love the first volume and every other one since. I'm glad to see that it lives up to the hype.
I don't know if I'd be able to review every volume. That would almost be a full time job! :)
Thanks for your kind words, I hope that you come back often!
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'Advantageous' and the Price of Being a Professional Woman
What are you willing to sacrifice to make a better life for your children? That is the central question at the heart of Advantageous, an independent science fiction movie that came out last year (and was first runner up to win its category in the 2015 Undies). The movie takes place in a not particularly distant future where work is scarce, opportunity scarcer, and women are being slowly but surely pushed out of the workforce. Instead of getting a horrible dystopia, though, the world we see is just a slightly more advanced version of our own, and so the choices and problems we come to see in that world just look like advanced versions of the problems we already have. Which is neat.
In addition to being just a cool new sci-fi movie, however, Advantageous is also the rare science fiction feature to be written and directed by (and starring) Asian-American women. Directed by Jennifer Phang and written by Phang and the film's star, Jacqueline Kim, the movie situates itself squarely in telling the story of Asian-American femininity, even as it tells a very universal story.
So our heroine for this tale is Gwen Koh (Kim), the spokeswoman for a futuristic cosmetics company. As in, not cosmetics like makeup but cosmetics like non-invasive cosmetic surgery. Gwen is the face of their brand, and she's doing very well for herself when we meet her. She lives a happy, if small, existence with her beloved daughter Jules (Samantha Kim). Jules is just on the cusp of puberty, still a little girl dependent on her mother but on the verge of growing up, and you can tell that both Gwen and Jules are kind of treasuring this time.
But since this is a movie and not a Facebook slideshow, something has to go wrong. In this case, it's that Gwen loses her job. Or, more specifically, her contract is not renewed. While the Center doesn't say so explicitly, they want a younger spokesmodel when they roll out their newest procedure, a form of body-swapping that will let their customers slip into the ideal body of their choice. Gwen, an Asian woman in her forties, is too old and too "specific" for their needs. So she's let go and set adrift in this modern world, just as it seems like her only choice for Jules is to send her off to a prestigious and expensive private school.
Gwen tries to fall back on her support system, only to quickly realize that she has no support system. She's single - Jules' father isn't in the picture - and her parents are estranged owing largely to the whole thing where Jules' father isn't in the picture. Her one good friend is a scientist at the Center with whom she was having an affair, Fisher (James Urbaniak), and aside from that she just has Jules and the vague awareness of Jules' friends' parents. Oh, and also her cousin Lily (Jennifer Ikeda), but Gwen is very reluctant to reach out to Lily, for reasons that become clear later.
In other words, Gwen is stuck. She's out looking for a job in a terrible job market that already wants to push out women, let alone Asian women quickly reaching middle age. Everything she can find pays less than what she had, and she's wildly overqualified for all of it. Gwen wants to hold out for something better, something good, but she kind of can't. There are bills to pay, Jules needs to go to school if she wants an opportunity, and she's stuck.
So what's a woman trapped in a dystopian future to do?
Well, as you probably guessed just from the structure of the story (and this isn't a spoiler - it's in the trailer), Gwen decides to volunteer for the body-swapping procedure. That way she can keep her job, and get a raise, and the Center will get a spokeswoman with her experience plus a youthful face and body and a satisfied customer who can speak from experience. It's a win-win, right?
Obviously this is where most of the drama comes in. Yes, there's some drama with Lily and her husband Han (Ken Jeong), but for the most part the story is about Gwen coming to the decision to make this choice and how it impacts the rest of her life, particularly her relationship with Jules. I mean, well-adjusted kid or not, there's something inherently horrifying in imagining a child going from having a loving mother to living with a stranger who happens to have her mother's memories. It's weird for Jules, as well it would be.
It's hard to talk about that aspect of the story without spoiling it, though, so suffice it to say that it's amazing and you should totally watch the movie. Freya Adams is amazing as Gwen 2.0, Jennifer Ehle is chilling as the head of the Center, and the mothers of Jules' classmates are Brazil levels of horrifying and creepy. So you should totally watch it.
But the real thing I want to get at here is how deftly this movie creates a conversation about women in the workforce and how for some super messed up reason "beauty" and age and race are all mixed into the idea of what it means for a woman to be professional. It's a major point in The Beauty Myth and certainly bears remembering: women in the workforce are frequently judged just as much on our appearances as we are on our actual work histories. Seriously.
So with that in mind, this movie is an incisive examination of this trend. As women are more and more enabled to work outside the home, there is a greater and greater pushback against them, culminating in movements that force women to wear expensive and uncomfortable clothing, spend money on makeup and cosmetic surgery, and judge ourselves based on a "professional appearance" rather than a level of corporate competence. It's a pushback, and Advantageous does a great job at reminding us just how insidious these forces really are.
I mean, take Gwen. She's well-educated, very good at her job, and has performed for years at a high level with no problems. But she's for some reason still a contract worker whose contract can be voided out because she looks too old. Even though Gwen is the kind of professional woman whose work and career are on a level most of us can never aspire to reach, she's still subject to small and petty grievances that push her down.
And when she is unemployed, Gwen is told she's fighting against a job market that just plain doesn't want to hire women. She's middle aged, which means that she doesn't have "much productive time left", and she's not white, which somehow seems to mean that she's not "universal" enough for her job as a spokesperson. Gwen's story might take place in a futuristic dystopia of limited opportunity and fragile economy, but it's alarmingly similar to the world we live in now. Her world is emblematic of the fears a lot of feminists have, as expressed in a lot of feminist fiction like The Handmaid's Tale and Bitch Planet. That in pushing for a more equal world, women leave ourselves open to a push back that will shove us into a systematic oppression much greater than any we've faced before.
The story of Advantageous is frankly much more about mothers and daughters than it is about the workforce, more about the lengths we will go for the people we love and the incredible pressure that parents can put on themselves to make the world a better place for their children, but this sideline of the physical discrimination that women face in the workforce is an important underlying structure of the story. It is, sadly, taken as a given. We're not even told much to explain this discrimination, we're just supposed to accept it. And we do, because it's so similar to what we face in our world today.
Today Hollywood has decided that despite people of Asian descent being the largest "racial" subset on the planet and despite China being one of the biggest audiences for American media, it makes "more sense" to cast a white woman as the lead in Ghost in the Shell than an Asian woman. Why? Because "Asian is not universal" we're implicitly told, while white apparently is.
Gwen's difficulty finding work as a spokesperson doesn't strike us as strange at all because we almost expect it. She's an Asian-American woman - we almost assume that these are the difficulties she must face because these are the difficulties that Asian-American women face in the workplace today.
It's tragic when we feel Gwen cave and allow them to change her. It hurts to see her transform into Gwen 2.0, the younger and whiter version. It hurts because we're watching Gwen very literally give up the thing that makes her who she is, her person, in order to conform to an ideal of beauty that isn't just damaging, it's deadly.
It's important to talk about this issue all of the time, but it's especially important to shine a light on it now, in Asian-American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month, and also when issues of whitewashing are finally coming out in the media. Yes, white women suffer from ageism and sexist "looks" discrimination too, but to a far lesser extent than women of color. And Asian-American women in particular are often silenced in a very noticeable way, whether it's by erasing them from the narrative or by pushing them out once they reach a certain age and level of fame. For every Lucy Liu out there, there are a hundred women just as talented who were never able to break through.
If I'm going to link Advantageous to any one real world situation, though, I'd actually link it to the news story from a few years ago about Lindsay Price, an Asian-American actress, getting cosmetic surgery to change the shape of her eyes. Now, I don't know Price and I certainly don't have a direct feed into her thoughts and feelings on the matter, but it seems relevant, doesn't it? This talented woman who saw that the only way for her to succeed in her chosen profession was to change her physical appearance, to alter her body.
Advantageous is about mothers and daughters, but it's also in no small part about how the way we as women live impacts our daughters. In one heartbreaking scene, Gwen asks Jules if she thinks she's pretty. Jules replies, "Sometimes." Gwen's face falls, aware that this is only going to get harder for her daughter from here on out. It will only become more difficult as time goes on to look in a mirror and like herself, especially once she goes out into a world where her viability as an employee is based in no small part on her physical appearance.
And Gwen has to face the fact that the choices she makes, though made in large part to help her daughter succeed, have also sent a very dangerous message: that being who you are isn't enough and changing yourself is sometimes the best path. It's the kind of message that no one wants to tell young girls but we know they'll find out anyway.
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6 Open Source Software Projects of (Musical) Notation As it's been pointed out before, there seems to be a sizable overlap between open source hardware and software enthusiasts and amateur musicians. And while some of you are making music through the tried-and-true "let's see what that button does" method, there are a few of you who might be interested in composing music the old-fashioned way -- digitally producing paper-based music sheets. Whether you're writing music for the guitar, learning how to improvise jazz solos, or writing entire music scores, chances are that one of the pieces of open source software listed below can make the process a little easier. Generalized Music Notation Software
Canorus [It] Canorus è un software di notazione musicale. Supporta un numero illimitato di pentagrammi, la polifonia, la riproduzione MIDI degli spartiti, segni di accordi, testi, import/export in vari formati come MIDI, MusicXML, ABC Music, MusiXTeX e LilyPond. Per l'esportazione in formato PDF, inserire la cartella "LilyPond" all'interno della cartella "Lib" di X-Canorus. [En] Canorus is a free cross-platform music score editor. It supports an unlimited number and length of staffs, polyphony, a MIDI playback of notes, chord markings, lyrics, import/export filters to formats like MIDI, MusicXML, ABC Music, MusiXTeX and LilyPond. To export to PDF format, insert the "LilyPond" folder into the "X-Canorus/Lib" folder.
Free Music Writing, Music Notation Software - Finale Notepad Etude in Eb minor, Frédéric Chopin Dubussy excerpt - With Human Playback Dubussy excerpt - No Human Playback 210 Awesome Open Guitar Chords and How to Use Them - A Kings Mercury Are you bored of the sound of standard chords? Then, using open guitar chords is a way to pimp up your playing and boring chord progressions. There are thousands of open guitar chords and millions of ways to use them creatively. In this post I introduce you to the world of open chords with a brief introduction, a library of 210 open guitar chords and some ideas on how to use them properly. Open chords are chords that have at least one open string like this shape of E-minor x7x087. Within this definition standard chords like C-major x32010 are also open chords because of their open strings.
Sight-reading Caravaggio's Rest on the Flight into Egypt (1594–96) Terminology[edit] Sight-reading[edit] Authors in music literature commonly use the term "sight-reading" generically for "the ability to read and produce both instrumental and vocal music at first sight ... the conversion of musical information from sight to sound" (Udtaisuk 2005). Udtaisuk and some other authors prefer the use of the more specific terms "sight-playing" and "sight-singing" where applicable. This differentiation leaves a third more restricted use of the term "sight-reading" for the silent reading of music without creating sound by instrument or voice. Aria Maestosa Aria Maestosa is an open-source (GPL) midi sequencer/editor. It lets you compose, edit and play midi files with a few clicks in a user-friendly interface offering score, keyboard, guitar, drum and controller views. Aria Maestosa runs on Mac OS X, Windows and Linux/Unix. It is translated in many languages including French, Chinese, Japanese, Spanish and Russian. Screenshots Download the latest version (Changelog) If would like to help translate Aria, your help would be appreciated!
Music Theory for Musicians and Normal People by Toby W. Rush This page includes links to each of the individual Music Theory pages I've created in PDF form. This is a work in progress; I am writing new ones regularly and fixing errors and omissions on existing ones as I find them. If you find them useful for your theory studies, you are welcome to use them, and if you find errors or have suggestions, I invite you to contact me. Enjoy! Electronic Piano Electronic Piano 2.6 - FREEWARE - Electronic Piano 2.6 is a Freeware program that allows the user to play Musical Notes, Chords and Drums using the computer keyboard. Main features : 128 Musical Instruments (General MIDI Standard)
Chord (music) Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition "Promenade", is a piece showing an explicit chord progression.(Nattiez 1990, p. 218) Play In the medieval era, early Christian hymns featured organum (which used the simultaneous perfect intervals of a fourth, a fifth, and an octave[13]), with chord progressions and harmony an incidental result of the emphasis on melodic lines during the medieval and then Renaissance (15-17th centuries).[7][14] The Romantic period, the 19th century, featured increased chromaticism.[7] Composers began to use secondary dominants in the Baroque, and they became common in the Romantic period.[19] Many contemporary popular Western genres continue to rely on simple diatonic harmony, though far from universally:[20] notable exceptions include the music of film scores, which often use chromatic, atonal or post-tonal harmony, and modern jazz (especially circa 1960), in which chords may include up to seven notes (and occasionally more).[21] Macro analysis for triads on C.
Polychord Bitonal polychord: F major on top of C major.[1] Play The use of polychords may suggest bitonality or polytonality. Music Keyboard Some ex-commodorista64 around? Understood by chance on a blog (warioweb) This article shows that on a musical keyboard playable online…: If you do not have at home a keyboard or piano, but I'd like to play them the same, andate su / mazzuma and give vent to your imagination; on this site you can play a keyboard online high quality and compose their own melodies in easy and fun way! We can freely play the notes with either the mouse or the keyboard, or compose music playing the keyboard chords and notes, choosing the duration, breaks online and save our compositions in the database. I find this tool really well done. Let me know with a comment your opinion!
Quartal and quintal harmony Four note quartal chord Play . Analysis[edit] Definition[edit] Analytical difficulties[edit] |
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/11295 | What is Starting Point?
Starting Point is conversational environment where people can explore faith and experience community. Whether you are new to the Christian faith, simply curious about it, or reexamining it after time away from church, this 4 week online small group environment will help you explore who God is, what Christianity is all about, and how to begin growing as a follower of Jesus. Come as you are, be who you are, and we will discuss the issues of life, faith, and God.
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/11319 | Fatty Acid Synthase
Background With the increase of chimeric antigen receptor-modified T (CAR-T) cell therapy, serious complications initiated by CAR-T cells have garnered wide attention
Background With the increase of chimeric antigen receptor-modified T (CAR-T) cell therapy, serious complications initiated by CAR-T cells have garnered wide attention. the others had been assigned towards the Untreated group. Optical strength of Raji-Luc in mice, scientific symptoms, body mass, hematological evaluation, humanized cytokine, lymphocyte subset keeping track of, necropsy and histopathological examinations had been performed. Furthermore, a single dosage of 0.6107 CART19 was administered to 48 NSG mice intravenously, as well as the distribution of CART19 in various tissue was analyzed using quantitative PCR. Outcomes CART19 is normally broadly distributed in organs well-perfused with bloodstream, including the lungs, blood, bone marrow, liver and spleen. Significant proliferation of CART19 was also found in the blood by through acknowledgement using humanized CD3+ for T lymphocytes. The survival rate and leukemia related medical symptoms in mice given CART19 were markedly ameliorated, and the proliferation of Raji cells in mice was efficiently inhibited. However, CART19 experienced no obvious effects on either the mean body mass or the blood cell counts, and no cytokine launch syndrome and graft versus sponsor disease NTN1 were observed. Conclusions NSG mice given CART19 treatment shown a longer survival period without significant immunotoxicity, suggesting encouraging clinical potential customers for CART19 in individuals with R/R ALL. Our study shed light on evaluation and supervision strategies for CAR-T products for the treatment of hematological diseases or leukemia. access to certified rodent diet, and sterilized municipal tap water was given via water bottles. Before the study was carried out, mice were quarantined for 5 days. Cells CART19 was constructed as previously explained (15). Both CART19 and freezing buffer comprising electrolytes, human being serum albumin, glucoside 40 and dimethyl sulfoxide were provided by Innovative Cellular Therapeutics Co., Ltd., Shanghai, China. CART19 cells were maintained at ?120 C, while the freezing buffer was stored at 2C8 C before use. The Raji-Luc cell collection for tumor xenografting was provided by Professor Weijin Huang in the National Institutes for Food and Drug Control. It was generated by stably infusing human being Burkitts lymphoma cell collection Raji cells with firefly luciferase like a reporter (17). Raji-Luc cells were recovered and cultured using RPMI tradition medium with 10% fetal bovine serum (FBS) and 1% penicillin-streptomycin answer in an incubator (37 C, 5% CO2) and cells were modified to 2.5106 cells/mL using 0.9% NaCl before use. Pharmacodynamics and toxicity study A total of 120 mice were utilized for a combined pharmacodynamics and toxicity study (imagingOnce per weekCHematologyLeukocyte, lymphocyte, erythrocyte and platelet; d14, d28 and d56CCytokine profileHumanized IL-2, IL-4, IL-6, IL-10, IFN- and TNF; once per weekChCD3+/hCD4+, hCD3+/hCD8+ analysisd14, d28 and d56ChCD45+/hCD3+, hCD45+/hCD19+ analysisCOnce TC-E 5003 per weekQuantitative analysis of CART19 in different tissuesCOnce per weekPathological examinationd14, d28 and d56C Open in a separate window The medical dose of CD19-positive CART cells is definitely 107/kg, which is definitely estimated as 1108/kg for mouse, which is equivalent to 0.2107 per animal (the body mass of a mouse is considered to be 0.02 kg, and the body surface area is considered to be 10 folds that of a human being). Considering that the CD19-positive CAR-T cell rate is estimated as 21.8%, 0.83108 total cells per animal were given towards the animals when 1.8107 Compact disc19-positive CART cell per animal were dosed, which is merely less than the utmost variety of cells a mouse can tolerate (1108 per animal). Hence, 0.2107, 0.6107 and TC-E 5003 1.8107 CART19 cells per animal were single-dosed towards the mice via intravenous injection on d1 (96 h after animals were implemented Raji-Luc cells). The mice in the Buffer group had been implemented an equal level of freezing buffer, as well as the Neglected group without tumor xenografting was implemented freezing buffer in parallel. For pharmacodynamics and toxicity assessments, scientific symptoms had been noticed every complete time, as the animals body weights as well as the fluorescence intensities triggered by Raji-Luc cells were measured every full week. Bloodstream (0.2 mL) was taken weekly for detecting the humanized cytokine profiles (IL-2, IL-4, IL-6, TC-E 5003 IL-10, IFN- and TNF) in mice. Pets had been anesthetized on d14, d28 and d56 with sodium pentobarbital for hematological evaluation (variables included, leukocyte, lymphocyte, erythrocyte and platelet matters) aswell as hCD4+ and hCD8+ cell keeping track of. In addition, complete necropsies had been performed, as well as the center, lungs, liver organ, spleen, kidneys, human brain, testis, epididymis, ovaries, uterus, tummy skin, shot site (tail), duodenum, jejunum, ileum, and bone tissue marrow had been set in 10% formalin and underwent histopathological evaluation. Biodistribution research CART19 cells (0.6107 cells) were intravenously one dosed to 48 NSG mice (24 males, 24 females) followed by the administration of Raji-Luc cells (5105 per animal) 96 h later (fluorescence intensity of animals xenografted with Raji-Luc were visualized and the mean fluorescence intensities in animals administrated with CART19 were markedly lower than Buffer group since 7 days after administration. Table 3 Optical intensity of Raji-Luc in mice fluorescence intensity level of Raji-Luc cell displays the proliferation and distribution of tumor cells. |
global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/11338 | How to solve HP OfficeJet 7612 Network failed issue?
When you try to install HP OfficeJet 7612 printer driver and software, you can face HP OfficeJet 7612 Network failed and unable to find printer in the network error.At that time you can simply follow the below instructions to solve your printer network related issues.
Troubleshoot Officejet 7612 installation failed issue
1. Initially make sure your wireless light is blinking.
2. Then restart wireless network components.
3. Now run the Wireless Network Test.
5. And check HP OfficeJet 7612 printer connected to the network. (If you are using Ethernet setting make sure the Ethernet cables are connected firmly).
6. Keep your printer ready and must in online.
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• Choose Manual IP and click Suggest a manual IP address. Then click apply. Finally restart your printer and see if HP Officejet 7612 printer won’t connect to wifi issue has solved or not.
HP Officejet 7612 Unsuccessful Network Installation error
Now try to uninstall and reinstall the Driver software of HP OfficeJet 7612 printer to solve HP OfficeJet 7612 Network failed issue.Remove the USB cable from your printer. Next search for “programs” in window of your computer. Then click Programs and results from the result list.
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/11339 | An Update on the Gold Sally Awards
Hi everyone!
Due to some technical difficulties, I wasn’t able to make the polls for the Best Movie from Hallmark Channel and Best Movie from Hallmark Movies & Mysteries work as well as I had hoped. If you want to participate in the Gold Sally Awards, put your votes in the comment section of the post with the original polls, titled “The First Annual Gold Sally Awards have finally arrived!”. Also, because of the technical difficulties, I have extended the voting period until February 22nd. Thank you for your understanding and patience.
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/11342 | 1. Zachy
What game(s) are you looking forward to most for the Nintendo NX?
Is there a game that you're really looking forward to see for the Nintendo NX? Whatever it may be? Personally, since I've always been a Mario Kart person, I'm excited for Mario Kart 9. I don't really have anything else in mind. What about you guys? |
global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/11368 | When it comes to great content, the “how” is just as important as the “what.” Picking the right tool for the job will make your ideas clearer, more powerful and effective.
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The test suite was originally written by Steve McGee and Chris Arthur.
It is covered by the GNU General Public License (Version 2), described
in the file COPYING. It has been maintained as part of GNU make proper
since GNU make 3.78.
This entire test suite, including all test files, are copyright and
distributed under the following terms:
Copyright (C) 1992-2020 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This file is part of GNU Make.
WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR
this program. If not, see <>.
The test suite requires Perl. These days, you should have at least Perl
5.004 (available from, and portable to many machines). It
used to work with Perl 4.036 but official support for Perl 4.x was
abandoned a long time ago, due to lack of testbeds, as well as interest.
The test suite assumes that the first "diff" it finds on your PATH is
GNU diff, but that only matters if a test fails.
To run the test suite on a UNIX system, use "perl ./run_make_tests"
(or just "./run_make_tests" if you have a perl on your PATH).
To run the test suite on Windows NT or DOS systems, use
"perl.exe ./".
By default, the test engine picks up the first executable called "make"
that it finds in your path. You may use the -make_path option (i.e.,
"perl run_make_tests -make_path /usr/local/src/make-3.78/make") if
you want to run a particular copy. This now works correctly with
relative paths and when make is called something other than "make" (like
Tests cannot end with a "~" character, as the test suite will ignore any
that do (I was tired of having it run my Emacs backup files as tests :))
Also, sometimes the tests may behave strangely on networked
filesystems. You can use mkshadow to create a copy of the test suite in
/tmp or similar, and try again. If the error disappears, it's an issue
with your network or file server, not GNU make (I believe). This
shouldn't happen very often anymore: I've done a lot of work on the
tests to reduce the impacts of this situation.
The options/dash-l test will not really test anything if the copy of
make you are using can't obtain the system load. Some systems require
make to be setgid sys or kmem for this; if you don't want to install
make just to test it, make it setgid to kmem or whatever group /dev/kmem
is (i.e., "chgrp kmem make;chmod g+s make" as root). In any case, the
options/dash-l test should no longer *fail* because make can't read
A directory named "work" will be created when the tests are run which
will contain any makefiles and "diff" files of tests that fail so that
you may look at them afterward to see the output of make and the
expected result.
There is a -help option which will give you more information about the
other possible options for the test suite.
Open Issues
The test suite has a number of problems which should be addressed. One
VERY serious one is that there is no real documentation. You just have
to see the existing tests. Use the newer tests: many of the tests
haven't been updated to use the latest/greatest test methods. See the
ChangeLog in the tests directory for pointers.
The second serious problem is that it's not parallelizable: it scribbles
all over its installation directory and so can only test one make at a
time. The third serious problem is that it's not relocatable: the only
way it works when you build out of the source tree is to create
symlinks, which doesn't work on every system and is bogus to boot. The
fourth serious problem is that it doesn't create its own sandbox when
running tests, so that if a test forgets to clean up after itself that
can impact future tests.
Any complaints/suggestions/bugs/etc. for the test suite itself (as
opposed to problems in make that the suite finds) should be handled the
same way as normal GNU make bugs/problems (see the README for GNU make).
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/11394 | Camden, NJ asked in DUI / DWI for New Jersey
Q: I was drinking at a friend's party and was too drunk to drive home so I got into my car (parked outside his house) and
fell asleep. A cop later tapped on my windshield, probably smelled alcohol on my breath, and arrested me for DUI. I wasn't driving though. Can they do this?
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Leon Matchin
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A: You have a defense but it's difficult and depends on many other factors such as weather, time, engine on and hot etc... Even if not driving they can prove intent to operate based on the facts but generally this is a good defense so you should definitely hire an attorney in this field who knows what they're doing to defend you in this case.
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/11395 | Questions & Answers
Feature Request: EarMix 16M mute state always visible on red LED
+4 votes
asked Jan 11, 2019 in StudioLive Series Feature Requests by ajlevake (720 points)
Please provide an alternate use for the channel-specific red LED that normally indicates signal clip -- solid red could also mean the channel is muted. Many times users struggle with finding the source of a missing channel (unintentional muting) or identifying a channel that shouldn't be in the mix (unintentional unmuting). Persistent display of the mute status for each channel would help users diagnose and identify the offending channel at a glace, rather than having to cycle through each channel individually.
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answered May 23, 2019 by AlexTinsley (907,060 points)
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Thank you for the feature request.
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I concur. I've experienced numerous musicians at our church "not hearing" certain things because of this. Similar request for solo function, too, please. |
global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/11408 | HP Forums
Full Version: Problem: 2nd 32k of CY suddenly missing
Yesterday I wanted to load some code into my CY's internal rambox and realized that the 2nd set of pages seems not to work. Oh Schreck o Graus!!!
Basically, it seems that the command PG<> does not switch the pages and I always see the same set. Cat 2 shows Rambox 64a both times. I also copied a 4k rom into the F page and it shows up even when I do a PG<>. Also, after a PG<> the calc does not respond for a little while before being back on-line.
Has anyone ever seen such a behavior? Any ideas on how to fix this or could it be a hardware failure (which is hard for me to imagine given that it is treated very well and rests most of time, with the regular battery check-up and usage).
Thanks so much for your kind help!
Hi Peter,
the RAMBox OS of the 2nd bank got erased somehow, not more, not less.
Usually happens if the backup battery is near to flat while changing main batteries.
Another cause could be some ML routine gone wild, while the WP switch was in the wrong position...
Apart from that, it's relatively unlikely (but not impossible) that there's a loose contact on the W&W pcb.
The software related matters can be fixed and reloaded with my INIT module for the CY within a few seconds;-)
Well, this is what I first thought as well, and given that there is some good and detailed info here on the forum and I have all the necessary ingredients (HP-IL card, various MCODE moduls, etc) I thought it would be rectifyable and a fnu adventure.
But the behavior of that CY is a bit more intricate...
Here are the steps that I took and the result. If anyone can make heads or tails of this, I will be all ear!
1. The start-configuration is a working configuration, with WWOS a in page 8 and all pages visible and usable. This is the first 32k (Block a)
2. I then put a Clonix with the ML rom mapped to Page F in
3. Via HP-IL/Emu41 I copied a WWOSa into page 9
4. Then I did a PG01 which activated pages 9,11,13,15 from the second 32k (Block b)
5. Via HP-IL/EMU41 I copied a WWOSb into page 9
6. Now I put in a Games module in Port one to mask page 8
7. I confirmed that PG01 has the WWOSb in page 9 and PG10 has the WWOSa in page 9
8. I now replaced the Clonix with a Zenrom so that I have a Rameditor available.
9. I then copied a 4k module (XIO) into all pages in both configurations. At that point, we had OSa in page 9 for Block a and OSb in page 9 for Block b, XIO in page 10,11,12,13,14 (presumambly for both blocks but, as we shall see shortly, not so much) and the Zenrom on page 15
10. I now did a PG01 to have 10/12/14 from Block a and 9/11/13 from Block b
11. using MCED from the Zenrom, I now changed the word xFFB/xFFC in all pages, namely 10,11,12,13,14 and confirmed that the changes actually took place
12. now I did a PG10. My expectation was that I will have OSa in page 9 and XIO in all other pages, but unaltered at xFFB/xFFC
13. well, not so much. As it turns out, this assumption is correct for 11 & 13, but not for 10,12,14!!!
14. so it would appear that the odd pages are switchable (9/11/13) but there is only one set of even pages visible (10/12/14)
This is truly odd, as I can not imagine any HW defect that would cause this.
The one thing that gives me hope is the odd behavior whenever I do a PG10 (or the second PG<>) - the calc goes into a strange mode and is recovered after a short while or a Enter/On. This seems like some odd code in the polling area of one of the pages.
I read all the threads that can be found here and they show quite a few tips and tricks on how to successfully recover the OS for the CY. If the OS on one Block were gone, I believe that the above sequence should have restored full access to all pages with the possible exception of page 8 in Block b (as that was always masked). And with the right OS in page 9, and page 8 masked, the Block b should be quite happy and appear and respond normally to PG<> and PG10.
So I can't make sense of this odd behavior. Any thoughts?
it's not too easy to make a clean reset/install of both RAMBox banks, if one of the OSes is gone.
This is why I made my INIT module, the only reliable way to restore the W&W RAMBox OS to both banks;-)
Before making the INIT module, I also spent many hours trying to get the beast going.
However there was one point where I decided to solve this problem once for all times: CY INIT Module:-)
Edited: 6 June 2008, 11:48 p.m.
so how do you explain the observed behavior? It is not consistent with the OS missing from one page (see the thread with Werner, you, Mike and Meindert from a few years ago and how it was solved:
How do you explain the observed behavior?
Hi Peter,
the 'hide the other ports and copy the OS, then try to switch' method only works if you're lucky, ut it's not reliable.
It's the usual hen-egg problem: You want to switch to a page,
which in return has to respond in an appriorate way.
The observed behaviour of your CY only means OS-b is missing,
and maybe there are some garbled pages somewhere, nothing else.
hmm, unusualy mysterious and non-remedial tone. I thought business ads have a separate section here :-))
Anyone else hears my plea to make heads of this?
I guess I'd better crawl back in my n00b cave...
thanks to a) Raymond's friendly 'heckling', b) a humid heatwave making all of us run for ac shelter inside and c) the tremendous amount of info here my trusty CY is fine again.
I can now understand why RDT said he wanted to solve this 'once and for all'... But long distances and lack of iq and knowledge make this a solution that is only open to select few and most certainly not me:-)
Yet luck, stuborness - sorry, I meant persistence, and many hours can sometimes help. As we say at home - even the blind hen finds a grain once in a while...
Anyway, this happy 'hen' willl now have a celebratory beer! Thanks again raymond, (and werner for his great recovery posts, mike for his great insight into the code differences of the os and jf-g on his crisp and clean article on bankswitching of the cy) would be fun to have you here to share the beer! |
global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/11409 | Graffiti CMS Extension for DotNetKicks
Date Published: 18 September 2008
Graffiti CMS Extension for DotNetKicks
I’ve been manually adding DotNetKicks icons to my posts recently to try and generate more buzz for them, but that gets old quickly, so about an hour ago I decided to figure out how to make this automatic. My current blog engine is Graffiti, which I really like, and after doing some searching for a pre-existing solution, I pinged ScottW on IM about the problem and he set me down the right path within seconds.
The Problem
DotNetKicks will display a dynamic image with a count of how many “kicks” a particular post has had. It looks something like this:
kick it on
The HTML for this icon is very simple, and the only dynamic part of it is the URL of the post, which must be fully qualified and URL encoded. The end result HTML needed is something like this
Using the Graffiti control panel, you can customize views for different areas of your blog very easily. Go to the Presentation tab from the main Control Panel screen, then Themes, and then Personalize. From there you can select a view to edit and start editing. In my case, I’m editing post.view, which looks something like this (click to enlarge):
Notice that you can mouse over the items at the top of the edit screen, to see what properties they have. The obvious one I needed was $post.Url. What I really needed, though, was something like $post.UrlEncodedFullUrl, because $post.Url uses a non-encoded, relative path (e.g. /blog/post-name/). Further, the current version of Graffiti doesn’t expose the necessary pieces of System.Web to UrlEncode something, so I had to extend it myself.
Extending Graffiti
With a bit of help from ScottW, I wrote a Graffiti Extensions library to accomplish my task. It turns out that extending Graffiti is every bit as easy as I’d heard, so I was able to write my extension, deploy it, test it out, and get it 100% working in less time than it’s taken to write this blog post.
The short version of the story goes like this:
• Create a class library that reference Graffiti.Core
• Create a class and add the [Chalk(“SteveSmith”)] attribute to it
• Create a method Encode that takes and returns a string
• Compile it and drop it into the /bin of your blog site
• Edit a view and you can now use $SteveSmith.Encode($post.Url)
The slightly longer version:
using System.Web;
using Graffiti.Core;
namespace SteveSmith.GraffitiExtensions
public class Extension
public static string UrlEncode(string url)
return HttpUtility.UrlEncode(url);
public static HttpContext Context
return HttpContext.Current;
public static string FullUrl(string postUrl)
return "http://" +
Context.Request.Url.Host +
VirtualPathUtility.Combine("/", postUrl);
using System;
using Graffiti.Core;
namespace SteveSmith.GraffitiExtensions{
public class Promote
public string DotNetKicks(string postUrl)
string encodedUrl =
string dnkFormatString =
"<a href="{0}"><img src="{0}" border="0" alt="kick it on" /></a>";
return String.Format(dnkFormatString, encodedUrl);
After compiling and deploying the code, I now have full access to HttpContext so I won’t run into this problem in the future. I also have a simple shortcut for creating DotNetKicks image chiclets, and I can add additional such things to my Promote class as needed for Digg,, etc. Creating such an image now requires the following code in my post.view:
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/11426 | Chemical Reactions CLE - Year 10
Chemical Reactions CLE - Year 10
Publication Date: August, 2016
Type of Resource: Practical activity/investigation
In this investigation, four different types of chemical reactions are performed one at a time. Students then test their understanding by performing six further reactions and for each one: predict the products, identify the type of reaction and write balanced word and symbol equations.
This CLE represents an extension to what is required at Year 10 in Chemical sciences. The Australian Curriculum does not require students to write formula or write and balance symbol equations.
Learning intentions
Students will be able to:
• observe and understand different types of chemical reactions
• identify the reactants in a chemical reaction and relate them to the reaction type
• predict the products for a given chemical reaction type
• write word and balanced symbol equations for reactions
• construct conclusions based on evidence.
Additional Information
The Connected Learning Experience Resource
Year 10 Achievement Standard
Relevant prior curriculum knowledge
Science / Year 9 / Science understanding / Chemical sciences
Content description
Chemical reactions involve rearranging atoms to form new substances; during a chemical reaction mass is not created or destroyed (ACSSU178)
Australian Curriculum:
• Year 10 > Science Inquiry Skills > Communicating > Communicate scientific ideas and information for a particular purpose,... > ACSIS208
• Year 10 > Science Inquiry Skills > Processing and analysing data and information > Use knowledge of scientific concepts to draw conclusions that are consistent... > ACSIS204
• Year 10 > Science Understanding > Chemical Sciences > Different types of chemical reactions are used to produce a range of products... > ACSSU187 |
global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/11433 | As I think back to times that warm my heart, I can’t help but remember the old cast iron stove that was the centerpiece of my grandparent’s kitchen. That huge conservator of heat kept the house warm – listened to conversations from a family of ten for years – watched as tears fell for those who died well before their time. It was the site for drying wet mittens – holding heavy irons used to touch up the collar on a shirt – held loaves of rising bread before they were placed in the oven – was the meeting place for dogs, cats and even some unwelcomed critters.
We often wonder what they would say if walls could talk, but I imagine that old iron beast would have plenty to share – stories of joy and delight, the birth of another child, the death of a family member, the jokes, the arguments, the tall hunting tales and so on. This inanimate object reminded me of a silent giant who was collecting a lifetime of stories, but had no way of telling them. That being the case and me being the story teller in my family, I wrote this poem to celebrate its existence.
Originally published on 11/24/16
The old iron fortress stood ready and tall within the empty room.
Wood stacked at one side – boots and mittens there dried,
But no one would share in the warmth that it’s belly consumed.
The snow outside glistened, no footprints did lead to the door,
The smoke lifted high to the stars in the sky,
The only one home was an old, tired soul who lay curled up asleep on the floor.
He had worked all day long, chopping wood for the old iron beast.
So he took to the floor, like he had once before,
And fell fast asleep while waiting alone for a fabulous feast.
His dreams soon were shattered by voices that chattered outside,
He rose to his feet. At the door he did meet,
All the friends from his past who long since had gone on and died.
As each person walked by, they could hear the man cry and in a soft murmur he said, You once were my friends but where’ve you been all my life, My children have died and for them I’ve cried, yesterday I lost my wife, Within just an instant he knew God had called him to his eternal rest,
This new life that it gave him, would no more enslave him,
The warmth of his Savior was beyond so much more than the very best of the best.
1. What a blessing for the morning. Thank you, Kathy.
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2. Loved reading this. So beautifully sad in a way but full of hope at the same time.
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3. itwasjudith says:
I wonder who that old soul might be. Heart-touching words
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4. Gregory remembers his grandmother actually canning on a stove like that— they were a poor family living way out in the country— it was a hard like, but honest and full.
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/11435 | Flame Thrower, nex003
Availability: 1 in stock
Year released: 2016
Appears in set 70312-1, Lance's Mecha Horse; 70318-1, The Glob Lobber; 70327-1, The King's Mech
The Flame Thrower is a feared lava soldier. His inside is one big inferno of fire that he can shoot out at the enemy at any time. If you don’t like heat and flames, stay away. The only way to defeat this fiery fellow is to douse him in water and he will go back to the Book of Monsters to be ignited again.
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