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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/11482 | Yeah, it’s Tuesday…but here they are. GMan’s 7 Q’s
Friday, March 26, 2004
Friday 7.41
Here is this week’s questions.
1. When was the last time you said Thank You?
To the waitress at Pizza Hut when she brought some extra knapkins.
2. What is one CD you just got?
Adoration by Newsboys
3. Who was one superhero you looked up to as a young child?
Didn’t really look up to any superheros.
4. What was your last theological debate?
Didn’t really get into a debate (this time). But a friend and I did skirt the debate of homosexuality and the Christian life.
5. What is one children’s programming character you just detest?
6. Have you ever been fired? If yes, or no …any resources to help out?
7. What is one “cool” theme you have heard or used; and thought …that’s
good I need to use that idea in my ministry.
A webpage to post pictures from events, meetings, and the like.
A. Ever feel like Simon (Of American Idol) and just give someone a
friendly salute?
Not in a long while…still feel like it sometimes, but don’t do it.
B. How do you deal with conflict?
It really depends on what it is and who it is with. |
global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/11499 | Do Jellyfish Have Blood?
What Colour is jellyfish blood?
blood redThey are particularly beautiful jellyfish ranging in colour from blood red to vibrant orange or dark purple.
Their mane-like trail of tentacles earned them their name..
Can you kill a jellyfish?
Most aren’t lethal, but a few are: some species, including the box jellyfish (most commonly found in and near Australia), can deliver a sting strong enough to kill a human in just a few minutes. If you’re in an area where it is known that jellyfish like to hang out, skip the swim altogether.
Are jellyfish immortal?
Are jellyfish edible?
Some species of jellyfish are suitable for human consumption and are used as a source of food and as an ingredient in various dishes. Edible jellyfish is a seafood that is harvested and consumed in several East and Southeast Asian countries, and in some Asian countries it is considered to be a delicacy.
What attracts jellyfish?
Jellyfish go with the flow. They float with the current, which means that if the current comes to shore, jellyfish may come too. Stormy weather and strong winds can also bring jellyfish to shore, and they can end up on the beach.
Are jellyfish good for anything?
Yes, jellyfish are very important animals in the ocean. We should definitely respect and not harm them. They are food for a number of marine animals such as large fish and turtles. … They can also protect the small fish from being eaten by predators with their stinging cells.
How do jellyfish live without blood?
Are jellyfish alive?
Jellyfish live mainly in the ocean, but they aren’t actually fish — they’re plankton. These plants and animals either float in the water or possess such limited swimming powers that currents control their horizontal movements. Some plankton are microscopic, single-celled organisms, while others are several feet long.
What is the lifespan of a jellyfish?
Most jellyfish are short lived. Medusa or adult jellyfish typically live for a few months, depending on the species, although some species can live for 2-3 years in captivity. Polyps can live and reproduce asexually for several years, or even decades. One jellyfish species is almost immortal.
What is the oldest immortal jellyfish?
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Can a jellyfish live forever?
How do jellyfish die?
Among laboratory samples, all the adult Turritopsis observed regularly undergo this change. And not just once: they can do it over and over again. Thus, the only known way they can die is if they get consumed by another fish or if a disease strikes the jelly.
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Can Jellyfish feel pain?
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Can jellyfish sting when dead?
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/11511 | I can't seem to find the answer to this question anywhere. Also, to preempt a couple possible answers:
I have read about the current record. However, I want to know if this is the highest level possible following the official rules. That is, the preceding level must be completed before beginning the next highest level.
I'm sure there is a mathematical method to solve this but my brain isn't working sufficiently right now to figure it out.
Also, I saw an answer posted somewhere of 54. Though it is possible to stack all 54 blocks atop one another individually, this would violate the rules of the game.
51 levels. Achieving this requires 97 moves.
Let's start with a fresh tower, and let's try to minimize the number of blocks in the top levels. The rest of the tower will consist of one-block levels.
I shall denote the state by the number of blocks on the top level, followed by the number of blocks on the next level down, etc. So a fresh tower is 3,3,3,...
One can't remove a block from the uppermost complete level, so our attempt goes as follows:
1. 1,3,2,... ⇒ 6 in top 3.
2. 2,3,1,... ⇒ 6 in top 3.
3. 3,3,1,... ⇒ 7 in top 3.
And from there it loops.
Jenga has 54 blocks, so the tallest tower can have at most 51 level.
• 1,3,2,<48 levels with just 1> after 97 moves.
• 2,3,1,<48 levels with just 1> after 98 moves.
From the above, we can also determine that the tallest tower with a complete top level will have 50 levels. This takes 96 moves.
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Technically, you should also prove that achieving this limit is (in principle) possible without the tower ever falling over, i.e. that it's possible to do the moves in such an order that the center of mass of the N highest levels is always above the blocks on level N + 1 from the top. But I do think this is in fact possible, and it should even be possible to prove a stronger property, namely that, with reasonable play, the center of mass of the N highest levels (for all N ≥ 2) will always stay within half a block's width from the original central axis of the tower. – Ilmari Karonen Oct 30 at 16:05
• @Ilmari Karonen, I did consider mentioning "physics aside", but it seemed too obvious. If you start considering physics, the question really becomes "What's the highest tower that's been achieved", but that wasn't what was asked. – ikegami Oct 30 at 16:07
The key rule is that you can't remove a block from the uppermost complete level. We can prove (see below) that this means the top 3 levels will always have at least 6 blocks between them. Underneath that, the remaining blocks (up to 48 of them) could theoretically be just a single block per level, so this gives you an upper bound of 3 + 48 = 51 levels.
(I'm counting the uppermost row of blocks as a level even if it only ever contained one or two blocks; if you don't want to count the top level until it's complete then the answer is 50.)
First, we prove that the 2nd level is always a complete level of 3 blocks, by induction on the number of turns taken. At the beginning of the game (0 turns), it is true. Then after any turn on which it is true, there is one of two cases:
1. The top level is incomplete. In this case, the 2nd level can't be modified and the top level will remain the top, so it will still be true after one more turn.
2. The top level is complete. In this case, after one more turn that top level will become the (complete) 2nd level.
Now, we prove that the top 3 levels will always have at least 6 blocks. Assume towards contradiction that at some point there are fewer. Then since the 2nd level must have 3 by the lemma above, the 1st and 3rd level must each have only 1 block. But then that 3rd level with one block must, one turn earlier, have been an incomplete 2nd level, contradiction.
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• Can you please explain why the top 3 levels will always have at least 6 blocks between them? – Cohensius Oct 30 at 9:06
• "You can prove …". Your answer would be greatly improved if you proved it. – Ray Butterworth Oct 30 at 13:51
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Ok, proof added. – Benjamin Cosman Oct 30 at 15:32
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@Benjamin Cosman. You are mistaken. The top two layers are necessarily full before you can start a new one. so the only way to get fewer than a full layer is to remove from them. My proof shows the only way to do that, thus giving the lower bound on the number of blocks in the upper layers (6) and thus the upper bound on the number of levels in the tower (51). – ikegami Oct 30 at 16:05
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@Cohensius when the top level has 2 blocks on it, the one below it is the uppermost complete and can't be touched, top has 2, second 3, third at least 1 = 6. When you complete the new top it has 3, 2nd has 3 and 3rd has at least 1 = 7. top two now have 6 between them and if you then start to remove from what used to be the uppermost complete level, those go to become the new top level, making those three levels always 6 or more. – Andrew Nov 1 at 19:34
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CLX. And be it enacted, That the Returning Officer at each of the cer to keep Poll said elections at which a poll shall be called for, shall keep a poll book, Book, and in
in which he, or his sworn Poll Clerk shall enter in separate columns the what forin.
names of each of the persons proposed and seconded as candidates by any electors present at such election; and opposite to such columns, he shall write the names of the several electors offering to vote at such election, and in the respective columns in which are entered the name of the candidate voted for by each voter, he shall set the number one, and at the close of the poll such Returning Officer shall add up the num
ber of voters for each candidate set down in their respective columns, He shall declare and he shall declare which of the said candidates have the highest numthe Candidates
ber of votes, beginning with the one having the greatest number, and elected.
so on until the whole number of candidates to be elected at such election, having a greater number of votes in favor of each respectively than the
remaining candidates shall appear, and he shall publicly declare the And shall have a requisite number of candidates duly elected ; and if any two or more casting vote in candidates shall appear to have an equal number of votes, by reason of case of ties.
which equal number the election appears undecided, the Returning Officer, whether otherwise qualified or not, shall give a vote for one or
more of the candidates having equal numbers, so as to decide the elecProviso : he tion; Provided always, that no Returning Officer under this Act shall shall not other
vote at any election which it shall be his duty to hold, except in the case wise vote.
of such equality of votes as aforesaid. Returning Offi CLXI. And be it enacted, That after the close of any such election, cer to return Poll Book to Town the Returning Officer shall return the poll book to the Township, Village, Clerk, &c., after Town or City Clerk of the Township, Village, Town or City in which election.
the election has been holden, with an affidavit or affirmation thereto annexed, that such poll book contains a faithful and true statement of the poll, and with a certificate that certain persons, naming them, have
been duly elected. If the person
CLXII. And be it enacted, That in case any of the persons so declared elected refuses to to be elected, shall neglect or refuse to accept office, or to be sworn or take office, a
affirmed into office, within the time in which the oath or affirmation of Warrant shall issue for a new office is required to be taken as herein before provided, then the Head of election.
such Municipal Corporation for the preceding year shall forth with by Warrant under his hand and seal, directed to the Returning Officer, require him to hold a new election to supply the place of such person, which şuch Returning Officer shall accordingly do within at least eight days after the receipt of such Warrant, and the person who shall be elected upon such Warrant shall be entitled and bound to be sworn or affirmed as Councillor, in the place of the person refusing office, or
neglecting or refusing to be sworn or affirmed as aforesaid : Provided Proviso: the Corporation may im- always nevertheless, that the necessity for such second election shall not inediately pro- prevent or interfere with the immediate organization of the Municipal ceed to business.
58. Corporation for the year, or their proceeding to business as if such seat
were not vacant. Vacancies in . CLXIII. And be it enacted, That all vacancies which may occur in Municipal Cor any of such Municipal Corporations, by death or otherwise, shall be filled porations how to
to by an election to be held under a Warrant directed to the Returning
Officer under the hand and seal of the Head of such Municipal CorporProviso as to
ation: Provided always, that the person so appointed shall hold his seat terms of office in such Corporation by virtue of such appointment for the residue of the
term for which his immediate predecessor was elected, and no longer,
of ". CLXIV. And be it enacted, That all such Special Elections as are, As to notice of special elections. provided for by the two next preceding sections of this Act, shall be
be filled.
held upon at least four days' public notice to the Electors under the hand of the Returning Officer, and posted in at least four of the most public places in the Township, Village or Ward for which it is to be held. CLXV. And be it enacted, That if in any year there shall be no Provision in case
of no election election held in any Township, Village, Town or Ward, on the appointed being held on an day, or if a requisite number of candidates shall not have been elected, appointed day. or if there shall not be in the poll book the names of a sufficient number of candidates to supply any deficiency arising from refusal of office, or neglect or refusal to be sworn in, then, and in every such case, it shalí and may be lawful for the members of the Municipal Corporation in which such default of members shall occur, or if none be elected, then, for the members of such Municipal Corporation for the next preceding year, or the majority of them respectively, and they are bereby required Appointment of
Aldermen and to supply the deficiency by appointing the whole number of Aldermen Al
Councillors. and Councillors, when the whole number shall be deficient, from amongst the qualified freeholders and householders of the Township, Village, Town or City, or by appointing such a number of qualified freeholders and householders of such Township, Village, Town or City as will complete the full number of Aldermen and Councillors for the same, and the person so appointed, shall be bound to accept office, and to be sworn in, under the same penalty as if elected. CLXVI. And be it enacted, That if there shall be any vacancy or Vacancies in of
fices of Warden, vacancies in the offices of Warden, Mayor or Townreeve, by reason of Mayor ca. how the deh or removal of residence of any such officer, the respective to be filled up. Municipal Corporations in which such vacancy shall occur, shall and may respectively choose, from amongst their own number, a qualified person to be a Warden, Mayor, or Townreeve, as often as the case may occur. CLXVII. And be it enacted, That the Municipal Corporation in office Corporations in
in office to hold on the day of general annual municipal elections, including all Coun- until their succillors so appointed to make up deficiencies, shall hold office until their cessors are successors shall be elected or appointed and sworn into office, and the sworn in.' new Municipal Corporation shall be completed.
CLXVIII. And be it enacted, That at any session or meeting of any A majority of the Municipal Corporation under this Act, a majority of the whole number
members to form of those who shall by law form such Corporation, shall be a quorum a quorum. for the dispatch of business; and if the person who ought to preside at any such meeting shall be absent, it shall and may be lawful for those Temporary present to appoint from amongst themselves a Chairman to preside at Chairman in cer
tain cases. such meeting, and the Chairman so appointed shall have the same functions and authority in presiding at such meeting as the person who, Majority. if present, would preside at such meeting; and all votes, resolutions and proceedings of such meetings shall be carried by the majority of votes of the persons composing such meeting, other than the person presiding,
'B, Casting vote. who, in case of an equality of votes, shall have the casting vote. CLXIX. And he it enacted, That it shall be the duty of each of such County Clerks,
&c., to be Municipal Corporations to appoint a County, City, Town, Township or appointed, to be Village Clerk, as the respective cases may require, who shall hold office paid by salary
levied upon during their pleasure, and who shall be paid by such salary as they shall is
rateable property appoint, to be taxed and levied upon the whole rateable property in such County, City, Town, Township, or Village respectively, according to the assessment laws then in force in Upper Canada. · CLXX. And be it enacted, That it shall be the general duty of such Clerk to keep
records of prom Clerk to record in a book to be provided for that purpose, all the pro
ceedings of Core ceedings of the Municipal Corporation of which he shall be Clerk, and poration, &c. to make regular entries of all resolutions and decisions, and to record the vote of every person present entitled to vote on every question suh
mitted, if required by any member present, and to preserve and file all accounts acted upon by the body to which he is Clerk, and to keep the books, records and accounts of such body, which shall be open without fee or reward to the inspection of all persons, at all seasonable times
and hours. A Treasurer to be CLXXI. And be it enacted, That it shall be the duty of the Municiappointed for each County. &c, pal Corporations of the respective Counties, Towns, Townships and and a Chamber- Villages to appoint a Treasurer, and of the Municipal Corporations of lain for each City.
the respective Cities to appoint a Chamberlain of the same respectively,
who shall hold office during their pleasure, and shall be paid by such Their salary or per centage to be salary or per centage as they shall appoint, (to be raised and levied levied on ratea- rateably upon the whole rateable property of such County, City, Town, ble property.
Township or Village respectively, according to the assessment laws Security
then in force in Upper Canada,) and who shall give such security for the faithful performance of the duties of his office, and more especially for the due accounting for and paying over all moneys which shall come into his hands by virtue of his office, as the Municipal Corporation by
which he was appointed shall direct. Duties or Trea CLXXII. And be it enacted, That it shall be the duty of each of such surers and Cham. berlains.
Treasurers and Chamberlains to receive and safely keep all moneys belonging to the County, City, Town, Township or Village for which he shall be appointed, and to pay out the same to such persons and in such manner as he shall be directed to do by any lawful order of the Municipal Corporation thereof, or by any law in force or to be in force in Upper Canada, and strictly to conform to and obey any such law or any By-law lawfully made by any such Municipal Corporation, and faithfully to perform all such duties as may be assigned to him by any such law or
By-law. Clerks, &c., to CLXXIII. And be it enacted, That the Clerk, Treasurer and Chamhold Office 'until removed by Cor- berlain so to be appointed by any Municipal Corporation as aforesaid, poration. as well as all other officers to be appointed in like manner, and with
regard to whose period of service no other provision is made by this Act or in any other law or By-law, shall hold their offices until removed therefrom by the Municipal Corporation for the time being, not withstanding any change in the persons of whom such Municipal Corporation shall be composed, occasioned by any new election or appoint
ment. Books, &c., of CLXXIV. And be it enacted, That all the books of the present Dis. present District Treasurers to be trict Treasurers, and all books, papers, accounts or documents of what deemed chattels kind soever, which shall have been kept by or shall have come into the dittorgin online possession of any person or officer to be appointed or employed by any pal Corporations. Municipal Corporation, by virtue of his office or employment, shall be
deemed to be chattels belonging to such Municipal Corporation ; and all moneys or valuable securities which shall have been lawfully received
or taken into his possession by virtue of his office or employment, shall Punishment of be deemed to be moneys or valuable securities belonging to such MuniOfficers embezzle ing or refusing to cipal Corporation; and if any such officer or person shall at any time deliver the same, fraudulently embezzle any such chattel, money or valuable security, o the proper par
(and any refusal or failure to pay over or deliver up any such chattel, money or valuable security to such Municipal Corporation, or to any officer or person by them authorised to demand the same, shall be held to be a fraudulent embezzlement thereof,) he may be indicted and proceeded against, and being convicted thereof, shall be liable to be punished in the same manner as any servant who having fraudulently embezzled any chattel, money or valuable security received or taken into his possession, by virtue of his employment, for and in the name and on the account of his master, may be indicted, proceeded against and punished : Provided always, that nothing herein contained shall Proviso: other prevent, lessen or impeach any remedy which such Municipal Corpo- remedies not to
be lessened. ration, or any other party may have against such offender or his sureties, or against any other party whomsoever; but nevertheless, the conviction of any such offender shall not be received in evidence in any suit or action at law or in equity against him.
CLXXV. And be it enacted, That the Corporation created or to be Corporations created in and for any County or union of Counties, City, Town, Town- this Act to be
created under ship or Village, by this Act, or under any provision therein contained, substituted for shall be substituted for and shall be in the place and stead of the Corpo
theretofore existration theretofore existing in and for the same County or union of Coun- ing—and suits ties under the name of District, City, Town, Township, Village or place by commenced by
former Corporavirtue of any Act or law in force immediately before the commence- tions inay be ment of this Act, and so that any suit, action, prosecution or other act,
continued by the matter or thing, commenced or continued by such former Corporation, tions, and vice
9 new Corporaor to which it shall have been a party, shall not abate, but may be con- versa. tinued and completed by, with or against such new Corporation, in like manner and as validly to all intents and purposes as it might have been continued or completed by, with or against such former Corporation, and so that all estates and property, real or personal, and all debts and obligations of any kind, theretofore vested in or belonging to or due, or owing to or contracted in favour of such former Corporation, or the locality over which its jurisdiction shall extend, whether in the name of such Corporation or locality, or in that of some Officer thereof, and intended for the benefit of such Corporation or locality, shall thereafter be vested in and shall belong to and shall be due and owing to, and may be held, possessed and enjoyed, recovered and enforced by such new Corporation, and all debts, liabilities and obligations of such former Corporation, of what kind soever, or in what manner soever secured, shall become debts, liabilities and obligations of such new Corporation, secured and payable in like manner, and upon the same terms and conditions, and to be recovered and enforced if not paid or performed, in the same manner as they would have been recovered from or might have been enforced against such former Corporation or otherwise, as by this Act provided. CLXXVI. And be it enacted, That it shall be the duty of every such Corporations to
take charge of Municipal Corporation to take charge of any debt which may be due by
debts due by the locality over which it has jurisdiction, and to direct the levy by tax localities under upon the same, of such sum in each year as shall be necessary for the
their jurisdic.
tion, and provide payment of the interest thereon, and as shall be sufficient to pay off the for their payprincipal, according to the contracts and obligations which shall have ment. been entered into in that behalf: and where any sum of money in the pound is by any Act of the Parliament of Upper Canada, or of this Pro- What rates shall vince directed to be levied for the payment of any such debt or for any in such Denis
be levied for payother special purpose, it shall be the duty of such Municipal Corporation, in certain cases. until the debt shall be paid or the purpose fully served for which such Act was passed, or until the service contemplated by such Act shall be otherwise provided for, or the Act repealed, to cause to be levied in each year upon such locality, a sum at least equal to the highest sum which shall have been raised for the same purpose in any one year before the passing of this Act. CLXXVII. And be it enacted, That it shall be the duty of such A sufficient sum
to be levied by Municipal Corporations respectively, to cause to be assessed and levied ;
assessment for upon the whole rateable property in their Counties, Cities, Towns, payment of all Townships and Villages respectively, a sufficient sum of money in each such debts, and
interest. year, to pay all debts incurred or which shall be incurred, with the interest which shall fall due or become payable within the year; and,
By-laws creating no By-law hereafter to be passed for the creation of any such debt, or or authorizing
any debt not to be for the negociation of any loan, shall be valid or effectual, to bind any valid unless suf- such Municipal Corporation, unless a special rate per annum over and ficient provision be therein inade above, and in addition to all other rates whatsoever shall be settled in for levying.. such By-law, to be levied in each year for the payment of the debt to moneys for the payment of such be created by the loan to be negociated, nor unless such special rate debt, within shall be sufficient according to the amount of rateable property in such twenty years.
County, City, Town, Township, or Village, as the case may be, as shall appear by the then last assessment returns of such County, City, Town, Township or Village, to satisfy and discharge such debt, with the
interest thereof, within twenty years from the passing of such By-law, Such By-law not and it shall not be competent to any such Municipal Corporation, to repealable, &c.
repeal such By-law, or to discontinue such rate, until the debt so to be
incurred and the interest thereon shall be fully paid and discharged; nor Proviso : how to apply the proceeds thereof to any other purpose than the payment and any temporary
satisfaction of the same ; Provided always, nevertheless, that in the event surplus of such moneys inay be of there being any part of such special rate on hand, and which cannot invested.
be immediately applied towards the payment and satisfaction of such debt by reason of no part thereof being then payable, it shall be the duty of such Municipal Corporation, and they are hereby required to invest such money in the Government Securities of this Province, or in such other Securities as the Governor of this Province shall by 'order in Council direct or appoint, and to apply all interest or dividends to arise or be received upon the same to the like purpose, as the amount so levied by
such special rate, and no other. By-laws for rais- CLXXVIII. And be it enacted, That any By-law by which it shall be ing loans, &c., shall not be
attempted to repeal any such By-law for raising any such loan, or for replealed or the payment and satisfaction of the debt contracted for any such loan or altered until the
to alter any such last mentioned By-law so as to diminish the amount to loans and interest thereon are be levied for the payment and satisfaction of such loan or the interest fully paid. thereof, until such loan and interest shall be fully redeemed, paid and
satisfied, shall be and the same is hereby declared to be absolutely null Punishment of and void to all intents and purposes whatsoever, and if any of the Officers Officers refusing to execute such
of such Municipal Corporation shall, under pretence of such pretended By-law.
By-law, neglect or refuse to carry into effect and execution the said By-law for levying the necessary moneys to redeem, satisfy and discharge such loan and the interest thereof, every such Officer shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall be punished by fine or imprisonment, or both, at the discretion of the Court whose duty it shall
be to pass the sentence of the law upon such offender. Duty of Sheriffs CLXXIX. And be it enacted, That it shall be the duty of every with respect to Sheriff who shall receive a Writ of Execution against any Municipal Writs of Execution against Corporation created or to be created under the authority of this Act, if Municipal Cor. such Writ shall be endorsed with a direction to such Sheriff to levy the porations, if endorsed to be
amount thereof by rate, to deliver a copy of such Writ of Esecution and leyjed by rate, endorsement to the Chamberlain or Treasurer of such Municipal Corpo
ration, or to leave such copy at the office, place of business or dwelling house of such Chamberlain or Treasurer, with a statement in writing of his fees, and the whole amount for principal, interest and costs required to be paid to satisfy such execution, calculated to the day of the service of such copy as aforesaid, or some day as near as conveniently may be to the same, and in case such amount, with interest thereon from the day mentioned in such statement, shall not be paid to such Sheriff within one calendar month after such service, it shall be the duty of such Sheriff to examine the adjusted and settled assessment rolls of such Alunicipal Corporation, on file in the office of the Clerk of such Corporation, and to strike a rate upon the same in like manner as rates may be struck by such Municipal Corporation for the general Municipal purposes of such Corporation, which rate shall be of a sufficient amount in
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Awaken Warrior is a Ninjago Minifigure released in 2020.
The Awaken Warriors use all the same parts as Ninjago: Legacy Kruncha, but coloured in all black with green printing on the face of the skull part. A black version of the bone part previously used in Lord Garmadon's helmet is also included.
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The name of this minifigure is conjectural.
The Drummer is a minifigure from the 850486 Rock Band Minifigure Accessory Set. He is included with two brown drumsticks.
The Drummer has two brown drumsticks, and green hair in the same mould as the Punk Rocker. His shirt is the same printing as the Punk Rocker but instead of a red and green logo it is green and pink.
• He is an exact copy of the Punk Rocker, only in different colours. |
global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/11561 | Enthalpy of Vaporization | Approach of Vaporization
The enthalpy of vaporization refers to the quantity of power essential to transform a quantity of a liquid substance, or a strong, into a gas beneath constant stress.
The enthalpy of vaporization is a function of the stress at which the transformation requires location.
This method is characterized by the following notation: ∆Hvap.
The ∆Hvap numerical worth is expressed in Joule/mole and is equal to the enhanced internal power of the vapor phase compared with the liquid phase, plus the perform completed against the ambient stress.
In other words, the improve in the internal power can be viewed as the power essential to overcome the intermolecular interactions (forces of repulsion or attraction among atoms) in the liquid, or strong in the case of sublimation.
What Approach does ∆Hvap describe?
∆Hvap is the breakdown of intermolecular forces of a liquid, or strong, resulting in a adjust in the state of matter quickly to a gas (either evaporation or sublimation).
The breakdown of intermolecular forces of a liquid or strong is the outcome of a liquid or strong plus heat at a constant ambient stress.
The distinction in internal power among the vapor phase and the liquid or strong phase is expressed as a numerical worth (____J/mol) and is referred to as the enthalpy of vaporization (∆Hvap).
How Does ∆Hvap Pertain to Vaping?
The ∆Hvapworth pertains to vaping insofar as it completely describes the forces at perform when we are “vaping” and refers to the precise quantity of power (heat) essential to vaporize a liquid (e-liquid) or strong at a constant ambient stress.
This is critical simply because it speaks to a significant problem in the vaping business which is that there is no consensus on the optimal temperature to vaporize an e-liquid, cannabinoids, glycerin, propylene glycol, flavouring, or nicotine.
Generally, temperature ranges are provided by the purveyors of these goods, and the justifications for these recommended values are influenced by a quantity of things which includes, but not restricted to, the preferred size of vape clouds, the strength of a single dose or draw, the decarboxylation of cannabinoids, the yield from a single draw (nicotine or cannabis), the longevity of the e-liquid, or efficiency of the vape device.
Although these could be valid issues, they ought to not be the determinants for the excellent temperature to vape either nicotine or cannabis.
Specifically, when the enthalpy of vaporization of liquids is a settled science.
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/11618 | Power measurements for low power modes of PSoC 3/5 on CY8CKIT-001
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Question: I want to test the low power mode current consumption on PSoC3/5. How should I measure it on CY8CKIT-001?
To measure the actual current sonsumed by PSoC3/5 several adjustments need to be done as explained below.
1. Remove jumpers J2, J3, J4, J5, J6, J7, J8 to avoid currnet leakage.
2. A DC voltage supply should be provided to VDDA, VDDD and VIOs by connecting to the center pins of jumpers J6, J7, J2, J3, J4 and J5.
3. LCD power should be turned off by J12.
4. Connect an external 3.3V DC voltage source in series with ammeter to center pin of J7 and one of the GND test points on the kit as shown in the following diagram. This arrangement is made to avoid current drawn by the on board regulator.
Note: It is recommended to use CY8CKIT-030 for PSoC3 and CY8CKIT-050 for PSoC5 to test the power consumption as it is designed for best analog and low power performance. |
global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/11619 | 1 Reply Latest reply on Oct 29, 2019 9:54 PM by SampathS_11
Adapt the CE23727 example for PSOC4
is there an "easy" way the use the CE23727 example on a PSOC4? I’m having a very hard time trying to adapt it by rewriting a lot of functions and so on....
Best regards,
• 1. Re: Adapt the CE23727 example for PSOC4
Hello Mario,
CE23727 is a resource consuming application, and is not suited for adaptation on PSoC4. It will be extremely difficult, if not possible to adapt this PSoC6 Code Example on PSoC4. It will utilize PSoC4 resources to such an extent, that there may be no resources to accommodate user application.
Best regards,
Sampath Selvaraj |
global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/11632 | Amoral capitalism at work
When I first read this piece, I thought OMG, there are people operating in this process who have the power to destroy Copiosis before it starts. The system they've corrupted to fleece governments, communities, etc., seemed above the law. Ultra powerful. For a moment I was scared. But then I realized something. |
global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/11635 | Credit Risk Analysis Models
Tools used to determine the probability of default of a potential borrower
What are Credit Risk Analysis Models?
Financial institutions used credit risk analysis models to determine the probability of default of a potential borrower. The models provide information on the level of a borrower’s credit risk at any particular time. If the lender fails to detect the credit risk in advance, it exposes them to the risk of default and loss of funds. Lenders rely on the validation provided by credit risk analysis models to make key lending decisions on whether or not to extend credit to the borrower and the credit to be charged.
Credit Risk Analysis Models
With the continuous evolution of technology, banks are continually researching and developing effective ways of modeling credit risk. A growing number of financial institutions are investing in new technologies and human resources to make it possible to create credit risk models using machine learning languages, such as Python and other analytics-friendly languages. It ensures that the models created produce data that are both accurate and scientific.
Quick Summary
• High levels of credit risk can impact the lender negatively by increasing collection costs and disrupting the consistency of cash flows.
What is Credit Risk?
Credit risk arises when a corporate or individual borrower fails to meet their debt obligations. It is the probability that the lender will not receive the principal and interest payments of a debt required to service the debt extended to a borrower.
On the side of the lender, credit risk will disrupt its cash flows and also increase collection costs, since the lender may be forced to hire a debt collection agency to enforce the collection. The loss may be partial or complete, where the lender incurs a loss of part of the loan or the entire loan extended to the borrower.
The interest rate charged on a loan serves as the lender’s reward for accepting to bear credit risk. In an efficient market system, banks charge a high interest rate for high-risk loans as a way of compensating for the high risk of default. For example, a corporate borrower with a steady income and a good credit history can get credit at a lower interest rate than what high-risk borrowers would be charged.
Conversely, when transacting with a corporate borrower with a poor credit history, the lender can decide to charge a high interest rate for the loan or reject the loan application altogether. Lenders can use different methods to assess the level of credit risk of a potential borrower in order to mitigate losses and avoid delayed payments.
Types of Credit Risk
The following are the main types of credit risks:
1. Credit default risk
Credit default risk occurs when the borrower is unable to pay the loan obligation in full or when the borrower is already 90 days past the due date of the loan repayment. The credit default risk may affect all credit-sensitive financial transactions such as loans, bonds, securities, and derivatives.
The level of default risk can change due to a broader economic change. It can also be due because of a change in a borrower’s economic situation, such as increased competition or recession, which can affect the company’s ability to set aside principal and interest payments on the loan.
2. Concentration risk
Concentration risk is the level of risk that arises from exposure to a single counterparty or sector, and it offers the potential to produce large amounts of losses that may threaten the lender’s core operations. The risk results from the observation that more concentrated portfolios lack diversification, and therefore, the returns on the underlying assets are more correlated.
For example, a corporate borrower who relies on one major buyer for its main products has a high level of concentration risk and has the potential to incur a large amount of losses if the main buyer stops buying their products.
3. Country risk
Country risk is the risk that occurs when a country freezes foreign currency payments obligations, resulting in a default on its obligations. The risk is associated with the country’s political instability and macroeconomic performance, which may adversely affect the value of its assets or operating profits. The changes in the business environment will affect all companies operating within a particular country.
Factors Affecting Credit Risk Modeling
In order to minimize the level of credit risk, lenders should forecast credit risk with greater accuracy. Listed below are some of the factors that lenders should consider when assessing the level of credit risk:
1. Probability of Default (POD)
The probability of default, sometimes abbreviated as POD, is the likelihood that a borrower will default on their loan obligations. For individual borrowers, POD is based on a combination of two factors, i.e., credit score and debt-to-income ratio.
The POD for corporate borrowers is obtained from credit rating agencies. If the lender determines that a potential borrower demonstrates a lower probability of default, the loan will come with a low interest rate and low or no down payment on the loan. The risk is partly managed by pledging collateral against the loan.
2. Loss Given Default (LGD)
Loss given default (LGD) refers to the amount of loss that a lender will suffer in case a borrower defaults on the loan. For example, assume that two borrowers, A and B, with the same debt-to-income ratio and an identical credit score. Borrower A takes a loan of $10,000 while B takes a loan of $200,000.
The two borrowers present with different credit profiles, and the lender stands to suffer a greater loss when Borrower B defaults since the latter owes a larger amount. Although there is no standard practice of calculating LGD, lenders consider an entire portfolio of loans to determine the total exposure to loss.
3. Exposure at Default (EAD)
Exposure at Default (EAD) evaluates the amount of loss exposure that a lender is exposed to at any particular time, and it is an indicator of the risk appetite of the lender. EAD is an important concept that references both individual and corporate borrowers. It is calculated by multiplying each loan obligation by a specific percentage that is adjusted based on the particulars of the loan.
More Resources
• Analysis of Financial Statements
• Credit Score Analysis
• Loan Features
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/11637 | 23 Mar 2020 – A civilization or culture is defined as a set of customs, traditions, ethics, values, language, music, dance, gastronomy, clothing, religion, and social and political organization of a people, ethnic group, tribe, or nation.
British scholars of the 19th century classified the peoples and races as Civilized, Barbarians and Savages, based on their respective “evolutions.” Such classification was based primarily on three factors:
1. Charles Darwin’s Theory of Evolution;
2. the Industrial Revolution in the beginning of industrial capitalism; and
3. the Reformation of the Catholic Church, the schism from which Protestantism arose.
False premises that led to false conclusions.
Such a classification made the field fertile for the appearance of a Capitalist/Protestant ethic, which would produce today’s capitalist system.
The Theory of Evolution (not a science, but a theory) postulates that only the most capable, among the various species of living organisms, survives and evolves. Darwin labeled his theory Survival of the Fittest. This competition for survival and evolution would be in genetic, biological, adaptive and/or mutative terms, in relation to the environment from which they would have evolved and where they would live. Human beings have been labeled Homo Sapiens, representatives of the supposedly most evolved species–the most apt. The civilized, barbaric and savages represented an attempt to hierarchize Homo Sapiens.
To speak of capitalist ethics is to incur a contradiction in terms as capitalism does not have an ethic, but a single overriding value: profits. On the other hand, a Protestant ethics is based on the Old Testament of the Bible and on the doctrine of Martin Luther that God, a supposedly elderly, male, white entity, distributes His blessings in the form of material wealth, power, good life to those most deserving and for whom He feels greater affection. The subtext is that the poor are poor because they are sinners. And Jesus, the messiah son of that God, was a white Jew. The pieces fit together historically.
• In the Civilized category would be the European, white and Christian colonial empires, with Anglo-Saxons being the civilized par excellence.
• Labeled as Barbarians would be Asians (yellow skinned, in their classification), nomadic peoples, Arabs and North Africans, Eskimos, all non-Christians (pagans), as well as all dark-skinned races that were not in the category of savages, such as the Indians (from India).
• Finally, the Savages would be the inhabitants of black Africa, the Indians of the American continent, the so-called primitives of the Pacific Islands: Aborigines, Maori, Polynesians, Melanesians, Micronesians, etc., and cannibals.
The only two other civilizations respected by this novel Western Civilization were the Greek and the Roman, their progenitors–not very civilized to be sure, built and sustained by wars, conquests and slavery.
There were also the Slaves, captured like animals from the Savage group, who in the 19th century came predominantly from the native peoples of sub-Saharan Africa and the Americas. Christians believed that these savages, like animals, did not have a soul. Hence the legality and morality of their objectification by Christians who sold them as merchandise. Arabs also exploited the slave trade, a major source of investment/profits.
A corollary of such doctrines and beliefs were attempts to ‘civilize’ barbarians and savages through Christian missions that would take European religious organizations to evangelize the African, American and Asian continents, as well as the Pacific Islands. Such missions gave rise to genocides and exterminations of nations and native peoples who refused to be ‘evangelized’ and ‘civilized’. Spain (Corona de Castilla) is an extreme example of this in South and Central America where its conquistadores decimated the Inca, Maya and Aztec civilizations among others. The religious missions exist and persist today, albeit in derisory numbers and without much influence and credibility.
From the First to the Third World
The 20th century witnessed a change in the English classification, with the advent of Communism in Eastern Europe. The conceptualization of the divisions was then redefined as First World, Second World and Third World.
• Within the First World, were grouped the most affluent capitalist societies that were economically, politically and/or militarily dominant, and whose citizens were Jewish-Christians of white color.
• As Second World, were labeled all those countries that adopted the Communist/Marxist-atheist ideology/economy.
• And the Third World was left with everybody else: poor, destitute, barbarians, savages, all people of color, etc.; the majority of earth’s population.
God remains a white entity who rewards material wealth, and civilized Anglo Saxons and Judeo-Christians remain His chosen people.
After WWII, the divisions were renamed by the International Monetary Fund as Developed, Developing and Underdeveloped countries (IMF country classification.pdf). These labels remain in effect with the prejudices intact in the world’s deep culture/structure.
In this new characterization, all non-economic considerations were then discarded. Japan and the Soviet Union, for example, were accepted into the exclusive Developed Club of the First Civilized World, although the Japanese were Eastern, non-Christian and non-white, and the Soviets were Communists and atheists.
The North American empire claimed world leadership from the British empire and the Capitalist/Protestant ethics, with Anglo-Saxons always at the helm, acquired an irresistible and unstoppable momentum, with science and technology, the planet’s riches and resources becoming servants of the lords of capital.
The outcome of WWII was the determining factor for the definitive establishment of the capitalist market economy globally. It overcame Socialism/Communism and today stands above all the governments of the planet whose armed forces, police, and intelligence services are manipulated and used against anyone and everything that dares to challenge the Free Market Capitalist Economy whose foundation are the banks, central banks, financial institutions, hedge funds, and so on. A Mafia–by definition–getting what they need/want through lethal force, sanctions, Machiavellic manipulations, bullying, threats, and so forth.
Slavery of the Mind and Lack of Ethics
At the same time, unification has developed–complicity I would say–between economic, military, political, religious, intellectual, media and scientific elites from all countries in any of the categories. The New World Order of the third millennium is characterized by haves vs have nots, that is, who accumulates money vs. who is prevented from doing so. The number of billionaires grows exponentially with the spread of misery: the famous 1% against the remaining 99%. The class war that Karl Marx’s foresaw–also two centuries ago–hitting the bull’s eye. The present rat race is who is going to be the first individual trillionaire. Money addiction by definition. Keep in mind that this is all under the same Capitalist/Protestant/Judaic/Industrial Revolution/Anglo Saxon/Civilized ‘ethics.’
Today slavery is of the mind, conscience, awareness, aided by the Main Stream Corporate Entertainment Social Media and communication technology. Wall Street is a Church. The goals–profits, favors, privileges, powers–justify any means necessary. Armies are their faithful servants. Does this survival of the fittest have anything to do with that advocated by Darwin two centuries ago? Is this state of affairs natural, normal? We are destroying the planet–its oceans, rivers, forests, insects, animals, the atmosphere–for whom or what to be the fittest? Those who win a nuclear war? Something went definitely wrong on the way to heaven.
We must extinguish from our collective psyche the idea that human beings are naturally divided into economic, social, or other spurious classes by birth. We learned to reason collectively from within the confines of the Theory of Evolution [a theory and not a science, I repeat], which implies competition rather than cooperation. The nomenclature has changed and adapted to new conditions, but the prejudice remains; it must be eliminated. We are not royals or commoners, slaves, barbarians, savages, capitalists or workers; our primary identity is humans. Period.
Global finance capitalism is not and should not be seen as a last word. Its greatest deficiency lies in providing an unequal, unjust and unfair distribution of wealth between producers/capitalists/shareholders and wage-workers, consumers. The cruelty and aggression of this system against nature reached its peak at the beginning of this century, especially among international elites that, allied, constitute the aristocracy that nourishes and maintains the royal family of industrialized countries, the most apt among the Fittest. What a farce! A false, illusory and illogical socio-economic engineering that is incompatible with the intelligence, compassion, imagination and nobility of character inherent in human beings and humanity, revealed in the arts, culture, science, even in the new technologies unfortunately used primarily to kill, control and dominate for selfish delusional purposes.
The three pillars of high finance and international movers are:
1. oil,
2. armaments (legal and illegal),
3. drugs (legal and illegal).
International capitalism has become hopelessly dependent on the activities of organized crime, in fact adopting its Modus Operandi.
Government officials are hostage to their complicity with lobbies. The mafia entered the system and imposed its ethics. This state of affairs is not resolved with terrorism, but with radical changes not only in the paradigms of economic, political and social structures, but also and especially in the minds, in the individual consciences/consciousnesses that are beget in the womb of reality. We are the builders of our own realities–from the personal to the collective.
Need for an Alternative
For each Hitler there is a Gandhi. For each Trump there is a Nelson Mandela. For each Bolsonaro or Boris there is a Luther King. Those who are not part of the solution are, by necessity, part of the problem in a world with a record population of 8 billion interdependent beings where everyone affects everyone and nobody is an island. We represent a colony on earth—not a globalization construct, not merely numbers, statistics or resources to be exploited.
It is undeniable that societies classified as Civilized, First World or Developed, led by the USA and the West but spread throughout, retain the reins of world markets, politics, economics and culture, being the main producers of weapons, technology, science and atmospheric pollutants as well as wealth (or poverty, depending on the viewpoint) and materialistic values. As such, they also retain the greater share of responsibility for the misery that spreads throughout the so-called Third World. After the fragmentation of the former Soviet Union, the number of members of the underdeveloped has increased, not because poverty has expanded, but because the labels have changed places. In English, there is a rhyme: the West and the Rest.
We need a viable alternative–more benign–to the ‘trickle down’ economy, more aptly named ‘trickle up,’ which slowly and inexorably corrodes and erodes the spirit of nobility in everyone’s character, whether labeled or believed to be civilized, barbaric or savage. We become slaves to the monster we believe in, our Leviathan. The so-called Capitalist/Protestant ethics is outrageous, ignominious. God is not the God of the affluent, white people. This is an incongruity, heretic, unadulterated primitivism.
Our mental paradigm must change, both individually and collectively, towards cooperation, nonviolence, conflict resolution by peaceful means, and sharing–with equity and reciprocity–of the planet’s resources, instead of lethal competition for them; passing through the elimination of sick nationalisms and sociopathic and homicidal patriotisms that kill legally en masse. Our mental constructions must be modified by ourselves, by education, and not by the state. If there were no soldiers logically there would be no wars as generals do not fight each other. We must achieve a degree of civilization that does not require authority, police, justice, militarism or weapons of any type or size for collective control and destruction. Replaced by social servants, leaders. Utopia? I believe not; if we work for it.
United in our diversity and accepting our differences instead of dividing us into races, we may, in any future, acquire a Consciousness of Civilized Beings–and act on it. Without this shift in consciousness any other meaningful change is unlikely as Darwin’s myopic and ethnocentric theory will continue to influence our lives, private and public, and our spiritual (not religious) evolution.
I recommend the works of Prof. Johan Galtung.
Antonio Carlos da Silva Rosa (Antonio C. S. Rosa), born 1946, is founder-editor of the pioneering Peace Journalism website, TRANSCEND Media Service-TMS (from 2008), an assistant to Prof. Johan Galtung, Secretary of the International Board of the TRANSCEND Network for Peace Development Environment, and recipient of the Psychologists for Social Responsibility’s 2017 Anthony J. Marsella Prize for the Psychology of Peace and Social Justice. He is on the Global Advisory Board of Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies and completed his B.A., M.A., and graduate Ph.D. work in the fields of Communication-Journalism and Political Science-Peace Studies/International Relations at the University of Hawai’i. Originally from Brazil, he lives presently in Porto, Portugal. Antonio was educated in the USA where he lived for 20 years; in Europe-India since 1994. Books: Transcender e Transformar: Uma Introdução ao Trabalho de Conflitos (from Johan Galtung, translation to Portuguese, 2004); Peace Journalism: 80 Galtung Editorials on War and Peace (2010, editor); Cobertura de Conflitos: Jornalismo para a Paz (from Johan Galtung, Jake Lynch & Annabel McGoldrick, translation to Portuguese, 2010). TMS articles by Mr. Rosa HERE. Videos HERE and HERE.
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/11643 | Crownstone saves you time
We like you to save time rather than spend time on your smart home! Here are some ideas and tips for the “handsfree” use of your lights and devices!
The sunset scene turns on the lights for you when it is getting dark. Of course it does only turn on the lights based on your presence!
Safety first!
Turn off outlets when you, the adult, are not around! Sure, you won’t forget to turn off your iron, but knowing that no one can play with it in a dangerous manner means peace of mind!
Nighttime bathroom
Your wall switch will dim the lights in the night. This is a nice combination of our switchcraft functionality with so-called twilight behaviour.
Christmas time!
Turn on your Christmas tree lights when you are in the living room! You can set a smart timer to automatically turn it on after sunset as well.
Trigger a go to bed time for your kids by switching the television off after their favorite program. Secretly, we use this for ourselves as well… Ceiling lights turn off at twelve o’clock; time to go to bed!
Coming soon!
We’re constantly adding more functions to the Crownstones so they become smarter over time! Coming soon: the Crownstone as a wake up light. Use your normal ceiling light to simulate the sunrise in the morning!
Wake up light
Energy usage overview
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/11693 | diego dorado
Live Emojing
Livecoding is a form of performatic art and a creative technique based upon the use of improvised interactive programming. It is often performed in live presentations in which one or many Livecoders generate a progression of visuals and music displaying the code for the audience to see.
Live-emojing is a Livecoding technique I developed with the intention of including the audience in the performance. Spectators input patterns in an intuitive manner by sending series of emojis via social networks.
Besides my interest in having the audience participate in the performance, I have the intention of bringing down the idea that programming is inaccessible. Socializing the code by inviting the spectator to intervene.
I found in emojis a key to attract the public to reading the code. It’s appeal comes as a result of it being both a very familiar element and at the same time very antinatural to programming languages. This contrast makes it stand out.
Emojis communicate quickly, easy and make no language distinction.
Some Performances
First Streaming
#WorldEmojiDay 2018 at Centro Cultural Recoleta
VIU Festival at Hangar.org, Barcelona
My interest to make the audience take part in the livecoding experience brought to me the idea of livecoding with emojis
I had previously tried to reach out for such interaction by other means.
• Enlarging the font to its maximum size so that reading the code would be comfortable to the audience.
d1 $ stack [ n "<1 2>*8" # s "feel" # lpf (slow 4.4 $ scale 600 4000 $ tri) # lpq 0.051, jux (# speed (scale (-0.5) 1 $ slow 3.2 $ tri)) $ whenmod 16 14 (const $ s "swsn:1*6" # speed (scale 2 1 $ slow 2 $ sine) # orbit 3 # room 0.2) $ s "[swbd:3 <swsn:3 swsn:3 swsn:1 [swsn:3 swsn:3]>]" # orbit 3 # room 0.2 # dilei 0.25 0.25 0.5, n (d $ "{0 0 7 0 7}%4"+p) # s "bass8"# gain 0.95, note (d $ (every 3 (const $ "[0,7](3,8)") $ every 4 (const $ "0*8") $ "0*2") + "[0,2,4,6]"+7+p) # m "[2,3]" # sustain 0.25 # gain 0.7, note (d $ slow "<1 2>" $ "0 .. 3"+"<0 1 2>"+p) # m "6" # gain 0.9 # sustain 0.5, s "~"]
d1 $ sound "[drums, bass*2]"
Larger font size invites us to read it.
• Starting out from a blank page with simple sequences that were easy to relate to the audio being generated and gradually becoming more complex.
d1 $ sound "bd"
-- ...
d1 $ sound "bd*2"
-- ...
d1 $ sound "bd*2 sn"
-- ...
d1 $ sound "[bd*2 sn, hh*8?]"
The blank sheet generates a lot of curiosity and gives an opportunity to try to follow the initial logical sequences
• Code Localization. I created aliases in our native language of some function names or code blocks to replace their original English names as a way to engage Non-English speakers during presentations.
let pista1 = d1
pista2 = d2
sonido = sound
cada_tanto = sometimes
despacito = slow 4
primeros_8 = run 8
empezar_desde = begin
pista1 $ sonido "bombo tacho" # comprimir 0.2
pista2 $ cada_tanto despacito $ primeros_8
$ sonido "numbers" # empezar_desde 0.2
Displaying the code written in native language draws attention, eliminates the difficulty of the language barrier and focuses attention on what the code is really about.
First Prototype
Initially I wrote a haskell function to map 7 emojis to 7 different samples in tidalcycles’ livecoding environment. In this first proof of concept the emojis were not received but rather typed in the Atom editor (thanks to the autocomplete-emojis package)
Emojis mapping function in Tidalcycles
emoji x = sound (fromString $ concatMap (\c) ->
if c == '💚' then s "bd:6"
else if c == '✊' then s "sn:4"
else if c == '😬' then s "dr"
else if c == '😎' then s "dr:1"
else if c == '👄' then s "feel:1"
else if c == '💋' then s "kiss:2"
else if c == '😘' then s "kiss"
else if c == '😸' then s "cat"
d1 $ emoji "💚(3,8) ✊*2"
Including Telegram
I thought then that it would be fun to receive the emojis from the public, so I created a Telegram bot to interact with the audience.
I developed an Atom plugin to handle messages received by the bot. These messages are automatically inserted by the plugin in certain positions of the editor. They remain occupied for 30 seconds by the same person. A countdown urged them to continue the game by updating the pattern or risk that someone else takes their place.
The bot starts the conversation with a message explaining the rules of the game
Upon receipt of a message, the bot would include it in the presentation and a possible tidalcycles pattern translation of the message would be responded to the sender.
Including Facebook
As I usually streamed the performance through Facebook, several people who did not knew about Telegram sent me the emojis via facebook chat. I understood that it would be a simpler process for the audience to participate by using those Facebook messages rather than asking them to install Telegram and write to the bot.
So, I wrote a Chrome extension that would scrape the Facebook page looking for messages containing emojis in the streaming chat and send them back to the Atom plugin via websockets.
fb You can see the comment by Damian Silvani appear in streaming video, next to his name
In this way, a spectator, present in the audience or following the stream remotely, could send an “emoji algorithm” via Telegram or via Facebook and see the contribution next to his or her user name projected (or streamed) live.
Eventually, even someone without any livecoding experience could relate the pattern of emojis sent with the pattern of sounds being generated by that intervention.
This last point would be an educational path of minimum difficulty with the objective of introducing someone to the idea of programming applied to art.
Including Reactive Visuals
Once the interaction with the spectator was completed, I continued to develop a better graphic representation of the patterns with the intention of making it even clearer and more attractive. I included in the session a 3D scenario that runs as background to the editor and that responds visually to each sound event generated by the emoji patterns. This further facilitates the relationship between the sent emojis and the generated sounds.
About emoji to sample mapping
It is not possible to foresee the emojis that I would receive. Initially I took the decision of using the unicode value of the emoji as the index to be played from a folder of samples (strictly speaking, the rest of the division by the number of possible samples). This was comfortable, but not very useful, since the samples were repeated very often and it was not possible to guess the sound to be played.
I started working on an alternative. Mapping all existing emojis was too much work. Someone must have made a list of the most popular emojis. I found something much better: emojitracker.com, a site that tracks the emojis used on twitter in real time and ranks them. I then took the most popular emojis and began to do a manual mapping, in a JSON file still in development, in which I grouped them by similarity.
The goal is to achieve a correspondence between what the emoji represents visually and sonorously. Currently, this correspondence is totally arbitrary, for example,
• 💙💚💛💜 sound like bass drums
• 👋👏🙌🙏 sound like claps
• 💪✊💪👊 sound like snare drums
• 😦😧😱😵 sound like chants
This makes it easier to understand how the emoji pattern sent should sound.
Anyone can guess that 💚*4 is equivalent to 💜*4
Future expectations:
I plan to continue with the development of these tools and take them to other environments. I have already done some tests on FoxDot. I think they can be highly educational in the field of programming, as an introductory approach and as a means of spreading the practice of livecoding. Due to the experience so far and the possibilities of extending this tool, I envision a new expressive medium to explore. I am working to publish the repositories of these plugins with their respective documentation and instructions with certainty that new and interesting applications will emerge from their disclosure.
And above all:
to have fun with emoji based music! 😆
Beauty will be convulsive or will not be at all.
André Breton |
global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/11694 | Against Heterosexuality
The March 2014 issue of First Things features the (free) article “Against Heterosexuality.” In it, author Michael Hannon explains, “Sexual orientation is a conceptual scheme with a history, and a dark one at that. It is a history that began far more recently than most people know, and it is one that will likely end much sooner than most people think. Over the course of several centuries, the West had progressively abandoned Christianity’s marital architecture for human sexuality. Then, about one hundred and fifty years ago, it began to replace that longstanding teleological tradition with a brand new creation: the absolutist but absurd taxonomy of sexual orientations.” Heterosexuality thus became “this fanciful framework’s regulating ideal…On this novel account, same-sex sex acts were wrong not because they spurn the rational-animal purpose of sex—namely the family—but rather because the desire for these actions allegedly arises from a distasteful psychological disorder.”
Hannon provides the history of sexual orientation as a category, beginning in the 19th-century. As classical religious beliefs about sexuality became less dominant, “pseudoscience stepped in and replaced religion as the moral foundation for venereal norms…This perverted psychiatric identity, elevated to the status of a mutant “life form” in order to safeguard polite society against its disgusting depravities, swallowed up the entire character of the afflicted.” In other words, the invention of sexual orientation led to “homosexuals” being seen as a depraved species. “Heterosexual” was constructed to serve as the norm in the increasingly secular society.
While Hannon’s language may sometimes be inflammatory, the history and implications are both interesting and important:
First of all, within orientation essentialism, the distinction between heterosexuality and homosexuality is a construct that is dishonest about its identity as a construct. These classifications masquerade as natural categories, applicable to all people in all times and places according to the typical objects of their sexual desires (albeit with perhaps a few more options on offer for the more politically correct categorizers). Claiming to be not simply an accidental nineteenth-century invention but a timeless truth about human sexual nature, this framework puts on airs, deceiving those who adopt its labels into believing that such distinctions are worth far more than they really are.
How much damage has this binary social construct caused?:
Young people, for instance, now regularly find themselves agonizing over their sexual identity, navel-gazing in an attempt to discern their place in this allegedly natural Venn diagram of orientations. Such obsessions generate far more heat than light, and focus already sexually excited adolescents on discerning extraneous dimensions of their own sexual makeup. This self-searching becomes even more needlessly distressing for those who discern in themselves a “homosexual orientation,” as they adopt an identity distinguished essentially by a set of sexual desires that cannot morally be fulfilled.
And what does this mean for those who identify as “heterosexuals”?:
And yet, when it comes to the gravest evil effected by the sexual-orientation binary, homosexuality is not the culprit. Heterosexuality is—not, of course, as though we can have one without the other. The most pernicious aspect of the orientation-identity system is that it tends to exempt heterosexuals from moral evaluation. If homosexuality binds us to sin, heterosexuality blinds us to sin.
Check it out and give it some thought. We could all possibly benefit from a fresh perspective. |
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/11698 | Mutation Proof Armor
Are mutagen resistant suits real?
Was trying to kill rat king but it turned my beautiful CBMed supersoldier into a horrible biomass abomination.
nevermind, it was radiation all along
yyyyep. gotta grab that radiation scrubber CBM, and the integrated dosimeter if you can find it (shows you how much radiation you have as well as warns you when you’re taking it.)
alternatively, if you wanna protect yourself from radiation in the future, check every biohazard suit zombie you find for a sealed radiation badge, if you think you’re in an area you’ll find radiation, take it out and wear it… it’ll warn you when you’re taking radiation so you can book it. alternatively a geiger counter, but they’re a bit more hard to find.
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I don’t think “ratting” has anything to do with radiation. My character got badly mutated from rat king ratting despite wearing an ANBC suit and a heavy survival facemask (until mutations pushed it off). As far as I know there’s nothing you can do to protect you against ratting. You can use various methods to try to kill the rat king before it’s caused too much damage, but there’s nothing that can protect you while the bugger is alive and ratting you.
that is very specific to that rather uncommon boss, they’re entirely optional, so next time your best solution would be either pack purifier or avoid fighting in the entirely optional cave.
Some horrors are not a good idea to fight or experience, one is best avoiding them.
Potassium iodide of course helps prevent being soaked with radiation if taken before exposure in vanilla? from what I recall,
in PK rebalancing prussian blue actually helps purge it, PK rebalancing features more radiation and thus more ways to reduce it, so if you play with that mod in future, multivitamins and gummy vitamins help you purge radiation, the real life rationale for it is basically, your body is largely water, rads are in that water, vitamins make you pee it out more through hypervitaminatosis which causes you to get thirsty and pee more.
I recommend that you play with mutations via radiation turned off, I don’t consider it realistic, though some lore validates it happening.
I’d like to implement these medications/treatments into the base game though a more realistic solution would involve altering how vitamins affect the player.
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True, but you have to encounter that particular boss once to find out that it’s both crippling to fight it, and it yields between nothing and little in the form of loot (I did get an inactive laser turret that I’d seen on my first visit, as well as to find that there weren’t any more levels in the cave).
I’ve now fought that boss once and spent days purifying away the effects, and now know there’s very little gain in fighting them, especially given the cost. The OP was fighting a rat king, rather than (or possibly in addition to) radiation.
I’m pretty sure the rat king works on line of sight. If you smoke out the cave it won’t see you, and if you pack a gas mask you’ll be fine. Just smoke out the area while you duck behind a wall and wait. If the king is visible right away just go up the stairs and go down to lure the rats up or just make a beeline towards it.
Also if you stay 9 squares away from it you won’t get the effect. Best thing to do is to shoot it as soon as you see it, but clear out the rest of the rats first.
If I knew what I would meet I’d have handled it differently. The situation was compounded by the (buggy) fact that the rats refused to follow the PC up the stairs, refused to move from the stairs below, and couldn’t be engaged from the top of the stairs, so getting back up to the vehicle to grab some more suitable equipment wasn’t an option: either fight with what I had, or forget about that unexplored cave and the laser turret.
I tried to fight the rats first, but that’s useless as you run out of breath after 30 or so swings with a melee weapon and interrupt locked if you use a ranged one and try to aim. I did eventually get the bugger with a bow despite the other rats, and eventually clear out the remaining rats as well, but I think it took over 1 hour in the game, with about 16 mutations in the baggage.
It’s wasn’t possible to keep any distance as the rats pinned my character at the stairs.
I haven’t played the newest version yet but the stamina consumption/weariness really does sound like a pain. My main character is a fully kitted out bionic super mutant, so I guess my approaches are infinitely easier to do because of how my character is built. In any case it’s not worth the risk of getting mutated, the rare loot down there is mostly just laser weapons or plutonium cells.
This happened with 0.E2 stable, but extremely fast stamina depletion in melee, compounded by the very low hit probability in melee is a major issue for me. It doesn’t help that the character was just above “average” strength with 9, as I’d made the guess that INT and DEX would be worth 10 and STR and PER would be OK with 9. The next character (0.F, when that happens) will take the fact that STR is king and INT is queen into consideration.
walk in there with a 50 cal, you look at him, he looks at you, snarls, and then his brains splatter on the wall =D
Ah. All my stats are 20+. I recommend going for mutations to increase the base stats, or try stats through skills/kills to add some flavor to your characters. Strength/Dex/Int/Per all have their own modifiers and buffs and occasional debuffs depending on how high the stats are. Though imo strength is the best stat for general survivability and melee potential
Detailed stat effects here:
I don’t like how mutations work, so I stay away from them. If it would be possible to just purge single ones selectively I’d go for it, but the current gamble is just too messy.
Bionics are OK in my book, though, but you have to find the ones you want.
The problem with the stats through kills/skills is that they seem to be too powerful. I find the slow character improvement stuff worked on for 0.F to be more to my taste (assuming I’ve understood that correctly). I’m aiming for a good character, not a super hero (but in a sandbox game everyone can play as they find enjoyable).
mutations basically work like a random chance, theres a 50/50 chance it’ll either be good or bad, with the first option being a really good mutation, second being a meh- not so good mutation, third being a bad mutation, and the fourth being a really bad mutation… you can increase this chance to a 75% split in your favor by taking ‘robust genetics’ or getting it somehow via mutation or profession
Yes, I known I can shift the dice a bit in the mutation gamble, and I don’t have a problem with that part. The problem comes with the removal of the bad stuff that will then rip away good stuff with it (on top of the risk of getting some bad stuff that can’t be purified away). I guess that if you play that game a sufficient number of times you have a chance to reach a position where you leave the table with your winnings, but that hinges on whether you were lucky enough not to get things that can’t be purified before that, which I think will probably happen.
… well theres also the option of savescumming… if you’re into 100% success…
cough anyway, this is way off the original topic.
I’m certainly not above save scumming, and I agree that we’ve gone far off the rail.
One of my favorite characters was my fav thanks to the rat king. Went all in on it and mmm was that a fun time rolling in infinite guns and ammo thanks to essentially a built in pickaxe. Embrace the rat king, he will send you down the true path to success.
As for mutation I usually just look at the bad stuff as part of the whole package. I often find the good stuff well worth the baggage. I do think the default chance of a positive mutation is a bit low though. I usually run robust genetics because of that. Great starting trait, especially if you slap genetic chaos on.
There is the purifier smartshot, which has a high probability of doing exactly that. It’s rare lab loot.
That is indeed true. Purifier smart shots I believe they are called. Believe they only spawn in finale rooms though I haven’t seen one recently. |
global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/11703 | Subverting Rationality (Part 2)
“The only thing(s) real is that which is meaningful”
The Limitations of Objective Rationalism
Objective rationalism is a way of knowing and reasoning using empirical methods to deal with reality as opposed to subjective means. Objective rationalism has its basis in striving for impartiality devoid of bias and prejudice. It identifies knowledge as coming from outside sense data as opposed to internal structures that we use to interpret the outside world. It is a useful tool when, for example, a detective is trying to solve a difficult homicide case or when research is conducted to cure a deadly disease. In these examples, biasness and personal (subjective) opinion can skew the results.
My argument states that objective rationalism is (1) limited, (2) is not how we construct our world, and (3) collapses on itself. Because of the myopic nature of objective rationalism, my contention is that ways of knowing and reasoning reality can be accomplished through pursuing that which is meaningful. In other words: that which is most real is that which is most meaningful.
Objective rationalism is a limited way of perceiving the world because it dismisses the meaning of experiences; it tells us only ‘what is’ and not ‘why it matters’. When we analyze something or someone from an objective viewpoint, we focus strictly on the sense data (touch, taste, feel, sight, smell) and that which is falsifiable. It’s this method that speaks to the ‘is-ness’ of the situation, and that’s about it. In many situations this is useful, and in fact needed, for instance, when a medical examiner is conducting an autopsy and brut facts is paramount.
Objectivity, however, is limited in that it cannot tell us why it matters. The medical examiner can determine how the person died, but not why their life mattered. This is excruciatingly important given human beings are meaning-making creatures who are driven and motivated by that which is purposeful and significant. Our lives are narratives of meaningful and significant events linked together to form our personal life story.
Imagine how difficult it would be to recount your personal autobiography through only objective lenses? In other words, in recounting your past, you stripped away any subjective assessments and only articulated that which was demonstrably real. Not only would this be an impossible task as you focus solely on the ‘is-ness’ of everything in your past, but it is also a sterile account that would put most listeners to sleep. This is simply not how we live life. When we recount our past or construct an idealized future, we do it with meaning as our guide.
Because objectivity is so limited, we can make the argument that that which is most real is most meaningful. First, each of us creates a narrative (a story) of our ‘self’ and that narrative is constructed against the backdrop of meaningful and significant events. Each of us sees our life as a play, as Shakespeare articulated, “All the world is a stage, and all the men and women merely players, they have their exits and their entrances, and one man in his time plays many parts.” We can’t help but view ourselves as the lead actor in our play, and more importantly, our script and plot strive to illuminate meaning. If you are skeptical of this point, simply think about this question: how would you like your life to be in ten years? I guarantee the way you answer that question will focus on that which is meaningful to you.
Second, meaning is what moves us forward to an idealized future. I touched upon this in my first point, so I won’t belabor this thought. So, here is another question to ask yourself: Why didn’t you commit suicide this morning? Once again, I can guarantee that your answer to that question will center on reasons that focus on meaning, purpose, and significance.
Third, our brains are wired to interpret the meaningful as real. Simply put, our brains are wired to react to things that have meaning before they construct the perceptions that you think of as objects. The reason for this is that the meaning of things is more real, in some sense, and more important than the viewing of things as objects. When you approach a cliff, you don’t see a cliff, you see a falling off place. It isn’t that it is an object ‘cliff’ to which you attribute the meaning of the ‘falling off place’ to. The ‘falling off place’ comes first, and the abstraction of the object ‘cliff’, if it happens at all, comes much later. Much later conceptually as well, given that babies can detect cliffs without knowing the concept of ‘cliff’.
All this to say: that which is most real is most meaningful. We instinctively construct our world through meaning – having done so for millennia – which is why our brain has predispositioned us to react to meaningful experiences before we have the chance to begin the process of objectively rationalization.
Objective rationalism is not how we construct our world
Knowledge does not begin in the ‘I’, and it does not begin in the object; it begins in the interactions. There is a reciprocal and simultaneous construction of the subject on the one hand, and the object on the other. We are not simply surrounded by things made of matter (objectively speaking), the things around us literally matter (subjectively speaking).
Our world is constructed through our daily experiences that unfold our perceptions; a type of perpetual un-concealing. Through this unfolding and un-concealing, we have interactions – some positive, some negative – that results in dis-covering the world around us. For example, the object ‘dog’ can be revealed to one person as a ‘friendly loveable canine’ and to another as ‘a vicious beast’. It is un-concealed as either ‘loveable’ or ‘vicious’ based on one’s interactions with it. This is why if someone is attacked at an early age, often all dogs will be regarded as a threat – because of the previous (dangerous) interaction between the subject and the object. It is through these interactions with objects, that our world emerges.
It’s not like you will learn everything from the world through your senses. And it’s not as if you only project onto the world as interpretation. It’s something in between and it’s a dynamic, like bootstrapping. Bootstrapping is the processes that occurs when, for example, your computer boots up. Your computer is first ‘off’, and when turned ‘on’, a bunch of simple processes occur, and from those processes more complex processes emerge, and then out of those some more complex processes emerge. Well that’s what happens to us with regards to reality – you bootstrap yourself. Each experience in life changes us, even in microscopic ways, towards new realities. This is akin to the lesson of Heraclitus that says no person can step into the same water twice. There is a constant flow to life that we are a part of, in which, we incessantly are emerging in an ever-changing way.
Why in the world is this important? Because as you act in the world, you generate information, and out of that information you make the structures inside of you and you make the world. Your reality is neither objective in that it is driven solely by sense perception. And your world is not simply whatever interpretation you project. Rather, your world emerges to you as it unfolds and unconceals itself to you; putting you in the position to interact and cope with the (positive or negative) physiological reactions to experience.
Objective rationalism collapses into itself
Objective rationalism collapses into itself because it assumes a God’s eye view of reality, when really, it’s just a slightly different angle at best. Let’s dig deeper. Objective rationalism purports to be able to uncover an objective reality. Its apparently value-free descriptions are assumed to deliver the truth about the object, onto which our feelings and desires are later painted. Yet this highly objective stance, this “view from nowhere” to use Thomas Nagel’s phrase, is itself value-laden. It is just one particular way of looking at things, a way which privileges detachment, a lack of commitment of the viewer to the object viewed. For some purposes this can be undeniably useful. But its use in such causes does not make it truer or more real or closer to the nature of things.
Simply put: what we come to know consists not of things, but of relationships, each apparently separate entity qualifying the others to which it is related. Objective rationalism collapses into itself because while it privileges detachment from objects, it utterly ignores our relationship with the object. It focuses on isolation while excluding connection. Let’s fact it, everything has a particular context and within that context, we imbue certain entities with meaning. It is our context and connection with the world that constructs our reality. A parasitic dependence on objective rationalism is what you have with robots, and simply collapses with humans because of our complex ability to abstract experiences and process phenomena in meaningful ways. Therefore, one person may reasonably conclude that, for example, capital punishment is just, while another can reasonably conclude it is unjust, and thus murder. Objective rationalism cannot adjudicate this dilemma because people have different experiences, affects and interactions of phenomena. |
global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/11709 | The Morpheus Splunk Integration allows forwarding logs from managed Linux hosts and vm’s to a target Splunk listener by changing the rsyslogd config on linux vm’s to point to Splunk forwarders. The logs will be forwarded from the clients, not from the Morpheus Appliance.
Adding Splunk Integration
1. Add a syslog listener configuration in Splunk.
2. Navigate to Administration > Settings > Logs
3. Expand the Splunk section
4. Enable the integration
5. Fill in the following:
Enable the Splunk integration
IP or Hostname of the Splunk server.
Port configured to access the Splunk server.
6. SAVE
Once added, syslogs from managed Linux hosts and vm’s will be forwards from the clients to the target Splunk listener. |
global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/11710 | (Un-)Reading: Jordan Peterson’s 12 Rules For Life
READING: The Master and Margarita, A Ridiculously Funny Novel From A Ridiculously Unfunny Time
So far the moral of the story seems to be: stop taking things too seriously, and be wary of giant cats. But I’m getting ahead of myself. After the pleasant if short-lived experience with Genki Kawamura’s If Cats Disappeared from the World, we fly out of Japan and come into Soviet Russia, coincidentally also involving […] |
global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/11721 | William Adamson MP
Born in Halbeath, The Rt. Hon. William Adamson, PC, MP was a miner, trade union leader and MP for Fife West from 1919 to 1931. He was a member of the first Labour Cabinet and became Secretary of State for Scotland. In this short biography, George Robertson summarises his political achievements but also describes his early life and how it influenced politician he was to become. |
global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/11724 | Chemical Dynamics by J.B. Dence, H.B. Gray, G.S. Hammond
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Chemical dynamics - the systematic study of reactions and reactivity - is the most fascinating part of the freshman chemistry. Its early introduction forms a solid foundation for later study. The book is intended for students who have had introductory stoichiometry, energetics, and structure at the level of a modern freshman textbook.
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/11730 | Games For Health Take Another Step Forward
Via Joystiq, news that the University of Washington has received a grant to develop games that facilitate home-based care for chronically ill patients. For example, the act of monitoring one’s own health serves as a fundamental part of the gameplay experience. Relevant information could automatically be shared with physicians via console network connections.
I’m very interested in this kind of research, and for good reason. Thanks to advances in life-saving medical technology, chronic disease is becoming more common every year. The New York Times just reported that one in eight adult New Yorkers now have diabetes (a scary thing, given the long term complications caused by the disease.) But did you know that there’s a game for diabetics that encourages careful self-regulation? Assuming high quality and a reasonable price, I’d be very surprised if parents of diabetic children weren’t willing (and excited!) to buy this product.
Researchers at McGill University want to make games that increase self-esteem. Games are being used to combat paranoia. Games in general have even been shown to decrease the suffering of hospital patients, especially children. And don’t get me started about combatting obesity; the social and financial potential is mind-boggling (and easy to tap, now that Sony and Nintendo are both positioning themselves as enablers of physically-active gaming.)
The anti-gaming crowd just doesn’t know what it’s missing.
PS. For those interested in this topic, check out the Games for Health website, and especially Ian Bogost’s great coverage of the first ever Games for Health Conference (2005).
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/11733 | A few days ago in the emergency department I revived a discussion that began approximately a year ago. Back then, I was talking with my sage friend Frank and we discussed how much we would enjoy having tails.
Now, mind you, this has little to do with anything important. But it may say a lot about each of us individually. See, Frank and I both felt that it would be very cool to have long, prehensile tails, like monkeys. Granted, opossums have them as well, but they don’t seem as agile or useful. (And they’re largely hairless and pink appearing). But a long, muscular, furry tail, I mean, who could go wrong? You could grab things with it. You could hold onto the children when crossing the street and holding groceries. You could sleep upside down. You could climb into your tree stand without fear of falling. The implications are staggering.
So I brought this up at work again, in a lull between patients. These are the sort of fascinating philosophical discussions triggered by modern emergency care. Believe it or not, there were many different opinions. I figured everyone would want a monkey tail, you know?
Amy wanted a skunk tail, so that everyone would know when she was angry. Russell wanted the tail of a White Tailed Dear, white and flashy. Our friend Mira, who is Bulgarian by birth, thought we were all insane and probably wondered why she ever decided to move here. Though she did concede that perhaps a small bunny tail would be attractive, and unobtrusive. Laura requested a tail like a Labrador Retriever, heavy and powerful that would pound against the wall when she was happy, and be capable of knocking things over.
Later, in a moment of epiphany, I suggested that as much fun as a monkey tail might be, a rattlesnake type tail might keep annoying persons away quite effectively. And you know, an alligator tail is powerful and helps one to swim with great power and speed.
So, what about you? What kind of tail would you want? I look forward to the results of this little informal survey. Ask around the ER. Ask your patients. Ask your friends. What with modern genetics, we may only be a generation away!
Yeah, I know, it’s a bizarre first blog for the year. But it has occupied my mind. I promise to give you all some more depth in the coming weeks and months.
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/11739 | I'm working on an embedded project that takes has an input that ranges from 4-20ma. This is normally provided by an external controller, but I'm working on a test bed.
Controlling voltage is easy - just stick a potentiometer in between the power supply and the input.
My first thought is to apply ohms law:
So assuming a 24 volt supply, we would use the following to get 4ma:
Assuming the same 24 volt supply, to get to 20ma:
I feel like I'm ignoring some key items such as the amperage of the incoming power. Am I anywhere close to being on track to using a potentiometer that (in combination with some other resistors) swings between 1.666667 and 8.333334?
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\$\begingroup\$ You're off by an order of magnitude on your resistors. 8 ohms over 24 volts will give you 3 amps. \$\endgroup\$ – Bryan Boettcher Mar 8 '13 at 21:27
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\$\begingroup\$ What is the input signal you have and how should it translate to 4-20mA? Using a simple resistor may very well defeat the advantage of using a current loop. \$\endgroup\$ – jippie Mar 8 '13 at 21:34
• \$\begingroup\$ In case you didn't realize it, the 4-20mA signal is an industrial standard for communicating sensor values. Also known as "4-20mA Current Loop". You can google for lots of docs, compatible components etc. Eg: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Current_loop , ti.com/lit/ds/sbos344c/sbos344c.pdf etc \$\endgroup\$ – gwideman Mar 9 '13 at 0:51
• \$\begingroup\$ And this thread might be useful: electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/21250/… \$\endgroup\$ – gwideman Mar 9 '13 at 0:58
• \$\begingroup\$ I can't understand from the wording of your question if you are trying to implement an input or an output, or what a potentiometer has to do with what you want to achieve. \$\endgroup\$ – Phil Frost Mar 9 '13 at 3:17
OK, re-reading your question, it seems you just want a current source you can adjust with a knob. That is to say, the output should be a current which remains constant regardless of the voltage of the input that it's attached to (within some range)... and you get to adjust that constant current.
So what you need is an adjustable current source, which could be obtained as a chip as Gustavo notes, but it is easy to make from a couple of transistors and resistors, in the form of a "current mirror". See the schematic here: http://analoglib.net/2010-10-12/bilotti-jssc-75-june-noise-characteristics-of-current-mirror/
The transistors can be any small NPNs like 2N3904 or 2N2222, or if you want the output current to flow the other way, flip the schematic upside down (ground becomes V+) and use PNP transistors like 2N3906.
The idea is that you set the current at Ii (your Ii can be implemented via a variable resistor "Ri" to V+, say +12V), and the circuit will draw that same current into the collector of Q2. Calcs:
Assume V+ of 12V Choose RE = 50 ohm (as a starting guess).
20mA: Voltage drop across RE + Q1 VBE = 20mA * 50ohm + 0.7 = 1.7V.
We want Ri to drop 12-1.7V at 20mA, so Ri = 10.3V/20mA ~= 510 ohm.
4mA: Voltage across RE + Q1 VBE = 4mA * 50ohm + 0.7 = 0.9V We want Ri to drop 12-0.9V at 4mA, so Ri = 11.1V/4mA ~= 2.8k.
So a 2.5k pot in series with say 450 ohms would be a suitable resistance for the Ii leg, assuming 12V. Obviously you can calculate different numbers if you want to use a different V+, or larger or smaller RE values.
In the example where current flows into Q2 C, the range of voltages accomodated at Q2C will be from some high number that the transistor can withstand (say 40V), down to approximately the 1.7V calculated aboy, minus perhaps 0.4V -- so about 1.3V. If you need a lower range of voltages, substitute say -12V where ground is in the schematic shown here.
The upside down version with PNP transistors and a +12V rail follows the same logic -- highest voltage would be 12V - 1.3V = 10.7V, down to 12V - 40V = -28V.
Beware that you will often see current mirror circuits drawn without RE, that is to say, with the emitter connected to the rail (here ground). That is fine in an IC where Q1 and Q2 can be well matched. But using unmatched individual transistors the REs allow for some mismatch between the transistors -- the circuit no longer relies on a precise match of the VBE vs IC characteristics of the transistors.
Hope that helps.
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For testing purposes, this is just fine. As for your power source, it needs to be regulated to provide 24 volts at all points in the amperage range (4-20ma).
As insta noted, you math is way off.
Better to look at as \$R=\dfrac{V}{I}\$
If V = 24V and I = .004A, then R = 6000Ω.
If V = 24V and I = .020A, then R = 1200Ω.
Therefore, your best bet is a 4.8K pot in series with a 1.2K fixed resistor. By the way, the fixed resistor needs to be at least a 1/2 watt. (P = V × I: 24V × .020A = 0.48W)
This assumes that your circuit's input is low enough impedance to not throw this off.
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Take a look at the LT3092 from Linear. This is a current source capable of up to 200mA current source. Extremely simple to design, you can make it with a variable resistor so it sources 4mA to 20mA.
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Note that if you want to test a 4-20ma receiver of yours, 4-20mA simulators do exist. This way you would have a trusted reference in your circuit.
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David Axelrod
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Axelrod in 2015
Senior Advisor to the President
In office
January 20, 2009 – January 10, 2011
PresidentBarack Obama
Preceded byBarry Jackson
Succeeded byDavid Plouffe
Personal details
Born (1955-02-22) February 22, 1955 (age 65)
New York City, New York, U.S.
Political partyDemocratic
Susan Landau
(m. 1979)
RelationsMyril Axelrod Bennett (mother)
EducationUniversity of Chicago (BA)
David M. Axelrod (born February 22, 1955) is an American political consultant and analyst and former White House official. He is best known for being the chief strategist for Barack Obama's presidential campaigns. After Obama's election, Axelrod was appointed as Senior Advisor to the President.[1] He left the position in early 2011 and became the Senior Strategist for Obama's successful re-election campaign in 2012.[2][3] Axelrod wrote for the Chicago Tribune, and joined CNN as Senior Political Commentator in 2015.[4] As of December 2019, Axelrod serves as the director of the non-partisan University of Chicago Institute of Politics.[5] His memoir is titled Believer: My Forty Years in Politics.[4][6]
Early life[edit]
Axelrod was born on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, New York City, and grew up in its Stuyvesant Town area.[7][8] He was raised in a liberal Jewish family[9][10] and had his bar mitzvah ceremony at the Brotherhood Synagogue in Manhattan.[11] His mother, Myril Bennett (née Davidson), was a journalist at PM, a liberal-leaning 1940s newspaper, and later an advertising executive at Young & Rubicam.[12] His father, Joseph Axelrod, was a psychologist and avid baseball fan, who migrated from Eastern Europe to the United States at the age of eleven.[13][14][15][16][17] He attended Public School 40 in Manhattan. Axelrod's parents separated when he was eight years old.
Describing the appeal of politics, he told the Los Angeles Times, "I got into politics because I believe in idealism. Just to be a part of this effort that seems to be rekindling the kind of idealism that I knew when I was a kid, it's a great thing to do. So I find myself getting very emotional about it."[18] At thirteen years old, he was selling campaign buttons for Robert F. Kennedy. After graduating from New York's Stuyvesant High School[14] in 1972, Axelrod attended the University of Chicago, where he majored in political science.[19]
As an undergraduate, Axelrod wrote for the Hyde Park Herald, covering politics, and earned an internship at the Chicago Tribune. He lost his father to suicide in 1977, around the time of his graduation.[20] While at the University of Chicago he met his future wife, business student Susan Landau (daughter of research doctor Richard L. Landau),[21] and they married in 1979. In June 1981, their first child, a daughter, was diagnosed with epilepsy at seven months of age.[22]
Prior to first Obama campaign[edit]
The Chicago Tribune hired Axelrod after his graduation from college. He worked there for eight years, covering national, state and local politics, becoming their youngest political writer in 1981. At 27, he became the City Hall Bureau Chief and a political columnist for the paper.[23] He left the Tribune and joined the campaign of U.S. Senator Paul Simon as communications director in 1984. Within weeks he was promoted to co-campaign manager.[24]
In January 1990, Axelrod was hired to be the media consultant for the all but official re-election campaign of Oregon Governor Neil Goldschmidt.[26] However, Goldschmidt announced in February that he would not seek re-election.[27] Axelrod was retained by the Liberal Party of Ontario to help Dalton McGuinty and his party in 2002 to be elected into government in the October 2003 election. Axelrod's effect on Ontario was heard through the winning Liberal appeal to "working families" and placing an emphasis on positive policy contrasts like canceling corporate tax breaks to fund education and health.[28]
Axelrod worked as a consultant for Exelon, an Illinois-area utility which operated the largest fleet of nuclear reactors in the United States. [31][32]
He was an Adjunct Professor of Communication Studies at Northwestern University, where, along with Professor Peter Miller, he taught an undergraduate class titled Campaign Strategy, analyzing political campaigns, and their strategies.[35] On June 14, 2009 he received an honorary "Doctor of Humane Letters" degree from DePaul University, speaking at the commencement exercises of the College of Communication and College of Computing and Digital Media.[36]
Barack Obama presidential campaign, 2008[edit]
Axelrod first met Obama in 1992, when Bettylu Saltzman, a Chicago democrat, introduced the two of them after Obama had impressed her at a black voter registration drive that he ran. Obama consulted Axelrod before he delivered a 2002 anti-war speech,[37] and asked him to read drafts of his book The Audacity of Hope.[38]
Axelrod contributed to the initial announcement of Obama's campaign by creating a five-minute Internet video released January 16, 2007.[40][41] He continued to use "man on the street"-style biographical videos to create a sense of intimacy and authenticity in the political ads.
While the Clinton campaign chose a strategy that emphasized experience, Axelrod helped to craft the Obama campaign's main theme of "change." He was critical of the Clinton campaign's positioning, and said that "being the consummate Washington insider is not where you want to be in a year when people want change...[Clinton's] initial strategic positioning was wrong and kind of played into our hands."[42] The change message played a factor in Obama's victory in the Iowa caucuses. "Just over half of [Iowa's] Democratic caucus-goers said change was the No. 1 factor they were looking for in a candidate, and 51 percent of those voters chose Barack Obama," said CNN senior political analyst Bill Schneider. "That compares to only 19 percent of 'change' caucus-goers who preferred Clinton."[43] Axelrod also believed that the Clinton campaign underestimated the importance of the caucus states. "For all the talent and the money they had over there," says Axelrod, "they—bewilderingly—seemed to have little understanding for the caucuses and how important they would become."[43] In the 2008 primary season, Obama won a majority of the states that use the caucus format.
Politico described Axelrod as 'soft-spoken' and 'mild-mannered'[46] and it quoted one Obama aide in Chicago as saying, "Do you know how lucky we are that he is our Mark Penn?"[47] Democratic consultant and former colleague Dan Fee said of Axelrod, "He's a calming presence."[48] "He's not a screamer, like some of these guys," political advisor Bill Daley said of Axelrod in the Chicago Tribune. "He has a good sense of humor, so he's able to defuse things."[49] In June 2008, The New York Times described Axelrod as a "campaign guru" with an "appreciation for Chicago-style politics."[50]
Senior Advisor to the President, 2009–11[edit]
Axelrod with President Barack Obama
On November 20, 2008, Obama named Axelrod as a senior advisor to his administration. His role included crafting policy and communicating the President's message in coordination with President Obama, the Obama Administration, speechwriters, and the White House communications team.[51][52]
The Foreclosure Scandal[edit]
When details of the 2010 United States foreclosure crisis were publicized in 2010, notably robo-signing, Axelrod was widely criticized for downplaying the magnitude of the crisis in his comments to the press,[53][54] telling the audience of CBS News' Face the Nation that the Obama administration's "hope is this moves rapidly and that this gets unwound very, very quickly" and that he's "not sure that a national moratorium" is called for since "there are in fact valid foreclosures that probably should go forward."[55] Notably, Axelrod made this statement after several banks had voluntarily suspended foreclosures and evictions in order to investigate improprieties.[56]
Barack Obama presidential campaign, 2012[edit]
After second Obama campaign[edit]
Axelrod in Chicago in 2016
In January 2013, Axelrod established a bipartisan Institute of Politics at the University of Chicago, where he serves as director.[58] On January 23, 2013, La Stampa reported that Axelrod was helping Italian prime minister Mario Monti with his election campaign and had flown to Italy to meet with Monti ten days earlier.[59] Monti's coalition went on to come fourth with 10.5% of the vote in the Italian general election, 2013. On February 19, 2013, Axelrod joined NBC News and MSNBC as a senior political analyst,[citation needed] a position he held until September 2015 when he moved to CNN.
He is the co-founder of AKPD Message and Media, along with Eric Sedler, and operated ASK Public Strategies, now called ASGK Public Strategies, which were sold in 2009. In Feb. 2015 Axelrod's book Believer: My Forty Years in Politics was published.[61][failed verification]
In 2015, Axelrod began hosting a podcast titled The Axe Files, a series of in-depth discussions and interviews with various political figures.[62] In June of 2019[63] he started the podcast Hacks on Tap with co-host Mike Murphy, a show where the two discuss news and updates from the 2020 presidential campaign trail.[64] He also joined CNN as a senior political commentator in September, 2015.[65]
In 2018, Axelrod vocally opposed Democratic support for impeachment, arguing that if "we “normalize” impeachment as a political tool, it will be another hammer blow to our democracy".[66]
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5. ^ "Staff". University of Chicago Institute of Politics. Retrieved April 4, 2019.
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8. ^ Jonas, Ilaina; Gralla, Joan (October 22, 2009). "NY court rules against Stuyvesant Town owners". Reuters. Retrieved April 15, 2011.
9. ^ MacAskill, Ewen (May 22, 2008). "He can be cut-throat. He believes that if you're in a race, you beat the other side by almost any means necessary". The Guardian. Although Chicago is home, Axelrod, 53, was born in New York's Lower East Side, into a leftwing Jewish family, his mother a journalist and his father a psychologist.
10. ^ Kampeas, Ron (June 3, 2015). "How Bibi Alienated All His Jewish Allies at the White House". The Jewish Daily Forward.
11. ^ Rubin, Bonnie Miller (July 31, 2017). "How David Axelrod Stays True to His Jewish Roots". Haaretz.
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21. ^ O'Donnell, Maureen (June 24, 2016). "U. of C. Dr. Richard L. Landau, in-law to David Axelrod, dead at 99". Chicago Sun-Times. Archived from the original on February 4, 2018. Retrieved February 4, 2018.
23. ^ "Partners—David Axelrod". AKPD Message and Media. Archived from the original on November 8, 2008. Retrieved April 28, 2008.
25. ^ a b "The Ax-man Cometh". The Economist U.S. edition. August 23, 2008. p. 28.
26. ^ Box 203 of Goldschmidt's records is no longer an active page; Box 203 of Goldschmidt's records are here but not apparently easily searchable.
27. ^ Jaquiss, Nigel (May 12, 2004). "The 30-Year Secret: A crime, a cover-up and the way it shaped Oregon". Willamette Week.
31. ^ Fahey, Jonathan. "Exelon's Carbon Advantage". Forbes. Retrieved July 19, 2020.
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36. ^ Commencement '09[permanent dead link] DePaul University Newsline Online, May 20, 2009
50. ^ Powell, Michael (June 4, 2008). "Calm in the Swirl of History". The New York Times. p. A1. Retrieved September 5, 2015.
52. ^ "Axelrod to join Obama White House".
53. ^ The Foreclosure Fraud Scandal Just Got Harder to Ignore: by Kevin Connor. JANUARY 7, 2011 f Public Accountability Initiative (Eyes on the Ties). https://news.littlesis.org/2011/01/07/the-foreclosure-fraud-scandal-just-got-harder-to-ignore/
54. ^ Moe Tkachik. 5 Things David Axelrod Must Have Missed About The Foreclosure Thing. Washington City Paper. OCT 11, 2010. https://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/news/blog/13135897/5-things-david-axelrod-must-have-missed-about-the-foreclosure-thing
55. ^ Tom Cohen, CNN. Axelrod signals White House opposition to foreclosure moratorium. October 10, 2010 http://www.cnn.com/2010/POLITICS/10/10/white.house.foreclosures/index.html
56. ^ Binyamin Appelbaum: A Foreclosure Tightrope for Democrats. New York Times, Oct. 11, 2010.
57. ^ Libit, Daniel (September 2011). "David Axelrod's Last Campaign". Chicago magazine. Retrieved April 13, 2012.
58. ^ Johnson, Dirk (January 9, 2013). "David Axelrod on His Move to the University of Chicago". Chicago Magazine. Retrieved February 20, 2014.
59. ^ Molinari, Maurizio (January 23, 2013). "New Client For Obama Guru Axelrod: Italian PM Mario Monti, In Showdown With Berlusconi". La Stampa. Retrieved April 19, 2014.
60. ^ Wintour, Patrick (April 17, 2014). "Ed Miliband signs up top Obama adviser David Axelrod for UK election". theguardian.com. Retrieved April 17, 2014.
62. ^ "The Axe Files with David Axelrod". politics.uchicago.edu. Retrieved April 8, 2019.
63. ^ "Biden plays Hyde and go seek, Warren rising in Iowa". Hacks on Tap. Retrieved December 13, 2019.
64. ^ "About". Hacks on Tap. Retrieved December 13, 2019.
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66. ^ Vazquez, Maegan. "Axelrod, Steyer spar over Dems' impeachment calls". CNN. Retrieved November 17, 2019.
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IndustryVideo games
FoundedDecember 2006; 14 years ago (2006-12)[1]
HeadquartersShibuya, Tokyo, Japan[1]
Key people
Koichi Ishii (CEO/president)[1]
Number of employees
68[1] (2019)
Grezzo (Japanese: 株式会社グレッゾ, Hepburn: Kabushiki Gaisha Gurezzo) is a Japanese video game developer. It was founded in December 2006.[1] Koichi Ishii, known for his work on the Mana series of games by Square Enix, was hired as CEO and president of the company in April 2007.[2]
Release Game Publisher System Notes
2010 Line Attack Heroes[3] Nintendo Wii N/A
2011 The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time 3D[4] Nintendo 3DS
The Legend of Zelda: Four Swords Anniversary Edition DSiWare Ported the game to DSiWare.
2013 StreetPass Garden[5] Nintendo 3DS N/A
2015 The Legend of Legacy FuRyu Assistance for game design.
The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask 3D[6] Nintendo N/A
The Legend of Zelda: Tri Force Heroes[7] Co-developed with Nintendo EPD
2017 The Alliance Alive FuRyu Assistance for game design.
Ever Oasis[8] Nintendo N/A
2018 Luigi's Mansion[9][10][11][12] (3DS)
2019 Arc of Alchemist Compile Heart Nintendo Switch , PlayStation 4 System adviser; Kyо̄ji Koizumi.
The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening[13] Nintendo Nintendo Switch N/A
The Alliance Alive HD Remastered FuRyu Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4 Assistance for game design.
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Chapter 35 Prizes
“Not here, not now!” Lith inwardly screamed. “Until it’s over, I will be a sitting duck!” He knew that it was impossible to hold back the impurities refining process until he was back home.
He had no choice but to offer no resistance, making it as fast and painless as possible.
Soon, black ooze started being excreted from all his pores and orifices. Lith’s eyes and throat were burning from the nasty feeling the impurities inflicted on their way out.
Lith felt like a river of bile was coming out of his body.
When it finally ended, he was kneeling, hands on the ground. A huge puddle of the tar-like substance was below him, tainting the air with its putrid smell.
“Congratulations on evolving your mana core to deep cyan!” Solus voice was full of joy.
“You also should have lost at least a kilogram or two (2.2 or 4.4 pounds), judging from how much impurities you expelled this time. I can already feel the quality of your mana flow improving. My meals have never been so tasty!”
“Deep cyan?!” Lith coughed up some impurities that got stuck in his throat.
“All these years, the hard work, even risking my life against not one but two consecutive magical beasts, just for the worst cyan core possible?” He couldn’t help but feel depressed and frustrated.
“I’m still below Nana’s level, and she was born with that core! If she practiced my breathing techniques, there’s no telling how strong she would be. She could probably already topple mountains and split the sea.”
With a pulse of dark magic, he banished all the impurities into nothingness.
“Look at the bright side. Thanks to the break through, you should finally be able curing Tista. Isn’t that what you wanted from the beginning?” Solus tried to console him the best that she could.
At that thought, Lith’s mood lightened up immediately.
“You are damn right! Sometimes I am just a self-centered a*shole.”
“Sometimes?” Solus sarcastically remarked.
“Okay, fine! Most of the times I let my hunger for power get the best of me. Happy now?”
Solus giggled.
Despite having yet to use Invigoration, Lith could already perceive the world around him more vividly than ever. The colours, the smells, the sounds everything was different. It was like being born again and experiencing the world for the first time.
Still feeling light headed, he splashed the river’s cold water on his face, trying to regain his focus.
Suddenly, Lith could feel a shiver on the back of his head, his neck hair suddenly standing up.
Lith abruptly jumped back on his feet, turning around to discover that a Ry, the very same Ry from two years ago was silently walking toward him.
It had become bigger, its height at the withers reaching 1.6 meters (5’6″), and its red fur had gained shades of white, dancing in the sunlight like a wildfire.
Just trying the Soaring Hawk spell almost made Lith faint, so he was forced to cancel it while using Invigorate to regain his strength once again.
Yet Lith’s mana core was still unstable after the evolution process, and therefore unable to assimilate more world energy.
“F*ck my life! I can only escape on foot.”
Sniffing his stress and fear, the Ry spoke up.
“Fear not, Scourge, I mean no harm. On the contrary, I have come to give you my thanks. It was my duty stopping Irtu and Gerda, but you managed to precede me.”
It threw a magnificent deer he was carrying on its back at Lith’s feet. Both the skin and the antlers were in perfect conditions, aside from a single bite mark on the neck, where it had been cleanly broken.
“I noticed you humans prefer them like this, since after eating the meat you can exchange the rest for those things you call ‘money’.”
Lith didn’t feel much reassured, he decided to keep stalling while he was catching his breath and searching for the best possible escape route.
“So, you can talk too, uh? Why didn’t we have this conversation two years ago, instead of fighting?”
“Stop eyeing for an escape route. If I really wanted to kill you, I would avoid useless talk and strike when you are at your weakest. I am not arrogant and cruel like Irtu. I would not make the mistake of underestimating you again.
As for your question, it was you that attacked me first.
Also, do you know what happens when one of us speaks? Either the human faints or runs away. In both cases, they come back in numbers, even setting the woods on fire trying to kill us all.”
The Ry growled at that unpleasant memory.
Lith relaxed a bit.
“Yeah, humans get scared easily. They think themselves all high and righteous, and don’t like when someone or something they don’t recognize as an equal threatens the status quo.
By the way, sorry for the sneak attack, but you were big, scary and destroying something really precious to me.”
A light of understanding lit in the Ry’s eyes.
“You mean the annoying rock that now you wear at your finger, I see. Then it’s my turn to apologize for damaging your property and trying to kick you out of the woods. I only wanted the noise to stop, and you ceasing your attack.”
“If I have to believe your words, why do you call me Scourge? Isn’t that kind of offensive?” Lith kept moving, very slowly, towards the fastest way home, one step at the time, like he was just shifting his weight from one foot to another while chatting.
The Ry snorted, pretending to not notice it.
“It’s no offence. You killed the king in the west, and with its life you claimed its title as well.”
“That would make you the king in the east, I suppose. What’s your title?” Lith moved another step.
“The Protector. My role is to keep both humans and unruly magic beasts at bay.”
“It has a much better ring than mine. By the way, your majesty, I am not interested in kingships or messing with your turf. Feel free to take over Irtu’s region or whatever it’s called. I only hunt for my survival, not for sport or pleasure.”
“And that’s why you are still alive.” Seeing that the human was too self-conscious about his weakened state, the Ry gave up and turned back, walking towards the woods.
Lith was still scared, yet had the presence of mind to store the deer in the pocket dimension. As soon as the magical beast disappeared from his sight, Lith ran out the woods, always making Solus look out for any possible menace.
Once outside, he changed into his usual clothing, deeming the claw rip on the chest too unsettling for his parents.
The closest he got home, the weaker he felt. The adrenaline rush was fading away, his body and mind were both battered from all that had happened. A splitting headache arose, making difficult for him to think.
When Lith finally arrived at destination, he was too tired to speak or even walk to his bedroom. He sat down on the nearest chair, sighing in relief, allowing himself to relax.
The next thing he knew was that someone had put him into bed, and judging from the lighting it was already night. He closed his eyes, pondering about what to do next, and when he opened them again it was already dawning.
Tista and Rena were still asleep, Lith decided to get up and prepare the breakfast for everyone, following his normal routine. It was in that moment that he realized how much had he changed overnight.
Not only his body was brimming with strength, he could also perceive his own mana flow without the assistance of any breathing technique. Lith needed but a thought to start floating, managing to get out of the bedroom without making the wood creak.
What had required so much focus just the day before, now barely needed his attention.
“If a tier one spell has become so easy, what about chore magic?”
Lith discovered that now he was able to use up to six spells at once, without the use of any gesture or magic word to help coordinate them.
Soon many small vortexes were cleaning every nook and cranny of the dining room, the air in the room getting warmer by the second, while plates and cutlery floated in their place.
By the time the table was laid, he had also finished washing and drying the floor.
“I have performed in less than a minute what usually took me half an hour! I have still a lot of time before having to wake everyone up. Solus, how do you feel?”
“Now that I know you are all right, just peachy. But since you were referring to my abilities, instead of my feelings…” From the tone she was quite pissed off.
“…both the Soluspedia and the pocket dimension have started expanding since your mana core stabilized.”
“And what about you?”
“Thanks for asking without any subtle hint from my side.” The sarcasm was palpable. “I am still recovering from the huge scare you gave me yesterday, but I’ll live.”
“I’m sorry, I know you wanted me to escape from Irtu and not take unnecessary risks, but I couldn’t run away and live in fear, waiting for him to find and attack my family.
I have lived too long in terror of my father, back on Earth, to let the same thing happen again. I hope you can understand.”
Wanting nothing more than change the subject to escape that awkward silence, Lith asked:
“What about Gerda’s carcass? Can we take credit for the kill or would it arise suspicions?”
“There is no problem for Gerda, history is full of promising mages, even younger than you, killing a magical beast. Since there is no way to determine how strong it was, you can say that you ambushed it successfully.
Irtu, on the other side, is more problematic. Not only his pelt is useless, making him only good for racking up merits, but its corpse shows signs of a spell that should be around tier four or five, if not above. I’d say to save it for rainy days.”
After deciding what to do with the various carcasses, Lith used the remaining time to practice Accumulation, while thinking about how to announce to his parents the treatment he had devised for Tista.
Among all the things he had gained since arriving in the new world, his family’s happiness was still the greatest prize he could strive for.
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/11769 | Main Content
mexGetVariablePtr (C and Fortran)
Read-only pointer to variable from another workspace
C Syntax
#include "mex.h"
const mxArray *mexGetVariablePtr(const char *workspace,
const char *varname);
Fortran Syntax
#include "fintrf.h"
mwPointer mexGetVariablePtr(workspace, varname)
character*(*) workspace, varname
Call mexGetVariablePtr to get a read-only pointer to the specified variable, varname, into your MEX-file workspace. This command is useful for examining an mxArray's data and characteristics. If you want to change data or characteristics, use mexGetVariable (along with mexPutVariable) instead of mexGetVariablePtr.
If you simply want to examine data or characteristics, mexGetVariablePtr offers superior performance because the caller wants to pass only a pointer to the array.
Input Arguments
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Workspace name you want mexGetVariablePtr to search, specified as const char* in C or character*(*) in Fortran. The possible values are:
Search for the variable in the base workspace.
Search for the variable in the caller workspace.
Search for the variable in the global workspace.
Name of a variable in another workspace, specified as const char* in C or character*(*) in Fortran. This is a variable name, not an mxArray pointer.
Output Arguments
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Read-only pointer to the mxArray on success, returned as const mxArray* in C or mwPointer in Fortran. Returns NULL in C or 0 in Fortran on failure.
• If you use this function in Simulink® S-functions, do not store the resulting plhs mxArray pointers in any S-function block state that persists after the MEX function finishes. Outputs of this function have temporary scope and are automatically destroyed at the end of the MEX function call.
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/11779 | Imposter Syndrome:
Releasing the Feeling of
'Not Good Enough'
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/11782 | Superfluous Travel Item I Need (Kinda): Suitcase Stickers
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Jul 22, 2010
Posted in: Products, S.T.I.N.K.s
Okay, fine – this isn’t exactly a STINK that I need.
After all, I don’t need to spend several long hours being interrogated by Homeland Security. And I don’t need to be strip searched, and, most likely, cavity searched as well.
Still, these decals are just about the funniest way I’ve seen to make your suitcase distinguishable from the countless others that come sliding down the conveyor belt in baggage claim. It’s only $25 for a set of four decals: cocaine, piles of money, sex toys, and kidnapped flight attendant (which is my least favorite – I find it too disturbing). But while the price is probably more than worth a laugh, I suspect that these stickers are bound to get you into some serious trouble …
I can hear the latex gloves squeaking in anticipation. (Photo courtesy of
It’s not that I think that TSA-holes can’t distinguish between two dimensional stickers and an actual tear in a suitcase that reveals massive quantities of cash or other suspicious or illegal items. But I do think that having a sticker like that on your suitcase is going to garner a lot of attention, and some of it will likely come from Homeland Security.
I can just see this conversation happening between two TSA-holes:
Agent 1: Ha ha ha ha ha ha. Dude, check out that suitcase! It makes it look like it’s full of cocaine!
Agent 2: We should probably do a manual search of that bag.
Agent 1: What? Dude, it’s just a sticker.
Agent 2: Yeah, but what better way to fool us than to put a cocaine sticker on a suitcase that’s actually full of cocaine.
Agent 1: Whoa. That’s heavy, dude.
Agent 2: Like, it exceeds 50 pounds?
Agent 1: What?
Agent 2: Huh?
——– End scene ———
I can’t tell if these particular suitcase decals are more or less likely to get you in trouble than the x-ray bags I mentioned in a previous STINK. But they have inspired me to write a one-act play featuring the patriotic antics of two well-meaning but moronic TSA agents. Stay tuned.
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/11797 | You are currently browsing the tag archive for the ‘French’ tag.
Behold the Crown of Liège, an ancient reliquary crown which was acquired by the Louvre in…1947? Well, despite the fact that the French State took a while to get a hold of it, the crown was manufactured back at the end of the 13th century. It consists of eight plaques each of which is ornamented with fleurons set off with precious stones and stamped oak leaves. The plaques are separated from each other by metal angels.
Each plaque also contains a tiny hollow cavity behind the central jewel. This crown was not made for a human head, but was constructed to house the contents of these cavities.
King Louis IX, was one of the most esteemed rulers of the Middle Ages: he was a legal reformer who banned trial by ordeal and introduced the concept of “presumption of innocence” to jurisprudence. Famed throughout Europe for his heartfelt Christianity, Louis acquired what he believed to be Christ’s Crown of Thorns and a fragment of the true cross from Emperor Baldwin II of the Latin Empire of Constantinople (Baldwin’s story involves the bizarre and misdirected 4th Crusade–a story for another day). At any rate, King Louis IX gave away some of the fragments of his dearly bought relics, and this crown houses them.
For a time it was believed that the crown was Parisian in origin, but art historians and jewelsmiths now believe that it was made in the Meuse Valley, which runs through Belgium, Amsterdam, and Germany.
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During the eighth century AD, as the Merovingian dynasty declined into a sad series of feuding puppet kings, the mayor of the palace became effective ruler of the Franks. In 751 this arrangement was formalized by Pope Zachary who annointed Pepin the Short, formerly palace mayor (and puppetmaster of Childeric III ) as King of the Franks—the first of the Carolingians. Pepin’s son Charles, known to posterity forevermore as Charlemagne, succeeded Pepin as king of the Franks in 768. Charlemagne became King of the Lombards from 774 onwards (he conquered Lombardy as much to end his nephew’s pretensions to the throne as to rescue the papacy, but whatever), and as the first Holy Roman Emperor from 800 to his death. Above is the crown of Charlemagne! It was the coronation crown of French kings from its creation until 1775 when it was the coronation crown of Louis XVI.
That is clearly an engraving of the crown. The real crown of Charlemagne is gone. Like Louis XVI, it was destroyed during the French revolution. Also, this was not the crown of Charlemagne per se. Historians believe this crown was actually manufactured in the late ninth century as a crown for Charlemagne’s grandson Charles the Bald (who was believed to have had long beautiful hair in real life). Additionally there is some question about whether this even was the real crown of Charles the Bald or whether it was switched with a similar crown made for a queen at the end of the 12th century. One of the two of them was melted down in 1590 by the Catholic League during the Siege of Paris. It is unclear if the crown destroyed in the French revolution was the 9th century original or the 12th century queen’s crown.
There is a lot of duplicity in history, particularly involving crowns, the ultimate status items which invest their wearer with supreme authority. Based on this black-and white illustration, it is a bit hard to tell what the precious stones of the Crown of Charlemagne are, but at least it is possible to clearly see the distinctive fleurs de lis (although admittedly, these were only added in 1180…)
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Today’s post is largely visual: here is a French Gothic Revival Bookstand made of ebony inlayed with wood, mother of pearl, and precious metals. The beautiful carvings are ivory. Carved in 1839 for the Duc D’Orleans, the piece evokes French renaissance furniture while exemplifying the apex of 19th century joinery and carving.
Here is a diadem made of diamonds from 1904. It was created by Chaumet during its glory years under Joseph Chaumet (who remade the 18th century jewelry house into an international boutique). Chaumet was an artist who looked for inspiration in unexpected sources, so this crown of diamonds is made to look like the stalactites in a cave, dripping with scintillant water. The piece was originally owned by Louis Cesar, Marquis of Lubersac, who was an esteemed senator of the Third Republic. He commissioned the piece for his daughter-in-law. It is so beautiful against a black velvet background, but I wonder if it is annoying to wear!
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/11820 | Common header for tab pages
It seems that you do not recommend using a single header implemented on all tab pages, correct (in this case an ion-header inside tabs.html)? The problem is that I get a user avatar from firebase storage. That has to be retrieved on every tab change. There doesn’t seem to be a way to call a function on tab change plus this get is redundant on every page but I can get it from local storage. Is there a call on tab change?
Why can’t you just store it in an injected provider?
What you should do is actually have an ion-header not in the tabs.html, but in each view that is loaded in the tabs.
For example using the tabs sample as base, home, about, and contact.html all have their own header.
What you can use is the tab rootParams input and pass that data down to each tab. This way, you’re only getting the data from firebase once, and it’s still working with the separate headers.
Can I two way bind rootParams because the download url is gotten async?
// Get the download URL
avatarRef.getDownloadURL().catch(err => {
console.log('oh no');
}).then((avatarUrl) => { = this.user.avatar = avatarUrl;
I passed and object and it seems to be fixed. So it’s now not directly into
Can’t we have one header so to avoid making a change in all tabs instead one place, when we have a header change?
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/11821 | Ionic 4 lifecycles not behaving
I have an ionic 4 app. I am using angular 8.
I have a menu defined in the app.component.ts. I have a table defined there and route to different pages with the angular router where page.url is defined in the table.
On each page I define a ngOnit, ngOnDestroy, ionViewDidEnter, ionViewDidLeave with a console.log in each function.
I notice that when I go from page one to page two ionViewDidLeave followed by ngOnDestroy is called as expected. When I go back to the first page from page two I see ionViewDidLeave called but NOT ngOnDestroy. If I go to page three from page two I do see ionViewDidLeave followed by ngOnDestroy as expected.
In another case if I have a page four and if I leave page four to go to page one neither ionViewDidLeave or ngOnDestroy is called. But if I leave page four to go to page two I do see both onViewDidLeave and ngOnDestroy called.
Can anyone offer a possible explanation as to why I am having these discrepancies?
To solve my issue I had to do the following when routing:
// When true, navigates while replacing the current state in history.
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/11822 | • 0_1461258554683_Screenshot_129.png
This is what I see when I log on o-O
Could this be fixed or is it just my minecraft?
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• CraftMiner
Do you get a similar graphical glitch on other packs or Vanilla? Also, what OS are you using? (e.g. Windows 10, Windows 8.1, Windows 7, Ubuntu, Mac OSX, etc…)
• No only on this server, and I am on windows 10.
• CraftMiner
Okay, I’m not really aware in-depth how Steve’s Adventure Pack backend works, but I assume it’s mostly just plain Forge + Optifine, with any additional mod rendering handlers.
I’ll be needing to know the components inside your PC/Laptop/2-in-1/Convertible/Tablet/other and a log from the modpack from where you attempt to join this server and get that glitch. The modpack log will tell me if any, what errors are happening behind the scenes, whilst the computer specs will allow me to identify if you have a problematic component in your PC that could be causing issues with the modpack.
You can tell me what specs your PC has by performing the following steps on Windows 10:
1. Open Cortana and type in “dxdiag” and hit enter
2. On the bottom right of the window that pops up, click “Save all information…” and save it to your Desktop
3. Open up the file DxDiag.txt that is now on your Desktop, press Ctrl + A on your keyboard to select everything, then Ctrl + C to copy the contents of the file
4. Reply to this thread and start it with this: ```
then paste using Ctrl + P.
Finish your reply with the three ` again. This’ll format it so it’s easy for us to read.
You can provide us with a log of the modpack by doing this:
1. Press the Windows key and R at the same time to open the Run prompt
2. Paste this in: %AppData%\.technic\modpacks\steves-adventure-pack-20\logs and hit enter
3. Just like before, start and end your reply with ```. Paste the contents of the latest.log file inbetween.
If you have absolutely any doubt, don’t understand or are stuck, please don’t hesitate to ask for further help in getting these two things. I’m not the best at explanation… :/
• I cant post it because it doesn’t let me post more than 30,000 characters
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Ah… didn’t think of that. >.<
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/11835 | Mona Caron Outdoes Magritte
Mona CaronI was introduced to an artist this morning, Mono Caron. She is a San Francisco artist who specializes in murals. And her work is beautiful. It is expansive and varied even though it maintains a single style. It also combines nature and city life in a way that this very much in keeping with San Francisco. According to her website, “Much of Mona’s public art deals with social history and utopian possibility, and chronicles the street life of its surroundings in the past, present, and imaginary future.” So in addition to everything else, she is politically exciting too. You can see all of this and more on her website. Go check it out!
But there is one aspect of her work that I’m especially interested in: her surrealism. You don’t see this in the painting as a whole, but rather in small bits of it. For example, in one mural, a flower’s stigma becomes a fairy riding a bicycle. In another, cities are embedded inside a streamer covering vegetables—a common motif for her. Another example is her Murale Clownesco, where an acrobat holds up a miniature elephant whose trunk becomes a streamer with two scenes embedded. I’ve avoided the word up until now, but there is no escaping it: magical.
For me, the most exciting of her works is Manifestation Station. It is an addition to an enormous mural, Duboce Bikeway Mural, celebrating the bicycle path that leads riders from the east side of San Francisco (the bay) to the west side (the ocean). And for an added bit of life-art interaction that only murals can provide, the bike path runs along the mural. But that isn’t the greatest part. She was commissioned by the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency (SFMTA) to paint one of their electrical boxes. She did it so that from a specific angle, the image replaced what you are looking it, just like Magritte did in The Human Condition:
Manifestation Station - Mona CaronCourtesy Mono Caron
But this is so much better than Magritte! He focused on the object recreating exactly what it obscured. Caron creates a utopian future. Instead of the Safeway that was and still is there, she’s destroyed it in this alternate universe. All that remains is the one wall that her mural is on. (No utopia without that!) And in place of our corporate oligarchs’ market, there is a farmers’ market. And there is grass and plants and water. This is the highest form of art.
Sadly, what the SFMTA giveth, the SFMTA taketh away. Caron completed the box in the Fall of 2012. But within a year, the agency decided they needed a new box there and so Caron’s masterpiece was moved—destroying much of its contextual beauty. We still have the photograph, of course. And art is no less great because it is ephemeral. (In fact, it might be greater.) But I am so sad that I will never have the experience of standing on the northwest corner of Church and Duboce and seeing the future.
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/11840 | Read DarkPrairieFire Online
Authors: Arthur Mitchell
DarkPrairieFire (2 page)
BOOK: DarkPrairieFire
Pa never went mobile. I held the fat phone awkwardly against my shoulder, too used to the slim mobile types.
“Miss Nichols? Sergeant Smith here. Do you have a minute to talk?”
My hands tensed at my sides.
I thought, readying myself for more bullshit from the authorities, who'd been incredibly unhelpful throughout the whole thing.
I mumbled a quick reply and braced myself.
“Listen, we've followed all the leads, and we've got nothing. Most of the organized drug gangs around here are transient.”
“Transient?” I repeated the word, unsure why it filled me with such anxiety when it should've been a small relief to know they weren't here permanently.
“Yeah. There aren't any known operations based around here. At this time, we've got no reason to believe that your father was intentionally targeted.”
“Okay. What then, Sergeant, do you believe happened?”
“Well, the DEA guys think the whole thing looks like a freak accident. Wrong time, wrong place for Mister Nichols, I'm sorry to say.”
“Sure. It's just like my Pa to lay down and get run over by his killers.” I clenched my eyes shut, trying to bottle my rage, but unable to hold the poison sarcasm in any longer.
“No, no, Miss Nichols.” Smith's tone hardened. “Everybody agrees that he was dragged over to the road and forced into the dirt while they – uh, did the deed.”
I agreed, too irritated for words.
“What we're thinking is, they weren't just out to get him. They must've been on the property, and your father had the bad luck of catching them in the act – a very illegal act. These gangs don't leave any witnesses, you see, and for good reason. I'm sure Mister Nichols would've done the right thing and turned them in.”
“Yeah. He was a good man.”
“The DEA and FBI may have another look at the case when they can get around to it. But, I'm sorry,Miss Nichols...there just isn't anything strange to pursue. We're a small department, and we don't have the resources to keep this going ourselves. I hope you understand.”
Without waiting for me to hang up, the line went dead.
I slammed the receiver into its shell. My breath came hot and heavy, filled with a quiet rage like heat lightning flickering across a humid sky.
“Fucking idiots. You deserve better than this, Pa...”
More than that. I deserve to know what happened to you.
That night, I lay on my plush mattress, an odd contrast with the rickety bed frame beneath me. The squealing springs penetrated my dreams each time I tossed and turned in my sleep.
Ever since I'd taken over the ranch, my nightly visions were unsettled, to put it mildly.
Hellish. Terrifying. And sometimes, filled with a lust that frightened me, desires that shimmered as the only light in the grim darkness.
I dreamed about Ethan slipping into my room, stripped of everything but his tall hat. He sat on the edge of the bed, aggressively wrapping his hands around to touch my spine and pulling me onto his lap.
First, he covered my neck with hot kisses, slowly nibbling his way to my cleavage. But I lightly tapped his cheeks, until he met my fevered eyes.
“Don't take me lightly, baby. I want to be
good and hard. I want to be fucked by your beautiful body until I forget can save me from those thoughts, can't you? Only you.”
In my dreams, he obliged. Pinning my wrists onto the mattress, he hurled himself between my legs, parting my thighs with brute movements.
My inner fire went from balmy to scorching hot when he hiked up my gown and slipped into me. My insides stretched around his imaginary hardness, rocketing sharp satisfaction into my brain.
I couldn't ignore my animal side, my ballooning lusts. I whipped my face up to his hard, bare chest, worshiping his rocky muscles with my tongue.
He fucked me just as I demanded – like a huge hammer falling on an anvil. And, best of all, he didn't stop.
Not until I'd been crushed beneath his bulk, crammed to my very depths with his glorious fullness.
We came together, screaming with the bed springs. Ethan's tanned face contorted, and mine soon followed with its own burst of ecstasy.
His masculine groans growled like river rapids, drowning out everything, overwhelming me.
Then my rebellious mind shifted, changing everything.
I wandered along the side of a dark road, following a familiar dirt path flanked by stray weeds.
A short, but strong figure twitched on the ground. I looked up, following the direction of his dim terror – just in time to see a huge SUV rolling toward him.
I screamed with my Pa as the vehicle barreled forward, one front tire aimed menacingly at his neck.
Mercifully, I didn't hear the final sound that choked off his screams forever.
I lurched up in bed, bathed in baby blue twilight seeping in through the brittle blinds. Wiping my brow, I let my feet fall to the cold wooden floor.
It was too close to sunup to bother trying to get back to sleep.
A cool shower helped awaken me, banishing the frightful dreams for good. I craned my head up toward the refreshing ice bullets, ignoring the hot wetness still blazing between my legs.
II: Blood Money
“Yes, yes. Just make sure the guys get their checks. I'll make a decision about keeping the same payroll system next week.”
I hung up on the accounting firm with an angry tap of my finger. With a dozen things going on, there wasn't any time to use the landline and allow it to keep me chained in the kitchen.
I'd resorted to using my own phone to manage all the calls as I hauled tail around Nichols Ranch, probably depleting my precious monthly minutes in the process.
I'd stopped to catch my breath near the old fence. Had it really been three days since I'd taken over running the place full time?
It felt like three weeks. Long enough to make me regret my degree in meteorology.
I wished I'd gotten something more practical instead, like courses in business or agriculture. The glamor had worn off before I'd even completed my program. If I had another year to go, I don't think I could've finished my degree.
Truthfully, I did it for him. Sure, I started out as a bright eyed student, ready to tackle the world and become an expert on my field.
By the end, I did it for Pa. He'd always talked about how amazing it would be if I were the first in the family to get a degree.
Given recent events, I was glad I didn't take that away from him.
In the distance, my eyes caught the sun's blinding reflection shining off his roadside cross.
My heart swelled with sadness, but only for a second. My phone blipped, announcing a new text message.
I recognized Jimmy's simple text-speak right away. Exhaling sharply, I made my way behind the barn where he needed me, passing a couple younger guys who'd taken a break from the cattle pen.
“Hey! Miss Nichols...”
“Dean, right?” I stopped and squinted, noticing that the gangly man's posture seemed like he wanted to give me more than a friendly hello.
“Yeah.” He paused, smiling awkwardly. “Sure hate to tell you this, but one of the big bulls got out this morning while we were moving 'em for inventory.”
I cleared my throat loudly. He threw his hands up defensively while his partner gave me a crooked smile.
“We've got three guys after him. Should be able to hunt him down before he strays too far. I'm real sorry about all this. Just wanted to let you know.”
“Thank you,” I snapped, swinging my knees into motion, unwilling to hold up my trip to the barn with any venting.
Christ. What else can go wrong today?
I knew I wasn't in for good news from the minute I set foot in the barn. Jimmy leaned against the rim of an old cement trough, his rumpled cap balled up in one fist at his side.
“Spill it, man. What's going on now?” I asked. Maybe if I got it over with fast, it wouldn't be so bad...
I wanted my bad news to come in a single blow like a bullet. Not in spades.
“Nothing good, I'm afraid. Combine had a blowout this morning when we fired it up. We think it might be the cylinder head. Either way, we're gonna have to get a mechanic out here pronto, or else the wheat harvest isn't gonna get done this year.”
“At least it's still early,” I said, more for my benefit than his. “What about the cost?”
“Hell, lady, the labor alone's gonna be a small fortune. This ain't like fixing up a Ford pickup.” He lifted his arm, running his fingers roughly through his short beard.
“Now, the parts...that's where we can save some dough. Your Pa picked up a nice catch of machine parts a few years back, when old man McClatchy got out of the repair business and had a big sale.”
I tapped my foot impatiently. It sounded like good news, but I sensed him holding something back.
“Go on.”
“Well, they're up in the loft in this building. Trouble is, it's going to take some real work digging them out. Here...just follow me. You'll see what I mean.”
Sighing, I followed him into the barn. Jimmy ducked ahead of me.
I watched his feet disappear up the steep ladder leading to the barn's upper floor. I couldn't remember the last time I'd gone up there – certainly not since I was a little girl.
I hadn't gotten the time to explore it since I arrived. Sticking my head up near his made for a tight fit.
When he turned on the small LED flashlight he was holding, I almost lost my balance, unnerved by his mad grin. I slapped him playfully on the shoulder.
“You ought to know better! Now, what did you want to show me?”
“Just trying to lighten the mood. Take a good look around, Cat.” The bright light wagged through the darkness, revealing a pathway so small it reminded me a library with its shelves positioned much too close together.
I gasped. Crates, boxes, and uneven objects draped with silky coverings were piled as high as the eye could see.
“Yeah. I thought as much,” he whispered, switching the flashlight off.
He let me descend first, and it was just as well. I needed some air after seeing the mess. Badly.
“Are you sure they're up there?” I asked. He hadn't let me down before, and I'd never heard a single complaint from my Pa in all of Jimmy's years as a ranch manager.
But this...I had to be sure.
“Sure enough. If he'd sold off those spares, I would've known about it.” He watched me cover my forehead with my sweaty palm. “Only trouble is, like you've already figured, someone's got to go up there and dig that stuff out.”
Yeah, someone. We both know that someone is me. I don't know what's up there, but I do know it's
more than old tools and junk.
Pa hid the valuables in all that junk somewhere. As much as I trust these guys, I can't have any old
employee up there digging into it. At least, not without my supervision.
“I'll go,” I said at last. “Any chance one of those younger guys can come up with me?”
Jimmy's face tightened, and he looked at his phone. He'd just read a new message.
“Don't think it would be good to pull them away right now. Damned bull's gone halfway into Hartz property. Now, we'll have get Ethan's guys involved to get that bastard back here.”
Excitement prickled its way through me when I heard the name. I nodded coolly to him.
The last thing I needed was to betray my feelings about our neighbor to Jimmy.
“Maybe I'll pay him a visit myself. The sooner we get that bull home again, the quicker I can get up there and start looking for the parts this evening.”
He shifted anxiously. “If only it were that easy. See, the missing bull isn't the only thing going down.
I need those guys to help me fix the well pump. The regulator sending water into the troughs had some trouble this morning too. Guess it's our lucky day to have everything fall apart.”
Fists formed at my sides. I turned away from him, staring up at the high sun instead. I wanted to explode.
“Okay. Okay, okay, okay,” I muttered. “You worry about the pump. I'll go talk to Ethan and make sure everything is cool. Who knows, maybe he can help me sort through all that crap up there...”
I climbed in my small Malibu and sped off toward Hartz Ranch. The drive took my mind off the recent troubles, if only for a brief time.
Behind swaying wheat stalks and lazy cattle in the fields, the Dakota plains stretched out across the country. Flat, comforting, and free.
I hadn't realized how badly I missed them during my time in the city. I looked up into my mirror, surprised to find my narrow eyes smiling back at me.
You're free out here, girl. This is your chance to start a new life from these ashes, and who knows,
maybe snag a hot cowboy in the process.
Ethan's country house loomed tall, far more modern than the one I inherited. I parked next to it and stopped after getting out, staring up at the high reaching roof tiles broken by narrow skylights.
Least he's used to living in high places. Hm, I wonder if asking for his help isn't so stupid after all.
I looked around his land, impatient and searching for someone, preferably the man himself. Several workers shuffled near what looked like a big garage, too distant to answer my questions.
As if on cue, Ethan's large truck appeared along the white picket fence he'd thrown up near his backyard. I waved, smiling to him as he approached and settled his vehicle next to mine.
“Cat Nichols! I think I already know why you're here,” he said. I grasped his big hand, slowly filling my lungs with air as his fingers tightened around mine, and then darted away.
“Yeah, er – the bull situation. I'm guessing you know all about it?”
“Damned straight. Couple of my guys cornered him just a few minutes ago. They're helping load him into the trailer your men brought over as we speak.” He smiled strong and casually.
My heart dipped into a puddle. It was the kind of smile that felt like it would wash away all my worries with a magic quirk of the lips.
“Good. I'm happy to hear it.” My voice wavered. I hoped I didn't sound
“You bet. I'm sure the last thing you need are any more worries. I heard all about how the police dropped the ball.” He kicked the ground with one boot, sending a rock bouncing several feet away.
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Lifting mechanism is installed on the trolley, it is composed of electric motor, coupling, transmission shaft, brake, reducer, drum, trolley, wire rope and hook assembly. When the lifting mechanism is connected to the power supply, brake releases. With motor’s forward or reverse turn, the power (torque) transports to reducer through coupling, transmission shaft, coupling with brake wheel, it reduces speed, and turns the high speed and low torque into low speed and large torque, so that to drive the drum turn. Both ends of the whole wire rope wears round fixed pulley hook, then respectively fixed at the two ends of drum, due to the drum’s forward and reverse turn, the pulley hook lifts up and down, so as to lift material up and down.
How does trolley travelling mechanism work?
First start the trolley mechanism, the electric motor is connected to power, and the brake releases. Motive power transmits to reducer through coupling, it can turn motor’s high speed and low torque into low speed and large torque, thus the reducer has the function that reduces the speed and increases the torque. The torque from reducer transports through transmission shaft and drives the wheels run on the rail, so that trolley travels on the rail right and left horizontally.
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Common crane travelling mechanism has four wheels, which are set under the lower cross beam. When the wheel pressure increases, more wheels are needed. Crane travelling device can achieve lifting along the rail direction, back and fro. It has two drive way, centralized drive and respective drive. Centralized drive is suitable for small span, light duty. Thus most industrial cranes adopt respective drive, not centralized drive.
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Theexchange rate is the value of one country’s currency in terms ofanother country’s currency. The exchange rate has two quotationswhich are either direct or indirect. A direct quotation is when acurrency of another country is articulated in terms of the localcurrency while an indirect quotation is when a local currency isarticulated in terms of another country’s currency (Ghatak &Sánchez-Fung, 2007). There are various theories that explainexchange rates such as interest rate parity theory and purchasingpower parity.
InterestRate Parity Theory
Interestrate parity theory is considered as a primary decree in theinternational market (Piersanti, 2012). This theory argues that thedissimilarity in the exchange rate between two countries is the sameas the divergence between the forward exchange rate and the spotexchange rate. The theory posits that investors will be uninterestedin the difference of the interest rate that will be offered bydifferent financial institutions in two countries (Wang, 2009).However, this condition does not always hold since sometimesinvestors can earn reckless gains from covered interest arbitrage.Interest rate parity theory assumes that there is free movement ofcapital amid two countries, and domestic and foreign assets areperfectly substitutable. This means that expected returns on domesticassets will be the same as the exchange rate. In order to makearbitrage profits impossible, when the interest rate on the foreigncurrency is dissimilar to that of the domestic currency, forwardexchange rate must be higher than spot exchange rate by a largeamount (Ghatak & Sánchez-Fung, 2007). For interest rate paritytheory to hold, covered interest arbitrage must be in place.
InterestRate Parity Theory = Ft,T= St(1 + idx T/360)/(1 + ifx T/360).
id= domestic nominal risk
if= foreign nominal risk
St= time t spot rate (value of domestic currency in terms of foreigncurrency)
Ft,T= forwardrate for delivery at date T and time t
Take,for instance, a company in Japan wishes to calculate a one-yearforward rate between Japanese yen and the United States dollar. Spotyen is selling at 148 Japanese yen per one US dollar. Japanese yenhas an interest rate of eight percent per year while the US dollarhas an interest rate of 9 percent per year. Therefore, forward ratewill be as follows
Ft,one year= St(1 + id)/ (1 + if)= 148 JPY/USD * (1 + 0.08) / (1 + 0.09) = 146.64 JPY/USD.
PurchasingPower Parity Theory
Purchasingpower parity provides a relationship between prices of goods andservices and the exchange rate (Wang, 2009). For example, in case theprice of one ounce of gold in Japan is higher than one ounce inCalifornia, then traders will buy gold in Japan and sell it inCalifornia. This trade is expected to continue until the time pricesequalize between the two countries.
Thefixed version of purchasing power parity theory is
Stppp= domestic price level (pd)divided by foreign price level (pf)
Consideran example where, an average consumer in Japan consumes a basketworth 1241.2 yens while, in America, an average consumer uses goodsand services worth 755.3 dollars. Then, the equilibrium exchange ratewill be
Stppp= PUSA/PJapan= USD 755.3/ YEN 1241.2 = 0.6085 USD / YEN. This means that oneJapanese yen is equivalent to 0.6085 US dollars. Purchasing powerparity theory is more accurate than the interest rate parity theory.
ExchangeRate Exposure
Thistype of exposure affects companies that are concerned with globaltrade. In such cases, the exchange rate fluctuates when the companieshave already committed themselves to financial obligations (Ghatak &Sánchez-Fung, 2007). This makes them suffer from huge losses.Companies can use the hedging strategy to minimize losses.Transaction exposure is usually felt by a company that is tradingusing foreign currencies. More funds are often required from thebuyer’s side to make the transaction complete. For example, assumethere are two companies A which is based on US and B which is basedin Japan. The transaction between these two countries will be doneusing Japanese yen as the local currency. By the time the deal isbeing signed, the exchange rate between the two countries is 1 $:1.64 Yen. This implies that company A will pay one dollar to companyB for every 1.64 yens. However, transaction exposure will set in whenthe exchange rate changes before the transactions are over. Changescan be in favor of company A or against it. When changes favor A,then A will use less dollars for every 1.64 yens.
Translationexposure is the probability that the income, equities, assets orliabilities of a company will adjust if the exchange rate changes.Companies that can be affected by translation exposure are the onesthat record their assets in foreign currencies (Piersanti, 2012).Also, firms that produce goods that are consumed in foreign countriessuffer from translation exposure. For example, if a company ownsproperties worth one million yens in Japan and the exchange rate isone dollar is equivalent to 1.64 Yen. These properties are worth609,756.098 dollars. If the exchange rate changes to 1$: 1.50 Yen,the value of properties will change to 666,666.667 dollars. Thisimplies that the change in exchange rate has increased the value ofassets from 609,756.098 to 666,666.667 dollars.
Thistype of exposure is caused by unexpected fluctuations of currency ina company’s potential cash flow. The exposure often affects themarket value of a company. Economic exposure is usually difficult tohedge because it exposes greater risks to companies that havebranches in foreign countries and mainly deal with foreigncurrencies. For example, assume company A is based in America andgets over 50 percent of its revenues from other branches that arelocated in foreign countries (Wang, 2009). In its forecasting, it hasincorporated a gradual decline of the value of the dollar againstforeign currencies in the next two to three years. However, the valueof the dollar appreciates instead of depreciating. Therefore, thecompany will suffer from economic exposure since the revenues thatthe company generates from foreign countries will be lower afterconversion into dollars, thus reducing profits.
ForecastingExchange Rates
Exchangerate forecasting helps in evaluating risks and gains involved in theglobal business environment. Two methods that can be used to forecastexchange rate are the econometric model and time series model. Themethods are discussed below
TheEconometric Model
Theeconometric model considers factors that are believed to influencethe movement of a particular currency (Wang, 2009). Econometriciansuse the factors to come up with a model of calculating exchange rate.For example, if GDP, growth in income (IGR), and interest ratedifference (INT) are believed to influence exchange rate betweenJapanese yen (JYN) and US Dollar (USD), then this model can be usedto calculate the exchange rate equilibrium as follows: USD/ JYN = a+ x (INT) + y (GDP) + z (IGR) where, x, y, and z are co-efficient.
TimeSeries Model
Thismodel is considered technical and is based on the assumption thatprice patterns of the past can be used to predict the future patternsof prices. This same case applies to the foreign exchange rate. Thereare programs that use data to generate models that are used toproject exchange rate stability.
Futureand Forward Contracts Mitigation
Inforward and future contracts, the trading parties make an agreementof buying and selling of an asset for a price settled today (theforward price) but the payments are to be made on a later date.Contracts negotiations are based on future exchange rates. Thismeasure cautions companies against transaction exposures.
Itis a type of mitigation whereby an investor takes a new position bypurchasing a good that has price movements that are similar to theprice movement of the goods he initially wanted to buy. It cautionscompanies from transaction exposure.
Putand Call Options
Aput option is the option to buy or sell stock when a person thinksthat the price of assets is going to drop. A call option gives aperson the right to buy the stock at a given price before theexpiration date. This protects companies from economic exposure.
MoneyMarket Hedge
Thismeasure protects companies from currency risks through locking inpartner’s currency (Wang, 2009). It protects companies fromtransaction exposure. For example, consider a case where company Afrom Germany and company B from the United States are engaged in thetransaction of selling and buying clothes however, the two companieshave an agreement on the exchange rate that they need to follow. Insuch a scenario, an increase or decrease in the exchange rate wouldnot affect the transactions of the two companies.
Afirm can caution itself from transaction exposure by reconstructingits operations. Such reconstruction of operations will help in theefficiency of carrying out day-to-day activities (Ghatak &Sánchez-Fung, 2007). For instance, consider company C from Japanthat buys spare parts from the United States. When the exchange ratebetween Yen and dollar is not favorable, the company may restructureits operations of purchasing spare parts.
Ghatak,S. & Sánchez-Fung, J. R. (2007). Monetaryeconomics in developing countries.Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
Piersanti,G. (2012). Themacroeconomic theory of exchange rate crises.Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Wang,P. (2009). Theeconomics of foreign exchange and global finance.Berlin: Springer-Verlag. |
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Comparison of acquisition techniques for GNSS signal processing in geostationary orbit
Abstract : GPS signal processing in geostationary environment is more difficult than for a classical receiver on Earth in normal conditions. There are numerous differences between the GPS signals that an Earth user receives and the signals that a geostationary satellite receives. The specific and main characteristics of the GPS signal received by a geostationary satellite are the following: high C/No values only for ray tangential to the earth, very important Doppler values (+/-15kHz), and poor Dilution Of Precision factor (usually higher than 5). A GPS/Galileo receiver onboard a geostationary satellite has to deal with these specific constraints. Several acquisition strategies can be envisaged so as to produce a point position. To reduce the delay and Doppler uncertainty and to get the navigation data, we could for example choose a strategy where some of the data (such as ephemeris or almanacs) are downloaded from Earth, but this increases the complexity and the cost of the receiver and of its integration in the satellite. Our aim in this paper is to use acquisition techniques which work in a global autonomous acquisition strategy. So the receiver does not use aiding data". In this case, the chosen acquisition technique must be really effective at least down to the demodulation threshold, and that threshold needs to be lowered to its minimum. The aim of this paper is to present 3 different unaided acquisition schemes and to compare their performances to process the GPS/Galileo signals in the particular context of a geostationary orbit. The first method consists in a classical FFT acquisition. This technique will be used as a reference to evaluate the performances of the other techniques. The second scheme called Half Bit Method (developed by M.Psiaki) is a method which allows long coherent integration time without knowing the data bit transition time. It avoids losses due to a bit transition occurring within the coherent integration time. The last acquisition technique studied is known as "double block zero padding" method. The main interest of this method is its rapidity and also, its low computational cost. The paper presents the test acquisition results over one standard day for a given geostationary orbit position. The work presented shows the statistics of successful acquisition as well as misdetection over one day for the three acquisition techniques. The length of signal required to achieve a minimum successful detection rate is also investigated. Due to the weakness of the considered signals and the power difference between the different received signals inducing cross-correlation, it is often necessary to process more than 1 second sometimes around 2 or 3 seconds. In this paper, we focus on an autonomous acquisition strategy, so we consider the receiver does not use "aiding data" downloaded from an earth link. Then, so as to perform a precise positioning, we need to demodulate the navigation message to extract the previous data. This is also necessary in order to reduce the Doppler uncertainty and so, to reduce the processing time. Thus, the paper considers several data demodulation thresholds (from 24dBHz to the usual 27dBHz value) and assesses the impact on the data demodulation and the consequence of a possible bit error on the final calculated position. Finally, we can compare the 3 acquisition methods in regards with their efficiency towards the different values when they are processed onboard a GEO satellite.
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For the past 3 hours since the bus station, Greg had been trying to tell his friend the "darker" (no pun intended) side of Coxville since he left.
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"No disrepect Bro, but the women in Coxville are nothing but sluts for black men. It doesn't matter if the ladies are black, white, latinas or Any foreign chicks. Highschool girls, college Co-Eds, Housewives or some Rich bitch Milfs. All of them are all huffing bitches in heat for black brothas like you." He said, pointing an accusing finger at shawn who just rolled his eyes.
"I'm half in half Greg. My mom was black, dad was white. I'm a brown skin guy." Shawn said only for Greg to raise an eyebrow.
"That makes you an even bigger target my friend. You just haven't seen it since you went to college out of town before they could sink their claws into you. Now that you're back, I'm sure you'll be having 10 baby-mamas by the end of the week." Greg said, nodding like some wise prophet as Shawn just sighed. Greg looked at him. "Still don't believe me? Man I'm telling you, these last few weeks Judge Darren hill has been dealing with nothing but Divorce and settlement cases. All of em being some hot housewife cleaning out there ex-husbands so they can warm the bed of some black dude.
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Long time ago the qualification for getting some hot pussy like that was a big dick and being black. Now, you just gotta be black." Shawn wondered if he needed a new white friend.
His must be broken. ############################### After dropping off his stuff at his empty house. (His mother had moved to Los Angeles a while back.) Shawn had cleaned up, changed clothes and gone shopping. Mom's old Ford still worked and had gas, lucky for him. He did wonder a little at all the black guys rolling up with some beautiful white highschool chicks.
He got some brotherly hugs from some old friends from the block too, all of them with a white or black girl by their side who greeted him too, looking him up and down hungrily.
He never had been much in the muscles department, though he was a looker, taking his father's handsome qualities. He was driving back home sometime at around 6:00pm when trouble seemed to start. Flashing blue and red lights to be exact. "Fuckit all, at least the cops are still the same no matter what hood you crawl out of." Shawn muttered. He parked on the roadside and waited till he heard the familiar tapping of boots on the roadside gravel, taking down his window.
"Evenin officer." He got that far before his eyes bugged out. What the hell were they feeding the women in Coxville? He needed some of that shit.
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He had to seriously stop himself from gaping at the huge and firm bust that seemed to strain against the dark blue female officer uniform. The uniform did nothing to hide the figure and curves on the officer herself. Her brown hair was pulled into a tight bun and her eyes covered with large dark shades, her pouty lips covered in pink lipstick.
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The sight of her holstered gun did bring him back to earth though. "Step out of the vehicle sir and place your hands on the hood. Are you a coxville county resident?" She asked seriously, looking him up and down critically as he got out of the car and placed his hands on the hood as instructed.
"Yes ma'am. Just been out of town for a while. College and all you know." Shawn answered. The officer's eyes seemed to rise unbelievably behind her shades. "College huh? That will be a first here. Most of you black boys just finish high school and laze about." She said as she began to frisk him.
He looked back at the badge to see her name. "Officer Karla swift" he thought mentally. She must have entered the force when he left since he didn't recognize the name. She had to be about 28 or 29 in age. Suddenly her hands moved slowly to his groin and he gulped as her soft hands seemed to trace his package. What the fuck was going on!!!? "Hmm, do you have a concealed weapon in your trousers sir?" Officer swift asked, something entering her voice that he didn't quite get.
"No ma'am. Ahem, that would be my." He didn't get a chance to answer as she turned him around and squatted in front of him.
"You want to play games boy? This can't wait till the station. I'm just going to have to strip search you myself." She said, slipping off his belt and beginning to pull off his dark trousers despite his weak protests. This bitch must be crazy. "Ma'am i don't think thats." There was a FLOP sound and a Crack as her glasses were hit off of her face hard, landing on the ground broken as the now visible green eyes staring at 7 and a half inches of uncut dark cockmeat that slid from her face to plop onto her firm and heavy breasts, knocking away her small gold ace of spades necklace aside and into view as she gulped.
"Oh Hell." ############################## "What's your name stud? And where have you been all my life?" Swift said, looking at the thick and veined throbbing flesh of black dick that shawn had carried around since highschool and never used.
"Shawn. Officer Swift.
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Shawn oaks." He said as he looked down at the mesmerized officer still trying to comprehend the mass of cock in front of her. "Call me karla, Honey. I think we'll be seeing a lot of each other after this." she said breathlessly.
Her eyes went down to his two hanging jizz eggs, the heavy nuts swinging low and heavy. Her soft hand went down to cup the heavy orbs as she looked up at him, licking her pouty lips and her mouth watering though did see a glint of gold on her finger.
"I hope you don't mind stud, but i havent had my dinner yet and this cock seems to have something good for me. And don't worry about the ring. I'm divorced.
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Or at least I'm about to be." karla said, muttering the last few words so shawn wouldn't hear, throwing her cap to the side as she undid her hair from its tight bun, letting her long brown locks flow freely down to her back as she gazed sultrily at him.
Shawn could only gulp. "Sure." She smiled, her hands first moving to unclasp her front as she let loose the two huge tits that finally were free from their constraints, each of her pink nipples hard and erect.
"You like, babe." she asked as Shawn just nodded, his mouth going dry at the sight. "Thank Heaven for Coxville and its women." he mittered as karla giggled. Slowly she knelt near his cock and leafted the thick meat up, letting her wet tongue snake over the proud, heavy and seed filled spunk pods, savouring the flavour of the delicious and dark jizz orbs, wondering how many sluts had done so before her.
She turned to his fat left nut, engulfing the fat orb in her mouth as she suckled and nursed on the jizz filled nut lovingly, her mouth leaving a thick trail of hot spit connected to her pouty lips as she released the now bloated egg from her hot mouth to give service to the right.
Shawn relaxed now in pleasure, leaning on his car hood as the sexy Coxville police officer spent a good 40 minutes servicing his two dark spunk orbs, looking up triumphantly at his pleasure filled faced. She rolled and suckled on the bloated sperm eggs hot saliva accumulating and streaking down his brown thighs, smearing her lips and mouth in hot spit slobber. It was time for more. Officer Karla flipped her long brown hair aside and lowered her face down to the large dark dick, peeling back his dark foreskin to reveal his engorged head was near her lips, and he could feel her breath on it.
She pushed her pouty pink lips past his head, inviting his cock into her warm mouth. He gasped as her descent on his dark shaft brought more of him into her wet mouth, swallowing the thick dick, until it hit the back of her throat. Right as he thought she had reached her limit, she shoved her lips past the last inches and formed a seal at his base.
"Damn, this is a black cock slut and a hot one to boot. If i play my cards right, I'll be tapping this slut on the daily." Shawn thought through a pleasure filled haze as the slut in question began sucking him off with with more speed, having adapted to his length.
To think that a lady he met less than an hour ago was giving him a blow job better than he ever could have imagined. And she was a police officer on duty to boot. She coated his black cock with her hot spit, making it slippery and wet as She teased the underside of the black shaft with her tongue as stuffed it in and out of her mouth. She moved up and down his dick with hard, sucking intensely. The head punching the back of her throat everytime.
This went on for some time, in between karla gripping and jerking his cock while her mouth made its way once more to a big, black, round testicle. She sucked on the heavy orb and teased it with her tongue as before, savoring the salty flavor. She moved her efforts to the next ball, sucking more intensely as she polished his nuts. Finally it was too much. As the Coxville police officer swallowed his black dick once more, he got a grip of her head and long brown hair and held her at the base of his cock, his black dick at the entrance to her tummy.
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Eat that Black Jizz BITCH!!" Her green eyes widened as shawns cock began spewing thick and large loads of cum, feeling the veins of his cock pulse as he delivered her prize, the huge and first load of his backed up black balls straight into her hungry tummy. "Ohh Fuck! I can feel that huge load of black cum going down my throat. Damn was he backed up. It feels like a years supply of seed and he is still going." karla thought.
Finally releasing her head and bringing his cock back up, karla had the pleasure of tasting his load as he left nothing but his still spewing tip in her mouth, her lips making a seal to drink down his sperm. A full minute later and he finally pulled off with a pop, a thick trail of jizz sputtering from his tip and karla's pouty lips as she finally swallowed and took the last salvoes of shawns cum onto her breasts and hair.
He left her cleaning and lapping up the jizz on her huge tits as he hastily scribbled something onto her notepad and tossed it to her as he put on his trousers. "There's my address, Officer Slut.
You want more of this Big black cock, maybe up that white bitch cunt of yours, you know where to find me. Come in uniform, you're much sluttier that way. Hope you enjoyed the meal." He said, getting back into his ford, more relaxed as he drove back home.
He didn't mind the new Coxville. It wasn't half bad. Officer karla swift rubbed her cum full belly and licked her lips as she looked at her notepad.
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"Oh, the women of Coxville are going to just LOVE you Shawn oaks." She had a friend to call as soon as she got home. Something tells me Jenny summers was going to want to hear this. |
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What Vitamin Ought to You Take for Hair Loss?
Envision observing day by day as your hair starts to drop out whereas brushing, and there does not show up to be much supplanting it on your head. Slight diminishing gets to be clear and you realize you’re losing your hair. So what sort of vitamins can you take to keep your hair, whether it’s to anticipate it from falling out or offer assistance it develop back? Or superior however, in the event that your hair has not however begun to shed unreasonably, what vitamins can you take for hair loss presently which will offer assistance fight it off?
Vitamin A
Vitamin A is an antioxidant that helps in scalp oil generation. It’s imperative to note that abundance sums of vitamin A can have undesirable impacts, by repressing hair development, and can indeed be poisonous. The every day prescribed measurements is 5,000 IU be that as it may the Linus Pauling Established of Oregon College has famous expanded chance of creating bone illnesses such as osteoporosis related with 5,000IU admissions, and thus a few supplement producers have decreased substance to 2,500IU.
Fair as the title proposes, the Bs are complex…there are numerous of them, and a few of them depend on one another in arrange to operate. B12 can be dependable for hair misfortune by itself essentially due to a insufficiency. Habitually infusions of B12 can resolve hair loss issues. It isn’t put away well by the body and is required for the body’s utilize of oxygen and for digestion system. It is required for actuation of B6 and makes a difference in making niacin. B12 is most absorbable when taken with vitamin C and the daily suggested dosage is 50mg. B6 is additionally thought to prevent hair misfortune. It moreover helps in hair coloring and includes a major part in creation of niacin, which is required for solid circulation. B6 must be completely gotten through eat less or supplementation since the human body cannot synthesize it by itself. The daily suggested dosage ranges from 1.3 to 2mg. B3, moreover known as niacin, is thought to decrease cholesterol within the scalp, which represses hair development. It is additionally basic for sound blood circulation to the body and scalp. The every day suggested dosage is 16 to 18mg.
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Vitamin C
Vitamin C could be a normal antioxidant and makes a difference keep up sound hair. It helps in synthesis of collagen and is promptly accessible within the slim down. The every day prescribed dosage is 90 to 120mg.
Vitamin E
Vitamin E is imperative to scalp circulation and cell recovery, both vital for hair development. The every day prescribed dosage is 15 to 19mg. |
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/12031 | Building a Linux cluster using PXE, DHCP, TFTP and NFS
Building a small Linux cluster is a lot simpler than I thought it would be. That said, there are a number of snags and pitfalls along the way, and it’s hard to find a comprehensive and up to date set of instructions online. There are also different approaches, either doing everything manually or using a system such as LTSP. This post describes my experiences setting up a cluster manually.
Warning: This is a long post! The steps are all relatively simple but there are a lot of them. Feedback is welcome in the comments section at the bottom. And if you need a Linux cluster but the instructions below sound like too much work, we’re available for hire! Contact us for a quote.
The plan
The basic idea is to have one cluster head node, with one or more identical worker nodes. The head node should have two network cards and is essentially a conventional Linux install. One network card will be connected to your main network, and presumably from there to the internet. The other network card will be connected to a switch, to which the worker nodes are then connected. The worker nodes boot over this small network and get their configuration from the head node. They all share the same read-only NFS filesystem, although if you need local scratch space, e.g. for /tmp, that’s fairly straightforward to set up. I used Ubuntu 16.04 but similar steps will apply to other Linux distros.
Before starting this guide, you’ll need to install Ubuntu onto your head node. I won’t go into the details of how to do that as there are many, many guides online about setting up an Ubuntu server. Once that’s done, you’ll need to configure each of the worker nodes to boot using PXE. This is usually a BIOS/EFI setting, specific to the particular model of computer. Again, there are plenty of instructions online about how to do this so I won’t cover it here. Come back once you’ve sorted out those two parts. Finally (and optionally) you may want to get the network hardware MAC addresses of the worker nodes. Once again, searching the internet is your friend. I’ll just mention here that if you boot a live CD on each head node in turn and run ifconfig, you’ll see something like this:
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 01:23:45:67:89:00
UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
Interrupt:20 Memory:d0700000-d0720000
lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr: Mask:
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:65536 Metric:1
RX packets:8286 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:8286 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1
RX bytes:699676 (699.6 KB) TX bytes:699676 (699.6 KB)
The HWaddr part on the eth0 line is its MAC address. If you have multiple network interfaces, make sure you note down the MAC address of the one you’re going to use to connect the node to the cluster.
Done with the prerequisites? Right, you’re now ready to start the configuration. All of these instructions should be carried out on the head node. Don’t touch the worker nodes until the end. All commands should be run as root, I’m just too lazy to keep typing sudo. If you run sudo -s before you start, that will get you a root prompt.
DHCP server
First, install a DHCP server using apt-get install isc-dhcp-server. This allows the head node to hand out IP addresses to the worker nodes. You then need to configure it by editing the file /etc/dhcp/dhcpd.conf. Here’s an example one, assuming that the network addresses are 192.168.144.x (chosen so as not to conflict with most common network setups):
allow booting;
allow bootp;
subnet netmask {
option domain-name "";
option domain-name-servers;
option broadcast-address;
option routers;
option subnet-mask;
filename "/pxelinux.0";
# force the client to this ip for pxe.
# This isn't strictly necessary but forces each computer to always have the same IP address
host node21 {
hardware ethernet 01:23:45:a8:50:26;
host node22 {
hardware ethernet 01:23:45:a8:50:1e;
If you have more worker nodes, add more host nodeXX { ... } blocks. As I mentioned, this part is optional, but can be helpful in debugging. The hardware ethernet XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX part is the MAC address you looked up earlier.
One quick note: if, like me, you end up here because you were trying to get LTSP to work and decided it was too hard to debug, make sure that the file /etc/ltsp/dhcpd.conf is NOT present on the head node! The Ubuntu DHCP server prefers the LTSP DHCP config file to its own, so you may end up bashing your head against the wall wondering why your changes aren’t being recognised.
Install a TFTP server with apt-get install tftpd-hpa. Configure it by putting the following in /etc/default/tftpd-hpa:
TFTP_OPTIONS="--secure --listen --create"
Make sure you replace the IP address with the correct one for your setup, if you decided to use a different one to the one in the DHCP section above.
Now put the necessary files for boot in the /var/lib/tftpboot directory. You’ll need a kernel image, an initrd to go with it, a BIOS image, a PXELINUX image, and a configuration file to go with the PXELINUX image. For simplicity’s sake I’m assuming that your worker nodes have pretty similar architecture to the head node so you can reuse the kernel, and boot via BIOS. You will need to research online if you want to set up PXELINUX with a different kernel or boot method. Here are the commands you need:
cp /boot/vmlinuz-$(uname -r) /var/lib/tftpboot/
cp /boot/initrd.img-$(uname -r) /var/lib/tftpboot/
mkdir /var/lib/tftpboot/pxelinux.cfg/
Finally, create the file /var/lib/tftpboot/pxelinux.cfg/default and put the following contents in it:
LABEL linux
KERNEL vmlinuz-4.4.0-24-generic
APPEND root=/dev/nfs initrd=initrd.img-4.4.0-24-generic nfsroot=,ro ip=dhcp ro
You’ll need to replace the exact kernel and initrd.img filenames with the ones you copied into /var/lib/tftpboot. If you chose a different IP address block, you’ll need to change that part too. The /clusternfs part is the location of the worker node filesystem on the head node. We’ll set this up in the next section. You can use a different path if you want, but you’ll need to make sure it’s consistent between TFTP and NFS. The final line is to work around a bug in Ubuntu affecting PXE boot.
Create worker node filesystem
We’re now ready to create the base Ubuntu image that the cluster nodes will boot into. Here’s how.
mkdir /clusternfs
debootstrap xenial /clusternfs/
cp -a /lib/modules /clusternfs/lib/
The final line isn’t necessary, but if you want to be able to load any extra kernel modules, e.g. for hardware sensors, you’ll need to do it. If you want a different version of Ubuntu, replace xenial with the version of your choice.
This will give you a very basic filesystem. It’s highly likely that you’ll want to customise it. For simple changes, you can just edit the files in /clusternfs directly. For more complicated things, such as installing extra software using apt-get or adding users via adduser, you’ll need to chroot into the worker node setup with the command chroot /clusternfs followed by mount -t proc none /proc. Make sure to exit the chroot after you’re done by logging out of it.
Now you have your worker node filesystem set up, but you need to make it accessible over the network. To do that, we’re going to use NFS. First, install it with apt-get install nfs-kernel-server. Then edit /etc/exports and put the following line into it:
Then tell NFS to pick up the changes with exportfs -r.
You’ll also need to tell the worker nodes that the root filesystem lives on an NFS share. We’ve already told the kernel that in the PXE boot setup above, but the change needs to be made in one other place. Edit /clusternfs/etc/fstab and make sure it contains the following two lines:
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
/dev/nfs / nfs defaults 0 0
Firing it up
Now, the moment of truth. Connect all of your worker nodes to a network switch, and connect that switch to the second network card on your head node. Boot the first worker node, preferably with a monitor attached, so you can see what it’s doing. It should tell you that it’s PXE booting, and that it’s picked up an IP address. After that it will tell you that it’s loaded the kernel over the network, followed by the initrd. From there it should only be a short wait until it brings you to the standard login prompt. If it doesn’t, see the troubleshooting section below.
Assuming it worked, well done! Boot the remaining worker nodes and you now have a working Linux cluster. The following bonus points section will helpfully give you a few pointers on how you might actually use it.
Bonus points
You can run processes on the worker nodes by installing an SSH server into the worker node image. You’ll probably want to use SSH keys to allow passwordless logins from the head node. You might also want to consider something like Open MPI to manage dividing jobs up between the worker nodes rather than rolling your own job management system. Unfortunately, that’s outside the scope of this blog post, which is already far too long as it is!
All nodes will have the same hostname. This can be mildly confusing, and can cause problems with Open MPI. To get each node to dynamically set its hostname based on its IP address, add something like the following to /clusternfs/etc/rc.local:
hostname node$(ifconfig | sed -En 's/;s/.*inet (addr:)?(([0-9]*\.){3}[0-9]*).*/\2/p' | cut -d . -f 4)
Now each worker node will have the hostname nodeXX, where XX is the final octet of its IP address. Make sure you put the line above the exit 0 at the end of /clusternfs/etc/rc.local
You might want swap and/or scratch space on each worker node. To set that up, each node will need an internal disk. Make sure that you partition each one the same way, e.g. swap in partition /dev/sda1, ext4 filesystem for /tmp in /dev/sda2, etc. Then add something like the following two lines into /clusternfs/etc/fstab:
/dev/sda1 none swap sw 0 0
/dev/sda2 /tmp ext4 nodev,nosuid,noexec,noatime 0 2
There are a number of places where this can go wrong, and I can’t cover them all in depth. First, the worker nodes might try to boot from some other means than PXE boot. You’ll need to consult the documentation that came with them on how to configure that, as it varies between different motherboards and network hardware. Second, the DHCP server might not work. To troubleshoot that you’re probably best off plugging in a laptop or similar and seeing if you can get that to pick up an IP address from the head node via DHCP. After that, the worker nodes might try to PXE boot but fail to find the kernel and/or initrd. If that happens, you may find gPXE useful in debugging. Once the kernel and/or initrd are loading, the NFS mount might fail. Again, your best bet here is probably to plug in a laptop and try to mount the NFS share manually. The error messages you receive while doing that should help you track down the cause of the problem. And finally, if the worker nodes start the boot process successfully but are very slow reaching login, with error messages like “IP-Config: no response after 3 secs - giving up”, or even kernel panic due to timeouts, make sure that you’ve included the line IPAPPEND 2 in /var/lib/tftpboot/pxelinux.cfg/default. Good luck!
Just in case you’re wondering why I didn’t use LTSP: I looked at that first and spent quite a lot of time on it. After hours of trawling the internet for fixes to the worker nodes repeatedly crashing partway through the boot process and dropping down to a BusyBox prompt in the initramfs, I decided that LTSP was too complicated for me. I’m sure it’s great when you understand it and it works, but I don’t and it didn’t. The manual method might be a bit more fiddly but at least I understand every step of it, which makes troubleshooting a lot simpler.
Anonymous - Wed, 24/05/2017 - 12:39
Thank you so much for this, helped me a lot, especially the part in which you say to install 'debootstrap'! That's the utility I was missing and didn't know how to prep the directory.
Going to figure out why it is stuck at boot though, debootstrapped debian doesn't like nfs?
Thanks for the quick and easy workaround for the known bug. What is it doing and why does it work?
Mahir Sayar - Thu, 20/09/2018 - 00:40
Hey there, this is awesome reading.. but i'm just trying to get my head around this..
so we've set up a head node, and set up a root image the workers will boot... but how exactly does that give me a cluster for high performance tasks?
am i to understand that by running a program on the head machine, it will utilize the CPU of the worker machines?
You will need some kind of parallel processing/queuing framework to distribute the computational tasks that you want to run. For example, Open MPI or Gearman, although there are many alternatives out there. You will need to identify a suitable framework for the kind of jobs that you want to run and the programming skills that you have available in your organisation. Unfortunately that topic is very open-ended and a bit outside the scope of this post!
In a situation where the head node has two network cards (one for the cluster and one for the internet) and each worker has only one, how would you add internet connectivity to the worker nodes?
The kernel and the initrd boot well but then the system go to busybox, it seems the system find /dev/nbd0 instead nfs.
If nfs is mounted ro, how can I modified my files in my home directory? Thanks a lot
Hi Luis, if you need write access to home directories, you should follow similar steps to the ones noted for setting up a swap partition of /tmp. Add a line like this to your /etc/fstab:
/dev/sda3 /home ext4 nodev,nosuid,noexec,noatime 0 2
Bear in mind that files in home directories will only be accessible on the individual node, they will not be accessible between nodes. If you need shared file access between nodes, you could set up a separate NFS directory for /home, and mount that rw. In this case you need to be extremely careful about file locking and write conflicts though.
Hope that helps.
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E7 - Open Position and Movable Forms
Open position E7 and its movable form and variations.
PUBLISHED: Dec 28, 2010 UPDATED: Mar 18, 2011 • VIEWS: 20 • LESSON CODE: UL89
Instruments: ukulele Subjects: chordsbeginnerintermediatecore
E7 - Open Position and Movable Forms
Open position E7 and its movable form and variations - Sevenths, Major Sevenths, Minor Sevenths, Diminished, Augmented chords sus and add chords.
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Open Position Chord
Movable Form Chord
Movable Chord Forms
Transposing Movable Form Chords
Chord Transposition Chart
This transposition chart can be used for any chord where the root, or letter name of the chord is on the E string .
transposition chart for E
The root is on string 2, the E string.
Chord Tones - E G# B D
The chord tones of an E7 chord are the 1st, 3rd, 5th and flatted 7th scale degrees of the A Major Scale ( E F# G# A B C D# E' ) or E G# B D
• 1 - the Root or letter name of E7 is E
• 3 - the third of E7 is G#
• 5 - the fifth of E7 is B
• b7 - the flat seventh of E7 is D
Misnamed 7th Chords
Seventh chords are often misnamed as dominant seventh chords.
Whether a chord is a Dominant chord refers the its harmonic function within the chord progression — how it's being used. If the chord is functioning as a true V, or five chord in the progression it can be called a dominant seventh chord. If not it's simply a seventh chord and doesn't or shouldn't have any harmonic designations added to its name. We don't call other chords a Tonic Seventh, Sub-Dominant Seventh, or Medient Seventh.
For more information on dominant seventh chords see my UkuleleLesson: When Is A Dominant Seventh Chord Not A Dominant?
Chord Fingering
Core Chords
The seventh chord form is a core chord voicing for creating additional 4-part chords. From core chords other all other 4-part chords can be derived. There is a minimum core set of six 4-part chords to get started with. There are: 7, maj7, m7, m7b5, dim7, 7+5. A complete core set of eleven is needed to really explore 4-part chords. This set of eleven include the minimum set of six as well as: 6, m6, mL7, dimL7, +L7. To throughly explore these core set of chords and their possible extensions, upper partials and alterations see my book A Guide to Advanced Chords for Ukulele
Derived Chords
Raise the third (3) of a seventh chord one fret.
9th Chords
A 9th chord is a 5-part chord.
For a 5-part 9th chord, the root is implied and displaced for the ninth. Optionally the 3rd of a 7th chord can be lowered two frets (a whole step) for 1 9 5 b7. This really works if you have already played the chord with the third present and establishing the color of the chord.
To create a ninth chord raise the root of a 4-part chord two frets. This applies to a 7th, maj7, m7, 6, m6, m7b5, etc… Most all 4-part chords can be turned into ninth chords. For a 7th chord this would be a 9 3 5 b7.
This same process can be applied to a triad by raising the root two frets. For these chords they are typically called add2 or add9 chords.
Chords are pretty flexible and can be implied by containing the notes of the chord that make it different then another chord types with the same root. Take C and Cm, C is C **E** G and Cm is C **Eb** G. The third of the chord the E or Eb is a color tone and is responsible for making a major chord different sounding then a minor chord with the same root.
Chord Progressions
Using the transposition for this weeks chord practice the below progression.
Related Books
Related Books for E7 - Open Position and Movable Forms at this time.
Harmonic Analysis for Scale Selection and Chord Substitution
Updated: Nov 20, 2020
Harmonic Analysis is the understanding of the functional sequence of chords.
Modular Phonetic Rhythm, The Foundation and Workbook 1
Updated: Nov 9, 2015
Unlocking the Guitar - Notes of the Neck
Updated: Sep 23, 2002
Learning the Ukulele Fingerboard - C Tuning
Updated: Apr 19, 2017
Learning the Ukulele Fingerboard - G Tuning
Updated: Aug 23, 2009
Finally, learn the names of the notes of the fingerboard - G tuning.
Learning the Ukulele Fingerboard - D Tuning
Updated: Sep 23, 2009
Finally, learn the names of the notes of the fingerboard - D tuning.
Related Lesson Series
Related Lessons Series for E7 - Open Position and Movable Forms at this time.
Alternating Thumb Fingerpicking on Ukulele
Updated: Jan 1, 2003
This is the common alternating thumb and two finger strumming style utilizing the thumb, index and middle fingers. Commonly called “Travis” picking in the guitar world. This series of lessons explores and adapts this style to ukulele. Travis Picking is a finger-style made famous by Merle Travis and Chet Atkins. This style is commonly played on steel string acoustic guitars. You'll find this series of lessons to be the most complete, comprenhesive and organized series of lessons offered anywhere - GUARANTEED.
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/12052 | Homily for the 25th Sunday of Ordinary Time, Year A
The quality of our output
How can one justify the same payment for those who have worked for the whole day and those who worked just for one hour? Is it really possible especially in contexts where labourers are paid per number of hours they worked? It is really customary that those who work longer should earn better than those who work shorter hours! Jesus however breaks this convention!
Our human thinking does not correspond always to that of the divine. Isaiah tells us clearly in the First Reading : “for my thoughts are not your thoughts, my ways not your ways ….Yes, the heavens are as high above earth as my ways are above your ways, my thoughts above your thoughts”. God is merciful and pardons unconditionally, while we do not. God’s grace is generous and rewards everyone, saints as well as sinners, while we would like to make a difference. He gives the sinner opportunity even at the “last hour”: Let the wicked man abandon his way, the evil man his thoughts. Let him turn back to the Lord who will take pity on him, to our God who is rich in forgiving.
This radical difference is shown in the parable of the land owner, who hires labourers at different times of the day, but rewards everyone with the same sum of money. Even though some worked only for one hour, their wages were no less than what the first comers earned. All workers were remunerated on the basis of their equal need for sufficient livelihood, not on the basis of the hours they had put into the work. Therefore, it is not the length of time spent on the job that really matters, but the effort put into it and more to that, the quality of the output.
In the light of God’s plan for salvation for all humanity rather than the Jews alone, this parable stands out as a good example. God called the Jews a long time ago to build his kingdom on earth. Now, at an apparently late hour, God was calling the Gentiles to work with them in building up the same divine kingdom. “The men who came last” were treated the same as those who “have done a heavy day’s work in all the heat.” This is so because salvation has no dimensions or degrees. The same reward (salvation and heavenly bliss) is to be given to the Christians of all ages with no preferential treatment or exclusive divine prerogatives. This salvation, according to Peter (Acts 10:34) is to be given without partiality, to anyone from every nation, who fears God and acts uprightly.
In our Christian lives, there are those who were born Christians. Their parents have been Christians before them and they were baptised in infancy and in no short time they had received their First Holy Communion, Confirmation and even celebrated their Church Wedding. Others embraced Christianity in the secondary school or in the university. Yet others received these sacraments almost nearing their graves. Just like in the parable of the Talents (Mathew 25:14-30), it does not matter the number of talents received but the way it is fructified. Some may have received all these sacraments but buried their talents in the ground.
The ideal in our following of Christ lies in the quality of our engagement and not only in the quantity. Nothing says that a born Christian will always be worse than someone who became a Christian as an adult. The ideal is that we strive to be the best Christian that we can be, whether we have been Christians all our lives or we embraced Christianity in the tail end of our lives.
Fr. Jude Thaddeus Langeh, cmf
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Introductions: Gregory Orr
On February 7 at McCaw Hall, Gregory Orr—master of the personal lyric poem, and one of our greatest advocates for how the reading and writing of poetry can help us heal and live more fully—read from his three collections: Concerning the Book that Is the Body of the Beloved, How Beautiful the Beloved, and River Inside the River. SAL Associate Director Rebecca Hoogs introduced and interviewed Gregory for this event, which was part of SAL’s 2017/18 Poetry Series.
By Rebecca Hoogs, SAL Associate Director
When I was a kid in Massachusetts, the highlight of my summer was a camping trip to Cape Cod with our church group. And each summer, we’d conclude the week with a potluck dinner on the beach at sunset. And as the sun approached the horizon, the group would start chanting: going, going, going. But we did so almost too early, so that we sometimes ended up chanting going, going, going for a couple of minutes as if the gone was imminent. It was almost a relief when the sun finally balanced on the horizon like water held by surface tension on the top of a glass, and then slipped below. When we could finally stop saying going and just say gone.
This memory came to me as I read Gregory Orr’s poetry. As I admired the way that his poetry felt as elemental as that beach, that sand, the repetition of the sun going down though it never actually goes down, we just perceive it as having left us. Just as there are no actual edges to the earth, Orr’s poetry examines the perceived edges and fuzzier non-edges of life, death, the body, and the soul, the before, the after. He examines what our childhoods made us into and what we make of it. The speaker in one poem declares, “I’m a ghost and gristle both.” Orr’s work walks through the physical world, drifts through the metaphysical world. His poems dream, they wake. They shake the dice bones of the body. They explore our collective mythology, our personal mythology. The conscious and the unconscious greet each other like old friends and then transcend their greeting.
Naomi Shihab Nye wrote that his poems “have always had the stunning ability to place mindfulness almost instantly back inside the mind. Once again, a river inhabits its true banks, and a soul, its boundless person.” Like Blake, like Whitman, there is a higher order to the work, to the mind at work in these poems.
In life, in poetry: time passes. Terrible things happen. Beauty happens too. Gregory Orr has made a life of being present in this life, his life, and has made order out of the disorder by firing it in the kiln of the lyric poem. These are poems we are lucky to hold in our hands, to put to the threshold of our lips. We bring their contents into our bodies. Please join me in welcoming their maker, the poet Gregory Orr.
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Master of Science
Electrical and Computer Engineering
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Randall L. Geiger
The rapid shrinking of feature sizes in CMOS processes has enabled high density integration of multi-core systems. However, the corresponding increase in component and local power densities induces thermal stress that can severely affect the reliability of the integrated circuits. To improve the power and thermal management for multi-core systems, an array of temperature sensors is now used to locally monitor the die temperature and provide feedback to the controller for efficient load management and/or load balancing. These temperature sensors must be very small (minimum area overhead) and low power, must have low supply sensitivity, and must provide accurate temperature measurements over a limited operating range.
This thesis provides fundamental analysis of a CMOS Widlar reference generator and the synthesis of a P-Type reverse Widlar temperature sensor. This is followed by the introduction of a 4-transistor multiple threshold voltage (multi-VT) based temperature sensor. Power supply sensitivity analysis and noise analysis are provided for both the 5-transistors reverse Widlar structure and the 4-transistors multi-VT structure. A full design example of a cascoded multi-VT temperature sensor based upon the low-voltage 4-transistor temperature sensor core is also presented. The cascoded structure includes self-bias generators for biasing of the cascode transistors.
The proposed cascode multi-VT temperature sensor based upon the 4-transistor temperature sensor core is implemented in a digital 65nm process with a 1.2V supply voltage. The circuit expresses the threshold voltage directly at the output, does not require a start-up circuit, and provides temperature measurement over an extended operating range. In this thesis, focus is on how the sensor performs over the -20yC to 100yC temperature range. This sensor can achieve high temperature linearity over this operating range.
In a design example of the cascoded 4-transistor multi-VT sensor implemented in a 65nm process, simulation results were obtained that show a maximum nonlinearity over all process corners of 0.546yC over a 120yC operating range. The supply sensitivity is small with a total variation of 0.44yC due to a y10% variation in the supply voltage. The combined temperature nonlinearity and temperature error due to supply variations is less than 1yC.
A detailed discussion of the operation of the cascode self-biasing circuits relating to stability, start-up circuits, and equilibrium points is presented. By adapting the contraction mapping principle to the multi-loop self-biased multi-VT temperature sensor, it is shown that the proposed circuit has a single stable equilibrium point and thus does not require a startup circuit.
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Dig two graves: The five best vigilantes in fiction by Lisa Unger (September, 2019)
Flamingo Magazine
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The Strand Magazine
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The Florida Keys by Lisa Unger (January, 2016)
Women Crime Writers: Four Suspense Novels of the 1950s
Mischief by Charlotte Armstrong. Appreciation by Lisa Unger (September, 2015)
The Wall Street Journal
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Mystery Writers of America Cookbook
Edited by Kate White. Illustrated cookbook featuring more than 100 recipes from legendary mystery authors Harlan Coben, Lee Child, Mary Higgins Clark, Gillian Flynn, Lisa Unger and more. (March, 2015)
The Huffington Post
Thrill Ride by Lisa Unger (February, 2014)
Close the Door by Lisa Unger (October, 2011)
Three Books by Lisa Unger (September, 2010)
The New York Times
The Baby and I, and Doodle Pads by Lisa Unger (June, 2009)
A Hell of a Woman: An Anthology of Female Noir
Edited by Megan Abbott. Patricia Highsmith, Appreciation by Lisa Unger (December, 2007)
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/12072 | Hoping you can help with this half-remembered poem that from what I can recall was written by someone who worked for the New Statesman or the Spectator in the 1970s.
The opening part is:
'They say consider the ant O thou sluggard,go to its ways and be wise
Well,I've considered the ant and I'm buggered why it thinks it's as good as us guys
I'd rather consider the lily...'
So far I've had no joy in finding the rest of it-any help muchly appreciated (from humans or ants..)
‘Go to the ant’ by Stanley J. Sharpless:
‘Go to the ant, thou sluggard;
Consider her ways, and be wise,’
Well, I’ve been to the ant, and I’m buggered
If I think it’s one up on us guys;
All that rushing about is damn silly,
(And uneconomic, I bet),
I'd rather consider the lily,
It's got Solomon beat—and no sweat.
Stanley J. Sharpless. ‘Go to the ant’. In Kingsley Amis, ed. (1978), The New Oxford Book of English Light Verse, Oxford University Press, p. 278.
(The first two lines quote Proverbs 6:6 in the Authorized Version; according to Proverbs 1:1 this is one of the “proverbs of Solomon”. The last two lines are an allusion to Matthew 6:28: “Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin.”)
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My Science
Aleksander Lodwich (aleksander[/a/t/]lodwich.net)
Scientific Agenda for Great Social Innovation
The concept of a cyber-physical society is quite similarly motivated as the Venus Project but is significantly more strongly focussing on the aspects of communication and organizing human interactions with new kinds of technology. It is less concerned with technology used to build cradle-to-cradle environments, but by pursuing technology for self-integrating systems I hope to be able to contribute to highly automated cities and industries.
My scientific agenda encompasses several areas of research and publication which shall contribute to a final goal of achieving a turning point in politics, society and economy which I call the Great Social Innovation (GSI). After GSI, society has characteristics of a decentral, close to anarchistic structure.
Since even high levels of automation do not prevent humans from interacting with humans and because humans are embedded in technical systems, some sanctioning and rules must exist in order to guarantee satisfying interactions but that does not imply a concept of law or central enforcement authorities.Cyber-physical societies (and natural societies) rely on knowledge-based case reasoning. As it often is, this requires more complex understanding of the situation, domain and justification of motivations. In a cyber-physical society, rules are derived for the qualifications and the situation using technology. This is the closest to "law" I can imagine. Current technology is very limited to support this kind of practice and must be further developed.
The backbone of a cyber-physical society is systematic collection, application and verification of knowledge to technical and societal systems.
Even if knowledge gets superceeded by newer knowledge ever sooner, improved knowledge usually relies on more data and more powerful theories to explain and predict reality. Since in a cyber-physical society rules are products which must be developed in accordance with existing knowledge as constraints and as requirements, the degrees of freedom to do so are continuously removed as optimization goes on. Reduction of degrees of freedom in social system design continuously reduces the potential of influence from archaic ideologies and antique religious concepts. This is what is meant by the statement that natural law overcomes positive law. Problems with positive law mainly are introduced by wishful thinking and relict morals measuring only to low standards. The more degrees of freedom exist in the process of social engineering, the more politicial activities can be effective to deter success in design of a peaceful, harmonic society.
In a cyber-physical society there is no need to have states with governments encompassing all aspects of infrastructure. Society is designed democratically by sophisticated methodology which is applicable to social design and technology design alike (this guarantees enough common experience with the involved methodology). There are several layers of virtual rooms to manage physical resources like with virtual operating systems. Concurrency is effectively possible. Groups can share knowledge and systems like we know from computer software. The concept of a state citizen is gone and states can be dissolved as they are honey pots to power abuse. Areas connect and organize themselves in the organic way we know from other natural systems. Humans use one to many user accounts in the decentralized digital infrastructure I strive for in order to participate. There is no central authorities who grant identity or who have to monitor them.
In such society there is a shift of power away from people who are good at talking and manipulating people in public to knowledge engineers and scientists. Occupations like politicians or lawyers will slowly disappear from the screen and their power to influence policies and to do policy interpretation. Since a core feature of cyber-physical society is to eliminate capital from its operation, risks from influence by capital on societal development is greatly diminished. I write this despite that I know that the average person does not understand what capital is and that it will belive that this means elimination of wealth. But this is far from true as the nature of capital is something else: Capital is an exlusive option which can be used to extort an unproportionate promise from others - A condition which is working to concentrate all economical and political powers in hands of few poles. In capitalistic societies all judicial concepts are designed to be portable ("tradeable") and act as means to cheaply inhibit others' abílity to act. This "feature" of capitalistic societies attracts only a special kind of (e.g. emotionally defective) people into its center which need only to follow primitve strategies of power consolidation in order to deprive all other people from their rightful options to act and decide. This power consolidation via capital mechanisms are greatly eliminated in a cyber-physical society and new instruments are introduced (real economy is sense of the word) which truly serve the process of wealth production without pronounced capital concentrations. Cyber-physical systems will also greatly eliminate waste of resources on weapons production and greatly reduce production of luxury goods before more basic societal priorities have been satisfied.
The digital knowledge is designed in a democratic way by people who absolve training as social engineers - a new main goal of education is to enable people to acquire necessary competence and skills for this. Because digitized knowledge about humans, their environment and successful techniques of organization and communication is explicitly formulated and its application is converted into technology all the time, technology and best social practice are coming together ever closer. If technology can support sophisticated forms of societal organization and operation then a fractal organization of society is to be expected. This in turn allows to test and validate core features of societal function by the largest amount of people. This is quite in contrast to today where state constitutions play only a marginal role in state operations (or any group operations) and hence can be easily ignored by its governments (as it is the case most of the time).
The cyber-physical society follows a pan-humanistic approach and can accomodate non-human entities in its concepts.
The cyber-physical society is not utopia but people need to be convinced on following grounds:
My research is aiming at answering above questions:
So long the statements are hypothesis under research.
Thoughts on Autonomous Systems
Exploring high-level Perspectives on Self-Configuration Capabilities of Systems, 2016
self-configuring_systems.pdf, June 29th, 2016
Aleksander Lodwich
Abstract: Optimization of product performance repetitively introduces the need to make products adaptive in a more general sense. This more general idea is often captured under the term “self-configuration”. Despite the importance of such capability, research work on this feature appears isolated by technical domains. It is not easy to tell quickly whether the approaches chosen in different technological domains introduce new ideas or whether the differences just reflect domain idiosyncrasies. For the sake of easy identification of key differences between systems with self-configuring capabilities, I will explore higher level concepts for understanding self-configuration, such as the Ω-units, in order to provide theoretical instruments for connecting different areas of technology and research.
DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.1.2945.6885
also available on arxiv.org
also available on researchgate.net
How to avoid ethically relevant Machine Consciousness, 2016
machine_consciousness.pdf, June 1st, 2016
Aleksander Lodwich
Abstract: This paper discusses the root cause of systems perceiving the self experience and how to exploit adaptive and learning features without introducing ethically problematic system properties.
DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.1.1733.3361
also available on arxiv.org
also available on researchgate.net
Differences between Industrial Models of Autonomy and Systemic Models of Autonomy, 2016
LevelsOfAutonomy.pdf, May 25th 2016
Aleksander Lodwich
Abstract: This paper discusses the idea of levels of autonomy of systems – be this technical or organic – and compares the insights with models employed by industries used to describe maturity and capability of their products.
also available on arxiv.org
also available on researchgate.net
Understanding Error Correction and its Role as Part of the Communication Channel in Environments composed of Self-Integrating Systems, 2016
Correcting Errors , December 20th, 2016
Aleksander Lodwich
Abstract: The raise of complexity of technical systems also raises knowledge required to set them up and to maintain them. The cost to evolve such systems can be prohibitive. In the field of Autonomic Computing, technical systems should therefore have various self-healing capabilities allowing system owners to provide only partial, potentially inconsistent updates of the system. The self-healing or self-integrating system shall find out the remaining changes to communications and functionalities in order to accommodate change and yet still restore function. This issue becomes even more interesting in context of Internet of Things and Industrial Internet where previously unexpected device combinations can be assembled in order to provide a surprising new function. In order to pursue higher levels of self-integration capabilities I propose to think of self-integration as sophisticated error correcting communications. Therefore, this paper discusses an extended scope of error correction with the purpose to emphasize error correction’s role as an integrated element of bi-directional communication channels in self-integrating, autonomic communication scenarios.
DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.2.33551.59041
Research on interoperability within development processes of Embedded Systems on an example, 2014
- A concept for tackling Frontloading in Model-based Engineering with AUTOSAR -
Master Thesis of Ferdinand Schäfer, University of Applied Sciences Karlsruhe,
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OFISS: An Organic End-user-programmable Data-centric User Interface Framework as Frontend to Commandline-based Applications, 2010
Bachelor Thesis of Christopher Schölzel, TU Kaiserslautern, Prof. Dr. Breuel
Abstract Many tools have made Graphical User Interface (GUI) programming easier for developers, but most of these tools do not care too much about issues of transparency and extensibility on the toolkit-level, leaving it in the hands of developers to provide customization support such as the possibility to create macros inside the applications themselves.
Applications written in the framework introduced in this thesis address this issue by taking the UNIX-paradigm "Everything is a file." to a new level. Each screen object and each attribute of these objects is represented by files and folders on the filesystem and therefore accessible and customizable for everybody, including the end-user.
Such a system might be of great use in both professional and personal settings.
Model-Based Engineering for Embedded Systems in Practice, 2014
Research Reports in Software Engineering and Management 2014:01 ISSN 1654-4870
Nadja Marko, Grischa Liebel, Daniel Sauter, Aleksander Lodwich, Matthias Tichy, Andrea Leitner, and Jörgen Hansson
Abstract: Model-Based Engineering (MBE) aims at increasing the effectiveness of engineering by using models as key artifacts in the development process. While empirical studies on the use and the effects of MBE in industry generally exist, there is only little work targeting the embedded systems domain. We contribute to the body of knowledge with a study on the use and the assessment of MBE in that particular domain. Therefore, we collected quantitative data from 112 subjects, mostly professionals working with MBE, with the goal to assess the current State of Practice and the challenges the embedded systems domain is facing. Of the 112 subjects, the majority are experienced with MBE, working at large companies in the automotive, avionics, or healthcare domains. Additionally, mainly OEMs and First-tier suppliers are represented in the study. Our main findings are that MBE is used by a majority of all participants in the embedded systems domain, mainly for simulation, code generation, and documentation. Reported positive effects of MBE are higher quality and improved reusability. Main shortcomings are interoperability difficulties between MBE tools, high training effort for developers and usability issues. The data also shows that there are no large differences between subgroups with respect to domains, position in the value chain, company size and product size.
Beyond Interoperability in the Systems Engineering Process for the Industry 4.0 (To be published March 2017).
Lodwich, A.; and Alvarez-Rodríguez, J. M. pages 161-182. Springer Verlag on Intelligent Systems Reference Library, 2016.
Abstract Future complex products will be different from existing ones in several relevant ways. They will be more intelligent and connected and they will have to be greatly leaner across software and hardware in order to handle safety, security and resource demand. Industrial Internet, Industry 4.0 and Internet of Things will greatly shift responsibility for products away from engineering departments towards the actual environment in which the products are employed. This situation will eventually transform the most tested companies into intelligent building platforms where the responsibility for designing, producing and delivering will be distributed among market parties in unrecognizable ways. The benefits of these upcoming changes will be higher utility of products for customers and new levels of production flexibility and efficiency. However, this new environment can only be attained if developmental and operational platforms and embedded products can rely on reusing the explicit knowledge used in their designs. The provision of technology for this new environment goes far beyond asking for tools interoperability. In this chapter a conceptual layer of interoperability is outlined describing what kind of features a powerful new interoperability technology should support in order to fuel desired changes in engineering and production paradigms.
Note on Communication Incompatibility Types, 2016
./notes_on_incompatibility.pdf November 18th, 2016
Abstract: This note contains the description of eight basic communication incompatibility types and basic strategies to combat them. The purpose of this note is to remind software and system designers to design communication technologies which suffer as few reasonably unresolvable incompatibilities as possible.
Bubbles: a data management approach to create an advanced industrial interoperability layer for critical systems development applying reuse techniques, 2016
./Bubbles-v2.06.pdf July 28th, 2016
Abstract: The development of critical systems is becoming more and more complex. The overall tendency is that development costs raise. In order to cut cost of development, companies are forced to build systems from proven components and larger new systems from smaller older ones. Respective reuse activities involve good number of people, tools and processes along different stages of the development lifecycle which involve large numbers of tools. Some development is directly planned for reuse. Planned reuse implies excellent knowledge management and firm governance of reusable items. According to the current state of the art, there are still practical problems in the two fields, mainly because the governance and knowledge management is fragmented over the tools of the toolchain. In our experience, the practical effect of this fragmentation is that involved ancestor and derivation relationships are often undocumented or not exploitable. Additionally, useful reuse is almost always dealing with heterogeneous content which must be transferred from older to newer development environments. In this process, interoperability proves either as biggest obstacle or greatest help. In this paper, authors connect the topics interoperability and knowledge management and propose to seek for ubiquitous reuse via advanced interoperability features. A single concept from a larger Technical Interoperability Concept (TIC) with the name bubble is presented. Bubbles are expected to overcome existing barriers to cost-efficient reuse in systems and software development lifecycles. That is why, the present paper introduces and defines bubbles by showing how they simplify application of repairs and changes and hence contribute to expansion of reuse at reduced cost.
also available on arxiv.org
also available on researchgate.net
Challenges to OSLC Link Management in Safety Audited Industries (Talk)
OSLC Unconference Nov. 2nd, 2015, Ludwigsburg
Secure Collaboration in Virtual Organizations (Talk)
OSLC Unconference Nov. 2nd, 2015, Ludwigsburg
Pattern Recognition and Data Mining
Efficient Estimation of k for the Nearest Neighbors Class of Methods, unpublished, 2011
download and read DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.1.2628.8245
Aleksander Lodwich, Faisal Shafait, Thomas M. Breuel
The k Nearest Neighbors (kNN) method has received much attention in the past decades, where some theoretical bounds on its performance were identi ed and where practical optimizations were proposed for making it work fairly well in high dimensional spaces and on large datasets. From countless experiments of the past it became widely accepted that the value of k has a significant impact on the performance of this method. However, the efficient optimization of this parameter has not received so much attention in literature. Today, the most common approach is to cross-validate or bootstrap this value for all values in question. This approach forces distances to be recomputed many times, even if efficient methods are used. Hence, estimating the optimal k can become expensive even on modern systems. Frequently, this circumstance leads to a sparse manual search of k. In this paper we want to point out that a systematic and thorough estimation of the parameter k can be performed efficiently. The discussed approach relies on large matrices, but we want to argue, that in practice a higher space complexity is often much less of a problem than repetetive distance computations.
Report on Practical Bayes-True Data Generators For Evaluation of Machine Learning, Pattern Recognition and Data Mining Methods, technical report, 2009
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Janick V. Frasch, Aleksander Lodwich, Thomas M. Breuel
Benchmarking pattern recognition, machine learning and data mining methods commonly relies on real-world data sets. However there exist a couple of reasons for not using real-world data. On one hand collecting real-world data can become difficult or impossible for many reasons, on the other hand real-world variables are difficult to control, even in the problem domain; in the feature domain, where most statistical learning methods operate, control is even more difficult to achieve and hence rarely attempted. This is at odds with the scienti c experimentation guidelines mandating the use of as directly controllable and as directly observable variables as possible. Because of this, synthetic data is a necessity for experiments with algorithms. In this report we present four algorithms that produce data with guaranteed global and intra-data statistical or geometrical properties. The data generators can be used for algorithm testing and fair performance evaluation of statistical learning methods.
DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.1.5045.4649
• DFKI WGKS and WMCG generators for Python 2.6
• Easy to use patterns container for Python 2.6
• Quick data generators for Python 2.6
• A Bayes-true data generator for evaluation of supervised and unsupervised learning methods, 2011
Pattern Recognition Letters. 08/2011; 32(11):1523-1531. DOI: 10.1016/j.patrec.2011.04.010
Janick V. Frasch, Aleksander Lodwich, Faisal Shafait, Thomas M. Breuel
Evaluation of Robustness and Performance of Early Stopping Rules with Multi-Layer Perceptrons, 2009
Aleksander Lodwich, Yves Rangoni, Thomas Breuel
Optimization of the Vagus Nerve Stimulation Parameters by the Means of Computational Intelligence, 2007
./MT_OptiVaNeS.pdf (original data can be requested from me)
DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.1.2784.4723
related: Animal model of the short-term cardiorespiratory effects of intermittent vagus nerve stimulation, 2008
Boubker Zaaimi, Reinhard Grebe, Fabrice Wallois
Optimization of the Vagus Nerve Stimulation Parameters with CI-Methods, unpublished, 2006
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DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.1.2784.4723
In order to improve the Vagus Nerve Stimulation (VNS) statistical efficacy increase for certain parameter vectors was investigated. Such vectors are used in real cases. Although immediate tests on humans are not possible it was possible to find rats as adequate substitute models. The rats were stimulated with a protocol of 81 parameter vectors. Their physical response was recorded. Each rat is different but it is assumed that for some vectors similar response will occur. If only enough rats were recorded then a statistically safe prediction could be made about what parameter vectors will result in effects mostly desired by the therapist. It is the primary goal of the project to find similarities in different response cases for some of the typical vectors and eventually provide deeper insights on the treatment. The project faces extremely large data amounts from data acquisition. Methods of Computational Intelligence (CI) are used for the conversion of data to knowledge. After conventional data pre-processing evolutionarily designed artificial neural networks are used in order to evaluate available data and to help medical staff verify their medical thesis.
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/12094 | Goodbye Christopher Robin
Biopics, with their vaguely cancerous-sounding name, are the scourge of the entertainment industry. They make the fussy details of life programmatic. Characters must always state their intentions in declarative sentences. Orchestral soundtracks must always manhandle viewers into scheduled emotions. What is it about actual lives, especially British period ones, that are so resistant to movies?
One reason is that they have predetermined ends before a screenwriter ever sits down. Another is that you've already experienced the most interesting aspect: the acts or accomplishments the story buttresses. In the case of Goodbye Christopher Robin, that accomplishment is beloved children's series Winnie the Pooh, about a bear and his friends who live in the woods. Goodbye is about the emotional neglect author A.A. Milne visited upon his son while making him the star of his books. It hits the note of parental abandonment well, but the staid tones of early twentieth-century Britain flood it and preserve the thing in amber.
There are points for trying, though. Some attempts to enliven—a croquet ball turning into a hand grenade in a pre-credits sequence, or Christopher Robin A-Ha video-ing his way through illustrations from the books—fall flat. Others work, from smart editing bluntly cutting off the ends of cookie cutter scenes, or the emphasis on the less-than-ideal qualities of A.A. (Domhnall Gleeson) and wife Daphne (Margot Robbie). They pretty much give the raising of their child over to his nanny (Kelly MacDonald). Child actor Will Tilston as Christopher Robin is good at beaming a wide smile—his constant reaction to Ashdown Forest/Hundred Acre Wood— but is a little more blank with other emotions. Gleeson is good with the arch cynicism of a World War I vet, but less solid at portraying gruffness and shellshock.
Domhnall Gleeson and Margot Robbie as A.A. and Daphne Millne in Goodbye Christopher Robin.
• Domhnall Gleeson and Margot Robbie as A.A. and Daphne Millne in Goodbye Christopher Robin.
Milne moves the family to the English countryside to write a book arguing against the notion of war. His PTSD comes in the form of fright at champagne corks and balloon pops. He heals and bonds with his son while making up stories about his stuffed animals. Moments dedicated to naming them —Tigger, Piglet, Eeyore— play like the Star Wars prequels ("Anakin Skywalker, meet Obi Wan Kenobi") in their reliance on previous work for impact. But the movie gets childhood play right, like when Christopher Robin later accuses Milne of only playing with him in order to write a book.
Some lines have the feeling of compression of life for drama, like "Childhood was wonderful, it's growing up that was hard," or "I've had enough of making people laugh, I want to make them see." Director Simon Curtis’ earlier My Week With Marilyn had a good Michelle Williams performance as Marilyn Monroe, but neutered the other half of her love affair, making him an innocent when the source material promised a more interesting cad. In Goodbye the only emotions that worked for me had to do with abandonment. Those that had to do with war or whimsy seemed puffed up to sell their importance. Next to the wars that bookend the movie, the annoyance of fame to Christopher Robin, his motivation for joining the army, seems minor.
Will Tilson (left) as Christopher Robin, along with the stuffed inspiration for Winnie the Pooh and friends.
Films like My Boy Jack, about Rudyard Kipling and his son, and Ken Burns' documentary The Roosevelts, which dealt with Theodore and his son Quentin, covered similar material with a super-masculine historical father enthusiastically sending his boy off to World War I. Here, the Milnes prophesize they can't keep their child out of war before he’s born, and feel doomed as World War II gets closer. A.A. has no machismo like Kipling or Roosevelt to hurl his son into violence; his flaw is his coldness (or, living in a world where there will be more fighting).
Cinematically, World War I is World War II's shadow. Instead of a worthwhile fight against evil it's a meaningless slaughterhouse. That's actually more modern, and appropriate, as film portrayals of organized group murder go. WWII is the exception that proves the rule, and undergirds our military-industrial-entertainment complex. We see it much more often on our screens, though Inglourious Basterds' post-modern take might mark the end of its reign.
The Winnie the Pooh books and television show seemed to encourage emulation of its gentle main character. It's exciting for Goodbye to resituate that call for gentleness between two wars, as the message of a veteran father to his affection-starved son. But reaching for such honey it gets stuck.
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/12118 | Im trying to solve the following Poisson equation:
$$\nabla^2\phi = F(x,y)$$ $$for\ x\in(0,\infty)\ and\ y\in(0,L)$$
$$\frac{\partial\phi(x,0)}{\partial y}=0\ , \ \frac{\partial\phi(x,L)}{\partial y}=0\ , \ \frac{\partial\phi(0,y)}{\partial x}=0$$ $$\phi(x,y)\rightarrow0\ uniformly\ as \ x \rightarrow\infty$$ $$$$
I want to solve this using the Fourier Transform or the separation of variable or the Green function. But I'm having trouble understanding since the equation is not homogeneous. And the boundary conditions make lots of trouble too.
Any help and suggestions are appreciated!
The functions $\{ \cos(n\pi x/L) \}_{n=0}^{\infty}$ are the eigenfunction solutions of $$ u'' = \lambda u,\;\;\; u'(0)=0,\; u'(L)=0. $$ So these functions form an orthogonal basis of $L^2[0,2\pi]$. And the functions $\{ \cos(sx)\}_{s \ge 0}$ are eigenfunctions on $[0,\infty)$. You should be able to represent any $g\in L^2([0,\infty)\times[0,L])$ function as $$ u(x,y) = \sum_{n=0}^{\infty}\left(\int_{0}^{\infty}C_{u}(n,s)\cos(sy)ds\right)\cos(n\pi x/L), $$ where $C(n,s)$ is determined in the usual way: $$ C_{u}(n,s)= \frac{2}{L}\int_{0}^{L}\left(\frac{2}{\pi}\int_{0}^{\infty}u(x,y)\cos(sy)dy\right)\cos(n\pi x/L)dx. $$ (For $n=0$ the outer constant must be adjusted to be $\frac{1}{L}$.) Then $$ (-n^2\pi^2/L^2-s^2)C_{u}(n,s)=C_{F}(n,s) $$ The $n=0$ term does not come into play for you because of the condition at $\infty$, which is good because you wouldn't be able to deal with the $n=0$ equation otherwise. So, you only have to consider the above for $n=1,2,3,\cdots$. Once you know $C_{F}(n,s)$--which may be computed from the above--the solution $u(x,y)$ is determined.
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• $\begingroup$ Thanks for your reply. I have a following question. If F(x,y) = F(x), which means the source term only related to x, n=1,2,3,... will disappear because of Fourier cosine series. And the solution might be the n=0 term. But, this term could not be able to deal with because of the singular point in the cosine integral. Could we derived the answer in this situation? $\endgroup$ – H.Webb Apr 7 '16 at 15:21
• $\begingroup$ @H.Webb : The underlying reason for the ambiguity is that the constant function is a solution of your equation where $F=0$, if you ignore the condition at $\infty$. So, without some additional constraint, the problem is not well posed. That's the reason for the condition at $\infty$. These kinds of things can happen when the only boundary conditions involve derivatives. Even on a finite domain, the constant solution is a problem if the only conditions are on the normal derivatives, for example. $\endgroup$ – Disintegrating By Parts Apr 7 '16 at 16:47
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/12138 | 81Br-nmr studies of carbonic anhydrase
Raymond L. Ward, Philip L. Whitney
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81Br nmr measurements have been made on high (bovine; BCA) and low (human-B; HCAB) specific activity forms of carbonic anhydrase and on a chemically modified form of the human enzyme (carboxyamidomethyl; CAM-HCAB). The high specific activity form of the enzyme, BCA, exhibits a 81Br line broadening which is determined by the lifetime of Br- bound to the zinc ion of the enzyme. The low specific activity form of the enzyme, HCAB, under similar conditions of concentration, pH, etc., does not exhibit a 81Br nmr line broadening. Cl- Br- competitive binding studies, using 35Cl nmr, suggests that the failure to observe 81Br broadening is due to an increase in the lifetime of a zinc bound Br-. An increase in this lifetime by a factor of 10-100 over that exhibited by BCA is sufficient to abolish the line broadening. A modified form of HCAB, CAM-HCAB, does, however, exhibit a 81Br nmr line broadening. Estimates of the lifetime of zinc bound Br-, τM, are 4 × 10-7 sec. for CAM-HCAB at pH 8 and 1 × 10-7 sec. for BCA at pH 7. The lifetime for Br- bound to HCAB is estimated to be ≥10-6 sec.
Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)343-348
Number of pages6
JournalBiochemical and biophysical research communications
Issue number2
StatePublished - Mar 19 1973
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Psalms 14
Verse 1
The title we have chosen here is our own, and it is derived from the apostle Paul's use of this psalm in his description of the Judicial Hardening of Mankind in the first three chapters of the Book of Romans. A study of this phenomenon is of fundamental importance in the understanding of God's ultimate prophecies concerning the repeated apostasy and final destruction of the Adamic race.
We have devoted many pages to this subject in Romans, Amos, Genesis and Revelation.
The great Biblical type of God's hardening men is of course the example of Pharaoh, whose heart the Lord hardened, but not till Pharaoh had hardened his own heart no less than ten times. The three centers of this phenomenon called judicial hardening are (1) in wicked men themselves, (2) in God who hardens men's hearts in the sense of allowing it, and (3) in Satan himself who, with the proper advantage afforded by the conduct of the wicked is able to "blind men," (2Â Corinthians 4:4).
What happens when men are hardened? (1) They are blinded (2Â Corinthians 4:4), meaning that they are incapable of seeing or understanding the plainest truth. (2) "Their foolish heart (the scriptural heart is the mind) is darkened (Romans 1:21), with the meaning that an essential element of human intelligence has been judiciously removed by God Himself. (3) They become vain in their reasonings (Romans 1:21). (4) They become fools (Romans 1:22), and (5) God gives them up (Romans 1:22,26,28).
The universal hardening of mankind has already occurred three times: (1) in the total apostasy that preceded the Great Deluge; (2) in the conceited trust of mankind in their tower of Babel; and (3) again in the universal wickedness and rebellion against God described by Paul in Romans first three chapters. God's response to that shameful and reprobate condition was epic in all three instances. The first was terminated by the flood; the second resulted in the call of Abraham and the introduction of the device of a Chosen People who, in God's purpose, were to keep the knowledge of God and his commandments before all the world, and in the fulness of time to deliver to the human family the Messiah himself. God's response to the third judicial hardening of the race (so vividly described by Paul in Romans) was the First Advent of Christ, the coming of the Messiah. This, of course, was a mission of mercy.
There will yet be a fourth and final judicial hardening of mankind, as categorically stated in Revelation 15-16, fulfilling the prophecy of the apostles that, "Wickedness would wax worse and worse" (2Â Timothy 3:13), and the searching question of Christ himself, "When the Son of man cometh, shall he find faith on the earth?" (Luke 18:8).
God has already revealed what his response to the fourth and final hardening of the Adamic race will be: namely, the Second Advent of Jesus Christ; and contrasted with the first Advent, which was a mission of mercy, his Second Advent will be a mission of judgment on that Day which God has appointed (Acts 17:31).
The determination that the fourth judicial hardening of Adam's race will be the terminal one is derived from the remarkable prophecy of Amos who in eight successive prophecies of God's judgments upon the wicked prefaced each one with the word:
For three transgressions of Damascus, yea for four ... JUDGMENT.
For three transgressions of Gaza, yea for four, ... JUDGMENT.
For three transgressions of Tyre, yea for four, ... JUDGMENT.
For three transgressions of Edom, yea for four, ... JUDGMENT.
For three transgressions of Ammon, yea for four, ... JUDGMENT.
For three transgressions of Moab, yea for four, ... JUDGMENT.
For three transgressions of Judah, yea for four, ... JUDGMENT.
For three transgressions of Israel, yea for four, ... JUDGMENT.
- Amos 1:3-2:6.
The inability of any man to identify the "three transgressions" or the "four" in a single one of these cases is the only proof needed that something far more important than the destruction of ancient nations was in view here. It is our conviction that these "three" and "four" transgressions are references to the four times that human morality and love of God shall virtually perish from the earth; and the "yea for four" indicates that the fourth such instances of it will usher in the Final Judgment itself.
But does this psalm actually prophesy such a judicial hardening. Romans 3:10-18 is quoted verbatim from this psalm; and while it is true that the last five verses of Paul's quotation are not in our version, there is all kinds of evidence to the effect that the five verses do indeed belong. "They are in the LXX, and the Latin Vulgate, in the Syriac and in another ancient version, the PBV."[1]
There is very little likelihood that the apostle Paul could have found that language anywhere else except in this psalm; and his statement that, "It is written," at the head of his quotation is the only proof of this that is needed.
Furthermore, as many scholars have pointed out, this psalm is repeated almost verbatim in Psalms 53, where the name God is used instead of the word Jehovah, proving, of course, that the Jews used the words interchangeably.
In that passage in Romans from Paul, there is no doubt whatever that the universal judicial hardening of the human race is Paul's theme; and it appears to us that this is the best of reasons for our conviction that the same subject is the focus here.
Psalms 14:1
"The fool." This word, in the singular, is actually a word for the whole race of Adam, as indicated by the next three lines. The atheist here is not a single individual but the whole rebellious race of Adam. Again in Zephaniah 1:2, we have the whole Adamic race referred to in the singular "man." It is the same here.
The Hebrew word for "fool" here is [~nabal], which does not mean a simpleton, but one whose moral thinking is perverted and who has deliberately closed his mind against the reality of God and to the imperatives of God's moral government.[2]
We believe that Kidner struck a note of solemn truth when he wrote that, "This might well be twentieth century man.[3]
We have already pointed out that atheism is not the product of knowledge, education, intelligence, or discernment of any kind, but the child of corruption. "Atheism is the essence of ingratitude, injustice, pride, hatred and selfishness."[4]
Verse 2
"Jehovah looked down from heaven upon the children of men, To see if there were any that did understand, That did seek after God. They are all gone aside, they are together become filthy; There is none that doeth good, no not one."
"The point of these two verses is that the arrogant materialist of Psalms 14:1, is but an example of man in general."[5] "What is lamented here is not the corruption of Israel and not that of the heathen, but the universal corruption of man."[6]
In Romans 3:10-18, we have the following from the apostle Paul:
"We laid to the charge of both Jews and Greeks that they are all under sin;
As it is written,
There is none righteous, no not one;
There is none that understandeth,
There is none that seeketh after God;
They have all turned aside, they are together become unprofitable;
Their throat is an open sepulchre;
With their tongues they have used deceit:
The poison of asps is under their lips:
Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness:
Their feet are swift to shed blood;
Destruction and misery are in their ways;
And the way of peace they have not known:
Their is no fear of God before their eyes."
One may read every line of this almost verbatim in the LXX and in two or three other ancient versions as pointed out by Dummelow; and Paul's use of these words to describe the condition of judicially hardened mankind in the days of the Messiah is the only proof needed that we have a description of exactly the same condition here.
We do not know how to account for the omission of some of this material from the Hebrew text of the Old Testament and from our version; but Paul's declaration that, "It is written," certainly identifies all of the material as Scripture.
Verse 4
"Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge, Who eat up people as they eat bread, and call not upon Jehovah?"
The custom of eating bread without calling upon Jehovah was also mentioned by Paul in Romans in Romans 1:21, where the very beginning of mankind's hardening was lodged in their refusal to "Give God thanks." "Knowing God, they glorified him not as God, neither gave thanks; but became vain in their reasonings, and their foolish heart was darkened."
Yes, this has its application to eating without offering thanks to God, the giver of all gifts. There is no failure in America today that is any more shameful or loaded with any greater potential for ultimate moral disaster for the whole nation than is this simple neglect of thanksgiving for food. The beginning of all wickedness is "eating bread and not calling upon Jehovah," as stated here. Jesus gave thanks for the loaves and fishes that he himself had created; and Paul gave thanks in a storm at sea facing a shipwreck; and there is no excuse whatever for the widespread neglect of such thanksgiving for meals that marks our society today.
Barnes pointed out that in our text, the fact of the sinful people not offering prayer and thanksgiving to God, "Is placed last, as the crowning thing in their depravity."[7] This does not contradict Paul's placing it first as the beginning of depravity, because it is true both ways.
Verse 5
"There were they in great fear;
For God is in the generation of the righteous."
This verse answers the question raised in Psalms 14:4, "Are the wicked totally without knowledge of God?" Indeed they are not. In every wicked man, there is the haunting fear, the secret dread, that, after all, God may indeed overthrow him at last in hell. God's being in the generation of the righteous may have the meaning that a residual knowledge of God remains in all men, "generation" here being understood as posterity, or descendants. Whether that is true or not, wicked men indeed have some knowledge of God, as witnessed by his holy name being so frequently profanely used by them. As George DeHoff stated it, "Evil people have some knowledge of God and they fear the day of retribution."[8]
Verse 6
"Ye put to shame the counsel of the poor, Because Jehovah is his refuge."
Delitzsch pointed out that the text here is damaged and that the meaning is difficult to determine, He suggested that, Whatever plans and intentions of godly men to do for the glory of God, these are the counsels of the poor which, "The children of the world, who are in possession of worldly power seek to frustrate."[9]
In the picture of the total depravity of mankind that emerges here, whatever good may be intended or advocated by anyone, the possessors of worldly power will move to frustrate any such good intentions.
Verse 7
When Jehovah bringeth back the captivity of the people.
Then shall Jacob rejoice, and Israel shall be glad."
One of the best comments on this we have seen is that of Addis:
Here is the Messianic hope. The Psalmist anticipates a time when Yahweh will "bring back the captivity" of His people. This expression need mean no more than a radical change for the better in the state of the people. "Restore the fortune" would be an adequate translation.[10]
"There is no need to refer the expression `bringeth back the captivity' to the Babylonian exile."[11] The expression here has the same meaning that it has in Job 42:10. namely, "restoring prosperity to."
Jacob and Israel here are names that refer to the people of God.
The appearance of this Messianic promise at the end of this prophesy of the third total depravity of the race of Adam (When this was written there had already been two such hardenings.) has the utility of revealing this Psalms 14, and its twin Psalms 53, as a double prophecy of the Third Judicial Hardening of Adam's race and God's response to it in the First Advent of the Lord Jesus Christ, bringing life and immortality to light through the gospel, and ushering in the dispensation of Christianity. This is "God's last word to man." "Last of all, God sent his Son" (Matthew 21:37). When, once more, Satan is able to accomplish through the indifference and wickedness of mankind another situation of total hardening and depravity, our rebellious race may indeed expect the final Judgment of the Great Day.
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/12304 | A book I'm currently reading briefly mentioned epistemic logic, but didn't say what it was. Since I've never heard of this logic I decided to look it up and saw that it was a type of modal logic. I have no experience with this logic either, but I'm curious to learn more about it. So before I go out and grab a book on this topic, I'd like some feedback on what I should already know before tackling this subject. I have some experience with first-order logic and I am a mathematics student at the undergraduate level. Your help is greatly appreciated.
An understanding of classical propositional logic and first-order logic should suffice. Some notes:
1. Modal languages look very much like non-modal ones. For example, if you have a non-modal propositional language generated by the following grammar:
(L1) φ := p | ¬φ | (φ ∧ φ),
you can obtain a modal propositional language by adding a new clause for the modal operator □:
(L2) φ := p | ¬φ | (φ ∧ φ) | □φ.
Based on this necessity operator □ you can then define the possibility operator ◇φ as ¬□¬φ, etc.. There are more complex modal languages, of course (e.g. the language of quantified modal logic).
2. Formulas of modal languages, like formulas of non-modal ones, are defined inductively, so if you have some familiarity with compositional definitions and mathematical induction, you can define useful metrics for modal formulas (e.g. modal depth) that can help you prove various things about all modal formulas in a given language (e.g. unique readability/parsing).
3. Modal models are graph-like structures called relational or Kripke models. They're structures consisting of a set of worlds W, a binary accessibility relation on W, and a valuation V from propositional letters and worlds to truth-values. The key difference between non-modal and modal semantics is that in modal semantics the truth of a formula is world-relative, so while we specify:
(M1) M |= p iff V(p) = 1;
as the truth-conditions of 'p' in a non-modal propositional logic, in a modal one we say instead:
(M2) M, w |= p iff V(p, w) = 1.
There are lots of other points of similarity and contrast between modal and non-modal languages. Familiarity with graphs, trees and induction would be helpful, but since you have some experience with first-order logic, I would recommend that you just jump into the study of modal logic without preparing for it. (Keep Enderton on the side if you come across topics you haven't seen before.)
van Benthem, J. (2010) Modal Logic for Open Minds, Stanford, CSLI Lecture Notes #199.
Blackburn, P., de Rijke, M., Venema, Y. (2002) Modal Logic, Cambridge, CTTCS #53.
Holliday, W.H. (2012) Modal Reasoning, Lecture Course (Spring), UC Berkeley.
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NB: That Van Benthem book is intended for advanced undergraduates/beginning graduates. – user3164 May 8 '14 at 4:52
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This is an excellent answer, I want to suggest one more book though: Fitting and Mendelsohn's First-Order Modal Logic is an excellent text, geared at philosophers. It's a bit more advanced than some of the other modal logic textbooks (like Hughes and Creswell). But it will give you the full apparatus you need for reading contemporary papers in metaphysics, for instance. One question: Does anybody know a good textbook specifically on Epistemic Logic? That seems most relevant to the OP's question, and I'm also curious. – user5172 May 8 '14 at 11:51
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A good textbook is: Meyer, J.-J.Ch and Hoek, W. van der. Epistemic Logic for AI and Computer Science. Cambridge, 1995. – sequitur May 8 '14 at 13:56
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You can see also in SEP the entry on Epistemic logic with biblio, and the article on Epistemic logic into Dov Gabbay (editor), Handbook of the History of Logic. Vol 7 : Logic and the modalities in the twentieth century (2006). – Mauro ALLEGRANZA May 8 '14 at 16:49
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And of course Jaakko Hintikka, Knowledge and Belief (1962). – Mauro ALLEGRANZA May 8 '14 at 16:53
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/12305 | Wikipedia's "analytic and continental philosophers differ on the importance and influence of subsequent philosophers on their respective traditions... Hegel is viewed as a relatively minor figure for the work of analytic philosophers" surprised me a little. I always thought that philosophy does have the little of consensus that Friedman describes in Dynamics of Reason "although we do not (and I believe should not) achieve a stable consensus on the results of distinctively philosophical debate, we do nonetheless achieve a relatively stable consensus on what are the important contributions to the debate, and accordingly on what moves and arguments must be taken seriously".
What of the evolutionary approach and social/pragmatic turn in analytic philosophy since 1960s? Society as Geist, and social practice as the standard of truth in epistemology are parts of Marx's reading of Hegel, Hegelian roots of Peirce's pragmatism are self-acknowledged, "my philosophy resuscitates Hegel, though in a strange costume", as is Peirce's influence on the Vienna Circle and Quine.
Exhibit A is late Wittgenstein, of language games and "don't ask for meaning, ask for use", Marx could sign under that. And even the ladder from Tractatus, that can be kicked once climbed, sounds like an allusion to Phenomenology of Geist, intended to be the ladder to absolute knowledge. Exhibit B is the social turn in Western historiography of science prompted by Hessen, a Marxist historian, whose "focus on the relationship between society and science was, in its time, seen as novel and inspiring", and "became known as externalism, looking at the manner in which science and scientists are affected, and guided by, their context and the world in which they exist". I suspect that externalism in the philosophy of mind (Putnam, Chalmers) had something to do with it. Which brings me to Exhibit C, Kuhn. Scientific Revolutions were published by none other than Carnap himself, and certainly left a mark on philosophy of science. By the way, in 1930s Kuhn had a predecessor:"Bachelard’s The New Scientific Spirit (1934) revolved around a non-linear conception of scientific change. Drawing on a dynamic view of the history of science (another common point between Bachelard and Kuhn), he characterized scientific change in terms of breaks and revolutions, with new ideas ‘enveloping’ and replacing old ones".
Is Friedman too optimistic? Does Wikipedia reflect an existing sentiment? Is there an alternative reading of history on which analytic philosophy avoided Hegelian influence after all? Or is it considered minor? Perhaps, "minor figure" is the legacy of Moore and Russell defining themselves in contradistinction to absolute idealism, reinforced by Heidegger's embrace of it? (Ironically, the continental forefather Husserl had similar feelings: away from Hegel, "to things themselves")
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From what I read, if he had any influence on analytical philosophers, it was as an example of what NOT to do. Analytic philosophy aims at clarity and precision, which is the opposite of what Hegel produced. – R. Barzell Oct 14 '15 at 1:51
• As analytic and speculative stand to each other in a diametral manner...well, the speculative part is the one Marx did not agree with, I would say. And that is why analytic philosophy may go with Marx, but reject Hegel as well. As a sidenote, reading any translation of Hegel (or Kant, or Husserl) must end in misunderstandings and "the opposite of clarity and precision". That's what I learned from English translations of them. Most of them mutilate the depth of the thoughts in an adventurous way... – Philip Klöcking Oct 14 '15 at 3:48
• @PhilipKlöcking from what I read, Hegel was even more obscure in his original language. – R. Barzell Oct 14 '15 at 13:35
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@R.Barzell: The problem with Hegel is that you have to get an intuition of what is meant, because it is rarely made explicit or in various ways. Taken it this way, I actually enjoyed reading him (and I still do ;) – Philip Klöcking Oct 14 '15 at 16:00
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Not sure it is correct to call Husserl a turn away from Hegel. Frege is the "analytical" turn. It is Hegel who first introduces the "phenomenological" approach extended in other ways by Husserl. Also, though Carnap solicited Kuhn's article, I don't think he liked what he got. Liberal scientific animosity to Hegel is usually directed towards his "totalizing" penchant and "teleology," not so much the historicism. Thus, Lysenkoism is blamed on a "totalizing ideology" dictating outcomes. Likewise, Lemarckian "teleology" or any hint of a purposeful universe or extraneous causation. – Nelson Alexander Oct 16 '15 at 14:41
Yes, I believe Hegel has been treated largely with hostility or neglect in the analytic camp from the time Russell accused him "simple logical errors."Russell himself was originally steeped in Hegel, Bradley, and the British idealists, so his renunciation carried weight. (As the famous weather report goes: "Fog Over Channel, Continent Cut Off.")
The parting of ways is usually attributed to the division of interests between Husserl and Frege (phenomenology, symbolic logic) though those two kept up professional exchanges. In America, Dewey and other pragmatists up to Rorty kept up some interest in Hegel. But he only recently crept back in by way of phenomenology in the art theory and literature departments since about 1980, with Phenomenology of Spirit the primary text.
Why? Well, for many Hegel is easy to dislike. Wordy, tedious, vague, pompously systematic, seemingly equivocating and clutching the "excluded middle." I believe it was Heine who called him "a man who fears he might be understood." Even for professionals he is very time-consuming and often ambiguous. "Swabians love secrets," went an old saying.
But I think there are two cultural reasons he was jettisoned. First, like Heidegger, he simply accrues some vague blame among English speakers for all things "Germanic," in his misunderstood defense of the Prussian State, etc. This includes blame by association for Marxism and "totalitarian systemizing" among the Anglo-American liberals and fanatically liberal Austrian refugees, those godlike figures of modern American conservatism.
But perhaps the deeper reason is the very conscious and arguably worthy decision of the analytical camp to work as the handmaidens of modern physics. Hegel's writings on Newton and physics are very interesting. Unfortunately, he produced an all-encompassing, systematic project just before the modern turns in science. Before Faraday, Maxwell, Darwin, thermodynamics, atomic theory, computing. So he appears ill-informed, as well as overweening, wherever he touches related subjects. Here, paradoxically, he is actually too specific. He toyed with the idea of species evolution, then in a famous footnote explicitly called it impossible. He argued that a ninth planet could not exist, etc.
Above all, while Kant's limits on metaphysics are perfectly and intentionally compatible with scientific method, hypothesis, and "falsifiability," Hegel's attempt to resolve them in a further leap of subjective idealism are most emphatically not.
He actually appears much better in the light of quantum theory, chaos modeling, and such. Some physicists, Einstein included, appreciated the naturalized dialectics of Engels. Bohr can sound pretty Hegelian. Today, compared to modern cosmologists and string theorist, Hegel looks utterly down to earth. Still, I don't see much common ground between Hegel and the analytical approach, where he remains a paradigm of how to "not think clearly." So he'll probably remain in the art and literature departments.
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• This probably is how analytic philosophers see it, it is hard to credit influence to an unreadable cipher. But I'd still distinguish between seeing influence and being influenced regardless. Wittgenstein's linguistic pragmatism, Quine's social coherentism, and everything that stems from them, seem to me infused with Hegelian vapors, if indirectly absorbed. The 9th planet is an anecdote by the way, what he actually wrote was perfectly reasonable adsabs.harvard.edu/full/1992JHA....23..208C – Conifold Oct 24 '15 at 21:09
• Yes, I 'd heard his 9th planet argument got a bad rap. On the other hand, when Pluto lost planetary status I thought, Hegel vindicated! It was probably his deep incorporation of history into philosophy that has had the greatest impact. No matter what is said, Hegel made himself pretty unavoidable. – Nelson Alexander Oct 24 '15 at 21:22
• Sadly, even Pluto's demotion to dwarves can not save him for we are told that "Hegel proved by clearest logic that the number of planets can not exceed seven". Especially since the event that demolished his claim and reputation forever was the discovery of Ceres the same year, also a dwarf planet (as we know since two centuries later). The fact that he simply pointed out that one can come up with a numerical sequence that "predicts" no gap between Mars and Jupiter just as easily as with one that does, can not cover up his failure to see that gap and the number of planets a priori :) – Conifold Oct 27 '15 at 2:11
The quote by Pierce:
My work resuscitates Hegel but in a strange costume
is interesting, given that Robert Brandom calls himself broadly a Pragmatist, and according to this interview, is:
famous for supporting Hegel from an analytic framework
Where there is one, there are likely to be others - so perhaps there is a hidden Hegelian stream in the Analytic tradition.
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Open System Utilities Semantics over XNFS
Many of the interfaces described in the X/Open Commands and Utilities Specification (see reference XCU) are directly or indirectly concerned with accessing files stored on the system's file system. This appendix identifies those commands and utilities which may operate differently when used with XNFS.
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alias banner basename bg
cal col dirname echo
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getopts hash ipcrm ipcs
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File Access
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/12393 | Are We Soul Mates?
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Have you ever wondered if you have found, or will ever find your one true soul mate in the world? Is there really such a thing? My experiences and observations in life have shown me that if indeed soulmates exist, there are far more than just one that interact with us in different ways, at different times, for different reasons, and for different lengths of time. Your mother or father might be one of your soul mates, in the sense that one or both of them may have been related to you in some way for many lifetimes.
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Astrology often helps point out both the compatibility of two or more people, and whether or not they have what may be called the “soulmate connection.” Usually, two people in a soulmate relationship share a number of potent planetary contacts, particularly conjunctions between their luminaries and personal planets such as the Sun, Moon, Venus, and Mars. A few other telling factors include strong North Node connections, strong midpoints, aspects to one another’s Vertex points, and strong Pluto connections.
Let’s take a brief look at the way a soulmate is generally defined these days. On Wikipedia (internet dictionary), a soul mate is described as “a person with whom one has a feeling of deep and natural affinity, love, intimacy, sexuality, spirituality, and/or compatibility. A related concept is that of the twin flame or twin soul – which is thought to be the ultimate soulmate, the one and only other half of one’s soul, for which all souls are driven to find and join. However, not everyone who uses these terms intends them to carry such mystical connotations.”
Soulmates often reflect to us aspects of ourselves that we have not fully embraced, both positive and negative. Since it is easier to embrace a beautiful loved one with all their foibles than to love ourselves unconditionally, many of us are given the chance to work out a bulk of our issues through relationships where our own problems are merely reflected back to us. Of course very few people realize when they are projecting their own problems onto others, but it’s easier to do that than to recognize where they’re stemming from.
Most people who even use the term, are interested in soul mates of a romantic nature. There’s nothing wrong with this, in fact the desire to become more aligned with someone who is an appropriate and equal partner shows that an inner refinement of human nature has taken place. They and you may want to know about their/your existing partners, or any new ones they/you shall meet. They want to know the depth of their connections, and sometimes whether or not there are ways to manipulate the connections. That’s when the trouble often begins.
What usually happens is that we are subconsciously, and even unconsciously drawn to certain people and partners who reflect back to us the lessons that we need to learn in life. We’re seduced by shiny wrappers on the outside (of the person and/or the relationship itself), and then shun away from what we find inside.
People say that they want to meet their soulmate and be together always, but do they really want to face all the responsibility that would entail? Contrary to popular ideas, a soulmate connection on Earth is not one where we float on Cloud 9, hand-in-hand with a romantic partner throughout life. The number nine may have relevance however, as it is the number associated with past life karma and completion. If you have come together with a soul mate or twin flame it is likely that you both have some big work to do together, not only for yourselves but possibly for many people. It may come in the form of a child, or a project that springs from your union and that somehow bestows blessings to the world. It could also be that you mainly came together to heal yourselves, which in turn contributes to the healing of the consciousness of life on this planet.
Below is a brief list of what the planets possibly mean when they are strongly aspected between two people. This is a rather one-sided look at what a relationship reading actually entails, but it may give you a general understanding of how it works.
Sun – The person whose Sun touches another’s planet “lights”, supports, and inspires the other in some way. If the Sun person is not serving as the beacon, he/she may either be receiving similar support or a major challenge from the other. Positively, the Sun person brings awareness. Negatively, they may seek control.
Moon – The Moon person often nurtures the other, helps him or her feel safe. It indicates familiarity, often past life connections. Conversely, the Moon person may feel smothered, dominated, or fearful of what the other does, as the Moon tends to heighten emotions.
Mercury – Mercury stimulates the mind and intellect. If one person’s Mercury contacts another’s planet or vice versa, he is likely to stimulate lots of conversation (the topic is a whole ‘nother subject, no pun intended! That depends on the signs & houses that Mercury occupies.)
Venus – The Venus person shows the other how to lighten up, live a little, let go and have fun. This planet’s about pleasure, love, and romance, among other things, so it does not like to be hampered by anything too serious (such as Saturn…which might work for long-term commitments)
Mars – Mars brings passion but doesn’t specify what direction it will take. The Mars person stirs things up. They might anger the other person whose planet is being affected, sexually arouse them, propel them toward some necessary action, or perhaps all of the above.
Jupiter – The person who is “Jupiter” to the other gives generously in the area where the contact is being made. The signs, houses, and other aspects would indicate if this giving would be material, spiritual, wanted, unwanted, or over-the-top. Often means you’re “going places” together.
Saturn – A Saturn connection has both a familiar and a “karmic” feel about it – the kind that many people try to avoid once they begin to sniff it out. Like an insect caught in a web, it’s often too late to back out by the time one catches onto the situation. The Saturn person is often either the teacher, or the one that the other runs from.
Uranus – Uranus brings excitement to a relationship, but is unstable and unpredictable. The person whose Uranus strongly impacts another’s personal planet acts as the rebel rouser, either just for the heck of it, or toward some humanitarian cause that both people share an interest in.
Neptune – Ahh, a wonderfully romantic connection may appear on the horizon when Neptune is near. But is this fancy or reality? The Neptune person is often very attractive to the other, as well as chooses to see the best in the other. The only pitfall is when neither person sees clearly. Otherwise it can be a very spiritually uplifting connection.
Pluto – When Pluto is prominently involved in a relationship, this is no small matter. The planet may have been demoted from its status, but Pluto’s influences are powerful and often indicate deep soul patterns and connections. The person who represents Pluto to the other has a great deal of sway and influence and must use it wisely or it can backfire.
It does sometimes happen that two of the people’s same planets are interacting strongly with each other. An example would be Venus conjunct Venus – Venus’s very own favorite aspect of all! If this isn’t the sign of a soulmate connection, at the very least it’s the sign of a very pleasurable and promising one, on some levels.
My last comment on this complex subject is a question: If we all came from the same Source…even if we came a long ways from there, and have since then fragmented into billions of unique shapes, sizes, and levels of consciousness, inhabiting whatever planets and dimensions, wouldn’t that basically mean that we are all Soul Mates?
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/12396 | Tag Archives: young adult dystopian fiction
How to Begin and End Chapters
21 Oct
Shannon S. Thompson's YA dystopian novel, Take Me Tomorrow, features a clairvoyant drug and an uprising against the oppressive State.
Shannon A. Thompson’s YA dystopian novel, Take Me Tomorrow, features a clairvoyant drug and an uprising against the oppressive State.
Most writers have a sense for how a novel is structured. But what about chapters? We tend to make a few common mistakes, like beginning a chapter with a character waking up and ending it with the character going to bed (or getting knocked unconscious). In other words, the chapter doesn’t know where to begin and when to end, and so as long as the character is awake, the chapter keeps going.
Different kinds of novels handle chapters differently, but it’s usually the case that genre novels contain short chapters. A great example of this kind of chapter—and a great example for how these short chapters are structured—can be found in Shannon A. Thompson’s new Young Adult Dystopian novel, Take Me Tomorrow. You can read the opening chapters here at Smashwords.
How the Novel Works
Let’s look at the first two chapters of the novel, which are quite different in terms of setting and content but which use a similar structure. In the first chapter, the narrator, a teenager named Sophia, meets an unexpected person. The chapter begins with Sophia running through the woods with her dog. She’s checking on her father’s land while he’s away and clearly feeling at home:
Spring was the best season − when everything smelled of moss, alive and wet. But it was August. The muggy air sucked all the life out of the plants, leaving them dry, disheveled, and dead. Today, the forest smelled of burnt grass and dried mud. Among the pivots, the creek bed, and the broken logs, I followed the trail, and my dependable dog ran in front of me.
Then, she runs into a stranger:
a boy whose “tone was sarcastically carefree, his stare was intense, shadowed by the setting sun. I recognized the stillness in his expression. It was a predatory look, the expression of an animal preparing an attack.”
But by the end of the scene, the boy’s tone has shifted:
“‘Am I near the park?’ His quiet tone was rushed. ‘That’s where I meant to go.’ His shoulders slumped in defeat. ‘Really.'”
That tone isn’t the only major shift. The boy hurries away because someone else has arrived, and that arrival causes a change in the narrator:
“My usually goofy friend was a mess. His mop of brown curls sprung into his widened eyes, and he wheezed from the run. His alarmed expression ruined any lasting comfort I maintained. Something was wrong. Seriously wrong.”
One of the smartest things I ever heard about crafting scenes was from writer and screenwriter Owen Egerton. He shared with me the screenwriting tip that scenes should almost always contain a reversal (a “flip” of a situation) or a change in tone. So, if a scene starts out happy, it should end with sadness. Of course, the best scenes will end in ways that don’t change the tone 180 degrees but instead change it in a way that is less predictable. This is precisely what Thompson does in her first chapter. The chapter begins with the character’s confidence in her own knowledge of her surroundings and ends with that confidence disrupted.
The next chapter does something similar. It begins with a risky encounter with the police, who are enforcing a State-mandated curfew. The encounter goes smoothly, according to the expectations of one character:
“Everything is a scare tactic with these people. They don’t check everything.”
The chapter ends with the knowledge that another encounter with the State is coming, and this one will be more serious and more dangerous: “I need you to bring me a bag of food, water, and one of your dad’s knives to school.”
Though the scene ends on a similar note as it began, the stakes have been dramatically increased.
The Writing Exercise
Let’s structure chapters using the novel Take Me Tomorrow by Shannon A. Thompson as a model:
1. Choose the scene(s) at the heart of the chapter. I’m using the word scene because it’s sometimes a more helpful organizational unit than chapter. Most of us know what a scene is even if we have no idea what a chapter should look like. Scenes also appear in stories, whereas chapters do not. So, start by outlining a scene that you know will appear in the story/novel. There may be passages that come before or after it, but you should focus on the drama that you know will occur.
2. Identify and clarify the tone or situation at the beginning of the scene(s). You can think about this in two ways. One, what is the situation at the beginning of the scene? Think broadly. What problem is the character facing? What approach is the character using? What is the character’s attitude? What is the balance of power? Two, what is the tone at the beginning of the scene? Is it serious? Comic? Goofy? Casual? Think about the scene as a whole, not necessarily the character’s emotions. For instance, a birthday party is casual, but a waiting room at a hospital is likely serious.
3. Reverse or shift the tone or situation at the end of the scene(s). When you reverse or change any of these situations, you can go for a full reversal (happy to sad, birthday party to cancer), or you can go for a change in degree. So, if someone has more power, that person’s power could be amplified or reinforced rather than diminished or taken away. When you change the tone, you can keep the setting the same but introduce an element that changes the way we view it. For instance, if an ambulance shows up to a birthday party, the tone has changed from fun and casual to serious and formal. (As a general rule, if a scene contains people in uniform, then it’s probably formal.) You can also produce a change in degree: mildly happy to incredibly happy. For instance, birthday parties are mildly happy, but if you’re given a gift of a lottery ticket, and you scratch it and win a million dollars, the party just got a lot happier.
The key to all of these steps is to identify what you establish at the beginning of a scene. By the end of that scene, at least one of the basic building blocks of the scene should have changed. If you’re trying to decide where to end a chapter or scene, consider picking a moment immediately after something essential has changed.
Good luck!
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/12401 | Election 2016
Dear Democrats: No One Owes You Their Vote
Clinton has been going full-force Millennial Whisperer recently, after learning that she's losing young voters to Gary Johnson and Jill Stein. Why it won't help.
Ricky Fitchett/ZUMA Press/Newscom
The Hillary Clinton campaign thought for sure it could count on a few key demographics: racial minorities, gay voters, young women, and to some extent young people broadly. Now that many of these groups—but especially the kids—have proven less gung-ho about her than expected, Clinton is going full-force Millennial Whisperer, throwing out free-college proposals and Pepe the Frog references with abandon as her minions in media and politics hammer home one point: a vote for a third-party presidential candidate this November is a vote for Donald Trump.
The new rhetoric comes in response to several signs that millennials won't simply go good-German in a post-Bernie world. In the latest Quinnipiac national poll, just 31 percent of 18- to 34-year-old voters favored Clinton, with 29 percent for Libertarian Gary Johnson and 15 percent for Green Party candidate Jill Stein. Another recent poll, this one from New York Times/CBS News, found 26 percent of 18- to 29-year-old respondents saying they would vote for Johnson and 10 percent professing support for Stein.
"A month ago Democrats were amused to see Johnson leading Trump along millennials," noted Dave Weigel at The Washington Post Monday. "Now, Johnson's support is being tackled like a crisis."
The anti-third-party message has been coming from Clinton herself—on Monday, she gave a speech at Temple University "laying out the stakes of November's election for millennial voters"—and from new YouTube and TV commercials put out by Clinton SuperPAC Priorities USA. It's coming from Clinton surrogates like Sen. Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, speaking on Facebook and at swing-state college campuses; and from pro-establishment voices in the media, such as The New York Times columnist Paul Krugman and Mother Jones executive editor Clara Jeffery.
On Thursday, Jeffery tweeted the results of a new poll showing high support for third-party candidates among young voters with the comment: "I have never hated millennials more."
Jeffery's comment typifies a certain sort of left-leaning boomer leap-of-logic wherein the large number of Trump supporters within their own ranks aren't the issue and its the under-35 crowd's rejection of both Trump and Clinton that is truly unconscionable. Meanwhile, Krugman weighed in today on whether any sane person could vote for Gary Johnson, concluding sure—if they think it makes no difference whether Trump or Clinton gets elected and they agree with every policy position Johnson takes.
The last bit is an especially strange assertion to make while simultaneously arguing for those who don't love Clinton to support her because she's better than the alternative. In Krugman's column logic, voting for Clinton while opposing much of what she stands for is righteous and normal while voting for Johnson because you support much of what he stands for is absurd unless you also agree with him 100 percent on environmental regulation, Medicare, school choice, and everything else.
Riffing on Krugman, let's ask a similar question: Does it make sense for millennials or racial minorities to vote for Hillary Clinton, the Democratic candidate for president, when they really want to vote for a third-party candidate?
Sure, as long as you believe a few things. First, you have to accept a system in which two increasingly similar and incoherent political parties get to dominate American politics in perpetuity and in which the quality (or lack thereof) of the candidates they put forth makes zero difference. Second, you have to believe that Donald Trump presents an unprecedented threat to American society and this election holds unique historical significance that subsequent elections will not match. And third, you have to believe that certain classes of people can and should reliably be expected to vote against their own consciences and material interests to serve the greater good as it is perceived by an elite ruling class.
The problem for Clinton, I suspect, is that very few of the voters she's seeking to sway away from third parties—be they millennials or whoever—believe all those things. The people who would even consider a third-party vote in the first place tend to either be true believers in that philosophy or so fed up with (one or both) parties that they're desperate for an alternative. Neither group seems likely to be swayed by appeals to how its their job to see that the lesser of two evils gets elected and their fault alone if that doesn't happen. In fact, it's that very attitude that turns people to third parties in the first place.
There are many people for whom Clinton's current rhetoric resonates, though. When I was home in Ohio last week, I heard some iteration of it—or its reverse, that voting third-party would tragically throw the election toward Clinton—from all sorts of older relatives and other folks for whom voting either Republican or Democrat is almost always a given. Which makes sense: the types to see their side as reliably better than anything the other side has to offer will of course reject any courses of action that could boost the other side, even if they despise their own party's candidate (which was also pretty par for the course among those I consulted). As a get-out-the-vote strategy for generally committed partisans, then, drumming up third-party fears seems to be a fine tactic.
But where this shame-based messaging works less well is with the very people that Clinton is courting. Telling people to vote for someone they don't trust or believe in simply to stop someone else they don't believe in from taking power plays right into people's major complaints about Clinton—that she's a sellout for whom power trumps principles; that she'll say anything to get elected; that she's running more on symbolism than substance.
And as several young Sanders supporters told Weigel, they're open to Clinton but don't believe she's genuine or will keep promises she makes on the campaign trail. They want a reason to believe, but she isn't delivering.
Yet rather than focusing on ratcheting up her credibility on issues that are important to independent voters, instead Clinton's campaign has turned to bullying. Her message—vote for me no matter how bad I am or else the truly bad guys win—is just a subtler (and yet more cynical) version of Trump's "I alone can save you" rhetoric.
It's not surprising, unfortunately. Historically, the Clinton campaign and its allies have always gotten nasty when the going gets tough. When young voters went overwhelmingly for Sanders in the Democratic primaries, Clinton and company were quick to chastise young male "Bernie Bros" for sexism and young women for voting socialist so boys would like them. During the 2008 election season, Clinton cast Obama's higher ratings as a toxic mix of sexism and unfounded black-on-black voting habits. Clinton's entire presidential oeuvre has been built on one motif: she's owed this goddamn office and anyone who can't see that is deplorable.
But for a lot of idealistic young voters, "hey, at least she's not Trump" just isn't inspiring enough to warrant a vote for Clinton. And the idea that they, by virtue of being young, or black, or any other surface attribute typically associated with liberal voting, owe the Democrats their electoral devotion as a matter of course is downright insulting. It typifies an upper-class feminist/liberal agenda in which good minority-groups of all sorts are supposed to go along to get along—to subsume their own specific goals to some general progressive political good—even when it repeatedly leaves them on the margins. That Clinton and Democrats feel so comfortable shaming certain classes of people for voting in accordance with their own values and interests illustrates just how much Clinton and the mainstream left takes these groups for granted.
A vote for neither Clinton nor Trump—whether that means casting a ballot for Johnson, Stein, or some other candidate or abstaining from voting altogether—can say to the ruling parties that people are tired of being taken for granted (or tired of being offered a choice between a turd sandwich and a giant douche, as South Park would put it) and that Democrats and Republicans need to do better next time. That's important, too.
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1. No it’s through the breastplate via the sternum.
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2. Through the stomach. Less armor and bone that way.
3. Nope. Not with millennials, they just hang on their arms. And they’re always bleeding.
2. Until they figure out that those jobs don’t exist. And neither does the $9 an hour job that they used to have. Economics 101 the hard way.
1. #RobotsForHillary
3. The math checks out.
2. OK, I think we’ve heard enough about Clinton’s joke of a campaign.
1. No, no we haven’t.
2. Each day brings us more and more material to openly mock.
3. RE: Dear Democrats: No One Owes You Their Vote
Clinton has been going full-force Millennial Whisperer recently, after learning that she’s losing young voters to Gary Johnson and Jill Stein.
Nothing could be further from the truth.
We little people have been given a choice between the fascist Trump the Grump or the socialist slaver Heil Hitlary. Both are rich, stupid, arrogant and elitist.
Only a fool would pass up a chance voting for either one.
Just look what the two party elitists have done for our country so far.
1. Define Fascist. I keep hearing people accuse Trump of fascism when they have no clue what fascism is.
Define fascism and give examples.
1. For the majority of the Political Left, Fascist means ‘bad’. See; Franco, Pinochet, and a certain Austrian corporal were ‘fascists’, but Stalin and Mao were Communists, which excuses that they mudered more people.
The consmetic differences mostly boil down to Fascists are likely to be Racists while Communists are Classists.
1. National Socialist. Often nationalism is confused with fascism. Nationalism tends to manifest as racism while fascism is an economic system. By definition Obumbles is a fascist, or has fascist policies and Cankles isnt far behind.
Trump is in no way a fascist, but he does appeal to nationalists and he is definitely a populist. Still, I don’t see him calling for camps for adults.
1. Fascism isn’t primarily economic, it’s defining features are (usually ethnic) nationalism and concentration of power in the hands of the head of state. The Nazis were arguably more truly fascist than the Itslian fascists; Mussolini never had as absolute power as Hitler was he near as successful in implementing nationalist and militarist policies.
One could validly make a distinction between Felangism and fascism, the former more being traditionalist, monarchist, and pro-aristocratic, all generally at odds with fascism.
1. By which definition Trump is well into fascist territory. Clinton is a generalist authoritarian.
2. Fascism isn’t primarily economic, it is ONLY economic.
Read. You might learn.
1. economic merger of State and corporate, and necessarily enforced politically. You cannot have fascism without a cudgel.
2. Mussolini, the original author of fascism, defined it as a merger between the State and corporate power, with the following dictates:
1. Everything in the State
2. Nothing outside the State
3. Nothing against the State.
And you violated those roles at your peril.
2. Trump is a fascist, yet Hillary’s slogan is Stronger Together. All she’s missing is the fascio. Go figure.
1. Specify how Trump is a fascist.
1. Well he’s certainly a nationalist, that you don’t dispute, right? Wants to make America great and wants everyone to be proud to be an American. On civil liberties he’s horrible on the First Amendment, Fourth Amendment and the Fifth Amendment inasmuch as they’re impediments to American security and greatness.
And his economic policies are very protectionist with some increased welfare mixed in like maternity leave and not touching Social Security/Medicare. It’s what many of us here would call socialist if advocated by a Democrat. The only difference is Trump isn’t bothering to pretend to be able to pay for it with more taxation.
So what do you call a person who’s platform is a mixture of socialism and nationalism?
2. Nationalism
Concentration of political power in the Head of State
He’s advocated for all of that.
1. The defining feature of fascism is the state working through favored industries, i.e. state-corporate collusion. I have heard none of that from Trump.
The other features you mention were characteristics of Hitler and Mussolini regimes, not their philosophies.
4. Would Democrats be better off if they would have run a stuffed effigy of Che? I mean it would have looked more alive than Hillary and not be prone to seizures.
Bernie Sanders lost, fair and square.
1. I bet Bernie smells better than Hillary though. Can you imagine hanging out with grandmao pantsuit all day? What if she has a depends blow out or something when she faints? Those secret service guys sure earn their pay.
1. Or maybe… when he thought the country had too much deodorant, he was really just projecting his own behavior and preferences.
2. She has a person for that….
2. I think they could have done better than that. Maybe use some of that Hollywood magic and make him robotic or something.
1. I think Hollywood learned their lesson about making a robot version of something that old during production of Jurassic Park.
3. Che would have been easy to defeat just ask him how he feels about black people and gays.
5. As several young Sanders supporters told Weigel,
DON’T YOU MEAN BUTTPLUG??!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?
I agree completely with the last paragraph. I’d add the fact that many Bernie-lovers are obsessed with Clinton’s corruption – both in her past and with the Democratic primary – so that factors in, too.
1. Well, these naive young chillins are unfortunately swayed by the fake scandals they read about on those internets. We need common sense internet control.
2. The only crime Hillary committed was not sewing up the primary and America what with all of her qualifications.
1. But but but my sister told me that Clinton is the *most qualified* candidate ever!
6. Anyone else notice it’s been “Mrs” Clinton lately rather than “secretary”?
Also, is there any doubt that these interviews she’s giving from her plane aren’t really from some stage sonewhere in her bunker, where they wheel her out for a few mins whenever the drugs are just right?
1. A prog told me a few days ago that she has actually been appearing in public often after her ‘pnemonia’, but the only image I’ve seen of her since then is seated on a plane looking like the undead.
1. I’m convinced that the plane interview thing is a scam. It’s a great way to make it look like she’s actively running around the country and is just so busy she can only fit plane interviews into her busy schedule. When you add in the undead look I’m sure I’m right
1. Like when medieval armies would prop their dead General up on his horse and send riding around to rally the troops.
Of course it’s also possible they noticed every time she shows up and talks her numbers go down rather than up and decided to just take a long vacation to Boca while Obama campaigns on her behalf.
2. It’s filmed in the same studio where they did the moon landing. Are they still using film?
7. Well, as I said earlier, expect this to continue ratcheting up either until the election or until Johnson and Weld are seen as nothing more than Trump’s more-Nazi, stoner, dopplegangers.
This was announced. In no uncertain terms. The Clinton campaign said they were going to delegitimize voting for Johnson. They announced a multi-million dollar commitment to doing just that. The only thing I’m surprised about is that anyone fails to see the transparent propaganda campaign (and when I observed it this weekend, the response was little more than a sneer and an accusation of conspiracy thinking).
Again, progressives aren’t the friends (at least politically) of libertarians. They’ll only tolerate libertarians to the extent we’re irrelevant. If that ever changes, they’ll have more venom for us than they do for conservatives.
1. A movement which believes the only flaw in government is that there isn’t enough is going to be the mortal enemy of libertarians. Full stop.
1. I hear they also represent libertarians as hyperbolic one-dimensional caricatures, but I don’t waste my time reading their publications to find out for sure.
1. ” …You understand the mentality, you can call it conservative, some would say libertarian. Well, libertarian doesn’t fit, because you wouldn’t join the army…”
Oliver Stone commenting on Edward Snowden.
Ars goes the full Proggtard these days.
1. Ollie always manages to bring the stupid to the party.
2. Ars is ok for tech stuff and gaming, but holy fucking shit they have gone full progtard in so many ways.
Congresscritter wants publicly funded climate scientists to hand over work emails related to their taxpayer-funded research? Denier! Nazi! Kochzombie!
Do you oppose gun control? Murderer! Childkiller! Nazi!
I once pointed out in Ars comments that consensus is a poor basis for science. You would have thought I suggested we fire up the showers and ovens. JFC what a bunch of self-righteous drones.
2. One tiny example, I’m searching for the circle-jerk that was Fed Up’s “protest” at Jackson hole, but I’m having trouble finding it. People who were there were alarmed at how the Fed Up organization demanded that the Fed do more of what the Fed does, keeping interest rates at zero and engaging in endless stimulus. Then a lot of cross-table congratulatory speech and backslapping ensued.
This theme comes up again and again. Oh, there was Bernie Sanders, almost forgot about him.
3. “I hear they also represent libertarians as hyperbolic one-dimensional caricatures, but I don’t waste my time reading their publications to find out for sure.”
Just reading the clip from Paul Krugman’s piece above will confirm this idea.
2. I think part of the problem is that they know exactly how to approach a conservative. Conservatives just automatically disagree with them on everything. But go join in on a thread about cannabis where a lot of the progs are supporting legalization and you start agreeing with them. So they think you’re one of them. When they find out you’re not, this enrages them. They have no idea how to deal with this.
1. How much are you really agreeing with them?
What they are ok with is government granting permission to engage in behaviors they deem acceptable. They are also totally for government prohibiting anything they do not think acceptable.
Can’t say I find much there to agree with.
2. I posted a comment similar to this a couple of weeks ago, where you think you have common ground when you start talking about the bailouts, but the nano-second you suggest the bailouts never should have happened, you’re met with rhetorical throatclearing, suggesting that the bailouts were absolutely necessary to save the system from the corporations. Somehow, people manage to hold the belief that bailouts were both evil and necessary at the same time.
I just scrolled through my text history, I’ll have to edit for brevity:
Democrat: Banks and Wall Street hold all the power, they manipulated the system.
Paul. : Congress commands the military and the legislative pen, they authorized the bailouts.
Democrat: Money is fungible
Paul: I point out that the banks never should have recieved the bailouts (using more colorful language)
Democrat: The bailout was necessary! Congress has failed to act to keep them from happening again.
Paul: Congress acted to codify bailouts into law!
Democrat: *makes some off topic remark* then replies with start honesty, and this is direct quote: It offend [sic] botyh my libertarian and socialistic tendencies at the same time. How is that for cognitive dissonance.
This comes up again and again. You think you have some common ground, and it’s obliterated the moment you suggest reducing the footprint of government.
1. So giving away a few hundred billion dollars to corporations is going to save us from corporations. That makes a lot of sense I guess, if you’re a progtard.
2. One can argue that the bailouts were necessary to avoid a liquidity shortage, but the liquidity shortage caused by failing banks is itself the result of regulatory barriers to entry in the moneylending industry.
I’m not convinced a massive contraction in available credit wouldn’t have been a very bad thing, but even fairly mainstream economists have argued that at least semi-private ways of dealing with it were viable and less expensive, and Anna Schwartz has argued the industry would’ve recovered fine without any bailouts; I would say she has some credibility on the matter.
Even if the bailouts were necessary, the way to prevent the is the exact opposite of the progressive solution: we need a less stringently regulated, more competitive credit market, not a more stringently regulated less competitive market.
3. Something similar happens when a libertarian criticizes a USA conservative for being opposed to small government. I once was a guest on a conservative radio talk show and disconcerted the host by calling the non-military space program, of which he was a big booster, an example of pork-barrel spending.
1. You’ve spoken to a libertarian?
2. Will have? Not sure where you’ve been, but I frequently read comments on other sites, like WaPo, and the left already hate libertarians 1000x more than they hate conservatives.
1. They hate libertarians because libertarians expose their ‘tolerant, free thinker’ pose as an utter lie.
1. Are you implying they don’t really fucking love science!?
1. They freaking love a consensus. So, that’s the same as science, right?
2. Conservatives will give in to most of their agenda as long as they agree to let them keep raising defense spending and subsidize industries conservatives are in bed with. Many libertarians, the ‘good ones’, will go along with progs altogether for the sake of ‘social progress.’
More adamant classical liberals, the bad ones, are the ideological threat to progs because they 1) can’t be bribed with more defense spending and pork barrel, and 2) realize that almost all of the ‘social liberal’ common ground has already been accomplished, and therefore is moot. If one accepts that, there’s almost nothing left to compromise over.
3. Think about what happens at HnR. Assuming the trolls aren’t sock puppets, the hatred of libertarians and Reason.com seems to come almost entirely from the left.
8. Perhaps eventually people will realize that if you blindly vote for either party at ridiculously high rates, they have no incentive to actually do anything for you.
9. “”””Pepe the Frog references”””
Big mistake, everyone loves Pepe.
10. Vote as if it matters
“You’ve gotta mentally masturbate like nobody’s watching, whine like you’re hurt, bloviate like there’s nobody listening, And live like it’s proggie heaven on earth.” – Krugman inspirational quote of the day
11. Right on cue, my FB feed is filled with Progs issuing dire warnings about Gary Johnson. My favorite was the guy who seriously posited that Johnson would bring back malaria.
Libertarians have foolish core assumptions about how human beings think and why they do what they do. Those assumptions deeply corrupt their ideas about how humans can and should work together to achieve common goals. I can’t imagine anyone more unqualified to make decisions about public policy than a libertarian.
1. Libertarians have foolish core assumptions about how human beings think and why they do what they do
That’s some high level proggy projection right there.
1. What impressed me the most is the coordination. No mention of GJ, and suddenly, they’re all spewing the same talking points.
1. It’s a mark of how tight the poling between Clinton and Trump has become.
2. Nearly all progressive criticisms of libertarian thought is projection. They can’t understand that somebody would be naturally altruistic, for example, without government forcing them into it.
1. Their conservative criticisms are projection too. It’s the only thing they do consistently and well.
2. I’m skeptical that, for many of them, altruism is really even the issue. Beneficence is just the mechanism for obtaining power and control.
Progressivism is deeply puritanical.
1. Progressivism is deeply puritanical.
This, exactly.
1. Literally, in fact. Of course, if you tell a younger Progressive that their movement is rooted in the worst instincts of religion they’ll scoff at you. It just couldn’t be true, you see, because Religion is gross unless it’s a minority religion of several billion people.
3. “They can’t understand that somebody would be naturally altruistic, for example, without government forcing them into it.”
This is a characteristic shared by progs and most religious people. It’s really a display of ignorance about animal and human behavior.
3. The really derptastical thing about it is how progs are always talking about ‘natural’ things and the way nature wants it to be and how capitalists are corrupting all of that.
For the vast majority of human history, people were hunter gathers in small groups, cooperating to survive. Huge mega-nation states are something new and they are not the natural state of humans. Thinking you can take a being whose nature is to exist in a small cooperative groups and making them a cog in a great machine of hundreds of millions and thinking that is the ‘natural’ state is insane. Socialism will only work in small tight knit groups where the goals of each individual are very much in alignment.
1. True. As Hayek said, socialism is not progressive but atavistic.
2. “Socialism will only work in small tight knit groups where the goals of each individual are very much in alignment.”
It can work in small groups whose members are at least somewhat loyal to one another and unwilling to screw each other over. It also requires some means of expelling those who don’t pull their weight.
Trying to implement it in even a small town these days would be suicidal; the population is simply too large and diverse to have that cohesiveness. Plus, such an arrangement would leave you with two choices:
A) Expel or kill anyone who attempts to leech off the system,
B) Tolerate the loafers and watch the whole country spiral into poverty.
1. Exactly.
Convent = example of success
Commune = example of failure
3. For the vast majority of human history, people were hunter gathers in small groups, competing for survival
Any ‘socialism’ seen in small hunter gatherer groups is an illusion provided by minds tainted with the notion from outside.
2. “Those assumptions deeply corrupt their ideas about how humans can and should work together to achieve common goals.”
What happens when you point out that coercive violence is not the same as “working together?” Do they just own up to it and admit that this is just what they want? Is that what they mean by “should work together?”
Are they aware of this or do they just not care? I usually don’t challenge people about politics because it can get unpleasant, so I really don’t know.
1. Are they aware of this or do they just not care?
No and yes, respectively.
2. Yes, it’s really bizarre that this seems to be their belief system:
People cooperating and competing peacefully with other producers of wealth = Cold, uncaring, cut-throat, dog-eat-dog capitalism
Government monopolists using the implied threat of deadly force to force people to give up their wealth so that the government can distribute it as they see fit = Compassionate, democratic, social progress
1. I keep thinking the latest example of government corruption and cronyism will open their eyes, but it never seems to happen.
1. Willful ignorance.
See: Global Warming
I think their use of the word ‘should’ says everything you need to know about their mindset.
12. I voted for Ross Perot in the first election i ever voted in.
It was mainly because “He wasn’t one of the other two”.
It reminds me of the apocryphal story Shelby Foote told about the Confederate Civil War soldier who had kept fighting after the surrender, and when finally cornered by rebel troops, asked why he was so loyal to a government which had never done anything for him and which no longer existed. He replied = “Confederacy? Never heard of it. I’m fighting cause all y’all down here.”
1. Same here for same reason, but since I was instinctively repulsed by the Clintons, I enjoyed all of perots charts showing how Arkansas was last or close to it in most economic and educational metrics
2. The best thing about The Civil War (documentary) really is Shelby Foote’s telling of these short anecdotes with the wistful remembrance of someone who was actually there.
13. My new conspiracy theory: Hillary’s going to croak, but they’ll keep the body double out on the campaign trail until someone discovers the body. Forced to address the revelation, the campaign will announce that the double, who kept up appearances while Hillary recovered from pneumonia, has died.
1. My new conspiracy theory: Hillary’s going to croak
I don’t think that’s even a longshot, let alone conspiracy theory.
1. Croak?, you mean like Pepe the frog?
14. These millenials are getting uppity.
1. deplorables*
15. So, now they’re fighting us. Next we win?
1. No I think we’re stuck in a perpetual loop where they alternate between fighting us and laughing at us.
16. If it weren’t for third parties, we’d still have slavery.
17. Where do these people get the idea that the Johnson supporters today, or the Ralph Nader supporters in 2000, would have voted for one of the mainstream parties if their preferred third-party candidate was not on the ballot? Isn’t it just is likely, if not more so, that they would not have voted at all?
18. Hillary gets accused of having brain damage, and so she declares war on a cartoon frog. This is supposed to rally millennials to her side? It just makes her look stupid. She got trolled.
I see many anecdotal clues. E.g. very little Hillary swag in SF, when in 2008 and even 2012 we were drowning in Obama signs. Pro-Trump posts on anonymous social media get more likes than pro-Hillary ones.
She is obviously flailing at this point. There’s no way she can make it through three debates and six weeks without coughing or stumbling or having a brain-freeze or just stroking out. Terror attacks just play into Trump’s hands. And now she’s going to advocate more Muslim immigration and more gun control?
Get ready for President Trump. As I keep saying, the best thing for libertarians is to craft some libertarian solutions in specific areas. He’s a pragmatist, he likes to save money and win, so he might go for them.
But Hillary is toast. It’s over.
2. For a while now I’ve been saying Trump’s going to win, and the more time that passes, the more firmly I believe that. I completely agree with your observations regarding Hillary swag versus Obama swag. I may not be in San Fran, but I do live in Southern California. I remember seeing lots of Obama stickers and t-shirts at this point before the ’08 and ’12 elections. (Hell, I still see some people with bumper stickers for that fool) So far I’ve only seen 1 car with a Hillary bumper sticker. Seen plenty of cars with Trump stickers. She’s going to lose. I’m starting to think it might be by a fairly wide margin now too.
1. Yes. It will be ‘surprisingly’ decisive for Trump. I’ve been saying this for a few months, and still get ‘No way’ from most of my friends.
2. Among our gay friends, here in Dallas, it’s a virtual certainty that at any get together at least two of them will be wearing Hillary shirts. I see a few, but not ‘a lot’, of her stickers on vehicles along the North Tollway as well. Way, way less than I saw during either of Big O’s elections but at that time I was living in a Republican county so not that surprising either way.
Texas will go for Trump, although our great State is directly in the crosshairs of the Democrat party. They really, really want more than just our major cities.
19. So, the leftards are scrambling the biggest naked emperor they’ve got in the court astrology racket to sneer at Gary Johnson? Fuck you, Krugman: you don’t know shit.
1. Fuck you, Krugman: you don’t know shit.
Should be on t-shorts, bumper stickers, and, maybe even the official statement for Reason.
OK, maybe I don’t want him to get that much credit. But, he can go fuck himself.
1. I have nothing against crotchless hot pants on the right people.
1. T-shorts
There’s a dick joke in there somewhere.
2. A poster here once referred to Krugman as the world’s most accomplished writer of Keynesian fan fiction.
I have yet to hear a better description of him.
1. Nice. Best I’ve heard and there were already some good ones on the Krugman article yesterday.
20. It’s going to be interesting to dissect voter patterns once the election is over and the very unloved Hillary Clinton moves back into 1600 PA Avenue. Which of the awful things about Donald Trump sent it her way? What third party candidate stole whose votes? How much money was spent to guarantee this result?
Hillary is going to be declared winner in November.
1. It depends on the debates.
If Trump can come across as not crazy and not obnoxious and somehow also bring up Hillary taking money from foreign governments while Secretary of State, he’ll win in November.
Since Trump’s new campaign staff have taken over, he’s been doing all the right things, saying all the right things, and shutting the fuck up at all the right times.
I see no reason to think that will stop.
Hillary, on the other hand, can’t even get sick without discrediting herself.
2. No way, Fist. She’s toast now. Too many indicators of impending defeat.
1. He didn’t say she would win the election, he said she would be declared the winner.
1. His previous three sentences indicate to me that he wasn’t talking about fraud.
2. Oh she’ll win by a long shot. I’m calling it now.
1. You really think she’ll win by a large margin? Wanna bet?
My bet with Suell is looking pretty good now.
21. The first rule of progressive club is: “The people want what we want”.
The second rule of progressive club is: “If the people don’t want what we want, see the first rule”.
The progressives cannot imagine a world in which the people don’t want what they want.
If the people vote Tea Party, it isn’t because they’re rejecting progressives. It’s because they’re stupid, it’s because they’re racist, it’s because the oil companies pay think tanks to lie, it’s because the Koch brothers, it’s because Fox News, it’s because of the basket of deplorables, . . .
But the people always want what the progressives want–even when they don’t.
I hope Hillary loses so hard.
The right still hasn’t caught on that Johnson is pulling more votes away from Hillary than anyone else.
The left is only starting to realize they have a problem with millennials. They still don’t own it, though. It’ll take a presidential election loss for the progressives to start processing that, but even then, they’ll come to the conclusion that it’s all Hillary’s fault for being a crook.
They’ll never own that the people don’t want what the progressives want. ’cause that’s progressive club rules number one and two.
1. If you don’t want what they want, it’s because you’re suffering from the false consciousness of Ronald Raygun.
2. Someone posted this yesterday: just substitute progressivism for socialism
~Fr?d?ric Bastiat
22. Labor union writes legislation– exempts themselves from said legislation, sends it to city council in manila envelope, passed unanimously.
The language and mechanisms of the bill make it purposefully onerous on businesses. So onerous that it might be more convenient and cheaper to hire union workers. Why? Because union-backed businesses get a special exemption from the law, even if through collective bargaining the secure-scheduling alternative offers fewer protections to the workers. If this were about helping workers, the union wouldn’t get a pass.
1. As we reported, the new law would give workers at big retailers, coffee chains and restaurants two weeks advance notice of work schedules. Additionally, any changes by an employer will result in the worker getting extra pay.
Big retailers and restaurants are businesses which have long ‘down periods’ and intense ‘busy periods’; the risk is that the staffing sometimes isn’t appropriately matched and creates losses by using labor where it isn’t needed.
Taking the ability to flexibly adapt and target labor to when/where its needed is essential for these fairly low-margin operations.
“Well just raise the prices then!” screech the progs, not realizing that they themselves already unconsciously curtailed their Latte consumption by 30% when they went from $2.75 to $3.25.
1. They advocate a million things that raise the cost of doing business, but when the costs of products/services go up, they start squealing about “price gouging” and “corporate greed”.
1. And how difficult it is for the poor.
2. Which justifies the need for price controls.
2. This is the very definition of fascism for those of you who were trying to define it above. Government-business collusion.
23. How does it go?
If you’re young and not a liberal then you’re heartless. If you’re old and not a conservative then you’re clueless. If you’re a libertarian then you have a clue, but no heart.
Or something.
24. Millennials should opt to break their well-deserved stereotype and show everyone how serious and thoughtful they really are by breaking big for Donald J Trump #MAGA
1. Enough of them will.
25. My Progressive Friend’s response to this article:
“Eh. I’m honestly not convinced the writer’s conceit is sound. In fact, I think Krugman’s article was pretty spot-on. And the author’s hyperbolic summary of it, that Krugman thinks sane millennials could vote for Johnson “if they think it makes no difference whether Trump or Clinton gets elected and they agree with every policy position Johnson takes” is actually at least half true regardless.
What always irritates me about Reason, though, is how self-congratulatory its politics are. This article is a prime example. After setting up its straw man, “Does it make sense for millennials or racial minorities to vote for Hillary Clinton, the Democratic candidate for president, when they really want to vote for a third-party candidate?” — which itself was already answered by the blithe summary of Krugman’s article, with the answer being an affirmative for third-party voters — then devolves into dismissal of the latent and explicit sexism Bernie Bros promulgated, as well as more or less branding all millennials with a broad swath, neglecting the actual fact that, despite the fact that she is probably the most unpopular person not named Trump ever to run for president, she is still winning among all non-White Male groups — including among millennials”
1. What always irritates me about Reason, though, is how self-congratulatory its politics are.
How can you discuss Paul Krugman’s writing and call someone else self-congratulatory?
2. I can’t make heads or tails of any of that.
Most of the sentences don’t even make sense taken separately. Taken together its an incomprehensible splurge.
I’m honestly not convinced the writer’s conceit is sound.
the “writer’s pride in themselves is unwarranted”? i’m not sure what he’s even referring to as the ‘conceit’. they don’t actually identify “it” before declaring it unsound.
And the second paragraph doesn’t get around to ever identifying what’s “self-congratulatory” either. It suggests there’s a prime example… but then what it describes has nothing to do with self-congratulation (and doesn’t actually make sense either)
the latent and explicit sexism Bernie Bros promulgated
yeah. I’m pretty sure that was like the “ubiquitous racism of the tea party” – something entirely invented by media-spin.
1. I believe that some emails revealed that the “Bernie Bros” stuff was promulgated by the Clinton camp.
It was supporters! Not the campaign itself……..until more hacked e-mails show that it WAS the campaign–and then it will have been ‘rogue employees’.
2. I think he meant ‘conceit’ as in ‘main concept’, not ‘pride.’
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Sure… its that when used to describe an “idea”, a ‘conceit’ mostly suggests a frivolous, vain, disposable idea. its not a definition that strays very far from its root meaning suggesting ‘vanity’. And you wouldn’t describe an already-essentially frivolous idea as ‘unsound’. A “sound conceit” seems almost like an oxymoron
2. There a similar contradiction in terms when they said =
the latent and explicit sexism Bernie Bros promulgated
“latent sexism”… being “promulgated”?
“latent” means “existing but not yet developed or manifest; hidden; concealed”
“Promulgated” means “promote or make widely known (an idea or cause).”
Advertising their hidden ideas?
Its this sort of shit that brings out my subsconscious 9th grade English teacher mom. I want to red-pen everything.
They’re basically trying to have their cake and eat it too, suggesting that their “sexism” was well hidden… but they were spreading it like crazy!! Its why there’s no evidence of it… but everyone knows about it!!
Its just very fuzzy-thinking producing sentences that don’t really mean anything.
3. What exactly did the Bernie Bros do that was sexist? Other than being male?
I never got the accusation. Really it just seemed to be that any candidate popular among males is evil. It’s also profoundly hypocritical since Hillary’s campaign’s central argument is ‘vote for me because I’m a woman.’ If she were a man she would be irrelevant at best and disgraced at worst. Her candidacy is overtly sexist.
4. As a millenial who started his libertarian conversion 2 years ago, I was pushed away from the left precisely because they’re the most self-congratulatory assholes on the planet. Including this asshole. Libertarians, or at least the ones who brought me over, come off as skeptics of the alternatives rather than zealots for their own cause, and that was what first appealed to me. You want self-congratulatory? Go to your liberal echo chambers at Vox or HuffPo
5. “latent and explicit sexism”
Your progressive friend needs to stop spending so much time on trying to sound smart and more time on putting together coherent sentences.
26. “Shut ub, Bernie bros, I own you!”
27. But what about Trump? When will reason do an article about how awful Trump is? Oh and when will reason do an article about how awful millennials are?
I’m going to hold my breath and refrain from any donations until my demands are met!
28. Hillary is pro-choice.
She will choose for you who to vote for and it shall be === Hillary!!
You’re with her whether you like it or not!
29. As much as a Trump presidency would suck there would also be so much joy in the morning after when all these hacks on Team Hillary write their inchoate screeds of anguish that a boorish reality TV start snatched the presidency away from a woman.
1. I predict a lot of explaining why they aren’t actually moving to Canada
30. The most aggravating thing about Krugman’s blithe dismissal of those crazy libertarian ideas is that you know he has to have at some point talked to an economist or read a book that touched on economics, the guy can’t be wholly ignorant of the subject. He has to heard of the idea of cost/benefit analysis. He knows if you eliminated public schools, for example, you would also eliminate the cost of public schools and that’s a trade-off you have to weigh. All these things he mentions are not pure benefits, they carry costs. How much cost? Well, at least about 120% of the government’s income last time I checked – and Krugman seems to think that amount of spending is too low. Anything that costs more money than you’ve got year after year after year is something you’d damn well better be taking a closer look at regarding that cost/benefit analysis because something’s definitely off with the math. You’d think somebody familiar with economics might intuitively grasp when something just doesn’t add up.
1. Years ago, my brother and I had gone into Hardees for breakfast, ordered a couple biscuits and handed the kid a 20. He was new and wasn’t real familiar with the cash register and missed something with the decimal point and the machine said he owed us 1994 bucks and some change. The poor kids scrounged around in the drawer then called the manager over because he didn’t know what to do since he didn’t have two thousand dollars in the cash drawer.
I have to imagine Paul Krugman frequently finds himself in that sort of puzzled state.
2. Krugman used to be a real economist, and then he went full prog. “Politics is the mind-killer.”
3. “You’d think somebody familiar with economics might intuitively grasp when something just doesn’t add up.”
Krugman used to write some halfway decent stuff. Old Krugman is not exactly a raging libertarian, but he sounds like an actual economist. He’s much more lucid and honest than the New Krugman, who basically writes a puffed-up, drawn-out version of “Democrats R gr8 and any1 who disagreez is stoopid and raciss”.
1. Forgot to add:
My theory (and many others have voiced this opinion) is that he dreams of being appointed to some cabinet-level position, so he has transformed himself into a hack who will parrot whatever talking points he thinks the Democrats want to hear.
1. I agree with this. He’s too overt a shill (and became such a line tower so fast) not to be pining for a position.
2. Robert Reich is actually a decent guy who got tossed under the bus when the Clintons had no more use for him, maybe Krugman is hoping to avoid the same fate with some pre-emptive kissing up?
1. “Robert Reich is actually a decent guy”
On what planet? He is an ardent socialist. And a liar. Scum.
31. I’mWithHERed and wrinkly
32. Serious questions: 1. How many millennials read the NYT? 2. Aside from loyal NYT readers (average age probably at least 55), does anyone really give a fuck what Paul Krugmann thinks?
33. Was at a craft beer festival this past weekend and there were these three middle-aged women with Hillary signs near where they sold tickets who looked more out of place than a priest at an orgy and I didn’t see anyone really even acknowledging them. Most of the people there were 40-somethings with young kids like myself and this is solid Northern Virginia Dem territory. If this is the Hillary’s effort to reach out to the snake people, GJ and Stein have nothing to worry about.
1. I’m near where you are and I’m surprised that I haven’t seen more Hillary swag. NoVA is always a solidly blue area, but this year its been pretty quiet. Most of my friends and family are either quiet “hold your nose and vote Hillary” or solidly GJ. None of my friends are out of the closet Trump supporters.
I did have one Hillary supporter knock on my door at 9AM to talk about Hillary’s candidacy. It was the weekend, I was hungover and did not appreciate it.
I’m a millennial and so are my friends, most of which probably won’t vote this time around.
34. That’s it.
35. Who thinks she’s a sellout? That implies having had principles in the first place.
1. Could blink 182 or limp bizkit sell out?
36. I kept thinking that the article was about to be over, but the savage onslaught of facts kept coming. Top notch, ENB. I may be over-enjoying this one because it addresses something that pushes some specific buttons for me (being told that I owe my fealty to someone based only on my demographic), but it really was well-written and exceedingly thorough.
37. I’ve noticed a universal truth about Progs: They talk a good game. They would have you believe (and I think many of the rank and file actually believe it themselves), that they are compelled by genuine selflessness. One very quick way to enrage them, I’ve discovered, is to point out that whenever they have to give support for a position that invariably requires expropriating other people’s resources, they’re no more than two sentences away from referring to how this is going to help THEM. Sure they’ll start out with “this is for The Greater Good” or somesuch, but if you press, and if they have to continue their argument, it ALWAYS falls back to “let me tell you what this particular policy has done or will do for me and mine.” I have never had sputtering vitriol thrown my way quicker than when I call attention to their selfishness.
Yep, that’s about it.
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40. As long as we pick up 1-2 states we are good to go.
Deny ClinTrump the 270.
That will get their attention.
And, no, Hillary, you cannot count on the support of tons of people: millennials ( whom you hate and they know it), enlisted personnel ( who hate you), as well as Independents.
HRC is going down the toilet too fast to watch.
Giant douche.
42. “A month ago Democrats were amused to see Johnson leading Trump along millennials,” noted Dave Weigel at The Washington Post Monday. “Now, Johnson’s support is being tackled like a crisis.”
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Few people understand what Reagan did (and did not) contribute to privatization like Reason’s Bob Poole. He shares his insider’s view here: Ronald Reagan was a great president. He stood up for the ideas of limited government, free trade and free-markets, and the roll-back of communism. Reagan is often associated with the global privatization revolution that took off during the 1980s, but that is largely a misconception. |
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New article at VOX on how warm things will get by city in the USA. The overall conclusion is that the further north you go the more warming in summer and winter. That is especially true for Canada which is warming twice as much twice as fast as most places on earth. This has profound impacts on our biocapacity – our trees, plants, the animals and insects who depend upon them, the fish who live in certain temperature waters, did not evolve for this kind of shift. They will be stressed. Time to invest in biocapacity now as it helps mitigate climate change and the warming.
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/12421 | Decimals are very similar to fractions. The difference is that the denominators are only the numbers 10, 100, 1000, etc, and we use a period (.) as a point to seperate the decimal numbers from any whole numbers to the left of the decimal point.
For example, the decimal for 1/10 is written .1 and said to be “point” one. (notice the “1” is to the right of the decimal point!)
We also can say .1 is one-tenth.
What this means is .1 is one-tenth of something or 1 piece out out 10 pieces. It also means one thing divided or broken into ten pieces…and .1 is one of those pieces.
Another example, let’s say we have a candy bar and we break it into 10 pieces. Each of the pieces is .1 of the candy bar. And if you are given 2 pieces out of the 10, you’d have .2 of the candy bar…is this making sense?
Let’s check: if you are given .3 of a banana you’d have ___________tenths of a banana or ______ pieces out of __________ of the banana.
Place values are very important for understanding decimals. Here’s help for place values and decimals.
“.1” is one tenth and that is one space to the right of the “.”
“.12” is 12 hundredths and that means that there’s number (2) two spaces to the right of the “.”
.101 is one hundred and one thousandths and there’s a number (1) three spaces to the right of the “.”
.2001 is two thousand and one ten-thousandths, obviously the 1 of 2001 is four places to the right of the “.”
Here’s a look at decimal place values to the hundred-millionth place:
Let’s try naming the decimal places below:
For the decimal .21634 we have:
_____ in the tenths place
_____ in the hundredths place
_____ in the thousandths place
_____ in the ten thousandths place
_____ in the hundred thousandths place
Let’s name these decimals:
.02 is 2 _________
.5 is 5 __________
.004 is 4 _________
.00007 is 7 ________
Here’s another exercise to check your understanding:
3 hundreths = ________
41 thousandths = ________
8 tenths = _________
22 ten thousandths = _________
When doing the above problems, remember the last number to the right of the decimal point names the decimal and determines it’s value…
For example, .022 = 22 Thousandths…does that help?
Use the exercise below for more help naming decimal place values.
Still stumped? Re-read the above information, it’s very important to understand this completely before moving on.
If you understand fractions, it may help to convert some decimals to fractions. Converting .25 is the same as 25/100 or reduced that’s 1/4
Likewise .33 is the same as 33/100 or reduced it’s about 1/3.
And .75 is the same as 75/100 or reduced that’s 3/4…see the pattern?
(We used 100 as the denominator above since there are two numbers to the right of the “.” in the decimals. We’d use 10 as a denominator if we were converting decimals with only one number to the right of the decimal point or “.” such as .4 or .8 …I hope this is making sense :->))
Decimals are often used with whole numbers. For example, 2.4 (two point four) is read as 2 “and” 4 tenths. What this means in terms of bananas is that you’d have 2 whole bananas and 4 pieces out of ten of another banana.
What this means:
Let’s say we have 3 oranges and 2 pieces out of 10 of another orange. Write the decimal for that here: _______.
Draw a picture of 3.2 oranges below:
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/12422 | @inproceedings{19899, abstract = {Most existing robot formation problems seek a target formation of a certain minimal and, thus, efficient structure. Examples include the Gathering and the Chain-Formation problem. In this work, we study formation problems that try to reach a maximal structure, supporting for example an efficient coverage in exploration scenarios. A recent example is the NASA Shapeshifter project, which describes how the robots form a relay chain along which gathered data from extraterrestrial cave explorations may be sent to a home base. As a first step towards understanding such maximization tasks, we introduce and study the Max-Chain-Formation problem, where $n$ robots are ordered along a winding, potentially self-intersecting chain and must form a connected, straight line of maximal length connecting its two endpoints. We propose and analyze strategies in a discrete and in a continuous time model. In the discrete case, we give a complete analysis if all robots are initially collinear, showing that the worst-case time to reach an $\varepsilon$-approximation is upper bounded by $\mathcal{O}(n^2 \cdot \log (n/\varepsilon))$ and lower bounded by $\Omega(n^2 \cdot~\log (1/\varepsilon))$. If one endpoint of the chain remains stationary, this result can be extended to the non-collinear case. If both endpoints move, we identify a family of instances whose runtime is unbounded. For the continuous model, we give a strategy with an optimal runtime bound of $\Theta(n)$. Avoiding an unbounded runtime similar to the discrete case relies crucially on a counter-intuitive aspect of the strategy: slowing down the endpoints while all other robots move at full speed. Surprisingly, we can show that a similar trick does not work in the discrete model.}, author = {Castenow, Jannik and Kling, Peter and Knollmann, Till and Meyer auf der Heide, Friedhelm}, booktitle = {Stabilization, Safety, and Security of Distributed Systems - 22nd International Symposium, SSS 2020, Austin, Texas, USA, November 18-21, 2020, Proceedings}, editor = {Devismes , Stéphane and Mittal, Neeraj }, isbn = {978-3-030-64347-8}, pages = {65--80}, publisher = {Springer}, title = {{A Discrete and Continuous Study of the Max-Chain-Formation Problem – Slow Down to Speed Up}}, doi = {10.1007/978-3-030-64348-5_6}, volume = {12514}, year = {2020}, } @inproceedings{12870, author = {Feldkord, Björn and Knollmann, Till and Malatyali, Manuel and Meyer auf der Heide, Friedhelm}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the 17th Workshop on Approximation and Online Algorithms (WAOA)}, pages = {120 -- 137}, publisher = {Springer}, title = {{Managing Multiple Mobile Resources}}, doi = {10.1007/978-3-030-39479-0_9}, year = {2019}, } @article{13873, author = {Feldkord, Björn and Meyer auf der Heide, Friedhelm}, journal = {ACM Transactions on Parallel Computing (TOPC)}, number = {3}, title = {{The Mobile Server Problem}}, doi = {10.1145/3364204}, volume = {6}, year = {2019}, } @unpublished{16341, abstract = {We present a technique for rendering highly complex 3D scenes in real-time by generating uniformly distributed points on the scene's visible surfaces. The technique is applicable to a wide range of scene types, like scenes directly based on complex and detailed CAD data consisting of billions of polygons (in contrast to scenes handcrafted solely for visualization). This allows to visualize such scenes smoothly even in VR on a HMD with good image quality, while maintaining the necessary frame-rates. In contrast to other point based rendering methods, we place points in an approximated blue noise distribution only on visible surfaces and store them in a highly GPU efficient data structure, allowing to progressively refine the number of rendered points to maximize the image quality for a given target frame rate. Our evaluation shows that scenes consisting of a high amount of polygons can be rendered with interactive frame rates with good visual quality on standard hardware.}, author = {Brandt, Sascha and Jähn, Claudius and Fischer, Matthias and Meyer auf der Heide, Friedhelm}, booktitle = {arXiv:1904.08225}, title = {{Rendering of Complex Heterogenous Scenes using Progressive Blue Surfels}}, year = {2019}, } @phdthesis{8080, abstract = {This thesis investigates approximate pure Nash equilibria in different game-theoretic models. In such an outcome, no player can improve her objective by more than a given factor through a deviation to another strategy. In the first part, we investigate two variants of Congestion Games in which the existence of pure Nash equilibria is guaranteed through a potential function argument. However, the computation of such equilibria might be hard. We construct and analyze approximation algorithms that enable the computation of states with low approximation factors in polynomial time. To show their guarantees we use sub games among players, bound the potential function values of arbitrary states and exploit a connection between Shapley and proportional cost shares. Furthermore, we apply and analyze sampling techniques for the computation of approximate Shapley values in different settings. In the second part, we concentrate on the existence of approximate pure Nash equilibria in games in which no pure Nash equilibria exist in general. In the model of Coevolving Opinion Formation Games, we bound the approximation guarantees for natural states nearly independent of the specific definition of the players' neighborhoods by applying a concept of virtual costs. For the special case of only one influential neighbor, we even show lower approximation factors for a natural strategy. Then, we investigate a two-sided Facility Location Game among facilities and clients on a line with an objective function consisting of distance and load. We show tight bounds on the approximation factor for settings with three facilities and infinitely many clients. For the general scenario with an arbitrary number of facilities, we bound the approximation factor for two promising candidates, namely facilities that are uniformly distributed and which are paired.}, author = {Feldotto, Matthias}, title = {{Approximate Pure Nash Equilibria in Congestion, Opinion Formation and Facility Location Games}}, doi = {10.17619/UNIPB/1-588}, year = {2019}, } @inproceedings{10281, abstract = {Competing firms tend to select similar locations for their stores. This phenomenon, called the principle of minimum differentiation, was captured by Hotelling with a landmark model of spatial competition but is still the object of an ongoing scientific debate. Although consistently observed in practice, many more realistic variants of Hotelling's model fail to support minimum differentiation or do not have pure equilibria at all. In particular, it was recently proven for a generalized model which incorporates negative network externalities and which contains Hotelling's model and classical selfish load balancing as special cases, that the unique equilibria do not adhere to minimum differentiation. Furthermore, it was shown that for a significant parameter range pure equilibria do not exist. We derive a sharp contrast to these previous results by investigating Hotelling's model with negative network externalities from an entirely new angle: approximate pure subgame perfect equilibria. This approach allows us to prove analytically and via agent-based simulations that approximate equilibria having good approximation guarantees and that adhere to minimum differentiation exist for the full parameter range of the model. Moreover, we show that the obtained approximate equilibria have high social welfare.}, author = {Feldotto, Matthias and Lenzner, Pascal and Molitor, Louise and Skopalik, Alexander}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and MultiAgent Systems}, location = {Montreal QC, Canada}, pages = {1949----1951}, publisher = {International Foundation for Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems}, title = {{ From Hotelling to Load Balancing: Approximation and the Principle of Minimum Differentiation}}, year = {2019}, } @article{13937, author = {Meyer auf der Heide, Friedhelm}, journal = {Mathematische Semesterberichte}, number = {2}, pages = {259--260}, title = {{Paul Curzon, Peter W. McOwan: Computational Thinking; Die Welt des algorithmischen Denkens – in Spielen, Zaubertricks und Rätseln}}, doi = {10.1007/s00591-019-00249-0}, volume = {66}, year = {2019}, } @phdthesis{18975, author = {Malatyali, Manuel}, title = {{Big Data: Sublinear Algorithms for Distributed Data Streams}}, doi = {10.17619/UNIPB/1-766}, year = {2019}, } @misc{10344, author = {Pukrop, Simon}, publisher = {Universität Paderborn}, title = {{Scheduling Algorithms for Multi-Operation Jobs with Setups on a Single Machine}}, year = {2019}, } @inproceedings{17667, abstract = {Resolving distributed attacks benefits from collaboration between networks. We present three approaches for the same multi-domain defensive action that can be applied in such an alliance: 1) Counteract Everywhere, 2) Minimize Countermeasures, and 3) Minimize Propagation. First, we provide a formula to compute efficiency of a defense; then we use this formula to compute the efficiency of the approaches under various circumstances. Finally, we discuss how task execution order and timing influence defense efficiency. Our results show that the Minimize Propagation approach is the most efficient method when defending against the chosen attack.}, author = {Koning, Ralph and Polevoy, Gleb and Meijer, Lydia and de Laat, Cees and Grosso, Paola}, booktitle = {2019 6th IEEE International Conference on Cyber Security and Cloud Computing (CSCloud)/ 2019 5th IEEE International Conference on Edge Computing and Scalable Cloud (EdgeCom)}, issn = {null}, keyword = {computer network security, multinetwork environments, multidomain defensive action, task execution order, timing influence defense efficiency, distributed attacks, collaborative security defence approach, minimize propagation approach, minimize countermeasure approach, counteract everywhere approach, Conferences, Cloud computing, Computer crime, Edge computing, Security, Defense Approaches, Multi-Domain Defense, Collaborative Defense, Defense Algorithms, Computer Networks}, pages = {113--123}, title = {{Approaches for Collaborative Security Defences in Multi Network Environments}}, doi = {10.1109/CSCloud/EdgeCom.2019.000-9}, year = {2019}, } |
global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/12431 | Random Snaps
This is what happens when your roommate has a case of frolicking feet and you don’t duck fast enough.
Update: This is the underside of Milton’s neck. Next time there is a body part involved, I will include a wide-angle shot of the whole horse for reference.
Thank you for reading,
Katherine Walcott
Categories: Horse Behavior, Horses
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