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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/13988 | Is Ignoring RIAA Lawsuit Cheaper Than Going To Trial?
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A bunch of folks have been sending in Nate Anderson's article about how ignoring an RIAA lawsuit may be "cheaper" than going to trial. It makes for a nice storyline, but it's really not entirely accurate. It's based on the fact that Judge Gertner, who was the judge in the Joel Tenenbaum trial, just handed out some default judgments against people who never bothered to respond at all to an RIAA lawsuit over file sharing. In each case, Gertner chose the statutory minimum of $750 per song, much less than Jammie Thomas got in her two trials and Joel Tenenbaum received in his trial.
But, of course, these aren't apples-to-apples comparisons (not to mention that we're dealing with a classic "small sample size" problem). Specifically, the three trials involved a combination of poorly argued defenses that made the defendants look worse, combined with defendants themselves who both admitted to lying. And, add to that the fact that they're jury trials, where juries tend to give out larger awards than a judge does, and it's really not a huge surprise. If you had defendants who actually had a real case, combined with a defense team that actually argued the specific points, things might have been different. But, it looks like, with both Thomas and Tenenbaum, the goal was to create a bigger case that can get attention at higher levels to take on certain aspects of copyright law itself.
And, of course, as an addendum on the article notes, it's still probably cheaper to settle up in the first place, but that's exactly how the RIAA intends things to be. It's the same principle on which an extortion scam works: it's cheaper to pay up than to fight it. But, that doesn't mean it's right to just shut up and pay -- especially if the accused is innocent. As much as the RIAA must love Anderson's article, because it encourages people not to fight its lawsuits, the reality is a lot more complicated.
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Won't need to fight anything after all laws and counter measures that don't work serve no purpose at all.
The funny part being that people show no signs at slowing it down, so either people lost their self preservation instincts or they are angry with something :)
Should the industry wait another 10 years to see were this all goes I think they will be very sad at the end.
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Python vs Django
Python and Django both are incomparable on the basis of the Coding. Often people ask ‘How is Python different from Django’. If you have experience of python and you don’t know what Django is, it’s all right. Django is not an essential thing that every Python developer should be familiar with it but, if you are learning python for developing the web application then you must have the knowledge of Django or you can learn any other python frameworks to use as there are many of those.
Python is a high-level language and one of the trending languages of the current scenario because of its versatile nature. Python is used everywhere such as in Scientific Research, development of dynamic web application, Artificial intelligence, data analysis, development of software and many platforms on which Python is using. But when we discuss the web application development on python then we need some special kind of tools called web frameworks. Web frameworks help python coding to create a dynamic web application.
Django is the most famous web framework of Python out there, though Python has many web frameworks, Django is the best among those but when you choose for web development, Django is the best.
It is irrelevant to differentiate Python with Django. Django is an Application of Python. The only difference Django and python have that Python is a Programming language and Django is a Python Web Framework.
Python vs Django
Key Points Python Django
Released 1991 2005
Developers Python Software Foundation Django Software Foundation
Filename .py, .pyc, .pyd, .pyo .py, .pyc, .pyd, .pyo
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Python is a High level, the Interpreted language which is created by Guido van Rossum and first released in 1991. Python is a multi-paradigm programming language. It works on the concept of OPP’s (Object Orientated Programming). The syntax of Python plays an important role to differentiate it from the other high-level programming languages. The Simplicity of the python syntax makes it very easy to learn and understand. The future of the python is very bright as compared to other programming languages. Python is everywhere from web development to Artificial Intelligence everyone is using python to complete their projects.
Python Features:
• Interpreted
• Dynamic Language
• Multi-paradigm
• Object-Oriented Programming
• Reflective
• Functional imperative
• High level
Advantages of Python
• Easy to read and understand.
• You don’t need to declare the type of variable while writing the code.
• Support Object Orientation and procedure-oriented programming.
• It can be extended to other languages like C or C++.
• Python code written on one platform can run into others without making any changes, you can run your window python coding on a mac without making any changes.
• Mac OS already supports python you do not need to install it.
• It is an open source so everyone is free to download and learn the Python.
• It provides a large community.
• It supports a large no. of standard libraries.
• It has its own web frameworks.
Disadvantages of Python:
• Python is slow as compare to other high languages such as C++ or Java.
• For smartphone apps, Python is not used often.
• Python is Dynamic language so the user does not need to declare the type of variable while writing the code this lead to error many times when programmer mistake one data type with another.
• The Databases Access of Python is yet underdeveloped.
Real-time Application of Python
• Python offers many web development web frameworks such as Django, Pyramid etc.
• It is widely used in Scientific and numeric computing
• Used in scripting Operation System
• Help in designing GUI-based Desktop Applications
Django is one of the most popular upcoming frameworks of Python. A Web framework is a server-side application which is designed to support the development of the dynamic web Applications.
How a Framework does help to design to a Web Application?
A web framework is a collection of class, libraries or API (Application program interface) and these are the pre-defined code that a developer uses in their program for the specific purpose.
Django is a Python web framework which was named after Guitarist Django Reinhardt. It is an open source web framework so anyone can download the Django on their system and use it for free. Django has a Principle on which it works and it is DRY i.e. Don’t Repeat Yourself. This principle states to keep the code simple and does not write the same code again and again. Django supports the MVC (Model View Controller) as well as the specificity of Django is MVT (Model View Template) Architectural Pattern.
Django Main Features
• It is Very fast.
• It contains many components
• It is very secure
• It has a versatile nature
Advantages of Django
• Django support Object-Relation Mapper. In Django, you can define your Data Models.
• As it is written on Python, it is very easy to learn.
• It has a vast community over the world.
• Built-in Admin. It is used to manage the user content of the website, whether you want to add a user or want to create a group.
• Django has full-featured and an authentication system which can handle User Account, Password, and Cookies.
• It supports multiple languages. With Django, you can translate text into different languages.
Disadvantages of Django
• Routing pattern specifies its URL.
• It is excessively Monolithic; it directs the developer to write into the given pattern instead of free programming structure.
• It does not have that much capacity to manage multi requests.
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/14140 | Best Salutations and Greetings for Professional Emails (With Examples)
In the world of email, a number of salutation styles are acceptable. Which one is best for a given situation depends on facts such as your relationship to the recipient, the culture of your firm and the content and context of the message.
A salutation is a greeting we use at the beginning of an email, a letter, or a note. Even a text or an online comment can begin with a salutation. The salutation is also defined as a polite expression of greeting or goodwill. It is also the opening line of your email, where you address the recipient directly, usually by name.
In the world of email, however, a number of salutation styles are acceptable. Which one is best for a given situation depends on facts such as your relationship to the recipient, the culture of your firm and the content and context of the message. In addition, salutation for single recipient differs from multiple recipients.
Some business professionals use salutations to genetically refer to both the opening and the closing of emails. For example, “Dear Mr. Steve” is an “opening salutation” while “yours sincerely” is a “closing salutation”. Also, email salutation can be sent to an individual or to a group.
The fact is that salutation should be polite.
Why Do We Use Salutations in Email and Letters?
The original intent of the salutation need not be lost. Many at times people often have good intentions but the methods in which they present their greetings especially in the formal settings often seems too casual.
Especially over email, salutations are important. When we are communicating one-on-one, our body language and vocal intonations give our words context, but when we are communicating electronically, we don’t have those body features in emails, and it is extremely easy for a harmless phrase to be interpreted as a rude gesture. Salutation and greetings add warmth to the body of an email.
The purpose of salutation is to greet the reader with all due respect. In the professional world, salutation should not be overly familiar. Greetings and salutation show courtesy. Courtesy is the basic requirement for a professional email. It means using of such words and phrases that indicate a polite attitude towards the individual receiving the mail.
Tips on Effective Salutation Writing
First, consider a couple of factors –
• Your Audience: Identify the type of audience you want to send an email to.
• The use of “Dear”: “Dear” is one of the most appropriate words you can use in saluting your recipient. Personalize this by using the recipient’s most honorable title, such as Miss, Dr, Professor, Minister to write an opening salutation is through the use of the Dear with or without a title case e.g Dear Tamara (without a title case) Dear Miss Tamara (with title case).
• Email to Group: If you are writing an email to two to five individuals, use both names in your salutation. For example Dear Mr. Jake and Miss Jones. This is acceptable in a professional mail.
• Unknown Gender: If you don’t know the recipient’s gender, use both the first name and the last name instead of the title case. For example, Dear Elly Mayer.
• Email to Company: If you are writing to a company rather than any specific individual, use the company’s name. For example Dear Ozone. However, this is slightly considered as informal. But the point here is that the receiver of the email is under the company’s name, so it is kind of allowed.
Bear the following in mind –
• The salutation should not be used in an over- familiar manner and it should not be too strict.
• Often overlooked part of salutations is ensuring you spell names correctly including uncommon constructions such as hyphens and second capital letters. When using a person’s first or last name, always double-check the spelling of the name. A misspelled name leaves a bad impression.
• Avoid the use of generalization. Be specific in your salutation. For example, I often come across emails in which the recipients are addressed as “Dear Sir/Ma”. Besides, when emails are properly addressed it gets the needed attention. I think, oftentimes, people try to play safe so they just make up their mind and say let he/she choose the one that is applicable to the person. This is totally wrong because, with the abundance of information available on the internet and mobile phone, any information needed is just a few seconds away from you. It is poor form to use generic salutation like “Dear Sir/Madam” or “to whom it may concern”. Using such indicates that you didn’t take much time to consider the person to whom you are writing to. Worse, a common business email salutation crime is to assume “Dear Sirs” covers it all.
• Do not use emoticons and slangs in a professional email salutation. Emoticons are usually used in informal writings to express various facial and mood expressions I personally will disregard any email with an emoji in its salutation. Don’t try it with professional bodies.
• More formal greetings such as “good morning, good day, good afternoon” followed by the name of the recipient are acceptable professional email salutations. Don’t worry about what time your recipient will read your email. A time peg tells when you wrote the email and roughly how long you have been waiting for a response. Make sure your greetings corresponds with your own timing. Do not greet afternoon when it is actually morning in your time zone. To play safe it is advised to say “Good day”
• Do not include quotes in a professional email salutation. It is a mistake to leave people guessing about what you want to say. Keep your audience in mind and go straight to the point.
• When sending an email to a large audience, naming each person in that group becomes cumbersome. However, in such a situation you can find the common identity shared by the group. For examples, if the audience is made up of only women. Then you address them as “Dear ladies” or if they are your colleagues “Dear Colleagues”
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1. Trade Jobs Are More Active
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Most jobs that require a college degree having you sitting at a desk in an office all day long. Plenty of studies show a sedentary lifestyle is bad for your health. Trade jobs are more active and involve you keeping busy and moving your body.
2. You Don't Need To Invest In An Expensive Education
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Most trade jobs are learned through apprenticeships or require a certification that takes far less time and money to complete than an pricey, four-year degree.
3. You Don't Need To Take Time Off From Earning Money
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Going back to school full-time requires having money saved to cover your living costs. With a trade job, you're working right away and earning an income, not draining your savings.
4. There's No Shortage Of Work
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Currently, all the trades are losing their aging workforce of Baby Boomers (age 55+). There aren't enough middle-aged workers to replace them. The trades are desperately short on new workers. Right now, if you work in a trade and are good at what you do, there's plenty of opportunity to make money.
5. The Working Hours Can Be More Flexible
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Many trades have different shifts (work nights, or work three days on/four days off, etc.), that are more appealing than the typical office job where you work all day, 40-50 hours/week. Trade jobs can give you the flexibility you need to take a class, start your own business, or pursue a passion.
Don't Let Pride Hold You Back From A Great Job In The Trades
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Some people just weren't meant to go to college and hold a desk job. That doesn't mean you are less qualified or professional. Trade jobs do important work that is much needed. They take skill and provide incredible value. More importantly, many trade workers will tell you they get great satisfaction from being able to see the direct results of their efforts—which their office working friends can't do as easily.
Don't let pride hold you back from pursuing a successful career in the trades. There is only one person you need to impress with your career: YOU. Choose for yourself, not for others!
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/14148 | The Mystery of Antimatter
We shouldn’t exist. More so, nothing should: you, me, the trees, Earth, your dog, our Solar System, and the entire expanding universe. Why? Because the Standard Model of Particle Physics – a description of all the particles and interactions that form the world around us – says so.
Matter cannot come out of nothing; for every particle of matter that is created, an equal and opposite antiparticle is also formed to maintain a balance in the universe. What should happen then, theoretically, is that the particle and antiparticle will attract, collide and annihilate each other to leave nothing but the energy from which they were first formed.
This is what should have happened in the Big Bang. But, something occurred in those first few moments of our universe that led to an imbalance of matter and antimatter, leaving only matter behind which then formed our world. Physics: 0, World: 1.
The answer to the question of how we exist lies in finding the remaining antimatter which should have ended the universe before it began. Why did the antimatter disappear and where did it go?
Here’s what we do know:
In the early universe, there was a small imbalance between matter and antimatter, with a surplus in the former. For every 10 billion antimatter particles, there were 10 billion and one matter particles. Once the 10 billion matter/antimatter pairs annihilated, only the trace amounts of lone matter particles remained.
What we don’t know is how the asymmetry formed. Why was there a lack of antimatter particles?
Here are some current theories:
1. There was never an even amount to begin with. This theory predicts that in the high energy environment generated by the Big Bang, incredibly heavy antiparticles of matter were formed and decayed in a tiny fraction of a second. These particles – the antimatter counterparts of the heavy neutrino and the beauty quark – are predicted to decay in an unusual way, which would tip the scales towards a surplus of matter.
How can we know if this is correct?
Firstly, we would need to recreate the incredibly high energy conditions which were present in the early seconds of the universe. This is the exact work that particle accelerators, like the Large Hadron Collider at CERN, are built for. Then, we’d need to force particles to collide at velocities close to the speed of light, which is over 10 million times faster than your car at top speed! After the collision, these particles will split into their most basic components, and possibly even form new particles which we’ve never observed before. It is hoped that this process will shed some light on the behaviour of the antiparticle of the heavy neutrino and the beauty quark, and explain how the cosmos came to be.
2. It’s hiding. This theory suggests that in those first few seconds after the Big Bang, matter and antimatter escaped from each other as the universe cooled, like the way in which similar individual atoms align when a hot magnet undergoes cooling. However, for this theory to work, there would have to exist a mirror section of our universe containing an anti-cosmos filled with stars, galaxies and maybe even life.
How can we know if this is correct?
Annihilation in the border between our cosmos and an anti-cosmos would produce an immense concentration of light particles. As this is yet to be observed, we are left with the conclusion that if this anti-cosmos does exist, it does so in an unexplored region of the universe. Our universe is unimaginably vast, and we still know so little due to our observational limit being a 13.9 light year radius from our own position. However, there are other ways of finding concrete evidence of an anti-cosmos.
One of these ways would be the discovery of anti-helium or other heavier anti-atoms. As these atoms would be formed by nuclear fusion in stars, anti-atoms would prove the existence of anti-stars. The mission to find such atoms would be conducted with the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer – an experiment module mounted on the International Space Station. If anti-atoms indeed existed and avoided annihilation on their journey towards our world, this piece of equipment would find them.
Evidence for either of these hypotheses would have colossal implications on our understanding of the laws of physics, and could even serve to rewrite the Standard Model. Whether there was an imbalance of certain particles generated during the birth of the universe, or an anti-cosmos lurks at the edges of all we can see and observe, there can be no dispute that the mystery of antimatter is one of the greatest enigmas of our time.
When everything we know about science so far tells us that our very existence should be impossible, will either of these theories bring us any closer to understanding the vast complexities of the world around us?
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Myths that Watching Television Makes Your Child Smarter
There are many DVDs and television programs that are marketed in such a way to make you think that if your child isn’t watching television that his development will be lacking.
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It isn’t until about the age of three that the visual development of your child is sufficient for him to process just what’s happening on the screen in front of him.
Experts in child development state the following reasons for keeping your under-two-year-old away from the television:
• Younger children learn best when they’re interacting with you and not trying to learn from people on television;
• It’s difficult for younger children to adequately understand the images in front of them;
• Television keeps babies and toddlers from playing with toys. Learning to play with toys is part of a baby’s development that shouldn’t be negatively impacted or replaced by television; and
• Television is a habit that can be hard to break the older your child gets. A TV should never be used to comfort, distract, or promote sleep in children of any age.
Positive Television Watching
If you do decide to let your toddler watch television then there are some guidelines that you should follow.
Put some thought into just how is your child is actually interacting with the television. Try to watch television with your child as often as you can.
Make it a rule that if he’s watching TV, then you’re watching with him. Respond to what you’re watching so that he gets some interaction with you.
When the television is turned off talk to him about what you’ve just watched so that you can get some idea what he’s thinking and feeling.
Limit What Your Child Watches
Choose only a few television shows or DVDs that interest your child. Then watch only these programs.
The more varied the shows are that you let your child watch the more confused he’s likely to be about what he’s seeing.
Limiting television watching to a few shows lets you have more control over what he’s learning.
As well, he may become bored a lot sooner with television if what he’s watching starts to become too repetitive for him.
Avoid programs that are scary and have monsters and animals that can frighten him. What your child watches on television will stay with him when the TV is turned off.
Limit Television Time
Determine the amount of time you’re going to allow your child to watch television each day. Then stick with this amount of time.
Let him know that once the program is over that the TV is going to be turned off. Don’t give in to the tantrums that are likely to happen when his visual stimulus is taken away from him.
Never have the television on as “background” noise when your child is playing in the room. Even if it seems that your child isn’t paying attention to the TV, his concentration will be reduced.
Playtime is important and should replace television whenever possible.
Turning the Television Off
There are plenty of other things that your toddler can do besides spending time in front of the television.
If you want to provide him with some type of a distraction, or a way to take a break from playing, then put on a story or music CD.
Put together a box of toys that you only pull out during those times when your child needs to be distracted or when he’s having a rough day.
The best stimulation for your child in his developmental years is you. Spend as much time as you can interact with your child by playing, cuddling, and talking to him.
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The Setup
git push origin develop
Gives you an access denied error:
conq: repository access denied. access via a deployment key is read-only.
fatal: Could not read from remote repository.
Please make sure you have the correct access rights
and the repository exists.
The Solution
Instead of using the SSH remote, add a second remote that uses HTTP. Instead of relying on an SSH key (which is not present when using the SSH remote as pull only), the HTTP remote will prompt the user for a user/pass authentication.
Add a second remote:
git remote add origin-push https://[email protected]/your-username/your-repo-name.git
Now you can use the second origin to do the push command:
git push origin-push develop
Pushes made will require a valid user/pass to complete. This also means you don't have to set up a SSH identity for the server. If you really want to be safe, you can just remove the origin you just created when you are finished using it.
git remote rm origin-you-want-to-remove
This gives you the option to do a one-time push to your remote without ever leaving the ssh terminal.
Let me know what you think!
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/14200 | Stretching or warm-up is the foundation of any workout plan that is, unfortunately, often forgotten. Simultaneously, it plays a critical role in building muscle, reducing muscle mass, and healing injuries. Read what stretching techniques we know and what benefits they hide.
Difference between stretching, warming up and cooling down.
The difference between stretching and warming up before a workout lies in their purpose. The goal of stretching is to increase joint flexibility and range. However, it is essential to increase your body temperature and blood flow to your muscles when warming up. These techniques are usually done before training, but you can stretch after training and cooling. However, all three forms of exercise are part of the same set – warm-ups.
Warming up, stretching, warming up and cooling down - are they really important?
Warming up
They were warming up before exercise is essential injury prevention. Proper warming up revitalizes the cardiovascular system by increasing body temperature and blood flow to the muscles. [2] Warming up also prepares your muscles for stress during exercise. If the muscles are warm enough during the warm-up, it will increase the range of motion and reduce the risk of injury during exercise. Examples of a good warm-up are aerobic exercise such as cycling, walking, or jogging, which you should do for at least 5-10 minutes.
After training, your heart rate increases, and your muscles tense. Therefore, the goal of cooling is to bring the heart rate back to normal and prevent the formation of a sore throat. An example of cooling down after exercise is, for example, brisk walking with gradual deceleration. Cooling is significant for endurance athletes like marathon runners because it helps them regulate blood flow in the body after a long period of physical activity.
Stretching, stretching the muscles can be done before or after training. Its main pre-workout goal is to improve joint range and reduce the risk of injury during exercise. You can try stretching your entire body or just focus on a specific muscle group you plan to train later. However, after exercise, stretching has an entirely different function, and its purpose is to prevent muscle soreness. Stretching can also be very relaxing, both physically and mentally.
The benefits of stretching and warming up muscles
Increases productivity
By far, the best benefit of stretching or warming up your muscles is how it affects your performance. It helps improve in three significant ways:
• Improves Circulation – Warming up or stretching for 10 minutes, improves circulation, and opens blood capillaries, which have been associated with improved subsequent physical performance.
• Improves oxygen function – oxygen is released more quickly into the muscles at higher temperatures. If you stretch before your workout, you will warm up your muscles to be ready for peak performance during your workout. If you skip stretching, oxygen can be released into your muscles during exercise for extended periods, which can negatively affect your performance.
• Accelerates Muscle Contractions – Warming up the muscles before exercise raises the body temperature. This leads to better nerve transmission and muscle metabolism. As a result, your muscles will respond faster and more efficiently to all stimuli during and after exercise.
Difference between stretching, warming up and cooling down
Serves as injury prevention
With an effective and consistent pre-workout warm-up, you relax your joints, increase their range, and improve blood flow to your muscles. All of these aspects are extremely important in preventing injury. The harder and bloodless your muscles are, the higher your risk of injury during exercise.
The benefits of stretching and warming up muscles
Removes heat from the body
The activation of the body’s heat dissipation mechanisms promotes effective muscle cooling, preventing overheating and subsequent overtraining. This benefit is especially important during intense aerobic activity, such as running or cycling. [5] [6] [7]
Balances hormone production
During exercise, the body increases the production of various hormones, including cortisol and adrenaline. They are directly responsible for regulating energy production and your physical performance. If you skip a pre-workout warm-up, these hormones may be activated late and do not affect. On the contrary, you can activate them already during the warm-up, which will give your body enough energy during the workout. [16] You can read about the effect of hormones on muscle mass growth and regeneration in our article.
Cooling benefits
Supports Rapid Post Workout Recovery
After intense and challenging workouts, lactic acid builds up in the muscles. It is an organic substance that is formed when glucose is broken down in muscles. At rest, the body produces only a small amount, and then travels to the liver, converted back to glucose. However, more glucose is produced during increased physical activity, which also creates higher levels of lactic acid, which the liver cannot process. Therefore, it builds up in the muscles and causes cramps, muscle aches, or even muscle fever. Therefore, phase cooling after exercise helps remove lactic acid from the muscles, thereby helping to recover faster and preventing DOMS formation. Creatine, which also energizes muscles, has also been another excellent means of reducing lactic acid production during exercise.
Reduces Delayed Onset Muscle Pain (DOMS)
Delayed onset of muscle soreness, or DOMS, Eng. Delayed Onset Muscle Soreness (DOMS) usually starts a day or two after training. Pain that you experience during or immediately after exercise is another type of muscle pain, also called acute muscle pain. This is due to lactic acid production and is accompanied by pain immediately after exercise.
DOMS can trigger any exercise that creates small microscopic cracks in the muscle fibers. The body responds to this damage by increasing inflammation, leading to a delayed onset of muscle soreness. DOMS or DOMS symptoms to look out for may include:
• sensitive muscles to touch
• decreased range of motion due to pain and stiffness when moving
• swelling of the affected muscles
• muscle fatigue
• short-term loss of muscle strength
Research has shown that effective DOMS prevention is post-workout cooling by stretching and stretching or massaging stressed muscle areas.
Stretching promotes quick recovery after exercise
Stretching types
Just as there are different types of training, there are several forms of stretching. During the warm-up, you can focus on static, dynamic, and ballistic stretches. Let’s see what the difference is between them.
Static stretching
This is the most common stretch. His technique is to stretch a muscle or muscle group to the farthest point and maintain that position. This type of stretching is considered the safest way to stretch your muscles. This gives the muscles and connective tissues plenty of time to relax.
Static stretching is usually done before strength training, stretching the muscles you intend to train. However, many practitioners find this stretching to be much less effective than dynamic stretching because dynamic warm-up significantly increases the range of motion.
Dynamic stretching
Unlike static stretching, dynamic stretching is a popular way to warm up muscles before aerobic exercise. The dynamic warm-up consists of the muscles’ maximum warming up by repeating the movement several times in a row. Thus, dynamic stretching aims to improve flexibility before performing any sport, running, cycling, or other aerobic activity. An example of dynamic stretching is, for example, a sprinter who takes too long strides before running to establish a maximum range of motion for upcoming power.
Stretching types
Ballistic stretch
Many athletes confuse this stretching with dynamic stretching. However, there is a significant difference between them. A dynamic warm-up is based on regular, repetitive, and deliberately coordinated movements. However, ballistic stretching uses irregular, abrupt, mostly aerobic movements such as high-intensity jumping or sprinting. At the same time, when ballistic stretching, the maximum range of motion must be exceeded. However, it is important to note that this type of stretching is more prone to injury and should only be performed by experienced athletes.
Passive stretching
Depending on the type of acting force, stretching can be divided into passive and active. Passive stretching occurs when external force helps to reach the maximum point of the range. This can be caused by gravity, another person, or a tensioning device such as expanders or pendant reinforcement systems. The point is that the muscle you want to stretch is not under primary stress, so you can relax while stretching. Passive stretching is extremely useful in relieving muscle spasms that are treating injuries.
Active stretching
Active stretching is characterized by using one’s strength to maintain the position in the stretch. This is the opposite of passive stretching. For example, lifting your legs off the ground while lying down and use only leg strength to keep them in the air. For passive stretching, you can use arm support, for example, to keep your leg in the air. Thus, active stretching requires more effort but is more effective for muscle building and flexibility.
How to do proper and effective stretching
Myofascial release
A massage roller or other massage device is used for this type of stretching. Its application to muscles relieves myofascial tension and improves the flexibility of the fascia. The fascia is a specialized connective tissue system that connects the entire body. It affects bones, muscles, joints, nerves and is located in the brain and spinal cord. Therefore, it is essential to take care of the fascial system and to stimulate it regularly. Tension at one fascial point also affects more distant sites as it is a closely interconnected system. So if you feel the tension in your calf, consider that this tension is not only in the calf but also in other parts of the body.
How to do proper and effective stretching
• Duration of Stretch – Several studies indicate that stretching or cooling one part of a muscle should take 30 to 60 seconds. [fifteen]
• The number of repetitions depends on several factors, such as your physical condition, age, or gender. However, please do not overdo it with stretching and do as many reps as possible. It’s essential to listen to your body.
• Breathing will help you relax. You should inhale slowly before stretching the muscle and exhale slowly as you stretch it. The exhalation should not be intensified but natural.
• When to Stretch – To achieve optimal results and prevent injury, stretching, warming up, and cooling down muscles should be part of every training plan you do.
Types of stretching for parts of muscles
You already understand the theory of stretching and warming up muscles. It’s time to start training. What should this stretch look like? It all depends on which group you decide to train. However, it is optimal to focus on stretching the whole body. [10] [11] [12]
Full body stretch
The advantage of stretching the whole body is that no matter what kind of workout you’re going to do, every muscle will be adequately stretched. The basis is to start with the head and gradually move on to the feet while not forgetting a single muscle part.
I am stretching specific parts of the muscles.
An increasingly popular technique, especially among bodybuilders and strength enthusiasts, is to accept stretching only on specific muscle areas, especially for those you will strain after stretching. So, see how stretching the muscles of individual body parts should look like.
The stretch focuses on specific areas of the muscles – the shoulders, wrists, hips, and ankles:
Feet and Ankles – Many athletes, especially bodybuilders, forget to train this muscle part. These are muscles that are directly associated with the calf muscles or hamstrings. They are mainly used for running, cycling, and strength training during deadlifts. Therefore, if you don’t stretch your feet and ankles properly, you can get nasty injuries.
Stretching on the feet and ankles:
Calves – The calf muscles are also often underestimated during warm-up. Simultaneously, it is in the calf muscle that muscle cramps occur most often during exercise. A great warm-up exercise is to stretch your calves from a wall. Stand facing a wall, step forward with your right foot and leave your left facing outward so that you lean forward slightly. Press the heel of your outstretched leg to the ground until you feel the calf tightening. Of course, there are many more calf exercises out there, so you can always spice up your warm-up.
Calf stretch:
Hips – here, you need to focus on stretching the front and back muscles of the thigh. When stretching the anterior thigh muscles, standing leg extension is effective. Stand on both legs and bend one leg so that the heel touches the ischial muscles. Then grab the heel with your hands and hold it in this position for at least 30 seconds. During this exercise, you should feel the tension in your anterior thigh muscles.
Conversely, if you want to train your back thigh muscles or hamstrings, you need to focus on another exercise type. Sit straight on the ground. Keep your back straight and try to touch your toes. However, in no case, bend your knees during this exercise. Otherwise, it will be ineffective.
Thigh stretch:
Back – when warming up the back, it is necessary to start stretching the cervical spine. This is precisely what many do, be it cardio or strength training. The primary type of warm-up is tilting the head forward, backward, left, and right. After training the cervical spine, you will go down to the lumbar part, pull with bending forward, and with the whole body. You can also use yoga poses to train your neck, cervical spine, and lower back.
Shoulders, Triceps, and Biceps – The core of the shoulder stretch is to extend your arm, bend it at the elbow, and place it behind your head while holding it with your other hand. Sure, this is one of the most straightforward exercises, but if you have strenuous shoulder workouts in the gym, you should focus on a more comprehensive warm-up. The same goes for triceps and biceps, which should be given a separate time when stretching.
Shoulder stretch:
Biceps stretch:
Triceps stretch:
Schedule a workout plan step by step:
1. warming up muscles due to short aerobic loads
2. stretching the whole body or a specific muscle group
3. self-training
4. stretching the whole body after training
5. cooling
However, keep in mind that there will be no results without the correct execution of individual exercises. Therefore, if you decide to include stretching and warm-up in your training plan, which you absolutely must do, carefully study the correct exercise technique.
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/14217 | Tuesday, August 5, 2008
Real and Artificial
Today at the café there were three young women at a table and two young men at another table. Did the duo see the trio? No. Let me focus on the two young men, both about 19 years old. One was dressed in black, the other in lighter colors. Very casual. Haircuts and nice teeth. They were modest, attentive to each other as lovers are. I think they are "just" friends. Now to the next table. Costumed, clothes carefully chosen. Make-up. Their conversation was audible to everyone, as though they were talking to each other on cell phones. Attention was divided. Each looked somewhere else. The two guys looked at the paintings at the same time, then returned to each other. The trio were continually distracted. Designed and made up/"As they were". Natural/Artificial. Attentive/Distracted. What does this mean? Elsewhere? Single men. Single women. An Italian couple, visiting the city, arrived. She went for a menu, looked after him. He had dark hair, a narrow face, lean body. Modest (again), self-conscious. She was mostly uncovered: low-cut, high-rise shirt. He was also in black, like one of the duos. Why are men wearing black? Why are some alone? Where are the other pairs of friends? A woman came in. Her perfume filled the room, overwhelmed the smell of coffee and food. The men smell as they do. One must get up close to have the smell. It will not be a perfume.
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/14220 | Fortnite Season 4 Week 11 Challenge Guide: Eliminating Players Using Superpowers
Fortnite is mixing things up, this time hosting an XP Xtravaganza. This marks a new set of challenges that all award you with a significant amount of XP upon completion. One challenge that might be tripping you up requires you to eliminate opponents by using superpowers. The game doesn’t specify how to do this, so we’ll cover everything you’ll need to know about it in this guide, including tips and tricks to make it easier for you.
Here’s how to use superpowers to eliminate enemies in Fortnite.
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How to use superpowers to eliminate enemies
The easiest way to go about this challenge is to boot up a Marvel Knockout match. This pits trios against one another who all spawn in with random superpowers. Depending on the powers you get, this challenge can range in difficulty, but even if you don’t have the best luck, you can still rack up eliminations. If you aren’t confident in your abilities, you’ll be happy to know that even eliminations made by your teammates will count toward your total, so you can play a support role and still complete this challenge.
For us, we had better luck using long-range powers, like Iron Man’s blasts. We sometimes would spawn in with Wolverine’s claws, which are only effective at close range. If you happen to get this, you’ll probably have a harder time gathering eliminations, and you might have to rely on finishing off opponents who are already damaged. You’ll also usually get a high damage power that’s mapped to the right shoulder button (R1 on PS4, RB on Xbox One, and R on Nintendo Switch). Try to be at least somewhat familiar with the various powers so you’re prepared when you attempt this challenge. Here’s a video of us gaining an elimination with Wolverine’s claws:
We got kind of lucky with the elimination above, due to the enemy being AFK, but you can at least get the gist of how its done.
The main thing to note is that XP Xtravaganza features multi-tiered challenges, offering XP for each stage you complete. In this case, there are three stages you need to overcome: Eliminating one enemy with a superpower, followed by three, and finally, seven. Unfortunately, you can’t get all 11 eliminations in a single match. You have to either finish a match or back out to the main menu so the first stage will register before the game will let you begin the second stage, and so on.
In other words, you can gain credit for stage one, immediately back out and boot up another match, gain credit for stage two, back out again, and finish up stage three. Because of this, you’ll have to play at least three matches in order to complete the challenge — possibly more if you don’t manage to complete one stage per match. At least your progress is cumulative, meaning your eliminations will save and you can pick up where you left off in a new match.
Since Fortnite is a living, breathing game, sometimes Marvel Knockout is not be available. If this is the case, you’ll have to attempt it in a regular mode like Solos, Duos, or Squads. To gain a superpower in these modes, you’ll need to take out one of the various heroes/villains around the map. These are characters like Iron Man, Wolverine, or Doctor Doom. We advise to take out Doctor Doom, as he’s the easiest character to defeat. You might want to let your team know you’re going for this challenge so they can help you take down the hero/villain.
Nonetheless, after they’re down, they’ll drop a superpower that corresponds to them. Equip it, and you can then use it to take down enemies. You’ll probably notice that this method is a lot harder to actually pull off eliminations with superpowers, since it requires so much more effort and features so many more variables.
Because of that, we recommend making a beeline for this challenge in Marvel Knockout as soon as you can, so you won’t have to worry about that mode disappearing. Either way, once you’ve completed all three stages of the challenge by eliminating 11 opponents, you’ll be all set.
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/14251 | Why Improving The Values Of Assets Are Beneficial For Business Growth
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Mr. Royal highlighted the common concern that Hillary Clinton’s embrace of more progressive economic policies, after decades advocating for Bill Clinton’s neoliberalism, probably didn’t register as genuine for the many young black voters who preferred Bernie Sanders. For some, it was likely too little, too late. When Democrats joined Hillary Clinton on the 2016 presidential campaign trail, the widespread messaging was that people of color simply had too much to lose with a Trump presidency. But many of them felt that they already lost. Instead of addressing the conservative economic policies that defined the Democratic Party for decades and helped undermine black progress, Clinton attempted to appeal to black voters’ identity. By targeting a limited conception of this identity, the presidential hopeful failed to appreciate the multitude of black experiences and discounted the ways in which black Midwestern priorities have departed from the Democrats’ black, southern firewall. The 2016 Democratic Primary made these distinctions explicit.
Whereas Hillary Clinton breezed through southern states with significant support among blacks who went to the polls, Bernie Sanders pulled his strongest black support in the Midwest. According to NBC News exit polling data, the percentage of black support for Bernie Sanders in the Democratic primaries in major southern states never got past the teens. He fared best in North Carolina, where he won 19 percent of the black Democratic vote. But in key battleground states, including Michigan, Illinois, and Pennsylvania, Sanders averaged about 30 percent of the black vote. His greatest support came from black voters in Wisconsin, 31 percent of whom said they voted for him in the Democratic primary. But, unlike Sanders, Clinton failed to make real assessments and offer meaningful policy solutions to the economic woes of those living in post-industrial urban centers, instead relying on appeals to black identity. “That hot sauce in the bag comment was one of the most offensive comments I’d ever heard from anyone,” Alderman Rainey shares with me as he recalls Hillary Clinton’s remarks on a black radio show while on the campaign trail. Jay-Z and Beyoncé in Ohio was enough to secure the black vote, the youth vote. |
global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/14257 | Thursday, August 15, 2019
What If It's Us
What If It's Us by Becky Albertalli and Adam Silvera (2018), narrated by Noah Galvin and Froy Gutierrez
Arthur is from Georgia but is spending the summer in New York, interning at his mom's law firm. One day he's on a coffee run and in front of the post office he sees a super cute boy carrying a box. Following him into the post office, they end up talking briefly but then are interrupted by a flash mob. Arthur can't find the mysterious boy, but now he's obsessed! He didn't even catch the guy's name, and only knows that he was there to mail a box of stuff to his ex-boyfriend.
The mysterious boy is Ben, and although he's not looking for a new boyfriend already, he IS kind of intrigued by Arthur. But how are they to find each other again?
Well, it's not easy but they do, and what transpires after that is just adorable and fun and super cute, which is not surprising coming from Becky Albertalli. Both of these characters were the exact right combination of appealing and flawed to make the story angsty enough to be a story, and one that I just listened to obsessively until it was over.
Compared to Ben, Arthur is totally inexperienced when it comes to romance so he had a lot of anxiety, and he is a talker so he has this tendency to keep talking even when he shouldn't. Everything in his head just comes out of his mouth. He is jealous of Ben's ex-boyfriend Hudson, which causes a little friction since Ben and Hudson are in summer school together. Ben is self-conscious about being in summer school since Arthur is so smart and apparently bound for Yale after his senior year. Although Ben isn't academically strong, he's creative and talented and he's writing a fantasy novel, which he shares with Arthur. They sort of bumble their way through this relationship totally awkwardly. I loved every moment of it.
A big part of the story is their friends. Ever since Arthur came out to his friends Ethan and Jessie, Ethan has avoided him, only texting in the group text with the three of them. Ben's best friend Dylan is far cooler with Ben being gay, and they are super close like brothers. Except that Dylan has a new girlfriend he's obsessed with, so he's spending all his time with her. But I loved their friends, and I loved that they eventually met each other. I even liked their parents and Arthur's coworkers. Everything about this book was so great.
The narrators were fantastic. One of them is Noah Galvin, who I totally LOVE. He read Forgive Me, Leonard Peacock and he's amazing because he doesn't sound like he's reading, he sounds like he's just telling you a story. (Also, he's in the movie Booksmart, which I just saw and which you should also see.) Froy Gutierrez is new to me, but I had to look him up because he sounds just like Leo from Veronica Mars, but it's not him. He is also a great narrator and I loved the two together.
I think my favorite Becky Albertalli book before this was Leah On the Offbeat, and I can't decide if I like this one the same or even more. I guess it doesn't matter. What does matter is that I've now run out of Becky Albertalli books and that makes me very sad. Luckily I work with a teen librarian and I got some good recommendations from them so I've got some options. Still, I hope she releases another book soon!
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/14305 | Big Talk
Mutual Understanding Between Nations is the Most Important Thing
The Republic of Togo became independent in 1960 after being a colony of Germany and France, and has developed as one of most stable countries in West Africa. Togo is working to further propel agriculture, its major industry up until now, and also to promote tourism via its own hub airport. Toshio Motoya spoke with […]
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/14309 | Cave of the Alzano Knight
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La Grotta del Cavaliere is a construction of circular shape with a diameter of about three meters, with two large boulders as cover. At the center of the cover there is a hole. It is assumed that these are the remains of a pagan Roman era Santurio dedicated to a deity named Nervaiano or Hercules Vaiano. In the cave a small marble base was found, dated between the third and second century BC, inscribed with a votive inscription in Nervaiano. The "Knight" name comes from an English traveller, Sir Knight Edward Dodwell, who in 1830 did the oversighting.
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/14330 | Breogán Riveiro Vázquez
Category: Writer
Birth Date: 7th February 1967
Birth Place: Montevideo
Telephone: 981611568
He works in 'FORMAT', a video company, where he is in charge of the production: reports, scripts, etc.
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He published two books: O Vendedor de Mazás ('Maior' Publications) and O Asasino Bífico ('Ir Indo' Publications).
Other Interesting Aspects
With his first novel he won the Prize of Fantastic Literature 'Cidade da Coruña' and with the second one he was finalist in the contest 'Novela por Entregas', organised by the newspaper 'La Voz de Galicia'. He also got 'Curuxa do humor' Prize, awarded by the 'Humour Museum' (Fene). |
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Patients who have bowel problems often develop tears or fissures in their anus (rear end) when people strain trying to pass out stool. These hemorrhoids are not only painful, but also cause a lot of discomfort. Proctosedyl is available in both ointment and suppository form and is generally recommended by doctors for treatment of inflammation and swelling or relieving of itches for patients suffering from these problems. It can also be used for patients who have under gone recent rectal surgery and who maybe going through similar problems.
It comes in two packing or forms:
• A BP 5mg/g ointment or suppository with Cinchocaine hydrochloride as the main component.
• A BP 5mg/g ointment or suppository with Hydrocortisone as the main component.
The Appearance of the Proctosedyl ointment can be best described as being yellowish white in color. The ointment is greasy in nature and is almost translucent with no odor present. The suppositories on the other hand, are smooth to touch and are off white in color and come packed inside blister strips. One gram of ointment or a single suppository is said to be incorporated with two active ingredients; Either 5 mg of BP hydrocortisone or 5 mg of BP Cinchocaine hydrochloride.
Uses/Course of action
The two active ingredients contained in Proctosedyl bring their own individual properties to the mix. Cinchocaine is known for its local anesthetic properties and is a common analgesic with added spasmolytic properties, whereas Hydrocortisone reduces inflammation and is an antipruritic agent. The emollient foam vehicle of the ointment contains these two key ingredients. The potent anesthetic effects of Cinchocaine are quite long lasting and causes temporary relief from spasms or any pain the patient might be suffering from. Corticosteroids with topical applications are responsible for bringing about vasoconstrictive actions. Hydrocortisone is one such Glucocorticoid and is a common anti-inflammatory agent used in topical creams and ointments. Inflammation usually results due to the presence of certain agents which cause the blood vessels in the affected area to widen giving it a swollen appearance which often causes itching and pain. The vasoconstrictive action acts against this inflammation and causes the blood vessels to constrict and also reduces the production of such substances.
Proctosedyl may be used for the following conditions:
• Anal tears and fissures due to bowel movement
• Hemorrhoids; both external and internal
• Eczema of the anal area and rear end
• Anal pruritus
• Rectal and Anal surgeries which may lead to the development of hemorrhoids; both pre and post-operative treatments for such surgeries
• Proctitis which is non infective in nature
Dosage and Administration
For both suppositories and ointment
During the first week of treatment:
• Three times a day after passing stool in the morning. Noon and evening
During the second week of treatment
• Two times a day i.e. after passing the morning and evening stool.
During the third week of treatment
• Once a day; after passing the morning stool
You should consult your doctor for dosage and follow his instructions carefully. Do not however exceed the three week period of treatment.
Instructions for Application
• Suppositories need to be inserted inside the rectum. Use a single suppository at a time.
• The ointments come in 3 basic tube packings:
• 15 g and 30 g tubes: Squeeze out a small quantity, enough to suffice the covering of the affected area only. Use your finger to apply gently to the area which needs treatment. Use a cannula if deeper penetration is required. Attach it to the mouth of the tube and insert it in the rectum. Use the lower end to pull out during the withdrawal process.
• One time use tubes containing 2g: Take care while using these for sensitive areas with high inflammation. Take off the tab and insert the cannula inside the rectum. Squeeze out the entire contents of the tube and use the lower end of the tube to pull out during the withdrawal process. Discard after use.
Allergic reactions may occur if the patient is allergic to any of the ingredients contained in the medicine (Cinchocaine and hydrocortisone). It is highly recommended to discontinue the usage of Proctosedyl if any sexually transmitted diseases or infection may be present in the anal area to be treated e.g. herpes because Proctosedyl is known to mask the symptoms of these infections. If there is an indication of some fungal infection to be present, then an antifungal treatment should be carried alongside. For those suffering from tuberculosis this treatment may worsen their condition.
Discontinue treatment if allergic symptoms develop. These may include skin rash, itching, swollen tongue or mouth, shortness of breath etc. Systemic absorption is recommended for topical application of Proctosedyl as it gives better results, abraded skin needs an increased period of systemic absorption but care must be taken that you do not exceed the time for treatment. The doctor must be consulted and told about any medical conditions the patient might suffer from (such as bleeding from the rectum etc.) Infections and allergies should be treated specifically.
Concern for Pregnant Women
Although fetal abnormalities and defects have been found in pregnant animals treated with corticosteroids, no relevant results have been found for pregnant women. It may be a concern though, so precautions must be taken naturally and over dosage should be avoided. No large quantities should be applied for long periods of time
Side Effects
All medical applications have their side effects though for Proctosedyl these are not so pronounced. A burning sensation in the anal region has been reported by some after application. It is usually short lived and subsides soon. Allergic reactions for those who are sensitive to the ingredients.
None known up to date
Over Dosage
Those fearing over dosage may consult their physicians immediately or report to the nearest hospital. They might be in need of medical attention without their knowing.
• The suppositories need to be stored below 25˚ C, keep it refrigerated during hot weather.
• The ointments should be kept away from light and temperatures should not be exceeding 30 ˚C.
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/14365 | Metadata about Metadata for a Service That Provides Metadata
But we've overlooked something... how do you know where to find an applicable CSW Service? Well, you search through a CSW! Circular, yes, but the idea is that we can build a CSW Service that points you to other CSW Services, that points you to the data you want. This way, you need to know where only one CSW service lives.
Imagine 50-some State Geological Surveys, each one with it's own library. Each of those libraries has its own catalogue describing the contents of its own library. Now, imagine that you have no idea where these catalogues are... perhaps the State Surveys live deep in a dark basement somewhere hidden away in the recesses of some State Government complex. However, you do know that there is a catalog at the AASG building down the street that lists the locations of each of the individual Survey's catalogues. You then just need to know where that one AASG catalogue is in order to find all the others, and in turn find the book you want to look at.
We intend to do the same for CSW services. We're working to build a hub CSW service that you can use to search through all the CSW services we know about. With this in mind we've built an XSLT transformation that takes the GetCapabilities response from a CSW Service, and transforms it into an ISO19139 metadata record, ready to be entered into a hub CSW. With this tool, we can start generating a very effective list of all the CSW services we know about. |
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/14419 | Shadowhunters Season 3 Episode 16 Preview: Alec Fights for Magnus' Life
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The emotions will hit you with the force of a 100,000-pound truck on Shadowhunters Season 3 Episode 16. And nope, we're not exaggerating.
If the title "Stay With Me," already had you sobbing, then there is absolutely no doubt that you will be an emotional wreck when you witness everything first hand.
Shadowhunters Season 3 Episode 15 Review: What Just Happened to Magnus??
Be warned, we do have some light teases in store for you below, but who doesn't love a tease or two?
And remember, if you're behind on the show, you can watch Shadowhunters online right here at TV Fanatic!
Look Who's Back - Shadowhunters Season 3 Episode 16
Alec is desperate. And we mean that very literally.
If you think you've seen him desperate before, just wait. This is hands-down the most emotionally destroyed Alec had ever been throughout the entirety of Shadowhunters.
Alec isn't just blaming Lorenzo for his boyfriend's condition, but he's also taking the blame upon himself. He will do anything to save Magnus, even it means resorting to begging.
In all honesty, it almost feels like the Shadowhunters writers asked each other "how do we make Shadowhunters fans as emotional as possible?" and then multiplied those ideas by a hundred.
Prepare to see the fierce warrior Alec Lightwood reduced to tears. Or was that us? Our tears all merged together at some point.
And the final scene. The final scene. That's all we're saying.
Bedside - Shadowhunters Season 3 Episode 16
After lashing out at Simon, Clary is ready to get rid of her rune once and for all. There's a darkness inside of her that she can't control, and she'll do whatever it takes to vanquish it.
But if even the Silent Brothers can't do anything to help Clary, can anything be done at all?
Related: Pretty Little Liars Update: Aria and Ezra's Baby Name Revealed!
Jace, Simon, and Isabelle all aid Clary in her endeavor, and make a plan that involves going to the source of the problem. And that may or may not involve a certain mother of all demons.
Jace isn't too keen on doing anything that could put Clary in danger. In fact, he's avidly against it, but even he can't deny that they're out of options.
Helping Hand - Shadowhunters Season 3 Episode 16
As seen in a sneak peek of Shadowhunters Season 3 Episode 16, Simon and Isabelle go hunting for assistance.
While they're on their mission, they make a pinky promise to never fall in love again. And it just so happens to be Isabelle's first pinky promise ever.
Shadowhunters just don't get out much do they?
It's hard not to laugh, because from the moment they make their "sacred vow," it's all too obvious it's about to be broken.
Maybe we're just biased, but are these two already crushing on each other? Or maybe they have been the whole time.
Crisis - Shadowhunters Season 3 Episode 16
And then we have Jonathan, who continues to just be the worse.
The problem is we love Luke Baines and his incredible acting skills so much, that we can't help but have a hate/love relationship with every scene he's in.
We're caught between "UGH, Jonathan just did that," and "WOAH, Luke Baines just did THAT."
Lilith may love Jonathan unconditionally and see him as her son, but Jonathan definitely does not feel the same way.
Mother and "Son" - Shadowhunters Season 3 Episode 16
He believes his only real family is his sister, and just like usual, there is nothing he won't do to get to Clary.
Jonathan, can you please just give it up and leave her alone already?
There's also an awesome fight scene that manages to bump the entire episode up a thousand levels. Which seemed impossible because Shadowhunters Season 3 Episode 16 was already at an 11/10 rating.
Something Needs to Be Done - Shadowhunters Season 3 Episode 16
It is somehow the most amazing and most stressful thing that we've ever seen on the show. It's incredible, yet awful. Or awful, yet incredible?
You'll be simultaneously screaming and holding your breath.
Related: Supernatural: Jensen Ackles Promises Final Season Will "Go Big"
Overall, the episode was absolutely stellar. If you're hoping to feel every possible emotion in existence at once, Monday is your time to shine. Or your time to be completely destroyed. You'll be both, but one more so than the other.
• One of the many awesome quotes: "All clear. Not a rat in sight." "My hero."
• Isabelle Lightwood, the cutest Shadowhunter in existence, just does not get pinky swears.
• Maryse and Luke are precious and deserve to be protected at all costs.
• Jace AND Simon are looking out for their girls.
• Malec fans, I know we mentioned this before but prepare yourselves for the ending scene. And the beginning scene. Also the middle scenes. Actually, just prepare yourselves for all the scenes.
Alright Shadowhunters fans, what are your predictions for Shadowhunters Season 3 Episode 16? Drop a comment down below and let us know!
Shadowhunters airs Mondays at 8/7c on Freeform.
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/14456 | Sensei's Anime Gallery
Gegege no Kitarō 5 (2007-09): Ep. 92: Wave Lad and Father Trout
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This gallery contains sketch work from the recent CGI-based Kitaro 5 (2007-09). [See my other galleries for art from the cel-based Kitaro 3 (1985-88) and Kitaro 4 (1996-98).]
This gallery focuses on a set of related animators' sketches from Episode 92: Moretsu! yokai suisha!! ganbare nami kozo, or "Furious! Yokai Water-wheel!! Take heart, Wave Lad."
Scriptwriter: Reiko Yoshida
Episode Director: Hiroyuki Kakudou
Animation Director: Shinobu Ohkochi
This dramatic episode focuses on the plight of "Wave Lad" (Nami Kozo), a little scaly webfooted yokai creature who wishes to become a novice under the direction of the impressive "Father Trout" (Iwana Bozu), but is troubled by a powerful demonic entity called Mourei Yassan. Kitaro and his friends agree to help, and the episode ends with a dramatic confrontation with a gigantic wheel of water generated by the yurei .
The overall story arc of the series is the identification of the 47 “chosen yokai warriors” in Japan, one for each of Japan’s prefectures. So among other things, the series surveys the folklore of every part of Japan, creating a kind of “paranormal all-star team” out of all these local traditions. Because its creator, mangaka Shigeru Mizuki, has devoted so much time to collecting and popularizing regional folklore, he and his creations have become cherished touchstones in Japan.
Yet the series and the works on which it is based are nearly unknown in North America. The folk legends on which the plots are based are very closely linked to the subcultures of Japan where they circulated, and so the story does not easily resonate with Western audiences. Even a professional folklorist like Sensei has to do a lot of hacking around in both languages before the significance of the characters and their stories begin to make sense to a Western mind.
For that reason, visitors will find the "Episode 92 overview" a good place to start. That pulls together what I've been able to learn about the episode and the folklore on which it is based.
Episode 92 Overview
Mōrei Yassan
Iwana Bōzu at Kitarō’s house
Nami Kozō arrives in Yōkai Alley 1
Nami Kozō arrives in Yōkai Alley 2
Nami Kozō arrives in Yōkai Alley 3
Nami Kozō arrives in Yōkai Alley 4
A Strategy Session inside Kitarō’s House
Kitarō greets the wave lad
Medama-oyaji takes over
Medama-oyaji gives his verdict
Interested bystanders
Nami Kozō’s Apprenticeship
Iwana Bōzu dismisses Nami Kōzo
Nami Kōzu is shocked
Iwana Bōzu returns to the wave lad
Father Trout apologizes
Iwana Bōzu and Nami Kozō ready for combat
Nami Kozō powers up
Kitarō flying on Ittan Momen
Kitarō shoots his hair
Kitarō fires his geta
The Yōkai Suisha
Kitarō's Frustrated Now!
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/14472 | Monday, September 30, 2019
A day in the life, chapter 3
Leaning back in my chair, I start the preparations for a productive workday. Disconnecting my trusty headphones from my phone with a few practiced taps and flicks on the touch screen, I wince as the mechanical voice of the phone blasts through the office.
"Whoops..." I mutter, rapidly clicking down the volume. Tapping keys with my right hand, reading the braille output with my left, I locate the option on my laptop to connect my headphones to it instead. A familiar beep, followed by the rapid-fire chatter of my screen reader starts coming through the headphones.
Nodding slightly to myself I invoke what I call my magic trick. Blurring through several keystrokes that are almost second nature, I quickly connect my screen reader up to a copy running at the computer at home. A chirp in my headphones signifies that I can now send keys to that machine, and hear it's screen reader output on my headphones at work.
Instant ability to do whatever I want that has nothing to do with work work! Without anything showing on the display of my work machine. Sometimes it is good to be blind.
Rapidly tapping more keys I locate my Spotify instance and start a playlist, making sure to drop the volume below that of my screen reader to still be able to see what I am doing. Turning on the noise-canceling feature again, my office turns into a cubicle where nobody interrupts or disturbs me, the murmur of voices and click-clacking of programmers at work fading into an almost inaudible murmur at the edge of my awareness.
The vibrations through the desktop greet my arms leaning on it's edge more than the sound registers as someone knocks firmly on the desk to get my attention.
When I first started working here, I was put in a room with some of the higher-ups and had to basically explain that I really am a human being like them and that I won't call down the wrath of Thor and Odin if a colleague addresses me in the wrong way or forgets to take my blindness into account. It's always a bit of a riddle how much of a thing companies I work at will make of this, but this happens to be one where it's a major thing.
Questions like " Do we need to say our name every time we address you?", please don't, and "How can we get your attention when you are wearing your headphones?" were covered. I always need to keep my inner snark at bay for tedious as they can be, they are legitimate questions. We decided that tapping on the desk would work well as an answer to the second question.
'Well much for nobody disturbing me ...' my ever-present inner monologue comments wryly as I plaster on a proper full-toothed smile and take my headphones off halfway. "Yes?"
"Hi! It's Joanne here!" Joanne's unmistakable voice comes to my left. " I am on your left!"
'You don't say ...' I inwardly snark but dutifully look to my left. "Hi! What can I do for you?"
Beside me, Ruff, the guide dog, snorts as if he is laughing at the silly human and I absent-mindedly scratch him behind the ear as I listen to my colleague, the soft fuzz of his soft fur tickling my fingertips.
"We have a new colleague starting today and George was wondering if you can explain to him how you do your work? You will likely have to collaborate with him in the future and he thought it'd be a good idea to get it out of the way so you won't be bothered with questions all the time" Joanne explains.
"OH ...sure! That makes sense. I'm a little swamped this morning though, is after lunch alright?" I respond, meanwhile opening various programs, my hand on the braille display moving from left to right rapidly to keep up with the output, using my other hand to input various keystrokes, the tactile markings on the F and J-keys acting as landmarks as I touch-type.
"That should be ok, yes! I will let George know you're on board!"
I can't help but shrug. "Sure. I'm assuming he will make sure we have room to do this in?"
George is the CEO of this company and he is incredibly stoked to have a blind person working for him. I am very much in two minds about that, but circumstances being as they were I couldn't make too much noise about it at the time. It just means that now, I need to walk the fine line between educating people and becoming inspiration porn, a game I know all too well by now.
"Yeah, leave that up to him and me. Thanks again, good luck!" Joanne says, the subtle change in the sound of her voice indicating to me she's in the process of turning away from me.
"Sure!" I say again, turning back to my desk again as well. Replacing my headphones, I regain my oasis of quiet and music as I arrow through the emails waiting for me.
Tapping a key, I redirect my keyboard to the computer at home again. Opening a browser window, I key on a website that has become rather familiar to me over the last few weeks. It's time to check the board.
Filling in the login details, I assume the identity of BlindLeap as I scroll through the new topics, opening a few new ones in separate tabs to have a look at later.
Switching to the first new tab, I tap a key to jump to the quick reply edit field, then tapping another key to jump up a few headings.
Web browsing as a blind person is an experience in itself. All visuals being stripped away from a website can have any number of consequences, from things becoming unclear to things becoming utterly unusable.
Finding the information you need is almost a treasure hunt at times, using parts of the page as landmarks the way you would in a city you know well. Turn left at Uncle Joe's Vinyard, up the hill next to the playground, X marks the spot.
Reading through the new posts, I decided to add my two cents and jump back down to the quick reply field to put down some thoughts of my own.
Somewhat irritably, I take off my headphones again. "Yes?" I ask, making sure to sound friendly at least, unsure about the expression on my face.
"Your coffee is on the right of your keyboard," Steve says, putting it down on my desk, the thump of the cup hitting wood telling me exactly where. My right hand subconsciously confirming the spot anyway, carefully gliding across the wood to not knock the cup over until my fingertips encounter the hot China of the cup.
"Thanks a lot," I say, genuinely grateful as I look in the voice's general direction. " No problem. Hey, could you have a look at my PR? I'm a little stuck, I think my logic isn't quite working out the way I expect, but I can't seem to see the problem. Could use a pair of fresh eyes to take a look, do you have time?"
Did I already mention I like Steve? He is one of those people that just get it. Both the fact that I'm a human who's blind rather than the other way around and the fact that programmers have a rather particular way of working are familiar to him, which makes him very refreshing to interact with.
" Yeah ...take a seat?" I say, indicating the spot to my left with a vague hand gesture as I bring up what he's been working on.
" Oh ...I will open your screen up a bit and increase the brightness, alright?" he says, doing so at a nod from me as I leaf through his code.
I always forget to do that for people, my laptop's screen tends to be mostly closed as I don't use it anyway.
As Steve explains what he was trying to do, my screen reader rattles off lines of code in my other ear. "if lacket user isNot loggedIn racket lace return blip race"
I turn off the speech, preferring to work with braille at this point. With a key, I position the mouse on the offending line.
"I think you may have missed a thing here, this doesn't match up with what you're telling me," I tell him, the passive soundscape around me changing very slightly as he leans forward.
Even without echolocating, sounds around me ping-pong and bounce off everything around me. Almost like a passive sonar, this allows me to walk along walls using the sound of my footsteps and even just the subtle rustle of wind blowing past to know where the wall in question is at any given point.
"Ugh ... yeah, that logic is the wrong way around. Thanks, I will play with it some more" he says, getting up off his chair. "Good luck ..." I respond, closing the page, dimming my screen and lowering it back down to where it was as I can hear him making his way back to his desk.
I switch back to my home machine and start typing the post I was going to type. "I mean my nickname on here is a silly pun on blindness..."
Over the next few hours, I alternate between working and browsing social media on my home machine, left in peace until a call from the cafeteria area pierces the veil of silence around me. "LUNCH!"
Oh no! Still no answer about the Dutch lunch habits! And what happened to the mysterious partner, where'd she go?
I mean ...I have to keep you guys coming back for more somehow, don't I? Enjoy ;)
1. I love the new chapter
1. Hi Anonymous :-) You've been with me from the beginning if I'm not mistaken. Thank you so much for that and I'm glad you still enjoy my weekly writings :-)
2. This is so good! More please! Especially about the passive soundscape and echolocation, I really want to hear more about how you do it. I'm amazed that you can wear noise-canceling headphones--it isn't disorienting when you rely so much on your ears?
LOL about the clueless co-workers and about posting on PD at work, very sly.
1. I tend not to have noise canceling going when I'm actually out and about, that is terribly unsafe and I wouldn't be able to hear traffic coming. Even now, really quiet electric cars or cyclists can be the bane of my existence, so gotta stay alert. But when I'm staying in one spot I sort of snapshot my surroundings at that moment and hold t hat ...image? in mind, so I can turn off the world for a bit and then when I turn it back on it's still there how I left it as it were :-)
Hah, found my little tap on the fourth wall did you? Somehow I figured you would :-)
3. So so so cool. I love all of the layered detail about how you rapidly navigate among so many forms of sensory input - which of course we all do, it's just that now that I have such a vivid sense of what it would be like to do it your way. :) Agreed with DG that the stuff about the passive soundscape is particularly fascinating.
1. The passive soundscape thing comes into play a lot when I'm walking around or orienting myself :-) I'm sure it will feature in future installments ;) |
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Central Minsk can become a nightmare for anybody who prefers to encounter a city like a flaneur. It is the stalinist urban utopia come true, with not even a trace of the labyrinth, that Walter Benjamins flaneur was feeding off:
(Walter Benjamin, The Arcades Project)
Apparently the only place in Minsk, where a flaneur can heave a sigh of relief, is its underground lifelines. The despair of a flaneur in 'hush city' is reflected by the fragments of text and sound that emerged from some extensive strolling around October Square in Minsk in August 2009, which can be found on radio aporee. Here's the text:
Hush City
Not long ago I wanted to find out how you sound. Having soaked up a remarkable dose of sonic density, carried by the infectious rhythm of your underground lifelines, I felt tempted to encounter what's above.
I turned into a flaneur, strolling around, observing.
Caviar for the common people, on bread and butter, in the vitrines of the peoples drinking palace. Upstairs in the supermarket, teenage style and pop-cultural aficionados were preparing for a clubbing in a parallel universe.
The screen
He needs to be seen, in every public news broadcast. Again it's all about world class potatoes and the best sunflower oil. Don't you love me?
I was the only one watching.
I couldn't make sense of this place by walking across its vast plot of concrete, shadowed by a massive monolith, rising out of nothing. Within a glimpse I could read "Horizont" on a rooftop.
I felt so lost.
Live Forever
I turned around, walked to the other side and took a rest on a bench. Young folks all around, sitting, chatting, but their voices seemed to be absorbed by this place. Soon a man came over, flashily dressed, nervously thumbing through a book in front of me -You know?
Back in the passage of the metro station I felt less scattered. There it wasn't me, passing by.
I could afford to pause, in the middle of the rush, not being part of it. I chose to lose myself in your lifelines again, where humming engines are drowning out the all-dominant sound of high heels.
Minskflaneur has been realised by Jürgen Rendl as part of the international project 'Belarus Inside-Out', organized and published by Plotki. You can download the publication under http://bio.generation.by.
Minsk, Belarus
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: :As science advances there will be less belief in a (creator the god)!
: Is this a scientific fact or do you BELIEVE your thoery is correct?
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/14547 | In what was pretty much a lost weekend for dozens of exhausted participants who had flown in from all across the continent just to attend, EU leaders at a summit in Brussels were nearly unanimous in saying that they kind of approved of the near agreement they sort of reached about something like a draft treaty to somewhat reform the EU system sometime fairly soon maybe.
“I’m very satisfied,†said German Chancellor and current EU President Angela Merkel about the agreement. “I am very satisfied that that Kaczynski clown finally got inside his cheap-ass Polish plane and flew back home, I mean. As for that so-called agreement we reached, well, sure. I guess so, sort of. I mean, relatively speaking, hmmm, satisfied? Yeah, I suppose that’s a word you could use.â€
Other European leaders were equally enthusiastic. The agreement sort of sees that a new voting system known as a “double majority†will most likely be phased in beginning in the year 2014, if everything goes well, that is (but it never does). Of course it won’t really be implemented for another three years after that because of a compromise with Poland or something, but that goes without saying. If the agreement ever does get ratified and introduced, however, a 55% majority of EU countries with at least 65% of the bloc’s population will be required for future changes to be approved, whatever that means.
Word is that Britain and the Netherlands also got what they wanted from the summit, but nobody can remember what it was anymore.
French President Nicolas Sarkozy put it best by saying: “There are no winners or losers (in this process),†and then thinking “Just failures, also-rans and downright turkeys.â€
I came, I saw, I compromised.
Come visit me at Observing Hermann…
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Tree quests are given to you by the great trees (see Places In Normal Realm for locations), to request that you receive a quest click the tree and chose “Ask for quest” and the tree will explain what it requires of you.
Each character has a limited number of quest slots, once these are filled no more quests may be accepted until a quest slot is released either by the quest being completed or letting it expire. Typing /quest list displays your current quests, you can also use /quest <quest number> to get a detailed explanation of a single quest you've been assigned.
When a quest is complete you need to return to the tree which gave it to you to receive your reward - a Favor aligned with that particular tree (ie Sun tree gives Sun favors, Wolf tree gives wolf favors etc).
Note: In order to receive a favor you need to be paying member and have a character level of 10 or higher, any tree quests you completed without meeting those requirements will give you a “paper favor” which isn't much use.
What types of quests are available?
# go-to location
# kill monster type moon, turtle never sun, evil rare
# craft a weapon moon, bear never snake rare
# imbue a totem wolf, sun, bear never eagle, frog rare
# imbue a staff frog, eagle, bear never wolf rare
# talk to another player snake, turtle never eagle, evil rare
# give another player money snake, eagle, wolf never sun, frog rare (Note: a newcomer is a char that has existed less the 1 hour )
# retrieve from location
# retrieve from another Great Tree\
Note: For quest types 8 and 9, be sure to either a) Do not sell your simple loot. b) Include the quest item so you will not sell it when you sell your simple loot. Selling the quest item will result in a failed quest.
# kill demon prince moon, snake never turtle, evil rare
# donate an egg bear, wolf, frog, turtle never sun, evil rare
# donate a dust bear, wolf, frog, turtle never sun, evil rare
# pray at location snake,moon never eagle, evil rare
# escape dungeon alive (you are teleported to the back of it) moon, wolf, sun never turtle, bear, evil rare
# if you do not train a skill it will not ask for that type of quest, but doing so will give you more Egg and dusts requests.
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/14562 | 16″ Geometric Cone
With its emphasis on vertical rather than horizontal rows, the 16″ Geometric Cone is a refreshing variation on most Tiffany geometric shade designs. As the rows widen towards the lower portion of the shade, the height of the pieces change to accommodate the shape of the shade. Commissioned by a client in California, this shade has the warmth of a glowing ember. The shade is shown on the versatile Small Stick base (20″ tall).
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/14575 | Friday, December 30, 2011
NYC subway progression over the years
I may have moved out of NYC, but I still have an enthusiasm for the NYC subway. (There are bus-leaning NY'ers* and Subway-leaning NY'ers, I am definitely the latter.)
Another cool link with a video of the different NYC subway maps over the last 100 years. ->
Earlier links about the NYC subway that I've posted:
*eg insane people, why would I ever want to travel via a method that stops every 12' and is effected by traffic?
Thursday, December 29, 2011
Hey Giada, lets hang out?
Yeah I know, 2 cooking posts in a row, who am I Kiss My Whisk?
Saffron risotto is likely my favorite prepared dish (warning I have a lot of favorite foods). The problem is saffron is so flipping expensive and doesn't go very far. But- other than online bulk buying, I may have found something locally(-ish) available at Costco. Honestly I don't remember what I paid but I think it was about $15/gram which is still far cheaper than the grocery store, if they even have it. The quality was great, and the color/taste was perfect. That was enough for about 4 saffron dishes (for 2 people with leftovers).
Short version of risotto cooking directions:
1 cup of short grain white rice (arborio)
~1/3 of a large white or yellow onion chopped fine
3 cups of chicken or vegetable broth (I prefer chicken)
Heaping tablespoon of minced garlic
~1/4 cup of shredded Asiago/Pecorino/Romano/Parmesan cheese (I mixed all of them)
Black pepper
dried chopped parsley
large pat of butter
2-3 tablespoons of Olive oil (doesn't matter what kind, no matter what Giada says)
pinch of Saffron (I guess technically I used about a 1/4 ounce, but if you can measure that you probably already know how to cook risotto)
-In a large sauté pan, start sweating the onion & garlic using all of the Olive oil and butter, once they are about 1/2 of the way to the point that you'd call them fully done, add all the rice and cook until golden-yellow-brown. After adding the rice it shouldn't take more than about 2 minutes.
-Now add about 1/4 of a cup of the broth while stirring slowly, add all the saffron at this point. Turn the heat down to low.
-As it gets absorbed add another 1/4 cup at a time until you have about 1/2 a cup left. At this point add about half the cheese, a teaspoon each of black pepper and parsley
-Turn the heat way down and add the last 1/2 cup very slowly, stirring constantly.
-Once that is absorbed, serve and eat immediately, sprinkle the remaining cheese over the risotto after serving.
Honestly other than the constant stirring its really not that hard to make, and if you can buy the saffron in bulk (or otherwise cheaper) its not that expensive either.
Here are some pictures!
Wednesday, December 28, 2011
More meals need to be in pie form
Buy one of these.
Here's what I made: word of warning, I don't really measure anything
Beef and root veges pie
Browned ground beef
White or Yellow onion
Lots of minced garlic
Splash of Worchester sauce
Black pepper
Chicken broth
Rosemary, Thyme, Oregano and Sage (I used all dried) and a little bit of dried gravy mix (powder)
Lasagna Pie
Browned ground beef
Shredded Mozz cheese
Pre-grated Parmasean cheese
Marinara sauce
Basil, Oregano, thyme
Combine the ingredients and scoop into the lower circle on a pre-heated pie maker, spice to taste. For both of them I used crescent roll dough, one tube was able to make 8 total pies (so 16 circles, 8 top, 8 bottom). Moisten the top circle with a little bit of water, before closing the lid. I just smooshed it together and rolled it out. I'll let you read the instructions in the pie maker for the dough/pie specific ones.
Earlier link about meat pies ->
Thursday, December 22, 2011
Wait, I thought he had hook hands
I'm officially adding Jon Hamm to my "hey, lets get a beer sometime" list.
Source ->
Metal ball falls from the sky in Namibia, nobody knows what it is...
That's the gist of it.
From Pop Sci:
A large metallic ball has fallen from the heavens and landed in a remote region of Namibia, spurring a lot of speculation about its origins and spurring local authorities to get NASA and the European Space Agency on the horn. No one is sure where the hollow metallic object came from, but it definitely came down hard--it was found 60 feet away from its landing site, a hole more than a foot deep and 12 feet across.
Source -> &
the 15 greatest gifts in history
I saw this on Mental Floss and thought I'd share. Click the source link for the entire list, here's the first 4. #2 is really interesting, I had originally read about it in this book, "Spycraft" highly recommended.
1. For Friends Abroad: A Statue of Liberty
4. For Animal-Lovers: A White Elephant
Source ->
earlier "gift" related links -> & &
Tuesday, December 20, 2011
Earth (sometimes) has a 2nd moon the theory being floated by Cornell Astrophysicists
From the Gizmodo synopsis (which I will shorten too):
From the Technology Review article linked below:
image via
But this was not an object of ours. Instead, 2006 RH120, as it became known, turned out to be a tiny asteroid just a few metres across--a natural satellite like the Moon. It was captured by Earth's gravity in September 2006 and orbited us until June 2007 when it wandered off into the Solar System in search of a more interesting neighbour.
2006 RH120 was the first reliably documented example of a temporary moon.
Source -> via Cornell &
Earlier links about the Moon -> &
The Vampires of Physics, not the tw*light kind
Everything you'd every want to know about Neutrinos in 1:25
THIS is the lab they're talking about at 0:44
Clickable link ->
See? Learning Physics doesn't HAVE to be long and boring...
Source ->
Earlier link about Neutrinos ->
I thought I was excited about a new level being unlocked each day until Xmas...
This guy clearly has my affinity for this Finnish phenomenon beat...
clickable link ->
Source ->
Earlier Angry Birds link ->
Just in case its not a white christmas...
but you have the temperature for it (and you have a power washer).
Short version, you combine a power washer and an air compressor, let that mofo fly in a cold back yard and enjoy! (click the source link for the actual instructions).
Clickable link ->
Source -> via lifehacker
Monday, December 19, 2011
Stonehenge Inner stones' source have been located
From Wired UK:
Having said all that, how the F*** did these people get these rocks from point A to point B over 5,000 years ago using a method that we haven't been able to definitively figure out 5,000 years later.
Source ->
Earlier Stonehenge link ->
Saturday, December 17, 2011
Tribute to "Calvin-style" snowmen
Saw this and had to share... Safe for work even if you work with people that have no soul (eg didn't love Calvin and Hobbes).
Clickable link ->
Source ->
Earlier Calvin and Hobbes links
Sorta related creepy snowmen ->
"There's a new disease
...called the 'surname of the person who Brandy's brother peed on*'" -Eddie
Ab Fab is back! for 3 specials, the first airing on Christmas day (in the UK, no idea US broadcast times/dates).
Source -> (Daily Mail)
Earlier links about this plague: &
Thursday, December 15, 2011
Its been a hard days night...
One of my favorite songs from one of my favorite bands.
Short version:
The opening chord of the Beatles song "A Hard Day's Night" has always been a bit elusive as to what it actually was.
From Gizmodo:
CBCRadio host Randy Bachman, visited Abbey Road Studios where they've got all of the Beatles' master tapes converted to digital, [truncated] Bachman listened to each of the tracks played back one at a time to reveal the underlying root chord played by George Harrison.
(Audio only)
Full (awesome) song
Clickable link ->
Source ->
MIT builds a camera fast enough to capture the motion of Light
In keeping with this webpage being random as hell, now a science post!
From MIT's website:
"B*tches LOVE high speed cameras!"
Source -> via via
Another physics post ->
The Dictator
Sacha Baron Cohen, known for Borat, Ali G and Brüno (and other things but those are the big 3) has a new movie coming out that may or may not be inspired by real people recently deposed...
Here's the first trailer:
Love him or hate him (I'd be surprised if there was ANYBODY who was luke warm about him) I think this looks really funny...
Source ->
Seal pup wanders into a New Zealand house... adorable ensues
From the New Zealand Herald:
A wandering baby fur-seal wriggled through the cat-door of a Bay of Plenty house - and made himself at home on the couch. A stunned Annette Swoffer thought she must have been hallucinating when she found the young pup hanging out with her cats in her kitchen on Sunday night. Ms Swoffer called the SPCA.
The SPCA contacted the Department of Conservation, which was already looking for a seal reported hopping along Welcome Bay Rd. Ms Swoffer said the pup was "really friendly" and not aggressive in the slightest - which is unusual for seals.
Click the source link below for the rest of the pictures.
Source ->
Tuesday, December 13, 2011
I'm honestly leaning towards House Targaryen...
The (former?) Khalessi really became a badass. Plus now SHE HAS DRAGONS?!*
Season 2 trailer
Clickable link ->
*Spoiler alert, oops.
Joffrey sucks (I get that this is a fantasy world, but thats the ugliest name I've ever heard)
Pfft, I've done this
One thing about living in NYC (with a car) besides the sheer insanity of "tandem parking*" is learning EXACTLY the dimensions of your vehicle...
Source ->
*When you use 2 or more people, 1 being the driver in the car communicating via cellphone (HANDS FREE OF COURSE) or walkie-talkie to drive around the neighborhood in order to scout/acquire elusive parking spots
Earlier link ->
slow-mo of dogs in cars
...because I love this
Dogs in Cars from keith on Vimeo.
Source -> via
Friday, December 9, 2011
I'm not really a fan of Grapefruit either
Just heard this guy (Gary Gulman) on "Preston and Steve" this morning. It was one of the best radio interviews I've heard in a while. Too bad he seems to re-use material a lot.
Because Davenport Iowa is an Old Milwaukee kind of town
From the source (below):
That sounds about right
Source ->
Thursday, December 8, 2011
British soldiers didn't have a mall nearby
I'd want to be the guy in the "plane" at 3:35, haha
Source ->
Earlier (related) link ->
Double Amputee soldier skydives with his wardog
I love dogs, I love how excited he is right before the jump, then how he springs back into playing right after they land.
clickable link ->
Source ->
Earlier dog links ->
SAVE COMMUNITY (continued)
"Because we can't legally call it an education"
Source ->
Earlier links ->
Tuesday, December 6, 2011
True story.
The world is over.
Make sure to stock your bunkers.
Creed has sold more records in the US than Jimi Hendrix
Ke$ha's “Tik-Tok” sold more copies than ANY Beatles single
Flo Rida's “Low” has sold 8 million copies – the same as The Beatles' “Hey Jude”
The Black Eyed Peas' “I Gotta Feeling” is more popular than any Elvis or Simon & Garfunkel song
Celine Dion's “Falling Into You” sold more copies than any Queen, Nirvana, or Bruce Springsteen record
• 7. Same with Shania Twain's “Come On Over”
Same with Shania Twain's “Come On Over”
People actually bought Billy Ray Cyrus' album “Some Gave All...” 20 million people. More than any Bob Marley album
• 12. This guy exists.
This guy exists.
I'm a girl! tee hee!
source ->
Friday, December 2, 2011
Top 15 unseen TV Characters
I really think Bob Sacamano needs a bigger representation here... I mean, he can get these Russian hats down by battery park whose difference is negligible from Sable, $40.
Clickable link -> |
global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/14588 | Mexico - Jalisco - Lagos de Moreno - Up to 10 citizens - El Mole
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El Mole is located in the municipality of Lagos de Moreno in the Mexican state of Jalisco with the GPS coordinates:
Longitude (dec): -101.854722
Latitude (dec): 21.413889
Height over sea level of El Mole
The locations medium height over sea level is 1900 meters.
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The over all population of El Mole in Mexico is about 9 inhabitants.
In El Mole exist 2 households.
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Ep. #052 of Cinematic for the People: Steve Jobs/Goosebumps/The Final Girls
On this ungodly long episode of Cinematic for the People, we along with special guests Jeff Broitman, Clinton Cornwell, Christina Johnson and Nathan Uhlig take a look at new releases Steve Jobs, Goosebumps, The Final Girls, and Rock the Kasbah. We then wrap up our October Horror Movie segment with Diabolique(1955) and A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984). Hope you enjoy and always remember you can use our guide below to skip forward in the episode. God knows that's what I do.
00:56- Steve Jobs
27:47- Goosebumps
45:39- The Final Girls
57:14- Rock the Kasbah
1:19:55- Halloween Segment, Diabolique (1955) & A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)
1:43:32- Outro and Preview for Next Week
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Monday, October 29, 2007
There and Back Again
I haven't been blogging. You might have noticed.
For about a week, I was busy fighting blog wars here and here. I should have known better. On the one hand the conversation dissolved into accusation and name-calling by a fellow blogger, and on the other, total nonsense.
It was so exhausting, I haven't had the energy to write more.
I learned something about myself and my blogging style, though: I am interested in the exchange of ideas. Numbers can be manipulated. In the end, ideology is what matters.
Get to the brass tax. Try being honest about what abortion is and its implication on the whole of society, not just women. Not satisfied? Let's talk about why caring about only women's health isn't enough. Call me anti-choice, and I'll take it. I believe in denying people certain choices. That's an honest position. Your turn.
Great, you're for universal health care. I don't think it's a wiser, safer, more compassionate path, but that doesn't assume I believe the "market can never fail" or that I am a "Republican schill." Quite the opposite, in fact, since I spent enough time answering phones, assisting on extractions and exchanging hugs with patients at a dental clinic for the uninsured (yeah, I'm proud of it; deal with it) that I began to question the health care system, too. I just don't think the opposite of supporting universal health coverage (coverage, coverage, alright already!) is cruelty.
Eventually I just had to walk away. I couldn't win either one. One, because she wouldn't listen to reason. The other because I wandered off track from my initial comment and should have stopped before the mud-slinging began.
Have you been there?
Blogger Lois E. Lane said...
We missed you! And yes, to answer your question, I have gotten so into outside e-discussions that I was too zapped to write on my own blog.
Wednesday, October 31, 2007
Blogger Julie said...
Total waste of your time.
I've been there. Many times.
How does it feel to have the life sucked out of you, like only these blog spats can do?
Wednesday, October 31, 2007
Anonymous Anonymous said...
P. J. O'Rourke was likely prescient when he came up with this one: "If you think health care is expensive now, just wait until it's free."
Friday, November 02, 2007
Blogger Snarky said...
Thomas Sowell got it right. What we have here is a conflict of visions. A conservative looks at the world in a way that is profoundly different than the way a liberal looks at it. A conservative looks at the world and says "if it ain't broke, don't fix it"; a liberal looks at the world and wants to tear it down and build a new one. Except. You may have noticed that all they want to try, again and again, is one more variant of socialism, which has never worked wherever it has been instituted. They seem to think that we just haven't torn down things sufficiently to bring about heaven on earth, when, in fact, heaven only exists in heaven. Down here, we have to do the best we can, which usually means trial and error...and fix things on the margins. In other words, the conservative approach.
I'm with Ms. Neidlinger.. ya shouldn'ta gone there.
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/14618 | Every Day Bible
Help for Unanswered Prayers
unanswered-prayers-1-728At some point in their lives, most Christians will wonder why it is that some prayers are answered and others seem to be ignored. Philip Yancey’s book, Prayer: Does It Make Any Difference, has a chapter called “Unanswered Prayer: Living with the Mystery.” He begins by considering the reasons that a prayer might not get a positive response:
We may never know why God says “yes” to some and “no” to others, but when I don’t get the response I want, I take comfort in realizing that I’m not alone.
After all,
• Moses pled with God to enter the Promised Land, but his request was denied.
• King David prayed for his infant son not to die, but he did.
• Moses, Job, Jonah, and Elijah all prayed that they would die. Fortunately for us, God said no.
• Habbakuk prayed for deliverance from the Babylonians.
• Jeremiah prayed for Jerusalem not to be destroyed.
• Paul prayed three times for the removal of the “thorn” in his flesh.
• Jesus prayed that the cup would pass.
I know that it doesn’t feel good when we don’t get what we want, but we have to realize that God is God and we are not. John Baillie wrote that we should use our unanswered prayers and our pains as catalysts for something better. He learned to pray this way:
Let me use disappointment as material for patience.
Let me use success as material for thankfulness.
Let me use trouble as material for perseverance.
Let me use danger as material for courage.
Let me use reproach as material for long suffering.
Let me use praise as material for humility.
Let me use pleasures as material for temperance.
Let me use pain as material for endurance.
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The Sounds of Grammar with Betty Azar
For VOA Learning English, this is Everyday Grammar.
Today we have a (1)_____________________. Betty Azar is the most successful writer of grammar textbooks in the world. Generations of English learners (2)_________________ her best-selling book Understanding and Using English Grammar. The famous blue grammar book, now in its fourth edition, is in use at language schools across the world. Ms. Azar also supports research and (3)___________________ in the English language teaching field. Today Ms. Azar will offer some advice on how to hear the sounds of grammar.
STUDENT: "English speakers (4)_________________! I can't understand what they're saying."
BETTY AZAR: Does that sound familiar? It's a (5)_________________ of English language learners, one I've heard often from my university-level ESL students through the years.
Normal (6)________________, especially in everyday conversational usage, can speed by like a bullet train. It can leave learners feeling a little dazed as they try to (7)__________________.
For most (8)_______________, reading is, of course, much easier to understand. When understanding English is just between you and the written page, you can go as slowly as you want. You can go back and read words again, perhaps break down the grammar. You can even (9)_______________ the meaning of a word.
And at least in writing there are spaces between words. (10)_______________ that were true in speaking! If only speakers paused briefly between words, it would be so much easier for learners.
Teachers in second language classes often speak (11)_______________, as I am doing now. But in the real world, well, it's not going to happen. Or, to say that in normal contracted speech,
Well, i'snotgonnahappen.
Speakers squeeze sounds together, or drop sounds, or say them so softly and quickly that a listener can (12)______________. When you listen to my sentence again, notice that the tis almost (13)_________________ from it's, and going to becomes gonna.
Well, i'snot gonna happen.
As a teacher, I've often heard students say things like
Bye. I leaving now. I see you tomorrow.
What's missing? The grammar sounds are missing, in this case the m and l sounds for amand will. Listen for them in the (14)________________:
Bye. I'm leaving now. I'll see you tomorrow.
The m and l sounds are (15)__________________. But a native speaker hears them. Do you? Listen again.
Bye. I'm leaving now. I'll see you tomorrow.
And then, sometimes native speakers drop not only sounds but (16)________________________. Listen to this:
Bye. ‘M leavin' now. See you tomorrow.
If you're saying "(17)______________!," you're not the first English learner to feel that way!
Grammar students learn that am, is, are and helping verbs (for example, will, have, would) are often (18)_______________ in both speaking and writing, as in I'm andI'll. But most students also find it helpful to know that in (19)_____________________ these verbs are usually contracted with nouns and question words, too.
In writing, you will see
Don't worry. Tom will be here soon.
In speaking, you will hear
Don't worry. Tom'll be here soon.
Listen for Tom will again:
Don't worry. Tom'll be here soon.
Here's another example of a (20)__________________:
My book is on the table.
My book's on the table.
And another example, this time with are:
In writing you will see
My books are on the table.
In speaking you will hear
My books're on the table.
My books're on the table.
The verb sounds are so quick that it's almost impossible to hear them unless you (21)_________________ them. Listen again:
My book's on the table.
My books're on the table.
Question words (such as where, when, why) are (22)_________________ in speech.
In writing, each word is separate. For example:
Where are the students? Where have they gone?
Where're the students? Where've they gone?
Where're the students? Where've they gone?
No wonder it's hard for learners to (22)_____________________! If you think English speakers talk really fast, you're right. They do!
D'you know Mrs. Lee?
D'you know Mrs. Lee?
Where'd she go? What'd she do?
Where'd she go? What'd she do?
D'ja eat yet?
No, d'joo?
In other words, spoken slowly:
Did you eat yet?
No, did you?
Did is a good example of a (23)________________. A function word gives grammar information. In the sentence Did you eat yet?, did tells us that the speaker is talking about the past and is asking a question. In contrast, eat is a (24)__________________. So are words such as Tom,yesterday, lunch. Content words have specific meanings. Function words are the ones that are the hardest to hear in speech. Content words are usually said more clearly and loudly.
Along with helping verbs, other common function words are and, to, the, and a. Let's look at and. And shows the (25)_________________ two nouns: Bob and Tom tells us there are two people.
Like most function words, and is usually reduced:
I had lunch with Bob ‘n Tom yesterday.
To is usually reduced to a slight t sound:
Let's ask Tom to come with us.
sounds like
Let's ask Tom t'come with us.
Let's ask Tom t'come with us.
In class yesterday, I asked the teacher a question.
In class yesterday, I asked the teacher a question.
I'm Betty Azar.
You can visit Betty Azar's website at
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contractedparticipial adj. shortened
dazedparticipial adj. confused and surprised
squeezev. push close together
leisurely adv. in a slow, relaxed way
in turn - idiomatic phrase. as a result
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/14624 | Light chicken hot dog
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Enjoy a lighter bite* with this quick 'n' easy recipe
Serves: Makes 10 light and tasty hot dogs
• 350g Pack HERTA® Chicken Frankfurters
• 10 Seeded buns
• 300g Mixed salad leave
• Light mayonnaise or tomato ketchup
Serve with...
• Bean salad
• Tomato salad
How to create the lighter hot dog
1. Cook your HERTA® Chicken Frankfurters following the pack instructions.
2. Split the rolls and gently stuff each one with a little lettuce, a hot frankfurter and a quick squeeze of mayonnaise (if you like).
3. Serve with fresh side salads.
4. Enjoy.
*Contains at least 30% less fat and saturated fat than a classic pork frankfurter hot dog with mayonnaise
Nutritional information
Light chicken hot dog Guideline Daily Amount (GDA)
Each serving typically contains:
1231kJ / 294kcal or 12%
4.2g or 5%
13.0g or 19%
3.1g or 16%
1.32g or 22%
of an adult's Reference Intake (RI)*
* Reference Intake of an average adult (8400kJ/2000kcal)
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Hello Everyone!
This week, as it's Halloween...we have some of our unique specials including Blood Sausage and
Headcheese! Both are made right here at Jacobs Meat Market! The Blood Sausage is one of our oldest recipes that we make, and it comes in Plain or Sweet (With Brown Sugar and Raisins). If you're not so daring, we also have our famous Fresh, Extra Lean Ground Chuck or Boneless Country-style Pork Ribs and Chicken Wings (for the Sunday-night game) and USDA Choice Natural Angus Sirloin Steaks as well. Our Brats of the Week this week are Chili Cheese and Buffalo-style HOT Chicken Brats.
"Don't worry, ma'am," replied the clerk. "With a good tail wind and that brand new broom you have there, you'll be home in no time."
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/14656 | Showing posts from February, 2009
Why I Run
Keep it Simple, Yo! Distance training, from 5k to 50k
Some ruminations on training: Kara Goucher just won the Millrose Mile, running a strong 4:35, only a second or two off of her lifetime PR on an 11-lap to the mile board track. She also happens to be in marathon training, pounding out 90-100 mile weeks so that she can be in her best marathon shape by the end of April. I’m no Kara Goucher (in more ways than one), but I had a very similar experience this winter, running 3:51 for a hilly trail 50k a couple weeks before running 16:18 for 5k on a windy and hilly course. At first glance, this might seem strange. How is it that Goucher can be very near her peak shape in the mile while also shooting to be at her peak shape in the marathon? How is it that being in good shape for 50k means also being in good shape for 5k? The answer is simple: proper training for shorter events like the mile and the 5k is almost exactly the same (I’ll talk about the minor differences, too) as proper training for longer events like the marathon and a trail 50k. |
global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/14660 | Sunday, September 27, 2015
When Conversation Becomes Dialogue
The Friday morning Meet-for-Coffee Group is for the major part composed of individuals cut from the same political patterns and preference from which you emerge. Such outliers as there are tend to be closer to the center than your leftward position, but still on the left side of it.
Political discussions at the Friday group and similar occasions are pretty much limited to more global events, arguments as such might be over which candidate in a primary election is the best choice to go against the opposition in the general election.
This climate evokes a rare irony. You are not alone in your belief that political arguments are not any more likely to change another person's political choices than, by rhetoric and indications of technical and logical flaws, you are able to change another individual's reading tastes.
There are times when a loaned book will cause a new taste to form or, conversely, warn you off subsequent titles from a recommended author whose work has failed to please you.
You remember between the act scenes in which you and your late wife were driving to some social event, perhaps even Friday morning coffee, in which Anne would remind you, "S and R are okay, but not P," the initials being marital code for sex and religion are alright to discuss, but not politics. Because it was usually she who did the warning, there was your constraint joy at the opportunity to remind her of one Libertarian friend with whom she was well advised to avoid discussions of politics.
The reason was always the same; discussion would turn into heated argument argument. It is one thing to have a heated argument with a mate or a close friend, those are transactions paid for with a different kind of currency than the arguments with someone you know in advance is not going to change you, nor will any logic or fact from you cause any significant change in the person with the opposing view.
Another personal truth here; such moments of warning in the car and such moments when tempers are lost are in fact the underlying principals of story, characters with agenda, believing his or her judgment and information is correct. Absent that significant confidence in being right, the participants believe as well that they could, with little effort, secure the information that would give them the confidence of being right.
The irony is that you are more likely to get into discussions leading to arguments with persons you are less close to, an irony that extends to the likelihood you will not enter this kind of discussion with a close friend. Under most circumstances, that would be irony enough, something you could bring up in conversation with, say, the Friday morning coffee group, with every expectation of the laughter of what critical theorists would call catharsis.
This is true, in your view, because irony is a tricky business. You may think you have exhausted a particular example of it, got your cathartic laughter from it, then moved on to the next round of discussion. In the Friday group, this means a momentary shift to the Marxist aspects of professional athletics, the irony of young men and women being exploited by league owners and the danger inherent of debilitating injury in many kinds of athleticism.
Then you get back to the irony you presumed was left for dead at the morgue, only to find out that the price of coffins or cremation has increased. This irony has to do with the widespread belief that all actions--living, reading, and certainly writing, among them--have a meaning, that this meaning can be understood, translated, and conveyed. The tail of this argument is that the conveyed meaning can be understood in meaningful terms.
If you are not careful, this will cause you to trip on yet another irony, one in which, by expressing these talking points, you will be seen to be pessimistic or cynical, which will cause you to respond with an assertion that you are not, a maneuver you frequently use in story to demonstrate irony. "What, cynical? What, pessimism? What you see before you is a positive man."
You will be sure to counted this line of dialogue with another, from the opposition. "What I see is a defensive man." At which point, the conversation is on its way to argument. "What, defensive? Just tell me one defensive thing."
"Well, for instance, you're raising your voice."
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/14663 | My old Google Analytics data is kinda blurry
Ooops… we did a website redesign and lost our law firm’s Google Analytics data, but does it really matter?
We often see counterproductive things happen when lawfirms and accountancy firms do website refreshes, some of which we’ve written about in “7 key things that go wrong with professional services firms’ website redesigns“.
One of the less common but still significant mistakes we see made by web developers is the creation of a completely new Google Analytics account to store information about visitors for the revamped website.
Superficially this might seem reasonable, after all if your website has completely changed what is the point of retaining your old website tracking information?
Not so fast.
If you’re like most lawyers’ or accountants’ firms you are seeking to differentiate yourself from other lawfirms and accountancy firms.
Used in the right way Google Analytics (GA) gives you great insights into pages (articles, bios, or practice group descriptions) where you’ve been successful in differentiating yourself from other firms (sometimes intentionally and sometimes by accident). You’ll see higher volumes of traffic to well differentiated pages and the keyphrases that are used to search for them in GA (60-70% of traffic comes from search to firms in our benchmarking).
Even if your old website was problematic (and the chances are you thought it was or you wouldn’t have redesigned it) there are likely to have been some strong elements and ideally you want to build on those strengths and redevelop the weak areas.
This means it can be helpful to look at what happened to your employment law pages in your analytics after you rewrote them as part of your revamp and compare that to the figures for the same practice area on the old website. If traffic levels dropped significantly to the employment law area, and bounce rates worsened you may want to rethink the contents of these specific pages.
You also may want to do this on a broader level for the whole site. If your search traffic, or traffic from other websites dropped by 25% after the revamp wouldn’t you want to know? And for most firms that implement naive website revamp strategies (such as failing to manage redirects properly which your pre-revamp GA data is also vital for) this is exactly what we see happen in the GA data.
Sure your developer, who has just built the new site (and may have an ongoing maintenance contract with you), may not want to highlight traffic drops, and so may think a brand new GA account is a great idea, but that doesn’t mean it’s the right thing to do.
Even if you want to go to the hassle of opening two different analytics accounts at the same time to compare data (and Google Analytics isn’t built in a way that easily facilitates this by the way) the data is going to be fundamentally different because of small differences across the two accounts over time – like special segments you’ve edited and also because of the nature of the metrics in some cases.
An example on the nature of metrics is New Users versus (existing) Users (see “What’s more important: pageviews, sessions or users?” for definitions of these terms).
Yep, everyone in the new GA account is going to be a New User …, so for example you can’t easily see how your existing clients who went to your site before you revamped are coping with your redesign.
Older Google Analytics accounts (that pre-date 2013) are also more valuable as a source of search phrases as Google greatly reduced the volume of search phrases it showed after that date. You won’t see that old keyphrase data in your new GA account.
Another subtle point relates to future-proofing. Google is a large company that spends a lot of money on R&D – you neither know what future analysis might be possible in looking at long term analytics data, nor do you even know what your own staff might want to do with it in future. So why would you want your data in two separate accounts?
Finally, we know from an SEO perspective that Google looks at a number of ‘authority signals’ in deciding how to rank web pages. Guess what authority signal they have good data on (because they provide it)? Yep, the age and history of your Google Analytics id. Still want to swap it for a new one?
Now it may be that we are missing something, but if your developer really wants to change your Google Analytics account isn’t it at least worth asking them why they want to do this?
If you get a good answer to this question (and by the way that’s not because you’ve lost access to GA as it’s possible to retrieve it from Google or even transfer GA accounts between organisations as of late 2016) please contact us, as we’d love to know what the reason is. |
global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/14671 | Vintage Cars
Vintage Cars
The Best Classic Cars For People Who Are Buying Vintage Cars
Vintage cars have always captured the imagination and the whimsy of a lot of car enthusiasts across the planet. So many of them actually drool when they get wind of a vintage car or even when they get a mention of it. They have a certain type of love for these kinds of cars that give them a feeling like they are a superhero for just buying and driving that vintage car. They get a happy feeling when they hear that there is a gallery showcasing vintage cars and may even sell a couple of them.
They spend so much of their hard-earned money on cars that can barely give a decent mileage and run properly. Even though there are so many amazing options that we can choose from, options that run amazingly and will make you really happy that you bought it, but instead they choose to buy vintage cars. Most of them buy them because they collect vintage cars; they don’t use them as their daily driver.
In this article, I have provided a list of some amazing vintage cars that you should check out before you make the purchase.
1. The BMW 2002 is a car from the 1960s and 1970s and is such a great choice. The price can range from $12,000 to $24,000 and was a very significant car in its time. It can easily be said that this car was one of the best cars that was responsible for the now, gigantic success of the company. In some cases you can find fresh models of this car which have never been driven, these pieces can easily sell at $30,000 and upwards. It all depends on how well it is preserved and the ones who are selling it.
2. The Ford Mustang from 1964 to 1973 deserves a spot on this list. You can find on from $9000 to $21,000. It is one of the most amazing cars that gives off a timeless vibe because it is indeed, timeless. This one is a first-generation classic that will earn you a lot of respect from other vintage car enthusiasts alike.
3. The Mercedes Benz SL line is an era-defining like of cars which are absolutely spectacular. In this list, I am talking about the one from 1971 to 1989. This car was the perfect marriage between technology and luxury driving. You would be lucky to own and drive this car.
4. The Volkswagen Karmman Ghia, which is also a convertible and like a beetle underneath the gorgeous exterior. You would be lucky if you found this car between $5000 and $15,000 because it is an absolute beast. |
global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/14680 | sábado, 21 de julho de 2012
A hand (and a closet) of my own are not enough: this is not about feminism, although it sounds like it is....
True love wins at the end: today was supposed to be my 2 music festivals day, but the vintage sale before that (and the extreme heat) made me change my mind.
Besides, music festivals are for free & buying vintage is not & i'm a shopaholic, right?
Please bear in mind that when you see those consumer confidence index data & it's doing better, it means that Irene went on a mission to single-handedly improve the state of the American economy....
Moving to back zipper & the female condition:
Back when I was growing up, I remember my mother saying that the only time we need men around is when there's a bottle of champaign waiting to be open. Funnily enough, my mother is as much of a feminist as I'm a space engineer (and neither did we drink champaign that often - however, there's no one like my mom to open any kind of bottle...)
I remembered this today when I locked myself in the bathroom of an Antique Mall with 14 pieces of clothes to try. 2 pieces were leather coats; of the remaining 12 pieces (dresses & suits) EVERY SINGLE ONE had a back zipper.
Before i got so much into vintage, there was my jewelry obsession (that never went away, obviously - i never get rid of things - i happily pile them on!) & i remember thinking pretty much the same thing - that you need an extra hand - when i was trying on bracelets. Often it was impossible to put it on without someone else helping you...I started thinking that as a single girl it was mission impossible. And then later on I even saw a special tool that helps you solve this problem (anything you want in America!!!) - surprisingly, i never got this tool....
So, back to dresses. I did manage to kinda zip most of them, but having a 'maid or a man' (mom's quote) - or a mother, for that matter - would facilitate matters a lot. I also started thinking that doing yoga might help me to be more efficient zipping myself.
I was only joking about back zipper as a tool of male domination....only to discover that this kind of discourse existed for real...
My mind is hardly ever angry or political, but always curious...So I would really like to read some volumes on the history of fashion & understand why these zippers couldn't be side zippers?!?
P.S. And these poor guys? They are careless & free. No back zippers, no pain, no interest on my side.
I like challenges & will stick with 2 piece suits even in bikini weather!
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/14683 | Boy Scout Camps - Georgia
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Raw file: Boy Scout Camps - Georgia.csv (746 bytes)
Includes 17 locations in the following areas:
• United States: GA
• some may be in: AL, NC, SC (near a border)
These are Boy Scouts of America (BSA) Camps in Georgia and not generally open to the public but only for official scout campouts and other functions. They include the following:
Bert Adams Scout Reservation
Camp Allatoona Aquatics Base
Camp Benjamin Hawkins
Camp Blue Heron
Camp Chase S Osborn
Camp Frank G Lumpkin
Camp James G Gallant
Camp Patten
Camp Pine Mountain
Camp Rainey Mountain
Camp Rotary
Camp Sidney Dew
Camp Talochee
Knox Scout Reservation
Thunder Scout Reservation
Woodruff Scout Reservation
Most were mapped with Google Earth cross referenced to other maps and personal knowledge as well as written directions provided by the camps and various other organizations, and in some cases, a call to the ranger or other BSA official for verification. Please email me with any corrections or if there were any that were missed. |
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/14711 | Controlling and Optimizing the Usage of One Resource
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Controlling and Optimizing the Usage of One Resource
This paper studies the problem of resource availability in the context of mobile code for embedded systems such as smart cards. It presents an architecture dedicated to controlling the usage of a single resource in a multi-process operating system. Its specificity lies in its ability to improve the task scheduling in order to spare resources. Our architecture comprises two parts. The first statically computes the resource needs using a dedicated lattice. The second guarantees at runtime that there will always be enough resources for every application to terminate, thanks to an efficient deadlock-avoidance algorithm. The example studied here is an implementation on a JVM (Java Virtual Machine) for smart cards, dealing with a realistic subset of the Java bytecode.
Antoine Galland, Mathieu Baudet
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Year 2003
Authors Antoine Galland, Mathieu Baudet
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/14760 | Thursday, 29 August 2019
Case 1 - Episode 108 – Sykes gets some answers
It was probably fitting that when Harry woke, the first person he saw was Sykes, and perhaps for other reasons, Felicity.
But clearly, Sykes was very unhappy.
“Why am I not surprised to see you here?” he barked in the gravelly tone he reserved for criminals, and now Harry.
What bothered Harry was that he had not untied him, just taken off the gag. Perhaps he was going to conduct an interrogation of his own. He was the only policeman in the room, so anything was possible.
“Wrong place, wrong time. I came to see Angela like I told you. When I arrived here, I found Al lying dead on the floor. Angela tied up, and Jennifer presiding over the crime scene with a gun in her hand. What brought you here?”
“Your friend, here, Felicity. Your only friend, it seems. And I didn’t get that phone call, and I can see why. All those arguments that you should leave the police work to the police fell on deaf ears, and I suspect, prevented the apprehension of the perpetrators. You might find yourself with a charge of accessory after the fact. It looks to me like Angela and Al were working together. Did you tie her up, and did she kill Joseph Jones?”
On the face of it, Sykes had every reason to charge him. He had the Jones women within his grasp, and they'd outsmarted him. No, that wasn't quite true, he had never been in a position to bring them to justice.
“You could let me out of these bindings. I had nothing to do with anything that happened here.”
It was worth a try, but he could see Sykes was not going to be in a charitable mood.
“That’s what you say now. I let you go; I could be letting a murderer go free. No, you can sit tight and tell me what happened here, and I’ll see if I can believe a word of it.”
He pulled out a free chair and sat beside him. From his perspective, it must seem off, a dead body on the floor and two potential suspects tied up, but, Harry thought, even the most basic of detectives should be able to tell that neither of them had tied themselves to the chairs.
But Harry knew he would have to convince him.
“I know I didn’t kill Al. I couldn’t say for sure if Angela did or didn’t, but from what I've seen and heard, I don't think she did either. Check the knots that are tying us to the chairs. It would be impossible for either of us to tie them so tightly ourselves.”
He glared at me, as if he was not interested in having his pet theory, that one or other of us was a murderer, disproven.
“Then, if what you tell me is true, what happened?”
“I came to ask Angela a few more questions, because, like you, I came to the conclusion Al was still alive, and when I arrived, Jennifer answered the door. I had no reason to suspect her of anything, so I came in. A minute later, after seeing Al on the floor with a bullet in his head, and Angela tied up, I realized she was pointing a gun at me.”
“Jennifer? Al’s wife?” No mistaking the incredulity in his tone or expression. Loke Harry before him, he hadn't suspected her of anything but a poor choice of husband.
“What was she doing here?”
“Apparently cleaning up the loose ends, and collecting a particular computer, the one Miriam used to steal the money. All the claims their husbands were having affairs was a smokescreen.”
“Then who killed Joe?”
“Edwina said Al did, and it’s very likely Al did with Angela’s help. Angela wanted Al to ‘teach Joe a lesson’ for what apparently was an ‘accidental’ death. There is supposedly video evidence somewhere that supports that theory, evidence Angela says exists.”
“Edwina too?" More surprise, and a look of disbelief. He might be prepared to consider one, but not the both Jones wives.
"Unfortunately, but true, they were in it together. I sure as hell didn't see it, nor suspect either of them."
He let that pass over his head for the moment, and continued, "So who killed Al?”
“I think it was Edwina, from outside the window behind us. You can see the holes several bullets made in the curtain. One was for Al, the other for her own daughter.”
His eyes went to the window, saw the evidence, and then looked back, now bordering on astonished.
“Why would she do such a thing? You're beginning to test the limits of my patience Harry. I never took you for being a storyteller.”
“I'm not, though this tale borders on the unbelievable in every sense. But, according to Edwina, Joseph and Miriam were embezzling funds. Al didn’t know anything about it, so he was trying to cosy up to Miriam to find out. Jennifer says Miriam committed suicide, but not before telling her the passwords to the accounts where the money was stashed, infer from that what you will. I suspect Jennifer and Edwina are now happily ensconced in a country where there’s no extradition, a lot richer for their troubles.”
A thoughtful moment of silence, the Sykes muttered, “OK, it's possible. And you say the pair of them also tied up Angela”
“It's probably why Edwina shot her. She has a roughly bandaged wound to her top left shoulder, which I suspect was to incapacitate her so either Edwina or Jennifer could tie her up. She will need an ambulance and hospital treatment, sooner rather than later.”
A glance in her direction showed the wound was still bleeding and the bloodstain was getting worse. She was still bound and gagged, and unconscious. It didn’t seem to concern Sykes who didn’t move from the chair. He simply looked at the window again, and then to Al, then back to Angela.
“That's also possible. Fortunate for you, Al’s body is still here, this time. But it also raises the question of who, or what, you saw the first time you reported him dead.”
Easily explained, now, Harry thought..
“Is Angela...?” Harry nodded his head in her direction.
“Alive. Yes. She’ll live, by the way. The injury isn’t very serious."
A knock on the door got Sykes out of his seat and walking towards the front door. Police reinforcements had arrived. A lot of police.
He cut Harry's bindings and he stretched out his aching limbs. It was hard to tell what he was thinking, but setting Harry free meant, at the very least, Sykes didn’t think he was guilty of any major crime.
"It looks like there’s not going to be a payday for you. If it’s any consolation, they fooled both of us. I’m going to need a statement from you regarding all of this, but, for now, you can go.”
“I’m sure, as you said, she’s involved in various crimes, but what they will be will depend on how good her lawyer is. I wouldn’t concern yourself with her problems, you have enough of your own. I suspect this result doesn’t affect who tried to kill you or trash your office, but even so, and for what it’s worth, I think you should walk away, take up some other profession, one that isn’t life-threatening in another part of the country.”
Harry said he would think about it.
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/14763 | Stop Being So Selfish
Selfishness, narcissism, whatever you call it we’ve got it. We as humans are naturally selfish which isn’t entirely a bad thing. For instance, if I don’t think about feeding myself, I’ll probably starve. If I don’t thinking about taking care of myself I wouldn’t do the things I need to stay healthy. If I’m “hangry” I know I need to eat. If I’m grumpy because I’m tired, I should take a nap. It's my job to take care of myself. If I feel disconnected from God then I need to get into scripture and start praying. We might title this type of selfishness “self-care” or “self-concern” and it’s a good thing.
The problem happens when we become so selfish we become self-centered. We start to think, act, and live as though the world revolved around us. An article titled, “I’m O.K., You’re Selfish," in The New York Times reported on a poll done in 1999 asking Americans about the attitudes of other Americans. 60% believed that “most people were overly self-involved” but only 17% admitted to personally being selfish. 60% said Americans were selfish but only 17% admitted it personally. This means that 43% of us are selfish and we don’t even know it!
It's easy to become isolated and trapped in selfishness. We find ourselves constantly asking, “But what about me?” It's these four words keep us locked up in a lonely and miserable place. These words keep us from being happy, from enjoying the success of others, and from doing things for other people whom we love. You're struggling with selfishness if...
• You can’t be happy for a coworker’s promotion or new job because you deserved it more. You say with your mouth, “Congratulations!” but in your heart you say, “But what about me!"
• You can’t be happy for a friend’s recent success because they don’t work as hard as you do. You might say, “I’m happy for you,” but in your heart you say, “But what about me!”
• You can’t be happy at home. Your wife asks you to help with the dishes or your husband comes home later than planned from work. Instead of sympathizing with the extra chores or the extra work load you say, “But what about me!” in your mind or even out loud in the privacy of your home.
• You might not even be able to be happy during your free time. You’re constantly doing things other people want to do. You do stuff for your friends, spouse, co-workers, or even your kids. You never get around to the stuff you want. You know that, because you’re keeping track as you write on the scorecard of your life, “But what about me!”
If you find yourself trapped in this prison know that you can walk out of the prison of selfishness anytime you want by putting other people first. The irony of this is that more often than not, when we put other people first we get what we want. When we make other people happy we find that we are happy! Maybe even happier! Don't believe me? Try being selfless for selfish reasons and see what happens.
Consider how this might work in a marriage. (Read the Eggerich's book Love & Respect to see how to put this into practice. It might be the best book on marriage you'll ever read.) You have a wife who wants her marriage to improve; she goes and buys a book on marriage. She’ll go home (husbands do this too) and read the book for her husband. She’ll highlight the parts he "needs to read" and hit him over the head with the book. The problem is that she wants him to change and her to remain changeless. She's being selfish. She tries to manipulate him, force her agenda, and they get in an even bigger fight! What if instead she had identified her own shortcomings and worked to be a better wife?It might take time but her husband would notice and he would warm up to her.
If you're suspicious try being selfless for selfish reasons. You'll find it gets you farther down the road than selfishness, but it won't take you to a place of total freedom. You won't be free because you'll still be keeping score in your head. If you're keeping score then you'll lose, because you're still trapped in that prison of selfishness. The only way out completely is through Jesus Christ.
Micah prophesies about what this will be like at the end of time when Christ’s rule and reign is complete, when He has eradicated the sickness of selfishness.
When Christ returns the weapons of war, the weapons of fighting for our own way, will no longer be needed. We will be content with what we have and sit satisfied in God’s provision. In short, we won’t need to be selfish because we’ll be satisfied with Christ. This type of change that eradicates wars, that eradicates violence, can only come through a radical transformation in our hearts and minds. The type of transformation only Jesus can do when he enters a person's life and takes up residence. We might not experience total peace before heaven, but when we walk away from selfishness we get a preview of it.
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/14770 | Vidalista 5 Online Tablet | Dosage, Side Effects, Price
What is vidalista 5mg?
vidalista 5 mg online medication used to cure sexual disorders in men like Erectile Dysfunction(ED) and some other issues like Hypertension, Benign Prostatic Hypertrophy. Vidalista 5 mg is in tablet form and is yellow in pigment. The key active ingredient in Vidalista is Tadalafil. It helps in relaxing the muscles present inside the pulmonary blood vessels increasing the blood flow. The medicine is only recommended for men and strictly prohibited for women. Vidalista 5 is a allotment of a category of drugs known as PDE5 inhibitors. PDE5 inhibits the degradative action of cGMP in the penis thus relaxing the pulmonary blood vessels allowing increased blood flow resulting in an erection. However, It does not prevent sexually transmitted diseases or pregnancy.
Vidalista 5mg how to take :
Always transport Vidalista 5mg exactly as your doctor has instructed you. You should check with your physician or pharmacist if you are unsure. The recommended starting dose is one 10 mg tablet before sexual energies. If the effect of this dose is too weak your doctor may increase the dose to 5mg. In most cases, if you would take this medication daily, then your doctor might ordain a lower dose of 2.5 to 5mg a day. vidalista 5mg tablet are for oral use. Swallow the tablet whole with some water. You may take Vidalista 5mg with or Except food. You may take a Vidalista 5mg tablet at any point in time from 30 minutes to 10 hours before sexual energies. Vidalista 5mg may still be effective up to 24 hours after taking the pill. It is important to note that Vidalista 5mg does not work if there is no sexual compunction. You and your partner will need to engage in foreplay, just as you would if you were not graceful a medicine for erectile dysfunction.
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Missed Dose:
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Some medicines can cause unwanted or breakneck effects when used with tadalafil. Tell your doctor about all your existing medicines, especially riociguat (Adempas).
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/14785 | Recipe: Yummy Onion Bhaji’s
Delicious, fresh and tasty.
Onion Bhaji’s.
Onion Bhaji’s You fix steeping escallop Onion Bhaji’s proving 9 instructions as a consequence 5 as a consequence. Here you are do a bang-up job.
receipt of Onion Bhaji’s
1. Prepare 4 grams of frozen ginger.
2. It's 100 grams of mehe.
3. You need 4 of Onions thinly sliced.
4. You need of 2 tablespoons ground cumin.
5. You need 2 tablespoons of garlic paste.
6. It's 2 tablespoons of lemon juice.
7. You need 15 tablespoons of gram flour.
8. Prepare of Half a cup of sliced coriander.
9. It's of 100 ml water.
Onion Bhaji’s technique
1. Mix all ingredients together in a bowl and gradually add the water..
2. If the mixture is too dry then you should add some water.
3. Heat a pan of oil to 200 degrees.
4. Some people prefer flat Onion Bhaji but I think round is better! So create round balls (not perfect and not too big) then drop into the oil until golden brown!.
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/14792 | Among the soft skills workshops I had the chance to attend during my PhD, there is one (more) which particularly inspired me: developing efficient teamwork competences.
For me, the workshop highlight was practicing group brainstorming. Of course I had heard about brainstorming many times, but was never properly introduced to the technique. For the workshop sake, we’ve been asked to brainstorm about “potential use of a paper clip.” Well, believe me or not, it was just impressive the quantity of ideas we generated just on this. Someone even suggested using it as a torturing tool!! I’m definitely not saying that we only had good ideas, especially this one ugh, but wow, I was surely not expecting that, so much creativity! And isn’t creativity something we need a lot in academia? Like to resolve technical issues or to come up with cool never-researched-before projects?
Back to my biology lab and with a kind push from the workshop teacher, I organized a brainstorming session with my colleagues. Given that the year before we had even forgotten to have a lab excursion, I suggested brainstorming about what to do for this year’s annual lab excursion. Not only experiencing the brainstorming power together was so much fun, we came up with so many cool ideas that the lab can pick from this list for like the next 10 years! So, what did we end up doing for lab excursion that year? Tree-climbing, hiking and BBQ by the lake. And the year after? River rafting :D
OK now, how to organize an effective brainstorming session?
Before all, one needs to understand that we should never ask “Who has a good idea?” because this will only block everyone’s creativity and makes everyone scared of saying something stupid. For effective brainstorming, the key is to go first for quantity, collecting as many ideas as possible, and only later evaluating.
This is a nice principle but doesn’t tell you what to do concretely. Indeed, brainstormings can easily become annoying and useless if for example people with strong personalities start a competition for generating ideas no matter how dumb.
Here the detailed technique as I was recommended and as described in many online articles like here and here:
1. Preparation:
• Tell people in advance and let them know the subject so that they’re prepared. One issue at a time = one specific subject to brainstorm on. Also tell them how long the meeting will be.
• It will need a facilitator to watch out for the time, to collect ideas and to make sure everyone participates.
• If possible, make it cozy, maybe informal depending on the subject, you could be standing, having a beer or some snacks, cakes, you name it.
• Prepare everything for people to write down their ideas and for the facilitator to collect and display them (paper, sticky notes, whiteboard, pens, color, etc.)
2 . Now for the brainstorming itself:
• The facilitator should quickly explain how the brainstorming is going to be run and should remind everyone that we’ll first collect ideas without judging, asking everyone to stay open-minded.
• Then ask everyone to write down their ideas on paper individually by giving them 2–3 minutes (time it, but stay flexible if you see that people need a bit more time).
• The facilitator then asks every person to tell its ideas, collecting and displaying these ideas on a board or something. Remember not to judge.
• Hearing everyone’s else ideas will trigger more ideas. Therefore, it needs a second time for individual brainstorming where people can write down their new ideas, let’s say again 2 minutes.
• Again collect all these ideas.
• You’re done! \o/
Indeed, sometime just this collecting phase can already take a full hour, especially if you’re many people in the group. Feel free to stop there and schedule another meeting for the evaluation. However, if you need your group to take a decision before the meeting ends, I’ll suggest having a 5–10 minutes break to refresh before engaging in the evaluation process. Just try to notice when a meeting is getting too long and people are getting annoyed.
After our lab excursion success, I organized a second brainstorming with my lab. Still in an informal setting (i.e. beers involved 🍻), but on a more serious subject: how to improve the team spirit in our lab and the institute. That day again not only we generated many ideas, it was such a tension-releasing discussion and it already increased our team spirit!
Reflecting back on all this, it strikes me how different I perceive “normal” lab meetings versus a meeting which implements the principles of effective brainstorming. During brainstorming sessions like these, I could feel people’s interest and energy, actively participating and taking part in the group. In normal lab meetings, I observe how some people hog the conversation while others never speak, probably coming from different personalities (extrovert vs. introvert), from fear of judgment, or simply from unwillingness to be here.
Once during my PhD, while visiting a university in the US, I attended a shared lab meeting from two labs. After half an hour, the guy who was presenting his project was still on the title slide… Why? Because the two lab heads just started interrupting, criticizing and already doubting the interest of the guy’s project just based on the title!! In the end it was mainly the two lab heads arguing while the guy presenting looked so embarrassed and failed to defend himself. I would have been just the same…
Why couldn’t we try to implement some of the brainstorming underlying principles into common lab meetings? Like to be open-minded, to foster creativity, to check that everyone engages in the discussion, to have a facilitator (doesn’t have to be the PI, people could even take turns), to have a time limit and not letting it slide in long painful hours, to remember that we are here to help the speaker in his/her project and not to brain block him/her, to have empathy, to distinguish between being critical versus being judgmental.
In conclusion, I think that brainstorming is not only an effective technique to collect ideas on a specific subject, it’s a powerful team-building tool and it can teach us a lot about meetings even in academia.
Thanks for reading and, please, dream with me about improving our experiences in academia, leave a comment below and sign up to my newsletter :) And if you’re looking for more ways to improve team skills in your lab, have a look at my project management resource for PhD students and supervisors!
If you’re a PhD student in Switzerland, make sure to check out the CUSO transversal program which organizes so many inspiring soft skills workshops like this one!
Further readings about lab meetings:
Regrouping the Group Meeting, on the Chronicle of Higher Education
By Jeffrey C. Grossman, a lab head who was looking for ways to improve his lab meetings:
“That ‘building upon’ aspect to the new meetings is extremely important. In academe, we tend to take a ‘criticize first, ask questions later’ approach. After all, our earliest training teaches that critical inquiry is a foundational part of the scientific method.”
What to do at lab meetings?, on the DynamicEcology website
By Meghan Duffy, a lab head who has many great ideas of what to do in lab meetings other than having people presenting their project:
“Here are some of the things we do at lab meetings:
1. Discuss new(ish) papers
2. Practice talk
5. Presentation of new data:
6. Miscellaneous topics:
• Elevator pitch:
• Non-academic careers: |
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Patients with a personality disorder are common in medical practice; yet, establishing and maintaining a therapeutic alliance with such patients can be challenging for clinicians. Complications associated with patients with comorbid personality disorders are myriad, including suboptimal utilization of medical care (over-and under-use), difficulty adhering to treatment plans, providing a history embedded with distortions, and problematic relationships with clinicians. In addition, these patients are more likely to be hospitalized. An understanding of personality disorders allows physicians to anticipate the challenging interpersonal and behavioral problems that can arise in working with these patients and can help physicians work through the negative emotions that these patients may arouse. This facilitates the development and implementation of appropriate treatment plans, improved alliance between patient and clinician, and better outcomes.
The American Psychiatric Association (APA) defines a personality disorder as: an enduring pattern of inner experience and behavior that deviates markedly from the expectations of the individual’s culture, is pervasive and inflexible, has an onset in adolescence or early adulthood, is stable over time, and leads to distress or impairment. People suffering from personality disorders have dysfunctional beliefs about self and others. These dysfunctional beliefs and patterns of relating impair their capacity to establish and maintain intimate relationships, function at work, and experience pleasure in life. These patients have difficulty negotiating complex situations and coping with stress and anxiety. The sick role and the demands of medical care can be particularly problematic for them. The stress of illness is often extreme and sets into motion defensive and inflexible emotional processes, cognitions, and behaviors—with negative consequences for their medical treatment. In addition, these patients’ difficulties in relating to others typically manifest in the doctor–patient relationship. They may be quite demanding or disrespectful of the needs of others, or the need to trust or confide in others may trigger so much anxiety that they avoid building relationships.
Personality theorists have long debated how best to understand and classify personality disorders. The debate has centered on two models. The categorical model, adopted by the APA, views personality disorders as entities that are distinct from one another—that is, classified in separate categories—and also distinct from normalcy. This model blends more easily with traditional medical diagnosis than does the dimensional model, which views personality disorders as entities that overlap each other and that are not distinct from normalcy, so that the maladaptive traits of patients with personality disorders represent normal traits that are exaggerated. The APA’s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual 5 (DSM-5), uses a categorical model but discusses the use of a dimensional framework in a new provisional section.
DSM-5 groups personality disorders into three clusters based on descriptive similarities. Cluster A includes paranoid, schizoid, and schizotypal personality disorders—individuals who often appear odd or eccentric; cluster B includes antisocial, borderline, histrionic, and narcissistic personality disorders—individuals who often appear dramatic, emotional, or ...
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/14798 | FSG Book of 20th Century Latin American Poetry Reviewed
The work of an anthologist is violent, like that of a translator, dismembering a whole cultural context and transporting limbs of it to a new environment. And like translation, the result can always be termed as loss—a loss of wholeness (i. e. context), a loss of embodiment in time and place (i. e. culture). The pieces become relics, deadened in a museum of pages instead of alive in their usefulness. The act of collecting them, framing them and presenting them, invariably changes the way we read them. But anthologies like this one are desperately necessary. And, as Stavans points out at the end of his introduction, “poetry refurbishes itself through translation because translation is power.” Poetry survives translation and collection precisely because it contains its own power, and that power is transformable and transmutable. It is not universal in the romantic sense, but becomes powerful by being located “neither here nor there.” Or, perhaps, both here and there. The poetry translated and collected here, pinned up for us to examine like preserved butterflies, gives us a glimpse of a world richer and more complex than can be presented in a single volume, even one that runs to more than 700 pages.
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/14818 | Reader Questions #1 | Be Careful What You Ask For
My ask is open (anon or not) over on tumblr and I receive quite a few reader questions. Here are some answers gathered together.
What scene from your book would you like to see come to life?
Great question. Thanks anonymous!
If you are waiting for me to launch into some raunchy rundown of how I’d like to screw such and such (totally fictional) actor from Screw Up, today is not that day. The scene I would most like to see come to life is the remote controlled, self-building, pool awning. Remember the one that extends over SC’s pool at the push of his little finger? I am fair skinned and extremely susceptible to sunburn. I also hate the feeling of sticky sunscreen all over my skin so this invention is tailor made just for shade loving swimmers like me.
tumblr user hsm7 asks: What were your influences in choosing the genre for your book?
Thanks for your question, hsm7.
Though I love reading every type of fiction, romance and sci-fi/fantasy have always been my particular favorites. My only criticism is often that they don’t have enough sex in them for me! True story. So I practice what I preach and no matter what I’m writing, let my characters go at it as often as they like. Everything I’ve written before deciding to publish this series has been paranormal/space opera in nature, but when a friend and I were brainstorming ideas for novels this one came tumbling out and stuck. A series of realistic, erotic fiction without aliens, AI robots, vampires, or ghosts. No one was more surprised then me. As far as specific influences in erotica goes I’d say Laurell K. Hamilton, Anne Rice, Sylvia Day, and a large number of fanfic writers from a few different fandoms. Chat with me on tumblr about them.
How did you like Magic Mike 2? Did it give you any inspo for your next novel?
Thanks for your oddly specific current media question, anonymous. Spoiler-ish content ahead.
I loved MM2XXL, actually. Was it the strongest plotted movie I’ve ever seen? No. But it had charm, heart, fun, and most of all it was entertaining! I was never bored, that’s for sure. The wonderful, nuanced, considered treatment of all women throughout is alone reason enough to spend money seeing it. The next time Mr. Tatum decides to make a film about skilled, sensitive, sexy male dancers (and singers, hello Matt Bomer and Donald Glover) I’d be more than happy to help out with story structure, character consults, abdominal oiling, really whatever he needs. Pro bono. As far as inspiration goes, a writer could do worse than Big Dick Richie and friends. Who knows, maybe a moment or two in the Tinseltown Temptress Book 3 were influenced by some of their signature dances. At the very least, I know that Channing and Twitch’s mirror dance at the end is burned in my brain, so that scene might be partially responsible for some of the steamier passages. Nice to be able to spread around the blame, anyway!
If you have any questions drop them into my ask box on your preferred social media type. I’ll do my best to get them all answered eventually. Thanks for reading.
Perfect Payment For Pie
Main character artist rendering by Alla Podolsky
Cassie as rendered by cover artist Alla Podolsky
An M rated short Cassie fic originally posted as #TwitterFiction
“No pie tonight, Gretchen. Thanks though.” Cassie fished out $4, stomach still growling, mouth watering for some dutch apple.
“You sure, hon?” The waitress saw plenty of hungry people throughout her day, but they didn’t usually leave that way.
“Yeah. I’m broke.” Cassie shook her purse ruefully. “No money for pie if I want to have enough for the bus tomorrow.
Gretchen strode over to the case and grabbed a slice for her favorite customer anyway. “On the house. Just don’t tell Pete.”
“You don’t have to do that, Gretch.” Cassie tried refusing the pity pie but her eyes had already eaten half the slice on its way over.
Gretchen wasn’t fooled. “Eat it. You can pay me with another story.”
“How ‘bout I owe you? Tell you one next time.”
“You say that every time. I want a story now.”
“Okay. But only because the pie smells like heaven.” Cassie popped the first bite in her mouth and ran through a short list of stories the woman would find acceptable payment for such delicious baked goods.
“And none of those sci-fi thingies you’re trying to get published. I don’t understand any of that shit. I want to hear more about real life rock star sex.”
“You want me to pay for pie with a titillating tale from my perverse past, huh?” Thinking of the language she’d have to use to describe even her tamest encounter, Cassie looked around with trepidation only to realize that there was no one else in the place to offend. “You got it.”
“Hold on to your panties a sec, I gotta grab my drink for this.” Gretchen snatched a half-empty to-go cup from under the counter and sank into the booth across from Cassie in direct violation of the policy requiring all personnel to remain standing while clocked in. “All set.”
“So summer of ‘94 I was heavy into the grunge scene.”
“How well I remember from your last story about TS, the guitarist from Wounded Hand and his inquisitive tongue.”
“You do like my stories,” Cassie smiled with genuine affection, please as punch that Gretch had remembered real details.
“Shut up and get on with it before some stupid customers come in. ‘94. Grunge. Go.”
“Well, some friends and I were backstage at a pretty big stadium show. Mercy’s Groaning Bug was the opener on the Midwest leg, and we’d been tagging along with them on the tour the previous couple of weeks. We girls just couldn’t believe our luck when HF himself stumbled by looking lost.”
“Yes. HF, lead singer of Leather is Mary, walking around by himself backstage, trolling for grunged up rockers to hang with.”
“No way. You did not meet HF.”
“Meet him? I played him. But I’m getting ahead of myself. Do you want to hear the details or not?”
“Tell me.”
“So I slid a condom into my bra, slipped my lithe, young, little arm under his and led him back to the dressing rooms to find the guys from Bug and introduce them.”
“Noooo. Boooooo.”
“Not really.” Cassie gobbled up another bite of the pie before continuing. “We were in Ohio somewhere. The guys had gone out to an arcade they liked. I took him back to an empty dressing room and made him an offer he couldn’t refuse.”
“Oh my God, HF was so hot.”
“Even hotter in person.”
“I had that poster of him. You know the one with the open flannel and the top of his jeans undone. Jeez, that poster got me through some shit.”
“So I pushed him into a deserted dressing room, strewn with gross, sweaty stage wear and discarded instruments and locked the door.”
“Hold on a sec.” Gretchen leapt out of the booth and grabbed herself a hunk of dutch apple. Grabbing a whipped cream can from a sliding door fridge behind the counter she sprayed the stuff liberally on both their slices before allowing Cassie to continue.
“He started to protest when he realized what was going on, but I could tell he was just putting up token resistance for the sake of deniability.”
“What do you mean?” Gretchen asked her. “Nobody was even there.”
“I find that a lot of men aren’t as adventurous about instigating sexual relations as a lot of people make out. They’re chicken shits who want to be able to back out of it by saying it was all her idea. She was all over me.”
“Been there.”
“Well, this was just a weak ass variation on that same old tune. He waves me back at first all, (I’m not looking to start anything with you, girl). So I pumped the brakes. I was barely eighteen at the time and he was mid-twenties and had been famous for years already. I might have been cocky and brave but I wasn’t so jaded by the scene that this man didn’t intimidate the shit out of me.”
“I would have peed my pants. Then died. Or the reverse. God.”
“Well, I felt like a moron for thinking I stood a chance with him.”
“But you’re so gorgeous. I’ve seen the way people react to you. Nobody ever looks at me like that. You knew he wanted you, huh?”
“You don’t give yourself enough credit, Gretch. If you ever wore anything besides that ugly ass uniform you’d catch your share of attention. Whatever good that’s ever done anybody.”
“So how did you nail him?”
“Straight back to HF then. The minute I backed off he warmed up to me. Asking me stupid questions (‘what’s your favorite color luv? you aren’t a pisces right?’) then leans in to tuck some of my corkscrew halo hair behind one of my ears. It is a textbook advance and in that moment I knew I had him.”
Gretchen drained the last of her drink with a loud slurping noise that echoed through the silent diner. She hopped up and filled her cup from the soda machine automatically filling Cassie water from a small pitcher before sliding back into the booth.
Cassie continued, “I walked toward him slowly, peeling my top (and bra, I was young and perkier then) up over my head in one smooth motion. I’m sure my smile lit up the semi-dark space because he stopped rambling and did some stripping of his own. Gretch honey, I’ve never seen a flannel hit the floor so fast in my life. He was very pale and his lightly muscled stomach and chest made my breath catch in my throat. I swear my mind flashed to that same image from that album cover of his that so many girls like you and me hung on our bedroom walls as harmless posters/masturbation material. He was even more magnetic in person. I closed the distance between us and kissed him slowly, like I was trying to sample his lower lip. He wasn’t having it. He tore through my slow, sweet kiss like a man on fire. His hands slid over my heated skin, gripping me tight and crushing me to his body while his mouth attempted to devour me. His tongue played over mine without any hesitation then he sucked on the tip of my tongue while yanking up my skirt and groping my ass. I felt like I wanted to consume him.”
Gretchen sat there, jaw dropped, waiting for the rest.
“As soon as he got his pants down I pushed him back into a pretty-clean, wide and low set, cushioned chair. He grunted and looked a little surprised that I was getting rough. I ignored his assumptions, got rid of my panties, slid a rubber over his five inch cock and hopped on.”
“Holy Lord.” Gretchen was panting.
“I rode him hard, the whole time kissing him like mad, trying to get him to suck my tongue like that again. He just laid back and squeezed my boobs to the quick rhythm my hips were setting. I slowed my gyrations and leaned back, reaching around my own ass to stroke his balls as I slid up and down on his dick. He sat up and sucked at my nipples pretty enthusiastically.”
“You’re sure you want more?”
“Fuck off.”
“I eased my weight forward again and pushed him back against the cushions. His hands shot into my hair and pulled me down for more tongue kisses all the while bucking under me like screwing me was his only purpose. I used my leg muscles to rocket myself up and down on him like a woman possessed. He yelled out, ‘fuckityfuckityfuck’ and buried himself deep into me, gripping my hips from behind with one arm to keep my body firmly down on his cock. His other hand snuck between us and his middle finger found my clit crushing it against my pubic bone. I cried out at the forcefulness of it and ground myself in circles against his body. He kept up the pressure and stroked me furiously in an intense effort to make me come while our bodies were still pressed closely together. I peaked quickly under his fingers’ all out assault on my labial area, screaming out his name with my orgasm like a good little groupie.”
“And then?”
“I stood up off of him and got back into my clothes before he even sat up all the way. He was still reclining wearing only an abused prophylactic when I slipped out the door and ran for a bathroom. I don’t think I even said goodbye.”
Gretchen stared at Cassie, breathless for some time before getting up and wordlessly bringing her another slice of pie. |
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Freeza: You...you...what are you?
Goku: You haven't figured it out yet? I'm a proud Saiyan who calls Earth home, and I'm here to defeat you. I am the warrior you've heard of in legend, pure of heart and awakened by fury. That's what I am. I AM THE SUPER SAIYAN, SON GOKU!
A type of Villain Ball, and subtrope of Laser-Guided Karma.
Here's the deal: you're the Evil Overlord. You're in charge and like it. But something's been nagging you. You're worried that one day you might lose your position by force. Furthermore, it looks like there's good reason, 'cause there's a prophecy involving someone from "Insert Name Here-istan" who's going to take you out.
Screw that! You're the villain! You're keeping your position and no brat is going to take that from you. If it means killing every last Insert-Name-Here-istanian and putting their heads on a pike, so be it!
16-30 years later, you find yourself at the mercy of the last son of "Insert Name Here-istan", and he's kinda pissed that you skewered his family. Sometimes, you are in this situation because you committed this genocide since you set in motion a series of events where that infant is taken to a place where he is not only kept safe, but the natives there help him become a powerful warrior ready to take you on. Furthermore, if you are stupid enough to continue your villainy with grand schemes of bloody conquest, that hero will likely be spearheading an overwhelming army of friends determined to bring you to justice.
This trope is when the bad guys (or the supposed good guys) commit a massive atrocity to achieve some goal, only to not completely succeed, and the resulting incompleteness comes back to bite them in the ass.
It often involves a prophecy, and this is the villains' attempt to "Screw Destiny". For all the good it does them.
This typically means murdering hundreds of people to kill a single child, who will inevitably escape -- see Nice Job Breaking It, Herod. Sometimes, the evil overlord might live out his life successfully, but his descendants pay the price.
There are two main variants:
1. The first is that a prophecy says that someone from the time/place will overthrow them.
2. The second is that the victimized people pose a threat and this is a means to deal with said threat.
A third, less common type involves the overlord's minions, being not that evil, decide that this is a Moral Event Horizon they will not cross and their boss is too evil to work for.
Expect the survivor to benefit from What Measure Is a Non Unique, using his heritage and tragedy to fuel the coming Roaring Rampage of Revenge (or the even more tragic Cycle of Revenge). Sister Trope to Nice Job Breaking It, Herod, with which it can overlap when the motivation behind the Genocide is finding and killing particular individuals.
It is sometimes called the "Dandelion of Doom" or "Dandelion effect," per the expression: "If you kick a dandelion, you spread its seeds." Just as this is an ineffective way to remove weeds from a lawn, it is an ineffective measure to remove potential threats to one's rule.
Please, let's not involve Real Life in this.
Examples of Genocide Backfire include:
Anime and Manga
• A truly infamous example was in Code Geass, when Lelouch accidentally ordered Euphemia to massacre the Japanese at the Special Zone with his Geass. Although this wasn't the intention of Lelouch, when he was forced to kill Euphemia to stop the massacre, he decided to take advantage of the situation as a way to avenge her, as his role in curbing the massacre galvanized the Japanese enough to revolt against Britannia. Despite the fact that the Britannian forces under Schneizel managed to defeat the Black Knights and the revolting Japanese, thanks to circumstances beyond Lelouch's control, it is undeniable that Lelouch, as Zero, is a symbol of resistance against Britannia, forcing the Britannians to take extreme measures to ensure that Zero no longer returns to threaten their power.
• Frieza exterminated the Saiyan race in an attempt to prevent any from potentially becoming the legendary Super Saiyan. He missed four. Two of them, Radditz and Nappa, worked for Frieza alongside Vegeta, the prince of the Saiyans, but Goku, the fourth, would eventually take Frieza down by becoming the very thing Frieza feared. What's more, after getting turned into a cyborg and coming to Earth to take revenge, both he and his father King Cold are taken down for good by Future Trunks, who turns out to be the son of Vegeta, the other major Saiyan to survive.
• DBZ, the manga (Goku was last) and anime (Broly was last) canons, qualifies through Goku. Goku was only there due to a plot by Vegeta to overthrow Frieza due to this trope.
• Vegeta even Lampshades this shortly before Frieza transforms into his second form.
Vegeta: So, you tried to eliminate the Saiyans, yet you left the strongest one alive! Smooth move!
• In Hunter X Hunter, this seems to be creeping up on the Phantom Troupe, who murdered the entire Kurta clan, maimed their corpses by removing their pretty eyes to sell them, and treat it as no big deal, which further angers the last surviving Kurta, Kurapica. Kurapica has already killed two of their members, and is quite intent on finishing what he started.
• On top of that, if it weren't for some timely intervention from their leader, Kurapica would've killed 6--half of the entire group by the time he killed the second. That's how big of an enemy they've made.
• Bafflingly Averted Trope twice in Naruto. Evil Overlords Orochimaru and Pain cement their statuses as village leaders by rolling in and completely demolishing the leaders, family, and government of their respective countries--implied in Orochimaru's case, outright stated in Pain's. This works out very well for them, mostly because they actually succeeded in subverting Infant Immortality. Both do end up meeting their ends, but for reasons unrelated to their murderous ascension to power.
• It helps that Salamander Hanzo was a complete monster himself, so the Rain Country sees Pain as a hero, and they know nothing of the Akatsuki or the abduction of Jinchuriki and fatal extraction of their Biju that Pain is partaking in, or of what he plans to use them for. As for Orochimaru, as stated above, there isn't much information about the Rice Pattie land's politics, and he probably started the Sound Village.
• Also deliberately invoked by Itachi with the Uchiha Massacre. He leaves Sasuke alive because he wants to die by his hand. It still falls through, though; by this time, Sasuke has abandoned the Leaf Village, and afterward, he decides to actively destroy it.
• The Ishvalan Genocide from Fullmetal Alchemist is an interesting case. The purpose of the extermination was not to prevent a prophecy from being fulfilled or to dispose of a threatening ethnic group per se, but to simply kill as many people as possible - their aim was to kill every Ishvalan, but as you would expect, there were some survivors. Now, one of those survivors was Scar, whose brother was killed in the extermination and who was determined to revenge his death to the State Alchemists... that is, in the beginning. Later, he does a Heel Face Turn and starts helping the Elric brothers. In the end, he plays a crucial role in causing the Big Bad's Evil Plan to fail and kills Bradley, the man who ordered the genocide - which he would not have done, if the genocide had not existed in the first place.
• And in the first anime, the purpose was to make the Istvalans desperate enough to attempt to create a Philosopher's Stone -- something Scar ends up doing by using an entire army unit of Amestris as the resources for one. Meanwhile, Bradley is killed by one of the soldiers who was a part of the Genocide and was instilled with an immense hatred of the current system by the atrocities committed there -- Roy Mustang.
• In Yu-Gi-Oh! Millenium World Arc, the Millenium Items were a result of an alchemical ritual that involved sacrificing an entire village through genocide. Unfortunately for the priests of the pharaoh and the civilians 3000 years later, they forgot to kill the young Bakura.
• In Bleach, there was a disagreement among the Soul Reapers and the Quincies about how to handle wayward and malevolent spirits called Hollows, which ended in the Soul Reapers killing off every Quincy they could find. Fast forward to the present, and the revenge-filled Quincies who survived the massacre have formed the Vandenreich. Suffice to say that they've turned the series from total heroic Plot Armor into Anyone Can Die, extinguishing established characters left and right.
Comic Books
• In the comic version of Wanted, the Big Bad Mister Rictus deliberately invokes this trope, though on a much smaller scale. After murdering an entire family, he leaves a single child alive, banking on the chance that he will grow up to try and take revenge on him. Yes, Mister Rictus really is that bored and crazy.
• The Sonic the Hedgehog series had this for its Endgame storyline: Dr. Robotnik uses the Ultimate Annihilator to erase Knothole from existance in front of Sonic. A combination of Snively's backstabbing, a mini nuke and Sonic's own two fists ensures that Knothole is restored and Robotnik's done away with permanently.
• An interesting variant in one Sandman story, it's implied that Despair organises the destruction of Krypton, but decides to leave a single Kryptonian alive, assuming that he will spend his entire life mourning his lost world in despair. That Kryptonian grew up to be Earth's greatest hero, and a symbol of hope to billions of people, so Nice Job Fixing It, Villain.
• A variant with a twist in Lexx; the Divine Shadow orders the destruction of the Brunnen-G homeworld in order to thwart a prediction that the last of their race would destroy him. He actually completely succeeds in wiping out the entire planetary population, but decides, with his victory accomplished, to mock the prophecy by turning several of the corpses into an undead immortal killing machines under his control. Centuries later, the last of said corpses ends up regaining his memories, killing him, and bringing down the entire Divine Order.
• In The Chronicles of Riddick, the Lord Marshall of the Necromongers tries to wipe out the Furyan race, due to a prophecy that a Furyan would kill him. He misses (at least) two of them; the titular Riddick is one of them.
• In The Dark Crystal, there's a prophecy that a Gelfling will undo the damage to the Dark Crystal, ending the reign of the Skeksis, so of course they go off on a Gelfling killing spree. One of the Skeksis himself, (pretending to be friendly) says "Prophecy! Prophecy caused all this trouble!"
• In Tron: Legacy, Clu kills off all the ISOs, emergent programs that Kevin sees as a miracle but Clu sees as "imperfect". By the end of the movie, Clu wants to exit the Grid in the worst way, but he gets re-merged with Kevin while Quorra, the last ISO, rescued by Kevin, escapes the grid to the real world with Kevin's son Sam. Not quite a genocide backfire since Quorra didn't land the fatal blow, but Quorra got to leave the Grid while Clu did not.
• Star Wars, of course. They didn't kill Anakin and Padmé's children.[1] Nor did they kill Obi-Wan. Or Yoda, for that matter.[2] They didn't even kill Leia when they killed all the other Alderaanians. This did not work out well for Palpatine.
• It's not genocide, but the Jedi invoke a version of this trope themselves. For thousands of years, Jedi were trained from infancy in order to avoid the complications and risks (for force users) of emotional relationships and personal attachments. Then along comes the potential prophesied child and they decide that, this one time, because of the circumstances and the Dying Wish of Qui-Gon Jinn, they'll take in this little emotionally battered former-slave child (abruptly taking him from his mother who he is never allowed to see again). That one came back to bite them in the ass. HARD.
• A heroic example of this also exists that does involve genocide: The backstory for the Prequel Trilogy mentions the Sith dying out a millennia prior, with it being very heavily implied that the Jedi played a big role in their near extinction. Turns out at least two survived long enough to start the Rule of Two, and the Sith announce their existence via Darth Maul, and it goes to hell for the Jedi shortly afterward, including with Maul's master who just so happens to be the current head of the Republic pulling Order 66.
• This seems to be a cycle in the expanded universe: Jedi vs Sith war ensues, the Jedi win, the Sith are exterminated. The few Sith survivors hide and refound the Order in secret, then they attack the Jedi again, win and the Jedi are exterminated. The few surviving Jedi hide and refound the order in secret and counter attack the Sith. Lather, rinse, repeat. Apparently nobody noticed yet that, whenever Jedi or Sith are almost wiped out, they return much stronger.
• Occurs in Kung Fu Panda 2, overlapping with Nice Job Breaking It, Herod; Lord Shen is told a prophecy that he will be defeated by a 'warrior of black and white', and decides that the correct way to respond to this is to commit panda genocide. Played with later on when Shen first meets Po, and is a little surprised to find that said panda had no idea what he had done.
• Slightly subverted at the end, which shows a hidden panda village in the North with Po's father among the survivors.
• In The Scorpion King, the titular protagonist was one of the few survivors of Memnon's genocide of the Akkadian people. Shortly after the beginning of the film, he ends up being the sole remaining member of his people. Turns out, he is the one who was prophesized to take Memnon down.
• It's never explicitly stated that the Akkadians were wiped out by Memnon's forces. Given the fact that they were mercenaries, it wouldn't make much sense for him to get rid of such warriors, when all he had to do was pay them.
• In The Graveyard Book this is the reason why the Jacks of All Trades killed Bod's family.
• Arguably happens in Dune, where The Baron Harkonnen kills his rival, Duke Atreides, and attempts to do the same with his only son, thus wiping out the Atreides family line and ending the millennia old Atreides/Harkonnen blood feud. At first he thinks he's successful, but they never find the boy's body...
• In R.A. Salvatore's Forgotten Realms novel Homeland, one Dark Elf house in Menzoberranzan is punished for failing to kill off all of a rival house's noble family by the Deadly Decadent Court, which sentences the attacking house to be exterminated properly. This is built into their "law"; total extermination is fine, just don't leave any witnesses. Of course, only surviving nobles count as witnesses, not ordinary underlings. Wouldn't want to actually discourage competition, now. And it would be a waste of people to kill everyone.
• In the novel Talon of the Silver Hawk, the eponymous character is almost the Last of His Kind, and ends up working (under the name Talwin Hawkins) for the guy who ordered it in a long-term plot to bring him down.
• Played with in Jack Vance's The Demon Princes. The hero wouldn't have had any reason to devote his life to tracking down and killing the titular villains if they had chosen a different space colony to raid on that day.
• Also different in that it was the other survivor, his grandfather, who groomed him to be an instrument of justice. The hero may have just gone off to life peacefully somewhere else if given the chance early on.
• In the first book of Laurie J. Marks' Elemental Logic series, a whole tribe is killed off because of a prophecy that indicates Bad Things for the invading army if a single member of the tribe survives. Of course, one (and only one) tribe member escapes...
• In C.S. Friedman's Coldfire Trilogy, the immortal and extremely narcissistic Magnificent Bastard character of the series left one of his children alive when he slaughtered his family to make a pact with a demon. Over the next thousand years he would occasionally go back and murder all of his descendants, again except one. He was vain enough that he had to leave alive the one descendant who looked the most like him. Of course, this bit him in the ass when the survivor of the last generation played a key role in the Patriarch's scheme to destroy him.
• Not quite. His descendants were free to live without being troubled, provided they never ever laid claim to his title as the Neocount of Merentha. If any of the male descendants did so, then The Hunter would again lay waste to his entire family, save one.
• In Jacqueline Carey's The Sundering, the Anti-Villain Satoris wipes out a desert tribe that sent a child to destroy him. Unusual in that the child had already been dispatched by that point; however, he had nothing in particular against Satoris until his village was destroyed, and it's strongly implied that he could have been talked out of his quest if that atrocity hadn't been committed.
• It's implied that Garoth Ursuul of The Night Angel Trilogy commits genocide often enough that he actually has a list of rules, among them is "You will always miss one." This is never shown to actually come back to haunt any Ursuuls in the book, however.
• Happens lots of times in David Weber's Empire From the Ashes, as the omnicidal Achuultani, themselves a last remnant from a campaign of genocide by a hostile power in their own galaxy, have nearly wiped out humanity several times. We now have planetoid dreadnoughts whose star drives can cause supernovae when used too close to a star, and each has combat capability equivalent to hundreds of thousands of Achuultani ships. Oh yes, and we know where they live.
• Implied at the end of Out of the Dark, again by David Weber. The Shongairi announced themselves to Earth with a series of Colony Drops on Earth capitals, and when controlling Earth proved to be impossible tried to exterminate mankind with a biological weapon. They failed, and at the end Humans knows how to replicate Shongairi technology and where they live.
• A small-scale version of this is the core plot of Mercedes Lackey's first Vows & Honor short story Sword-Sworn. A large force of bandits, with the aid of a wizard to strike down the sentries, ambushed the Shin'a'in clan Tale'sedrin on the way back from a horse fair and killed every one of them... save the skinny teenager they did not bother making sure of after strangling and gang-raping her.
Live Action TV
• On Doctor Who, the Doctor has attempted genocide on the Daleks at least four times. It never takes.
• He did deliberately avoid committing genocide in Genesis of the Daleks, giving as his reason that while the Daleks are indeed evil, omnicidal Space Nazis, a lot of good has come out of people banding together to fight them. That decision sure came back to bite him in the ass.
• After the Doctor supposedly wiped out the Daleks and Time Lords when the Time Lords were prepared to destroy time itself, one more Time Lord managed to escape the War some time before. Not only is he his (other) arch-enemy, but the rest of the Time Lords use him to escape.
• Played with in Chikyuu Sentai Fiveman where the Big Bad was defeated by the flower of the first planet he wiped out (he forgot the memo to destroy it completely).
• Near the series finale of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, the Cardassians have at that point lost all standing with the Dominion and are not much more than unwilling vassals. This leads elements of the the civilian population to subvert the Dominion war effort through acts of sabotage. As a result of one particular incident which nearly cost them a battle, the Female Changeling orders a major Cardassian city to be wiped out by orbital bombardment as an example, and announces that the Dominion will destroy one city for every act of sabotage committed. After hearing this, however, the entire Cardassian fleet does an abrupt Heel Face Turn in favor of The Federation instead, as well as getting many Cardassian soldiers on-planet to defect. This in turn prompts the Dominion to to start slaughtering the Cardassians en masse, but since her subordinate proceeds to send out most of their troops stationed at the base to do so, this leaves their installation critically under-guarded when Damar and his crew attack Dominion Headquarters.
• Star Trek: Voyager had a variant: The Krenim were going around exterminating entire races from the timestream to make it as though their empire never fell. Unfortunately, this was a hit or miss endeavour. Sometimes, it resulted in their empire at near full strength, others it set them back centuries. But the first backfire that happened was that one of the races that helped destroy their empire in the first place also introduced some disease treatment that without which caused the death of the project lead's wife, and none of the altered timestreams had a cure. Since then, the project lead was desperately searching for a way to fix things for his own ambitions.
• In Stargate: Continuum, Baal is Genre Savvy enough to know that trying to exterminate the Tau'ri will only cause eternal resentment among the survivors who will try and take revenge. Instead, he tries to woo humanity to his side peacefully with the intention of turning them into the next generation of Jaffa. Unfortunately for him, his wife didn't quite see it that way, and decided to do a bombardment of the planet after murdering him.
• In a first season episode where Daniel lands in an alternate grimmer dimension where the Goa'uld have invaded Earth, an cold-hearted O'Neill sends a nuke to the Jaffa homeworld upon learning the location from Daniel who wanted. This bites him in the ass when he pleas Teal'c to think of his son, who has been killed by the attack.
• Tried by Darken Rahl in Legend of the Seeker. He got wind of a prophecy that the True Seeker would be born in a certain town, so he had his troops, led by his most trusted lieutenant, to kill all the first born sons in the town. Sure enough, Richard was spirited away, and when Rahl finds out 20 years later, he executes the lieutenant.
• A very longterm example occurs in the Babylon 5 universe. The Hyach once shared their planet with another sentient species, the Hyach-do. The two races coexisted peacefully for thousands of years, and even intermarried, until the Hyach exterminated the Hyach-do in a frenzy of religious fervor. Centuries later, it was discovered that the declining birth rate of the Hyach is because interbreeding with the Hyach-do was necessary to sustain the Hyach genome. Thus, in wiping out the Hyach-do, the Hyach have doomed themselves to extinction as well.
• In Lexx His Divine Shadow was very thorough in wiping out the Brunnen-G, but he made the mistake of reanimating the last one.
Mythology and Folklore
• King Arthur learned that he would be destroyed by a child born in a certain month, he had all the babies from that month gathered together, put on a ship and sent to die. The ship crashes and kills every one of them... except for one: Mordred. This is one of the newer versions of the much-revised legend, however. Earlier versions of the story have Mordred as his nephew, there is no such genocide, and Lancelot is nonexistent.
• In one more recent version, a Genre Savvy King Arthur knows how a Genocide Backfire works and instead conscripts all the boys of that age group and makes them squires. All of them but one love him. The one? Mordred.
• The Kalevala has this: Untamo kills his brother Kalervo and his clan over petty neighborhood squabbles, leaving only a pregnant woman alive. The woman in time gives birth to Kullervo, who later kills Untamo - and wipes out his clan, for good measure.
Tabletop Games
• In Rokugan, the setting of Legend of the Five Rings, the Scorpion Clan serve as the Emperor's Underhand. They protect the Empire from hidden or subversive threats, the sort that can't be met with force of arms. Rokugan's CIA, basically. Sounds good, right? Well, the leader of the Scorpion Clan, Bayushi Shoju, discovers some hidden prophecies that foretell the return of the dark god Fu Leng ... at the hands of the last of the imperial Hantei line. So, Shoju does what any well-meaning defender of his homeland would do. He unseals the Bloodsword "Ambition" and uses it to kill the Emperor and his family, while his army seizes the Imperial City in what would later be known as the Scorpion Clan Coup. Of course, the Emperor's weak, borderline-retarded son manages to survive, and when the Coup is inevitably foiled he is installed on the throne with Shoju's widow as his wife, where she proceeds to poison and corrupt him for years until he's so weak that bad things start to happen.
• Of course, with the rise of Daigotsu, he might have had the prophecy completely wrong anyway.
• In the Battletech universe, during the Clan invasion, Clan Smoke Jaguar War Ships power up their weapons and glass a Draconis Combine colony world in an attempt to break the back of the stubborn Combine resistance. Not only did this serve to alienate their allies, drive the Combine to even greater heights of stubborn defense, but, when a defector revealed the Exodus road, the closely guarded secret route to the Clan homeworlds, the battle cry (and mission) of the armada of the Restored Star League Defense Force was "Clan Smoke Jaguar Must Die!"
• Magic: The Gathering features Garruk, who was forced to join the army as a child. His father hid him instead, and he came back and killed the lord.
• Inverted in Warhammer 40,000 of all places. When the Imperium first encountered the Tau, they were a race of non-technological primitives living on one world. They were scheduled for routine genocide (it's that kind of universe), but the paperwork got lost somewhere. A thousand years or so later, and the Tau are the fastest-growing alien empire on the Eastern Fringe, and a major thorn in the Imperium's side. Keep in mind the Tau never realized the Imperium even existed, much less had them slated for death.
• Excellent example in The Trojan War Will Not Take Place : Hector claims that the nation he fought was the most barbaric one, so there will no longer be wars because Trojans killed every child. Except one, because Trojans are not Complete Monster. Andromache answers that this child will have uncountable descendance, so in some centuries the world will be at total war.
Video Games
• In Bastion, the Caelondian government had the Calamity created in order to completely eradicate the Ura to prevent them from ever having to go to war again. When he finds out, the Ura scientist that created the Calamity sabotages it so that it destroys the world instead.
• In Final Fantasy IV, the king of Baron (Actually Cagnazzo, archfiend of Water, in disguise) tries to wipe out the Summoners. He does a pretty good job, but he misses one, the young summoner Rydia. However, it isn't played completely straight in that the backfire mainly came from the main character defecting to eventually take him down rather than Rydia herself.
• In Final Fantasy IX, the summoners of Madain Sari are also wiped out by the Big Bad long before the game... except for Eiko and Garnet, whose mother whisked her away to Alexandria.
• In Final Fantasy VI, Kefka poisons the populace of Doma, and one of the only survivors ends up being a player character who potentially takes him down. Kefka differs from most examples of this trope as he did it basically for the hell of it rather than some overarching goal of self-preservation.
• The Old Republic, introduces a heroic version as part of the backstory; A large part of the Sith Empire's motivation is revenge after the Republic exterminated the rest of their society.
• And in Knights of the Old Republic, One of the only people who escape the bombardment of Taris is the exact person Malak intended it to kill.
• The Player Character in Jade Empire is the last surviving Spirit Monk, an order who were slaughtered so that the Emperor could steal the power of their goddess, the Water Dragon, to defy the Heavens and end a severe drought. Subverted in that you only survive as part of the mother of all Xanatos Roulettes, in which Master Li manipulates you into killing the Emperor for him so that Li can steal both the throne and the Water Dragon's power. And in one ending, it works.
• A bit of a stretch, but in Nethack, it is possible to get scrolls of genocide. So it is possible to use it to, say, wipe out all dwarves in the dungeon. Which kinda bites you in the ass if you happen to be a dwarf. With a little imagination and WMG you could play both the dastardly villain who wipes out the victim population, and the hero who valiantly gives his life to put an end to the monster who destroyed his people.
• Not to mention what happens when you read a cursed scroll of genocide: Instead of wiping out the desired species, it summons a number of them instead. Genocide backfire indeed.
• In Guild Wars: Prophecies, the White Mantle ritually identifies the Chosen and then sacrifices them to their gods; discovering this is what drives the Player Character to turn on the Mantle. Then the Player Character is revealed to also be Chosen...
• The Lombaxes and Cragamites in Ratchet and Clank Future: Tools of Destruction. The Lombaxes sealed the Always Chaotic Evil Cragamites in Another Dimension, save for one Cragamite child they took pity on. This lone Cragamite, Emperor Percival Tachyon, then raised an army and wiped out the Lombaxes for daring to pity him. But he missed Ratchet, who proceeds to trap him in Another Dimension with the rest of his mad race.
• Played with in the Metroid series. Metroid 2: Return of Samus has Samus tasked with exterminating the Metroids on their home planet of SR388; the game ends with Samus sparing a single hatchling, which has imprinted on her. Super Metroid starts off with scientists studying the larval Metroid making the discovery that the Metroids have abilities that could be used for the good of galactic civilization, right before the Space Pirates massacre the researchers and abduct the larva so they can build another Metroid army; the next time Samus encounters the larva, it's grown to horrendous proportions and almost kills Samus before it recognizes her. Then, during the final battle, it performs a truly heartbreaking Heroic Sacrifice, saving Samus from Mother Brain's onslaught and giving her the unstoppable Hyper Beam weapon. (Then Metroid Fusion reveals that the Metroids on SR388 were keeping an even more dangerous threat in check, which is another trope entirely...)
• Samus herself is portrayed as the sole survivor of a Space Pirate attack on the mining colony of K-2L. Who would have thought that cute, 3-year-old girl would come back to bite them in the ass so hard.
• Bonus points regarding her feud with their leader Ridley, who was the one personally responsible for that attack, and her ultimately ending his reign of terror by the time of Super Metroid (though, sadly, not his legacy). In Ridley's case, though, similar to Kefka Palazzo above, he didn't do the raid out of any overarching attempt at self-preservation so much as he just truly enjoyed slaughtering anyone he could find.
• Iosa the Invincible of Iji had her homeworld Alpha Struck by the Tasen. She didn't take that very well.
• For that matter, Iji is one of two known human survivors of the Tasen Alpha Strike and subsequent invasion of Earth, and the other is playing Mission Control for her.
• The Covenant failed to commit genocide on mankind in Halo. It started in 2525 when the High Prophets found out that the Humans were the inheritors to the Forerunners, the species that the Covenant worshiped as gods, and they realized that the truth about it would splinter the Covenant if it ever was spread. They decided to wipe out Humanity so that no one would find the truth. 30 years later, all the High Prophets were killed, the Elites became the Humans' best friends, High Charity fell to the Flood only to be destroyed by Master Chief, the Covenant lost billions of soldiers in the battles of Reach, Earth, the Halo and the Ark and the Covenant is now nothing but a shadow of its former self.
• The big backfire was when they tried to genocide the Elites after they found out the truth about the rings. The Elites thus joined forces with the humans.
• The new Forerunner Saga novels reveal that the Forerunners and the ancient human interstellar empire fought a devastating war, with the Forerunners winning and literally blasting humanity back to the Stone Age. Unfortunately for them, the humans had plenty of research and experience with the Flood, which was destroyed when Earth fell. Then the Forerunners themselves get wiped out by the Flood.
• In Mass Effect, The Quarians try to do this to the Geth to defy AI Is a Crapshoot. To quote John Doe, it didn't work.
• The third variant occurs in the Age of Empires III: The Warchiefs. Chayton Black has some moral reservations about killing women and children just to help the gold rush along, so he defects to the Sioux he was ordered to kill. This ends badly for Billy Holme.
• A fairly straightforward case in Bayonetta: the Big Bad Father Balder, the last Lumen Sage, began the Witch Hunts against the Umbra Witches (in which the titular heroine is a member of) more or less For the Evulz. Naturally, Bayonetta stops this plot.
• In the Forgotten Sands variant for the PSP - there are four different games on different consoles under that title - an ifrit hears of a prophecy stating that a lonely hero with royal blood will kill him, so he starts assassinating people who are part of Persia's royal family. The Prince of Persia, upset over the deaths of his cousins, then tracks down and kills the ifrit. Self-Fulfilling Prophecy.
• Metal Gear Solid 2 Sons of Liberty does a subverted variation: The Patriots had Dead Cell liquidated (IE, most of its members killed off) for terrorist attacks it apparently committed. In actuality, the Dead Cell unit was actually framed for the Terrorist activities by the Patriots (in other words, it was actually the Patriots who did terrorist attacks on its own country), and more importantly, they deliberately allowed some survivors to exist in Dead Cell specifically to get them angered enough to attempt to challenge them and more importantly further use them in the S3 plan.
• In Dragon Quest II, Hargon kills everyone in Moonbrook, but turns the princess into a dog rather than kill her.
• In Dragon Quest IV, the Hero's village is destroyed, but he's hidden away at the time.
• In Supreme Commander a paranoid Earth Empire commander waged war with the Seraphim and their human followers, but they were easily defeated by their numbers and weapons, in their last ditch effort take them out they unleashed a bio weapon that only targets the Seraphim slowly killing them all. But what they killed was only a very small portion of the Seraphim race who live on the other side of the quantum realm, in Forged Alliance they cross into human realm and conduct their own genocide on the humans.
• A variant occurs in God of War II. While Kratos is off on his quest to find the Sisters of Fate, Zeus decides to wipe out his beloved Sparta. One soldier (whom you met in the beginning of the game) survives the attempt and tries to seek out the Sisters himself. You end up fighting and killing the poor guy, but not before he tells you what happened to Sparta. This only serves to make Kratos even more pissed and hellbent on taking revenge on Zeus.
• In the first Homeworld game, this is how the Taiidan Empire meets its end. After the main race perfect hyperspace technology, the Emperor (who is indisputably insane) decides to invoke a long forgotten, thousands-of-years-old treaty that the race had forgotten, which was that they were not allowed to develop any hyperspace technology. This results in the near-genocide of said race, and in addition to causing the survivors to get royally pissed off and begin a war against them, also results in a massive rebellion popping up due to public outrage of an essentially unprovoked attack on a fledgling race that had just started interstellar travel. By the end of the game, the main race is assaulting the Taiidan homeworld with the aid of the rebels, and destroys the defense fleet as well as the Emperor's flagship, then goes down and destroys the cloning facilities that housed replacements, destroying the Empire entirely except for a few remnants with little power.
• In Dragon Age: Origins, during the Human Noble origin, Arl Howe attempts to wipe out the entire Cousland linewhen the main army leaves Castle Highever to fight the darkspawn. However, thanks to the Grey Warden Duncan, the player survives, becomes a Warden, gains armies of support and powerful allies, and eventually returns to Howe's manor to express your disapproval of his ambitions by rearranging his face.
• Double Subverted in Mega Man ZX and its sequel, Mega Man ZX Advent. In a similar manner to the S3 Plan, Serpent (and ultimately Albert) were heavily implied to have deliberately spared only a handful of people during Maverick Raids in order to get them to become Mega Men and thus participate in the Game of Destiny to become the Mega Man King. However, by the end of the game, regardless of the deliberate attempt to spare them or not, it still put an end to their plans and presumably the Game of Destiny.
• Genocide attempts has happened quite often in the history of the World of Warcraft, though only a few have backfired.
Web Comics
• In Start of Darkness, crusading paladins go and wipe out multiple villages of goblins while seeking the high priest, whose God has a plan that threatens the very fabric of creation itself. In the process, they killed every man, woman and child they could find, but missed two -- Redcloak and his brother. In the current story arc, Azure City has been conquered by Redcloak and his armies, and is running the human population into the ground.
• And in comic 842, boy does Darth V's Familicide coming back to bite him/her in the ass. The Draketooth family were all part dragon.
• Linda, brainwashed by the government, actually the Britjas under a false flag, all from It's Walky!, killed all the so-called "Martians" in The Seventies. "So-called" because Mars was just an outpost of an intergalactic empire. Of Cthulhu Mythos-like creatures who'd been leaving around all that sufficiently advanced Imported Alien Phlebotinum that drove half the comic's plots. This goes about as well as you'd expect.
• Sometime during the Dominion War in Terinu's past, the human rebels attempted to destroy the Varn Dominion's main power source. Said source consisting of childlike sentient beings known as the Ferin. The Terran Federation trying to both finish the job and keeping the secret from their allied races is a major plot point.
• A few centuries into the back story of Errant Story, the Elves discovered that some Half-Elves may go crazy and spontaneously develop inexplicable talent in destructive magic. The Elves forbade cross-breeding with Humans and organized a branch of the military to hunt down Half-Elves. They haven't been exterminated-- there are at least enough Half-Elves to populate a hidden village-- and no prophecy is involved, but one Half-Elf has absorbed a comatose Elven deity and is leading an army of the descendants of the Elves' Human bodyguards to wipe out the last surviving Elven city.
Western Animation
• In Avatar: The Last Airbender, Firelord Sozin knew that after he left Roku to die, the Avatar would reincarnate amongst the Air Nomads. So, the Fire Nation managed to kill off the Air Nomads... except for the one kid they were aiming for. What's particularly sad is that Sozin basically jumps over the Moral Event Horizon for no reason, the kid would have probably been trapped in the ice for the hundred years anyways. Aang ends up stopping the Fire Nation later (though they did screw up the world and their own cultural morality pretty badly in those 100 years he was gone).
• Another complicated invocation of the trope is the Fire Nation tradition of hunting and killing dragons to prove one's mettle as a Fire-bender (again started by Firelord Sozin) which apparently pushed the species into extinction in less than 100 years, with Sozin's grandson, Iroh, acclaimed for killing the last pair. When Zuko, Sozin's great-grandson and Iroh's nephew, needs to find the original method of Fire-bending, before it became corrupted by relying on anger, guess who the original Fire-Benders who might have been able to help him were? He ends up finding the last pair, whom Iroh had lied about killing to protect, and is judged worthy of the knowledge he seeks.
• Subverted in Drawn Together, where the last survivor of genocide meekly submits to the killer.
• The Bible provides some examples:
• In Egypt, Pharaoh commanded that all male Hebrew babies must be put to death. The lone escapee, Moses, got the Hebrews free and inflicted massive damage to the Egyptians.
• And before that Pharaoh attempted to secretly have every male baby Hebrew killed at birth by a group of Hebrew Midwives... who decided they were having no part of it. (Lying to Pharaoh that the babies were born before they arrived to midwife the mothers)
• Jesus Christ, there's...Jesus Christ. Herod could not kill all the Jewish boys who had been born under the star of Bethlehem because Jesus was in Egypt. And John the Baptist was in hiding in the wilderness with his mother. However, neither Jesus nor John ever actually did anything to Herod; he just died of old age a couple of years later, while they were still small children. Though his grandson, Herod, got killed by an angel for persecuting the early church a couple of decades later.
1. Though in all fairness, Anakin, or rather, Vader was implied to have intended to spare his children, especially when he became Vader specifically to save his wife from Death by Childbirth.
2. Not for a lack of trying, though, since Yoda saw the attack coming and was more than prepared, ironically thanks to sensing the deaths caused by Order 66. |
global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/14839 | Another Resource in Troubled Times – the Third Hour Office
Today I’m posting another AIC Resource which can be helpful to the faithful in these stressful times. I find the words of the Third Hour office, especially the Third Prayer, comforting and reassuring. I hope you will, too.
These offices were developed from prayer books and liturgies of the Church from both the Western and Eastern Church traditions. The language has been adjusted to make it consistent with Anglican usage. The sources are shown after each segment. When used by more than one person, bold type indicates the responses or words said by presenter and participants. The offices do not require the presence of an ordained person and can be said by anyone, anywhere, anytime that privacy is available.
You can find the text of offices for First Hour, Third Hour, Sixth Hour, Ninth Hour and Compline in the AIC Bookstore Publication, Hear Us, O Lord: Daily Prayers for the Laity. The book also includes catena, or selected prayers, based on the Psalms and a selection of “Awesome Prayers” from the early Church. Like all our books, it is available using the Virtual Bookstore link at the bottom of the Home page.
Third Hour (9:00 AM)
The Invocation
In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit, one true God, to whom be glory and upon us mercy and compassion for ever and ever. Amen.
The First Prayer
FROM the night season our soul awaketh unto thee, O our God, for thy precepts are a light upon the earth; teach us perfect righteousness and holiness in thy fear; for we glorify thee, our God, who existeth in verity; incline thine ear and hear us; bless thy people and sanctify thine inheritance; Grant peace to thy world; for blessed and glorified is thine all honourable and majestic Name. Amen. [Syrian Antiochian Orthodox prayer, 5th or 6th Century]
A General Confession
Let us pray
I confess to God the Father Almighty, to His only-begotten Son Jesus Christ our Lord, and to God the Holy Ghost, and before the whole company of heaven, that I have sinned exceedingly, in thought, word, and deed, through my fault, through my own fault, through my own most grievous fault. Wherefore I beseech God the Father Almighty, His only-begotten Son Jesus Christ our Lord, and God the Holy Ghost, to pity me, and to have mercy upon me. The Almighty and merciful God grant to us pardon, absolution, and remission of all our sins. Amen.
The Lord’s Prayer [Luke 11:2-4]
The First Chapter [Jeremiah 17:14]
The First Antiphon
Lord, be merciful unto me; (Psalm 41:4a)
Heal my soul, for I have sinned against thee. (Psalm 41:4b)
Thou hast been my succour (Psalm 27:11a)
Leave me not, neither forsake me, O God of my salvation. (Psalm 27:11b)
The Second Prayer
O LORD our God, who has chased the slumber from our eyes, and once more assembled us to lift up our hands unto thee and to praise thy just judgments, accept our prayers and supplications, and give us faith and love. Bless our coming in and our going out, our thoughts, words, and works, and let us begin this day with the praise of the unspeakable sweetness of thy mercy. Amen. [Early Byzantine Orthodox prayer]
The Second Antiphon [Syrian Antiochian Orthodox prayer]
Great is the day of Sunday
And blessed is he who keeps it in faith;
Because on it our Lord rose from the grave;
And the nations confessed the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit.
Great is the Lord and greatly to be praised.
Halleluia, Halleluia, Halleluia.
The Third Prayer
CREATOR of the morning, who drove out the darkness and brings light and joy to thy creation; create in us habits of virtue and drive from us all darkness of sin; give us light and joy by the glorious rays of thy grace, O Lord our God, for ever and ever. Amen [Syrian Jacobite Prayer, 5th Century or earlier]
The Second Chapter [Jeremiah 23:5]
Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, that I will raise unto David a righteous branch, and a King shall reign and prosper, And shall execute judgment and justice in the earth.
The Third Antiphon
Stir up thy strength, (Psalm 80:2b)
And come and help us. (Psalm 80:2b)
Turn us again, O Lord God of Hosts; (Psalm 80:19a)
Show the light of thy countenance, and we shall be whole. (Psalm 80:19b)
The Fourth Prayer
O LORD our God, whose power is unspeakable, Whose glory is beyond imagining, Whose mercy is measureless; Whose love for men is above words; look down upon us and thy holy house, O Master, and bestow upon all here present the riches of thy goodness and mercy; for to thee belong all glory, honour, and worship. In the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, now and ever, and unto ages of ages. Amen. [Armenian and Russian Orthodox prayer, Liturgies of St. John Chrysostom and St. Basil the Great, 6th Century or earlier]
The Psalm Readings
Psalm 5:1-3, 7-8, 12-13
PONDER my words, O Lord, * consider my meditation.
3. My voice shalt thou hear betimes, O Lord; * early in the morning I will direct my prayer unto thee, and will look up.
8. Lead me, O Lord, in thy righteousness, because of mine enemies; * make thy way plain before my face.
13. For thou, Lord, wilt give thy blessing unto the righteous, * and with thy favourable kindness wilt thou defend him as with a shield.
Psalm 54
2. Hear my prayer, O God, * and hearken unto the words of my mouth.
4. Behold, God is my helper; * the Lord is with them that uphold my soul.
5. He shall reward evil unto mine enemies: * destroy thou them in thy truth.
6. An offering of a free heart will I give thee, and praise thy Name, O Lord; * because it is so comfortable.
The Third Chapter [1 John 4:16]
The Fourth Antiphon
Incline my heart, O God, unto thy testimonies, (Psalm 119:36a)
And not to covetousness; (Psalm 119:36b)
O turn away mine eyes, lest they behold vanity, (Psalm 119:37a)
And quicken thou me in thy way. (Psalm 119:37b)
The Fifth Prayer
WE give thee hearty thanks, O heavenly Father, for the rest of the last night, and for the gift of a new day, with its opportunities for pleasing thee. Grant that we may pass its hours in the perfect freedom of thy service, that at evening we may again give thanks unto thee. Amen. [Eastern Orthodox daybreak office, 5th or 6th Century]
The Fifth Antiphon
O thou, O God, save thy servants (Psalm 86:2)
Let my cry come unto thee. (Psalm 102:1)
The Sixth Prayer
GRANT us, O Lord God, the knowledge of thy divine words and fill us with the understanding of thy holy Gospel and the riches of thy divine gifts and the indwelling of thy Holy Spirit; and give us joy to keep thy commandments and accomplish them and fulfill thy will; and to be accounted worthy of the blessings and the mercies that are from thee, now and ever and unto ages of ages. Amen. [Syrian Jacobite prayer, 5th Century]
The Grace [2 Corinthians 13:14]
The Benediction
May the Lord Almighty and merciful, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost, vouchsafe to bless us and keep us. Amen.
Here endeth Third Hour. Go in peace and serve the Lord.
Thanks be to God.
An Ascension Day Office – Livestreaming at 12 Noon, May 21st
Ascension 2020
Ascension Day is a neglected Holy Day in the modern Church. Since it always occurs on the Thursday following the Fifth Day after Easter (Rogation Sunday), it is rarely read in a formal service. I celebrated it every year in my former parish and I thought that, given the continued lockdown in many parts of the country and the world, A.D. 2020 would be a good time to revive the office. The text was prepared based upon services in the Anglican, Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox traditions, combined with the Collect, For the Epistle and Gospel, Lord’s Prayer, Gloria in excelsis and Closing Blessing from the Holy Communion liturgy in the 1928 Book of Common Prayer, plus two canticles based on Scripture. The complete text, including the appropriate Hymnal page for the Venerable Bede’s Ascension Day hymn, A Hymn of Glory Let Us Sing, is available in the AIC Bookstore Publication, Occasional Services for Anglican Worship, which also includes service for other neglected or rarely celebrated days or seasons. It is available by order from commercial bookstores and through the Virtual Bookstore link at the bottom of the Home page of this site.
An Ascension Day Office
May 21st, A.D. 2020
Please respond or say with the Minister all the words in Bold
The people always say the Amen.
[Adapted from Tenth Conference of St. John Cassian, 5th C.]
O God, make speed to save us.
O Lord, make haste to help us.
Thy throne has been established from of old;
Thou art from everlasting. Alleluia.
Prayer of Thanksgiving
BLESSED art thou, O Lord of heaven and earth, to thee be honour, glory and praise for ever. From the darkness of death thou hast raised thy Christ from the dead to the right hand of thy majesty on high. The pioneer of our faith, his passion accomplished, has opened for us the way to heaven and sends upon us thy promised Spirit. May we be ready to follow the Way and so be brought to the glory of his presence where songs of triumph for ever sound.
Blessed be God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit.
Blessed be God for ever and ever.
THAT the remainder of this day may be holy, good and peaceful, let us pray with one heart and mind.
O GOD our heavenly Father, as our Ascension day prayers rise before thee, may thy mercy be upon us; cleanse our hearts and set us free to sing thy praise, now and for ever, and unto the ages of ages. Amen.
The Psalm Page 219
Cantate Domino.
The Psalm appointed for this day is Psalm 96.
Please read responsively the words in bold type.
O SING unto the Lord a new song; * sing unto the Lord, all the whole earth.
2. Sing unto the Lord, and praise his Name; * be telling of his salvation from day to day.
3. Declare his honour unto the heathen, * and his wonders unto all people.
4. For the Lord is great, and cannot worthily be praised; * he is more to be feared than all gods.
5. As for all the gods of the heathen, they are but idols; * but it is the Lord that made the heavens.
6. Glory and worship are before him; * power and honour are in his sanctuary.
7. Ascribe unto the Lord, O ye kindreds of the people, * ascribe unto the Lord worship and power.
8. Ascribe unto the Lord the honour due unto his Name; * bring presents, and come into his courts.
10. Tell it out among the heathen, that the Lord is King, and that it is he who hath made the round world so fast that it cannot be moved; * and how that he shall judge the peoples righteously.
13. For he cometh, for the cometh to judge the earth; * and with righteousness to judge the world, and the peoples with his truth.
The Gloria Patri
The First Ascension Day Canticle
[Based on 1 Timothy 3:16]
Christ Jesus was revealed in the flesh and vindicated in the spirit.
Christ was believed in throughout the world and taken up in glory.
He was seen by angels and proclaimed among the nations.
Believed in throughout the world, he was taken up in glory.
This will be made manifest at the proper time by the blessed and only Sovereign,
Who alone has immortality, and dwells in unapproachable light.
All saying together:
To the King of kings and Lord of lords be honour and eternal dominion. Amen.
The Collect for Ascension Day Page 177
For the Epistle Page 177
The For the Epistle reading is from the 1st Chapter of
The Acts of the Apostles, beginning at the 1st verse:
Here endeth the Epistle.
The Second Ascension Day Canticle
[Based on Psalm 145:1-4, 10-11, 21]
2. Every day will I give thanks unto thee; * and praise thy Name for ever and ever.
3. Great is the Lord, and marvellous worthy to be praised; * there is no end of his greatness.
4. One generation shall praise thy works unto another; * and declare thy power.
10. All thy works praise thee, O Lord; * and thy saints give thanks unto thee.
11. They show the glory of thy kingdom, * and talk of thy power.
21. My mouth shall speak the praise of the Lord: * and let all flesh give thanks unto his holy Name for ever and ever.
The Gloria Patri
The Gospel Page 178
The Holy Gospel is written in the 24th Chapter
of the Gospel of St. Luke, beginning at the 49th Verse.
Glory be to thee, O Lord.
Praise be to thee, O Christ.
The Lord’s Prayer Page 82
The Gloria in excelsis Page 84
The Extinguishing of the Candles
Closing Music
A Hymn of Glory Let Us Sing
The Venerable Bede’s Ascension Day hymn, arranged to the German tune Lasst uns erfreuen, played on the Church organ in England by Richard Irwin, used with permission.
Richard’s music is available for download at
The original version has seven verses, with a double Alleluia after the first stanza and 5-fold Alleluia after the final stanza.
Here is the lyric for the first verse:
A hymn of glory let us sing
New songs tho’out the world shall ring
Alleluia! Alleluia
Christ by a road before untrod,
Ascendeth to the throne of God.
Alleluia! Alleluia! Alleluia! Alleluia! Alleluia!
Closing Prayer and Responses
O Christ our God, who hast opened the kingdom of heaven,
bring us to reign with thee in glory.
Let us bless the Lord.
Alleluia! Alleluia! Alleluia!
The Blessing Page 84
Go in peace and serve the Lord.
Thanks be to God.
Thank you for joining us for this celebration of Ascension Day. Please join us on Sunday, May 24th, for another livestreaming of a service of Holy Communion for Sunday after Ascension.
Live Service for Easter Day
Easter Broadcast 2020This service offers traditional Anglicans who have not heard a live celebration of Holy Communion access to a live service for Easter Day, based on the 1928 Book of Common Prayer texts. The 1928 B.C.P. services retains nearly all the original features of Archbishop Cranmer’s adaption of traditional Holy Communion as practised in the English tradition. His work was also strongly influenced the emerging non-Roman Catholic practices in Europe and, unfortunately not often recognized, the translation into English of the Divine Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom, first published at London in the 1520s. The 1928 B.C.P. has a different Canon of the Mass and some parts are presented in a different order; nonethless, it remains faithful to Cranmer’s original purpose of a Scripture-based service with a strong sense of spirituality
The service will be read using a temporary altar at my home in Mechanicsville, Va. My wife and I will be the only persons present. Having retired from pulpit ministry at Epiphany A.D. 2014, this will be my first live service since then. I broadcast all my Sunday services live at my former parish beginning in August 2010 A.D. On most Sundays there were more people watching online than were present in the Chapel.
The illustration is two facing pages from The Gospels of Otto III, widely-regarded as the finest illuminated Bible ever produced. Many of the images from it are or will be used in the AIC Bookstore Publications on each of the four Gospels. The Gospel of John: Annotated and Illustrated should be available mid-year. My goal is to have it in print for Whitsunday.
With patience, faith and Grace, we will get through this current crisis of the body which has deprived us of access to the Sacrament of Holy Communion.
Thank you for your interest and support.
Glory be to God for all things! Amen!
O Sapientia (Wisdom) – Dec. 18th
O Antiphons-Slide5Today, December 18th, is the first of the final seven days of Advent. The AIC Seasonal Video series, The Great “O” Antiphons, offers Scripture, commentary, the reading/responses of antiphons and music for the occasion. The series is based on a 12th C. office in the Roman Catholic tradition. Here you will find information and links each day until the final episode on Dec. 24th. The text for the entire series is printed on pages 21-27 in the AIC Bookstore Publication, Occasional Services for Anglican Worship, available using the Virtual Bookstore link at the bottom of the Home page. The entire series is linked from the Digital Library page with Podcast versions from the Podcast Archive page.
The theme music for the day is On Jordan’s Bank the Baptists’ Cry, performed on his church organ by Jared Haselbarth, from his DVD (available at The key phrase is O Sapientia, meaning Wisdom. In Christian theology, Jesus Christ is the embodiment of the wisdom of the Father.
Watch “O Sapientia – Wisdom for Dec. 18th.
Listen to the Podcast version of O Sapientia. |
global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/14840 | The Earnest & Farther Appeals
Outward Effects: As it’s been pointed out, Wesley’s genius was the making of Discipline, cultivating or consolidating the fruits of Revival, conserving its power, and extending it elsewhere, until Christ was all in all. Combined with Discipline, the Revival turned a mixed multitude into a “people”. Wesley’s adage, “a people called the Methodists” has a likeness to Hosea’s Lost Tribes where the prophet says, “and it shall come to pass, that in the place where it was said unto them, Ye are not my people, there it shall be said unto them, Ye are the sons of the living God“. Like Moses, Wesley was also a law-giver by his Discipline. Whitefield described the social effects of this Wesleyite system, saying, “My brother Wesley acted wisely. The souls awakened under his his ministry were joined together in societies and thus preserved his labor. This I neglected and my people are a rope of sand.
Wesley could go further with the purpose of his Discipline– not only calling his Methodists societies “a people” but wishing a similar regeneration and unity within the English Nation and Church. In the “Large” Minutes, John Wesley summarized the purpose of Methodism: “What may we reasonably believe to be God’s design in raising up the Preachers called Methodists? A. To reform the nation and, in particular, the Church; to spread scriptural holiness over the land.” So, a foremost aim was national.
Formerly divided yet now united, Wesley expected the lost sheep to rejoin the Church of England. Methodism won sinners previously Lost, or barely within the pale of the Church of England, back to Establishment, the interests of the Crown included. Is this the Kingdom of God on earth, or a taste?
“Behold the day of the Lord has come. He is again visiting and redeemnig his people. Having eyes, see ye not? Having ears, Neither understand with your hearts? At this hour the Lord is rolling away our reproach. Already his standard is set up. His Spirit is poured forth on the outcasts of men, and his love shed abroad in their hearts. Love of all mankind, meekness, gentleness, humbleness of mind, holy and heavenly affections, do take place of hate, anger, pride, revenge, and vile or vain affections. Hence, wherever the power of the Lord spreads, springs outward religion in all its forms. The houses of God are filled; the table of the Lord is thronged on every side. And those who thus show their love of God, show they love their neighbor also, by being careful to maintain good works, by doing all manner of good (as they have time) to all men. They are likewise careful to abstain from all evil. Cursing, Sabbath-breaking, drunkenness, will all other (however fashionable) works of the Devil, are not once named among them. All this is plain, demonstrable fact. For this also is not done in a corner.”
Indeed, this is Wesley’s principle defense when countering opponents about the loyalty of the Methodists to Established Religion and even the King, making special care to point out the social good brought by his Discipline. This type of argument was also used by the first Reformers (Cranmer) who argued vernacular translations of scripture would only produce good subjects for the temporal Sovereign. So, Wesley makes something of the same argument, likewise asking Methodism be measured by its fruits:
But there is no room for dispute, touching these doctrines in general, seeing our Lord gives you so plain a rule, by which you may easily and infallibly know, whether they be of God. ‘The tree is known by its fruit: either therefore make the tree good, and its fruit is good: or else make the tree corrupt, and its fruit corrupt’. Now what fruit does the tree us bring forth? Look and see; believe your own eyes and ears. Sinners leave their sins. The servants of the Devil become the servants of God. Is this good or evil fruit? That vice loses ground, and virtue, practical religion, gains? O dispute no more. Know the tree by its fruit. Bow and own the finger of God.
But Wesley has a particular affection for the good or increase of the Church as proof to his sincerity and loyalty, even proclaiming he removes from fellowship those who refuse to follow Wesley’s own example:
85. Nearly related to this is that other objection, that we divide the Church. Remember the Church is, The Faithful People, or true believers. Now how do we divided these? Why, by our societies. Very good. Now the case is plain. ‘We divide them’, you say, ‘by uniting them together.’ Truly, a very uncommon way of dividing? ‘O, but we divide those who are thus united with each other, from the rest of the Church.’ By no means. Many of them were before joined in all their brethren of the Church of England (and many were not, until they knew us) by assembling themselves together, to hear the word of God, and to eat of one bread, and drink of one cup. And do they now forsake that assembling themselves together? You cannot, you dare not say it. You know they are more diligent therein than ever: it being one of the fixed rules of our societies, ‘That every member attend the ordinances of God’, i.e., that he do not divide from the Church. And if any member of the Church do thus divide or leave it, he hath no more place among us. (Misc. Works VI p. 212)
This sort of evidence about augmenting church attendance is repeatedly stressed by Wesley. What’s interesting– and likely appropriate considering Wesley’s English audience and his clerical body of detractors– there’s no talk about filling Dissenting chapels. Rather, as a minister in the Church of England, it’s assumed Wesley is speaking to the concerns of Establishment. The same arguments are recast below, but more explicit regarding attending parish church, especially if the sacrament is offered:
“31. But whatever state they are in, who causelessly separate from the church of England, it affects not those of whom we are speaking; for they do not separate from it at all. You may easily be convinced of this, if you will only weigh the particulars following.
1. A great part of these went to no Church at all, before they heard us preach. They no more pretended to belong to the church of England, than to the Church of Muscovy. If therefore they went to no Church now, they would be no farther from the Church than they were before.
2. Those who did sometimes go to Church before, go three times as often now. These therefore do not separate from the Church. Nay, they are united to it more closely than before.
3. Those who never went to Church at all before, do go now at all opportunities. Will common sense allow any one to say, that these are separated from the Church.
4. The main question is, Are they turned form doing the works of the Devil, to do the works of God? Do they now live soberly, rigtheously, and godly in the present world? If they do, if they live according to the directions of the church, believe her doctrines, and join in her ordinances: with what face can you say, that these men separate from the Church of England? (Misc. Works, VI, p. 365)
Conversion a Priority: Yet Wesley is also cautious. Methodist should join the outward public worship of the Established church without neglecting inward Religion. Wesley, much like the Rev. John Fletcher, argues the priority of a New Birth (or personal conversion) by referencing the ubiquity of the same concept within Anglican formulae. After quoting a number of church collects, exhortations and prayers in the communion office, and sections from the Anglican Book of Homilies, Mr. Wesley reasserts,
“27. Every proposition which I have any where advanced, concerning those operations of the Holy Ghost, which I believe are common to all Christians in all ages, is here clearly maintained by our own church. (Misc. Works, VI, p. 264)
“29. I have now considered the most material objections I know, which have been lately made against the great doctrines I teach. I have produced, so far as in me lay, the strength of those objections, and then answered them, I hope, in the spirit of meekness. And now I trust it appears, that these doctrines are no other than the doctrines of Jesus Christ: that they are all evidently contained in the word of God, by which alone I desire to stand or fall: and that they are fundamentally the same with the doctrines of the Church of England, of which I do, and ever did profess myself a Member.” p. 265
Yet, if pressed between formal versus heartfelt worship, Wesley would certainly choose the latter or salvation of the soul, especially as a Minister in the Church of God. So, Wesley is careful to differentiate outward, or regular, attendance in the parish from vital religion and its true devotion:
Q. 1. Whether a due and regular attendance on the public offices of Religion, paid in a serious and composed way, by good (ie., well meaning) men, does not answer the true ends of Devotion?
A. I suppose by Devotion you mean public worship; by the true ends of it, the love of God and man: and by a due and regular attendance on the public offices of Religion, paid in a serious and composed way, the going as often as we have opportunity to our Parish Church, and to the Sacrament there administered– If so, the question is, ‘Whether this attendance on those offices, does not produce the love of God and man?’ I answer, sometimes it does; and sometimes it does not. I myself thus attended them for many years; and yet am conscious to myself, that during that whole time, I had no more of the love of God than a stone (1). And I know many hundreds, perhaps thousands of serious persons who are ready to testify to the same thing. (Misc., p. 230) (2)
Though Wesley considered the canons of the Church next to the commands of God, even wishing his societies stick close to the example of his own diligence attending parish churches, obedience to God rather than man risked separation from Establishment if it would fulfill Christ’s commission to save souls. But, even here, Wesley would not willfully leave the Establishment unless entirely thrust or forced out by wicked or hard ministers.
Nonetheless, it appears Wesley would be less stern with Methodist ‘gadding’, or visiting nearby Evangelical clergy, if the local parish was unregenerate. He seems to defend the practice of gadding (a delinquency also known to Puritanism); however, he narrows these ‘wanderings’, or seeking out Evangelical sermons, to days where no Holy Communion is offered, believing this satisfies and implicit to the rubric. Perhaps a convenient interpretation of the Prayer Book? It’s important to recall monthly Holy Communion was generally considered very frequent in the 18th century. In the countryside, quarterly Communion was more usual. So, Wesley makes the argument:
“11. You object farther, ‘That the Methodists do not observe the Rubric before the Communion Service; which directs, so many as desire to partake of the Holy Communion, to signify their names to the Curate the day before. What Curate desires the should? Whenever any Minister will give but one week’s notice of this, I undertake, all that have any relation to me, shall signify their names within the time appointed. You object also, that they break through the twenty-eighth canon, which requires, ‘That if strangers come to any church from other parishes, they should be remitted to their own churches, there to receive the Communion with their neighbors’. But what if there be no Communion there? Then this Canon does not touch the case, nor does any one break it, by coming to another church purely because there is no Communion at his own. As to your next advice, ‘To have a greater reward to the rules and orders of the Church’, I cannot, for I now regard them, next to the word of God. And as to your last, ‘To renounce communion with the church,’ I dare not. Nay, but let them thrust us out. We will not leave the ship: if you cast us out of it, then our Lord will take us up.” (ibid, p. 274)
Overall, regardless of so-called gadding (or ignoring cases where methodists were truly thrust out), Wesley repeatedly falls back the Methdists’ loyal and regular attendance at Holy Communion as a key gauge for the positive effect of Revival. But, Wesley will not sacrifice genuine conversion (i.e., New Birth) for a visible or an outward dressing of piety as mere church attendance implies. But, what does Wesley mean by New Birth? Wesley explains the New Birth in such terms that it doesn’t shut out a more conventional view of grace through sacraments and praying by a liturgy:
7. Query the seventh. ‘Whether a gradual improvement in grace and goodness is not a better foundation of comfort, and of an assurance of a gospel new-birth, than that which is founded on the doctrine of a gospel new-birth, than that which is founded on a sudden and instantaneous change; which, if there be any such thing, is not easily distinguished from fancy and imagination; the workings whereof we may well suppose to be more strong and powerful, while the person considers himself in the state of one admitted as a candidate for such a change, and is taught in due time to expect it? (ibid, 233)
Interestingly, Wesley’s answer to this query balances both views. But, whether renovation of the heart happens by a slow, even imperceptible, progress or a instantaneous effusion of the Spirit, a man made anew ought to have some degree of sense of a new heart. .
Q 4. Can that sudden and instantaneous change (3) be easily distinguished from fancy and imagination?
A. Just as easily as light from darkness; seeing it brings with it a peace that passeth all understanding, a joy unspeakable and full of glory, the love of God and all mankind filling the heart, and power over sin (ibid, p, 233-4).
Regarding assurance being gradual yet not always perceptible, I’ll add this aside from Wesley’s in his letter to Dr. Downes. Here, Wesley gives apparent room to a parish or sacramental point-of-view, by saying such conversion is not always undetectable, and there remains a space for inward feeling by which good fruit is borne:
“We do speak of grace, (meaning thereby, that power of God which worketh in us both to will and do do of his good pleasure,) that it is ‘as perceptible to the heart’ (while it comforts, refreshes, purifies, and sheds the love of God abroad therein) ‘as sensible objects are to the senses’. And yet we do not doubt, but it may frequently be ‘conveyed to us imperceptibly’. But we know no scripture which speaks of it as always conveyed, and always working in an unperceptible manner. We likewise allow, that outward actions are one way of satisfying us, that we have grace in our hearts. But we cannot possibly allow, that ‘the only way to be satisfied of this, is to appeal to our outward actions, and not to our inward feelings’. On the contrary, we believe that love, joy, peace, are inwardly felt, or they have no being: and that men are satisfied they have grace, first, by feeling these, and afterward by their outward actions.” (Misc., p. 533)
Conclusion: Thus, Wesley makes the New Birth an indispensable part of our salvation. The New Birth can be identified with either our first justification, or a restoration of grace after a prolonged fall. However, Wesleyites insisted the grace which made us ‘right’ with God was emotionally perceptible, perhaps quietly so, but recognizable as joy, peace, and comfort. Though Wesley wanted conversion to result in the swelling of English parish churches, resulting greater frequency at Holy Communion (proving loyalty toward the Church of England), Wesley did not wish this to transpire by dull piety. Yet, if compelled to choose the outpouring of the Spirit versus obeying the laws of the Church, Wesley would help holiness and renovation. However, his actual plan was to do both, knowing the Church of England was very primitive and pure in foundation, and therefore ideally capable of fanning a transatlantic Revival. Wesley only had to move the ministers of the Established Church to jealousy.
(1) Wesley’s letter to the Bishop of London reads the same until the final part,
“I suppose, by devotion you mean public worship; by the true ends of it, the love of God and man; and by a ‘due and regular attendance on the public office of religion, paid in a serious and composed way,’ the going as often as we can to our parish church, and to the sacrament there is administered. If so, the question is, Whether this attendance on those offices, does not produce the love of God and man? I answer, sometimes it does; and sometimes it does not. I myself thus attended them for many years; and yet am conscious to myself, that during that time, I had no more of the love of God than a stone. And I know many hundreds, perhaps thousands, of serious persons, who are ready to testify the same thing’. I subjoined, ‘1. We continually exhort all who attend on our preaching, to attend the offices of the church. And they do pay a more regular attenance there than ever they did before. 2. Their attending the church did not, in fact, answer those ends all, till they attended this preaching also. 3. It is the preaching remission of sins through Jesus Christ, which alone answers ends of devotion.” (p. 462, Misc. Works)
(2) Wesley saw the sacrament as a conversion ordinance as well and would not have the methodists abstain from its administration in the parish. From Wesley’s Journal, “Saturday 28. I showed at large, (in order to anser those who taught that none but they who are full of faith and Holy Ghost, ought ever to communicate) 1. That the Lord’s Supper was ordained by God, to be a mean of conveying to men either preventing, or justifying, or sanctifying grace, according to their several necessities. 2 That the persons for whom it was ordained, are all those who know and feel that they want the grace of God, either to restrain them from sin, or to show their sins forgiven, or to renew their souls in the image of God. 3. That inasmuch as we come to his table, not to give him any thing, but to receive whatsoever he sees best for us, there is no previous preparation indispensably necessary, but a desire to receive whatsoever he pleases to give. And, 4. That no fitness is required at the time of communicating, but a sense of our state, of our utter sinfulness and helplessness: every one who knows he is fit for hell, being just to come to Christ, in this as well as all other ways of his appointment.’ (Misc., p. 461)
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/14847 | Anonymous asked in Entertainment & MusicPolls & Surveys · 1 decade ago
anybody here interested in astronomy
if so what do you find interesting about it
feel free to IM me and discuss it
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Yeah i love astronomy, its interesting theres always somethin different to learn about..
if i would of known how much i liked it back when i was still in school i would of studied it more.
• I am interested in it, but not enough to IM a total stranger about it...but I just always wonder about moon phases and how they affect people and how planets aligning affect human behaviors and stuff like that
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I've always been interested in it, ever since i was a kid. i used to wanna be an astronaut...I can't even begin to describe how many interesting things there are out there
• 1 decade ago
Um I like looking at the stars and the moon when they first come out and go away.
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/14853 | Tag Archives: suspended alif
Arabic reading and writing pack
Last term, Class 4 covered the following Arabic reading and writing topics:
• Shaddah
• Alif Maqsurah
• Suspended Alif
• Natural Madd – Alif, Waw and Yaa
Class 4’s teacher sent the following reading and writing pack home to help parents make revision with their children over the Winter break an easier task. Each student had to complete the worksheet under parental supervision.
I’ve been uploading the worksheets individually and thought it might also be useful to upload one Pdf with all worksheets together to make printing a little easier (double sided copying for example).
Click on the image below to download the Pdf
Arabic Reading and Writing Pack (1)
Suspended Alif
Download the worksheet on suspended alif HERE
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/14860 | How To Overcome Depression
• Author Andrew Eli
• Published September 22, 2018
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The Merriam-Webster's dictionary defines depression as (1) : a state of feeling sad : DEJECTION (2) : a psycho-neurotic or psychotic disorder marked especially by sadness, inactivity, difficulty in thinking and concentration, a significant increase or decrease in appetite and time spent sleeping, feelings of dejection and hopelessness, and sometimes suicidal tendencies c(1) : a reduction in activity, amount, quality, or force (2) : a lowering of vitality or functional activity.
Depression is a problem that cuts across all class of people. A lot of people have died as a result of depression. Some people have even committed suicide, as a result of depression. Depression is a very sad feeling that makes a person feel rejected and lonely. This feeling from time to time comes to everybody. But the deference is in the way we react to it.
Depression is a psychological problem. Depression without doubt is one of the problems we have in the society. Severe depression is one of the most common factors for suicide.
1. Lack of desire and pleasure for things once enjoyed.
2. Feeling of total worthlessness.
3. A feeling of unhappiness.
4. Sleeplessness (insomnia): Difficulty to combine an early night sleep and an early rise. Poor or excessive sleep.
5. Feeling of total hopelessness. You just feel that things are bad and there is nothing you can do about it. And that it will never get better.
6. Fatigue: Absence of physical strength. You are unable to even complete the smallest task or duty.
7. Self-withdrawal from normal life activity.
8. Lose of appetite or over eating.
9. Feeling of inferiority complex or self-reproach.
10. Change in eating or bowel habits. Lose of apatite or overeating.
1. Find out the root cause of your depression. Try to find out why you are feeling depressed. This is because you can't solve a problem that you've not diagnosed the root cause. This is the first step in dealing with depression.
2. Talking to others and pouring out your heart is one of the best ways to cope with depression. Talk to somebody you can trust. It is said that a problem shared is half solved. Trying to keep it to yourself will rather worsen your condition. So try and share with somebody whatever is making you feel depressed.
3. Doing things for others, other than yourself will go a long way to remedy the situation. A young man some time ago lost his job, his visa expired and so many negative things were happening in his life at the same time. He became so depressed that he even thought that he might soon go crazy, but he decided to go and work in a Non-Governmental Organization (N.G.O.), just to get busy since he had no job. After one month of working with the N.G.O., the depression left him. He later got a job, cleared his papers and became very happy again. So doing things for other people can bring healing to somebody who is depressed...
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/14869 | International Rescue! A bird in the hand …
Walking the dogs yesterday afternoon we came across a Spotted thick-knee, also know locally as a Dikkop, marching up and down on a piece of open land close to the road looking quite agitated.
A few metres further along it became apparent why. Lying on a patch of scrub was it’s fledgling. At first we thought it was done for, but approaching cautiously, primarily at the insistence of Bobbi who had initially spotted the chick, it turned out the youngster was very much alive and made a pathetic attempt to move under a bush.
But it could hardly move and while I took both leads, Ems bent down for a closer inspection.
Broken leg, was the verdict.
Now what? Leave alone or take home?
We opted for the latter and as soon as we arrived home we called a bird rescue place in a nearby suburb. Two ladies jumped in their car and drove over to collect the bird.
As a ground dwelling bird, I don’t know how optimistic are the chances for it’s long-term survival, but at least it now has a fighting chance whereas left alone it would likely have been abandoned or mauled by a predator.
You do what you can, I guess.
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1. Good on you.
Around spring, a horrible rain of baby birds starts. I guess it’s males clearing nests (can’t really think of any other possible cause), but pink, featherless babies are dropped on lawns all over here.
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2. Ark, you’re good people Now im all sniffly.
It may be that the nest builders are deficient in some way, or neglectful, and only the truly sturdy young survive. We have (and you probably do too) on occasion small birds who will lay their eggs in another bird’s nest, usually a wren or sparrow nest, and since the freeloaders are twice the size of the wren guess who wins the top place at the table. Cuckoos are famous for this too. And when the young hatch, only the larger birds usually survive because they just shove the smaller birds out of the nests.
Is it always the same kind of bird?
1. Difficult to know for sure what happened with this bird. It wouldn’t of fallen from the nest as they are ground dwellers.
There are several species of birds that parasite other birds, though offhand I can’t recall which.
Cuckoos are the most well-known as you point out.
1. Ark! This is an avian moral-dilemma you’ve created!!! 😲 What if the injured Dikkop chick was her only chick!? Now the mother Dikkop will be SO distraught that she will fly into a glass-window to break her neck because she has lost the love of her life! The mother Dikkop has been sacrificed and will no longer have any further chicks! You have possibly put Dikkops onto the Endangered Species list MAN!!! How could you!? 😲
I insist you go find the mother immediately and take her to the rescue ladies and her injured, SAD, crying chick before the mother hurts herself and ENDS the Dikkop existence!!! GO!!! HURRY! 🚑🚒🚨
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/14883 | Katherine Clark
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CLARK: Women's issues are family issues. When women get shortchanged at work, when we're not allowed to make decisions about our own bodies, when we can't afford to send our kids to college and our parents can't count on Social Security, it hurts everyone. The Republican extremists pay lip service to family values. I'll actually like for families. These are our three sons. They'll do better in an America where everyone gets better. I'm Katherine Clark and I approve this message. |
global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/14915 | Welcome to Bible Truths R Us
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Welcome to Bible Truths R Us!
Our mission is to present the clear, unadulterated truth on key Bible concepts based on the Word and the Word only. It is our belief that the process of reading the Bible is an exercise in seeking the mind of God. This process should not be corrupted by human interpretation; each individual should let the Scripture speak directly to her or his heart, as promised by the Word of God – “And ye shall seek me, and find me, when ye shall search for me with all your heart” (Jeremiah 29:13).
It is our purpose to encourage you to read the Bible for yourself, not relying on what you are told by others. All Bible verses in this website are taken from the King James Version. If you struggle with the Old English language of the King James Version, then try a more modern translation like the New King James Version.
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/14917 | Help your kid grow their STEM skills with this hands-on kit
Looking for fun STEM activities to try at home with your kids? Check out this DIY kit packed with 50 projects.
• Encouraging an early interest in STEM can build a strong foundation for your child's math and science skills in the future.
• The best way to teach them is with hands-on projects that are enjoyable to them.
• Help your kid grow their skills with over 50 hands-on projects in this all-in-one STEM electronics kit.
Science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) are vital areas of learning for any student. Encouraging an early interest in these skills can help build a strong foundation for your child's future.
If you're looking for a way to help your young ones hone their skills at home, the Mand Labs Electronic Series DIY Kit features the essential STEM skills kids need to know. With virtual classes being the only option nowadays, this is a solid way to explore the world of electronics and robotics hands-on.
This kit includes over 50 experiential projects that dive into the fundamentals of electricity to the most advanced concepts—no previous experience required. All students will be able to pick up basic lessons on electricity such as voltage, current, resistance, Ohm's law, Kirchhoff Laws, and even how to use a digital multimeter.
As your kids near the end of the kit, they'll be able to develop real-world skills that can be applied to build useful projects. Instead of simply using technology, they'll be able to create it via an IR security alarm, H-Bridge (a motor driver circuit used in robotics), and so much more.
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/14920 | Lateral Slit Technique
Lateral Slit Technique
We believe that next to the follicular unit graft, the lateral slit technique is the next most important idea or technique that has revolutionized hair transplants today. Most doctors still insist on making these slits vertically (in the direction the hair grows). This causes two huge problems!
1. By performing your slits vertically, they take on the look of corn rows thus making the hair appear thinner and unnatural.
2. The most important part of graft placement is to have the angulations of the grafts at the same angle as your real hair. This is done by placing the slits at the proper angle and the graft will follow. Except in vertical slits, the graft can angle anywhere from 90 degrees to 10 degrees or lying down on the head. This is because the grafts can move slightly in the direction of the slit causing your hair to look very unnatural and without any pattern.
If you look closely at a natural growing hair pattern, the follicular units appear to line up in a horizontal line or perpendicular to the direction the hair grows. Because the follicles lie side by side instead of behind one another they do not take the corn row look, instead the hair looks much thicker because you get the support of the hair behind it. This random arrangement of hair stops the light from shinning through the scalp because it’s being blocked by the hair behind it. This is why it looks thicker and denser.
The angle of the graft is a very important part of the transplant to appear normal. Because the slits are horizontal or lateral, the graft can only grow in the exact angle that the blade was placed into the scalp. This means that every graft is angled precisely at the exact and proper orientation to the head. The only movement the graft can make is from side to side which only causes more variability or irregularity to the hairs, which cause more blocking of light thus appearing to be even denser. When closely examined, the new transplanted hair will grow in the same orientation as found in nature.
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/14932 | How VR Went From A Concept To A Billion Dollar Market
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The dream of a fully immersive artificially created experience goes back to wishful writings from the 19th century. There were a few early writers that were inspired by the idea of a totally immersive experience, but past expressing their fascination in words, little more was possible.
Until the 1960's, Virtual Reality (VR) technology was nothing more than a dream, or the subject of science fiction. From its beginnings, the goal of VR was centred around creating pleasure for the user. Some forms of early VR were designed to simulate reality, but many were made to train people for new experiences in real life.
Modern computer-driven VR technology can be traced back to the 1960's, and a bold program was undertaken by Ivan Sutherland and his student, Bob Sproull. They are credited with creating what many consider the first head-mounted display, though it was so heavy it had to be hung from the ceiling!
The kind of graphics that Ivan Sutherland's VR contraption could display was primitive by any measure. At the time the platform seemed like a novelty to many, but it leads to other programs that furthered the development of more practical VR technology.
Growing Slowly
Even today, VR technology isn't affordable for most consumers. This lack of affordability has been a hindrance to VR development, as most corporations look for products that can be marketed to a wide range of people. As a result of this, as VR development unfolded in the latter half of the 20th century, the chief investors in the field weren't concerned with a direct profit.
One of the most important areas where VR technology took hold was in the military. Especially in the sphere of military aviation training, VR technology grew to be indispensable. Civilian aviation also benefited from VR technology, as did certain fields of medicine.
Outside of highly technical applications, VR technology didn't come into contact with the public very often. Atari set up a VR development program in the early 1980's, only to shutter it when the North American video game market took a hit in 1983. A few VR based arcade games did make it into production, but overall, VR simply wasn't accessible to the masses until the mid-1990's.
Going Mainstream
The 1990's saw the rise of tech. It seemed like any technology was getting funding all of a sudden, and VR tech was no different. As consumers bought more technology for the home, companies became comfortable with developing new platforms for their customers. Both Sega and Nintendo developed VR products in the 1990's.
Apple also created their QTVR format in the 1990's. QTVR isn't really VR in the way most people understand it, despite the fact is very popular. As the 1990's drew to a close, products like Forte's VFX1 had become available to the public, though its use was limited to a few popular games.
Things in the VR development space heated up in 2010 when Palmer Luckey prototyped what would become the Oculus Rift. At first, his creation was basic, and only offered rotational tracking. He used an existing VR headset for the prototype and created his own hardware to modify it.
Over the next few years, he integrated low-persistence displays created by Valve. This allowed the Oculus to produce a lag-free and smear-free display, which has been integrated into all of their headsets ever since. 2014 saw the introduction of Oculus's SteamSight prototype, which shares numerous features with both of the consumer headsets they released two years later in 2016.
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/14935 | 5 days of Flash 5
Flash 5 User manuals As we look forward to the release of CS5 before long, I had an unusual 5 days producing a new SWF based on a publish-to Flash Player 5 predecessor. So time to put on my Macromedia cap and dig out the old Flash 5 manuals.
This version pre-dates my working with Flash and dates back to when I quite frankly hated Flash. Ironically a number of designer types look on these as the good old days when Flash was very much a designer tool. I have to admit when I first saw Flash V1 further back in 1996 I didn’t rate it. I’d been using programming Director since 1993 and Flash didn’t have Lingo so it had seemed a step backwards to me.
Back to the current project, since most of flash 5 was easily described in two skinny manuals, there wasn’t really that much to have to read up on. The main issues encountered:
• The original designer seemed to have no discernible logic to the placement of graphics and their anchor points.
• Static text didn’t render particularly well — over-anti-aliased.
• Initially had problems with artwork imported from Illustrator
As regards the Illustrator problem, I had imported an .ai document to library and used on stage. Then while publishing I received an error alert :
This movie uses features that are not supported in Flash Player 5. View the Output Panel for details.
In the Output Panel, the message:
Enhanced stroke is not supported in this player
Simply solved by opening the .ai document in Illustrator then exporting a SWF. At which point it is possible to specify the Flash Player version. So saving off a Flash Player 5 SWF and importing that the Flash library rather than the .ai document avoids the problem.
As regards the text problem, this proved to be the motivation enough for the client to agree to updating the target player version from version 5 to version 8 in order to take advantage of ‘anti-alias for readability’.
Sometimes I wish Adobe would obsolete old versions — much like the current pressure to remove support for explorer 6 from the web. On the other hand I have to admire the facilities across Adobe tools that continue support output to legacy flash player versions for when it is impossible to persuade clients to be more current.
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/14951 | Dec 082019
When it comes to pentests you sometimes have access to the source code (opensource applications or grey-/whitebox tests). It started using tools to help me analyze the code. So far I had only Java code to analyze, but it was quite interesting to see the different tools and the results. Let me write down my personal findings.
The tools
I tried 3 different tools: Sonarqube, PMD and SpotBugs (successor to FindBugs).
First problem – .class vs .java
SpotBugs is able to analyze .jar or .class files directly, while the other two need source files, so for Java we need disassemblers. While I like jd-gui for quickly looking into files, I found its results not really useable for source code analysis. cfr yielded much better results, but was veeeery slow sometimes.
The setup
PMD and SpotBugs can simply be downloaded and run, while Sonarqube is a docker container that needs some more tweaks. Especially importing your files is tricky, because it can not be done wrong the webinterface. You need to log in via WebUI, create the API key, log into the docker container, get sonar-scan, copy the files into the docker container and run sonar-scan to import them. Not painful, because it can be scripted, but much more work compared to simply running SpotBugs and opening your directory with .jar files. And here is the next issue:
Input formats and the tools
For my Java example the 3 tools require different input formats. My project is a single .jar file and the second test I did was a folder with some .jar files and some .class files.
SpotBugs I simply told the directory and it started unzipping the .jar file recursively and analyzing the .class files within. Awesome.
PMD needs .java files, so I had to recursively unzip the .jar files (the initial .jar contained other .jar files) and the reverse the .class files into .java files. Not that great.
SonarQube needs .java AND .class files. You can bypass the .class restriction, but it will produce more false-positives according to the developers. So I needed to put all .class and .java files in directories (/bin and /src) for SonarQube. Not that great.
I was very impressed by the speed of SpotBugs. It is close to instant on a normal business laptop. PMD was slower, but acceptable. SonarQube took some hours on the same hardware (Lenovo T480 laptop). Without having exact numbers PMD was about 5x slower than SpotBugs and SonarQube about 1000x slower.
SpotBugs clear winner. SonarQube clear loser.
This may be the most important part – findings. I found all of the solutions to report many false positives, which is pretty bad. I would expect these tools to help me safe time. Instead it is stealing my time to check false positives. I mean .. in the time I used to check false positives I could have read the code ..
SonarQube did pretty good regarding findings. It found the most – but also the most false positives.
SpotBugs found a lot of bugs and false positives, too. Second most in my test. Good for a quick overview.
PMD comes last and mostly found issues in code quality, not security bugs. Something I was not looking for.
Personal Rating
Personally I would use SpotBugs in quick assessments and SonarQube if you have more time or need a deeper analysis. I will personally not use PMD as it doesnt perform better in any of my tests.
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/14954 | Pincurls: Saint John the Evangelist writing from a medieval manuscript and Marilyn Monroe
Saint John the Evangelist in a 14th-century German manuscript; Marilyn Monroe by an unknown photographer.
In the Middle Ages, it was thought that Saint John the Apostle wrote both the Gospel of John and the Book of Revelation, known as the Apocalypse. According to Christian tradition, John was the youngest of the disciples, and the most beloved by Jesus. In medieval art, while the other Apostles are usually shown as bearded, balding older men, John is shown as a beautiful beardless youth. Here his abundant, curled hair is another indicator of his youthfulness. It’s a head of hair even Marilyn would be jealous of.
The leaf, a recent acquisition by the Getty Museum, went on view this morning in the new exhibition Gothic Grandeur: Manuscript Illumination, 1200–1350, which runs through May 13. I’ll be adding more entries to The Manuscript Files on details in these manuscripts over the course of the show.
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/14974 | RYB 891 How To Create A Healthier and More Productive Entrepreneur with Abel James
Today I have Abel James back on the show, and we'll be focused on health for entrepreneurs and how to become more productive, especially when you're always on the go.
It can be easy to forget to focus on your health when you're running a business, so he'll share some tips on how to make it easier. We'll also talk about the different diet trends and which ones Abel recommends.
Abel's Tips for Optimal Health
Health isn't a one size fits all. If you don't have your nutrition nailed down, you won't achieve your goals and live the lifestyle you want. I've personally put butter in my coffee but prefer grass-fed pasteurized cream because it makes it easier to digest.
I don't think there is anything magic about putting butter or coffee in my coffee, but I like it from a lifestyle aspect. If you only eat fat, you're going to burn fat and, to some degree, it may help you go down the path of building the metabolic machinery to burn fat as fuel.
However, eating excessive amounts of fat adds up to a lot of calories, so it's important to eat it in moderation.
Once you understand how the body works and the choices you have, it's easier to know what to put in your body, keep in mind that a lot of research has been covered up, and lobbyists and corporations have been running the show for years. So, not everything you hear is accurate.
Personally, when I tried cutting out cholesterol and dietary fat, I had never been fatter or sicker even when I was running 30 plus miles a week. From a survival standpoint, fat is essential because it's twice the calories per gram. It's a sought-after fuel source in a wild environment, or if you don't have access, you can also fast, which I highly recommend.
How to Reduce Stress & Stay Healthy
Our bodies run right when we get out of our own way. I don't remember the last time I ate a meal when I'm in the middle of back to back meetings or first thing in the morning. I've found that the longer I push out breakfast, the longer I can to eat in weeks or months to come.
For intermittent fasting, you can limit the number of hours you eat in a day, the time you start eating, or both. Embrace the times that you can follow your hunger and wait to eat. You don't burn fat a day or minute at a time. It takes weeks, months, and years. Everything that you eat builds up.
Avoid pushing all your calories to the end of the day and eating late at night. That isn't great for your digestion. It's best to eat several hours before bedtime. Once again, everyone is an individual, and intermittent fasting is not a one size fits all solution.
Abel's Overview of Healthy Living
I encourage people to look back at the history of any type of diet or lifestyle that you're planning to incorporate in your own life. Nutrient-dense animal-based foods are best for you and require them to be healthy and fresh or preserved.
This goes the same for fruits and vegetables, so the nutrients are still there and alive. It's about the whole picture—natural tries to give us ideal foods in wonderful little packages when you look at it from a holistic approach.
When you eat fresh foods from nature, it's much better for your overall health. I really see the value in traditional bone broth, eating nose to tail, and eating organ meats. It's important to get a wide variety of foods to avoid nutritional deficiencies. I do recommend getting tested to find out what you might be missing.
How to Incorporate Fruit Into Your Diet
It's not useful to be for or against fruit. I think the best way to incorporate them into your diet is to eat them in their whole form. You want to avoid pounding through fruits and unconsciously eating. Fruits should be considered a treat. If you look at fruit historically speaking, they've been manipulated to include more sugar and have less fiber. So, you want to eat fruit in its whole form and eat it in moderation.
Always Listen to Your Body
My wife and I were staying in a rental in Colorado last year. The furnace had some major problems and was off-gassing pollutions into our bedroom. The condition essentially suffocates you from the inside out, and it makes it difficult to breathe. At the time, we didn't know that it was carbon monoxide positioning, and it can be difficult to track it down.
When you're trying to recover from an illness, I recommend getting rest, limit your drinking, and do your research. Take time to get smart, learn what the science actually says, and use this as an opportunity to educate yourself on your condition. You'd be amazed at what some people would be able to come back from.
Final Note from Scott
Here's the cool thing I love about Abel. He isn't saying his way is the only way. We need to understand ourselves and learn from our bodies. It's important to keep things simple and go back to the basics. Think about what your grandparents grew up on and eating good foods in moderation.
My father taught me a long time ago that your mind will change every ten years or so, and I firmly believe that now. I hope you got a lot from today's episode. Remember, it's the little things that make a big difference.
Thanks For Tuning in!
Take-Aways From Today's Episode
1. Abel's Tips for Optimal Health (7:00)
2. How to Reduce Stress & Stay Healthy (18:08)
3. Abel's Overview of Healthy Living (26:46)
4. How to Incorporate Fruit Into Your Diet (39:54)
5. Always Listen to Your Body (43:45)
“Health isn't a one size fits all. If you don't have your nutrition nailed down, you won't be able to achieve your goals and live the lifestyle that you want”.
00:00 Before you try to take diet and nutrition out of the equation and make it its own thing with all of these specific little parameters that you have to follow. Yeah. You'd be so much better served by taking just that, that Eagle eye view of your entire life, your entire lifestyle, what your goals are for your, for your business, as well as kind of like your, your body composition, all these things. If you get clear about what you want longterm, then it becomes easier to set up the daily practices.
00:35 Hey, Hey, Hey, what's up, everyone. Welcome to the rock, your brand podcast. I'm your host, Scott. Bowker a serial entrepreneur on a mission to help you. This show is designed to teach you to inspire you, to motivate you, to take massive action and build a future proof business. So whether you're just starting out or taking your existing business to the next level, this is your home. Now, if you're ready, I'm ready. Let's rock your brand. What's up guys. Welcome back to another episode of the rock, your brand podcast. Today, I am fired up because I've got a, another featured guest, but here's the deal I'm inviting him back. He's already been on. And he went through his story. He talked about how he went from really not being in good health and how that led him to becoming the fat burning man. Abel James is back on the show.
01:31 And if you recall, the last time I had him on, I said to him, I got to get you back on just to kind of focus in on health and being more productive as an entrepreneur because let's face it as you become an entrepreneur, you think that your life is going to become easier and it can, but a lot of times we have more stuff to do and we have to really control that. And one of the things that we, we tend to forget, or we tend to kind of not look at as important is our health, our fitness and the things that we're doing on a regular basis. I also wanted to talk to him and really kind of talk about the whole high fat diet vegan, like all of those different things out there that we're hearing about those, those different diets. If you will, and talk about Dave Asprey, uh, talked about, uh, Darren Aliene, who I recently had on the show and, and really what's his beliefs compared to their beliefs and all of those things, because I don't know about you, but whenever I'm hearing about these diets or just being healthy in general, there's all of these different ways or people's, uh, ideas or beliefs.
02:36 And we tend to kind of buy into theirs because, you know, we want someone to follow that can help us and lead us to where we want to go. And in my case, I want to live longer. I want to be healthier. I want to be around. And so, uh, having able come back on was really, uh, just a good conversation that helped me, but hopefully will help you when you're thinking to yourself, okay. You know, I'll do that health thing later, or, you know, uh, I'm not really too concerned about the water I'm drinking right now, just because it's water. It's not all the same. And we talk a lot of, uh, just about ways that we can get more from ourselves as far as more, be more productive, but then also how to stay healthier and give ourselves the best chance of being successful.
03:19 So I just love jamming on this, this type of content or these topics. So hopefully you're going to enjoy it as well. I think you are because it's a really good conversation and some really cool things I learned that I didn't know before I did this interview. So I'm going to stop talking now so you can enjoy this conversation with my good buddy. Abel James, enjoy Abel. Thank you so much, man, for coming back on the pockets, I told you we were going to make this happen and get you back on and talk about this health and fitness thing. What's up, man.
03:47 I'm psyched, man. I could talk all day about this stuff. You know, that
03:50 I know you can. And you know, the more I, I was looking into, like who you've kind of crossed paths with and who you've done work with. I mean, Sean T right. That's pretty awesome.
04:01 Yeah. He's well, he's remained a close friend over the years, such a sweet guy. Sometimes you see people on TV or we out there B list or of labs or whatever, and they totally match up with who you think they are. And other times they don't and Sean is like way, like even sweeter than I would have ever imagined. Like he's hardcore with working, you get that work ethic and diligence, but he's just got the biggest heart of almost anyone I know.
04:27 Yeah. And the crazy thing is, is he's actually the one that kinda got me into my health and fitness journey 10 years ago, watching an infomercial at night. I think I seen in standee like three times before I ended up pulling the trigger. And, uh, and, and he ended up, I ended up doing his insanity program and I was 38 at the time. And I was probably 20, 25 pounds overweight. I was, I was never 200 pounds. I was about one 90, one 92. And I dropped man. And, um, I just stuck to it, you know, and the diet was part of it, but it was just, I stuck to something for that 60 days, you know what I mean? And he was hardcore, man. I mean, people were in the program were dropping out, you know, kind of getting arrested. I'm like, okay, I guess it's okay to stop for a minute.
05:13 You know, he was kicking my butt, but yeah. So Shanti really, really, uh, really just, he's been someone I've really looked up to and admired, uh, even to this day. So that's awesome that you've crossed paths with him. Dave Asprey, I've seen that you did some stuff with him. And, um, so then I started thinking, I literally just had Darren Alena on and I'm like, so he's someone that I didn't realize he was part of Shakeology, which is beach body product. He was a co creator. He's like the superfood Hunter is what he, you know, people kind of coined him as, and, uh, he was actually introduced to me through my son. Who's 22 who, uh, said, I should watch this show on Netflix is Netflix original called down to earth. And it's kinda where they go. And they, they look at, you know, nutrition, but the, you know, the blue zones, but they also look like, you
05:58 Know, just the world in general, like, you know, how can we, how can we do better for the earth and you know, just energy and waste and just all of that stuff. So it's really, really, it was really cool and well done, but I had him on the show and I'm like, okay, so he's a little bit different than Dave. You know, Dave's got his own thing. I know that you and Dave have talked, I don't know where you guys fall. As far as like, you know, like the high fat diet, you know, buttering your coffee and like all of this stuff. When I said that the day of day, like I'm not Dave, Darren, he's like, I'm not really sure I'm a big fan of putting butter in your coffee, but if you want to do it, you can because you like the way it tastes. But I don't know about the saturated fat and blah, blah, blah. So let's kind of dig in like, let's start there, right? Like, what's your, what's your, what's your thoughts? As far as like diet and we won't go, we won't go exercise yet. Just, just diet in general, someone that wants to be optimal. We're entrepreneurs that are listening to this. We want to live a great life, but we also, we've got a lot on our mind, a lot, a lot on our plate.
06:59 Yeah. I'll, I'll start by saying health. Isn't one size fits all. It's really not. And so when you see people in the athletic sphere, nutrition sphere, doctors, all the rest of it, everyone who even has it dialed in it's is still kind of doing it in their own way. That matches up with their lifestyle, their goals. Um, we're not going to talk about athletics yet, but for me, that's the biggest driver of nutrition. Because if you don't, if you don't have your nutrition nailed down and you try to do the intense competition thing, or you really get into the exercise, you learn pretty quick that it's not going to work out, or at least you're not going to be achieving the amount of performance in your life and toward your goals that you otherwise would. If, if you really know what you're doing from a nutrition standpoint.
07:48 So as far as butter and the coffee goes, it's one of those like click bait ideas to some degree that like I've done. And I do sometimes, but I like cream in my coffee. Like I drink coffee all day. Sometimes it's black. Usually it's grass fed pastured, heavy cream, eight, eight, two, to be specific, if I can get it, which means it's a cream from a type of cow that we're better able to digest because essentially what you have with food. It's all of these wolves that have been bred into chihuahuas and zucchinis and like processed food and whatever. So whether you're talking about fruit or fat or animal foods, it's all been manipulated and it's not what our answer being. So anyway, the reason something like butter and coffee could work is the same reason that cream and coffee works. It's the same reason that like any fat works. And so there's no magic thing about butter in your coffee or even cream in your coffee. But I tend to like it from a lifestyle perspective, but there's
08:56 Such a big difference between,
08:57 I mean, you know, the Bulletproof coffee type idea and the butter coffee type thing, where people are putting literally 500 plus calories of pure fat into your coffee as your first thing of the day, thinking that it's going to help you fat. That's where words get tricky, because if you only eat fat, yeah, you're going to burn fat. Um, and to some degree it might help you kind of go down the path of building the metabolic machinery to use fat as fuel, at least better than you used to be able to it. But it's still 500 calories. I'd rather eat a whole chocolate bar. There are so many other things I would rather eat than putting a stick of butter in my coffee, but as like a demonstration, once you're adept at burning fat, and you've built that machinery, you can readily use butter is you bacon, fat cream. You could use soybean oil if you wanted to, but it's going to act differently within your body. So when it comes to people like, like Dave Asprey, we've, uh, yes, we've done a lot of work together over the years. We've done live streams, many interviews, different, um, documentary programs and stuff like that. And for the most part, and we've hung out personally too, but although not for awhile, but
10:12 You know, it's
10:15 Not all that different once you understand how the body works and the choices you have as to how to feed. Um, now saturated fat is something that's been completely vilified over the, um, you know, some of the arguments around why we should be eating margarine, which obviously didn't work out well. Um, came from the same people who were saying that saturated fat is bad. When you look into the research, when you really get into the weeds and the research you look into why meat, saturated, fat cholesterol have been vilified, it's quack, science, it's total quack research. A lot of stuff has been covered up. There are a ridiculous amount of lobbyists and corporate interests that have been running the show for decades. And if you just look around, it's pretty obvious that no matter what the government recommendations are, if they're right or wrong, it's not working. It's absolutely not working. When I personally tried to avoid cholesterol and dietary fat, I had never been fatter or sicker by trying to use that even when I was running 30 plus miles a week. So there are a whole lot of different ways to go about this, but if you're trying to go about it, by being afraid of fat, being afraid of saturated fat and being afraid of cholesterol, you're really not doing yourself any favors.
11:34 Okay. I mean, that's, I mean, honestly, I don't put a stick of butter in my coffee, but I do like, like a tablespoon. Right. And I, and I blend it, you know, I blend it and it whips it
11:44 Between a tablespoon and a stick. People don't realize that.
11:48 And I mean, I literally enjoy it. So it's like, you know, Dave talks about
11:54 Like the brain as far as what it does to the brain. And whether that's, I guess, you know, if you're having a butter in your coffee or you're having coconut oil or whatever, MCT oils, like whatever, there's like some, and I don't know all the science behind it, but he's, you know, his, I guess his angle is, well, if you want high performance, especially in the morning when you're working, you know, you have a shot of that and you're going to be great. Um, whether that's true or not, like I just enjoy it now. I don't have cream. I've actually switched cream with just a tablespoon of butter and I whip it and I'm happy, you know? So
12:28 A practical standpoint, that's where butter makes a lot of sense, because if I'm on the road, it's like really hard to carry around heavy cream, especially the exact stuff that you want. Whereas butter can be room stable for awhile. I've flown with it. And if you don't have that source of fat, then a lot of times you are forced on the road to eat that fried later oil that restaurants and hotels and everyone else thinks. So it's nice to have at least some form of, um, the reason that fat is useful from like a survival stamp in any animal would tell you this, if they could speak our language is that it's, it's more than twice the calories that are in protein and in carbs per, per gram, per you know, precise. And so if you're carrying it around and it's some so much shelf stable, or it can last on the road, that's a really, you know, in a wild environment, that's a sought after source of fuel.
13:21 If you don't have that fuel, you can fast. And that's, that's kinda like my entryway into ketosis, keto. Fat-burning that whole thing. I'm not big on keto dieting. That's not what I'm about at all. Ketosis is more of a bodily function. That's totally natural for, for pregnant mothers, for babies, for children, for adults, it's, it's a state that the body goes in when it's not being, um, you know, forced to deal with sugar all the time or forced to deal with high-glycemic carbs. So fat is super useful, but also like any amount of extra calories on your metabolism at some point is going to add up to extra, you know, extra body fat or extra muscle. It depends on how you do that. That's why, you know, I am not anti carb. I am pretty anti sugar, but I, I drink sugar sometimes. Like, uh, especially after runs, I eat sugar sometimes, especially after big workouts, there are ways that when you partition these different macronutrients, you that's, that's where the real, um, science kicks in.
14:30 And that's where you don't have to understand the science necessarily. But if you save your carbs for post-workout and you try to do some workouts fasted, or, or, you know, with a little bit of fat to kind of get you some energy, but not too much without the carbs, um, you can, you can, I mean, you could get really skinny. You can get really fat, you can get really muscular, same thing with a vegan diet. If you're, you know, using your macronutrients in a specific way, um, there are so many different ways to do this.
15:01 What you do,
15:03 You kind of have to know what you're doing, you know, and you do have to treat your body as an N equals one experiment and be honest, like if something isn't working out for you, like face that and, and, and try to make a little shift. Hmm. Yeah.
15:16 One thing that, uh, I heard Dave talk about and Darren had said it as well, actually. Yeah.
15:20 Darren, we were kind of going down the road, which I'd love your thoughts on this too. After I have a buddy of mine
15:25 That was diagnosed with ALS about a year ago. Yeah. Yeah. And, uh, so I'd love to get some thoughts on that. Like, I mean, this guy, he totally switched his diet over to a lot. Plant-based um, but just a lot of micronutrients. I mean, celery, like he's, you know, like, I mean literally like squeezing and not squeezing, um, uh, juicing, juicing. Yeah. And, and so, you know, basically he has like a glass, like tall glass, like this, of like celery juice, first thing in the morning, like he's going hardcore and it's actually helped him, um, to the, to the point. But I'd love to get your thoughts on that. But we were, um,
16:03 I'm trying to think where I was going before I got sidetracked on that.
16:06 We were talking, um, just about the, you know, the differences between like, okay, if you put, you know, you got people that are all plant-based right. And then you got people that are like somewhat plant-based, but kind of not like, you know what I mean? Like, so to me, it's, like I said to you, and that was saying that, you know, when you follow these people and you're trying to get the best information, it's like, I just want to live a long time. Like, that's it right? Like, I've got, I got a family, like I got a new grand baby. Like I just, I want to be here, man. Like, I want to, I want to live for a long time. And I know Dave, he puts out there, I'm going to look through it. I want to try to live to 180. I know that's a, that's a click baity thing too.
16:48 Right. It's like, yeah. Okay, sure. Right. But it's, I do want to live long. Right. And so we just want to know what is the best things. And especially for us entrepreneurs, like, I mean, stress is the number one killer. We all know that. So how do we reduce all that stuff? But then how do we put the right stuff in our body and not go, Oh, wait a minute. Now this person where you're saying, I shouldn't do that because then I'm going to have this. Oh, I know what it was. Hold on a second. A biome. Have you heard of that company? What'd you say it's called via home? Uh, basically I, I that's, that's where I started with Dave. Um, cause David recommended getting like your levels all tested and I guess they'll basically do a fecal matter and then they'll you'll know everything metals in your body, like all of that stuff. And Darren had said the same thing, but he was talking more about my buddy, but he was saying, everyone should do that to see where we're deficient because everyone isn't right. You know? So plant-based like, you know, raw, you know, like what, what, what is your thing mean? You're an active guy. You're, you're an entrepreneur. You've got a lot of stuff on your plate. What do you do as an entrepreneur and someone that's busy and stressed out at times to keep your body running, right? What's your secret in our bodies?
18:06 Right. I believe when we get out of our own way, a lot of the time I'm fast, like in the middle of the week, especially when I'm gunning it and which I have been for several weeks, I'll do like 10 or 12 interviews in a row over the course of two days. So more than two hours or whatever. And I, I don't remember the last time I ate a meal in the middle of one of those. And I've been doing this for like 10 years now. Right. And, um, intermittent fasting is also something that I started about 10 years ago doing a 16, eight fast, where I pushed breakfast out until 11:00 AM, 12:00 AM and then eat dinner and, and might snack in between or whatever. But the longer that I did that, uh, I found that it was easier to push it even longer. Um, and now there's no, there's no like rainbow waiting for you there.
18:53 It doesn't get better. The harder you do it necessarily. Right. But, um, but for me after doing it for a while, especially being an entrepreneur, I very much enjoy the essentially like liquid diet where I may have a little bit of, um, fat, like heavy cream or MCT oil, coconut oil in my coffee, like a tablespoon at a time, which is very little, you know, a hundred, 200 calories at a time, maybe max over the course of that day before my first meal. And then I'll break it at around 3:00 PM, 4:00 PM, sometimes five or 6:00 PM. And I'll eat for about two, three or four hours, a big meal of clean food. And if it's post-workout, you know, um, like I said, I'm not completely against cars. I think if you keep them below, you know, 175, or certainly 50, no matter what your body composition, you're going to be able to do some metabolic stuff that you weren't doing before, specifically burning fat.
19:51 And that can be really useful for diesel long interview days. Or, you know, for me, I've been on camera as a performer or a musician for a long time, and sometimes you just cannot eat for 16 hours. You're on set. Right. And so, um, I see it as kind of like a survival skill, something that makes you better at your job. And now pretty much all of us are performers on webcams and computers and phones, whether we like to get or not. And, uh, and, and what people don't always realize is that sometimes eating a meal can steal your energy. It really, you know, we've all experienced wanting to take a nap after breakfast or after lunch wanting to take a nap after dinner, to me seems like a very reasonable thing, right? Like eating a big meal at six, the sun starts going down, you're hanging out, hopefully relaxing.
20:39 I get really sleepy. And I like to follow that as if we were camping. Like when the sun goes down at eight or, you know, seven 30, I'm out by eight 30, you know, I'm going to sleep so that I can wake up with the sun the next morning, hopefully without an alarm. So, um, before you try to take diet and nutrition out of the equation and make it its own thing with all of these specific little parameters that you have to follow, you'd be so much better served by taking just that, that Eagle eye view of your entire life, your entire lifestyle, what your goals are for your, for your business, uh, as well as kind of like your physique, your body composition, all these things. If you get clear about what you want longterm, then it becomes easier to set up the daily practices that you need to put those things.
21:31 But so anyway, intermittent fasting is, is my biggest tool. And it's one that I, I really think is more important to some degree than even the foods that you choose to eat in that eating window. Because what it's doing is it's giving your entire metabolism, your entire digestive system and your body a break, obviously, you know, intermittent fasting or extended fasting, not good for kids, not good for pregnant women, not good if you have a history of eating disorders and that sort of thing. So when you combine the intermittent fasting, eating window type thing, which also could just look like not snacking all the time, right? If you just knock those out, you don't have to call it fasting or whatever, just like stop that stop, stop snapping, like all day, try to snack for a few hours a day and see if you feel better after a while of doing that.
22:22 Cause what happens is for me, I had to eat every like two or three hours when I was in my teens and in my twenties for the most part, without getting totally hangry out of gas, cranky, just feeling like I really needed something. And I was super hungry all the time. Then I realized that when I pushed out breakfast to later in the day, I didn't get hungry until I started eating. And that's, um, you don't want to abuse this, but it's really important to embrace the times when you can just follow your own hunger. And if you're not hungry and your body feels good, that's a really excellent state because you are mobilizing fatty acids, you are burning fat. Um, you don't burn fat like a day at a time though, or a minute at a time hours at a time, it takes weeks. It takes months. It takes years kind of like building muscle. It's the little things that you do every day that really add up to massive results over the long term for better or worse.
23:17 No, no, a hundred percent. And I gotta admit, like I've been intermittent fasting now for quite a while to at least probably two years. Uh, and honestly, like I feel better. I do not feel hungry. It actually saves me time and don't have to cook breakfast. I don't have to clean dishes and put them away and all of that stuff. Right. It's like, for me, it's like out of the equation and you're right. I can go long. I can go to dinner
23:46 Time, like, and I'm not missing anything. It's just, okay, it's maybe two o'clock and I'll be like, alright, you know what? I'm going to go ahead and I'm going to make a, an egg and I'm going to make a, a little bit of broccoli or I'm going to have, uh, maybe some, uh, some cucumbers and many cucumbers, little Himalayan salt, and I'm good. Right? Like, and I'm good. And then dinner comes and, and I'm, I'm, I'm eating, but it's not that I have to eat, but you're right. Once you start eating, that's when I get hungry.
24:13 Yeah. Yeah. You know, one thing that you want to be careful of and myself included is you don't want to push all of those calories to the end of the day and have a late dinner. You know, the Italian three hours, you know, that goes until midnight. That's not great for our digestion. You know, you don't want to be just like putting all of that on your system as you go to sleep. Cause that can disrupt your sleep. So if you are going to do this, it's best to eat several hours before bedtime. And so try not to have too late of a dinner, easier said than done, you know, for everyone's lifestyle. Yeah. Well, I get a lot of questions about shift work and being a recovering musician who used to play, like I would start my set sometime sometimes at midnight at one 30 in the morning at two 30 in the morning, I'd go onstage and smells crazy.
25:01 Like good luck trying to keep your health. If that's what you're, you know, just like working in the emergency room all night. These are things that you have to, um, take account of and, and hopefully work through, but with in a different way than, than I'm doing it, going to bed at eight 30 or nine, o'clock, you know, waking up without an alarm, it's not going to work if you have shift work. So once again, that everyone is absolutely an individual, I think this is one of the biggest, you know, trends or new fads that we have to focus on people as individuals. And really, really treat that more than saying, look at this best diet ever look at this best supplement or food or, or workout or whatever, because these are all just tiny little components of a giant machine that is your life and your body.
25:48 Yeah. And, and so, so you, you don't classify yourself as like keto or plant-based, or you're just eating whole foods and you're eating what is good for your body and in your, in your eyes and from through testing of what, what you like and what you can have and what you don't like and how it reacts to your body. Is that accurate?
26:10 Yeah. But I'll give a general overview of sure. That'd be good. The way that I think about it. And I would encourage more than looking into keto, paleo wild. Like I called my book, the wild diet, not because I want to own wild, but because they can't really be owned, it means nature, but natural doesn't mean anything more. So words are really tricky. And I would encourage people not to get too caught up in the identity based piece of all of this. Cause that's what really gets you into trouble. A vegan who can never eat mayonnaise or eggs, right. You know, tends to get himself into trouble the fall or whatever. You can do that with whatever dietary paradigm. So I would encourage people to look, look back, look into the history of Banting vegan diets in the 18 hundreds. Like you can find this stuff really easily actually.
26:56 And also Weston a price was the driver of a lot of the research that looked into nutrient density and diets. And this is from like the forties. This is, this is a long time ago, but it's what a lot of ancestral based eating and nutrition and lifestyle is based upon. And what you want to do is focus on animals, do something called high grading of food. So if a bear is, you know, giant grizzly needs tons of calories and it needs lots of nutrients as well. And so it kind of follows its intuition. And when there are all of those giant salmon that it's eating, just like as many as it wants in that typical example, it will, these bears will tend to go to the organs first, they'll go to the organ meats because they're the most nutrient dense cats. A lot of predator species will do just that they'll throw away or ignore the muscle meats once they've filled up on the fat and the nutrient dense.
27:55 And so that was a giant finding from looking at indigenous tribes and what's the price was a dentist actually. So he looked at bone quality in people's teeth. And if you look in someone's teeth and they have soft teeth, they probably have soft bones. If you have teeth problems, you have problems with their bones, most likely. And so he was just fascinated when he, when he went down that rabbit hole, looking at all these indigenous tribes that were eating bugs and, you know, just like climbing trees and not engaging in anything remotely close to what Westerners would call nutrition, who didn't struggle with cancer. Weren't overweight, didn't have diabetes, didn't fall apart in their twenties, thirties, forties, or even eighties. You know, a lot of them, as long as they didn't get eaten by a tiger or whatever. So looking at that nutrient density in foods, um, requires for, for animal based foods.
28:52 It needs to come from a healthy and, um, and you need it to be either preserved or eaten fresh. Same thing goes with plant food. If you pick something before it's right. Or if you pick it like, like a lot of apples, they sit on ships or they sit in containers just waiting for a year before you actually buy them at the grocery store. And so all the nutrients are essentially gone. The sugar is still there, but you it's just a bag of sugar now. Whereas if you pick something out of your backyard, it's still essentially alive. And when you look at this holistically, it's not about the tiny little amount of B12 that's in it, or a little bit of calcium. It's really about the whole picture. These foods tend to have, you know, if they have a toxin, they have the antidote, you know, like the toxins in, on the skin and the antidotes inside the meat or whatever of the veggie or the fruit.
29:45 And so nature really tries to give us these, these ideal foods in wonderful little packages so that if you do eat them whole not, not whole foods in the Amazon sense of the word, because a lot of that is processed foods. You have to be really clear on semantics and terminology. And that's definitely used against us. That's one of the reasons it's so difficult to do this is because we're being confused on, but when you go to nature and you try to eat fresh foods from nature, I eat, volume-wise mostly plants, but the plants per volume have almost no calories in them. So that also becomes confusing. Like, yeah, I've, I'm plant based, but I, but what does that mean? Right? Like it used to mean something where the majority of my food volume comes from plants, but then the vegans decided to call everything plant-based, which is supposed to mean a hundred percent or whatever.
30:40 Yeah, yeah, it is.
30:41 But as long as you do focus on getting those fresh foods from the plant kingdom, if you'd like, if you get the right mix of macronutrients, right. Fat protein carbs from those, you can totally do that, especially for awhile. But I, I really see the value in traditional bone broth, eating nose to tail, um, eating organ meats to some degree, uh, is a part of eating nose to tail. And just getting a wide variety of foods is extremely important because then your kind of spackling the gaps in all your nutrient deficiencies, uh, with your food. And then, uh, to your point, I would absolutely recommend that people do get tested for deficiencies, especially vitamin D. Most people are deficient in vitamin D. Um, there are other ones that you can't really test for in the same way, but we do know are useful like vitamin C.
31:35 And it's so interesting because everyone's looking for that, that new sexy magic bullet supplement food workout or whatever. Whereas like there have been decades and decades of extremely compelling research about how bad vitamin D deficiency is for us. And, and we all know how easy it is to like take some vitamin D or go out in the sun, but people don't do it. And so the vast majority of, so Matt, the vast majority of us are at huge risk for getting sick for getting disease or just being suboptimal, because we don't have the, you know, critical levels that we need of these really boring well known nutrients.
32:18 Yeah. I, yeah. I agree with you. I think vitamin D it just, for me personally has been like an eye opener, just like, it's so simple. I take it every morning too, but again, I probably should get tested to see how deficient, and then am I taking the right amount? And like, I always do vitamin C and vitamin D first thing in the morning, I do that with my
32:40 Full glass of water, reverse osmosis, little Himalayan salt, like, you know, I'm trying to do it all right. Try to do it all right. And, uh, you know, and actually one thing that Darren, he went down a rabbit hole on water in, in general, just like water is not equal. And, um, and he was even talking about like having it in a blue bottle and then putting it in the sun because then it gets the sun's energy. And like, it's pretty cool stuff, man. And he was even talking about having like, um, uh, you know, just different gratitude sayings on it that actually by the sun penetrating that could also give it positive energy and like all that stuff. And I'm like, it might be woo man, but I love it. Like, I love the idea of being drinking at me and like, love, it says, love. I'm going to drink love right now, but love into my body. You know, exactly.
33:25 My mom was totally into that. She's a holistic nurse practitioner, so that wacky and she's literally sent us many blue bottles to put water in. And we do that sometimes. And, you know, I hated it growing up cause I thought it was so tacky and just like he has all these like angel sayings up on these little plaque guards. And, um, as, as I kind of went through the rebellion stage and then I've come back, I love that stuff in moderation, but it does become metaphysical. The hidden messages in water water is something that we really take for granted. That was absolutely like the holiest of Holies for almost everyone who came before us. Uh, one of the things that we really, my wife and I got interested in over the years, looking into the ancestral health and all of that is looking into the ancestral spiritual beliefs that a lot of these, these tribes and the indigenous had all over the world.
34:22 And, um, especially when you explore some of these ruins, we live out in the Southwest and the middle of nowhere of Colorado, but we're surrounded by these, these old Ponderosa Pines opinion, pine trees that were literally planted as groves and manipulated by the Utes, uh, the Ute tribe who, who lived out here for hundreds of years. And so some of these trees are like 600 years old and they still went to the water source or they still have like a little message that's, that's written into the tree essentially by bending it and tying it down over the years, they had a language where they would communicate with each other through the trees and they would set up like these giant forests as groves. And, um, water was the most important part of all this. Like when you go to these ancient places, you realize like one of the first things you see is all these little troughs or how they, how they directed the water in specific ways.
35:16 And, um, and then, you know, later in life as well, I, I got into studying Daoism and I met some, some really like masters. We live in a spiritual community now, um, in Colorado. And so I've met a lot of people who live in the medic metaphysical, right. And a couple of them have said to me that they never water without blessing at first, just in their mind saying, I love you or thank you, or whatever is simple enough where it's like, what's that going to hurt? If that doesn't work, then like, whatever, what did you have to lose?
35:53 Oh, hundred percent like, yeah. What do you have to lose? How can that not feel good? Right. To say, looking at a bottle or even just cause it's blue, you're reminding yourself, even though, even if the, the light penetrating blue doesn't have anything to do with it, I'm, I'm recognizing it. And I'm thinking it, and I'm putting it into my body. Um, which I just thought was pretty awesome. Uh, just even him bringing that up and they did a whole episode, um, he said they didn't even go as deep as they, as they really did behind the scenes and stuff, but there's a lot of just, there's a lot of science behind it, but there's just a lot of just the energy in the, in the water where it comes from the stream, the sun hitting it in the certain elevation and bow, you know, and it's carrying molecules and like all this stuff that I don't really understand, but I find it fascinating and it makes me appreciate water. And it also makes me look at it and go, I don't want to drink water out of a plastic bottle necessarily. Right. Like it's like, yes, if I was, you know, thirsty as heck and that's all I had. Yes. But in the same breath, I'm going to do everything I can to not because I know it's not the same, like purified water, like what really is that? You know what I mean?
36:58 Yeah, exactly. And, and the, the standards of quality for water are shockingly low. Um, same with food, same with food, but, uh, we've lived in over a dozen different States. My wife and I have tested high in led multiple. Wow. And we do our absolute best to avoid all these heavy metals and to drink really clean water and all the rest of it. But if you're in Arizona, there's lead in your water. If you're in Colorado, there's lead in your water. If you're in the Northeast, if you're in the UK, there's a lead in your water everywhere. It's, uh, you know, industry has been destroying our environment for way longer than we've been alive. So even where I grew up in New Hampshire, um, we would fish in a little pond next to our house, which was also in the middle. And, uh, at some point, you know, we, we would eat the little perch and the pick roll, and we go and get the sunfish sometimes and all the rest of it.
37:54 And when we, this is like, after we grown up, I don't even remember exactly how it happened. My dad was able to test some of the fish or the water, and it was extremely high in mercury lead arsenic because of all the runoff from the bestest mills and the Cedar mills and some of the mining and just like all the rest of it that happens not just in New Hampshire, but in the smokey mountains, even if you're totally remote, it's like their minds up there. And these mountains, like anywhere, there's a ski way. There's probably a mine there first and our water, everything leaches down, um, and, and collects and concentrates. And then, uh, you know, when it comes through the, the tap and through the pipes, a lot of that infrastructure really old too. So the water quality is something that is so easy to ignore, but once you really start paying attention to it, and you have some, some idea of how bad the situation is, you really get more conscious about it. And I think that's probably the most important thing. If you're drinking water consciously with a sense of gratitude that does something to you physically physiologically, whether you're talking metaphysical or not. We know that when we consume food and substances in different, you know, psychological States, it has a different effect on our bodies. Yeah.
39:09 Um, okay. I know you've got to run. I do have a couple more quick questions. One is, what's your, what's your thoughts on fruit? Cause we hear don't eat fruit, don't eat a lot of it, too much sugar. Um, you know what, what's your thoughts on, I'll just give you a little side note. What I really have been liking is frozen grapes. Like loving them, take them, wash them, organic, throw them in, in the freezer. Little, little, uh, you know, little containers. So at night I can just have a few and it's, it's, they're so good. Cause it's not like you can just chop right through them. You kind of got to bite through them and they're really good. I love it. So anyway, I want to know if I'm doing it wrong. I love, I love frozen grapes, like a handful.
39:49 I think that's a perfect way to eat fruit. Okay. People can't, it's not useful to be for or against fruit. You know what I mean? Because there's so many different kinds. There's so many different ways that you could be eating it. And so many other things you could eat them. So I think the best way to do it is exactly like you are eating it in its whole form, especially if there's some way to manipulate it, like freezing or leaving, leaving the shell on for nuts, that sort of thing. You know, where you have to do that amount of like processing with your mouth or like crunching so that you can't just pound through them. Cause that's what you want to avoid. You want to look like you're hounding through fruit, pounding through grapes that are, um, you know, room temperature would be so much easier and so much easier to do kind of just unconsciously you're on your phone or watching something like pop up.
40:39 So to the extent that you can avoid that, treat fruits as, as a treat, you know, that's that's as a condiment for your, if you're eating a big old salad, throw some sliced up fruit or a few wedges of Apple, grapefruit orange, like have fun with it. This, I see it as a way to have fun with your food, but don't use fruit to fill up right like that. So that's the critical difference where a lot of people try to, you know, eat an Apple or eat a bunch of watermelon or eat a bunch of grapes. And they're like, why, why am I still hungry? And it's because you're just pounding sugar this whole time. And if you look at, if you look at fruit, historically speaking, it's been manipulated to be five, 10 times more sugary with less fiber. And so when you have that combination, it's, it's out of sync with nature.
41:31 When you have the fiber combined with in that whole package, the fiber is usually in, in the skin, if it's an edible skin. Um, but it can be in the meat of the fruit as well. When you, when you start just like adding a ton of sugar and taking away all that fiber that's when you have to treat it definitely as a, as a treat that you eat, not a whole grapefruit at a time, but like a couple slices at a time. So you get the flavor you get. Yes. There, there are so many different compounds in many of these different fruits and veggies that you want access to, but don't try to fill up on it. I think that's the major.
42:09 Hmm. Yeah, no, I think that's great. And again, that's kind, kinda where I'm at. Like, you know, if I have fruit, it would be those frozen grapes or it might be an Apple, like you said, or maybe it'll be just a few wedges. Um, but I'm not big on like, okay, I'm hungry. I'm going go eat three apples. You know what I mean? Like I'm not going to go to, yeah. We're not going to do that. Um, okay. Last question. And then I know you gotta run. Um, so it's going to go back to what I started with. Okay. My, my buddy, he got diagnosed, um, and just to kinda throw it out there, um, he ran a pest control company years. Wow. Okay. Okay. So just to set the stage, uh, cause I did ask Darren that I'm like, what are your thoughts on that? And he's like, well, if I was a betting man, which I'm not, but if I was a betting, man, I'd say probably I'd bet my farm on that. But, um, but it, you know, it is what it is, right. It is what it is. Um, what are, what you just got that news, whether it's yourself or someone you love, what, what's the first thing that you're thinking that you, that you need to do to try to combat this or to try to slow it down or whatever.
43:14 Yeah. I'll just comment on what happened to me and my wife about a year ago when we were poisoned by carbon monoxide.
43:21 I don't remember the story. I remembered the story. Yeah, that's correct.
43:25 Yeah. And can happen to people very, very easily. Yeah. It shouldn't be able to happen it's against the law or, you know, the companies that have these rental houses and vehicles to not have the right equipment to monitor for carbon monoxide. But many of them still do not, even though they're breaking the law. So anyway, watch out for that. But long story short, we were staying in a, in a place in Colorado that we were renting furnace, uh, had some major problems and that furnace was off gassing. Um, you know, basically pollution straight up into the house, into the bedroom. And a lot of that was carbon monoxide. And that, that essentially suffocates you from the inside out where the carbon monoxide will displace the oxygen in, in your body. So it makes it really difficult to breathe. You're, you're breathing really heavy all the time, but you're not getting oxygen at the same time, really rough stuff.
44:19 So anyway, when you're, when you're poisoned or when you're really sick, that was one thing that I learned is that it doesn't necessarily manifest all that differently. Cause we didn't know that it was carbon monoxide. Right. We thought it might've been coming from the water. We thought, wow, it could have been coming from a variety of different things, but when you're really sick or when your body is dealing with a lot of toxins as we were, um, it manifests in very similar way. You just get super sick. It's hard to track it down, but there are certain things that you can do to, to help come back. And that would be, um, some of them are really obvious. We did not drink at all for many, many months as we were recovering, um, pushing it too hard too soon is one of the biggest risks that is not obvious.
45:05 You know, even for me as a musician coming back, um, I try, I try to stay, I try to keep my chops up musically. I try to keep my physique up for athletic events and both of those were taken away by getting sick. So coming back, I came back too fast with I was moving boxes and stuff. And, and so, uh, between kind of doing some of that lifestyle stuff too hard and trying to practice too much on guitar and piano, I got really bad tendonitis. Now send me back. Um, so I would say just to generalize, you know, anyone who's kind of in that position where you kind of hit a new rock bottom, you're trying to come out, try to be patient with yourself. Remember that, that your conditioning, whether it's your, your chops in your business, playing music or, you know, your, your athletic events and your just body composition, it's those little things over a long time that are gonna do it.
46:06 So don't try to force any of those big workouts. Don't try to force like a giant reorganization of your entire lifestyle and way of eating and that sort of thing. I would encourage people to go for the really simple things, try to become more conscious about and, and use this as an opportunity because unfortunately, most people out there don't value health until they've almost died. And so they've gotten that, that thing or someone really close to them has almost died or actually died. And so if you're in that situation, then use that to clean everything up as much as you can, to get smart about what the terminology actually means about what the science actually says, not what the people say. The science says, what, you know, like use this as an opportunity to do some research, to educate yourself on whatever your own condition might be.
47:04 And also, you know, how nutrition and movement fits into that because I always go back to the holistic thing. Um, and you'd be amazed by what some people can come back from. Like I did not know if I'd ever be able to do an interview again or, or really stand out or go for another run just about a year ago, almost exactly a year ago. And I did to take six months from not working and it destroyed our business. It destroyed us, but we had no other options. So coming back is really just one step at a time. And if you try to tackle, if you get a cancer diagnosis, if you get a really nasty diagnosis, try not to be swallowed up by it. Cause you're still here. And when you can come back from something, I mean, it's just, I'm so amazed by how incredible our bodies, if you, if you treat them the right way and you try to feed them the nutrients they need, avoid those deficiencies, don't overeat too much and move responsibly. Then that's pretty much like max level, no matter what your condition is, if you can do those things for the rest of your life, that's, what's going to keep you alive so much more so than any magic bullet or magic thing that might be coming in the future. It's the old school stuff that you do every day. That really matters. Yeah. I agree, man. It's,
48:24 It's going back to basics a lot of times. Um, I will say, uh, you know, that's exactly what my buddy did, who we, he didn't eat that healthy, you know, didn't have a healthy lifestyle, was in the pest control business for years. And uh, and then this thing came up and it started with them, him. He, uh, he was having a tough time, just gripping like a bowl or something. Wow. It was weird, you know, and he's just very active and he's a fishermen and like, he's just always doing stuff and just high energy. And it just, he thought maybe he had a pinched nerve or something like that. And then after about six months got the diagnosis. But even to this day, they don't know much about it. Right? Like they, they don't in the medical doctors. They just want to kind of like, well, this is what's going to happen.
49:07 You might have this much time. But if you do, if you do this one drug, you might get an extra two months and you're like, you know, I'd rather just try to figure it out on my own then. Right. Like, and, and that's pretty much what he's done. And it's, it's been just over a year, I think. And he keeps going back every three months to kind of see where it's progressed and it's not really progressed. So yeah. So then one doctor was like, well, maybe we, you know, maybe it's something else that's kind of like looking like it's ALS you know, kind of thing. And Darren had said that he knew someone that was four years ago, got diagnosed, switched everything up, got their levels, all tested and started filling in all the deficiencies. And they're actually going the other way where they're starting to get stronger four years later. So it's like I said to my buddy, John, I said, listen, man, you're, you're just going to be that, that one that gets in reverses it. And then you're going to share this with the world. That's what's going to happen next.
49:59 Exactly. You see it as an opportunity, you know, you're, for some reason, there's a reason that all this is going down. So let's, let's try to roll with it as much as
50:07 Yeah. Well able, man, I appreciate you so much. Hey, let, let people know where they can hear more about you, your podcasts, all that stuff. And we're definitely going to get you back on. You're going to be my go to guy, man. I love chatting with you, man. Yeah. Yeah.
50:19 It's on me. The podcast is called fat burning man. You can find [email protected] with write-ups and over 300 app. Um,
50:28 Wild superfoods is the name of our supplement company. My new book is called designer babies still get scabies and there's a lot more coming. So fat burning man is probably the best place to find. Awesome. Well able, man, thank you so much and stay safe. Looking great man. After a year. Yeah. I mean looking good, got the hair back. I love the hair. No, love it. And you know what? I want people to go check out your music, man. You guy can rock guys. Good. Really good. Yeah. Good man. I appreciate you. I appreciate you too. Alright. Well there you have it lots to think about, but here's the cool thing I love about Abel is he's not saying his way is the only way what he's saying is it works for him and we have to, we have to really understand our own self and then learn from our body, but also keep it simple.
51:18 Like really that's the big takeaway. Keep it simple. These, these fads or these things that, you know, people are pushing on us or at least let's believe is true, starts to confuse us. But if we just go way back in time and you know, his book, you know, all about eating from the wild really is, you know, it's going back to basic. It's like, what did my grandfather, my grandparents, what did they grow up on? Right. They didn't have all of this other stuff that we're not really taking into consideration. And so really just going back to basics right. And eating good foods in moderation. Um, but also, you know, getting the right amount of sleep or being in the right environment or, you know, the, the little bit of, uh, uh, you know, gratitude or, uh, you know, thinking about the water that you're drinking.
52:08 And that was really cool that I, I actually, uh, touched on with him. And he said that he used to think it was weird when his mother was doing it, but now he thinks it's amazing when, you know, you're, you're thinking about the water that you're drinking and being very grateful and even having a gratitude message with it or blessing the water or just things that he has learned through the years. But then also thought years ago, because he was a kid just as I was. And we thought, nah, we don't care about that stuff. We change as we, as we grow. That's one thing my father taught me a long time ago was that your mind is going to change every 10 years. And I believe that now, now that I'm older because there's things that I thought then that I don't think now, or my mind changed.
52:51 So again, just some random thoughts there for you, but Oh, you got a lot from this. Again, it doesn't have to be a big change in your life or your diet. It's just usually those small little things that make a big, big difference. So anyway, check out, Abel James gone over to his podcast, check out his, uh, his content over there. It's just a great all around guy and he's amazing. Two guy can played. Guy can sing, check out his music. All right, guys. So that's it. That's going to wrap up this episode as always remember, I'm here for you. I believe in you and I am rooting for you, but you have, you have to come say it with me. Say loud, say it. Proud. Take action. Have an awesome, amazing day. And I'll see you right back here on the next episode. Now let's rock your brand.
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1. Behaviorist Perspective
1.1. Major theorist in this area is Skinner
1.1.1. “A child is considered to be a “blank slate”, and learning occurs due to associations established between stimuli, responses, and events that occur after the response behavior. Language is learned as a result of these associations” (Otto 30).
1.1.2. Meaning that children learn through interaction with their families and caregivers.
2. Nativist
2.1. Major theorist in this area is Chomsky
2.1.1. "Chomsky contends that all people inherently have the capacity to acquire language due to cognitive structures that process language differently from other stimuli" (Otto 28).
2.1.2. States that children are actually born with the ability to communicate and it will develop even if they are not nurtured.
3. cognitive developmentalist
3.1. Major theorist in this area is Piaget
3.1.1. "The emphasis of this perspective is that language is acquired as maturation occurs and cognitive competencies develop" (Otto 30)
3.1.2. Piaget proposed that cognitive growth leads to language acquisition.
4. interactionist
4.1. Major theorists in this area are Vygotsky, Bruner, Halliday
4.1.1. This perspective explains that the acquisition of language in young children happens because they keep trying to communicate with the people around them and they gain their language through those attempts.
4.1.2. Meaning that children have to acquire language, because they need to be able to talk in their social circles so that they can be a functioning part of society.
5. Reference: Otto. Language Development in Early Childhood, 3rd Edition. Pearson Learning Solutions. <vbk:0558415040#outline(6.1.1)>. |
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Dept. of Chemistry’s Colloquium Series Features Brian Coppola on March 28th
Posted by on Monday, March 21, 2016 in Events, News.
Real Work is Better than Homework
Dr. Brian Coppola, American Chemical Society Fellow and 2009 CASE/Carnegie US Professor of the Year will give a Chemistry Department Colloquium Monday, March 28, 4:15-5:30 in Stevenson Center 5211.
Prof. Coppola is well known for his work in Instructional development; the abstract for his talk and two relevant recent publications are listed below. Dr. Michelle Sulikowski will be hosting Prof. Coppola and invites requests for individual or group meetings with Dr. Coppola; email
Real (or authentic) work has purpose, is defined by its own results, considers its audience, involves editing and feedback, often involves collaboration, and results in constructed meaning and a polished product. In the academic world, a research publication is an excellent example of real work. We have generalized the concept of “real work” and developed a set of instructional design principles that we think anyone can use to move academic assignments from the realm of homework to that of real work. In this presentation, I will provide an overview of these real work principles, provide numerous examples of these in the area of organic chemistry, and include, perhaps most importantly, the mechanism we use to enable faculty to pursue their instructional development ideas.
Relevant publications
Coppola, B. P. “Do Real Work, Not Homework” In, Garcia-Martinez, J.; Serrano-Torregrosa, E., Eds. Chemistry Education: Best Practices, Opportunities and Trends. Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH, 2015;pp. 203-257.
Coppola, B. P. “Advancing STEM teaching and learning with research teams” In Baldwin, R., Ed. “Improving the Climate for Undergraduate Teaching and Learning in STEM Fields” New Directions in Teaching and Learning (No. 117) San Francisco: Jossey-Bass; 2009; pp. 33-44.
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Chapter Overview
A farther description of the desolation of the land, verse 1-11.
An earnest call to repentance, verse 12-17.
A promise of all good things to the penitent, verse 18-27.
A prophecy of the Messiah's kingdom, verse 28-32.
Verse 1
Blow ye - The prophet continues his exhortation to the priests, who were appointed to summon the solemn assemblies.
Verse 2
A day of darkness - A time of exceeding great troubles and calamities. And this passage may well allude to the day of judgment, and the calamities which precede that day. As the morning - As the morning spreads itself over all the hemisphere and first upon the high mountains, so shall the approaching calamities overspread this people. A great people - This seems more directly to intend the Babylonians.
Verse 3
A fire - The Chaldeans, as a fire shall utterly consume all things. Behind them - What is left behind is as burnt with a flame. As Eden - Fruitful and pleasant.
Verse 6
Blackness - Such as is the colour of dead men, or the dark paleness of men frightened into swoons.
Verse 7
Verse 8
Verse 9
Runs to and fro - This seems not proper to these insects, but it well suits with soldiers, that conquer a city and search all places for plunder. Run upon the wall - To clear the wall of all the besieged. The houses - Either forsaken by the inhabitants, or defended by such as are in them. Like a thief - Suddenly, unexpectedly, to spoil if not to kill.
Verse 10
The earth - A divine hyperbole. But this also may have a reference to the great day.
Verse 11
Utter his voice - Summon them in and encourage them as a general doth his soldiers. His army - Of locusts and insects, and of Chaldeans signified by these.
Verse 13
And repenteth him - He turneth from executing the fierceness of his wrath.
Verse 14
He will return - God doth not move from one place to another; but when he withholds his blessings, he is said to withdraw himself. And so when he gives out his blessing, he is said to return. And leave a blessing behind him - Cause the locusts to depart before they have eaten up all that is in the land.
Verse 16
The children - Though they understand little what is done, yet their cities ascend, and God with pity looks on their tears. These that suck - Their cries and tears may perhaps move the congregation to more earnest supplication to God for mercy. So the Ninevites, Jonah 3:7,8. The bridegroom - Let the new married man leave the mirth of the nuptials and afflict himself with the rest.
Verse 17
The porch - That stately porch built by Solomon, 1 Kings 6:3. The altar - The altar of burnt-offering, which stood at some distance from this porch, and here are the priests commanded to stand, fasting and praying, whence they might be heard and seen by the people in the next court, in which the people were wont to pray. To reproach - Famine, though by locusts is a reproach to this thine heritage; it will be greater reproach to be slaves to the nations signified by the locusts, therefore in mercy deliver us from both one and the other.
Verse 20
The northern army - That part of the locusts which are toward the north. With his face - The van of this army shall be driven into the dead sea, east of Jerusalem. The hinder part - The rear of this army shall be driven into the west sea. His stink - The stench of these locusts destroying and lying putrified on the face of the earth, or the corpses of the Assyrians slain and unburied.
Verse 22
Their strength - Bring forth as much as they are able to stand under.
Verse 23
The former rain - The autumn rain which is needful to mellow the earth and fit it to receive the corn. The latter rain - Needful to bring forward and ripen the fruits, accounted the latter rain because these husbandmen and vine-dressers reckoned from seed time to spring and harvest. The first month - That is, our March.
Verse 24
The fats - The vessels into which the liquor ran out of the press.
Verse 25
Restore - Make up to you.
Verse 26
Verse 28
Afterward - After the return out of Babylon, after the various troubles and salvations by which these may know that I am the Lord. I will pour - In extraordinary gifts on the first preachers of the gospel, and in various graces to all believers. Upon all flesh - Before these gifts were confined to one particular nation; but now they shall be enlarged to all nations, and all that believe. Shall prophesy - This was in part fulfilled according to the letter in the first days of the gospel; but the promise means farther, by pouring out of the spirit on your sons and your daughters, they shall have as full a knowledge of the mysteries of God's law, as prophets before time had. Shalt dream dreams - This also was literally fulfilled in the apostles days. But it may mean farther, the knowledge of God and his will, shall abound among all ranks, sexes and ages in the Messiah's days, and not only equal, but surpass all that formerly was by prophesy, dreams, or visions.
Verse 29
My spirit - Of adoption and sanctification.
Verse 30
Wonders - They who read what historians report of these times, will see this fulfilled in the very letter. Blood - Possibly eruption of blood, as some fountains have been reported to have run with blood, prefiguring the great effusion of blood by the sword, and wars following. Fire - Either breaking out of the earth, or lightning in the air.
Verse 31
The sun - Having mentioned the prodigies which were to be wrought on earth, he now specifies what shall be done in heaven. The terrible day - The unholy day of the destruction of Jerusalem; typifying the day of judgment.
Verse 32
Whosoever shall call - Who hearing the gospel repents and believes in Christ. Delivered - Either from those outward afflictions, or which is infinitely better from eternal miseries, which will swallow up the unbelieving world; "and it will aggravate the ruin of those who perish, that they might have been saved on such easy terms." Is it then easy for a non-elect to repent and believe? May he not as easily pull the sun out of the firmament? In mount Zion - In the true church typified by Zion. Jerusalem - In mystical Jerusalem, the church and the city of the Messiah. Deliverance - Temporal and eternal. Shall call - To believe in Christ, and by him to wait for eternal life.
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Firebase Remote Config for Android Apps
Firebase Remote Config is a unique service designed to give you fine-grained control over instances of your apps while they are installed on user devices. By using it, you can reliably modify the looks and behaviors of your apps across your entire user base without publishing updates on Google Play.
If you're thinking that this could be a security risk, let me assure you that Remote Config doesn't let you remotely inject new code into your apps. It only lets you modify, through the Firebase console, the values of certain pre-decided variables that are already present in the code. In fact, you can think of the variables as server-side variables your app depends on.
In this tutorial, I'll show you how to use some of the most powerful features of Remote Config in Android apps.
1. Why Use Remote Config?
The Remote Config API is primarily meant to be used as an alternative to simple hard-coded values in your apps. Examples of such values can be colors, dimensions, delays, and labels.
To better understand the significance of the API, consider the following scenario: You create and publish an app with hard-coded values for the font size and color of all its labels. A few days later, your users tell you that they prefer a larger font size and a different font color. Because the values are hard-coded, in order to change them, you'll now have to modify your code, build the app again giving it a new version number, and republish it on Google Play. That's a lot of work for such a minor fix. Moreover, if the users change their minds, you'll have to do it all over again!
With Firebase Remote Config, you can make the font size and font color remotely configurable variables and use the Firebase console to quickly change their values any time you want, as many times as you want. This modern approach also ensures that the changes happen as soon as possible on the devices of all your users, without them having to manually download any updates.
2. Project Setup
With Android Studio's Firebase Assistant, adding Remote Config to your project takes just a few clicks.
Start by going to Tools > Firebase and choosing Remote Config > Set up Firebase Remote Config in the panel that appears.
Firebase Assistant for Remote Config
Next, press the Connect to Firebase button to associate your Android Studio project with a Firebase project. In the dialog that pops up, select the Create new Firebase project option and press the Connect to Firebase button.
Connect to Firebase dialog
After a successful connection, you can press the Add Remote Config to your app button to add all the required dependencies to your project's Gradle files. When prompted, press the Accept Changes button to complete the project setup.
Project changes prompt
3. Defining Config Parameters
All the variables you want to be able to change remotely must be defined in your Firebase project as Remote Config parameters. So use a browser to log in to the Firebase console, scroll down the Project Overview section to find the Remote Config card, and press the Get Started button.
In the welcome screen of the Remote Config service, press the Add your first parameter button to start adding the variables.
Remote Config welcome screen
Let us define two parameters now: font_size and font_color. The former shall be a number and the latter a string. Make sure you assign reasonable default values to both.
Parameter creation dialog
You should now be able to see the two parameters you created. However, their values will not be available to your app unless you publish them. So press the Publish changes button.
List of parameters
4. Preparing a Layout
To be able to use the parameters we created, add a TextView widget displaying a message in your activity's layout XML file. If you've created a new Android Studio project for this tutorial, feel free to use the "Hello World" TextView widget available by default, but make sure you give it an id.
Inside the onCreate() method of your activity, you can now get a reference to the widget using the findViewById() method.
5. Initializing Remote Config
Our app must be able to work correctly the first time it's opened, even if the user is not connected to the Internet. Therefore, it needs to know both the names and the default values of our Remote Config parameters. Creating a map to store them is a good idea.
Note that the names and default values must be identical to their counterparts in the Firebase console.
We can now initialize a client for the Remote Config service using the defaults map. To do so, first create an instance of the client by calling the getInstance() method of the FirebaseRemoteConfig class, and then pass the map to its setDefaults() method.
At this point, the Remote Config client is ready, and we can start using the values it supplies.
6. Using the Default Values
The FirebaseRemoteConfig instance offers a few intuitively named methods you can use to fetch the values of Remote Config parameters. For instance, you can call the getDouble() method to fetch values that are numbers. Similarly, you can call the getString() method to fetch values that are strings.
The following code shows you how to fetch the values of the font_size and font_color parameters.
Once you have the values, you are free to use them any way you want. For now, let's use them to change the looks of the myMessage widget.
If you run the app now, you will be able to see the TextView widget using the default values of the Remote Config parameters.
App running with default values
7. Fetching the Latest Values
Right now, the Remote Config client is merely returning values from the map we passed to it. To allow it to use values it gets from Firebase, we must call its activateFetched() method.
The activateFetched() method, however, doesn't actually fetch values from Firebase. Therefore, we must call the fetch() method next, which runs asynchronously, to fetch the values.
If you run the app at this point, it will still use the default values. However, if you wait for a few seconds, close it, and open it again, it will start using the values you entered in the Firebase console.
Usually, it's a good idea to let the changed values take effect only when the users open the app the next time. You could attach a listener to the Task object returned by the fetch() method and update your user interface inside the listener, but your users might not like the abrupt change.
You can, however, use the listener for debugging purposes.
8. Changing the Values
Currently, the values in the map match the remote values. To be able to see the Remote Config service in action, we must change the values we mentioned in the Firebase console. So go back to the console and click on one of the parameters you see in the Remote Config section.
In the dialog that pops up, leave the Parameter key field unchanged, but change the value. Similarly, you can change the value of the other parameter too.
Finally, make sure you press the Publish Changes button so that the values become available to the Remote Config client.
Updated values for the parameters
If you open the app now, close it, and open it again, you should see that the TextView widget looks different.
App running with latest values from Firebase
9. Adding Conditions to Parameters
You don't always have to roll out the same Remote Config values to all your users. The Firebase console allows you to add conditions to your parameters such that they return different values to different subsets of your user base. There are many rules you can use to create such subsets. For example, you can target users that belong to a specific country, users with devices running a specific version of Android, or even users who speak a specific language.
Because Firebase manages them transparently, you don't have to make any changes in your code to handle the conditions associated with your parameters.
For the sake of an example, let us now add a condition to the font_color parameter such that its value is blue for Indian users only.
Start by clicking on the parameter in the Firebase console. In the form that appears, click on the Add value for condition drop-down field and select Define new condition.
Add value for condition field
In the dialog that opens next, you'll be able to give a name to your condition and, from the Applies if... drop-down list, select a variety of options that will let you focus in on a specific group of users. To target users of a specific country, you will have to choose the Country/Region option. In the list that appears beside it, you can pick one or more countries. Choose India here.
Condition creation dialog
Once you've filled all the fields, press the Create condition button to finalize the condition.
At this point, your parameter will be able to accept two values instead of one. Leave the Default value field as it is and type in the hex code for the color blue in the conditional value field.
Conditional values dialog
If you publish the changes now, users in India will receive an additional update, and the text in the TextView widget will appear blue to them.
Same app running on devices in different countries
Now you know how to modify an app remotely using Firebase Remote Config and the Firebase console. With some creativity, there's a lot you can do with the service to improve your app's user experience. For example, most developers today use it to change the themes of their apps to mark festive days. Many also use it with Firebase Analytics to run A/B tests on their user bases.
To learn more about Remote Config, do refer to the official documentation.
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Anglo American are looking for an experienced DevOps (Azure) contractor to provide DevOps for an Azure environment and take on release management of a third-party vendor solution.
Please apply if the below is of interest to you, and matches your career experience.
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• Support developers to effectively utilize the Azure DevOps for the life cycle of software development
• Implement build, release, approval pipeline (YMAL) to manage deployment as well as managing role/permission for the team
• Provide support for investigating production issue by analysis logs and trace in Azure resources as well as working with other IT teams (Network, Security)
• Knowledge in deploying Azure resources from a template as Infrastructure as Code
• Coding (C#) and script (PowerShell) to automate the in-house process
• Ensure performance and resource monitoring, and alerting is fit for purpose
• Ensure Azure costs are monitor and resource implementation is as efficient as possible
• Work with the development and support teams to identify, plan and execute service improvements to those systems that are developed
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/15081 | Google Apps Script sheet data to doc using templates course!Learn how to use the power of Google AppScript to power up your Google sheets and Google docs.This course will walk you through how to setup a Google Doc generator using a Google Doc as a template and storing the data in Google Sheets. Source code is included so you can get started quickly includes all methods and classes use for this type of project which can also be used for similar custom applications. Google spreadsheet is used as a data source the scope of this course is how to use Google Script to create Google Docs on the fly. In the courseGoogle Sheets is used as a data source for the listing of created documents and templates storing the doc id and other important data so that it can then be referenced to link out to the Google Doc that was created.Once you start using Google Script you will be amazed at how easy it is and how much power you get with just a few simple built in classes. Google script is JavaScript with a bunch of Google predefined classes, methods. It gives you the ability to connect apps together.Within this project we show you how to access the Google Script editor, all you need is a Google account and you are ready to create apps! Using the script editor you can access your google spread sheet data and use it like a database. Create a template or as many as you like, the app can pull them in dynamically by searching your google drive and pulling them into the script. Use Google script then to read the file contents and select all the fields you want to have inputs for within your template. All this data goes into the Google Spreadsheet which then gets access by the part of the app that creates documents from the template. Open the dialog window select the template, all the fields for the template get populated into the dialog form which allows the user to easily enter values to populate the new template with. Select create and the script will make a new document in your Gdrive folder using the template and updating the fields with new data. All this in a few lines of code built using Google Script.This course is designed to illustrate what can be done with Google Script and how it can be used to create applications that do a lot.Please note that the scope of this course is Google Script, there is some front end coding like HTML,CSS,JavaScript and jQuery which will not be covered in detail! Google Script is pretty muchJavaScript so you need to be familiar with JavaScript in order to follow the course content. Classes and methods that are native to Google Script will be introduced to help help the application. Do to the large number of classes and methods only relevant ones to complete the application will be covered in this course. By the end of the course you will have a clear path on how to develop apps using Google Script to enhance what you can do within your Google Suite of Apps.This course is taught by an instructor with over 18 years of web development experience having worked with Google Script for over 2 years. I’m here to help you learn how to build applications and ready to answer any questions you may have. Join now and see what Google Script can do and how you too can use Google Script to produce some amazing applications.Google Apps Scriptis ascriptinglanguage based on JavaScript that lets you do new and cool things with G Suite products like Docs, Sheets, and Drive. There’s nothing to install we give you a code editor right in your browser, and yourscriptsrun onGoogle’sserversGSuite Services used within this courseDocumentApp : The document service creates and opens Documents that can be edited. Google DocsDriveApp : Allows scripts to create, find, and modify files and folders in Google Drive.SpreadsheetApp : This class allows users to open Google Sheets files and to create new ones. This class is the parent class for the Spreadsheet service. |
global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/15084 | Cooking the Books on Cash for Clunkers
From CNN via NRO:
NEW YORK ( "” What are people trading their clunkers in for? It depends on who you ask.
Trucks tend to be available in more variations than cars. That's because truck buyers have a wider variety of needs than car buyers, General Motors spokesman Brian Goebel said.
"There's just so many different uses for the truck, both retail and commercial, than with car purchasers," he said.
The Edmunds rankings, shown in the NRO link above, actually solve one problem for the Obama administration but create another. The Edmunds list has far fewer foreign cars, overcoming the criticism the program has gotten (not from me!) for promoting sales of non-American nameplates. But it creates another problem, in that most of the cars on the Edmunds list are relatively low MPG, obviating the whole point of the program.
1. Michael:
In my experience, the government using engine and transmission algorithms to come up with mpg leads to less fuel efficient vehicles. I was doing a 50 mile one way commute in a 94 Ford Explorer some years back and was getting 17mpg. I replaced the factory air intake box with an unrestrictive air intake filter and the factory muffler with a free flow muffler. My millage went up to 22mpg. I've done this on RX-7s, VWs, Volvos. These changes can be done on most vehicles and run $100 to $150 for the parts. And most people who can change their own oil can put these parts on.
2. Max:
What fascinates me is that SUVs are usually equated with gaz-guzzling environmental monsters. However, this might be true for the big SUVs and Jeeps from GM and friends, but certainly not true for European-made SUVs.
I got the chance to try out an X3 from BMW in comparison to the Eco-version of the Golf IV. Now, I had to drive a lot of urban routes and city traffic, so this is really very competitive, because in every race on the highway the BMW would win hands down.
But even in inner city traffic, I had to conclude that the SUV from BMW has an average consumption of 7-8 liters per 100 km and the Golf was en par with 8 l per 100 km. Now, the Golf uses gas and the BMW uses diesel, which is a lot more "eco-efficient" (due to a higher efficiency of the motor itself) as a concerned person would put it.
So, I just don't buy it that SUVs are soo bad or can't be comparably eco-friendly, if you buy the right one.
3. Anon:
"...obviating the whole point of the program."
Come on, Warren. That isn't the whole point of the program. The whole point of the program is "cake." As in "The party of cake is always in power."
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/15085 | I just wanted a simple way to code with someone remotely and interact with them like a human
March 20, 2016
Recently I’ve been interviewing for Developer Relations roles. As a technical role, part of the interview process includes evaluation of my technical abilities. Or to put it more simply, writing code while a stranger peers over my shoulder. That normally happens one of two ways. If it’s an in-person interview, I’m writing code on a whiteboard. If it’s over the phone, I’m writing code in a shared Google Doc. Neither of these are how a developer normally writes code. Ever.1 There are tons of opinions out there expounding how technical interviews are broken, so I won’t go down that rabbit hole.
But I figured I could leverage my experiences to create a simple tool to solve a specific problem. Here it is:
Emphasis on the simple here. My aim wasn’t to create a full-blown interview workflow tool or to replicate all the functionality of an IDE.
I just wanted a simple way to code with someone remotely and interact with them like a human.”
As I talked to others about this, I realized it could be used for more than a technical interview:
What else?
Something like this doesn’t exist already?
Surprisingly, no! At least I didn’t find anything free or nearly free that provides a video conference and a shared code editor and is open source2. Know of something? Let me know (@crc)!
In my research I found lots of video conference tools — some free, some not. Google Hangouts, Uber Conference, talky, Skype, and many others provide video conferencing and/or screen sharing. For shared code editing, there are also lots of options: collabedit, kobra, Space, Firepad (which serves as the underlying collaborative editor for some of these other ones), Koding, CoderPad, Codebunk, codeassium, Squad, Codeanywhere, and codeshare.
None of these met all the criteria, which again were:
1. Combine video conference and collaborative code editing,
2. free, and
3. open source.
Codeshare comes the closest but doesn’t look to be open source.
Try it out
Want to see it in action? There are two ways to try it out.
The best way is to click this button to make your own for free.
This will spin up your own private instance of the app for free. You’ll need Heroku and Twilio accounts if you don’t already have them. You’ll also need to generate a few Twilio configuration tokens. The URLs where you’ll get these tokens will be shown to you. It’s really simple!
Or you can check out a live demo. But note that the video/audio might not work if you or your coding amigo are behind a NAT gateway. To handle NAT, Twilio provides a TURN service that relays the audio and video. I’ve disabled TURN relay for the demo app because it costs money and could generate a huge bill for me if hundreds of people start using it!
Please be nice and don’t put anything on here that’s private or you’re not ok losing.
How does it work?
From a high level there are two main pieces to the app: shared code editing and audio/video conferencing. Here’s a diagram showing how the different pieces communicate.
Collaborative Code Conference Architecture
The audio/video conferencing uses WebRTC to establish a peer-to-peer connection between your browser and your coding partner’s browser. WebRTC support in the major browsers is getting better and better. Peer-to-peer audio and video is fully implemented and stable in Chrome and Firefox. And while there haven’t been any official announcements, it looks like Apple is working on adding WebRTC to Safari (hopefully including iOS Safari) in 2016.
The code editor is simply a giant <textarea> with some nice styling and functionality added by the great CodeMirror project. As you type, text changes are wrapped in changeset objects and shared with other browsers viewing the same document. You can think of a changeset like a Git commit. It represents a diff from one document state to another (and a pointer to its parent changeset). Right now the changesets are sent over a WebSocket to the server and then broadcast out. A future iteration might use a WebRTC data channel to share changesets obviating the need for an application server beyond a static file server.
Security and Privacy
Since security and privacy are hot topics right now — see Apple and the FBI — let me clearly state that the coding session is not guaranteed to be private.
There is no login functionality. Anyone who has or guesses the URL of your code conference can see the code and the audio/video. This means your coding session, while obfuscated”, is effectively public.
For those interested in reading more, here is a detailed discussion of the security of WebRTC that passes my bullshit meter” and I believe is accurate. The WebRTC spec requires encryption, so the audio and video is encrypted from browser-to-browser.
Tweet at me, @crc, if you have questions or comments about this!
1. Developer tooling, coding environment, process are all things developers spend days customizing so they can be as efficient as possible. Some might argue we spend too long tweaking our development environment.
2. Free so that it is accessible to all and open-source so that you don’t have to worry about the service provider going out of business and taking the service down with it. |
global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/15092 | Unit 3 – Question 2
Several years ago the Australian Association of Maths Teachers, AAMT, had a focus on codes and cyphers. AAMT published two documents for Caesar cypher and Scytale cyphers.
Here is the link to my google drive file for the Caesar Cypher Wheel:
Here is a link to the Scytale black line master https://drive.google.com/file/d/1FDh75qt0m3q4V7vBSFVSZku7dvTWVtu7/view?usp=sharing
I find that students love a good story. The story of the Enigma code is one that is really engaging. This video is about how the amazing bravery of three sailors who helped to break the Enigma Code. This video is a bit grim, but shows how important code breaking was in WW11. Amazingly, these Enigma machines were commercially available to buy in the decade leading up to the war and many countries had them. However, the Germans modified them to make the coded messages that theirs produced extremely difficult to break by adding extra wheels.
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Buffer overflow in the ntlm_check_auth (NTLM authentication) function for Squid Web Proxy Cache 2.5.x and 3.x, when compiled with NTLM handlers enabled, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a long password ("pass" variable).
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global_05_local_5_shard_00002591_processed.jsonl/15103 | Dan Byström’s Bwain
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Archive for May, 2004
A new beginning
Posted by Dan Byström on May 24, 2004
I’ve been spending the last months writing my first .NET projects using C# (which Jimmy Nilsson talked me into using). Being an old C/C++ programmer I like the C# syntax 10,000 times better than the VB syntax and since they share the same IDE I can’t see any reason to stick with VB any more. Actually, I used to say “I love the Visual part but dislike the Basic part in VB”. With C# I still have the Visual and the Basic is gone.
Anyway, I have spent over 10 years sharpening my VB skills to become as productive as possible. With the advent of .NET, 10 years worth of knowledge has to be updated, getting to know all that’s in the .NET documentation, and more importantly, what’s not in the documentation.
For example, I’ve just learnt that one possible cause of the error “An unhandled exception of type ‘System.ArgumentException’ occurred in system.windows.forms.dll Additional information: Invalid parameter used.” thrown from a thread so that it can’t be catched, might be that a disposed image is, by accident, displayed in a picturebox control. Not very obvious. I also learnt that the .NET Framework, when loading a bitmap from a file, for some reason keeps the file locked until the image/bitmap gets disposed. I still can’t figure out why, but it took me half an hour to realize that this was true. 😦
After plowing through the docs, I still wonder if there is an equivalent to the VB Val function in the Framework – a function that doesn’t throw an error when a non-numerical character is encountered.
My #1 favourite thing so far with VS.NET is the seamless integration between languages. I was in the need of calling a Win32 DLL with a vast number of functions and structures declared in C++ .h files as well as linkage information in .lib-files. Instead of converting them to C#, I just added a C++ project to my C# solution and wrote a wrapper in unmanaged C++! Totally seamless integration in the IDE and even in the debugger! Compare that to writing a DLL or OCX in VC++ 6 and debugging it while using it from VB6 code! I like it, I like, I like it!!!
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