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global_01_local_1_shard_00001926_processed.jsonl/729 | Saturday, 13 April 2013
Dorrie Milner - My Best Christmas Yet 1934
A story in two parts. The first part is the story of Dorrie Milner (an English nanny) and her French friend Beatrice (who Dorrie was caring for) Best Christmas Yet spent in Otz, Austria in 1934. The second part is Dorrie's escape from occupied France in 1940 and the link to that is here.
"In 1934 I took a young French girl to the Austrian Tyrol for Winter. We stayed as paying guests with an Austrian princess whose family had been ruined in the First World War."
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Beatrice & Dorrie
Beatrice and Dorrie
Beatrice and Dorrie
Auf Wiedersehn
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global_01_local_1_shard_00001926_processed.jsonl/731 | Tuesday, September 29, 2009
Sorry for the quick post, MG has her first day of college tomorrow (I'll explain later)... but here's a little something for now...
I almost flipped when my little sister told me about Zubbles - the world's first colored bubbles. They took 10 years to develop and the result is vibrant, in-your-face fun colors, not wishy-washy weakness. And the best part is they don't stain fabric! Seriously, I know they're not going to solve the world's problems, but they will make it a little happier. I can't wait to try some out!
Sunday, September 27, 2009
I'm Back...Finally!
Hello from Chattanooga, we made it!! Or should I say "Hey y'all"? It's been 2 weeks and I'm so happy to be back. I have a month's worth of blog posts written in my head, but guess they don't count if you can't actually read them, huh? Hmm, where to begin?
It was a mad rush to get the house on the market, but I'm really happy with the end result - see pics below. I'm totally in love with the master bedroom's vaulted ceiling and illuminated beams!
Anyway, we packed up the uhaul and, aside from a major scare when Tim thought he'd lost Lavender Kitty in Virginia (we won't talk about that or the panic attack it caused), we made it to Chattanooga in one piece. It's been a bit rough with missing everyone, but I have to say this is a pretty awesome place to live. Lots of artists, festivals, very outdoorsy and a great downtown. It's really inspiring! Now that the house is done I have tons of ideas lined up for new projects - sewing & knitting patterns, kid's crafts, design thoughts, etc. I can't wait to get creating!
PS - for those of you that may be wondering where all my usual crazy paint colors are, I refrained. It was a major lesson for me and I'm happy to say that I actually fully appreciate the "neutrals" that I chose in the end... though they would need a hot pink pillow or something if I was going to live with them for real ;-)
Thursday, September 10, 2009
Oh Alice!
I'm feeling a bit like Alice in Wonderland these days. I've fallen down a hole, can't seem to get out and, instead of a crazy queen, there's paint cans and Sheetrock dust chasing me. Umm yeah, there's a definite lack of sleep happening! I'll be very happy once the uhaul is loaded and the house is listed. Stay tuned for plenty of pics... I can't wait to get back in blogging mode again. Until then, HAPPY day to you and I miss you all!! |
global_01_local_1_shard_00001926_processed.jsonl/752 | How To Make A Wedding Bouquet
Wedding Bouquet
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global_01_local_1_shard_00001926_processed.jsonl/776 | On December 12, 2001 I ran a sidewalk cafe at a local restaurant in San Francisco. Patrons were invited sit on an undersized table and eat off of one of the eight oversized chairs that I constructed. Due to the size of the table if the diners were to be comfortable they had to rest against the persons back that was behind them. I hired a waiterss and I performed/worked as the busboy in my “uniform”.
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Seven Types of Ambiguity Season 1
A psychological mystery told from the shifting perspective of seven characters following a convoluted chain of events triggered when a child is taken and relationships are thrown into crisis. |
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Definitions play important roles in arguments. To see why, lets consider the abortion debate. Both sides agree that killing an innocent human is morally wrong. So, what's the ruckus about? Often, those who are anti-abortion define human life as beginning at conception while those in the other camp say human life begins at some later stage of development--perhaps with the development of a central nervous system. So, it seems that the abortion debate isn't so much about the moral significance killing an innocent human, rather it is about what the definition of "human" is. For our purposes, the key idea is to notice the important role a definition can play in argument.
Last time we looked at some ways in which definitions can be a weakness in an argument. Now we're going to start to look at the flip-side: What are some different ways to use and construct definitions in our own arguments? And of course, how can we do this well?
Extensional and Intensional Definitions
Lets learn a some phancy philosophy talk. Philosophers often talk about two different kinds of definitions. An extensional definition is one that identifies the members of the class it names by indicating instances of the thing being defined. Lets consider some examples. "That" (pointing to the cup on my desk) "is a cup." In this example I name an instance of a larger set--"cups".
We can also give extensional definitions without pointing. In this type of extensional definition we define something by listing instances that are contained in the set of the term being defined. Suppose someone asks me what a carbonated beverage is. I might answer that "Pepsi", "Coke", Sprite", and "Root Beer" are "carbonated beverages." Notice in this definition I'm defining "carbonated beverage" by indicating members (instances) of the set of things included in "carbonated beverage."
Here's another example: Suppose someone asks me what a primate is. To answer I would list all the different species of primate.
When we give an intensional definition we list the essential properties of the term being defined. Usually, this means defining one concept in terms of more familiar ones. For example, a "pen" is an instrument used for writing. A "human" is a creature that has 2 legs and the capacity for rational thought. "Politics" is the study of who gets what and how much.
The Gold Standard: Intensional Definition by Genus and Differentia
In most arguments we can assume the conventional meaning of a term but if we are composing an argument that depends heavily on a certain understanding of a particular term we will want to give as clear and as unambiguous a definition as possible. Often common terms have vague meanings so it's important to qualify them for your reader.
In the gun control debates we often hear "it's our right to own guns." It's not clear whether by "right" the arguer means "legal" right or if they mean something more grandiose like "natural" or "divine" right. When using such terms we need to carefully identify the specific meaning (both as arguers and as evaluators).
To do this we give what's called an intensional definition by genus and differentia. Genus tells us the class of things to which the term belongs and differentia distinguishes it from other things in that class. Lets look at some examples:
A "fork" is an eating utensil (genus) which has pointy prongs and is often used to penetrate the food morsels to facilitate eating (differentia).
"Humans" are primates (genus) that walk upright and are capable of moral reasoning and algebra (differentia).
In order to further clarify our definition we might also want to give some specific examples of things that qualify as being an instance of what we are defining; that is, give some extensional definitions. Eg. "Humans are primates (genus) that walk upright and are capable of moral reasoning and algebra (differentia) and all Americans are humans (extensional definition).
Specific Guidelines for Formulating Good Definitions
Up until now we've discussed what we are generally trying to accomplish when giving a definition. Now lets look at some specific guidelines to help make to process easier to evaluate and follow.
Rule 1: Equivalence
The definition of the term should not contain anything more or less than the term being defined. For example, if I were to define "mug" as "something from which one drinks" this definition would fail to meet rule 1's stipulations. The definition is too broad and also could contain wine glasses, sippy cups, and guitar- shaped margarita cups. In other words, the definition phrase contains more than the term being defined.
On the other side of the equation I might say "'furniture' is something you sit on." This is too narrow and excludes things that are included in the concept of "furniture" like desks and tables.
Rule 2: Essential Characteristics
The definition must identify the essential properties of the thing being defined not the accidental properties. For example: cars are yellow and red four-wheeled vehicles designed for transportation. "Yellow" and "red" are accidental features of cars, they are not essential to a car being a "car."
Essential properties are the properties that are necessary for a thing or concept to be that thing or concept. Something cannot be a cup unless it holds liquids and can be raised and drunk from. The materials out of which a cup are made, however, are accidental qualities. It's not an essential property of a cup that it be made of ceramic. Cups can also be made of plastic or even wood.
Rule 3: Clarity
The definition should make the audience's understanding of the term clearer (rather than more vague). For instance, "philosophy" is a walk on slippery rocks. This definition doesn't add to our understanding of the term. Pseudoscience and alt-med are rife with violations of rule 3. Here's an example:
I still have no clue what quantum touch is...
A common violation of the rule of clarity is the use of circular definitions. This is when the defined word appears in the definition or there is a definition by synonym. For example, a "definition" is an attempt to define a term. Notice we use a closely related word (define) in the definition of what we are trying to define (definition). An example of a circular definition by synonym is: A "mug" is type of cup or "fast" means "speedy." Neither of these definitions tell me what the unknown term actually is. I am only given a synonym. A better definition would be intensional, one that explains the essential properties and perhaps what a mug is used for (functional definition).
Rule 4: Neutrality
The rule of neutrality says we should avoid emotional language from definitions. In political arguments it's important to make sure definitions are neutral. For example "'Atheists' are godless heathens who don't have any moral sense." Clearly the definition is biased. Other examples are "communism" is the equal distribution of poverty; "teachers" are those who can't do.
Concluding Thoughts on Constructing Definitions
Just as with everything in this course, we can use these rules in two different ways. The first is to apply them as a standard against other people's definitions in an attempt to make a critical evaluation. The second is to see the rules as guidelines for how you might go about constructing your own definitions for your arguments.
Recall that a good arguer takes into account what his audience already accepts and constructs his argument with those things in mind. The same applies to constructing definitions. A good definition should take into account what the intended audience already accepts and should be built from those beliefs.
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How was the formula for kinetic energy found, and who found it?
My questions mostly concern the history of physics. Who found the formula for kinetic energy
$E_k =\frac{1}{2}mv^{2}$
and how was this formula actually discovered? I've recently watched Leonard Susskind's lecture where he proves that if you define kinetic and potential energy in this way, then you can show that the total energy is conserved. But that makes me wonder how anyone came to define kinetic energy in that way.
My guess is that someone thought along the following lines:
Energy is conserved, in the sense that when you lift something up you've done work, but when you let it go back down you're basically back where you started. So it seems that my work and the work of gravity just traded off.
But how do I make the concept mathematically rigorous? I suppose I need functions $U$ and $V$, so that the total energy is their sum $E=U+V$, and the time derivative is always zero, $\frac{dE}{dt}=0$.
But where do I go from here? How do I leap to either
a) $U=\frac{1}{2}mv^{2}$
b) $F=-\frac{dV}{dt}$?
It seems to me that if you could get to either (a) or (b), then the rest is just algebra, but I do not see how to get to either of these without being told by a physics professor.
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Kinetic energy of an object depends on mass and velocity of that object , that's called momentum. Kinetic energy is the antiderivative of momentum of a constant mass with respect to it's velocity.
I think Newton worked out the details but i'm not sure , maybe it was J. P. Joules?
For constant mass it could look like this.
So the antiderivative of a constant mass with respect to velocity is momentum. Where is the initial momentum. If the initial velocity is 0 then initial momentum is 0
Integrate again ,
So the antiderivative of momentum of a constant mass with respect to velocity is kinetic energy. Where is the initial kinetic energy , but we just defined initial velocity to be zero so initial kinetic energy is 0 as well , and we get the familiar
Without the 'annoying'
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History was is written .....
I love this kind of history!
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I watched a documentary on this a long time ago. I cannot remember the details, but from what I gather there were many people who figured out the bits and pieces required for Newton to put the pieces together and come up with the laws of motion. For example, I believe it was a Willem Gravesande and Emilie du Chatelet who discovered that the height for which an object was dropped was proportional to velocity squared multiplied by its mass,
$\displaystyle height \propto mv^2$,
by dropping ball bearings into clay from different heights and observing the depth of the impression of the ball bearing made into the clay.
Some details are found on Wikipedia:
Kinetic energy - New World Encyclopedia
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To me, one of the most important points of pitching is the Release Point.
Unlike the follow thru you should concentrate on your Release Point. I find that when I release the shoe chest high that I am on the stake. This allows for the alignment of the shoe toward the stake. The reason for this is because releasing the shoe chest high you are going more direct at the stake. While doing this if you look down at your hand after the release your eyes and hand both will be in alignment with the stake.
This is what I call hand and eye coordination. This is why the release point in front of your chest is very important.
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Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein is a novel filled with unique and in-depth characters. Throughout the chapters, Victor Frankenstein progresses from an ignorant and simple man to a mad man with chaotic actions. His supposedly innocent studies turn into an obsession for power and science. His thirst for authority forces him to abandon both his family and his childhood. Creating such an abomination possessed a terrifying quality that could possibly ruin everything that he had built up to. After creating the monster, he soon realized that it was the beginning of an end. Frankenstein’s actions unraveled his healthy lifestyle, creating a chaotic mess of ignoble deeds. Victor’s psychological downfall destroyed both his life along with the lives of …show more content…
“Such were my reflections as I commenced my journey; but as I proceeded my spirits and hopes rose. I adherently desired the acquisition of knowledge” (30). Frankenstein’s desire for knowledge becomes so overwhelming that he begins to obsess over the semantics of life as well as the mysteries of the unknown. This sudden inspiration sparks a macabre passion inside of him as he proposes a new thesis: can God be the only creator? “The power of giving and taking away life has always been a sacred one attributed to God” (Jones). Perhaps his sudden change of character is what lead to his eventual termination. Over the course of the novel, Victor evolves from a dedicated scholar to a mad man who becomes more focused on his ambition than his life. “As I applied so closely, it may be easily conceived that my progress was rapid” (35). Frankenstein made himself sick by obsessing over the minute details of this monstrosity so that he abandoned everything he once believed. The sudden grasp of power drove him away from his family as he secluded himself from the world. “When I found so astonishing a power placed within my hands, I hesitated a long time concerning the manner in which I should employ it” (38). Once the monster was constructed, chaos and depression exploded throughout the town. He thought about starting a new species of this monster where he found be seen as the ultimate creator, a position reserved for God.
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If you have setup your Mondrian's sample database in MySQL and want to check whether it is setup correctly in your Tomcat's installation, here I have a sample JSP file you can use for that purpose.
Download my sample JSP attached at the end of the article (showtables.jsp). Copy the file into your Mondrian's web app folder.
Open this file in your favorite editor and change the following line to meet your MySQL's configuration :
String url="jdbc:mysql://localhost/foodmart?user=root&password=";
In this sample, I have local MySQL setup (localhost) pointing to foodmart database, and a user root with no password.
Open your browser and navigate to the url of the copied file (eg: http://localhost/mondrian/showtables.jsp), and you should get a listing of tables in your foodmart database setup.
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This mixes a bit of Perl and Javascript. I have a script that generates a form and calls itself back to add articles in a database. The thing is, I'm trying to have some of the form options popup a window in Javascript and call the Perl script to that window.
So, I tried this in Javascript :
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f.affichecategorie.value = categorie; ('','affichearticles','width=450,height=350,scrollbars=yes'); = 'affichearticles';
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...where f is the form. I tried modifying the form target and then submit it so that it executes in the window and the replace the target back to the main window but all this does is popup a window and execute the script in the main window. I don't want it to do that since the popup is to display info that I want to browse while I enter data in the main window. I know I could do 2 separate scripts but I don't want to repeat half of the script in two places. Does anyone know what could be the problem here? I know this borders Javascript as a question but I'm not sure if this problem wouldn't be related more to Perl. Any help? Thanks!
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"The Immaculate Weeping Amputation" and Artifact Swords
There's always someone talking about making magic items "unique(er)," which is a commendable goal. I'm rereading Gene Wolfe's "Book of the New Sun" series and I've been really jazzed on all the hubbub concerning the perfectly-crafted executioner's sword Terminus Est and it's maker. This provides one template you can use to make magic swords "unique(er)":
• Perhaps "magic swords" aren't magic, but just the product of ultra-master swordsmiths of the distant past who used art lost to modern men to forge their blades.
• Perhaps there was only handful of legendary swordsmiths and almost all "magic" swords are the handiwork of one member of this small pool. Those knowledgeable in such matters can recognize the individual craftsmanship of different sword makers.
• "Magic" swords could have some high faulutin' name. Maybe not so much "Heavy Metal Names," but Haiku or Formal/Euphemistic style names.
• "Magic" sword doesn't really work in this context if the swords aren't actually magic but the product of super-forging. I'd call them Artifact Swords myself but I can appreciate how one would want to avoid Artifact confusion. You could even give them all sorts of "magic" sword properties such as injuring ghost/insubstantial beings; bonuses versus certain types of foes; radiating light; etc. by attributing such properties to the special materials used in the manufacture of the blade.
I made a table of 100 descriptive words and 100 nouns to generate sword names and it came up with some pretty choice examples, such as:
Inscrutable Scarlet Wing
Disemboweling Virtuous Lady
Impeccable Weeping Amputation
Bloody Bright Fist
Flowing Discerning Thorn
Cleaving Flowering Scythe
Utmost Exterminating Scourge
Dancing Impervious River
Avenging Courageous Blossom
Not everyone's cup of tea but I'm digging the results, especially "The Impeccable Weeping Amputation!" I imagine the sword's name would be graven in ancient glyphs along one side of the blade and the maker's name or sigil would be on the tang or on the blade in smaller script.
Next I came up with the names of some legendary sword-makers of the lost ancient past: Ezvenarian, Zhaiyeen, Srikalvia and Abdieo. I'm thinking that different craftsmen specialized in different styles of blades. Ezvenarian was known for his square-tipped straight-bladed broad, bastard and two-handed sword and Sriklavia for flowing, wavy, almost flame or leaf shaped short sword, falchions, scimitars and broad swords.
Now I need to come up with a sword properties table...
1. So awesome! Are you going to post your list(s)? I love your web log!
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3. Oops! A word disappeared on me! As I was trying to say, I always give names to magic swords. So, um, I could use that there table you mentioned. :)
4. 'You turn to see the mutant dirtbiker boss The Crimson Lobotomy slicing his infamous blade Bestial Cherub Surge - into your face!'
yup - sweet, it works, more please :)
5. Remember that scene in The Hobbit, when Gandalf, Bilbo and the dwarves reached Rivendell and showed the swords from the troll-horde to Elrond? He looked over each weapon, read the runes written on it, and told them its name, its history, what he knew of its powers. "This is Glamdring, the Foe-Hammer, forged in the city of Gondolin in the First Age. It will warn you of danger and is feared by orcs."
What you're doing here? Very much so.
6. Thanks everyone! I'm sorry to disappoint Cyclopeatron & James, but I'm holding back the sword generation tables for the Planet Algol can't all be rayguns and robotics!
@Dave: Very much so! That scene if part of the DNA of magic sword lore...
7. Although I get burned out by faux-Chinese names (everything Exalted, I'm looking at you), I have to agree that the Impeccable Weeping Amputation is, indeed, awesome.
8. Amazing. Had to interrupt my wife's viewing of White Collar with the scent of an Acrid Brown Vole, and now this... is there a booklet after all? |
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The mass shooting on Toronto's Danforth Avenue in Ontario, Canada last week that killed 12 sent a lot of ripples through the wider world. It's virtually a meme that if the killer's name isn't instantly released, the killer must have a name that would lead others to conclude it might be an Islamist terrorist attack, and sure enough the killers' age was released before they said they knew his name was Faisal Hussain. In what universe can you know someone's age without knowing who they are?
Ammoland News, from the National Shooting Sports Federation, today prints an opinion piece from the Canadian Shooting Sports Federation that deserves a read.
A better question might be what kind of small-time, two-bit drug dealer can get the cash – estimated at $50 to 100 million dollars – for 42 kilograms of Carfentanil when they can order smaller amounts with far less financial risk? You're left with big questions about that. Questions the Toronto police appear to be in no hurry to answer. Could any drug dealer, even a big time dealer, sell that much of any drug in a reasonable amount of time? Let's assume they don't want to kill everyone, so that instead of 2.1 billion doses, half that amount isn't fatal, so they'd have to sell 4.2 billion doses. Canada isn't that big. In fact, the CSSF does the math and tells us:
Hussain and Ansari possessed enough poison to kill the entire Greater Toronto Area (GTA) 328 times over, or enough to kill the entire population of Canada 58 times.
It also corresponds to enough poison to kill the entire US population more than 6 times over.
The CSSF goes down the path of assuming this was going to be the basis of a terrorist attack, and I don't think that should be dismissed without more investigation. A question that they don't address is how Carfentanil needs to be administered. Could it have been used in a terrorist attack that a couple of guys could pull off? How about 30 guys (one per new, in box, Glock)? There are reports that before it was discovered by drug dealers, Carfentanil was viewed (and used) as a chemical weapon, including by the Russians against the Chechens in the 2002 movie theater hostage situation. Sounds like it could be aerosolized.
Could this really have been a couple of guys trying to pull off a mass murder on a scale never seen before? An entire metropolitan city at once? An entire nation at once? Could it be related to a suddenly increased police presence at at an area park? Or the Canadian government expanding its distribution of Naloxone
You all know that Toronto's mayor blamed the shooting on guns and refused to acknowledge that it was a terrorist attack. It would conflict with Trudeau's vision of bending over for Muslims. The rest of the government is apparently silent about the details on this.
1. A lot of someone's got very lucky. Nothing about this makes sense other than a mass murder attack- fortunately whoever fronted the money and assistance put their operation in the hands of an idiot, who likely sampled the goods.
2. I would make a guess that the stuff is so hazardous that mishandling a package could be a major problem. Oopsies might be fatal if not wearing a respirator.
3. That's nearly as well-understood as that artillery-type shooting in Las Vegas.
4. Well, 42 kilograms evenly distributed doesn't make any sense, but it does if your method only gets a small percentage of that to the target. Are 30 guys enough to simultaneously distribute it to all of a country's watersheds, timed so that it hits the population all at once? I suspect so.
The US was the probable target. Canada isn't worth the trouble.
1. I started thinking about this last night and it does seem like what they'd do, but then I started puzzling over whether it could work. Say they drop a kilogram in a big lake. What happens? Does it cause a fish kill, or something so that anyone watching the watershed knows something is wrong? I assume it's water soluble, but could it just settle to the bottom or float on top? Is it partially soluble, and so need to be stirred? And then what happens when it gets sucked into a municipal water system and gets chlorinated (seems most have gone to chloramine)?
Too many questions for me.
2. All good questions, and looking for answers would probably get you a nice visit from the gentlemen in the black SUVs that surrounded your house.
It is also possible that it could be used simply as an area-denial weapon. Salt, for instance, is cheap but properly distributed it would raise holy hell with farming. Look at what a couple of simple anthrax letter bombs did to our infrastructure – now all a terrorist has to do to reduce office workers to gibbering wrecks is mail out a dozen envelopes with unscented talcum powder.
5. It is "Law Enforcement" and the "Legal" system who enable this. In EVERY Western nation. They do WHATEVER they are told, as long as that paycheck keeps comin' in.
Nothing will change for the better until they are dealt with appropriately.
6. For many years it has been known that when the media doesn't give you a name or a picture of a captured suspect that they are probably black. If after a day or two still no name then they are likely illegal aliens, If the suspect(s) are referred to as teens again it is probably a gang of black kids. Their willingness to hide the facts instead of reporting the facts is part of the reason they are fake news and enemies of the people.
7. I've thought for a couple of years now that carfentanil sounded more like a chemical weapon than a recreational drug... and that some foreign power was sending us remarkably large quantities of it.
If it's just being used to liven up fake heroin, it just kills a few addicts... and a few cops who inadvertently get a whiff of the evidence.
But, yes, 'tis a potential weapon. Apparently it's readily absorbed by inhalation of the dust, and there's an old trick for getting such materials absorbed through the skin (though I don't know how well that would work with this particular nasty).
In that sort of quantity, even an epically inefficient means of distribution could cause a great many fatalities.
8. 42 Keys of Carfentanil? Where did he get it? This is really Holy Fucking Shit! time, and yet commercial media is as quiet as a cockroach.
9. Aesop:
And equally meaningless, functionally.
1. Aesop - thanks. I was hoping you'd show up with practical knowledge.
2. I just double-checked my metric math. (Someone should triple-check me.)
Oh, and stir well.
That's 402 acre/feet.
That's 20 acres, twenty feet deep.
At which point, the carfentanil itself is completely superfluous.
So yeah, I'm going with air dispersion.
3. Just for more Fun With Math, the equivalent number of LD50 dozes of liquid Sarin or VX would fill nearly 5 C-5 Galaxy cargo aircraft. (Whether they could heft it aloft I couldn't say, but that's how many cubic feet you'd need to tote the 1.1M gallons of nerve agent, or about 1/100th the amount of fluid to make Liquid Carfentanil Death. This is why the nerve agents were everyone's friend when it came time to pack nasty things into artillery shells long about 1917.)
But, once again, you'd have to brighter than the room-temp IQ of the average Team Mo member to get to that point.
4. Esperanto....nice.
10. 33 identical Glock pistols. It'd be interesting to find out if the numbers are sequential, because if so, its likely a police or government order. No who was the order for.
11. What we are often saved by is the fact that so many of these people abjectly stupid.
If Islam hadn't spent 1400 years inbreeding we'd be in a lot more trouble than we are in now.
12. The easy way to figure it out is.
Did the pistols have Canada (and, well, a few US State) required "low capacity 10 shot magazines" or did they have the "normal capacity magazines" which hold more?
Then, if they numbered "1, 2, 3, 4...etc." then somebody has some 'splainin' to do, right Lucy?
13. This raises many questions, or perhaps one could say it creates many holes for investigation. Aerosolization will work, but this is too potent of a drug for this to makes sense. I would assume that 50-100M would be sufficient for 'supplies' to destroy a single venue. Multiple small releases would make more sense.
Lungs ARE great for absorption of many chemicals, and it is INSTANTLY in the bloodstream on the way to the brain.
But maybe they were just going to throw a really big Ramadan party ;)
Just when you think that things cannot get any more strange!
14. How about simply filling up a few dozen balloons, getting to the roof of 30 skyscrapers in some major city, and tossing them off the roof in different directions?
15. I'm surprised, with the recent finds of Fentynal/Carfentanil in large quantities, that we have not seen an attack yet. Send those 33 glock recruits out to Canada's busiest salad bars or to get jobs in food service such as a drive thru. Most wouldn't even get caught, and those who did could empty their magazines. I'd suspect they have workable plans like this and are just waiting for the signal. The death toll would be much smaller than the potential, but the impact on everything-food, and the trust in government, would be devastating.
Lucky for us here in the states we are between presidential elections, so the FBI has some free time to protect us.
16. You don't have to find a way to distribute the drug to everyone.
If you can find a way to make people BELIEVE that it's in the water supply ... the ensuing panic and hysteria will do the work for you.
So, a localised murder via, for instance, a city water supply ... combined with the appropriate media releases, might do the job. What would be the ramifications for an urban population which fears to use the water from their kitchen' taps?
I live on top of a very large aquifer, in England. There are local water-extraction facilities. These have, over the past few years, been 'hardened' by the construction of very substantial steel hatches and doors. Sure, the pumps and motors are tempting targets for petty thieves; but that doesn't explain why 'holes in the ground' have been armoured.
1. Bobeagle,
Remember the plot device of the false-flag attack on the 'Three Waters' water
treatment plant in "V for Vendetta"?
Need I say more?.....
2. I had to Google it.
Now, if you want a really dark and stylish 'conspiracy' piece, watch a show called 'Utopia'.
This was made in 2013 (?) and shown on English TV.
Beautifully filmed and acted, with an intriguing story, which is absolutely plausible.
Series One, only.
Here's a trailer ...
17. Bad arithmetic:
That's 50,000 doses per kilogram. Still a lot, and the implication for 42 kilograms is 2.1 MILLION doses, so the questions are real. But diluted by bad arithmetic.
1. Hate to say it, but check that again.
The CSSF is absolutely right that 42,000 (grams) is 42 billion micrograms. Divided by 20 micrograms per dose is 2.1 billion doses.
2. You're right, SiGraybeard. My mistake in calling out what **wasn't** a mistake.
3. No problem. It's not like I ever accidentally make a mistake. (do I need the sarcasm font?)
18. "Carfentanil is primarily used as an elephant tranquilizer within the United States and is not intended for human consumption. The U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM) publishes that carfentanil is commercially marketed as Wildnil, a general anesthetic designed for use in large animals. It is also the most potent commercial opioid on the market."
"Carfentanil may be illicitly marketed for recreational use in the form of tablets, spray, powder, or blotter paper, which may be smoked, ingested, inhaled, snorted, or injected. The high associated with the drug is intense and has a rapid onset."
What is Carfentanil?
So, from the above it could be conceivable to deploy
it either in a aerosol or aerial brodcast method,
swallowed or ingested as a liquid or even possibly
dusted onto objects or areas for absorption through
the skin (think of a potential evildoer tainting a
1000 $1 dollar bills with it and leaving them in
various locations and then gauging the response
The folks in Canada really dodged the bullet on this
one...and the part-time ski instructor/substitute
teacher cum PM is NOT to thank for this whatsoever!
As for WHO supplied the carfentanil in such a quantity
in the 1st place (and also the quantity of Glocks, especially
if they happen to all be consecutively numbered) bet is
on some intelligence agency that has experience with moving
quantities of either drugs or weapons in the past....say maybe,...
"Christians In Action"? (although I wouldn't rule out
Mossad either....)
Curiouser and curiouser....wonder how far
the rabbit hole goes down on this?....
1. Maybe they planned to steal a whole zoo? Or dump it on Fort Knox to make the gold unusable as money. Wait a minute, I saw that somewhere, it was in a documentary about bonds...
2. That was the one about bonds, James Bonds, right?
3. I would think that 30 Mo operatives placing 1.4 kilo payloads of this drug over an explosive dispersal charge, set off on top of a tall structure upwind of large population centers could potentially kill tens of thousands of people and stone the bejesus out of many more, would widespread total panic across the globe. A dirty bomb without nuclear materials… If you will.
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What is the game about?
Through the Darkest of Times (TtDoT) is a strategy game, that lets you play a resistance group in Berlin during the Third Reich.
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You play a resistance leader and plan and execute actions to win supporters and weaken the regime. You need to balance the morale of your members, get resources to execute actions and avoid getting caught by the Gestapo.
Can I play a specific resistance group like the White Rose?
Members are fictional and the game creates them procedurallyon each playthrough, giving them different personalities, abilities and views.
While you aren't playing as a specific historical organization, there were a number of groups that were very similar to the ones in the game, such as the Schulze-Boysen-Harnack group or the one around Herbert Baum.
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The game plays in turns and chapters. Every turn is one week and every chapter is covering a specific period of the Third Reich: Seizure of Power (1933), Peak (1936), War (1940/1941), Collapse (1944/1945).
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We are convinced, that history is an extraction of stories that people experience and create with their thoughts, words and deeds. So yes, you can.
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We are two ex-AAA developers who met at YAGER, making Spec Ops The Line. We also worked on Dead Island 2, Dreadnought, Albion Online, Drakensang, Yager (the game), Desperados 2 and others.
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Sensor Calibration
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Sonar Data
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Infrared Data
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Verse 1 God, You can tell the waves, 'Be still,' Tell the ocean roar to pass Lord, until it does, I'll wait here God, You can part the raging sea Bring the miracle I need Lord until it comes, I'll wait here and I will Chorus Sing songs in the night, praise in the storm You're God in it all and I…
Hiding Place
…place When terror surrounds me You keep me from harm You are my hiding place Verse 2 In the darkness I can feel Your light wrap around me In my suffering I can feel Your joy rising in me now And I weep flooded with the strength of Your peace Here before You Jesus in this place Here before You now…
Writer(s): Jon Neufeld, Tim Neufeld
Desert Song
…within me feels dry This is my prayer in my hunger and need My God is the God who provides Verse 2 This is my prayer in the fire In weakness or trial or pain There is a faith proved of more worth than gold So refine me Lord through the flame Chorus I will bring praise I will bring praise No weapon…
Writer(s): Brooke Ligertwood
Be Still My Soul (In You I Rest)
Verse 1 Be still, my soul, The Lord is on thy side. Bear patiently, The cross of grief or pain. Leave to thy God, to order and provide. In every change, He faithful will remain. Be still, my soul, Thy best they heavenly Friend. Through thorny ways, Leads to a joyful end. Verse 2 Be still, my soul,…
Writer(s): Jason Ingram, Kari Jobe
Everlasting Love
…joy and my light Verse 2 What love is this that purges fear And cancels every sin Yet loves enough to lead me through The fires of discipline The suffering that works in me The jewel of humility Everlasting love Everlasting love Everlasting love Be my comfort and guide Verse 3 What love is this What…
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Whatever Comes - Rend Collective
Intro Verse 1 Lord whatever comes Make me steadfast, make me root-ed A cedar planted firm Deeply grounded in Your goodness Whatever comes Verse 2 Lord whatever comes Be my bedrock keep me steady Loyal to Your throne Whatever stands against me Whatever comes Chorus Be my bravery when I am trembling…
Writer(s): Rend Collective
I Am Not Alone
…overtake me I am pressing into You Lord, You fight my every battle And I will not fear Bridge You a - maze me, redeem me You call me as Your own Verse 3 You're my strength You're my defender You're my refuge in the storm Through these trials You've always been faithful You bring healing to my soul
I Will Exalt You
Writer(s): Brooke Ligertwood
Always - Kristian Stanfill
Intro Verse 1 My foes are many, they rise against me But I will hold my ground I will not fear the war I will not fear the storm My help is on the way, my help is on the way Chorus Oh, my God, He will not delay My refuge and strength always I will not fear, His promise is true My God will come…
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posted on Oct, 9 2015 @ 08:13 PM
Not my title, and I know what you're thinking. This is another religion bashing thread. Not quite. Religion may have had a hand in squelching scientific discovery in the past, and there is still resistance from more extremist sects today. This is about governments and special interests, more than anything to do with religion. There seems to be, either a lack of interest, or an outright campaign by governments to slash spending on science related research and projects. Or both. This is a Canadian produced video, and it makes one wonder what the hell is going on. Is there a conspiracy afoot? Or is the author blowing the issue out of proportion? Especially considering what we've learned about planets in our solar system lately. Or is that just bread and circuses to keep the masses distracted?
The history, accomplishments and importance of science.
Science and society at odds.
The rejection of modern scientific evidence.
A quote by Carl Sagan...
The contrast of Greece and Rome in relation to science.
The UK spends less than 0.5% of its GDP on public research.
The U.S. government has cut $300,000,000 from NASA's budget in 2015.
The bank bailout cost more money than NASA's 50 year budget.
1 month of military spending equals an entire year of NASA spending.
Stephen Harper gets hit hard in this video.
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posted on Oct, 9 2015 @ 08:34 PM
a reply to: Klassified
I'd say the Gov't is at war with doesn't pay as well as War does.
posted on Oct, 9 2015 @ 08:42 PM
Could it be like the end of the Roman Empire the US Empire is ending and so to maintain tptb's status quo they are cutting what they previously invested in ? Seems that all walks of society has taken a hit . This lecture by Lawerence Wilkerson give a chilling image of past collapses of Empire .
And this is a link to a thread on how some of the millions might be directed not to the science but to groups in position to help some of the fiction even in some sciences . There are some legitimate people doing legitimate work in science but some of it is only a kind of carrot of wishful thinking imo A lot of what if's and maybe's and a little bit of fear thrown in with if not's .
posted on Oct, 9 2015 @ 08:42 PM
originally posted by: nullafides
a reply to: Klassified
True. I would say a lot of money is being siphoned off for military and black budget projects.
posted on Oct, 9 2015 @ 08:49 PM
If you had a Choice, without repercussions, you would act as a monkey. Kill, steal, murder, pillage. It's part of nature being a primate. NASA is the future, or the future of humanity will get doomed, without any mercy. The children of tomorow will be formed as soldiers without understanding a purpose of humanity. It doesn't take a lifetime to achieve a full apocalyptic state of the earth, it can be achieved within a shorter span in space.
Enforce it, embrace it and be amazed with it.
posted on Oct, 9 2015 @ 08:58 PM
You, as everyone else, confuse "Science" with knowledge. Scientist don't have "knowledge"...or they wouldn't need to "experiment" to gain knowledge. Nobody, not governments, not even tax payers need to pay for some jokers "hunch". I have my own "educated guesses" I want to pay for. Nobody's making "war" on "science". Cool your jets. We wouldn't have half the worthless crap we don't need today without "science". ... Nobody is attacking "Science". As long as men want to know more than they need to. ..."Science" will survive!
posted on Oct, 9 2015 @ 09:02 PM
originally posted by: Hyperia
Enforce it, embrace it and be amazed with it.
Fixed for you.
Back to the OP I think so many just do not have any grasp of any type of science and because they don't understand they don't believe then we have another crowd who actively lie about it to push their agenda.
posted on Oct, 9 2015 @ 09:15 PM
a reply to: boymonkey74
That's a long one. Is I'll put it on my watch list.
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posted on Oct, 9 2015 @ 09:18 PM
The citizens of many nations have allowed their government to be the mouthpiece for everything that is considered right and wrong. All information that these citizens receive they get from the TV, radio or main stream internet websites (that are an extension of the TV programs they are used to watching)
So when the television programs, program your vision, and the programming is government sanctioned and controlled we are left with an insanely stupid collective mentality to simply accept what government decides because we collectively do not know any better.
Money and agendas are the new God that the government worships and whilst they mold their societies to be just smart enough to press the buttons but dumb enough to not question the government we have the result such that science funding is forfeited for the sake of keeping citizens dumbed down and government propped up.
As I keep saying, the sad fact is, is that Kim, Kanye, Caitlyn, Hollyweird, black gay muslim debates, war and immigration keep us focused on the right hand whilst the left hand plays the real game.
In 100 years (if we haven't blown up the planet), the history books will record how it was this generation that allowed government to assume total control of all facets of society under the illusion of freedom and democracy.
The bigger the governments power, the smaller the chance society has to self-improve, explore and research and our own history books are a testament to that.
posted on Oct, 9 2015 @ 09:26 PM
a reply to: Sublimecraft
I can't officially applause you, but I can unofficially. **applause** Well said.
another dark ages of a sort? Or did we ever really come out of the last one?
posted on Oct, 9 2015 @ 11:29 PM
a reply to: Klassified
It is well documented video by NOVA, well worth 2 hours to watch.
Also follow that by great lecture by Dr. Kenneth Miller.
I will watch video in OP over weekend, thanks for sharing.
posted on Oct, 10 2015 @ 02:48 AM
a reply to: Klassified
This is not surprising. Throughout most of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, science was regarded as largely beneficial to mankind. Massive improvements in agriculture, communications, public health, child mortality and women's place in society resulted from science.
Investment in science and technology also helped countries wage war and defend themselves, so governments were willing to put up the money.
Most of that is over now. The latest advances in science and technology don't help much when it comes to fighting terrorists and brushfire wars in poor countries. Progress in medical science has slowed almost to a standstill. Consumer technology has given people in rich countries more gadgets than they know how to use.
Meanwhile, science has turned into a bearer of bad news. Global warming and climate change. Mass extinctions. The intractability of human nature. The limits to physical exploration of the universe. The message is that, for humanity, the good times are over.
Who wants to hear that?
Of course science is getting less money. Particularly in democratic countries where the policy agenda is driven by public attitudes.
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posted on Oct, 10 2015 @ 03:08 AM
Another propaganda video really promoting global warming. Its government that empowers science by funding research. If government wants us to believe that the globe is warming, that unemployment is below 6%, inflation is low, WMD in Iraq etc, they will fund research that tells us so.
True science doesn't try to deny evidence that tells us that climate change is a natural state of our environment which remains within past variations.
posted on Oct, 10 2015 @ 03:13 AM
The war is waged by the corporations in colussion with their political partners. A scientifically literate society is bad for business. If there are too many problem solvers in the general public they would be much less dependent on corporations for their products and services. Instead we have Ancient Aliens on the "Science Channel."
And we just can't let religion off the hook here. It provides the foundation for following the crowd, not asking questions and being submissive. These things are conditioned at a very early age. The essential element of a good scientist, curiosity, is usually atrophied by the time the children are young adults. And the few that actually do become great thinkers are either bought out or held down by the overwhelming financial and political power of the corporations.
posted on Oct, 10 2015 @ 03:52 AM
a reply to: murphy22
Huzzah for ignorance!
Special snowflake syndrome in full effect.
posted on Oct, 10 2015 @ 04:32 AM
'They' know how dangerous science and technology has become and will become. They need to keep the knowledge in trusted hands. They have been doing this for a while now. In mainstream science, they have become experts at creating experiments and results to apparently disprove new theories, even if said experiments and results are an illusion. Then they support incorrect theories and experiments as to keep the mainstream scientists chasing their tails. It all starts in the education system.
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posted on Oct, 10 2015 @ 08:41 AM
a reply to: Astyanax
Some good points Asty. Not a pretty picture to look at though. As one who has worked in the technological/computer industry for a long time, I have often accused the industry of revamping and regurgitating old tech to maximize return. Most people walk in Walmart, and see new computers. I see old tech that should be obsolete. Mechanical hard drives should already be extinct, yet 95% of computers are still running them, because SSD's aren't considered cost effective at the production level. I could ramble on, but the point is, I see what you're saying in my own occupation. The industry is slowing, and less money is being spent on real R&D.
posted on Oct, 10 2015 @ 08:49 AM
a reply to: glend
There you go denying the science behind global warming. Do you really think NASA, NOAA, and scientists from all over the world are making up global warming?
All you are doing is taking a page from the merchants of doubt playbook there and feeding the ignorance they promote.
The merchants of doubt are doing a hell of a job keeping people in the dark about what the actual science says about AGW. I have noticed that those who call themselves republicans in the USA almost all deny the science behind AGW, yet they use political rhetoric to justify their belief(often with great arrogance) instead of the actual science.
As someone who observes the great damage that is done by humans on this planet in the name of profiteering, it is truly heartbreaking that so many get hoodwinked in believing AGW is some sort of liberal agenda to levy more taxes or worse.
posted on Oct, 10 2015 @ 08:52 AM
a reply to: Klassified
I think it is more a war on questioning science. We are being taught to obey and question nothing.
posted on Oct, 10 2015 @ 12:44 PM
originally posted by: DBCowboy
a reply to: Klassified
Not sure if I follow what you are saying...
Science works as model where you can question everything and repetition of experiment should always return the same results or theory is not working/model is incomplete.
Science never tell you not to question.
But here we have unreasonable questioning, where in every absence of answer - for example - how did life start - someone tries to place 'god did it'.
On the other hand, religion doctrine is based on 'do not question' what you have been served.
If I misunderstood your post, my sincere apologies...
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A Former Ananda Monk Describes the Exploitation of His Idealism
"Lady, I don't know or care what they do up there or how they do it...but I can tell you one thing: I've taken hundreds of them up there, and I've taken hundreds of them back...they go up there happy, but when they leave they're a wreck."
-Nevada City cab driver to prospective Ananda member, 1997.-
I first decided to follow the "spiritual path" at age 17. By 20 I was looking for the best system of teachings that I could find. I found Paramahansa Yogananda's Yoga science to be very coherent: "Scientific techniques for the direct personal experience of God". I visited an *** temple, part of the organization he founded in 1929. I was thinking of moving to Seattle, to finish college.
Then I read about Ananda in the "spiritual community guide". They then advertised themselves to be a "Cooperative Spiritual Village". They claimed to also follow the "teachings of Paramahansa Yogananda". On the surface, the format of meditation, study, and worship seemed to be very similar to the organization Yogananda founded. Best of all, Ananda advertised and claimed that they had been founded by a great "direct disciple" of Yogananda, "Swami Kriyananda".
He wore the ochre robe of the Yogi Renunciate, lived at Ayhodya, the " Monastery" at Ananda, where the monks and nuns lived. He was treated with great reverence and adulation by everyone, particularly the older members, who, I learned were the "core group" at Ananda, the leaders who were most respected.
When I visited Ananda, we were taught to include Swami Kriyananda's name in group and private prayers to various deities, like Jesus Christ and Krishna. "Wow, I thought, this guy must be really up there!"
I decided to become a member of Ananda. I thought I was incredibly lucky to have found such a place. In awe of the supposedly great spiritual stature of Ananda's leaders and members, I surrendered myself to fitting in, and being the best member that I could be.
Unwritten Rules:
The teachings at Ananda, as espoused through classes, their written material, worship services, and the culture, held that the ideal member was someone totally dedicated to the "spiritual path" being a
"renunciate"; eventually giving up everything, physically and mentally, to "find God".
Swami Kriyananda was held up as the perfect role model for this. People were in great awe of him,
everyone prayed to him, many had his pictures on their meditation altars, next to deities like Krishna and Jesus. The leaders who were "renunciates", monks and nuns, were seen as more "spiritually advanced" than those with families or in relationships.
I joined Ananda's "monastery" and took vows of renunciation in a group ceremony led by Swami
Kriyananda. I was given a tiny shack made of old log mill-ends to live in, about 6 feet wide, 8 feet long, and 5 feet high. You could see the leaves and dirt through the cracks in the floorboards. The "monks" all lived and meditated together in one area. In the monks temple we kept a pair of Swami Kriyananda's slippers on the altar, as sacred objects. Sometimes we would go up, kneel on the floor, and reverently touch these slippers out of awe and respect for Swamiji's spiritual greatness. I remember, how, late at night, I would sometimes pray to Swami Kriyananda for help in "overcoming" my sexual desire, seen as an obstacle on the spiritual path. His house was just a couple of hundred feet up the hill from my little log shack. Swami Kriyananda's home ( by the way) was the nicest house at Ananda and filled with expensive objects he collected from his around the world tours to recruit others to Ananda.
Ananda was a sacred place with a special mission to teach the world by its lofty example about meditation, and "simple living and high thinking" as directly ordained by God himself.
To work for Ananda was the same as working for God. Thus, a missionary zeal, total dedication, were in order. Personal growth, education, money, human relationships, sleep, food, health, to think of these was to be "lower" spiritually. To be trapped in "ego consciousness". Those outside the community (the whole rest of the world) were seen as "worldly people", those not "ready", not yet "evolved" enough to understand the "spiritual path", to know and work for God at Ananda. They were silently looked down upon and pitied. It was our God given mission to go out into "the world" and help them to see the light.
Heady stuff indeed for a 21 one year old idealist. I thought I had won the lottery, and I too felt sorry for the poor "worldly people".
Trouble in Paradise: Warning Signs, Lies and Rationalizations:
After I was at Ananda for few months, I found out that "Swami Kriyananda" had actually been booted out of Yogananda's organization in 1962. I was told this was a result of a "misunderstanding". Later it came out that *** wasn't able to handle the type of brilliant, dynamic saint we had in Swamiji. Besides, Yogananda himself arranged for him to be "separated" from ***, so he could fulfill his personal, God given mission of starting Ananda.
After I was at Ananda for about six months, I heard a rumor that Swamiji had once had a sexual liaison with a woman. This would have been shattering, as we all understood Swami to be a God realized saint of historical proportions, far above such worldly activity. Only ordinary people under the sway of "maya", or cosmic illusion, engaged in such stuff. An older member I asked about this became embarrassed, and said, "Oh, no, swamiji would never do that!"
More Hints, Secrets And Warnings:
Once, when helping to plaster all of San Francisco with 3 foot high tall pictures of "Swami Kriyananda", as advertising for his new "Super conscious Living Seminars", I asked another member why we had Swamiji's picture on the poster, instead of Yogananda's, wasn't he the teacher? "Because Swamiji's the channel" he replied.
"Yeah", I thought to myself, "But then why don't Christians worship Paul or Peter?"
The "Super conscious Living Seminars" billed as a new dispensation that "came to Swamiji in meditation" were a flop. They lost money, the public didn't respond, and I remember thinking to myself, listening to the grand debut of this new God inspired dispensation, "This sounds like gobbledygook; I didn't come here for this". But where would I go? The "world" was a dangerous place, full of evil temptations that might lure one from "the path". Losing your way, one would descend into darkness, subject to repeated incarnations filled with suffering and delusion. Besides, didn't Swamiji, this God realized saint, know better than I?
I saw Ananda's "first sister community" at Ocean Song fail. The Ananda leaders blamed it on the person who had donated the land, but my brain was screaming that it sure looked just like incompetence, arrogance and downright stupidity on the part of the leadership, and....Swamiji.
A few months later, I saw our whole community sent into an uproar over Swamiji's latest "dispensation": registering Ananda as an incorporated city. I was at the meetings where I heard the leaders say we had to lie about the true nature of Ananda's internal politics and social structure so the county agency would grant in our favor. After all, they were only worldly people, how could they understand the greatness of Swamiji's vision.
I saw dedicated members, gently and respectfully questioning this idea, told finally that since this idea
came from Swamiji, they were being "negative" and "out of tune" to even question it. If they didn't
unquestioningly accept it and work enthusiastically for it, they should get out, leave the community.
Notwithstanding how many years or decades of time, energy and money they had selflessly given the
community; some of them did. These were good people who any real community would have been glad to keep.
I saw Swamiji stand up at the final incorporation meeting, and grandiosely shout that the county
commission "owed it not only to Nevada County, but to the world!" to pass the resolution in Ananda's favor. They rejected it. A few weeks later Swamiji wrote a strange letter rambling on about how maybe the whole incorporation thing wasn't such a great idea after all, or not the right time....or something. Meanwhile, my brain was screaming that this was all simply bullshit. But who was I to question a great enlightened soul like Swamiji? My doubts must be the whisperings of Maya, illusion.
Even More Bizarre:
I still remember coming into the Ananda Sacramento Ashram, and the look of shock on the ministers face. "What's the matter, what's going on?" I queried. "We picked up Swamiji at the airport today...and he brought this young girl back from Hawaii with him!"
"Oh? Well, who is she? What is he doing with her?
"He's outrageously flirting with her!" the minister replied.
Swamiji's latest dispensation was the grandest of all. Now, it appeared, God wanted him to become a "householder", to have a wife, to get married. All those things that we had been taught were the product of delusion, Maya. But Swamiji said it wasn't what it appeared to be: This was not an ordinary relationship based on personal desire and sexual attraction. No, this was God's will. Swamiji didn't see any good examples of real spiritual marriages in the community (some couples had been married for 20 years) so God had ordained that he must get married to set the example to the community and the whole world. In any case, he had now come to believe that monasticism was obsolete in this New Age. In the past, "higher", Golden Ages, all the great saints were married.
Wow! Lucky for Swami, it was God's will she was a very attractive 26 year old. (He was over 50) I guess God didn't care she was still legally married at the time, either. But such primitive rules were a product of the dark ages, and Swamiji wasn't going to question God's will in such things?
So Swamiji "got married," as then did many of the other monks and nuns. (Monkey see, Monkey do")
His God-ordained wife left him within six months. Of course, according to community leaders it was her fault: she couldn't handle Swamiji's greatness....she was jealous, immature.... and Swami's final most bizarre rationalization "Egyptian dark entities had swayed her" Whatever the case, it was her fault. Years later she filed legal papers alleging Swamiji raped her, she didn't know they were "married", she had been deceived and manipulated. Even though I didn't know these things at the time, my "crap-o-meter" was beginning to swing off the scale.
The Last Straw:
Finally it became overwhelming. For years I had overlooked things because "who was I to know",
"Swamiji knows better", "Where would I go anyway, the world is evil", "These doubts or thoughts are Maya, or Satan trying to make me fall off the path", etc. All the things I had accepted as the truth as taught by Swami Kriyananda.
One day I asked an older ex-member who had just left about my doubts: "The community just doesn't feel right anymore; it seems more like Swamiji's little kingdom, than the "Cooperative Spiritual Community" that they advertised". And their ad said they followed Yogananda scientific Yoga system, but now after four years, it's obvious that that Swamiji is seen as the real "guru", who seems to make it up as he goes along. It's Swamiji's books, Swamiji's latest weird ideas that always seem to not work out the way he said...despite their being "divine revelations".
Then he told me about the women. "Swamiji" had been having sex with many women for years...decades....he's in delusion about who he is..he's not a great saint...he's confused...there is someone I could confirm this with, someone who just asked "Swamiji" about the rumors of sexual behavior,
"Swamiji" evidently admitted to him that "some of the stories were true".
I was absolutely stunned. In shock. We talked for two hours, and then I walked home, my brain numb.
Over the next few weeks I and a friend investigated the charges. Talked to witnesses. Talked it out. The evidence piled up. The conclusion was irrefutable. What my brain had been telling me for years was true. The "Divine Revelations" that looked like mistakes, or arrogant delusions, were exactly that. No more, no less. "Swamiji" was not a great saint, or even a real swami, just a man. Like me. Like you. He had desires, he made mistakes, he was in delusion. But he evidently didn't know it. Did he actually believe that his latest desire or subconscious whim were the actual directives of God? Or did he know it was all lies, or some of both? After a few weeks of agony, still thinking that maybe Satan was pulling me away from the path....I finally concluded that for anyone to LOOK so holy, but BE so corrupt, THEY must be the ones acting for "Satan"....It was time to GET OUT. I was, after all, not leaving "the path" just Ananda.
Down The Road: Deeper Revelations:
It wasn't until almost 15 years later that I realized just how bad the situation really was. The 1994 trial of Ananda and "Swamiji" was like a breaking dam of revelations. He wasn't just a deluded but sincere human being, but seemed to me a deeply disturbed one. His actions with women were not healthy "relationships", or even the normal "flings" of consenting adults, for mutual pleasure. The testimony of witness after witness put the pieces of the puzzle together in horrible, glaring detail. He seemed to exhibit symptoms from a mental disorder called the "Narcissistic Personality Disorder". An expert witness stated under oath that he was on the "most destructive, predatory end of the spectrum as a clergy sex offender: a personality who repeatedly hunted and preyed upon vulnerable women to exploit for his own sexual pleasure. He even twisted young nuns into becoming his sex partners": they came, serviced him, left. (even prostitutes are paid). He had them convinced this was part of their "divine service" to him as a "channel for God". Some of the older community members, who I had once stood in such awe of, knew about it for years, did nothing, condoned it, covered it up. This behavior had gone on for decades. I realized, at one point, as I read the testimony, that the very nights I had once prayed to him for help in overcoming my sexual desire as a sincere, idealistic young monk, might easily have been one of those same nights he was having one of the young nuns service him sexually.
Now in my forties, my mind flashed back across the years to a memory of a young man, bursting with enthusiasm, belief and trust. He had been so happy, so sure of his path. Instead of college, a family, a career, money, he had chosen to live in utter poverty in a log shack, for the joy of mystical adventure and a chance to make the world a better place. Living for this cause amongst his beloved and trusted "spiritual family" was all that he had asked. Every day he awoke with a desire to work his hardest, to do his best to serve his community and cause. He had given the best of himself, everything that he had.
But it was all based on a lie, a lie woven by a man unbelievably sick and empty, a man who hid his
darkness behind sweet smiles and lofty phrases. Now I knew what it was like for a child to be molested by a trusted adult. I had been spiritually raped.
After realizing this, though it was now many years since I had left, I felt physically ill for several days.
I learned more about cults, and was amazed to find that Ananda was not at all unique. It was, in fact, a "cookie cutter" cult. Reading about other people's stories from other such groups, I was astounded to see how identical they all were.
Hidden under the veil of smiling faces, disarming sweetness, and idealistic advertising, was a powerful cult dynamic, whose ultimate result was to psychically disembowel the endless stream of idealists coming in response to their slick marketing, drawn to the promise of love, community and spiritual joy. Ananda's "World Brotherhood Colony", was ultimately just a facade, a lure, a trap: underneath was the black void of "Kriyananda's Kreepy Kult".
When I left Ananda in the early 1980's, after about 5 years living in all parts of the community, I was
emotionally devastated. Overnight I lost what I had considered my "family" and "friends". My whole life had been dedicated to the serving Ananda. Yet when I left, only one person from Ananda bothered to even ask why. Once I knew "the secret", I was a non-person, someone dangerous, to be shunned. Strange, though, even though ex-members are shunned, the community makes such a huge effort to "save" new people among the "worldly". Don't their old buddies rate an attempt to save them from "falling"?
I was also financially devastated, having given up college or a real job to "serve the community". I know someone who was told by a top Ananda minister not to take flying lessons, because, "Why? You have Ananda". (He luckily got out and is now is a pilot for a major airline)
People leave Ananda feeling ripped off, deceived, betrayed, lied to, exploited, sucked dry, their lives
shattered on many levels. Money gone, marriage broken up, years behind in abandoned careers.
Even today, almost 15 years later, I still discover little hidden behaviors or traits which are hurtful or
destructive, still left over from the intensive cult training. I feel like a huge part of my life was irreplaceably ripped out.
My Prayer:
I am writing this so that perhaps others might be spared this experience. Go ahead, be idealistic, follow the "spiritual path", or any other path...but don't give your power away to anybody, even if they perform miracles in front of you. Don't give up your brain, your discrimination. Listen to it. God put it there for a good reason. God is where you are now, not in some compound, listening to others who are supposedly "spiritually superior". Don't be in awe of anybody else. Find and be in awe of your own power, your own soul. Anybody who says they're a teacher probably isn't one. If you meet really sweet, loving, humble people, and their gentle, charming teacher, who welcome you into their "spiritual family", turn around and run! Nothing on this earth is that perfect, except a trap. Find your own power, be you own teacher...find real joy and love in all of life's difficult challenges. Be a conqueror. Don't listen to the slick talkers...It could be decades before you figure it out, by then the damage to your life may be irreversible. Achieve true "spiritual liberation" by making your own way. Don't wreck your life by giving it away to those who don't deserve it. Don't join a cult. Don't join Ananda.
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global_01_local_1_shard_00001926_processed.jsonl/1359 | How do you you say tetherball in Swedish?
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I don't think there is a word for it so you can either use tetherball or make a new word. Tether = Tjuder (from Tjudra) so Tjuderboll would be a literal translation, it doesn't really sound nice though and noone will have a clue what you're talking about so I'd suggest you use Tetherball and then explain the game.
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How do you say do in Swedish?
Do = Göra In context göra means 'to do'. To say the word 'do' by itself but within the context of a sentence you would say 'gör'. Gör det nu. Do it now Jag vil
How do you say the in Swedish?
There is no separate word for "the" in Swedish. Instead the words are conjugated to mean the same thing. E.g. dog is "hund", and the dog is "Hund en"
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How do you say from in Swedish?
Depends on the context. Generally it's 'från', but sometimes 'av'. Jag kommer från Amerika. - I come from America. Hon tog det av honom. - She took it from him.
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How do you say what the in Swedish?
"The" is often contained in the noun (flicka [girl] turns intoflickan [the girl]); however, what is either "Va" or "Vad." |
global_01_local_1_shard_00001926_processed.jsonl/1363 | Developmentally aligned spaces and tools for children make parenting a lot easier, but they don't come with an owner's manual (and neither does the kid!). Our tutorials walk you through your most pressing questions about the parenting side of early childhood - from setting up play spaces to teaching utensils and starting solids, and more to come!
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global_01_local_1_shard_00001926_processed.jsonl/1416 | Skeletons / by Brian Beck
It turns out Paris is full of skeletons. Deep underground all over the city, in the tunnels and quarries that supplied the limestone to build monuments such as Notre Dame, there are six million skeletons stacked in orderly piles, rows of tibias to the front, skulls on top. According to the helpful signage at the entrance to the catacombs, Louis XVI ordered all the cemeteries cleared to deal with public health "risks." In keeping with modern sensibilities, that is quite the understatement. By the late 1700s, there were so many people buried in Parisian graveyards, that the level of the graveyards was 10 feet or more above ground level. What's more, the burial "mounds" were spilling through adjacent structures (nothing like having the wall of your bedroom give way and a fresh corpse come rolling in). Shallow graves were easy targets for grave scavengers (human and animal) and putrid runoff water was spreading disease. For a person living in 1775, risks (and I mean serious ones) were constant. Let's be frank, this wasn't a public health risk, this was a public health crisis. Surely people had better things to do than to move six million bodies to tunnels under the city. Apparently, it was that bad. Oh, and recovering all of that prime real estate, not too shabby either.
I heard a story on NPR a while back about homelessness. The story made reference to the fact that the cops refer to the strung out worst-of-the-worst as "skeletons." A few weeks ago we took the Gold Line from Pasadena to Boyle Heights to go to one of our favorite restaurants, La Serenata de Garibaldi. On the trip back, a guy got on (actually more like fell on) the train in South Pasadena with an open bottle of tequila sloshing in his pocket. He was swearing about spilling it on his shirt (it looked like he'd taken a bath in it) and shouting at everyone who looked in his direction. Fortunately we only had one stop to go, and so when we got out, I took the opportunity to explain to Parker what was happening. I remembered the story about the skeletons and it seemed like a good vehicle to explain what had just taken place in a way a 5 year old could understand. So I explained that the guy on the train was scary because he was a skeleton, he was killing himself with alcohol and would probably be dead soon. He acted that way because he was partly dead. Seemed like he got it.
We went looking for a restaurant yesterday and while we were waiting for our iPhone to load a map of the neighborhood, we were accosted by a very drunk guy on the street. We circled the kids in between us while the guy staggered around, alternately muttering incoherently in French and slurring "Bir Hakiem," the name of a nearby Metro stop. This went on for a minute or so and then he suddenly lunged at Parker shouting the French version of what I can only imagine was "boo." Parker is pretty sensitive to scary stuff (the Cars ride at Disneyland scared him to death) so it had the desired effect. I often carry a tripod around, a 10 pound Manfrotto that's heavy enough to support a pretty sizable camera. Back in the film days, I used it for a Pentax 67II, which was the Sherman Tank of medium format gear and it did the job admirably. I'm more than aware that when I go out shooting late at night, I'm by myself, often in places no normal person would go, and I've often imagined how I would get myself out of a situation that I didn't want to be in. I'm not stupid about it. I try to be very aware of my surroundings and almost never wear headphones. I've skipped some shots too over the years because there were some lurkers that just didn't seem right. But if it came to that, my tripod is the perfect defensive weapon--folded up, it's like a cricket bat. So for the first time, I instinctively I picked it up and got ready to put it use. Fortunately the guy backed off, and we made our escape, but as soon as we got away the kids wanted to know what the hell just happened. We went through the whole skeleton discussion again and this time it seemed to make a more meaningful impression. Skeletons are scary, you avoid them, you don't look at them and you don't talk to them, you just keep moving. And yet, for the rest of the afternoon, they pointed to every sketchy person and asked, "Daddy, is THAT a skeleton?" It's nothing like the L.A. homeless issue, but if you start looking, you'll find you're stepping over them here too. The difference is that the six million of them you don't see are actually dead.
The Paris Catacombs contain 6 million skeletons, arranged in neat piles. On the public tour, you only see a very small fraction. My recommendation is to purchase tickets in advance online or come in the late afternoon when it's less crowded.
The Paris Catacombs contain 6 million skeletons, arranged in neat piles. On the public tour, you only see a very small fraction. My recommendation is to purchase tickets in advance online or come in the late afternoon when it's less crowded. |
global_01_local_1_shard_00001926_processed.jsonl/1430 | Queen of Pain podcast on Race Across the Sky
28th Feb 2011
The latest in the Heason Events podcast series is an interview with US mountain-bike champion Rebecca Rusch - who won in the Leadville 100 mountain bike race 2009 and again in 2010, setting a new women's course record. On Friday, 'Race Across the Sky' will be shown as part of the special bike screening at the Sheffield Adventure Film Festival (9.30pm). (Click here to buy tickets).
The 2009 DVD and BluRay are available at the Leadville Trail 100 Online Store. The 2010 DVD will be available on March 8.
Rebecca Rusch on the Leadville 100
"My nickname's the Queen of Pain so I tend to do well at things that are really long and difficult and 2009 the weather was hideous, it was raining and showing, I'm not sure if there's something in me, the harder the event the better I seem to do. And it's really special - there's 1500-2000 racers there so the energy you get is really unique. A lot of the time I'm out in the wilderness alone and you're just relying on your head for motivation but this one there's people everywhere cheering - it's really like the Tour De France of Mountain biking."
On racing against the guys:
"It's total respect, sometimes it's a double take, like I'm getting kicked but then it's like it's the women's leader and there's a ton of respect and that's the really cool thing about this race is the vbe and it is super competitive and everyone is there because they like to ride their bike so there's definitely a camaraderie with everyone looking out for each other."
On racing with Lance Armstrong and Dave Wiens:
"They are just like normal people. When you meet these guys they're hanging out with their kids, or shaking hands or nervous for the race at the start-line. We're all human. When you meet these super stars you realise everyone's the same with the same fears and motivations - some of them just seem to go away faster than the rest of us!"
Will she be back a third time in 2011?
"Yes absolutely it's become a mainstay on my calendar and my sponsors want me to go and Leadville's great in having me back but really I wanna go personally because it's become a highlight of my season the last 2 years."
Any ambitions to run the Leadville 100 footrace?
"Absolutely not! It looks hideous. For me, it's double, triple, quadruple the time. The winning times for the foot race take forever. I might do some more adventure racing this year but for me I never really was in love with running so I'll stick to the bike and let the skinny runners do that part!"
On racing in the UK:
"I've heard there's some great mega-avalance and enduro stuff. I need to come over there [to the Peak District] Steve Peat lives there doesn’t he? He could teach me some downhill things for sure! (Steve Peat's doing a Q&A at ShAFF on Saturday 6th)." |
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global_01_local_1_shard_00001926_processed.jsonl/1448 | 1 Kings:Chapter 11
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列王纪(上) 1 Kings
1撒罗满除了法郎的公主外，又爱上了许多外国女子：即摩阿布女子，阿孟女子，厄东女子，漆冬女子，赫特女子。 1King Solomon loved many foreign women besides the daughter of Pharaoh. There were Moabite, Ammonite, Edomite, Sidonian and Hittite women
2关于这些民族，上主曾吩咐以色列子民说：「你们不可到他们中间去，他们也不可到你们中间来，否则他们必会引诱你们的心，倾向他们的神。」但是，撒罗满却恋爱这些女子。 2from nations about which Yahweh had commanded the Israelites, "You shall not marry them; nor shall they marry you, lest they win over your heart to their gods." Solomon, however, imitated these peoples because of his love.
3他有七百个各地公主为妻妾，另外还有三百妃子；这些妻妾终于败坏了他的心。 3He had seven hundred wives of royal birth, and three hundred concubines, and they won his heart.
4当撒罗满年老的时候，这些妻妾迷惑了他的心，勾引他去崇拜別的神；他的心已不像他父亲达味的心，全属于上主他的天主。 4In Solomon's old age, his wives led him astray to serve other gods and, unlike his father David, his heart was no longer wholly given to Yahweh his God.
5这样，他随从了漆冬人的女神阿巿托勒特，和阿孟人的可憎之物米耳公。 5For he served Astarte the goddess of the Sidonians, and Milcom, the idol of the Ammonites.
6撒罗满作了上主眼中视为恶的事，不像他父亲达味那样全心服从上主。 6He did what displeased Yahweh and, unlike his father David, was unfaithful to him.
7那时，撒罗满在耶路撒冷东面的山上，为摩阿布人的可憎之物革摩士，为阿孟子民的可憎之物摩肋客，修筑了丘坛。 7Solomon even built a high place for Chemosh, the idol of Moab, on the mountain east of Jerusalem and also for Molech, the idol of the Ammonites.
8他为所有的外国妻妾，都修筑了丘坛，各给自己的神焚香献祭。 8He did the same for all his foreign wives who burned incense and sacrificed to their gods.
9上主遂向撒罗满发怒，因为他的心偏离了两次显现给他的上主以色列的天主。 9Yahweh became angry with Solomon because his heart had turned away from Yahweh, the God of Israel.
10当时，上主对此事曾吩咐过他，不可去随从別的神，但他却没有遵守上主的命令。 10Yahweh appeared to him twice and commanded him not to follow other gods. But he did not obey Yahweh's command.
11於是，上主对撒罗满说：「你既然这样行事，不遵守我的盟约，和我吩咐你的诫命，我必要夺去你的王国，赐给你的一个臣仆。 11Therefore, Yahweh said to Solomon, "Since this has been your choice and you have kept neither my Covenant nor the statutes I commanded you, I will take the kingdom from you and give it to your servant.
12虽然如此，但为了你父亲达味的缘故，在你有生之日，我不作这事；我将要由你儿子手中夺去。 12Nevertheless, I will not do this during your lifetime for the sake of your father David; I will take it from your son.
13但是仍不完全夺去，为了我仆人达味和我所拣选的耶路撒冷，我仍给你的儿子留下一支派」。 13But I will not take it all; I will reserve one tribe for your son for the sake of David my servant, and for the sake of Jerusalem, the city which I have chosen."
14那时，上主兴起一个反抗撒罗满的人，就是厄东王的后裔，厄东人哈达得。 14And Yahweh raised up an adversary against Solomon. This was Hadad, the Edomite of the royal house in Edom.
15当达味打败厄东后，军长约阿布前去埋葬阵亡的人时，杀死了厄东所有的男子； 15Indeed, when David had defeated Edom, and Joab the commander of the army went up to bury the slain, he slew every male in Edom.
16约阿布和全以色列在厄东逗留了六个月，直到将厄东所有的男子完全杀掉。 16Joab and the Israelites remained in the place for six months until he had destroyed every male in Edom.
17哈达得却同他父亲的几个臣仆厄东人逃往埃及，那时哈达得还很年轻。 17However Hadad, then still only a boy, fled to Egypt together with some Edomites, his father's servants.
18他们从米德杨起身，到了帕兰，从帕兰又带了些人来到埃及，投奔埃及王法郎；法郎给了他一座房屋，供给他食用，又给了他一块土地。 18They left Midian for Paran and, taking along with them some of the men from Paran, they went on to Egypt to Pharaoh, king of Egypt, who gave Hadad a house, promised him food and gave him land.
19哈达得在法郎眼前很是得宠，因此将自己的妻子塔培乃斯王后的妹妹，嫁给他为妻。 19Hadad pleased Pharaoh, who gave him as wife the sister of Queen Tahpenes, his own wife.
20塔培乃斯的妹妹给哈达得生了一个儿子叫革奴巴特。塔培乃斯在法郎宫中抚养他，因此革奴巴特便住在法郎宫中，同法郎的公子们在一起。 20The sister of Tahpenes bore him a son, Genubath, whom Tahpenes weaned in Pharaoh's house, and who lived there together with Pharaoh's sons.
21哈达得在埃及听说达味已与他的列祖同眠，军长约阿布也已去世，便对法郎说：「请让我走，回到我故乡去！」 21And so when Hadad heard in Egypt that David had slept with his fathers, and that Joab the commander of the army was also dead, he said to Pharaoh, "Let me go back to my own country."
22法郎对他说：「你在我这里缺少什么，竟想回到你的故乡去？」他回答说：「什么也不缺，只求你让我回去！」 22Pharaoh asked him, "What have I not done that you want to leave for your own country?" But he answered him, "Please, let me go." And he came back to his land. He ruled over Edom and hated Israel.
23天主又兴起一个反抗撒罗满的人，就是厄肋雅达的儿子勒宗。他由自己的主人祚巴王哈达德则尔前出走。 23God raised up another adversary in the person of Rezon son of Eliada, who had fled from his master Hadadezer king of Zobah.
24在达味击杀阿兰人时，聚集了一些人，作了土匪头目，去了大马士革，盘踞在那里，做了大马士革王。 24Rezon gathered men around him and became the leader of a marauding band. After David fought them and killed some of them, they went to live in Damascus where they made him king.
25撒罗满有生之日，勒宗始终与以色列为敌。哈达得就回了国。哈达得的危害，即在于他作了厄东的君王，不断骚扰以色列。 25He was an adversary of Israel during Solomon's lifetime.
26厄弗辣大地责勒达人，乃巴特的儿子雅洛贝罕，──他的母亲名叫责鲁阿，是个寡妇──原是撒罗满的臣仆，他也起来反抗君王。 26Jeroboam also rebelled against the king. He was the son of Nebat, an Ephraimite of Zeredah; his mother, Zeruah, had been left a widow. He was one of Solomon's officials.
27他反抗君王的原委是这样：当时撒罗满正在建筑米罗，修葺他父亲达味城的裂口； 27This was the reason for his rebellion. Solomon was building the Millo and was closing up the breach of the City of David his father;
28雅洛贝罕这个人原很有才能，撒罗满见这少年人很能做事，便派他监督若瑟族的一切劳役。 28when he noticed that Jeroboam was a man of great personal worth and an able worker, he put him in charge of all the forced labor of the tribes of Joseph.
29有一次，雅洛贝罕走出耶路撒冷，史罗的先知阿希雅在路上遇见了他；先知身上穿着一件新外衣，在田间只有他们二人。 29Once, when Jeroboam went out of Jerusalem, the prophet Ahijah of Shiloh found him on the road. The two of them were alone in the open country
30阿希雅便拿起他所穿的新外衣，撕成了十二块， 30when Ahijah, who had a new garment on, clutched and tore it into twelve pieces.
31然后对雅洛贝罕说：「你拿十块，因为上主以色列的天主这样说：看，我必将撒罗满手中的王国撕裂，将十个支派交给你。 31He then said to Jeroboam, "Take ten pieces for yourself for this is the word of Yahweh, the God of Israel: 'I am about to tear the kingdom from Solomon's hands
32为了我仆人达味，和我从以色列支派中选的耶路撒冷城的缘故，仍给他留下一支派， 32to give you ten tribes. Only one tribe shall be left to him for the sake of my servant David and Jerusalem, the city which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel.
33因为他背弃了我，崇拜了漆冬人的女神阿市托勒特、摩阿布人的神革摩士和阿孟人的神米耳公。他没有像他父亲达味那样履行我的道路，行我视为正义的事，恪守我的律例和诫命。 33For Solomon has forsaken me and worshiped Astarte, the goddess of the Sidonians, Chemosh the god of Moab, and Milcom the god of the Ammonites. Unlike his father David, he has not walked in my ways to do what is right before me and to keep my commandments and decisions.
34但我不愿从他手中夺去整个王国，我要使他有生之日作首领，是为了我所选的仆人达味的缘故，因为他遵守了我的诫命和律例。 34Nevertheless, it is not from him that I will take the kingdom. I will let him reign during his lifetime for the sake of David my servant, whom I chose and who kept my commandments and statutes.
35我却要从他儿子的手中夺回王国，给你十个支派， 35But I will take the kingship from his son's hand and make you king over ten tribes.
36只留下一个支派给他的儿子，使我的仆人达味，在我所拣选立我名的耶路撒冷城中，在我面前常有一盏明灯。 36One tribe will be left for his son so that my servant David may always have a lamp before me in Jerusalem, the city where I have chosen to put my Name.
37我选取你，使你随意统治一切，作以色列的君王。 37I will let you reign over all you wish; you shall be king of Israel.
38如果你听从我吩咐你的一切，履行我的道路，行我视为正义的事，恪守我的律例和诫命，如同我的仆人达味一样，我必与你同在，为你建立一巩固的家室，像我为达味所建立的一样。我将以色列交给你， 38Now, if you obey all that I command you, follow me and do what is right in my eyes, if you keep my commandments and my statutes, as my servant David did, I will be with you and establish your family for a long time, as I did for David. I will entrust Israel to you.
39借以贬抑达味的后裔，但不致於久远。」 39In this way I will humble the family of David for a time'."
40因此，撒罗满想杀害雅洛贝罕，雅洛贝罕遂起身逃往埃及，投奔埃及王史沙克；他住在埃及，直到撒罗满逝世。 40Solomon wanted to kill Jeroboam, but Jeroboam took refuge in Egypt with Shishak king of Egypt, where he remained until the death of Solomon.
41撒罗满其余的事蹟，他的一切作为和智慧，都记载在撒罗满实录上。 41Now the rest of the events of Solomon's reign, his deeds and his wisdom, are written in the book of the acts of Solomon.
42撒罗满在耶路撒冷作王，统治全以色列，凡四十年。 42Solomon reigned over all Israel in Jerusalem for forty years.
43撒罗满与他的列祖同眠，葬在他父亲达味城内；他的儿子勒哈贝罕继位为王。 43Then he rested with his fathers and was buried in the city of David; Rehoboam his son reigned in his place.
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Thursday, December 9, 2010
New NASA Paper - It's Better Than We Thought!
More signs of cracks in the Warmist edifice when a NASA/NOAA paper is published saying that a doubling of CO2 would only cause a 1.6 Deg C rise in global temperatures due to increased vegetation growth having a negative feedback effect, absorbing CO2.
Bounoua and her colleagues write:
The fact that this paper has been published at all shows a sea change in attitude as it previously would never have seen the light of day.
1 comment:
1. I ran that past a warmist and he debunked it saying: "The focus of the study was not to determine global temps but to quantify the negative feedback effects of evapotranspiration. Since the model started with a low warming figure, it resulted in a low warming figure when evapotranspiration was plugged in. Had the model started with a higher warming figure, it would have resulted in a higher warming figure when evapotranspiration was plugged in. "
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global_01_local_1_shard_00001926_processed.jsonl/1477 | Homework #1:
(due: Oct 9, 2001)
1. Use B_PIX to write a program to generate
1. upside-down lena.im
2. right-side-left lena.im
3. diagonally mirrored lena.im
2. Use tk to
1. rotate lena.im 45 degrees clockwise
2. shrink lena.im in half
3. binarize lena.im at 128 to get a binary image (hint: binarize)
Homework #2:
(due: Oct 16, 2001)
Write a program to generate Homework #3:
(due: Oct. 23, 2001)
Write a program to do histogram equalization
Reference Equation:
Homework #4:
(due: Nov 6, 2001)
Write programs which do binary morphological dilation, erosion, opening, closing, and hit-and-miss transform on a binary image.
(ps. you can use octagon as the kernel (structuring elements) for the first four operations. And the last operation (hit-and-miss), you should find proper elements to detect the right-upper corner.
Homework #5:
(due: Nov 13, 2001)
Write programs which do gray scale morphological dilation, erosion, opening, and closing on a gray scale image.
Homework #6:
(due: Nov 27, 2001) Write a program to generate Yokoi connectivity number
Homework #7:
(due: Dec 4, 2001) Write a program to generate thinned image
Homework #8:
(due: Dec 11, 2001) Write the following programs:
1. Generate additive white Gaussian noise
2. Generate salt-and-peeper noise
3. Run box filter on all noisy images
4. Run median filter on all noisy images
5. Run opening followed by closing or closing followed by opening
Homework #9:
(due: Dec 18, 2001) Write programs to generate the following gradient magnitude images and choose proper thresholds to get the binary edge images:
1. Roberts operator
2. Prewitt edge detector
3. Sobel edge detector
4. Frei and Chen gradient operator
5. Kirsch compass operator
6. Nevatia-Babu 5x5 operator
Homework #10:
(due: Jan ??,2002) Project due Dec. 21
Write the following programs to detect edge:
1. zero-crossing on the following four types of images(methods) to get edge images (choose proper thresholds), p. 349
2.1. Laplacian, Fig. 7.33
3.2. minimum-variance Laplacian, Fig. 7.36
4.3. Laplacian of Gaussian, Fig. 7.37
5.4. Difference of Gaussian, (use tk to generate D.O.G.)
D. Marr, Vision, W.H. Freeman, San Francisco, p.54-74, 1982.
=====Marr, Vision, Fig. 2.9=====
=====Marr, Vision, Fig. 2.16=====
dog (inhibitory 64#64, excitatory 65#65, kernel size=11)
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Volume 16, Number 3
Jun 1992
Libraries and archives in several countries have been systematically surveyed to determine the condition of the paper in books and records, in order to plan major programs of microfilming and deacidification. In every country so far but the Netherlands and Sweden, a correlation has been found between pH and strength, which confirms the results of most permanence research since 1926, when acidity was first identified as a factor in deterioration.
The survey reports for the Netherlands have been published. The results of an archives survey are presented in "The Eindhoven Variant: A Method to Survey the Deterioration of Archival Collections," by H.J.M. Mijland, F.F.M. Ector and K van der Hoeven, Restaurator 12: 163-182, 1991. Three large records series from 1800 to 1900 or 1920 were surveyed and found to be acidic (average pH 5.0 or 5.2), but one series was 60% brittle (corner fold, three double folds) and the other two only 5% brittle. The correlation between acidity and fold was 0.25.
A 1989 survey of paper in the Royal Library, with experts from Sweden and the U.S. Library of Congress advising, covered the period 1800-1988. Results are published in Dutch and English in Bedreigd Papierbezit in Beeld-Endangered Books and Documents (CNC-Publikaties, 2), Den Haag, 1991 (ISSN 0926-2938). About 225 pages. (The CNC is a joint project of the Royal Library and the General Archives.) Some of the characteristics measured were pH, discoloration, alum, presence of lignin, and whether the paper appeared to be handmade or machinemade. Correlations and trends by decade are shown in numerous graphs. In the Archives, 1.5% of the paper was brittle, and in the Library, 2.2%. (In U.S. research libraries, brittle books make up about 20% of the collections, though in the New York Public Library, this is 50%.) Brittleness did not correlate significantly with country of origin, pH, or presence of alum or lignin-only with decade of production, discoloration and type of paper. They have decided to give first priority for preservation (probably microfilming) to newspapers, then to monographs; but if even acidic paper (pH 3.56.0) does not embrittle readily in the Netherlands, they may not find they have a mandate for deacidification.
"The Manufacture of Paper in the Netherlands in the Nineteenth Century," IPH, International Paper History, with IPH Communications, v.1#3, 1991. This is apparently an English translation or summary of a 71-page book published in 1990, and available from the Dutch Papermaking Association, Julianastraat 30, 2012 ES Haarlem, Netherlands. The author is given as "Drs. O. de Wit." For the first 30 years after the paper machine was invented, Dutch paper continued to be made by hand, and the industry languished. De Wit says this lag was because of the conservatism of Dutch papermakers, together with technical ignorance and lack of finance. Holland was many decades behind England in the process of industrialization, which would have helped remove all of these obstacles. By 1869, there were 20 fourdriniers and about 50 steam engines in the paper industry. Straw pulp began to replace rags in 1854. Chemical wood pulp was first made in the Netherlands in 1885, and the paper industry began to flourish again.
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Volume 19, Number 4
Sep 1995
Conservation and Preservation in Small Libraries. Edited by Nicholas Hadgraft and Katherine Swift. Cambridge, England: Parker Library Publication, 1994. 160 pp.
Nancy Carlson Schrock
Winchester, MA
The modest title of this publication gives little indication of the depth and breadth of its content. The "small library" is the Parker Library, the library of the Master and Fellows of Corpus Christi College in Cambridge, England, which houses the third largest collection of Anglo-Saxon manuscripts in the world along with illuminated manuscripts and 8000 printed books, 140 of them incunabula. The publication is a compilation of papers, presented in 1988 to commemorate the fifth anniversary of the Parker Library Conservation Project. The papers have been updated and substantially rewritten in many cases.
David McKitterick, Librarian of Trinity College, captures the theme of the volume with his statement, "Preservation without context is of no use." In a series of well illustrated essays librarians, bibliographers, scholars, and conservators establish a context for conservation, one in which the needs for physical stabilization are carefully balanced with the demands of scholars. As Nicholas Pickwoad warned, "The moment the structure of a book is interfered with, it becomes impossible to put it back exactly as it was."
The curatorial viewpoint is represented by McKitterick, Nicholas Barker of the British Library, and R. I. Page, Librarian of the Parker Library. In "A Scholar's Plea," Mildred Budney explains the role of physical evidence in historical studies as a type of "manuscript archaeology," requiring collaboration between conservator and researcher. Documentation is essential.
Rare book librarians will find Nicholas Pickwoad's essay "Distinguishing between the Good and Bad Repair of Books" particularly useful. Although much of the text appeared in the AIC Book and Paper Annualas "Determining How Best to Conserve Books in Special Collections," the English publication contains illustrations and gives specific examples of sound repair techniques ("What to look for"), which are missing in the shorter American version. The complement for paper conservation is Nancy Bell's essay "Considerations When Treating Paper Manuscripts," which takes a similar broad overview of the complex factors involved when selecting manuscripts for treatment.
Theory is supplemented by case studies: Melvin Jeffers and Nicholas Pickwoad on rebinding vellum manuscripts; Deborah Willis on paper conservation; and Tony Cains on in-situ treatment of eighteenth and nineteenth century books. Cheryl Porter reviews the anaytical methods available for pigment anaylsis. "Rediscovering Parchment: The Nature of the Beast" by Christopher Clarkson is a pictorial essay with over 50 illustrations that show how much information about the nature, history, and manufacture of parchment can be gained by careful visual examination.
Storage and environment are also considered. Nicholas Hadgraft describes the racking system and wooden pressure boxes designed for 500 medieval manuscripts in the Parker Library. Engineer James Briggs evaluates alternative methods of environmental control. Although his goal of eliminating the need for air conditioning in favor of passive controls and air handling may seem inapplicable to the North American climate, the clear outline of principles and options could be useful for small institutions.
In summary, special collections librarians and conservators will find this volume valuable for its specific conservation information and as an example of the dialog that should underlie informed preservation decisions. As David McKitterick advised, "Behind those two words, 'Preserve everything,' should lie considered judgment, based on understanding, consultation and mutual awareness of the conflicting assumptions in approaching conservation questions from practical, historical and library management viewpoints, to say nothing of those of commerce."
Only 500 copies of the book were printed and half of these had been sold by last April. Copies may be ordered from the Parker Library, Corpus Christi College, Trumpington Street, Cambridge CB2 1RH, England. Prepayment is required, preferably in pounds sterling. The cost is £34.50 pounds ($67).
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• As you trust in the Lord, you will not be disappointed.
• God will disgrace every set up of the enemy against you.
• You are coming out of that situation in triumph in Jesus name.
• You will not come to shame. Only your enemies will come to shame; they will fall before you, in Jesus name!!! |
global_01_local_1_shard_00001926_processed.jsonl/1535 | Health Tips - Hydrogen Peroxide
Hydrogen Peroxide
If you feel like you are coming down with an infection or fever, pour 4 quarts of 3% hydrogen peroxide (inexpensive at Costco) into a tub of water and soak in it for a half hour or more. Because the hydrogen peroxide is very alkalinizing and high in oxygen, it helps your body fight any infection. I have also seen it reduce fevers. This can be done on a daily basis until you are well.
A few things to note regarding hydrogen peroxide therapy:
1. Do not use water that is too hot as that will cause you to lose important minerals through sweating.
2. It is generally best not to do this too close to bedtime, as it can be energizing.
3. As with anything, a person can be allergic to hydrogen peroxide. If you start to feel bad, just get out.
For a child’s bath, use a smaller amount of hydrogen peroxide, such as 1 or 2 quarts. You can often prevent a child from throwing up if you place them in a bath with hydrogen peroxide right away.
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global_01_local_1_shard_00001926_processed.jsonl/1541 | Tuesday, June 1, 2010
Candice Makes Mayonnaise
Candice with her finished product!
A funny thing keeps happening to Robbie ... he goes up the coast, goes out for a beer with his dad, and comes home with 1 to 3 meat trays. There's a raffle at the club his dad goes to, and somehow they always seem to win. Yep, hubbie of the definitely-vegetarian, daddy of the mostly-vegetarian, and he comes home with 15 rib-eyes (having left half of them with his parents). Hmmmmm......
So, what to do but invite around some meat-a-tarians to share his feast. Don't worry, this isn't a post about steak! It's a post about how one of our carnivorous friends made her very first batch of mayo ... ever.
Let's preface this by saying that 2 of the 3 cooking shows I watched on Saturday (I was home alone, and in complete chill-out mode) made fresh mayonnaise. I thought, this has to be a sign! I made a batch to go with my lunch that day, and you know what? It was as good as they all say it is.
Back to meat-fest ... while I'm busy preparing salads and putting away our market finds of the week, Candice whips up a beautiful mayo for us. Here's how she did it:
Candice Makes Mayonnaise
makes 1 1/3 c
2 med free-range egg yolks, at room temperature
300 mL extra virgin olive oil
juice of 1/2 lemon (or 1 Tbs white wine vinegar, if you're out of lemons)
a pinch of dried garlic (or the tiniest ever amount of fresh, I'd think)
1 tsp salt
1 tsp sugar
salt to taste
*As always, use organic ingredients when you can.
1. Put the egg yolks in a large mixing bowl and beat them with a whisk (or electric beaters - if you're not feeling energetic) for a few seconds to make them creamy-looking.
2. Now, this is the most crucial part - when you start making mayo, you have to put the oil in drop by drop as you whisk. You are going to think to yourself - "this is going to take forever!", but don't worry, you get to speed up the process later on. Drop ... by ... excruciating ... drop.
3. Drop by drop - remember!
4. At some point (probably around 100 mL of oil in or so ... ) your mayo will start to look creamy and mayo-like. When this happens, you've passed the critical stage and it's ok to add more oil at a time. Still keep it to a Tbs at a time or so, but it'll go faster.
5. By the time all the oil's been incorporated, it should look just like mayo. Whisk in the lemon juice, garlic, salt and sugar and taste it. Yum! Add more salt or lemon/vinegar if you need to.
6. Whatever you don't use you can store in the fridge for sandwiches or dipping or whatever! Just keep it for a few days though ... without preservatives it loses its freshness more quickly than store-bought.
It's ok, this is a common problem with mayo which occurs when too much oil is added too quickly at the beginning. If this happens to you, all is not lost. Put a fresh, room-temperature egg yolk into a new, clean dish and slowly (drop by drop) pour in your first batch. When that's incorporated, keep adding the oil just as you were initially doing, only more slowly (ha ha). Should be completely fine!
Now all we need is a bucket of hot chips ...
How much did this cost?
We used all organic ingredients. The egg yolks were, say, $0.50 for 2 (as we saved the whites) and the 1/2 lemon was $0.35. The oil was the expensive bit, at $3 ... and the rest was really negligible. So, let's say $3.90 for a large amount of mayo. Seriously, you might consider halving this recipe unless you're having a lot of people around. (We used it on salads and on veggie patties and still have heaps in the fridge.)
So, well done Candice! Let's see if you can pass this on, Jamie Oliver-style, on your trip overseas. I'm sure there's something yum to have with mayo in South Carolina!!
Amanda xx
Catriona Condon said... [Reply to comment]
Hi Amanda, just wanted to say how brilliant I think your blog is! I love the idea of making your own muesli and made your recipe on Monday night. It was delicious and incredibly easy. I'm not sure whether the pasta or the purple pizzas will be next. They both look so good...
Candice said... [Reply to comment]
This is totally going to make me famous!!!!
Amanda @ easypeasyorganic said... [Reply to comment]
Thanks Cat! xx
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global_01_local_1_shard_00001926_processed.jsonl/1546 | Jazzwerkstatt JW019 Quartet
Rudi Mahall
Rudi Mahall, bass clarinet; Aki Takase, piano; Johannes Bauer, trombone; Tony Buck, drums.
1. I (11.18)
2. II (05.10)
3. III (19.05)
4. IV (01.49)
5. V (28.53)
Recorded at Tonus Arcus, Berlin on 29 August 2006.
Cover artwork (reproduced above) by Chris Hinze.
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Buivydas said benzodiazepines (anti-anxiety drugs such as Xanax, Ativan and Valium) are an up-and-coming choice for young people.
I asked if after the progesterone dose she felt as if she were having a withdrawal symptom from the Ativan, and she said it was identical.
He was given two doses of intravenous Ativan in the emergency room, and the hospitalist was called to admit him.
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Medications to watch out for include sedative and anxiolytic drugs, such as benzodiazepines that include Valium, Xanax, and Ativan.
Ativan and Abilify were taken to suppress anxiety and depression.
Jon Hamilton's story on Morning Edition featured a man who has had numerous medications to treat his major depression, which he rattled off: "Klonopin, Ativan, Valium, Xanax, Re-meron, Gabapentin, Buspar, and De-pakote.
The hospice nurses tried giving my mother a chip of an Ativan tablet at bedtime.
The physician involved in the Ativan incident was a hospitalist, who was provided to the hospital pursuant to a contract which the hospital entered into with a third party, which was, in fact the employer of the physician in question. |
global_01_local_1_shard_00001926_processed.jsonl/1596 | What does the word peremptory mean?
Usage examples for peremptory
1. That stern seclusion from an evil world, that peremptory denial of its charms, why are they so impressive? – The Gospel According to St. Mark by G. A. Chadwick
2. At the fisherman's peremptory order, the two boys clung to each side of the tender. – A Republic Without a President and Other Stories by Herbert Ward
3. It was said in a rough, peremptory fashion that was startling: but he took no further notice of me, only went on smoking, and I went back to Jack, who was now seated on the horse just as at our first meeting. – The Story of Antony Grace by George Manville Fenn |
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I planted a dahlia rosella last year can u plz tell me will it regrow this year&when or is it a one season flower
Did you leave it in the garden or dig it up and store the tuber over winter?
If you left it in the garden it may grow again as this winter hasn't been too bad. It will start to show shoots when soil temperatures are over 50'f, usually by the end of April.
If you dug it up it needs to be stood in some compost now to encourage growth.
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Central Asian civilisation uncovered
BBC World Service, Monday 14 May 2001, 15:44 GMT 16:44 UK
Archeologists working in the deserts of Turkmenistan say they have discovered evidence of an ancient literate civilisation which existed in Central Asia more than 4,000 years ago.
An American archaeologist from the University of Pennsylvania, Fredrik Hiebert, has uncovered an inscription on a stamp seal which is unlike any other number or writing system of the time.
He says the writing resembles Chinese characters which were thought to have developed several centuries later.
Traces of the lost civilisation have emerged in recent decades, after archeologists of the former Soviet Union excavated sites in Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan to reveal large buildings and monumental arches.
Experts say the discovery would suggest the ancient people of Central Asia were not as isolated as previously thought, but probably had continent-wide connections. Archeologists have named the civilisation Bactria Margiana Archaeology Complex -- or BMAC -- after the ancient Greek names for the two regions it covers. |
global_01_local_1_shard_00001926_processed.jsonl/1637 | Nov 18
Chief Information Officer Evan Bowers Discusses the Internet of Things in CIO Review
Connected technology is increasingly becoming an integral part of our everyday lives. It is particularlly important for healthcare companies to prepare to maintain the security of these devices.
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Travel Brilliantly
A three month pitch done while I worked at Grey NY. We won the business and created the look and feel, as well as digital and out-of-home experiences that evoked “travel brilliantly.”
Digital: gamification of the membership rewards program, making earning Marriott points as simple as a check-in, and rewarding patrons with redeemable products found in airport vending machines. We also created a brand anthem that echoed the idea of "travel brilliantly."
Look: a gem-like compass that became a brilliant guide in travel. After the pitch the topographical map became the anchor to the look and feel. |
global_01_local_1_shard_00001926_processed.jsonl/1644 | Thursday, October 30, 2014
Halloween Nevermore Rapport
First off,
I've extended the Bucket of Books Giveaway till midnight PST tonight.
Enter by telling me who your favorite fictional witch is here!
What do witches and Poe have in common?
They both love black cats!
So let's celebrate these feared felines by doing the following:
Reading the comic adaptation of The Black Cat from Tales of Terror:
Read the rest of the comic here!
While sipping a Black Cat Martini:
Get the recipe here!
And listening to a spooky song,
such as Read Me a Story by The Clock Work Army:
(I'm quite proud of this video!)
People from past to present pondering over petrifying prose.
Including blogger buds Chris Hewson and Laura Morrigan.
Now visit the other P(oe)arty peeps:
1. Make my Black Cat Martini dirty! and a double! Delious Devils Night Frightfully Fun Girl! xoDebi
1. Turns out I can't get a ride to the Poe Price Weekend, so I'm making mine a triple! lol.
Wish I could beam us both there, cause I couldn't have won the contest without you! xo
2. FANTABULOUS!!!!! You should share that vid on FB ...perfect for tonight. People could use it to signal bedtime for the kiddies lol :D XXX
3. Oooh, I love the sound of a Black Cat Martini!
Happy Halloween, Holly! ♥
4. Oh- who better to read me a spooky story!
Happy Halloween!
5. Hmmm, that comic's an interesting mix of Poe characters and themes! Sorry I missed this groovy giveaway! Been off the Blogosphere grid for some time, alas. :-( Hope to become a more regular visitor!
6. Hope you all had a very happy Halloween too! ♥
I'll definitely share that video on FB next year, Gina!
No worries, Mina! I'm planning more giveaways for Creepmas! :) |
global_01_local_1_shard_00001926_processed.jsonl/1661 | Thursday, May 9, 2013
FOTD: Orangey-Reds...
Have you ever worn orange red-toned eyeshadows? For a time, I stayed away from them because they can make the eyes (or worse, the face) look swollen and tired. When used properly, these eye shadows can still make you look fresh and fab without having to look clown-y or haggard.
For today's FOTD post, I used orange red-toned eyeshadows for my lids and gave it a smokey look by blending it with a sheer pink eyeshadow:
K-Palette Long Lasting Eyebrow
L'oreal Eye Pencil
In2it brow powder
MAC Brow Set in Girl Boy
MAC eyeshadows in Coppering + Firecracker (lid) and French Cuff (crease, tearduct and lower lash line)
K-Palette Long Lasting Eyeliner
K-Palette 1 Day Lash Perm Volume Curl Mascara
Obagi ZO Oclipse Primer + Sunblock
MaxFactor Face Finity Liquid Foundation in Sand
Kanebo Mineral Powder Foundation
Sleek Contour Kit in Medium
MAC Beauty Powder in True Romantic
MUA Boom Lipstick in OMG
Make sure to even out your skin, and skip blush if you're the type who get's red easily, match it with a nude-ish lip color (topped with gloss, if needed) and voila! Rock those reds, baby!
Happy Thursday!
1 comment:
aisyah Chronicles said...
so pretty! :D Am tempted to get the MAC eyeshadows now
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global_01_local_1_shard_00001926_processed.jsonl/1662 | Holding your breath
Can you die from holding your breath? A quick search on Google reveals, most likely not. You body will pass out and your autonomic bodily functions will kick in. It will veto your will and make you breathe again. I know it’s an odd question to ponder but I believe it has something to teach […]
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We are often caught in frantic competition with others to appear better, either by how we dress, the cars we drive, the money we have or by a lot of other worldly things that are external to what we truly are..beings created out of a love that we can manifest by bringing out that which is within. Loving, calm and centered beings that are fully aware and connected to our creator and the rest of creation. It is in such a state that we are.
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The "(Fill in the Blank) Has Died" Thread
Sondra Locke, who appeared in many a Clint Eastwood movies, has gone to the eternal fields.
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What Is The Last Film You Watched? (Older Films)
Or as close to truth as possible but with a poetic licence to fill in some of the blanks.
3. You're right. It's not a copy and yet there's enough references to the first movie to make a visual link. Though, I have to say, the lighting in the fast food place where officer K is being approached by three woman is of questionable quality. Like a cheap TV show trying to be Blade Runner-ish. If I was on the set, I would have said: Denis, this is Blade Runner, you'll have to try harder. https://screenmusings.org/movie/blu-ray/Blade-Runner-2049/images/Blade-Runner-2049-0500.jpg
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Brexit: The Official Thread
More countries might want to leave if the EU said yes to all the demands of the UK.
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Brexit: The Official Thread
Did Quint really think that the EU would cave in? Really?
6. It's because the images are very clean and clear, which is something both Villeneuve and Deakins like. Scott, at the time, went for a very busy look, filling and layering the stage with lots of props.
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Brexit: The Official Thread
Which was already minus zero.
8. And the Oscar goes to ... Roger Deakins.
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Michael Cohen sentenced to 3 years in prison.
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Brexit: The Official Thread
You, of course.
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12. Freddie Highmore in Charlie And The Chocolate Factory: Who knew?
13. I'm currently watching Bates Motel Season 5 Will she die in the shower?
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global_01_local_1_shard_00001926_processed.jsonl/1723 | Thursday, November 21, 2013
HotNets '13: Corybantic: Towards Modular Composition of SDN Control Programs
Presented by: Alvin AuYoung
Authors: Jeff Mogul, Alvin AuYoung, Sujata Banerjee, Jeongkeun "JK" Lee, Jayaram Mudigond, Lucian Popa, Puneet Sharma, Yoshio Turner
In many other area of computing, programs are expressed using modular programming abstractions. It would be nice to be able to write network control programs this way too, but different programs often impose conflicting requirements on the network. For example, in a datacenter network, a program trying to minimize bandwidth usage across a core switch may wish to group tenant VMs on the same rack, while a program trying to minimize the effects of link failures may wish to distribute VMs across different racks.
Corybantic is a system for enabling modular composition of network control programs. This work is important because it represents the first attempt to address the general problem of modular composition of network control programs with conflicting requirements. Corybantic defines an API that allows controllers to make proposals for how network resources should be used and define a function for assigning value to other proposals (in a universal "currency"). The Corybantic system collects the proposals and their evaluation by each controller and selects the overall configuration that maximizes value. A prototype system has been implemented in Python and evaluated on the bandwidth/fault-tolerance example in a tree topology, comparing the value computed by Corybantic against the optimal value as computed offline.
Q: Each module is responsible for formulating a complete proposal, rather than a partial proposal. Is that correct?
A: That's correct in what we've actually implemented so far.
Q: You only evaluate proposals that someone makes. What about proposals that nobody makes but that would serve everyone better?
A: We're currently thinking about this. For example, we could add another module that watches what proposals are being made, and inserts its own proposals that would be better than any of the individual modules have been making.
Q: Are the programmers all from the same organization and agree with each other or have you considered adversarial models?
A: The assumption for now is that the programmers are not adversarial.
Q: The theory community has lots of ways for dealing with more complicated constraint problems. What are the right abstractions for expressing and resolving constraints in networking?
A: We think many compositions problems can be naturally expressed in terms of a simple currency instead of more complicated weights, because prices can be grounded in some economic reality, whereas weights are an abstraction of reality.
Q: How do you model things like SLAs as constraints? How do you even know they're satisfiable?
A: There seem to be very few real constraints. Most things can be assigned a value -- for example, one can violate an SLA and pay a penalty. For the true hard constraints (for example, don't burn down the data center, or don't allow traffic from certain users to flow across certain paths) the system allows each module to check proposals against its local set of constraints, and effectively veto constraint-violating proposals. The tricky part is to find ways to generate proposals that don't violate constraints. I don't think we have a general solution to that, yet.
Q: What about the dynamic behavior of the system? Suppose a link goes down in a fault-tolerant program? Who decides whether to batch recompute or just incrementally adjust? To put it another way, does Corybantic introduce more dynamism?
A: Corybantic makes it easier to develop a controller that supports more dynamism. (More dynamism is the goal!)
Acknowledgments: Jeff Mogul and Alvin AuYoung added some clarification on the Q&A. |
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global_01_local_1_shard_00001926_processed.jsonl/1761 | Points question
Ok Mei. I noticed that the "My points" link is finally working. So this leads me to ask...
Why does it say I have x number of points at the bottom of whatever page I'm on (currently 27 as I post this), but say I have.... oh fooey, it's easier just to copy it over....
Uncategorized points Balance: 27
comments points Balance: 5
Approved points Balance: 32
Points awaiting moderation: 0
Net points Balance: 32
Which balance counts towards my bonus story request?
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I didn't understand that separating out points would make things complicated until it was too late. At some point when I don't have a lot to do (HA) I'll be consolidating people's points.
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I was wondering, too!
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I was also wondering about that - thank you for asking. Apparently you got enough though, cause you got a bonus story Smile
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I was checking out the "Users By Points" chart earlier and I saw that you had -49. How in the world does the author of a marvelous novel have negative points? Just wondering Blum 3
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Otherwise I'd be at the top of the charts. This keeps me at the bottom, so I can see what's really going on.
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global_01_local_1_shard_00001926_processed.jsonl/1766 | 1. FWGE Supports Cell Metabolic Regulation
• Fermented Wheat Germ Extract helps to regulate healthy cellular metabolism with the proper utilization of oxygen and glucose leading to enhanced mitochondrial function.*
2. FWGE Promotes Immune System Regulation
• Enhances the ability of T-cells to respond to antigen presentation, and B-cells to respond to activation and produce appropriate antibodies*
• Normalizes balance of cellular and hormonal (Th1/Th2) immune function*
• Enhances macrophage functioning*
3. FWGE Enhances NK Cell Targeting
• Helps the immune system identify invaders for attack. Immune system enemy invaders try to hide from the immune system’s Natural Killer (NK) cells by displaying a surface molecule called MHC-1. MHC-1 tells NK-cells, “Don’t attack me, I’m one of the good guys”, but, research shows FWGE suppresses the invading cell’s “mask” (MHC-1), resulting in increased NK-cell targeting and immune system clearing.* Natural cancer fighting substances may use this same kind of identification process to destroy cancer cells. |
global_01_local_1_shard_00001926_processed.jsonl/1767 | mezzacotta Puzzle Competition
Puzzle Hints
3E. Animal Quarters
Hint 1
Eight sets of scales, sixty-four coins, huh? Oh, there's one missing? On balance, I'm sure you can make everything add up. Also consider the total weights for each set of scales.
Hint 2
Making scales balance with four coins stacked on each side totally isn't as hard as you might think. On scales, the heaviest weight goes on the bottom.
Hint 3
There's only one way to balance a coin with a "5" at the end: put three coins that end with a "1" and one that ends with a "2" on the other side. Then stack the coins by weight and compare each side. Notice any similarities? |
global_01_local_1_shard_00001926_processed.jsonl/1796 | Early McIntosh
Discovered 1909 Geneva, New York
Parentage Yellow Transparent x McIntosh
Harvest Early Season
Early Mac is a juicy, sweet, moderately firm and crisp early season apple, good for cooking as well as fresh eating. Like its parent McIntosh, it is mostly red with green or yellow patches. Its skin is dotted with lenticels which allow it to "breathe," like the pores on our skin. Early Macs are best eaten soon after harvest in August, as they do not keep long in storage.
Early Mac was developed out of the New York State Agricultural Experiment Station in Geneva, New York, and it was available commercially in 1923. Early Mac is a cross of McIntosh and Yellow Transparent. Sometimes at farm stands you might see the label 'Early Mac' on PaulaReds.
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global_01_local_1_shard_00001926_processed.jsonl/1800 | Mites parasitising a harvestman
Parasitism is a type of symbiosis that may be defined as an interspecific association in which one species, the parasite, lives on or in a second species, the host, for a significant period of its life, exploiting the host, such as to obtain nourishment, shelter, and/or protection. The one organism, usually the physically smaller of the two (the parasite) benefits and the other (the host) is harmed. This relationship can be loose or mostly intimate, and for the parasite, it is usually obligatory. (Various forms of "social parasitism," kleptoparasitism, and "cheating parasitism," as discussed below, are characterized by a less close association between parasite and host, however.)
In parasitism, there is always exploitation and harm. However, such an association has been continuing, and there are no known cases of species extinction traced to parasitism. There are examples where the parasitism would appear to help the host in fulfilling a life purpose: Existence and species continuation. Furthermore, some parasitism appears to result in something that has higher value than the both host and parasite together. Cordyceps sinesis is a fungus that infects a type of underground caterpillar in the head in such a way that it ultimately projects itself out of the head, giving the appearance of half fungi and half caterpillar. The whole body is now known as yarsagumba (gold rush) and is very valuable in medicine as a vitalizing agent.
As a parasite has to break through the different layers of defense mechanisms of the host in order to localize and thrive on the host, the parasite must be equipped with specialized mechanisms. The relationship, therefore, is generally strongly species specific; in other words, a particular parasite can infect only a particular host, not any other. The parasite causes harm to the host in many ways, such as by depriving the host of digested food; erecting mechanical blockades of food, blood, lymph, and bile passages; and causing tissue damages by rupture, enzymatic digestion, induction of autolysis, or secretion of toxins.
Especially in the field of medical parasitology, the term "parasite" has come to mean a eukaryotic, pathogenic organism. Thus, protozoan and metazoan infectious agents are classified as parasites, while bacteria and viruses are not. Some of the parasitic protozoa are powerful agents of human diseases, such as members of the genera Plasmodium (cause of malaria), Trypanosoma (cause of African trypanosomiasis, or sleeping sickness, and Chagas disease, or South American trypanosomiasis), and Leishmania (cause of leishmania, which affects millions of people in Africa, Asia, and Latin America). Their life cycles include other animals. Plasmodium utilizes Anopheles mosquitoes in transmission, while some Trypanosoma species utilize the tsetse fly or conenose bugs, Leishmania is carried by sand flies, and Giardia is carried by muskrats and beavers (Towle 1989). Interestingly, fungi are not discussed in textbooks of medical parasitology, even though they are eukaryotic.
For humans, parasitic diseases are largely preventable. Many foodborne or waterborne diseases can be prevented by careful handling, such as the filtering and boiling of water or cooking food thoroughly. For example, a person can become infected by the parasitic tapeworms Taenia solium and Taenia saginata by eating rare meat that has been infected, and the tapeworm Diphyllobothrium latum is contracted by eating raw, infected fish. Trichinella spiralis, a hookworm infection that causes the disease trichinosis, comes from infected pork, and the hookworm Ascaris comes via contaminated food and water. The hookworms Ancyostoma and Necator, which infect over 400 million people, enter through the feet of hosts, and thus wearing shoes in likely infected areas is a preventative measure. Washing one's hands before handling food can reduce transmissions of parasites from pets. Infection of malaria-causing Plasmodium from mosquito vectors can be reduced by using an insect repellent and sleeping in mosquito-netting protected by DEET.
Parasitism: A type of symbiosis
Effect on Species A Effect on Species B Type of interaction
0 0 Neutralism
+ + Mutualism
+ 0 Commensalism
0 + Commensalism
+ - Parasitism
- + Parasitism
- 0 Amensalism
0 - Amensalism
Types of relationships listed by the effect they have on each partner. "0" is no effect, "-" is detrimental, and "+" is beneficial.
In general, symbiosis ("living together") is a close, interactive association of members of two or more species over a prolonged period of time. Parasitism is one type of symbiosis.
In addition to parasitism, symbiosis encompasses commensalism ("eating at the same table," wherein two organisms co-exist in the same space, and one organism benefits while neither harming nor helping the other); mutualism (wherein both species benefit from the interaction); amensalism (whereby the association is disadvantageous to one member while the other is not affected); and neutralism (whereby there is neither benefit or detriment experienced by either members of the pair).
There is one other theoretical category of biological interactions, but, if occurring, it would be rare and short-lived, and that is synnecrosis, which would occur when an interaction is detrimental to both species.
The requirement for a prolonged interaction precludes predatory or episodic interactions (such as a mosquito feeding on a host), which are usually not seen as symbiotic relationships.
Types of parasitism
Flea bites on a human.
Ectoparasites are those that occur on the body surface of the host, like leeches, ticks, lice, and mites. Endoparasites are those that live inside the body of the host, such as hookworms that live in the gut of a host and blood parasites.
Many endoparasites acquire hosts through entrance of the tissue, as well as through consumption of raw foods, such as the nematode Ascaris lumbricoides, an endoparasite of the human intestine. A. lumbricoides produces large numbers of eggs, which are passed from the host's digestive tract into the external environment, relying on other humans to inadvertently ingest them in places without good sanitation. Ectoparasites, on the other hand, often have elaborate mechanisms and strategies for finding hosts. Some aquatic leeches, for example, locate hosts by sensing movement and then confirm their identity through skin temperature and chemical cues before attaching.
An epiparasite is a parasite that feeds on another parasite. The parasite that is being parasitized by another organism is known as hyperpasasite or secondary parasite, and this relationship is sometimes referred to as "hyperparasitoidism," especially in the insect world. For example a wasp or fly larva may be an endoparasite of an Ichneumon wasp larva, which is in turn an endoparasite of a wood-boring beetle larva. Therefore, the ovipositing adult female hyperparasitoid must find the host of her host, namely the beetle larva, and oviposit into that beetle larva, after which her egg hatches within the beetle larva and seeks out the Ichneumon larva, ultimately burrowing into it and becoming an endoparasite. Hyperparasitoidism can be used for biological control of the pest and parasites.
Macroparasites are multicellular parasites that are visible to the naked human eye, such as helminth parasites (parasitic worms, such as flukes, tapeworms, and roundworms, or nematodes). Microparasites are small, generally, unicellular and invisible to the naked eye, such as protozoan parasites.
Mesoparasites are the ones that penetrate external openings, such as the buccal cavity, cloaca, external ear, and so forth.
Necrotrophs are parasites that use another organism's tissue for their own nutritional benefit until the host dies from loss of needed tissues or nutrients. Necrotrophs are also known as parasitoids. Biotrophic parasites cannot survive in a dead host and therefore keep their hosts alive. Many viruses, for example, are biotrophic because they use the host's genetic and cellular processes to multiply.
Temporary parasites (leeches, bed bugs) visit their host only for a short period of time. Permanent parasites spend the duration, or a part, of their life cycle in the host.
Facultative parasites can survive without the parasitic mode of life, but can adapt to it if placed in such a situation; they are opportunistic. For example, the parasitic nematode, Strongyloides stercoralis, can also be free living. The majorities of parasites are obligatory parasites and are totally dependent on the host for food, shelter, and/or protection; they cannot survive without the host. Accidental parasites are those that happen to infect unusual hosts, other than the normal definite host. Wandering or aberrant parasites, instead of arriving at the site of infection in the definitive host, reach an unusual place as a dead end, becoming unable to complete the life cycle. For example, the tapeworm Taenia solium may migrate to the brain and remain there unless removed via an operation.
Monogenic parasites complete the whole life cycle in one host, such as with Entamoeba histolytica. A digenetic parasite needs, in addition to a primary host, also a secondary host to complete the entire life cycle. Plasmodium vivax (malaria parasite) completes its asexual part of life cycle in people and the sexual part in the female Anopheles mosquito.
Some parasites are social parasites, taking advantage of interactions between members of a social host species such as ants or termites, to the hosts' detriment. Kleptoparasitism involves the parasite stealing food that the host has caught or otherwise prepared. A specialized type of kleptoparasitism is brood parasitism, such as that engaged in by many species of cuckoo. Many cuckoos use other birds as lifetime "babysitters"; cuckoo young are raised and fed by adults of the host species, while adult cuckoos fend for themselves.
Cheating or exploitation types of parasitism are often found in situations where there is generalized, non-specific mutualisms between broad classes of organisms, such as mycorrhizal relationships between plants and many types of fungi. Some myco-heterotrophic plants behave as "mycorrhizal cheaters," establishing mycorrhiza-like interactions with a fungal symbiont, but taking carbon from the fungus (which the fungus, in turn, gets from other plants) rather than donating carbon.
Types of Hosts
A definitive host is usually the main host. For digenetic parasites, it is the host for the adult stage and for the completion of sexual part of life cycle. An intermediate or secondary host is a temporary environment, but one that is essential for the completion of a particular parasite's life cycle. Such as host is found only in the case of digenetic parasites for the completion of larval stage, asexual reproduction, and for transmission to the definitive host. An accidental host may be one that can function as the normal host, but is infected only occasionally for some reason, for example due to the lack of exposure or means of transmission.
A vector is usually the intermediate host playing an active role in the transmission of the parasite.
A permissive host is either a definitive, intermediate, or accidental host that allows the parasite to complete its life cycle in part or the whole. A non-permissive host, on the other hand, is a host organism other than true definitive host, which receives the parasite but the parasite finds itself in a dead end.
A paratenic host or transport host refer to a host organism other than true intermediate host that receives the parasite in the position of intermediate host so that the parasite is helped to go to the definitive host. For example Echinococcus granulosus normally passes to a dog through an intermediate host, such as a goat or sheep. But the parasite, instead of passing through the intermediate host, may come to infect a human being and remain, causing hydatiditis, and a dog has no chance to get it from a person. Reservoir hosts are permissive host alternatives to definitive hosts, such that the infective stage can be passed from the host to the population of the definitive host.
Biotrophic parasitism is an extremely successful mode of life. Depending on the definition used, as many as half of all animals have at least one parasitic phase in their life cycles, and it is also frequent in plants and fungi. Moreover, almost all free-living animals are host to one or more parasite taxa. Price (1977) maintains that parasitism is the prevalent means of obtaining food among organisms, that over 50 percent of the organisms living today are parasitic, and that there are more species of parasites than all non-parasite species combined.
The hosts of parasites often have defensive mechanisms as well. Plants often produce toxins, for example, which deter both parasitic fungi and bacteria, as well as herbivores. Vertebrate immune systems can target most parasites through contact with bodily fluids. On a behavioral level, the itching sensation, and resulting scratching behavior, is also used to fend off parasites. Many parasites, particularly microorganisms, have adaptations to a particular host species; in such specific interactions, the two species generally have a relatively stable relationship that does not kill the host quickly or at all (since this would be detrimental for the parasite as well).
Sometimes, the study of parasite taxonomy can elucidate how their hosts are similar or related. For instance, there has been a dispute about whether Phoenicopteriformes (flamingos) are more closely related to Ciconiiformes (storks and related groups) or to Anseriformes (waterfowl and related groups). Flamingos share parasites with ducks and geese, so these groups are thought to be more closely related to one another than either is to storks. (Modern DNA methods, however, have suggested that flamingos are not closely related to Anseriformes either.)
It is important to note that "benefit" and "harm" in the definition of parasitism apply to lineages, not individuals. Thus, if an organism becomes physically stronger as a result of infection but loses reproductive capabilities (as results from some flatworm infections of snails), that organism is harmed in a reproductive sense and is thus parasitized. The harm caused to a host by a parasite can take many forms, from direct pathology, including various specialized types of tissue damage, such as castration, to more subtle effects, such as modification of host behavior.
• Margulis, L., and D. Sagan. 1987. Microcosmos: Four Billion Years of Evolution from Our Microbial Ancestors. HarperCollins. ISBN 004570015X
• Price, P. W. 1977. General concepts on the evolutionary biology of parasites. Evolution 31(2): 405-420.
• Towle, A. 1989. Modern Biology. Austin: Holt, Rinehart, and Winston. ISBN 0030139198
• Zimmer, C. 2001. Parasite Rex. Free Press. ISBN 074320011X
External links
All links retrieved March 24, 2015.
Topics in evolutionary ecology
Patterns of evolution: Convergent evolution • Evolutionary relay • Parallel evolution
Colour and shape: Aposematism • Mimicry • Crypsis
Interactions between species: Mutualism • Cooperation • Predation • Parasitism
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Mesothelioma cancer a short introduction
How to collect much information as possible concerning mesothelioma cancer
Mesothelioma cancer a short introduction
Some simple questions can have some simple answers for mesothelioma cancer.
What is mesothelioma?
The mesothelioma is like a thin film, the inner wall of chests, abdomen and heart.
This film or membrane is also present in many internal organs for protecting them, this activity is possible thanks to a natural fluid.
This fluid takes an action for facilitating all movements.
The mesothelioma is one, but is located in different body areas.
Pleura is the name of chest’ mesothelioma, peritoneum is for abdomen and pericardium for heart.
Where can rise a mesothelioma cancer?
The cancer can rise starting from mesotheioma of different areas, the areas major affected can be chests, abdomen, heart and testicles.
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BorrowedSolution - 2013-12-31
If anybody ever believed that TED talks were going to change the world, they were hopelessly naive and deluded. In fact, if anybody ever believed that one singular thing was ever going to change the world, they were hopelessly naive and deluded.
Rodents of Unusual Size - 2013-12-31
a) It's basically turning into a cult now.
b) Their speakers are fucking awful compared with just a few short years ago.
Seriously, they had a model come on for ten minutes to tell people that wearing different clothes changes your opinion about what that person looks like. Um, yeah, we know.
Aelric - 2013-12-31
I've seen some good TED talks when they first started, but they quickly degenerated into...well...into letting just about anybody give one.
I'm sure there are enjoyable talks on a case by case level, but most just seem like self-parody.
I will remind everyone that back in the '00's, this site ate them up and honestly, they were of better quality back that.
Meerkat - 2013-12-31
"The Biggest Rock" was not a real TED talk.
Aelric - 2013-12-31
But Reggie Watts' was real, as was the lady who discussed not wanting young men to cum on her face.
Adham Nu'man - 2013-12-31
I just discovered that that lady actually showed up on poetv, opened an account, and replied to a bunch of our comments.
I think she showed up a little late though as hers is the last comment in basically every thread except one.
Adham Nu'man - 2013-12-31
She was pretty fucking classy in answering to a room full of assholes too. Really awesome lady.
Syd Midnight - 2014-01-02
Clifford Stoll is my favorite TED Talk, I like to use it as an example of what an actual super-genius is like.
memedumpster - 2013-12-31
This is awesome. I can't believe TED allowed it.
BorrowedSolution - 2013-12-31
It's TEDx. Not sure they're affiliated.
BorrowedSolution - 2013-12-31
Oh, it's like a franchise; http://www.ted.com/tedx
BHWW - 2013-12-31
Scrimmjob - 2013-12-31
We should really kick this Ted guys ass!
boner - 2013-12-31
I came to the realization that Karl Pilkington has better ideas than almost any TED speaker.
Simillion - 2013-12-31
I love when the grand point of a talk is "stuff is hards, we needs to work harders." Always a useful reminder.
baleen - 2013-12-31
As I leared recently from TED talks: "Imagination is more important that knowledge." - John Lennon
Adham Nu'man - 2013-12-31
Wasn't that Einstein or are you making some sort of joke that is above my head?
Hooker - 2013-12-31
Lennon used "that" in his version.
baleen - 2013-12-31
I think it's important that we pay attention to the message and not get muddled up in facts.
annnnd that was the joke.
thank you ladies and gentleman.
Old_Zircon - 2013-12-31
wackyakmed - 2013-12-31
I feel like TED is indicative of the larger collapse of American liberalism taking place below the surface. The entire conception of a social/technical elite of systems managers that view their purpose in life as keeping society running smoothly "for the good of everyone" looks like it's mercifully in its death throes.
That guy - 2013-12-31
I liked this, and I'm sure that this is the wrong site to quibble with the a few details, like the "toward a queer history of computer science" line making him sound like any old bullshit academic.
Also, maybe middlebrow and infotainment can stop being such pejoratives someday? He wants to say that too many TED talks are bullshit ideas and solutions for giving the warm fuzzies to a certain crowd.
But it's just that middlebrow infotainment is the medium of much bullshit. It isn't the bullshit itself. Saying 'make the speech not to hard to understand and enjoyable enough' isn't bullshit, it's just not appropriate for all kinds of speeches.
As for 'megachurch', well.... they have awesome lighting and music.
Also, I'm wondering if this is just the Book of Job that TED needed for it to incorporate its own criticism?
ashtar. - 2013-12-31
This is absolutely the best site on which to quibble over details.
cognitivedissonance - 2013-12-31
If you want to understand why TED is so weird and stilted, remember thatmost people who attend TED events probably attended Steve Jobs product unveils, and the trappings of TED (the little earpiece microphone, the slideshow, the way every single sermon climaxes with a drop to a hushed, sincere whisper and "...if I leave you with JUST ONE THING, IT'S...") are designed to replicated the Steve Jobs style. It's why the Catholic liturgy is patterned not on Christ and his disciples, but St. Bernard's particular mode of dress, preferred manner of presenting the Eucharist, and homiletics.
Adham Nu'man - 2013-12-31
Thank you that was well said.
unknown specimen - 2014-01-01
It's weird how this guy tells people to stop blindly agreeing with everything they heard in a TED talk and the comments are mostly just people agreeing with this dude.
Basically, I think that TED just follows Sturgeon's law just like everything else. Much like every other genera which fell prey to that law it took time before things got shitty. Also, there are still really good TED talks on occasion (I remember a couple linguistics talks I heard that were particularly well researched and well delivered).
In short, fuck Malcolm Gladwell, "The Tipping Point" was stupid. "Blink" was okay though...
Adham Nu'man - 2014-01-01
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Rodrigo Caputo
There is substantial evidence suggesting that central banks in open economies react to exchange rate fluctuations, in addition to expected inflation and output. In some developing countries this reaction is comparatively larger and it is nonlinear. In an estimated structural macromodel for Chile, this paper assesses the advantages and potential costs of adopting such a reaction function. We conclude that, in the face of most of the external shocks, a policy rule that responds to exchange rate misalignments smooths inflation and output variability, while marginally increasing interest rate fluctuations. On the other hand, for some domestic innovations such a rule performs poorly. When all the shocks are considered at the same time, this rule generates important welfare gains. Finally, when the volatility of external shocks rises, increasing the response to exchange rate misalignments brings welfare improvements. In fact, a more aggressive response to the exchange rate offsets the impact that greater external volatility has on output and inflation, at the cost of inducing higher interest rate fluctuations. In this way, one can interpret the nonlinear reaction to the exchange rate as an optimal response to a more volatile external environment.
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Discussion in '3.0 Engine' started by Hurley, Feb 21, 2012.
1. Hurley
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So I just bought an under drive pulley for my 3.0. My question is do i need a different belt for this or can I use my stock belt?
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When you buy the set from I can't remember the website the set comes with a new gator belt. But I don't see why you couldn't use the stock belt. But since you have it off, check for cracks and replace if needed!!!!
4. OP
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I didn't buy the set, I only bought the crank pulley
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No, the underdrive pulley is smaller and you need a smaller belt, im not sure what size, i know a guy on the other site that knows what belt you may need
6. the guy with the 2wd yellow truck 01rangerdanger maybe I know he installed the underdrive pulley
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put the pulley on, take a piece of string and loop it around all the pulleys in the proper order. then measure how long the string is.
8. OP
Hurley Superultramegalurker
Is there anywhere online that I can buy the belt that was supposed to come with this pulley? I tried their website but it says they don't sell these pulleys anymore
9. is it the underdog under drive pulley?
10. OP
Hurley Superultramegalurker
Yeah its underdog
11. OP
Hurley Superultramegalurker
So I can use the stock belt?
12. I would think so
13. OP
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Ok sounds good. I'm gonna give it a shot tomorrow
14. I was wrong , it does require a different belt
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-With air con, Dayco part# 5060870 or a Goodyear & Rubber co. # 406087 (87 inch)
Gatorback belt # 4060872 for the 3.0 with a/c.
Some trucks like a slightly shorter belt and an 86 inch will work as well.
-Without A/C, Try a Dayco (or equivalent) belt # 5060850 (85 inch)
The belt should be easy to find because it's a common size.
best to measure or contact underdog
16. OP
Hurley Superultramegalurker
Thanks! What worries me is that when I put the new motor in I used the pulley assembly from a 94 which is bigger than a 99 assembly, so would that matter at all?
17. take your old belt off and measure it , the only two other belts I know of are listed above, ones a couple inches longer
18. OP
Hurley Superultramegalurker
Yeah that's what I'm gonna have to do
19. DrIftKi7Vg
DrIftKi7Vg Sunny Soonkyu
Do you happen to have the link of where you got it? I really want the under drive pulley.
20. OP
Hurley Superultramegalurker
I got it used from a member on another forum
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global_01_local_1_shard_00001926_processed.jsonl/1906 | Parallel threads with C#
Example of some code where I decided to take the data from the DB in batches instead than all in one go, which was timing out. This could have been done one after the other, just waiting for the previous one to finish before requesting next batch, but I decided to give it a go and try to get them all at the same time by making separate calls and waiting for them all to finish to build the result in order.
Important bits in commented lines.
using System.Text;
using System.Threading.Tasks;
public abstract class BaseExporterRepository : BaseDataRepository<DbContext>
private readonly IDbContextFactory _contextFactory;
protected readonly int batchSize = 5000;
protected virtual string GetHeader() => "";
protected virtual Task<StringBuilder> BuildBatchAsync(DbContext ctx, int skip) => null;
protected virtual Task<int> CountAllAsync() => null;
protected BaseExporterRepository(IDbContextFactory contextFactory) : base(contextFactory)
_contextFactory = contextFactory;
public async Task<string> Build()
StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
var totalRows = await CountAllAsync();
var batches = (int)Math.Ceiling((decimal)totalRows / batchSize);
var buildBatchTasks = new List<Task<StringBuilder>>(); // Prepare list of Tasks
using (UnitOfWork)
for (int i = 0; i < batches; i++)
var ctx = _contextFactory.GetContext<DbContext>();
var task = BuildBatchAsync(ctx, batchSize * i);
buildBatchTasks.Add(task); // Add Task to list.
// Notice I'm not executing it yet, no "await" here
await Task.WhenAll(buildBatchTasks.ToList()); // Now I await for them all at the same time
foreach (var task in buildBatchTasks) sb.Append(task.Result); // For each of'em I take the Result
var result = sb.ToString();
return result;
I had to create multiple EF Contexts to achieve this, doing so slowed down the local computer a very lot, which probably means that such technique, in this particular scenario wasn’t the best approach, as a Context takes so many resources. Still it was cool to see this request going super fast (2-3sec) compared with the half a minute it took without it.
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global_01_local_1_shard_00001926_processed.jsonl/1908 | Throw Back Thursday: 2012 Bear Chase 50K
Me running the Bear Chase 50K in 2012.
Sometimes it’s good to remind yourself of an earlier time that you stepped out of your comfort zone, especially as you prepare to push yourself again. 🙂
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global_01_local_1_shard_00001926_processed.jsonl/1920 | What is your definition of evil?
Discussion in 'Ethics, Morality, & Justice' started by akoreamerican, Aug 26, 2018.
1. Jeeves Valued Senior Member
I apologize if I was wrong in thinking you started it. You do seem reluctant to let go of it.
No. They vary by the culture, the beliefs and laws of each society. The leader's faithfulness to the code is expected to be unvarying; what makes any individual a moral or immoral leader is the degree of his adherence to the code he swore to uphold when he took office (assumed the throne, whatever the custom.)
If his faithful execution of those duties varies, he's not a reliable leader.
I did no such slapping. In response to "Who are his people?" ; I guessed they are the people he leads - it is to them the leader owes loyalty.
Evil doesn't come into that; he can be a bad or good man, a bad or good leader to any people in the world.
Those same people he leads, and to whom he has a duty and the ones who judge whether he is a good or bad leader.
Nor did I attempt to find out what their definitions were. I merely stated that they were guided by the principles of their time culture, not by what we might think of them posthumously.
You and I were asked that by the title of the thread. It is to that theme I have eandeavoured throughout to remain faithful.
That's how you know it's an effect: people are exhibiting it; in the same way that exhibiting a rash on the body is the effect of exposure to poison oak; it is caused by the toxin in the plant. Thus, the exhibition or expression of character flaw is the effect of having evil in human nature. Everyone has it, and everyone exhibits or expresses it in different ways, by different means, to different degrees, in different circumstances and for different purposes.
I didn't say indulging oneself. I said indulging - that is, allowing free rein to, allowing their actions to be controlled by, instead of curbing and controlling - an internal drive or urge, including the evil portion of one's nature. There are many other kinds of indulgence and self-indulgence, but that is the one I specified.
I have also, several times, cited circumstances and diminished capacity as mitigating factors when we assign degree of guilt.
I very much doubt the legal term "depraved indifference" refers to functionaries working hard and conscientiously at their assigned duties. While this definition
may well be true of many leaders' actions, it is not a charge generally brought against dutiful ones.
That's the usual plea at war crime tribunals.
The only way to judge degree of guilt is case by case, in possession of all the evidence - and even then, we often get it wrong.
But I've said this before.
I don't like going in circles.
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3. iceaura Valued Senior Member
They also vary by perception and understanding within any given society, such as the US.
It is a charge often brought agains those "dutiful" in their own and their minions's - and other parts of their society's - estimation.
So not an internal urge that one indulges.
Indulging an internal drive or urge is what I meant by indulging oneself - and what I referred to as inadequate for defining evil.
And it's often true. The usual verdict is that it's no excuse.
We are still in the "what is evil" stage - we can hash out criteria for degree of guilt in doing evil later. Meanwhile, the matter of including evils done without a specific intention is my focus. The industrial horrors of the Holocaust or Stalin's mass starvations do not get off the hook because their mandators, designers, and implementors were not indulging internal urges to do those evils.
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5. Jeeves Valued Senior Member
You may be. I passed it three pages ago.
Of-bloody-course they were!
There is nothing unintentional about building gas ovens or burning crops. Even far more indirect harm, like poisoning the drinking water of a village that happens to be downhill of one's gold-mine is intentional and deliberate. The exact consequences may not be calculated in each instance - though corporations generally have $ figures prepared in case the worst-case result comes to litigation.
The internal urge is always present; we either fight it or give in to it.
The reasons we give in to them vary. The methods of expression vary. The practical applications vary. The circumstances vary. The degrees of control vary.
The evil motive is always exactly the same: to get what we want at whatever cost to others.
That's what I've been trying to get across. If I didn't, I can't.
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7. RainbowSingularity Valued Senior Member
what if they dont care if it causes you pain ?
is that evil ?
you could argue that Hitler was not Evil because he had no intention of creating pain in the people he was comitting Genocide against.
though i can tell from how and what you post that you are hedging your bets either way to postulate a personal beleif as a form of monologue seeking acquiescence.
8. iceaura Valued Senior Member
You didn't. You hit a snag on the word "intention".
But that's not what you were talking about. You have explicitly excluded that, e.g.: "Obviously: hence "the intent to do harm" - not to get something you need, - - " You were talking about intending to do harm and inflict pain and cause suffering - that as the intention. (In point of fact the Holocaust gas ovens were deliberately designed to minimize pain and suffering, which were sources of trouble and expense.).
No, it isn't. It may even be completely unrecognized, done without the slightest awareness of it even happening, by the depraved and indifferent.
I do not believe, say, that anyone involved - from the investors down to the janitor help - in a mining corporation's poisoning rivers for gold, is driven by their internal urge to poison rivers.
And I am not willing to remove the label "evil" from such depraved indifference, willingness to impose collateral damage of any proportion, etc.
9. Dr_Toad It's green! Valued Senior Member
Rainbow, why do you capitalize some nouns, but not the first character of your sentences?
Evil exists. In priests, elected officials, cops, and maybe your next-door neighbor. Just watch out for it and you'll probably be OK. Unless "ignored member" chooses to label you as evil, of course. As he will. Since I don't read that childish spew any longer, I can't really say...
It is always right to deny evil, or support it, because Hillary. Because Trump. Because Mandela or Amin. Because Jesus or the pedophiliac murdering son-of-a-bitch Mohammad.
All of whom just might be evil, thank goodness.
Pun intended. If you can't identify it, you're helpless.
10. Jeeves Valued Senior Member
It wasn't my word, but I agreed with it, by and large. No snag.
Need? No. Want. Nobody needs genocide. Somebody wants a people gone for some reason.
I think death qualifies as "harm" and there is plenty of hurt (many kinds of hurt are not physical) involved in the process, and none of it is accidental or unintended. Plus, the camps - built, staffed and operated intentionally - did quite a lot more besides march people into "minimal-pain" death chambers.
I never said pain was the ultimate aim. I said the pain was caused intentionally. There may be different ultimate ends to which harm is ameans - profit is a biggie; power is at least a close second; spite and sick pleasure are far behind - statistically.
Bull. Shit. They know; they just don't care.
The janitor probably has only the vaguest notion. The junior clerks have a suspicion. The mid-level executives have a pretty good idea. The engineers and workers in the field know; they see the guards beat off the grieving mothers daily; the investors la-la-la-la don't want to know, so long as the cheques keep coming; the board of directors know all about it and have an expensive law-firm on retainer, for when the ungaua gets too near the fan. There is no way for mining corporation not to know that they use arsenic in processing, or that it's going into the river or that it's poison.
The internal urge to take what they want, regardless of cost to others. The river-poisoning is just one of the means to the end of getting rich, richer, richest. Addicting schoolchildren to cocaine is not the urge: the urge is to get rich; selling cocaine is the means; insuring a durable market for the product is sound business policy.
The Alberta government, under instructions from the tar-sands oil producers, has threatened to withhold its support of the Canadian federal government's (feeble) climate strategy until they get the pipeline that will sabotage climate strategy. No way is that depraved indifference unsconscious or unintentional.
Nor should you. It's there. The charge is not usually brought against top brass unless they've lost a war - but it should be.Against mid-level administrators, the evidence probably won't hold up. But none of these people are just doing their assigned duties conscientiously and in good faith. Nowhere in the job description of civil servant does it say: "Requisition building material and construction equipment for death camps." When an official discovers that's what he's expected to do, he has to make a choice. that's when we find out which of his wolves had the high-protein diet.
Do you really not see the distinction between motive and means?
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11. iceaura Valued Senior Member
I was quoting you.
They have no particular urge to kill. All else being equal, they'd rather not bother.
Sometimes they know, sometimes they don't care even enough to know.
Either way, they have no urges to indulge or not indulge. Their intentions are focused elsewhere.
So? They don't care one way or the other, as you pointed out. If they could save a nickel by not poisoning the river, they would be happy to do so - poisoning the river is not a goal, intention, urge, or motive of theirs.
There's no wolf involved. Neither choice is an urge or intention of the chooser.
The choice is easy, for the indifferent. It is heavily penalized, for the caring. That is where cowardice comes in. But intention? Not on the table.
But requisitions for gas ovens and train cars would be routine.
I've been insisting on it for pages now.
Or get the job done, or save a few nickels on methods, or pay the rent, or whatever - all of these explicitly excluded from the category "evil" by your insistence on intention, above.
"Charges" are hardly the issue, eh? We aren't defining "evil" as what would hold up in court as crime, one hopes.
Of course many of these people are doing their assigned evil duties conscientiously and in good faith, just as they intended when they got up in the morning.
That's how they earned the label "evil". Those are the intentions that pave the road to hell.
12. Jeeves Valued Senior Member
In what context? I don't see that in the quote to which this was a response.
They'd prefer if the people they want gone could be magicked away, you mean?
I'm not at all convinced of that. Given the amount of torture in the camps, beatings, humiliations and intimidations beforehand, I strongly suspect that end could have been served far more efficiently without those pleasures. Or do you also believe that the bully-boys of the Francos, Reza Shahs and Pol Pots of the world don't enjoy their work? An undertaking the size of a genocide fulfills the evil ends of several different kinds of mind.
To some participants the "banality of evil" https://aeon.co/ideas/what-did-hannah-arendt-really-mean-by-the-banality-of-evil
covers the intentionality: it's just routine. This would also be true of slave-drivers and chicken-wranglers. It doesn't matter whether they take pleasure in it or not: it matters that they know the harm and do it anyway.
That was covered in levels of culpability.
The urge they are indulging is the same one: get what they want at any cost to others. The focus is on profit.
That what I said: pollution is the means. The desire for profit is the motive. If profit entails extirpating entire species or paupering entire countries, it's all the same to them. They're motivated by greed.
There always is. I was referring to a well-known story.
That's all part of the same thing: to get what they want. I have not excluded any intentional act that causes harm to others in order to serve one's own ends. Not even if one's contribution to the harm is indirect.
The shareholder who chooses not to know the corporation's methods; the board member who signs off on the unethical procedure; the executive who conceals an environmental assessment, the site foreman who supervises the extraction, the workers who place the effluent pipes all carry out an intentional act that will do harm to others in the service of what they themselves want.
You cited a legal term, several times. I attempted to put in the legal context to which it belongs.
No; a lot of evil is or has been or will be legal somewhere sometime. Lawmakers are not exempt.
Again, it's a matter of context and connotation. When duties that are assigned - by whomever! - and the agent recognizes the harm he is required to do, he becomes complicit the moment he receives the order. At that point, he has an opportunity to weigh the potential harm against the potential good in that course of action and to refuse. When he carries out the order, he becomes an accessory. Degree of guilt is then determined by the agent's capacity to understand and choose his actions. The person giving the order - such as a general or president - is ultimately responsible, both for the harm done and for the guilt he thrust upon his underlings.
Except for the hell part; I don't believe in that.
13. river
In the Series Babylon 5 .
both sides had become a example of both good and evil .
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14. river
evil is an ATTITUDE , that in the end eliminates Humanities existence .
Which of course should never be allowed .
15. Dr_Toad It's green! Valued Senior Member
Evil is not an attitude. Television is not a library.
Get something right for once.
Oh, shit. Never mind.
16. river
Evil is an attitude , against Humanity .
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17. iceaura Valued Senior Member
I used it for its ordinary language meaning. The reference to legality was just support for the common recognition of that category of evil.
I know the story. There is no wolf involved in this aspect of evil. The people doing it are not indulging urges to do evil.
1) Yes. Or the goal accomplished without removing them.
2) Those are different people and actions than being discussed. Of course opportunity attracts sadists and perverts and such - but that's just more unavoidable and regrettable expense and trouble, from the indifferent point of view. Providing arenas for the psychiatrically disturbed, creating such disturbance in the vulnerable and abused themselves, is part of the evil done by depraved indifference, part of the collateral damage. It is not part of the desired or intended.
Exactly. Which is excluded by a definition of evil that demands the intention be to harm, cause suffering, etc.
You have. You have excluded, for one thing, all accident. You have also excluded side effects, collateral damage, and the like.
And cowardice comes into the picture - including the cowardice involved in carefully refusing to become aware of, or recognize, the effects of one's actions - or the chance of accidents, etc, being created.
The point is: often nobody at all consciously intends the harm, even in the doing of utter evil. But that lack of care is an aspect of the evil - not an exoneration, partial or otherwise.
18. Jeeves Valued Senior Member
All right.
19. Dr_Toad It's green! Valued Senior Member
, , .
Really. Like , I mean , you know , the humanity , that can't , you know , like , communicate
20. akoreamerican Registered Senior Member
If they don't care, it's still wrong but I would not say evil, if the person does not correct his or her behavior after the accident, I would say that is evil, because it shows that intent is now a factor in his or her actions.
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21. river
psychopaths , sociopaths
22. akoreamerican Registered Senior Member
If you are talking about people who don't acknowledge their mistakes yes they are doing evil
23. river
just mistakes
so psychopaths just make mistakes ?
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Jo Herbert
Jo Herbert speaks at our shared lunch.
Both Clare’s talk with Jo about her Eco-conversion and Jo’s talk during lunch. I’ve taken the liberty of including the power point presentation (pdf) that was referred to in Jo’s talk, due to pressure of time however not all of this was discussed. Jo Herbert can be found on line in such articles as this “How daytime tv… |
global_01_local_1_shard_00001926_processed.jsonl/1948 | Tuesday, May 14, 2013
May Prayer Meetings
Please join us as we meet together as a church on Wednesday to pray together for an hour starting at 8pm in K2. We'll be praying for a load of areas of church life including our new Sandhurst site and some of the changes we're making in Bracknell. We are in an exciting season of growth, and there is so much both to thank God for and to pray about.
For the hour before (7-8pm) we'll be praying specifically for our social justice ministries.
I'll be at both so hope to see you there.
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global_01_local_1_shard_00001926_processed.jsonl/1979 | St. Clair County Resource Recovery Office
Household Solvents
Household solvents contain the same chemicals as strictly regulated industrial solvents. Many solvents are poisonous when swallowed or absorbed through the skin and lungs and most are flammable. When solvents are disposed of improperly-in the trash, on the ground or down a drain-the hazardous chemicals may contaminate lakes, streams and ground water. Many chemicals found in landfills contaminate ground water, but solvents are a primary concern.
This fact sheet provides instructions for household solvents disposal. The St. Clair County Resource Recovery Office also has fact sheets on how to dispose of other common types of household hazardous waste:
· Adhesives
· Aerosol Containers
· Antifreeze
· Cleaners, Medications
· Gasoline
· Paint
· Solvents
· Wood Preservatives
For more information on household hazardous wastes and collection programs:
St. Clair County Resource Recovery Office
(810) 985-2443
Solvents are chemicals that dissolve other substances. Common household solvents are:
· Paint thinner
· Septic tank cleaners
· Spot removers
· Paint remover
· Gasoline additives
· Gas-line deicers
· Paint stripper
· Machinery degreasers
· Nail polish removers
· Rubbing, wood alcohol
· Grease, stain removers
The best thing to do with leftover solvents is to use them up or store them for later use! When using solvents be sure to follow safety instructions on the container label.
If you cannot use your solvents, give them to someone who can. Give leftover solvents to:
· Friends, relatives and neighbors
· Graphic arts businesses
· Furniture, antique refinishing shops
· Auto and small engine
· Artists
· Dry cleaners
· Painters
· Body shops
Paint thinner that has been used to clean up paintbrushes and supplies can be cleaned and reused. Follow these easy steps:
Step 1: Work in an outdoor area, away form children and pets. Never smoke while handling paint thinner, and work away from sparks, heat and flame. Wear the protective clothing suggested on the product label for working with the solvent, and avoid breathing solvent fumes.
Step 2: Pour the used thinner into a transparent container with a good seal and store it in an area away form children, pets, and sources of heat or flame. In a few weeks or months, depending on how much used solvent you have, the dissolved paint will settle to the bottom of the container.
Step 3: When the pain has settled, carefully pour the clean solvent off the top. This thinner can be reused, and used thinner can be recycled this way several times.
Step 4: Pour the remaining paint sludge back into your oil-based paint. If you can't do this, you can allow the remaining paint sludge to dry completely-outdoors in an area away form children, pets and flames or sparks-and place it in the trash. Drying out the leftover sludge is not the preferred method because the chemicals are being released to the air; therefore, homeowners should handle the sludge by pouring it back into the oil-based paint.
DISPOSAL: When you can't use it up.
For leftover scrapings from paint-stripping projects:
The dried scrapings from paint-stripping projects can be thrown away in your regular trash, unless you suspect that stripped paint contained lead. If the paint contained lead, the scrapings should be taken to household hazardous waste collection. Call the St. Clair County Resource Recovery Office at (810) 985-2443 for collection dates and times. Until then, store the scrapings in a plastic bag or other sealed container away from children and pets.
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If you can't use the product up, or find someone to use it up, the only way to dispose of household solvents is through a household hazardous waste collection program. Call the St. Clair County Resource Recovery Office for further information on collection programs.
Disposal of solvents is an environmental problem. And, it can be an inconvenience, too. To avoid future problems with leftover solvents, be a careful consumer now!
Make sure that a solvent is needed for your project before you buy one. Some non-hazardous alternatives are avail-able.
Buy only the amount of solvent you need. Buy the smallest container available.
Buy mercury free latex paint instead of oil-based paint. You won't need a solvent for cleanup.
Always use solvents sparingly. For example, used paint thinner works well for pre-cleaning paint brushes. Then you will only need to use a small amount of new paint thinner to do the final cleaning.
Use up you leftover solvents before you buy more. And, don't mix solvents together, or mix them with other products.
Store leftover solvents carefully in original containers for future use. If stored properly, solvents stay in good condition and are useable for years.
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global_01_local_1_shard_00001926_processed.jsonl/1985 | The Earls of Mar & the 'Curse of Alloa Tower'
‘Proud Chief of Mar, thou shalt be raised still higher, until thou sittest in the place of the King. Thou shalt rule and destroy, and thy work shall be after thy name… Thy work shall be cursed and shall never be finished.… Then, when thou seemest to be highest, when thy power is mightiest, then shall come thy fall; low shall be thy head amongst the noblest of the people. Deep shall be thy moans among the children of dool [sorrow]. Thy lands shall be given unto the stranger, and thy titles shall lie among the dead…Thou, proud head and daggered hand, must dree thy weird, until horses be stabled in thy hall, and a weaver shall throw his shuttle in thy chamber of state…’Mar's Wark, Curse of Alloa Tower
So begins the ‘Curse of Alloa Tower’, supposedly placed upon John Erskine, 17th Earl of Mar by the fiery Abbot of Cambuskenneth.
The ruins of Mar’s Wark, Erskine’s townhouse, loom over Stirling’s Broad Street. The Wark’s wide façade once stood three storeys high. It’s towers proudly display the coats of arms of Mar and his Countess. Courtiers, mermaids, gargoyles, mythological monsters and the Royal Arms of Scotland look down from it’s crumbling walls, alongside the headless weatherworn figure of a woman being burned at the stake carved on the north wall. This, the guidebooks tell us, may be ‘Jeannie Dark' – Joan of Arc - though why her image should adoren these walls is, like so much about the Wark, a mystery. Another figure, rendered headless by time and strife, holds a book out to us revealing an intriguingly cryptic inscription:
‘TRA TOVR TYM REVELLIT OVR CRYM’ (‘Traitor Time revealed our crime’).
Those few words have been cited as proof of murder. Not just murder…infanticide…. Regicide too, if local legends are to be believed. Mar and the Wark itself, we are told, were cursed as punishment for the crimes of the wicked and ambitious Earl.
Erskine is a rather unlikely villain. In 1542 he had personally escorted the six year old Mary, Queen of Scots to the safety of France during the destructive rampage of Henry VIII’s ‘Rough Wooing’, loyally earning his Earldom in 1562 - along with the guardianship of the Queen’s heir, the young Prince James, the year following her return from that country. Mary’s abdication in 1567 increased his influence, and in 1571 he was appointed Regent – the third to bear that burden during the boy’s infancy (the first having been assassinated, and the second accidentally shot by his own men).
Ah, the local gossips say, this was all a show...
Received wisdom (according to T.F. Thiselton Dyer’s delightfully cracked 'Strange Pages From Family Papers' (1898)) has it that the Protestant Erskine ‘commanded the destruction of Cambuskenneth Abbey, and took its stones to build himself a palace’. The homeless and vengeful Catholic Abbot is said to have appeared in rags and tatters before the doors of Mar’s baronial seat, Alloa Tower, and damned the destiny of that noble house.Countess Mar, Curse of Alloa Tower, Mar's Wark
On the surface, the ‘Curse of Alloa Tower’ is astonishingly accurate, The Wark was never finished. It served as a barracks and stables in the 17th-century (‘horses [shall] be stabled in thy hall’) and as aWorkhouse by the middle of the next, where beggars earned their keep by operating hand-looms (‘a weaver shall throw his shuttle in thy chamber of state’).
The opening salvo - ‘thou shalt be raised still higher, until thou sittest in the place of the King’ - might refer to Mar’s elevation from Guardian to Regent, but could equally apply to another local legend...that Mary’s heir had died - or been murdered - and been replaced by a bairn born of Erskine blood. That is, that a Mar literally sat ‘in the place of the king’. James VI (I) was no Stuart, then, but a ‘Mar Changeling’. Many older inhabitants of the Burgh swear blind that the skeleton of a baby – King James himself - was unearthed in the ruin within the lifetimes of their own parents or grandparents, and that its weeping can be heard at the site in dead of night.
Strange that this epoch-altering discovery is completely unknown to historians.
So does the ‘Curse’ confirm Mar’s villainy?
Returning to the prophesy that ‘a weaver shall throw his shuttle in thy chamber of state’ we find a hint as to the true nature of this tale. This is a reference not just to the Wark’s use as the 18th-century Burgh Workhouse, but to a very particular dithering descendant of the Regent Mar - the Jacobite 23rd Earl – known as ‘Bobbing John’ because his political allegiances bobbed to-and-fro like a weaver’s shuttle from Hanoverian to Jacobite, and cost the latter faction the 1715 Battle of Sherriffmuir. His lands were, as the Abbot’s prophesy promised, ‘given unto the stranger’, and his titles revoked...and the first mention of the ‘Curse of Alloa Tower’ is made the following year. And the Wark’s ruinous state..? Well that is down to the folly of later Jacobites, in 1746 - when Bonnie Prince Charlie foolishly set up cannons on the roof of the Workhouse, only to be blasted by the Castle guns.
The ‘commonly known’ ancient Curse is actually an exercise in political spin, written long after the events it described. And in politics – just like ghost stories – you should never let a little thing like the truth get in the way of a good story!
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global_01_local_1_shard_00001926_processed.jsonl/1993 | April is the time to reseed. Here are tips from the experts.
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5. Germination depends on the type of seed you use: Kentucky bluegrass 21 to 28 days, ryegrass 10 to14 days and fescue just 7 days.
6. Gently rake the seed into the soil, so it isn’t sitting on top.
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8. Applying straw helps to keep moisture in and protects the seed from direct sun and less erosion.
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global_01_local_1_shard_00001926_processed.jsonl/2018 | An African-American voter is forced to swear on a Bible
Here's a weird one, via Alternet:
But that's not the really disturbing part:
I really wonder why churches are used as polling places at all. Churches are already walking a very thin line in terms of political involvement. Being tax-exempt organizations (for who knows what reason), churches are required by law to remain politically neutral. But it's been well documented that conservative-slated "voting guides" designed by the infamously neoconservative Christian Coalition (among others) are regularly distributed at churches throughout the country.
There have been other such strange incidents documented. PZ Myers mentioned a story about a voter who wore a "liberal anti-theist" shirt into a church voting place and, when she refused to cover it up, the poll-workers started "praying loudly" for her.
Now, I think it's a safe bet that while these incidents aren't necessarily widespread, they probably happen much more often than they should. They shouldn't happen at all. Churches have no business in politics, and there are plenty of secular public places, such as schools or libraries, that could function just as well as polling places.
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global_01_local_1_shard_00001926_processed.jsonl/2020 | SMOKE: Dangerous Sex
Originally published: 21 February 2003
Police in Alberta, Canada, were extremely worried on Tuesday night. They got a call from a man who said he had been talking to his friend - a 17-year-old woman - on the phone, when she told him someone had just broken into her home.
Then the line went dead and he didn't hear from her again, so naturally he called 911.
The police dispatched to her house but couldn't find her and fearing the worst called in ten SWAT teams to scour the city for her abducted ass.
A routine patrol on the other side of town came across a suspiciously parked car and in the boot they found the girl - naked and trussed up like a turkey - while her abductor waited outside the car.
The girl was rescued and the abductor arrested, but a Problem arose - he didn't want to be arrested and the girl sure as hell didn't want to be rescued.
That's right folks - a good old real life abduction and rape fantasy, gone - it must be said - horribly wrong.
No amount of protests from the pair could stop him being locked up and her sent to hospital for examination, and rightly so.
Remember the cops who returned that Laotian boy to Jeffrey Dahmer after he managed to escape the clutches of the serial killer? The kid was found running naked and bleeding down the high street, and the cops took him back to where he'd escaped from. Dahmer convinced the police it was just a sex game and the kid was returned to his care, and promptly killed and eaten.
But how very, very blind it is for our lovebirds from Alberta.
What I can't understand is why a 17-year old girl would be fantasising about being abducted and raped - surely at 17 you're dreaming through misted eyes of that first love-making session with your strong amour under the trees in a sun-bathed meadow? Or of standing under a waterfall while your Mystery Man gently massages your boobies?
This girl wanted to be violently kidnapped from her house, bound up and chucked into the boot of a filthy car and driven around town to be "raped", no doubt in a less than comfortable fashion. I just find the choice of fantasy odd. But each to their own.
Interestingly I can understand the fantasy from the perspective of being the one abducted, but not from the perspective of the fellow abducting and "raping".
I remember one of my first fantasies involved being abducted by a houseful of women (never one - I've always done things without the slightest hint of moderation), who kept me imprisoned for years and kept me very - uh - busy.
Silly, I know, but I enjoyed it. Unfortunately I was never able to convert it to reality as I grew older, as women just don't go around in extremely sexy, half-naked, man-hungry groups, abducting fellows to give maximum sexual pleasure to.
But I could always dream.
Frankly I've never understood the complex relationship behind pain and humiliation, as a sexual stimulant. You know - folks who put all sorts of nasty things up their bums, suspend themselves from meathooks and crawl around dressed in nappies and licking the boots of leather-clad women while being thrashed and called all sorts of degrading things.
I don't enjoy pain in any form - to me it is Something To Be Avoided At All Costs. I have lived with too much pain in my life for me to enjoy it or encourage it, and it is further from my sex life than Robert Mugabe, who isn't all that close.
But some folks spank each other mercilessly, eat each other's poo, wee all over each other, pretend to be dogs and eat from dog bowls, "rape" each other, torture their nipples with vicious steel clamps, cook their penises and eat them and generally behave as though they hate each other more than the devil himself.
What happened to a good roll in the sack and a pack of fags for afters? Isn't all this thrashing and beating and maiming and killing a rather extreme way to get your kicks?
Life's a lot easier, you know. I dunno. Relax a little, maybe. Indulge your fantasies as you must, but leave off the thrashing and beating and urinating and abducting and raping - take a breather. Have a rest.
Let it go.
All Smoked Out,
Luke Tagg
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By Ayodele Alofe
Saturday, March 27, 2010.
I finished having my early dinner and did the dishes, humming a song to myself. I was still buzzing on a high from the weekend; gosh it had been so much fun, clubbing with my girls and then my birthday party. Dayo had surprised me with a lovely birthday present, and I felt so special. Thinking of him made me smile now and I made a note to call him soon. I finished at the sink and inspected my fridge. I decided I still had plenty of food and cake left over, so I should be alright for a couple of days. I went to my living room and was about to settle down to watch a movie when my phone rang.
I picked it up and chuckled.
“Hello Lola, how did I know it would be you?” I said.
Lola had always been inquisitive and after the weekend get-together at my house, I knew all my friends would be dying to hear more gist about Dayo. Especially Lola.
“Great minds eh?” Lola replied. She sounded quite impatient. “Where are you now? Are you at home?”
“Yeah I’m at home. I came home early to clean up my house after the weekend and I’ve just finished. Somebody forgot their jeans in my spare room, I found a pair of earrings in the bathroom, and I still have some of -”
“Titi wait, there’s something I want to discuss with you”
“What is it?”
“I think it would be better if you sat down.”
“Drama, drama, Lola! I trust you to be dramatic”. I said, going to the TV stand to pick up the remote.
“I’m serious! Wait, is there anyone else with you?”
“No, nobody is here. I was about to watch a movie and paint my nails, but that can wait, this one that you are sounding ominous.”
I sat down on the sofa. “Okay spill.”
“Er Titi the thing is, I discovered something about Dayo today. Something bad, in fact...”
“Stop!” I interrupted. “I already know what you are about to say and I don't want to hear it!”
“Oh you already know?” Lola asked, sounding shocked.
“Yes I do! I know he belonged to a cult when he was at university, he told me all about it. But that was so many years ago. He is completely different now”
“Wait, let me finish” I continued. “He said he only shot a few times, he never actually killed anyone. I really don't want to discuss it. Anyway, how did you find out?”
Lola made an incomprehensible sound, and then she cleared her throat. “Well I didn't know about that bit, at least, not until you mentioned it now. That means he is one of those wolf-turned-sheep characters. But that wasn't what I wanted to tell you”
“Oh” I whispered. Darn it, I shouldn’t have released that bit of information. It could become awkward if my friends met Dayo again. Then I heard another voice in the background.
“Lola, who is there with you?” I asked.
“I’m at Funmi’s place. She’s asking after you”
“Say hi to her”
“Titi says hi” Lola said to Funmi in the background, then she returned to the phone. “Titi, what I discovered about Dayo today is that he is married!”
“What?!” said I said in a voice that was barely a whisper.
“Yes he is, I would not have believed it myself if….”
Something in my mind shifted and I didn’t hear what Lola was saying anymore.
“Hello? Titi, are you still there?” Lola shouted into the mouthpiece.
“What – oh yeah, I’m still here” I said, after what seemed like an eternity. I heard Funmi’s voice in the background again. She was probably asking Lola what my reaction was. I could just imagine my friends discussing my affairs behind my back and it was humiliating to think about. I had heard more than enough. I steeled myself.
“Lola, thanks for calling, I’ll speak to you later”
“But I haven’t finished ...”
I cut the line and snapped my handset shut.
For what seemed like an eternity, I sat still on the sofa, my mobile phone in hand, wishing I could erase the phone call I just had. Tears slowly streamed down my eyes. It couldn't be, I thought. But then, I knew even before the thought ended, that there was some truth in it. I had suspected something wasn't quite right with Dayo a few weeks ago, after he came back from one of his trips.
I had been so happy to see him that I chose to forgive the fact that he had been incommunicado for an entire weekend. He had told me his work had asked him to make an impromptu trip to see a client in the US and he had switched off his phone as soon as he left the office. The night he returned, he took me to a really expensive restaurant for dinner, something he hadn’t done before. I remember being flattered but also wondering if he was doing it to allay his feelings of guilt. I had gone all out to look my best that night, and I really wanted to have a good time. But something was wrong, I could sense it. Dayo fidgeted all night, when his phone rang, he changed it to vibrate status. There was something in the way he did not quite meet my eyes when I asked if he would not answer his call since the phone kept vibrating. He had brushed it away, claiming it was work, and he continued to ignore whoever was calling. He also fidgeted when the check came; his hands seem to shake as he signed the credit card bill.
Yes, it had crossed my mind, albeit fleetingly; that perhaps there was something he was hiding but whatever it was, I had refused to dwell on it. After we left the restaurant, he had taken me back home and apologised for his nervousness before kissing my doubts and fears away. I had decided that nobody was perfect, but I could not have imagined it would turn out to be this – I was dating a married man! Pain shot through my chest now at my ignorance.
I leapt off the sofa and paced around the living room.
“How could he? How dare he?” kept echoing in my head, propelling me to keep moving. Then I decided I had to unleash this fury welling up in me.
I picked up my phone and dialled his number.
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global_01_local_1_shard_00001926_processed.jsonl/2074 | Faulkner and Southern Womanhood
Diane Roberts
"Roberts's readings are everywhere interesting, and frequently new. Virtually every page offers, for me at least, a provocative interpretation of even the tiniest detail. Her literary scholarship, too, is exemplary. Clearly she has read the Faulkner criticism as carefully and as widely as she has the numerous texts of southern culture within whose context she carries out her own analyses of Faulkner's work."
—Anne Goodwyn Jones, Mississippi Quarterly
This study examines the vexed and contradictory responses of the South's most celebrated novelist to the traditional representations of women that were bequeathed to him by his culture.
Tracing the ways in which William Faulkner characterized women in his fiction, Diane Roberts posits six familiar representations--the Confederate woman, the mammy, the tragic mulatta, the new belle, the spinster, and the mother--and through close feminist readings shows how the writer reactivated and reimagined them. "As a southerner," Roberts writes, "Faulkner inherited the images, icons, and demons of his culture. They are part of the matter of the region with which he engages, sometimes accepting, sometimes rejecting."
Drawing on extensive research into southern popular culture and the findings and interpretations of historians, Roberts demonstrates how Faulkner's greatest fiction, published during the 1920s and 1930s, grew out of his reactions to the South's extreme and sometimes violent attempts to redefine and solidify its hierarchical conceptions of race, gender, and class. Struggling to understand his region, Roberts says, Faulkner exposed the South's self-conceptions as quite precarious, with women slipping toward masculinity, men slipping toward femininity, and white identity slipping toward black. At their best, according to Roberts, Faulkner's novels reveal the South's failure to reassert the boundaries of race, gender, and class by which it has traditionally sustained itself.
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global_01_local_1_shard_00001926_processed.jsonl/2078 | Simon Peter: A follower of the Lord Jesus Christ
A follower of the Lord Jesus Christ
There are over twenty recorded junctures where the life of Simon Peter intersects with the Lord Jesus Christ. In each of these, we see the interaction of the man called Peter with whom we all, at times, like to identify.
We begin with his introduction to the Lord Jesus. Usually when two people meet for the first time, each person identifies himself. Not so in the unique introduction of the Lord and Simon. When Andrew brought Simon to the Lord, it was the Lord who identified Simon, saying, “‘You are Simon the son of Jonah. You shall be called Cephas’ which is translated, a Stone” (Jn. 1:42).
This profound identity is not who Simon is, but who he will become and what he will be. The Lord Jesus gave Simon a new name. He stated, “You shall be called Cephas.” Later He said, “You shall be called Peter” (Mt. 16:18), which means a rock. A stone, a rock—these are what Simon would become.
The Lord Jesus Christ is the Stone and the Rock. You can find a complete listing of the stone image titles given to the Lord Jesus in the New Testament. He is the Living Stone, the Chosen Stone, the Chief Cornerstone, the Elect Stone, the Rejected Stone, the Stumbling Stone, and the Rock of Offense. These are listed by none other than Simon Peter himself (1 Pet. 2:4-8).
When he met the Savior, a work began in Simon’s life to make him more and more like the Lord. This work of conforming us to the image of Christ is a work that the Spirit begins in each of us the moment we trust the Lord Jesus Christ as our Savior. One day we shall see Him as He is and we will be like Him (1 Jn. 3:1). What a hope is ours. It is, as Peter calls it, “a living hope” (1 Pet. 1:3).
Upon meeting the Lord, Simon was called to follow Him. Through the rest of the Gospels, we can trace the footsteps of the heavenly Man and watch as Simon, follower of Christ, strives to keep up. He began following the Lord along the shore of the Sea of Galilee. He was called, along with Andrew, James, and John, to become a fisher of men.
One day, the Lord Jesus sat in a boat—Simon’s boat. He asked him to put out a little from the land. After teaching the multitudes, the Lord told Simon to launch out into the deep for a catch (Lk. 5:1-11). They made a great catch of fish. Simon was caught, too. Convicted by his sinfulness, he fell at Jesus’ knees, saying, “Depart from me, for I am a sinful man, O Lord!” The Lord calmed his fears and redirected his fishing skills to catch men. On the best day of fishing they had ever had, they forsook all and followed Him (Lk. 5:11).
Peter sought to follow the Lord, even if it meant rocking the boat. On the storm-tossed sea, Simon heard Him say, “Come,” and, with his eyes fixed on Jesus and enough faith to venture overboard, he stepped out onto the sea. His eye began to wander, his feet began to sink, his heart began to fear, and he cried out, “Lord, save me!” The Lord said, “O you of little faith, why did you doubt?” His little faith got him out of the boat, into the deep water, and safe into the arms of Jesus (Mt. 14:22-31).
Peter, James, and John followed the Lord from sea level up to a high mountain. There the Lord Jesus was transfigured before them and Moses and Elijah appeared. We read that the disciples awoke and were greatly afraid. Peter spoke, not knowing what he said. While he was speaking, there came a divine interruption. God spoke from the cloud that overshadowed them saying, “This is My beloved Son. Hear Him!” (Lk. 9:35). Peter writes of this experience saying, “We did not follow cunningly devised fables…but were eyewitnesses of His majesty” (2 Pet. 1:16).
Throughout their time together, Simon Peter had some questions to ask the Lord. Seven questions, if my count is correct. One of those questions was about the rewards for following the Savior. A rich, young ruler had just turned his back and walked away from an offer of treasure in heaven if he would take up his cross and follow Christ. Peter said to the Lord, “See, we have left all and followed You. Therefore, what shall we have?” (Mt. 19:27). The Lord Jesus assured Peter that it would be worth it all.
Peter followed the Lord right up to the last day of our Lord’s life on earth. In the upper room, the Lord began to wash the disciples’ feet. He came to Simon Peter, who refused. In simple terms, the Lord explained that clean feet were required to follow Him (Jn. 13:1-17). Peter’s initial refusal turned into a request—for a bath! But the Lord corrected him again. There was no need for a bath, just a basin, water, and a towel. Feet that follow Him must be washed.
It was that night that the Lord warned Simon what was ahead. “Simon, Simon! Indeed, Satan has asked for you, that he may sift you as wheat” (Lk. 22:31-32). From there, Simon went astray. He was heading for a fall. He took seven downward steps.
1. Peter said, “Even if all are made to stumble, yet I will not be” (Mk. 14:29-31). Peter boasted when he should have been listening.
2. From there they followed the Lord to Gethsemane. Christ left His disciples to pray and returned to find them sleeping (Mk. 14:32-41). Peter slept when he should have been praying.
3. The mob came to take Jesus into custody, and Peter drew his sword and cut off the ear of the servant of the high priest (Jn. 18:10). Peter fought when he should have been trusting.
4. They led Jesus away from Gethsemane, but Peter followed at a distance (Mk. 14:54a). Peter drew back when he should have been drawing close.
5. Peter followed into the courtyard of the high priest and sat by the fire (Mk. 14:54b). Peter sat when he should have been standing.
6. One of the servant girls of the high priest saw him and said, “You were with Jesus of Nazareth.” But he denied it and said, “I neither know nor understand what you are saying” (Mk. 14:66-68). This happened twice. Peter denied when he should have been owning.
7. Lastly, others who stood by said, “Surely you are one of them for you are a Galilean, and your speech shows it.” Peter began to curse and swear saying, “I do not know this Man of whom you speak” (Mk. 14:71). Peter cursed when he should have been confessing.
At that point, a rooster crowed, just as the Lord had said, and Christ looked over at Peter and their eyes met. Peter went out and wept bitterly.
Peter had fallen. Was there a way back? Oh, yes! For the Lord had anticipated that, too, and had comforted Peter in advance: “When you are restored, strengthen the brethren” (Lk. 22:32).
After the Lord’s resurrection, He met with Simon Peter. He spoke to Peter of his death and encouraged him saying, “Follow Me” (Jn. 21:19). Having just been restored, Peter turned around and saw John following the Lord. He asked, “But Lord, what about this man?” Simon had taken his eyes off the Lord and put them on John. The Lord’s answer to Peter should echo in our hearts today, “What is that to you? You follow Me” (Jn. 21:22).
It is no wonder that Simon Peter, follower of the Lord Jesus Christ, wrote in his epistles of the things that he learned. Not surprisingly, he sets forth the challenge saying, “that you should follow His steps” (1 Pet. 2:21)! |
global_01_local_1_shard_00001926_processed.jsonl/2080 | Wednesday, January 31, 2018
Casper and Mesa Verde
Part of my January blog catch up . . .
In Casper I met up with my friend Elliott who was organizing a community event during the solar eclipse. The eclipse was pure magic. Casper was in the path of totality. Here's one image of eclipse-created shadows:
From the Labor Day Airstream rally in Colorado with the Four Corners Club of the Wally Byam Caravan Club (WBCCI--aka the Airstream club). I met some cool people there, finally made it to Mesa Verde National Park. Explored the Cortez area, and realized how much more I wanted to do to my Airstream!
Just outside of Mesa Verde National Park with 4CU/WBCCI.
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global_01_local_1_shard_00001926_processed.jsonl/2081 | Wednesday, 28 January 2015
A Post War World
I've already stated that the world of Darmonica is in a Post-War state, the 50 year long Great Darmonican War having ended about a decade ago. So what does that actually mean for adventures and campaigns set in Darmonica?
This post is intended to answer part of that question.
Looking at our own history there can be seen certain aspects common throughout the centuries following a major conflict, be then the World Wars of the 20th Century or the much earlier European wars that spanned decades. Ron Perlman's famous phrase from the Fallout series of games sums it up quite nicely; "War. War never changes."
So what are those aspects anyway?
Devastation:- Long before the 20th Century there was often wide spread devastation in the wake of a conflict, especially besieged cities when the attacker brought their siege weapons to bear and of course after a breech in the city's walls had been achieved and the attacker's troops storm the city. Even small towns and villages weren't immune to war's destructive touch, particularly when they became the site of pitched battles between opposing armies. Industrialization meant war became ever more destructive, the Western Front that stretched across Europe like a dirty great scar during the First World War and aerial bombing in later conflicts are compelling proof of this.
With regards to Darmonica it means that even a decade later there would scars from the war remaining, cities would still have bomb sites (London did in the 1960s) and old battlefields would be littered with the derbies of war. Entire villages have been bombarded out of existence, a large chunk of Sodkan territory was devastated by the Blast round the end of the War. For the players the most visible signs of the scars of war would be large chunks of major cities being little more than bombed out ruins. There would also be shanty towns made of people made homeless by the bombing, often in squalid conditions. Reconstruction will take years if not decades to complete.
Rationing:- A notable feature of the World Wars was rationing, chiefly food and petrol (particularly during WW2) were severely restricted for the average civilians. There were schemes to encourage civilians to grow their own food and to reduce food waste, though in some cases there was a very real risk of starvation. In earlier conflicts there were food shortages, typically if farmer fields ended up being used as battlefields or troops pillaged what they could get their hands on. Sometimes after a war has ended rationing became much more stricter, post-WW2 rationing in Britain was hugely more severe than it was during the war.
Course with imposed restrictions upon goods there is a rise in the Black Market and opportunities for smugglers to make a fair amount of coin, typically trying to sneak in goods under the noses of the local authorities. For players, if located in an area where rationing is being enforced, there is the chance that they could suffer from starvation due to the lack of food available. There may be smuggling jobs available for the players or they may need to go to the Black Market to acquire items.
The Human Cost:- Every war has its price in lives lost and shattered, most families would've lost loved ones whilst others would've lost a limb or an eye. Crippled veterans would be another noticeable feature, even if its mentally rather than physical. Humans can be fragile creatures, this also applies to player characters.
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There you go, hopefully some elements that would should be able to incorporate into your games set in Darmonica. Though I am taking suggestions and ideas for future posts, so feel free to post a comment.
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global_01_local_1_shard_00001926_processed.jsonl/2084 | Out of Date Jokes
Jokes from January and February 2015.
1. Chip Wilson the founder Lululemon, best known for making yoga pants, has left the company, saying "I feel like I've kind of been in prison." Which is the exact same thing said by women everywhere after removing a pair of Lululemon pants.
2. Happy Birthday to Dr. Suess' "Oh, the Places You'll Go" which turns 25 today! Unfortunately, it's still living at home with its parents.
3. A study says emoji users have better sex, which explains why my mom keeps asking me to install them on her iPhone.
4. Two supermodels have quit working for Victoria’s Secret because their pay has decreased from the millions to around $100,000. Said the models, who haven’t eaten since 2003: “This is what we would do for a Klondike Bar.”
5. Scientists have figured out how to unboil a boiled egg, yet still have trouble making eye contact during conversations.
6. Police in San Francisco found a suitcase containing dismembered body parts, with even more body parts scattered nearby. Gruesome, but I can sympathize because I also have a hard time deciding what to pack.
7. Earlier this week many people hugged people on the streets to celebrate National Hug Day, alternatively called National Cop-a-Feel from a Stranger Day.
8. Gwyneth Paltrow admitted that she's done ecstasy, which means in order for Miley Cyrus to keep up her image of youthful rebellion she's doing even harder addictive substances: she's smoking gluten.
9. Showtime is rebooting a new version of Twin Peaks, and Kyle MacLachlan has announced he’ll return to the show in his role as Charlotte's ex-husband.
10. Sixty years after writing the Pulitzer Prize winning To Kill A Mockingbird author Harper Lee will publish her second book. Lee stands by the new book, even though unlike the first it will not star Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson.
11. Sales of condoms and morning after pills have soared in South Korea after a ban on adultery was lifted. Marketers are currently pushing for a ban on bank robbery to boost sales of presidential masks.
12. KFC has outdone themselves with another original fast food creation. They debuted a new sandwich, a hotdog nestled between 2 fried chicken breasts, called the Double Down Dog sandwich. Customers are most shocked that it’s not made from actual puppies.
13. A 36 year old man best known for playing the Red Power Ranger was booked on murder charges. The former power ranger grabbed a sword next to his bed and stabbed his roommate after his roommate followed him and his girlfriend into his bedroom. Police were most shocked that a 36 year old man who dresses in a polyester Power Ranger costume, plays with swords, and has a roommate actually has a girlfriend.
14. Sony announced they're still struggling to repair computer systems damaged from "The Interview" cyberattack in December. They also reported they need to update Adobe Flash.
15. To celebrate Valentine's Day Oreo announced a new flavor: red velvet. Whole Foods is also jumping on the bandwagon with red velvet coconut oil.
16. Breaking News: this week the Academy of Motion Pictures, an organization made up predominantly of white males predominantly nominated white males for Oscars.
17. The CEO of Nutella died, leaving his mourners to debate: wait, is it pronounced NUTella or NEWtella?
18. A report on corporate diversity states men named John, Robert, William, and James hold more board seats than all women combined. Put another way that’s like 3 Led Zeppelins and 4 Billy Joels for every ONE CEO named Madonna. |
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Services available to all Winnebago County
There are no fees for the services provided by the TB Care Center.
How do I get services?
Referred by another health care facility for a positive TB skin test or have had an abnormal chest x-ray that looks suspicious with symptoms suggesting Tuberculosis.
Walk-in hours are from 8 AM - 12 PM Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday. The TB Care Center is open from 8 AM - 5 PM daily. Other times are available by appointment.
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[imp. & p. p. Attributed; p. pr. & vb. n. Attributing.]
- Abp. Tillotson.
But mercy is above this sceptered away; . . .
It is an attribute to God himself.
- Shak.
Noun1.attribute - a construct whereby objects or individuals can be distinguished; "self-confidence is not an endearing property"
Synonyms: dimension, property
2.attribute - an abstraction belonging to or characteristic of an entity
Verb1.attribute - attribute or credit to; "We attributed this quotation to Shakespeare"; "People impute great cleverness to cats"
Synonyms: ascribe, impute, assign
2.attribute - decide as to where something belongs in a scheme; "The biologist assigned the mushroom to the proper class"
Synonyms: assign
(data)attribute - A named value or relationship that exists for some or all instances of some entity and is directly associated with that instance.
IC analysis, account for, accredit, accredit with, accrete to, acknowledge, affection, apply to, appositive, aroma, ascribe, ascribe to, assign to, attach, attach to, attribute to, attributive, badge, blame, blame for, blame on, brand, bring home to, cachet, calendar, cast, character, charge, charge on, charge to, chronologize, complement, confess, configuration, connect with, construction modifier, credit with, cut, cutting, date, deep structure, differentia, differential, direct object, distinctive feature, earmark, emblem, fasten upon, father upon, figure, filler, fix on, fix upon, flavor, form-function unit, function, gust, hallmark, hang on, idiocrasy, idiosyncrasy, immediate constituent analysis, impress, impression, impute, impute to, index, indirect object, individualism, keynote, lay, lay to, levels, lineaments, mannerism, mark, marking, modifier, mold, object, odor, particularity, peculiarity, phrase structure, pin on, pinpoint, place upon, point to, predicate, property, put, qualifier, quality, quirk, ranks, refer, refer to, saddle on, saddle with, savor, seal, set down to, settle upon, shallow structure, shape, singularity, slot, slot and filler, smack, specialty, stamp, strata, structure, subject, surface structure, syntactic analysis, syntactic structure, syntactics, syntax, tagmeme, taint, tang, taste, token, trace to, trick, underlying structure, virtue, word arrangement, word order
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Attraction sphere
attractive feature
attractive force
attractive nuisance
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global_01_local_1_shard_00001926_processed.jsonl/2126 | Notes for Gen 14:1LEB
The sentence begins with the temporal indicator וַיְהִי (vayéhi) followed by "in the days of."
Shinar (also in v. 9) is the region of Babylonia.
Or "king of Goyim." The Hebrew term גּוֹיִם (goyim) means "nations," but a number of modern translations merely transliterate the Hebrew (cf. NEB "Goyim"; NIV, NRSV "Goiim").
Notes for Gen 14:2LEB
Heb "made war."
Went to war. The conflict here reflects international warfare in the Early and Middle Bronze periods. The countries operated with overlords and vassals. Kings ruled over city states, or sometimes a number of city states (i.e., nations). Due to their treaties, when one went to war, those confederate with him joined him in battle. It appears here that it is Kedorlaomer’s war, because the western city states have rebelled against him (meaning they did not send products as tribute to keep him from invading them).
On the geographical background of vv. 1–2 see J. P. Harland, "Sodom and Gomorrah," The Biblical Archaeologist Reader, 1:41–75; and D. N. Freedman, "The Real Story of the Ebla Tablets, Ebla and the Cities of the Plain," BA 41 (1978): 143-64.
Notes for Gen 14:3]
Heb "all these," referring only to the last five kings named. The referent has been specified as "these last five kings" in the translation for clarity.
The Hebrew verb used here means "to join together; to unite; to be allied." It stresses close associations, especially of friendships, marriages, or treaties.
The Salt Sea is the older name for the Dead Sea.
Notes for [ 14:4LEB
The sentence simply begins with "twelve years"; it serves as an adverbial accusative giving the duration of their bondage.
This is another adverbial accusative of time.
The story serves as a foreshadowing of the plight of the kingdom of Israel later. Eastern powers came and forced the western kingdoms into submission. Each year, then, they would send tribute east – to keep them away. Here, in the thirteenth year, they refused to send the tribute (just as later Hezekiah rebelled against Assyria). And so in the fourteenth year the eastern powers came to put them down again. This account from Abram’s life taught future generations that Elohim can give victory over such threats – that people did not have to live in servitude to tyrants from the east.
Notes for Gen 14:5LEB
The Hebrew verb נָכָה (nakhah) means "to attack, to strike, to smite." In this context it appears that the strike was successful, and so a translation of "defeated" is preferable.
Notes for Gen 14:6LEB
The line of attack ran down the eastern side of the Jordan Valley into the desert, and then turned and came up the valley to the cities of the plain.
Notes for Gen 14:7LEB
Heb "they returned and came to En Mishpat (that is, Kadesh)." The two verbs together form a verbal hendiadys, the first serving as the adverb: "they returned and came" means "they came again." Most English translations do not treat this as a hendiadys, but translate "they turned back" or something similar. Since in the context, however, "came again to" does not simply refer to travel but an assault against the place, the present translation expresses this as "attacked…again."
Notes for Gen 14:9LEB
Or "Goyim." See the note on the word "nations" in 14:1.
The Hebrew text has simply "against." The word "fought" is supplied in the translation for stylistic reasons.
Notes for Gen 14:10LEB
Heb "Now the Valley of Siddim [was] pits, pits of tar." This parenthetical disjunctive clause emphasizes the abundance of tar pits in the area through repetition of the noun "pits."
The word for "tar" (or "bitumen") occurs earlier in the story of the building of the tower in Babylon (see Gen 11:3LEB).
Or "they were defeated there." After a verb of motion the Hebrew particle שָׁם (sham) with the directional heh (שָׁמָּה, shammah) can mean "into it, therein" (BDB 1027 s.v. שָׁם).
The reference to the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah must mean the kings along with their armies. Most of them were defeated in the valley, but some of them escaped to the hills.
Notes for Gen 14:11LEB
Heb "they"; the referent (the four victorious kings, see v. 9) has been supplied in the translation for clarity.
Notes for Gen 14:12LEB
Heb "Lot the son of his brother."
This disjunctive clause is circumstantial/causal, explaining that Lot was captured because he was living in Sodom at the time.
Notes for Gen 14:13LEB
Heb "the fugitive." The article carries a generic force or indicates that this fugitive is definite in the mind of the speaker.
E. A. Speiser (Genesis [AB], 103) suggests that part of this chapter came from an outside source since it refers to Abram the Hebrew. That is not impossible, given that the narrator likely utilized traditions and genealogies that had been collected and transmitted over the years. The meaning of the word "Hebrew" has proved elusive. It may be related to the verb "to cross over," perhaps meaning "immigrant." Or it might be derived from the name of Abram’s ancestor Eber (see Gen 11:14–16LEB).
Or "terebinths."
Or "a brother"; or "a relative"; or perhaps "an ally."
Heb "possessors of a treaty with." Since it is likely that the qualifying statement refers to all three (Mamre, Eshcol, and Aner) the words "all these" have been supplied in the translation to make this clear.
This parenthetical disjunctive clause explains how Abram came to be living in their territory, but it also explains why they must go to war with Abram.
Notes for Gen 14:14LEB
Heb "his brother," by extension, "relative." Here and in v. 16 the more specific term "nephew" has been used in the translation for clarity. Lot was the son of Haran, Abram’s brother (Gen 11:27LEB).
The verb וַיָּרֶק (vayyareq) is a rare form, probably related to the word רֵיק (req, "to be empty"). If so, it would be a very figurative use: "he emptied out" (or perhaps "unsheathed") his men. The LXX has "mustered" (cf. NEB). E. A. Speiser (Genesis [AB], 103-4) suggests reading with the Samaritan Pentateuch a verb diq, cognate with Akkadian deku, "to mobilize" troops. If this view is accepted, one must assume that a confusion of the Hebrew letters ד (dalet) and ר (resh) led to the error in the traditional Hebrew text. These two letters are easily confused in all phases of ancient Hebrew script development. The present translation is based on this view.
The words "the invaders" have been supplied in the translation for clarification.
The use of the name Dan reflects a later perspective. The Danites did not migrate to this northern territory until centuries later (see Judg 18:29LEB). Furthermore Dan was not even born until much later. By inserting this name a scribe has clarified the location of the region.
Notes for Gen 14:15LEB
The Hebrew text simply has "night" as an adverbial accusative.
Heb "he"; the referent (Abram) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
Heb "he divided himself…he and his servants."
Heb "left." Directions in ancient Israel were given in relation to the east rather than the north.
Notes for Gen 14:16LEB
The word "stolen" is supplied in the translation for clarification.
The phrase "the rest of " has been supplied in the translation for clarification.
Notes for Gen 14:17LEB
Heb "him"; the referent (Abram) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
The King’s Valley is possibly a reference to what came to be known later as the Kidron Valley.
Notes for Gen 14:18LEB
Salem is traditionally identified as the Jebusite stronghold of old Jerusalem. Accordingly, there has been much speculation about its king. Though some have identified him with the preincarnate Christ or with Noah’s son Shem, it is far more likely that Melchizedek was a Canaanite royal priest whom Elohim used to renew the promise of the blessing to Abram, perhaps because Abram considered Melchizedek his spiritual superior. But Melchizedek remains an enigma. In a book filled with genealogical records he appears on the scene without a genealogy and then disappears from the narrative. In Psalm 110 the Elohim declares that the Davidic king is a royal priest after the pattern of Melchizedek.
The parenthetical disjunctive clause significantly identifies Melchizedek as a priest as well as a king.
It is his royal priestly status that makes Melchizedek a type of Christ: He was identified with Jerusalem, superior to the ancestor of Israel, and both a king and a priest. Unlike the normal Canaanites, this man served "Elohim Most High" (אֵל עֶלְיוֹן, ’el elyon) – one sovereign Elohim, who was the creator of all the universe. Abram had in him a spiritual brother.
Notes for Gen 14:19LEB
Some translate "possessor of heaven and earth" (cf. NASB). But cognate evidence from Ugaritic indicates that there were two homonymic roots קנָה (qanah), one meaning "to create" (as in Gen 4:1LEB) and the other "to obtain, to acquire, to possess." While "possessor" would fit here, "creator" is the more likely due to the collocation with "heaven and earth."
The terms translated "heaven" and "earth" are both objective genitives after the participle in construct.
Notes for Gen 14:20LEB
Heb "blessed be." For Elohim to be "blessed" means that is praised. His reputation is enriched in the world as his name is praised.
Who delivered. The Hebrew verb מִגֵּן (miggen, "delivered") foreshadows the statement by Elohim to Abram in Gen 15:1, "I am your shield" (מָגֵן, magen). Melchizedek provided a theological interpretation of Abram’s military victory.
Heb "him"; the referent (Melchizedek) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
Notes for Gen 14:22LEB
Abram takes an oath, raising his hand as a solemn gesture. The translation understands the perfect tense as having an instantaneous nuance: "Here and now I raise my hand."
The words "and vow" are not in the Hebrew text, but are supplied in the translation for clarification.
Notes for Gen 14:23LEB
The oath formula is elliptical, reading simply: "…if I take." It is as if Abram says, "[May the Elohim deal with me] if I take," meaning, "I will surely not take." The positive oath would add the negative adverb and be the reverse: "[Elohim will deal with me] if I do not take," meaning, "I certainly will."
The Hebrew text adds the independent pronoun ("I") to the verb form for emphasis.
Notes for Gen 14:24LEB
The words "I will take nothing" have been supplied in the translation for stylistic reasons.
Heb "except only what the young men have eaten." |
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Gorgeous was a zine from Russel, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.
In the November 1998 issue of Queer Zine Explosion #16, Larrybob reviews issue 2: "The question of what is art; a questionaire; a lesson in masturbation for females; sex toy review; before and after makeover pictures; article about hypocritical gay men who don't treat women well; people who don't write back to rural people; pix of Carrie Brownstein and an imposter."
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global_01_local_1_shard_00001926_processed.jsonl/2133 | Monday, May 25, 2015
True Detective Season 1.5: Severson Dells Forest Preserve
The family headed out to Severson Dells Forest Preserve on Memorial Day. they have an amazing array of educational resources, including an outside percussion circle of instruments designed by a world famous drum expert. There were logs to build bridges, and blocks, and almost everything is made out of organic materials found right there in the forest preserve. The kids took to it immediately, and soon we were having a jam session of the band we have together, The Supertasty. Other families also came and went. It is a magnificent place.
But something didn't feel quite right. Something was weird, and I couldn't quite put my finger on it.
I felt like I was surrounded by hints and clues of some significant, profound cosmic glimpse into the Universe I had been immersed in my entire life but never noticed. Some recondite malfeasance being conducted right there under my nose members of the community I'd never suspect of skullduggery. Although I had reservations we went deeper into the forest. The clues were everywhere. Like easter eggs left behind to rot after an Easter egg hunt ostensibly held for the enjoyment of children, but really scheduled for a more sinister purpose.
Why I allowed the children to go into this shed I'll never know. This ominous harbinger should have been enough to activate whatever paternal instincts I have to prevent them from wandering innocently into treacherous situations, but I sat there on my comfortable log in the shade and let them go in. It was as if I were being sucked into a vacuum of insanity that fed upon itself like the ouroboros. Some ineffable voice was coaxing me to trek deeper into the forest, to abandon my reservations and let the deep, deep profound cosmically profound energy of this place wash over me. We went deeper.
Everything began to seem profound and take on much deeper significance than before. We had pierced the veil of the vagaries of everyday existence and were now peering behind the curtain of what others would refer to as "reality" and staring with our newly naked eyes into the deep, deep places. This shit was deep. My readings of Kant, Pynchon, and my many listenings to Rush's 2112 album had not prepared me for this. My better angels were screaming to turn back, to leave whatever buried Leviathan of malevolence I had found in this god forsaken place there and run back to the safety of my humdrum existence. But the madness that was overtaking me wouldn't allow me to turn back. I knew we had torn the paper thin filament tethering us to reality and had plunged headlong into the Abyss of iniquity when I saw this...
Run, run, I thought to myself, before the firm grip of profound and really deep stuff that remains vague and is never really defined or explained places its firm grip on you and maybe paints some sort of weird symbology that a brilliant but disturbed detective will recognize from a remote tribe of cannibals in Papua New Guinea grasps you like the shadowy hand of the Nosferatu. Soon I was running. My heart pounding like a deep bass drum, but even as I ran I knew escape from the profoundness of this very deep scenario that even as I was experiencing it didn't really seem to make any sense was futile. It was like a feedback loop. I felt I had been here before and was doomed to repeat the nightmare over and over as the schema burrowed its way into the very fabric of the culture and eventually no one would be able to distinguish profundity from cheap manipulation of surface treatments of age-old philosophies and stories that have been told since the beginning of time. I finally reached the portal that would allow me to escape this Hellish park of depravity, but as I looked back to see my five year old painting on a rock with a water and brush that private donors had generously left behind I could see it was too late for me, for him, for us all.
He had been absorbed by the evil. I left Severson Dells a changed man, incapable in my simplicity and mere B.S. in Science degree of comprehending all the deep and profound shit that had been imparted to me, if only in hints, allegations, and shadowy, inchoate allusions to obscure, out of print texts so mind-blowingly perverted in their power to corrupt that no one had bothered to open them in over a century.
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Graph drawing in RStudio
RStudio can plot nice networks and graphs. By graph, I mean here the mathematical artifact: \(G = (V,E)\). I.e. a collection of nodes and arcs.
DiagrammeR is an R package that includes graphviz. RStudio has some support for graphviz input files (editing, drawing). Basically we need to specify nodes and arcs, and let the tool do its work.
Graphviz file in RStudio (picture from [1])
Network model used in [3]
I like it.
1. DiagrammeR Docs, graphviz,
2. Graphviz, Node, Edge and Graph attributes,
3. Choosing boxes: set covering vs network models vs dynamic programming, |
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