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When Prayer Fails
When Prayer Fails December 26, 2009
Dave Schmeltzer’s book Not the Religious Type has many examples of what he calls “napkin stories” (i.e., short enough to write on a napkin), brief anecdotes from people who claim to have experienced miraculous events in their lives when they trusted in God. Here’s a typical one:
I found out that my aunt and uncle’s marriage was unraveling due to an affair. I fasted and prayed for them. After thirty-eight days, I was contacted by my uncle. He was about to sign a lease on an apartment to move in with his lover. Before he could sign, he felt an almost audible voice in his head say “stop.” He went back to my aunt and started to see how their marriage could be saved. She found a way to forgive him.
I’ve observed in the past that evangelical religious belief is sustained by a kind of natural selection among ideas. Stories and personal testimonies that fit neatly into Christian narrative prototypes – stories that resonate with what Christians already believe – stir interest and excitement among believers who hear them, are repeated and passed on from person to person, and soon become common in the apologetic literature. But stories that can’t be fitted into these templates don’t draw interest or excitement from believers, are not repeated or passed on, and tend to be forgotten. Because of this tendency to count the hits and forget the misses, Christians uneducated in critical thinking tend to believe that answers to prayer are common.
But if you look at all the evidence, a different picture emerges. We hear stories about faithful Christians who are stricken ill, pray for healing, and then recover; we hear stories about evangelists who founded a ministry and saw it flourish and grow; we hear stories about nonbelievers who pray for God to reveal himself and then mysteriously receive aid from a helpful Christian stranger at just the right time. However, unless you’re looking for them specifically, you probably don’t hear stories about Christians who are stricken ill, pray for healing, and then die. You don’t hear stories about churches and ministries that fail to attract members and fall apart, despite the hard work of their founders. You don’t hear stories about nonbelievers who pray to God to reveal himself and then nothing out of the ordinary happens. It’s not that these stories never get written – they do, and I’ll give some examples – it’s just that they don’t take root and spread through the Christian community like the other kind.
In this post, I’ll try to counteract that tendency by presenting some stories of when prayer fails. The first two examples are from Philip Yancey’s book The Jesus I Never Knew:
One terrible week two people called me on successive days to talk about one of my books. The first, a youth pastor in Colorado, had just learned his wife and baby daughter were dying of AIDS. “How can I possibly talk to my youth group about a loving God after what has happened to me?” he asked. The next day I heard from a blind man who, several months before, had invited a recovering drug addict into his home as an act of mercy. Recently he had discovered that the recovering addict was carrying on an affair with his wife, under his own roof. “Why is God punishing me for trying to serve him?” he asked. Just then he ran out of quarters, the phone went dead, and I never heard from the man again. [p.159-160]
Even the “answers to prayer” confused me. Sometimes, after all, parking places did not open up and fountain pens stayed lost. Sometimes church people lost their jobs. Sometimes they died. A great shadow darkened my own life: my father had died of polio just after my first birthday, despite a round-the-clock prayer vigil involving hundreds of dedicated Christians. Where was God then? [p.165]
Or this tragic story of a young mother dying of cancer, who prayed with a hospital chaplain that God would give her the time to finish a needlepoint project she was making for her children:
I was totally hooked. We prayed. We believed. Jesus, this was the kind of prayer you could believe in. We were like idiots and fools.
A couple of days later I went to see her only to find the room filled with doctors and nurses. She was having violent convulsions and terrible pain. I watched while she died hard. Real hard.
As the door shut, the last thing I saw was the unfinished needlepoint lying on the floor.
Or Paul Barnes, former pastor of a 2,000-member evangelical megachurch, who resigned after admitting that he was homosexual:
“I have struggled with homosexuality since I was a 5-year-old boy… I can’t tell you the number of nights I have cried myself to sleep, begging God to take this away.”
Or this sad story of an injured man, unable to afford a doctor, who waited months on end for a miracle until he died:
And Dave Schmeltzer himself, though he repeatedly claims to be happy and blessed, admits that his life too has times of depression and darkness:
“…it’s not as though my life is consistently such a powerful case for connection with this super-duper God. For someone who talks as much as I do about joy… why is it that a few times over the years I’ve mentioned to my wife that I feel as if my life has been squeezed out of me like water from a sponge, like I relate to Woody Allen’s working title for Annie Hall (Anhedonia – the clinical inability to feel joy).”
This quote highlights an important point that shows how miracle stories get started. Every life, regardless of which religion you belong to or whether you believe in God, has its high points and low points. Every person experiences both favorable and unfavorable coincidences. Evangelicals are doing nothing more clever than giving God the credit for the good times, while ignoring or downplaying the bad ones – save for the rare glimpses of honesty like the ones cited above.
But whatever theological embellishments that evangelicals put on them, these ups and downs happen to everyone. Atheists, too, experience them; the only difference is that we recognize them for what they are, the inevitable working of chance, and don’t claim them as evidence of some supernatural creature’s favor or disfavor. And atheists, too, experience the same kind of favorable coincidences that Christians unhesitatingly ascribe to miracles; again, the difference is that we recognize that occasional striking coincidences are bound to happen in the course of any normal life.
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Its plain and simple. Dont let anyone tell you otherwise. There is no such thing as Overnight Success.
No one ever became really successful without Hard Work. It takes time to develop yourself, to develop your craft and your build your ideas towards success. Even those Pop Celebrities on TV who give the impression that they made it overnight, had to work incredibly hard to build their network and
Everyone knows the famous 10,000 hour rule from Malcolm Gladwell's book: The Outliers. And it makes total sense. No one is truly a genius without putting in years and years of hard work, experimentation, and discoveries.
Patience is a virtue. This is something one has to develop. Its sort of like building stamina when you work out. You have to build patience and stifle your desire to want results right away. Learn to enjoy the PROCESS of what you do. I mean if you cant find the patience, then maybe you dont really love doing what you're doing.
I cant stress enough the importance of experimentation and making small mistakes, especially in the beginning. You learn more from experience than sitting in a classroom of people. If you dont know what you're passion is, go out and try it, you have nothing to lose.
One of the most important things you have to tell yourself is that later on in life you will regret the things you didnt do than the things you did.
Lastly, I believe the most important thing you can do for yourself is RE-DEFINE what Success is. There are more than 7 billion people in the world and each person has his/her own version of what success is. Be careful of generic ideas and people that try to give you those answers. Seek out and find them for yourself.
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The 15 Best R&B/Soul Albums of 2016
2016 has been a banner year for soul music of all stripes with a number of momentous debuts and returns to form from veterans. All the while, soul music keeps pushing forward.
Artist: Corrine Bailey Rae
Album: The Heart Speaks in Whispers
Label: Virgin
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Corrine Bailey Rae
The Heart Speaks in Whispers
The Heart Speaks in Whispers was one of the year's quietly great soul records, the kind of set that comes, kills and then goes away without the fanfare it probably deserves. Still, Corinne Bailey Rae's third album was her most expansive yet, with a song like "The Skies Will Break" pushing her hummingbird voice above its driving kick drum in previously unheard ways as "Green Aphrodisiac" recalls Erykah Badu spaced-out vocals over Steely Dan smooth funk. Even "Been to the Moon" sounds like it was written on some faraway planet, all the while contradicting the coffee shop tenderness of "Do You Ever Think of Me?". Yet that's who Corinne Bailey Rae is: as versatile as she is imaginative, as talented as she is surprising. The Heart Speaks in Whispers is sonic proof that mastering all those elements of artistry doesn't have to be nearly as loud as some may think. -- Colin McGuire
Artist: King
Album: We Are King
Label: King Creative
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We Are King
King is a band with a memory, and We Are King shows what a sonically potent thing that can be. The record draws from a distinct lineage of modern black music performance, which it reveres more than it remixes.The band's willingness to wander connects them to the improvisational jazz tradition, their warm regard for the analog synthesizer swipes the red curtain from Donna Summers' Bad Girls, and Paris Strothers' stunning instrumental command anchors the record as distinctly Minneapolis funk, à la Morris Day and the Time.
Elsewhere, the fingerprints of Sade, Janet Jackson and Erykah Badu smudge the lens through which King refracts the light of the world that came before them. In this way, We Are King is a sort of collage, or better yet, given its afro-futuristic scaffolding, a constellation. The stars, it seems to argue, ought to be revisited, not remapped. -- Jezy J. Gray
Artist: Ngaiire
Album: Blastoma
Label: Self-released
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Ngaiire's second album is named after a cancer she had as a child; the songs are driven by experiences that emerge and drastically alter your life. Heartbreak is the main recurring one, but Ngaiire and collaborator Paul Mac have created songs that capture the raw emotions involved in a breakup in such a visceral way that the feelings hit you more than the individual circumstances. If Blastoma has an overriding concept, it's more one of finding yourself in the lowest possible place and bringing yourself up. There are moments of deep sorrow; for example, a gospel song about how losing someone makes it feel like the divine can't exist ("I Can't Hear God Anymore"). There are songs that musically feel like victory even as they voice defeat, and end up feeling like songs of survival for it. And there's a closing embrace that functions as a welcoming invitation to anyone's who's feeling like an outcast: "Fall Into My Arms". At the center of this all, Ngaiire herself is a riveting presence, using fairly straightforward singing techniques like channeling pure feeling through every quiver of her voice, every movement from one note to the next. -- Dave Heaton
Artist: James Blake
Album: The Color in Anything
Label: Polydor
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The Color in Anything
In the era of superstars and intense media attention, James Blake has maintained a relatively low-key profile. He raised his head above the parapet a few times in 2016, including contributions to Frank Ocean's Blonde and Beyoncés Lemonade, but his shining moment was his suitably understated third record, providing his trademark blend of futuristic soul, R&B, and electronics. Alongside fellow pioneers the xx, Blake introduced the trend for minimal, emotive electronica. Blake built his stark, minimalist sound on a bedrock of dubstep and the glitch influenced beats still underpin much of his work. With each release, however, has come a greater instrumental range, and The Colour in Anything is richly textured, with pianos, synths, and deep bass, yet it remains gloriously spacious in its production.
While a lengthy release, its creativity, and strong sonic narrative prevent it from ever dragging and the record manages to remains remarkably insular as Blake sings with often distorted emotion of alienation, longing and lost love. The album also calls on high-profile collaborators, including Justin Vernon and Frank Ocean, and was co-produced and mastered with Rick Rubin but Blake remains central, and his vocal is the greatest strength of his work, as shown on standout "Love Me in Whatever Way". Although a raft of imitators has long followed in his wake, this record proves Blake is still one step ahead of them. -- William Sutton
Artist: Alicia Keys
Album: Here
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Alicia Keys
The rawest — and some would say best — Alicia Keys album to date, Here marked a turning point for the singer/pianist that ultimately sparked a resuscitation of a career desperately in need of a jolt. These 16 songs (18, if you have the deluxe edition) are aggressive, real, and inspired, a stark departure from the Adult Contemporary leanings Keys had veered into with previous releases. "The Gospel" feels more Nas than Aretha with its hip-hop textures while "Pawn It All" spotlights the singer's assertion that she "don't give a fuck". And this is all before an acoustic guitar-driven song like "Kill Your Mama" that recalls every bit of rebellion someone like Bob Marley stood for decades ago. It's less piano, more attitude and a hunger that has been lost since the singer's debut. A minor no more, Alicia Keys is reborn and Here was her birth certificate. -- Colin McGuire
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Installing Magento
Added: 10.03.2014 23:26:29 Last updated: 02.08.2017 10:24:46
We recommend installing Magento automatically using our 1-click install solution. Follow this guide: here. In order to achieve optimal performance for Magento webshops, we recommend that you use our Enterprise web hosting which has ultra-fast LiteMage Full Page Cache that will ensure extremely fast web pages.
This guide explains how to install the Magento webshop on our web hosting accounts.
When ordering, you received an email containing the details of the web hosting account you created with us. In the frame below, you will see the relevant web hosting information we are using for the purpose of this example, as well as other relevant information:
User name:ittdoubc
Magento version:
Complete Magento installation URL:
Database name:ittdoubc_magento
Database user:ittdoubc_bruker1
Step 1 - Download Magento:
Go to the Magento website on and download the latest full version of Magento (Magento Community version). You can pick between different file formats when downloading. Choose the one you prefer. If you do not have any preferences, you should select .zip, as this will generally pose less challenges.
Step 2 - Unzip the archive:
The file that you downloaded is an archive that contains the entire Magento installation. Unzip this locally on the machine you are using.
Step 3 - Create database:
In order to use Magento, you need a database. Follow the guide: Creation of MySQL database in cPanel in order to create the database with its associated database user. During the creation we refer to "magento" as the database name and "bruker1" as the database user in this guide. This gives a database name and a database user name as mentioned at the top of this guide (all database names and database user names will have the web hosting account user name as a prefix).
Step 4 - Upload Magento to the web hosting account:
Magento can be uploaded in several different ways. This guide employs the simplest method - via FTP. If you are unsure of how to set up an FTP client, you should visit the guide for this in the guide section of our website.
In our example, we will be installing Magento on the address: When logging in via FTP, you will go to the public_html/magento folder. Files placed in the public_html/magento folder vil be made available on the address: If you cannot find the public_html folder, most likely you have specified for your FTP client to start in this folder.
Upload all of the files and folders from the magento folder on your local machine to the web hosting account. Beware that it may take some time, as a lot of files need to be uploaded.
Step 5 - Browser installation:
Visit the address in your web browser. Automatically, you will be shown the first installation page.
1. Accept the license agreement.
2. Click "Continue".
License Agreement - Magento
Step 6:
1. Select the desired language ("Locale"). In our example, we select "norsk bokmål (Norge)".
2. Select the time zone. In our example, we select "W. Europe Standard Time (Europe/Berlin)".
3. Select the default currency. In our example, we choose "norske kroner".
4. Click "Continue".
Localization - Magento
Step 7:
1. Specify the type of database used. On our servers, MySQL is the usual choice.
2. Choose "localhost" as "host". This specifies that the database is located on the same server as the installation.
3. Specify the database name under "Database Name". This must correspond to the database created in "Step 3".
4. Specify the user that accesses the database, as created in "Step 3".
5. Specify the password for the user created in "Step 3".
6. Specify the desired database prefix. You can choose to leave this blank, Magento will then take care of this by itself. In this case we selected "magento_".
7. Type in the complete installation address. In our example, this is
8. Type in the desired user name of the main user on the new installation.
9. Tick "Enable charts" in order to have diagrams directly on the "Dasboard" of the installation. This can be changed later.
10. Do not tick "Skip base URL verification before next step".
11. Tick "Use web server (Apache) rewrites".
12. If you are using SSL with your installation, you must tick here. Having an SSL certificate for the domain is a prerequisite for this.
13. Choose where to store the session data. We will select "Database".
14. Click "Continue".
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Step 8:
1. Type in your name and surname.
2. Specify the email address you wish to link to the installation. This will be used in case of forgotten passwords and the like.
3. Specify the desired user name of the installation administrator account.
4. Type in the desired password for the user twice.
5. Specify the "Encryption Key" if needed. This will be used for encryption data related to the website. In our case, we will leave it empty, so Magento vil create the key for us.
6. Click "Continue" in order to complete the installation.
Create Admin Acount
Step 9:
The installation is now complete. If everything went well, no error messages will be shown.
1. If you did not specify any encryption key on the previous page, you should save the key in a safe place before proceeding to the webshop or the administrator pages.
2. Click here to go to the webshop.
3. Click here to go to the administrator pages.
You're All Set
We have now covered the steps needed to install Magento on your web hosting account. You can inspect the webshop on the URL where you installed it, and you can manage it on the administrator pages. In our example, the two URLs are displayed in the frame below:
Webshop URL:
URL of administrator pages:
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Newspaper article THE JOURNAL RECORD
Oilpatch Loses No Tears over Loss of J.R., 'Dallas'
Newspaper article THE JOURNAL RECORD
Article excerpt
It ended with a bang, all right.
But, there was hardly any love lost when the end of "Dallas," which is synonymous with the end of J.R. Ewing and Ewing Oil, came Friday. At least, not among readers interested in this column.
It is widely held that there has been nothing in history that has so destroyed the image of oil and the people who run oil companies than CBS' "Dallas" and the J.R. Ewing character. No slam to Larry Hagman, or the network, intended. He certainly played the role convincingly enough, for it has catapulted the series to one of the longest running ever.
Truly, J.R. Ewing became the man everyone loved to hate. Along with that, though, the entire reputation of oil was tarnished. The American public, and publics worldwide when the syndicated show went international, came to view oilmen as money-grubbing, ruthless, unscrupulous cads.
C.J. "Pete" Silas, chairman of Phillips Petroleum Co. in Bartlesville, noted recently that although doctors and lawyers have slightly tainted reputations among the professional community, at least there were "Marcus Welby, M.D." and now "LA Law" to prop up their images.
During the final episode of "Dallas," J.R. lapsed into a dreamlike state reminiscent of "It's a Wonderful Life," pondering how the world and lives of the rest of the characters would have turned out had he never been born. I will guarantee you that many a real-life oil executive has often wondered the very same thing.
Of course, we'll never know. . .
- A seven-foot bronze statue entitled "Oil Patch Warrior" erected in Duke's Wood of Sherwood Forest in England will be dedicated May 17-18.
The memorial honors 42 Noble Drilling Corp. crewmen who, in 1943, worked secretly during World War II to increase oil production for Britain. They took British oil production from 300 barrels a day to 3,000 barrels a day.
Noble Drilling Corp., formerly of Ardmore, handled the year-long project at the request of wartime British government officials, and at no profit to the company.
Britain was in dire straits at the time because Persian crude was cutoff by German submarines that were bombing tankers.
The Energy Advocates, an informal group of independent oilmen, undertook the memorial project and raised an estimated $300,000 along with co-sponsor British Petroleum of Great Britain.
Tulsans at the news conference, held today in Washington, D.C., were to include John Moran of Apache Corp., who is coordinator of The Energy Advocates, and Frank Eby of Buttonwood Petroleum, who is chairman of the Sherwood Forest Memorial Committee. …
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Oakwood Windsor Elementary
Welcome First Graders!
This year will be packed with new learning activities! I hope you will have fun and will want to come to school everyday.
You will need the following supplies for the year:
*5 plain pocket folders
*2 glue sticks
*1 pair of scissors
*small pencil box
*4 spiral notebooks-wide ruled
*2 bottles of waterless antibacterial gel or a
box of baby wipes
*1 pack of paper cups(5 ounce)
*1 box of ziploc bags(quart size)
*1 box of ziploc bags(snack or sandwich size)
*1 package of index cards
*2 boxes of tissues
*1 bag of candy
These rules will help you get along and live with the other
classmates in this classroom. We will be family for the time we are together this year.
1. Begin your day with 2 sharpened pencils.
2. Do what your teacher asks you to do when you
are asked.
3. Raise your hand for help or to speak.
4. Work in your assigned space when you are
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18 Nov 2013
Small Pyne Gould shareholders may get voice
7:07 am on 18 November 2013
The stock exchange could force Pyne Gould to give its minority shareholders a say in whether the company delists from the NZX.
Pyne Gould is planning to delist from the New Zealand exchange, to move its head office to the tax haven of Guernsey and to list on the London Stock Exchange's main board.
The company's plans already need shareholder approval but the company's 76.3% shareholder, which is controlled by businessman George Kerr and associates, intends to vote in favour of the move.
Radio New Zealand's business editor says that means it does not matter what minority shareholders think of the move, unless the stock exchange decides to intervene.
Its listing rules allow the NZX to make delisting dependent on the approval of ordinary shareholders, who each own less than 10% of the company's shares.
That would mean anybody owning more than 10% of the shares - in this case Mr Kerr and his associates - would not be allowed to vote.
According to its latest annual report, no other Pyne Gould shareholders own as much as 10% and nearly 2000 of them own less than 50,000 shares. There are 216.6 million Pyne Gould shares on issue.
About 99.4% of the company's shareholders lived in New Zealand on 2 September.
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How to Teach English
How to teach EnglishBy learning how to teach English you can become much more efficient and successful.
This section of the site is here to give you all the tips and advice you need to truly and effectively help your students.
You can start by reading the following article (The 10 Most Helpful Pieces of Advice) and then check out the other articles and resources:
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How to Teach English – the 10 Most Helpful Pieces of Advice
If you have studied an ESL teaching course you were probably given a lot of advice on how to teach English by tutors, and by well-meaning friends, colleagues or strangers. Sometimes it's too much to take in so here is what I have found useful.
The 10 most helpful "How to teach English" pieces of advice:
1. You don't need to stick to a lesson plan.
This may come as a shock, but things will happen in your classes that you don't expect! Students will finish some activities too soon and take longer on others. Some things will be easy for them, and others that you expect them to understand quickly will be tougher. It is more important to be flexible than stick rigidly to something that isn't working.
2. You don't need to know all the answers.
Another shock? I taught some classes where they asked me questions I couldn't answer right then. I told them I would find out for them, and I did. As long as you are honest, say you don't know, and then give the answers later, that's fine.
3. Every student is different.
Now, that may be obvious, but so many teachers forget this when they are teaching and treat each student in the same way. That won't work. Get to know your students, their learning styles and their strengths and weaknesses. If possible, create a variety of tasks to suit different students in the class.
4. You can't force students to learn, nor should you.
Teachers often feel responsible if their students don't progress. You can give them the tools for learning and inspire them to want to learn, but then it becomes the individual student's responsibility to learn, not only yours.
5. Have a personality.
Be yourself. Let the students see you're a human being and not a teaching machine. Laugh at yourself if you make mistakes. Bring humor into the classroom.
6. Be encouraging.
Error correction is essential in the right circumstances, but if you correct every mistake then you can easily destroy a student's confidence. Praise good work and never tell students they are stupid. Students who think they are stupid lose motivation.
7. Balance your lessons between different skills.
A teacher who teaches 90% grammar is not helping the students. Communication skills, reading, writing, and vocabulary building are all as important as grammar. Possibly even more important than grammar!
8. Keep an emergency resources box.
Include games, paper, colored pencils, extra worksheets, magazines etc. This will be invaluable if you need to add a new activity into the lesson or to extend something the students are working on.
9. Give homework.
This is controversial! You can't force students to do homework, but if you give them the choice then they will feel encouraged and they can take responsibility for their learning. It is really important to mark the homework if you do give it, and not leave it on your desk for weeks.
10. Have fun!
If you enjoy your lessons, then your students will too.
These are the pieces of advice that helped me learn how to teach English and I'm sure they will help you too!
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For those of you that think Pram is a girl.. I think Pram’s a dude because if you go back to the first chapter you’ll see his shirt ripped apart and he has the chest line that divides the pecs. Also the MC refers to Pram as “he” in chapter 11 and so forth. Unless the MC actually thought that Pram was a dude this whole time instead of a girl... well we won’t know until Pram clarifies in some way (goes to the men’s bathroom, says “I am the son of the Schneider family,” this is my responsibility as a man, etc) Either way, I agree that visually, it’s hard to distinguish which gender Pram may be
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I am the son of the Schneider family
See Fate stay night and see if they care about those words you just said
Looks like a scene that'd be in a Black General anime. At least, I think that's the name of the manga I'm thinking of.
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It's called Keijo!!!!!!!! and it's art
To be fair, though, she is super utilitarian (aside from the trash issue). She isn't generally referenced with money problems, and to get a place that messy you typically have to spend money to get the stuff to make it messy.
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Lol no, my room would've gotten that messy from never cooking actual meals for myself (INSTANT RAMEN) and you know ... just never cleaning up
source: I was broke and a college student at the same time (now I'm just broke)
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61 points · 6 days ago
It's super explicit in this one because they did it on purpose, nearly the same things were said, and the the biggest thing that made it obvious that it was done on purpose ... was the exact same music they played lol
441 points · 9 days ago
Finally! A fang girl!! This is what we were missing the whole time!
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So that's where the fangs from Reborn as a slime went ...
I ask to politely give them back or there will be waifu wars to fight
67 points · 13 days ago
TBH, the mirror in the anime seemed two to three times bigger than in the manga, so it would be a bit absurd that he did the same thing in the anime.
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Absurdity? In my christian anime? Get the fuck out of here with that weeb shit
He deserved that for rubbing it in her face lol
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she wants something else to be rubbed on her face too, maybe his sweet nectar?
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I breaks by heart to think that Eugeo and Tiese are artificial fluctlights and that even if Kirito gets out, they will still be forever trapped in there. Can you imagine what Kirito must feel like (once he gets out) to watch them pull the plug on project alice and know that everyone he ever knew in that world basically just ceases to exists. I'm bawling my eyes out just thinking about it.
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mannnnn i realllyyy want kirito to get older and help take care of the kids, more in the sense of "Hey I know you've never met me... but trust me, ya'll have done so much for me, stay cool"
Considering how much attraction it's bringing to the actual prefecture of Saga, I can see the Saga tourism board funding the second season to boost tourist attraction.
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Number Name Cause of Death DoB DoD
1 Minamoto Sakura Truck-kun April 2, 1991 April 7, 2008(age 17)
2 Nikaido Saki Didn't chicken, fried nonetheless May 15, 1979 August 30, 1997(age 18)
3 Mizuno Ai Lightning Strike March 7, 1992 August 4, 2008(age 16)
4 Konno Junko Plane Crash September 2, 1964 December 6, 1983(age 19)
5 Yugiri Unknown November 23, 1863 December28, 1882(age 19)
6 Hoshikawa Lilly Psychological Shock October 6, 1999 November 30, 2011(age 12)
0 YAMADA TAE! Unknown Unknown Unknown(age 29)
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Oh man, Saki Died on my birthday, that's kind of sad for me to hear/see now considering she's best girl for me :'(
Gobuta still looks the same though.
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there's always the punching bag
81 points · 18 days ago
I’m curious to know who y’all are talking about
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who? Blue hair? Has horns? Nope don't remember her
151 points · 20 days ago
Protect this smile too!
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Why did they make a comment about "Why're are you smiling like that? What are you american?"
Not sure how to take that
Wait, what? First I’ve heard of this, what happened?
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They skipped an arc, which will probably just happen at the end of this arc
they rearrange the arcs
I don’t want to deflect from op’s post. I think it’s awesome that she’ll have this story for a lifetime. Just stating that it is happening for me that way already. My pop passed and his accomplishments and uniqueness is still commented upon.
This ceiling painting is remarkable. If only i had that ability!
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post a picture of the furniture! I'm sure reddit would like to see it too
44 points · 21 days ago
10,000,000 won is around 9K dollars. I always find it funny how the large denomination of Asian currency loses it's luster when you compare it to western counterparts.
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You should see the vietnamese currency then
it's 20,000 dongs(yes it's spelled that way, but enunciated as dum) -> 1 USD, fun conversion rates thats why pho was like 50 cents for me which was great
Then it's obviously gone up, and he apparently hasn't noticed a difference
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i mean ... how do you gauge intelligence? Especially when it's one of those "Hey it's slowly affecting me" It's really easy to tell with strength as he's just blasting all his points into it
With int? He hasn't really tried testing it yet, nor has he blasted enough points in it to see a big difference.
You ever play an RPG? It's not 1 or 2 levels that'll make you much stronger, it's usually after quite a few levels invested in that stat that you'll see it be a difference.
Considering how I can feel my "intelligence" drop when I'm tired, even if I don't feel tired, I think MC should have noticed any changes from getting such a high INT boost. The fact that he's not implies INT is just for mana and magic damage. MC was smart in the first place but had 10 INT, but someone as smart as him should have had a higher INT if INT was true intelligence
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feel my "intelligence" drop when I'm tired
Honestly, after studying hours and hours on an exam do you feel smarter? Maybe? I guess, I've felt smarter before and then completely bomb an exam, I've felt dumber before, but aced the hell out of exams. You really can't guage your "intelligence" by pure feeling alone, it's something you have to forcibly test
649 points · 23 days ago
I really appreciate the show trying to tackle problems like body dysmorphia and not understanding your own unhealthy decisions.
They're questions without clear answers and I'm not sure if the show tackles it well, but for only being 2 episodes the Futaba arc was pretty outstanding.
It would've been great if you two were girls
A Yuri relationship with this much banter would be Fantastic.
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I thought the answer to this was great though, at least if I'm looking at the problem correctly
Futaba wanted attention, but hated herself and her body because of it, after all the trials and tribulations in the last two episodes the answer was this. It's ok to look for attention because you'll typically always have someone looking out for you.
The other problem was hating herself and the feeling to want to disappear. Which he answers in an answer I haven't heard before, instead of going the cliche "There're so many great things about you bla bla bla" or "work on liking yourself"(which futaba mentions in this episode) they go to the route saying ... it's ok to hate yourself, it's ok to not like yourself, just do you, no one is pressuring you to be the best you can be. Which can be assuring for many people
I'm enjoying this series way more than I thought I would holy fuck
D-Frag is great
How about something most people haven't heard of? (both my personal favorites)
Level E
The best part of that anime was watching asterisk wars in the same season and realizing how much the two shows were similar in the first two episodes. The scenes are very very similar. Not saying chivalry copied it because I don’t know which came first, asterisk also could have copied chivalry but it’s just funny seeing the exact same scenes.
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Not saying chivalry copied it
Lol neither of them copied from each other, they copied it from basically every harem battle school LN out there before it
Can you tag it? I'm curious.
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lmao Fate/Extra could totally count, Nasu straight up said that the anime series for Fate/Extra was supposed to be an intro to the fate series ...
wtf was that Nasu?!
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I don't think it's been mentioned in series how old she is, but I'm pretty sure she was already an established teacher so she's probably been there for a few years. Most young teachers are still going to be 24-25 when they start, so a few years of being there would put her around 26-28 I'd say
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She wouldn't be a Christmas cake unless she was 25+ (no one wants their cake after the 25th!)
They gave Klein more screen time
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Come back when you're a main character
417 points · 1 month ago
Holy cow, I laughed so hard when slime was being dragged, they didn't put in stock sound for it, it was just the voice actor doing her thing
God this is such an amazing adaptation, I can only wait to see more. (Manga reader here), so far, and it's rare for me to say this, but I prefer the anime adaptation over the manga by a lot. From what I can tell, the anime is doing everything correctly, the biggest being that it's just doing what most other animes don't do. That of course IS TAKE ADVANTAGE OF IT'S MEDIUM
I like balance. Two idiots for baiting, two idiots for nuking.
Also Aqua has been the VIP when it comes to killing generals. Only hikkineets think she's useless
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195 points · 1 month ago
she's incredibly useful, even "the guy" has admitted to her being potentially useful
if she wasn't a god damned idiot, almost every single problem happens because of acqua in one way shape or form. Like she took out a ton of the zombies, hooray! Too bad she was literally the thing that aggroed them in the first place
The guy is really good at teamwork and problem solving, so he's basically been their main reason why they're working well as a party, he's gone on other quest with other teams and people say he's pretty good at it.
Gacha, unfortunately
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Be Careful How You Ask
Published: Oct 31 , 2013
Author: Mike Freedman
As you can imagine several thoughts went through my head all at once but I couldn't resist the role of the trainer and in good spirit and with much humour I suggested that when they sought clarification between options (here being either cost per day or cost per course) that they should clarify the option to their advantage, for example "That's the cost of the total course isn't it?"
Sometimes good negotiation means simply eliminating bad habits.
When the receiving party does not understand an aspect of a proposal, the questions they use to clarify the situation often fall into a pattern.
This is best described by a simple example...
A price quotation has been made and the recipient is unsure whether or not the price includes VAT. Almost without exception the attempt to clarify the matter results in a question that includes both options/possible outcomes, in this case…
"Does that include VAT or not?"
This question is actually a signal, a signal that the recipient may be prepared to accept either the advantageous or the disadvantageous option. Under the circumstances even if the proposal did in fact include VAT, the proposer consciously or even subconsciously is alerted to the recipient's flexibility and may be tempted to change their position to their advantage...
"No that's net"
The solution is quite simple if you are unsure about an aspect of the other party's proposal, simply summarise the option that is to your advantage
"So this includes VAT".
In this way you take the initiative.
Clarifying in an assumptive manner to your advantage has quite the opposite effect of the original question, for example should in fact the original proposal be net of VAT simply saying “So this includes VAT” as opposed to asking “does it or doesn’t it?”, gives the impression that the VAT-inclusive option is your expectation and the proposer may even alter his position as a result to your advantage.
My prospective client was a quick learner. Even though I had quite clearly quoted in Euro they asked (whilst unable to disguise a smile) "that's Turkish Lira isn't it?" Despite the fact that it was a Euro price I couldn't resist continuing the joke and said… "no,.. Kuwaiti Dinar" (Currently at about €2,60 / Dinar)
We talk most when we are least certain and this is a case in point so keep it simple don't clarify to your disadvantage, don’t ask which alternative applies, simply summarise the option to your advantage.
Only one word of warning, as always, be realistic!
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WHAT GIVING PRODUCES I remember hearing Pastor Rick Warren once talk about a time years ago when people had bumper stickers that read “honk if you love Jesus.” He once saw a bumper sticker with this message, “Tithe if you love Jesus, any idiot can honk.” Imagine that more
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I'll let this auction run for a week, so ending around 9am UK time Thursday 12th November. The way it works is you PM me with your offer and I'll either accept the best one or reject them all and stick it back in my box. No point asking me what the reserve is but your clue is if the offer only has 3 numbers, it won't be considered. Postage from Australia will be extra and at cost, as will insurance if required. Happy to provide MP3 files on request.
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Q&A Conversations with experts about noteworthy topics in autism.
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Questions for Evan Eichler: An evolving theory of autism
by / 6 September 2016
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Since graduate school, Evan Eichler has been drawn to the genetic differences that distinguish humans from our closest ancestors. These differences make us unique — cognitively, socially and linguistically, he says.
In the 3 August issue of Nature, Eichler and his colleagues reported that humans — but not their ancestors — are prone to a DNA deletion or duplication tied to autism1. This susceptibility arises from extra copies of a single gene, and the persistence of these gene repeats raises the possibility that the gene gives people an evolutionary advantage.
We spoke with Eichler, professor of genome sciences at the University of Washington, about the implications of this finding and what he hopes to learn about autism by looking back in time.
Spectrum: Why did you decide to look for DNA that makes humans unique?
Evan Eichler: I’ve always been struck by the observation that the genetic differences in the protein-coding portion of the genome are insufficient to account for all the differences between humans and our primate relatives. When I was in graduate school, I started looking at areas of the genome that contain repeated sequences. When these sequences bracket a stretch of DNA, they make this region unstable and prone to deletion or duplication.
Over the past 10 years, we have identified about 20 of these so-called copy number variants (CNVs) that can lead to intellectual disability, developmental delay and autism. I started to realize that the DNA repeats that promote these structural mutations are more common in our species than in any other.
I also began to appreciate that these repeats are creating completely new genes: There are genes made up of pieces of the genome that never would have been brought together if it weren’t for these repeats. That led me to wonder whether the disadvantage of having this instability in our genome is offset by an advantage from these newly minted genes.
It’s been a 20-year hunt for these new genes in the ‘dark matter’ portions of the human genome — those that evade sequencing technology because of their dynamic nature.
S: What genes have you and others found?
EE: One is the SRGAP2C gene, which evolved 2 to 3 million years ago — probably around the time that Homo emerged as a genus2. The gene seems to increase the density of neuronal connections and may help to boost human brain power. The SRGAP2C gene is also near the 1q21 region, which is deleted in some people who have autism or intellectual disability.
Another set of repeats created a gene called ArhGAP11B3. This gene emerged right after we separated from chimpanzees and may have increased the number of neurons in the brain’s cerebral cortex. The repeats associated with ArhGAP11B also raise the chances of a deletion of the 15q13.3 region, which can lead to epilepsy, schizophrenia and intellectual disability.
A third example is the BOLA2 gene, which is the subject of our Nature paper. Humans have between three and nine copies of this gene, compared with the ordinary two copies in chimps, Denisovans and Neanderthals. These extra copies of BOLA2 flank the 16p11.2 region, which is duplicated or deleted in roughly 1 percent of people with autism.
This repeat cropped up more recently than any other we have seen: Many of the other repeats are millions of years old, but this one appeared roughly 282,000 years ago, after the separation of humans from Denisovans and Neanderthals.
S: Do extra copies of BOLA2 confer an evolutionary advantage?
EE: Once the BOLA2 gene duplicated, these repeats expanded rapidly in evolutionary time, and became fixed: Not a single person we tested has only two copies of the gene, and 99 percent of people have four or more copies. Based on our evolutionary modeling, without some positive selection we could never get the duplication to rise to this frequency. Everything is pointing to the fact that this architecture has conferred some type of advantage to the human species.
At the same time, it predisposed us to the second most common cause of autism in the human population: the 16p11.2 CNV. When we looked at people with 16p11.2 duplications or deletions, we found that 96 percent of these variants originate from the BOLA2 repeats.
Individuals with 16p11.2 deletions tend not to have children, so the advantage of having extra copies of BOLA2 would have to counteract its tendency to create a deletion that carries an evolutionary disadvantage.
S: What advantage might BOLA2 give humans?
EE: We speculate that it’s kind of the ‘iron-man gene.’ Its protein seems to bind to a protein in the cell that captures iron, making that protein more stable and more likely to hold on to its iron store.
Extra copies of BOLA2 may make our cells more efficient, improving metabolism. Or they could make the cells more robust under conditions of oxidative stress, which happen under rapid cell division during early development. Another theory is that the gene works to protect humans from viral infection: Iron is the life blood of viruses, but if your cells are sucking up iron faster than the viruses can retrieve it, maybe you win in the scavenging process.
We’ve now identified some people who have seven or more copies of BOLA2. And we have data that show that more BOLA2 gene copies equates to more protein in the cell. We plan to look for differences between these individuals and those who have lower levels.
S: What role might the BOLA2 gene play in autism?
EE: When the 16p11.2 region is deleted, this takes out a copy of BOLA2. We don’t think that the loss of this gene copy is causing autism. It’s more likely that the loss or gain of the 25 genes in the 16p11.2 region confers the risk. But it’s possible that having fewer copies of BOLA2 could worsen the effect of the 16p11.2 deletion in some carriers.
We’ve been looking across individuals with 16p11.2 deletions to see how many copies of BOLA2 remain. We have identified eight individuals who have only three copies of BOLA2. (Even people who have lost a copy of BOLA2 retain at least three copies of the gene.) Four of these people have anemia, or require significant iron supplementation. It’s possible that giving iron to certain children with the 16p11.2 deletions early in life would improve their outcome.
This article has been modified from the original. Due to an editing error, a previous version incorrectly stated that Homo sapiens emerged about 2 to 3 million years ago. The genus Homo emerged at that time.
1. Nuttle X. et al. Nature 536, 205-209 (2016) PubMed
2. Dennis M.Y. et al. Cell 149, 912-922 (2012) PubMed
3. Florio M. et al. Science 347, 1465-1470 (2015) PubMed
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Dear Brother
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Samantha-Louise Archibong reads her speech Dear Brother, on stereotyping in society.
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Exodus 20
And God said all these words: I am the Lord your God who took you out of the land of Egypt, out of the prison-house. You are to have no other gods but me. You are not to make an image or picture of anything in heaven or on the earth or in the waters under the earth: You may not go down on your faces before them or give them worship: for I, the Lord your God, am a God who will not give his honour to another; and I will send punishment on the children for the wrongdoing of their fathers, to the third and fourth generation of my haters; And I will have mercy through a thousand generations on those who have love for me and keep my laws. You are not to make use of the name of the Lord your God for an evil purpose; whoever takes the Lord's name on his lips for an evil purpose will be judged a sinner by the Lord Keep in memory the Sabbath and let it be a holy day. On six days do all your work: 10 But the seventh day is a Sabbath to the Lord your God; on that day you are to do no work, you or your son or your daughter, your man-servant or your woman-servant, your cattle or the man from a strange country who is living among you: 11 For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, and the sea, and everything in them, and he took his rest on the seventh day: for this reason the Lord has given his blessing to the seventh day and made it holy. 12 Give honour to your father and to your mother, so that your life may be long in the land which the Lord your God is giving you. 13 Do not put anyone to death without cause. 14 Do not be false to the married relation. 15 Do not take the property of another. 16 Do not give false witness against your neighbour. 17 Let not your desire be turned to your neighbour's house, or his wife or his man-servant or his woman-servant or his ox or his ass or anything which is his. 18 And all the people were watching the thunderings and the flames and the sound of the horn and the mountain smoking; and when they saw it, they kept far off, shaking with fear. 19 And they said to Moses, To your words we will give ear, but let not the voice of God come to our ears, for fear death may come on us. 20 And Moses said to the people, Have no fear: for God has come to put you to the test, so that fearing him you may be kept from sin. 21 And the people kept their places far off, but Moses went near to the dark cloud where God was. 22 And the Lord said to Moses, Say to the children of Israel, You yourselves have seen that my voice has come to you from heaven 23 Gods of silver and gods of gold you are not to make for yourselves. 24 Make for me an altar of earth, offering on it your burned offerings and your peace-offerings, your sheep and your oxen: in every place where I have put the memory of my name, I will come to you and give you my blessing. 25 And if you make me an altar of stone do not make it of cut stones: for the touch of an instrument will make it unclean. 26 And do not go up by steps to my altar, for fear that your bodies may be seen uncovered.
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By Fay, published on 06/08/2018 Blog > Arts and Hobbies > Poetry > Epic Poems: What You Need to Know
An Epic poem is a lengthy narrative poem told on a grand scale. According to Webster’s New World dictionary, “epic is a long narrative poem in a dignified style about the deeds of a traditional or historical hero or heroes; typically a poem like Iliad or the Odyssey with certain formal characteristics.” The story usually involves forces of natures and uses long character arcs. Protagonists meet with obstacles and disaster, action and triumph.
We’ve compiled a short guide on all you need to know about Epic poems.
Epic Poems are long narrative stories Epic poems often spread over several books (Source: Pexels)
Characteristics of an Epic
There are several characteristics of an epic that distinguish it from other forms of poetry:
The first and most obvious characteristic of an epic is the length of the poem. An epic is an extensive and prolonged narrative in verse, so really it is more like a novel than a poem. Most famous epic poems have been broken down into multiple books. For example, Homer’s epics are divided into twenty-four books and John Milton’s Paradise Lost has been divided into twelve books.
• Another way to spot an epic is its protagonist. An epic focusses on the achievements of a historical or traditional hero. Epics explore the valour, deeds, bravery, character and personality of the protagonist.
Exaggeration is also a key part of an epic. The poet often uses hyperbole to exaggerate the character and powers of the hero.
Supernatural elements are an essential part of an epic. Poets use characters like gods, demons, angels, fairies, supernatural forces like natural catastrophes to fill the reader with awe and wonder. Milton’s Paradise Lost, Homer’s Iliad and Beowulf are all full of these elements.
• The theme of morality is always present in an epic poem. The poet uses their writing as a sort of moral lesson their readers. Paradise Lost is a good example of this; John Milton uses the poem to justify the ways of God to man through the story of Adam.
• The language in epic poems is always quite lofty, poets never use common or colloquial language. The language itself adds to the overall sublime and epic feel of the poem.
• Use of Epic Simile is another feature that we often see in an epic poem. Epic simile is a far-fetched comparison between two objects, which runs over several lines to further describe the valour, bravery and epic stature of the hero. It is can also be called Homeric simile (after Homer of Iliad fame).
The epic poem is often set in multiple settings. The actions of the hero can span across continents and even other realms or worlds. An epic also usually has an omniscient narrator who sees and knows all.
Think you could write your own poem? There are two types of Epic poems: Folk and Literary (Source: Pexels)
Types of Epic
There are two main types of epic: folk and literary.
Folk epic is an old form of epic poem that was originally told in oral form. Over time authors tried to preserve them by writing them down in hard copies. This meant that the story changed slightly depending on who was writing it down. So nobody really knows about the exact authorship of the folk epics. The folk epic type of poetry is different from literary epic poetry simply because the former is based on a particular mythology, while the latter is based on the ideas of the author. In the literary epic, the poet invents the story, while the folk epic is bases on the mythology of the locality, like folklore for example. The folk epic is basically in oral form, while the literary epic is in written form. The author of the literary epic is a well-known personality, while the author of the folk epic could be anyone!
In An Introduction to the Study of Literature William Henry Hudson says:
“The epic of growth is fresh, spontaneous, racy, the epic of art is learned, antiquarian, bookish, imitative. Its specifically ‘literary’ qualities-its erudition, its echoes, reminiscences, and borrowings- are indeed, as the Aeneid and Paradise Lost will suffice to prove, among its most interesting characteristics for a cultured reader.”
Let’s look at the following lines from Beowulf:
Lo! the Spear-Danes’ glory through splendid achievements
The folk-kings’ former fame we have heard of,
How princes displayed then their prowess-in-battle.
Oft Scyld the Scefing from scathers in numbers
From many a people their mead-benches tore.
Since first he found him friendless and wretched,
The earl had had terror: comfort he got for it,
Waxed ’neath the welkin, world-honor gained,
Till all his neighbors o’er sea were compelled to
Bow to his bidding and bring him their tribute:
An excellent atheling! After was borne him
A son and heir, young in his dwelling,
Whom God-Father sent to solace the people.
Literary Epic
Literary epic is usually known as art epic. It is an epic, which imitates the conventions of the folk epic, but gives it a written shape. It is absolutely opposite to the folk epic. They were written unlike the folk epics, which came all the way down to us through oral tradition. The literary epics tend to be more polished, coherent, and compact in structure and style when contrasted with the folk epics. Literary epics are the result of the genius of the poet. That is why they have great significance from literary point of view.
William Henry Hudson says in An Introduction to the Study of Literature:
“The literary epic naturally resembles the primitive epic, on which it is ultimately based, in various fundamental characteristics. Its subject-matter is of the old heroic and mythical kind; it makes free use of supernatural; it follows the same structural plan and reproduces many traditional details of composition; while, greatly it necessarily differs in style, it often adopts the formulas, fixed epithets, and stereo typed phrases and locutions, which are among the marked feature of the early type.”
Look at the lines taken from Milton’s Paradise Lost:
OF MAN’S first disobedience, and the fruit
Of that forbidden tree whose mortal taste
Brought death into the World, and all our woe,
With loss of Eden, till one greater Man
Restore us, and regain the blissful Seat,
Sing, Heavenly Muse, that, on the secret top
Of Oreb, or of Sinai, didst inspire
That Shepherd who first taught the chosen seed
In the beginning how the heavens and earth
Rose out of Chaos: or, if Sion hill
Delight thee more, and Siloa’s brook that flowed
Fast by the oracle of God, I thence
Invoke thy aid to my adventrous song,
That with no middle flight intends to soar
Above the Aonian mount, while it pursues
Things unattempted yet in prose or rhyme.
(Paradise Lost by John Milton)
Epic Poetry in the Modern Day
You might think that the epic poem is a thing of the past, and who could blame you, Paradise Lost was written in 1667 so you wouldn’t really call epic poetry modern. But there many tropes of epic poetry in current TV series and films, and they’re big business.
More and more of us tune into these shows that have sustained narrative voices and long character arcs, much like epic poems do.
Take Game of Thrones, for example, this series stretches across years of narrative and its audience are still enthralled. In a way it’s like a modern Paradise Lost; an epic narrative featuring heroes, villains, moral lessons that spans over many chapters.
Instead of being restricted to written word, the epic style can now be translated to on-screen drama that has legions of fans.
Even Forbes thinks there’s big business in modern day epics: “it’s gone viral. Instead of one old blind guy memorizing colossal tales, we’re crowdsourcing our favorite myths, characters, themes, and narratives. The big budgets and star-making studios surrounding the adaptations of these tales create the illusion that their success is ultimately a top-down phenomenon, but it’s not.”
While you may not find yourself reading Homer’s Iliad on a Friday evening you might be one of many settling in to watch Game of Thrones, Twilight or The Vampire Diaries or other shows keeping the epic style alive.
Next time you’re watching a film or TV show see if you can spot any tropes of epic poetry, we bet you’ll find more than you think!
The great thing about poems is that there are many kinds of poetry once you have tried Epic poems. Give the other styles a go, Limericks are short poems, traditional Haiku poems are elegant, to communicate an idea use one of the kinds of Sonnet, If you have musical talent try the Ballard poem with some music, If you like to be on stage try to perform slam poetry in front of an audience or learn about free verse poetry which is pure free speech. With so many kinds of poetry, you will find a style for you.
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Tape storage drives may have been around for 60 years, but they’re still breaking records. Working alongside the Sony Corporation, IBM Research has been able to store 330 terabytes of uncompressed data onto a prototype cartridge small enough to fit in the palm of your hand. That's six times more storage than the world's largest hard drive.
This is the fifth time since 2006 that IBM Research scientists have set a world record in tape storage. Called sputtered magnetic tape, it’s able to store 201 gigabits per square inch. That’s more than 20 times the areal density of current commercial tape drives. Areal recording density refers to the amount of information that can be stored in a given area of surface.
The milestone was announced by both companies at the 28th Magnetic Recording Conference in Japan today. The record is unlikely to stand for very long, as IBM says "storage on tapes will continue to scale up for another decade."
The sputtered tape was developed using low friction tape head tech, advanced servo control technologies, and new signal-processing algorithms, which are based on noise-predictive detection principles. Sony developed a low-friction lubricant technology for high-capacity writing and high-speed reading.
IBM and Sony have been working on increasing areal recording densities for many years. “The results of this collaboration have led to various improvements in the media technology, such as advanced roll-to-roll technology for long sputtered tape fabrication and better lubricant technology, which stabilizes the functionality of the magnetic tape,” said IBM fellow Evangelos Eleftheriou.
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Stressing about packing on pounds this holiday season? You can eat healthy and stay fit with these tips for keeping the weight off through January.
1. Keep tempting foods out of reach.
Steer clear of high-caloric foods, including holiday goodies.
"If you're at a party with a lot of food around, a simple strategy to prevent mindless eating is to keep it out of sight and out of arm's reach," says Cynthia Sass, registered dietitian and author of S.A.S.S! Yourself Thin. "If it's not as close to you, you're not as likely to eat it."
2. Eat slower.
Sass adds that eating slower has been proven to help the individual pay more attention to their fullness level and "feel more satisfied with a smaller portion." Two tips are to put your fork down between bites and take your time while eating. It's not a race!
3. Choose indulgences carefully.
It is important to be selective about what you put on your plate, especially when at a party or dinner.
"Over the holidays people eat food just because it's there, even if it's not their favorite, and the next day it's not worth their pants being tighter," Sass says.
4. Plan physical activities around meals and exercise however possible.
When you are likely to have a planned post-meal walk scheduled or a game of charades set, you're less likely to overeat at a meal.
"If you think you're just going to sit on the couch and watch football after, you're going to eat more," she says. Even just standing up and moving to some music counts as physical activity. So, keep moving. And shorter, higher-intensity exercises like spinning, will burn calories quickly while still fitting into tight schedules.
5. Beware of alcohol. It's empty calories.
Alcohol, Sass says, is an appetite stimulant, making you more likely to eat more or eat things you wouldn't normally consume because your inhibitions are lowered.
"If you're going to drink, you need to have something in your stomach to act as a buffer," she says. Sass recommends a serving of almonds or other nuts before drinking, and a glass of water between each drink to slow your pace.
6. Save room for dessert.
If you just can't help indulging in dessert, and really during the holidays who can, be "more budget-conscious with starches" with the rest of your meal, Sass recommends.
"Reduce the portion of your starches in your entrée — like mashed potatoes — so you make room for that brownie or piece of pie," she adds.
7. Wear formfitting clothes.
Elastic waistbands are out this holiday season. Why? Sass says a belt or something formfitting will make you more aware of how full you really are.
8. Avoid sugary drinks. Water is your friend.
Sugary drinks such as eggnog, which pack on calories without leaving you feeling very full, are a no-no. Instead, drink water and unsweetened drinks like ice tea. Vodka tonics or wine work best if you decide to indulge in alcoholic beverages.
9. Get rid of the "all or nothing" mindset.
Moderation is a great mantra for the holiday season.
"Focus on being aware of your choices, because you don't want to feel like you restricted and missed out, but you don't want to feel like you indulged in something that wasn't worth it," Sass says.
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Small footsteps that went unheard went across the ground as the small figure approahced the training grounds. Bambietta's mouth twisted up into a smirk as she looked at the other children of the Vandenreich watched their teacher as he explained that days lesson. She then leaned against a place with her arms crossed. The small children focused their eyes on the man as he explained things to the little ones.
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My issue is that all my lights work - blinkers, hazards, reverse, brake, fog, etc. except the running tail lights. The biggest issue is that I've looked everywhere and no one seems what it is. I've check for ground (DONE), I've check for fuses (DONE), I've check for bad bulbs (DONE), I've check pretty much everything. My biggest issue is that the wire that goes to the left and right Taillamp is the same that goes into the brake light... therefore when I push in the brake light I get 12V, otherwise (with the lights on) I get 3.3V. Please help... people say I have a back electronic control module (cost $450) but other say it could be a relay.
My car has 141000 miles.
My car has a manual transmission.
If you are certain all fuses are good/tight, grounds are good and all bulbs are correct in voltage for the vehicle, I have a suggestion from personal experience with a MK 5 Jetta sitting right outside. Make sure the front marker lights are working. The issue we were experiencing with this Jetta was similar. When switching the lights on, the left rear marker would light for a brief moment, then go out and set a bulb fault on the instrument cluster.
After spending a bit of time on that, we found the left FRONT marker light in the headlight housing was out. The bulb was found to be good upon removal and inspection, but the terminals had a bit of corrosion, giving a poor ground. After cleaning the contacts with a bit of emery cloth and reinstalling the socket, both front and rear bulbs are working properly.
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The purpose of this Rule is to establish a consistent method for collecting and maintaining contact information, delineate responsibilities of specific university offices, and provide guidance for the use of collected contact/notification information.
The administrator of this Rule is the associate vice president for information technology. The university’s Emergency Planning Committee, established by the NMSU system Chancellor, will also serve as an advisory body to the associate vice president for information technology, as needed for implementation and day-to-day management of this Rule.
Students, faculty, and staff within the NMSU System are required to provide emergency notification information to the university that shall be used to contact them in the event of an emergency.
1. At their discretion, students, faculty and staff may also provide emergency contact information.
2. Both emergency notification information and emergency contact information shall be collected via university central administrative systems.
3. Official NMSU email shall be used as one method of contact.
4. Depending on the availability of notification/contact information, additional communication methods, such as text messaging and cellular phone calls, shall be employed.
5. Emergency contact/notification information provided to NMSU shall be used only by designated offices for notification of emergencies or for testing of the emergency notification system(s).
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1. Emergency Notification Information: This information is used for mass notifications sent to the NMSU community. Examples of the use of this type of information include: tornado warning, active shooter alert, chemical release notice, etc.
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> I should not have to ask for professional behavior on the mailing lists.
> Professional behavior should be the default.
The thing is, the "victim card" is exactly about trying to enforce
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it's bogus. Calling things "professional" is just more of the same -
that it's the only acceptable way.
[ Since you seem to want to keep this in public, I'll just
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argument, it's only slightly edited because now I'm no longer typing
on my cellphone ]
And sometimes it means, for example, that people interact primarily
with certain people that they like more - because they are a better
consciously - the way we have people at various companies that act as
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and why.
upset easily but generally don't hold a grudge - I have these
doesn't work well with you.
doesn't make it "wrong".
This isn't all that different from working around language issues etc
And where we differ is in thinking either side has to necessarily
*natural* that people have different behavior - and different
expectations. We all have issues somewhere and don't all like each
And hey, I don't actually think we've personally even had any
nervous about us having problems, but realistically, do you actually
expect to like all the other kernel engineers?
think they have to be liked by you. OK?
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I've designed a board using AtSAML21E17B , and now I'm having problems accessing/ programming it. I'm using Jlink and I can read the Device ID.
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New Innovations In Electric Pallet Truck
They are apparatuses used to lift and move pallet (now and then called slips), which are level transport structures that help merchandise steadily while they are being lifted. It is utilized as a part of a few businesses, including:
1. Retailers
2. Distribution centers
3. Dairies
4. Homesteads
5. Shipyards
They can be produced using various diverse materials, including electrifies steel, stainless steel, aluminum, extraordinary composites, zinc plating, and so forth…
Sorts of Pallet Trucks
1. Fueled
Otherwise called electrical pallet jacks, walkies, control pallet trucks or pallet jacks these can come as single or twofold pallet jacks and are mechanized to permit lifting and moving of heavier stacked pallets. The way that a fueled electric pallet truck is moved is by utilizing a throttle on the handle to advance or turn around. The gadget is controlled by swinging the handle the expected way.
Stopping is a framework where the driver turns the throttle from forward to invert (or the other way around) to moderate and stop the machine. Some power pallet jacks contain a dead man’s switch, which is an imperative wellbeing highlight that is utilized rather than a brake to stop the machine if the administrator needs to stop in a crisis, for example, to stop rapidly or leave the machine while it’s still being used.
1. Printers
Incorporate a weighting system to enable you to measure products and after that print out the weight or different particulars.
1. Scissor
electric pallet truck
These sorts utilize a lifting instrument to lift products and pallets to higher territories. They are utilized to stack the most elevated retires and are superb to utilize when space is constrained in light of the fact that they move so well. This sort is regularly used to take merchandise off of a truck or van also.
1. Stroll Behind Trucks
These are called stroll behind trucks since you truly stroll behind them while pushing the heap. Water powered frameworks physically pump the truck or it is pumped by some kind of electromotor.
Pallet Truck Safety
Security is absolutely critical in all businesses. They are composed in view of security. The controlled ones are exceptionally sheltered however the impediment is at times they can’t deal with the heaviest of burdens. The deadman switch is another key security include and is truly an essential wellbeing precautionary measure.
New Innovations in Pallet Truck Technology
There are some of these that have been composed in view of wellbeing, solidness and common sense, however the business is constantly changing as is pallet truck innovation. Two new advancements incorporate improvements by Walmart and Mitsubishi.
Walmart has as of late finished trials for a hydrogen-controlled electric pallet truck. This new zero-outflows trucks have surpassed uptime, fuelling, ecological and wellbeing targets.
Mitsubishi has utilized an AC engine in its new walker control pallet trucks, which has incredibly expanded power when contrasted with pallet trucks utilizing a DC engine. Too, the AC motored pallet truck has enhanced footing and incline execution, greatest torque and accompanies fantastic security highlights, including the capacity to auto brake on slants, guaranteeing safe inclination dealing with.
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Tips To Learn Spanish Online
You know, Spanish is a remarkable language filled with enthusiasm. When seeking to learn Spanish you need to be enthusiastic and motivated to be successful!
Lack of time isn’t an excuse
There is a favorite excuse for people who don’t to understand Spanish; however, they want to talk in Spanish. They state that they have not got sufficient time to understand and exercise and study. Well, it is only a justification.
You do not need to always sit down and spend hours studying Spanish and performing exercises. There are hundreds and hundreds of online lessons that offer sound content. You can find the best Spanish teacher in Salt Lake City that provides online classes.
Learn about the Fundamentals
A good deal of individuals begins learning tens of thousands of Spanish words or phrases to turn into Spanish language masters.
But imagine what. They simply use a small number of the language when they talk Spanish with somebody.
Leave the Spanish Language independently
You can not question the roots of the speech or the definition of these words. You can, but it won’t help you when attempting to learn Spanish.
Therefore don’t ask your self or your teachers or your own Spanish enthusiast why is that phrase declared like that or composed like that. Or what’s the definition of that specific word or phrase?
In case you’ve got a Spanish speaking friend, you’ll observe your ability to follow Spanish phrases or words may increase dramatically!
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ieAstrocytes: Newly Identified Functionally Active Astrocyte Population in a Mouse Model of Multiple Sclerosis
This article in eNeuro was a highlight for me because Groves and colleagues identified an in vivo population of astrocytes that are functionally active and increase in number as the severity of experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis (EAE) progresses. EAE can be induced by immunization with MOG35-55 peptide and serves as an animal model of multiple sclerosis. Four-dimensional (3D over time) imaging was used to visualize the time course of cells in the spinal cord that became activated in response to EAE. The use of inducible, TetTag c-Fos reporter mice enabled stable, nuclear expression of green fluorescent protein (GFP) to be retained in cells upon activation. This represented an unbiased screen as the immediate-early gene c-fos is a marker of cellular activation in all cell types. Combined tissue clearing (iDISCO) and confocal microscopy showed that from day 1-5 post onset (dpo 1–5) of EAE, the number of GFP-positive (GFP+) cells in the spinal cord increased in a manner that positively correlated with the severity of EAE symptoms (Video 1; 5 dpo). Approximately 95% of the GFP+ cells at 5 dpo were identified as astrocytes. Groves and colleagues coined the term “immediately-early astrocytes” (ieAstrocytes) for this functionally active population of astrocytes that are distinct from quiescent astrocytes. FTY720 (fingolimod), an effective, well-tolerated treatment for relapsing forms of multiple sclerosis, can be phosphorylated in vivo to resemble the endogenous ligand for the sphingosine 1-phosphate receptor 1 (S1P1). When Groves and colleagues induced EAE in mice in which S1P1 was specifically deleted in astrocytes, the number of GFP+ cells at 5 dpo was significantly attenuated (Video 2). Similar attenuation of GFP immunoreactivity was observed at 5 dpo in EAE-induced S1P1 wild-type mice that were treated with FTY720 (Video 3). This study is an important advance in the field because it shows an in vivo temporal and spatial response of ieAstrocytes to EAE disease progression, which is modified by a drug currently used in the treatment of multiple sclerosis. Further targeting of ieAstrocytes by other therapeutic mechanisms could be highly relevant to other neurodegenerative and neuroinflammatory brain disorders.
Video 1. GFP+ cells at 5 dpo of EAE (Video 5 in Groves et al., 2018)
Video 2. GFP+ cells at 5 dpo of EAE in a conditional knockout of S1P1 in astrocytes (Video 6 in Groves et al., 2018)
Video 3. GFP+ cells at 5 dpo S1P1 wild-type mice treated with FTY720 (Video 7 in Groves et al., 2018)
Read the full article:
A Functionally Defined In Vivo Astrocyte Population Identified by c-Fos Activation in a Mouse Model of Multiple Sclerosis Modulated by S1P Signaling: Immediate-Early Astrocytes (ieAstrocytes)
Aran Groves, Yasuyuki Kihara, Deepa Jonnalagadda, Richard Rivera, Grace Kennedy, Mark Mayford, and Jerold Chun
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Tags: Neuroscience Research, Disorders of the Nervous System
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Friday, May 20, 2005
The Gretsch is back
Yeah, it was a bit messed up. Thought it was because it got dropped on the stage, but I guess a Gretsch from this time period had problems with how they attached the neck. Thanks to Mike Koontz (248)545-5460, the best guitar tech in Detroit!
here is a pic of the guitar. 1968 Gretsch Rally.
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Emily Blincoe’s Photo Collection Will Give You a Sugar Rush
If you’ve got a serious case of sweet tooth, watch out. These colour-coordinated photos of various candy will have you craving for sugar in no time. Emily Blincoe is a young talented photographer who loves taking pictures of vivid still … Continued
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Dog training terms
Clicker training dogAppeasement gestures: Behaviors a dog uses to ask for space or to present himself as nonthreatening. Appeasement gestures may include scratching, yawning, licking lips, play bows, turning head or body away, sniffing the ground, lifting up a paw, slowing down movement, freezing or a submissive grin. These signals are a normal part of dog interaction, but in some situations, they may be signs of stress.
Barrier frustration: Behavior, particularly barking and lunging, that occurs when a dog is prevented by a barrier from reaching a stimulus. The barrier can be a fence or leash or anything else that blocks the dog from accessing whatever it is that is exciting or arousing him (another dog, for example).
Capture: Marking and rewarding a naturally occurring behavior, such as sitting or lying down, as the dog is doing it. Once a behavior is captured, marked and rewarded, the dog learns to associate the behavior with the reward. This is the first step in teaching a dog to do a behavior on cue.
Classical conditioning: Repeated pairings of a neutral stimulus with an unconditioned stimulus generates the unconditioned response, or one which requires no specific training. For example, the smell of food (an unconditioned stimulus) may cause a dog to salivate (the unconditioned response). Over time, the dog may learn to associate the sound of a wrapper or can opener (a neutral stimulus) with the food and may begin to salivate when he hears the noise (the unconditioned response). Eventually, the can opener or wrapper sound becomes a conditioned stimulus, one that elicits a consistent response.
Clicker training: A form of positive reinforcement training that uses a signal, most commonly a clicker, to pinpoint correct behavior. The signal is immediately followed by a desirable reward, such as a treat, a toy or an opportunity to play. The signal helps the dog identify which behavior is earning him the reward.
Click: The action of using a marker (most often a clicker) to pinpoint a desired behavior. May also be used to describe the sound the clicker makes.
Competing motivation: A stimulus or situation that causes conflict between what the dog desires and what the human desires from the dog. An example of this is a dog who is trained to reliably come when called not returning to his person at the dog park, because he is distracted by people and other dogs.
Compound stressors: Events that increase a dog’s stress level and cause him to be more on edge and prone to be reactive or upset.
Conflicted: When a dog simultaneously wants to do something and is afraid to do it. For example, a dog can be conflicted when approaching someone new: He wants to approach to smell and investigate but is afraid of the person reaching his or her hands out or bending over to pet him.
Correction: An action that stops or punishes a dog from doing an unwanted behavior. For example, a jerk on the leash. Corrections are a form of punishment and as such are not recommended as a training strategy. A number of problems, including increased anxiety, can be associated with the use of correction as a training technique.
Counter conditioning: The process of changing a dog’s emotional reaction to a situation from negative to positive. This is done by gradually exposing the dog to the situation in a way that does not upset him while pairing the situation with a desirable reward. The goal is to create a positive association with the situation. An example of this type of scenario is encountering anotherdog on a walk. Through counter conditioning, the dog can be taught that the approach of another dog is the signal for a treat, rather than the signal for uncontrolled barking and lunging.
Criteria: The standard by which a pet owner judges a behavior or the standard used to decide which behavior is acceptable and which is unacceptable. Criteria can be adjusted as needed during training in order to enable the dog to successfully learn the correct behavior.
Cue: Signal given to a dog to elicit a desired behavior. “Cue” and “command” are traditionally synonymous, but the word “command” is not commonly used in reward-based training, as it has a connotation of using force to make a dog do something. “Cue” is most often used to refer to a training situation where a dog is asked to perform a behavior and is rewarded for his success.
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Probability in Ancient India: Response to Witzel
As modified and posted on H-ASIA, June 25, 2011.
Witzel will be remembered for the amusing botch he has made. This sort of thing is an extremely common occurrence among Western scholars whose scholarship is hence unreliable, for they are so often so eager to demonstrate their own superiority by trying to score a point. (Remember that editor of a Cambridge journal who solicited my book for review, and passed it on to an “expert” so illiterate in philosophy that he did not even understand that the philosophy was in chp. 8!)
Response to comments re: Probability in Ancient India
Ed. note: This response was received on June 22 whilst I was travelling. Dr. C. K. Raju had sent an earlier response to Michael Witzel’s post on his earlier Probability in Ancient India posting. I had requested some modifications in that post and the June 22 post was the result therefrom. Because some editing was still required, I had to delay working on the post until my return to Seattle from extensive travels. Today I received a post from C. K. Raju in which he “regrets” that I have delayed his post so long and “apprently suppressed” his response. Rather than spend more time negotiating modifications of the tone of language in the ‘response’ post, I have exercised some editorial authority and omitted a few somewhat unfortunate phrases. The edited version appears below, without excluding any of C. K. Raju’s points and, I hope, conveying his sincerely felt unhappiness. If Professor Witzel cares to respond, we will post his view, but otherwise, this subject is closed. FFC
From: C. K. Raju
This refers to Professor Witzel’s comment on my post on probability in ancient India.
First, the exact date of the RgVeda is completely irrelevant to my probability paper, and is consequently not mentioned in it at all! It was mentioned in my post, since I was sure that some or the other historian would pick on this irrelevant point to the exclusion of everything else, for this point has been continuously and fruitlessly disputed for the last 150 years at least.
Thanks to Witzel for helping me to make my point that the focus of Asian history needs to move on to matters of contemporary significance.
Second, Witzel’s comment that I am “nationalistic” is contrary to the fact, for example, that I was thrown out from the Editorial Board of the Journal of Indian Council of Philosophical Research, for political reasons, when a “nationalistic” government came to power. The ‘nationalistic allegation is incorrect and unfortunate.
In the same vein, Witzel attributes to my paper things that I did not write. Thus, Witzel says, “This paper has the erroneous idea about cubes (due to old translations)”. In fact, the word “cube” does not occur anywhere in my probability paper. Anyone can download my paper and check this simple fact in a few seconds. Yet Witzel categorically talks of my “erroneous ideas about cubes”! Clearly and demonstrably, it is Witzel who has erred.
Amazingly, Witzel has even given an imaginary explanation for the imaginary error he has imputed to me, by saying it was “due to old translations”. This concocted “explanation” too is equally baseless, for I did my own translation, as always, as can easily be checked. Is this a sample of how Witzel defines history?
These errors are already inexcusable, but Witzel amusingly goes on to suggest that permutations and combinations somehow relate to the shape of the dice! He says: “Thus, there are no ‘permutations and combinations’ as in playing with cube dice”. However, it is school mathematics that permutations and combinations can be applied to dice with any number of faces whether 6 or 5 (which is the number of faces for Indian dice I have stated in my paper).
Did Witzel intend to say something else? In fact, contrary to what Witzel glibly imputes to me about the game of dice, in my paper, I very explicitly said nothing at all about how the game of dice was played in Vedic times. Therefore, no matter how one interprets what Witzel says, it is entirely false to claim, as he does, that I linked the Vedic description of the game of dice to permutations and combinations. Hence, it is quixotic of him to imagine that he is contesting any part of my thesis simply by contesting how the game of dice was played in Vedic times!
In fact, my paper made a completely different point about permutations and combinations (unrelated to dice): that the theory of permutations and combinations is built into the Vedic metre! It is also built into the theory of Indian music, but that is a longer (and more difficult) story. Of course, I also pointed out that the formulae for permutations and combinations are found in a long series of early Indian mathematics texts (other than the RgVeda) in direct relation to strategies of betting and winning in gambling based on chance, which texts I have cited in detail. However, the point about Vedic metre is especially important because the metre serves as a checksum to validate the content. If Witzel (a non-practitioner) does not also know the theory of the metre, his opinion about the contents of the Veda is unreliable.
Next, the number of dice is 53 as in the number of cards (52 cards + 1 joker), and relates to the number of weeks in a year (with one inter-calary week). I am sure about my version, and I reject Witzel’s authority in the matter. I also reject Witzel’s description of the game as excessively far-fetched, and his secondary sources as unreliable. But I will not go into details, since none of this matters very much for this discussion, for the exact way the game was played in Vedic times is completely irrelevant to my probability paper, as already pointed out.
Finally, I agree with Witzel that antiquity frenzy is very apparent in the “history” which makes out that everything in science was first done by Greeks or by Christians in the European renaissance. Western history books and encyclopedias are full of this and I agree with Wtizel that it is pure delusion. As I have explained in my book “Is Science Western in Origin?” (Multiversity, 2009) this history originated during the Crusades and Inquisition, and it needs to be corrected. That is exactly what I am doing by rejecting the thesis that Newton first created the calculus and Pascal probability theory, etc.
Unfortunately, there are double standards in the matter: one standard for Greek history, another for Indian. For example, consider the origin of trigonometry. Any current encyclopaedia would say that trigonometry originated with the Greeks. Exact dates are very critical to this claim. Thus, while Claudius Ptolemy is dated to the 2nd c., trigonometry was certainly known in India from the time of the Surya Siddhanta (3rd. c.), and Aryabhata (5th c.) had proposed a revolutionary new method to replace the old way of calculating trigonometric values geometrically. An error of a couple of centuries in Ptolemy’s date would change priorities. However, Claudius Ptolemy is dated to the 2nd c. CE using a very bad process, for (a) there is no evidence that he existed, (b) the Roman calendar shows no trace of the knowledge of astronomy in the Almagest text, (c) the star list in the Almagest text is headed by the current pole star so tat the Almagest *must* post-date the 9th c. Further, (d) all observations” in the Almagest were back-calculated based on a wrong atronomical theory as R. R. Newton convincingly pointed out (”The Crime of Claudius Ptolemy”, Johns Hopkins, Baltimore, 1977), so such pseudo observations are not a reliable way to date the late and accretive text of the Almagest. (For more details, see my booklet, cited above.)
Going just by the point (c) above, and following Witzel’s procedure of dating Indian texts, the Almagest should be dated to after the 9th c. That change of date would be fatal to the claim of Greek priority in trigonometry. It would mean that trigonometry originated in India (where, unlike Greece, there were excellent material reasons for it).
Now, I am not, right now, arguing the case for the origin of trigonometry in India. I am only saying that double standards (for whatever reason) cannot be taken lightly, for they help to maintain false history. False history had dangerous consequences in the past, for it misled prominent Indians, and thus enabled Western education to be imposed in India, and other colonies, a move critical to colonisation. Accordingly, decolonisation requires this false history to be rejected. (See my booklet “Ending Academic Imperialism:a Beginning”, 2011, draft available athttp://multiworldindia.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/ckr-Tehran-talk-on-academic-imperialism.pdf. This is due to be released at the international conference on “Decolonising our Universities” next week in Penang.) Therefore, I cannot accept double standards in dating texts, for whatever
To conclude, Witzel’s way of arguing, by concocting a false position for the opponent and attacking it, is unethical, whether it was done deliberately or because of lack of understanding, and on my tradition of debate it entails a conclusive and permanent loss in debate.
C. K. Raju
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Friday, 26 August 2016
Google fiber : technicolour bunny no longer in the pink
Google Fiber has been an iconic presence in debates over superfast broadband and FTTH. Initially announced in 2010, the Google Fiber bunny lolloped into its first market, Kansas City, in 2012. It has since expanded to five other cities in the US, offering symmetric 1 Gbps service at low prices.
"No new internet product has generated as much excitement in the technology world as Google Fiber", said the FTTH Council in 2014. Indeed, for fiber enthusiasts, Google Fiber has been emblematic of what should be possible. Here was a preeminent technology company, backing fiber all the way to the home. The fusty old telcos and cablecos simply didn't get it.
What a difference a couple of years make.
The Wall Street Journal recently reported [$] that Google is "rethinking its high-speed internet business after initial rollouts proved more expensive and time consuming than anticipated". Today come reports that Google Fiber is laying off half its staff. The company is also changing its strategy, with a shift to using wireless technologies to connect homes, rather than fiber.
I suspect we'll hear rather less about Google Fiber from the likes of the FTTH Council. But actually there are some valuable lessons here:
• It's way too glib to say FTTH is 'future proof'. New technologies (such as the milimeter wireless Google are now moving to) are proving quicker and cheaper to deploy, while delivering similar performance to FTTH
• A further technology problem for FTTH is that cable can now deliver speeds of 1 Gbps and more. This means that there's less reason for consumers to switch to a new entrant (where cable's available), and also puts the new entrant at a significant cost disadvantge. Upgrading the cable plant is far cheaper than deploying new fiber. Cable operators in Google Fiber cities have done exactly this, almost certainly reducing Google's uptake
• It's easy to underestimate the 'friction' involved in doing any work that touches the last few meters to people's houses. Google has been accused of causing flooding in Austin, for example. Less dramatically, issues of home access, damage to gardens and so on all drive up costs
There's no reason to scorn the Google Fiber bunny. Google is a company that proceeds by experimentation, and not all experiments work. In the light of their experience, and of developing technology, they are revising their strategy. Utterly sensible - and a useful case study for those who continue to believe that it must be FTTH or nothing.
Monday, 11 July 2016
What do apps require? Shall we ask Marketing or Legal?
Contrast this to the same company's marketing,which says:
Tuesday, 24 May 2016
NBN and the missing superfast customers
Australia’s national broadband network (NBN) is the Kim Kardashian of government broadband plans – bigger, bolder and more exposed than any other. (Though to be fair, it has left ‘breaking the internet’ to Telstra)
The NBN represents a renationalisation of the access network, as well as a significant upgrade to fibre - initially FTTP, now mixed technology. Whether or not government ownership is a good idea, it does at least bring a degree of openness on operational detail. This is very handy for broadband watchers around the world.
For instance, NBN publishes the mix of speeds its customers take, which are as follows:
Source: Various NBN co publications
Note: Excludes plans above 100/40, with trivial take-up
The most popular speed tier is 25 Mbps down, 5 Mbps up. At the end of March, 46% of customers were on this plan. Certainly such speeds would be beyond an ADSL connection, so NBN has provided some benefit.
However, a moderate uplift vs ADSL was never the goal for the NBN. When it was announced in 2009, its primary ambition was to offer “up to 100 Megabits per second”. In this regard, consumers seem to have been less impressed. Only 15% of those on FTTP are taking the 100/40 product, a percentage that has been steadily falling since 2012. Despite the fact that the premium for moving from 25/5 to 100/40 is just £10/US$14, the great majority of consumers simply aren’t willing to pay the extra. (The premium from 12/1 to 25/5 is half this).
Based on the European 30 Mbps threshold, just 19% of NBN FTTP customers (or 155,000) are on superfast. The original NBN plan expected roughly double this percentage (and a far higher absolute number).
One consequence of this change in speed mix is that the average capacity of an NBN line is actually falling over time – from 36 to 34 Mbps between June 2014 and December 2015, for example. However, traffic per line has grown appreciably in the same period – yet more evidence that traffic and bandwidth growth are two very different things.
Source: Author's analysis of data from various NBN co publications
Oh, and demand for speeds beyond 100 Mbps, striving into a gigabit future? Just 65 customers have taken them – 40 on 250/100, 3 on 500/200 and 22 on 1000/400. Clearly Australians are not bitten by the gigabit bug.
So what does this mean for policy makers? I’d suggest:
• Don’t overestimate willingness-to-pay for higher speeds
• Leave room for price differentiation of fibre products – lots of customers are happy at the low end, and you need to enable appropriately low prices for them
• Report equivalent data, so the debate about demand for bandwidth can be anchored in reality
(Note that all the above figures are unconnected with the change of the NBN plan to a mixed technology model. They are for customers who are on the FTTP portion of the network).
Thursday, 5 November 2015
Web page weights, and the rise of the baby hippo
Web pages, like our large friend on the left there, are big and getting bigger. Once upon a time, web pages were just text, but these days they may include many high-res image, Java script, fonts and many other elements that all contribute to the total amount of data that needs to be transferred to create the web page. This is leading to concerns over 'web bloat'.
Not all of these files to be downloaded before you start using the page. 'Below the fold' content (which initially sits off the bottom of your screen) can be downloaded while you're reading the content at the top.
For some sites, below the fold content is massive. The 'height' of the Daily Mail homepage is 5.16 meters, with less than 10% of the content initially visible. In one sense this approach is quite wasteful of internet traffic- the Daily Mail will send you all 5.16 meters, even if you never scroll past the top 30cm (assuming you don't click away elsewhere). But internet traffic is cheap, so the Mail isn't unduly worried.
The net result of larger and richer pages has been steady growth in 'page weights' - the amount of data that makes up a web page. They are now averaging a little over 2MB on the desktop:
Source: HTTP Archive
Technical change in Oct 2012 means data on either side not comparable
It's a toss-up whether this growth is exponential (20-25%) or linear (+345 KB/year), but either way it's substantial and ongoing. That means more traffic for networks to carry, and more bandwidth needed to ensure web pages load briskly. (In practice, for technical reasons, latency is often a more important factor than bandwidth, and beyond 5 Mbps there seem to be diminishing returns).
However, the growth in desktop website page weights is not the whole story - the mother hippo has been joined by a baby hippo. In recent years there has been a massive shift to mobile consumption, and page views from mobile devices now represent almost 40% of the total. (In Africa it's over 60%).
This matters in the context of page weights because mobile pages tend to be much lighter - roughly half the weight of fixed pages. For mobile devices web page designers need to be conscious of higher consumer data charges, they need to fit their content into smaller screens and so on. Consequently both the number and size of files transferred are lower.
Source: HTTP Archive, StatCounter, author's analysis
Weight average based on UK traffic mix
Clearly mobile page weights are growing steadily too, but because they start so much lower than desktop page weights, the shift to mobile is suppressing the growth in average consumed page weight, just as that hippo calf has reduced the average hippo weight in the enclosure. While desktop pages have been growing at +345KB, the average consumed page is only growing at +230KB.
However, baby hippos don't stay baby hippos, and once the transition to mobile devices is complete, the growth in average page weight will accelerate again - unless of course we've shifted all our usage to apps by then, which are even lighter than mobile pages.
Thursday, 22 October 2015
4K TV : 0.004K TV after compression
High resolution video is often cited as a driver for ultra-fast broadband. Here, for example, is Hyperoptic (a UK ISP) suggesting that if you want to watch 4K TV, you need 1 Gbps. 100 Mbps supposedly won't be enough.
A 4K TV isn't for everyone - apart from anything else it's very large, as you can see (though it isn't mandatory to install two Korean ladies with each set). However, it's certainly becoming more popular, and by 2020 over a third of West European households are expected to have a 4K set.
But what is frequently glossed over in broadband discussions is how little bandwidth is currently required for 4K TV, and how much less will be required in future. To be sure, how much bandwidth is needed for 4K is not a simple question. It depends on (at least) three things: the resolution of the video, the nature of the content and the time you have to compress it.
Uncompressed, high quality 4K can require 3 Gbps or more. However, in practice 4K is never delivered to consumers uncompressed. A compression algorithm (codec) is used to convert the raw digital video into a far smaller data stream. Many techniques are used in such algorithms. For instance, if a portion of the image is unchanged since the previous frame, the algorithm may (effectively) say 'for this portion of the screen, same again'. This requires far less data than retransmitting each pixel in that part of the screen, Or, if a large part of the image is all the same colour, then the algorithm may transmit the boundaries of the colour block, rather than separately transmitting the colour of each pixel within it.
The effectiveness of such techniques depends on many things, including the sophistication of the algorithm, the available processing power & time and the nature of the content (content with lots of movement is inherently more difficult, for instance).
However, the reduction in bandwidth is generally dramatic. Netflix, who know as much about 4K streaming as anyone, say they average 15.6 Mbps. However, sports content (which has lots of movement and must be compressed in real-time) can require more. BT's 4K Sport currently uses 20-30 Mbps.
Thus even today 4K is well within the capabilities of sub-FTTH broadband, and it is baffling that Hyperoptic think 100 Mbps is insufficient. Moreover, 4K's requirements are only going to fall. Moore's Law means we have ever more processing power to play with, which can be traded-off against bandwidth, to maintain picture quality while using fewer Mbps. In addition, processing algorithms grow ever more sophisticated. As a result, roughly 9% less bandwidth has been needed each year to support a given picture quality. Simply because video is such an important component of traffic these days, it appears as if investment in codecs is growing, meaning that the 9% rate may actually accelerate.
Companies are already claiming dramatically lower bandwidths for 4K in trials. For instance, V-Nova has reported streaming 4K at just 6 Mbps in a trial with EE (the UK's largest mobile operator). Tveon, a Canadian start-up, is even more aggressive, suggesting that with their technology 2 Mbps will be enough. (That's better than a 1000:1 compression of the raw stream).
While these claims will need to be proven out, they nonetheless suggest the potential for dramatic improvement. Indeed, even at double V-Nova's 6 Mbps, most ADSL lines would be able to support 4K TV.
Your future TV may or may not be 4K, and you may or may not be able to see the difference even if it is. However, that monster TV won't be a justification for bring fibre to your front door.
Monday, 12 January 2015
Killer Gigabit Apps - and why 1,259 experts are wrong
Sandy Lindsay, Master of Balliol College Oxford (1924-49), was once locked in debate with the fellows (professors) at the college on a contentious issue. It came to a final vote, in which the fellows, to a man, voted against the Master. He scowled around the room, saying “Gentlemen, we appear to have reached an impasse.”
In this post I’m going to take a similarly hubristic approach, by disagreeing with 1,259 experts. The 1,259 experts are cited in a recent report from the Pew Research Center, Killer Apps in the Gigabit Age. The Pew Research Center is a US non-partisan body which publishes much valuable material on media and the internet (among other topics). I’ve frequently cited their work. This report too is full interesting ideas – my main problem with it is its title, for reasons I’ll come on to.
For the report Pew took responses from 1,464 experts, of whom 1,259 said they believed major new applications would capitalise on a significant rise in US bandwidth in the years ahead – the Gigabit Age of the title.
Pew also asked the experts what those applications might be – and here’s where it gets interesting. The experts had many many responses – Pew needs almost 50 pages just to summarise them. But almost none of the proposed applications need gigabit speeds or anything like it.
To take one example, telepresence is a recurring theme in the responses. This may or may not become widespread in the future -but the key point is that it does not require a gigabit. Even professional telepresence systems with a screen down the middle of the conference table seating six at your end and another six in Timbuktoo (or wherever your counterparts are) require just 18 Mbps according to Cisco and Polycom, who make such systems. So if you decide to chop your dining table in two and install multiple hi-def screens so you can have permanent telepresence with your Auntie Ethel, bandwidth will be the least of your worries.
Virtual reality is also oft mentioned in Pew's report. Oculus Rift is the closest we have to usable VR. It's in advance prototype stage, and is already impressive. The official verdict of this 90-year-old tester (having a vitual tour of Tuscany) is 'holy mackerel!'
I haven't been able to track down official views on the bandwidth required for Oculus Rift, but the displays are 1,000 x 1,000 pixels per eye. In combination that's about a quarter of the resolution of a 4K TV (with similar frame rates). Given that 4K requires 16 Mbps, this suggests that VR may actually be a relatively low bandwidth application.
Some of the experts mentioned holographic displays.Bandwidth for these? Who knows. We'll put them in the 'maybe' category.
A number of the experts mentioned e-health, including monitoring vital signs, remote consultation and so one. Again, these are not high speed apps – they require kilobits or a few megabits at most. Several of the respondents cited that old chestnut, remote surgery. Does anyone seriously think this is enabled by improved home bandwidth?
Wearable computing, the internet of things, life logging and a wide array of other possibilities were mentioned in the report – but again, there is no reason to expect these to need gigabit speeds or anything like it.
So the real story here is not that there's a cornucopia of apps that require gigabits. Rather it is a respected research institute could ask over a thousand experts, and still not find a single clear case of an application requiring gigabit speeds. Change the title to 'Lack of Killer Apps for a Gigabit Age', and the Pew report is spot on.
Wednesday, 28 May 2014
Do we need the Delphic Oracle to make sensible telecoms investments?
The Delphic Oracle was the leading seer of ancient Greece. This was reliably established by King Croesus (as in 'rich as'), who had his messengers ask a sample of seers at a pre-agreed time what he was doing at that very moment. The Delphic Oracle correctly said he was making lamb and tortoise stew.
However, the Oracle's statements were rarely this unambiguous - they tended to be a bit more, well, Delphic. For instance, asked about a prospective military expedition, she replied: "You will go you will return never in war will you perish" - place punctuation at your own risk.
It is sometimes argued that, absent reliable seers, we have to invest in superfast broadband because of the unknown unknowns - the applications that are surely coming, but which we just lack the foresight to predict today.
There are many problems with this argument, but one of them is that its proponents tend to underestimate our foresight. Here for instance the view of my old friends the FTTH Council on how little we knew in 2000 about the drivers of demand for today's broadband:
Just how accurate is it that these things were unforeseen in 2000?
Videoconferencing with Skype
Skype wasn't founded until 2003, but video calls over the internet have been long discussed - at least since 1995, when Stewart Loken of the Berkeley Lab said "internet videoconferencing is about to become commonplace". Obviously to know what bandwidth you might need, you don't need to know the name of the company that's going to be most successful, you just need to know what the application is, so the fact that Skype didn't exist in 2000 is neither here nor there.
HD-TVs with 42" and more in 3D
The first formal HDTV research programme began in 1970. Consumer sets went on sale in the US in 1998, and some of them had 55" displays. 3D TV was trialled as early as 1994.
We certainly didn't know about Facebook in 2000, it wasn't founded until 2004. (Though you can discuss with the Winklevoss twins exactly when it was conceived). However social media had been around for a long time - GeoCities, an early example, was founded in 1994. And again, we don't need to know the name of the provider to know the necessary bandwidth. Facebook uses text, pictures and a bit of video - all well understood as internet media in 2000.
Online shops
Amazon was founded in 1994. 'nuff said.
By 2000 Google was already available in 10 languages (and had hired its first chef a year prior)
Digital Photography
The first consumer digital cameras were released in 1990 (the same year as Photoshop). Webshots, founded in 1999, was one of the first web-based photo sharing sites, but consumers had been uploading photos to BBSs (not always savoury ones) for some years before that.
iPad and Smartphones
The Palm VII, one of the first PDAs with wireless capability for internet access, shipped in 1999. I'll give the FTTH Council the iPad, which wasn't widely anticipated. Of course, it doesn't need particularly high bandwidth (though it has driven more traffic by extending hours of internet use in the home).
So, of the Council's seven things "we did not know in 2000" it turns out we did know 6½ of them. Their view of our ignorance is a bit ... ignorant.
The vast majority of things we do with the internet today were in fact anticipated in 2000, at least in broad brush strokes. That's why it's particularly problematic for FTTH fans that there are (in their own words) 'no really compelling applications yet' for FTTH. In 2000 we knew (roughly) what we would do with broadband speeds. In 2014 we have no real idea what we might do with superfast.
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Wednesday, October 31, 2012
It's the Little Things
Wow. This week has been especially rough; I had another friend pass away, my girlfriend's mom was just diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, we have Sandy the Frankenstorm, and it's all mixed together with election drama. My spousal strife regarding the Honey-Do List (or Don't List in my case) really seems insignificant as I type this. I'm looking forward to camping this weekend because I'll be reduced to focusing on 1. staying warm, 2. not gagging while using the porta-potty and 3. having adequate snacks. Sometimes taking a step back and enjoying the little things is the right antidote to Crazy.
The campground-safe coffee plunger on the right is what I'll be
bringing with me this weekend. It's insulated and stainless steel. :)
This is what made me smile first thing this morning. My friend Preston Woodruff in Brevard, NC makes these awesome coffee scoops. He makes other fabulous stuff like bowls, dulcimers and lutes, so check him out. Anyway, the scoop was made with Preston's own hands, and today when I was making my coffee, I really took the time to admire and feel the warm fuzzies it generated by being handcrafted. If you want your own scoop, send an email to Preston and he'll be quick with getting back.
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Tuesday, March 16, 2010
Super Fun Stripes Wedding Cake
Let me just say that horizontal stripes are crazy crazy hard to make look good when you're working with fondant. We could have done them out of real ribbon but that just wouldn't be our style, we had to do it right. But I LOVED how this cake turned out. It looks like a cake that would be in a fashion magazine... if there were fashion magazines for cakes... :o)
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December 15, 2018
Can Uganda teach the UK how to balance the budget?
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There are two main schools of thought for eliminating the deficit and arriving at a balanced budget.
Option 1 – the UK way: cut G so the budget balances
LONDON, ENGLAND – MARCH 29: British Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Hammond leaves 10 Downing Street on March 29, 2017 in London, England. Later today British Prime Minister Theresa May will address the Houses of Parliament as Article 50 is triggered and the process that will take the United Kingdom out of the European Union will begin. (Photo by Dan Kitwood/Getty Images)
In 2010, the UK announced the biggest spending cuts for decades, hitting welfare, council and police budgets. These continuing cuts have come to be known as austerity and are supposed to reduce the level of G, allowing a balanced budget where G = T.Cutting back on public expenditure means reducing spending on items such as schools or hospitals. It could also mean cuts in welfare transfers and unemployment benefits. The deficit is reduced, resulting in a balanced budget.
The UK deficit has been cut in terms of a percentage of national income (money in the economy). However, the reduction in government spending has had a negative side effect: national income has been diminished, and we have a smaller economy.
Option 2 – the Uganda way: boost G so that T increases and the budget balances
Matia Kasaija, Uganda Finance Minister. Picture source
In June 2017, Uganda announced plans to increase spending by 10 per cent to USh29 trillion ($8.09 billion) to support flagging economic growth. ‘As result of these actions, the economy is expected to rebound to annual growth rates of 7 per cent in the medium term, as a minimum,’ said the Ugandan Finance Minister Matia Kasaija. The government will borrow USh954 billion from the domestic market to pay for this.
Can you spend your way out of a deficit? The Ugandan government is banking on the work of the multiplier effect where one person’s spending is another person’s income.
In economics, a multiplier is the factor by which gains in the national income are greater than the change in spending that caused it. In the 1930s, economist John Maynard Keynes suggested that government spending could increase national income in the following way.
• The government invests in the petroleum business. (Oil has recently been discovered in Uganda.)
• Firms in the construction business win contracts to build oil rigs and see their incomes and profits increase.
• The oil rig employees save a proportion and spend a proportion of that additional income on buying new cars.
• The automobile businesses see a rise in their profits.
• The automobile business employees save a proportion and spend a proportion of that additional income on eating out.
• The restaurant owners see a rise in their profits.
• The restaurant employees save a proportion and spend a proportion of that additional income on eating out.
• The process carries on until the spending runs out, with the initial amount having multiplied through the economy.
An injection of government spending will therefore have a larger impact on economic activity than the amount initially put in. This increases national income which increases tax receipts T, reduces unemployment benefits, and allows a balanced budget where G = T.
Will Uganda’s approach work? What do you think?
Gerry Reilly, Senior Teaching Fellow About Gerry Reilly, Senior Teaching Fellow
Senior Teaching Fellow, delivers the on-campus Economics seminars and is part of the Strategic Planning teaching team.
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[chinese blood, irish heart] - DEFUNCT: October 2006
Thursday, October 26, 2006
Delay No More!
Oasis Airlines finally got the gasp of air they were so desperate for. The Ruskies finally gave approval for access of their airspace after a sudden turn-around last night during Oasis' maiden voyage. What a PR disaster! Even the marketing executives were on board. You have to wonder if any of the big airlines were in on this? I concede this as a *very* generalised opinion but a lot of Russian civil servants are corrupt... a friend of a friend who was leaving the country was stopped by an airport customs-whatever guy and when he handed him his passport, the Ruskie took it, turned around and put his hand behind his back to indicate he wanted money for the procedure! Can't remember how much he had to bribe him for, but that was just ridiculous. Anywho I went off on a tangent... Speaking of flights, I've finally churned out my hard-fought annual leave (+ no pay leave) to go back to Ireland for eight days: 24th-1st. Wasn't the two weeks I was looking for because I had initially wanted to quit ATV by December, but because my massage therapies and medical check-ups have all been pre-booked for the next four or five months (all in the morning) -and also because this job gives me the time to do that - I reckon I should finish the therapies before I quit. Oh yeah, plus I don't have another job down the pipeline yet!
Friday, October 20, 2006
Stubbed Out!
Well Hong Kong, join the smoking ban club.
As you may or may not know, the green Emerald Isle with which I hail from was the first country to enact a smoking ban law.
Yesterday with a majority show of hands, Hong Kong legislators approved a bill to be enacted on January 1st of 2007.
Now it's a matter of enforcement... how many teahouses and 'cha chang tengs' (little restaurants?) are out there? Way too many for one thing. Die-hard smokers will be tough to budge. Will the weary, underpaid staff be up to the challenge of locally enforcing it? Tough to say also. But hey, if us fiery Irish can hold our end of the bargain, why can't Hong Kongers?
Tell you one thing though, there'll be more smokers on narrow and crowded paths.
It'll be funny to see all the chuppies hanging outside bars, even more ironic at the Irish pubs!
I don't know if it'll apply to HK, but in Ireland, but hanging outside bars/clubs to smoke has become a sort of new pseudo-culture, where the segregated can find comfort in each other - aswell as hooking up with new friends and more.
Tuesday, October 17, 2006
"Hong Kong's air pollution will stay bad for years"
In a radio address Sunday by Donald Tsang, he admits "the reality is that we will not see major improvements for a few more years yet. But with all the small steps we are taking we will see incremental improvements over the next few years."
'Incremental improvements' eh? The major thing regarding fighting pollution in his policy address concerned the Euro-IV engines to be "voluntarily" installed in vehicles. Even Environment Secretary Sarah Liao said on Newsline admits bus companies would be hesitant to upgrade their fleet since each upgrade costs $3 million.
But even the smallest incremental improvement we can all do, like stop using plastic bags, recycling paper and turning down the air-con, even the general public can't even do that!
I hardly see anyone using BYOB's in shops. Today at Taste I saw some chuppie with a gay man-bag taking a big plastic bag to store two apples. I don't want to generalise, but from what I've seen in the past year, how can we depend on these irresponsible pricks to help build an environmentally-sustainable place? And look at all the other pricks: care-free drivers who leave their engines idling, chuppies driving around in their shiny gas-guzzling cars, fashion-victim teeny boppers who don't care about anything other than their looks and mainland immigrant workers who also have no sense about conservation whatsoever. (although conversely, they do take up most of the shit cleaning jobs) And GODDAMN corporate scumbags who put profits before anything!
"There is no doubt that we deserve a better environment for the sake of our own physical health, as well as that of our economy ... If we all join hands to conserve energy then we are all doing our bit to make Hong Kong a cleaner city."
You tell me, without strong government and draconian measures, how can we improve the air quality with ordinary people lacking the intiative. I say, slap fines, fines and more fines on 'em. Make people suffer. Go on Donald, wave your iron fist, we don't live in a democracy anyway.
And these assholes across the road from me leave their lights on at night. How hard is to switch lights off when you're not using them huh? Ya see what I mean? Complete irresponsibility. I'm gonna write them a harsh letter.
Rockit Schmokit
Well, Rockit was definitely one of the most weakest music festivals I've ever been to. Not enough rocking punters and way too many foreigners.
Look at the mess all those fucking cheeybyes left behind at Rockit!
I thought expats cared about the environment!
Friday, October 13, 2006
Yeah sure buddy, I really want to pay to learn bad English... Posted by Picasa
A proposed sign on smoking bans in er, 'public pleasure grounds.' Oh the jokes... Posted by Picasa
I'm a 'contributor,' how about that.
World Battle of the Bands spread... didn't use the pics I really liked
Donnie's policy speech
So Donald apparently is a lame duck, according to Longhair, voicing his dissent with his newly formed League of Social Democrats (yes, insert LSD jokes here)
I was fairly disappointed at his timid approach in tackling air pollution and environment.
He claims he won't make any big decisions because of his limited time left with his current term, yet he's most likely to win next year's election. So maybe he's saving up the big guns when he's re-elected? If it is - then it's a good strategy I guess.
There were a lot of minature protests of the sort, all shouting he should do this or he didn't say that... but in fairness to him and the government, there's not a lot they can say (much less act on it) without the support of the financial community - which in some ways are a lot more powerful than Legco.
Sure you can slap on a tax on plastic bags (if I had my way I'd put it at $5), but this will probably create a severe backlash from retailers and wholesalers who might rethink their options in Hong Kong. It's commercial giants like these that makes Hong Kong afloat... unfortunately. So instead of just attacking a figure-head like Donald Tsang, the LSD, green groups, activists etc. should do a more jointed effort in hitting the big businesses aswell. Politicians after all, talk the talk... businesses however, have a lot more freedom and less responsibility.
Let the battle for ads begin...
So finally the long awaited 'Taxi' magazine is out by the folks at Asia City Publishing.
Admittedly I'm extra excited since my ugly mug's in the contributor's listing. (I should've shaved, but I was in Vietnam at the time). Though the eejits spelt my email address wrong. Well, I hope whoever does contact me is clever enough how to spell 'Vodafone' correctly!
I also spotted some older pics I had taken for HK Mag a while back... guess it's fair to recycle them.
Now we wait for the other contender, 'Juice,' to come out next on the commercials catwalk...
Sunday, October 08, 2006
Last day in Vietnam... again
Well, I've paid my last visit to the doctor here in Vietnam.
He gave me 10 more days worth of medicine and I should be a-ok from then on!
I can even start eating some of the foods I had so cherishingly avoided for the past year and a half: beef, eggs, seafood and alcohol!
But I should start sparingly... alcohol is actually one I should be cautious of. He said I can drink moderate amounts of beer, but not too much heavy stuff. Guess I'll lay off the shots for a little longer - save it for next Paddy's day.
My relatives were impressed with his diagnosis too. (They came along with high expectations of this doc.) He took my uncle's pulse and knew he had an eczema issue, even without him saying anything. So they have to come again next month for a check up. So it's 16 more days of medicine and I should be good as I ever was.
It's kind of settling... in an unsettling kind of way.
I have a new lease on life now without having to worry about my skin, so I'll need to start making more of my time. Whereas in the past with my skin condition, I secretly took refuge and can afford to be well, lazier, because it warrants my condition.
Now, I'll really need to start becoming more enthustiastic and take greater challenges.
But still, I'm so amazed at how quick this doc healed me. It's quite hard to sink in!
Now a lot of people are seeing me as a shining example to heal all sorts of skin conditions. Hmm, maybe I can start my own little tour group? After all, I pretty much know the good spots around Ho Chi Minh City, cheap airfares and packages. We'll see...
Friday, October 06, 2006
Check this out: I got the tripod dolly on Apliu Street for $250! What luck and what a bargain. Now all I need are tracks Posted by Picasa
Thursday, October 05, 2006
Plastic nightmare
Before I go to work, I always stop by Taste to pick up an apple or whatever. Up to now, still, I've been using the same plastic bag (the ones you use for fruits and veg) to store the apple, so it won't get dirty as I carry it back to work. Yet, I doubt many people would have the same consideration for re-using plastic bags, if not bringing their own 'BYOB' bags.
Everyday I see a bunch of nitwits clamouring for plastic bags in the 10 items or less counters. Today, I saw some woman carrying a large Marks & Spencer Bag while buying only a few items. She could've easily slotted them into the M&S bag instead of taking a plastic one.
I mean, how hard is it to bring your own bag?? Or just using the one you already have?
This 'BYOB' on the first Tuesday of every month is absolutely weak. It got some press coverage in the beginning but now everybody forgets.
The Environmental Protection Department says that 33 million plastic bags are circulated every day... on average that's about 5 bags per person.
The thing I always say about Hong Kong's government or environment related commercials are all so terrible... they're often gimmicky ("Plastic is not Fantastic"), unprovocative, polite and compromising. People need to be shocked and awed in order to get your message across.
Here's a few 'direct' suggestions that should tackle the plastic bag issue:
1. Tax, levy, whatever, on plastic bags... not when, but now. I don't give a flying fuck if it's inconvenient for shoppers, get used to it! I reckon at least 50 cents. In Ireland, the equivalent is about $2.50.
2. If the major retailers are serious about the issue, they should have days whereby no plastic bags are given out. No, not days where you 'encourage' people not to use them, ban them completely, then it'll make shoppers feel guilt.
Monday, October 02, 2006
Tagspotting - Live!
Tagspotting, an indy documentary about graffiti in Hong Kong
is now availible on iFilm.
A Chan, Lee, Li, Szymko production!
Ah feck it, you can watch it here instead: (this is the 2nd version)
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Thursday, July 23, 2015
Psychic Seductions Anthology... Always You
Ella Jade...
I'm so excited to be part of this anthology with such talented and brilliant Beachwalk Press authors. When I heard about the call our publisher announced for this collection I knew I had to be included.
What drew me in?
Paranormal has always been my first love as a reader. As a writer I haven't spent much time focusing on this genre so Psychic Seductions gave me an opportunity to dabble without committing to a full length book. Now of course the idea has triggered multiple story ideas, so maybe you'll be seeing more of these types of romances from me.
When it's meant to be... you'll find your soulmate in this life and any other...
Available for a limited release price of 99 cents
“I was thinking Friday. Perhaps we could go to dinner?” Caleb asked.
“Like a date?” Aurora hadn’t been this excited since... Well, she couldn’t exactly remember when she had something to be excited about. Except the other night when she had seen him for the first time in years.
“We can call it whatever you want.”
“Date works.” I can’t believe this! We’re going on a date.
“Okay.” He flashed his perfect smile, and she wondered what he thought of her. Did he find her amusing?
“Cool.” She kissed his cheek, lingering for a second before pulling away. “Thanks for the ride home.”
She turned to make her escape so she couldn’t do something embarrassing. He might already think the kiss was too forward, but she couldn’t seem to help herself. It was impulsive, but worth it to have her lips on him, even if for a fleeting moment.
“Wait.” He took her hand, keeping her in the car.
She shifted her position so she was facing him again.
“I think we can do better than that.” He leaned into her, taking her face between his hands, licking his lips as he focused on hers.
He’s going to kiss me. Like really kiss me!
“Not that your kiss wasn’t sweet, but...” He brushed his mouth along her jaw, slowly working his way to her lips. “Can I kiss you, Aurora?”
“Yeah.” She’d waited years for a proper kiss from him. “Anyway you want.”
“Like this,” he spoke against her lips. “Slow, so I can savor you.”
“Hmm...” She shivered as his words vibrated into her mouth. Maybe she wasn’t just amusing to him. Maybe he could see her as a woman capable of being with him.
He tilted her face to the side, kissing her. Tender at first, but then, as he deepened their connection, so did the intensity. She tingled in places she hadn’t felt anything in for so long. The fire in her belly spread lower until she had to squeeze her thighs together in an attempt to create some friction there to ease the warm ache.
Releasing her, he smoothed out her hair as he placed soft kisses across her lips. The heat of his mouth left an impression on hers. She darted her tongue out and ran it along her lips, tasting him, needing to remember everything about their first kiss. The one she had dreamed about for so long. The kiss she never thought she’d get to experience except in her wildest fantasies. It was totally worth the wait.
“Good night, Aurora,” he whispered. “You’ve given me much to ponder.”
“Don’t think too hard.” She reached for the door handle. “That always tends to screw things up.”
“That’s probably some of the best advice I’ve ever received.”
“Who would have thought I could come up with something so useful?”
“I have a feeling you’re very useful.”
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Blood Sugar Test
Blood sugar test is done in various ways, which divided into 4 types:
1. Fasting blood sugar (FBS)
To measure level of blood sugar, you should not to eat and drink, 10- 12 hours before test, because they can stimulate digestive and muscular system and changes result of the test. You can resume your diet, immediately after testing.
Interpretation of the result
Normal level of sugar is between 65 to 70 mg/dl. 100- 110 mg/dl is the highest level. Sometimes this increased level is temporary and is due to consuming sugar food and it’s better to repeat testing.
Level of sugar more than 400, or less than 60, is dangerous, and is marked. Sugar less than 30 and more than 300, in babies, is dangerous.
1. 2- hour blood sugar test
This test is done 2 hours after eating, and is a valuable test for screening diabetes, evaluating response to treatment and monitoring medications in diabetes patients. In patients who have problem or disease, this type of sugar shows abnormalities.
Don’t drink and eat, 10- 12 hours before testing. After first testing, eat your breakfast as usual. This test should be done exactly 2 hours after the first test, less or more than this time, affects on result of the test.
blood sugar testAvoid smoking before blood sugar test, because it increases level of glucose.
Avoid using medications that reduce your blood pressure.
Using acetaminophen before testing, shows false positive result. So, it’s better to inform your doctor about any drug usage.
1. Oral glucose tolerance test (OGTT)
This test is done in diabetes person and those who have glucose under 140 mg/dl. So, it can be affected by diet and diseases. This test may take about 3- 6 hours.
Avoid smoking 3 days before testing.
Have a carbohydrate diet, 3 days before testing.
Refer to laboratory in the morning.
First, blood and urine test is taken, then you should eat a syrup contains 50 to 100 gr glucose, after eating you may feel weakness, vertigo and anxiety. But these symptoms are temporary and will be faded on its own.
1. Glucose challenge test (GCT)
This test is done to screen women who have mellitus diabetes during their pregnancy. Urine test or urinalysis is tested to determine sugar level.
This test lasts about 90 minutes.
You can eat food 2 hours before testing.
A glucose syrup is taken to you.
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This is an article about the species. For topics that share the name, see Fox (disambiguation)
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A red fox (vulpes vulpes)
Biological hierarchy
GenusVulpes, Cerdocyon, Dusicyon, Lycalopex, Otocyon, Urocyon
Foxes, scientifically referred to as vulpines, is a common name to properly refer to any one of the 27 species of small- to medium-sized omnivorous mammals belonging to the Canidae family, and bearing vulpine characteristics, particularly the sharp features and the brush-like tail.
The female fox is called a vixen, and male is referred to as a tod or dog. Tod (originally todd or todde)[1] is often used more frequently than its counterpart, "dog", in that there's less chance for confusion with other varieties of canine (many of which are also colloquially referred to as dogs). Their young are called kits, cubs, or pups. A group of foxes is called a skulk or leash[2].
The most common species associated with a fox is the red fox, belonging to the Vulpes genus. Other fox species include the Arctic foxes, kit foxes, crab-eating foxes, and fennec foxes. Foxes are largely characterized by their long, accentuated muzzles and bottlebrush tails, though other distinguishing features include retractible claws (much like cats and other felines), vertical pupils, and, in the grey fox, the ability to climb trees[2].
From birth, foxes are blind and unable to walk; a vixen, typically the mother of the cub or cubs, remains at all times with her litter from birth until the cubs are able to see, move, and function alone[3]. From this point onward, cubs must begin to ween, search for its first food (often earthworms, insects, and berries), and begin to sleep alone, instead of with parents or other guardians.
Foxes and furry[edit]
Depiction of standard anthropomorphic and nonmorphic red fox fursonas.
Foxes are one of the most popular phenotypes in the fandom, with the red fox being the most popular fox species. This may be due to the frequent anthropomorphism of foxes in literature (such as in Aesop's Fables, Disney's Robin Hood, and Roald Dahl's Fantastic Mr. Fox). In addition, foxes are a large archetype in figures of speech, such as "the fox guarding the henhouse", "crazy as a fox", "she's a fox", etc.
As foxes are portrayed frequently and in a myriad of ways,[clarify] they often have a broader appeal to role-players,[citation needed] making them easier to relate to and associate with,[clarify] and making it a popular choice of fursona.[clarify][citation needed]
Characters and fursonas[edit]
In traditional media, foxes are often portrayed as mischievous and cunning (Aesop) or heroic (Robin Hood); in furry fandom, however, foxes are such universally popular characters that they are no longer restricted to those traits by any means.[clarify]
While many[who?] may prefer a more realistic fursona, reflecting the fox's quiet beauty, intelligence, and cunning, others may prefer a more cartoon-like fursona (such as being silly, playful, and amorous), or have a more sexually based, or yiffy fursona.
Foxes, in some cultures and beliefs, are frequently associated with gender mutability (Kitsune were traditionally depicted as being able to transform into an old man, a young woman, or a mature fox at will), making it the most common phenotype among transgender furs,[citation needed] with almost one in six being a vulpine of some sort.[clarify][citation needed].
A vixen, by Yamavu.
This section is about the female fox. For topics that share the name, see Vixen
Vixens (from Old English fyxen),[4] are often notoriously characterized as hypersexual, attractive, and voluptuous, likely due to the notorious label of the same name given to attractive, voluptuous, or otherwise attractive human females.[citation needed]
The "dumb blonde" stereotype may apply to many vixens, leading to practice of "vixen jokes" (a tongue-in-cheek parody of "blonde jokes". See furry character Sheila Vixen); West Corner Of the Park, a furry webcomic, bases many of its running gags around the "stupidity" of foxes,[citation needed] a contradiction to the "cunning fox" mainstream view (see Räven).
Voop or voopies is a rarer term for vixen; its furry terminology's origin is unknown. Known voop characters include The Voops (Melonie Voop and Edith Voop), fox characters on the Funday PawPet Show, and Richard Hallock's Virtual Vikki, original known as the "Digi-Voop".[citation needed]
See also[edit]
1. [1] . Retrieved April 1, 2014.
2. 2.0 2.1 [2] . Retrieved April 1, 2014.
3. Reproduction and development section on the Red fox's Wikipedia article. Retrieved April 1, 2014.
4. [3] . Retrieved April 1, 2014.
External links[edit]
• article suggesting foxes catch their pray using the Earth's magnetic field as a form of range-finder.
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Startup Law 101 Series ( space ) What is Restricted Stock or share and How is it’s Used in My Startup company Business?
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The buy-back right lapses progressively occasion.
For example, Founder A is granted 1 million shares of restricted stock at $.001 per share, or $1,000 total, with the startup retaining a buy-back right at $.001 per share that lapses in order to 1/48th with the shares you will discover potentially month of Founder A’s service tenure. The buy-back right initially applies to 100% for the shares built in the grant. If Founder A ceased working for the startup the next day of getting the grant, the startup could buy all of the stock to $.001 per share, or $1,000 utter. After one month of service by Founder A, the buy-back right would lapse as to 1/48th within the shares (i.e., as to 20,833 shares). If Founder A left at that time, supplier could buy back almost the 20,833 vested has. And so up for each month of service tenure until the 1 million shares are fully vested at the finish of 48 months of service.
The repurchase option can be triggered by any event that causes the service relationship between the founder and the company to stop. The founder might be fired. Or quit. Or even be forced give up. Or die. Whatever the cause (depending, of course, more than a wording with the stock purchase agreement), the startup can usually exercise its option to buy back any shares possess unvested as of the date of termination.
How Is fixed Stock Applied in a Beginning?
We in order to using entitlement to live “founder” to touch on to the recipient of restricted original. Such stock grants can be made to any person, even though a designer. Normally, startups reserve such grants for founders and very key men or women. Why? Because anybody who gets restricted stock (in contrast for you to some stock option grant) immediately becomes a shareholder and all the rights of shareholder. Startups should stop being too loose about giving people this history.
For a team of founders, though, it could be the rule pertaining to which lot only occasional exceptions.
Even if founders don’t use restricted stock, VCs will impose vesting upon them at first funding, perhaps not in regards to all their stock but as to several. Investors can’t legally force this on founders but will insist on the griddle as a complaint that to cash. If founders bypass the VCs, this obviously is no issue.
Restricted stock can be taken as to some founders and others. Is actually no legal rule that claims each co founder agreement sample online India must acquire the same vesting requirements. One could be granted stock without restrictions of any kind (100% vested), another can be granted stock that is, say, 20% immediately vested with the remaining 80% under vesting, was in fact on. The is negotiable among creators.
Vesting do not have to necessarily be over a 4-year age. It can be 2, 3, 5, or any other number which enable sense to the founders.
The rate of vesting can vary as skillfully. It can be monthly, quarterly, annually, and other increment. Annual vesting for founders is comparatively rare the majority of founders won’t want a one-year delay between vesting points even though they build value in business. In this sense, restricted stock grants differ significantly from stock option grants, which often have longer vesting gaps or initial “cliffs.” But, again, this almost all negotiable and arrangements will vary.
Founders could attempt to negotiate acceleration provisions if termination of their service relationship is without cause or if perhaps they resign for good reason. If perform include such clauses inside documentation, “cause” normally must be defined in order to use to reasonable cases certainly where an founder is not performing proper duties. Otherwise, it becomes nearly unattainable rid for a non-performing founder without running the probability of a lawsuit.
VCs typically resist acceleration provisions. If they agree in in any form, it truly is going likely remain in a narrower form than founders would prefer, in terms of example by saying your founder can usually get accelerated vesting only anytime a founder is fired at a stated period after a change of control (“double-trigger” acceleration).
Restricted stock is used by startups organized as corporations. It may possibly be done via “restricted units” in LLC membership context but this a lot more unusual. The LLC a excellent vehicle for company owners in the company purposes, and also for startups in finest cases, but tends to be a clumsy vehicle to handle the rights of a founding team that wants to put strings on equity grants. It might probably be completed in an LLC but only by injecting into them the very complexity that most people who flock with regard to an LLC attempt to avoid. The hho booster is in order to be be complex anyway, will be normally advisable to use the business format.
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How to know fixture position
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How to know fixture position
Postby jjarvela » Fri Jun 16, 2017 5:20 am
Hi All
I am total amateur, so please excuse me for simple question.
Question is: How do I know the position of the fixture when installing it physically to rigging truss for example.
Lets say that I have a Martin Rush MH5 fixture. Now, how do I know which position should I install it and where is the XYZ coordinates so that it would match the program in Daslight 4?
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Apa citations for dissertations
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If no date is found on the source, include the initials, n. Prior to the inception of these standards and guidelines, individuals were recognizing the work of other authors by including bits and pieces of information, in random order.
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As such, the APA reference for published dissertations should include the database where it can be found and the accession or order.
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Math 251 - Calculus III
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Here are some links on Completing the Square (copy and paste them). Last semester it turned out that many students had forgotten this!!
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2. It's on YouTube!
Tutoring Links for Math 251: Note: Sadly, few of the tutors are qualified to tutor Math 251. Check with the Math and Engineering offices to find out if and when a tutor for Math 251 will be on duty.
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The Chiropractor Diaries
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4 months submit op for a L4-5 fusion with instrumentation and grafting with a pretty unremarkable Restoration until now. After lying in mattress, my lower back, far more during the sacral space and within the front to my iliac crests on either side feels painful and limited.
The failure amount for back operation is deplorable. The truth is, in lots of situations the operation essentially tends to make the pain worse then before the surgical treatment was completed.
Master what triggers the sharp (but harmless) abdominal pain referred to as spherical ligament pain and how to reduce it. Also figure out whe...
Do i have faith in the same surgeon who apparently didnt do it appropriate, go to another surgeon or just soldier on i Long-term pain ????
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Is this standard feelings adhering to the surgery? Must I be concerned? I have tingling in my ring finger on my still left hand and down my legs into my feet. I'm really terrified the operation didn't perform and I am now about to have Significantly worse pain in my back then check here just before. Am I paranoid or is this what it feels like in the event the surgical procedures doesn't do the job. That is a employees comp case and they're not as useful as I might have expected.
You may have reduce back pain within the late next or 3rd trimester. This can be a sign of preterm labor, especially if you did not have back pain just before that.
I’m a twenty five yr outdated woman, herniated my l5-s1 disc lifting a significant pt. did six months of chiro therapy and three steroid injections w/ no luck. Finally visited a neuro surgeon and decided on a left sided microdiscectomy and hemilaminectomy. Prior to surgical procedures I limped and had bilateral hip and leg pain. She didn’t do a modern MRI and went Using the six months outdated MRI. Submit op I continued to limp, have suitable hip/iliac pain and stiffness. I also can’t sit too extensive (I’m 6 months put up op) did 2 months of pt without progress, did an MRI which confirmed some disc product on right at l5-s1 displacing the s1 nerve.
Endoscopic ultrasound (EUS) employs ultrasound and endoscopy to just take photographs on the digestive tract and also the bordering tissues and organs. EUS might be handy in making quite a few health-related determinations, which include: staging of cancers from the esophagus, tummy, pancreas and rectum,
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FreeBeacon: “Calif. Cities Suing Exxon Forced to Walk Back Key Claim”
From Todd Shepherd’s April 5, 2018 Washington Free Beacon article:
… The cities had initially pointed to a 1996 internal memo from an industry group, the Global Climate Coalition (funded by the America Petroleum Institute), which said that, “a doubling of carbon dioxide levels over pre-industrial concentrations would occur by 2100 and cause ‘an average rate of warming [that] would probably be greater than any seen in the past 10,000 years.'”
… However, the memo was referencing an assessment by the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, and was not the independent findings of the GCC’s work.
The Free Beacon shows the backpedal rewording in their own photo link above, and I reproduce it here for good measure (click image to enlarge):
That specific paragraph section’s wording in its original form is what prompted the title of my prior March 30, 2018 blog post, “If California v. BP Implodes via Insufficient Evidence, so can New York City v. BP.” Read all the way through my blog post, and you’ll see how this ‘lack of evidence to prove a fossil fuel industry conspiracy’ problem with the twin California global warming lawsuits and the NYC one doesn’t end there, it ultimately points a giant red flashing arrow at the clique of people who have tried for 20+ years to say there is ‘a fossil fuel industry misinformation conspiracy to reposition global warming as theory rather than fact.’
The California lawsuits’ reworded paragraph section loses all its teeth as “smoking gun” evidence proving oil companies knew man-caused global warming was settled science. It shouldn’t be reworded, it should be stripped entirely out of the lawsuits, and the main lawyer behind the use of it in both the California and New York lawsuits – Matt Pawa – should be compelled to explain why he didn’t know the evidence was totally worthless ….. or whether he knew it was worthless the entire time. But as I showed in my prior blog post, that same paragraph section appears in Matt Pawa’s 2008 Kivalina v. Exxon lawsuit, as does the supposedly leaked memo subset insinuating skeptic climate scientist shills were paid and instructed under an industry strategy directive to “reposition global warming” which targeted “older, less-educated males” and “younger, lower-income women.”
No such targets or strategy was ever used by anybody anywhere.
The effort to prove the fossil fuel industry conspired to misinform the public about the certainty of man-caused global warming is demonstrably beginning to fall apart. The focus on where the real conspiracy is to be found should be turned 180 degrees in the opposite direction, to a particular small group people who’ve apparently conspired for years to misinform the public about the certainty of corporate-corrupted skeptic climate scientists.
With regard to the most recent series of municipalities suing energy companies to recover the ‘costs of man-caused global warming,’ never forget that these lawsuits are built on two premises: 1) “settled science facts” and 2) “industry-paid shill scientists following an industry-created conspiracy goal to cynically reposition global warming as theory rather than fact.” In a sinister way, no less. The presiding judge in the CA v. BP Oakland version of twin California lawsuits just indicated that there is no evidence for the conspiracy accusation. This spells doom for the other People of the State of California v. BP P.L.C. et al. San Francisco Superior Court Case and for the City of New York v. BP case. In this post, I’ll explain how that is. Continue reading
Whenever There is Any Doubt, There is No Doubt
There’s always more – the Schneider/Hertsgaard error
Around halfway down the page at my previous blog post, I briefly noted that the late IPCC scientist Dr Stephen Schneider seemed to make an error about the Global Climate Coalition’s efforts to “reposition the debate onto the issue of uncertainty.” Much like any other examination into facets of the accusation that skeptic climate scientists are paid fossil fuel industry shills, a look into this error only reveals more problems with the basic overall accusation and the people who push the accusation. Continue reading
My 11/8 blog piece recapped six problems seen with a single paragraph written by Ross Gelbspan in a 2005 Mother Jones article, and went on to tell about another of his major narrative derailments. But I mentioned there was one more big problem that needed a separate blog piece to examine it. That’s what this piece will cover. Continue reading
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The count
He sits alone in his spaceship, counting the hours. The minutes, the days and the seconds too, but mainly the hours. They are his focus. The more hours he counts, the fewer there are to go. The sooner this mission will be over. He is hanging in space, counting. All of space around him, under […]
Kurt Vonnegut reads Breakfast of Champions
92Y Podcast: Kurt Vonnegut Reads Breakfast of Champions – 92Y Blog – 92nd Street Y – New York, NY I’ve been going through some old links I’ve been meaning to read, and found this. It’s an MP3 of Kurt Vonnegut’s first public reading of Breakfast of Champions. This was my favourite Vonnegut novel for some […]
“these strange college students with their funny jargon and nerdy ways did more to start the computer revolution than any silicon engineering team. naturally curious, these mit students had devoted their lives to intellectual tinkering. they believed in a co-operative society and imagined themselves living in a utopian world in which people shared information – […]
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Thursday, August 13, 2015
New PS4 Incoming! Also, UPDATE!
Let's do this thing! A new game system for me to screw around with for when #Fallout4 comes out! Can't wait! So while we wait, I'll give some updates regarding my channel!
-My video production is restricted to the few and far between streams. They'll be chopped up and posted to the gaming channel.
-Since my laptop cannot handle gaming, I'm working on simple commentary videos. I've already made a channel with a video already posted! The first video of the new channel is stupid, short, and awkward. Wanna see it? The actual channel can be found here.
-I was saving up for a new computer, but I wanted a PS4 instead. Don't like that? Bite me.
-My Tumblr is inactive.
-My Twitter is still active.
-My Twitch streams are few and far between.
-My Google+ community has been dead since the beginning of time.
Well that's about everything. Peace out guys!
Friday, July 3, 2015
This War of Mine is now on Hiatus!
Apart from the constant crashing of the game, I want to have a break from recording. Actually that's a load of bullshit. The truth is the game keeps crashing and I reeeaaaally don't want to restart everything!
Here's a link to the playlist found Here.
As soon as I get my shit in gear, I'll start pumping out videos to be posted at noon EST
I really don't want to put an entire folder of Thumbnails to waste.
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Navigate by Ear for Short Distances
Martn Hnrchs shared this idea 7 months ago
I wish a function that told me the distance and angle (or hour) to a given point triggerd by pressing a hardware key.
Id like to press on a hardware button (for Example Vol+) and hear the distance in meter (and angle/degress or hour), also if my phone is securly in my pocket.
Often i have to look on the rough ground (in the forest or rocky land) so i dont can look to my smartphone, And it were very fine if i can leave in in my pocket.
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Good day Martn,
for this purpose exists a system of guidance to points & sound notifications.
Tap on point and start "Guide on" feature.
To get necessary voice notifications, please enabled menu > settings > Guidance > Points - notification. Here setup "Repeated notification" together with "Text to speech" option at the bottom.
Little more complicated setup, but I'm sure you will get it. If there will be any troubles, feel free to contact us.
Thank you Menion for your answer!
I have some troubles to get the guiding to work.
I use the german Version and there is the Point "Abweichung" Info - Benachrichtungsentfernung. I tried to set it to 200 m. And then check the "Benachrichtung wiederholen" to 20 sec. And "Ton Einstellen" to Text-to-Speed.
Secondly i enabled "Punkte Benachrichtiung- Benachrichtung bei Annäherung- (Wiederholung) - 200 m - Ton einstellen Text-to-speech-
After that i mark a point an choose "Zielführung ein", On the screen i see the distance between me an the target.
But nothing happend?
What is the exactly meaning of "Benachrichtungsentfernung?"
"Abveichung" Info regards tracks, not, Points. Go to Einstellungen > Zielführung > Benachrichtigung > Aktivieren - Benachrichtigen bei Annäherung > define the distance of the alerts and Text-to-speech. Confirm by Übernehmen.
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1995 in the British Virgin Islands
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Events from the year 1995 in the British Virgin Islands.
• 14 May 1995 - Chief Minister Lavity Stoutt dies. He was the first and longest serving Chief Minister, winning a total of five general elections as party leader. At the time of his death he was also the longest serving Parliamentarian in the Caribbean region.[2] Ralph O'Neal succeeded him as both party leader and Chief Minister.
1. ^ "BVI election and information results 1950–2011" (PDF). BVI Deputy Governor's Office. p. 7. Archived from the original (PDF) on 7 April 2014.
2. ^ "Lavity Stoutt". Encyclopædia Britannica. Retrieved 2012-03-04.
3. ^ Miles B. Lawrence (January 8, 1996). "Hurricane Luis Preliminary Report" (PDF). National Hurricane Center. Retrieved 2016-11-29.
4. ^ Rappaport, Edward N; National Hurricane Center (January 17, 1996). Hurricane Marilyn: September 12 - 22, 1995 (PDF) (Preliminary Report). United States National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's National Weather Service. Retrieved November 29, 2016.
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What Are the Different Types of Anxiety and Panic Disorders?
different types of panic attacksAnxiety is actually a common human ‘condition” that most of us experience on various occasions and to varying degrees throughout our lives. Most of us are able to deal with it in a healthy way and move on.
But chronic sufferers from anxiety orders and panic attacks become overwhelmed to the point where their quality of life, and almost every important facet of their life, is affected by this condition. This anxiety triggers such a level of stress that it actually disrupts the person’s potential to lead life in a normal way.
An anxiety disorder is regarded as a very serious mental illness. For those who suffer from anxiety disorders, stress and dread are constant and consuming companions, and can actually become quite devastating.
Some of the more common kinds of anxiety disorders include:
Panic disorder: Individuals with this particular problem experience feelings of panic and terror which could strike without warning, and repeatedly. Various other signs of a panic attack can include perspiring, chest pains, heart palpitations, feelings of choking or suffocating, which could make the individual believe that he or she is experiencing a heart attack or even “going insane.”
(OCD) Obsessive-compulsive disorder: People with Obsessive-compulsive disorder are overwhelmed by continuous thoughts or dread that make them perform specific rituals or habitual routines. The distressing thoughts are known as obsessions, and the repeated rituals are labeled compulsions. A good example is someone with an irrational and excessive phobia of germs who continuously scrubs their hands.
(PTSD) Post traumatic stress disorder: This disorder which can develop after a traumatic or distressing incident. For instance, a sexual or physical attack, the unforeseen death of a family member. People who have PTSD frequently have long term and terrifying thoughts and recollections of the event itself.
Social anxiety disorder: also known as social phobia. The stress frequently revolves around a dread of being judged by other people, or behaving in a manner that may cause total embarrassment or result in derision.
Specific phobias: This specific phobia is an extreme fear of a particular object or scenario, for example, fear of spiders or snakes, heights, or the irrational fear of flying. The degree of fear far outweighs the nature of the specific situation.
Generalized anxiety disorder: This particular condition concerns excessive, impractical concern and panic, even when there is little or no reason to provoke the anxiety.
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Hula Hoop Tricks: “Escalator Variations”
This tutorial is made for everyone! It includes several variations for the Escalator hoop trick. If you are a beginner, focus on the first few…if you are experienced, check out some of the more complex techniques for your flow. This is an excellent hoop lesson by Jo Mondy from Brighton, England. Following is a breakdown of the various types of Escalators discussed in this tutorial.
• One Handed 0:04
• Continuous 0:47
• Classic Escalator 1:41
• Escalator Pose 2:33
• Escalator Jump Through 3:10
• Reverse Escalator 3:42
• Z Spin and Elbow Fold Variation 4:36
• Antispin 5:15
• Finding Your Flow 5:54
Enjoy your escalator variations!
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Spotlight on Students
EYW 1st Prize Essay of 2018 Spring Writing Contest
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The two novels "Wed Wabbit" and "Who Let the Gods Out" for Early Years students (G4-5) are all excellent works of children's books. The theme of this semester is about adventure, friendship and affection. Through adventure, sincere friendships give us beliefs and strengths, and no matter where we live, our family will always be our most solid spiritual support.
Teacher's review：For this spring course, Early Years students were asked to read two fantasy-type novels and then write a fictional story of their own. Kingsley made great use of clever word choices and sensory words in his Fantastical Story. He used vivid descriptions to show and not just tell his story.
Kingsley's Essay:
Chapter 1: The Snatch
Once upon a time, in a land far away, there was a small town. In the town, there lived a kid named Samuel. He wore brown pants and a rainbow colored shirt.
One sunny day, the sun shone brightly across clear, blue sky. As the sun looked like as if it was smiling to me, Samuel heard a loud knock on the front door. He dashed towards the door and opened it. He gasped. In front of him were huge tall men wearing black suits., the men were as tall as a building and as large as a elephant. Then, he spotted a limousine; it is very long, large and is bright gold. In the car sat four suspicious looking men.
Suddenly, he felt a strong grip on his shoulder; he tried to escape, but failed. The men dragged Samuel in the limousine and drove away. Samuel felt that the car was floating, flying. He looked out of the window, and……
“Ahhhhhhhh! Oh my gummy bears! How are we flying?”He screamed.
Then, he realized that he was not in the familiar town he lived, he was in a land full of creepiness. The trees were lollipops, the rivers were chocolate, and the houses are made from biscuits or crackers and even jelly beans. Even more, the animals were so unusual that he couldn’t tell if that weird and mysterious creature up in the sky is an elephant, fish or a bird.
Chapter 2: The Royal Palace
“Who are you? What do you want from me and where are you taking me to?” Samuel shouted. Finally, one of the huge man replied, ”Hey kid, sorry for not telling you, but our king wants to see you.”
Ten minutes later, they arrived at large, royal, beautiful and magnificent palace. The palace was bright gold and was surrounded with fierce looking ginger bread men holding weapons. The tall men showed an ID card that had their room number and other stuff like how tall they are or when are they born.
When Samuel stepped in the palace, he saw large paintings of people that he thought was the king’s ancestors, but actually was people who have saved the kingdom before. The corridor was filled with precious antiques and expensive chandlers. Suddenly, the door in front of us opened. There was a tall chair that was floating up in the sky and almost to the about to hit the ceiling. In the seat sat someone. “That’s the king, quickly, kneel down.”Someone whispered to Samuel. They all kneeled down while the king slowly and gently controlled his chair back to the ground.
Chapter 3: The Questioning
“Well hello there young man!” said the king cheerfully, “Do you want to know why you are hear?”
Samuel nodded eagerly as he really wants to go home. The king explained every detail about why I am here, why they caught me, where are they and who are they. “So we I am in Candy land and you want me to help you with a ten headed dragon?”Samuel asked to confirm about what the king said. “Yes. “Said the king as he ordered the soldiers to give Samuel a long reset. He went in a large room with a lot of mirrors facing all the directions. The room smelled like soda with sugar and had a gigantic wardrobe in the middle of it. The wardrobe was brown and looked like a chocolate bar, it had a wrapper of a chocolate bar, a smell of a chocolate bar and when he secretly took a bit of it, is tasted exactly like a chocolate bar. After fifteen minutes, Samuel finally finished dressing up. He wore a small golden crown which had a sapphire and had a royal cape that was bright red. Samuel also had a long warm bath and felt so fresh when he came out. Everything was perfect until someone ran into Samuel’s new room. “Samuel, it is time to go.” Said one butler, “please be quick.
Then, the butler walked away slowly. Samuel ran quickly pass the hall towards the front door. Outside was very bright and had a helicopter. Samuel went in the helicopter carefully and soon, they arrived at a mysterious island.
Chapter 4: The Mysterious Land
Before Samuel said goodbye to one of the large men that accompanied him, the man said,”Hey kid, when you go out of the helicopter, whisper to a guy wearing a pink hat this code ‘Bananas are great’ and he will help you on your mission, goodbye.” Samuel slowly stepped down the helicopter and looked around the island. The island had no trees, no grass, but only small dwarfs walking all around. The dwarfs wore red and white striped pants and green shirt. Some old dwarfs were bald and young ones wore red hats. The ground was as soft as mattress, and sky was azure blue. Samuel suddenly found a dwarf wearing a pink hat and ran towards him. He patted the dwarf’s back and whispered, “Bananas are great.”
When the dwarf heard the code, he started pulling Samuel’s jacket and began to run inside a small, wooden house. At the door, the dwarf knocked the door in a weird way. The sound of the knock was soft and quiet and sounded like a pattern or a sound. The door gave a loud creak. Samuel bent down and went in the house. The house was brown outside but was filled with amazing high-tech computers. The computers had a lot of numbers and codes on it and a rather tall looking dwarf was typing on one of them. There was a large TV in the middle and beside the TV was a metal door. Samuel was shocked, he finally found a normal human sized guy that was typing something wore a black suit, carried a gun in his pocket and had a pair of very well polished shoes. He wore a wrist watch and wore dark sunglasses. There were others that are also coding but they did not wear sunglasses. The place was large like a normal hotel and had very high security. “Who are you and what are we doing here? “Samuel asked the dwarf who took me in this house. “I am Tom and we are here to assemble and get weapons.”He said with a low voice.
Then, all of the men lined up in a row and the guy who wore sunglasses stood in the front. Samuel heard that the guy wearing sunglasses was named Jack, so he greeted him with a smile like a Cheshire cat. The guard who is guarding the metal door placed his finger in a machine and typed in some numbers in it. He led Tom, Samuel and Jack in. Jack was standing in the front and led Samuel and Tom to the room filled with weapons. Tom took a sniper and a handgun, Jack took a RPG and a Mk-47 and Samuel took a grenade, a grappling hook and a handgun too. They all wore suits just like Jack and was equipped with a hearing piece which can hear and communicate with each other within 91 kilometres. After equipping the awesome gear, three of them entered a secret tunnel.
Soon, they exited the tunnel and found themselves in a beetle looking car. Jack stepped on the accelerator and in ten minutes, they arrived at New York City’s one hotel. The hotel looked like a golden bank. They stepped inside the hotel and felt a gust of cold wind. Jack led us to a room beneath the front desk.
Chapter 5: Food poisoning
Early in morning the artistic golden sun got up like a baby and started painting the dark black sky into a bright blue sky. The bright looking milky clouds got up from sleep and started travelling around the sky visiting the wonderful environment. Samuel, Jack and Tom woke up early for the wonderful breakfast in the large room. The cake looked like a homespun masterpiece. It was fluffy as a pillow, toasty brown, and shot through with plum-colored swirls. This cream of mushroom soup hasn’t lost one jot of its butter-laden, cognac-kissed suavity. “Soup” is too prosaic a term for the pungent, earthy silkiness in every bowlful.
“Ahh, why are pimples growing on the hands?”Tom shouted with curiosity. Then, something weird happened. The news on the large white TV shone up. “There is some sort of food poisoning in the city after a new factory called Swaylor had opened a few months ago, and now everyone has been growing pimples and spots all over their body.”The lady in the news mentioned, then, ”Ahh,I am having spots too, help!” blared the lady as she ran away.
Tom was soon sent to the hospital by the waiters and Jack grabbed Samuel’s hand tightly and ran towards the car. In the car, he use his GPS and went to the factory which just opened.
Chapter 6: The Factory
As soon as they arrived at the factory, we saw dead grass and trees everywhere. “This place is badly polluted, “shouted Samuel with fear. The road was blocked by a checkpoint with a sign that read: No Trespassing! For employees ONLY!
Jack and Samuel decided to hide the car in the woods far away from the factory. They slowly and quietly stepped closer and closer to the main gate of the factory. Beside the main gate was a grey and black security just, and in it was 2 guards holding deadly weapons in their arms. They crept beside it and gave a knock on the door.
After knocking the door, they hid beside it and waited. Soon, one guard came out to check who it is. Jack punched him eye and told Samuel to wait here while he takes out the other guard. Momentarily, Jack came out dressed in the guard’s clothes and told Samuel to do so too. They carried the unconscious guards into a trash can and tied them up. Jack and Samuel successfully went in the factory.
The factory had a very bad smell, the smell was like rotten fish and the other workers were wearing big masks and all of them have some spots too. Jack and Samuel went up the ladder, and climbed on the roof of the factory and looked down from the large window on the ceiling. Below them were a lot of workers, carrying rubbish in trucks and trash in boxes. One of the workers took the rubbish and trash and pours it in a large machine and flicks the lever. The machine gave a loud roar and started to make some sort of white and smooth looking cube. The cube was next sent to a machine called the food changer. Within seconds, the trash changed into wonderful roast turkey. The fake turkey was then packaged into a famous turkey company box.
“These people are making fake products of food, the food will be mixed with the real ones and people would eat them and get sick.”Samuel said worriedly.
Jack started to get curios and asked Samuel,” why are they doing this to the city?”
Chapter 7: Who is Jorkey?
Jack and Samuel opened the vent and went in. In the vent also had a very bad smell, but the smell was worse than the one outside the factory. Both of them kept moving forward until they heard a voice coming.
They stopped.
They listened.
There was a loud laugh.
Samuel and Jack peeped though a small gap and saw a man wearing an oversized black suit. The man was as fat as a elephant and had a very deep voice. He was on the phone and he mentioned about food poisoning and a secret potion. Samuel realized why the man was doing there. He was trying to poison people and sell the medicine for a very high price so that he could be very rich. Samuel kicked open the door and shouted out the word freeze while Jack hid behind the door. The man turned looking surprised and shocked. Jack also looked surprised to find out who is it, it was Jorkey, the drug dealer that his whole agency was trying to catch. Suddenly, Jack saw something weird. Jorkey was hand secretly reached into his pocket and took out something black and silver, It was a gun! Jorkey pointed it to Samuel too and said, “It is only the two of us, let’s see who will live and who will die, then, Jack saw Jorkey was about to press a button underneath his desk and beside the button was a note, the note was small but could be able to see clearly. The note said: Emergency Alarm, press when intruders are in. He was about to press it when Jack shot his gun and injured, but still, the alarm rang. Jack and Samuel use searched the whole room to find the medicine but failed. Finally, Samuel found a vault was hidden behind a beautiful painting. He took the painting off the wall and was trying to open the vault. “It is too hard to open!” Samuel Exclaimed. Jack ran towards the vault and opened the vault, the potion was dark blue and had a label on it which says: TOP SECRET
Soon, the guards came in. Samuel hid in the closet while Jack hid under the desk. The guards looked very menacing and have tattoos on their arms. Samuel took out his gun slowly and shot both of them on the head.
Chapter 8: The factory closed
Samuel and Jack held their guns tightly and started to find the way out. Samuel was impatient and threw out his grenade and made a large on the wall. They both got out quickly and safely. Soon, the factory was surrounded with men. Jack smiled. It was the agency. Jorkey was soon arrested for food poisoning and the factory was announced CLOSED, the agency made copies of the medicine and not for long, and gave it to people living in the city, finally, the city was normal. Jack and Samuel became best partners and was promoted. Both of them worked hard and defeated a lot of drug dealers and terrorists.
The End…….
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Posted 24 May 2014 - 10:49 AM
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May 22, 2014 Thursday
Losing his family in the Armenian genocide cast dark shadows across
my dad's life and, surprisingly, my own.
By Douglas Kalajian Special to The Palm Beach Post
When I was 8, I watched my father break down in tears as a man on
television spoke about the long-ago massacres of Armenians in their
native land. Dad ran out of the room and I ran to my mother.
She told me his mother was among the many killed but warned me never
to ask him about that or anything else about his childhood. "It's
too sad," she said.
>From that moment, I felt I'd been born in midair carrying the
unbearable weight of a history I could never fully know or understand.
Over the years, as my mother shared what little more she knew about
my father's early life, it became clear her directive was rooted in
experience. She had been tiptoeing around any topic that would invoke
my father's deepest sorrows since they met as teenagers when he came
to America in 1928.
I never wanted to make my father cry, so I never violated her orders --
at least not directly. But whenever the opportunity presented itself,
I'd approach the topic obliquely and cautiously. If he responded at
subject. It was left to me to figure out the importance of each scrap,
and to connect it to whatever had come before or after.
This is how my lifelong conversation with my father continued,
yielding scattered pieces of a puzzle I'm still trying to complete
more than 20 years after his death.
What I know for certain is that Nishan Kalajian was born in a
wonderful place at an awful time. Diyarbakir, Turkey, had been our
family's home as far back as anyone could trace. Armenians and Turks
had lived separate but inseparable lives there for centuries along
the fertile banks of the Tigris River. Armenians called the ancient,
walled city Dikranagerd, honoring their most glorious king.
When my father was born in 1912, Diyarbakir sat at the core of
an imploding Ottoman Empire whose rulers blamed their miseries on
subjects who were simply too different from the rest. Within a few
years, the regime embarked on a campaign to eliminate the empire's
historic population of Armenians, Assyrians and Greeks.
By the time my father was 3 years old, he lost his mother, his home
and everything familiar before being cast into the world alone. I
bitterness and hate.
He volunteered none of it.
The Armenian Genocide was the defining reality of his life, yet he
would not talk about it. He dealt with his most painful memories in
a most Armenian way, by pushing them aside.
In the end, I think he wanted to tell me the rest. He probably told
me more during the last year of his life than he had in all the years
before, or it may just seem that way because he told me at least a few
stories that illuminated the others. We certainly talked more because
we spent more time alone together once my mother was gone. I know
that losing her also jarred loose the memories of all the previous
losses and traumas of his life.
But by then, it was too late for him to change entirely. His occasional
anecdotes were still as maddening in their brevity as they were
tantalizing in their revelations.
For years I obsessed about the missing pieces of his story, but
I've come to appreciate the value of what I did learn. I also came
to understand the story is as much mine as my father's because
his silence became my challenge, making it all the more difficult
to accept a complex cultural inheritance and to understand my own
identity as an American of Armenian descent.
So in spite of the many questions that remained, I sifted through my
own memories and whatever papers and photos my father left behind,
and wrote "Stories My Father Never Finished Telling Me," from which
the following excerpt is taken. I wrote it for my daughter and her
I hope they can figure out what to do with that unbearable weight of
history. Maybe they can figure out how to let it go and stop the fall
without losing all the wonderful parts of our inheritance.
My mother was born in Chelsea, Massachusetts, a tough little city of
immigrants across the Mystic River from Boston.
She grew up speaking Armenian in a house where everyone spoke
Armenian. Her parents named her Zavart, which means "glad." No one
at the hospital bothered to ask how to spell it. Someone simply typed
the name Martha on her birth certificate.
When Zavart/Martha turned five, her father asked a waitress at the
restaurant where he worked as a cook to take her to school. The
waitress registered her as Sylvia. That's the name that stuck. As an
adult, my mother always signed her name Sylvia Z. Kalajian. It was
a perfect compromise for someone who had to straddle the worlds of
her immigrant parents and her American friends.
She was still straddling when I, her only child, came along a few
weeks before her fortieth birthday. Instinctively, my mother trained
me to straddle, too, but it was years before I realized it.
I believed my father when he told me I was an American, period, just
like him. He always spoke about America in the first person plural.
This was our country, and we were Americans above all. He understood
America better than my mother did, maybe better than I ever will,
because he wasn't born here. I knew this because my mother told me
he was born in Armenia. I didn't hear it from him.
He hated the word immigrant, probably because he'd heard it used
as something other than a compliment when he first arrived, but he
loved the idea that an immigrant could become an American without an
asterisk. An American is an American, he insisted, no matter where
he was born.
I found out much later in life that America wasn't his first choice.
When it became impossible to remain where he was born, he found refuge
in Greece. He thought about moving on to Egypt, or France. Coming to
America was not quite serendipitous, but it was certainly a fortunate
turn of events.
"If I'd gone to those other places, I'd always be an outsider,"
he told me. "You might become a citizen, but you can't become a
Frenchman or an Arab. Here, I'm an American."
What a marvelous discovery for a man whose country vanished nearly six
hundred years before he was born. He could become an American so he
did, but he never melted. He never lost his language or his culture,
never forgot his history, never changed his name or tried to hide
his origin.
He never doubted he could be completely Armenian and completely
American at once and without conflict.
He was unwilling to risk any ambiguity where I was concerned, however.
He insisted I have an unmistakably American name, Douglas, after Gen.
Douglas MacArthur. But that still left me straddling a cultural fault
line, and trying to find my footing made me more eager to learn about
the side of the world my father came from.
Mom remained much easier to talk to, however, and her everyday
interests were more like mine.
Most nights, Mom and I would watch television together. She liked
comedies: "I Love Lucy." "The Beverly Hillbillies." "Ozzie and
Mom and I watched our silly shows while my father sat in the same
room, reading. He had headphones so he could listen to Chopin while
we giggled. My father would sit in his rocking chair upholstered in
gray cloth that was embroidered with a big, stylized, maroon "K,"
but he didn't rock. He sat very still, peering into his books.
Once in a while, when I was very lucky and got his attention just as
he was settling down to read, he'd talk to me about Armenia but only
the Armenia of long ago. He described a place of unfathomable beauty
and endless tragedy, invaded and eviscerated time and again.
I learned to listen carefully. When Dad decided he was done, no matter
whether the story was just beginning or in the middle or almost at
the end, he stopped talking and returned to his books--and there was
no bringing him back.
For all my father told me about Armenia's past, the Genocide of 1915
was the one subject he couldn't talk about or even listen to someone
else talk about. Sometimes he'd start and then just get up and walk
out of the room. Other times, he'd change the subject. But he told me
a little now and then, mostly when he didn't have time to think first,
when something made him angry or sad or brought back some feeling I
could never understand.
I know this was my father's way of dealing with pain, but I also
suspect Dad was purposely blurring the borders of his own memories
to obscure the seams between his harsh, early life as a Near Eastern
refugee and his new and cherished identity as an American businessman
and proud veteran. It was almost demanded by his ideal of becoming
and remaining perfectly American and perfectly Armenian at once
and indivisibly.
Many of the old people I remember were like my father, editing
their life stories or simply avoiding all talk of the time and place
where they lost so much. It is completely understandable but no less
unfortunate. It was a loss to the world, which might have learned
It's only in the past few years that Armenians have started to talk
out loud and in public about the Genocide. The survivors themselves
are nearly all dead, but a few smart people had the good sense and
courage to ask the old folks one last time to speak into a microphone,
or at least speak slowly while they took notes. I've listened to
recordings and read transcripts, but there is only one story that
could have stopped my fall, and it is too late for me to hear it.
For years now, on the many nights when I can't sleep, I get out of
bed and sit in Dad's rocking chair. It has been reupholstered three
or four times, but the gracefully curved and lacquered arms with
their carved goose heads are the same. I run my hands over them and
picture my father sitting there, looking as he did when he died,
still paratrooper trim at seventy-seven. His hair was still black
except for a gentle, distinguished brush of gray at each temple,
and still full except for a pronounced cock's peak up front and a
palm-sized bald patch at the rear, which he never acknowledged.
I think about him and all the reading he did in that chair. I take
one of his books or a photo album off the shelf and I look for pieces
of the puzzle that was his life and my heritage.
This is not a mystic quest. I have not been searching for the meaning
of life, or even for the meaning of my father's life. I just wanted
to know a little more about him and about his family, and about my
mother and her family. I wanted to know about these Armenians and
their long, difficult journey.
I hoped if I learned enough about them, I might uncover a clue to why
I cry when I hear songs sung in a language I cannot understand. Or
why I get angry about things I can do nothing about because they
happened long before I was born. Or why I sit up night after night
thinking about people I never met and never will meet because they
are long dead.
I am not a historian, and this is not a book of facts and dates and
sober analysis. This is a story told by a man born in midair whose
only hope for a good night's sleep is to close his fingers around
the frayed cord of history and tug with all his might.
Beginning in roughly 1914, the Ottoman government of what is now
modern-day Turkey began a campaign to eradicate all citizens of
Armenian, Greek and Assyrian descent, through massacres, forced
labor and death marches. An estimated 3.5 million people died between
1914-1923, and those who survived scattered throughout the world. It
was considered the first genocide of modern times.
Author Douglas Kalajian is a retired journalist who worked as a writer
and editor for The Palm Beach Post. He lives west of Boynton Beach
with his wife, Robyn. This excerpt comes from "Stories My Father
Never Finished Telling Me: Living With The Armenian Legacy Of Loss
And Silence." The book can be ordered in print and Kindle editions
from Amazon.com.
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@BOOK{marx97:_multid_modal_logic, title = {Multi-dimensional Modal Logic}, publisher = {Kluwer Academic Publishers}, year = {1997}, author = {M. Marx and Y. Venema}, volume = {4}, series = {Applied Logic}, abstract = { If the intended semantics for your modal language has as its states tuples or sequences of fixed length $\alpha$ over some base set and these tuples have some inner structure that determines accessibility relations, then you are in the realm of multi-dimensional ($\alpha$-dimensional) modal logic. Having discerned many technical similarities in the exploration of existing concrete examples, the authors of this monograph present a uniform and systematic approach to questions of expressivity and axiomatics. They also isolate proof techniques that are of general use. For each of the multi-dimensional formalisms that they consider the authors attempt to answer the following questions: 1. What is the expressive power of the modal language in terms of first-order logic? 2. Is there a finite derivation system for the set of formulas valid in the given class of multi-dimensional frames? 3. Is the satisfiability problem for the given semantics decidable? 4. Does the logic have the Craig interpolation property? 5. If the answer to any one of questions 1, 2, or 3 is "no", how can the formalism be modified to get "yes" instead? This monograph has six chapters and two appendices. There are an extensive bibliography, a list of symbols, and a terse index. Appendix A, "Modal similarity types", introduces notation and terminology that form the basic background that the reader should have. Appendix B, "A modal toolkit", contains general notions and techniques that are repeatedly applied in the text and which may be unfamiliar to the reader who is not a specialist. The heart of the text consists of Chapters 2, 3, 4, and 5. Chapter 2 gives the technical grounding for multi-dimensional modal logic. Chapter 3 is on arrow logic as the basic (2-dimensional) modal logic of transitions. Chapter 4 is on the temporal logic of intervals. Chapter 5 presents a modal perspective on first-order logic. Modal calculi of relations (of ${\rm rank} > 2$) are discussed and some results are applied to the theory of cylindric algebras. } }
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"The Paris Local Universe Simulations: Dark Matter Sky Maps"
© Guilhem Lavaux
This picture shows the result of a high resolution N-body simulation which has been specifically designed to look like the Local Universe. More precisely it depicts what is the sky of an observer which would be located at the center of our galaxy and look at the entire sky. We use for that a Mollweide projection, which is another way of representing the surface of a full sphere like in geography to represent the surface of the Earth.
The simulation itself is shown through the blue-red colored density field which represents the projection of the 3d density field from our position to a distance of 100 Mpc/h (roughly 300 millions of light years). In addition we represent the true observed galaxies of our Local Universe with small green discs. We clearly see that the green discs and the colored density field track each other. This is a feature of this simulation. This technique will allow to compute complementary observables and cross-check their predictions to actual observations (e.g. X-ray observations, Microwave Background sky).
The darker areas depict the sky limit of the catalog used to constrain and build the simulation. In the plane of the sphere, we see that no object has been observed. Indeed this plane contains our galaxy whose emission and absorption properties hinder the detection and characterization of galaxies lying behind.
For more information about this image see the abstract and the poster (.pdf)
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André Dirk
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André Dirk is the original creator of the famous 'Secrets of Sonic the Hedgehog' (SoStH) website. His friend had a pre-release version of Sonic 2 (Genesis). André took screenshots of the game and put them on his site, calling the game "Sonic 2 Beta". People still use the name today.
One day he took some 'Sonic 2000' screenshots (Sonic 2000 was a fan-made game) and claimed they were from a game called 'Sonic Pastures'. This became the first page of his 'Sonic Hoaxes' section of SoStH. Other people began submitting hoaxes to the site, and soon hoaxes became very popular. All thanks to André. In other words, André started the whole Sonic hoaxing scene. And the 'Sonic secrets' scene.
One day he made some deliberately bad hoaxes for fun and put them under his site, claiming that they were created by someone named 'Samantha Clarfet' (a name that André just made up on the spot ['Clarfet' is pronounced 'Clar-fay']). Afterwards, Samantha Clarfet became a real person. It was the magic of the Sonic fan community at the time that made her come alive. She is still alive today! (In reality, it's just a bunch of other people pretending to be her).
The most famous (or perhaps infamous) of Samantha's (André's) hoaxes is the Sonic Chaos "Who will bake the pie?" hoax. Only André truly knows what that's all about.
One of the "hoaxes" was actually a screenshot of a work-in-progress game entitled Knuckles in China Land. The game was made available for download [1] 6 years after first being mentioned on SoStH.
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9 signs youre dating a werewolf
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Sunday, 3 September 2017
Der Ring des Nibelungen, Bayreuth, August 2017
Marek Janowski
Bayreuther Festspielhuas, 23 - 28 August 2017
Conductor: Marek Janowski
Director: Frank Castorf
Sets: Aleksandar Denic
Wotan Iain Paterson
Donner Markus Eiche
Froh Daniel Behle
Loge Roberto Sacca
Fricka Tanja Ariane Baumgartner
Freia Caroline Weinborne
Erda Nadine Weissmann
Alberich Albert Dohhmen
Mime Andreas Conrad
Fasolt Gunther Groissbock
Fafner Karl-Heinz Lehner
Woglinde Alexandra Steiner
Wellgunde Stephanie Houtzeel
Flosshilde Wiebke Lehmkuhl
Actor Patric Seibert
I have finally achieved what I have been dreaming of for fifty years (literally....I first saw the RING at Covent Garden in 1967).......I have been to Bayreuth to see the RING. I am home now, sort of, but my head is still in the Golden Motel on Route 66! Yes, you did read that correctly! I loved this witty, quirky, fascinating and at times infuriating production by Frank Castorf, which is set in a rather sleazy motel during the oil boom. I suppose I would have to admit that it isn't a production for beginners, perhaps you do need to be an experienced Wagnerian to 'get' it, but having said that, it was well worth the effort. I did have to acclimatize myself, although I had some idea of what to expect.
t's not possible to discuss the PRODUCTION separately from the PERFORMANCE, because the visual impact here is as important as the musical performance by the orchestra and the singers..... a Gesamtkunstwerk, as Wagner envisaged. You usually assume that the musical performances are going to be outstanding..... I would single out for special praise the subtle, enticing and sultry Erda of Nadine Weissman, and Iain Patterson's Wotan, striking just the right balance between shiftiness and the attempt at nobility. In a production like this, you have to be able to ACT as well, and in the scene where Loge is mocking them as they age due to the absence of Freia and her apples, you see Wotan on the screen, his face contorted in a frown of worry. Robert Sacca brought a great deal of dry wit and humour to the role of Loge.
What we see here on the right is the motel swimming pool which earlier contained the gold, which Alberich has long since stolen. In the first scene, the Rhinemaidens mock Alberich cruelly, and then they play with the gold, throwing it out of the pool, laughing hysterically until it is too late...unfortunately, I was unable to find an image of this.
The staging does convey the essence of Wagner's drama, though it may not be conventionally 'beautiful'. After all, what does an unprepossessing middle-aged man (sorry, Albert Dohmann!) really expect when he tries it on with a group of pretty girls....!!!
The layout of the staging takes place on three levels.....the stage itself, then a balcony (the whole production makes a lot of use of stairs and platforms), then a screen on which the audience can see related but not identical actions during the stage action. After the theft of the Gold, we see the Rhinemaidens drinking and partying!!
This was funny, and unexpected.......I suppose we have always imagined that they cower in the darkness at the depths of the Rhine, lamenting their fate.......but here we see them putting a brave face on things!! (Perhaps it hints that they know that in the end things will work out).
When we transition to Valhalla - or the mountain top, I suppose, since Valhalla has only just been built and they are going to have a lot of problems before they can move in - we see that Wotan (Iain Patterson) is an incurable philanderer, canoodling with Freia on the bed in Fricka's presence. Later we'll see that he can't keep his hands off Erda either......
There were some really wonderfully witty touches, such as the scene in which, when Loge and Wotan have captured Alberich, Mime takes down the Confederate Flag (yes!!) and hoists a rainbow flag instead. Unfortunately, I can't find an image of this. However, there were also less felicitous aspects of the staging. It seemed a bit perverse that Wotan and Loge had ALREADY captured Alberich (AND Mime) as soon as they descended into Nibelheim. They have put paper bags over their heads, and tie them to the petrol pumps BEFORE the scene actually starts.....Alberich wrests the Tarnhelm from Mime and uses it to make himself invisible and terrorise the Nibelungs (whom we never see or hear in this production), and only after this do Wotan and Loge arrive in Nibelheim, to be told by Mime what has happened since Alberich forged the Ring.
All in all, though, I found Castorf's production very thought-provoking, with all its faults, because he has evidently put a lot of thought into it, and it IS largely consistent with Wagner's idea of Gesamtkunstwerk.
When Janowski came on for a curtain call, I was surprised to hear people boo, as I thought he had conducted a fine performance, especially the finale (Entry of the Gods into Valhalla)......but it transpired people thought they were booing Castorf!!! People just don't think.......certainly there were no further boos for the conductor or the performers after DAS RHEINGOLD, and I think most of us quickly came to terms with the production.
Siegmund Christopher Ventris
Hunding George Zeppenfeld
Wotan John Lundgren
Sieglinde Camilla Nylund
Brunnhilde Catherine Froster
Fricka Tanja Ariane Baumgartner
Gerhilde Caroline Wenborne
Ortrlinde Dara Hobbs
Waltraute Stephanie Houtzeel
Schwertleite Nadine Weissmann
Helmwige Christiane Kohl
Siegrune Maerike Morr
Grimgerde Simone Schroeder
Rossweise Alexandra Petersamer
Actor Patric Seibert
Act I
For DIE WALKUERE, we have moved back in time, to the years just before, and just after, the Russian Revolution. Sieglinde and Hunding inhabit a farmhouse in Eastern Europe or Central Asia (in Act III it transpires that the location is Baku in Azerbaijan). The action again takes place on more than one level.....when Hunding arrives (with an enemy's head on his spear!) Sieglinde retreats to the balcony to prepare the meal......but nobody really bothers to eat much. We then see on the screen Sieglinde preparing the drugged drink for Hunding - and on this occasion Castorf has obviously decided to follow Wagner's stage directions exactly. (There are times, as I've already indicated, where the staging does go against the text, if not necessarily contrary to what is being expressed in the MUSIC). Sieglinde has an expression of grim determination on her face......this is a Sieglinde who is angry, not sad, and is delighted that she might finally be close to getting her revenge.
Sieglinde steht eine Weile unentschieden und sinnend. Sie wendet sich langsam und zögernden Schrittes nach dem Speicher. Dort hält sie wieder an und bleibt, in Sinnen verloren, mit halb abgewandtem Gesicht stehen. Mit ruhigem Entschluss öffnet sie den Schrein, füllt ein Trinkhorn und schüttet aus einer Büchse Würze hinein. Dann wendet sich das Auge auf Siegmund, um seinem Blicke zu begegnen, den dieser fortwährend auf sie heftet. Sie gewahrt Hundings Spähen und wendet sich sogleich zum Schlafgemach..........
During the Love-Duet between Siegmund and Sieglinde, we can see Hunding writhing about in a nightmare during his drugged sleep........but this is one of the glorious musical moments when you forget about the staging and just concentrate on the glorious voices of Siegmund (Christopher Ventris) and Sieglinde (Camilla Nylund) as they reach heights of ecstasy. There are again a few ironic touches in the staging.....when Siegmund opens the door, we see a shed full of agricultural machinery, not the sun flooding in, but he does get a sword. (I thought the cage of live turkeys was a nice touch, as well).
(an image from two years ago, with Johann Botha, not Christopher Ventris, as Siegmund).
Meanwhile the screen shows a montage of early Soviet propaganda films, including the famous one of the butter churn.....and a page of PRAVDA appears on the screen.
Act II
John Lundgren takes over from Iain Patterson as Wotan in DIE WALKUERE, and has a very powerful and impressive stage presence. He tries to hold his own during the argument with Fricka, but deep down he realises he has lost before it even starts. I absolutely loved the portrayal of Fricka (Tanya Ariane Baumgartner) as a sort of exotic figure dressed in Tashkent silk.......reminding us that the setting is Soviet Central Asia.
Catherine Foster's radiant 'Ho-jo-to-ho' resounded through the auditorium, she must be the best Brunnhilde of our time. For me, the TODESVERKUENDIGUNG is one of the most poignant scenes in the Ring - the music rises to a pitch of almost unbearable tension as Siegmund asks.......
Begleitet den Bruder
die bräutliche Schwester?
Umfängt Siegmund
Sieglinde dort?
and then we hear Brunnhilde's calm reply - 'no, she can't come to Valhalla with you yet'.
She knows what Siegmund and Sieglinde don't yet know.......that Sieglinde is to bear
Siegmund's child.
Brunnhilde's moment of decision - to support Siegmund against her father's orders -
was stunning in its intensity.
(Ride of the Valkyries)
And so at last we come to the oil fields of Baku......accompanied by silent film newsreels from 1942, when the Battle of Stalingrad prevented Hitler's troops from accessing the Caspian oil fields. The heroes transported by the Valkyries are carrying red flags as they collapse dead on the high platform of the oil derrick.
It is against this background that Brunnhilde sleeps, awaiting Siegfried. John Lundgren's Wotan excellently conveyed the pathos and grief hidden beneath the original anger, and his Farewell was heartrending.
Siegfried Stefan Vinke
Mime Andreas Conrad
Der Wanderer Thomas J. Mayer
Alberich Albert Dohmen
Fafner Karl-Heinz Lehner
Erda Nadine Weissman
Brunnhilde Catherine Foster
Woodbird Ana Durlovski
Actor Patric Seibert
This is the replica of Mount Rushmore that the designer Aleksandar Denic created for all takes place under the eyes of the Communist icons of Marx, Lenin, Stalin and Mao. The set again makes use of various staircases and platforms so that the performers can confront each other from different perspectives.....especially effective in the Wanderer/Mime scene, with Thomas J. Mayer a commanding, sonorous Wanderer, and Andreas Conrad a cringing Mime.
I would just like to explain something about this scene, because people sometimes ask, what is the point........surely we know all this already? Well, on one level yes, but there are two reasons why it is included. In the original plan for YOUNG SIEGFRIED, Wagner did need to use it as exposition, and it is drawn from the Riddle poems in the Old Norse sources, in which a God (Odin) in disguise visits a dwarf renowned for his wisdom, and proposes a Riddle Contest in which the loser is to forfeit his head. (The dwarf loses). The second reason is that, although we no longer need the exposition, we are now learning a lot about the inner landscape of Wotan's mind.......the fact the he is able to recognise that he and Alberich are each other's alter ego....he even refers to himself as Licht-Alberich.
Stevan Vinke has the stamina and the high notes to portray this Siegfried convincingly as an untutored (in spite of Mime's best efforts), bumptious, thoughtless teenager. He does forge a weapon, but when he kills Fafner it turns out to be a Kalashnikov.......perhaps fitting, in the circumstances.
Act I takes place in and around the caravan that was previous used by Alberich and Mime in DAS RHEINGOLD. For Act II we move to Berlin Alexanderplatz....a very accurate model of the U-Bahn station.
So no, not in the forest. Nature is conspicuously absent from the stage in this production, which is largely set in urban surroundings. There is one major exception, which I shall come to in ,GOETTERDAEMMERUNG. For Siegfried, the forest is desolate, he is alone and unhappy, so really the empty underground station is equally a place of desolation. The problem, though, is that the Forest Murmurs really convey the idea of a tranquil environment......until we hear Fafner's motif!!
So, Siegfried is thinking.....what shall I do,......and then the Woodbird appears.
BEST.WOODBIRD.EVER. (Ana Durlovski).
The production does have her (rather than IT!) approach Siegfried in a flirtatious, sexual way, which is perhaps not quite what Wagner intended, but it worked well within the context of the production, and was very entertaining. Ana Durlovski has a light soprano voice and made the most of her scene. We all applauded her enthusiastically at the end.
Act III starts with Wotan's last attempt to avoid the inevitable, to which end he summons Erda again, to ask if her wisdom can assist him....but the attempt is doomed. She can't, or won't help him, and he tells her that her wisdom is now at an end......Dein Wissen vergeht vor meinen Willen!!
In this production they eat a meal together - here he is stuffing pasta into his mouth, and the waiter keeps bringing them more and more wine (the waiter is the actor Patric Seibert, about whom I have not had space to say very much, but he is a continuous presence throughout the RING, playing silent characters, especially waiters.....and in Siegfried the 'bear'.....not in a bear costume, but attached to a slave collar). Nadine Weissman is again a very sultry, husky-voiced Erda (and she doesn't look old enough to be Brunnhilde's mother!!) She reacts angrily to Wotan's demands, and finally makes a very rude gesture at the waiter when he tried to present her with the bill (Wotan having disappeared).
The orchestral passage which indicates Siegfried's climbing the mountain and going through the fire was played with exquisite beauty......I always find this so beautiful that I don't want him to break the spell by starting to sing again!!!
Catherine Foster was again the outstanding performance of the evening, her clears conveying the whole range of Brunnhilde's experience..... awakes to a new and very different life, it's puzzling and upsetting at first, but as she gradually adjusts she relaxes.......becomes more human, as Wagner says.
The Love Duet is interrupted by the famous - or infamous - crocodiles.....this is quite funny, if somewhat distracting...while they are singing their hearts out, exulting in their love, they are fending off the crocs, Brunnhilde finally shoves a patio umbrella down the throat of the largest one.
What was the point of the crocodiles - was it just to get a cheap laugh? I spoke to someone who said she had been to a talk in which they were informed that the Zoo was destroyed in a bombing raid in 1944, and some of the animals escaped, including the crocodiles, which made their way into the underground tunnel network. Well, maybe......but I am reminded of the urban myth about the alligators in the New York sewers.......
Siegfried Stefan Vinke
Gunther Markus Eiche
Alberich Albert Dohmen
Hagen Stephen Milling
Brunnhilde Catherine Foster
Gutrune Alison Oakes
Waltraute Marina Prudenskaya
||1. Norn Wiebke Lehmkuhl
2.Norn Stephanie Houtzeel
Woglinde Alexandra Steiner
Wellgunde Stephanie Houtzeel
Flosshilde Wiebke Lehmkuhl
Actor Patric Seibert
The most memorable performance of GOETTERDAEMMERUNG that has ever taken place in Bayreuth - for various reasons.
Act 1
The Norns seem at one point to be performing something like a Voodoo ritual as they try to see the future before their rope breaks - perhaps this is in keeping with the general tone of the production.
Catherine Foster and Stefan Vinke intone a rapturous love duet before he sets off with the horse (doll!) that she has given him. This wasn't quite as funny as the crocodiles, in fact by now some of us were beginning to tire of these little touches of humour, however welcome they may have been in DAS RHEINGOLD. (I mean, by now we get the point!!)
When we see the Gibichung Hall, this is really a tour-de-force of theatrical design. Probably not quite what Wagner envisaged!! But a fitting background to Hagen (Stephen Milling - dark, brooding stage presence and voice) and his plans.
This is the kebab stall which does duty for the Gibichung Hall, and round the corner there is a fruit and vegetable stall. Hagen expertly manipulates Gunther and appears he is not without some affection for them,.....or at least for Gutrune......since he gives her a car!! (To reward her for agreeing to marry Siegfried).
I always wonder about Gunther and Gutrune - they are helpless, weak characters, but how far this excuses their perfect willingness to fall in with a scheme of deception and betrayal must remain open to question. I am also not sure that the staging IS particularly at variance with the music and text.....the empty exchange of courtesies between Siegfried and Gunther could take place anywhere, after all.
Marina Prudenskaya was a steady-voiced, sympathetic Waltraute, and I loved her Artemis costume (complete with bow, which you can just see in the lower image)!!
But Brunnhilde, of course, is no longer able to enter into the feelings and concerns of the Gods - as she says.....
Der Götter heiligem
bin ich Törin enttaucht:
nicht fass ich, was ich erfahre.
I am a fool who has escaped from the holy heavenly mist of the Gods.....
I don't understand what I am hearing.
She is a mortal woman now, for good or ill.........and indeed it soon goes ill with her.
Now something completely unexpected happened. As we returned from the interval,
an announcement was made that Catherine Foster had injured her foot and was
unable to actually perform.She was, however, going to sing from her wheelchair at
the side of the stage, while a substitute mimed for her. This was a thoroughly
professional action, and she sang as well as though she hadn't been injured,
such exciting, soaring tones as she raged at Siegfried and Gunther.....
(but not Hagen, with whom she forms a temporary alliance). Meanwhile the stand-in
mimed, perfectly competently, and she was greeted with thunderous applause
at the end of the act.
And that is why no-one will ever forget this GOETTERDAEMMERUNG.
But there is more to come!!
Hardly anyone realised at first, but the stand-in was actually a MAN!!
Andreas Rosar, one of the Assistant Stage Managers. Now, most of the audience
thought that it was a very brave thing to do -imagine being told at five minutes notice,
'Here, put on this wig and this gold dress and go and mime Brunnhilde'. Even if he
had done it less competently, he still deserved the applause for agreeing to do it, but
he wasn't at all bad, Unbelievably, though, some idiots in the audience actually booed.
WHY?? Should they have cancelled the performance? This was our last chance to see
Castorf's production, obviously the production team did the right thing. But there has
been a lot of discussion on social media - by people who didn't see the production -
about how awful it was, and it was a really stupid idea......
but the vast majority of the audience had nothing but praise for this ingenious
solution to the problem.
The Rhinemaidens think they might have found a way to get the Ring from Siegfried without too much effort, but it backfires rather badly.
In a curious twist, after he has refused to give them the ring and shown a .fine display of defiance and indifference to fate, they don't immediately go off to find Brunnhilde, but stay around, flirting and teasing.
Siegfried is not killed during a hunt, at least that's not what appears on the doesn't matter really though, does it, because it's just a plot device to get him somewhere where he is vulnerable. The action takes place in a dark alleyway, as Hagen persuades Siegfried to tell Gunther and the Gibichungs about his youth and how he killed the dragon and then - this is the crucial point, of course - gives him the drug that reminds him of Brunnhilde - and then strikes him down. (It actually takes him several blows to achieve this). And now comes the exception to the absence of Nature that I mentioned before - during Siegfried's Funeral March, the screen concentrates on Hagen, who is walking morosely home though the forest - so you HEAR Siegfried's Funeral March, but you experience, or are privy to, Hagen's thoughts.
And then - here we are outside the New York Stock Exchange - seat, and symbol, of corruption and greed. It is this that needs to be destroyed.
Brunnhilde's Immolation was most poignant in her last Farewell to Wotan - 'Ruhe, ruhe, du Gott'. These few words always bring me close to tears.
And then finally the Rhinemaidens drop the Ring, not into the river (swimming pool), but into a flaming brazier. Will this purify it, as the water was supposed to do, according to Brunnhilde? We will perhaps never know.
1. Thank you for this wonderful description of what you saw is best I have read! It sounded wonderful and I shared your excitement. It is such wonderful music isn't it, and each generation seems to be able to make it their own. I wrote about my Wagner experience in a book - it is called 'Blue Tulips, a Love Story' available through Amazon as kindle book or paperback if you are interested!
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[Mono-dev] the draft of GSoC Proposal for FreshBuild
Alex xtzgzorex at gmail.com
Tue Apr 5 10:28:33 EDT 2011
Proposal looks good to me. Generally, mentors are selected after you
submit your proposal, so I suggest just going ahead and submitting
this to GSoC!
On a side-note, Mono is actually written in C, not C++. I don't know
if there's any C++ code anywhere, though.
2011/4/5 Sharp BladeÎÞºñÖ®ÈÐ <sharper.than.bladez at gmail.com>:
> Here's my the draft of GSoC Proposal for FreshBuild,would there be
> anyone like to be my mentor ?
> GSoC Proposal for FreshBuild
> Personal Information
> Name: Jiacheng Jiang (Sharper than Blade)
> Email: sharper.than.bladez at gmail.com
> FreshBuild : Add MSVC and GCC Supprot to XBuild/MSBuild and Translate
> Makefiles to MSBuild Project Files
> Abstract
> This project is to improve the XBuild so as to provide MSVC and
> GCC support and translate makefiles to MSBuild project files.It is
> intended to simplify the building process on both the Windows and
> Linux platform and cut down building problems.Also,many opensource
> projects would benefit from the MSVC compiler in performance, which
> can usually produce faster bytecode.FreshBuild is based on XBuild and
> would eventually merged into it.
> Benefits to the Mono and other Open Source Communities
> Mono is made up of C++ and C# source code ,and ,just like many
> other opensource projects, it currently use GNU Make to build
> itself,including compiling,generating docs and running unit tests.It
> also provides XBuild,the counterpart of MSBuild,to build C# projects
> .However ,it has fallen behind since the MSBuild 4 has been updated to
> support VC++ compiler,which unified the building process on windows
> platform.
> Building is not easy.Many opensource softwares are mostly
> targeting on Linux,such as ruby ,nginx,memcached and so on. To build
> those softwares on Windows,you have to install Cygwin and use GCC,even
> though the MSVC compiler is available.And to take the advantage of
> GCC,you have to use GNU Make,which requires you to write
> makefiles.While Java and .Net developers would prefer to some easy to
> use ,more advanced and XML based build systems , such as Ant,Maven and
> MSBuild.I really hope to develop a makefile to MSBuild project file
> translator to migrate the GNU Make based projects,which would help me
> to get rid of those makefiles.Mono would then be able to be built by
> FreshBuild.
> Deliverables
> 1.A MSBuild extension to support MSVC on windows,which is the same
> as the official one .
> 2.A MSBuild extension to support GCC on both Windows and Linux
> 3.A makefile translator.
> 4.A visualizing tool to edit MSBuild project files
> 5.A build server for FreshBuild
> 6.Some docs ,some examples and a test suite.
> For such a project,I don't have to worry about tests.So I would
> take the ruby installer as my target.I'll translate its makefiles and
> compile it with MSVC.
> Project Details
> MSBuild is an Ant-like build system for Visual Studio,which
> supports VB and C# and is very extendible.Ever since VS2010 and
> MSBuild 4,it supports C++ projects.XBuild is the opensource edition of
> MSBuild.I would start from XBuild,add MSVC and GCC support to it and
> implent some missing features.It is not difficult,but it needs a lot
> of tests. I would also provide a MSBuild project file editor,in
> Winforms.
> As to the makefile translator ,It is a challenge for
> me.However,Microsoft also provided a NMake(the previous MSVC build
> tool) file to MSBuild project file converter. Since the capacity of
> MSBuild is a superset of GNU Make and it's so easy to extend ,it is
> possible to develop such a translator.I 'll write a makefile parser
> ,analyze the makefile structure ,do some replacement,and then generate
> the XML form build scripts.I have some experience in developing a
> compiler with Antlr.
> Project Schedule
> I wouldn't wait for the summer vocation to start the
> development,though I would be less active before it.And during the
> development process, I am eager to communicate with my community
> users.
> My schedule is made up of 16 weeks,starting from April 8,
> Week 1-2 : Learn about the usage of MSBuild,go through the source
> of XBuild and try to do extend it.Considering I have some experience
> using and extending the MSBuild ,it wouldn't be a matter for me.
> Week 3-4 : Create sample VC++ projects for tests,and start to
> develop the MSVC extension for XBuild.I just need to follow the
> MSBuild api in MSDN ,still ,it would not be a matter to me.
> Week 5-7 : Create sample GCC projects from the VC++ projects,dive
> into the GCC Manual and try to compile some softwares by Cygwin.I have
> to do a lot of reading,so it would cost a two weeks.And then I will
> spend one week to develop the GCC extension .
> Week 9-10 : Study the GNU Make grammar and read through its
> manual.Also I should do some experiments on it.
> Week 11-13 : Start writing the translator.I would write a lot of
> unit tests and develop the parser with Antlr.And I need to solve a lot
> of problems.Also,I need to try it on Linux.
> Week 14-15 : Develop the MSBuild Project file editor and build
> server.If necessary ,I would also need to fix some bugs.
> Week 16 : Hunt bugs and get feedback from community users.
> License
> MIT License
> Bio
> I am a junior student in the South China University of
> Technology.I have a lot of experience in C#,Java,PHP and Ruby.I have
> great interest in developing high performance compilers and
> servers.I've wrote a Javafx-like language grammar and a matlab
> language grammar with antlr.I like opensource softwares ,but sometimes
> have problem in compiling,installing and fixing dependencies,which
> costs me a lot of effort and makes me angry.So I came up with this
> project.
> Eligibility: In many ways,I am an eligible student.
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Re: Changes in the German translation >> Change other languages, change - into +
From: Dominique Meeùs <[email protected]>
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 2009 11:19:25 +0100
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Jörg Kohne a écrit ce qui suit, le 23/12/09 05:21 :
> […]
>> For example, "Exit Amaya" is replaced by "Beenden"
>> (no reference to Amaya),
> Yes, you're right! The word-for-word translation is "Amaya beenden". The
> germanised translation is simply "Beenden". Which program would otherwise
> have meant? ;-)
In French too, we have "Quitter Amaya".
Most applications in most operating systems have just "Quit (Ctrl+Q)".
In my opinion, one should not correct German but correct all other
languages to just "Quit" (without "Amaya") to be consistent with the
common practice in GUI application software.
By the way, most documentation about software and most menus are
expressing a combination of keys with the + sign (like in "Ctrl+Q").
(Likely ⌘+Q on a Mac, but I can’t check it now.) Why does Amaya alone
(or nearly alone) write "Ctrl-Q" and the like? This also should be made
consistent with the common practice about keyboard shortcuts.
Amicalement, Dominique,
To say that a necessary condition for the writing of these words is the
/willing/ of the author to write them, and to say that a necessary
condition for the writing of them is a certain state and configuration
of the material of his brain, these two statements are probably merely
two ways of saying the same thing. (Alfred James Lotka, /Elements of
Physical Biology/, 1925, p. 403.)
Received on Wednesday, 23 December 2009 10:20:02 UTC
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Re: [VE][108] Error Message Feedback
From: Jukka K. Korpela <[email protected]>
Date: Sat, 21 Aug 2004 11:39:19 +0300 (EEST)
To: Tomasz Nowak <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
On Sat, 21 Aug 2004, Tomasz Nowak wrote:
> Line 60, column 11: there is no attribute "BACKGROUND"
> background="home/1155-3/des/gfx-1/menu-szukanie.gif">
It seems that you have understood what the error message means. The rest
is actually external to validation.
> I try to make the same with CSS ( background-image: ... ) but it
> doesnt work with IE and FireFox.
You made some mistake. Please try asking for help on some CSS related
forum like news:comp.infosystems.www.authoring.stylesheets. Don't forget
to include the URL of your page into your question.
> Is it real error ?
For some values of "real", yes - including the value that matters in
validation. Validation is objective; what you use it for is up to you.
(Besides, there are browsers that don't support the background attribute
in <td> elements but support background-image in CSS.)
Received on Saturday, 21 August 2004 08:39:22 UTC
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Continued... Passed validation with backslashes in links
Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2007 14:57:24 +0200
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
To: David Dorward <[email protected]>
CC: [email protected]
Hello David,
Still don't get it:
If the use of a backslash leads to NOT showing a page right in FF and Opera, I'd say that's strange.
So, does this mean that IE is the "smarter/better" browswer compared to FF and Opera?? mmmm....
By the way, can you come up with a link with the rule that the href attribute is allowed to contain backslash characters (please....)?
I have NEVER come across this rule (yet).
Tuesday, September 4, 2007, 2:35:09 PM, you wrote:
> On 4 Sep 2007, at 08:45, NOWAR.MEANS.PEACE@GMAIL wrote:
>> When looking in the source I saw that the links had a BACKSLASH in
>> it, instead of a SLASH.
>> So why is it that the w3c validator gives a passed validation for a
>> sloppy code?
> Because, in HTML, the value of the href attribute is allowed to
> contain backslash characters. It might not mean what was intended,
> but that doesn't make it invalid.
> --
> David Dorward
> http://dorward.me.uk/
> http://blog.dorward.me.uk/
Best regards,
NOWAR mailto:[email protected]
Received on Tuesday, 4 September 2007 12:57:13 UTC
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Tuesday, April 28, 2009
Giving Up 'Readings'
What do I mean by 'readings'? I mean viewing a book, essay, poem, or other piece of writing through the lens of a particular philosopher such as Marx or Derrida. This makes no sense, really. What does Marx have to do with Dickens, for example?
Here is an article by Mark Edmundson that explains the idea of giving up 'readings' far better than I could. The title of the piece is "Against Readings".
I was interested to find an article expressing an idea that had been vaguely floating around in my mind for some time. I think we should read each piece of writing on its own terms for its own merits.
What do you think? Is there any point in applying a particular philosophy to a piece of writing?
Friday, April 24, 2009
Arts & Letters
There is a website called Arts & Letters Daily that you might enjoy looking at. It's full of links to articles, book reviews, and essays. Down the left sidebar is a long list of various types of links, as well.
Some things you'll like and some you won't, but there's a lot of variety there. In the many links, you will probably discover some interesting websites that will appeal to you.
Thursday, April 23, 2009
Cute Things
I recently became aware of two websites that will make you smile!
Cute Things Falling Asleep
Cute Things Laughing
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This deliverable defines and describes the Experience Engine, one of the core components of the MaTHiSiS back-end. Its main objective is the materialization of a learning scenario for a specific learner in a specific context. In order to establish the theoretical background of the concepts used by the Experience Engine, the Learning Action Ontology is first introduced to describe the categories of Learning Actions (LA) and Learning Materials (LM) involved in the system, as well as how they can be associated together. Implementation details on the integration of these concepts are also provided through the description of the LA library and LM library and their Open APIs and data models. In addition, the early front-end used to manipulate these entities is described to give a complete overview.
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Shallow Dance
by Matty Sullivan
Check it out.
Individual vs. Community (America's "Culture of Disrespect")
Remember two things:
1) The United States of America was founded on a disrespect for authority. The Founding Fathers and their supporters resented being subjected to an authority which they saw as arbitrary. For this reason, they invoked the right of the people as a collection of divinely-created Individuals to determine their own destiny and hold sway over the reins of their own government. Their goal was personal representation in the affairs of the state. This is the foundation upon which are built the structures of Democracy, Capitalism, and the American Protestant religions. It is the philosophy which forms the expectations of the nation.
Which leads to:
2) From the moment of birth, a child in America is taught to be a rebel. A rebellious attitude is considered by most of us to be a birthright. It is a vital part of the American culture.
We receive this message from many sources, most notably popular entertainment--television, music, movies, books--but also from friends and even our confused and frustrated parents. The message from all of them is the same: "Don't let anyone tell you what to do."
It's not always stated so boldly, but this is the spirit of our most commonly-used slogans and cliches.
"Do your own thing."
"Follow your dreams. Follow your heart. Do what makes you happy and don't worry about what anyone else thinks."
"Don't change for anyone."
These messages, and those like them, boil down to one essential belief: the Individual is more important than the Community.
This is the philosophy of the West--the Cult of the Individual. It forms our personalities from infancy. It is so pervasive and all-encompassing we consider it a law of nature. It's not. In fact, it is a relatively recent development in human society. In the traditional cultures of the East, parents raised their children in an atmosphere of rigid conformity to the needs and demands of the Community--'respect', as you say. Then, once the children had become adults and were properly serving the Community, they were able to discover themselves as individuals. The symbol for this is the Community as a single organism made up of many parts, with each part's search for the Self seen not as a process of independence but rather as a progression towards more effective service.
In this context, the Ego is a hindrance to the Community.
Here in the West, we do things differently. Backwards, even. Here, the Community is a hindrance to the Ego. We raise our children under the Gospel of the Individual, building up their self-esteem like a stone statue, with little concern for how that Self affects the Community. In fact, fuck the Community. Am I right?
Then, when this creature reaches a certain age, we thrust them upon the Community and watch the feathers fly. At this point, we hope they will begin learning respect for the Community which we taught them to hold in contempt.
It's an ugly thing to watch, and it makes us angry. But where do we point the finger? Which rebel is to blame? Both the police officer with something to prove and the surly teenager who enjoys the thrill of disruption are coming from the same philosophy--and when she treats him like a punk and he throws her around the room, they are both saying the same thing: "How dare you treat me this way?"
They're both right, and they're both wrong. Like us, they have been raised on contempt for the Community and will not come to harmonious terms with until they have butted heads with it so often and to such injury that they are forced to negotiate.
It is interesting that in the East, disdain for authority tends to be a characteristic not of youth but of old age. It is an act of maturity, of true growth, arising naturally and without prompting in the heart and mind of an experienced individual who has worked enough and become wise enough to know exactly what he is rebelling against and why. It is not a birthright; it comes only after years of responsible living.
To be clear, I am not condemning our belief in the sanctity of the Individual. How could I? I am an American, and rebellion is woven into my being as deeply as the red, white, and blue are woven into the flag. Just like you, I believe each of us is a light which must be allowed to shine.
But every light casts a shadow unless it is balanced by another light. And this is where we have failed our children. Our praising of the Individual without any respect for the Community has resulted in a nation of Narcissists, and this shadow will continue to deepen until we collectively illuminate the other half of the Gospel--namely, that if I am an amazing and perfect gem of light no matter what I do, then so are you. And so is everyone around us.
This is where respect starts--not in a blind and degrading obedience to authority, but in the decision to see my fellow citizens the same way as I see myself. As Individuals, deserving of respect. To do unto others as I would have them do unto me.
You may recognize this as the Golden Rule, commonly attributed to another Eastern philosopher who only began to Do HIs Own Thing after he had lived a productive life of conformity and had acquired the necessary wisdom. And if the lesson of the West is that respect must be earned, then the lesson of the East is that so must rebellion. True rebellion--the kind which is actually good for the Community--develops only with time and experience. Even the Founding Fathers (not the Founding Teenagers) knew that true rebellion is not the province of the child, but of the adult. It requires education and wisdom. And it cannot exist without respect for the people around us. Otherwise we are merely troublemakers.
But this respect cannot be taught through violence or the flexing muscles of authority. The concept is ludicrous. A true Individual has no respect for authority, especially when that 'authority' is nothing more than another full-grown child steeped in Narcissism. We will test them, criticize them--and if their only response to our test is violence and intimidation, then they have admitted defeat. They no longer have the right to govern, and have become a target for scorn and ridicule.
No, respect can come only through Love. Forgive the exhausted cliche, but it's the only solution. The Golden Rule, my friends. This is what must be taught to our children--not obedience, but Love. Not just for themselves, but for others. The symbol for this is Indra's Net of Gems--a world-encompassing web comprised of an infinite number of gems, each of which contains the reflection of all others and is itself reflected by them.
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JournalMotor SystemsNeural Excitability, Synapses, and GliaTechniques
Chronic imaging of movement-related Purkinje cell calcium activity in awake behaving mice
Purkinje cells (PCs) are a major site of information integration and plasticity in the cerebellum, a brain region involved in motor task refinement. Thus PCs provide an ideal location for studying the mechanisms necessary for cerebellum-dependent motor learning. Increasingly, sophisticated behavior tasks, used in combination with genetic reporters and effectors of activity, have opened up the possibility of studying cerebellar circuits during voluntary movement at an unprecedented level of quantitation. However, current methods used to monitor PC activity do not take full advantage of these advances. For example, single-unit or multiunit electrode recordings, which provide excellent temporal information regarding electrical activity, only monitor a small population of cells and can be quite invasive. Bolus loading of cell-permeant calcium (Ca2+) indicators is short-lived, requiring same-day imaging immediately after surgery and/or indicator injection. Genetically encoded Ca2+ indicators (GECIs) overcome many of these limits and have garnered considerable use in many neuron types but only limited use in PCs. Here we employed these indicators to monitor Ca2+ activity in PCs over several weeks. We could repeatedly image from the same cerebellar regions across multiple days and observed stable activity. We used chronic imaging to monitor PC activity in crus II, an area previously linked to licking behavior, and identified a region of increased activity at the onset of licking. We then monitored this same region after training tasks to initiate voluntary licking behavior in response to different sensory stimuli. In all cases, PC Ca2+ activity increased at the onset of rhythmic licking.
Gaffield, M.A., Amat, S.B., Bito, H., and Christie, J.M. (2016). Chronic imaging of movement-related Purkinje cell calcium activity in awake behaving mice. J. Neurophysiol. 115, 413–422.
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yay! the spammers love me.
so, the spammers decided to send emails out with domain names as the return address. if this is your first time reading due to one of these emails – congratulations! you found my mundane weblog about random boring crap that happens to me.
but i didn’t email you about viagra or stock tips. sorry.
look different? new host + new software!
yes, things look quite different. let me explain.
i’ve switched web hosting companies, which in itself should not make a marked difference in the site. but while i did this, i upgraded my site to the latest release candidate of Drupal, an Open Source website management system (they call it “community plumbing” and i think that suits it well).
a brave new world of web publishing
so, i’ve begun experimenting with a desktop client to update my site from.
generally this is meaningless to the reader, unless the reader is a geek like me. what this will do, however, is allow me to update this site using a simple desktop application on my computer. this will allow me to more easily work offline and update more frequently — that’s good for everybody!
18 Apr 2006
theme update
updated my theme a bit. wanted to show off some of my photos in Flickr on the right.
look for more and subtle updates in the near future.
17 Apr 2006
site updates – updated CMS software, and URL aliases
here’s one for the geeks in the audience (sorry, mom & mom-in-law).
i’ve recently updated my site to the latest stable release of my content management system, and discovered functionality (that’s existed in it for quite some time) to alias the big ugly URLs i was previously using, down to nice quick ones.
for example:
this url: is now represented simply as:
probably doesn’t mean a hill of beans to anyone but me, but i think it’s fun. and it should help google to classify my content as well.
28 Mar 2006
experimenting with comments
this morning you may have seen links to post comments on articles. i’m experimenting with the comment module in my site software. i’ve since turned it back off for a while; my design template doesn’t display it too well so i’ll need to tweak that over the weekend.
i plan to enable moderated comments first, and we’ll see how that goes. after which i may allow anonymous comments.
my fear though is that folks looking to spam or otherwise post inappropriate content might find this blog and go to town. this is obviously unacceptable (both my mom and my mother-in-law read this — hi moms!) so moderation will probably be the rule for a while.
3 Feb 2006
meet the new boss — again! has once again changed content management systems.
what does this mean? it depends who’s asking! for anyone who reads this (my god, why do you bother reading this?) anyway.
for a normal visitor to the site, you’ll notice things look a bit different, and the organizational structure is new.
hopefully this means the site will be easier to navigate. it also means, that’s it’s much easier for me to create new content — so i have one less excuse as to why i don’t do that more often.
for any geeks in the audience, i’ve switched from the mambo server content management system to the drupal framework.
why? various reasons.
7 Oct 2005
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Shaw Air Force base affects a three-county area that represents a combined economic impact of $3.4 billion annually. Located in Sumter, SC, a loyal military community, Shaw is the area’s number one employer – accounting for more than 5,400 active duty military, and over 11,600 military dependents and civil service employees. These numbers are only growing, as BRAC continues to pour an influx of personnel from the 3rd Army Headquarters, previously located in Atlanta. Furthermore, local military retirees have an impressive impact, with a combined $101 million in annual incomes.
The Shaw AFB Guide & Directory is the first resource made available to incoming personnel, serving also as a daily resource for the many individuals currently stationed at the installation. Available in both print and interactive online mediums, the guide is the perfect way for your business to directly reach the large and lucrative military market.
In this section, base personnel can find critical information for Shaw AFB, including DOD & DSN numbers, organizational listings, and wing unit numbers, making it a valuable tool for base personnel 365 days a year.
Virtual maps of Shaw, including gates and base housing. Exclusive advertising space is available in this high-traffic section.
The must-read section for personnel and families with orders to PCS to Shaw AFB, this section features great information on each bases’ history, what to do when you arrive, housing, education, health care, family support, recreation and the surrounding community.
This section provides the unique opportunity for military-friendly businesses to advertise and distinguish themselves amongst this profitable market. Full-color ads are beautifully and prominently displayed in order to best showcase your products, services and support. With traceable results and analytic reports, it is the ideal way to market your business.
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Refinancing a home
To the question about refinancing your mortgage you can be brought by many different reasons. Refinancing is great option for creating better monthly payments for you and lowering of your existing interest rate.
Let’s look at possible advantages of mortgage refinancing:
1. Lowering interest rate.
2. A way to replace your adjustable rate loan by fixed-rate one.
3. A way to short your loan term.
4. As a term for payments becomes shorter, the amount of interest paid also becomes less.
5. Get extra money to pay off your debts or improving your home facilities.
To apply for refinancing one need to do almost same steps as to apply for original mortgage, including closing up to 3% of new loan sum and payment for insurance.
Banks can usually give more precise information and estimate specific sum after receiving a filled application form.
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