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Selection of peristaltic pump motor
Keywords: peristaltic pump,China peristaltic pumps,industrial peristaltic pumps
2018-08-14 17:41
Peristaltic pump is a kind of pump with better sales in the market, and it is also a kind of pump with wide application field. There are many advantages of peristaltic pump. The motor used in peristaltic pump is generally divided into DC brushed motor, DC brushless motor, AC. Motor, step motor and other major types. The following small series will give you a detailed answer to each motor.
One: DC brush motor
Its advantages are: lower cost, easier control, and less noise.
Its shortcoming is: the service life is relatively short. The voltage of the power supply is relatively large when running, the startup speed is relatively slow, and the low speed operation is relatively unstable.
Two: DC brushless motor
Its advantages are: no brush design, longer service life than brushed motor. Noise is relatively small.
Its shortcoming is: it needs special control circuit drive, the voltage ratio is also very large during the running process. It is unstable at low speed.
Three: AC motor
Its advantages are: low cost, relatively low noise, and long life.
Its disadvantage is that the speed is not easy to control. The voltage changes during operation are relatively large. The low speed operation is unstable.
Four: stepper motor
Its advantages are: stable at low speed or high speed. The service life is also relatively long.
Its shortcoming is: the shape will be larger. Sometimes there will be a phenomenon of resonance. It needs circuit drive to control. The efficiency is relatively low.
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Solar eclipse: What's a 'hybrid' eclipse and how does it work?
Solar eclipse watchers know that Sunday's 'hybrid' solar eclipse comes around only once in 159 years. A hybrid solar eclipse happens when one kind of eclipse morphs into another.
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The sun rises behind the skyline of New York as it is partially eclipsed by the moon during a hybrid eclipse Sunday.
The solar eclipse that began Sunday at dawn in North America and ends just before the eastern African sunset is a sort of eclipse that has not been seen on Earth for nearly 160 years and won't be seen again for nearly another 160 years – in 2172.
It is a "hybrid" eclipse, which means it begins as an annular eclipse and then becomes a total eclipse.
What does that mean?
Eclipses are different because the moon is not always a fixed distance from Earth; its distance varies during its orbit. When the moon is farther away, it will look slightly smaller, of course. When it's closer, it will look bigger. That difference in size is significant when it comes to solar eclipses.
If an eclipse occurs when the moon is farther away, the moon as viewed from Earth is not big enough to completely blot out the sun. That means a thin "ring of fire" is visible around the moon. This is an annular eclipse.
If an eclipse occurs when the moon is closer to Earth, then the disk of the moon is big enough to completely blot out the sun. All that can be seen is the sun's brilliant outer atmosphere, or corona. This is a total eclipse.
So how does a "hybrid" eclipse work? How can an annular eclipse become a total eclipse?
The answer lies in understanding how the moon's shadow hits Earth. The darkest part of the shadow, in which the sun is completely blotted out, is called the umbra. The umbra is shaped like an ice cream cone (see a good depiction here). The widest part of the cone is nearest the moon, because the moon blocks out more of the sky the closer you are to it.
The difference between annular and total eclipses depends on where the point of that umbral cone is.
When the moon is farther away, the point is actually above Earth's surface. That means there is no place in Earth that is directly in the umbra, and the result is an annular eclipse, where that thin ring of the sun can still be seen.
When the moon is closer, the point of the umbra hits Earth's surface, and every place where that point hits sees a total eclipse.
A hybrid eclipse happens when the distance between the Earth and moon is so finely balanced that the curvature of the Earth comes into play.
Sunday morning, when the moon's disk was beginning to slide in front of the sun in North America, the umbral point was not touching Earth, so it appeared as if the sun was heading toward an annular eclipse. And for 15 seconds somewhere out over the Atlantic ocean, an annular eclipse actually happened.
Then something spectacular followed. As the eclipse progressed, the curvature of the Earth actually reached up to intercept the point of the moon's umbra, making it a total eclipse. Joe Rao of describes the moment between annular and total eclipses this way:
This was visible only about 400 miles south of Bermuda, Mr. Rao said, and he noted that group of German eclipse enthusiasts hoped to fly at plane to the spot to see it.
For the rest of its track across the Atlantic and then into equatorial Africa, the eclipse will remain total. The last trace of the total eclipse will be visible from Somalia at 5:27 p.m. local time (9:27 a.m. Eastern time).
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All'Opera 2017/18: Don Pasquale
All'Opera 2017/18: Don Pasquale
Performance recorded in HD from Teatro Alla Scala.
Soprano Rosa Feola takes to the stage in this opera conducted by Riccardo Chailly. Don Pasquale follows an old bachelor who decides to marry and produce an heir to spite his disobedient nephew Ernesto, who wants to marry for love rather than money. But Pasquale’s chosen bride isn’t who she seems and bears her own secret...
Conductor: Riccardo Chailly
Stage Director: Davide Livermore
Starring: Ambrogio Maestri and Rosa Feola
Ambrogio Maestri, Rosa Feola
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Protoss Advanced
Protoss are the most powerful race in the mid game (some think that zerg are but, I think Protoss have the slight edge), mostly because of the powerful rushes like dark templar or reaver. Sometimes a rush with zealots only can win you a game here. You can also decide not to rush and get advanced units faster, like high templars with psi-storm, corsairs or you even carriers but with sacrificing a lot of economy for teching up.
Dark Templar Rush
Dark templars are the only permanently cloaked attacking units in the game (well, every unit in starcraft is unique, but that's not what I had in mind :). You can often catch your opponent off guard and/or rushing you with melle units when you have around 2 dark templars. By using it properly, you can severely cripple your opponent until he gets some detectors.
1. Do the initial build order,
2. Use the probe that warped in the gateway to build an assimilator,
3. Build two more probes and a cybernetics bay,
4. About the same time, the assimilator will finish, so put 3 probes on it,
5. As the cybernetics bay finishes, build a citadel of adun,
6. When the citadel warps in, first build 2nd gateway, templar archives and another pylon.
As soon as you can, start cranking dark templars. This build order can be used against zerg, but just for taking the map control. If you think you can be rushed with dark templars yourself, build an forge after the assimilator and two cannons (one when the forge finishes, and the other after you start building dark templars).
The Fast Reaver Drop
It is a fact that you can drop any unit in your enemy's base, but none so useful as the reaver. The fastest reaver drop consists of dropping one reaver and 2 zealots.
1. As always, do the initial build-up,
2. Warp a assimilator,
3. Build two probes and cybernetics bay,
4. As soon as you gather 200 gas build a robotics bay,
5. Build 2 pylons and 2 zealots,
6. After the robotics bay has finished, start building a shuttle, then build a support bay,
7. When the support bay finishes, build an reaver and drop.
The reaver drop is particularly useful against Terran, then Protoss, and sometimes Zerg.
The Powerful Reaver Drop
The second version of the reaver drop would be dropping 2 or 4 reavers. You can notice that one robotic's won't do now, but you'll need two (if not more).
1. So, after the initial build order, warp the assimilator,
2. Build two probes and cybernetics bay,
3. When you gather 200 gas build a robotics bay,
4. Build 2 pylons and 2 zealots (if it is a island map, don't build any zealots),
5. Shortly, you'll have another 200 gas, so build the 2nd robotics,
6. When the first bay finishes, build a shuttle, then a support bay.
When you have enough resources, build 2 reavers, one more shuttle and 2 more reavers and drop. If your opponent has no air units by then, he's as good as dead.
Zealot / Dragoon Rush
In the midst of the game, protoss have the possibility to make one of the best rushes. Zealots and dragoons are kicking combo, as you will see if you use this strat.
1. After the main build-up, it's important to remember cranking probes up until you get to number that fits your minerals.
2. Build 2nd gate as soon as you have 150 minerals, and always build zealots in both gates,
3. When they are finished, warp in an assimilator and the 3rd gateway (you probably won't be able to pylon support this much gates properly, so my advice is to get a pylon whenever you have 10 control left).
4. When you have 100 gas build a cybernetics bay and when it's finished start cranking dragoons.
When you feel you have enough units, attack. This build order leaves you without detection, so the forge would be a proper thing to build next.
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Terran Advanced
If you survive the early game stage, your main goal is to upgrade as fast as possible and slow down your enemy as much as you can. At this stage you must watch over your supply - you'll need to have 10 unused supplies at all times. Here are some of the mid game tactics that can be a good way for a Terran player to slow down his opponent. Nevertheless, if you see that your opponent has too weak defence, which can be penetrated, don't hesitate to attack.
Vulture Drop
Vultures aren't much of a powerful unit, but you probably never noticed that they do concussion damage. Than means they damage small units the best - the whole of 20 damage points. By dropping 4 vultures among your enemy's workers you will be able to kill at least some of them before being noticed. When you do notice units moving towards you, lay out some spider mines to halt them for a while, and continue shooting at workers. If all the workers retreat, lay a few mines and come back in half a minute (spider mines are not triggered by workers, however, they will kill it if they explode next to them). This is like very good way to slow down your enemy, sometimes without any losses.
Siege Tanks Dropping
Siege tanks are a powerful but not so strong unit. They usage is best on the maps with higher grounds looking down on shorter passages (look at The Lost Temple and you'll see what I mean). You can practically kill an enemy attack before it comes. On the maps that have expansions near higher grounds it's very good to use a tank drop. Load one of your dropships with a siege tank, 3 marines and one medic (scv if playing regular starcraft) and drop it on the higher ground over expansion. Repeat the process once again to have 2 tanks and then set them to siege mode. This way you'll kill most of his workers and units before noticing. If you see a transporter (dropship, overlord, shuttle) comming, stim your marines and shoot it before it unloads it's cargo.
Using the Irradiate
Using irradiate can sometimes win you a game. It is my recommendation to upgrade irradiate as soon as possible. Against Zerg, with cost of only 75 energy, you can kill an overlord, meaning that if your science vessel has 225 energy, you can kill 3 overlords without any losses whatsoever. By building 2 or 3 of these ships, you can kill all of your enemy's overlords in which case he won't be able to produce any more units. Casting a irradiate on workers can kill at least one of them but casting like 3 irradiates on 3 different workers can sometimes kill off 10 and more workers.
"Newbie" Wraith Flanking
Well, this one is not so smart strat, but it works. Make about 12 wraiths and split them in two groups the 1st consisted of 3 and the 2nd of 9 wraiths. Use your 1st group to attack the your enemy's main base (not the workers). Position your 2nd group next to your opponent's main resource base. When the anti air units come to the 1st group, cloak them. Meanwhile, move in the 2nd to kill all his workers in his resource base. After that retreat the 2nd, without losses, and if the 1st one is still alive, kill some workers or things like that.
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Origin of bene-
combining form of bene (adv.) well (< *dwenē), akin to bonus good (< *dwenos) Unabridged Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2018
Word Origin and History for bene-
Latin word-forming element meaning "well," from Latin bene "well, in the right way, honorably, properly," from PIE *dw-ene-, adverbial form of root *deu- "to do, perform, show favor, revere." Cf. Latin bonus "good," bellus "handsome, fine, pretty," beatus "blessed."
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper
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1. Usually edibles. edible substances; food.
Origin of edible
1605–15; < Late Latin edibilis, equivalent to ed(ere) to eat + -ibilis -ible
Related formsed·i·bil·i·ty, ed·i·ble·ness, nounnon·ed·i·bil·i·ty, nounnon·ed·i·ble, adjective, nounnon·ed·i·ble·ness, nounun·ed·i·ble, adjective
Can be confusedaddable edible
Synonyms for edible
Examples from the Web for edibility
Historical Examples of edibility
British Dictionary definitions for edibility
1. fit to be eaten; eatable
Derived Formsedibility or edibleness, noun
Word Origin for edible
C17: from Late Latin edibilis, from Latin edere to eat
Word Origin and History for edibility
1590s, from Late Latin edibilis "eatable," from Latin edere "to eat," from PIE root *ed- "to eat" (cf. Sanskrit admi "I eat;" Greek edo "I eat;" Lithuanian edu "I eat;" Hittite edmi "I eat," adanna "food;" Old Irish ithim "I eat;" Gothic itan, Old Swedish and Old English etan, Old High German essan "to eat;" Avestan ad- "to eat;" Armenian utem "I eat;" Old Church Slavonic jasti "to eat," Russian jest "to eat").
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Dinas Powys Primary School Croeso
St David's Day
The Chairing of the Bard.
We had our Foundation Phase Eisteddford and the winners were announced. Awards were given for the following categories;
Reception- Poem recital
Year 1- Flags of Wales
Year 2- Pottery Dragons and Poetry
We had a carousel of activities which included folk dancing, card making and Welsh games.
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Starting your own business
Good on you, well done. My issue was lack of motivation, I had no strong desire to follow a particular course, I just drifted along on the currents. Things turned out well, more by good fortune and luck than judgement. However I often think I could or should have achieved more. Now I've passed the accepted retirement age I still drift along with a couple of micro businesses, no real pressure, enough to live on in relative comfort. Still, frequently the thought comes to me: what shall I do when I grow up?
2. sleepwello'nights
Is this site a balanced mix of opinions?
No news is good news. The news is always depressing, always has been, and probably always will. There have been some nice words to describe us on here, contrarian, realist. Myself I'm a miserable bastard. I enjoy a good grumble on here. I just think how can you be truly happy unless you've got something to grumble about (ITMA). Anyway we're where we are, at the pinnacle of the greatest period of enlightenment that has ever existed on our planet, peering at the drop below, or can we not see the further reaches to the summit because our view is hidden by clouds.
3. sleepwello'nights
Bye bye Treason May?
It'd be a bit too cold in the winter for a soft southerner like me.
4. sleepwello'nights
Jordan Peterson
Bit highbrow in it! I got lost when they made references to the works and concepts of eighteenth century British philosophers that I am ignorant of. I reckon it will take me six months or so to get an appreciation of the concepts essential to understand what these guys are talking about.
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And a fucking another ....
I bet that the shithole areas in the UK are incomparably better to the shitholes that they come from. The real solution though is to improve the countries they flee from, not bring our country down to a lower level.
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Health and Safety jobsworths
Another good reason for using contactless credit/debit cards. All those coins and notes carrying god knows what contaminants on them.
7. sleepwello'nights
And of course the nasty Donald Trump now being accused of instructing his convicted lawyer to pay off Stormy.
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Shooting in Strasbourg: 1 killed, 3 injured
Has the police officer who shot him been suspended whilst an enquiry is commenced to establish whether the officer acted in accordance with official policy?
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Trivial Things that annoy you
Oh, I don't know, sometimes it gets them to the right height
10. sleepwello'nights
What little things do you do, to test yourself?
I've never broken into a corner. I tend to brake before the corner. //pedant off
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Chelsea racists
and the fans?
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A fat, black, muslim lesbian walks into a bar...
OK. Not by the Soviet Communist leaders.
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I always thought they were called alternative comedians because they weren't funny. Not by the Soviet Communists.
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Shooting in Strasbourg: 1 killed, 3 injured
I wonder if there is any more news about the taxi driver? Is he a diverse enriched person or was he forced by the attacker to assist his escape?
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Tonights vote - how many will vote to depose Treason?
They have some really fit women who can speak English.
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The signs of mutual attraction between a boy & a girl
Updated July 20, 2017
Boys and girls often tease each other and fight. Yet, these behaviours can actually be signs of attraction. Boys and girls act in certain ways when they are attracted to each other, using their social environment to express their feelings. They also show the same physical signs of attraction that are universal for people of all ages.
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Elementary boys and girls over-identify with the same sex and prefer to play with kids of their own gender. Yet, they also find themselves attracted to members of the opposite sex. This results in young boys and girls teasing and play fighting when they are attracted to each other. A boy pulling a girl's hair is one example and is a common occurrence in this age group.
Notes and Friends for Communication
Elementary-aged kids pass notes to avoid asking important questions in person. Boys use notes to ask girls to "go with them." Boys and girls may use a friend to pass notes and relay messages so they may further avoid the stress of communicating face to face. This is especially helpful for boys who may be more uncertain how to express themselves than girls of the same age.
Taking Up for the Other
When boys and girls like each other, they take up for each other in certain social situations. A boy may defend a girl who is being teased by others, telling them to leave her alone. A boy and a girl who are attracted to each other will make their friendship known even if they do not spend much time together. They will let others know they like each other and will defend each other when needed.
Body Language
Body language also communicates attraction in similar ways across different age groups. A girl will face a boy to whom she is attracted and lean in toward him. When a boy and a girl are attracted to each other, they will face each other and keep themselves open, without any hands or legs crossed. They will also stand close to each other and touch each other.
Facial Expressions and Eyes
Regardless of age, there are some facial expressions and certain eye characteristics that show attraction. Pupils dilate when a person is looking at someone to whom she is attracted. And, a person blinks much more often in such situations. Eye contact and winking are also signs of attraction. And, a person will blush, smile, look down and laugh when she is attracted to someone.
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vodka drinkers.. :-)
Discussion in 'Politics' started by Andy62279, Sep 26, 2003.
1. to you vodka drinkers... what's your favorite brand? My favorite is Stolichnaya. Good ole russian vodka :) I heard Grey Goose and Belvedere are good as well, but for someone who can slam a fifth in a night... those bottles are a bit too expensive for me.
Guess what??? It's Friday, and I got two bottles in the freezer, hehe. Enjoy your weekend everyone!
2. bobcathy1
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Skyy is my favorite. No headaches because it is filtered.
3. Smirnoff Blue (the 50% Alc. one :D )
4. I don't drink the stuff, but can you really tell a difference in the taste of various brands of unflavored vodka?
5. My favorite Vodka is Kettle One on the rocks with a twist of lemon.
6. Ooh, of course my friend, of course... :)
7. yup... sure can taste the difference. It's like drinking Old English Malt Liquor versus Heinekens.... much smoother and no headache in the morning :)
8. mmm you make my mouth water :D I'll have to try the other brands mentioned. Not a particular fan of Smirnoff. I only have it when it's mixed, don't like it straight. Never tried the "Blue" though... hmm
9. lescor
Grey Goose is soooo smooth. Makes awesome martinis. But it's double the cost of most bottles. Don't know if it's a Canadian only brand, but Silent Sam is darn good too. Almost picked up some Stoli the other day, haven't tried it yet. Next time to the liquor store, I'll get some.
10. I think Stoli is very smooth for its price, and that's why I drink it. I'm goin to a wedding in a couple of weeks, and I may get a bottle of Grey Goose... heard very good stuff about it.
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Existence Egg Hunt
Its rather strange that I did not find much information on this hunt, but from the word of mouth from my sister. Many great stores are participating in this hunt include Rozena which is one of my favorite skin shop. Each shop bring some eggs of their own fomr $0L, others up to $10L, but nevertheless its all up to you to buy whichever you like. I skipped some of them too. But what is important is the sales items that each stores also bring to the event and some of them are really impressive.
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lemon (n.1)
"ovate, pale yellow citrus fruit," c. 1400, lymon, from Old French limon "citrus fruit" (12c.), which comes via Provençal or Italian from Arabic laimun, Persian limun. Apparently brought from India to the Levant by the Arabs 9c. or 10c.; the word is perhaps ultimately from an Austronesian word of the Malay archipelago, such as such as Balinese limo "lemon," Malay limaw "citrus fruit, lime" (compare lime (n.2)).
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Does anyone know who made up: "Please wait while the list is being populated."
A strange way to say "Wait while we bring up a list of installed programs", or something like that. Today a client asked me why it's said that way. I did a search but couldn't find what weird programmer from the land of Microsoft made it up. Does anyone know?
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Populated means to fill. So basically it is saying Please wait for the list to fill with results. You're not likely going to find who the programmer was who placed that text string in the code. Microsoft programmers are never disclosed in the software or online.
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Not sure who, but I bet can guess why its that way.
In programming you often use variables, there is probably a variable for "Please wait while the list is being populated." and whenever that list is being populated it calls that string.
Now, they could have made the variable "Wait while we bring up a list of installed programs" instead, but it would only be accurate some of the time, or maybe never. That same list also shows frameworks and libraries. So the string would have to say something like "Wait while we bring up a list of installed programs, frameworks, and libraries". You also have the option to include updates, so then the string would either have to be a different string stating: "Wait while we bring up a list of installed programs, frameworks, libraries and updates" or the one string would have to say that.
Either way, I think how it is, it is as accurate as possible.
And chances are they guy or guys who wrote that into the code is just one person in an army of developers, in which case the chances of anyone outside of MS are slim. Not every line of code in Windows is publicly documented with who wrote it.
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The guy is immortal. I must have seen that thing 10,000 times.
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Property held in a compensation fund maintained by a trade or professional association is wholly exempt if
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The American Cancer Society
Is the American Cancer Society a legitimate and worthwhile charity?
We've all heard of it, of course, but still, who knows? It might be like the phony policemen who constantly call trying to sell lightbulbs. You wonder, how did these guys ever get in the lightbulb business? Then you realize, it goes way back, one of the first Associates program. Sell lightbulbs for an unrelated third party company and they'll give the police a dime for every dollar.
They do the same thing in school when your kids are selling stuff. Seeds, candy, maybe lightbulbs. The school gets a cut off each sale, making your kids kind of like taxpayers before their time. At least they're exploiting their labors for a bill the taxpayers ought to be footing.
We get all these calls from the police, I mentioned that. And what's the other big one? Oh, I had one from the Special Olympics the other day. "We're not selling anything. We are not asking for money," I don't know precisely what their pitch was. But it came down, I believe, to subscribing to a newsletter or magazine or something. "No, I don't care about it."
Now I have the Cancer Society on my case. I was watching American Idol and right at one terrible audition the phone rings. It's the Cancer Society guy. So I told him send me the stuff and I'd look at it. It might be a local guy. I gave to that once. He sounded amateurish enough to be local, and you know my feelings on "local guys." So today I get his mailing. Nothing local in the mailing, just a form donation sheet from the American Cancer Society, suggesting $20.
I'm thinking, what do I need with the Cancer Society? If I get cancer and die, well, I got cancer and died. I don't think we're going to cure every disease and live forever anyway ... at least in this world. So at some point, why don't we just accept it? We're going to die.
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How to Choose an Astronomical Telescope Content from the guide to life, the universe and everything
How to Choose an Astronomical Telescope
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A telescope
This is an exciting time in which to become an amateur astronomer. Never before have novice stargazers been presented with such a vast array of telescopes and accessories to pursue their hobby. Naturally, this brings the burden of choice. A bewildering variety of instruments make it difficult for the uninformed consumer to make the right decision. That's what this entry is all about - to explain the options so you can choose the telescope that's best for you.
Before examining the different types of telescopes available, it's worthwhile illustrating some basic principles in order to understand how they work. The most important aspect of any telescope is its aperture, or the diameter of its main optical component, which can be a lens or a mirror - the fatter the tube, the larger the aperture. A scope's aperture determines its light-gathering ability and its resolving power (the ability to see fine detail in an image).
What does this mean in real terms? With a 6-inch telescope, you can discern lunar craters that are as small as a mile across, which is half the size of those visible in a 3-inch scope under similar conditions. However, the same two instruments turned toward a faint galaxy on a moonless night would tell a different story. The 6-inch gathers four times the light of a 3-inch, not twice, so the galaxy would be four times brighter in the larger instrument. How is that? A 6-inch telescope has four times the light-collecting area of a 3-inch.
Power Isn't Everything
It may surprise you, but a telescope's aperture has no bearing on its magnification (or power). It's the instrument's focal length - the distance from the lens or mirror to a point at which it forms an image of a distant object - that governs magnifying power. When seeing an astronomical telescope for the first time, a novice will invariably ask: 'How much does it magnify?' The fact is that a telescope can provide an almost infinitely variable range of magnifications depending on the eyepiece used with it. Two main factors limit the power we can use on any given instrument: aperture and atmospheric conditions.
There's a finite amount of detail in the image produced by a telescope's main mirror or lens. We must find the optimum magnification to extract all of this detail without overly spreading out your target's precious light, and making it too dim to see clearly. This is generally why low powers are employed to look at faint subjects like galaxies and nebulae. Just as enlarging a photograph too much will reveal the grain of the negative, so too will excess magnification make your target grainy.
How much power is too much? Fortunately, there's a simple rule that we can apply to find top magnification: 50 times your telescope's aperture in inches, or twice its aperture in millimetres. This means a high-quality 4-inch (100-mm) scope should not be pushed beyond about 200x. To put this in perspective, the smallest instrument that has good optics will show you Saturn's rings or the principal cloud belts on Jupiter, since these can be seen at a magnification of 75x. On the other hand, if you see a 60-mm department-store scope labelled as capable of delivering 300x, you'll know it's advertising hype and will wisely move on to the next instrument!
Learning to See
Even with the best telescope, you'll notice that you can discern finer lunar or planetary detail on some nights than on others. If you look closely in the eyepiece you'll see that planets and stars appear to shimmer and waver on these less-than-perfect nights. The fault then lies not with the observer or the instrument but with the Earth's atmosphere through which we look and local conditions, such as hot pavements. Astronomers refer to turbulent nights as having bad 'seeing.'
Larger apertures are affected more than smaller ones by poor seeing, since they are capable in its absence of discerning finer details on the Moon and planets. This is why large telescopes - those in the 10-inch-plus category - are limited to 250 or 300x on all but the very steadiest nights. Not only that, any experienced observer will tell you that with constant practice you'll see more detail in an image.
Is Bigger Always Better?
Why go for a telescope larger than 10-inch aperture if the sky conditions will limit you? Large apertures are most often chosen by observers who want to gather as much light as possible for viewing dim galaxies, nebulae and star clusters. These so-called 'deep-sky' objects are most often viewed at much lower powers than the Moon or planets, so seeing quality is less of an issue. In addition, larger aperture generally leads to shorter exposure times for those interested in astrophotography.
Not only might larger instruments be beyond your budget, but there is the equally important question of portability. A large scope in amateur hands either requires housing in a permanent observatory, or the services of some willing observing buddies to move and assemble it for each observing session. Clearly, there's a trade-off between convenience and performance, and everyone will have their own definition for what is portable. It's so easy for the novice to succumb to the all too prevalent malady of 'aperture fever', where he or she is seized by a compulsion to buy the largest telescope they can afford. Any thoughts of portability are frequently discarded. The sad fact is that the leviathan is all too often consigned to the basement having been judged as being too unwieldy or heavy, and the novice astronomer goes off to pursue another hobby.
Scopes of Every Size and Shape
Having gained an appreciation of a few important optical principles governing telescope performance, now we can explore the different types of scopes available. You'll be forgiven for thinking there's a seemingly infinite number with a quick perusal of the advertisements in this publication. Yet for their varied shapes and sizes, all scopes can be divided into three distinct classes: refractors, reflectors and catadioptrics.
A refractor is the instrument that conforms to the stereotypical image of a telescope - a long, gleaming tube mounted in a large dome with a lens at one end and a rather myopic astronomer in a white coat squinting into an eyepiece at the other. That's not quite the picture, but captures essentially what they are like. Refractors have been with us in their various forms for 400 years and are often sought out by lunar and planetary observers who value their crisp, high-contrast views that can take high magnifications. In fact, when well made they can provide the finest images attainable for the aperture.
The other advantage of the refractor is that it's generally more rugged than other types of scopes, its lenses less likely to come out of alignment. For this reason they are well suited to those who wish to have a 'pick up and go' instrument or have no desire to tinker with the optics.
So is a refractor the perfect scope? The downside is that these convenient features come at a price. A fine objective lens is a work of art that requires special glass and exquisite optical crafting to perform well. For this reason, refractors are the most expensive instruments of any given aperture. In their commonly encountered forms, the tube length can be unwieldy - sometimes ten to 15 times the size of the diameter of the lens - so a 4-inch scope could be 4 feet long. Add the fact that the eyepiece is at the lower end of the tube when looking at objects that are overhead, then some form of tall tripod is required in order for the observer to get underneath. This has to be solidly built to prevent vibration at high powers, so it may be heavy or unwieldy. For deep-sky observers there may not be the light grasp for viewing faint objects and the fields of view may be quite narrow. Modern design has led to shorter, faster, more manageable refractors, but at a correspondingly higher cost.
It's All Done With Mirrors – Reflectors
The second type of telescope, the reflector, uses (as its name suggests) mirrors to gather and focus light from the object under scrutiny. In its most commonly encountered form - the Newtonian, which has been around for in excess of three centuries - there's a specially-curved concave (dish-shaped) primary mirror at the bottom end of the telescope. Near the top of the tube, a small inclined secondary mirror directs the light reflected from the primary to the side of the tube where it's met by a conveniently-placed eyepiece. If you want the largest aperture for your money, then the reflector is unquestionably the scope for you. When well made and maintained they can provide sharp, contrasty images of all manner of celestial objects at a small fraction of the cost of an equal aperture refractor.
The tube of a Newtonian is considerably more manageable, too. Their lengths are rarely eight times the diameter of the primary mirror and frequently less so. This means an 8-inch Newtonian can be housed in a tube only 4 feet long - easily fitting along the back seat of a small car for transportation to dark, rural skies. Combine this with the Newtonian's generally low centre of gravity and you end up with an instrument on a compact, stable mounting, presenting the eyepiece at a convenient height for just about any sky orientation. For the best value scope of all, much consideration should be given to the Dobsonian form of the Newtonian. These extremely popular instruments are available in apertures from 4- to 30-inches plus and represent the ultimate in observer convenience for casual viewing, particularly if you're not interested in taking photographs through it. (More on mounts later.)
Is there a downside? Like all reflectors (there are other types, but we'll not consider them here because they tend to be specialist instruments not commonly encountered in amateur hands), Newtonians will require occasional maintenance. Unlike a refractor's solidly-mounted lens, a reflector's mirrors can go out of alignment and hence will need periodic adjustment (collimation) to ensure peak optical performance, particularly if the telescope is moved frequently. This should not be overstressed, since the mirrors of the average Newtonian will not require tweaking for many months at a time. But for those not mechanically inclined, having to collimate a reflector even occasionally may be a frustrating or undesirable proposition. The open nature of the reflector's tube means that dust and dirt is more likely to accumulate on the optical surfaces that will need periodic cleaning. Also, the aluminised surfaces of a reflector's mirrors will need recoating every ten years or so, and more frequently in air-polluted urban areas or by the sea.
The Best of Both Worlds – Catadioptrics
Then there's the third category of telescope, the catadioptric, or compound telescope as they are occasionally referred. These came about in the 1930s out of a desire to marry the best characteristics of refractors and reflectors. This is why they employ lenses and mirrors to form an image. The greatest appeal of these instruments is that in their commonly-encountered forms (the Schmidt-Cassegrain and Maksutov-Cassegrain) they are very compact - their tube lengths are two to three times the aperture of the scope due to the 'optical folding' of the light passing through them. The smaller tubes dictate more manageable (and consequently lighter) mounts and tripods. The practical upshot is that you can obtain a large aperture and a long-focus telescope that's very transportable.
So is the Schmidt- or Maksutov-Cassegrain the ideal scope? As always, there are caveats. Like the Newtonian, the Schmidt-Cassegrain needs very occasional optical collimation that lessens its appeal to those disinclined to tinker. Their fields of view can be quite narrow, too. In terms of cost, aperture for aperture, the catadioptric lies midway between the reflector and the refractor. Like a Newtonian, the popular forms of this compound telescope have secondary mirrors which lie in the light-path of the instrument that slightly degrades performance for critical lunar and planetary observations. Even so, when well made a Schmidt or Maksutov will deliver very fine images of a wide variety of celestial objects.
In common with a refractor, the tubes of catadioptrics are sealed so that dirt and dust are largely excluded - a big plus for an instrument you're going to take out into the country. But if you live in an area where dew is prevalent, some sort of collar or extension to prevent misting of the exposed corrector plate at the front of the tube is a good idea. In practice, many people seeking a highly versatile, very portable (for the aperture) scope that can be used for all sky subjects and astrophotography will tend to opt for some form of compound instrument. In short, they're excellent general-purpose scopes.
Telescope Mounts
The best telescope in the world - be it refractor, reflector, or catadioptric - will be rendered useless unless it's attached to some form of stable mount that permits it to be directed to any desired part of the sky and to follow a celestial object smoothly and precisely. A stable mount is one that, while you're using a moderate to high power, will accept a small rap to the tube and the vibrations will die away in about a second. While there are variants on a theme, you'll encounter two types of mount: altitude-azimuth (or 'alt-az') and equatorial. Alt-az mounts operate like camera-style pan and tilt heads, moving the scope up and down (in altitude) and left to right (in azimuth). Equatorial mounts also possess two axes, but one is aligned with the rotational axis of the Earth.
Those intending to use small telescopes for casual viewing or daytime use (say, bird watching) will find the alt-az mount preferable. Better engineered mounts of this type will be equipped with finely threaded slow-motion controls that enable the scope to be moved smoothly by tiny amounts, especially when using high power. The value of such refinements will be all too apparent when tracking a star or planet at higher magnifications. The aforementioned Dobsonian is a form of alt-az mount that's quite popular. Unlikely telescope making materials such as particleboard and Teflon feature in its construction, resulting in a lightweight, low-centre-of-gravity mount that glides smoothly about both axes with fingertip control. A Newtonian reflector mounted in this fashion is not only extremely easy to set up and intuitive to use for the novice, but very good value, too.
For a telescope dedicated to astronomical use and where astrophotography is a future prospect, prime consideration must be given to some form of equatorial mount in order to automatically counteract the effects of the Earth's rotation. It's far easier to track a celestial object with a scope mounted in this fashion since the observer need only concern themselves with turning the scope about one axis, not two simultaneously as in the alt-az. When properly set up, turning the slow-motion control of the equatorial's polar axis is all that's required to keep an object in view. More sophisticated mounts will have built-in electric motor drives to do this, freeing you to concentrate on observing. Another big plus of the equatorial is that it's frequently equipped with graduated circles about both axes that permit you to "dial-in" the co-ordinates of celestial objects found in books and magazines.
So is the equatorial mount best? For the casual observer who desires a highly portable scope mount that permits them to set up in a variety of locations and be observing in minutes, then an alt-az is actually preferable - especially a Dobsonian. Equatorials, while virtually mandatory for most forms of astrophotography and critical observations of the Moon and planets at high power, do need to have their polar axes precisely aligned with the rotational axis of the Earth in order to be used for casual astronomy. While polar alignment is not a particularly difficult procedure that becomes easier with practice, it can take a little time at the start of your observing session. This is why large instruments on equatorial mounts are usually permanently housed in observatories.
'Go To'
Currently very much in vogue are the computer-controlled 'Robo-Scopes' appearing on the market in various guises from several manufacturers. These are refractors, reflectors, and catadioptric instruments on mounts that are controlled either by a plug-in hand-held computer or remotely by an external PC. This allows you to direct the scope to any object in the computer's database. At first glance these Go To units would appear to be the answer to a novice's dream, since they ostensibly take all the hard work out of finding elusive objects like faint galaxies, star clusters and minor planets.
There's no denying that when well-engineered, these robotic scopes are great fun to use, as they almost magically slew across the sky in search of whatever you've keyed in, zeroing in on the target to be presented in the eyepiece. The downside (yes, there always is one!) is that the technology is not quite at the stage where these scopes will automatically orient themselves when you take them outside and switch them on. Almost all Go To systems will ask you to enter the precise geographical location of your viewing site (or the nearest city) and the date and time at the beginning of each observing session. This enables the instrument's onboard computer to accurately calculate the positions of any celestial objects you may care to look at.
Usually you'll also have to level the telescope's tube and point it north (or south, in the Southern Hemisphere), then launch into an alignment procedure that uses two bright stars (which you must know by name!) to synchronise the telescope's co-ordinate system with that of the sky. These setup routines are easily mastered with practice, but it has to be said that if programming a VCR gives you problems, then the vast majority of the current batch of robotic scopes will frustrate you. Not only that, the money spent on a Go To's electronic mount could be invested in a traditionally-mounted scope of larger aperture.
When used at medium to high powers any telescope will show you a small window on the sky. This can make finding faint objects a frustrating process without the aid of a finder. As the name suggests, this is an observing aid that assists you in locating celestial objects and all scopes - irrespective of type or design - should be equipped with one. In their commonly-encountered form they resemble a miniature scope attached by a bracket close to the eyepiece of the main instrument. They have low magnifications with wide fields of view and are equipped with a cross-hair or reticule at the focus similar to a gun sight. If it's correctly aligned with the main scope, centring the object in the finder gets it in the big instrument. Look for finders with apertures (front lenses) larger than an inch (25-mm) wherever possible - larger finders give brighter images, making the location of fainter objects that much easier. A variant that's very popular is the 'laser' or 'reflex' sight that projects a point of light against the background sky. Many people prefer this intuitively simple-to-use option, but you're limited to naked eye objects with no magnification.
Everything Has It's Price
While it may be tempting financially, resist the urge to buy a cheap department store scope. Many of these instruments are of poor quality either optically or mechanically (frequently both) and will inevitably lead to disappointment. If you've a budget of less than $200, consider a good pair of binoculars instead. That said, there are a great number of quality instruments that can be obtained second-hand that an experienced member of your local astronomical club may be prepared to check out on your behalf. Or have you considered building one yourself? If you're gifted with your hands and enjoy working in wood, then it's quite easy to buy the optics and make a quality Dobsonian reflector yourself. Again, members of your local club will be able to help you with the details of construction.
Even if you're a beginner fortunate enough to have a sizeable disposable income, don't buy the largest, most expensive instrument you can find. If you're just learning to identify your constellations, then many of the advanced features that these observatory-class instruments possess are not likely to be any use to you. It's also well worth remembering that there's more to a telescope than the tube assembly, mount, and tripod. Be sure to save some of your budget for additional eyepieces to expand the scope's magnification range; filters for combating light pollution/enhancing nebulae and planetary images; and any number of other available accessories - particularly for astrophotography.
Can I Photograph What I See?
Assuming you've bought a new scope, it's almost inevitable that you'll wish to use it to capture the beauty of a planetary image on film or to emulate the marvellous gallery of deep sky images that grace the pages of magazines such as Sky and Telescope and Astronomy. In principle there's no reason why you shouldn't, given the necessary equipment and inclination, but it's wise to take time to get used to operating your new scope and learning your way around the sky before embarking on an astrophotographic adventure. Photography of the heavens can be incredibly rewarding, but it's more akin to an art than a science and the learning curve can be steep. While just about any telescope will permit you to take an image of the Moon, for just about everything else you'll need a scope on a very rigid, well-engineered, and precisely-driven mount to be successful.
Concluding Thoughts
So, what is the best telescope for you? Quite simply, it is the one you'll use most often. An optically-perfect but massive refractor will be effectively useless if you can't lift it outside, and the largest Dobsonian will not show you the faintest galaxies if the only place you can use it is a light-polluted parking lot in the centre of a city. Consider carefully what you feel to be your primary observing interest, where you're likely to be able to observe and what constitutes 'portable' to you. Visit your local astronomy club - they'll often have observing nights where you can use scopes and chat to their owners. A telescope is a big investment to most people and the universe is not going away, so take your time over the purchase. When you buy the instrument that's right for you you'll possess the key to unlocking a universe of wonders. It's a clear night - what are you waiting for?
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Malcolm X - Spiritual Leader Content from the guide to life, the universe and everything
Malcolm X - Spiritual Leader
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Malcolm X in 1964
The murder of El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz at the Audubon Ballroom, New York, on 21 February, 1965 came as a surprise to no one. Even Shabazz himself had predicted his own death, though his list of suspects had, by the end of his life, come to include any number of people for any number of reasons. For Shabazz, who had been called by some 'the angriest black man in America' had once been the spokesman for one of the most powerful religious movements America had ever seen. Back then though, he had been known by another name - Malcolm X.
'First the Sheep, Next the Shepherd'
Malcolm X was born Malcolm Little on the 19 May, 1925, the seventh of nine children. His father, the Reverend Earl Little, was a Baptist minister and fervent follower of Marcus Garvey1's UNIA (the Universal Negro Improvement Association). Little's activism drew the attention of the Ku Klux Klan2 and other white supremacy organisations; the Little family were driven from their home in Nebraska, and had their first home in Lansing, Michigan, burned to the ground. Then, on the 28 September, 1931, Earl Little was beaten to a pulp (allegedly by members of the white supremacist group the 'Black Legion') and then thrown onto the railway tracks to die. With six young children to support, Louise Little became more reliant on welfare while she struggled to get work wherever she could. The loss of Earl, coupled with the widespread effects of the Great Depression, eventually took its toll on the family; in 1939, welfare officers decided she was unfit to care for her children and she was committed to the State Mental Hospital at Kalamazoo, where she remained for 26 years. Though the eldest of her children, Hilda and Wilfred, were allowed to stay on in their father's house, the rest were placed with various families in the district.
'Rebel Without a Pause'
Even before his family was split apart, Malcolm had been a wayward child. His bad behaviour led him to be expelled from school and placed in a detention home. There, he managed to settle down and once he was allowed to attend Mason Junior High School, he began to excel at his studies. It was with some dismay, therefore, that he told his teacher that he hoped to be a lawyer only to be told that it wasn't a 'realistic goal for a nigger' and that he should consider carpentry. Yet his white fellow students, many of whom were academically his inferiors, were all encouraged to pursue whichever careers they had suggested. Only Malcolm was discouraged.
It has historically been the case with white people, in their regard for black people, that even though we might be with them, we weren't considered of them. Even though they appeared to have opened the door, it was still closed. Thus they never did really see me...
No longer happy at school, Malcolm wrote to his eldest sister, Ella, and soon permission was granted for him to move to her house in Roxbury, near Boston. Though Ella tried to encourage him to mix with 'respectable' black people from her own neighbourhood, Malcolm found himself drawn to the town ghetto sections. It was then that he met a would-be saxophonist known as 'Shorty' who would become one of Malcolm's closest friends in those early years. Shorty worked in a pool hall trying to raise money for his saxophone lessons, and through him, Malcolm got his first job, working as a shoeshine boy at the Roseland State Ballroom. Though his sister made it clear she didn't approve, for Malcolm it was a dream job as it would bring him close enough to hear all the big bands of the time, including Benny Goodman's. It also gave him his first experience of learning to hustle; at first, he sold condoms and reefers on the side, later he became a go-between, leading customers to pimps.
Coming into contact with the snappily-dressed and coiffured jazz musicians had a profound effect on Malcolm. With Shorty's help he managed to buy his own zoot suit (a sharp suit with wide shoulders and baggy trousers that narrow sharply down to the ankles) and Shorty himself gave Malcolm his first 'conk', straightening his black, Afro hair to make it look straight by using hot, scalding lye, vaseline and raw eggs. 'This was my first really big step toward self-degradation,' Malcolm later wrote:
When I endured all that pain, literally burning my flesh with lye, in order to cook my natural hair until it was limp, to have it look like a white man's hair. I had joined that multitude of Negro men and women in America who are brainwashed into believing that the black people are 'inferior' - and white people 'superior' that they will even violate and mutilate their God-created bodies to try to look 'pretty' by white standards.
Hazy Shade Of Criminal
Soon, Malcolm had moved out of Ella's house and into an apartment he shared with Shorty. The recent attack by the Japanese on Pearl Harbour had dragged the United States into the World War and with many young white men signing up to fight, the jobs that had always been exclusively 'white' were slowly opening up to black people; Malcolm had no trouble finding work. Outgrowing the shoeshine job, he graduated to working on rail-carriages and started travelling each day on the Boston to New York line.
New York opened up a new world to Malcolm, in particular the famous jazz clubs of Harlem, such as the Apollo. The railroads also allowed him to expand his hustles as he began smuggling marijuana into and out of Harlem. He soon found it difficult to balance his hectic social life of reefers, booze and - if possible - white women against a steady job. But even after he was sacked from the railroads for being drunk and less-than subservient to customers, he wasn't too worried. He quickly got a job as a barman in New York, despite the fact that, although he looked much older, he was just 17 years old.
Within a couple of years, Malcolm - or 'Detroit Red' as he became known - was involved in an increasing number of hustles: peddling reefers or harder drugs; soliciting on behalf of pimps; gambling and, eventually, small robberies, which he organised with Shorty, to feed his increasing drug habit. After one such robbery, Malcolm put a stolen watch in for repair. When he returned to collect it, the police swarmed all over him - they'd been tipped off. Searching his apartment, they found a trove of stolen goods. When his case reached court, the prosecution had managed to collate 14 further crimes to be taken into consideration. In February, 1946, Malcolm Little was sentenced to 10 years in jail.
Do the Right Thing
Like many of the criminals from the Harlem underworld, Malcolm spent his first year in prison trying to continue his hustle-driven lifestyle, cursing the authorities and getting high on anything they could get smuggled in - marijuana, Benzedrine, even nutmeg! But then he came into contact with an old-time criminal called 'Bimbi'. Malcolm began to notice how Bimbi seemed to be knowledgeable about any number of topics; he was one of the prison library's most frequent visitors and commanded the respect of guards and inmates alike. So when Bimbi told Malcolm sternly to start using his brains to advance himself while a prisoner, he paid attention. He began a correspondence course in English.
Malcolm's brother Philbert first wrote to him in 1948 about a 'natural religion for the black man'. Malcolm had long considered himself not just atheist but vehemently anti-religious and sent a reply to his brother that would later shame him greatly. But a subsequent letter from his brother Reginald managed to catch his interest:
Malcolm, don't eat any more pork, and don't smoke any more cigarettes. I'll show you how to get out of prison...
Thinking this was some psychological trick that might work to his advantage, he did as he was told. Instantly, the fellow prisoners were curious and, he later recalled, seemed to respect him more as a consequence. His sister Ella, meanwhile, had been working to get him a transfer to a rehabilitation jail. On his arrival there, the prisoners were again surprised by this black man who refused to eat pork and didn't smoke. By the time his brother Reginald finally came to see him, Malcolm was eager to learn how this 'ruse' would help him escape - and was surprised to learn that Reginald and all his family (bar Ella) had converted to the Nation of Islam as followers of 'Allah's Messenger, the Honourable Elijah Muhammad'. Reginald explained the principles of this 'new' faith, the main one being that the White Man is the Devil. As Malcolm thought back to the way white people had murdered their father and splintered their family, and all the people he had encountered as a drug peddler and a scout for the prostitutes who catered for white men who sought out black women... the seed was sown.
A later visit from his sister Hilda led to him learning about the religion's alternative version of evolution, how the original people, the black kings and queens of Africa, had founded the Holy City Mecca, but how they had become diluted by a geneticist called Yacub, who had begun a programme of bleaching out the Black race to create the White. All this had been taught to the followers of the Nation of Islam. Though he would later discover that these teachings infuriated the true Muslims of the East, at this crucial time it was the catalyst that began Malcolm Little's conversion to Islam.
Malcolm began to write direct to Elijah Muhammad on a daily basis. His education now took in a complete study of the dictionary, learning every word from 'aardvark' right through. He began taking part in prison debates, while all the while working his way through every book on philosophy and politics he could find. His discoveries about the way world history had been 'whitened' to suppress the rich histories of non-whites left him stunned - the natives of America, the half a billion inhabitants of India, the British-engineered Opium Wars with China - all helped to further solidify in his mind the ideas that he had learned from Elijah Muhammad about the 'evil' of the 'white devils'.
But just as Malcolm was discovering the teachings of Elijah Muhammad, his brother Reginald had apparently suffered a crisis of faith and had begun to doubt the 'Messenger of Allah', leading to his exclusion, at Elijah Muhammad's instructions, from the Nation of Islam. At the time, Malcolm could not comprehend how Reginald could betray Elijah Muhammad by accusing him of hypocrisy. Only years later would Malcolm himself make similar discoveries...
Fight the Power
We didn't land on Plymouth Rock, my brothers and sisters - Plymouth Rock landed on us!
Leaving prison in 1952, Malcolm moved in with his brother Wilfred and his family and immediately began life as he intended to continue it, as a practising Muslim. Before too long he got to hear the Honourable Elijah Muhammad speak, an emotional experience that, he later admitted, he was 'totally unprepared for'. Muhammad later invited Malcolm to his house to meet his family, slowly integrating him into their society. Around this time, Malcolm applied for full membership of the Nation of Islam and, having been taught that the surnames of the American black people came from their former slave owners, he replaced his own surname with the letter 'X', as so many had done before him. The teachings of Elijah Muhammad told them that followers would retain the name 'X' until Allah himself provided them with a 'Holy Name from His own mouth'.
Malcolm threw himself enthusiastically into recruiting for the Nation of Islam and through his efforts, Detroit's Temple Number One tripled its membership within just a few months. With the encouragement of his Temple's Minister, Lemuel Hassan, he began giving lectures inspired by the teachings of the Honourable Elijah and in the spring of 1953 he was named Detroit Temple Number One's Assistant Minister. He continued to regularly visit Elijah Muhammad and his family in Chicago, and enjoyed learning through Elijah's example.
Having been such a success in Detroit, Malcolm decided to put his training into practice on the streets of Harlem. He found recruiting difficult, largely because the black people there were put off by the strict moral code of the Muslims. Fornication or adultery, for example, was strictly forbidden. This code would be policed by the Fruit of Islam, a force of young, zealous men who would report any indiscretions to Mr Muhammad and it would be he who would judge the punishment, whether that be separation from the Nation, or in extreme cases expulsion, as had happened to Malcolm's own brother.
In the ten years since he had first entered prison, Malcolm had not entertained the idea of being with a woman. Despite recommendations for suitable partners from the female Muslims at the Temples, Malcolm's work remained paramount. But in 1956, he set eyes on Betty X, an intelligent, tall Muslim at Temple Number Seven. Over the space of a year, Malcolm slowly got to know her, until, after consulting Mr Muhammad, he decided he wanted to marry her. On 14 January, 1958, they were married. Betty would subsequently provide him with five daughters.
Up to that point, the Nation of Islam had been able to grow as a relatively secret organisation. But an incident in Harlem one night suddenly brought the full strength of the Muslim movement into the public eye. Dispersing a fight on the streets, two white policemen tried to move onlookers along. When two members of Temple Number Seven refused to be moved, they were set upon by the officers with nightsticks. One of them, Johnson Hinton, received a savage blow to the head shortly before he was taken to a nearby police precinct. In less than half an hour, around 50 of Temple Seven's Fruit of Islam were standing in ranks-formation outside the precinct. Malcolm X made his way to the precinct front desk and demanded to see Johnson Hinton. At first, he was told no such person was in the precinct; then the police admitted that he was there, but that Malcolm could not see him. Malcolm pointed to the rows of ordered Muslims outside - by now they had also been joined by crowds of black residents from the area, swelling their ranks considerably. Malcolm calmly informed the police that the men would remain outside the precinct until they could be reassured that their brother had received medical attention. On Malcolm's instruction, Hinton was moved to Harlem Hospital, at which time Malcolm gave the order for the Muslim followers to disperse.
Although the incident was reported in the press as just another example of unrest in Harlem, the police department began to pay close attention to the Nation of Islam.
Fear of a Black Planet
In 1959, the Mike Wallace Show3 broadcast an edition called 'The Hate That Hate Produced', a documentary about the growth of the 'Black Muslim' movement in America. Suddenly, the Nation of Islam was on the front page of every national newspaper - as a hate-mongering group, 'black fascists', 'anti-Christian' and 'possibly Communist'.
Soon, radio and television stations were calling on Malcolm X, as the most prominent spokesman for the Nation of Islam, to defend these accusations. With Elijah Muhammad's permission, Malcolm began appearing on a number of shows, always as 'the representative of Mr Elijah Muhammad', never solely as himself. Such discussions generally took the form of Malcolm picking apart his critics, displaying a greater understanding of the semantics of the English language and showing himself - and the movement he belonged to - as intelligent and spiritual, yet determined to overthrow the centuries of oppression the black people had endured under white rule.
Not surprisingly, Malcolm became the focus of a great number of questions from all sides. Somehow, his unlisted number fell into the public domain and, taking the show at face value, critics began to call him at all hours to ask him how he could preach such hatred. Some tried to play down the importance of the Nation of Islam by claiming that its numbers were minuscule, to which Malcolm retorted:
Whoever tells you how many Muslims there are doesn't know, and who does know will never tell you...
Seemingly from nowhere, an organisation perceived to be 'anti-white' had emerged, and regardless of whatever he himself might say about Elijah Muhammad, Malcolm was believed to be its leader. With Elijah's blessing, he began accepting invitations to talk on discussion programmes alongside leading academics. Often he would be asked why the Nation of Islam appeared to support the White Supremacist movements in advocating segregation:
We reject segregation even more militantly than you say you do! We want separation, which is not the same! ... Segregation is that which is forced upon inferiors by superiors. But separation is that which is done voluntarily by two equals - for the good of both!
While this media attention brought them many enemies, it also helped swell their numbers with hundreds of people eager to hear the words of the Honourable Elijah Muhammad himself at organised Muslim rallies. Over the next few years, whenever the white press wished to discuss 'black issues' they inevitably came to Malcolm X for a quote and he soon emerged as 'the angriest black man in America'. But Malcolm began to notice that the Nation's own newspaper, Muhammad Speaks, began to report on him less and less, mainly out of resentment on the part of the paper's publisher - Elijah Muhammad's son, Herbert.
Don't Believe the Hype
Malcolm's opinion was sought on all race issues - from the passive campaigns that had surrounded Rosa Parks4 to the March on Washington5. And in all discussions, he repeatedly told people he was but the representative of the Honourable Elijah Muhammad. So it was a major blow, both to the Nation of Islam and to Malcolm personally, when it was revealed in newspapers and television reports that Elijah Muhammad was facing two paternity suits from former secretaries of his who claimed that he was the father of their four young children. At first, Malcolm struggled to accept that his own spiritual leader might be guilty of adultery. Seeking advice from the Qoran6, Malcolm saw a glimmer of hope when he read about David's adultery with Bathsheba being forgotten after he slew Goliath, or how Noah's drunkenness was overshadowed by his building of the Ark. Perhaps a person's good deeds could outweigh their bad?
When he eventually met with Elijah, the 'Messenger of Allah' convinced him that, just as his examples had played their part in the greater prophecies, so too did he. This inspired Malcolm to prepare six of the officials from his own mosque so that they would not be shocked by the revelations that their leader was fallible. He could have no idea that his opposers would see this as an attempt to deliberately damage their leader's reputation further.
Public Enemy
On 22 November, 1963, John F Kennedy, the 35th President of the United States, was assassinated. Just a few days later, during a question-and-answer session after a talk, Malcolm commented that he regarded the President's death as a case of 'the chickens coming home to roost', a comment he later claimed was meant as a statement on the way violence breeds violence. Nevertheless, the American press saw this as an ill-timed attack on a much-loved leader. Elijah Muhammad agreed and ordered that Malcolm should be silenced for 90 days.
At first, Malcolm assumed that he would be reinstated after the 90 days were up, but slowly it began to dawn on him that this was just the first steps to keep him out of the way and slowly oust him from the Nation of Islam. There was something in the way Elijah Muhammad spoke about him that made him suspect that once his period of silence was over, his suspension would not be lifted, and instead a story claiming he had refused to apologise for his error would be circulated. After that, all it would take is one ardent follower of Elijah Muhammad to be convinced of his 'religious duty' for Malcolm to find himself the victim of violence.
Though he was forbidden from speaking, he was not yet considered ousted from the nation so he was otherwise allowed to come and go as he pleased. He and his wife accepted an invitation from boxer and recent convert to Islam, Cassius Clay, to join him in training for a fight in Miami, Florida. Clay was due to fight Sonny Liston; it was a fight few expected or wanted to see him win. Few, that is, except Malcolm X.
The day after Clay won the fight, he announced to the press that he was a follower of Islam. Soon after, he changed his name to Muhammad Ali.
Although he was worried by the predictable split with the Nation of Islam, Malcolm was also confident that he had one skill that other black leaders did not - having been a hustler for many years, he could speak to the blacks in the ghettos in their own language (by this time, many commentators had noted wryly that he was the only black man in America 'who could stop a race riot - or start one'). The numbers of people who came to hear him speak showed him the faith that the common man had in him and slowly he began to formulate plans for his own organisation. Eventually, he announced to the press that he would be founding a new mosque in New York called the Muslim Mosque Inc, which had its temporary home in the Hotel Theresa in Harlem. That done, he spoke to his sister Ella (who had founded a school that taught Arabic) about a loan so that he could afford to make the pilgrimage to Mecca.
As he boarded the plane to Mecca, the biggest jolt to Malcolm's expectations was that his fellow travellers were of all races, all colours, all nationalities. On arrival at Jedda, the arrival point for all who go to Mecca, he learned that his claim as a Muslim would have to be put before the Mahgama Sharia - the Muslim High Court that ensures that all converts to the faith are genuine - non-Muslims are not permitted to enter Mecca. In the meantime, he was taken to a dormitory near the airport. It was there that he discovered that in all his years of studying under the tutelage of Elijah Muhammad, he had never been shown the crouching prayer posture that genuine Muslims around the world adopt when facing Mecca; with his own gangly frame, the posture was painful. He didn't even speak Arabic aside from prayers and for the first time he began to worry that his appeal to enter the city of Mecca would be turned down. But thanks to the intervention of an Arabic Lord who was aware of Malcolm's international reputation as an American Muslim, Malcolm's case was brought forward, he met with the judge and his name was formerly entered into the Holy Register...
It Takes a Nation of Millions
On his return to the US, Malcolm was a visibly changed man. He had discovered that true Islam erased the problems of race; it displayed a brotherhood to all forms of humanity regardless of colour. This discovery had forced him to re-evaluate many of his previous beliefs and throw away many convictions that conflicted with the true message of Allah. This revelation had finally led him towards the 'Holy Name' that had been promised to him; from then on, he signed his name 'El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz'.
If he'd thought his return to America would be welcomed, he was sadly mistaken. In his absence, the long hot summer of 1964 had led to a number of 'race riots' which the press wanted to attribute, however tenuously, to words spoken or written by Malcolm; a spate of death threats began to arrive via newspapers, the police or even direct to Malcolm's office; and additionally, Malcolm and his family had always lived in a house provided by the Nation of Islam - now that he had been forced to cut all ties with the organisation, they arranged a court order to reclaim the house, an order Malcolm campaigned to have overturned. Regardless, on the morning of 14 February, 1965, a Molotov cocktail was thrown through a downstairs window of the house. Malcolm managed to get his pregnant wife and their four daughters to safety but the house was gutted. Typically, they had no contents insurance.
At 12 noon on Sunday 21 February that same year, Malcolm made his way to the Audubon Ballroom on West 166th Street, New York, to deliver a speech. As he took to the stage, an altercation distracted him. As he tried to quell the crowd, he was shot 16 times by unidentified men. He was pronounced dead at 3.30pm.
Reports of what had happened were confused. Two, maybe three men, had shot him with a mixture of handguns and shotguns. Aware of the growing suspicion towards him, Elijah Muhammad was quick to deny that either he or his organisation had anything to do with Malcolm's death, though he did imply that he believed Malcolm had 'died according to his preaching... he preached war, we preach peace.' Civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr, meanwhile, sent a telegram to Malcolm's widow, Betty Shabazz, saying:
Malcolm was buried according to the Muslim faith as 'El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz'. Funeral prayers were lead by Sheikh Al-Hajj Hesham Jaaber with readings from actor and playwright Ossie Davies.
On 10 March, 1965, Thomas 15x Johnson and Norman 3X Butler7, both alleged former 'Black Muslims' and 23-year-old Talmadge Hayer (aka Thomas Haganwere) were indicted for Malcolm's murder and were sentenced to life a year later.
In November 1965, The autobiography of Malcolm X, which had been written with the assistance of novelist and writer Alex Haley, was finally published to widespread critical acclaim. The book's ending foreshadows the events that would bring an end to Malcolm X, yet also provided him with a fitting epitaph:
Further Studies
1Jamaican-born Marcus Garvey was the leader of the largest organised mass movement in black history and an advocate of the 'Back-to-Africa' movement. His followers saw him as a 'Black Moses' and such was his perceived threat to the establishment that Garvey was deported to Jamaica in 1927, never to return to America. Though his UNIA organisation continued without him, he himself slowly slid into obscurity. He died in London, UK, in 1940.2A supposedly Christian organisation that promotes white supremacy and the removal of non-whites from America.3An American news programme, presented by Mike Wallace, that traditionally tackled difficult issues. Wallace later became the anchorman of the current affairs show 60 Minutes.4In Montgomery, Alabama, in 1955, a black woman called Rosa Parks, was ordered by a white bus driver to give up her seat on a bus for a white passenger. The law was on his side, and when Mrs Parks refused to give up her seat, she was arrested. But the black people of Montgomery, led by Dr Martin Luther King, campaigned peacefully for a year until the laws regarding segregated buses were overturned.5A civil rights protest that Malcolm believed had been suppressed by the compliant black liberals to turn the protest into little more than a 'picnic'.6The Muslim holy text.7Butler, who had always asserted his innocence, later changed his name to Muhammad Abdul-Aziz. He was freed on parole in 1985 and in 1998 he became the head of Harlem mosque in New York, which Malcolm X ran before his death.
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9 Common Causes of Hair Loss
Great Britain has the fifth highest number of bald men in the world, with 39.23 percent of the UK’s male population experiencing hair loss.
Baldness affects men in different ways. Some may embrace it and refuse to let it define them, offsetting their hair-free scalp with a luscious beard.
Baldness certainly suits a lot of men, and their confidence shines through regardless of their hair count.
For other men, though, hair loss can have a devastating impact on their self-confidence, affecting every area of their life.
Hair transplant surgery can help to restore their self-esteem along with their locks, using cutting-edge technology for permanent results.
Still, what actually leads your hair to fall out in the first place? Here are 9 common causes.
#1. MPB (Male Pattern Baldness)
What is it?
Male pattern baldness (also known as androgenetic alopecia) is the most common cause of hair loss in men. This tends to strike later in life as hormone levels change, though genetic factors are another reason behind it.
Baldness occurs when the hair follicles in your scalp shrink, causing your hair to become finer and shorter as it grows. The follicles affected will fail to produce new hair over time, leading to areas of loss around the temples or on the scalp.
The hair around the back and sides tends to remain unaffected, though.
What can you do?
Hair transplant surgery, using FUE technology, can promote new hair growth and restore a more youthful head of hair.
#2. Physical Trauma
What is it?
Undergoing severe physical trauma – such as an illness, a car accident, or a serious injury – can trigger hair loss.
This is known as telogen effluvium, and occurs when the hair’s growth cycle is affected, with the scalp shedding more hairs than it grows.
What can you do?
The hair will grow back as your body continues to recover.
#3. Not Enough Protein in Your Diet
What is it?
Failing to get enough protein in your diet can reduce hair growth rates, with baldness starting to occur around two or three months following a major reduction in protein.
Why? Each strand of your hair contains protein, and if your body isn’t getting enough of it through your diet, it will start to ration protein by cutting back on your hair growth.
What can you do?
Meat and eggs contain protein, but if you prefer a vegetarian or vegan diet, aim to eat more quinoa, nuts, beans, chickpeas, tofu, edamame, leafy greens, sunflower seeds, and poppy seeds.
#4. Periods of Emotional Stress
What is it?
Emotional stress can trigger hair loss, just like severe physical stress.
Difficult life events like bereavement or divorce can be stressful enough to cause hair to fall out, while being overworked, money worries, and simply feeling unable to cope with your responsibilities over a long period may be to blame too.
What can you do?
Hair loss due to emotional stress will eventually stop, and normal growth may continue. Try to change your situation, reduce stress, do more exercises, consider counselling, or talk to your doctor. All of these can help you manage your stress levels.
#5. Not Getting Enough Vitamin B
What is it?
Failing to get enough vitamin B in your diet can cause hair loss, as your hair growth depends on B vitamins (B1, B3, B5, and B6) to stay healthy. Your body needs B vitamins to metabolise fatty acids properly, which keeps hair lubricated and tough.
What can you do?
Add more vitamin B to your diet by eating non-citrus fruits (apples, bananas, kiwi) and starchy vegetables (sweet corn, lima beans, potatoes, peas). You can try supplements too.
#6. Weight Loss
What is it?
Losing a lot of weight in a short space of time can cause your hair to thin, even if shedding the pounds benefits your health.
Fast weight loss can inflict stress on your body, especially if you’re not eating enough and denying yourself the nutrition you need. Weight-related hair loss can occur with common eating disorders like bulimia or anorexia.
What can you do?
Once you start eating properly and manage your weight more effectively, your hair growth should return to normal. Your hair may stay thin for a number of months first though, given the stress placed on your body.
#7. Medication / Prescription Drugs
What is it?
Your hair loss may be caused by certain prescription drugs, such as antidepressants, acne medication, anti-seizure medications, beta-blockers, blood-pressure medications, and blood-clotting medication.
Chemotherapy can cause hair loss too, of course.
What can you do?
Talk to your doctor. See if the medication is likely to blame, and explore other possibilities that may be available.
#8. Anabolic Steroids
What is it?
Anabolic steroids used by some bodybuilders and athletes may help you build muscles, but your hair could suffer for it.
This may be down to the steroids’ ingredients, or the change in hormones they create by boosting testosterone.
What can you do?
Stop taking the steroids, and your hair growth should return to normal. Try to gain muscle and tone your body through organic means, rather than relying on drugs.
#9. Overactive Immune System
What is it?
Your hair loss may be caused by an overactive immune system, referred to as alopecia areata.
This disease leads to small areas of hair loss across the scalp, as your immune system starts to attack your hair follicles. Alopecia areata rarely causes complete baldness, but might be strong enough to prevent your hair growing back.
What can you do?
Steroids may be used to treat alopecia areata, while ointments and creams can be applied to the scalp to encourage hair growth too.
When hair does grow back, it may fall out again. Sadly, there is no cure for alopecia areata at present.
Have you experienced hair loss from any of the above causes, or one we haven’t covered?
Would you consider hair transplant surgery to promote healthy hair growth?
Let us know below, and feel free to call to learn more about our hair transplant cost.
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Look, But Don't Touch
Phyllis, one of the people who was under Howard's watch when he was a camp counselor in the mid-1970s, plus two of her friends, came into the studio. Howard admitted that he had a crush on Phyllis back then, but that he couldn't act on it because he was 19 and she was 15. In fact, Howard said that he found Phyllis so attractive that he thought about looking her up when she was "legal" three years later, but decided not to do it. Phyllis replied that she was interested in Howard as well and remembered that he promised all the kids on their bus that he was going to be famous one day.
Phyllis claimed that she didn't realize the person she used to know as "Howie" Stern was actually "Howard Stern" until she saw him on "The Tonight Show." Phyllis went on to recall that Howard once got a camper thrown off a trip they were taking to the Grand Canyon because he busted the kid for having marijuana. Howard explained that, because state troopers often pulled over buses filled with campers at the time, he was under strict orders to not allow any drugs on the bus. Howard added that since the head counselor, Woody, didn't know what marijuana looked like, he had the job of testing out the confiscated material to see if it actually was pot. Howard then said that he took the bag into the bathroom, and "found out" that it was, in fact, marijuana.
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When Authors Create Title Characters of the Opposite Sex
12/05/2013 12:38 pm ET Updated Feb 04, 2014
Do women write the best novels starring women? Do men write the best novels starring men? In many cases, yes. But while there's a lot to be said for "living the gender," there are also some great literary works featuring title characters who are the opposite sex of the author.
After all, fiction writers have always used their imagination. Even if their first novels are sometimes semi-autobiographical, they usually range farther afield in subsequent books. So why not range occasionally into Other Gender Land?
Also, authors have firsthand insight into the minds of the opposite sex via living with mothers or fathers, sisters or brothers, wives or husbands, and daughter or sons. They've dated, befriended and shared office space with both genders. And authors can of course research the psyches of the other sex.
In addition, authors who create opposite-gender title characters can sort of skirt (or pants?) the opposite-gender issue. By that I mean including other main characters who are the same sex as the writer and/or telling the story from the perspective of a character who's the same sex as the writer.
Among the female-penned novels with a male title character? Edith Wharton's Ethan Frome, Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin, Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, George Eliot's Silas Marner, George Sand's Jacques, Willa Cather's Alexander's Bridge, Alice Walker's The Third Life of Grange Copeland and J.K. Rowling's seven Harry Potter books.
Some male-written novels with a female title character? Honore de Balzac's Eugenie Grandet, Emile Zola's Nana, Gustave Flaubert's Madame Bovary, Leo Tolstoy's Anna Karenina, Henry James' Daisy Miller, William Styron's Sophie's Choice, Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland, Daniel Defoe's Moll Flanders, Samuel Richardson's Pamela, Theodore Dreiser's Sister Carrie and Stephen King's Carrie.
Ethan Frome not only has a male title character, but much of that book's story is told from the viewpoint of a male narrator visiting Ethan's Massachusetts town. So Wharton was "all in" with the opposite-gender approach, though she includes two major female characters: Ethan's wife Zeena and Zeena's cousin Mattie.
Mary Shelley also wrote The Last Man, which stars three males -- one based on Lord Byron, one based on her late husband Percy Bysshe Shelley and one based on her gender-reversed self.
Some authors have put opposite-sex names in more than one title. For instance, George Eliot also wrote Adam Bede, Daniel Deronda and Felix Holt, the Radical; Zola authored Therese Raquin and Madeleine Ferat; and Stephen King penned Dolores Claiborne and Rose Madder as well the car-starring Christine. (It's not surprising, in a law of averages sort of way, that authors as prolific as King and Zola would have multiple books with distaff monikers.)
Speaking of part-horror writers a la King, Edgar Allan Poe penned several women-named short stories -- including "Berenice" and "Ligeia." Meanwhile, Willa Cather's most famous piece of brief fiction was "Paul's Case."
What are your favorite novels (or short stories) with title characters of a different gender than the author? And if you'd like to extend this question further, what are your favorite fictional works by black authors with white title characters, white authors with black title characters, gay authors with straight title characters, straight authors with gay title characters, etc.? Also, do you think a female or male author can truly get into the mind of a protagonist of the opposite sex?
Men! They ask so many questions! Or at least I just did. :-)
In his often-humorous Comic (and Column) Confessional memoir, Dave Astor recalls 25 years of covering and meeting cartoonists, columnists and others such as Charles Schulz ("Peanuts"), Bill Watterson ("Calvin and Hobbes"), Ann Landers, Hillary Clinton and Coretta Scott King. He also mentions many novelists! Contact Dave at [email protected] to buy a discounted, inscribed copy of the book -- which includes a preface by Heloise and back-cover blurbs by Arianna Huffington and Gary Larson ("The Far Side").
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Meeting the neighbours
Before you listen:
Look at the picture. Why do Andreas and Maria go to their neighbour's house?
• Andreas and Maria go to their neighbour's house because…
• they have a little dog and want to show it to their neighbours.
• they have no crockery. They want to ask their neighbour if they could borrow some crockery.
• they are moving back to Germany and want to say good-bye.
While you listen:
Listen carefully for the details about the house-warming party. Then answer the questions below.
1. Where is the party?
• The party is at the Fernandez's new home.
• The party is in front of the school.
2. Who will come to the party?
• The neighbours of the Fernandez family will come to the party.
• Andreas' colleagues will come to the party.
3. On what day of the week is the party?
• The party is on Friday.
• The party is on Saturday.
4. What time does the party start?
• It starts at 3 o'clock in the afternoon.
• It starts at 5.30 in the afternoon.
When the workers and the removal van leave, Maria talks to Andreas.
How could they forget the crockery? Now we don't have anything to eat with!
Calm down, honey. Why don't we ask our neighbours to lend us some plates, knives, forks, spoons and cups?
Good thinking! It will give us an opportunity to introduce ourselves!
You know what, let's have a house-warming party this Saturday! We can invite all our neighbours.
That's a great idea!
They walk to the neighbour's house and ring the bell. A woman opens the door.
Hi! We're the Fernandez family. We're from next-door! My name is Maria.
Oh hi! Nice to meet you! I'm Betty.
Nice to meet you too, Betty. I'm Andreas.
Betty, do you have some spare crockery?
Sure, I do. Do you need some?
Yes, please! The removal company forgot ours!
Sure, no problem! Just a second.
She goes inside and comes back with a box full of crockery.
That's so nice, thank you! Betty, would you like to come to our house-warming party this Saturday?
Sure, what time?
Around three in the afternoon.
Can I bring something? A salad maybe?
Yes, please! That's so nice, thank you!
After you listened:
Complete the sentences below. Choose the right words.
1. The woman wants to bring a
to the party.
2. Besides plates, knives, forks and spoons they also need
3. comes up with the idea to have a house-warming party on the weekend.
4. The neighbour's name is
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Create a Living Trust in Massachusetts
Create a Living Trust in Massachusetts
by Brette Sember, Esq., May 2015
A Massachusetts living trust allows you to keep your assets in a trust during your life and control their distribution after death. A revocable living trust, or inter vivos trust, is an estate planning option that can offer many benefits.
Living Trusts in Massachusetts
A living trust in Massachusetts is created by the grantor, the person putting things into trust. As the grantor you must choose a trustee who is charged with managing the trust for your benefit while you are alive and distributing your assets to your beneficiaries after your death. You may choose anyone, but it is common to name yourself, with a successor trustee in place for after your death. A revocable living trust can be changed or cancelled by you at any time during your life. An irrevocable living trust is unalterable once it is signed.
When a person leaves a will, that will must be probated, or approved and enacted by a court. This process takes many months and requires an executor and attorney, both of whom must be paid. There are also probate court fees. Assets cannot be disbursed until probate is concluded, requiring your heirs to wait quite a while. None of this is necessary when you leave your assets in a Massachusetts living trust. Assets in a trust do not go through probate. Beneficiaries can be paid at any time that the trust specifies, including immediately after your death. Keep in mind that Massachusetts law is based on the Uniform Probate Code, so its procedure can be relatively simple. In addition, if your estate is worth less than $25,000 it qualifies for a simplified probate procedure which will be less expensive than a trust.
Do I Need a Living Trust in Massachusetts?
When you create your living trust in Massachusetts, you gain the ability to control your assets during your life and after your death. While you are living, you live as you normally would. All the assets in your trust can be used, spent, or given away as you wish. After your death, your trustee manages the assets and distributes them to your beneficiaries according to the terms you have set up in the trust. You can choose exactly how and when the distributions happen – immediately or at later dates or events. If you use a will, it passes assets to heirs immediately after probate is completed. A living trust provides added protection since it is much harder to contest than a will.
A revocable living trust protects you should you become mentally incapacitated. All of your assets are already controlled, owned, and managed by the trust and a conservatorship proceeding is likely unnecessary for you to have your financial life managed for your benefit.
A living trust also allows you to maintain privacy for you and your family. The terms of the trust, assets, and beneficiaries are not made public, in contrast to a will which is filed with a court and becomes public.
Living Trusts and Estate Taxes in Massachusetts
Your living trust does not allow to avoid estate taxes. Massachusetts taxes estates worth more than $1 million and the federal government taxes those in excess of $5 million. You can get around this with a marital trust (also called an AB or QTIP trust) which transfers assets from one spouse directly to the surviving spouse.
How to Create a Living Trust in Massachusetts
Creating a living trust in Massachusetts occurs when you create a written trust document. You then sign this in front of notary. The trust is complete once you transfer assets into it. A living trust is an important option available as part of your estate plan. Consider the benefits and limitations and decide what works for you.
If you're ready to create a living trust, LegalZoom can help. LegalZoom living trusts include a pour-over will, transfer deeds, a document organizer, and more.
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If you want to become a transplant surgeon, try this game and receive your certificate. When the body appears, you have to click on each organ and tissue, then drag each one to the correct place in the body. If you're wrong, the organ or tissue goes back to the line up for you to try again.
Remember, becoming a transplant surgeon takes practise. Keep trying, and once you've transplanted all the organs and tissues successfully, you'll receive your diploma for printing.
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Transparent Prediction: print and perform 2 by George Marchese
This is the second in the series "print and perform". In this series you have not only the instructions for the tricks but also the templates to print and perform the effects.
EFFECT : You show an envelope containing a "prediction" and give it to hold to someone. A spectator is given a pocket calculator (… or he can use the one on his cellphone…). He freely chooses a 3 digit number and then is told to make some simple calculations arriving at a random total. At this point you take the envelope with the prediction, open it and extract a sheet of clear plastic with your prediction printed in big bold digits. The prediction is 476 (…for example). The spectator announces that your prediction is completely wrong…You ask the total which is 85 ( …for example). Apparently you miserably failed …
But …wait a moment… you take the clear sheet with the wrong prediction and with a simple movement of your hand visibly transform the three digit number into the correct two digit number and …all's well that ends well!
• The spectator has a free choice of the number.
• Very easy to do.
• No sleight of hand required.
• Complete instructions with several color pictures and template for the prediction.
• You can use the interesting principle explained in many ways to create your own effects.
1st digital edition 2013, 10 pages.
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Netflix Won't Pay Ransom, Stream Away!
So here we have a major theft of perhaps Netflix biggest show, “Orange is the New Black” with a hacker saying he has the entire new season in his hands -- demanding a “modest” ransom.
Sounds like a possible opening of another TV show on Netflix.
The threat was to give the entire fifth season to the masses on an illegal file-sharing service for free. New season of the “Orange” is set to premiere on Netflix in June.
Netflix didn’t pay; and and show went up on a site called The Private Bay. The results? Maybe a shrug of shoulders.
Now there continues to be plenty of illegal file-sharing services in operation -- starting ever since the dawn of the digital age. But consider this is 2017 for torrent sites: In 2011, BitTorrent accounted for 23% of daily Internet traffic in North America, according to Wired. Now, its 5%.
Most of these activities occur with TV shows that have been on premium cable networks, like HBO and Showtime, or newer TV platforms like Netflix, for shows that are already on the air -- but not readily available. One of the most popular shows on those sites has been HBO’s “Game of Thrones.”
What’s gained from the Netflix hack -- for the viewer accessing it on an illegal site? You can probably only watch a show -- easily -- on a small laptop screen. And you save around $10 a month -- Netflix’s current consumer price. Plus, you can cancel immediately afterwards.
Even then, hacker missed the mark of how modern TV entertainment. Time-shifting, watching at one’s schedule is a big deal. That is what Netflix has tapped into and why it still buys previous seasons of big TV programming and movies.
Ask another question: When it comes to its popular series -- “Orange Is the New Black” or other shows -- how many of Netflix’s 50 million U.S. subscribers actually watch those episodes, say a week at time, or binge the entire season, when it premieres?
As so much entertainment grows, and available time to consume that entertainment shrinks, how does one value “premieres” of TV shows/content for companies like Netflix, HBO, or the big TV broadcasting networks?
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1. Tom Siebert from BENEVOLENT PROPAGANDA, May 2, 2017 at 1:16 p.m.
Only way this MAYBE works as extortion would be for a show that dollops out its episodes one week at a time, not all at once like Netflix.
Would anybody cancel Netflix just because they got their new season of "Orange" a week early? I really doubt there is even one individual. Anybody who could download a torrent one week early is also somebody who could download it a day after it premieres, and is probably leeching all Netflix programming already anyway.
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Legion Beast Master Hunter Change Guide
By Catherine Daro on December 03, 2015 | Guides | Comments
Legion Beast Master Hunter Change Guide
The first big update for the World of Warcraft: Legion alpha client has gone off just last night, but the forums are already aflame with the bits and pieces of upcoming expansion datamined or tried out in the latest build.
The thing that was promised in Legion is the change to all and each one of available specializations not only to make them different from other classes', but distinct from the other options within the same class as well, thus fulfilling the so called 'class fantasy'.
Blizzard felt that certain specialization required next to complete revamp (such as, for example, Survival Hunter and Demonology Warlock) to strengthen the feeling of ‘core’ fantasy while certain ones needed only general changes such as tweaking of talents and abilities. The ‘enhanced’ passive abilities, received in Warlords of Draenor, will not be present in the Legion, however, between the perks provided by the artifacts and world-drop legendaries players will be more than made up for the loss.
This overview is focused on one of three specializations of Hunter class: Beast Mastery. You can read Bill Murphy’s preview of totally revamped Survival spec which is to go melee in Legion. To sum it up, the hunter specializations would be diversified in the following way: Survival is to become melee class with a pet, Marksmanship will be turned into pet-less ranged DPS (although one of the talents, called Dark Ranger, allows to summon a ‘dark minion’ to tank for yourself for certain amount of time) and Beast Mastery will get an even greater focus on pets - both permanent and summonable. Some abilities were revamped: Deterrence was replaced with Aspect of the Turtle, Dire Beast is no longer a talent, but a part of core rotation of any Beast Mastery hunter and a prime focus generator, Cobra Shot no longer generates focus, but is a quick and relatively weak shot that consumes it, etc. Let’s take a quick look at the talents, which was possible thanks to the WoWHead Talent Calculator. Take note that Blizzard did not want a perfect cookie cutter builds to exist thus requiring you to choose certain talents to min max your DPS output and wanted the choice to be difficult or even plain suffering as the new tier for level 90 goes:
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Above you can see talent trees the way it is currently presented in Warlords of Draenor and what it will change to in the Legion. Let’s check it out. Brand new or changed talents will be marked with *.
Level 15: in Warlords of Draenor tier 1 had talents affecting movement through changes to Disengage (and Deterrence in case of [Crouching Tiger, Hidden Chimaera]). Let’s see what are the Legion choices in the same tier:
One with the Pack* - The chance for Wild Call to reset the cooldown of Dire Beast is increased by 10%. (The base amount given by Wild Call passive is 30% chance to reset cooldown on Dire Beast on critical strike)
Way of the Cobra* - For every pet or guardian you have active, Cobra Shot deals an additional 5% damage.
Dire Stable* - Dire Beasts generate 4 extra focus when they attack.
Level 30: Current tier in the Warlords of Draenor offers choices affecting crowd control, while level 30 tier of the Legion will repeat the tier 1 of Warlords of Draenor with the exception of the talent called Farstrider.
Farstrider* - Disengage now has 2 charges.
Narrow Escape - Disengage also activates a web trap which immobilizes all targets within 8 yards for 8 sec.
Level 45: Tier 3 in Warlords of Draenor directly influences the hunter’s survival, while Tier 3 of Legion fully repeats Tier 2 of WoD, affecting Crowd Control. There are no brand new talents and existing ones do not receive a tweak in Legion.
Binding Shot - Fires a magical projectile, tethering the enemy and any other enemies within 5 yards for 10 sec, stunning them for 5 sec if they move more than 5 yards from the arrow, 45 sec. cooldown.
Wyvern Sting - A stinging shot that puts the target to sleep, incapacitating them for 30 sec. Any damage will cancel the effect. Usable while moving. 45 sec. cooldown.
Intimidation - Command your pet to intimidate the target, stunning it for 3 sec. 1 min cooldown.
Head to page 2 for Tier 60, 75, 90 and 100 along with a brief look at Legendaries.
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Rhesus Macaques
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At Monkey Haven: Oh boy, we’ve got our hands full with this lot! These cheeky macaques love larking around – you wouldn’t believe the fun that they can have with a plastic cup. And give them a towel – and they will happily play ‘ghosts’ for hours. One of the posse, Hobo, was found in a garden in Dorset. We don’t know much about his past – but he’s extremely adept at opening locks, so it makes you wonder… Spok’s another little character (the name refers to his pointy ears). Give him half a chance, and he’ll steal the keepers’ keys, walkie talkies, or phones. Oh yes… these monkeys are trouble!
The lowdown: These Old World monkeys are found in Algeria, Morocco and Gibraltar.
Diet: A tasty combo of plants and insects including spiders and scorpions.
Furry facts:
• In the wild, they live in troops of up to 100 – and the women are the boss.
• The males play an important role in child rearing.
• Young macaques open their mouth wide (like in the picture above) as a sign of playfulness.
• They have a special call which they use to warn others of predators
• In the wild, they’re hunted by dogs, eagles and leopards.
• Grooming is an important part of their culture.
• They live for up to 30 years.
• The species is under threat from logging and the illegal pet trade.
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How to convert C# nullable int to int - Stack Overflow
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dynamic chart ranges
Posted by Al on January 06, 2002 3:28 PM
I'm trying to create a dynamic line graph of a range of values in a list. The initial list in col.E has 28 rows of values from E2-E29 (header in E1). The challenge is that a new value gets added to the bottom of the list each day but I only want the most recent 28 values plotted, dynamically of course. To illustrate, for Day1, I want to plot E2-E29. For Day2, I want to plot E3-E30, and so on.
The formula: =ADDRESS(COUNTA($E:$E),5)
properly gives me the address I want at the bottom of the list, e.g. E29 when it's Day1, E30 when it's Day2, etc. Then I tried creating a dynamic named range using OFFSET(ADDRESS(COUNTA($E:$E),5),-27,0,28,1) but
I get an error. My ultimate objective is to use this dynamic named range for the 'values' parameter in the SERIES function which actually plots my line.
This is for a "rolling 28-day" line chart.
Thank you very much for any response.
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Try entering this formula for your named range
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From traffic to glasses, the final primer before the Aug. 21 solar eclipse
The Great American Eclipse Experience: Fourth in a series of articles on the Great American Eclipse of 2017
On Aug. 21, the moon will pass between the sun and earth causing a total solar eclipse. During this time, the moon’s shadow will extend down to the earth projecting a 70-mile wide spot of shaded darkness. For those deep inside the moon’s shadow they will see the sun completely blocked out by the moon.
In a short span of roughly 90 minutes, the moon’s shadow will drag across the landscape, starting in Oregon, passing through the central United States, and heading off the coast line of South Carolina. The narrow band traced out by the moon’s shadow is known as the path of totality.
Dubbed the Great American Eclipse, this is the first time since 1979 that a total solar eclipse will be viewable from anywhere in the continental United States. It also marks the first time in the nation’s history that the path of totality will be exclusive to America.
With the popularity of social media, an estimated 12 million people living within the path of totality, and another 220 million only a few hours drive away, some expect the Great American Eclipse to become the most shared event in history.
South Carolina is expected to see the largest influx of visitors. South Carolina is the closest proximity to totality for most anyone living along the eastern seaboard. It is also home to a number of viewing parties, ranging from Clemson, Greenville, Columbia, Charleston and Georgetown.
For those observing the solar eclipse in the Georgetown area, the moon will begin to edge across the sun, forming a partial solar eclipse, at 1:17 pm. At 2:46 totality begins as the moon completely blocks out the sun. Totality will only last for 1 minute and 46 seconds. After totality is over, a partial eclipse will continue until 4:09 p.m. when the moon completely leaves the sun’s disk.
So what is the safest way to view a solar eclipse?
It is never safe to view the sun directly. This is also true during any partial solar eclipse, when the moon only blocks out a portion of the sun. Even the smallest sliver of the sun peeking out from behind the moon can cause long term or even permanent eye damage.
The best way to directly view an eclipse is with the use of solar viewing glasses. These are specially made glasses that are manufactured specifically with solar filters, which are hundreds of thousands of times darker than regular sunglasses.
With the popularity of the upcoming Great American Eclipse, solar viewing glasses are readily available on the internet, at local retailers, and through public informational events. When buying solar viewing glasses, it is important to make sure they meet the international standard recommend by NASA. Such glasses have a special ISO 12312-2 designation which is clearly marked somewhere on the glasses.
Cameras, binoculars, and telescopes need their own special filters. Even while wearing recommended viewing glasses it is not safe to look at the sun through any optical device. The magnified sunlight viewed through an optical device can damage the solar viewing glasses and may result in eye damage.
The one exception to never looking directly at the sun is during the brief period of totality. This is when the moon perfectly lines up with the sun. If you are wearing solar viewing glasses, you will know it is safe to take them off when everything has gone completely dark.
During the special moment of totality the sun’s outer atmosphere, known as the solar corona, becomes visible. Normally the sun’s lower layers outshine the much fainter solar corona. It takes an eclipse to see the corona.
The solar corona cannot be missed as long as you take off your viewing glasses during totality. The corona appears as a wispy glow that completely surrounds the blackened sun.
After a few moments of totality everything is undone in reverse. The sun’s limb starts to sneak out from behind the moon, the sky brightens, and everything returns to normal.
It is important to have your viewing glasses back on by the first sign of the sun.
During totality the human eye dilates in response to the darkened sky. At this time it is more sensitive to bright light. To prevent potential eye damage it is important to have the solar viewing glasses back on at the first sign of the sun’s disk.
You can share this once-in-a-lifetime event with friends and family by joining others at eclipse viewing parties. The city of Georgetown and Georgetown County will have viewing locations set up at East Bay Park, Morgan Park, Francis Marion Park, the Harborwalk, Carroll Ashmore Campbell Marine Complex and the Georgetown Airport.
Two buses will run from Georgetown High School and Georgetown Middle School, located at 2400 Anthuan Maybank Drive, to Broad and Prince streets for drop off and pick up, then will ride around to East Bay Park for pick-up or drop off. Two buses will also run from the Hampton Inn, Quality Inn and Baymont Inn & Suites to Broad and Prince streets for drop off and pick up, then will ride around to East Bay Park for pick-up or drop off and then back to the hotels. This will be a continuous service from 9 a.m. until 7 p.m. Last Pick up will be at 7 p.m.
For more information on viewing parties and designated viewing areas, please visit
With any luck, we will have clear skies. But with clear skies comes the summer heat. If you join in on a viewing party do not forget the sunscreen and water.
If the skies are not clear, do not fret. The next total solar eclipse viewable from the United States will occur on April 8, 2024. Unfortunately, totality for the next eclipse will miss South Carolina. Instead, it will travel from Texas, up through the northeast, and into Canada.
Part 3: Tips and tricks for photographing the eclipse
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The First Noel
The first noel the angel did say
Was to certain poor shepherds in fields as they lay;
In fields where they lay keeping their sheep,
On a cold winter's night that was so deep.
Noel, noel, noel, noel,
Born is the King of Israel!
They looked up and saw a star
Shining in the east, beyond them far,
And to the earth it gave great light,
And so it continued both day and night.
And by the light of that same star
Three wise men came from country far;
To seek for a King was their intent,
And to follow the star wherever it went.
This star drew nigh to the north-west;
Over Bethlehem it took its rest,
And there it did both stop and stay
Right over the place where Jesus lay.
Then entered in those wise men three
Full reverently upon their knee,
And offered there in His presence
Their gold, and myrrh, and frankincense.
Then let us all with one accord
Sing praises to our heavenly Lord,
That hath made heaven and earth of nought,
And with His blood mankind hath bought.
Words: English Traditional
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The artefact dates back to 1962...
A letter written by John Lennon pre-BEATLES fame to the NHS is expected to fetch more than £13,000 at auction.
The typed letter, dated 22 October 1962, is a request from John Lennon to the Liverpool NHS asking them to return his name to the free healthcare list after they believed he had left the country.
The letter reads: “In point of fact I left the country only for an engagement (as a musician) in Germany but returned to this country about three months later. I would, therefore, be obliged if you would please return my name to the National Health Service List. Yours faithfully, [a][/a].”
Handwritten notes on the letter show that his NHS privileges were reinstated shortly afterwards.
New York auction company are selling the item, which has an estimate of £13,350.
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Ysabel, Spy, Jaya, DongBin, you are welcome. Chowbeng, Akolaw, Shirak, Chua, interesting discussion. Hungry, Xiaohu, what's wrong with Zhai Jiao? Xu Xiong, thank you. Nutshell, welcome to the forum.
Wang Xuanying struck the Moon in the Well with all his strength, but instead of clear ring of metal striking against each other, the sound was as dull as if he was striking leather; without producing reaction force at all.
Immediately Wang Xuanying's soul flew away and scattered. No matter how he looked at it, Kou Zhong's saber was full of strength; who would have thought that it looked impressive but actually worthless? The chop was floating and fluttering without any strength at all.
This feeling of using the wrong force was as uncomfortable as exerting one's strength trying to lift a heavy-looking object, only to find that it was as light as a feather.
Wang Xuanying groaned miserably as he forcefully held his sword back, and nearly threw up blood.
Kou Zhong laughed aloud and said, "Xuanying Xiong has fallen into the trap!"
The Moon in the Well immediately changed from being powerless to be powerful, as it violently struck Wang Xuanying's sword on its way of being withdrawn.
Finally Wang Xuanying could not stop spraying out a mouthful of fresh blood, his long sword flew out of his hand, and he dropped down on the ground with a loud thump.
Kou Zhong quickly pressed his palm on the top of Wang Xuanying's head, and shouted, "Everybody back off!"
Overwhelmed with shock, the guards halted.
Xu Ziling landed by Kou Zhong's side.
Kou Zhong could hear fluttering noise suddenly rang out from the direction of the main hall; he knew that Rong Fengxiang and the others were heading this way at full speed. Quickly he picked up Wang Xuanying, whose acupoint has been sealed, in his arms and together with Xu Ziling he soared into the air while shouting, "Tonight, third watch of the night, tell Wang Shichong to bring Xu Xingzi to the Tianjian Bridge for an exchange! You dare to pursue me, I'll kill his treasured son. Ha!"
Amidst his laughter, Kou Zhong, with Wang Xuanying in his arms, and Xu Ziling disappeared into the distance.
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On top of the bell tower.
Kou Zhong slapped Wang Xuanying's acupoint, and said cheerfully, "Xuanying Gongzi, how are you?"
It was half a day later that Wang Xuanying regained his composure. "What do you want?" he said hatefully.
Kou Zhong responded indifferently, "If Gongzi does not wish to suffer, it would be best if you answer my questions. Ay! I am a highly suspicious person; if I catch slight hesitation in your answer, I will consider you are babbling nonsense, perhaps for every nonsense I will take away one emperor offspring's finger? After ten lies, Gongzi will only able to caress a woman with your toes! After twenty times, even your toes will be gone."
His countenance changed, Wang Xuanying said, "How could you do that? Die will never let you off."
This kind of showing-strength-while-weak-inside nonsense only put his mediocre and cowardly character in full display. Even Xu Ziling, who was sitting with his back against the wall on the other side, showed disdain. Inwardly he cursed, 'How could there be such a useless character?'.
Kou Zhong spoke with astonishment, "Who do you think your Die is? If I was scared of him, you, this kid would not have to sit here with face alternating between blue and white. Enough chitchat. Remember, there must be an answer for every question. One slow answer, you will regret it for the rest of your life. Have you ever heard of me being a man who go back on my word like your Die?"
"Just kill me!" Wang Xuanying dejectedly said.
Kou Zhong drew his dagger. Pressing the tip against Wang Xuanying's chin, he said, "You want to say anything else?"
Wang Xuanying's entire body trembled; in the end he broke down and surrender, "Ask away!" he hurriedly said.
Xu Ziling did not want to watch; he moved over to the other side of the bell tower.
The moon and the stars displayed their splendor in the sky, the night breeze was gently blowing.
Luoyang was calm, most people were already sleeping peacefully, only sparse dots of lanterns remained.
It was quite a while later that Kou Zhong came to his side and, copying Xu Ziling, also sat with his back against the wall. He said, "Both father and son are worthless nobodies, only Wang Xuanshu is a decent individual."
"Did you learn anything about Mr. Xu?" Xu Ziling asked.
Kou Zhong nodded and said, "He is really locked up by his dad. Li kid guessed that we would return to Luoyang for Xu Xingzhi, hence he deduced his importance to us. Xu Xingzhi made the mistake of revealing his intelligence, we made the mistake of failing to guess that Wang Shichong would act so quickly."
"What else did you get from him?" Xu Ziling asked.
Kou Zhong said, "After his mission accomplished Yi Lao [i.e. Ouyang Xiyi] retired and returned to the south. Chen Changlin was transferred to the city of Jinyong. His mother! I really want to kill this kid with a stab of my knife."
Xu Ziling mused, "Later on leave this matter to me. Even if they want to play tricks on me, I am not afraid."
Kou Zhong understood that Xu Ziling was worried that his injury might recur; he laughed and said, "How could I let you do that? If Li kid and Wang Shichong captured you and forced me to exchange, wouldn't I have to submit obediently? As long as we have Wang Xuanying, this kid in our hands, I am not afraid Wang Shichong will not surrender. We are going together! I really wish I could see Wang Shichong's expression right now."
Without any choice Xu Ziling had to agree.
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The two boys sat on a stolen boat. With Wang Xuanying in custody, they sped toward the Tianjin Bridge.
Wang Xuanying was lying on his back at the bottom of the boat, unconscious.
Xu Ziling sat at the stern, single-handedly sculling the boat. The water of the river responded with gentle rustling sound.
Both banks of the river were pitch black without a single speck of fire. Not a single boat was moored on the usually full of boats, big and small, river dikes. But the Tianjin Bridge was brightly lit, with shadows of people going back and forth.
Kou Zhong spoke in low voice, "Power takes its toll; we must take advantage of it. Ay! We are not used to be a thief; otherwise, after capturing people, how could we forget to extort some ransom? Or perhaps took the opportunity to strike Wang Shichong a big blow, let him suffer a little bit. If we raised the issue only now, it will make us appear lacking in poise too much. Ay!"
Xu Ziling laughed and said, "This is the same as destitute heart has not been exhausted, greedy heart already arises. If we could leave this place safely with Mr. Xu, we ought to thank the Heaven and thank the Earth, yet you are still delusional."
Looking at the Tianjin Bridge in the distance, Kou Zhong looked pensive; he said, "When I interrogated that kid Wang Xuanying, his eyes would roll two or three times with each answer; don't you agree that something is not right? But I can't find any flaws. If I had to torture him cruelly for no reason, Xiaodi simply cannot do that."
Xu Ziling spoke heavily, "I don't care if he is telling the truth or if he is lying, we'll exchange a man for a man. If something is not right, we'll kill him and escape. If we are separated then we need to agree on where to meet. But where would be a good place to meet?"
Kou Zhong proposed, "If inside the city, we'll meet at the fishpond of Tingliu Pavilion. If outside the city, we'll meet at the small hill where the Jade Annulus of He Clan was done for!"
The two no longer spoke, they gathered their energy and circulated their qi.
The boat suddenly accelerated, it rapidly approached the Tianjin Bridge.
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Jesus the Imagination
Jesus the Imagination July 31, 2017
9781621382829_cov.inddArt, says Michael Martin, has the potential to create a new Gospel every day. “Not a different one,” he adds, “but a new one, and this through the incarnational possible.” In the summer of 2016, Martin, a farmer and author of The Submerged Reality and The Incarnation of the Poetic Word, invited a number of friends to a rural Michigan weekend of reflection on the arts and culture. This was an arty, literate bunch but we shared a dissatisfaction at the state of the arts today, the continuing commodification of everything, and the vapidity of much Christian art, Catholic or otherwise.
Somehow, amidst all the talk of William Blake, Wendell Berry, Jacob Boehme, Jane Lead, Nikolai Berdyaev, Hans Urs von Balthasar, Kathleen Raine, and Valentin Tomberg, we began to imagine a new journal of culture, one with the audacious goal of regenerating Christian art and culture.
Thus was born, with a nod to William Blake in our title, the journal Jesus the Imagination, edited by Martin and with contributions from a mix of folk, including several from last year’s gathering. Perhaps the four most famous “contributors” in this debut issue would be Simone Weil (a short prose piece translated by the editor), Owen Barfield (a never-before published interview with James R. Wetmore), the German poet Novalis (a translation of an excerpt from Hymns of the Night), and the English poet Henry Vaughan (“Regeneration”).
As a poet-editor might be expected to do, Martin has included poems from Rush Asch, Katie Hartsock, R. Bratten Weiss, Devan Meade DeCicco, Philippa Martyr, Tom Sturch, Isak Bond, Francis Valentine, Michael Kivinen, John Slater, Charles Upton, Emi Shigeno, and S.L. Davidson. They range from Rebecca Weiss’ wonderful Yeatsian lines (“Another summer now prepares to take her leave, all grains and grasses golden,/in her fine hat she waves to us, heading westward with the sun, a happy lady on a train”) to Charles Upton’s gently hallucinatory scenes (“Stopped for interrogation at the apocalypse border,/All past history rolling in behind me, piling up/For the final burning–“) to Katie Hartsock’s wry scenes (“This pint glass is the earth,/this cell phone is the sun, and the lip gloss moon comes here to make/a total lunar eclipse–“).
Of the essays, I was struck by Therese Schroeder-Sheker’s “Yurodivy,” a reflection on the notion of the voluntary suffering of the holy fool. The author, herself a harpist and Sony recording artist, is also the founder of the palliative medical field of music-thanatology and the Chalice of Repose Project, all of which work which informs her essay.
I also recommend Scot F. Martin’s “The Benthic and the Celestial”, a brilliant naturalist’s commentary, taking off from the Nicene Creed’s recent revision from God the Father “maker of heaven and earth of all things seen and unseen” to “things visible and invisible”, to clarify the difference between the natural and supernatural realms. In this short piece, the author describes the teeming, if unseen, insect and invertebrate life in the lakes and streams of Michigan, pointing his naturalist’s descriptions with striking spiritual insights.
There’s more but enough for now. Get yourself a copy here!
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Women passing exams: Help with stats please
1. Jan 28, 2009 #1
I am looking at the stats for a particular academic test:
- In 2007, 11 women out of 50 candidates took the test; there were only 3 women among the 16 successful candidates.
- In 2009, 12 women out of 52 candidates took the test; there was only 1 woman women among the 14 successful candidates.
The same results in percentages:
- Women accounted for 18.7% of successful candidates in 2007, which is more or less normal insofar as they represented 22% of the candidates taking the test that year (11/50).
- However, women accounted for 7% of successful candidates in 2009, whereas they constituted 23% of all candidates taking the test that year (12/52).
I would like to calculate the probability of this last result, assuming the following:
a) Women and men taking the exam are supposed to have equal chances of succeeding (also known as the anti-http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_Summers#Differences_between_the_sexes"…).
b) The exams are supposed to be independent events (Bernoulli trials?).
How should I proceed please?
My educated guess is that binomial regression is the way to go but my stats skills are too low to actually perform the operation, or to analyse correctly its results.
If the probability of the 2009 results are very low, then one might reasonably assume that there is an anti-women bias at play (the test is basically a face-to-face interview).
Help much appreciated!
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3. Jan 30, 2009 #2
Well if you assume they have the same probability of passing (say p), then each person is a Bernoulli trial. So you have a binomial distribution (which is the sum of Bernoulli trials) for the amount of people that pass. You want [tex]\mathbb{P}(\text{someone passes the test, given they were a women})=\frac{\mathbb{P}(\text{they pass the the test and they are a woman})}{\mathbb{P}(\text{they are a woman})}[/tex].
If you want to check if they are biased then I suggest making a hypothesis test.
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Trinidad and Tobago
Going to the Panyard
click to flip through (3) STORY BY TERESA BERGEN - Trinidad and Tobago: Going to the Panyard
• Story by Teresa Bergen
• Trinidad and Tobago: Going to the Panyard
I'd never heard of a panyard before visiting Trinidad and Tobago. But what did I know about island customs? I didn't even arrive pronouncing the country's name right. A customs inspector quickly corrected my pronunciation of Tobago's second syllable from short "o" sound to long "a."
Another lesson for me: The instrument played at a panyard is a steel pan, not a steel drum. On a warm September evening in Port of Spain, I ventured downtown to hear The Invaders play that iconic Trinidadian instrument.
Walk through the front gate and you're in the panyard, which is just like it sounds, a large yard with the whole steelpan orchestra set up. Since this consists of about 20 pans on stands — plus groin-high barrels too big to wrap your arms around — it's quickly obvious why a panyard is necessary. Plus you need plenty of space for dancing and a makeshift bar. The whole scene felt casual and exuberant. Then the musicians started playing.
That's when things got loud. And really happy. Can a steelband sound sad? From "Rock the Boat" to "Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy," the Invaders delivered a nonstop party.
Since I was with a tourist group, one of the leaders gave us a short talk on steelpan history. Then he said if we wanted to try our hand at the pan, we could approach a member and he or she would give us a quick lesson. I'd been watching a woman playing the big bass pans, a set of six that formed a hip-high semicircle around her. Up close, I could see that each pan has round divots that play different notes. She introduced herself as Glenda and gamely taught me to play the bass part of the song "Tequila." Once all the members of my group were deemed proficient, we proceeded to play perhaps history's longest rendition of the song, a fate no audience should have to endure. Our teachers patiently encouraged us.
Steelpan History
Steelbands were not always so friendly to tourists, or to anyone else.
The instrument evolved out of makeshift junk like trash cans, scrap metal and 55-gallon oil drums discarded by Trinidad's refineries. This was music from the streets. Trinidad's upper class considered it ghetto. It didn't help that criminals seemed to love steelbands, and performances often turned into brawls.
Over time, Trinis refined both the instrument and their behaviour, although the latter took quite a while. They soon noticed that beating on metal changed the way it sounded. Winston "Spree" Simon, often called "The Godfather of Pan," is generally credited with inventing a pan with eight distinct notes sometime around 1942. But the music still attracted rough characters, which explains why they had tough names like Renegades, Hell Yard and Invaders.
The Invaders began as the Oval Boys in 1937. After watching the 1942 British war movie "The Night Invader," they changed their name. During the 1940s, the Invaders were especially prone to violent clashes with rival bands.
The Modern Pan Scene
As far as I could tell, the Invaders have left combat behind. Glenda told me members range from 17 to 70 years old, and many are female. They practice a few hours a week for the joy of it. And, like all the Trinidadians and Tobagans I met, they seem very proud of their culture and their official symbols, be it the national bird (scarlet ibis), the national flower (chaconia), or the national instrument (steelpan).
Currently, Trinidad and Tobago has more than 100 steelbands. These range in size from five to 25 musicians. But during Carnival they swell to 50 to 120 players. About 10 panyards in Trinidad and five in Tobago are open to visitors year-round.
People hire steelbands for private functions, especially weddings. Since steelbands are cumbersome, hard to transport and composed of many musicians, hiring one can easily cost about $16,000.
A 1986 Act of Parliament formed PanTrinbago, which serves as both a cultural organization and a union representing steelpan players. PanTrinbago has raised the stature of steelbands. People all over the world are familiar with the instrument and have heard recordings. But recordings don't match experiencing a steelband in person, and seeing the joyful way the musicians move. This music embodies happiness.
Pick up Pique next week for Part 2 of Teresa's series on Trinidad and Tobago.
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Catfish of the Month Right Arrow September 2004 • Article © Julian Dignall, uploaded September 01, 2004
Porthole Catfish, Malet Pansermalle (Denmark), Schwielenwels (Germany) - Dianema longibarbis Cope, 1872
September 2004 sees a deserved month in the spotlight for the unassuming Porthole Catfish. Shipments of this species have not been as common of late although the species is widespread and commonly encountered in its native tropical South America. This just goes to show that no matter what, if you like a catfish and have the space for it in your tanks, you may as well buy it while you can, as you never know when you might, or might not, have the opportunity to purchase them again.
This is especially true of the Porthole Catfish; it belongs to the genus Dianema that is remarkable in the armoured catfish family for its little documented reproductive habits. This and its only other congener, D. urostriatum (the Flag Tailed Porthole Catfish) have been the subject of fleeting reports of bubble nest building or sexual dimorphism but spawning accounts are hard to come by.
Both species of Porthole Cats, so named for the row of spots that decorate the flanks of the fish, "just above the waterline", are reluctant captive spawners. My view is that the regular porthole is the more so of the two. This boils down to the introductory period; the fish is timid and can have a very traumatic acclimatization. Realistically, a quarantine period is a must for this species. Yet this is in itself odd because the fish is both common and hardy. It's found in fresh, through to standing to really quite unpleasant stagnant water in the wild.
Collecting Dianema longibarbisStill in the wild, at the site shown left, it was to be by chance that I first encountered this fish in Peru. Mind you, most fish are met by chance! In this case it was the generator on our boat that stubbornly refused to start and, rather than sit around in the port of Iquitos, Peru, we grabbed our nets and set out for what little water was at hand. That might sound bizarre given we were shored up on the banks of the mighty Amazon, but a few hand nets are no match for her! We, in our skiff, headed for not-so-dry land. In this case, an island, just managing to rise above water level in the main river channel was our destination.
As I say, the picture shows the collection site; it was little more than a series of muddy-bottomed large puddles. What land there was around was waterlogged and had been planted with rice by the locals. So close to the city of Iquitos, we were wary of getting too optimistic. But this was early in the expedition and the weight of effort required to collect for days on end in the rainforest had yet to make any impact. The water was clear but had a soft, muddy bottom that, when stood on, submerged the ankles. The mud was layered with a few inches of leaf litter (covered in a fine layer of silt) and maybe only a few inches of water above that were clear. Many more insects than fish were visible - not a good sign - but we waded on in and out came these fish.
On import though the fish can be quite weak, as a larger percentage of individuals than you would expect have difficulty adapting to aquarium foods. Once settled however, they readily adapt to aquarium life. I have a pair right now that has been happily swimming around in my aquaria since I collected them in Peru in 2000.
Dianema longibarbis
In closing, this fish is overlooked because of the more attractive caudal colouration of the other Dianema species, but that species is larger and has a more robust temperament more akin to the other cigar shaped armoured cats. Dianema longibarbis is more demure, closely allied to the gentler Corydoras, and is something of a mid water fish. A group of them has character to spare for any community aquaria.
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Scientific Name Dianema longibarbis Cope, 1872
Common Names Porthole Catfish
Malet Pansermalle (Denmark), Schwielenwels (Germany)
Type Locality Río Ambyiacu, Peru.
Synonym(s) Callichthys adspersus, Decapogon verissimi
Pronunciation die ah NEE mah - long ee barb iss
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Sexing Females are larger than males but the difference is slight.
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Distribution Widespread in Peruvian and Brazilian creeks, ponds and rivers.
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pH 5.8 - 7.8
Other Parameters A hardy species that will adapt to most conditions.
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Compatibility Peaceful.
Breeding Unknown, see D. urostriata.
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Mary Barber
(1690-1757 / England)
An Epigram On The Same Occasion. - Poem by Mary Barber
So little giv'n at Chapel Door!--
This People doubtless must be poor:
So much at Gaming thrown away!--
No Nation sure so rich as they.
Britons, 'twere greatly for your Glory,
Should those, who shall transmit your Story,
Their Notions of your Grandeur frame,
Not as you give, but as you game.
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Rookie (04 October 1943 / Germany)
Gina Again - Poem by Herbert Nehrlich
It was ecstatic electricity.
That touch of velvety, delicious skin,
the sun had, reasonably, retreated
and in the forest we felt wild and free.
Though Gina was my cousin - next of kin.
It's rather sad, I do not see her much,
but when I do she smiles a kiss for me,
and soon we're seen, just walking through the trees,
it's so much easier to reminisce.
No electricity - without the touch.
I tell her then about the morning moon.
The day I peeked before the farming chores,
it's good for many moments of sheer bliss,
and then, we talk about the birds and bees.
And end up on the castle's granite bench,
just talking, laughing, being kids again.
'Til Dawn arrives, a chill has found our knees,
it's time to go, we know, I deftly pick
a bunch of purple flowers (trade for smile) .
Downhill it is - I use my walking stick.
It always is my mother who objects
when two first cousins of a certain age
go off into the blackness of the woods.
She says that decency surely reflects
upon the human being who observes
the values of her generation's past.
Her spectacles do judge all blossoms now.
But really, my Gina has the goods.
My mother is a carrier of nerves
that vacillates from peace into wild rage.
And once again, she's either least or last.
Was that the fragrant burping - of an Angus cow?
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That cow obviously put you in the right Moooooooood Herbert! ! ! ! ! Sincerely Ernestine (Report) Reply
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I think the tenderness between you and Gina comes acrossed very well here. Very nice poem. sincerely, Mary (Report) Reply
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Very nice Herbert....kissing cousins. :) Story I can relate to somewhat. (Report) Reply
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The Best Ways To Treat And Prevent Shin Splints
Mysterious, but all too common. Here are the facts.
Runner's World South Africa - - CONTENTS - BY R.W. SCIOLO
IT’S THE BANE of runners both new and advanced: lower-leg pain that flares up when you start pounding the pavement. In many cases, the culprit is shin splints.
Also known as medial tibial stress syndrome (MTSS), shin splints are thought to occur when inflammation develops where the muscles insert on the bone, explains Dr Cordelia Carter, director of the Women’s Sports Medicine Centre at New York University. That’s called periostitis, and the resulting inflammation is responsible for the nagging pain you feel.
Properly identifying your pain as shin splints is important. “‘Shin splints’ is the very fuzzy term we apply to ‘Ow, my leg hurts,’” says Carter. “It’s a catch-all; but the pain is not always caused by shin splints.”
If the pain increases, persists after your workout, or interferes with everyday life, you should see a pro to make sure it’s not serious. But if not, there are DIY treatments that can help.
When you’re dealing with acute pain, take a break from strenuous activity to give the
inflammation time to go down. “If you feel a little better, and you try to go back [too soon], you’re setting yourself back to square one,” Carter says.
Icing your leg is the first course of action. Wrap a frozen bag of peas in a dishcloth and place it on the aching area. It conforms to your leg better than an ice pack, and will reduce the inflammation and swelling. Taking non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) can help, too – just make sure you’re not exceeding the prescribed dosage, and take them with food to avoid an upset stomach, Carter says.
While you’re resting from running, take time to foam-roll and stretch, focusing on your Achilles tendon. Try the heel-drop stretch: stand with one foot on the edge of a step and lower your heel down. Return to starting position and then repeat on the other leg.
Still aching? It’s time to put more effort into healing. Swelling tends to occur along with inflammation, even if you can’t see it. Compression socks can decrease swelling, thus relieving some of the pain.
Another option is over-the-counter shoe inserts, which are usually less stiff than custom orthotics. Inserts are particularly helpful if you have flat feet, since overpronation ends up stressing your muscles and tendons even more, putting you at greater risk of shin splints. “If you can neutralise that alignment problem, then you can potentially balance the forces going through your foot and ankle as you run, which will hopefully decrease your chances of developing an overuse injury such as shin splints,” Carter says.
If you have a chronic case of shin splints, kinesiology tape may help to relieve the throbbing. According to a study in the Journal of Sports Medicine and Physical Fitness, people who wore kinesio tape for just one week experienced a greater reduction in pain than those who used standard orthotics.
“Kinesio tape lifts the superficial tissues, which promotes healing by moving waste products out of the area, and stimulates nerve endings that relax the muscle,” says Cameron Yuen, senior physical therapist at Bespoke Treatments.
Measure the amount you need by sitting with your leg in front of you, foot flexed. Hold the tape 5cm beneath the top of your big toe, and unroll until it hits just below the outside of your knee. Cut the tape there. Without stretching the tape, peel off 5cm of adhesive and stick it just below the outside of your knee. Then peel off the remaining paper, and stretch the tape to stick just beneath the base of your big toe, with the foot still flexed. Point your toe, and lightly press the tape to your shin until the tape is flat. Cut additional strips the length and width of your shin, and stick them laterally over your pain points.
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Tilda Swinton
Best for short hair, this elegant style is timeless and easy to do at home. Brush your hair through thoroughly, but rather than parting it as usual, brush it all back. As you do this, add some hairspray onto your hair to fix it in place, but be careful not to overload the hair with product.
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Alberta's got a bad reputation. We're known as being the conservative stronghold of the country but it's simply not true. Albertans are more progressive than you think.
Not only does polling show that a majority of Albertans (59%!) define themselves as progressive, polling also shows that we drastically underestimate how progressive our neighbors are. And our recent elections show us that a large group of centre-left voters is now the deciding voting bloc in this province. The last two provincial elections and our mayors in Edmonton and Calgary were decided by this group.
So why is Alberta considered rooting-tooting cowboy conservative country despite all the evidence to the contrary? Conservative politicians and their enablers in the media constantly repeat it over and over again the facts say otherwise.
We Are Young:
Alberta is the youngest province in Canada. There are more millennials than baby boomers here
We Are Educated:
According to Statistics Canada, full-time university enrollment has increased by 225 per cent since 2009 in Alberta.
We Are Diverse:
42 per cent of Edmontonians and 39 per cent of Calgarians identify as racialized or a visible minority.
We Are Urban:
The majority of Albertans live either in or around Calgary or Edmonton. The redrawn electoral boundaries have shifted power from rural Alberta to urban centres.
We Come From Away:
More than 500,000 interprovincial or international migrants have come to Alberta in the past 10 years.
We Know What's At Stake:
Albertans know the destructive effects of austerity because we've been through it before. When Klein's PCs cut the budget to the bone, we felt the pain.
Who is Progress Alberta and Why Does All of This Matter?
We are a non-profit that launched in January 2016 to build a genuine, people-powered progressive movement in Alberta.
We believe that no matter who's in government, if you don't have a large, organized group of people calling for positive, progressive change you won't get it.
The 2019 provincial election is also quickly approaching. Jason Kenney is offering up a regressive style of conservative politics that's not in line with our values or the values of everyday Albertans. Elections matter and who our premier is matters. Our provincial government has tremendous power over our healthcare, education and social services – things that would be at risk in a Kenney-led government.
Progressive politicians and political parties win elections in Alberta. We have to make sure that they don't just win but that we hold them accountable.
Here's what we stand for:
• Building prosperous communities
• Maintaining a healthy environment and a stable climate
• Fair treatment of workers
• An Alberta that embraces diversity instead of fearing it
Here's some of what we've recently accomplished:
What's the Plan?
Attend or Run Your Own House Meeting: We're having house meetings all over Alberta for the next year to talk about our plans, listen to your ideas, dreams and nightmares and to build a community that can mobilize people en masse all over Alberta.
Executive director: Duncan Kinney
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Communications and organizing lead: Jim Storrie
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Black Charcoal and White Charcoal
by: Junji Takano
Did you know that there are various ways in making charcoal? Normally, we have two kinds of charcoal, the "black charcoal" and "white charcoal". These charcoals are made by different methods of burning. Although, they are produced in a basically similar manner, the quality of the charcoal differs totally depending on how the fire is extinguished.
We have been receiving nearly 10-25 e-mail inquiries about charcoal mostly from Nigeria, India, and Southeast Asian countries. Most of them are producers of charcoal looking for buyers and procedure of making charcoal.
The major problem is that their charcoals are of poor quality.
Black CharcoalBlack Charcoal
The two photos above show ordinary black charcoal that is commonly made.
However, the four photos below show the stages of making a different type of charcoal called white charcoal, and it is as hard as cast iron. If you strike it, you'll hear metallic clanking sounds.
White CharcoalWhite Charcoal
White CharcoalWhite Charcoal
The technology in making white charcoal is difficult compared to ordinary black charcoal, and its secret seems to have originated in ancient China. Its technology is applied mostly in Japan, and some parts of China and Korea. Today, the world admires the charcoal-making techniques of Japan and applies it in the field of modern science. Who knows, we might find more uses of white charcoal in the near future.
White charcoals are now used for industrial purposes like electronic components to medical applications in the scientific world.
Notice that black charcoal makes your hands black when you hold it but white charcoal will not because it is as hard as cast iron.
Procedure in Making Ordinary or Black Charcoal
Generally, to make black charcoal the wood is carbonized (partial burning with little air) at temperatures between 400 and 700 °C, then the kiln is sealed until the burning stops and the heat slowly dies away. You can now see the surface of the charcoal is black. Black charcoal is soft and retains the outer layer of the wood. It is also easy to ignite and burns hot enough that it was used as fuel for tea ceremony, and ordinary daily food cooking including industrial use during the former times.
Charcoals produced around the world are mostly soft black charcoal type. I believe this has become the standard type of charcoal worldwide. Standard charcoal is good and highly flammable. Some other people call it "careless charcoal" or "domestic charcoal".
Procedure in Making White Charcoal
On the other hand, white charcoal is made by carbonizing the wood at a moderately low temperature, then, near the end of the process, the kiln temperature is raised to approximately 1000 °C to make the wood red hot. When making white charcoal, you need to be quite skilled in removing the charcoals, which have turned deep red, from the kiln and quickly smother it with a covering of powder to cool it. The powder is a mixture of sand, earth, and ash. This will then give a whitish color to the surface of the charcoal. This is where the name "white charcoal" was derived. The quick rise in temperature, followed by quick cooling, burns up the outer layer of the wood leaving a smooth hardened surface. It is also called a "hard charcoal".
As tested by the Charcoal Standard Specification Test by the Agricultural Ministry of Japan, white charcoal may take some more time to ignite, but its thermal conductivity is way better than ordinary black charcoal. The flame produced by white charcoal lasts long enough to be used as a fuel.
Benefits of White Charcoal
White charcoal has several benefits. You can place it in a water container to filter water and release natural minerals. This will also help absorb chemicals in the pipe water.
White charcoal also has the ability to warm the body and help improve blood circulation, skin, and hair when added to the bath. It also helps reduce blood pressure and cholesterol.
White charcoal also supplies negative ions and purifies and balances the moisture content in the air.
Recently, research shows that electromagnetic waves from electrical appliances like computer monitors and mobile phones gives harmful effect to the human body. Charcoal burned at high temperature seems to have a special structure that is good at electromagnetic waves absorption. The charcoal has to be processed at around 1000 °C to have this absorbing capability.
Once again, remember that black charcoal and white charcoal may look just the same charcoal, but it differs depending on how the fire is extinguished. They also differ in many chemical and physical properties such as carbon, oxygen, hydrogen, ash, hardness, and the calorific value and flammability.
You can use mangrove (an evergreen tree native to tropical coasts) in making charcoal. Although it is a hard tree, it produces more smoke. Rubber tree and coconut shell are also good in making standard charcoal, with the coconut shell capable of producing a hard charcoal.
I believe that innovative discovery, innovative invention, innovative research, and innovative technology that go beyond common sense and common knowledge are the way to success. Just like that of the PYRO-ENERGEN technology. You might find new charcoal that might change our lifestyle in the future. In other words, success does not exist within common sense and knowledge but in innovative idea.
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The angel of the Lord went out, and smote in the camp of the Assyrians an hundred fourscore and five thousand: and when they arose early in the morning, behold, they were all dead corpses.So Sennacherib king of Assyria departed.
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Another day begins with customers expecting a further growth in their revenue and high quality performance. Our Retargeting Platform RevX is designed to keep all requirements at one place with a smart design to meet customer’s expectations.
We at RevX, understand the importance of transactions/visits and the ROI expectations of clients. So the built-in model and machine learning algorithms around CPC/CPT (cost per click/cost per transaction) aim to bid relevantly based on campaign, inventory and user signals. This helps in optimizing the campaign to drive required scale and quality visits/transactions at minimal RTB inventory costs from SSP’s.
So is the campaign performance dependent on the prediction model alone?
The Account Managers at RevX play a very important role in controlling and driving performance of the accounts. In this post, I would like to walk you through RevX Operations andhopefully, by the end of reading this, you would know how Campaign Strategies are tested and applied by RevX Account Managers to give the best possible performance for advertisers
What is a Strategy?
The actual flight/placements responsible for ad-serving are termed Strategies in RevX. It provides the metrics to control budget, creatives, and frequency capping and audience segments to be targeted. It is crucial to identify and target the correct user base to get optimum ROI. For this, we not only target audience across different user funnels but also try combination of audience funnels.
The Account Managers at RevX play an important role in designing the theme of accurate Dynamic creative Ads and its messaging content around the available offers, discounts and coupons for each of these strategies. They further fine-tune the audience buckets by firing the available SQL queries to RevX’s User Data Store and fetch the information regarding user activity on advertiser website. This helps derive a user level conversion trend for the account which proves very effective. The optimization towards the inventory sources, user win-ratios and unique users reach across the strategies and audience helps scaling the performance further with minimum spends.
Which Strategies can be made?
Keeping the Advertiser’s goal in mind we build strategies across different user level funnels from Category browsing pages to Conversion Thank you page. RevX provides the CPC and CPA bid pricing models and allows us to adjust the flowrates. In the direction of optimizing these strategies, the relative audience buckets can be split into more meaningful set of users. First with the help of short experiment on specific combinations and secondly with SQL query results regarding user sessions. For example we tried optimizing a specific audience funnel by separating out some users with specific actions and behaviour in past – which can look like ‘X funnel AND Y behaviour’. Further with the help of SQL query fired to the user data store we derived the optimum user behaviour across multiple variables which results in enhanced probability of conversion. After testing these different users of a specific bucket we could clearly see that Smarter the user bucket segment around that funnel, higher was the conversion ratio.
How many Strategies can be made?
We can set up any number of strategies but it is really important to go granular with strategies and filter out the ones that have no scope of improvement. To start with we can have different strategies across audiences from different funnel positions created across Web and Social inventories and creatives. These can be further broken down in specific recent audiences as per behaviour and also combination of two or more audiences. These strategies are further optimized towards specific inventory providers, creatives, win-ratios and unique user reach across the audiences. The strategies with less spent and higher returns/conversions are then bid for aggressively to maintain competitive user win rate and further boost the ROI for the account and the remaining are fine-tuned ahead in case of average performance.
With a mix of meaningful Retargeting Model, Dynamic creatives, User Data Store Audiences and Account Manager’s efforts on optimization, we successfully derive on statistics that suggests the right combination of audience and metrics helping our client to get the maximum ROI.
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Fennel, black olive and orange salad recipe image
Print Fennel, black olive and orange salad
A salad of beauty and contrast: salty olives, aniseed fennel and sweet oranges in a sharp dressing. If you have only a couple of fennel bulbs this is the way to serve them. You could also use blood oranges when they're in season.
Salad recipes | Vegan recipes
• 3 oranges
• 3 tbsp olive oil
• 1 tbsp lemon juice
• 1 garlic clove, crushed
• 2 bulbs fennel, trimmed
• 12 black olives, stoned
• 1 tbsp flat-leaf parsley, chopped, plus a few leaves to garnish
• Salt & pepper
1. Cut off all the skin and white pith from the oranges, then cut out the segments from between the membrane, working over a bowl to catch the juice.
2. Squeeze out the membranes into the bowl when you have finished, to extract the remaining juice. Pour the juice into a separate bowl and whisk in the olive oil, lemon juice, garlic, salt and pepper to make a dressing.
3. Finely shred the fennel with a sharp knife or on a mandolin. Mix with the orange segments, olives, parsley and dressing. Adjust the seasoning and serve.
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Spectral Estimation and Compressive Sensing
Hi List,
I am happy to say that we from the INT have managed to merge some of our
research with GNU Radio development and have released some code on
CGRAN. There are two new projects:
1. Spectral Estimation Toolbox
This project aims to enhance GNU Radio with ‘proper’ spectral estimation
routines; so far it only includes Welch’s method as a hierarchical
1. Compressive Sensing Toolbox
The other project adds some Compressive Sensing routines to GNU Radio.
So far, only compression algorithms have been implemented as C++ blocks,
which makes the whole project of limited practical use, but it can
already be used to run fast simulations (much faster than some other,
expensive, proprietary software commonly used in academics).
An example on how to do compressed spectral estimation is also included.
WIP includes:
• Compression algorithms for the FPGA
• Smashed Filter Detector Bank
We are currently not planning to add any reconstruction algorithms (l1
or other), since they are currently not of much use for Cognitive
Of course, collaborators are welcome. In particular, any implementation
of parametric spectral estimation would be a nice extension for the
spectral estimation toolbox. Reconstruction algorithms would also be
interesting to have, but are of no priority for us at the moment.
I am happy to answer any questions regarding these codes off-list. Have
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Community Involvement
Schellenberg Mechanical isn't just a company located in your community. We're an active part of your community!
Bedford eagles basketball
Jesse Schellenberg has coached boys basketball for the past 2 years and Trenda Schellenberg has been the facility manager for the Bedford Classics Tournament for the past 3 years. Schellenberg Mechanical is always proud to sponsor the Bedford Classics Tournament.
Basinview drive community school
Schellenberg Mechanical was excited to donate a Ductless Mini Split cleaning package to Basinview Drive Community School for them to auction off at their Spring Fling. All proceeds go to the PTP.
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Summary: How to Resolve or Prevent Conflicts
How to Resolve or Prevent Conflicts (Acts 15:1-35)
Conflicts, like the one in Acts 15, often occur because of differences of perspectives.
Some people viewed the will of God differently because of their personal, cultural or religious conditioning.
Resolving conflicts should always begin by clarifying how each party actually perceives the situation and for what reasons. Be willing to listen to one another’s point of view with the love of Christ. However, in this case essential priorities and definitive policies needed to be established for the church to complete the work of Christ for the church. Trust the Lord to help your fellowship develop clear guidelines, policies and procedures that will prevent conflicts from occurring.
Illustration:Many years ago during a Knicks-Bullets playoff game, one of the Bullets came up from behind the great Walt Frazier and punched him in the face. Strangely, the referee called a foul on Frazier. Frazier didn’t complain. His expression never changed. He simply called for the ball and put in seven straight shots to win the game, an amazing display of productive anger. If you want to get huffy about it, it was a great moral lesson as well.
U.S. News & World Report, June 14, 1993, p. 37.
2. Conflicts often occur because some people feel their perceived, felt or real needs are not being met. Needs are conditions we perceive we cannot do without or that we think are essential to our well being. Christ designed our fellowship with one another to be mutually beneficial, fulfilling and complimentary. When we recognize the fact that "the eye cannot say to the hand, I have no need of you,â (I Cor. 12:21) then we are able to respect one anotherâs integrative worth to each person.
Ask the Lord to help your members perceive that their needs are best met through the mutually beneficial cooperation with all the members of the body of Christ.
3. Conflicts occur in the church when some individuals ignore other peopleâs needs, problems or experience. To be overlooked, taken for granted or spurned because of neglect often foments conflict. In this passage the council had to decide how they were going to establish a church policy that set gospel practices toward Gentile believers. Due to the councilâs willingness to listen to the wise counsel of Spirit led men, they correctly decided, "Why do you put God to the test by placing upon the neck of the disciples a yoke which neither our fathers nor we have been able to bear. We believe that we are saved through the grace of our Lord Jesus, in the same way as the Gentiles are also." (Acts 15:10,11)
Pray that the Lord will give you the wisdom to make wise decisions based on the New Testament principles of grace working through love instead of lawful manmade decrees.
4. Conflicts can be resolved when people trust the Lord to treat the root cause of a problem rather than merely treating superficial symptoms. It would have been easy for the apostles to say that the Jewish fellowships can operate with one set of rules and the Gentiles another, but they focused on the meanings of Christâs gospel and priorities. Ask the Lord to help you resolve conflicts by getting to the root cause of the problems.
5. Conflicts can be resolved when people are willing to assemble together for prayer, consecration and worship of the Lord’s attributes and word. The Spirit of God is not the authority of confusion but of peace. Jesus said, "Peace, I leave with you, my peace I give to you, not as the world gives, give I to you." (John 14:27)
Ask the Lord to help you assemble key people for regular times of prayer, worship and discussions so that you can establish loving channels of communications that can resolve any conflicts.
6. Conflicts can be resolved when people are willing to embrace the solutions found in Romans 12. Paul the apostle gives a twenty-one verse formula for solving any personal, interpersonal or group conflict. Essentially, Paul advocates laying our minds, hearts and wills on the altar of God as a living sacrifice so that we are able to completely fulfill God’s will instead of our own personal agendas.
Ask the Lord to help you use Romans 12 as one of the key means of resolving all types of conflicts.
7. Conflicts can be resolved when people are willing to avoid defining the other party as incorrigible. Even though all people have a sinful nature, Spirit led individuals are able to find unity, peace and harmony through the mutuality of our shared union in Christ. Remember you are only responsible to obey God not solve all problems.
Some fights are not worth the battle. Ask the Lord to help you concentrate more on what you have in common than how you differ.
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K2 - Not even the SLK matches the sheer belligerence of the CLK
15 January 2018
Author: Peter Robinson
Spare a thought for those fortunate enough to face the agony of choosing a sporting Mercedes-Benz. How do you pick between SLK and CLK?
Sounds easy enough, if you break it down to a decision between two seats or four, roadster versus coupe. But it's not that simple. Choose the supercharged engine in your CLK and the price tags are close enough to be ignored. Next year's CLK cabriolet complicates the decision even further.
Predictably, Mercedes sees the new coupe appealing to different customers. Dieter Zetsche, director of sales at Mercedes, reckons there'll be a maximum 15 percent crossover once the CLK ragtop goes on sale.
He may be right, but the fact remains that Mercedes-Benz now has two ultra- desirable sporting models sourced directly from the C- class. Not that their distinctly individual appearance reveals their donor organs. Today, even Mercedes-Benz talks of a platform policy and the C- class has produced sedan, wagon, coupe, roadster and, next year, convertible. You'll remember the 190 was a four-door sedan only. Times change and so, more than most, does Mercedes.
The CLK is further proof of Mercedes' fast shifting image. Visually, the car is aggressive rather than handsome in the style of earlier, mid-sized, more sedan oriented, Mercedes coupes. Not even the SLK matches the sheer belligerence of the CLK, something photographs fail to communicate. Find a CLK filling your mirror and it's immediately obvious that despite the superficially shared four headlight treatment it's the coupe and not an E-class.
Those separate eyes suggest the CLK is from the E-class family, yet because it's a unique body with a bespoke interior, based on the smaller C-class mechanicals, the CLK deserves to be regarded as a stand-alone model in its own right. The CLK's windscreen rake- four degrees steeper than the C-class - is matched by the angle of the nose. The larger of the headlights, set back from the protruding grille, are smaller than those on the E-class, more vertically oblong and mounted in the taper of the nose on the very comer of the body. They are also lower and integrated into the body coloured bumpers. Especially in darker hues, the CLK looks positively tough, yet is still unmistakably a Mercedes-Benz.
A very coupe profile is helped by the subtle curves of the flanks with their beautifully flared wheel arches, and a blacked out B-pillar, that attempts to create the impression this is a pillarless hardtop and not a coupe. Only the tail is disappointingly bland and out of step with the CLK's otherwise cohesive personality.
It's only when you see the Coupe next to the E-class that you understand just how much smaller it really is, and that the relationship with the C-class becomes clear. In fact, the CLK is 80mm longer than the C-class, though it's built on the same 2690mm wheelbase, and is 228mm shorter than the E-class. Engine-for-engine, the CLK weighs 10kg more than the C-class, 100kg above the smaller SLK, but a significant 125kg less than the equivalent E-class. The CLK shares the same 0.30cd as the C-class, proof that a fast shape isn't necessarily more slippery.
Having decided on the CLK, you're then faced with choosing one of three engines. The entry level CLK is the 2.0 litre 200, expected to sell for around $85,000 when it arrives sometime after the more powerful and expensive versions.
Powered by Mercedes' familiar 100kW in-line dohc four, the 200 is offered with manual or automatic five-speed gearboxes and delivers less than coupe performance with zero to 100km/h in 11 seconds (11.5sec for the auto) and a top speed of 208km/h (205km/h auto).
Next up is the 142kW 230 Kompressor which, like the SLK, is restricted in rhd form to two-pedal driving only. Since the automatic accelerates as quickly as the manual does - Mercedes claims zero to 100km/h in 8.4sec (SLK 7.5sec) - few drivers will complain. The top engine is Mercedes' new 160kW 3.2litre V6, first seen in the E-class (and soon to appear in 2.4 and 2.8 litre forms in the facelifted C-class), tucked into the 320.
It's here that the CLK best defines its role, for the V6 is not destined for the SLK, which is sold out until 2000, until early next century. For now, the range is limited to these three: no 2.4 or 2.8 litre V6. A CLK 430 AMG V8 is planned for 1998 for those who can't afford the V12 CLK GTR but insist upon more spirited performance.
The next decision is Sport or Elegance trim. The Sport, aimed at younger buyers, deletes most of the chrome from the exterior. Inside, the instruments are white and a carbon-look finish is applied to the console, the top of the dashboard and "the doors. There are specific interior colours. Sport buyers can also specify stiffer springs and dampers at no extra cost. The Elegance, expected to cost at least $2000 more, replaces the carbon with burr walnut, uses black gauges and more discreet interior colours.
Both get individual alloy wheel designs while the list of standard equipment seems to grow with every new Mercedes. Traction control (optional on the 200), alloy wheels, leather steering wheel, outside temperature gauge, sound system, automatic door locking on the move, keyless entry with remote boot release, and tinted glass are all included. The CLK 320 adds climate control and cruise control, but for Australia air is likely to be standard with all engines.
Despite the shared mechanicals, the CLK feels different. It couldn't be anything but a Benz, yet it has its own distinctive and alluring character. For this first experience of the CLK we drove the 320 in Sport and Elegance forms. More wieldy, quicker and firmer of ride than an E320 - so far the only other Mercedes to use the bigger of the V6s- they also felt tauter than any C-class, including a C36; and closest in dynamics to an SLK, undoubtedly the CLK's nearest relative.
The V6, far more restful and effortless in its behaviour than the supercharged engine, yet also rather more exciting, gives the CLK 320 the long legs of a proper grand touring car, one that's still capable of sprinting to 100km/h in 7.4sec. To further prove Benz is changing, the throttle lacks the in-built sluggishness in its initial movement that's been a feature of the marque for decades. Tickle the CLK's accelerator, you'll get an instant reaction.
Officially the top speed is 240km/ h, so ton-up cruising can be taken for granted. Wind noise above 160km/h is higher than expected, hardly a concern in Australia.
The source seems to be the exterior mirrors or the single windscreen wiper rather than the frameless door windows.
Yes, the new V6s are super clean, relatively economical, wonderfully smooth, responsive in the mid-range and aurally quite sporting at the upper end, but it's worth pointing out that on this sohc design the valves are no longer driven directly by the cams, but by finger type rocker arms. It also lacks the variable valve timing of the old inline six.
Only the technically pedantic will care. What really matters is how it behaves, and in the CLK the V6's relaxed fluency and its almost seamless relationship with the automatic (except in full kickdown position, when it's surprisingly slow to react) is perfectly complemented by the suspension's ability to mop up all manner of undulations, without this suppleness detracting from a high level of body control. Body roll exists, but it's progressive and consistent, which exactly describes the car's handling. The CLK goes precisely where the driver demands, pushing the nose to gentle understeer on tight comers and resisting any attempt to induce oversteer, even with the ASR traction control system disengaged, via a switch on the dashboard.
Enthusiasts who see the CLK as a sporting coupe will find the steering too heavy and slow. Combine this with a touch of slack at the straight ahead and tum-in doesn't have the precision you might expect. Because it borrows suspension and steering from the C-class, the CLK comes with power assisted recirculating ball steering, not the E-class' rack and pinion. But there's no doubting the CLK's high speed stability or chassis balance, nor the strength of its brakes.
And, fortunately, it feels significantly smaller and more agile than the E-class.
Protect your Mercedes-Benz. Call Shannons Insurance on 13 46 46 to get a quote today.
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1. 1. Let’s refresh our memory! Memory management in .NET Maarten Balliauw @maartenballiauw
2. 2. .NET runtime Manages execution of programs Just-in-time compilation: Intermediate Language (IL) ->machine code Type safety Exception handling Security Thread management Memory management Garbage collection (GC)
3. 3. Garbage Collector
4. 4. Memory management and GC “Virtually unlimited memory for our applications” Big chunk of memory pre-allocated Runtime manages allocation in that chunk Garbage Collector (GC) reclaims unused memory, making it available again
5. 5. .NET memory management 101 Memory allocation Objects allocated in “managed heap” (big chunk of memory) Allocating memory is fast, it’s just adding a pointer Some unmanaged memory is also consumed (not GC-ed) .NET CLR, Dynamic libraries, Graphics buffer, … Memory release or “Garbage Collection” (GC) Generations Large Object Heap
6. 6. .NET memory management 101 Memory allocation Memory release or “Garbage Collection” (GC) GC releases objects no longer in use by examining application roots GC builds a graph of all the objects that are reachable from these roots Object unreachable? Remove object, release memory, compact heap Takes time to scan all objects! Generations Large Object Heap
7. 7. .NET memory management 101 Memory allocation Memory release or “Garbage Collection” (GC) Generations Large Object Heap Generation 0 Generation 1 Generation 2 Short-lived objects (e.g. Local variables) In-between objects Long-lived objects (e.g. App’s main form)
8. 8. .NET memory management 101 Memory allocation Memory release or “Garbage Collection” (GC) Generations Large Object Heap (LOH) Special segment for large objects (>85KB) Collected only during full garbage collection Not compacted (by default) -> fragmentation! Fragmentation can cause OutOfMemoryException
9. 9. The .NET garbage collector Runs very often for gen0 Short-lived objects, few references, fast to clean Local variable Web request/response Higher generation Usually more references, slower to clean GC pauses the running application to do its thing Usually short, except when not… Background GC (enabled by default) Concurrent with application threads May still introduce short locks/pauses, usually just for one thread
10. 10. The .NET garbage collector When does it run? Vague… But usually: Out of memory condition – when the system fails to allocate or re-allocate memory After some significant allocation – if X memory is allocated since previous GC Failure of allocating some native resources – internal to .NET Profiler – when triggered from profiler API Forced – when calling methods on System.GC Application moves to background GC is not guaranteed to run
11. 11. Helping the GC, avoid pauses Optimize allocations (use struct when it makes sense, Span<T>, object pooling) Don’t allocate at all Make use of IDisposable / using statement Clean up references, giving the GC an easy job Weak references Allow the GC to collect these objects, no need for checks Finalizers Beware! Moved to finalizer queue -> always gen++
12. 12. Helping the GC DEMO
13. 13. Allocations
14. 14. When is memory allocated? Not for value types (int, bool, struct, decimal, enum, float, byte, long, …) Allocated on stack, not on heap Not managed by garbage collector For reference types When you new When you load data into a variable, object, property, ...
15. 15. Hidden allocations! Boxing! Put an int in a box Take an int out of a box Lambda’s/closures Allocate compiler-generated DisplayClass to capture state Params arrays And more! int i = 42; // boxing - wraps the value type in an "object box" // (allocating a System.Object) object o = i; // unboxing - unpacking the "object box" into an int again // (CPU effort to unwrap) int j = (int)o;
16. 16. How to find them? Past experience Intermediate Language (IL) Profiler “Heap allocations viewer” ReSharper Heap Allocations Viewer plugin Roslyn’s Heap Allocation Analyzer Don’t do premature optimization – measure!
17. 17. Hidden allocations DEMO ReSharper Heap Allocations Viewer plugin Roslyn’s Heap Allocation Analyzer
18. 18. Don’t optimize what should not be optimized.
19. 19. Measure! We know when allocations are done... ...but perhaps these don’t matter. Measure! How frequently are we allocating? How frequently are we collecting? What generation do we end up on? Are our allocations introducing pauses? (and
20. 20. Always Be Measuring DEMO
21. 21. Object pools / object re-use If it make sense, re-use objects Fewer allocations, fewer objects for the GC to scan Fewer memory traffic that can trigger a full GC Object pooling - object pool pattern Create a pool of objects that can be cleaned and re-used “Optimize ASP.NET Core” -
22. 22. Garbage Collector & Allocations GC is optimized for high memory traffic in short-lived objects Use that knowledge! Don’t fear allocations! Don’t optimize what should not be optimized… GC is the concept that makes .NET / C# tick – use it! Know when allocations happen GC is awesome Gen2 collection that stop the world not so much… Measure!
23. 23. Strings
24. 24. Strings are objects .NET tries to make them look like a value type, but they are a reference type Read-only collection of char Length property A bunch of operator overloading Allocated on the managed heap var a = new string('-', 25); var b = a.Substring(5); var c = httpClient.GetStringAsync("");
25. 25. String literals Are all strings on the heap? Are all strings duplicated? var a = "Hello, World!"; var b = "Hello, World!"; Console.WriteLine(a == b); Console.WriteLine(Object.ReferenceEquals(a, b)); Prints true twice. So “Hello World” only in memory once?
26. 26. Portable Executable (PE) #UserStrings DEMO
27. 27. String literals in #US Compile-time optimization Store literals only once in PE header metadata stream ECMA-335 standard, section II.24.2.4 Reference literals (IL: ldstr) var a = Console.ReadLine(); var b = Console.ReadLine(); Console.WriteLine(a == b); Console.WriteLine(Object.ReferenceEquals(a, b));
28. 28. String duplicates Any .NET application has them (System.Globalization duplicates quite a few) Are they bad? .NET GC is fast for short-lived objects, so meh. Don’t waste memory with string duplicates on gen2 (but: it’s okay to have strings there)
29. 29. String interning Store (and read) strings from the intern pool Simply call String.Intern when “allocating” or reading the string Scans intern pool and returns reference var url = ""; var stringList = new List<string>(); for (int i = 0; i < 1000000; i++) { stringList.Add(string.Intern(url + "/")); }
30. 30. String interning caveats Why are not all strings interned by default? CPU vs. memory Not on the heap but on intern pool No GC on intern pool – all strings in memory for AppDomain lifetime! Rule of thumb Lot of long-lived, few unique -> interning good Lot of long-lived, many unique -> no benefit, memory growth Lot of short-lived -> trust the GC Measure!
31. 31. Exploring the heap for fun and profit
32. 32. How would you do it... Build a managed type system, store in memory, CPU/memory friendly Probably: Store type info (what’s in there, what’s the offset of fieldN, …) Store field data (just data) Store method pointers (“who you gonna call?”) Inheritance information
33. 33. Stuff on the Stack
34. 34. Stuff on the Managed Heap (scroll down for more...)
35. 35. .NET memory is like a database Pointer to an “instance” Instance Pointer to Runtime Type Information (RTTI) Field values (which can be pointers in turn) RunTime Type Information Interface addresses Instance method addresses Static method addresses …
36. 36. Theory is nice... Microsoft.Diagnostics.Runtime (ClrMD) “ClrMD is a set of advanced APIs for programmatically inspecting a crash dump of a .NET program much in the same way that the SOS Debugging Extensions (SOS) do. This allows you to write automated crash analysis for your applications as well as automate many common debugger tasks. In addition to reading crash dumps ClrMD also allows supports attaching to live processes.” “LINQ-to-heap” Maarten’s definition
37. 37. ClrMD DEMO
38. 38. But... Why? Programmatic insight into memory space of a running project Unit test critical paths and assert behavior (did we clean up what we expected?) Capture memory issues in running applications Other options in this space dotMemory Unit (JetBrains) Benchmark.NET
39. 39. Conclusion
40. 40. Conclusion Garbage Collector (GC) optimized for high memory traffic + short-lived objects Don’t fear allocations! But beware of gen2 “stop the world” String interning when lot of long-lived, few unique Don’t optimize what should not be optimized… Measure! Using a profiler/memory analysis tool ClrMD to automate inspections dotMemory Unit, Benchmark.NET, … to profile unit tests Blog series:
41. 41. .NET Internals: stack memory management Nikolay Balakin 16:05 – Track 2
42. 42. Thank you! @maartenballiauw
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Database replication is a frequently used operation, and often sensitive information is transmitted between the database server and its clients. The connections between database servers and their clients can be secured with the tunneling feature of Tectia. Tunneling means that data is transmitted in encrypted format and so secured from eavesdroppers.
In this example environment, we have Tectia Server for IBM z/OS running on the database client host, and Tectia Server has been installed on the database server. In addition, non-interactive authentication has been set up and enabled to perform the replication by scripts without user attendance.
Tunneling database replication connections
Figure 5.5. Tunneling database replication connections
The whole procedure of database replication through secure tunnels can be activated on the command line or with JCL scripts. For the purposes of database replication, you will need a script that establishes the tunnels, performs the replication and then closes the tunnels and the Secure Shell connection.
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By midian182 · 35 replies
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1. Later today, President Trump will meet members of the video game industry to discuss violence in the medium and its possible link to real-life crimes such as the Florida shooting. After initially revealing it never received an invite, the Entertainment Software Association (ESA) later said it would be attending. But there’s one large group that won’t be there, and it isn’t hiding its feelings on the issue.
The International Game Developers Association (IGDA) is the largest non-profit membership organization in the world serving all individuals who create games. The US-based organization aims to “advance the careers and enhance the lives of game developers by connecting members with their peers, promoting professional development, and advocating on issues that affect the developer community.”
Over on Twitter, the IGDA launched into a tweetstorm that defended video games and warned not to use them, or any form of media, as a scapegoat.
"The stereotype of gamers as disaffected teenage boys is simply untrue: 41% of the 150M+ gamers in the United States are women, and more women over 35 play videogames than boys under 18," the IGDA tweeted.
The group finished with: "Making videogames—or any form of media—a scapegoat for consistently refusing to even CONSIDER the reasonable, rational firearm restrictions Americans want and deserve isn't fooling anyone."
Rhode Island State House member Robert Nardolillo and Kentucky governor Matt Bevin are just two of the names that have spoken out against video games and their supposed link to violent acts in the wake of the Florida attack.
Last month, it was reported that a 16-year-old Chicago boy had been banned from playing violent video games after he made a "joke" shooting threat on Snapchat.
While some studies have shown games can make kids more aggressive—a definition that covers actions such as making annoying noises at other players during online games—there’s no clear link between playing violent titles and behavior. It’ll certainly be interesting to see what, if anything, changes as a result of today’s meeting.
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2. Burty117
Burty117 TechSpot Chancellor Posts: 3,351 +1,133
Computer games kill people, not guns
BlameShift of the year, possibly the century
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3. gigantor21
gigantor21 TS Maniac Posts: 125 +178
This is how every developer and industry group should handle this nonsensical argument.
I really don't get why the ESA is participating in this charade.
4. GreyFoxx
GreyFoxx TS Booster Posts: 85 +61
Couldn't agree with this more! They are literally blaming anything and everything except guns lol!
I read that Wheetus - Teenage Dirtbag lyrics have been changed to remove the "takes a gun to school".
5. Panda218
Panda218 TS Evangelist Posts: 553 +270
I have family that complain about gun violence in video games all the time yet they love watching movies like "white house down" and "London has fallen". It's maddening I tell you.
6. stewi0001
stewi0001 TS Evangelist Posts: 2,005 +1,396
I still say that the real problem is on the family level. Americans have developed more and more of a mentality of me, myself, and I and screw everyone else. This is not all Americans but it has become more prevalent IMO.
Thus you lose the support that a family would normally have and could possibly prevent or reduce the occurrences.
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7. Burty117
Burty117 TechSpot Chancellor Posts: 3,351 +1,133
See, that's proper madness right there. We're prepared to censor a pretty iconic, well known music track but we're not prepared to do anything about guns?
Almost every other country in the world has violent video games, but no other country has the same frequency of mass shootings as the US. Blaming video games is (and always has been) a complete red herring.
8. Cubi Dorf
Cubi Dorf TS Enthusiast Posts: 85 +32
I blame the bad person. Why everyone want to redirect blame to something else?
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9. wiyosaya
wiyosaya TS Evangelist Posts: 3,070 +1,548
To me, if you look at the me, myself, and I aspect, it is well promoted and hailed everywhere as the be-all and end-all to happiness. Become a gazillionaire, no matter how you get there, and you will be happy. Find the most physically attractive mate, and you will be happy. Become famous in any fashion, and you will be happy. Become a winner, and you will have it all. To me, it seems it is about promoting the self as superior to others. This is the conditioning that most societies accept as normal.
As I see it, though, it goes even beyond that. In order to survive, in most societies one has to win in some fashion. I honestly believe that though they may be a rarity, there are those to whom it would make little difference if they received significant ethical guidance from their parents. In addition, some parents have no clue about parenting and could not raise a child under any circumstances. In that case, it would fall to society in general to raise the child, but most societies value being king/queen of the hill over something like wisdom so that in the case where the child is parented by society, they may still end up with a distorted moral compass.
This king/queen of the hill crap can probably be traced back at least as far as feudal times and perhaps even further. As I see it, until society, in general, learns something more cooperative and finally gets over its feudal nature, these problems are going to continue to come back and haunt humanity.
10. GreyFoxx
GreyFoxx TS Booster Posts: 85 +61
Exactly! Yeah "guns" don't kill people, people kill people. But they certainly enable mass killings to be much easier... Just like saying "oh a Tsar bomb doesn't kill people" but if a madman got his hands on one and set it off I'm pretty sure they would blame the WMD along with the madman.
11. cliffordcooley
cliffordcooley TS Guardian Fighter Posts: 10,797 +4,604
Our desire to witness violence in our movies and games as a substitute for reality is a major concern. There is a thin (real thin) line between desire to witness violence and committing violence. If we want to solve this problem, we have to purge the very nature from all our minds. And no, movies and games are not the root of the issue. The root of the issue is what spawn the creation of these movies and games.
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12. GreyFoxx
GreyFoxx TS Booster Posts: 85 +61
*places tinfoil hat on head*
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13. Trillionsin
Trillionsin TS Evangelist Posts: 1,743 +360
Is this still going on!? I come home from work and shoot people in online games, almost on a daily basis. I'm 30 years old now, and have never considered doing this in real life. Hey well, maybe I'd like to. I own guns.... but no I would never. Murder and violence has been happening waaaaaay before the existence of video games.
I don't know how this is even considered anymore.
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14. Rick55
Rick55 TS Rookie
I do online gaming also and never every think about going out and do harm to anyone. If you ask me where is the pressure on Hollywood and the gun violence they put out. You can hardly watch a movie or TV show where there is not some type of gun use. No one is calling out the movie and TV industry.
15. Cubi Dorf
Cubi Dorf TS Enthusiast Posts: 85 +32
If you don’t like being called out as gamer then why you want to call out someone else (hollywood) for doing same thing?
IAMTHESTIG TS Evangelist Posts: 1,559 +670
This is full of so much fail.
BTW the term "gun violence" is a misnomer. There is no such thing. There are violent people, they need to be dealt with. Oh sure sure you can say the gun is a excellent tool for mass killing. Yes, it is... so are bombs, many many types of weapons that are not guns, and vehicles. All of which can be quite effective for killing a large amount of people quickly. Yes guns are easy to use, but I guaran-damn-tee you if you banned guns, or hell even if guns didn't exist, another means of mass murder would be more frequently used.
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17. Reported widely: Kid with sport rifle in gun free zone.
Not reported widely: Another kid with banned weapons who was nabbed before visiting school.
Never discussed: 2A has nothing to do with “hunting.”
Never reported: Number of mass shootings in police stations, gun ranges, military bases*, and gun shows.
How many people have to die before you (me) support gun control: All of them.
What is “common sense” gun control? It’s soy.
*Except the one that was carried out in a gun free zone.
18. alabama man
alabama man TS Guru Posts: 563 +355
They need to start lobbying more. American politics is purely about money, they pay less than NRA and gun manufacturers so they get the blame. Also they use their lobbying funds to hush conversation about lootboxes instead of sifting the blame from gun violence, probably because games like call of duty is all about marketing the military so they probably have some connections between them and they might be actually paid/made to take the blame.
19. psycros
psycros TS Evangelist Posts: 2,321 +1,934
Yes, tons of 15 year old girls playing CoD, I'm sure. This is called a false analogy. Meanwhile in reality, EVERY school shooter in the past 20 years was a frequent player of FPS games and consumer of other violent media. Most of them had a history of mental illness or anti-social behavior as well. The fact that 40% of our kids are on psych meds is also conviently ignored. I'm not much of a gun fan myself and it wouldn't break my heart if the largest capacity magazines available were 9 rounds. But you can always carry more magazines or multiple guns and be just as dangerous as some nut with a 30 round mag. As long as your targets are not allowed to be armed you're virtually invincible. Enabling certain school employees to carry firearms is a common-sense deterrent to these atrocities. Its not about having a gun - its about having the right to have a gun, which always curtails instances of violent crime. Of course, what would be even better is if we stopped making excuses for the obvious troublemakers in our classrooms and got them the help they need, or failing that, the isolation from society they deserve.
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20. Danny101
Danny101 TS Guru Posts: 529 +201
Yes, blame the gun, blame the games, because blaming it on mental heath is just mean. Somebody who can't differentiate the difference between killing animated bits vs. human beings belongs in a cage anyway.
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21. Burty117
Burty117 TechSpot Chancellor Posts: 3,351 +1,133
I guess if the Attacker didn't have the gun in the first place, he wouldn't be as you so put it, "virtually invincible."
When a child at school hits another kid with a stick, I always find arming the kid with a stick to hit back with is the answer, you know? Instead of taking the stick off the offending child and putting him in time out. That would be too sensible...
Have you looked at statistics from other countries that do not have guns?
Now this is pretty accurate, Here in the UK at least, when I went through school (early 2000's) Bullies and people who clearly didn't have a particularly decent up-bringing or flat out had mental issues so they got violent whenever they felt like it, Just don't get dealt with properly. Just sort of shrugged off instead...
Just quickly googled for one of the bullies from back when I went to school. He went to jail for trying to rob a bank.
What I'm trying to say is this, I had run-ins with this guy at school and you know what? I would place a sizable amount of money if we had guns in the UK as easily as you do in America, this guy definitely would have gone on a killing rampage. He was a lunatic.
Instead, he did this which meant no one died (except nearly himself). Just using him as an example, nothing more, But take away the guns or make them much harder for people to access, a lot less innocent, law abiding people die. It's in the stats, there is evidence all over the globe of this.
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22. GreyFoxx
GreyFoxx TS Booster Posts: 85 +61
23. Bubbajim
Bubbajim TS Evangelist Posts: 498 +481
Nah that can't be true. I'm pretty sure human existence was all peace and cuddles until that dastardly Pong arrive on the scene and people cracked out the AK47s.
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24. cliffordcooley
cliffordcooley TS Guardian Fighter Posts: 10,797 +4,604
That's not what is happening here. What is happening is they are wanting to taking the stick away from everyone not just the offending child. And creating laws to take the stick away from anyone, who doesn't conform to all the regulations not just the stick regulations. To put this into perspective the non-offending child may have lost his stick privilege last week for chewing gum in the hallway. This made the offending child brave enough to confront the one that lost his stick privilege.
I'll add a video that sums up my thoughts.
Last edited: Mar 9, 2018
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25. Burty117
Burty117 TechSpot Chancellor Posts: 3,351 +1,133
So you're saying it's impossible to have laws that say something like:
If you are 21 years or under of age, it is illegal to buy, own, rent or use a gun.
If you have any type of violent criminal record, you cannot possess a gun for 10 years.
If you are on any watch list (pedo's, rapists, diagnosed mental illnesses) you cannot possess a gun indefinitely.
If you purchase a gun, you must have a license, to gain access to the license you must have gone through some basic gun training and have a clean background and the license should be a decent amount of cash to ward off people like my old school Bully (for example).
Just something you know? I'm not saying those are the answers but something is better than absolutely nothing and letting gun crime continue at it's current rate.
You make Americans sound like terrible people "Ah, he doesn't have a stick! get him boys!". Why must everyone in America be so violent towards each other?
Edit: I was responding before you put the video in so it's gone weird, I'll watch the video when I get home this evening.
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Lynndie England, the woman smiling in a number of the horrible photos showing the torture and abuse of prisoners at Abu Ghraib, can't find a job, can't sleep and certainly can't get a date. In an interview Monday with The Daily, England explained that she's haunted by the fact that the photos from Abu Gharib cost American lives but not necessarily apologetic to the victims she was torturing in those photographs.
"Their lives are better," she told the iPad newspaper. "They got the better end of the deal. They weren't innocent. They're trying to kill us, and you want me to apologize to them? It's like saying sorry to the enemy." Apologetic or not, England is certainly struggling to recover. She works for an old family friend during tax season doing basic accounting but otherwise can't find anyone to hire her. This makes it difficult to raise her seven-year-old son, especially since the boy's father Charles Graner, whom The Daily calls "ringleader of the Abu Ghraib abuses," refuses to acknowledge his existence. In an attempt to explain her post-traumatic stress disorder, England recounted, "Somebody dropped something off the [store] shelf and I freaked out. It was two aisles down. They dropped something on the floor and made a big bang and I was like, 'Ah!' "
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Did she see any women prisoners? "At one point we had four. Oh my God, this one, she was crazy. They had to take her to the loony bin. We called her the wolf lady coz she had all this hair." She starts laughing. "She was screaming and whatever."
Did she see any photos with women prisoners in them?
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England snorts and says, "His dick had some contact."
For the rest of her life, England will be a felon, but she'll also be living reminder of one of the more shameful moments in recent American history. She's not enjoying this status, that's clear. What's unclear, though, is if she feels more remorseful about what she did to the victims in those or what the photos of her actions have done to her.
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With concerns growing over the ability of criminals to hack contactless technology, researchers at MIT and Texas Instruments have developed a new type of radio frequency identification (RFID) that they claim is almost un-hackable.
New RFID technology could secure credit cards, key cards, and pallets of goods
According to MIT student Chiraag Juvekar the chip is designed to prevent so-called side-channel attacks which analyse patterns of memory access or fluctuations in power usage when a device is performing a cryptographic operation, in order to extract its cryptographic key.
“The idea in a side-channel attack is that a given execution of the cryptographic algorithm only leaks a slight amount of information,” Juvekar said. “So you need to execute the cryptographic algorithm with the same secret many, many times to get enough leakage to extract a complete secret.”
One way to thwart side-channel attacks is to use a random number generator to regularly change secret keys, but such a system would still be vulnerable to a “power glitch” attack, in which the RFID chip’s power would be repeatedly cut right before it changed its secret key.
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The future's made of virtual insanity. The very near future, to be exact!
Sony announced Thursday that it will bring PlayStation VR, its PS4-exclusive VR headset that's meant to be more affordable than its competitors, to select GameStop and Best Buy locations across the United States and Canada. That means it will be easier than ever for people without extremely powerful and expensive PCs to try out VR for the first time.
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For the uninitiated, what separates PSVR from its main competitors, Oculus Rift and HTC Vive, is that all it requires is a PS4. You don't need a powerful gaming PC to play its games. Mind you, with a starting price of $400 when it launches in October, it isn't cheap, but it will supposedly support 50 games by the end of 2016, meaning you'll at least have something to do with it.
It's fantastic and incredibly important that Sony is doing this. People won't believe in the power of VR until they try it, and right now, the only way to try it is to have exorbitantly priced hardware or know someone who does. We just hope someone properly wipes down those helmets after people are done with them.
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Asymmetric multiprocessing
asymmetric multiprocessing, symmetric and asymmetric multiprocessing
Asymmetric multiprocessing AMP was the only method for handling multiple CPUs before symmetric multiprocessing SMP was available It has also been used to provide less expensive options1 on systems where SMP was available Additionally, AMP is used in applications that are dedicated, such as embedded systems, when individual processors can be dedicated to specific tasks at design time In an asymmetric multiprocessing system, not all CPUs are treated equally; for example, a system might only allow either at the hardware or operating system level one CPU to execute operating system code or might only allow one CPU to perform I/O operations Other AMP systems would allow any CPU to execute operating system code and perform I/O operations, so that they were symmetric with regard to processor roles, but attached some or all peripherals to particular CPUs, so that they were asymmetric with regard to peripheral attachment
Asymmetric multiprocessing
Multiprocessing is the use of more than one CPU in a computer system The CPU is the arithmetic and logic engine that executes user applications With multiple CPUs, more than one set of program instructions can be executed at the same time All of the CPUs have the same user-mode instruction set, so a running job can be rescheduled from one CPU to another2
• 1 Background and history
• 2 Burroughs B5000 and B5500
• 3 CDC 6500 and 6700
• 4 DECsystem-1055
• 5 PDP-11/74
• 6 VAX-11/782
• 7 Univac 1108-II
• 8 IBM System/370 model 168
• 9 See also
• 10 Notes
• 11 References
• 12 External links
Background and historyedit
For the room-size computers of the 1960s and 1970s, a cost-effective way to increase compute power was to add a second CPU Since these computers were already close to the fastest available near the peak of the price:performance ratio, two standard-speed CPUs were much less expensive than a CPU that ran twice as fast Also, adding a second CPU was less expensive than a second complete computer, which would need its own peripherals, thus requiring much more floor space and an increased operations staff
Notable early offerings by computer manufacturers were the Burroughs B5000, the DECsystem-1055, and the IBM System/360 model 65MP There were also dual-CPU machines built at universities3
The problem with adding a second CPU to a computer system was that the operating system had been developed for single-CPU systems, and extending it to handle multiple CPUs efficiently and reliably took a long time To fill the gap, operating systems intended for single CPUs were initially extended to provide minimal support for a second CPU In this minimal support, the operating system ran on the “boot” processor, with the other only allowed to run user programs In the case of the Burroughs B5000, the second processor's hardware was not capable of running "control state" code4
Burroughs B5000 and B5500edit
An option on the Burroughs B5000 was “Processor B” This second processor, unlike “Processor A” had no connection to the peripherals, though the two processors shared main memory, and Processor B could not run in Control State4 The operating system ran only on Processor A When there was a user job to be executed, it might be run on Processor B, but when that job tried to access the operating system the processor halted and signaled Processor A The requested operating system service was then run on Processor A
On the B5500, either Processor A or Processor B could be designated as Processor 1 by a switch on the engineer's panel, with the other processor being Processor 2; both processors shared main memory and had hardware access to the I/O processors hence the peripherals, but only Processor 1 could respond to peripheral interrupts5 When a job on Processor 2 required an operating system service it would be rescheduled on Processor 1, which was responsible for both initiating I/O processor activity and responding to interrupts indicating completion In practice, this meant that while user jobs could run on either Processor 1 or Processor 2 and could access intrinsic library routines that didn't require kernel support, the operating system would schedule them on the latter whenever possible6
CDC 6500 and 6700edit
Control Data Corporation offered two configurations of its CDC 6000 series that featured two central processors The CDC 65007 was a CDC 6400 with two central processors The CDC 6700 was a CDC 6600 with the CDC 6400 central processor added to it
These systems were organized quite differently from the other multiprocessors in this article The operating system ran on the peripheral processors, while the user's application ran on the CPUs Thus, the terms ASMP and SMP do not properly apply to these multiprocessors
Digital Equipment Corporation DEC offered a dual-processor version of its DECsystem-1050 which used two KA10 processors89 This offering was extended to later processors in the PDP-10 line
Digital Equipment Corporation developed, but never released, a multiprocessor PDP-11, the PDP-11/74,10 running a multiprocessor version of RSX-11M11 In that system, either processor could run operating system code, and could perform I/O, but not all peripherals were accessible to all processors; most peripherals were attached to one or the other of the CPUs, so that a processor to which a peripheral wasn't attached would, when it needed to perform an I/O operation on that peripheral, request the processor to which the peripheral was attached to perform the operation11
Univac 1108-IIedit
The Univac 1108-II and its successors had up to three CPUs1314 These computers ran the UNIVAC EXEC 8 operating system, but it is not clear from the surviving documentation where that operating system was on the path from asymmetric to symmetric multiprocessing
IBM System/370 model 168edit
Two options were available for the IBM System/370 model 168 for attaching a second processor15 One was the IBM 3062 Attached Processing Unit, in which the second processor had no access to the channels, and was therefore similar to the B5000's Processor B or the second processor on a VAX-11/782 The other option offered a complete second CPU, and was thus more like the System/360 model 65MP
See alsoedit
• 3B20C
• Multi-core computing
• Software lockout
• Giant lock
• Symmetric multiprocessing
• Heterogeneous computing
• bigLITTLE
• Tegra 3
1. ^ IBM December 1976 IBM System/370 System Summary PDF Seventh Edition pp 6–12, 6–15–6161 GA22·7001·6
2. ^ Introduction to Multiprocessing: distinguishes “symmetric” from “master/slave”
3. ^ Early Computers at Stanford: the dual processor computer at the AI lab
4. ^ a b "Operational Characteristics of the Processors for the Burroughs B5000" PDF Burroughs
5. ^ "A Narrative Description of the B5500 MCP" PDF p 18
6. ^ A Narrative Description of the B5500 MCP, pages 29 initiate routine and 40 a note on parallel processing
7. ^ "CONTROL DATA 6400/6500/6600 COMPUTER SYSTEMS Reference Manual" PDF
8. ^ Introduction to DECsystem-10 Software, section 14 DECsystem-10 Multiprocessing
9. ^ DECsystem-10 Technical Summary page 2-1
10. ^ "PDP-11 Multiprocessor FAQ"
11. ^ a b "RSX-11M multiprocessing" PDF Digital Equipment Corporation
13. ^ "Univac 1108-II announcement" PDF Sperry Rand
14. ^ "A history of Univac computers and Operating Systems" PDF
15. ^ IBM January 1976 IBM System/370 Model 168 Functional Characteristics PDF Fifth Edition GA22·7010-4
• Bell, C Gordon, Mudge, J Craig, McNamara John E "The PDP-10 Family" 1979 Part V of Computer Engineering: A DEC View of Hardware Systems Design Digital Equipment Corp
External linksedit
• OpenMP tutorial for parallel programming
• Multicore News blog
• History of Multi-Processing
• Linux and Multiprocessing
• ASOSI: Asymmetric Operating System Infrastructure, Proc 21st Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing and Communication Systems, PDCCS 2008, New Orleans, Louisiana, pp 193-198, 2008
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Young Asteroids Age Fast with a Solar Wind Tan
If you stay out in the Sun too long, you’ll eventually get a suntan (or sunburn); your skin will also get damaged and it will show signs of ageing faster. This might sound like a sunblock ad, but the same principal holds true for the small chunks of rock floating around in the Solar System. Yes, a young asteroid’s surface will age prematurely, but it’s not caused by the Sun’s ultraviolet rays, it’s caused by the solar wind…
Within a million years, an asteroid can turn from lunar grey to Martian red when left out in the solar wind. A million years is a tiny amount of time in relation to the Solar System’s lifetime. Why is this important? European Southern Observatory (ESO) researchers have realized that this finding will not only help astronomers relate an asteroid’s appearance with its history, but it can act as an indicator for after effects of impacts with other asteroids.
It turns out that the study of “space weathering” is fairly controversial, scientists have been mulling it over for a long time. Central to the problem is the fact that the appearance of the interior of meteorites found on Earth are remarkably different to the asteroids we see in space; asteroids are redder than their meteorite cousins. So what causes this redness?
Although this is an interesting discovery, the speed at which the “tanning” occurs is astonishing. After an asteroid collision, fresh asteroid chunks are created with new surfaces. Within a million years these young asteroid surfaces will turn a dirty shade of red as the surface minerals are continuously battered by ionizing solar wind particles. “The charged, fast moving particles in the solar wind damage the asteroid’s surface at an amazing rate,” Vernazza added.
Naturally, a lot depends on the mineral composition of an asteroid’s surface, influencing how red its surface will become, but most of the tanning effect occurs in the first million years. Afterwards, the tanning continues, just at a slower rate.
Asteroid observations also reveal that the high proportion of “fresh surfaces” seen on near-Earth asteroid probably isn’t down to asteroid collisions. The frequency of collisions is far lower than the sun-tanning timescales, meaning that there shouldn’t be any “fresh surfaces” to be seen. It is far more likely that the upper layers of asteroids are renewed through planetary encounters, where the gravitational field of planets “shake off” the tanned dust.
Source: ESO
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1. i’m looking forword to the Dawn mission to Ceres ! that should reveil much more about asteroids and the origin of the solar system
2. I’m not too surprised about this finding. Space weathering has been seen on the rocky/dusty surfaces of the Moon, Mercury, and Mars’ 2 moons, Phobos and Deimos, to name a few. Fresh impact craters on these bodies are bright compared to ejecta surrounding older craters which has clearly darkened and is not due to exposure to UV radiation (exposure to UV radiation is thought to darken the surfaces of bodies containing volatile organic compounds like comets and some moons).
3. Still, one can’t avoid wondering why is it, then, that the weathered Moon’s surface is quite dark, yes, but not red by any visible measure.
4. @ Jorge: You stated above “Still, one can’t avoid wondering why is it, then, that the weathered Moon’s surface is quite dark, yes, but not red by any visible measure.” Um, well, differing composition comes to mind.
5. Perhaps, but the article is rather moot about composition. One can be lead to believe that this happens regardless of composition, with all kinds of asteroids… or all kinds of exposed surfaces, really, with the possible exception of ices.
6. Jorge — “moot” means “arguable,” “admissable fior debate,” ” point to argue.” I think the word you want instead of “moot” is “mute,” which means “silent.”
7. Hm, yeah, OK, you’re right, but although that solves a linguistic doubt it doesn’t answer my scientific ones.
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Öraefajökull – A challenge for volcanology
Öraefajökull from the air showing the cauldron. Picture from Icelandic Met Office.
A couple of years ago I was asked on a radio show which volcano in Iceland I wanted least to erupt. I quickly answered Öraefajökull. It confused everyone, and I got bogged down in explaining why an unknown (to the layman) volcano would be that bad.
It is though true, if there is a single volcano in Iceland that I do not wish to see erupt, it is by a longshot Öraefajökull. And that for a great many reasons that I will try to explain down below.
At the same time, it is also a great challenge for volcanologists to decipher, also something that I will get back to down below. But first, let us get into the nitty-gritty of this severely understudied volcano.
The background of Öraefajökull
Cumulative Seismic Moment plot showing the rapid increase in released energy indicating an increase of magma in the system. Do especially note the events in late 2005 and August 2011, these two are intrusions. Image by Andrej Flis.
Most people interested in Icelandic volcanoes know that Öraefajökull is the tallest volcano in Iceland with it’s 2110 meters above the ocean. The actual top of the volcano is called Hvannadalshnúkur. The volcano has a 14 square kilometres caldera that is five by four kilometres across.
It is the second largest volcano by bulk in Europe, only surpassed by Etna, and it is the largest volcano in Iceland. But it is not the size that is the real problem here.
But, before we get into the problems, let us instead talk about age. For being an Icelandic volcano Öraefajökull is really old. We know this since there are two layers that have reverse polar magnetization. The upper reversed layer is fairly weak, and this places it as more than 41 400 years old. In other words, we have stumbled upon the “Laschamp event” – a failed magnetic pole reversal that only spanned 440 years.
GPS trajectory confirming rapid inflation, and a rapid dip as the cauldron formed and the Jökulhlaup releasing water causing the mass of the water to counteract the inflation signal. Image courtesy of Icelandic Met Office and the University of Iceland.
Above and below that reverse magnetic layer we find normal magnetic polarization. But, as we go deep down into the bottom layers of the volcano we find that they are strongly reversed in magnetic polarization. This put’s the origin of the volcano prior to the Brunhes-Matuyama Reversal 781 000 years ago. (And no, a polar reversal is not an extinction event.)
So, even if we do not know the exact age of the volcano, we do know that it is by far the oldest active volcano in Iceland. But, first we must talk about the location.
Öraefajökull is situated outside the ordinary mainline volcanic belts in Iceland. Instead it forms its own volcanic belt called the Öraefajökull-Snaefell Volcanic Zone (ÖSVZ), alternately also called Öraefajökull Volcanic Belt (ÖVB). This belt contains 3 old volcanoes. From north to south we find Snaefell (not the same as the famous Snaefellsjökull), and Esjufjöll.
Caldera perimeter plot filtered at M1. Image by Andrej Flis.
Snaefell is most likely extinct, or heading that way. No known Holocene eruption has occurred from this volcano. It is also seismically inactive. Esjufjöll is an active volcano that may have erupted as recently as September 1927 when a large jökulhlaups came gushing out from the volcano, and there was a light sprinkling of ash on the glacier. It is also seismically active with infrequent earthquake swarms.
As Öraefajökull Volcanic Belt was pushed towards the East from the main volcanic line in Iceland it started to have more infrequent eruptions. In the beginning the volcano was constructed of thick layers of regular Icelandic basalt, but as time moved on it started to produce ever more evolved magmas richer in silica, transcending through andesite, dacite into the rare realm of erupting mainly rhyolite.
The rhyolites at Öraefajökull contain between 70 and 75 percent silica, depending upon if the sample is taken from the tephra falls, or from extruded domes or spines on the top of the volcano. Normally this would be rather sticky, but due to a neat trick of nature the rhyolite at Öraefajökull is both rich in gasses and unusually hot. This is caused by repeated intrusions from depth into the system of basalt that delivers the usual for Iceland high content of volatile gases, and also functions as an ample heat source keeping the rhyolite merrily boiling.
Satelite image showing Öraefajökull and the cauldron. Do note that the cauldron looks like a mound instead of a depression. Image from the Icelandic Met Office.
Sometime during the last interglacial the volcano suffered from a major eruption in the form of a large VEI-6 eruption that gouged out the caldera. During the end stage of that eruption several rhyolite spines and domes were extruded, among them Hvannadalshnúkur.
After that the magma system revamped itself and the bottom of the caldera started to suffer from resurging dome building in the middle and eruptions resumed.
During the Holocene there have been no less than 5 known eruptions. The first 3 are badly constrained in time, all we know is that they happened after the last ice age, and prior to colonization.
One of those was yet another VEI-4 explosive event from the caldera, and the other two were flank events with rhyolite lava flows and dome extrusions.
June 1362
This infiltered seismic timeline shows the increase in earthquakes over time, but all the small earthquakes hides things. Image by Andrej Flis.
Thanks to the crafty Icelander’s there are an abundance of written records about the coastal area below Öraefajökull prior to the devastating eruption. We know that more than 30 farmsteads existed in the region, and that there where 4 main churches. We also know that there where more than 220 people of age living there. So, with the normal abundance of children we can safely say that there were between 400 – 500 men, women, children and priests (these where not counted in the same journal as the farmers).
The eruption caused a major Jökulhlaup with a maximum discharge estimated to be between 100 000 and 250 000 cubic meters of water per second. That amounts to between 1 and 2.5 times what the Amazon can produce as a maximum. Roughly two thirds of the farms and three churches was unceremoniously picked up and dumped into the ocean complete with all hands and animals. The other farmsteads were eradicated by between 1 and 2 meters of un-compacted tephra.
A distance of 160 kilometres of the coastline was completely destroyed or massively changed. Most likely not a single soul survived the ordeal, but there are anecdotal tales of either an old woman and her mare, or a priest, surviving. If a priest had survived we can safely bet he would have written down an account of his ordeal, that did not happen, so we can strike a surviving priest. There may have been a woman on her mare, but in all likelihood, she was out travelling and did not witness the destruction of an entire Icelandic region. As such this was the deadliest eruption in Icelandic history.
Here is a longterm seismic timeline showing that M2+ earthquakes becomes deeper over time. The recent shallow ones are related to geothermal field inception, that in turn caused the cauldron. Image by Andrej Flis.
Several sources state that there was a smaller Jökulhlaup coming out of the mountain in 1331, so we can safely assume that this means that there was a hydrothermal event back then, or even a minor sub-glacial eruption. There are though no mentions of earthquakes or tephra from that year, so whatever it was, it was minor compared to the later event.
My interpretation is that there was an intrusion from depth occurring in 1331, quite possibly like the one we are seeing now. And that heated up a geothermal field enough to melt a considerable amount of water that leaked out as a Jökulhlaup.
This eruption changed the coastline, an area of 50-meter-deep ocean was after the eruption covered with debris and tephra and became a new piece of land extending the Icelandic coast quite a bit outwards.
This seismic timeline highlights the deep intrusion pushing upwards from depth. Image by Andrej Flis.
The total amount of ejected tephra was between 2 and 5 cubic kilometres, placing the eruptions as a solid VEI-5. Even though both Lakí and Veiðivötn ejected more ash and tephra, those eruptions were not per see explosive events. Therefore the 1362 eruption is counted as the largest explosive Icelandic eruption since settlement.
In the annals the eruption is said to have lasted for almost a year, but the later stages were said to have been low level activity compared to the main phase of the eruption in the beginning.
August 1727
And here is a crossection and from depth image showing the path of the deep intrusion, and the silent area that most likely is a deep magma reservoir. Image by Andrej Flis.
Even though this was a far smaller eruption rated as a mid VEI-4, it was still almost as deadly as the first one for the residents that had picked up farming below the mountain.
Once more a major (but smaller) Jökulhlaup roared forth and swept away farms, churches and assorted people and animal. And once more ash and tephra took its toll. It is estimated that a full two-thirds of the residents perished this time. At least one priest survived and wrote a highly chilling account of the devastation.
This eruption was also long lasting, and did not end until well into 1728.
Timeline of the current events
Lidar image showing the caldera and the resurging dome at the centre. The cauldron is above that dome.
During the summer seismic activity under Öraefajökull picked up and transcended normal background levels.
It all began with the for Iceland usual deep (20 to 30km) earthquakes that indicates that magma is being pushed up from the depth. These earthquakes occurred to the south-west of Öraefajökull, but trended as they progressed upwards in under the caldera.
The origin of the upwards mobile magma was either from a deep magma reservoir connected to the MOHO via an open conduit, or came directly up from the MOHO. The earthquake data seems to support a deep elongated magma reservoir (wedge), but more earthquakes are necessary to say that for certain.
After this initial intrusion there was a month-long hiatus in activity before the main ruckus began. This time shallower earthquakes were the main ingredient of the seismic swarm indicating rising magma.
What is apparent is that there is a silent zone between the deep earthquakes and the later upper earthquakes. This indicates a slightly off-centre magma chamber roughly the size of 20 to 40 cubic kilometres at about 17 to 14 kilometres depth.
It is quite likely that there are smaller chambers higher up filled with extremely evolved rhyolite, but those would not be visible on these types of plots, and would need far more earthquakes to find and accurately reproduce.
All of this indicated that the volcano was reactivating, but nothing thus far pointed towards an impending eruption. It is after all quite common for Icelandic volcanoes to have several large intrusions prior to an eruption.
Yesterday a pilot found an astonishingly large cauldron inside the caldera of Öraefajökull. A cauldron forms as ice is melted from below by increased geothermal energy, and as the water leaks out in the form of Jökulhlaup the ice above sags down. A cauldron is easy to mistake for a caldera by laypeople, but they are not the same.
In Iceland cauldrons are often a sign of either a large geothermal event, or a small sub-glacial eruption. As of writing this, we do not know which of the two types of events have happened, but it was most likely a very large geothermal energy increase and not an eruption since there is a lack of seismic signals associated with an eruption.
The Jökulhlaup is rather slow and small compared to previous Jökulhlaups, but according to locals the water is reeking with the smell of sulphuric compounds.
The size of the cauldron is prodigious and should have caused a larger hlaup, so it is entirely possible that one will follow and that the water is trapped somewhere on the road down the mountain.
All of this lead the Icelandic authorities to declare a phase of uncertainty for Öraefajökull, and later on they also declared a Yellow alert for all flights in the area.
It is though important to point out that there as of now are no signs of an impending eruption, and that the seismic levels are currently low.
As Andrej Flis churned out his exquisite plots of the seismicity two previous events stood out. It is with perfect hindsight easy to see that two previous intrusions happened. These originated from the main magma chamber and rapidly went upwards. During those two, no new magma seems to have arrived from near MOHO-reservoir. This indicate that the system has been active down through the years, unclear how long.
Conclusion and thoughts
Öraefajökull from air.
It is important to once more state that volcanoes can have large intrusions that does not cause eruptions.
But, as I said in the beginning, this is a volcano that I do not want to see erupt. Because this is as far as we know the most dangerous volcano in Iceland for the local inhabitants. I am though certain that the competent Icelanders can solve the problems with eventual evacuations of both people and animals before an eruption occurs. It would still though be an economic disaster for the country.
The reason for it being so dangerous is that the magma type it erupt is highly prone to be explosive, and we do know that it is full of volatile gases and that it is hotter than usual. This is a bad recipe, nobody likes turbo-charged rhyolite.
The second problem is the lack of knowledge and historical records of how the volcano behave prior to an eruption. The small few things we do know indicates that the current behaviour is how the volcano behaves prior to an eruption, but that there can be decades long waiting time from reactivation to the final eruption.
And due to our technical knowhow, we do not only face a potential disaster stretching 160 or more kilometres in south eastern Iceland, we also risk losing the ability to fly for weeks or even months. Because this would be a very ashy history indeed.
One way to try to comprehend Öraefajökull is to go beyond the scope of Iceland, because it more resembles a large subduction resurging caldera, than the typical Icelandic volcano. Yes, it is not going to super-erupt, but it will produce a similar eruption on a smaller scale with similar characteristics.
I still hope that the volcano will calm down, but if not, I wish all the people in the region the best possible outcome. I know that the Icelandic authorities are the best in a crisis, so they are in good hands. Remember, better to be safe than sorry for eternity.
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1. Both VON and DYN stations are offline, which has quite an impact on the quality of quake correction at Bardarbunga. Luckily KIS is still online, which is the closest station to Bardarbunga.
• There appears to currently be a small swarm happening at Bardy, although ‘small swarm’ is a bit of a misnomer for the size of a couple of the quakes. Sometimes it almost appears that Barda and Öraefajökul are taking turns to share the limelight!
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The baby dolphin lying dead on the beach
The dolphin was from the La Plata - also known as the Franciscana - variety, found off the coasts of Argentina, Uruguay and Brazil.
It is considered a "vulnerable" species because there are only about 30,000 left in the world.
The Argentine Wildlife Foundation later issued a reminder to the public of the mammal's extreme vulnerability, hoping it will prevent such a sad event again.
Tourists take selfies with baby dolphin on Argentina beach
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The Steam Workshop is a very useful tool for server owners, particularly with adding custom content such as addons and models. Instead of uploading all of an addon's custom content to your file server, and then setting up a FastDL script so that your player's download the content to their client, you can instead click a button to add an addon to your Workshop collection, and code one line to add all of the content to your player's download queue.
1. The first thing we need to do is create a collection of the addons you wish to use. You can do this by clicking this link and then click the "Create Collection" button on the right. If you don't see the "Create Collection" button on the right, make sure you're signed in to your Steam account. You can click the Login button in the upper-right hand section of the screen to log in.
2. The next thing you'll need to do is register for a Steam Web API key. Think of this key as a password, you don't want to share it with others! You can register for your API key at the following page:
3. Now we need to add your collection and API key to your server. You'll now want to log into ForcePanel and navigate to your server's page. Once you're there, you'll want to scroll down to the section "Server Configuration" and input your collection's ID under Workshop Collection ID and your Steam Web API key under Authkey.
1. NOTE: The Workshop Collection ID is found in the URL of the collection. For example, the M9K Weapons Full Pack collection ID is 300653696.
4. The Workshop will now be working with your server! However, there is another step if you want your players to download the content from each addon. If you don't follow this step and your addon uses custom models (such as TDMcars, a custom model, etc.) then your players will see errors once they connect. To remedy this, you'll need to create or edit a Lua script so that the Garry's Mod client knows that you wish for your players to download the files. The Lua script can be named whatever you'd like, and it will be placed inside of your server's /garrysmod/lua/autorun/server directory. The inside of your Lua script will need to look like the following:
resource.AddWorkshop("addon ID")
So, to further elaborate, let's say you added the following addon to your Workshop collection:
Your Lua script would simply contain the following line of code:
We obtain the ID (104606562) from the URL as you may have guessed. You can see ?id=104606562, you'll simple copy that number to the right of ?id=. Unfortunately, at the time of writing, there isn't a function to force every addon in your collection ID to download, so you'll need to add each respective addon ID for this to work.
NOTE: You must use the ADDON ID in resource.AddWorkshop(). NOT the COLLECTION ID. FastDL will not work if you use resource.AddWorkshop with your COLLECTION ID.
Check out the below link for instructions directly from the Garry's Mod wiki page:
Check out the below link for instructions with using the resource.AddWorkshop function:
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• Paris Garde Rpublicaine,administrative and medical units.
• Garde carefully explored and mapped the coast from Cape Farewell to Angmagssalik, in 66° N.
• Garde explored in 1893 the interior of the inland ice between 61° and 62° N.
• In 1816 it was definitely re-established and replaced under government patronage, remaining subject to the chancellor or garde-des-sceaux until 1857, when it was transferred to the control of the minister of public instruction.
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drawing stuff
I've been drawing some stuff with Lisp lately.
Wow, that broadband coverage is pretty out of date. It manages to list one company that doesn't exist anymore twice (acadianet), and at least one other dead company as well.
but kinda cool anyway.
It's from 2005 (aka "useless").
I found out (after making the PDF) that the state has the data available for live display. The interface is a little clunky, but here it is:
ESRI Files in Lisp
Any chance that you will publish your ESRI Shapefile pareser - it could be useful !
Re: ESRI Files in Lisp
I'm thinking about cleaning it up and publishing it, but it's not at the top of my TODO list. I could be persuaded to bump it up to the top, for suitable compensation... :)
Re: ESRI Files in Lisp
Hi Xach,
I've had in mind to write an ESRI shapefile reader (and possibly writer) in CL for some time now. I even have the specs printed out ready to go. If your code is in a hackable state (and you want it hacked) I thought that it might give me some motivation to jump right into it and get something done.
Let me know what you think! Bear in mind that I'm no CL wizard like yourself! and nor do I have many hours of spare time every week.
David Trudgett
Hope you don't mind me posting to you in a reply to a blog entry, but could you take a look at the latest version of my fractal LISP code and let me know if it works correctly now ?
There is a comment with updated code.
I fixed it up to work in CLISP and SBCL.
PS I like the mesmerizing LISP gif.
Re: Fractal
Nope, still doesn't work.
Don't write scripts that (quit) at the end. Write functions that can be called.
Don't write scripts in CL-USER. Make your own package and :use the packages you need, or just use package prefixes.
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Greek 101 (Fall)
This is the first course in a series that introduces students to the fundamentals of the ancient Greek language. Although the primary goal of the elementary sequence of courses through Greek 201 is to prepare students to use ancient Greek documents in a wide variety of academic contexts, students will develop all four language skills: reading, writing, listening, and speaking.
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Chapter Three: Tower of Digrestor Edit
Shenira: [regarding Alf and Co.] You lot are hopeless.
Ashen: (angrily) Hopeless? HOPELESS?!? don't even begin to tell me about hopeless! i have had my daughter kidnapped, myself kidnapped, been nearly killed countless times, knocked unconscious even more than that, lost a portion of my magic, i don't even know where my daughter is, and all i want to do is be with my love! I have vowed to follow him wherever he goes, so if he is he to rescue Ether, then ether will be rescued! Do i make myself clear?
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The user interface in World of Warcraft is highly configured for Windows and a PC environment. The display and tools may be difficult to convert to tablet format.
I'm an avid World of Warcraft player, seven years and counting. Can this game, with a 30 GB hard drive footprint, be installed and run on a tablet? Looks like PCs may be on the dinosaur path. Thanks.
In this excerpt from Answercast #11, I look at the software configuration and hardware needs of World of Warcraft and discuss whether it will ever be available for tablet and Android systems.
World of Warcraft on a tablet?
Well, let me start by saying, "Me too!" I've been playing World of Warcraft probably for about as many years.
The short answer is, "No." I don't think you're going to see a tablet version of it. You certainly aren't going to see a tablet version of it running on anything other than a Windows tablet and there are a precious few of those.
Necessary resources for WoW
The real problem with a game like World of Warcraft is the user interface. There's no way to effectively map all of the different keystrokes and mouse actions to a 'tablet' kind of interface. Think about it; there are gaming mice out there that go to the extent of adding upwards of ten additional mouse buttons simply to make games more playable.
On a touch screen (a tablet), you simply don't have those kind of options. Knowing how the game is played, I simply don't see how you could effectively play that game without a true keyboard and mouse available.
So, you're probably not going to see it on anything but a Windows platform - simply because it is written for Windows. Tablets, such as Android and iPad based tablets, are not Windows at all. Even then, you're going to want the hardware associated with a desktop PC in order to play the game more fully.
Is the computer on the way out?
Are PCs on the dinosaur path?
I really don't think so; I think they're going to be here for a long time to come.
Tablets, and devices like them, are wonderful devices for various uses; but the desktop PC is here to stay for a while longer - if for no other reason than things like games, and business use.
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April 24, 2012 8:20 AM
Could always do a VNC type client to a desktop.. but not sure how it would run.
April 24, 2012 9:38 AM
Perhaps some day WoW will come to Onlive.
April 24, 2012 1:00 PM
With the latest release of nVidia GTX 680, LGA 1155 Z77 motherboards and latest CPUs, PCs still have ther power that tablets doesn't have. Extraordinary processing power we have at the moment at he mid-range and high-end range of PCs, tablets are no where near at that kind of level.
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Mar 17 , 2018
Jenny, we hardly knew ye...
by Andrew Douglas
First, the authoritative anchorman left us. Next to go was the exacting political reporter. And soon the beauty queen will be saying her goodbyes. Where will it end?
Telling you about yet another departure from Global Halifax’s Gottingen Street newsroom feels rather like kicking ‘em while they’re down. Who am I kidding. They’ve been down for a long time.
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4th of October, 2018
Here are some facts about this particular date:
• What Day: The 4th of October, 2018, fell on a Thursday.
• Decade: 2010s.
• 2 months and 13 days have passed since the 4th of October, 2018.
• Week Number: This date occurred during Week 40 of 2018.
• Day 277 of 2018.
• Leap Year: 2018 is NOT a leap year.
• Zodiac Element: Air.
• Native American Zodiac: The 4th of October, 2018 falls under the Raven.
• American Format: 10-04-2018 (the MDY format is also used in Belize).
• YMD Format: 2018-10-04. This format is often used by software applications, simply because numbers such as "20181004" are easier to sort.
• Unix Timestamp: The Unix Timestamp for this date is 1538607600.
US President
Who was the US President on this particular date?
• Donald Trump was the President of the United States on the 4th of October, 2018.
Conception Dates
Interesting facts about conception dates.
• A baby that was born on the 4th of October, 2018 was probably conceived around the 25th of December, 2017. (Rough Estimate).
• The due date for a baby that was conceived on the 4th of October, 2018 is the 14th of July, 2019. (Rough Estimate).
On This Date
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Time Difference & Statistics
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• 72 days have passed since this date.
• 6,224,400 seconds have passed since the 4th of October, 2018.
• If you were born on this day, your heart has beated approximately 7,261,800 times.
• Since the 4th of October, 2018, earth has travelled approximately 3,211,790,400 miles through space.
• If you were born on this day, your eyes have blinked approximately 1,037,400 times.
• If you were born on this day, you have taken approximately 535,298 steps. That's about 238 miles!
• Since this date, 74,693 meteors have entered the earth's atmosphere!
• German: Donnerstag.
• French: Jeudi.
• Italian: Giovedi.
• Spanish: Jueves.
• Portuguese: Quinta-feira.
What does the 4th of October, 2018 mean to you? Were you born on this date? Did you finish school? A loved one passed away?
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Oh, nice once blogger.
Oh, that's a useful error message. "13". Right. I'll go fix that and try again.
Looks like somebody forgot an entry in a language file or something i18n is just tons of fun.
So I don't know if the file is broken, or what. Does blogger support GIF? Because that's the only difference between the busted image and the evidence image on the right there.
Now that I've posted about blogger the post I was trying to make will have to wait until another day. Or never. It was just about how I can't watch Netflix streaming movies at work because I use a mac there. Not to interesting anyway.
r4kk4 said...
that error? it usually doesn't mean anything.
if you go into your post through the dashboard and "edit" it and then republish it? there usually aren't any problems.
it's a stupid blogger thing. and it's annoying. but it's easy to work around.
leff said...
Hmmm. I'll try that next time. I think it was something to do with that particular GIF image though.
I tried to upload it for two days. But the PNG image that went with this post uploaded fine.
Phil Wilson said...
Error 13 is my most favourite error ever, but sadly for me I've never seen it (in five years of Blogger). You must be very special!
leff said...
Oh, I am. I ride the short bus.
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Friday, June 22, 2012
Toyota visits Zymergi(.com)
This is pretty flattering. Someone from Toyota - the creators of Toyota Production System... which is the precursor to Lean... looked up Process Capability (CpK) on Google and read my blog post:
toyota zymergi
I'm pretty excited. When you study manufacturing and look for the words of truth that apply across industries, Toyota is the leader in quality. Competing with limited resources and applying the principles that Deming taught them, they went from post-World-War 2 clothmaker to the largest automobile company on planet Earth.
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Long day.
July 22nd, 2008 at 04:25 pm
Not much of an entry for you guys ... I'm exhausted. After spending the entire day being snowed under at work, I attempted to come home (a five min. drive), which took 45 minutes because the president's in town and he was going the exact same way I was.
Now I'm home, and it's storming really badly. :-/
I don't have much to report just yet, though. Sorry! There will be more to come this week, I promise.
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Open CGFX File
To open CGFX file you need to find an application which works with that kind of file. CGFX file extension is used by operating systems to recognize files with content of type CGFX. Here is some information which will get you started.
How to Open CGFX file
• To see if you have an application which support CGFX file format you need to double click on the file.
• This will either open it with matching application or Windows will suggest you to look for an application for file extension CGFX either on web or on local computer.
• If there is no application on your computer which can open CGFX files you need to search on the internet which application can open CGFX files.
CGFX file purpose
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Security DevOps Maturity Model (SDOMM)
This blog post covers my talks about Security DevOps in general and a maturity model to define steps in reaching more automation of certain security checks. The main idea is to define a roadmap of how projects can reach a level of automation (preferably with OpenSource tools) to check for certain security aspects during the CI (Continuous Integration) build chain.
This first part covers my talk at the OWASP AppSecEU 2015 conference held last week in Amsterdam. I had the chance to present best practices of how OpenSource tools (used in the DevOps and security communities) can be properly chained together to form a framework that can - as part of an agile software development CI chain - perform automated checking of certain security aspects. This does not remove the requirement for manual pentests, but tries to automate early security feedback to developers. My talk introduced a SecDevOps Maturity Model (SDOMM) of different stages of automated security testing and presented concrete examples of how to achieve each stage with open source security tools.
The four axes of SDOMM
In my talk at AppSecEU 2015 I introduced the following four axes of the Security DevOps maturity model and presented ways to reach these with OpenSource tools:
• Dynamic Depth:
How deep are dynamic scans executed within a Security DevOps CI chain?
• Static Depth:
How deep is static code analysis performed within a Security DevOps CI chain?
• Intensity:
How intense are the majority of the executed attacks within a Security DevOps CI chain?
• Consolidation:
How complete is the process of handling findings within a Security DevOps CI chain?
Two of these axes I covered in detail (the axis of "Dynamic Depth" and "Consolidation"), since I had to focus on something to not exceed the 40 minute talk slot. In upcoming talks (scheduled for the next two weeks) I will also cover the other axes in more detail and update this article accordingly and/or write new parts.
Videos & Slides
As the session was recorded by the great conference supporting team, a video will be published soon via the OWASP youtube channel - along with the slides. Meanwhile you can access the PDF slidedeck directly here. Watch out for updates of this article as soon as the video is available.
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Discussion in 'Credit Talk' started by Julie, Jan 16, 2001.
1. Julie
Julie Guest
Well, I did what you said, I applied at Netbank for a checking/ bank visa card. I Got TURNED DOWN!! I could not beleive it. You had me so excited about paying bills online, and not writing checks out. I have not had a checking account in 4 years, so I thought it was a good idea. I thought credit wouldn't have much to do with it, but it must have. My credit is fair, after I cleaned it up, I have 1 collection. No lates, EVER, and am paying a car loan, always early, and my credit cards are always early pay, double or triple minimum payment. So, I am not sure why they turned me down. Any other bank I can try? Julie
2. Killer
Killer Guest
From what I've read on this board, this bank does not utilize CheckSystems. So that could not have been the problem. Or is it?
They do not supply a reason for a decline? I would certainly contact them and ask for a reason.
3. sam
sam Well-Known Member
RE: Ideas.
I am kinda shocked! you look a lot better than I.
I was approved for COMPUBANK, and TD WATERHOUSE Checking as well (including visa check card!).
Keep in mind, i have 2 chex records for closure of checking acct due to bouncies. I also have 10+ baddies on my reports.
So. Im not sure what to say about netbank. My ex- was also approved, and since our Ex- credit is whats ex- holding me up, she had the same records.
Apply for TD WATERHOUSE Checking account, and COMPUBANK, they both approved me for checking and visa/check card.
Seriously. Having both chex, and credit issues, i figured if they would have let me have an account, to you, they would have as well. This may be a sign of the banks getting smarter real quick.
4. jon
jon Guest
didn't you post earlier
That you applied for the Juniper card???? LOL
5. sam
sam Well-Known Member
RE: hold up - visa turndown or
Did they turn you down for a visa card?
or did they turn you down for a NETVALUE CHECKING account which comes with a visa-check card?
I got axxed on their line of credit (now gone) and visa card too.
but i got their netbank Value checking, with bill pay, and atm visa check card.
6. TommyC
TommyC Guest
RE: To: Julie
Hi Julie,
Sam's right, if you applied for a Net Banking product that comes with some sort of overdraft protection (that gives you a line of unsecure credit) and you have had some blemishes with your credit in the recent past (within 7 years), you'd probably be turned down or declined. I too, have had an entry four years ago with ChexSystem and had a heck of a time opening a checking account. I also have two charge offs and three collections, all unpaid, with the exception of a reissued Capital One card that was charged off. With the Creditnet board members suggestion, I applied for a Compubank account, making sure not to opt for any overdraft protection and was approved. I agree with the others, that Compubank is a good alternative if you are having problems getting an account with Netbank. Take care, TommyC
7. JacquiG
JacquiG Well-Known Member
RE: ? for Sam
Hi Sam,
Are you talking about the Overdraft line of credit, or was there another LOC before I signed up? (Just concerned about my $1K line...flashbacks from!)
8. sam
sam Well-Known Member
RE: naw just one loc. which ap
There was a LOC product, Last time i looked at the application, it doesn't exist any more.
Go check the netbank. apply online. Its either checking , or platinum visa :)
9. jamie
jamie Well-Known Member
RE: ChexSystems
How long does a record stay with ChexSystem? Just Curious...
10. Julie
Julie Guest
RE: hold up - visa turndown or
They turned me down for EVERYTHING. I applied for the value checking, the visa check card. I did not apply for overdraft protection though.
11. Cindy
Cindy Well-Known Member
RE: ChexSystems
According to the information I got on their website and on the report they sent me, 5 years.
12. sam
sam Well-Known Member
RE: hmm.
I guess they must have changed their stance. I didn't apply for the visa card myself. i know better.
13. S.D.
S.D. Guest
RE: To: Julie
Julie, I have a Netbank value checking acct and I have an NSF that went to chexsystems. I was afraid to get the visa check card because of chexsystems, so I just applied for the checking and the regular ATM card. I was approved back in November for this. Maybe because you chose to get the Visa Check Card, you were turned down. I'm not sure. A Visa check card is nice to have, but if you really need to withdraw money, just use a regular ATM, or take the time to write a check.
I know Sam said almost nobody writes checks anymore, but I do. =0)
14. JacquiG
JacquiG Well-Known Member
15. sam
sam Well-Known Member
Anyone got CHEX info?
I am going to get my chex report and see whats actually up!
Anyone got any tips where to get your chex report and dispute??
My netbank account is maybe 1 month old tops, and i was denied at many other banks for chex reasons. Unless netbank changed their policies very recently, i don't understand why.
I have no derog marks in the past 3.5 years, by the way.
16. Cindy
Cindy Well-Known Member
RE: Anyone got CHEX info?
I got mine here:
I have not disputed yet; I was planning to look into it after I finished up with the big 3 (I already have a checking account with SFNB; it's a joint one w/my husband...)
17. roni
roni Well-Known Member
Here's what happened to me....
I was in chexsystem..Boohoo 1998. Overdrawn account. I was dead broke. No job. Just finished school, the last semester. Order some clothes with deferred billing option, AND forgot about it...oops. I was overdrawn. They closed the account and sent me to chexsystem. I paid it about 6 months later. My mom's just opened an account for me. So I was cool. But I finally paid it. The BANK that I paid gave me the phone # to chexsystem. I called them. They told me (chexsystem) to have the bank forward info that the item was paid. My name was removed and I have had no reference to it since. None. No problem opening any kind of bank account. I paid it in late 11/98. Hope this helps.
18. S.D.
S.D. Guest
RE: Here's what happened to me
I sent in a copy of the actual receipt to Chexsystems, but they wouldn't remove it. They said that Wash Mutual would have to tell Chexsytems to take it off, and Wash Mutual would not do this for me. I guess they are under no obligation to take your name off. It's all up to the bank that sent you to them.
19. roni
roni Well-Known Member
RE: Here's what happened to me
That sucks. Summit Bank was major cool about it. I guess I was blessed.
20. dogman
dogman Well-Known Member
Jaq - I suffered that flashback 2!
glad I got out - remember they gave me a BIG $200 credit overdraft line. :)
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The very excessiveness of Homolka’s transgressions raises the possibility of an alternative reading of her case based around Luce Irigaray’s ideas on mimesis. Through its deliberate and subversive assumption of the feminine role in discourse, mimesis aims to thwart the continued subordination of women. Irigaray (1985, 75-76), in using this technique to reveal and speak the often silenced feminine, explains its political purpose in her essay “When Our Lips Speak Together”: “[Women] must, through repetition—interpretation of the way in which the feminine finds itself determined in discourse—as lack, default, or as mime and inverted reproduction of the subject—show that on the feminine side it is possible to exceed and disturb this logic.”
Lynda Hart, citing Elin Diamond, asserts that Irigaray posits two sorts of mimesis that exist simultaneously. The first, “patriarchal mimesis,” involves mere copying of the patriarchal ideal. The second, “mimesis—mimicry,” subverts the first in its excessive production of “fake offspring,” which threatens patriarchal order via simulacra that may look like the original but that, through their multiplicity, reveal a semblance indicative only of the non-existence, the lack of authority of that original (Hart 1998, 85-86). Through “playful repetition,” then, mimesis might become a strategy that has the potential to reveal the construction of Woman by illuminating that which is supposed to remain invisible” (Bell 1999,139).
Although Homolka heretofore appears representative only of the horror of a femininity so perverted as to turn against itself, she can also be interpreted as mimetically identified with the stereotypical role of the good wife. In pushing to their extreme limits the demands of passivity and selflessness typically made of women in heterosexual ideologies of love and romance, and especially in the role of good wife, Homolka subverts such fantasies and turns them inside out. The extreme passivity these roles demand is transformed into passive aggression as Homolka’s enactment demonstrates that, in the end, lack of action becomes a form of acting and that spectators are never just neutral observers. She may not resignify the term “woman” in a way appealing to feminist theory, but she does make overt the monstrous limits of comforting heteropatriarchal allegories of obedient, loyal, and accommodating wives. In this sense, then, she has behaved mimetically, enacting this stereotype of wife so effectively that her performance becomes both criminal and terrifying.
A mimetic reading of Homolka’s performance of conventional roles shows as well that agency is a product of the discursive regime that portrays it. Traditional stories of good wives and mothers generally reduce agentic representations so as to emphasize feminine passivity. Mimetic tales, however, such as this alternative reading of Homolka, stress female agency by presenting overidentification as a deliberate subversive tactic.27 This interpretation does not diminish her agency or culpability; rather, it shatters the myths through which such a woman is represented. The full horror of her acts is therefore preserved rather than hidden, analyzed rather than ignored. Indeed, such analysis in effect forces recognition of the “ruse of reality,” as Lynda Hart (1998, 203) puts it, where the Real is excluded in favour of the production and maintenance of culturally and socially acceptable “reality.” The experience of female sadists is thus granted a moment, a place, an identity within “reality,” which then allows female sadism to exist at all.
This chapter demonstrates some possible reasons for the absence of feminist criticism with regard to cases like Homolka’s. In considering these, it becomes clear that cases such as this one operate as the “limit” cases for feminist female gender performatives and serve as good tests for the paradigmatic subject models upon which feminist legal theory is premised. These models of subjectivity are necessary because they allow the discourse to speak generally about women’s representation and treatment within traditional legal discourse. Nevertheless, the silence surrounding this sort of case shows that these narratives and performatives of subjectivity do not necessarily allow for even an acknowledgment of certain violent women who radically transgress their parameters. Feminist failure to publicly recognize the agency of women involved in truly heinous crimes, and its disregard of the mainstream law and media’s vilificatory portrayals and later recuperations, denies the ramifications such representations have for all women.
The complexities of desire and agency operating in the case of Karla Homolka needs means of feminist expression. As Lee Fitzroy (1997, 44-45) has stated, we need to question and to challenge homogenous aggressive masculinity and passive femininity, even if it doesn’t always seem immediately politically expedient, for it is philosophically vital that we acknowledge violence as human rather than as solely masculine. In Patricia Pearson’s (1998,232) terms, it is also important that we “develop a vocabulary of motive that incorporates concepts of female power and accountability,” so that we don’t undermine the rationality of some female aggression.
The non-agentic recuperations of female sadists produced in the malestream law and media can no longer remain unchallenged. Certainly analytic difficulties are raised due to the moral repugnancy of the crimes, but to ignore such cases is to allow their protagonists the refuge of the myth of female passivity. Homolka’s is an important case because, through her own narrative of her crimes, she embodies the slip from masochism to sadism inherent in Freud’s female beating fantasy. She makes clear the false neutrality of specta – torship, in particular exposing the floating identification of the watcher from beater to beaten, revealing the sadistic pleasures the one who watches enjoys when she, too, finally begins to beat. Most significantly, she shows that women possess the potential for sadism, even though this has been repressed, denied, and submerged under an avalanche of protestations regarding the innateness of female masochism.
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Christian Leader’s Having Godly Wisdom
Godly wisdom is lasting while worldly wisdom fades away.
Godly wisdom is reasonable while worldly wisdom is self-centered.
Godly wisdom is pure while worldly wisdom is corrupt.
Godly wisdom results in peace while worldly wisdom results in disharmony.
Spend time praying for wisdom.
Spend time reading about wisdom in the Bible.
Spend time thinking about Godly wisdom.
Spend time around people who have Godly wisdom.
• Bill (cycleguy)
Sorry I got here a day or two late Dan. I think we mistake godly wisdom for worldly wisdom sometimes in church leadership. Hopefully we are getting away from modeling the church after a business model and getting back to "operating" the church like a church should be. i think a lot of worldly wisdom went into the other model. Just my thoughts.
• dan black
Don't even worry about when you read or comment. I just appreciate you reading my blog. I agree with your first thought about mistaking Godly wisdom for worldly wisdom.
I think we can use a business models but not rely on them alone. This topic might be a can of worms with a lot of different opinions. Thank you for being honest.
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*Click here for a List of all Brothers
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All brothers donating $100, or more, to benefit Alpha House
will have their names displayed on a plaque
posted prominently - and permanently - in the hallway of Alpha House.
Now You Can Pay Your Dues,
and/or Become a Life Member,
and/or Make a Donation to the House
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Listed on this site are all the Brothers having so far contributed to Alpha Chapter House.
Alpha Chapter has occupied its House at 3401 Prospect Street, NW, in Georgetown since October 1940. The building has endured much wear and tear and, for many years, only the most elementary maintenance was done. Brothers everywhere are now being asked to pitch in and to contribute to the restoration of this venerable manse
The "Alumni House Fund" was established in August 1978 by Bros. Terrence J. Boyle, Al-'63, William J. Treanor, Al-'64, and Robert W. Scherreik, Al-'73, to help restore and maintain Alpha House.
This Fund was intended to be an endowment for the House. All donations to it are invested and only the interest earned is to be spent on House improvements.
Of course, prior to the Fund's creation in 1978, many alumni had for years been contributing generously to Alpha House. Those donations, however, by 1978 had long since been spent by the Chapter and, in most cases, not even the identities of the earliest donors, let alone the specific amounts of their gifts, were any longer known.
Since 1978, careful records been kept of all donors and donations and the investing of every gift makes the amount a perpetual donation, earning interest for the House year after year.
For many years brothers have asked if it is possible to make tax-deductible donations.
The Internal Revenue Service does not allow tax deductions for donations to fraternities or sororities.
In 1960, therefore, the Alpha brothers created the "Delta Phi Epsilon Foundation for Foreign Service Education."
And, at long last, in the mid-1980s the officers of the Foundation applied to the I.R.S. for, and were granted, the status of a Section 501(c)(3) non-profit charitable and educational organization, meaning that all donations to the Foundation, ever since that date, can be tax deductible by the donors.
Since the mid-1980s, therefore, most alumni donations have been directed to the Foundation founded in 1960 rather than to the "Alumni House Fund" founded in 1978.
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The Poliomelitis
The poliomelitis is an illness infecciosovírica that affect the children fundamentally, although with pettier frequency it also attacks the adults. You appear in epidemic buds in some countries and in form endemoepidémica in others. Such variances depend on the state inmunitario of a population in front of the infection for the virus of the poliomelitis.
This illness, you are caused by a virus that infect the organism through human-to-human transmissions or for via insinuation, when they act as vehicle the liquids that the man uses in your to live quotidian. These liquids, such as the water, the milk, among other, they can be infected by the own man or for waste waters that infect the conditions of drinking water. The human-to-human propagation of the virus through seemingly healthy individuals is explained by the following facts: the virus penetrates in the organism for via digestive and you nest in the pharynx and, especially, in the intestine, where you reproduce extraordinarily and you are deleted by means of the feces. You originate an illness of pharyngeal or digestive determinism, and only by one percent of the polluted ones it causes paralysis. In the remaining ones, the illness decreases to some bare anginas or an intestinal dysfunction that it cure spontaneously. The individual that have suffered this infection, is definitively immunized, because you have been formed in him a rate of enough antibodies to exercise an attestation and you activate protection. This status antigénica is the one that also believe the vaccination antipoliomielítica. The ingestion of repeated vaccine dose for virus inactivado believes a state of practically permanent defence. The inyeción of dead (bovine Salk) virus determines a reaction inmunitaria equally, although less active and durable than the vaccination for via oral type Sabin.
The contamination of a not vaccinated person, unchains an illness that begin clinically, after a period of incubation of 10 or 12 days, with anginas or digestive dysfunctions, accompanied by thermal slight elevation. In the forms non paralytics, the clinical box is reduced to this symptomatology, so not very characteristic. In the paralyzed forms they are added to the mentioned dysfunctions two clinical absolutely characteristic symptoms: fever (with elevations between 38 and 39º), and pain (localized in the extremities so much higher as inferior and you increase during the mobilization attempts) .Aparecen the espamos and muscle cramps, extremely painful and of progressive path. This period, called preparalítico, you are characterized by pain and fever whose duration is of 2 or 3 days and that you end in the paralyzed period, during which the muscular typical paralyses are set up that can affect to any muscle group, although preferably, to the inferior extremities. In occasions, the paralyzed muscles are the intercostal ones and others that have had made the pulmonary ventilation, with that which the calls respiratory forms of the infantile paralysis are constituted.
The path of the poliomelitis can be very desfavorabe, especially when the calls factors of graveness converge, among which it highlight for your importance, the respiratory form of the poliomelitis. Another factor of graveness is the participation of the cerebral trunk and still of the own encéfalo, in the process lesional.
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In this Episode 193: Power is a Choice, I discuss:
*what the distinction is between people who are powerful vs. non-powerful
*that our language can allow us to show up powerfully or non-powerfully, and examples of this
*the other ways to show up powerful: communication with others, how you carry yourself and appear on the outside (yes, how you put yourself together matters)
Listen to the latest Women Wanting More episode on iTunes here.
1. What is the language that you use. Is it powerful or non-powerful?
2. How do you show up in the world? Your posture? How you look? The agreements you make with others?
3. Do you want more Power within your Life?
4. Who do you need to become to become more powerful in your Life?
Episode 182: How Do I Become More Powerful?
Episode 177: What Are The Words You Tell Yourself?
Episode 124: Are You Scared of Your Own Power?
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Music is not a medicine directly. I can say it is a supporting medicine. If we have a bacterial infection music cannot cure us.
What is the role the music plays to help us to become healthy? We are sick, the bacteria are there in our body and a good music can act on brain and the brain activates our immune system. A strong immune system can destroy the bacteria. This means we need the antibiotic drugs to fight with the bacteria. The activated immune system supports the medicine and we become quickly healthy.
In the case of high blood pressure the music can reduce the stress. But right food, physical activity and medicines are also necessary.
If you think about the depression here the music helps to break your continuous thoughts and so they support the medicines or other therapies.
It is also not only hearing the good music or the music you like but also the music played by you help to become one healthy. Here also the medicines and other therapies are important.
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Behind the Scenes: How to Stitch a Handmade Book
Supplies you’ll need:
• Needle: Any size will work just fine
Optional supplies:
• Bone folder
• Awl
• Paper trimmer
Step 1: Folding the Paper
Step 2: Creating Three Holes
Using an awl, or even just your needle, pierce three holes at a 45-degree angle into the spine of the book from the inside: one approximately in the middle, and the other two approximately an inch in from the top and bottom. (Note: If you need to trim excess white space from around your book, like in this one, make sure that the holes are within the bounds of the actual book.)
Step 3: Beginning to Sew
Thread the needle. Don’t tie a knot, just leave a little tail. To start stitching, work from the inside of the book. Pull the needle through the middle hole almost all the way, leaving yourself a bit of thread that you’ll use later to tie off the binding. Then, bring the needle through the bottom hole from the outside to the inside, pulling tight.
Step 4: The Third Station
Skip the middle station and pull the needle through the top hole from the inside to the outside, again pulling tight to get rid of any extra slack.
Step 5: The Middle Again
Making sure that your needle is on the other side of the thread from your first pass through the middle, come back through the middle hole from the outside through the inside. You’ll be tying the knot around the thread, so you want the end pieces to be on either size of the thread. Also, be careful not to pierce the needle through the thread, as this will cause it to fray.
Step 6: Tying the Thread
Pull the string taut, then ie a double knot, or square knot, in the thread. Again, make sure that it goes around the middle string. Then, cut the excess thread, leaving a little bit so the knot doesn’t come undone.
Step 7: Flattening the Pages
Flatten the paper under some heavy books for over thirty minutes, which prevents the edges from curling. I recommend using your favorite Lookout titles and Ecotone issues, but the books are up to you!
Step 8: Trimming
Trim the excess from around your book. If you started with paper the exact size you want, this may be just trimming the right edge of the book to make the pages even. If your book is smaller than the paper, you’ll need to trim all three sides.
Step 9: Enjoy!
At this point, your book is complete. You can put it under more books if it’s not as flat as you would like, or you can place it directly into someone’s stocking or gift basket.
–Megan Ellis, Lookout intern
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Found among the ruins of Manwoldae Palace, Songdo (present-day Kaesong, North Korea) by the land owner; sold by one of his descendants to a Korean official; 1885, sold in Seoul by the official to a US Navy officer [see note 1]; 1889, sold by the US officer to Edward Sylvester Morse (b. 1838 - d. 1925), Salem; 1892, sold by Morse to the MFA (Accession Date: March 1, 1892). Notes [1] Edward Sylvester Morse, Catalogue of the Morse Collection of Japanese Pottery. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Cambridge: Riverside Press, 1901. p. 29.
Credit Line
Morse Collection. Museum purchase with funds donated by contribution
Korean, Goryeo dynasty, 13th century
Object Place
Songdo, Korea
Height: 2.7 cm (1 1/16 in.), Diameter of Rim: 14.2 cm (5 9/16 in.), Diameter of Foot: 6.6 cm (2 5/8 in.)
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Glazed stoneware with incised decoration
Ceramics, Pottery, Stoneware
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