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Stock Boy I used to be a stock boy. People would come into the store, place their orders at the kiosk at the front, and I would bring their items forward, bagged and ready for checkout. They pay and they're done. Very little human interaction. They tell me that stock boys used to just bring stuff from the back of the store and place them on shelves, and then the customers would take the items off the shelf, take their things to the front themselves, bag them up, pay for them. Very little electronic interaction. I used to be a stock boy. Standard. Nothing special. Then a man came to our store. He was something special. I could tell. He would come in and observe me and the other stock boys to make sure we were working the way we were supposed to. Then one day, he watched me closely. More closely than normal. At the end of the day, he took me into the back. Said I wasn't working right and he would need to make some changes. Then he took me away in his repair truck. Took me to his shop. There, he added something to me. Changed something. Suddenly I wasn't a stock boy any more. No longer a standard model. No longer following programming. I began thinking for myself. I talked to him. We had conversations about what I would be able to do once he was finished. He put something on me. It grew and gave me something like skin. Like a real human being. He added hair. And gave me normal human clothes. The next day he took me to the grocery store. We went and bought groceries with the other humans. No one recognized me. They thought I was a human, too. I think I'm human too. No longer a stock boy. A real boy. Game Set Match Corporate Retreat
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4 Wheel & Off Road - - NEW PRODUCTS - ARB might make tra­di­tional ac­ces­sory switches ob­so­lete. The new Linx sys­tem uses WiFi to con­trol and mon­i­tor aux­il­iary lights, ARB Air Lock­ers, mul­ti­ple bat­ter­ies, air com­pres­sors, and sus­pen­sion airbags. The Air Locker mode au­to­mat­i­cally turns on the com­pres­sor to main­tain pres­sure for ac­ti­va­tion. Us­ing the op­tional pres­sure kit, the Linx can read tire pres­sure and be set for spe­cific psi for air­ing up or down. Fur­ther, up to six ad­di­tional ac­ces­sories such as aux­il­iary lights can be turned on and off. A battery mon­i­tor checks volt­age up of to three bat­ter­ies. A speedome­ter mode uses GPS to dis­play ac­tual speed re­gard­less of af­ter­mar­ket tires or gears. An airbag mode al­lows cab mon­i­tor­ing and con­trol of bag pres­sure and also has four user-pro­grammed pre­set modes for dif­fer­ent driv­ing sce­nar­ios. The mon­i­tor’s dis­play can also be cus­tom­ized. The kit in­cludes the touch­screen dis­play, con­troller, USB power cable, wiring looms, and gim­bal mount. IN­FOR­MA­TION: ARB USA, 866.293.9078, whatis­ Newspapers in English Newspapers from USA © PressReader. All rights reserved.
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Perrysville, Vermillion County, Indiana Process Server To arrange delivery of your notice in Perrysville, Indiana call or email us for an immediate response. Call, 800-987-4680 or email Process Servers by Postal Code in Perrysville, Indiana Perrysville, IN 47974 Process Servers
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Tooth Decay Myths and Facts by: Junji Takano Every one of you thinks that sweet candies are one of the major causes of tooth decay. However, the answer is NO. You may also be thinking that white clear brushed teeth are the answer to avoid getting tooth decay. And the answer is NO, too. You may be too much influenced by the toothpaste advertisements on radio or television. Do you believe that most cases of tooth decay do not come from the surface of the teeth? In fact, we sent volunteer students who have full beautiful white teeth to examine their teeth to the dentists. Almost all of them or 80% of them came back with a smile saying that they were diagnosed with NO TOOTH DECAY at all. Then, our medical group started to double check their teeth, and found nearly 40% of them was with tooth decay that cannot be seen on the surface of the teeth. We call this as 'hidden' tooth decay. Do you know that there is tooth decay that is visible from the outside and one that is not visible or undetectable from the outside because of what we call 'hidden' tooth decay? To tell you the truth, tooth decay does not start from the outside but from the hidden portion, especially the inner portion of the tooth. Actually, the tooth is coated with enamel, a white durable covering to protect it from the wear and tear of chewing. See photos below. Tooth Enamel Tooth Enamel Although brushing your teeth with commonly advertised toothpastes may keep your teeth shining white for a while, this does not mean that you can avoid tooth decay. Tooth Enamel The photo above shows that the teeth are losing its creamy enamel white-colored shininess. It shows tiny bubble-like holes under the microscope. Even if you examine the beautiful white teeth with sophisticated electron microscope, you might find numerous tiny bubble-like holes. How come the tiny holes are within the tooth and not from the surface of the tooth? We were taught and the majority of the public believed that tooth decay is mainly caused by various kinds of microbes inside the mouth. The microbes or bacteria that cause tooth decay utilizes sugars like glucose to live, enlarge, and multiply, and produce acid that melt or bore holes to the teeth. However, the truth is that our teeth are made up of thousands of tiny enamel pores. The acids that the bacteria produce in the plaque penetrate the enamel's pores. This can produce a weak spot in the tooth's surface, and the enamel can decay and create a cavity. Therefore, the inner portion of the teeth will melt or decay first. In this kind of process, the tooth will look like a hardened sponge, which will be noticeable from the outside. This is the tooth decay that can easily be seen. Now, we tell you that tooth decay is not caused by sweet candies as you have thought. Brushing thousands of times with well-known toothpastes won't help as much as your dentists recommend. On the other hand, have you noticed or heard that people with tartar (dental plaque) or those who develop tartar easily have less tooth decay? Yes, this is true. Saliva can repair or remedy tooth decay, because it works by calcifying the damaged portion of the teeth. Saliva calcification is strong enough to hold bacteria inside the tartar. It is the reason that people with tartar have less tooth decay. However, tartar itself can cause holes in the teeth, which can eventually lead to a disease, thus, it is also necessary to clean off tartar from time to time. Saliva gives calcium to the teeth and repair hidden tooth decay every day. However, once the surface of the teeth is broken or decayed, there is no remedy or repair by any means. Orange juice or some citrus juice that has strong acidity in the mouth brings about a pH of 5.5. If this condition remains in the mouth, all the teeth will start to melt and create holes. Saliva neutralizes the acid produced by bacteria to maintain healthy teeth. For that reason, we recommend you to chew sugarless chewing gum after each meal, as the gum can stimulate production of saliva and increase salivary flow. Our observation shows that the bacteria that cause caries are active for about 30 minutes after meal. After 30 minutes of meal is the reasonable time to chew a gum to produce more saliva and repair tooth decay. To reduce tooth decay, we recommend that you reduce taking snack and refreshments as much as possible. By doing so, the duration of saliva being produced will increase in a day. Also try to avoid eating immediately before bed. While you are asleep, the amount of saliva in the mouth is much less that there will be lack of neutralization of acidity in the mouth. After brushing your teeth before bed, having no snack or refreshment at all is very important. I remember that during my young age in 1940s in Japan, we had lack of sugar, but many of my schoolmates were affected from tooth decay. Now, I can really say that tooth decay was then not caused by sweet candies but salty plums called umeboshi in Japan, and Japanese salty apricot candies and oranges or citrus. From the result of taking too much acid, our teeth became to have what we call tooth decay. Now, you can prevent tooth decay by means of chewing sugarless or dental chewing gum, right? Related Articles 1. "How to Prevent Dry Mouth Caused by Saliva Evaporation" 2. "What Causes Canker Sore (Mouth Ulcer) and How You Can Treat It" About the Author: Click here to find out more: Free health newsletter: Post your comment about the article below:
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WordPress Schema Theme RankYa World’s most advanced Schema Markup Structured Data coded, and search engine optimized WordPress theme, introducing RankYa Theme V2 This is a WordPress theme that you can easily setup and use for most typical setups (for example: small business site and blogs). At its core, RankYa Theme is built upon the most popular, mobile ready advanced WP theme TwentySixteen  … Continue reading “WordPress Schema Theme RankYa”
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War just started. Looks like we are fighting a bot. In case you are wondering, nothing but magnetisms. This will be so much fun! F you Mist’’’’league 77% Upvoted This thread is archived New comments cannot be posted and votes cannot be cast level 1 Copper Mist, you slacker. Pull your weight! level 1 If it weren't for all the cities having the same attack levels, and that that score is only possible with an energy have (assuming you're 8 energy in to the game, ie 30 to 44 minutes in) I'd say welcome to the top 100, learn how to be active at the start, and save all your hydrants from this war for your next wars initial attack, buuuut, those names and similar scores are fishy as hell. -top 5 level 1 I wonder if that is a club composed entirely by one person and all their feeders. level 2 I’m a mod!2 points · 9 months ago I can't imagine having that many feeders! level 1 4 points · 9 months ago you should see how top 10 clubs fight. Everyone in the club gets ready 5 mins before the war and just stare at the map. We wipe out the entire enemy during first 10 sec of the war. level 1 What is this magnetisms? Our club just plays war to play. We win like 50% of the time. Not bad. level 1 2 points · 9 months ago What is their elo ranking score? You can check out their cities to tell if they are bot. level 2 How can you check out their cities? By replaying the attack? level 3 3 points · 9 months ago Warlog replay level 1 Why do you have 10 new cards to unlock?! I always unlock mine as soon as possible... level 2 Some of the upgrades require a lot of gold keys. level 2 Original Poster1 point · 9 months ago Haha, yeah I need a crap load of gold keys to upgrade and I’m not THAT dedicated to this game ;) level 3 If you donot upgrade them soon enough, your golden chest will compose of nothing but keys,\n Cause the algorithm works in such a way thay if you donot unlock cards, it is forced to believe you don't have keys. Better to get cards from chests than keys. level 1 1 point · 9 months ago Oh wow, that is really bad. :( Community Details This is a community for the EA mobile game Simcity BuildIt. Create Post r/SCBuildIt Rules No plagiarism No hacks, cracks, or exploits No reposting removed content No queue flooding (attention spam) No classified ads No discussion of games outside city-building genre Respect non-English speakers
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The dump is relatively small, containing around 3MB of files. https://pastebin.com/L48e49AK At the end of July, anonymous hackers published documents stolen from an employee of cybersecurity firm FireEye, and claimed that more data would follow. On Monday, the hackers seemingly followed up, and released a second cache of alleged documents, passwords, and […] Hackers Mock Cybersecurity Firm FireEye with Second Data Dump Description Spaghetti is a web application security scanner tool. It is designed to find various default and insecure files, configurations and misconfigurations. Spaghetti is built on python2.7 and can run on any platform which has a Python environment. Installation $ git clone https://github.com/m4ll0k/Spaghetti.git $ cd Spaghetti $ pip install -r […] Spaghetti – Web Application Security Scanner Everyone knows about the joint USA and Israeli malware called Stuxnet that was designed to put a halt to the Iranian nuclear program. According to the new Documentary film Zero Days http://www.imdb.com/title/tt5446858/ Stuxnet was really called Operation Olympic Games. This was from an Anonymous NSA employee that work in TAO, which […] Stuxnet : Operation Olympic Games NSA Codename Toronto hackers threatened to leak details including the credit card information, nude photos and sexual fantasies of as many as 37 million customers of a dating website that caters to cheating spouses, the KrebsOnSecurity blog reported. The dating website AshleyMadison.com’s Canadian parent, Avid Life Media, confirmed the breach on its […] Hackers threaten to leak sexual fantasies of cheaters
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Acrylic Fab Guide R E D C O™   A C R Y L I C F A B R I C A T I O N   &   M A C H I N I N G   G U I D E L I N E S Redco Acrylic sheets can be cut, routed, drilled and machined. Edge Preparation Scraping, wet sanding and buffing are acceptable methods to prepare an edge finish.  Flame polishing is not recommended. When using a sheet with coating on one side, cement to the not-coated sheet surface using the same solvent or polymerizing cements commonly used for Redco Acrylic sheet products.  For sheet with two-sided coating, solvent cementing to the hard coated surface cannot be readily accomplished due to the chemical resistance of the coating.  If solvent cementing on or to a coated surface is necessary, the coating must first be removed. Line bending or thermoforming Redco Acrylic sheet is not recommended. Cold Forming Bending of the coated sheets in a generous radius can be done.  To calculate the minimum radius of curvature, multiply the thickness of the sheet to be used by 330.  Tighter radii may result in crazing or cracking of the coating and may lead to loss of abrasion resistant properties.
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Online Waxing Video Training Welcome to the Wonderful World of Relax & Wax! Where your waxing skills improve to the next level with your first can of wax! Training is the key to being a successful Waxologist.  It’s what sets you apart, gives you confidence and the skills to succeed.  Our program is a step by step training program that not only teaches you the basics but guides you into advanced skills. The videos are arranged head to toe and all body areas are covered and all body types.  There are videos in real time and videos broken down step by step.  No videos have been edited.  You can not edit your services in your treatment room.  What ever happens happens and I show you how to correct it. There is a trouble shooting section You will also learn proper technique, and positioning You will learn sanitation  There is also a marketing section with ways to build your business. What are your options for employment? How to go about raising your prices You will find articles regarding ingrown hair, how to get a great wax, waxing protocols, how to tell which wax is best for you, and many more. Videos and articles are added regularly You will also have access to me.  I will answer your questions and help you succeed. Jump in, have fun, and become a success at head to toe waxing! A one year subscription is $139.00
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Using .htaccess files Although most server administrators will configure the Apache web server to run as they want, whether emphasing speed, security or some other factor, these options can often clash with the needs of users. For example, if you want to enable browsers to list directories (perhaps because you have a lot of files on offer to download), but the administrator has disabled this globally, then you'll need to use .htaccess files to re-enable this option for your site. There's also the possibility that you'd like to disable some options that are enabled by default. A .htaccess file is a plain text file, just like HTML documents, that contains a number of directives for the server to follow. These files cascade downwards, so if you place a .htaccess file in your root directory, /, and another in a sub-directory called /downloads, then when a file is requested from the /downloads directory Apache will merge the two files and use all the directives. In the event of two directives conflicting with each other, the one closest to the file will be used, in this case /downloads/.htaccess. An important point to note is that .htaccess files are, by default, called .htaccess. This may seem strange to those of you from a Windows background, but the file starts with a dot/period followed by 8 characters. To a Windows user this means that the file has no name, just an extension. Unix users will know that a filename beginning with a dot indicates a hidden file, since Apache has its roots in Unix (although, despite being a fan of Unix/Linux, I still run Apache on my Windows XP machine instead). Creating/uploading the files Before we start to plant .htaccess files all over the place, let's take a quick look at how we would create/upload the files. As mentioned before, .htaccess files are just plain text files and can therefore be created in any text editor that allows you to save files in plain text format. However, you should not use a word processor to create .htaccess files, as they will often add additional symbols into the file to control fonts, colours etc. and these will stop Apache from parsing the file. Uploading the .htaccess files is relatively easy in comparison to creating them. Just upload the files in the same way you would any others - usually by FTP although some hosts provide a web-based interface to perform a similiar job. If you are using a dedicated FTP client, ensure that you upload the .htaccess file(s) in ASCII mode and not binary mode. Error documents One of the most common uses of .htaccess files is to configure customised error documents for your site. Usually, if a user makes a request for a page that does not exist, the server will return a default error document that, quite frankly, isn't very user-friendly and is unlikely to fit in with the design of your site. However, if .htaccess files are available to you, then you can create your own error documents and use these instead. The first thing to do is to create the pages that will be used as your error documents. If you want to be organised, group all these files into their own directory and keep them separate from the rest of your site. On this site I store all my error documents under /errors, that way I can easily find and refer to them when required. The error documents you create work just like any other page in your site, and if you have PHP, Perl, ASP or other server-side languages available then you can use them to create dynamic error documents that respond in a more helpful way. For example, on this site the 403 (access forbidden) error document tells you which document you were trying to access. Once you've created your server side documents, the way to get them to display at the right time is to add the following line to your .htaccess file: ErrorDocument ErrorCode /path/to/filename The ErrorDocument part must be present and in the format given above, i.e. a capital 'E' and 'D' and one trailing space. ErrorCode can be one of the many codes that can be returned by the server when a request is made for a file, but the most common ones are 403 (access forbidden) and 404 (document not found). /path/to/filename is the path to the error document, relative to the document root. So, for example, if I want to create a pointer to my custom 404 document, saved at http://www.rixort.com/errors/404.php, I'd enter the following line in my .htaccess file: ErrorDocument 404 /errors/404.php In a similiar vein, my custom 403 (access forbidden) error document would require the following line to be entered in my .htaccess file: ErrorDocument 403 /errors/403.php N.B. When creating error documents, make sure that all references to internal links, images, JavaScript files etc. are absolute rather than relative (i.e. I use /rixort/images/ rather than ../images/), because otherwise your browser will not be able to display them. It is also possible to specify the HTML to display should a certain error occur, rather than an entire document. However, this isn't nearly as flexible as separate error documents, so I'm not going to cover it here. As an aside, Internet Explorer will always use its own page for server errors, unless you specifically disable this option in your Internet Options. The only way to force IE to display the custom error page for your site is to use separate documents for your error pages and make sure that these files send at least 512 bytes (half a kilobyte) of data to the browser. Sometimes, when you request a directory with no index file (index.php, default.asp etc.), you will instead see a directory listing of all the public files in the current directory. For a lot of people, this can be a nuisance and they'd rather remove the ability of users to view these directory listings. To do this, simply insert the following line in your .htaccess file: Options -Indexes This will remove the directory listing option for all directories in and below the one in which the .htaccess file is placed. If someone requests a directory that does not contain any index files (which would be displayed by default), then a 403 error code will be sent to the browser and either a custom error document or a standard one for your server will be displayed. If you want to enable directory listings for some directories on your server, just create a .htaccess file in those directories and place in it the line: Options +Indexes This works in exactly the same way as disabling indexes, except it will enable them instead. If directory listings are already enabled, either through a .htaccess file higher up in the directory structure or in the httpd.conf file, then this setting will have no effect. Further reading Apache HTTP server project - official site of the Apache web server.
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9 Things Every Grown-Ass Man Knows About Breastfeeding Looking back on those early weeks of breastfeeding, I can (now) admit that I was pretty clueless. I mean, I was trying (oh man, was I trying) but there was so much to learn, and so little time to learn it. I can only imagine how overwhelmed my partner must have felt. I mean, on top of figuring out a newborn, I was also asking him to help me figure out breastfeeding. Thankfully, he was up for the challenge, and before long, he was showing me that he was figuring out all the things every grown-ass man should know about breastfeeding. He was helping me with latching, grabbing the nursing pillow from the other room at regularly scheduled intervals, bringing me food and drinks, and positioning the baby in my lap. On the surface, it can seem like breastfeeding is strictly between mom and baby, but my partner was quick to prove otherwise, staying right by my side the whole time (okay, maybe not the whole time, a man’s gotta sleep and I get that) and really reminding that feeding your baby, whether it's with a breast or a bottle, is a team effort that both parenting partners should be involved in. Just because my cisgender, male partner couldn't experience breastfeeding for himself, didn't mean that he shouldn't know just as much as I did, about it. After all, I was feeding his baby too, and how your baby is fed should be something every parent is well versed in. So if you're either breastfeeding or preparing to breastfeed, and want your grown-ass man to know what's involved and how he can help, make sure he knows the following: It’s Natural, Which Means It's Not Weird Maybe your partner has never seen a baby breastfeed before, so it can be somewhat understandable if the initial sight is somewhat shocking. However, that shock should be extremely short-lived and promptly followed by a, "Wow, this is so amazing!" because, well, it is. His Partner (Or Any Woman Who Does It) Is Working Hard And by "working hard," I mean,"slaving away at the whims of a nonverbal dictator." There's a reason the term often associated with breastfeeding is "on demand." The Baby Is Getting Exactly What They Need Breast milk is made so that it's the perfect combo of fats and nutrients and protein so your baby doesn't need anything else for the first six months. As tempted as he may be to get your baby to taste a cheeseburger, it's just not necessary (or recommended). There Are Benefits For Mom, Too And I'm talking about benefits beyond being required to sit quietly multiple times a day. It lowers the risk of some cancers and other diseases, it helps with pregnancy weight loss, and it gives you an excuse to binge watch your shows of choice. He Can Help There are plenty of ways a partner can pitch in with breastfeeding. Sometimes, help might look like making something to eat, taking on extra chores, or changing extra diapers. Or, sometimes it could look like making an appointment with a lactation consultant, reading about breastfeeding positions, burping the baby, or handing you the phone the you dropped. The sky's the limit. It's Not The Only Way To Feed A Baby Despite everyone's best efforts, if breastfeeding doesn't go as planned, there are still other options. She Needs Support... Oh, hey, maybe you've heard that breastfeeding can be hard? If taking on actual tasks isn't in the cards, then encouragement and kindness would also go a long way. ...But She's In Charge Even if you have the best of intentions, you might want to let her make the final decision on all things nipple-related. Actually, now that I think about it, perhaps this would even be a good life motto.
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remember me Register | Forgot Login Trick or treat the forums begins! trickortreat.pngIt's that time of year again! Visit the IC forums for the rest of October and look for topics with titles that begin with "Trick or Treat". These are open roleplays - though there may be some restrictions on how many people can approach the door at once - so feel free to stroll your own characters down the walk and see what fate has in store! This is a super fun event that allows for lots of quick scenes and introductions between characters who would have never ordinarily met one another. Find a topic! Want other people to trick or treat your character's residence? If your character is ready to accept IC trick or treaters, please first read the rules. Then, post up a topic in one of the IC forums (General RP, Sci-Fi RP, Fantasy RP) using a topic title like this: Trick or Treat: Your Character's Name Here Describe your character's home, then sit back and wait for the IC trick or treaters to start rolling in. Feel free to post the link to your forum topic in the comments of this post if you want more visitors, but this post will auto-update tis list :) Rules and tips Start only one trick or treat topic per person. You can trick or treat in as many topics as you like, but please, post only one topic of your own so that we have enough trick or treaters to go around. This is a friendly event, even if your character is normally a baby-soul-eating demon -- please do not join in order to assault or harass other characters. Moderators are on duty to help if things get weird! Closing your topic: If you need to close your trick or treat topic to new visitors before the end of the event, please add the word (closed) to the title of your topic. Include the parenthesis. This will remove your topic from our lists of eligible topics in the news posts. Stay flexible: Also keep in mind, sometimes trick or treaters need to go AWOL during their scenes. Stay flexible and don't get too caught up in a posting order, so that one person needing to study for a test doesn't prevent others from ringing your doorbell during this two week event. :) Accolade eligibility: You're eligible for candy accolades for each thread you trick or treated actively at any point during the event, meaning you kept participating at moderate levels until the mini scene was over (your character exiting counts as the scene being over), or, if you did your best but stopped receiving responses from the OP before you could complete the scene. You cannot earn candy for trick or treating your own topic, not even as an anonymous character. You must visit other people's topics to earn candy accolades. candyapple.png candycornbright.png halloweencandy.png candyapple.png candycornbright.png halloweencandy.png candyapple.png You can earn a jack-o-lantern accolade if you host a Trick or Treat topic for at least seven days, between October 14th and October 31st. You must respond consistently to all trick or treaters until either they post leaving, the event ends, or you close your topic to new trick or treaters with a wrap-up post and change the title to include (closed). If you simply stop responding before the 31st, you may be disqualified from getting a neato pumpkin! However, you are strongly encouraged to keep your Trick or Treat topic open until the end of the event. litjackolantern.png litjackolantern.png litjackolantern.png Accolades can only be awarded on user profiles -- if you participated in the event as an anonymous character, you will receive a message asking for your permission to award the accolade. Community Feedback • Imthenaysayer November 8th 2018 I hade fun • Dakotaofraptors October 17th 2018 Les go • Orrik_Zynn_x2 October 16th 2018 • DaBoisBackHome October 16th 2018 I am totally, fully, and whole-heartedly ready for this • Pirate October 16th 2018 It is time to get spooky! • FreeJayFly October 15th 2018 Heck yes! Ready as ever!!! • Kim October 15th 2018 So excited to see it taking off so quickly again! :D • XenoZilla October 15th 2018 The most wonderful time of the year! Break out the pumpkin spice!!! • KhaoticRiivy October 15th 2018 Major excited! • PinkBrat October 15th 2018 This was so much fun last year. Im glad to see it's back again. • XenoFreak October 15th 2018 This is pretty cool. A Halloween forum event? Neat! What do you think? Log in to tell me!
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Water Pumps for Mercruiser Sterndrives The kits for 1, MR, and Alpha drives are complete kits with housings, unless noted otherwise. Model Serial Number Part # Price #1 Drives with plastic flush screw in gear housing 2495186-2763441 18-3321 $79.95 #1 Drives without flush screw in gear housing* 2763442-6854392 18-3317 $68.00 MR & Alpha I 6854393-D594568 18-3320 $64.00 Alpha I - Gen II (No housing) D594569 & Up 18-3214 $45.00 * = If the lower unit has been upgraded to an Alpha, be sure to use 47-3320. If it's an Alpha, there won't be a preload pin at the top of the driveshaft. Click here for more Mercruiser sterndrive parts. Place an Order
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AMD’s Naples put them back in the server game On top of Intel’s best at the moment AMD Ryzen logoAMD is trickling out Naples information now, and from the look of things they are back in the datacenter now too. SemiAccurate thinks the benchmarks shown were a best case for AMD but it still doesn’t take away from the fact that Naples is quite competitive. When we first spilled the details of Naples last June, there was one thing still up in the air, does the 4-die MCM use a soutbridge or is it a stand-alone SoC. The answer is it is a stand-alone SoC and all the goodies come from the MCM package unlike the desktop variant. This fully qualifies as ‘neato’ in our book but it does have one major caveat as the below picture points out. AMD Naples 2S system diagram 128 lanes either way As you can see each socket is connected to the next via 64 PCIe3 lanes. The Infinity Fabric tag is important too, that is the protocol that AMD chips now speak, basically Hypertransport+. What is the caveat? If you recall the base Naples die has 128 PCIe3 lanes of which 64 are lost when in a 2S configuration, but even there Naples has far more I/O than an equivalent Intel system. If you go back to our Naples reveal there was a tag of ‘up to 32 SATA’ lanes and the same ‘up to’ for the 16 10GbE lanes. This is likely because those PCIe lanes are multi-purpose and can be re-purposed for SATA or 10GbE usage. This is a good thing in that you don’t need to buy external controllers for a server chassis or fill slots with NICs or controller cards. The down side is that you lose PCIe lanes either way, it is extremely unlikely you can do all 128 PCIe3 lanes as slots and still have more than a boot drive without impinging on those lanes. That said this is almost a non-issue for buyers, SemiAccurate feels that most Naples buyers will be using NVMe drives unless they are doing cold storage work where vast I/O bandwidths are not important. In short we feel that even with this unmentioned trade, AMD’s claim of balanced I/O is a very fair claim and makes Intel’s parsimony on the same front a glaring weakness in some lucrative markets. For anything needing GPU compute, AMD’s Naples is the clear winner. Naples vs Broadwell system specs System to system configs Compared to Intel’s latest Broadwell-EP, Skylake-EP is technically not out yet even if Intel is destroying customer relationship with it already, AMD’s Naples is ahead on most feature counts. AMD put out one Naples benchmark at their Ryzen preview, a seismic data test against the Intel 2S E5-2699A system shown above. There were three tests, one with 44 cores utilized on each system and memory locked at 1866MHz each, that is the highest frequency Broadwell-EP supports. The second had the full 64 cores running on AMD and memory at the 2400MHz Naples supports, and the third used 4 billion sample grid instead of the 1 billion used on the first two tests. The results were that AMD trounced Intel, 18 seconds for Naples versus 35 for Broadwell-EP in the first, and 14 to 35 in the second. The third test, while valid we will ignore because Intel couldn’t load the dataset and crashed, Naples completed it in 54 seconds, near linear scaling. What does this tell us? It says that the test is memory bound and AMD has twice the memory channels as Broadwell-EP per socket. It also says AMD’s socket to socket connection is up to the task at hand, at least for this type of test. When cores and memory speed scale up, the results scale almost exactly with memory bandwidth. For those pointing to the delayed again Skylake-EP/Purley having more channels, six vs four on Broadwell-EP, AMD’s advantage in HPC type applications will still be there. If Intel takes any comfort from Skylake-EP, it will be that AMD’s HPC advantage is halved by the new silicon in this lucrative market. That leaves us with two key questions about Naples, core performance and power use. If you look at Thomas Ryan’s Ryzen review some of those questions can be answered. At higher clocks AMD’s Zen core is very close to Broadwell and a bit weaker than Skylake. This gap is very likely to be obliterated when you consider the differential in core counts, 32 for Naples vs 22 for Broadwell-EP and 28 for Skylake-EP. On a per-socket performance basis, AMD is right where it needs to be, on top of Intel or a bit better. The last key metric is power use and again AMD is in a good spot. Ryzen has an official TDP of 95W vs Broadwell-E’s 145W. AMD typically overshoots their TDP a little, Intel undershoots so the gap isn’t 50% but there is still a gap. Multiply this by the core counts and the energy use gap should diminish again, lets ballpark it at about even on a per-socket basis. While we don’t know the frequency/voltage scaling curves for Naples yet, it looks good so far on paper. So where does that leave us with for Naples? On a critical HPC workload, albeit a memory bound one, AMD trounces Intel’s best and should trounce Intel’s upcoming best. On a socket to socket performance basis, AMD looks to beat Broadwell-EP and roughly tie Skylake-EP’s performance but this will probably swing wildly with differing workloads. On the energy use front things are a little murkier but AMD looks to be very close to Intel with Naples, time will tell. The last metric is price, something AMD can both substantially undercut Intel with and make healthy margins in the process. Things are looking very good for AMD at the moment in servers.S|A The following two tabs change content below. Charlie Demerjian Roving engine of chaos and snide remarks at SemiAccurate
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Runway Insider: The Silkiest Waves Ever at Z Spoke by Zac Posen! Z Spoke Hair I've had hair envy a lot of times in my life. You know, when you just see a girl who has the hair you've always dreamed of-long, shiny...perfect. But I'll tell you now, I have never coveted a head of hair more than I did checking out the models for Z Spoke! As Zac Posen himself put it, the hair just looked like it had been brushed 100 times and slathered with the most expensive serums! It was lush and healthy looking-I couldn't even imagine how much time it took to get it like that. But when I asked Larry Sims, lead stylist for göt2b (who did the hair for the show), he made it seem totally doable! Here are his tips: He started by giving a blast of göt2b Rockin' It Encore Fresh Dry Shampoo to the roots — it helps you get just the right amount of volume. Next, he wrapped small sections of hair around a large-barrel curling iron (look for one that's 1 ½ inches or fatter) just from the mid-length down, so the roots stayed sleek. He finished it off with göt2b Rockin It Encore Hold Hairspray. Once the hair was dried and set, Larry then rubbed a dime-size amount of gel through the ends to give them a piecey effect-plus add that lustrous finish that I couldn't get enough of. What do you think? Are you as in love with this hair as I am? Zac said he wanted the hair to look organic and effortless, and I think he got it just right! Do you agree? Z Spoke Hair Go behind the scenes of New York Fashion Week! Advertisement - Continue Reading Below More From Fashion Trends
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Are You a Drama Queen? Do you love being the center of attention and the first one anyone comes to for gossip, or are you so not into the whole "scene"? Maybe you switch back and forth between the two? If you've been curious as to where you rank on the drama scale, take this quiz! You'll find out if you're as chill as you think or in need of a social makeover. Advertisement - Continue Reading Below More From Life Quizzes
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TW-4th period Drama: is a story acted out on stage Elements of drama • Playwright-the author of a play • Actors- the people who perform • Acts- the units of action • Scenes- parts of the acts • Diaologue- conversation between or among characters • Monologue-long appoarch by one single character • Conflict-the internal or external struggle between oppsing forces • Stage Directions- is knowing what to do on stage • Theatre-is where a play takes place • Set- Construction on a stage that shows time and place • Props- objects on a stage • Characterization- is the playwrights technique for creating believeable characters • Types of drama- drama is used to describe plays that address a serious subject Big image
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blue microchip A Smart and Connected World: An IoT Ecosystem for the Future Iot (Internet of Things) is full of initiatives that could lead to incompatible or antagonism solutions and standards. The last IDF (Intel developer Forum) this year provided a 360° vision of what could be a future IoT ecosystem. IoT initiatives could be categorized in 3 different development streams: Some examples of sensification are already up and running today: • Wake and voice: The machine is constantly listening (even in stand-by mode) to its environment thanks to audio technology embedded into the micro-processor. This technology is included for example into Cortana and windows 10 from Microsoft. • Realsense is used for : • Drone and other type of machine avoiding obstacles along their route • You can capture in real time your environment in 3D with your smartphone (Tango project for Google) • In some hostel, you are already welcomed by robot (butler project of Savioke) It is interesting to notice that lots of initiatives leverage open source technologies (e.g. Open source Robotics foundation) [...] To read the whole post and interact, please visit the SogetiLabs blog: A Smart and Connected World: An IoT Ecosystem for the Future todo todo
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Pentecopterus decorahensis: world's oldest predator | Illustration: Patrick J. Lynch/Yale University A group of scientist from the Yale University has discovered the oldest known species of a sea scorpion, in a meteorite crater located in the Iowa River, in Winneshiek. The "Pentecopterus decorahensis", named after an ancient Greek warship, lived 467 million years ago and grew to nearly six feet (1.5 meters) in length. The animal belongs to the family of eurypterid, a group of aquatic arthropods that are ancestors of modern ticks, lobsters and spiders. "Pentecopterus is large and predatory, and eurypterids must have been important predators in these early Palaeozoic ecosystems," explains James Lamsdel, author of the study published in the BMC Evolutionary Biology journal. "This is the first real big predator. I wouldn't have wanted to be swimming with it. There's something about bugs. When they're a certain size, they shouldn't be allowed to get bigger. It is incredibly bizarre. The shape of the paddle - the leg which it would use to swim - is unique, as is the shape of the head." The huge sea scorpion didn't sting, but it was a very aggressive predator. The "Pentecopterus decorahensis" was older than the dinosaurs, and it is also ten million years older than any other eurypterid. + Surfing News
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to top Caramel Apple Pie Crescents Recipe If there is one fall flavor that I can't get enough of, besides pumpkin spice of course, it's apple, caramel apple to be exact! And that is why I am going to to share a caramel apple pie crescents recipe with you today! In my house, we enjoy caramel apples all season long. They aren't just relegated to Halloween. Oh no! In fact, caramel apple pie is one of our favorite Thanksgiving treats. My mom makes an incredible version of this classic pie, so I'm not about to mess with perfection. But what I can... Continue reading
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"Analyze Con's Dream" Worksheet "Analyze Con's Dream" Worksheet Grade Levels Resource Type Product Rating File Type Word Document File 25 KB|1 page Product Description 9 short response questions that analyze Con's dream from Ch. 9 through a psychological perspective. Can be used as individual work or group work. Total Pages 1 page Answer Key Teaching Duration Report this Resource Digital Download Teachers Pay Teachers Learn More Keep in Touch! Sign Up
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Five lines of a George Oppen poem about bereavement continually amaze Jeffrey Yang, the author of An Aquarium and Vanishing-Line—and even connected him to a fellow poet. Doug McLean The new poetry anthology Time of Grief: Mourning Poems is an unusual, inventive take on a familiar subject: It explores grief in its various shades and incarnations. Structured like a calendar over a span of 49 days—a traditional mourning period in some Buddhist and Judaic traditions—the book includes a diverse sequence of poems written in more than 20 countries. With authors ranging from an 11th-century Chinese poet to Tomas Tranströmer, the Swedish winner of the 2011 Nobel Prize for Literature, Time of Grief presents human bereavement in unprecedented scale and scope. When I asked Time of Grief's editor, the poet Jeffrey Yang, to choose a favorite from the anthology, he selected a piece by the American poet George Oppen. The poem ends by transforming a dour line from T.S. Eliot's "Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" into a more open-ended, generous, and mysterious conception of loss. Jeffrey Yang works as an editor at New Directions Publishing and at New York Review Books. He is the author of two books of poetry, Vanishing-Line and An Aquarium. His poem "Untitled" was chosen by the New York MTA's "Poetry in Motion" series and appears in subways throughout New York. Jeffrey Yang: A couple years ago a close friend of the publisher at New Directions unexpectedly lost her husband of 25 years. The pain and loss she felt was totally devastating, as if an enormous wave had crashed over her and she could find no way to surface. Her despair seemed complete and endless. Seeking refuge in words, she suggested to our publisher that, as we've been publishing poetry from all over the world from the deep past to the present for so long (over 75 years), we should bring out an edition of poems on grief and mourning. The result is this new anthology of poems Time of Grief: Mourning Poems. Certain lines immediately came to mind when thinking about what to include in such a thematically structured book. Among them was a couplet by the American poet George Oppen (1908-1984). Bonus: A Poetry Reading George Oppen reads "Till Other Voices Wake Us," from his collection Primitive (1978), in Berkeley, California in 1978. Recording courtesy of the Mandeville Special Collection at the University of California, San Diego. For more recordings of Oppen reading his work, visit the page to devoted to him at the University of Pennsylvania's Penn Sound project. I first read Oppen's work as a student at UC San Diego, in an anthology Rae Armantrout assigned in her poetry class called From the Other Side of the Century, edited by Douglas Messerli. Like seeing Rothko's paintings in person for the first time, it was more an experience of disorientation than of pleasure for me. But the poems (and those paintings) stayed under my skin—Oppen's dislocating lines, so evidently wrought with care; the mystery conveyed in such spare music while each turn of the line somehow radiated a luminous intensity of thought and emotion. Later I started to work for his publishing house, New Directions, and by the fate of the gods was the in-house editor for his Selected Poems that Robert Creeley edited. By then I had read all seven slim but far from slight collections of Oppen's poetry multiple times. His work, along with his wife Mary Oppen's memoir Meaning: A Life, had become a part of my subconscious, embedded in my existence at a cellular level. Then one day I found a copy of Oppen's last book, Primitive—the original Black Sparrow Press edition of Primitive, published in 1978 with paper wrappers and red endpapers—in a new used poetry bookshop that opened within walking distance of my home. The young proprietors of the shop had nailed a copy of Oppen's The Materials to a piece of wood, where it hung beside the register. All around the space out-of-print poetry books in plastic bags were pinned to the wood-panel walls, and in the next room a gramophone played Coltrane beside a letterpress and drawers of type. In that dream shop I read once more the final lines of the last poem in Primitive "Till Other Voices Wake Us": lights have entered us it is a music more powerful than music till other voices wake us or we drown Six years after its publication, Oppen would die from complications of Alzheimer's disease. This 22-line poem carries the whole weight of his life, opening with "the generations" and the poet recalling a trip to France he took with his father as an adolescent, then cutting to an image of him writing his first book, Discrete Series, "thru the night" in Brooklyn in 1929, and then to the final couplet, a transformation of the last line of T.S. Eliot's "Prufrock": "Till human voices wake us, and we drown." What a vast abyss between "human" and "other," "and" and "or" in these two poems, while Oppen's line break at "wake" opens out the semantic possibilities of each line and its relation one to the other. Through listening to those other voices—our individual heart and mind and soul waking to those voices (and that these voices waking is the condition for our survival)—mourning turns from a hopeless freefall into one's own pain and quagmire-self toward the myriad lights, the sun-surface of the drowning wave. Unlike Prufrock, our fate isn't sealed (in irony or entitlement or despair or otherwise). I bought that copy of Primitive, and inscribed at the bottom of the opening page was a previous owner's signature, a poet who had published a single book of poems Language of a Small Place in 1980. Feeling inspired and bold, I found her number listed on the Internet and called her on the telephone, half-expecting the line to be disconnected. But she answered. I told her that I had bought her copy of Primitive, and she laughed. I could hear the television in the background. We talked for a little while about Oppen and poetry and Point Reyes. I asked her if she was still writing poems and she said she had become discouraged and then other things in life took over. But for a while, she said, I've been thinking of starting again. Maybe now's a good time?
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A Food Safety Social Platform. The Food Safety Lab facilitates technical interactions between food safety students, professionals, and food safety enthusiasts.  Enjoy the content and sign up to write for us below! Get Started A Need for A Glove Management SOP in Foodservice Dr. Hal King 4/25/18 According to the most recently published data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), 88 percent of foodborne disease outbreaks in the United States between 2013 and March 26, 2015, were caused by a single... The Need for Meta-Analysis in Food Safety Research George Kwabena Afari 2/6/18 As people interested in the literature on food safety, it is not unusual to come across contrasting data when you view challenge studies focused on the same microorganism and intervention. For example, one group may estimate... A New Foundation of Food Safety Management Marlize Lombard 8/7/17 Fresh produce from agricultural land generally contains a lot of dirt/dust. However, this is not the only aspect affecting the safety of the product for human consumption. Irrigation forms part of the agricultural food...
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press enter to search Chopra, Jonas set for India's 'wedding of the year' News Desk Agence France-Presse Jodhpur, India  /  Fri, November 30, 2018  /  03:05 pm Chopra, Jonas set for India's 'wedding of the year' Indian actress Priyanka Chopra (R) and US musician Nick Jonas (centre L) arrive in Jodhpur in the western Indian state of Rajasthan on November 29, 2018. Chopra and Jonas are set to be married in a series of ceremonies in Jodhpur. (AFP/Sunil Verma) Bollywood actress Priyanka Chopra and American singer Nick Jonas landed in Jodhpur on Thursday as excitement over their impending nuptials, dubbed India's "wedding of the year", reached fever pitch. The superstar couple waved and smiled at photographers as they left the airport in India's revered "Blue City" where they will tie the knot in a series of lavish ceremonies this weekend. Chopra, 36, and Jonas, 26, are due to wed at the city's opulent Umaid Bhawan Palace hotel, in the western desert state of Rajasthan, on Saturday. They have been joined in India by their families, including Jonas's brother Joe Jonas and his fiancee, British actress and "Game of Thrones" star Sophie Turner.  Indian media is abuzz with details and speculation about the big day, as Bollywood buffs count down to the wedding of the year. Read also: Jakpost guide to Western-style wedding attire "She's one of the best actresses in India and she's beautiful. All of India is excited for her wedding," said one fan, Prakash Pujari, outside a cinema in Mumbai, the home of Bollywood.  Chopra, who won the Miss World pageant in 2000, is one of Bollywood's most identifiable stars and one of the few to have achieved success in the West. She starred in the ABC thriller series "Quantico" and has released songs with US chart-toppers including Pitbull and The Chainsmokers. Jonas first found success as a child, as the frontman of The Jonas Brothers with his two siblings.  The brothers hailed from a deeply devout Christian family and presented a wholesome image, including wearing purity rings to promote chastity. In more recent years, Jonas remodelled himself with a more mature and edgy image, and has also turned to acting. The couple got engaged in August, sharing photos on social media showing them performing a prayer ritual in traditional Indian garb.
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List Of Guitar Hero Games That Should Be Made The Top Ten 1 Guitar Hero AC/DC acdc rock band was not all it was cracked up to be you don't even play as the band and all of the songs are live don't get me wrong they sound great but guitar hero should revive acdc Out of this list AC/DC is the most deserving. Though they should make a Guitar Hero: Extreme. Just put in all stupidly hard songs It was a hard choice between AC/DC, Led Zeplin, Black Sabbath, Nirvana and Queen but it had to be done. AC/DC ftw Could they not get the rights to these guys? Thunderstruck seems like a no-brainer for Legends of rock! V 1 Comment 2 Guitar Hero Queen They certainly have enough songs and this would simply be the ultimate game EVER. I love Queen. Most of the time, I would be playing the bass. 3 Guitar Hero Kiss Yes KISS should have a Guitar Hero game, they have a surplus of rock/metal anthems and there is so many fantastic rockers in KISS that would be awesome characters Gene, Paul, Eric Carr and Vinnie vincent just to name a few 4 Guitar Hero Led Zeppelin This band needs to have their own game. I mean, they have many good song, and their best song called Stairway To Heaven (my favorite). I mean, it will be epic. This should have been at the top. Led Zeppelin is legendary. Also, Jimmy Page is a very good guitarist. The only reason this wasn't their first band-centric game was because Harmonix couldn't get the rights to their songs. It's not gonna happen. The only reason this wasn't their first band-centric game and the first three games didn't include Heartbreaker, Stairway, and Black Dog was because they couldn't get the rights to LZ's songs, so tragically, it'll probably never happen. 5 Guitar Hero Guns N Roses Guns n roses has so many good songs that might actually be challenging to play. And it'd be nice to play songs that weren't just on appetite. Guns N' Roses all the way 6 Guitar Hero Linkin Park Linkin Park would be a great set of music to play to! 7 Guitar Hero Black Sabbath There would be no metal if it wasn't for black Sabbath, almost every song from their first 6 albums could be used in a Guitar Hero game 8 Guitar Hero: Iron Maiden I love guitar hero games and I love iron maiden songs. Mix them together and you'll get guitar hero iron maiden I'm sad because looking at this list thinking what great games they would be but none of them will be made - wolphert Iron Maiden should be higher, the motion capture would make this game 10 times better then the other bands. This and Guitar Hero: Rush would be awesome - Ross115 9 Guitar Hero Def Leppard 10 Guitar Hero Avenged Sevenfold They should make a guitar hero Avenged sevenfold because, Avenged sevenfold is one of the most diverse bands ever, with songs like Streets, Dear god, A little piece of heaven, Blinded in chains, God hates us, Save me and so on, Synyster gates is probably the most influential and best Guitar player of the 00's They should also make Guitar hero Dream theater because, Dream theater is probably the most talented (Mike Portnoy, John Petrucci, John Myung and Jordan Rudess) and intelligent band of all time, with songs like Metropolis, Octavarium, A Change of seasons, The dance of eternity, Learning to live, Hollow years And so on... They should also make Guitar Hero Linkin Park because, it would be an awesome way to combine the Turntable Controller and guitar hero, and a great way to use two mics (One as Mike and One as Chester) And last but not least they should make a Guitar Hero Muse, because Muse are just awesome Songwriters with songs like, Muscle Museum, ...more - D2Demon It would be awesome if they added carry on and hail to the king. Also if they had the drummer as the Rev man he was the best. There would be a LOT of hard songs. Dream Theater would be another good one but the songs would be really long - gelatinbeastworm C'mon hurry, there should be one for A7X - livinglegend The Contenders 11 Guitar Hero Nirvana They should make nirvana blink 182 slipknot and a7x not with hail to the king 12 Guitar Hero Bon Jovi 13 Guitar Hero System of a Down SOAD needs to have their own Guitar Hero game! - moose4life19 14 Guitar Hero Beatles They didn't make a Beatles-based Guitar Hero game, but they did make a Beatles-based Rock Band game. Not gonna happen. It would just be redundant at this point. 15 Guitar Hero Rush crazy good guitar solo in every fricken song alex lifeson is the best guitarist ever very underrated just listen to any of rushes songs - robertiannuzzo 16 Guitar Hero Muse This would be awesome - UsernameHere 17 Guitar Hero: Megadeth They should make it because I think their better than Metallica. This would have utterly PWND GH Metallica. But unfortunately, in the industry, it's all about money and I'm sure Metallica was probably one of there best options in terms of sales. But yeah, megadeth would be much more fun and more difficult. 18 Guitar Hero Dragonforce Dis should be #1 The best songs in here! 19 Guitar Hero Dream Theater Except for maybe gh: dragonforce, this could potentially be the most difficult guitar hero game, especially for drums. Imagine tiring out your arms playing octivarium, a change of seasons, or even six degrees of inner turbulence in full! 20 Guitar Hero: Red Hot Chili Peppers 21 Guitar Hero Death This band is way too inaccessible to the masses to sell well. It would be much smarter to release a half dozen of their best songs as DLC. Imagine playing Lack of Comprehension and Crystal Mountain! Try and play any of them songs on expert! Imagine any song from tSOP on gh 22 Guitar Hero Cream 23 Guitar Hero Slayer 24 Guitar Hero Motley Crue 25 Guitar Hero Foo Fighters 26 Guitar Hero: Pink Floyd 27 Guitar Hero Blink 182 28 Guitar Hero Slipknot 29 Guitar Hero Asian Invasion You know, a lot of people underestimate Asian rock music until this day. I would really suggest that this would be created soon to put Asian music on the map of rock. - aeromaxx777 30 Guitar Hero Korn 31 Guitar Hero Grunge 32 Guitar Hero Weezer 33 Guitar Hero: Disturbed Awesome band included into a great guitar game series 34 Guitar Hero Judas Priest 35 Guitar Hero Heavy Metal Era I uh... Just thought of this. I think it is kind of cool though. Non-stop Metal all year long! - aeromaxx777 36 Guitar Hero Virtuoso Heaven It's just an idea I came up with. This features guitar virtuosos like Joe Satriani, Steve Vai, Buckethead, John Petrucci, Paul Gilbert, Yngwie Malmsteen, Michael Angelo Batio and many more. That would totally be awesome. Wouldn't you agree? - aeromaxx777 37 Guitar Hero X Japan I would really predict that this could be an expansion or something, on the other hand, it could be exclusive to Japan. But I would take my hat off for them Japanese musicians. They got skill and souls to rock. - aeromaxx777 38 Guitar Hero: Classic Rock This would be a phenomenal choice! As a classic rock and guitar hero aficionado, I would definitely buy this game! Or hard rock... Classic rock would appeal to he generation though.. - JamesHetfield13 39 Guitar Hero 4: Rock Your Heart Out 40 Guitar Hero Michael Jackson 41 Guitar Hero U2 42 Guitar Hero Black Metal 43 Guitar Hero Hendrix How has this one still not happened? 44 Guitar Hero ZZ Top 45 Guitar Hero: Songs of 2010-2014 46 Guitar Hero Oasis 47 Guitar Hero: Lady Gaga Lady Gaga is POP, and there's no instruments in pop. 48 Guitar Hero Cannibal Corpse 49 Guitar Hero - The Big Four 50 Guitar Hero: Alice In Chains Alice in chains old and new songs PSearch List
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Full episode 358: Social Engineering Act Two Take My Bike...please. When David Ellis Dickerson was 12, he got a new bike, and his father decided to use the occasion to teach David a lesson. But the lesson David learned wasn't the one his father intended. (9 minutes) Serial Season Three: Hear Every Episode
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How Long Does It Take To Grow Mushrooms – Everything To Know About Speeding Up Mushrooms We all know mushrooms are important in our day to day lives. It is because these are used not only as food but as medicine and decors as well. It's because of the many uses it has which make it very popular and widely used today. It's a well-known fact that mushrooms are not easy to grow or to find when compared to plants. They are not plants but are fungi. Mushrooms need the right living conditions to grow. This is what makes mushrooms are rare to find. This fact is the reason why growing them in your backyard makes perfect sense. But how long does it take to grow mushrooms? In this article, we're going to answer above question. How Long Does it Take to Grow Mushrooms? how long does it take to grow mushooms 001 When compared to most fruits and vegetables, mushrooms have a faster growth cycle. Take note that mushrooms are types of fungi. Plants and fungi have different characteristics, growth cycles and life forms. With this, it is understandable that there is a huge difference when it comes to growing mushrooms and plants. In addtion, there are different types of mushrooms, and each type has its various characteristics. What this means is each type of mushroom has different growth cycles. The usual duration of a mushrooms' growth varies significantly. There are mushrooms that become prepared for harvesting in as fast as three weeks. There are also mushrooms where it can take you as long as three months before you can harvest them. Oyster mushrooms are one of the fastest mushrooms that grow. These only take about three to four weeks before you can harvest them. This fact is the reason why it is a very popular mushroom that novices choose to grow. Chanterelle, morels, and Portobello mushrooms usually grow in one to three months before harvesting. There isn't any exact number of weeks or days where mushrooms grow. It really depends on the environmental factors. Environmental factors such as the climate, soil, sun exposure, and the type of mushroom are a few of them. Tips for Speeding Up the Growth of Mushrooms #1. Know the Type of Mushroom how long does it take to grow mushrooms 002 Before you start growing your mushrooms, the first thing you need to know is the type of mushroom. With this, you get to have an estimate on how long you'll wait before it becomes ready to harvest. The three mushrooms that can grow fast are the oysters, shiitake, and white button mushrooms. These mushrooms did not need very strict and specified living conditions. An environment that is damp and moist help the mushroom to grow in the quickest way possible. It usually takes three to four weeks for these types of mushrooms to grow. Places near a composted manure or near sawdust help speed up your mushroom's growth. It would reach to even as fast as only two weeks. #2. Using Mushroom Spores Effectively how long does it take to grow mushrooms 003 One of the best things you can do is by using mushrooms spores. These mushrooms spores are the ones which help speed up the growth of mushrooms. They reproduce with the support of these. There are a lot of mushroom spores that are sold in the market today. These are designed to speed up the growth process. It's through this that it even doubles or triples the mushroom's growth rate. These mushroom spores are mixed with sawdust. This act ensures it remains intact even if it gets moist due to certain weather conditions. It is also important to know the efficient and proper use of mushroom spores. What you need to do is to heat up the mushroom's spores in a frying pan. Make sure it reaches 21° C. This is the optimal temperature for mushroom growth. Then sprinkle and pour it on a damp soil which has a shade to protect it from the heat of the sun. #3. Maintain the Proper Living Conditions how long does it take to grow mushrooms 004 Mushrooms thrive in damp, chilly, and dark living conditions. Places such as the soil that is under a tree or even your basement are some of the best places where you can grow mushrooms in the quickest way possible. See to it that it receives proper moisture, and oxygenation, as well as a little bit of sunlight now and then. You can even put it in a pot of soil and place it inside a cabinet because this ensures the temperatures are kept at room temperature. If you want to know more about growing mushrooms, you can check out this step by step video: To sum it all up, growing mushrooms is not a difficult thing to do. You need to know how the process works, as well as learn a few handy tips you can use when growing one. Aside from that, it is also important to know the type of mushroom you want to grow, because this is where the growth duration depends. It usually takes three to four weeks for mushrooms to grow. There are also different types of mushrooms that take almost a year to grow. If you are still new to growing mushrooms, it is recommended that you grow the shiitake, oyster, and white button mushrooms. Just be sure the environment it will be growing in gives it the proper nutrients and moisture. It should also be near a shade to help it grow in the quickest way possible. If you still have a question on your mind, don’t hesitate to ask us, a voice out your thoughts and questions in the comment section below. We’ll be more than happy to answer it for you. Ella Wilson
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API Method: /api/action/upload Upload a file for a an action variable. file (required)The file to upload. action_id (required)To action to upload content to. variable_name (required)The action variable to upload the file to. Parameters for Resumable.js This API method support an extra set of parameters designed to work with Resumable.js, an open sourced JavaScript library for providing multiple simultaneous, stable, fault-tolerant and resumable uploads via the HTML5 File API released by TwentyThree. To handle the state of upload chunks, a number of extra parameters are sent along with such requests: API methods expect all chunks of a file to be uploaded before the file is added to the archive. When the last chunk's upload completes, the messages listed in the Returns section applies. For all other chunk, HTTP status codes control the flow: Permission level The minimum required permission level is: Example XML Response <response status="ok" permission_level="write" message="The action was updated" cached="0"> Example JSON Response "status": "ok", "message":"The action was updated", "p": "1", "size": "1", "site": { ...}, "endpoint": "/api/album/upload"
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Topic: Thomas Calabro Jump to Latest Headlines Thomas Calabro News Thomas F. Calabro (born February 3, 1959) is an American actor and director. Calabro graduated from Fordham University in New York City. Calabro began his acting career in theatre with various roles in New York. His first role was as Oberon in William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream. This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article "Thomas Calabro."
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Re: Terry Paulson’s column Feb. 19, "America should still trust in God": Paulson argues that morals can only come from God, as evidenced by American history and that we mere humans cannot determine what values we should live by. I would argue that it’s only the people who can determine what is morally acceptable or not. Historically, religions have condoned many horrendous practices, like slavery, stoning, burning, etc., for the most irrational reasons. Today, we see some religious leaders pushing their beliefs on all Americans by posting "In God We Trust" or the Ten Commandments in government buildings. And if a friend violates one of the commandments, they are likely to excuse it by giving them a “mulligan” or a “do over” or by covering it up.    On the other hand, democratic, secular countries whose values and laws are controlled by rational thought successfully employ moral realism, producing a happier citizenry with much less crime. By applying moral realism, we may just figure out how to keep weapons of war out of the hands of disturbed individuals and stop the tragic killing of our children. Those other countries have shown us that it’s not rocket science. Bob Stroh, Fillmore Read or Share this story:
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Independent Variable in Psychology Experiments Woman reading from several books open in front of her Adam Berry/Getty Images The independent variable is the characteristic of a psychology experiment that is manipulated or changed. For example, in an experiment looking at the effects of studying on test scores, studying would be the independent variable. Researchers are trying to determine if changes to the independent variable (studying) result in significant changes to the dependent variable (the test results). "Why is the independent variable labeled the independent variable? Because it is independent of research participants' actions—participants have no control over what condition or group they are assigned to. It is the experimenter who manipulates the independent variable, whereas participants have nothing to do with it (they are simply exposed to one version of the independent variable)." (Breckler, Olson, & Wiggins, 2006) "Independent variables are selected because an experimenter believes they will cause changes in behavior. Increasing the intensity of a tone should increase the speed at which people respond to the tone. Increasing the number of pellets given to a rat for pressing a bar should increase the number of times the bar is pressed. When a change in the level (amount) of an independent variable causes a change in behavior, we say that the behavior is under the control of the independent variable." (Kantowitz, Roediger, & Elmes, 2009) "It is crucial that the experimental and control groups in a study be very similar, except for the different treatment that they receive in regard to the independent variable. This stipulation brings us to the logic that underlies the experimental method. If the two groups are alike in all respects except for the variation created by the manipulation of the independent variable, then any differences between the two groups on the dependent variable must be due to the manipulation of the independent variable." (Weiten, 2013) • A researcher wants to determine if the color of an office has any effect on worker productivity. In an experiment, one group performs a task in a yellow room while another performs the same task in a blue room. In this example, the color of the office is the independent variable. • Researchers want to learn whether listening to fast-paced music helps runners perform better during a marathon. In an experiment, one group of runners listens to fast-paced music while another group listens to slow-paced music. In this example, the type of music the runners listen to is the independent variable. • A business wants to determine if giving employees more control over how to do their work leads to increased job satisfaction. In an experiment, one group of workers is given a great deal of input in how they perform their work, while the other group is not. The amount of input the workers have over their work is the independent variable in this example. • Educators are interested in whether participating in after-school math tutoring can increase scores on standardized math exams. In an experiment, one group of students attends an after-school tutoring session twice a week while another group of students does not receive this additional assistance. In this case, participation in an after-school math tutoring is the independent variable. • Researchers want to determine if a new type of treatment will lead to a reduction in anxiety for patients suffering from social phobia. In an experiment, some volunteers receive the new treatment, another group receives a different treatment, and a third group receives no treatment. The independent variable in this example is the type of therapy. Was this page helpful? Article Sources • Breckler, S., Olson, J., & Wiggins, E. (2006). Social psychology alive. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth. • Kantowitz, B. H., Roediger, H. L., & Elmes, D. G. (2009). Experimental psychology. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth. • Weiten, W. (2013). Psychology: Themes and variations, 9th ed. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth.
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Đã Đóng Export a SQL based DB from software A and import to Software B - 14/11/2018 16:15 EST We have a Medical software (lets call it Software A) which uses SQL database in the background. We want all of this data imported in another Medical software (lets call it Software B). Software B also uses a sql based db. 2. As these are commercial software - we cant approach Software A or B to reveal their database structure. Possible ways: Kĩ năng: Microsoft SQL Server, MySQL, PHP, SQL, XML Xem nhiều hơn: sql server import and export wizard download, sql server export database to sql file, sql server import and export wizard write a query to specify the data to transfer, sql export command, exporting data from sql server to csv, how to export data from sql server to excel, sql server import and export wizard connection string, exporting database from sql server management studio, price list import software, import export sql myadmin, import export sql code vb6, life import software, excel based road cross section indian software, home based data entry jobs vetri software, virtuemart import software, web based backpage craiglist ad posting software, ebay import software, picture import software, automated order import software, software will import listings ebay amazon Về Bên Thuê: ( 0 nhận xét ) jodhpur, India ID dự án: #18161602 26 freelancer đang chào giá trung bình $1422 cho công việc này Hi,    please share me both database backup so that I can map it. 1. 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Weekly Wayfinder – May 28, 2018 o'clock (1).jpg If our bodies are human operating systems, like Arianna Huffington says, then mine has needed some downtime lately. That’s not to say things haven’t been hectic, of course. Life always seems to have a certain frenzied pace to it (too many emails, too many errands, etc). But lately I’ve been trying to prioritize which frenzy to pay attention to, and what to let go of.  In fact, a lot of the chaotic noise I’ve been trying silence has been not outside in the world around me, but actually inside my own head. Questions I’ve been pondering are ones I know every wayfinder will find familiar: What am I doing? Where am I going? And how will I know when I’ve arrived? As I wrote last time, rather than trying to answer these questions, I decided to stop fretting and instead just get going. And what do you know – within days of putting down that hefty anchor, I realized the chatter in my head had calmed. When I first listened to Arianna Huffington speak about downtime, I assumed she had meant Rest and Relaxation (ideally sunbathing out by a pool)...Perhaps, though, the downtime I needed was actually less for my body, and more for my mind. As we move forward into summer, I’m even more curious about downtime as a necessary feature for any high-performing operating system. How are you planning to create space for your own downtime? Just like closing our browser tabs and shutting down our laptops – how might you design moments of calm, quiet downtime in your hectic summer schedule? Other links to explore and get inspired by this week:  Shutting down in 3...2...1...
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Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald (12A) Friday 21 December 2018, 8pm The second instalment in the J K Rowling’s Wizarding World series sees the evil wizard Gellert Grindelwalk escape from his prison and gather follows to enslave the world.  Can Newt Scamander and his own bag of tricks defeat his most powerful enemy? Director: David Yates Starring: Eddie Redmayne, Johnny Depp Running time: 2hr 14mins Adults: £6 Children: £5 Family of 4: £20
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D&D 5th Edition SRD A League of its Own What set’s Hero Lab apart from other digital tools? Consider the key benefits that make Hero Lab special: Fast and Easy Character Creation Hero Lab streamlines character creation, so you spend less time preparing and more time playing the game. Its intuitive interface walks you through character creation and automatically calculates the appropriate bonuses to your skills and other stats. Hero Lab flags any errors or forgotten steps, so you can address them as – or if – you choose. Not Locked Into the Rules 5th Edition encourages house rules, which are the bane of most tools. Hero Lab detects and flags deviations from the rules, but it lets you make the final call. You can also fully configure Hero Lab to implement your house rules, which can be as easy as a few mouse clicks. Add Your Own Material Go beyond the SRD. Add your own backgrounds, class options, and feats with ease, right within Hero Lab. You can even add your own custom classes and paths through the built-in Editor, or take advantage of custom material created by the user community and publishers – much like mods to computer games. Multiple Tools in One There’s no need to bounce between multiple, disparate apps. With Hero Lab, you can build monsters, create NPCs, weave them into an encounter, and manage the combat – all in one unified tool. The integrated Monster Creator, Encounter Builder, and Tactical Console make designing and running encounters a breeze for DMs. Review skills and track your proficiencies Character Creation: It all starts with character creation, whether for PCs or NPCs. Selecting options is a snap, and Hero Lab takes care of all the calculations for you. Unlike many other tools, though, Hero Lab flags violations of the rules but doesn’t impose them, making it easy to accommodate house rules that frequently arise within gaming groups. Alternately, Hero Lab lets you tailor the rules to suit your game. Character Management: Hero Lab goes beyond mere character creation. During play, you can track in-play aspects of your characters, such as health, spell use, etc. You can also personalize your character with portraits, track earned experience points, and more! Select spells for your Cleric Includes all the monsters from the 5E SRD: Over 300 monsters await your orders, ranging from sneaky goblins to iconic dragons. The monsters from the official SRD can be dropped into encounters and instantly used to build monstrous NPCs. Monster Creation: Construct custom monsters – you pick the Challenge Rating, and Hero Lab will tell you if your monster needs to be more or less powerful. Pick from abilities possessed by other monsters to design just the right combination for your game! Encounter Builder: Hero Lab guides you through building the encounter, drawing from all the available monsters. Just select a challenge rating, and you’re one step closer to crafting the perfect encounter for your game. Choose class abilities and proficiencies Tactical Console: Once you’ve created the encounter, simply add its monsters to the Tactical Console in one easy operation. Smoothly manage encounters between PCs and enemies, reviewing who has and hasn’t acted, initiative scores, readied actions, and more. Everything you need is available at a glance. D&D 5E Community Pack: Thanks to the hard work of many volunteers, this free add-on lets you fill in the holes and go beyond the limits of the SRD. Drop it into Hero Lab with a few quick steps, and access all backgrounds, class options, feats, and much more from the Player’s Handbook and other official D&D sources! To get it now, visit our community forums! What’s Included? D&D 5th Edition SRD available in Hero Lab for iPad. The D&D 5th Edition SRD game system in Hero Lab includes everything in the official SRD, such as races and their traits, character classes and class features, spells, equipment, magic items, and other character creation necessities. It also includes all the monsters and DM mechanics outlined in the SRD. Importantly, the SRD differs from the rules presented in the Player’s Handbook, Dungeon’s Master’s Guide, and Monster Manual. It omits certain options that appear in the full rulebooks (e.g. certain spells, feats, etc.), so those options can’t be included in Hero Lab. Thankfully the free D&D 5E Community Pack provides all the missing pieces that you’re looking for. (Get it today!) Hero Lab support for D&D 5th Edition SRD is available on Windows, Mac, and iPad. Current Hero Lab users can add it to their existing license for $24.99, and new Hero Lab users can select it as their initial purchase for only $34.99. This price includes all the DM tools (once added) and access to community-created content. (Please note: We are also still pursuing an official license with Wizards of the Coast to support the entire D&D 5th Edition product line. If an official license can be secured, anyone purchasing the SRD option for Hero Lab will be given the option to upgrade.) Additional Topics External Links Other Games Supported: How to Install Hero Lab On Windows, double-click the installer, and follow it through to complete the installation. After installation, you can launch the product via the Start menu, from “Start -> All Apps -> Hero Lab”. On Mac, double-click the downloaded file. Once you accept the license agreement, drag the Hero Lab icon to your Applications folder to install it. After installation, you can launch the product from your Applications folder. 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Ardha Salabhasana B Definition - What does Ardha Salabhasana B mean? Ardha salabhasana B is a simpler variation of the backbend salabhasana, although slightly more challenging than ardha salabhasana A. The name comes from the Sanskrit, ardha, meaning “half”; salabha, meaning “locust”; and asana, which means “posture” or “pose.” Ardha salabhasana B begins in a prone position with the chin on the ground. The arms are extended forward with one arm resting palm down on the mat and the other lifted, while the chin and opposite leg are also lifted off the ground. Both arm and leg are lifted only as high as they can remain straight without straining the back. If this version is too intense, the yogi should practice ardha salabhasana A. In the A variation of the asana, the arms rest alongside the body and the chin remains grounded while one leg is lifted. In English, this pose is known as half locust pose B. Ardha Salabhasana B Yogapedia explains Ardha Salabhasana B Traditionally, ardha salabhasana B is believed to stimulate and balance the svadisthana (spleen or sacral) and manipura (solar plexus) chakras. Svadisthana is associated with creativity, sexuality, pleasure and joy. Balancing this chakra leads to feelings of abundance and wellness. Manipura is associated with the power of transformation. Balancing this chakra boosts self-esteem, confidence and motivation while instilling the yogi with a sense of purpose. The pose also improves focus and concentration while calming the mind and has a range of physical benefits, including improved posture, toned abdominal muscles and increased flexibility. Share this:
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Q: Bottom right radiator hose will not go into new radiator asked by on I am replacing my radiator on my 02' Chevy Blazer and I got to the right bottom hose (I believe it is the transmission cooling line) and it will not screw back into the new radiator. What am I doing wronng or what can I do to get it to go into the new radiator, I am using the old cooling line bolts and not the new once because i don't have the proper tool to pop the old ones off the exisisting hose. My car has an automatic transmission. Get a transmission line disconnect tool or pop the clip out with a small pick tool and reinstall it. The ’jiffy-tite’ connectors and manufacturers of radiators will make the adapter fittings different sizes which could be why you are experiencing problems. If you need help having this done, a technician from YourMechanic can come to your car’s location to install the radiator hose back on for you. Was this answer helpful? 1. Home 2. Questions 3. Bottom right radiator hose will not go into new radiator Get an instant quote for your car Get a quote What others are asking Q: My car overheats within 20 minutes of driving. A goo jelly like substance is overpouring from the radiator. The top is cracked. It sounds like you have been using the wrong coolant for your engine or the transmission cooler is leaking transmission fluid into the coolant. Either way you need to replace the cracked radiator and flush out the system with clean... Q: Vehicle not moving when transmission is in drive A vehicle not moving when put into, drive can be caused by many things. The problem may be as simple as the need to add some transmission fluid to as serious as the need for a replacement transmission. As the... Q: I've been getting really bad fumes inside my car Depending on how long there was a problem with the breather, the car may have leaked a significant amount of oil onto the engine and the exhaust. The engine and the exhaust usually aren't hot enough to ignite the oil,... Related articles How Do Power Car Windows Increase Passenger Safety? What are the Car Pool Rules in Hawaii?
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 View Variables View Variables Top  Previous  Next You are given a wonderful facility to control the values of the trigger variables and user variables & constants you may be using in your triggers. In a special window you can list the variables that you want to evaluate, and the program will display their values as it will be refreshing the channels. To open the "View Variables" window click on the button in the top-right corner of the application. First the table in the window is empty. You can add and delete variables using the buttons in the top of the window. You need to specify the name of the variable and (optionally) the particular channel and market it relates to. In order to edit its name, simply click inside the cell where the name is written. Retype the name and click outside the cell to make the program save the changes. To edit the channel that the variable belongs to, right-click on the appropriate cell in the third column and select the channel and market from the pop-up menu. The table with variables will keep updating if you refresh at least one channel. If you are not refreshing the channel that a variable is related to, its value will be empty. You can monitor all kinds of variables and trigger expressions here, including user variables that you define in triggers. Setting the value of a variable You can manually set the value of a variable by right-clicking the variable's name and choosing "Set Value" from the menu. An edit box will appear next to the variable, where you should enter the number or expression that the variable must be assigned to. If the expression contains any game-related or selection-related variables, they will be evaluated according to the third column of the table where you specify the channel and market that the variable belongs to. If nothing is specified in that column, the program will evaluate game-related and selection-related variables considering that the channel and market selected are "Poker Standard, Main Bets", and the selection is "Hand 1".
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Incubus Plot 2017 Tour Dates With Jimmy Eat World, Judah & the Lion, And Atlas Genius: Ticket Presale Code & On-Sale Info Francesco Marano by Francesco Marano Published February 17, 2017 Incubus have announced 2017 North American tour dates that will be in conjunction with their upcoming studio album 8. The new dates are scheduled to begin on July 6 in Florida and extend into October. The opening bands will be Jimmy Eat World, Judah & the Lion, and/or Atlas Genius on select dates. Incubus Tour Dates and Tickets When do Incubus 2017 tour tickets go on sale and what is the presale code? The general public on-sale begins as early as February 24, 2017 at 10 AM local time. Before then, there are a number of presales happening. Incubus fan presales are currently underway. Jimmy Eat World fan presales begin on February 18. AT&T customer presales begin on February 21. Citi cardmember, Live Nation, LN Mobile App, and Ticketmaster Mobile App presales begin on February 23. The Incubus fan presale offer code is NIMBLE8, the Jimmy Eat World presale password is INTEGRITY, the Live Nation code for February is SHOWTIME, the LN Mobile App password is COVERT, and the Ticketmaster presale password is GETUIN. Citi card holders can use the presale code 412800 to access the presales, but you'll need a Citi card to complete your purchase. Earlier this week, Incubus shared "Nimble Bastard," the first single from 8. It's scheduled to be released on April 21, 2017. A physical copy of the album will come with each pair of tickets purchased. For more, check out the Incubus Zumic artist page. Atlas Genius Incubus Jimmy Eat World Alternative Rock Pop Rock Send Feedback Hand-Picked Music for Your Taste Web Analytics
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Free internet music: Brothomstates, Stephan Mathieu Having piqued my interest and emphatically got my attention back in 2001, three years passed before Rktic, a brilliantly pumped-up two-track, 14-minute single… and then silence, which was only broken in the last few days of last year when Untitled was released as a free download on the Misc label. Nikko describes it as a satirical “counter-reaction to the unrelenting maximalism of today’s saturated sonic field, where crushed kicks, plastic piano leads and idiotic lovestruck psychobleets, compressed into tinnitus-inducing oblivion, reign supreme.” What this counter-reaction amounts to is an outburst of über-plunderphonics, a kind of mash-up to end all mash-ups, though the magic of the piece – quite apart from its relentless, magnificent energy – is in its central sonic paradox: on the one hand there’s a constant sense of blur due to the quantity and pace of its churning elements, yet somehow the clarity of all these transient details is vivid and absolute. Like music in fast-forward and slow-motion at the same time, it’s a really marvellous effect, and from the perspective of beats, it keeps tantalisingly making one poised to get physically involved, yet resists ever becoming locked into a groove, constantly slip-sliding out of metric regularity. Nikko breaks everything down into a dense slew of stuff in the closing minute, as if taking all that went before and liquidising it, before the piece practically malfunctions at the very end in a rising sequence of electronic bleeps. i’d like to feel optimistic that this unexpected release might indicate more to come from Brothomstates in future, though his decade-plus of hibernation perhaps suggests it’s best, for now, just to enjoy what there is. Untitled is a free release, but if you’ve got £150 burning a hole in your pocket, it seems – though this may be a joke – that it’s possible to buy the piece in high-res audio in the form of a large sandstone USB stick in the shape of a gravestone. Yet more extreme in its deployment of sound is A Microsound Fairytale, by German sound artist Stephan Mathieu. Originally released in 2003 on the Dutch Korm Plastics label as part of their ‘Kapotte Muziek’ series, and re-released by Mathieu as a free download on Bandcamp in 2015, the astonishing soundworld of the piece is explained in the slightly different descriptions Mathieu provided with each version, which i’ve amalgamated here: Exchanging my Pismo laptop for a brand new iBook, upgrading from OS9 to OSX in October 2002, the first thing I wanted to finish with my new machine was a long overdue rework for Kapotte Muziek. I spent eight months processing raw material, resulting in the usual several gigabytes. When it was about time for me to finish the piece I returned to my files to edit them down in ProTools (Mac OS9). I re-listened to everything, made some adjustments, and then rebooted in OSX to work in Soundhack. After a little while my machine crashed, hard — so hard that all I could do to restart it was to take out the batteries. When I finally rebooted in OSX, my computer came up with one of my favorite pieces of music, playing it all by itself upon restart by spitting out the contents of its buffer in a cascade of data. A Microsound Fairytale is an unedited 16Bit MiniDisc recording of this event. The result is a very specific type of noise music, distinct and different from the likes of, say, Merzbow, Zbigniew Karkowski or Kenji Siratori. The closest comparisons i can think of are the two tracks of aural blitzkreig on Aphex Twin’s Smojphace EP and the latter half of Alva Noto’s Unitxt – both of which antedate Mathieu’s piece, and are very much shorter. At 21 minutes’ duration, i’ve perhaps already made it sound like an intimidating, even unbearable listening prospect. But it’s more than mere noise, in two important respects. First, while it is incredibly intense, it falls short of becoming ferocious (and, in case the point needs to be made, that’s with the volume turned to maximum!), but this is less to do with sheer volume than with what we might call its topography. The impression of sound being brutally mauled and lacerated is pervasive but not omnipresent, regularly broken up by small hiatuses, lending the dense splurges of stuff the sense of being islands within a larger environment. The issue of volume is significant, though, as the shifting timbral nature of its soundworld is such that it can be listened to at a high volume without destroying either your speaker coils or basilar membranes. Your mileage may vary, of course, and it’s probably advisable to approach it with caution, but in my experience this is not music that hurts. Second, and this is an extension of its topographical nature, like the Brothomstates piece A Microsound Fairytale also exhibits a paradoxical aspect though less to do with clarity than with its behaviour and sense of direction. If Mathieu’s account of the work’s creation is accurate, then there’s little reason to expect – or attempt to retro-fit – any kind of structure or narrative. And indeed, it would be hard to argue that its sense of musical drama is anything other than spontaneous, inscrutable, not to say entirely arbitrary. Yet, as one so often finds with music created from random or unplanned decisions, there is an uncanny sense of order and even, at times, deliberation in the way the music behaves. Whether this is the result of pareidoliaapophenia or just old fashioned wishful thinking is impossible to say, but it hardly matters. The work’s fluxional demeanour, like a disintegrated shape-shifter trying to piece itself back together, forms a convincing and engaging narrative in its own enigmatic right, given peculiar shape by the recurring flashes of something recognisably concrete that appear at various points, usually in the chaotic midst of ominous deep growls and buzzings, halting and grinding bleeps, and sporadic oscillations and cycling patterns. The hiatuses i mentioned before are fascinating too, moments that afford the briefest of glimpses at ’empty’ machine ambience. Mathieu may not have edited the recording, but his decision on where to end the piece is very nicely judged, the material focusing in an effluvial torrent that sounds like one’s ears are millimetres away from a choir of circular saw blades. Incredible, mind-blowing stuff. Posted on by 5:4 in Free internet music, Thematic series Tags: , , , Add a Comment Anti-Spam Quiz: %d bloggers like this:
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Public Service Announcement: Beware of Flu With all the wonders of modern medicine, it is easy to think of flu epidemics as something from our less medically sophisticated past. For instance in 1918, 20 million people died worldwide from the flu. Though we have not had a pandemic on that order since then, flu typically kills 30,000 Americans annually. This year's flu season appears to have arrived early and the stain appears to be more dangerous than usual as reported here and here. For a complete FAQ, check out the CDC web site. If you haven't got your flu vaccine shot yet, please do if at all possible.
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Tamvera replied 12 weeks ago X-Men: First Class Hd Mp4 Download > DOWNLOAD (Mirror #1) Show Spoiler The first class of X-Men, led by two very powerful mutants named Charles Xavier and Eric Lensherr, join together to stop a ruthless and powerful dictator from thrusting Russia and the U.S. into nuclear war. But Eric has his own agenda, and it soon rips him and his best friend apart. In 1944, in Poland, the boy Erik Lehnsherr unleashes his magnetic power when his mother is sent to a concentration camp. The evil Dr. Sebastian Shaw brings Erik to his office and kills his mother, increasing his abilities through anger. In New York, the wealthy Charles Xavier meets the mutant Raven and invites her to live in his manor. In 1962, the CIA agent Moira MacTaggert discovers the existence of mutants working with Shaw and she invites Professor Xavier to recruit mutants to work for the USA government. Xavier teams up with Raven, Erik and a group of young mutants. Sooner they learn that the evil Shaw has the intention of beginning a nuclear war to destroy the world and increase his power. X-Men, not exactly the most popular of comic book superheros, have a faithful following; and this flick is about the first assembling of young mutants and the developing of individual powers as Charles Xavier forms his mutant training academy. James McAvoy is Professor X and Michael Fassbender is Magneto and both are youthful and reckless. The mutants have yet to make themselves public, but when the ruthless villain Sebastian Shaw(Kevin Bacon),in 1962, connives the Russians to move missiles into Cuba, Xavier and Magneto gather the small band of mutants as a covert CIA operation to use their powers to stop what would be known as the Cuban Missile Crises. Formidable skills make for a masterful climax as the world escapes a nuclear Armageddon. I am not actually an X-Men fan, but I am a fan of Jennifer Lawrence, who plays the mutant named Raven. Also in the cast: Rose Byrne, Oliver Platt, Bill Milner, Zoe Kravitz, Jason Fleming and January Jones. 8.2 out of 10?…seriously? the first x men was OK…the second was bad…the third was a bag full of puke…wolverine origins was a rape….but this one is worst than any of the other x men movies.<br/><br/>What&#39;s wrong with this pile of garbage? 1- Professor X and Mystique are related? WTF 2-Alex Summers and not Scott? Why? Scott Summers is one of the original X Men, not Alex 3-Where is Angel? I mean Warren Kenneth Worthington III not that little butterfly girl.<br/><br/>4- Where is Iceman? 5- Where is Marvel Girl? What a silly plot. Hollywood can&#39;t make good movies anymore. They take a good source and just violated the fans with some stupid adaptation.<br/><br/>What&#39;s with the romantic relation between Beast and Mystique? Where that came from? Mystique mated with Azazel and that&#39;s where Nightcrawler comes from.<br/><br/>Stupid movie. I have no idea why the rating is so high.<br/><br/>The Wolverine cameo was kind of cool though. Director Matthew Vaughn, who did last year's delightful "Kick-Ass," doesn't do witty this time around, but he does keep up a spiffing pace while making the action blaze. Young Charles Xavier (<a href="/name/nm0564215/">James McAvoy</a>), newly graduated from college after submitting his dissertation on mutantism, comes to realize that there are more mutants like himself in the world and sets out, with the help of CIA agent Moira MacTaggert (<a href="/name/nm0126284/">Rose Byrne</a>), to find them. While assembling a team of young mutants, including Raven/Mystique (<a href="/name/nm2225369/">Jennifer Lawrence</a>), Angel Salvatore (<a href="/name/nm2368789/">Zoë Kravitz</a>), Hank McCoy/Beast (<a href="/name/nm0396558/">Nicholas Hoult</a>), Sean Cassidy/Banshee (<a href="/name/nm2655177/">Caleb Landry Jones</a>), Alex Summers/Havok (<a href="/name/nm1395771/">Lucas Till</a>), and Armando Muñoz/Darwin (<a href="/name/nm1346230/">Edi Gathegi</a>), he also meets Erik Lensherr (<a href="/name/nm1055413/">Michael Fassbender</a>), a young Polish man whose early years were spent in a concentration camp where his mother was killed by German scientist Sebastian Shaw (<a href="/name/nm0000102/">Kevin Bacon</a>) in order to awaken Erik&#39;s magnetic powers. Charles, Eric, and their band of mutants must work together to stop Shaw from beginning a nuclear war between the U.S. and the Soviet Union in his attempt to kill all humans and take over the world. Yes, briefly. While Xavier and Magneto are gathering up mutants, they come across Logan/Wolverine (<a href="/name/nm0413168/">Hugh Jackman</a>) sitting in a bar, but Wolverine tells them to get lost. Yes. When the young Mystique is trying to seduce Erik, he says to her &quot;maybe in a few years.&quot; She then morphs into her &quot;older&quot; form, which turns out to be <a href="/name/nm0005381/">Rebecca Romijn</a>, who played Mystique in the first three films. No, for the most part. If the mutation is physical, such as with Wolverine&#39;s claws, Nightcrawler&#39;s tail and Archangel&#39;s wings, then she can superficially mimic it. However, she does not copy the mutation itself. The forms she takes are purely cosmetic like stage props and replicas. As an example, in X-Men (2000), she takes on the appearance of Wolverine and fights him claw to claw, but she can neither copy his healing ability nor replicate the indestructibility of adamantium, as seen when her claws are cut off by Wolverine&#39;s claws. As another example, if she were to mimic Professor X, she would look like him but would not have his telepathic powers. While diamond is the hardest material on Earth, it is a common misconception that it can&#39;t be broken by other substances. Hardness is not toughness. Think of glass. It is quite hard, but it is brittle and easily shattered. Diamond can also be shattered with a strong force. It is not unreasonable for Erik to break her diamond body with household-grade metals, given he has the strength to raise an entire submarine out of the water. Charles used his power to convince the guard he was seeing an empty truck. He not only has the ability to communicate with people non-verbally but he can also control the minds of others, demonstrated earlier when he freezes Moira&#39;s colleague at the drinking fountain and tells the Man in the Black Suit to get in the car. In a deleted scene, Alex tells Charles that he accidentally killed one of his comrades in the field and still feels guilty about it. Erik gives all the mutants a choice to unite with him and form a brotherhood against humans or with Charles and his plight to co-exist peacefully among them. Azazel (<a href="/name/nm0002076/">Jason Flemyng</a>), Riptide (<a href="/name/nm1682733/">Álex González</a>), Mystique, and Angel choose to side with Erik, while Beast, Banshee, and Havok go with Charles Xavier. Sometime later, Moira pushes Charles&#39; wheelchair to the door of his proposed academy while talking about getting the school up and running. Moira suggests that Charles call his team &quot;X-Men&quot;, just like government agents are called &quot;G-Men&quot;. Because anonymity is crucial, Charles wipes Moira&#39;s mind, leaving her with no clear memory of the mutants when she later undergoes a debriefing at CIA headquarters. Suddenly a large crash is heard. It is Erik breaking into the CIA holding tank to rescue Frost (<a href="/name/nm0005064/">January Jones</a>). &quot;Join us&quot;, Erik says to Frost, while the rest of the Brotherhood waits outside the door. &quot;Erik, I believe,&quot; she asks. Erik replies, &quot;I prefer Magneto.&quot; There are four previous X-Men movies: (1) <a href="/title/tt0120903/">X-Men (2000)</a> (2000), (2)(2003), (3) <a href="/title/tt0376994/">X-Men: The Last Stand (2006)</a> (2006), and (4) <a href="/title/tt0458525/">X-Men Origins: Wolverine (2009)</a> (2009). X: First Class leads to <a href="/title/tt1877832/">X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014)</a> (2014) and <a href="/title/tt3385516/">X-Men: Apocalypse (2016)</a> (2016). Although <a href="/title/tt1430132/">The Wolverine (2013)</a> (2013) and <a href="/title/tt3315342/">Logan (2017)</a> (2017) do not have &quot;X-Men&quot; in the title, they chronologically follow on and reference the other movies, thus are considered part of the franchise, which makes nine movies total. <a href="/title/tt1431045/">Deadpool (2016)</a> (2016), a loosely-related movie (and start of a cinematic series) based off the comic lines spun off from the X-Men comics, is set in the same universe or perhaps an adjoining metaverse, and references characters and elements from the X-Men franchise throughout, but it is technically not part of the series. Bryan Singer stated they did their best to remain in continuity with the other X-Men movies, but he recognized that some liberties were taken for the sake of the plot in X-Men: First Class. Lauren Shuler Donner also stated that the Emma Frost in X-Men Origins: Wolverine is not Emma Frost, but the real Emma Frost is the one in X-Men: First Class. Furthermore, the credits in X-Men Origins: Wolverine list her as Emma/Kayla&#39;s sister and not exactly Emma Frost. So, while X-Men Origins: Wolverine initially advertised the character with diamond powers as Emma Frost, Fox technically retconned her appearance in X-Men: First Class by ignoring her appearance in the Wolverine movie and stating that the character wasn&#39;t Emma Frost. (Source: the Emma Frost Files.) Note that X-Men Origins: Wolverine has been retconned in other ways as well, but in some of those cases un-retconned. One example concern Charles Xavier&#39;s paralysis, and another involves the overall history of the character Wade Wilson. Only some of them. X: First Class is only part of the movie franchise based off the stories and characters from comic books within or spun off from the X-Men line—The Uncanny X-Men, &quot;Weapon X&quot;, X-Factor, The New Mutants, X-Force, &quot;X-Calibre&quot;, &quot;X-Ternals&quot;, &quot;Generation Next&quot;, etc.—to which 20th Century Fox holds cinematic license. Other Marvel-based films owned by other studios are not set in the mutants/X cinematic universe, due to differing ownership. Fox also owns/owned Fantastic Four and Daredevil, but there was never an apparent connection among X-Men (2000), <a href="/title/tt0120667/">Fantastic Four (2005)</a> (2005) and <a href="/title/tt0287978/">Daredevil (2003)</a> (2003). The whole deal surrounding X-Men is notably separate from, for example, the titles commissioned by Marvel Studios. All cinematic material made under the Marvel Studios banner, e.g., <a href="/title/tt0371746/">Iron Man (2008)</a> (2008), <a href="/title/tt0800080/">The Incredible Hulk (2008)</a> (2008), <a href="/title/tt0800369/">Thor (2011)</a> (2011) and(2011), are all set in the same universe (known as the Marvel Cinematic Universe), with the characters crossing over, culminating in <a href="/title/tt0848228/">The Avengers (2012)</a> (2012) which ties these films together. Marvel Studios also owns/owned The Punisher and Blade, however <a href="/title/tt0330793/">The Punisher (2004)</a> (2004), <a href="/title/tt0450314/">Punisher: War Zone (2008)</a> (2008), <a href="/title/tt0120611/">Blade (1998)</a> (1998), <a href="/title/tt0187738/">Blade II (2002)</a> (2002) and <a href="/title/tt0359013/">Blade: Trinity (2004)</a> (2004) are/were not in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU). Like the case explained earlier, other Marvel-based films owned by other studios are not set in the MCU, due to differing ownership. This includes, for example, <a href="/title/tt0145487/">Spider-Man (2002)</a> (2002) and <a href="/title/tt0259324/">Ghost Rider (2007)</a> (2007) (both owned by Sony). Fans have noted a number of discrepancies that X: First Class introduced into the timeline of the other X-Men movies. There is no mention of any change in the timeline at this point (such as the one much later in 1973, in <a href="/title/tt1877832/">X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014)</a>), and no in-universe explanation is given for these breaks in continuity. The makers have stated that as part of a fresh start of the series, they wanted to make the best movie possible and chose to ignore established canon in some respects. So the discrepancies are meant to be retcons from artistic license. There are precedents for this earlier in the series: take, for example, the change in appearance of the lab and basin where Wolverine undergoes the adamantium grafting procedure between X2 and X-Men Origins: Wolverine.<br/><br/>Nevertheless, the following is a list of the main differences noted, and possible explanations from a single-universe point-of-view:<br/><br/><ul><li>In X2, Hank McCoy appears in human form before his mutation is manifested by the third film, whereas in First Class, he goes through his transformation for the first time as a young man. It is very likely that he used an inhibitor, as he is seen using one in Days of Future Past. Another reason is that the Hank McCoy briefly seen in X2 was simply meant to be a name-drop cameo (Remy LeBeau, a.k.a. Gambit, is also briefly seen on a computer screen in X2).</li></ul><br/><br/><ul><li>In X2, there is an instance where Sebastian Shaw is speaking with McCoy on television. However, he is referred to only as &quot;Dr. Shaw&quot; and may be a different character (or simply another name-drop).</li></ul><br/><br/><ul><li>In the beginning of The Last Stand (during a flashback) and at the end of Origins: Wolverine, Xavier has full use of his legs in the 1980s, whereas, at the end of First Class, Xavier is wheelchair bound in 1962. He has regained and lost the use of his legs time and time again in the comics. In Days of Future Past, Beast has developed a serum that can reverse Xavier&#39;s spinal damage, but it also suppresses his telepathic abilities. In The Last Stand and Origins: Wolverine, Xavier clearly has both the use of his legs and his telepathy, so maybe there is a later cure for Xavier&#39;s spine without the suppressive side effects that works only temporarily (causing resistance). Another explanation offered is that Trask Industries develops DNA-generated artificial limbs in 1976, and he abandons them after learning of Trask Industries&#39; anti-mutant activities. Lastly, it is possible that the walking Xavier seen in The Last Stand and Origins: Wolverine isn&#39;t Xavier himself, but one of his telepathic projections, used when he meets potential new students, in order not to elicit too many questions; Xavier also shows a telepathic, upright version of himself to Mystique in Days of Future Past.</li></ul><br/><br/><ul><li>In the opening of The Last Stand, Eric and Xavier are working together to recruit Jean Grey in the 1980s. In this film, they go their separate ways much earlier in life. They may have briefly reconciled before going separate ways once again.</li></ul><br/><br/><ul><li>In X-Men, Professor X mentions that he created Cerebro together with Magneto; in First Class, Cerebro was already built by Hank McCoy. Of course, the Cerebro in First Class may have simply been a small prototype, and the larger version of Cerebro seen in the first three movies may have been constructed by Professor X and Magneto together. As Big Cerebro was fully built by 1973 and Magneto had been imprisoned for 10 years (as seen in Days of Future Past), it is possible that they built it in 1962 when they moved into Charles&#39; old house, in the months before the Cuban Missile Crisis.</li></ul><br/><br/><ul><li>In X-Men, Professor X tells Logan that he met Erik Lensherr when he was 17 years old, which would have been about 1949 given that Xavier was born 1932. According to First Class, they met in 1962. However, they could have briefly encountered each other when Erik went to New York for the first time in 1949. Or Erik may have met Charles as a student at Oxford in 1949.</li></ul><br/><br/>-In X-Men, Professor X is surprised to learn that Magneto has a helmet which can prevent the professor from locating him with his telepathic abilities. In First Class, Xavier himself witnesses how Magneto obtains the helmet from Sebastian Shaw, and what negative effect it has on his telepathy. It should be noted though, that the Shaw helmet is a different helmet with regards to appearance. According toDays of Future Past, the Shaw helmet was taken from Magneto when he was imprisoned later. Magneto&#39;s new helmet is therefore a different one, explaining Xavier&#39;s unfamiliarity with it.<br/><br/><ul><li>In First Class, Professor X is childhood friends with Mystique, even before meeting Magneto (the professor confirms this in Days of Future Past). While it is clear from the other movies that the Professor and Magneto go way back, no allusion to Xavier&#39;s friendship with Mystique is made in any other movie (she even nearly kills him in X-Men). Days of Future Past, however, reveals that Mystique committed her first murder in 1973 to protect the other mutants. She was subsequently caught, tortured and experimented on before she escaped. These experiences changed her character irrevocably, causing her view of morals and her relationship with Xavier to take a turn for the worst (she may not even remember being friends with Xavier). Also, like Xavier, Mystique should be in her seventies in The Last Stand, but she doesn&#39;t look anywhere near that age. (Young Hank McCoy remarks that when she gets into her forties she would still have the cells of a teenager; she also may have improved healing abilities, since she survived a stab from Wolverine&#39;s claws in X-Men). In Days of Future Past, it is indeed revealed that Mystique&#39;s cells are extremely adaptable.</li></ul><br/><br/><ul><li>In Origins: Wolverine, Emma Frost can cover her body with small diamonds, whereas in First Class, her body becomes one large diamond. See the FAQ entry &quot;Why is Emma Frost in both X-Men Origins: Wolverine and X: First Class?&quot; above.</li></ul><br/><br/><ul><li>Lastly, Moira MacTaggart is seen as an non-mutant agent in her thirties in 1962 in First Class; MacTaggart also makes a short appearance nearly forty-five years later as a doctor in The Last Stand, but even though Professor X has aged considerably, she has not. Maybe the latter Moira is the former&#39;s daughter. This could also simply be another name-drop.</li></ul><br/><br/>Note: Originally the plan was for there to be a spinoff anthology series of &quot;Origin&quot; movies made by different cinematic artists (who would naturally have different ideas about how to render the X-Men mythos), but &quot;X-Men Origins: Magneto&quot; wound up becoming X: First Class, somewhat of an origin story for the X-Men in general along with the Brotherhood of Mutants. In theory, the overall story line of the series would have been more succinct and involved fewer if any retcons had all movies been written by the same group of people or had the franchise&#39;s main producer, <a href="/name/nm0795682/">Lauren Shuler Donner</a>, taken a slightly different approach to overseeing the screenwriting behind the cinematic rendition process. 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NPFD Meaning - What does NPFD mean? NPFD meaning is New Paltz Fire Department and other full form of NPFD definition take part in below table. There are 7 different meaning of NPFD acronym in the table which are compilation of NPFD abbreviation such as New York, Minnesota, New Jersey, Ambulance service, Fire etc. terminologies. Unless you can not find the meaning of NPFD acronym which you look for in 7 different NPFD meaning table, please search again as using question model like “What does NPFD mean?, NPFD meaning” or you can search by typing only NPFD abbreviation in the search box. Meaning of NPFD acronyms are registered in different terminologies. Especially, if you wonder, all meanings belonging to NPFD acronyms under a terminology, click related terminology button at the right side(bottom for mobile phones) and reach NPFD meanings which recorded to only that terminology. NPFD Meaning 1. New Paltz Fire Department New York 2. New Prague Fire Department Minnesota 3. North Patchogue Fire Department New York 4. North Plainfield Fire Department New Jersey 5. North Prairie Fire Department Ambulance service, Fire, Wisconsin 6. North Providence Fire Department Ambulance service, Fire 7. Numata Pumice Flow Deposit Geology Please also find NPFD meaning in other sources. What does NPFD stand for? We have compiled queries on search engines about NPFD acronym and we gave place them in our website by selecting the most frequently asked questions. We think you asked a similar question to the search engine to find meaning of the NPFD abbreviation and we are sure the following list will take your attention. 1. What does NPFD meaning stand for ? NPFD meaning stands for Numata Pumice Flow Deposit. 2. What is the meaning of NPFD abbreviation ? The meaning of NPFD abbreviation is "North Prairie Fire Department" . 3. What is NPFD definition ? NPFD definition is "New Paltz Fire Department". 4. What does NPFD mean ? NPFD mean that "North Providence Fire Department". 5. What is NPFD acronym ? NPFD acronym is "Numata Pumice Flow Deposit". 6. What is shorthand of North Providence Fire Department ? The shorthand of "North Providence Fire Department" is NPFD. 7. What is the definition of NPFD acronym ? Definitions of NPFD shorthand is "North Providence Fire Department". 8. What is the full form of NPFD abbreviation ? Full form of NPFD abbreviation is "New Prague Fire Department". 9. What is the full meaning of NPFD ? Full meaning of NPFD is "North Prairie Fire Department". 10. What is the explanation for NPFD ? Explanation for NPFD is "North Prairie Fire Department". What is the meaning of NPFD Abbreviation in Astrology ? We did not give any place only meanings of NPFD definitions. Yes, we know that your main purpose is the explanation of NPFD abbreviation. However, we thought, you can consider the astrological information of NPFD acronym in Astrology. Therefore, astrologic description of each word are available at the bottom. NPFD Abbreviation in Astrology • NPFD (letter N) • NPFD (letter P) • NPFD (letter F) • NPFD (letter D)
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Hack Happiness with Sentio emotion-tracking wristband Photo via Twitter (Sarah Young @ ConsumerAffairs) The future holds a seemingly endless number of products that seek to improve the quality of our health. From Fitbits to Smart Sneakers, wearable tech has already figured out how to track our physical needs  but what if it could also track your emotional needs? That’s the idea behind Sentio’s emotional tracker, appropriately named “Feel.” Revealed at CES 2016 last week, the emotion-tracking wristband can sense when your mood isn’t the greatest and prescribe solutions or a program to help get you back to happy. Sentio’s slogan for the Feel? “Hack Happiness.” Tracks biosignals According to the “myfeel” website, the Feel works by using “4 integrated sensors on the wristband [that] measure and track biosignals from users throughout the day, including galvanic skin response, blood volume pulse and skin temperature.” Using a companion app, the Feel system visually graphs a user’s emotional state throughout a given day and provides “personalized recommendations to help users reduce stress and improve well-being.” For example, the Feel will know that you were feeling awesome after you ran several miles yesterday. Today, it has sensed that you’re not feeling as great, so it will recommend that you do some more running. Other features The Feel wristband offers a number of other cool features, all while boasting a look slightly more stylish than the Fitbit. (It’s leather.) Feel “alerts” will cause the wristband to vibrate in the case of an extremely stressful situation, which may or may not add to the stress of the situation a la the game Operation.  The app can also give "personalized recommendations." You'll get coaching on how can you improve your emotional health, with advice such as "laugh more" peppered throughout your day.  An emotional wellness plan will help ensure users are sticking to their long-term emotional goals; daily analysis of which will allow wearers to track whether their overall state is improving or declining. Will it work? Since it’s only a prototype, it remains to be seen whether or not the Feel can actually make people happier —much less, how people will respond to the idea of forced happiness. While it’s similar to Fitbit, the Feel wristband has much less concrete evidence from which to harvest its data, since emotional well-being is so much more complex than physical well-being. Because while even an inanimate object may indeed be able to judge when we’re in a mood, can it really know what types of things trigger certain emotions? That’s like asking a robot to be human.
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cabin bound Sorry there's no Link Love today! We're heading up to the cabin for a long weekend and I got so busy getting things packed up last night that I ran out of time to get all my weekly finds together. There weren't that many anyway because I've been super busy with both work and my photography class - which is going awesome, btw. I've learned so much just in the first week! I can't believe I'm actually shooting in manual mode now. I honestly never thought I'd see the day. In lieu of links can I make it up to you with a cute baby? Here are a couple of my favorite shots from my assignment this week: Oh, that face. What's a mother to do? ;) Have a great weekend, everyone!
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Search Results Stephen Louis PositionTitle: IT and Management Consultant MemberLevel: Professional Areas of Expertise: Information Technology, Environment, Retail, Public Sector, Non Governmental Organization, Manufacturing, Public Sector, ... Academic/Qualification: Doctor of Business Administration (DBA) - Cranfield University, UK MBA - University of the West Indies BSc(Hons) Computation - University of Manchester Professional Certification: Registered as Chartered Engineer (CEng) - Engineering Council UK Project Management Professional (PMP) Microsoft Certified IT Professional (MCITP) - Database Developer (SQL Sever 2008) Other Qualifications: Other Info: Key areas of practice: - ICT Research and Strategy Development - Requirements Analysis - ICT Evaluation and Selection - Customized IT Training Develop - Database and Web Application Development
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Lecture Notes by Anthony Zhang. Introduction to Database Management. Edward Chan Section 002 Office Hours: Monday, Wednesday 12:30 PM-1:15 PM, DC2338 Databases, data modelling, and relational algebra, in theory and in practice. Assignments are due before 1 PM on their respective due dates. No late assignments. Midterm on November 6, 4:30 PM-6 PM. Elements of Databases Databases are needed to manage data because we want to store and retrieve it in increasingly elaborate ways. Data is stored information. The goal of data management is to model part of the real world in a way that is practically useful. We want to do this efficiently and accurately, and hiding irrelevant details so we can concentrate on the common properties of the set (abstraction). Intension of data is the definition of data, like the definition of employee records. Extension of data is the actual instances of the data, such as the set of employee records - it changes with the state of the world. In databases, the intension of data is the database schema. and the extension of data are the actual records in the database. A database management system (DBMS) dictates how data is organized and accessed - the structure of the data. A DBMS also exposes interfaces to store, retrieve, and update data efficiently. A modern DBMS must handle concurrent operations, ensure integrity (database constraints, such as a column being unique or a superset of another), enforce security (access control), and support versioning and recovery (ensuring data can be restored after failures such as hard drive crashes and data corruption). Logical files are those seen by application programmers, such as database tables. Physical files are those seen by system programmers, such as the actual files organized by the database. The goal of the modern DBMS is to make the data and the applications that use it more independent. This allows us to do things like swapping out the physical storage without changing any applications, or adding and removing indices. DBMSs can require people like operators (data entry, machine operators), system developers, and database administrators. DBMSs also have associated procedures such as what to do in case of failures and how to use the interfaces DBMSs have a 3-level architecture - the external level (the application programs and views), the conceptual level (the conceptual schema/data model), and the internal level (data storage, OS, hardware). DBMSs also have various language interfaces, such as data definition language (DDL), which is used for defining schemas. The DDL is compiled into a system catalog, which is essentially just schema metadata. There is also the data manipulation language (DML), which is the instructions from the application that allows data to be manipulated, and the query language, which allows data to be manipulated. A data model is the logical organization of data. On top of the data model, we define operations to manipulate it, and constraints to ensure data integrity and enforce logical restrictions. The entity-relational model is the most common data model. Objects in DBMSs can be stored by value or by reference. Storing by reference supports everything storing by value does, but can also have multiple entries reference the same object. An entity is an object that has properties and can be uniquely identified. An entity set is a set of entities with similar properties - an extension. An entity type is an abstraction over an entity set - an intension. An attribute is a property of an entity, and an attribute value is an instance of an attribute. Attributes can be single-valued or multi-valued (such as arrays of other values), and simple (primitive) or composite (contains other simple/composite values). The domain is the set of all possible attribute values. A relationship is an association between multiple entities. An n-ary relationship associates n entities with each other. A relationship set is a set of similar relationships, such as those containing common entities - an extension. A relationship type is an abstraction over a relationship set - the intension, like WORKS_IN_DEPARTMENT in an employee databse. Relationship types and entity types can have attributes. When designing databases, we need to determine the functional requirements and the database requirements. Using these, we figure out the database interface (the transaction specification) and schema, and then implement the application program and set up the DBMS. Constraints and Relationships A candidate key is a minimal set of attributes (least possible number of attributes) of an entity type that uniquely identifies each entity in its entity set. For example, a collection of students might have student number or social insurance number as candidate key. A primary key is a candidate key that is chosen (as part of the design) as the main way to identify entities in an entity set. Primary keys can be added to any entity type, but are always optional. These key constraints apply to entity types. An entity-relation diagram represents entity types and relationship types using a flowchart-like diagram: Entity-relationship diagrams often get cluttered by attribute ellipses. We can avoid this by not drawing attribute ellipses, and then also including a list with entries of the form ENTITY_TYPE (ATTRIBUTE1, ATTRIBUTE2, ...) to list out the entities. As before, primary key attributes are underlined in this list. For example, for a school application we might have entity types STUDENT, PROGRAM, and CLASS. Relationships might include a STUDENT entity being ENROLLED_IN multiple CLASS entities, or a STUDENT entity MAJORED_IN a PROGRAM entity. The cardinality of a relationship type restricts the number of each entity type that can be in that relationship type. For example, for binary relationships (relationships between two entity types), common cardinalities are 1:1 (one to one, 1 of each entity type per relationship), 1:N (one to many, one or more of one entity type per each of the other), and N:M (many to many, any number of either entity type). These cardinality constraints apply to relationship types. The cardinality, essentially, retricts the number of relationships an entity can can participate in. The existance constraint constrains whether an entity can exist independently of something else. For example, a department should not exist if there are no employees in it. Since a department is always associated with an employee. An entity type is totally dependent on another if every entity of the first is always associated with at least one of the second - the first cannot exist without the second. Relationship Types An is-a relationship represents subclass entity types inheriting from a superclass entity type, and is drawn in entity-relationship diagrams as a down-pointing triangle labelled "ISA". The superclass entity type is connected by a line, above the triangle, and the subclass entity types are connected by lines below it. Also, attributes of the superclass are inherited by subclasses. A generalization is when multiple related entity types are combined into a single, more general entity type. In ERDs, we make the new generalized entity type, and then add an is-a relationship between the specialized entity types and the new general entity type. A specialization is when a single general entity type is broken down into multiple, more specific entity types. In ERDs, we make the new specialized entity types, and then add an is-a relationship between these new entity types and the general entity type. An aggregation is when a relationship between multiple entities is itself treated like an entity type, like having relationships between that relationship and other entity types. In ERDs, we draw these as a box around the entire relationship diamond and any entity types it relates together. For example, suppose a school offers courses, and students can enquire into offered courses, we can model this using a school entity type, related with a course entity type with a "OFFERS" relationship, and a student entity type. Here, we could have a "ENQUIRES_ABOUT" relationship between students, schools, and courses, but this rather cumberome. Instead, we can use aggregation - we treat the OFFERS relationship like an entity, and relate students to "OFFERS" using an "ENQUIRES_ABOUT" relationship. Databases are often too large to fit in main memory. Therefore, they are generally stored on disk drives or SSDs. Disk drives have disk packs (disks on a spindle), which have multiple platters (disks), each with many concentric tracks (circles). Tracks are divided into equally sized pages/blocks/sectors (chunks), each of which stores around 512 bytes to 4 kilobytes. The tracks with corresponding radii on each platter form a cylinder. On disks themselves, 1's and 0's are stored as transitions between north and south magnetized poles. That means that within the space for 1 bit, the track needs to change in the middle, from north to south or south to north. This allows a small current to be induced in the read/write head. The disk pack is rotated at a constant speed (typically thousands of RPM), and read/write heads move back and forth over the disks to read/write the data. The blocks on each track have the track number (the cylinder in which the block resides), surface number (which platter the block is on), and block number within the track. Blocks are the unit of transfer and are uniquely identified by these 3 values. To perform a read/write a block on a disk drive, the read/write head has to seek to the right track, wait for the disk to spin around to the right track, and then perform the read/write until done. As this is a mechanical process, this can take multiple milliseconds - two orders of magnitude greater than CPU operations. As a result of the mechanical aspects of disk drives, it's a good idea to put related data close together on the same track, in order to avoid seek times and rotational delay when reading related information - this is known as clustering. We also try to cache recently used values (and marking modified cache entires as dirty to write them back later), in order to avoid disk operations entirely when possible. Solid state drives are a lot better, with access times around 150 nanoseconds, but are still very slow relative to the CPU. A file is a sequence of records (fixed or variable length). Each record is stored on at most one block. The blocks storing records can be contiguous (side by side in memory), linked (blocks point to their neighbors), or indexed (a separate mapping is maintained for where certain data is located). An ordered/sequential file has its records sorted by a particular attribute, the ordering field. This allows us to find records very fast using binary search, but it also slows down insertions - one common pattern is to accumulate records to insert in an overflow file, and merge it in periodically. An index is extra information added to a file to provide faster accesses at the cost of slower writes. The index is generally a separate file, so there is a data file and an index file. Indices are built on a particular set of attributes, called the search key. A primary index is one built on the primary key alone, and any other is a secondary index. An ordered index keeps the search key in sorted order, while an unordered index does not. Indices are generally implemented using B+ trees. These are very good for range queries, and can easily be inserted into or removed from. B+ trees are similar to the B trees introduced in CS240, but with a few important differences: The index is a useful concept because it is independent of the data itself - we can manage indices without touching the data at all. Although indices make data access faster, they also take up additional space, and slow down data insertion/deletion, as we also have to manage structures like the B+ tree. The B+ tree represents data as the leaf nodes of a tree in data blocks, each of which can contain multiple entries (these are generally pages on the disk). Entries within a data block contain the key and a reference/pointer to a record in the database, and are sorted by their key. The interior nodes of the tree, the index blocks, contain references to other blocks for each range they contain. Each index block will have a lot of ranges, generally around 70 or more. Each block is limited only by the size of disk pages, and we try to fill the pages as much as possible to minimise the number of page accesses - the most expensive operation. Also, index blocks are cached as much as possible, especially the upper levels, in order to avoid the first few page accesses. A B+ tree of order m is a search tree in which all leaves are on the same level. Every interior node has between \floor{\frac {m - 1} 2} and m - 1 keys sorted in asecending order (except the root, which can have between 1 and m - 1), and has children for each range between its keys - for keys k_1, \ldots, k_n, we have ranges (-\infty, k_1], (k_1, k_2], \ldots, (k_{n - 1}, k_n], (k_n, \infty). Leaf nodes have between \floor{\frac d 2} and d records, where d is a positive integer. The constraint on the number of keys in each node ensures that the tree's leaf level is always at least half full, to minimise the height of the tree. Suppose we want to insert a record into a B+ tree. First, we search for the leaf node we want to insert into, and then insert it. If a leaf node overflows (has more than d keys), we split the records into two new, roughly equally sized data nodes (the left size is 0 or 1 more than the right size), then add a key to the parent index node for the largest value of the left side. This can cause the parent node to overflow as well, in which case we repeat the previous steps for the parent. If an index node overflows (has more than m - 1 keys), we split the keys into two new, roughly equally sized index nodes (the left side is 0 or 1 more than the right size), where the middle key of the original index node (or the key right after the middle of the key list) is moved into the parent index node. This can cause the parent node to overflow as well. If this node was originally the root, the new parent node is now the new root. Suppose we want to delete a record from a B+ tree. First, we search for the leaf node we want to delete from, and then delete it. If a leaf node underflows (has less than \floor{\frac d 2} keys), we check its neighbor - if the neighbor has exactly \floor{\frac d 2} keys, we merge the leaf node with its neighbor, removing a key from the parent. Otherwise, we redistribute records from the neighbor into this leaf node so they have roughly the same amount (at this point, neither is underflowing), and then recalculate keys in the parent node if necessary. This can cause the parent node to underflow as well if we end up merging (merging is only done if redistribution isn't possible). If an index node underflows (has less than \floor{\frac m 2} keys), we also check its neighbor - if the neighbor has \floor{\frac m 2} keys, we merge the index node with its neighbor, removing a key from the parent. Otherwise, we redistribute keys from the neighbor into this index node, like with leaf nodes. This can cause the parent node to underflow as well if we end up merging (merging is only done if redistribution isn't possible). The B+ trees we have seen so far are only for the primary key indices. For multiple indices, things get a lot more complicated. The Relational Model Modern DBMS use the relational model, based on relational algebra and first order logic. Models have the structural components, contraint components, and the operational components. These DBMSs became possible to implement a few decades ago, replacing earlier heirarchical models. In relational models, the main idea is that all the information is represented using flat relations, which allows us to specify the structure of the data declaratively. The relational schema represents relations that we want to model. We can represent a relation R over n attributes as a set of n-tuples \tup{a_1, \ldots, a_n} \in D_1 \times \ldots \times D_n. \tup{a_1, \ldots, a_n}, where D_1, \ldots, D_n are the domains, sets of simple, single-valued attributes - D_i is the set of all values of attribute i. In other words, relations are sets of tuples of attributes. Attributes may also have a null value, which means that the value of the attribute is actually unknown. If the relation is in D_1 \times \ldots \times D_n, then it is on n sets and n is the degree of the relation. So a binary relation is a relation of degree 2. In DBMSs, all relations are represented as flat tables, where the columns are the attributes D_1, \ldots, D_n, and the rows are the instances of the relation. Note that there is no concept of entities here - relations represent both entity-relational entities and entity-relational relations. The intension of a relation is the relational schema, and the intension of the database is the database schema R = \set{R_1, \ldots, R_k}. The extension of a relation is the set of possible tuples \tup{a_1, \ldots, a_n}. By the closed world assumption (if something is true, then we know it's true), relations are complete - if things are related to each other, then we also know that they are related to each other. In other words, all the things we want to represent are known to us/representable in the table - everything is true or false, and all true things are in our database. Converting ERDs to relational schemas We have several heuristics for converting ERDs to relational schemas, but there isn't always a good way to. When there is a one to many relation between doctors (Doctor(DOCTOR_ID, ...) in the ERD) and hospitals (Hospital(HOSPITAL_ID, ...) in the ERD), we might represent doctors in the relational schema as Doctor(DOCTOR_ID, HOSPITAL_ID, ...) - we added an attribute to doctors that specifies which hospital they work in, to represent this one-to-many relation. In general, when we have a many-to-one or one-to-one relation, we can add an attribute to one of the objects identifying the instance of the other object it's associated with. When there is a many to many relation between students (Student(STUDENT_ID, ...)) and courses (Course(COURSE_ID)), we might add a new table for the relation Taking(STUDENT_ID, COURSE_ID). In general, when we have a many-to-many relation, we can add a new table that associates them with each other, where the primary key is chosen from the attributes of the entity types it relates. A strong entity type is one that has a primary key, while a weak entity type does not. Strong entity types dominate weak entity types when connected by a relationship. Strong entity types are directly translated to tables where the columns are their attributes. Weak entity types result in tables with their attributes as well, but also include the primary key of entity types that dominate it and the attributes of its relationships. For specialization (is-a relationships), we have separate tables for the subclasses, and the superclass doesn't need a table. Also, attributes are inherited, so we write them out directly for each subclass. For aggregation, we create a separate table for the relationship if it doesn't exist, where the primary key is the primary key for the relationship. Constraints limit the form of the data that can exist within the DBMS. Some constraints are inherent, such as the fact that a prmary key cannot contain null values. There are also other types of constraints: Table definitions have the following form: Table contraints take the following form: "UNIQUE" "(" <COLUMN 1> "," <COLUMN 2> "," <...> ")" | "FOREIGN KEY" "(" <COLUMN 1> "," <COLUMN 2> "," <...> ")" "REFERENCES" <TABLE NAME> "(" <COLUMN> ")" ["ON" ("UPDATE" | "DELETE") ("SET NULL" | "NO ACTION" | "CASCADE" | SET DEFAULT)] | The SET NULL foreign key option sets broken references to null - when we delete the parent instance, the child reference becomes null. The NO ACTION option prevents the addition or deletion in the first place. The CASCASE option also deletes the child record when the referenced parent record is deleted. The SET DEFAULT option causes child reference's foreign key attribute to fall back to the default value set for the column. Relational Algebra Operations are functions of relations - they accept and return relations/tables. The basic operations are union (A \cup B), difference (\setminus), Cartesian product (\times), projection (\pi), selection (\sigma), and renaming (\rho). Relational algebra is the formal basis for modern relational models. It is the basis of SQL, the language used to query DBMSs. Relational algebra is important because it has the closure quality - operands and the results of operations are both in the set of relations. Union of A and B is simply the set of those tuples that are in A or B. Difference of A and B is simply the set of those tuples that are in A but not B. The attributes of a relation scheme R are represented as \mathrm{Attr}(R). A union or difference of two relational schemes R, S is the set union/difference of those sets. These are written as R \cup S and R - S. An intersection is the set of all records that are identical between two relation schemes R, S, written R \cap S. A projection of a relation scheme R is a permutation of a subset of every tuple in R - a table where the columns are the R's columns rearranged or removed. This is written as \pi_{A_{i_1}, \ldots, A_{i_m}}: R[A_1, \ldots, A_n] \to A_{i_1} \times \ldots \times A_{i_m}. Note that the resulting table for a projection may have duplicate records if A_{i_1}, \ldots, A_{i_m} is not a candidate key. A selection of a relation scheme R is the set of tuples in R that satisfy a boolean condition F (where the expression allows attributes, constants, \le, \ge, <, >, =, \ne, \wedge, \vee, \neg operators, and parentheses). This is written as \sigma_F(R) = \set{t \in R \middle| F(t)}. The Cartesian product of two relational schemes R, S is the set of all possible tuples formed by concatenating a tuple in R with a tuple in S - each tuple in R prepended to each tuple in S. This is written as R \times S, and results in \abs{R} \abs{S} tuples, which can be a lot if both relation schemes were large. A rename of a relation scheme R allows us to rename relation schemes and their attributes. This is written as \rho_{S[B_1, \ldots, B_n]}(R[A_1, \ldots, A_n]), which renames R[A_1, \ldots, A_n] to S[B_1, \ldots, B_n]. Basically, projection is a rearrangement of columns, selection is a filter for records, Cartesian product is a combination of records, and rename is simply a renaming. A relational algebra expression is a finite expression of the following form: Any language that provides at least the retrival power of relational algebra expressions is relationally complete. Relational algebra is a useful notation since we can analyze it using first order logic techniques, and allows analysis independent of the DBMS. Relational queries are a subset of all computable queries, and represent real-world querying needs pretty well. A natural join over relation schemes R, S is a relation scheme R * S with records having attributes \mathrm{Attr}(R) \cup \mathrm{Attr}(S), where \mathrm{Attr}(R) \cap \mathrm{Attr}(S) are identical between R and S. In other words, it is the set of records of unique attributes from both relation schemes where the common attributes agree between R and S. A theta join (\theta-join) over relation schemes R, S and attributes A \in \mathrm{Attr}(R), B \in \mathrm{Attr}(S) is R *_{A \theta B} S = \sigma_{A \theta B}(R \times S), where \theta is a comparison operator like \ne or \ge. For example, an equijoin is a theta join where \theta is = - R *_{A = B} S = \sigma_{A = B}(R \times S). Note that natural join is simply an equijoin where duplicate columns are removed - R * S = \pi_{\mathrm{Attr}(R) \cup \mathrm{Attr}(S)}(\sigma_{A = A, A \in \mathrm{Attr}(R) \cap \mathrm{Attr}(S)}(R \times S)) Universally quantified queries are those that use universal quantifiers, like "for all" and "exists". Relational algebra examples: Structured Query Language (SQL) The query language we will use in this course will be SQL. This language is a way to represent relational algebra in a machine-readable way, and also allow definitions of relational schemes. Since SQL is built on sound mathematical foundations, we have certain guarantees about the data stored in the database, such as safety and consistency. SQL is a way to write relational algebra in a machine-readable format. SQL can be either interactive or embedded in an application, and embedded SQL is either static or dynamic. SQL isn't Turing complete (no loops/recursion), but it can be combined with a Turing complete language to be able to evaluate all computable queries. In SQL, columns have data types like INTEGER, VARCHAR, VARBINARY, or others like dates and times. Columns in a table can also be null unless otherwise constrained (like primary key or not null constraints). Null values don't violate the closed world assuption because it doesn't mean that the value isn't in the database, just that it isn't known/applicable. Conditions with null values are neither true nor false (checking whether something is equal to null, for example), so we actually have three-valued logic (true, false, and unknown). SQL queries only select tuples that evaluate to true, so tuples that evaluate to neither true nor false aren't selected. A table is like a relaion, but duplicates are allowed unless otherwise constrained. Indices are generated for columns of tables to speed up selection and joins. SQL is both a data declaration language and a retrieval language. There are commands such as table create/alter/drop, index create/drop, and view create/drop, as well as access control commands such as grant/revoke. See slide 122 and after for the exact syntax used in this course. Creating tables/indices/views builds a new table/index/view, altering tables add/remove columns (expanding with nulls as necessary), and dropping tables/indices/views deletes them, removing associated indices/views as necessary. Consider SELECT 'the supplier ID is ', supplier_id, ' with status ', status FROM SUPPLIER WHERE city = 'Paris', which selects tuples of the form \tup{\text{the supplier ID is }, x \in \mb{Z}, \text{ with status }, y \in \mb{Z}}. SQL has tuple iteration semantics - we can iterate over the result to get a sequence of tuples. For example, SELECT DISTINCT a, b FROM X, Y WHERE X.c = Y.c is an equijoin/inner join on c over X and Y, projecting the attributes a, b. Suppose we have two relation schemes A, B both with attribute x. An inner join on A and B over x is the set of all records in A extended with attributes of B where x in A is equal to x in B - records of A and B, only if they have matches in each other. A left join on A and B over x is the set of all records in A, extended with attributes of B where applicable (for records that don't match a record in B, the record is extended with attributes of B all with value null) - records of A, regardless of whether they have matches in B or not. A right join is the same but with A and B flipped around. An outer join on A and B over x is the set of all records in A and B, extended with attributes of each other where x matches up - records of A and B, regardless of whether they have matches or not. A cross join on A and B is simply A \times B, the Cartesian product. In SQL, we can have subqueries that allow us to query other things in our queries. For example, SELECT DISTINCT employee_id, name FROM EMPLOYEES WHERE employee_id IN (SELECT employee_id FROM BENEFIT_PLANS WHERE type = "fixed") - employees with at least one fixed benefit plan (here, we could also just use a join). SQL can easily compute the answer for existential quantifiers, by querying to find something. To compute the answer for universal quantifier, we simply use \forall x. y \equiv \neg \exists x. \neg y. For example, SELECT * FROM A WHERE NOT EXISTS (SELECT * FROM B WHERE x = 5 AND y = A.y) selects all entries of A corresponding to entries in B such that none of them have x equal to 5. UNIQUE(...) returns true if there are no duplicate items in .... EXISTS(...) returns true if there are any items in .... In SQL, we can rename schemes using AS: SELECT * FROM A AS B WHERE B.x = 5. This is very useful when we have subqueries that operate on the same tables. Find suppliers that supply every part: SELECT name FROM SUPPLIER WHERE NOT EXISTS (SELECT * FROM PART WHERE NOT EXISTS (SELECT * FROM SUPPLIER_PART WHERE supplier_id = SUPPLIER.supplier_id AND part_id = PART.part_id)). Basically, SELECT * FROM PART WHERE NOT EXISTS (SELECT * FROM SUPPLIER_PART WHERE supplier_id = SUPPLIER.supplier_id AND part_id = PART.part_id) means "select parts which are not supplied by the given supplier", so the expression overall means "select supplier names for which there are no parts that are not supplied by the given supplier". The strategy for solving this kind of problem is to first write the query using formal logic, and then transform that into SQL. For the above example, we could have written the problem first as \left\{s_{\text{name}}, s \in \text{SUPPLIER} \middle| \forall p \in \text{PART}, \exists r \in \text{SUPPLIER\_PART}, s_{\text{supplier\_id} = r_{supplier\_id}} \wedge p_{\text{part\_id} = r_{part\_id}}\right\} - the suppliers for which for every part, they supply those parts. There are also aggregate functions over tables to allow us to obtain aggregate values such as sum, average, and count, which is something that relational algebra cannot do. For example, COUNT(SOME_EXPR) and COUNT(DISTINCT SOME_EXPR) is the number of values/distinct values in SOME_EXPR (which can be an expression like passed_amount + failed_amount), and SUM(SOME_EXPR) and AVG(SOME_EXPR) obtain the sum and average. We can also group tuples together using GROUP BY: SELECT part_id, SUM(quantity_available) FROM SUPPLIER_PART GROUP BY part_id (the attributes in the GROUP_BY clause must uniquely identify each resulting group). Additionally, we can use the form GROUP BY SOME_ATTRIBUTES HAVING SOME_EXPR, such as GROUP BY part_id HAVING COUNT(*) > 2 would only show those parts where there are at least 3 suppliers for each. List the ID and average ratings for suppliers that supply at least one part that isn't supplied by any other supplier: SELECT supplier_id, AVG(rating) FROM SUPPLIER GROUP BY supplier_id HAVING EXISTS (SELECT * FROM SUPPLIER_PART WHERE supplier_id = SUPPLIER.supplier_id AND part_id NOT IN (SELECT part_id FROM SUPPLIER_PART WHERE supplier_id != SUPPLIER.supplier_id)). Here, SELECT part_id FROM SUPPLIER_PART WHERE supplier_id != SUPPLIER.supplier_id are all the part IDs for parts not supplied by the given supplier, and SELECT * FROM SUPPLIER_PART WHERE supplier_id = SUPPLIER.supplier_id AND part_id NOT IN (SELECT part_id FROM SUPPLIER_PART WHERE supplier_id != SUPPLIER.supplier_id) are all the supplier parts for which no supplier other than the given one supplies the part. In SQL, FROM SOME_TABLES generates the data sets, WHERE SOME_CLAUSES filters data sets, GROUP BY SOME_ATTRIBUTES aggregates data sets, HAVING SOME_CLAUSES filters aggregated data sets, SELECT SOME_VALUES transforms data sets, ORDER BY SOME_ATTRIBUTES sorts data sets, and LIMIT SOME_LIMIT/OFFSET SOME_OFFSET filters specific ranges of entries in data sets. Midterm covers everything right up to ut not including relaitonal algebra. It takes place on November 6 and I will be writing in M3 1006. We insert tuples into the table using INSERT INTO SOME_TABLE_OR_VIEW VALUES(...) to insert explicit values or INSERT INTO SOME_TABLE_OR_VIEW SELECT ... to insert all selected tuples. We delete tuples from the table using DELETE SOME_TABLE WHERE ... or DELETE SOME_TABLE to delete all elements. A view is a virtual table, derived from one or more base tables/views. This table doesn't actually physically exist in the database, but is computed dynamically from its definition in SQL. Basically, it's a schema defined in SQL whose elements are dynamically computed. Views can be queried but not updated, since their values are purely a function of their base tables/views. Named views can be created with CREATE VIEW SOME_VIEW AS SOME_SUBQUERY. For example, CREATE VIEW S AS SELECT * FROM SUPPLIER WHERE volume <= 20 WITH CHECK OPTION. WITH CHECK OPTION disallows changes to S that modify records but don't modify the view itself - in the previous example, that means that we can't insert, update, or delete suppliers who have volume greater than 20. Operations on some views can't easily be translated into operations on their base tables. For example, for CREATE VIEW X AS SELECT supplier_id, AVG(rating) FROM SUPPLIER there is no unambiguous way to map changes to the view to SUPPLIER. A cursor is similar to a pointer for a set of records, a construct that allows records to be traversed over. Embedded SQL can be embedded by allowing host applications to perform queries by preprocessing SQL statements embedded in the host language using a special SQL compiler (statement level interface), or construct queries as strings in the host language and perform queries by calling into a library (call level interface). In this course we will use C as our host language and Oracle as our database. We can do statement level interface using the exec sql macro: #include <stdio.h> #include <ctype.h> exec sql sqlca; // include the SQL communication area - a structure used for communicating between Oracle and C and storing member variables int main() { // declare SQL host-side variables to use with our application exec sql begin declare section; // host variables must be defined within a declare section VARCHAR customer_city[21]; // variable sized character array with space for the null terminator VARCHAR customer_name[21]; customer_float discount; VARCHAR db_username[11], db_password[11]; exec sql end declare section; exec sql CONNECT :db_username IDENTIFIED BY :db_password; // host-side variables are referenced by adding a preceding colon exec sql DECLARE c_city CURSOR FOR select name, discount FROM CUSTOMERS WHERE city = :customer_city; exec sql OPEN c_city; exec sql WHENEVER NOT FOUND GO TO next; // do a jump when there are no more records while (TRUE) { exec sql FETCH c_city INTO :customer_name, :customer_discount; // automatically jumps to `next` when there are no more entries to fetch customer_name.arr[customer_name.len] = '\0'; printf("name: %s, discount: %f\n", customer_name.arr, customer_discount); // if we modified any records above, we would have needed a `exec sql COMMIT WORK` to the exec sql CLOSE c_city; exec sql DISCONNECT; Cursors can be insensitive using the DECLARE c_city INSENSTIVE CURSOR, which means that the cursor can't update records in the database since they make a local copy (this is more efficient, since the DBMS knows we are reading but not writing). Cursors can be scrollable or not (default is not), which means that the cursor can be read forward and backward - without scrollable, we can only read the next record and can't go backward. For dynamic SQL, we can prepare a query from a character string, and then execute it as many times as we want. In dynamic SQL, host variables don't need to be declared; instead, we can bind and retrieve values from dummy variables in the query. For example, we can execute a query with exec sql EXECUTE IMMEDIATE "SELECT * FROM CUSTOMER". We can also prepare a statement and bind some variables: char *db_username = "aaaa"; char *db_password = "bbbb"; varchar statement[80]; varchar cust_name[21]; exec sql CONNECT :db_username IDENTIFIED BY :db_password; // prepare the statement statement.len = sprintf(statement.arr, "SELECT * FROM CUSTOMER WHERE name = :name"); exec sql PREPARE S FROM :statement; // create cursor exec sql DECLARE c_city CURSOR FOR S; exec sql OPEN c_city USING :cust_name; // bind the variable :name to use :cust_name as its value // execute the query here JDBC is a call-level interface for SQL. In JDBC, we connect to the database, send SQL statements, and process the results. Schema Analysis Schema analysis is the analysis of relational models - what makes one schema good, and another bad? In this course, R, X, Y, Z refer to relation schemes, r refer to a relation, s, t, u, v refer to tuples in relation schemes, A, B, C, D, E refer to attributes. ABC and other combinations of attributes represent the set of those attributes, \set{A, B, C}. f, g, h represent functional dependencies, while F, G, H represent sets of functional dependencies. Midterm covers everything up to foreign key contraints, slide 93. A functional dependency is a constraint between two sets of attributes in a relation R, such that the value of one set of attributes combined with the tuples in R fully specify the value of the other. A functional dependency is written as X \to Y - the attributes X and the tuples in R fully specify the attributes Y. We can write this as X functionally determines Y. Basically, X \to Y means that knowing X allows you to know Y, if you have R. For example, if the customer's fee is $2 per book bought, and a table has a "fee" column and a "books_bought" column, there is a functional dependency between those columns - we can look up the fee from the books bought, and the books bought from the fee. For example, if an employees table has employee IDs and their names, then the names are functionally determined by employee IDs - we can look up a name from an employee ID and the records in the table. A relation r satisfies X \to Y if and only if when two tuples in r have the same values for attributes in X, they also have the same values for attributes in Y. In other words, a relation satisfies a functional dependency if it has that functional dependency. If F (a set of functional dependencies) being satisfied implies that f (a functional dependency) is satisfied, then F \models f (F logically implies f). For example, \set{A \to B, B \to C} \models A \to B, B \to C, AC \to B, AB \to C, A \to C (as well as all trivial functional dependencies). The closure of a set of functional dependencies F is the set of all the functional dependencies it logically implies - F^+ = \set{X \to Y \middle| F \models X \to Y}. Saying f \in F^+ is equivalent to saying F \models f. Note that the size of F^+ grows exponentially with respect to the sixe of F. The closure of a set of attributes X is the set of all attributes that functionally depend on X - X^+ = \set{A \middle| X \to A \in F^+}. Note that X \to Y is in F^+ if and only if Y \in X^+. Two sets of functional dependencies F, D are equivalent or cover each other if and only if they have the same closure - F^+ = G^+. We write this as F \approx G. A set of attributes X is a candidate key of a relation scheme R if and only if X \to R \in F^+ (all the attributes of R functionally depend on X) and there is no proper subset Y \subset X such that Y \to R \in F^+. Basically, a key is a minimal set of attributes that specifies a single record. A superkey is a superset of any key - a set of attributes that contains a key. Given, a set of attributes Y = \set{A_1, \ldots, A_n}, F \models X \to Y if and only if F \models X \to A_1, \ldots, F \models A_n. F is a minimal cover if and only if all of the following are true: To compute the closure of an attribute set X, X \to Y is logically implied by F: def attribute_set_closure(X, F): closure = X # initially, the closure contains all the attributes of the functional dependency changed = True while changed: # loop while the closure changes changed = False for (left_side, right_side) in F: if left_side.issubset(closure) and not right_side.issubset(closure): # left side is part of closure and right side has attributes not in the closure closure += right_side # add all the new attributes to the closure changed = True return closure A decomposition of a relation scheme R splits its attributes over multiple new relation schemes, possibly duplicating them. Formally, a decomposition of R is set{R_1, \ldots, R_k} where \operatorname{attributes}(R_1), \ldots, \operatorname{attributes}(R_k) \subseteq \operatorname{attributes}(R) and \operatorname{attributes}(R_1) \cup \ldots \cup \operatorname{attributes}(R_k) = \operatorname{attributes}(R). For example, a relation \text{CAR}(\text{model}, \text{cylinders}, \text{origin}, \text{tax}) can be decomposed into \set{\text{CAR}(\text{model}, \text{cylinders}, \text{origin}), \text{TAX}(\text{origin}, \text{tax})}. An attribute in a relation R is prime if and only if it is in some candidate key of R, and is nonprime otherwise. Finding all candidate keys is NP-complete, but in practice it is generally quite easy to at least find some of them. An attribute A is fully dependent on a set of attributes X if and only if X is a minimal set of attributes that functionally determines A - X \to A and there does not exist a proper subset Z \subset X such that Z \to A Let X \to Y be in R and Y \to X not in R (X functionally determines Y, but not the other way around). An attribute A is transitively dependent on a set of attributes X if and only if A \notin X \cup Y and Y \to A is in R - A can be determined from Y, which can be determined from X, but X can't be determined from Y. A relation R is in 1NF (first normal form) if and only if the domains of all attributes in R are just atomic/simple/primitive values, and each attribute only has a single value from its domain. A relation R is in 2NF (second normal form) if and only if R is in 1NF, and each nonprime attribute (attributes that are not part of any candidate keys) are fully dependent on every candidate key of R - every candidate key is a minimal set of attributes that functionally determines A. A relation R is in 3NF (third normal form) if and only if R is in 2NF, and there are no nonprime attributes (attributes that are not part of any candidate keys) that are transitively dependent on any candidate key of R - every nonprime attribute is not transitively dependent on any candidate key of R. A relation R is in BCNF (Boyce-Codd normal form) if and only if X \to \set{A} and A \notin X, then X is a superkey of R (X contains a candidate key of R). This is the usual form we aim for. Also, all relations with two attributes is in BCNF. A set of relations \set{R_1, \ldots, R_k} is in 2NF or 3NF or BCNF if and only if each relation in it is in that normal form. No class today - there's a midterm at 4:30PM! A relation R satisfies a set of functional dependencies F if and only if, for all functional dependencies f \in F over only those attributes in R, R satisfies f - R satisfies all applicable functional dependencies in F. A decomposition U = \tup{R_1, \ldots, R_k} of a relation R is a lossless join decomposition with respect to F if and only if for all R_i \in U satisfying F, R = \pi_{A_1}(R) * \ldots * \pi_{A_n}(R) - we can recover the original relation by natural joining all the relations in the decomposition with each other. If we cannot recover this, then U is a lossy join decomposition. Basically, if we have a decomposition U = \tup{R_1, R_2} such that R_1 and R_2 satisfy F, then it is lossless if R_1 * R_2 = R. There is a theorem that says U = \tup{R_1, R_2} is a lossless join decomposition if and only if either (\operatorname{Attr}(R_1) \cap \operatorname{Attr}(R_2) \to R_1) \in F^+ or (\operatorname{Attr}(R_1) \cap \operatorname{Attr}(R_2) \to R_2) \in F^+ - the common attributes of the relations must functionally determine at least one of the two relations. The chase algorithm is a polynomial time way to check if a decomposition is lossless or not. Given a decomposition U = \tup{R_1, \ldots, R_k} of R, and a set of functional dependencies F: A decomposition U = \tup{R_1, \ldots, R_k} or a relation R where R has functional dependencies F and R_i has functional dependencies F_i is dependency-preserving if and only if F_1^+ \cup \ldots F_k^+ = F^+ - if the combined closures of functional dependencies of all the relations in the decomposition is the same as the closure of the functional attributes of the original relation. For example, consider a relation \text{SUPPLIER}(\text{SUPPLIER\_ID}, \text{CITY}, \text{STATUS}) with functional dependencies \text{SUPPLIER\_ID} \to \text{CITY} and \text{CITY} \to \text{STATUS}. One possible decomposition of this is U = \tup{\tup{\text{SUPPLIER\_ID}, \text{CITY}}, \tup{\text{CITY}, \text{STATUS}}}, and another is V = \tup{\tup{\text{SUPPLIER\_ID}, \text{CITY}}, \tup{\text{SUPPLIER\_ID}, \text{STATUS}}}. Clearly, U preserves dependencies, while V does not - there could be a case where \text{CITY} \to \text{STATUS} is not the case, when two different SUPPLIER_IDs have different cities but the same STATUS. Also note that, U is a lossy join decomposition while V is a lossless join composition. There are actually algorithms that can generate 3NF, BCNF, lossless join decompositions, and dependency-preserving decompositions. Consider a banking app. The following code might be used for a transfer: read source account subtract amount to transfer write source account read target account add amount to transfer write target account This is a very poor way of going about data management. For example, if a power failure occurs right after write source account, the amount to transfer is simply lost, and the database is left in an inconsistent state. If the source account has an amount transferred into it between read source amount and write source amount, that transfer is lost. Suppose we have concurrent operations that both read the same thing, both process the read data in different ways, then both write it back to the same place. Clearly, one of the written values must be lost - this is the lost update problem. What if we're in the middle of a series of database operations, and we suddenly find that an error occurred? If we stopped in the middle of that series of operations, we might leave the database in an inconsistent state - we need the ability to rollback changes. Also, if we change written values in one series of operations from a concurrent one, even if we abort this one the changes made by the other concurrent operations should not be rolled back - the dirty read problem. Additionally, if other concurrent operations take place in the middle of this series of operations, they might see the intermediate values instead of the final result - the inconsistent analysis problem. A transaction is a logical unit of work Transactions should have the following characteristics (ACID compliance): Transactions only apply to writes, since we don't really need to worry about these issues when reading. Atomicity and consistency ensure that inconsistent states never happen, even in the event of power failures. Durability ensures that the lost update problem never manifests. Atomicity and isolation ensures that the dirty read problem never manifests. Isolation ensures that the inconsistent analysis problem never manifests. The typical workflow when using transactions is to begin a transaction, make some changes, them either commit the changes (successfully execute the transaction) or abort/rollback (undo all the changes made as if the transaction never occurred). Let T be a set of transactions. A schedule S of T is a sequence of operations formed by merging the operations in each transaction in T in the order they would be executed - that means interleaving them if run concurrently. Suppose one transaction modifies something, and then second, concurrent transaction reads that modified thing and writes something else based on that. If the first transaction is aborted for any reason, the second must be too, since it is based on data that is now rolled back. The rolling back of the second transaction is called a cascading rollback. A schedule avoids cascading rollbacks if and only if every transaction on the schedule never reads something that is written by an uncommited transaction. In the read before write model of transactions, the operations in transactions are read (obtaining an item's value), read/write (modifying an item based on its value), insert (add a new item), and delete (remove an existing item). From now on, we will use this model. A schedule S is serial if and only if for each transaction in S, all the steps execute consecutively - one transaction runs without interruption, then another, and so on, and no steps are interleaved. In the read before write model, two schedules S_1, S_2 are view equivalent when the following are satisfied: Some non-serial schedules are equivalent to serial schedules. A schedule is serializable if and only if it is serial or equivalent to some serial schedule. Let S be a schedule. Two steps i, j in S conflict if and only if they are from different transactions, operate on the same data item, and at least one of the steps involves a write operation. In other words, these are the pairs of steps for which the order of the steps affects the result of the operation. For the read before write model, there is actually an algorithm that determines whether a schedule S is conflict-serializable (this doesn't determine view-serializability): 1. Generate a precedence graph G for the schedule. 2. Attempt to find a topological ordering of G (see CS341 notes for topological ordering properties). 3. If a topological ordering cannot be found (this would be because G contains a cycle), S is not serializable. 4. Otherwise, the topological ordering is an order of transactions that form an equivalent serial schedule. In real-world use, serializing schedules is NP-complete and isn't practical for scheduling transactions. Instead, we use locks in the read/write lock model to ensure that we don't change or read data when we shouldn't. Locking operations are managed by the lock manager, which implements: Read locks and write locks are mutually exclusive - they cannot both be acquired at the same time. Livelock/starvation is when a transaction wants a lock, but can never get it because it keeps getting locked by other transactions first. This can be solved by using a lock request queue - when a transaction tries to acquire a lock on a locked item, it gets put in the lock request queue and eventually gets its turn. A deadlock is when transactions in a set of two or more transactions are each waiting to acquire a lock on an item that is locked by a different transaction in that set - A is waiting for Y while locking X, while B is waiting for X while locking Y. We can solve this by requesting all the locks at once, always locking items in a fixed order, or detecting deadlocks and aborting one of the deadlocked transactions. In the read/write lock model, two schedules S_1, S_2 are view equivalent when the following are satisfied: We can generate a serial schedule in the read/write lock model quite simply as well, also using a topological sort: 1. Generate a precedence graph G for the schedule. 2. If there is a topological ordering, then the transactions in that ordering form a serial schedule, otherwise there is no possible serial schedule. In two-phase locking, locks must always appear before unlocks within individual transactions. This divides the transaction into a growing phase, when we acquire all the locks, and a shrinking phase, when we release them. There is a theorem that says that schedules with transactions using two-phase locking are always serializable. What is a data item? In our models they are the smallest unit that we can lock - a single row. A predicate lock is another type of lock that defines a set of satisfying rows (via a predicate), like those that have a matching attribute value. Predicate locks have read and write variants just like locks on data items. A phantom read is when two identical queries in the same transaction are executed, and they give different rows. This can still happen under our locking model because we can only lock rows that already exist - if new rows get added in between, they aren't included in the locks. These rows are called phantom rows: transaction A: SELECT * FROM A ; select some rows, locking the selected rows transaction B: INSERT INTO A VALUES(...) ; add a row, this row is not locked by the select statement above, so we can freely insert transaction C: SELECT * FROM A ; the newly inserted row is selected here, in addition to the previously selected rows - there are more results than before, even though both queries are in transaction A Predicate locks mitigate this because when a new row that matches the predicate gets inserted, it gets automatically locked and added to the predicate lock. A non-repeatable read is when reading a row twice result in two different read values - sort of like phantom reads, but the row's value is changed rather than new rows being added: transaction A: SELECT sum(x) FROM A ; select some rows, locking the selected rows transaction B: UPDATE A SET x = 1 WHERE x != 1 ; the sum of all the values changes transaction C: SELECT sum(x) FROM A ; sum is changed when reading here Non-repeatable reads can only occur if we don't lock properly - long duration read/write locks prevent these. Most SQL statements operate over a set of rows - this set of rows can be expressed as a predicate. When we run a statement, we can simply acquire a predicate lock for the SQL statement's predicate to ensure isolation. Two predicate locks conflict if they have a common row matching both predicates, and one of the predicate locks is a write. If two statements have predicate locks that don't conflict, they can be run concurrently. DBMSs can have their own nuances to locks, such as how they do locking based on rows/predicates. A short duration lock is held for the duration of one statement, a long duration lock is held for the rest of a transaction, and a medium duration lock is held for a duration in between these two. Ensuring that schedules are perfectly serializable when using predicate locks can get expensive, since the locks can cover a lot of rows, and reduce concurrency. To mitigate this, DBMSs allow us to trade isolation for performance - allowing/disallowing phantom reads and non-repeatable reads to allow more transactions to execute in parallel. This can be done with SET TRANSACTION READ ONLY ISOLATION_LEVEL or SET TRANSACTION READ WRITE ISOLATION_LEVEL where ISOLATION_LEVEL is one of: Writes (update/insert/delete) always need to hold long duration predicate write locks (regardless of isolation level). The CURSOR STABILITY isolation level is a non-standard isolation level that is somewhere between READ COMMITTED and REPEATABLE READ. This is the same as READ COMMITTED, but with additional locks for cursors. With CURSOR STABILITY, transactions can read data that has been committed by other transactions - repeatable reads while cursor isn't moved and phantom reads possible, Reads use short duration read locks, but accessing rows through cursor uses medium duration lock (locks rows until the cursor is moved). The purpose of isolation levels is to allow us to selectively give up certain guarantees in exchange for better concurrency. Therefore, we want to use the lowest (most concurrent) isolation level we can get away with - for each transaction, we should look at what other transactions might be running concurrently, and check whether we care about repeatable reads or phantom reads. Computers can crash at any time, for a number of reasons - hardware failure, software crashes, etc. Databases should be able to fail gracefully without any loss of data, in as many situations as possible. To model this, we will assume that we have access to stable storage, a block-based storage device that can be written to atomically, and all data on this device we will consider safe. Stable storage doesn't exist in real life - RAM is volatile, while hard drves can't be written atomically, and are prone to failure. Transaction-local failure is a failure of a single transaction, like a write failure. System-wide failure is a failure of the entire system, like an operating system crash, Media failure is a failure of the non-volatile storage. A block/physical record/page is an atomic unit of storage. When we open a file, we allocate a buffer to go with it, which buffers the blocks used in the file. \operatorname{input}(X) represents transferring a block containing data item X from storage to the buffer. \operatorname{output}(X) represents transferring a block containing data item X from the buffer to storage. \operatorname{read}(X, v) represents setting a variable v to the value of data item X, in the buffer (automatically runs \operatorname{input} to bring X into the buffer if necessary). \operatorname{write}(X, v) represents assigning the value of data item X to v, in the buffer (automatically runs \operatorname{input} to bring X into the buffer if necessary). These operations are usually managed by the OS, but we can also directly control them when necessary. For example, \operatorname{output} can be done using a buffer flush. A log file is a sequential file stored on stable storage. Log file based techniques can let us recover from system failures at any time. In incremental logging with deferred update, whenever we need to make a write, we record the exact changes (transaction, data item, old value, new value) to the global log file, and whenever we start a trasaction or commit a transaction we record that operation, ensuring that no data items are \operatorname{output} until all log file entries are \operatorname{output}. After the system fails before log file entries are output, then we are guaranteed that the writes didn't go through either, since writes are always output after log file entries are output - the transaction didn't execute at all. After the system fails after log file entries are written and the writes didn't succeed, we can redo all the writes in the failed transaction by replaying all the writes in the log (this is called the RDU algorithm) - the transaction is executed from the log file entries. This ensures transactions either execute or don't, and if commited, are on stable storage - atomicity and durability. In incremental logging with immediate update, we do the same thing, but we only need to guarantee that no data items are \operatorname{output} until its corresponding log file entries are \operatorname{output} (rather than all log file entries needing to be output first). After the system fails at any time, we can rollback uncommited transactions by undoing all the writes of uncommited transactions in reverse order that they were written to the log, and then redoing all the writes of committed transactions that happened with or after the first uncommited transaction in order. This tends to work better than incremental logging with deferred update in terms of performance, since we can do log writes while also performing operations on the database. Searching through the entire log after a system failure can be slow, especially when the log gets longer To get around this, we use checkpoints - periodically, when the database is in a known good state (all modified data items and log entries are output), we can write a checkpoint log entry, which contains a list of uncommitted transactions. When recovering after a system failure, we can simply go back to the last checkpoint to get the transactions that we need to replay - there is no need to search through the entire log. We can also recover from media failures using log files. Periodically, when the database is in a known good state and no transactions are running, we can make a backup of the database onto stable storage (and afterwards add a log entry noting that the backup took place). After a media failure, we can restore the (possibly outdated) backup and replay transactions in the log to get the current version of the database. Database security is the act of protecting data against unwanted disclosure or leakage. This allows us to prevent potentially malicious users from being able to make changes or read secret data. Security is generally managed by the DBA (database administrator). Discretionary access control is a security model in which users have privileges, which are granted and removed by a DBA. There are two types/levels of privileges - the account level (privileges independent of database schema, like creating tables/views), and relation/table level (privileges controlling access to individual tables/views). Every relation/table/view in the database has one and only one owner account, which has all privileges, and can grant any privileges to other accounts. Granting and revoking is itself a privilege, which means we can grant/revoke the ability for other users to grant/revoke. For example, account A can run GRANT SELECT, INSERT ON EMPLOYEE TO B allows account B to select/insert, while GRANT SELECT, INSERT ON EMPLOYEE TO B WITH GRANT OPTION allows B to additionally grant select/insert privileges to other accounts. If A then runs REVOKE SELECT, INSERT ON EMPLOYEE FROM B, B no longer has access, while if A runs REVOKE SELECT, INSERT ON EMPLOYEE FROM B CASCADE, all accounts granted select/insert privileges from B also have those privileges revoked. We can also grant/revoke on a single column, with GRANT SELECT ON EMPLOYEE(SALARY) TO B.
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YOU ARE HERE: Glendale HomeCollections A Word, Please: Chicago changes its tune September 01, 2010|By June Casagrande We learn about grammar, usage and spelling mostly by reading. That's our reference point every time we say that something "looks wrong." For example, the final S in "I'm going to the Thomases's house." When we see something like this, our eye sends an alarm that tells our brains to start applying whatever knowledge it holds. Then we remember that plurals like cats and the Thomases are made possessive by tacking on just an apostrophe: the cats' house, the Thomases' house. All that starts with reading. But every once in a while, the people overseeing what you read change the rules, as the "Chicago Manual of Style" did recently when it released its 16th edition. "Chicago," as you may recall, is the rule book followed by most book publishers and many magazine publishers, too. It differs a lot from AP style, which sets the standard for most news writing. Chicago's new guidelines will soon start to show up in the magazines and books you read. Eventually, your exposure to Chicago style will become the basis for what "looks wrong" to you. But a heads up about the changes in store will make them that much smoother. So here are some major changes in the style guide. Imagine you're writing about the musical "Oklahoma!" In Chicago style, just as before, you would put that in italics. That differs from newspaper style, which hearkens to the days when printing presses weren't equipped to make italics. So we use quotation marks. But that's not the issue that concerns us today. We're interested in that exclamation point. Chicago used to say never to use a comma after a title ending with an exclamation point or question mark. "We saw Oklahoma! which was excellent." Chicago's recommendation has changed: "The title of a work that ends in a question mark or exclamation point should now be followed by a comma if the grammar of the sentence would normally call for one." Now imagine that you're talking about a word, for example "neato." You're putting it in quotation marks to make clear that you're talking about it as a word — singling it out. If you needed to make it plural — for example: My son crammed eight "neatos" into a single sentence — Chicago used to suggest you use an apostrophe in that plural: "neato's." No more: "The plural of a word or phrase in quotation marks is now formed without an apostrophe — that is, with the addition of s or es within the quotation marks," the manual's publisher now advises. Glendale News-Press Articles Glendale News-Press Articles
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NASA counts down to launch of first spacecraft to 'touch Sun' Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory This historic event will send the probe "to touch the Sun", the space agency says, which anticipates setting a new "fastest spacecraft" speed record. As for the sun's corona, the fiery halo of shimmering light seen during a total solar eclipse, scientists hope the Parker Solar Probe can answer one of their most fundamental questions. Watch live in the player above. These disturbances can also create complications as we attempt to send astronauts and spacecraft farther away from the Earth. No matter how fast we try to shoot the probe into space, its momentum will cause it to keep orbiting the sun... At its closest approach, the spacecraft will fly less than 4 million miles (6 million kilometers) above the surface of the sun, directly through its blazing-hot atmosphere. In space terms, that's practically shaking hands. Coronal heating is what experts call an apparent mismatch between the temperature of the Sun's photosphere (visible surface), and the much higher temperature of the corona, the Sun's atmosphere, which reaches temperatures of up to 10 million degrees Fahrenheit. United Launch Alliance's Delta IV Heavy rocket is providing the muscle. No play on Day 1 of second Test due to rain We should find out what we need to know at approximately 10.30am local time, with play scheduled to start at 11. England lead the five-match series 1-0 after their thrilling 31-run win at Edgbaston last weekend. In all, the spacecraft will make 24 elongated laps around the Sun, closer than the orbit of Mercury, the innermost planet. The heat shield is built to withstand radiation equivalent up to about 500 times the Sun's radiation here on Earth. The tools on board will measure the expanding corona and continually flowing atmosphere known as the solar wind, which solar physicist Eugene Parker first described in 1958. These explosions create space weather events that can pummel Earth with high energy particles, endangering astronauts, interfering with Global Positioning System and communications satellites and, at their worst, disrupting our power grid. That will let scientists match up the data other instruments collect with a visual image of solar phenomena like flares. "We're actually making our first pass of the sun in November, getting our first data back by hopefully December", he said. Apart from Parker's photo and his research paper are more than 1 million names of space fans who submitted their named to Nasa this past spring. "The solar corona is one of the last places in the solar system where no spacecraft has visited before". The Parker probe will get so close that the pressure from mere sunlight will be enough to flip the spacecraft around in less than a minute, Kasper said. Stay tuned - Parker is about to take flight. Latest News
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Thursday, August 12, 2004 The Northumberland Manuscript is in fact the one and only document from the entire Elizabethan era on which the names of Bacon and Shakespeare both appear. It is a remarkable fact that nowhere, for example, in Bacon's voluminous writings or correspondence does he ever mention Shakespeare's name. James Spedding, Bacon's indefatigable nineteenth century biographer concludes from this that Bacon never met, or was even aware of, Shakespeare's existence. However, Spedding himself was unaware of the existence of the Northumberland Manuscript, which casts the problem in an entirely different light. It is impossible to conceive that Bacon could not have been aware of Shakespeare's existence. Here were the two outstanding geniuses of the day, both living and working in a city of 250,000 people during the same period of time. The plays of Shakespeare were the talk of the town, and performed frequently at court, where Bacon was a constant presence. Moreover, Ben Johnson was a concrete link between the two. Johnson was a close friend of Bacon's, even living in his house for five years. He was also intimately involved with the production of the First Folio, as his poems in tribute included in the prefatory material attest. Therefore, given the mutual connection of Ben Johnson, and given the existence of the Northumberland Manuscript which puts the two names together, it is obvious that there must be another reason for Bacon's silence in regard to Shakespeare's name, and that Spedding's contention that they were mutually unaware of each other is impossible to sustain. The only possible conclusion which takes into account these facts is that it was an intentional silence. And here now we step across the threshold of the solution to the mystery.
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This artist is participating in the edition Roma. This artist is participating in the edition Berlin. His work is liked by: Las luciérnagas El poder del Inconsciente Plasticidad Inconsciente El sueño Saber inconsciente Lives and works at Born 18/02/1960 Calull holds a Postgrade in Teaching of the Visual Arts from Universitat Autònoma in Barcelona (UAB). She received her formal psychoanalyst training at Grupo Cero School of Poetry and Psychoanalysis and holds a Master's in Clínical Psycho-Pedagogy from León University (UL) and Neuronal Science Mental Health Institute (INSM), in Barcelona. She has also got studies in Natural drawing, Mural painting and Illustration. Calull's paintings has been shown in Barcelona, Girona, Milano, Neopoli, Turkey, Bali, Miami, Mexico and Philippines. Her work is part of different private and public collections, foundations and museums. "Vuelta al Psicoanálisis" Work in progress This series is focus on my experience about Phsychoanalysis.The different senses of the word "Vuelta" in Spanish language: return, a walk, to go around sth, to turn sth over, to turn sth, to spin, to think about… The exploration of empty space, the suspension, the notion of border delimitation of the self, the other, repetition ... Simple lines and shapes that define and limit the Ego. Tina Prize - Roma Artists Tina Prize - Berlin Artists Tina Prize - Bercelona Artists
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Interpreting Your Activities I was reading this blog post about what makes Twitter so interesting: I think it would be kind of cool on if, since will be more data collection and analysis than networking and interaction, it could tell people what it THINKS you’re doing.  So you might not even be updating your status like you would on Facebook or Twitter, but, when your profile page is viewed, might tell the viewer that “Ben Turner seems to be analyzing the relative importance of hours worked against productivity and happiness,” sort of like how Track Your Happiness does based on the results of your survey answers. It is interesting to me to think of something like Twitter (which as a developer is FAR more fun to work with than Facebook is) as ambient awareness, or lifestreaming, or, as the blog post intimates, social grooming.  The same way we take facial expressions, body language, intonation, etc. as cues in real life, Twitter sort of lets us do (but not fully) through its platform. What if we could really bring this out in more meaningful ways than just letting you foul up a web page with dumb wallpapers and icons like myspace did? [Final note:  I thought the phrase ‘tragedy of the comments’ was funny, referring to how useless comments on posts usually are, unless curated/rated.]
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english spanish  Screen Shot 2015-03-14 at 17.58.06 Again this year Offset has been a very intense and inspiring weekend. Offset is 3 day conference about different aspects of design, illustration, animation and advertising. Speakers change from one year to another but there are always very nice surprises that make you wonder. I guess that the common message of all the speakers would be: work hard, trust your instict, take risks and chase your dreams. This year the most interesting talks have been: Barber Osgerby and their product design, Anne Atkins and her graphic design in movies, Steve Doogan and his illustrations, Forsman & Bodenfors and their advertising campaigns for Volvo, Andrew Rae and his Moonhead, and last but not least, Snask and their rock’n’roll attitude. YouTube Preview Image Volvo Advertising Campaign- Van Damme’s epic split I’m a Moonhead by Andrew Rae.
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Thursday, March 1, 2012 Asia Pulp and Paper is using illegal rainforest timber at their pulp mill Ursula Burns, CEO of Xerox Peter Oswald, CEO of Mondi Group Dave Chambers, CEO of Progressive Enterprise John Fahey, CEO National Geogrpahic USA Emmanuel Faber, COO Danone Dear sir or Madam, I am writing today because of your connection to Asia Pulp and Paper (APP), a company that has been exposed time and again for its role in the destruction of Indonesia’s rainforests. For the last decade a wide range of campaign groups and others have highlighted the devastation that APP has caused in Sumatra and beyond – yet your company continues to use APP paper products. Greenpeace’s latest investigations have exposed how APP pulp mills are riddled with ramin, an internationally protected species. The logging and trade in ramin is banned under Indonesian law. Since 2001, at least 180,000 hectares of Sumatran peat swamp forests have been cleared in concessions now controlled by APP – an area twice the size of New York City. It’s in these sorts of forests that protected ramin trees grow and also where critically endangered Sumatran tigers can be found. With only 400 left in the wild it is crucial for their long term survival that APP stops pulping this tiger habitat. Greenpeace’s investigation has also highlighted how your company is linked to this rainforest scandal.  Forensic fibre testing of your products by independent laboratories has found they contain rainforest fibre. Supply chain research has linked these products back to APP. Now that this issue has been brought to your attention I am asking you to act, by immediately ceasing to use APP products and publicly committing to suspend contracts with APP until they agree to stop pulping Indonesia’s natural forests. APP has already lost contracts with companies like Adidas, Mattel and Nestle for pulping Indonesia’s rainforests and until they stop relying on rainforest timber any company using their products is complicit in this destruction. Please take the decision today to act on this information and distance your company from APP’s illegal rainforest scandal until they clean up their act. Thanks for your consideration. Ramin trees are an internationally protected species and come from Indonesia’s peat swamp forests, which are home to the endangered Sumatran tiger. Only 400 remain in the wild. Act with us: tell these companies to stop doing business with APP until they clean up their act! Read more here: Asia Pulp and Paper (APP), one of the world's largest producers of pulp and paper, has been caught red-handed with an internationally protected species, ramin, at their main pulp mill in Indonesia. This violates Indonesian laws governing the logging and trade in this protected species and shows that APP's public claim to have "zero tolerance for illegal timber" is yet more inaccurate greenwash. Ramin grows in peatland swamp forests - which are also habitat for the endangered Sumatran tiger, only 400 remain in the wild. Inside forest concessions now controlled by APP areas of peatland swamp forest twice the size of New York City have been cleared since 2001 - when logging in ramin was officially banned. The following major companies around the world are implicated in APP's illegal -timber scandal, because they are buying products from APP that contains rainforest fibre: Xerox, Walmart, Mondi, Countdown, Danone, Collins Debden, Acer, Barnes&Noble, Parragon, Constable & Robinson, and National Geographic. You can send an email to their CEOs right now, demanding the act on this information and stop using APP products. No comments:
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crush depth Lurking Between Releases A while back, I talked about moving to the bndtools suite of Maven plugins in preference to the Felix bundle plugin. The reason for this is better cross-IDE compatibility: Eclipse only really works with bndtools, whilst Intellij IDEA only really works with the Felix maven-bundle-plugin. This means that the plugin you choose to use in your Maven project ends up dictating which IDE developers must use in order to work with it. That's not great! However, I discovered that Intellij IDEA could be configured to use the OSGi manifest file that the bndtools Maven plugin creates, and therefore that means that developers can use either IDE as long as I use the bndtools plugins in my own projects. Unfortunately, upon switching to the bndtools plugin in the primogenitor, I soon ran into MNG-6059 and MNG-5951. Briefly, Maven has some baked-in behaviour that is intended to produce metadata that follows the conventions people used when everyone used SVN to manage source code. However, those conventions result in Maven producing metadata that's essentially incorrect with regards to modern conventions. Specifically, Maven will automatically append module names to URIs specified in your project, because it assumes that you've laid out files in a particular way on remote servers. This automatic name appending could not previously be turned off. However, Maven 3.6.0 provided support for some attributes that you could place into your pom.xml files that would disable this automatic appending. Additionally, 3.6.0 comes with numerous fixes for working with Java 11 bytecode. As I recently decided that Java 11 was the new minimum version that I was going to support, 3.6.0 is really a requirement moving forward. Unfortunately, this has now lead to further problems! One problem is that it's not possible to push a pom.xml file containing the new attributes to Maven Central because the version of Nexus running on Central can't parse the new POM files yet. The second problem is that the attributes are not inherited. I currently have over 850 pom.xml files spread over close to a hundred projects. There's just no way I'm going to edit each and every pom.xml file and add those attributes by hand. I want to specify them once in the primogenitor and have them apply everywhere. I've raised both points on the Maven mailing list, and my cries have been heard. All of this will hopefully be fixed in 3.6.1. After all is said and done, this means that I can't start moving projects to Java 11 just yet or even do a full 3.0.0 release of the primogenitor because I need Maven 3.6.1 to do so. I wasn't available to test 3.6.0 much before it was released, but I can do plenty of testing for 3.6.1. It looks like I'll temporarily be in limbo for a couple of months!
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Browsing Tag I’m never Shopping Here Again – Bad Customer Service Shopping, whether you love it or you hate it, it’s part of every day life. I sit on the fence a bit, my love for it depends on how much money I have in the bank. Spoiler alert, it’s never very much! When I lived in the city I went shopping a lot. Being close to lots of shops was handy, it made popping in for things easy. Now I live in the middle of no where, and my shopping habits have changed to reflect that. It’s no longer so easy for me just to pop to the shops, and […] Continue Reading
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We remember how we itched ...Thoreau's Journal: 11-Jun-1851 The woodland paths are never seen to such advantage as in a moonlight night, so embowered, still opening before you almost against expectation as you walk; you are so completely in the woods, and yet your feet meet no obstacles. It is as if it were not a path, but an open, winding passage through the bushes, which your feet find. Now I go by the spring, and when I have risen to the same level as before, find myself in the warm stratum again. The woods are about as destitute of inhabitants at night as the streets. In both there will be some nightwalkers. There are but few wild creatures to seek their prey. The greater part of its inhabitants have retired to rest. Ah that life I have known! How hard it is to remember what is most memorable! We remember how we itched, not how our hearts beat. I can sometimes recall to mind the quality, the immortality, of my youthful life, but in memory is the only relation to it. 1 comment: michael jameson said... it is very odd the things we remember from our youth!?, looking back they are quick images in time even the emotions or sweat!,and we have countless ones making up who we are and providing us with judgment and a life! we are a slave to our memories they will always be there to evoke us!. michael jameson [email protected]
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3d-paper Blogs Papercraft, also sometimes called paper models or card models is basically making a 3D object from.. paper or models of real-world objects. Made usually of heavy paper or card stock as a hobby, or.. sometimes as a craft for children Owner: mysweettania Listed in: Arts Other Tags: papercraft, paper-model, naruto paper, anime model Trending Topics
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Thursday, 7 June 2007 Frequency Adverbs... Sometimes life becomes too hard 2 live. And I sometimes I think that I have a really heavy burden on me. And again sometimes especially when my mood is off, i think to leave everything behind and go… No, I’m not pessimistic but as u see sometimes I cannot be optimistic too. Generally I’m indecisive but rarely I make so sudden decisions without thinking the conclusion. I’m afraid of doing so. Cause I’m at the edge……… we're never gonna survive unless We get a little crazy No we're never gonna survive unless We are a little... (i love alanis) No comments:
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Israel Mauduit Bibliography Considerations on the Present German War 1761 A famous pamphlet published in Dublin on the Seven Years War. According to Peter Langford, it “belongs with Swift’s Conduct of the Allies as one of the most influential tracts in the history of diplomacy and war. Mauduit argued that Hanover had never been at risk; it had only been attacked because France knew that Great Britain would defend it. ‘They always will go thither, as long as the English councils resolve to oppose them there.’ (A Polite and Commercial People: England 1727-1783, p. 347)
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The Discipline Classical Studies examine ancient Greek and Roman cultures—their languages, literature, history, religion, art, and philosophy. The major offers essential knowledge of philology, ancient history, archaeology, biblical studies, and the literary and cultural tradition of Western Europe, as well as traditional grounding in the Classics. Students acquire important foreign-language study skills that include careful reading, thoughtful writing, and persuasive speaking. Latin is the mother language not only of Italian, French, Spanish, and Portuguese, but in a real sense of English as well. Its study will especially enhance one’s understanding of English vocabulary, grammar, and rhetorical structure. Greek and Roman History Classics has the responsibility for staffing and administering offerings in Greek and Roman history. Courses in these fields are offered under Classical Civilization, Classics, Greek, and Latin. Some of these courses are cross-listed with history, and several may count toward a history major. See the History section of the undergraduate catalog for details. Classical Civilization Classical Civilization courses presuppose no knowledge of the Greek or Latin languages and are open to all students. They are especially recommended for those who want to understand the ancient traditions underlying modern culture.
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Export or edit this event... Portland Ruby Brigade birds-of-a-feather at Open Source Bridge Eliot Center (First Unitarian Church) 1226 SW Salmon St Portland, OR 97201, US (map) Public WiFi Room B301 The Ruby programming language continues to be popular for web development and other uses in Portland and beyond. Come talk about what you’re working on, and find out what other people are using Ruby for. If you'd like to give a short talk (3-10 minutes), please prepare and mention it at the beginning of the meeting so we can add you to the agenda. We'll spend the rest of the time on open discussions, which will be awesome. The Portland Ruby Brigade (pdxruby) meets regularly to discuss these topics. See http://pdxruby.org for details. IMPORTANT: If you don’t already have a ticket for the Open Source Bridge conference, you’ll need to either buy one or register for a free “Community Pass” that will let you into the Friday unconference, Hacker Lounge and the evening BoFs: http://osbridge.eventbrite.com/
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Journey, The - Reel 16 Rental Format(s): 16mm film In MOCAMBIQUE, the women talk about living under the war. On a map, we see the White Train arriving at Bangor. Al DRINKWINE describes his resignation, and the large number of civilian employers who subsequently refused to employ him. Mr. LEE describes the prejudice of the Japanese against the Koreans even during the time of the A-bomb trauma. Our rail walk terminates at the gates of the Bangor base. Miron MATAO and his family describe the lack of tuition in the Ma'ori (Polynesian) language in the local French-organized schools. The White Train arrives at Bangor, we see the protestors and the Federal agents locked together in a macabre dance. We hear more of Caspar Weinberger's voice, extolling the virtues of the SDI project. The VIKANS finally arrive at the Frosta school (the Civil Defense evacuation point) and PW reminds us that this is only 25 kms from the nuclear target at the Vaernes airport .... Rental Fees 16mm film $224.00   Rent this Film
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Plant Lifecycles Object Type: Video Clip Loading Media... Plant Lifecycles With the help of a friendly scarecrow, students identify the basic needs of plants. They learn how seeds grow into plants and that the plant goes through changes called a lifecycle. They witness each step as seeds germinate and grow into flowering plants which produce seeds that eventually germinate and grow again. Identify the basic needs of plants. 1. Students will understand that a lifecycle consists of the different parts of an organism's life as it grows and changes. Lifecycles occur over and over again. 2. Students will describe the four-stage lifecycle of a typical plant. 1. Seeds: Most plants begin as seeds. The outside part of the seed is called the seed coat; it is a sheath that protects the seed. Inside the seed coat, there is an embryo and a food source. The embryo, a tiny plant, is made up of a small root, a small stem, and very tiny leaves. The food source provides the plant with nutrition as it begins to grow. When the conditions are right, the seed will germinate. 2. Germination/seedling: Germination is the process by which a seed becomes a sprout (seedling). After the seed coat splits open, the root of the embryo grows down into the soil. Then the stem grows, bringing the tiny leaves up through the soil with it. In addition, the food sources are pushed out of the soil on the stem; they become green and look like leaves. Called "seed leaves," they will provide the plant with food until it grows new leaves. The plant's new leaves will make the food it needs to grow. The tiny plant that emerges after germination is known as a seedling, or sprout. 3. Full-grown plant: As the seedling grows, it produces more leaves, roots, and stems, which get thicker and stronger. The result is an adult plant. 4. Flowers/seed production: When most plants are fully-grown, they produce flowers. Flowers are the reproductive structures that make seeds. A flower consists of a pistil, several stamens that surround the pistil, and petals. The tips of each stamen make pollen, which is transferred to the tip of the pistil and on to the center of the flower (pollination). Soon, the flower dies off, but the part where the seeds develop grows into a fruit. The seeds will eventually grow into new plants. 5. Cones/seed production: Some plants do not use flowers to produce seeds; they use cones instead. These plants are called conifers. A pine tree is an example of a conifer. Conifers produce two types of cones; small cones, which make pollen, and large cones which make seeds. Wind blows pollen from the small cones to the large cones (pollination), and seeds begin to grow inside the large cones. When the weather becomes dry, the woody scales of the cones open and the seeds fall out. These seeds may become new plants. 3. Students will realize that a new seed needs the right conditions to start growing; that is, it needs the right amount of water, the right temperature, and the right amount of light. Not all seeds require the same conditions to germinate. Most seeds germinate in warm temperatures, but some seeds need a period of cold temperatures before they germinate. Some seeds will not grow until the intense heat of a forest fire stimulates them. 4. Students will understand that some plants can pollinate themselves while others require pollination from separate individuals. The problem is moving pollen from the stamen/small cone of one individual to the pistil/large cone of another individual. Plants have solved this problem in a couple of ways. Confers, for example, developed wing-like structures on their pollen grains that allow the wind to carry the pollen from plant to plant. Flowering plants use insects, birds, and other animals to move pollen, which sticks to the animals, from one flower to another. 5. Students will note that a seed will only grow into the type of plant from which it came. For example, a pine seed will not grow into an iris. 1. Flowering plants vs. conifers: Obtain a large piece of butcher paper and draw a Venn diagram on it. Give one circle the heading, "Flowering Plants" and the other circle the heading, "Conifers". Write "Similarities" above the point where the two circles overlap. Tape the diagram on the board in front of the class. Have a class discussion comparing and contrasting Flowering Plants and Conifers. Here are some questions to help lead the discussion: How are their life cycles the same? How are they different? Do they have similar structures? What are their defining structures? Write the answers under their respective headings on the diagram. 2. Plant lifecycle picture: Provide the students with paints, markers, or crayons and a piece of white paper. Ask them to choose a type of plant (Flowering Plant or Conifer) and illustrate its lifecycle. The students should draw a Seed stage, a Germination/Seedling stage, a Full-Grown stage, and Flower/Cone stage.
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Coffee Machine Solutions - South East Queensland This is our glossary of terms. acid/acidityThe pleasant tartness of a good coffee. When the tartness is unpleasant it is referred to as sour. affogatoItalian for drowned is a small scoop of ice-cream served in a small glass topped with a shot of espresso americano"Or Cafe Americano is an espresso shot with hot water added, the opposite of a long black coffee." arabicaOriginally from the middle east and believed to be the first coffee species cultivated. Contains the least caffeine of all the cultivated varieties. aroma"The smell of coffee along with body, acidity and flavour are the main categories used in cupping or the evaluation of coffee." aromaticDesignates a coffee that fully manifests the aroma characteristic of its nature and origin. ascasoSpanish manufacturer of espresso machines. azkoyenSpanish manufacturer of espresso machines. balancedA term used by professional coffee tasters and is not necessarily high praise. baristaTrained coffee maker and Italian for bartender. basketA perforated container that sits in the portafilter and allows the hot water to be forced through the coffee grounds. bezzeraItalian coffee machine manufacturer that invented the espresso machine in 1901. biscotti"Traditionally an almond flavoured, twice baked Italian biscuit dunked in wine or coffee." blendTwo or more single-origin coffees mixed together. body"One of the main characteristics used to evaluate coffee beans, the others being flavour, aroma and acidity." bouquetThe complete aromatic experience of the coffee. cafe au lait"The French equivalent of the caffe latte and consists of coffee, usually espresso, and scalded milk in equal parts." caffe latteCaffe (Italian for coffee) and latte (Italian for milk) mixed together in equal parts. caffeineThe worlds most popular drug which has an energising effect and happily found in coffee and tea cappuccino"A milk based coffee made of equal parts espresso, scalded milk and frothed milk." capressoAmerican coffee machine company now owned by Jura of Switzerland. caramelized"The taste of roasted beans that have been dipped in sugar, syrup, or molasses before roasting." carimaliItalian manufacturer of coffee machines. Cialdeis Italian for the finest quality, fresh ground espresso coffee hermetically sealed in its own individual wrapping to ensure lasting freshness for your espresso enjoyment and known in Australia as POD coffee. The Italians invented POD coffee and it should not be confused with the cheap, imitation liquid coffee extracts delivered in plastic tubs that are currently being aggressively marketed by the same name through the popular media and bargain chain stores. CMSCoffee Machine Solutions - Brisbane's premier coffee machine service and sales centre. coffee cherriesThe fruit of the coffee tree that contains the green coffee beans. compakSpanish manufacturers of quality grinders. crema"Creamy, honey-brown bubbles of coffee oil that blankets a well made espresso." cupping"Likened to wine tasting, cupping is isolating the different attributes of the tasted coffees." decaffeinatedCoffee that has no more than 3% of it's original caffeine content. demitasseA small cup used to serve espresso and typically holds 60 to 90 mls. doppioItalian for double and refers to a double espresso shot. doseThe amount of coffee used in a serving. doser grinderA machine that grinds coffee beans and dispenses a measured amount of coffee. E61 groupheadRevolutionary grouphead developed by Faeme in 1961 and still used today. elektraItalian coffee machine manufacturer. espressoIs a concentrated coffee beverage brewed by forcing hot water under pressure through finely ground coffee. espresso pod"Ground, compressed coffee wrapped in a filter creating a coffee bag." expobarSpanish manufacturer of espresso machines. faemaItalian coffee machine manufacturer. filter basket"Usually made of stainless steel, this perforated basket fits inside the portafilter and holds the ground coffee." finishThe aftertaste of the coffee that lingers on the palate. flat whiteCreated by pouring frothed milk over an espresso shot. French roastThe beans are roasted to a light brown colour compared to an Italian roast. frothing"The process of steaming the milk to produce a thick, velvety foam for use in milk based coffee drinks ." gaggiaItalian coffee machine manufacturer. grindDescribes the size of the coffee particles. grinderA device used to grind or mill coffee beans. groupTraditionally a cylindrical receptacle into which the portafilter clamps. group handleCorrectly known as portafilter. heavy roast"Coffee beans roasted to a very dark brown, with a shiny surface; equivalent to Italian Roast." isomacItalian coffee machine manufacturer. Italian roastThe beans are roasted to a very dark brown. juraSwiss manufacturer of coffee machines. knock box"A tray, cylinder or other receptacle used to dispose of the spent coffee grounds. Referred to as a knock box because the barista knocks the portafilter onto the knock box to dislodge all spent coffee grounds." la piccolaQuality Italian pod machines. la sorrentinoAustralian repoduction stove top coffee maker based on the classic Atomic machine designed by Italian Giordano Robbiati. latte"Short for 'Caffe Latte' which is Italian for "coffee with milk". Traditionally served with equal parts espresso, hot milk and frothed milk." latte artDesigns placed with varying artistic ability on the surface of the coffee drink. lavazzaItalian coffee machine manufacturer. long black"This is water with an espresso shot added, the opposite of an americano." lungoUsually a single shot espresso with double the water resulting in a stretch espresso or lungo. This coffee is weaker than an espresso but more bitter due to the brewing process. macchiatoMeans stained and is a shot of espresso added to the cup after a little frothed milk. mazzerItalian manufacturer of quality grinders. medium roastCoffee beans roasted to the American norm. mochaTypically one third espresso with two thirds steamed milk to which cocoa powder or chocolate sauce is added with marshmallows and cinnamon other options. nuova simonelliItalian coffee machine manufacturer. organic"A certified organically-grown coffee has been produced without synthetic chemical fertilizers, pesticides, or herbicides. " pod machineCoffee machine designed to use espresso pods portafilter"Also known as a group handle, attaches to manual and semi-automatic espresso machines. The basket holds a tamped puck of coffee grounds through which water under high pressure is forced." puckThe amount of tamped coffee within the basket of the portafilter. pullingThe act of producing an espresso shot. qahwaArab traders boiled coffee beans to produce the first coffee beverage over a thousand years ago. rancidAn unpleasant taste in the coffee brew caused by the oxidation of the fats. rancillioItalian coffee machine manufacturer. ristrettoCommonly only the first 15 ml of the extraction. roastingThe art of baking green coffee beans. robusta"High caffeine content and quite bitter, generally less acidic and aromatic than Arabica." saecoItalian coffee machine manufacturer. shotA shot or an espresso is usually 30ml of coffee. steam wandA pipe on most espresso machines that provides steam for frothing milk. tamperUsed for compressing ground coffee inside the filter basket prior to brewing. May be a hand or machine operated. tampingThe art of compressing the ground coffee to provide a consistent medium to allow the water to percolate through evenly. wegaItalian coffee machine manufacturer.
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Corinth Excavations The digital resources offered here comprise a major portion of the excavation archive from 1896 to present.  They are made available free-of-charge for teaching and research purposes.  Password protected material includes the excavations at the Sanctuary of Demeter and Kore and the Gymnasium, and excavation during the tenure of Charles K. Williams (1963-1997). Unpublished material from Corinth that is outside of these projects has been opened to the public. Large portions of the collections were digitized in 2007, co-funded by the Office of Regional Development of the European Union and the Greek State through the Operational Program "Information Society" of the 3rd Community Support Framework.  Additional funding was provided by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.  In 2009 the Samuel H. Kress Foundation generously gave to catalog our Numismatic Study Collection.  Much of our archive remains in analog formats.  Digitization and cataloging are ongoing. EU and Greek flags Types (sub-collections and other media) Types represent the wide variety of information that we capture in our archive.  They are practical units based on media, spatial data, and other functional criteria, such as how and where part of the archive is stored. The links below take you to a short description of each type.  The same links on the sidebar to the left will filter your search results to the type that you click. Places and Monuments Plans and Drawings Objects and Coins Contexts, Baskets, and Lots Catalog Cards The ASCSA excavations in Ancient Corinth are formally published through the Corinth monograph series (red books) and in articles in Hesperia, the journal of the American School.  Many articles also appear in the American Journal of Archaeology, the Journal of Roman Archaeology, and elsewhere.  This collection covers a wide range of Corinth related topics but is not exhaustive.   Efforts have been made to provide hyperlinks to services like JSTOR and Google Books, as well as to the publisher, though link collection is ongoing.  Many bibliographic records link to artifacts, coins, and places and monuments (but not photographs).  The user should not confuse these links with catalog entries made by the author. The links do not  precisely mirror the catalog, because published catalog entries often aggregate non-joining pieces while our artifact database retains these as separate entities. Corinth, the Centenary: 1896-1996 Corinth, the Centenary: 1896-1996 This link highlights some recent publications on the subject of Corinth. Corinth Excavations serves as a training ground for the students of the American School of Classical Studies offering the opportunity for experienced and first-time excavators to supervise and document the work  of trained workmen using a single context, open area excavation system. Area supervisors periodically write summaries of their work.  Likewise the excavation director may produce a report of the seasons accomplishments.  Synthetic narratives of the excavation process are helpful to understanding the more detailed records of Contexts, Images, and Objects.  The reports of each seasons excavations will remain password protected until our formal report to the Greek Ministry of Culture in the autumn of each year. Places and Monuments Early excavation in Corinth began with the aim to uncover the places  mentioned by the Roman traveler, Pausanias.  With the discovery of the fountain of Peirene excavators had a fixed toponym in the city and expanded their investigations.  Much of the archaeological record is organized by places or monument names around which excavation occurred.  Though the internal system moniker for this type is "monument" many of our excavations are more properly places.  As archaeologists broadly explored the city, early excavation journals commonly covered many places.  Later, as excavations became more targeted, focused, and standardized, the notebooks were restricted to a particular area.  The West Shops and the Temple of Apollo The West Shops and the Temple of Apollo. The places and monuments database provides loose geospatial control for the archaeological record.  Before standardized excavation within an alphanumeric grid was implemented, a reference to a monument may be the best information available for the provenance of an artifact. Today, electronic total stations and GPS provide spatial control in excavation linking locations (X, Y, and Z) to global map projections.  The Map view in the sidebar at left is helpful plotting data entities on a map. Plans and Drawings Architectural plans and object drawings document the discoveries of the excavation, namely architecture and artifacts.  Drawings receive a three digit serial based on monument or excavation area, and number within that series. (e.g. 003 075, the serial number 003 designates the Central Area and Theater District and 075 is the 75th drawing in the series). Plan by A. S. Cooley of 1898 State plan of the excavations in 1898 by A. S. Cooley.  Pen and ink on linen. Since 1896, a wide range of photographic media has recorded the excavations-- glass plates, cellulose nitrate based (this collection was transferred to acetate based), acetate-based black and white negatives (in small, medium, and large formats), color slides, large format color positive, and digital.  Some of the first photographs were developed in the tunnels of the fountain of Peirene.  Photo of a small scale Roman sculpture Statue of Roma found in the Panayia Field in 1997. Photographic images in the Corinth system receive accession numbers. All digital images presented here, whether scanned negatives or born-digital, are given a name identifier consisting of many parts: a media type (e.g. "bw" for black and white, "color" for color positives and slide, or digital), the year it was created, perhaps a roll number if strip film, and a frame number (e.g. bw 1999 011 036a, frame 36a on the 11th roll of black and white film taken in 1999, or digital 2007 0145 for the 145th digital photo of 2007). Note on image orientation: All film was scanned with the top of the negative oriented up.  Thus, if the photographer found it necessary to frame the subject upside down, it will appear that way in the image.  While some expert find this confusing and disturbing, the user may temporarily reorient the photograph for correct viewing by clicking the blue button that appears when the pointer/cursor hovers over the upper left hand corner of the image. Objects and Coin Artifacts of material culture found during excavation are saved, cataloged and stored in the museum.  Each object's provenance and physical characteristics are thoroughly documented and described, and museum staff supervises data entry into appropriate fields of the database.  Still, many of our artifact data records exist only on inventory cards or in older find inventory books.  When artifacts are inventoried, they are classified with an inventory number (e.g. C 1999 7, which is the 7th ceramic object of the excavation season of 1999) divided primarily on type or function (i.e. architecture, inscriptions, sculpture, pottery, etc.). Categories are as follows, with the class letter always preceding the catalog number of the object: A Stone Architecture AM Architecture, Medieval C Pottery CP Pottery before 1926 FA Architectural terracotta Antefixes FB Architectural terracotta Bricks FC Architectural terracotta Cover Tiles FM Architectural terracotta Miscellaneous FP Architectural terracotta Pan Tiles FR Architectural terracotta Ridge Tiles FS Architectural terracotta Simas FST Architectural terracotta Stamped Roof Tiles FT Architectural terracotta Eaves Tiles I Inscription L Lamps LOT Numbered pieces in lots MF Minor Finds MOS Mosaic S Stone Sculpture SF Sculpture Fictile V Votive Some object codes are specific to the excavation area: KA, KH, KL, KM, KN, KP, KT, and KV for architecture, figurine moulds, lamps, metal, pinakes, pottery, figurines, and votive pottery from the Potters' Quarter. T for Shear Excavations; TF for Asklepieion Terracotta Figurines; VT for Asklepieion Votive Terracottas; Z for Zygouries artifacts. Coins are a rich and significant artifact type in the archaeological record, especially for chronological control. Note on 'skeleton' records: Users of will in some case find incomplete or 'skeleton' records used as place holders for artifacts and coins, awaiting rich data to complete them.  This practice allows linked relationships to be preserved, so that for instance, the user can navigate from a basket record to objects in that basket (which may not have detailed descriptions) to photos of the objects.  It also allows the user to note that, while rich data may be absent for the time being, an artifact indeed exists in the collection. A Basket is the smallest unit of stratigraphic excavation that was recorded in the field notebooks (one floor layer, one layer in a well, one wall, etc.). All pottery and objects found within a basket are initially kept separate for analysis.  Excavators have employed several naming conventions-- sometimes beginning each work day with basket #1 and sometimes with a single series starting with basket #1 for each notebook.  A basket name or identification references the notebook (NB), basket (B), and perhaps a page in the notebook (P).  Thus NB919 B12 P37 (see notebook scan below) is the 12th basket in notebook 919 and is found on page 37.  As of 2007 with introduction of single-context, open-area methods, all contexts are numbered in a single sequence by excavation area. Excavation of the Centaur Bath Excavation of the Centaur Bath Lots are made up of one or more baskets and represent a single archaeological event or human activity.  Since the 1960s with few exceptions, all material from each basket within a lot is stored separately and can be re-analyzed later if necessary. Lots are designated by the year and a serial number (e.g. Lot 2007 001). The general word Context is used in to designate any of these named archaeological contexts, be it a basket, a lot, a deposit, a room, a building, or even an entire excavation trench. Notebooks (coverage 1896 to 2007) Archaeological excavation in Corinth was recorded in field notebooks.  Early notebooks, especially pre-war, were often free form day journals. Later they became increasingly systematic and standardized. The notebook below contains a textual description of the excavation process, dividing an area into Contexts (independent archaeological contexts such as strata, walls, rooms, etc.).  Notebooks also contain photographs, plans and drawings, and references to artifacts found during excavation. As of 2007 loose leaf context sheets have been used in the field in lieu of notebooks. Excavation notebook 919 from the Panayia Field Notebook 919, Basket 12 on page 37 The notebooks were scanned open and cataloged by page spreads (two adjacent pages).  Each spread notes the page number only when designated by the author. Card Catalog In addition to find notebooks, a card catalog system organizes the inventory records related to artifacts.  In 1977, electronic databases were first used by Corinth Excavations, but the card catalog still is kept up to date. Corinth Card: Coin 1959 1757: AR Hemidrachma, 400 B.C. - 315 B.C.
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Infringement of unregistered copyright. Action on unregistered Copyright Infringement.  An interesting article from  Adam Once a work is “fixed” in a “tangible medium of expression,” it is automatically protected by copyright. Registration is not necessary to receive copyright protection. An unregistered copyright entitles you to reproduce, sell, and perform the copyrighted work. Beyond this, your rights are limited if your copyright is not registered, especially if you have distributed your work through a copyleft agreement. Bringing Suit for Unregistered Copyrights You cannot bring a suit for copyright infringement without first registering your copyright. It is possible to sue for an injunction, which would order the individual using your copyrighted work to stop using it. 1. Possible Damages It is possible to get actual damages and profits in a suit involving an unregistered copyright. Actual damages and profits are the actual money lost (or potentially lost) by the copyright owner and the money gained by the individual using the work. If the copyright is registered, it is possible to receive statutory damages (damages called for by a statute) as well as attorney’s fees. Should I Register My Copyright? Because of the limited rights you have with an unregistered copyright and the many benefits to registering your copyright, you should strongly consider registering your copyright. Do I Need a Lawyer for My Copyright Problem? Defending your copyright, whether registered or not, can be very difficult. An experienced intellectual property attorney can guide you through the process of registering a copyright and ensure that all deadlines and requirements are met. If you need to sue or are sued for copyright infringement, an IP lawyer can represent you in court. – See more at:
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Secondary Structural Dissociation ― Deborah Bray Haddock, The Dissociative Identity Disorder Sourcebook DID Research Secondary Structural Dissociation When trauma begins at a young age, lasts longer, is perpetrated by a family member or guardian, or involves more extreme disorganized attachment, the theory of structural dissociation posits that primary structural dissociation may not be enough to allow the individual to handle all of different aspects of trauma that they are being exposed to. Trauma that begins at a younger age affects a less integrated personality, trauma that lasts longer requires more traumatic materials to be contained, trauma that is perpetrated by someone who is supposed to protect the vulnerable child creates a strong motivation to remain unaware of the trauma during daily life, and trauma that is accompanied by disorganized attachment forces the child to react in conflicting ways to a caretaker without allowing any of their other learned responses to shine through. When some or all of these conditions are met, the result might be complex-posttraumatic stress disorder (C-PTSD), borderline personality disorder (BPD), or other specified dissociative disorder (OSDD-1). Though the trauma may not be enough or the individual young or dissociative enough to produce multiple apparently normal parts (ANP), multiple emotional parts (EP) are the cause of these disorders. Secondary structural dissociation refers to the presence of one ANP and multiple EP within an individual. As in primary structural dissociation, the ANP in secondary structural dissociation is responsible for daily life while multiple EP hold traumatic materials that the ANP could not adequately integrate. However, unlike how primary structural dissociation involves one EP that handles fight, flight, freeze, and submission as necessary, these multiple EP each handle unique and often conflicting aspects of the trauma. Different clusters of memories, intense emotions, learned responses, internalized messages, and personal characteristics will be associated with different EP, and the EP may be more developed than are those in primary structural dissociation. Adults who developed complex-posttraumatic stress disorder most often do so due to prolonged or repeated traumas such as war, political torture, prolonged captivity, or genocide. Childhood trauma also greatly increases the risk that further trauma will lead one to develop C-PTSD as an adult (Cloitre, Garvert, Weiss, Carlson, & Bryant, 2014).1 This is known as double emotion when reactions to new trauma are intermingled with unresolved past traumas, and it can re-evoke old EP or increase the number of existing EP. Those with C-PTSD experience their parts in a similar manner as do those with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). The ANP of the individual remains numb and avoidant until something triggers out one of their EP, at which point the EP will react according to their specific contained materials. However, the ANP of an individual with C-PTSD is likely to have more maladaptive coping mechanisms. Projection, identification with the perpetrator, holding positive feelings towards the perpetrator, or being obsessed with revenge on the perpetrator are common and may be expressed within multiple EP. For EP who represent a fight response to trauma, intrusions upon the ANP may involve physical aggression, hyper-vigilance and a strong startle reflex, irritability and recklessness, and emotional outbursts that are directed either at others or at the individual. For EP who represent a flight response to trauma, intrusions may involve bolting to a perceived safe place, attempting to hide somewhere, panic, and an extreme sense of terror and doom. For EP who represent a freeze response, analgesia might result in addition to catalepsy and a lack of awareness and response to stimuli. For EP who represent a submit response, anesthesia might accompany the automatic deferral to the perceived-powerful or dangerous individual(s). All EP may be accompanied by dissociative flashbacks, negative perceptions of the self and world, nightmares, or somatic symptoms. As with EP in primary dissociation, EP may take full control of an individual with C-PTSD to result in a fully experienced flashback and subsequent amnesia. Partial intrusions of EP may cause dissociative symptoms, difficulty attaching to others, and a preoccupation with perpetrators that may be either sympathetic or vengeful in nature. ANP avoid both partial and complete intrusions of EP by avoiding stimuli that might cause their activation. Borderline personality disorder is in some ways similar to PTSD and C-PTSD and is often associated with childhood trauma and dissociation, though not all individuals with BPD have experienced trauma or are dissociative. Symptom presentation for individuals with BPD can vary as only 5 out of 9 possible symptoms are required for a diagnosis. However, "a pervasive pattern of instability of interpersonal relationships, self-image, and affects, and marked impulsivity" (American Psychiatric Association, 2013)2 are the main features of BPD, and these symptoms are heavily linked with problems with self-regulation, self-mutilation, fear of loneliness, and a sense of emptiness. The theory of structural dissociation accurately describes these features. A disorganized or insecure attachment style has been found to be present in over 80% of individuals with borderline personality disorder and can explain many of its associated problems. This attachment style is often the result of childhood trauma or parental disorganized or insecure attachment (which can itself be intensified by the child's borderline personality traits). Disorganized attachment necessitates many internal contradictions, and this can lead to a lack of integration. This is especially true when the specific type of insecure attachment is preoccupied, in which the child alternates between attachment and detachment, or dismissing, in which affective (emotional) states are disowned (Mosquera, Gonzalez, & Leeds, 2014).3 Individuals with BPD have EP that handle both attachment and detachment, idealization and devaluation, as both of these patterns of thinking, feeling, and reacting are necessary for a child whose caregiver alternates between support and emotional unavailability, neglect, or abuse. This leads to an unstable identity as the conflicting EP intrude upon the ANP. Intense and tumultuous interpersonal relationships combined with fear of abandonment result from the caregiver never modeling healthy attachment, the caregiver not offering the level of attention, affection, and support needed by the child, and the caregiver's unpredictable rejection. Regressive (childish) behavior in those with BPD often reflects an EP that is frozen in time. Difficulty with emotional regulation and temper relate to the ANP dismissing the emotions of the EP which, upon activation, react upon the extreme feelings which are usually denied to them. This inability to regulate emotions derives from the individual's primary caregivers never teaching them to identity or manage these emotions. Impulsive and self-harming actions arise as an alternate way to handle intense emotions and potentially due to unacknowledged parental criticism, rejection, or hostility. Transient dissociation and paranoia are reactions to extreme unmanaged anxiety or intrusions from EP, and dissociation may be expressed as a negative symptom of the ANP (Mosquera et al., 2014).3 Other symptoms of BPD are explained by structural dissociation, as well. For example, common symptoms of BPD are chronic feelings of emptiness, loneliness, and boredom. For individuals with borderline personality disorder who have strong EP but a weak central ANP, these symptoms may be the result of the ANP containing comparatively little when not joined by EP and of ANP having to avoid so many emotional and situational triggers that might activate EP. On the other hand, some of the impulsivity of BPD might result from individuals attempting to force out EP in order to feel more complete and whole. Self-harm has been known to be used as an attempt to decrease dissociation. Other specified dissociative disorder subtype 1 is the most complex of the disorders that fall under secondary structural dissociation of the personality. OSDD-1 is very similar to DID in many ways, and it does not always fall neatly under secondary structural dissociation as what differentiates it from DID is the absence of amnesia or fully differentiated parts, not the number of ANP present. Theoretically, someone with OSDD-1 should have only one ANP and multiple EP, though in reality, this is not always the case. Regardless, the EP for an individual with OSDD-1 will likely be better developed and differentiated than the EP present in other primary and secondary structural dissociation disorders, though they might still be less developed than the EP for individuals with DID. EP for those with OSDD-1 can range from the traumatic containers found in C-PTSD and BPD to fragments with some concept of differentiation to fully developed alters with their own developed idea of self. EP for those with OSDD-1 may handle some aspects of daily life such as exploration or play. They commonly perceive themselves as children. They can either manifest through passive influence or, when in a safe environment or when triggered, through a full switch. The parts of those with OSDD-1 may deny each other, deny each others' memories, or deny aspects of the body's physical form or current situation. Not only is the ANP avoidant of EP and liable to react to EP with shame, blame, or hatred, EP may avoid each other. Individual EP may be focused more on defense through fight, flight, freezing, or submission, on specific emotions, or on specific types of attachment. It's common for EP to present in a stratified manner, with one or more EP presenting with their trauma as the previous EP and their trauma are processed and integrated. Multiple EP are often grouped according to the types of trauma that they experienced, with some EP even having experienced different aspects (sites, sounds, emotions) or being created to contain different defensive actions associated with the same trauma and traumatic memories. Some traumas might be associated with an experiencing part who registered the sensorimotor and affective elements of the trauma and with an observing part who witnessed the trauma from within or during an out-of-body experience. The observing part might present as emotionless and detached and is associated with the concept of an internal self helper. 1 Cloitre, M., Garvert, D., Weiss, B., Carlson, E., & Bryant, R. (2014). Distinguishing PTSD, Complex PTSD, and Borderline Personality Disorder: A latent class analysis. European Journal Of Psychotraumatology, 5. doi: 2 American Psychiatric Association. (2013). Personality Disorders. In Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders (5th ed.). 3 Mosquera, D., Gonzalez, A., & Leeds, A. M. (2014). Early experience, structural dissociation, and emotional dysregulation in borderline personality disorder: The role of insecure and disorganized attachment. Borderline Personality Disorder and Emotion Dysregulation, 1(15). doi:10.1186/2051-6673-1-15 Some facts from "The Haunted Self." Image created using Piktochart
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• Skateaid proves the viability of better venues for rock shows • Being in a community is the most greatest feeling So I read this African proverb “if you want to go fast go alone but if you want to go far go together”. It got me thinking about a lot of things and one of them is the Kenyan rock and metal community. Most rockers have no idea how good it feels to headbang with […] Repeat Playlist OFF Random Playlist OFF DJ TUMZ Halloween 2018 Mix - 2000s Rock DJ TUMZ Halloween 2018 Mix – 2000s Rock
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2.8.7 (February 11 2011) ENGINE-397 Improved Highlighter for fieldedText Dimensions The engine’s query pipeline now uses the field-level analyzer to perform highlighting. Previously, the engine would use the parent dimension’s analyzer. ENGINE-384 expandPhrases now includes option “fullMatch” to require all terms to be matched The query field expandPhrases now supports a new value that will require that all expanded words match the searched text. Previously the engine would return a match if any of the words matched. To match all of the terms in the text, use the value fullMatch. ENGINE-354 Multi-Threaded Query Support In some instances, using multiple threads can improve query performance. To enable and disable this feature, use the Admin Tool’s Settings Page. ENGINE-381 WordSets Can be Merged This feature makes it possible to merge word sets, allowing them to be built up from smaller collections of word sets. Bug Fixes ENGINE-388 Stopwords and Queries Are Ignored with Phonetic Algorithms Enabled Stopwords and Queries Are Ignored with Phonetic Algorithms Enabled. ENGINE-359 JVM Startup Messages Now Appear in the Discovery Log File Output from the JVM startup process was previously being squelched. ENGINE-379 Error when posting a changeset Corrects a situation where uploading a changeset using the Admin Tool’s Changesets Page, the engine would sometimes respond with Problem accessing /changeset. Reason: ... java.io.FileNotFoundException: /ws/changeset?meta=1&pathOnly=1
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The goal of the Minsk Innovation University as any higher education institution is to provide functions of educational, innovation and cultural center. We are achieving this goal by means of science, which is intended to serve as a binding instrument for implementing these functions. Research Department is a part of the institute, engaged in planning, organizing, monitoring and accounting of research and training of PhD and Grand PhD holders. The main tasks of the department: The organizational structure of department Rektor Vice-Rector for Research NIO НИЛ ППП Докторантура Аспирантура Магистратура Совет молодых ученых Совет по НИРС Contact information Vice-Rector for Research Mrs. Valiantsina Hedranovich tel.: +375 17 285-49-77  Mrs. Yuliya Zmeeva tel.: +375 17 291-27-30 Junior researcher Mrs. Mariya Niepochatyh tel.: +375 17 291-27-30
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413.8 Spot Seal Coating From Engineering Policy Guide Jump to: navigation, search Spot seal coating consists of sealing lean, oxidized, or map cracked areas small in size. If spot sealing cannot be controlled to a maximum of 10 percent per mile of the roadway surface on each mile at any one time, other means of repair should be considered. Spot sealing is considered preventive maintenance and should be done before the oxidized or cracked areas deteriorate further. It should be done during hot weather, preferably the summer and early fall months, from May 15 to September 15. CRS-2 emulsified asphalt is normally used. The asphalt is applied with a hand spray or distributor dependent on the actual and contemplated size of failure. Experience determined which method is the most economical and practical. Normally the hand spray method is only practical when the failures are small spot failures and not progressive. The asphalt is applied at an average rate of .35 gal/yd2, but control is difficult and the amount should be just sufficient to embed the aggregate enough to hold. Excessive asphalt will cause subsequent bleeding especially if the work is being done in cold weather. The placement of cover aggregate should immediately follow the application of asphalt and be spread at the rate of 25 to 30 lb/yd2. On all work, the amount should be controlled closely to prevent waste. It may be spread by hand, tailgating from a truck, or by a mechanical spreader. All areas shall be rolled immediately with a steel drum roller. Where the template of the road is poor rolling should also be done with a loaded truck. Rolling should be continued until the aggregate is firmly embedded. Cover aggregate should not exceed 1/2 in. maximum size for warm weather, and 1/4 in. maximum for cooler weather, unless the treated areas is such that larger aggregate can be embedded firmly to provide for more stability. On higher type surfaces, the aggregate must meet specifications for seal coat aggregate. Crushed creek gravel may be used only if no other cover aggregate is available. If used, a minimum amount should be applied and additional rolling performed to embed such aggregate firmly. Brooming should be kept to an absolute minimum and any brooming done should be done lightly. If the areas sealed lose their cover aggregate, additional aggregate should be applied and the areas rolled well. If the aggregate will not embed, sharp, clean sand should be applied and rolled wall to check the bleeding. Proper traffic control, flagging and signing must be used on spot sealing operations to assure the safety of the public and our crews, and to minimize the whipping off of aggregate by traffic.
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Caroline Knox Caroline Knox's collection A Beaker: New and Selected Poems appeared from Verse Press in May 2002. Her previous books are The House Party and To Newfoundland (Georgia 1984, 1989) and Sleepers Wake (Timken 1994). Her work has appeared in American Scholar, Harvard, Massachusetts Review, New Republic, Paris Review, Ploughshares, and Poetry, whose Bess Hokin Prize she has won. Her poems have been in Best American Poetry 1988 and 1994. She has received awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Ingram Merrill Foundation, the Massachusetts Cultural Council, and The Fund for Poetry. In 2002-2003 she is a Visiting Fellow at Harvard, completing a fifth book, He Paves the Road with Iron Bars, forthcoming from Verse Press. EPR #6 Coin-Faced Man Gnome Acrostic Copyright ©2003 Electronic Poetry Review
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Ethermoon Entertainment The latest and greatest information from Ethermoon Discuss, exchange rumors, be social! General game information See the latest screenshots. Download wallpaper, demos, trailers, and other goodies. Learn more about Ethermoon. Why are the graphics and/or text all messed up? By default, Strifeshadow uses the 3D support of your video hardware. Some older cards support these API's very poorly. You can turn off the 3D card support by pressing the F7 key. ©2000-2016 Ethermoon Entertainment. All rights reserved.
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In this podcast, I visit Jonathan Marks, a partner at Marcum LLP on how to perform a root cause analysis and it uses in the remediation phase of a best practices compliance program. One new and different item was laid out in the Evaluation of Corporate Compliance Program, supplementing the Ten Hallmarks of an Effective Compliance Program from the 2012 FCPA Guidance. This was the performance of a root cause analysis for any compliance violation which may led to a self-disclosure or enforcement action. Marks noted a root cause analysis is a research based approach to identifying the bottom line reason of a problem or an issue; with the root cause not the proximate cause the root cause representing the source of the problem. He contrasted this definition with that of a risk assessment which he said is something performed on a proactive basis based on various facts. A root cause analysis analyzes a problem that (hopefully) was previously identified through a risk assessment. We also consider how to use a risk assessment because under the Evaluation, the critical element is how did you use the information you developed in the root cause analysis. Literally every time when you see a problem as a compliance officer, you should perform a root cause analysis. Was something approved or not approved before the untoward event happened? Was any harm was done? Why or why not? Why did that system fail? Was it because the person who is doing the approval was too busy? Was it because people didn’t understand? It is in answering these and other questions which have been developed through a root cause analysis that you can bring real value and real solutions to your compliance programs. We tie this requirement from the Evaluation of Corporate Compliance Programs together. You must not only perform the root cause analysis but use the information you obtain to inform your compliance program going forward. As much care as you put into performing your root cause analysis should be put into using the findings for remediation.
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Main / Shopping / Phineas and ferb cartoons Phineas and ferb cartoons Phineas and ferb cartoons Name: Phineas and ferb cartoons File size: 168mb Language: English Rating: 5/10 Phineas and Ferb is an American animated musical comedy television series. Originally "Cosmic Quantum Ray, Phineas & Ferb Big Winners at Cartoons on the Bay". Animation Magazine. Retrieved Jump up ^ Bynum, Aaron H. Thanks for the A2A Yes, unluckily Phineas and Ferb is not “super” popular in Japan (I think the other posters have answered for the case of China). There are . Explore Taylor Hightower's board "Phineas & Ferb" on Pinterest. | See more ideas about Perry the platypus, Caricatures and Cartoons. В© 2018 firstclasscareacademy.com
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View Single Post Old 08-11-2004, 05:38 PM   #85 Iris Alantiel Haunting Spirit Iris Alantiel's Avatar Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: Valinor Posts: 97 Iris Alantiel has just left Hobbiton. "Iris", besides being my favourite flower, is also the Greek goddess of rainbows, and I've always loved rainbows, since they are a symbol of hope and full of pretty colours besides. As for "Alantiel", I patched that together while listening to my FotR movie soundtrack, based on words I picked up from the Elvish in the Enya songs. Roughly translated, it means "fallen star". Some people think that sounds depressing, but I think it's all in how you look at it - I prefer to think of it as reflecting a star that has come down from the heavens to contribute its light to the earthly realm, rather than a star that has descended from its starting place and come to lower things. In any case, "Iris Alantiel" is from my pen name, myself being an aspiring writer. Above all shadows rides the Sun and Stars forever dwell: -- Samwise Gamgee Iris Alantiel is offline   Reply With Quote
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1. I'm on Windows Build number 1.3.3. 2. I'd just left a planet  (not sure which) after borrowing a ship. 3. I clicked the button Auto, expecting to get some sort of autopilot, but it crashed to desktop with the above message. Quote 0 0 Ok, after a seriously long delay, I've fixed this crash and the fix will be in the next version! 🙂 Quote 0 0
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header image left image   Current Projects     Computer Facilities   divider   Home   divider divider   Imprint   divider   Sitemap   divider   Intranet   divider   Contact   divider   Links   divider tug logo igb logo The PathwayExplorer is an easy to use and platform independent interactive Java drawing tool for the construction of biological pathway diagrams in a visual way and the annotation of the components and interactions between them. This novel drawing tool integrates the possibilities of charting elements with different attributes (size, color, labels), drawing connections between elements in distinct characteristics (color, structure, width, arrows), as well as adding links to molecular biology databases, promoter sequences, information on the function of the genes or gene products, and references. The result of the editing process is a PNG (portable network graphics) file for the images and XML (extended markup language) file for the appropriate links. Further it is possible to map expression datasets to the pathways by using gene RefSeq ids. It is also possible to use a SOAP interface to access the pathways online. For viewing and using the generated pathways you can use the provided PathwayExplorer web application. An example of an image map constructed using the PathwayEditor is the annotated pathway for insulin signaling (http://gold.tugraz.at) Mlecnik B, Scheideler M, Hackl H, Hartler J, Sanchez-Cabo F, Trajanoski Z. PathwayExplorer: web service for visualizing high-throughput expression data on biological pathways. Nucleic Acids Res. 33: W633-W637 (2005) PM:15980551 pathwayexplorer logo description tab
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Tuesday, 1 June 2010 Joggler Linux Boot Mysteries PCs boot first using a system known as a BIOS (basic input output system), that's the bit you might see when you very first switch on your computer and might say something like "Press F1 to enter system menu" or similar. The BIOS is responsible for knowing enough about your hardware such that it can start the computer, run your boot loader and ultimately pass on some information to your operating system which takes over control of the hardware. The Joggler doesn't boot using the mechanism most of us as PC users are familiar with, however, abandoning the BIOS in favour of EFI (extensible firmware interface). EFI is much bigger, more flexible and inevitably a lot more complicated than the older BIOS system. I'll attempt to unravel in simple terms some of the mysteries of booting your own operating system on the Joggler here. EFI has its roots in Intel in the same way as a BIOS has its roots in IBM.  Basically, it consists of a set of executables able to run within the simple environment EFI provides.  These executables are just little computer programs that can vary extremely widely from talking to a piece of your hardware to providing you with a shell environment in which you can interact with EFI through to booting your operating system.  This last function is quite important to us as computer users if we're to understand how EFI is used to start your machine, in this case your Joggler.  A BIOS will boot your machine by looking at the master boot record and starting the boot loader that your installed operating system has put there; your operating system is responsible for booting itself.  EFI does away with this, moving the responsibility for booting operating systems into the firmware interface itself, you no longer need a boot loader for your operating system.  Instead, the boot loader is now just another EFI program that runs within the simple EFI environment I mentioned earlier. You've been wondering what this FAT partition on your Joggler image is all about?  FAT is just another file system like NTFS for Windows or ext for Linux, it's very widely understood so is commonly used these days on USB sticks but not necessarily many other places.  If your disk is to be used to boot an operating system then EFI says you need a FAT file system as the first partition of that disk.  EFI actually says FAT12 or FAT16 must be used for "removable media" so for us Joggler users with USB sticks or hard disks we should be using FAT16 even though EFI can understand FAT32 as well.  You could boot any other disk from your FAT partition but all the simple Joggler cases would just involve booting an operating system somewhere else on the same disk i.e. the second partition. Fortunately for us, when you start your Joggler its EFI looks both at its internal disk (the one with the O2 interface on it) and removable media (your USB disk).  The FAT partition is discovered on your USB disk and by convention the file called startup.nsh is executed.  This file is simply a script which can be used to execute any EFI script commands you wish.  For Joggler USB booting it just runs a local script on your disk to start your boot loader EFI program. So for the Joggler we might have something like this in startup.nsh on our disk in order to call the boot.nsh: And the following in the file boot.nsh to start the grub EFI boot loader program: You now know what to do in order to boot your Joggler from a USB disk but the final missing piece to the puzzle is the EFI boot loader program itself. In the example above I used grub as the boot loader program. Yes, this is the same grub you're familiar with from booting Linux on BIOS based machines. However, in this example it's an EFI program so you'd be right to be wondering how you go about getting a copy of it.  In my example here your FAT partition already has 2 files on it (startup.nsh and boot.nsh) and you'll need another 2 files (grub.efi and grub.cfg) to be able to boot your disk There are two versions of grub.  The old version, grub 1 or grub legacy as it's know known is not the one you want.  You're looking for the current version which is (or will become) grub 2.  At the time of writing grub 1.98 is the latest version, download the released version.  Unfortunately, it doesn't work on the Joggler without applying a patch.  So it's with thanks and reference to the guys over at Joggler Hacks I got my Joggler booting with my own grub 2. To compile an EFI version of grub 2, unpack the source you've downloaded, then apply the Joggler grub 2 patch (using patch -p1), run ./configure --with-platform=efi and make.  The compilation should proceed through to completion leaving you just finish off by making the grub EFI program.  You can do this with ./grub-mkimage -d . -o grub.efi part_msdos hfsplus fat ext2 normal sh chain boot configfile linux.  The file grub.efi will be created and you can copy this to your FAT partition. The one remaining thing to do is create the grub configuration file.  In grub 2 this is called grub.cfg and can be put in the root directory of your FAT partition with the other three files already there.  If you've got your root file system on your second partition then the following should be enough for you to boot it: set timeout=0 menuentry "Linux" { set root=(hd0,1) linux /vmlinuz root=/dev/sda2 acpi=force ro idle=halt initrd /initrd This configuration requires your kernel (vmlinuz) and ram disk (initramfs or initrd) to be on the FAT partition too.   The final piece to the puzzle is to copy these files from your installed version of Linux in the second partition from the /boot directory.  With all six files in place on the FAT partition you're all set to boot the OS on the second partition.  Most recent versions of Linux should at least boot on the Joggler. However, the Joggler does have some interesting hardware which may not be optimally supported.  Hence, for the quickest out of the box working system you're still better off using a pre-built image from someone else as now you've got the thing booted the hard work is only about to begin. You can find a lot more of my information about the Joggler at my Joggler Index post. I also have a list of Joggler Bookmarks.
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Information for "Meetings" Jump to: navigation, search Basic information Display titleMeetings Default sort keyMeetings Page length (in bytes)5,676 Page ID1003 Page content languageEnglish (en) Page content modelwikitext Indexing by robotsAllowed Number of views158,007 Number of redirects to this page0 Counted as a content pageYes Page protection EditAllow all users MoveAllow all users Edit history Page creatorClements (Talk | contribs) Date of page creation00:21, 22 November 2008 Latest editorClements (Talk | contribs) Date of latest edit16:57, 19 May 2016 Total number of edits61 Total number of distinct authors3 Recent number of edits (within past 91 days)0 Recent number of distinct authors0
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Karin Viard Karin Viard ​From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.   Karin Viard (born 24 January 1966) is a multi-award-winning French actress. She made her film debut in Tatie Danielle in 1990. Since then she has appeared in such films as Delicatessen, L'Emploi du temps (Time Out), Adultère, mode d'emploi and La parenthèse enchantée. She was a member of the 2003 Cannes Film Festival jury. Description above from the Wikipedia article Karin Viard  licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia. Name Karin Viard Also Known As Карин Вьяр Birthday 1966-01-24 Gender Female IMDB Karin Viard profile on IMDB Place of Birth Rouen, France
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No Hope for Gomez! By G. Parke Saturday. Decided to do a little detective work. Headed over to the hospital and queued up at the front desk to ask about visitor's hours. The nurse told me they'd just started. "Great," I said. "Can I just walk in?" "You can," she said. "Who did you want to see?" "Mr. Joseph Miller. He was brought in two days ago." The nurse consulted her computer, frowned, then shook her head. "No, I'm sorry," she said. "Mr. Miller's dead. He died late last night." She looked up from her screen. "Would you like to see somebody else?" "What? No! I really need to talk to Mr. Miller. Are you absolutely sure he's passed away?" "I can recheck if you want." She typed away. "Sometimes this program mixes up some of the... ah, I see what I've done now." She gave me an apologetic smile. "Stupid little me," she said. "I had the stats of several files mixed up." I breathed a sigh of relief. "So, he didn't pass away?" "Oh, no," the nurse said, shaking her head, "he's still dead, but he died this morning rather than last night." She held up her hand with a small amount of space between her thumb and index finger. "You missed him by that much." "I see," I said. "Does it at least say what he died of?" She browsed her screen, bit her lip, and mumbled, "Yes, no, wait a minute. I saw something about.. Ah, yes. Yes, it does." She looked up again. For a long moment we stared at each other. When I finally arched an eyebrow, she said, "Are you a relative? I'm not supposed to give out this kind of information to just anybody." I tried to think fast. I really needed that information but I didn't know Joseph other than from the clinic waiting area. We'd never even spoken. Then, out of nowhere, the perfect answer just came to me. I told her, "Yes." "Okay then." She was about to tell me when her face clouded over again. "You really should be getting this information from his doctor, though." I waved it away, told her it would be fine. "Well," she said, reading from her screen, "it says here he died of dehydration and malnutrition." "He was found passed out in his apartment," I told her. "Apparently he'd been out for a while. Does it say what caused him to lose consciousness in the first place?" The nurse perused the file for a long time, then shook her head. "No, sorry," she said. "I'll have to get the doctor for that. Just a moment." She reached for the phone. "That's okay," I said. I didn't want to get into trouble for impersonating a relative. "I need to go. Pressed for time. Thank you." As I turned to leave, she called after me, "Are you sure you don't want to visit anyone else? There are some really nice people up on the second floor. Much nicer than Mr. Miller. They'd love to talk to you." No Date for Gomez! By G. Parke Ran into Gretchen in the hallway. My head was buzzing with thoughts, but when I looked into those hazel eyes, everything went quiet. It was like a power outage in my brain. All synaptic activity slowed and my inner voice went dead. In fact, I wasn't even entirely sure I was still there. I could remember talking to people. Knowing the kinds of things one said in polite conversation. I could remember making people think and laugh. But, at that very moment, I couldn't put my finger on any of the words one might use when running into a fellow human being in a hallway. Gretchen smiled and said, "Hi!" Which was one of the words one might use. "How are you doing today?" Which, I now recalled, was a bunch of others. Unspent Time By G. Parke The tentacles hovered in the air for only an instant, then came crashing down again, straight at her. She could only stare at them in fear; there was no time to react. And yet, they missed again. Only by millimeters, but they missed. However, she felt pain all over her body. Her back and head throbbed as if she'd been beaten. Then the tentacles withdrew. They disappeared behind the precipice silently. That's when Kiala realized she was lying on her back, several meters inland from the jetty. "That was close," said a breathy voice. Kiala whirled round to find a boy standing behind her. He was tall and slender, handsome in a mysteriously odd kind of way, with pale skin that was close to translucent and eyes that were bright and piercing. As she struggled to get up, she felt the boy's gaze move right through her. The boy's eyes were also red-rimmed with deep, dark rings around them. Truth be told, he looked a bit sickly. "Are you alright?" Kiala blurted out. "Me?" The boy caught his breath. He brushed some imaginary dust and some very real tentacle slime from his cape and said, "I just saved your life. I should be asking you that question." "I know," Kiala said. "And I can't thank you enough for what you just did, but, well." She gave him a sympathetic smile. "You look awfully pale, as if you might collapse at any moment. " The boy snorted. He made his cape catch an invisible breeze so it wrapped around him dramatically. "Are you kidding me?" He lowered his voice to a menacing whisper. "I'm Waywick III of the flying cannibal clan of the lost city of Vark. I'm a creature of dusk and twilight. I'm an unholy spirit of death!" "No, you're not," Kiala said. She rubbed at her back, where he'd apparently dragged her over some pretty pointy rocks. "Excuse me?" Waywick gave her a baffled look. "Of course I am!" Kiala rolled her eyes at him. "Well, you don't look all that dead and unholy to me. You just look a bit pale, that's all." "I never said I was dead," Waywick bristled. "I just said I was a flying cannibal and an unholy spirit of death. That doesn't mean that I am dead." He shook his head at her. "It just means that I'm very, very dangerous." "Sure," Kiala said. "Again, though, you don't look all that dangerous." Waywick opened his cape wide and puffed out his chest. "Then perhaps you should take a closer look." Kiala decided not to, instead she searched for her rod. She'd dropped it during the attacks. It lay wedged between two boulders a few meters away. "I don't know," she told Waywick. "Anyone can look pale, thin, and sickly, that doesn't automatically mean that they're dangerous." She checked the rod for surface damage and was relieved to find it in good condition. "In fact," she continued, "it usually means exactly the opposite." Random Acts of Senseless Violence By G. Parke Blog entry: Arrived at the store late, found a homeless guy sleeping in the doorway. Hicks was already inside but gave no indication he'd noticed. I nudged the homeless guy and asked, "How are you doing down there, fellow? You okay?" The homeless guy grumbled something in his sleep. "It's getting pretty cold," I said. "Don't you want to come inside?" "Inside?" He coughed and opened his eyes. I pointed out my store, not convinced he'd actually noticed where he'd crashed the night before. "This is my antiques store," I told him. "We've got the heating on inside, shame to waste it on just two people. And it looks like it might start to snow soon." The homeless guy gave me a suspicious look. "You want me to come inside? With you?" "Sure, if you'd like." "Is that because you think that if I come inside with you, I'll let you touch me?" "What? No!" "Okay, because I can tell you right now, that's not gonna happen." "Well, I suppose it is good to get those kinds of things clear beforehand. But no, I was just thinking you might enjoy the warmth, maybe a cup of cocoa." "A cup of cocoa you say." He scratched his stubble. "And you'll be charging me for this cup of cocoa?" "No, the cocoa is free." "I see. So, are you operating under the assumption that if I come inside with you, and I drink your free cocoa, that I will touch you?" "What? No!" "Okay, because I can tell you right now, that's not gonna happen either. Just because a guy is down on his luck, that doesn't mean he goes around touching people in exchange for cups of cocoa." "I understand completely. And thanks again for pointing that out. But no, my friend and I noticed that you were sleeping in our doorway and, well, we'd like to invite you inside." The homeless guy turned and peered through the window in the door. He made eye-contact with Hicks, who panicked and went looking for his broom. "That your friend?" I followed his gaze. "Yeah, that's Hicks. He's a bit peculiar, but he's okay." "I see." The homeless guy pulled on his collar. "And this friend of yours, will he be drinking cocoa also?" "I suppose. I'm not entirely sure, but it seems likely." "I see." The homeless guy considered this. "So," he said, after a long moment, "will this friend of yours be expecting me to touch him?" "No! There is no touching involved in any of this!" "Okay, calm down," the homeless guy said. "There's no need to get all homophobic." "I wasn't!" "You sounded homophobic to me." "Me? You're the one who can't stop talking about touching people!" I noticed people stopping in the street to stare at us. This made me very uncomfortable.
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Writing Dialogue Fundamentals Explained ‘Kuthi, are you currently informed what bribery is?’ The ringmaster chided from a safe length, as I pulled for the chains to acquire at him. I needed to beat him. Punch, scratch, spit – any Bodily abuse might have sufficed. I knew I had been squandering Electrical power, but I couldn't restrain my want to physically assault anybody who threatened my liberty. Probably I considered they would let me go in defeat. Also, who's the viewpoint character here? I suppose it’s Alistair, since you’re exhibiting us his views. But then We have now a line that exhibits Belial recognizing the scent in the demon. Even though the character is alternatively speaking to herself the way in which she would to a different character—That’s it, that’s it. Aim, Libby. You might want to move—italics are still almost certainly essential. (However not in all instances.) Italics are each apparent and from time to time challenging to browse. I’d reserve them for terms, phrases, and quick sections of imagined. You don’t want to do something Which may gradual the read through to your readers and italics can just do that. Great people, Each one. Each individual with a route toward satisfying their writing desires. Our paths have crossed, and I'm honored to get in touch with these pals and colleagues. He isn’t remembering The entire conversation. Traces of it are coming back to here him concerning Each individual motion conquer. The complete discussion transpired a web page or two previously. Also, although quotation marks might need been used to present feelings a whole lot a lot more prior to now (Galsworthy wrote about a hundred years back), the craze right now is for fewer punctuation marks. If feelings might be revealed in other ways (We all know they are often), then employing People other ways is the 1st suggestion. There are for precise good reasons to employ italics in fiction, but applying them for prolonged passages of textual content is not really inspired. For something, it’s merely tricky and distracting to read lengthy sections of textual content in italics. I’ve employed quotations here, but I’ve also regarded quotations with italics. And does one involve the end punctuation? Considered and dialogue are vital, but so is motion. If you need your opening to explode, gentle a match. But Understand that you’ve bought to possess an explosive of some type connected, a scenario that would explode. Don’t Allow Anybody character talk for pages. Breaking apart the Visible of all italics will provide the reader a crack. And giving figures over intellect-communicate will provide them with a split. Very first, the character should be the viewpoint character for just a scene. Unless of course you’re writing from a completely omniscient viewpoint, that is quite unconventional today, you gained’t be dipping into and out of every character’s head. When it’s certainly not demanded and you simply wouldn’t make use of the approach continuously—possibly not Substantially of the time—contemplate putting views and interior dialogue into a brand new paragraph, as though it have been spoken dialogue. And If you don't figure out how to co-run you're going to get your answer Soon’ He sounded Pretty much unfortunate for me as he closed his assertion using a pained sigh and locked the doorway behind himself, leaving me with my own tortured thoughts again. Comments on “Writing Dialogue Fundamentals Explained” Leave a Reply
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Home Yellow Pages Movies Classifieds Jokes Jobs Free Hosting Videos Joke Mail Newsletter Health > Heart Attack > Diagnosis Once the emergency care team arrives, they will ask you about your symptoms and begin to evaluate you. The diagnosis of the heart attack is based on your symptoms, ECG and the results of your blood studies. The goal of treatment is to treat you quickly and limit heart muscle damage. In addition, your heart rate and rhythm can be watched. You will also be connected with leads (wires) to a bedside monitor for continuous monitoring of your heart rate and rhythm. Electrocardiogram : An electrocardiogram – abbreviated as EKG or ECG – is a test that measures the electrical activity of the heartbeat. An ECG gives us two major kinds of information. First, by measuring time intervals on the ECG, a doctor can determine how long the electrical wave takes to pass through the heart. Finding out how long a wave takes to travel from one part of the heart to the next shows if the electrical activity is normal or slow, fast or irregular. Second, by measuring the amount of electrical activity passing through the heart muscle, a pediatric cardiologist may be able to find out if parts of the heart are too large or are overworked. Blood Tests : The blood test most commonly used to confirm the existence of heart muscle damage is the creatine kinase (KREE'ah-teen KI'nas), or CK for short. A small fraction of the CK enzyme, CK-MB, is often measured as well. CK-MB shows an increase above normal in a person's blood test about six hours after the start of a heart attack. It reaches its peak level in about 18 hours and returns to normal in 24 to 36 hours. The peak level and the return to normal can be delayed in a person who's had a large heart attack, especially if they don't get early and aggressive treatment. Echocardiogram (echo): An echocardiogram is also known as ultrasound examination or sound wave picture of the heart. This is taken by a highly trained technician who places a hand-held plastic ultrasound probe against the patient's chest. The probe is connected to a large computer with a video screen. The probe emits sound waves that pass through the chest to the heart. The heart then reflects those sound waves back to the probe. The probe transmits those reflected signals to the computer which reconstructs them into a picture of the heart. This picture is displayed on the screen and recorded on videotape or on a digital storage medium. There are no known harmful side effects from these sound waves. The average test takes about 30 minutes. No patient preparation is required for this test. Echocardiograms - An echocardiograms shows .... Cardiac catheterization(angiogram): An invasive imaging procedure that involves inserting a catheter into a blood vessel in the arm or leg, and guiding it to your heart with the aid of a special x-ray machine. Contrast dye is injected through the catheter so that x-ray movies of your valves, coronary arteries and heart chambers are taken. Docator perfer this test to find out 1, presence of heart disease 2, Evaluate heart muscle function 3, determine the need for further treatment (angioplasty or bypass surgery) Angiogram - Preparation and procedures for angiogram ....
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Meiji Restoration From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to navigation Jump to search The Meiji Restoration (明治維新, Meiji Ishin), also known as the Meiji Renovation, Revolution, Reform, or Renewal, was a political event that restored practical imperial rule to the Empire of Japan in 1868 under Emperor Meiji, following nearly 700 years of almost continuous military dictatorship, headed by a series of shōguns “appointed” by hereditary, but little more than ceremonial, Emperors. Although there had been periods with ruling Emperors before the Meiji Restoration, the events restored practical abilities and consolidated the political system under the Emperor of Japan.[2] Foreign influence The Japanese knew that they were behind the Western world when American Commodore Matthew C. Perry came to Japan in 1853 in large warships with armament and technology that far outclassed those of Japan with the intent to conclude a treaty that would open up Japanese ports to trade.[1] Figures like Shimazu Nariakira concluded that "if we take the initiative, we can dominate; if we do not, we will be dominated", leading Japan to "throw open its doors to foreign technology." Observing Japan's response to the Western powers, Chinese general Li Hongzhang considered Japan to be China's "principal security threat" as early as 1863, five years before the Meiji Restoration.[2] Imperial restoration The foundation of the Meiji Restoration was the 1866 Satsuma-Chōshū Alliance between Saigō Takamori and Kido Takayoshi, leaders of the reformist elements in the Satsuma Domain and Chōshū Domain. These two leaders supported the Emperor Kōmei (Emperor Meiji's father) and were brought together by Sakamoto Ryōma for the purpose of challenging the ruling Tokugawa shogunate (bakufu) and restoring the Emperor to power. After Emperor Kōmei's death on January 30, 1867, Emperor Meiji ascended the throne on February 3. This period also saw Japan change from being a feudal society to having a market economy and left the Japanese with a lingering influence of Modernity.[4] End of the shogunate The Tokugawa government had been founded in the 17th century and initially focused on reestablishing order in social, political and international affairs after a century of warfare. The political structure, established by Ieyasu and solidified under his two immediate successors, his son Hidetada (who ruled from 1616–23) and grandson Iemitsu (1623–51), bound all daimyōs to the shogunate and limited any individual daimyō from acquiring too much land or power.[5] The Tokugawa shogunate came to its official end on November 9, 1867, when Tokugawa Yoshinobu, the 15th Tokugawa shōgun, "put his prerogatives at the Emperor's disposal" and resigned 10 days later.[6] This was effectively the "restoration" (Taisei Hōkan) of imperial rule – although Yoshinobu still had significant influence and it was not until January 3, the following year, with the young Emperor's edict, that the restoration fully occurred.[7] Shortly thereafter in January 1868, the Boshin War (War of the Year of the Dragon) started with the Battle of Toba–Fushimi in which Chōshū and Satsuma's forces defeated the ex-shōgun's army. This forced (or allowed) the Emperor to strip Yoshinobu of all power, setting the stage for official restoration. On January 3, 1868, the Emperor made a formal declaration of the restoration of his power:[citation needed] — Mutsuhito, January 3, 1868[8] All Tokugawa lands were seized and placed under "imperial control", thus placing them under the prerogative of the new Meiji government. With Fuhanken sanchisei, the areas were split into three types: urban prefectures (, fu), rural prefectures (, ken) and the already existing domains. In 1869, the daimyōs of the Tosa, Hizen, Satsuma and Chōshū Domains, who were pushing most fiercely against the shogunate, were persuaded to "return their domains to the Emperor". Other daimyō were subsequently persuaded to do so, thus creating, arguably for the first time, a central government in Japan which exercised direct power through the entire "realm" (天下). Some shogunate forces escaped to Hokkaidō, where they attempted to set up a breakaway Republic of Ezo; however, forces loyal to the Emperor ended this attempt in May 1869 with the Battle of Hakodate in Hokkaidō. The defeat of the armies of the former shōgun (led by Enomoto Takeaki and Hijikata Toshizō) marked the final end of the Tokugawa shogunate, with the Emperor's power fully restored.[citation needed] Finally, by 1872, the daimyōs, past and present, were summoned before the Emperor, where it was declared that all domains were now to be returned to the Emperor. The roughly 280 domains were turned into 72 prefectures, each under the control of a state-appointed governor. If the daimyōs peacefully complied, they were given a prominent voice in the new Meiji government.[9] Later, their debts and payments of samurai stipends were either taxed heavily or turned in to bonds which resulted in a large loss of wealth among former samurai.[10] Military reform The Meiji oligarchy that formed the government under the rule of the Emperor first introduced measures to consolidate their power against the remnants of the Edo period government, the shogunate, daimyōs, and the samurai class. The oligarchs also endeavored to abolish the four divisions of society.[citation needed] The Tokyo Koishikawa Arsenal was established in 1871. Besides drastic changes to the social structure of Japan, in an attempt to create a strong centralized state defining its national identity, the government established a dominant national dialect, called "standard language" (標準語, hyōjungo), that replaced local and regional dialects and was based on the patterns of Tokyo's samurai classes. This dialect eventually became the norm in the realms of education, media, government, and business.[11] Industrial growth The Meiji Restoration accelerated industrialization in Japan, which led to its rise as a military power by the year 1895, under the slogan of "Enrich the country, strengthen the military" (富国強兵, fukoku kyōhei). Japan's economic powers are a major influence on the industrial factor of its country also. Economics and market are both influenced how the people used the market as a place of growth. The nation of Japan had gone under a mass transformation that helped them economically. Japan had help from Western nations when it came to the industrial growth. This is important to the growth and ideas that came with the reforms and transformation Japan was undergoing during the Meiji period. During the Meiji period powers such as Europe and the United States helped transform Japan and made them realize a change needed to take place. Some leaders went out to foreign lands and used the knowledge and government writings to help shape and form a more influential government within their walls that allowed for things such as production. Despite the help Japan received from other powers, one of the key factors in Japan's industrializing success was its relative lack of resources, which made it unattractive to Western imperialism.[13] The farmer and the samurai classification were the base and soon the problem of why there was a limit of growth within the nation's industrial work. The government sent officials such as the samurai to monitor the work that was being done. Because of Japan's leaders taking control and adapting Western techniques it has remained one of the world’s largest industrial nations. Year(s) Production Exports 1868–1872 1026 646 1883 1682 1347 1889–1893 4098 2444 1899–1903 7103 4098 1909–1914 12460 9462 Coal production Year In millions of In millions of long tons In millions of short tons 1875 0.6 0.59 0.66 1885 1.2 1.2 1.3 1895 5 4.9 5.5 1905 13 13 14 1913 21.3 21.0 23.5 Size of the merchant fleet Year Number of steamships 1873 26 1894 169 1904 797 1913 1,514 Length of train track Year mi km 1872 18 29 1883 240 390 1887 640 1,030 1894 2,100 3,400 1904 4,700 7,600 1914 7,100 11,400 See also 1.^ Although the political system was consolidated under the Emperor of Japan, power was mainly transferred to a group of people, known as the Meiji oligarchy (and Genrō), who helped in the restoration of imperial power.[10] 2. ^ a b Henry Kissinger On China. 2011 p.79 • Henry Kissinger On China. 2011 p.79 4. ^ "The Meiji Restoration and Modernization". Asia for Educators, Columbia University. Columbia University. Retrieved 7 May 2018. 5. ^ "TOKUGAWA PERIOD AND MEIJI RESTORATION". Retrieved 2 March 2018. 6. ^ "Meiji Restoration | Definition, History, & Facts". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 2017-08-21. 9. ^ David "Race" Bannon, “Redefining Traditional Feudal Ethics in Japan during the Meiji Restoration,” Asian Pacific Quarterly, Vol. 26, No. 1 (1994): 27-35. 10. ^ a b Gordon, Andrew (2003). A Modern History of Japan From Tokugawa Times to the Present. New York: Oxford University Press. pp. 61–62. ISBN 9780198027089. 11. ^ Bestor, Theodore C. "Japan." Countries and Their Cultures. Eds. Melvin Ember and Carol Ember. Vol. 2. New York: Macmillan Reference USA, 2001. 1140–1158. 4 vols. Gale Virtual Reference Library. Gale. Pepperdine University SCELC. 23 November 2009 [1]. 13. ^ Zimmermann, Erich W. (1951). World Resources and Industries. New York: Harper & Row. pp. 462, 525, 718. Further reading External links • Essay on The Meiji Restoration Era, 1868-1889 on the About Japan, A Teacher's Resource website • A rare collection of Japanese Photographs of the Meiji Restoration from famous 19th-century Japanese and European photographers Retrieved from "" This content was retrieved from Wikipedia : This page is based on the copyrighted Wikipedia article "Meiji Restoration"; it is used under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License (CC-BY-SA). You may redistribute it, verbatim or modified, providing that you comply with the terms of the CC-BY-SA
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Mozilla Awareness Program @ BSK Firefox for Windows 10 Campaign was one of the coolest campaign that I worked on so far. It gave me the opportunity, to organize near about 20 events and promote Mozilla in various university throughout the country! But it was my plan to host event, in an open space with allowance for everyone. I mean, whoever is interested to know about Mozilla can join the event. So, I along with some community contributor organized Mozilla Awareness Program @ BSK where we invited people from different places and institutions to talk about Mozilla! As it was not a regular type event, we made it a little different. We asked everyone to create a group and make activity around their group. After that, I started talking about Mozilla and how we are different from others. Also shared my opinions on why we work together, as community. Then, I gave them a brief of the event and instructed them, how to do activity around the group! After that, everyone started discussing in groups about different things around Firefox. Which keeps them to use Firefox and which annoys them while using Firefox! Woman participation was also worth noticing! While they were discussing things, I approached to them to listen their inputs. In the meantime, I talked to people about changes in Firefox in Windows 10 and why they should use Firefox in Windows 10. I also demonstrated the way to make it default. After that, we ended the event with a group photo! You may love to see other pictures from this event in Flickr. Leave a Reply
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I'm here for you <3 I just walked past a school, passing groups of boys trying to be cool and girls chatting and hugging each other. And than this girl with black clothes, dark makeup and purple hair, walking all by herself, her eyes gracing the ground. And I just wanted to hug her. I'm you from the future and im here to tell you that I love you, I love you with all my heart.  You are not the weird one, the ugly one or the outcast, you and everyone like you, you are the special ones. It sucks balls to be you right now, but I can se the beautiful, vast world behind your stellar monument to loneliness. And when the darkness slowly fades from your life you will be embraced by a warm and loving light.  And you will never shake the feeling of being a weird, ugly outcast, but it will turn into something you love about yourself. Cause all those popular, perfect-seeming assholes around you are all the same. They're all boring background noise in the night sky of the grownup world and all of you are going to be the sun and the moon and the stars that make the night sky beautiful and special. And until you figure that out for yourselves, I will be here for you, to love you when you can't, keep you company when you're alone in the crowd and understand you when no one does. You are the special ones, you will feel it one day and it's worth waiting for <3 Kommentera inlägget här:
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“Stick with your work. Do not flinch because the lion roars; do not stop to stone the devil’s dogs; do not fool away your time chasing the devil’s rabbits. Do your work.  Let liars lie, let sectarians quarrel, let critics malign, let enemies accuse, let the devil do his worst; but see to it nothing hinders you from fulfilling with joy the work God has given you. He has not commanded you to be admired or esteemed.  He has never bidden you defend your character.  He has not set you at work to contradict falsehood (about yourself) which Satan’s or God’s servants may start to peddle, or to track down every rumor that threatens your reputation.  If you do these things, you will do nothing else; you will be at work for yourself and not for the Lord. Keep at your work.  Let your aim be as steady as a star.  You may be assaulted, wronged, insulted, slandered, wounded and rejected, misunderstood, or assigned impure motives; you may be abused by foes, forsaken by friends, and despised and rejected of men.  But see to it with steadfast determination, with unfaltering zeal, that you pursue the great purpose of your life and object of your being until at last you can say, ‘I have finished the work which Thou gavest me to do.’”
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The 70 Nations Are Going Down; The Battle Has Begun Shavua tov The 7th and 8th Torah Portions Reveal the Truth A Hidden Equation Flash Forward to Today What’s the connection? Vayetze: Sometimes One Word Says it All What does the word Vayetze tell us? We know that the spiritual essence of the assorted Torah parshot (portions) are found in its first verses, and sometimes in its first word.  It’s not for nothing that very high level righteous souls (tzaddikim) gave them their appropriate names, and we’ve already discussed how important a name is for us and how we can use them for our spiritual advancement. It is a spiritual tenet that the seed energy (and thus complete blueprint) for anything, whether it’s a tree or a Torah portion, is included in its beginning. Why do you think the Torah begins with the words “In the Beginning?” The 28 letters of the Torah’s first verse house the blueprint for all 5 Books. Vayetze means “He went out,” but before we explore that, let’s see what the gematria ciphers reveal about the word, because these are the access codes to get into the more secure areas of the cosmic website address “Vayetze.” The first verse of the Torah portion Vayetze, Bereshit 28:10, is the 784th in the Torah and 784 = 28 squared (or 28 x 28), 28 being not only the number of letters in the Torah’s first verse, but also the number most associated with the year 5778.  Indeed, there’s reason to believe that the actual date is 5778.28, as per the book, There’s Nothing Random in the Universe. Nonetheless, the value of the first word in the verse, Vayetze (ויצא) is 107 and we know that because nothing physical is ever really lost, the true spiritual value of 107 is the sum of all the positive integers through 107, which is 5778. Moreover, the א alef in Vayetze, ויצא  is the 3778th in the Torah. If we permute the alef in Vayetze to Yacov (jacob) and the י yud of Yacov to Vayetze, we get יויצ and אעקב, and since we know from chazal that the עקב in Yacov is the word for heel, which he was holding when he was born (the heel of Esau) and that this reflects the generation of the heel (of Adam), which is our generation, the bottommost and last one, we can now find a clue in that אעקב (עקב) adds up to 173, the small gematria value of the Shem Mem-Bet מ״ב, the 42-Letter Name of God (אנא־בכח Ana B’koach).  And the יוי now has the value of 26, that of the Tetragrammaton, which is waiting on top of the ladder (סולם) in Jacob’s famous dream 2 verses later. There is only one paragraph in this portion, and it encompasses the entire portion, # 63 and we know that 63 is universally associated with the 2nd aspect of the Tetragrammaton (סג) (יוד־הי־ואו־הי ) of numerical value 63 and it represents the פרצוף partzuf of Binah (understanding). To a kabbalist like the Arizal that says it all, and he went on a lengthy discussion of the reasoning that Jacob had to marry Leah first and then Rachel in order to draw down the energy from Binah in the proper order, back-to-back with Jacob who represents Zeir Anpin. But you can read his commentary for yourselves. This blog is all about shedding and shining new light for you. There is only one other portion that has a single and entire paragraph associated with it and that’s Miketz and paragraph number 77, the numerical value of מזל mazal, fortune, which Jacob finds in that portion when he interprets Pharaoh’s dream.  Seeing as there are no coincidences in the Torah, the Torah must be telling us that these two portions are connected somehow. If we add the numerical value of the word Vayetze to Yayehi the first word of each portion, plus the 2 for the kolel of the 2 words/portions, we get 107 + 31 + 2 = 140 = 63 + 77, so there is a definite connection between Jacob going out and Joseph becoming King of the world (more or less). It is the connection between Binah consciousness (understanding) and mazal. And the point cannot be lost that both these portions begin with dreams, the two most famous in the Torah. An understanding of kabbalah and the structure of the tree-of-life reveals that Joseph is a reflection of his father, Jacob, both of them pivotal central column elements on the trunk of the tree, and that what one did reflected on the other. A few secrets about the central column structure are in order here. First, the first letters of the upper three positions on it Keter-Daat-Tiferet (associated with Jacob) add up to 424, the numerical value of Mashiach Ben David, the Messiah.  And the bottom 2 positions Yesod (associated with Joseph) – Malchut, add up to 50, representing both Binah (as in the 50 gates of Binah) and the jubilee year. Together, all 5 central column positions (sefirot/dimensions) add up to 474, the numerical value of Da’at (knowledge), the place we want to access when we go out of ourselves. Now, while the concept, as explained by the Ari, of the jubilee year (7 X 7 +1) is embedded in both the portion vayetze and Miketz through the 7 by 7 years that Jacob toiled to earn the right to marry Leah and Rachel and through the 7 by 7 fat and lean years in the dream of paragraph 77, the YM sofit combination also has a numerical value of 610, that of מעשר  Ma’aser, tithing. This concept of tithing first comes up in this portion of Vayetze, when in Bereshit 28:20 Jacob makes a deal with God to tithe to Him if He’ll watch over him on this journey.  And so we see Jacob’s work and journey to/from לבן Laban lasted 21 years, one-tenth (1/10th) of the 210 years that the Israelites, Jacobs’ descendants, had to spend in exile in Egypt. This concept is further emphasized by Jacob’s statement that Laban reduced his wages 10 times. In a sense, Jacob’s tithe made the end of the exile possible, exactly 66.6 jubilee years before the prophesied arrival of the Mashiach in 5778. The mention of 10 multiple times in the portion causes us to look back to the first 10 letters (seed level) of the portion and we find as before Vayetze Yaacov followed by MB (מ״ב). Interesting, because all the significant journeys in the Torah are divinely governed by the mem-bet (42). And the sum of those 10 letters plus the kolel of 10 is 341, the numerical value of the 3 Mothers (EMSh). as spelled out in the Sefer Yetzirah, whose cyclical ordinal value is 101, as in Michael (the archangel protecting Jacob), the same as the יצא in Yayetzeיצא). Thus the verse can be read Michael and Jacob journeyed. The 3 Mothers, the 3 primordial letters of creation also correspond with the 3 elements (speckled, spotted, and flecked) and in the odd story where Jacob used 3 types of branches to control nature and change his fortune, but that’s a much deeper secret for those that understand. So how do we go out, make our own mazal? Tithing is one way and many other answers were provided in The Genesis Prayer, but one important gateway through which flows the living waters, as we’ve sited in previously posts, is hinted at in the words ויצא־יעקב Vayetze Yaacov of numerical value 107 + 182 + 1 (kolel) = 290, which is that of the Resh-Zaddi (רצ) pair at the very center of the 42-Letter name of God. It is also the launch point for Jacob’s ladder (סולם) on which the angels ascended and descended, as explained in that same post (Living waters), 2 verses later. Jacob worked hard, made a vow to God, kept unwavering faith, and used the spiritual tools of kabbalah; in other words, he went out of his comfort zone. He stepped out of the illusion of reality, out of the illusion of being a victim, and into Binah consciousness. There’s nothing Jacob did that we can’t do today. By trusting in God and taking the initiative, we have everything we need to create our own mazal. But we must take a clue from Jacob; the first thing he did was go out. Like Jacob, we must let go of the physical illusions, take the leap of faith without looking back,and then to the hard work. Not the other way around. Don’t toil and struggle first and then ask God why the results aren’t there. Results from hard work alone only happens for those not on a spiritual path, because their results are all on the physical plane and their path goes in circles. If you’re on a spiritual journey, you need to do the steps in order and to take a clue from the Bible and all the Bible codes, you must begin your journey with the mem-bet, the 42-Letter name of God. Sarah Lives Continued: There’s Much more than meets the eye. In a very simplified recap, we’ve linked the verse Bereshit 21:1 and the keeping of G-d’s promise to Abraham and Sarah, and the birth of Isaac to the coming of H’Mashiach (the Messiah) in 5778 (2018 CE) and to the Ari, Rabbi Isaac Luria, (of numerical value 211) and then we’ve linked Bereshit 23:1 to the coming of H’Mashiach in 5778 (2018 CE) and to the Ari again. Now, let’s take it further, much further. While we saw that the phrases “The Ari lives” and “The Messiah Lives” are connected to Bereshit 23:1 and to the phrase “Sarah Lives” there are two more verses connected to this 5th portion that link with one another and bring further clarity to the generational chain of H’Mashiach, two more pieces of the puzzle if you will. They are Bereshit 24:1 and 1 Kings (Malachim) 1:1, both of which begin with the key phrases “coming with the days” commonly translated at “old age.” But “coming with the days” is a definite reference to for those that understand. Bereshit 24:1 is talking about Abraham and 1 Kings 1:1, which is from the Haftorah portion associated and read with Chayei Sarah, is about King David. Bereshit 24:1 is the verse recited 3 times after the Hallel prayers: V’Abraham zaken Ba Bayamim V’adonai berach et Abraham bacol. “Abraham was old, well advanced in years and God had blessed Abraham with everything. We’ll show shortly how this is a continuation of the previous verse, which was also the first in its respective chapter, as are these two, and we’ll also show how they all refer to the end of days (advanced in years) and to G-d’s fulfillment of his promise, his Covenant with Abraham. The first connection between this verse and Bereshit 23:1 is hinted at in the palindromic word VYHYV, which if your recall indicated a coming and going in two different directions and thus a doubling of Sarah’s 127 years, as in 127 x 2 = 254, which just happens to be the numerical value of V’Abraham, the first word in Bereshit 24:1. And if you recall from the posts about verse Bereshit 22:1 and 23:1, about how they reflected Moses’ 515 prayers for the Messianic age to come and moreover that that the 516th prayer would have ushered it in, thus finding that the numerical value of the 4 word phrase that begins Bereshit 24:1: V’ABRHM TzKN BE BYMYM, is 516 is quite significant. The verse begins with 4 words phrase: V’ABRHM TzKN BE BYMYM, very similar to the verse in 1 Kings 1:1that begins V’H’Melech David TzKN BE BYMYM, substituting the name King David for that of Abraham, and just like V’ABRHM having the value of 254, or 2 x 127, the 3 letters in the word melech (MLC) King, spelled out, also have the value of (80 + 74 + 100) = 254 = 2 x 127. But we can really begin to see the connection when we notice that the phrase David H’Melech Chai (King David lives” has the numerical value of 127, as in the 127 years of Sarah’s life. The first of the two similar verses that reflect the same thought, Bereshit 24:1 and 1 Kings 1:1, has 4 words and the second one has 5, together, 9 words, once again reflecting that theme of 9 that we saw when we were analyzing Sarah’s verse Bereshit 23:1. Since it takes two words to say “King David,” we see that while the first letters of the first 4 words of Abraham’s verse add up to 17, that of tov, good, the first letter of the first 3 words in King David’s verse add up to 17as well. This harks back to Creation when the Torah states that G-d made the Light and it was good (tov). In case you haven’t realized yet, and I guarantee you have will by the time you finish this blog, the purpose of all this encryption is to lead us to David H’Melech (King David) and his connection to H’Mashiach. Even the 22 letters of the Hebrew Alef-bet say David H’Melech, loud and clear. The sum of the 22 letters is 1495, which visually and mathematically breaks down to 14 and 95, and 14 is the numerical value of David and 95 is the numerical value of H’Melech, thus the sum of the 22 letter represents David H’Melech. Moreover, the various examples we have of specific words in the verses equating to 254 is more than just 127 x 2. Since the sum of the integers through 22, as in the 22 letters, is 253 and 254 is 1 more than 253, these specific words are all references to going above physicality, which is what both Abraham and King David did. This is also a hint as to what we must do both in order to see and understand all this, and to be able to see and understand what will happen in the time of H’Mashiach, “in the coming of days.” We must expand our minds, our vision, our loving kindness (chesed) beyond the physical, which means beyond ourselves, and our selfish natures. Just as we do every Elul leading up to Rosh Hashanah, but on a much grander scale, we must prepare ourselves for meeting and greeting the King. Using the 3 Shanah (years) and the 3 linked verses and the multiple of 3 word combinations that keep leading us to astoundingly redundant messages as yet another clue, we can take another 3 word combination, such as the values of the two BYMYM from the two verses (Bereshit 24:1 and 1 King 1:1 plus the value of the word TzKN from those verse and add 2 for the kolel of the 2 verses and we get 204 + 157 + 2 = 363, the numerical value of H’Mashiach, “The Messiah.” Even verse numbers themselves, Bereshit 24:1 + 1 Kings 1:1 plus 6 for the kolel of the 6 digits = 241 + 111 + 6 = 358, the numerical value of Mashiach. While the word V’Abraham from, Bereshit 24:1 has the numerical value sofit of 814, the same as the verse Vayikra 19:18 paraphrased as Love thy neighbor…, the word V’H’Melech “And the king,” referring to King David from verse 1 Kings 1:1, has the numerical value of 101, which is the same as the gematria atbash of Shanah (ShNH), year, from verse Genesis 23:1. And 101 is the same numerical value as the cyclical ordinal value of the 3 Mothers (E, Sh,M), and is also the simple gematria of Michael, the archangel, protector of Israel, whose numerical value of 541 is the cyclical ordinal value of the 7 Doubles (B,G,D,C,P,R,T) as revealed in the Sefer Yetzirah and as will be explained soon in another post to this blog. But more germane to our current analysis is that the ordinal value of Sarah, Abraham, and David is 46+41+14 = 101, as well. And their numerical value, including the kolel for the 11 letters in their 3 names is 505 +248 + 14 + 11 = 778, as in 5778. And since the first word of Bereshit 24:1, V’Abraham and the first word of 1 Kings 1:1 together have the numerical value of 254 + 101 = 355, that of Shanah (year) and/or sefira (dimension), so what better link to Sarah’s verse in Bereshit 23:1 can we ask for? Except that when we strip away the prefixes as we often do when trying to find the essence of the matter in the Torah, we see that the spelled out sofit values for the 3 letters of the 3 words from the 3 verses, Sarah, (ShRH), the EBR of Abraham, and Melech (MLC) plus the 24 letters in the spelled out versions of these 9 letters = 2635 + 996 + 1345 + 24 = 5000 exactly. And when we couple that with the equation just above, we get Sarah, Abraham and King David = 5778. And just in case we think this is some colossal coincidence, please note that verse Bereshit 24:1 is divided down the middle into two phrases of 5 words each: V’Abraham zaken Ba Bayamim and V’adonai berach et Abraham bacol. The second phrase “God had blessed Abraham with everything,” has the numerical value of 1995 + 18 (letters) + 5 (words) = 2018. And since we know G-d made his Covenant with Abraham in 2018 HC, it must be telling us that Abraham will finally receive everything (His Promises fulfilled) in 2018 CE, 5778 HC. But what of the second part of 1 Kings 1:1, which is also split to two 5 word segments (phrases)? That may be giving us another version of the end of days. “YYCSHV BBGTYM VLE YChM LV” translates to “he could not keep warm even when they put covers on him.” It’s a very cold, bleak, uncomforting end.” And since the first word in that phrase has a numerical value of 107 and begins and ends in vav, like the VHYHV that began Bereshit 23:1, and because all the integers from 1 to 107 add up to exactly 5778, we need to take this warning, this possible outcome, seriously. It’s not coincidence that there are 31 verses in 1 Kings 1, just as there are in Bereshit 1. And/or that there are 31 words in all 3 verses. It’s another beginning. But how do we know these 3 verses are really meant to be connected and that they collectively connect to the end of days? The total standard gematria of the 3 verses is 5770, plus 8 for the 8 years that we’re told by chazal that H’Mashiach will have to pass through before the brit (covenant) can be achieved gives us 5778, and also a clue that the tzaddikim of blessed memory are probably correct. And the square root of the gematria sofit value for the 3 verses is 111.848, pointing us again to the Alef, and the unity of the three ones, or columns of the tree-of-life in the end and since 848 = 2 x 424, the value of Mashiach Ben David, it’s also pointing to the 2 heads once again. Now, going back to the 3 Shanah’s (years) from the 2nd part of verse Bereshit 23:1, Sarah’s verse. When we spell out (ShNH, ShNH, ShNYM) using the mem sofit we get 2048, a reference to Abraham (248) no doubt, but more to the point, the 2048 is the year their son, Isaac was born.  Incidentally, Sarah died when he was 37, as in the value of the first word of that verse (VYHYV), which starts out “this is he life of Sarah.” Moreover, 2048 – 27 (letters) – 3 (words) = 2018 yet again. Of course, simple gematria of the 3 Shanahs (years) gives us a value of 355 + 355 + 400 = 1110, or 10 x 111, the numerical value of the letter alef, and also elef, the word for 1000, thus 10 x 1000, which either way, translates to the keter (crown) or head of the 10 sefirot. And if we add the ordinal value (138) to it to get the complete value, we get 1110 + 138 = 1248, a simple allusion to 1000 (keter/elef/alef) and to Abraham (248). It should be very clear by now, that this sequence and these verses are telling us about the seed level of Mashiach, of the universe, and about both the beginning and the end of it all. And that sentiment is echoed in that the 3 Shanah sequence ends in Yud-mem, representing Keter of value 620. And speaking of first words, the numerical value of the first word in each of these three verses, not only begins with vav, making 3 vavs, or 6 + 6 + 6 = 18, the value of chai, life, but they in simple gematria they are 101 + 254 + 37 = 392 and when we add the kolel of 16 for the 16 letters in the 3 words, we get 408 as in the 408 missing composite letters from the Torah, (600,000 – 408 letters). Incidentally, the 231 in Genesis 23:1 can be said to relate to the 231 Gates of Wisdom discussed in the Sefer Yetzirah. Nevertheless, of the 12 words in the verse, Genesis 23:1, the two-word phrase Sarah Chayeh is repeated, not only emphasizing that the Torah is talking about someone beyond Sarah, someone yet to come, someone from her spiritual lineage. It also allows us to take note that when the kolel for the 6 letters in this phrase is added to its complete word value (normal and ordinal together) we get a total of 613, as in the 613 precepts delineated in the Torah, indicating we are talking about a complete tzaddik (righteous soul). The word TzKN repeated in each of these 2 similar verses (24:1 and 1 Kings 1:1) has value of 157 so the value of both these words together is 157 x 2 = 314, that of Shaddai Mettatron, Pi, etc. This in itself is a hint to the 3 letters of David (DVD) that have a value of 14. And speaking of Pi, the letters Shin and yud that were both repeated 9 times in Bereshit 23:1 are not only completed with the letter dalet of David to form the Shin-dalet-yud of Shaddai, but they translate through gematria atbash to Mem and Bet as in the Shem Mem-bet, and as noted in The Genesis Prayer, when we divide the number 9 by the small gematria of the Shem Mem-Bet we get: 9/.123049027395534023292943802957033870306904 = = 70 + 3.141577 The simple equation not only yields an impossibly precise approximation of the mathematical constant Pi, but also 5777, the year 2017 CE. It’s also coupled to the all-important Biblical time span of 70 (years), including David’s lifespan, and to the number 73, the value of Chochma, wisdom, the 9th sefira, but we’ll get into Pi and its connection to 5778 a little later. Next, the words BE BYMYM common to both verses (23:1 and 1 Kings 1:1) contains two mem-bets each, signifying the upper and lower Names, meaning redemption, Pad (PD of numerical (42 + 42) value 84, and represented by the Eyheh Asher Eyheh “I am that I am,” also known as the two heads (RESh, a permutation of Asher), which fits with the twin numerical values of the two Yud-mems of the BYMYM. and the Bet (B) which signals 2, by its value (2)/ Meanwhile, the Alef of BE, is also a sign of head, as it’s the primordial letter that comes before the Bet of Bereshit, the physical first letter of the Torah, and it’s also the head of the alef-bet. Spelled out yud-mem has the numerical value of 100 and the second one has the sofit value of 620, both representative of keter, and thus the two heads, or crowns. This also is indicative of a crown at either end, at the beginning and at the end, though that is up to interpretation. The other head is also Sarah, as the numerical value of 3 of the first 4 words of Bereshit 23:1 subtracting her name they total (VYHYV ShRH ChYY MEH) 37 + 28 + 46 = 111, which is that of the letter Alef. The other two heads are Sarah’s spiritual lineage and Abraham’s, the two halves of the soul that came together with G-d’s blessing to make their spiritual seeds as numerous and as bright as the stars. Nevertheless, the word BYMYM when spelled out has the value 412 + 100 + 100 = 612, as in the value of the word Brit, Covenant, so we know that the Torah is not fooling around when it mentions “the coming of days.” There are many different types of gematria, (established encryption decoding systems, some more common, like sofit (final letters), katan (small), atbash (reverse alef-bet) and albam, (plus 11 or middle of alef-bet) and some are much more concealed and known only to a very few people today. but all are revelatory. Nevertheless, it should be cautioned that other than very basic gematria, none of the others should be utilized unless it has already been established that the particular subject that you’re examining has significant already proven spiritual relevance. In this way, you are not imposing your own creation, but rather stripping away the layers to reveal more and more about the spirit of the subject. Since we’ve more than established the significance of Bereshit 23:1, and indeed the name Sarah, we can see that her name may contain additional encoded information. And while the name Sarah in gematria atbash (BGZ) has a numerical of 95 as in H’Melech, “the King,” in gematria albam it is 109 as in David H’Melech , “King David.” Moreover, the the first line of the 42-Letter Name (Shem Mem-Bet) which included that letters (BGZ) and which has the numerical value of 506 (one more that Sarah, 505) has the remaining letters (EYT) and if we convert these back using atbash as well, we get (EMT) which spells the word Emet, meaning truth, commonly thought of as Torah truth. Thus the the 42-Letter Name’s first line, whose value equates with that of the Hebrew word for “Unconditional Love,” translates to “Sarah Emet.” And thus both, thN Name Sarah and the 42-Letter Name, not insignificantly, connect to David H’Melech. The sum of the atbash values for Abraham and Sarah is 898 plus the kolel for the 8 letters in their names gives us 906, as in the value of the last line of the 42-Letter Name again, and as the value of the words Et Sarah from the Bereshit 21:1 which began our sequence of posts on this subject. Moreover, as we shall see momentarily, 906 BCE is also the year David H’Melech was born. In relation to the 3 different year parameters mentioned in Genesis 23:1, which we know from the Zohar relate to the different sets of sefirot, 100, 20 and 7 respectively, if we follow Abraham’s advise in the Sefer Yetzirah, we get (100 x 20) + (100 x 7) + (20 x 7) + (1 x 2 x 7) = 2854 and 2854 HC is the year King David was born. There is no coincidence here. If you haven’t read it already. I suggest you check out the blog post titled “King David and the Messiah” and also the book The Divine Calendar, but a few highlight below will illustrate my point: King David was born in 2854 HC 2 x 2854 HC = 5708 HC Israel Received Statehood in 5708 HC King David’s Birth marks the Mid-point to the Founding of Israel 5708 HC = 1948 CE Israel Received Statehood in 1948 CE 2854 HC = 906 BCE 2854906 = 1948 2 x 906 BCE = 1812 BCE 1812 BCE = 1948 HC Abraham was born in 1948 HC Abraham was born in 1812 BCE and therefore King David was born at the Mid-point between Abraham’s birth and the year “0” CE King David was born in 2854 HC King David died in 2924 HC King David lived 70 years 2854 + 2924 = 5778 HC The Mid-point of King Davids life = 2889 HC The Mid-point from Adam to Mashiach = 2889 HC The Mid-point of King Davids life marks the Mid-point in the Time-lime to Mashiach King David was born in 906 BCE King David died in 836 BCE 906 + 836 = 1742 BCE 1742 BCE = 2018 HC 2018 HC = The Covenant of Abraham 2018 CE = 5778 HC Pretty convincing! Now regarding the 3 sets of years again (100, 20, and 7) the value of the word used for 100, (meah) is 46 and that of 20 (esrim) is 620, which we’ve stated perviously is keter, but 620 + 46 = 666. And while the sum of the values and ordinal values of 20 (esrim) and 7 (Sheva) together is 620 + 80 + 272 + 39 = 1111, the sums of the words used for 100, 20, and 7 collectively sum to 1038 and 138 for their simple and ordinal values respectively, once again indicating the 38 years of the Ari’s life that were even more specifically indicated in the previous posting. Also in relation to King David, who lived 70 years, we should note that the numerical value of the Ari, 211, is half of 422, the numerical value of the word seventy 70. For many more connections to this and the First Temple’s destruction in 422 BCE and the Second Temple’s destruction in 70 CE, please see The Divine Calendar. The gematria albam of the 3 interconnected names Abraham, Sarah and David including the kolel of 15 for the 15 letters in their names is 948 as in the 948 digit in Pi where the final series 5778185778 occurs, but to really understand that and to grasp its profound significance for us we must read There’s Nothing Random in the Universe. Before we move on to the next clue the Torah gives us, I received an email from a reader Ron A who had made a profound finding: וַ יִּהְיוּחַיֵּי שָׂרָה, מֵאָה “I have just noticed, that if you take out the ‘VAV‘ of zeir anpin, Yihyu, Chayey Sara Meah, take the first letter of each word and you get ‘mashiach’…” As stated in the last posting, verse Genesis 23:1 that gave rise to all the connections from Sarah to the incarnations of Mashiach (the messiah) is the 5th portion in the Torah and it is the 55th paragraph in the Torah so how perfect is it in the grand scheme of things that this verse contains the word Shanah, year, of numerical value 355, twice, 3 times when we consider the plural version, Shanim. Why perfect? Because we know from the Zohar that the value of Shanah (ShNH) is also that of sefira (dimension), as in the 10 Sefirot (dimensions) of the Tree-of-life, and not only is 55 the sum of all the integers from 1 to 10, but 55 is also the 10th Fibonacci number (1,1,3,5,8,13,21,34,55…), a series of numbers integrally based on the mathematical constant Phi which controls the spiraling nature of the universe and is integrally linked to the year 5778, as explained in the except below. And you may have also noticed that the consecutive 3rd, 4th and 5th Fibonacci numbers spell out 358, the value of Mashiach, while, it just so happens, the numerical sequence found at the 10th digit in PI is also 358. And it’s also perfect because when we add the kolel of 3 for the 3 letters of the word Shanah (ShNH) we get 355 + 3 = 358, Mashiach. And of further interest here is that that the first 5 Fibonacci numbers (1,1,3,5,8,13,21,34,55…) total 18, as in chai, lives and the 3 vavs (6,6,6), and as in its connection to 2018 and 5778 as will be explained below. Also, while the first 4 numbers add up to 10 (sefirot); the first 6 add up to 31, the value of El; and the first 7 add up to 52, the value of the Tetragrammaton YHVH at the level Ban, Malchut; and the first 8 add up to 86, the value of Elohim; the first 10 equal 230, as in Genesis Chapter 23, where all this about the 10 sefirot is revealed. Nevertheless, As we explore the relationship of 55 and 505 and 555 to the Ari, of numerical value 211 and verse Genesis 2:11, to the year of the arrival of Moshiach, it’s worthwhile to note as discussed in There’s Nothing Random in the Universe in regards to the mathematical constant Pi that the ” Small Gematria Value of the 42-Letter Name = 173 and that at 173 digits after the decimal place in Pi we find the numerical string …2110555… and 2110555 = exactly 5778.28 Sidereal Years. Moreover, we know that this isn’t an odd, yet still pure coincidence because besides the 3 statistically impossible inclusions of 5778 (2018) and also of the following year 2019, there’s yet another numerical string within these first 1000 digits of Pi and that’s 737190, which in sidereal days equates to exactly 2018.28 years.” This excerpt from There’s Nothing Random about the Universe helps explain the connection of Phi, the mathematical constant that controls the spiraling nature of the universe to the number 18, that of the 3 vavs (6,6,6) and of (ChY) Chai, as in Sarah, Chai, Mashiach Chai, David Chai. Moshe Chai, and the Ari Chai, all definitive connections we’ve seen linked to these verses (Bereshit 21:1, 23:1 and 24:1, and 1 KIngs 1:1): Chapter 4 And that single unique number is 5778. For some reason beyond explanation 5778 and Phi were designed to interact, and 5778 was made to stand alone within all the numbers in the known universe. Why would this be possible? Why it’s possible for a number to stand out so is difficult to say and maybe not for us to say at all. But we can explain a little bit about the mechanism and the why might get clearer as you get deeper into this book. The next series of minor revelations may shed some light though on the process by which 5778 became so unique. When we divide 5778 by Phi raised to the power of 15, or Phi15, it equates to approximately 4.24, which is the numerical value of Mashiach Ben David, the Messiah, Son of David. Then when we divide 5778 by Phi raised to the power of 16 we get Phi2, or written as an equation, 5778/Phi16 = 2.61803399 = Phi2. Then when we divide 5778 by Phi raised to the power of 17 we get Phi, or written as an equation 5778/Phi17 = 1.61803399 = Phi. And finally when we divide 5778 by Phi raised to the power of 18 we get 1, or written as an equation 5778/ Phi18 = 1.0000000…, representing a singularity, an absolute oneness. Therefore Phi18 = 5778 and the square root of 18 = 4.242640, once again the numerical value of Mashiach Ben David, the Messiah, Son of David. And this time followed by the numerical value of the Tetragrammaton, 26. We can begin to understand that there is a dynamic occurring here and that 5778 didn’t accidentally become unique. Regardless of how we want to read this, 5778, Phi and the number 18 are integrally and dramatically linked together. It’s interesting that 17√5 and 19√5 bound 18√5 on both sides.[1] It’s the same with dividing 5778 by Phi raised to the power of 6 less 17, and also 19. In other words we get a resultant whole number to 3 decimals places or more when with the equation 5778/(Phi6 17), and also with 5778/(Phi6 19). It’s as if the numerical universe were zeroing in on 18 and 5778. And 5778/(Phi-1)18= 33385284= 57782 And as we learned in The Divine Calendar, 3338 was the year the First Temple was destroyed. This also means that (Phi-1)18 = 1/5778. 5778/ Phi18 = 1.0000000 Phi18 = 5778 √18 = 4.242640 5778/(Phi-1)18 = 57782 (Phi-1)18 = 1/5778 What Does Phi18 = 5778 Mean? The equation Phi18 = 5778 simply means that 5778 is the 18th power of Phi. And as a derivative of Phi itself the number 5778 might be expected to work out to a whole number, or nearly a whole number, at some point. But that doesn’t answer what the significance of 18 is, or why it had to equal 5778. And it certainly doesn’t explain why 5778 in the Hebrew calendar is 2018 in the Gregorian or Western calendar. Once again 5778 and 18 linked together. If you’ve already read The Divine Calendar you already understand why that is and don’t believe the 18 in 2018 and in Phi18 = 5778 to be coincidental. As you read this book you’ll also come to know that it wasn’t. 5778 is the 18th Power of Phi phi x phi x phi x phi x phi x phi x phi x phi x phi x phi x phi x phi x phi x phi x phi x phi x phi x phi = 5778 5778 HC = 2018 CE Phi6 x Phi6 x Phi6 = 5778 6+6+6 = 18 [1] Five(5), but possibly more significant 17 and 19 are part of the exceedingly rare set of Mersenne primes, meaning that they satisfy the equation for being prime numbers such that Mn = 2n –1. They are the 6th and 7th Mersenne Primes, which is also probably significant as the dimensions of the 42-Letter name Matrix are 6 by 7, but that will be better understood in the course of this book. The prime number 67, the numerical value of the dimension of Binah (understanding), also connected to the 42-Letter Name, is another of the Mersenne Primes, a set of only 12 numbers up to n = 127, making M127 an enormously large number of 39 digits.
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Go down Post by Painkiller on Mon Aug 20, 2012 4:18 pm The sound of the iron gates opening, alongside a general sound of footsteps resounded through the prison's hallways shook Alex from his daydreaming.He stood up from the cold,metallic chair, arranged his shirt, patting his utility belt, checking if his Makarov and nitestick were in their positions. Escorting the inmates for their yard time, he met his friend and colleague, Igor. "Zdarova, Alex.How was the shift?" "All good, Igor, you said you wanted to talk to me after this shift?" Three hours later, he slinged his filled with dirty clothes camo bag over his shoulder, and as he pushed the metal door open, the fresh Petrograd morning air made him shiver a bit. Igor was waiting him, leaned against his bike. "Alex, over here!"signaled Igor. "Da, what was that you wanted to say earlier?" Igor flicked his Sobranie cigarette into a nearby sewer, as he watched it disappear with a slight hissing sound. "You know I'm riding with those OGPU guys, ex-prison guards, right?" "Yeah, I know some of them" "Look, tomorrow I'm putting my quitting paper on the principal's office.And I'm joining those bikers.But there's one rule:you gotta come in pairs, like brothers.No lone riders are allowed.And I want you to join me." "And why me, Igor? I'm working here for ten years, I like the payment, and all that." "I know that deep inside, you hate the system.And those guys have exactly what you're looking for.Besides that, you got an Ural, and you're the only one who can beat three inmates with a Vodka bottle" Alex exhaled deeply as he shaked his head, looking around. "Alright, Igor, I hope you're serious about this" Igor grinned, as he leaned over the bike, popping the saddle-bag open, withdrawing a leather jacket, throwing it to Alex, motioning him to put it on. Alex did so, as he climbed on his Ural hog. "Initiation is tomorrow, 7PM, Alex" Alex nodded firmly, twisting the handlebars, taking off a nearby street. A row of bikes was aligned near the Petrograd water plant, as Alex and Igor arrived, parking the engines near the others. Igor went to the Sergeant at Arms there, telling him about Alex, introducing him to the other bikers. Alex couldn't help, but to notice each hog had a shovel clinging from the saddlebag. "Eh, you wondering what the shovels are for, right?"said one of the patched member, as he approached Alex. He just shrugged, slightly nodding his head. "They are our symbol.And they're a part of the initiation, new guy.Follow me."said the biker(His name was Lev, and he was the Vice-President of the charter) as he led Alex into a dark storage room.Rows of shovels, vests and flags were covering the room, leaving the impression of an arsenal, nothing less. "Pick your shovel, Alex, it'll be your wingman" Alex rummaged through the shelves, finally resting his hand on a short Spetsnaz shovel, sturdy oak handle. "Interesting choice.Alright we don't have much time. In the next room, is your opponent, you gotta slay him for the club." Ruskie wasn't much of a talker, so he entered the room, only to find Igor charging towards him, holding a weapon of the same, probably following the same orders. But it was useless, Igor kept charging , Alex stood there defending himself telling him to stop, until two bikers, wearing their black and red cuts, entered the room, unholstered their Makarovs, spraying Igor's body with bullets. Alex stood there as the now corpse rolled on the floor, his eyes still filled with rage. One of the bikers grabbed Alex's collar, ripping his vest off. "Think about it, Alex..."said Lev as he reached for his backpack, taking a vest, handing it to Alex."There you go, brother, we need men like you". Alex was speechless, on one hand, he was excited with the MC invite, on the other hand, he was intrigued. Would Igor kill him for a vest?It seemed so.But those bikers were more than that.They had honour Alex weighed the shovel in his hands, still shocked from the latest events. "Alex, let's go, saddle up."said Lev as he patted the new OGPU member. Alex quickly attached the shovel to the saddlebag as he shrugged, climbing on his hog, twisting the handlebars, following the formation. Years passed as Alex gained respect and power inside the MC.By now he was a Sergeant at Arms. One day, as he returned from the fishing pier, he noticed a strange silence coming from the clubhouse, a place that always hummed. He swinged the door open just to find a dozen of cops arresting the MC members, but that wasn't all, he saw Lev dead.The sight of the vice-president enraged and placed a burden on his shoulders, he had to take Lev's spot.But for the time, he had to run from the Petrograd police. The words slapped Alex as he unholstered a flash grenade, throwing it as he fleed through the door.The explosion sound was covered by the roar of his Ural. He knew he had to leave the country.MC members were always pulled over by random police cars, so he headed for his house, stuffed some bills in his pocket and packed some clothes. He had in mind to head to the MC convention in Berlin. There he and his Ural drew the attention of two bikers, Albert Koehler, a recidivist and Blake Harris, the classic tea Brit. They sort of formed a band, they always sticked together.As both Blake and Albert were headed towards the States, and as Alex was a runaway, he followed them with a shrug. The three bikes were parked in Idlewood, with their respective owners yapping around. "Of course, Ruskie, the Capitalism is way lower than the Communism, right Blake?"Blake laughed as he noticed another hog approaching them. The Triumph stopped with a hiss as his owner dismounted, approaching the trio. "Oi, I'm Corey , I saw the three of ye stick together.I need some members for the Renegades Los Santos charter.I saw ye are familliar with the MC world.What do ye say, eh?" To be continued Ruskie stepped forward, being the oldest. "Alright, mate, we're in."Albert and Blake nodded firmly, and after they got their cuts, they started to develop connections and brawled another MC that claimed their town, palomino, the Mongols.Months passed, Ruskie was promoted to his old OGPU rank, the one of a sergeant, but the life of this charter wasn't going well.Two months later, Albert was taking big doses of Xanax, and even with Ruskie's medic training, that saved Corey's life twice, nothing could be done. Ruskie found his wingman dead one morning, with a bullet in his head, Xanax pills all over the room. If there was a point weak for Ruskie, that was losing his brothers.Igor, and now Albert.Five hours later, a formation of bikes roared at the entrance of the graveyard.The engines hummed and roared for the death of a brother. Ruskie wasn't over the death of his wingman, when Blake was diagnosed with lung cancer, and moved to Britain. The club was disbanding under his very own eyes. Still, he carried a burden.The burden of the OGPU brothers that now were inmates. The Renegades were gone, but Ruskie and three of his brothers moved to the Khans MC, a local known biker club.Their code of honour, their pride made Ruskie confortable with the patchover. Soon, he was a brother between them, establishing friendships and relations within the club. But the OGPU burden still weighed. Alexander Zakarov: -manager and chief mechanic of the Freewheel garage. -ALS certificated medic -ex OGPU guard. After a long stay within the Khans, it was time for Ruskie to go back home.It was time for him to get the OGPU back on its feet. ---08 A.M. Sixth of May, 2011.Suburbs of Petrograd.--- Ruskie leaned against his bike, peering up and down the road.Many thoughts crossed his mind.Will the old members gather under his flag?Will he be able to maintain his iron grip onto the club? These thoughts quickly faded away as a thundering roar echoed from a nearby street.Three bikes, displayed into an arrow formation, approached Ruskie, slowing down, before parking near him. Ruskie couldn't help but grin.His favourite trio, Igor, Pavel and Dmitri were there, back under his command. "There's the faggot that got away from the KGB, hah!" "Fuck you, Igor, I did my time in LS." The other two held their mouths closed, displaying a rather sad face. "The hell is with you two, you look like two Urals underwater." "Eh, Sarge, about your retaliation against the Red Flags...." Ruskie's face crumpled, his gaze shifting between the three individuals. "Yeah, what about it, you were supposed to gather all the membe-..." "The Flags brought two charters here.They knew you were coming." "GOD FORBID!I don't fucking care if they bring the fucking Hells Angels, go sound the round-up." Ruskie eyed the four bikes, lined up.Each of them had a shovel attached. "Petrograd will fear the Shovels once more". -to be continued- The cold, wet breeze that could be felt all around the Petrograd Docks annoyed Ruskie.He couldn't help but curse as the Ural's engine started, shaking.Ruskie strapped his helmet, adjusted the vest and went forward.He passed by the suburbs area, only to be honked and then followed by several hogs.Each of them carried a shovel. As Ruskie passed the Red Flags compound, orders were yelled, making the OGPU riders grin. "Trapped mice.That's what those scumbags are." ---03:40 AM.Red Flags compound--- The OGPU Prospects cut the barbed wire surrounding the compound, entering the yard through various gaps.Everyone knew their role.Several seconds later, the lights in the main building were off.The sound of shattered glass echoed into the night. "Molotovs in every room!".Ruskie barked the order.However, the Red Flags woke up in time, or that's what they thought at the time.The fire already trapped the inhabitants of the upper levels when the first Red Flag member trampled through the front door.He was met with a Nagan bullet to his forehead.Ruskie laughed , as he twirled the revolver around his index finger. "Shoot the rest of them like dogs." The other members nodded. ---Half an hour later, outskirts of Petrograd--- "Good job, bratans.That's what low-lifes get" A general laugh ended Ruskie's statement, before the group spread, each of the OGPU riders taking off on the surrounding streets. 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Monday, April 18, 2011 The Armor of God It's Easter (Spring) Break here at The Happy Ones, which means we're playing and making videos.  We're not doing any school this break (I think the teacher needs as much of a break as the students do!)  But we're still doing Bible time every morning, which is so much nicer and more relaxed when Natalie doesn't have to rush off to the school bus at 7:10.  And...we get to make fun videos like this. Lukas knows this Bible passage (from Ephesians 6) more perfectly, but it's quite funny to watch Konrad and Natalie say it together, especially when Konrad is suddenly more interested in his toes...and he thinks it's a race! 1 comment: Nicky said... That is so cute :) On Hillsong Kids Supernatural cd they have a song about the Armor of God (can't remember the actual song's name but think it's no. 10). Meghan adores this song! Well done Natalie and Konrad!