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Posted byIdditor in Chief3 years ago
Why Usenet Died
In light of AMAGeddon, there've been multiple calls for returning to Usenet or something like it:
It's not so much that people forget about Usenet as that they forget why it died.[1]
First off: I'm an old fart. Not as old as some, but I've been on the Internet since the mid-1980s. Including old-school Usenet. I've also been kicking around concepts for online discussions for quite some time (including helping design and working on a number of online forums and communities). I've been poking at a few of the major Usenet old-timers for details and stats as well.
Usenet died for four reasons:
1. It got spammed to death.
2. It lost control over its culture, and that culture was crucial to its functioning.
3. It was too problematic for ISPs (or others) to provide ready access to it: spam, harassment, child pornography, and copyright violations all posed massive concerns.
4. There was no viable business model for providing the service.
Beyond that...
There has been a Usnet 2.0, or rather, Usenet II
The principle crew were the steering committee (Todd McComb, Russell Nelson, Odd Einar Aurbakken, Peter da Silva, Ron Echeverri,and Russ Allbery), most of whom are still active in various tech circles (I know da Silva from his G+ profile, and we've disussed this a few times), and the czars.
The Wikipedia Usenet II article has a brief synopsis.
Among other elements, the proposal banned all non-text formats. Including HTML.
Though the service remains nominally operational, its' seen little use.
The original Usenet was small and had very limited access
Hard numbers are all but impossible to find. I traded some emails with Gene Spafford a few months back where we both felt that 50k-500k users was probably a reasonable approximation. And they were largely limited to selective universities and colleges, a few major tech firms, selected government departments, and research centers. While it wasn't impossible for the general public to gain access, you really had to want to. Intentionality, to borrow a more recently popular term, was high. More on stats here. Notably:
The 1995 top 40 newgroups stats estimated 623,532 readers worldwide in the largest newsgroup, news.announce.newusers
TLSoft via Internet Archive.
Peter da Silva notes (at the G+ link):
The user base in 1990 was low enough that one month (August I think) I was the #1 poster on Usenet... and I was also the #3 poster under another account.
Update: I've run across my copy of John S. Quarterman's excellent 1990 survey of global computer networks, The Matrix. It has become an absolute historical gem. Relying on Brian Reid's "USENET Readership Summary Reports", as of April, 1988, there were 381 newsgroups, 57,979 messages, an estimated 141,000 readers, of a total user population on connected hosts of 880,000.
Usenet had little to no archival, filtering, or spam protections
In some ways it was Twitter, based on topics, with longer posts. There were ample spam countermeasures put in place over time, but they were only marginally useful. "Usenet kook" and "Usenet flame war" are terms that exist for reasons...
The temporality of Usenet meant that those with access to archives, or searchable feeds, and those who had were either notable or raised concerns. James "Kibo" Parry was one of the first people in the world with a username-mention-notification capacity, which all but spawned a religion, kibology. Dejanews, now Google Groups, was among the first public searchable Usenet archives. The idea that random 4am ramblings might be preserved for all time, raised concerns over privacy.
The ultimate sanction was the Usenet Death Penalty, but, with ready access to new hosts and userids, enforcing that was limited for a dedicated attacker. It was more successful against major consumer providers: UUNET, CompuServe, and Excite@Home.
Also hellbanning, a precursor to today's shadowbanning.
Usenet had many useful features
• Client independence.
• Multiple front-ends.
• Decentralized service.
• Threaded discussions.
• Standardized message format and metadata.
• Moderated newsgroups
• User-implementable filtering capabilities: "killfiles".
...and failings
• Message composition and quoting style were enforced only by tradition and convention. Usenet quoting in particular was highly contentious.
• No inherent security model. Spoofing of users, content, and other factors was possible. While GPG-signed content could be used, there was no formal support.
• Limited (though not impossible) anonymity. Messages contained a full path to the Usenet peer from which it was provided. The ability to post anonymously was both somewhat complex (much as current VPN or Tor access is) and yet, not so hard to configure that spammers or abusers couldn't make use of it.
• Behavioral issues. If it exists on Web-based services, it existed on Usenet.
• Highly limited message formatting capabilities. With a strong preference for ASCII-formatted messages, neither advanced typography nor internationalization and language support were reliable. Yes, uuencoded binaries could be attached, but that was at best a hack.
Eternal September
The final nail, though it was a slow death, was the Eternal September. Usenet's reliance on culture, especially netiquette, simply couldn't keep pace with the flood of new users, most especially from AOL. The "September effect" referred to the annual influx of new users at the start of the academic year, but its scale relative to established users was such that social mechanisms: FAQs, LARTs, admonishments, and leading by example, were sufficient to assimilate new users. The problem remains a significant one.
I've kicked around ideas for a modern federated content system
See: "What would be required for an SNML/SNTP federated content system?.
There are a number of elements I see as varying levels of esential or highly desirable:
• A decentralized system
• Client independence
• A defined basic object set: users, posts, dates, events, messages, lists. Possibly more.
• Content and objects have metadata.
• Standardized, simple, extensible markup. Markdown or other lightweight markup languages. For scientific and technical discussions, some form of LaTeX support, at least to the extent of equations.
• A store-and-forward distribution model.
• Integrated crypto and authentication.
• Search, discovery (content, people, discussions), and promotion.
• Curation.
• Expiry
• Effective spam and abuse mitigation.
• Collaborative / federated content modertion. The ability to rate quality on multiple axes, and to give weight to specific users' ratings (getting around various "popular but wrong" issues).
And more (see the link).
Related: Content rating, moderation, and ranking systems: some non-brief thoughts.
Usenet is a useful model and reference, but not a solution
There's definitely a lot to be learned from Usenet, and it's quite instructive.
Of itself, however, Usenet isn't a workable model for today's Internet, either on the basis of scale or capabilities. Even its suggested successors are wanting.
I'll have more to add. Though David Frum's observation is cogent:
I’m not following the Reddit thing closely, but one thing seems obvious: corporations shouldn’t hire CEOs who hate their product & customers.
Pao should stand down. Or be removed.
1. Yes, Usenet still exists, technically. In terms of active use, outside a very few limited newsgroups (mostly peers of technical mailing lists), it's dead to today's Internet users.
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I was thinking the same thing last night in the same context. There are issues that mean duplicating Usenet would not work literally but the general structure is probably the answer both for users and for companies like Reddit.
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Idditor in ChiefOriginal Poster2 points · 3 years ago
Absolutely. There's a lot to be learned from, and even be borrowed from, Usenet. But really, Usenet itself: it's dead, man.
I do wish I'd added one more reason to why it died: Web-based forums came along and were easier for people to use. Not having to install or run specific client software helps.
That said, a Web browser remains a really shitty Usenet client.
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whatever.. nntpchan has even better content than 8ch generally
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Idditor in ChiefOriginal Poster1 point · 3 years ago
Pardon? Care to unpack that?
I'm not familiar with nntpchan or 8ch.
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Income Investing
"Income investing" is the term used for investing which primarily focuses on generating income and only a secondary focus on capital growth.
There are several ways investors can generate income from their investments. They include dividends from stocks, interest (or coupons) from bonds or loans, rents from properties or other types of passive income such as royalties, patents, trademarks, copyrights or profits from private businesses.
Who should focus on income over growth?
We think every investor's focus should be on your total returns, meaning income and capital appreciation added together.
That said, it can be very difficult or impossible to predict your capital appreciation (especially in the short term) so income investing helps to give a more likely prediction of what cash you'll be generating.
Income investing is likely to be especially important to investors who don't have other sources of income.
The main example are retired people who do not have a job to supplement their income.
A regular income from your investments is also likely to be beneficial to those with irregular incomes or those taking a break from work.
Investors may also focus on dividend income as it provides "tangible" proof (cash payments) of their investment returns. There are also several studies such as that from Kenneth French which show dividend stocks have outperformed non-dividend paying stocks over long periods of time.
Your income investing options
1) Bonds
Bonds are a type of debt instrument. Companies or governments issue bonds to borrow money and pay back a fixed annual coupon (interest) to the investors who buy the bonds.
Secondary markets exist for bonds which allows investors to buy and sell their bonds. There are many different types of bonds and this topic goes beyond the scope of this page.
The income from bonds is fairly easy to predict. Bonds have to pay a certain coupon on a specified date (if they don't they will probably be filing for bankruptcy).
Your income from most bonds is fixed - hence the term fixed income. Thus, if you were to buy a bond at what is called "par" (also expressed as a price of 100 - where the bond is selling neither above nor below its purchase price) with a coupon of 5%, then you would know that you would receive an annual 5% return until maturity.
The income from the bond doesn't change if the price of the bond changes.
Let's assume that this 5% coupon bond drops to a price of 95 and has a 5 year maturity. Your yield (return) will increase to roughly 6%. This is because you will still receive the 5% of par value coupon and the bond will mature at a price of par (100).
This means if you bought $9,500 worth of these bonds, you'd receive $500 a year in interest payments plus you'd get a capital appreciation of $500 as the bond matures at par. Of course, the inverse would be true if you purchased a bond above par value.
2) Stocks
Income investing normally has a large focus on stocks. Stocks provide income through their dividends. The dividend is paid from the firms profits and can fluctuate depending on the level of profits.
Most large, blue chip companies try to grow their dividend gradually over time. The most famous examples of these are the dividend aristocrats who have grown their dividend for at least 25 straight years.
Your dividend yield calculates your initial return in dividends from the purchase price. So if you buy a stock with a dividend yield of 4% and you purchase $10,000 of that stock then you can expect to earn $400 per year in dividends.
If that dividend grew by 10% the next year then you would receive $440 in that year.
The main advantage to dividends over coupons is their ability to grow over time. This can help increase the purchasing power of your income over time and help to protect you against inflation.
If the dividend continues to grow over time then it is likely that the capital value will grow as well (although this is not guaranteed). In the above example, if your initial dividend yield is 4% and the dividend grew by 10% a year, then your dividend would have doubled in just over 7 years. This means that for the stock to still be yielding 4% then the stock price would need to double as well.
For more ideas on income investing on stocks, see our page on the advantages of dividends.
3) Property
Income investing from property means focusing on the income you receive from rents.
Unlike bonds, over time you should be able to at least increase rents with the inflation rate which would protect your real (inflation adjusted) income, although this may depend on you upgrading the quality of the property.
In a similar way to stocks listed above, if you can increase the rents over time then this should help with capital value appreciation. Capital appreciation can also come with the ease at which people can obtain credit (mortgages), and the local demand and supply of properties.
You also have an advantage in income investing in property. Borrowing against the value of the property in the form of a mortgage can leverage the value of your investment. Usually you only need a down payment (deposit) against the property, so you can spread your investment over several properties.
Unlike borrowing on margin (how you borrow for stock purchases), banks generally don't demand extra payments if the value of your property goes down. That said, if you fail to keep up with the scheduled payments then the property can be repossessed.
The drawback to living off the rental income can be void periods if your tenants leave and the potential for constant spending (such as for heating / AC systems, toilets, furniture etc.) that is required to maintain the property.
You can have an agent manage your property but this - of course - means more cost.
4) Royalties
You can earn a royalty when you own an asset (you either created or bought the asset) and let someone else use that asset for their benefit.
The party that is using the asset is usually known as the licensee and the asset owner is known as the licensor. Usually a pre-agreed payment (such as percentage of revenue) is agreed, along with other terms, in the license agreement.
Typical example of royalties payments are to patent owners (such as drug companies), copyright owners (such as authors), franchise owners, music composers, or resource owners.
So if bought your local McDonald's franchise, then you would have to pay a royalty on every Big Mac sold back to the parent company (McDonald's) as a condition for you selling those Big Macs.
5) Private businesses
Income investing could mean purchasing (or starting) a business.
For this to be passive income, you would have to put the business under management, leaving the day-to-day running of the business to someone else.
In many ways, this is like purchasing a stock but, in this instance, you would likely have a controlling stake which means you can exert more control. This means, you could fire the management, make them send you the excess cash, sell the business on your own terms or set the dividend rate.
You are also likely to be able to purchase a private business more cheaply (on an earnings multiple and asset basis) than a stock on a public market due to the illiquidity of the asset. You can probably also obtain financing against the assets or the cashflow of the business.
In the internet era, starting your own business need not be as daunting as it once was. Programs and tools such as Solo Build It (the system we use to manage our websites), can make it a reality for anyone to start a successful business, without huge capital investment. Click here for more information.
In summary...
As you can see, income investing can take many forms and in an ideal world you would be able to earn from all of the above examples.
It's important to know about all the options because then you can compare the value you are getting from one possible asset to another. There are times when one asset class as a whole can look like very poor value (such as stock in the late 1990s, or bonds at the moment). You certainly need to do a lot of research before purchasing any asset but over time your goal should be to build a collection of these types of assets that will (hopefully) sent you a consistent flow of cash while you get on with your life.
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Chief Financial Officer
Naeem Electronics Verified
Sialkot , Pakistan
Posted Aug 08, 2018 1610 views
PKR. 200,000 - 350,000/Month
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Job Description
Principal accountabilities are:
1. Assist in formulating the company's future direction and supporting tactical initiatives
2. Monitor and direct the implementation of strategic business plans
3. Develop financial and tax strategies
4. Manage the capital request and budgeting processes
5. Develop performance measures that support the company's strategic direction
2. Manage the accounting, human resources, legal, tax, and cash departments
3. Manage any third parties to which functions have been outsourced
4. Oversee the company's transaction processing systems
5. Implement operational best practices
6. Oversee employee benefit plans, with emphasis on maximizing a cost-effective benefits package
Financial Information:
1. Oversee the issuance of financial information
2. Report financial results to the Chief Executive Officer
Risk Management:
1. Understand and mitigate key elements of the company's risk profile
3. Construct and monitor reliable control systems
4. Ensure that the company complies with all legal and regulatory requirements
5. Ensure that record keeping meets the requirements of auditors and government agencies
1. Monitor cash balances and cash forecasts
Candidate must be a Qualified Chartered Accountant with post qualification experience of 3-5 years in industry.
Ability to meet timelines and make decisions in best interest of the Company.
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Cantt, Sialkot, Pakistan
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An Introduction To Class Actions
When a man-made disaster impacts our state, our California class action attorney is prepared to help. In cases involving toxic torts, such as a California oil refinery accident, The Brod Law Firm is prepared to use the tool of either a federal or state class action to ease the burden on individual plaintiffs and allow an entire group of victims to prove their case collectively.
The most likely reason to bring a class action suit in federal court, instead of state court, is the diversity doctrine. This means that the suit involves at least one plaintiff who is a citizen of a different state than one or more of the defendants. For these purposes, companies are citizens of the state where they have their principle place of business. In order to file as a federal class, the plaintiffs must show four things: 1) Commonality (one or more issues is common to the whole class and, often, these common issues dominate over individual matters); 2) Adequacy (the selected representative can effectively protect the interests of all members of the class); 3) Numerosity (the class is large enough that individual lawsuits are not practical, making a class action a better method for resolving the matters); and 4) Typicality (the claim of the representative stems from a wrong to the class and is typical of the claims of the class members). These requirements aim to make sure that a class action is the best method for resolving a dispute and that a proper lead plaintiff is selected to represent the class in court.
Class actions can also be brought under state law. A few examples of the types of claims that might give rise to a class action in California are employment law violations, defective products claims, and consumer protection litigation. The rules governing class actions in California are a mix of guidance from statutes passed by the legislature and interpretations developed by state courts. Some of the basic requirements for a state class action mirror the requirements under federal law. California courts will also be more likely to grant certification of a class if doing so will serve a benefit to the class or to the citizens of the state as a whole and if the claims would be unlikely to be heard individually.
The selection of a lead plaintiff is an important part of any class action. Often the lead plaintiff is the person who reached out and got counsel involved in the matter but this is not always the case. The lead plaintiff must be deemed adequate by the court because the individual will work with the attorney to represent the interests of the entire class. The lead plaintiff should be someone whose claims are similar to that of the group as a whole and who is prepared to act on behalf of the entire class.
Class actions are complicated but they can be a useful tool when many individuals are impacted by the same wrongful act. The Brod Law Firm is prepared to act as class counsel in cases of San Francisco workplace accidents or when other incidents lead a group of victims with similar claims. If you believe you have suffered an injury that might give rise to a class action at either the state or federal level, please contact us for a free consultation. We will work closely with members of the class to ensure justice is achieved for all members of your class.
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Deepak and Fahad
The Karachi based duo, Deepak and Fahad came into lime light in 2012 and have since been designing formal wear for both men and women. With already a Fashion Week showing under their belt, Deepak and Fahad are all set to present some extremely edgy designs at the Fashion Pakistan Week Autumn Winter 2014.
What is your design philosophy?
What are the key trends this season?
Monochrome, Bling, Prints, Capes, Long Jackets and Polo Necks.
What is your inspiration for your presentation this season?
Black and White
What should we expect to see at your show this season?
A very sexy, edgy and glamorous collection.
Which designer are you most excited to see (other than your own brand)?
Deepak Perwani and Maheen Khan
What are you doing immediately after the fashion week?
No idea. Right now it’s just fashion week on our minds.
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SOAS University of London
Charter and Standing Orders
This page includes links to the School's Charter, and the School's Standing Orders and Annexes to Standing Orders approved by the School's Board of Trustees.
Section 1: Introduction from the Clerk to the Board of Trustees
Section 2: Charter and Articles
Section 3: Standing Orders
(i) Board of Trustees and Committees reporting directly to the Board of Trustees
(ii) Other Standing Orders
(iv) Procedures
(v) Other Standing Orders
Section 4: Annexes
(i) Committees reporting to Academic Board
(ii) Committees reporting to Academic Development Committee
(iii) Committees reporting to Learning & Teaching Committee
(iv) Committees reporting to Research & Enterprise
(v) Committees reporting to Resources & Planning Committee
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Member Since: July 21, 2009
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• Ok I finally got mine working, and I thought some would be interested in the additional steps that were necessary. First I was using the attiny48, which didn’t have an entry in the avrdude config file. You can add attiny48 (t48) entry to the avrdude config file by following this:
If you just type in “avrdude -v” at your command line it will tell you where to find the config file.
I also had to use a usb hub in between the pocket programmer and my computer for windows xp to recognize it.
Finally, the programmer was having problems with the command line given above for programming. I ended up using the following:
avrdude -c usbtiny -B 10 -pt48 -U flash:w:display.hex -vvvv
The main change was making the B option 10. Until I did this I was getting “programmer operation not supported errors”.
The -pt48 sets it up for the attiny48.
I also included the -vvvv option to get more information, as I was having so many problems until I set B to 10.
• Will though hole also work with this method?
(I saw someone ask this, but there was no reply)
No public wish lists :(
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Using the Authorization File
Tectia Server 4.x (and earlier) required an authorization file that listed the user public keys that are authorized for login. Using the authorization file with Tectia Server 5.0 and later is optional. If the file does not exist, Tectia Server looks for authorized public keys in the authorized-keys directory (as described in User Authentication with Public Keys above), and if that fails, in the default directory for user public-keys.
The default location for the authorization file is $HOME/.ssh2/authorization on Unix, and %USERPROFILE%\.ssh2\authorization on Windows. The file location can be changed with the authorization-file attribute in the ssh-server-config.xml file. See auth-publickey.
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'In Defense of iCloud'
Ben Bajarin, writing for Tech.pinions, sings the praises of iCloud syncing:
Apple gets a lot of (well-deserved) shit for iCloud — "they're not good at services" — but Bajarin is right that the KeyValue API does work pretty damn well. Like Bajarin, I love that I'm able to move from Tweetbot on my iPhone to Tweetbot on my Mac, and my place in my timeline is synced across devices. Likewise, in using Ulysses III and Daedalus Touch lately for my long-form writing, I'm impressed with how well iCloud document syncing works. Whether it be my timeline or an article I'm working on, it always feels genuinely magical to see my data seamlessly appear.
Overall, Bajarin's piece serves as a reminder that iCloud is, in reality, two different things: there's the developer-facing iCloud and there's the consumer-facing iCloud. While it's obvious that both are intertwined, the point that Bajarin makes in his piece is that the sync portion of it is pretty great and should be lauded. That seamless interoperability resonates big time with consumers.
(via Matthew Panzarino)
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If this setting is set to True (the default), the Show all data groups control appears in Step 1 of the report wizards if there are two or more data groups. Change this setting to False to force the user to select a specific data group.
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Review Paper on Intrusion Detection Using Data Mining Technique
Topic: Security
Format: PDF
Now-a-days, Intrusion Detection Systems (IDS) has various issues of rules and attack classification. Intrusion detection systems that practices solitary algorithm, the accuracy and detection rate were not accurate. Increase in the false alarm rate was also come across. Grouping of algorithm is performed to solve this problem. This paper represents two fusion algorithms for developing the intrusion detection system. C4.5 and Support Vector Machine (SVM) algorithms are combined to maximize the accuracy, which is the advantage of C4.5 and reduce the wrong alarm rate which is the advantage of SVM.
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North Carolina Electrician Exam
Need of a License: Electrical contractors need a license to work in North Carolina. Journeyman electricians do not need a state license, but municipalities and counties may have qualifying requirements.
Who Grants a License: Electrician licenses are granted by The State Board of Examiners of Electrical Contractors.
Qualifications Needed to Receive a License:
Electrical Contractor: For Unlimited Classification, a candidate must have 7 years’ experience, at least 5 of which is primary experience.
For Limited Classification, a candidate must have 4 years’ experience, at least 2 of which is primary experience.
Journeyman Electrician: There are no state licensing requirements for journeymen.
Exam Requirements: A candidate for a master electrician license must pass the Master Electrician Examination.
How to Apply for a License: A candidate for licensure must complete/send an application to the North Carolina State Board of Examiners of Electrical Contractors. The telephone to reach the department is 919-733-9042.
The application for the electrical contracting license can be found here.
Test Content:
Electrical Contractor - The electrical contractor exam consists of 100 questions with a time limit of 6 hours. A candidate needs at least a 75% grade to pass.
The exam covers the following subject areas:
1. Systems and equipment requiring grounding and ground-fault protection
2. Location of connection and required interconnections
3. Grounded, grounding, and grounding electrode conductors
4. Methods of grounding and bonding, equipment and conductor specifications
5. Bonding conductor connections
6. Bonding/bonding grid
7. Termination
1. Location in circuit
2. Sizing requirements
3. Circuit breakers
4. Plug and cartridge fuses
5. Enclosures and locations
6. High-voltage
1. Raceway systems
2. Cable systems
3. Conductors
4. Switchboards, panelboards, switches, and cabinets
5. Special conditions
6. High-voltage
For more information about the test, see the Candidate Booklet.
Fees: There is an examination fee.
Who Administers the Test: PSI - They can be contacted at 800-733-9267 or online at https://candidate.psiexams.com/.
License Renewal Requirements: Licenses are renewed annually. Renewal must be preceded by 10 hours of continuing education.
Applicable Code: NEC 2014
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Integration by Trigonometric Substitution
Do yourself a favor and watch the videos in order! In the first two we'll practice the two tricky parts of these uber-tricky problems, so that in the third video we have a prayer of actually getting one right!
Trig Substitution (Step 1): choosing what to sub
The first step of trigonometric substitution problems is the trickiest: figuring out a trig function with which to replace a perfectly good x. In this video I show the hows and whys, and most importantly the hows, of this super tricky first step.
Trig Substitution (Step 2): how to un-substitute theta for x
After taking out a perfectly good x and replacing it with a yucky trig function of Theta, at some point you're going to have to un-scramble that egg and turn things back into x's. This video is all about how to do that, and in style.
Trig Substitution Examples
If you haven't watched the prior two videos, you should definitely do that first, 'cause we're going to be going pretty fast here. In this video we'll just put it all together and actually solve problems from start to finish, amazing ourselves by getting correct answers.
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Boxplots & Inter-Quartile Range
Intro to Boxplots
This is a quick video which explains all the vocab of box-and-whisker diagrams: whiskers, boxes, fences, outliers, etc. A good place to start!
Boxplots On Your Calculator
Hey, who doesn't like to use their calculator to do their Stats homework?! The usual caveats apply of course -- window settings, x-scl, understanding what the heck your calculator is going -- but whether you're doing regular box-and-whisker diagrams or the fancy "modified" version, your TI is there for you.
Interquartile Range (IQR)
There are lots of ways to define what an outlier is, other than a "way out there". This video introduces the boxplot version -- using the inter-quartile range (IQR) -- which is unique in that you don't need a histogram or standard deviation to do it.
Modified Boxplot
Outliers got your whiskers looking a little long? Afraid the fences are getting too far out? Modified boxplots to the rescue, where you shorten up your whiskers and instead plot the outliers as dots out on the periphery.
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Visual Studio.NET problem: EnvDTE missing or not found
Posted by Kirby Turner on October 21, 2002
I un-installed Visual XSLT the other day and it broke my Visual Studio.NET install. When I created a new Windows Application, VS.NET would fail to display Form1 in the Form Designer with the exception “File or assembly name EnvDTE, or one of its dependencies, was not found.” I believe the problem was caused by un-installing Visual XSLT. Luckily the fix was simple.
Under the .NET Framework directory C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v1.0.3705\ you will find the envdte.dll assembly. Copy this file to C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio .NET\Common7\IDE\ and you should be good to go. Of course you will need to adjust the drive letters based on your configuration.
This fix worked for me. Hopefully it will work for you if you are experiencing the same problem.
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10 Dinners You'll Also Want to Eat for Breakfast
10 Dinners You'll Also Want to Eat for Breakfast
Sheela Prakash
Mar 10, 2018
(Image credit: Christine Han)
Consider this a gentle reminder that, while we don't often cook dinner with leftovers for breakfast in mind, that practice can be a smart way to ensure there's something delicious on the table at the start of the next day. If dinner is wholesome — full of veggies, protein, and whole grains — it can be repurposed as a perfect morning meal!
These 10 recipes cover all these bases and can be enjoyed rewarmed, at room temperature, or even cold. So no matter how much time you have before you need to run out the door, you can feel confident you'll be able to start the day off right.
1. Savory Tex-Mex Dutch Baby Pancake
While Dutch baby pancakes are usually sweet, this savory version is spiced up with hot sauce and green chiles and piled with melty cheese. Black beans, diced avocado, and salsa are all smart topping choices.
(Image credit: Joe Lingeman)
2. Kimchi Fried Rice with Extra Greens
Kimchi lends a bit of spice and acid to this fried rice to ensure it's extra satisfying. Leftovers keep well for a few days, so make a double batch and you'll have more than a couple of breakfasts taken care of.
(Image credit: Lauren Volo)
3. How To Make the Best Lentil Dal at Home
This Indian dish is comforting and wholesome no matter the time of day. Enjoy it over rice for dinner then warm it up the next morning and enjoy it as a filling porridge-like stew for breakfast.
(Image credit: Alana Chernila)
4. Swiss Chard and Sausage Bread Pudding
This savory bread pudding is very similar to a strata, which is a brunch favorite, so this is a dinner that turns into a breakfast no-brainer.
(Image credit: Sarah E Crowder)
5. Sweet Potatoes with Chickpea Tomato Sauce
Roast a couple of extra sweet potatoes when you make this dish and then tuck them in the fridge with the leftover chickpea tomato sauce. In the morning, warm them both up separately, stuff the potato, and dig in.
(Image credit: Joe Lingeman)
6. French Onion Frittata
It's always a good time for a frittata. This one is inspired by classic French onion soup and filled with heaps of caramelized onions and melty Gruyére cheese — it's satisfying warm, cold, or at room temperature.
(Image credit: Joe Lingeman)
7. Tex-Mex Quinoa Salad
This colorful salad has just the right amount of protein, vegetables, and whole grains to keep you satisfied for both dinner and breakfast.
(Image credit: Kelli Foster)
8. Savory Carrot & Zucchini Pancakes
Turn these vegetable fritters into a meal by topping them with a dollop of sour cream or Greek yogurt, or even frying an egg and sliding it on top of a stack. Reheat them in the oven or toaster oven to keep them crisp.
(Image credit: Erin Gleeson)
9. Tortilla Espanola with Rainbow Chard
This Spanish omelet is similar to a frittata and is loaded with potatoes, onions, and colorful rainbow Swiss chard. Serve slices with salad for dinner and then dig into a cold slice for breakfast.
(Image credit: Erin Alderson)
10. Polenta with Swiss Chard and White Beans
A tube of polenta becomes something much more when it's sliced into rounds and fried. Save leftovers of the polenta and beans and green mixture separately, then re-crisp the polenta in the oven or toaster oven and rewarm the beans and greens in the microwave.
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Thursday, October 4, 2018
Darksiders III Force Hollow Trailer and Screens
THQ Nordic and Gunfire Games Unveil Force Fury in Darksiders III
THQ Nordic and Gunfire Games today unveiled Force Fury, the Force hollow form of Darksiders III protagonist and third horsemen of the Apocalypse Fury! Fury’s form evolves throughout the game and with it, her powers and weaponry. Her so called Hollows are powers bestowed upon her by the Hollow Lord to help her lead the Horsemen and defeat the Seven Deadly Sins. Once she unlocked them, Fury can switch between her four Hollows at will, to adapt to her enemies and environment. Darksiders III is scheduled to release worldwide on November 27, 2018 for PC, PlayStation 4 computer entertainment system and the Xbox One family of devices, including the Xbox One X.
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Fr. Bill Moore
Artist Statement
I was born in Glendale, California. My childhood was shaped by the fact that my father was a combat veteran of World War II. After his
war time service, and subsequent return home from combat, my mother always said that my father had changed. He was still a kind and
gentle man, however after the war my father soon sought refuge in places that he found to be peaceful and beautiful. Without a doubt,
the deserts of Southern California were those places. And those outings with my father shaped much of my art career. In the desert, we
sought out rocks and formations of the earth to discuss what we had seen. Many people find the desert to be dry and riddled with death,
however, I found the colors to be more alive than any city I had ever visited. Red Iron Oxide is found in many parts of the Mojave desert
and this the color of rust is for me a color of life.
My love of found objects was also born in the desert. I would collect anything that struck me as vital and bring it home with me. Many
years later I began to include a found object in each of my paintings. After I graduated with degrees in both Fine Art and Theology, the
idea of using these found objects as a point of redemption came alive. I love taking items from the desert or the streets of Los Angeles
and incorporating them into my artwork. Even if the objects are so subtle that the viewer may not even see them, they create an energy
in the piece that aligns itself with my faith and my theory that all things can be redeemed. I also love textures to exist in my work, and I
often encourage viewers to touch my paintings, because the oil of human hands makes the plastics in the acrylics that I use that much
more human. And when you can touch artwork, you develop a viewpoint rarely accessible in the modern art world.
When I began to paint and create my art, I did not know where I was headed as and artist. Yet what remained important to me was that I
was beginning my calling as a painter. After I began painting and working as a Priest, the idea came to me to create works that could
benefit the members of my community. It always seemed to me that the public was constantly being asked to support either museums,
that would explore it, to slow down, look, touch and consider the essential colors, shapes and textures that can feed our souls.
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HR Q&A: Motivating an under-performing employee
HR professionals offer advice to frequently asked business questions
Question: How do I get an underperforming employee to improve?
Answer: You first need to know what is going on with the particular employee. Is there anything else going on in their job, the work environment, with co-workers, a supervisor, or more broadly in their life that is precluding them from performing? Let’s face it, most people don’t wake up in the morning and think to themselves: “How do I steal from my employer by doing a lousy job?” The reason for this is that people normally associate feelings of safety with remaining employed. This is normally not assured with blatant, or continuing under performance on their part.
If you can alleviate or improve upon whatever is impeding your apparent under-performer’s performance, the problem is often resolved quickly. Having worked with hundreds of small to mid-sized employers since 2004, I’ve found this can be anything from:
• a lack of knowing what exactly is expected at a level they really understand, and can therefore act upon;
• a poor manager who demotivates;
• personal problems that are distracting their focus from timely, accurate work.
This is not about excuses. It is about understanding what is really going on in order to truly help enable employee performance. This is also not about prying too deeply into an employee’s personal life. Instead, it is about asking—respectfully and supportively—how you can help remove potential barriers to their individual performance.
The difference between success and failure here is often driven by your approach. Help is usually accepted, blame is usually deflected. As a bonus, a helpful employer usually ends up earning the trust and respect of their employees, a factor which is the number one driver of their, and increasingly your, performance.
If, after understanding what is really going on with a particular employee, you still believe it is a performance problem, ask them how you might be able to help them perform better in their job? Nicely, calmly, usually privately, and in a spirit of discovery, while taking notes, ask them: “How could we as an organization, or me as a leader here, enable you to perform better in your role?”
Listen carefully to their responses, and let them come back to you if they want to think about it for a day or two. Maybe they need some training, coaching, mentoring, support, tools, safety gear, ventilation, or potentially something else. Enable them if it seems reasonable. Normally, by working with someone to get their performance level up, the sheer fact that you’re doing so provides an improvement. This is because you are positively impacting their esteem, plus the additional gains you are likely to discover.
Finally, if and when you and/or your qualified human resources consultant has worked through the diagnostic work to determine that there is an actual individual performance problem, then, and only then, should you consider additional action.
For a typical small to mid-sized employer, this will involve a progressive discipline process as laid out in your HR policies and procedures documentation, tied back to their employment agreement. This normally starts with a verbal warning, working through one or more written warnings, moving up to a formal performance improvement plan, and failing improvement, potential termination, normally ‘without cause’ in a legal sense. Pay-in-lieu of notice, statutory severance, career transition, and common law considerations should all be considered. In reality, these parting goodies as they are often viewed, are to provide a bridge for the employee as they work to find their next employer. You are also covering off some of their basic physiological and safety needs in the process. Don’t begrudge them, it’s wasted energy. We recommend you pay up and move on.
Answer provided by Alex Gallacher CHRP, SHRP. Gallacher is managing director of Engage HR.
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prof.dr.ir. M.K. (Meint) Smit - Expertises
Smit, prof.dr.ir. M.K.
Adres :
Technische Universiteit Eindhoven
Postbus 513
Faculteit :
Faculteit Electrical Engineering
Afdeling :
Photonic Integration
Functiecategorie :
Hoogleraar emeritus (HGL em)
Functie :
Hoogleraar emeritus
Intern adres :
FLX 9.102
Tel :
040-247 5058
Tel (intern) :
Email :
• D12300 - Elektromagnetisme, optica, geluidsleer
• D14310 - Telecommunicatietechniek
• D14320 - Micro-elektronica
• Optische chips
• Optische communicatie
• Inp (indium fosfide)
• Fotonische integratie
Research profile
Meint Smit is a Full Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering at Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e), where he leads the Photonic Integration group at the COBRA Research Institute. Currently, his research focuses on Generic Integration Technology. Unlike today’s microelectronics, technology development in photonics is strongly application-specific: for almost every application a novel technology is developed, which makes the entry costs very high. This has prevented a breakthrough of Photonic Integration. In response to this, Smit pioneered the use of the microelectronics methodology in photonics, and contributed to the launch of open-access integration technology platforms for InP and Silicon Photonics.
A key achievement has been placing lasers onto a piece of Silicon, relying on Indium Phosphide to generate light directly in the chip. Meint’s group are developing methods to build full photonic circuits in a thin Indium Phosphide layer on top of a silicon wafer containing the driver, receiver and control electronics, to realise very short and efficient connections.
Academic background
Meint Smit graduated in Electrical Engineering at Delft University of Technology in 1974, and received his PhD in 1991 (with honors). In 1976, he joined Delft University of Technology. Five years later, he switched to optical communications and the research field of Integrated Optics. Meint became leader of the Photonic Integrated Circuits group of the Delft University in 1994.
Meint is the inventor of the Arrayed Waveguide Grating for which he received a LEOS Technical Achievement award in 1997. A year later he was appointed Full Professor and his group, together with the groups of prof. Wolter and prof. Khoe (COBRA, TU/e) received a €40m research grant to establish a National Research Center on Photonics. In 2002 he and his group moved to TU/e. In 2002 he was appointed LEOS Fellow for contributions to the field of Opto-Electronic Integration. He is leading the InP platform (JePPIX) in which Europe’s key players in InP technology cooperatie on two major European projects (EuroPIC and PARADIGM). He has held many invited and keynote presentations and led a number of major European projects.
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Popular Myths about a Career in Engineering
I dare you to deny the following statement:
“India is the land of engineers.”
See, I got you struggling didn’t I?
If you haven’t been living under a rock, then you would be well aware of our country’s intimate romance with engineering. If the situation gets any worse, our dearest prime minister, Narendra Modi might just have to declare engineering as the national career of India. Most average Indian mothers think at least once in their lives, “Mera ladla beta bade hoke engineer banega”.
Now the fact that the ‘ladla beta’ is barely able to add 2 and 2 together, and has a flair for becoming a DJ, is just a minor technicality. What are engineering businessmen for? Yes, I call them businessmen because that’s exactly what they are- businessmen. Their only concern in life is to go for a swim in a huge pile of money (ala Scrooge McDuck). Why should they be bothered about the kind of “engineers” that their institution is producing, and whether those engineers even know the difference between ‘torque’ and ‘momentum’?
Everything is peachy as long as they have the golden ‘engineer’ tag on them. Don’t get me wrong, I don’t have a personal vendetta against engineering. I feel that it is too a noble profession like many others. But the larger part of the so-called engineers are the by-products of a mass sheep producing machine (sheep-mator 3000), crying “mba mba” instead of “mah mah”.
So if you too have been dazed by the “IIT dream”, it’s time for me to give you a harsh dose of reality. Here are some of the most popular myths about a career in engineering that have lived on for way too long:
#1 I am guaranteed to get a high package job.
Ah, my favorite! Many of you naïve souls have the following formula in mind:
Step 1: Take admission in XYZ college of engineering.
Step 2: Survive long enough to get a B.Tech degree.
Step 3: Score a swanky job.
Step 4: Be RICH!
Wow. That sounds like a super amazing formula, doesn’t it? I mean, all of us have heard the story of their cousin/friend/neighbour who graduated from his B.Tech, and secured that coveted 15 lakh package. Didn’t that make you want to jump off your bed and just dive into your books? Only if life were so simple! What most of us don’t realize is that those dream packages are only secured by a select few, the crème de la crème of the institutions. Most engineering graduates have to content themselves with a 3.5 lakh package, offered by mass recruiters (a.k.a the saving grace of the average engineer). Agreed that the growth rate in engineering is good, and many that start off at 3.5 are earning big bucks after a few years, but that is NOT A GUARANTEED THING. Your growth would always depend on how you perform at your job. You won’t be visited by a career fairy at night, who will tranform your package with one flick of the wand.
#2 Engineering should always be followed by an MBA.
Fill in the blank:
IIT + _____________= $$$
I won’t even wait for you to answer this one. We all know that the answer is IIM. When the words ‘IIT’ and ‘IIM’ appear in the same sentence, Indians’ hearts skip a beat. You won’t deny when I say that this one can easily qualify as the “Indian dream”. This “dream” is also the perpetuator of yet another common engineering myth, that MBA is the next logical step after engineering. Since B.Tech+MBA is considered such a solid combination in our country, B.Tech graduates don’t even think twice before enrolling themselves for CAT coaching. Just try to find logic in this statement, “Engineering ki hai isliye main manager banunga”. I mean, if you have studied engineering, why don’t you become, I don’t know, an ENGINEER? True engineers are those mythical creatures that are working in technical fields such as dams, factories, petroleum refineries, etc. If your ultimate goal is to hold a plush managerial job in an American MNC, then why waste your time with engineering at all? It is a sad affair to see our country in dire need of engineers when half of the population comes with that tag.
#3 I’ll get settled right after I graduate.
This one goes hand in hand with the package one. Think if you’ve ever heard these lines,”Beta bus kisi tarah B.Tech kar lo, uske baad to life set hai.” Of course, because top companies are just flocking around to give million dollar jobs to every tom, dick and harry, right? They obviously have a magical factory where jobs get created every minute, waiting for their ‘engineer in shining armour’ to come and take them. Why would they care about your calibre, your performance or your personality? I know you are not dumb, you can sense the sarcasm. No, there’s no magical world out there where there are jobs in abundance. With the boom of engineers in our country, the demand and supply ratio is seriously skewed. If you go to a random street and shout, “Who here is an engineer?”, you are guaranteed to see a lot of raised hands. In such a situation, thinking that you would be guaranteed a well-paying job right out of college is a very faulty assumption. You might have to struggle, specially if you are average.
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Azure RemoteApp: App-V Support Part 3
This is the last part in the blog series about App-V support in Azure RemoteApp. In the first part I discussed the use of a standalone App-V deployment with Azure RemoteApp. The second part discussed the use of the full App-V infrastructure in combination with Azure RemoteApp. This last part will focus on deploying App-V applications through System Center Configuration Manager (ConfigMgr). This blogpost will describe the steps needed to add your RemoteApp instances to ConfigMgr and the steps needed to deploy the App-V applications.
But let’s first look into the advantages and disadvantages of using ConfigMgr for deploying App-V applications to Azure RemoteApp. The most common way to implement ConfigMgr in combination with Azure RemoteApp will be a Hybrid domain joined deployment. When domain joined you can easily add your Azure RemoteApp instances to ConfigMgr. When added you can use ConfigMgr to deploy applications, software updates and settings to Azure RemoteApp instances. ConfigMgr can deploy applications to users and/or to devices. My advice is to only deploy applications to Azure RemoteApp devices. As described in part 2 Azure RemoteApp does not support user targeting of applications. Looking to the delivery methods ConfigMgr supports delivering App-V applications locally and streamed. When delivered locally the application will be locally cached and when streamed the application will be streamed from the ConfigMgr distribution point(s). The following table summarizes the advantages and disadvantages:
Advantages Disadvantages
Add/Remove/Update of App-V applications can be done without updating the Custom Image Extra infrastructure is needed for the ConfigMgr environment
Choice of locally caching or streaming applications Additional Management is needed to manage ConfigMgr
Can use other ConfigMgr functionality on the Azure RemoteApp instances
Total Management solution for your Azure RemoteApp environment
The following steps are needed to create a custom image with the ConfigMgr and App-V client configured to a ConfigMgr environment:
2. Join the server to the domain and restart the server.
3. Now go to your ConfigMgr environment and push the agent to the template:
4. When installed execute step 10 till 14 of the first blogpost of this series which you can find here.
5. The next step is to prepare the ConfigMgr client for imaging. The following actions need to be executed:
1. Stop the ‘SMS Agen Host’ Service.
2. Delete the ConfigMgr certificates from the Local Machine Certificate store.
3. Remove the %SYSTEMROOT%\SMSCFG.ini file.
6. The last step is to execute SysPrep by running the following command:
Another option is to create a Virtual Machine on Azure and use this for creating a template image. In the Gallery you can select the ‘Windows Server Remote Desktop Session Host’ Image and use this as your starting point. When this image is used you can ignore step 1 till 5 in the above plan.
When you have uploaded or created the image the next step is to deploy the image in Hybrid Azure RemoteApp collection. After the deployement of that Hybrid collection the instances should appear in your ConfigMgr environment as systems (Note: After some time the sytems should become active):
The next step is to create a application deployment for the Azure Remote App instances from ConfigMgr. There are several ways of doing this but I executed the following steps:
1. Create 2 collections per application. 1 collection for the installation of the application and 1 for removing the application.
2. When you have those 2 collections add the Azure RemoteApp instances to the ‘Uninstall’ collection.
3. Create 2 Application deployments to those 2 collections. The install deployment should be targeted against the Install collection and the Uninstall deployment should be targeted against the uninstall collection
4. The next step is to add an RemoteApp instance to the install collection. When the instance is added the application should install on the next Machine Policy refresh of the ConfigMgr agent.
5. You can monitor the application installation by opening the AppEnforce.log from the ConfigMgr client log folder. You should see the following entries:
6. The next step is to publish the icon through the Azure Management Portal. When published the users can start the application.
Azure RemoteApp Client (with published applications):
VLC Mediaplayer:
With this 3rd part I will end my blogseries about App-V support in Azure RemoteApp. My conclusion is that App-V works great on Azure RemoteApp and can be implemented in various ways. The choice of Management Solution is just up to you!
If you have any questions about this or earlier blogposts can you contact me through the contact form of my blog or just leave a comment!
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“Cimon” is the first AI robot to travel in space. It flew onboard SpaceX’s Dragon cargo capsule, which lifted off on June 29, 2018 from Cape Canaveral, Florida. (T. Bourry/AP)
Kai-Fu Lee is the chairman of Sinovation Ventures and the president of its Artificial Intelligence Institute. He was the founding president of Google China. He recently spoke about his new book, “AI Superpowers: China, Silicon Valley and the New World Order,” with The WorldPost’s editor in chief, Nathan Gardels.
WorldPost: Artificial intelligence is surely the most consequential technological development of the 21st century. In your book “AI Superpowers,” you’ve written the most comprehensive global account of artificial intelligence to date. What are the central themes of your book?
Kai Fu Lee: The benefits, as well as the potential disruptive effects of AI, are well known. To give only a few obvious examples, AI has already enabled us to amplify our knowledge through search engines, connect people who speak different languages through machine translation and save us billions of dollars from credit card theft and fraud.
In the future, AI holds the promise of significantly improving medical diagnosis and lowering the cost of health care. AI can personalize education and improve the speed of learning. It will enable automated stores and factories, thus significantly reducing the cost of goods and services. Finally, intelligent machines will take care of our chores, such as driving, cooking, cleaning, dishwashing and laundry, giving us back our most valuable resource — our time. PricewaterhouseCoopers estimates AI will add $15.7 trillion to the world economy by 2030.
Taking care of our chores and automating manufacturing, of course, will mean a total disruption of patterns of work and employment. Some estimate as many as 40 percent of current jobs will be lost to intelligent machines.
Most reports and books on the subject have been written either from a technologist/researcher perspective or from a business, history or economics perspective. I come at it through all of these lenses and as someone who has extensive experience in both China and the United States — the great AI duopoly. My aim is to acknowledge and understand the critical lessons of China’s rise as a tech power, not based on misconceptions in the West about intellectual property theft or government protection. Of course, Chinese entrepreneurs had their scrappy, questionable methods in the early days. But its tech industries have evolved into a completely legitimate method of starting world class Internet and AI businesses.
The Chinese have developed a valuable methodology of tech business innovation that involves an ultra-fast iterating product design based on instantaneous feedback from massive market data.
In the United States, tech companies don’t compete very hard, so when you build out a franchise such as Instagram, competitors say: “O.K., I’m going to do something else. I don’t want to do what you do.” In China’s super-competitive environment, when people see an idea, they jump in with a copycat mentality — it is not about copying Silicon Valley but about copying any features developed in any country, if it is useful.
So to prevent the copycat who has more money or better engineers from taking over your franchise, you need to erect extremely high walls to protect yourself. This leads to a completely different business model from Silicon Valley. It forces start-ups to take extraordinary risks to build extremely complex “moats” to maintain a competitive advantage that will protect profits and market share over the long term. It is this combination of a competitive, fight-or-die mentality married to abundant capital and a gigantic networked consumer base that is fueling China’s ascent in commercial technology. This is worth studying by American businesses.
The AI revolution will have two engines — China and the United States — pushing its progress swiftly forward. It is unlike any previous technological revolution that emerged from a singular cultural setting. Having two engines will further accelerate the pace of technology.
WorldPost: In your book, you talk about the “data gap” between these two engines. What do you mean by that?
Lee: Data is the raw material on which AI runs. It is like the role of oil in powering an industrial economy. As an AI algorithm is fed more examples of the phenomenon you want the algorithm to understand, it gains greater and greater accuracy. The more faces you show a facial recognition algorithm, the fewer mistakes it will make in recognizing your face. The more medical records you show to a diagnostic algorithm, the more accurate its diagnoses will be.
All data is not the same, however. China and the United States have different strengths when it comes to data. The gap emerges when you consider the breadth, quality and depth of the data. Breadth means the number of users, the population whose actions are captured in data. Quality means how well-structured and well-labeled the data is. Depth means how many different data points are generated about the activities of each user.
Chinese and American companies are on relatively even footing when it comes to breadth. Though American Internet companies have a smaller domestic user base than China, which has over a billion users on 4G devices, the best American companies can also draw in users from around the globe, bringing their total user base to over a billion.
Americans, so far, enjoy a distinct advantage when it comes to quality. Companies and public institutions in the United States are much more likely to use software that structures their data for immediate use. Chinese corporations and public entities are moving in this direction, in part due to increased bureaucratic incentives for utilizing data. Still, they lag substantially behind U.S. organizations in terms of accumulation of AI-ready data.
But when it comes to depth of data, China has the upper hand. Chinese Internet users channel a much larger portion of their daily activities, transactions and interactions through their smartphones. They use their smartphones for managing their daily lives, from buying groceries at the market to paying their utility bills, booking train or bus tickets and to take out loans, among other things.
Weaving together data from mobile payments, public services, financial management and shared mobility gives Chinese companies a deep and more multi-dimensional picture of their users. That allows their AI algorithms to precisely tailor product offerings to each individual. In the current age of AI implementation, this will likely lead to a substantial acceleration and deepening of AI’s impact across China’s economy. That is where the “data gap” appears.
WorldPost: This data gap, combined with China’s distinct business model that you’ve described, increasingly puts tech industries on entirely different footings. You say a “parallel universe” already exists there. What are the implications?
Lee: The radically different business model in China, married to Chinese user habits, creates indigenous branding and monetization strategies as well as an entirely alternative infrastructure for apps and content. It is therefore very difficult, if not impossible, for any American company to try to enter China’s market or vice versa. It’s like two different jigsaw puzzles. You can’t take a piece from one and try to fit it into the other — everything is different.
At the same time, companies in both countries are pursuing their own form of international expansion. The United States uses a “full platform” approach — all Google, all Facebook. Essentially Australia, North America and Europe completely accept the American methodology. That technical empire is likely to continue.
The Chinese have realized that the U.S. empire is too difficult to penetrate, so they are looking elsewhere. They are trying, and generally succeeding, in Southeast Asia, the Middle East and Africa. Those regions and countries have not been a focus of U.S. tech, so their products are not built with the cultures of those countries in mind. And since their demographics are closer to China’s — lower income and lots of people, including youth — the Chinese products are a better fit.
There are also local entrepreneurs in countries such as India, Indonesia and Brazil building their own products, who are open to partnerships with Chinese companies. Chinese companies share in the upside of the investment but do not own the company outright, which is the American approach. In these less-developed countries, Chinese companies are making significant investments, injecting not only money but technical know-how, including AI. For example, the Chinese rideshare company Didi Chuxing acquired Uber’s competitors in Brazil and Indonesia.
If you were to draw a map a decade from now, you would see China’s tech zone — built not on ownership but partnerships — stretching across Southeast Asia, Indonesia, Africa and to some extent South America. The U.S. zone would entail North America, Australia and Europe. Over time, the “parallel universes” already extant in the United States and China will grow to cover the whole world.
WorldPost: Europe seems pretty much out of the picture as any kind of independent player. Is it more or less a tech colony of the Americans?
Lee: Yes, it is. The United Kingdom and France have large aspirations, and Russia is a wild card. As you say, Europe is pretty much an American colony. There is, however, a sensibility in Europe distinct from America, which we see in privacy-oriented laws such as the General Data Protection Regulation. So some differentiation is appearing.
Policy-wise, we are seeing three approaches. The Chinese have unleashed entrepreneurs with a utilitarian passion to commercialize technology. The Americans are similarly pro-entrepreneur, but the government takes a laissez-faire attitude and the entrepreneurs carry out more moonshots. And Europe is more consumer-oriented, trying to give ownership and control of data back to the individual.
WorldPost: Given the parallel universes you describe, aren’t you concerned that the AI superpowers will end up in an arms race? After all, China and the United States are in the midst of a mounting trade war. The hawks in the Trump administration have targeted the “Made in China 2025” industrial policy in order to prevent China’s dominance in AI and robotics.
Lee: An AI arms race would be a grave mistake. The AI boom is more akin to the spread of electricity in the early Industrial Revolution than nuclear weapons during the Cold War. Those who take the arms-race view are more interested in political posturing than the flourishing of humanity. The value of AI as an omni-use technology rests in its creative, not destructive, potential.
While there is competition in commercial applications, those of us engaged in AI tend to be open about sharing basic research since the goal is advancing the field. Unlike many other sciences, AI experiments can be replicated and shared so each builds on the other’s knowledge. In a way, having parallel universes should diminish conflict. They can coexist while each can learn from the other. It is not a zero-sum game of winners and losers.
WorldPost: At the outset, you raised the biggest challenge presented by AI: the loss of jobs. How do you see that unfolding?
Lee: The prevalent and imminent challenge over the next 15 years is dealing with job displacement. We will see a massive migration from one kind of employment to another, not unlike during the transition from agriculture to manufacturing. It will largely be the lower-wage jobs in routine work that will be eliminated, while the ultra-rich will stand to make a lot of money from AI. Social inequality will thus widen.
The jobs that AI cannot do are those of creators, or what I call “empathetic jobs” in services, which will be the largest category that can absorb those displaced from routine jobs. Many jobs will become available in this sector, from teaching to elderly care and nursing. A great effort must be made not only to increase the number of those jobs and create a career path for them but to increase their social status, which also means increasing the pay of these jobs.
There are also issues related to poorer countries who have relied on either following the old China model of low-wage manufacturing jobs or of India’s call centers. AI will replace those jobs that were created by outsourcing from the West. They will be the first to go in the next 10 years. So, underdeveloped countries will also have to look to jobs for creators and in services.
WorldPost: Presumably, the wealth being created by the robots will have to be shared with those working in services of the future?
Lee: There should be some subsidy, yes. But I am opposed to the idea of universal basic income because it provides money both to those who don’t need it as well as those who do. And it doesn’t stimulate people’s desire to work. It puts them into a kind of “useless class” category with the terrible consequence of a resentful class without dignity or status.
To reinvigorate people’s desire to work with dignity, some subsidy can help offset the costs of critical needs that only humans can provide. That would be a much better use of the distribution of income than giving it to every person whether they need it or not. A far better idea would be for workers of the future to have an equity share in owning the robots — universal basic capital instead of universal basic income.
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Weekly Wayfinder – January 22, 2018
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Welcome to the Weekly Wayfinder, a curated list of wayfinding-related inspiration, ideas, activities and fun stuff to click on and learn from.
WHAT WE’RE READING: Why we really quit our jobs (hint: it’s a people problem)
WHAT WE’RE LISTENING TO: Walking is the best way to go slow
WHAT WE’RE PLAYING WITH: How do we know when it’s time to jump?
WHAT WE’RE CURIOUS ABOUT: What are the essential ingredients for a successful mentorship relationship?
WHAT WE’RE TRYING: Ten steps to letting go of the hustle and surrendering to the flow
THIS WEEK’S MANTRA: “Speaking your truth is the most powerful tool we have.”
This week’s mantra – spoken by perhaps the wayfinder of all wayfinders, Oprah Winfrey – is top of mind right now as I find myself pulled in lots of directions (sometimes conflicting ones). How do we know what life and work choices are the ‘right’ choices? How might we tap into our inner voice and intuition for guidance – and what do we do if it tells us something we don’t really want to hear?
For Oprah, truth is power. Or, put another way by Rainer Maria Rilke, “No one can advise you and help you, no one. There is only one way: go within.”
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7 Ways Your Relationship Improves After You Go to Couples Therapy
In case you were thinking of trying it out...
does couples therapy work?
Leanne Allen is a psychologist and life coach at Reconnect Wellness Centre in Sydney, Australia. This article was republished with permission from YourTango.
There are several reasons why couples counseling might fail to improve a relationship. Sometimes people don't want to work things out, the therapist isn't a good fit, or the relationship has just been in trouble for far too long. But more often than not, couples therapy can be extremely beneficial.
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Here are the important things therapy can teach you that will dramatically improve your relationship from the get-go.
1. Communication
It may sound simple, but it really isn’t. Learning how to actually talk with your partner, not at your partner is a wonderful thing. It’s a small tweaking of the language you use that allows you to be heard and makes all the difference. I've seen many couples for whom simply changing the tone of voice they use with each other has a great effect.
2. Listening
Have you ever realized that your partner is talking—but you don't understand what he or she is trying to say? Do you nod your head or utter a noise that indicates you are listening, and then the other person says, “So what did I say?” and you have no idea?
Obviously, this is not listening. Learning how to pay attention when your partner is speaking seems so simple, yet it's a major issue pretty much every couple I've seen struggles with.
3. Intimacy
Intimacy is not just sex. It also includes cuddling, laughing together, or sharing your feelings. Imagine if you really could see into your partner's mind and heart (and they could see into yours). A good couple’s therapist can help you do this.
4. Sex
The problem with sex is that people don't usually have wild, rip-your-clothes-off sex on a regular basis. And we're made to believe that if that's not happening, then we're missing out.
Therapy can help you get real about what's preventing you from having good sex. It can help you figure out if it is an emotional or physical issue (and if it is physical, you'll be advised to see your doctor or a sex therapist for specific treatment).
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Differing libidos are a very common complaint in the therapy room. Therapy can teach you how to manage this in a way that does not degrade or belittle either partner and gives you back a sense of sexual equality.
5. Parenting
Many couples struggle when they have different parenting styles. As a result, one parent does everything, and the other parent does nothing. An independent observer who has some training (a.k.a. your couples therapist) can help create a balance that honors both parenting styles. Again, it is not about who is wrong or right (unless someone is putting the children at risk, of course); it is about teaching parents how to come up with an agreed plan of disciplinary action and showing parents how to manage different opinions in a respectful way.
6. Balancing Power
If one person is too pushy about a particular thing (whether it be cleaning the house, parenting rules, or sex), the other partner is going to pull back. And can you blame them? No one likes to be told what to do.
By giving both people in the relationship permission to change the way they handle these situations, change can happen almost immediately. One pulls back, the other has the space to step up. Just like a dance.
7. Healing from an Affair
An affair is usually a symptom of problems that already existed within the relationship. If someone has an affair, it's because they aren't happy.
If the person is truly sorry, the affair and all contact with the other person has stopped, and the wounded partner can learn to forgive (with help), then a relationship can actually get stronger after a crisis like this. The couple can learn what went wrong and get to know each other on a much deeper level.
There are so many more areas that can be addressed in couples therapy: past traumas playing out within the relationship, work stress getting in the way, injuries or illnesses. The secret to the process going well is to find the couples therapist who is right for you.
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S omewhere tonight someone will turn on his radio and hear a news bulletin about a Martian landing in New Jersey. But there'll be no panic. Rebroadcasts of Orson Welles's "War of the Worlds" are now as common on Halloween as readings of "The Night Before Christmas" are on Dec. 24.
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Whooping cough
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Key Information
What should I do?
If you think you or your child has this condition you should see a doctor within 48 hours.
How is it diagnosed?
Sometimes doctors can diagnose whooping cough simply by asking about symptoms and listening to the cough. To confirm diagnosis, a sample of cells from the nose or throat can be sent for analysis, and blood tests can be done to look for infection or inflammation. Your doctor may also order a chest X-ray to check for fluid building up in the lungs.
What is the treatment?
Treatment of whooping cough depend on the age of the patient and how long they have had the infection.
• Children under 6 months of age and anyone with severe symptoms may need to be admitted to hospital.
• If a diagnosis is made within the first 3 weeks of infection, whooping cough can often be treated with antibiotics at home. These may not reduce symptoms, but can help to stop infection from spreading.
• If the infection has already lasted for more than 3 weeks, treatment isn’t usually necessary.
There are some things that you can do at home to help relieve the symptoms:
• get plenty of rest
• drink lots of fluids
• take paracetamol or ibuprofen for fevers
• clean away any mucus or vomit from the mouth.
When to worry?
Please see a doctor immediately if you or your child have the following symptoms:
• significant breathing difficulties
• fast shallow breathing
• choking
• periods where breathing stops
• dusky, blue skin
• fits (seizures).
The medical term for whooping cough is pertussis.
The condition usually begins with a persistent dry and irritating cough that progresses to intense bouts of coughing. These are followed by a distinctive 'whooping' noise, which is how the condition gets its name.
Other symptoms include a runny nose, raised temperature and vomiting after coughing.
The coughing can last for around three months (another name for whooping cough is the ‘hundred day cough’).
Read more about the symptoms of whooping cough.
Whooping cough is caused by a bacterium called Bordetella pertussis, which can be passed from person to person through droplets in the air from coughing and sneezing.
Read more about the causes of whooping cough.
Treating whooping cough
Your doctor will be able to advise you about how to manage the infection at home using some simple self care measures, such as resting and drinking plenty of fluids to avoid dehydration.
Read more about treating whooping cough.
Babies under the age of six months are likely to be admitted to hospital as they are most at risk of severe complications, such as serious breathing difficulties.
They will be treated in isolation to prevent the infection spreading and will be given antibiotics into a vein through a drip (intravenously).
Read more about the complications of whooping cough.
Whooping cough vaccination
Read more about preventing whooping cough.
Although the number of cases of whooping cough has fallen dramatically since vaccination began, it is still possible for children to get the infection, so having the vaccination is vital.
The more people vaccinated against whooping cough the less chance there is of them passing on the infection to a young baby in which it could cause serious, and possibly fatal, complications.
The effectiveness of the whooping cough vaccination may fade over time, meaning it is possible to develop the condition during adulthood if you were previously vaccinated.
Who is affected?
Most cases occur in adults whose immunity has faded and in these cases symptoms tend to be less serious (although having to live with a persistent cough can be frustrating and unpleasant).
Try checking your symptoms with our AI-powered symptom checker.
The symptoms of whooping cough usually take between six and 20 days to appear after infection with the Bordetella pertussis bacterium. This delay is known as the incubation period.
Early symptoms
The early symptoms of whooping cough are often similar to those of a common cold and may include:
• runny or blocked nose
• sneezing
• watering eyes
• dry, irritating cough
• sore throat
• slightly raised temperature
• feeling generally unwell
These early symptoms of whooping cough can last for one to two weeks, before becoming more severe.
Paroxysmal symptoms
The second stage of whooping cough is often called the paroxysmal stage and is characterised by intense bouts of coughing. The bouts are sometimes referred to as 'paroxysms' of coughing.
The paroxysmal symptoms of whooping cough may include:
• intense bouts of coughing, which bring up thick phlegm
• a 'whoop' sound with each sharp intake of breath after coughing (although this may not occur in infants and young children, see below)
• vomiting after coughing, especially in infants and young children
• tiredness and redness in the face from the effort of coughing
Each bout of coughing usually lasts between one and two minutes, but several bouts may occur in quick succession and last several minutes. The number of coughing bouts experienced each day varies, but is usually between 12 and 15.
The paroxysmal symptoms of whooping cough usually last at least two weeks, but can last longer, even after treatment. This is because the cough continues even after the Bordetella pertussis bacterium has been cleared from your body.
Infants and young children
Infants younger than six months may not make the 'whoop' sound after coughing, but they may start gagging or gasping, and may temporarily stop breathing.
Though very rare, it is possible for whooping cough to cause sudden unexpected death in infants (see complications of whooping cough for more information).
Young children may also seem to choke or become blue in the face (cyanosis) when they have a bout of coughing. This looks worse than it is, and breathing will quickly start again.
Adults and older children
In adults and older children, the paroxysmal symptoms of whooping cough are far less severe than in young children, and may appear more like symptoms of a milder respiratory infection, such as bronchitis.
Recovery stage
Eventually, the symptoms of whooping cough gradually start to improve, with fewer and less extreme bouts of coughing occurring. This period of recovery can last up to three months or more.
However, intense bouts of coughing may still occur during this period.
When to seek medical advice
You should always see your doctor if you think you or your child may have developed whooping cough.
If this is the case you will need to be prescribed antibiotics.
When to seek immediate medical advice
You should seek immediate medical advice if:
• you have a baby of six months or younger who appears to be very unwell – read more about [spotting the signs of serious illness in young children]
• you (or your child) appears to be experiencing significant breathing difficulties such as extended periods of breathlessness
• you (or your child) develops serious complications, such as seizures (fits) or pneumonia, an infection that causes inflammation of the tissues in your lungs
Call your doctor immediately. If this is not possible then call your emergency services.
The bacterium also causes the airways to swell up, making them narrower than usual. As a result, breathing is made difficult, which causes the 'whoop' sound as you gasp for breath after a bout of coughing.
How whooping cough spreads
People with whooping cough are infectious from six days after exposure to the bacterium to three weeks after the 'whooping' cough begins.
See your doctor as soon as possible if you think you or your child may have whooping cough.
Your doctor will usually be able to diagnose whooping cough by asking about your symptoms and listening to the cough (the whooping cough is very distinctive).
Sometimes, your doctor will need to confirm the diagnosis by taking a blood test to check for antibodies to the whooping cough bacterium.
A whooping cough diagnosis can also be confirmed by taking a sample of mucus from the back of the throat with a swab (a small stick similar to a cotton bud) and testing this for the Bordetella pertussis bacterium. However, this method is not always accurate.
Young babies
If a young baby has suspected whooping cough, they may need to be diagnosed in hospital, where they will be given any necessary treatment. This is because the disease can be severe in babies.
The condition is much less serious in older children and adults and can usually be treated at home with self-help measures (see below).
If whooping cough is diagnosed during the first three weeks (21 days) of the infection, your doctor may prescribe a course of antibiotics to prevent the infection spreading.
Antibiotics will stop you being infectious after five days of taking them. However, without antibiotics, you may still be infectious until three weeks after your intense bouts of coughing start.
If whooping cough is not diagnosed until the later stages of the infection, it is unlikely that your doctor will prescribe antibiotics. This is because the bacterium that causes whooping cough has already gone by this time, so you will no longer be infectious. Antibiotics will not improve your symptoms at this stage.
Babies and young children
Babies are affected most severely by whooping cough, and are most at risk of developing complications. For this reason, babies under 12 months who contract whooping cough will often need treatment in hospital.
If your child is admitted to hospital to be treated for whooping cough, it is likely they will be treated in isolation. This means they will be kept away from other patients to prevent the infection spreading.
Your child may need to be given antibiotics intravenously (straight into a vein through a drip).
If your child is severely affected, they may also need corticosteroid medication as well as antibiotics. Corticosteroid medication contains steroids. These are powerful hormones that will reduce inflammation (swelling) in your child's airways, making it easier for them to breathe. Like antibiotics, corticosteroids may be given intravenously.
If your child needs additional help with breathing, they may be given extra oxygen through a facemask. A handheld device called a bulb syringe may also be used to gently suction away any mucus that is blocking their airways.
Self-help measures
Whooping cough is much less serious in older children and adults than it is in babies and young children. Your doctor will usually advise you to manage the infection at home and follow some simple advice:
• get plenty of rest
• drink lots of fluids to prevent dehydration
• clear away excess mucus or vomit during bouts of coughing so it cannot be inhaled and cause choking
• ibuprofen and/or paracetamol can be used to relieve other symptoms such as a high temperature and sore throat - aspirin should not be given to children under the age of 16
How to avoid passing on the infection
Whooping cough is highly infectious, so if you or your child have it, it is important to stay away from others until the bacterium has completely cleared.
The affected person should stay at home until they have completed a five-day course of antibiotics from their doctor, or had intense bouts of coughing (paroxysms) for three weeks (whichever is sooner).
Although bouts of coughing may continue after three weeks, it is unlikely you will still be infectious because the bacterium will have gone.
Preventative treatment
Preventative treatment may be recommended for members of your household (or dorm or residential home) known to be vulnerable to the effects of infection (these people are known as vulnerable contacts).
Vulnerable contacts include:
• newborn babies
• young children under the age of 12 months who have not received the complete course of the DTaP/IPV/Hib vaccine
• children under the age of 10 who have not been vaccinated
• women in the last month of pregnancy
• people with a weakened immune system, such as people with HIV or people undergoing chemotherapy
• people with a long-term health condition such as asthma or heart failure
Preventative treatment is also usually recommended if a household member works in a healthcare, social care or childcare facility as they could pass the infection on to other vulnerable contacts
Preventative treatment usually involves a short course of antibiotics, and in some cases, a booster dose of the vaccine.
In the UK, whooping cough is now rare due to successful vaccination against it.
The 5-in-1 vaccine
The whooping cough vaccine is given as part of the 5-in-1 vaccine (DTaP/IPV/Hib), which also protects against diphtheria, tetanus, polio and Hib (haemophilus influenzae type b).
The pre-school booster
The 4-in-1 pre-school booster (DTap/IPV) is given before children start school (when they are between three and five years old) to boost their protection against whooping cough.
The whooping cough vaccine is given in three separate jabs plus a booster, so that your child's body has time to build up an effective level of protection.
Side effects of the whooping cough vaccine
The whooping cough vaccine is very safe. The most common side effects that babies experience are:
• pain, redness and swelling at the injection site
• irritability and increased crying
• being off colour or having a fever
Read more about side effects of the 5-in-1 vaccine.
If your child has a problem with their immune system, speak to your doctor for advice about vaccination. Babies with mild coughs or colds can still have the vaccine.
• pneumonia, an infection that causes inflammation of the tissues in your lungs
• dehydration
• temporary pauses in breathing as a result of severe difficulty with breathing
• weight loss due to excessive vomiting
• seizures (fits)
• low blood pressure, requiring medication
• kidney failure, requiring temporary dialysis
• brain damage, if breathing difficulties prevent enough oxygen from getting to the brain
Severe complications such as pneumonia and brain damage can be fatal, although this is extremely rare.
Older children and adults
Older children and adults are occasionally affected by complications of whooping cough. However, the complications are usually much less serious than those experienced by babies and young children.
Less serious complications can include:
• nosebleeds and burst blood vessels in the whites of the eyes from intense bouts of coughing
• bruised ribs as a result of intense coughing
• a hernia (where an internal part of the body pushes through a weakness in the muscle or surrounding tissue wall) due to intense coughing
• a swollen face
• ulcers on the tongue and mouth
• ear infections such as otitis media (a build-up of fluid in the middle ear)
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Following President Trump's Monday evening nomination of judge Brett Kavanaugh to fill Justice Anthony Kennedy's now-vacant seat, hundreds of protesters outside the Supreme Court broke open boxes of pre-printed "Stop Kavanaugh" signs - wasting a substantial amount of paper as the other Supreme Court nominees' pre-printed protest banners went unused.
In other words, it didn't matter who Trump picked - this was always going to be the response.
Those opposed to the selection flipped to their anti-Kavanaugh talking points and filled in the blanks on their prepared statements - for the most part.
As The Daily Caller reports, Rush Limbaugh producer Bo Snerdley, made his own prophetic prediction, and call to action, before Trump made his pick:
And sure enough, the 'resistance' really sprang into action from billionaire Tom Steyer to Bill de Blasio and Kamala Harris - with one voice decrying this terrible human being:
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Trigger log files are designed specially for controlling the execution of your triggers. They are a step-by-step output of all the "thinking" the program does on trigger conditions and trigger variables. By analyzing the logs you can find out the reason why your trigger is not working or is working not in the way you expected it to.
The log information is stored in text format, in files with the *.txt extension, convenient for reading.
Where are they stored
Trigger log files are stored in the folders defined by the corresponding options in the "Trigger Options". So you can view the contents of these files using any file explorer. Besides, you can view the log file of a specific trigger by pressing on the "Log File" button in the corresponding trigger box. See below.
One more way to access the log file of a trigger is to click on the appropriate row in the "Current Triggers" table. See below.
If you don't want to keep log files for a particular trigger, click on the button next to the "Log File" button. Its image will be greyed out to indicate that the log file is not maintained.
The same image will appear in the list of current triggers if you call it by right-clicking on the "Triggers" button:
How to comprehend them
A trigger log is a sequence of similar patterns, which can be broken into several significant parts:
1. The number of round and the message informing that a channel has been refreshed. This gives you the idea of when the latest refresh of the channel has been finished and new data have arrived from BetFair. If the current round is not the one when the trigger should be executed, you will see the following message:
In that case check whether the trigger's round-related options are set up correctly.
2. A message declaring a trigger condition (its body, parameters and values) that is going to be checked.
3. The results of step 2. If the condition was satisfied by one or more selections, you will see the list of eligible selections:
In the brackets you can see why "Card 6 or further" did not qualify.
If, however, the criterion was not met by any selection, you will see the reason why none selection qualified. If the condition is not related to selection parameters (for example, if it checks the parameters of the game), the format of the record will be slightly different.
4. Finally, if the trigger is ready to fire, it will write down the message telling what exactly it is going to do and what parameters / properties it's going to change. For example, if the trigger is about to place a bet, it will list the selections it will bet on and the parameters of the bets (price and amount).
If the trigger is not going to be executed (because the conditions are not met or other parameters of the trigger prevent it from doing this), the sequence will be restarted from step 1.
Read the next topic to learn how to quickly find out why a trigger is not working.
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XF 1.5 apply custom css code globaly throughout all themes?
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i wish to place global change to every theme i have installed on my site and any future new themes that get installed, now i would usually edit the master style extra.css but last time i put something in there it got erased by updates or re-importing the core master data..
is there another template i can target? preferably a css template that loads in with every page.
also when I try to do via Regular expression on EXTRA.CSS
Find: /^.*$/s (I'm not good with these I just copied this from some other add-one)
and replace with this:
.fa {
font-family: FontAwesome !important;
load order 10 (maybe change different load order?) - some 1 explain load order in detail 4 me?
but then this break my custom CSS in the extra.css for 1 of my themes:
.nodeList .categoryStrip .nodeDescription {
color: orange !important;
font-size: 10px !important;
text-shadow: 0 0 10px black, 0 0 13px black, 0 0 15px black !important;
is now broken, is there a way to get around this? is there something I can globally edit without breaking any of my other css?
maybe expression wrong? any know how to target a blank page?
which the built in TMS had a simple inject mode function to inject any code you want at the bottom of what ever template you are targeting.
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The master style is the only one which will affect all others.
You could consider creating an add-on which will apply a template modification (to the master style) which will subsequently apply to all styles.
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Analyzing the state of the Basic Health Units of Brazil (UBS) using Python for Data Science
This work was developed during the “Python IMD challenge” happened on 10/21/2017 with Igor, Ricardo, Luiza and me. The competition purpose was to develop a project involving Data Science during 5 hours. Our goal focused on choosing something impactful and at the same time simple to be developed in the short given time. We were very happy to know that we won the first position in the competition at the end! The prize is a free ticket to the national Python event that is going to happen next year.
Without further ado, let’s talk about the project itself!
During our searches for datasets about various topics, we found the national website which contains numerous pre-formatted data about national interests:
The subject that called our attention was about the Basic Health Units of Brazil (Unidade básica de saúde), which are small public hospitals basically. The dataset had some interesting columns that we thought could bring an important conclusion, for example, the hospitals coordinates and their evaluation about different aspects like the hospital structure and medical supplies.
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In a Facebook post that just popped up, the Texas Tech Saddle Tramps have issued an important reminder. They wouldn't, and didn't, wrap the statue of Will Rogers and Soapsuds in black because Kliff Kingsbury was fired.
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While many of us will miss Kliff Kingsbury, it doesn't rise to the level of a tragedy. Read their post below.
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Regression Based Causal Induction with Latent Variable Models
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Scientists largely explain observations by inferring causal relationships among measured variables. Many algorithms with various theoretical foundations have been developed for causal induction e.g., (Spirtes, Glymour, and Scheines 1993; Pearl and Verma 1991), but it is widely believed that regression is ill-suited to the task of causal induction.
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Small Cave
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The small cave is a one-level dungeon found to the north-west of Terinyo.
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The small cave's most important feature is its unique monster generation system. When a monster is generated, it will be approximately double the player's level, so the stronger you are the harder the cave is.
As well as its monster generation system, the cave also has three guaranteed items, and the only way to gain access to the Unremarkable Dungeon.
The items are a waterproof blanket, a scroll of warning and a scroll of information.
It is also believed that some basic equipment is also guaranteed, including a shield, a cloak, and some weaponry, though there has been some debate about exactly what weaponry is guaranteed: some believe it is one one-handed weapon and one two-hander, while others say a staff class weapon is guaranteed. Ridiculously out of depth weapons, such as eternium two-handed swords are occasionally seen in the small cave as well.
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There are no guaranteed inhabitants of the small cave, merely many many increasingly strong hostile monsters.
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There are no quests started in the Small Cave, and no quests require you to visit the Small Cave; however, it is necessary to pass thorough the Small Cave to reach the starting point of several quests required for ultra or ordinary chaos god endings.
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Celesta's Page
Methyltina 1, 1000 PC
In a dark alley in Troll's Bridge, a man is surrounded by five others in white robes. Another, wearing a mask, approaches the stranger. The masked figure looks at him and speaks in a strange feminine voice.
I am sorry. I hope my associates were not too hard on you.”
Noticing the man staring at her mask, “So you want to know why I am wearing a mask? Why do you want to know, what advantage will you gain over me if I tell you my story?”
Her captive glances away and then back to the mask, “Oh, you are just curious? Curiosity can get you killed stranger, as it almost did with me. But, since you are wondering now and you have been following me since I arrived in town, I do not see why I could not tell you what happen to me. What difference does it make now anyway, you will be dead soon enough.
You can call me Mask, that is my name…now. I was not always known by this appellation. Oh no, my name was linked with a powerful House in Troll's Bridge. My father was one of the leaders of the Council of Houses here in Troll's Bridge. I was a princess and one of the most, if not the most, beautiful women in Troll's Bridge. Men and women would likely kill each other over me.”
Seeing the man's reaction, “Oh, are you offended by my statement? If you are, that is because you do not know anything about the nobility of Troll's Bridge, stranger. Yes, nobles often have the strangest of tastes. Some like women, some like men and some like children. Do not worry. My tastes were, let us say, more acceptable to the plebes.”
I was also rich, well my father was, but now I have lost everything.” The man blanches, “What happen, you wonder? Well, let us say I was a naive girl, thinking that everything was due me. Even love. You see, I fell for the wrong man.
Responding to the man's questioning look, “No, I will not tell you from which House I was. That is irrelevant now anyway, but there was a man for which I had an affection. Ezra Nanz was not a noble, but served the most powerful man in Troll's Bridge. My father told me not to see this person, but since I was a stupid girl, I just ignored him. Ezra was so nice to me and I was so blind. I did not see the masquerade that was unfolding before me. He seduced me, just to bring me in front of his master, the same master you serve, stranger. I just could not believe he did this for that filthy man and he played me for a whore who would do the dirtiest things for a penny. That night, Ezra told me he was going to show me something that I have never seen before.
Oh, he was not lying; I never saw what was coming. He told me his master was gone from the property on a trip to Waldsee. He also told me that no one would disturb our intimacy that night. He gave the day off to all the servants and had me enter the house of the most powerful man of Troll's Bridge. The house was decorated with the latest fashion; red-toned walls and war tapestries. Chandeliers where installed in specific corners of each room to make the light spread in the perfect way. I was so impressed. Even my house was not as beautifully arranged as this place. After a couple of drinks in the main room, Ezra told me it was time to consummate our love and asked me to go up with him to the master's chamber. I must say I was frighten, but it was not the first time I made love with someone. Though I was not pure, still, going to his master's room and making love into his bed was exciting. I followed him upstairs, my head spinning. I thought it was the alcohol and the excitement of doing something dangerous. It was not. Just before entering the room, my heart was beating like it never had before and my head was spinning wildly. When he opened the door, I felt my heart stop when I saw Hardun Chicdell, the master of the house, sitting on is bed, naked. Then nothing...complete darkness.
When I regained my senses, that bastard was on the top of me, ramming me, violating me, as if I was a rag doll. I tried to get away, but I was firmly secured to the bed with rope. He raped me, that night, over and over again. It was burning inside me and when I thought he was finish, he continue with other objects. I closes my eyes, while he was abusing my body.
Then, after a while it stopped. Opening my eyes to see what was going to happen, the one I felt for, Ezra, took the place of his master and violated me even worse than Hardun had. There was blood everywhere in the bed, but that did not stop him and he continued until he experienced his ecstasy. Then I blacked out again only to wake up tied to a tree, naked, badly bruised and blood covering my legs. I panicked as they were pouring oil over my body, holding torches in their hands. They intended to burn me alive. Was it just to make sure I did not talk of this to anyone, to my father, or just for the pleasure it.
After they finished soaking my body, they did ask me if I had something to tell them before dying. I told them I would have my revenge, in this world or in the next. They both laughed at me and set me on fire. I was screaming, I was screaming so loudly that they jumped on their horses and rode away as fast as they could. The flames were eating my skin and the pain quickly faded away was replaced by darkness.”
The captive looks around for some means of escape, but finds none, all color leaving his features.
I do not know what happen next, I woke up in a pool where four people in white robes where removing the burnt skin from my body. The pain was unbearable, I was screaming at them to let me die, but they would not listen and continued removing skin from my body. I blacked out again. When I finally came back to my senses, a beautiful women was looking at me. She said that I was lucky she was wandering the wood, She had cast a frost spell on me that saved my life. I screamed at her; I wanted to die.
Who were they that wanted to keep me alive after what had happened. She told me that they could not fix my body, but they could try to fix my mind and my soul. I told them to go to hell with my soul, for all I could care now.
I finally asked them to look for my father, but they told me he was found in is house dead, having hanged himself, but I was sure he had been murdered. Hardun Chicdell probably hired some assassin to make sure my father would not try to find what happen with me and at the same time expose him to face the council.
She told me that her order decided to help me. She explained to me that they used a recently deceased women's body and simulated the burning of the body, just in case they returned to the forest to verify I was really dead. Thinking I did not survive, they would not look for me, which would give me time to heal, physically and mentally. She took me to The Floating Tower high over The Crater.
They moved me to the tower only a week after being burned and they drugged me so the pain would not kill me during the trip. There, they took care of my body and made sure I was getting better. After six months of taking care of my wounds, they removed my bandages. I saw my body for the first time. I could not bear the vision. I had lost everything, my breast were gone, replaced by two formless pieces of skin. My face was lipless, emotionless and blank, nothing. I could not believe what had happened to me and they, knowing that, gave me what you see today, this mask to hide my hideous face and these white robes to hide my hideous body. It took almost a full year before I could walk again. After I got use to my new self, it took almost two years before I could wear robes without pain.
They started to show me how to use magic. I think, at first, they did this so my mind could wander elsewhere, but they soon found out that I was not the naive girl anymore. My dedication to the art was, let us say, more than what one is used to seeing in a normal apprentice. I studied day and night for the first five years of my apprenticeship. I learned many things and gained much power unknown to me before. I can now bend magical essence almost at my will and I will become even more powerful with time. I was eighteen years of age when that girl died. Now I am thirty-three years old and it is time to have both men responsible for my situation punished from what they have done to me, or should I say to that girl. But for you, my friend, your quest stops here.”
Twenty minutes later, the corpse was still burning in the alley even as guards were trying to extinguish the blaze with buckets of water.
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Andrew Winer is the author of the novels The Marriage Artist and The Color Midnight Made. A recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Fiction, he occasionally writes about artists, composers, thinkers, and other writers. He is working on a new novel about religion and politics. His wife is the author Charmaine Craig.
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What Did Jesus Consider as Scripture?
When we discuss the makeup of the Bible, the New Testament is usually the center of discussion. Given the discoveries of various 2nd and 3rd century gnostic writings at Nag Hammadi, the success of The Da Vinci Code, and recent manuscript claims such as the Jesus' Wife fragment one can easily see why the question of which books belong in the Bible would center on the New Testament. However, people will question the legitimacy of the Old Testament canon as well.
The accumulation of books in the Old Testament is a much longer one than that of the New. The canon begins right where the Jewish faith begins, with the first five books of Moses. These books were called collectively the Laws of Moses or simply the Law. There are books by various prophets, such as Isaiah, Ezekiel, Jeremiah and so on that hold the definitive "Thus saith the Lord" pronouncements. They also provide the validation of predictive prophecy. We also have several books are historical in nature, such as Joshua, Judges, and the sets of 1 & 2 Samuel and 1 & 2 Kings. Because these documented God's dealing with the nation and they held stories about the various prophets interacting with the nation, they too were classified by the Jewish priests as part of the writings of the Prophets. Lastly there are the literary books, such as Psalms, Proverbs, Song of Solomon and Ecclesiastes that were used in worship services. As well as other historical books like Daniel, the books of Ezra-Nehemiah and the two books of Chronicles. These were classified as the "Writings".
According to Norman Geisler and William Nix, "Philo the Jewish philosopher of Alexandria, alluded to a threefold classification of the Old Testament, and Flavius Josephus arraigned the twenty-two books of the Hebrew Scriptures into three sections, saying that the twenty-two books ‘retains the record of all the past;… five belong to Moses, … the prophets who were after Moses, wrote down what was done in their time in thirteen books. The remaining four books contain the hymns to God and precepts for the conduct of human life."1 There is evidence of a more ancient two-fold division, which would fold the writings into the prophetic section. This is used in the writings found in the Dead Sea Scrolls as well as throught the New Testment writers.2
Jesus' Validation of the Old Testament
Jesus never provided a book by book list of the Old Testament canon. It simply wasn't necessary as the Jews of that day all knew what was meant by Scripture. He did refer to the Scripture as authoritative, though and we can see what He meant whenever he talked about them. First, Jesus would quote passages from various Scriptures and refer to them as such. He quoted multiple times from each of the books of Moses, and from Isaiah, Jeremiah, Zecharaiah, Hosea, Micah and Malachi.3 He also quoted from the Psalms calling them scripture (John 10:24, John 15:25) and called Daniel a prophet of God (Matthew 24:15). So Jesus quotes from each of these three divisions in a way that recognized those books as authoritative scripture.
Further, Jesus referred to the collection of books several times. He talked of "the Law and the Prophets" in Matthew 7:12, 11:13, 22:40, Luke 16:16, and John 1:45. In Luke 24:44, He refers to the Scriptures in the threefold context, saying "These are my words that I spoke to you while I was still with you, that everything written about me in the Law of Moses and the Prophets and the Psalms must be fulfilled."
In Luke 11:50-51, Jesus rebuked one of the experts of Scripture by saying, "the blood of all the prophets, shed from the foundation of the world, may be charged against this generation, from the blood of Abel to the blood of Zechariah, who perished between the altar and the sanctuary." Abel is the first person to die in the Hebrew Bible and Zechariah is the last. This reference would be obvious to such an expert, but it also confirms the canon of the Old Testament was accepted as authentic.
So, while Jesus did not explicitly list the books of the Old Testament, He pointed to the Old Testament as the authoritative word of God and said that all written in "the Law and the Prophets and the Psalms" must be fulfilled. Therefore, we can hold a high level of confidence that the Old Testament is truly the word of God.
1. Geiseler, Norman and William Nix. A General Introduction to the Bible. (Chicago: Moody Press, 1986). 24.
2. Ibid. 23. 3. Robinson, Rich. "Jesus' References to Old Testament Scripture." Jews for Jesus Web site. Accessed 4/7/2014.
1. This simply begs the question. It is not the case that there's Jewish agreement on what the Old Testament was composed of. You had the canon of the sadducees, Pharisees, and Greek Jews. So appealing to Philo and Josephus won't suffice because their canon was contested and it is exactly that contest we are trying to settle. Also, since each canon I mentioned was included in the latter, it also doesn't follow that he endorsed the fullness of that particular canon. All canon of the sadducees was included in the Pharisees canon, and the canon of the Pharisees was included in the Greek canon. Jesus confronted the sadducees and used their canon against them, demonstrating a resurrection in the pentateuch, but you wouldn't say he endorsed that canon. In the same way, just because he used the Pharisees canon against them, referring to the blood of the prophets, you wouldn't say he endorsed that either. It is much more likely he endorsed the last remaining canon, the Greek canon, which includes, but is not limited to, the two previous canons. Jesus did quote from the Greek old testament so we know if he quoted the previous canons, AT LEAST they were included. But as we see when he quotes from the Pharisees canon he expanded it. When he quotes from the Greek canon, we know it's at least that. But then, we know the Pharisees canon is too limited, and the thesis of this post is false.
2. From the scholars I've read, Adrian, that doesn't seem to be the case. Although the Sadducees didn't recognize the authority of the Prophets above the Torah, they recognized the collection of prophetic writing as what one means when one speaks of the books of the Prophets. The same it true of the Writings. Walter Kaiser, in his book _The Old Testament Documents: Are They Reliable?_ writes "One of the most popular pieces of misinformation repeatedly affirmed by all too many scholars in the past two centuries is that a group of scholars at a rabbinical council held in Jamnia in A.D. 90 decided which books of the Bible were ultimately to be included in the Old Testament canon... The books that were treated as canonical in their discussions did not differ from the list found in Josephus... Given the range of the Jamnia discussions, therefore, it appears that the canon already was recognized prior to A.D. 100." (p.32)
Kaiser goes on to talk about exactly which books those recognized as canon would be. he states: "There can be little doubt that Jesus pointed to the books held in reverence by the Jews of his earthly pilgrimage and pointedly said: 'These are the Scriptures that testify about me" (Jn 5:39). And if it be asked just what was the scope of the books held in esteem as inspired and canonical at that time,the answer is found in Matthew 23:35 and its parallel text in Luke 11:51. There Jesus showed the sweep of the canon as he knew it to be the same twenty-four books which are the present English thirty-nine." (p.38)
3. If you agree that the Sadducees didn't recognize the prophets as authoritative, presumably meaning the prophets are not properly canon, then this is the same as my claim which is the Jews were divided on the canon.
If that's the case, then the latter part of Kaisers statement on pg. 32 is false and there was no recognized canon. (BTW, it is unclear from what you have quoted whether or not Kaiser believes such a council existed. Most scholars don't believe it actually existed. If by "jamnia discussions" he is referring to the council, then this does a lot of damage to his credibility on this point.)
Besides, my challenge has not been answered. I'm no scholar, but still lol. If you don't wish to answer, that's okay. I imagine you're busy, but let me know so I'm not held in suspense. :-P To resurrect the problem I see, especially concerning Matthew 23:35, Jesus is condemning the Pharisees. In doing so, He's using the Pharasiac Canon. But in the previous chapter, when He condemns the Sadducees in Matthew 22:23-33, He uses the Sadduccees' canon. Specifically, He uses the Torah alone to prove the Resurrection (even though the Resurrection is much more easily proven from passages like Daniel 12:1-3, and 1 Samuel 28, and Psalm 16:9-10). That's because that was the canon used by the Sadduccees. So it simply won't do to say in 23:35 he affirms that canon because then you have to say he also affirms the Sadducees canon, and you'll have a contradiction on your hands. If you're looking for a confirmation of a particular canon, look to Acts 17:11, where St. Paul praises the Hellenistic Bereans for reading their Scriptures.
4. Well, I’m still a bit confused as to your reticence. In Matthew chapter four, Jesus quotes three times from Deuteronomy to show Satan where he errs. I think we can both assume that he was using these Scriptures authoritatively and we can assume that Jesus would consider all five books of Moses as the Word of God. So, there should be no disagreement there.
In Luke 7:22, when John the Baptist’s followers asked Jesus if he was Messiah on John’s behalf, He quotes from Isaiah. He also reads from Isaiah 61 in the synagogue and states that it 1) was a prophecy (which only God can give) and 2)He Himself is fulfilling it. He isn’t confronting Pharisees here, but declaring His Messiahship. So, I think we can safely conclude that Jesus saw Isaiah as the prophet of God and thus the book is the Word of God.
In Matthew 10, Jesus is sending out His disciples and he quotes from Micah 7:6 when so doing. Further, in the Olivet Discourse (Matt 24:15), he specifically mentions Daniel and calls him a prophet. Again, only His disciples are present. Later, He quotes Zecharaiah 13:7 when He tells the disciples that they will be scattered. Again, this is predictive prophecy that Jesus is claiming will be fulfilled. He also quotes Psalm 64:9 as a prophecy referring to Himself in John 15:25. Lastly, we have Jesus quoting Psalm 22 from the cross, drawing attention to the prophetic nature of that passage.
So we have Jesus using Scriptures from the Law, form the Prophets, and from the Psalms and writings all as authoritative Scripture and sometimes even as predictive prophecy of the events that are unfolding around him. Further, the disciples whom He taught for three years also pointed to the books of the Old Testament and in far greater range. The thirty-nine books accepted in the Old Testament would be within these larger categories of the Law, the Prophets, and the Writings.
I see no need to doubt Jesus’ acceptance of all thirty-nine books any more than when a modern day preacher says he accepts the Bible as we have it today. The only real question is whether the Apocryphal books were considered scriptural or not. We can answer that question on the basis of their content and how other Jews treated them in that same era.
5. You're right in the first part, whatever Jesus quotes with authority carries with it authority in and of itself. But I'm claiming that is not enough to determine the canon of the OT, a point I will return to.
Concerning the supposed condemnation of the Pharisees I claimed was there, you're right again. I confused it with Luke 11 (hopefully you won't say Jesus wasn't condemning them there). I was going from memory, and Luke was mentioned, and I was in error juggling them. My apologies.
So I'm agreeing with everything else up to here, "So we have Jesus using Scriptures from the Law, form the Prophets, and from the Psalms and writings all as authoritative Scripture and sometimes even as predictive prophecy of the events that are unfolding around him." My point is that this is too ambiguous. This could included the Pharisees canon or the Hellenistic one. We know it can't be the Sadducees canon, and we agree on that. But when you say, "...while Jesus did not explicitly list the books of the Old Testament, He pointed to the Old Testament as the authoritative word of God and said that all written in 'the Law and the Prophets and the Psalms' must be fulfilled" this sounds like a contradiction. We're dealing with the canon of the OT, and that canon is a list of books, your statement then reads, "while Jesus did not explicitly list the books of the OT, he pointed to the list of books of the OT as the authoritative word of God..." but that leaves us ignorant of what that list is, which is exactly what you attempted to do here with this post.
My objection is not to the acceptance of these thirty nine books. I think I said earlier that all Christians accept at least those books. My problem is that the canon of the Pharisees, the canon you seem to support, stops there and excludes everything else. It accepts these 39, and these ONLY. I claim this latter half is unjustified. Jesus' employment of the canons is not an endorsement as I have argued with his experience with the Sadducees, and an appeal to Jewish consensus won't do either as we know that wasn't even settled in Jesus day, and we could further ask if their consensus even matters at that point as Christianity now had the authority to make declarations on the matter, and not the Jews during and after Jesus.
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Early quercetin research on heart and vessel disease is mixed. Some study results are positive but some are open to debate. For example, researchers link eating lots of foods high in quercetin to a lower risk of heart-related death in older men. But other studies are less convincing.
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Recruiter Name Roll Call Addendum 2007 Jul 12
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7. Tanvik
8. Kevin
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10. Monica
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The Original question was: School textbooks and lesson plans use homologous structures, such as the bones in vertebrate limbs, as evidence for evolution. How can we refute these claims?
Answer by Diane Eager
Homologous structures are organs and body parts that have the same internal organisation. For example, all vertebrates have limbs with a common arrangement of bones. This includes bird wings, bat wings, flippers, and human arms and legs. Because the functions of these limbs are so variable, yet the overall organisation is the same, they are considered evidence that all vertebrates must have evolved from a common ancestor with a similar basic arrangement of bones.
However, if you are honest, since no-one has seen a living vertebrate limb change from one kind of limb to another, similar limb structures are only evidence for descent from a common ancestor if you already believe evolution is true. The old, unpopular yet very valid argument is that such similar limb structure could just as easily be evidence for a common Designer, simply because the structure works well for the all the different functions that limbs carry out. Furthermore, no fossil links connect the different creatures that possess the same bone structure.
Now let’s take a close look at the structure and how it works for different functions.
The best way to consider how the same arrangement of bones works for different functions, is to compare your arms and legs, which have very different functions, but have the same overall arrangement of bones. Human arms need to be flexible, with a wide range of movements in order to reach things (and other parts of the body) and enable complex movements involved in manipulating objects. Human legs need to be strong and stable for weight bearing, especially as our upright stance means all the body weight goes through the legs, rather than being distributed to “a leg in each corner” like a quadruped. However, legs also need to have enough flexibility for different styles of movement (walking, running, jumping, etc.) and movement over uneven ground. The arm and the leg have the same arrangement of bones, but yet it works well for their differing function. Now consider them in more detail.
Those who know their technical anatomy will know that the upper limb includes the scapular and clavicle (shoulder blade and collar bone) and the lower limb includes the hip bones, but we will concentrate on the parts of the limbs that project out from the torso, as these are what students are commonly directed to in courses on evolution. We will also use the terms “arm” and “leg” in the general layperson’s meaning of the whole upper and lower limb respectively. (To a technical anatomist the “arm” is the part of the limb between the shoulder and elbow, the “leg” is between the knee and the ankle.)
Whatever the main need (flexibility or strength), having one bone in the upper part of a limb connected to the body with a ball and socket joint works well. The main function of the shoulder joint and humerus (upper arm bone) is to orientate the whole limb so we can reach things around us, and reach the other parts of our body. The shoulder joint has a shallow socket and a large ball to give it a large range of movement.
In the lower limb, the hip joint and femur (thigh bone) need to be strong and stable as they transmit the body weight down the limb as we stand, walk and run. Therefore, the hip joint is a ball and socket joint with a deep socket. This enables it to move in different directions, but without the extreme ranges of the shoulder.
Either way, the basic structure of one ball and socket joint attaching one large strong bone to the torso is good design, so we shouldn’t be surprised to see it repeated in the arm and leg in our own body, or in variations of the same structure in animals and birds.
Next there are two bones in parallel, attached by a type of hinge joint to the humerus or femur. This is also a useful arrangement for flexibility or strength. In the arm, the two forearm bones are named the radius and ulna. They lie in parallel to one another, but they have joints connecting them at each end to allow the bones to rotate around the long axis of the forearm. You can see and feel this movement by holding your elbow bent with your palm up. The two bones are lying in parallel to one another. Now twist your wrist so your hand is palm down. That movement occurred by the radius (the bone of the thumb side) swinging over the ulna so that it is now crossing over the ulna rather than lying side by side with it. This is an essential movement for many manipulative tasks as it further orientates the hand to where it is needed. Therefore, having two forearm bones is also a good functional design.
In the lower limb there are also two bones in parallel – the tibia (shin bone) and fibula. Between these is a tough sheet of fibrous tissue. As well as transmitting the body weight to the feet, these bones are also the attachment sites for a number of muscles that move the foot. Having two bones joined by a fibrous sheet results in a lighter structure that one large solid bony mass, provides a large surface area for muscle attachments, and allows a small amount of movement between the two bones – enough for a bit of resilience, without destabilising the weight bearing function. Again, two bones in parallel is a good functional design for this part of the limb.
In some animals and birds the equivalent bone to the fibula is small and does not extend the full length of that segment of the limb. However, it is still a useful part of the skeleton, providing extra strength, stability or muscle attachment.
Next there is a cluster of small bones. In the upper limbs these are the wrist bones, collectively named carpal bones. These give some extra flexibility to the wrist, and extend the range of movement of the hand, and help to distribute the forces passing through the wrist from all the muscle movements when using your hands.
In the lower limb, the corresponding bones, named tarsals, are larger than the wrist bones, as they continue the weight bearing function of leg. Having multiple small bones, rather than one solid mass gives the flexibility needed to walk over uneven ground.
At the end of limb we have hands with five fingers and feet with five toes. In the palm part of the hand are five bones, named metacarpals. Four of these are arranged in the slight fan shape, with one offset holding the thumb in the opposable positions. Fingers are designed for gripping and manipulation, so the bones are relatively long, with joints designed for large ranges of movement. The human hand has a relatively long opposable thumb, separated from the other fingers, but orientated to enable it to meet the tips of each of the fingers. This also facilitates being able to grip and manipulate objects.
In the foot there are also five bones, named metatarsals, but these are tightly bound together in parallel, and the toes are relatively short, with the big toe bound tightly to the other toes, sitting in parallel to them rather than opposing them. The tarsals and metatarsals are also fitted together to form an arch structure. This maintains the weight-bearing function of whole limb but enables the foot to grip the ground, or whatever surface you are moving over.
Another good reminder of how the same number of bones can be organised for different functions is to compare ape and human feet. Apes have a flat foot, rather than an arched structure, and a big toe offset from the others, like a thumb to facilitate tree climbing.
Because many vertebrate limbs end with five fingers or toes, collectively called digits, the so-called homologous limb structure arrangement is sometimes call the “pentadactyl limb”. However, in many creatures it does not end in five digits. Most birds have four toes. A horse has only one. Birds do not have five fingers on the ends of their wings either, but a bat’s wing is supported by elongated finger bones, with the equivalent of the thumb forming a claw on the top of the wing.
The standard evolutionary story is that these creatures that have fewer bones than the standard number described above is that the bones are reduced or fused, but again, this is an assumption based on an already held belief in evolution. No-one has observed this happen.
The whole concept of homologous structures comes from the way we look for common patterns and arrangements when we study the world around us. This is a useful technique to help remember and organise our knowledge. However, similar arrangements do not tell you where two similar structures came from, and they are certainly never a proof that one changed into the other. They provide no evidence for chance random evolution.
Historically, the concept homology does not originate with Darwin or evolutionary theory. It was proposed in 1843 by Richard Owen, the founder of the British Natural History Museum. However, Owen was not proposing any evolutionary theory. (He opposed Darwin’s theory when it was published later in the century.) Owen considered homology to be a common plan for all vertebrates, designed by the Creator who foreknew all its modifications.
His reason is the same as ours: similarities in structure simply indicate there is an arrangement that works, and can be varied according to the specific need. Whether it is a shared frame design in car safety, or shared bone structures, similarities actually are good evidence for creative plan and purpose by the Designer of All, the Lord Jesus Christ.
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The Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR) is the parent organisation of ASPeCt.
Atlas of Antarctic Sea Ice Drift
The Tasmanian Partnership for Advanced Computing (TPAC) will will host the ASPeCt data archive from early 2006.
The Climate and Cryosphere (CliC) program focuses on all regions of the cryosphere including ice sheets, ice shelves, glaciers, river and lake ice, permafrost and frozen ground, snow-covered regions, and sea ice.
The Data and Information Service for CliC (DISC) is a meta data centre for cryospheric data and a useful source of other cryospheric information.
The International Antarctic Zone Program (iAnZone) focuses on the oceanography of the Southern Ocean, with particular emphasis on the sea ice zone. It has strong links to the goals and objectives of ASPeCt.
The National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC): "All About Sea Ice".
The International Project on Antarctic Buoys (IPAB).
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Neptune in Pisces in history
Neptune is in Pisces now (since April 4, 2011 at 13:37 UT) and we are in the middle of a revolutionary time. I wondered if this corresponded with earlier positions of Neptune in Pisces, or in other words: what happened when Neptune entered Pisces in history?
In this article I am going back in time to Neptune in Pisces in 376702, 866, 1029, 1193, 13571522, 1684 and 1848 to see what to expect this time. Neptune will leave Pisces in 2025. In the meantime transit Neptune will make aspects with your sunsing, Ascendant, MC and planets. Often these transits will be confusing and confronting you with your ideals, dreams and beliefs. This confrontation is resonating in the history of Neptune in Pisces. It takes written history and civilizations to see in what way the change of sign of Neptune, moving from Aquarius to Pisces, reflected real events on the long term. The effect of the media (from singers/troubadours to papers and Twitter) in those periods is evident. There were little or none of such ways to spread news and gather people when you back in time. That is why I first stopped at 702. The examples below will show you that Neptune’s entrance in Pisces influenced religions and ideologies in many ways, often accompanied by revolts.
Neptune in Pisces in 376
In 376 the Migration Period (see Wikipedia) began that ended the Roman Empire and was the start of the Early Middle Ages. From February 375 till March 379 Neptune was in the first degrees of Pisces. Neptune in Pisces mirrored a period of ideological wars and revolutionary changes. The Migration Period lasted for ages, but started then, with Neptune in early Pisces.
Neptune in Pisces in 1848
When Neptune entered Pisces in 1848 it was the Year of the Revolts and the Communist Manifesto, the beginning of Communism. Writers were Friedrich Engels and Karl Marx. All over Europe things changed in a dramatic way. Constitutions were altered and this is what happened in 1848:
– France (February 24, abdication of the King),
– Austria and Hungary (March 3 and revolt in Vienna on March 12),
– Berlin (March 19),
– Stockholm (March 18 and 19, 30 persons died) and
– even in the still very rural Netherlands there was a new constitution on November 3, 1848, against the wishes of the King.
– Switzerland is also on the list (Federal Constitution of November 1848). In 1846 the uprising in Galacia had been suppressed, but in 1848 the authorities gave in, more and more.
Neptune in Pisces in 1684
Then there is 1684, the year of the Holy League. Members were Poland, the Holy Roman Empire, Venice, Tuscany, Russia and Malta. They fought the Ottoman Empire. The Ottoman Empire had been beaten on 11/12 September 1683. This was followed by the Holy League, . Members were Poland, the Holy Roman Empire, Venice, Tuscany, Russia and Malta. They fought the Ottoman Empire and wanted to drive them out of Europe. Quoting Wikipedia:
“Holy League of 1684 was initiated by Pope Innocent XI (…)This alliance opposed the Ottoman Empire in the Great Turkish War and lasted until the Treaty of Karlowitz in 1699”
“Feast of the Holy Name of Mary, or simply Holy Name of Mary is a feast day in the Roman Catholic Church celebrated on 12 September to honour the name of Mary the mother of Jesus. It has been a universal Roman Rite feast since 1684, when Pope Innocent XI included it in the General Roman Calendar to commemorate the victory at the Battle of Vienna in 1683, won by the Polish King Jan III, who had placed his troops under the protection of the Blessed Virgin Mary. (PS On January 26, 1699 the Treaty (Peace) of Karlowitz (Karlovci) was signed, with Neptune in 1 degree 4 minutes Aries)”
Neptune in Pisces in 1521
In 1521 whistleblower Martin Luther was banned on January 3, 1521 (and his books were burnt), 10 days before Neptune in Pisces. Then he started translating the Bible from Latin. That was the beginning of Protestantism. And the religious conflict started a lot of revolts in order to gain independence from Catholic Kings. Also, in 1521 Belgrade was captured by the Ottoman Army.
Neptune in Pisces in 1357
In 1357 the Paris Revolt ended feudal society. . In Paris there was a revolt lead by Etienne Marcel.This revolt should be seen in the context of feudal society in crisis. The economy of Europe changed (more centered on trades and cities than on land and property).
Neptune in Pisces in 1193
In 1193 the Aztek civilization (and their cruel religion) started and Saladin, leader of the troops against the Crusaders died. He was respected by his enemies, too.
Neptune in Pisces in 1029
In 1029 Romanus III invaded Syria and that was all. Was it of importance? In 866 the Saracens were beated by Louis II and Norwegian Pagans fought their Christian King in the years of Pope Nicholas. In those days Western Europe was beset by Muslim and Norse incursions.
Neptune in Pisces in 702
In 702 the Armenians rebelled against the Muslim laws.
When sunsigns change, lifestyles change. Pisces is not Aquarius: there is difference between those signs. Now why is Neptune’s transfer from Aquarius to the first degrees of Pisces resonated by revolts, revolutions and changes in constitutions? I think that part of the explanation is that Pisces is the sign of the ‘media‘ and mediums, transporting messages that concern us all.
Mass media bring us the news and influence our state of mind. Just before Neptune went to Pisces the media had become more and more of influence. I read that after 1830 there was a sort of an explosive growth of newspapers, suddenly available for the people. And 1848 was the year of the foundation of Associated Press. When Neptune changed sign, ideologies and beliefs and ideas changed, starting with chaos and the news was distributed faster than ever in history.
Today, you see that the new media (Facebook, Twitter) were used to gather the people…The media were the vehicle for ideas today and then.
This completes my search for the events in the year of Neptune entering Pisces. A lot of the events in those years are related to battles between religions and ideologies. Perhaps history is all battle about ideologies, but in some of those years the events started a new period in convictions (like Protestantism and Communism). Other years show the continuing rivalry between Christianity and Islam.
My conclusion could be that throughout history the move of Neptune from Aquarius to Pisces moved ideologies and religions, often as a result of revolts, and that those ideologies or ideas changed (Western) history. And that would be no surprising conclusion in the light of the meaning of Neptune and Pisces in astrology. Neptune is the symbol of ideology. Aquarius is the symbol of change. And Pisces, in the end, spreads the concept. We now entered the first year of Neptune in Pisces. In 2025 Neptune will be in Aries and we will know what the impact of this period will have been for our concepts and for the world religions and ideologies. Until then Neptune in Pisces is like a ship at sea in the mist. We will have to wait for a clear sky to see where we are at.
See the post about the chart of Martin Luther
(the rehab is still waiting.., see
But what if Neptune’s transit is important for you? When you are a Pisces, Virgo, Sagittarius, Gemini, Cancer, Scorpio, Libra, Aries…well: almost all sunsigns will experience a transit Neptune in Pisces with their natal or progressed Sun. What to expect? See:
About Sun-Neptune (natal, progression, transits):
Or see: About the confusing transits of Neptune
Also interesting: About Saturn_Neptune aspects in history (connected or not to plagues and flu)
Check for more about the astrological sign Pisces
(This is a compilation of the articles on
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Residual Echoes: Arjun von Caemmerer reviews Residual by Peter Knight and Dung Nguyen
( ( ( (Residual Echoes) ) ) )
released on Parenthèses Rec( )ords
CD Review by Arjun von Caemmerer
Words inevitably carry their own, often personal, associations and for me the word residual carries this freight doubly. The first is a residual echo of Zappa’s unapologetically silly The Radio Is Broken, his unparalleled homage to 1950’s space movie fromage:
The cosmos at large
It’s so very big
It’s so far away
The comets… the craters…the vapors
The solar wind
The residual echoes…the residual echoes
The residual echoes
Of the giant explosion
Where they said it beginned
I was consequently deeply gratified to see Tom Mùller’s cover design for this album: it resembles a star cloud, a link which deepens with the name of the central track on this disc Minky Star.
The second residual association concerns (oddly perhaps) ablutions, and dates back to high school where, encountering physics for the first time, I still recall the teacher’s bemusement when, after asking the class for a definition of resonance, was confronted with a uniform silence which was finally broken by just one hapless student who, seemingly confusing resonance with residue, declared confidently that it was the ring left around the bath after the water had drained out. Encountering Residual my 9 year old daughter listened awhile, declared it not bad (high praise indeed for one generally reflexively hypercritical of her father’s musical tastes), and she then opined that it was the sort of music that you should let wash through you. She was quite specific: not music to merely bathe or wallow in, but specifically to wash through you, implying a deeper process where this music’s flow demands of the listener a transparent & resistless surrender.
These detours aside, I like the clever incorporation of the word within the word within the album’s title: the dual in the title of Residual. As implied, this album features dual talents, in this case those of Peter Knight and Dung Nguyen, both members of Way Out West, the group which won the 2009 Bell Award for Australian Jazz Ensemble of the Year with Old Grooves For New Streets. The theme of the title of that release, the old with the new, carries across to this one, the 2nd offering from the West Australian Parenthèses Rec( )rds, a label whose founder Alexis Courtin has positioned deliberately to sit at the crossroads between tradition and continuum.
Now based in Melbourne, Dung Nguyen grew up in Vietnam where he, continuing the family tradition of many generations, learned music from his grandfather. He is also an accomplished jazz guitarist with a background in jazz study at Monash University, and has composed for The Melbourne Theatre Company. On this album his fingers adroitly manipulate the strings of a variety of instruments: dan tranh, prepared dan tranh, dan bau, and modified electric guitar. Dan tranh is a Vietnamese zither, an instrument which carries more than one bridge — an especially appropriate feature given the multiple bridges which Dung straddles, with his incorporation of traditional Vietnamese instrumentation with an eclectic and electric jazz sensibility: a particularly convincing demonstration of the realisation of the continuum of living tradition. The dan bau, the Vietnamese monochord, has had its traditional silk string replaced with an electric guitar string, bequeathing to this instrument a deeply visceral timbre.
Peter Knight, who recorded (and with Dan West co-produced) this album, not only breathes new life into trumpet and cornet, but extends this life with real time processing via laptop electronics so that, for example, on the title track there is a cyclic breath-like loop, movement in stillness, like the drone in Indian classical music. According to Jonathon Cott (in the liner notes to Ravi Shankar and Ali Akbar Khan’s Ragas) the drone functions as the primal source, that omniscient, omnipotent cause from which proceed the origin, subsistence, and dissolution of the raga. The raga form contains all the joy and grief of being truly human, yet the final absorption of the emotions into the Brahman, the drone, transports us to a state in which the universe is perceived as neither good nor bad. It does not seem coincidental that Knight has investigated the disciplines of yoga and meditation in relation to music, especially in its performance, looking at the ‘limit experience’, that gifted state of consciousness where dualities (of subject/object; inner/outer) dissolve. The foundations and faculties of body and breath are central to yoga and meditation practices, and the album’s liner notes remind the listener that even where electronically processed the sounds are the outcome of this embodiment: all the raw sounds on this recording were made using our fingers, our breath, and our instruments… An exception is made for the sound which opens Minky Star (the name of this track’s title is probably a contraction of Minky Starshine, a sound synthesiser), but even on this track the synthesiser’s unhurried squonks, sounding like the exhalations of an electronic harmonium, are balanced with the backwards-sucked (as though literally inspired) guitar sounds. The spittle-rasp quality of Knight’s trumpet sound and its echoic exhalation means that even in this milieu where all manner of sound manipulations surface, the organic origins of these sounds are still apparent.
This is a nuanced and multi-layered disc of deceptive brevity (5 tracks, 39 minutes) which repays repeated listening, an album full of unusual and beguiling sounds and cycles. At times (Autumn Music), some of the combinations of trumpet, sound treatment, and guitar seem happily proximate with Khmer, the terrain of ECM’s Nils Petter Molvaer.
The fabric of movement and stillness, like the cyclicity of breathing, is deeply stitched, reflected somewhat even in the track titles, and in the alternation of their content: following the dynamic stasis of the title track Residual is Travelling: here Dung’s zithery impulsion plects within a minefield of plosive percussion — if you wish to feel what Wallace felt whilst wearing the wrong trousers, then this is the piece for you!
Some days after my daughter’s comment, walking home, unprepared for the abrupt rainsquall, snow low on the foothills of Mount Wellington, listening yet again to Residual, insulated only by headphones, surrendering to the effects of weather, sluiced & saturated, I encountered unexpectedly & bodily a simulacrum of the album’s cover: little droplets of water had coalesced on my spectacles, and rounding a corner into sudden sunshine the angle of my glasses was just such, so that right before my eyes, yet not obstructing my vision, these multiple deposited droplets magnified into hazy spheres of light, a star cloud, another residual echo, through which I walked and walked back home.
Residual on the Parentheses Records website
Other writing by Arjun von Caemmerer on
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Single-family detached homes in Switzerland
Bernd Upmeyer spoke on behalf of MONU with the architect and urban planner Thomas Sieverts. His publications include ‘Zwischenstadt’ in English under the title ‘Cities without Cities’ and numerous articles and essays. He taught at the HdK in Berlin, at Harvard University and the TU in Darmstadt. From 1989 to 1994 he was the director of the Internationale Bauaustellung Emscher Park.
Bernd Upmeyer: The disappearing of the middle-class is predominantly known as an American phenomenon. To what extent is this also relevant in Europe?
Thomas Sieverts: I am not sure that this is a serious problem in Europe as yet. However many European cities complain about it. Hamburg for example is concerned about the fact that it looses 5000 solid middle-class inhabitants to its suburbs each year and in return gets either unstable lower class households or extremely rich people. These developments can become a problem even for prospering cities like Hamburg. I don’t believe however that this is a common problem as of yet. An important question in this context of course is whether the financial burden sharing between cities, municipalities or neighborhoods will be eliminated. As long as this is not the case we won’t have the doughnut-model in Europe, since inner cities are continually stabilized with large amounts of subsidies. I assume that this will continue to happen also in the future. It will become more difficult however since a lot of the retailers are leaving city centers while the old concepts still rely on the centrality of retail. This will change on the long run, since the inner cities are slowly realizing that they are loosing out with these policies and will start to become ’Zwischenstädte’: If they can’t avoid the big shopping malls then they will start to develop them in the context of their inner-cities. And if people want single-family homes at every price, they will transform areas designated for multi-family housing into single-family home areas. An extreme social polarization between neighborhoods will remain the exception in Europe, unless the neo-conservatives, who want to abolish social policies and redistribution, become strong. At the moment even the most conservative parties in Germany are still relatively ‘social-democratic’. A really neo-conservative party – thank god – does not exist here or in Europe for that matter.
BU: In Europe there seems to be a displacement rather than a disappearing of the middle-class. For example the disappearing of the middle class from the city centers. Do cities need the middle-class?
TS: Yes. If we don’t want to preserve the European City just as a tourist destination then we need a strong middle-class in the cities. Without them European cities will become mere tourist ghettos or ghettos of the super wealthy – this is already the case in Paris to some extent. The normal Parisian can’t afford living within the periphery any more. In some cases this is also true in Germany—in Munich, for instance, and to some extent in Hamburg. In cities like Berlin and Cologne these phenomena are not yet so pronounced. However, should there be a strong neo-conservative force in this country that will no longer support redistribution, then social segregation will happen on a large scale in Germany too. If the central cities are not longer supported by a confident middle-class, they will deteriorate socially and culturally…
…the complete interview was published in MONU #2 on the topic of Middle Class Urbanism on January 20, 2005.
Title: Middle Class Urbanism
Project: Interview with Thomas Sieverts
Date: January 2005
Type: Commissioned interview
Topic: Middle Class Urbanism
Organizer: MONU
Status: Published
Publications: MONU #2, P.24-29
Interviewer: Bernd Upmeyer
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Badtux the Snarky Penguin
In a time of chimpanzees, I was a penguin.
Tuesday, August 07, 2007
Social Security is going bankrupt!
Uhm, no. Social Security is not going to go tits up. Without tax hikes or sale of lots of Treasuries on the open market to pay back the bonds in the Social Security trust fund it’s not going to be able to pay all the promised benefits, but frankly even the 60% of the promised benefits that it will be able to pay worst case is more than enough for me to live on in retirement (granted, I qualify for the maximum benefit due to years of six-figure salaries and have modest needs for retirement income since I own my retirement property clear and outright and it’s in a state with no property tax on most residential property and thus need money only for utilities and maintenance, but even folks with more modest income will still get a good shake from Social Security).
Medicare is not going to go tits up either. Before the Baby Boomers allow Medicare to go tits up, they’re going to mandate it as the single payer health care insurer for America, and thus use payroll taxes on the young to pay for their retirement health care. On average the typical person will be paying less for Medicare than they currently pay for private insurance even with the subsidy of the prunes so it’s a win-win all the way, nevermind that the health insurance companies hate the idea (duh, they’d be like buggy whip makers in 1928 after the automobile had displaced horse and buggy nationwide!). So it’s going to happen. If you work in the health insurance business, I suggest that you do like the buggy whip makers and get another job, yours is going to get obsolete as soon as the boomers realize they need young farts to subsidize their Medicare and that the only way they’re going to get that without a revolution is to extend Medicare to all.
In short, whining about how Social Security is a "scam" and that there is a Social Security "crisis" is bullcrapola. Just typical scare tactics by people who know only the bullshit talking points handed down to them by their Party commissars on Faux News and Talk Radio…
– Badtux the Party Penguin
Posted by: BadTux / 8/07/2007 06:23:00 PM 3 comments
Monday, August 06, 2007
Bin Laden Determined to Strike America
August 6, 2001. President George W. Bush attends a conference with National Security Advisor Condi Rice and representatives of several intelligence agencies to be briefed about a threat to America. These representatives of the nation's intelligence services brief the President, at this Presidential Daily Briefing (PDB), that Osama bin Laden is planning to strike America, and furthermore that he plans to hijack an airliner. At the end of it, Dear Leader tells the intelligence agents "Okay, you've covered your butts now" and goes on vacation. No action is taken to tighten surveillance on known al Qaeda agents or tighten security at airports.
On September 11, 2001, four jet airliners are hijacked and three of them are flown into buildings while one, apparently after a struggle with passengers, is crashed into a field. Over 2,000 Americans die.
It continues to mystify me why 1/4th of the nation still continues to insist that George W. Bush exhibits leadership, when it has been clear for over six years that nothing of the sort is true. Dear Leader's notion of leadership is to go on vacation. It's the only thing he knows how to do, apparently, he has spent over 20% of his Presidency on vacation. While any normal President would have sounded alarm bells at a briefing stating that a known enemy of America who had killed hundreds of Americans over the past five years was planning to strike again, and would have ordered the nation's security apparatus to locate and neutralize the threat, George W. Bush... went on vacation.
I don't agree with the 9/11 conspiracy freaks who think that surely no President could be so incompetent thus he must have known that 9/11 was coming and thus 9/11 was an inside job. This President has proven too many times that yes, he really is that incompetent. Still, I know where they're coming from. That level of arrogance, stupidity, and incompetence simply is hard to believe. Too many people, still, would rather believe that their President is an evil machiavellian mass murderer of Americans than that he's, well, a fuckin' moron. Well, except for the 27% of True Believers, who apparently lack the brain mass that God gave a housecat and think that going on vacation is decisive action against America's enemies...
-- Badtux the Reminiscing Penguin
Just another li'l node in Blue Gal's PDB Blogswarm
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Saturday, August 04, 2007
A minor correction
In a previous message regarding "Dr." Michael Savage extolling gold as an investment, I implied that he didn't really have a doctorate degree. Uhm, I gotta post a correction there. He does. Under his real name, Michael Allan Weiner (sounds like "whiner"), he has a Ph.D. from the University of California-Berkeley in Nutrition, and wrote a number of books in the 1970's and 1980's about various dietary supplement regimes (the most famous of which is his book "Getting Off Cocaine", where he advises an herbal regime for kicking the coke habit). If I were planning a series of meals to meet the dietary needs of a diverse population, I'd definitely consider Dr. Weiner to be someone whose expertise, if offered, would be valuable. Financial advice... uhm, no.
- Badtux the Correction Penguin
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Friday, August 03, 2007
My plan for fixing Iraq
is .... BWHAHAHAH! C'mon, did you really think I was going to do a Romney/Lieberman style "plan" for solving Iraq's problems? Get real, folks. The time when I, or any American, had the moral standing or any standing at all to say anything about how to "fix" Iraq is long gone. As a nation we have proven to be utterly incompetent and inept at the task of ruling an Arab nation. There is literally nothing that any American pundit or politician has ever uttered or implemented that did anything except make things worse.
Anybody who proposes a "plan" that does not a) immediately remove U.S. troops from Iraq so that they quit acting like a bull in a china shop and fucking things up (note -- it's a soldier's job to fuck things up, preferably enemies-of-America things, so don't blame the soldiers for this, blame the men who sent soldiers in to do a policeman's job) and, then, b) immediately start paying anybody who's not American to "fix" the situation however they so propose to fix it, regardless of whether the Iraqis are sitting on "our" oil or not, and then, c) pay hundreds of billions of dollars in reparations to the Iraqi people over the next ten years for the damage we've done to their infrastructure and their society... any plan that doesn't call for turning the problem over to someone who, like, knows their shit (which ain't anybody American when it comes to Arab societies)... any such plan should be greeted with only derisive laughter. Because, unfortunately, every single plan that has ever been proposed by any American doesn't pass the giggle test when you run it by an actual Iraqi.
It's time to face facts: We fucked up, and like Bubba in the fancy dish shop, we just ain't got the smarts to fix it. Best thing we can do is get out, and pay for the damage we've done, and hope that the proprietor of that there fancy dish shop can get the old smashed stock repaired or replaced without our "help" (other than our money, of course). At this point in time, anything we do in Iraq, regardless of how well intended, will only make things worse. We might not like knowing that America is not omnipotent and rah rah USA whatchamacallit, but facts is facts, people. We just ain't smart 'nuff as a people anymore to fix even our own fuckin' bridges, much less Iraq's.
- Badtux the Plan Penguin
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Thursday, August 02, 2007
Mitt Romney: Terrorist
As some of you know, I subscribe to World Nut Daily's news flashes so that you don't have to. In the latest news flash, I learned an interesting thing: Mit Romney is a terrorist supporter.
See, Mitt Romney sez that the way to get those darkies overseas to love us is to, like, be nice to them. Give them money to buy food and clothes. Build bridges and water treatment plants and roads for them. Open up health clinics and schools for them. That kinda thing. Like Hezbollah does. But any real Republican knows that darkies don't understand it when you're nice to them. The only thing darkies understand is force. That's why Hezbollah is so popular in Lebanon, because they kill so many Lebanese. Uhm, except they don't. They give the Lebanese people free food, run a construction company that builds bridges and houses for them, and so forth. Which darkies view as weakness and thus view you as someone to disdain if you do that kinda stuff for them. Which is why Hezbollah so unpopular in Lebanon. Except they aren't. WAH! Mommy, logic is making my Republican head hurt, make it stop, WAH!
So anyhow, the Mitster stuck his foot into his mouth. But never fear. I'm sure that, like with abortion, universal health insurance, gay marriage, and other such issues where the Mitster believed one thing before he believed another, next week he'll believe that the proper way to deal with those darkies overseas is to bomb and kill them, just like all good Republicans believe. Because, after all, being nice just isn't as much fun. Even if it actually works at gaining friends, unlike the bomb'em to the stone age thingy, but hey, he's a Republican. Logic? BWahahahhah!
-- Badtux the Snarky Penguin
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Wednesday, August 01, 2007
Democrats are nice to teachers!
The Coultergeist (sorry, no linky, I won't drive hits to the harpy) has come up with the latest crime that the Democrats are guilty of: They're being nice to teachers.
Good call, Republicons! Everybody knows that the best way to deal with the people who are raising your children (because you're too self-centered, selfish, apathetic, and/or stupid to do it yourself) is not to be nice to them. If your kid isn't doing well in school, remember, it's not your kid's fault for being lazy, apathetic, or just plain stupid. It's the teacher's fault! Why, if the teacher wasn't so selfish as to work for almost nothing for twelve hours a day during the school year trying to pound some knowledge into the heads of ungrateful little brats who would rather be anywhere else, if she'd just wave her little magic wandy thingy abra cadabra like Hairy Potter, your kid would be a genius instead of an ignorant, self-centered apathetic idiot!
Yessirree, them Demon-craps. They just don't know how to treat teachers. Why, they say teachers ought to be paid more to deal with your demon spawn? Oh the horror! They say teachers ought to have better working conditions rather than working in dungeon-like Early Industrial settings with leaky roofs and drafty windows? To the gallows with them! Why, ever good Republican knows that the only way to deal with a teacher is to come in with a belt and start walloping the hell out of her for ruining your child with them thare "idears" thingies, yessiree!
So remember, boys and girls: Vote Republicans. Because them Demoncraps, why, they're... they're... nice to teachers. GASP!
-- Badtux the Snarky Former Teacher Penguin
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Thursday, July 26, 2007
The Gold Standard
And finally, gold isn't portable. It's heavy.
-- Badtux the Economics Penguin
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Tuesday, July 17, 2007
Random blinking
Just a typical Tuesday in Bizarro World USA...
-- Badtux the Bizarre Penguin
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Saturday, June 30, 2007
An Iraq war critic encounters an Iraq war supporter
The Iraq war supporter says, "It's not dead! It's just... resting! Yeah!"
Well, if it's been "resting" for four years, mate, it isn't bloody likely to get up and start rumbling a samba, right? Let's face facts. This parrot is deceased. Dead. Gone to meet its maker. Kaput. If it ain't been won in four years, it ain't gonna get won. Saying this parrot needs "more time" ain't gonna make it any less stiff. The only reason it isn't pushing up daisies is because the shop keeper err Bush Administration keeps nailing it to its perch and selling it to more gullible idiots who come through the door. But this parrot is, in the end, *dead*.
- Badtux the Parrot Penguin
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Wednesday, June 06, 2007
The Revival Meeting
One of the rational conservatives out there, John Cole, reports that a lot of prominent evangelicals and a token Mormon got together last night to discuss theology and the Bible. This prayer meeting was apparently televised nationally (darn, I'm going to have to get my television out of the closet one of these days!) and addressed important issues such as the Big Bang Theory vs. the Biblical account of creation, the importance of the salvation brought to Man by Jesus Christ, etc.
Oh wait, that wasn't a prayer meeting... that was the Republican presidential candidates' debate. Because, after all, we must have our priorities straight. The Iraq war, health care crisis, collapsing immigration system, national debt, global warming, well, those are all trivial things. The important thing for Presidential candidates to debate is whether the Genesis account of Creation is 100% factual or not. Just as the important thing for Byzantine intellectuals to debate in the 8th and 9th century was iconoclasm, not the fact that the Muslims were whipping their butt on the Anatolian frontier. Remember, what's important in a Presidential candidate is not how he handles worldly concerns like, say, how to secure our borders. As with the Byzantine emperor in the 9th century, securing the borders isn't important. How a politician handles religious arguments... why, that's the important thing, not how well he handles running the country, y'know?
As the Byzantine Empire went, so goes ours...
-- Badtux the Snarky Penguin
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Friday, June 01, 2007
White Power!
Left: Bill O'Reilly shows off his new suit
Bill O'Reilly shows off his nifty white bedsheet:
"McCain and O’Reilly, white power virtuosos:
Because, y'know, white males are 36% of the population, yet 79% of the Senate, so they're obviously an oppressed minority and besides, we gotta keep the darkies and uppity wimmins in their place, yassah!
-- Badtux the Snarky Penguin
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Wednesday, May 30, 2007
On the "incompetence" of Bush
George W. Bush does a passable imitation of a moron. But is he?
A bit of history here. I lived through the Reagan administration. The administration of Ronald Reagan was one of the most corrupt in our nation's history. This was an era of $500 hammers and $2 billion dollar bombers. More Reagan Administration officials were convicted of high crimes and misdemeanors than even Nixon officials.
Yet none of this seemed to stick to Reagan personally. Why? Because he projected the image of the affable moron to the general public. When Ronald Reagan appeared before Congress and replied "I don't recall" time after time when asked questions about breaking the law against sending money to a bunch of Somoza's drug-running goons called "Contras" by the Reaganites, everybody just shook their head and sighed. Because they believed him. Surely he was just too senile, too genial an old fool, to have anything to do with planning something so vile and evil as financing the drug dealers who brought the crack cocaine epidemic to Los Angeles?
Thing is, Reagan really wasn't that senile. Oh sure, he wasn't a detail man by any means. But on the important things, he was notorious for listening to everybody's input, then making a decision that showed he had a firmer grasp on the big picture than anybody else in that room. For example, when the U.S. involvement in the Lebanese Civil War on behalf of Israel caught U.S. troops in the crossfire and a couple hundred U.S. Marines got blown to smithereens, Reagan told the Israelis, "Screw you, you're not worth one dead American" and pulled the Marines out and let the Israelis and Syrians figure it out. He had an firm grasp of the big picture -- that there wasn't a single U.S. interest being served by having American troops in Lebanon -- and yanked the troops out (after running a few raids to "punish" Hamas, and shelling the heck out of the Muslim suburbs with 16" shells from a U.S. battleship).
Yet because he played the genial fool, he literally got away with murder. When he died, nobody brought up the fact that he had one of the most corrupt Republican administration since the days of Ullyses S. Grant. They just remembered the genial old cowboy who was a nice old dude. So here's a question: Is Bush really as incompetent and stupid as he seems? Or is this just another Reagan-style act to avoid being prosecuted for the crimes of his subordinates (e.g. obstruction of justice by Alberto Gonzales, illegally wiretapping Americans without FISA approval, etc.)?
-- Badtux the Interested Penguin
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Friday, May 18, 2007
Bubble Boy goes to Australia
And in order to protect him, a black helicopter will jam all cell phones within a quarter mile of him. Because he must be protected, regardless of the harm that it does to the business district of Sidney. Just as the poor innocents of Hong Kong must be protected from the beastiality and incest of a certain dirty book that was much beloved by the late Jerry Falwell. Ah, I do enjoy reading the tabloids! BTW, now that the terrorists know that cell phones are going to be jammed, I'm sure they'll just use another frequency. Like, say, the same one that the Secret Service uses?
Next up: Because of the possibility that someone might send poison gas towards the Holy New Roman Emperor's person, all air shall be banned from a half-mile radius of His Holy Eminence The Bush. Want to breathe? Tough! The Bush must be protected from that aweful "air" stuff!
-- Badtux the Snarky Penguin
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Friday, May 04, 2007
Should we get the government we deserve?
H.L. Mencken once said of democracy, "Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard."
Well, in 2000 and 2004, that was pretty much true. (And spare me the silliness about the Busheviks "stealing" those elections... if the apathetic majority had really cared who was President, the only way the Busheviks could have "stole" those elections would have been at gunpoint). But in 2006 something odd happened: The common people changed their mind.
The result from the Busheviks has been... telling. Right-wing zealots who only months before had been touting the virtues of democracy are now showing their true colors as anti-democracy royalists. They want democracy only when the people vote for them. When the people do NOT vote for them, the right-wing zealots say "governing is too important to leave to the people!" and want to impose a military dictatorship.
Personally, I believe that the common people deserve to get what they want good and hard. They want lower taxes? Fine. They get what they want good and hard, in the form of collapsing government services, corrupt officials, disintegrating schools, and crumbling national infrastructure. Sooner or later the common people usually come to their senses and want something else good and hard. The same, unfortunately, is not true of dictators. Generally dictators just continue on their path until they destroy their country. Or as Winston Churchill once put it, "Democracy is the worst of all forms of government except all the others that have been tried." As for the Bushevics and the 27-percenters who still support them, I have only one question: Why do you hate democracy?
-- Badtux the Democratic Penguin
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Saturday, April 28, 2007
At least it wasn't a dead girl or a live boy...
As the Bush administration's so-called "AIDS czar," Deputy Secretary of State Randall L. Tobias was criticized by some for emphasizing faithfulness and abstinence over condom use to prevent the spread of AIDS.
In a 2004 interview, Tobias explained his approach as "A and B and C. . . Abstinence works. 'Be faithful' works. Condoms work. They all have a role. But it's not a multiple choice, where there is only one answer."
Friday, Tobias resigned. Guess why. Oooh, a madam calls him as a witness in her prostitution trial! No sex, huh? This sounds a lot like someone who didn't inhale. I wonder if he was wearing a condom when he was doing this not-having-sex thingy?
Republicans. They talk all the time about how important it is to keep your dick in your pants, all the time that they're porking half the neighborhood and their neighbor's pets too. Then they whine and bend their knee and claim they're "saved". Bah humbug. People who make a big production of being "saved" are generally just goddamned liars. Real Christians know that salvation is what you do, not what you say. Or as the sayin' in Texas goes, if you're all hat, no cattle, don't bother calling yourself a real Texan. You're just a goddamned Connecticut Yankee pretending to be a Texan.
-- Badtux the Snarky Penguin
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Wednesday, April 25, 2007
If our leaders don't lie, the terrorists win!
Jessica Lynch told Congress, "The bottom line is the American people are capable of determining their own ideals for heroes, and they don’t need to be told elaborate lies."
Silly girl. Everybody knows that if our leaders don't lie, the TERRORISTS WIN! And Little Baby Jesus will cry. Haven't you heard? Mayor Rudy says that if lying politicians can't be elected to office, another terrorist attack will happen. Because, you know, no terrorist attack has ever happened while a Republican President was in office, or while a Republican Mayor was in charge of New York city. And the only proper response to al Qaeda bombing the World Trade Center in 1993 was... uhm... moving the city's disaster management center into the World Trade Center? WTF?! But hey, none of that matters, because Mayor Rudy looks simply mahhhhvelous in pink... So remember, boys and girls. We must elect politicians that lie (especially politicians who look pretty in pink), or the terrorists will swim across the Atlantic Ocean with knives between their teeth, sneak into our bedrooms at night, and kill us all!!!!!
-- Badtux the Snarky Penguin
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Thinking of God Rightly
Day Two
by Gini Crawford, MSW
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In a popular novel, God is made out to be a very friendly woman. I think many of you realize that to describe God this way is completely unbiblical. I have also heard people say, "This story makes me crave God's presence." There is a problem with this, because they are yearning over a man-made image of God, instead of yearning after God Himself. To make God out to be someone He is not, is what the Ten Commandments tell us not to do.
The One True God is zealous that devotion be given exclusively to Him, and not to a false image of Him. Wouldn't it be disheartening to have people not to like or love you for who you are, so they make up a fictitious you? My family wanted me to be different than I was, but at least they didn't make up a pretend child. Don't create God by yours, or someone else's, preconceived ideas. Believe me, after years of knowing and studying God from His Word, I guarantee He is so much more wonderful than what anyone could make up.
To know God's Word is to think rightly of God
We can all have ideas of who God is that are contrary to His Word. Before I started reading and studying the Bible, I use to think of God as a nice man, in a white flowing robe, who always had to sit down because he was so old. Believe me, that view of God didn't help me! God wants us to know the real Him, not a man-made idea of Him. The only place that you can find the real God is through His Word, the Jewish and Christian scriptures. Other books can surely explain the One True God rightly, if their understanding of God comes from His Word.
Where do you go to get to know the One True God? Do you go to God's own words, the Bible, or to some person's writing?
The closer our understanding of God is to the truth, the stronger Christian we will be (Psalm 1:2-3; Daniel 11:32b; Ephesians 3:19-20; 2 Timothy 3:16-17). Let me explain this through a few examples. If you don't think of God as holy, then you will likely think you can sin and He won't care. This is not true, because God is holy, just, and righteous so He hates sin, and will not tolerate sin. If you think of God as a friendly human, then you will treat Him like a person. Yes, God does want to be our best friend, but He is so much more than that. This type of god can't save you, or empower you because he is on your level. Do you really want to serve and worship a god like you?
Do you know if your view of God is right? If you are diligent to read, and look up all the Bible passages in this daily devotional, your view of God will be heading in the right direction.
Thinking of God rightly will give you the desire to believe in Him, and as a result you will have eternal life. It will make you want to know His every single word to you, like a love letter. It will give you the longing to love, and serve Him. It will literally make you want to fall down on your knees and worship Him, as well as dream of the day you will be able to talk to Him face to face.
Life Application:
Dangers of worshipping a false image.
The book of Exodus is a very good example of how important it is to God to think of Him rightly. The One True God revealed Himself to the nation of Israel through signs and wonders, His Presence leading them day and night, and a number of them seeing Him (Jesus Christ) in His glory. Read Exodus 13:20-22, 14:21-31, 24:9-11; John 1:18. Yet they disobeyed God, and made a golden image of Him in the form of a calf to worship. God's anger burned against them because He had clearly revealed Himself to them, and had just told them not to make a false image of Him; which they hardily agreed to. Read Exodus 19:2-8, 20:1-6, 32:1-14, 19-24, 31-25 also Isaiah 44:14-17; Romans 1:18-25, 5:8-10.
What have you learned about the dangers or futility of creating a false god and giving that god your devotion?
How do you think of God? Be honest.
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Tuesday, June 1, 2010
How to build a climbing wall in 10 easy steps!
This is the wall that Cody and I built at Expedition Academy, in Green River, Wyoming. Vertical Solutions contracted the job, and Cody and I went out and built it for them. It's a traverse wall- meaning that it's intended for climbing sideways. I think it will be a fun addition to their high school PE class!
Step 1: Frame the wall with 2x4s.
Step 2: Pre-drill sheets of plywood, install tee-nuts. (Each tee-nut gets stuffed with a little bit of foam, to protect it from the textured paint. We had roughly 800 tee nuts to install. Lots of stuffing!)
Step 3: Sheet the wall with the plywood.
Step 4: Putty the seams, sand the edges.
Step 5: Prime the wall.
Wait for paint to dry.
Step 6: Paint the wall.
Wait for paint to dry.
Step 7: Seal the wall.
Wait for paint to dry.
Step 8: Bolt holds to the wall.
Step 9: Install fold-up pads.
Step 10: Step back, cock head, admire handiwork.
Shake hands with the satisfied and excited PE teacher.
Oh! I forgot. One more step:
Collect paycheck, pack up van, drive off to continue living dream.
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Tuesday, June 29, 2010
Christian Legal Society (3)
The Supreme Court's decision in this case bothers me. The distinction between the "carrot of subsidy" and the "stick of prohibition" strikes me as arbitrary, just too convenient, and counter to the precedent prohibiting the government from buying up individual rights -- precedent that I have used in advocating for LGBT protesters. Progressives who cheer the decision should consider the consequences for their own rights of speech and association.
That's so -- no, I won't say it.
The talking heads used to complain to high heaven about the use of the word "gay" to mean "homosexual." They implicitly assumed that English, unlike every other living language, had stopped evolving when they were children. Now, however, those talking heads are curiously silent about the use of "gay" as an all-purpose pejorative.
Sunday, June 27, 2010
The Gulf disaster
People are understandably talking quite a bit about the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. As evidenced by the letters to the editor in this morning's papers, the favored whipping boy is something called libertarianism, which is defined in accordance with everything except what the Libertarian Party or other libertarians (big or small l) have said about the matter.
Friday, June 25, 2010
Today's vocabulary word: creationism
creationism, n. the doctrine that the universe was created by one or more gods. Creationism makes sense once you abandon monotheism in favor of bureaucracytheism. For example, the Divine Lawgiver who forbade sodomy and the Intelligent Designer who gave men prostates worked in different parts of the building and never spoke to each other.
Thursday, June 24, 2010
Freedom for me, but not for thee
Conservatives correctly decry the hypocrisy of those politically correct leftists who demand more freedom for themselves but less freedom for everyone else. Nonetheless, they keep forgetting to lead by example.
For example, the 2010 Texas Republican Party platform starts out calling for "preserv[ing] the freedom given to us by God, implemented by our Founding Fathers, and embodied in the Constitution" and "Limiting the expanse of Government Power." So far, so good, but the platform calls for the preservation and expansion of government power, despite whatever that silly old Constitution says. For example, on sodomy laws, the platform reads,
If you're a hypocrite about hypocrisy, does that make you a meta-hypocrite?
Fundamentalists of big government (2)
Fundamentalists of big government use ever more desperate arguments to defend their deity. For example, we've recently read the following:
I guess we're not supposed to notice the glaring internal contradiction in that sentence.
Fabulous queer dating tip #13: Once you've found someone who is perfect in every way, try to change him.
If you manage to snag that man with several degrees in a discipline whose name you can't even pronounce, insist that he dumb it down. If your beau is a party vegetable, get him to spend his Saturday nights watching TV with you; if he's a homebody, drag him out to the white, green, fuchsia, and pin-striped parties. If he's vanilla, try to get him into kink; if he's kinky, read him the riot act about how horribly politically incorrect kink is.
This works only one way, of course. If he ever makes even the mildest suggestion, accuse him of trying to make you into something you're not.
Today's vocabulary word: twist
twist, v.t. to read, but in a manner inconvenient to whatever I am trying to prove:
"I can prove, using the Bible, that homosexuality is a sin."
"I can prove, using the Bible, that slavery isn't."
"You're twisting Scripture."
True story: People often accuse me of twisting the Bible, whereupon I ask them to explain how I am doing so. One person immediately backpedaled; the rest simply ignore the question. No one has yet answered it.
Wednesday, June 23, 2010
More discussion on gay marriage
I'm glad that people are debating same-sex marriage in more and more venues. I'm not so glad, however, to be cited for something that I didn't say.
Tuesday, June 22, 2010
Our Fierce-Advocate-in-Chief (2)
Today's vocabulary word: taxation
taxation, n. a sovereign power previously used to rob Peter to pay Paul. Once Peter moved out of the jurisdiction, the government switched to robbing Paul to pay Paul back (after a modest transaction fee, of course). Eventually, in the interest of efficiency, the government contented itself with simply robbing Paul.
Saturday, June 19, 2010
Welcome to Washington. Now pay up. (2)
The District of Columbia is trying to squeeze every penny out of city businesses and those who patronize them. Local business owners are complaining or quite simply closing shop. District leaders need to realize that this is 2010, not 1970, and that they cannot safely assume that Maryland and Virginia cannot compete for those businesses. Things for which people used to head downtown, from the latest trendy restaurant to the performing arts, are now increasingly cropping up in the suburbs. Just how badly do D.C. leaders want to accelerate that trend?
Fabulous queer dating tip #12: Look for reasons to be offended.
Ask questions to which any conceivable answer can be construed as wrong; the triumvirate of sex, politics, and religion will work well here. Also, ask questions about his work or education, and when he answers honestly, accuse him of trying to impress you. (By the way, this is the one exception to the gay male taboo against discussing work or education, so make it count.) If it's a dinner date, take exception to the food that he orders, and accuse him of being either too bossy or not bossy enough to the waitstaff. Nothing cuts the ice like constantly putting him on the defensive.
It's the culture, stupid.
I don't lightly agree with the religious right, but they're exactly right when they say that it's all about the culture. This article highlights the importance of cultural change to political change.
According to the article:
The report — which examines the trend of public opinion on same-sex marriage in 33 states that have had the issue on the ballot — found efforts during campaign periods had very little impact on moving voters to oppose same-sex marriage bans on Election Day.
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Geoff Kors, executive director of Equality California, said the findings show voters are “at their least persuadable” during the course of a campaign.
“But when we look over the last decade at the amazing movement we’ve seen on what is one of the most challenging social issues to move people on, we’ve seen that the movement happens not during the campaign, but away from the campaign,” Kors said.
He noted that California in 2000 passed Prop 22, a statutory ban on same-sex marriage by 23 points, and in 2008 passed Prop 8, the constitutional ban, by four points.
“All that movement happened not in the couple months before Prop 8, but in the years between those elections,” he said.
That is, the movement happened not as a result of political change during the campaigns, but as a result of cultural change between the campaigns. While this may appear self-evident once stated, as so many things do, I see a lesson here for those activists who think that their shock tactics are either necessary or sufficient, let alone both, to bring about their ends.
Thursday, June 17, 2010
Our Fierce-Advocate-in-Chief
When people seek to defend Obama's record and to do more than simply assert how wonderful he is, they often rely on one of two arguments.
First, they say that at least Obama is not Bush or Palin. Talk about low standards. Also, it sounds a little too much like the line from Animal Farm, "Surely, comrades, surely there is no one among you who wants to see Jones come back?"
Second, they say that Obama is too busy with other things. Really?
Wednesday, June 16, 2010
Today's vocabulary word: postmodernism
postmodernism, n. a philosophical system that denied the existence of any universal or objective truths except postmodernism. Later adherents included even that.
Monday, June 14, 2010
Welcome to the Hampden Adventureland theme park, hon.
The Hampden neighborhood of Baltimore, which I remember from the eighties as a domain of the European-American working class, has since been gentrified into a land of prepackaged funkiness for hipsters, particularly during the Honfest street fair. Like the suburban subdivisions named after the trees that were cleared to build them, the new Hampden mockingly "honors" its previous residents.
This parody of local working-class culture appeals to those hipsters who crave not authenticity, but "authenticity." Once they encounter anything authentically authentic, they remake it in their own image to make it as inauthentic as possible. It also shows that the white working class is still a safe target for derision.
A movement, not a market?
Many people deplore corporate sponsorship of events like Gay Pride, saying that the gay-rights movement is "a movement, not a market." That saying begs the question, since it presupposes that those two categories are mutually exclusive. Indeed, I believe that the movement and the market complement each other.
If we give up one power that we actually have in this society, what can we expect in return, other than a politically correct pat on the head? Since market forces have so far outrun big government in recognizing our worth, why should we not take advantage of that fact? Should we cultivate allies or alienate them?
Finally, some people maintain that the very concept of LGBT empowerment inherently includes a bias against the private sector. When I ask why, they give me that all-purpose scathing rebuttal known as pretending not to have heard the question.
Quote of the week
"[C]ivil rights are not won by people saying, 'Wait until the right time.' " - Theodore Olson
Thursday, June 10, 2010
A truly strange, but strangely common, argument
So many 'phobes try to prove their point by going on in considerable detail about the supposed gay male fascination with various fetishes from which even most users of Recon.com distance themselves. The argument combines made-up "facts" with a fallacious appeal to repugnance. To those who use that argument, it says much about gay men. To me, it says much about those who use it.
Fabulous queer dating tip #11: Try to manipulate someone into a relationship.
If it works, you're with someone who is with you only because you've manipulated him into it. If it doesn't, you gain a reputation as a manipulative head case. What do you mean, you don't want either of those outcomes? Of course you do.
Here's a particularly good tactic. Let's say you're after someone who has had a previous relationship with someone whom we'll call Ralph. Tell him that if he doesn't take up with you, he'll go through life with another Ralph and another Ralph and another Ralph. He's likely to respond that Ralph used the same line, so be prepared to change the subject immediately.
Quote of the week
"[D]rama and emotion are the fuel of American politics ...." - Nicholas D. Kristof, The New York Times
Wednesday, June 9, 2010
Society: An addendum
Our opponents love to argue the need to sacrifice our individual liberties (not their own, just ours) on the altar of the great god Society. But didn't someone once say that there is no such thing as society? Then again, why do I bother? That particular quote has been put down the memory hole; we have always believed in society, just as we have always been at war with Eastasia.
And the logic, it goes 'round and 'round ...
... and the P.C. bullshit goes up and down.
A politically correct way to get out of having to prove anything, as well as to "know" more about people's lives than they themselves know, involves accusing others of having experienced various levels of privilege. When they deny it, you simply say that privilege never recognizes itself. Never mind whether that's true (and it isn't), whether it suffices to prove your point (and it doesn't), or whether it has any bearing on the subject at hand (and it may or may not).
Today's vocabulary word: society
society, n. Like the luminiferous aether of old, society is a hypothesized mysterious substance that fills the entire universe. Unlike the luminiferous aether, however, society is sentient and even malevolent, and it has the power to compel otherwise decent and moral people to do things that they would not otherwise do. Society's evil power, however, has two limits.
First, society works only on those people whom we like. It is powerless against those people whom we don't like, who retain full free will and thus responsibility for whatever they do. For example, it can compel the above-cited Ms. Prejean, but not those gay people whom she righteously detests, to engage in immoral behavior. Also, while society can force someone to commit a crime, it has no say in whether the jury convicts that person or whether potential victims pack heat.
Second, for all of its power to do evil by proxy, society is gossamer-fragile; a single same-sex marriage is enough to cause it irreparable harm. Therefore, we should encourage same-sex marriage to end society's vicarious crime spree.
Saturday, June 5, 2010
Changing minds among heterosexual men
What I said here has received yet more confirmation. This op-ed column in today's New York Times reports on increasing acceptance of “gay and lesbian relations,” particularly among men, and postulates various reasons. First is
The contact hypothesis. As more men openly acknowledge that they are gay, it becomes harder for men who are not gay to discriminate against them. And as that group of openly gay men becomes more varied — including athletes, celebrities and soldiers — many of the old, derisive stereotypes lose their purchase.
I have said so (and have come under fire for saying so) for a while now. The keepers of the queer orthodoxy, who seem to spend all of their time coming up with new ways to keep us in the role of the Other, would do well to remember the contact hypothesis.
In another hypothesis, "Virulent homophobes are increasingly being exposed for engaging in homosexuality." That is, just as Edina Monsoon's mouth worked for the prosecution, our opponents' hypocrisy works for us.
Friday, June 4, 2010
Welcome to Washington. Now pay up.
Newcomers to the Washington area often complain about local voters' seemingly infinite tolerance for our special combination of high taxes and terrible to nonexistent public services. It seems obvious to me why local voters tolerate this combination.
In the cult of the omnipotent state, this area is the Vatican. While NIMBY neighborhood activists may fight to the death over specific public projects, we believe overall that big government is its own reward. The money all goes to a good cause; after all, a good cause is whatever local politicians assure us that it is.
How to read the Bible (2)
Andy Schlafly explains here how to tell which Bible passages are authentic:
For the record, the ideological objection is not to how liberals "twist" this passage, but how the passage itself is written in such a liberal way that it renders its authenticity doubtful. It would be akin to discovering a passage that said something like this: "Jesus then said that government should take from the rich and give to the poor." Historical analysis can prove that to be non-authentic; political analysis can reach the same conclusion more efficiently and with a high degree of certitude.
Jesus did not forgive without repentance, yet the Adulteress Story claims He did. Jesus did not comment on capital punishment, yet the Adulteress Story claims He did. Jesus was not permissive about adultery, yet the Adulteress Story He was. Older people are not always wiser than younger ones, yet the Adulteress Story claims they are. And so on.
The cherry-picking is even more blatant than the common practice of arbitrarily dividing OT laws into moral, ceremonial, and civil laws. What Andy is saying in effect is that the Bible is God's Word, insofar as it agrees with his personal opinion of what God meant to say. While many Christians tacitly operate from that principle, few are so open about it.
Quote of the week
"A man is likely to mind his own business when it is worth minding. When it is not, he takes his mind off his own meaningless affairs by minding other people's business." - Eric Hoffer, The True Believer
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Wednesday, January 30, 2008
MSDN Code Gallery
In case you missed the news, Microsoft has added a new feature to MSDN called the "Code Gallery". It can be accessed here:
Basically it's a single location for all official Microsoft code samples, demos, tutorials, etc... It's also got a feature that allows community members to post code samples as well.
Check it out!
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Friday, July 6, 2012
Target2: The EU's Little Surprise
Well, it seems that if the financially weaker members of the Euro zone were to go belly up, their Target2 liabilities alone might be enough to soak up the entire EU bailout bazooka. Isn't that something?
What are Target2 liabilities, you ask? The Euro zone operates a settlement and clearance system called Target2. Settlement and clearance systems have existed for centuries, serving to provide centralized places where checks and other funds transfers between banks can be netted out and paid. For example, most major European banks have claims on each other for payment of checks, wire transfers and numerous other types of funds transfers. These transactions can be done directly with each bank (highly inefficient), or presented to a centralized clearinghouse, which adds up all claims of and on each bank, nets them, and asks the bank at the end of each business day to make a single payment to (or receive a single payment from) the clearinghouse. The Federal Reserve System operates a humungous settlement and clearance system for American and foreign banks dealing in dollar denominated transactions. Without settlement and clearance systems, modern finance couldn't exist.
The prototypical settlement and clearance system doesn't extend overnight credit. Its job is to make sure there are no unpaid liabilities on the part of member banks and expects each member to completely pay all its obligations at the end of the business day.
But the EU's Target2 system evidently is different. It seems to have a little spigot for overnight credit. And, indeed a fount for some EU member nations. Greece reportedly has a 100 billion EU indebtedness at Target2 (see The total unpaid Target2 liabilities of Greece, Spain, Italy and other troubled Euro zone member nations could be in the range of 700 billion plus Euros, equal to or greater than the 700 billion Euro bailout bazooka. And we haven't counted the formal sovereign debt of these nations, which totals in the trillions of Euros. Target2 requires collateral for intraday credit. But its collateral requirements, if any, for overnight credit are unclear. There may be none.
This is a funny way to run a settlement and clearance operation, with credit available on a continuing, overnight basis. It contravenes the basic purpose of settlement and clearance, which is to balance the books. By allowing member nations to participate on an unbalanced basis, Target2 seems to have bought itself a mission creep problem that it can't solve without blowing up the European Monetary Union. After all, how does Target2 collect from Greece or another nation with an unpaid overnight balance? If it boots that nation out of Target2, it effectively boots that nation out of the Euro zone. That, in turn, precipitates all the dire consequences that Europe's leaders profess to want to avoid.
If a Euro zone member nation--let's randomly pick Greece--is unable or refuses to pay its Target2 liabilities, the losses evidently would be allocated among the central banks in the Euro zone. Most likely, the central banks of the larger nations like Germany and France would bear more liability than, say, Finland's central bank. Hence, the incentive for the EU powerhouses to keep trying to muddle through the crisis even though Greece is trying mightily not to repay its debts and Germany is striving mightily not to pay Greece's debts, either.
How Target2 became a secret sugar daddy for the spendthrift Euro zone members remains unclear. Whatever the explanation, the sudden surfacing of these liabilities only darkens the clouds gathering over the European financial world. Target2 evidently has been quietly carrying these liabilities without forcing repayment. That doesn't promote confidence in its financial solidity. Wary member banks might be inclined to take defensive measures, and those, if extreme enough, could resemble a credit crunch. We just had a credit crunch in 2008 and it made for a lousy party. There's no easy way to reduce these Target2 liabilities since the debtor nations ain't got the moola to pay down the outstanding overnight balances. Which means they'll be barking up any nearby tree for yet another bailout.
But the EU's bailout bazooka appears overwhelmed once Target2 is added into the mix of indebtedness it's supposed to cover. High ranking EU officials will surely issue a comforting sounding press release or two to paper over the Target2 problem. But talk therapy, a favorite EU maneuver, hasn't done squat to resolve the crisis and it won't help much here, either.
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August 17, 2007
Learn things you always wanted to using Youtube,Metacafe and everything Web2.0
One of the brightest feature of web2.0 is the fact that it gives out 'too much information' with 'no moderation'.I don't thing this is a dangerous situation because 'too much information' is valid for only those who care to digest it & guess what there are a few who understand that aspect of the web.If you wanted to learn something 10 years back;you needed a tutor,enough money to pay the tutor and lots of nerve to withstand inconvenient timings & compromises.Now in this "era of user gen. content" as i would like to put it,you can leave the tutor jobless and save that money for something and decide when your learning time starts.That's what web2.0 has given us.
Now the biggest hurdle you need to jump is to discover your thirst from the junk-pool.We have humongous data relevant and useless.All we want is to regroup these relevant ones into a list.Suppose you are surfing Youtube and you want to learn something productive and you have no idea what.Don't worry that is a common problem.I am suggesting some tips here which you can use to get this job done and expand your knowledge room.
Hunting Youtube and other services for tutorials
You can find tutorials by using smart keywords while searching and here are some formats that might help.
Search keywords
How to make "phrase"
How to "phrase"
Tutorial "phrase"
Learn "phrase"
Tips on "phrase"
All you need to do is to replace "phrase" by your topic of interest.
To get a random list of tutorials
On Youtube:
Search for How to's
Search "How to"
Search "How to make"
Search "Tutorials"
Search "Learn"
Search "Tips on"
On ifilm:
Though the directory is not big as Youtube you still can grab some good videos here.
Search "Tutorials"
Search "How to"
So the next time you feel like learning,why not learn from your favourite video pool.The internet is all yours to be xplored,Go hunting.
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Tycho – Dive
January 01, 1970
Tycho’s Scott Hansen explores the warmest corners of electronic music,
using well-worn vintage synths to float dreamy melodies over insistent stutters
and clatters of percussion. He splices organic sounds – scratchy acoustic
guitars, the distant boom of bass, human voices – into otherworldly soundscapes
seamlessly, so that notes made by instruments sound as luminous, as idealized
as those elicited from synths and programming decks.
Listen for instance, to the way synthetic washes of tone crest and fade
in “Hours,” the album’s standout track, one synthesizer laying a foundation,
while another picks out a cerebral melody. A crisp, minimalist rhythm kicks in
on snare and cymbal, lending a twitchy sensuality. And then there is the bass,
soft, but insistently physical, as it grounds “Hours” in the world of blood and
breath and sweat. There are lots of different elements in “Hours” but they
co-exist in a sort of super-real clarity. You feel no confusion or complexity,
just a bright, warm rush of serenity.
Hansen has obviously been influenced by the warmer, more emotionally
driven electronicists – Boards of Canada and Ulrich Schnauss – as he uses
machine-derived sounds to conjure memory, longing, hope and happiness. Sounds
are rounded, rather than precisely delineated, so that even the chilliest
keyboard tones linger, mutate and bend as you listen to them. The sense of
brightness, lucidity and calm consideration is embedded in all the parts,
organic and synthetic, as well as in the way they interact with one another.
Natural, real-world sounds occupy the foreground of a couple of these
cuts, most notably “Melanine” which follows a couple of intersecting guitar
parts through multi-colored flutes and pings and whooshes of synthesizer. Elsewhere,
on “Epigram” the muted roughness of breakbeat percussion rattles through
fragile, soap-bubble-colored keyboard riffs without popping a single one. Yet
mostly, you hear organic sounds through a surreal scrim of otherworldliness, as
if a guitar were playing in the other room while you were sleeping and you had
to get it into the dream or wake up.
Listened to all at once, Dive is almost too relaxing, and if you can avoid slipping into a semi-daze before
the second half, you’re more disciplined than me. Yet it’s a happy, bright
trance, not necessarily to be avoided. C’mon. Dive in.
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Friday, November 23, 2012
Dead Assets
With all the doom and gloom about dying ash trees in the news, maybe it's as well to bear in mind the wise words of Oliver Rackham - probably Britain's foremost authority on trees and woodlands - who observed that "a huge dead tree is still beautiful, and as good a habitat as a living tree". When a tree dies a whole host of organisms colonise and feed on it throughout its afterlife, which can last for decades. The National Trust owns two woodlands on the south bank of the River Swale at Richmond in North Yorkshire - Billy Bank wood and Hudswell wood - and has taken great care to ensure that there's a plentiful supply of dead wood lying around to act as a habitat for organisms that depend on this habitat.
This massive fallen beech is covered by a carpet of moss on its upper surface while ...
.. the underside hosts numerous fine young examples of Ganoderma fungus. This bracket fungus can live on the dead wood for a decade or more, producing a new layer of white sporing tissue on its underside every year.
I think this is probably a sycamore stump, hosting one of the densest populations of candlesnuff fungus Xylaria hypoxylon that I've ever seen.
There are also some decaying hazels that must once have been coppiced. Their decaying poles are the favourite substrate for hairy curtain crust fungus Stereum hirsutum. This is a young specimen ....
.... and here's a more mature example.
1. So many different varieties of fungus and I knew the names of none of them.
We have lots of Ash near me, so much that the gardener calls them weeds. I wonder whey we had to import in the first place.
2. Hi Keith, I've got piles of old logs in the garden that are a great wildlife resource too - full of small animals that birds look for...
3. I have the same problem with ash seedlings toffeeapple - our garden is downwind of an ash tree that's a very prolific seed producer...
4. Wonderful post. It helped me ID a photo it took of what I called 'Cappuchino fungus', beautiful colours. I also enjoyed your 'virgin births' article for Wildlife Magazine.
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Keen jumped into his space Megarocket a mixed expression on his face. Being stranded for three weeks on the desolate planet of Phlebbar 9, he is both relieved and distressed.. What would his parents say when he got back? Keen cringed inwardly at the thought and sighed.
Blasting through space towards the small blue planet at the other end of the galaxy, Keen reflected on his recent adventures. All the universe had been saved because of him, and for now it was safe. He leaned back and played idly with his wrist-computer. Suddenly, out of nowhere a huge object thuds into Keen's ship! 'What the..!!?' Keen yells, and grabs for the manual controls. Through a viewscreen he sees a smaller craft jammed right into the cargo hold of his ship! 'man.. my blaster was in there!'. One by one, small purple beings surround Keen, overpower him, and take him prisoner. 'darnit!', Keen curses!they shove him into the smaller ship and prod him towards a large viewscreen. Gradually a much BIGGER ship decloaks, directly in their path. The view fuzzes out, and is shortly replaced by one a mug shot of one of the ugliest aliens in the galaxy! 'YOU!!!!', yells Keen in fury, 'MORTIMER MCMIRE!!! YOU WRECKED MY SHIP!'There in front of Keen stands his old school rival. 'NO. I am not who you think. Well... I am... But not really! When you destroyed me, my consiousness was transferred into a Sh-MegaComputer and my underlings rebuilt me. I'm stronger, more intelligent, and more powerful than you, Billy Blaze!', said the cackling kid, 'As your punishment you will be doomed to exile on the planet Xolon for the rest of your life. There you will slowly starve and DIE!!!!' the figure on the screen laughed for several minutes more until Keen finally interrupted. 'You won't get away with this!! I'll come back and waste you again, you twisted pile of s-' The screen fuzzed back into the starfield, with the huge ship up ahead. Keen wondered what awaited him on this Xolon planet.. The small purple creatures shoved him onto a transporter pad and flipped a switch. Keen collapsed on the desert ground. Dimly on the horizon he could see a city. He pulled out a small package from his pocket and set it on the ground. He bent over to press a button on the top, and it immediately unfolded into a Vorticon RailGun. An awesome weapon, but not Keen's ideal. 'Oh well.. I can always pick up something better..' he thought to himself, clenching his teeth and narrowing his blue eyes, Keen strode purposefully towards the shimmering city.
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An edited version of this text also appears in
SOUND ON SOUND magazine Vol.12 No.6. April 1997
Review by Chris Carter
Filters - don't you just love em? Sharp, soft, bright, dark, they each have their admirers and their uses. The current unstoppable retro renaissance shows no signs of slowing down with all the major (and many minor) players rolling out 'new retro' products monthly. With a massive international dance music scene as the current vanguard of ever more exotic filter sounds, it's not hard to see why manufacturers are keen to tap into this lucrative retro vein.
The Sherman Filterbank consists of a lot more than the name implies and is quite a package of goodies! There is pre-amp (with overdrive), two multi-mode VCF's (with selectable harmonics), an ADSR and an AR generator, an Envelope Follower, an LFO and two VCA's, It is , in essence, a synth module without an oscillator and if first impressions are any thing to go by then it the scores points as soon as you unpack it. You see a beige, sturdy looking, rack-mountable, steel unit, with colour coded rubberised knobs and bright, multi-coloured LED's. It's also compact enough, at 17" x 4.5" x 3.2", to drop into a gig bag or hold all.
The sloping front panel consists of 25 knobs and switches for controlling the various filter functions and modes. The rear of the unit contains 10 jack sockets for audio and control connections plus a MIDI in, out and three MIDI thru sockets. At first glance the myriad of knobs and LED's can look confusing but a little while spent familiarising yourself with the layout and functions and things become clear.
Working from left to right along the top row of controls, there is a single audio input and level control. This input knob also acts as a sensitivity control for triggering the ADSR/Envelope Follower and the AR generator. The input can take almost anything you care to throw at it, sampler, drum machine , Bassline, synth and guitar. The Overdrive feature is introduced by turning the input knob past its centre indent and can be adjusted from a soft harmonic type to a grungy, industrial distortion. Getting a balance between enough level to trigger the ADSR/AR and adding too much Overdrive can be a little tricky though. Next along is the FM knob, for modulating the filter. The FM depth is fed internally by the audio input but if a second source (audio signal, CV/GATE or another LFO) is plugged into the external FM input, then it can be used to modulate the VCF instead.
Next in line is the ADSR generator, similar to the type found in most synths and is very versatile and can handle short, long and inverted envelopes with ease. An LED indicates triggering and a bi-colour LED indicates whether the SUSTAIN signal is negative (red) or positive (yellow). A small switch toggles between ADSR and Envelope Follower modes. In Envelope Follower mode the ADSR control signal follows the level of the audio signal rather than just being triggered by it, with most of the controls working as in ADSR mode and the bi-colour LED acting as a level indicator by turning red when the level is too low. The ADSR/Envelope Follower can also be triggered from a socket on the rear which will accept audio or GATE signals such as percussion samples or a Bassline GATE output etc. In addition there is also an ADSR CV/GATE output socket for triggering external drum pads, sequencers and keyboards from the Filterbank.
The LFO has two control knobs, SPEED and DEPTH and produces a basic sine wave. The speed is indicated by a bi-colour LED and is adjustable from an extreme, 1 cycle per minute to 3kHz. This extends well into audio range and is great for making bubbly, ring modulator effects. The LFO depth control modulates the VCF's in anti-phase, (great for stereo), and produces a positive waveform when turned to the right and negative to the left, with a centre indent for no output
The AM input modulates the VCA's and is driven by the output of VCF 2. The result of this is a type of modulation that also varies proportionally to the amount of VCF 2 resonance. If an additional source, audio or CV/GATE, is plugged into the external AM input then a kind of rhythmic distortion can be superimposed on the sound.
Next is the AR generator, which controls the VCA's and while not as versatile as the ADSR, is capable of producing some very usable pulsing and gating effects. It is also triggered by the audio input but has an external trigger input socket that can accept audio and CV/GATE signals. The last two knobs, (before we move onto the filters) are the PARALLEL/SERIES and the BYPASS/EFFECT controls. The first allows a variable mix of the filters in either parallel (2 x 12dB) or series (1 x 24dB) or a 50% mix of both modes. The variable BYPASS/EFFECT control is a welcome change from the usual, in/out switch and allows nice smooth changes between heavily filtered effects, through more subtle effects, to a completely straight sound.
The VCFs are both identical 12dB types with a frequency cut-off range of DC to 20kHz and each can function as a Low pass, High pass and Band pass filter, with various combinations of all three modes.
Each VCF has a control knob for Frequency, ADSR depth, Resonance, Low/Band/High pass Balance and Mode Correction. These last two controls need some explanation. The Low/Band/High pass control is pretty self explanatory, however, the mode is fully variable and not a switched type. This allows for some nice tonal changes when sweeping the knob back and forth. The CORRECTION control is marked, -B (extreme left) to -B+LH (extreme right) and has a centre indent for no correction. An example of its function would be to set the LP/BP/HP balance control to band pass and turn the correction control right, toward -B+LH. This configures the VCF as a notch filter and produces a subtle phasing effect. VCF 1 has a separate audio output and some very extreme, swirling stereo effects can be achieved by setting the filters to different modes, in parallel.
Unlike some other filters of this type, the Filterbank refuses to go into full, self oscillation, it tries but only manages the mid/upper kHz range, so you can't produce any sub-bass sine waves that some VCF's can. But it does turn out some pretty good high pitched sweeps and warbles, very techno (and 1950's sci-fi). Just be careful you don't blow your tweeters.
Common to both VCF's is the large, HARMONICS/SYNC, 12-way rotary switch, with blue on/off LED. The first position is labelled FREE and allows both filters to run independently, while the following positions are labelled from 1 to 9 and 16. At setting number 1 both filters are in SYNC and act as a single 24dB VCF. In this mode the frequency knob and ADSR depth knob of VCF 1 control both filters. Turning the switch to the next positions (1.5 to 16), introduces progressively lower and lower harmonics until at position number 16 the harmonic content is 4 octaves lower than the original.
MIDI is included as standard and by doing this the designer of the Filterbank has expanded its usefulness ten fold and although it has a fairly basic implementation it does open up all manner of automated control options to the user. MIDI controllable functions include cut-off frequency and resonance, for each VCF, adjustable FM depth, VCA level (volume), AM depth, Attack, Decay, Sustain and Release times. MIDI can be used to trigger the ADSR and AR generators independently and the internal, audio input trigger can be turned on or off by MIDI. The Filterbank can also convert incoming audio and CV/GATE triggers to MIDI notes, from the external inputs of both the ADSR and the AR, a very useful feature indeed.
The only minus point is that the MIDI output only transmits MIDI trigger notes from the ADSR and AR and nothing else, it doesn't transmit system exclusive messages or controller information. For Cubase users, a mixer map can be supplied on request, configured for the above MIDI controllers. The current map is a little basic but does give an idea of the potential for using the Filterbank as part of a sophisticated MIDI system. Apparently, an updated version of the mixer map will be available from the Sherman web site soon.
While this isn't the warmest analogue filter I've ever heard it certainly has a lot of character. In the upper ranges it has a pleasant 'grainy' sound, while in the middle ranges, particularly in band pass mode and with resonance, it can cut through a mix like a knife. But it's down at the bottom end where things get really serious. The affect that the harmonics switch and the overdrive has on a sound can be extraordinary, particularly if a lot of bottom end has been filtered out by the VCF. A thin and lifeless rhythm, or bass line, can take on a whole new life, with added bass punch and a kick, and then some! The Filterbank shouldn't be restricted to processing electronic instruments only. I tried feeding a guitar through the overdrive input while triggering the ADSR/VCF from a drum machine snare and triggering the AR/VCA from a high hat pattern, with the LFO adding some modulating to the VCF. The phrase 'polyrhythmic, acid funk' could sum up that sound. And of course, with MIDI control you can achieve unbelievably complex filter sweepings, ADSR triggering and VCA modulations. The Filterbank works particularly well breathing new life into samples, drum machines, digital synths, guitars and even the ubiquitous TB-303.
But beware! this unit could seriously damage your speakers and there are dire warnings concerning low frequencies printed in the manual and on the Filterbank unit, if in doubt you could use it through a compressor/limiter.
There were no noise specifications available for the review model, but I found the audio quality to be clean and noise free, even at extreme settings. However I did notice a couple of idiosyncrasies, one was a slight, but not unpleasant, instability when the filters were on maximum resonance. Another was the tendency for the volume to disappear, or suddenly jump to maximum, when sweeping the ADSR depth control, although this could have been to do with the nature of envelope generators, rather than anything being wrong with the unit.
What really sets the Sherman Filterbank apart from others in this crowded market is the additional combination of overdrive, harmonics, envelope generators, LFO, VCA's and MIDI control. While it is probably better suited to studio use than live work it will undoubtedly become required kit for many remixers, dance acts and producers, (see box). In this price range there is nothing quite like it and whether you are into retro sounding gear or not I can wholeheartedly recommend it. This is a hell of a processor! If a Moog is a Rolls Royce then the Sherman Filterbank has to be a Porsche.
PRICE: £449 inc. VAT
UK distribution by: El Chocolate. tel/fax 0171 735 0798
Contact the designer, Herman Gillis by e-mail at:
The Sherman Web site is at:
Great analogue sound, with plenty of character.
Lots of innovative features with plenty of scope.
Good value for money.
Operationally, quite complex and not really suitable for the electro novice.
Quirky, non standard power supply.
No foot switch option (unless you happen to have a MIDI foot switch).
Poor instruction manual.
This is a well built, great sounding, highly specified filter, capable of some seriously extreme sound manipulation. Lots of modulation possibilities and enough interfacing to connect to almost anything you can think of. Small enough to transport easily but probably more at home in a studio than on a stage. It does have a fairly basic MIDI implementation but at this price who can complain.
The Filterbank is the brainchild of one man, Herman Gillis, and he personally checks each model before they are dispatched. It is only being produced in fairly small numbers at the moment so unfortunately you can't try one at your local music store. If you can, arrange a demo with the UK distributor, you won't be disappointed.
These are just some of the artists using the Sherman Filterbank:
David Bowie
Chemical Brothers
Steve Hillage
Human League
Mixmaster Morris
The Grid
The Prodigy
Derek May
Power for the Filterbank is supplied by a continental, two pin type, AC PSU, that needs an additional adaptor for UK 3 pin sockets. Unusually the PSU has a non-standard 15V AC output, not the usual DC voltage used by most manufactures. This is worrying as replacement AC to AC adaptors are near impossible to buy in your local branch of Tandy or Dixons. If I were gigging or on tour with the Filterbank I wouldn't relish losing the PSU and trying to find a replacement in a hurry.
Unfortunately the Filterbank manual is a disappointment. For a start, the title: THE ABUSERS MANUAL is a little suspect. But the real problem lies in the disorganised way it has been put together. There is no index and few meaningful specifications, but there are pages and pages of pretty pointless drawings of envelope shapes. The diagrams and examples verge on the absurd, with childish drawings of dogs, cats, mice and little men turning gears and lying in bed, used to explain complex concepts and techniques. Until it's been rewritten, forget the manual and just use the Filterbank.
Here are a few things I would like to see if Herman Gillis produces a mark 2 version:
The MIDI output to transmit controller info and system exclusive messages.
More waveforms for the LFO. CV control of the LFO and routing of the LFO to the AM modulation.
Separate controls for input level and trigger sensitivity.
Individual audio inputs for each VCF.
An Effect bypass foot switch socket, for live use.
A built in power supply.
Copyright © 1997 Chris Carter / SOS Publications.
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The name of this organization shall be the Cape and Islands Democratic Council, hereinafter called the (CIDC).
Assistant Treasurer: He/she shall act as Treasurer in the absence of the Treasurer and shall perform whatever other duties the Treasurer and President may assign.
At-large member: 8 elected biennially: (1) when a vacancy occurs on the exec board, it will be filled by an at-large member; (2) will be an active member of one standing committee. Can vote in CIDC general meetings.
Area Vice President: The Vice President in whose district a meeting is taking place.
Associate member: Any person in Barnstable, Dukes, or Nantucket County who supports the ideals of the Democratic party, has completed the CIDC membership form and is in good standing with the CIDC. This person cannot vote during any CIDC meetings.
Ex officio member: Immediate Past President, DTC Chairs, members of the Democratic State Committee, and elected Democratic state and county office holders residing in Barnstable, Dukes, or Nantucket County. Must be in good standing with the CIDC, can vote in CIDC general meetings.
Executive Board: Elected biennially composed of: President; Vice President Barnstable 1st; Vice President Barnstable 2nd; Vice President Barnstable 3rd; Vice President Barnstable 4th; Vice President Barnstable 5th; Barnstable, Dukes, and Nantucket Vice President; Treasurer; Recording Secretary; and Corresponding Secretary can vote in CIDC general meetings.
Full member: Any person in Barnstable, Dukes, or Nantucket County who is registered as a Democrat, has completed the CIDC membership form and is in good standing with the CIDC. This person can vote during CIDC general meetings.
General membership: Executive Board Members, Full members, Associate members, and Ex Officio Members.
Good standing: Dues have been paid and membership form has been completed
Officers: Executive Board, Assistant Treasurer, Webmaster, Social Media Editor, Affirmative Action Chairman, Membership Chairman, 2 Youth Outreach Chairmen (one male, one female), at-large members.
Parliamentarian: A member designated by the President on a per-meeting basis, who will maintain Robert’s Rules of Order and keep meetings on point relative to that.
President: Leader elected biennially by the General Membership.
Vice Presidents: Elected by the General Membership biennially.
The CIDC is a political action committee and is organized and constituted under authority of and in accordance with the provisions of the Massachusetts General Laws, and shall have as its purposes the following: to promote the ideals of the Democratic Party; to work and organize for the election of Democratic candidates at the municipal, county, state and national level; to address and promote the needs and interests of Barnstable, Dukes, and Nantucket Counties as related to the Democratic Party’s platform; and to provide a forum for the discussion of issues and ideologies important to all residents of Barnstable, Dukes, and Nantucket Counties, the Commonwealth and the nation.
1. Membership in the CIDC shall be open to any resident of Barnstable, Dukes or Nantucket County who supports the ideals of the Democratic Party. Applicants must fill out a membership application and pay the annual dues.
2. Youth:
1. Any politically engaged resident who supports the Democratic Party Platform and is under the age sixteen (16) may be considered a Full Member and is not required to pay annual dues.
2. Any full time student who has pre-enrolled or registered as a Democrat may be considered a Full Member and is not required to pay annual dues.
3. The CIDC recognizes the need for participation by all segments of the population and emphasizes the importance of affirmative action to ensure diverse representation.
4. Officers and Full Members shall be entitled to attend and vote at all CIDC general meetings.
5. Membership shall be distinguished as follows:
1. Full Members and Officers, in good standing shall be entitled to vote at CIDC general membership meetings.
2. Associate Members may attend all CIDC general membership meetings, but cannot vote.
6. Attendance of all who are present shall be recorded by sign-in at each general CIDC meeting. A quorum is established as 5% of Full Membership being signed into a General Meeting and at least 5 towns being represented.
7. Any member may be removed by procedures guaranteeing them notice and due process, by a two-thirds vote of those present and voting at a meeting called for that purpose, for the following causes;
1. public support for or contribution to an opponent of a Democratic nominee who supports the platform of the Party as adopted at the most recent state and national conventions;
2. unauthorized use of the Party's name or resources;
3. conviction of a criminal offense other than a misdemeanor.
General membership meetings shall take place no less than four times per year, and shall rotate throughout Barnstable, Dukes, and Nantucket Counties, as much as is feasible.
1. Notice of all regular and special meetings shall be sent, with a provisional agenda, to the General Membership by the Corresponding Secretary at least fourteen (14) days before such meeting as circumstances allow. Special meetings are those not pre-scheduled, but must have 48 hours notice. Timely notice shall also be posted on the CIDC website, Facebook page and sent to the news media.
2. At any CIDC meeting, decisions will be made by consensus. In a case of a vote, a motion will carry with a majority vote of those voting members present, provided that a quorum is present.
3. Members may attend meetings and vote remotely as the technology allows. Every effort will be made to have this available for meetings.
4. Special meetings may be called at any time by:
1. a majority of the Executive Board;
2. a majority of Officers
3. a petition presented by ten or more Full Members of the CIDC.
5. The conduct of meetings shall be in accordance with the most recent Roberts' Rules of Order, except as otherwise noted in these bylaws.
The Recording Secretary shall be responsible for the minutes of all CIDC and Executive Board meetings, maintain the official records of CIDC, shall keep the attendance record of all Members, and shall perform such other record keeping duties as shall be required. In the absence of the Secretary from a meeting, a Secretary Pro tem will be named.
1. The Corresponding Secretary shall be responsible for the correspondence of the CIDC, including the mailing of meeting notices and other materials, and shall perform such other communications duties as assigned. This secretary shall maintain a current list of CIDC Members and send membership renewal/dues notifications to all Members.
2. The Affirmative Action Chairman shall be responsible for the planning, coordinating, publicizing and implementing of an appropriate affirmative action program. They shall seek to include in CIDC activities members of underrepresented local groups, including, but not limited to: Cape Verdeans, Hispanics, Native Americans, Afro-Americans, Asian-Americans, handicapped, young, elderly, and low-income people.
3. The Membership Chairman shall be responsible for compiling and maintaining a current list of all CIDC Members and for efforts to increase CIDC membership.
4. Officers of the CIDC may be removed, with adequate notice and due process, for failing to perform the duties of the office, by a two-thirds vote at a CIDC Officers meeting.
5. Vacancies in any office shall be filled by election at the next General Membership meeting. Temporary appointment to office will be made by the Executive Board from the At-Large Membership until an election at a General Membership meeting.
1. The CIDC may endorse a Democratic candidate who is running unopposed in a primary, providing such a candidate appear before the CIDC and request endorsement.
2. The CIDC may endorse a Democratic candidate who is running opposed if his/her opponent does not support the Massachusetts Democratic Platform.
3. The CIDC may endorse any nominee who supports the Massachusetts Democratic platform.
4. The CIDC reserves the right to withhold an endorsement.
1. All Board Members shall be active on at least one Standing Committee.
2. A Nominating Committee shall be appointed by the President in preparation for each biennial election. In making its recommendations, the Committee shall bear in mind geographical distribution, male/female representation, and affirmative action considerations.
3. The President shall preside at CIDC and Executive Board meetings and shall be the official spokesman for the organization.
4. The President shall call meetings of the Executive Board and appoint committees (with the advice and consent of the Executive Board), issue publications, recruit staff, and perform such other duties as required by custom and these bylaws.
5. The President and the Treasurer, acting together, may make expenditures of up to $500.00 between meetings without the prior approval of the Executive Board. Such expenditures shall be included in the Treasurer’s report.
6. The Area Vice Chair shall preside over CIDC meetings if the President cannot attend.
7. Each Vice President will be responsible for organizing the logistics of at least one General Membership meeting and one regional fundraising event per calendar year in conjunction with the Events/Fundraising Committee.
8. The Treasurer shall have the care and custody of all funds of the CIDC, shall deposit all money received, shall make disbursements as directed by the Executive Board, and shall keep an accurate book of accounts.
9. The Treasurer shall make financial reports as required by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. The Treasurer shall also make a financial report at every meeting, submit a budget recommendation to the Executive Board before the start of the fiscal year, and issue an annual report no later than 30 days after the end of each fiscal year.
10. The Treasurer’s books shall be audited annually by a committee of three General Members, appointed by the President.
11. The Executive Board shall meet bi-monthly on a schedule determined by its membership or at a call of the President. Five members shall constitute a quorum.
12. A minimum attendance of 75% of all CIDC meetings annually is required.
13. It shall be the responsibility of the Executive Board
1. to formulate policies and procedures for the CIDC, which shall then be submitted for the General Membership’s approval;
2. to plan and conduct political, educational and fundraising events that will promote the purpose of the CIDC;
3. when necessary, to authorize the President to make public, in the name of the Executive Board, such statements as the Board approves for release;
4. to set the annual membership dues;
5. to set the agenda for each general meeting of CIDC;
6. to perform all other duties and functions that are customary or set forth elsewhere in these bylaws.
14. Any person who is a candidate in a contested primary shall recuse himself/herself from active participation on the CIDC Executive Board.
The CIDC shall have the following Standing Committees:
a) Events/Fundraising
b) Audit
c) Legislative Action
d) Membership
e) Political Action
f) Communications
The fiscal year shall follow OCPF filing deadlines. Full Members must pay annual dues by March 31st of each year, to remain in good standing.
These Bylaws may be amended, added to or repealed by a majority vote of General Members present and voting at a regular or special meeting, provided that notice of such change, together with the proposed text of the changes, shall have been sent at least 30 days before the meeting to all General Members.
Adopted November 18, 1981
Revised May 1, 1984
Revised April 9, 1994
Revised March 9, 2011
Revised October 17, 2017
Attested to: President ________________________
Sandra Milano
Secretary ________________________
Katie Jacobus
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American Indians Today
American Indians of the Woodlands
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American Indians of the Woodlands
Cooperation and conflict were a part of American Indian life among the Woodland peoples east of the Mississippi river. The Iroquois people and tribes like the Cherokee and the Ojibwe each adapted to their unique environments and experienced the impact of European exploration and settlement in a different way. Students will explore the environmental influences of the Woodland Indians and see their role in the birth of the United States. Early treaties, even the Treaty of Paris, had an impact on the traditional homelands of Woodland tribes. Students will get a glimpse of the Trail of Tears and see the impact of the Indian Relocation Act of 1830.
Enjoy this brief introduction to Native Americans in the Woodlands through folk tales, where they lived, how they lived with each other and how they live today.
1. Students will appreciate the culture and history of the American Indians of the Woodlands.
2. Students will understand how some native groups thrived, using the land and natural resources to their advantage.
3. Students will learn about the conflicts between American Indians and European-heritage American settlers.
4. Students will understand the present day struggles and contributions of the American Indian people.
1. Relocation Reflection. Imagine that you have lived in the same neighborhood your whole life. Now imagine that your family was forced to move from that neighborhood and settle in a place that is completely different – no stores, no schools, nothing like your old neighborhood. How would you react? Have you ever moved? What was that like? How is it different when you relocate because of opportunity, as opposed to being forced from your home? Write a short paper reflecting on these questions, and share them with the class.
2. Power in Numbers? Both the Iroquois and the Cherokee were part of larger confederacies. How were those two confederacies different and how were they similar? What would be the benefit to belonging to a confederacy? What would be the disadvantages?
3. Tribes or Confederacies? Break the class into small groups. Have some combine to create confederacies, and others remain independent. Discuss how each group/confederacy would handle different situations – war, disease, natural disaster, invasion, etc. Do any of the groups have an advantage? Discuss as a class.
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Fantasy Sports Gambling Expansion? March 2, 2017 by Staff
Two bills in the Kentucky General Assembly would authorize gambling on fantasy sports. Advocates say that it's already happening and regulation is needed in order to provide oversight and keep minors from gambling activity. This might be true, but the bigger question is whether more gambling is a good and healthy thing. Should society welcome more gambling? There are many things that are happening in society that the legislature is not about to legitimize, so why is this different? For many, gambling eventually becomes an addiction and for that reason, we should all be wary of any expansion. But perhaps a bigger problem is that gambling is idle activity that produces no product, no service and creates no wealth. Unfortunately, elements of greed and envy subtly creep into gambling thus rendering it less than a socially-healthy activity.
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Registered: 08-06-2013
CM single point of failure ?
I'm curious about what happens to the cluster if the ClouderaManager node dies ?
a) how to (re-)start / stop services manually ?
b) how to add a newly created node, running a newly installed ClouderaManager, to the cluster ?
I assume for b) it is just starting the wizard and provide the names/IPs of the cluster nodes and the CM will scan them. Afterwards double-check the role assignments. Right ?
b.2) If CM is used with embedded Postgresql. Assuming there is a backup of the Postgresql DB, how to setup a new CM node and provide it the backup of the Postgresql db ?
It's all based on the concern of how to handle the cluster after CM is unavailable.
Are there other recommendations, thoughts about High-Availability of CM ?
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Posts: 508
Registered: 07-30-2013
Re: CM single point of failure ?
Hi geko,
When the Cloudera Manager Server dies (or stops), then your cluster will continue to operate normally (you can keep using hdfs, mapreduce, hue, hive, oozie, etc), but you will be unable to use CM to start, stop, alter config, etc. Monitoring services will generally continue to capture audit and activity information if they are still running.
You should always take regular backups of your CM database. If your main CM server is truly unrecoverable, then you can just set up a new CM server on another host and configure it to talk to the same database, then configure your agents (or use DNS tricks to have the new server look like the old one) update them with the new CM location. If your CM database dies, you can restore from backup.
You can add a newly created node through the Hosts tab, clicking the Add New Hosts to Cluster button. There's a wizard that will guide you through the process. Alternatively, you can use "Path B" to install the CM packages yourself. You can then leverage the Host Template system to make your new host pick up the same roles and configs as some other host, which is very useful when adding slave nodes.
Whether CM is using embedded postgresql or some other database, you'll need to make sure you restore the database correctly and then configure CM to talk to that database, which is usually controlled in the /etc/cloudera-scm-server/ file. If using the embedded db, then also be sure to restore the /etc/cloudera-scm-server/ file. An alternative to relying on database backups is to use and configure a database that itself has HA.
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Nale/Sabine's Child (Part 1)
I saw it. The Angel. It was wearing a mask concealing its face. I was scared; I felt the sweat drip to the floor. It turned around, it saw me. It started floating towards me; I couldn’t float so I ran. They where everywhere. They were descending from above. I saw fire, why? It was behind me, it grabbed me by the throat, and it lifted me up. It chuckled. I saw them. They where heading towards me. They where glowing, holy light. It inspected me, they checked my head. I heard more chuckles. The laughter boomed through me, the laughter was heavy. I felt pain, it wasn’t physical pain. It felt like my breath was on fire. I was breathing fire. More chuckles. It dropped me. I wanted to see my parents, were where they? I felt myself crying. Everything that wasn’t my skin was on fire. I saw my hand, it was lighting up like a candle. I saw my bones, I wish I could look more carefully but I was on fire. There where gone. Why? Why wouldn’t they help me? They where angels, I knew angels where kind. Why not help me? I was on fire. I collapsed.
She gasped for air. She saw her horse, she saw the fire. She was on the ground. She looked at her hand. It was light brown. She cursed the heavens. She looked around. It was dark. The wind was blowing. She took the bucket of water and put out the fire. She stomped the remaining ashes into the ground. She took out the sleeping bag. She went back to sleep.
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Curse of Phobetor (Part 4)
Redcloak threw his hands up, cursing all clichéd illusory traps in his head and rolling his eyes towards the ceiling. “If you are another cheap illusion of a family member or Vaarsuvius, I swear…”
“I’m not an illusion.”
The goblin looked around, gold eye narrowing. “Not again.”
Vaarsuvius looked offended. The elf was just as Redcloak remembered. Wild purple hair. Fiery violet eyes. Pale skin. Pointed ears. The scent of flowers and wine was so intoxicating that, had Redcloak not known that this was another trick, he would have gladly thrown away all of the barriers he had put around his thoughts of Vaarsuvius just to feel the elf’s lips again, just to touch the body he knew he was only one of the few who was found worthy to touch… but he was no fool.
“You’re not tricking me. I caught on after the first five or so times this place pulled the ‘brother/niece/lover’ card.”
“Reddy, I’m not an illusion.” Vaarsuvius smiled, reaching forward and resting a decidedly tangible hand on the goblin’s cheek. “You see? I’m real.”
Redcloak arched an eye ridge in surprise, wondering what sort of creature this was. The elf went on tip-toes and kissed the goblin softly, lips melding carefully to accommodate the other species. The warm body pressed against his. Gentle fingers trailed down his sides…
“Maybe not an illusion, but not Vaarsuvius.”
Redcloak roughly shoved the copy away, only eye a mere fleck of gold, wiping his mouth free of the sour taste of the imposter’s kiss. “One, Vaarsuvius never calls me ‘Reddy.’ That elf’s hard-pressed to tell me so much as her name. Vaarsuvius isn’t the type to give pet names to people that are going to try to destroy everything for the sake of one species.” He brushed himself off, a little sickened by being touched by the creature in front of him. “Second, Vaarsuvius wouldn’t be so willing to jump right back into whatever we were. When I see that elf next, I’m going to be like any other enemy.” He backed up a step, glaring. “Third, you can imitate appearance and smell well, I’ll grant you, but you can’t imitate touch and taste.”
The thing that looked like Vaarsuvius was silent for a long moment, absorbing what was being said, before rolling its eyes to the sky, skin reddening and hair darkening to black. “Jeeze. You’re no fun.”
The succubus shook her hair out, eyes turning red and moist wings wiggling out of the restrictive robes they were forced in, flapping wetly to lose the liquid that Redcloak was positive he didn’t want to know the origin of. “I mean, usually I’m able to get some poor sap who’s so desperate that they’re willing to believe, but no. I had to get some frigid bastard who won’t even put out a little for fun’s sake.”
“So sorry to disappoint.”
She started to morph again, back into Vaarsuvius, but this time, Vaarsuvius looked beaten and bloody. Redcloak reminded himself quickly of what was really in front of him before he came forward to heal his partner.
“Anyway, I have other fish to fry.” The succubus who looked like Vaarsuvius ripped her tatty red robes, exposing more flesh than Redcloak was comfortable seeing on his partner. He had seen and felt Vaarsuvius naked, but it was something personal that he knew the elf allowed only to a few. To see this woman freely flaunt things that had every appearance as belonging to the elf made him angry on his partner’s behalf.
The succubus spun around, her arms outstretched. “Like it?” She smirked. “You sure you don’t want a quickie before I pop off to terrorize other people? From what I’ve gathered, this one wasn’t too good about putting out a lot. How can a big guy like you be satisfied with a frigid wench like her?”
Redcloak sneered in disgust, making a dismissive motion with his hand. “Get out of my sight. There’s more to relationships than sex.”
“Oh come on. I’ll imitate your elf, if you like. You’re a lonely sap without her, I can tell. Don’t you miss her?” The succubus who looked like Vaarsuvius ran a hand sensuously through her royal purple hair, smiling. “You can always pretend.”
Redcloak scowled darkly, making another dismissive gesture with more force. “I don’t want a cheap copy, fiend.”
“Really? Huh.” The succubus disappeared in a puff of smoke.
The Order unanimously decided that the gates were almost more trouble to get to than they were worth.
“V, Durkon, are you guys sure—”
“We are fine, I assure you.” Vaarsuvius refused to accept Elan’s or Haley’s silent offers to help walk, severely weakened from trying to hold the illusions at bay while the Order opened the door to the dungeon and head spinning for reasons that would never be divulged to the Order. “Focus on the path ahead.”
Durkon shrugged off Elan and Haley’s offers as well, but more politely than the elf, and fixed his eyes on the phosphorescent walls. “I sense th’ presence o’ a dark god. An evil cleric was through ‘ere recently.”
Vaarsuvius looked up with an odd look in violet eyes, but no one noticed. Roy took out his sword, swinging it experimentally, muscles tensing noticeably under his skin. “Do you think it’s Xykon and his goblin?” The name and the last word were coated in more venom than usual. Vaarsuvius casually wrote it off as Roy’s usual dislike for the lich and his associates. Only the other Order members knew why the swordsman was feeling particularly heated about their foes.
“I can’t think o’ any other reas’n tha’ there’d be an evil cleric runnin’ around.”
The elf subconsciously rested a hand on a small abdomen, avoiding the gazes of the rest of the Order without realizing it. “R—the goblin who serves Xykon is a cleric of a high enough level that he would have a significant effect to the divine energies.” Vaarsuvius seemed to notice the instinctive gesture, scowling, and brushed the red robe off, removing the hand from the hurting stomach quickly. “It would make sense for them to be here.”
The rest of the Order exchanged looks, misconstruing the elf’s lack of eye contact and reinforcing their suspicions.
“Well, we ought to find them. We owe them for killing our leader and taking our spell caster, don’t we?” Haley said, taking Elan’s hand and smiling, an unspoken message rippling out to everyone but Vaarsuvius.
“I do not suggest it,” the elf said, mind obviously elsewhere. Maybe it was because of the uncharacteristic inattentiveness that the mage didn’t notice what the pointed discouragement was further convincing the Order of. “If Redcloak is with Xykon, we are against a high-level cleric and an epic-level sorcerer. Even without one of his eyes, Redcloak is powerful and intelligent enough so that he would be very difficult to defeat, even when we are working together. Xykon is powerful enough to kill us all on his own. They are also likely with the mid-level Theurge and a creature of indeterminate species and strength. We should avoid fighting them at all costs.”
“And Rule of Drama says that the party has to split up! We’re probably going to get to a giant fo…” Elan trailed off as the entire group stopped, faced with six different paths leading off in wildly different directions, the phosphorescent walls flickering only slightly. “Here it is.”
Everyone stared for a moment, roughly identical thoughts running through their heads. “Can all of us go down one path?”
“We don’t know which way the gate is. It’ll take too long for us all to explore each path.”
There was another reluctant silence.
“Well, I’ll divide up th’ rations an’ supplies.” Durkon started rifling through the packs. “Vaarsuvius, ye wouldna happ’n t’ ‘ave a spell so we c’n track each other…?”
“I am afraid not, Mr. Thundershield.”
“Figures.” Roy sighed, exasperated that the gods of drama continued to make life a thousand times harder for him. “Alright. We don’t know how this works. I don’t like the idea of us splitting up, but we’re going to have to. Elan, in a story, what would happen along the paths?”
Elan smiled, leaning on his heels. “That’s easy. We’ll all face what we fear and what we want, and after a big journey where we all think that we won’t survive, we come back together at the gate and have an epic battle with the villain, each one of us changed for the better, and we slay the dragon and get the damsel in distress.”
“That sounds like more trouble than it’s worth. Can’t be just blow through the tunnels and get a whore back outside or something?” Belkar took out a dagger, throwing it hand to hand restlessly.
“It doesn’t work that way,” Roy said, frowning at the tunnels. “You ready, Durkon?”
“I’m done, lad.”
Durkon handed out packs to everyone, looking thoroughly disgruntled. “It’s against ev’rythin’ I was taught as a healer, but I’m goin’ t’ ‘ave t’ leave ye all with jus’ a coupla bandages an’ painkillers fer when I’m na around.”
“Yeah, yeah, cluck all you want. We’re all grown up now.” Belkar checked the contents of the bag and, satisfied, slung it over his shoulder. “Let’s get this over with.”
Most people just nodded their goodbyes, or actually said them if they were so moved. Elan and Haley kissed each other, the blond saying something about some drama cliché guaranteeing that they would be back together soon. Both Roy and Durkon looked at Vaarsuvius before exchanging glances, both a little reluctant to leave the elf alone but neither having a choice in the matter.
“Farewell. We shall see each other again soon.”
With the soft goodbye from Vaarsuvius, the group split apart, each going a different direction.
Deep in the heart of the dungeon, an imprint reached out, smirking, and started to pull the strings.
Vaarsuvius and Blackwing traveled in companionable silence, the quiet only disturbed by the occasional rustle of cloth when the elf touched a pregnant abdomen after a particularly vicious cramp. Anyone else would have suggested that the mage take advantage of the painkillers that the healer had provided. Blackwing knew his master well enough to realize that it wouldn’t matter.
The raven also knew better than to comment when Vaarsuvius had to stop numerous times to nurse the pain or make the dizziness go away. The only acknowledgement he gave was a gentle nip on the elf’s ear, a light reminder that Vaarsuvius wasn’t alone.
The elf was grateful for it. When the female cleric said that the pregnancy would be difficult, the mage hadn’t been quite prepared for it. Vaarsuvius could deal with cramps, sore breasts, and headaches. Pain was a matter of the body, not the mind. But the dizziness and the light-headedness were just nuisances. The elf was well-aware of what little it would require to faint, and Vaarsuvius was not at all happy with it. And then there were the hormones to deal with. How the mage would hide it from everyone, especially when the time came to battle, Vaarsuvius had no idea. But hidden it would remain.
Vaarsuvius was shocked out of these thoughts when a pale hand, previously lightly running against the cold green wall, hit something sticky and wet.
The mage stiffened, a cold flare running down a tiny body, and slowly brought the affected hand up to look at.
It was covered with blood.
Vaarsuvius swallowed, trying to calm the nerves going haywire in a hormonal brain, and watched the crimson drip to the floor slowly. It wasn’t real. It was an illusion.
It felt real.
The mage slowly looked at the wall, rubbing sticky and warm fingers together, eyes widening at the trails of scarlet running down from the ceiling. It was a bad idea to look up. It was a really bad idea to look up.
So, of course, Vaarsuvius looked up.
And regretted it dearly.
There was a natural shelf of rock at the ceiling. Four people were sitting up on it, glaring down at the elf, blood trailing from them and dripping down the walls, creating a fine red mist, the phosphorescence of the tunnel dimmed until it felt like the elf was in hell. Hell was red darkness.
One of the gargoyles held his head tight in his hands, an angry fountain from his stump of a neck staining a blue uniform red, eyes narrowed in accusation, lips silently moving in what could have either been pleas or curses.
“Worthless coward,” the woman spat, snapping sharpened teeth, before she started coughing, more blood welling up, making the coppery smell choking, and the smell of sulfur was growing and oh elven gods the head’s lips were still moving what were they doing here the blood was everywhere OH ELVEN GODS THE BLOOD
Vaarsuvius turned to run, but slipped on the red pool on the ground, falling hard in the warmth. The elf stumbled, trying to stand up, but the female gargoyle’s mouth opened up, a snake-like tongue snapping out and wrapping up tiny ankles.
“I’ll kill your children!”
“I’ll kill your mate!”
“I’ll kill your comrades!”
oh great elven gods what was happening the lips on the head are still moving and oh great elven gods the blood was coming faster and its eyes were changing colors all yellow and orange and purple and THE BLOOD WAS COMING FASTER MAKE IT STOP
“You did this to yourself, Other Parent.”
Vaarsuvius looked down to see one of the beloved children tear through a vulnerable arm, the blood up to the little one’s waist, sharpened teeth stained red sunk deep into the mage’s flesh, pure yellow eyes dancing wildly and broken legs cracking under weight that they shouldn’t have to hold.
“Always remember that.”
Vaarsuvius shrieked in pain, fire shooting through the elf’s very being, and the other beloved child, orange-eyed, ripped sharp teeth through the mage’s other arm. The blood was rising and the children would drown in it oh great elven gods what was happening the children they should never have been involved why was this happening it hurt it hurt so much oh elven gods Vaarsuvius was going insane the elf could feel its mind unraveling THE ELF WAS GOING INSANE
“You’re only forced to see what you did to us.”
Inkyrius cocked a starkly pale head, purple eyes staring in a frozen grin, face looking like a bad mask, wrists and feet draining blood from where stakes were driven through them, green hair scarlet. “You see what you have done to us, Suvie?”
Inkyrius raised thin arms and turned into a black dragon stained red, roaring and coming down to swallow Vaarsuvius whole.
Redcloak looked up sharply at the sound of screaming. “Tsukiko?”
He entertained the idea of letting the crazy Theurge bask in a different kind of madness for a moment, but the scream changed pitch, sounding increasingly desperate, and his moral compass was tripped.
The goblin ran towards the sound, wondering what could possibly have made Tsukiko sound like that, but he stopped short when he came to the passage where the screams were coming from.
“Vaarsuvius? Vaarsuvius, what’s wrong?!”
The raven vainly scratched at the elf’s face and arms, pecking for good measure, but Vaarsuvius was sitting on the ground, face covered by arms that had obviously been ravaged by ragged nails and were now bleeding profusely, and screams of the likes Redcloak had never heard resonating out.
His immediate instinct was to rush to the elf’s side and hold the little body close to his, heal the bleeding arms, and snap his lover out of whatever hellish daze this dungeon had cast. His next thought was that he was supposed to not care about Vaarsuvius anymore so he should take advantage of the situation and kill the enemy spell caster. His third thought was that this was another clever illusion.
He should go. He’d dealt with too many illusions. Redcloak meant to go, but his body wouldn’t respond.
He tried to leave again, but his heart wasn’t in it.
The screams were too much. It was one thing to reject a horny imposter. It was another to ignore an unconfirmed imposter going insane.
Redcloak ignored the surprised squawk from the raven when he came forward and knelt by the elf, lightly putting his hands on tiny shoulders…
The tunnel stank of blood and the undead corpses of Azure City soldiers sat at the ceiling, one holding his own severed head, and two little demon children were grinning with a similar demon elf…
Redcloak jerked his hands back, blinking the macabre vision away, and braced himself against what he instinctively knew was the product of his partner’s past, something he knew very little about. The scientist piped up, telling him to either leave the elf to face its own demons or kill it where it sat. It was only logical. The person scolded the scientist for referring to Vaarsuvius as an ‘it’ and quickly interjected that it would be cruel to leave his lover like this. The scientist loudly proclaimed that this probably wasn’t Vaarsuvius in the first place and he was falling into an obvious trap—admittedly, an obvious trap that was much harder not to run into. The person countered with the fact that he could handle almost any level of monster this place tried to throw at him. If this was real, then Vaarsuvius was going to go insane. Was he willing to risk that? Vaarsuvius was too proud and fiery to lose such an integral part!
Redcloak left the two conflicting parts of his personality to squabble and lightly put his hands on the elf’s shoulders, forcing the visions of blood, smoke, and sulfur away from him and staying focused on Vaarsuvius. Was he doing the smart thing? No. He wasn’t. He should take advantage of this and claw the mage’s throat open.
The goblin slapped the elf hard and the vision shattered.
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SQL Anywhere 11.0.1 » SQL Anywhere Server - Database Administration » Maintaining Your Database » SQL Anywhere high availability » Introduction to database mirroring
Choosing a database mirroring mode
Three operational modes are provided for mirroring:
Synchronous mode is the default. These modes control when and how transactions are recorded on the mirror server, and you set them with the -xp server option.
When choosing a synchronization mode for your database mirroring system, you must determine whether recovery speed or the state of the data is more important when failover occurs.
You can check the database mirroring mode by querying the value of the MirrorMode database property:
Synchronous mode
In synchronous mode, committed transactions are guaranteed to be recorded on the mirror server. Should a failure occur on the primary server, no committed transactions are lost when the mirror server takes over. In this mode, the primary server sends transaction log pages to the mirror when a transaction is committed. The mirror server acknowledges that transmission when it has written those pages to its copy of the transaction log. The primary server does not reply to the application until it receives this acknowledgement.
Using synchronous mode provides transaction safety because the operational servers are in a synchronized state, and changes sent to the mirror must be acknowledged before the primary can proceed.
Asynchronous mode
In asynchronous mode, committed transactions are not guaranteed to be recorded on the mirror server. In this mode, the primary server sends transaction log pages to the mirror when a transaction is committed. It does not wait for an acknowledgement from the mirror before replying to the application that the COMMIT has completed. Should a failure occur on the primary server, it is possible that some committed transactions may be lost when the mirror server takes over.
Asyncfullpage mode
In asyncfullpage (or page) mode, pages are not sent on COMMIT; instead, they are sent when the page is full. This reduces the amount of traffic between the two database servers and improves the performance of the primary server. If the current log page has not been sent to the mirror for the number of seconds specified by the pagetimeout parameter, it is sent even though it is not yet full. The default pagetimeout is 5 seconds. Using this mode provides a limit on how long committed transactions are exposed to being lost if the primary server goes down and the mirror server takes ownership of the database. Asyncfullpage mode implies asynchronous operation, so the primary server does not wait for an acknowledgement from the mirror.
Asynchronous and asyncfullpage mode are faster than synchronous mode, but are less reliable for the above reasons. In asynchronous or asyncfullpage mode, failover from the primary server to the mirror server is not automatic because the mirror server may not have all committed transactions that were applied on the primary server. For this reason, when using one of the asynchronous modes, a mirror server, by default, cannot take ownership of a database when the primary fails. If automatic failover is desirable in this situation (despite the likelihood of lost transactions), set the autofailover option to yes using the -xp server option. Otherwise, when the failed server is restarted, it detects whether transactions were lost. If transactions were lost, it writes a message to the database server message log and shuts down the database. The current database and transaction log must then be replaced using a backup before mirroring can continue.
For information about bringing up a server after it fails in asynchronous or asyncfullpage mode, see Recovering from primary server failure.
It is recommended that you set the -xp autofailover option to yes if you are using asynchronous or asyncfullpage mode. Then, if the primary server goes down, the mirror server automatically takes over as the primary server.
The synchronize_mirror_on_commit option lets you control when database changes are guaranteed to have been sent to a mirror server when running in asynchronous or asyncfullpage mode. When you set this option to On, each COMMIT causes any changes recorded in the transaction log to be sent to the mirror server, and an acknowledgement to be sent by the mirror server to the primary server once the changes are received by the mirror server. The option can be set for specific transactions using SET TEMPORARY OPTION. It may also be useful to set the option for specific applications by examining the APPINFO string in a login procedure.
SQL Anywhere supports system events that fire when failover occurs in a database mirroring system, regardless of which mode you are using. You can use these events for such tasks as notifying the administrator when failover occurs. See Database mirroring system events.
See also
Synchronization states
State information files
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4.2 General rules
The parameter file is read line by line. Each line is assumed to be 88 characters long, i.e. anything in columns 89 onwards is ignored.
Any line with a # in column 1 is considered to be a comment line and is skipped.
WOMBAT relies on specific codes at the beginning of each line (leading blank spaces are ignored) to distinguish between various types of information given. Valid codes are summarised in 4.1. Most codes can be abbreviated to 3 letters. The code and the information following it should be separated by space(s). Codes are not case sensitive, i.e. can be given in either upper or lower case letters.
Depending on the initial code, WOMBAT expects further information on the same or following lines. All variable and file names specified are treated as case sensitive. File names can be up to 30 characters long, and variable names can comprise up to 20 characters. All codes, names and variables must be separated by spaces.
The parameter file can have two different types of entries :
1. ‘Short’ entries (e.g. file names, analysis type, comment) which consist of a single line.
Each of these lines must start with a code for the type of information given.
PEDS pedigrees.dat
Here PEDS is the code for pedigree information, “pedigrees.dat” is the name of the file from which pedigree information is to be read.
2. ‘Long’ or block entries, spanning several lines (e.g. for the layout of the data file, or the model of analysis).
Each of these entries starts with a line which gives the code for the entry (see 4.1), and possibly some additional information. This is followed by lines with specific information, where of each of these lines again starts with a specific code. Except for blocks of starting values of covariance components, the block is terminated by a line beginning with END.
FIX CGroup
RAN Animal NRM
TRA Weight
This shows a block entry for the model of analysis, where the model fits CGroup as a crossclassified, fixed effect and Animal as random effect with covariance matrix proportional to the numerator relationship matrix, and Weight is the trait to be analysed.
Different entries should be specified in the order in which they are listed in the following sections.
Table 4.1: Valid codes for entries in the parameter file
Code Within Indicator for
RUNOP Line with run options
COMMENT Comment line
PED S Name of pedigree file
DATA Name of data file
TRNOS DAT Trait numbers (grouped input)
NAMES DAT Multiple column names (grouped input)
ANALYSIS Code for analysis type
MODEL Model of analysis
FIX MOD Name of fixed effect
COV MOD Name of fixed covariable
RAN MOD Name of random effect
RRC MOD Name of control variable
SUBJ MOD Name of variable identifying “subject”
EXT MOD Name extra variable
TRAIT MOD Trait name
ZEROUT Fixed effects levels to be set to zero
PSEUDOFX Random effects levels to be treated as random
SE+USR Additional, user defined functions of covariances
SUM SE+ Weighted sum
VRA SE+ Variance ratio
COR SE+ Correlation
SPECIAL Miscellaneous options
COVZER SPECIAL How to deal with ‘zero’ covariables
WEIGHT SPECIAL Weighted analysis
REPEAT SPECIAL Run with low proportion of repeated records
CLONES SPECIAL Ignore sorting of data file
VARIANCE Name of random effect
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Wednesday, July 1, 2009
Early Morning Worship
Sometimes, I just can't help myself! I have to express what is in my heart with bad poetry. Here is a peek into my heart this morning...hope it blesses.
His Love Like Sparkle Dust
When into depths of deep and dark depression falls my soul,
Falling, I release my fears to You,
I wait for You alone to make me whole.
"Look up, my child, and gaze upon those things of beauty fair.
I do not hide forever or for long.
Come unto My heart and nestle there."
Father God, You are my safest place.
In Your embrace I feel Your heartbeat,
And gazing up I see Your face.
The twinkle in your eyes rains down like sparkle dust,
And my depression scedaddles without a trace!
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A young computer genius is chased by sleek, high-tech drones into a land populated by Godzilla-size dragons, setting off a war that only he can stop.
Marcus Brimley was just four years old when his CIA analyst father went missing and the world branded him a traitor. Eight years later, searching for clues to find his father and prove his innocence, Marcus breaks a complex code that sends him shooting through a storm into an alternate realm . . . but he didn't travel alone. When Marcus lands in this new world, Dracone, he finds that he has been followed by government drones. And they're out to destroy Marcus and all of Dracone.
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Faster feedback by limiting information frequency
Code coverage is one of those wacky metrics that straddles the line between useful and vanity. On one hand, it gives you an idea of how safely you can make changes, but on the other it can be a complete fake-out depending on how the tests are constructed. And it can slow your build down.
A lot.
I suspect a lot of our pain is self-induced, but our Laravel application’s ‘build and package’ job jumps from under 2 minutes to around 15 once we turn on code coverage. Ouch.
So I came up with a compromise position in the build in that the tests always run, but the coverage only gets calculated every 15th build (around once a day). Here is what the relevant task for that job now looks like.
# hack around jenkins doing -xe
#set +e
mkdir -p jenkins/phpunit
mkdir -p jenkins/phpunit/clover
# run coverage only every 15 builds
if [ $(($BUILD_ID%15)) -eq 0 ]; then
phpunit --log-junit jenkins/phpunit/junit.xml --coverage-clover jenkins/phpunit/clover.xml --coverage-html jenkins/phpunit/clover
phpunit --log-junit jenkins/phpunit/junit.xml
# hack around presently busted test
#exit 0
Some things of note;
• The commented out bits at the beginning and end allow me to force a clean build if I really, really want one
• My servers are all Ubuntu so use ‘dash’ as its shell which forces slightly different syntax which my fingers never get right the first time
• I don’t delete the coverage log so the later ‘publish’ action doesn’t fall down. It just republishes that again
• As we hire more people and the frequency of things landing in the repo increases, I’ll likely increase the spread from 15 to something higher
• At some point we’ll spend the time to look at why the tests are so slow, but not now.
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The Hadith “Verily, Mecca is the most adored city to Allah." (*) This Hadith was narrated from `Abdullah ibn `Adi ibn Hamra’, Abu Hurayrah and Ibn `Abbas.
1 – The Hadith of `Abdullah ibn `Adi was reported by At-Tirmidhi (1),
Ibn Majah (2) and Ahmad (3) on the authority of Abu Salamah ibn `Abdur- Rahman ibn `Awf from `Abdullah ibn `Adi ibn Hamra’ Az-Zuhri that he heard the Messenger of Allah (may the peace and the blessings of Allah be upon him) addressing Mecca when he was standing at Al Hazurah (4)and said: “By Allah! You are the best of Allah's land and the most beloved land to Allah. If I was not driven out of you, I was never to leave you.”
At-Tirmidhy said: "This Hadith is good, Gharib(5) (Unfamiliar) authentic.” (Gharib is a Hadith that was transmitted by only one narrator).
2 - As for the Hadith of Abu Hurayrah was reported by Ahmad (6) and An-Nasa’i in his book Al Kubra(7), from M`amar, from Az-Zuhri on the authority of Abu Salama ibn Ar-Rahman.
3 – On the other hand, the Hadith of Ibn `Abbas was reported by At-Tirmidhy (8), Ibn Hibban (9) from Sa`id ibn Jubayr and Abu At-Tufayl together on the authority of Ibn `Abbas who said that the Messenger of Allah (may the peace and the blessings of Allah be upon him) addressed Mecca and said: “What a pure and beloved city you are to me! If my people have not compelled me to leave you I never lived anywhere else except you.”
At-Tirmidhy said: "This Hadith is good, authentic but unfamiliar from this chain.” (10)
Muhammad Kamil `Abdus- Samad has referred to this Hadith in his book (Scientific Miracles in Islam –The dignified As-Sunnah) (11) and he supported through this Hadith the opinion of Mecca is the center of the whole dry land. He said - after quoting this Hadith -: "The latest scientific discovery that remained in the minds of scientists and was announced in January 1977 proves that Mecca is the center of the world's terrestrial land. This latest discovery took many years of scientific research to be discovered and needed a set of complex mathematical tables. And computer technology was used for this purpose.
Then Muhammad Kamil `Abdus- Samad added that the Egyptian scientist, Dr. Husayn Kamal Ad-Din relates the story of his amazing discovery as he started his research while his aim was completely different from this discovery. In fact his intention was to invent an instrument to enable Muslims all over the world to determine the direction of Mecca or Qiblah from any point on Earth.(Qiblah the Arabic word for the direction Muslims turn to when they pray). Because he felt during his various trips to abroad that identification of the direction of Dignified K`abah is a problem faces every Muslim comes to a place that has no mosque or who lives in Western countries as happens with Lakhs of delegate students. After he has designed the basic lines of his preparatory research for the invention of this map and draw the five continents, suddenly he was surprised by the discovery when he found that the location of Mecca is the center of the world. Then he held a compass (12) in his hand and put one arm of the compass on Mecca, and rotated the other arm around the outskirts of all continents, and then he found that terrestrial land on the surface of the Earth was distributed around Mecca equally and Mecca represents the center of the dry land on earth. Moreover, he prepared a map of the ancient world that demonstrated the earth before the discovery of America and Australia, once again he discovered that Mecca was the center of the dry land, even in the case of the old world when Islamic Da`awah (mission) was started.” Then he highlighted his method in his search, and how computer technology was used for this purpose until he became sure that he was able to draw a circle (13), making Mecca in center of this circle and its circumferences out of the six continents passing by the external borders of the continents (14). Then he commented on this discovery saying: “Dignified Mecca -by Decree of Allah- is the heart of the earth which is some of what was expressed by science in the discovery of scientists that has asserted that the radiation center of the magnetic gravitation coincides with the strange phenomena experienced by everyone who visits Mecca for performing Hajj or `Umrah with sincere heart as a pilgrimage feels an intuitive attraction to whatever exists in Mecca, its land, mountains and its corner. Rather, he feels a desire to get melted in and merged with its entity by his heart and body. This is a continuous feeling which exists since the creation of Earth.
Then he quoted the book (Mecca and Gravitation Point of the Earth) (15): “The earth like other planets and stars exchanges gravitation power with other planets and stars that stems from their bodies and the gravitation power concentrates in a specific point on earth that releases what we may call a radiation. This inner meeting point was discovered by an American scientist of topography. (16) He confirmed its existence and determined its location from a geographical point of view. It is noteworthy that he was never motivated by any kind of religious motive. In his laboratory, he made great efforts which made him work day and night. He worked and examined the map of the earth by the help of various tools and instruments. Then he unintentionally came to discover that the center of meeting of the cosmic radiation is Mecca. Then he said: “This unveils the wisdom behind the Dignified Hadith of the Prophet (may the peace and the blessings of Allah be upon him) which agrees with the reality expressed by the Glorious Qur’an: “And thus We have revealed to you (O Muhammad may the peace and the blessings of Allah be upon him) a Qur’ân in Arabic that you may warn the Mother of the Towns (Makkah) and all around it.” (Ash-Shura: 7) Therefore, we can realize the wisdom behind choosing Mecca as a place for K`abah and making it the center from which the Islamic message spread to all over the world. Thus, it unearths the scientific miracle in the Dignified Hadith that showed the merits of Mecca on other parts of the world."End of quote.
I cannot find a clear relationship between the Hadith and the concluded point rather, the miracle is in the selection of Mecca for Muslims as Qiblah from anywhere in the world, and making it among the ritual and dignified places visited by Muslims from every corner of the world.
The map drawn by Dr. Husayn Kamal Ad-Din dignified Mecca in the spatial projection shows Mecca in the center of the world.
(*) Scientific Miracles in Islam – The Prophetic Sunnah – P. (205)
(1) Sunan At-Tirmidhy – Book of Merits – Chapter ‘Merit of Mecca (5/679 Hadith No.3925).
(2) Sunan Ibn Majah - Book of Rites - Chapter ‘Merit of Mecca (2/1037 Hadith No.3108).
(3) Al Musnad (4/305).
(4) Al Hazurah is the small mound. See. Lisan Al `Arab, (2/855). However, here it denotes a place in Mecca at the door of Al Hannatin, Imam Sha’afa`i says in this regard: "People pronounce Al Hazzurah and Al Huddaybiyyah by mistake, nevertheless, it is Al Hazurah (with single Z) and Al Hudaybiyyah (with single D). Al Majmu`a Al Mughith (1/444), and An-Nihayah Fi Gharib Al Hadith(1/380). In fact, Al Hazurah was a market in Mecca afterwards it has been included in the Grand Mosque during its expansion. Mo`ajam Al Buldan(2/255).
(5) Thus is in the edition of Ahmad Shaker and who followed him, and in the text of Tuhfat Al Ahwadhy (10/427), while Tuhfat Al Ashra’f dose not contain the word (Gharib))Unfamiliar) .
(6) Al Musnad (4/305).
(7)Sunan An-Nasa’I Al Kubra as was quoted by Tuhfat Al Ashra’f. (11/54).
(8) Sunan At-Tirmidhy (5/670 680 Hadith No. 3926).
(9) Al Ihsan (6/9 Hadith No.3701).
(10) Thus is in Tuhfat Al Ashra’f (4/421), and Tuhfat Al Ahwadhy (10/428), but the edition of Ahmad Shaker dose not contain the word ‘Sahih’ (authentic).
(11) The Scientific Miracles in Islam – As-Sunnah - (p. 205-207).
(12) Al Birjal is an instrument used for drawing circles, measuring distances, etc., that consists of two arms, joined at one end, one arm of which serves as a pivot or stationary reference point, while the other is extended or describes a circle in, Al Birjal is also called Al Birkar and Al Firjar. Al Mo`ajam Al Wasit(1/47) (Alphabetic order of B.R.J.L.).
(13) See the attached image.
(14) This research was published in the Journal of the Islamic Research with its maps, second edition (p. 731-776). Also it was published in the Tunisian-Libyan magazine of science and faith, Issue No. twentieth 1977 - as was mentioned by the author and others.
(15) By Muhammad Al Buhi, as was mentioned by the writer.
(16) Topography: The description of the general features of the earth's surface, whether natural or artificial. Al Mo`ajam Al Wasit, (2/551).
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what's up guys I'm Janice here back with another video today and this today's video I'm going to be discussing the health benefits of when you go times based now making this video said because a friend of mine messaged me telling me that she wants to try going vegan for 30 days to see how it feels and she wanted me to sell it to her basically but not from a vegan perspective more from a plant basis perspective and the health benefits associated with eating a plant-based diet as opposed to eating an omnivorous diet so what I've done is I've written down a few points that I know from research and from experience myself are the benefits of a heart based diet so let's get into it so the first point I wanna address is micronutrients micronutrients are often overlooked especially in the health and fitness bodybuilding industry people often look at the macronutrients of the micronutrients when in fact micronutrients are what determines our health it's all good to be getting you know the right amount of protein carbs and fats but if you're not hitting your micronutrients daily your health is going to suffer if you're eating a whole food plant-based diet you're more likely going to be incorporating more fruits and vegetables into your diet fruits and vegetables up full of micronutrients full of vitamins full of minerals so you need to ensure that you're getting the correct micronutrients daily things like vitamin C vitamin A vitamin D calcium zinc the only thing that vegans or plant-based people on a plant-based diet may have to substitute is vitamin b12 so vitamin b12 you get when you eat meat right but where does the meat get is vitamin b12 from when the meat is still alive and an animal farmers have to inject that animal with b12 shots now that's the same thing as I start get a supplement the reason we don't have b-12 naturally-occurring anymore is because one our soil is so degraded that is not found naturally in soil anymore and two we treat our waters we don't get it from there so we have to supplement with it just like animals do the next point that one discuss is once you go to plant base you're more likely going to be eating less protein in your diet which in turn is going to put less stress on your digestive system now we've all heard this that eating a high protein diet your body takes more energy to break that protein down when compared to things like carbohydrates or fats now that's true the body does use more energy to break down protein and what that does or what that means is what is drawn from places like your brain down to your gut to focus hard on trying to digest all this protein that you're constantly filling your body with now have you ever had a big meal and then feel lazy or lethargic or sleepy after that meal that's because the blood is traveling from your brain down till you got to digest all that food now when you're feeding your body a lot of protein the same things happening constantly you're putting a lot of strain in that area so you body has to work harder has to work overtime to break it down things like meat and animal protein actually can take two through times longer than plant-based food to be broken down and fully digested and flushed now this is why people who are a high animal protein diet usually suffer from things like constipation and IBS more commonly now this leads into my next point which is bowel movement when you go to plant-based and you're eating Whole Foods you're going to be having a higher fiber diet which basically means you're going to be a lot more regular and your colon is going to be clean well from one perspective it's going to be cleaning itself out more regularly I don't know if it's actually going to be clean in the sense that because it's going to be filled with now you might find yourself cooking a lot more than usual now this is a good thing because it means your body is not struggling to break down the foods that you're feeding it so don't be scared if you're pooping two to three times a day that's normal once you go on a plant-based diet the next point I want to address is gut health or more gut inflammation when we consume things like meat eggs or dairy our body or add guts can become inflamed because our bodies are not designed to break these things down and gut health is very important for your overall health it can affect how you're feeling on the inside and on the outside your gut health will also affect your immune system so by having a healthy gut you're going to have or you're going to support your immune system and have a healthy sort of immune system if your gut is inflamed and constantly aggravated your immune system is going to suffer your health is going to decline and that is not good if you want to be a healthy human being the worst offender in this category I would say will have to be daring because as humans our bodies aren't designed to break down other mammals milks it's designed for those other mammals babies our bodies lack the necessary enzymes to break down things like lactose and that's why so much of the population on earth is lactose intolerant think about it why do so many people report feeling sick or bloated or just not right after eating dairy products or drinking milk it's because we're not meant to drink it we're not meant to eat dairy it's made for baby cows think about it so rather the next thing that I want to bring up is energy levels once you go to plant-based you're more likely to increase your carbohydrate intake now carbohydrates are basically humans primary fuel source our body runs on glucose so when we take in carbohydrate our bodies break it down into into a simplest form which is glucose that bank goes into our blood converts the energy and keeps us alive now plant-based foods are high carbohydrate foods it makes sense that once you start eating more carbs and less fats and loot and less protein your body is going to be working a lot more efficiently which means you're going to have an increase in your overall energy levels I remember when I first went vegan the first week or two I just remember jumping out of bed every day I remember going to the gym and just hitting PBS because my strength was done through the roof that's because my carbohydrate had increased significantly and I reduced my protein intake and my fat intake slightly I had all this extra energy and it just helped me make better gains in the gym so for me that's a plus so by eliminating animal products from your diet you're also going to be eliminating cholesterol and most likely going to be eliminating saturated fat intake this is a good thing because having high cholesterol and a high saturated fat intake are linked to the highest cause of death in humans and that's things like heart disease diabetes cancer so by eliminating these things from your diet you're going to be reducing your risk from developing these chronic illnesses now we've already discussed the benefits that he can have for your insides but what about your outsides so if you're going to be eating less processed food less refined sugar eliminating dairy eliminating meat eliminating eggs lynnae's all animal products the health benefits on the outside are awesome you're going to notice that your hair is going to grow faster it's going to be stronger your nails and grow faster and be a lot stronger and a lot healthier and if you suffer from things like acne or pimples or get you know regular breakouts if you're reducing animal products from your diet you're going to help clear up your skin you're going to get that nice vegan in everybody wants to have nice skin don't they now if you feel like I've missed something or have anything else to add to this please leave it down in the comment section below I love when you guys contact me I love getting feedback from you guys and if you haven't already subscribed please consider subscribing I try to put out at least two videos a week and I cover things on veganism health bodybuilding I also upload blogs if you have any topic that you want me to discuss let me know down below and yeah don't forget to give this video like share with your friends and I'll see you guys in the next video ah and if you did notice I'm wearing my vegan athlete shirt which I got from my new sponsors living engine I'll put a link to their website down below and you can use my coupon here to get 10% off your order go check those guys out now [Music]
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(redirected from Hypersensitivity vasculitis)
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Related to Hypersensitivity vasculitis: polyarteritis nodosa, hypersensitivity reactions
Inflammation of a blood vessel or a lymph vessel. Also known as angiitis.
inflammation of the walls of the small blood vessels. Vasculitis is usually caused by influenza, typhus, streptococcal infections (erysipelas, angina), or physical factors (frostbite, burns). Vasculitis may also arise as a secondary manifestation of collagen or allergic diseases, such as rheumatism, lupus erythematosus, rheumatoid arthritis, and serum and drug diseases. Sometimes vasculitis may be caused by a combination of some of these factors. The most usual, and often the only, external symptom of vasculitis is affection of the skin (hemorrhages, rashes, necrotic nidi, and so forth). As vasculitis progresses, thrombi may form in the vessels (thrombovasculitis), necrosis of the walls of the vessels may occur, and aneurysms may form. In the final stage of vasculitis complete occlusion of the vessels by a thrombus may occur, which leads to the disrupting of nutrition to the corresponding tissues and organs, bursting of aneurysms, and hemorrhaging into the surrounding tissues. Vasculitis is classified according to site as cutaneous and visceral; the latter predominantly affects the vessels of serous and mucous membranes of internal organs, such as the liver and kidneys. Treatment consists of the removal of the main disease causing the vasculitis.
Davydovskii, I. V. Patoligicheskaia anatomiia i patogenez boleznei cheloveka, 3rd ed., vols. 1-2. Moscow, 1956-58.
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8) Drug induced hypersensitivity vasculitis typically involves small vessels and its pathologic mechanisms include T-cell recognition of proteins or deposition of immune complexes in blood-vessel walls.
Propylthiouracil-induced hypersensitivity vasculitis presenting as Respiratory failure.
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From Fri Aug 25 23:22:35 PDT 1995 Article: 204129 of talk.bizarre Xref: talk.bizarre:204129 Newsgroups: talk.bizarre From: (go away) Subject: Oh, *i* get it now Message-ID: Date: Sat, 26 Aug 1995 06:17:24 GMT It finally set into my brain, exactly why Solberg's goodbye really annoyed me so much. No, be honest, you idiot: it pissed me off. Yeah, much better. Not that he's leaving. Oh, no, that's more of a forlorn feeling, almost immediate nostalgia, a sense of loss, mourning. Yeah, mourning. He's dead, as far as we're concerned, see. He's ceased to exist. He committed suicide. But that's merely tragic, not irritating. No, the whole thing is a chafing matter because he had the arrogance to dismiss us. His friends. His fans. Whatever. I'm sure he has friends out in the "Real World". People who admire him should be in no short supply. But, since we're just an image on his computer screen, a tinkling in his computer's mailspool, hey, fuck US, man. "I'm leaving, see, and there's nothing you can do about it, and i'm leaving because this sucks, see, not that you suck, see, but everything in general sucks, and my life sucks, and, actually, some of you suck, see, but that's not your, those of you who don't suck, that is, fault, but, hey, it happens. I know i'm telling this to you in public, but, anyway, don't tell me anything, because i don't want to hear it, not because i hate you, see, but i just don't like the medium of communication. You know. See? I decided this would be a good time to let you know, because i just met you all and i loved meeting you and you guys are awesome and i know you loved me, see, so it's, like, perfect closure, see, and i really don't want to go, but i think this all sucks and, well, i gotta do my own thing. Ciao." Thanks a whole lot, pal. You know we fucking love you, man. If you wanna do your own thing, we'll back you 100%. That's what friends are for. But take your formal, straightlaced, apologetic goodbye, crumple it up, and shove it into your right ear canal with a Q-Tip. OK? You have to go? Go. But don't tell us not to care. Fuck you. You matter. OK? You work your shit out. You make sure you come back. And you make sure that when you DO come back, you come back a happier, more satisfied person, and much, MUCH wiser, so that you won't be fucking around with us the next time something "important" rolls along that merits your full attention. You're not the only one who thinks this place stinks to high heaven sometimes. You're not the only one whose "real life" is in the pits. You're not the only one who has disagreements with other people here. So learn to cope like an adult. You proved you were an adult when you handled HOTT.BOB. Time to step up to the plate again. Remember, we're all behind you, 100%. So go on and kick ass. And that goes for any other of you fucking pansies out there with a problem, OK? Don't like it? Send me mail. Let ME be your fucking psychotherapist; i promise not to force you to hit twice for an answer. 5150 anyone who can forward a hardcopy of this to MISTER solberg, please do. i'll pay postage. -- I might be crazy over you / and you tell me No excuse to lose it over you / and you tell me So impatient wait to light the fuse / and you tell me
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Re: Value of prizes ?
Mike Linksvayer (
Sat, 5 Jun 1999 22:12:58 -0400
On Thu, May 27, 1999 at 03:34:54AM -0400, Brian Atkins wrote:
> I was reading this over at Edge:
> regarding the usefulness of giving away prizes for certain
> science and/or tech advances. It seems to me that in general
> this is a good idea, although as discussed on the site there
> are certain limitations. I'd be curious if this has come up
> on the list before, and what the consensus (if any) was.
There was a thread on prizes in 1997, available in the archive. I think the subject arose from a debate over whether intellectual property is required to spur life extension breakthroughs. Apparently prizes for scientific and technological breakthroughs were once quite common. In the aforementioned thread Robin Hanson pointed out that he had written a paper on science prizes called "Patterns of Patronage: Why Grants Won Over Prizes in Science" <>, which suggests that grants may have won over prizes because grants can more easily be doled out as pork by politicians.
Given that today's intellectual property regime offers a sometimes valuable government-backed "prize" for breakthroughs (and 99.9% of the time very non-breakthroughs), the obvious uses of prizes are to stimulate research that isn't immediately commercializable and to offer an incentive for not patenting potentially valuable technologies (e.g. first entity to do X and NOT patent it wins the prize).
Something akin to the latter is being done in the free software world by the Free Software Bazaar
<>. There are a couple of other efforts underway which are perhaps not as grassroots and have not launched yet. See <> and <>.
See From: and Organization: above. Call +1 415 553 6408 for assistance.
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EPISODE SCRIPT BY: SuperMarioBro64 (Talk)
[The episode starts out with the cast at the base.]
Ismail: Hey, if anyone needs me, I'll be training outside
[Everyone is minding their own business.]
Hayden: Huh? Oh yeah, okay, sure
Ismail: .......okay
[Ismail steps outside, and a silence fills the room.]
Hayden: This is awkward..........
[Hayden falls off of a couch.]
Hayden: Whoaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!
Hayden: Oooow............
[Everyone begins to laugh at him.]
[The show's main theme plays, including the main cast.]
Ismail: Well that was a nice training session!
[Ismail walks into base, but no one is seen.]
Ismail: Hello? Where is everyone? Wait, what's that?
[Ismail walks into a room that has been destroyed.]
Ismail: What happened here? I bet Lilith has something to do with this, she has to!
[A demon soldier then sneaks up on Ismail, but he quickly attacks.]
Ismail: Well, that's one sign it was Queen Lilith.
[Ismail rushes to where Queen Lilith's castle.]
Ismail: It's heavily guarded here.... and I'm talking to myself.....
[Ismail defeats the guards, and sneaks into the castle.]
Ismail: So where's Lilith? Maybe this door?
[Ismail walks into a dungeon-like room.]
????: Ismail? Is that you?
Ismail: Yeah, who is it?
[The room lights up, and Ismail sees his entire team!]
Ismail: Guys, is that really you?
David: Yeah....
Ismail: You look so.... pale and weak.....
Mason: Queen Lilith used some orb thing and drained our power and energy
Ismail: I'll save you-
[A demon soldier attacks, but Ismail easily defeats him.]
Ismail: I'll get your energy back, then I'll save you!
Mason: Could you atleast-
[Ismail leaves.]
Mason: Unlock us first..............
Ismail: Queen Lilith!
Queen Lilith: Ah, Ismail, what a pleasant surprise!
Ismail: Not really. Give my friends their powers back!
Queen Lilith: Why would I do that, when I could simply use it to destroy you.
Ismail: Not on my watch!
[Ismail runs up to attack her, but she hits him, and with all the energy, it gives such force that Ismail is blown into the wall.]
Ismail: Ow......
Queen Liltih: Now I can kill you, all thanks to this!
[Queen Lilith holds up a glass sphere, with forces of energy swirling inside.]
Queen Lilith: Demon Soldiers! Attack!
[Demon Soldiers appear and begin to attack Ismail, but he easily defeats them.]
Queen Lilith: Gr......
[A beam comes out of the energy sphere and comes towards Ismail, but he shields himself with a fallen demon soldier, which is obliterated after it is hit.]
Ismail: Hmmm.......
[Ismail dashes towards Queen lilith, but instead of attacking, he slides around her and grabs a vase.]
Queen Lilith: And just what are you going to do with that?
Ismail: This!
[Ismail throws the pot at her head and knocks her unconscious.]
Ismail: Well that was easy. Wait, the sphere!
[Ismail catches the sphere before it smashes against the ground.]
Ismail: Now to free the team!
Ismail: Hey guys!
Peira: About time! Just help us already!
[Ismail unlocks the cell, and smashes the energy sphere, where the team gets their powers and energy back.]
David: Thanks Ismail!
Ismail: Lilith will wake up any second! Let's get back to base!
[The team arrives at base.]
Aingeru: Thanks for saving us back there Ismail
Hayden: 99.9% of me knew you could save us in time! The other 0.01% thought we would..., well you know
Peira: You're weird, you know that?
Hayden: Yeah.......
The show's ending theme plays here.
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Digital World Stuff: Thinking Aloud over Time
I’ve just found this and thought I’d share it with anyone who might be interested, it is an extract from an essay I wrote many years ago – it’s a bit of a philosophical ramble but there’s some statements in it which I can’t help but relate to my current frustrations with the UK Digital Economy Bill
[…] I have come to realize that for me, there is more to life than sitting in front of a computer creating stuff that only exists in a virtual sense. I do not want to create stuff that doesn’t have physical shape or exist beyond the structured world of code and convention.
This trail of thought has led me to question the values I apply to the “Digital-World”, to my degree and to my life as a whole; I have begun to question the values I apply to the world around me and my understanding of the conventions that give value to my life, the decisions I make and the things I spend my time doing.
I began to read books on Philosophy and Sociology; combined with my dissertation studies of Corporate Social Responsibility and Sustainability I have become interested in the areas of Materialism, Conventionalism and Consumerism. This led me to question the very definitions of value, form and existence. I drew inspiration from contemporary artists whose works were based around the same themes and began to investigate how value is determined, through its relationships with form, function, essentialness and the hierarchy of needs.
Upon trying to gain a philosophical understanding of Value I found the work of Alan Sidelle, within Sidelle’s writings on Conventionalism he states that all that there is in the world, independently of us, is “Stuff” (or as a commentary on Sidelle’s work calls it, “World-Stuff”).
The way we understand the world around us is based upon what we have been told or experienced – Consumerism, Technology, Advertising, Mass Culture and Brand Ideology give meaning, understanding, essentialness and value to our lives and the world around us – without these manufactured conventions of our consumerist society much of the world around us would have no meaning – it would have no linguistic construction, no understanding, no value – the existence of “World-Stuff” is relative to the manufactured conventions of our consumerist society.
So it is in a sense true that we (by our conventions) construct and shape the existence of the world’s objects. This is of course “construction” in a transposed sense. It does not require the use of hammers and saws, and we do not do it in the sweat of our brows. We do it merely by thinking and talking as we do. [2]
I began to draw comparisons between the “Digital-World” and the “Real-World”. I began to question the existence of “Digital-World-Stuff”; in order for something to exist, convention tells us it needs physical form, value and understanding, yet philosophy tells us we construct the existence of world-objects merely by thinking and talking as we do, understanding and linguistic construction determine value, Logic and Math tell us that if something has value it must exist. I believe this to be an interesting line of inquiry, especially when looking at “Digital-World-Stuff”, surely the existence of “Digital-World-Stuff” is relative to the manufactured conventions of our consumerist society, therefore “Digital-World-Stuff” must exist, but in what form?
I read a book entitled “One-Dimensional Man” written by Herbert Marcuse – within his text Marcuse refers to technology and consumerism as one-dimensional, helping to create a one-dimensional society.
“Marcuse was one of the first critical theorists to analyze the consumer society through analyzing how consumerism, advertising, mass culture and ideology integrate individuals into and stabilize the system. He suggests that the emergence of computerization, the proliferation of media and information, and the development of new conventions allow social control; bringing about the surrender of individual thought, hope, and fear to the decisions of the powers that be; the preservation of misery in the face of unprecedented wealth constitute the most impartial indictment… [Society’s] sweeping rationality, which propels efficiency and growth is itself irrational. He also critically analyzes new forms of technology and technological rational which are producing a qualitatively different social structure, a totally administered society”. [3] […]
Here’s the project work – make sure you zoom in and out!
Today this video has greater meaning to me:
Bibliography / References:
[1] Crawford, E. Real Natures & Familiar Objects (Conventionalism) pg. 10
[2 & 3] pg. 11
Mit Press, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2004.
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Science Fiction Film: the interesting old stuff by Terry Frost
This Island Earth (1955)
This was a big budget space opera when it first came out. The special effects are state-of-the-art by 1955 standards and the Metaluna mutant with its shaved-scrotum head and lobster claws remains a powerful iconic image in SF.
The plot is fairly lame when examined. The wussy-boy Metalunans (led by Jeff Morrow) attempt to brain-drain the Earth, using brilliant scientists to help their own version of the arms race. Their war effort against the Zahgons isn't going well. The never-seen baddies have been dropping meteors on Metalua until it begins to look like a char-grilled bath sponge.
The rock-jawed engineer Cal Meachum (Rex Reason) and coy lad scientist (Faith Domergue) get there too late to help, a fear-crazed mutant tries to kill them all, they head back to the Earth and the spaceship crash lands after the humans fly off in their captured Cessna. The interocitor, an alien machine which is constructed as a part of their I.Q. test for scientists is cool, too. Kind of like a videophone with a built-in particle accelerator. Just the thing for obscene video calls.
The Amazing Colossal Man (1957)
Not as good as The Incredible Shrinking Man, but Glen Langan's performance in the title role is much better than I expected it to be. As usual, a nuclear blast is the villain of the piece, being to the fifties what corporate greed is to such movies in the '80s and '90s.
The poor titular bloke grows big, goes mad and starts stomping off across the Nevada desert, which at the time was full of giant spiders, ants, grasshoppers, ambulatory minerals, one-eyed monsters, radioactive Mickey Rooneys, blue books-full of UFOs and thirty-foot brides from Candy Rock. In the climax, he's shot and falls off Hoover Dam in a scene which was blatantly stolen by Harrison Ford in The Fugitive thirty-six years later. (The U.S. Army had the Tommy Lee Jones role in Colossal Man).
The Incredible Shrinking Man (1957)
Movie Poster, The Incredible Shrinking Man This is one of the lost gems. I just picked it up at the video shop, having not seen it for twenty years and I still love it. Richard Matheson's script, based on his own novel, is flawlessly internally-consistent and hits all the right buttons with a subtle finger.
Scott Carey (Grant Williams) is laying on the foredeck of his brother's boat when a radioactive cloud passes over him. Four months later he's accidentally sprayed with pesticide. Two months later, he finds that he's shrinking. At that point his fate is sealed. No fudges, no deux ex machina hokum ending. No cop-out.
At first Carey's condition is treated like a medical one. Change a little of the dialogue and skip the special effects and you could be seeing a film about a cancer victim or the first person in the world to acquire HIV. Jack Arnold, the director (who also directed The Creature from the Black Lagoon), plays it like a standard family crisis. Carey's trousers and shirts are a little too large, he's losing a bit of weight. Could be anything. The quacks run tests, confirm the hypothesis, give a prognosis.
The film then cuts to a scene where Carey's brother is discussing Scott's financial problems with him. Business is bad, so the brother/employer can't support him any more. Cut to Carey, child-sized in a large armchair. The buttons on his shirt are slightly enlarged to give verisimiltude to the scene. Carey has become small not only physically but financially. In a boom period like the '50s, an inability to make a buck must've been scary. Come to think of it, same goes for the '90s.
But Scott's personality is changing in two contrary ways. He's becoming bitter and psychologically domineering to his wife as a reaction to his increasing dependence on her, but he's also fighting to survive as an individual. One scene shows him using a coffee table as a desk while writing a book about his experiences, struggling with an oversized pencil. He's trying to make sense of the changes in his world.
Anne McCaffrey interview
At this time, there's a remission in his disease thanks to a serum developed by his doctors. But he's told he may never grow again, and this triggers a deeper depression. As his marriage dissolves in all but name, he forms a brief relationship with a circus midget, but flees when he realises one day that she's suddenly taller than him. Remission is over.
Like all good SF, The Incredible Shrinking Man works on several levels…
The second half of the film changes tone completely. From a freak trying to hang on to dignity in a 20th Century world, Carey is thrust into a neolithic existence as he accidentally falls into the basement of his house. His wife and brother think the cat has eaten him - and to give the cat it's due, it tried to. The now-elephantine feline toys with Carey like a mouse, a small epiphany occurs for our protagonist.
He starts to use his mind to survive, clicking into a different mode of existence in a manner reminiscent of Cornel Wilde fleeing the African warriors in The Naked Prey.
In the basement, Carey's problems are more immediate than merely being a freak in a human world. Food, drink and safety.
Without spoiling the film, I'll say that he does overcome all obstacles and comes to terms with his condition and accepts his new nature and the fact that he's both human and something other than a man as he dwindles from sight, but not from mind.
Like all good SF, The Incredible Shrinking Man works on several levels, which I'll leave you to discover for yourselves. I can only think of one other movie in which the protagonist undergoes such a profound change and that's a more recent flick called Candyman in which Virginia Madsen's heroine is utterly transformed by her encounters with the eponymous evil spirit.
But the real theme in Shrinking Man is that it's about the impact of the inexplicable on an individual. It's the thinking fan's 1950s SF film to see.
The Fly (1958)
James Clavell wrote the screenplay for this one, based on a George Langelaan short story. A scientist has had his head and arm strawberry-jammed under a hydraulic press and the investigation leads Vincent Price and Herbert Marshall into the well-known tale of matter-transference gone wrong.
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It's very different from the Cronenberg version but the plot is well constructed, the acting is strong and effective and the bit where the kitten disappears into limbo is genuinely disturbing. I find that I have trouble with Price in a sympathetic role. I keep expecting him to put the hard word on his widowed sister-in-law, but he doesn't. The film's score, by Paul Sawtell, is probably the most perfect example of fifties SF soundtrack. Lots of strident strings and punctuating brass.
As with a lot of fifties SF films, the theme of teratogenic transformation is continued. Fear of the Bomb, and the technological innovations that it represents has been internalised. In other words: Mutate now and avoid the rush. Terry Pratchett interview
Continuing in May, 1997: The 1960s - From Chicks to Cybernetics
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Risen From The Book!
Does Easter make a difference? Did the flurry and frenzy of Holy Week activity become an expression of the power that raises the dead? Or was it more like a Memorial Day weekend? Was it only that we recalled the thefirstdayarticleOne who made the supreme sacrifice for which we will always be thankful, but which remains essentially in the past—either the distant past of the actual event or a more recent past when perhaps we witnessed something like resurrection power? Or did we celebrate something, or Someone, who demonstratively makes a difference today, this week, in our and the world’s story from now on?
I have thought in recent years that just as Jesus rose from the grave in the first century, he must also rise from the pages of our Bibles. Of course, I do not suggest that Jesus is somehow mired in a past record of what happened. No, if the record can be trusted, Jesus is alive, present and at work in the world, not least in, among and through communities of his people. But I am suggesting that for many people, even among his followers, Jesus is stuck in the Bible—he rose from the dead which is an amazingly good end of a story and which offers hope that his good end can somehow be good for others as well. In that sense, Jesus must also rise from the pages of the Bible.
The remarkable fact of history is that he was never stuck or mired there in the first place. In fact, it is only because he was known to be alive, present and at work in the world that the story, these stories we call gospels, were ever written in the first place. Consider that by all reckoning, the earliest of these stories found written form three or more decades after Jesus’ cross and resurrection. Most of us can’t remember what happened three years ago with any detail, nor can most families or clans even when they piece together a “collective memory.” They can’t, that is, unless something unforgettable happened to them—either incredibly bad or good—something unexpected, indisputable, and unparalleled in their common or ordinary experience.
That is the claim made consistently from the third day onward. Jesus was not there, in the tomb that is, but Jesus was here and there, encountering broken and grieving women who came to finish caring for his corpse, walking incognito with friends bewildered and overwhelmed by their dashed hopes that Jesus was the One they’d expected, suddenly in the midst of his friends fearfully gathered behind locked doors, at the pre-arranged mountain rendezvous where Jesus confirmed his presence, conveyed his power, and commissioned his work through them.
That Jesus rose from the dead, alive, at work, throughout the world is precisely why any stories about him came to be written. If he was not known to be and experienced as ALIVE his story would have faded into relative oblivion, like the stories of many others who once were thought to be Messiah, but whose names hardly anyone knows today. That Jesus never was embedded (or entombed) in a book, that the book never served any other purpose than to witness beyond itself to the One whose story it tells—is the reason we have the book in the first place.
He is risen indeed, from the literal stone cold and hard tomb where he lay. He is not to be found in that place of the dead. Only the linen wrappings were found there. Similarly, the book that tells us the story of Jesus alive, present and at work in the world, does not hold him, confine him, or contain him, but points us to him, invites us to trust him and to follow him. The book that tells us the story, his story, shows where following him leads: to “dying” with him, to a renewal of mind and heart at the core of our being (by the same Spirit who raised him from the dead), and then to walking with him every day in the way he walked, above all in the way of love that he walked, a way that has and will change the world.
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1. Rahul Gauri
Watchout Flickering
Hi I have newly Built 2 Servers config: i9 7900x Processor Asus X299 Pro Motherboard 32 GB Ram G skill gaming samsung pro 860 SSD x3 amd Radeon WX7100 DATAPATH 4K Capture Card VISION-SC-HD4-+ My Watchout screen is fluctuating and losing connections,if I give 2 Outputs it works fine but if i Increase Outputs 3 or 4 As soons as i open Give “online Command” my displays starts flickering and starts losing connection ,It’s Going out & In My Output were are follows output 1-DP to HDMI active Connector & connecting to XGA Projector (1024x768) output 2-DP to HDMI active Connector & connecting to XGA Projector (1024x768) output 3-DP to HDMI active Connector & connecting to HD Projector (1920x1080) (i have tried changing Wires and Connectors) Please help
2. Hello, I have 102 DMX lights that I have setup to be controlled using Output Tasks. I am using dmxLAN Node 1s on Artnet. I can control all lights with no problem. My issue comes in when some groups of lights (in example, hallway lights) needs to be continuously turned on. When I play the next output task (another set of DMX channels), the current running task/lights will flicker OFF for 2 seconds before it goes on again. In a nutshell, say, DMX 1 and DMX 2 will turn off for a while when i turn on DMX 3. But DMX 3 wont turn off when I play and light that has a lower DMX value. I hope i made sense. Here's a test visualizer I have done to explain this issue further: Is this a known issue within Watchout or do i need to look at other hardwares that might be causing this issue? Hoping to get some thoughts on this. Cheers.
3. I am working with WO 5 and trying to send TCP commands to 2 Christie DHD800 projectors, but getting no response from the projectors. Sending Command: C0D$0D & C0E$0D on Port 3002 I also tried sending: Commands: SHUT1$0D & SHUT0$0D SHU0$0D & SHU1$0D Port 3001 and 10000 When I use telnet I have no problems sending the command C0D and C0E, (shutter mute and un-mute) Any thoughts on why the projectors are not seeing the TCP command when sending through WO? The network manual mentioned that the connection will be closed after 30 seconds. Do I need to send a command to open the port first and then send the shutter command? Thanks!
4. Hi eveyone, I'm new here and not so familiar with projections: I'm making a video to be projected with 15 projectors in a 360 circular screen, so my output is a quite long video of 6346 pixels wide and I can't find a way to compress an .mp4 h264 video to deliver at this size. They keep asking me a single video but i can only split it into two files so i can compress it. My question is: is it possible to use 2 videos instead of a single one and align them inside Watchout right? I mean they don't really need it to be a single video right? Thanks guys!! Elia
5. Hi everybody! I am building a multi-outputs machine based on your document: "WATCHOUT dpcspec-4U rack - March 2013 SB-E LGA2011 AMD FIREPRO.pdf" The only things different are the torque: processor / motherboard. I was offered the following material: Motherboard Supermicro X9SRA Proc Intel Xeon E5-1650 Based on your expertise, do you see any problem to choose this material? Thanks!
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Psalter 72
Verse 1
Lord, hear me when I pray,
And answer me in grace;
Oft as I hear Thee say,
Come ye and seek My face,
My heart and lips their answer speak,
Thy face, Jehovah, will I seek.
Verse 2
Hide not Thy face from me.
In wrath turn not away,
My help and Saviour be,
Forsake me not, I pray;
Should father, mother, both forsake.
The Lord on me will pity take.
Verse 3
Teach me, O Lord, Thy way,
Make plain to me my path;
Because of foes, I pray,
Protect me from their wrath;
To false accusers, cruel foes,
O Lord, do not my soul expose.
Verse 4
Fainthearted would I be,
Didst Thou not promise, Lord,
I shall Thy goodness see
While Thou dost life accord.
Wait on the Lord, nor faint, nor fear,
Yea, trust and wait, the Lord is near.
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Talk:Partitioning Tips and Tricks
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How can I have FreeBSD tell me what kind of hard drive I have (serial number, manufacturer, etc)?
to the best of my knowlege, you can't. That info is printed on the hard drive itself. So you'd have to look at it -- open the case and take the disk out and write down all that info. You can get the system to tell you what kind of disk you have (ATA/SCSI, etc) and how it's been configured, but that's as far as that goes.
--Dave 11:20, 25 Jul 2005 (EDT)
There is the sysutils/smartmontools port for SMART enabled drives. Running "smartctl -i /dev/ad4" on my system gives output like:
Device Model: WDC WD2500JB-00EVA0
Serial Number: WD-WCAEH1028140
Firmware Version: 15.05R15
ATA Version is: 6
ATA Standard is: Exact ATA specification draft version not indicated
Local Time is: Thu Dec 22 10:48:33 2005 CST
SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability.
SMART support is: Enabled
--Joe 12:13, 22 Dec 2005 (EST)
Added to main page --Joe 22:52, 22 Dec 2005 (EST)
I have a very large edit to this file, summarizing different uses of the different partitions in the default system install... but it really doesn't fit well with alot of this information or this title. I would like to move some of this info over to this new article named "Hard Disk Partition Sizes" with something like the following TOC:
1. Official Information and Terms (Links to manpages and HB)
2. The Default Install
3. One Big Partition
4. The SWAP partition
5. The /tmp partition
6. The /var partition
1. The /var/tmp directory
7. The /usr partition
1. /usr/src directory
2. /usr/ports directory
3. /usr/local directory
8. The /home partition
The intended audience of this new file would be people new to FreeBSD who are not entirely sure what the different partitions are used for and why they might want to change the default sizes. If no one objects, I'll post the article and rearrange this article to lose duplicated information and probably move the above question into this article as well. --Joe 15:42, 22 Dec 2005 (EST)
sounds good, go for it
great idea...
--Dave 15:47, 22 Dec 2005 (EST)
What is the policy/style-guide for the Talk-chatting? I was mostly pursuing a plan of 1 section per topic... but I can work with whatever--Joe 15:54, 22 Dec 2005 (EST)
I need to get some sleep... but tommorow I'll clean this article and fold some of the comments into the article itself, as well as adding the proper categories to the other article. My previous question has been moved to Help_talk:Style Guidelines. --Joe 16:20, 22 Dec 2005 (EST)
i find it easier to follow discussions if there's a heading for each person talking (but that's just me). I think Jimbo may be adding a forum at some point to the wiki, but that's just idle conjecture on my part maybe; the wiki is his baby, I just do some admin stuff (blocking spam, fixing spammed articles) in addition to writing articles.
--Dave 22:43, 24 Dec 2005 (EST)
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Friday, May 27, 2011
Here in the Midwest it's been an incredibly WET Spring. Not just little sprinkles, but downpours, hail, lighting shows, and constant severe thunderstorms rolling through. Not just one storm, but one storm then another and then get the picture. I went outside to capture some pictures as yet another storm was approaching.
I don't know about you, but that is more black than I prefer in the sky...
The great force in these storms in simply enough to make you think of God's power. It's enough to make you tremble, but stand in awe and the same time. What a powerful God we serve.
Our house was right on the line of the storms. The cast difference is amazing. I'm not sure the pictures do it justice.
I love this shot! I love how the sunshine is so bright next to such darkness. It was a reminder to me that God is in complete control, and that alone gives me an unspeakable peace.
Don't worry I was safe inside before the storm actually began....(that message is mainly for my nervous mama. LOVE YA MOM!)
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Ranking of Poker Hands
This page describes the ranking of poker hands. This applies not only in the game of poker itself, but also in certain other card games such as Chinese Poker, Chicago, Poker Menteur and Pai Gow Poker.
Standard Poker Hand Ranking
There are 52 cards in the pack, and the ranking of the individual cards, from high to low, is ace, king, queen, jack, 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2. In standard poker - that is to say in the formal casino and tournament game played internationally and the home game as normally played in North America - there is no ranking between the suits for the purpose of comparing hands - so for example the king of hearts and the king of spades are equal. (Note however that suit ranking is sometimes used for other purposes such as allocating seats, deciding who bets first, and allocating the odd chip when splitting a pot that can't be equally divided. See ranking of suits for details.)
A poker hand consists of five cards. The categories of hand, from highest to lowest, are listed below. Any hand in a higher category beats any hand in a lower category (so for example any three of a kind beats any two pairs). Between hands in the same category the rank of the individual cards decides which is better, as described in more detail below.
In games where a player has more than five cards and selects five to form a poker hand, the remaining cards do not play any part in the ranking. Poker ranks are always based on five cards only, and if these cards are equal the hands are equal, irrespective of the ranks of any unused cards.
Some readers may wonder why one would ever need to compare (say) two threes of a kind of equal rank. This obviously cannot arise in basic draw poker, but such comparisons are needed in poker games using shared (community) cards, such as Texas Hold'em, in poker games with wild cards, and in other card games using poker combinations.
1. Straight Flush
If there are no wild cards, this is the highest type of poker hand: five cards of the same suit in sequence - such as J-10-9-8-7. Between two straight flushes, the one containing the higher top card is higher. An ace can be counted as low, so 5-4-3-2-A is a straight flush, but its top card is the five, not the ace, so it is the lowest type of straight flush. The highest type of straight flush, A-K-Q-J-10 of a suit, is known as a Royal Flush. The cards in a straight flush cannot "turn the corner": 4-3-2-A-K is not valid.
2. Four of a kind
Four cards of the same rank - such as four queens. The fifth card, known as the kicker, can be anything. This combination is sometimes known as "quads", and in some parts of Europe it is called a "poker", though this term for it is unknown in English. Between two fours of a kind, the one with the higher set of four cards is higher - so 3-3-3-3-A is beaten by 4-4-4-4-2. If two or more players have four of a kind of the same rank, the rank of the kicker decides. For example in Texas Hold'em with J-J-J-J-9 on the table (available to all players), a player holding K-7 beats a player holding Q-10 since the king beats the queen. If one player holds 8-2 and another holds 6-5 they split the pot, since the 9 kicker makes the best hand for both of them. If one player holds A-2 and another holds A-K they also split the pot because both have an ace kicker.
3. Full House
This combination, sometimes known as a boat, consists of three cards of one rank and two cards of another rank - for example three sevens and two tens (colloquially known as "sevens full of tens" or "sevens on tens"). When comparing full houses, the rank of the three cards determines which is higher. For example 9-9-9-4-4 beats 8-8-8-A-A. If the threes of a kind are equal, the rank of the pairs decides.
4. Flush
Five cards of the same suit. When comparing two flushes, the highest card determines which is higher. If the highest cards are equal then the second highest card is compared; if those are equal too, then the third highest card, and so on. For example K-J-9-3-2 beats K-J-7-6-5 because the nine beats the seven. If all five cards are equal, the flushes are equal.
5. Straight
Five cards of mixed suits in sequence - for example Q-J-10-9-8. When comparing two sequences, the one with the higher ranking top card is better. Ace can count high or low in a straight, but not both at once, so A-K-Q-J-10 and 5-4-3-2-A are valid straights, but 2-A-K-Q-J is not. 5-4-3-2-A, known as a wheel, is the lowest kind of straight, the top card being the five.
6. Three of a Kind
Three cards of the same rank plus two unequal cards. This combination is also known as Triplets or Trips. When comparing two threes of a kind the rank of the three equal cards determines which is higher. If the sets of three are of equal rank, then the higher of the two remaining cards in each hand are compared, and if those are equal, the lower odd card is compared. So for example 5-5-5-3-2 beats 4-4-4-K-5, which beats 4-4-4-Q-9, which beats 4-4-4-Q-8.
7. Two Pairs
A pair consists of two cards of equal rank. In a hand with two pairs, the two pairs are of different ranks (otherwise you would have four of a kind), and there is an odd card to make the hand up to five cards. When comparing hands with two pairs, the hand with the highest pair wins, irrespective of the rank of the other cards - so J-J-2-2-4 beats 10-10-9-9-8 because the jacks beat the tens. If the higher pairs are equal, the lower pairs are compared, so that for example 8-8-6-6-3 beats 8-8-5-5-K. Finally, if both pairs are the same, the odd cards are compared, so Q-Q-5-5-8 beats Q-Q-5-5-4.
8. Pair
A hand with two cards of equal rank and three cards which are different from these and from each other. When comparing two such hands, the hand with the higher pair is better - so for example 6-6-4-3-2 beats 5-5-A-K-Q. If the pairs are equal, compare the highest ranking odd cards from each hand; if these are equal compare the second highest odd card, and if these are equal too compare the lowest odd cards. So J-J-A-9-3 beats J-J-A-8-7 because the 9 beats the 8.
9. Nothing
Five cards which do not form any of the combinations listed above. This combination is often called High Card and sometimes No Pair. T cards must all be of different ranks, not consecutive, and contain at least two different suits. When comparing two such hands, the one with the better highest card wins. If the highest cards are equal the second cards are compared; if they are equal too the third cards are compared, and so on. So A-J-9-5-3 beats A-10-9-6-4 because the jack beats the ten.
Hand Ranking in Low Poker
There are several poker variations in which the lowest hand wins: these are sometimes known as Lowball. There are also "high-low" variants in which the pot is split between the highest and the lowest hand. A low hand with no combination is normally described by naming its highest card - for example 8-6-5-4-2 would be described as "8-down" or "8-low".
It first sight it might be assumed that in low poker the hands rank in the reverse order to their ranking in normal (high) poker, but this is not quite the case. There are several different ways to rank low hands, depending on how aces are treated and whether straights and flushes are counted.
Ace to Five
This seems to be the most popular system. Straights and flushes do not count, and Aces are always low. The best hand is therefore 5-4-3-2-A, even if the cards are all in one suit. Then comes 6-4-3-2-A, 6-5-3-2-A, 6-5-4-2-A, 6-5-4-3-A, 6-5-4-3-2, 7-4-3-2-A and so on. Note that when comparing hands, the highest card is compared first, just as in standard poker. So for example 6-5-4-3-2 is better than 7-4-3-2-A because the 6 is lower than the 7. The best hand containing a pair is A-A-4-3-2. This version is sometimes called "California Lowball".
When this form of low poker is played as part of a high-low split variant, there is sometimes a condition that a hand must be "eight or better" to qualify to win the low part of the pot. In this case a hand must consist of five unequal cards, all 8 or lower, to qualify for low. The worst such hand is 8-7-6-5-4.
Deuce to Seven
The hands rank in almost the same order as in standard poker, with straights and flushes counting and the lowest hand wins. The difference from normal poker is that Aces are always high , so that A-2-3-4-5 is not a straight, but ranks between K-Q-J-10-8 and A-6-4-3-2. The best hand in this form is 7-5-4-3-2 in mixed suits, hence the name "deuce to seven". The next best is 7-6-4-3-2, then 7-6-5-3-2, 7-6-5-4-2, 8-5-4-3-2, 8-6-4-3-2, 8-6-5-3-2, 8-6-5-4-2, 8-6-5-4-3, 8-7-4-3-2, etc. The highest card is always compared first, so for example 8-6-5-4-3 is better than 8-7-4-3-2 even though the latter contains a 2, because the 6 is lower than the 7. The best hand containing a pair is 2-2-5-4-3, but this would be beaten by A-K-Q-J-9 - the worst "high card" hand. This version is sometimes called "Kansas City Lowball".
Ace to Six
Many home poker players play that straights and flushes count, but that aces can be counted as low. In this version 5-4-3-2-A is a bad hand because it is a straight, so the best low hand is 6-4-3-2-A. There are a couple of issues around the treatment of aces in this variant.
It is likely that some players would disagree with both the above rulings, preferring to count A-K-Q-J-10 as a straight and in some cases considering A-A to be the highest pair rather than the lowest. It would be wise to check that you agree on these details before playing ace-to-six low poker with unfamiliar opponents.
Selecting from more than five cards
Note that in games where more than five cards are available, the player is free to select whichever cards make the lowest hand. For example a player in Seven Card Stud Hi-Lo 8 or Better whose cards are 10-8-6-6-3-2-A can omit the 10 and one of the 6's to create a qualifying hand for low.
Poker Hand Ranking with Wild Cards
A wild card card that can be used to substitute for a card that the holder needs to make up a hand. In some variants one or more jokers are added to the pack to act as wild cards. In others, one or more cards of the 52-card pack may be designated as wild - for example all the twos ("deuces wild") or the jacks of hearts and spades ("one-eyed jacks wild", since these are the only two jacks shown in profile in Anglo-American decks).
The most usual rule is that a wild card can be used either
1. to represent any card not already present in the hand, or
2. to make the special combination of "five of a kind".
Five of a Kind
The Bug
Some games, especially five card draw, are often played with a bug. This is a joker added to the pack which acts as a limited wild card. It can either be used as an ace, or to complete a straight or a flush. Thus the highest hand is five aces (A-A-A-A-joker), but other fives of a kind are impossible - for example 6-6-6-6-joker would count as four sixes with an ace kicker and a straight flush would beat this hand. Also a hand like 8-8-5-5-joker counts as two pairs with the joker representing an ace, not as a full house.
Wild Cards in Low Poker
In Low Poker, a wild card can be used to represent a card of a rank not already present in the player's hand. It is then sometimes known as a "fitter". For example 6-5-4-2-joker would count as a pair of sixes in normal poker with the joker wild, but in ace-to-five low poker the joker could be used as an ace, and in deuce-to-seven low poker it could be used as a seven to complete a low hand.
Lowest Card Wild
Some home poker variants are played with the player's lowest card (or lowest concealed card) wild. In this case the rule applies to the lowest ranked card held at the time of the showdown, using the normal order ace (high) to two (low). Aces cannot be counted as low to make them wild.
Double Ace Flush
Natural versus Wild
Some play with the house rule that a natural hand beats an equal hand in which one or more of the cards are represented by wild cards. This can be extended to specify that a hand with more wild cards beats an otherwise equal hand with fewer wild cards. This must be agreed in advance: in the absence of any agreement, wild cards are as good as the natural cards they represent.
Incomplete Hands
The process of comparing first the combination and then the kickers in descending order is the same as when comparing five-card hands. In hands with unequal numbers of cards any kicker that is present in the hand beats a missing kicker. So for example 8-8-K beats 8-8-6-2 because the king beats the 6, but 8-8-6-2 beats 8-8-6 because a 2 is better than a missing fourth card. Similarly a 10 by itself beats 9-5, which beats 9-3-2, which beats 9-3, which beats a 9 by itself.
Ranking of suits
In standard poker there is no ranking of suits for the purpose of comparing hands. If two hands are identical apart from the suits of the cards then they count as equal. In standard poker, if there are two highest equal hands in a showdown, the pot is split between them. Standard poker rules do, however, specify a hierarchy of suits: spades (highest), hearts, diamonds, clubs (lowest) (as in Contract Bridge), which is used to break ties for special purposes such as:
I have, however, heard from several home poker players who play by house rules that use this same ranking of suits to break ties between otherwise equal hands. For some reason, players most often think of this as a way to break ties between royal flushes, which would be most relevant in a game with many wild cards, where such hands might become commonplace. However, if you want to introduce a suit ranking it is important also to agree how it will apply to other, lower types of hand. If one player A has 8-8-J-9-3 and player B has8-8-J-9-3, who will win? Does player A win by having the highest card within the pair of eights, or does player B win because her highest single card, the jack, is in a higher suit? What about K-Q-7-6-2 against K-Q-7-6-2 ? So far as I know there is no universally accepted answer to these questions: this is non-standard poker, and your house rules are whatever you agree that they are. Three different rules that I have come across, when hands are equal apart from suit are:
1. Compare the suit of the highest card in the hand.
2. Compare the suit of the highest paired card - for example if two people have J-J-7-7-K the highest jack wins.
3. Compare the suit of the highest unpaired card - for example if two people have K-K-7-5-4 compare the 7's.
Although the order spades, hearts, diamonds, clubs may seem natural to Bridge players and English speakers, other suit orders are common, especially in some European countries. Up to now, I have come across:
As with all house rules, it would be wise to make sure you have a common understanding before starting to play, especially when the group contains people with whom you have not played before.
Stripped Decks
In some places, especially in continental Europe, poker is sometimes played with a deck of less than 52 cards, the low cards being omitted. Italian Poker is an example. As the pack is reduced, a Flush becomes more difficult to make, and for this reason a Flush is sometimes ranked above a Full House in such games. In a stripped deck game, the ace is considered to be adjacent to the lowest card present in the deck, so for example when using a 36-card deck with 6's low, A-6-7-8-9 is a low straight.
Playing poker with fewer than 52 cards is not a new idea. In the first half of the 19th century, the earliest form of poker was played with just 20 cards - the ace, king, queen, jack and ten of each suit - with five cards dealt to each of four players. The only hand types recognised were, in descending order, four of a kind, full house, three of a kind, two pairs, one pair, no pair.
No Unbeatable Hand
In standard poker a Royal Flush (A-K-Q-J-10 of one suit) cannot be beaten. Even if you introduce suit ranking, the Royal Flush in the highest suit is unbeatable. In some regions, it is considered unsatisfactory to have any hand that is guaranteed to be unbeaten - there should always be a risk. There are several solutions to this.
In Italy this is achieved by the rule "La minima batte la massima, la massima batte la media e la media batte la minima" ("the minimum beats the maximum, the maximum beats the medium and the medium beats the minimum"). A minimum straight flush is the lowest that can be made with the deck in use. Normally they play with a stripped deck so for example with 40 cards the minimum straight flush would be A-5-6-7-8 of a suit. A maximum straight flush is 10-J-Q-K-A of a suit. All other straight flushes are medium. If two players have medium straight flushes then the one with higher ranked cards wins as usual. Also as usual a maximum straight flush beats a medium one, and a medium straight flush beats a minimum one. But if a minimum straight flush comes up against a maximum straight flush, the minimum beats the maximum. In the very rare case where three players hold a straight flush, one minimum, one medium and one maximum, the pot is split between them. See for example Italian Poker.
In Greece, where hearts is the highest suit, A-K-Q-J-10 is called an Imperial Flush, and it is beaten only by four of a kind of the lowest rank in the deck - for example 6-6-6-6 if playing with 36 cards. Again, in very rare cases there could also be a hand in the showdown that beats the four of a kind but is lower than the Imperial Flush, in which case the pot would be split.
Hand probabilities and multiple decks
The ranking order of poker hands corresponds to their probability of occurring in straight poker, where five cards are dealt from a 52-card deck, with no wild cards and no opportunity to use extra cards to improve a hand. The rarer a hand the higher it ranks.
This is neither an essential nor an original feature of poker, and it ceases to be true when wild cards are introduced. In fact, with a large number of wild cards, it is almost inevitable that the higher hand types will be the commoner, not rarer, since wild cards will be used to help make the most valuable type of hand from the available cards.
Mark Brader has provided probability tables showing the frequency of each poker hand type when five cards are dealt from a 52-card deck, and also showing how these probabilities would change if multiple decks were used.
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