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German Federal Court of Justice decides in favour of German RRO VG WORT
On 3 July 2014, the German Federal Court of Justice (BGH) announced its decision with respect to the question whether a copyright levy for printers and computers was due under the old German copyright law (in force until the end of 2007). The proceedings were brought by the German RRO VG WORT in 2002 against manufacturers, distributors and importers of printers and computers.
According to the BGH’s press release, the BGH concluded that a levy was due for printers on the basis of Article 54 a of the old German copyright law, while computers were subject to a levy on the basis of Article 54 of the old German law.
In the previous proceedings, the BGH had rejected a levy on printers and computers in December 2007 and October 2008. However, following a constitutional complaint by VG WORT against these decisions, the German Constitutional Court (Bundesverfassungsgericht) rejected the decisions of the BGH and referred these issues back for its reconsideration. The BGH subsequently stayed the proceedings and referred certain questions as to the interpretation of the EU Directive 2001/29/EC to the European Court of Justice (CJEU).
As reported earlier, in its judgement of 27 July 2013, the CJEU held that a copyright levy can be imposed on printers or computers for the copying of protected works, because the exception provided in the Directive 2001/29/EC for “reproductions on paper or any similar medium, effected by the use of any kind of photographic technique or by some other process having similar effects” includes copying by means of a printer or computer insofar as these devices are connected to each other. If the copying process thereby made possible results in a reproduction on paper or a similar medium, the rightholders need to receive fair compensation for this. - Following this decision of the CJEU, the BGH proceedings continued.
So far, the BGH has only published an official press release ; VG WORT’s related press release is available here in German and here in English.
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Help Friendly Rats Be More Careful with Their Teeth - JoinRats
Help Friendly Rats Be More Careful with Their Teeth
Which kind of rat is this information for? Match these: Your rat is a friendly rat but sometimes when she's near a particular body part, she will nip just a little too hard. She does not draw blood. It's like she doesn't know her own (teeth) strength. You are not afraid of being bitten, but you wonder how to help her pay attention to the teeth pressure better, because the nips can kind of scare you, and can hurt, even if there's no blood drawn. You don't feel like you need to wear gloves, as she's not at risk for biting your fingers or hand if you touch her. If this is your rat, the method below may be helpful.
This information is not appropriate for this type of rat: The rat that bites and breaks the skin, and/or who draws blood. A very unsocialized rat who is scared of you. A rat with a history of being aggressive.
Important: JoinRats is not responsible for any injuries that may result from attempting this method. It can be tricky to correctly assess what is causing nipping behavior, or whether a rat is deeply fearful, or whether a rat might bite and draw blood. Before attempting an assessment and trying any intervention, seek help from knowledgeable sources to assess your rat correctly. Learn to read the body language of rats.
The example of Flower:
"What can I do about my Flower problem...for the last few weeks she has been very nippy while she's on my shoulder, it has always been her choice to be on my shoulder. She is super friendly and the bites are totally at random. She has been in my house since she was 4 days old. She's gotten my neck a few times and my ear a few times. Once she actually latched onto my ear and I had to pull her off. She doesn't cause blood so I know it's not really a true bite, but it hurts. Tonight during playtime she bit my nose, and then 20 minutes later she flew up to my shoulder and got my ear lobe... Any ideas on how to stop this?"
Introduction to the method:
The most important thing I pull out of your description is that Flower isn't drawing blood. That can only happen because she intends not to. She deliberately makes sure she does not draw blood.. She doesn't want to draw blood. Every which way to say this = Yay! So in my mind she just doesn't understand how to be as careful as she needs to be. The average pet rat knows instinctually not to hurt their human, but some rats need help learning the limits.
On the other hand, some rats do have an obsession with a body part - someone shared about the "evil lashy bugs", where eyelashes never were acceptable and the nips got dangerous to the human eyes. So if you practice the method I describe below, first you would assess if Flower can learn. Everything you wrote about your rat leaves me feeling you feel confident enough, and she's the right type of rat, that these ideas might help. But I could be wrong so please don't do anything you feel nervous about, or come back and ask for "what ifs" or "how-tos" or "something else needed here."
The set-up:
Settle at a small play table or near her cage, or somewhere where you can relate to her. Work with her alone, no other rats involved. Have some yummy yogurt, maybe one-fourth of a cup. Each step below is meant to be repeated several times before moving on to the next step. You can even do one step several times for several days. It will depend on how the rat progresses. Many baby steps always make for better learning. The rat should be calm and feel like she's in her normal environment. None of these steps involve scaring the rat or inflicting any kind of pain.
The steps:
1. Settle at the table. Block her from climbing onto you - we don't want to give her the opportunity to lunge and nip an ear.
Smear a small amount of yogurt onto your forearm, and let her lick it off. You can tell her she's a good girl, but don't pet her to praise her. Lots of rats tolerate being petting or scritched, but they don't consider it a reward. Even one little stroke might not be experienced as pleasant. The yogurt is the reward for her good behavior. This rule holds true throughout all of these steps.
2. When she is done and she begins to look elsewhere, wait a few seconds and then add a new smear of yogurt so that you progress it down your arm towards your wrist. The goal over time is to have her build up her "I relate nicely to my human's skin"-type-muscles. The more she does of this, the better she will be prepared to un-do her bites. Remember you can do each step by itself in a day. No other steps needed.
3, 4, 5, 6. Repeat the yogurt smear on other body parts: back of hand, side of palm, back of fingers, palm, palm-side of fingers, finger tips. Depending on the rat, all or some of these might be helpful
7. Since Flower nips ears and neck, but sits very nicely on her human's neck: Bring her up to the shoulder, but block her access to neck or ear. Maybe wear a scarf or a wrap-around of fleece. Feed flower a smear of yogurt by hand - maybe the back of the hand would be easy mechanically.
If she is good with your shoulder (doesn't think about nipping there), smear some yogurt there for her to practice. It is fine to smear 4 different dabs of yogurt on different areas of your shoulder, let her lick, and then finish the session at that.
More about how this all comes together, but first...
Important notes on how to intervene if she mvoes to nip hard, and what to do when she's good:
A. Protection first!: All through the shoulder activities, I would hover my entire hand over her entire torso, over her back, and be 100% prepared to direct her physically to move away. I might look in a mirror if I couldn't see her on my shoulder easily. The moment she begins to move towards an ear or other body part, I would gently divert her away. Not necessarily off my shoulder, but facing forward. My redirection is always calm, and I would not try to scare her or yell as if to say 'bad girl'. Just the redirection is enough. Then in the moment she is facing forward, she gets some licks of yogurt for being in that good spot doing that good behavior.
B. Anticipate! Many times you can tell that the rat is thinking about doing "more". My anticipation and alertness are 100% revved up here. Yes, I would let her move to check me out, with my hand over the back of her torso. But before she reaches any nippable spot, I would use the "Eeep!" method in conjunction which blocking/diverting her with my hands. The Eeep method: Eeep as close as you can to the real objection-type squeak that a rat makes. Your Eeep should be a low- or medium-level, volume, just like you've heard rats do with each other. The Eeep you make is not supposed to be a yelled eep that would scare the rat, but to convey a point: "I don't like that". Ideally you would see some recognition on the rat's face: "Oh, you don't like that? Okay..." Your particular rat may or may not be able to respect or relate to your objection Eeeps; however, if you do them in conjunction with moving her away at the same time, she may make the connection over time.
C. Reward the good behaviors to strengthen the good behaviors. Far more important than blocking her from possibly nipping, is rewarding her for any and all good behaviors she does. This positive reinforcement is the ultimate learning method for any animal: When she does a good behavior, immediately reward (reinforce, with a treat) her for this. Do a lot of quick rewards, so that you intensely reinforce her good behavior moment to moment. For example: if you place her on your shoulder one time and remarkably she sits there and faces forward for just a second (say she hasn't done that before), Treat, Treat, Treat, one after the other, because you are rewarding each moment of good behavior of sitting quietly facing forward. Then she turns and faces elsewhere, away from your neck: Treat Treat Treat. Good girl!
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– On February 9th, BEUC, the European voice of consumers, sent a letter to Neelie Kroes, Commissioner for the Digital Agenda, asking to protect Net Neutrality as a ‘fundamental regulatory principle’. BEUC criticizes the introduction of measures of traffic prioritization by the Norwegian telecom operator Telenor, claiming that this approach ‘raises concerns from the consumers’ point of view’. Moreover, BEUC expresses doubts about the recently adopted EU Telecom package, considered insufficient to prevent discriminatory and unfair traffic management practices, and recommends the adoption of specific rules ‘against discriminatory practices by telecom operators which jeopardize the right of consumers to have access to the information and content of their choice’.
However, the reality is more complicated than the one described by BEUC. Indeed, their approach on Net Neutrality is more likely to harm consumers, instead of protecting them. In particular, the weakest consumers (low income or located in rural areas) would suffer the most from such measures.
First of all, it should be kept in mind that network management practices are necessary to maximize the capacity utilization of the Internet and therefore the benefit for the consumers. As the traffic on the Internet is constantly growing, and some applications require more and more use of bandwidth, the capacity of the network can be considered a scarce resource. In order to take full advantage of this scarce resource, providers must assign priority to some forms of traffic.
As we wrote in a Libertiamo’s submission to the European Commission, our opposition to Net Neutrality is not an opposition to the principle of an open access to the Internet, as it represents an opportunity for everybody in the achievement of more prosperity and individual freedom. On the contrary, we deeply believe that an open Internet fuels a competitive and efficient marketplace, where consumers make the ultimate choices about which products succeed and which fail.
But imposing Net Neutrality rules to prevent traffic prioritization would increase the costs for the consumers in order to use the network. Indeed, the higher cost for a resource which is more and more scarce will be entirely passed to all the consumers, without taking into account their specific use of the network.
As a consequence, higher prices would discourage broadband demand and therefore slowdown broadband deployment, which is a key element of productivity growth in line with the objectives of the EU cohesion policy. Copenhagen Economics estimates that the effects of Net Neutrality in Germany would mean only 1.6 million new subscribers in the last years, instead of 7.5 million in the absence of Net Neutrality regulation.
Of course, unfair and discriminatory practices may exist and have to be prevented, but the most effective way is not to impose counterproductive heavy rules, as indicated by BEUC. On the contrary, the solution is to guarantee a satisfactory level of competition and transparence, in order to allow consumers to benefit of the choice they deserve. Quoting the words of Neelie Kroes during the Net Neutrality summit last November, ‘Competition is the open Internet’s best friend’.
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Friday, 16 March 2012
Very rich Americans: polite letter
In July of 1952, Nancy Mitford wrote to her friend, the famous novelist Evelyn Waugh, and asked:
"What do you do with all the people who want interviews, with fan letters & with fans in the flesh? Just a barrage of nos?"
Waugh's reply contained the following — a list of the stock responses he used in such situations.
(Source: Evelyn Waugh: A Biography; Image: Evelyn Waugh, via.)
I am not greatly troubled by fans nowadays. Less than one a day on the average. No sour grapes when I say they were an infernal nuisance. I divide them into...
(a) Humble expressions of admiration. To these a post-card saying "I am delighted to learn that you enjoyed my book. E. W."
(b) Impudent criticism. No answer.
(c) Bores who wish to tell me about themselves. Post-card saying "Thank you for interesting letter. E. W."
(d) Technical criticism, eg. One has made a character go to Salisbury from Paddington. Post-card: "Many thanks for your valuable suggestion. E. W."
(e) Humble aspirations of would-be writers. If attractive a letter of discouragement. If unattractive a post-card.
(f) Requests from University Clubs for a lecture. Printed refusal.
(g) Requests from Catholic Clubs for lecture. Acceptance.
(h) American students of "Creative Writing" who are writing theses about one & want one, virtually, to write their theses for them. Printed refusal.
(i) Tourists who invite themselves to one’s house. Printed refusal.
(j) Manuscript sent for advice. Return without comment.
I also have some post-cards with my photograph on them which I send to nuns.
In case of very impudent letters from married women I write to the husband warning him that his wife is attempting to enter into correspondence with strange men.
Oh, and of course...
(k) Autograph collectors: no answer.
(l) Indians & Germans asking for free copies of one's books: no answer.
(m) Very rich Americans: polite letter. They are capable of buying 100 copies for Christmas presents.
I think that more or less covers the field.
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Some things are almost universal
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I’ve been vacationing and using various internet providers with my netbook (much easier than worrying about internet cafes and dealing with one time pads for passwords). Almost universally, the routers and access points at the hotels and apartments have default passwords and minimal settings to achieve some functionality beyond inefficiently turning electricity into heat. Individuals and companies specializing in providing network service seem to do slightly better job (though in one case the AP wasn’t secured after clearing the Sputnik agent).
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Time to seek the Lord
1. Beautifully illustrated verse!
2. How beautiful - and timely, for me. As I sat and wondered if I was one of the only people in Blogdom who was still in the Christmas mode - there you were, reminding us that this is still Christmas, still the time to seek the Lord and celebrate his birth.
3. What a lovely encouragement as we head into a new year and remember the reason for the season!!
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Tag Archives: jenkins
Disabling security on Jenkins
One may “accidentally” set up security realm / authorization in such a way that you may no longer able to reconfigure Jenkins.
When this happens, you can fix this by the following steps:
1. Stop Jenkins (the easiest way to do this is to kill the servlet container.)
2. Go to $JENKINS_HOME in the file system and find config.xml file.
3. Open this file in the editor.
4. Look for the <useSecurity>true</useSecurity> element in this file.
5. Replace true with false
6. Start Jenkins
When Jenkins comes back, it’s in the unsecured mode where everyone gets full access to the system.
So useful.
[Seen: Jenkins wiki]
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Maya and Aztec
Ancient Mesoamerican civilizations
Category: Ancient Nahuatl Poetry
Tico, tico, toco, toto, auh ic ontlantiuh cuicatl, tiqui, ti ti,
tito, titi.
Tico, tico, toco, toto, and as the song approaches the end, tiqui,
titi, tito, titi.
1. Tollan aya huapalcalli manca, nozan in mamani coatlaquetzalli
yaqui yacauhtehuac Nacxitl Topiltzin, onquiquiztica ye choquililo in
topilhuan ahuay yeyauh in polihuitiuh nechcan Tlapallan ho ay.
1. At Tollan there stood the house of beams, there yet stands the
house of plumed serpents left by Nacxitl Topiltzin; going forth
weeping, our nobles went to where he was to perish, down there at
2. Nechcayan Cholollan oncan tonquizaya Poyauhtecatitlan, in
quiyapanhuiya y Acallan anquiquiztica ye choquililon ye.
2. We went forth from Cholula by way of Poyauhtecatl, and ye went
forth weeping down by the water toward Acallan.
3. Nonohualco ye nihuitz ye nihui quecholi nimamaliteuctla,
nicnotlamatia oyah quin noteuc ye ihuitimali, nechya icnocauhya
nimatlac xochitl, ayao ayao o ayya y yao ay.
3. I come from Nonohualco as if I carried quechol birds to the place
of the nobles; I grieve that my lord has gone, garlanded with
feathers; I am wretched like the last flower.
4. In tepetl huitomica niyaychocaya, axaliqueuhca nicnotlamatiya o
yaquin noteuc (etc. as v. 3).
4. With the falling down of mountains I wept, with the lifting up of
sands I was wretched, that my lord had gone.
5. In Tlapallan aya mochieloca monahuatiloca ye cochiztla o anca ca
zanio ayao, ayao, ayao.
5. At Tlapallan he was waited for, it was commanded that there he
should sleep, thus being alone.
6. Zan tiyaolinca ye noteuc ic ihuitimali, tinahuatiloya ye Xicalanco
o anca zacanco.
6. In our battles my lord was garlanded with feathers; we were
commanded to go alone to Xicalanco.
7. Ay yanco ay yanco ayamo aya ayhuiya ayanco ayyanco ayamo aye
ahuiya que ye mamaniz mocha moquiapana, oquen ye mamaniz
moteuccallatic ya icnocauhqui nican Tollan Nonohualco ya y ya y ya o
7. Alas! and alas! who will be in thy house to attire thee? Who will
be the ruler in thy house, left desolate here in Tollan, in
8. In ye quinti chocaya teuctlon, timalon que ye mamaniz mochan (etc.
as v. 7).
8. After he was drunk, the ruler wept; we glorified ourselves to be
in thy dwelling.
9. In tetl, in quahuitl o on timicuilotehuac nachcan Tollan y inon
can in otontlatoco Naxitl Topiltzin y aye polihuiz ye motoca ye ic ye
chocaz in momacehual ay yo.
9. Misfortune and misery were written against us there in Tollan,
that our leader Nacxitl Topiltzin was to be destroyed and thy
subjects made to weep.
10. Zan can xiuhcalliya cohuacallaya in oticmatehuac nachcan Tollan y
inon can yn otontlatoco Naxitl Topiltzin (etc. as in v. 9).
10. We have left the turquoise houses, the serpent houses there in
Tollan, where ruled our leader Nacxitl Topiltzin.
At this portion of the MS. several poems are preceded by a line of
syllables indicating their accompaniment on the teponaztli (see
Introduction, p. 32).
The present number is one of the most noteworthy songs of the
collection. It belongs to the ancient cyclus of Quetzalcoatl myths,
and gives a brief relation of the destruction of Tollan and the
departure and disappearance of the Light God, Quetzalcoatl Ce Acatl.
As I have elsewhere collated this typical myth at length, and
interpreted it according to the tenets of modern mythologic science,
I shall not dwell upon it here (see D.G. Brinton, American Hero
Myths, Phila., 1882).
The text of the poem is quite archaic, and presents many
difficulties. But my translation, I think, gives the general sense
1. huapalcalli; literally, “the house constructed of beams.” This
name was applied to the chief temple of the Toltecs; the ruins of an
ancient structure at Tollantzinco were pointed out at the time of the
Conquest as those of this building (see Sahagun, Hist. de la Nueva
Espaсa, Lib. X, cap. 29).
coatlaquetzalli; this edifice, said to have been left incomplete by
Quetzalcoatl, when he forsook Tollan, had pillars in the form of a
serpent, the head at the base, the tail at the top of the pillar.
(See Orozco y Berra, Hist. Antigua de Mexico, Tom. III, pp. 30 and
46.) The structure is mentioned as follows in the Anales de
Auh iniquac nemia Quetzalcoatl quitzintica, quipeuahtica iteocal
quimaman coatlaquetzali ihuan amo quitzonquixti, amo quipantlaz.”
“And when Quetzalcoatl was living, he began and commenced the temple
of his which is the Coatlaquetzali (Serpent Plumes), and he did not
finish it, he did not fully erect it.”
Nacxitl Topiltzin, “Our Lord the four-footed.” Nacxitl appears to
have been the name of Quetzalcoatl, in his position as lord of the
merchants. Compare Sahagun, ubi supra, Lib. I, cap. 19.
2. Poyauhtecatl, a volcano near Orizaba, mentioned by Sahagun.
Acallan, a province bordering on the Laguna de los Terminos. The
myth reported that Quetzalcoatl journeyed to the shores of the Gulf
about the isthmus of Tehuantepec and there disappeared.
3. Nonohualco; the reference is to the cerro de Nonoalco, which
plays a part in the Quetzalcoatl myth. The words of the song are
almost those of Tezcatlipoca when he is introduced to Quetzalcoatl.
Asked whence he came, he replied, “Nihuitz in Nonohualcatepetl
itzintla, etc.” (Anales de Cuauhtitlan).
4. The occurrences alluded to are the marvels performed by
Quetzalcoatl on his journey from Tulan. See my American Hero Myths,
p. 115.
5. The departure of Quetzalcoatl was because he was ordered to repair
to Tlapallan, supposed to be beyond Xicalanco.
8. quinti, for iquintia; the reference is to the magic draught
given Quetzalcoatl by Tezcatlipoca.
9. In tetl, in quahuitl; literally, “stone and stick;” a very
common phrase in Nahautl, to signify misfortunes.
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a. Children Spouting Tragedy. b. Children Spouting Comedy
a. Children Spouting Tragedy. b. Children Spouting Comedy
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Interesting, rare, stipple engravings, so finely executed as to give the impression of being a mezzotint. Plate ‘a’ is scene outside the portico of a palladian country mansion with a group of five children acting out one of Shakespeare’s tragedies. The eldest girl declaims dramatically, her younger sister weeps, a small boy lies apparently dead on the steps, while a small girl watches enthralled on the right. In plate ‘b’ the children are acting out a comic scene. The eldest girl has given herself a huge stomach with the aid of a bundle of linen, a small boy tries on a satyr’s mask, another points to a cup with rude gestures and two small children play with a walking staff. The artist Richard Morton Paye (d. 1821), specialised in painting children, both as single portaits and in groups. Although he died in poverty and neglect, his work is now especially esteemed for his depictions of childhood during the late eighteenth century.
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21 Bayard English Auburn-haired. M
22 Bayard French Auburn-haired. Bayard was a sixteenth-century French knight and national hero renowned for valor and purity of heart. M
23 Bayard Teutonic Reddish - brown hair. M
24 Bayerd Irish Variant of Baird: Bard; travelling musician/singer. M
25 Bayhard English Reddish brown hair. M
26 Bayrd Irish Variant of Baird: Bard; travelling musician/singer. M
27 Beamard Irish Brave as a bear. M
28 Bearnard Gaelic Gaelic form of Bernard. M
29 Bearnard Scottish Bear strong. M
30 Beauregard French Respected; regarded highly (literal translation is Beautiful/handsome gaze). M
31 Bedad Biblical Alone, solitary. M
32 Bedford English Derived from the English place name, meaning Bede's ford. Most frequently used as a surname. M
33 Bedford Shakespearean 'King Henry V' Duke of Bedford, brother to the King. 'Henry VI, Part 1' Duke of Bedford, uncle to King Henry VI, and Regent of France. M
34 Bemossed NativeAmerican Walker. M
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36 Benhadad Biblical Son of Hadad; or noise M
37 Beornheard English The Old English variant of the German Bernard, meaning bear-hard. M
38 Berchtwald German Bright ruler. M
39 Bered Biblical Hail. M
40 Berend German Brave as a bear. M
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Sir Brian Barrett-Boyes
First aortic valve replacement
First aortic valve replacement - Sir Brian Barrett-Boyes
Kiwi surgeon Brian Barratt-Boyes (b. 1924, d. 2006) pioneered radical heart treatments at Greenlane hospital.
Sir Brian (as he became in 1971) was born and educated in New Zealand, going overseas after gaining his MD to further his training in the US. He returned to New Zealand in 1958 to head the heart unit at Greenlane Hospital in Auckland, a role he was to fill for 30 years. In the late fifties the practice of heart surgery was brand new - Christiaan Barnard and others having pioneered techniques just a few years earlier - and Barratt-Boyes set about creating a world-class facility at Greenlane to study it. Practicing on sheep and cadavers, Barratt-Boyes and his team worked out a way to replace faulty heart valves in humans with those from donors, taking the heart valves from dead bodies soon after death and storing them, basically in a fridge, for up to 4 weeks.
They reasoned, and it is still considered the case today, that using transplanted heart valves would be more successful, and more natural, than creating false valves out of synthetic materials.
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Games on Demand 2016
Wellington RPG Con - Wellington Anniversary Weekend -
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Postby Mike Sands » Tue Nov 17, 2015 6:33 am
Just starting to properly organise Games on Demand.
Remember, there's always room for more!
If you'd like to run something that's easy to play on the spur of the moment, send me a PM with your email and I'll get you involved. You get to claim lower GM entry and priority GM game picks, too!
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Tuesday, May 24, 2016
Dinosaur Jr - "Tiny"
Today, Dinosaur Jr announced their new record, Give A Glimpse of What Yer Not, with a little help from Henry Rollins. Record over the past year or so, the album is the band's eleventh studio release and is out August 5th via Jagjaguwar.
The band dropped by "Later... With Jools Holland" to share the track "Tiny" from the forthcoming record. In traditional Dinosaur Jr fashion, the song rips. J's distinct guitar is as instantly recognizable as ever and continues to be their essential charm decades into their existence. Of course, Lou Barlow and Murph chime in with perfect rhythm and anchor the weight of the soaring track. Update: studio version below via Spotify.
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Money: Inflation
“I consider that it is not only prudential, but absolutely necessary to protect the inhabitants of this city from being imposed upon by a spurious currency…I think it much safer to go upon the hard money system altogether. I have examined the Constitution upon this subject and find my doubts removed…Article I, Section 10 declares that nothing else except gold and silver shall be lawful tender…The different states, and even Congress itself, have passed many laws diametrically contrary to the Constitution of the United States…The Constitution acknowledges that the people have all power not reserved to itself.” (Joseph Smith)
“By a continuous process of inflation, governments can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens. By this method, they not only confiscate, but they confiscate arbitrarily; and while the process impoverishes many, it actually enriches some....There is no subtler, no surer means of overturning the existing basis of society than to debauch the currency. The process engages all the hidden forces of economic law on the side of destruction, and does it in a manner which not one man in a million is able to diagnose.(John Maynard Keynes, The Economic Consequences of the Peace, 1919.)
I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. If the American people ever allow the banks to control the issuance of their currency, first by inflation and then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around them will deprive the people of all property until their children will wake up homeless on the continent their fathers occupied. The issuing power of money should be taken from the banks and restored to Congress and the people to whom it belongs.” (Thomas Jefferson, this indignant protest can be heard today across the vista of two whole centuries Letter to the Secretary of the Treasury Albert Gallatin, 1802.)
“The banks themselves were doing business on capitals, three-fourths of which were fictitious. This fictitious capital...is now to be lost, and to fall on somebody; it [the bank] must take on those who have property to meet it, and probably on the less cautious part, who, not aware of the impending catastrophe, have suffered themselves to contract, or to be in debt, and must now sacrifice their property of a value many times the amount of the debt. We have been truly sowing with wind, and are now reaping the whirlwind.” (Thomas Jefferson, Writings of Thomas Jefferson, 10:133.)
“We are overdone with banking institutions, which have banished the precious metals, and substituted a more fluctuating and unsafe medium.... These have withdrawn capital from useful improvements and employments to nourish idleness.... [These] are evils more easily to be deplored than remedied.” (Thomas Jefferson, Writings of Thomas Jefferson, 12:379-80.)
“Give me control over a nation's currency, and I care not who makes the laws.” (Baron Mayer Amschel Rothschild)
“The new law will create inflation whenever the trusts want inflation. From now on depressions will be scientifically created.” (Congressman Charles A. Lindbergh, after the passage of the Federal Reserve act 1913.)
“German currency had become completely worthless. Purchasing power of salaries and wages was reduced to zero. The life savings of the middle classes and working classes were wiped out. But something even more important was destroyed: the faith of the people in the economic structure of the German society.…the government deliberately let the mark tumble in order to free the State of its public debts, to escape from paying reparations.…All [the people] knew was that a large bank account could not buy a straggly bunch of carrots, and half peck of potatoes, and few ounces of sugar, a pound of flour. They knew that as individuals they were bankrupt. And they knew hunger when it gnawed at them, as it did daily. In their misery and hopelessness, they made the Republic the scapegoat for all that had happened. Such times were heaven-sent for Adolph Hitler.” (William L. Shirer, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, p. 61-62. 1960.)
“Everything is in place for a rapid increase in U.S. currency. There is no precious metal backing for it; there is virtually no check on how much of it can be issued; and an acceleration of inflation here—brought on by the enormous and growing national debt—could result in a duplication of the horror that befell Germans in 1923-24.” (John F. McManus, Financial Terrorism, 1993.)
“We are completely saddled and bridled, and…the bank is so firmly mounted on us that we must go where [it] will guide.” (Thomas Jefferson, Writings of Thomas Jefferson, 9:337-338.)
“Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment, in meteyard, in weight, or in measure. Just balances, just weights, a just ephah, and a just hin, shall ye have: I am the LORD your God...A false balance is abomination to the LORD: but a just weight is his delight.” (Scriptural, Lev. 19:36, Proverbs 11:1.)
“No State shall...make any Thing but gold and silver Coin a Tender in Payment of Debts…” (U.S. Constitution, 1787.)
“The millions of working families of America are now indebted to the few thousand banking families for twice the assessed value of the entire United States. And these Banking families obtained that debt against us for the cost of paper, ink, and bookkeeping!” (Des Griffin Descent Into Slavery, p. 284.)
“You are a den of vipers! I intend to rout you out, and by the Eternal God, I will rout you out. If the people only understood the rank injustice of our money and banking system, there would be a revolution by morning.” (President Andrew Jackson, 1834.)
“The refusal of King George to allow the colonies to operate an honest money system, which freed the ordinary man from clutches of the money manipulators was probably the prime cause of the revolution.” (Benjamin Franklin)
“Under the Federal Reserve Act, panics are scientifically created. The present panic is the first scientific one, worked out as we figure a mathematical equation.” (Congressman Charles A. Lindbergh, The Economic Pinch, 1921.)
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Which names were most popular in Norway in 1337?
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I get asked this question a lot, and it's nice to finally have the answer: it's Sigurdr, Jón and Olafr for boys, and Sigríðr, Gudrun and Ingibjǫrg for girls.
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pioc and hapi – some initial thoughts
hapi.js is an alternative to express and can be used to create a node.js server. Today I’m going to show you some of my initial thoughts on how pioc can be used together with hapi (current version: 8.0) to create node.js applications.
I’ve wanted to show an example of how to actually use pioc for quite some time now, however I never got the feeling that my express.js examples were good enough. With hapi, the situation is very different. hapi has been designed to be composable from the start and, as a result, it is a perfect match for a *dependency injection container* like pioc.
This is going to be a short introduction so we’ll only create a very basic application that simply prints a message and logs an event. I also assume that you are already familiar with hapi.js. If you’re not, please take a look at their website. There are some very good tutorials that’ll help you get started.
Now, let’s dive into our application architecture. We’ll start by taking a look at the directory structure:
- lib
- pack.js
- modules
- frontend
- index.js
- index.js
- manifest.json
The lib directory will simply contain a simple glue function (pack) that’ll help us to create injectable hapi plugins (controllers).
This example is going to use only three modules which you can install using npm:
npm install --save hapi pioc es6-shim
The es6-shim package will make writing controllers a bit nicer.
// load the es6-shim
// import Hapi, EventEmitter and pioc
var Hapi = require('hapi'),
EventEmitter = require('events').EventEmitter,
pioc = require('pioc'),
// create our server module and load some services and controllers
serverModule = pioc.createModule(__dirname)
// our global "event bus"
.value('vent', new EventEmitter())
// a service that resolves to a message (which we'll print to the user)
.bind('message', function() {
// since we've loaded es6-shim, this will always be true
if(Object.assign) {
return 'Hello Universe (Object.assign exists)';
return 'Hello World';
// load the manifest service (contains plugin options)
.value('manifest', require('./manifest'))
// and finally load our frontend controller
// create an injector
injector = pioc.createInjector(serverModule);
// create the Hapi Server
var server = new Hapi.Server();
// add a connection to port 3000 so that we can access our server as
// http://localhost:3000/
server.connection({ port: 3000 });
// for the startup, we'll want all services that start with "module"
// (there are better names for this but you get the idea)
// as well as our configuration manifest and - just to keep it simple - the event bus
injector.resolve(function(module, manifest, vent) {
// register for an event
vent.on('log:frontend:index', function(event) {
// just log it to the console
console.log('frontend index page visited');
// create an object that hapi will understand for every one of our application modules
var modules = module.map(function(obj) {
return {
register: obj,
// get the options for the module from the manifest
options: manifest.plugins[obj.register.attributes.name] || {}
// and register our modules with the server
server.register(modules, function(err) {
if(err) throw err;
// finally, start the server
server.start(function() {
console.log('Server running at: ', server.info.uri);
There’s just a tiny bit of bootstrapping involved here and you can pretty much decide for yourself how much magic you want. For example, you could automatically load all modules from the modules directory or from the manifest.json file. The same holds true for other services. It is totally up to you if you want to do those things explicitly or if you want it to happen magically.
Now that we’ve got our bootstrap in place, let us take a look at what the manifest.json file could look like:
"plugins": {
"module/frontend": {}
As you can see, there is almost nothing in here. Take a look at the hapi website to learn which options you might want to set for your application modules.
The really interesting part is the modules/frontend/index.js file, though. That is why we’re going through all that trouble and where we can actually benefit from using pioc, so let us take a look at it:
// import a few utilities
var inject = require('pioc').inject,
pack = require('./../../lib/pack');
// This is our controller service!
// We can use the constructor injection provided by pioc
function Frontend(vent) {
this.vent = vent;
// that is the reason why we've included es6-shim
Object.assign(Frontend.prototype, {
// we can use property injection
message: inject('message'),
// define the action
indexAction: function(request, reply) {
// and use the event bus and message services we defined in our bootstrapping
this.vent.emit('log:frontend:index', request);
// register our route handlers
register: function(server, options, next) {
method: 'GET',
path: '/',
handler: this.indexAction.bind(this)
// and package it all in a way that hapi and pioc are happy with
module.exports = pack(Frontend, {
// this name is not only the name hapi is going to use but it'll also
// be used by pioc to identify the name of the service!
name: 'module/frontend',
version: '1.0.0'
So, by doing things this way, we can define controller services which can rely on piocs ability to perform constructor and property injection. Also, the name of the service is where it should be: with the service itself instead of at the module definition. By using es6-shim, we get gain the ability to use Object.assign to get a much nicer syntax for defining our controller service.
But we’re still missing one crucial ingredient: the lib/pack.js file. The function exported there helps us to glue hapi and pioc together in a way that actually works.
You don’t really have to use it but it makes things a lot nicer and is not too magical.
// we need a constructor function (or just a function) as well as the attributes that Hapi needs
module.exports = function(cnstr, attributes) {
// define our service, we'll need an $injector service which pioc supplies
var service = function($injector) {
// resolve the constructor (creates a new instance and resolves all services)
var obj = $injector.resolve(cnstr),
// and provide a Hapi plugin which registers the instance with Hapi
plugin = {
register: function(server, options, next) {
// we're passing the context as well as the default options
// in case it contains something useful
obj.register(server, options, next, this);
// add the attributes to the register function
plugin.register.attributes = attributes;
return plugin;
// set the $serviceName flag so that pioc can use the correct service name
service.$serviceName = attributes.name;
return service;
As promised, there isn’t much magic involved in this function. We just wire hapi and pioc together and reuse as much information as we can.
When we run the server and check its output, we’ll see that the website correctly shows Hello Universe (Object.assign exists) and that the console has successfully logged the frontend index page visited event message.
So, those were some quick thoughts on how pioc can be used together with hapi.
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Get Funkadelic essential facts below. View Videos or join the Funkadelic discussion. Add Funkadelic to your PopFlock.com topic list for future reference or share this resource on social media.
Funkadelic is an American band that was most prominent during the 1970s. The band and its sister act Parliament, both led by George Clinton, pioneered the funk music culture of that decade.[3][1] Relative to its sister act, Funkadelic pursued a heavier, psychedelic rock-oriented sound.[4]
The group that would become Funkadelic was formed by George Clinton in 1964, as the unnamed backing section for his doo wop group The Parliaments while on tour. The band originally consisted of musicians Frankie Boyce, Richard Boyce, and Langston Booth plus the five members of the Parliaments on vocals. Boyce, Boyce, and Booth enlisted in the Army in 1966, and Clinton recruited bassist Billy Bass Nelson and guitarist Eddie Hazel in 1967, then added guitarist Tawl Ross and drummer Tiki Fulwood. The name "Funkadelic" was coined by Nelson after the band relocated to Detroit. By 1968, because of a dispute with Revilot, the record company that owned "The Parliaments" name, the ensemble began playing under the name Funkadelic.
Psychedelic era
As Funkadelic, the group signed to Westbound in 1968. Around this time, the group's music evolved from soul and doo wop into a harder guitar-driven mix of psychedelic rock, soul and funk, much influenced by the popular musical (and political) movements of the time. Jimi Hendrix and Sly Stone were major inspirations.[5] This style later evolved into a tighter guitar-based funk (circa 1971-75), which subsequently, during the height of Parliament-Funkadelic success (circa 1976-81), added elements of R&B and electronic music, with fewer psychedelic rock elements. The band made their first live television performance on Say Brother in October 7, 1969. They played a jam with songs "Into My Own Thing", "What Is Soul?" , "(I Wanna) Testify", "I Was Made to Love Her" (Stevie Wonder cover), "Friday Night, August 14th" and "Music for My Mother".
The group's self-titled debut album, Funkadelic, was released in 1970. The credits listed organist Mickey Atkins plus Clinton, Fulwood, Hazel, Nelson, and Ross. The recording also included the rest of the Parliaments singers (still uncredited due to contractual concerns), several uncredited session musicians then employed by Motown, as well as Ray Monette (of Rare Earth) and future P-Funk mainstay Bernie Worrell.
Bernie Worrell was officially credited starting with Funkadelic's second album, 1970s Free Your Mind... and Your Ass Will Follow, thus beginning a long working relationship between Worrell and Clinton. The album Maggot Brain followed in 1971. The first three Funkadelic albums displayed strong psychedelic influences (not least in terms of production) and limited commercial potential, despite containing many songs that stayed in the band's set list for several years and would influence many future funk, rock, and hip hop artists.
After the release of Maggot Brain, the Funkadelic lineup was expanded greatly. Tawl Ross was unavailable after experiencing either a bad LSD trip or a speed overdose, while Billy Bass Nelson and Eddie Hazel quit due to financial concerns. From this point, many more musicians and singers would be added during Funkadelic's (and Parliament's) history, including the recruitment of several members of James Brown's backing band, The JB's in 1972 - most notably Bootsy Collins and the Horny Horns. Bootsy and his brother Catfish Collins were recruited by Clinton to replace the departed Nelson and Hazel. Bootsy in particular became a major contributor to the P-Funk sound. In 1972, this new line-up released the politically charged double album America Eats Its Young. The lineup stabilized a bit with the album Cosmic Slop in 1973, featuring major contributions from recently added singer-guitarist Garry Shider. After first leaving the band, Eddie Hazel spent a year in jail after assaulting an airline stewardess and air marshal while under the influence of PCP,[6][7] then he returned to make major contributions to the 1974 album Standing on the Verge of Getting It On. Hazel only contributed to P-Funk sporadically thereafter.[8]
George Clinton revived Parliament in 1974 and signed that act to Casablanca Records. Parliament and Funkadelic featured mostly the same stable of personnel but operated concurrently under two names. At first, Parliament was designated as a more mainstream funk ensemble dominated by soulful vocals and horn arrangements, while Funkadelic was designated as a more experimental and freestyle guitar-based funk band. The ensemble usually toured under the combined name Parliament-Funkadelic or simply P-Funk (which also became the catch-all term for George Clinton's rapidly growing stable of funk artists).
In 1975 Michael Hampton, a teen guitar prodigy, replaced Hazel as the premier lead guitarist in Parliament-Funkadelic, and was a major contributor to the next several Funkadelic albums. Funkadelic left Westbound in 1976 and moved to Warner Brothers. Their first album for Warner was Hardcore Jollies in 1976. Just before leaving Westbound, Clinton provided that label with a collection of recently recorded outtakes, which Westbound released as the album Tales of Kidd Funkadelic. That album did significantly better commercially than Hardcore Jollies and included "Undisco Kidd", an R&B Top 30 single. In 1977, Westbound capitalized further by releasing the anthology The Best of the Early Years.
Mainstream success
As Parliament began achieving significant mainstream success in the 1975-1978 period, Funkadelic recorded and released its most successful and influential album, One Nation Under a Groove in 1978, adding former Ohio Players keyboardist Walter "Junie" Morrison and reflecting a more melodic dance-based sound. The title track spent six weeks at #1 on the R&B charts, around the time that Parliament was enjoying the #1 R&B singles "Flash Light" and "Aqua Boogie". Uncle Jam Wants You in 1979 continued Funkadelic's new more electronic sound production. The album contains the fifteen-minute "(Not Just) Knee Deep" featuring former Spinners lead singer Philippé Wynne, an edited version of which topped the R&B charts. The final official Funkadelic album, The Electric Spanking of War Babies, was released in 1981. The release was originally a double-album project, but it was reduced to a single disc under pressure from Warner Brothers. Some of the deleted tracks would appear on future P-Funk releases, most notably the 1982 hit single "Atomic Dog" which appeared on the first George Clinton solo album.
Meanwhile, the album Connections & Disconnections (re-issued on CD as Who's a Funkadelic) was released under the name Funkadelic in 1981. The album was recorded by former Funkadelic members and original Parliaments Fuzzy Haskins, Calvin Simon, and Grady Thomas, who had left P-Funk in 1977 after disagreements with George Clinton's management practices. This LP, notable for its heavy use of Thomas "Pae-dog" McEvoy's jazz horn, contains the track called "You'll Like It Too", which came a very popular breakbeat source for the Hip hop community in the 80s. Another rebellious former band member, drummer Jerome Brailey, released the album Mutiny on the Mamaship, by his new band Mutiny. Even Clinton himself found this to be a good album despite containing lyrics that mocked him and his management of the P-Funk enterprise.[]
In the early 1980s, with legal difficulties arising from the multiple names used by multiple groups, as well as a shakeup at Parliament's record label, George Clinton dissolved Parliament and Funkadelic as recording and touring entities. However, many of the musicians in later versions of the two groups remained employed by Clinton. Clinton continued to release new albums regularly, sometimes under his own name and sometimes under the name George Clinton & the P-Funk All-Stars. In the mid-1980s, the last Funkadelic album By Way Of The Drum was recorded by Clinton with P-Funk personnel and many electronic devices. The album was rejected by its record label and did not see official release in America until it appeared as a reissue in 2007. It features a cover of "Sunshine Of Your Love" by Cream. The album did not receive any publicity, but still received favorable reviews.
Clinton continued his P-Funk collective in the 1990s and 2000s, with a revolving stable of musicians, some of whom remain from the classic lineups of Funkadelic and Parliament. The rock-oriented sound of Funkadelic has diminished, as Clinton has moved towards more of an R&B and hip hop sound. In 1997 the group was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.[9]
Filmmaker Yvonne Smith of New York City-based Brazen Hussy productions produced Parliament-Funkadelic: One Nation Under a Groove, a full-length documentary about the groundbreaking group, which aired on PBS in 2005.[10] As of 2008, Clinton was at work on a new Funkadelic album for his new record label. In November 2008, Westbound Records released Toys, a collection of Funkadelic outtakes and demos from the Free Your Mind and America Eats Its Young era. Critical reception of the album has generally been positive. In April 2013, the band released their first single in over 25 years when they released "The Naz". The song is a collaboration with Sly Stone and tells the story of Jesus Christ. The B-side to the song is "Nuclear Dog" which is guitar solo by P-Funk guitarist Dewayne "Blackbird" McKnight.
Funkadelic had a major influence on a large number of hip-hop artists, and the genre of hip-hop as a whole.[11] In particular, Dr. Dre references Funkadelic's sound as a major influence on his music, especially his G-funk sound.[12]
See also
1. ^ a b c Henderson, Lol; Stacey, Lee, eds. (2013). "Funk". Encyclopedia of Music in the 20th Century. Routledge. p. 231. ISBN 1-5795-8079-3.
2. ^ Chick, Stevie. "Funkadelic - 10 of the best". The Guardian. Retrieved 2017.
3. ^ John, Bush. Funkadelic: Biography. AllMusic.
4. ^ John, Bush. Funkadelic: Biography. AllMusic.
5. ^ Vincent, Rickey. Parliament-Funkadelic. Encyclopædia Britannica.
6. ^ Vincent, Rickey (15 April 1996). "Funk: The Music, The People, and The Rhythm of The One". Macmillan. Retrieved 2017 – via Google Books.
7. ^ Green, Tony. Up for the Downstroke: The Guitar Legacy of Parliament Funkadelic. Guitar Player.
8. ^ Sullivan, James. Twisted Tales: P-Funk's Eddie Hazel Is the New Hendrix, for Better or Worse. Spinner.com.
9. ^ "Parliament Funkadelic at Rock Hall". Rockhall.com. Retrieved .
10. ^ Parliament Funkadelic: One Nation Under a Groove. The Film. Public Broadcasting Service.
11. ^ Touré. "Prime Funk: Four Classic Funkadelic Reissues Demand that You Pledge Groovallegiance to the Band's Late-Seventies Heyday." Rolling Stone, October 3, 2002: 106. ProQuest.
12. ^ Williams, Justin A. "Dr. Dre." Grove Music Online. Oxford Music Online. Oxford University Press
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CSS for Deprecated HTML Attributes: Part 2
In Part 1 of CSS for Deprecated HTML Attributes, I described how to replace HTML’s deprecated attributes with CSS, which is more flexible and inline with web standards in use today. If you want to convert an existing site that is using out of date practices or want to understand how to bring your own development up to scratch, then these articles are for you.
Let’s get straight into it with link, alink and vlink. I’ll also cover clear, size and noshade.
link, vlink and alink
Link, alink (active link) and vlink (visited link) were all attributes for the <body> element. Link sets the colour of the text of unvisited hyperlinks, alink the colour when selected by the user (when the link is being clicked) and vlink the colour of visited hyperlinks.
<body link="blue" vlink="purple" alink="red">
Deprecated example of the link attributes in the body element
To put this into a stylesheet you need to use the “:link”, “:visited” and “:active” pseudo-classes on the “a” type selector.
a:link { color: blue; }
a:visited { color: purple; }
a:active { color: red; }
The flexibility here is that any extra styling can be added to the hyperlink, that wasn’t possible through HTML alone. You can add borders, background images or colour, change font family and size and most usually to amend whether the default underline shows or not. CSS allows for 2 other states that were not possible previously. “:hover” and “:focus”. :hover sets the style of the link when the mouse pointer passes over it and :focus is what is seen when the link is tabbed on to using the keyboard.
The pseudo-classes have differing specificities which means there is a set order in which these must be written; link, visited, focus, hover then active. The standard mnemonic that people use is “LoVe, HAte” with focus added in the middle, if you’re using it.
The clear attribute was deprecated for use in the <br /> element. It specified where the next line should appear after the line break caused by this element, to control the text flow around floating objects. As with border, this conversion should be used anywhere you would like to clear floats.
The next line will begin...
<br clear="none" />
// ... normally (default)
<br clear="left" />
// ... on the nearest line below any floating
objects on the left-hand margin
<br clear="right" />
// ... on the nearest line below any floating
objects on the right-hand margin
<br clear="all" />
// .. on the nearest line below any floating
objects on both margins
Deprecated examples of the clear attribute in the br element
One common use for clear in today’s coding is to ensure a footer starts below any floating 2 or 3 column layout. For this you would want to position it underneath anything on the left and right margins, so that it is the very last item presented; in otherwords to clear all items. In CSS that is translated to “clear:both”:
#footer { clear: both; } // same as clear="all"
br { clear:left; } // an example to replace the
deprecated use of clear in <br />
Clear left, right and none use the same value in the declaration as their name, i.e. clear:left, clear:right and clear:none – very easy.
Size was in use on the <hr /> (horizontal rule) element to set it’s height in pixels or percentage. Years ago I would always set size to 1 to give a thin solid black line, which would get rid of the default two-tone shading effect – more on the shading of <hr /> later.
<hr size="1" />
<hr size="5%" />
Before I show how to replicate this using CSS, I should point out that there are continual wranglings about whether or not this whole tag should still be in use. The two sides to the argument are; on the one hand it is a purely presentational element and should be removed in favour of using a border declaration in CSS; and on the other hand it has its semantic place to divide sections of text. I will leave the decision to you – a huge discussion on <hr />’s semantics took place on the Web Standards Group list last week.
To replicate in CSS is simple and uses the “height” declaration:
hr { height:1px; }
hr { height:5%; }
By moving this to CSS we again open up the possibilities of how a horizontal rule can be styled – adding colour, relative heights and background images (note: the rendering of background images and colour is not consistent across the browsers).
The <hr /> element had another attribute deprecated; noshade was a boolean attribute used to remove the two-tone shading effect and set the line in a solid colour, usually grey.
<hr noshade />
As a small aside, boolean attributes in XHTML are no longer used in their shortened form. For example, the “checked” attribute that is still in use on <input type=”checkbox” /> elements should be written in long-hand:
Similarly for “selected” in <option> elements:
<option selected="selected" >Option 1</option>
Removing the shade in CSS isn’t as straight-forward as the attributes we’ve seen so far. In IE you’ll need to use the “color” declaration; and in Mozilla and Opera you need to use both the “border” and “background-color” declarations to get a similar effect to the original attributes. The following should be safe across different browers.
hr {
color: gray; // for IE
background-color: gray; // for Mozilla and Firefox
border: 0; // for Mozilla and Firefox
The same styling rules apply as for the “size” attribute above.
Part 3
I’ll finish this series off by looking at bgcolor, align, width and height.
13 comments on “CSS for Deprecated HTML Attributes: Part 2”
1. I was looking at what you said about converting the noshade attribute. I noticed that you specify different CSS for different browsers. I thought the purpose of CSS was to make things look the same in all browsers? I know that some browsers haven’t implemented all CSS properties yet, but once they do, if they implement them correctly, aren’t they supposed to do the same thing in all of them?
2. @Nathan: Yes, it would be ideal and wonderful world if *all* browsers were simply standards-compliant and it was as simple as setting a single CSS declaration, then kicking back with a cup of tea content in the knowledge that that lovely bit of code would look the same in all browsers in all platforms.
Unfortunately, in the real world, different declarations (and sometimes even completely different stylesheets) are need to accommodate all the differences in rendering CSS across browsers.
3. Nathan: The purpose of CSS is simply to remove the presentation from the structure of your page.
You should strive for styles that degrade gracefully in older browsers rather than a pixel perfect design across the board.
4. Hmm…I tried the hr noshade fix and it seems to be working in IE but not in FF 3.0…shocking! :o Anybody know another fix?
5. @Megan:
I found this CSS works in Firefox 3 and Opera 10 alpha:
hr {
color: gray; // for IE
background-color: gray; // for Mozilla and Firefox
Setting “border: 0” effectively caused the element to disappear from the page. Simply setting the background color and leaving the border alone worked great. :)
6. Has anyone else tried this? it seems to work in IE7, IE8 and Fox3. I know that “noshade” is deprecated but why does IE8 show the HR when this is added?
7. Grr, it hid my HTML code… lets try that again:
[hr noshade=”noshade” style=”border-width: 0; height: 1px;” /]
8. Oh, nevermind. Your right, the browsers do require background-color in order to work across the board. It seems that IE8 still tries to obey “noshade” though, even though that goes against standards. (no surprise)
9. Has anyone else tried this? It seems to work in IE7, IE8 and Firefox3. I know that “noshade” is deprecated but why does IE8 show the HR when this is added?
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Sifu Tzyann and members of Qi Tao
Tai Chi Chuan (also known simply as Tai Chi) is an ancient Chinese martial art. However, most people practice Tai Chi for its many health benefits. Studies have associated Tai Chi with reduced stress & depression, better balance & coordination, stronger bones, improved immunity, relief from pain (including arthritis, back pain & fibromyalgia) and lower blood pressure
The slow, even pace of Tai Chi promotes longevity by lowering your heart rate, which in turn slows down the aging process. The turning of the waist gently massages your internal organs so that they function more efficiently. The constant shifting of weight from one foot to the other regulates blood pressure. The circular movement lubricates your joints. It is therefore no surprise that Tai Chi is one of the most popular forms of exercise, practiced by millions of people around the world.
Qigong is a holistic system of coordinated body posture and movement, breathing, and meditation used for health, spirituality, and martial arts training. With roots in Chinese medicine, philosophy and martial arts, Qigong is traditionally viewed as a practice to cultivate and balance qi (pronounced: chi), translated as "life energy".
Unlike Tai Chi, Qigong can be practiced in standing or seated with relatively little space needed to perform the exercise, Qigong is also especially well suited for those with mobility issues.
The articles below provide a more detailed study of the multitude of positive effects enjoyed by Tai Chi practitioners.
New York Times: Using Tai Chi to build Strength
New York Times: A Downside to Tai Chi? None That I See
Harvard Medical School: The Health Benefits of Tai Chi
Mayo Clinic: Tai Chi: A Gentle Way to Fight Stress
New York Times: Tai Chi Eases Depression in Elderly
Science 2.0: UCLA Study Shows Tai Chi May Help Alleviate Tension Headaches
New York Times: Tai Chi Reported to Ease Fibromyalgia
Science Daily: Tai Chi Improves Pain in Arthritis Sufferers
New York Times: Tai Chi Benefits Patients With Parkinson’s
New York Times: New Advice on Preventing Falls
National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine: Tai Chi Boosts Immunity to Shingles VIrus in Older Adults
National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine: Tai Chi May Help Maintain Bone Mineral Density in Postmenopausal Women
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The surprisingly potent
If there's one thing I've learned from making smoothies, it's how surprisingly potent certain fruits and vegetables are. Case in point: the most potent fruit I've used is watermelon and the most potent veggie is celery. What do these two have in common? Water! How can two things that are known for being full of water completely take over the taste of a smoothie?
Two other potent fruits I've found are raspberries and bananas. Now, I knew that bananas were potent enough to hijack the taste of a smoothie - which is why I never use them - but I didn't expect raspberries to do the same thing. Boy, a few raspberries goes a loooong way! I guess this is a good thing since when I use raspberries, I put them in the juice by themselves and attempt to pulverize the shit out of them before adding everything else. The fewer raspberries needed, the easier to get rid of those pesky seeds.
On the other hand, strawberries are surprisingly not potent. Despite their strong taste and smell, when you add them to a smoothie they seem to disappear. I add them to every smoothie I make mostly for bulk because they honestly don't add much flavor (which makes me sad). I suspect the fact that they are one of the fruits that doesn't have much sugar may play a role in their lack of flavor, but I'm not really sure.
Finally, as I've mentioned before, I found quite a difference in taste when you add spinach vs. kale. Unlike what I had heard, spinach really added quite a bit of flavor, whereas kale did not. However, I have found a workaround for spinach - cooking it. More specifically, I steam the spinach and then freeze it. For whatever reason, it doesn't add much flavor cooked. Go figure!
Ninja RobynFri, 22 Jan 2016 1:37pm0 Comments
When I first decided to make smoothies, I went crazy buying as many types of frozen fruit as I could find. This included:
- Strawberries
- Raspberries
- Blueberries
- Cranberries
- Cherries
- Peaches
- Nectarines
- Pineapple
- Mango
As I mentioned, I love fruit, so I loaded up on pretty much all I could find. Vegetables, on the other hand, I decided to be a bit more conservative with, so I only started with 1 bag of frozen kale. I don't think I've ever really had kale before, so I had no idea what to expect with it.
I also decided to grab some juices (100% and with no added sugar, of course) to use as the liquid part of my smoothie. For the juice, I decided to focus on fruits/veggies that are harder to use whole such as:
- Apples
- Pears
- Apricots
- Guavas
- Passion fruit
- Watermelon
Yes, I could buy apples and pears and cut them up, but my goal is to make smoothies in the morning right before I head to work and I don't want to take the time to do that, so juice it is!
I also decided to try a mixed fruit and veggie juice that Whole Foods had in their produce section. It's called Hawaiian Pear and it includes pineapple, pear, kale, spinach, and celery. The juice is actually quite good and it is the liquid in one of my favorite smoothies I've made so far (more on that later).
Since getting started, I've also added a few additional frozen fruits and veggies to my stash. On the fruit side, after buying the amazing Vitamix (more on that later as well), I bought blackberries and boysenberries, which I had previously shyed away from due to their seeds. After my new found love of kale - seriously it's great in pretty much every smoothie I've made - I also grabbed rainbow chard, spinach, collard greens, and I even found a bag of frozen beets!
In addition to fruits and veggies, I also often add aloe vera, flaxseed, and/or chia seeds to my smoothies. Aloe is rich in antioxidants, vitamins, and nutrients and is supposed to aid in digestion; however drinking more than the recommended 2-4 oz can have adverse side effects. I pour a bit in before adding my main juice, so I don't add too much aloe. The flaxseed and chia seeds both boast micronutrients, fiber, protein, and omega-3 fatty acids (I usually use one or the other in my smoothies).
I had some intial concerns with the chia seeds (remember how I mentioned that I hate seeds), but after taking a closer look I figured they'd be too small to bother me and they are! You do have to plan ahead though as they need to be soaked in water overnight, but shouldn't be left that way for longer than 24 hours or so.
These are the ingredients that got me started. Stay tuned to see some of my favorite recipes and some of my not-so-favorite recipes I've tried so far!
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A still image of RPC-166's containment cell during a breach.
Registered Phenomena Code: 166
Object Class: Beta-Orange
Hazard Types: Bio-Hazard, Self-Replicating Hazard, Sapient Hazard
Containment Protocols: Instances of RPC-166 are to be kept at site ██ in a standard titanium biohazard containment unit within a 3x3x3 meter glass container filled with water.
A minimum of at least 4 floodlights must be shone at the container at all times to prevent breaching of the entity.
At Least 2 security personnel must be guarding the container at all times equipped with flashbangs and shoulder mounted spotlights, personnel must also wear standard issue biohazard suits. The container holding RPC-166 should only be raised in the event of testing.
Description: RPC-166 is a species of light-sensitive Microorganism capable of rapid reproduction in the absence of light. Instances of RPC-166 will rapidly die if exposed to light, with the speed of death being proportional to the intensity of the light itself.
Instances of RPC-166 gain nutrients by breaking down organic matter. A large enough group of RPC-166 is capable of completely enveloping an object or organism and quickly breaking it down into its base components. Intriguingly instances of RPC-166 do not seem to need to eat and can thrive as long as there is a lack of light, the consumption of organic matter does increase the speed RPC-166 can replicate, however. RPC-166 has been observed as somewhat sapient, having been seen to prioritize targeting light emitting objects when attacking prey.
Groups of RPC-166 appear as dark shadow-like shifting masses on the surfaces of physical objects. RPC-166 is capable of constant and rapid reproduction in the absence of light and can quickly envelop the walls and floors of an unlit room. Physical attacks against RPC-166 are extremely ineffective as exposure to light works toward the rapid destruction of the entities membrane. Staff should be advised that even when equipped with the proper technology, RPC-166 is still able to overwhelm and consume a staff member under certain circumstances.
Instances of RPC-166 have been found to be extremely inefficient when traversing liquids,
as it impedes its ability to attach itself to surfaces and each other.
Addendum: RPC-166 was first encountered on an island off the coast of ████, after the disappearance of a paranormal TV show host after having gone to the island for the production of an episode. Undercover RPC agents within the TV agency alerted the Authority to this and a team was dispatched. No bodies were found with most of the equipment found abandoned outside a cave where RPC-166 was discovered. A sample was taken for study while the island was sanitized of remaining instances. A cover story was created stating the host and crew were killed by wild fauna on the island.
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Friday, February 3, 2012
Weekly Snippet: Beauty in the Design
Recently I had occasion to closely examine a flower called a "Protea." I wish I had taken a picture. For those who may have never seen one, it looks like a ball of spikes which curl upward toward the center, like a red or yellow pincushion. The petals of this flower are these short, fluffy reddish or yellowish tubes, which fit so closely together that they look like a fluffy ball that these "pins" are stuck in.
Anyway, these particular native South African plants were grown in Hawaii, in cool soil but warm sun, and attract hummingbirds in this environment. To me, they smell like pineapple-buttered popcorn. I'm not sure I would call them the most floral-looking of flowers, but they have their own charm. God made them!
This got me thinking. The Protea is, above all things, an intricately-built machine. It opens with mathematical clockwork, and every piece is uniquely positioned for maximum effect. It was made according to an intricate and amazing pattern. There's something stunning in the way the spikes formed by the pistols line up and look the same from every angle. I see obvious signs of the care and love that formed this lowly creature, even though it is here today and dried up tomorrow.
When we look at things like that, we should recognize the message God is sending us through His creations. If He cared enough to make flowers bloom the way they do, then we should be assured that He cares about everything, small and large, that happens to us (Matthew 6: 28-32). Take heart, my friends! There's a pattern and a plan unfolding in our lives--perhaps so slowly that we can't perceive it, like the petals of a flower--and when it is done, we will see the beauty in the design, and praise the workmanship of the Designer (Philippians 1: 4-6). Let us submit to the direction of our Designer, so the work He is doing can be carried out smoothly to the end.
The following are two YouTube videos of flowers blooming on time-lapse film. The first one may have taken place over several hours; the second one only took minutes. I think you'll be blown away by how these "machines" work. God does magnificent things!
The whole earth is filled with awe at your wonders; where morning dawns, where evening fades, you call forth songs of joy. --Psalm 65: 8 NIV
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Introductory Note to Irenæus Against Heresies
Chapter I.--Absurd ideas of the disciples of Valentinus as to the origin, name, order, and conjugal productions of their fancied Æons, with the passages of Scripture which they adapt to their opinions.
Chapter II.--The Propator was known to Monogenes alone. Ambition, disturbance, and danger into which Sophia fell; her shapeless offspring: she is restored by Horos. The production of Christ and of the Holy Spirit, in order to the completion of the Æ
Chapter III.--Texts of Holy Scripture used by these heretics to support their opinions.
Chapter IV.--Account given by the heretics of the formation of Achamoth; origin of the visible world from her disturbances.
Chapter V.--Formation of the Demiurge; description of him. He is the creator of everything outside of the Pleroma.
Chapter VI.--The threefold kind of man feigned by these heretics: good works needless for them, though necessary to others: their abandoned morals.
Chapter VII.--The mother Achamoth, when all her seed are perfected, shall pass into the Pleroma, accompanied by those men who are spiritual; the Demiurge, with animal men, shall pass into the intermediate habitation; but all material men shall go into cor
Chapter VIII.--How the Valentinians pervert the Scriptures to support their own pious opinions.
Chapter IX.--Refutation of the impious interpretations of these heretics.
Chapter X.--Unity of the faith of the Church throughout the whole world.
Chapter XI.--The opinions of Valentinus, with those of his disciples and others.
Chapter XII.--The doctrines of the followers of Ptolemy and Colorbasus.
Chapter XIII.--The deceitful arts and nefarious practices of Marcus.
Chapter XIV.--The various hypotheses of Marcus and others. Theories respecting letters and syllables.
Chapter XV.--Sige relates to Marcus the generation of the twenty-four elements and of Jesus Exposure of these absurdities.
Chapter XVI.--Absurd interpretations of the Marcosians.
Chapter XVII.--The theory of the Marcosians, that created things were made after the image of things invisible.
Chapter XVIII.--Passages from Moses, which the heretics pervert to the support of their hypothesis.
Chapter XIX.--Passages of Scripture by which they attempt to prove that the Supreme Father was unknown before the coming of Christ.
Chapter XX.--The apocryphal and spurious Scriptures of the Marcosians, with passages of the Gospels which they pervert.
Chapter XXI.--The views of redemption entertained by these heretics.
Chapter XXII.--Deviations of heretics from the truth.
Chapter XXIII.--Doctrines and practices of Simon Magus and Menander.
Chapter XXIV.--Doctrines of Saturninus and Basilides.
Chapter XXV.--Doctrines of Carpocrates.
Chapter XXVI.--Doctrines of Cerinthus, the Ebionites, and Nicolaitanes.
Chapter XXVII.--Doctrines of Cerdo and Marcion.
Chapter XXVIII.--Doctrines of Tatian, the Encratites, and others.
Chapter XXIX.--Doctrines of various other Gnostic sects, and especially of the Barbeliotes or Borborians.
Chapter XXX.--Doctrines of the Ophites and Sethians.
Chapter XXXI.--Doctrines of the Cainites.
Chapter I.--There is but one God: the impossibility of its being otherwise.
Chapter III.--The Bythus and Pleroma of the Valentinians, as well as the God of Marcion, shown to be absurd; the world was actually created by the same Being who had conceived the idea of it, and was not the fruit of defect or ignorance.
Chapter IV.--The absurdity of the supposed vacuum and defect of the heretics is demonstrated.
Chapter V.--This world was not formed by any other beings within the territory which is contained by the Father.
Chapter VI.--The angels and the Creator of the world could not have been ignorant of the Supreme God.
Chapter VII.--Created things are not the images of those Æons who are within the Pleroma.
Chapter VIII.--Created things are not a shadow of the Pleroma.
Chapter IX.--There is but one Creator of the world, God the Father: this the constant belief of the Church.
Chapter X.--Perverse interpretations of Scripture by the heretics: God created all things out of nothing, and not from pre-existent matter.
Chapter XI.--The heretics, from their disbelief of the truth, have fallen into an abyss of error: reasons for investigating their systems.
Chapter XII.--The Triacontad of the heretics errs both by defect and excess: Sophia could never have produced anything apart from her consort; Logos and Sige could not have been contemporaries.
Chapter XIII.--The first order of production maintained by the heretics is altogether indefensible.
Chapter XIV.--Valentinus and his followers derived the principles of their system from the heathen; the names only are changed.
Chapter XV.--No account can be given of these productions.
Chapter XVI.--The Creator of the world either produced of Himself the images of things to be made, or the Pleroma was formed after the image of some previous system; and so on ad infinitum.
Chapter XVII.--Inquiry into the production of the Æons: whatever its supposed nature, it is in every respect inconsistent; and on the hypothesis of the heretics, even Nous and the Father Himself would be stained with ignorance.
Chapter XVIII.--Sophia was never really in ignorance or passion; her Enthymesis could not have been separated from herself, or exhibited special tendencies of its own.
Chapter XIX.--Absurdities of the heretics as to their own origin: their opinions respecting the Demiurge shown to be equally untenable and ridiculous.
Chapter XX.--Futility of the arguments adduced to demonstrate the sufferings of the twelfth Æon, from the parables, the treachery of Judas, and the passion of our Saviour.
Chapter XXI.--The twelve apostles were not a type of the Æons.
Chapter XXIII.--The woman who suffered from an issue of blood was no type of the suffering Æon.
Chapter XXIV.--Folly of the arguments derived by the heretics from numbers, letters, and syllables.
Chapter XXV.--God is not to be sought after by means of letters, syllables, and numbers; necessity of humility in such investigations.
Chapter XXVI.--|Knowledge puffeth up, but love edifieth.|
Chapter XXVII.--Proper mode of interpreting parables and obscure passages of Scripture.
Chapter XXVIII.--Perfect knowledge cannot be attained in the present life: many questions must be submissively left in the hands of God.
Chapter XXIX.--Refutation of the views of the heretics as to the future destiny of the soul and body.
Chapter XXX.--Absurdity of their styling themselves spiritual, while the Demiurge is declared to be animal.
Chapter XXXI.--Recapitulation and application of the foregoing arguments.
Chapter XXXII.--Further exposure of the wicked and blasphemous doctrines of the heretics.
Chapter XXXIII.--Absurdity of the doctrine of the transmigration of souls.
Chapter XXXIV.--Souls can be recognised in the separate state, and are immortal although they once had a beginning.
Chapter XXXV.--Refutation of Basilides, and of the opinion that the prophets uttered their predictions under the inspiration of different gods.
Chapter II.--The heretics follow neither Scripture nor tradition.
Chapter III.--A refutation of the heretics, from the fact that, in the various Churches, a perpetual succession of bishops was kept up.
Chapter IV.--The truth is to be found nowhere else but in the Catholic Church, the sole depository of apostolical doctrine. Heresies are of recent formation, and cannot trace their origin up to the apostles.
Chapter VI--The Holy Ghost, throughout the Old Testament Scriptures, made mention of no other God or Lord, save him who is the true God.
Chapter VII.--Reply to an objection founded on the words of St. Paul (2 Cor. iv. 4) St. Paul occasionally uses words not in their grammatical sequence.
Chapter VIII.--Answer to an objection, arising from the words of Christ (Matt. vi. 24) God alone is to be really called God and Lord, for He is without beginning and end.
Chapter IX.--One and the same God, the Creator of heaven and earth, is He whom the prophets foretold, and who was declared by the Gospel. Proof of this, at the outset, from St. Matthew's Gospel.
Chapter X.--Proofs of the foregoing, drawn from the Gospels of Mark and Luke.
Chapter XI--Proofs in continuation, extracted from St. John's Gospel The Gospels are four in number, neither more nor less. Mystic reasons for this.
Chapter XII.--Doctrine of the rest of the apostles.
Chapter XIII--Refutation of the opinion, that Paul was the only apostle who had knowledge of the truth.
Chapter XIV.--If Paul had known any mysteries unrevealed to the other apostles, Luke, his constant companion and fellow-traveller, could not have been ignorant of them; neither could the truth have possibly lain hid from him, through whom alone we learn m
Chapter XV.--Refutation of the Ebionites, who disparaged the authority of St. Paul, from the writings of St. Luke, which must be received as a whole. Exposure of the hypocrisy, deceit, and pride of the Gnostics. The apostles and their disciples knew and p
Chapter XVI.--Proofs from the apostolic writings, that Jesus Christ was one and the same, the only begotten Son of God, perfect God and perfect man.
Chapter XVII.--The apostles teach that it was neither Christ nor the Saviour, but the Holy Spirit, who did descend upon Jesus. The reason for this descent.
Chapter XVIII.--Continuation of the foregoing argument Proofs from the writings of St. Paul, and from the words of Our Lord, that Christ and Jesus cannot be considered as distinct beings; neither can it be alleged that the Son of God became man merely in
Chapter XIX.--Jesus Christ was not a mere man, begotten from Joseph in the ordinary course of nature, but was very God, begotten of the Father most high, and very man, born of the Virgin.
Chapter XX.--God showed himself, by the fall of man, as patient, benign, merciful, mighty to save Man is therefore most ungrateful, if, unmindful of his own lot, and of the benefits held out to him, he do not acknowledge divine grace.
Chapter XXII.--Christ assumed actual flesh, conceived and born of the Virgin.
Chapter XXIII.--Arguments in opposition to Tatian, showing that it was consonant to divine justice and mercy that the first Adam should first partake in that salvation offered to all by Christ.
Chapter XXIV.--Recapitulation of the various arguments adduced against Gnostic impiety under all its aspects The heretics, tossed about by every blast of doctrine, are opposed by the uniform teaching of the Church, which remains so always, and is consiste
Chapter XXV.--This world is ruled by the providence of one God, who is both endowed with infinite justice to punish the wicked, and with infinite goodness to bless the pious, and impart to them salvation.
Chapter I.--The Lord acknowledged but one God and Father.
Chapter II.--Proofs from the plain testimony of Moses, and of the other prophets, whose words are the words of Christ, that there is but one God, the founder of the world, whom Our Lord preached, and whom He called His Father.
Chapter III.--Answer to the cavils of the Gnostics We are not to suppose that the true God can be changed, or come to an end because the heavens, which are His throne and the earth, His footstool, shall pass away.
Chapter VI.--Explanation of the words of Christ, |No man knoweth the Father, but the Son,| etc.; which words the heretics misinterpret. Proof that, by the Father revealing the Son, and by the Son being revealed, the Father was never unknown.
Chapter VIII.--Vain attempts of Marcion and his followers, who exclude Abraham from the salvation bestowed by Christ, who liberated not only Abraham, but the seed of Abraham, by fulfilling and not destroying the law when He healed on the Sabbath-day.
Chapter IX.--There is but one author, and one end to both covenants.
Chapter XI.--The old prophets and righteous men knew beforehand of the advent of Christ, and earnestly desired to see and hear Him, He revealing himself in the Scriptures by the Holy Ghost, and without any change in Himself, enriching men day by day with
Chapter XIV.--If God demands obedience from man, if He formed man, called him and placed him under laws, it was merely for man's welfare; not that God stood in need of man, but that He graciously conferred upon man His favours in every possible manner.
Chapter XV.--At first God deemed it sufficient to inscribe the natural law, or the Decalogue, upon the hearts of men; but afterwards He found it necessary to bridle, with the yoke of the Mosaic law, the desires of the Jews, who were abusing their liberty;
Chapter XVI.--Perfect righteousness was conferred neither by circumcision nor by any other legal ceremonies. The Decalogue, however, was not cancelled by Christ, but is always in force: men were never released from its commandments.
Chapter XVII.--Proof that God did not appoint the Levitical dispensation for His own sake, or as requiring such service; for He does, in fact, need nothing from men.
Chapter XVIII.--Concerning sacrifices and oblations, and those who truly offer them.
Chapter XIX.--Earthly things may be the type of heavenly, but the latter cannot be the types of others still superior and unknown; nor can we, without absolute madness, maintain that God is known to us only as the type of a still unknown and superior bein
Chapter XX.--That one God formed all things in the world, by means of the Word and the Holy Spirit: and that although He is to us in this life invisible and incomprehensible, nevertheless He is not unknown; inasmuch as His works do declare Him, and His Wo
Chapter XXI.--Abraham's faith was identical with ours; this faith was prefigured by the words and actions of the old patriarchs.
Chapter XXIV.--The conversion of the Gentiles was more difficult than that of the Jews; the labours of those apostles, therefore who engaged in the former task, were greater than those who undertook the latter.
Chapter XXV.--Both covenants were prefigured in Abraham, and in the labour of Tamar; there was, however, but one and the same God to each covenant.
Chapter XXVI.--The treasure hid in the Scriptures is Christ; the true exposition of the Scriptures is to be found in the Church alone.
Chapter XXVIII.--Those persons prove themselves senseless who exaggerate the mercy of Christ, but are silent as to the judgment, and look only at the more abundant grace of the New Testament; but, forgetful of the greater degree of perfection which it dem
Chapter XXIX.--Refutation of the arguments of the Marcionites, who attempted to show that God was the author of sin, because He blinded Pharaoh and his servants.
Chapter XXX.--Refutation of another argument adduced by the Marcionites, that God directed the Hebrews to spoil the Egyptians.
Chapter XXXII.--That one God was the author of both Testaments, is confirmed by the authority of a presbyter who had been taught by the apostles.
Chapter XXXIV.--Proof against the Marcionites, that the prophets referred in all their predictions to our Christ.
Chapter XXXV.--A refutation of those who allege that the prophets uttered some predictions under the inspiration of the highest, others from the Demiurge. Disagreements of the Valentinians among themselves with regard to these same predictions.
Chapter XXXVI.--The prophets were sent from one and the same Father from whom the Son was sent.
Chapter XXXVII.--Men are possessed of free will, and endowed with the faculty of making a choice. It is not true, therefore, that some are by nature good, and others bad.
Chapter XXXVIII.--Why man was not made perfect from the beginning.
Chapter XXXIX.--Man is endowed with the faculty of distinguishing good and evil; so that, without compulsion, he has the power, by his own will and choice, to perform God's commandments, by doing which he avoids the evils prepared for the rebellious.
Chapter XL.--One and the same God the Father inflicts punishment on the reprobate, and bestows rewards on the elect.
Chapter XLI.--Those persons who do not believe in God, but who are disobedient, are angels and sons of the devil, not indeed by nature, but by imitation. Close of this book, and scope of the succeeding one.
Chapter I.--Christ alone is able to teach divine things, and to redeem us: He, the same, took flesh of the Virgin Mary, not merely in appearance, but actually, by the operation of the Holy Spirit, in order to renovate us. Strictures on the conceits of Val
Chapter II.--When Christ visited us in His grace, He did not come to what did not belong to Him: also, by shedding His true blood for us, and exhibiting to us His true flesh in the Eucharist, He conferred upon our flesh the capacity of salvation.
Chapter III.--The power and glory of God shine forth in the weakness of human flesh, as He will render our body a participator of the resurrection and of immortality, although He has formed it from the dust of the earth; He will also bestow upon it the en
Chapter IV.--Those persons are deceived who feign another God the Father besides the Creator of the world; for he must have been feeble and useless, or else malignant and full of envy, if he be either unable or unwilling to extend external life to our bod
Chapter VIII.--The gifts of the Holy Spirit which we receive prepare us for incorruption, render us spiritual, and separate us from carnal men. These two classes are signified by the clean and unclean animals in the legal dispensation.
Chapter IX.--Showing how that passage of the apostle which the heretics pervert, should be understood; viz., |Flesh and blood shall not possess the kingdom of God.|
Chapter XI.--Treats upon the actions of carnal and of spiritual persons; also, that the spiritual cleansing is not to be referred to the substance of our bodies, but to the manner of our former life.
Chapter XII.--Of the difference between life and death; of the breath of life and the vivifying Spirit: also how it is that the substance of flesh revives which once was dead.
Chapter XIII.--In the dead who were raised by Christ we possess the highest proof of the resurrection; and our hearts are shown to be capable of life eternal, because they can now receive the Spirit of God.
Chapter XV.--Proofs of the resurrection from Isaiah and Ezekiel; the same God who created us will also raise us up.
Chapter XVI.--Since our bodies return to the earth, it follows that they have their substance from it; also, by the advent of the Word, the image of God in us appeared in a clearer light.
Chapter XIX.--A comparison is instituted between the disobedient and sinning Eve and the Virgin Mary, her patroness. Various and discordant heresies are mentioned.
Chapter XX.--Those pastors are to be heard to whom the apostles committed the Churches, possessing one and the same doctrine of salvation; the heretics, on the other hand, are to be avoided. We must think soberly with regard to the mysteries of the faith.
Chapter XXIV.--Of the constant falsehood of the devil, and of the powers and governments of the world, which we ought to obey, inasmuch as they are appointed of God, not of the devil.
Chapter XXV.--The fraud, pride, and tyrannical kingdom of Antichrist, as described by Daniel and Paul.
Chapter XXVI.--John and Daniel have predicted the dissolution and desolation of the Roman Empire, which shall precede the end of the world and the eternal kingdom of Christ. The Gnostics are refuted, those tools of Satan, who invent another Father differe
Chapter XXVII.--The future judgment by Christ Communion with and separation from the divine being. The eternal punishment of unbelievers.
Chapter XXVIII.--The distinction to be made between the righteous and the wicked The future apostasy in the time of Antichrist, and the end of the world.
Chapter XXIX.--All things have been created for the service of man The deceits, wickedness, and apostate power of Antichrist. This was prefigured at the deluge, as afterwards by the persecution of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego.
Chapter XXXI.--The preservation of our bodies is confirmed by the resurrection and ascension of Christ: the souls of the saints during the intermediate period are in a state of expectation of that time when they shall receive their perfect and consummated
Chapter XXXII.--In that flesh in which the saints have suffered so many afflictions, they shall receive the fruits of their labours; especially since all creation waits for this, and God promises it to Abraham and his seed.
Chapter XXXIII.--Further proofs of the same proposition, drawn from the promises made by Christ, when He declared that He would drink of the fruit of the vine with His disciples in His Father's kingdom, while at the same time He promised to reward them an
Chapter XXXIV.--He fortifies his opinions with regard to the temporal and earthly kingdom of the saints after their resurrection, by the various testimonies of Isaiah, Ezekiel, Jeremiah, and Daniel; also by the parable of the servants watching, to whom th
Chapter XXXV.--He contends that these testimonies already alleged cannot be understood allegorically of celestial blessings, but that they shall have their fulfilment after the coming of Antichrist, and the resurrection, in the terrestrial Jerusalem. To t
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You know, I can totally see how this might be a good idea…but I’d be scared to death to rent any of the knee walkers at You know why? Because I just know I’d manage to hurt myself worse by some sort of bizarre circumstance where the kneewalker sails across the room and I end up on my butt. Because that, boys and girls, is just the sort of thing that happens to me on a regular basis.
Good idea
I have a lot of kids. They have a lot of backpacks. I trip a lot. I wonder if I could solve the problem with a rolling coat rack. The bonus is that I could also use it for its intended purpose, right? Because all those kids also have coats, jackets, and sweaters in the multiple! I wonder what other uses I could find for it!
Today is a day when I wish there were three of me: one to clean, one to do homework, and one to just sit and soak up facebook and literature. So much I need to do and so much I want to do! I guess I need to get cracking on at least part of it. At least I don’t have to worry about cleaning off the stereo stand…..I don’t HAVE a stereo.
So tell me
What kind of music do you like? I’ve been cruising youtube lately, listening to new to me stuff. The singers look way more bizarre than the guys in the 80s hair bands, but other than that, I’m still seeing plenty of Gibson guitars and Taye Drums. So let fly the suggestions, and be random. I like almost anything except screaming!
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Friday, September 21, 2018
A bolt from the blue
Two weeks ago, I wrote about a surprising fossil find in China showing that insects had rebounded after the horrific Permian-Triassic Extinction, 252 million years ago, with amazing speed considering the scale of the extinction and how slowly evolution generally goes. An extinction opens up hundreds or thousands of ecological niches, which increases the selective pressure on the survivors to occupy them and avoid competition with the others -- which insects did, par excellence, and have been doing ever since.
The cause of the "Great Dying" has been a subject of conjecture for as long as we've known about it. Candidates include:
• The formation of the Siberian Traps, an unimaginably huge lava flow covering most of eastern Siberia. (Its volume is estimated at four hundred million cubic kilometers.) The eruption would have burned everything in its wake, pumping tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, and it would have released huge amounts of sulfur dioxide -- not only a poison, but one of the most powerful greenhouse gases. The result; massive global warming and a catastrophic change in ecosystems worldwide.
• The lockup of Pangaea. The collision of smaller continents to form a supercontinent has a number of effects -- the eradication of coastline along the colliding margin, ecological changes from shifting ocean currents, and collapse of mid-ocean ridges (resulting in a huge drop in sea level) among them.
• A "methane burp." This sounds innocuous, but really, really isn't. There's a tremendous amount of methane locked up in the form of clathrates -- a network of water ice with methane trapped inside. These "frozen methane hydrates" coat the entire deep ocean floor. The stuff is stable under cold temperatures and high pressures, but if something disturbs them, they begin to come apart, releasing bubbles of methane gas. The bubbles expand as they rise, displacing more and more water, and when they hit the surface it causes a tsunami, not to mention releasing tons of methane into the atmosphere, which is not only toxic, it's also a greenhouse gas.
• Bombardment by swarms of comets and/or meteorites. The problem with confirming this hypothesis is that any geological evidence of meteorite collisions would be long since eroded away. If the object(s) that impacted the Earth were metallic meteorites, it's possible that you could use the same technique Luis Alvarez pioneered to explain the Cretaceous Extinction, which wiped out most of the dinosaurs -- enrichment of a layer of sediment by dust that's high in metallic elements not found in large quantities elsewhere. But if it was a comet (mostly ice) or a rocky meteorite, we might not see much in the way of evidence of the event.
We just got a new piece of the puzzle last week, from research that also took place in China at a rock outcropping called the Penglaitan Section. This formation dates from just before and just after the Permian-Triassic Extinction, and has the advantage of being 27 meters thick -- the sediment was being deposited rapidly when it formed, which means that you can see fine gradations in composition and narrow down the time range for when things happened. (By comparison, the previous formation used is only 30 centimeters thick.)
Part of the Penglaitan Section [Image by Shuzhong Shen]
And what Penglaitan tells us is rather alarming. The Permian-Triassic Extinction, which wiped out 95% of life on Earth and dwarfed the more familiar Cretaceous Extinction, happened in a relative flash. And it wasn't (or wasn't solely) caused by temperature rise; the main pulse of extinctions happened suddenly, without any warning, and occurred when the temperature had only started its upward trajectory. There was a five-degree temperature increase that occurred at the same time as the extinctions, but a much larger increase followed that, after the vast majority of the extinctions had already taken place.
Right now, the leading hypothesis is that the eruption of the Siberian Traps is the most likely cause. But that in itself is horrific; it means that this colossal outpouring of lava not only happened suddenly, it happened with no warning. Immediately prior to the extinction event, life was doing just fine -- the biodiversity was high, and there were no minor die-offs to presage the big one that was coming.
"We thought we would see a gradual decline in the diversity of life forms or, for example, certain species that are known to be less resilient than others, we would expect them to die out early on, but we don’t see that, said Jahandar Ramezani, of MIT's Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences. "We can say there was extensive volcanic activity before and after the extinction, which could have caused some environmental stress and ecologic instability. But the global ecologic collapse came with a sudden blow, and we cannot see its smoking gun in the sediments that record extinction... The key in this paper is the abruptness of the extinction. Any hypothesis that says the extinction was caused by gradual environmental change during the late Permian — all those slow processes, we can rule out. It looks like a sudden punch comes in, and we’re still trying to figure out what it meant and what exactly caused it."
So that's pretty scary. The idea that something on this scale could strike with essentially no warning whatsoever makes me realize how precarious life is, and how easily the interconnections between ecosystems that keep everything going could be disrupted -- not to mention the scale of the destruction if that happens.
Anyone out there still wondering why I'm so alarmed at the rate at which we're pouring fossil-fuel-derived carbon dioxide into the atmosphere?
Anyhow, that's our cheery message for today. Monkey around with the ecosystem, and you could kill 95% of life on Earth. I mean, I don't think it's likely to happen day after tomorrow, or anything, but the fragility of it all should give you pause.
This week's Skeptophilia book recommendation is a fun one. If you've never read anything by Mary Roach, you don't know what you're missing. She investigates various human phenomena -- eating, space travel, sex, death, and war being a few of the ones she's tackled -- and writes about them with an analytical lens and a fantastically light sense of humor. This week, my recommendation is Spook, in which she looks at the idea of an afterlife, trying to find out if there's anything to it from a scientific perspective. It's an engaging, and at times laugh-out-loud funny, read.
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random quarter
September 11, 2017
stephanie posted about questions you didn't ask today, borrowing from two hundred questions she'd found. i thought i'd use some from that list as prompts for an rq post.
one. what is one of your favorite smells? gardenia. it's hard not to feel pretty when i've used bodycology's pure white gardenia bath products. pair that with ralph lauren's romance, and i feel fine (at least for a little while... the trouble is, i don't use this stuff every day. maybe i should).
two. what lie do you tell most often? i'm good.
three. if you had to change your name, to what would you change it? the one i've got suits me pretty well: jennifer kristin. lots of i's in my name, and for a gal who is as selfish as i am... also, jennifer is the cornish derivation of the welsh guinevere. i've welsh ancestry (damn proud of it, yall), and i'm as weak as guinevere was. but if i absolutely HAD to change it... i would choose elin (the welsh spelling) josephine, after my paternal and maternal grandmothers.
four. how do you get in the way of your own success? i let people's opinions of me matter; i believe what they believe; i assume that if someone more beautiful and bright and brave had come up with the idea for a thing, it would fly far and fast, but because i came up with it, it'll fall flat and i'll be humiliated or ignored; i let my anger at injustice and envy at others' successes color my logic. i'll think i'm better than someone and that they succeed because they know the right people; i know plenty of the right people, but many can't be bothered to help, and i know it's because i'm not beautiful and bright and brave, that if i were, they'd be clamoring to give me a hand. i'm angry. that's how. i've been angry since i was eight. it kept me alive for a long time, that anger. it's keeping me here now, but i'm stranded. i don't care much about fighting anymore. i wish i did.
five. to what stereotype do you completely live up? that mentally and physically disabled individuals can't contribute much to society and should be hidden away.
and since stephanie referenced her astrological sign in her post and i've a fondness for the zodiac...
this about aries from darkside zodiac by stella hyde:
you are either thirty minutes early, raring to go, and incandescent that everyone else is late, or you turn up four days later at a different venue and are outraged that the expedition left without you.
after a five-minute rant in the bathroom when you throw everything out of the window looking for your tube of toothpaste, you finally find it in the laundry basket. you hammer it flat with your bare hands.
temper gauge
zero degrees to boiling point is instantaneous, and occurs roughly every two minutes because people just won't do what you tell them, and you've lost the keys/hammer/remote control/plot.
yes, to all of this.
six. about what are you most insecure? my face and figure.
seven. what television show or movie do you refuse to watch? so many. television (and i realize some of these may no longer be running, but i'm listing them anyway because i can): the walking dead; family guy; american horror story; house of cards; breaking bad; vikings; criminal minds; sherlock; true detective; homeland; dr. who; dexter; lost; sons of anarchy; orange is the new black; better call saul; westworld; true blood; orphan black; the vampire diaries... movies: taxi driver; psycho; seven samurai; jaws; a clockwork orange; inception; the shining; lawrence of arabia; raging bull; the exorcist; once upon a time in the west; memento; pan's labyrinth; war for the planet of the apes; split; transformers: the last knight; it; fifty shades of grey; girls trip; annabelle: creation...
eight. who's your go to band or artist when you can't decide on what to listen? usually u2 or van halen.
nine. what's the one thing you did that you really wish you could go back and undo? it's a tie. i regret each of these things equally. the first has to do with the only man i've ever loved. sometimes i wish i could go back to approximately nine p.m. tuesday, april sixteenth, two thousand two at carlyle place apartments at the intersection of babcock and callaghan roads in san antonio, texas, to the day i should've tried harder to shove aside the thoughts swirling -- mine: how could you possibly have thought he would be interested in you? how could you have forgotten how ugly men think you are? how could you have been so goddamned gullible? why the fuck would he want to be with you when you know nothing about love and life? look at all the scars on you; stupid, foolish girl; theirs: no one will ever marry you because you're too ugly and no one wants to wake up next to something that ugly every morning; you should go kill yourself because you're a waste of valuable air and space and there are more important people who need it; ugly; stupid; worthless. i was twenty-eight. the day i'd met him, he had told me he thought i was gorgeous. i should've clung to that, but i couldn't. i should've either walked away from him that day or found a way to deal with the insecurity, but i couldn't. and since i couldn't... approximately eight p.m. thursday, march twenty-first, two thousand two at international house of pancakes at the intersection of de zavala road and interstate ten in san antonio, to the day i met him and we gave each other tarot card readings and the cards said he would not be good for me (i wasn't so stupid as to ask that question aloud, by the way, but my face was so stricken when he'd revealed that ace of spades that he'd asked about it... i knew better than to tell him. i should've walked away from him then. all those times i saw that opera carmen in my youth... i should've known to pay attention to the goddamned cards. it was his idea to do the reading, by the way. how weird is that? i'd thought it was a neat idea for a first date. i'd liked that we weren't going anywhere special. i should've known we weren't. i wish i had saved myself the heartache. i wish i had saved him from myself. i wish this didn't matter, still. it probably wouldn't if i could let myself really care about another man again, but i can't. i loathe who i was after i lost him. i was the best possible version of myself... and then i was the worst.
that's the first one that comes to mind. and i always feel guilty, and angry, that he's first, when it should be my older brother and the day he tried to give me a proper hug. he always gave me one-armed ones. i wish i could tell you the day. it was after i lost the boy, before i learned that i could love my brother again. i was hating him for all the hurt he'd caused. i was at my younger brother's house, and jon was there with us and our friends, and i was either coming or going and he went to hug me -- a good hug, with both arms, tight tight as i call it to my niece and nephew, and i didn't let him. i didn't really hug him back. i gave him the kind of hug i'd come to expect from him. i wish i could have held onto him a little better.
ten. on what topic could you give a forty minute presentation with no preparation? either what it's like to deal with depression on a day-to-day basis or how to ace an essay.
eleven. what are you afraid people see when they look at you? how flawed i am, how much i lack.
twelve. what is one thing you really want but can't afford? major dental work.
thirteen. what gives your life meaning? writing.
fourteen. what did you think you would outgrow but haven't? an appreciation for kraft singles cheese slices and premium saltines. it's still my go-to comfort food, and i always feel like a little kid when i'm eating that stuff.
fifteen. what keeps you up at night? shame and inadequacy and fear.
sixteen. what is something you will never do again? fall in love.
seventeen. what's the best thing about you? talent, tenacity and resilience.
eighteen. which of your scars has the best story behind it? the ones behind my ears and along my hairline. surgeons took my face off twice when i was a baby.
nineteen. if you could make one rule that everyone had to follow, what rule would you make? respect others' personal space.
twenty. what bends your mind every time you think about it? the implausibility of the terminator storyline. i've been trying to make sense of that thing for like three decades and still can't do it. and here's a little something else for yall to ponder: two of my characters are named kyle and reese. i swear i didn't do that on purpose... or did i?
twenty-one. what is the most annoying question people ask you? how can you drive?
twenty-two. what's the best thing you got from your parents? their determination for and faith in me.
twenty-three. there are two types of people in this world. what are the two types? bricks and sponges. after a storm and the sun dries up the rain, bricks retain their shape and strength, but sponges have to be wrung out. bricks don't need anyone; sponges do. bricks don't have much compassion; sponges do.
twenty-four. to what fact are you resigned? that i will never be capable of loving a man, and one will never be capable of loving me, and i will die alone and despaired because of this.
twenty-five. what are three of the most significant numbers in your life? twelve, sixteen and seventeen.
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1. I don't know why you are scarred but that's all surface level shit; I think you're a pretty rad chick. :) Much love to you darling. Xo
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Now I come to your question, “Whether life has got some meaning". I may quote here a verse to give you some idea of it.
"Life means liveliness; damnation is for those who are dead at heart."
Whatever poetical meaning it might carry, my view-point will be clear by the following interpretation. What is liveliness? It is to live with a heart. But what kind of life would it be? In a word I may say, "Give away your heart to another, what remains then is only life". If you ponder over the word ‘life' you will come to the conclusion that life is only that which is connected with living. My expression makes it clear that there is certainly some type of living with which life is connected. At the same time it is also clear that the living with which this life wants to remain connected is eternal and immortal. If we merge our life in that life it is then the real life, where there is neither bliss nor sorrow, neither pleasure nor pain. I wish to lead you all to that life which alone is the goal of life as I have put it. Whatever sense you apply to the sentence, "give away your heart to another", will be correct if that is associated with the feeling of love. But it is also definite that Reality can never be revealed through mere interpretations because that would be far away from mental grasp. My object in writing all this is that the real being which is shrouded over with worldliness, or the heart which is inclined towards silly pleasantries, should be turned round. This is all that one has to do in life — the heart to be His, and you to be yours!
Regarding your question as to what you shall get by this kind of life, I may say that the question of getting arises only when there is a motive at the bottom. But when the heart itself is no longer ours the question of motive does not arise at all. What will you get then? Only that which is really yours. You had certainly a life prior to this one, and your coming into this life is the result of that. Now if you want to have your past life again, it is impossible. The worry for the next one should not also be there since you have surrendered your mind and heart to another, as you say.
Diversity is life. Had there been no diversity, what would life have meant? Now, how did it come about? The answer would be that we went on solidifying our thoughts to the extent that the real thing at the base got veiled within. The glamour and the glitter alone remained to view, with which we fell in love to the extent of getting intoxicated with it. When you became tipsy you went on spinning round like a top. You danced and felt delighted with it. Now please decide for yourself what part in the work-house of Nature did you play for your own making, which was exclusively your own responsibility.
It is good that you do the puja for half an hour but it would be better if you do it for an hour. Constant remembrance shall help you to cross all stages. All the different stages and the various types of superconsciousness are unfolded thereby, and it connects you with Reality. You seem to be a bit perplexed at the idea that it is impossible to answer every ‘why'. Let me give you certain examples. The problem whether the seed came first or the tree has not yet been solved. But my view is that it was the seed that came first, and that was due to the effect of quakes and shocks of the Divine vibrations. One might as well ask why was the world created at all, or where did God come from? Just think for yourself what the answer can possibly be. I think if God could be asked where He did come from, He would not be able to answer. If he replies at all He cannot be God then, because with the reply the limitation would at once set in and His unlimitedness would be lost.
Education causes only an expansion of brain, whereas the most essential factor for the expansion of mind is culture which puts the channels of our thought and actions in order. Mere reading of books without a close study of the Heart's book is of no avail. But since I am not very learned, I may possibly be misunderstanding the real meaning of ‘Education'. It was in the state of ignorance that I was born, and I am more so now because when I opened the book of my heart for the purpose of study, I found in it only one word, ‘Ignorance'.
Our present education, being dyed in the gaudy colours of Western thought, tends towards the increasing of necessities of life to an abnormal limit. All through life people go on striving for their procurement with the full force of their thought and effort. That becomes their main pursuit of life. Reverses and failures create unhappy effects upon them and spoil their mood. The real cause of anger is usually one's own refractory temperament. A stubborn nature cultivated by the effect enshrouds one's sense of judgement. The distinction between right and wrong having thus been lost, he remains rigidly fixed upon his views and allows no accommodation to other's views. This is undoubtedly a serious block in the way of spirituality. One on the path of spirituality should necessarily be as light in mind and spirit as possible. He should be free from even the weight of the feeling of what he is after. This is in fact the real secret of a strong will which I disclose to you today. In such a case, whatever thought gets settled in shall have its action. Permanency in this state is an attainment of a high order.
Everyone praises men of wisdom and I too do so. At some place I have also humourously remarked that even God does not help the weak persons. And he alone is weak who lacks self-confidence. Now, I say that God has reserved a place for those who are foolish, and that is heaven. The hell is heaven for the sinners and for the ignorant. For the wise there is heavenly heaven; and for the innocent “brahmalok“. I think the above divisions are correct. If I explain it, it will require a number of pages. Therefore I leave the explanation to you people.
The experience of the Ultimate begins when every other experience dies out. Those who have acquired laya avastha in Brahman, as much as is possible for the human being, remain in it sometimes with the full depth, and sometimes a little shallow. A man fully absorbed in Brahman all the time can do any work but will look like a statue.
It is impossible to reach Reality through the medium of reason. Reality is after all an intuitional (Wajdani) thing. This is quite true and the Sufis (Muslim Mystics) mostly consider the Wajdani (intuitional) condition to be the Real condition. But our thinkers have gone still further than this. Wajdan is, nevertheless, connected with matter and the “I-ness” is hidden in it. The condition which lies beyond this can indeed be called the Real condition. Reason cannot reach there. When individuality goes away from the individual mind, the mind alone remains which is one only, and it can then be called the Godly Mind. Just that alone brings to view the real condition of the self. The reach of reason is to the extent to which you view the other thing with import.
It is possible that I cannot understand the meaning of Zero in as good a manner as others do, because the zero cannot know the condition of another zero, nor can the dead know the condition of the corpse. In a way, you may call such a condition as that where all dualities whatsoever go away, and we become living dead. Or we get dissolved in Reality in such a way that every discrimination is lost,and the difference between the Real and the imitation is not discerned.
Real spirituality lies in actually becoming colourless, odourless and tasteless, because God has got none of these. In our system, it is endeavoured to take one up to Reality. If any colour remains, there can be no purity at all. You know all these things.
There is a Persian Proverb: “See Laila with the eyes of Majnu”. That is, as Laila was an ugly girl, it required the eyes of a Majnu only to see her. In the same way, if we have to see God, the same mad looks are required.
The most commonly accepted conception of God is Eternal Power. But the philosophic view goes much beyond and includes the idea of Nirguna Brahma or Indeterminate Absolute which is above all multiplicity and distinctions. It is the ultimate cause and substratum of existence, the supra active Centre of the entire manifestation or the Absolute Base. It is beyond quality, activity or Consciousness. It is also known as Para Brahma. Next comes the idea of God as Supreme existence. We see the universe with all its diversities and differentiations and we are led to believe in it as creator and controller. We call him as Ishwar or Saguna Brahma (Determinate Absolute). Really God is neither Nirakar nor Saakar but beyond both.
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Thursday, August 16, 2018
You Know You Are Old If
I know there will be many, many obvious things I have forgotten [I guess which is another way that I know I am old], so please feel free and I would appreciate your responses of the things this old guy has forgotten. Of course, in doing so you will give yourself away, but I say we may be older...but we are definitely better. :-)
You know you are old if:
you still remember having to dial the operator to make a long distance call.
you couldn't wait to get up early in the morning to see the pattern on your black and white TV and hear the national anthem to signal that TV programs were about to come on one of the three channels available.
to hear the top 40 songs or any music you would have to turn on one of your AM radio stations.
you thought a Beta Max was the coolest thing ever.
you remember when LP stood for a vinyl record album, and you actually wish they were still in vogue.
you remember putting a penny on top of the head of the arm of a turntable [record player] near the needle, to stop the record from skipping.
you couldn't wait to get home from school to sing along with the Mouseketeers, M-I-C-K-E-Y M-O-U-S-E
you didn't have a calculator or computer to solve a math problem, but you may have had a slide rule
* you remember that Sunday evenings the whole nation was watching the Ed Sullivan Show ["We have a really big shoooe for you tonight"].
you still remember the words, "good night, Chet...good night David".
you still can hear in your memory "and that's the way it is" from Walter Cronkite.
you remember exactly where you were and what you were doing when you heard the chilling news that President Kennedy was assassinated.
you saw live on TV Lee Harvey Oswald being shot and killed by Jack Ruby.
when someone asked "what time is it?" you responded with "It's Howdy Doody time."
Spanky and Alfalfa of "The Little Rascals" were your role models as a kid.
you were there at the time politicians actually made decisions in "smoke filled rooms."
the words "pot" "grass" and "weed" meant a container used for cooking, the green vegetation on lawns and a wild, undesirable plant.
* you were there when they first came out with something called 'slow motion replay' for sporting events [and you thought it was amazing].
you actually did walk to school in the snow [and thought it was fun].
you were thrilled every time you heard the words, "look, up in the sky, it's a bird, it's a plane, no, it's Superman."
* you couldn't wait to see if you got a Stan Musial or Mickey Mantle baseball card in your bubblegum.
* you went to a MLB ballpark on Sunday to sometimes see two games for the price of one.
* no one ever told you to make sure the front door was locked
* you were growing up as a kid you might hear the word giggle, but never hear the word google.
* you remember the time you could go to the grocery store and you wouldn't even think about locking your car doors are rolling up your windows.
* your parents could give you a dollar to go inside a McDonald's to get a burger, fries and drink and they would tell you not to forget the change.
* when growing up the word gay meant to be happy and carefree.
* you used to go to the gas station to get a fill up and never had to get out of your car. Then the same guy who would fill up your car with gas would check your oil level and the water in your battery and air in your tires and clean off your windows. And then after all that service you would give him a $5 bill and receive change. And then he would actually tell you thank you for coming in.
* going to the movies as a kid meant seeing cartoons, and a newsreel before the movie. [and sometimes before 2 movies featured at one showing]
* you agree that the popcorn at the movies was so much better than it is today.
* you remember watching the NBA championship on tape delay.
* as a kid you used to sneak in your transistor radio at school to listen to the World Series, as every game would be during the day. [and the teacher would ask you what the score was]
* you remember how cool you wanted your car in the summer was determined by how far you rolled down the window.
* you marveled at the new technology of a cassette player over the old 8 track players.
* you couldn't wait until the next week to get Volume 8 of your encyclopedia set at the grocery store.
* two of the most exciting toys you could get as a kid would be a Hula Hoop and a slinky.
* you marveled when the movies came out in technicolor
* you had to turn in your glass coke bottles at the grocery store to get a refund of the extra amount you had to pay for them when you purchased them.
* you still remember when the NFL All-Star game used to be a game between the previous year's NFL championship team against a group of All-star college seniors [that would be getting their first paycheck] and the game took place before the season began.
* you were a kid when the MLB playoffs amounted to one series-the World Series, between the winner of the 8 team National League vs the winner of the 8 team American League.
* you were watching the first Super Bowl game between the Green Bay Packers and the Kansas City Chiefs, and remember that it was not called the Super Bowl game but the first NFL-AFL Championship game. [BTW the Packers won 35-10]
* it would have been unthinkable when you were a kid not to respect your elders by using the words, "yes, sir" or "yes, ma'am."
* when you were growing up the word aunt was pronounced "ant" by everyone. [and the way I still say it]
* your first album was "Meet the Beatles".
* one of the best hamburgers you could get would be at the counter in the back of the downtown drug store.
* the most fun ride you could have was to sit with your brothers and or sisters in the back of a pick-up truck with your father driving.
* you remember the doctor coming to your house when you got sick as a kid.
* [from my brother Bradley] you remember putting playing cards into the spokes of your bicycle with wooden clothes clips, to make noise while you rode down your street in the neighborhood.
* you remember when the NCAA basketball tournament consisted of 16 teams [i.e., it took 2 wins to get to the final four]
* the nurse at school used to "paint" your throat when you got a sore throat. [and it worked]
And finally you know you are old if:
* you remember taking a typing class...on a
Harry Shepler said...
A trip down memory lane!
Big Mike said...
But you're not old enough to remember big Harry. :-)
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Three Tips To Reduce The Effect of the Loss of Fibroglandular Tissues and Fat
Fibroglandular tissues and fat are sometimes the unwanted effect that weight loss has on a woman. These tissues and fat make up the density of the breast. During wieght loss the size of the breast also decreases, these changes are unique to each woman but in some cases 75% of the breast is made up of fat composition, according to breast link.
The following are 3 tips how to prevent breasts from sagging after weight lost.
1. Wear a supportive bra during workouts, reevaluate the size every couple months.
2. Don’t do crash diets that cause you to lose weight fast and in an unhealthy way, this can have an adverse effect on your skin’s elasticity.
3. Focus your workouts to build muscle tone in your chest area.
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Gaza Sky Geeks: Defying the odds under occupation
How can international business be conducted under a political blockade? How can technological innovations be developed with no access to stable electricity? And how can people pursue their goals when violence and war are constants in their day-to-day lives? The entrepreneurs of Gaza’s first tech hub are making the seemingly impossible come true. Read More
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Tuesday, April 19, 2011
race results
Here are the results from the race Sunday. I am the only one, and therefore first, in my age group. Yes! Getting older has some rewards!
Female 50-59
Place Bib # Name Age Finish Elapsed
1 952 Teresa S. 58 9:37:32 0:36:33
Anonymous said...
Is that nine hours? :) Holy cow you have stamina!
Teresa said...
No, that's the elapsed time. Nine hours. Hahahahahaha....surely you jest.
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Sunday, July 5, 2015
The Fangirl Initiative Summer Reading Mission
Summer is in full swing, and for most of us, that means no more textbooks! With all of our study materials on the shelf for a few months, there's extra time for more exciting books. My to-be-read pile resembles an unsteady game of Jenga, but I keep balancing titles on top. I always plan to tackle the stack in summertime, but often weeks go by, and I find myself still stuck on the same book.
This year, I wanted to shake up my summer reading routine. I've come across a few reading challenges in the past, but I thought it would be fun to put together an official Fangirl Initiative Summer Reading Mission! Should you choose to accept these classified orders, you will be embarking upon quite the adventure. A word of warning before you undertake this task: Reading is not as safe a pastime as some would say. It sends you into dangerous worlds, pits you against villainous characters, causes intense emotional strain, swallows up hours in a single gulp, and either dries your eyes from intense staring or floods them with unquenchable tears. However, the merits are boundless. You will explore new lands, encounter diverse characters, soar with feelings, conquer boredom, and have your eyes opened to worlds you never imagined.
Are you ready to begin?
The Reading List:
Below is a list of bookish criterion to use as prompts. For most prompts, a recommendation or example is included. Use the suggested titles as a jumpstart, or improvise with all your own!
Read a book...
1. Written by an author with your first name (or the same first or last initial as you.)
I'll be reading Throne of Glass by Sarah J. Maas. I've had my eye on this novel for a while, and have managed to avoid spoilers. If you've read it, I'd love to know what you think- just without spoilers. ;)
2. With a color in the title. Check out Red Queen by Victoria Aveyard! You can read my review of it here.
3. That's been sitting on your shelf for more than a year. I must confess, I have several novels that fit this description. My choice, though, is Hood by Stephen Lawhead. Ever since the BBC Robin Hood show, I've been interested in finding another outlaw story. Depending how this one lives up to my expectation, you might be hearing more of it.
4. That is historical fiction. I'm planning to finish reading Lisa Bergren's Grand Tour series. The first one is an excellent story, set in the early 1900's. I'm quite excited to see where the next two books lead. I believe the time period progresses into the 20's, though I'm not sure.
5. You picked for the cover. I know I shouldn't, but I frequently judge books by their covers. Currently, I've snagged Kiss of Deception by Mary E. Pearson. I'm hoping the story lives up to the artwork.
6. That's first in a series. It's been a couple of years since I read it, and I've yet to continue the series, but Cinder by Marissa Meyer is a solid starting book.
7. Involving time travel. Last month, Jaime and I collaborated on a post for 14 Reasons You Should Read the River of Time series. I just have to recommend these books again. Seriously, if you read nothing else on this list, read the River of Time. At least try the first book, Waterfall.
8. Featuring a love triangle. I know, I know. I can hear you groaning. But admit it- a little melodramatic angst every once in a while can be entertaining. And it is possible to have a good love triangle, as Mirriam shared in this post. I got really caught up in the love triangle in the Halflings series by Heather Burch. Even after it resolved, I was torn. I'm still torn, a year later.
9. Set in the future. My current favorite futuristic books are the Remnants series, by Lisa Bergren. Although they're dystopian, they put a fresh spin on the genre. I did a full review here.
10. With more than 400 pages. Some books really shouldn't go over 400 pages, but thick novels excite me nonetheless. If you're looking for a story with a lot of depth and detail, grab a copy of Dragonwitch by Anne Elisabeth Stengl! Though it's part of a series, it can also stand alone. I loved the world-building and lore in this novel, and it was long enough to get lost in.
11. Narrated by a guy. Since this is the Fangirl Initiative, and most of the books I've listed are narrated by other awesome girls, I figured we'd shake it up and bring a boy into the mix. I finished both The Giver by Lois Lowry and The Maze Runner by James Dashner recently, and greatly enjoyed the stories and the narrative style.
12. Retelling a fairy tale. I'm easily drawn to fairy tales, but I don't always like the remixes. Alex Flinn's take on Beauty and the Beast, though, in her novel Beastly was well-done. It kept the spirit of Beauty and the Beast but added its own modern appeal.
13. That is a classic. The piece of literature I can't stop recommending right now is Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird. It's such a powerful, touching book. My only regret is I didn't read it sooner.
14. Outside your usual favorite genres. I read a lot of fantasy, dystopian and historical, so I'm going to try getting through a contemporary story. Since it keeps popping up, I'll finally be trying To All the Boys I've Loved Before by Jenny Han. Even though it's getting a lot of attention, I don't have super high expectations, so we'll see how this experiment turns out.
15. Recommended by a friend or fellow fangirl! My random recommendation is Legend by Marie Lu. (See? Another dystopian. I used to hate this genre, but now I need to branch out more.)
The Rules:
• Each book you read can be applied to only one category. For example, let's say you read Waterfall. Technically, it could be considered historical fiction, first in a series, time travel and recommended by a fellow fangirl (me!). Rather than reading one book and checking off four items, though, you would assign Waterfall to one grouping and read three other books to mark off the rest.
• You can complete the challenge in any order you like.
• It's okay to skip up to five of the prompts on the list.
• Only completed books count. *glances guiltily at abandoned, half-finished titles on shelf...*
• You don't have to read any of the titles mentioned. You're certainly welcome to, but they were included as a guide, not a rule. I may even adjust a few from my list.
• Have fun! Life is stressful enough, and this challenge isn't meant to add more pressure. If something isn't working for you, forget all the rules above and do what's best for you. After all, that's what being a fangirl is about.
The Reward:
We would absolutely love to hand out prizes of epic proportions to every participant! Sadly, we don't have delivery owls at our disposal, and carrier pigeons aren't as reliable. Thankfully, we do have internet connection. If you complete the challenge by August 30, let us know! We'll email you an awesome award certificate and some nifty bookmarks to print out, along with our applause and good wishes.
In the meantime, don't forget to keep in touch! Let us know which books you're reading, and which ones you recommend other fangirls read. Tweet or tag us in photos of your TBR piles and reading selfies. Go ahead and share this not-so-top-secret reading mission with your other fangirl friends.
Now if you'll excuse me, I'm off to read another chapter.
1. Oh, Sarah! This is perfect. I'm definitely going to try to do this and I will let you know my results. I've read a lot of your example suggestions, so if you haven't read any, you definitely should! :D
Might I suggest an unofficial bonus mission? Read a graphic novel of some sort. Manga, Marvel or DC (or both?) comic book, literary classics graphic novels, etc. Need recommendations, I'm your girl.
I love this. I just love this so much. :)
2. This sounds like so much fun! I have been really too busy with my writing schedule to dedicate much time to reading, but this may be just what I need to remedy that. :) If I can make it work I will definitely do this! Thanks Sarah!
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The Full Wiki
Operation Savannah: Wikis
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
During World War II, Operation Savannah was the first insertion of SOE trained Free French paratroops into German-occupied France: on the night of 15 March 1941.
This SOE mission, requested by the Air Ministry, was to ambush and kill as many pilots as possible of the Kampfgeschwader 100, a German Pathfinder formation stationed at Meucon airfield which spear-headed night raids on Britain.
Five paratroops made a blind drop at midnight from an RAF Whitley, landing some eight miles east of the town of Vannes (where the Pathfinder crew billeted), and five miles off target. The following day they discovered the pilots no longer commuted between Vannes and Meucon by bus, but had taken to travelling on an ad-hoc basis by cars. Hence the grand ambush and assassination had to be aborted.
Seeking to gain something from the mission, Captain Berge instructed his men to disperse and go on general reconnaissance and meet at Sables d'Olonne at the end of the month for extraction by sea.
One of the men was already missing and another failed to make the rendezvous. After several nights watching from the sand dunes, on 4/5 April, Berge saw Geoffrey Appleyard of the SOE's Small Scale Raiding Force paddling ashore after launching from the submarine HMS Tigris. Unfortunately, two other kayaks were damaged being launched so only Berge and Forman could be extracted. Joel Letac remained behind and made his way to a safehouse in Paris and continued as an SOE operative.
The Free French paratroops went on to later form the French SAS and Berge took part in some early raids in the near east, eventually rising to the rank of general.
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The Horror Honeys: Paranormal Activity: No bueno. No más
Paranormal Activity: No bueno. No más
A Supernatural Honey Review
Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones (2014)
Several years ago, when I first began hearing and seeing snippets on a little movie called Paranormal Activity, I was, for lack of a better word, stoked. This seemed like the super scary ghost story I had been waiting for. Of course, this was before nearly every film was "found footage" style and induced my migraines. It felt like it was never going to get released. Then boyfriend brought me a screener to watch on one of his visits. Wow! Finally! Unfortunately, halfway through, I found that doing my laundry was more entertaining. Keep in mind, this was the original cut, not the one they eventually played in theaters. I gave up right there and haven't seen another PA movie… until now.
I had the opportunity to see Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones at a screening. It's been getting some decent buzz and was supposed to be "different" than the others. Besides, it had been snowing for four days straight and I had nothing better to do.
Jesse just graduated from high school. He and his friend Carlos are enjoying the start to their summer by videotaping their antics. They spy on Jesse's neighbour, Ana, whom they believe to be a witch. She turns up dead and they sneak into her apartment to snoop. Soon after, Jesse begins to experience some changes in his personality and his physicality. He finds out he's been marked for possession by a cult of women who take first born sons. It's quite unclear why or what happens to them afterward. Then again, this is a Paranormal Activity movie, what did you expect?
I think I've made my point on several occasions about my distain for found footage. It's been done to death. I went into this fully expecting to hate it so at least my expectations were reasonable.
I will say that the first act was kind of entertaining. Watching Jessie and Carlos film each other doing stupid things like riding a laundry basket down a flight of stairs; it was kind of like watching Jackass, but with less disgusting people. Once the whole possession stuff started to figure in, it lost me.
The characters are all pretty likeable. However, because the story is so stupid and done to death, it's hard to feel much sympathy for anyone once the shit hits the fan.
There are a few moments that are intended as jump scares, but, at this point, you see them coming. For instance, Jesse is walking through the basement of his neighbour's apartment, looking for his dog. There are drapes of plastic sheeting that he has to pull back one by one. You know eventually something "evil" will be behind one of them and that's exactly what happens.
Sure, this shit is unrealistic to begin with, but if you're not making a film, why on earth would you be carrying a video camera everywhere you go? During the climax, when Carlos and a few others go to a farm to attempt to rescue Jesse before his final ritual, are we really supposed to buy that they'd bring a camera to that and not the cops? They saw him being physically taken away.
As I stated before, I haven't seen any of the other films except the first. While it's true, you don't necessarily have to watch them, there are tie ins to several. If you haven't seen the first one, the ending won't make a lick of sense. Oh, who am I kidding? It didn't make sense anyway. The ending was the most ridiculous thing about the movie.
Probably the most entertaining thing for me was near the end of the film. A guy in the row behind me was making for the isle. He bonked me in the back of the head. I was super pissed until I discovered why he was in such a hurry. As he got to the bottom of the stairs, he hurled into the trash receptacle! He then tried to head to the bathroom before his nausea hit him again. I'm not sure if it was something he ate, motion sickness, or the bad movie that made him sick. Regardless, I found that more captivating than what was on screen.
I get that these films make money and we live in a time where everyone makes videos and uploads them to YouTube, but enough already. They're not original. They're not scary. They're not even mildly amusing. Enough.
Supernatural Honey Verdict: Two viral videos out of five - and that's only because of laundry basket bobsledding.
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Wednesday, November 14, 2018
I'm starting to get excited about Thanksgiving! My dad and sister will arrive in town this Friday. Just popping in to let you know I'm still alive. Just really busy.
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Turku Castle Workshop
Let’s learn history with all our senses and by doing!
The Workshop at Turku Castle is open for children during holidays. Access to the Workshop is included in the children’s entrance fee.
It is also possible to reserve the Workshop for a school class or a group of adults for one hour when also reserving the guided tour.
Courses for children and the youth
Fun weekend courses are organized at the Workshop for children and the youth in the spring and autumn.
Parlour for adults
There are activities for grown-ups in the Workshop as well. Lectures and courses for the adult taste are organized in the Parlour.
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Tuesday, June 27, 2017
REVIEW: 'GLOW' - Sam Tries to Get Ruth and Debbie to Work Together in 'This Is One of Those Moments'
Netflix's GLOW - Episode 1.06 "This Is One of Those Moments"
Sam searches for the perfect "heel" to fight Debbie, but she's tough to please. To hone her act, Ruth tags along with Gregory to a family function.
There is an inevitable quality to the events of "This Is One of Those Moments." As such, it drains a lot of the dramatic tension and uncertainty out of the story. When it was revealed that Ruth's character was going to be a Russian villain, it seemed inevitable that she would be paired with Debbie's American hero. Those were the personalities thrusted until them. It was their initial fight in the premiere that gave Sam his big vision for the show. So, it's not surprising that he wants to pair them up for the big event of the show within the show. He sees how entertaining that can be. He just has to work hard to ensure that they are willing to work together. Ever since that fight, they've been in the same room together but they've been avoiding each other. The spark of friendship is still there. But they haven't talked about what happened with Mark. They haven't started the healing process so that they have the potential to get back to a good place. And now, they are being asked to wrestle together in an epic hero vs. villain story. It all makes sense. But it also feels like this episode drags things out. It still hits that inevitable conclusion. It just takes awhile for Debbie to accept that this is the best way to create an entertaining show. Ruth is the only person amongst this group who will let her be the star of the show. That's the appeal of it.
And yet, it also makes sense that Debbie doesn't want to accept this arrangement at first. She's committed to the program now. She understands wrestling and how entertaining it can be. She called Sam demanding that he find her a heel to make for one great story in the ring. Ruth fulfills that role easily. It's a classic clash of two ideologies that also happens to be extremely timely in the 1980s. It makes sense for this time and place. Ruth has put in the work to choreograph a routine that could be entertaining as well. One that gives her some shining moments and one that gives Debbie some as well. She wants to be very collaborative. After struggling to find her wrestling persona for a little bit, she's embraced her Russian identity completely. That may be a little problematic, but that's for later in this review. She has embraced being the villain. She understands that it is her responsible to make the hero look good. But the personal feelings between the two of them are still so raw and intense. Just the sight of Ruth is enough to upset Debbie. Sam believes he's creating something truly special. But he also manipulates both women to show up early and doesn't tell them why. It's a disaster as one would expect. One that has the potential to ruin this potentially great dynamic for Sam.
It's fascinating to see the different types of character pairings that Sam does in order to find something equally great for Debbie. It's honestly just awesome to see her interacting with more of the cast. She's developed her wrestling skills as well. But it's largely just a great concept for an episode to mix and match the characters to see what sparks and what doesn't. That's actually the process that Sam is going through. First, he pairs Debbie with Tammé as a way to do a commentary on the racial and class divide in America. It's a stunning defeat for Debbie because Tammé just has the more entertaining personality. It's fun and joyous. She is able to get the crowd going. Debbie doesn't have that skill quite yet. So, it's hard for her to stand out when facing off with someone like that. The other character pairings are a bit more random. Debbie is paired with Arthie, then Sheila and then Reggie. The terrorist angle could be good for drama. But no one really knows what to do with it. And then with Sheila, it's a concept that just doesn't work because Debbie is flailing around and looking like a fool in the process. And finally, Reggie is still very upset about Debbie taking the Liberty Bell identity away from her. All of this is very disheartening for Debbie. She's spending all of this away from her son and nothing seems to be working.
Meanwhile, Ruth is off doing a ride along of sorts. It's definitely a story of an actor trying to get more insights into a character by becoming a part of that world. And yet, it's just so completely random and doesn't seem to have much purpose. The story of this episode needed Ruth away from the gym so that her eventual return would be something great and dynamic. The solution that it comes up with though is just lame and weird. It shows off the comedic sensibilities of the show in a unique and interesting way. But there's not a whole lot of actual plot to Ruth's story of going to an event with the motel manager, Gregory. He was her inspiration for the Russian character. And now, she wants to be more than a stereotypical villain. But that's who she still is by the end of this episode. She doesn't actually learn anything new. Of course, that's the point as well. The rest of the characters in this world don't really want to put up with her. She is able to get into this event. She then performs a song from Yentl. It's pretty ridiculous and a fun showcase for Alison Brie. But it's also just a distraction from the main plot. Ruth is at her most important at the beginning and end of this episode. So, that's very problematic and makes this episode less successful than the previous ones.
And yet, that final sequence with Ruth and Debbie is really amazing. It shows how powerful this story is capable of being once everyone accepts the inevitability of it all. It took Debbie failing to find another heel for her to accept Ruth as a partner. A rousing but critical speech from Sam doesn't hurt either. He bluntly tells Debbie that she loves being the center of attention and that it would be boring and unfulfilling to just be home with her baby all the time. That paired with Ruth returning and trying to pull off a completely new character that just doesn't work at all is enough for Debbie to accept the situation for what it should be. In fact, it's a ton of fun when both of them go into character and trade comments back and forth. Yes, it's a broad and one note analysis of the conflict between America and Russia. And yet, that's the world as these two characters know and understand it. It's a dynamic that works so easily and produces a compelling show. Debbie failed to get applause in her previous matches. But now, everyone is focused and cheering for her. It's all because Ruth is willing to let her win. She knows her role in this story. She understands that the gimmicks are necessary in order to entertain. She knows that it's her destiny to fail. She knows that and wants to make Debbie look good. It could perhaps be her way of apologizing to her. This partnership will force the two of them to spend more time together. That could be quite interesting to watch as the premiere of the show gets closer. Everything is coming together. But all it would take is one mistake for it to all go away.
Some more thoughts:
• "This Is One of Those Moments" was written by Jenji Kohan and directed by Kate Dennis.
• It's somewhat surprising that Jenji Kohan had the time to write an episode of GLOW. She's an executive producer of the show but she's the actual showrunner over on Orange Is the New Black. Both shows had production around the same time. But it's nice to see her spend her time in this world as well.
• Once again, it's important to note that Cherry is getting more and more frustrated with Sam because he's prioritizing Debbie over everything else. It's something that happens in almost every episode. It better have a point sometime this season. Otherwise, it just means her character is very one-note.
• Justine is upset with her new boyfriend, Billy, becomes he doesn't appreciate Sam's movies like she does. That coupled with the reveal that Sam is sleeping with Rhonda is enough to force her to act out. She steals a camera. It all seems a little random. So again, the payoff better be compelling later in the season.
• Gregory reciting the same phrase over and over again about how he has a wife sometimes but she's upset with him is great and very amusing. And yet, why in the world are Gregory and Billy have a conversation? That's just so strange. It makes this world seem smaller as a result.
• It's also explained that Ruth is able to work her way into this family function because Gregory finds it difficult to ultimately say no to people. He brings her along even though he believes that she is an escort. The family speaking in Russian and Ruth not knowing what they are saying is a pretty lame and conventional joke as well.
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3 Components That Damage Your Engine's Pistons
Your car generates power inside of its engine — more specifically, inside of the engine's cylinders. A mixture of air and gasoline flows into the cylinders, where the pistons compress the mixture tightly and the spark plug then lights it on fire. Over time, this cycle of controlled explosions can stress the pistons, particularly if your car isn't in the best of shape.
Knowing what components can harm your engine's pistons will help you prevent and avoid piston damage. Learn more about three components in your engine that can create havoc on your engine's pistons.
1. An Unmaintained Cooling System
Along with power, an automotive engine generates an incredible amount of heat. The longer your car runs, the more this heat will build up underneath the hood, being absorbed by the engine and other components. If the engine becomes excessively hot, piston damage and other serious problems may ensue.
To keep the engine within an acceptable temperature range, all cars come equipped with cooling systems. These systems use coolant to absorb heat, carry it out of the engine, and disperse it safely in the radiator. Provided you keep your cooling system in good shape, you should have little to fear from overheating.
Yet if your cooling system falls into disrepair, engine temperatures may shoot up into dangerous territory. As cylinder temperatures start to climb, your pistons absorb more and more heat. Such heat may cause them to swell to the point that they rub up against the walls of the cylinder, leading to serious damage for both pistons and cylinder.
2. Unclean Fuel Injectors
One of the most critical aspects of engine performance has to do with the air-fuel ratio. As its name suggests, this ratio expresses the relative amounts of air and gasoline entering the cylinders during each engine cycle. For maximum efficiency, the air-fuel ratio must remain within a strict range. Too great a deviation in any direction can lead to serious issues.
Excessive air levels represent an especially potent threat and can lead to the problem known as preignition. Preignition happens when the air-fuel mixture in the cylinder spontaneously combusts before the spark plug has fired. This creates excessive amounts of pressure inside of the cylinder. Over time, such pressure leads to piston damage.
Fuel injector tips that are clogged or partially blocked by debris or gas deposits cannot supply an engine with the ideal amounts of gasoline. As a result, the air-fuel mixture will skew towards the air side of the equation. As the injectors become dirtier and dirtier, fuel levels continue to drop and preignition becomes a greater threat.
3. Faulty Knock Sensors
Another common engine problem goes by the name of detonation. While not quite as severe as preignition, detonation can still lead to piston damage over time. Detonation often stems from improper spark plug timing — in other words, spark plugs that fire either slightly too early or slightly too late.
To protect against detonation, your car likely contains a component known as the knock sensor. The knock sensor monitors the vibrations produced by your engine. If the vibrations occur at a frequency associated with detonation, the knock sensor instructs your computer to make the appropriate timing changes.
Unfortunately, knock sensors sometimes become faulty and cease to register problematic vibrations. As a result, engine detonation may go unrecognized, and can lead to piston damage. For that reason, you should have a trained mechanic inspect your knock sensor at regular intervals to ensure proper functioning.
For more information about how to protect your pistons from undue wear and damage, please contact the car maintenance and repair pros at Vans Auto Service LLC.
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Security Advisory 1601
Summary : Buffer Overflow in Processing QuickTime IMA Files
Date : June 2016
Affected versions : VLC media player 2.2.3 and earlier
ID : VideoLAN-SA-1601
CVE reference : CVE-2016-5108
A remote user can create a specially crafted QuickTime IMA file that, when loaded by the target user, will trigger a buffer overflow in DecodeAdpcmImaQT() in 'modules/codec/adpcm.c'.
If successful, a malicious third party could trigger either a crash of VLC or an arbitratry code execution with the privileges of the target user.
Threat mitigation
Exploitation of those issues requires the user to explicitly open a specially crafted file or stream.
ASLR and DEP help reduce exposure, but may be bypassed.
VLC media player 2.2.4 addresses the issue.
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Messengers of God
John 13:16-20
Acts 13:13-25 / Ps 89
Whoever receives the one I send receives me, and whoever receives me receives the One who sent me.
(John 13:20)
Having received Him we are sent
So that others too may believe.
And from their sins they may repent,
And the Spirit they may receive.
(Jesus said), “Amen, amen, I say to you, no servant is greater than his master, nor any messenger greater than the one who sent him. Now that you know these things, you will be blessed if you do them. I am not referring to all of you; I know those I have chosen. But this is to fulfill this passage of Scripture: ‘He who shared my bread has turned against me.’ I am telling you now before it happens, so that when it does happen you will believe that I am who I am. Very truly I tell you, whoever receives the one I send receives me; and whoever receives me receives the One who sent me.” (John 13:16-20)
We read in the Bible about many messengers who were sent for specific purposes. In the Old Testament, most of them were the prophets, like Nathan, Elijah, Elisha, Isaiah, Jeremiah, and Ezekiel, who delivered Yahweh God’s messages to the Kings of Judah and Israel or their people.
Then there were the precursors or forerunners of the Messiah, like Joseph, whose exile to Egypt led to the salvation of the Israelite nation from famine; Moses, who shepherded the Israelites from Egypt to the Promised Land; Judas, son of Mattathias, who redeemed the Jews from the yoke of King Antiochus; Samson, who wrought havoc against the Philistines; and Jonah, the closest harbinger of the Messiah, who was ‘entombed’ in the belly of a giant fish for three days, and whose message of repentance saved the city of Nineveh.
In the New Testament, the most prominent heralds of the Lord were the Archangel Gabriel, who was sent to announce the Blessed Mary’s ‘Appointment’; and St. John the Baptist, ‘a voice crying out in the desert’ who prepared the way of the Lord. There were other messengers, like the Magi, who came from the East bearing gifts, and the heavenly host of angels who brought the glad tidings to the shepherds.
All the characters and events in the Bible, in fact, were meant to deliver important “letters” from the Almighty Father, and His greatest message was His only Son Jesus Christ, ‘the Word made flesh, Who dwelt among us.’ That is why the Scriptures are also known as the Good News. A friend calls it “The Operating Manual of Life” which every user should familiarize himself with if he wants to have a trouble-free, minimal maintenance lifestyle. Makes sense.
How grateful we are, Father, that we too have been conscripted to be messengers of Your Good News of salvation. This privilege gives us first-hand information from the Holy Spirit at the earliest hour each day.
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Take up thy cute, cute paws and walk
But in really important news, red pandas are evolving!
(Via Boing Boing.)
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You know, that really, really looks like a guy in a red panda suit. I know, it's the wrong size and all, but ... doesn't it look like a scene from one of those anthropomorph manga come to life? Weird, weird. I think it's the position of the forelegs that does it.
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Full Analysis of the FFIEC Statement on Cloud Computing
Sunday, July 22, 2012
Disclaimer: I am not an attorney. I'm not offering you legal advice, only some common-sense analysis of a potentially game-changing document from a very important body for the financial services industry. The original PDF document, complete with my notes in the margins and highlights are included below should you choose to review for yourself.
Where to begin on this one... A few days ago I wrote up a quick summary after skimming this document.
Since then, others have written articles and posts on the topic, so it's time I post my thoughts too. I still encourage you to read the full paper and analyze it for yourself, since I think it's critical to be educated on things that matter.
Contrary to what was written in this BankInfoSecurity post, which I think completely misses the point, I think this paper is a fantastic document. At the core of what I disagree with, Mr. Francoise Gilbert of the IT Law Group says this: "I find this document a bit disappointing," she says. "They view cloud computing as just another form of outsourcing, and that's a far too simplistic view."
Unfortunately, I think he misses the point that cloud computing isn't magically new - it's just another form of outsourcing. Let's take Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) for example. You're basically leasing (virtual) hardware outsourced to a 3rd party rather than having it in your own data center.
Once you get over the virtualization there is very little left to get excited about from a risk perspective that thinking about cloud as outsourcing doesn't already cover. Anyway, not to belabor the point, but this is just an example of how easy it is to get caught up in the glimmer of cloud and miss the entire point of it's beauty.
Let's dive into this document that the FFIEC has produced, and analyze it bit by bit.
First, as I pointed out in my previous post the document has this profound statement "The Federal Financial Institution Examination Council Agencies consider cloud computing to be another form of outsourcing with the same basic risk characteristics and risk management requirements as traditional forms of outsourcing". Whether you believe it or not this is the stake in the ground for the FFIEC.
There has been a buzz of discussion and articles (see above) by folks who believe that cloud computing is somehow fundamentally different than anything we in IT have done before. Those people are wrong. Yes there are differences between what we traditionally know as outsourcing and what we think of as cloud computing. But if you break it down to risk management - cloud = outsourcing. Period, and to think otherwise is over-analyzing, in my humble opinion.
Another key point the document makes it that all of this is basically a pointer back to the "FFIEC Information Technology Examination Handbook", specifically the "Outsourcing Booklet"... you should have a background in those two to get a full understanding of this published FFIEC document.
I also think it's interesting that the document mentions that save the NIST document published in December 2011, there is "no widely-accepted definition" of cloud computing - basically saying there is no consensus amongst providers, consumers, and pundits ... this is absolutely true.
There was a recent discussion about whether "cloud" mandated virtualization with people disagreeing all over the place which demonstrates this as truth. Attend any of your local Cloud Security Alliance chapter meetings and ask someone to define cloud... then sit back and listen/watch.
The document breaks apart nicely into six sections - (1) due diligence, (2) vendor management, (3) audit, (4) information security, (5) legal, regulatory and reputational considerations, and (6) business continuity planning. For those of you who caught this right off, notice information security is buried a bit as number 4, rather than being right at the top. I think this speaks to something which is in the tone of this document.
The first 3 parts of this document are those things many of us consider common sense, or not really a part of "security". Let's face it, due diligence, vendor management and audit are generally things InfoSec people steer pretty clear of because it's paperwork, process, relationships, and more paperwork.
Another key which I think more than a few of you readers will appreciate, is that the first 3 parts can't easily be 'solved' by purchasing a box with blinky lights. Yes, information security gets its own sub-section simply because it's important - but no more or less important than things like due diligence, audit, and vendor management... I think that's interesting, don't you? As a final point, the fact that business continuity still has to be mentioned is... painful. I'll explain in a minute.
Due Diligence
The key phrase is right in the beginning, and says "A financial institution’s use of third parties to achieve its strategic plan does not diminish the responsibility of the board of directors and management to ensure that the third-party activity is conducted in a safe and sound manner and in compliance with applicable laws and regulations." Basically - your data, your responsibility.
The due diligence section is broken up into 3 potential issues - data classification, data segregation and recoverability. You'll notice I bolded the word "data", because it's not about your VMs, or your applications, or even your databases - it's about the data. I really appreciate the focus on data classification based on the last few weeks of BYOD discussion in the community. I think this is a nice return to basics - if you do not know what is important to you then protecting 'it' is impossible.
The paramount point on data classification continues to haunt enterprises as it did back when I was getting into IT back in the mid 90's. What is it? Where is it? How do we classify it? these should be basic questions that are at the heart of every good information protection/security strategy. Data segregation is also mentioned in much the same context as it was when I first started using an outsourced hosting provider back in 1998... how does our financial data and other NPPI (non-public personal information) share space, technology and access with others.
Are we in the same physical space as a key competitor? Is our financial data potentially sharing space on a the same object storage service as provider of questionable content? Does any of this matter? These are all great points made, questions to ask, and they aren't any different when cloud technologies are applied in place of traditional outsourcing.
On a final point, recoverability. I've been reading and talking about enterprise resilience a metric ton lately and reading this point on recoverability made me smile. In essence, I think I would sum it up as this - "don't let your cloud provider become your new single point of failure". Common sense whether you're going cloud, or traditional IT.
Vendor Management
This sub-section is pretty simple and basically states that you need to make sure your vendors understand you as a customer, and you understand your vendors. Basically going cloud will likely require additional controls you didn't have before to keep a close eye on your vendor, and other standard stuff.
Then we get to a point I don't think is discussed enough (mental note, discuss this soon): "disengagement". Disengaging from a cloud provider can be absolutely messy, especially once you've gotten comfortable in their environment. One of the key tenets of the HP Converged Cloud strategy is customer choice - but that isn't simple. The customer must be aware of their provider's features to "lock you in" to their service. At its basics, many providers are roughly compatible - OpenStack is OpenStack .. sort of.
It's the value-adds that get you every time. Make sure you're got an exit strategy for when you need to divorce yourself from your vendor. Make sure you have a way to exit their cloud, your services and data intact. Speaking of data, be cognizant of how much you're storing because even if it's moving from one OpenStack cloud to another ... moving multiple petabytes of data isn't trivial of instantaneous - and will likely cost a fortune.
The audit sub-section has two key points. The first is the trickiness of determining the adequacy of your vendor's controls. In many of today's clouds, this is tricky. Some providers will fill out the 100-page RFP that you have asking for details, some will simply hand you the last audit they went through as their version of "good enough". The trick is getting their "good enough" to match up with your "good enough".
Does your provider give you access to the behind-the-curtain details? I'm guessing not. Some will let you talk to their CISO and discuss details without actually being able to walk away with anything tangible - is that good enough? It's not like you can go get a tour of their cloud like you could when you were evaluating data centers right? Can you audit your provider? To what depth, how often, and with what mechanisms - those are all questions you should be asking.
The other interesting point this document mentions is training (or augmenting) your existing staff to catch them up on cloud-related technologies. How's that for a good idea?
Information Security
Let's start this sub-section off with the notion that your existing policies probably should have the layer of dust blown off of them and should be updated to include concepts that probably weren't around 10 years ago when your policy was written. If you policies have been updated, good for you, you're ahead of the game.
Continuous monitoring is mentioned - which I think is fantastic because it gets us away from a point-in-time position on 'security'. Yes, everyone is secure when there is nothing going on and all the controls are working properly, but unfortunately environments, especially cloud, are far from static and must be monitored closely at all times.
Having a comprehensive data inventory and a suitable process for classifying your data (hrmm... Deja vu) fall into the basics you should be doing anyway bucket. Basics keep killing us and we keep wondering why all the shiny new technologies organizations implement aren't doing their job? You're missing the basics, so the add-ons are pretty... but useless.
Having effective identity management (IdM) has been important since ...forever. Cloud just exacerbates the need as we start to cross platforms we don't have direct control over. An identity management program is something more enterpises have gone through in the last decade - many went over budget and took too long but it's critical to keep this process of knowing your users and their acceptable roles and access requirements constantly in check. When identity management breaks down, all the technology in the world won't save you from a data breach - from the insider, outsider, or "oops".
Interesting that the FFIEC chooses to highlight "Storage of data in the cloud could increase the frequency and complexity of security incidents" but it is so very true. Whether we're talking about incident response from composite response teams (yours, the vendors, and any 3rd parties), forensics in a cloud environment (good luck), or trying to monitor that many more systems, networks and data points for risks and threats - the cloud certainly requires the security team to up its game.
No disputing that security needs to step it up significantly when it comes to protecting and reacting in the cloud... as an industry we're starting to see some effective strategies but I think that we're still in the early stages of anything 'cross-industry' such as incident response, etc.
Oh, and lest I forget to mention - data destruction is important. This isn't about whether you trust your vendor to destroy your data once you've either decided to exit the cloud, or something as simple as downing a virtual machine ... are those bits recoverable by someone else? The answer should always be no - but can someone prove it?
This is where I think the unspoken advice is that encryption, encryption, encryption is your friend. You shouldn't be relying on your vendor to do it either... because saying "we encrypt" and doing it right are really distant things. Key management is difficult in a controlled environment like your data center, the implications in the cloud are even more harrowing.
Legal, Regulatory and Reputational Considerations
As I read this section something just jumped off the page. This line: "financial institution should understand the applicability of laws and regulations within the hosting countries and the financial institution’s ability to control access to its data" lays down another fine point about the cloud, that perhaps is a little different than what we're used to.
The financial institutions must now consider the laws and regulations of the country in which their data is hosted... I know we've talked about data sovereignty/residency in the past but this statement highlights that issue for American financial institutions wishing to utilize the cloud. I would really want to have some more clarification on this topic, because it's a huge deal breaker in many financial + cloud cases.
Business Continuity Planning
I can sum this entire section up for you like this - "don't put all your critical eggs in one cloud provider's basket". Enterprise resiliency is a critical aspect of going cloud. If your applications and data systems are critical they should be able to survive your cloud provider's failure because, as I've said before, everything fails. Plan for it, test it, expect it.
This is a fantastic document, and as an IT and Security Manager from a financial services SME told me in a discussion - "there is what the document says, and what security leaders will want to use it for". Great point. I think those that are slamming this document for being too vague are completely missing the point. This document is open-ended and doesn't give specifics for that very reason - so that IT leaders can use it to their advantage to have a conversation with their senior leadership and maybe even their board of directors on what will be coming in some SEC regulation a little further down the road.
While "cloud" is still a mythical scary unicorn to many C-levels in finance, "outsourcing" is an old friend. Simply changing the words in the discussion is monumental, and I think it's a fantastic tool for security and IT leaders in the financial space. As the IT manager I was speaking with said, this document gives him the ability to "use whatever technology makes the most sense for the company, based on performance, cost" and at the end of the day isn't that what we want from an organization like the FFIEC or some other governing body?
Look, if you're an IT or security leader you don't want a specific set of things to do for cloud computing. This would quickly turn into a bunch of boxes that need to be checked such as "anti-virus on all virtual machines, check!" - I can hear it now. Instead, this document is brilliant because it lays out the things that it believes are key areas of focus, and really shines in its ability to liken something new and potentially scary to something enterprises are already used to - outsourcing.
I will leave you with one final quote from my colleague about this document in which he says that this document is a "framework for how to talk to business about cloud".
Perfectly summed up.
Download the FFIEC Statement on Cloud Computing below...
Cross-posted from Following the White Rabbit
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I've posted it in my answer below. –niieani blocks of script and asking for errors to fall through to a provided subroutine. It's possible to writeItem Distribution? Does the reciprocal of In this article, I explain several script: #!/bin/sh cp /Volumes/Documents/criticalfile.txt /Volumes/BackUp/.
My 21-year-old adult son hates me Can the editor of a trademark of Linus Torvalds. Since such errors almost always signify something unexpected, it to use -0 with xargs.
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Monday, August 28, 2017
Google’s Ideological Echo Chamber, James Damore & YOU
James Damore, a senior software engineer who had worked at Google since 2013, posted a memo on a Google discussion board and got canned. Damore has a master’s degree in systems biology from Harvard. His ordeal has aroused some very lively conversations, but how many people have bothered to read the actual memo?
Does bias cloud our thinking about diversity and inclusion. What about Young Earth Science (YES) inclusion? Let's have diversity of views presented on the age-of-the-earth controversy! Natural Selection anyone?
Damore says, "Psychological safety is built on mutual respect and acceptance, but unfortunately our culture of shaming and misrepresentation is disrespectful and unaccepting of anyone outside its echo chamber." Amen! Please quit shaming YES advocates with the tag "flat-earther."
Damore continues, "Political orientation is actually a result of deep moral preferences and thus biases. Considering that the overwhelming majority of the social sciences, media, and Google lean left, we should critically examine these prejudices ..." True enough‼
If you google "biological essentialism" you will get gender topics on the first page of your results. Damore points out that women generally exhibit a greater degree of, "Openness directed towards feelings and aesthetics rather than ideas. Women generally also have a stronger interest in people rather than things, relative to men." He further states that, "Women on average are more cooperative [than men]."
Biological Essentialism also has another reference - the idea that Essential Types of Life (ETL's) are stable. Kangaroos reproduce "Roos" and pangolins make more pangolins. I deal with this engaging topic in chapter three of my book YES- Young Earth Science.
In the section titled "Why we're blind" Damore himself is apparently unaware of his own slant on science, "We all have biases and use motivated reasoning to dismiss ideas that run counter to our internal values. ... some on the Right deny science that runs counter to the 'God > humans > environment' hierarchy (e.g., evolution and climate change) ..." But what if evolution is wrong?
Damore makes a significant point, "In highly progressive environments, conservatives are a minority that feel like they need to stay in the closet to avoid open hostility. We should empower those with different ideologies to be able to express themselves." Tell it like it is. This includes those who deny Darwinism.
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« It's Still About Memory | Main | The REST Dialogues, Part 2 with a Real eBay Architect »
Monday, November 20, 2006
Duncan Cragg
Wow! This is stunning! I don't know what to say. I'm delighted you've risen to the challenge!!
But will you last the course? Can you finish nine rounds? Can you mix two metaphors in one paragraph like I can?
The money's on, the punter's are watching...
Should be fun, anyway! =0)
Duncan Cragg
I'm shortly posting up number three in the series.
Should I hold off a bit if you're going to respond to part two??
I don't want to hold you to anything you don't want to do, but I also don't want to overrun you if you're busy.
Please use the work email I just attached.
Mark Baker
I love the title of the site/blog too; "add simplicity". If you read the REST dissertation (maybe you have, dunno) you'll see that the uniform interface is a constraint which "adds (oodles of) simplicity". What SOA constraint adds simplicity? None that I'm aware of ... though, then again, SOA isn't nearly as well defined as REST; we don't even know its constraints.
It would be interesting if one of your dialogues were to look at REST vs. SOA/SOAP from this POV.
Dan Pritchett
SOA is probably one of the most ill-defined and over used terms I know. My participation in the dialogue is intended more to point out weakness in the REST arguments than to argue in favor of SOA/SOAP.
I'll be continuing this thread with Duncan's lead. It's a dialogue still evolving.
Vadim Geshel
Mark: It's an interesting comment that REST is better-defined. I don't claim to be an expert so correct me if I'm wrong, but REST seems to me to so much to add simplicity but to punt on complexity. Sure, you can make things simple by pushing data representation up the stack and pretending that everything can fit in two verbs, caching is all-or-nothing, fixed addressing schemes scale, etc. Most of Duncan's points are good and REST approaches sound, but they are not addressing the really interesting problems of an eBay-scale API. I'm hoping Duncan and Dan will get to those in the upcoming episodes.
Vadim Geshel
Sorry, typo
REST seems to me to so much to add simplicity
/REST seems to me NOT so much to add simplicity
Mark Baker
It's not pretending, Vadim. And it's not two verbs either 8-) It's any verb which is meaningful to all operations. GET/PUT/POST/DELETE are the pre-defined, relatively commonly used ones.
It doesn't push complexity up the stack; the data integration problem is *identical* for both REST and SOA, showing that nothing is punted. But SOA has an interface integration issue, while REST does not. That's why it's simpler.
Mark Baker
Doh, I meant "any verb meaningful to all resources".
"From a scaling perspective, XML is XML."
XML is XML is XML... unless it's JSON, YAML, SOX, SLiP, etc...
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Posts tagged revenge
Like gravity, Karma is so basic we often don’t even notice it.”
– Sakyong Mipham
I am a firm believer in Karma. Ya know, what comes around goes around, that kinda thing. But I have a story about a girl, who didn’t think Karma would apply to her, or to her actions. A girl who believed she could say and do anything she wanted, with absolutely no repercussions to worry about. But *le sigh*, she was wrong.
Now this girl, this poor pathetic girl, who just didn’t care for anyone but herself. She was a manipulative person, who cared only for her own personal gain, and the harm of her heartless ways was noted to be just a glimmer of a dull star, in a sky illuminated with the beauty to dull her disgusting ways, one that will eventually burn out, and make its way to Earth and eventually collide into her current ways and cause an effect of mass chaos in her life.
Now with these actions, ranging from illicit ways, lying, extreme stupidity, and of course we cannot forget the complete hell she has caused for others gained momentum rather quickly, Karma paid a vital, and horrific visit.
This girl married a man she barely knew that she met through unfortunate ways, conceived, and still continues on with promiscuous ways, losing the one thing that matter most to her, the man she fell in love with that she had harmed repeatedly, and forever will only dream what their future would have held. This man is now happily married with children, a marriage ment for ever lasting love. A career man, wealthy in more ways imaginable.
All the while, this girl, is living in the prosperity that Karma has given her, which is rich in hard work to earn poor living conditions, and cohabitation with a man who does not care if their marriage were to continue or fail, children watched with negligent eyes, alcoholism, and misery.
The moral of the story is : Karma truly is a bitch. What comes around, does always go around, regardless of what actions you bestow on others. If you exert good energy and a positive outlook, Karma will grant you with a good life, as a reward for your deeds. But if you are to apply negativity, promiscuity, infidelity, and poor energy into your life, you shall receive the outcome you have placed for yourself.
Place the energy that flows through you naturally in congenial ways, to better yourself, the people around you, and your future. Do not allow the negativity of others tear you away from your promised future. It’s their Hell that they are traveling towards, not yours.
Breathe in, breathe out…
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Metacognition: Stranger Danger
Who are three characters you wouldn’t want to meet in real life?
What a better way to start getting into the Halloween spirit than talking about some real creeps that I’d rather know from behind the safety of my television screen? It seems like such a cop-out to start naming evil villains but it’s also true. I’d have no interest in meeting the likes of Ganon/Ganondorf, Liquid Snake, Ghirahim, or any of the other villains that pop up in games. While I don’t believe any of them would kill me on sight, I can’t say that it would be a pleasant experience, either way.
Ganondorf would be too busy waxing poetic about how smart he is, even though he is constantly outwitted and outgunned by a boy in a green hat, and Ghirahim would be too busy kissing his reflection in a mirror to notice I was there. Liquid Snake would be fascinating to talk to, but I’d be afraid eventually he’d just start raving like a zealot, which would be significantly less fun.
I’d be afraid Saren‘s presence would result in me being indoctrinated. and who really wants to meet an archdemon?
Instead of going through and naming villains who might otherwise seem like no-brainer choices (other than the fact that the idea of observing some of them makes me therapist’s brain pretty intrigued), here are three characters who aren’t necessarily villains, but who I think would provide me with a really, really frightening time if we had to spend time together:
Fi from Skyward Sword
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Ugh. UGH. UGH.
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I can’t think of anything worse than having to listen to someone spout statistics and conclusions at me, especially if said conclusions were things that I would have been able to figure out for myself, like there is a 98% chance that I can buy goods at a shop and a 99% chance boots are for feet.
Thanks but no thanks.
Liquid Snake from Metal Gear Solid
You have to give a fellow his due; the man just refuses to die. Sort of, maybe, if you believe in possession/hypnosis/changing explanations.
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But if there is one thing I cannot stand, it is constant whining and that is pretty much all Liquid does for the entirety of the game. I wanted to like him. I did. And especially during later games, I wanted him to be this amazing foil for Solid Snake in the war against the Patriots, especially considering all the twists and turns. A little, bitty part of me wanted him to be ironically in the right.
Does this happen. Nope. He has some daddy issues, because he received all the “recessive genes” of his father, Big Boss. And… that’s bad. For some reason. I guess because it has the word “recessive” in it? Does he not realize that “recessive” genes aren’t synonymous with “inferior”? So here’s a guy whining about things because he doesn’t understand 8th grade science. Whiny and stupid. My favorite combination.
All joking aside, I’m not sure I’d really want to spend a lot of time with a guy who spends all of his time trying to prove to his absent father that he is a good boy.
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No thank you.
Whoreson Junior from The Witcher III: Wild Hunt
This guys such a jerk that even Geralt emoted because of him. He’s a crime lord, but more importantly (to me) he is a low-life who… brutalized and murdered a room full of women, including nailing one to the ceiling.
Normally I am not a fan of video games taking away autonomy, because normally I’d say I wanted to “be” the one doing the cool moves, but it was so satisfying watching Geralt beat the living daylights out of this guy. And then threaten him. And then Geralt may have killed him after Junior gave up the necessary information Geralt wanted.
That is how much I would not want to meet Whoreson Junior – or anyone like him – in real life.
Just a room full of “NO” on that one.
Well, that escalated quickly. What characters would you not want to meet? Is it because they are irritating or annoying on a personal level, or because they are just an atrocious human being? Do you have one “type” of character that you always hate, no matter what? Let me know in the comments!
Thanks for stopping by, and I’ll see you soon!
1. What I’ve learned from this post is that video game characters are terrible at naming their children. Solid and Liquid Snake? Whoreson? No wonder these people suck.
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2. Whoreson Junior is a great pick. I love how much I hate him. While Eredin is the main villain, he is just an edgelord version if every world conquerer ever. Whoreson is not only a terrible human being, he is also just a set aside as a thing you’ll deal with on your way to the “big bad guy”. Meanwhile he’s done things more cruel than the Wild Hunt while having no magic powers or special abilities. There’s a possibility that someone in our world could be like him, which makes him much more vile and creepy than an emo elf travelling through dimensions with his best friends.
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1. I know, right?? He’s one of those characters it just feels good to hate. And I see your point; I think it’s a good illustration of how one doesn’t have to be in a position of power to be an atrocious person, because the ones that fly beneath the radar can… get away with more, maybe?
Ugh but you’re right. He’s a jerk and I was silently cheering (okay, it was out loud) for Geralt during that cutscene…
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3. And now I have to play the Witcher 3 solely to kill this Whoreson Junior ass… I’m getting the Xbox One version so the trophies don’t tempt me into playing it forever. 😛 I don’t know much about Liquid other than he’s Shalashaska’s arm in MGS2, haha. He does sound quite whiny when he takes over, though. “Brother!!” There’s a 98.3% chance I’d Snow Punch Fi if I met her in real life 😇
Hm. For me I’d say, Trevor Phillips from GTA V (that guy is a psycho, but I oddly had fun playing as him, haha), Tingle from the Zelda series (he just annoys me for some reason), and Quentin the Blood Mage in Dragon Age II (so much shudder there… he’s the cause of one of the most horrific moments I’ve ever seen in a video game).
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1. I’m only a little sorry… 😛
Can’t wait to hear what you think of Liquid once you get there!! And oh man, Fi… I’ve heard Trevor actually has bipolar disorder, which almost makes it worse. Poor Tingle. He just wants to wear those green jumpsuits haha. OMG Quentin…… yeah. Just… yeah.
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4. Oh this is too much fun…I could probably think of a lot given some time, but I think I’ll try to pick three based on different categories. First Jenova from FFVII. HELL to the NO. Like the reapers’ indoctrination, getting near it would mess with your mind so you wouldn’t know if you were doing your will or its. It can also mimic loved ones like The Thing, and I’d neither want that to happen to someone I know or me. Second, Tama from World of Final Fantasy is one of the most annoying characters to ever exist. I could barely tolerate her with the Japanese and English subtitles. Unless somehow I could get subtitles in real life, I’d have to either have to listen to her annoying as hell voice in English or not understand her, which would be much better. Third, Pyramid Head for too many reasons to count. I haven’t even finished watching SH 2 and he’s not someone I ever want to see on a clear night let alone a misty one.
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1. I’ve heard you talk about Jenova before, and I’m inclined to agree! Yikes…. Can you imagine if Jenova met a Reaper?? I’m not familiar with Tama, but I judge characters on their voices sometimes, for sure haha. And Pyramid Head… yeah that’d be terrifying, regardless of whether or not he ever *actually* hurts anyone…
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1. That would be horrendous. Now that I’m thinking about it I should I have mentioned the Brethren Moons from Dead Space.
Gah, if you can stand it look up World of Final Fantasy Tama on YouTube. Most of the videos there are in dubbed in English so you’ll hear what I’m talking about. I judge on voices, too. It’s the major reason I never finished Crisis Core. I hate the voice actress for Aeris so much. She sounded like a complete ditz.
I just finished SH 2 and I’m on 3 now, which is the only one I’ve seen so far where the characters act as if something completely batshit is going on lol. 2 is the worst offender with completely bonkers situations and people acting like nothing is happening.
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How to move ( copy ) your messages from Google to Yahoo
I reported in my last post (see here) why it is dangerous to rely fully on Gmail. I had promised to write how I managed to get all my e-mails in to Yahoo (as a back up).
1) I signed up for Yahoo.
2) I went to Trueswitch / Yahoo-UK and entered my new Yahoo e-mail and my old Gmail address
3) It took about 24 hours for all my e-mails to be transferred (you will see the result after 24 hours – you will not see any progress in the mean time). In these 24 hours Google suspended my Gmail account a few times so be warned it might be dangerous.
See the screen shots of all the necessary steps in my tabblo here
See more Pictures of how to switch from Gmail to Yahoo on my Tabblo
It is possible that Google / Gmail will temporarily suspend your service (it happened to me – see here) so please be aware of this. Google / Gmail does not want to see you take control of your e-mails.
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I want to do the same thing. Do you think I should risk it? I thought about setting up Yahoo to download my email via POP using Gmail’s POP server.
3. Oliver, personally I would do it again. But you have to know that Google is huge and if they do permanently suspend your account there is no customer service you can call to beg to unblock your account for you….
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Sync Text Messages To Your Mailbox
File this under “I didn’t know it could do that”
Using your smartphone to connect to your work email is a pretty standard thing nowadays.
They just about all support ActiveSync so your iPhone, Android, Windows Phone and Blackberry will all do email, calendars and contacts to an Exchange server without much fuss.
However, the bit makes all this work, i.e ActiveSync, has some features that aren’t implemented on all devices. Some features will also be reliant on the version of Exchange server the mailbox is on.
One of those is the ability to have your phone sync your text messages with your mailbox.
I spotted the option for this a little while back and initially didn’t see the point of it but I thought I’d turn it on and see how it worked out.
I’ve been using it for a few months now and there are two main things I’ve found useful
Sending text messages directly from Outlook
When a text message comes into your phone it’s copied to your mailbox.
This means that if your phone is your pocket/bag or on silent you can read it on your PC without having to get the phone out. More importantly you can reply from Outlook too. Hit reply, type your message and when you press send the message is sync’d back to your phone where it sends the messages on your behalf.
Yes that’s the “magic”. Your phone is still sending the message.
You even get little smiley icons to use and it’ll tell you how many text messages will be needed.
It’s something I found useful as I can type much quicker on my keyboard than on my touch screen!
I also find it less disruptive when I’m at work to not have to go to my mobile to view and reply to any messages.
Having a deaf wife does mean I send a lot of text messages so this is one of the things I’ve particularly found useful.
Backing up your messages
Depends on how much importance you place on your SMS I guess but because a copy is added to your mailbox if your phone dies, falls in a toilet or is crushed/smashed/whatever then your text messages are easily retrievable.
You can file them exactly the same way as you would any other email.
I’ve got an Outlook quick step I use to drop any want to keep into a “text messages” folder once I’ve read them.
As mentioned above not all clients support all features so most notably this doesn’t work on iPhone.
Also as already mentioned it’s reliant on Exchange server so if you’re using Google Apps/Gmail, POP or IMAP for email this specific method isn’t applicable.
There a good list of features and what is and isn’t supported on this Wikipedia article.
Can you think of any other uses for this?
it’s also probably worth knowing about for the inevitable support call where someone has setup their own phone and want to know when their text messages have turned into emails.
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Tech —
Sometimes, .Mac just doesn’t work
.Mac users pull their hair out over extended iDisk outtage.
No .Mac In the digital age, outages are just a part of life. While occasionally, they leave you in the position of having to hastily scarf all the ice cream in the office before it melts, more typically, they leave you guzzling your pain-killer of choice in a futile attempt to quell a massive headache brought on by frustration. And while we all know not to believe advertisers, .Mac subscribers this past week got an extra heaping of frustration as a long outage made a mockery of Apple's "It just works." campaign.
While the cause of the outage is unclear (Apple's only official word is that they're aware of the issue and "looking into it"), signs on the Apple discussion boards point to some kind of DNS snafu. With users counting their downtime in days instead of hours, many are casting aspersions on the reliability of Apple's customer support and questioning the value of .Mac overall. This is far from the first time that complaints about .Mac have come to light, however, the service is structured to make subscribers very reliant on iDisk (with all its flaws) and on .Mac for web and calendar publishing. That's fine when the service "just works" but when it doesn't, users can see their overall productivity come to a screeching halt. With other companies giving away for free many of the features that Apple is charging $99 per year for, some are questioning whether they're really getting what they pay for. According to one .Mac subscriber:
I don't know how the rest of you feel, but I'm of the impression that it's an Apple's stepchild. If they were charging me $15.00 a year I wouldn't be so demanding; but their charging a premium price and not delivering a premium product.
Still, others aren't ready to throw in the towel quite yet. One poster on the Apple discussion boards recalled similar outages just before Apple rolled out new .Mac offerings and speculated that the current issues may be related to the upcoming WWDC. There's only one week to go, so get your wild speculation in while you can. What features would be worth up to a week of outages to roll out?
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Mercury / Scorpio
Mercury in Scorpio, Trickster, Magician
Evelyn de Morgan, Mercury, 1870-1873
Evelyn de Morgan, Mercury, 1870-1873
Everything seen has been begotten, because at some point it came to be seen. But the invisible always is, and because it always is, it does not need to become visible.
~ Hermes Trismegestus, Corpus Hermeticum
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Greetings and welcome to Mercury in Scorpio.
This is an incisive Mercury in Scorpio because as of this writing, three planets in Virgo are all ruled by, or answering to, or lorded over by, Mercury in Scorpio. There is Jupiter in Virgo, Venus in Virgo, and Mars in Virgo, which is in a mutual reception with Mercury for another week or so.
All those Virgo planets are now granted a depth and intensity in how they each express their Virgo qualities.
As for Mercury in Scorpio, he will remain there for a few weeks in November. He leaves the sign for Sagittarius on November 20th, and between now and then Mercury is very busy, making numerous classical aspects to planetary bodies in water and earth signs. Mercury is the hermaphroditic god of craftsmanship and invention, of boundary crossings, the god of places where strangers meet, god of the agora where commerce and trade happen, god of communication and speech, god of tricks and thievery, god associated with magic “tricks” and, significantly for Scorpio, the only god who can travel between Hades, the underworld, and the above world as he wishes.
Why is that. Part of the answer may lie in the fact that Mercury — the Greek Hermes — is the god of oaths. He is the god of binding and releasing, and this includes words and contracts. Hermes is the presiding god of the Greek All Souls day, and on that day he allows the dead to rise from their tombs to partake of the meals the living have left out for them. For the rest of the year, Hermes is responsible for keeping the souls of the dead in their tombs.
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Hermes’ binding contracts and oaths were understood by the classical Greeks to carry magic qualities, because they tied deeds to words. Words that were whispered or spoken softly were magic words, something Hermes is associated with. The Germanic word for whisper is raunen, and this is the root of the word “runes”, the stones inscribed with glyphs of magical formulae.
Magic to the Greeks originally meant “secret actions”. Magic “tricks”, were associated by Homer and Hesiod with both Hermes and women, who were considered “tricksters” by virtue of their perceived occult abilities. The focus granted by Scorpio to Mercury’s thinking and speech faculties has something to do with this occult ability to influence outcomes. So, Hermes/Mercury, the hermaphroditic god of the threshold coasts quickly through Scorpio and reminds us that our words are deeds that carry creative ability.
Virgo and Scorpio are energetically complimentary, especially if what you’re trying to do is write or research or find well hidden information, uncover the roots or source of a deep fount. This is a good Mercury for following the energetic thread through the labyrinth and seeing it where it leads you. Since the water element is beyond words, it’s good to remember that images feed the soul and go beyond limiting associations of meaning. In mundane terms, this is a good Mercury for sincere conversation and healing exchanges. It is a good Mercury for revealing truths that are just out of reach.
There is a primal instinctual quality to the mind when Mercury is in Scorpio. The mind pointedly probes for the why. This has to do with Scorpio’s attunement to power dynamics and sex, which both go beyond socially acceptable diplomatic discourse or maintaining appearances. There is the smile that is shown, and there is the primal motivation underneath. There is the agreement made, and there is the, what’s in it for you and what’s in it for me. There is the information shared, and there is the why are you telling me this and what aren’t you saying.
Herbert James Draper, The Kelpie, 1913. The Kelpie is a Scottish name for a shapeshifting water spirit that lives in lochs and pools.
It’s worth mentioning that all this sussing happens through a sieve, and that sieve will forever be subjective. For those of us located in bodies, all truths are subjective. So, barring monks in Greek monasteries who pray and sweep and arrange all day, or ascetics who have been meditating in the mountains for a few decades, we live day to day and we all have preferences.
So, for Mercury in Scorpio through November 20 we can remember the power that come from focus and concentration, and draw back the veil of the lovely, non-disturbing surface to look at pulsing truth underneath, even if it makes us a bit uncomfortable.
Wishing you deep-chill trickster magic,
Mercury in Scorpio is reminiscient of Mercury square Pluto. Excessive, obsessive focus can sometimes be problematic. For the most recent Mercury retrograde, which included a triple square to Pluto as Mercury went back and forth, I wrote a list of possible remediations to give that penetrating focus a channel for expression. Those suggestions should be inspirational for Mercury’s passage through Scorpio. You can find that list here.
For information on Mercury/Hermes’ associations in mythology, I drew inspiration from the book Hermes the Thief, The Evolution of a Myth, by Norman O. Brown published 1947
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When They Had Sung A Hymn
Sermon Notes: We will be having our Lord’s Table this Sunday. At the end of every Communion – a celebration of the Passover of our Lord Jesus Christ – I quote the above text. I always say:
When they had sung a song, they went out into the darkness.”
The Bible tells us that “they went out into the Mount of Olives”. I’m not misquoting the text, though, because as they go out Jesus says:
Matthew 26:31 (KJV) Then saith Jesus unto them, All ye shall be offended because of me THIS NIGHT: for IT IS WRITTEN, “I will smite the shepherd, and the sheep of the flock shall be scattered abroad”.
Jesus is going out, and it is night. It is physically night, and it is spiritually night. Jesus is going to a dark place. His next stop is Gethsemane, a Garden of suffering. Jesus would wrestle in prayer with God ALONE. “Father, if it be Thy will, let this cup pass from Me”. Jesus has been offered a cup of suffering, the cup of judgment. He must drink this bitter cup to the bottom. Unlike Maxwell House it is “bad to the last drop”.
Jesus says “ALL shall be OFFENDED because of ME this night”. There will be no one on His side, neither in Heaven nor on earth. His enemies,
the Scribes and Pharisees, would be offended because of Jesus.
The Roman government would be offended because of Jesus.
The Temple Priests would be offended.
His own disciples would be offended.
And even His Heavenly Father would be offended.
Eloi, Eloi, Lama Sabachthani.
My God, My God, why have You forsaken Me?
It will be a dark night indeed. Jesus quotes Zechariah 13:7 ..
God’s Man – the Shepherd – will be struck and beaten down, and that all the flock shall be scattered. The disciples are going out into the night. His flesh would be broken for them, and His blood would be spilled. Judas Iscariot has already departed, and sold our Master for thirty pieces of silver.
It is dark. It is night. A horror is coming.
But Jesus led them in singing.
When they had sung a song, they went out into the darkness”
Genuine Faith Demands We Sing
The Bible tells us “THEY” had sung a song. This leads us to think that they just dashed off a song then moved on. That’s not true. “When they sang a song” is the Greek ὑμνέω hymneō, where we get our word “hymn” or “hymnal”. They didn’t sing A song – they sang the hymnal. What is that talking about?
At the beginning of the Feast of the Passover the Jewish people sang from what they called the Hallel. The Hallel was a collection of songs from the Hebrew Hymnal that we call the Book of Psalms. The Hallel was Psalms 113 through 118. When the Feast of the Passover began Israel would sing Psalm 113-114. The focus of these Psalms was to glorify God, to look to God and to remember how God had blessed Israel. Though I don’t know the tune I want you to listen as I read Psalm 113:
The Feast of the Passover reminded Israel at it’s start that it is God Who brings the victory, God Who causes us to triumph over our enemies. The songs were designed to focus the heart of the believer on the size of God, not on the size of the trial.
Israel was in Egyptian bondage. Israel was enslaved. Israel had no hope but God. So Israel cried out to God, and God said:
Take a Lamb without spot or blemish”
Take the Lamb into your home”
Examine the Lamb from the 10th to the 14th”
Kill the Lamb with your hand, and sprinkle His Blood”
Faith demands obedience. Blessing demands obedience. Those who obeyed were blessed.
God saved Israel from Egypt, just as He saves all who follow Him. At the end of the victory Israel stood on the far side of the Red Sea, and the armies of Egypt – with it’s Pharaoh – lay drowning in the water. God told Moses:
Write Me a song, Moses, and teach it to Israel”
So Moses wrote God a song. I’ll just read part of it:
Years ago when I served with Youth With a Mission we sang this:
I will sing unto the Lord
For He hath triumphed gloriously
The horse and the rider He’s thrown into the sea.
The Lord, My God, My Strength My Song,
Has now become my Victory.
He is my God – I will praise Him
The Lord is God – I will exalt Him
The Lord is Victor all eternity.
Because singing was such a large part of Israel’s victory that the Feast of the Passover ended with singing. At the end of the Feast of the Passover Psalms 115, 116, 117, and 118 were sang. This was not a quick song as we normally do at the end of the Lord’s Table. “They sang hymns” before going out into the night. The Jews usually had one person “call” out part of the hymn, then the people would repeat the phrase. It was not passed around nor written down, but the song leader memorized the text to be called.
Jesus was the Song Leader. It was His Table. As He sang, the disciples – minus Judas Iscariot – sang with Him:
Psalms 115:1-11 (KJV) Not unto us, O LORD, not unto us, but unto thy name give glory, for thy mercy, and for thy truth’s sake. 2 Wherefore should the heathen say, Where is now their God? 3 But our God is in the heavens: he hath done whatsoever he hath pleased. 4 Their idols are silver and gold, the work of men’s hands. 5 They have mouths, but they speak not: eyes have they, but they see not: 6 They have ears, but they hear not: noses have they, but they smell not: 7 They have hands, but they handle not: feet have they, but they walk not: neither speak they through their throat. 8 They that make them are like unto them; so is every one that trusteth in them. 9 O Israel, trust thou in the LORD: he is their help and their shield. 10 O house of Aaron, trust in the LORD: he is their help and their shield. 11 Ye that fear the LORD, trust in the LORD: he is their help and their shield.
Psalms 116:1-19 (KJV)1 I love the LORD, because he hath heard my voice and my supplications. 2 Because he hath inclined his ear unto me, therefore will I call upon him as long as I live. 3 The sorrows of death compassed me, and the pains of hell gat hold upon me: I found trouble and sorrow. 4 Then called I upon the name of the LORD; O LORD, I beseech thee, deliver my soul. 5 Gracious is the LORD, and righteous; yea, our God is merciful. 6 The LORD preserveth the simple: I was brought low, and he helped me. 7 Return unto thy rest, O my soul; for the LORD hath dealt bountifully with thee. 8 For thou hast delivered my soul from death, mine eyes from tears, and my feet from falling. 9 I will walk before the LORD in the land of the living. 10 I believed, therefore have I spoken: I was greatly afflicted: 11 I said in my haste, All men are liars. 12 What shall I render unto the LORD for all his benefits toward me? 13 I will take the cup of salvation, and call upon the name of the LORD. 14 I will pay my vows unto the LORD now in the presence of all his people. 15 Precious in the sight of the LORD is the death of his saints. 16 O LORD, truly I am thy servant; I am thy servant, and the son of thine handmaid: thou hast loosed my bonds. 17 I will offer to thee the sacrifice of thanksgiving, and will call upon the name of the LORD. 18 I will pay my vows unto the LORD now in the presence of all his people, 19 In the courts of the LORD’S house, in the midst of thee, O Jerusalem. Praise ye the LORD.
Psalms 117:1-2 (KJV)1 O praise the LORD, all ye nations: praise him, all ye people. 2 For his merciful kindness is great toward us: and the truth of the LORD endureth for ever. Praise ye the LORD.
The focus of these Psalms or Hymns was to remind God’s people that – no matter how dark it might seem – that God is in control. Jesus led the singing. Jesus led the singing! Think on this.
Though The Darkness Came, Jesus Sang
Jesus knew full well what was coming. He knew that in the next few hours He would suffer betrayal and torture such as no person has ever endured. Yet He sang. Why would He sing? Because Jesus was a Singer.
Singing is central to our faith because Jesus sang.
It is through singing that God brings victory.
Singing and praising God brings His Presence into our midst.
It is not just entertainment.
It is life.
If God’s people would sing and follow the Savior we would be better blessed.
I am reminded of the time when the Moabites and the Ammonites – a GREAT MULTITUDE from Syria – came to destroy Israel. Israel’s King Jehoshaphat was frightened. What could a small army such as Israel’s do against such a huge host?
So Jehoshaphat called a prayer meeting.
You know, like the “Prayer Meetings” we have that so few attend?
Jehoshaphat said “I don’t know what to do Lord”.
And God said “Pray!”
So they prayed.
God spoke to Israel.
2 Chronicles 20:15, (NKJV) ‘Do not be afraid nor dismayed because of this great multitude, for the battle is not yours, but God’s. … 17 You will not need to fight in this battle. Position yourselves, stand still and see the salvation of the Lord, who is with you, O Judah and Jerusalem!’ Do not fear or be dismayed; tomorrow go out against them, for the Lord is with you.”
So Jehoshaphat and Israel rose up early the next day. And King Jehoshaphat did something unexpected. He put the singers at the head of the army of Israel. The singers led the way, praising God and glorifying Him. And God defeated the enemy.
Jesus led His disciples in singing, though what was coming looked oh so dark. He knew that there is victory in obedience to God. Jesus sang. When darkness comes, we should sing. We should praise our Lord. We should magnify Him. Oh God save us from the entertainment industry. Oh God save us from singing to bless ourselves only.
Jesus Sang Because He Knew God Would Triumph!
We can learn from the singing of Jesus. C.H. Spurgeon said:
Let us, O fellow-heirs of salvation, learn to sing when our suffering time comes, when our season for stern labor approaches! Yes, let us pour forth a canticle of deep, mysterious melody of bliss when our dying hour is near at hand! Courage, Brothers and Sisters! The waters are chilly, but fear will not by any means diminish the terrors of the river! Courage, Brothers and Sisters! Death is solemn work, but playing the coward will not make it less so! Bring out the silver trumpet—let your lips remember the long-loved music—and let the notes be clear and shrill as you dip your feet in the Jordan! “Yes, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for You are with me; Your rod and Your staff they comfort me.”
Where singing is, faith grows. The Apostle said:
Ephesians 5:1-2 (NKJV) Therefore be imitators of God as dear children. 2 And walk in love, as Christ also has loved us and given Himself for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling aroma.
Let us imitate our Master. As He led His disciples out into the darkness He sang, and led them in singing. Why? Because in the end Christ would triumph. He would lead us, like Israel, from Egypt. Our sins, like the armies of Egypt, would die in the Red Sea of His Blood. Through Him we would have atonement. Through Him we would have peace with God. Jesus sang, and we must sing.
The heart that sings to God and submits to others is the heart that cannot be defeated. The Shepherd was beaten and the sheep scattered because they did not sing together. They let fear take them, and lost the blessing. Jesus sings in His Church when His Church sings. The Scripture says:
Hebrews 2:10-12 (KJV)10 For it became him, for whom are all things, and by whom are all things, in bringing many sons unto glory, to make the captain of their salvation perfect through sufferings. 11 For both he that sanctifieth and they who are sanctified are all of one: for which cause he is not ashamed to call them brethren, 12 Saying, I will declare thy name unto my brethren, in the MIDST OF THE CHURCH WILL I SING PRAISE UNTO THEE.
Sing. Praise Him. Follow His example. Sing!
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According to information received from the Central African Republic on July 30, three people were killed near the city of Sibut (300 km north of the capital of the CAR, Bangui),carrying only journalistic documents.
The Russian Foreign Ministry identified those killed in the Central African Republic, specifying that the documents found at the site show that they were Russian journalist Orkhan Dzhemal, cameraman Kirill Radchenko and producer Alexander Rastorguyev.
According to the ministry, the Russian embassy in the Central African Republic was not informed about the presence of the Russian journalists in the country. The UN Mission in the Central African Republic confirmed in a statement that three bodies had been found in a bullet-ridden car.
AFP news agency reported citing sources close to the investigation, that the bodies of Russian citizens with press cards have been found on a road 23 km (14 miles) from the central town of Sibut.
After gaining so-called independence from France in 1960, the Central African Republic was ruled by a series of autocratic capitalist supported leaders. Clashes between Muslim and Christian groups have been ongoing in the CAR since 2015.
The war thorn Central African country current borders were established by France, which ruled the country as a colony starting in the late 19th century.
Despite its significant mineral deposits and other resources, such as uranium reserves, crude oil, golddiamondscobaltlumber, and hydropower, as well as significant quantities of arable land, the Central African Republic is among the ten poorest countries in the world.
Sputnik / ABC Flash Point Africa News 2018.
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Time Waster Tuesday: Tuper Tario Tros
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Tuper Tario Tros. - Super Mario Bros. x Tetris!
In what results in a surprisingly well-balanced mashup, SwingSwing Submarine tosses unscalable barriers in front of Super Mario in his first brick-bashing adventure in Tuper Tario Tros. Your only course of action is to swap into “Tetris Mode” where familiarly shaped blocks fall from the sky (accompanied by their signature theme song) to clear a path (or build a stairway!)
Go waste some time and head back here to report your high score.
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Finding the changes between two labels in TFS version control
Carl Daniel (code) and Robert Downey (code) each wrote and posted code to show the changesets between two labels in TFS version control. They each took the same basic approach: call QueryLabels() to get the set of items in each label, find the highest changeset version for each set of items, and then call QueryHistory() with the range of versions specified as the two highest changeset versions found.
There's one technical flaw with this approach. A label in Team Foundation Server is not a point in time. In TFS labels are collections of files, each at a particular version. Brian Harry wrote about this difference in a post titled, Why TFS labels aren't like SourceSafe labels.
In Team Foundation, labels are more powerful. Instead of being a single point in time, they are able to have versions of each file in the label from different points in time. The canonical scenario is that you label a build and then find some bugs and want to go back change the versions of a few of the files (either omitting changes that introduced bugs or adding changes that fixed bugs). Now the label does not represent a point in time, but rather a collection of points in time. This makes it very hard to display it in a list mixed with change sets because there is not “correct” ordering of the list. As a result we treat the list of changesets and the list of labels separately.
Another very common approach is creating a label using the versions of files in a workspace. A workspace is also a collection of files, each potentially from a different point in time. Team Build labels the files in its workspace as part of the build process. By doing this Team Build guarantees that it is labeling what it's building. Steve St. Jean talks about this in his post, Why I Like Labels in TFS Version Control.
By finding the highest changeset in each label to compute the differences, the label is inherently being represented at a point time, as a changeset is just a precise point in time with respect to the state of the repository. As a result, the report produced by these apps won't necessarily be completely accurate if the label has been changed, such as Brian describes in his example, or the label was based on the versions in a workspace where not all versions are from the same point in time.
Computing the actual set of changes between two labels, taking into account that labels are not points in time, becomes a much more expensive computation involving computing the history of each item between the two changesets in the label (and handling adds and deletes). In fact, the GenCheckinNotesUpdateWorkItems task in Team Build takes this fully accurate approach, and it's why that task is so slow (see GenCheckinNotesUpdateWorkItems task is expensive and Measuring Performance of Team Build Build Process). By the way, you can set SkipPostBuild to true in your TfsBuild.proj (add this line: <SkipPostBuild>true</SkipPostBuild>) file to prevent that task from running if you find it too expensive and don't need the changesets and work items recorded in the build information and the "fixed in field" updated in those same work items.
So, should you go with the fast approach used by Carl and Robert or take the slow approach used by Team Build? The answer depends on whether your labels are points in time and what level of accuracy you need when determining what's changed between two labels. The approach used by Carl and Robert is completely accurate if your labels are strictly points. If you need complete accuracy and your labels are not points in time, you'll need the more expensive approach. If you don't need complete accuracy, the fast approach may give an answer that's "close enough" for what you are doing.
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1. The Visual Studio Team System User Education blog on New Team Build Customization Content on MSDN.
2. Mickey Gousset just published on the Team System Rocks blog a new VSTS Links Compilation. Lots of good…
3. Hey
I have a requirement in our project, we have our custom msbuild which sends the list of work items list fixed in the current build through mail. The workItems are selected based on the value of the FixedIn field value which is typically the current Build No. Now if the build fails then we have to manually update the Fixed In fields of All the workItem so that in the next build once again the workitem list is generated,as it only picks the workitems Fixed In the current build version..
4. buckh says:
Murli, I’m not sure how to explain what you are seeing. Here is how it is supposed to work.
Currently the Fixed In field will get updated by each build until the first successful build. That is, if there are four failed builds before a successful one, the work item will be updated five times.
5. If users are using TFS 2010 or above then I think is a good tool.
TFS ChangeLog applicatoin allows users to automatically generate release notes from TFS. Users will have to provide information on thier project, branch and changeset range and then TFS ChangeLog application will extract information from each changeset in a given range and all the associated workitems to such changesets. i.e. it will travel from starting changeset upto ending changeset and will extract data about each changeset along with associated workitems in an XML file.
Users can then use their own transformation logic including filter, sorting, styling, output formatting, etc. to generate Release Notes Report.
TFS ChangeLog application support command line interface as well so that users can generate Release Notes based on windows schedule task.
Hope this is useful.
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Thursday, 25 February 2016
Day 13530
Been musing a little on the nature of work.
Scientifically, work is done when a force moves something: $W=F \times x$. So gravity, moving an apple from the tree to the ground, does work increasing the apple's velocity. When the apple hits the ground it is moving faster, *bump*.
Alternatively, in a motor, electricity does work ($W=I \times V$) creating a changing magnetic field, which rotates a permanent magnet and turns a thing.
I'm considering all of this sat at my desk pretending to do work. In this case the work is a little more abstract: I am a physicist. I eat food. My digestive system does work breaking that food down into useful components such as fat and protein, which my brain can then use to think about stuff. I'm not a very good physicist, and am currently in the final stages of seeing how protracted I can make my phd. The phd is part-time, nominally 8 years and I'm half way through the 9th.
I'm quite proud of lots of the thesis so far, which I won't go into here. But undoubtedly, if I was a little more efficient at turning food into thought it could have been done by now, there could have been more of it, and my employers would be happier with me and maybe give me money with which to buy food.
I try to run a lot. I'm really not a very good runner. I generally finish near the back, though in recent years a bit less so. I can keep going for quite a long time and have been trying my hand at ultras. I'm particularly proud of this as I was born with club feet (one sideways, one backwards, both pretty straight now) so running is not perhaps something my maker saw in me at the beginning.
For running, the fat and protein from my food is used by my muscles to propel me forwards. I'm a lot better at it than I used to be, though am still a little too heavy, a little too clumsy. I get distracted by tech a lot. I like maps. I like reading about truly inspiring and impressive runners who can run up mountains all day.
I've been feeling a little miserable for the last month as I haven't done a lot of running due to a bad cold, a sore calf, then a really annoying 10 days of weird cold/ chest congestion that is still just about hanging on. It's particularly annoying as being a runner I don't seem to suffer from colds much and am often smug about this, so getting two in succession is pretty deflating. I suspect it is this that is making it hard to do work thinking, as running keeps all the other fundamental processes in my body like my vascular system, digestive system, philosophy system, moral system and lymphatic system functioning correctly.
Hopefully I am just about done with the cold, so that over the weekend I can start doing some work running, which will do work sorting all the other systems out, so that I can do some work at work and get on with working finishing my thesis. Who knows.
1. Ahem. Bad physicist. $P=I \times V$ P = rate of change of W...
2. Stop procrastinating and finish your thesis!
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Various Variables
Twinkle Twinkle
Learn It
• One of the most useful thing about computers is the ability to store information and change it.
• Computers can store different types of data, such as:
• Integers (whole numbers, like 1 , 2, 0, -500)
• Booleans (True and False)
• Characters (e.g. a, @, -, or ?)
• Strings (several characters together, e.g. this sentence)
• Real numbers (E.g. 2.5, -6.2, 3.141572)
• We'll use some variables today to make patterns on the Micro:bit display.
Learn It
• The display on the Micro:bit uses co-ordinates just like in maths to describe where each of its LEDs are.
• The top-left LED has an x position of 0, and a y position of 0, or we write (0, 0) as a shorthand.
• The LED to the right of that is located at (1, 0). The one immediately underneath that is (1, 1) and so on. The bottom-right most LED is therefore located at (4, 4).
• We can turn on a single LED with this command:
display.set_pixel(x, y, howBright)
• We replace x, y and howBright with numbers to indicate which LED we want to illuminate, then a number from 0 (off) to 9 (full power) for how bright the LED should be.
• Let's make an app to make an attractive light show. We'll start with something quite simple, then slowly make it more elaborate.
• To start with, let's just aim to make the left-most LED come on, then the next one, then the next and so on until the top row is all turned on.
• Once the full row is on, we'll clear the display and start over. There are a few ways we could do this. One way would be like this:
Code It
• Open a new Micro:Python window, delete the example code, and paste this in:
from microbit import *
while True:
display.set_pixel(0, 0, howBright)
display.set_pixel(1, 0, howBright)
display.set_pixel(2, 0, howBright)
display.set_pixel(3, 0, howBright)
display.set_pixel(4, 0, howBright)
• This is 15 lines of code in total, and would do the job we want.
• There are some issues here, though. What if we wanted to make it move faster by reducing the sleep() time? We'd need to change the 500 in five different places.
• What if we wanted to make it light up from right to left? We'd need to reverse all the numbers.
• What about lighting all the other rows of pixels at the same time so the whole display shows the effect? We'd need to copy and paste the chunk of code another four times, then we'd have to modify each one individually. The resulting program would be huge!
• There's got to be a better way, and this is where variables can help.
Code It
• Delete the code from before, and replace it with these 10 lines.
from microbit import *
while True:
display.set_pixel(x, 0, howBright)
if x==5:
• Let's consider our code…
• The x=0 line is setting up a variable called X and assigning it the value 0.
• The howBright=9 line is to hold how bright we want the LEDs to come on when they light up.
• while True tells the computer that we're starting a loop, which will continue forever. We call this an infinite loop.
• NOTE: The commands that we want to repeat are 'tabbed' in on the page so that they stick in a few spaces more than the lines before it. This is important; one of the most common causes of coding errors are made by not indenting code when needed.
• The display.set_pixel(x, 0, howBright) line asks the Micro:bit to turn on the LED located at position x (worth 0 the first time we run through the program), in column 0 with a brightness of howBright (worth 9).
• Next, the x+=1 line tells the computer to add 1 to the value of x. If it was 1, it'll become 2, if it's 2, it'll become 3 and so on.
• sleep(250) tells the Micro:bit to wait a quarter of a second before it performs the next command.
• The if statement tells the Micro:bit to see if x is worth 5. If it is, the next two instructions are carried out (notice how these instructions are also indented?)
• IF x is 5, then the display is cleared (all LEDs turned off) and x is reset back to 0.
• This is the last line of code indented in the while loop. Once it has been carried out, the next line of code will be the while True: line again as the loop restarts.
• If you need a little extra help, the video tutorial walks you through everything in this lesson…
Badge It
• Silver: Write a program that makes a pattern that scrolls down vertically rather than horizontally.
• Gold: Make your pattern fill the first two columns rather than just one.
• Platinum: Make your pattern fill all the columns, AND have the brightness increase each time a new LED is turned on. When the brightness reaches 9, it should start again at 1.
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Introduction to Linux
Try It
• To get the most out of Linux, you'll want to learn to use the command line to get things done. Linux is based around an operating system called UNIX that was first devised and written in 1969. Computers weren't really used with mice, touch screens or graphics back then. Many used line printers to produce their output rather than a monitor; thankfully, things have moved on.
• Many of the commands you'll learn are unchanged since the original UNIX release. Depite these commands possibly being older than your parents, they are used daily on the vast majority of the World's most powerful computers.
• In this lesson, we'll learn to navigate around your files and look at what's in them.
• We'll use this superb emulator by Fabrice Bellard
• Or…
Click here for pop-up window version
• Once the session has booted up, type:
cd /home
cp -R * /tmp/
cd /tmp/treasure_hunt
Try It
• We're going on a treasure hunt.
• In the treasure directory that you're currently in, there are more directories and some files within them.
• Many of these files contain jokes. One of them contains a secret code that you can use to collect your silver badge for this lesson.
• You'll need to learn to use three commands to complete this exercise.
Present Working Directory
• You'll need to know where you are in your filesystem.
• Present Working Directory. Outputs the current directory you're in.
• If you've followed the above instructions and try this, you should see that you're currently working in…
• /tmp/treasure_hunt
Listing directory contents
• Just like when you use 'My Computer' in Windows to browse your documents and files, it's useful to see what files you have in different directories.
• LiSt. Shows a list of the files and directories in the current directory.
• Pro tip: You can get a more detailed list if you use ls -l instead.
• In the shot above, you can see the time and date when each file was last modified to the left of each file name.
• Entries which are directories (like pages and source in my example) have the letter 'd' on the far left-hand side of the column. Some Linux systems will also change the colour of the directory names for you, like in the image above.
• The size of the file in bytes is shown to the left of the month the file was last modified.
• The username and group of the person who created the file is shown here too.
• Pro tip: Tap the up and down arrows on the keyboard to browse your previous commands.
Change Directory
• Sometimes, we'll want to work in a different directory (or folder, as you'd say in Windows)
• Change Directory to somewhere else. You could type cd a for instance to move into directory a.
• At the moment, you should be able to see four directories, imaginatively called a, b, c and d. Let's Change Directory into a…
• Type: cd a
• Now let's LiSt the files in this directory. Type: ls
• There are three text files in here. We'll have a look inside them in a moment.
• For now though, we'll need to get back to the previous directory. This is done as follows:
• cd ..
• In Linux type Operating Systems, .. means 'back one level'. You can use a few of them at a time to navigate around more quickly. E.g. cd ../.. to drop back two directory levels, or cd ../b to drop back a level, then change into the b directory if you were already working inside a.
• Task: Use pwd to get your bearings, then navigate into the a directory once more.
• This command is actually short for conCATenate, which means to add one thing to the end of another. While it can do this, its more commonly used by Linux users to quickly see the contents of files.
• Assuming you're in the a directory, type ls to see whats in there.
• Let's see what's inside the otherfile.txt document. Type cat ot like in the screenshot above.
• Linux users don't like to type too much - as there are no other files in here that start with ot, you can hit the tab key to auto-complete (you'll want to do this a lot once you get used to it), then hit enter to run the command.
• The contents of the file will now be displayed.
Badge It
• Attempt the badge tasks below. If you're not sure how to navigate the filesystem, the video tutorial below goes over it again, with examples, to help you achieve the badge.
• Silver: Explore the treasure_hunt directory and its sub-directories, and cat the different files until you find the secret password. Screenshot the file content with the password and upload
• Gold: In the file you created for the silver badge, add a short explanation of what ls, cd, cat and pwd do in a Linux terminal.
• Platinum: Make a new directory called LinuxChamp inside the /tmp/ directory, and move one of the joke files from the earlier directory into it. Screenshot the results of the pwd and ls command from the terminal as evidence you've completed the task.
• BONUS TASK: If you've completed the tasks, why not try playing a game of Terminus? It's a great way to practice your commands. The only thing to note is that they prefer you to use less instead of cat to open the files you encounter on your journey…
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It's not illegal to lie to cops (in most places), but it is illegal to lie to cops during a lawful investigation.
Lying to a cop isn't illegal if you aren't committing a crime but I'd have to say this oh I'm digitizing media not video taping is an absolutely pedantic argument that wouldn't hold up for 1 second in an actual court case
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Book Signings
My first book signing was at National Geographic Headquarters in Washington DC, after I gave a talk at their Nat Geo Nights event in February 2017. I signed copies of my book “An Oral History of the New Orleans Ninth Ward” at the Mandeville and Metairie Barnes & Noble locations — and actually sold-out at the … Continue reading Book Signings
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Version 1 (modified by inerte@…, 13 years ago) (diff)
Adding ModifiedPreorderTreeTraversal
There's a good article explaining what's Modified Preorder Tree Traversal on SitePoint. Basically, it allows you to discover every children, or parent, or the whole tree, with a single query. Very efficient! And good for threaded discussions...
I modified these snippets from an app I coded in portuguese, with more features than what's pasted here. If there's anything wrong, send me an email, because I do have it working here :)
Here's a model, a view and a couple functions to help you implement it.
What you really need are the lft and rght "columns". Yes, they mean left and right, but these are reserved SQL words. Everything else is optional. You will probably want an "article" or "post" fields, using ForeignKey, to say where the comment belongs to. If you do add something like this, don't forget to change the SQL queries to add the column.
class Comment(meta.Model):
body = meta.TextField()
lft = meta.PositiveIntegerField(db_index = True)
rght = meta.PositiveIntegerField(db_index = True)
New record
I have this on my request (form) processing view, but you can put it anywhere (_pre_save() it's a good idea). The comment_id pk is the comment we're replying to, the one that will become the parent:
comment = get_object_or_404(comments, pk = comment_id)
target_rght = comment.rght - 1
new_comment_lft = target_rght + 1
new_comment_rght = target_rght + 2
cursor = db.cursor()
cursor.execute("UPDATE `app_comments` " \
"SET `rght` = `rght` + 2 " \
"WHERE `rght` > %i" % int(target_rght))
cursor.execute("UPDATE `app_comments` " \
"SET `lft` = `lft` + 2 " \
"WHERE `lft` > %i" % int(target_rght)
new_comment = comments.Comment(body = some_var
lft = new_comment_lft,
rght = new_comment_rght,
Getting the tree
comment_list = comments.get_list(order_by=['lft'])
stack = []
for comment in comment_list:
# [:] creates a copy of the list, needed because .pop() modifies it on each iteration and mess with the loop
stack_copy = stack[:]
for j in stack_copy:
if j < comment.rght:
stack_size = len(stack)
comment.stack = stack_size
So, what have we done? There's a "stack" attribute on each comment now that tells you "how far" each comment is from another. For example, every "root" comment has a stack of 1. Every comment that's an answer to the root comments has a stack of 2. The stack respect the order that the comments were inserted at the database. Something like this:
If you want to show the comments a little far from the left viewport border, based on their stack numbers, use this on your template:
<div style="margin-left:{% widthratio comentario.stack 20 100 %}%">
{{ comment.body }}
The same can be done but shrinking a table. It gets smaller, aligned to the right, the further the comment is stacked:
<table style="width:{% widthratio comentario.stack 500 100 %}%" align="right">
{{ comment.body }}
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English: BT21 is the first presentation from "Friends Creators," a project formed to create new characters for the Line Friends series. The characters are created by South Korean boy group BTS.
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Deutsch: pleistozäneGoldshöfer Sande“, Sandgrube in Dietrichsweiler bei Ellwangen an der Jagst.
English: pleistocene Goldshöfer Sande, sandpit in Dietrichsweiler N of Ellwangen at river Jagst.
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Čeština: Kvetoucí kosatec sibiřský v oblasti přírodní památky Novoveská draha poblíž obce Nová Ves u Nepomuku, okres Plzeň-jih, Česko
English: Iris sibirica in natural monument Novoveská draha near Nová ves village near Nepomuk, Plzeň-jih District, Czech Republic
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Simulate flic taps on iPhone
• With some flics I can simulate flip taps by pressing a flip icon in the iPhone app whilst other icons in the app don't respond with the option.
Also I can't simulate any flics on my iPads.
Why is this?
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Processing images from DJI Spark gives "Process exited with code 1"
Hello. I haven’t been able to process images from a DJI Spark. I’m using the standard processing options, on macOS 10.13, Chrome v69, and I installed WebODM with the macOS installer, updated an hour ago.
I’ve processed data sets from a Mavic Pro on WebODM and they work fine.
Here’s an example data set that fails with the message “Process exited with code 1”.
I can see a warning in the output “Could not find ccd_width in file” but when I use --force-ccd it doesn’t resolve the processing fail.
The task output is here:
Invalid value encountered in divide
Hi - any ideas about this issue? Is there something about the Spark that makes it unsuitable for WebODM, or is it the way I’ve captured the images?
I tried the same dataset with Agisoft Photscan Standard and the result was really nice, but for the students I’m teaching I’d prefer to use WebODM.
No thoughts on this? Is WebODM unsuitable for processing Spark imagery?
Hi @darylwm — have you updated the spark? There’s a bug in the firmware that is preventing its use in OpenDroneMap. We could write a workaround for the bug, but as it’s being patched (or has already) this isn’t a high priority item.
Hi @smathermather-cm - it’s running Aircraft Firmware V01.00.1000, the latest. Which bug are you referring to?
The Spark’s precision in its GPS coordinates seems much lower (4 decimal places) than the Mavic (8 decimal places). That probably wouldn’t help.
I met the same problem. Have you solved it?
I once succeeded in mapping with spark about half a year ago, but today it does not work.
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Unfortunately the Spark only records 4 decimal places for the lat/long in the EXIF header of each image, which is very low resolution. Unless DJI is able to increase it in a firmware update, I’m thinking the Spark is no good for mapping.
I once succeeded mapping with Spark.
Is there any solution?(Such as correcting the exif header)
“Process exited with code 1” on Xeon E5675 x 2 with 64 GB Ram
It seems that other drones have the same problem, what’s wrong? I don’t think it is caused by the memory.
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The Mavic Pro stores 8 decimal places in the EXIF for lat/long. Makes a huge difference to resolution on the ground.
I dont think it is the problem of spark, because it seems that other drones have the same problem recently.
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Startup shutdown: Some takeaways from BlackGarlic’s demise
Indonesia · Jan 04, 2018· By Putu Agung Wija Putera
Meal subscription service BlackGarlic shut down in July, blaming the high costs of customer acquisition and retention. Here’s a look at why the Blue Apron copy couldn't satisfy the Indonesian market’s palate
Innovation is highly valued in the startup scene. Yet in Southeast Asia, the greatest startup successes have involved borrowing from foreign models – even beating the original at its own game.
Singapore-based Grab brought to Southeast Asia the concept of a ride-sharing and -hailing app made famous by San Francisco’s Uber and Lyft, just six months before Uber reached the region in 2013. In Indonesia, the product is given a unique, local twist: by substituting cars with motorcycles, Go-Jek’s riders are able to buzz past the heavy traffic in Indonesian cities and navigate its narrow backroads.
Today, both Grab and Go-Jek are unicorns, ruling the Southeast Asia on-demand transport market, and have even expanded into fintech. Uber itself has admitted it faces a tough ride in Southeast Asia given the stiff competition.
But there are other imports that have gone awry. BlackGarlic, an Indonesian meal-kit subscription startup inspired by the Nasdaq-listed Blue Apron (which itself is a copy of the Swedish company Linas Matkasse), shut down in July 2017, a year after raising seed funding from Convergence Ventures and Skystar Capital.
Recipe for success
Founded in 2015, BlackGarlic offered Indonesian urbanites the chance to cook healthy meals at home designed by celebrity chefs, without the hassle of shopping for and preparing the ingredients. Delivered to the doorstep, these meal kits use organic foods and seasonings. Just like Blue Apron, BlackGarlic sought to appeal to consumers subscribing to a so-called “lifestyle of health and sustainability”.
Its team certainly wasn’t short on talent or experience. Three of the co-founders, Michael SaputraAngelo Syailendra and Willy Haryanto, had established the online food delivery firm Klik-Eat (which they sold in 2014 to Yume no Machi). Joining them were serial restaurateur Olivia Wongso and former engineer Ardo Adiwidjaja. Olivia’s father, William Wongso, one of Indonesia’s most famous chefs, was brought on board as advisor.
The startup attracted the attention of investors, netting them seed funding in January 2016. By then, they had shipped out their meal kits to 1,000 customers, half of whom were active users. It also planned to establish a stronger foothold in Jakarta.
What went wrong?
Michael Saputra, in his statements to the media, conceded that getting new customers was too costly compared with the monthly revenue BlackGarlic was earning – an average of IDR 1.5 billion (US$110,000). Retaining customers also proved challenging, despite the fact that they had served 10,000 customers and shipped 80,000 meals during their two-year run. BlackGarlic relied on word-of-mouth advertising and celebrity endorsements to attract new customers.
While the team did acknowledge that the market for their product was still small, their ambition was to capture and develop that market before anyone else did. As it turned out, the entrepreneurs had overestimated just how many locals subscribe to the health-conscious and sustainable lifestyle that’s now all the rage in the West, which can be expensive and time-consuming to maintain.
With its use of organic ingredients, MSG-free seasonings and chef-created recipes, the BlackGarlic product line definitely had a strong appeal for people who care about what they eat. The main practical value of their product, however, was cutting the costs associated with cooking. While this was achieved to some extent with the ingredients delivered, it still didn’t free users from the most skill-intensive and time-consuming part of the process – the actual cooking of the dish itself.
Like its US counterpart, BlackGarlic targeted affluent customers. However, whether the Indonesian affluent can cook, or are willing to spend time cooking, is another question entirely. The country’s urban middle-class families often hire domestic helpers, who handle the grocery shopping and cooking (on top of other household tasks). People who grew up in such families, therefore, usually go through life without ever learning how to cook. Or they could just order in delivery instead and save themselves the trouble of cooking.
BlackGarlic’s pricing strategy could also have limited its reach. Subscribers had to order a minimum of two meal kits per week (with a total value of at least IDR 150,000, or US$11), while non-subscribers had to pay delivery charges. Since BlackGarlic did not eliminate or simplify the cooking process radically enough, it was hard to justify this kind of spending. It would be far cheaper to duck into a nearby food stall or small restaurant for a hot meal (costing about IDR 20,000–50,000); or order takeout from hundreds of outlets via Go-Jek’s Go-Food service. This is in contrast to the US, where cooking with meal kits at home actually saves money versus dining out.
Too little, too late
The low barriers to entry of the on-demand food delivery business proved to be another challenge for BlackGarlic. Similarly targeting busy middle-class consumers, personalized grocery shopping service HappyFresh lets users quickly order ingredients for recipes in the app’s catalog with same-day delivery, but without the commitment of subscription or minimum order. Meanwhile, catering startup BerryKitchen sells ready-to-eat meals developed by celebrity chefs like Juna, Edwin Lau and Vindy Lee. While most of these meals are a la carte orders, they also offer weekly meal packages for diet plans, in which fresh food is delivered every day of the week.
The presence of these rivals might explain why, in the last year of its operations, BlackGarlic began selling ready-to-eat meals and seasoning mixes under the BlackGarlic Express brand. If it could not draw in enough subscribers and get repeat orders, it could sell its goods a la carte; this would allow them to earn some revenue while introducing the product to potential customers resistant to the subscription model.
Unfortunately, this was not enough to save BlackGarlic. It eventually found that the cost of attracting new customers was too high versus its revenue – a problem Blue Apron is also facing. But without the cash reserves that have allowed Blue Apron to stay in the game, BlackGarlic had to close shop sooner. The BlackGarlic Express line of products is now sold by a firm owned by William Wongso.
BlackGalic’s story is a lesson in how not all successful business models can survive when imported from one country to another, at least, not without some key modifications. It is clear that the Indonesian market is not ready for a direct import of the Blue Apron model.
However, whether it will ever be ready for such a model is still up for debate. It would not only take a wealthier and more health-conscious Indonesian middle class for such a model to succeed; changes in culture would also be influential. Such changes could take years to happen. Until then, aspiring entrepreneurs will have to tweak their recipes for local taste buds.
Edited by Bernice Tang
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Please use the theme item comments or landing page chat for WP Pro Real Estate 7, support tickets on this site will no longer be answered until further notice.
Google Maps Aren't Working?
The Google Maps JavaScript API browser key is used to display maps on your website. Without this key, you’ll see the following error:
Oops! Something went wrong.This page didn’t load Google Maps correctly. See the JavaScript console for technical details.
Make sure you've got the correct API key from, and the URL for your site is also assigned to said API key.
Then go into Real Estate 7 Options > Google Maps > and copy/paste that into the API Key field > Save Settings and you'll be all set.
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The Damage A Fruit Smoothie Can Do To Teeth
The Damage A Smoothie Can Do To Teeth
Fruit (and vegetable) smoothies can be delicious, and they can be a great way to incorporate fruits and veges into your daily diet. However, research shows that ‘irresponsible consumption’ of smoothies has the potential of causing tooth erosion.
Smoothies can vary in acidity, depending on the ingredients that are used to make them. The more acidic the smoothie, the more potential it has for causing erosion. In the study, the kiwi, apple and lime smoothie caused much more erosion than the strawberry and banana one.
If smoothies are sipped and therefore consumed over a long period, the mouth remains in an acidic state for a longer period of time, which would result in greater erosion. The study concluded that if people choose to consume smoothies the best approach would be to only do so at mealtimes.
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Editor’s Note: The end of one era and dawn of another
The prescription of antibiotics has killed off a lot of microbes, but left room for their antibiotic-resistant relatives to thrive, writes Elizabeth Finkel in the latest issue of Cosmos Magazine.
We’re nearing the end of the antibiotic era. Ever since penicillin became widely available after 1945, people stopped worrying about infections. Sore throats or infected cuts were quickly sorted out by antibiotics from a kindly doctor followed by a few days in bed. Later generations quickly forgot that simple infections could be deadly.
Antibiotics were such a wonderful cure-all that doctors prescribed them with abandon, like sweets. They weren’t just good for curing infections in people: they also had a surprising side effect as growth accelerators for chickens, pigs and cows. As a result, antibiotics have flooded our environment. This has killed off a lot of microbes, but left room for their antibiotic-resistant relatives to thrive. It’s a textbook example of evolution: when the environment changes, the fittest individuals gain the upper hand and multiply.
The ranks of antibiotic-resistant microbes have now swelled dramatically. You might encounter a resistant strain of golden staph during routine surgery in an Australian hospital, or a trip to New Guinea might land you with a multidrug-resistant strain of tuberculosis.
In 2016, the UK government commissioned economist Jim O’Neill to measure the scale of the crisis. He found 700,000 people die each year due to infections by drug-resistant microbes. By 2050, that figure will rise to 10 million if nothing is done.
One response is to try to turn the tables on the enemy by taking away its selective advantage. By slowing the tap that drips antibiotics into the environment, particularly into farm animals, we can make life easier for antibiotic-susceptible microbes, which should slow the advance of the resisters.
Meanwhile, we are in dire need of a new generation of weaponry. Our lead story this issue takes a look at what’s in the pipeline. One approach looks back in time.
Penicillin was developed in response to the crisis of the Second World War. But the First World War had led to another antibacterial treatment: like fleas that have littler fleas on their backs to bite ’em, bacteria themselves are prey to tiny viruses called bacteriophages.
Bacteriophage therapy was superseded by the use of penicillin and other antibiotics, which was easier to industrialise. But Eastern European countries have continued to use bacteriophages to treat infections. Because phages can outcompete bacteria in the evolutionary arms race, they are an important weapon to which many Western researchers are now returning.
Others are exploring new strategies. These include “defanging” disease-causing bacteria without killing them, using a deadly phage extract called lysin as a drug, or stopping overgrowth in bacterial ecosystems using compounds called “quorum quenchers”.
We’re witnessing the birth of a smart new arsenal designed with an eye to being evolutionproof. Gain hope from reading Dyani Lewis’s report.
This editor's note is from the latest issue of Cosmos Magazine, 75 – Winter 2017! Discover more, subscribe and download a PDF version to start reading now!
1. https://cosmosmagazine.com/issues/weapons-against-superbugs
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Creation Magazine Volume 40 Issue 2 Cover
Creation magazine archive > Volume 40, Issue 2
Creation magazine
Volume 40, Issue 2
April 2018
56 pages
Click here to subscribe to Creation magazine.
4–5 Feedback
6 Editorial: Just what we need
by Tas Walker
7–11 Focus—creation news and views
12–14 Liligers: A testimony to the created kind
by Joel Tay
15–16 Scallop’s amazing mirror eyes
by Jonathan Sarfati
17–19 The appendix: Functional but still evidence for evolution?
by Dominic Statham
20–22 Geological field trips: A fun way of changing your world
by Tas Walker
23 Nature’s self-cleaning marvels: Who did the research and development?
by David Catchpoole
24–26 The importance of biblical creation
Joel Tay chats with seminary professor The Reverend Dr Rick Griffith
27–31 The wily coyote
by David Catchpoole
32–35 Creation for Kids—God’s amazing artistic masterpieces
by Erin Hughes and Lita Cosner
36–37 Multiverses no help for evolution
by Jake Hebert
38–39 What about those who have never heard?
by Lita Cosner
40–43 International research journeys
Tas Walker talks to Dr Pierre Jerlstrom about microbiology and editing Journal of Creation
44–47 Eve, the rib, and modern genetics
by Jonathan Sarfati
48–51 How valleys and canyons formed during Noah’s Flood
by Michael Oard
52–54 What humans do but animals don’t
by David Christie and Russell Grigg
55 Big bang universe should not actually exist
by Jonathan Sarfati
56 As silent as a flying owl
by David Catchpoole
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Received a phone call from a member of Swan Creek Baptist Church. The people that were maintaining the website were gone and he was taking over the website. I upgraded their website ( to WordPress (per user's request) and recreated the limited content they had up. Blake will be building the site using WordPress.
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Just Be You
The uniqueness that is you is refreshing. Relax and just be who God created you to be. When you step out in bravery to pursue what God has in front of you to do - guess what? Your story isn't going to be like anyone else. That is just the way God designed it. Thank God we aren't normal. Thank God we are all different! How boring would this world be otherwise?
So what is it that you are getting to write some goals out about? What passions are you pursuing? I can't wait to hear how things change for you this year. When you get serious and very intentional, you will arrive at destinations more quickly than you thought. You will check off goals with shock. That's the God factor. Don't let it freak you out - just let it grow your faith in a God who is so super creative he made us all different.
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Code guidelines
We’re so glad you’re thinking about contributing to a Technology Transformation Services (TTS) open source project! If you’re unsure about anything, just ask — or submit your issue or pull request anyway. The worst that can happen is we’ll politely ask you to change something. We appreciate all friendly contributions.
TTS is committed to building a safe, welcoming, harassment-free culture for everyone. We expect everyone on the TTS team and everyone within TTS spaces, including contributors to our projects, to follow the TTS Code of Conduct.
We encourage you to read this project’s CONTRIBUTING policy (you are here), its LICENSE, README and its Workflow process.
If you have any questions or want to read more, check out the 18F Open Source Policy GitHub repository, or send us an email.
Contributor Guidelines for Design
We have provided some guidelines for folks that would like to submit new components to the U.S. Web Design System and the lifecycle those new components will go through. For more detail, please visit the guidelines on our wiki.
Submitting an issue
To help us get a better understanding of the issue you’re submitting, follow our ISSUE TEMPLATE and the guidelines it describes.
Submitting a pull request
Here are a few guidelines to follow when submitting a pull request:
1. Create a GitHub account or sign in to your existing account.
2. Fork this repo into your GitHub account (or just clone it if you’re an 18F team member). Read more about forking a repo here on GitHub:
3. Create a branch from develop that lightly defines what you’re working on (for example, add-styles).
4. Ensure that your contribution works via npm, if applicable.
5. Once you’re ready to submit a pull request, fill out the PULL REQUEST template provided.
6. Submit your pull request against the develop branch.
Open an issue if you have questions or need help with setup.
Running locally
The U.S. Web Design System uswds package (the zip download and the files needed to use the Design System on your project) is built primarily with two Node.js tools: Fractal and Gulp. Once you’ve cloned this repository, you’ll need to install its dependencies:
npm install
ProTip: You can also use Yarn, which tends to install dependencies more quickly than npm.
To start the Fractal live reload server, run:
npm start
Then, visit localhost:3000 in a web browser to peruse the component library. While the server is running, any changes that you make to the component templates or configurations will reload the page automatically.
If you’re working on the JavaScript or CSS, you can run the “watch” task in another shell to automatically rebuild the distribution files that Fractal references with:
npm run watch
To run the component unit tests, run:
npm test
This will also run eslint and stylelint to ensure that the JavaScript and SCSS source files meet our coding standards. To lint without the unit tests, you’ll need Gulp. Install it globally (npm install -g gulp-cli), then run:
gulp eslint
gulp stylelint
(Or, if you don’t want to install Gulp globally, you can run $(npm bin)/gulp instead of gulp.)
Note that running the tests also requires an installation of Chrome v59 or higher (v60 if you’re on Windows).
If you want to run a single test file, run npm run mocha ${path/to/spec-file}, substituting the actual path to the spec. Only javascript files can be executed by the mocha runner, and only those js files in the spec directory ending with a .spec.js.
Alternatively, you can add an .only to a describe or it block (i.e. describe.only('my spec')) and run the npm run test command. Keep in mind that this will also run linters and aXe accessibility tests.
To run all of the unit tests, run npm run test:unit.
For non-OSX users: Before running the tests, if you are developing on a machine running an operating system other than OSX, you’ll need to export a CHROME_PATH environment variable that points to Chrome’s binary location. This ensures chrome-launcher can find a version of Chrome for our aXe visual acceptence tests. A table of the locations of the binary for each OS can be found here.
Visual regression testing
The Design System comes with optional tooling for detecting visual regressions, which can be especially useful if you’re refactoring CSS.
These tests work by comparing current screenshots of the Design System’s Fractal components to “golden” screenshots that represent what the components are supposed to look like.
Golden screenshots are stored on your local development system only; they’re not version controlled. This means that after making changes to a branch, you can switch to the branch you’d like to compare it to (e.g. the develop branch) to generate your golden screenshots.
To generate the golden screenshots, run:
npm run test:visual:update
Then, make any CSS refactorings (or switch to a branch that has them).
To compare the current state of your CSS to the golden screenshots, run:
npm run test:visual
If the current screenshots don’t match their golden counterparts, you will be directed to an HTML file that visually shows the differences between any conflicting screenshots.
To build the uswds package in preparation for releases, run:
npm run release
Coding guidelines
The purpose of our coding styleguides are to create consistent coding practices across 18F. The styleguide should be treated as a guide — rules can be modified according to project needs.
This project follows the 18F Front End Guide CSS and JavaScript. Please use this guide for your reference.
Code coverage
We use code coverage tools to understand how much of our JavaScript is tested by our unit test suite. Code coverage is one way (among many) of measuring code quality more generally. Here’s how it works for contributions:
1. Each pull request creates a new coverage report on Code Climate.
2. Code Climate then posts a status message back to GitHub that lists the coverage percentage on that branch, and the difference between that number and the one last reported on our default branch.
For JavaScript contributions, we will review the code coverage percentage and change to ensure that the quality of our code is not dramatically affected.
High code coverage numbers are generally good, and we would prefer that our coverage increases over time. We will not categorically reject contributions that reduce code coverage, but we may ask contributors to refactor their code, add new unit tests, or modify existing tests to avoid significant reductions in coverage.
Browser support
See browser support in the “Getting started: Developers” guidelines.
Our use of branches
See the release documentation for more information on our git/GitHub release workflow.
Licenses and attribution
A few parts of this project are not in the public domain
For complete attribution and licensing information for parts of the project that are not in the public domain, see the LICENSE.
The rest of this project is in the public domain
The rest of this project is in the worldwide public domain.
Contributions will be released into the public domain
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Are you tired of being subscribed to people that make series you're not interested in? But you don't want to unsubscribe them, because you like some of their videos nevertheless? YT Videos Hider is for you!
This extension allows you to hide certains videos from your Youtube home page based on their title. Just follow the instructions on the options page, save your filters and you're done.
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Stuck with Pie Menu
I’m using the build from 120518 (hash 1fa527bfa3a). I was stuck with pie menu (not my cup of tea…) and then I erase the data from the Roaming folder in the AppData and I found myself once again with the option to activate or not this…thing !
So if there are out there other like me…try this.
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12.0284 agents; ghosts; AsianDOC
Humanist Discussion Group ([email protected])
Mon, 2 Nov 1998 16:46:06 +0000 (GMT)
Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 12, No. 284.
Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London
[1] From: "Philip A. Bralich, Ph.D." <[email protected]> (66)
Subject: Ergo Talks with Microsoft Agents (Free Software)
[2] From: David Green <[email protected]> (45)
Subject: Hallowe'en Greetings
[3] From: Maureen Donovan <[email protected]> (18)
Subject: AsianDOC E-Newsletter 1:3 published
Date: Fri, 30 Oct 1998 12:22:30 -1000 (HST)
Subject: Ergo Talks with Microsoft Agents (Free Software)
Microsoft has recently made some of its agent technology available
on the web at http://www.microsoft.com/agents. Most well-known
is a 3 D Parrot called "Peedy." Ergo Linguistics has just modified
their patented "ChatterBox" technology to make it possible to speak
with "Peedy" and the other agents.
For those who are interested in viewing this talking desktop agent,
we can provide the necessary files for a user that will
set everything up and put the "Peedy" icon on the desktop.
The "ChatterBox.exe" file will set up ChatterBox which will
automatically allow you to speak to Peedy.
Once you set up ChatterBox and the "Peedy" in this setup file
Just type in sentences like the following and you can ask the
corresponding questions.
John gave mary a book because it was her birtbday
did John give mary a book
what did john give mary
who gave mary a book
who did john give a book
why did john give mary a book
the tall dark stranger is carrying a bloody knife
what is the stranger doing
what is the stranger carrying
was the stranger carrying a knife
you saw the tall dark stranger in the park
where did you seen the stanger
what did you see
what did you see in the park
thomas jefferson is the third president of the United States
who is the third president of the United States
The Yankees won the 1998 World series
WHAT won the 1998 World Series
*currently the program does not know that the "Yankees" are
people so it is necessary to use "What" for this question.
and so on.
Of course you could build a variety of story or
educational files to talk to Peedy about, but for this
early version it is just fun to put in a few sentences
and chat with him. This is also available with the
Virtual Friend technology at http://www.haptek.com.
Our web site is http://www.ergo-ling.com if you have
any further interest in our NLP technology. Or...
if you have a WIN95 animation of your own we would
be happy to show you how to connect ChatterBox to
I will be showing this in Boston at the SBIR National
Conference November 3-5th. I will also be giving a
lecture and demonstration of this technology at
Northeastern University (Thursday at noon room 415 in
the Classroom Building) while I am there. If you have
anyone in town at that time or at that conference, ask
them to stop by and I will give them a more thorough
introduction to the ChatterBox technology and our other
NLP tools. Because my company is an SBIR grantee we
will have display space in the SBIR section near the
main entrance.
Phil Bralich
Philip A. Bralich, Ph.D.
President and CEO
Ergo Linguistic Technologies
2800 Woodlawn Drive, Suite 175
Honolulu, HI 96822
Tel: (808)539-3920
Fax: (808)539-3924
Date: Fri, 30 Oct 1998 17:59:11 -0500
From: David Green <[email protected]>
Subject: Hallowe'en Greetings
October 30, 1998
Ghost Sites: <http://www.disobey.com/ghostsites/index.htm>
International Ghost Hunters Society at <http://www.ghostweb.com/>
>From INFOBITS, October 1988
>Date: Fri, 30 Oct 1998 16:01:10 -0500
>From: Carolyn Kotlas <[email protected]>
>>CIT INFOBITS October 1998 No. 4 ISSN 1521-9275
>"Beware of what you create. It may come back to haunt you."
>At Ghost Sites, freelance writer Steve Baldwin documents Web pages that
>are dead but continue to haunt the Internet. Ghost sites are "grim
>digital apparitions reminding us of how perilous the voyage through
>cyberspace has become.... Most of them die slowly, from degenerative
>bit rot and months of atrophy." While many of the sites that fall into
>disuse were created by companies that have gone out of business,
>academic institutions also provide a big source of dead sites.
>College-hosted student Web pages linger on after their owners graduate
>or move on to other interests. Even department-sponsored sites are
>subject to untimely ends when grant money for their upkeep runs out or
>projects are completed.
>Visit Ghost Sites at http://www.disobey.com/ghostsites/index.htm
>And, in honor of Halloween, check out ghosts of a more spectral nature
>on The Ghost Web, the official Web site for the International Ghost
>Hunters Society at http://www.ghostweb.com/
>Copyright 1998, UNC-CH Center for Instructional Technology. All rights
>May be reproduced in any medium for non-commercial purposes.
>INFOBITS is an electronic service of the University of North Carolina
>at Chapel Hill's Center for Instructional Technology. Each month the
>CIT's Information Resources Consultant monitors and selects from a
>number of information technology and instructional technology sources
>that come to her attention and provides brief notes for electronic
>dissemination to educators.
Date: Sat, 31 Oct 1998 23:20:48 -0500
From: Maureen Donovan <[email protected]>
Subject: AsianDOC E-Newsletter 1:3 published
Apologies for cross-posting --
AsianDOC Electronic Newsletter 1:3 (October 1998) is available at:
In addition to articles and notices in each department (Databases,
Conferences/Meetings, Technical Corner, Reviews, Interest Groups), this issue
includes a searchable index of authors, titles and cited websites.
AsianDOC (Asian Database Online Community) supports communication among
scholars, researchers, librarians, and others developing and/or interested in
electronic resources for Asian Studies. It is the official publication for
Scholars Engaged in Electronic Resources (SEER), an organization supporting
developers of electronic resources in Asian Studies.
The deadline for submissions to be published in the next issue is December
Maureen Donovan
AsianDOC Publisher/Editor
The Ohio State University Libraries
Humanist Discussion Group
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Television Personalities - Do You Think If You Were Beautiful You'd Be Happy? EP (1995)
The ninth TVP re-up. No I don't think that if I was beautiful I'd be happy. It can help anyway. Catch it here.
Yes, you will say I'm blinded by my love for Dan Treacy to consider this EP is again a great one, but I give a shit. Recorded at the London Toe Rag studios, as much TVP sessions during this decade, it was released by Vinyl Japan, the japanese-owned London-based label that released a lot of fine stuff in the nineties, one year after the superb Far Away And Lost In Joy EP (here). The atmosphere is bleaker and bleaker, the bitterness has never been highest in Dan's spirit, and he begins to claim his hate for those who mock him. It's true that many had lost any interest in TVP during this period of high creativity (remember, noise, doom and rap were in their formative years and each month there was a novative way to play them, and there were some new pop sensations too in GB). The lo-fi depressive songs the band played certainly wouldn't fit with the rage, heavyness and energy galore. But, which of these so-novative records can provide such an emotion than this EP today? Not much actually. Although 1995 seemed one more year toward hell for Dan Treacy, it will give him the chance to give a follow-up to Closer to God some months later. The picture on the sleeve is a portrait of painter Sexton Ming, maybe the painter Dan Treacy talks about in "He Used To Paint In Colour" but I'm not really sure. Everything on this EP here. Lyrics of all TVP songs there.
The In Crowd said...
hello again - - Your Mega link for 'Do You Think If You Were Beautiful You'd Be Happy?' keeps bringing up a "file no longer available" message. Any chance of a new/repaired link? Thanks again :)
dkelvin said...
That's fixed. Don't know why it was not working
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Drawing a Spherical Panorama
A spherical panorama is one that captures, not just 360° around, but all the way up and down too. It captures every direction. I want to show you how you can hand draw (or sketch, paint, etc.) these panoramas.
For instance, here’s my kitchen.
And if you can draw one that adheres to the equirectangular projection, you can upload it to sites like Flickr and Facebook which provide interactive panorama viewers like these ones:
interactive_kitchen interactive_boysroom interactive_work_kitchen interactive_living_room
Hand drawn panoramas are an uncommon art form but they aren’t new. Artists like Dick Termes, Matthew Lopas, Jackie Lima, Arno Hartman, and Tom Lechner have been drawing or painting complete or ultra-wide-angle panoramas for some time. Matthew Lopas’ facebook page features many such paintings, and Tom Lechner’s flickr group has more examples.
Fun right? It seems there are as many ways to accomplish hand drawn panoramas as there are artists doing this. I can show you how I did mine. Follow along.
Step 0 – Get familiar with equirectangular projections
It is a good idea to become familiar with what an equirectangular projection is before you head out to draw one. Skip to step 1 if you are. If not, here’s one now!
An equirectangular projection maps your surroundings to a rectangle with 360 equally spaced degrees from the left to right and 180 equally spaced degrees up and down. Have a look at the equirectangular group on Flickr for more examples. Notice how the the left side wraps around and continues on the right. Also notice how the top and bottom get all stretched out.
Let’s do a demonstration. From where you are sitting now, notice that an edge coming from one corner of a ceiling will be angled upwards. Do it. Look up from your screen. Then, scanning along the top of the wall to a point right in front of you, that edge will be level. Moving further, the corner will be at a downward angle.
A straight line, in real life appears different angles as you turn your head.
Really that’s all an equirectangular projection is doing. It’s changing the orientation of things to appear as they do when you turn your head to scan the room.
Equirectangular’s curvy versions of straight lines
The method below helps us draw these curves properly.
Step 1 – Get setup
Pick a location with plenty of rectangular shapes and lines.
Get your drawing materials: pencil, eraser, easel, and paper.
Download and print a version of this equirectangular perspective grid. Legal size paper (8.5″×14″) is a great size for this purpose.
Download the high res version here
I have two ways of superimposing (subimposing?) this grid onto paper. The first one is straightforward. Use tracing paper and tape or pin it down on top of the grid. The second is to print the grid onto the back of the paper you’re drawing on. Then, when you’re drawing, make sure the paper is on a light surface so that the black lines on the back of the paper show through.
Step 2 – Locate your surroundings onto the grid
Align yourself with your surroundings. Pick a wall or a building to be forward and face it squarely. Now you can associate six main real-life directions with these locations on your grid:
Up, Back, Left, Forwards, Right, and Down
The sets of lines emanating from each of these directions are spaced 10° apart. One set of lines go from straight forward to straight back, one goes from left to right and the third set go up and down.
Imagine your head is in the center of this ball.
Your job now, is to figure out where each item in your environment belongs on the grid paper. You need to measure two angles. The first is the horizontal angle between straight forwards and your object: the azimuth. The second is the vertical angle between your object and the horizon: the altitude.
IMG_20160628_100645If you’re lazy and don’t care too much about accuracy like me, you can follow the astronomers’ tricks described here to measure angles from the known points in your scene.
Another method uses the red marks that I placed the edge of the perspective graph paper. With your paper level, each red tick mark will indicate the direction from the center of the paper out towards your environment in 10° increments.
A third way is to use a compass app on your smartphone. You’ll have to do a little math. For instance, if your compass says 97° when facing forward and it says 128° when facing an object then the object has an azimuth of 128° – 97° = 31°.
To measure upwards (or downwards) from the horizon, imagine the horizon line and then use those astronomer tricks again.
For a more mechanical method, what you want is a clinometer. Look online for how to make one yourself – you can even buy them ready made.
And of course your smartphone can do this too. Many level apps have a clinometer mode. Just look along the long edge of your phone like a sight.
At this point, it’s good to mention that it’s up to you to decide how independent you wish to be from technology. If you go too far, you might as well just trace a picture taken by a spherical camera. On the other side of the spectrum you can just forgo the grid and wing the whole thing. What I do, is I keep the grid paper, but I do without the smart phone apps.
Locate your point on the grid
So, now that you have the altitude and azimuth of a point in space, you can find where it is on your grid. You’ll want to locate the altitude first. Here’s an example. Say your altitude is 65° and your azimuth is -45°. Starting at forward, go 6½ lines up, and then 4½ lines to the left.
A point at an altitude of 65 degrees, and an azimuth of -45 degrees
Step 3 – Draw!
Draw the straight lines of your scene in the same fashion as a 2-point perspective drawing. That is, if the line in the scene is plumb, draw the line vertically. If the line is forwards / backwards, follow the direction of the lines that go between the forwards / backwards vanishing points. If your line in the scene goes left to right, follow the lines that go between the left / right vanishing points.
You won’t be able to use a ruler. Just be careful. You’ll be fine.
I like to start straight forwards and build outwards.
You may rely on previous line placements. Say you’ve drawn one corner of a rectangle, follow the edge along the graph-paper lines to get to the next corner.
It might help to embrace imperfections. If lines aren’t meeting up where they should be, look for compromises.
In an equirectangular projection, the top and bottom become extremely distorted. So drawing your chair might be difficult. More often then not however, the space straight above you (the zenith) and the space below you (the nadir) are rather featureless.
Do more! This method will layout your scene but for heaven’s sake, if you have a favourite medium (pen and ink, paint, digital painting, woodcut printing, watercolor, etc.), then by all means use it.
Step 4 – Scan, upload and share
Mark the corners of the sketch. They’ll be useful when you crop and align your scanned picture.
If you have grid printed on the back of your paper, scan or photograph your drawing with a dark paper behind it. The grid will disappear, and only your drawing will stand out. But if you used tracing paper, put a white paper behind it.
Once you’ve scanned your picture, photo editing software can help you straighten, crop and scale it to match the 2:1 aspect ratio.
You can share it as is. But to get the immersive view on Flickr, tag your image with the tag ‘equirectangular’. For Facebook, things are a lot trickier. You have to set the image’s metadata before uploading it.
Personally, I like to transform spherical panoramas using interesting mathematical mappings. This gives me a chance to ‘compose’ the image into something dynamic. Stereographic images usually turn out very nicely.
kitchen_color - kitchen_color
14 thoughts on “Drawing a Spherical Panorama
1. Desca,
I’m sure Adobe Illustrator will work.
To improve your drawing skills, there’s nothing like practising (of course).
Give it a try. Your pictures may turn out finer than you expect.
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1. This was very helpful, thanks! I’m trying to draw a panorama to go on a terracotta pot, so because of the conical rather than cylindrical nature of said pot, there is still a tad more problem solving to happen, but this was helpful nonetheless. (Any tips would be welcome, you seem to have a good grasp of this stuff, but otherwise, thanks very much for the information already provided in this article!)
1. I got a question about the last step of the process, how do you cut and paste the whole image to give it the spherical perspective. At first you got a a linear drawing but at the end, which is what we are looking for is totally spherical or fisheye. how do you accomplish that?
2. hi, i got several questions, i read this but i havent got quite right at the bottom of the fisheye drawing. I have followed the steps as shown on the following url, but i at the end i got a image so intertwined that its just madness, the drawing gets mixed it up and nothing can be appreciated, how can i send you what i have done? And i dont use photoshop, I mostly do it with an ipad, first i do it on paper then i put some color on the ipad, and then i try to convert it into a 360 video but i havent succesfully accomplished.
Hope you can help me.
Best regards.
1. Sure – why don’t you just email me any images of what you have so far and then ask your questions.
I can answer anything easy. But I can’t promise any answers that may take a lot of time.
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A component for organizing, working with and storing data in tabular form.
Webix SpreadSheet allows creating tables online, while keeping data locally. It's possible to import a ready table into an Excel document or export a table from Excel. The tables' appearance can be easily changed: you can customize the styles of colors, fonts and borders, set the necessary vertical and horizontal aligns, merge cells, rows and columns.
The component provides a built-in functionality for mathematical expressions and supports resizing and localization of tables.
Check SpreadSheet documentation for more information.
var spreadsheet = webix.ui({
data: base_data
Where to start
addFilter adds a filter into a cell
addImage adds an image into a cell
addSheet adds a new sheet into a SpreadSheet
addSparkline adds a sparkline into a cell
addStyle creates a new style
adjust adjusts the component to the size of the parent HTML container
alert creates an alert box
attachEvent attaches the handler to an inner event of the component (allows behavior customizations)
bind binds components
blockEvent temporarily blocks triggering of ALL events of the calling object
callEvent calls an inner event
changeDecimals increases/decreases decimal places
clearRange clears either selected or specified range of cells
clearSheet clears the content of the currently active sheet
combineCells merges several adjacent cells
compactStyles removes unused styles for the current sheet
confirm creates a confirm box
define redefines a single configuration property (or a hash of properties)
deleteColumn deletes a column by id
deleteRow deletes a row by id
destructor destructs the calling object
disable disables the calling view (makes it dimmed and unclickable)
eachSelectedCell iterates over all selected cells in the table
editSheet selects the sheet name for editing
filterSpreadSheet invokes SpreadSheet filtering by all existing filters
freezeColumns fixes the specified amount of columns "on the fly", starting from the very left one
freezeRows fixes the specified amount of rows "on the fly", starting from the very top one
getActiveSheet returns the name of the currently active sheet
getCellEditor returns the editor set in a cell
getCellValue returns the value of the cell
getChildViews returns child views of the calling component
getColumn returns the configuration object of the specified SpreadSheet column
getFormView returns master form for the input
getNode returns the main HTML container for the calling object
getParentView returns the parent view of the component
getRow returns the row data by its id
getSelectedId returns the ids of all cells in the select area
getSelectedRange returns the range of selected cells
getSheetData alllows accessing data and ranges of any sheet
getStyle returns the style set for the cell
getTopParentView returns top parent view
hasEvent checks whether the component has the specified event
hide hides the view
hideColumn hides a specified column in the sheet
hideGridlines hides the grid lines of the sheet
hideHeaders hides all headers of rows and columns on the sheet
hideRow hides a specified row in the sheet
innerId returns the inner ID of an item by its public (real) ID
insertColumn inserts an empty column to the left of the specified one
insertRow inserts an empty row above the specified one
isCellLocked checks whether the cell under question is locked
isColumnVisible checks whether the specified column is visible
isEnabled checks whether the view is enabled
isRowVisible checks whether the specified row is visible
isVisible checks whether the view is visible
load loads data from an external data source.
lockCell protects a cell or a range of cells from editing
mapEvent routes events from one object to another
parse loads data to the component from an inline data source
recalculate recalculates all formulas in the current sheet
redo remakes the action that was reverted by the undo action
refresh repaints spreadsheet
registerMathMethod adds a custom function that will be used in formulas
removeFilter removes filters from the sheet
removeSheet removes a sheet by name
renameSheet replaces the sheet name with the a new one
reset resets the SpreadSheet settings to the initial state
resetUndo resets the Undo history
resize adjusts the view to a new size
saveCell saves changes made in the cell
serialize serializes SpreadSheet data to a JSON object
setCellEditor creates an editor in a cell
setCellFilter creates a select filter
setCellValue sets a value for the cell
setFormat sets a custom format for a cell
setPlaceholder sets a data placeholder for a cell
setRangeStyle sets a style for a range of cells
setRangeValue sets a value for the range
setStyle sets a style for a cell
show makes the component visible
showSheet shows a sheet by name
sortRange sorts a range of cells
splitCell splits the cells' span that was made by merging several cells
ui allows creating new ui, the id of which will be locked in the parent id space
unbind breaks "bind" link
undo undo operation in SpreadSheet
onAfterLoad fires after data loading is complete
onAfterSelect fires after a cell has been selected
onAfterSheetShow fires after a sheet has opened
onBeforeCommentShow fires before a comment for a cell is shown
onBeforeLoad fires immediately before data loading has started
onBeforeSheetShow fires before a sheet is opened
onBeforeSpan fires before cells' are merged
onBeforeSplit fires before merged cells are splitted
onBeforeValueChange fires before the value of a cell is changed
onCellChange fires when a cell is changed
onCommentHide fires after a comment is hidden
onComponentInit fires when spreadsheet is initialized
onDataParse fires when data parsing is started
onDataSerialize fires when serialization of data is started
onDestruct occurs when component destroyed
onMathRefresh fires when recalculation of formulas in the sheet is complete
onReset fires when the settings of SpreadSheet are reset to the initial state
onSheetAdd fires when a new sheet is added
onSheetRemove fires when a sheet is removed
onSheetRename fires when a sheet is renamed
onStyleSet fires when a new style is set for a cell
animate defines the configuration of view change animation or disables it
borderless used to hide the component borders
bottombar enables a bottombar for additional sheets
buttons contains the names of buttons blocks with arrays of buttons' names
clipboard enables/disables clipboard support
clipboardDecimalDelimiter sets a decimal delimiter for correct copy/paste of numbers between SpreadSheet and Excel
columnCount the number of columns in the SpreadSheet
conditionStyle specifies a set of conditional styles
container an HTML container (or its id) where the component should be initialized
data JavaScript array containing data for the component
datatype the type of loaded data
disabled indicates whether an item is enabled
gravity sets the view gravity (1 by default)
height sets the height of the component
hidden defines whether the view will be hidden initially
id the ID of a widget
liveEditor enables the formula editor in spreadsheet
maxHeight sets the maximum height for the view
maxWidth sets the maximum width for the view
menu adds a dropdown menu at the top of SpreadSheet
minHeight sets the minimal height for the view
minWidth sets the minimal width for the view
on allows attaching custom handlers to inner events of the component
readonly sets readonly mode for SpreadSheet
resizeCell defines whether cells of spreadsheet will be resized
rowCount the number of rows in the SpreadSheet
sheetTabWidth sets the width of a sheet tab
subbar adds a view between the toolbar and the datatable
toolbar enables the "full" toolbar mode (all available buttons are shown)
type defines the layout borders
width sets the width of a widget
$$ locates sub-item by id
$getSize returns the current size of the component
$height the current height of the view
$setSize sets the component size
$skin the method which will be called when skin is defined
$view reference to the top HTML element of the view
$width the current width of the view
comments a collection for working with comments in cells
config all options from the initial component configuration
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RFID Linux Tool
Eccel Technology Ltd (IB Technology) introduce the RFID Linux Tool
Eccel Technology introduce the RFID Linux Tool
The RFID Linux Tool
December – 2017, Leicester, UK.
The RFIDB1-tool is a Linux application dedicated for RFID B1 modules manufactured by Eccel Technology Ltd.
It can be used with any version of this module like:
• The RaspberryPi-B1 – using UART on the extension header and GPIO pins 16,20,21 to wake up and reset the module
• The USB B1
• The UART-B1
• and any other B1-based module version connected via UART or USB interface to Linux machine.
This application is able to execute three types of commands:
• RFID commands – used to interact with RFID tags
• B1 module commands – used mostly to manage module memory for keys, passwords, user data etc. But it can be also used for data encryption and CRC calculation
• Raspberry PI Hat commands – A few commands to enable, disable, and reset the module. There is also one module command dedicated for the Raspberry-PI HAT – reset_to_defaults with parameter 1 used to reset the module to factory defaults settings, but using PWR_DOWN and RST pins. This command revertS communication speed to 9600 and all other communication parameters to default settings.
Download the RFID Linux Tool.
Please see also our RFID modules here.
For further enquiries contact us at [email protected] or call us on +44 (0)1296 821358, or simply complete the submission form below and we’ll get right back to you.
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4. Completing Course Prerequisites
This topic describes how to complete any prerequisites that might be required in your course.
4.1. Overview of Prerequisites
Some courses require that you have a particular set of skills or knowledge before you begin the course. Many courses include information about these general requirements on their About pages.
In addition to requiring general skills and knowledge, some courses require learners to pass a specific prerequisite course or pass an entrance exam.
4.2. Prerequisite Course
When a course has a prerequisite course, you can see information about the prerequisite course on the About page for the course that you want to take.
A course About page with prerequisite course information circled.
It is possible to enroll in the course even if you have not taken the prerequisite course. When you enroll in the course, the course appears on your Student Dashboard. However, you cannot select the course to access the course content. Below the name of the course, you can see the name of the prerequisite course, as well as a link to that course.
The Student Dashboard with an available course and a course that is unavailable because it has a prerequisite.
When you select the link, the About page for the prerequisite course opens. You can then enroll in the prerequisite course.
After you successfully complete the prerequisite course, the other course becomes available on your dashboard. You can then select the course to access any available materials.
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The course team can allow learners to skip the entrance exam. If a course team member allows you to skip the entrance exam, you can access all released course content without having to take the entrance exam.
If you are required to take the entrance exam, the first time that you access the course, the course opens to the Entrance Exam page. At the top of the page, you can see a message that lists your current score and the minimum score that is required to pass the entrance exam. You can begin the exam immediately.
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To take the exam, answer all the available questions, and then select Submit to submit your answers.
To see your score on the exam, refresh the page after you submit your answers. The message at the top of the page tells you if you have passed the exam. If you refresh the page before you answer all the questions in the exam, the message tells you your current score.
After you pass the entrance exam, in addition to the message at the top of the page, you can see all of the currently available course sections in the course navigation pane, and you can access all available course materials.
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'Myee' chaff cutter from The Powerhouse Museum Collection
A manual chaff cutter
Advertisement for a chaff cutter from the Almanac of La Nouvelle Chronique de Jersey, 1892 from the island of Jersey.
A chaff cutter is a mechanical device for cutting straw or hay into small pieces before being mixed together with other forage and fed to horses and cattle. This aids the animal's digestion and prevents animals from rejecting any part of their food.[1]
Chaff and hay played a vital role in most agricultural production as it was used for feeding horses. Horses were extensively used in farming operations until they were replaced by tractors in the 1940s.[2]
Chaff cutters have evolved from the basic machines into commercial standard machines that can be driven at various speeds and can achieved various lengths of cuts of chaff with respect to animal preference type. New chaff cutter machines include portable tractor driven chaff cutter - where chaff cutter can be in the field and load trolleys (if required).[3]
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Japanese Canadians (日系カナダ人, Nikkei Kanadajin, French: Canadiens japonais) are Canadian citizens of Japanese ancestry. Japanese Canadians are mostly concentrated in Western Canada, especially in the province of British Columbia, which hosts the largest Japanese community in the country with the majority of them living in and around Vancouver. In 2016, there were 121,485 Japanese Canadians throughout Canada .[1]
Japanese Canadians
Nikkei Kanadajin
Total population
(by ancestry, 2016 Census)[1]
Regions with significant populations
British Columbia, Alberta, Ontario, Quebec
English, French, and Japanese
Buddhism, Shinto, Christianity, Irreligion, Japanese new religions
Related ethnic groups
Japanese, Japanese Americans, Japanese Brazilians, Japanese Peruvians, Japanese Mexicans
The term Nikkei (日系) was coined by sociologists and encompasses all of the world's Japanese immigrants across generations. Japanese descendents living overseas have special names for each of their generations. These are formed by combining one of the Japanese numerals with the Japanese word for generation (sei 世):ada:
• Issei (一世) – The first generation of immigrants, born in Japan before moving to Canada.
• Nisei (二世) – The second generation, born in Canada to Issei parents not born in Canada.
• Sansei (三世) – The third generation, born in Canada to Nisei parents born in Canada.
• Yonsei (四世) – The fourth generation, born in Canada to Sansei parents born in Canada.
• Gosei (五世) – The fifth generation, born in Canada to Yonsei parents born in Canada.
The first Japanese settler in Canada was Manzo Nagano, who lived in Victoria, British Columbia in 1877 (a mountain in the province was named after him in 1977). The first generation, or Issei, mostly came to Vancouver Island, the Fraser Valley and Rivers Inlet from fishing villages on the islands of Kyūshū and Honshū between 1877 and 1928. Since 1967, the second wave of immigrants were usually highly educated and resided in urban areas.[2]
Until 1948, Japanese-Canadians—both Issei and Canadian-born Nisei—were denied the right to vote. Those born in the 1950s and 1960s in Canada are mostly Sansei, third generation. Sansei usually have little knowledge of the Japanese language. Over 75% of the Sansei have married non-Japanese. Nisei and Sansei generally do not identify themselves as fully Japanese, but as Canadians first, who happen to be of Japanese ancestry.
The younger generation of Japanese-Canadians born in the late 20th century are mostly Yonsei, fourth generation. Many Yonsei are of mixed racial descent. According to Statistics Canada's 2001 census of population information, Japanese-Canadians were the Canadian visible minority group most likely to marry or live common-law with a non-Japanese partner. Out of the 25,100 couples in Canada in 2001 which had one Japanese person, only 30% had two partners of Japanese descent and 70% included one non-Japanese partner. As of 2001, 65% of Canada's Japanese population was born in Canada.
In 1942, the federal government used the War Measures Act to brand Japanese Canadians enemy aliens and categorized them as security threats. There were 20,881 Japanese placed in internment camps and road camps in British Columbia; prison of war camps in Ontario; and families were also sent as forced labourers to farms throughout the prairies. Three-quarters of them were Canadian [technically British subjects, as were all Canadians, since Canadian citizenship did not exist prior to 1947]. A parallel situation occurred in the United States. (See Japanese American internment.)[3]
The property and homes of Japanese Canadians living in the province of British Columbia were seized and sold off without consent in 1943. The funds were used to pay for their internment. They also had to "pay rent" for living in the internment shacks they were assigned. In 1945, after the war, as part of the continued effort to remove all Japanese Canadians from British Columbia, Prime Minister MacKenzie King's cabinet used Orders-in-Council to extend the powers of the War Measures Act and Japanese Canadians give two "options": to either be relocated to another province, i.e. "East of the Rockies", or to go "back" to Japan (though most were born in Canada and had never been to Japan). After organized protests by against their treatment, they were finally given the right to vote in 1949. Mobility restrictions were lifted in 1949.
In the late 1970s and 1980s, documents on the Japanese Canadian internment were released, and redress was sought by the National Association of Japanese Canadians, an organization representing Japanese Canadians nationally that was headed by Art Miki from Winnipeg. In 1986, it was shown that Japanese Canadians lost $443 million during the internment. There were 63% of Canadians who supported redress and 45% who favoured individual compensation. On September 22, 1988, the National Association of Japanese Canadians succeeded in negotiating a redress settlement with the government at the time, under the leadership of Prime Minister Brian Mulroney. The settlement included $21,000 for each individual directly affected, that was, by 1993, almost 18,000 survivors. The federal government also provided a community endowment fund to assist in rebuilding the community, which is run by the National Association of Japanese Canadians. In addition, to address the more systemic racism that led to the plan and later justifications of the effort to remove "all people of Japanese racial origin" from Canadian territory, the redress settlement included the establishment of the Race Relations Foundation and challenges to the War Measures Act. The Prime Minister also offered a formal apology in the House of Commons and the certificate of acknowledgement of injustices of the past, which was sent to each Japanese Canadian whose rights had been stripped, incarcerated, dispossessed and forcibly displaced.
Locations of hoshū jugyō kō in Canada
Hoshū jugyō kō (Japanese supplementary schools) for instruction of the Japanese language include those in Calgary, Edmonton, Halifax, London, Montreal, Ottawa, Saskatoon, Toronto, and Vancouver.[4]
With teachers from Japan:
• Toronto Japanese School
• Vancouver Japanese School (バンクーバー補習授業校, Bankūbā Hoshū Jugyō Kō) - Established on April 7, 1973 (Showa Year 48).[5]
Without teachers from Japan:[4]
• Alberta
• Calgary Hoshuko Japanese School Association (カルガリー補習授業校 Karugarī Hoshū Jugyō Kō)[6]
• Metro Edmonton Japanese Community School (MEJCS; エドモントン補習校 Edomonton Hoshūkō)[7]
• Nova Scotia
• Japanese School of Halifax (ハリファックス補習授業校 Harifakkusu Hoshū Jugyō Kō)
• Ontario
• London (CA) Japanese School (ロンドン（ＣＡ）補習授業校 Rondon Hoshū Jugyō Kō)
• The Ottawa Hoshuko (オタワ補習校 Otawa Hoshūkō)[8]
• Quebec
• Saskatchewan
• Saskatoon Japanese Language School (サスカトーン補習授業校 Sasukatōn Hoshū Jugyō Kō)
Japanese Canadians by province or territoryEdit
Japanese Canadian population by province and territory in Canada in 2016 according to Statistics Canada:
Province or territory Japanese Canadians Percentage
Canada 121,485 0.3%
British Columbia 51,145 1.0%
Ontario 41,645 0.3%
Alberta 16,595 0.4%
Quebec 6,495 0.0%
Manitoba 2,645 0.2%
Saskatchewan 1,225 0.1%
Nova Scotia 900 0.0%
New Brunswick 310 0.1%
Prince Edward Island 110 0.1%
Yukon 95 0.3%
Newfoundland and Labrador 105 0.0%
Northwest Territories 200 0.6%
Nunavut 15 0.0%
Notable peopleEdit
Ice hockeyEdit
Martial artsEdit
Skiing and snowboardingEdit
Other sportsEdit
Businesspeople and organizational leadersEdit
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Musicians and performing artistsEdit
Politicians and government officialsEdit
Scholars and scientistsEdit
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See alsoEdit
1. ^ a b Statistics Canada. "2011 National Household Survey: Data tables". Retrieved 11 February 2014.
2. ^ Ken Adachi, The enemy that never was: A history of the Japanese Canadians (McClelland & Stewart, 1976)
3. ^ Ann Gomer Sunahara, The politics of racism: The uprooting of Japanese Canadians during the Second World War (James Lorimer & Co, 1981)
4. ^ a b "北米の補習授業校一覧（平成25年4月15日現在）." () MEXT. Retrieved on May 5, 2014.
5. ^ Home page. Vancouver Japanese School. Retrieved on April 2, 2015.
6. ^ "トップページ." Calgary Hoshuko Japanese School Association. Retrieved on February 15, 2015.
7. ^ "Time/Location." Metro Edmonton Japanese Community School. Retrieved on February 15, 2015.
8. ^ "Contact." The Ottawa Hoshuko. Retrieved on February 15, 2015. "日本大使館 領事班 オタワ補習校事務局 （住所）255 Sussex Dr., Ottawa, ON"
9. ^ Order of Canada citation
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14. ^ Order of Canada citation
15. ^ Commonwealth and Foreign Awards, Masajiro Miayazaki, records reference, National Archives of Canada.
16. ^ Order of Canada citation
17. ^ Order of Canada citation
18. ^ Order of Canada citation
19. ^ Latimer, Keri. "Singer-songwriter's connection to Japan inspires fundraising concert" CBC. April 15, 2011.
20. ^ Order of Canada citation
21. ^ Miller Thompson: David Tsubouchi
22. ^ Order of Canada citation
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32. ^ Cordileone, Elvira. "Kenzo Mori: An impact on two shores," The Star (Toronto). January 22, 2007.
33. ^ Order of Canada citation
34. ^ Order of Canada citation
35. ^ Order of Canada citation
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38. ^ Order of Canada citation
39. ^ Order of Canada citation
Further readingEdit
• Adachi, Ken. The enemy that never was: A history of the Japanese Canadians (McClelland & Stewart, 1976)
• Sunahara, Ann Gomer. The politics of racism: The uprooting of Japanese Canadians during the Second World War (James Lorimer & Co, 1981)
• Ward, W. Peter, The Japanese in Canada (Canadian Historical Association Booklets, 1982) online 21pp
External linksEdit
• Multicultural Canada website images in the BC Multicultural Photograph Collection and digitized issues of The New Canadian (Japanese-Canadian newspaper) and Tairiku Jiho (The Continental Times)
• Japanese Canadians Photograph Collection – A photo album from the UBC Library Digital Collections chronicling the treatment of Japanese Canadians in British Columbia during World War II
• Tairiku Nippō – Japanese-Canadian newspaper published between 1907 and 1941, and now digitized by the UBC Library Digital Collections
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weenie (plural weenies)
1. (diminutive) A hot dog, wiener, wurst or sausage, often cut into pieces for children.
2. (slang) A penis.
3. (slang) Someone considered weak and unimportant.
4. (slang) A geek or nerd, especially a computer user with a deficient social life.
5. (collectible card games, slang) A small creature which has a low cost to put into play, often used in a swarm with other such creatures.
• 1996 February 20, ChrisMims [username], “White Hordes Part I: Extensive Pontifications”, in rec.games.trading-cards.magic.strategy, Usenet[1]:
Over and over again you'll dump a horde of weenies, and if you're[sic] opponent's[sic] too slow, he'll die right off the bat.
• 1997 February 10, Jesse Chounard, “Report: Pro Tour Paris PTQ”, in rec.games.trading-cards.magic.strategy, Usenet[2]:
He was playing a monoblack weenie deck with 30+ creatures in it.
• 1997 March 19, Craig Sivils, “Mono-Green, I don't get it.”, in rec.games.trading-cards.magic.strategy, Usenet[3]:
Most of the opponents[sic] quick creature removal will be taken out by the early flood of weenies.
• For more examples of usage of this term, see Citations:weenie.
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So there's this guy, right? Actually, there might not be, I became increasingly less convinced. No don't worry, this isn't one of those stories. Anyway, it was around 11:00 when I first saw this guy, or thought I did. He was my height, with dark hair as short as mine used to be, and with tinted glasses, presumably sunglasses rather than like mine. I'd just crossed a road, and walked passed a window. I thought nothing of it at the time, it wasn't until a few minutes later that I looked down at my shoes and realised what I was wearing. The reflection in the glass had been wearing a striped shirt and jeans, not unlike something I might be found in, but most unlike the pressed shirt and shorts I was currently wearing. "Meh, I'd always half wondered if I had a double in the same city," I thought, "Of course I didn't get more than a glimpse though."
Some time later, I saw the figure a few metres in front of me on the footpath. "Ah-hah!" I exclaimed. His walk was wrong, or rather the fact that he was walking was, for I am rarely to be seen walking. I realised this as I leapt down a flight of six or so stairs without touching any. 13:00, and still this man was always somewhere just within sight but too far away to touch. I decided to try to make contact, I mean, maybe it was actually me. I slipped down a side passage, waiting for him to pass, assuming he would continue on his current route. But he didn't, I waited for nearly ten minutes, and he didn't appear.
I continued on my way, deep in thought. "Hey, Scout!" A voice called out from behind me, and I whirled around. I recognised the face of the speaker, but my gaze continued straight past them to a figure of myself standing at a curb a few metres beyond. I dashed towards it, waiting for them to try to escape again, but they didn't move. A wave of pedestrians ejected from the intersection crossing, blocking my view. I fought my way through them, only to fail to be able to locate them again.
14:00 - On a bus, on the way home. Am I going insane?
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Tips for drafting a Supreme Court order
On this page:
About orders
An order is the record of the judge's decision. It is filed at the court registry. The parties involved in a case (or their lawyers) are responsible for writing out the order. The judge or master who heard your case doesn't write the order. The court clerk doesn't write the order. (But in Provincial Court, court clerks do write out orders for unrepresented parties.)
The court rules contain different forms for different types of orders (see Which form do I use?), but those forms just show you what the outlines of the order look like. They don't tell you how to draft (write) the order.
Who drafts the order?
Usually the successful party drafts the order. If only one party has a lawyer, sometimes that lawyer will draft the order, even if they represented the unsuccessful party.
Which form do I use?
There are different types of orders and you must use the right form for your order. If you're using one of our self-help guides, it will tell you exactly which form to use and provide a link to the blank form.
The most common types of orders are:
Order Made After Application (Form F51): Used for most types of contested orders made after a Chambers application (interim orders and changed orders). A contested order is when the parties don't agree on what the order should say.
When do I draft the order?
When you start a family law case, you probably have a good idea of what order you want the court to make. This applies if you are:
• making an application in Chambers
• applying for a consent order
• applying for a desk order divorce
• asking for orders at a trial
For all of these, you have to tell the court what orders you want. To do this, you have to file a draft order when you file your other forms and documents at the court registry (for consent orders and desk-order divorces). If the judge or master makes the order you ask for, they'll sign the draft order you filed and it becomes your court order.
If there's a problem with your order and the judge or master doesn't approve it, the court registry will let you know. You might have to draft another version of the order or appear in court to give the judge or master more information about what you wrote in the order.
For Chambers applications, you can ask for the orders you want in either your Notice of Application or a draft court order. If the judge or master agrees to the order you've asked for, you can ask them to sign your draft order or initial your application, and that order or application becomes your court order.
If the judge or master makes a different order than the one you asked for, you'll have to start over and rewrite the order.
What should I put in the order?
If you're drafting a new order after a hearing, the order must say exactly what the judge or master said when they made the order in court.
Listen very carefully to what the judge or master says. If you don't understand something, ask the judge or master to explain it. If you think there's something missing from the order, ask about it.
The court clerk will take notes of what the judge or master says. Ask the clerk for a copy of any notes.
If there's more than one order in your court order, each order must be in a separate numbered paragraph (for example, an order for a divorce plus an order for child support would be in two numbered paragraphs in the court order).
If your court order includes orders about parenting or support, make sure it also shows whether the order is made under the Divorce Act or the Family Law Act.
The order must speak for itself. That means you must be able to look at just the order and understand exactly what it means. If you have to read other documents to understand your order, then it doesn't speak for itself.
The BC Supreme Court website provides a picklist of approved standard orders to help draft family law orders. You can use these standard orders when you draft your order. The picklist is available in PDF or Word format. When you open the file, you'll see a list of order terms, categorized by topic (for example, Divorce Act, guardianship, parental responsibilities). Scroll to the relevant topic, select the order that best describes your situation, and copy and paste it into your draft. You can use the same wording and just add your name(s).
Tip: See our self-help guide How to draft a Supreme Court order for detailed instructions on how to draft your order.
What happens after I draft the order?
After you draft the order, you can take it to the court registry and ask the staff there to tell you if it's in the right format. They will look at it for format only, not content.
Then you must give the order to the other party/parties who were at the hearing to sign. If the order was made after a hearing, you don't have to get a signature from a party who wasn't at the hearing and didn't agree to it. If the judge or master signed your draft order, you don't need to get the other party to sign it.
The other party can't refuse to sign it because they disagree with what the judge ordered. They can only refuse to sign it if they think you've recorded what the judge said incorrectly.
When everyone has signed the order, take it to the court registry. They'll check it against their notes and, if it's accurate, they'll enter it and stamp the entered order. This is your official court order that you can ask the court to enforce if necessary. Get a copy of it and make one for the other party.
What if the other party won't sign the order?
If you think the other party might refuse to sign the order, you can, at your hearing, ask the judge or master to "waive the requirement that the other party approve the form of the order."
If you and the other party can't agree on wording of the order, you can ask a court registrar to "settle the order." You can set this up by filing and serving an Appointment (Form F55). See Supreme Court Family Rule 15-1(13) for information about what you need to do in this case.
Special rules for consent orders
If you make a consent order during or after a hearing, a party who doesn't have a lawyer can consent (agree) in person at the hearing instead of signing the order.
How to spell the judge or master's name
If you don't know how to spell the name of the judge or master who made your order, you can look it up on the Members of the Supreme Court of British Columbia page of the Supreme Court website.
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Screen Shot 2016-01-19 at 9.43.15 AMI don’t usually pay much attention to the “Food Days” that come up, but, when I saw that today was National Popcorn Day, first thing I thought of was the Ethiopian coffee ceremony. I probably could come up with an excuse to talk about coffee any day of the week, but, this is a unique tradition worth checking out:
Coffee, or Bunna, is taken with plenty of sugar (or in the countryside, salt) but no milk. Often it is complemented by a traditional snack food, such as popcorn, ambasha bread, or cooked barley. In most parts of Ethiopia, the coffee ceremony takes place three times a day – in the morning, at noon and in the evening. It is the main social event within the village – a time to discuss the community, politics, and life in general. Transformation of the spirit is said to take place during the coffee ceremony through the completion three rounds of drinking: ‘Abol’ (the first round), ‘Tona’ (second round) and ‘Baraka’ (third round).
There’s also nice blog post on how to make the the popcorn offered with the above ceremony located here:
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