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Visualizing Graphs with Edge Constraints of the SQL Server 2019 Graph Database (SQL Server 2019 CTP 2.0)
Building Modular Applications with Entity Framework Core 2.1
Using Emojis with Pelican and Python Markdown
Getting Started with FcmSharp and Firebase Cloud Messaging
SQL Server Bulk Inserts from Java
Creating OAuth 2.0 Tokens for Firebase Services
Streaming Bulk Inserts to SQL Server with SqlServerBulkInsert
Analyzing Flight Data with the SQL Server 2017 Graph Database
Learning Neo4j at Scale: The Airline On Time Performance Dataset
Neo4j with .NET
Firebase Cloud Messaging (FCM) with .NET
Dropping Disqus and using GitHub for Discussions
Real-time Charts with ASP.NET Core SignalR and Chart.js
Airline On-Time Performance
Generating Choropleth Maps in R
Anomaly Detection with SQL and R
Providing a File Upload API with Jersey
Versioning and Auditing with Hibernate Envers
Providing Multitenancy with Spring Boot
Reactive Programming: Periodically emitting Events with RxJava2
Firebase Cloud Messaging (FCM) with Java
Creating and Updating GitHub Pages
Migrating a library to .NET Core
Installing .NET Core on Mac OS X
Building Applications with Apache Flink (Part 5): Complex Event Processing with Apache Flink
Building Applications with Apache Flink (Part 4): Writing and Using a custom PostgreSQL SinkFunction
Building Applications with Apache Flink (Part 3): Stream Processing with the DataStream API
Building Applications with Apache Flink (Part 2): Writing a custom SourceFunction for the CSV Data
Building Applications with Apache Flink (Part 1): Dataset, Data Preparation and Building a Model
Working with a BulkProcessor in PgBulkInsert
Stream Data Processing with Apache Flink
Working with Elasticsearch in Java
Working with Elasticsearch in .NET
A Spliterator for MatchResults in Java
Simplified Java Database Access with SqlMapper
Implementing a Spliterator for a JDBC ResultSet
Releasing Java libraries to the Central Repository
Building Import Pipelines with JTinyCsvParser and PgBulkInsert
PostgreSQL Bulk Inserts with Java
Introducing JSimpleMapper
Mono on Ubuntu 14.04
Performance problem with Files.lines for a Parallel Stream (JDK 1.8)
TinyCsvParser Documentation
Using a Tokenizer in TinyCsvParser
Android CardView and RecyclerView Example
Custom JSON Serializer and JSON Deserializer for RestSharp
Create delegates for Constructors, Property Getters and Property Setters by Compiling Expression Trees in C#
Serializing and Deserializing Enumerations with Json.NET
PostgreSQL Bulk Insert with C#
PostgreSQL and TinyCsvParser
Benchmarking TinyCsvParser
Using TinyCsvParser and FluentValidation
TinyCsvParser - Parsing CSV Data with C#
Token Authentication with Nancy and Owin
File Uploads with Nancy
NPoco with PostgreSQL
Consistent Error Handling with Nancy
DataContractJsonSerializer: Serializing and Deserializing enum values by their name
JSON Generation with PostgreSQL
First steps with SQLAlchemy
Implementing a Face Recognition Web service
Face Detection with the Android API
Face Recognition in Videos (or turning into something useful)
Getting a Huawei E352s-5 to work with Linux
Website Update
Validating Algorithms
OpenCV FaceRecognizer documentation
Extracting Contours with OpenCV
OpenCV, Microsoft Visual Studio and libfacerec
Aligning face images
Colormaps in OpenCV
Skin Color Thresholding with OpenCV
Fisherfaces in OpenCV
Local Binary Patterns
OpenCV Code Snippets
Face Recognition with Python/GNU Octave/Matlab
Linear Discriminant Analysis with OpenCV
NumPy Performance
Principal Component Analysis and Linear Discriminant Analysis with GNU Octave
Using libsvm
Gender Classification with the Fisherfaces algorithm
How to secure your workstation with iptables
PCA in OpenCV
Detect a face with OpenCV
Erlang autocompletion in vim
Longest Common Subsequence
Dynamic Time Warping
How To Track Your Time
Eigenvalues in OpenCV
Machine Learning with OpenCV
Brutally short introduction to Erlang
Android Snippets
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Advice from Canpol's experienced mothers.
Bottle feeding
I will give you tips on how to make sure you have a safe position during bottle feeding, how to correctly give the bottle to your baby, how to ensure your baby a feeling of nearness during feeding, and also how to adjust feeding times to your baby's needs.
Correct position is the most important thing
When bottle feeding, avoid using a reclining position, as the milk flows from the bottle by gravity (at constant speed, regulated by the teat flow rate). The baby might choke on milk if fed in a horizontal position. Therefore, it's very important to choose the right - more upright - feeding position (the baby's head should always be a little higher than the rest of his body). Your baby's head should rest in the crook of your arm, in line with his spine. The bottle feeding position should remind a natural feeding position - especially when you feed him using two different feeding methods.
- Never leave your baby alone with the bottle, as he could choke
- Never let your baby sleep with the bottle in his mouth.
Giving the bottle to your baby
Put the bottle in your baby's mouth so that it forms a right angle with his face. Your baby doesn't have to embrace the whole teat with his lips, but only the oblong part of it, with his lips resting on the rounded part. The oblong part should always be full of milk. Otherwise, your baby will swallow a lot of air with the feed, which can cause colic. Air bubbles in the bottle mean that your baby sucks correctly.
Emotional bond
Small children need a lot of love and affection. Your nearness makes him feel safe. Therefore, it's very important that you talk to him gently, cuddle him and stroke him, as often as possible. Feeding is the best possible moment for building an emotional relationship with your child. It's very easy to do when you breastfeed, as you are already in physical contact with each other. However, bottle feeding also enables building a close relationship between the child and parent, as it also involves hugging the baby to your warm body. It also allows other family members - the father and siblings, to bond with the baby, as the baby can be bottle fed not only by the mum.
Peace and calm
Never feed your baby when you're irritated or stressed. First, take a moment to yourself, take a deep breath and try to relax. When you have calmed down, take a seat in a comfortable armchair, lay a pillow under your arm, rest your baby on the pillow and start feeding, while talking gently to your baby. Your child senses your emotions. If you're stressed, he too will feel uneasy. Also, never feed your baby when he's agitated, crying or screaming. When he's in such a state, his airways aren't protected and the feed could get to his larynx instead of his foodpipe.
Feeding by the clock
Formula milk isn't as easily digested by the baby's stomach as breastmilk, therefore - according to traditional principles - it should only be given once in three hours. However, some modern paediatricians claim that it's better to give the baby formula milk on demand, i.e. when your baby is hungry. According to them, it's better to give your baby the bottle than wait another hour when he'll be stressed and cranky, because he's so hungry. You should, however, control the number of feedings and your baby's weight gain. During his first month, your baby should eat 7-8 times a day, 90-100 ml at each feed, in his second month: 6-7 times a day, 100-120 ml at each feed. During his first six months, your baby should gain about 150-200 g a week.
Breaks during feeding
When your baby sucks milk from the bottle, he also swallows air. Therefore, he might feel full even before he has finished half the bottle. When feeding your baby, you should take breaks every few minutes in order to let your baby bring up wind - after such a break, he should feel hungry again. Hold the baby in an upright or semi-upright position for a moment during feeding (sometimes even for a few minutes), and let him bring up wind from the digestive tract that has been accumulated during feeding. Help you baby by holding him on your shoulder, with his hands falling on your back. Bend and widen his legs a little. You can also massage his back or pat him gently from the bottom up. Remember to protect your clothes with a muslin square or towel. You can also burp your baby when he's lying on your knees. Your baby should lie on his tummy, resting on your thigh, with his hands hanging freely on the other side. His bottom should rest on your leg, placed a little lower than the other leg. If you don't help your baby bring up the air accumulated in his stomach, it will cause painful gas.
Mum of 21 year old Rafał and 14 year old Adrianna, 11 years of professional experience
dr Aleksandra Łada
Clinical Neuro-speech Therapist
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08/30/2013 16:08
Yep, that’s right, folks. August 30th is National Toasted Marshmallow Day!
(Not to be confused with S’mores Day, which is August 10th.)
I love doing these blog posts about “National (whatever) Days”—if nothing else, it gives me a reason to eat something fun. I suppose I could have gone with an article about August being National Goat Cheese Month (read about it here), but it would have been a short article, because the only thing I have to say about that is: YUCK.
Whether you’re someone who likes to gently cook your marshmallows to a perfect golden brown, or (like me) just lights the dang thing on fire and enjoys it “blackened”, today is your day.
I know, I know, I'm totally cheating here, but it’s entirely too hot and humid today in Indiana to toast any marshmallows outside around a roaring fire. But all you really need is a flame, right? In that case, I suppose you could do it with a lighter as well…
In a blind taste-test, the cooktop marshmallow beat out the lighter marshmallow. The one I cooked with the lighter wasn’t gooey in the middle like the cooktop one, mostly because I didn’t want to waste my lighter fluid on a stupid marshmallow—I went straight for setting it on fire instead of actually taking the time to warm it up first…before setting it on fire. Plus, the lighter marshmallow ended up with a big, gross black wart on it.
National Toasted Marshmallow Day is a super-easy holiday to celebrate—just grab a bag of marshmallows, a stick, find some fire, and you’re set. So get out there (or stay inside) and celebrate this sweet day!
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T H E ___ _ _ _____ _ _ _____ _____ _____ _____ _ _ / || | | || || |_| || || || || || | | | / | || | | || | | || | | || | || | ||_ _|| | | || |_| | / | || |_| || | | || || | || _| _| |_ | | | || | | | / /_| || ||_| |_|| |_| || || | \ | ||_| |_||_ _| /_______||_____| |_| |_| |_||_____||__|\_\|_____| |_| |_| ----------------------------------------------------------------- P R E S E N T S Quotations From Albert Einstein (In Alphabetical Order By Subject) Rel: 16 Apr 90/Three =+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+= Members Are: /\ngel Of Death & Prophet /\rmed =+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+= On Bargains: "Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing." On Class: "The distinctions separating the social classes are false; in the last analysis they rest on force." On Conformity: "It gives me great pleasure indeed to see the stubbornness of an incorrigible nonconformist warmly acclaimed." On Curiosity: "The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one merely to comprehend a little of this mystery every day. Never lose a holy curiosity." On Future: "I never think of the future. It comes soon enough." On God: "God is clever, but not dishonest." On Humanity: "We cannot despair of humanity, since we ourselves are human beings." On Hunger: "An empty stomach is not a good political advisor." On International Relations: "In relations among seperate states complete anarchy still prevails. I do not believe that we have made any genuine advance in this area during the last thousand years." On Life: "We are like shipwrecked people trying to keep their balance on a miserable plank in the open sea...but once we fully accept this, life becomes easier." "What I value in life is quality rather than quantity, just as in Nature the overall principles represent a higher reality than does one single object." On Luxury: "Possessions, outward success, publicity, luxury--to me these have always been contemptible. I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for every one, best for both the body and the mind." On Military Secrecy: "Every citizen must make up his mind...if he accepts the premise of war he must endure the consequences of military secrecy." On Mystery: "The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true art and true science." On Nationalism: "Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind." On Nuclear Energy: "Since I do not forsee that atomic energy is to be a great boon for a long time, I have to say that for the present it is a menace. Perhaps it is well that it should be. It may intimidate the human race into bringing order into its international affairs, which, without the pressure of fear, it would not do." On Opposition: "Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds." On Patriotism: "The heroism at command, this senseless violence, this accursed bombast of patriotism--how intensely I despise them!" On Power: "What should be done to give the power into the hands of capable and well- meaning persons has so far resisted all efforts." On Reason: "Reason, of course, is weak, when measured against its never-ending task." On Religion: "Science without religion is lame; religion without science is blind." "What humanity owes to personalities like Buddha, Moses and Jesus ranks for me higher than all the achievements of the enquiring and constructive mind." On Simplicity: "Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler." On Solitude: "I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity." On Success: "Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value." On Testification: "Every intellectual who is called before one of the committees ought to refuse to testify, i.e. he must be prepared...for the sacrifice of his personal welfare in the interest of the cultural welfare of his country.... This kind of inquisition violates the spirit of the Constitution. If enough people are ready to take this grave step they will be successful. If not, then the intellectuals of this country deserve nothing better than the slavery which is intended for them." On The Theory Of Relativity: "I sometimes ask myself how it came about that I was the one to develop the theory of relativity. The reason, I think, is that a normal adult never stops to think about problems of space and time. These are things which he has thought of as a child. But my intellectual development was retarded, as a result of which I began to wonder about space and time only when I had already grown up." On Tolerance: "The most important kind of tolerance is tolerance of the individual by society and the state." On Truth: "If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor." "Truth resembles a statue of marble which stands in the desert and is continuously threatened with burial by the shifting sand." On Tyranny: "We may hope that even the dullest creature can be made to realize that, in the long run, lies and tyranny cannot triumph." On Value: "All that is valuable in human society depends on the opportunity for development accorded the individual." On Violence: "Degeneracy follows every automatic sysem of violence, for violence inevitably attracts moral inferiors. Time has proven that illustrious are succeeded by scoundrels." On War: "As long as there are sovereign nations possessing great power, war is inevitable." "I do not believe that civilization will be wiped out in a war fought with the atomic bomb. Perhaps two thirds of the people on earth might be killed, but enough men capable of thinking, and enough books, would be left to start again, and civilization would be restored." "The next World War will be fought with stones." On Wonder: "He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed." ------------------------- ------------------------- Compiled And Typed By Prophet /\rmed X-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-X Another file downloaded from: The NIRVANAnet(tm) Seven & the Temple of the Screaming Electron Taipan Enigma 510/935-5845 Burn This Flag Zardoz 408/363-9766 realitycheck Poindexter Fortran 510/527-1662 Lies Unlimited Mick Freen 801/278-2699 The New Dork Sublime Biffnix 415/864-DORK The Shrine Rif Raf 206/794-6674 Planet Mirth Simon Jester 510/786-6560 "Raw Data for Raw Nerves" X-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-X
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New U.S. Climate Targets Are Letting the World Down
On Tuesday, the U.S. submitted its first-ever official, internationally recognized plan to limit greenhouse gas emissions beyond 2020. Problem is, it’s pretty much just a retread of the path the U.S. is already on, which isn’t enough to keep global warming from crossing the “dangerous” two degree Celsius threshold—a point above which scientific consensus paints an increasingly bleak future, with global impacts capable of destabilizing human society.
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Rahan Two Churches
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Instance of church building
LocationCounty Offaly, Leinster, Ireland
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CAS Community > Resources >
BBC micro:bit: The missing python simulator
Python projects your students can do with or without a microbit
Pete Dring
Created by Pete Dring
last edited Jun 15 2016 by Pete Dring
If your KS3/KS4 students learn to program in python then coding the micro:bit in python makes sense - it’s a great way for students to explore and understand the key concepts of computational thinking when they can ‘see’ their code at work.
Unfortunately, whilst you can write python code for the micro:bit either online or via the excellent mu editor, you can’t simulate that code in a browser like you can for the other programming languages on the BBC website.
Simulating code is no way near as fun as seeing it work on an actual device. But it is important. This resource is my attempt to create a working micro:bit simulator for so that you can test your micro:bit python projects in your browser: with or without an actual BBC micro:bit.
This isn’t designed as a replacement for programming the physical devices - but it’s hopefully going to be useful for situations where students have lost / broken / sold their micro:bits or where you want to share / debug code with students quickly.
You can use the simulator by going to, typing in:
from microbit import *
import microbit
Run the code with Ctrl + Enter or using the button in the bottom left.
Debug the code line by line by pressing Ctrl + .
You can also change the options to animate line by line at a speed you set, so you can talk students through what’s happening.
This is an unofficial micro:bit simulator. It’s not affiliated with the BBC and it’s bound to have some teething problems. If you find a bug, please let me know via the comments below.
The basics
Each of these tutorials have:
1. Try it Some working code you can test in the simulator or on a micro:bit to use as a reference or starting point.
2. Debug it Some broken code so that you can practice finding and fixing common errors
3. Extend it Some links to find out more and some ideas to stretch the more interested or able.
You can download student activity traccking sheets to get students to record and reflect on their work, with space to keep track of what support they’ve given / reveived to promote independent learning. If your students have 1:1 tablets these pdfs can be shared via Showbie (or similar) so that students can annotate them & you can keep track of their progress. Alternatively, you can print them and get students to fill them in by hand.
Student project ideas and resources
If you use this simulator with your students and find it useful, it’d be great if you could add a link to the resources you use here:
More details
You can find additional projects, ideas, resources and info here
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Saving Daylight
Time and space are modes by which
we think, not conditions in which we live
–Albert Einstein
Today, in the speedy parts
of the world, we band together
to save time by rearranging it
Maybe time is an orange
Peel back the moment and there
is a circle of segments inside, each
with the seeds of other times
You plant one and live a different life
Maybe time is an orchestra. A loose
confederation of things that have
willingly assembled to create
something where things appear coherent
and beautiful, but only if you are alert
Maybe time is a circus. The elephants
walk in a circle, tail to trunk. Someone
rides each one giving instructions
and we all experience time together
They spin in place and time goes
Maybe time is an ambition. We aspire
to live in a way that makes sense to us
so we age, wear funny socks and die in
small rooms with low lighting
But just as easily we could live so that
we make no sense to each other and time
could stand still forever
4 responses to “Saving Daylight
1. i’m for that last ‘maybe’. A great poem!!
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2. I love it. Note to self: check my watch the next time I see a circus elephant. It just might be running backwards. (A thought for your next ‘time’ poem: ‘Time,’ he said, ‘is what keeps everything from happening at once.’)
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3. That definition is very zen / Groucho…very cool
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Spectre (2015)
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Plot: A cryptic message from an unlikely source sets James Bond (Craig) navigating the layers of a sinister organization known as SPECTRE. As M (Fiennes) continues fighting political pressures that threaten the future of MI6, Bond draws closer to uncovering a hidden truth that threatens to destroy everything he has fought to protect.
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CRS – Fall Conference Schedule
By August 17, 2016 October 24th, 2018 News
Customer Retention Solutions has a busy conference schedule for Fall 2016.
Indiana Bankers Association Annual Conference
CRS will be demonstrating our Mortgage Trac™ System at the conference in French Lick, IN from September 11th through the 13th. We will be in Booth 14 at the main conference hall at the French Lick Resort.
Mortgage Bankers Association Annual Conference
From October 23rd through the 26th CRS President David Disser, Senior Analyst Joe Yanos and Sales Manager Steve Warner will be in Boston attending and displaying at the MBA Annual Conference. CRS will be in Booth 815 demonstrating the Mortgage Trac™ System.
Michigan Bankers Association Bank Management and Directors Conference
David Disser will be attending the conference at the Royal Park Hotel in Rochester, MI. This annual conference is geared towards senior management and directors. This year it will be held from November 30th through December 2nd.
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The HTTP Response
Like the HTTP request, the response consists of CRLF terminated header lines with a blank line (a CRLF field immediately after the last header line), followed by the payload that is being returned as a result of a request.
The first line of the response contains the level of the HTTP protocol that the server is using, the return code to the request and a textual description of the return code. A typical return code response line might look like this (values separated by spaces):
HTTP/1.0 200 OK CRLF
Where HTTP/1.0 tells the client that the server is using the 1.0 version of the HTTP protocol, 200 means the request was processed successfully and OK is just a textual description of the return code.
Note that whilst a client may say it is using HTTP 1.1 in the request, there is nothing to prevent the server from using HTTP 1.0 in the response. The client should degrade to the 1.0 protocol gracefully, which makes it a lot easier to RYO web server.
Following the initial response line can be a number of other lines (each one terminated by a CRLF field) that specify information about the server and how it wants the client to handle the response. Each line has the format:
keyword: value CRLF
These are the additional fields that I include in a response header:
Server: server name/version
Connection: Close
Cache-control: no-cache
Content-Type: content_type
For HTTP 1.0 I always set the connection state to Close. With HTTP 1.1 the client tries to keep the session open so that it can reuse it. If you have the architecture in your server environment to support this then fine but I find it safer to always close the connection after each request and response has been processed, and in fact that is the standard mode of operation for HTTP 1.0 anyway.
The Cache-control tells the client to NOT cache the data returned by this request. This works well in a development environment since you don’t have to remember to clear the browser cache every time you make a change on the host, however not all browsers seem to pay attention to it and may still cache some things, particularly IE when submitting forms with method=”GET” on them.
The Content-Type field tells the client what it is that you are returning, for example text/html or image/jpeg.
Following the CRLF of the last header line should be another CRLF field to create a blank line. After that comes the actual response data.
EBCDIC, ASCII and Binary
Special consideration come into play when running a web server on a z/OS system. Not least of which is that z/OS (at least on the non USS side of the wall) typically uses EBCDIC to encode character data whilst the rest of the world uses ASCII. So if you are using say ISPF to create your web pages and other resources, they will be encoded as EBCDIC. Similarly your server is going to create all the HTTP header stuff in EBCDIC.
Now there is a simple option on the z/OS TCP/IP socket interface that will cause TCP/IP to automatically convert outbound data from EBCDIC to ASCII and inbound data from ASCII to EBCDIC. So it’s easy right? Turn on that option and let TCP/P handle the conversion. But wait, what if you want to return say a JPEG image (assume you uploaded it to the host as binary so it does not need converting). You cannot leave the option on because TCP/IP will try to convert the binary of the image to ascii. You cannot turn it off because then the header will not be converted.
What you have to do is to split the sending of the response into two parts. When you send the header, including the blank line marker, you turn the option on so the text of the header gets converted. Then you turn the option off and send the binary payload part of the response.
Where is my CRLF
In the ascii world, a carriage return character is hex 0d and a line feed character is hex 09 but when translating from ASCII to EBCDIC, TCP/IP converts the line feed character to hex 25. Thus on inbound messages the CRLF field is the hex string ‘0d25′ on the host side of things. Similarly on outbound messages TCP/IP converts hex 25 in EBCDIC to hex 09 in ascii so when sending responses you have to code the CRLF string as x’0d25’ so that it gets converted to the correct ascii string when sent.
Of course you could turn off the built in conversion and implement your own translation, something you might need to do if you have special character sets but for good old latin, the default translation should be good enough.
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Using Foundation 6 on ASP.NET Core
ASP.NET Core opens the doors to new opportunities for ASP.NET developers through integration points in Bower, NPM, and Gulp. One perk of using common web development tools is that frameworks like Foundation can be installed directly from the vendor whereas before developers needed to rely on NuGet packages. In some instances, these were a repackaging of vendor assets and lagged behind official releases.
Let’s take a look at how this has changed in ASP.NET Core by installing Foundation 6, a responsive front-end framework that is a capable alternative to Bootstrap. We’ll get an idea of why Foundation has its advantages in the hands of an experienced developer and how to achieve complete customization. We’ll also look at an example of matching the look and feel of Foundation components with themes in Kendo UI.
Note: If you’re not familiar with the new project structure in ASP.NET Core you can get up to speed by downloading the free white paper ASP.NET Core Changes Ever Developer Should Know
Install Foundation with Bower
To install Foundation on our project we’ll use the Bower package manager. Bower will fetch and install all of the necessary files for using Foundation in our project. Installing packages with Bower can be done via GUI, bower.json file, or the command line. For this article, we’ll be using the bower.json method. To access the bower.json file we’ll need to show hidden files in the project.
Inside the bower.json file, we’ll remove the dependency for bootstrap and replace it with foundation-sites. Saving this change will prompt Bower to remove Bootstrap and install Foundation and its dependencies. An optional plugin for Foundation called Motion-ui can be added as well by the same process of adding motion-ui to bower.json.
At this point we could begin using the CSS version of Foundation, however one of Foundation’s biggest strengths is it’s robust library of Sass mixins that allow granular control of the CSS output. Using Sass, we can choose to only use Foundation’s grid and add additional components as they are needed. By using this approach we can greatly reduce the amount of CSS that is deployed with the application. In addition, we gain access to hundreds of Sass variables used to control all aspects of Foundation such as: theme color, grid type (flex box or floats), fonts, and much more. We’ll discuss how Foundation’s Sass mixins are used later in the process, but first we’ll need to setup a Sass compiler.
To enable Sass compilation in ASP.NET Core we’ll need to add the gulp-sass compiler. This version of Sass easily integrates with Gulp, which is already available to the project. We’ll install gulp-sass by opening the package.json file and adding gulp-sass under devDependencies. Saving the package.json file will prompt npm to install the package.
With gulp-sass installed, we’ll need to configure a compile task.
Create a Gulp task
Setting up task for Foundation requires just a few extra steps than a default gulp-sass task. First add a reference to gulp-sass (sass = require("gulp-sass")). We’ll need to add a few extra parameters to tell gulp-sass where the Foundation Sass files are located. Using the includePaths option, we’ll pass in the Sass file locations for Foundation and Motion-ui. This will ensure that when Foundation’s mixins are referenced in Sass files, the compiler will be able to locate them.
// where to find sass code
paths.sassSource = "./Scss/*.scss";
// where to output compiled CSS code
paths.cssOutput = paths.webroot + "css";
// where to find bower resources
paths.bower_components = paths.webroot + "lib/"
gulp.task('sass', function () {
includePaths: [
paths.bower_components + 'foundation-sites/scss',
paths.bower_components + 'motion-ui/src'
}).on('error', sass.logError))
Before the CSS is ready to compile, we’ll need to create a master stylesheet and import Foundation’s mixins. It may seem like quite a bit of work to get a CSS framework setup, but the extra effort leads to better maintainability over the life of the project.
We’ll add a new Sass folder to the project’s src folder. Inside we’ll create a new file, for this example we’ll use app.scss. We’ll also need to copy Foundation’s _settings.scss file from the install folder ./lib/foundation-sites/scss to our Sass folder. Making a copy of the settings file will ensure that our settings are not overwritten by Bower when the package is updated.
In the app.scss file, we’ll import foundation and settings. From here Foundation’s mixins are used to customize which components are included in the compilation process. The entire Foundation framework can be included with a single mixin, foundation-everything, using this mixin we can also set the grid type (flexbox or float) by passing a $flex: true parameter.
@charset 'utf-8';
@import 'foundation';
@import "settings";
@include foundation-everything;
// @include foundation-everything($flex: true);
For a more advanced setup, we can omit foundation-everything and instead specify each framework component independently, producing a tailored version of the Foundation framework per our specifications.
All of the available mixins can be found in the foundation-sites-template project on GitHub. Using this method of configuration if we just want Foundation’s grid we would only include foundation-grid and no additional CSS would be rendered by the compiler. Having an ad hoc configuration like this allows us to scale Foundation as we see fit, and reduces the “bloat” developers are typically concerned about when using a CSS framework.
Once the once the desired configurations are made, we can run the sass task using Gulp, which will create the app.css file. With the file created we’ll need to setup a site template to utilize the CSS we created.
The _Layout.cshtml included in ASP.NET Core only needs a few changes to use Foundation. First, we’ll need to update the CSS references to use the app.css file containing our customized version of Foundation.
<environment names="Development">
<link rel="stylesheet" href="~/css/app.css" />
<environment names="Staging,Production">
<link rel="stylesheet" href="~/css/app.min.css" asp-append-version="true" />
Next, we’ll update the scripts section to include foundation.js in place of the bootstrap.js.
<environment names="Development">
<script src="~/lib/foundation-sites/dist/foundation.js"></script>
<environment names="Staging,Production">
<script src=""
A complete version of the _Layout.cshtml file can be downloaded here.
With the CSS and JavaScript references in place, Foundation is installed and ready for development. To further enhance the project, take time to fine tune which Foundation components are included in the project and take advantage of the robust settings file we copied to the project.
Using Settings
In Foundation the settings file is used to alter the overall look of the application. Variables such as fonts and colors are defined in the settings file and referenced throughout the application. This makes the settings file a single point of control for developing a visual theme.
Although Foundation has a very minimal appearance, adjusting just a few settings can transform the basic look to match third party themes or controls. In this example Kendo UI’s responsive gantt control is used along with some UI elements from Foundaiton. The Nova theme for Kendo UI uses vibrant colors and flat UI components, which makes it a great candidate for pairing with Foundation. Let’s use the settings file to match Foundation’s UI components with the Kendo UI Nova theme.
$foundation-palette: (
primary: #ff4350, // matched to Kendo UI's Nova theme primary color
secondary: #24c6db, // matched to Kendo UI's Nova theme secondary color
$dark-gray: #32364c; // matched to Kendo UI's Nova theme dark color
$topbar-background: $dark-gray; // make the topbar component use the dark-gray color
Setting a single value such as primary creates a palette of color variables. This is done by lightening or darkening the specified color in intervals. Just a few changes to the color settings can completely transform all of the components.
Selecting theme colors is only a fraction of what the settings are capable of, application width, fonts, and even break points are included as settings.
But Wait There’s More
The customization discussed thus far are only the tip of the iceberg with Foundation. The framework can be used with even greater granularity by working directly with Foundation’s semantic mixins. Working with semantic mixins gives you the ability to create custom named components from the same Sass mixins used to build Foundation’s components. To see examples of how semantic mixins work, visit the “Building Semantically” section of each component’s page in the documentation. With semantic mixins you are 100% in control of the framework.
Getting Foundation installed and configured in ASP.NET Core may take a few additional steps compared to Bootstrap, but the trade offs are in having complete control over the CSS. Foundation’s strong suit is it’s robust customization via configuration, mixins, and settings. Foundation complements front-end development much like the flexibility of ASP.NET Core’s server side architecture supports back-end development.
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MangoHacks 2018
Team Members: Guillermo Garrido, Isaac Ghobrial, Tina Suizzo, Gabi Rivera
The Hack
Using the power of the Solidworks, the German Rep Rap 3D Printer, the Arduino Uno and IDE, we have automated the tedious process of finishing a 3D print made from SLA filament.
How it Works
We devised a pulley system that the could properly prepare the resin to be used for 3D printing. First, the stepper motor lowers the basket into one of the rubbing alcohol tanks. It then raises the basket to its original height, and the basket is carefully pivoted into the second rubbing alcohol tank by the servo motor. The process repeats until the resin is properly prepared.
How to use Python on an Arduino Uno
1. Install the Arduino IDE
2. Download Python (2.7 or above)
3. Install PySerial (a Python API module)
4. Write a program in the Arduino IDE, and upload it to your Arduino
5. Write a second program (such as one to blink an LED) in Python using either the Python shell or another IDE (e.g. PyCharm)
6. Run your Python program and enjoy!
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Sharing a case with others
Is there a simple way to generate some sort of email to several people to ask them to look at a particular case? Either have the contents of the case in the email, or have a URL in the email to the case.
In a similiar theme, how do I generate a question to someone who is working on a case to ask how the case is doing...
Mike Pun
Tuesday, March 11, 2003
The quickest way to share a case with others through a url is to enter http://servername/?bugnumber .
You can replace servername with the IIS server that FogBugz is installed on and bugnumber with the actual bugnumber. This should work if default.asp is enabled as a default document in IIS.
For your second question, I usually add comments or questions by editing a bug. As long as the person that it is assigned to has email notifications turned on, your edit will trigger another message and include the comments you have placed right in the email.
karan mavai
Tuesday, March 11, 2003
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Notes on Writing Cards
2. Write for consolation, encouragement, or to share you life with a close friend. Or write strangers whose work you appreciate. I often write musicians, authors, business owners, and others. They almost never write back. The exception is Peter Brötzmann.
3. Ponder and pray before you write. Why be in a hurry? This is not the Internet.
4. Perhaps adorn the card with stickers or your own drawings. There was a “letter art” movement decades ago. We should restart it.
5. Although I always want my cards to be reciprocated in some way, I almost always write more than I am written to–at least since my mother died. If someone never writes back after two or three cards, I usually give up.
Author: Douglas Groothuis
Author of Christian Apologetics, Truth Decay, On Jesus, On Pascal, and others. Professor of Philosophy, Denver Seminary since 1993. Head of The Apologetics and Ethics Masters Degree Program and Co-Director of The Gordon Lewis Center for Christian Thought and Culture. Senior Fellow for
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1. Please, please don’t give up. I will reciprocate. Thank you for the opportunity to refresh the parched (Pr 11:25b). I’ve kept all of your encouragements and have so appreciated the thought and care you take.
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We went to take photographs in the morning at Kai Tai Lagoon. We started at one end and walked to the other. There was a large distant flock of ducks, very quiet. When we got close enough for my zoom to handle, we found out why: most of them were asleep. In the early morning and gorgeous sun yesterday.
I want a day of puttering and napping and meandering, like these ducks.
For the Daily Prompt: meander.
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Go dependency management isn't always straightforward, but this tutorial aims to show you how to keep things simple with dep.
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Go dependency management is far from satisfying. In any other commonly used language like Java, JavaScript, Ruby, Python, and Scala, you have state of the art dependency management tools like NPM or Maven.
The Problem
Go Get is the default package manager for Go. However, the problem with it is that Go Get fetches the latest dependency version which is not already on the disk. This means that if you build your projects on two different occasions, you will not get a reproducible set of dependencies. Our problems are:
1. Repeatability: at different times, compile and package exactly the same output.
2. Isolation between projects: one project should not affect another.
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Instead of delving deeper into the problem, we are going to go straight into the two most common solutions.
The Leading Dependency Managers for Go
There are currently three leading projects to resolve that problem:
1. Godep.
2. Glide.
3. Dep.
Dep is the one which should take the crown, while glide is currently more stable and feature-rich. If you go the path of dep today, you might have issues, you might miss some features, but in most cases, your most basic use cases would be fulfilled. My recommendation would be to go with dep; if you have issues larger than you can take upon yourself, either contribute a fix or talk to the community, or move to glide. With that aside, let's see the steps to utilize dep in order to manage your Go dependencies!
Our Plan
Step 1: Install Go if you don't already have it.
Step 2: Install dep, our current favorite simple dependency management tool.
Step 3: Create an example Go project.
Step 4: Try to compile (it will fail, but don't worry).
Step 5: Use Godep to fetch the dependency- once without version, and once with version- and run it.
Step 1: Install Go If You Don't Have It
On Ubuntu, that would be (using gvm):
vi .bashrc
[[ -s "$HOME/.gvm/scripts/gvm" ]] && source "$HOME/.gvm/scripts/gvm"
# logout and login from shell
$ gvm listall # => list all go available
# if you don't have any prior version of go installed first you need to install 1.4
$ gvm install go1.4.3
Installing go1.4.3...
* Compiling...
go1.4.3 successfully installed!e
$ gvm use go1.4.3 # => you first need to use any go to install a newer version.
$ gvm install 1.8.1 # => install the latest stable (in our case 1.8.1)
$ gvm use 1.8.1 # => use latest stable
$ go --version # => expect to see the latest stable
Step 2: Install dep and Create an Example
We first install dep:
go get -u github.com/golang/dep/...
That's it; this step is super easy and this is all we needed to do in order to install dep. Let's verify that it's installed:
$ dep
dep is a tool for managing dependencies for Go projects
Usage: dep <command>
init Initialize a new project with manifest and lock files
status Report the status of the project's dependencies
ensure Ensure a dependency is safely vendored in the project
remove Remove a dependency from the project
dep init set up a new project
dep ensure install the project's dependencies
dep ensure -update update the locked versions of all dependencies
dep ensure github.com/pkg/errors add a dependency to the project
Step 3: Create the Example Source Code
We then move on to create example folder and project:
cd $GOPATH/src/github.com/tomer-ben-david
mkdir dep-example
cd dep-example
vi main.go
Enter some code into main.go, which utilizes 3rd party library cookoo :
package main
import "fmt"
import "github.com/Masterminds/cookoo"
func main() {
// Build a new Cookoo app.
registry, router, context := cookoo.Cookoo()
// Fill the registry.
Name: "TEST",
Help: "A test route",
Does: cookoo.Tasks{
Name: "hi",
Fn: HelloWorld,
// Execute the route.
router.HandleRequest("TEST", context, false)
func HelloWorld(cxt cookoo.Context, params *cookoo.Params) (interface{}, cookoo.Interrupt) {
fmt.Println("Hello World")
return true, nil
Step 4: Try To Compile (It Won't)
We first try to compile the code, but as we didn't fetch a cookoo library, it will fail:
$ go install
main.go:4:8: cannot find package "github.com/Masterminds/cookoo" in any of:
/home/.gvm/pkgsets/go1.8.1/global/src/github.com/tomer-ben-david/dep-example/vendor/github.com/Masterminds/cookoo (vendor tree)
/home/.gvm/gos/go1.8.1/src/github.com/Masterminds/cookoo (from $GOROOT)
/home/.gvm/pkgsets/go1.8.1/global/src/github.com/Masterminds/cookoo (from $GOPATH)
Step 5: Use Dep To Get The Dependency
We first fetch the dependency. If we don't specify a library version, note that our manifest.json will stay empty, as will our vendor folder, without a specific version of the library we have asked for.
dep ensure github.com/Masterminds/cookoo
dep: No constraint or alternate source specified for "github.com/Masterminds/cookoo", omitting from manifest
$ cat manifest.json # => our manifest json is empty no version specified!
Now let's fetch a specific version of that library, namely 1.2.0! Note that the version below in manifest.json would be stored locally for our project so we can reproduce that project if we compile it.
$ dep ensure github.com/Masterminds/cookoo@^1.2.0
$ cat manifest.json # => as we have requested a specific version manifest.json will hold that version! isn't that just great, a versoin for each project!
"dependencies": {
"github.com/Masterminds/cookoo": {
"version": "^1.2.0"
Now we can run compile and run our project.
$ go install
$ $GOPATH/bin/dep-example
Hello World
Dep is a simple tool which is currently in alpha, and not stable in order to help us manage Go dependencies. We need a proper dependency management for Go in order to keep our dependencies rather sane, just as any language supports. We need to be able to reproduce a Go release from its source code and versions libraries, and also to be able to separate in between different projects and their libraries. While there are a few tools to do that, glide seems to be the most updated and stable one and dep library is a new one in alpha stage, but does the basic job.
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Presidents Letter
Dear Fellow Practitioners, Colleagues, and Friends After founding and serving as President of FEAPO since 2010, Dr. Brian Cameron has passed the leadership baton to me as of July 1, 2016. FEAPO is an aegis organization, formed of professional member organizations, providing services that encourage and enable the advancement of the Enterprise Architecture field. I […]
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If I were to take a survey among Christians asking, “Does your personal faith need testing and trials?” Most would tell me their personal faith is in good shape. Yep, most believe they are in very good shape. James, Paul and Jesus paint a different picture for the average believer. In James we are told…
the testing of our faith … produces endurance, and endurance must finish its work so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything. (James 1:4 )
Paul tells us that
suffering produces perseverance; perseverance, character, and character, hope. And hope does not disappoint us.” (Romans 5:3-5)
Jesus paints a picture so clear, it cannot be ignored.
every branch (or believer) that bears fruit “he prunes so that it may be more fruitful”.
In reality, most of us are like a nail in search of a hammer. A nail would certainly question the value of a hammer. To the nail, the hammer is a cruel instrument. But what it doesn’t see is that each blow forces the nail to bite deeper and hold more effectively. Without the hammer, the nail would have no purpose in life.
If metal had feelings it probably would question being scrapped by a file and being thrown in furnace. Metal doesn’t want to be shaped and is quite comfortable remaining the same shape. The rough scraping of the file would seem tortuous, but it is necessary to fit the metal for its part. The furnace would be met with screams and dread, but the furnace is necessary to purify and strengthen the metal.
Chuck Swindoll has some great words concerning this illustration.
Heartaches and disappointments are like the hammer, the file, and the furnace. They come in all shapes and sizes: unfulfilled romance, a lingering illness, and untimely death, an unachieved goal in life, a broken home or marriage, a severed friendship, a wayward and rebellious child, a personal medical report that advised immediate surgery, a falling grade at school, a depression that simply won’t go away, a habit you can’t seem to break. Sometimes heartaches come suddenly . . . other times they appear over the passing of many months, slowly as the erosion of earth. Do I write to a “nail” that has begun to resent the blows of the hammer? Are you at the brink of despair, thinking that you cannot bear another day of heartache? Is that what’s gotten you down? As difficult as it may be for you to believe this today, the Master knows what He’s doing. Your Savior knows your breaking point. The bruising and the crushing and melting process is designed to reshape you, not ruin you. Your value is increasing the longer He lingers over you. [Encourage Me p. 36]
Abraham certainly wondered “why”. “Take now your son, your only son, whom you love, Isaac, and go to the land of Moriah, and offer him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains of which I will tell you.” (Genesis 22:2) Perhaps he felt like a nail being attacked by a hammer. But Abraham also understood that the nail and the hammer were both held by the hand of the Lord. He knew that God knew what He was doing and so he trusted him.
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Cauca Department
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Department of Cauca
Departamento del Cauca
Flag of Department of Cauca
Coat of arms of Department of Cauca
Coat of arms
Por el Derecho a la Diferencia
(Spanish: For the Right to a Difference)
Cauca shown in red
Cauca shown in red
Topography of the department
Topography of the department
Coordinates: 2°27′N 76°37′W / 2.450°N 76.617°W / 2.450; -76.617Coordinates: 2°27′N 76°37′W / 2.450°N 76.617°W / 2.450; -76.617
Country Colombia
RegionAndean Region/Pacific Region
EstablishedJune 15, 1857
• GovernorOscar Rodrigo Campo Hurtado (2016-2019)
• Total29,308 km2 (11,316 sq mi)
Area rank13th
• Total1,354,744
• Rank11th
• Density46/km2 (120/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC-05
ISO 3166 codeCO-CAU
HDI (2017)0.700[2]
high · 25th
Website[1][permanent dead link]
Cauca Department (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈkawka], Spanish: Departamento del Cauca) is a Department of Colombia. Located in the southwestern part of the country, facing the Pacific Ocean to the west,[3] the Valle del Cauca Department to the north, Tolima Department to the northeast, Huila Department to the east, and Nariño Department to the south. Putumayo and Caqueta Departments border the southeast portion of Cauca Department as well. It covers a total area of 29,308 km2 (11,316 sq mi), the 13th largest in Colombia. Its capital is the city of Popayán. The offshore island of Malpelo belongs to the department. It is located in the southwest of the country on the Andean and Pacific regions (between 0°58′54″N and 3°19′04″N latitude, 75°47′36″W and 77°57′05″W longitude). The area includes 2.56% of the country.
Administrative Division[edit]
Departments bordering Cauca; boundary intersections indicated in red.
Cauca department is divided into 42 municipalities, 99 districts, 474 police posts and numerous villages and populated places. The municipalities are grouped into 27 circles and 29 notaries notary, a circle-based registration in Popayán and eight sectional offices based in Bolívar, Caloto, Puerto Tejada, Santander de Quilichao, Patia, Guapi and Silvia, makes up the judicial district, Popayán, with 8 seats judicial circuit in Popayán, Bolívar, Caloto, Guapi, Patia, Puerto Tejada, Santander de Quilichao and Silvia. The department makes up the constituency of Cauca.
The relief of the territory of the department of Cauca belongs to the Andean system at the macro level seven distinguishing morphological units: the Pacific plate, western cordillera, Central cordillera, highlands of Popayán, Macizo Colombiano, Valle del Patia and the sector of the Amazon basin. The Pacific plate comprises two sectors, the alluvial coastal belt or platform characterized by low, covered with mangrove forest, swampy, both the quantity of rivers, estuaries and reaching the Pacific coast, such as being subjected the ebb and flow of tides, the other area is the actual plain of hills comprising the western slopes of the western cordillera.
The western cordillera in the Cauca extends from southwest to northeast. Among the most important landmarks are the blade of Napí, the hills of Guaduas, Munchique, and Naya, and the Cauca River Valley. The central mountain range crosses the department from south to north; relevant landmarks include Sotará Colcano, Petacas Nevado del Huila, and the departmental boundary.
The highlands of Popayán, sandwiched between the Western and Central Cordilleras, is seen as a landmark within the plateau of the hill of La Tetilla. Among the most representative landmarks of the Colombian Massif, shared with the department of Huila, are the Páramo del Buey, the volcanoes of Cutanga and Puracé, the peak of Paletará, and the Sierra Nevada of Coconucos. Patia Valley, framed by the Central and Western mountain ranges, where the Patia River runs north-south extends to the department of Nariño. The Amazon Basin, corresponds to the so-called Bota Caucana, through which the Caquetá river.
Colombian Massif[edit]
The Colombian Massif, also called the Nudo de Almaguer, is a mountainous group of "Andes colombianos" covering the departments of Cauca, Huila, and Nariño. In the south is the Nudo de los Pastos, and the north, central, and eastern mountain ranges emerge. The Colombian Massif is a strategic national and international level, given its significance for water production, biodiversity and ecosystems, an area that represents a special conformation of the regions with more potential for development in Colombia.
The Cauca river system, consists of five major basins: Alto Cauca, Pacific, Alto Magdalena, Patia and Caqueta.
Alto Cauca, formed by the Cauca River and its tributaries: Palo, Guengué, Negro, Teta, Desbaratado, and Quilichao, Mondomo, Ovejas, Pescador, Robles, Piedras, Sucio, Palacé, Cofre, Honda, Cajibío, Piendamó, Tunia, Molino, Timbío and Blanco.
The Pacific, made up mainly by rivers Guapi, Timbiquí, Saija and Micay.
Alto Magdalena, the main river is the Páez River which is fed by the rivers: San Vicente, Moras, Ullucos, Negro y Negro de Narvaez, and the streams: Toez, Símbola, Salado, Gualcar, Gallo, Macana, Honda and Totumo.
Patia basin, consists of the Patia River and its tributary rivers Guachinoco, Ismita, Bojoleo, El Guaba, Sambingo and Mayo.
Caquetá basin, consists of the Caquetá River where the rivers Cusiyaco, Cascabelito, Verdeyaco, Mandiyaco, Fragua, Cascabel, Curiaco and Pacayaco. Gorgonilla and Gorgona islands are located in the Pacific Ocean, belong to the territory Cauca.
The Cauca economy is based primarily on agriculture and livestock production, forestry, fishing and trade. Agriculture has been developed and modernized in the northern department, with the main crops being sugar cane, cane panela, conventional maize, rice, corn tech, banana, agave, yucca, potatoes, coconut, sorghum, cocoa, groundnut, and palm.
In the Pacific region is extracted gold, silver and platinum. Other non-precious minerals that are exploited are sulfur, asbestos, limestone, talc, gypsum and coal. The manufacturing industry is located in Popayán, Santander de Quilichao, Puerto Tejada with factories of food, beverages, dairy products, paper, packaging, wood processing, sugar industry and paper processing for export. The main centers of commercial activity are Popayán, Santander de Quilichao, Patia, Puerto Tejada, Piendamó and Corinto.
1. ^ "DANE". Archived from the original on November 13, 2009. Retrieved February 13, 2013.
3. ^ Wikisource Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Cauca". Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.
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Each leg is frogtied (ankle tied to thigh).
The frogtie is a bondage position in which a person's legs are bound ankle-to-thigh, in the likeness of a crouched frog. The wrists on each side are often then tied to the ankle/thigh combination on their respective sides, although it is possible to tie each wrist to the opposite ankle and make the position noticeably more strict.
This tie places the person in a position where they are vulnerable but not completely immobilized and can still move about, albeit in an awkward crawling motion. The frogtie, with the person restrained so, can also be used as a restrictive sex position or as a basis for more restrictive bondage. The bound person's wrist tie can also be tethered to some sort of immovable ring by an arbitrary length of cord, allowing some limited freedom of movement while preventing escape.
See also[edit]
• Harrington, Lee. Shibari You Can Use. pp. 102–103. ISBN 978-0-615-14490-0.
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Inuyasha the Movie: Fire on the Mystic Island
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Inuyasha the Movie 4 - Fire on the Mystic Island
Inuyasha the Movie 4 poster.png
Directed byToshiya Shinohara[1]
Produced by
• Michihiko Suwa
• Masuo Ueda
• Mikihiro Iwata[1]
Screenplay byKatsuyuki Sumisawa[1]
Based onInuYasha
by Rumiko Takahashi[1]
Music byKaoru Wada[1]
CinematographyYudai Takahashi [1]
Edited byShigeyuki Yamamori
Distributed byToho
Release date
• December 23, 2004 (2004-12-23)
Running time
86 minutes[1]
Box office$6,115,310[2][3]
Inuyasha the Movie: Fire on the Mystic Island (映画犬夜叉 紅蓮の蓬莱島, Eiga Inuyasha: Guren no Hōraijima) is a 2004 Japanese animated fantasy film and the fourth film of the Inuyasha series. The film was directed by Toshiya Shinohara, written by Katsuyuki Sumisawa, produced by Shogakukan, Yomiuri Telecasting Corporation, Sunrise, Inc., Nippon Television Network, Shogakukan Productions and Yomiuri TV Enterprises, and distributed by Toho. It stars the voices of Kappei Yamaguchi and Satsuki Yukino. The film features Nobutoshi Canna, Takeshi Kusao, Nobuo Tobita and Tadahisa Saizen as the Four War Gods, a group of demons who rule the Horai Island.
In Horai Island, six half-demon children (Asagi, Dai, Roku, Moegi, Shion and Ai), watch a woman (resembling Kikyō) dropping a green orb to the Cauldron of Resonance. It frees the Four War Gods (Ryūra, Jūra, Kyōra and Gōra), and the scars appear on the rest of all children. Ai, not affected by the gods, leaves the island to meet up with Inuyasha and his friends. The heroes learn that Gōra used Kikyo's blood to create her doppelganger and Ryūra placed the scar on Inuyasha, though Inuyasha and the children cannot resist it. One man tells the story about the myth of the island, before Kikyō sets out to aid Inuyasha. As the rest of the villagers safely head to the shrine, Sesshomaru remembers the day he got the scar. Upon arriving at the island, Inuyasha and his friends are ambushed by Jūra. While Miroku and Sango manage to distract Jūra, Inuyasha saves Kagome and Ai from Ryūra. After the heroes meet the rest of the children, they head to the cauldron. When Inuyasha and Asagi end up in the dimension of the cauldron, they learn that the priestess Kanade died sealing the gods fifty years ago. Before Inuyasha and Asagi leave the cauldron, they obtain the sealed box. When the doppelganger steals it, she breaks it to release the power spheres and strengthen the gods. The heroes plan to abandon the island. Sesshomaru kills Kyōra and destroys the cauldron, Miroku and Sango defeat Jūra, and Kikyō kills the doppelganger to save Inuyasha. After Inuyasha defeats Ryūra and Gōra, the four spheres combine to create the final War God. After the spiritual fireflies lead the children to Kikyo's bow, Kagome uses it. With the blessing of the fireflies, Inuyasha and Kagome combine their attacks to defeat the god. With the island gone, Inuyasha, Sesshomaru and the children are freed from the curse.
Voice cast[edit]
Character Japanese Voice Actor English Voice Actor
Inuyasha Kappei Yamaguchi Richard Ian Cox
Kagome Higurashi Satsuki Yukino Moneca Stori
Miroku Kōji Tsujitani Kirby Morrow
Sango Houko Kuwashima Kelly Sheridan
Shippo Kumiko Watanabe Jillian Michaels
Kikyo Noriko Hidaka Willow Johnson
Sesshomaru Ken Narita David Kaye
Asagi Fumiko Orikasa Rebecca Shoichet
Dai Yū Kobayashi Gabe Khouth
Roku Reiko Kiuchi Gabe Khouth
Moegi Yuki Masuda Justine Wong
Shion Kaori Shimizu Aidan Drummond
Ai Emi Motoi Nicole Bouma
Ryūra Nobutoshi Canna Kristian Ayre
Jūra Takeshi Kusao Jason Simpson
Kyōra Nobuo Tobita Ted Cole
Gōra Tadahisa Saizen Ward Perry
Kujaku Mitsuki Saiga Anna Cummer
Lady Kanade Tomiko Van Rebecca Shoichet
Inuyasha the Movie 4 - Fire on the Mystic Island was distributed theatrically by Toho on December 23, 2004.[1] The film was released on home media in North America by Viz Media on August 1, 2006.[1]
1. ^ a b c d e f g h i j Galbraith IV, Stuart (2008). The Toho Studios Story: A History and Complete Filmography. Scarecrow Press. p. 435. ISBN 1461673747.
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James Gobbo
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The Honourable
Sir James Gobbo
25th Governor of Victoria
In office
24 April 1997 – 31 December 2000
MonarchElizabeth II
PremierJeff Kennett
Steve Bracks
LieutenantAdrienne Clarke
Preceded byRichard McGarvie
Succeeded byJohn Landy
Personal details
Born (1931-03-22) 22 March 1931 (age 87)
Melbourne, Victoria
Spouse(s)Shirley Lewis
EducationUniversity of Melbourne
University of Oxford
Sir James Augustine Gobbo AC, CVO, QC (born 22 March 1931) is a retired Australian jurist and was the 25th Governor of Victoria.
Family and early life[edit]
Giacomo 'James' Gobbo was born in Carlton, Victoria, in 1931, to Italian parents Antonio and Regina. In March 1935 the family, returned to Cittadella, Italy where a sister, Natalina, was born shortly after. Three years later the family, which also included a brother, Flavio, arrived back in Australia to take up permanent residency in North Melbourne, Victoria[1]. Gobbo spoke no English at the time of his return, then aged seven[2], and his father who had started a café felt the time was right for him to receive a Catholic education.
Gobbo's early schooling included attending St Mary's Primary School, West Melbourne and later St Joseph's CBC, North Melbourne[3]. In 1944 he was accepted into Xavier College where he won the 1948 APS Head of the River before studying law at the University of Melbourne during which time he lived at Newman College. In 1951 he was awarded a Rhodes Scholarship, with which he attained a Master of Arts degree at Magdalen College, Oxford University.[2]
In 1957 Gobbo married former librarian Shirley Lewis, and has five children. His son James Gobbo, Jr. was the Liberal candidate for the district of Bentleigh in the 2006 Victorian state election.
Judicial career[edit]
After many years as a barrister and later as a Queen's Counsel, Gobbo was appointed as a judge of the Supreme Court of Victoria. He served from 18 July 1978 until he retired from the bench on 14 February 1994.[2]
Vice-regal career[edit]
Gobbo served as Lieutenant-Governor of Victoria from 1995 until he was appointed Governor of Victoria in 1997 by HM Queen Elizabeth II on the advice of the Victorian premier, Jeff Kennett. He was the first Australian state governor of Italian descent.
His term of office was to be shorter than the usual five years, due to the uncertain outcome of the looming 1999 Australian republic referendum. If a republic had come into effect, then the governorship of Victoria would have been abolished from 1 January 2001. In August 2000 the new Premier Steve Bracks announced that Gobbo's successor would be John Landy, who would take up his post in January 2001. Gobbo immediately made it known that he had had an understanding with Kennett for an extension of his term beyond 2000, and expressed deep disappointment that this was not now to occur.[4] However, this understanding must have been private, since Kennett's letter of appointment stated that any extension beyond 31 December 2000 would be a matter for the Premier of the day. Bracks said that he had no knowledge of any such understanding.
After leaving office, Gobbo took up the position of Commissioner for Italy for the Victorian Government until June 2006 and has since continued on various boards and councils.
In 2006, he was the Chair of the Council of the National Library of Australia and the Council of the Order of Australia and Chair of the Australian Multicultural Foundation.
Gobbo was made Knight Bachelor in 1981 and became a Companion of the Order of Australia (AC) in 1993 and a Knight of Grace of the Most Venerable Order of the Hospital of St John of Jerusalem (KStJ) in 1997. He was awarded the Centenary Medal in 2001 and is also a Knight of Malta (see [1]).
See also[edit]
External links[edit]
1. ^ National Archives of Australia, Department of Immigration and Border Protection; A12508, 31/2551 Personal Statement and Declaration by alien passengers entering Australia (Forms A42)
2. ^ a b c "Farewells - Sir James Gobbo" (PDF). Victorian Bar News. Melbourne: Victorian Bar Council. Winter 1994. Retrieved 9 February 2017.
3. ^ "Rhodes Scholarship for Newman Student". Advocate. LXXXIV, (5030). Victoria, Australia. 20 December 1951. p. 2. Retrieved 12 May 2018 – via National Library of Australia.
4. ^ ABC: The World Today Archive – Victoria's new governor
Government offices
Preceded by
Richard McGarvie
Governor of Victoria
Succeeded by
John Landy
Preceded by
Sir John Young
Lieutenant-Governor of Victoria
Succeeded by
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Namdeo Dhasal
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Namdeo Laxman Dhasal
Born(1949-02-15)15 February 1949
Pune, India
Died15 January 2014(2014-01-15) (aged 64)
Mumbai, India
OccupationWriter, Poet
GenreMarathi literature
Literary movementDalit Panther
Notable worksAndhale Shatak
Moorkh Mhataryane
Tujhi Iyatta Kanchi?
Priya Darshini
Notable awardsPadma Shri award
Soviet Land Nehru Award
Maharashtra State Award
Golden Life Time Achievement
SpouseMalika Amar Sheikh
Namdeo Laxman Dhasal (15 February 1949 – 15 January 2014) was a Marathi poet, writer and Dalit activist from Maharashtra, India. He was awarded the Padma Shri in 1999[1] and a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Sahitya Akademi in 2004. In 2001, he made a presentation at the first Berlin International Literature Festival.[2]
Namdeo Dhasal was born in 1949, in a small village Pur in Khed taluk near Pune, India. He and his family moved to Mumbai when he was six. A member of the Mahar caste, he grew up in dire poverty.[2] He was a Buddhist by religion.[3]
Following the example of the American Black Panther movement, he founded the Dalit Panther with friends in 1972. This social movement worked and supported to reconstruction of society on the basis of fule shahu ambedkar movement .[2]
In 1972, he published his first volume of poetry, Golpitha. More poetry collections followed: Moorkh Mhataryane (By a Foolish Old Man) --inspired by Maoist thoughts--; Tujhi Iyatta Kanchi? (How Educated Are You?); erotic Khel; and Priya Darshini (about the former Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi).
Dhasal wrote two novels, and also published pamphlets such as Andhale Shatak (Century of Blindness) and Ambedkari Chalwal (Ambedkarite Movement), which was a reflection on the socialist and communist concepts of B. R. Ambedkar.
Later, he published two more collections of his poetry: Mi Marale Suryachya Rathache Sat Ghode (I Killed the Seven Horses of the Sun), and Tujhe Boat Dharoon Mi Chalalo Ahe (I'm Walking, Holding Your Finger).
Dhasal wrote columns for the Marathi daily Saamana. Earlier, he worked as an editor for the weekly Satyata.[4]
Dhasal was diagnosed with colon cancer and admitted for treatment in a Mumbai hospital in September 2013.
In 1982, cracks began to appear in the Panther movement. Ideological disputes gained the upper hand and eclipsed the common goal. Dhasal wanted to engender a mass movement and widen the term Dalit to include all oppressed people, but the majority of his comrades insisted on maintaining the exclusivity of their organization.
Serious illness and alcohol addiction of Dhasal overshadowed the following years, during which he wrote very little. In the 1990s, he once again became politically more active.
Dhasal held a national office in the Indian Republican Party, which was formed by the merger of all Dalit parties.
Literary style[edit]
The Dalit literature tradition is old, though the term was introduced only in 1958. Dhasal was greatly inspired by the work of Baburao Bagul, who employed photographic realism to draw attention to the circumstances which those deprived of their rights from birth have to endure. Dhasal's poems broke away from stylistic conventions. He included in his poetry many words and expressions which only the Dalits normally used. Thus, in Golpitha he adapted his language to that of the red light milieu, which shocked middle class readers.[citation needed]
The establishment's assessment of Dhasal's political, as opposed to his artistic achievements may differ drastically, but for the writer they are inextricably linked. In an interview in 1982 he said that if the aim of social struggles was the removal of unhappiness, then poetry was necessary because it expressed that happiness vividly and powerfully. Later he stated, "Poetry is politics." Dhasal adheres to this principle in his private life. He told the photographer Henning Stegmüller, "I enjoy discovering myself. I am happy when I am writing a poem, and I am happy when I am leading a protest of prostitutes fighting for their rights."[citation needed]
Arundhati Subrahmaniam describes his poetry thus: "Dhasal is a quintessentially Mumbai poet. Raw, raging, associative, almost carnal in its tactility, his poetry emerges from the underbelly of the city — its menacing, unplumbed netherworld. This is the world of pimps and smugglers, of crooks and petty politicians, of opium dens, brothels and beleaguered urban tenements."[5]
• Golpitha (1973)
• Tuhi Iyatta Kanchi (1981)
• Khel (1983)
• Moorkh Mhataryane dongar halvle
• Amchya itihasatil ek aprihary patra : Priya Darshini (1976)
• Ya Sattet Jiv Ramat Nahi (1995)
• Gandu Bagichha (1986)
• Mi Marale Suryachya Rathache Sat Ghode
• Tuze Boat Dharoon Mi Chalalo Ahe
Dilip Chitre translated a selection of Dhasal's poems into English under the title Namdeo Dhasal: Poet of the Underworld, Poems 1972–2006.[6][7]]
• Ambedkari Chalwal (1981)
• Andhale Shatak (1997)
• Hadki Hadavala
• Ujedachi Kali Dunia
• Sarva Kahi Samashtisathi
• Buddha Dharma: Kahi Shesh Prashna
Awards and honors[edit]
Following table shows list of awards won by Namdeo Dhasal.
Year Award For
1973 Maharashtra State Award for literature Literature
1974 Soviet Land Nehru Award Golpitha
1999 Padma Shri Literature
2004 Sahitya Akademi's Golden Life Time Achievement[8][9]
Personal life[edit]
Dhasal was married to Malika Amar Sheikh, the daughter of poet Amar Sheikh. Ashutosh is Dhasal's son.
Dhasal died of colorectal cancer at Bombay Hospital on 15 January 2014.[10]
2. ^ a b c "Voice of the oppressed". 7 February 2014. Archived from the original on 3 February 2014. Retrieved 11 June 2014.
3. ^ De, Ranjit Kumar; Shastree, Uttara (4 October 1996). "Religious Converts in India: Socio-political Study of Neo-Buddhists". Mittal Publications – via Google Books.
4. ^ "International Literature Festival website – Namdeo Dhasal".
5. ^ Subrahmaniam, Arundhati (1 December 2007). "Namdeo Dhasal (India, 1949)". Poetry International. Retrieved 2017-07-25.
6. ^ "Namdeo Dhasal".
7. ^ Chitre, D. (tr.) (2006) Namdeo Dhasal: Poet of the Underworld, Poems 1972–2006, Navayana Publishing, New Delhi ISBN 81-89059-10-6
8. ^ 1 November 2004 Sahitya Akademi website.
9. ^ Namdeo Dhasal, a special Sahitya Akademi Golden Jubilee award The Hub -Tehelka, 23 October 2004.
10. ^ "Marathi poet Namdeo Dhasal dead". The Hindu. 16 January 2014. Retrieved 11 June 2014.
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Setting up a new Project in Hockey
New App
App Upload Dialog
Create App Form
Users Tab
Select Team
Select Vokal
Confirm Addition
Setting up Travis or Drone for submission
When setting up Drone/Travis for submission, have the developer create an API key that only allows
upload for that specific project. This way outside access to the API and projects are minimized. While
this mitigates risk if an API key gets out in the wild, it is still important to NOT commit the key
with your project.
Team Management
All Vokal employees should be added to the Vokal team. This team is granted access to all of our apps. This simplifies HockeyApp management, since we don't have to create and manage an internal team for each client project.
Owners get elevated permissions in HockeyApp. All senior developers and directors should have owner-level access, so that they can create new apps as necessary and add new people to project teams.
There are a couple places that owners appear in Hockey, which can be misleading. The Vokal Owners team appears in the Teams tab and lists the owners, but you need to go into the organization managemenet to grant full access to users. Visit the Owners tabs in the organization settings to add new owners or edit existing ones. All owners should have Add to all apps automatically and Give access to all teams checked. Otherwise, they will only see the teams and apps to which they are added individually (or through team membership), which means they cannot add new people to project teams they aren't already a part of.
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welcome to this Christian website
Pastor Ernest Anderson
‘To be like Jesus, is to be your goal and great ambition,
It is to be your inward drive and constant motivation.
By His grace, love and power divine,
This will surely become thine.”
Character Production
Christ is committed not only in saving but making and using you for His glory. His grace and favour seeks to create and cultivate His likeness in you: humility is a quality factor that eliminates pride and is valued by heaven. It was and is paramount in Christ and is to be unique in you. “Let this attitude be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus, which was also in Christ Jesus. Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God: but made Himself of not reputation . . . .” – Phil 2: 5-7. He who was somebody became nobody to make those who were nothing something of worth and quality! The grace of His humility is to be known and seen in us!
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Developments in basic science research. Highlights of the 11th Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections, February 8-11, 2004, San Francisco, California, USA
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Program in Molecular Medicine
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HIV Infections; HIV-1; Humans; Research; Virus Replication
Life Sciences | Medicine and Health Sciences
As with last year's meeting, perhaps the greatest emphasis in the basic science categories was in the area of cellular cofactors that influence HIV-1 replication either positively or negatively. A number of presentations provided detailed insight into the mechanism by which APOBEC 3G, the cellular target of Vif, effects its antiviral activity. The surprising thing is that this antiviral activity is not restricted to primate lentiviruses but is active against retroviruses and even hepatitis viruses. In the area of positive-acting cellular cofactors, the emphasis was on those cellular proteins that facilitate egress of the virus from the infected cell. It is now apparent that viruses such as HIV-1 can bud into cytoplasmic vesicles in order to establish a unique intracellular reservoir. How viruses move between cells was also the focus of several presentations at the meeting, and there were further surprises about the mechanism by which HIV-1 may establish latent infection.
Top HIV Med. 2004 Mar-Apr;12(1):4-7.
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Viruses can be surprisingly elegant things. While some, such as CMV, contain as much genetic material as some bacteria, others have the bare minimum to be able to enter a cell and reproduce. It's tempting to think of viruses as incredibly cunning organisms - in fact, it's probably more accurate to think of them as a self-sustaining chemical reaction which happens to involve animal cells. Viruses don't think, yet are capable of defeating a highly evolved immune system and everything modern science can throw at them. I find them both terrifying and strangely attractive. See prions for the logical continuation of simplifying infective bodies, and become somewhat concerned.
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What do you have in your hands?
Of late I’ve been confronted over and over again, in conversations and through circumstances, by a simple question: What do I have in my hands?
At the turn of a new year, I often fall into the trap of dreaming up some grand plan to change the world, a plan that would require the gathering of vast resources and a grand following. That doesn’t seem likely to happen any time soon! And as I’ve thought about it, most of the grand deeds done in the history of the world started with a person taking what they had in their hands and putting it to work to meet some immediate need.
So what do you have in your hands? Is it a stack of old boards that could be made into something? Is it some space out back that could be cultivated to grow food for someone who’s hungry? Is it a box of old garden seeds that need to be planted? Is it a cupboard full of flour that should be baked into bread? Is it some sort of message from Above that needs to be well stated so others can hear it? Is it a pile of old newspapers in your grandparents basement? Or is it all the old woodworking tools buried beneath the papers? Is it a pick-up truck or van that can carry lots of stuff? Is it an empty room that could provide shelter to a traveler? Is it a box filled with old blankets or clothes that could be put to good use? Is it that old sewing machine and boxes of fabric? Is it some sort of knowledge or skill that could be taught to another, who could, in turn, pass it on?
So what do you have in your hands? What has God put in your hands?
Grandfather’s Last Garden
Over the years since my grandfather’s death, I’ve sometimes wished I could have been there to harvest his last garden. After retirement, my grandfather became an avid vegetable gardener, supplying all the vegetables he and my grandmother would need for the coming year, plus many of the vegetables his extended family and neighbors needed all summer, too. He died one summer not long after planting his garden, and as the harvest season came on, the weeds grew and much of the fruit went unharvested. I remember hearing how my cousins went and gathered some of the produce, and I had wished I could have been there to help. On our summer visits as children, we had often helped in the harvest and preparation of the produce for canning and freezing. Hours of picking, sorting, cleaning, and blanching made for some great times.
In the end, my grandfather planted more than just vegetables in that garden. He also planted in his children and grandchildren a passion for planting and growing things. He planted a willingness to work hard and to enjoy working together. And though a man with a somewhat gruff demeanor, he planted a spirit of kindness and generosity in those who watched him quietly deliver boxes of produce around town. He planted a sense of affirmation in his grandchildren as he found ways to include them in the work, despite its inefficiencies. He planted a sense of joy in seeing how our sweat and effort could mingle with the miracles of the Earthmaker to bring amazing gifts to share at the table. He planted a joy of heathly food and our value of a lively and bustling kitchen.
I now stand at a point in my life where I wonder whether the garden I planted this spring might be my last. As I look at that garden, I see in it many good things growing, along with some weeds. I see some plants that require a good bit of painful pruning each year—the blackberries in particular. My hope is that I will continue to have opportunities to plant, but there is no guarantee. It makes me wonder if I’ve planted well enough in the lives of my children, my wife and other family members, my friends. And I worry that perhaps I have allowed weeds to be planted and not dealt with them quickly enough to keep them from spreading seeds that others will have to deal with. When I’m done, I want to leave a garden behind me growing with many good things and with limited liabilities.
The Hebrew Scriptures present a good bit of wisdom about good planting in the lives of those we love. One famous passage in this regard is known as the Shema, and it reminds us to plant the Scriptures in our own hearts and the hearts of the people close to us, sometimes leaving reminders around the house so we don’t forget the important things.
Jesus identified this great command to love God above all else, along with loving our neighbors as ourselves, as the most important things to remember and live out. By planting these truths in the lives and hearts of our children and families, we can at least make a start at good planting. And as I think about it, this is some of what my grandfather accomplished through his garden.
Garden Tip: Plant for the people in your life, not just for yourself. In my early days a vegetable gardener, I often took a lot of space planting things that only I enjoyed eating. The result was always a lot of wasted produce. I’ve since learned to keep it simpler, planting mostly things that everyone in my life will enjoy. There is great joy to be found in sharing the garden’s gifts with others—a juicy, sweet tomato, some green beans and kale, or a basket of peaches. I’m sure that’s what my grandfather discovered, and I’m glad he passed it on to me.
(Job 12:7)
If you happen to be near a marshland or waterway in the British Isles or northern Europe in an evening during fall or winter, you may witness a remarkable sight. Early on you may see small flocks of dark-colored birds, starlings to be exact, flying about in the late afternoon sun. But then the smaller flocks come together and join into larger and larger gatherings, until they swell into a single cloud and begin to flow as one, roiling in the sky in astounding, unpredictable, yet beautiful patterns. It can hardly be described—like a living, shape-shifting creature, flowing, dancing to an unheard symphony. As the cloud of birds moves near, a murmuring rush tickles the ear as thousands of feathered wings brush the air. This is truly a wonder to experience, even if only through a video. (Here’s another fun one that recently went viral on the Web.)
Scientists have struggled to understand this phenomenon. We know that starlings gather in larger groups in the cold months, probably to benefit from the warmth of numbers. Sometimes flocks can swell to over a million birds. They truly are a communal creature, following systematic feeding patterns that ensure everyone gets a turn to forage for insects in fresh ground. Perhaps their evening flights help to generate the additional warmth they need to make it through the colder nights. The large winter gatherings of starlings certainly make the spectacular aerial displays possible, since a large flock is needed to really catch the eye. But none of this explains how all the individuals in a flock fly in such a precise synchronized flow, without any predictable or learned pattern. It is as if they fly and think as a single entity.
To watch a flock of starlings in the flow of a murmuration makes one wonder if they aren’t actually governed by a singular mind or perhaps a directive voice. Make a search of starling murmuration videos on the Web, and you will discover that the videographers couldn’t resist mixing music into their videos. Everyone seems to sense that the birds are flying to a divine symphony just out of human earshot. As you watch, it’s hard to avoid that thought.
So how does it happen? Mathematical analysis of flock dynamics in videos has shown that each starling’s movement is somehow influenced by the movement of all the others. It’s as if they are all tuned in to the same frequency. They adjust almost instantaneously to the movements of the others with regard to both speed and direction. The shift of one bird results in the immediate shift of the entire group. The more closely scientists have studied this, the more intrigued they have become.
Physicists see profound similarities between the starlings’ movements and what is seen in other critical systems like crystal formation, avalanches, and ferromagnetism. They are systems poised on the brink of near-instantaneous transformation, but it is hard to know what pushes them over the brink. In a starling murmuration the moments of change happen in an almost continuous flow, making it especially interesting. In part, it could have to do with a group survival instinct, enabling them to evade predators like falcons. But again, this doesn’t explain how they do it. The ability of the individuals to instantaneously correlate their movements to all the others just isn’t known.
It gives a hint that birds and other creatures are sometimes gifted with perceptions and other abilities that we humans just don’t have. And when their particular communal gift is on display, it shines a light on the Creator who gave the gift and inspired its use. Awe-inspiring events in the world of nature often point to something bigger behind them. The study of astronomy has long inspired such awe and points to something greater. David, the ancient psalmist of Israel, put it in a memorable way:
The heavens point to their Creator. So do other remarkable events in nature, and special gifts and events in and among people. The experience of some communal worship events can at times carry this sort of weight. I recall once a musical gathering I attended where the final song was a prayer of praise. As the song concluded, a Spirit-inspired whispering arose among the audience—softly-spoken prayers that took on a sound not unlike that of a starling murmuration. It rose to a climax, and then slowly quietened into a joyous and peaceful silence. No one wanted to leave, or even move, for that matter.
As I watch the starlings in their communal aerial dance, and hear the whisper of their wings, it inspires in me a prayer of praise. It points me to the Earth-maker, whom I sense created many things with a grand smile, and with the intent that we enjoy them together. It also gives me a good shot of humility, as I watch the greatest of human minds trying to explain it all, but without much success. Some things will likely remain always happily “beyond us.” An amazing event that may initially bring a furrow to my brow, in the end invariably brings a shrug to my shoulders, a shake to my head, and a smile to my face. And it keeps me always listening for the divine symphony swelling up in the silence behind it all.
Gardening Tip: Most gardeners view a flock of starlings as an unwanted challenge, since their large numbers can lead to a fair amount of destruction and disruption. (Thankfully, they tend to prefer wooded marsh lands when they are in large gatherings, and don’t usually pose too much of a problem. They also do most of their gathering during the cold months when the garden is asleep anyway.)
Many other bird species, however, can be a wonderful addition to any garden, especially song birds. Here are a few hospitable things you might do to welcome them into your space:
• Add some sort of water feature like a bird bath, a trickling fountain, or even a pond (if you’re adventurous). Birds need a water source, and if they can be sure to find it in your garden, they will come.
• Plant native plants that provide birds with food, including native grasses and flowers with seed heads, and fruiting shrubs and berry brambles.
• Plant sheltering shrubs and trees to keep protect the smaller birds from predators and to give them good nesting places.
• Add a few nesting boxes for birds common to your area. Specifications for these can quickly be found in books at your local library or by a Web search. (Various bird species are drawn to boxes of different sorts.)
• Put out some bird feeders in locations where you can easily watch them. It can be quite entertaining—and sometimes enlightening!
“Just ask the animals, and they will teach you.”
(Job 12:7)
I suspect most of us have felt like a worm at one time or another.
In one of his lower moments, King David of Israel wrote, “My God, my God, why have you abandoned me? Why are you so far away when I groan for help? Every day I call to you, my God, but you do not answer. Every night you hear my voice, but I find no relief. . . . But I am a worm and not a man. I am scorned and despised by all!” (Psalm 22:1-2, 6, NLT).
Centuries later, the first words of this passage were spoken by the Messiah himself as he hung on the cross, rejected by people and “forsaken” by His heavenly Father for the burden of sin He carried. Even Jesus had His low days—perhaps one of His most important days being the very lowest.
Bildad, one of the friends of Job, echoed David’s thought in a more general way: “In comparison [to God], people are maggots; we mortals are mere worms” (Job 25:6, NLT). Though Bildad’s wisdom might be questioned on some points, what he says in this case is hard to argue with. People who think too highly of themselves probably don’t see things very clearly.
As a gardener, I’ve come to think that being like a worm, though perhaps tough on my ego, isn’t all bad. It may even be essential to my spiritual growth and a necessary part of me becoming a positive force in the communities I’m a part of. Time spent feeling like a worm isn’t necessarily time wasted.
As I work the soil in my garden, it makes me happy when I see it alive with wiggling earthworms. Worms are a good indicator of the health of garden soil and sign of freedom from pesticide pollution. Worms are essential members of the soil-building community, breaking down organic matter to a refined form, gathering minerals from deeper layers, then mixing these together and spreading them, all the while aerating compacted soils.
Earthworms travel through the soil by muscular contractions that alternately shorten and lengthen the body. This digging action is aided by tiny bristles (setae) that strategically anchor parts of its body as it lengthens and shortens, allowing it to gain traction and move forward. The burrowing process is also lubricated by the secretion of mucus, the reason why healthy earthworms are so slimy to the touch. As they move around and do their thing, earthworms work to improve the soil on biological, chemical, and physical levels.
Many species of earthworms feed on humus on the soil surface and carry it down to lower levels, enriching the soil with digested organic matter. Their biological work involves eating, digesting, and spreading humus throughout the soil. This creates a rich environment for countless other microorganisms to live and do their work of providing micro-nutrients to plants. The high level of organic content also allows the soil to better hold moisture, another necessary ingredient to an environment healthy for the living microorganisms.
Worms also alter the chemical make-up of the soil by ingesting minerals from deeper layers, normally as small stones. Tiny fragments of grit in a worm’s gizzard grind these stones into a fine mineral paste, ready to feed plants. The worms often mix these minerals with humus in their digestive system, thus leaving castings rich in both humus and nutrient minerals.
As worms alter the biological and chemical make-up of the soil, they are also altering the soil physically. By burrowing in the soil, especially through existing tunnels, worms force air down into the soil, oxygenating it to deeper levels, thus adding another element needed for most organic life. The passageways they create also allow water to flow down to deeper levels, aiding in the soil’s ability to absorb and retain water. These tunnels also soften and lighten compacted soils, allowing roots to grow more easily.
Since a high level of organic matter is essential for fertile soil, an abundance of earthworms is essential for any gardener, especially those who take an organic approach. Any healthy organic soil is filled with these humble creatures. One of the troubles with the industrial farming practices so prevalent in our day, including the use of chemical fertilizers and pesticides, is that they kill off the earthworms and other organic life that sustain a healthy soil. As the soil becomes sick, farmers tend to use more and more chemical solutions, which over time ruin the earth so essential to their livelihood and ours.
The work of earthworms is going on constantly, but most of us are blind to their amazing, life-giving activity. Oh, that more of us were like them! It seems a human trait, perhaps a reflection of our fallen nature, to want praise and compensation for all we do. Most don’t choose to work unless they get something directly for their effort. But all of us have heard of, or perhaps had the privilege of knowing, that rare person who goes against the trend, who serves quietly and selflessly in the background. Often it is only in their passing that we discover all they were doing to help others and transform their communities. And when they are gone, they are greatly missed, even though few even know their names.
Jesus talked a great deal about this sort of person—it is the sort of person he calls us all to be. And though he held the power of the universe in his hands, he demonstrated quiet service throughout his life. The evening before his death, he demonstrated this truth in a most memorable way.
After washing their feet, he put on his robe again and sat down and asked, “Do you understand what I was doing? You call me ‘Teacher’ and ‘Lord,’ and you are right, because that is who I am. And since I, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you ought to wash each other’s feet. I have given you an example to follow. Do as I have done to you. I tell you the truth, slaves are not greater than their master. Nor is the messenger more important than the one who sends the message. Now that you know these things, God will bless you for doing them.” (John 13:3-5, 12-17, NLT)
So is being like a worm really so bad? Our very lives depend on such people, just as we depend on the worms! We need to open our eyes and hearts to the good things going on behind the scenes and beneath our feet. We need to find places and opportunities to serve others in transformative ways, whether we are ever recognized for them or not. The health and life of our friends, families, and communities depend upon it.
Garden Tip: Look for ways to encourage the presence of earthworms in your garden soil. This will certainly involve adding organic matter in the form of compost. Start a compost pile to recycle your leaves and other yard waste and then spread it for your plants—and for the worms. Their activity will, in turn, feed and improve your soil in multiple ways. And the enriched soil will feed your plants, which will then feed you! Also be careful not to add things to your soil that will hurt the earthworms, including chemical fertilizers and pesticides. Look for organic solutions that encourage a living soil.
As you find ways to protect and delight in earthworms, also (as strange as it might sound!) look for ways you might be more like them as a life-sustaining force in the places you find yourself.
Boxes and Other Frail Vessels
Boxes intrigue me. Just watch the eyes of a child when given access to a box, especially the large sort made for a kitchen appliance. What is it about such a box? Is it that the space set off by its walls becomes something small enough to be manageable for a small person? It’s no longer the vast stretch between the child and eternity. It’s something that can be arranged, made cozy. Or is it because the space within it has now become somehow special—set apart. And by being set apart, it somehow becomes sacred, imbued with mystery. Perhaps it involves something of both.
A definition of sacred or holy space is quite particularly “space set apart.” The Hebrew term for holiness points to this very thing—something being set apart or unique, as opposed to everyday or mundane. In Scripture, it is one of the primary ideas for describing God. He is separate and completely unique—wholly other. He is apart from and above all His creation, so nothing in creation is truly worthy of representing Him, only able offer hints about Him. He is also completely separated from all that is broken and twisted by sin. When He calls us to be holy, He wants us to be different from most of the people in our world—transformed.
In recent years I have inadvertently become a box maker. It all began with making small wooden chests for my sons as they came of age. These were designed, in part, to contain (in a secret compartment) the words of wisdom and objects of remembrance given to them by family and friends. Then came the bird houses (boxes, at least of a sort), seed boxes, prayer boxes, tea boxes, potato boxes, and recipe boxes, mostly for gifts. These are mostly made from wood that would otherwise have been discarded or burned, a reminder to me of God’s work of redemption in our own lives. Most of the boxes have messages burned or decoupaged into them—words from Scripture or other wise sayings. Some also contain prompts for prayer, Scripture reading, and meaningful conversation.
While making these, there has been time for me to reflect on what a box is. And the more I’ve thought about it, the more joy I’ve taken in the work. It is one of those activities for me in which I feel God’s pleasure. Though these boxes can sometimes be beautiful in their own way, they are not really about themselves. They are much more about what they are meant to hold, or what they signify or point to. Boxes by their very nature point to something other than themselves.
In ancient Israel, God prescribed the creation of sacred space to help signify His presence among His people. In the Tabernacle, the interior space was set apart from regular space by a special frame and wall coverings of leather and fabric. In the Temple, the space was set apart by heavy stone and cedar-beam walls. Both of these spaces were highly decorated with embroidered and carved ornamentation, and much gold, silver, and bronze. These places were not designed to be worshiped, but to point to the one true God and to inspire worship of Him.
One of the most striking objects of this sort in ancient Israel was the Ark of the Covenant—a box of acacia wood covered by gold, signifying God’s presence. It is interesting that God used a box to signify His presence. In a world filled with idolatry, all the nations surrounding Israel had their idols—small hand-made objects that represented their gods. But the Lord had forbidden His people to make any images of Himself. Instead God instructed His people to make a box to help them visualize His presence.
As said above, boxes by their nature aren’t really about themselves. They are designed to create a space for something else, to signify and protect their contents. The very creation of the box holds up the contents as something special, set apart—sacred. The Ark of the Covenant signified the very presence of God—in a sense it was His throne—and became a means for inspiring faith among God’s people. And it contained items that helped the people remember truths they needed to hold on to: the stone tablets with God’s laws on them, Aaron’s sprouting rod as a reminder of the priests’ authority, and some manna to remind the people of God’s miraculous provision of food.
In the New Testament, a vast shift takes place. Jesus speaks of it in John 4, when the woman at Jacob’s well asked if it was important for Samaritans to go to the Jerusalem Temple to worship. Jesus told of a new era when true worship would have nothing to do with the Jerusalem Temple, but would be a matter of worshiping in Spirit and truth. Instead of a place or box to signify God’s presence with His people, God had sent His own Son to be Emmanuel—“God with us.” And when Jesus finished His work and ascended to heaven, God’s very Spirit came to indwell His people—His presence actually resides within us.
We as individuals and as communities of faith became the sacred spaces in which God Himself dwells, and it is through us that He makes Himself concretely present in this world. So we have become the sacred (though frail) vessels that carry God’s presence to a broken world.
“We now have this light shining in our hearts, but we ourselves are like fragile clay jars containing this great treasure. This makes it clear that our great power is from God, not from ourselves.” (2 Corinthians 4:7, NLT)
We are fragile vessels for a wonderful and overwhelming presence. We are God’s boxes, signifying and carrying His presence to the dark places in the world. As Jesus was when He walked this earth, we also are to be. An overwhelming task? It can feel that way, but it is important to remember that we are just the vessels, just the ones pointing to the true power. It’s all about God, not the vessels that signify Him.
Our weaknesses in the end just do more to point to God’s adequacy. The apostle Paul reflected on this when he said:
Garden Tip: Construct a seed box to contain and organize your garden seeds. It doesn’t have to be fancy, and the wood doesn’t need to be expensive. You can make a nice wooden box with just about any old scraps. If you do, it will be a reminder to you of how God often uses “cast offs” to do His miracles. It is this sort of redemption that God accomplishes in our lives.
Seed Boxes
Design your seed box to signify the gift of life and God’s power to create and sustain it. Let it remind you that the seeds inside, once planted, have the potential to grow into beautiful and nutritious gifts from God. Remember that the seeds are evidence of the power of God and the fact that He chooses to work with us, in us, through us to accomplish His miracles.
If you are set up to do so, make two or three boxes at a time, and share them with others. Burn or router names on your gifts to personalize them. The back of these two seed boxes have these words burned into them: IN EACH SEED IS A UNIVERSE HURLED. It is a reminder of the amazing miracle of life that God has rolled up in each seed, and that He has called us to participate in His work as planters. It also reminds us that wonders and miracles are so often bound up within what we so often mistake for merely ordinary or mundane.
(Job 12:7)
As spring comes to central North America and the migratory birds begin to return, some bright days are punctuated with loud cries in the heavens. If you look around for the source, it can be hard to pinpoint. Just keep looking up, then yet again, higher. Above where you’d expect it, you will likely see small specks in the sky, flying in formation. Sometimes groups join and begin to swirl together, before breaking off again and heading north, all along calling their plaintive cries. This is the migration of Sandhill Cranes.
They look small from a distance, but when on the ground, they stand as tall as 3 to 4 feet, with a wingspan of 6 to 8 feet. Sandhill Cranes are skilled soaring birds, their long sweeping wings ideal for catching rising air. Utilizing thermals to obtain lift, they can soar for hours with only occasional wing flapping. With their bulk, these large birds would not get far at all if everything depended on the flapping of their wings.
During their migrations, Sandhill Cranes often stop over in wetlands for the night. As the sun rises, they can be seen standing in the morning mists, awaiting the sun’s magic. As the sun rises and shines, the dark soil absorbs its energy and, in turn, warms the nearby air. As the air warms, it grows lighter and begins to rise into the colder, denser air above. The cranes sense the lift and with a few wing flaps rise high enough to catch the rising currents. They begin to circle upward by the hundreds, marking the normally invisible rising air columns with their noisy presence.
Many smaller birds fly primarily on on wing power. If you watch Swallows or Swifts flitting in and out of the shadows in search of mosquitoes, their agile movements are driven by quick movements of their wings and tails. Sparrows and Finches flap around among the shrubs and peck around on the ground for seeds. Hummingbirds demonstrate the ultimate in wing-powered flight, their wings moving so fast that the wings disappear from sight. But there is a downside for these smaller birds. Flight for them takes a great deal of energy. If a hummingbird fails to find nectar on a regular basis, it soon runs out of energy and starves to death.
But there are birds that mostly just ride the wind, catching the thermals that rise as the morning sun heats the air, or riding the currents that ride up cliffs from a warmer valley floor below. Among these are the large migratory birds like storks and cranes, who can often be seen standing in a misty wetland watching for the sun to arrive and stir up rising currents. Hawks and eagles often ride the currents along cliffs, hanging motionless in the air watching for small animals or birds below. As they hang motionless, a small twitch of wings and tail, and they drift away at astounding speeds. Sometimes they close their wings and thunder earthward like a bolt of lightning, then gently rise again with spread wings, clutching dinner in their claws.
The ultimate in soaring are probably the scavengers, like vultures, whose wings sweep backward and upward to take maximum advantage of the wind’s upward lift. Unlike other avian raptors, like hawks and eagles, that often dive to catch their food and have to use more flapping to power their agile movements, the vultures rise high to look around and when they find food, they slowly circle down to gather around and take their turn at a carcass. These are some of the ugliest birds on the planet—that is, until they catch a breeze and glide away with utter and astounding grace.
The prophet Isaiah had watched these soaring birds and used them to describe a person of faith:
The Hebrew term translated as “eagle” in this passage is thought by many scholars to more likely refer to the Griffon Vulture. The Griffon Vulture (also known as the Great Vulture) is a large scavenging bird, very common in Palestine and much of the Mediterranean world. Most translators shy away from rendering the term “vulture,” probably because it doesn’t create an inspiring picture to the mind’s eye. But the Griffon Vulture, like all vultures, is a wonderful and stately glider.
The strength Isaiah promised wasn’t mostly a strength to enable us to flap harder and longer. Lift comes to a soaring bird, not from wing strength but from wind strength. They just need to know how to read the winds and how to utilize their wings, a gift they all have from God. The same is true of us. Strength comes to those who trust God for strength when all their own strength is gone. When we are weary of body and spirit, it is a matter of catching the divine and holy wind. There are often times when there is just no strength left in us to give. All we can do is raise our wings and hope.
The apostle Paul begged to be released from an unidentified weakness, but the response he heard from the Lord was this: “My grace is all you need. My power works best in weakness.” (2 Corinthians 12:9, NLT) The same answer is there for us.
Wilderness Tip: Look up into the sky. No matter where you live, there are surprises lurking, along with reminders of truth. During seasons of migration, you may see cranes and geese flying in formation, knowing where they need to go to survive, cooperating with each other to make the journey as easy as possible. You may see flocks of small birds gathering to migrate together toward warmer air and live food sources. You may see a large, lonely soaring bird with swept-back wings, probably a turkey vulture or some other scavenger, riding the winds to unspeakable heights, searching for the next mess to clean up. Or perhaps you see the flapping outline of a Raven, looking for just about any source of food. Have you seen any of these things lately? They are there, even in urban areas, on a daily basis. Open your eyes; lift them to the heavens; smile at the wonders God has made.
And remember to study the ways of the holy wind of God’s Spirit; Scripture reveals a good deal about Him. Then learn to lift your spiritual wings so He can carry you to places you probably have not even imagined. He knows where He wants you to be. If you are willing to study the wind currents and take some practice flights, you will soon be riding the winds. You, too, will be soaring.
“Speak to the earth, and it will instruct you.”
(Job 12:8)
As the air warms, the days lengthen, the soil softens, and birds sing to the sunrise, a thought starts to haunt any gardener’s mind: planting. Then plans start to form; garden beds are populated, at least on paper; seeds are purchased. Then the soil is turned and weeded. Self-seeding volunteers like cilantro, kale, lettuce, and nasturtiums are moved somewhere safe to take advantage of their early start. Then the seeds go in the ground, some earlier than others, depending on the hardiness of the plants. Peas go in early, along with some lettuces and greens, onions, and hardy herbs. Then beans and root crops like beets, parsnips, carrots, potatoes. And last, the tropicals like tomatoes, peppers, and basil—probably as plants.
God was the first planter, and He planted with His words. He spoke, . . . and plants of all sorts sprang from the ground. But He made the plants so they would produce seeds that when planted could reproduce plants of like kind. Then God made people “in his image” to tend the garden, to continue the work of caring for the creation He had made. But tending the garden always remained a cooperative venture. The people could plant the seed and prepare the soil, but then they had to leave the rest in God’s hands.
Preparing the soil and planting seed is a human act, but it’s an act of faith that requires for success an endorsement from heaven. It’s an act that inherently recognizes our dependence on God and His miracles—miracles of synergy in ecosystems, of chemistry and genetics, of wind and sun and rain. So planting is an act of dependence. (It’s not like building a car, which is more like a declaration of independence!)
The same is true when we plant other sorts of seeds in people’s lives through our words and deeds—seeds like faith, hope, and love. The apostle Paul used the planting of a garden as an illustration for our work in the community of faith.
Words are powerful things, especially the words of God. In the beginning, God spoke and the heavens and earth came into being, light poured in to obliterate darkness, and the waters separated from the land. At God’s word plants sprang up to cover the earth, then fish and birds and animals all came to be. Then God formed a man from the ground and breathed life into him. God made humans in his image, which meant, among other things, that they too could speak words and continue God’s work. One of the first assignments given the man was that of naming the animals—to use words to lay his governorship over the animals and to grant them identity. Giving a name, like speaking any word, can be a powerful thing.
We know the power of words from experience. We have experienced their healing power, along with their devastating effects, on almost any given day. God’s words are the most powerful of all. We have been called upon to plant them in our own hearts and in the hearts of those around us. The prophet Isaiah spoke of the power of God’s words. Like seed, they are to be planted and God will help them grow to bear fruit in people’s lives.
Jesus told a number of stories about the planting of seeds. The best known of these stories tells how God is in the business of planting His life-changing truth—His Good News—in people’s hearts.
Many of the seeds grew, matured, and multiplied, but some failed to mature and reproduce. We all understand this from the garden. We know about that back corner that remains mostly clay despite our best efforts to improve it. We all know how quickly weeds spring up to choke out a crop. And we’ve chased away pesky sparrows scratching for seed in a freshly planted bed, or robins pulling sprouting beans after mistaking them for worms.
And we have watched the same happen in our hearts. God’s words sometimes take root, but often distractions, weariness, and the evil one get in the way. So in celebration of the planting season, let’s look at a string of Scriptures that focus on seeds and planting. Let them sink into the soft, fertile soil of your heart, in hopes that something good will grow there. God is certainly interested and able to make seeds grow. We see it in the garden every spring. Perhaps some of these words will plant just what you need in your heart today.
“The seeds of good deeds become a tree of life; a wise person wins friends.” (Proverbs 11:30, NLT)
“A troublemaker plants seeds of strife; gossip separates the best of friends.” (Proverbs 16:28)
Garden Tip: Planting is an act of faith, an act that demonstrates our dependence on the Creator and Sustainer of all things. God is in the business of doing miracles with the seeds we plant. We can’t do the miracles by ourselves. As you plant the seeds in your garden this spring, reflect on how you might plant good things in the lives of your spouse, your children, your coworkers, and your neighbors. Let this planter’s prayer (taken from the peace prayer of Saint Francis) guide your thinking about the ways. Then depend on God for the miracles.
A Planter’s Prayer
Lord, make me an instrument of your peace.
Where there is hatred, let me plant love.
Where there is injury, let me plant pardon.
Where there is doubt, let me plant faith.
Where there is despair, let me plant hope.
Where there is darkness, let me plant light.
Where there is sadness, let me plant joy.
—Francis of Assisi
On Ravens
Job 12:7
As the Israelites wandered in the wilderness after their Exodus from Egypt, God provided a substance they called manna (which means in Hebrew “What is it?”) for them to eat each day (Exodus 16). The people were to gather just enough to feed their families for one day, and no more. If extra was gathered to be saved for the next day, they would find it rotten and maggot-ridden the next morning. But on Friday, the people were allowed to gather enough for two days so they would have enough for the Sabbath. And on the Sabbath day, the extra manna remained good to eat. The people of Israel ate the manna this way for the forty years they wandered in the wilderness. Day by day, God was teaching them that he could provide for their needs, but they needed to trust him. They couldn’t gather extra and bank it for a future rainy day. It just didn’t work that way.
In western societies with stable economies, this flies in the face of conventional wisdom. Saving for the future is considered a virtue, a way of insuring against any troubles that might lie ahead. There is certainly some wisdom in this, but over time we tend to start thinking that we are in charge of our own fate, that we can buy insurance for any possible emergency. Detailed planning and incessant saving become a required hedge against some ever-looming disaster. And worry sets in, and then greed. The more we save, the more we fear that we might not have enough. So we turn inward and ignore neighbors in need of food and shelter, hiding away what most people in the world would consider a fortune. We forget that it all came from God in the first place, and that it all really belongs to Him.
We are also blind to the fact that many of our blessings are stolen from the backs of the poor. Cheap resources that feed wealthy economies are taken from poor nations at a fraction of their value, and the relatively little paid to purchase those resources is taken by a greedy elite. The hungry remain hungry; the thirsty draw water from pools of sewage; the naked find only rags to cover themselves; those sleeping in the rain may never see a roof overhead.
We are also blind to the truth that our self-sufficiency would never be possible in a nation overwhelmed by poverty and inflation. Saving money in such an environment only means it will be able to buy less tomorrow, as its value plummets on a daily basis. There is nothing solid to invest it in, except perhaps a tool or seed that might promise a little food in the future, . . . should the weather cooperate. In such places, spending money as soon as it comes is almost always the right choice. Trusting God for the needs of tomorrow is the only option.
And so Jesus tells us that the poor, the broken, the disenfranchised are the blessed ones (Matthew 5:1-12). They are the only ones who see how dependent they are on God’s provision. They are the ones who have a clear bead on the truth. Perhaps that is why the poor often live with less worry than the rich. They have learned the secrets of faith and dependency. (And they have nothing really to lose!)
Jesus expands on this theme in his reflections on a common bird—the raven.
The Hebrew Bible records a number of interesting accounts of ravens, making it little surprise that Jesus should use it in illustration. In the account of the great Flood, Noah released a raven to see if the waters had receded (Genesis 8:6-7). Unlike the dove, which returned to the boat, the raven flew about until the floodwaters dried up, probably by landing on floating carrion, something the dove would not do. (Due to its omnivorous nature, ravens are listed among the unclean birds in the Hebrew laws.)
Many centuries later, as the prophet Elijah hid from wicked Ahab and Jezebel in the wilderness near the Kerith Brook, the Lord sent ravens to feed him with bread and meat, presumably gleaned from a wealthy person’s table (1 Kings 17:2-6). And more than once elsewhere in Scripture, God is said to see the plight of ravens in need and to provide them with food (Job 38:41; Psalm 147:7-9).
Ravens have coexisted with humans for thousands of years and in some areas are so numerous that they are considered a pest. Part of the Raven’s success comes from its diverse diet, one of the most diverse of any bird. They are willing to eat just about anything available to them—from dead carrion, small animals, and insects to seeds, berries, and fruit, and, in populated areas, gleanings from people’s trash.
Ravens can be found everywhere on the globe. In ancient cultures around the world, ravens have been a popular subject of mythology and folklore. In many ancient cultures, including those of Scandinavia, Ireland, Wales, Siberia, and peoples of northwestern North America and northeast Asia, ravens were revered as spiritual figures or even gods. In many early Christian western traditions, ravens were considered to be an ill omen, probably mostly due to their all-black feathers, their visible intelligence and watchfulness, and the fact that they gather around carrion and are thus often associated with death.
Realizing how common and well-known ravens are, it should not be surprising that Jesus mentioned them in his teachings. He said:
“That is why I tell you not to worry about everyday life—whether you have enough food to eat or enough clothes to wear. Life is more than food, and your body more than clothing. Look at the ravens. They don’t plant or harvest or store food in barns, for God feeds them. And you are far more valuable to him than any birds!” (Luke 12:22-24, NLT)
Jesus wasn’t advocating a lazy lifestyle here, but was teaching the need to recognize our dependency on our heavenly Father. No matter how hard we work, we cannot succeed unless the work is undergirded by blessings from above. It is easy after years of hard work and success to begin to think that we have earned everything we have. But beyond our vision, there are many around the world who have worked just as hard, who are equally virtuous, but enjoy no such blessings. There is grace behind all the blessings we receive; we just aren’t privy to the many hidden events that have led to them. And many of the comforts we enjoy in the affluent nations of the west are quietly gained on the backs of hungry children, slaving away under squalid conditions.
So let the raven remind you of where all your blessings come from—from the hand of God. And let us all learn to be more like the ravens—or more like the Israelites as they gathered manna each day in the wilderness—facing the concerns of each day through the eyes of faith. And let that faith allow you to be generous with the wealth at your disposal. Your fortune, however small it might be, could be enough to save a life or to help a family discover the providence of God.
As it turns out, the Irish name Fiachra means “raven.” We don’t know why Saint Fiachra (for whom this site is named) was given his name. Perhaps it was because his hair was black like the feathers of a raven, or perhaps he had a hooked nose reminiscent of a raven’s beak. Perhaps his parents just liked the sound of it. We will never know for sure. But on other terms it is certainly appropriate, since Saint Fiachra was known for his hospitality to travelers, the sick, and the needy. Was it not ravens that were sent to wait on Elijah as he hid in the wilderness? And are not the ravens compared to the needy ones Fiachra once freely served at his table? And so Fiachra’s Hollow might also be called Raven’s Hollow—but without any of the negative connotations!
Let us end with a story from the Sayings of Desert Fathers. Abba Doulas, the disciple of Abba Bessarion, said:
When we were walking along the salt sea one day, I was thirsty, so I said to Abba Bessarion, “Abba, I am very thirsty.” Then the old man prayed and said to me, “Drink from the sea.” The water was sweet when I drank it. So I poured some water into a flask, so that I would not be thirsty later. Seeing this, the old man asked me, “Why are you doing that?” I answered, “Excuse me, but it’s so that I won’t be thirsty later on.” The the old man said, “God is here, and God is everywhere.”
Is it possible that people living in affluent societies have lost the art of living by faith? If we worry too much about tomorrow, will we not be blind to the needs of others around us today? Will we not often excuse ourselves from acting faithfully on behalf of Christ in the opportunities that constantly rise? And in the end, who is safer—those who spend their days worrying about how they will cover for any conceivable disaster, or those who entrust their lives into the hands of God with a life of faith and generosity?
Garden Tip: Growing food in the garden is even more satisfying when it is done with the goal of giving much of it away. I recall the final years of my grandfather, who planted a large garden in his retirement. He took great joy in leaving baskets of produce around town and providing for the families of his children. He had discovered a profound truth: “It is in giving that we receive.” Look for ways to share the gifts you receive from your garden, whether in food or in plant cuttings. And look for ways to give from your means until it hurts. It isn’t until we need to walk by faith that we are likely to discover the wonder of it.
And when you see a raven fly by (No matter where you are in the world, they are there!), remember not to worry, but to trust in God to provide for your needs. And demonstrate that trust by giving to others from what you do have.
Lenten Longings
“O come, O come, Emmanuel,
and ransom captive Israel,
that mourns in lowly exile here,
until the Son of God appears.
On Sparrows
Job 12:7
There are times when we feel invisible, when it doesn’t seem to matter whether we exist or not.
This was true for Hagar, the slave-wife of Abraham, who had run away into the wilderness, helpless and pregnant, without hope for the future. Sarah had given Hagar to Abraham as a surrogate to produce an heir, but when Hagar became pregnant, Sarah became jealous and by her harsh treatment drove Hagar away (Genesis 16). But the Lord saw Hagar in the wilderness and gave her the promise of many descendants through the child she was carrying. Hagar responded by giving the Lord a name: “The God Who Sees Me.” Nowhere else in Scripture does a person choose a name for God—only this exiled, lonely slave woman, who was in desperate need of help. And God—the Maker of all things—truly did see her.
Years later when Sarah had her own son (Isaac), Hagar and Ishmael were sent away into the wilderness (Genesis 21:8-22), this time never to return. Again, the Lord saw the outcasts and provided water and a promise of hope for their future. He reached out to Hagar there when she was invisible and had lost all hope. And to Hagar, the Lord was again, “The God Who Sees Me.”
Centuries later, the Jews who heard Jesus speak would have known the story of Hagar. But perhaps there were those among Jesus’ followers who needed a reminder that God was still the One who sees. Jesus used His observations of the common sparrow to illustrate the truth on this matter. As it happens, sparrows have a bad reputation and are often regarded of little worth, perhaps because they are so common, or perhaps because they have little claim to beauty—either in plumage or song. They can be found almost everywhere in the world and are numerous even in places where they aren’t native.
The hardiness of this bird is due mainly to its adaptability, both with regard to climate and diet. Sparrows are mainly seed-eaters, but they will actually eat just about anything—including insects, berries, fruit, or vegetables. They can survive in very cold climates, since their preferred food source is seeds, which (unlike insects and fruits) are unaffected by winter temperatures. Since sparrows reproduce quickly and are so numerous, they generally make a nuisance of themselves. Farmers, even today, often look for ways to slow their reproduction.
These negative feelings about sparrows make what Jesus says in relation to them even more striking:
Even in Jesus’ day, sparrows were considered of little worth. They could be bought in the market at two for a penny or five for two pennies. They were used by the poor then (and still today) as a food source, boiled with vegetables for at least a little meat in the soup.
If even the common sparrow is valued and seen by God, how much more must we be. He counts even the hairs on our heads. We can know that our Father in heaven sees us and loves us, and that we are valued. For those unable to think well of themselves, understanding this is at least a step in the right direction. Speak to your Father in heaven using a name that means something to you: “O Lord of heaven and earth—the God who sees me! Help me to rest in your care.”
Garden Tip: Set up a bird feeder in a place where it is easy to watch, and feed the birds. Watching these amazing creatures, winter or summer, can be a source of much delight. And no matter where you are in the world, you will almost certainly find a motley little bird with nondescript markings of brown, black, and white—the common sparrow. Take the words of Jesus to heart. You can be sure that your heavenly Father sees this little bird. And if He sees the sparrow, you can be certain that He sees you, too.
Peace on Earth
(Job 12:8)
From ancient times, the sea has been looked upon as a symbol of unruly power and chaos. Anyone who has experienced, in even a small way, the raw power of a stormy ocean will understand the association. Its raw force lies so beyond our capicity to control it that the only valid human response is of fear and awe. Nothing made by man can stand long against its destructive forces.
In ancient Near Eastern literature, the sea was believed to be governed by the god Yam (which is the semitic word for “sea”), the deity who embodied and ruled over the sea’s raging power. Yam’s kingdom was Tehom—the deep—the place of primordial chaos. Yam was closely associated with Lotan, the great seven-headed serpent or dragon that dwelt in the deep and embodied the forces of evil. All the ancient pagan cultures had gods of the sea, and all were thought to embody similar attributes. The ancient Greeks called this god Poseidon; the Romans embraced him as Neptune; the Vikings called him Aegir. This was the god of chaos, storms, shipwrecks, earthquakes, and tidal waves. He was unpredictable, unruly, and untamed, just the same as his kingdom.
The ancient Hebrews, who lived in this ancient semitic world, were called into the service of Yahweh, the God of all things. This was the Creator, who formed our world from the chaos of the deep. The Hebrew Scriptures begin the account of creation in this context:
From the chaos, God created a world that was good and beautiful, and He populated it with all His creatures, including humankind. The people He made were given charge over the other creatures, which would relate to people much as people should relate to God. But as the story progresses, the people reject the rule of God and begin to stir the waves of chaos in the world once again. They become as unruly and destructive as the primordial deep. In the time of Noah, God destroyed most of the human race for their destructive wickedness (ironically by using the chaotic forces of a great flood). But as Noah’s descendants spread on the earth, they turned once again to their own way, until even the unruly waves of the sea were better at following God’s instructions than they were. Even of God’s chosen people, the prophet Jeremiah said:
“Listen, you foolish and senseless people, with eyes that do not see and ears that do not hear. Have you no respect for me? Why don’t you tremble in my presence? I, the LORD, define the ocean’s sandy shoreline as an everlasting boundary that the waters cannot cross. The waves may toss and roar, but they can never pass the boundaries I set. But my people have stubborn and rebellious hearts. They have turned away and abandoned me.” (Jeremiah 5:21-23, NLT)
The human race, having embraced the path of selfish disobedience, have become the agents of chaos in the world, rather than God’s agents of peace and beauty. And since the beginning, God has been on a mission to restore the order of His creation by reaching out to the people He made, even at great personal cost. It was for this reason that the Christ was born, to live a life of goodness and ultimately sacrifice—so that the rift between God and His ruling creatures could be healed and His people could be transformed into His servants—His agents of peace.
With all this in mind, remember this account of Jesus on the Sea of Galilee:
The disciples were terrified and amazed. “Who is this man?” they asked each other. “When he gives a command, even the wind and waves obey him!” (Luke 8:22-25, NLT)
After seeing this astounding miracle, the disciples were overwhelmed and asked, “Who is this man?” They knew the power of the sea. They had heard stories about sea gods. They also knew that the God of all things, Yahweh, could draw the boundaries for the sea. They knew He could silence its rage in an instant. They knew the story of the prophet Jonah, who had set sail for a distant land in disobedience of God’s call. God sent a raging storm to swamp Jonah’s boat, but when Jonah was thrown into the water, the sea immediately went still at God’s command.
Who is this Jesus? It is a question we all must ask. Perhaps you doubt the stories written about Him. But have you ever taken the time to look closely? If we come to see Him clearly, as the Creator of all things, the One who stirs up storms and quiets them with a word, the only honest response to Him is jaw-dropping awe. This is the One we celebrate at Christmas.
The Baby is born in Bethlehem.
Universe-Spinner spun.
Galaxy-Weaver woven.
Earth-Maker formed.
Storm-Stiller come.
Creation-Healer now with us.
The Child is born in Bethlehem.
Garden Tip: Though this may not pertain to your personal garden, it does relate to God’s garden—the world in which we live. Open your eyes to the power of a storm. Walk in it; stand it it; raise your fist to it if you must. The storm is in God’s hands, and so are you. The storm must always do God’s bidding. But He has granted you freedom—freedom to participate in His work of bringing peace and beauty to the world, or to rage against His order as an agent of chaos. It is your choice to make. He is on a mission to recreate what has been broken. He is calling you to join with Him in the work of His garden. What will you do with this call? Do you dare to become an agent of God’s peace on earth?
The Friendly Beasts
(Job 12:7)
I have often wondered what the animals and birds see when a forest—once lively with activity and birdsong—suddenly falls silent. Or when a happy dog suddenly cowers and whines, or suddenly explodes with barking, but for no obvious reason. Perhaps the birds in the forest are silenced by a swooping owl or hawk—or something else that I’m blind to. Or perhaps the dog smells or hears a snake in the grass or a rabbit in a nearby shrub. But sometimes I haven’t been able to discern the cause, even after looking closely. And I wonder.
I wonder if they see things—not just things hard to for us to see—but perhaps things truly invisible. I remember the story of Balaam and his donkey (Numbers 22:21-36). The false prophet was riding his donkey to take payment for cursing God’s people. An angel stood in his path—an angel Balaam couldn’t see. But Balaam’s donkey saw the angel and stopped. Balaam got off and started to beat the animal. But still the donkey refused to move, and the Lord caused the donkey to speak in protest. I wonder—does this still happen? What am I blind to? What of the spiritual realm are we all blind to?
I remember the animals who gathered to board Noah’s ark, called by God to come in twos for their survival (Genesis 7:1-24). I remember the ravens called upon to feed Elijah as he hid deep in the wilderness (1 Kings 17:1-7). And what about the great fish that swallowed Jonah to rescue him from drowning? All these creatures did God’s bidding, and often while the people around them failed to do so. And what about the frequent call in the Scriptures for us to join the rest of creation as it sings God’s praises? Do we hear their voices singing? Do we join them?
As Job was struggling to make sense of his terrible suffering, he said to his accusing friends, “Just ask the animals, and they will teach you. Ask the birds of the sky, and they will tell you. Speak to the earth, and it will instruct you. Let the fish in the sea speak to you. For they all know that my disaster has come from the hand of the LORD. For the life of every living thing is in his hand, and the breath of every human being” (Job 12:7-10, NLT).
Job’s friends assumed it was sin that had brought this trouble on Job, but Job knew that it was more complicated than that. He knew his own heart, and he couldn’t understand why such trouble had come upon him. He somehow sensed that at least the animals would understand his plight, even if his friends couldn’t. He knew that trouble could fall upon even the best of people and still be a part of God’s plan, that there were mysteries beyond the wisdom, the ideals, and the control of people. Do not the animals recognize this by following their instincts, accepting their given place as members in the creation?
And listen to the words of the prophet Isaiah, who saw more wisdom displayed in the ox and donkey than in his own people: “Listen, O heavens! Pay attention, earth! This is what the LORD says: `The children I raised and cared for have rebelled against me. Even an ox knows its owner, and a donkey recognizes its master’s care—but Israel doesn’t know its master. My people don’t recognize my care for them.’ ” (Isaiah 1:2-3, NLT)
The beasts live in proper relation to their masters and their Creator. But we, who were given the work of caring for the creatures and their environment, have forgotten our own Master—our Maker, our Protector, our Healer. And so we also fail in our work as masters. “Just ask the animals, and they will teach you.”
With this in mind, let us approach the Advent season with an old Medieval carol in our hearts. This carol first surfaced to documentary history in connection with 12th-Century France, and from there it spread to Britain where it is still often sung. This song is often written off as fanciful, the product of an unscientific age, no doubt because the animals in it are said to speak and to offer gifts to the Christ child. But is it so fanciful? I wonder. And even if it is, I hope that as this Christmas approaches, each of us will offer the Christ—our Maker and Master—the small gifts we have with as much willingness and joy as the creatures in the stable.
The Friendly Beasts
Jesus, our Brother strong and good / was humbly born in a manger rude, / and the friendly beasts around Him stood. / Jesus, our Brother strong and good.
“I,” said the donkey, shaggy and brown. / “I carried His mother up hill and down. / I carried her gently to Bethlehem town.” / “I,” said the donkey, shaggy and brown.
“I,” said the cow, all white and red. /”I gave Him my manger for His bed. / I gave Him my hay to pillow His head.” / “I,” said the cow, all white and red.
“I,” said the sheep, with the curly horn. / “I gave Him my wool for His blanket warm. / He wore my coat on Christmas morn!” / “I,” said the sheep, with the curly horn.
“I,” said the dove, in the rafters high. / “I sang Him to sleep, so He would not cry. / We sang Him to sleep, my mate and I.” / “I,” said the dove, in the rafters high.
And every beast, by some good spell, / in the stable dark was glad to tell / of the gift he gave Emmanuel, / the gift he gave Emmanuel.
Gardening Tip: Remember Balaam’s donkey and open your eyes to the world around you. It is shimmering with miracles. And pray for a second sight that reveals the spiritual realities all around and underneath. Any place where you are standing can be for you a thin place. Read the account of the prophet Elisha’s victory over the Aramean army (2 Kings 6:8-23). The prophet could act with confidence even when facing thousands of armed men. Why? because he could see what others could not. What are you blind to?
And as Advent approaches, remember the friendly beasts in the stable; open your heart to God’s gift to us in the person of the Christ. What gifts has He given to you that He now is calling you to offer back to Him? What gifts has He bestowed on you that He could use to change someone’s world this Christmas?
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Erratum: Brain Evolution across the Puerto Rican Anole Radiation
2017-07-25T13:41:29Z (GMT) by Powell B.J. Leal M.
Patterns of brain evolution have been widely studied across vertebrates, with the bulk of studies using mammals and/or birds as model systems. Within these groups, species occupying different habitats have been shown to have divergent neuroanatomy, particularly with regard to differences in the relative size of different brain structures, correlated with differences in habitat complexity. We examined the pattern of allometric scaling across the telencephalon, dorsal cortex, dorsomedial cortex, medial cortex, dorsal ventricular ridge, medulla and cerebellum in six species of Puerto Rican <i>Anolis</i> lizards, which are grouped in three distinct ecomorphs (i.e. ecological types) according to interspecific differences in preferred habitat type. The differences in habitat preferences are accompanied by morphological and behavioral adaptations for effective use of each habitat type. Our results challenge this trend and demonstrate a lack of convergence in the relative size of different brain structures between species belonging to the same ecomorph type. Overall brain volume explained between 92.5 and 99.8% of the variance in the volume of each of the brain regions measured and 93.8 and 98.5% of the variance in the volume of each component measured within the telencephalon. This pattern of brain allometry is consistent with concerted brain evolution. However, in the case of the cerebellum, interspecific differences in volume exhibit a trend in accordance with mosaic brain evolution. This suggests that both concerted and mosaic brain evolution have shaped the anole brain, with the former playing a dominant role. Concerted brain evolution is the primary mechanism shaping the brain in mammals and cartilaginous fishes, and its presence in <i>Anolis</i> lizards provides additional evidence supporting the hypothesis that concerted brain evolution might result from a conserved pattern of brain development common to all vertebrates. More generally, our findings highlight the necessity of further studies of brain evolution in reptiles as they can provide valuable insights into the mechanisms underlying vertebrate brain evolution.
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Spaghetti cacio e pepe
Related to my last post, I decided it was time to have a proper cacio e pepe the other day.
Cacio e pepe is probably one of the easiest to make dishes while still really delicious. Since I am kind of lazy but still need delicious food, it’s a perfect dish for me.
You need
Spaghetti (preferably good quality)
Pecorino cheese
Black pepper
How to cook it
Grate pecorino cheese.
Cook spaghetti in salted water until slightly under cooked. Reserve a couple of table spoons of the cooking water before draining the pasta.
Put the pasta back in the cooking pan together with almost all of cheese, the cooking water and pepper. Stirr on low heat until cheese and water has mixed into a velvety sauce around the spaghetti. Season with (plenty of) black pepper and sprinkle the last pecorino cheese on top.
Done! Enjoy!
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hey, i would like to view emails that are generated by programs/websites running in a docker instance - without actually sending those emails into the internet. anyone know how?
basically the equivalent of setting up a test mail server tool on a windows machine to trap all outgoing mail, and then using some .eml viewer to view those emails.
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[YC 199 New Eden Capsuleer's Writing Contest] Reflections
(Miyoshi Akachi) #1
I see myself, the man of flesh
I see the capsuleer
I see my hands
I see drone-like metal extensions
I feel my skin
I feel the coldness of a metal shell
I feel the chill air in my lungs
I feel the burning feeling of decompression
I see the darkness, my eyes closed
I see the flaring light of explosions
I see crystal-clean water
I see the blood of the people I killed forever
I see myself
I see the capsuleer
I see the murderer
I see the immortal
I see the mortal inside
I see me
Just a dream or something more? I don’t know.
I’d like to submit this for the YC 119 New Eden Capsuleer Writing Contest for the Poetry category. Thank you.
(Lunarisse Aspenstar) #2
Thank you for your entry! It has been listed on the contest submission Roster!
Deadline for entries is July 31st!
(Ayallah) #3
A dry piece with good imagery in few words, though I wished you had kept the cadence of see and feel you establish in the beginning.
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Battery Pack for iPhone 3G
Discussion in 'iPhone Accessories' started by benchlegs, Apr 22, 2011.
1. benchlegs macrumors member
Apr 22, 2011
Been looking for a battery pack to extend the life of my 3G.
Anyone have any recommendations?
Thanks in advance.
2. quadchick10 macrumors regular
Mar 12, 2010
3G Juice. I own two and they came in very handy while I was at the airport. You can find them on
3. maliu macrumors 6502a
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I use an external battery pack from New Trent. I have two different ones. I have a need to be able to charge multiple devices. The IMP 50 has both a 1 amp as well as a 500 ma port and will charge an iPad 50% as well for under $50. The IMP 500 will charge my phone several times. I use it mostly to charge my Verizon MIFI as the battery life on that is short. The IMP 500 is closer to $40. Shipping is free!
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How can a 13-year-old configuration flaw affect SAP systems?
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Cybersecurity vendor Onapsis found a 13-year-old flaw that affects nine out of 10 SAP NetWeaver systems. Learn how the flaw affects SAP systems with expert Judith Myerson.
A 13-year-old SAP configuration flaw in SAP NetWeaver systems was discovered by cybersecurity vendor Onapsis. What…
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According to a recent report from Onapsis Inc., a cybersecurity company based in Boston and specializing in monitoring and protecting SAP and Oracle business applications, a configuration flaw that was first reported to SAP by Onapsis CEO Mariano Nunez in 2005 is still leaving as many as nine out of 10 SAP systems vulnerable to compromise.
The configuration flaw affects SAP NetWeaver — the foundation for many SAP applications deployed from worldwide locations. Targeted applications include supplier relationship management, product lifecycle management, enterprise resource planning, transportation management and SAP’s next-generation digital business suite S/4HANA.
The original vulnerability enabled unauthenticated users to exploit unprotected remote function call gateways to bypass SAP security controls, potentially taking full remote control over SAP systems. While SAP addressed the configuration vulnerability by securely delivering access control lists, Onapsis reported earlier this year that security for some SAP services — like SAP Message Services — may still be vulnerable to remote attacks.
The flaw can be traced to the lack of secure Message Server access control list configurations on SAP systems; in particular, the profile network interface parameter ms/acl_info. An attacker can register a fake Application Server in the message server file with default access authorization to hostnames, domains and IP addresses. Port 3900 is the default for the Internal Message server port.
SAP systems administrators can fix this vulnerability by setting a value for the profile parameter using rdisp/msserv_internal = <value>. The default configuration sets the value for this parameter to zero, which indicates that no other port should be used for internal communication with application servers.
The message server then opens a second port in addition to its own port, called sapms<SID> (rdisp/msserv), that is used for internal communication with the application servers. The second port must be used to log on to an application server so the application server that logged on through port sapms<SID> is denied access. All fixes should be tested to ensure they will not create new vulnerabilities in SAP systems.
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In propositional logic, if $(P→Q)\wedge (R→S)$ and $(P\vee R)$ are two premises such that $Y$ is the premise:
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Benefits of Weighted Blankets – What The Science Says
Weighted Blankets have quickly become a craze among caretakers and individuals alike for their numerous benefits, relatively low one-time-cost status, and being a non-drug intervention. That being said, there’s also been some confusion about what they are, and what weighted blankets can, and can’t, do. Here, we’ll take a look at weighted blankets and what they are good for (which happens to not be “absolutely nothing”), and where you might want to look if you want to purchase or investigate weighted blankets further.
So First, What is a Weighted Blanket?
Besides the description on the tin, a blanket that just so happens to be weighted, a Weighted Blanket is actually a time-tested, research-backed occupational health tool that has been in use for at least the past 30 years. Often, weighted blankets are made with a soft cotton material (in select cases, a cotton mink-like fabric called “Minky” is used), with pockets sewn in to hold either glass or plastic beads. These beads are usually as small as possible to ensure an even weight distribution on the user, and also allow for a more even heat distribution so that it doesn’t make the user uncomfortable.
What Can A Weighted Blanket Do For Me?
As is the case with many things in life, it depends. Though originally designed as a means of helping pediatric patients with severe behavioral issues or autism, the purpose has expanded exponentially over time. Of these, the most common use involves helping an individual lower their stress and anxiety levels. Using weighted blankets to cope with depression is also quite popular, as is using it to help mitigate restless leg syndrome symptoms, emotional extremes in individuals with autism or Asperger’s, or even handling PTSD. Weighted Blankets can be used at home, on the bed or couch, in class, or even at the office, wherever they are needed and whenever they are needed. Now, this all seems great, perhaps too great when you think about it. How can some cloth and weight make a difference in all these things? Let’s find out.
How Does a Weighted Blanket Work?
Weighted Blankets tend to work via a therapeutic method called deep pressure sensory input or therapy. In many respects, the way a weighted blanket calms or reduces symptoms is the same way a comforting hug or cuddle can reduce the symptoms of many disorders, and provide a safe assurance that things will be alright. On the physiological level, we can attribute these benefits to three chemicals: Dopamine, Serotonin, and Melatonin. The first two are neurotransmitters that work in very similar ways to one another: Dopamine, often called the “happy chemical” is a neurotransmitter than often elevates mood significantly, and Serotonin, which is often seen as a neurotransmitter that causes a cascade of reactions in the body to slow heart rate, lower blood pressure, and in short, calm you down. Melatonin, when appropriate (as it rarely occurs during the day if properly rested) is the hormone which tells your body it is time to rest. With the weight and warmth of the weighted blanket simulating a warm embrace, your body taps into a conditioned response and allows you to de-stress, sleep better, or recover from a negative event far better than doing so on your own. While not a replacement for medication or intensive therapy, a weighted blanket can, by this mechanism, aid in your day to day life significantly.
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Episode 21 – Too Tired For Novels
December 29, 2011
We would like to start off by apologizing to Aritzen and Awesomousse. Now that that is out of the way, here is the last podcast episode for the year 2011. It has been a very interesting year. This experiment has become something we are glad to have started.
Around this time last year during an episode of the Ass Backwards Anime Podcast, we declared that we were going to start a Gintama podcast. It took a little time but we ended up putting together the first episode. From there, we weren’t even sure if anyone would respond to it. Guess we were lucky enough to have some fans of our other show to help promote our new venture (you know who you are). Honestly, we thought that would have been the extent of our reach. Then more people started showing up. Then more people. Then an entire country. Soon enough, we realized we were stuck in a room full of crazy people. And we still ended up making a lot of new friends.
Thank you everyone. We could have done it without you.
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Episode 239 on Crunchyroll
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Aritzen’s response to Awesomousse.
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Just a reminder: Episode 241 will be postponed until January 9th. Here is the preview to make you upset. Kind of fitting really.
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Those Who Help Themselves
Updated on February 7, 2018
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An Unbiblical Phrase
It is interesting that the phrase: "God helps those who help themselves" is assumed by many to be in the Bible. As a matter of fact, Christian demographer and pollster, George Barna did some research on it and found that 53% of Americans strongly believed that it was a biblical phrase, 22% agreed somewhat that it was, 7% disagreed somewhat, only 14% disagreed strongly, and 5% simply said that they didn't know.
Of born again Christians, 68% agreed with the phrase. Among non-born again believers 81% agreed. Despite the fact that it never appears in the Bible, the phrase topped a poll for the most widely known Bible verses. And probably the most disturbing statistic of all is that 75% of American teenagers believed it was the central theme of the Bible.
Besides showing the growing biblical illiteracy in this country, this saying, far from being the central theme of the Bible, actually directly contradicts God's message of grace, or unmerited favor. And it is one that we must eliminate from our thoughts when we think about the Gospel.
I. God Helps the Helpless
This saying is usually used to emphasize the importance of self-reliance. But Scripture rather emphasizes the fact that we are helpless without God. Our Lord Jesus Christ said that: "Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven" (Matthew 5:3). To be poor in spirit means that we have a humble opinion of our self. It is an understanding that we have no righteousness of our own and have to rely totally upon the mercy and grace of God.
The apostle Paul says that apart from Jesus Christ, we all were "without hope and without God in the world" (Ephesians 2:12). Earlier in that same chapter he tells us:
If you see a dead man in a coffin, you know that he cannot do anything by his own power. If he gets up out of that coffin and starts talking to you, then you know that he wasn't really dead. A dead man can't give himself life, or anything else. And he certainly can't help himself. We were all dead in trespasses and sins, and without God, spiritual life was impossible. A person who is truly saved, is one who realizes that salvation is totally by God's grace, or unmerited favor, and apart from any and all works (Ephesians 2:8,9).
II. The Christian's Good Works Are the Spirit's Fruit
Even after we are saved, the good that we do comes from God. In Ephesians 2:10 it says:
The good that Christians do is referred to as the Fruit of the Spirit. It is He who empowers us to do them. In Galatians 5 Paul tells us that without the Spirit we will gratify the desires of the flesh. But, with the Spirit empowering us, we will bear fruit. He says:
III. God Began Salvation and Will Complete It
Salvation and all that it involves, is from the Lord from start to finish. As a matter of fact in Philippians 1:6 Pauls says this about God:
In the end we will not be able to take any credit whatsoever for what God has done in and through us by the death, burial and resurrection of Jesus Christ. We can all sing of His amazing grace.
We can truly say that God doesn't help those who help themselves. He helps those who absolutely cannot help themselves, and freely admit it. Until we realize this, we will never understand the marvelous unmerited favor that was bestowed upon us through faith in the Savior. To God be the glory, great things He has done!
Those Who Can't Help Themselves
© 2012 Jeff Shirley
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Jeff Shirley
6 years ago from Kentwood, Michigan
You're welcome. And thanks for reading.
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6 years ago
Wonderful hub. So true, thanks for reminding us that God helps the helpless. For in Him we are strong.
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Jeff Shirley
6 years ago from Kentwood, Michigan
Thank you Felipe717 for your comments.
kellyteam: Your pastor is absolutely right. We should all study the Word for ourselves. We cannot grow, if we aren't feeding on the Word of God. The sad thing is that so many Christians have no idea what the Bible says on the subjects that affect their lives. My prayer is that many more will take seriously the study of Scripture, because there is indeed a famine in our land.
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6 years ago from Michigan
Beautiful hub GodTalk. It is fascinating to hear people make quotes that are actually not in the Bible. I too have heard numerous individuals say this, ("God helps those who help themselves") as if it were in the Bible. It is so important to study the Word of God and know what it says for your self and not what you heard somebody say. My Pastor is well versed in the Bible but he always tell us to read it for ourselves. Don't just take his word for it. Thank you so much for this hub. It reveals the truth as intended. Thumbs up. beautifu and a share.
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6 years ago from Philadelphia, PA
A great explanation of God's grace towards us.
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Jeff Shirley
6 years ago from Kentwood, Michigan
You are welcome. It is interesting that no matter how plainly the Bible says that salvation is by grace through faith, there are always some who want to say that it doesn't mean what it says. We need to always be ready to defend the truth. Thanks for stopping by lifegate.
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William Kovacic
6 years ago from Pleasant Gap, PA
Thanks for making plain the Truth. There should be no questions if we know what the bible actually says.
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Jeff Shirley
6 years ago from Kentwood, Michigan
I think you missed the point of the Barna study. It proved that people actually thought that the phrase: "God helps those who help themselves" was in the Bible. To reitereate, it is not. There is no place in Scripture where that phrase ever appears.
What you seem to be defending, if I'm not misunderstanding you, is that faith itself is some form of helping yourself. It is rather just the opposite. It is an understanding that you are totally helpless on your own and then you rely on God who is the only one that can help.
And Scripture indicates that faith itself is a gift from God. Romans 3:11 tells us that no man seeks after God on his own. So the Lord has to come after us.
My advice to you is not to try to defend an interpretation of Scripture, when what you are defending isn't Scripture. By the way, I didn't say it in the Hub, but the phrase actually originated in ancient Greece, occurring in approximately equivalent form as the moral to one of Aesop's Fables, Hercules and the Waggoner, and later in the great tragedy authors of ancient Greek drama.
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Rod Martin Jr
6 years ago from Cebu, Philippines
Beautiful words, but I think there's more to the story.
The Barna study is interesting and it shows how interpretation can be skewed. But that's just it. Everyone interprets. And most interpretation is wrong.
And that's where humility comes in handy. We empty the cup and let God fill it. Still, every time God fills our cup, we have our own filters active and what goes in is sometimes, and possibly frequently, tainted -- if not downright polluted.
From one perspective, God does not help those who help themselves. This is certainly the case for the proud who hold physical action and physical accomplishments above spiritual growth and faith.
But what of those who help themselves by utter humility and boundless faith in God. I call that helping one's self in the right way. And God will help them who ask in humility and faith while ignoring those who think they have it all figured out on their own.
Sometimes, I want to tap a fellow Christian on the shoulder when they give their interpretation as if it were Gospel, for they think they have figured it all out. Their belief in their interpretation is never "faith." And for someone to disagree with that interpretation is not necessarily against the Bible, though the errant Christian may think their view of the Bible and the Bible itself are synonymous. I know the Bible is truth, but most interpretation I hear is interesting, but suspect.
For the letter killeth, and the spirit giveth life.
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Hymnary Friends,
On behalf of the entire Hymnary.org team, our thanks.
Harry Plantinga
The Hymns for the Use of Evangelical Lutheran Congregations
Publisher: Committee United Synod on Common Book of Worship, Charleston, S.C., 1906
Denomination: Evangelical Lutheran Church in the South, 1861-
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d401Praise, O praise our God and King
d402Praise the Lord, ye heavens adore him
d403Praise the Rock of our salvation, Laud his name
d404Praise to God, immortal praise
d406Rejoice, all ye believers
d407Rejoice, rejoice ye Christians
d408Rejoice, the Lord is King, Your God [Lord] and King adore
d409Rejoice today with one accord
d410Ride on, ride on in majesty
d411Rise, my soul, and stretch thy wings
d412Rise, ye children of salvation
d413Rock of Ages, cleft for me, Let me hide myself in Thee
d414Safely through another week
d415Salvation, O the joyful sound
d416Savior, breathe an evening blessing
d417Savior, let Thy sanction rest
d418Savior, like a shepherd lead us
d419Savior, now the day is ending
d420Savior, [Say], who thy flock are [art] feeding
d421Savior sprinkle many nations, fruitful let Thy sorrows be
d422Savior, when in dust to Thee, low we bow
d423See the Conqueror mount [mounts] in triumph
d424Seeing I am Jesus' lamb
d425Shepherd of eager [tender] youth
d426Shine on our souls, eternal God
d427Show pity Lord, O Lord, forgive
d428Sing praise to God [him] who reigns above
d429Sing to the Lord most high
d430Sing to the Lord of harvest
d431Softly now the light of day
d432Soldiers of Christ, arise, and put [gird] your armor
d433Son of God [man], to thee I [we] cry
d434Songs of praise the angels sang
d435Songs of thankfulness and praise
d436Soon this corruptible Shall from the tomb
d437Source of light and life divine
d438Speed thy servants, Savior, speed them
d439Spirit divine, attend our prayer [prayers]
d440Spirit of mercy, truth, and love
d441Spread, O [still] spread, thou [thy] [the] mighty [almighty] word
d442Stand up, stand up for Jesus, ye soldiers of the cross
d443Stricken, smitten and afflicted, See him dying on [Lo he dies upon] the tree
d444Suffering Son of man, be near me
d446Sunk is the sun's last beam of light
d448Sweet the moments, rich in blessing
d449Sweetest word of Jesus
d450Teach me, my God and King
d451Ten thousand times ten thousand, in sparkling raiment
d452That fearful day, that day of dread
d453The Advent of our God, Our prayers must now employ
d454The Church's one foundation is Jesus Christ her Lord
d455The day is gently sinking to a close
d456The day is past and over
d457The day, O Lord, is spent
d458The Day of Resurection
d459The God of Abraham praise, who reigns enthroned
d460The goodly land I see
d461The happy Christmas comes once more
d462The head that once was crowned with thorns
d463The hour of my departure's come
d464The hours of day are over
d465The King of love my shepherd is
d466The Lord my Shepherd is, I shall be well supplied
d467The royal standard forward goes
d468The Savior kindly calls Our children
d469The Son of God goes forth to war
d470The Spirit in our hearts is whispering sinner come
d471The strain upraise of joy and praise Alleluia
d472The strife is o'er the battle done
d473The sun is sinking fast
d474The voice that breathed o'er Eden
d475Thee, Jesus, suffering, crucified
d476Thee, we adore, eternal [O gracious] Lord [God]
d477Thee will I love, my Strength [Lord] [Shield], [my] [and] Tower
d478There is a dwelling place above
d479There is a fountain filled with blood, drawn from Immanuel's vein [veins]
d480There is a land of pure delight, Where saints immortal reign
d481They come, God's messengers of love
d482Thine arm, O Lord, in days of old
d483Thine forever, God of love
d484Thine is the power and glory, Lord
d485This day the light of heavenly birth
d486This is the day of light
d487This is the day the Lord hath [has] made, He calls
d488Thou art gone up on high To mansions [realms]
d489Thou art my hiding place, O Lord
d490Thou art my portion, O my God
d491Thou art the Way, to thee alone
d492Thou hidden love of God, whose height
d493Thou Judge of quick and dead
d494Thou, mighty God, wast pleased to give the Word
d495Thou who didst on Calvary bleed
d496Thou whose almighty word Chaos and darkness heard
d497Thou, whose never failing arm, Led me all my earthly way
d498Through all the changing scenes of life, In trouble
d499Through good report and evil, Lord
d500Through the day thy love has [hath] spared us
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Exhibition Design and Curatorial Practice
January 2011 | Koç University, Istanbul
Research Center for Anatolian Civilizations
December 2013 | Chinese University of Hong Kong
Department of Religious and Cultural Studies
Ever wonder what "curation" is or how "curators" make choices and design exhibitions? This was a specially designed workshop for faculty and graduate students to critically explore the types of choices curators make in realizing exhibitions of visual and material object, introduce the practical design process for mounting exhibitions of art and archaeological materials, and result in multiple exhibition proposals. This was an active learning workshop supported by group discussion, group activities, games and short talks engaging the models, methods, media, and skills used in developing, designing and executing curated exhibitions.
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Design lab 9: Developing features
Thursday, 30 March 2017
For today I would like you to think about one feature for our GNURadio-based project and describe it in an issue on GitHub in the repository where you are primarily working. Be responsive to the following:
1. What does this feature afford users?
2. What are its constraints and how do they help or hinder users?
3. How does the feature signify its affordance or how to use it to users?
4. What conventions does this feature either respond to, incorporate, or reject, either in the context of interface design generally or GNURadio specifically?
5. How will you go about arguing for the inclusion of this feature?
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The Lord God who
Is full of grace
We come to You
We seek Your face
You are glorious
High above all
Wonderfully victorious
On You we call
Watch over us
Grant us strength
In the Name Jesus
We can go the length
Lord, clear our way
Grant us Your peace
Having joy today
Our trust in You increase
In all that we do
On this day in June
May we glorify You
Evening, morning, & noon
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Welcome to the team, Irisa!
Although you would never know if from the weather, summer is almost upon us. With that comes a new team of interns at KLC.
This week we welcomed Irisa Chan. Irisa is completing her Centennial College field placement with us, but she has been connected with the agency for months now, regularly taking the time throughout her school term to connect and network with the KLC team.
In honour of her official start with us, we asked her to answer a few questions to help us get to know her.
1. What is your secret talent?
I used to be on the Improv team in high school, so I can think quickly on the spot. The trick is to say, “yes AND…”
1. Who inspires you?
My parents. As a first-generation immigrant born to two entrepreneurs, I learned from an early age the importance of hustling and working hard, but also making time for what matters (i.e. loved ones and interests!).
1. Who would you like to switch places with for a day?
Kris Jenner. Could you even imagine what goes on in her life? I’d love to see what really goes on behind the scenes. They say the devil works hard, but Kris Jenner works harder.
1. What TV series are you into right now?
Rupaul’s Drag Race, Money Heist, Shark Tank. And I could never tire of The Office.
1. What do you hope to learn this summer?
As much as I can about anything, whether it is investor relations, media coverage monitoring or just life lessons in general. I also hope I can give back as much as I take away!
On behalf of the KLC team, welcome Irisa!
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Not one Uggo
By the way, our bridal party? AMAZING. Just look at them. Helpful, hilarious, wonderful. They all became great friends by the end of the wedding, regardless that only a few knew one another prior.
And as one bridesmaid, Shannon, pointed out – there wasn’t one uggo to be found.
(In regards to the photo, yes, we had dinosaurs at the wedding. And a lot of T-Rex arms.)
In leu of my wedding recap (for a bit, at least), here’s what people have been saying about us. (I feel like a celebrity!)
Our groomsman, Ernest, wrote an endearing and funny piece: Challah and Naan.
And our bridesmaid (and bestest friend), Katie, wrote the sweetest thing I’ve ever read. Ever.: It was love at first sight, at last sight, at ever and ever sight.
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The Lost Art of Letter Writing, and How to Write a Letter
A lot of many years ago most personal letters, after a very formal salutation, began “I take my pen in hand.” We do perhaps not see that at all nowadays, but the nature of this saying nevertheless lingers. Pick up the average letter and you cannot fail to notice that the copywriter has grimly taken their pen in hand and, filled with one thought, has assaulted the report. That one idea is to find the letter composing more than with.9781851243976
And perhaps this mindset of getting the writing over with most likely expenses is certainly perhaps not therefore bad after all. There are the ones who grieve over the moving associated with formal and dignified letter as well as others who regret that the “literary” letter – the sort of page which can be posted – is not a longer with us. However the old page of service is perhaps not truly much more useful than a powdered wig to a modern guy, and as for the type of letter that delights the center and lightens the work for the journalist – well, that is nevertheless becoming authored by the type of person who can create it. It is far better that a page should be composed because the author has some thing to state than as a token of tradition.
No one can get far incorrect in writing any sort of letter if first the attention is taken to create completely the specific item and desire of this letter. A page constantly features an object – usually the reason why compose it? But somehow, and specifically in the dictated letter, the object often gets lost into the terms. A handwritten letter is certainly maybe not appropriate to be too wordy – it would take too much time and trouble to create. But someone dictating may, particularly if interrupted by telephone calls, ramble on about what they want to state as well as in the conclusion have made use of two pages for what should have been stated in three outlines. Having said that, letters can be so brief as to produce an impression of abrupt rudeness. It is an uncommon journalist who can state all that need be said in a single range rather than seem rude. However it can be done.
The single function of a letter is to express idea. That thought may have to accomplish with facts, therefore the additional purpose can be to have the idea to create activity. But plainly the activity depends solely upon just how good the thought is moved or communicated into the letter. Words are utilized in a letter as a vehicles for idea, but every solitary term is certainly not a vehicle for thought, given that it might not be the sort of word that would go to the location in which you wish your thought to get; or, to place it one other method, there’s a wide difference within the understanding of words. In which an exactly phrased page might entirely express an exact thought to an individual of education, that exact same page might be meaningless to a person with less comprehension of complex terms. For that reason, it’s unwise in general page composing to resort to utilizing uncommon terms.
There is anything of a feeling that letters should always be elegant, that if you wanted to show your self just and clearly, it is mainly because of some shortage of elegance, and therefore real sophistication breaks call at long, deep words and complex constructions. There could be no greater blunder. an individual that really understands the language will write simply. an individual whom does not understand the language too well, and is impacting some thing, that he thinks is culture, features just what may be called a feeling of linguistic insecurity, which is similar to the sense of social insecurity. Today and again you meet an individual just who is scared of making a social mistake. He is scared of picking up the incorrect hand in a restaurant, or of performing anything different which is perhaps not carried out in polite culture. They have an uncomfortable time of it, but any one used to social etiquette takes it for granted. It will be the same aided by the writing of a page.
There is absolutely no reason for composing a letter unless the objective is plainly defined. Writing a page is like shooting at a target. The prospective can be struck by accident, but it is almost certainly going to be hit if a mindful objective happens to be taken.
In this modern chronilogical age of email and text emails, the act of sitting down and writing a page by hand is very a dying art. It’s a shame to think that the present generation of youthful kids may develop up never having to write a letter by hand, so have you thought to motivate them to stay and create to grandparents and household people which might not possess a computer system, or also understand how to deliver a text message. These letters would be received with great enjoyment and love, and will often be treasured possessions.
If your wanting to understand it, even composing a page to Santa is going to be done on a term processor. Just how a great deal even more fun is composing a page to Santa whenever you can get imaginative with report, pen and colourful crayons.
The World open website is an excellent resource for information, so why not investigate some pen pal sites that encourage communication between children in different countries making use of the traditional pen and report. Exactly what can be much better than that feeling of expectation awaiting another page full of considerate and personal communications from a pal in another nation?
Teach Your Children the Art of Letter Writing
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Letter Writing – A Training Ground For Writers to Be
There must be writers that never ever enjoyed to create letters. Not a lot of perhaps but the odds are that there needs to be some. On the other hand there probably are not any avid page authors that don’t enjoy writing. And that is the primary attribute of any would be author or established copywriter as a result.pen-480220_1280 (1)
There is a generation of us who did create letters and received them in turn. The very first letters were probably the sorts of page that came under the heading of “need to…”. You must write a thank you letter to you Aunt Mabel for everyone lovely clothes you never ever wear and now have already been receiving for umpteen years. And they had been laboriously authored by hand.
Then one day you obtained a letter that you really enjoyed. You carefully place it away in a the rear of a cabinet in your room and reread it over and over after lights away. Or maybe you very carefully folded it and put it in your pocket. Also though you forgot about this for a whilst you always discovered it once again. It would have more creases and was slightly wet making the ink operate a little, but you could nevertheless see clearly when within the privacy of the thoughts and area.
The day you had written a letter simply because you thought like it rather than since you needed to, that has been bound to have been your day you had been hooked. If along with which you established a pen pal relationship with another youngster in a far away and exotic nation, then your creativity had no limits.
At first you believed the letters needed to protect one or more web page. When you had been operating out of things to state, either you invented something or started to stretch out your writing until you were in a position to put straight down a word or two regarding the then page. These were moments whenever unknown to you personally, you had been exercising your creativity and additionally creating an interior response to writers block.
Letters from buddies were great but letters from your grand mama that came punctually on your birthday celebration with a buck costs inside – they were the greatest.download1
A number of your pals or also brothers or sisters had been simply not into it and you finished up by continuing to keep this rehearse to yourself. Nonetheless you certainly will never forget the sensation inside when you knew the postman ended up being quickly to arrive. In reality there are times many many years later on when you continue to get this feeling with an actual page that you don’t with an email. Also junk email is email, and that is a huge distinction with spam mail.
Perhaps it happened to you personally which you wrote everything you believed had been an extremely well composed page and sent it down. Then chances are you wondered why you didn’t hold a copy. In those times, you will have needed to control create the copy, however you did and you even held it in a folder for many years. And whenever springtime cleaning had been forced on you, what an enjoyable shock to get a hold of these old letters and you also would sink into a hypnotic trance like stage while you went through all of them all, until you had been called returning to truth.
Page writing for many individuals ended up being the initial action into writing. Reading has also been interwoven because of the have to create but there are times whenever the passion for reading is higher than the love (and discomfort) of writing. Very first efforts at writing marked you much more than very first attempts at reading.
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Finding the right people
Krueger and Casey suggest that when you’re selecting participants for focus groups, it’s important to keep in mind how selecting participants might impact data quality. We need to ask ourselves what types of people will provide the most insight into the discussion, rather than trying to focus on including all the different perspectives.
It is best to aim for homogeneity within the group, but make sure there is enough variation among participants to allow for different opinions. In order to achieve homogeneity, a few screening questions may be necessary, but be careful as this may hint to the participant what the research is about.
Focus group participants are often selected from a small sample of people, and therefore we need to be careful not to over generalise our findings. Best practice favours having a focus group consisting of strangers rather than acquaintances because participants that know each other may influence each other’s answers. Conversation might not always flow as freely between strangers, so it’s important the moderator encourages each participant to contribute.
Krueger, R. A., & Casey, M. A. (2009). Participants in a Focus Group. In Focus Groups: A Practical Guide for Applied Research (4th ed). Los Angeles: SAGE.
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Model/hyperparameter selection
When you have a number predictors or regularisation terms in your model, you need to choose how many to use, based on the you have, and by these various models. This is a kind of complement to statistical learning theory where you hope to quantify how complicated a model you should bother fitting to a given amount of data.
If your predictors are discrete and small in number, you can do this in the traditional fashion, by stepwise model selection, and you might discuss the degrees of freedom of the model and the data. If you are in the luxurious position of having a small tractable number of parameters and the ability to perform controlled trials, then you do ANOVA.
When you have regularisation parameters, we tend to phrase this as smoothing and talk about smoothing parameter selection, which we can do in various ways. I’m fond of degrees-of-freedom penalties because they aren’t worse than cross-validation, but much quicker. However, I’m not yet sure how to make that work in sparse regression.
Multiple testing is model selection writ large, where you can considering many hypothesis tests, possible effectively infinitely many hypothesis tests, or you have a combinatorial explosion of possible predictors to include.
TODO: document connection with graphical models and thus conditional independence tests.
Bayesian model selection is also a thing, although the framing must be a little different, since in the Bayesian method in principle I keep all my models about and then weight them; but we still might wish to discard some models for reasons of computational tractability or what-have-you.
If the model order itself is the parameter of interest, how do you do consistent inference of that?
An exhausting, exhaustive review of various model selection procedures with an eye to consistency, is given in RaWu01.
Cross validation
See cross validation.
For densities
See density model selection.
Under sparsity
See sparse model selection.
How do you choose your hyperparameters? NB hyperparameters might not always be about model selection per se; there are also ones that are about, e.g. convergence rate. Anyway. Also one could well regard hyperparameters as normal parameters.
Turns out you can cast this as a bandit problem, or a sequential Bayesian optimisation problem.
…means not quite the same thing: Bayesian model selection.
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Take Me To The Jungle, And Don’t Ever Take Me Back
Okay, so outdated pop culture references aside, hear me and hear me well: Jungle Beach is the stuff of backpacker folklore.
A rustic, simple homestay: a cluster of bamboo cabanas on a sandy lot, shaded by the whispering palms of trees; hammocks and hand-made lounge chairs; a communal dining room where guests gather twice a day for meals; thatched sun umbrellas stuck into the sand of a postcard beach.
Sometimes a place feels so special that you don’t really want to write about—as though writing about it would sully it, or giving it words—trying to give it words—would cheapen it, lessen it, and you want to keep it a private, precious thing.
I arrived at Jungle Beach a little heart-heavy (see previous post), a bit of melancholy sprung up, as though something tapped into a murmuring, gargling reserve of oil beneath the surface of me and wasn’t shooting out like a geyser, but rather seeping through, leaking out into the sunlight.
In any case, I crawled off the overnight bus a stop early, 40km outside Nha Trang—5:30 am on a dusty strip of highway that consituted the town Doc Let. I took a motorbike the next 20-some km, sleep-blurred and thirty-mouthed, to Jungle Beach. I arrived, and I didn’t ever want to leave.
It wasn’t the kind of place that immediately bowls you over. “This is nice,” I thought, as I curled up under a thin blanket, inside a soft blue mosquito net. But the place grew on me—or I grew into it.
Hours and days passed in some sort of other time zone. Wake up with the sun. Jog on the beach or do yoga on a mat in the shade. Eat breakfast. Do some writing, some reading. Lay on the beach. One of the workers comes out and says it’s lunchtime. Rise off my feet, sit at the communal table, pass bowls of meat and veggies and rice and sweet chili sauce. Have another coffee. Go back to the beach. Not even read, really, just lay there—lay there thinking, or not thinking, just watching the waves and feeling my own kind of waves inside, welling up, rising and receeding, as though I were standing on the banks of a monumental sadness, whose bounds I didn’t know, just the pull of its gravity. Cry sometimes, about nothing in particular.
Three pm, and someone comes out with a little plastic plate of fruit, pineapple or pomello or watermelon. Eat it with a toothpick, get a coconut, drink it and scrape it clean with a spoon. Go wade in the water, hopping waves or letting them pummel me, or floating on my back and watching the great white clouds walk across the sky. Shower, check my email, write. Gather for dinner and spend hours afterwards chatting with the other travelers—mostly couples, mostly German for some reason, but really cool people, different ages but all open and friendly. Feel like it’s midnight when it’s only 9, say good night and curl up under a thin blanket, inside a soft blue mosquito net. Repeat as necessary.
The place was built by a dude named Sylvio, who walks around shirtless and smoking, a tough old guy (see character study in upcoming post). He bought the land nearly 10 years ago, and built the place slowly, each cabana by hand, and it’s become the stuff of backpacker folklore.
One of the most impressive parts of Jungle Beach is the staff. The staff to guest ratio was almost 1:1, a friendly, laid-back Vietnamese staff that didn’t pander to the guests and fawn over them, but was attentive—in short, that actually seemed to really care that we had a good time. Ten years of working in the service industry, and I’ve decided that that’s all people really want—to feel taken care of, to feel like you actually give a shit. It’s a rare thing, and it doesn’t necessarily come with heafy price tags and swanky surroundings. It comes, to be completely and utterly trite, from the heart.
I spent four days and three nights doing virtually nothing at Jungle Beach. And as my depature neared, I found myself desperately not wanting to leave. I discovered, without having known it, that I really needed that time—to decompress, to clear out some space, to get ready for the project I’m about to embark on. And yet I didn’t feel rejuvenated, in a sense; I felt simply like I didn’t want to leave.
But what would another day have done? What would another week or year done? Will I ever actually work through all this whatever-it-is I carry in me? Will I ever be done? No, no, it was time to go.
But I can’t ever remember feeling so sad to leave a place. I looked around—it all seemed so precious. I actually almost cried. What the hell is all this? Am I going crazy? Am I becoming soft in my old age?
I got in the taxi and we bumped off, leaving the buildings and the thatched roofs and the gate and the barking dogs in a billow of dust behind us.
1 Response to “Take Me To The Jungle, And Don’t Ever Take Me Back”
1. 1 Hal Amen February 25, 2011 at 6:33 pm
Sounds beautiful, Lauren. I must have ridden right past this place 5 years ago…wish I’d read this first!
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Plaque, Atherosclerotic: Lesions formed within the walls of ARTERIES.Dental Plaque: A film that attaches to teeth, often causing DENTAL CARIES and GINGIVITIS. It is composed of MUCINS, secreted from salivary glands, and microorganisms.Viral Plaque Assay: Method for measuring viral infectivity and multiplication in CULTURED CELLS. Clear lysed areas or plaques develop as the VIRAL PARTICLES are released from the infected cells during incubation. With some VIRUSES, the cells are killed by a cytopathic effect; with others, the infected cells are not killed but can be detected by their hemadsorptive ability. Sometimes the plaque cells contain VIRAL ANTIGENS which can be measured by IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE.Dental Plaque Index: An index which scores the degree of dental plaque accumulation.Atherosclerosis: A thickening and loss of elasticity of the walls of ARTERIES that occurs with formation of ATHEROSCLEROTIC PLAQUES within the ARTERIAL INTIMA.Carotid Artery Diseases: Pathological conditions involving the CAROTID ARTERIES, including the common, internal, and external carotid arteries. ATHEROSCLEROSIS and TRAUMA are relatively frequent causes of carotid artery pathology.Rupture, Spontaneous: Tear or break of an organ, vessel or other soft part of the body, occurring in the absence of external force.Arteriosclerosis: Thickening and loss of elasticity of the walls of ARTERIES of all sizes. There are many forms classified by the types of lesions and arteries involved, such as ATHEROSCLEROSIS with fatty lesions in the ARTERIAL INTIMA of medium and large muscular arteries.Carotid Stenosis: Narrowing or stricture of any part of the CAROTID ARTERIES, most often due to atherosclerotic plaque formation. Ulcerations may form in atherosclerotic plaques and induce THROMBUS formation. Platelet or cholesterol emboli may arise from stenotic carotid lesions and induce a TRANSIENT ISCHEMIC ATTACK; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; or temporary blindness (AMAUROSIS FUGAX). (From Adams et al., Principles of Neurology, 6th ed, pp 822-3)Ultrasonography, Interventional: The use of ultrasound to guide minimally invasive surgical procedures such as needle ASPIRATION BIOPSY; DRAINAGE; etc. Its widest application is intravascular ultrasound imaging but it is useful also in urology and intra-abdominal conditions.Carotid Arteries: Either of the two principal arteries on both sides of the neck that supply blood to the head and neck; each divides into two branches, the internal carotid artery and the external carotid artery.Coronary Artery Disease: Pathological processes of CORONARY ARTERIES that may derive from a congenital abnormality, atherosclerotic, or non-atherosclerotic cause.Angioscopy: Endoscopic examination, therapy or surgery performed on the interior of blood vessels.Hemolytic Plaque Technique: A method to identify and enumerate cells that are synthesizing ANTIBODIES against ANTIGENS or HAPTENS conjugated to sheep RED BLOOD CELLS. The sheep red blood cells surrounding cells secreting antibody are lysed by added COMPLEMENT producing a clear zone of HEMOLYSIS. (From Illustrated Dictionary of Immunology, 3rd ed)Coronary Vessels: The veins and arteries of the HEART.Calcinosis: Pathologic deposition of calcium salts in tissues.Apolipoproteins E: A class of protein components which can be found in several lipoproteins including HIGH-DENSITY LIPOPROTEINS; VERY-LOW-DENSITY LIPOPROTEINS; and CHYLOMICRONS. Synthesized in most organs, Apo E is important in the global transport of lipids and cholesterol throughout the body. Apo E is also a ligand for LDL receptors (RECEPTORS, LDL) that mediates the binding, internalization, and catabolism of lipoprotein particles in cells. There are several allelic isoforms (such as E2, E3, and E4). Deficiency or defects in Apo E are causes of HYPERLIPOPROTEINEMIA TYPE III.Aortic Diseases: Pathological processes involving any part of the AORTA.Endarterectomy, Carotid: The excision of the thickened, atheromatous tunica intima of a carotid artery.Gingivitis: Inflammation of gum tissue (GINGIVA) without loss of connective tissue.Amyloid beta-Protein Precursor: A single-pass type I membrane protein. It is cleaved by AMYLOID PRECURSOR PROTEIN SECRETASES to produce peptides of varying amino acid lengths. A 39-42 amino acid peptide, AMYLOID BETA-PEPTIDES is a principal component of the extracellular amyloid in SENILE PLAQUES.Rupture: Forcible or traumatic tear or break of an organ or other soft part of the body.Macrophages: The relatively long-lived phagocytic cell of mammalian tissues that are derived from blood MONOCYTES. Main types are PERITONEAL MACROPHAGES; ALVEOLAR MACROPHAGES; HISTIOCYTES; KUPFFER CELLS of the liver; and OSTEOCLASTS. They may further differentiate within chronic inflammatory lesions to EPITHELIOID CELLS or may fuse to form FOREIGN BODY GIANT CELLS or LANGHANS GIANT CELLS. (from The Dictionary of Cell Biology, Lackie and Dow, 3rd ed.)Coronary Angiography: Radiography of the vascular system of the heart muscle after injection of a contrast medium.Aorta: The main trunk of the systemic arteries.Disease Models, Animal: Naturally occurring or experimentally induced animal diseases with pathological processes sufficiently similar to those of human diseases. They are used as study models for human diseases.Immunohistochemistry: Histochemical localization of immunoreactive substances using labeled antibodies as reagents.Tunica Intima: The innermost layer of an artery or vein, made up of one layer of endothelial cells and supported by an internal elastic lamina.Vascular Calcification: Deposition of calcium into the blood vessel structures. Excessive calcification of the vessels are associated with ATHEROSCLEROTIC PLAQUES formation particularly after MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION (see MONCKEBERG MEDIAL CALCIFIC SCLEROSIS) and chronic kidney diseases which in turn increase VASCULAR STIFFNESS.Mouthwashes: Solutions for rinsing the mouth, possessing cleansing, germicidal, or palliative properties. (From Boucher's Clinical Dental Terminology, 4th ed)Risk Factors: An aspect of personal behavior or lifestyle, environmental exposure, or inborn or inherited characteristic, which, on the basis of epidemiologic evidence, is known to be associated with a health-related condition considered important to prevent.Necrosis: The pathological process occurring in cells that are dying from irreparable injuries. It is caused by the progressive, uncontrolled action of degradative ENZYMES, leading to MITOCHONDRIAL SWELLING, nuclear flocculation, and cell lysis. It is distinct it from APOPTOSIS, which is a normal, regulated cellular process.Predictive Value of Tests: In screening and diagnostic tests, the probability that a person with a positive test is a true positive (i.e., has the disease), is referred to as the predictive value of a positive test; whereas, the predictive value of a negative test is the probability that the person with a negative test does not have the disease. Predictive value is related to the sensitivity and specificity of the test.Psoriasis: A common genetically determined, chronic, inflammatory skin disease characterized by rounded erythematous, dry, scaling patches. The lesions have a predilection for nails, scalp, genitalia, extensor surfaces, and the lumbosacral region. Accelerated epidermopoiesis is considered to be the fundamental pathologic feature in psoriasis.Periodontal Index: A numerical rating scale for classifying the periodontal status of a person or population with a single figure which takes into consideration prevalence as well as severity of the condition. It is based upon probe measurement of periodontal pockets and on gingival tissue status.Disease Progression: The worsening of a disease over time. This concept is most often used for chronic and incurable diseases where the stage of the disease is an important determinant of therapy and prognosis.Tomography, X-Ray Computed: Tomography using x-ray transmission and a computer algorithm to reconstruct the image.Lipids: A generic term for fats and lipoids, the alcohol-ether-soluble constituents of protoplasm, which are insoluble in water. They comprise the fats, fatty oils, essential oils, waxes, phospholipids, glycolipids, sulfolipids, aminolipids, chromolipids (lipochromes), and fatty acids. (Grant & Hackh's Chemical Dictionary, 5th ed)Brachiocephalic Trunk: The first and largest artery branching from the aortic arch. It distributes blood to the right side of the head and neck and to the right arm.Tunica Media: The middle layer of blood vessel walls, composed principally of thin, cylindrical, smooth muscle cells and elastic tissue. It accounts for the bulk of the wall of most arteries. The smooth muscle cells are arranged in circular layers around the vessel, and the thickness of the coat varies with the size of the vessel.Pleural DiseasesMice, Transgenic: Laboratory mice that have been produced from a genetically manipulated EGG or EMBRYO, MAMMALIAN.Foam Cells: Lipid-laden macrophages originating from monocytes or from smooth muscle cells.Brain: The part of CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM that is contained within the skull (CRANIUM). Arising from the NEURAL TUBE, the embryonic brain is comprised of three major parts including PROSENCEPHALON (the forebrain); MESENCEPHALON (the midbrain); and RHOMBENCEPHALON (the hindbrain). The developed brain consists of CEREBRUM; CEREBELLUM; and other structures in the BRAIN STEM.Intracranial Arteriosclerosis: Vascular diseases characterized by thickening and hardening of the walls of ARTERIES inside the SKULL. There are three subtypes: (1) atherosclerosis with fatty deposits in the ARTERIAL INTIMA; (2) Monckeberg's sclerosis with calcium deposits in the media and (3) arteriolosclerosis involving the small caliber arteries. Clinical signs include HEADACHE; CONFUSION; transient blindness (AMAUROSIS FUGAX); speech impairment; and HEMIPARESIS.Aorta, Abdominal: The aorta from the DIAPHRAGM to the bifurcation into the right and left common iliac arteries.Severity of Illness Index: Levels within a diagnostic group which are established by various measurement criteria applied to the seriousness of a patient's disorder.Acute Coronary Syndrome: An episode of MYOCARDIAL ISCHEMIA that generally lasts longer than a transient anginal episode that ultimately may lead to MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION.Coronary Thrombosis: Coagulation of blood in any of the CORONARY VESSELS. The presence of a blood clot (THROMBUS) often leads to MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION.Vasa Vasorum: Nutrient blood vessels which supply the walls of large arteries or veins.Carotid Artery, Common: The two principal arteries supplying the structures of the head and neck. They ascend in the neck, one on each side, and at the level of the upper border of the thyroid cartilage, each divides into two branches, the external (CAROTID ARTERY, EXTERNAL) and internal (CAROTID ARTERY, INTERNAL) carotid arteries.Time Factors: Elements of limited time intervals, contributing to particular results or situations.Periodontitis: Inflammation and loss of connective tissues supporting or surrounding the teeth. This may involve any part of the PERIODONTIUM. Periodontitis is currently classified by disease progression (CHRONIC PERIODONTITIS; AGGRESSIVE PERIODONTITIS) instead of age of onset. (From 1999 International Workshop for a Classification of Periodontal Diseases and Conditions, American Academy of Periodontology)Virus Cultivation: Process of growing viruses in live animals, plants, or cultured cells.Rabbits: The species Oryctolagus cuniculus, in the family Leporidae, order LAGOMORPHA. Rabbits are born in burrows, furless, and with eyes and ears closed. In contrast with HARES, rabbits have 22 chromosome pairs.Biological Markers: Measurable and quantifiable biological parameters (e.g., specific enzyme concentration, specific hormone concentration, specific gene phenotype distribution in a population, presence of biological substances) which serve as indices for health- and physiology-related assessments, such as disease risk, psychiatric disorders, environmental exposure and its effects, disease diagnosis, metabolic processes, substance abuse, pregnancy, cell line development, epidemiologic studies, etc.Toothbrushing: The act of cleaning teeth with a brush to remove plaque and prevent tooth decay. (From Webster, 3d ed)Diet, Atherogenic: A diet that contributes to the development and acceleration of ATHEROGENESIS.Coronary Stenosis: Narrowing or constriction of a coronary artery.Inflammation: A pathological process characterized by injury or destruction of tissues caused by a variety of cytologic and chemical reactions. It is usually manifested by typical signs of pain, heat, redness, swelling, and loss of function.Atherectomy, Coronary: Percutaneous transluminal procedure for removing atheromatous plaque from the coronary arteries. Both directional (for removing focal atheromas) and rotational (for removing concentric atheromatous plaque) atherectomy devices have been used.Mice, Knockout: Strains of mice in which certain GENES of their GENOMES have been disrupted, or "knocked-out". To produce knockouts, using RECOMBINANT DNA technology, the normal DNA sequence of the gene being studied is altered to prevent synthesis of a normal gene product. Cloned cells in which this DNA alteration is successful are then injected into mouse EMBRYOS to produce chimeric mice. The chimeric mice are then bred to yield a strain in which all the cells of the mouse contain the disrupted gene. Knockout mice are used as EXPERIMENTAL ANIMAL MODELS for diseases (DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL) and to clarify the functions of the genes.Magnetic Resonance Imaging: Non-invasive method of demonstrating internal anatomy based on the principle that atomic nuclei in a strong magnetic field absorb pulses of radiofrequency energy and emit them as radiowaves which can be reconstructed into computerized images. The concept includes proton spin tomographic techniques.Dental Caries: Localized destruction of the tooth surface initiated by decalcification of the enamel followed by enzymatic lysis of organic structures and leading to cavity formation. If left unchecked, the cavity may penetrate the enamel and dentin and reach the pulp.Veillonella: A genus of gram-negative, anaerobic cocci parasitic in the mouth and in the intestinal and respiratory tracts of man and other animals.Femoral Artery: The main artery of the thigh, a continuation of the external iliac artery.Angina, Stable: Persistent and reproducible chest discomfort usually precipitated by a physical exertion that dissipates upon cessation of such an activity. The symptoms are manifestations of MYOCARDIAL ISCHEMIA.Prospective Studies: Observation of a population for a sufficient number of persons over a sufficient number of years to generate incidence or mortality rates subsequent to the selection of the study group.Cells, Cultured: Cells propagated in vitro in special media conducive to their growth. Cultured cells are used to study developmental, morphologic, metabolic, physiologic, and genetic processes, among others.Periodontal Diseases: Pathological processes involving the PERIODONTIUM including the gum (GINGIVA), the alveolar bone (ALVEOLAR PROCESS), the DENTAL CEMENTUM, and the PERIODONTAL LIGAMENT.Desmosomes: A type of junction that attaches one cell to its neighbor. One of a number of differentiated regions which occur, for example, where the cytoplasmic membranes of adjacent epithelial cells are closely apposed. It consists of a circular region of each membrane together with associated intracellular microfilaments and an intercellular material which may include, for example, mucopolysaccharides. (From Glick, Glossary of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, 1990; Singleton & Sainsbury, Dictionary of Microbiology and Molecular Biology, 2d ed)Aorta, Thoracic: The portion of the descending aorta proceeding from the arch of the aorta and extending to the DIAPHRAGM, eventually connecting to the ABDOMINAL AORTA.Carotid Artery, Internal: Branch of the common carotid artery which supplies the anterior part of the brain, the eye and its appendages, the forehead and nose.Penile Induration: A condition characterized by hardening of the PENIS due to the formation of fibrous plaques on the dorsolateral aspect of the PENIS, usually involving the membrane (tunica albuginea) surrounding the erectile tissue (corpus cavernosum penis). This may eventually cause a painful deformity of the shaft or constriction of the urethra, or both.Cariogenic Agents: Substances that promote DENTAL CARIES.Cytopathogenic Effect, Viral: Visible morphologic changes in cells infected with viruses. It includes shutdown of cellular RNA and protein synthesis, cell fusion, release of lysosomal enzymes, changes in cell membrane permeability, diffuse changes in intracellular structures, presence of viral inclusion bodies, and chromosomal aberrations. It excludes malignant transformation, which is CELL TRANSFORMATION, VIRAL. Viral cytopathogenic effects provide a valuable method for identifying and classifying the infecting viruses.Mice, Inbred C57BLAngina, Unstable: Precordial pain at rest, which may precede a MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION.Angina Pectoris: The symptom of paroxysmal pain consequent to MYOCARDIAL ISCHEMIA usually of distinctive character, location and radiation. It is thought to be provoked by a transient stressful situation during which the oxygen requirements of the MYOCARDIUM exceed that supplied by the CORONARY CIRCULATION.Magnetic Resonance Angiography: Non-invasive method of vascular imaging and determination of internal anatomy without injection of contrast media or radiation exposure. The technique is used especially in CEREBRAL ANGIOGRAPHY as well as for studies of other vascular structures.Cell Line: Established cell cultures that have the potential to propagate indefinitely.Reproducibility of Results: The statistical reproducibility of measurements (often in a clinical context), including the testing of instrumentation or techniques to obtain reproducible results. The concept includes reproducibility of physiological measurements, which may be used to develop rules to assess probability or prognosis, or response to a stimulus; reproducibility of occurrence of a condition; and reproducibility of experimental results.Oral Hygiene: The practice of personal hygiene of the mouth. It includes the maintenance of oral cleanliness, tissue tone, and general preservation of oral health.Hydroxymethylglutaryl-CoA Reductase Inhibitors: Compounds that inhibit HMG-CoA reductases. They have been shown to directly lower cholesterol synthesis.Amyloid: A fibrous protein complex that consists of proteins folded into a specific cross beta-pleated sheet structure. This fibrillar structure has been found as an alternative folding pattern for a variety of functional proteins. Deposits of amyloid in the form of AMYLOID PLAQUES are associated with a variety of degenerative diseases. The amyloid structure has also been found in a number of functional proteins that are unrelated to disease.Thrombosis: Formation and development of a thrombus or blood clot in the blood vessel.Multidetector Computed Tomography: Types of spiral computed tomography technology in which multiple slices of data are acquired simultaneously improving the resolution over single slice acquisition technology.Muscle, Smooth, Vascular: The nonstriated involuntary muscle tissue of blood vessels.Contrast Media: Substances used to allow enhanced visualization of tissues.Cholesterol: The principal sterol of all higher animals, distributed in body tissues, especially the brain and spinal cord, and in animal fats and oils.Fibrosis: Any pathological condition where fibrous connective tissue invades any organ, usually as a consequence of inflammation or other injury.Image Processing, Computer-Assisted: A technique of inputting two-dimensional images into a computer and then enhancing or analyzing the imagery into a form that is more useful to the human observer.Stress, Mechanical: A purely physical condition which exists within any material because of strain or deformation by external forces or by non-uniform thermal expansion; expressed quantitatively in units of force per unit area.Autopsy: Postmortem examination of the body.Gingival Hemorrhage: The flowing of blood from the marginal gingival area, particularly the sulcus, seen in such conditions as GINGIVITIS, marginal PERIODONTITIS, injury, and ASCORBIC ACID DEFICIENCY.Periodontal Pocket: An abnormal extension of a gingival sulcus accompanied by the apical migration of the epithelial attachment and bone resorption.Sensitivity and Specificity: Binary classification measures to assess test results. Sensitivity or recall rate is the proportion of true positives. Specificity is the probability of correctly determining the absence of a condition. (From Last, Dictionary of Epidemiology, 2d ed)Myocytes, Smooth Muscle: Non-striated, elongated, spindle-shaped cells found lining the digestive tract, uterus, and blood vessels. They are derived from specialized myoblasts (MYOBLASTS, SMOOTH MUSCLE).Saliva: The clear, viscous fluid secreted by the SALIVARY GLANDS and mucous glands of the mouth. It contains MUCINS, water, organic salts, and ptylin.Streptococcus sanguis: A gram-positive organism found in dental plaque, in blood, on heart valves in subacute endocarditis, and infrequently in saliva and throat specimens. L-forms are associated with recurrent aphthous stomatitis.Asymptomatic Diseases: Diseases that do not exhibit symptoms.Ultrasonography: The visualization of deep structures of the body by recording the reflections or echoes of ultrasonic pulses directed into the tissues. Use of ultrasound for imaging or diagnostic purposes employs frequencies ranging from 1.6 to 10 megahertz.Antigens, Differentiation, Myelomonocytic: Surface antigens expressed on myeloid cells of the granulocyte-monocyte-histiocyte series during differentiation. Analysis of their reactivity in normal and malignant myelomonocytic cells is useful in identifying and classifying human leukemias and lymphomas.Arteries: The vessels carrying blood away from the heart.Arteritis: INFLAMMATION of any ARTERIES.C-Reactive Protein: A plasma protein that circulates in increased amounts during inflammation and after tissue damage.Myocardial Infarction: NECROSIS of the MYOCARDIUM caused by an obstruction of the blood supply to the heart (CORONARY CIRCULATION).Neurofibrils: The delicate interlacing threads, formed by aggregations of neurofilaments and neurotubules, coursing through the CYTOPLASM of the body of a NEURON and extending from one DENDRITE into another or into the AXON.Microscopy, Electron: Microscopy using an electron beam, instead of light, to visualize the sample, thereby allowing much greater magnification. The interactions of ELECTRONS with specimens are used to provide information about the fine structure of that specimen. In TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY the reactions of the electrons that are transmitted through the specimen are imaged. In SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY an electron beam falls at a non-normal angle on the specimen and the image is derived from the reactions occurring above the plane of the specimen.Risk Assessment: The qualitative or quantitative estimation of the likelihood of adverse effects that may result from exposure to specified health hazards or from the absence of beneficial influences. (Last, Dictionary of Epidemiology, 1988)Carotid Intima-Media Thickness: A measurement of the thickness of the carotid artery walls. It is measured by B-mode ULTRASONOGRAPHY and is used as a surrogate marker for ATHEROSCLEROSIS.Lipoproteins, LDL: A class of lipoproteins of small size (18-25 nm) and light (1.019-1.063 g/ml) particles with a core composed mainly of CHOLESTEROL ESTERS and smaller amounts of TRIGLYCERIDES. The surface monolayer consists mostly of PHOSPHOLIPIDS, a single copy of APOLIPOPROTEIN B-100, and free cholesterol molecules. The main LDL function is to transport cholesterol and cholesterol esters to extrahepatic tissues.Matrix Metalloproteinase 9: An endopeptidase that is structurally similar to MATRIX METALLOPROTEINASE 2. It degrades GELATIN types I and V; COLLAGEN TYPE IV; and COLLAGEN TYPE V.Stroke: A group of pathological conditions characterized by sudden, non-convulsive loss of neurological function due to BRAIN ISCHEMIA or INTRACRANIAL HEMORRHAGES. Stroke is classified by the type of tissue NECROSIS, such as the anatomic location, vasculature involved, etiology, age of the affected individual, and hemorrhagic vs. non-hemorrhagic nature. (From Adams et al., Principles of Neurology, 6th ed, pp777-810)Follow-Up Studies: Studies in which individuals or populations are followed to assess the outcome of exposures, procedures, or effects of a characteristic, e.g., occurrence of disease.Ultrasonography, Doppler, Duplex: Ultrasonography applying the Doppler effect combined with real-time imaging. The real-time image is created by rapid movement of the ultrasound beam. A powerful advantage of this technique is the ability to estimate the velocity of flow from the Doppler shift frequency.Virus Replication: The process of intracellular viral multiplication, consisting of the synthesis of PROTEINS; NUCLEIC ACIDS; and sometimes LIPIDS, and their assembly into a new infectious particle.No-Reflow Phenomenon: Markedly reduced or absent REPERFUSION in an infarct zone following the removal of an obstruction or constriction of an artery.Desmoplakins: Desmoplakins are cytoskeletal linker proteins that anchor INTERMEDIATE FILAMENTS to the PLASMA MEMBRANE at DESMOSOMES.Endothelium, Vascular: Single pavement layer of cells which line the luminal surface of the entire vascular system and regulate the transport of macromolecules and blood components.Haplorhini: A suborder of PRIMATES consisting of six families: CEBIDAE (some New World monkeys), ATELIDAE (some New World monkeys), CERCOPITHECIDAE (Old World monkeys), HYLOBATIDAE (gibbons and siamangs), CALLITRICHINAE (marmosets and tamarins), and HOMINIDAE (humans and great apes).Dentifrices: Any preparations used for cleansing teeth; they usually contain an abrasive, detergent, binder and flavoring agent and may exist in the form of liquid, paste or powder; may also contain medicaments and caries preventives.Peptide Fragments: Partial proteins formed by partial hydrolysis of complete proteins or generated through PROTEIN ENGINEERING techniques.Amyloid Precursor Protein Secretases: Endopeptidases that are specific for AMYLOID PROTEIN PRECURSOR. Three secretase subtypes referred to as alpha, beta, and gamma have been identified based upon the region of amyloid protein precursor they cleave.Models, Cardiovascular: Theoretical representations that simulate the behavior or activity of the cardiovascular system, processes, or phenomena; includes the use of mathematical equations, computers and other electronic equipment.Endarterectomy: Surgical excision, performed under general anesthesia, of the atheromatous tunica intima of an artery. When reconstruction of an artery is performed as an endovascular procedure through a catheter, it is called ATHERECTOMY.Image Interpretation, Computer-Assisted: Methods developed to aid in the interpretation of ultrasound, radiographic images, etc., for diagnosis of disease.Asbestosis: A form of pneumoconiosis caused by inhalation of asbestos fibers which elicit potent inflammatory responses in the parenchyma of the lung. The disease is characterized by interstitial fibrosis of the lung, varying from scattered sites to extensive scarring of the alveolar interstitium.Collagen: A polypeptide substance comprising about one third of the total protein in mammalian organisms. It is the main constituent of SKIN; CONNECTIVE TISSUE; and the organic substance of bones (BONE AND BONES) and teeth (TOOTH).Hemorrhage: Bleeding or escape of blood from a vessel.Carotid Artery Thrombosis: Blood clot formation in any part of the CAROTID ARTERIES. This may produce CAROTID STENOSIS or occlusion of the vessel, leading to TRANSIENT ISCHEMIC ATTACK; CEREBRAL INFARCTION; or AMAUROSIS FUGAX.tau Proteins: Microtubule-associated proteins that are mainly expressed in neurons. Tau proteins constitute several isoforms and play an important role in the assembly of tubulin monomers into microtubules and in maintaining the cytoskeleton and axonal transport. Aggregation of specific sets of tau proteins in filamentous inclusions is the common feature of intraneuronal and glial fibrillar lesions (NEUROFIBRILLARY TANGLES; NEUROPIL THREADS) in numerous neurodegenerative disorders (ALZHEIMER DISEASE; TAUOPATHIES).Molecular Sequence Data: Descriptions of specific amino acid, carbohydrate, or nucleotide sequences which have appeared in the published literature and/or are deposited in and maintained by databanks such as GENBANK, European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL), National Biomedical Research Foundation (NBRF), or other sequence repositories.Mutation: Any detectable and heritable change in the genetic material that causes a change in the GENOTYPE and which is transmitted to daughter cells and to succeeding generations.Chlamydophila pneumoniae: A species of CHLAMYDOPHILA that causes acute respiratory infection, especially atypical pneumonia, in humans, horses, and koalas.Tomography, Spiral Computed: Computed tomography where there is continuous X-ray exposure to the patient while being transported in a spiral or helical pattern through the beam of irradiation. This provides improved three-dimensional contrast and spatial resolution compared to conventional computed tomography, where data is obtained and computed from individual sequential exposures.Hypercholesterolemia: A condition with abnormally high levels of CHOLESTEROL in the blood. It is defined as a cholesterol value exceeding the 95th percentile for the population.Mouth: The oval-shaped oral cavity located at the apex of the digestive tract and consisting of two parts: the vestibule and the oral cavity proper.Gingiva: Oral tissue surrounding and attached to TEETH.Imaging, Three-Dimensional: The process of generating three-dimensional images by electronic, photographic, or other methods. For example, three-dimensional images can be generated by assembling multiple tomographic images with the aid of a computer, while photographic 3-D images (HOLOGRAPHY) can be made by exposing film to the interference pattern created when two laser light sources shine on an object.Neutralization Tests: The measurement of infection-blocking titer of ANTISERA by testing a series of dilutions for a given virus-antiserum interaction end-point, which is generally the dilution at which tissue cultures inoculated with the serum-virus mixtures demonstrate cytopathology (CPE) or the dilution at which 50% of test animals injected with serum-virus mixtures show infectivity (ID50) or die (LD50).Dental Prophylaxis: Treatment for the prevention of periodontal diseases or other dental diseases by the cleaning of the teeth in the dental office using the procedures of DENTAL SCALING and DENTAL POLISHING. The treatment may include plaque detection, removal of supra- and subgingival plaque and calculus, application of caries-preventing agents, checking of restorations and prostheses and correcting overhanging margins and proximal contours of restorations, and checking for signs of food impaction.Ulcer: A lesion on the surface of the skin or a mucous surface, produced by the sloughing of inflammatory necrotic tissue.Heptanoic Acids: 7-carbon saturated monocarboxylic acids.Staining and Labeling: The marking of biological material with a dye or other reagent for the purpose of identifying and quantitating components of tissues, cells or their extracts.Stents: Devices that provide support for tubular structures that are being anastomosed or for body cavities during skin grafting.Embolism: Blocking of a blood vessel by an embolus which can be a blood clot or other undissolved material in the blood stream.Phenotype: The outward appearance of the individual. It is the product of interactions between genes, and between the GENOTYPE and the environment.Thermography: Imaging the temperatures in a material, or in the body or an organ. Imaging is based on self-emanating infrared radiation (HEAT WAVES), or on changes in properties of the material or tissue that vary with temperature, such as ELASTICITY; MAGNETIC FIELD; or LUMINESCENCE.Cerebral Amyloid Angiopathy: A heterogeneous group of sporadic or familial disorders characterized by AMYLOID deposits in the walls of small and medium sized blood vessels of CEREBRAL CORTEX and MENINGES. Clinical features include multiple, small lobar CEREBRAL HEMORRHAGE; cerebral ischemia (BRAIN ISCHEMIA); and CEREBRAL INFARCTION. Cerebral amyloid angiopathy is unrelated to generalized AMYLOIDOSIS. Amyloidogenic peptides in this condition are nearly always the same ones found in ALZHEIMER DISEASE. (from Kumar: Robbins and Cotran: Pathologic Basis of Disease, 7th ed., 2005)Chi-Square Distribution: A distribution in which a variable is distributed like the sum of the squares of any given independent random variable, each of which has a normal distribution with mean of zero and variance of one. The chi-square test is a statistical test based on comparison of a test statistic to a chi-square distribution. The oldest of these tests are used to detect whether two or more population distributions differ from one another.Tin Fluorides: Inorganic fluorides of tin. They include both stannic fluoride (tin tetrafluoride) and stannous fluoride (tin difluoride). The latter is used in the prevention of dental caries.Treatment Outcome: Evaluation undertaken to assess the results or consequences of management and procedures used in combating disease in order to determine the efficacy, effectiveness, safety, and practicability of these interventions in individual cases or series.Embolism, Cholesterol: Blocking of a blood vessel by CHOLESTEROL-rich atheromatous deposits, generally occurring in the flow from a large artery to small arterial branches. It is also called arterial-arterial embolization or atheroembolism which may be spontaneous or iatrogenic. Patients with spontaneous atheroembolism often have painful, cyanotic digits of acute onset.Atherectomy: Endovascular procedure in which atheromatous plaque is excised by a cutting or rotating catheter. It differs from balloon and laser angioplasty procedures which enlarge vessels by dilation but frequently do not remove much plaque. If the plaque is removed by surgical excision under general anesthesia rather than by an endovascular procedure through a catheter, it is called ENDARTERECTOMY.Observer Variation: The failure by the observer to measure or identify a phenomenon accurately, which results in an error. Sources for this may be due to the observer's missing an abnormality, or to faulty technique resulting in incorrect test measurement, or to misinterpretation of the data. Two varieties are inter-observer variation (the amount observers vary from one another when reporting on the same material) and intra-observer variation (the amount one observer varies between observations when reporting more than once on the same material).Oral Hygiene Index: A combination of the debris index and the dental calculus index to determine the status of oral hygiene.Chronic Periodontitis: Chronic inflammation and loss of PERIODONTIUM that is associated with the amount of DENTAL PLAQUE or DENTAL CALCULUS present. Chronic periodontitis occurs mostly in adults and was called adult periodontitis, but this disease can appear in young people.Plakophilins: Members of the armadillo family of proteins that are found in DESMOSOMES and interact with various proteins including desmocadherins; DESMOPLAKIN; ACTIN FILAMENTS; and KERATINS.Lipid Metabolism: Physiological processes in biosynthesis (anabolism) and degradation (catabolism) of LIPIDS.Periodontal Attachment Loss: Loss or destruction of periodontal tissue caused by periodontitis or other destructive periodontal diseases or by injury during instrumentation. Attachment refers to the periodontal ligament which attaches to the alveolar bone. It has been hypothesized that treatment of the underlying periodontal disease and the seeding of periodontal ligament cells enable the creating of new attachment.Fluorescent Antibody Technique: Test for tissue antigen using either a direct method, by conjugation of antibody with fluorescent dye (FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE, DIRECT) or an indirect method, by formation of antigen-antibody complex which is then labeled with fluorescein-conjugated anti-immunoglobulin antibody (FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE, INDIRECT). The tissue is then examined by fluorescence microscopy.Monocytes: Large, phagocytic mononuclear leukocytes produced in the vertebrate BONE MARROW and released into the BLOOD; contain a large, oval or somewhat indented nucleus surrounded by voluminous cytoplasm and numerous organelles.Bacteriophages: Viruses whose hosts are bacterial cells.Cercopithecus aethiops: A species of CERCOPITHECUS containing three subspecies: C. tantalus, C. pygerythrus, and C. sabeus. They are found in the forests and savannah of Africa. The African green monkey (C. pygerythrus) is the natural host of SIMIAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS and is used in AIDS research.Cholesterol, Dietary: Cholesterol present in food, especially in animal products.Vasculitis: Inflammation of any one of the blood vessels, including the ARTERIES; VEINS; and rest of the vasculature system in the body.Dental Calculus: Abnormal concretion or calcified deposit that forms around the teeth or dental prostheses.Tomography, Optical Coherence: An imaging method using LASERS that is used for mapping subsurface structure. When a reflective site in the sample is at the same optical path length (coherence) as the reference mirror, the detector observes interference fringes.Culture Techniques: Methods of maintaining or growing biological materials in controlled laboratory conditions. These include the cultures of CELLS; TISSUES; organs; or embryo in vitro. Both animal and plant tissues may be cultured by a variety of methods. Cultures may derive from normal or abnormal tissues, and consist of a single cell type or mixed cell types.Fusobacterium nucleatum: A species of gram-negative, anaerobic, rod-shaped bacteria isolated from the gingival margin and sulcus and from infections of the upper respiratory tract and pleural cavity.RNA, Messenger: RNA sequences that serve as templates for protein synthesis. Bacterial mRNAs are generally primary transcripts in that they do not require post-transcriptional processing. Eukaryotic mRNA is synthesized in the nucleus and must be exported to the cytoplasm for translation. Most eukaryotic mRNAs have a sequence of polyadenylic acid at the 3' end, referred to as the poly(A) tail. The function of this tail is not known for certain, but it may play a role in the export of mature mRNA from the nucleus as well as in helping stabilize some mRNA molecules by retarding their degradation in the cytoplasm.Coronary Disease: An imbalance between myocardial functional requirements and the capacity of the CORONARY VESSELS to supply sufficient blood flow. It is a form of MYOCARDIAL ISCHEMIA (insufficient blood supply to the heart muscle) caused by a decreased capacity of the coronary vessels.Dermatologic Agents: Drugs used to treat or prevent skin disorders or for the routine care of skin.Positron-Emission Tomography: An imaging technique using compounds labelled with short-lived positron-emitting radionuclides (such as carbon-11, nitrogen-13, oxygen-15 and fluorine-18) to measure cell metabolism. It has been useful in study of soft tissues such as CANCER; CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM; and brain. SINGLE-PHOTON EMISSION-COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY is closely related to positron emission tomography, but uses isotopes with longer half-lives and resolution is lower.Angioplasty, Balloon, Coronary: Dilation of an occluded coronary artery (or arteries) by means of a balloon catheter to restore myocardial blood supply.Pleura: The thin serous membrane enveloping the lungs (LUNG) and lining the THORACIC CAVITY. Pleura consist of two layers, the inner visceral pleura lying next to the pulmonary parenchyma and the outer parietal pleura. Between the two layers is the PLEURAL CAVITY which contains a thin film of liquid.Gerstmann-Straussler-Scheinker Disease: An autosomal dominant familial prion disease with a wide spectrum of clinical presentations including ATAXIA, spastic paraparesis, extrapyramidal signs, and DEMENTIA. Clinical onset is in the third to sixth decade of life and the mean duration of illness prior to death is five years. Several kindreds with variable clinical and pathologic features have been described. Pathologic features include cerebral prion protein amyloidosis, and spongiform or neurofibrillary degeneration. (From Brain Pathol 1998 Jul;8(3):499-513; Brain Pathol 1995 Jan;5(1):61-75)Streptococcus oralis: A species of gram-positive, coccoid bacteria that is numerous in the mouth and throat. It is a common cause of endocarditis and is also implicated in dental plaque formation.Vero Cells: A CELL LINE derived from the kidney of the African green (vervet) monkey, (CERCOPITHECUS AETHIOPS) used primarily in virus replication studies and plaque assays.Congo Red: An acid dye used in testing for hydrochloric acid in gastric contents. It is also used histologically to test for AMYLOIDOSIS.Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay: An immunoassay utilizing an antibody labeled with an enzyme marker such as horseradish peroxidase. While either the enzyme or the antibody is bound to an immunosorbent substrate, they both retain their biologic activity; the change in enzyme activity as a result of the enzyme-antibody-antigen reaction is proportional to the concentration of the antigen and can be measured spectrophotometrically or with the naked eye. Many variations of the method have been developed.Chlorhexidine: A disinfectant and topical anti-infective agent used also as mouthwash to prevent oral plaque.Matrix Metalloproteinase 8: A member of the MATRIX METALLOPROTEINASES that cleaves triple-helical COLLAGEN types I, II, and III.Porphyromonas gingivalis: A species of gram-negative, anaerobic, rod-shaped bacteria originally classified within the BACTEROIDES genus. This bacterium produces a cell-bound, oxygen-sensitive collagenase and is isolated from the human mouth.Vinculin: A cytoskeletal protein associated with cell-cell and cell-matrix interactions. The amino acid sequence of human vinculin has been determined. The protein consists of 1066 amino acid residues and its gene has been assigned to chromosome 10.Hyperlipidemias: Conditions with excess LIPIDS in the blood.Ultrasonography, Doppler, Color: Ultrasonography applying the Doppler effect, with the superposition of flow information as colors on a gray scale in a real-time image. This type of ultrasonography is well-suited to identifying the location of high-velocity flow (such as in a stenosis) or of mapping the extent of flow in a certain region.Ruthenium Radioisotopes: Unstable isotopes of ruthenium that decay or disintegrate emitting radiation. Ru atoms with atomic weights 93-95, 97, 103, and 105-108 are radioactive ruthenium isotopes.Image Enhancement: Improvement of the quality of a picture by various techniques, including computer processing, digital filtering, echocardiographic techniques, light and ultrastructural MICROSCOPY, fluorescence spectrometry and microscopy, scintigraphy, and in vitro image processing at the molecular level.Toothpastes: Dentifrices that are formulated into a paste form. They typically contain abrasives, HUMECTANTS; DETERGENTS; FLAVORING AGENTS; and CARIOSTATIC AGENTS.Pyrroles: Azoles of one NITROGEN and two double bonds that have aromatic chemical properties.Agar: A complex sulfated polymer of galactose units, extracted from Gelidium cartilagineum, Gracilaria confervoides, and related red algae. It is used as a gel in the preparation of solid culture media for microorganisms, as a bulk laxative, in making emulsions, and as a supporting medium for immunodiffusion and immunoelectrophoresis.Gingival Pocket: An abnormal extension of a gingival sulcus not accompanied by the apical migration of the epithelial attachment.Dental Scaling: Removal of dental plaque and dental calculus from the surface of a tooth, from the surface of a tooth apical to the gingival margin accumulated in periodontal pockets, or from the surface coronal to the gingival margin.Statistics, Nonparametric: A class of statistical methods applicable to a large set of probability distributions used to test for correlation, location, independence, etc. In most nonparametric statistical tests, the original scores or observations are replaced by another variable containing less information. An important class of nonparametric tests employs the ordinal properties of the data. Another class of tests uses information about whether an observation is above or below some fixed value such as the median, and a third class is based on the frequency of the occurrence of runs in the data. (From McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific and Technical Terms, 4th ed, p1284; Corsini, Concise Encyclopedia of Psychology, 1987, p764-5)Base Sequence: The sequence of PURINES and PYRIMIDINES in nucleic acids and polynucleotides. It is also called nucleotide sequence.Facial DermatosesAnticholesteremic Agents: Substances used to lower plasma CHOLESTEROL levels.Receptors, LDL: Receptors on the plasma membrane of nonhepatic cells that specifically bind LDL. The receptors are localized in specialized regions called coated pits. Hypercholesteremia is caused by an allelic genetic defect of three types: 1, receptors do not bind to LDL; 2, there is reduced binding of LDL; and 3, there is normal binding but no internalization of LDL. In consequence, entry of cholesterol esters into the cell is impaired and the intracellular feedback by cholesterol on 3-hydroxy-3-methylglutaryl CoA reductase is lacking.Retrospective Studies: Studies used to test etiologic hypotheses in which inferences about an exposure to putative causal factors are derived from data relating to characteristics of persons under study or to events or experiences in their past. The essential feature is that some of the persons under study have the disease or outcome of interest and their characteristics are compared with those of unaffected persons.
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06 Feb
A new wallpaper
Simply that, the first two wallpapers for Lubuntu Raring Ringtail, with two versions, “normal” and “particle beam”. Usually Lubuntu uses a single soft wave, so if you’re asking about the inspiration for the new design, I’ll explain:
The double wave resembles a DNA helix. Particle beam radiation is used to create mutations on some genes. So the expectation is just a useful, improved and creative mutation of previous environments (yeah, too geek, I know).
You can download it at the Raring Artwork wiki page. I hope you like it.
Note: a reminder for everybody, the Flickr pool is still open. What are you waiting? Send your hand-made wallpapers, yours may become a Lubuntu’s official background!
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09 Jul
PCManFM 1.0
PCManFM is arriving “dangerously” to 1.0 final (now it’s jusrt a release candidate). A lot of improvements within, like external thumbnailer support, new file attribute dialog, support for modifier keys on drag and drop, symbolic link creation, individual wallpapers per desktop and documentation. See the changes and download (if you like to compile by yourself). Or wait for Lubuntu repos update. It won’t be too late.
Via LXDE Blog.
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Level 75
Jun 9, 2013
Operating System
Windows 10
General explanation about different kinds of online threats. What they do, and how.
Viruses, malware, worms, adware, there are many different kinds of online threats.
It can be confusing for one to understand the level of dangerousness of each, what they do and how to remove. In this post, I will try to demystify this and shed some light on how they sneak into your machine and stay undetected.
If you think that document is missing something, please let me know I’ll be happy to add it.
• Malware: Means “Malicious Software”, this is the most general definition.
• Virus (High threat): As soon as a malware has auto-replication feature, it’s a virus. Able to infect other files, Ex: Virut/Sality
• Worm (High threat): Ability to replicate through the network. Can be by email, instant message. Most of the time it’s because the user opens it, but can also exploit some vulnerabilities to propagate. Ex: Worm/Msn
• Adware (Low threat): Means “Advertisement Software”. It will display ads to the user, or play advertisement in the background. Ex: Adware.Eorezo
• Rootkit (High threat): A rootkit modifies system memory (at user or kernel level) to hide itself and/or prevent its removal. Rootkits are usually designed to protect affiliate malware that are weaker. Ex: Rootkit ZeroAccess, Necurs
• Trojan (Medium threat): Ability to open a backdoor on a machine, and download (on demand) some other piece of malware in order to execute it.
• Dropper (Low threat): Is the entry point of an infection, it’s often encrypted and the smallest as possible to bypass antiviruses. Will download the real malware on internet (or extract from resources) and execute it (like a Trojan, yes).
• Password Stealer(High threat): Ability to steal passwords from various sources: Web (Social networks, Banks, …), FTP (to get control of web servers), Email account (to send malware or SPAM in your name). Those passwords are then sent to the attacker.
• Keylogger (High threat): Is able to save everything you type with your keyboard, take screenshots of your screen. They look for password (Like Password Stealer).
• Banker(High threat): Injects some code in your web browser when you are on a bank website (or about to buy something online), so that they get your bank credentials. Those credentials or credit cards are then sent back to the attacker. Ex: Zeus/Zbot.
• (Crypto)Ransomware (High threat): A Ransomware will either totally lock your computer, or for Crypto variants they will encrypt all your documents. In any case they ask a ransom to revert to original state. Ex: Reveton, CryptoLocker.
• Rogue Antivirus (Medium threat): They look like legit antivirus software, but they aren’t. Most of the time they display false infection, and want you to buy them to “remove” the infection. In reality there’s no infection, nor real scanner. And when you buy them, they simply do nothing.
• PUP (Low threat): That means “Potentially Unwanted Software”. They are legit software, but most of the time the user didn’t install them. They are bundled with other software, and user didn’t uncheck the “option” to install the affiliate software. Besides, most of PUPs are also Adware. Some PUPs are also using Rootkit tricks.
• Spambot (Medium threat): They are designed to send SPAMs, either directly from a compromised web server, or using victim messaging. They can also be web crawlers, searching the web for email addresses where to send SPAM.
It’s important to note that a malware can be of several types above. Actually most of them are, for example Zeus is a Banker, with Password Stealer capability, as well as Trojan to turn the machine into a zombie PC (part of a botnet).
• Botnet: It’s a group of zombie machines (bots), all linked to a C&C (see below). Botnets are often used to perform DDoS attacks, sending SPAM, bruteforce passwords (stolen from a database for example), …
• Bot (Zombie PC): A machine part of a botnet. It’s connected to the C&C, waiting for orders to execute.
• C&C (C2): A machine part of the botnet, dedicated to send commands to the others and get information and stolen data back from them. There can be one or several C&C, depending on the botnet architecture and complexity.
• DDoS: Attack by denial of service. To be efficient, must be coordinated between many different IP addresses. Often performed by a botnet. An attack will make the victim’s server/website unreachable, with possible economic consequences.
• SPAM: Illegitimate email, promoting a service, a product or anything.
• Bitcoin mining: Bitcoins are a virtual currency, that can be “mined”. We spend CPU resources (electricity in fact) to earn money.
• Exploit: A vulnerability into a software, operating system, or code in general. When exploitable, this can lead to privilege escalation (get admin rights) or remote code execution (starting a process without the consent of user). An exploit can be fixed by the software editor with a patch.
• 0-day exploit: It’s a vulnerability for which there is no patch available yet. This means everyone having the software is vulnerable.
• Exploit Kit: A kit of exploits. This is a platform server that will test your machine against many exploits, until one works. When an exploit works, the exploit kit will be able to deliver a Payload that will infect your machine. Most of the time, exploit kits are called through a malvertising.
• Payload: This is the “useful load”, the code for which all the infection chain was made for. It can be the malware itself, or its dropper.
• Malvertising: Means “malicious advertising”. It’s an ad that has been designed to call an exploit kit to infect your machine. In theory, major advertising platforms are validating ads before they are served, but smaller platforms don’t do it, or don’t do it right. Some are even created to serve malware under-the-hood.
• Compromised Server: When a server uses software with vulnerabilities, an attacker can take control of it through an exploit. When done, the compromised server can be used in a botnet, or directly to host malware, host phishing pages, send SPAM, …
• Phishing page: A webpage designed to look like a specific Bank login page, social network, anything where a user can put credentials. Those credentials will then be used for malicious actions, or sold.
• Persistence Item: This is an item that gives a malware the ability to be started at boot. It can be a registry key, a startup shortcut, a patched system file, a MBR infection, … (see below).
• Hooking: Setup a hook is an action performed by a rootkit. We can summarize that action by placing a filter on top of a system API. For example, NtOpenProcess is the API needed if we want to kill a process. If a rootkit hooks that API, it will be able to tell if the process termination is allowed or not, and protect its process.
Why are malware made?
They of course are made to make money. A lot of people are not understanding how malware writers make money.
It’s indeed a very lucrative activity, here’s a quick list of how they earn money:
• Selling malware/code: That’s the most obvious way to earn money. Malware writers sell their malware to other bad people, or sometimes they sell the source code.
• Displaying ads: That’s how adware make money. Each ad displayed/clicked generates money for them.
• Click fraud on ads: That’s another way to make money with ads. While the previous one is barely legal, this one is totally prohibited. Malware will simulate clicks on ads in the background, so the infected user will never know that his machine is clicking on ads. Ads clicked of course belong to the malware writer.
• Sending SPAM: A compromised server, or a bot, can be used to send SPAM to a list of email addresses. Spammers earn money every 1000 SPAMs sent.
• Selling Information: A banker, password stealer will bring back stolen passwords, and credit cards numbers. They are sold on black market at a rate that depends on which country they are from (Ex: 50$ for a US). Personal data can also be sold: Name – Email – Phone number, for SPAM campaigns.
• Providing easy malware installation: Rootkits can download/install/protect an affiliate malware (with compensation). Exploit kits are paid to install a particular payload.
• Selling Rogue Licenses: Rogue software owner will earn money by selling fake licenses.
• Asking Ransom: A Ransomware owner will be paid by infected people for giving them access back to machine/files. But most of the time they just take the money.
• Sell/Lease a Botnet: A Botnet can be useful for attacking a contestant, etc. Botnet owner is paid to give control of his botnet for 24/48/72 hours. The higher the number of bots, the higher the price.
• Bitcoin mining: Bitcoin mining is most of the time performed on infected machine, because malware owner will not pay power consumption. But he will get bitcoins into his own wallet.
• Selling/Blackmail DDoS attacks: Same as leasing a botnet, except that botnet owners can also blackmail a company himself by offering to NOT attacking them if they pay a ransom. Imagine a big commercial website being attacked during black Friday. They can’t, and sometimes they pay the ransom.
• Selling exploits/0-day: Some people are specialized in searching and selling 0-day exploits to bad guys. Depending on the targeted software, these 0-day exploits can be sold several thousands of dollars. They will then be integrated in exploit kits (above).
It all start with an infection
• Installed by the user itself: Fake P2P music/video file that is actually a EXE file. Fake for a software.
• Bundled software: User will download an installer for a software A, but will not uncheck affiliate programs installation. This will result with installation of software A, B, C. Unfortunately, B and C are malware.
Pdfcreator installing AVG-Toolbar
• Drive-by-download: This is the term used when speaking of malvertising, malicious web code, fake “required” plugins. It can be installed after you open an email attachement. They are installed sometimes without the user knowing it.
Fake plugin (
Malware deployment
A malware will often be deployed in several steps:
The dropper
is the file that is served first (the one you downloaded), that dropper is usually heavily encrypted, packed to bypass antiviruses. It will either unpack the payload from a resource, or download it directly from a server. Then the payload is executed.
Once executed, the payload will very often “install” itself to survive at reboot with a persistence item (see below). Additionally it can load several components to hide itself and/or harden its removal. Then it will perform the task for which is was designed.
Persistence Items
The persistence item of a malware is what makes it start at boot. Without it, malware would no longer exist after a machine is restarted.
So persistence item is the weakness of every malware infection.
Here’s a quick list of where a malware can hide its persistence item:
• Registry: RUN key, Services key, Browser Helper Object, … There are tons of different places in the registry to start a software at boot.
• Scheduled Task: We can schedule a program to start at boot.
• Startup folders: Placing a shortcut into one of them will start the program at boot.
• MBR/VBR infection (Bootkit): A bootkit will modify bootstrap/bootloader code of the Master Boot Record or Volume Boot Record to load its own driver before the operating system even loads.
• Patched system file: By modifying a legit system file (that is loaded at startup), the malware can place its own code and it will be executed at startup.
• Web browser extension: Nowadays, a computer will 99% of the time have a web browser opened during a work session. So an extension is a good choice to place malware code, plus it will have access to a lot of sensitive information.
Remaining Stealth
To remain hidden in the system, malware will often use several tips:
• Use randomly generated names to avoid detection by name.
• Hijack system names (1), Ex: svhost.exe (the real one is svchost.exe).
• Hijack system names (2), Ex: %temp%/explorer.exe (the real one is %windir%/explorer.exe). In task manager, we don’t see the full path.
• Perform process injection: Either by injecting code into existing process (like explorer.exe), or by creating a copy of existing process and by injecting code into it.
• Use hooking to hide or protect its process, persistence items.
To remove an infection, you can do it with several ways:
• Remove payload (99% of the time, a file).
• Remove persistence item(s).
Removing both is better, but either way would prevent the malware from loading.
Thanks to Adlice. Malware, Virus, What are they? - Adlice Software
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Windows Defender
In my personal view; Trojan can already considered as a high threat since in a simple definition its opening a backdoor therefore you have already been bypass with your consent, same goes to Dropper.
PUP, Rogue AV and Adware are already very respectable on their threat level.
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Dec 18, 2015
A very good and informative article on malware, etc.; a bit scary almost makes you want to get rid of your computer. Between my Malwarebytes Anti-Malware and my Charter Security Suite, whenever I am on my computer I get "pups' a lot. I will change the "a bit scary" to "a whole lot scary". I am fortunate that I found this site. I am so glad I did. Ct.Yankee.
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One Night on Call…
I am sweating and my heart is racing. Twinges of panic appear but are then suppressed by thoughts: “How are we going to stop this bleeding?” “Where is it coming from?” “What happens if we can’t- I know the answer to that.” More twinges of panic. “Lord…help…” Blood fills the wound through a large crack […]
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Hacking AKS in Paris
In mondora, we think that Software can be one of the Forces for Good. This is why we rely so much on open source — we believe that open source and inclusion will rule the developer’s world. This is the case of Kubernetes and everyone working on the cloud knows the Importance of it. It’s a fundamental milestone of a modern architecture based on microservices.
Our Azure ecosystem
We’ve been using K8s since the fall of 2016 on Microsoft Azure. To be honest, the first approach we had was a deployment from scratch on Azure Virtual Machines and it was a rather painful experience. We were struggling with it because a lot of Kubernetes components were bleeding edge. Long story short: this first cluster remained a proof of concept.
At the end of 2016 Microsoft Azure released Azure Container Services (ACS) with Kubernetes. This service provides a working Kubernetes cluster. We were able to deploy our dev, Q&A and production clusters and start the delivery of services! The experience was amazing, but the maintenance of the cluster with these services (instances monitoring, K8s updates, …) was not owned by Microsoft Azure. All of these operations were in the care of our team. We didn’t find what we were looking for. As a software company, we only wanted to keep our focus on developing new features for our products (like agyo.io), and not maintain the infrastructure.
During the last Microsoft Connect(), the game really changed. A new service called Azure Kubernetes Services (AKS) was presented, which is a fully managed Kubernetes container orchestration service owned by Microsoft Azure. No maintenance, no operations required, and finally, at the third attempt we found the product that fits our requirements!
So we planned a migration roadmap from ACS to AKS.. and (life is good!) our clever friends at Microsoft decided to help us! Microsoft has definitely changed in the last years (also for a geek like me!).
We were invited to Paris, from 18th to 22nd of June, at Azure Kubernetes Service Migration Hackfest! A great opportunity to meet the AKS product group from Redmond and start the migration using best practices from Microsoft Azure!
The mondora team was composed by me, Francesco Barbera, luca fumasoni and Manuel Serra. And we were hacking with three Microsoft rock stars: Bruno, Daniele, and Mayur!
Mondora meets Microsoft engineers
From SecOps: first of all secure it! The first step was to introduce two important pieces in the architecture to secure our secret and high availability of the services. We wrote a Jenkins pipeline that uses Azure Key Vault (AKV): Jenkins collects the secret, for example, an authentication token from AKV and uses it to populate the correct environment variable inside our K8s deployment. This technique is more secure and allowed us to easily rotate all “the secrets” in our microservices. The second step was to use Open Service Broker for Azure, and easy way to configure and manage connection strings to our Azure database backend.
After writing the CI pipelines we used Azure Resource Manager template and Azure CLI to deploy the cluster. And now with the same script, we’re able to deploy same AKS in several Azure Regions, flawlessly for our business continuity requirements! Meanwhile, Helm is used to deploy the application. Before we used Kubernetes yaml template, a single template for every microservice and now with Helm we’re able to create a single chart that rules all services. This makes it easier to start-up new services for our devs and decreases the possibility of typos or mistakes or even misconfigurations.
The Last piece of the migration was monitoring the cluster performances in order to configure Kubernetes Horizontal Pod Autoscaler with standard and custom metrics. Our core application needs to scale when a large number of messages are waiting inside an Azure Service Bus topic subscription. We used Azure NodeJS SDK to read these metrics, and after we used K8s SDK to increase the number of PODs in order to increase the number of messages elaborated! Working like a charm! As of today, HPO does not support scale on custom metrics but we trust that this feature will be released soon!
The HackFest was a success! We reached all of our objectives. We really loved this kind of experience which was not a classic training class on Azure Kubernetes Services. We took a bunch of problems to Paris and the Microsoft team helped us to solve them. We found it great to learn problem solving with Microsoft top engineers and to have the opportunity to fill the gaps with had! And last but not least mingling! The collaboration was incredibly awesome: the guys from Redmond rock!
I want to thank our team and all of the guys present in Paris, Guillaume and all teams from Microsoft France and our Microsoft Italian team Chiara, Daniele, Roberto and Stefano who trusted us and gave us the opportunity to show that in Italy we are rolling out good software solutions (not only good wine… which is true…) :-)
See you at the next Hack!
Hack Team!
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History of Mikkira
It had been over 270 years since the fall of the great city of Myrkir but it still lingered in the stories passed down through the generations. Some of those who escaped the destruction had made it to the ancient fort of Valguard, an abandoned outpost of the old kingdom, far past the outskirts of civilization. It was here, in the outlying countryside that these survivors settled down to restart their lives, and hopefully avoid the turmoil between the great houses. A decade after the fall of Myrkir, the savior of the city, Sigurd Einar is named Duke of the region by the king and the people around Valguard immediatly threw their support behind him. In rememberance to the old city and in honor of the new Duchy of Myrkir, the people decided to name their region Mikkira County, an honored spin on the now battlecry of "Myrkir".
At this time there was a young woman who lived in the glen outside of the ancient fort. She was simply known as Talia of the shire, a member of a family who had lived in that area for generations, who had helped the survivors of Myrkir when they first arrived. Due to this and the family's constant help and leadership over the years, Talia was named the defacto leader of this new little county and asked to travel to meet their Duke and swear allegience to him on their behalf. The young woman did not understand the workings of politics nor did she care, but she knew that this was needed in order to secure the protection of the people that now relied upon her leadership.
During her travels to meet the Duke Sigurd Einar, a man she had never met but heard countless stories of his bravery, she was distracted by the sights she saw. Years of destruction and war blotted the countryside and concern for family and friends back at home began to creep into her mind. She had heard the horrors as a child from those who had escaped Myrkir but to see it now with her own eyes sent chills through her. Armored man and horse marched by in the hundreds, heading towards some unknown battlefield, and Talia knew that if those men came to her doorstep, there was nothing she could do to protect her people.
The young leader of Mikkira County met with her Duke, went through the motions, swore her allegience, but didn't linger, quickly wanted to return to her people. It was apparant that the new Duke was also distracted, his thoughts focused on the King's campaign to regain its lost territories. Due to this, there was a mix up in process of granting the title of Count and family names, and Talia's nickname ended up becoming her family name, and from that day forward, the name Shire was used by every Count that followed her.
During her travels back home, observing more armored horsemen of the kingdom, an idea began to grow within the young leader's mind. Talia did not know horses well nor the tactics used by these military units, but there were herds of trisons roaming the countryside around her home and these animals she knew well. She persuaded a smith that specialized in armored barding to follow her back to her home to help her with a way to defend her people. And so began Mikkira County's creation of a heavy cavalry unit in the war trison, to be used in the defense of its people and the kingdom for the next 250 years.
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Changes not reflecting on forms while importing managed solution to organization in MS Dynamic CRM
What is the Issue?
After importing managed solution to the organization, changes on the forms not reflects.
Example- MS Dynamic CRM developer made some changes on form which is already exists in organization,like changed display name of field on form or added some function on onChange event of some field, but when imported this changes through managed solution the labels not changed or function is not added on OnChange Event of field.
The Reason-
You will face this issue in case of unmanaged changes over managed entities in the organization.These managed entities maintains the customization even after importing new changes.
We can divide the issue in two parts.
1. New events added to the form components.
2. The exiting field properties changed on the form.
The solution for issue 1-
These changes can be moved overwriting existing the managed solution which already contains the entity form which you want to update.
The solution for issue 2-
The simple solution for the first issue is to add new tab on form and move the updated fields to the new tab and format this tab as previous one.
Also, In this case, you can move the changes using same way mentioned for issue 1.
These both issues will never occur if you maintain the version of managed solution.
While deploying changes to MS Dynamic CRM try to maintain the version of managed solution.You can avoid creating new solution each time.It will avoid many failures which occurs during solution import or the updates on entities.
To maintain version and version history using the ‘Description’ and ‘Version’ fields of solution Information.
IE 11 Compatibility Issues with CRM 2011
Hey Guys!
This article is useful for those CRM users who are using Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 version on their latest IE version.
What is the Issue?
CRM users encounter the problem with CRM views- which gets misaligned or does not load properly. CRM may crash sometimes if multiple windows are open. Overall slow performance is encountered by the users.
The Reason-
This basically happens due to compatibility issues between CRM and latest versions of IE.
Just add the CRM URL to the compatibility mode!
Here are the steps that you can follow:
Step 1: Click “gear” icon on the upper right-hand side of your IE window.
Step 2: Select “Compatibility View Settings”
Step 3: In “Add this website” text box, type your CRM URL (or simply copy & paste it!)
Step 4: Click “Add”& then “Close”.
Refresh the page. You should able to work normally.
PS: Above are steps for IE 11 version. There may be a slight difference in steps, between other versions.
I hope above article is useful for you!
Do comment if you have any questions.
Thank you!
Asynchronous Processes/Workflows Stuck in InProgress/Waiting status in MS Dynamic CRM
What is the Issue?
CRM developer/User once in a life faces the issue regarding Asynchronous Processes stuck in same status i.e. InPrgress/Waiting/Pausing/Canceling.You can see the system job status is not changing.
The Reason-
The main reason behind this issue –
1. Many jobs are in waiting status.
2. Asyncoperationbase table become full due to many succeeded/canceled jobs occupied space.
3. Asynchronous processes settings are not proper.
4. The asynchronous workflows are not configured properly.
The solution for this issue –
1. Very first step is to restart the Microsoft Dynamics CRM Asynchronous Processing Service. This might work in many cases.
2. Many Jobs are in waiting status->
you can update the job status to canceled and completed by creating console application or from database-
a. Create the console and use the script –
b. Using Database Query-
Note- You should create restore(Checkpoint) point first before working on database directly to rollback changes if needed.
You can use “where statusCode=10 –Waiting”.
3. Asyncoperationbase table become full due to many succeeded/canceled jobs occupied space –
You need to cleanup the database by deleting the succeeded and canceled jobs-
Make sure that only the following Async operation types are deleted if the state code of the types is 3 and the status code of the types is 30 or 32:
• Workflow Expansion Task (1)
• Collect SQM data (9)
• PersistMatchCode (12)
• FullTextCatalogIndex (25)
• UpdateContractStates (27)
• Workflow (10)
If script took very long time then you should stop the script and rebuild the indexes for AsyncOperationBase as well as PrincipalObjectAccess tables. And run the script again.
4. You can check if the values are optimal-
• AsyncItemsInMemoryHigh
• AsyncItemsInMemoryLow
• AsyncStateStatusUpdateInterval
• AsyncMaximumThreadsPerCPU
• AsyncSelectInterval
• AsyncSelectParallelism
• AsyncThrottlingConfiguration
Also you can check the ‘AsyncSdkRootDomain’ setting from [MSCRM_CONFIG].[dbo].[DeploymentProperties]
Recommended value of ‘AsyncSdkRootDomain’ should be same as ‘ADSdkRootDomain’. Or you can put server name as value.
5. And Finally you can check your asynchronous work flow logic.
There are many possibilities the workflows are stuck due to internal logic.
You have to restart the Microsoft Dynamics CRM Asynchronous Processing Service after executing any above step.
MS Dynamics CRM Performance Diagnostics
What is the Issue?
CRM performance becomes very slow. But there is no clue what could be the reason behind slowness of CRM.
The Reason-
There might be several reasons to CRM performing very slow.
-Heavy customization on Entities
-APP Pool issue
-Asynchronous services performance
-Database issue
-Network related issues.
Let’s see the solution for slow performance-
1.Heavy Customization on Entities-
-Try to make pages lighter by reducing the function calls on page load.
-If performance observed very slow on any event of some particular entity, check the workflows/plugins execution and try to make them asynchronous if possible. This will definitely improve the performance of your CRM.
2.Application pool issue-
-Sometimes there might be issue with application pool, which needs to be periodically recycled.
3.Asynchronous service Performance-
-This is the another issue which affects the crm performance. Restart the asynchronous service to resume/speedup the pending asynchronous workflows which are causing slowness in some operations.
-you can check here if you are facing some issue with asynchronous services-Asynchronous Processes/Wrokflows Stuck in InProgress/Waiting status in MS Dynamic CRM
4.Database issues-
-This is the common issue MS Dynamics CRM developer faces in a life. Due to heavy data loaded in database the crm might take time to perform operations like creating records, retrieving records, loading the views in some particular entity form. You can create indexes or recreate indexes if already exist, on such a tables which is having heavy load of data. This will be improve performance more significantly.
5.Network Related issues-
-Very rarely user will face the slowness of CRM performance due to network related issues if they have some complex network structure, which causes the high latency in the network.
-In the case of NLB, slow performance issue might be observed by the CRM Users.In this case the you can check NLB settings.
MS Dynamics CRM provides the inbuilt diagnostics tool. You can use this tool to check point 1 and point 5. You can use tool like-http://<YourCRMServerURL>/tools/diagnostics/diag.aspx
Another great tool that is built in tool available into CRM (2013 SP1 and up) is the CRM Performance Center. Try this with IE.
To activate, log into CRM then press CTRL+Shift+Q on your keyboard. Click Enable, then click Refresh. When browsing in CRM, this will capture how long it takes components to load. This is a great alternative to tools like Fiddler and won’t require you to install additional third-party tools.
You can also refer-
Optimizing and maintaining client performance for Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 and CRM Online
Hope this will help you…
“Unsaved Changes” Message after saving the record in Ms Dynamic CRM
What is the Issue?
Sometime user saves the record, even after saving the crm shows unsaved changes on form. Also if we try to “save and close/Close” the current saved record the popup continues with message – “Unsaved changes on form”.
The Reason-
This causes due to –
1. Some JavaScript is setting the field value on ‘onLoad’ event of form.
2. Some Business Rule is setting the field value.
3. Some field/fields are locked on form and populating through script.
To solve this issue –
1. If JavaScript function is the reason, then add check condition-
if (Xrm.Page.ui.getFormType() == 1) {
//populate your values
// formType=1 is for Create record
This will populate the values in fields only first time i.e. the record is not saved yet.
2. If Business Rule is the reason, then add check condition before populating values-
IF Created On does not Contains Data
Then populate values
The created On field contains data only for existing/saved records and this field
populates only once,on first save of record.
3. If some fields are locked on form and populated through javaScript-
The problem is the read only fields are not consider for saving in CRM automatically. There are 3 modes for saving the read only fields-
• always: The value is always submitted.
• never: The value is never submitted. When this option is set, data cannot be edited for any fields in the form for this attribute.
• dirty (default): The value is submitted on create if it is not null, and on save only when it is changed.
You can save the read only field using setSubmitMode function as-
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12 Everyday Things That Can Kill If You Aren’t Careful
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Many everyday items or common things you might do on a regular basis, things that should make your life easier, things that you should find enjoyable, even necessary things such as water, can not only become dangerous, but can even kill you in some cases.
You might be wondering how this can be true, but isn’t that what life is? Strange, but true?
Keep reading, you will be shocked by some of these, but we guarantee you will laugh at others.
1. Water
Yes, too much of anything, even water, can be dangerous. Drinking too much water, too quickly, can even kill you. In a well-publicized case in 2007, a woman in California died in a water drinking contest hosted by a local radio station. In 2005, a young man died in a fraternity hazing ritual in which he was forced to chugalug, not beer, but water, over and over and over again. In both cases, the cause of death was listed as water intoxication. This is a phenomenon that happens when people drink too much water in a short amount of time, so much so that the kidneys can’t process it all, which leads to swelling of the lungs and brain. This has happened to athletes as well, and even people who take club drugs. They feel what they think is an insatiable thirst and they end up drinking so much so fast that they kill themselves with water. To avoid this, drink reasonable amounts of water and never, ever do Molly, ecstasy, or MDMA, which often lead people to believe that they are dying of thirst.
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Tutor Tips for Dyslexia Awareness Week 2018
Tutor Tips for Dyslexia Awareness Week 2018
Happy World Dyslexia Day! Dyslexia Awareness Week is running from 1 to 7 October this year with the theme of #21stCenturyDyslexia
Sarah Cox, our Dyslexia and SEND consultant, has put together a selection of handy resources for you to take a look at:
The British Dyslexia Association (BDA) have a produced a fabulous Information and Resource Education pack which includes access to free e-learning training modules between 1 and 7 October. The pack can be accessed and downloaded here.
Let’s celebrate dyslexia and give our dyslexic students hope and a positive outlook on their learning. My particular favourite is the ‘See Dyslexia Differently’ video below, do have a watch!
For anyone whose life (or child’s life) is touched by dyslexia, the BBC documentary, Farther and Sun, is worth a watch. The most interesting, creative and brilliant people I have met (and taught) are dyslexic. Archaeologist and dyslexic, Dr Helen Taylor’s hypothesis at the end of the documentary is inspired. She talks about how education is ultimately an exploitation of known experience. Yet dyslexia is an ability to explore and adapt to change. People with exploratory forms of cognition are currently at a disadvantage (and their difficulties with literacy brand them as ‘less able’). However, their ability to think outside the box, see things from a different angle and be creative is such a strength. It’s critical to our evolution and development.
Finally, the British Dyselxia Association is offering free training via e-learning modules. If you sign up between 1 and 7 October you can access the online training materials for 30 days afterwards. Check it out and sign up here.
If your child is struggling with dyslexia and needs some additional support with their school work, please do contact Sarah to find out how we can help.
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Anchors Are Food for Thought
Sorry, anchors don’t load rods 😛
Spey casting mechanics seems to be a mystery, but only apparently; it shouldn’t be that hard if you start your analysis based on sound Physics.
Of all the aspects involving a spey cast nothing as controversial as the function of the anchor. Just make a search on the net and you’ll find that anchor and rod load appear as if they were siamese brothers: impossible to pull them apart.
Without the intention of getting deep into this issue —for now— I want to share some video material I shot years ago. The following is one of the most viewed clips on my Vimeo channel, and judging by the comments it has prompted in different forums —some of them not very friendly, to be honest—, probably the least understood of them all.
The scenario is the following:
Echo Micro Practice Rod with its macrame and wool “line”; a —very slippery— tiled floor.
Now look how the rod gets bent without the anchor slipping bacward, even on that super slippery surface!
I am pretty sure that you have heard about action/reaction, right? For any action there is an equal and opposite reaction. That is the law responsible for the load on a fly rod.
We apply force to the rod and line in the direction of the cast; rod and line both react with an equal force in the opposite direction; the rod is flexible so that reaction force puts a bend on it.
In the case of an aerial cast we apply force to the whole line on each casting stroke —provided that there isn’t slack and that we pause at the end of each cast for the line to unroll completely.
But is that the case on a roll cast, or a spey cast for that matter? No! On these anchored casts we apply force only to a short portion of the line outside the rod tip, just the lengh of line we are accelerating during the casting stroke!
How do I know that is actually the case? Maybe the water grips the anchor and holds it in place when the rod tip is pulling, applying force on it! That is a good argument, and it is the reason for the video above as well: no grip on the anchor from a tiled floor, as drag is almost nothing, however the anchor holds without slipping backward.
So back to the law of action/reaction. If the rod exerts a force on the line in some direction, the line reacts with a force of the same magnitude and opposite direction. If the rod exerts that force on the whole line, the whole line will pull against it. On an anchored cast —as by the clip above— the rod is applying force only on a short piece of line, only that short piece reacts to that force and helps in bending the rod. The anchor is not pulled by the rod, so no action force is applied to the anchor, so no reaction force from the anchor against the rod, so no rod load due to the anchor.
Anchor and rod load aren’t siamese twins, in fact they aren’t even family.
The good thing about it? That you don’t need to think of rod loading to cast properly. Rod bend is just a by-product of a proper casting stroke.
The paradox in all this? That you get more bend in the rod when the anchor doesn’t hold than when it does! But this is stuff for some future articles. Meanwhile the following material might be of interest as well:
Spey casting explained
7 comments on “Anchors Are Food for Thought
1. Aitor says:
It is also about revolution and its consequent reaction. 😉
2. Aitor says:
Good points, Marc!
3. Aitor says:
Hi Malik,
I haven’t used the “rod load” mantra in years! 😄
4. Marc Fauvet says:
hi Malik !
the easiest way i’ve found to avoid the “to load the rod” explanation thing is to not even mention it ! rod bending is just an inevitable by-product and i just ask people to bring the rod tip from here to there, a little more/a little less, a little faster/ a little slower, at a different angle, etc.
i can’t see the need for more confusion… 😆
• Malik says:
Hi Marc, Hi Aitor,
A good exemple of misconception in casting mechanics induced by the good old RLD (“rod loading doctrine”) — quote from a recent and interesting publication : «The caster begins the stop sequence by decelerating the rod and as a result, the energy loaded in the bend of the rod unloads, transferring itself to the line and the line overtakes the rod tip».
5. Aitor says:
Obviously it is feasible to make a roll without an anchor, but having one makes it a lot easier (not due to “rod loading” though).
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Device-independent quantum key distribution with local bell test
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Device-independent quantum key distribution (DIQKD) in its current design requires a violation of a Bell's inequality between two parties, Alice and Bob, who are connected by a quantum channel. However, in reality, quantum channels are lossy and current DIQKD protocols are thus vulnerable to attacks exploiting the detection loophole of the Bell test. Here, we propose a novel approach to DIQKD that overcomes this limitation. In particular, we propose a protocol where the Bell test is performed entirely on two casually independent devices situated in Alice's laboratory. As a result, the detection loophole caused by the losses in the channel is avoided.
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Seika Ayanokoji is one of Ouran Host Club's former, regular customers, and the main antagonist of the first episode of the anime. She is seen only twice in the anime; appearing in Ep 01 - Starting Today, You are a Host! and Ep 13 - Haruhi in Wonderland!. She also appears in Chapter 01 of the manga. Her first name is only revealed in the dorama.
Ayanokoji is a rather pretty girl of royal descent, hence her legitimate title of "Princess." She's quite adept at putting on a pleasant facade when, in reality, she is a highly possessive and mean-spirited young woman judging from what she does to Haruhi during their first interactions in Starting Today, You Are a Host!
Ayanokoji has blue-grey eyes and long reddish-brown hair. She is usually seen wearing the Ouran Academy Girls' uniform, even when appearing in cameos in either the anime or the manga.
Plot Involvement
Ayanokoji is one of Tamaki Suoh’s regular customers who becomes jealous of the attention he gives to Host-in-Training Haruhi Fujioka. Her jealousy prompts her to toss Haruhi's belongings out of a window and into a garden fountain below. Ayanokoji then requests Haruhi's company in order to "set her straight" about Tamaki's interest. Haruhi realizes that Ayanokoji is jealous and when she states this fact, the selfish girl knocks over the table at which they're sitting, causing Haruhi to land on top of her. Ayanokoji then accuses Haruhi of being a pervert and assaulting her. However, Hikaru Hitachiin and Kaoru Hitachiin realize the truth and dump pitchers of water on her. A wet and drenched Ayanokoji sputters and cries for Tamaki's help. In defense of his rookie host, Tamaki banishes Ayanokoji from the Host Club saying she's unwelcome because, "Haruhi is not that sort of man." Ayanokoji is hurt by his words and says "But why Tamaki" before she flees from the club crying, "You idiot!"
Tamaki Suoh
Ayanokoji is one of Tamaki's regular customers and is seen frequently with him in Starting Today, You are a Host! and Chapter 1. Ayanokoji seems to be a possessive sort of person who becomes jealous easily or is just a very controlling person who needs to be "the smartest, prettiest, richest girl in the room," especially where Tamaki is concerned. It may be speculated that she harbors genuine feelings towards him, though he only treats her as a guest; making his somewhat sincere interest in Haruhi a threat to her position in his heart.
Haruhi Fujioka
Ayanokoji is instantly envious of the attention given Haruhi from Tamaki and immediately begins to shower cruelty on the rookie host. She almost succeeds in framing her for assault, but the Host Club manages to see the truth and Ayanokoji is banned from attending Host Club ever again. It is unknown if she ever becomes aware of Haruhi's gender.
• (To Haruhi) But you went too far bothering Tamaki-sama. It was only for that cheap bag, right? Don't think that he loves you. Tamaki-sama is taking good care of you because your family background is new to him. Maybe all those weird things are happening because you are tagging along Tamaki-sama without thinking...? (M)
• (To Tamaki) Help!! Haruhi-kun suddely became violent!! (M)
• (To no one in particular) Waaaah~ Stupid Tamaki-sama!! (M)
• It's currently unknown if she recognizes Haruhi as a girl when she first meets her, which would explain her extreme jealousy with regard to Tamaki.
• She is in the same class as Mitsukuni and Takashi.
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Internet Banking
With Petefish Skiles Online you can access your bank accounts from anywhere, anytime. In today’s fast paced world of automatic payments, debit/ATM cards and next day processing you can track your accounts 24 hours a day with our internet banking product. Here are a few examples of what our internet banking product offers:
Allows you to transfer money from a checking, savings or loan to a checking, savings, loan or safety deposit box.
Allows you to display history on an account. History can also be downloaded to a logic spreadsheet program, such as Excel.
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Reduce your clutter and go green with our E-Statements! This is an easy and safer way to recieve your statements. Once you enroll for the E-statements you'll be able to access a year's worth of statements which, if you'd like, save them to your personal PC or print them out at home.
Use this to build recurring reminders to remember special events, birthdays, anniversaries, ect. On the day specified, the reminder that you create will be sent to you as an e-mail message.
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Use this to confidentially read and respond to mail messages sent from Petefish Skiles & Co Bank.
We have many financial calculators like loan, retirement, savings and bonds.
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People deliver experiences (and growth)
“Customer first” harms your company
Many companies believe that a “customer first” mindset empowers people to do amazing things for customers. Instead, it can create a toxic environment where customers and employees have divergent objectives.
Be “employee first” instead
By transforming to an “employee first” culture, your company will be forced to choose better customers (those aligned more closely with your products and services). This strong alignment in turn creates an environment where employees and customers have convergent goals and work together for mutual success.
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Manage Document Libraries
Below are the materials you will need for the SharePoint Manage Document Libraries session.
The intended audience for this course is all GTA SharePoint site owners and managers who want a basic understanding of how to create and manage SharePoint document libraries. Mastery of the content in the SharePoint 2013 Basic Concepts or Work with Documents will provide a foundation for the user when working with document libraries.
1. Edit tools
2. Library Settings
3. Versioning
4. Library Columns
5. Library Views
6. Alerts
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History of Birds – Biology
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The first birds evolved out of earlier small dinosaurs late in the Jurassic period, about 150 million years ago. At this time, most of the bigger animals on Earth were dinosaurs.
Birds are like dinosaurs in many ways: they both lay eggs in nests, and they both walk mainly on their hind legs (Birds use their front legs as wings). Many dinosaurs were warm-blooded, like birds. Some dinosaurs even had feathers, like birds. Some dinosaurs had beaks, like birds, instead of teeth.
Birds ate the same things as small meat-eating dinosaurs – worms and small insects like flies, grasshoppers, bees and mosquitoes, and meat from dead reptiles and mammals and frogs. Sea birds also ate mollusks like clams and mussels.
While most birds remain wild animals, people have gradually domesticated a few types of birds. Chickens and turkeys, especially, survive mainly as farm animals today.
Learn by doing – birds
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Addictions and Other Destructive Behaviors: Sin or Disease?
Destructive behavior includes elements of both sin and “disease.” Some people are especially susceptible to particular kinds of destructive behavior. For example, men who abuse women are often reared in families where women were abused. Imbued with contempt for women, they are predisposed to use women as scapegoats for frustration. There is clearly a sense in which this predisposition (or heightened temptation) to debase and abuse women can be called a “sickness,” since it was largely instilled by external influences.
Does this mean that an abuser’s “sickness”—the fact that he has been damaged by sin and is consequently more prone to abuse women than men who haven’t been so damaged—justifies his abusive behavior? Absolutely not! His “sickness” helps us understand his behavior, but doesn’t excuse it. He isn’t merely a victim of outside circumstances, like someone with meningitis or malaria. In spite of the tendencies he inherited, an element of conscious, willful sin is present in every abusive act. Regardless of his background, he is capable of resisting his impulses. No one is so isolated from the laws of society and the influence of conscience that they are completely unaware of the wrongfulness of spouse abuse. Our legal system acknowledges this with the principle that ignorance of the law is no excuse. Abusers are accountable to society for any violation of laws against spouse abuse. Further, to the extent that an abuser knows his behavior is wrong, he is responsible before God to change.
Some people object to making a distinction between sick internal impulses and sinful actions (willful sin). They say that the impulses and emotions of the abuser are just as sinful as his decision to abuse.
It is true that the evil emotions and impulses of an abuser are not merely sick. They are the results both of original and personal sin and are repulsive and evil in themselves. However, they aren’t sinful in the same sense and to the same degree as a conscious personal decision to act sinfully. (See the ATQ article, Are Christians Held Responsible for Unpremeditated and Unconscious Sins?)
If we condemn sick predispositions as much as sinful decisions and actions, we leave no room for compassion.
Jesus had compassion on sinners (Matthew 9:12-13). He stressed the importance of having compassion on the failures of others:
You wicked servant, he said, I canceled all that debt of yours because you begged me to. Shouldn’t you have had mercy on your fellow servant just as I had on you? (Matthew 18:32-33)
The reason Jesus had compassion was due to His awareness that while people are sinners, they are not entirely given over to premeditated evil. There is a sense in which they are also sin’s victims.
And Jesus was going about all the cities and the villages, teaching in their synagogues, and proclaiming the gospel of the kingdom, and healing every kind of disease and every kind of sickness. And seeing the multitudes, He felt compassion for them, because they were distressed and downcast like sheep without a shepherd. (Mt. 10:35-36)
If we are to be like our Master, we must be able to have compassion upon lost, sinful people, at the same time as we hold them responsible for their premeditated sin.
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No Shame
I HAVE SUFFERED DEPRESSION MOST OF MY LIFE! And I am not ashamed to admit it. Some may even say I've been "crazy". Not ashamed of that either. I fully believe that Satan wants us to feel shame. God gives us remorse for things we've done wrong, but shame doesn't come from Him. If Satan… Continue reading No Shame
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WAai! Boys in Skirts
This blog only republishes a mere 10% of the wordcount I write for Neo magazine every month, but with the news just out that WAai! Boys in Skirts magazine has suspended publication, I’ll take the opportunity to upload my Manga Snapshot article about it from issue 92, back in 2012. As you can see, I was deeply suspicious of its motives, but also wary of the etiquette of even voicing that suspicion.
waai 6Issue #6
Debut Year: 2010
Page Count: 270
Publisher: Ichijinsha
Price: 950 yen (£7.96)
I Want to See Your Smiling Face, by Kamiyoshi, seemingly lifts its opening gambit from the Train Man series. A boy finds himself falling in love with the girl who often sits opposite him on the train to school. One day, he finally plucks up the courage to talk to her and ask her out, only for the “girl” to reveal that she is really a he. A standard school romance then unfolds, with a shared gender being the only discernable difference between this story and any other tale of snogging behind the bikesheds.
Just when you thought that the manga world couldn’t surprise you any more, there’s always some new odd niche that springs into life. And this month’s topic is the oddest yet. WAai! Boys in Skirts is exactly what it says on the cover: a manga magazine for and about transvestites!
I’m sure you’ll agree, this is something of a subgenre of a subgenre. But ever since spinning off from the boys’ magazine Comic REX in April 2010, WAai has still had enough faith in the size of its readership to punt out 270 pages of glossy, high-quality printing four times a year – that’s once per season, in order to ensure varying uses of colours and imagery. The cover to this issue by Akira Kasakabe has two attractive ladies in a state of summery deshabillé, sorting out their lippy and watching the midsummer fireworks. Oh, except they are not ladies. They are both blokes, it says here.
If at first you can’t believe your eyes, the strapline at the top makes it as clear as possible: “Inside this publication are cute kids, but they are not girls. This is a new magazine for otoko no ko of the new generation.” The Japanese otoko no ko literally means Man-Girl or Mannish Girl, but is it intended here to mean “ladyboy”? We are back in the fascinating world of the implied reader – is this a magazine for boys who like dressing up as girls, or is it a magazine for girls who like to look at boys dressed up as girls?
waai 2The advice page doesn’t help. Mitsuba, the pseudonymous author of Wanna Be a Pretty Girl, offers tips on make-up and hair stylings. Even if Mitsuba is actually a man, as her biography implies, there is nothing unusual in Japan about men hectoring women on their looks. Indeed, in the kabuki days, the onnagata female impersonators were widely regarded as the arbiters of taste for how women should behave. The title of Mitsuba’s column uses the verb naritai (“want to become”), but the nature of the “becoming” is nicely vague. Is this a column for plain janes who want some top tips, or is it actually a crash course in femininity for boys who want to look like girls?
In Reversible School Life, by Suemi Tsujikka, an all-boys’ school makes the odd decision to force half of its attendees to dress up as girls on any given day. Transfer student Shu is thrown in at the deep end, since he has no clue how to coordinate his clothes. He is aided and abetted by the more experienced Tsubaki, in a school story that dispenses with the usual “hidden boy” trope in favour of an environment in which cross-dressing is openly encouraged, in fact mandated, as part of school life. As with I Want to See Your Smiling Face, there is a sense that the protagonist is entirely clueless and lacking in experience. The usual mystery of unattainable girls is replaced here with boy-on-boy crushes, but also with initiation into the rules and regulations of living life as a woman. For the generation raised on the arcane taxonomy of Pokémon and the shifting fads of cosplay, perhaps cross-dressing really is the final frontier. It’ll probably keep some people busy for years. Just remember, boys, stripes aren’t slimming.
WAai’s niche is still small – it is half the size and double the price of mainstream magazines, and is not included in the online sales figures of the Japanese Magazine Publishers Association. But this is how all new niches start; the publisher Ichijinsha would be mad to print a million copies and hope that the readership to match it magically arrived out of nowhere.
The Japanese mainstream has treated the otoko no ko “phenomenon” with a degree of suspicion – perhaps wisely, considering the penchant of the media for making up new fads on the spot and hoping the herd will follow. In 2010, the Engan bus company offered spoof free tickets to transvestites as an April Fool’s joke. Later in the year, the same company offered a free ticket promotion for real, but only to female passengers who would dress up as sexy “moe” girls. The transvestites should sue!
The use of the term otoko no ko has been gaining ground in Japanese for the last ten years. But it’s only in the last two years that it has suddenly blossomed into a definable subculture, with its own publications, slang, traditions and inevitable media attention. WAai isn’t even the only magazine for otoko no ko. Already in the last year, the Japanese market has seen the arrival of Change H, Oto(star)ko and Otoko no Ko Club magazines. Meanwhile, Enterbrain has test-marketed the manga anthology Super Otoko no Ko Time, and Square Enix has tried Joso Shonen Anthology (Boys in Girls’ Clothing). Newtype, the trend-setting anime magazine, has already tested an experimental title for the otoko no ko market, with the release in August 2011 of a live-action photography special featuring boys dressed as girls. It sold out on the day of release – but was that a sign of an untapped market, or simply of deliberate under-printing to manufacture headlines?
Its aficionados are keen to point out that these characters are not transsexuals – they are transvestites, dolled up in women’s clothes as an attempt to show a sensitive side. They are, we are assured, boys who like the idea of softness and silkiness, experiments with lipstick and girlish pursuits – an assertion which places them firmly on a timeline that reaches back for several generations, to the manga revolutions of the 1960s that valorised flower-sniffing sensitive types in reaction to the ludicrously macho heroes of the day. Japanese Wikipedia even has its own page on the phenomenon, which goes to great pains to point out that otoko no ko have absolutely nothing to do with sexuality. Just because a boy wears women’s clothes, he is not homosexual, nor does he “want” to be a woman. The artwork in WAai makes that abundantly clear, with images of characters in bikinis and lingerie, pouting for the camera but displaying telltale flat chests and posing pouches that leave nothing to the imagination.
waai 4Meanwhile, many of the stories simply refashion old manga saws with all-male casts, such as Secret Devil-chan by Rumu. This is yet another magical-“girlfriend” tale, in which a hapless Japanese boy called So lands himself with a mini-skirted bedmate who turns out to be a cross-dressing devil-boy called Demon Kogure. School high jinks, knicker flashing and snogs soon ensue, while So’s girl-next-door (an actual girl) fumes at the arrival of her supernatural competition. To coin a phrase, it’s Urusei Yatsura with nobs on. Also, there are nuns in it.
In Past Future by Tsukasa Takatsuki, a girl called Mirai becomes increasingly irritated with her brother Kago’s habit of “borrowing” her clothes. She drags in her friend Ran in an attempt to wean Kago off, but instead inadvertently encourages him. Instead of chasing after Ran and trying to get into her knickers in an altogether different way, Kago instead starts asking her for fashion tips. Meanwhile, people keep shouting Mirai’s name all the time – it literally means “future”, and hence imparts a sci-fi resonance to everything that’s going on, even though it is resolutely set in the present-day era of iPhones and Nintendo DS. That’s as close as the mag gets to SF, although there is more scope for fantasy in the ghost-busting, tentacle-heavy tale Yorishiro, written and drawn by Muranako. Presumably, some of the “girls” in it are boys.
However, there is a flipside. Is this really a magazine for transvestites? The editorial content delivers one message, but the advertising tells a different story. If we want to be cynical for a moment, let’s not immediately assume that otoko no ko materials reflect a grass-roots demand that Japanese conglomerates are sweetly serving. Let’s instead assume that a bunch of large cosmetics companies have realised that heterosexual men represent a bogglingly large untapped market for sales of make-up. Has some bright spark at Shiseido or Nivea suggested that the marketing team take a step beyond “metrosexual” and try to flog lip-gloss and crimpers directly to absolutely everybody? WAai’s concept of femininity does appear oddly and over-enthusiastically consumerist. In other words, its attitude is that women are “made” by buying stuff. Shopping maketh the woman, in WAai’s eyes – it’s a beautician’s idea of beauty, and seems largely materialist and product-orientated.
This is a no-win situation for critics. If we question the motives of the publishers, we are attacking transvestites’ right to be different. But if we report on a “phenomenon” that isn’t really a phenomenon at all, but a cynical appropriation of a subculture as an excuse to bootstrap a new fashion fad, then we are mere stooges of the marketing machine. Meanwhile, it is arguably the height of cynicism to latch onto someone’s heartfelt beliefs and lifestyle, merely because you want to shift a job-lot of depilatory cream. If it’s “in” to be a transvestite this season, that’s all very well, but that’s like saying its fashionable to be Asian, or short-sighted, or tall. What happens next year?
waai 3Mitsuba’s make-up tips aside, why haven’t the WAai ad sales team placed oodles of adverts for face creams and blushers, make-up brushes and powdery things? WAai is a magazine with definite, blunt views on femininity, even though the advertisers aren’t playing along. Where are the adverts for clothes? Surely, the interests and concerns of the average transvestite (whatever that might mean) present myriads of possible attractions to several subcultures, but there is no evidence at all that anyone has taken the bait. Instead, the adverts in WAai are exactly the same sort of material you might expect to find in a teenage boys’ magazine – online gaming, and the Tora no Ana dojinshi shop.
Meanwhile, there is a heavy and frankly boyish concentration on new anime series, with larger-than-normal features dedicated to modern serials such as Astarotte and Baka & Test: Summon the Beasts. Games reviews also take up a substantial proportion of the front matter, including self-explanatory titles such as The Boy Loves Dressing Up as a Maid and Bokukano: Ladyboy Sex Chat.
Regular readers of this magazine may have noted on several occasions that the Japanese comics market is embroiled in a massive argument about the depiction of minors. Its most recent incarnation was in September 2011, when two members of the Japanese parliament presented a petition calling for anime, manga and games to adhere to the same sort of censorship rules as other publications. In other words, there is still a massive fight about the depiction of little girls in print, and it is your correspondent’s suspicion that a large part, if not all of the otoko no ko phenomenon is not about reader demand at all, but merely a new way of circumventing the censor. Just as white panties and blank crotches, tentacles and robots formed new and odd tropes in anime and manga, could it be that bluntly stating that these “girls” are really boys is a sneaky way for certain publishers to hang onto images of flat-chested dollymops, without incurring the wrath of future censors? If so, it’s a very sneaky trick, but let’s not assume it’s a sign of sea-change in attitudes towards cross-dressing… Unless it is.
Jonathan Clements is the author of Schoolgirl Milky Crisis: Adventures in the Anime and Manga Trade and Anime: A History. This article first appeared in NEO 92, 2012. The Manga Snapshot column has been reviewing a different manga magazine every month since 2005.
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2. Kind of sad to see something that could have been very inclusive and affirming ultimately be little more than a cynical cash-grab and/or a way to get around censors, especially as many other anime and manga that play loose with the gender binary are something of a touchstone for LGTB people.
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Local SENs
Find a Social Enterprise Network in your area for support and resources.
Local Social Enterprise Networks (SENs) have been set up across Scotland to ensure social entrepreneurs have the support they need to start up, grow and prosper.
Membership comes with a raft of benefits including information-sharing, access to events and services, support with funding and grant applications, guidance with procurement and more. Membership to a number of networks is also free, although some do charge a nominal fee.
Regular network meetings are organised, where members can make new contacts and find avenues for sharing resources and cutting costs through collaboration. These meetings are a hive of peer support where members can network, share experience and ensure that local social enterprises enjoy the force of a collective voice to influence relevant agendas.
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Sinners, Part Two
Romans 2:1-16 (NLT)
When the Gentiles sin, they will be destroyed, even though they never had God’s written law. And the Jews, who do have God’s law, will be judged by that law when they fail to obey it. For merely listening to the law doesn’t make us right with God. It is obeying the law that makes us right in his sight. Even Gentiles, who do not have God’s written law, show that they know his law when they instinctively obey it, even without having heard it. They demonstrate that God’s law is written in their hearts, for their own conscience and thoughts either accuse them or tell them they are doing right. And this is the message I proclaim—that the day is coming when God, through Christ Jesus, will judge everyone’s secret life.
Well, I warned you last week that Paul’s discussion of sinners, including some very specific descriptions of particular sins, was a set-up. It’s easy to think of sinners as “them,” as in “those sinners,” those people we like to pretend are somehow worse.
We should never get too big for our britches, though, no matter how good we may think we are. We are the sinners. And sinners shouldn’t be in the business of judging other sinners.
When we judge, we are doing something even angels fear to do. If you don’t believe me, look at Jude 1:9. It references a story we find nowhere else in established Scripture, a story about the archangel Michael contending with Satan for Moses’ body. Why Satan wanted Moses’ body, we don’t know—Jude likely is quoting from a story in Jewish tradition. But for whatever reason, Satan was after the body, and Michael was sent to claim it for God.
Jude says, however, that “even Michael, one of the mightiest angels, did not dare accuse the devil of blasphemy, but simply said, ‘The Lord rebuke you!’”
Only the perfect Creator, the being who makes the rules, is qualified to judge. Others who attempt to say certain people are unworthy of God have crossed a dangerous line, assuming we believe God’s loyal angels are generally wise, prudent beings.
Clean up your own house, Paul is saying. Work out your own salvation with fear and trembling.
I will long remember the man and woman in a Sunday school class several years ago who asked me what could be done about homosexuality and its effect on the larger church. She was a young single woman; he was an older married man. They were quite worked up about the issue.
I did not find out until more than a year later that they were having an extramarital affair at the time they asked me the question. I walked around for a couple of days thinking, “Really? In their minds, the homosexuals were the problem? Really?”
Again, clean up your own house.
I also once witnessed the terrible effect large-scale judgment can have on a church. A church about the size of Luminary had two women visitors who began to attend regularly. Word quickly spread the women were known to be lesbians.
The pastor told me how matters developed from there. He said the women simply sat in church, never showing any displays of affection for each other. They just wanted to worship, to pray, to hear from God. But because of the allegations about their sexuality, people became more and more incensed at their presence.
The pastor, I think, did everything right. He stuck to the current, doctrinally sound Methodist line: Everyone is welcome in worship. Everyone. It doesn’t matter what your sins are, you are welcome.
And certainly, he did not ask the women to leave. After all, if we start throwing out everyone suspected of sin, churches will be empty pretty fast.
His gracious manner didn’t help, though. People were too worked up, too—judgmental. A significant number of members upped and left, saying they wouldn’t be in the same room with those sinners. The angry exodus of people and money soon prevented the church from being able to employ a full-time ordained elder as pastor.
As I am prone to say when dealing with touchy subjects, I do have to be careful here. As Paul makes clear in last week’s text, there are specific sins listed in the Bible. Homosexuality is one of them, although it is hardly the only one listed. We are called to faithfully teach and preach what Scripture reveals.
Sometimes, when we teach and preach regarding what the Bible calls sin, we are accused of being judgmental. That label is terribly unfair to people who simply are using Scripture as the basis for understanding God’s will, continuing the work the church has done for almost 1,984 years.
Our need to preach and teach truth as revealed in the Holy Bible and our simultaneous biblically based need to avoid being judgmental place preachers and teachers in a difficult position. We must constantly balance the two requirements.
I think the United Methodist Church is a special place right now in the kingdom of God. In our Book of Discipline, the place where we state our doctrine and practices, how we achieve that balance is clearly defined.
The Discipline prohibits clergy from officiating homosexual marriages, and it prohibits the ordination of “self-avowed, practicing homosexuals.” These prohibitions exist for a simple reason: The church cannot affirm ongoing, unrepentant sin.
These prohibitions are balanced with a large measure of grace, however. Here is a portion of what the Discipline says about sexuality in the section on Social Principles:
I like these words. In them, we have already achieved a middle ground so desperately needed in other parts of the global church. In this statement, we see a rejection of sin combined with a clear declaration of the power of grace.
Unfortunately, like people in so many other places in our world, we in church are increasingly polarized.
At one extreme, some people want church without Scripture, or without the more difficult portions of the Bible, anyway. They find God’s call to holiness too demanding. Let me ask you this: If we don’t have the Bible, or if we chip away at the parts we don’t like, what is the basis for our beliefs? In time, church would become little more than a civic club with a nice steeple.
At the other extreme, some are quick to condemn those they see as lesser followers of God. In their hands church becomes an unpleasant, mean place, a poor location for experiencing God’s grace.
Neither kind of church is fully God’s church. We can do better. In fact, I would argue we have already done better. We as United Methodists simply need to learn to live out what is already written in the Bible and reflected in our Discipline.
Perhaps when the real judgment comes—the judgment meted out by God—our ability to pursue holiness while offering grace will help identify us as followers of the risen Christ.
Saying It, Living It, Part 2
Matthew 16:21-28
“Get behind me, Satan,” Jesus said to Peter. Ouch.
Last week, we heard how Jesus declared Peter to be the rock, the foundation for the church that will exist for all time. That blessing was rooted in Peter’s declaration that Jesus is “the Messiah, the Son of the living God.”
How quickly the mighty can fall. To go back to a lesson we first learn in kindergarten, actions speak louder than words.
In defense of Peter, he was navigating uncharted theological waters. He was right to declare Jesus the Messiah, the Christ. His problem was that he had not fully grasped the role Christ plays in the universe. Like most Jews, Peter had reduced the expected Messiah to a warrior king, a recycled David who would form his army, take back Israel for the Jews and establish a physical, righteous kingdom for all the world to emulate.
It was a big, exciting concept, but it wasn’t big enough to capture the role Jesus came to play.
Matthew tells us that Jesus began speaking plainly, telling his disciples how his ministry would actually play out. Ultimately, he told them, he would suffer at the hands of the Jewish religious leaders of the day, be killed, and then be raised from the dead.
Peter responded like a tactful public relations manager. He didn’t confront the boss in front of others; he pulled Jesus aside to provide a little counsel. When he told Jesus, “God forbid it, Lord! This must never happen to you,” Peter was focusing on the torture and death part of Jesus’ prediction—none of that seemed to fit the clear path to victory he was envisioning. How could the masses get behind a warrior king who planned to lose?
And in a way, Peter was right, at least from a human perspective. The masses abandoned Jesus once the beatings began. In Matthew, only a handful of women followers are recorded as witnessing the crucifixion.
God’s plan was not dependent on human understanding or support, however. The last part of Jesus’ prediction, that he would rise again on the third day, came true, marking the great turning point in history. The inevitability of death ended on the first Easter Sunday. Christ’s resurrection made clear that death’s power was gone, replaced by eternal life through Jesus Christ. It is the core truth of Christianity sustaining us today.
We should also remember that Jesus didn’t call Peter “Satan” just to rebuke or insult the disciple. The phrase “Get behind me, Satan!” is there to remind us of an earlier story found in Matthew 4. There, the devil tempted Jesus to abandon God’s master plan and define his ministry in terms of worldly success.
As Peter argued there must be another way, a way fit for a warrior king, he reminded Jesus of his duel with the devil, and the very real temptation that went along with it. Peter was inadvertently tempting Jesus again. Jesus knew with his divine mind he needed to go to the cross for our sakes, but his very human side also clearly did not want to suffer. Midway through Matthew 26, Jesus’ prayer just before he was arrested makes clear his reluctance to suffer and die: “My Father, if it is possible, let this cup pass from me; yet not what I want but what you want.”
After upbraiding Peter, Jesus went on to tell his disciples about the cost of following the Messiah, knowing they would face similar difficult choices themselves as leaders of the church. It’s a lesson for all of us. We could have our own bitter cup of death to drink; certainly, many of our brothers and sisters in Christ are facing such choices now. We all have our own crosses to take up. By that, Jesus meant we have to take up his cause and give up whatever causes or desires we may have that conflict.
In choosing Christ, there could be some sort of human glory, I suppose, but glory, riches, fame or other worldly goodies should not be counted on or even sought. There are preachers becoming rich by telling their followers that faith automatically begets worldly success. They are wrong, and they need to listen to Jesus’ teachings more closely.
The only glory we are promised—the reward for drinking from that cup, taking up that cross—is, of course, eternal life. The concept sounds vague and distant to us now, but on our deathbeds and beyond, nothing in this life will compare.
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Spiffy games of 2012
MassEffect3 2012-07-02 20-33-04-41 Back at the start of the year I remember a conversation which noted how good 2011 had been for games, while 2012 looked like it was going to be a quieter, less interesting year. Turns out that was an entirely incorrect prediction, as this has been one of the most exciting 12 months for gaming in quite some time. Without any further faffing, here are my top games of the year... (more…)
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As the legend goes, Medusa was a woman of such stunning beauty that even the goddess of love Aphrodite paled in comparison to her. So jealous and threatened by that beauty Aphrodite placed a curse on Medusa that any being to lay eyes upon her would be immediately turned to stone. The aptly named Medusa Cyclone has managed to harness that same beauty inside the calm eye of a storm, a swirling vortex of blissed out distortion and psychedelic drone. Maybe not so strong that it can turn a man to stone, but enough so that it can stop him in his tracks and hold him motionless with one simple perfect staccato note.
Controlling that kind of otherworldly sound does not come easily but Keir McDonald has been learning to control the darker forces of the universe for almost two decades now. After releasing 4 critically-acclaimed LP’s and touring both the U.S. and U.K with the legendary psych/punk outfit ViV Akauldren; Keir spent most of the 90’s honing his sonic abilities playing in support of the likes of Pavement, Bardo Pond and Cul de Sac. Mark Ibold of Pavement was even impressed enough to convince the rest of Pavement to do a split single with Keir’s fledgling project. A “self-titled” CD was recorded in 1996 and was quickly followed up by 1998’s more fully realized “Mr. Devil”.
Three years of relative silence have passed but Keir’s edge has not dulled. “Tangier” picks up where N.A.S.A left off some 30 years ago, only Keir McDonald doesn’t want to put one man on the moon he wants to take everyone with him. Spinning past the stars on a wave of sun drenched sonic euphoria, this is the record Medusa Cyclone was destined to make. Awash in texture and deep space melody “Tangier” and all its cosmic wonder comes crashing back to earth as Keir must have done all those years ago.
But don’t take our word for it, just ask the critics, they get paid to hate stuff…
“Medusa Cyclone crystallizes urban decay into a post-apocalyptic sonic paradise.” – Jonah Brucker – Cohen – Magnet
“Mcdonald composes deep-space drones as pitiless and foreboding as Pluto… Medusa Cyclone is like Spacemen 3 on the dark side of the moon.” – Dave Segal – Alternative Press
“I think Keir McDonald knows where Syd Barrett lives.” – Dusty Rhodes – Exclaim
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If you could be anything, what would you be? That’s the operant question behind Everything, a new game for the PlayStation 4 by experimental artist and designer David OReilly, likely best known for designing the videogame sequences in Spike Jonze’s Her. In it, you can purportedly be anything—and everything—you want to be.
“In Everything, every single thing is a playable character,” OReilly wrote in an announcement post on the PlayStation Blog. “If you can see it, you can be it.”
Fantastic. But how the heck would that even work? A brief, conceptual trailer gives answers only in the abstract: flurries of galaxies, suns, and seeds, a whirling mess of thing-ness set to soothing instrumental. Everything does not yet have a release date; OReilly says it’ll be out “as soon as we finish it.”
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He was cloned from Sonichu's DNA. with an accidental dose of Cherry Cola, in Giovanni's evil lab. Blachu [Blake] can run fast as fast as Sonichu, but they don't see spark-to-spark.
Black Sonichu [Blake] Animal Crossing card
Sonichu character
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Date of birth 22 March 1999 (in universe, as Black Sonichu)
No later than 24 July 2002 (IRL)
Gender Male
Species Sonichu (Electric Hedgehog Pokémon) clone
Length 5'4" (163 cm)
Weight 120 lbs (54 kg)
Type Electric
Evolves from Sonee or Pikachu
Evolves into Silver Blachu
Blake, originally called Black Sonichu (and occasionally Blachu) (born 22 March 1999[1]), is a Sonichu, and was once the arch-nemesis of Sonichu. He is also, inexplicably, Bubbles Rosechu's boyfriend (and later husband outside of the comic canon). However, for some reason, Blake and Bubbles decided to hide it from all of their friends, not knowing that their friends already knew about the relationship. He rips off three characters: Shadow the Hedgehog, Pikachu and Mewtwo.
While Chris has taken care to inform us of the precise dates in which he concieved of Sonichu and Rosechu,[2] he did not do the same for Blake. We can safely deduce that he was not conceived at a point later than 24 July 2002, since on said date Chris made a homemade card of Blake (then called Black Sonichu).
The idea of Blake seems to have welled up as a device for Chris to cope with his feelings of anger by externalizing them. Several months before creating his Black Sonichu card, he experimented with a "Dark Christian" card to express his jealousy of Harry Potter; and an "Evil Energy" card. As early as 2000 he had devised a "Dark Sonichu" card for "whenever Sonichu is full of anger." In the coming years he would make similar attempts to project his own feelings of discomfort onto cartoon dopplegangers with Naitsirhc and Crystal.
In early to mid-2003, with the beginning of his Love Quest, Black Sonichu increasingly came to represent his jealousy of the JERKS and his self-identification as a virgin with rage. The Sonichu canon was a clear case of wish-fulfillment, and Blake stood for everything which interfered with those wishes. On discovering that Sarah Hammer was going out with Wes Iseli, Chris imagined a fantasy world where he (Sonichu) was the beloved sweetheart of Sarah (Rosechu) and the villainous Black Sonichu was the jealous Wes, who stalked the lovers.[3][4] This same theme was played out in the very first classic Sonichu strip, completed on 3 January 2004. The truth is that while it's common to speak of Sonichu as Chris's Mary Sue, it would be more accurate to say that Chris's emotional state in these years was actually embodied in Blake.
Only later would Blake evolve into a blatant rip-off of Shadow the Hedgehog, starting out as Sonichu's nemesis but later becoming an ally.
In the comics
Sonichu #1
Blake's stats. You know, in case you gave a damn
He first appeared in issue 1, episode 4. Dr. Robotnik was attempting to clone Sonichu and the cloning process was corrupted by "an accidental does of cherry cola," spilt by Bill The Scientist.
This soda in his DNA changed his fur color to black and red. This makes him an obvious ripoff of Shadow the Hedgehog. Shortly after being created, he was ordered to kidnap Rosechu. Sonic and Sonichu thwarted this plan much to his chagrin. As punishment for kidnapping her, Rosechu punched him in the face and knocked some of his teeth out, showing what a pussy he really is.
When Hedgehogs Meet
Blake is ordered to steal the Legendary Master Sunstone by Giovanni because Blake is his bitch. Easily overpowering Flame the Sunbird, he jumps on his hoverboard and escapes with Flame in pursuit. During the chase he somehow manages to pass by and piss off almost every single member of the soon-to-be-formed Chaotic Combo. Sonichu himself jumps into the mix and every last one of them gangs up on Blake and beats the living crap out of him - fair fighting, y'know?
Sonichu #5
In issue five, Blake actually refers to Naitsirhc as his father while mistaking him for CWC. Reldnahc Notsew Naitsirhc wears a Blake Medallion that allows him to transform into an evil Electric Hedgehog Pokémon.
Sonichu #6
Blake is dismayed to see that Naitsirhc has become Reldnahc Ha-Taque. After robbing stores with him, Blake complains to Sonichu and Magi-Chan about how he was really mean to him - insulting him all the time and putting whipped cream in his rocket boots. Blake then allows the reader to see that he has the hots for Bubbles - in spite of her helping the Chaotic Combo beat seven shades of crap out of him.
Episode 18 Prologue
On March 21, Bubbles celebrates Blake’s birthday alone with him. They share a kiss after explaining how Blake has the maturity of a twenty-year-old despite being cloned only four years ago.
Spring break
Blake approaches Rosechu, Angelica and Bubbles whilst they sunbathe on the beach and kicks sand in their faces to make him look badass. Bubbles steps up to “deal with this jerk.” She restrains him and leads him away with the others to be alone with him. The other two Rosechus think it’s “cute” that they pretend to not be a couple.
Bubbles and Blake agree to have sex under a pier after she finds the Sonichu Ball. Unfortunately for Blake, Silvana takes the form of Bubbles so she can rape him just for laughs. Bubbles finds the Sonichu Ball, but not in time to save Blake.
CWCville is attacked by PVCC and fighting ensues all over the city. On the waterfront, Blake and Bubbles defeat an entire fleet of S.A.V.'s and proceed to kiss afterwards. Later on at the end of the episode they're seen outside of the CWCville Shopping Center along with the rest of Chris's Electric Hedgehog Pokémons and their respective partners. Blake and Bubbles are holding hands, suggesting that they're no longer hiding their relationship from the rest of the public.
Christian Chandler in Director Amenities
As this was the episode in which Chris's narcissism reached its pinnacle, it was more than fitting for it to also be the story in which Blake completed his transformation into just another one of Chris's pawns. Despite becoming a full fledged good guy, Blake's propensity toward evil in this episode is greater than ever.
After returning from the Time Void, Chris orders Blake and Punchy to go outside of the 4-cent Garbage building where he and Sonichu will meet them later. Once all the members of Christian and the Hedgehog Boys get together, they proceed to destroy the 4-cent Garbage building by playing the song Revive Zordon in its proximity. Hundreds endure death and injury as the building collapses, making Blake and the rest of his bandmates mass murderers.
Later on the episode's plot is briefly interrupted for Chris to make a non-apology apology to the LGBT community and other readers he had offended. Blake is standing next to him along with Bubbles, Sonichu and Rosechu, suggesting that his status within Chris's entourage has risen considerably. Blake's next appearance is in the mayor's office where he joins the rest of Chris's goons in ranting against the Asperpedia four. He is last seen in the episode (and in Sonichu altogether) as he is standing next to Bubbles while she presses one of the ten buttons needed to activate the electric chair to which Alec is strapped. Blake stares at Alec with indignant rage, despite having a rap sheet far worse than that of the doomed comic creator.
Future episodes
In a blog post from January 2010 Chris writes about a planned episode of Sonichu which will focus on Blake.
CWCipedia biography
The only differences are their color, shoes and this one is more evil.
—Chris, informing us that Sonichu is also evil to some degree, and that Sonichu and Blake have less in common than Sonichu and any other Sonichu
According to the CWCipedia's entry on Blake, he was created on 22 March 1999, following the battle between Sonichu and Naitsirhc Giovanni on 12 August 1998 (It's cited that it took a while to rebuild the cloning machine, most likely referring to Mewtwo's escape in Pokémon: The First Movie). Through the help of Bill the Scientist, cherry soda is spilled into the DNA, which causes the Sonichu to turn black. Four months later, Black is primed to battle Sonichu, though his first battle goes sour even with the arrival of Metal Sonichu. Blake would continue to do evil, stealing the Master Sunstone and the like. It's said that he enjoyed the rush of villainy, but at the same time, started regretting it.
Everything would change when Black Sonichu prepared to capture Sonichu and Rosechu during their wedding. There, he would see Bubbles Rosechu for the first time. He was so enamored over her that he didn't fire the net gun he was intending to use to capture the two with when he wanted to and when he did, he missed completely. He would learn her name through one of the programs for the wedding.
The two wouldn't meet again until Naitsirhc's transformation into Reldnahc. When they did meet, Bubbles ended up chewing out Black for a good fifteen minutes. Not accustomed to criticism, Black did "an emotional One-Eighty" and just broke down and cried like the baby he was, begging for forgiveness. Bubbles accepted and began forming a bond with him. Over ice cream, Black introduced himself as "Black Sonichu," but Bubbles hated a name like that, so she named him "Blake," after a star's name.
When coming into contact with the seven Sonichu Balls - or with the seven Chaos emeralds upon which the Sonichu Balls are based - Blake can temporarily transform into Silver Blachu. Silver's powers are very similar to those of Ultra Sonichu, Sonichu's own temporary transformation which is induced by the seven Sonichu Balls.[5] Silver is identical to Blake in physical appearance, with the exception of having gray fur rather than black.
Practically none of this shows up in the comic itself, not even through Chris's lazy textwalls he uses to explain the minor details (such as the tragic death of his true, God-foreseen love) he doesn't want to bother drawing.
In Mailbag 31, Chris refers to Blake as "a deep individual". He hasn't given us any explanation on what makes him "deep", either in the comic or in his CWCkipedia article. Like all other Sonichus, he is flat, boring and only interested in fucking. He is the only slightly interesting Sonichu because of his villainous roots, which is completely ignored once he turns to "the good side".
Originally, Blake was just referred to as "Black Sonichu" or "Blachu", but Chris decided to change the name so as to look like less of a bigoted racist jerk. Why he is suddenly called "Blake" is never revealed. Chris assumed that everyone would understand why his name is now Blake, so everyone just goes with it.
Chris, in the CWCipedia article on Sonichu, finally provided the reason why Black Sonichu became Blake - because Blake felt like it.[6] This was later retconned into saying that Bubbles gave him the name.[7]
Some argue that Chris was indeed ripping off Jimmy Hill's incarnation of Black Sonichu, who was named "Blake" for some time before Chris started using Blake.[8]
Despite going to great lengths to use the retconned names in the Official Videobooks (such as "Nicole Rammer" for Sarah Hammer), Chris still uses Blake's original name in most of Sonichu #0 and Sonichu #1.
Love Quest
In episode 18, it is revealed that Blake has a secret romance with Bubbles and that they have sex with raincoats and don't let the rest of CWCville know. To cover up their relationship, they pretend to fight and he acts like an ass. At the end of the episode he gets raped by a shape-shifting hermaphrodite named Silvana. This rape is meant to be a metaphor representing Chris being trolled by men pretending to be women online.
Interestingly enough, in Chris's imagination, Bubbles and Blake were married 4 July 2009, at Angelica's church. This indicates that despite Blake's failure to control his own libido, Bubbles forgave him and everyone lived happily ever after.[9]
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For Truth and Honesty, see the archived CWCipedia page on Blake
See also
List of males Chris doesn't hate, according to Chris
VI. The President of the United States:
Barack Obama (as of 2009)
VII. All the World Leaders:
Kim Jong UnMahmoud AhmadinejadManuel Noriega
VIII. ALL male acquaintances and friends, past and present:
Cole SmitheyDr. David Alan ChandlerJonathan CareyUncle Raymond
Joshua MartinezJoseph HerringWes IseliLucasMimmsRobert Simmons V (as of 2009)
List of males Chris doesn't hate, corrected for accuracy
VII. The former Presidents of the United States:
George W. BushBarack Obama
VIII. Select male acquaintances and friends, past and present:
Robert Simmons VKenneth Erwin EnglehardtWilliam Elliott Waterman
IX. Celebrities:
Jack BlackJerry SeinfeldRed SkeltonR.L. StineSeth MacFarlaneVarious comedians
X. Robots:
MegatronOptimus Prime
XI. Hedgehogs:
Sonic the HedgehogBionic the Hedgehog
XII. Electric Hedgehog Pokémon:
Sonichu (Ultra SonichuMetonic)
Wild SonichuPunchy SonichuMagi-ChanBlakeDJ JamstaBlazeBob SonichuMitch SonichuDarkbind Sonichu
XIII. Pornstars:
Bailey Jay
List of males Chris does hate
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Koalas go toe to toe in Adelaide, Australia.
Backyard Brawl: Australian Koalas Fight Screaming
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Koala males quite often attack each other, especially during the mating season, while the female are ready to choose a partner, depending on its size and loudness of screaming.
Jarryd Simister has captured on video a very loud koala fight in his backyard in Adelaide, Australia. The koalas can be seen attacking each other, trying to pin down the other, showing their claws. In the end one of the males manages to pin his enemy to the ground, but the approaching man forces the animals to calm down and scatter to different corners.
"In Australia, not only do the animals want to kill you, they want to kill each other," Jarryd Simister noted.
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Injured Before The Wedding
Help warn JP about risky behavior so he doesn't walk down the aisle in a cast!
August 17, 2017
JP's 10 weeks out from his wedding, but he's always so active and Jenn's worried he'll hurt himself just before the big day. Who's got stories to prove it's no joke?
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How to have Firefox open all internal links normally ?
• By “internal”, I mean the links that come from Firefox, the only other links being the links coming from other apps or from the OS.
• By “normally”, I mean opening the link in its tab.
• By “all”, I mean all, including “jumping” links — you know, these rude links with the non-standard attribute target="_blank".
This answer from Mozilla support seems to be useful. Quoting from there. You need to set the values marked italic. Just checked with FF v.23.0.1/Windows.
In a new tab, type or paste about:config and press Enter.
Click the button promising to be careful.
In the filter box, type or paste link.o and pause while the list is filtered.
Double click these and set the value as desired:
3 = divert new window to a new tab (default) (checked*)
2 = allow link to open a new window (unchecked*)
1 = force new window into same tab
* First checkbox in Options > Tabs
(B) - for links in Firefox tabs
0 = apply the setting under (A) to ALL new windows (even script windows)
2 = apply the setting under (A) to normal windows, but NOT to script windows with features (default)
1 = override the setting under (A) and always use new windows
(C) - for links in other programs
-1 = apply the setting under (A) to external links (default)
3 = open external links in a new tab in the last active window
2 = open external links in a new window
1 = open external links in the last active tab replacing the current page
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Can I make withdrawals or deposits to my live broker account if I'm using BrokerTransmit to manage my strategy?
When you use BrokerTransmit, C2 does not actually use your live broker account value to determine Collective2 performance stats. We use only the results of the trades you place (and the marked-to-market results of open positions you create). So you can add cash, withdraw cash -- whatever -- and it will not affect your C2 Performance statistics (and of course none of your subscribers will be informed about your cash activity).
The important thing to remember is: Does my C2 model account have the margin and buying power necessary for the trade I'm entering in my brokerage account.
One final note: if you withdraw so much cash from your real-life brokerage account that you can't place the trades you want, then of course your C2 strategy won't be able to place any further trades (unless you turn off BrokerTransmit, and use some other method to run your strategy on C2).
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いうiuゆうyuu Inflection
godan ~う verb:
• to say; to utter; to declare
• to name; to call
• to go (e.g. "the alarm went ping"); to make a noise 言う
もちろんmochiron冗談joudanto思ってomottekarehaあっそassoto流していましたnagashiteimashitaけどkedoかなりkanariiyaだったdattaそうsouですdesu。（ってゆうかtteyuuka冗談joudanでもdemoそんなsonnaことkoto言うiuna！） Of course he thought it was a joke and let it slide with a "hm?" but he was seriously annoyed. I mean, just don't say things like that even as a joke!
それでいてsoredeite自分jibunha船乗りfunanoridatoいうiu And he calls himself a sailor.
よぶyobuirr. Inflection
godan ~ぶ verb / transitive:
• to call out (to); to call; to invoke
• to summon (a doctor, etc.)
• to invite
• to designate; to name; to brand
• to garner (support, etc.); to gather
• to take as one's wife - archaism 娶る
あなたanatawoケパKEPAto呼ぶyobuことにしますkotonishimasu You will be called Cephas.
結婚式kekkonshikidehaあまりにamariniたくさんtakusannoごちそうgochisouga出さdasaretaのでnode新郎shinrou新婦shinpuhaもっとmotto多くookunohitowo呼ぶyobuべきbekiだっdatakanato思いomoi始めhajimeta Food and drink were served in such profusion at the wedding that the bride and groom began to wonder if they should not have invited more guests.
ひんぱんにhinpanni吐血toketsuするsuru場合baaiha救急車kyuukyuushawo呼ぶyobuka近くchikakuno内科医naikaini往診oushinしてshiteもらうmorau If you frequently spit-up blood you should call an ambulance or have a nearby physician make a house call.
使つかうtsukau Inflection
godan ~う verb / transitive:
• to use (a thing, method, etc.); to make use of; to put to use
• to use (a person, animal, puppet, etc.); to employ; to handle; to manage; to manipulate 人使い
• to use (time, money, etc.); to spend; to consume
• to use (language); to speak 言葉遣い
アジア諸国AJIAshokokuなどnadoからkara出稼ぎdekaseginiきたkita外国人gaikokujinwoメイドMEIDOとしてtoshite使うtsukaunoga常識joushikinoようになっているyouninatteiru It has become common practise to employ foreigners working abroad from Asian countries as maids.
あぁaaいらいらirairaするsuru・・・今やimayaパソコンPASOKONwo使うtsukauたびtabini頭痛zutsuugaするsuruyo So annoying... Now I get a headache whenever I use the computer!
しるshiru Inflection
godan ~る verb / transitive:
• to be aware of; to know; to be conscious of; to cognize; to cognise
• to notice; to feel
• to understand; to comprehend; to grasp
• to remember; to be acquainted with (a procedure)
• to experience; to go through; to learn
• to be acquainted with (a person); to get to know
• to concern
英雄eiyuuha英雄eiyuuwo知るshiru Like knows like.
そのsono答えkotaewo知るshiruのにnoniあなたanataha本当にhontouniそのsono質問shitsumonwoするsuru必要hitsuyougaあるarunoかしらkashira Do you really need to ask the question to know the answer?
予知能力yochinouryokutoha霊力reiryokuwo使ってtsukatte未来miraini起こるokoruことがらkotogaraについてnitsuite知るshiruことkoto Precognition is the act of using spiritual-power to know things that will occur in the future.
あるaru Inflection
godan ~る verb (irregular) / intransitive verb:
• to be; to exist; to live - usu. of inanimate objects 居る【いる】
• to have
• to be located
• to be equipped with
• to happen; to come about
失礼shitsureidaga上記のjoukino記事kijiniあるaru３つmittsuno誤りayamariwo指摘shitekiしてshiteおきokiたいtai Excuse me. I'd like to point out three errors in the above article.
悪いwaruiけどkedoほかにhokani用事youjigaあるaruno I'm sorry, I have another engagement.
だすdasu Inflection
godan ~す verb / transitive:
• to take out; to get out
• to put out; to reveal; to show
• to submit (e.g. thesis); to turn in
• to publish; to make public
• to send (e.g. letter) 手紙を出す
• to produce (a sound); to start (fire) 声を出す
• to serve (food)
suffix / godan ~す verb:
• to begin ...; to start to ...; to burst into ... - after the -masu stem of a verb
飢えているueteiru人々hitobitoni援助enjonoお金okanewo出すdasuhitogaとてもtotemo少ないsukunainoha悲しいkanashiiことkotoda It is sad that so few people give money to help the hungry.
答案touanwo出すdasumaeniもう一度mouichido読み返しyomikaeshiなさいnasai Read over your paper before you hand it in.
旅行ryokouchuuni葉書hagakiwo出すdasunoha好きsukiではないdehanai I don't like to send postcards when I'm on a trip.
誰でもdaredemo初めhajimeni良いyoiぶどう酒budoushuwo出しdashi人々hitobitoga十分juubun飲んだnondaころkoroになるとninaruto悪いwaruiものmonowo出すdasumonoda Everyone brings out the choice wine first and then the cheaper wine after the guests have had too much.
つくるtsukuru Inflection
godan ~る verb / transitive:
• to make; to produce; to manufacture; to build; to construct - 造る usu. for large-scale building, manufacturing, etc.; 創る usu. for creating
• to prepare (food); to brew (alcohol)
• to raise; to grow; to cultivate; to train 野菜を作る
• to till
• to draw up (a document); to make out; to prepare; to write
• to create (an artistic work, etc.); to compose
• to coin (a phrase); to organize; to organise; to establish; to found
• to have (a child)
• to make up (one's face, etc.)
• to fabricate (an excuse, etc.)
• to give a (false) appearance; to feign (a smile, etc.); to put on a show of emotion
• to form (a line, etc.)
• to set (a record)
• to commit (a sin, etc.)
どこdokohe行ってittemokareha必ずkanarazu友達tomodachiwo作るtsukuru Wherever he may go, he is sure to make friends.
今日kyounoお弁当obentoumodaけどkedo五木itsukiさんsanto田中tanakaさんsanno作るtsukuruメニューMENYUUha緑黄色野菜ryokuoushokuyasaiga少ないsukunainじゃないjanai About today's packed-lunch, the menus prepared by Itsuki and Tanaka are low in beta-carotene-rich vegetables again aren't they?
庶民shominnoなりわいnariwaihakomewoつくるtsukuruことkotoだったdatta The ordinary people had their livelihood in farming rice.
文法的にbunpoutekini正しいtadashii文章bunshouwo作るtsukuruようyou心がけるkokorogakeruべきbekida You should try to produce grammatical sentences.
ではdehaCGwo作るtsukuru場合baaihaどのようにdonoyouni光源kougenwo使用shiyouすればsurebaよいyoinoであろうdearouka Then, when you're making CG, how should you use light sources?
輸入制限yunyuuseigenha両国間ryoukokukanによりniyori親密なshinmitsuna関係kankeiwo作るtsukuru支障shishouになるninaru Import restrictions are barriers to closer relations between the two countries.
例外reigaiha作るtsukuruべきではないbekidehanaito思いますomoimasu I don't think an exception should be made.
とるtoru Inflection
godan ~る verb / transitive:
• to take; to pick up; to harvest; to earn; to win; to choose
• to steal 盗る
• to eat; to have (a meal) 摂る
• to remove (one's glasses, etc.) - also written as 脱る
• to compete (in sumo, cards, etc.); to play
watashihaよいyoisekiwoとるtoruことができたkotogadekita I got a good seat.
彼女kanojohaiede昼食chuushokuwoとるtoru She has lunch at home.
おすosu Inflection
godan ~す verb / transitive:
• to push; to press 押す
• to apply pressure from above; to press down 押す・圧す
• to stamp (i.e. a passport); to apply a seal 押す・捺す 判を押す
• to affix (e.g. gold leaf) 押す
• to press (someone for something); to urge; to compel; to influence 押す
• to overwhelm; to overpower; to repress 押す・圧す
• to push (events along); to advance (a plan) 押す
• to do in spite of ...; to do even though ...; to force 押す
• to make sure 押す 念を押す【ねんをおす】駄目を押す【だめをおす】
• to be pressed for time 押す
• to advance troops; to attack 押す
• (of light) to be diffused across an entire surface 押す
ボタンBOTANwo押すosuだけdakede出窓demadohaあくaku You have only to push the button to open the bay window.
シャッターSHATTAAwo押すosuだけdakede最新のsaishinnoテクノロジーTEKUNOROJIIgaキレイなKIREIna一枚ni仕上げますshiagemasu Just press the button and a clear photo will be produced by the latest technology.
クリックKURIKKUマウスMAUSUno左側hidarigawanoボタンBOTANwo素早くsubayaku一回プチッとPUCHItto押すosukotoですdesu Click: Quickly pushing the mouse's left hand side button once.
もつmotsu Inflection
godan ~つ verb:
• to hold (in one's hand); to take; to carry
• to possess; to have; to own
• to maintain; to keep
• to last; to be durable; to keep; to survive
• to take charge of; to be in charge of
nekoha飼い主kainushiga持つmotsu感情的なkanjoutekinakuseto同じようなonajiyounakusewo示すshimesu Cats show emotional habits parallel to those of their owners.
watashino生きikiteいるiruうちuchini共産kyousan主義shugiga効力kouryokuwo持つmotsuことkotoha無いnaiだろdarou Communism will never be reached in my lifetime.
うるuru Inflection
godan ~る verb / transitive:
• to sell
韓流kanryuuドラマDORAMAブームBUUMUni便乗binjouしてshite韓国kankokuno製品seihinwo売るuru業者gyoushaga増えたfueta Taking advantage of the popular boom in Korean drama, workers selling Korean goods have increased.
たのむtanomu Inflection
godan ~む verb / transitive:
• to request; to beg; to ask
• to call; to order; to reserve
• to entrust to
• to rely on - esp. 恃む
明日ashita電話denwadeトムTOMUni連絡renrakuしてshite手伝ってtetsudatteくれるkureruようにyouni頼むtanomuつもりtsumorida I'm going to call Tom tomorrow and ask him to help.
田中tanakaさんsannoことkotowo頼むtanomuyo Take care of Mr. Tanaka for me!
はしるhashiru Inflection
godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:
• to run
• to travel (movement of vehicles); to drive; to flow (e.g. energy)
• to hurry to
• to retreat (from battle); to take flight
• to run away from home - esp. 奔る
• to elope
• to tend heavily toward - esp. 趨る
• to flash; to streak; to shoot through (e.g. pain)
またmataいつかitsukafuuのようにnoyouni走るhashiruんだnda Someday I'll run like the wind.
ひかりhikarigouha東京toukyouto新大阪shin'oosakanomawo時間jikan１０funde走るhashiru The Hikari runs between Tokyo and Shin-Osaka in three hours and ten minutes.
編集者henshuushahaささいなsasaina事実jijitsuwo読者dokushani提供teikyouするsuruのにnoni極端kyokutanni走るhashiruことkotogaよくあるyokuaru Editors often go to extremes in providing their readers with unimportant facts.
かうkau Inflection
godan ~う verb / transitive:
• to buy; to purchase - in western Japan, 買う conjugates euphonically as こうた, こうて, etc.
• to value; to have a high opinion
• to stir; to provoke; to draw upon oneself
学食gakushokuni飽きたakitaときtokiha、ベルファ,BERUFUAde買うkaumoよしyoshiファミレスFUAMIRESUde食べるtaberumoよしyoshi When you're fed up with the school cafe you can buy something at Bellfa or eat at a family restaurant.
きるkiru Inflection
godan ~る verb / transitive:
• to cut; to cut through; to perform (surgery)
• to sever (connections, ties) 縁を切る
• to turn off (e.g. the light)
• to terminate (e.g. a conversation); to hang up (the phone); to disconnect 電話を切る
• to punch (a ticket); to tear off (a stub)
• to open (something sealed)
• to start
• to set (a limit); to do (something) in less or within a certain time; to issue (stamps, vouchers, etc.)
• to reduce; to decrease; to discount 値切る
• to shake off (water, etc.); to let drip-dry; to let drain
• to cross; to traverse
• to criticize sharply
• to act decisively; to do (something noticeable); to go first; to make (certain facial expressions, in kabuki)
• to turn (vehicle, steering wheel, etc.)
• to curl (a ball); to bend; to cut
• to shuffle (cards)
• to discard a tile - Mahjong term
• to dismiss; to sack; to let go; to expulse; to excommunicate
• to dig (a groove); to cut (a stencil, on a mimeograph)
• to trump 切り札
• to cut (the connection between two groups) (in go)
• to start a fire (with wood-wood friction or by striking a metal against stone) - also written as 鑽る
• to draw (a shape) in the air (with a sword, etc.)
auxiliary verb / godan ~る verb:
• to finish; to complete - after the -masu stem of a verb 疲れきる
２．大根daikonha拍子木hyoushigini切るkiru 2. Cut the daikon into long sticks.
iewo出る前derumaeにはnihaガスGASUnoスイッチSUITCHIwo切るkiruことkotowo忘れないでwasurenaideくださいkudasai Don't forget to turn off the gas before you leave the house.
３．電話をかけてdenwawokaketemoアナウンスANAUNSUtouni従って従tte操作sousaしたりshitariせずsezuすぐにsuguni切るkiruことkoto 3. If you do phone then hang up immediately, without following any instructions given.
いったんittanfuuwo切るkirutoそのsonoテープTEEPUha返品henpinできませんdekimasen Once you break the seal, you can't return the tape.
わたすwatasu Inflection
godan ~す verb / transitive:
• to ferry across (e.g. a river); to carry across; to traverse
• to lay across; to build across
• to hand over; to hand in; to pass; to give; to transfer
必要hitsuyou以上ijounoお金okanewo子供kodomoni渡すwatasuna Do not hand over more money than is necessary to a child.
おわるowaru Inflection
godan ~る verb / intransitive verb / auxiliary verb:
• to finish; to end; to close - also written 了る, 卒る, etc.
多くookuno言語gengode辞書形jishogatano語尾gobiga決まってkimatteおりori日本語nihongodehaう段udanno文字mojide終わるowaru In many languages the way dictionary-form words end is fixed; in Japanese they end in a 'u row' character.
とまるtomaru Inflection
godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:
• to stop (moving); to come to a stop
• to stop (doing, working, being supplied); to come to a halt; to cease; to be stopped; to be suspended
• to alight; to perch on
そしてsoshite電車denshahaキーッKIIというtoiu音を立ててotowotatete止まったtomatta Then, the train screeched to a halt.
十分なjuubunna情報jouhouwo受け取るuketoruことができなかったkotogadekinakattaというtoiu理由riyuumo一部ichibuにはnihaあってatteハーHAAパーPAAno描写byoushaha不完全なfukanzennaものmononiとどまっているtodomatteiru Partly because he could not receive enough information, Harper's description remains imperfect.
あのanokinoedaniwanotorigaとまっているtomatteiru Some birds are sitting on the branch of that tree.
よむyomu Inflection
godan ~む verb / transitive:
• to read
• to count - now mostly used in idioms さばを読む
• to guess; to predict; to read (someone's thoughts); to see (e.g. into someone's heart); to divine
ただtada面白いomoshiroiブログBUROGUwo書くkakuためにtamenihitonoブログBUROGUwo読むyomunoならnara今日kyouからkara出来るdekiru However, if you're going to read people's blogs in order to write an interesting blog, you can do that right away.
のむnomuoldirr. Inflection
godan ~む verb / transitive:
• to drink; to gulp; to swallow; to take (medicine) - 呑む is often used metaphorically; 服む is often used for medicine
• to smoke (tobacco) - also written 喫む 喫む
• to engulf; to overwhelm
• to keep down; to suppress
• to accept (e.g. demand, condition)
• to make light of; to conceal
くれるkureruno？」「いやあiyaaホテルHOTERUde呑むnomuんですndesuyo」「だろうdaroune "Can I have it?" "Sorry, I drank it at the hotel!" "Thought so."
あなたanatahaそのsonokusuriwo飲むnomuことkotowo断るkotowaruべきbekiであるdearu You must refuse to drink this drug.
sakewo飲むnomuto打解けuchitokete来るkuru As we drink, we open up to each other.
はるharu Inflection
godan ~る verb / transitive:
• to stick; to paste; to affix - esp. 貼る
godan ~る verb / intransitive verb / transitive:
• to stretch; to spread; to strain; to tighten; to put up (tent)
godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:
• to form (e.g. ice on a pond)
godan ~る verb / intransitive verb / transitive:
• to fill; to swell
godan ~る verb / transitive:
• to stick out; to put; to slap
godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:
• to be expensive
godan ~る verb / transitive:
• to keep a watch on; to be on the lookout
godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:
• to become one tile away from completion 張る - Mahjong term テンパる聴牌
godan ~る verb / transitive:
• to span; to generate - Mathematics term
あなたanatano願書ganshoni最近のsaikinno写真shashinwo貼りhariなさいnasai Attach a recent photograph to your application form.
クモKUMOgaクモの巣kumonosuwo張るharuところtokorowo見たmitaことがありますkotogaarimasuka Have you ever seen a spider spinning its web?
mizuumiにはniha薄いusuikooriga張っていたhatteita There was thin ice on the lake.
うたうutau Inflection
godan ~う verb / transitive / intransitive verb:
• to sing
godan ~う verb / transitive:
• to sing (one's praises in a poem, etc.); to compose a poem; to recite a poem - esp. 歌う, 詠う
どうしてdoushiteoreha彼らkareraのようにnoyouni歌うutauことkotoga出来ないdekinaiんだnda Why can't I sing like they can?
しまるshimaru Inflection
godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:
• to be shut; to close; to be closed - esp. 閉まる
• to be firm (of a body, face, etc.); to be well-knit 締まる
• to be locked
• to tighten; to be tightened
• to become sober; to become tense
misehajini閉まるshimaru The shop closes at seven.
キムKIMUちゃんchanhaすごくsugoku閉まるshimaru太ももfutomomoあるaruんでnde石炭sekitannokatamariwo入れhaireba、２shuugodeダイヤモンドDAIYAMONDOwo出しdashiてるteruyo Kim is so tight, if you stuck a lump of coal up her ass, in two weeks you'd have a diamond!
かえすkaesu Inflection
godan ~す verb / transitive:
• to return (something); to restore; to put back - esp. 返す 帰す【かえす】
• to turn over; to turn upside down; to overturn
• to pay back; to retaliate; to reciprocate - esp. 返す
suffix / godan ~す verb:
• to repeat ...; to do ... back - after the -masu stem of a verb
お金okaneha明日ashita返すkaesuyo I'll give you back the money tomorrow.
戦闘sentouni携わるtazusawaru兵士heishiたちtachiha戦闘sentouga止んでいるyandeiruときtokini好んでkononde平穏無事なheionbujina時代jidaiwo想いomoi返すkaesu Combat soldiers during peaceful moments like to reminisce of their halcyon days.
わかるwakaru Inflection
godan ~る verb / intransitive verb:
• to understand; to comprehend; to grasp; to see; to get; to follow
• to become clear; to be known; to be discovered; to be realized; to be realised; to be found out
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Structured Writing: The Intrusion of the Management Domain
structured writing and the management domainEditor’s Note: Mark Baker turns the focus of his Structured Writing series to the management domain, intrusive by its very nature, but important to both managing and improving the creation of content. Your comments and questions are welcomed.
So far I have talked about three domains that content passes through and in which it can be recorded: the media domain, the document domain, and the subject domain. But there is a forth domain that intrudes into this picture of structured writing: the management domain.
Why do I call the management domain an intrusion? Because while the subject, document, and media domains are all about recording the content itself, the management domain is not about the content, but about the process of managing it.
When you manage unstructured content, the content file contains just the content. Any management metadata related to the content is contained in the repository, whether that be a simple file system or a more complex asset management system. (People may also keep separate logs of management metadata, in spreadsheets, for example.)
With structured content, this separation of the content from the management metadata is not always maintained. Sometimes management metadata finds its way into the content file itself. Why? Because structured writing makes it possible to address, and therefore manage, individual content structures within a file. Sometimes you can do that management based on media, document, or subject domain metadata. Sometimes you need (or choose) to insert management metadata into the content file.
Example: Including boilerplate content
For example, let’s say you have a standard warning statement that you are required to include in a document wherever you have a dangerous procedure. Structured writing is all about factoring out invariants, and the invariant here is that this warning statement must appear whenever you describe a dangerous procedure.
Just as we extracted formatting information into a separate file when we moved content from the media domain to the document domain, we now extract the invariant warning from the document and place it in a separate file. Any place we want this warning to occur, we insert an instruction to include the contents of the file at that location.
procedure: Blow stuff up
step: Plant dynamite.
step: Insert detonator.
step: Run away.
step: Press the big red button.
In the markup above (yes, I will explain it eventually) the “>>” is an insert command. It inserts the content of the file located at files/shared/admonitions/danger.
Why is this operation part of the management domain, rather than the document domain? Because it deals with a system operation: Locating a file in the system and loading its contents. If we were purely in the document domain, the author would be the one performing this operation: finding the file with the warning in it, opening it, and copying the contents into the document. The insertion instruction is just that: an instruction. It is not a declaration about the subject matter or structure of a document, such as we find in subject domain or document domain markup. It is an instruction to a machine to perform an operation. This is one of the hallmarks of management domain markup. It is imperative and it is addressed to a particular software system.
Different structured writing systems have different instruction sets for handling the situation described above. In DITA, for instance, this use case is handled using something called a conref or a conkeyref. In Docbook it can be handled using a generic XML facility called XInclude.
An alternative approach in the subject domain
There is another way to handle this situation, this time using the subject domain. As we saw in the previous article, factoring out invariant text is a feature of the subject domain. To understand the subject domain approach to this problem, remember what the invariant rule is here: A dangerous procedure must have a standard warning.
The management domain approach to this is to allow authors to insert the standard warning so that it is only stored once instead of being repeated in every procedure (something that is often called “content reuse”). Notice that the management domain markup does not encapsulate our invariant rule that dangerous procedures must have a standard warning. It just provides a generic mechanism for inserting content as a reference to a file rather than copying and pasting. It leaves it entirely up to the author to remember and enforce the rule about dangerous procedures.
The subject domain approach, on the other hand, is all about the invariant rule itself. Specifically, it expresses the aspect of the subject domain that triggers the rule: whether or not a procedure is dangerous:
procedure: Blow stuff up
is-it-dangerous: yes
step: Plant dynamite.
step: Insert detonator.
step: Run away.
step: Press the big red button.
big red buttonThis markup simply records that this procedure is dangerous. This retains the information on which our invariant rule is based, but factors out the action to be taken. Rather than asking authors to remember to include the file (and how to include it, and how to find it) we delegate that responsibility to the presentation algorithm. It is now the algorithm—not the writer—that needs to remember to include the material in files/shared/admonitions/danger whenever a procedure has is-it-dangerous set to “yes”. This is the sort of task that algorithms are much better at than humans.
Of course, the human writer does still have a job to do here. They have to remember set is-it-dangerous to “yes”. But we can make remembering to do this much easier if we make is-it-dangerous a required field in our tagging language for procedures. Now the writer is forced to answer the question “yes” or “no” for every procedure they write.
This approach makes the writer’s job much easier because they not only get reminded of the need to address the question of danger with every procedure, they are also asked it in a way that does not require them to know anything about how the content management system works, what warning text is required, or were it is located. They are recording a fact, not giving an instruction.
On the other hand, this approach only factors out the reuse of one particular piece of content—the warning for dangerous procedures. If you had multiple such invariant rules about different kinds of subject matter you would need separate subject domain structures for each of them, whereas a single management domain include instructions would let authors handle them all.
On the other other hand, if you have many such invariant rules, and you expect all of them to be enforced by authors from memory, you are going to limit your pool of authors to a few highly trained individuals, and even then they are still likely to miss some instances. The cost of ensuring full compliance with all these rules without subject domain markup to enforce the constraints could be quite high.
Hybrid approaches
It is not always an either/or decision to use pure management domain or pure subject domain. Management domain structures tend to be used in generic document domain languages, since such languages are not designed to be specific to any particular subject matter. Nonetheless, such languages often have roots in particular fields and sometimes include subject-domain structures from those fields. Both DocBook and DITA, for instance, originated in the field of software documentation and both include structures related to the subject of software, such as codeblocks and elements for describing user interface elements.
In some cases, such languages can mix subject domain elements into their management structures. One example is the product attribute, which is part of DITA’s conditional text processing system.
In DITA, you can add the product attribute to a wide variety of elements. You can then set a value for products in the build systems and any element with the product attribute will only be included in the final output if it matches one of the product values specified in the build.
<p>The car seats <ph product="CX-5">5</ph><ph product="CX-9">7</ph></p>
DITA can afford to use this bit of subject domain markup for products because product variations are an extremely common reason for using conditional text processing in technical communication, the area for which DITA was created. (Through a process called “specialization,” DITA can add other subject domain attributes for conditional processing in other subject areas.)
I call this a hybrid approach because the DITA product attribute does not exist merely to declare that a piece of text applies to a particular product. It is specifically a conditional processing attribute. That is, it is an instruction, even though it is phrased as a subject domain declaration.
To appreciate the difference, consider that there is another approach to documenting multiple versions of a product. Rather than generating a separate document for each product variant, you could create a single document that covered all product variants and highlighted the differences between them. A pure subject domain approach would support either approach by simply recording the data for each variant:
cx-5: 5
cx-9: 7
That is not something that the product attribute supports:
This markup is only designed to produce a CX-5 or CX-9 specific document. It is not designed to support the production of a document that covers both cars at once because it does not specify that the values 5 and 7 are numbers of seats. That information is in the text, but not in a form that a publishing algorithm could reliably locate and act on.
Also, creating a single document covering both cars is not the expectation that goes with creating the markup. It is not what the author is told the markup means. The markup is not a simple declaration of facts about each car. It is conditional text markup, and therefore an instruction.
Really, is it a contraction of the more explicitly imperative form (not actually used in DITA):
<ph condition="product=CX-5">5</ph>
While the introduction of subject domain names into management domain structures is an appropriate bit of semantic sugar for authors, this hybrid approach really remains firmly in the management domain.
Ad hoc management decisions
So far we have contrasted management domain and subject domain approaches to handling invariant rules. Sometimes the management decisions are being made ad hoc by writers as they write, not based on any invariant properties of the subject matter or document structure, and if the decisions affects only part of the content in a file, then the only way to record those decisions so that the publishing algorithms can act on them is to include management domain metadata in the content.
An example of this is content reuse. The safety warning example was a case of an invariant rule for including a fixed piece of content, which was, therefore, being reused. But there are other situations in which the same text, or substantially the same text, may appear in different places for ad hoc reasons, or for reasons where any rule would apply to so few cases that it would not be worth defining and modeling.
The obvious and traditional way of handling such cases is either to write the text again (if you are not aware that other instances exist, of where they are) or to cut and paste the text. The downside of this is that the text now exists in multiple places, which creates management headaches if you ever need to change it. It also costs more to research and write the same content over and over again.
If you do ad hoc reuse, by using some form of management domain include instruction, you partially solve these management problem because you can change the content in one place and it will automatically appear in its changed form the next time any of the documents that reuse it are republished. The content does not have to be researched, written, or edited multiple times.
I say “partially solves”, because when reuse is not based on an invariant rule (and even when it is, if that rule is not encapsulated in subject domain markup), then it is up to the author to discover if a piece of content they are about to write already exists, locate it, and use it. The more potentially reusable content you have, the more difficult this search becomes, because there is more to search through. And unless the author remembers what all the pieces of reusable content are, they constantly have to ask themselves if the content they are about to write has already been written. This means they will end up searching for reusable content even when there isn’t any. And all those failed searches also take time. Mistakes and omissions are inevitable, which means that when changes occur, you still have to search for duplicate instances of the content, and the time saved by not researching and writing the content again can be chewed up in all the processes around reusing content.
Successful reuse strategies, therefore, tend to require a high level of discipline and management, whether or not that is provided by subject domain markup.
The management domain is used for other things besides reuse. We will look at some of these later in the series when we consider the various algorithms and structures found in structured writing.
The management domain and content management
So far I have talked about the management domain as in intrusion into structured writing. But it is worth looking at where that intrusion comes from. Management domain structures in structured writing are in intrusion from the content management process.
So far in this series I have talked about structured writing as a way to make content better. In other words, I have talked about it having a fundamentally rhetorical purpose: it is there to improve the text. And since we now live in a world of dynamic content delivery options, it is there to help us build better rhetorical structures that might be difficult to build and manage by hand.
The world of content management, on the other hand, exists mainly to manage the vast collection of content that many organizations own today, and the process by which it is created. Content management is a significant business problem quite apart from the rhetorical properties of the content. Many organizations adopt structured writing not for any rhetorical purpose, but as an enabler of content management processes.
Many content management processes involve finding, identifying, combining and publishing content from diverse sources. These processes often require that content meets certain constraints, which means that structured writing—the application of constraints to writing—is a useful content management tool.
Tools and processes that are designed primarily to tackle the content management problem, rather than the rhetorical problem, almost invariably use document domain structures with a significant injection of the management domain, though in these cases is might be more accurate to say that the document domain structures are being used as an extension of the management domain.
The focus of this series is the use of structured writing as a tool for rhetoric—for making content better. As such, it will talk a lot more about the subject domain than would a text focused on content management. Nonetheless, as shown briefly here, the subject domain can have powerful content management features as well. I will look more at this in later articles.
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Giant pandas are famous for their diet of bamboo, a giant, fast-growing form of grass with over 1,000 species. But how that low energy diet shapes how much they eat and sleep, how it affects the size of their young, and how they poop may all be lesser known. This Pandas 101 video from Nat Geo Wild explains, including why their year-round dependence on bamboo might be the reason why they have black and white fur.
Plus, some interesting research via Science Mag:
To understand how pandas subsist on such a diet, researchers radio-collared three male and three female pandas in the Qinling Mountains of China and observed what they ate in their natural habitats for 6 years. The team also analyzed the panda diet in depth by measuring the amounts of nitrogen, phosphorous, and calcium—the three most essential nutrients for mammals—in the plants they ate… “In areas with only one edible plant, animals may try to consume different parts of the same food…”
The two bamboo species in Qinling, wood bamboo and arrow bamboo, grow at different elevations and sprout new shoots and leaves at different times of the year. The tracking collars revealed that during mating season in the spring, pandas fed on young wood bamboo shoots, which are rich in nitrogen and phosphorous. In June, the wood bamboo shoots had matured and contained fewer nutrients, so pandas migrated to higher elevations and started eating young arrow bamboo shoots. However, both species’ shoots had low calcium levels, which pushed pandas toward the next dietary shift in mid-July: young arrow bamboo leaves, which are rich in calcium.
Related reading: Lazy lifestyle key to pandas’ bamboo-only diet.
Next, watch pandas on a slide, Raising Red Panda Cubs Tink & Henry, and Gotta Eat! and Classifying Organisms. Plus, another use for bamboo: How Yodoe oil-paper umbrellas are crafted in Japan.
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UberConference Business users can link another user (Business or Free) to their account, allowing them to schedule calls on their behalf. Here's how:
• Log into your UberConference account
• Navigate to Account>Linked Users
• Add the email of the user you want to link (must be the same email they use for UberConference)
We'll send an email confirmation to your linked user to give them a heads up. After that, they can toggle between themselves and the user who linked them by clicking on the linked user's name in their profile drop-down.
Keep in mind that once you link a user, they'll have access to your:
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Kaleidoscopic Effect
Time changes many things. A person can grow as much in a day as someone could in a year. Time means something different to everyone and everything that inhabits our “seamless” reality. To me it’s a still, microscopic moment. I … Continue reading
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Why Were You With a Narcissist?–Part 1
IMG_2079So, after a terribly tumultuous time you have discovered that your partner is a narcissist. Yes, it is good to know that you are not going crazy. It is comforting to realize that you were not the source of all of the problems; you were simply the victim of a pathology masked as a lover. But, as the first wave of relief hits you, you begin to wonder, why did I pick a narcissist? This is a good question to ask, because it speaks to a deeper, often painful truth. A truth that you must understand before you pick another one.
Consider the following statements:
1. You had been lonely for a long time.
2. You are a gentle and open-minded person that is not quick to judge or jump to conclusions.
3. You are unable to distinguish the difference between someone who truly loves you and someone that pretends to love you.
4. You are highly independent and have learned to take care of yourself and those around you.
5. You knew that you could help this person achieve their full potential.
6. You thought that this person would make your life easier (more money, more support, more companionship).
Do any of these statements resonate with you? At first glance, the list above does not seem that remarkable. A lot of people are lonely. Being open-minded and self-sufficient are both good things. Knowing that you can help someone attain a better life, or hoping that someone can help you, both seem like reasonable things.
The alarming one is that you may be unable to distinguish between someone who truly loves you and someone who pretends to love you. When you combine that with one of the other things on the list, you can be exactly what the narcissist desires. There are three categories of narcissistic needs: the necessities of life, nourishment and a receptacle for their anger.
If you are willing to help this person achieve their full potential, or you are highly independent and can take care of yourself and those around you, the necessities of life may be what you can provide for the narcissist.
An individual that is looking for someone to take care of them, or is tired of being lonely is a sure bet for a narcissist. It is much more difficult for a person like this to leave an abusive relationship. Lonely or dependent individuals can swing between being a source of nourishment and a receptacle for the narcissist.
A gentle, open-minded person is easy to deceive. They are the type of individual that will give the narcissist “the benefit of the doubt” when the narcissist starts to show their true colours and this can lengthen the relationship considerably.
So these are some of the reasons that you may have been a target for the narcissist, but they do not speak to the larger problem, your ability to pick a partner might not be well developed. For many of us, we did not learn the basics of partner selection because we were brought up under less than ideal conditions. This is not to say that our families were not doing the best that they could, it just means that they were not equipped to help us to make good choices in the partner department. More on that in Part 2.
The Narcissist Survival Guide is now available
4 thoughts on “Why Were You With a Narcissist?–Part 1
1. I just wonder if narcissists know what they do? Is it a conscious choice to chose a partner they can manipulate etc? Or, like their ‘victims’ are they just naturally attracted to certain personalities? I think my husband is now narcissistic, but I also think he truly loved and cared for me at first.
1. We all believed we were loved at first.
Narcissists have learned that certain behaviours attract and certain ones repel. It is called wearing a “mask” and eventually, especially once they have you, it comes off.
I’ve come to believe that when people stand up to them, or fail to respond in the correct way, a true narcissist loses interest.
So it may not be a conscious choice to choose people with certain personalities, but rather avoidance of the ones who don’t respond the way they like.
That is more than just word play. If you don’t comply they go to the next person.
I’ve written a blog on how I think you can discourage them. See if any of it resonates with you. http://wp.me/p3scpP-ub
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25 September 2006 @ 06:16 pm
car update
So I have a crime reference number now. Not sure what I'm meant to do with that but I guess it's in case the insurance company asks for it. If I end up making a claim - my neighbour (who normally I bitch at for parking directly opposite my driveway) came over (to be nosy it has to be said) and when he saw the dent he reckoned it could be fixable quite easily. So I popped the hood and between us he and I have it more or less dent-free again.
Still a huge bloody* footprint on the bonnet (which I'm leaving until I get an estimate from the garage so that when they take the photo it'll be public record (and presumably go with the file that the crime reference number relates to). And I was such a girl and had to call out the RAC to change the tyre for me. I've changed tyres in the past, I'm pretty damn good at it, but the nuts just would not budge at all. To my relief the RAC guy had trouble too (and ended up using an entire can of WD40 on it) so I don't feel quite so much of a girl for calling them out in the first place. :)
Had major issues with the webhost this morning - the server crashed around 11ish and it took far too long for them to get in touch with me and let me know what the sitch was. Well seeing I just renewed it at the start of September so they have their money now... (ooo, I'm getting bitter in my old age!) Have also been having major issues with random things all weekend - which I'm not quite ready to talk about yet (I'm fine- honest) - so I'm really, really, really behind on everything. And last night, when I had time to breathe, I couldn't string two words together to reply to the emails I need to reply to. I will hopefully get replies back tonight.
I did throw together some wallpapers to burn off some nervous energy, I was in the flow and I personally think one of these is the best thing I've ever created. I guess switching my higher functioning brain off and just going with my gut on what would work... worked. For me anyway. :)
And now I'm starving so I have to go make some dinner - the RAC guy took three hours to show up and I kinda skipped making lunch while I was waiting for him.
* not literally 'bloody' - I used my daily quota of 'the f word' in the last post so I'm falling back to my youth...
Current Mood: hungryhungry
Current Music: my washing machine - I'm being all domesticated...
velvetwhip: Bugger by disparagingrantvelvetwhip on September 25th, 2006 07:41 pm (UTC)
You really have had a horrible day! I do hope things get better soon!
the girl who used to dance on fire and brimstone: i heart angst - engelsteorrawhiskyinmind on September 26th, 2006 11:11 am (UTC)
It definitely was one of those days...
velvetwhip: At Our Worst by lilbreckvelvetwhip on September 26th, 2006 03:28 pm (UTC)
I hope today is better.
sparrow2000sparrow2000 on September 25th, 2006 09:33 pm (UTC)
Really sorry to hear about your car love. I checked with my hubby who works with the police and yep, the reference number is for your insurance company. It means that you're all above board and have reported it, so that the insurance company can start cranking their paperwork. When I told my hub what had happened he just rolled his eyes and said it would have been kids, apparently it's a favourite thing for them to do - little gits.
Hope you have a better day tomorrow
the girl who used to dance on fire and brimstonewhiskyinmind on September 26th, 2006 11:12 am (UTC)
Ah - so if I don't make a claim (might end up being cheaper not too) I probably won't need this number. Thanks!
sparrow2000sparrow2000 on September 26th, 2006 04:49 pm (UTC)
Even if you don't make a claim it's probably best to keep a note of it so if you needed to talk to the police about it again then they'd probably want the number so they could look back on their records. But yep, sometimes it's cheaper not to claim. I'm not sure who are worse, the vandals or the legal robbers!
iyalode: SPN- S1- Dean- Officer Sexyiyalode on September 26th, 2006 05:51 am (UTC)
You've had a bad day, haven't you. When I hear about vandalism I always think of that Red Dwarf prison eppy where everying they did got looped back at them.
So, if you want to smile, just think of that footprint and where it should really be planted. Or imagine your car had been the Impala and Dean actually caught them.
And your new wallpapers are seriously terrific. Damn you're getting good. I've nabbed all of them.
the girl who used to dance on fire and brimstone: spn//dean - mewhiskyinmind on September 26th, 2006 11:13 am (UTC)
imagine your car had been the Impala and Dean actually caught them
Heh! Now that is a fantastic image (not least the thought of the Impala being parked outside my house... *g*)
and thank you!
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How to iterate over elements
This page describes how to iterate over elements on page, elements could be search results, forum topics, etc.
This topic may be usefull if you create parser.
To iterate over elements use start loop action:
You need to select correct query, which matches several element, here is example for google output:
It is important to place cursor inside foreach loop, like this:
To parse element text, you can use “Get Element Text” from “For Each Element” submenu:
For more detailed explanation, see Tutorial #2. Parser.
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A power station (or power plant) is a place where electricity is produced. Most do this by electromagnetism, spinning a coil of wire past a magnet to induce an electric current. Usually the spinning is powered by a steam engine, specifically a steam turbine. The steam may be created by:
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