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A topographic map, as related in Wikipedia, is "a type of map characterized by large-scale detail and quantitative representation of relief, usually now using contour lines, but historically using a variety of methods." One available imagery layer in JOSM is the "USGS Topographic Maps" layer. Interpretation of symbology used in this layer can be helped through consulting the "Topographic Map Symbols" publication from the USGS. When using this imagery layer as a source of information, attribute it either at the object or changeset level.
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Welcome to Inspirational Discussions
Friday, March 9, 2018
"A Morning Prayer"
Psalm 5:1-12
Preparing to write today's devotional message I went in prayer, a discussion on worship came to mind, but then the above message was decided upon being our society is in a mess filled with sin and hate. Prayer is always in order and is a powerful weapon against any enemy. We can fight any battle on our knees. Satan knows he has no win when he sees the righteous praying. Satan know that prayers of the righteous availeth much (James 5:16).
God takes no pleasure in wickedness (v.4) and will reward the cry of the righteous with His favor and shield him from all unrighteous (v.12). God's truth is our shield and buckler as we are covered under the shadow of His wings (Psalm 91:4).
In our morning prayer we seek His protection as we navigate the daily snares of the wicked. God has provided us with His protective gear undergirded by love. Therefore, seek God in prayer with a sincere humble heart; He hears and answers.
Let's close today's discussion with these encouraging words "don't forget to pray."
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Control File: value of <field> is not an integer
Some fields, such as the Extra-Size and Installed-Size fields, are expected to hold a valid integer number. This means a value of just and only digits. This error is generated if the field includes any other characters. Note that field values are trimmed from starting and ending spaces so such will have no effect on a valid value.
VALIDExtra-Size: 45
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A question about affiliates modules
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Sorry if this question was asked before, I could not find it in the search. I understand that we get page 50 to 60% of page impressions through amazon, zazzle, allposters and adsense. How does it work when we sell something through these modules? Do we get all the revenue from the sales or do we still get 50 to 60%?
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The modules are shared the exact same way as the Adsense. So you get 50% of the impressions and 100% of the clicks during your impressions. That is for Amazon, Zazzle, AllPosters. Ebay is not active yet.
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Self-Preparation Before (Re)Writing a Resume
Before you start thinking about the actual content of your resume, you really need to ask yourself a number of key questions.
What is your ideal position?
Think about the perfect job. Everybody’s is different. What is it about the job you like? Working with people or not working with anybody?. Having plenty of projects or do you prefer repetitive tasks which free you mind?
What kinds of things do you like doing?
Think about your hobbies. Think about what you do at home in your sparetime that makes life worth living. Can you do it and get paid for it somewhere or in some form? It might not be quite the same, but if your job evens contains an atom of what you enjoy, you’ll find you like the job.
Think about your favorite job in the past; what was it you liked about it so much?
Was there a part-time job that you really enjoyed? Maybe the job only lasted a few months, but you really liked it. What was it about that job that made you enjoy it so much? Could you find those things in another job?
Are there gaps in your employment?
If there are, it’s not the end of the world. Are those gaps legitimate? What were you doing during that time? Can you turn your absence from the workplace into a positive virtue? For example, if you were travelling during a gap of three months or so, what did it teach you. Try to sell it as a gain, rather than as a loss.
Reasons for leaving each position?
Figure out the best way to explain why you left each position. The idea is to present your move in the best light possible. Above all, be honest. Getting caught in a lie is far worse than having to admit that you didn’t like a particular job. Remember, at some point your potential employer will contact your past employer to get their side of the story.
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A versatile TV speaker that can do it all.
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Gem #78: Where did my memory go? (Part 2)
Let's get started…
Part II: System.Memory
In the previous Gem we discussed the use of GNAT.Debug_Pools to detect memory problems. Another approach that is somewhat easier to use, because it doesn't require changes to the application, is to override the System.Memory package. In GNAT and its run-time, all actual memory allocations are done via this package, which among other things does the low-level system calls to malloc() and free().
If you create your own version of System.Memory, you will in fact short-circuit all memory allocation and deallocation, and replace it with your own. To do so, copy the file s-memory.adb to one of your source directories, modify it as appropriate, and compile your application, passing the "-a" switch to gnatmake (gprbuild currently does not have an equivalent switch, although using project files should work as expected). This ensures that GNAT will recompile the library with your modified System.
Using this package does not provide the same safety as the debug pools, since it does not check that dereferences are valid, and so your code could still be accessing invalid memory. On the other hand, the use of System.Memory is much less intrusive in your code. System.Memory is best viewed as a performance analysis tool rather than a debugging tool, although it will allow you to monitor your code for memory leaks.
The GNATCOLL library (a recent addition to the GNAT technology, and part of the latest customer and public releases) provides such an implementation in the form of the GNATCOLL.Memory package. This package is not a direct replacement for System.Memory, but only a minimal amount of work is needed to make use of it, by creating a version of s-memory.adb file that contains the following:
with GNATCOLL.Memory;
package body System.Memory is
package M renames GNATCOLL.Memory;
function Alloc (Size : size_t) return System.Address is
return M.Alloc (M.size_t (Size));
end Alloc;
procedure Free (Ptr : System.Address) renames M.Free;
function Realloc
(Ptr : System.Address;
Size : size_t)
return System.Address
return M.Realloc (Ptr, M.size_t (Size));
end Realloc;
end System.Memory;
You then need to modify your code so that it properly initializes GNATCOLL.Memory, which is done via a call like the following:
GNATCOLL.Memory.Configure (Activate_Monitor => True);
The monitoring provided by this GNATCOLL package is not enabled by default, to limit overhead on a running program. In your application, monitoring could be activated through a command-line switch, or by means of a specific environment variable. (This is all fully under your control, though, so you'll have to do the actual call to Getenv and then to Configure.)
You can then instrument your code in one or more places to dump the memory usage at that point. This is done through a call such as the following:
GNATCOLL.Memory.Dump (Size => 3, Report => Memory_Usage);
Such a call will print on the console three backtraces for the code that allocated the most memory (among the currently allocated memory). Variants exist to dump the backtraces that executed the greatest number of allocations (as opposed to the largest allocation size), or the total amount of memory, even if that memory has since been released.
Such a dump includes a backtrace with addresses, which you can convert to a symbolic backtrace by using the external tool addr2line as follows:
addr2line -e
This library has very light overhead (in particular when not activated) so that you can distribute your application with support for GNATCOLL.Memory built in, and then investigate any issues that arise in production code. In fact, our own GPS IDE now includes this support. Activation is controlled by an external variable, and dumping the state of memory can be done through a Python command at any point in time without the need to recompile GPS. (Note that GNATCOLL also provides an interface to Python.)
Another feature of GNATCOLL.Memory is the capability of resetting all counters to zero. For example, let's assume we want to investigate memory leaks while opening and closing editors in GPS. If we look at the places that allocate memory, the biggest allocations that are displayed in the console do not concern the editor itself, but rather memory allocated when GPS started (if you are curious, this is generally memory that is related to the cross-reference database). Therefore, we would do the following: start GPS, reset GNATCOLL.Memory counters to 0, open and close an editor, and dump memory usage. At that point, if Dump prints any information on the console, we know that this is memory that has been allocated since the call to Reset, and that wasn't freed when the editor was closed, and therefore is most likely a memory leak.
The appropriate use of Reset and Dump therefore allows the monitoring of memory usage in specific parts of the code.
A separate tool called gnatmem is also distributed with GNAT. When you link your application with the -lgmem switch, it will transparently instrument all calls to the standard malloc and free (from the Ada code), in a fashion similar to GNATCOLL.Memory. On program exit, a disk file is created that you can then analyze using gnatmem, to highlight the sources of memory leaks in your application. This tool requires no change to your code at all, but, on the other hand, does not provide a way to monitor specific sections of your code like GNATCOLL.Memory does.
Gnatmem provides a number of command-line switches to control the display of information. For instance, the switch "-m 0" lets you view all places in your code that ever allocated memory, even if that memory was properly deallocated afterwards. When one such place is doing millions of allocations, it might sometimes be more efficient to use a custom Storage_Pool and avoid the system call to malloc, by reusing memory. The "-s" switch allows you to sort the output in various ways.
In Part III of this series we will take a look at various commercially available system tools for monitoring and analyzing memory usage.
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Posted on: 1/25/2010
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Thinking of Doing Something Similar?
Are you a parent of a child with special needs, or another human who wants to build a farm, business, or non-profit that includes this community? There are so many people to serve and so many ideas floating around in your heads - we get it!
We would be happy to speak or meet with you to help you explore your ideas and tell you how we got to where we are (and we're never done growing - we've got too many ideas of our own, and not nearly enough hours in the day to make them all a reality).
But our time is limited. We still maintain other jobs. We are parents. We manage a non-profit. We are farmers. We hop from task to task until about 11pm each night, when we finally call it a day before the roosters crow around 5:30am- literally.
Thus, we ask that you donate to our non-profit when setting up a time to talk.
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Pronunciation: êm-bray-jês Hear it!
Part of Speech: Adjective
Meaning: 1. Affording or forming shade; shady. 2. Easily offended, likely to take offense, sensitive to insult.
Notes: Today's word is the adjective of the noun umbrage "shade, shadow" and "offense, insult". We often hear how someone who is insulted takes umbrage at the insult. How these two meanings came together is explored below in the History.
In Play: Today we will use a wedding as the setting of both the positive and negative meanings of today's Good Word: "The wedding took place under the umbrageous limbs of a giant oak in the bride's backyard." How pleasant. However, "The wedding was almost called off when the bridegroom made a careless remark about the bride's mother in earshot of his umbrageous bride."
Word History: Today's Good Word was taken from an ancestor of French ombrage, which has the same meanings as the English copy. The French word descended from Latin umbraticus "shady, of shade", the adjective of umbra "shadow". This same noun cast a spell on the Latin noun umbella "parasol", sending it to Italian as ombrella, with an [r]. Since the original use of parasol (from Italian parare "to ward off" + sole "sun") was to protect delicate ladies from the insult of the sun, the stem umbra made sense. However, anything that casts a shadow on someone's character would be insulting, so the original meaning of the word umbrage took a bold leap from "shadow" to "offense". (Let's express our gratitude to Luis Alejandro Apiolaza, who trades under the name of Uncronopio in the Alpha Agora, lest he take umbrage at the slight.)
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Power amplifiers
Power amp, two channel, 1RU 2 x 250W/4ohm, bridgeable, DSP convection cooled, REVAMP2250
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2-channel bridgeable digital power amplifier, 2 x 250W, 4ohm
REVAMP2250 is a professional 2-channel digital power amplifier with 2 x 350 watts output power @ 4 ohms, but is also bridgeable (1 x 700 watts @ 8 ohms). The unit incorporates a high efficient SMPS power supply and outputs with efficient Class D output topology.
The digital signal processor inside operates with one simple push button at the back of the unit to select an operating mode (6 presets). An example of a preset is the combination CH1 subwoofer and CH2 trafo load. In this example you have a low-pass filter for increased stability when using 100 volt transformers on the output, allowing you to use 100 volt speakers as top speakers combined with a standard low impedance subwoofer. With the other presets channels can be bridged, high pass filters can be applied to a channel...
The very intuitive front display shows what is going on with one blink of an eye. Thanks to our own designed automatic protection system (patent pending) with smart use of a compressor/limiter topology we bring our switched mode power supply to an unexpected high level! This manifests itself in a great dynamic power with an unseen musicality and exceptional dynamic sound.
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Off to France & have correct electrical travel plugs. Voltage ?
Will my MAC computer, iPad & iPhone recharge w/higher electrical wattage? or is there a need for something else? While living in Germany in the for 13 years (70-80's) we had to use a huge electrical converter the size of a gallon milk container which were super heavy and expensive for all electronic equipment. Now wondering if I need anything other than a conversion plug for the end of my Apple products as some electronics are dual voltage.
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DAB/DAB+ receiver: 174 – 240 MHz
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Power supply: AC/DC adapter 5 V (supplied) or 4 x C batteries (not included)
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Wands at the ready, Potterheads. Now that Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald is out in theaters, Harry Potter fever is having a resurgence. And since holiday shopping season is in full swing, looking to the famous Boy Wizard and his friends for some inspiration is, as *always,* a good idea. It’s the excuse you never knew you needed to buy some Potter swag — and since it’s all available on Amazon, it couldn’t be easier. From housewares to books to beauty tools, the die-hard Potter fans in your life will definitely be cooking up a summoning spell to get their hands on these amazing and magical items.
1. Morphing Mugs Marauders Map Heat Reveal Coffee Mug ($30): Caffeine fix, managed! This nifty cup magically changes from an unassuming black mug to one emblazoned with the Marauders’ Map when you fill it with your favorite hot beverage.
2. Highland Bluff Studio “Buttery Brew” Soy Candle ($35): Nothing beats the rich, delicious smell of butterbeer brewing in the cauldron. This soy candle has a sweet, buttery scent to fill your home with the fragrance of your favorite magical bevvy.
3. The Noble Collection Harry Potter Wizard Chess Set ($45): Test your strategy skills by playing this beautiful chess board made up just like Wizard Chess from the series. Are you good enough to beat Ron at a game?
4. The Harry Potter Complete 8-Film Collection ($79): The ultimate gift for the ultimate fan: Every single film in a nicely packaged boxset. You (or your Potterhead friend) can binge-watch every magical moment from the movies.
5. The Unofficial Harry Potter Cookbook by Dinah Bucholz ($12): Fancy some Treacle Tart or Pumpkin Pasties? Now you don’t have to dream about these mystical goodies; you can make them right in your own home using this cookbook.
6. Harry Potter: A Pop-Up Guide to Hogwarts by Matthew Reinhart ($75): This 3D masterpiece is by pop-up artist Matthew Reinhart, and it’s truly the only way to experience Hogwarts in book form.
7. OPENDGO Antique Feather Dip Pen Set ($19): Write your notes the way a witch or wizard would do it, with an ink and quill. This splendid set comes with an owl feather quill and inkpot so you can send out your own Hogwarts letters.
8. The Noble Collection Tom Riddle Diary ($29): This replica of Tom Riddle’s diary probably doesn’t have a horcrux in it (probably), but you can still write down all of your magical thoughts and dreams in it.
9. Moyel “Dobby is Free” Crew Socks ($8): Remember Dobby’s first piece of clothing? Of course you do. Celebrate everyone’s favorite House Elf with these funny socks.
10. WIILII Harry Potter Makeup Brushes Set ($17): Turn your makeup routine into something enchanting when you use these gorgeous brushes. Each detailing brush is made to represent a Hogwarts house or Hogwarts itself.
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✓ that bucketlist
Step 1: Add See A Total Eclipse to your bucketlist
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Step 4: Profit (get a ✓)
Ok, I make lame references to things (like South Park), It's my thing. Aaaanyway checking off a bucket list item is no small thing. Getting a check is like money in the bank of life. You'll be that much richer for it :P
Now most life goals can't be achieved in one day, BUT you may be in luck. Depending on where you live you may be able to check off "See A Total Eclipse" on Monday, 21st. So now's the time to add it to your list :)
As for Step 3... here are some great resources to achieve your goal:
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Why Isn't Aaron Rodgers On Jordan's 'Bachelorette' Hometown Date? He'll Be There In Spirit
Ever since Jordan Rodgers was cast for Season 12 of The Bachelorette, fans of the show have wondered whether the contestant's famous brother Aaron — aka professional quarterback of the Green Bay Packers — would be around for hometown dates (that is, if Jordan made it that far, which we now know he has). But, as we learned last week, the famous brother won't be around, so why isn't Aaron Rodgers on Jordan's Bachelorette hometown date?
Well, as Jordan revealed to JoJo during their one-on-one date in week seven, he has a complicated relationship with his brother Aaron, though he's excited for her to meet the rest of his family. During the conversation, he explained that he had never been close to Aaron because that's the way his brother has "chosen to do life." Jordan went on to insinuate that Aaron chose to focus on his career more than his family, though he said there are no hard feelings between him and Aaron. Additionally, Jordan said he's not even sure if Aaron knows he went on The Bachelorette because they don't talk. Still, since JoJo and Jordan are headed on a hometown date, this isn't the last we've heard of his relationship to Aaron.
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In fact, the promo for the hometown date episode features JoJo talking to Jordan's oldest brother Luke about the subject of their famous middle brother, though Luke says, "It’s something we don’t really like to talk about a whole lot." JoJo can additionally be heard calling the tension between Jordan and Aaron a "wound" that Jordan still seems to be dealing with. In another promo released exclusively by E! News, JoJo confronts Jordan about his brother, but he responds that it "doesn’t need to be a topic,” and asks the boys' father about it as well.
Of course, with so many fans invested in the contestants on The Bachelorette, JoJo isn't the only one asking Jordan about his relationship with his quarterback brother. In a recent interview on Katie Nolan's Garbage Time podcast, the Bachelorette suitor was asked about his brother and he replied vaguely, saying, "Um, we have a relationship. You know, it's complicated. I'll say that." Plus, when she asked whether Aaron was watching the show, Jordan was still unsure if his brother was tuning in: “Everybody watches the show, so yeah. I think so, yeah."
So, we know Aaron won't be around for Jordan's hometown date on The Bachelorette because the brothers aren't close (and, according to Jordan, because Aaron isn't close with his family as a whole). But, with JoJo looking to invest her life in one of the remaining men — which also means investing herself in their families as well — you can be sure that even if Aaron isn't there in person, he will be one major topic of discussion throughout the Rogers' hometown date. Whether that proves to be a good or bad thing for her relationship with Jordan remains to be seen, and I'm sure we'll all be tuning in to see how this particular family drama plays out.
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The Flaws of Racial Profiling
In response to the Chicago Tribune article: "Face it: Profiling makes sense; Race should be factor in detaining travelers"While proponents of racial profiling such as Jonah Goldberg argue that racial profiling “makes sense” and therefore should be allowed into the policies of law enforcement officials, in actuality, racial profiling is inefficient in terms of security, and illegal in terms of law. In his article “Face it: Profiling makes sense; Race should be factor in detaining travelers,” Goldberg argues that U.S. Customs and Border Protection should allow its officers to racially profile Middle Eastern and Asian travelers, instead of investing in technology that would more accurately detect possible transgressors.
Goldberg’s argument is flawed for several reasons. First, though proponents of racial profiling can’t seem to grasp it, racial profiling is simply not efficient as a method of detecting possible violators of the law. By adopting a policy of racial profiling, law enforcement would limit their scope to a narrow group of people. Would-be transgressors would merely need to make sure that the people carrying out the mission do not fit the profile.
Second, and more importantly, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers do not only have to watch out for potential terrorist threats. CBP must be able to detect kidnappers, drug traffickers, weapons smugglers, and other violators of U.S. and International Law. The task of the CBP officer is to detect any illegal activity involving travel. In order to better help them do their job, and minimize officers violating the civil rights of travelers, better technology is needed to be able to efficiently and accurately detect the real threats – not people who look like they fit the stereotype of the person who should be suspected of being a threat.
Perhaps the neoconservatives would argue that racial profiling is acceptable even then. What we would essentially end up with is security policy based on stereotypical attitudes put forth against a wide array of minorities in the United States. Hispanics, African Americans, Asians and Middle Easterners would all be affected by such policies, and nobody would be any safer.
The main flaw with the neoconservative argument is that it completely fails at cutting to the root cause of the problem. The neoconservative policies of racial profiling are in themselves part of the problem; those policies actually contribute to fueling the security threats that currently face this country. It is also those same policies that sometimes make Middle Eastern and Asian Americans feel they are being targeted and discriminated against by the law enforcement officials they are supposed to entrust to protect them.
Indeed, Middle Eastern and Muslim Americans often feel that they are the targets of hostility in an otherwise tolerant atmosphere. Indicative of the hostility towards them in American policy is Goldberg’s very comment that “100 percent of them [terrorists] are Muslim” [his emphasis]. Neoconservatives such as Goldberg put forth such racist assertions as fact, which are then used as evidence to promote their arguments. When an intoxicated Mel Gibson made the statement that all of the world’s wars are started by the Jews, even the neoconservatives were quick to denounce his comment as racist and completely inappropriate. A (presumably) sober Goldberg, however, makes the statement that all terrorists are Muslim and his hypocrisy completely escapes him.
Proponents of the theory that terrorism is exclusively a Muslim proprietorship part with history’s rendition of the facts. A cursory survey of the history of terrorism lists various groups with diverse backgrounds and motivations. Terrorism is a military tactic that was documented as early as the French Revolution. The founders of the State Israel resorted to such tactics against the British as did Irish, Basque, and Tamil separatist groups, some of whom remain active today.
More importantly, to advocate racial profiling would be to show utter disregard for U.S. law, and the rights guaranteed to every individual living in this country by the Constitution. Applying uniform policy in passenger screening, and every other area of law enforcement, is not discriminatory, as neoconservatives like Goldberg assert. It is upholding the tenets of American justice, as put forth by the Constitution and other legislative acts.
It is disturbing to note the ease by which those in the neoconservative right seem to do away with the rule of law in furtherance of their narrow political goals, which, ironically, they always claim is the preservation of American values. But at the core of American values is a fundamental belief in the rule of law, and thus the essential hypocrisy of the neoconservative paradigm becomes evident.
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Crown of Acorns
The Crown of Acorns 2010
Hodder Children’s Books
ISBN 0-34-097007-3
In an absorbing mystery thriller, a teenage girl with a past arrives in a city: new name, new identity, new foster family. She has chosen the city herself, and is fascinated by its harmony and beauty, but is clearly in fear of discovery. She is nursing a secret from her early childhood, a secret that produces new terrors for her the moment she fears her identity has been spotted.
I have always loved Bath. It is a beautiful city, circled by hills and with the secret hot springs at its heart. I go there a lot and of all the places in the city my favourite is the King’s Circus, a circular street of golden stone built by John Wood the Elder.
When I realised I wanted to set a story there I decided to try something different with it. Wood was fascinated by sacred geometry, the circle, the triangle, the symbols of the sun and moon. So I decided to make three stories- a triangle inside the circle of the book.
The first story is Bladud’s. He was the legendary king who became a leper and then was cured by discovering the hot springs. He founded the city. There are also tales of his making wings and trying to fly, a motif that runs through the book.
Then I wanted to write about Wood’s obsessive building of the Circus, but this was tricky. When I started my research I realised I was going to be hampered by trying to stick to the real life events of Wood’s life. So I got around this by fictionalizing him into Jonathan Forrest, and by making Zac, his assistant, tell the story, Zac is proud and angry- his father has lost their fortune and he has to work for a man he considers a common builder. His relationship with Forrest is tense and he only gradually comes to understand his master.
The modern section of the book concerns a girl with no name who comes to live in the Circus with two rather ditsy foster parents. She calls herself Sulis and has something pretty terrible in her past. And soon she realises that somebody is watching her and that they know who she is. It was interesting to flit from story to story. I was half tempted to make the characters aware of each other but finally decided to have echoes and images that resound, a bit like noises and shadows do in the space of the Circus. I have to say it was a challenging book to write but I enjoyed doing something so different from Incarceron which is so very big. This is rather like three miniatures or a triptych. And I hope if you enjoy it, you will visit the places in it. They’re all real.
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11 ways to use Alexa speakers in the bathroom
A bathroom might seem like an odd place for a smart speaker, but here are some ways Alexa can help out while you get ready in the morning.
Taylor Martin/CNET
Alexa speakers have already proven themselves useful all around the house. They're awesome alarm clock replacements for your bedside table and work great as cooking assistants in the kitchen. They can help around the office or with your classes.
One room you may not have considered adding an Alexa speaker to is the bathroom. Privacy is certainly a big concern here, so you'll want to make sure you take extra care with the speaker. But once you realize how much a smart speaker can help with your morning routine, you may never look back.
Below are 11 ways Alexa can be of service in the bathrooms of your home.
Alexa speakers make great alarm clocks. You can wake up to your favorite music, the latest news or your standard chime. If you have a master bath, it's worth trying to set an alarm on that speaker instead of the one on your bedside table.
Not only should the alarm sound still be loud enough, it likely will make you get out of bed to disable the alarm (unless you're clever enough to figure out how to stop it within the Alexa app). Beyond waking you up, you can also have additional alarms set to let you know when you should be leaving for work or when you should wake up your kids for school.
A timer might seem more necessary in the kitchen than the bathroom, but you'll no doubt appreciate having a hands-free timer if you ever dye your hair or have a kid who likes to take extra long showers. Set a timer by saying, "Alexa, set a timer for 10 minutes," and tell them it's time to get out when the timer is up.
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Listen to music or audiobooks while you shower/bathe
Easily one of the best uses for an Alexa speaker in the bathroom is its music abilities. Not only will you be able to listen to your favorite songs to sing along with while you shower, you can also turn your bathroom into a mini spa when you need to unwind after a long day. Dim the lights, fill the bath and listen to your audiobook, catch up on your favorite podcasts or play some relaxing music.
News and weather
Rather than standing in silence, try catching up on the news while you brush your teeth or listen to the weather and traffic as you shave. Just say, "Alexa, play my Flash Briefing." With this, you'll know whether to grab a rain jacket on the way out the door or whether you should leave a few minutes early to avoid the worst of the traffic.
Create a to-do or shopping list while you get ready
Alexa excels at making lists, be it task management or a list of things to buy at the store. Just say, "Alexa, add email Sharon to my to-do list," or "Alexa, add paper clips." Alexa also supports Todoist,, AnyList, Cozi Lists and Picniic, meaning you can two-way sync your to-do lists with Alexa.
Then you can either have Alexa read your to-do list for the day to you as you get ready or you can build a list before you even get dressed in the morning.
Likewise, Alexa can keep up with your calendars. You can add a Google, Microsoft, Apple or Microsoft Exchange account and Alexa will tell you of any upcoming events. Just say, "Alexa, what's on my calendar today?" You can also ask, "Alexa, what's my next event?" or "Alexa, add an event to my calendar."
With an Alexa speaker in your bathroom, you can be briefed on any major events in your day before you get out of the shower, so you'll know whether it's a button down and tie or casual Friday kind of day.
Make coffee
Want hot coffee as soon as you step out of the shower? Alexa can do that. All you need is a smart plug and any ol' dumb coffee maker. Then make a routine that either triggers the plug at the same time every day or with a phrase like, "Alexa, coffee time." Just don't forget to add water and coffee grounds to the coffee maker the night before.
Then, just make sure the routine is triggered before you get in the shower. You'll have a nice hot cup of fresh coffee waiting for you when you get out.
Order breakfast
Alternatively, Alexa can order coffee and breakfast for you with the Starbucks skill. Open the Alexa app (iOS, Android) or go to and open the Skills catalog from the left menu. Search for Starbucks Reorder, enable it and link your Starbucks account.
After that, you can reorder your Usual order from one of the 10 previous stores you've visited. You can also switch between your five previous orders.
As you walk out the door, just say, "Alexa, tell Starbucks Reorder to start my order." Your coffee and breakfast will be ready for pickup by the time you get to the Starbucks.
Hands-free messaging
If you need to tell someone you're running late, you can use Alexa to do that… so long as you use Android. Use our guide to set up SMS with Alexa. Then, all you have to do is say, "Alexa, send an SMS" or "Alexa, send a text message to [contact name]." A text message will be sent from your number to the contact.
With an Alexa speaker in the bathroom, you'll never forget another shower thought. While you still can't make voice memos natively (there are a few voice memo skills), you can take advantage of Alexa's reminders feature to track those ever-useful shower thoughts.
Just say, "Alexa, reminder," to start making a reminder.
Reorder items
If you find you're running low on shampoo, razor blades or toothpaste, you can use Alexa to order more right away. You can order millions of items from Amazon using just your voice. Say, "Alexa, order toothpaste," to be given the top few results for toothpaste on Amazon.
If you've previously ordered something from Amazon like, say, shampoo, just say, "Alexa, reorder shampoo." Alexa will ask you to confirm before she adds the previously ordered shampoo to your cart.
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Levin: If You're Gay in Iran, 'They Hang You in Public Hangings'
James Beattie
By James Beattie | December 20, 2013 | 3:00 PM EST
A 2012 Amnesty International report states that gays in Iran "continue to face harassment and persecution, and the judicial punishments of flogging and the death penalty." They also report that three men were executed in an Iranian prison after being convicted of "sodomy," and a journalist was publicly flogged for publishing interviews from the LGBT community on his blog.
"We've got the President of the United States, who shook hands with, or would shake hands with, well certainly his Secretary of State did, the Islamo-Nazi president of the Islamo-Nazi regime in Iran. That man has blood on his hands. 'Yabba dabba doo.' The president of Iran, and all the other inbreds there. That's right I said it. They have blood on their hands.
"They've executed 600 people this year by last count, and you know among them are gay people. If you're gay, they hang you in public hangings. And the Obama Administration is negotiating with these people. The Obama Secretary of State, John F. Kerry, is meeting with these people, negotiating with these people. Gee, did he say, 'Why don't you stop hanging gay people?' No he didn't say that, and even if he did, it wouldn't matter. Because they wanna cut a deal, that's what appeasers do. They cut deals. The deal is the endgame.
"Is that more troubling to these groups than this fella from "Duck Dynasty"? Apparently not. Apparently, not. Did they rise up and tell Obama, 'Don't negotiate with the Islamo-Nazis in Iran because look what they're doing. They're hanging all kinds of freedom-fighters, all kind of innocent people, and they're hanging gay people'? Well, if they said something or did something, I've heard damn little about it.
"Because it's much easier, you see, to put the shoulder on A&E. Well, I won't be watching A&E anymore unless it reverses course. I don't care what shows are on there. Because we, ladies and gentlemen, have all kinds of choices. Like I told Senator Cruz and like you know anyway, there are hundreds of channels on cable. There are hundreds and hundreds of channels on satellite. I don't need A&E."
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Strange Symmetry #2
Uncertainty Principle
Have you ever thought your teacher could be evil? Literally? Now that Ariel's magical abilities are awakened, she realizes the world around her is a little bit unusual. When she sees a black cloud hanging above her teacher, she convinces her neighbor Xigi to help investigate. And when they arrive at the teacher's house, a surprise awaits...
Published by
Dennis Lo
Action/Adventure Fantasy Manga Supernatural/Occult
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Page Count
47 Pages
Digital Release Date
June 25 2014
Age Rating
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Summary: H.R.3676 — 113th Congress (2013-2014)All Information (Except Text)
Bill summaries are authored by CRS.
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Reported to House without amendment (05/30/2014)
Prohibiting In-Flight Voice Communications on Mobile Wireless Devices Act of 2013 - Directs the Secretary of Transportation (DOT) to issue regulations prohibiting an individual on an aircraft from engaging in voice communications using a mobile device during a flight in scheduled passenger interstate or intrastate air transportation.
Exempts from such prohibition: (1) on-duty flight crews and attendants, and (2) federal law enforcement officers acting in an official capacity.
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Mottled Skin (Livedo Reticularis): Causes, Symptoms, and Treatments
Mottled Skin
Mottled skin (livedo reticularis) is a skin condition that makes the skin appear net-like or patchy. The irregular patchy skin may look discolored due to changes in blood vessels, excessive sun exposure, or advanced age.
This skin condition often appears as red patches on the arms, trunk, and leg areas which later turn purple or dark brown. Medically known as livedo reticularis, this Latin name means a net-like, bluish appearance.
Livedo reticularis is often caused by internal changes in the body which affect the blood vessels. It is a painless condition often experienced in a colder climate.
What Does Mottled Skin (Livedo Reticularis) Mean?
Mottled skin affects the blood vessels in your body which leads to skin discoloration amongst the other symptoms. The condition is visible in light-skinned people, but it can equally affect the dark-skinned individuals.
Common causes of mottled skin include:
• Changes in body temperature
• Medical conditions
• Excessive sun exposure
• Blood disorders
• Aging
In babies and children, mottled skin is related to circulatory system development and heals on its own.
Signs and Symptoms of Mottled Skin
• Purplish-blue or red patches imitating lace are often the main sign of mottled skin. These occur due to blood vessel constriction which stops the blood circulation throughout the body.
• People with decreased skin pigmentation have skin mottling patches that are prominent compared to dark skinned individuals. But both can have similar changes in blood vessels.
• In rare cases, it can be a sign of a serious medical condition. Sudden bouts of mottled skin combined with pain and difficulty in breathing can be a sign of a shock.
If such symptoms are present, it is recommended to seek medical attention as soon as possible.
Causes of Mottled Skin (Livedo Reticularis)
Conditions which cause mottled skin can range in severity from mild to serious. Those with underlying health conditions should seek medical attention for further evaluation and treatment.
1. Improper Circulation
Proper blood circulation is what keeps our bodily systems functioning optimally. Circulation interference from blood disorders can be a leading cause of decreased oxygen supply to the blood cells. The skin, in this case, can appear patchy and purplish-blue or red.
2. Fibromyalgia
Fibromyalgia is a rare but possible cause of mottled skin. It may cause severe muscle pain, insomnia, and fatigue.
3. Rheumatoid Arthritis
Autoimmune disorders are often a cause of mottled skin and affect the skin tone. In some cases, it can accompany pain and inflammation.
4. Hormones
Hormones play a major role in our health, and hormonal changes may cause mottled skin. Disease, dietary restrictions, and specialized treatments for the diseases can cause this skin condition.
5. Medication
Medications for certain medical conditions may make the sin appear purplish-blue as a side effect. As noted, drugs often prescribed to treat Parkinson’s disease or multiple sclerosis can cause this reaction.
6. Core Body Temperature Changes
Body temperature change is one of the most common causes of this condition. If you have thin skin, changes in blood vessels are more obvious than others. Skin pigmentation can be a reason why lighter skinned people can see mottled skin more clearly.
7. Heart Disease
With many other symptoms, anything contributing to the factors and complications of heart disease can cause mottled skin. Also if you suffer from a cardiovascular disorder, you are at higher risk.
8. Hughes Syndrome
Hughes syndrome is often referred to as the antiphospholipid syndrome. It is a rare blood disorder often paired with lupus. Hughes syndrome can also cause blood clots. Blood clots impact blood circulation through the body which can cause mottled skin.
What Causes Mottled Skin in Babies and Children?
Mottled skin in babies and children should not concern you much. The causes in both are often quite natural, and most disappear without treatment.
As babies and children develop, their blood vessels develop as well. Babies often experience mottled skin in relation to their sympathetic nervous system. It is often referred to as the fight or flight response.
Causes of Mottled Skin in Babies
• Change in color of the skin due to an underdeveloped circulatory system
• Exposure to a cold environment impacting the upper surface of the skin
• Immature circulatory system due to age
• Uneven dilatation of blood vessels throughout the body
Causes of Mottled Skin in Children
It should not be of a great concern in children. Mottled skin in children disappears without any treatment. It is due to the unregulated sympathetic nervous system.
• Exposure to cold environment
• Immature circulatory system makes the hands or feet turn bluish in comparison to other parts of the body
• It may appear when children cry
Mottled skin in children can have other impacts such as low self-esteem. If the condition persists over an extended period you should report it to a doctor immediately.
What Causes Mottled Skin on Arms and Legs?
Mottled skin is commonly noticed in red lacy patches that are present on the arms and legs. It will appear red and will often turn into a bluish-purple color over time.
The arms and legs are common areas that get low oxygen or have circulatory issues, especially if your hands and feet are cold.
Doctors may advise topical treatment for mottled skin appearance on the arms and legs but the best treatment is to reverse the causes.
Home Remedies for Mottled Skin (Livedo Reticularis)
You can try natural home remedies for the mottled skin to help soothe the condition. In many cases, this skin disease will disappear once you treat the underlying cause.
Here are few effective home treatments for Livedo Reticularis:
1. Aloe Vera
Aloe vera is a soothing gel that can instantly ease itching or irritation to the area. It protects the skin from smoke, sun rays, and can be a great way to heal cuts or burns. Try using aloe vera to treat any redness associated with mottled skin.
2. Oatmeal
Oatmeal contains several anti-inflammatory and anti-oxidant properties that could help eliminate redness associated with mottled skin.
An oatmeal bath can be the best way to treat livedo reticularis which is affecting the large body parts. It can also help you cure the dryness around the affected skin.
3. Green Tea
Green tea is known for its anti-inflammatory purposes. It can also help you minimize the redness associated with the mottled skin.
The properties in green tea help ease the swelling and discomfort. Steep one tea bag of green tea in hot water, soak a cloth in it and apply it to the affected area.
4. Coconut Oil
Coconut oil has been in talks lately for its incredible natural healing powers. You can use coconut oil to help rehydrate the skin.
5. Yogurt
Yogurt is probably the oddest of the natural remedies for mottled skin. Lactic acid in yogurt can be effective for this skin condition. Plain yogurt contains alpha hydroxyl acid which is present in cosmetics to help smooth dry, rough skin.
Mottled skin isn’t harmful. Though the blood vessels near the skin surface turn from red to purplish-blue, it isn’t alarming. It can disappear by itself.
Remember that it can be incurred by an existing medical condition. If this condition is persistent, seek medical attention immediately.
Read Next:
Cucic, A., “Mottled Skin,” Med Health Daily web site, August 31st, 2017;
“What is Mottled Skin (Livedo Reticularis): Symptoms, Causes, and Treatments,” Doctors Health Press web site, August 31st, 2017;
“Mottled Skin Causes, Pictures, Baby Mottled Skin on Legs, Arms, Treatment,” Treat n Heal web site, August 31st, 2017;
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Corporate Photography - Corcoran Galleries / by Denny Henry
The gallery space in the Corcoran can be a fun and challenging environment to shoot in. The main challenge of shooting in the galleries is that the light levels are kept very low to protect the artwork. The conditions give me a welcome excuse to shoot with my fast prime lenses.
The image below is from a gallery talk that coincided with the annual all-senior show. For the talk, a group of about 9 students spoke to gallery visitors about the work that they had in the show. The talk was interesting for me because I had seen and photographed all of the work in the weeks an months leading up to the show, but had never heard anything more about it than what was in the artists statements.
Corcoran Students talking about their work in the gallery.
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[al-iks] Unabridged Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2018
Examples from the Web for alex
Contemporary Examples of alex
Historical Examples of alex
• Right in front of our eyes he was arresting Alex and signing our death warrants.
Arm of the Law
Harry Harrison
• Then Fats saw Alex with the bracelets on and turned sober in one second.
Arm of the Law
Harry Harrison
• Even under the circumstances, Alex Gorram was glad to see the last of them.
Space Viking
Henry Beam Piper
• Marion, I have been thinking I'd ask Alex to be my partner when you go.
• "I am disappointed in her, and I mean to tell her so," Alex replied firmly.
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Also especially British, pae·do·phile [pee-duh-fahyl] /ˈpi dəˌfaɪl/.Also pedophiliac.
Origin of pedophile
1950–55; pedo-1 + -phile, or directly < Greek paidóphilos ‘loving children’ Unabridged Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2018
Examples from the Web for pedophile
Contemporary Examples of pedophile
Word Origin and History for pedophile
1951, derived noun from pedophilia.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper
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Download Windows Live Messenger Web Bar themes
The Messenger Web Bar shipped with the recent release of the Windows Live Messenger Web Toolkit, provides a very usable default instant messaging experience for web sites – it includes a contact list, a profile area, and support for displaying ongoing conversations. It is meant to augment and not distract the user from your web site,” Gordon stated. “Since the Web Bar and all of the UI Controls are constructed using HTML and CSS, web sites have complete control over how the controls appear to the user. With this flexibility, there is a wide range of customizations that a web site can do, ranging from simply changing the font color, to providing a completely custom experience.
Download: Dark Theme / Blue Theme / Pink Theme
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What type are you?
There is a new version of the type quiz here.
This is just a fun little test to see what type you are. Three easy questions, and you'll have yourself type-analyzed! Since Pokémon can have two types, you should try it twice if you were in any doubt at all to get your second type - otherwise, you only have one type.
Question 1
Is the pen mightier than the sword?
Question 2
What kind of look do you like?
Question 3
Do you follow logic or instinct?
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Tips for targeting the right prospects
Successful entrepreneurs choose their best prospects; they don't wait forprospects to choose them. Here are three important steps you can follow to putthis strategy to work for your business:
Step 1. Focus on a narrow target. One of the biggest stumbling blocks toentrepreneurial success is a lack of focus. Some entrepreneurs think theirproduct or service is so terrific, anyone can use it. They're marketing tobusinesses, children, adults--anyone they think might listen to their message.Instead of producing maximum sales in all markets, these entrepreneurs get justa trickle of sales in each. Their lack of focus fragments their marketingefforts--not to mention their budgets.
To increase your sales, narrowly focus on your best prospects and use yourresources--time and a marketing budget--where they'll get the best results.
Step 2. Identify your prospects. You'll identify prospects differentlydepending on whether you're marketing to businesses or consumers.
First, identify your types of prospects by category. What types of businessesare they? Hospitals, restaurants and law practices are a few examples. Selectthree or four primary categories, which you'll fill out with about a dozenprospects in each.
As you choose businesses to put in each of your categories, consider thequalifying criteria important to you, such as their length of time in business,number of employees, location and any other factors that make businessprospects more desirable. Use trade journals, directories, associationmembership lists and the Internet to compile your list.
Step 3. Meet with qualified prospects. Unsuccessful meetings cost youplenty in lost time and money. So it's vital to pre-qualify every prospectcarefully by phone before you set up a meeting. No matter whether you'reselling to businesses or consumers, before you make that qualifying phone call,prepare a list of questions. Then arrange to meet only with the prospects youdetermine are the best qualified.
A qualified prospect has a need for your product or service, can afford it andis willing to pay for it. That's why it's good news when you discover prospectswho are buying from your competitor. It means that person fits the criteria.
The next time you encounter a prospect who says she's perfectly happy with yourcompetitor, think of it as your chance to prove how much she'll benefit byworking with you instead. By choosing your own clients or customers in thisway, you ensure higher profitability and faster growth for your new business.
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Saturday, December 24, 2016
12/24: Special Delivery -- from Dave Mondy
Spot a boxy UPS truck pinballing through town -- especially today -- and there's a slight twinge.
It's not nostalgia -- I don't miss delivering UPS packages -- but I when see a brown-clad man darting toward a front door, managing that I-might-slip-on-ice shuffle, I flip back to my brief time as a UPS delivery guy. The feeling fades quickly.
But say I saw a purple Bachman's truck -- as I did yesterday, back in MN for the holidays -- well, it was instant internal time travel. Shooting me back to my mid-twenties, when I worked for years as a seasonal Flower Delivery Driver.
On New Year's Eve, I wrote about being a bartender on New Year's Eve. So on Christmas Eve, I thought I'd write about being a delivery driver on Christmas Eve.
But then, an election happened (perhaps you heard about this?). And I read all these great advent entries here (seriously, read all of them), and it seemed insane to post anything unrelated to these insane political times. It's almost all that's on my mind. All the time. But all I've got are frothing facebook posts -- mostly unposted, always unhelpful. Instead, I'm starting to show up to actual gatherings. Listening. Not writing. I know, I know, you're dying to hear my white male take on issues of the day, but alas, you'll have to hold that baited breath. For now:
The Poinsettia Holiday Happiness Bouquet© adorning the foyer of every office building?
The package pinned awkwardly behind your screen door?
They all arrived via a human holding an honestly interesting job. And before I crash-landed in academia in my early thirties, I held a bunch of those jobs. So here's a few snapshots of, say, a single Delivery Day.
Christmas Eve, 7:00 AM--
Idling in a big boxy Dodge Diplomat -- an outmoded, gas-gobbling Diplomat (note to self: avoid easy political joke!) -- I'd sit in on the edge of the Bachman's lot, waiting.
Waiting for my weird car to be filled with flowers.
Bachman's Floral had a standing battalion of signature purple trucks, ferrying bouquets to the fortunate year-round, but on a few heavy holidays, they needed extra help. Specifically: Valentine's Day, Mother's Day, Christmas Eve.
On those days, if you'd taken the training and passed the proper checks, you could pull your car into their huge, heated garage...
To emerge as the operator of a mobile greenhouse. Your previously shitty car was suddenly bursting with flowers, chock-full of gladiolas, hydrangea, loose-stem roses, calla/stargazer lilies, floating carnations in odd sealed globes, a 55-lb. ficus, and especially, at this time of year: one million Poinsettias.
It's funny. You might actually laugh, actually pushing leaves aside as you order an Egg McMuffin -- quick eats, before bliztkreiging through your delivery list, trying to empty your car of its floral contents before noon -- so you could re-load a new batch. You're paid per flower. The more you deliver, the more you make.
First on the list are office buildings -- and those always go smoothly. You wonder: Is there anything more joyous to deliver than flowers? (Maybe presidential pardons?)
Say a name to a receptionist, and watch her call it out. Watch a middle-manager walk toward you with a big smile. Sometimes, they give you a hug. Sometimes, even better, they give you a tip.
And then, you're off to the residential deliveries. Most go smoothly. Most.
Christmas Eve, 11:00 AM--
"These must be from Terry!" the woman said. "Can you come in, put them down?"
There's only one answer when an old woman asks this.
"Can you put them, where...? Right there looks good..."
Okay, will do.
"Can you, sorry, can you open them?"
Sure, okay.
"Those must be, those are carnations but these are, what, violets? I think those are violets, of some strange sort, but those are... I'd have to look in my flower book?"
She said it as if asking a question, as if asking permission. Permission to go get her flower book. But she already knew: I was a pushover. I'd look at that flower book. I'd stay.
"Would you like coffee," she said, "or I suppose this is a busy time..."
That's the dialogue I remember, and yes: Using her flower book, we identified every bulb. I stayed there for about a half hour. Leaving her house, I worried I was behind schedule -- and I remember her sweatshirt, too: bright red and puff-painted with a giant Christmas tree. A shirt exactly like her: almost annoying, if not so endearing.
But then, I was worried about delays with the upcoming nursing homes. Rightly.
Christmas Eve, noon --
Be nice, I'd always tell myself. Before mouthing, just a few minutes later, Fuck this!
For example: I had to find a "May Simington" -- just a standard Poinsettia drop-off -- but then, I was sent to four different buildings as the Diplomat idled. And when I finally found the right receptionist...
She looked down. Found the name: May Simington -- a Sharpie line drawn through it. "I'm sorry, she's passed."
It gets as unceremonious as that, I remember thinking. The black Sharpie line of death.
That very same year, as I left, I saw an old woman bashing her wheelchair against the front door.
Full of misplaced gallantry, I held the door open -- and I held that gentlemanly pose as she zoomed down the front drive. Immediately followed by a panicked attendant, yelling, "No no no no, Mary Mary Mary, no no no! Mary, where do you think you're going?" Mary didn't know. Didn't even know how she got outside. Muted crying. The sudden smell of urine. "Did you see how she got out?" the attendant asked me. "No, god, that's terrible," I replied, slinking back to the car with the undelivered Poinsettia.
Christmas Eve, 4:00 PM --
Speaking of flowers and death, the strangest Christmas delivery was to Lakewood Cemetery.
"This one goes to the mausoleum," the desk attendant said -- and then he drew a quick map, with a winding line leading me through Lakewood's sprawling grounds.
But I still got lost. I circled past the giant grave of Hubert H. Humphrey several times before finally arriving at a massive stone cube.
Inside, a janitor led me down to a lower level which was (yes) completely dark. He clicked on a light that (yes!) did that flicker-creepily-before-fully-buzzing-on thing -- and then the man went back up the elevator, leaving me alone. I wandered the hallways, poking my head into various corridors, until finally finding the right spot: This large square room, the walls a grid of smaller squares. Filing cabinets for human bodies.
I found the cabinet engraved with the recipient's name, and then... what? What do I do now, I wondered. Knock?
I set the flowers down on a stone bench and left the room -- but stopped short, doubled back, to unwrap the Chrysanthemums. Then, I faced them toward "her". Back in the car, I looked over my delivery list, where I could read reprints of the "secret" messages sealed inside the cards. The message inside the mausoleum delivery:
Merry Christmas to my beloved mother.
Christmas Eve, 5:30 PM --
Reading the secret messages was one of my best things about that job. Here's one of my favorites:
Dear Max,
Can't wait til you and your owner visit me in the new year. Don't worry about flying in the kennel. They give you drugs and you sleep the whole time. You'll love Colorado. We have a huge yard. While the humans are inside doing whatever they do, we can run around all we want.
But my all-time favorite message was:
I'm sorry I asked that. I'm sorry. I was drunk, it was a stupid thing to ask, I'm sorry. Love you.
I still wonder, still want to know: What the hell did he ask?! Picture him typing that, ordering flowers online at 3:00 AM.
That message belonged to a late bouquet on the last day I worked delivery. The address adorned a hulking, old-money mansion on Lake Calhoun. An extremely elegant, extremely attractive middle-aged woman answered my ring. She wore workout clothes, and behind her, I can still see two objects: a Nordictrack Ski Machine and a giant Miro -- quite possibly an original.
Back in my Diplomat, I convinced myself she was flirting with me. Driving away, I chided myself for actually buying into the "delivery man in a porno" cliche. And, nonetheless, kept thinking: You should go back. Ask about the Miro. She'll be impressed you know it's a Miro! She'll see you are artistic and attractive and...
Of course, I didn't actually go back. I'm not a maniac. But that was the problem with being a seasonal delivery driver. You were in self-imposed isolation, self-imposed meditation, all day long on a happy holiday. If you were newly single, thoughts could get pretty desperate. Pretty dark. Even, or especially, if your car was fully infused with floral aromas.
The goal, always, was to finish before it got dark -- but within a Minnesotan December, the sun sets around 4:30 PM. So I'd always find myself finishing up the final drop-offs in the frozen nighttime.
Fortunately, my last delivery lent me a gift.
Christmas Eve, 7:00 PM --
I'm so lucky I wasn't filmed.
Had camera phones already been ubiquitous, I'd be a GIF Star right now, my folly endlessly replayed beneath the caption, DELIVERIES: YOU'RE DOING IT WRONG.
The 55-lb. potted Ficus had been in my backseat all afternoon -- with delivery instructions reading After 5pm, so I put it off until the very end of the day. And trying to lug the damn thing up a tiered walkway around Nokomis, I fell. Though "fell" doesn't do justice to my spill.
This was a cartoon-character-slipping-on-a-banana, leap-into-the-air-before-crashing-down, ultra-embarrassing tumble. Listen: I had dirt from the Ficus pot smeared across my chest when I rang the doorbell.
I suspected my back was fucked, but driving home, I assured myself I was fine -- and then, in my apartment parking lot, I couldn't stand to exit my car. Had to barrel roll out the side, resting my knees beside the open car door; then, I pulled myself upright using the seatbelt like pulley. Without the adrenaline burst, I'd be kneeling there still. Back in my apartment, I collapsed on the fake parkay, crying.
The only positive of physical pain: It drives out all other kinds. A person in pain desires only cessation of pain -- and if it arrives, he's happy. It took an hour to find a painless position on the couch, and another hour for the Advil and Maker's to kick in, but then: euphoria. And then, the happiest thought: I'll never be able to do this again.
Honestly, I liked delivering flowers -- but as with so many jobs I've enjoyed, there was this counter-intuitive relief (this exhale) the exact moment I knew I was free of it: That was cool... and thank good I never have to do it again.
Christmas Eve, Coda --
Speaking of pain cessation and flower deliveries...
Yesterday, flowers were delivered to my brother's hospital room.
Some delivery person dropped them off just moments before I arrived. The flowers were still wrapped, and as my sister unwrapped them, we saw: roses, interwoven with pines boughs, revealing a Christmas tree motif. It looked pretty good. Then I looked back at him.
My brother's heart has never worked quite right.
If you spotted him walking around, day-to-day, you'd never know this -- but one of his mitral valves loves to allow a backflow of blood. Oops. A tiny, important flaw. In eons past, we'd never know this, of course. He would've just keeled over at some point. And even a few years ago, even if we knew what was wrong, the only solution would be to apply a bone saw to his chest plate, just to fix this tiny trouble.
But now?
On Wednesday, they simply stopped his heart for an hour, deflated one of his lungs, and sent robotic arms into his chest cavity -- via a keyhole incision in his armpit -- to stitch things up.
And today, just two days after his surgery, he left the hospital as an outpatient. And here's my question:
Did you know we could this?
Watch this video of a surgical robot pealing a grape, and then restitching a grape.
Did you know we already had this technology?
It seems so sci-fi, but yeah, humans can already do this. We're amazing! Right? My brother has a long recovery ahead of him, but I'm already humbled by his willpower (handling pain that puts my ficus injury to shame). And here's the thing about this fellow: Even if I were to ignore my personal bias, I'd conclude that he's the type of guy we need more of, not less. A philosophy prof teaching critical thinking and ethics to med students at the world-famous Mayo clinic. A thoughtful, empathetic guy. And now, because of things humans invented, he can hopefully stick around a little longer.
I didn't mean to add this odd addendum at the end of this post. But I've been so myopically pessimistic lately. And I've talked on the phone, a lot, with my brother about our mutual pessimism regarding The State Of Things. And yet, if only we don't fuck everything up, I've now seen firsthand that humans can do such cool things. It makes me think of so many other cool things I've seen this year: Moonlight, for example. Other great movies. Other great books. I'm tempted to ramble on now, recommending many things, as if this were a year-end list.
But no one, no one, needs that. From me. So instead, I'll just add a final "delivery"... a final restatement: If only we don't fuck up everything, we can do cool things.
That seems like a corny conclusion. Something to write on a website at 3:00 AM when ordering flowers. Something to keep private.
Thank god no one can read this sealed card.
Dave Mondy has been honored for his work in many genres: food writing (Best American Food Writing), travel writing (Solas Awards), creative nonfiction (notables in Best American Essays), sports writing (Iowa Review nonfiction contest), radio (Prairie Home Companion), and theatre (many national tours, fringe festival awards, etc.). He currently teaches creative nonfiction and other writing classes at the University of Arizona.
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Food-chain is by 1915. Food-poisoning attested by 1864; food-processor in the kitchen appliance sense from 1973; food-stamp (n.) is from 1962.
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Nehustan: Just a Piece of Bronze
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bronze1We are often tempted to dismiss idolatry as a serious threat to our spiritual well-being. When we think of idolatry, we can easily retreat to Old Testament days and believe that it was their problem. We confine idolatry to the work of wood or stone, and thereby dismiss it as an ancient sin with no impact to our generation.
However, in the New Testament, idolatry is mentioned as a major spiritual peril for the believer in Jesus Christ. The Apostle Paul in no uncertain terms warned the Corinthians to “flee from idolatry.” (I Cor 10:14) Paul also placed idolatry in the noxious list of behaviors called the deeds of the flesh and as a root behind the insatiable appetite of greed. (Galatians 5:20; Colossians 3:5)
The Apostle John concluded his first epistle with this pastoral warning, “Little children, keep yourselves from idols.” (I John 5:21)
God allows no substitutes. At times He permits certain symbols to represent Him, however He never allows these symbols to replace Him. God alone is to be the center of our worship.
Idolatry pollutes true worship and obedience as we create objects of worship that exalt other things as more worthy than God Himself. Idols that grip the heart come in many packages. A few of the popular include: power, prestige, education, relationships, money, business, addictions, religion, entertainment, popularity, ego, and pornography.
I want to return to the life of Hezekiah, king of Judah, for what I believe offers valuable insight in battling the sin of idolatry. Hezekiah was a godly king who implemented many reforms. Through the faith and courage of his leadership, the high places and pillars of idolatry were destroyed throughout Judah. His reform was thorough as the purge of idolatry even included “the bronze serpent that Moses had made because the people of Israel had made offerings to it (it was called Nehushtan).” (2 Kings 18:4)
The Bronze Serpent
The bronze serpent of Moses was constructed and erected in the camp of ancient Israel some 700 years before Hezekiah. The bronze serpent which had been a symbol of God’s grace in the past had transitioned in the hearts of the people to an idol in which they offered misplaced worship.
It was called “Nehustan,” a word which sounds like the Hebrew for both bronze and serpent. Instead of worshiping the true and living God, they stooped to worship the bronze thing.
The story of the bronze serpent is contained in Numbers 21. In the context of that chapter, Israel was in the period of the wilderness wanderings where they complained incessantly against Moses and the Lord. They murmured in their tents and rejected God’s instruction (Psalm 106:25). They complained about the journey; about the food; and about the lack of water. Beyond these grievances, in an appalling expression of ingratitude, they expressed that they missed Egypt!
In response to the complaining, the Lord sent fiery serpents among them, and the text says that “they bit the people, so that many people of Israel died.” (Numbers 21:6) The term “fiery” may refer to the painful bite or the color of the snakes. Nevertheless, this was a serious judgment for a people who had rejected God’s care and provision.
The people had walked with Moses for some time now, and they knew that Moses had God’s ear, and that his relationship with the Almighty was intimate. The text indicates that “the people came to Moses and said, ‘We have sinned, because we have spoken against the Lord and you; intercede with the Lord, that He may remove the serpents from us.’ And Moses interceded for the people.” (v. 7)
The Lord heard Moses’ prayer and instructed Moses to make a bronze serpent and put it on a pole. For those bitten by a serpent, if they would but look at the bronze serpent, they would live. (Numbers 21:9)
Grace for Idolaters
There are several take-away’s from the account of Nehustan:
1. Idolatry is devastating because it gets God wrong. What we believe about God is the most important thing about us and when we localize, limit, control, minimize the supreme sovereign of the universe it is no small transgression. The collateral damage of idolatry impacts generations. (Exodus 20:5,6)
2. Grumbling is serious and becomes a matrix for Idolatry. If we do not learn contentment and gratitude in life’s challenges, complaining can become a tolerated sin which can be deadly to our spiritual well-being. If we are not satisfied in God, we will look for idols that we believe will relieve and satisfy. John Piper helps with the summary of his theology, “God is most glorified in us, when we are most satisfied in Him.”
3. A means of grace can become a stumblingblock. Every glance at the bronze serpent should have caused the people to reflect on the grace of God and to give thanks that His mercy endures even in our failures. But instead of lifting their heads to God Himself, they worshiped a symbol that could not save. Superstitiously, they groveled at a piece of bronze that was powerless to deliver.
4. Dealing with Idolatry Requires Verbs. Idols love to be nursed and coddled because they are birthed in our hearts which are idol factories. If we would be free from them it requires repentance and faith which leads to necessary action. Notice the verbs in the text of 2 Kings 18 as Hezekiah …removed the high places and broke the pillars and cut down the Asherah. And he broke in pieces the bronze serpent that Moses had made.”
This is not a passive approach. Hezekiah removed, cut down, and broke in pieces the very idols that were plaguing God’s people. This was a disruption of the status quo, but it was what was needed for a return to true worship.
5. The bronze serpent was used by Jesus as a descriptor of His saving work. In John’s gospel Jesus references Nehustan, “…as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, so must the Son of Man be lifted up, that whoever believes in him may have eternal life.” (John 3:14,15)
Through Moses, the bronze serpent was erected for Israel to look to God’s grace and provision. We are often spring-loaded to do many things for God, but the Lord used the bronze serpent as a place for God’s people to look for His grace.
In the once-for-all sacrifice of Jesus Christ, He was raised on a cross for you to look to Him, and believe on Him as your all-sufficient Savior. We are not to worship the wooden beams of the cross as some kind of lucky charm, or as a relic having power. No Nehustans here. We are urged to look in saving faith to the One who died on the cross, and who has risen victorious from the dead. Look to Him who is able to forgive and redeem your life from every evil thing.
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Polymega HD Modular Game Console: Best Retro System Ever Or Impending Disaster?
The PolymegaCredit: Playmaji
Some products, especially ones that make bold claims about unique features, can seem too good to be true. Such is the case with today's device in question, although to be fair, it may be a little too early to tell for sure.
The newest clone hardware to generate notable buzz within the retro gaming community is Playmaji’s Swiss Army knife of an emulation box, the enigmatically titled and incredibly slick Polymega. The nerdy fervor is for good reason—this thing is being touted as the first emulation unit capable of playing games from old-school disc-based systems like the PS1, Sega CD and the Sega Saturn (let’s quietly forget about that abysmal Seedi, okay?). This is in addition to all the usual cartridge-based suspects like the Famicom/NES, Super Famicom/SNES and Genesis/Mega Drive. It’s “the world’s most compatible game console” according to the official website, which experienced an alleged DDoS attack when pre-orders went live on September 5, crippling operations for several days and leading many wary customers to assume that the whole business was a giant scam. Must all of these ambitious emulation machines be mired in controversy? I guess so. It’s like a rite of passage.
But early sales difficulties aside, we’re still left with the burning question: Is the Polymega everything it claims to be? And is it worth plunking down the cash for an April 1, 2019 ship date of “the world’s first HD modular game console”? Well, that depends on several important factors, so let’s get right into it, shall we?
Will you pre-order a Polymega?Credit: Playmaji
Let’s first talk about what this thing is, or rather, what it says it’s going to be. So for a cool $279.99 (or $249.99 as of this writing) you’ll get a universal wireless controller paired with the infamous Base Unit, which should play most of the physical media from your Sega CD, Sega Saturn (a huge get if true, given how notorious the Saturn is to emulate—we’ll see), TurboGrafx CD, Neo Geo CD, and PS1 libraries, and from every respective region, no less. No Dreamcast quite yet, but it’s a campaign pre-order reward level possibility, especially given the recently updated internal specs reported by Nintendo Life. You can also rip your own purchased games onto the Polymega’s storage for easy access and preservation. Supposedly, the console will grab box art from a database to help archive your entire collection, which makes sense, since the device is partnered with The Video Game History Foundation. Portions of sales proceeds are said to be going toward funding various retro gaming grants. That last bit seems kind of vague, but given the inevitable onset of disc rot and Nintendo’s recent takedown of various prominent emulation websites, I’d say it’s a somewhat noble cause.
Basically, if you’re into CD-based games, you’re theoretically covered on day one, just as soon as you open the box and power up. However, if you want to play cartridge-based games, you’ll need to purchase separate Element Modules, which retail for $59.99 a piece and look to be shipping alongside the Base Unit in early 2019. These include add-ons for the NES, SNES, Genesis and TurboGrafx-16. If you want all the modules on launch, you can buy a Base Unit bundle that includes them all for $519.99, or an even more expensive pack for $659.99 that also includes a bunch of the Polymega-created retro controllers modeled after the classic gamepads. On that note, Playmaji is saying that their new console is compatible with ‘30’ systems, but that’s a bit of an exaggeration—they’re including each individual region as its own ‘system’, so when you parse out the platforms in a common sense sort of way, that giant number basically halves itself.
There’s also talk on the official website of a future online Polymega Shop, which will supposedly sell digital copies of both CD and cartridge-based titles. This is particularly intriguing, especially in terms of games preservation. While I’m really curious to see what, if any, publishers express interest in making games available on this unproven storefront, I’m honestly having a hard time imagining this avenue providing any modicum of real quality offerings. Like, is Sony going to license out the PS1 MediEvil/Twisted Metal/Legend of Legaia games to Polymega? Or SEGA with Burning Rangers and Panzer Dragoon Saga? Highly doubtful. I like the idea, but the market’s just too competitive, so I’m sure we’ll only see obscure third party stuff on the store, if even that.
The Polymega wireless controllerCredit: Playmaji
Even with those concerns, the Polymega still seems like a really cool retro gaming option. So what are the problems? Well, for starters, it’s expensive. The Base Unit alone is more pricey than most clone systems out there, and that’s not even including the extra modules you'll want to buy for cartridge play. This isn’t for the casual classic player who wants to relive Parasite Eve for 15 minutes and then move on. This is for the hardcore collector who has amassed a giant room of old games and wants to conveniently play everything in 1080p on their modern TV. Then there’s the emulation itself. Originally this thing was supposed to provide in-house hardware recreation via some kind of hybrid FPGA/software emulation deal, but now it seems that Playmaji is just licensing pre-fabricated software emulators for use inside the Polymega.
From what I can gather, this is the biggest contention people currently have with the console, which is the sudden removal of base-unit FPGA integration, something that’s now only being touted for choice add-ons like the upcoming Famicom extension. Which, it seems, is mostly to ensure that peripherals like the Disk System will work with the module. There are vague promises of FPGA inclusion in future modules, but who knows if or when that will happen.
For those of you unfamiliar with FPGAs, or field-programmable gate arrays, they’re basically chips that can be programmed to very accurately mimic specific pieces of gaming hardware, in some cases much more effectively than traditional software emulation. Higher-end retro consoles like the Analogue Nt Mini utilize this technology to reverse engineer the real deal, thereby running games directly off the cartridge in many instances. It’s as close as you’ll get to having the actual hardware without, well, having the actual hardware. The benefit shows via an almost 100% game compatibility list, whereas options like the RetroN 5 basically rip games from the cartridges, run them via software emulation and are more prone to glitches and bugs because of it. Interestingly, I’ve read that FPGA isn’t as necessary for accurate emulation of CD-based consoles, though I’m not sure how true that is.
A look at one of the modulesCredit: Playmaji
So, without base-unit FPGA integration, the Polymega might turn out to be just another glorified software emulation machine, something that can be had elsewhere for much cheaper, and a millions times over. There’s also the issue of Playmaji getting caught using Sega Rally arcade emulator footage in a Polymega trailer as a stand-in for Sega Saturn compatibility, which isn’t a good look and doesn’t bode well for that particular console’s functionality. Maybe that was just a marketing snafu, but given the crash-and-burn of past retro ventures like the Coleco Chameleon, I can understand why people might be apprehensive to invest after witnessing such disingenuous practices. Twitch support was also recently removed, which seems like a huge mistake to me, given how many people are probably looking to this hardware as a slick streaming solution for older games.
On a positive note, the guy behind the Polymega, Bryan Bernal, is actually an ex-Insomniac Games project manager, so it feels like if anyone might be able to pull off something this ambitious, it would be an industry veteran like him. And it is an ambitious project, possibly the most ambitious of its kind, which is probably why that, despite some of the potential roadblocks and drawbacks, I’m still looking forward to seeing how the Polymega shakes out. And more importantly, how accurately it emulates all ‘30’ systems. Performance is what it will either live or die by.
Really, it’s still early days, so a lot could change between now and next April. As of this article, the Polymega website pre-order campaign is sitting just shy of $400,000, with a funding goal of $500,000 and 27 days left. Apparently, Playmaji has received additional funding from at least some behind-the-scenes investors, which has allowed it to bypass Kickstarter and the like. And if funding isn't met, Playmaji "will immediately refund all pre-orders and halt additional sales of Polymega". Well, at least you won't be out money if this thing doesn't take off.
It remains to be seen if the Polymega can deliver on its Sega Saturn promiseCredit: Playmaji
Despite a few PR stumbles and the product changing shape from its initial inception, I think they’ll still hit that main target goal. Beyond that, I’m not sure. Still, I’d love to get my hands on a review unit at some point, just so I can put it through its paces and post some hands-on impressions. After all, I still own hundreds of PlayStation, SNES and NES games that are just begging to be played in 1080p. Fingers crossed this turns out well. Thoughts and prayers if it doesn’t.
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1. Thank you so much TomKQT. I did not describe my question clearly. I have a HoloLens device and even look through it I cannot get a feeling that the red hologram is inside the lampshade. BTW, I did not scan the lampshade. The suggestion I got from other people is scanning the lampshade and render its outer edges.
2. Hi I want to render a hologram inside a real object. But the Mixed Reality Capture result shows the hologram looks like out of the real object. Please see the attached image in which the real object is a lampshade. Thanks. YL
3. Thank you so much for both of your detailed explanation. From your explanation, it looks I need to create a normal map, specular map and texture map and use Phong shading by considering ambient lighting.
4. Hi, The attached rendering result about the human heart looks so realistic. I would like to get some suggestion about how to reach this effect. What I have is a surface triangle mesh of the heart (has vertex normals, but no color and no texture). I think I need the following processes: 1. Use 3D Max to associate the surface model with a texture 2. Rendering with lighting (Is Phong shading sufficient?) I am not sure if my consideration is correct or not. Any suggestion are really appreciated. YL
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Thanks for reminder.
6. Hi, I have a surface mesh and I want to use a cone to cut a hole on the surface mesh. Anybody know a fast method to calculate the intersected boundary of these two geometries? Thanks. YL
7. Many thanks Infinisearch! Thank you so much for your detailed information!
8. Got it. Thanks. I got similar answer from other places. https://gamedev.stackexchange.com/questions/26719/when-does-depth-testing-happen "This is the idea behind the Early-Z optimization, where if you're rendering a pixel whose pixel shader doesn't change the depth, the hardware may never actually run the pixel shader (or, more likely, if a full 2x2 quad of pixels is occluded, then none of them will be run through the pixel shader). This is why you want to render a fully-opaque scene from front to back."
9. I am confused about "it doesn't need to be run at all if the fragment fails the depth test". The output merge stage gets color and depth from pixel shader output and then do depth and stencil test. I think this means the pixel shader will run no matter if the fragment pass the depth and stencil test or not, right? Thank.
10. Hi, I would like to know if rendering opaque surfaces in front-to-back order (closer ones first, more distant ones last) can improve performance much. By 'opaque' I mean surfaces for which the DepthWriteMask is set to one in the depth-stencil state. I think no matte we adjust order or not, the pixel shader needs to be performed. The difference is the output merge stage. Does this improve performance much? Thanks. YL
11. Thanks Hodgman. I am not clear about the first method you mentioned. For example, I can run the following code in main thread, m_d3dContext->Map(vertexBuffer2.Get(), 0, D3D11_MAP_WRITE_DISCARD, 0, &mappedResource); // Update the vertex buffer here. memcpy(mappedResource.pData, vertices, sizeof(vertices)); // Reenable GPU access to the vertex buffer data. m_d3dContext->Unmap(vertexBuffer2.Get(), 0); To run the above code in two threads, I run map and unmap in main thread and memcpy in another thread. However, is it safe to call unmap while another thread is updating the buffer? Thanks.
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Hello all. Before I downloaded Tampa Bay map and play the map fine for a few months. Then starting two months ago I have problem entering the map. I can enter EVERY other maps out there except Tampa Bay. The Tampa Bay map would load then show the percentage going from 0% to 62% to 100%, then suddenly it kicked me out with an error message something like "The server doesn't allow modified version. Revert to the older version" or something like that.
What's going on? I try to reinstall Tamp Bay map and the same thing happen. I don't want to do a complete Uninstall of BF2 and reinstall everything just to play this one map. Is there an easy fix for this?
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Tampa Bay? Do you mean Highway Tampa, the Intel sponsored map (that you can play ranked games in)?
from: BF2S Forums / General BF2 Issues. ( list of fix ) Thank you EA
Problem - Modified Content Error Cause - Your Battlefield 2 Files differ in some way than the servers Fix - Few things to try and get this Fixed. 1. Move your Battlefield 2 folder from My Documents to your Desktop
2. Make sure you have the latest battlefield 2 patch installed
3. Try and update PunkBuster, to do so use the program, pbsetup, found at this website PunkBuster Online Countermeasures
4. Try re-downloading the latest patch from a different website and install it again, maybe several times tyring each time to see if it has worked.
5. Do a manual uninstall of battlefield 2, instructions on how to do this can be found here http://support.ea.com/cgi-bin/ea.cfg/ph … faqid=8986 Then reinstall Battlefield 2 and apply the latest Full Patch.
6. You could have faulty RAM, try running a program called Memtest86 to test your ram for errors. Also try removing a stick of RAM from the machine to see if it helps running on just 1 stick of RAM.
Problem - How do i see my in game Frames per Second Cause - n/a Fix - There is a in-game command to show your FPS, Press ` key (next to number 1) type in, renderer.drawfps 1 (Don't forget the space.) Alternatively you can use a 3rd party program called FRAPS.
If it IS the official Highway Tampa map that is doing it, try to reinstall the 1.41 patch. If the above steps dont work try googling around some, and see if you get any helpful results (I would do it for you, but I dont have the time). If you cannot find anything on google, you may have to (sorry!) reinstall. If you do reinstall, try following (from an EA email)
EAI apologize for the difficulties that you are having with Battlefield 2. This error occurs if there is a file corruption with one of the game files which is usually casued by an improper patching of the game. You will need to uninstall and reinstall Battlefield 2 as well as all of the expansion and booster packs that you have.
You can manually uninstall the game by removing the files and registry keys associated with it. Be sure to follow these steps exactly as they appear to prevent accidental file/program deletion on your system.
To delete the save files:
1. Open My Documents. 2. Right-click on the Battlefield 2 folder and choose Delete.
To delete the game files (in the default location):
1. Open My Computer. 2. Open the C drive. 3. Open the Program Files folder. 4. Open the EA GAMES folder. 5. Right-click on the Battlefield 2 folder and choose Delete. 6. Close all open windows. 7. Right-click on the Recycle Bin and choose Empty Recycle Bin.
To edit the registry and remove Battlefield 2:
1. Click on the Start button. 2. Click on Run. 3. Type regedit in the text field. 4. Click File and then choose Export. 5. Name the file Backup and make sure the Export Range is set to All. 6. Click Save; you will now be returned to the Registry Editor window. 7. Click the plus sign next to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE. 8. Click the plus sign next to Software. 9. Click the plus sign next to DICE. 10. Right-click on the Battlefield 2 folder and choose Delete. 11. Right-click on the Battlefield 2: Special Forces folder and choose Delete. 11. Right-click on the Battlefield 2: Armoured Fury folder (if applicable) and choose Delete. 12. Click the plus sign next to Electronic Arts and again on the EA Games and EA Core folder. 13. Right-click and choose Delete on any Battlefield 2 folders. 14. Click the plus sign next to Microsoft. 15. Click the plus sign next to Windows. 16. Click the plus sign next to CurrentVersion. 17. Click the plus sign next to Uninstall. 18. Right-click on the key named {04858915-9F49-4B2A-AED4-DC49A7DE6A7B} and choose Delete. 19. A Confirm Key Delete window will appear, choose Yes. 20. Repeat steps 18 & 19 for the key named {50D4CB89-AF34-4978-96DC-C3034062E901} 21. Close the WindowsRegistry Editor. 22. Go to the following folder: C:\Program Files\InstallShield Installation Information (If you cannot find this folder you may have to go to Tools > Folder Settings and click the setting to “SHOW hidden folders.”) 23. Find the folders with the exact same values as the registry keys above and delete them. 24. Empty the recycle bin once more.
After uninstalling Battlefield 2. Please reinstall it as well as the expansions and add-ons in the following order:
1. First installed Battlefield 2. 2. Next install Battlefield 2: Special Forces.(if applicable) 3. Install the latest full 1.41 patch after installing Special Forces. 4. Next install Battlefield 2: Euro Force.(if applicable) 5. Next install Battlefield 2: Armored Fury.(if applicable) 6. Install the latest 1.41 full patch.
Good luck!
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Fox Wants A Buffy The Vampire Slayer Revival But Not Without Joss Whedon
She saved the world. A lot.
With so many classic TV shows being revived--from Roseanne to Murphy Brown to 24--many fans have wondered if Buffy the Vampire Slayer would ever return, whether as a reboot or a revival. As it turns out, though, they aren't the only ones.
Speaking at the INTV Conference in Jerusalem (via Variety), Fox TV group chair Gary Newman says Buffy is always on the studio's mind. "I think if you look in our library, Buffy is probably the most ripe show we have for bringing back," he says.
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Still, just because the studio wants to do it doesn't mean it'll go ahead and give the green light without the approval of creator Joss Whedon. "It's something we talk about frequently, and Joss Whedon is really one of the greatest creators we ever worked with. When Joss decides it's time, we'll do it," Newman explains. "And until Joss decides it's time, it won't happen."
How big a role Whedon would play in any sort of revival or reboot is anyone's guess, but it's reassuring to know that the studio wouldn't move forward with it unless he signed on. Of course, given that Whedon recently left his role as writer and director of a potential Batgirl movie, perhaps a return to the small screen is in his future.
Why wait for a Buffy reboot or a revival with the original cast, though? Technically the story didn't conclude with the end of the series. In 2007, a continuation comic book was released and remains ongoing. Season 12, the fifth sequel series, is due to be released in June.
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8 Ways To Put Your Ex Behind You
Think you'll never get over someone? Wrong. But you should know that moving on will require you to be proactive. In other words, if you secretly don't *want *to get over him, you can stop reading now. You're not there yet. But if you're genuinely ready to move forward and stop looking back, here are a few tips. Let the healing begin!
For starters, you can get out of that bathrobe!
1. Institute a No-Contact Period. How can you get over someone if you're constantly in touch with him? You're indulging and/or torturing yourself, and it's unhealthy. I don't care if you two share a dog or you work in the same building—figure something out. Tell him the rules. I mean it: stone cold silence for at least two months.
2. Put away the mementos. You might think you can handle the reminders, but it's best to remove the photos and teddy bears from sight. If you can't bear to throw them out, pack them away in a box. If you've got emails and photos on a computer and you can't delete, store them on an external drive or hide them in a folder on your hard drive.
__3. Make a point to remember his flaws and bad points.__A lot of women dwell on how perfect he was. But you can't get over someone when you refuse to remember that he always put his mama first, flaked on you constantly, did drugs, or called your BFF fat. Remind yourself why it's good that you're not with him.
4. Acknowledge that life is full of surprises. What, you never thought Christina Aguilera and Jordan Bratman would split? I didn't either. But stuff happens. In the course of your life, you will be surprised many times. And you will have very little control over some things. So don't dig your heels in and hang on to someone who has decided he can live without you. He doesn't deserve your devotion, tenacity, or commitment. Sure, it's surprising he can live without you now, given all the romantic things he once said, but you just never know. You just never know. Say that 3 times.
5. Start thinking about yourself again. What do you want to do, now that you have more free time? Take an interior design class? Move to Amsterdam? Stop shaving your legs regularly? Dream big. Extra points for something that challenges you (to make you feel good and accomplished) or that you can plan and look forward to.
6. Get mad. Anger is a more active emotion than a wallowing, passive sadness. Punch something! Just taking action will make you feel in control again.
7. Hit the town with an open mind. You don't have to date anyone if you're not ready to. And you shouldn't. But you'll feel proud if you make the effort to dress up and at least make eye contact with men, if not actually talk to them. Give them the chance to entertain you, which is flattering and makes you feel good that you still recognize there are a few good men out there.
8. Do a daily check-in. A friend once told me to ask myself every morning, "Can I be happy today?" And, as sad as I was about my ex, I always answered "yes." Because I really could be happy.
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Orthorexia Nervosa: when healthy eating goes too far
Orthorexia Nervosa is an eating disorder coined by Steven Bratman in 1997. It's characterised by an extreme or excessive preoccupation with avoiding foods thought to be unhealthy. In recent years, with the boom of the clean eating movement and celebrities championing raw diets, gluten-free diets, sugar-free diets etc, it's a condition that is increasingly gaining recognition.
Only last year, health food blogger, Jordan Younger, announced that she was suffering from Orthorexia, which made national news. Since then, Younger has devoted her blog, and her Instagram account, which has 125,000 followers, to promoting a balanced diet.
We spoke to professional nutritionist, Chloe Madeley, to find out the facts surrounding Orthorexia Nervosa, how you can identify if you're suffering with it and what help is available.
What is the difference between Orthorexia and other eating disorders?
When it comes to Orthorexia specifically, sufferers tend to want to control their diet in a way that will make them feel "pure" and "clean", which is a very different aspect to the illness than Anorexia Nervosa or Bulimia Nervosa. The main difference is that Orthorexics are maniacally concerned with health whereas Anorexics are locked into a pattern of starvation.
What causes Orthorexia?
The causes of Orthorexia Nervosa are still in debate, but people with OCD tendencies are most likely to be susceptible and fall victim to the illness. The illness typically starts with people wanting to enjoy a healthier lifestyle and improve their nutrition. However, it becomes a problem when they become obsessed with it and start to fixate on the purity of their food. The obsessive compulsive need to feel in control often manifests itself as an eating disorder.
But, what's unhealthy about eating healthy food?
Of course, it's brilliant that you're filling your body with healthy foods but other problems are spawned from the control side of Orthorexia. A lack of a balanced diet can lead you to be starved of certain proteins, calciums etc that provide valuable nutrition. The fear factor that comes attached to eating "unclean" foods can lead to anxiety, guilt and situations where you are socially isolated. Orthorexics also tend to lose the ability to eat intuitively because they follow such strict rules. They don't know when they're hungry, how much to eat or when they're full.
How do you detect Orthorexia?
It's hard to diagnose Orthorexia as it's not yet officially recognised as a medical condition by the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders or the American Psychiatric Association. The thing to recognise is that there's a big distinction between those who follow a nutritionally healthy or "clean" diet, those who suffer dietary intolerances to gluten or dairy, and those with Orthorexia. If you are unsure whether you're suffering from the illness, ask yourself the below questions:
• Does eating what you consider to be pure and healthy foods make you feel in control?
• Does eating what you consider to be pure and healthy foods make you feel like you are better than others?
• Do you spend a substantial amount of your day thinking about and planning your healthy food intake?
• Do you feel better about yourself, more confident and self assured, depending on how healthy your diet is?
If you answer yes to two or more questions you may have a mild case of Orthorexia, however, be realistic with yourself. If eating healthy foods makes you feel good about your body and your dietary choices then of course that is relatively normal and you don't have an eating disorder.
If, however, you find yourself obsessing over healthy foods, thinking about them constantly, meticulously planning your healthy diet days in advance, staying at home in order to avoid social situations in which there might be bad foods, these are obsessive tendencies and you should think about whether you might in fact have the disorder.
What can you do if you think you're suffering with Orthorexia?
Like all mental disorders, the best way thought to tackle Orthorexia is through Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and or medication. Admitting there is a problem is the first step. A professional can then help talk through why an obsession with healthy food started, what underlying emotional problems may be causing it and how to take a new approach to food in a healthy way that doesn't threaten you or cause anxiety.
Practitioners skilled at treating eating disorders are the best people to consult when working out what treatment is best but, if you'd like to speak to someone through a recommendation, make an appointment with your GP. Although a doctor can't diagnose you, they can refer you to a professional who can help.
What's life like for recovered Orthorexics?
Typically, people that have recovered from Orthorexia, will always favour a healthy lifestyle and will continue to eat a controlled diet. However, they won't be defined by food or have an obsession about it and their self-esteem won't depend on it.
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Which type of Slide
Generally there are two types available of Slide, but this differs per country.
The first product is Slide Original, which has a Strawberry/ Banana flavour. This version contains a small amount of sugar, and is very well accepted tastewise.
This version is liked by all age groups.
The second version is Slide Sugarfree, which has a Cherry flavour. This version contains aspartame as a sweetener. Some people don't like te bitter aftertaste that aspartame has, but a lot of other people don't mind it, and appreciate the fact that this flavour doesn't contain any sugar.
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“Fierce Feminine Divinities of Eurasia and Latin America: Baba Yaga, Kali, Pombagira, and Santa Muerte”, by Malgorzata Oleszkiewicz-Peralba.
Reviewed by Barbara Ardinger, Ph.D
Fierce Feminine DivinitiesProf. Oleszkiewicz-Peralba, who is a professor of modern languages and literature at the University of Texas at San Antonio, opens her new book by telling us how the goddesses named in the title—and their worshippers today—are marginal and liminal. The term “liminality,” she says, referring to the work of Victor Turner, comes from two Latin words, limen (“threshold”) and limes (“limit”) “and indicates a state in between structure, which is characterized by ambiguity and ambivalence and is usually connected to marginality, inferiority [and] ritual powers” (pp. 3-4). The four divine figures discussed in the book, she continues,
may be seen as embodiments of liminality and marginality with many of their attributes, such as being outsiders and being connected to liminal activities (e.g., messenger, trickster, sexuality). They are also perceived as dangerous, uncomfortable, rejected, or representing the rejected, but at the same time attractive, as they embody wisdom, magical powers, and the truth of human condition (p. 5).
Chapter 1 is titled “Baba Yaga, the Witch from Slavic Fairy Tales.” The sections of this chapter—“Liminality”; “Death, Fragmentation, and “Transformation”; “The Bird Goddess”; “The Serpent, the Dragon, and the Life-Death Threshold”; “Sacred Colors, Helpers, and Horses”; “Womb and Tomb: The Initiation Hut, the Oven, and the Mortar”; “From Matriarchal Goddess to Contemporary Witch”; and “Stones and Embroideries”—show the depth and breadth of the author’s research. She gives alternate names for Baba Yaga in several languages and shows the goddess’s connections to (or descent from) the Neolithic bird and snakes goddesses and explains how she lives today only in fairy tales and folklore.
Chapter 2, “Kali: the Ultimate Fierce Feminine,” opens with prayers to “the ultimate creator, preserver, and destroyer” who is the “epitome of the types of goddesses we are looking at in this book” and “in many ways the opposite of what we think of in connection with the word ‘woman’ or ‘goddess.’” Kali, the author writes, is “the primordial wilderness and chaos, original form of all things and eternity, but also change—time, destruction, and death” (p. 53). The sections of this chapter are “The Ten Mahavidyas,” “Fragmentation and Periphery,” “The Goddess Dhumavati,” “Kali and Other Fierce Divinities,” “Possession Trances,” and “Diasporic Kali.” Of the Ten Mahavidyas (Great Wisdoms) given in Tantric Hinduism and Buddhism, Kali is “foremost” and represents “destructive power that is simultaneously purifying and transforming” (p. 55). Information about the diasporic Kali in this chapter is especially interesting.
Chapter 3, “Pombogira, the Holy Streetwalker,” is the first of the two chapters about newly-created, popular Latin American goddesses. Sections of this chapter are “Background,” “Origin and Name,” “Characteristics,” “Types of Pombagiras,” “Gypsy Entities,” “Umbanda, Exus, and Marginality,” and “Origins of Pombagiras: The Yoruban Awon Iya Wa and the Portuguese Bruxas,” Whereas Baba Yaga and Kali are ancient and Indo-European, the goddesses presented in Chapters 3 and 4 are modern Latin American goddesses who meet the needs of people who live near or at the bottom of the socioeconomic ladder. Because Prof. Oleszkiewicz-Peralba lived in Brazil for several years, her research is less from the library than right out on the streets, where people see Pombagira as both a trickster and one of the most powerful entities of the newly-invented Umbanda religion. But she, too, has deep roots, as we see when she is compared to the feminine deity of the Gnostic text “The Thunder, Perfect Mind.” Most of the illustrations in this chapter are photos taken by the author, and Table 3.1 shows the “Continuum of Afro-Brazilian religions” from 19th-century Spiritism to varieties of Umbanda and Candomble (p. 93). The author concludes this chapter by noting that because the people who worship and appeal to Pombagira live in a society that is often lawless and unfair, they have little access to “law and order” or medical care. “Individuals are not permitted to take justice into their own hands, even in the face of blatant and obvious…injustices. … Pombagira is out to remedy that” (p. 101).
But if life is difficult for the poor people of Brazil, it seems to be worse for poor Mexican people, even those who live in the U.S. Santa Muerte is their new goddess:
The unofficial saint, Santa Muerte or Holy Death, another contemporary manifestation of a fierce liminal deity connected with marginality, inferiority, outsiderhood, and ritual powers, … can be traced to the Tepito neighborhood in Mexico City’s marginal colonia Morelos, in mid-twentieth century, where it started as a personal cult that spread widely about 20 years ago and reached an unprecedented popularity in the past ten years (p.104).
In Chapter 4, “Santa Muerte, Death the Protector,” we learn about the skeleton we most often see in Day of the Dead displays. The sections of this chapter are “Portrayals and Names”; “Methods of Devotion and Devotees”; “Devotional Centers, Transnationality, and Scope”; “Death and Contemporary Mexican Society”; “Historical Antecedents”; “Death in Mexican Arts and Folklore”; and “Santa Muerte, Pombagira, and the History of Latin America.” People build private and public altars to Holy Death and ask her for favors and sic her on their enemies. Again, because there is almost no scholarly work on Santa Muerte, Prof. Oleszkiewicz-Peralba did real-life research out on the streets, in bodegas and other stores, and in people’s homes. As in the other chapters, most of the illustrations are photos she took herself, including an altar in the trunk of a low-rider car. (Such altars are very popular.) Although Santa Muerte is “traditionally” shown wearing the robe of a Franciscan monk, photos also show her in traditional bride’s clothing, surrounded by decorations, in semi-disguise as the Virgin of Guadalupe, and clothed in dollar bills. People dress this skeleton figure to express their own beliefs and desires. Here are a few lines from an invocation to Santa Muerte:
Lady of death
Skeletal spirit
Most powerful and strong …
Make repent all his life
The one who harmed me or gave me the evil eye
And may it turn against him right away.
For the one who deceives me in love
I ask that you make him come back to me
And if he does not listen to your strange voice
Good spirit of death,
Make him feel
The power of your scythe… (p. 122)
The book concludes by repeating the connections among these four goddesses and their importance in the lives of people most of us hardly ever notice. The illustrations in the book show us not only what these goddesses look like but also the altars people build to three of them. Prof. Oleszkiewicz-Peralba’s publisher may not have served her well, however; although she reads and writes at least seven languages (see footnote 5, where she lists languages she’s translated herself), there are errors in idiomatic American English that require us to reread some sentences. There are also paragraphs that are so long as to be unwieldy. But there is a full and useful index and the bibliography is 15 pages long. This book deserves to be on the bookshelves of anyone interested in goddesses outside the usual Greco-Roman, Norse, and Germanic pantheons. Five gold stars!
Barbara Ardinger
Barbara Ardinger
Barbara Ardinger, Ph.D. (www.barbaraardinger.com), is the author of Secret Lives, a new novel about crones and other magical folks, and Pagan Every Day, a unique daybook of daily meditations. Her montly blogs appear on her website and on Feminism and Religion, where she is a regular Pagan contributor. She has been writing for the Llewellyn annuals since 2004, and her work has also been published in devotionals to Isis, Athena and Brigid.
Barbara's day job is freelance editing for people who have good ideas but don’t want to embarrass themselves in print. She lives in Long Beach, California, with her two rescued Maine coon cats, Schroedinger and Heisenberg.
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Grill the Perfect Fillet of Fish
Tips for indoor or outdoor grilling
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Tips for indoor or outdoor grilling.
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The hot, dry heat of a grill is excellent for cooking fast, flavorful shellfish and fish — with very little preparation necessary. Choose a dense, meaty fish such as swordfish, mahimahi, or thick-cut salmon or tuna for best results.
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To prevent the fish from sticking, keep the grill clean and well-greased. Preheat the grill while the fish warms to room temperature.
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Season both sides of the fish with salt and pepper.
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Once the grill is hot, place the fillets down with 2 inches of room on all sides. As a rule of thumb, for each inch of thickness you should grill for 10 minutes.
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Cook until there are prominent grill marks on one side. Then carefully turn over the fillets on the other side and cook until it's done to your liking. Tip: When possible, leave the skin on to help hold the fish together when cooking.
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Watch a quick video for step-by-step instructions.
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Jeff Gordon is frustrated and aggravated. And, it's not just because Brad Keselowski bumped him at Texas.
You know that Gordon is a four-time series champ. But that last title came in 2001. Gordon knows just how long that's been. In fact, he is quick to point out that he isn't a four-time Sprint Cup champ; he won Winston Cup championships.
Back in 2001, folks wondered just how long it would be before Gordon joined Richard Petty and Dale Earnhardt in the seven title club. Now, the name that goes with that question is Gordon's teammate, Jimmie Johnson.
Gordon is currently having his best season in years. Take the Chase out of the picture and he may have already wrapped up title number 5.
He wants that fifth title; badly. This is the best shot he's had in a while. He's also 43 and now understands how hard it is to win those titles. He also knows he won't have many more chances.
But, he has to get into that final four at Homestead first. And, situations like the one at Texas can prevent that from happening. He's so close; and he doesn't want this one to slip away.
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So basically we're like the cool kids in high school who smoked and hung out behind the bleachers banging cheerleaders. Awesome :laugh:
Couple of weeks ago, I ran into a guy who "supposedly" has possession of most if not all of the "Fast and Furious" cars. He has a shop in Lilburn Ga. and is trying to recreate several of the cars. I don't have his contact information but would like to contact him. Any help you could supply would be greatly appreciated. You can reach me via email,
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Beth Levine
What do you do when you have a headache, feel a little sore after a workout, are running a mild fever, or just have a flare up of joint pain? Oftentimes, the easiest course of action is to pop a couple of Advil or Motrin and go on your way, knowing they will soon reduce your pain. But you might want to rethink that routine, especially if you’re a guy and this happens frequently. According to new research, taking ibuprofen might be negatively impacting your fertility.
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Anniversary Of Woodstock!
Discussion in 'Events and Festivals' started by Yogamat, Aug 27, 2016.
1. Yogamat
Yogamat Member
2. Most overated musical festival ever
No, that probably goes to Live Aid
Second most overated musical festival ever
3. guerillabedlam
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Cool Pics! Wasn't alive then, but I wish I could have attended, although the weather conditions didn't look ideal.
4. Those photos are nice. I wasn't around until about 11 years later in 1980. Woodstock must have been really dirty!
5. MeAgain
MeAgain Dazed and Confused Staff Member Super Moderator
6. Harpo
Harpo Member
7. Irminsul
Irminsul Valkyrie
Insane Clown Posse did Woodstock.
8. tkm954
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Ahhh free love,bad acid,and mud.What was their not to like.I was born in 61,so I remember the footage on the nightly news.I remember my Dad saying"Looks like the country is changing,and not for the better.
9. BFlyBetty
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Aww I wish that I was around then.
I used to watch the Nine Inch Nails performance from Woodstock in the 1990's when it turned into a pit of mud.
I seen them in concert like 5 years ago, and he just doesn't have the stamina & gusto anymore. He's old. So sad I missed the glory days of the crazy 90's.
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10. I was 15. My buddy and I tried to figure how to get there. We didn’t make it.
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'The Defenders': How Marvel's Netflix Heroes Assemble for the First Time
The showrunner and stars of Marvel's Netflix team-up explain what was involved in assembling Daredevil, Jessica Jones, Luke Cage and Iron Fist together for the first time.
Courtesy of Netflix
[Warning: This story contains spoilers through the first four episodes of Marvel's The Defenders.]
When it comes to Marvel's The Defenders, it all starts with The Fisher King.
No, that's not the name of a Marvel supervillain, though it certainly sounds like one. Instead, it's the 1991 Terry Gilliam film about a disgraced shock jock and a homeless man who find friendship and redemption in one another. The film features a memorable scene set inside a Chinese restaurant, impactful for many reasons — but for the purposes of Marvel's Netflix initiative, impactful in that it's what inspired the way Matt Murdock (Charlie Cox), Luke Cage (Mike Colter), Jessica Jones (Krysten Ritter) and Danny Rand (Finn Jones) sit down together for the very first time in The Defenders.
"For me, I didn't know much about what the show was from the very beginning," Defenders showrunner Marco Ramirez tells The Hollywood Reporter. "A lot of the process was discovery. But I always had this image of the four of them sitting around at a table eating at a Chinese restaurant and looking at each other, in one place. I didn't know when it would happen, whether it would be at the end of the series or earlier, but I knew it was going to happen. Cinematically, it's very similar to a scene from The Fisher King, a very different movie but one that feels very New York to me. I always wanted to get that Chinese restaurant meeting together. I didn't know it would be the first time they met or the last time they met, but I knew it was going to happen."
Ultimately, The Defenders' Chinese restaurant meet-up wound up at the halfway mark of the series. It takes three full episodes before all four of the main characters are in the same scene at the same time, and even then, it's only for a brief (though admittedly memorable) action scene at the end of episode three, which takes place in a hallway, one of the hallmarks across all of the Marvel-Netflix projects.
"It's not like someone comes in and asks, 'Hi, where's your hallway fight?' It's just organically the place," Ramirez says, laughing at the mention of how frequently hallways are used for fight scenes in the Marvel Netflix Universe. "It's a bit of a signature of these shows. If you have a great signature, you use it."
"It was a really long shoot," says Jones of the scene, in which Iron Fist stands front and center in the hallway fight against members of the Hand, including Sigourney Weaver's Alexandra and Elodie Yung's Elektra. "But leading up to that, I'd got a big fight scene with about 10 Hand members, and I remember just feeling it. It was a big [shoot] — from the scene before that into the hallway fight scene, that was just a grind."
After the battle, in which all four of the Defenders converge on the same location for different reasons, the heroes not-quite-yet-for-hire seek shelter inside a nearby Chinese restaurant, hiding out from the rest of the Hand. At this point in the story, some of the Defenders have already crossed paths: Luke and Jessica already have history, Luke and Danny beat the snot out of each other at the end of episode two, and Jessica and Matt are on each other's radar all through episode three. When the four of them get together, however, there's an opportunity for everybody's backstories to come to the surface, with a fair amount of incredulity shared between future teammates. (Somehow, the bulletproof Luke Cage has a hard time accepting Matt Murdock as a blind superhero, and vice versa.)
"That was some of my favorite stuff," says Cox, who plays Murdock. "Because that's the stuff that was the least plot-driven. It was all character-driven. It was that episode where we come together for the first time and we kind of explain who we are and why we're there and who's what, and some of us are keeping secrets, some of us aren't, and that's the stuff that I think the fans are really gonna love. It's all character-driven, which is my favorite stuff to do."
With that said, it's a bit jarring that it takes four full episodes before all four Defenders are standing together, side by side, shoulder to shoulder, fully committed to fighting alongside one another — with an assist from Scott Glenn as Stick, on top of it. For his part, Ramirez says the decision to delay the assembling of the Defenders has roots all the way back in the very first Marvel-Netflix series: the first season of Daredevil, which spent 12 out of 13 hours keeping Matt Murdock away from his iconic costume.
"We had a lot of conversations in the writers room about how long could we wait to keep Matt in the black Zorro costume and cargo pants," remembers Ramirez. "How long would the audience stay with us? It was a big risk. [We] took that risk in a big way, and I think it paid off in droves. All of us learned at that point that the audience that comes to these shows is pretty sophisticated. They don't need dessert right up front. They are willing to wait and be patient with us so they can have a very big payoff."
What's more, Ramirez believes it wouldn't have made sense to assemble the Defenders earlier than the end of the third episode — and really band them together by the end of the fourth — due to how much these heroes are used to operating on their own.
"To me, it was important that these characters got to the story of The Defenders in their own time, so that it never felt like they were being recruited for a corporate project called The Defenders," he says. "These are all very independent people. Of all the superpowers that somebody like Jessica Jones has, the real power is how independently minded she is, and how she refuses to take anyone's shit. The thought that she was just going to get recruited to work on a team just didn't work. She needed to get to that point in the story on her own. We needed it to be realistic in the timing, and we needed everyone to learn the back stories and everything they needed to know in order to understand these characters and get to it on their own. When they're finally facing [the Hand] together, it feels like psychologically, story-wise, they've earned it."
Follow our coverage of Marvel's The Defenders for more interviews, news and deep dives.
Jenna Marotta contributed to this story.
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How to Make a Human Being: A Body of Evidence
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A startling investigation of what it means to be human. Human beings know how to make machines. But what kind of machine is a human being? And could we ever make one? In order to answer these questions, other questions get in the way: What is it like to be a human being? What is it like to be some other kind of animal? What is reality? What is consciousness? Is there a God? What is love? Why live? The questions proliferate. But all these questions can be viewed as facets of a single question: What is science? In `How To Make a Human Being' Christopher Potter shows how, at every scale of description, human beings escape the net of scientific reductionism. What it is to be human can be glimpsed in the details: in the opening of a window, in a shared joke. But cannot be caught by any reductive scientific description.
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How inBoundio got 100 Registrations in 60 mins from Reddit
I submitted inBoundio launch on HackerNews few days back, it was a soft launch but I felt it is worth sharing that we have reached 1000+ users, as expected the submission didn't took off and only got 2 upvotes and in 30 minutes, went to page 2 and just died after that.
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As I often hang out on reddit specially on the startup subreddit I thought to submit it there too as there are plenty of startup founders and marketers hang out there and I have found reddit users to more diverse as compared to HN where you find more vertical crowd (everyone think and talk same, only same kind of content keeps on getting up voted etc)
This is the result of reddit submission
reddit inboundio submission I have yet to check the accurate traffic spike stats but we got 100+ registrations from reddit and got 4-5 personal emails/replies which were very helpful (the whole thread actually was very helpful). I made the changes to the site accordingly and I am still talking to few to make the product better.
What went in our favor was the simplicity and honesty of the thread as well as there was something in the title which caught reddit community's eyes. In the past I have noticed that promotional content and boasting sales numbers doesn't work. If you are personal, the submission often clicks or at least you get real and genuine feedback.
EDIT - I just realized that that reddit alien "Snoo" in the image is giving middle finger and not thumbs up as I thought earlier. Well, I guess I will still keep the image!
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InfoQ Homepage Articles Challenges in HoloLens Application Development
Challenges in HoloLens Application Development
Key Takeaways
• Adding support for HoloLens devices to an app can bring several benefits, including a richer, immersive user experience, and the possibility of reaching additional groups of users.
• While HoloLens specific features can be factored in at the design stage when building new UWP applications, there are practical challenges when upgrading existing UWP applications to leverage HoloLens capabilities.
• All existing UWP mobile and desktop applications are expected to work on HoloLens, too, provided they do not use mobile or desktop-specific UWP features not available on the HoloLens, in which case you could need to implement a replacement for those APIs.
• Developing for the HoloLens poses its own deployment, debugging, and environment challenges.
Microsoft HoloLens is a holographic computer built into head-mounted mixed-reality smart glasses. It is powered by Windows 10, which supports the Universal Windows Platform (UWP) application architecture. This means that all UWP applications can be installed on HoloLens if the application satisfies the minimum required configuration for the HoloLens device family. While HoloLens specific features can be factored in at the design stage when building new UWP applications, there are practical challenges when upgrading existing UWP applications to leverage HoloLens capabilities. This paper discusses the lessons we learned and various challenges we faced when developing new UWP apps and updating existing UWP applications to make them work on the HoloLens. Furthermore, we present UWP application design considerations to be taken into account early in the development lifecycle to support the HoloLens device family. Finally, we provide plausible solutions and suggestions to make the upgrade process less complex.
Adding support for HoloLens devices to an app can bring several benefits. First, Microsoft HoloLens uses 3D holograms and spatial mapping to provide an immersive user experience. Most application developers target both mobile and desktop devices for their applications, which use their 2D frame to render the app’s content. If the app’s objects are presented using a 3D model, for example machine CAD models and building architecture designs, users can more clearly understand the design intent. Additionally, by adding HoloLens to the set of supported devices, developers can make their applications available to additional groups of users.
Hololens features
In a nutshell, HoloLens can create hologram objects which are made of light and sound. It projects 3D holograms which are intangible and can be placed in the real world. The holographic shell represents a 'Mixed-Reality World' which is a combination of real-world objects and the holograms created by the system. HoloLens can create 3D holograms which can be placed alongside with real world objects, and the user can interact with them. Holograms can be attached to horizontal or vertical planes, such as room walls or floors. For example, movies can be played on the wall, internet browsers mounted on the walls, or Skype calls follow you as you walk around the space. Interactive object models can be created using Holograms to demonstrate proofs of concept. HoloLens recognizes the room model with its geo-coordinates which helps us to create location-aware applications. Applications running on it can leverage Spatial Mapping and Spatial Sound capabilities. The following is the list of the key features of HoloLens:
• HoloLens uses the holographic shell, an interaction model, and perception APIs in the app model.
• It scans the surroundings, such as room, and creates a 3D object model for the room.
• It uses the room model to place the holograms in the environment around you.
• It allows to pin and unpin holograms to real world objects and locations, and sizing and scaling them in real time.
• Holograms can respond to human interactions such as gaze, gestures, and voice commands.
• Holograms created by HoloLens can be shared with other HoloLens users.
• HoloLens allows us to capture the mixed world frames and save it as image or video using Mixed Reality Capture (MRC) capability.
• Holograms can be displayed either in 2D or 3D frames.
• HoloLens uses the real world as the canvas to display holograms.
• Based on the dimensional nature of the application, HoloLens renders them in the mixed world as 2D or 3D holograms.
• HoloLens delivers an immersive and interactive user experience with clear hologram projection, spatial mapping, spatial sound.
Even though HoloLens is packed with many useful features, it has a few shortcomings, including:
• The viewport of the HoloLens appears within a small rectangular box in the center of the display. We have to remember where we have placed the holograms in the room.
• Even though it is possible to deploy existing UWP 2D applications on HoloLens, the application’s boundary is very much limited within the 2D window. This will not provide a good user experience when handling user input operations like gestures.
• Considering the cost of the device and its adaptability, updating small scale applications for HoloLens will not be profitable at the moment.
• Manually identifying unsupported APIs and features used in the existing application and implementing alternative functionality is very difficult.
Updating existing UWP apps
The new Universal Windows Platform introduced the classification of devices into Device Families. A device family shares a set of APIs from the core features of the OS. Microsoft UWP provides a common app platform and core API layer for every device that run on Windows 10 OS. Windows Runtime (WinRT) APIs are common to all device families, but not all the APIs are necessarily supported for all device families. In addition to WinRT, APIs applications can call APIs specific to the device family the app is running on.
All existing UWP applications, mostly targeting mobile phones and the desktop, are expected to work on HoloLens, too. Since these mobile and desktop applications are two dimensional in nature, they are rendered on the 2D surface of the HoloLens. Even though applications created using Unity appears to be 3 dimensional in nature, they are also rendered in the 2D canvas. Existing UWP applications can be made installable on HoloLens by declaring the TargetDeviceFamily with Name="Windows.Holographic" in the Dependencies section of Package.appxmanifest file.
Challenges in updating apps
HoloLens does not support some of the Universal APIs and features that have reached the same level of support on desktop or mobile. Features like Notifications, File Explorer, Messaging, tiles, etc., are not fully functional in HoloLens. Microsoft has released the list of unsupported APIs on their website. They also mentioned that the list will be updated as and when the APIs are supported in future SDK releases. We can classify the challenges in updating an existing app into two wider groups based on the nature of their impact on development and implementation.
Implementing Universal APIs
Most of the existing UWP applications are developed targeting mobile and desktop families and may be using device family-specific features. In one of our existing UWP projects, Push Notifications is implemented for the Mobile device family. Since this feature is not supported fully in HoloLens, we had to use Windows.Networking API as a workaround solution.
HoloLens Specific Challenges
Holograms, Spatial Mapping, and Spatial Sounds are specific to the HoloLens device family. When updating 3D applications created by Unity, all the 3D game objects are rendered as holograms with the real world as a canvas. Running the existing 3D application as it is in HoloLens will deliver a poor user experience. Adding spatial mapping and spatial sounds makes the application much more realistic. To add spatial characters, the existing game objects require a good amount of effort. Most of the existing game objects need to be modified to add spatial mapping and sound to individual objects. In addition to gaze input, which closely simulates mouse cursor, gestures and voice commands should be added to the scene. If we have used custom gestures in our existing application like circle gesture, swipe left to delete, swipe right to confirm, etc., we will find it very difficult to make it work on HoloLens. HoloLens is packed with Interaction Manager, which can be extended to create new gestures. We found it difficult to identify the hand position in the 3D frame. We are exploring the HandInput class available in Microsoft’s Galaxy Explorer project to identify hand position. Alternatively, this can be achieved using third-party computer vision libraries like OpenCV.
Issue Analysis
Issues related to running UWP applications on HoloLens are widely discussed in forums, blogs, and articles. We have experienced difficulties and issues while running existing UWP applications on the HoloLens device and emulator. Since this is an initial stage, we can list such issues and problems under four high-level categories:
1. Deployment Issues
2. Debugging Issues
3. Environment Issues
4. Development Issues
Deployment Issues
Deployment to emulator will be easy since Visual Studio knows the IP of the emulator. When targeting real devices for deployment, though, we cannot use the IP address given by Cortana since it is the external address. The internal address can be obtained from Advanced Options in device Settings. Using that IP address, HoloLens can be paired with Visual Studio 2015. in case of incorrect IP address mapping the debug console will display the error following message :
“DEP8000: Unexpected deployment failure: OperationFailedException: The network event being waited on triggered an error.”
Deployment errors
Some deployment errors and their probable resolutions are listed below for better understanding.
1. Failure reason: Failed to start deployment. Failure text: Install failed. Please contact your software vendor. (0x80073cf9)
There are multiple causes for this error such as the application being already installed on the device, outdated Windows SDK or HoloLens Emulator, and incorrect architecture of the application. You need to check AppXDeployment-Server log for additional error information. To view the AppXDeployment-Server log,
• Goto Start menu → Programs or All Programs → Administrative Tools → Event Viewer.
• Then expand Applications and Services Logs → Microsoft → Windows → AppXDeployment-Server → double click Microsoft-Windows-AppXDeploymentServer/Operational
1. Failure reason: Failed to start deployment. Failure text: A Prerequisite for an install could not be satisfied. (0x80073cfd)
This means that some or all of the dependencies are not available on the device. Check the minimum and target build numbers in the Package.appxmanifest file. All the prerequisites should be satisfied for successful deployment.
1. App manifest references the image 'images\Square71x71Logo.png' which does not have a candidate in main app package
UWP has set scale-200 as the default image scaling factor. But Visual Studio is still using the older specifications which creates scale-100 image by default and not scale-200 image. This error can be fixed by adding scale-200 images,by removing “.scale-100” from the file name, or by adding a “Square142x142.png” file (200% of 71x71) to the asset mapping. We will not get this error in debug mode. This error can only be reported only when we build the application in release mode.
1. DEP6957: Failed to connect to device '' using Universal Authentication.
This error occurs when the HoloLens device is not paired with Visual Studio correctly. Uninstalling the application from HoloLens and reinstalling it will help resolve the issue.
Some of the error messages displayed in the console are not having exact error information or description. For example, when trying to deploy an application on a HoloLens emulator or device using Device Portal Apps Manager console, if the application is already installed on the device, you will get: “Please contact your software vendor”, which doesn’t explain the issue. Instead, error messages like “Application already installed” make more sense and the developer can fix it promptly by first removing the application before deploying.
The most common resolutions to Deployment issues are listed below:
• Changes in AppxManifest configuration
• Updating Visual Studio project properties
• Checking SDK version numbers
• Build settings for Debug and Release configurations
• Checking whether all the dependencies are installed
• Uninstalling the application from device or emulator and reinstalling it (Sideloading)
• Asset availability with required configurations (dimensions and resolution)
Debugging Issues
In this category fall issues related to enabling debug mode, attaching the debugger to the device or emulator, connecting to the device portal, remote debugging, managed, unmanaged, and mixed-mode debugging.. Any issues related to Hyper-V management and Ethernet switches are also listed here. This category also covers issues related to the NuGet Package Manager configuration and settings to enable automatic download of missing packages or dependencies.
One of the debugging issues we faced is described below.
“The program '[4764] ModelExplorer.exe' has exited with code 255 (0xff)”
We learned that this issue can be avoided by using proper debug build settings:
1. Select build debug/x86 for debugging
2. Set Application Process to Mixed (Managed and Native)
Microsoft may consider the below mentioned suggestions to avoid the debugging issues:
• Providing the exact error descriptions explaining the issue
• Better documentation on settings to enable debug mode
• Proper connectivity guides to connect to the emulator and device (over USB or Wi-Fi for remote debugging)
• Dependency Manager (NuGet) configuration changes
Environment Issues
This category includes issues related to the development, debugging, testing, and system environments. Most of the issues related to the SDK can be solved by correctly installing the required SDKs (Windows 10 SDK, HoloLens Emulator, Visual Studio 2015). If the HoloLens emulator software is not installed properly it will not be visible in the Visual Studio 2015 device list, so it will not be possible to directly run the build. We should ensure correct versions of software builds and update patches are installed. For Example, if the Windows 10 SDK Version is installed on Windows 10 OS version 1511, the design mode in the Visual Studio XAML Editor will display a warning message like the one shown below (see Figure 1), since this version of Windows 10 SDK requires the minimum OS version to be 1607. If the development machine is not running Windows 10 Anniversary Edition, we can use an alternative XAML editor like XamlPadX, a basic visual editor for XAML which can be downloaded from Microsoft Blog.
Figure 1. Error due to Network Adapter issue
Incorrect installation of the HoloLens emulator software will result in issues when accessing the Emulator Device portal or when deploying the application directly on the emulator from Visual Studio 2015. The emulator will show a warning as displayed below (see Figure 2) if the network adapter of the emulator is having issues.
Figure 2. Warning message for OS version minimum requirement
“Updating the SDK” and “Installing correct versions of the software” will most probably fix the issues related to software environment.
Development Issues
All the issues and problems encountered when developing or upgrading an app are listed under this category. Since Visual Studio is not displaying compile-time errors or warnings for unsupported APIs and features, the developer has to be careful to implement alternate workarounds to ensure the required functionality is not broken. For example, we have faced issues when adding custom gesture listeners to an existing 2D UWP application. The problem is that every time the user tries to initiate a swipe gesture, the gaze points outside the 2D frame, so the application is pushed into suspended mode. When this happens, the app cannot recognize any gestures even if they pass through the 2D frame. Dwight Goins, Computer Science Instructor at TEALS, Microsoft and HoloLens developer, has answered a similar question in the HoloLens Forum providing two suggestions:
1. Create a 3D app, scan the room, and then switch to a 2D View and then, you can recognize gestures, and raise double click events to handle them.
2. Another idea is to create a very large 2D window, and within the window, highlight or make a small rectangle very visible to show the UI, to recognize the clicks, and then select the command.
We followed the second suggestion since we target applications for multiple device families and adding one bigger window to the app only for HoloLens can be implemented with less effort.
Testing UWP apps on hololens
Testing HoloLens applications is similar to testing Windows applications. If you already have experience testing windows application you will likely feel comfortable testing HoloLens apps. HoloLens applications can be tested either on the emulator or on real devices. The Perception Simulation library is used for automation testing to send fake human input to the app. We can simulate gestures and gaze input using the IPerceptionSimulationManager API. Also, simulating the room model is possible in the emulator, so we can run automation testing in the emulator.
Minimizing go-to-market time
Minimizing the go-to-market time is very important when planning for an app upgrade. We have identified some key points which will help you upgrade existing applications to support HoloLens:
• Configuration upgrade: use a tool to upgrade the configuration of existing UWP apps. Such a tool will modify existing projects by programmatically updating their manifest file to add support for the HoloLens Device Family. For example, the tool can remove <PropertyGroup> elements that are configured for the 'Debug|AnyCPU' or 'Release|AnyCPU' builds since AnyCPU is not supported for Windows 10 apps.
• Compatibility Testing Tool: use an automated testing tool to identify libraries and APIs required by existing applications that are not supported in HoloLens device. Developers can use this tool to check whether all the libraries used in their existing application are compatible with HoloLens. This tool can output only the list of unsupported APIs used in the existing UWP application.
• API Wrapper: Providing wrapper functions agnostic to device families to account for unsupported APIs. These API wrapper will be useful when the developer wants to provide the unsupported API functionality with a different implementation.
• Extending HoloToolkit: HoloToolkit is a collection of prebuilt scripts and components provided by Microsoft.
Effective usage of HoloToolkit will certainly reduce the development time of some functional modules and increase the productivity of the developer.
Extending HoloToolkit with additional code components and reusable dependency packages to accelerate holographic app development.
Based on the our learnings, a few things can be suggested to overcome the challenges in HoloLens application development. These suggestions will help you to reduce the go-to-market time and improve the application usability. Before starting application development, identify and aggregate the issues already reported by other developers from various forums. You can narrow down your search to the application specific features and functionality. List the identified issues and problems under various categories and sub-categories as per your application’s requirements. Since you cannot rely on the solutions provided by the forum contributors, you have to analyze and test the solutions provided for the issues reported in online forums and collaboration websites.
If you are planning to add support to HoloLens devices in your existing UWP application, you have to identify all the unsupported APIs and libraries used in the existing app. Prepare a detailed document explaining how to wrap every unsupported API based on device family. Try to use alternate API functions, wherever possible, which are supported in HoloLens. Some features like Voice Commands for navigation menu items and action button events would also contribute to improve the user experience of your application on HoloLens.
When planning for new app development, all existing challenges can be factored in. Conversely, to upgrade existing apps and add Holographic support to them, we need to carry through a thorough analysis of our application code, process flow, and APIs and features used. It can be useful to prepare a comparison chart of various capabilities supported by different device families including mobile, desktop, HoloLens, IoT, and Xbox, which will help in identifying the possibilities of adding HoloLens specific capabilities.
Existing UWP 2D applications leverage mobile phone and desktop computer software and hardware capabilities. When adding HoloLens support to an app, there is a huge opportunity to take advantage of the additional holographic capabilities. Some of the existing 2D functional and UI design patterns can be automatically updated to leverage HoloLens features. For example, it is possible to automatically create and enable voice commands for the navigation menu items when upgrading the app. This can either be added to the HoloToolkit library or a to the separate upgrade tool which can inject all the additional features to the application based on the developer’s requirement.
Microsoft has already released Project Centennial to convert existing desktop applications to the UWP space. This can be extended to add HoloLens support to the converted apps. We can develop tool to check the API compatibility which will reduce the Go-To-Market and provide fallback mechanism for the unsupported APIs. Developing wrapper APIs for unsupported APIs would give a structured way for developers to take action as per their requirements.
About the Author
Vinothkumar Arputharaj is working as a Senior Technical Lead in Technology Focus Group, part of the Technology Office in Engineering and R&D Services group of HCL Technologies Ltd. He's got a Master’s degree in Computer Applications from the Bharathiyar University, Coimbatore, India in 2009.
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Polysubstance Abuse: Addicted to the ‘High’ Rather Than the Drugs
Until there’s a social consensus, it bears repeating that addiction is a complex and complicated disease of the brain. People develop the condition for a variety of different reasons, which makes plotting out an effective treatment approach a challenge for patients, physicians, therapists and other addiction healthcare specialists.
That said, the treatment of addiction continues to make advances and be more effective for all kinds of patients, including those battling polysubstance abuse.
Polysubstance Abuse and Dependence
Though the diagnosis is often misunderstood and not made that often, polysubstance abuse, according to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-IV), often referred to as the bible of psychiatry, occurs in people who use three or more drugs without showing a particular preference to any one of them.
The DSM-5 eliminates the diagnosis of polysubstance abuse dependence due to how little it was used and how much it was misunderstood. “With the new threshold for substance use disorders (two or more criteria), the category became irrelevant,” the manual states.
Still, polysubstance abuse is a unique form of dependency. This type of addiction is different from, for example, a person that’s both physically and psychologically dependent on the use of heroin to avoid withdrawal symptoms.
With polysubstance abuse (also known as Poly Drug Use or Poly-substance Dependence), an individual is more addicted to the mood and mind-altering consequences of substance abuse than, say, alcohol itself or other illicit drugs alone.
Poly-drug use is usually more of a psychological misuse of drugs instead of a physical one that results from taking the same drug over and over because the body becomes dependent on it.
What are Some of the Most Commonly Poly-Abused Drugs?
Any combination of three or more of the above substances, excluding nicotine and caffeine from the mix, is considered polysubstance abuse.
Teenagers and young adults are often more inclined to poly drug use because it can be difficult for them to get a regular supply of drugs and they tend to experiment as they discover new things to get high from. They also are under much stress during the teen years and use drugs as a way to escape reality.
How is Polysubstance Dependence Treated?
The most effective method of care for people battling poly-drug abuse is an inpatient, residential treatment facility that incorporates detox in the beginning to comfortably and safely get patients through any withdrawal symptoms.
The next is an individualized treatment approach based on each patient’s distinct personality and personal struggles to get to the root cause of the drug use.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) gives people the power to examine the underlying causes to their addictive behaviors. As each trigger is identified with the help of a counselor, patients learn over time to not just avoid these triggers, but to confront them in a more positive, less socially and personally destructive way.
CBT is a powerful tool in developing and maintaining coping skills that can help prevent or lessen the number and length of relapses. Like cancer or diabetes, addiction is a chronic disease that sometimes comes out of remission. Relapses are not failure. They are a symptom and sign that the condition needs further treatment.
As America continues to battle the onslaught of addiction to opioids and other substances, it’s critical that friends, family, colleagues, and anyone touched by someone else’s addiction, understand and speak out about the fact that this is a disease.
Driving those who are suffering with polysubstance abuse and dependence farther into the shadows only serves to worsen their symptoms and enforce the stigma surrounding drug and alcohol addiction.
For teens, it’s natural for them to experiment with many things as they mature into adulthood. Unfortunately, some experimentation can have dangerous consequences, especially when it involves trying a wide variety of drugs only to get high.
What starts out as simply partying with friends can turn into a full-blown dependence or addiction quicker than many realize. And with dangerous drugs like heroin laced with fentanyl widely available on the streets today, for too many people, there’s no way to rehab their way out.
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Hi folks!
Does anyone have a sql query to report on all assets and include their last modified date? We're running reports on all assets right now, sorting by serial number, and seem to have a number of assets with duplicate serial numbers. The most accurate entry seems to be the asset with the latest modified date.
Thanks in advance for any help
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• Are your assets only computer devices. And are they computers with agents on them and an inventory in the K1.
or do you have many different assets not showing up in inventory?
• No, they are computer (with agent) and mobile devices (agentless). Everything is showing up in inventory. I just would like to take an asset report of all assets with their last modified dates under the Reporting section of K1000
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Gotra (गोत्र) denotes the ancestral family from which its members traced their descent. Jats have more than 5000 gotras. Gotra is the Sanskrit term for a much older system of tribal clans. The Sanskrit term "Gotra" was initially used by the Vedic people for the identification of the lineages.
Definition of Gotra
Panini has defined gotra in his grammar Ashtadhyayi (अष्टाध्यायी) as under - उपत्यं प्रौत्रं प्रभृति गोत्रम upatyam prautram prabhriti gotram
Meaning – Gotra is the name of group of descents, leaving son, including grandsons and great grandsons.
Mention by Panini
Gotra (गोत्र) is mentioned by Panini in Ashtadhyayi. [1]
Gotra (गोत्रा) is mentioned by Panini in Ashtadhyayi. [2]
Gotrapatya (गोत्रापत्य) is mentioned by Panini in Ashtadhyayi. [3]
Gotra-stri (गोत्र-स्त्री) is mentioned by Panini in Ashtadhyayi. [4]
V S Agarwal [5] writes that Gotra was next to Caste. Gotra denoted the ancestral family from which its members traced their descent. Members belonging to same Gotra were called Sagotra (VI.3.85). The Gotra name of a person on the basis of his gotra must have been a matter of considerable practical importance. In the Jatakas we often find the gotra name of a person asked along with his personal name. This is shown by Panini having prescribed elaborate rules for the formation of Gotra names, e.g. Garga, father; Gārgi, son; Gārgya, grandson; Gārgyāyaṇa, great-grandson.
V. S. Agrawala[6] writes that Like the political Sanghas, even Gotras and Charaṇas had their aṅka and lakshaṇa.
V. S. Agrawala[7] writes about Kula – The phrase Gana-Rajakula used in connection with Sangha of the Vrijis shows that political Sangha called Gana was composed of various Rajakulas or royal families and that the heads of these Rajakulas constituted the governing body of that Gana. This is confirmed by the Mahabharata which says that the members of Gana were equals of one another in respect of birth and family (Shantiparva, 107.30). Kautilya also states that Kula was the unit of a Sangha.
The Kula basis of the tribes appears to be vitally connected with a number of Paninian Sutras dealing with Gotrāpatya and yuvan descendants. Apart from those names which were Rishi gotras Panini also includes a number of tribal names in the lists dealt with in the Gotrapatya chapter. For example, in the very first sutra (IV.1.98) Kunja and Bradhna were not names of Rishi Gotra but of Vrātas, a class of rudimentary Sanghas of the Ayudhajivi pattern (V.3.113). The need for distinguishing the gotra-descendant from the yuvan-descendants should be understood clearly. In-fact in the social as well as political sphere, the family was the unit of representation, which was exercised through the head of each family, called Kula-vriddha (Shantiparva, 107.27). In grammatical literature, Panini refers to him as Vriddha, which was a pre-paninian term for Gotra. Panini in his grammar substituted Vriddha mostly by Gotra, stating that all the descendants of an ancestor in a family except the son of the founder were called Gotra (Apatyaṁ pautra-prabhṛiti gotram, IV.1.162).
[p.430]: During his life time the eldest male member who represented the family was the Gotra and the junior members were called Yuvan. Panini also uses a third term, viz. Vaṁśya, to designate him; this also appears to be a pre-paninian saṁjñā incidentally retained (IV.1.163).
Each individual was given his personal name and a Gotra name. The latter came in for special attention of grammarians owing to its importance in social and political life. According to Panini only one member in the family at a time was to retain the title Gotra, the rest were Yuvan. This implies that only one person, usually the oldest male member, represented his Kula on all important occasions and functions.
This family basis of Gana polity preserved the hereditary character of its ruler-ship vesting in the same families. The number and names of these families comprising the ruling class were carefully preserved as in the case of Lichchhavis whose number is stated 7707 in Pali literature. In the capital of Cheta state mention is made of 60000 khattiyas all of whom were styled Rājāno (Jat. VI.511), and must have represented so many Kshatriya members constituting that State. The craze for constituting new republics had reached its climax in the Vahika country and north-west India where clans consisting of as many as one hundred families only organized as Ganas, as in the case of 100 sons of Savitrri establishing themselves as Kshatriya clan under Saviti-putras with the title of Raja applied to each one of them (Vanaparva 297.58, Karnaparva V.49, and Panini in Dāmanyādi group V.3.116).
Sapiṇḍa & Sanābhi
V S Agarwal [8] writes that The word Sapiṇḍa is peculiar to the Sutra literature but there is no trace of it either in Samhitas, or the Brahmanas and Aranyaka. Dharmshastra works explain Sapinda as blood relations up to the 7th degree on the father’s and 5th degree on mother’s side (Manu, V.60). Panini writes that a great grandson was called yuvan, when a more elderly Sapinda i.e either his uncle or grand-uncle was alive.
V S Agarwal [9] writes that Sanābhi is equal to samāna nabhi, i.e. those connected with a common nabhi or umbilical cord (VI.3.85) , thus bringing within its fold all the blood relations of different degrees. In Manu Sanābhya is taken as Sapinda.
See Vansha
Basis of Vanshas and Gotras
Gotras have initially been created in the name of a person, a place or some historical incidence. When a great person takes birth in a generation, all the previous titles of this generation are included in the name of this great person and a new gotra starts in his name. Like caste does not change, gotras and vanshas also do not change. There can be more than one gotra in a vansha but there can not be more than one vansha in a gotra. For example Chauhan Vansha has 116 gotras included in it.[10]
According to Dilip Singh Ahlawat, Vanshas and gotras start on the basis of some important person, country, period, title and language.[11]
Based on persons
The vanshas or gotras started on the basis of persons are Yadavavanshi, Raghuvanshi, Pandava, Rahar, Paurava, Kuruvanshi, Laur, Tanwar, Salkhalan, Tomar, Dahiya, Jakhar, Kushan, Budhwar, Deshwal, Dalal, Maan, Sihag, Kadian, Lamba, Punia, Lalla, Balan, Nava, Taxak, Kakrana, Chandravanshi, Shivi, Gaur, Madra, Bhimbhraulia, Sangwan, Gill, Hala and Suryavanshi etc. [12]
Based on places
The vanshas or gotras started on the basis of place are Sindhu, Gandhari, Kuntal, Khutail, Ahlawat, Chedi, Sinsinwar, Bhind, Dahima, Nehra, Tewatia, Vahika, Bais, Magadh, Mohil, Tushar, Malloi (Malwa), Sikarwar, Sisodia etc. [13]
Based on languages
The vanshas or gotras started on the basis of language are Kakurath, Kak, Kakk, Kukkur, Gandhir, Gandir, Gandila, Gandasia, Gul, Gala, Golia, Galaran, Gahlot, etc. [14]
Based on titles
The vanshas or gotras started on the basis of title are Rao, Rawat, Harawat, Chauhan, Solanki, Parihar, Parmar, Thakurela, Chhokar, Thenua, Chapotkat, Rana, Godara, Dixit, Mithe, Chatte, Khatte, Janghare, Bhagaur, Lohchab, Thakur, Antal, Malik, Gathwale, Jatrana, Chaudhari etc. The creation of new vanshas stopped with the vanishing of Rajshahi or Rajvansh. [15]
Based on geographical features
Some gotras are based on natural and geographical features such as Sun, Moon, Stars, Fire, Water, Forest, Mountains, Lakes, Rivers, Seas, Trees, Flowers, Animals, Birds , Places etc. [16]
Utility of Gotras in Hindu marriage
Manusmṛti or Manusmriti (Sanskrit: मनुस्मृति), also known as Mānava-Dharmaśāstra (Sanskrit: मानवधर्मशास्त्र), is the most important and earliest metrical work of the Dharmaśāstra textual tradition of Hinduism.[17] Sagotra i.e. same gotra marriages are banned under the traditional matrimonial system. According to the Hindu marriage traditions, commonality of four gotras of mother, father, father’s mother (dadi) and mother’s mother (nani) are avoided for marriages. This has been advocated necessary for proper health and morality of the society. Manava dharmashastra, chapter-3, shloka-5 mentions that[18] -
अस पिण्डा च या मातुर गोत्रा च या पितुः । as piṇdā ca yā mātura gotrā ca yā pituḥ
सा प्रशस्ता द्विजातीनां दार, कर्माणि मैथुने ।। sā praśastā dvijātīnām dāra, karmāṇi maithune
Meaning – The girl who is not from mother’s clan of six generations and who is not of father’s gotra is suitable for marriage amongst dvijati people (Brahmana, Kshatriya and Vaishya).[19]
Satyartha Prakasha by Maharshi Dayanand Saraswati also explains in Chapter IV shloka-4 that The girl who is not from mother’s clan of six generations and who is not of father’s gotra is suitable for marriage:
असपिण्डा च या मातुरसगोत्रा च या पितुः
सा प्रशस्ता द्विजातीनां दारकर्मणि मैथुने ।। 4 ।।
Satyartha Prakasha has given eight reasons for not marrying in the same gotra. It also explains why it is useful to marry a girl of far off place.
दुहिता दुर्हिता दूरेहिता भवतीति ।। निरू. ।।
In Sanskrit a daughter is called duhitri (from Du - distant, Hit - good), because the marriage of a girl to a man who comes from a distant country or distant part of the same country is productive of good.
The advantages and disadvantages of distant and near marriages respectively are[20] :-
1. Any two persons who have, in their childhood, lived near each other, played and quarreled together, loved one another, noticed each other's faults, imperfections, ebullitions of temper and misbehaviors, and perhaps sometimes, even each other undressed, if married to each other, can never love each other to the extent desired.
2. The marriage of near relatives does not improve the race from want of interchange of fluids and essences (such as blood) of the body, it rather deteriorates it,. This is analogous to the addition of water to water, no new quality being produced.
3. As the addition of sugar and such medicines as ginger, improves the taste and quality of milk, so does the marriage of people, who are not related to each other (either on father's or on mother's side), improve the race.
4. As in the case of an invalid, change of climate and diet very often effects a cure, so does marriage with foreigners or distant people improve the health of the parties and prove beneficial in every other respect.
5. When the parties are nearly related to each other and live amongst their people, the sorrows and joys of one family will affect the other and there will be many occasions for family disputes to arise; while marriages among distant people and consequent separation from relatives lengthen the thread of mutual love. This is not the case when they live near their people.
6. When marriages are contracted with people of foreign or distant countries, things and news from those countries can be easily obtained (and consequently relations between different countries become closely established). This not possible when people marry near relatives or persons living near their homes, or, in their own country.
7. If the bride's people do not live very far from her husband's home, there is a possibility of her parents becoming poor, as whenever she visits her parents, they will have to give her something or other by the way of a present.
8. If their people live near at hand, on any slight friction taking place between the husband and the wife, she, feeling assured that her people will support her, will at once leave her husband and go to her parents. That may become the cause of mutual reviling and wrangling, for, women, as a rule, are so easily offended and pleased.
Gotra in History
Well known historian Dasharatha Sharma writes that It may be that some of Kshatriyas had forgotten their gotra and pravaras, but a good many perhaps never had any. We are therefore not surprised to find either Medhatithi stating in his comment on the Manusmrti, III, 5 that distinction of gotra and pravara applied only to Brahmanas, or Mitakshara laying down that the Kshatriyas and Vaishyas should adopt the gotra and pravaras of their purohitas, inasmuch as they (the Kshatriyas and Vaishyas) had no gotras of their own.[राजन्यविशां प्रातिस्विक गोत्राभावात् प्रवराभावस्तथापि पुरोहितगोत्रप्रवरौ वेदितव्यौ । (Comment on याज्ञवल्क्यस्मृति I,53.)] The only rules of exogamy and endogamy observed were that a Kshatriya generally married Kshatriya and did not marry within his own clan.[21]
See also
1. V. S. Agrawala: India as Known to Panini, 1953, p. 75, 92
5. V S Agarwal, India as Known to Panini,p.92
6. India as Known to Panini,p.427
7. India as Known to Panini,p.429-430
8. V S Agarwal, India as Known to Panini,p.92
9. V S Agarwal, India as Known to Panini,p.92
10. Dr Ompal Singh Tugania: Jat samudāy ke pramukh Ādhār bindu, p.5
11. Jat History Dalip Singh Ahlawat
12. Dr Ompal Singh Tugania: Jat samudāy ke pramukh Ādhār bindu, pp. 7-8)
16. Mahipal Arya, Jat Jyoti, August 2013,p. 14
17. See Flood 1996: 56 and Olivelle 2005.
18. Pandit Jwala Prasad Chaturvedi: Manusmriti - Hindi translation Randhir Prakashan Haridwar 2002, p.68
19. Dr Ompal Singh Tugania: Jat samudāy ke pramukh Ādhār bindu, p. 9)
20. Satyartha Prakasha Ch. IV: The advantages and disadvantages of distant and near marriages
21. Early Chauhān dynasties: a study of Chauhān political history, Chauhān political institutions, and life in the Chauhān dominions from C. 800 to 1316 A.D., by Dasharatha Sharma, Books treasure, Jodhpur. ISBN 0-8426-0618-1. P. 276
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The entire test paper consisted of 240 questions with 5 options for each question and -1/5 marks for wrong answer with 1 mark for right answer.
The paper consisted of primarily four sections
(1) Technical Engg (60 Questions)
(2) Basic Engg.(60 Questions)
(3) Verbal Ability (60 Questions)
(4) Quantitative (60 Questions)
(A) Technical Engineering (Electronics)
(1) Sampling theorem is used in what? (AM, FM, PCM, AM & FM)
(2) What is the bandgap of germanium?
(3) Which of the following elements is used for making P-type semiconductor material from intrinsic semiconductor? (Phosporous, Boron, Gallium, Gallium Arsenide)
(4) Question on the power of the SSB signal of AM wrt to given modulation index.
(5) Modulation Index of AM, FM, PM
(6) Question on the values of damping factor for critically damped, underdamped, overdamped systems.
(7) Which of the following modes do not exist in wave guides? (TE1, TM1, TEM1,)
(8) What is the band used to send the AM signals (HF, VHF, SHF, UHF)
(9) Which of the following waves have maximum frequency? (X-Rays, UV rays, Radio waves, Infrared waves)
(10) What is the metal where X-Rays cannot penetrate into? (Copper, lead, Tungsten)
(B) Basic Engineering (Most of the questions were from 12th class physics, chemistry)
(1) Questions on the friction.
(2) Which type of steel is used in railway line among carbonsteel, mild steel?
(3) Questions on specific gravity.
(4) What is the optimum humidity to be provided by a Air Conditioner?
(5) What is the weight of 1 cubic meter air?
(6) Questions on centripital force.
(7) Questions on pendulum.
(C) Verbal Ability
(1) 10 Questions on spell check
(2) 6 questions on comprehension paragraph
(3) 10 questions on sentence correction
(4) 10 questions to check whether the two statements given are inplict, explicit or imply each other.
(5) Questions relating to relationships.
(D) Quantitative Ability
(1) 20 questions on match the following (very easy ones)?
(2) Average proportions based questions
(3) Work completed by 10 people in 5 days then 20 people will complete in how many days?
(4) Age related questions.
Overall the paper did not look much like a technical one as more stress was given in other sections (75% of the paper). One of my friend who is strong in quantitative and verbal was called for the interview.
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I have an exercise for you...
But first, let me give a little background. In 1998 A man named James Sullivan wrote a book called Baptist Polity: As I See It. This book was to the Southern Baptist what Calvary Distinctives is for the Calvary Chapel pastor. It summarizes the history and traditions of the Southern Baptist. Or in Mr. Sullivan's words; "The book shows how the denomination functions and why." It is full of opinions and thus the subtitle "As I See It."
The copy on my shelf is well worn. I've underlined and starred paragraphs on most pages. Why? Because the Southern Baptist wrestled with their own organizational structure a century before Calvary Chapel did their own wrestling. Many of the internal battles Calvary Chapel is facing were already fought and won for the Southern Baptist.
If you are not familiar with the Southern Baptist you might be surprised by the numerous points of similarity between them and us. In fact the Southern Baptist have ripped off many of Calvary Chapel's hallmark attributes and made them their own. But I digress...
I want to draw your attention to one specific quote from chapter four:
“There are three basic elements in the development of polity for a secular organization, but there are four when polity is being determined for a religious body. The three elements that go into the building of polity in a secular organization are tradition, law, and sound organizational principles. All have been proven valid and necessary. The additional element that goes into the development of polity for a religious body is theology”
Tradition, law, organization and theology.
He defines tradition thus: "We do certain things in certain ways because our forefathers did them that way. We seldom pause to ask why."
When he refers to law he is talking about the laws of the land which govern the organization. In the US this would include laws dictating non-profit organizations, employment law, building and fire codes. These laws play a subtle role in defining polity.
The word organization refers to the practical organization of church life: who is responsible for what, schedules, procedures for new volunteers, the dissemination of information. This is another distinct aspect of church polity.
And finally, theology. Theology is the shared belief of the church about God, the Bible, people, creation and eternity. The theology of a church isn't just the primary doctrines that must be believed for salvation. It also includes secondary issues such as eschatological timelines, and the literal or figurative days of creation.
These four arenas - tradition, law, organization, and theology - are what make a church unique.
For Calvary Chapel the first one, tradition, is the x factor. What are our determined traditions? Now there are some bozos who have made tradition and theology synonymous but I'm not here to rescue them from their stupidity. Of course tradition should be rooted in a biblical framework, but to elevate tradition to the level of inerrant scripture would be much to Roman Catholic for me.
So here is the exercise.
Write out three lists. On the first list write out what you understand to be the defined traditions of Calvary Chapel. This is a list of what you believe to be Calvary Chapel's dogmatic traditions... they are unalterable.
On the second list write out what you understand to be the traditions with limited options. In other words, what has been defined as a tradition with multiple options. One of my items on this list was the church facility. Calvary Chapels typically have a gathering space for corporate worship but there is a huge variety in the types of buildings used for worship.
On the third list write out other church aspects of ecclesiology that Calvary Chapel has not defined. For example on my list was leadership transitions. There is no set tradition on how Calvary Chapel's make leadership changes. We do it, but don't have a tradition.
Once this is done, do the same exercise for theology. Three lists with the first being dogmatic theological points of Calvary Chapel, the second is theological points with options and a third list is undefined theological points.
Remember the value of the exercise hinges on you writing down what you perceive to be Calvary Chapel's teaching and not your own personal opinion. It is as if you are writing your own "Calvary Chapel: As I See It."
Here is a google doc templates of what you might start with.
I found this exercise very insightful and I came away with a few observations.
First, the number of clearly defined traditions -- traditions that are believed and practiced by 100% of Calvary Chapels -- is pretty small. And it is very possible that my list is different from yours, which would make both of our lists smaller...
Second, the things I've written down in my first list (Defined Traditions) are not exclusive to Calvary Chapel. There are thousands of churches that have identical sets of traditions. It is my opinion that Calvary Chapel has set a good example in a number of these areas and others have followed suit.
But sometimes Calvary Chapel acts as an exclusive organization that cannot fellowship with other groups. The underlying premise behind that snobbery is that Calvary Chapel does church right... unlike everyone else.
Third, my longest list was the third one: undefined traditions. On that list I have things like the church's relationship with culture, the role of small groups in the life of the church, church discipline, discipleship and so on. If there are so many aspect of our ecclesiology undefined by tradition what does that mean for education and replication in the future?
Fourth, how are we going to handle the second list of items: traditions with options? What happens when a senior leader in Calvary Chapel tries to move an item off of that list and onto the first list; stating that there really are no options but one?
When leaders talk about "stay the course", "core values" "roots" "foundation" or "DNA" one has to wonder if their list is like yours. An actual definition of these things has been conspicuously absent. It is conveniently assumed that Calvary Chapel's defined traditions are numerous and defined. Neither are the case.
Oh, but you say "We have Calvary Distinctives." Sure, but does that book define our tradition. If it does, why is there an outcry for defining our tradition better and identifying our core values. The dirty little secret is that half of Calvary Chapel pastor's do not feel like the book defines boundaries where they wish there were boundaries. The other half of Calvary Chapel pastors wish it said less.
My challenge to the leaders who are championing a stay-the-course theme is this: write out clearly what you mean. Those definitions should not be an evolution of Calvary Chapel's historic practices and they must accurately represent a majority view. There is a difference between the decisions you make for your own church and the definition you want to give to a couple thousand churches.
That is not an easy task and it probably doesn't produce the desired result of exclusivity and eclesialogical uniqueness that the stay-the-course crowd so desperately wishes were true.
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LibHTTP API Reference – httplib_get_builtin_mime_type()
httplib_get_builtin_mime_type( file_name );
Parameter Type Description
file_name const char * The name of the file for which the MIME type has to be determined
Return Value
Type Description
const char * A text string describing the MIME type
The function httplib_get_builtin_mime_type() tries to determine the MIME type of a given file. If the MIME type cannot be determined, the value text/plain is returned. Please note that this function does not perform an intelligent check of the file contents. The MIME type is solely determined based on the file name extension. Because no actual file check is done, the function will also return a usable value if the physical file does not exist.
This function selects the MIME type from a static list of known MIME type which was created at compile time. It is possible to add or override values used as MIME type in the library at runtime, but these manual changes do not alter the builtin list and these user changed values will therefore not be returned by the httplib_get_builtin_mime_type() function.
The function uses an efficient binary search algorithm, but this has implications if you want to change the list in the source code. The list has to be sorted in the source file already, otherwise it may not return valid values available in the list. After the source code has changed it is best to run the testmime executable in the project directory which checks the integrity of the static MIME type list. This executable is updated automatically with every compile run of the library when make is invoked with the default Makefile provided with the project.
See Also
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Lincoln * Institute
Dr. Paul Kengor
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Kengor's Corner
Obama vs. the Bushes
by Paul Kengor
The Libya situation is complicated. I envy no president stuck with the task. Among the complexities, the most daunting unknown is what's behind the opposition. We would all like to see Moammar Gaddafi tossed to the ash-heap of history, but the rub is who, or what, would replace him. What a tragedy it would be if America intervened only to see Gaddafi replaced by an Ayatollah.
That said, it's disappointing to see liberals rally behind Obama in Libya in a way they refused under the Bushes in Iraq. I won't go through all the maddening double standards, but there are two that really struck me after President Obama's speech on Libya, and seem to mount by the minute, namely: coalition size and cost.
President Obama stressed that America has not "acted alone" in Libya, and is joined by a "broad coalition," a "strong and growing coalition." He named 11 countries: the United Kingdom, France, Canada, Denmark, Norway, Italy, Spain, Greece, Turkey, Qatar, and the United Arab Emirates.
Obama used the word "cost" several times. He assured us that "real leadership" meant working "with allies and partners so that they bear their share of the burden and pay their share of the costs." He gave no numbers.
Now, these were two areas–coalition and cost–where the American Left vilified both Bushes, especially George W. Bush, literally accusing him of acting "unilaterally" in Iraq in 2003. The accusations were outrageously, irresponsibly absurd. And yet, when comparing Obama to the Bushes here, Obama falls way short.
For the first Gulf War, George H. W. Bush assembled a multinational coalition that (depending on varying sources), ranged from 27-34 nations, with as high as one-third of troops stationed in the Persian Gulf by December 18, 1990 provided by U.S. allies. Also contributing were 11 Middle East Muslim nations–they alone equaled the total of President Obama's current coalition partners–and even members of the still-existing Soviet Warsaw Pact.
Yet, one aspect of the 2003 war that again far surpasses Obama's work in Libya is the coalition George W. Bush put together.
And yet, rather than commend the Bush team, Democratic Congressmen like Lloyd Doggett ridiculed the coalition. He sneered that "the posse announced today is mighty weak." It included "such military powerhouses as Eritrea and Estonia," two nations the administration considered a sign of the worldwide opposition to Saddam. The coalition, said Doggett, was "embarrassing" and signaled a "foreign policy failure."
The day after Powell announced the vast coalition, Thomas Friedman wrote in the New York Times: "We're riding into Baghdad pretty much alone and hoping to round up a posse after we get there."
The frustrated president said repeatedly that the coalition was multinational, but to critics it didn't matter.
Nonetheless, these are facts. In both cases, the Bush coalitions were far superior to President Obama's in Libya.
Frankly, that doesn't matter much to me. I supported President Reagan's unilateral run on Tripoli in April 1986. This multilateral thing isn't my standard.
And as I kept reminding my liberal friends when the Bushes were in charge: be careful about the standards you're demanding to demonize the Republican president, because someday your guys will be back in charge.
– Dr. Paul Kengor is professor of political science at Grove City College and executive director of The Center for Vision Values. His books include "The Crusader: Ronald Reagan and the Fall of Communism," "God and George W. Bush," and the newly released "Dupes: How America's Adversaries Have Manipulated Progressives for a Century." |
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Mobile-first – Cut content and keep usability
When your website has been designed to be displayed on a spacious PC monitor, what happens when its contents appear on a mobile device? Responsive design techniques can make the site work well on a handheld device, but the practicalities of reading what is on the screen and accessing menu items mean that, to put it bluntly, content has got to be cut.
How can you cut content and maintain the purpose of the site? Beyond condensing existing text into a more concise message, it is possible to relocate some text from one page to a new, different page. A more orderly approach to this issue, however, is to tackle it the other way round. Design the website principally for mobile usage – and then modify it for the PC desktop.
Known as ‘mobile-first’, this method of web design involves using only essential content for the initial design. Careful consideration needs to be given to sound and video, as mobile devices may be used anywhere from a crowded workplace to the middle of the countryside. Sound may not be heard, and the device’s 4G connection may be too feeble to make the most of any multimedia creation.
For anyone with reams of content to incorporate in their site, the difficulty will be in deciding what constitutes essential content. However, once a ‘sliding scale’ of content has been decided on, the web developer will use something called ‘progressive enhancement’ which grows the content and the functionality of the site automatically as the screen size, bandwidth and processing power increase.
Some features only work on mobiles and tablets, such as swiping and touch dialling. Similarly, desktops have their own special features, such as being able to hover over buttons. All this differing functionality is taken into account when using the progressive enhancement technique so that the content exploits the features of whichever device is being used to view the site.
A noticeable advantage of a mobile-first approach is the fresh-looking simplicity of the initial design, which then scales up to give a clear, compelling, content-rich version for the computer desktop.
In a world where the growth of handheld devices is increasing exponentially, and more and more people are browsing the internet using pocket-sized technology, mobile-first design provides user-friendly content that is perfectly in tune with the devices being used to view it.
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Frequently Asked Questions*
*or questions you might ask that I probably have the answer to.
1. What kind of book manuscripts do you edit?
I love young adult fiction, fantasy, and science fiction. I'm also a sucker for contemporary literature and romance fiction. If you have diverse characters -- POC, LGBTQ, etc. -- EVEN BETTER.
However, if you're looking for someone to edit your horror novel, cook book, poetry, or a psychological thriller, I'm probably not the right editor for you.
2. Why is your focus so specific?
Getting the attention of an agent or editor is hard work -- but it's especially hard work for stories with marginalized characters. I really want to help writers who have POC and queer characters, and unique storylines, deliver the strongest manuscript possible so that they can have the best chance with their query. Or, better yet, publishing their own work!
3. Do you do other types of editing (like for applications/etc.)
Sure. Let's talk.
4. Can I retain your services for a specific amount of time?
Sure! Maybe. It really depends on the scope of work, the consistency of the work, and what you ultimately want to get out of our working together. My service fees are based off of one-off projects from clients, but if, say, you want me to edit your next five books or essays or reports, or would like me to be generally available to edit your work over the course of 3, 6, or 12 months, we can talk about what works!
5. How do I know you won't steal my work?
I have a very specific writing style, as do you. My interest is only in helping you produce the highest quality writing possible, not in hawking it off as my own.
7. Can you guarantee that I'll get my book published?
No. I really can't; no one can. However, I can absolutely guarantee that not having an editor is going to make publishing 1000% harder. Putting your best foot forward with an agent and a potential publishing house means querying with your strongest possible work.
9. Do you edit poetry, short fiction, or personal essays/memoir?
I am not a big poetry person, so unfortunately, I'm probably not the best editor for you. Although I enjoy short stories, it's also not really my field of interest in terms of editing.
Memoirs and personal essays are a tricky beast in that sometimes I love them and sometimes they stress me out deeply. If you think you could benefit from my editing, reach out to me and I'll consider on a case-by-case basis.
9. Can I get a refund if I don't like your feedback?
Nay. There are absolutely no refunds. There's a lot of focus, time, and energy that goes into editing any project, just as there's a lot of focus, time, and energy that goes into the work you've produced. I can't get that energy back. We may not see eye-to-eye on my edits or feedback, but it will still nonetheless be valuable for you as a writer to have a professional review your work.
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Alan Woods interview: “The political centre is a fiction.”
On 17 October, a major Brazilian daily paper, Jornal de Comercio published a long interview with Alan Woods: a discussion ranging from Donald Trump, to Hugo Chávez, to Jeremy Corbyn and Trotsky's biography of Stalin. We republish the interview here in its entirety.
Special report by Carlos Villela
In the year that marks the centenary of the Russian Revolution, British political theorist, Alan Woods, visited Brazil and was in Porto Alegre to launch his translation of the new edition of the book Stalin. One of the architects of the revolution, Leon Trotsky, was working on this biography when he was assassinated by a Soviet agent in Mexico City in 1940.
As critical of the Russian dictator as was Trotsky, Woods sees Stalin as a “bureaucratic and totalitarian caricature" and “a monster who came to power over the dead bodies of the (Communist) Party leaders.” In this interview with Jornal do Comércio, Woods says he believes that the economic crisis of 2008 was directly responsible for popular revolt against the political system in several countries. The theoretician also commented on the crisis in Venezuela and the government of US President Donald Trump, who, in his view, "is the real ugly and crude face of capitalism, while the so-called centre is only capitalism with a mask."
Jornal do Comércio: The left was defeated in elections around the world last year, along with a revolt against the current political system. Does that explain the election of Donald Trump as president of the United States?
Alan Woods: My first observation is that the ruling class in the United States was not happy with Trump. They remain unhappy, and are trying to get rid of him. There are three reasons for this. If you look at the history of the USA over the last 100 years, it was based on two fundamental pillars: the Republicans and Democrats. Stability there depended on this balance. But, as my favorite American author Gore Vidal says: "our republic has one party, the Property Party, with two right wings."
Donald Trumo FlickrDonald Trump / Photo: Flickr
The interesting thing about these elections is that this system has completely broken down. Everyone thought Hillary Clinton would be the winner. All the press was against Donald Trump, and yet he won. They [the ruling class] like a politician they can control, and they cannot control Trump.
In this context it is very important to consider another politician, Bernie Sanders. When he introduced himself as a candidate for the Democratic Party, no one paid any attention, and yet this man talking about the need for a political revolution against the billionaire class got a lot of support from the people. And if the election had been between Bernie Sanders and Trump, Sanders might have won. What you see in the US is a rage against the system.
JC: As a billionaire, would not Trump be part of that system?
Woods: Trump is a multi-billionaire, but he talked a lot about the working-class. Paradoxically, Trump appealed specifically to the poorest groups. He is a demagogue. It was all a lie, but he talked about the closed factories and mines, and these people are desperate. This struck a chord with millions of Americans who were sick of this system. What Trump is, in fact, I would say, is the real crude and ugly face of capitalism. The so-called centre is capitalism with a mask.
JC: In your opinion, what are the causes of this political polarization?
Woods: In 2008, the so-called free-market economy, which was supposed to be our salvation, collapsed. And this happened because of the big banks. According to economists, the state should have no role in the economy, but in 2008 the banks rushed to the state to ask for money, and the state gave that money. And that is just why this capitalist economy still exists.
I might add that, 10 years later, we still have not got out of this crisis. All that was achieved was to turn a huge black hole in the finances of the big banks into a huge black hole in the public finances. And that's why you have the deficit. There is no money for houses, for the poor, for health and for education, but there is plenty of money for the banks. And there are constant attacks on the living standards of the poorest.
JC: Younger voters often do not identify themselves with the centre, tending more to the left or to the right. What is the reason for this?
Woods: It's because the political centre is a fiction. Society is increasingly divided between a small group of people who control the system and most people who are getting poorer and tend to rebel against the system. Capturing the centre ground was an idea of Tony Blair [former British Prime Minister from 1997 to 2007] to try to find an agreement between the parties, but this agreement is impossible, because they are completely antagonistic.
What we are seeing is the collapse of the centre. The guys who hold power are not happy about it. These groups were very happy because Emmanuel Macron, a centrist, won in France, but in fact 70 per cent of people did not bother to vote. In addition, the left-wing Jean-Luc Mélenchon is the most popular politician in France.
And just look at Britain, where the Conservative Party thought it was going to win the election by a large margin – the polls gave them a 20 percent advantage – but that did not happen. What happened was that the Labour Party, led by Jeremy Corbyn, remained the opposition, but reduced the difference drastically. It is very likely that Corbyn will win the next election.
JC: Why do so many people within the Labour Party, especially those linked to Tony Blair and Gordon Brown, dislike Corbyn?
Woods: It's not the case that people do not like Jeremy Corbyn. He is the most popular politician in Britain. Do you like rock? I do not. But there is a very popular rock festival [called] Glastonbury, in which more than 100,000 people participate. This summer, they invited a political figure to address the festival from the main stage, and this figure was Jeremy Corbyn.
Jeremy Corbyn Michael Eavis Glastonbury WikimediaJeremy Corbyn at Glastonbury / Photo: Wikimedia Commons
Is he unpopular within the party? Yes, but [only] within parliament. For the past two years they've been trying to get rid of Corbyn in every possible way, but they failed. In my view, the Parliamentary Party in does not represent the Labour Party. Since Corbyn was elected leader of the party, there has a been a huge stream of new members, especially younger people.
JC: You were close to former Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez. In your opinion, what led Venezuela to the present political crisis?
Woods: I was a very close friend of Chávez, and I supported the Bolivarian Revolution from the beginning. The problem there – and I have discussed it with Chávez many times and said it on Venezuelan television – is that you cannot make half a revolution. Either you liquidate the power of the oligarchy, or they will liquidate us. You cannot try to balance between the classes, because it leads to chaos.
JC: Was it out of fear or weakness?
Woods: I believe it's the result of reformist illusions. The problem with Chávez, and especially Nicolás Maduro, whom I also know, is that they did not do what was necessary. They did not expropriate land, the banks and the major industries. The idea of combining capitalism and socialism without eliminating the market economy is impossible in practice. This leads to chaos, and chaos is what leads to counterrevolution.
JC: Maduro lost a lot of support from the left after the protests and more than 40 deaths. Does this directly affect the Venezuelan governmental project?
Woods: The left is divided on this issue. I think those so-called leftists in Brazil and Argentina who support the opposition to Maduro should ask themselves: what is the alternative? If the Venezuelan revolution is defeated, it will be a blow to the left on a world scale. I do not understand why some foolish people cannot see this.
JC: Has China not succeeded in balancing communism and capitalism?
Woods: No, because China is actually a capitalist market country. Certainly there are some things, like the banks, that are managed by the state, which gives the Chinese state an advantage. That's why they managed to avoid the collapse in 2008. Despite this, I believe a Chinese collapse is imminent.
Alan Woods Chavez WikimediaWoods and Chavez / Photo: Wikimedia Commons
China produces a huge quantity of commodities, and they need to export within the context of the world market. If Europe and America are consuming less, then China cannot produce. The Chinese are in a very difficult situation because the world economy will not be able to absorb their exports. Donald Trump is already threatening China with a trade war, and capitalism cannot solve this problem.
JC: Another political crisis is currently taking place in the Middle East. It has led to a crisis of refugees and political instability in the region. How do you see power relations in the region, especially now that tensions between the United States and Russia are growing after investigations into alleged Russian interference in US elections?
Woods: The whole ghastly mess that we see in the Middle East has only one cause, which is the invasion of Iraq by the United States. Saddam Hussein was a dictator, a monster, but does anyone believe that what they have now is better than they had before?
The United States behaved very stupidly, they did nothing but destabilize the Middle East. They wiped out the Iraqi army, the only force that could fight the Islamic state. The people who are opposed to the Bashar Al-Assad regime are not “moderate Islamists”. There is no moderate opposition in Syria.
And it is interesting to note the limitations of American power. The most powerful country on the planet economically and militarily in reality has lost the war. Now Russia decides everything that happens in Syria, the United States does not determine anything, and they are the only ones to blame for this crisis.
Stalin IDOMStalin biography / Photo:
JC: You came to Brazil to present the book Stalin, which Trotsky was working on when he was killed. Does Stalin's image still scare people around the world?
Woods: I do not think so. Stalin is finished; he is a thing of the past. He was a monster who rose to power over the dead bodies of leaders of the Bolshevik Party. Stalin is completely discredited today.
At the beginning of the revolution, Russia was the most democratic country in history. But there were no resources and conditions to build socialism in Russia; this is why Lenin and Trotsky always based themselves on the idea of an international revolution. When the revolution was isolated in Russia, it began to slide backwards.
Stalin was a rather insignificant figure within the Bolshevik Party. And Trotsky was the one who led the resistance. After Lenin's death, Trotsky tried to preserve the original ideas of the Revolution, but Stalin came to power destroying the Bolshevik Party. Stalinism was a bureaucratic and totalitarian caricature of socialism, which is why it collapsed.
JC: Is there a possibility of a new Hitler or Mussolini, who does not necessarily commit the same atrocities, but who has the same rhetoric?
Woods: No, I do not think that's possible. And the reason this is not possible is because the correlation of class forces is different to what it was in the 1930s. At that time, teachers would never consider themselves part of the working-class, they would never strike. Students, before World War II, were upper-class kids, many of them fascists. Today, when there is a strike, students and teachers are the first to support. Fascism has lost much of its mass base.
JC: Can a revolution like the one led by Bolsheviks happen again? Are there any politicians today resembling Trotsky, for example?
Woods: It could happen yes, why not? People do not know it, but the Russian Revolution was a peaceful revolution. But I would not say it would be a single person like Trotsky. What we have is Trotsky's ideas, as well as the ideas of Lenin, Marx and Engels. These ideas, without a doubt, can serve the cause of revolution. I'm sure it will happen. Sooner or later it will happen in one country or another that country may even be Brazil!
Profile: Alan Woods is 72 years old and is a British Marxist political theorist. Born in Swansea, Wales, he is considered one of the main icons of world Trotskyism today. One of the founding leaders of the International Marxist Tendency (IMT), Woods played an activist role within the left-wing of the UK Labor Party until the 1990s, when he was expelled for ideological differences. A friend of Hugo Chávez, who died in 2013, Woods was seen as his political adviser when the former Venezuelan president spoke on a television network reading Reformism or Revolution, the most famous of his more than 20 books and pamphlets. In 2002, he helped found Hands Off Venezuela, a political support group for Chavismo and opposed to the US aggression against the country. He studied Russian and Philosophy at the University of Sussex in England, and then University of Sofia, Bulgaria and Moscow State University. Woods is married and has two daughters.
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Sir Isumbras
General Information
(N)IMEV: 1184
Form: 12-line tail-rhyme stanzas rhyming aabccbddbeeb
Date of Composition: Before 1320
Place of Composition: Northeast Midlands
Keywords: Animal, Bedchamber, Conversion, Disguise, Exile, Forest, Marriage, Military Combat, Mistaken Identity, Penance, Pilgrimage, Quest, Religious Spaces, Saracen, Secular Spaces, Supernatural, Tokens of Recognition, Travel
Plot Summary
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Sir Isumbras is a rich and courteous knight, with a beautiful wife and three sons, who has forgotten that he owes his good fortune to God. One day, a bird sent by Christ reminds him of his sin and offers him a choice between suffering in youth or old age. Isumbras repents, and promises to serve Christ while he is young and strong. He calmly accepts his fate as his horse dies, his hawks and hounds flee and his property burns down. He and his family leave the county and wander where Christ leads them, begging for food.
As they are crossing a river, Isumbras’ two eldest sons are carried away by a lion and a leopard. Isumbras urges his wife and youngest son to accept God’s will, and the three continue to the Greek sea, where they find the war ships of a Saracen king. Isumbras refuses to convert in return for food and rejects the king’s offer to purchase his wife. She is forcibly taken from him, and he is left, badly beaten, with a cloth full of gold. Before the ships sail the pair is granted a final meeting, where she gives him half of her ring and tells him to search for her.
Distraught, Isumbras continues on his way, until a griffin steals his gold and his youngest son is taken by a unicorn. Left alone, he submits himself to God’s will. He joins a community of ironsmiths and spends seven years carrying ore and learning to make armour. When he hears that the Saracens are waging war against a Christian ruler, Isumbras rides a work horse into battle and defeats them, killing their king.
The Christian king thanks the mysterious knight and takes him to a nunnery. As soon as his wounds are healed, however, Isumbras dresses as a pilgrim, and continues to wander. He sails to the Holy Land and spends seven years living in poverty until another angel informs him that his sins are forgiven. He then travels to the court of a charitable queen, but weeps instead of eating the feast that is laid before him. Full of pity, the queen gives him a room in her castle, where he regains his strength and beats her best knights in a tournament.
One day Isumbras finds a nest containing his cloth and gold, which he conceals under his bed. When the jealous Saracens discover it, they show it to the queen, who realises that it belonged to her husband. Isumbras tells his story and shows her his ring. She produces her half, and the couple are reunited. Isumbras is crowned and decrees the kingdom Christian, but his men desert him when he is attacked by the Saracens. As he and his wife prepare to fight, they are joined by three knights, riding on a leopard, a lion and a unicorn. The five of them defeat the Saracen host, and the knights reveal that they are Isumbras’ sons, sent back to him by God. The family rejoices, and conquers the lands of another three Saracen kings, crowning Isumbras’ sons and converting their inhabitants. When they die, their souls all go to heaven.
From: M. Mills, Six Middle English Romances London: J.M. Dent, 1992.
Manuscript: British Library, MS Cotton Caligula A.ii
Cambridge, Gonville and Caius College, MS 175 (folio: pp. 98–107)Early fifteenth century, Southeast Midlands. 780 lines.
Edinburgh, National Library of Scotland, MS Advocates 19.3.1 (folio: 48r–56v)1475-1500. 837 lines.
Lincoln Cathedral Library, MS 91 (Thornton Manuscript) (folio: 109r–114v)c. 1440, North Yorkshire. 794 lines.
London, British Library, MS Cotton Caligula A.ii (folio: 130r–134r)1446-60, Southeast Midlands. 798 lines.
London, Gray's Inn, MS 20 (folio: 228r-v)Mid-fourteenth century. 104 line fragment, containing lines c.216-308.
Naples, Biblioteca Nazionale, MS XIII.B.29 (folio: pp. 114-5)1457. A fragment containing the first 122 lines.
Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Ashmole 61 (folio: 9r–16r)Late fifteenth century, Northeast Midlands. 822 lines.
Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Douce 261 (folio: 1r–7v)1564. Transcript of an early print. 372 lines.
Oxford, University College, MS 142 (folio: 128r)Late fourteenth century, Southwest Sussex. A 17-line fragment containing the opening lines.
Early Editions
1525 (circa). London: John Skot. STC 14280.1. Fragment. 8 leaves. Boston, Harvard University.
1530 (circa). London: I. Treveris. STC 14280.2. Fragment. 1 leaf. Boston, Harvard University.
1530 (circa). London: William Copland. STC 14282. Fragment. 1 leaf. Oxford, Bodleian Library.
1530 (circa). 'The Hystory of Syr Isebras'. London: John Skot. STC (2nd ed.), 14280.5. [16]pp. London, Westminster Abbey; 4 leaves in Boston, Harvard University (bound with STC (2nd ed.), 14280.7)
1530 (circa). 'The Hystory of Syr Isebras'. London: P. Treveris. STC (2nd ed.), 14280.7. Fragments. 8 leaves. Boston, Harvard University (bound with STC (2nd ed.), 14280.5)
1530? or 1550? London: Wynkyn de Worde or W. Copland. STC (2nd ed.) 14281. 1 leaf. Oxford, Bodleian Library.
1565? 'History of the Valyent Knight Syr Isenbras'. London: William Copland. STC (2nd ed.) 14282. [30]pp. London, British Library.
Modern Editions
Charles M. Broh, ed., A Critical Edition of the Romance of Sir Isumbras (Ph.D. dissertation, Case Western Reserve University, 1969)Uses both MSS.
E. V. Utterson, ed., Select Pieces of Early Popular Poetry, 2 vols (London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1817)Uses Copland print as base text.
George Shuffelton, ed., Codex Ashmole 61: A Compilation of Popular Middle English Verse (Kalamazoo, Michigan: Medieval Institute Publications, 2008)Pp. 39-59. Edited from Ashmole 61.Available online at:
Gustav Schleich, ed., Sir Ysumbras, Palaestra 15 (Berlin: Mayer and Miller, 1901)Uses Gonville and Caius manuscript as base text.
Harriet Hudson, Four Middle English Romances (Kalamazoo, Michigan: Medieval Institute Publications, 1997; 2nd ed., 2006)Pp. 5-38. Uses Gonville and Caius manuscript as base text.Available online at:
J. O. Halliwell, ed., The Thornton Romances, Camden Society 30 (London: Printed for the Camden Society by J. B. Nichols and Sons, 1844)Pp. 88-120. Uses Thornton as base text.
Maldwyn Mills, ed., Six Middle English Romances (London: Dent, 1973)Pp. 125-147. Uses BL, MS Cotton Caligula A.ii as base text.
T. Wright and J. O. Halliwell. Reliquiae Antiquae, 2 vols (London: J. R. Smith, 1845)Uses the Naples MS.
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Xenon 2: Megablast is a vertically scrolling space shooter, in which you have to pass several levels, filled with waves of enemies, that all end with a level boss creature. Each group of enemies you destroy grants you a cash reward and every once in a while you enter Colin's Bargain Basement, where you can use this cash to purchase upgrades for your ship like better weapons, speed & health upgrades etc. Some upgrades can also be picked up during the levels.
The first part of the game has an organic feel to it, while the second part of the game features mechanical enemies. As there are some maze-like sections with dead-ends in the game, your spaceship scrolls backwards when you keep pressing the down key.
Xenon 2: Megablast Amiga Shops are at the end of levels but often at the middle of them as well.
Xenon 2: Megablast Amiga You will encounter many double ways in the game. If you happen to find a dead end, remember your spaceship can go back.
Xenon 2: Megablast Amiga The main menu.
Xenon 2: Megablast Amiga The C-marked bubbles add credits.
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Alternate Titles
• "Xenon II" -- Game Boy in-game copyright title
• "Xenon 2" -- Sega Master System media and in-game title
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The One for Amiga Games Jun, 1991 5 Stars5 Stars5 Stars5 Stars5 Stars 100
Zzap! Oct, 1989 97 out of 100 97
The Games Machine (UK) Oct, 1989 96 out of 100 96
Amiga Format Oct, 1989 93 out of 100 93
ACE (Advanced Computer Entertainment) Oct, 1989 910 out of 1000 91
Amiga Joker Nov, 1989 91 out of 100 91
Raze Aug, 1991 90 out of 100 90
Amiga Power Jul, 1991 82 out of 100 82
Power Play 1989 81 out of 100 81
Score Jul, 1995 8 out of 10 80
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DOS version
The DOS version of the game starts up with the in-game music turned off as default. The PC speaker version of the song, coupled with the sound effects of the game, would drive anyone to madness. While the game did support Adlib, the sound effects masked the Bomb the Bass tune playing in the background. The other versions of the game has music turned on as default.
SPOILER WARNING! Don’t read this item if you want to play through the game by yourself.
Xenon 2: Megablast is infamous for having one of the most disappointing ending sequences of all time. No artwork, no animation, no storyline, not even a congratulation -- after a strenuous battle with hundreds of enemies, you’re “rewarded” with the already well-known shop screen and a sarcastic comment. After that, a white dot. Then the main menu.
The theme tune is Megablast by Bomb the Bass. This was released in the UK ca. 1988 on the album Into the Dragon. It is a reworking of the theme from the John Carpenter movie Assault on Precinct 13.
The Amiga soundtrack is regarded as a much better soundtrack than the Atari ST version, thanks to its sampled nature instead of the weaker synth sound of the ST version. An obscure detail is the fact that Tim Simeon from Bomb the Bass used an Atari ST in the studio to produce the Megablast track.
More details can be found at or at
• Power Play
• Issue 01/1990 - Best Action Game in 1989
• Issue 01/1990 - Best Graphics in 1989
• ST Format
• Issue 01/1991 - Best shoot-'em-up in 1990
• Zzap!
Information also contributed by -Chris, ElectricMonk, Johnny "ThunderPeel2001" Walker and Macintrash
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• Abandonia (for DOS, Windows: downloadable releases; additional material)
• Atarimania (for Atari ST: database; downloadable releases; artwork; additional material)
• DJ Oldgames (for different platforms: downloadable releases; additional material )
• My Abandonware (for PC and Amiga: downloadable releases; online versions; additional material)
• Wikipedia (combined platform entry)
• (The Bitmap Brothers tribute page for this game)
• Xenon 2: Megablast (Bitmap Brothers' site for Xenon 2: Megablast.)
NGC 5194 (17615) added Xenon 2: Megablast (Amiga) on Mar 30, 2003
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Museums and the Web
Preserving Flickr and Other Sites of Interest to Museums
The digital turn, whether it be in photography, motion pictures, literature or other persuits, has forever changed the ways and means by which museums collect, interpret and dessiminate objects. Historically, museums have dealt primarily with objects that, in some way, are intuitiviely graspable from observation. Arrowheads are pointy, photographs are plainly seen, and writing read (with varying degrees of difficulty).
Digital information, on the other hand, is many times more difficult to intuitively grasp, and in many cases impossible to intuitively grasp. This has lead to a shifting approach in collection management: collect materials before they are scattered to the hard drives and floppy discs of history. With such a shift in approach, museums must become adept at preserving digital objects and ephemera in their original context, in many cases, a website. We examine one site of particular interest and complexity: Flickr.
The authors of this paper are very familiar with its subject. Aaron Straup Cope is a Flickr alumni, and Ryan Donahue is the Manager of Information Systems at George Eastman House, an early partner institution of the Flickr Commons. Through our own knowledge and consultation with museum professionals, we shall address:
• * Formulate a strategy for preservation that may be applied to other such sites of interest, integrating the foundational work of the OAIS model.
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One Man Web+Database Band at George Eastman House. Oversees Digital collections, Collections Management System, Digital Asset Management System and Website. Likes open linked data, mobile, social medias and Spinny Bars.
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It didn’t take Steve Pikiell long to fill the 2018 scholarship that opened when point guard Mac McClung de-committed from Rutgers basketball Friday.
Just over 48 hours, as a matter of fact.
Junior college power forward Shaq Carter tweeted his commitment Sunday, bringing the Scarlet Knights’ projected roll up to 13 for 2018-19. Here are three things to know about Carter, who will have two years of eligibility on the banks:
3 things to know about new Rutgers commit Shaq Carter, plus a glance at RU's roster for 2018-19 via @AsburyParkPress
-- Jerry Carino (@NJHoopsHaven) October 9, 2017
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article Study Abroad Students: Top Benefits of AP Exams
Study Abroad Students: Top Benefits of AP Exams
click this link here now In case you are a high school student in India and wish to study in a reputed university abroad, it might require you to be an International Board (IB) student. If you are not an IP student, you may, however, take Advanced Placement (AP) exams to gain eligibility for admission to that university.
site de rencontre b The primary objective of these exams is to make it possible for high school students to earn credits so as to stand out in their college applications. These exams are offered in 34 subjects including biology, mathematics, psychology, art and more.
rencontre jeunes femmes des pays de l'est By enrolling in AP classes and thereafter, writing AP exams, you may reap several benefits as given below:
1. Earn college credit
like it The most immediate advantage of taking AP exams is that it allows many students to meet their college degree requirements.
company website If you are looking at studying in a foreign university, you don’t only become eligible for admission to many universities but also expose yourself to international cultural and language experience.
2. Save Money on Tuition
pop over here You are generally given some sort of credits for the scores of three and higher you obtain in your AP exams. This credit goes towards college courses (introductory level) in the same subjects and gives you an option to graduate early from college making it possible for you to save a lot of money on your tuition and living expenses.
3. Strong Application Your good performance in AP exams is a direct indicator of your strong commitment towards education and your willingness to excel in academics. You are, therefore, likely to gain a competitive edge over other students. By showcasing your ability to handle a challenging curriculum, you are likely to impress the admission council with your academic profile and thus, brighten your chances of admission. Read Also: Study Abroad Applicants: How Many Colleges Should I Apply to?
4. Hone Your Academic Skills
Given that curriculum for AP exams is tougher than regular board exams, you tend to develop college-level academic skills by preparing for these exams. Those students who appear for AP exams usually have excellent problem solving and learning skills and make high performers in their university/ college.
5. Brighten Your Chances for Financial Aid
A majority of university and colleges consider your performance in AP exams when making a decision on granting a financial aid to students. Those students who take AP exams and perform well are likely to be considered for financial aid as against other students.
6. More Number of Choices and Flexibility in Your College/ University
By having AP credits, you generally get through with a number of basic classes that are there in the college/ university curriculum. This gives you an option to choose more electives and add second major or minor. Even more, you can focus on your major early than you would do otherwise.
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This illustration of slender lorises was used on the cover of one of O'Reilly's earliest animal books, sed & awk.
This illustration of slender lorises was used on the cover of one of O'Reilly's earliest animal books, sed & awk. (source: O'Reilly)
In the mid-1980s, O’Reilly (aka O’Reilly & Associates) was selling short books on Unix topics via mail order. These books, known as “Nutshell Handbooks,” were held together by staples, and had plain brown covers. Over time, Tim O'Reilly decided that he wanted to sell the books through brick-and-mortar bookstores, and hired a graphic designer to create new book covers. Those covers were used for the first two titles that were sold into bookstores, but Tim wasn’t satisfied with the design.
A neighbor of mine worked at O’Reilly as a technical writer and marketer. She showed me the covers they’d had designed, and wondered if I might have a better idea. At that point in my career, I was immersed in the VAX/VMS world of Digital Equipment Corporation as an executive producer of slides and video. I had heard of Unix, but I had a very hazy idea of what it was. I’d never met a Unix programmer or tried to edit a document using vi.
Figure 1. One of the original Nutshell Handbooks.
Even the terms associated with Unix—vi, sed and awk, uucp, lex, yacc, curses, to name just a few—were weird. They sounded to me like words that might come out of Dungeons and Dragons, a game that was popular with a geeky (mostly male) subculture.
Sometimes when designing, things come together effortlessly—everything falls into place as if it were inevitable. It just flows. As I looked for images for the book covers, I came across some odd-looking animal engravings from the 19th century. They seemed to be a good match for all those strange-sounding UNIX terms, and were esoteric enough that I figured they’d probably appeal to programmers. And, as I investigated the attributes of the real animals, I quickly discovered that there were intriguing correspondences between specific technologies and specific animals. That resonance grew and expanded as I learned more about both the technologies and the animals. I was so energized and inspired that I spent an entire weekend working on the covers without much sleep. At the end of the weekend, I gave several sketches to my neighbor to take into the office.
Some of the people at O'Reilly were taken aback: they thought the animals were weird, ugly, and a bit scary. But Tim got it immediately—he liked the quirkiness of the animals, thought it would help to make the books stand out from other publishers' offerings—and it just felt right. And so it began. We’ve published hundreds of Animal books since then, and the brand is well known worldwide.
A few things we’ve learned over time
Figure 2. Not a chimp.
Chimpanzees don’t have tails. I once misread the caption on an engraving and mistakenly identified a monkey as a chimp. We got an avalanche of mail from readers informing us that chimpanzees absolutely do not have tails (our readers are all over this stuff).
People will go to great lengths to avoid seeing certain animals. The husband of one reader complained about our use of a spider on—and in—Webmaster in a Nutshell. Spiders terrified his wife. He went through the entire book and put white tape over the graphic on the first page of every chapter so she wouldn't have to confront the spider. Another customer sent angry email telling us he'd never go to one of the pages on our website because it had a snake on it. It was our "How to Order" page. We replaced the snake with a rather pleasant-looking rabbit.
People especially like animals that have faces. The images we use on the Animal books are from the entire animal kingdom, from large land mammals like tigers and elephants to fish, birds, insects, and invertebrates. Over the years, we've learned that many of our customers and authors gravitate to animals with recognizable faces, especially when they're looking directly at the viewer.
Figure 3. Left to right: (Information Architecture) A perennial favorite: the "Polar Bear" book, with the world's friendliest-looking polar bear. (Designing for Sustainability) It's not just mammals and birds: the face of the jeweled lacerta lizard will also catch your eye. (R Packages) This New Zealand kaka is looking right at you.
There are some incredibly beautiful engravings of animals that most people have never seen before. We have a large collection of original 19th century engravings, and the images, by and large, are both surprising and wonderful.
Figure 4. Left to right: (WebSocket) An extraordinary engraving of a sea anemone. (BioBuilder) Behold the fantastic golf-tee medusa jellyfish. (Functional Thinking) A thick-tailed greater galago, also known as a bushbaby.
The animals are in trouble. Doing research on the animals as O’Reilly cover designer Karen Montgomery and I work with the engravings has made us hyper-aware of the plight of wild animals worldwide. Many of the animals that appear on our covers are critically endangered—the tarsier from Learning the vi & Vim Editors, the lorises from sed & awk, the Hawksbill turtle from Getting Started with CouchDB, the tiger from Running Mac OS X Tiger, and the African elephant on Hadoop: The Definitive Guide, just to name a few. When most of the engravings were created in the 19th century, these animals were plentiful. Today, between habitat destruction, hunting, poaching, human/animal conflicts, and the illegal wildlife trade, many species that were abundant 100 years ago are teetering on the brink of extinction.
We hope that by highlighting conservation projects large and small, from no-tech to high-tech, on the O'Reilly Animals website will not only raise awareness of what is already being done; perhaps it will also inspire smart, tech-savvy people like you to come up with new ways to save and protect the world's wild animals. For us, that's work that really matters.
Article image: This illustration of slender lorises was used on the cover of one of O'Reilly's earliest animal books, sed & awk. (source: O'Reilly).
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How to find near-duplicate files with Duometer?
06 Nov 2015 - by Paweł Mandera
This tutorial shows how to detect near-duplicates using duometer. I assume here that duometer is installed and can be called using the duometer command. You can check this page for more information about how to install duometer.
If you want to follow the examples from this tutorial you can download this file. In texts/, this archive contains a tiny corpus including excerpts from Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Caroll. Importantly, some of the excerpts are not entirely unique. One of them is repeated twice in the exactly same form, the copy of the second one contains only a part of the original text, and the copy of the third one has some phrases changed. Duometer will help us to identify these duplicate excerpts!
If you want to just identify duplicates in the folder without customizing any settings you can run:
duometer -i texts/ -o texts-duplicates.txt
After running this command you can examine text-dupicates.txt. It should contain three lines with tab-separated values similar to these:
texts/after-duplicate.txt texts/after.txt 1.0
texts/hedgehog.txt texts/hedgehog-part.txt 0.5238095238095238
texts/curioser-nearduplicate.txt texts/curioser.txt 0.7380952380952381
The first two columns list a pair of potentially duplicate files, and the third column shows a measure of similarity between the two files - the higher the value the more similar the files (where 0.0 is the minimum and 1.0 maximum similarity).
If you examine the pairs, you will see that after.txt and after-duplicate.txt have the exact same content, hedgehog-part.txt contains most of the text from hedgehog.txt, and curioser-nearduplicate.txt contains almost the same text as curioser.txt with a few differences: the word English was substituted with Persian, Christmas with Easter, and the order with stockings and shoes was changed.
By default duometer will list only pairs of documents for which similarity value is at least 0.2 but it is for you to decide what is the threshold for considering two files to be duplicates.
Alternative ways of specifying input
Alternatively, you can look for duplicates across two different directories. For illustration, you can create a second directory named texts-2/ and copy curioser-nearduplicate.txt to that directory giving it a new name, curioser-nearduplicate-2.txt.
You can now specify two input directories for duometer:
duometer -i texts -i texts-2 -o texts-texts-2-duplicates.txt
If you now look at texts-texts-2-duplicates.txt you will find two lines there: one listing curioser-nearduplicate-2.txt as an exact duplicate of curioser-nearduplicate.txt and the second one as a near-duplicate of curioser.txt.
The third way in which you can specify input for duometer is to list files which should be considered when looking for duplicate pairs. Path to each file should be put on a new line. For example, you can create a file list.txt like this:
and then run:
duometer -i list.txt -o list-duplicates.txt
Further information
This tutorial does not cover more advanced settings. Please run duometer --help for more options.
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Microsoft refines Azure management portal preview to give IT pros more control
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Microsoft has upgraded an IT management portal it’s developing for Azure that’s intended to calm the nerves of IT pros wary about moving on premises applications to the vendor’s cloud.
The navigation improvements are meant to simplify how users find Azure resources. For example, the “all resources” view will display a list of items such as web apps and virtual machines that customers own across all their subscriptions. The resources are sorted alphabetically and can be filtered by different criteria, although Microsoft acknowledges the list isn’t complete, an issue it’s working to fix.
The interface upgrades let users customize monitoring charts and make it easier to use keyboard shortcuts. If a tile can’t be rendered, there is now a feature for refreshing that individual tile without having to reload the entire portal.
The portal is only available as a preview, and the blog post didn’t offer any details on when it would be generally available. But Microsoft seems to have stepped up the development of the offering. It has been upgraded three times since the end January, and more improvements are on the way.
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About Photoversity
Photo by Rudy Lopez, rudylopezphoto.com
Photo by Rudy Lopez, rudylopezphoto.com
Photoversity is an independent publisher created by photographer and author Jeff Carlson.
Jeff has published dozens of popular instructional books with Peachpit Press and Take Control Books covering topics as varied as using the iPad as a photography companion, taking control of your digital photos, and editing digital videos (and even making the most out of various Palm handheld devices). He publishes articles and links to interesting content at jeffcarlson.com.
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Carol Dweck
Author of Mindset, Stanford University
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Carol Dweck is the Lewis and Virginia Eaton Professor of Psychology at Stanford University and author of Mindset: The New Psychology of Success. She graduated from Barnard College in 1967 and earned a Ph.D. from Yale University in 1972. She taught at Columbia University, Harvard University, and the University of Illinois before joining the Stanford faculty in 2004.
Dweck was honored at our 2017 National Youth Sports Awards Dinner and Benefit sponsored by Deloitte with our Ronald L. Jensen Award for Lifetime Achievement.
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My mom is in her periods. she is feeling pain after she goes for loo. Also she is having the urge to go for loo many times. What can be the possible reasons and any medicine for instant relief?
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Get her random blood sugar done. If she is diabetic urine freq is more or even in urinary tract infection. Get RBS and urine routine done and then u can get it treated from a local gyn
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Alternative products to Little Birdie
5 alternative and related products to Little Birdie
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We monitor a dozen of sources like Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Google+, Reddit, Product Hunt & Hacker News.
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Good for tracking mentions of brands.
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Skinnyr API - How To
Skinnyr is a weight-tracking website. You can update your weight regularly on the website, add the widget to your webpage or add the bookmarklet to your Firefox Toolbar – your weight-loss (or gain) is displayed in a Flash graph. The Skinnyr API allows access to 95% of SKinnyr's features, and allows application development.
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The 10 Richest Men In Asia – List of 10 Wealthiest Men In Asia
Below is the list of 10 richest man of 2017 in Asia. All the person on the list are based on Realtime list from Forbes. 10. Dilip Shanghvi, India, Net Worth: $10.7 billion Dilip Shanghvi spent his childhood in the small town of Amreli, the same place he was born on October 1955. He studied […]
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June 29, 2018
Junk-Food Havens: Vending Machines Don't Belong in the Workplace
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by Deborah A. Cohen
This commentary originally appeared in the opinion section of FoxNews.com.
In the middle of a nationwide obesity epidemic, a handy device dripping with temptation often lurks around the workplace corner—the vending machine.
America's vending machine industry earned $21.6 billion last year, according to Vending Watch magazine. There are 7 million vending machines in the U.S. and 100 million Americans use them each day (PDF), the National Automatic Merchandising Association reports. The machines mostly promote sugary beverages, candy, cookies and chips. In other words, foods that only increase the risk of obesity.
The easy availability of excess quantities of food in modern times is unique in all of history. Having evolved in an environment of scarcity, human beings have not been able to adapt to surplus and limit consumption. An important solution long recognized by successful dieters—but largely ignored at the societal level—is to reduce the easy access to unhealthy foods and sugary drinks. Overweight or obese people who want to lose weight also likely know they should forego these foods and drinks, since they contribute few nutrients needed for optimal health. But easy access to them makes eating healthy that much harder.
Given that about 70 percent of American adults are overweight or obese, vending machines could be one more place where employers can help Americans avoid junk, whether that means filling the machines with truly healthy options or eliminating them in the workplace altogether.
Cutting back on vending machines or replacing some of the snacks with healthier options may seem like a more attractive option for employers and employees, but the chances that halfway measures will succeed are slim. The scientific literature shows that in order to change ingrained habits, abrupt changes in context are needed. Just seeing tempting food can stimulate the desire to eat, even when people are not truly hungry. A changed environment will eliminate the cues that previously triggered unhealthy behaviors. People who eat three meals a day don't necessarily have to snack, since hunger pangs don't usually occur for at least three to five hours after a meal.
Humans are designed to eat more than they need, and our bodies turn the food into fat that can be used for energy later on. We are also naturally attracted to foods high in sugar, fat and salt. Even if we would prefer not to consume unhealthy foods, when we are stressed out or under pressure it is common to lose self-control and eat what we later wish we hadn't. A vending machine filled with poor dietary choices makes it all too easy to make a bad choice.
While there may be a trend toward stocking the machines with snacks marketed as “healthy,” these alternatives are often only slightly modified versions of unhealthy snacks. Both contain highly processed ingredients—the main difference is that the so-called healthy option has fewer calories or reduced saturated fat content than its unhealthy cousin. The only truly healthy snacks are fruits, vegetables, nuts and seeds—and few vending machines contain these products exclusively.
Vending machines may comprise only a fraction of the calories people consume, but removing them from the workplace could initiate a change in norms. Just putting unhealthy foods in the workplace sends a signal that these products are routine and acceptable everyday items for consumption. Their presence in the workplace is not benign.
But making vending machines vanish from the workplace is a tall order. Companies may be reluctant to lose the extra income gained from vending sales, while many workers will likely be disgruntled if they lose their afternoon access to a candy bar or chips. Ideally—and before a move is made—employers and employees should engage in a dialogue that helps each side understand how a vending machine-free workplace would be a win-win, however difficult the adjustment might be.
Decreasing the ubiquity and availability of low-nutrient junk food could go a long way toward addressing obesity in the U.S. One significant benefit could be a healthier workforce. Removal of the machines would not constitute a ban on junk food. Employees—many of whom struggle to control their caloric intake—would still have the option of bringing in whatever foods they want to consume. That could help make the decision to consume junk food more intentional and not the result of workplace conditions that can lead to making impulsive choices on automatic pilot.
Deborah A. Cohen is a senior natural scientist at the RAND Corporation, and the author of A Big Fat Crisis: The Hidden Influences Behind the Obesity Epidemic-and How We Can End It.
This commentary originally appeared on Fox News Channel on June 29, 2018. Commentary gives RAND researchers a platform to convey insights based on their professional expertise and often on their peer-reviewed research and analysis.
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Out of the frying pan and into more Orcs
Some people hate "Dune" because it's nothing like the novel, but venerate "The Shining" for the same reason. You can't please everyone when you adapt a book to film, so you're better off hoping you'll please anyone. Even if it's just a handful, it's those few who will be your fiercest defenders against the purists. So let's start with what Peter Jackson's "The Hobbit" isn't: If you read the book, it's not the book you read. It includes plot elements from "The Hobbit," details that weren't fleshed out in "The Lord of the Rings" movies, bits from the "LOTR" appendices, and stuff that was created for the sake of this new trilogy.
We all know why, too. As a standalone story, "The Hobbit" had enough material for just one movie: a Hobbit named Bilbo Baggins is recruited by the wizard Gandalf and 13 dwarves to reclaim the kingdom that was stolen from them by a dragon; along the way, the company fights dangerous trolls and orcs, while Bilbo finds a ring that makes him invisible; it all leads to a final conflict. The End.
That brevity won't do for such a lucrative franchise. And Hollywood economics dictates this must be a trilogy. Sporadic insertions of the Middle-Earth mythology were the only way to stretch the otherwise succinct saga over three films. Just the same, any film--whether it's adapted from a novel, comic book, TV series or video game--deserves to be reviewed as a separate entity, and on its own merits.
Whether or not you've read the novels, Peter Jackson's previous installments have set up Middle Earth in a lot of detail. By now most filmgoers know the different species that live there, they've met Gollum, and they're aware that in several years' time, a big bad evil is going to shake things up. Those seeing "The Hobbit" have the benefit of foresight that the novel didn't afford, and whether we like it or not, that necessarily changes how the story is going to be told. So even if the Sauron undercurrent didn't figure into the novel, it seems silly not to acknowledge it in this movie.
Thankfully, Jackson takes the task of materializing Middle Earth seriously. A Tolkien zealot himself, he understands the textures of this place and his treatment of the subject is sincere. Jackson's landscapes are almost an exact replica of what most of us imagined when reading the books. He knows there are fundamentalists out there, and he hopes they'll be just as pleased as the agnostics, which might explain why he spared us Tom Bombadil.
Jackson is especially deft at recreating the different Middle-Earth habitats. I enjoyed the prologue inside the opulent mountain-carved dwarf kingdom. We'd known that dwarves were a mining folk, but the lavish possibilities hadn't quite come across in previous films. There there's Rivendell, a majestic testament to the Elves' symbiotic harmony with nature. And those Hobbit-holes look so cozy, it's easy to understand why their dwellers don't thirst for adventure.
Martin Freeman's performance as the title character warrants some praise. He lends a light comic touch to a movie that relies heavily on slapstick humor and long-winded fighting sequences. In one scene, having just escaped an action-packed sojourn in an underground orc stronghold, the company is confronted by yet more orcs above-ground. "Out of the frying pan," says dwarf prince Thorin Oakenshield, like he was in my head.
That kind of clumsy pacing sometimes disrupts the experience of the movie. It exposes the writers' struggle to expand this wee little story to the desired nine hours. The back-to-back battles are a symptom. The round table between Gandalf, Galadriel, Saruman and Elrond is another; we get reacquainted with characters we grew to love in "LOTR," but the scene ultimately accomplishes nothing.
There are also things that are entirely Tolkien's fault. You have to wonder why the giant eagles that rescue the lot from the orcs dropped them off within eyeshot of their destination instead of throwing in a few extra wing-flaps. It's also not clear why the dwarves didn't just hire Gandalf to do the job, since he magics them out of every mess. (See the LOTR Project's hilarious "GandalfProblem-Solving" flowchart.)
"The Hobbit" feels unpolished compared to its "LOTR" precedent, but it's still good fun on familiar ground. The added back-stories give us a chance to hang out in Jackson's Middle-Earth a little longer. Me? I kinda like it there.
A note: Some might be wondering about the 3D and 48 frames per second. I have a lazy eye, so those effects are completely lost on me. I'm told by some that it's stupid good. I'm told by others that it's so real, it's distracting. I'm sure everyone's right.
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Big Plans for the Future
As the San Diego Zoo headed into its seventh decade, the country seemed eager to move on from social struggles and economic recession. A shift in attitude led to what some called the “me generation,” when Ronald Reagan was president, “yuppies” sought and achieved financial success, and bigger was definitely better. It was the era of the VCR, the music video, the generation that “wanted their MTV,” pop stars like Michael Jackson and Madonna, and blockbuster movies like E.T. and Raiders of the Lost Ark. At the Zoo, big things were happening as well. A tortoise named Diego returned home to help save his species; the Arabian oryx had recovered enough to be reintroduced to its native habitat; and the San Diego Zoo hosted two conferences on the breeding of endangered species and sustainability in zoos. Perhaps most exciting of all, the Zoo and the Wild Animal Park saw the first births and hatchings in any zoo of more than a dozen endangered species. The preservation and reproduction of endangered animals were now the concern of conservationists around the world, and it was clear that international efforts to save wildlife and wild lands, including cooperation between zoos and between nations, would be the key to long-term success. And the San Diego Zoo and the Wild Animal Park were in the position to become leaders in those efforts.
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What is love? Baby don't hurt me, don't hurt me, no more! If you are in love, hurt, or just bored, I got your back. Don't worry, these gems offer so much more than just cliché lines - and no high school stuff! That's right honey, grown-ups are talking.
I present to you, the biggest babies and their hilariously broken love stories. They may tragically fail at love, but they will not fail to put a smile on your face during your summertime sadness. The best part is, most of the characters are even more lost than you!
1. Lovesick (2014 - )
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Dylan, a hopeless romantic who tends to fall in love way too many times, finds out that he has an STD. So, he has to tell the bad news to his previous sexual partners. Just in case you don't know, that is what you have to do, people. Also, he has some cool friends and as he goes through this painful journey, we get to see his friends' struggles along with the evolution of their friendship through the years.
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Last time we were here, 97 percent of you knew medical marijuana advocates are threatening to sue the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, but only 47 percent knew about who would be at Qualtrics’ $1,400-per-ticket conference. Think you kept up with the news this week? Take our quiz to find out. A new quiz will post every Friday morning. You can find previous quizzes here. If you’re using The Salt Lake Tribune mobile app, click here.
For clarification and fact checking — but hopefully not cheating — purposes, you can find the stories referenced in each question here: Question 1, Question 2, Question 3, Question 4, Question 5, Question 6, Question 7, Question 8, Question 9, Question 10, Question 11, Question 12.
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Pie Chart
by Jisselle Galindo
what is a pie chart
Is a circular chart divided into sectors (Google) (wikipedia)
how do i read a pie chart?
• The segments may be color-coded, with a key beside the chart identifying what each color represents.
• The segments may be labeled, with wording placed directly on the relevant segment or connected to it by a line.
• Most pie charts also have a percentage assigned to each segment, identifying how much that segment makes up of the whole
• Pie charts are also a convenient way of comparing the relative sizes or quantities of various segments of the whole.
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what is sector on the pie chart
A pie chart (or a circle graph ) is a circular chart divided into sectors.
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Retox (so to speak) by trying Sombai Liqueur, a local spirit of rice wine infused with different flavors. There are 8 kinds, which range from the familiar coconut-pineapple blend to a complex galangal-tamarind flavor. It may look innocent, but it’s potent. While you can find it at bars around town (and at Sala Lodges), it’s worth a stop at Sombai Tasting Room, where you can taste the flavors for free…and maybe take a bottle home with you.
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Energy flashes in distant galaxies ‘could be alien spacecraft’
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Mysterious flashes of energy detected in distant galaxies may be evidence of super-advanced aliens powering interstellar spacecraft, theorists claim.
Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) are intense radio pulses that last no more than a millisecond. Since their discovery in 2007, fewer than two dozen have been detected by the world’s largest radio telescopes - and their origin remains unknown.
Astronomers know almost nothing about them other than that they appear to occur in very remote galaxies billions of light years away.
Now a team of highly respected scientists has put forward the serious suggestion that FRBs could be evidence of aliens at work.
They believe the bursts may be leaked energy from unimaginably powerful transmitters capable of sending giant light sail ships on voyages between stars.
Professor Avi Loeb said: “Fast radio bursts are exceedingly bright given their short duration and origin at great distances, and we haven’t identified a possible natural source with any confidence.
“An artificial origin is worth contemplating and checking.”
In a new study, Prof Loeb and colleague Dr Manasvi Lingham looked at the feasibility of building a radio transmitter powerful enough to be detectable across such immense distances.
They concluded that a solar-powered system would generate the required amount of energy if it used an area twice the size of Earth to capture the sun’s rays. Water-cooling on a colossal scale would be needed to prevent the underlying structure melting.
But the question remains, why go to the trouble of constructing such an instrument in the first place?
The most likely explanation is to drive interstellar light sails, the scientists argue. A light sail uses the tiny amount of pressure exerted by light to produce a small but continuous acceleration that over time allows a spacecraft to attain great speeds.
The energy levels responsible for FRBs would be enough to push a payload weighing a million tons - about 20 times the mass of the largest cruise ships on Earth.
“That’s big enough to carry living passengers across interstellar or even intergalactic distances,” said Prof Lingam.
The transmitter would need to focus its beam on the light sail continuously. But observers on Earth would only see a brief flash because the sail and its host planet, star and galaxy are all moving relative to us.
As a result, the beam sweeps across the sky and only points towards Earth for a split second.
The fact that FRBs have made repeat appearances that cannot be explained by cataclysmic natural events might provide clues about their artificial origin, said the researchers writing in the journal Astrophysical Journal Letters.
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Lexicon JamMan History
you to sync to the loop time of the system (not the other way around). Through the years products emerged that allowed people to loop "on the road" including the Lexicon PCM42, the EchoPlex and the Electro Harmonix Memory Man. These were and are, great products but still require the operator to sync to the box.
The real-time nature of the JamMan system, as it exists today, first appeared in a modified Lexicon PCM42 that I developed for a guy named Christian Rover several years ago. I had originally modified his PCM42 for 80 seconds of delay but he found that it wasn't terribly useful because of the synchronization problems. Christian and I worked out a user interface that allowed the size of an audio loop to be defined and modified in real time, I designed the hardware to implement it and the first real time looping system in the world was born.
Not too much happened with the concept for a couple of years until I told my friend and coworker Joe Waltz about the concept. Joe was extremely enthusiastic about the concept and suggested proposing it to Lexicon for a new product. We worked up an advanced feature set and wrote a formal proposal which we presented to Lexicon management. They liked the idea but didn't feel that they had the engineering resources available to develop it. Thanks, but no thanks.
Believing that I could sell the system in the form of a modification for the PCM42, I began working on a full blown version of the "MutMax" system as it had now become known. The new system included most of the stuff that Christian had asked for, but included some new and intriguing features including: (drum roll please) MIDI. By November of "92" I had a PCM42 transformed into a "MutMax" supporting multiple loops, generating MIDI clocks and taking commands via MIDI.
I brought the prototype system into work to show it to some of the people there including my boss. He was so impressed that he suggested that we show it to Ron Noonan, the CEO of Lexicon. Ron came down to check it out and was knocked out. He loved it. He asked me to organize a formal demonstration of the system for the engineering staff, the marketing staff and Lexicon management. The demonstration was an overwhelming success and plans were drawn up to implement the concept in a hardware platform similar to the Lexicon Alex product. The core of a development team was assembled and the project was launched. Nine months later "MutMax" (renamed "JamMan") was in full blown production and drawing rave reviews from anyone who touched it.
Unfortunately, due to sales below projections, Lexicon discontinued the product a few years later. Since then, the JamMan has become something of a cult item and are highly sought after around the world.
Like most great "inventions", the JamMan was really the work of a team: Joe Waltz, Steve DeFuria, Wayne Hall, Will Eggleston, me (Bob Sellon) and many others who shaped the concept into the JamMan. Much of the credit for general layout of the product user interface goes to Steve DeFuria who's influence cannot be understated. My main role was to keep the ideas evolving and not resting till it actually worked.
It should also be noted that the Lexicon PCM42 which got all this started, was the brain child of Gary Hall who had the forethought to design the capability for larger memory into the PCM42. Gary also designed the trigger circuits that were the forerunners to the looping functionality in the PCM42.
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Echocardiography is a diagnostic test that uses ultrasound waves to produce an image of the heart muscle and the heart's valves.
Echocardiography is used to diagnose certain cardiovascular diseases, and is one of the most widely used diagnostic tests for heart disease. Ultrasound waves that rebound or echo off the heart can show the size, shape, and movement of the heart's valves and chambers, as well as the flow of blood through the heart. Echocardiography may show abnormalities such as a poorly functioning heart valve or damage to the heart tissue from a heart attack. Echocardiography is especially useful for assessing disorders of the heart valves. It not only allows doctors to evaluate the heart valves, but can also detect abnormalities in the pattern of blood flow. For example, echocardiography can show the backward flow of blood through heart valves that are partially open (that should be fully closed). This backward flow of blood through a valve is known as regurgitation. By assessing the motion of the heart wall, echocardiography can help detect the presence, and assess the severity, of coronary artery disease, as well as help determine whether chest pain is related to heart disease. Additionally, echocardiography can help detect hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, in which the walls of the heart thicken in an attempt to compensate for heart muscle weakness.
Echocardiography is also used to evaluate heart murmurs (abnormal heart sounds), determine the causes of congestive heart failure, assess enlarged hearts or hearts with septal defects (holes between pumping chambers), and monitor the heart in patients with diseases that may affect heart function (e.g., lupus, lung diseases). The biggest advantage to echocardiography is that it is noninvasive (it does not involve breaking the skin or entering body cavities) and has no known risks or side effects. Echocardiography is often used in conjunction with other diagnostic tests for the heart such as electrocardiography .
Echocardiography is usually performed in the cardiology department at a hospital, but may also be performed in a cardiologist's office or an outpatient imaging center. Because the ultrasound scanners used to perform echocardiography are portable (handheld) or mobile, echocardiography can be performed in the hospital's emergency department or at the bedside of patients who cannot be transported to the cardiology department.
Echocardiography creates an image of the heart using ultra-high-frequency sound waves—sound waves that are too high in frequency to be heard by the human ear. The technique is very similar to ultrasound scanning commonly used to visualize the fetus during pregnancy.
An echocardiography examination generally lasts between 15–30 minutes. The patient lies bare-chested on an examination table. A special gel is spread over the chest to help the transducer make good contact and slide smoothly over the skin. The transducer, also called a probe, is a small handheld device at the end of a flexible cable. The transducer, essentially a modified microphone, is placed against the chest and directs ultrasound waves into the chest. Some of the waves get echoed (or reflected) back to the transducer. Since different tissues and blood reflect ultrasound waves differently, these sound waves can be translated into a meaningful image of the heart that can be displayed on a monitor or recorded on paper or tape. The patient does not feel the sound waves, and the entire procedure is painless.
Occasionally, variations of the echocardiography test are used. For example, Doppler echocardiography employs a special microphone that allows technicians to measure and analyze the direction and speed of blood flow through blood vessels and heart valves. This makes it especially useful for detecting and evaluating regurgitation through the heart valves. By assessing the speed of blood flow at different locations around an obstruction, it can also help to precisely locate the obstruction.
An exercise echocardiogram, or stress echo, is an echocardiogram performed during exercise, when the heart muscle must work harder to supply blood to the body. This allows doctors to detect heart problems that might not be evident when the body is at rest and needs less blood. For patients who are unable to exercise, certain drugs can be used to mimic the effects of exercise by dilating the blood vessels and making the heart beat faster.
During the examination the sonographer can take measurements and, using the ultrasound scanner's computer, make calculations, including measuring blood flow speed. Most ultrasound scanners are equipped with videotape recorders or digital imaging/archiving devices to record the real-time examination, and with medical image printers to print out hard copies of still images.
The patient removes any clothing and jewelry above the chest.
No special measures need to be taken following echocardiography.
There are no known complications associated with the use of echocardiography. There is a slight risk of having a heart attack during an exercise echocardiogram, due to the stress put on the heart during the test, mostly for patients with a history of heart attack or other risk factors.
Normal results
A normal echocardiogram shows a normal heart structure and the normal flow of blood through the heart chambers and heart valves. However, a normal echocardiogram does not rule out the possibility of heart disease.
An echocardiogram may show a number of abnormalities in the structure and function of the heart, including:
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Lee, Thomas H., and Charles A. Boucher. "Noninvasive Tests in Patients with Stable Coronary Artery Disease." New England Journal of Medicine 344, no. 24 (June 14, 2001): 1840–6.
American College of Cardiology. Heart House. 9111 Old Georgetown Road, Bethesda, MD 20814-1699. (800) 253-4636. .
American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine. 14750 Sweitzer Lane, Suite 100, Laurel, MD 20707-5906. (301) 498-4100. .
American Registry of Diagnostic Medical Sonographers. 600 Jefferson Plaza, Suite 360, Rockville, MD 20852-1150. (800) 541-9754. .
American Society of Echocardiography. 1500 Sunday Drive, Suite 102, Raleigh, NC 27607. (919) 787-5181. .
Barasch, Eddy. "Why Doctors Use Echocardiography." < card_3/> .
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tnx for the info... it helps me lot.. how much it cost for the procedure? and about the heart enlargement is it curable? thank you
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Get Sublist of a List in Java
In this post, we will see get how to get sublist of a list between two specified indexes.
1. Naive solution
Naive solution would be to add elements from the original list that are present between the specified indexes to the sublist.
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2. List.sublist()
We can also use sublist() method provided by the List interface that returns a “view” of the portion of the list between the specified indexes.
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2.1. java.lang.IndexOutOfBoundsException
The subList() method throws IndexOutOfBoundsException if starting or ending index is illegal. For instance,
• start < 0
• end > list.size()
• start > end
To avoid IndexOutOfBoundsException from happening, we can check if indexes are within proper bounds before passing to sublist() as shown below:
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2.2. ConcurrentModificationException
Since the list returned by list.subList() is backed by the list, any non-structural changes (that does not change the size of the list) in the sublist are reflected in the original list and vice-versa. If the backing list is structurally modified in any way, the behavior of the list is undefined and ConcurrentModificationException may be thrown.
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Exception in thread “main” java.util.ConcurrentModificationException
at java.util.ArrayList$SubList.checkForComodification(
at java.util.ArrayList$SubList.listIterator(
at java.util.AbstractList.listIterator(
at java.util.ArrayList$SubList.iterator(
at java.util.AbstractCollection.toString(
at java.lang.String.valueOf(
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The solution to this problem is to create a new List from the returned view by subList() as shown below:
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Desktop *nix and what $50 gets you
What are you really getting when you plunk down $50 per year for either Novell Linux Desktop or Sun's Java Desktop System? Hint: It's not about the operating system.
By David Berlind
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COMMENTARY — When news first surfaced that Novell would be releasing its Novell Linux Desktop (NLD, based on SuSE Linux) ahead of schedule, discussion threads and blogs were all agog (or is that "ablog"). As far as I can tell, there are two basic themes to most threads. First, what does NLD mean for Windows? Second, what does it mean to other Linux desktops? I plan to answer both questions.
But, let me start by saying that, although I'd like to, I have not tried Sun's Linux-based Java Desktop System (JDS), nor have I used NLD. If I were to lay my hands on a copy of JDS, my preference would be to try the Solaris version instead of the Unix version just to prove a point (more on that in a moment). Unfortunately, the Solaris-based version is only certified to run on Sun's own wickedly expensive AMD-based hardware that the company is not making available to reviewers. Chances are you'll have better luck if you're a customer who's serious about switching some large contingent of users to JDS. Even though it's a good idea to try JDS and NLD to get a feel for what they can do, you don't have to in order to arrive at the following conclusions.
When software delivers a specific utility, that utility or "layer of value" is often referred to as "the contract." Like a real contract, a software contract sets the expectations of the external entities that will interface with the software. Those entities can be other systems or software, or they can be humans. If software interacts primarily with other software to deliver its value, the contract is at the application programming interface level where software (applications or operating systems) can issue or receive instructions from other software. If software interacts with users, then the rubber meets the road at the user-interface level where users feed something in and get something out in whatever format they want it (think documents and communications like instant messaging).
In the case of desktop Linux, the contract is in the user interface (which includes the applications). After all, a lot of the attraction to desktop Linux is due to the fact that it does things out of the box that Windows does not. For example, there's no need to run out and buy a productivity suite or install an instant messaging client. Most distributions of desktop Linux include fairly robust software for each. This model is remarkably similar to that of PDAs. As with PocketPC or PalmOS-based devices, the targeted users of JDS, NLD, and whatever Red Hat comes up with next will mostly interact with the applications and not with the operating system, which in turn reduces the OS to a mostly embedded and, not coincidentally, rather trivial commodity status.
Need evidence?
Look at the contract layers of the offerings from Sun and Novell. For almost the exact same amount of money — $50 per year — they deliver almost exactly the same core contract: the Web (Mozilla), a productivity suite (StarOffice or OpenOffice), and e-mail and scheduling (Novell's Ximian Evolution) . What makes JDS interesting, and further drives home the embedded/commodity point, is that JDS delivers precisely the same contract for the same price on its version of Unix (Solaris) as well. This drives the Linux faithful crazy because it makes Sun look like it's vacillating on its Linux strategy — a myth that many perpetuate — when it's not. Has Linux taken its toll on Sun? Sure. But, on the desktop, Sun is simply delivering a contract for $50. Take your pick — Solaris or Linux. Although Sun hopes you'll be pleasantly surprised by the Solaris version, Sun really doesn't care which one you pick and the message is, neither should you. What makes these offerings both interesting and useful is definitely not the OS.
Keep in mind that we're talking about $50 here. If you're determined to split hairs over what $50 gets you, you will no doubt be able to unearth some differences beyond what JDS' StarOffice gets you over NLD's OpenOffice, particularly in how both companies make management of their desktop offerings possible.
Such hair-splitting aside, the theme that many seem to have more fun with is what Novell's introduction of NLD means to "those evil people in Redmond." Almost universally, the discussion is about how the NLD release is proof-positive that desktop Linux means business. But, let's be honest. In NLD's case, desktop Linux is merely the messenger. So, you'll have to excuse me, but I'm going to shoot the messenger. The question isn't about what desktop Linux will do to Windows. It's about what a $50-per-seat business productivity contract — which, in addition to JDS, Novell has helped to legitimize in introducing NLD — will do to Microsoft. Forget what's under the hood. If a solution delivers productivity reliably and securely, if it's manageable, if it costs less than $100 a seat (even on an annual subscription basis), and if Novell, Sun, and others (for example, IBM, which just launched a sub-$100 express version of its Lotus Workplace client productivity offering) end up in blood bath to prove who can do a better job delivering that contract and there's nuclear desktop fallout, then the majority of that fallout will be felt where there's something to lose and that's Redmond — particularly if Microsoft doesn't respond.
But those are a lot of “ifs.” Anybody who thinks that Microsoft is just going to lie down and die as a result of this revolution in what $50 gets you is dreaming. If Novell, Sun, or any other company can turn a profit off of a $50 soup-to-nuts desktop offering, there's no reason Microsoft can't do it, too. It's just that the result may not be Windows and Office as we know them in their entirety. For example, Microsoft already has plans to offer a $36 Windows XP Starter Kit in India and will be offering copies of Office to certain schools at $2.50 per copy.
Furthermore, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer is now talking about the idea of the $100 PC. So, clearly Ballmer and Microsoft are thinking about bringing down the cost of software, since a $100 PC that requires $300 worth of software is simply inconceivable. So, too, is the idea of buying a $2,815 computer that only requires $50 of software to make it work (which is what you get if you pay Sun $50 per year to run JDS/Solaris on an AMD box that you buy at retail on eBay).
Devotees of Linux will be the first ones to point out that the pressure to bring the cost of Windows PCs down to $100 is a direct result of Linux. But Ballmer disagrees and, right now, so do I. According to Ballmer, "There's no appreciable amount of Linux on client systems anywhere in the world.” This is absolutely true. Although there are some success stories for desktop Linux, such as with certain governments, these are very few and far between.
If the price of Windows and Office comes down, it won't be simply because of Linux. Nor will it be simply because impoverished Asians need it, as Ballmer is asserting. The price will come down because a handful of companies are redefining what $50 (or even less) gets you — whether it's Linux-based, Solaris-based, or even Internet-based like IBM's Workplace, or some other form of a utility computing-like, subscription-priced thin client (e.g.: Sun's recently announced Sun Ray initiative or whatever Google comes up with) that delivers on the basic requirements for most knowledge workers. It will be because, among all of these and other market forces, $50 is about what the market will bear.
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Reduce spoofed email from your domain with DMARC
SPF, DKIM, and DMARC make it difficult for spammers to send fake messages that appear to have been sent by your organization.
"Spoofed" spam is email that appears to be sent from a legitimate account, but wasn't. You certainly don't want your customers to receive spoofed email appearing to have been sent from your organization. Fortunately, you can reduce spoofing from your account with three settings: SPF, DKIM, and DMARC.
SPF, DKIM, and DMARC rely on DNS (domain name system) records, and each handles a slightly different task. An SPF (Sender Policy Framework) record indicates which mail servers are authorized to send email for a domain. A DKIM (DomainKeys Identified Mail) record adds a digital signature to emails your organization sends. A DMARC (Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting and Conformance) record defines how to handle mail: it tells mail servers what to do with email that fails SPF and DKIM tests.
SPF and DKIM records are validation signals. You might think of them as "rules" that enable other email servers to judge whether or not a received email is legitimate. As email arrives, the receiving mail server can use these records to validate that an email was sent by an authorized mail server (SPF). The receiving mail server can also validate that an email is properly digitally signed (DKIM).
A DMARC record provides "sentencing guidelines" to other email servers: it advises a mail server how to handle email that fails SPF and DKIM validation tests. DMARC considers a message "valid" if it passes ONE of these tests. DMARC provides three "sentencing" options for email that fails both tests:
• monitor (do nothing),
• quarantine (mark the email as spam), or
• reject (cancel the email).
Just as not all judges follow sentencing guidelines, not all mail servers will honor your DMARC record. However, many large email providers support DMARC, including Google, Microsoft, Yahoo!, AOL and Comcast. As of February 2013, the DMARC working group announced that "the DMARC standard now protects almost two-thirds of the world's 3.3 billion consumer mailboxes worldwide." DMARC is widely used, but not universally deployed.
Here are a few things to consider when enabling DMARC for your domain.
Set up SPF, DKIM, and DMARC for Google Apps
Note: To fully configure SPF, DKIM and DMARC for a Google Apps domain, you'll need administrative access to the domain's Google Apps admin account and domain name registrar. Remember that DNS changes may take several hours to be reflected across the Internet.
1. Create SPF and DKIM DNS records.
Configure SPF and DKIM for your domain by following the steps in my earlier post: "Send better email: SPF and DKIM for Google Apps". Essentially, you do two things:
a. Enable SPF by adding a TEXT record to your DNS settings:
v=spf1 ~all
b. Enable DKIM by generating a DKIM key within Google Apps, then adding a TEXT record with the generated key and value to your DNS settings. Once the DNS record has been added, return to Google Apps to validate that the DKIM key is present, then turn DKIM authentication on.
At your DNS host, create SPF and DKIM records
2. Create a DMARC DNS record.
Add a TEXT record to your DNS settings to provide "sentencing guidelines" for mail. The format for a basic DMARC record set to "monitor" is:
v=DMARC1; p=none;
(You may need to name the TEXT record either or _dmarc. See your DNS host's documentation, as DNS management interfaces vary.)
The v indicates DMARC version, p indicates the policy. The "p=none" indicates that we want to receive DMARC reports. The "rua=" indicates where aggregate reports should be sent, which is most likely your email address.
3. Receive DMARC reports.
Once your DMARC DNS record is active, you will receive DMARC reports from mail providers that support DMARC. Report details will be provided in an .XML file in compressed .ZIP format. Unzip the file, then view the contents. (Chrome OS tip: Chromebook users will see an error when trying to open an .XML format file. Rename the file from ".xml" to ".txt" to view the contents.)
DMARC reports offer a window into the sources of sent email from your domain
The DMARC report displays the source and domain header information for each email, along with results of SPF and DKIM validation tests. The source IP address helps identify the source of email: a great deal of email should appear to be sent from your location's IP address. Pay attention to records where either SPF or DKIM indicates a rejection or failure.
Excerpt of the information you'll see in a DMARC XML report
I recommend you create filters or rules to avoid flooding your inbox with DMARC notifications. I filter using the "from:" email address for AOL, Comcast, Google, Microsoft and Yahoo, setting the email to "skip the inbox" and apply the label "dmarc". See my sample Gmail filter settings.
Set up filters to move DMARC reports out of your inbox automatically
4. Ratchet up DMARC settings gradually.
We want to avoid rejecting valid email, such as that sent by a third-party provider. The larger the number of users, the more difficult it becomes to identify all of the valid third-party sources of email. Avoid rejecting legitimate email by gradually increase the "punishment" for invalid email over time: moving from "monitor" to "quarantine", then finally to "reject".
To "quarantine" email that fails both SPF and DKIM tests, use a DMARC record format of:
v=DMARC1; p=quarantine; pct=50;
Note that "pct=" represents the percentage. In this case, 50% of email that represents itself as being sent from your domain, but fails the DKIM and SPF checks, will be quarantined. Note that "quarantine" means the mail server will mark the message as spam, which makes the email likely to be caught in spam filters or folders.
To reject all email that fails both the SPF and DKIM tests, use:
v=DMARC1; p=reject;
(Google provides a suggested deployment cycle near the bottom of its "Create a DMARC record" support page.)
Eventually, you'll want to reject all email that doesn't pass DMARC
5. Approve additional other senders, as needed.
You may need to authorize additional email senders to ensure email delivery from third-party services, such as emailing services and web apps. For example, I use Freshbooks for invoicing. Freshbooks sends an email when I create an invoice. I have my DMARC record configured to reject email:
v=DMARC1; p=reject;
When I invoice a client from Freshbooks, the service send an email to my client. DMARC rejected the email, since the email claimed to be from, but was sent from Freshbooks: it failed both the SPF and DKIM validation tests. DMARC rejected the email and notified me.
Sample email notification of an email rejected due to DMARC
To authorize Freshbooks to send email representing itself as from my domain, I modified my SPF record to be:
v=spf1 ~all
With that change, email claiming to be from sent via Freshbooks or Google will pass the SPF test. Remember, email must pass either the SPF or DKIM test to pass the DMARC test.
Be sure to inform people when you configure DMARC to quarantine or reject email. Either stage may result in email "not going through" or being tagged as "spam", especially when using third-party services. If people are informed that you're deploying DMARC to help reduce spam, they'll be better prepared to "re-send" after you've made appropriate SPF DNS record changes. (Note that DMARC may be used as a way for IT to prevent unauthorized use of third party services that send email on the domain's behalf!)
Less Spam, please
SPF, DKIM, and DMARC don't solve all spam problems: spammers can still send email that people didn't ask for and don't want. But these tools do make it difficult for spammers to send fake messages that appear to have been sent by your organization. If you manage email for a domain, you owe it to the rest of us to use SPF, DKIM, and DMARC.
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Hardware Overview and System Performance
There are currently two configurations of the GT83VR 7RF available on Amazon:
• 16GB RAM, no SSD, 1TB HDD - $4,399
• 64GB RAM, two 512GB SSDs in RAID 0, 1TB HDD - $5,149
While you can shave a good $1,000 off the price by forgoing an SSD and more RAM, it wouldn’t make sense to spend over $4,000 on a laptop that doesn’t include fast storage. With such powerful hardware inside, you’d want to spend at least $400 on a fast M.2 PCIe NVMe SSD like the 512GB Samsung 960 Pro if you were opting for the base model. This would bring the GT83VR’s price up to $4,800 for a reasonable configuration.
My review unit was closer to the top-spec model, featuring 64GB of DDR4 and two 256GB SSDs in RAID 0 for a 512GB boot SSD. Were this model available through Amazon, it would cost approximately $5,000.
It’s worth mentioning there is an alternate configuration of the GT83VR with two GTX 1070s in SLI. This laptop is the GT83VR 7RE and costs $900 less than the 7RF.
All GT83VR models come with an Intel Core i7-7920HQ processor, which is Intel’s top-spec Kaby Lake CPU for laptops. It’s clocked 300 MHz higher than the more commonly used Core i7-7700HQ, for a base clock of 3.1 GHz and a single-core Turbo boost of 4.1 GHz. This processor isn’t technically unlocked like the i7-7820HK, but MSI allows you to overclock the 7920HQ anyway.
This laptop also includes two Nvidia GeForce GTX 1080s in SLI, each with 8 GB of GDDR5X memory. The GTX 1080 for notebooks is essentially the same GPU as found in desktop graphics cards, with 2560 CUDA cores and a rated boost clock of 1733 MHz.
Let's take a look at how the GT83VR performs in system benchmarks.
The use of a Core i7-7920HQ processor provides a small performance improvement over the Core i7-7700HQ used in most gaming laptops. In rendering workloads, there is a 10 percent performance advantage, while the average performance gain is around 13 percent. This falls in line with the jump in clock speed for the 7920HQ.
Overclocking the 7920HQ to 4.2 GHz on all four cores can provide an additional 13 percent more performance in multi-threaded workloads. I didn’t experience any issues pushing the 7920HQ to the limit in this laptop, so it’s well worth trying for yourself.
The two 256GB NVMe drives in RAID 0 in this laptop provided outstanding sequential performance and good random performance. You’ll want to squeeze as many games on the SSD as possible.
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Student Handbook: Student Code of Community Standards- Specific Student Community Standards
Category: Harassment Policies School: University of North Carolina – Asheville Statement Rating: Green Last updated: June 25, 2018
Relevant excerpt
Unlawful harassment includes conduct that creates a hostile environment by meeting the following criteria:
It is:
a. directed toward a particular person or persons:
b. based upon the person’s race, color, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender-identity, creed, disability or veteran status;
c. unwelcome;
d. severe or pervasive;
e. objectively offensive;
f. so unreasonably interferes with the target person’s employment, academic pursuits, or participation in University-sponsored activities as to effectively deny equal access to the University’s resources and opportunities
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Pop review: Bat For Lashes, Two Suns
4 / 5 stars 4 out of 5 stars.
"It's the Coronation Street of music," Little Boots said recently. "Who wants to sing about making a cup of tea?" 2009's hotly tipped female was talking about 2007's hotly-tipped female - Kate Nash. With contemporaries Jack Peñate, Lily Allen and Jamie T, Nash championed a sort of vérité songwriting popularised by the Streets. She sung about mouthwash, Pritt Stick and watching CSI. She baked cupcakes to give out at gigs. For her CD booklet she was photographed in her Marigolds, doing the washing-up.
That behaviour won't wash in 2009. Today's class have conspired to get pop out of the kitchen to somewhere more fantastical. Little Boots's show involves not cupcakes, but a fibreglass wolf. Florence and the Machine dresses up as Captain America, paints herself gold and sings about extracting someone's eye, then watching it "wither and die". La Roux's In for the Kill video has prompted the YouTube comment "Is it a boy or a girl?"; presumably the first time anyone's asked that since Top of the Pops in 1982. And lest you doubt Marina and the Diamonds as a card-carrying stage school eccentric, she starts one song actually yelling "Cuckoo! Cuckoo!".
Yet they all pale in the fanciful stakes next to Natasha Khan of Bat For Lashes. New for 2009 she's not: her first album Fur and Gold came out in 2006; accompanied by harpsichord and musical saw, her tales of wizards, bats and mystical horses created such a convincing world of exotic eccentricity, journalists announced "Khan has an ancient power, she is, in-part, shamanic", and asked, apparently seriously: "Are there any man-made things that inspire you?" Fur and Gold was nominated for two Brits and the Mercury prize, yet charted at an earthbound 48. Two Suns is set to make Khan, resident of the ancient shamanic city of Brighton, one of 2009's stars.
"There used to be something quirky about pop bands," she said recently, echoing Little Boots. "If I was a kid now, [I'd think] it's a bit samey."
Samey isn't for Khan. Her live show involves a pagan woodland set. One video has her sacrificing a Hoover filled with glitter, while a small child is eaten by an armchair. The artwork of Two Suns shows not just Khan but alter ego Pearl, "a hedonistic blonde", while "metaphysical ideas about the connectedness of existence" apparently inform the lyrics.
Ambitious stuff, and all Khan's work; Prince-like, she handles everything from songwriting to designing her website's T-shirts. More accessible and more expensive-sounding than Fur and Gold, this record's key player may not actually be Khan but producer David Kosten, who spent years making fantastically gloomy albums as Faultline - presumably motivated by a rum succession of events which saw him suffer a collapsed lung, get run over by armed robbers and attacked by burglars with coshes - and instils Two Suns with doleful cellos, rattling percussion, plucked violins and thrillingly loud electronics. Yet Khan also has a terrific voice; impressive in range and with an apparently limitless arsenal of ticks and tricks.
Charting the arc of a two-year relationship, love is the motif in Two Suns. "The dream of love is a two-hearted dream," implores Sleep Alone. "I'm a huntress for a husband lost at sea," suggests Moon and Moon, adding: "Where's my bear to lick me clean?". Peace of Mind, meanwhile, is a bare bones choral chant, sparingly assisted by a New York gospel choir. She does straight-out pop, too. The spirit of Dreams-era Stevie Nicks is summoned, no doubt shamanically, on Pearl's Dream and single Daniel. Scott Walker, Mr Idiosyncrasy himself, last seen punching a side of raw beef, duets majestically on deathly closer The Big Sleep: "It's curtains-down time!"
Khan is a fantastic package and a good, if not as maverick as some believe, songwriter. In a year when no one wants to sing about making a cup of tea, she's just the ticket.
Download: Glass; Sleep Alone; Moon and Moon
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Quora, the innovative site begun by former Facebook staffers, sees its popularity explode – and it looks set to get bigger
Quora screenshot
Quora allows people to ask questions and uses Twitter-style following to track the best contributors - and it is attracting Silicon Valley's finest
"What is Quora?" It's the sort of question that looks quite legitimate – and it's the sort of question you might find on one of the hottest sites on the internet right now, quora.com.
Quora is a simple question-and-answer site. Whatever your question, type it in the search box and, if there isn't already an answer there, users will pile in and attempt to answer it. Information is organised more like Wikipedia than Google, with answers prioritised by how useful they are, but the site uses Twitter-style following to track the best contributors.
Founded in 2009 by Charlie Cheever and Adam D'Angelo, Quora now has a large number of registered users: it might be 500,000, though the number has begun to explode since Christmas. In fact, the topic of how many users the site has is one of the questions the users are debating. (They're pretty confident, as of this week, that it's gone past 500,000. Quora itself is not saying, and didn't respond to an email asking that and other questions.)
Why is it suddenly so popular? Because people have noticed that it has a strong preponderance of Silicon Valley's finest among its users, and that influential people are also using it: Steve Case, the co-founder and former chief executive of AOL, is among those asking and answering questions – any question you like – on the site.
Cheever says that the site was built from his own need to have answers to questions: in an article published this week in Silicon Valley's Fast Company, he says: "I'd catch myself at every point in the day when I wanted to know something, and I tried to imagine what life would be like if that information was available."
One point that marks Quora out from most other question-and-answer sites, such as the longstanding Yahoo Answers, or WikiAnswers, is that users are expected to use their real names – often derived from Facebook or Twitter. The challenge, Cheever says, is to keep the quality high while growing the site into the mainstream. "Right now, most of the content on Quora is very good," Cheever told the San Jose Mercury News: "It's very thoughtful and well written. So as we keep growing, how do we maintain that quality? There's no one answer."
Cheever and D'Angelo are former Facebook staffers, which may have led to the intense technology emphasis of many of the early questions, which came from technology startups in their area. But their eminence also led to experts such as the Google Images product manager explaining how colour image searches work, or Twitter's staffers explaining the idea of "cost per follow", Case telling how much it cost AOL to blanket-mail CDs to sign people up in the 1990s, and the Facebook co-founder Dustin Moskovitz giving his view of The Social Network – the film based on the founding of, yes, Facebook.
There are wrinkles to be ironed out: Quora has not yet fallen victim to spammers, though as soon as it gains size and reputation they will certainly test it, which will either destroy it or make it much, much stronger. It has also had some notable downtime as it has struggled with its sudden surge in popularity.
Robert Scoble, a tech blogger, can share the blame for some of that. In late December, he asked if Quora was "the biggest blogging innovation in 10 years", comprehensively praising it for everything from live updating to search engine optimisation.
Even Google's head designer, Irene Au, waded in, saying how much she admired the site's design. "That's been a very successful design, not only visually, but also for interaction," she told the audience at a Zurb design and interaction talk on 27 December. "For a Q&A site, it didn't turn into a Yahoo Answers with spammy answers. There's a lot of really rich, high-quality content there. It's one of my favourite sites to visit on a daily basis now."
Despite the near-hysteria of the tech community, Quora's traffic is still too low to be picked up by the measurement firm comScore, which said Yahoo Answers remained the market-leading Q&A site, with 204 million unique visitors worldwide in November 2010.
Quora is also benefiting from the fact that its rivals have largely abandoned people-based question-and-answer systems: Yahoo Answers is nobody's first sensible port of call for getting a question answered, and others, such as Formspring, Mahalo and Ask.com don't have its Twitter-like 'follower' mechanism – which is undoubtedly part of what gives Quora its attraction: the idea that you might be electronically rubbing shoulders with someone who co-founded Facebook is irresistible to some parts of the technology business, including the press. Silicon Valley blog TechCrunch was criticised by a reader for making stories by "rehashing Quora posts".
Certainly there is some of the feel of the early Twitter about Quora: its simplicity and follower/following model is very reminiscent of Twitter, as is its attraction for technology buffs on the west coast. The problem now will be to build in size while keeping the spammers out – and the answers useful.
How to use Quora
Start asking a question by typing in the search box at the top right. You'll start seeing suggestions for questions that have already been asked (and possibly answered) begin to grow and change as your query continues. Want to know how making red wine differs from the process for white? Here you go.
Start finding people to 'follow' by using Facebook and Twitter connections.
Or, more simply, read the guide that Quora's staff have put up.
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