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Ingrown Toenails
What are ingrown nails?
Ingrown toenails is the most common treated condition in children and teens that podiatrists at AllCare Foot & Ankle treat. This problem is most commonly seen in the big toe, but with improper cutting can occur in small toes. The term "ingrown toenail" is often used to describe a number of problems that lead to pain and discomfort around the nails despite the fact that in many cases, the nail does not actually "grow" in to the skin around it.
What causes pain around the nails?
• Improper cutting. A True ingrown toenail (onychocryptosis) is where a small nail spike pierces the skin leading to pain and infection. This normally occurs at the tip of the nail along the sides when a spike in the nail is left from improper nail cutting techniques or trauma. Watch our video for proper cutting of nails.
• Tight fitting shoes. Poorly fiiting shoes restrict room for nail growth and can cause micro trauma which can lead to ingrown nails.
• Incurvated nails. Sometimes nail edges curve into the skin either due to trauma, changes in the bone under the nail or a congenital disorder.
• "Chubby toes". People with chubby toes will find the skin at the sides of the toe, is more likely to be traumatized or pierced by the nail as it grows.
• Arch height can lead abnormal propulsion when walking causing the weight of the body to "roll over the side of the big toe instead of propelling straight over the top. Due to repetitive compression on toes an ingrown nail can result.
• Poor skin hydration/dry skin around sides of the nail can lead to extra pressure and cause pain and even infection.
• Genetic. Sometimes the shape of the nails that we have inherited from our parents can put us at a higher risk of developing ingrown toenails such as wider nail plates, "chubby toes", or nails that curl around.
• Trauma. Either an acute injury near the nail or anything that causes the nail to be damaged repetitively (such as playing soccer) can also cause an ingrown nail. Common traumas include: once off occurrences such as dropping a brick on your toe; or continual micro trauma such as lots of little knocks from activities such as running, sports or wearing pointy toed shoes
Ingrown toe nail
Involuted Toe Nail
How are ingrown toenails treated
Ingrown toenails can be treated two ways. Conservatively with care from a podiatrist, a change of cutting techniques, salt water soaks, shower etc. When bad enough a nail surgery is the only option to get quick, lasting relief. Nail surgery can either be permanent or temporary depending on the situation or your preference and can be discussed with your New Jersey Podiatrist. When surgery is required we perform nail surgery in our office typically the same day to remove the side of the nail that digs in to remove the pressure from the area to allow it to heal. If you are concerned about what is done during this removal watch our video.
Treatment without surgery may include:
• Toenail Salt Water soaks will not cure ingrown toenails, they are often recommended as the first step for newly infected nails before antibiotics can be obtained. It is suggested to soak your foot in a salt water foot bath ( 1 tbs spoon of salt in a liter of luke warm) for 10 mins and follow by dressing with antibiotic liquid or ointment and a fabric bandage until you can be see by a podiatrist.
• Remove pressure from area. This can achieved by wearing less pointy shoes or using paddings to deflect pressure away from the area of pain such as toe spacers.
• Antibiotics. Antibiotics are important if your nail is infected. However, antibiotics rarely solve the problem alone. Whist the toe may often seem to improve while on the antibiotics, the infection often returns once the course is finished, especially if there is a nail spike piercing the flesh.
If ingrown toenails are a recurring problem, it is generally recommend that a podiatrist performs an in office procedure whereby the offending piece of nail is removed either on a permanent or temporary basis.
The most widely used procedure involves a simple nail wedge resection and matrixectomy with phenol. This is an "in office" procedure done under local anesthesia. After the ingrown nail is removed, the growth plate (matrix) is destroyed using the repeated application of phenol, a chemical designed to stop the nail growing back. After the local is applied, it is often a fairly pain free experience with most people reporting little to no pain after the procedure and being able to go back to work the next day.
Surgery Procedure
a) nail edge gently lifted
b) cutting of nail
c) removal of ingrown nail edge
d) application of phenol chemical
to stop nail growing back again
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TeamCity Add-in 2018.2 Help
Personal Build, Remote Run, Pre-tested Commit
When working with a centralized version control system, where feature branches are not a part of the workflow, you normally have two options:
• Build the solution and run tests locally before you commit your changes to the main branch. This way you can make sure that you will not introduce any problems to the repository, but you might spend significant time waiting until the build and tests are over.
• Commit your untested changes to the main branch of your repository and then run build and tests on your build server. This way you can continue working after the commit, but at the risk of breaking the repository.
With TeamCity Add-in, you have a third option - you can quickly create a personal build, which will only be visible to you and include your selected non-committed changes.
Then you can initiate a remote run on the TeamCity server - TeamCity Add-in will take a snapshot of the selected changes, send them to your TeamCity server and start your personal build and tests. Note that by doing this, you do not commit anything to your VCS, and you can continue working while your changes are built and tested remotely.
You can use the pre-tested commit option to automatically commit your changes only if your personal build succeeds.
To run a personal build on your TeamCity server
1. Choose ReSharper | TeamCity | Remote Run (Local Changes) in the main menu.
2. In the Local Changes window, choose the changes that you want to include into the remote build. If you do not see some of your changes, click Re-collect Local Changes ThemedIcon Refresh Screen Gray on the toolbar
3. Click Configure Personal Build ThemedIcon RemoteRun Screen Gray on the toolbar. This will open the Personal Build dialog.
TeamCity Add-in: personal build details
4. The dialog will display the build configurations whose sources were modified in the Visual Studio on your machine, as well as their snapshot-dependent build configurations. They are listed if the VCS settings of the TeamCity Add-in and the VCS root on the TeamCity server are the same, and the checkout paths are configured properly. Select the configurations that you want to run with your changes.
5. Optionally, you can customize each build configuration. To do so, right-click the desired configuration and choose Customize build or click the corresponding button ThemedIcon CustomizeBuildSet Screen Gray on the toolbar.
6. If your project's VCS is TFS or Perforce, you can configure additional VCS-specific settings on the corresponding tab.
7. Type a comment for your changes or select one of the previous comments from the Recent comments drop-down list.
8. If you want to automatically commit selected changes on a successful build, select Pre-tested Commit and then choose the condition of a successful build in the Commit if selector.
Note that TeamCity Add-in will commit the selected changes as they are at the moment of starting the personal build. Therefore, you can go on working on your project and be sure that untested changes will not be committed.
9. Click Run to start your personal build with specified parameters.
You can monitor execution of your personal builds in two ways:
• On the web interface of your TeamCity server, your personal builds are designated with the corresponding icons. E.g. in the illustration below, the failed build is a personal one.
Personal build in TeamCity web UI
• Select ReSharper | TeamCity | My Changes in the main menu and check states of your changes:
TeamCity Add-in: My Changes window
Similarly to the TeamCity web UI, changes corresponding to personal builds are designated with special icons. If necessary, you can click Hide non-personal ThemedIcon FilterShowPersonalOnly Screen Gray on the toolbar, so that only changes corresponding to personal builds are displayed in the list.
You can see a brief summary of each remote run underneath the corresponding change set, and click it to see more details. Information in this view is provided by your TeamCity server.
If necessary, you can view any of the changesets or build details in the web UI of your TeamCity server. To do so, select the desired item and click Open in Web ThemedIcon OpenInBrowser Screen Gray on the toolbar.
For more information, see Analyzing Server Changesets, Builds, and Tests.
Last modified: 21 August 2018
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How Camila Mendes Is Challenging Latina Stereotypes On Riverdale
Two years ago, Camila Mendes was a lot like most 22-year-old college students you know: studying for finals while trying to nail down a job after graduation. For Mendes, that job turned out to be the career-changing role of Veronica Lodge on Riverdale, the on-screen adaptation of the famous Archie Comics. Just 6 months after turning her tassel on the NYU stage, Mendes was already a household name.
Now, with almost 10 million followers on Instagram and Twitter, and the kind of beauty routine that garners a flood of DMs, it only makes sense that the young star would also finally land her first beauty gig as the newest face of John Frieda's "Your Hair Talks, Make a Statement" campaign.
We sat down with Mendes at the launch party in Miami to find out what really goes into playing Veronica Lodge, how she cares for her famous hair, and her biggest beauty regret yet.
Do you think Veronica has changed representation for Latinas on screen?
"I think the most important thing about Veronica being Latina is that the Lodges are a sophisticated, intelligent, powerful family. You rarely see Latinos associated with those qualities in the media. Usually, it's someone who is underprivileged or uneducated. Obviously there are different walks of life, but you need to show that range [on screen] to give justice to a community and represent them accurately. Latinas are known for being passionate and fierce energy, and I think Veronica has all those qualities. It makes sense for her to be Latina."
You had to dye your light brown hair for the role — has that changed your routine?
" My aesthetic was a little more bohemian [before the show]... this black hair is the opposite of that. There is something bold about it that makes me dress differently to match, or wear a little more makeup, or at least fill in my brows, on days I normally don't."
What's the dyeing process like?
"I dye my hair once a month. Every time I go into the salon, they add a tinted gloss so it shines blue in the light on camera. I always get a hydration treatment before and after they dye it. Still, I'm dealing with my texture changing a little bit and noticing how processed it feels. Before [ Riverdale], I'd never dyed my hair. I'd gotten an ombré once that turned out to be my biggest regret. Luckily, that wasn't even near my roots, so my hair has always been really naturally frizzy, but never fried."
Photo: Courtesy of the CW.
Will you change your hair after Riverdale wraps?
"I'm going to do something different with my hair just because I have the freedom to. Maybe some highlights or go back to a brown color. It'll be subtle, but obvious enough of a change that it will brighten up my look. I would even love to try a short haircut, like maybe to the shoulder or even shorter."
Have you ever had short hair before?
" They cut my hair really short for season one, so I had to fight to get longer hair. It was just so hard to maintain when I wasn't working because it would flip out at my shoulders. I felt like a '50s housewife, but maybe it was just the cut."
What's your hair routine like when you're not on set?
" On off-days, I try to let my hair go natural. I use the John Frieda Frizz Ease Serum. I tend to have dry skin and dry hair, so it's really important to have as much moisture as possible. Anything I can do to get rid of frizz and just make everything polished and smooth is the way to get my look for the day."
What's the one question fans always ask you about your beauty routine?
"People always ask about my eyebrows. I actually had a unibrow growing up, but now once every four or five months, I go to Anastasia Soare [of Anastasia Beverly Hills] to keep the shape clean."
Travel and accommodations were provided to the author by John Frieda for the purpose of writing this story.
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Krishi Vigyan Kendra, Haran, Budgam
Govt. KVK Spots
Contact Name: Krishi Vigyan Kendra, Haran, Budgam,
Mobile no.:: Not mentioned
Address: Krishi Vigyan Kendra, Haran Dist.- Budgam (Jammu and Kashmir)
State: Jammu and Kashmir
District: Badgam
Time of Visit: All the year
Atari Address- ICAR-ATARI Zone-I Ludhiana PAU Campus Ludhiana, Punjab
Host Institute Name- SKUAST Shrinagar
Pin Code- 191111
Website- http://www.kvkbudgam.com/
Preview- "Budgam is one of the youngest districts of the state, carved out as it was from the erstwhile District srinagar in 1979. Situated at an average height of 5,281 ft above sea level and at 750 E longitude and 340N latitude, the district was known as Deedmarbag in ancient times.The topography of the district is mixed with both mountainous and plain areas. The climate is one of the temperate type with the upper reaches receiving heavy snowfall in winter. The average annual rainfall of the district is 585mm.
While the southern and south-western parts are mostly hilly, the eastern and northern parts of the district are plain. The average height of the mountains is 1,610 m and the total area under forest cover is 477 km2. The soil is loose and mostly denuded Karewas dot the landscape.
Comparising one sub-division Khansahib; six tehsils Budgam, Beerwah, Chadoora, Khansahib, Khag and Chari-e-sharief, the district has been divided into eight blocks namely Budgam, Beerwah, Chadoora , Khansahib, Khag, B K Pora, Narbal and Nagam, which serve as prime units of economic development. Budgam has been sliced into 283 panchayats comprising 509 revenue villages."
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Kismet Wireless
Kismet Forums
Posted by:bungle
Subject:Problems starting server
Date:17:46:56 01/10/2006
> > Im running a laptop with intel centrino chipset, have set 'source=ipw2915,'ethX',Intel/Centrino ' in the .conf file. When i try to run the server an error occurs -
> > Source 0 (Intel/Centrino): Enabling monitor mode for ipw2915 source interface 'ethX' channel 6...
> > FATAL: GetIFFlags: interface 'ethX': No such device
> >
> > Anyone know where im going wrong?
> ethX doesn't exist. it will never exist. X is the generic designator for "your device number goes here".
> -m
Definatly a homer simpson moment. If i had stopped and thought about it for a moment the solution would of come to me. I always fall for the basic errors.
Many thanks anyway!
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Rice Meatball in the Oven
Rice meatballs with the known, traditional flavor but with a different way of cooking the classic recipe, that most know, and which gives them another texture and another flavor.
Minced meat, rice, aromatic herbs and lemon juice are the ingredients for delicious, baked, meatballs. The addition of lemon zest to the flour, with which we flour them is the magic material that will give them a special flavor and elevate their taste.
Proposal: do not skip, is more than a soup with meatballs, believe me!
work: 30′ time: 1h:20′ medium:
Ingredients (4 servings)
• 1kg (2.2 lbs) minced beef
• 150g (5.3 oz) rice carolina
• 80g (2.8 oz) olive oil
• 1 large onion
• 3 tbsp parsley
• 2 tbsp fresh mint
• 80g (2.8 oz) flour
• 2 lemons, juice
• salt, pepper, lemon zest
Rinse and drain the rice. Puree the onion, finely chop the parsley and mint. Place all the above ingredients in our front bench.
Take a large bowl, put the minced meat and the incredients you have prepared. The rice, onion, parsley and mint.
In a wide pan, next to the bowl, add the flour.
Knead the ingredients well in a bowl and add salt and pepper and 2-3 tablespoons olive oil. If the dough is stiff, add a little water.
In the bowl with the flour, add salt, pepper and the zest of one lemon. Mix.
Shape plump meatballs in oblong shape. Place them in the next pan with the flour and flour them little by little.
In a deep oven dish pour a little oil to go everywhere and in put in order the floured meatballs.
Caution when you sprinkle with the flour and before you put them in the pan, roll them between your palms to leave excess flour.
Continue to make meatballs until finishes the mixture of the meat.
From the edges of the pan carefully pour the remaining oil, lemon juice and a cup of water.
Bake in the oven at 180°C (356°F, Gas 4.2), with resistances up & down, 45'-50'.
Half time watching if they get a little color and turn on the other side, with 2 tablespoons.
Add some water, if needed, and complete the baking when golden brown and stay with plenty of the sauce.
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Continuing Integer Sequences
Monday, October 27th, 2014 | Author:
A classic class of "math problem" is the continuation of integer sequences from a finite sample (usually at the beginning). For example:
Continue 2,4,6,8,...
To which the solution is often supposed to be 10,12,14, and so on.
The problem, as any mathematician knows, is that there is not the one solution. In fact, given any set of finite numbers one could just talk about the sequence that starts like that and continues with zeroes only, that's a perfectly valid sequence. Of course, one should really figure out the rule behind the finitely many numbers, but there are always many possible choices. The game is not to find any sensible rule, but to find the rule the designer had in mind. It's more about testing your knowledge of culture than an honest test of mathematical ability (or anything else).
But there is a way to fix this.
If you look at the sequence above, you could continue with 12,14,16,18,22, and so on - the sequence of all even numbers which are not divisible by 10. This is a valid continuation, of course, and it even follows a sensible rule, just like the sequence of all even numbers. But there is a difference: one description is longer.
While you can always take a finite sequence of numbers and any infinite integer sequence, and craft the rule "the first few numbers are given by the finite sequence, then follows this infinite sequence", this will always be longer than the rule for the infinite sequence alone.
The technical concept that captures the length of descriptions appropriately is Kolmogorov complexity, relative to a description language. A description language can be formalized as a Turing machine M that takes descriptions D of integer sequences in some syntax (a list of letters and whitespace, for example) together with a natural number N, and spits out the integer $M(D,N) = a_N$ in the sequence $(a_n)_{n \in \mathbb{N}}$ which is described by D.
One may describe the computation of an integer sequence more or less efficiently, so it makes sense to define the (Kolmogorov) complexity of a sequence relative to a description language as the minimum length of a description in that language. Note that length of words is a natural number, hence the infimum length is always attained and the complexity is a natural number, too.
If we take some description language and bake a new one by requiring everything to start with the symbols "###" and then the same stuff as in the old language, then we have always longer descriptions in the new language. That's why we have to take the complexity relative to a description language. There may be other unexpected behaviour: if you have a single symbol just for the sequence of all even numbers, the description gets very short for this particular sequence (not necessarily for the others). One can compare description languages by looking at the length of the programs that compute the sequences from descriptions. Surely, in the program that interprets the single symbol for the sequence of all even numbers, the computation description for that sequence is hidden. Putting such comparison factors into the Kolmogorov complexity gives a more robust measure of the descriptive complexity. We don't need to go into more details here, as you might as well take as description language "Fortran programs" or "Haskell programs" and be happy with it.
The proposed fix to the problem of non-unique solutions to sequences consists now of modifying the question in two steps:
1) Given a finite sequence of integers, what is the shortest description of any rule that produces this sequence (and continues infinitely)? In other words: what is a description whose length attains the Kolmogorov complexity?
2) Since there might be several distinct rules with the same description length, the real question is: What is the minimal Kolmogorov complexity of an infinite sequence that starts with the prescribed values?
The reason why this "fixes" the problem, is the following: suppose someone has a rule for an infinite integer sequence and writes down a few of the first numbers. If you can come up with a rule that starts like that, but has a shorter description, you can say "oh, but if you wanted that more complicated sequence, you should have given more numbers to make it clear!". In some sense, this would mean that the problem was underspecified.
At least this is a much better complaint than just saying "I could continue any finite sequence however I like". And it's a very very hard problem, to find the Kolmogorov complexity explicitly. Even lower bounds are usually impossible. The complexity itself is not a computable number, so it is not possible (in general) to write a computer program to continue a finite sequence as I proposed. It's that hard.
A technical note at the end: Ordinarily, Kolmogorov complexity is defined for finite strings, which we apply to some encoding of a Turing machine that computes an infinite sequence. This excludes any non-computable infinite sequence, but that's sensible for the problem at hand.
Category: English, Mathematics
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Meet The 'Babes' Of Duke Nukem Forever
One of these jiggling, scantily clad laides may be the "babe" you'll be slapping on the keister in Duke Nukem Forever's "Capture The Babe" mode. So why not familiarise yourself with the various fetishes and archetypes of the game's fairer sex.
Yes, there are schoolgirls and strippers and even girls wearing cat ears. Yes, Duke will presumably have ample blowjobs bestowed upon him by the women of Duke Nukem Forever. Yes, someone is going to be offended (by design) by Gearbox Software and 3D Realms.
Even with the mosaic applied to dancer breasts in this "Babes" video, consider this look at the upcoming PS3, PC and Xbox 360 game NSFW.
look at those hot babes
Jesus, please make this come here without the pixelation
Nah, they won't pixelate it, they'll just replace the "naughty parts" with julia gillard's face....
Love the asterisk.
I swear this is what happens at Charlie Sheen's house.
there's a glory hole in this game.... just so you all know
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2. Buick Regal GS confirmed with 310 horsepower
Buick Regal GS confirmed with 310 horsepower
by Ronan Glon
This time, the leak comes from within Buick.
We're still a couple of weeks away from the Buick Regal GS' official unveiling. We're not supposed to know much about the sedan, but information leaked by the company's very own magazine has confirmed a few key technical details.
Spotted by GM Authority, the summer 2017 issue of B (the magazine Buick publishes for owners and enthusiasts) confirms the hot-rodded GS will arrive with about 310 horsepower under the hood. An earlier leak -- this time attributed to Buick's Canadian division -- confirmed the cavalry will be provided by a version of General Motors' 3.6-liter V6 engine. The six-cylinder will spin all four wheels via an automatic transmission.
The blurb in B also reveals the GS will receive continuously variable damping control and three driving modes named Sport, Touring, and GS, respectively.
Visually, the GS will stand out from the regular Regal Sportback thanks to a model-specific grille, unique wheels, and a more aggressive-looking body kit all around. Inside, Buick's next sports sedan will offer Jet Black upholstery.
On paper, the 2018 Regal GS sounds like the hottest Buick sedan in recent memory. However, we'll reserve our judgement until we see it in the metal. Stay tuned, an official unveiling is scheduled in the coming weeks.
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JMU Libraries Research Shortcut for Off Campus Access – Mac OSX
Want to do library research from off campus, but don’t want to fuss with changing your browser settings or using Pulse Secure? This shortcut will start Google Chrome in “Library Research Mode”, using the library proxy server.
Here’s How it Works
1. Be sure all Chrome browsers are closed.
2. Double-click on the “JMU Libraries Research” shortcut to start a new Chrome instance using the proxy.
3. To disable the proxy, close all active Chrome windows and restart Chrome using your normal method.
Setting up the JMU Libraries Research Shortcut
1. Download the shortcut installer and save it to your desktop.
2. Double-click on the file to unzip the application. You can copy the resulting to your Applications folder. You can also add it to your Dock for more convenient access.
3. Be sure that Chrome is completely closed (⌘+Q), then open the JMU Libraries Research application.
4. The first time you open the application, OSX will warn you that the application is from an unidentified developer. You will need to override the security settings for this app only in order to use it.
1. In the Finder, locate the file in your Applications folder. You must use Finder for this, not Launchpad.
2. Control-click the app icon, then choose Open from the shortcut menu.
3. Click Open. The app will be saved as an exception to your security settings, and you can open it in the future by double-clicking it just as you can any registered app.
5. To be sure that the browser is using the proxy, you can type chrome://net-internals/#proxy into the Chrome address bar. If the proxy is setup correctly, you should see something like the following.
6. The first time you attempt to access a library resource (including using Quick Search), you will be asked to sign in with your eID and password.
7. To disable the proxy, close Chrome completely (⌘+Q), then reopen the browser using your usual method.
1. Make sure that Chrome is installed to your Applications folder. The Chrome installer should do this by default. This shortcut will not work if it is installed anywhere else.
2. Please contact if you have questions or want to provide feedback.
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The Household Junk You Can Just Throw Out
Cleaning out your house is a monster job, physically and mentally. Every decision to toss something becomes a reckoning of your lifestyle. Even when you decide to get rid of a hat, a DVD or a vase, you have to decide whether to give it away, sell it or actually toss it. Today let's just focus on the easy decisions: The stuff you can actually throw away, recycle or (good for you!) compost.
Photo by US National Archives and Records Administration
Below, we've listed some things you can just throw out without any thought. We've tried not to include stuff you could donate or sell, or stuff with emotional attachment. This list also assumes that you have better alternatives, or could buy them right from your phone for under $100. If you can't afford to throw away your garbage, don't throw away your garbage.
Save this list on your calendar for a weekend that's relatively free. Put on a podcast, and burn through the list. We've ranked these from most to least foolproof, so when the list stops being helpful, you can just quit. If any item gives you pause, don't deal with it! Move onto an easy one, quick, while you still have the momentum! Go!
Dirty sponges, old toothbrushes, anything that gets gross and needs replacing, because they actually affect your health.
How To Keep Track Of Your Gross Household Sponges
The sponge is possibly the grossest thing in your house. I say this as someone who regularly comes home from holding a train pole and immediately eats finger food (it's builds character!), but still the sponge disgusts me. It is, by nature, a festering cesspool of germs, a wet thing used to clean dirty things that you let fester in the open while also sucking up all the bacteria in the air. The smell of a dirty sponge is one of the worst household odours, one that lingers on your fingers and leads to me obsessively washing my hands after every single sponge contact. It's like cat urine or black mildew - it's the smell of bad housekeeping.
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Plastic bags: They're super useful! They carry dog poop, they line the bathroom bin. Throw out half of them.
Cardboard boxes: Unless you're about to move, throw out every empty box that has dust on it. Break it down flat please.
Bad pens: You have a favourite kind of disposable pen, and you can afford 20 of them, and you can throw away all the others.
Papers: Every paper that's already digitised, or that outlived its usefulness. Receipts, cards, documents, manuals, monthly statements. Here's a guide to how long you need to keep your papers. Don't worry about scanning all your papers right now, or going paperless. Do that next week.
Bad food: Look at each item in your fridge. If it does not look tasty, throw it out. Crusty hot sauce, food you have never opened and never will, food your aunt foisted on you because she didn't have the fortitude to bin it herself. Let the guilt over your wastefulness remind you to make more careful purchases.
Stale food: Don't use up the old stale bread while the new fresh loaf sits there unused. Stick the stale bread in the freezer (sorry, we're wasteful but not that wasteful) and start the new loaf already. Compost your wilted greens, your iffy milk, your mealy fruit. Or eat it all, right now, in one big meal, now.
Cords: If you can't immediately identify what it connects to what, toss it. If you haven't used it in a year, toss it. If it only worked on your old phone, toss it. Better to sheepishly replace a tossed cord once every three years then to fill up a drawer with them all the time.
Orphaned pairs of things: Socks, earrings, gloves. Or at least get all the orphaned things out of sight so they don't mentally slow you down when you're getting dressed. Put them in a single shoebox that you didn't throw out when we told you to.
Same for bad towels, washcloths or linens. A cheap towel is better than a stained towel. It is honest, dignified, humble.
Branded crap: Now we're in "mental clutter" territory: Things that work just fine but make your home a little less pleasant. Fridge magnets, coffee mugs, T-shirts, and other stuff with the logo of a company you don't care about. I recently got a branded Band-Aid holder in the mail. How incredibly useless! If you have enough non-branded alternatives, throw the branded ones out. If you don't, throw the branded ones out and buy replacements.
Hangers: If you don't care whether your hangers are plastic or metal or wood, keep them all! If you secretly hate half of your hangers, replace them. You are required to do the Mommie Dearest scene. Ham it up. Explore the space.
Magazines: This will hurt so hard but it will feel so good. We once threw out four years of dog-eared New Yorkers and we flew about the house, freed, like a god. Do it now before you can regret no no no do not open the issue with the promising cover no!
Last year's gadget accessories: Cases and lenses and stands that don't fit your new model. We're treading into "donate it" territory, but even people with old phones want new cases. Don't insult them with your used stuff.
Default headphones: Keep a single pair of backup headphones. Toss the rest.
Chipped dishes: Some dishes come in a set, and you keep the cracked and chipped ones, because you are not curating the china in the White House. But if you have a wide and bounteous menagerie of coffee mugs, ditch the ones that are physically falling apart. Life's too short to drink from a chipped mug.
If that was easy, now throw out everything broken. If you're not willing to fix it right now, you will never fix it.
Anything you have a hundred of: All those things you have a lifetime supply of, which have a way of burying all the stuff you have one of. Paperclips, matchbooks, rubber bands. You might run out five years from now, and you'll buy more, and you'll be fine, and in the meantime you'll have that much more space in your junk drawer. This will feel wasteful but, as with the old cords, it's actually making free storage space for your real stuff.
The weird random gifts your parents get you from, like, Priceline: No one wants it. Vinnies doesn't even want it. The store didn't even want it, which is why your parents got it on clearance.
Now, if you have any energy left (wow, look at you!), you can try the real hard stuff, such as books you'll never read, and clothes that don't fit, and things your kids made. Or check out this long PopSugar list of other stuff you could toss. Or go work on your inbox.
Or just relax! You did such a good job! We're proud, jealous even! Invite someone over, show off your place, they will be impressed, and they will say they could never do such a good job. And you will disagree, only yesterday you were a lost soul like them, but they may transform as you did! "Now go and do likewise," you'll say, and they will, and blessings shall be poured upon you both.
Recycle your plastic bags, including other soft plastics and reusable bags at Coles. You can recycle these and keep them out of landfill and it goes towards being remade into useful things.
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Dealhacker: $5 Movie Week At Palace Cinemas
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From August 9 to August 15, Palace Cinemas is offering theatre-goers discount tickets. Forget $15 or even $10 — for those seven days, you'll be able to watch movies for $5 a pop.
The week-long deal is to celebrate the "upcoming launch" of Palace's Rewards Club.
Going from the offer page, it looks like you can cash in as many times as you want, as long as you have $5 to spare.
Note that there are a few caveats. The deal isn't valid at Kino or Palace Platinum and cinemas in WA and SA are excluded. Also, if you book online, you'll cop a $1.60 fee per ticket, so best to buy in person.
Otherwise, go ahead and get your fill!
Palace Cinemas $5 Movie Week [Palace Cinemas]
Eastern states only :(
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Lijiang Photos
A picture tells a thousand words. So let these Lijiang local snapshots take you on a journey to this amazing destination. These Lijiang photos will show you all the highlights and give you some handy ideas for your holiday. We also have illustrative videos of Lijiang to give you an even more vivid idea of beautiful Lijiang.
Around Lijiang
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Configure default view on Windows 10 File Explorer
If you’ve just upgraded your system to Windows 10, you will notice that default view on File Explorer (Windows Explorer) is different from Windows 7/8/8.1. When you open File Explorer on previous versions of Windows, you see your personal folder such as Desktop, Documents, Downloads, Music, Pictures, and Videos, including connected drives and mount network shares. But on Windows 10, it has Quick Access view which is a new default view on File Explorer which shows frequently accessed folders and recent files as in the screenshot below.
Windows 10 file explorer's quick access
You can switch to This PC view which is default view on Windows 7/8 if you think Quick Access is not for you. Follow the guide below to configure default view on Windows 10 File Explorer to This PC.
1. Open Folder Options.
1. Open File Explorer window and click View tab.
2. On View tab, click Options.
Open Folder Options on Windows 10
2. On Folder Options, select General tab. Find the drop-down option labeled as Open File Explorer to at top of the window and select This PC instead of Quick Access. And click OK to apply change.
Configure File Explorer view to 'This PC'
3. Then, open File Explorer again and it will show This PC view.
File Explorer on Windows 10
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On Wed, Mar 18, 2015 at 21:12:07 +0000, Bruno Medeiros via
Digitalmars-d-announce wrote:
> What kind of Eclipse projects does it generate? If it generates CDT
> projects, it's not really much help as CDT doesn't understand D (duh),
> and DDT doesn't work with CDT projects (also duh).
It should add DDT support[1] for D projects.
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object.d: module object cannot read file 'object.d'
The fix was to alter dmd.conf, thus:
DFLAGS=-I/usr/local/dmd/src/phobos -L-L/usr/local/dmd/lib
[EMAIL PROTECTED]/../src/phobos [EMAIL PROTECTED]/../lib
I'm running on Ubuntu Hardy Heron. dmd is installed in /usr/local/dmd, but the execution is via symbolic links in /usr/local/bin. My guess is that it's reading the compilation path via the links rather than the installation location.
Sorry I didn't file this via Bugzilla, but I'm on the wrong computer, and I don't have my account memorized.
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On Mon, Apr 18, 2016 at 11:56:55PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Noah Misch <[email protected]> writes:
> > On Mon, Apr 18, 2016 at 10:22:59PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> >> We could alternatively set extra_float_digits to its max value and hope
> >> that off-by-one-in-the-last-place values would get printed as something
> >> visibly different from the exact result. I'm not sure I want to trust
> >> that that works reliably; but maybe it would be worth printing the
> >> result both ways, just to provide additional info when there's a failure.
> > We'd have an independent problem if extra_float_digits=3 prints the same
> > digits for distinguishable float values, so I wouldn't mind relying on it
> > not
> > to do that. But can we expect the extra_float_digits=3 representation of
> > those particular values to be the same for every implementation?
> Hm? The expected answer is exact (30, 45, or whatever) in each case.
> If we get some residual low-order digits then it's a failure, so we don't
> need to worry about whether it's the same failure everywhere.
Does something forbid snprintf implementations from printing '45'::float8 as
45.0000000000000001 under extra_float_digits=3?
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Lowercase filter before the tokenizer?
Cheers -- Rick
On February 23, 2018 6:08:27 AM EST, "Dan ." <[email protected]> wrote:
>The StandardTokenizerFactory splits strings like 'JavaScript' into
>and 'Script', but then searches with 'javascript' do not match the
>Is there a solr way to prevent StandardTokenizer from splitting
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mattfast1 - the fast one
As authored by Matt
You mean this is actually updated?
Saturday, July 24th, 2004 12:00 AM MDT
Well, I figured that I should actually update this, since that is an activity I haven't done for about six weeks.
So much has happened since the last time I typed something into this inter-web page, I don't know where to begin. So, I'll just provide a quick summery:
On June 10, after I updated this last, my computer was confiscated. Not due to anything I did, just because I didn't (and still don't) have a job. The job market sucks, so as of now, I don't have a job. I'm hoping to score the opening for a Page at my local library, though. We'll see how that goes.
About a week and a half later, Bev, Lauren, and I went to see Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. For a Harry Potter movie, it was terrible. It gets almost as favorable a review as Cold Mountain received from me. I know someone's going to disagree with me, and those who do (and don't) can tell me about it in the Board of Smartness.
Yes, the Board of Smartness is back online. I didn't complete the process of setting it up at Tripod (UK), so I've just snuck it back on my mom's space and pray that she doesn't find it. I know she doesn't look at logs for her domains, so she won't see it there. This I know. This is the solution I have until the time I have the legal ability, the major billing method, and the money to get my own web space.
It's raining again. This Denver weather has been more and more like Seattle weather these past few weeks. This is supposed to be the hottest portion of the year.
I don't think there's much more to type about, since I'm down to typing about the weather. This will be updated again when I land a job or when I can steal my computer again.
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Return to the Selves Questionnaire page
Script Author: Katja Borchert, Ph.D. ( for Millisecond Software, LLC
Date: 01-14-2013
last updated: 01-22-2016 by K.Borchert ( for Millisecond Software LLC
Copyright © 01-22-2016 Millisecond Software
This script implements the Selves Questionnaire as described by Dr. E. T. Higgins:
Higgins Lab:
participants are asked to list 10 (default) attributes for actual, ideal, ought self
The default data stored in the data files are:
(1) Raw data file: 'SelvesQuestionnaire_raw*.iqdat' (a separate file for each participant)
build: Inquisit build
computer.platform: the platform the script was run on
date, time, subject, group: date and time script was run with the current subject/groupnumber
blockcode, blocknum: the name and number of the current block
trialcode, trialnum: the name and number of the currently recorded trial
(Note: not all trials that are run might record data; by default data is collected unless /recorddata = false is set for a particular trial/block)
stimulusitem: the presented stimuli in order of trial presentation
response: the participant's response
correct: the correctness of the response (1 = correct; 0 = incorrect)
latency: the response latency (in ms)
(2) Summary data file: 'SelvesQuestionnaire_summary*.iqdat' (a separate file for each participant)
script.startdate: date script was run
script.starttime: time script was started
script.subjectid: subject id number
script.groupid: group id number
script.elapsedtime: time it took to run script (in ms)
computer.platform: the platform the script was run on
/completed: 0 = script was not completed (prematurely aborted); 1 = script was completed (all conditions run)
* 3 blocks (block.ideal, block.actual, block.ought) by default are called randomly without replacement. To change this to
a sequential call, go to EXPERIMENT-> exp and change how the blocks are called.
Taken from Higgins Lab:
"In the following questionnaire, you will be asked to list the attributes of the type of
person you think you actually, ideally, and ought to be:
Actual self: Your beliefs concerning the attributes you think you actually possess.
Ideal self: Your beliefs concerning the attributes you would like ideally to possess; your
ultimate goals for yourself.
Ought self: Your beliefs concerning the attributes you believe you should or ought to
possess; your normative rules or prescriptions for yourself.
Each page of the questionnaire focuses on a different domain (i.e., actual, ideal, and
ought self-concepts are written about on three different pages).
Calculating Self-Discrepancy:
(a) Compare the attributes listed for the actual self-concept with those listed for the
ideal self-concept. Determine which attributes match (appear on the lists for both
actual self-concept and ideal self-concept), and which attributes mismatch (i.e., an
attribute on one self-concept list is the opposite or an antonym of an attribute on
another self-concept list). Synonyms and antonyms are operationally defined in
terms of Roget’s Thesaurus. Repeat the process for the actual self-concept list and
the ought self-concept list.
(b) Calculate the self-discrepancy score by subtracting the total number of actualideal
matches from the total number of actual-ideal mismatches. The same
calculation is used for the actual-ought self-discrepancy score."
check below for (relatively) easily editable parameters, stimuli, instructions etc.
Keep in mind that you can use this script as a template and therefore always "mess" with the entire code to further customize your experiment.
The parameters you can change are:
/numberofattributes: sets how many attributes participants are supposed to list (default: 10)
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Design Patterns
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Design Patterns by Mind Map: Design Patterns
1. Categories
1.1. Creational
1.2. Structural
1.3. Behavioral
2. Creational
2.1. Abstract Factory
2.1.1. Provide an interface for creating families of related or dependent objects without specifying their concrete classes.
2.2. Factory Method
2.3. Builder
2.3.1. Separate the construction of a complex object from its representation so that the same construction process can create different representations.
2.4. Lazy Initialization
2.5. Object Pool
2.5.1. used to manage the object caching
2.6. Prototype
2.6.1. Specify the kinds of objects to create using a prototypical instance, and create new objects by copying this prototype.
2.7. Singleton
2.7.1. Highlander One instance only
2.7.2. Borg Multiple instances sharing state
2.7.3. Multiton One instance per key
2.8. Utility
3. Structural
3.1. Adapter
3.1.1. Convert the interface of a class into another interface clients expect. Adapter lets classes work together that couldn't otherwise because of incompatible interfaces.
3.2. Bridge
3.2.1. Decouple an abstraction from its implementation so that the two can vary independently.
3.3. Composite
3.3.1. Compose objects into tree structures to represent whole-part hierarchies. Composite lets clients treat individual objects and compositions of objects uniformly.
3.4. Decorator
3.4.1. Attach additional responsibilities to an object dynamically. Decorators provide a flexible alternative to subclassing for extending functionality.
3.5. Facade
3.5.1. Provide a unified interface to a set of interfaces in a subsystem. Facade defines a higher-level interface that makes the subsystem easier to use. Simple Interface Hide complexity
3.6. Flyweight
3.6.1. Use sharing to support large numbers of fine-grained objects efficiently.
3.7. Proxy
3.7.1. Provide a surrogate or placeholder for another object to control access to it.
4. Behavioral
4.1. Chain Of Responsibility
4.2. Command
4.3. Interpreter
4.4. Iterator
4.4.1. Provide a way to access the elements of an aggregate object sequentially without exposing its underlying representation.
4.5. Mediator
4.6. Memento
4.6.1. Without violating encapsulation, capture and externalize an object's internal state so that the object can be returned to this state later.
4.7. Observer
4.8. State
4.9. Strategy
4.9.1. Define a family of algorithms, encapsulate each one, and make them interchangeable. Strategy lets the algorithm vary independently from the clients that use it.
4.10. Specification
4.11. Template Method
4.11.1. Define the skeleton of an algorithm in an operation, deferring some steps to client subclasses. Template Method lets subclasses redefine certain steps of an algorithm without changing the algorithm's structure. Concrete Methods Organizing Methods
4.12. Visitor
4.12.1. Represent an operation to be performed on the elements of an object structure. Visitor lets you define a new operation without changing the classes of the elements on which it operates. Single-Serving Visitor Hierarchical Visitor
4.13. Null Object
4.13.1. The intent of a Null Object is to encapsulate the absence of an object by providing a substitutable alternative that offers suitable default do nothing behavior.
4.14. Sentinel
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Princess Turned Knight
3. Chapter Two: Advice
Reyna was out studing wildlife with her tutor, lucky, for I wished to run up to her room and tell her everything. I threw myself down on my my bed, my purple and green comforter lifted up and settled around me. A few feathers floated around me as a snatched one of my goose down pillows and buried my face in it. "Tut tut Princess." My head flew up angrily.
"No more studies today Mistress Peprin!" I said mad that she thought I would continue my lessons.
"I'm not here for studies." She said coming and sitting on the side of my bed smoothing the comforter. "I'm here to help..." she hesitated. "...hopefully." I flopped my head back down. "I know you want the Prince rescued right?" She questioned and I nodded. "And there are no knights to do this?" I shook my head.
"They are all to afraid!" I said into the pillow.
"So what would you be willing to risk?" She pushed. I thought about this one. What would I be willing to risk? What did she mean? What could I possibly do? I didn't know how to fight, for women shouldn't fight, I didn't know enough Elvin to get elves to aid me if I were to venture into Devils Fire Woods to try to help Daniel, and I had never gone into the woods, I wouldn't be able to find the dragons!
"Anything, but theres nothing I can do!" I said sitting up and hanging my head.
"Or is there Princess?" She said looking at me. "I think that if you want to save him bad enough you will find away." She stood up and looked at me.
"But all I have is my bow!" I was good at archery and said to be the best because of my magic quiver of arrows. My quiver always refilled it self when it was empty.
"Use it." She said and walked out.
I sat and though about what she had said for a while before rising up and going to my chest at the foot of my bed. I pulled out my bow and arrows, which were wrapped in the cloth that kept their magic. I layed them down on my bed and stared at them for a moment befor walking back to my truck and beagain to pack a bag. I packed my bow and arrow first not forgetting the magic cloth, then a change of clothing. After I had the clothing and wepons organized in the bag I went downstairs to get food from the kitchens and a supply of water.
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Salary Data for Cambridge's University of Massachusetts, Boston in 20
Andy Guess filed this request with the University of Massachusetts of Massachusetts.
From: Andy Guess
To Whom It May Concern:
A copy of the University of Massachusetts, Boston annual salaries, including benefits, by position, for the year 2009. We do not require names attached to the salary information, but just the titles.
I agree to pay reasonable search and duplication fees for the processing of this request in an amount not to exceed $5.
In the event that fees do exceed $5, I would be grateful if you would inform me of the total charges in advance of fulfilling my request. I would prefer the request filled electronically, via e-mail attachment or CD-ROM.
Andy Guess
Filed via
185 Beacon St. #3
Somerville, MA 02143
Daytime: (857) 488- 3081
From: University of Massachusetts Boston
Hi Mr. Guess –
Attached please find the information you requested.
A request for additional years would take a lot more work. I’ll be happy to get a cost estimate for you if you’d like. Just let me know.
Best regards,
DeWayne Lehman
Director of Communications
University of Massachusetts Boston
100 Morrissey Blvd., Boston, MA 02125
617 287-5302 (o)
617 291-7258 (c)
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Build Your Own Wooden Slat Shoe Shelf
Published On May 17, 2018 | By Bangzenk | Shelves
Shoe shelf – A wooden slat shoe shelf looks like a warehouse pallet. The stand uses spaces between the slats of wood to keep shoes by supporting them between the toe of the shoe and its laces. A shoe shelf as this works fine in closets or entrances. This design is easy to construct and use cheap and basic materials. In about 30 minutes you can be to organize your shoes on your newly installed slat shoe shelf.
Build your own wooden slat shoe shelf, Drill two 3/8-inch holes that are 2 inches deep into each of your 36-inch boards. There should be a hole 6 inches from each end of both boards. Screw the 36-inch boards to the wall where you prefer to hang your shoe shelf, using a screw gun and 4-inch screws. Position the boards vertically and parallel to each other, to place them 20 inches apart with 3/8 inch holes visible and perpendicular to the wall.
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Build your own wooden slat shoe shelf, Screw a 27-inch board horizontal to the 36-inch boards so the 27-inch edge is flush with the upper ends of both 36-inch boards. Make sure the ends of the 27-inch boards are flush with the sides of the 36-inch boards. Screw another 27-inch board, so that it is parallel to the first and 2 inches below it. Repeat this process until you can use the rest of the 27-inch boards, by means of two 2-inch screws for each board.
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Episode 8: Yes, and...I want the drugs w/Morgan Grace Jarrett
Morgan Grace Jarrett is an Actress and Improviser at Upright Citizen’s Brigade Theatre. Her credits include, Broad City, Late Night with Seth Meyers, The Affair and The Chris Gethard Show. She lives in New York City with her husband, son and Vitamix.
On this episode we go all up in new mommyhood with my first teacher at UCB. From a crazytown birth, to forgetting almost everything, and finally ending up in heaven with the cutest 9 month old around.
Instagram: @MsMorgan
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Do You Know What is USB Type C and Its Main 5 Features?
The trend of USB Type C has increased for some time. Many manufacturers like Google, Microsoft, Mi is now adding USB Type C port in their gadgets. Although the introduction of USB Type C is still new in the smartphone, it is being used for laptops, computers, and tablets for a very long time. From OnePlus to SanDisk has launched their products for USB type C.
USB Type C Cable
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In the coming days, most of the smartphones will start using USB Type C. Type C is also fast and durable with other USB.
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What is USB Type C?
This kind of cable support gives the device the option of multiple connectivities. It is also equipped with the fastest technique to transfer data.
How to use USB Type C in Smartphones?
You have a phone with a Micro USB port, and if you want to use Type C, you have to take a small connector.
By using USB Type C get rid of multiple ports:
The most important feature of the USB Type Port is that you do not need multiple ports for smartphones. This is because music can also be heard from the port which you use to charge your mobile. Just for this, you need to have a USB Type Port C Headphone.
Speed of Data Transfer Get Double:
Type C USB is work in new version 3.1. The old version of USB was 3.0. This version transfers data at a maximum speed of 5 GBPS. Type C supports USB 3.1. This version moves data from 10 GBps speed. For fast data transfer, you can choose a smartphone with a Type C port.
USB Type C is Very Easy to Use:
In ordinary USB you can connect it from one end to the phone and from the other end of the computer. But this does not happen in the USB Type C You can use it from any end. One advantage of this charger is that the same charger can be used for laptops, tablets, and phones.
Size is Less:
USB Type C is smaller and slim than the older USB. Its width is 8.4mm and height is 2.6mm.
Fast Charging:
The phone or tablet battery from USB Type C also charges quickly where the old cable can supply power up to 5 volts. The same, the USB Type C port is capable of supplying up to 20 volts. You can also charge other phones from the USB Type C port.
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“Game of Thrones”: The Door
Last night’s powerfully sad episode of “Game of Thrones,” “The Door,” might have put you in a melancholy mood today. Ice, tree roots, the cawing of a raven, the door: thoughts of them linger, like a sad dream that haunts us all. (Most of us, anyway. Some who walk among us don’t know or care. Fools!) There was a kind of reckoning between the human world and the C.G.I. one; there was a tragedy that let us in on a deeper tragedy we’d been witnessing for years without knowing it; and there was, throughout, something we don’t see enough of: people standing up for each other. While Cersei and Jaime & Company were cooking up trouble offscreen, we didn’t see them, or, happily, the High Sparrow, the charred remains of the Dothraki warlord hut, or wild-eyed Ramsay and his quill or apple peeler.
As the episode begins, Sansa, adorably sewing some new fur-trimmed wolf-themed pro-Stark sibling outfits, gets a letter and learns of Littlefinger’s proximity. (I hope that Ramin Djawadi composes a track called “How Far Is Mole’s Town?”) She goes off to meet with him, Brienne glowering behind her. It’s a beautiful scene of confrontation, powerful and truly dramatic, lacking any inadvertent ridiculousness. Littlefinger, for a time the most trustworthy ally Sansa had, had handed her off from one group of sadists to another, and she let him have it, calmly, intelligently, and with the moral upper hand. When he says he’s glad to see her unharmed, you can almost hear her blood boil. “Did you know about Ramsay?” she says. “If you didn’t know, you’re an idiot. If you did know, you’re my enemy.” She says, “What do you think he did to me?” Littlefinger is not eager to respond.
“Lady Sansa asked you a question,” Brienne says, glaring. I wish more women had armored female sidekicks.
Sansa says that the pain she feels isn’t in her heart. “I can still feel it in my body standing here right now,” she says. She wants to kill Littlefinger; he says he’ll die. In this scene, he is wearing a long black robe and a cross-shaped sigil at his neck; he looks like a priest who needs defrocking. His expression is somewhere between remorse and impassiveness. It’s hard for me to understand what this character might actually think or feel in this scene: he’s an operator, true, but he does seem to love the Stark women on some level that’s not entirely despicable. He advises her to gather her own army. “Your great uncle Brynden the Blackfish has gathered the forces at Riverrun,” he says. Oh good, another character.
On to the strategizing—and, sadly, in Braavos, onto Arya, training, training. Whack! Her stringy-haired friend explains some lore about the Many-Faced God, sounding portentous, then sends her on a noble gun-for-hire mission to kill an actress. “A Girl has been given a second chance. There will not be a third,” he says. I’d like to swap faces with somebody and stick my tongue out at this killjoy. Arya, in her oysters- clams-and-cockles regular-person hairdo, goes to see a street-theatre history play depicting her relatives and other royals: farty Robert Baratheon, lusty Ned Stark, bodacious Sansa, and so on. It’s not the first “Hamlet”-style metatheatrical scene “Game of Thrones” has offered. Its quality surpasses that of the play at Joffrey’s wedding, but Arya seems to give the production mixed reviews.
When I read, in a text from a friend this morning, a reference to the episode’s Great Ball Ambush, it took me a second to realize that she wasn’t talking about the hand grenades in the weirwood battle. She was referring, of course, to the show’s “Too many naked breasts, you say?” moment: a bouncing closeup of something gray, flaccid, and horrible that in no way evens the score. That startling shot begins a scene of the actors romping backstage, dressing and undressing and talking of warts, while A Girl skulks around, observing them and acting like an assassin playing it cool or a stage-door weirdo. I’m skeptical about this plot line, but if it’s this or stick training I vote this, a thousand times. Especially if Arya can somehow use this portfolio of new skills to help get Bran out of a pickle someday.
Speaking of that pickle, we learn, in a warg adventure and not a moment too soon, how two important strains of “G.o.T.” mysticism are connected. The Children of the Forest, our mossy, ancient “Avatar”-like friends, created the White Walkers long ago, in an act of magical self-defense. They were trying to protect themselves from humans. That plan has since gone awry. Bran wakes up and yells. We yell, too.
In the Iron Islands, Theon—forever sheepish, noble, and humble these days—makes a powerful case for his sister’s right to the throne at an outdoor Who-Should-Be-King ceremony. “She is your rightful ruler! She is a warrior! She is Ironborn! We will find no better leader. This is our queen!” he says. (So long, Reek.) Everyone is excited. “I claim the Salt Throne!” Yara yells. There is cheering. This is going better than we might have expected. Then dumb old Uncle Rope Bridge shows up, like a wedding crasher who speaks now when he should forever hold his peace. Uncle Euron has a can’t-lose idea: he’ll seduce Dany with ships and his giant Greyjoy cock—this, he helpfully points out, certain other Greyjoys cannot do (man, do people love to taunt the emasculated of Westeros)—and forge an alliance the likes of which the realm has never seen. This logic is inarguable, the people decide. But while Euron is christened in a salt-water gulp, heaved onshore, and self-resurrected through a spit-up, Theon and Yara and a band of loyalists—how did they get so many loyalists?—race off, row a bunch of boats out to their fleet of ships, and steal them all, cleverly. I imagine Theon and Yara sailing away, turning to each other, “The Graduate”-style, and thinking, Hold up, where are we going? I wish them all the best.
Onshore, Euron, sputtering and frigateless, must make his first bold move on day one: Order a thousand new boats! Start chopping, everybody. “I want every woman spinning flax for sails!” he yells. There’s not a minute to lose, because this plan will take a decade or three. As a friend pointed out, we haven’t seen many trees in the Iron Islands. Everyone start looking for acorns! She also made an observation: with his noisy claims about penis size and his proposal of a farfetched quick-fix boondoggle, Euron has much in common with Donald Trump. Sad!
Meanwhile, Tyrion and Varys, the Oscar and Felix of Meereen, have summoned a knockoff Melisandre. Varys tries sassing her, which backfires: she elevates the art of eunuch-taunting to a level that should make Tyrion feel ashamed. “Do you remember what you heard that night when the sorcerer tossed your parts in the fire?” she asks Varys. “Do you remember what the voice said?” Tell us! It can’t be good, but now we’re curious.
Also not good: Bran’s solo greensight experiment, in which he sees legions of eerily assembled wights, about to follow the command of the Four Icemen of the Apocalypse. Everyone’s favorite C.G.I. asshole, the Night’s King, touches Bran’s arm, and he wakes up screaming back under his tree roots. Max von Sydow must be regretting that nap.
In another scene of a guy feeling bad for mocking the emasculated, Daario stands by quietly as Ser Jorah Mormont and Dany, having stolen a quiet moment for three after the nudity-and-arson mayhem of last week, make devoted remarks to each other over a revelation of love and greyscale. Let’s make some bets: What will take longer, Ser Jorah curing his own greyscale and returning to support Dany as she takes over the Seven Kingdoms, or Euron Greyjoy’s remaining Ironborn spinning flax into sails, planting trees, cutting them down, and hammering together a bunch of boats?
Whatever awaits Jon Snow, Brienne, Tormund, and friends as they ride off to take care of business—Tormund’s eager orange eyebrows all aquiver—I’m glad to see Jon Snow and Sansa with some sense of purpose, family, and belonging. (For one thing, he’s rightly charmed by their new Stark-wear.) It would be perfectly understandable if either of them wanted to take a break from all of this: curl up under a fur pelt somewhere, drink a little mead, maybe listen to an audiobook. But ahead they forge.
Then there’s Hodor. I can’t stand it. Here we were, thinking that the weirwood-root cave was an arborial purgatory we had to endure in order to go on interesting narrative journeys. We now realize that it was a haven, and we didn’t know how good we had it. As Meera and Hodor pack up and prepare to move on with Bran, dreaming of yummier breakfasts and the pleasures of less fecund homes, eight skillion White Walkers and wights have assembled outside. Bran’s on a warg—Max von Sydow, I assume, is trying to cram his little Bran head with as much knowledge as possible while he still can. They’ve gone back to Ned Stark’s childhood, where young Wyllis, pre-Hodor, is in the courtyard, still able to talk. In the present, the undead start hurling their evil little spheres—the second Great Ball Attack. Like ants at a picnic, the White Walkers scramble all over the tree, and into the cave. Meera and Hodor pick up a limp, white-eyeballed Bran. That terrible undead snarling and growling noise is happening, and Hodor is saying “Hodor.” Bran wargs into Hodor; Meera throws a spear at a White Walker, who shatters like an ice sculpture of Johnny Winter. Summer, Bran’s poor direwolf, gets stabbed—I can’t take it!—and the Three-Eyed Crow is killed. In the Starks’ courtyard, he vanishes into black smoke, like charred paper swept up a chimney. Goodbye, Max Von Sydow! Fleeing the White Walkers, Meera, with Bran in her wheelbarrow, escapes out a Hobbit-style door and yells to Hodor to hold it closed.
Last night, articles appeared online explaining that George R. R. Martin, not the showrunners, D. B. Weiss and David Benioff, had come up with what happens next, and you could feel it. When Martin had told Weiss and Benioff what happened, they had been just as amazed as we were: this revelation had clearly been built into the Westeros mythology long ago. For readers and viewers, the meaning behind Hodor’s name and his inability to say anything other than “Hodor” had been a topic of much speculation; for example, a friend told me of a theory that Hodor was, on some level, a horse. The actual story dawned on us at some point during the sequence of Meera yelling “Hold the door.” In the Starks’ courtyard, young Wyllis begins repeating, “Hold the door,” and he has a seizure; as he seizes, repeating the phrase, which sounds more and more like “Hodor,” Bran looks woeful. In the present, Hodor, holding the door, resists the White Walkers as long as he can. We all feel implicated, somehow, in his death. Bran certainly will. I suspect that many of us watched the scene with a feeling of sorrow for the people we have loved whom we couldn’t protect—or, worse, whom we’d harmed without realizing it. After Bran opens his eyes in that wheelbarrow, he’ll be brooding even more than Jon Snow. He needs a wolf shirt, too.
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Alexa Skills Check Signature component
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For certifying your alexa skill when using a custom backend, there are certain operations for verifying the chain certificate, signature and timestamp. The component helps you in creating a custom skill, but the verification part is left to the developer to implement. This is a mandatory step when getting your skills published to the skills store.
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To certify an Alexa skill, one needs to validate the certificate. This component provides the method to accomplish the verification of the certificate. 1) Checking the Signature of the Request 2) Verifying the Signature Certificate URL 3) Checking the Timestamp of the Request
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Wave analogies
1. Mar 7, 2009 #1
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So I've been told that electromagnetic waves oscillate like flicking a rope up and down or a ripple in a pond. In the first example, from a side view, the rope can be considered to be a line, or 1-dimensional. However, once the ropes starts oscillating to represent waves, width must also be taken into account to view the wave, so it becomes 2-D. Similarly for the pond, the surface of the water can be considered 2-D from a birds eye view, but to view the ripples, it takes the 3rd dimension of height. Following this pattern, if we were to view the light waves being emitted from a light bulb (3-D environment), we would need a 4th spatial dimension?
I haven't studied quantum theory or any other topics that relate to these ideas, but I'm curious as to whether electromagnetic waves physically oscillate in a way that we couldn't possibly perceive them (4-D) which just defies logic at this point. So what is actually going on here?
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3. Mar 7, 2009 #2
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Some comments on your post:
Remember that these are analogies and not models. The distinction here is that in an analogy some things are held in common but others differ whereas in a model all relevant features are isomorphic and you can use the model to predict behavior in the system in question. You can't infer anything from an analogy you only use it to clarify and classify types of behavior.
The one thing you can see in all these analogies is superposition of waves and what this implies e.g. interference, beat frequencies, standing waves, frequency decomposition, etc.
Be careful also extrapolating from low dimensional examples (1 & 2). Things are possible in higher dimensions which are not possible in lower dimensions. For example torsion waves (picture those slow motion pictures of a dog shaking water off its fur. His head twists back and forth and this twisting propagates down his fur.)
You left out the example of the pressure waves in air (or any compressible material) which do not require extra dimensions.
However in the case of E-M fields and waves you can model by adding an extra dimension (see Kaluza-Klein theory).
Be careful of your wording "(4-D)" doesn't "defy logic" it just defies your ability to visualize. We can logically describe higher dimensional spaces mathematically. We can make logically sound conjectures about their existence or behavior... and that logic may or may not show the conjectures fit empirical observations.
Finally let me point out that whether one postulates extra dimensions or not is really immaterial within the physics. A conjecture is physically meaningful if it describes what we expect to see happen (independent of what we think "is" apart from what we can see happen) and a conjecture is considered correct (or at least confirmed) if what it describes actually does occur in physical observations.
4. Mar 7, 2009 #3
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Alright, so what conjectures can be made about the behaviour of E-M waves in our 3-D world? Are they oscillating in a way that we can visualize them, or is their physical behaviour especially plain, without any vibrations/oscillations, which might suggest they do in fact extend their waves into a 4th dimension?
The difference here with the sound waves is that unlike the E-M waves, they require a medium, and the way in which they move can be represented with analogies that don't require extra dimensions to show their movement, thus, no 4th dimension is required to describe the movement of sounds waves in our 3-D world.
If I have interpreted what you're trying to say correctly, it's that the E-M waves do in fact 'wave' in a fashion that can be visualized in the 3rd dimension, while the predecessing analogies of 1-d and 2-d are inferior in that they require another dimension.
5. Mar 8, 2009 #4
E-M waves are actually not normal waves at all, they are just electric and magnetic fields going from + to - in a harmonic fashion.
It is not an extra dimension since a dimension is a place where every point is unique, instead electric fields are just properties of our current dimension, just like how different points can contain different mass bits etc. As such when sound waves propagate through the medium "density" you can just as well say that E-M waves propagates through the medium "Electro and magnetic fields".
6. Mar 9, 2009 #5
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I was never told this before. The teacher probably felt sorry for us and decided to save us the pain of more confusions :smile:
ok so if the E-M waves can be represented on a graph, even though they're fields, not waves. Does this have something to do with the 'harmonic fashion' they travel in? (sorry I don't understand what this harmonic fashion is).
7. Mar 9, 2009 #6
Harmonic waves are those who follow the normal sinus curve.
And yes you can graph them, when you do you put field strength on one axis and position on the other, its no more a dimension than a graph showing how velocity changes with position on an accelerating car.
Anyway, look at this:
Look at the third and fourth equation, you see there that both E and B (magnetic and electric) fields can be created through change in the other, and as such when you pair them together like they are in an electromagnetic wave you get a never ending loop of them going into each other.
Its quite a bit the same how electric potential distributions follows exactly the same formulas as static temperature distributions, it doesn't mean that they are equal in any way except mathematically.
8. Mar 10, 2009 #7
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That depends on your power of visualization. But yes. Can you visualize an electric field? Can you visualize a magnetic field? Now imagine you grasp a charge and crack it like a whip. You will perturb the E field and as it changes it induces a perpendicular B field.
Undulations of the E field induce undulations of the B field which reinforce the undulations of the E field ad infinitum as the wave propagates.
Grasp a bar magnet and crack it sideways and you get the same sort of wave. The E-M wave is sort of a double wave with the E component riding the B component and vis versa.
In three dimensions you have 1dim for the direction of propagation, 1 dim for the transverse E undulation and one dim for the perpendicular transverse B undulation.
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Review: Yamaha Clavinova Ensemble CVP-700 Series
AS THE NEWEST and most advanced of Yamaha's Clavinova Ensemble family of digital pianos, the CVP-700 series combines two design goals. The first is to provide an utterly realistic experience for piano purists who tolerate no compromises in sound and keyboard action, but require such digital conveniences as freedom from tuning and the ability to turn down the volume. The second goal, that of creating a "keyboard as musical entertainment center," involves providing a huge variety of sounds beyond those a piano can make, sophisticated automatic accompaniment that makes you a one-person band, a roster of easy-play and educational features, and more. Bottom line: These new Clavinova Ensembles hit both of these goals with such high marks that I might as well have just told you that the Tesla Model S is both a "green" car and a sports car. So let's buckle up and drive.
Yamaha Clavinova CVP-701
Design and User Interface
I spent several days with the new Clavinovas at Piedmont Piano Company, in Oakland, California, and at PianoForte, in Chicago. Four models ascend in price and number of features: the CVP-701, CVP-705, CVP-709, and CVP-709GP. The cabinets of the 701 and 705 are more like a traditional upright piano, while the 709 sports a contemporary "floating" design. The 709GP has a compact baby grand–style cabinet but is otherwise identical to the 709. If you don't like long reads, here's the review: These things rock. Buy the nicest model you can afford and start getting happy.
Still with me? Then let's deal with the most important aspect of the user interface first: the black 'n' whites. All models feature fully weighted, graded actions — the keys' resistance subtly decreases from heavier to lighter as you ascend the keyboard — with mechanical escapement simulation and textured, faux-ivory key surfaces. The GH3X action of the entry-level CVP-701 uses synthetic keys; all other models feature Yamaha's Natural Wood X (NWX) action, which, as its name implies, has white keys made of real wood. Coming from a synth-and-organ background, I gravitated toward the feel of the 701, which I found to be a bit quicker for performance techniques such as glissandi and single-note "machine gun" trills à la Billy Joel. For pianistic realism, however, the upline models are indeed a bit better, with a finger-to-music connection that, when paired with the main piano sounds, provides an uncanny sense of real hammers striking real strings.
One quibble is that none of the CVP key actions sense aftertouch: pressure applied to a key after it's been struck and held. (Their underlying sound engines, however, can receive it as a MIDI control message.) You could argue that anything this high-end should have aftertouch — as does Yamaha's pro-oriented Tyros 5 arranger workstation, which has a lot in common with these Clavinovas. On the other hand, I can see the case that something altering the sound after you've struck a key might confuse many customers seeking a realistic acoustic-piano experience. There are other ways to add synthesizer-like effects such as pitch-bend or wah-wah, including the assignable buttons as well as the left and center pedals when they're not doing una corda and sostenuto; and a ¼" input lets you plug in an extra switch or continuous pedal. Still, experienced players might like to add, say, vibrato to a string or horn sound by just digging into the key a bit harder.
The CVP-701 is the only model that lacks a touchscreen. This means that it actually has a busier front panel, with more physical buttons for things like sound and accompaniment selection, as well as "soft" buttons flanking the color display on three sides. On all other models, categories and subcategories of sounds and styles (acoustic vs. electric pianos, pipe vs. electric organs, different musical genres and subgenres, etc.) are neatly presented on the touchscreen. So are educational features, such as the score display and guide lights (more on these later), with physical buttons geared more toward things you're likely always to need to reach for quickly: real-time control over your style variations, song recording and playback, and the like.
Fig. 1. The CVP-709’s home screen shows the active accompaniment style, left-hand and two right-hand keyboard layers, keyboard split point, and active song. Across the bottom are icons accessing most-wanted functions, including chord modes, score and lyric display, and system menus.
There's always a learning curve to anything that offers the depth of features of the CVP-700 line, so it helps that the displays employ consistent graphical logic and hierarchy about which functions are a level "up" vs. "down," where you are now vs. where you were a moment ago, and so forth. A hardware button always gets you back to the home screen, which displays an overview of the sounds, accompaniment styles, and, if applicable, the Song you're currently using (see Fig. 1).
Fig. 2. The Piano Room button takes you to this screen, which puts a piano sound in a virtual acoustic space.
Before even touching the accompaniment styles or any other bells and whistles, the CVP-700 series lets you play three sounds live from the keyboard: one in the left-hand part and up to two in the right. Professional synth workstations may offer more key zones and flexibility in this regard, but this seems like the Goldilocks amount for a home console instrument of this sort. The left/right split point is adjustable, and you can set a separate split point for where the leftmost key zone begins to trigger chord changes for the auto-accompaniment.
The Piano Room button overrides any splits and layers and puts a concert grand Voice (you can opt for other keyboard instruments) across the whole key range. Visually, you can place this piano in an acoustic space such as a stage or cathedral, adjust the effect of lid position on the tone, and more (see Fig. 2). You can also choose from a curated list of accompaniment styles from inside the Piano Room.
The CVP-701 has a rolltop-desk keyboard cover; other models embed the display and controls in a hinged fallboard that has a soft-close mechanism to prevent slamming.
Here's a brief glossary to help you understand the features and organization of the Clavinova CVP-700 series.
Voices: Yamaha's term for a single sound; e.g., piano, violin, guitar, synth, etc.
Styles: Fully arranged automatic accompaniment setups spanning virtually every musical genre imaginable. They play multiple Voices (drums, bass, guitar, etc.) and follow your chord changes.
Variations: Four versions of the active Style, which you can switch in real time and which progress from minimal to busy.
One-Touch Settings: These quickly assign voices to the left- and right-hand keyboard parts, designed to sound good with the active Style.
Music Finder: A "one-stop shop" that sets up your Voices, Styles, and other settings based on names that are similar (but not identical) to actual songs. Such a name is called a Record, but you still need to play the chords and melody. Which brings us to . . .
Songs: Recording of real tunes from the real world, with chord changes, melody, arrangement, and orchestration. Most song files downloaded from yamaha
musicsoft.com can display the score and lyrics onscreen, as well as support Clavinova features such as . . .
Guide Mode: When working with a song, LEDs above the Clavinova's keys show you which note to play next. What's more, the instrument can wait for you to find the correct note before resuming playback.
Registrations: The highest level of organization, these save almost the entire state of the instrument, including your Voice, Style, active Song choices, and any tweaks you've made to default settings.
The CVP-700 series' own demo mode proclaims that it's a piano first and foremost, so let's start there. Two main concert grand sample sets are the prima donnas: Yamaha CFX and Bösendorfer Imperial. Both of these are the basis of several Voices (Yamaha's term for sounds), each of which has Natural and VRM versions. Natural refers to careful multi-mic sampling, to capture the sampled pianos' nuances; VRM stands for Virtual Resonance Modeling, which adds a user-adjustable simulation of the sympathetic vibrations that occur inside an acoustic piano between undamped strings. You'll likely hear a difference only when playing exposed solo passages without active accompaniment, but the attention to detail here is remarkable.
Suffice it to say that both sampled instruments sound incredibly true to their genuine acoustic counterparts, and beyond that, are the most detailed, realistic, and playable piano sounds I've heard in any digital instrument of this kind. The Yamaha CFX sounds clear and sweet; the Bösendorfer Imperial is more dense and woody. Any unwanted digital artifacts, such as audible sample looping and breaks between velocity layers, are either nonexistent or may as well be, note decays are sustained and natural, and key-release samples are present and adjustable.
Non-piano sounds in the CVP-700 series cover everything imaginable; I have room here to discuss only the highlights. In the electric piano section you'll find various Rhodes, Wurlitzer, Clavinet (think Stevie Wonder's "Superstition"), DX7-era digital EPs (think "Law & Order"), and even the Yamaha CP electric grand of Peter Gabriel fame. All are excellent, with bark and attitude increasing as you play harder, and many include such added effects as chorus and phaser to cop an authentically vintage vibe.
The premium EP specimens are labeled as Cool, which is one of a handful of Voice Characteristic prefixes that flag something special. In this case, Cool means only that they're the machine's featured electric keyboard sounds, but marketing speak aside, these tags do have some meaning. Examples: Sweet is the prefix for acoustic instruments with sampled-in vibrato, while Live is for sounds sampled in stereo. One to look out for is S. Art, for Super Articulation. These add performance gestures on appropriate sounds, such as guitar slides, fall-offs or "shake" trills for a funky horn section, and the like. You can trigger these with key velocity, the left and center pedals, or, in some cases, by playing the keys legato instead of staccato. It takes a bit of practice to master, but can add a ton of realism to a performance.
In the organ banks, Voices tagged Organ Flutes provide authentic simulation of a classic tonewheel organ (e.g., a Hammond B-3) and rotating speaker (i.e., a Leslie). A dedicated screen offers full control over drawbars, rotary speed, and the signature ping of harmonic percussion. As a veteran Hammond enthusiast, I was surprised by how good this sounded, given that the CVP is not an organ-specialist keyboard. A plethora of gorgeous church and theater pipe organs are on hand as well, as are classic transistor organs of the 1960s.
Since the first Motif synthesizer debuted in 2001, I've felt that Yamaha keyboards slay any competition when it comes to guitar and bass sounds — acoustic or electric. They've reached a new pinnacle in the CVP-700 line, whether you're after nylon or steel strings, punk or funk, understated upright or Seinfeld slap. Many of these sounds are enhanced by the aforementioned Super Articulation. With a little attention to how guitarists voice chords, utterly realistic performances are well within reach.
Bowed strings, brass, and woodwinds are likewise impeccable, with many variations encompassing both solo instruments and sections, not to mention plenty of Sweet and Super Articulation support — more of both from the CVP-705 up. Whether you want to play a melancholy cello solo, a dramatic Hollywood string swell, the horn hits from "Uptown Funk," or anything in between, something will hit the target.
A selection of chorus and scat vocal presets offers a good deal of interest, with some of the latter actually going round-robin through different syllables with each successive note you play. For my tastes, these stray into "because you can" keyboard-demo territory, but there's no questioning the care of the execution.
Synthesizer Voices are seemingly bottomless in their variety: retro analog leads and basses, 1980s-like evolving digital soundscapes with lots of internal animation, Prince-style stabs and comping sounds, lush pads, and far too much more to list. I come from a multi-keyboard and cover-band background, and I'd proudly use most of these sounds on any gig where I'd normally bring a high-end professional synth like a Yamaha Montage or Kurzweil Forte — they're simply that good. More important for the potential Clavinova buyer is that when learning popular songs at home, it's a lot more engaging if you can not only play the correct notes but also actually sound like the record. For that, the CVPs offer an incredible sonic toolbox.
User editing of Voices is pretty basic, covering things like vibrato, brightness, harmonic content (aka filter cutoff and resonance), and application of effects. To be fair, that's a synth player's complaint; this will be a non-issue for 99.9% of home digital piano seekers.
Acoustic and electronic drum kits, as well as Latin and World percussion, deserve high praise, but as it's chiefly the accompaniment section that will be playing these sounds, let's go there.
Accompaniment Styles
Auto-accompaniment has its roots in the home organs of the 1970s and early '80s, including Yamaha's own Electone line, and the Lowrey Cotillion, which Australian pop star Gotye serenaded in "State of the Art." Today it shows up in all kinds of keyboards, beginning with simple rhythms in sub-$100 portables. An "arranger" is a keyboard that offers multi-instrument orchestration, chord recognition, and real-time control of accompaniment behavior, essentially turning your left hand into a bandleader. The CVP-700 series builds in the most advanced, realistic, and musically diverse arranger features on the planet, bar none. This is in part because the accompaniment is using the same excellent sounds you play on the keys, with the CVP-709 and 709GP adding a handful of Audio Styles that incorporate real audio recordings of ace session players serving up things like rhythm guitar parts.
Fig. 3. Just a fraction of the accompaniment styles in the CVP-705 and CVP-709, organized by genre and subgenre.
You begin by choosing from a vast range of musical styles that span both the globe and recent musical history (see Fig. 3). These generally use up to eight parts: two rhythm (e.g., drum kit plus Latin percussion), bass, two chordal parts, a pad, and two "phrase" parts that cover any riffs or noodles the other parts don't.
The Style Control section (see Fig. 4) is your command center. Within a single style, you can switch among four main variations, which get progressively more "busy" as you go. This is musically useful — for example, you might like the third chorus of a tune to deliver more emotion than the first and second. You get three similarly progressive variations for intros, another three for endings, optional drum fills if you switch variations, a manual "break" (usually one bar long), and the ability to have the accompaniment start or stop in sync with your touching the keys. Of course, you can set whether a variation change happens the instant you hit the button or waits for the next bar to come around.
Fig. 4. The Style Control buttons on the CVP-709, organized by intros, main variations, and endings.
This is all pretty standard arranger fare. What makes the Clavinova CVP-700 series stand out is the sheer quality and musicality of the styles themselves. The most recently crafted and therefore most sophisticated factory styles are flagged by the prefixes Pro and Session, and you get more of each kind as you climb the CVP models. Even the legacy material is solid, but the newer stuff sounds more than ever as if there's a real band in the room with you.
While playing the CVP-709, my favorite was "70s Scat Legend," which all but convinced me that Yamaha had trapped Tower of Power inside the machine. Jazz styles range from understated grooves evocative of organ trios to classic bebop to raucous hard bop. Big-band styles passed muster with some swing dancer friends I tried them on (believe me, they're picky), many making good use of those buttery "String of Pearls"–style sax sections.
Though I don't expect to see a CVP take center stage at Burning Man, I was pleasantly surprised by the variety and credibility of the electronic dance music styles. EDM culture is fickle, and subgenres go in and out of vogue quickly, but there's something here for everyone, and all of it is serviceable.
Lest I let you think that everything is more or less rock-band instrumentation, still more styles are devoted to classical music and piano-centric accompaniment. Likewise, World styles range from familiar Latin montunos to Jobim-esque bossas to recognizably Asian or Middle Eastern to things so esoteric you'd need to be an ethnomusicologist (or from the actual region) to fully understand them. Yamaha's programmers have really done their homework.
The point of auto-accompaniment is not to merely follow your chord changes, but to do it well. Musicians who've used budget or older arranger keyboards know it can be easy to throw your virtual players a curve that makes them clam for a beat or so. The CVP-700 line all but eliminates this problem. There's still a technique to "calling" smooth changes, involving the left hand moving ever so slightly ahead of the beat, but my confidence on the CVPs was at an all-time high, even though I'm not a regular arranger player.
A huge part of what helps here are the various chord-recognition modes: fully fingered, as well as easy options that let you trigger a major chord with one finger, add a key to make it a minor or seventh, and so on. Another mode always treats the lowest note held as the bass. Even slicker, a couple of AI modes work contextually, factoring in the chords you've played to judge where you're going. I mostly stuck to the regular full-fingered mode, and the Clavinovas were generally spot-on at interpreting my intentions. Neither triad inversions nor chords thick with jazz extensions gave them any trouble, even at fast tempos.
Rounding out the accompaniment features are the four One-Touch Settings, which grab pre-selected left- and right-hand Voices for playing over the active style. A link button locks these to the four main style variations, letting you go from an organ solo over your first verse to a guitar solo over your chorus, and so on. You can change the default Voices and save your edited style in user memory.
If you can't find the perfect style among the Clavinova's phonebook-thick options, the Style Creator offers extensive facilities for rolling your own. Here, you can assign Voices to parts, set the time signature and groove/swing amount, and more. Styles can be assembled by mixing and matching chunks of other styles (intros, variations, etc.), or you can play-in every detail of your custom style to a metronome. For fine-grained tweaking, there's even a full-featured MIDI event list editor. Importing of MIDI and SFF (Style File Format) files is also supported. Perhaps only a fraction of Clavinova buyers will ever dig this deep, but this kind of customizability is on a par with studio-class synth workstations, and it's nice to know it's there.
Song and Education Features
For starters, the CVP-700 models can capture everything to an inserted USB stick — what your fingers play, what the accompaniment styles play, even audio from a connected mic or line-level source — as a stereo audio file (WAV on the CVP-701, WAV or MP3 on the other models). They can also capture all keyboard parts as multi-track MIDI data, which you can then edit onboard or in your computer. If you use Style playback in your song, the Style's parts are automatically recorded to MIDI channels 9 through 16. If so inclined, you can also play-in every track manually, choosing your Voices as you go. An event-based editor works like the one in the Style Creator.
For singing along, you can apply (and record) effects such as reverb to your vocal, including harmonies the Clavinova will generate. Different harmony presets (number of background singers, musical style, etc.) track your chord changes just like the accompaniment Styles. The quality of these harmonies is on a par with dedicated vocal processors from companies like TC-Helicon.
Those aren't uncommon features in higher-end arrangers. What distinguishes the CVP-700s is how they can teach you to play. The CVP-701 comes preloaded with 65 songs, the other models with 124, and thanks to Yamaha's partnership with publisher Hal Leonard, you can download more titles from a huge library at yamahamusicsoft.com. Those optimized for the Clavinova (the website makes this obvious with a "Choose Your Instrument" menu) support its learning features. No other keyboard maker has this vast an ecosystem of content.
Fig. 5. Learn any song by following the bouncing ball on the score display. The Clavinova will even wait for you to find the right note.
These features include a strip of LEDs above the keys that show you the next notes to play, and a nifty sheet-music display on which you literally follow the bouncing ball (see Fig. 5). You can set this up to show just the right-hand melody, the grand staff, chord symbols, and/or lyrics for songs that have them. Most important, in what's called Guide Mode, the Clavinova will stop the song/accompaniment playback if you make a mistake, and resume when you find the right notes. This can be made even more forgiving with the Any Key mode, which tracks rhythm but not melody, and the Your Tempo mode, which tracks you in rubato fashion if you need to slow down and think. Karao-key mode advances the song based on mic input and any key press, and is meant for singing along.
I can't over-emphasize how well all of this works. Sure, it'll keep your seven-year-old focused on "Für Elise," but I've used Guide Mode to woodshed cover tunes for gigs I took in spite of having too little prep time, and it's been a lifesaver.
Related to but distinct from songs is the Music Finder, long a Yamaha staple. In the Music Finder, Records are presets that call up a Voice-and-accompaniment package for playing "in the style of" popular songs — complete with names that suggest the originals without infringing on their copyrights.
The USA Edition content package for CVP-700 series keyboards sold in the U.S. adds licensed Music Finder Records for an accompanying Best Songs Ever songbook, a Style Guide that uses those tunes to teach you how to work the Style Control section like a pro, interactive tutorials narrated by a human voice, and more.
Every model but the CVP-701 has an old-school VGA output for mirroring the display (or a lyrics-only karaoke scroll) to an external monitor. I'd like to see a more up-to-date connector used here, but there are always adapters.
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Even on the entry-level CVP-701, the onboard stereo speakers are loud and clean enough to be heard over a roomful of guests, and don't get crispy at high volumes. This gets only better as you ascend the line, the 705 adding a more powerful two-way system and the 709 and 709GP going three-way plus subwoofers. All models offer ¼" stereo output jacks for connection to an external sound system.
Just a couple of menu levels deep is an extensive mixing console providing volume, effects send, and stereo panning control over every part, with separate pages for your live keyboard Voices, all the Style tracks, all the song tracks, and so on. Audio effects are generous and high-quality, with graphical interfaces that bring up a suite of plug-ins for professional recording software.
All CVP-700 models can stream audio files from a USB drive and, for karaoke or practice, pitch-shift the audio into your vocal range and "cancel" the pre-recorded vocal. Sometimes the effect isn't total, and unlike MIDI, the more you transpose real-time audio, the weirder it may sound. Still, this is heavy-hitting processing, especially for a home instrument.
With the exception of a few global system settings, anything that can be edited or changed can be saved in user memory without affecting the factory defaults. There are section-specific user areas for things like Voices, Styles, and Songs, but the most comprehensive memory slots are the Registrations. These essentially save everything about the current state of the machine, including any setting tweaks you've made about the mix, what the pedals do, and so on. If you're entertaining an audience all night and have done a lot of custom prep work, one Registration per tune on your set list is the way to go.
The control panel on the CVP-709 allows most settings to be edited and saved to memory.
As long as this review is, I've only scratched the surface of the Clavinova CVP-700 series. Overall, they are, hands down, the best-sounding, most feature-rich, most technologically advanced instruments of their kind. While this is truest of the top-of-range CVP-709, the 701 gets a special nod as the sleeper value of the bunch. It offers most of what matters about its siblings — the smallish non-touch screen is the most visible compromise — for a lot less money than any of them.
As for the competition, your needs will determine whether there is or isn't any. If all of the CVP-700s are beyond your budget, Yamaha's Clavinova CLP line offers various options for a more traditional but still excellent "console" digital piano; the Casio Celviano family does a great job here at even lower prices. More upmarket, I love Blüthner digitals for their pure piano sound and daring design, but they can't touch the Clavinovas for non-piano sounds, accompaniment, or educational features. If you want the same Yamaha CFX concert grand sound as in the new CVP line, but in a "straight" digital piano that visitors will swear is an acoustic upright, the Yamaha NU1 punches way above its price. All that said, if you need one instrument that provides both the pianistic excellence that will please traditionally inclined performers, students, educators, and parents, as well as enough electronic coaching and downright fun factor to keep beginners and casual players interested, the Clavinova Ensemble CVP-700 family simply has no peer.
CVP-701 CVP-705 CVP-709*
Main Acoustic Piano Sounds Yamaha CFX,
Bösendorfer Imperial
Key-Off Samples Yes
String Resonance Yes, via Virtual Resonance Modeling
Damper Resonance Yes, via Virtual Resonance Modeling
No. Voices 777 + 29 Drum/FX kits 984 + 33 Drum/FX kits 1270 + 37 Drum/FX kits
Add'l. XG Voices 480
Voice Editing and User Memory Yes
Drawbar Organ Control Yes
Graded Yes
Wooden Naturals No Yes
Touch Sens. Levels 4 + fixed
88-Key Linear Hammers No No
Key Counterweights Yes
Escapement Yes
Splits / Layers Left, Right 1, Right 2
Number 3
Half-Dampering Yes
True Sostenuto Yes
Alternate Functions Left and Center Pedals
Size & Type 4.3'' Color TFT 7'' Color TFT 8.5'' Color TFT
Resolution 480 x 272 800 x 480 800 x 480
Touchscreen No Single, Resistive Single, Resistive
No. Factory Styles 310 470 600
Sections per Style 3 Intro, 4 Main Variation, Break, 3 Ending 3 Intro, 4 Main Variation, Break, 3 Ending 3 Intro, 4 Main Variation, Break, 3 Ending
Audio-File Styles No No Yes
Chord Recognition Modes Single Finger, Fingered, Fingered On Bass, Multi-Finger, AI Fingered, Full Keyboard, AI Full Keyboard
User-Created Styles Yes, via Style Creator
Music Finder Presets 1200 2500 2500
Pre-Loaded Songs 65 124 124
Audio Recording to USB Drive Stereo WAV Stereo WAV or MP3 Stereo WAV or MP3
MIDI Recording 16 Tracks, Accomp. Parts Pre-Mapped
Downloadable Songs Yes, via yamahamusicsoft.com
Music Score Display Left Hand, Right Hand, Chord Symbols, "Bouncing Ball" guide
Guide Mode Waits for player to find correct notes, can follow player's tempo
Follow Lights LEDs above keys indicate correct notes
Lyric/Karaoke Display Yes
Audio Inputs ¼'' mic/line, stereo mini aux.
Audio Outputs ¼'' stereo, 2 x ¼'' headphone
USB-B to Host (Computer) Yes
USB-A to Device (Storage) 1 2 2
MIDI In, Out, Thru
Extra Control Pedal Switch / Continuous
Video Output No VGA VGA
Amplification 2 x 25W 2 x (50W + 20W) [2 x (30W + 30W + 20W)] + 40W
Speakers 2 x 16cm (full-range) 2 x 16cm (bass-mid)
2 x 5cm (mid-high)
2 x 16cm (bass)
2 x 5cm (mid)
2 x3 cm (high)
2 x 20cm (sub)
MSRP $5,278–$6,199 $8,699–$9,699 $14,499–$15,999
Est. Street $4,000–$5,000 $6,500–$7,500 $10,000–$11,000
Stephen Fortner has been a keyboardist since early childhood, and has played professionally since age 14. He was technical editor of Keyboard magazine from 2006 to 2009, its editor in chief from 2009 through 2015, and remains a regular contributor. He has since founded Fortner Media, a content and strategy firm serving the musical-instrument and consumer-technology industries. He can be reached at [email protected].
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Documents on the Machinery Directive
The Machinery Directive describes standardised health and safety requirements for interaction between man and machine and replaces the host of individual state regulations that existed for machinery safety. The Machinery Directive 2006/42/EC has applied since 29.12.2009.
The practical “Guide to the application of the Machinery Directive 2006/42/EC” is used to interpret the text of the Directive. The document makes reference to the technical documentation and the role of risk assessment, among other things. A new version was published by the EU Commission in 2017. The guide can be downloaded on the website of the European Commission.
For the purposes of the Directive, machinery means an assembly consisting of linked parts or components, at least one of which moves, and which are joined together for a specific application (see Article 2 of the Machinery Directive).
The following are also considered as machinery for the purposes of the Machinery Directive:
• Assembly of machines or complex plants
• Safety components
• Interchangeable equipment that can modify the basic functions of a machine
In addition to the machinery listed above there is also a list of exceptions for machinery which would fall under the scope of the Directive by definition, but for which other statutory provisions generally apply.
Official title of the Machinery Directive
Directive 2006/42/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 17 May 2006 on machinery, and amending Directive 95/16/EC (recast)
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Finding difference equation
Below is a basic example showing the opposite of the steps above: given a transfer function one can easily calculate thesystems difference equation.
H z z 1 2 z 1 2 z 3 4
Given this transfer function of a time-domain filter, we want to find the difference equation. To begin with, expand bothpolynomials and divide them by the highest order z .
H z z 1 z 1 z 1 2 z 3 4 z 2 2 z 1 z 2 2 z 1 3 8 1 2 z -1 z -2 1 1 4 z -1 3 8 z -2
From this transfer function, the coefficients of the two polynomials will be our a k and b k values found in the general difference equation formula, [link] . Using these coefficients and the above form of the transferfunction, we can easily write the difference equation:
x n 2 x n 1 x n 2 y n 1 4 y n 1 3 8 y n 2
In our final step, we can rewrite the difference equation in its more common form showing the recursive nature of the system.
y n x n 2 x n 1 x n 2 -1 4 y n 1 3 8 y n 2
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Solving a lccde
In order for a linear constant-coefficient difference equation to be useful in analyzing a LTI system, we must be able tofind the systems output based upon a known input, x n , and a set of initial conditions. Two common methods exist for solving a LCCDE: the direct method and the indirect method , the later being based on the z-transform. Below we will briefly discussthe formulas for solving a LCCDE using each of these methods.
Direct method
The final solution to the output based on the direct method is the sum of two parts, expressed in the followingequation:
y n y h n y p n
The first part, y h n , is referred to as the homogeneous solution and the second part, y h n , is referred to as particular solution . The following method is very similar to that used to solve many differential equations, so if youhave taken a differential calculus course or used differential equations before then this should seem veryfamiliar.
Homogeneous solution
We begin by assuming that the input is zero, x n 0 .Now we simply need to solve the homogeneous difference equation:
k 0 N a k y n k 0
In order to solve this, we will make the assumption that the solution is in the form of an exponential. We willuse lambda, λ , to represent our exponential terms. We now have to solve thefollowing equation:
k 0 N a k λ n k 0
We can expand this equation out and factor out all of thelambda terms. This will give us a large polynomial in parenthesis, which is referred to as the characteristic polynomial . The roots of this polynomial will be the key to solving the homogeneousequation. If there are all distinct roots, then the general solution to the equation will be as follows:
y h n C 1 λ 1 n C 2 λ 2 n C N λ N n
However, if the characteristic equation contains multiple roots then the above general solution will be slightlydifferent. Below we have the modified version for an equation where λ 1 has K multiple roots:
y h n C 1 λ 1 n C 1 n λ 1 n C 1 n 2 λ 1 n C 1 n K 1 λ 1 n C 2 λ 2 n C N λ N n
Particular solution
The particular solution, y p n , will be any solution that will solve the general difference equation:
k 0 N a k y p n k k 0 M b k x n k
In order to solve, our guess for the solution to y p n will take on the form of the input, x n . After guessing at a solution to the above equation involving the particular solution, one onlyneeds to plug the solution into the difference equation and solve it out.
Indirect method
The indirect method utilizes the relationship between the difference equation and z-transform, discussed earlier , to find a solution. The basic idea is to convert the differenceequation into a z-transform, as described above , to get the resulting output, Y z . Then by inverse transforming this and using partial-fractionexpansion, we can arrive at the solution.
Z y ( n + 1 ) - y ( n ) = z Y ( z ) - y ( 0 )
This can be interatively extended to an arbitrary order derivative as in Equation [link] .
Z - m = 0 N - 1 y ( n - m ) = z n Y ( z ) - m = 0 N - 1 z n - m - 1 y ( m ) ( 0 )
Now, the Laplace transform of each side of the differential equation can be taken
Z k = 0 N a k y ( n - m + 1 ) - m = 0 N - 1 y ( n - m ) y ( n ) = Z x ( n )
which by linearity results in
k = 0 N a k Z y ( n - m + 1 ) - m = 0 N - 1 y ( n - m ) y ( n ) = Z x ( n )
and by differentiation properties in
k = 0 N a k z k Z y ( n ) - m = 0 N - 1 z k - m - 1 y ( m ) ( 0 ) = Z x ( n ) .
Rearranging terms to isolate the Laplace transform of the output,
Z y ( n ) = Z x ( n ) + k = 0 N m = 0 k - 1 a k z k - m - 1 y ( m ) ( 0 ) k = 0 N a k z k .
Thus, it is found that
Y ( z ) = X ( z ) + k = 0 N m = 0 k - 1 a k z k - m - 1 y ( m ) ( 0 ) k = 0 N a k z k .
In order to find the output, it only remains to find the Laplace transform X ( z ) of the input, substitute the initial conditions, and compute the inverse Z-transform of the result. Partial fraction expansions are often required for this last step. This may sound daunting while looking at [link] , but it is often easy in practice, especially for low order difference equations. [link] can also be used to determine the transfer function and frequency response.
As an example, consider the difference equation
y [ n - 2 ] + 4 y [ n - 1 ] + 3 y [ n ] = cos ( n )
with the initial conditions y ' ( 0 ) = 1 and y ( 0 ) = 0 Using the method described above, the Z transform of the solution y [ n ] is given by
Y [ z ] = z [ z 2 + 1 ] [ z + 1 ] [ z + 3 ] + 1 [ z + 1 ] [ z + 3 ] .
Performing a partial fraction decomposition, this also equals
Y [ z ] = . 25 1 z + 1 - . 35 1 z + 3 + . 1 z z 2 + 1 + . 2 1 z 2 + 1 .
Computing the inverse Laplace transform,
y ( n ) = ( . 25 z - n - . 35 z - 3 n + . 1 cos ( n ) + . 2 sin ( n ) ) u ( n ) .
One can check that this satisfies that this satisfies both the differential equation and the initial conditions.
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Who holds the control over your website?
So you're pretty engaged with your website? You have a good approach to uploading content; you know what you're doing, (more or less) and you're getting good traction with your audience. You’re answering queries quickly and you’re confident your front-end content is clean, concise and up-to-date. On the whole, you’re in a pretty comfortable place and your website is showing a good return on investment.
But what about the bigger picture? Have you ticked off all your risk management when it comes to the back-end management of your site?
Answer these 3 questions:
1. Do you know where your website's domain name is registered?
2. Do you know the login and password details to check your account status?
3. If the answer is “no” to both the above – do you know who does and can you contact them with ease (and answer yes to this question with 100% certainty)?
If you answered "No" to any of the questions above then you have identified a significant business risk for your website.
Risky business
Remember back to when you purchased your domain name. How you may have come up with a great domain name, only to find someone else owned it? Or worse, someone was cyber squatting on your company name domain, which meant you probably had to part with serious cash to secure the domain name.
When you, or someone on your behalf, purchased your domain name you will have used an email address and a password to set up an account with a domain provider. It is common that this email is attached to a person (as opposed to a generic company email address), or may even be a personal email. If that person leaves your company or changes their email address, or the personal email account is deleted, it can mean the domain registration company can have trouble getting in contact with you when the domain registration is due.
End result: if you are unaware that your annual (or 2 year or 3 year) registration is due for renewal you could lose access to your domain name. Your registration can lapse, someone else can purchase that domain name and ‘point’ their website to it. A rather catastrophic outcome for any business that has invested heavily in their website and web presence.
So follow our check-list – it might save you a lot ofheartache:
1. Find your domain details, provider, company, login and password.
2. Put the details somewhere safe where you and your staff will be able to find them with ease.
3. Use a generic business email address as the login point. One that is checked regularly (eg info@, enquiries@ etc) and will be active for the life of the company.
4. Put a note in your diary when your registration is due.
5. Finally, check your domain registration company - some of the better companies will offer your an alternative email address in case they don't hear from you via the first nominated address.
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Why you should watch Emma Watson's #HeForShe UN speech
'It is time that we all perceive gender on a spectrum not as two opposing sets of ideals' Emma Watson speaks out about gender inequality.
It might have come as a surprise that former Harry Potter actress Emma Watson stood up to deliver a moving speech about gender inequality over the weekend in her first role of women's goodwill ambassador for the UN, but for us, we're still in awe.
Sharing how she became a feminist after being called 'bossy' for wanting to direct a play aged eight, and seeing her friends drop out of sports because they didn't want to appear to "muscly".
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“Apparently I am among the ranks of women whose expressions are seen as too strong, too aggressive, isolating, anti-men and, unattractive," she said. "Why is the word such an uncomfortable one?”
And it's not just a women's issue, the actress invited men to take part in the UN's HeForShe campaign which aims to tackle gender inequality and discrimination faced by women and girls.
So come on, what are you waiting for? If you haven't watched Emma Watson's #HeForShe speech, it's about time you did...
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The Ferrari Dino 208 GT4 is a wedge with soul
Light in displacement, heavy in character.
The 1970s were a great time for supercars. With some of the greatest machines from Ferrari, Lamborghini, Maserati, and Lancia running the roads, the decade was an Italian buffet for the petrol head. In the newest video from Petrolicious, the crew catches up with the owner of a very unique piece of '70s metal: a Ferrari 208 GT4. The 208 was created for Italian consumption to avoid a tax on engines larger than 2.0-liters. Think of it as a lesser 308. This extremely tiny engine still boasts eight cylinders, and it makes a great noise when it clears its throat.
See what makes this car so special to its owner, and bask in the glory of a classic Italian-engine note in the video below. As always, turn those speakers up; you'll be glad you did.
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The Right Footstrike Could Cure Your Injury
Two new studies link footstrike to different injuries.
While sales of minimalist shoes have dropped sharply, scientific interest in barefoot running and minimalist shoes remains high. In particular, everyone would like to answer one simple, but very complex question: Can barefoot running or minimalist shoes or forefoot striking reduce injuries?
Two new studies by widely acknowledged shoe experts reach the same conclusion: We don’t know yet, and we may never know, due to the many variables involved.
At the same time, both point to the possibility that different footstrike patterns might cause or prevent specific injuries. This leads to the intriguing possibility that runners could decrease problems with their known injuries by adopting one style of running over another.
The study from Joe Hamill’s well-known UMass biomechanics lab concludes: “There is a possible difference in the types of injuries that may be sustained between the forefoot and rearfoot footfall patterns.”
South African running experts Tim Noakes and Ross Tucker go even farther. In their paper they enumerate five common running injuries, and speculate about how barefoot running (or forefoot striking) might affect each. Note that many researchers use “barefoot running” and “running with a midfoot/forefoot strike” as virtual synonyms, even though some studies have shown differences between the two.
Here’s a summary of the paper’s main points regarding the five common injuries:
1. Tibial stress fracture: Possibly decreased by barefoot running, but be extra careful about your transition time from cushioned shoes.
2. Metatarsal stress fracture: Possibly increased by barefoot running.
3. Knee pain: Possibly decreased by barefoot running.
4. Achilles tendon injuries: Possibly increased by barefoot running
5. Plantar fasciitis: Possibly decreased by barefoot running, but only after a gradual and successful transition from cushioned shoes.
All credible researchers in the field agree that bad training practices - ie, too much, too soon, too fast - are the major cause of running injuries. Also, that good running technique may be more important than shoe selection, and that individual runner variation trumps any general rules.
While acknowledging the attractiveness of the evolutionary born-to-run barefoot hypothesis, Noakes et al believe “the current promotion of barefoot running is based on oversimplified, poorly understood, equivocal, and, in some cases, absent research.”
They conclude: “There remain more questions than answers at present. Future research may elucidate some of these answers, but current advice, based on tenuous justifications and associations between biomechanical factors and injury do not by themselves constitute a compelling argument for barefoot running.
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The first task will be to disable the host from the load balancer. The load balancer runs on the foo-lb host; however, we're operating on the foo-app hosts. Therefore, we need to delegate the task using the delegate_to task operator. This operator redirects where Ansible will connect in order to execute the task, but keeps all the variable context of the original host. We'll use the haproxy module to disable the current host from the foo-app backend pool:
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Conversation Questions Social Problems
1. Are there food kitchens for the needy in your country?
2. Are there homeless shelters in your country?
3. Are there many homeless people where you live?
4. Are there many suicides in your country?
5. Are there nursing homes in your country?
6. Do you know anyone who is homeless?
7. Do you think it's acceptable for parents to use corporal punishment as a means
of discipline? Why/why not?
8. Have you ever experienced discrimination?
9. Have you ever known someone with an addiction?
10. In an overpopulated world, should people be free to have as many children as
they want?
11. Is there assistance available to people that are homeless?
12. Is there public assistance in your country?
13. What are some reasons people use illegal drugs?
14. What are some reasons that people become homeless?
15. What are some things people can do to eliminate discrimination and prejudice?
16. What are some ways we can help homeless people?
17. What do you think is the most serious problem in the world?
o Why do you think so?
o What can we do as individuals to solve this problem?
18. What do you think when you see a homeless person?
19. What types of noise pollution do you hate the most?
20. Who takes care of the elderly when they are no longer able to care for
21. Is it morally right to spend a lot of money on pets, rather than helping people in
22. Are you pro-life, or pro-choice? Why, and how do you see the opposing
23. How would you prevent someone from committing suicide?
1- soup kitchen ou food kitchen cozinha pública (lugar onde preparam comidas em preços
baratos para os necessitados) 2- Homeless shelters locais temporários para moradores de
rua afim de abriga los ate que consigam estabelece los de volta a sociedade. 3- nursing
home casa de repouso, instituto assistencial 4- punishment punição, castigo 5- addiction
vício, dependência 6- overpopulated superpovoado 7- prejudice preconceito; pré-
julgamento 8- solve resolver, esclarecer 9-noise pollution poluição sonora 10- elderly
idosos, velhos 11- no longer não mais 12- rather than ao invés de 13- pro life "a favor da
vida", nega o direito da mulher em realizar o aborto artificial 14- pro choice a favor da opção",
apoia o direito de escolha da mulher em terminar com a gravidez indesejada através do aborto
artificial 15- the opposing viewpoint o ponto de vista oposto
1-to line up colocar-se em fila,2- hematoma hematoma
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Summary: When we take our time and "Walk" through the word, we discover personal principles in even the most difficult passages
Walking in the Word
Romans 9:6-17
* Turn with me to Romans 9 and let’s read verses 6-17.
* Romans 9-11 are almost a “book” unto themselves. In fact, at least one preacher thinks this section of Romans needs to be dealt with independently of the rest of the book. Certainly there seems to be some logic to this.
* Were we a Bible or Seminary class it would be more than appropriate to talk about things like “Israel-God’s chosen people,” “the Patriarch”, “Deception in the family”, or a host of other subjects which might be of interest to a few but not really helpful when we leave this meeting. My desire is to not make our time together a lesson in academia but rather a rather a lesson in assistance.
* As I have read and studied this passage, I am again taken with how God can be found in every phrase of every passage, if only we take our time and walk through the word. To use the phrase “walk through” has come to mean that “to take one’s time” and “look beyond the obvious.” Today let’s do just that. Together let’s take a walk, not run, not scan, not pop in and out, but take our time and walk through God’s word & find Him there.
* Paul is obviously talking to and about the Jewish people, but we can discover 3 simple and helpful truths for them and for us.
1. God’s Word Is Strong – In the movie, “The Core”, a nerdy looking, computer geek delivers this line about his ability to hack the computer, “This is my Kung-fu and it is strong.” Without a second thought we can say, “The Word of God is our Kung-fu and it is strong. The HCSB Verse 6 begins, “It is not as though the word of God has failed” while the NKJV says “it’s not that the word of God has taken no effect.” The Greek term literally means that the word of God has not fallen down or failed. Throughout history, the enemy has attempted to do away with the word of God, but it has always been unsuccessful.
* Hebrews tells us, “The world of God is living, effective, powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword.” That verse goes on to remind us that the word of God penetrates beyond the exterior to the places few people know and see. Let me offer you three thought to put your hand around;
a. It Reveals Truth – As I have stated many times, in the USA today, truth is at a premium. Popular opinion is skewed about this thing of truth. People wanted to say truth is relative, but if truth is relative, is it really truth? For instance, when is cold blooded, calculated murder okay? When is rape okay? When is assault okay? The answer to all is never. How do we know that all these things are wrong? Because the Bible, the actual revelation of truth, tells us. The truth is, the Bible identifies and defines sin. Never miss this; a culture cannot define sin, it can only discover the truth. The Bible, God’s word, is a well constructed road map which leads us through this life and into the next one. As the Bible is digested, it gives instruction about how to be fulfilled in this life. Answers are found in the Bible because it reveals truth.
b. It Retains Truth – “To retain” means to “hold on to” or to “keep”. May I suggest that the Bible does this? While armies, Kings, rulers, countries, and many more have attempted to discredit, dismember, and destroy the physical word and the principles contained therein, God word stands. Truth is difficult to destroy. A young monk named Martin Luther challenged the wicked ways of the Catholic Church with his 95 Theses in 1517. After a 4-year struggle with the powerful church, he was called to answer for his position and given a night to reflect. After the night, He boldly stated, "Unless I am convinced by proofs from Scriptures or by plain and clear reasons and arguments, I can and will not retract, for it is neither safe nor wise to do anything against conscience. Here I stand. I can do no other. God help me. Amen." With these words, Luther stood on truth.
c. It Remains True – Let’s make this very simple; “What was true 2000 years ago is true today.” Truth is that which holds true “in all times, all people, for all people.” Jesus said, “I am THE way, THE TRUTH, and THE life.” This word has never failed, never fallen short, & never let anyone down. It’s strong enough to stand the test of time and eternity.
2. God’s Will Is Sovereign – Sovereign is a word which we have problems understanding. Why? Because we have never seen it applied in America. We live in a Democratic Republic which does not grant “sovereignty” to any one individual. However, we can remember Saddam Hussein as a Sovereign ruler over Iraq. Although his rule was wickedly vicious, it serves as a model for us to understand a “sovereign ruler.” One who is sovereign needs no permission from anyone to do anything. As a ruler, everyone in their domain is under their rule. The sovereign ruler holds the power of life and death in his hands. As an American, are you uncomfortable yet? You don’t want to live under the hand of a sovereign ruler? And now we see the problem we have with God. This is why we tend to rebel.
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Riddles with answers
Answer- 30 – Take the first number in a row, multiply by two and you get the second number, now multiply the second number by three and you get the result.
Answer = 3
Cat = 4, Mouse = 3, Cheese = 2
Then 4 – 3 + 2 = 3
Answer – 81 As you go down, subtract the sum of the separate digits in each number from itself to give the next number.
Answer 25
Answer 45
The Answer is 9
All 12 months
Correct answer – 11 (letter K). The letters represent their position in an alphabet. A = 1, B = 2, C = 3, D = 4, E = 5,
There are 44 triangles
The weight of the dog is 17 kg. The weight of the cat and rabbit are 10 kg, so the answer is 27 kg.
Answer: Pour the juice from the second glass into the fifth one.
16 pies
I, T, S. The complete sequence is the first letter of every word in the sentence
Words, book, novel, page, read, story
Which animal do you see first?
There are 9 hidden in the picture above
Answer – A paradox. If the statement is true it must also be a lie, which it cannot be
Footsteps / footprints
A doorbell
There’s a cat in the sink
Missing Sheep!
The answer is 40
Your Name
Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow
A: Robert has sisters who are doctors, so the answer is NO ONE. No one is lying!
The answer is 50
Answer – He has 5 children, all 4 daughters have the same 1 brother
We have heard there are supposed to be 7 horses, (including some partial horses, like a horse head and rear) I can see all seven, but it does help that that is how many I was looking out for! I can see one on the left looking out, and in the middle, there are four faces clustered together. In that group, the brown nose of one (second from left) covers the right side of the face of the one crouched lowest. To the right is a small horse standing sideways, and above the rear of the other horse, there is another head. Hope that helps … But if you don’t see more than five or six horses (at least in part) then be reassured by the fact that you’re among the many who believe that the real number shown in this picture should be five!
Look closely at this picture. There is something here that shouldn’t be here.
Answer: The McDonald’s sign
(3 + 5) – 2 = 16 (1 + 7) – 5 = 40 (9 + 2) – 3 = 33 (3 + 6) – 8 = 72 – The answer is 72.
Answer – 5 minutes
EXPLANATION: Your brain screams at you that the answer must be 100, because your intuitive side sees the 5-5-5 pattern in the first example, and 100-100-100 just looks right. But if it takes 5 minutes for 5 machines to make 5 widgets, it doesn’t take 20 times as long for 20 times as many machines to make 20 times the widgets. It will take the same 5 minutes for 100 machines to make 100 widgets, and it will take 5 minutes for 1000 machines to make 1000 widgets, and so on, because each machine spits out one widget every five minutes. That is the rate of widget production for the machines, and it doesn’t change no matter how many machines you are running at once.
Six feet under ground
Answer: the ball costs 5 pence and the bat costs £1.05, for a total of £1.10.
Consider these flowers as Blue = B, Orange = ORed = R, and Purple = P
Now according to question, equation as follow;
B + B – O = R — (1st Equation)
R – O = O — (2nd Equation)
B + O = P — (3rd Equation)
R – P + B = ?? — (4th Equation)
Well, in my case, I solved this puzzle by using only 2nd & 3rd equation. If you compared these two equations with each other you will get;
R – O + B + O = O + P (-O and +O cancel out with each other and equation become)
R + B = O + P
R + B – P = Y (Now compare this equation with the 4th equation of the puzzle and you will get the answer)
Both LHS(Left Hand Side) are equal, therefore RHS(Right Hand Side) should be equal too!
So the answer is ORANGE FLOWER i.e O Ans.
ANSWER: 7 + 13 + 16 + 8 + 12 + 9 = 65
All you have to do is find the word “DOG”. It sounds easy enough as most word searches involve a bit more brain work, but not as easy as you think! It’s not in the title or at the bottom either
Answer: Typewriter ribbon
There is something not quite right with this picture… Can you spot it?
Answer: It has been photoshopped and the model has been given two right feet!
Can you find the egg amongst the bunnies?
ANSWER: It’s an optical illusion … the green and purple circles are both the same size.
1 + 4 = 52 + 5 = 123 + 6 = 218 + 11 =
There could be 2 answers – 96 and 40 – there is a thorough explanation in the video below as well!
www.silversurfers.com (2) Answer:
The answer is 30!
In order to solve this question, you need to remember the order in which you do this type of equation. Going by the acronym PEMDAS (parenthesis, exponents, multiplication, division, addition, subtraction), you would have to do the multiplication first and then do the addition.
Another way to look at it is like this:
1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 11 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 11 + (1 x 0) + 1
= 29 + 0 + 1
= 30
Up close and personal!
Maths Problem
You Might Just Be a Genius if You Can Solve This Maths Problem
It’s actually quite simple: every number after the equals sign actually represents the results of three sums formed by multiplying, adding, and subtracting the two numbers before the equals sign.
For example, 8 + 2 = 16106
8 x 2 = 16
8 + 2 = 10
8 – 2 = 6
Flower Algebra
Flower Algebra
The answer is 81. Surprised? We got 101 on the first try, but there’s a reason behind the unexpected result. You may have worked out that the pink flower equals 20, the purple flower equals five, and the yellow flower equals one. So, it makes sense that a pink flower times a purple flower (multiplications always go before additions) plus a yellow flower equals 101. 1 + (20 x 5) = 101.
However, what you mightn’t have taken into account is the number of petals on the purple flower. Take another look – there’s only four petals in the last equation. Therefore, if a purple flower with five petals equals five, a purple flower with four petals only equals four. So, 1 + (20 x 4) = 81.
How many squares do you see-
Answer is 40
Here’s How:
www.silversurfers.com (1)
Answer: Sum of Opposite Ends is 24. So answer is 20.
There are several assumptions with this algebra question, and this is ours:
Red flower = 20 Blue flower = 5 Yellow flower = 1 each. The final line the blue flower only has 4 petals instead of 5 so the blue flower on this line is only worth 4. CALCULATION: 1 + 20 + 4= 25
Horse = 10 One Horse Shoe = 2 One Cowboy Boot = 1 each.
CALCULATION: 1 + 10 + 2 = 13
There were some people on train.19 people get off the train at the first stop.17 people get on the train.Now there are 63 people on the train.How many people were on the train to begin with-
It’s all a case of going backwards really. There’s 63 people on the train, which means we need that away from the 17 people who boarded the train – giving us 46 people.
From there, we have to account for the 19 people who got off, and we do this by adding 19 onto 46.
That gives us 65, and our answer.
There were 65 people on the train to begin with.
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When you were 4, she was 2 years younger than you, and will always be, She’s 98
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The cold war
1. 1. THE COLD WAR
2. 2. THE WORLD DIVIDED 1945-1975
5. 5. 1968, the Prague Spring DISSIDENCE IN THE EASTERN BLOC
6. 6. It was the period of constant tension between the end of WWII (1945) and the end os USSR (1991). After WWII, USA and USSR carried out a diplomatic conflict called: COLD WAR. THE COLD WAR
7. 7. CONSTANT TENSION Each superpower aimed to demonstrate and increase its own power. Each superpower aimed to limit or reduce the influence of the other. THE COLD WAR
8. 8. However, both the Americans and the Soviets wanted to avoid a direct military confrontation, since this could lead to nuclear war. THE COLD WAR
10. 10. 1946: Churchill denounced in a famous speech that "from Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, has fallen on the continent (Europe) an iron curtain." PRELUDE OF THE COLD WAR
11. 11. Iron curtain: It described the increasing influence of the USSR on the Eastern Europe. It confirmed that the understanding between the Allies was breaking. PRELUDE OF THE COLD WAR
12. 12. The Civil War in Greece Communist and monarchics fight for the power in the government. Truman decided to support the Greek monarchics in order to avoid the Communists to seize power. Policy of containment or doctrine Truman: Truman decided to support the anti-communist in every part of the world. PRELUDE OF THE COLD WAR
13. 13. USA and USSR reinforced their spheres of influence: PRELUDE OF THE COLD WAR USA 1947: Marshall Plan Program of economic support to restore the European economy. USSR obliged Eastern Europe to reject it. USSR 1947:Kominform Organisation to coordinate the support to the Communist parties all over the world.
14. 14. INITIAL CONFLICTS (1948-1962
15. 15. In this context, USA and USSR participated indirectly in political and military conflicts between other countries. The 1948 Berlin Blockade The Korean War 1950-1953 The 1956 Suez Crisis The building of the Berlin Wall The 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis INITIAL CONFLICTS 1948-1962
16. 16. Just three years after the end of WWII, the first conflict of the Cold War took place: the crisis of Berlin. THE 1948 BERLIN BLOCKADE The Allies unify their zones of occupation, USSR blockades Western Berlin…
17. 17. THE 1948 BERLIN BLOCKADE The Western Allies aid their sector in Berlin by air.
18. 18. THE 1948 BERLIN BLOCKADE Planes weren´t attacked by the Soviets because they were afraid of a nuclear response by USA…
19. 19. THE 1948 BERLIN BLOCKADE Federal Republic of Germany (known as West Germany) German Democratic Republic (Known as East Germany or the GDR) Berlin remained divided into eastern and western zones Two new countries appeared: FRG (capitalist) and RDA (communist).
20. 20. After the defeat of Japan, Korea had been divided in a northern communist zone and a southern capitalist zone. In 1950 North Korea, supported by USSR and China, invaded South Korea. The U.N. condemned the invasion and approved the intervention of USA. THE KOREAN WAR 1950-1953
21. 21. THE KOREAN WAR 1950-1953
22. 22. The conflict ended with the division of the two countries along the 38th parallel. In 1953 the peace was signed and the borders of 1950 were maintained. THE KOREAN WAR 1950-1953
23. 23. THE 1956 SUEZ CRISIS • Nasser nationalised the Suez Canal, which had been controlled by France and Great Britain. • Nasser was supported by the USSR. French and British troops were sent to Egypt, but the USA did not support this operation so the troops were withdrawn.
24. 24. There were great differences between the Western and the Eastern Berlin: Western Berlin was richer and had a political regime of freedom. Reaction: people in Eastern Berlin migrated to Western Berlin. THE BUILDING OF THE BERLIN WALL (1961)
25. 25. The Communist authorities of the GDR decided to separate their sector of the western zone of the city in order to stop the emigration: 1961, 13th August: the wall was built, dividing Berlin and the Berliners during 30 years. THE BUILDING OF THE BERLIN WALL (1961) The wall of Berlin impressed the world and became a symbol of the Cold War.
26. 26. Until 1959 there was a militar dictatorship in Cuba led by Fulgencio Batista. THE 1962 CUBAN MISSILE CRISIS In 1959, Fidel Castro deposed the dictator Batista En 1959, but the USA opposed the Cuban Communist regime, which became closer to the USSR. It was the first time that the USA had his rival so close.
27. 27. In 1962, Castro gave permission for the USSR to install nuclear weapons on the island. In response, Kennedy decreed the naval blockade to avoid the arrival of Sovietic material to Cuba. THE 1962 CUBAN MISSILE CRISIS
28. 28. THE 1962 CUBAN MISSILE CRISIS During 13 days, it was thought that a war between the two blocs was possible.
29. 29. Retratos en versión cómic de los personajes involucrados de forma mas directa en la crisis de los misiles: Krusev, URSS; Kennedy, EE.UU y Fidel Castro, Cuba. Fueron los mandatarios que durante 13 dias mantuvieron en vilo al mundo entero en torno a una Tercera. Guerra mundial, con armas aun mas poderosas que las usadas en la anterior guerra, sin duda hubiese sido el fin del mundo como lo conocemos actualmente. THE 1962 CUBAN MISSILE CRISIS During 13 days, the world was afraid of being at the beginning of the THIRD WORLD WAR.
30. 30. Finally, after tense negotiations between Kennedy and the Soviet leader Khrushev, the USSR finally agreed to withdraw the weapons from Cuba. THE 1962 CUBAN MISSILE CRISIS
31. 31. 1963-1975 PEACEFUL COEXISTENCE
32. 32. PEACEFUL COEXISTENCE In the 1960s, a new era or peaceful coexistence began, characterised by greater dialogue between the two superpowers. Kennedy and Krushchev were more flexible in their negotiations with one another than previous leaders had been. A number of international disarmament conferences took place, with the aim of preventing nuclear war. Video Cuban Missiles crisis
35. 35. THE VIETNAM WAR (1961-1975) LA GUERRA DE VIETNAM It was the bloodiest conflict of this period. Vietnam became independent of France in 1954 and was divided in two parts by the 17th parallel: North Vietnam: Communist South Vietnam: Anti-communist.
37. 37. THE VIETNAM WAR (1961-1975) In South Vietnam the procommunist Vietcong guerrillas had appeared to try to join the country to North Vietnam.
38. 38. THE VIETNAM WAR (1961-1975) When did USA intervene? 1962: USA intervened when Kennedy sent military advisers to South Vietnam to prevent the fall of the anti-communist regime. Why did USA intervene? Because they were afraid of the fact that if Vietnam unified under a Communist regime, other countries would be absorbed by the Sovietic bloc.
39. 39. THE VIETNAM WAR (1961-1975) In the following years, president Johnson sent American troops to help the government of South Vietnam. In 1968 there were half a million American soldiers.
40. 40. THE VIETNAM WAR (1961-1975) The conflict spread to Laos and Cambodia.
41. 41. THE VIETNAM WAR (1961-1975) This war was very unpopular in the USA, because of: It long duration. A lot of casualties. The Vietcong was not defeated in spite of the superiority of the American troops.
42. 42. THE VIETNAM WAR (1961-1975) President Nixon started a gradual withdrawal of the USA, which finished in 1974. In 1975, South Vietnam was defeated and Vietnam became unified.
43. 43. In 1948, the territory of Palestine was divided into two separate states. THE ARAB-ISRAELI CONFLICT One of these was Israel, which was created as a homeland for the Jewish people in the British mandate in Palentine. However, the Arabs the creation of the state of Israel. who lived in Palestine strongly opposed
44. 44. In 1964, the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) was established. THE ARAB-ISRAELI CONFLICT Yasser Arafat
45. 45. Since 1960s, disputes between the Israelis and the Palestinians have been a source of constant tension and conflict in the Middle East. THE ARAB-ISRAELI CONFLICT Israelis Supported by USA and Western European countries. Palestinians Supported by various Arab states.
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Lineville Intermediate
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Atheros AR3012 Bluetooth(R) Adapter, Version for Microsoft® Windows® 7
This utility will install the originally shipped version of the Atheros AR3012 Bluetooth(R) Adapter for the Sony VAIO® computers listed below.
Download And Installation Instructions
Please follow the steps below to download and install the AHDBLT-00268120-0042.exe program.
• Download the AHDBLT-00268120-0042.EXE file to a temporary or download directory (please note this directory for reference).
• Go to the directory where the file was downloaded and double-click the AHDBLT-00268120-0042.EXE file to begin the installation.
• At the User Account Control window, click the Yes button
• If the Select Language window appears, select the language you wish to use and click the OK button.
• At the Select Country screen, select the country for the installation and click the Next button.
• At the Welcome to Atheros AR3012 Bluetooth(R) Adapter Setup Program window, click the Next button.
• Read the Software License Agreement and click the I Agree button
• At the Finished screen, click the Finish button.
• At the This system must be restarted to complete the installation screen, click the OK button to restart the system.
The installation of the Atheros AR3012 Bluetooth(R) Adapter is completed.
• AHDBLT-00268120-0042.exe
• 64 bit
• 114.97 Mb
Veröffentlicht am:
• 11.71.2012
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H by Hudson Boots
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These two pieces start in very different places, but because of a similar attitude about surface, the results are strikingly similar.
Both begin with white tones held together by intermittent black lines. Both employ the same palette: green, red, orange, and blue, although the predominance of greens and reds is reversed. Both have a choppy surface constructed of short, abrupt touches. There are more large, unifying shapes in the Cezanne, but they are treated as textures in much the same way as the de Kooning..
Paul Cezanne – copy of Delacroix’s ‘Medea’ c. 1880 Willem de Kooning – Woman 1 1952
For comparison, here is the Delacroix that Cezanne was copying. It’s divided into large areas of dark and light with the
Medea – 1862 (W’pedia Commons)
purpose of dramatizing the action. The bodies are bright, coherent shapes. Medea’s gown is dark, to set off the children’s flesh tones. The background, right, is light to contrast with Medea’s hair; the foreground is dark with a little path in the middle so that the eye goes into the space as if it were a stage, and then moves upward to the bodies. Color is reserved.
Cezanne has recast the whole in light to middle tones, which has the effect of flattening the picture plane. His foreground is a light shape; the foot cuts to the bottom edge, which de-dramatizes the space by making the corners shapes rather than the foreground of a stage. The figures are far less coherent because Cezanne is exploring all the little local possibilities of shape and tone, and making each bit interesting, rather than disciplining the parts to an overriding whole. Obviously he respects the Delacroix, and is learning from it–he keeps the ominous shadow over Medea’s face, for example, and gives her head a more willful, less regretful tilt–but the lessons he’s learning are of his own devising.
So from Delacroix to Cezanne, a huge leap from storytelling to the exploration of surface. From Cezanne to de Kooning another step, but not so huge. De Kooning flattens the picture plane more than Cezanne by enlarging the figure and treating the marginal shapes more actively. And interestingly, while Cezanne is undercutting drama, which seems the modernist direction, de Kooning is going back to it big time. His women are called bitch goddesses–very in your face.
This piece is a reprise of 11/12/11.
The portraits of Arthur Devis (1712 – 1787) can seem quaint when compared with grander portrait styles, but they are less convention-bound, and have their own curious vision. The spaces are large and dim, and get paler as you look into the farther rooms. The views visible through the windows are just like the landscapes on the walls. The people seem almost lost in their great, sparely furnished houses. They are decked out in their finest, clearly posing, but seem distracted, as if thinking about something else.
Sir Roger Newdigate 1756 W’pedia
Mr. & Mrs. Richard Bull c.1750
The figures are planted very firmly in the middle of their spaces, but the spaces are odd: Sir Roger, to the right, seems to live in a funhouse where floor and ceiling almost meet at the back wall. His monstrous desk slides into the picture from the wings. His feet are planted square across the picture plane as if to say, “the eye stops here,” and also, it seems, to arrest the progress of his desk. His pose, however, is active, and the front of the desk and his chair shift the eye back into space, and link it to the background. A more conventional painter would have flattened the floor and elevated the ceiling. But if you look at Sir Roger’s space as composed of abstract shapes, almost flat above and below, with a busy clutter of warm reds and the strong blacks and whites of the figure across the middle, it’s very satisfying.
The Bulls are composed similarly. The rug is parallel to the bottom of the space, like Sir Roger’s feet, but Mrs. Bull is set on the oblique, like the desk, with her hemline leading to Mr. Bull’s legs, which continue it up to his face so that he doesn’t get lost even though he’s smaller and dimmer. Here, too, the strongest darks and lights are reserved for the figures so that they always recall the eye when it wanders into the large space around them.
Arthur Penn 1752 Philidelphia Museum
Then we have this odd pose in a doorway. The farther room is carpeted, in contrast to the considerable expanse of bare floor in the foreground; the view through the window is lush and complex as opposed to the unadorned paneling and door closest to us. Spare and light out here, dark and rich beyond. Some inner sanctum? If so, and if that is important to the gentleman, why not set the portrait in that room? Perhaps because Devis liked this composition. And the darkness beyond sets off the figure very effectively, just as the fireplace sets off Mrs. Bull.
As designs, these three portraits are striking and ingenious; as social advertising or self-congratulation, which is usually the point of portraiture, they are perhaps dubious. This may be why Devis fell out of fashion, and Sir Joshua Reynolds, among others, full of flash and dash, became the rage. It seems too bad. The Reynolds below is perfectly well painted, but it’s obvious, snobby, and sentimental all at once.
Reynolds – Lady Elizabeth Delme & children c.1778 W’pedia
Certainly, Devis’s vision was very personal to himself, and perhaps Lady Elizabeth and her peers, shopping around, wanted less presence of the painter, and more attention to their own good looks and fine clothes and stylish hair. And children, of course. As Gertrude demanded of Polonius, “More matter with less art.”
Sir Joshua bores me, but I always come back to Devis with fascination.
This post is a reprise of October 22, 2011
John James Audubon – “Virginia Partridge” 1825 Wikipedia
I’ve tended not to take Audubon’s bird illustrations seriously, but lately—at last—I’ve begun to appreciate both his sense of drama and the abstract power of his designs. So like Kline. Not just an illustrator, not at all.
Franz Kline – untitled drawing c.5 x 4″ 1950 the Metropolitan Museum of Art
This fuzzy file from Wikipedia is the only image I’ve seen for this painting by Peter Kobler von Ehrensorg (1746), but the delight here is not the details, but the unbridled luxury of the design.
The two figures float on a field of black and near-black. The emperor almost disappears into a flurry of red and orange middle tones, which are repeated less vividly on the empress’s side. She leaps out, brightly contrasted with the inky surrounds of background and her gown. His large area of middle tones interweaves with her smaller area of brights; the predominant darks and whites on her side are picked up in small, sharp bits on his costume.
Those sorts of contrasts and repetitions are common enough in complex paintings. What sets this piece apart is both the richness and subtlety of the colors and the surrealistic liveliness of their costumes: dancing, billowing ribbons, full of variety from one side to the other.
Francis I, Holy Roman Emperor and Grand Duke of Tuscany, and Maria Theresa, Empress Consort of the Holy Roman Empire, Queen Consort of Germany.
Even that wonderful chair plays in. For fun, start with the trim of his robe where it is flipped inside-out across the chair. It rises from the arm of the chair, floats (defying gravity) up to his chest, then curves back over his shoulder. It reappears on the other side, dives under that rich if unconvincing inside-out bit coming down from his left arm, appears again below his scepter and wiggles down to the floor. There it gets entangled with what may be more robe or may be something else, but which in any case delivers the eye to the amazing soft orange trim of her gown, which, although low-key, seems bright because it is contrasted with the intense black of gown and floor, and carries us all the way to the right edge of the composition—where the eye is caught by the brighter, firmer body of her robe above, which carries us up, across her whole upper half, and presently back to his left hand.
And so on. Cy Twombly would play similar games, not without richness and resource, but without the playfulness or the surprise.
Twombly “untitled” 1970 (berkshirefinearts.com)
This post is a reprise of January 21, 2012
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FBI Agent Tries To Register Copyright On Top Secret Interrogation Manual... Making It Available To Anyone
from the copyright-uber-alles dept
Here's a bizarre one on so many levels. The FBI has a top secret 70-page "interrogation manual." For years, the ACLU has been trying to get its hands on a copy, finally receiving a heavily redacted one. However, it turns out that if the good folks at the ACLU had just decided to wander over to the Library of Congress, they could have seen a totally unredacted copy of the entire manual, as could anyone else with a library card. Why? Because in this bizarre age we live in, in which people seem to think it's important to copyright absolutely everything the senior FBI official who authored the manual decided that he should try to register a copyright on it, and submitted it to the Library of Congress as a part of the registration process, whereby it becomes available to anyone who stops by and asks for it.
This is idiotic on multiple levels. First, as is well known, documents produced by federal government employees are automatically public domain, meaning that you cannot copyright them. Second, of course, why the hell would this FBI supervisory special agent think it even made the least bit of sense to try to get a copyright, let alone submit a copy of the top secret manual to the Library of Congress? Then, of course, there's the issue that even if it was possible to put a copyright on this document (and, again, there's not), it would almost certainly belong not to the individual FBI agent, but to the government itself. Not only can't this guy get a copyright, but there's no reason for him to try to get a copyright (what, is he going to sell the book?), and then revealing the manual to anyone, let alone an operation whose basic entire purpose is to catalog the works and make them available to the public is quite incredible.
Mother Jones, who went and found the manual at the Library of Congress, quotes a few people who are reasonably shocked that this happened:
"A document that has not been released does not even need a copyright," says Steven Aftergood, a government secrecy expert at the Federation of American Scientists. "Who is going to plagiarize from it? Even if you wanted to, you couldn't violate the copyright because you don't have the document. It isn't available."
"The whole thing is a comedy of errors," he adds. "It sounds like gross incompetence and ignorance."
Julian Sanchez, a fellow with the libertarian Cato Institute who has studied copyright policy, was harsher: "Do they not cover this in orientation? [Sensitive] documents should not be placed in public repositories—and, by the way, aren't copyrightable. How do you even get a clearance without knowing this stuff?"
Aftergood's comments are a little misleading, as there are certainly reasons why someone might want to register a copyright on an unpublished work (though, none of them apply to this particular work), and plagiarism is a different issue from infringement. But his point about "gross incompetence and ignorance" seems on point.
Of course, now that the full document can be seen by anyone, Mother Jones compared it to the ACLU's redacted version, and while they're not allowed to make copies or take notes when viewing the document, they were able to look at some of the redacted sections, including revealing some questionable techniques. From what's been revealed, it appears that the manual does encourage the use of very outdated and discredited interrogation techniques. In an interesting bit of timing, there was just a fascinating New Yorker article focusing on how law enforcement in the US still uses this completely debunked method, known as the "Reid Technique," which has a long history of eliciting false confessions (there's also a really good summary of the details over at NPR). US law enforcement has long been resistant to moving away from these methods, despite their ineffectiveness, but thanks to one not-particularly-knowledgeable FBI agent's desire to copyright an uncopyrightable work, we now know a bit more about the FBI's continued promotion of these techniques.
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Copyright necessary to preserve its value
Mike, you just don't understand how government works. (insanity to follow...)
If he didn't get a copyright on a secret torture manual, then it would lose its value! It would be as worthless as something in the public domain. Only Freetards would put creative work into the public domain where nobody can make a profit from it for life of the government + 90 years.
Since everything a government employee creates is automatically public domain, shouldn't the government copyright it to get it out of the public domain, as the RIAA/MPAA do in order to preserve its value?
You said it best when you wrote
This is idiotic on multiple levels.
That explains it right there. No more analysis needed.
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how can change bios password thoshiba tecra m7 s7311
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Go to BIOS on booting and change password there.
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Wait till you are prompted for either the existing Password or the BIOS POST Screen and press the necessary key to enter the BIOS.
When Prompted enter the existing Password then navigate tot he Security Area and chose the link to change the Password.
You'll most likely need to enter the existing Password again to confirm you are the rightful user and then the New Password. Then save the changes as you exit the BIOS and your new Password is set.
If you are asking how to bypass the existing Password sorry you have to take the unit to an Authorized Toshiba Service Agent as Toshiba doesn't help people out with things like this.
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Tony Porter
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I grew up in New York City, between Harlem and the Bronx. Growing up as a boy, we were taught that men had to be tough, had to be strong, had to be courageous, dominating — no pain, no emotions, with the exception of anger — and definitely no fear; that men are in charge, which means women are not; that men lead, and you should just follow and do what we say; that men are superior; women are inferior; that men are strong; women are weak; that women are of less value, property of men, and objects, particularly sexual objects. I've later come to know that to be the collective socialization of men, better known as the "man box." See this man box has in it all the ingredients of how we define what it means to be a man. Now I also want to say, without a doubt, there are some wonderful, wonderful, absolutely wonderful things about being a man. But at the same time, there's some stuff that's just straight up twisted, and we really need to begin to challenge, look at it and really get in the process of deconstructing, redefining, what we come to know as manhood.
This is my two at home, Kendall and Jay. They're 11 and 12. Kendall's 15 months older than Jay. There was a period of time when my wife — her name is Tammie — and I, we just got real busy and whip, bam, boom: Kendall and Jay. (Laughter) And when they were about five and six, four and five, Jay could come to me, come to me crying. It didn't matter what she was crying about, she could get on my knee, she could snot my sleeve up, just cry, cry it out. Daddy's got you. That's all that's important.
Now Kendall on the other hand — and like I said, he's only 15 months older than her — he'd come to me crying, it's like as soon as I would hear him cry, a clock would go off. I would give the boy probably about 30 seconds, which means, by the time he got to me, I was already saying things like, "Why are you crying? Hold your head up. Look at me. Explain to me what's wrong. Tell me what's wrong. I can't understand you. Why are you crying?" And out of my own frustration of my role and responsibility of building him up as a man to fit into these guidelines and these structures that are defining this man box, I would find myself saying things like, "Just go in your room. Just go on, go on in your room. Sit down, get yourself together and come back and talk to me when you can talk to me like a —" what? (Audience: Man.) Like a man. And he's five years old. And as I grow in life, I would say to myself, "My God, what's wrong with me? What am I doing? Why would I do this?" And I think back. I think back to my father.
There was a time in my life where we had a very troubled experience in our family. My brother, Henry, he died tragically when we were teenagers. We lived in New York City, as I said. We lived in the Bronx at the time, and the burial was in a place called Long Island, it was about two hours outside of the city. And as we were preparing to come back from the burial, the cars stopped at the bathroom to let folks take care of themselves before the long ride back to the city. And the limousine empties out. My mother, my sister, my auntie, they all get out, but my father and I stayed in the limousine, and no sooner than the women got out, he burst out crying. He didn't want cry in front of me, but he knew he wasn't going to make it back to the city, and it was better me than to allow himself to express these feelings and emotions in front of the women. And this is a man who, 10 minutes ago, had just put his teenage son in the ground — something I just can't even imagine. The thing that sticks with me the most is that he was apologizing to me for crying in front of me, and at the same time, he was also giving me props, lifting me up, for not crying.
I come to also look at this as this fear that we have as men, this fear that just has us paralyzed, holding us hostage to this man box. I can remember speaking to a 12-year-old boy, a football player, and I asked him, I said, "How would you feel if, in front of all the players, your coach told you you were playing like a girl?" Now I expected him to say something like, I'd be sad; I'd be mad; I'd be angry, or something like that. No, the boy said to me — the boy said to me, "It would destroy me." And I said to myself, "God, if it would destroy him to be called a girl, what are we then teaching him about girls?"
It took me back to a time when I was about 12 years old. I grew up in tenement buildings in the inner city. At this time we're living in the Bronx, and in the building next to where I lived there was a guy named Johnny. He was about 16 years old, and we were all about 12 years old — younger guys. And he was hanging out with all us younger guys. And this guy, he was up to a lot of no good. He was the kind of kid who parents would have to wonder, "What is this 16-year-old boy doing with these 12-year-old boys?" And he did spend a lot of time up to no good. He was a troubled kid. His mother had died from a heroin overdose. He was being raised by his grandmother. His father wasn't on the set. His grandmother had two jobs. He was home alone a lot. But I've got to tell you, we young guys, we looked up to this dude, man. He was cool. He was fine. That's what the sisters said, "He was fine." He was having sex. We all looked up to him.
So one day, I'm out in front of the house doing something — just playing around, doing something — I don't know what. He looks out his window; he calls me upstairs; he said, "Hey Anthony." They called me Anthony growing up as a kid. "Hey Anthony, come on upstairs." Johnny call, you go. So I run right upstairs. As he opens the door, he says to me, "Do you want some?" Now I immediately knew what he meant. Because for me growing up at that time, and our relationship with this man box, "Do you want some?" meant one of two things: sex or drugs — and we weren't doing drugs. Now my box, my card, my man box card, was immediately in jeopardy. Two things: One, I never had sex. We don't talk about that as men. You only tell your dearest, closest friend, sworn to secrecy for life, the first time you had sex. For everybody else, we go around like we've been having sex since we were two. There ain't no first time. (Laughter) The other thing I couldn't tell him is that I didn't want any. That's even worse. We're supposed to always be on the prowl. Women are objects, especially sexual objects.
Anyway, so I couldn't tell him any of that. So, like my mother would say, make a long story short, I just simply said to Johnny, "Yes." He told me to go in his room. I go in his room. On his bed is a girl from the neighborhood named Sheila. She's 16 years old. She's nude. She's what I know today to be mentally ill, higher-functioning at times than others. We had a whole choice of inappropriate names for her. Anyway, Johnny had just gotten through having sex with her. Well actually, he raped her, but he would say he had sex with her. Because, while Sheila never said no, she also never said yes.
So he was offering me the opportunity to do the same. So when I go in the room, I close the door. Folks, I'm petrified. I stand with my back to the door so Johnny can't bust in the room and see that I'm not doing anything, and I stand there long enough that I could have actually done something. So now I'm no longer trying to figure out what I'm going to do; I'm trying to figure out how I'm going to get out of this room. So in my 12 years of wisdom, I zip my pants down, I walk out into the room, and lo and behold to me, while I was in the room with Sheila, Johnny was back at the window calling guys up. So now there's a living room full of guys. It was like the waiting room in the doctor's office. And they asked me how was it, and I say to them, "It was good," and I zip my pants up in front of them, and I head for the door.
Now I say this all with remorse, and I was feeling a tremendous amount of remorse at that time, but I was conflicted, because, while I was feeling remorse, I was excited, because I didn't get caught. But I knew I felt bad about what was happening. This fear, getting outside the man box, totally enveloped me. It was way more important to me, about me and my man box card than about Sheila and what was happening to her.
See collectively, we as men are taught to have less value in women, to view them as property and the objects of men. We see that as an equation that equals violence against women. We as men, good men, the large majority of men, we operate on the foundation of this whole collective socialization. We kind of see ourselves separate, but we're very much a part of it. You see, we have to come to understand that less value, property and objectification is the foundation and the violence can't happen without it. So we're very much a part of the solution as well as the problem. The center for disease control says that men's violence against women is at epidemic proportions, is the number one health concern for women in this country and abroad.
So quickly, I'd like to just say, this is the love of my life, my daughter Jay. The world I envision for her — how do I want men to be acting and behaving? I need you on board. I need you with me. I need you working with me and me working with you on how we raise our sons and teach them to be men — that it's okay to not be dominating, that it's okay to have feelings and emotions, that it's okay to promote equality, that it's okay to have women who are just friends and that's it, that it's okay to be whole, that my liberation as a man is tied to your liberation as a woman. (Applause)
I remember asking a nine-year-old boy, I asked a nine-year-old boy, "What would life be like for you, if you didn't have to adhere to this man box?" He said to me, "I would be free."
Thank you folks.
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From busking to selling out concert venues worldwide. Here’s Tash Sultana on World Cafe Next
In a very short amount of time, 21-year-old singer-songwriter Tash Sultana has gone from busking in her hometown of Melbourne, Australia, to selling out concert venues worldwide. But the bigger challenge has been extracting herself from addiction and drug-induced psychosis, which threatened her mental well-being and her life. She credits doing only what made her happy for her recovery. That meant it was out of school and onto Melbourne’s sidewalks, where she used a looping pedal to construct her own backing for her powerful songs.
Hear two songs from Sultana’s new EP, Notion.
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Happy birthday Late Night Tales! No doubt the Friendly Fires boys will throw you a cracking 30th soiree; full of cake and carnal revelry, to distract you from the fact that not even the death of Woolworth's could bring an end to Now That's What I Call Music's reign of terror. Possibly the only residents of St Albans that can get away with owning maracas, Ed, Edd and Jack are bringing the party... so come round, we've got cocktail sausages, jelly and Benedict Cumberbatch.
It would be wise to not profess love for Junior Boys in a public place for fear of garnering some very strange looks, but 'Under The Sun' may make all the raised eyebrows worth it. The brooding bass and repetition bring to mind the seedy underbelly of a Berlin nightclub. Dropping your surname is oh so mysterious of Renée, a woman that sings like Heart Of Glass era Debbie Harry singing Vogue by Madonna whilst wearing MC Hammer pants. I can confirm that did just happen.
'Love Vibration' is a disco homage to getting it on, no doubt the perfect song accompaniment for Ed Macfarlane's now signature 'giving birth to a baby' dance move. Iron Galaxy are a teensy bit marvellous aren't they? I can guarantee that if you dropped 'Attention Seeker' at a party in the wee hours of the morning, even the guy passed out the corner would get back up to throw some shapes. Alt neon hop needs to be a genre, purely for tracks like this.
Mightily masked behemoths SBTRKT have changed the game. What those guys can do with a sample and a tribal headdress is slim to none, utilising the vocal talents of Sampha, 'Hold On' still sounds so fresh. The xylophone pings revive the summer just gone whilst at the same time making it snow. DJ Sprinkles? The phrase don't judge a book by its cover springs to mind, and while the track is pretty blissed out, the name DJ Sprinkles is impossible for me to get over.
'Endless Shore' by Melody's Echo Chamber marks the end of the disco, everyone's gone home and the cleanup has begun. Drench yourself in some wonderful lo-fi fuzzy music for a fuzzy head and you'll feel all the better for it. Cocteau Twins are great. There's no two ways about it, 'Cherry-Coloured Funk' is an antithesis of itself, simple yet complex in how it's been constructed. Remember Grease? That film about leather jackets and about five truckloads more than is healthy of brylcream? Well it turns out that Olivia Newton-John can actually sing a little bit. 'Love Song' isn't bad, but in the same respect it's not great either, and to be honest it's also a total buzz kill not cool Sandy, go back to High School.
Why are the ends of records always depressing? Nils Frahm needs something happy like the Great British Bake Off or Come Dine With Me in his life. But as melancholic as 'Over There, It's Raining' is, there is beauty in the sadness and romance in the pain. If you thought Friendly Fires had played their trump card already, you would be wrong. Is there a more soothing voice than the dulcet tones of Sherlock Holmes himself; Mr Benedict Cumberbatch? 'Flat Of Angles Part 1' will make you wish Benedict was the voice inside your head.
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The Author
Timoteo Sazo holds a BA in English literature and linguistics from The Catholic University of Chile. He and his wife, Kaitlin, live in the Washington, D.C., area and are members at Sterling Park Baptist Church. Timoteo attends Reformed Theological Seminary. You can follow him on Twitter.
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MBTI Step II Facets: Critical–Accepting
29 Aug 2017
Be prepared for some push-back from clients who report Thinking in-preference Critical on the MBTI® Step II™ assessment. The bullet-point descriptors on the MBTI® Step II™ Interpretive Report can be more direct (some say harsh) for this result than for any other. I’ve had a client get a bit argumentative about the descriptor “are argumentative.” And a participant in an MBTI® Certification Program this week sprinted across the room to the Accepting side after reading the Critical descriptors!
While I make it clear to clients that they are the final decision maker on their MBTI results, I also encourage them to challenge their conclusion by asking people who know them well whether or not these results and the descriptors seem to fit them. For that reason, I ask clients to never cross out any of the report comments. Instead, I have them highlight in yellow any descriptors with which they agree and in pink any with which they disagree. That way, they get to own what they choose while still keeping what they disagree with visible.
If you do team-building work that includes this facet, don’t be surprised to find lots of participants reporting Accepting, regardless of whether they report a preference for Thinking or Feeling. Societal influence plays a part here, in that we are a society that encourages accepting over critical behavior. Critical behavior can get an unfair bad rap. While it can come across as overly negative, the purpose of critical behavior is simply to correct what is wrong.
By the way, if you haven't seen the updated version of the MBTI Step II Interpretive Report, you can find the sample report here.
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Hide .map and .js files in VS Code when doing TypeScript
Visual Studio Code is an open source code editor developed by Microsoft for Windows, Linux and OS X. It includes support for debugging, embedded Git control, intelligent code completion (also known as IntelliSense), and other features. It is also customizable, so users can change the editor's theme, change the editor's keyboard shortcuts, change the editor's preferences, and others.
Ok, so much for the Microsoft marketing speech :).
I replaced sublime with VSCode a while back and I must say I am really impressed by it thus far. It is blazing fast. Not just fast, blazing fast. It has tons of cool features and it is completely customizable.
VSCode is a small Visual Studio if you will; an IDE that behaves, looks and loads (!) like a source code editor!
If you haven't checked it out yet I strongly advise you to do so now! -don't worry I'll wait a bit before continuing ;)-
One of the things I tend to do with VSCode is TypeScript. As you may know, when you're doing TypeScript each '.ts' file gets 'transpiled' into two other files. So you'll have a '.map' file, a '.ts' file and a '.js' file. When you're programming you are only interested in the '.ts' file though, the others just clutter up your workspace.
Here's how you make VSCode hide these file:
Edit the user (or workspace) settings by clicking File > Preferences.
VS Code Preferences
You should get two views. The left (read-only) view contains the default settings while the right contains settings that override the default ones. So you change settings by copying them from the left to the right.
Paste the following json configuration in the right view:
"files.exclude": {
"**/.git": true,
"**/.DS_Store": true,
"**/*.js.map": true,
"**/*.js": {"when": "$(basename).ts"}
This will hide '.js.map' files all-together (don't need them) and hide '.js' files that have corresponding '.ts' files.
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I recently heard an interview with Rev. Levi Lusco. He was discussing his new book “Swipe Right.” The dating app Tinder provides pictures and basic information that people “looking to date” have uploaded of themselves. If the user swipes to the left of a particular image, then that means he or she is not interested. However, if you swipe to the right, that means you are interested and if the other person does the same thing to your picture, you are very likely going to have sex with them very soon.
“You may ask what does that have to do with pornography? They both are feeding a desire for sex in an immoral manner,” Todd Shupe, of Baton Rouge, said recently. “Sex is a gift from God and its value decreases when it is approached with such a nonchalant attitude,” the Christian ministries volunteer and former LSU wood sciences professor continued.
Pornography can be as addicting as any drug. Studies have shown that it releases endorphins in the brain which make it “feel good” when in fact it is actually harmful to the body and soul. In reality, it is the fruit of the enemy. Every relationship comes with a moral commitment; this commitment is absent in the relationships of the flesh.
Mark 7:15 tell us: “Nothing outside a person can defile them by going into them. Rather, it is what comes out of a person that defiles them.” If you “feed” yourself with immorality, then what do you expect to come out of you? Christians are certainly not immune to pornography addition. The same can be said for clergy. “Many of the millennial generation are products of divorced parents,” LSU’s Todd Shupe said. “They see no benefits of marriage and feed their desires through illicit relationships and pornography.” Rev. Lusco stated that 1 out of 3 boys who are 13 years of age have a pornography problem.
As men of the church, Todd Shupe believes that we must be the defenders of these young boys. We must explain to them why this behavior is harmful. The pleasure that they are feeling is not Godly and if they do get married later in life, they often report a less satisfied sex life, according to Rev. Lesko.
Do you recall the story in Genesis of Jacob and Esau? These were twin sons of Issac. Esau was the oldest by seconds and by right he held the higher position in the family. One day Esau returned to his brother, Jacob, and was famished from working in the fields. He begged his twin brother to give him some “red pottage” (stew). Jacob offered to give Esau a bowl of stew in exchange for his birthright (the right to be recognized as firstborn) and Esau agreed.
This is huge because the birthright has to do with inheritance of both goods and position. Esau acted impulsively, as he did not value his birthright over a bowl of lentil stew. The lesson here is that your standards are low when your stomach is empty. Esau gave into the desires of the flesh without thinking of the consequences.
Rev. Lusco advises that we do not overreact if we find our son or daughter looking at pornography. “Do not shame them. Instead, calmly explain to them why this is wrong and why it is important to live in the Spirit rather than living in the flesh,” says LSU’s Todd Shupe. “My advice: Keep your stomach full with Godly things and you will not have an appetite for impure things.” Also, Baton Rouge’s Todd Shupe suggests that we develop an accountability group of friends that form a barrier around you to keep the enemy out.
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Florentine, 16th century
Eagle Pietra arenaria stone
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69 cm (27 ⅛ in.) wide
Revered and portrayed in different cultures since time immemorial, in Renaissance Italy the eagle was traditionally a symbol of divine power, as rooted in the iconography of the ancient god Zeus/Jupiter, famously adopted by the triumphant Roman military and, subsequently, Christendom’s Holy Roman Empire. Interestingly, the present work bears strong compositional similarities with an ancient Roman marble eagle formerly owned by Horace Walpole at Strawberry Hill and now in the collection of the Earl of Wemyss and March at Gosford, unearthed in Rome in the mid eighteenth century and dated to the first century AD. Its sharp gaze pointed upwards and its fiery claws facing the viewer, our eagle appears to be about to spread its wings, the long feathers hinting at their full might. Modelled in the round and carved in the warm, sandy arenaria stone that is characteristic of Florence, this eagle would have stood proudly as an emblem of its owner’s power.
Provenance: Palazzo della Gherardesca, Florence
Orlando Collection, Limestre
Literature: Related Literature
G. Jackson-Stops (ed.), The Treasure Houses of Britain: Five Hundred Years of Private Patronage and Art Collecting, exh. cat., National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1985, pp. 319–20, no. 244
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Explaining Secret Wars
Explaining Secret Wars
The build up story toward the Secret Wars event has been years in the making. This means there is a lot of background story to this event.
General Summary Explanation:
The Marvel Universes have experienced a threat called Incursions where universes were colliding into each other at the physical point of Earth. The only way for both universes to survive was for one of the Earth's to be destroyed. If one Earth was destroyed it would pass right through the other and each universe was saved. If not both entire universes would be destroyed. Once an Earth was destroyed it would be safe until ran into the next Universe at which point it would face the same threat.
The heroes are confronted by a few different groups as they battle incursions. The first are the Black Swans a pale but powerful people who worship The Great Destroyer Rabum Alal. This group seeks to eliminate other worlds marked out by Rabum Alal as a sacrifice to him. This group also discusses other groups who go about destroying worlds.
The heroes debate about building a device that can destroy worlds. Captain America says they should not do this even just as a science experiment because having the device will lead them to use it. Rogers ends up being mind wiped and kicked out of Illuminati.
Marvel Explained - Lead up to Secret Wars / Incursions Part I - Video
The Black Priests and Mirror:
Under the tutelage of the character Black Swan the Avengers begin to learn more about the incursions and construct a device called a Mirror that allows them to see other dimensions where Incursions are taking place to learn.
Upon completion of the Mirror the group is horrified as they watch a new group called the Black Priests descend upon and destroy a Earth. This group easily destroys that worlds Illuminati with what they call words. When one of their helmets is knocked off it has no head but only a symbol. They are some form of artificially created construct.
They also the map makers, black swans descend upon other Earths destroying them.
Black Panther begins watching and cataloging each of the incursions looking for the means to stop them.
Meanwhile Doctor Strange goes to magical market called the Sinners Market. He is asked what he wants to purchase there he says he wants the power to move worlds. He is lead to place where he can sell portions of his soul for a portion of absolute power. When asked how much of his soul he wants to sell he says "All of it."
Marvel Explained - Lead up Secret Wars / Incursions Part II - Video
The Cabal the end of The Justice Society
The Illuminati come to battle a group who had successfully fought off two incursion attempts. This group is modeled after the DC Justice League. The two groups battle with Doctor Strange and his new awesome powers being the deciding factor. The world is destroyed and Earth is saved. However, the heroes have a crisis of concience over the terrible thing they have done.
This leads to the creation of the Cabal. The Cabal is a group of super villains who are willing to destroy worlds and do not have moral dilemmas.
Marvel Explained - Lead up to Secret Wars / Incursions Part III - Video
Eventually, though the Worlds of the main Marvel universe 616 and 1610 collide and neither group of heroes is able to trump the other. This leads to the end of both worlds.
However, from the nothingness that follows a single face emerges that of Doctor Doom. Who some how gained enough power to recreate the universe using the relics of past universes to create Battleworld a new planet made up of many different universes.
The Game of Worlds groups that lead up to Secret Wars:
Who is Rabum Alal?
Marvel - News, Characters, Reviews, Movies, and Comics
Secret Wars - Observation Deck see the battles unfold here!
Secret Wars Announcement!!! See the replay!- Video
The official Marvel trailer for Battleworld Forged - Video
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3 Makeup Mistakes to Avoid in Glasses
Even with growing popularity over the past few years, wearing glasses can sometimes be a pain when it comes to figuring out your makeup. If you're like me and wear glasses during work hours to sharpen your focus, read on!
I totally depend on my glasses to help me read hundreds of emails and scan complicated status grids. Sometimes I secretly think my frames help me be more productive. There's nothing more satisfying than busting through emails and meetings with some fabulous frames and red lipstick. Those girl touches seem to help. Oh, and does coffee.
Although you may nail the “geek chic” look while you’re wearing a pair of thick, square frames, wearing your makeup can be a pain point- here are my favorite tips to avoid when you wear makeup with your glasses;
1) Avoid dark, smokey eye shadows. The dark shadow closes off the eye and you loose your eyes behind the glasses. Stick to highlighting tones, like rose gold or pretty champagne pastels.
2) Wear liner that doesn't match your frames. This can make your eyes blend in, not stand out. With black glasses, try a dark gray liner, or if you have brown frames, use dark purple.
3) Don't forget about those brows! Show some love up there and fill them in, blend them out and remember to go in for your bi-monthly eyebrow threading appointments!!
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UC Crew perform at St Helens “World Mental Health Day” Event
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Surgeon Outcomes
The Vascular Society of Great Britain and Ireland is pleased to publish outcomes for five common vascular procedures: repair of abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA), carotid endarterectomy (CEA), lower limb angioplasty, lower limb bypass and major lower limb amputation.
The information on this website provides a basic description of how each of the five procedures are delivered within the NHS.
Trust level results are available for all five procedures, and are based on metrics included in the 2018 annual report.
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The Girl on the Train’s Paula Hawkins Sets Release of a New Book Hollywood Will Definitely Change for American Audiences
The Build Series Presents Paula Hawkins And Tate Taylor Discussing The New Film
Paula Hawkins may have outgrown thrillers with “Girl” in the title, but she still loves herself some prepositions. The British author, who published The Girl on the Train in 2015, has announced the release of her next novel, Into the Water, which will hit stores on May 2 next year. Into the Water centers on family secrets and the “slipperiness of truth” in a riverside town in the south of England. “When a single mother and a teenage girl each turn up dead at the bottom of a river, just weeks apart,” the description reads, “the ensuing investigation dredges up a complicated history.” Somewhere, a studio exec is typing “gloomiest American rivers” into Google in advance of the inevitable American adaptation.
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Prosecutors have spent the last month presenting some haunting evidence against Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, which seems to go beyond what the government needs to do to convict him and begins to build the case that he should be sentenced to death. Boeri and Cullen discuss Day 15 of the trial, in which the government called its final witness to tell the jury of the horrific death of 8-year-old Martin Richard near the finish line.
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A. S. Neill
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A. S. Neill
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Alexander Sutherland Neill
17 October 1883
Forfar, Scotland
Died23 September 1973(1973-09-23) (aged 89)
Aldeburgh, Suffolk, England
OccupationEducator, author
Known forFounding Summerhill School, advocacy of personal freedom for children, progressive education
Alexander Sutherland Neill (17 October 1883 – 23 September 1973) was a Scottish educator and author known for his school, Summerhill, and its philosophies of freedom from adult coercion and community self-governance. Neill was raised in Scotland, where he was a poor student but became a schoolteacher. He taught in several schools across the country before attending the University of Edinburgh from 1908 to 1912. He took two jobs in journalism before World War I, and taught at Gretna Green Village School during the first year of the war, writing his first book, A Dominie's Log (1915), as a diary of his life as headteacher. He joined the staff of a school in Dresden in 1921, founding Summerhill upon his return to England in 1924. Summerhill received widespread renown in the 1920s to 1930s and then in the 1960s to 1970s, due to progressive and counter-culture interest. Neill wrote 20 books in his lifetime, and his best seller was the 1960 Summerhill, a compilation of four previous books about his school. The book was a common ancestor to activists in the 1960s free school movement.
Early life and career[edit]
Alexander Sutherland Neill was born in Forfar,[1] Scotland, on 17 October 1883[2] to George and Mary Neill.[3] He was their fourth son; one of the eight surviving children out of 13. He was raised in an austere, Calvinist house with values of fear, guilt, and adult and divine authority, which he later repudiated.[4] As a child, he was obedient, quiet, and uninterested in school.[3] His father was the village dominie (Scottish schoolmaster) of Kingsmuir, near Forfar in eastern Scotland, and his mother had been a teacher before her marriage. The village dominie held a position of prestige, hierarchically beneath that of upper classes, doctors, and clergymen.[3] As typical of Scottish methods at the time, the dominie controlled overcrowded classrooms with his tawse, as corporal punishment. Neill feared his father, though he later claimed his father's imagination as a role model for good teaching. Scholars have interpreted Neill's harsh childhood as the impetus for his later philosophy, though his father was not shown to be harsher to Allie (as Neill was known[3]) than to anyone else.[5] Neill's mother (née Sutherland Sinclair[3]) insisted on high standards for her family, and demanded comportment to set the family apart from the townspeople.[6]
Children usually left the local school for Forfar Academy at the age of 14, and with his father a teacher, Neill was especially expected to do so. Instead of wasting time and money,[7] Neill went to work as a junior clerk in an Edinburgh gas meter factory. His parents took pity on his hatred of the job, homesickness, and its low pay, and so Neill became an apprentice draper in Forfar. He found the work stultifying and came home after a foot inflammation. Neill tried to take an examination that would raise his pay grade, but could not bring himself to study. Now 15, his parents decided to make him his father's assistant "pupil teacher".[1] The children liked Neill, though he received poor marks from a school inspector. He taught a wider range of topics as his self-confidence grew, and he developed an interest in mathematics from the Forfar Academy maths master. After four years, he tried for teacher training college, but came nearly last in his class. He continued as a pupil teacher in Bonnyrigg and Kingskettle, where he found the teachers' instruction militant and loathsome.[8] He stayed in Kingskettle for three years, during which he learned Greek from a local priest, an experience that increased his interest in academicism and sublimated his interest in priesthood into a desire to attend university. After studying with the priest and the Forfar math master, Neill passed his university entrance exam and preliminary teacher's certification.[9]
Neill became an assistant teacher at the Newport Public School in the wealthy Newport-on-Tay, where he learned to dance and appreciate music and theatre. He also fell in love, and Margaret became an obsession of his. He adopted progressive techniques at this school, and abandoned the tawse for other forms of establishing discipline. Neill was friendly and relaxed with his pupils, and described his two years there as "the happiest of [his] life thus far".[10] He finished his university entrance exams and received his full teaching certification.[10]
In 1908, at the age of 25, Neill enrolled in the University of Edinburgh. He began as an agriculture student, at his father's behest for a well-salaried career,[10] but switched to English literature by the end of his first year.[11] Neill was excluded from cultural events due to his lack of funds, but participated in sports, showed interest in the military, and wrote for The Student (the university magazine) and the Glasgow Herald.[12] He became the student paper's editor during his last year, which opened Neill to a world of culture. He also felt more confident to pursue women.[11] In his editorials, Neill criticized the tedium of lectures and the emphasis on tests instead of critical thinking.[11] He began to develop his thoughts about the futility of forced education, and the axiom that all learning came from intrinsic interest.[13] Neill graduated in 1912 and began to edit encyclopedias and similar reference books. He took a new job as art editor of the Piccadilly Magazine, but its operations were halted by the 1914 onset of World War I,[14] in which he served as an officer in the army. He returned to Scotland, working as a head teacher at Gretna Green School during the first year of the war. The diary he wrote for this year was published as a book, A Dominie's Log, in November 1915 by Herbert Jenkins, and received good reviews for its humour and narrative style.
Neill was invited to join a progressive school in Dresden in 1921. The school moved to a monastery near Vienna in 1923, where the townspeople did not receive it well. He moved to England in 1924 and started Summerhill in Lyme Regis, where the name came from the estate.[15]
Summerhill School[edit]
Summerhill, 1993
The school picked up some notoriety and the average enrollment was 40 pupils. In 1927, it moved to Leiston, where it remained.[15]
Neill credited Summerhill's environment instead of himself for the school's reformatory successes.[4] Neill used to offer psychoanalytic therapy ("private lessons", since he was not a licensed therapist[16]) for children who arrived as delinquents from other institutions, but later found love, affirmation, and freedom to be a better cure.[4]
The Summerhill classroom was popularly assumed to reflect Neill's anti-authoritarian beliefs, though their classes were traditional in practice.[17] Neill did not show outward interest in classroom pedagogy, and was mainly interested in student happiness.[18] He did not consider lesson quality important,[18] and thus there were no distinctive Summerhillian classroom methods.[19] Leonard Waks wrote that, like Homer Lane, Neill thought all teaching should follow student interest, and that teaching method did not matter much once student interest was apparent.[19][20] In a review of an algebra lesson taught by Neill as recounted through Herb Snitzer's Living at Summerhill, Richard Bailey described Neill's teaching technique as "simply awful" for his lack of student engagement, inarticulate explanations, and insults directed at students.[21] Bailey criticized Neill's absolution of responsibility for his pupils' academic performance, and his view that charismatic instruction was a form of persuasion that weakened child autonomy.[22] Ronald Swartz referred to Neill's method as Socratic, about which Bailey disagreed.[17]
Neill was not religious. Despite this, he would flippantly remark that Summerhill was the only Christian school in England when its philosophy was compared with that of Christ. Neill saw the doctrine of "original sin" as a means of control and sought a world ruled by love and self-examination.[23] Like Freud, he felt that children who were denied understanding of their sexuality in their youth became adults who were similarly fearful of their own sexuality.[24]
Neill felt that children (and human nature) were innately good, and that children naturally became just and virtuous when allowed to grow without adult imposition of morality.[25] Children did not need to be coaxed or goaded into desirable behaviour, as their natural state was satisfactory and their natural inclinations "in no way immoral".[26] If left alone, children would become self-regulating, reasonable and ethical adults.[27] Together with Homer Lane, Neill supported personal freedoms for children to live as they please without adult interference, and called this position "on the side of the child".[25] Neill's practice can be summarised as providing children with space, time, and empowerment for personal exploration and with freedom from adult fear and coercion.[28]
The aim of life, to Neill, was "to find happiness, which means to find interest."[29] Likewise, the purpose of Neill's education was to be happy and interested in life,[30] and children needed complete freedom to find their interests.[29] Neill considered happiness an innate characteristic that deteriorated if children were denied personal freedom. Such unhappiness led to repressed and psychologically disordered adults.[30] He blamed a "sick and unhappy" society for widespread unhappiness.[31] Neill claimed that society harboured fears of life, children and emotions that were continually bequeathed to the next generation. He felt that children turned to self-hate and internal hostility when denied an outlet for expression in adult systems of emotional regulation and manipulation. Likewise, children taught to withhold their sexuality would see such feelings negatively, which would fuel disdain for self. Neill thought that calls for obedience quenched the natural needs of children. Moreover, their needs could not be fulfilled by adults or a society that simultaneously prolonged their unhappiness, although perhaps a school like Summerhill could help.[24]
Neill... believed that the best thing teachers could do was to leave children alone to develop naturally.
Denis Lawton, Education and Social Justice, p. 78[32]
As for "interest", Neill felt it came organically and spontaneously as a prerequisite for learning. Neill considered forced instruction (without pupil interest) a destructive waste of time.[33] Earlier in his career, he wrote that human interest releases emotions that otherwise congests a person.[29] He added that education's role is to facilitate that release, with Summerhill actualizing this concept.[34] Neill never defines "true interest" and does not account for the social influences on child interest.[35] Bailey felt that this omission discredits Neill's position against external influence. Bailey also cited "adaptive preferences" literature, where human interests change based on their surroundings and circumstances, as evidence of how intrinsic interest can be externally influenced.[36] Bailey also dubbed Neill's views on intelligence as "innatist" and fatalist — that children had naturally set capabilities and limitations.[37] Neill saw contemporary interventionist practice as doing harm by emphasising conformity and stifling children's natural drive to do as they please.[16]
Neill did not identify with the progressive educators of his time.[38] They advocated far gentler authority in child-rearing, which Neill considered more insidious than overt authority and altogether unnecessary.[39] All imposed authority, even if meant well, was unjustified.[40] He felt that adults asserted authority for its feelings of power, and that this motive was a type of repression.[40] In Neill's philosophy, the goal was maintenance of happiness through avoidance of repressive habits from society.[40] Despite Neill's common citation as a leader within progressive education, his ideas were considerably more radical, and he was called an extremist by other radicals.[38] Unlike Friedrich Fröbel, Neill did not view children with romantic innocence. He saw their animalistic traits as qualities to be "outgrown with time and freedom".[41] Neill also considered his role in providing emotional support.[16]
Emotional education trumped intellectual needs, in Neill's eyes, and he was associated with anti-intellectualism.[42] In actuality, he had a personal interest in scholarship and used his autobiography near the end of his life to profess the necessity of both emotion and intellect in education,[43] though he often took jabs at what he saw to be education's overemphasis on book-learning.[44] Neill felt that an emotional education freed the intellect to follow what it pleased, and that children required an emotional education to keep up with their own gradual developmental needs. This education usually entailed copious amounts of play and distance from the adult anxieties of work and ambition.[45] Neill was influenced by Sigmund Freud's theories of psychoanalysis, Homer Lane's interpretation of Freud, and later, by the unorthodox sexual theories of Wilhelm Reich. The reverence for Reich appears in the abundant correspondence between them.[46] Neill accepted Reich's claims about cosmic energy and his utopian ideas on human sexuality. In Reich's view, "discharge" of sexual energy leads to happiness, whereas lack of such discharge leads to unhappiness and "rigidity". Although not a trained therapist, Neill gave psychoanalytic private lessons to individual children, designed to unblock impasses in their inner energies. Neill also offered body massage, as suggested by Reich. Neill later found that freedom cured better than this therapy.[16]
Richard Bailey placed Neill alongside William Godwin, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Voltaire, and Robert Owen in Thomas Sowell's "unconstrained vision" tradition, where human potential is naturally unlimited and human development is dependent on environment and not incentives.[47] Bailey also compared Neill's thoughts on coercion to those of Godwin, who felt that regulation through reward and punishment stunted growth. Neill saw moral instruction as a wedge between natural instinct and conformity and thought children were best off without it.[25] Neill trusted the natural inclinations of children and saw no need to externally and purposefully influence their behaviour.[26] Denis Lawton likened Neill's ideas to Rousseauan "negative education", where children discover for themselves instead of receiving instruction.[32] Neill is commonly associated with Rousseau for their similar thoughts on human nature, although Neill claimed to not have read Rousseau's Emile, or On Education until near the end of his life.[48] John Cleverley and D. C. Phillips declared Neill "the most notable figure in the Rousseauean tradition", and Frank Flanagan credited Neill with actualising what Rousseau envisaged.[4] Marc-Alexandre Prud-homme and Giuliano Reis found the comparison "inappropriate" on the basis of Rousseau's views on gender.[49]
Peter Hobson found Neill's philosophy of education incomplete, oversimplified, without a "coherent theory of knowledge", and too dependent on his experience instead of philosophical position.[50][51] When presented with Hobson's position, four experts on Neill and Summerhill considered his assertions "irrelevant".[51] Joel Spring likened Neill's views on the family to that of Mary Wollstonecraft, in that the parents would share power equally.[52]
Freedom, not licence[edit]
When Neill said children should be free, he did not mean complete freedom, but freedom without licence—that everyone can do as they like unless such action encroaches upon another's freedom.[53] As such, adults could and should protect children from danger, but not trample their self-regulation.[54] Neill emphasised that adult removal from child affairs was distinct from disregard for their security.[55] He felt that children met their own limits naturally.[16] Neill believed in equal rights between parents and children, and that undesirable "disciplined" or "spoiled" homes were created when those rights were imbalanced.[56] He felt it unnecessary to fulfil all of childhood's requests and had great disdain for spoiled children.[57] Summerhill children were naturally restricted by the school's limited teaching expertise and low funds.[58]
Bailey wrote that Neill did not have full faith in self-regulation due to his emphasis on the necessity of making specific environments for children.[55] Robin Barrow argued that Neill's idea of self-regulation was contradictory, when its intent was, more simply, the extent to which children need to abide by external restraints.[55] Bailey added that children cannot know the extent to which dull and unknown subjects can be exciting without guidance.[59] He felt that Neill's belief in children's innate and realistic wisdom did not accommodate human characteristics "such as error, prejudice, and ignorance", ascribed genius-level intelligence to children, and did not consider social aspects in child decision-making.[60]
Self-governance was a central idea to Summerhill, and is perhaps its "most fundamental feature".[56] Summerhill held a weekly general meeting that decided the school's rules and settled school disputes, where every member of the community—staff and student alike—had a single vote.[61] Almost everyone in the school attended the meeting, and children always held the majority.[61] Meetings were managed by an elected Chairperson.[61] At times, the school had over 200 rules.[62]
Summerhill sought to produce individualists conscious of their surrounding social order, and Neill chose the self-governance of Homer Lane's Little Commonwealth for the basis of that lesson.[63] The general meeting replaced teacher authority with communal control, which freed teachers from their roles as disciplinarians and instructed children in the role of democratic participation and the role of rules.[64] Additionally, reports of teacher–student disputes were rare.[65] Neill felt that the community's authority never created resentment in those subject to sanctions.[61] Sven Muller contended that the meeting was more useful than discipline for creating civic-minded citizens.[64] An ex-pupil recalled some of the wild ideas Neill would propose at the meeting, and while the students would vote him down, she later recounted how the exercise was also intended as a lesson for the staff on the power of the meeting and communal authority.[66] Neill considered self-governance "the most valuable asset in education and life" and the general meeting "more important than all the textbooks in the world".[64]
On occasion, Neill exercised unilateral decision-making as the owner of the school, despite his emphasis on the authority figure-less nature of the school.[65] Instances include when he once made a decision after the group's discussion protracted, and when he once asserted himself dictator.[65] Ultimately, the school's freedom was Neill's to structure.[65]
Neill wrote 20 books in his lifetime.[67] His style was simple and friendly, unlike didactic literature from the era.[68] His topics included the balance of authority and the thoughts–feelings relationship.[69]
The 1960 release of Summerhill catapulted Neill into the public view. Richard Bailey described its result as "an American cult" of Summerhillian schools and their support organizations. The book sold well and made Neill into a figurehead of new interest in education. Bailey added that the unpretentious book's message was easier to impart than Deweyan thought, and that its release inspired Neill's education critic contemporaries as to the viability of their ideas.[70]
Reception and legacy[edit]
Critics regard Neill's influence and importance with mixed opinion.[71] Supporters counted Neill amongst the world's most influential educationists.[71] UNESCO listed Neill within its 100 most important educationists worldwide. The Times Educational Supplement listed him in its 12 most important British educationists of the millennium. Herb Kohl declared Neill "one of the greatest democratic educators of the last century" in 2005. Academics and teachers cited Summerhill as the common ancestor for free schools, and Neill was poised to become a public figure during Summerhill's heyday in the 1970s.[71] Its detractors do not classify Summerhill as a school. Max Rafferty called Summerhill "a caricature of education" and felt threatened by the implications of "the spread of Neill's hedonism to the majority of the next generation".[72] Others criticized Neill for his progressive ideals despite agreement on his critique of traditional schools, and bemoaned his "outdated radicalism" and "dangerously enthusiastic following in teaching training institutions".[73]
Richard Bailey wrote that Summerhill received most of its public attention in the 1920s to 1930s and in the 1960s to 1970s, which were milieux of social change (progressivism and the counterculture, respectively). Neill was known in British education circles by the 1920s and was "probably Britain's first educational celebrity" in the 1930s, though he was not driven by his reception. Journal reviews called Neill "the most popular writer on education today" and said of his works, "Nearly all the more alive and up-to-date teachers in Britain have read and argued about his notions". He was known via his books as a figure in the new psychoanalysis.[68] The accessible 1960 Summerhill crowned Neill the leader of a new avant-garde education and he became symbolic of the rebel decade.[69]
Neill is generally associated with democratic schools as a leader in its tradition.[74] H. A. T. Child associated Summerhill with the Bedales School, Alfred the Great, and Child's Dartington Hall School, and David Gribble wrote about schools around the world following Neill's teachings in 1998.[citation needed] Timothy Gray linked the release of Summerhill with the rise of writers Herb Kohl, Jonathan Kozol, Neil Postman, and Ivan Illich.[75] Scholars debate whether Neill fits best in a progressive or more radical tradition.[74]
Few of Neill's acolytes continued his work after his death.[74] His family maintained Summerhill, with Neill's daughter as its headmaster as of 2013. Others influenced by Neill included John Aitkenhead, Michael Duane, and R. F. Mackenzie. Richard Bailey wrote that Maria Montessori and Rudolf Steiner's followers were more evangelical in character, and that Neill deterred would-be devotees. He specifically discouraged American association with his school in both name and likeness.[74] By 1972, Ray Hemmings wrote that Neill's ideas were misinterpreted in the hands of other schools.[68] Hemmings found Neill to have moderate influence on state schools in areas such as teacher–student interactions. Neill's views on sexuality and non-compulsory lessons did not have widespread acceptance.[68] Herb Snitzer said that Neill "influenced thousand of teachers". Both George Dennison and Bailey felt Neill's influence to not be easily measurable, with Dennison adding that non-Summerhill schools continue to adopt Neillian thought.[76]
Neill was awarded three honorary degrees: a master's and two honorary doctorates.[43] One doctorate was from the Newcastle University in 1966.[43] He was reportedly very proud of the awards.[43]
1. ^ a b Bailey 2013, p. 10.
2. ^ Croall 1983b, p. 8.
3. ^ a b c d e Bailey 2013, p. 5.
4. ^ a b c d Bailey 2013, p. 115.
5. ^ Bailey 2013, pp. 6–7.
6. ^ Bailey 2013, p. 8.
7. ^ Bailey 2013, p. 9.
8. ^ Bailey 2013, p. 11.
9. ^ Bailey 2013, p. 12.
10. ^ a b c Bailey 2013, p. 13.
11. ^ a b c Bailey 2013, p. 14.
12. ^ Bailey 2013, pp. 13–14.
13. ^ Bailey 2013, pp. 15–16.
14. ^ Bailey 2013, p. 16.
15. ^ a b Hobson 2001, p. 1.
16. ^ a b c d e Bailey 2013, p. 137.
17. ^ a b Bailey 2013, p. 147.
18. ^ a b Bailey 2013, p. 144.
19. ^ a b Bailey 2013, p. 145.
20. ^ Waks 1975, p. 144.
21. ^ Bailey 2013, p. 146.
22. ^ Bailey 2013, pp. 146–148.
23. ^ Bailey 2013, pp. 120–121.
24. ^ a b Bailey 2013, p. 123.
25. ^ a b c Bailey 2013, p. 111.
26. ^ a b Bailey 2013, pp. 111–112.
27. ^ Bailey 2013, p. 113.
28. ^ Bailey 2013, p. 116.
29. ^ a b c Bailey 2013, p. 124.
30. ^ a b Bailey 2013, p. 122.
31. ^ Bailey 2013, pp. 122–123.
32. ^ a b Lawton 1977, p. 78.
33. ^ Bailey 2013, p. 125.
34. ^ Bailey 2013, pp. 124–125.
35. ^ Bailey 2013, p. 125–126.
36. ^ Bailey 2013, p. 127.
37. ^ Bailey 2013, p. 141.
38. ^ a b Bailey 2013, p. 107.
39. ^ Bailey 2013, pp. 107–108.
40. ^ a b c Bailey 2013, p. 128.
41. ^ Bailey 2013, p. 114.
42. ^ Bailey 2013, p. 138–139.
43. ^ a b c d Bailey 2013, p. 139.
44. ^ Bailey 2013, p. 140.
45. ^ Bailey 2013, p. 138.
46. ^ Documented in Record of a friendship: The correspondence between Wilhelm Reich and A. S. Neill, 1936–1957 (Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 1981).
47. ^ Bailey 2013, pp. 108–110, 112.
48. ^ Bailey 2013, pp. 114–115.
49. ^ Prud'homme & Reis 2011, p. 16.
50. ^ Hobson 2001, p. 3.
51. ^ a b Bailey 2013, p. 149.
52. ^ Spring 2012, p. 190.
53. ^ Bailey 2013, pp. 128–130, 132.
54. ^ Bailey 2013, pp. 128–130.
55. ^ a b c Bailey 2013, p. 129.
56. ^ a b Bailey 2013, p. 130.
57. ^ Bailey 2013, pp. 129–130.
58. ^ Bailey 2013, p. 136.
59. ^ Bailey 2013, pp. 144, 142.
60. ^ Bailey 2013, p. 143.
61. ^ a b c d Bailey 2013, p. 132.
62. ^ Bailey 2013, p. 133.
63. ^ Bailey 2013, pp. 130–131.
64. ^ a b c Bailey 2013, p. 131.
65. ^ a b c d Bailey 2013, p. 135.
66. ^ Bailey 2013, p. 134.
67. ^ Croall 1983b, p. 424.
68. ^ a b c d Bailey 2013, p. 154.
69. ^ a b Bailey 2013, pp. 154–155.
70. ^ Bailey 2013, p. 155.
71. ^ a b c Bailey 2013, p. 151.
72. ^ Bailey 2013, p. 152.
73. ^ Bailey 2013, pp. 152–153.
74. ^ a b c d Bailey 2013, p. 153.
75. ^ Gray, Timothy (2009). "Fun City: Kenneth Koch among schoolchildren". Texas Studies in Literature and Language. University of Texas Press. 51 (2): 233. JSTOR 40755540.
76. ^ Bailey 2013, pp. 156–157.
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CORRECTION. On p. 90-91, Theorem 3.6.1 and its proof were formulated somewhat imprecisely. A polished version follows. .LP .B 3.6.1 Theorem. .I Let $GAM$ be a graph on $v$ vertices with a $(p,q,r)$-representation in $Rr sup n$, $p != q,r$. Then $GAM$ has at most $1o2 n(n + 3)$ vertices. Moreover, if $GAM$ is a disjoint union of cliques, then $v <= n + 1$, except when some component of $GAM$ has size $s := (p-q) slash (r-q)$ (so that $s$ is an integer $X> 1$); in this case $v <= n + t - del <= 2(n - del )$, where $t$ is the number of maximal cliques of size $s$, and $del = 1$ if $r != 0$, $del = 0$ if $r = 0$. .Bop \&... Since $p != q$, a straightforward calculation shows that $rk G bar >= r - 1$ unless $GAM$ has components of size $s = (p-q) slash (r-q)$; in this case $rk G bar = r + del - t$, where $t$ is the number of components of size $s$. Now ... .Eop [The text of the proof is ugly as well; the variable $r$ occurs in two r\o'o'les; call the number of cliques $m$ instead of $r$. Also, in line 7 on p. 91, replace `matrix $G$' by `space $Rr sup n$'.] SIMPLIFICATION. On p. 92-93, change the proof of Proposition 3.7.3 into: .LP .B Proof. Let $alpha bar$ denote the image of a vertex $alpha$ under the given representation. Now define a new representation by projection onto ${ gam bar } sup perp$, i.e., by sending (in case (i)) $del mo GAM ( gam )$ to $del bar - smover(q,p) gam bar$, and (in cases (ii), (iii)) $del nm gam sup perp$ to $del bar - smover(r,p) gam bar$. .Eop CORRECTION. On p. 104, line 7, the parameters should be (16,5,0,2). Similarly, in the index on p. 480, line 11, this parameter set should be listed as {5,4; 1,2}. CORRECTION. On p. 106, line $-10$, the reference should have been to .SC Hoffman .[[ Hoffman graphs whose least eigenvalue exceeds 1977 .]]. ADDITION. On p. 110, before Theorem 3.12.5, add a reference to .SC Beineke .[[ Beineke derived 1970 .]] for characterizations of line graphs by forbidden subgraphs. ADDITION. On p. 111, after line 5, add a reference to .SC Woo & Neumaier .[[ Woo Neumaier smallest eigenvalue .]] for a characterization of graphs with large minimum valency and smallest eigenvalue at lest $- 1 - sqrt 2$. CORRECTION. On p. 114, line 3, change `3.10' into `3.11'. ADDITION. On p. 114 add to the list of examples of amply regular code graphs the polygons, the dodecahedron and the doubled Odd graphs. CORRECTION. On p. 116 the conclusion of Theorem 3.15.1 in case $mu = 4$ is incomplete: there is another family of regular root graphs with $mu = 4$. See .SC Brouwer & Koolen .[[ brouwer koolen geodetic .]]. CORRECTION. On p. 120 the proof of Proposition 3.15.2 is incomplete in case $mu = 2$, $lam > 0$, since it is not immediately clear why $GAM$ should be locally connected. However, if $GAM ( gam )$ is disconnected, then it must contain a $( lam + 2)$-clique, and it is not difficult to check that this clique will be a direct factor of $GAM$. But then $Ll ( GAM )$ is decomposable, contradiction. CORRECTION. On p. 125 the proof in Case 3 is incorrect. Insert in the line before Case 1 a new condition S9, and change the text in Case 3 as follows. .IP S9. If $DEL sub 0$ strictly contains an $n$-gon, then $DEL sub 0$ has girth 5, and $n = 5$ or $3 vb n$. .LP Indeed, if $P$ is an $n$-gon in $DEL sub 0$ with $n >= 6$ and $a$ a vertex at distance 1 to $P$, then S8 implies that $a$ is adjacent to every third vertex of $P$, so that $3 vb n$. .SC Case 3. .I $DELTA sub 0$ has girth $5$. .R Then $DELTA sub 0$ is not bipartite, and since $L( DELTA sub 0 )$ must be regular of valency $lambda$, $DELTA sub 0$ is regular of valency $1o2 lambda + 1$. If $lambda = 2$ then $DELTA sub 0$ is the pentagon and $GAM$ is locally a disjoint union of pentagons. Now the set of all $del mo GAM$ such that all edges in $S( del )$ lie in $DEL sub 0$ is easily seen to be an icosahedron, and by our assumptions $GAM$ itself is an icosahedron. If $lambda > 2$, then for every vertex $i$ of a pentagon $1 adj 2 adj 3 adj 4 adj 5 adj 1$ of $DELTA sub 0$, the set $N (i)$ of neighbours of $i$ outside this pentagon is a $( 1o2 lambda - 1 )$-coclique, and by S8, $N(i) cu N(i+2)$ ($i ~ mod 5$) is a complete bipartite graph. Since there are no quadrangles, this forces $lambda = 4$, and $DELTA sub 0$ is the Petersen graph, so that $GAM$ is locally a disjoint union of line graphs of the Petersen graph. Now every $K sub 1 + K sub 1,2$ of the Petersen graph is in some path of length 4, and S7 shows that every 4-set containing two intersecting edges of $DELTA sub 0$ is special. But there are 8 such 4-sets through an edge $ab$ of $DELTA sub 0$, and they determine 8 neighbours of the point $del$ of $GAMMA$ represented by $ab$, forming an 8-gon in $GAM ( del )$. But $3 notdiv 8$, contradicting S9. .Eop
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Make Easy Tissue Paper Butterflies
Make Easy Tissue Paper Butterflies
I’ve been working on this project in my head all week! It started as a completely different idea, but happily these tissue paper butterflies ended up being more adorable than I thought they would be, and even easier than originally planned – a win-win!
Related Pages: Pretty Butterfly Mobile Craft for Kids, The Very Hungry Caterpillar Activities and Lesson Plan
All you need to make these pretty paper butterflies are tissue paper and pipe cleaners (or chenille stems as I guess they are called these days). Simply cut up tissue paper in squares and in ovals in varying sizes as shown:
Tissue Paper Shapes for Butterflies
The actual sizes don’t matter; the ones I made ended up being about 6 inches wide when completed. That means the squares were approximately 7″, 4.5″ and 3″, and the ovals were about 7″ x 5″, 6″ x 3.5″ and 5″ x 3″. Simply lay them out exactly as shown, scrunch them together down the middle, and fasten them all together with a pipe cleaner. I know that ‘scrunch them down the middle’ isn’t exactly a helpful description, so I’ve added a video from the brand new Woo! Jr. Kids Activities YouTube channel:
I originally intended these butterflies to be suspended by thread in front of a window in a child’s bedroom. Wouldn’t that be adorable if the whole window was covered with butterflies? These take less than a minute to make once the paper is cut, so making these by the dozens isn’t out of the question. But then I realized they would also be fantastic gift decorations in lieu of a bow, or wonderful party decorations.
P.S. Won’t you please subscribe to our new YouTube channel? New kids craft videos are going up every week!
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Envelope is a complete platform that makes it easy to build web apps on top of PostgreSQL.
Envelope is designed to completely replace the middleware that sits between your web server and your PostgreSQL database. It does this by exposing your database, documents and other actions via a fixed API. You can publish your Envelope apps to the web or just your local network easily by configuring it behind NGINX or your favorite web server.
All security in Envelope is handled by PostgreSQL by using PostgreSQL ROLEs. This greatly simplifies the security model. Users log in to Envelope through a web interface and get an encrypted cookie, then whenever they attempt to access something, Envelope uses their PostgreSQL user name and password to log in to the database and see if they have permission. PostgreSQL will either answer the request or error depending on if they have permission.
I've just built this great PostgreSQL Database. How do I get it to my users?
The request/response cycle and the state of modern web development.
A professional web developer would build a web application. But web applications are typically complex. Website architectures usually involve a browser, a web server, middleware and a database. When a request gets sent out by a browser it travels to the other components of the system and a response comes back. We call this the request/response cycle.
A typical request works like this: The user clicks a link, which causes the browser to make a request of the web server.
The web server hands the request to the middleware and the middleware creates an answer for that request. The middleware could be PHP, Perl, Django, Drupal, Ruby on Rails, ASP.NET, Java or some other software. There are many choices.
Sometimes, the middleware will talk to the database before it creates the answer. That would look like this:
Once the answer is ready, the middleware hands it back to the web server, which sends it back to the browser.
With this basic understanding we can point out some issues:
For every feature that you want to add, you need to write code in the middleware to handle each request. But every time you touch the middleware you may create a security issue, a performance issue or a maintenance issue because there are no rules or limitations. You can do whatever you like in a middleware stack. In practice that means your application is only going to be written as well as the confluence of many factors allow. Despite extensive experience, high skill and thoughtful discipline, requirements can change and cause what looked like good decisions to seem poor in hindsight.
Due to the sheer number of components, the request/response cycle can be difficult to debug.
In order to be very good at web programming you need to learn a lot and most of what you learn needs to come from the school of hard knocks. And if you become unavailable and want someone else to maintain the system you first need to train them in how it works. This is often the catalyst for rewrites, but many rewrites come from the need for a new feature that is just very difficult to add due to the way the application was originally written.
For these reasons, broken website implementations are very common.
What do we really need from a web framework?
For every item that you want the user to see, you need to write HTML or Javascript. The problem is, HTML doesn't provide the standard controls needed for your typical database application. There are hundreds of frameworks that claim to make app development easier but they never do the thing that we want.
There's no combo box. In fact, there are no HTML elements that interact with a data source at all. Simple application building blocks like a form or a dialog box have to be custom coded using primitives like <div>, <input> and <button>. If we do power through it all and build something useful its difficult to read the code because we end up with primitives strewn everywhere. Now add on top of that the difficulty of making it all mobile friendly and its not a surprise that there exists a brisk business in Javascript frameworks. There is a lot of pain out there and it isn't being addressed by current frameworks.
Now you're probably thinking, "So what? This is how everyone does it, why should I do it differently?"
Because it doesn't have to be this way. Web application development isn't painful out of necessity. Its painful because we don't use the right building blocks. Modern web development with middleware is like building a skyscraper with two by fours when we need steel girders.
Things we don't want to admit.
Poor security leads to pain. The old paradigm of web development leads to extensive undocumented API's of questionable security. Since every change to the application can involve touching widely used code, security auditing is prohibitively expensive. In fact, security auditing is often ineffective because many times the only person available that can read and understand the code is the programmer. Penetration testing is very difficult, time consuming and its usually impossible to prove you have total coverage.
Developers are moving with the fashions in such high numbers these days because they are in pain. Developers who are happy aren't constantly flocking to the next great Javascript framework. For example, a while back there was a new tool that let you do all your server development in Javascript. That's sounds cool. That way you don't have to shift your frame of mind language-wise when you shift from developing on the client or on the server. But then we found out that, productivity-wise, it was pretty much a wash. Turns out you still need to think in a different paradigm when programming on the server even if the language is the same.
There was a fashion where you'd have an app generate an interface to a table that would provide Create Read Update and Delete functionality automatically. This involves dynamically generating the entire page. But then it tends to be difficult to customize individual pages. A RAD CRUD solution ultimately does not address the real desire of most developers. We don't want a wizard to make a standard page. We want an easier way to make any page in any app. A comprehensive set of powerful widgets will trump a page factory any day of the week.
Another problem is that the reality of how the web works can cause good programmers to honestly disagree about what the Model is, or where the View code belongs, or what the Controller should do. There are quite simply lots of ways to do it. So if you give three web developers the same stack and tell them to use MVC or some other paradigm, they'll come back with code all over the place. And it isn't their fault.
All of this of course often leads to poor product quality, rewrites, possibly a security breach. And we're still in pain. But it doesn't have to be this way. We need to think carefully about what we really want and what would be useful. Then get the tools that would give us those things.
So what do we want? What would cure our pain?
We want to be able to write a website application that is perpetually maintainable. We don't ever want to code ourselves into a corner. We want our web apps to be reliable and not fragile. So when we write an app we want to know that we're not messing with a dependency from another app and breaking something by accident.
We want to be highly productive. We'd have more potential customers or more profit if we could build things twice as fast. And we need something future proof. We don't want to look a customer in the eye and say we'd need to rewrite part of the website or write a whole new server application to add one new feature.
We want to be able to sleep at night. We want a secure web app. No one wants to write a web app that gets broken into and made into another headline. Over the last ten years there have been many dozens of high profile security breaches and the cost has been enormous. Its time we upped our game.
So what do we want? What would cure our pain?
Here are the four parts of our application.
We can't get rid of the web browser. We still need to serve up web pages so we can't get rid of the web server. What about the database? Well, for your typical business application, a database really is the best tool for the job so we don't want to throw that away.
Lets look at this another way. Where are all the security issues? In the middleware. Where are all the maintenance issues? In the middleware. Where is the vast majority of my code that needs to be maintained, extended and debugged? In the middleware.
Here's a fact, IF we could replace the middleware with a black box that had a fixed API THEN things would be better.
And not just from four problems to three problems better, not linearly better at all. It would be exponentially better. Security would improve right from the start and never get worse over the life of the application. Maintainability is now moot. Think about when you write code in a web page. Its self contained. If you do write something reusable you push it to a script file and reference it from other web pages. There is no code in the web server in this architecture so that can't become an issue. In the database you write your tables, your views, some functions and stored procedures. So long as you maintain proper permissions everything is secure. There isn't anything that can get out of hand anymore. Performance would not degrade as the application grows. In fact, the size of the application would be totally irrelevant.
Well, this all sounds really nice, right? But how are we going to do it? Well, let me introduce you to envelope. Envelope is a program that sits between your web server and your Postgres database.
Unlike middleware programming, Envelope is a simple binary with a fixed API. You can't change it. No application code goes in there. No business rules go in there. That means you need to put all your code elsewhere, such as in the HTML, the Javascript or in the database using your favorite procedural language.
We encourage you to give Envelope a try and let us know if you have any feedback.
How To Get Envelope or Envelope Support
To download Envelope go to our github release page.
View open issues at Github.
If you have any trouble at all, email [email protected] for free email support.
Free phone support is available at 817-503-9545.
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You might be interested in a new book on mental models
Co-authored by Gabriel Weinberg who is the CEO of DuckDuckGo and an advisor to The School of Thought.
You can see a brilliant Medium post he wrote on this subject here.
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Slack Integration Guide
Last updated: Feb 23, 2018
Get Important Zube Notifications in Slack
Stay on top of what's happening on your Zube Projects and Workspaces from within Slack. When you add a Slack integration to your Project or Workspace, you'll be kept up to date with important events on your Cards, Epics and Tickets in real time. You can install as many Slack channel integrations as you want so every team has the information they need, right where they want it.
Installing a Slack Integration
Step One
Navigate to the Project Settings page for the Project that you want to add the Slack integration to. If you'd like to create a Slack integration for a Workspace, navigate to the Project Settings page for the parent Project of the Workspace. You can find a link to the Project Settings page in the dark blue navigation sidebar on any Project page.
Step Two
Click on the Integrations tab to open the Integrations Settings view and click the Create a new Slack Channel Integration button to open the Slack Channel Integration builder. Inside the builder, you can select whether your Slack integration should be Project or Workspace scoped and customize which notifications you'd like to receive in Slack.
Step Three
Once you've configured your Slack integration, click the Add to Slack button to connect your integration with a Slack channel. Follow the directions to select the Slack workspace and channel to connect your integration to and click the Authorize button. After you authorize the integration, you will be redirected back to the Integration Settings page and your new Slack integration will be ready to send Zube notifications to your Slack channel!
You can create unlimited Slack channel integrations to send custom notifications to everyone on your team.
Have more questions? Need help setting up your workflow? Get in touch! Zube on Slack
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Saturday, 5 September 2015
Apartment blocks
Once outside the second ring road complex (the Garden Ring), you leave the grand and monumental architecture of central Moscow and enter the real Russia. A sprawl of ghastly, often dilapidated apartment blocks. Many of these were constructed during the Khruschev years, the early 1960s, and are known as Khruschyovka. They are largely constructed out of prefabricated concrete. Occupants are lucky if they have 60 square metres. Every city in Russia is largely made up of these awful buildings.
Surrounding infrastructure is typically in poor shape – pavements cracked, kerbs broken or non-existent, roads pot-holed – pretty much what you’d expect in a corrupt country where money that should be spent on public infrastructure is syphoned off to build luxury palaces for a few. One hundred and ten Russians control 35% of the country’s wealth - the average Russian is worse off than the average Indian. Little wonder the current wave of migrants crossing the Mediterranean head west when they arrive in Europe, and not east.
There are many of these metal sheds, typically along railway lines, which Muscovites use for storage and whatever.
There is absolutely nothing unusual about this facade. It is quite typical of where Muscovites live.
One thing that is pleasant is the amount of open space between apartment blocks, often containing kid's playgrounds. One of the gripes I have with the suburbs in Australia's cities is that there is little space to walk, other than the footpath, almost every inch being occupied by a bungalow and its fenced garden.
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Decanter of Endless Water
Wondrous item, uncommon
This stoppered flask sloshes when shaken, as if it contains water. The decanter weighs 2 pounds.
You can use an action to remove the stopper and speak one of three command words, whereupon an amount of fresh water or salt water (your choice) pours out of the flask. The water stops pouring out at the start of your next turn. Choose from the following options:
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Seton Hall University
Zeta Alpha Chapter
Seton Hall University
Founded: January 22, 2011
Status: Active
Ideal Chapter Size: 50
Chapter Awards
Phi Pi Phi Silver Cup - [2016, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011]
Alpha Gamma Upsilon Bronze Cup - [2018, 2017]
Individual Awards
Undergraduate Scholar of the Year
Ayzenberg, Benjamin A. '12 [2013]
Kleinoeder Graduate Scholar of the Year
Felbinger, Andrew F. '11 [2017]
Chapter History
Seton Hall University was founded by the Newark Diocese as Seton Hall College in 1856, and is the oldest diocesan Roman Catholic university in the United States. Its College of Medicine and Dentistry was the oldest in New Jersey, but became a state school in 1965.The college became a university in 1950 and fully coeducational in 1968.
Zeta Alpha began in the fall of 2009, as a small group of men that did not feel they fit with existing fraternity chapters. These men wanted to bring a new fraternity to Seton Hall with high standards to which they held themselves.
Aaron Franke, Seton Hall '11, brother of former Fraternity staff member Josh Franke, Otterbein '06, encouraged the group to study the vision, history, and values of Alpha Sigma Phi. They contacted Alpha Sigma Phi and rapidly grew their group of interested men to 30 who were officially designated as a colony in February 2010.
The colony quickly gained acceptance and popularity with students, faculty, and other Greek organizations at Seton Hall. When colony members submitted its Chartering Proposal to the Grand Council for consideration, it contained several letters of support.
27 new brothers were initiated into the Zeta Alpha Chapter at Seton Hall University on January 22, 2011, and had the distinction of starting a new series of Greek letter chapter designations becoming the Zeta Alpha Chapter. Grand Councilor John Tilden, Binghamton '93, Seton Hall Grand Chapter Advisor Humberto Baquerizo, NJIT '91, Montclair Grand Colony Advisor Thomas Reynolds, NJIT '03, Rutgers Grand Chapter Advisor Sam Patel, Member-at- Large '06, and Coordinator of Chapter Development Adam Koorn, Ohio Wesleyan '08, were all present to assist with the initiation ceremony and participate in the chartering banquet. The Initiation Ceremony was held at Fahy Hall and the Chartering Ceremony was held at the Bishop Dougherty University Center. Andrew Felbinger, Seton Hall '11 was the founding president.
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Monday, December 29, 2008
It's True...I spoke on it...
I'll be damned!!! Mr. Smoke and Mirrors really does have heroin on his dack!!!
Lemme tell y'all what happened. Now I may not have all the finer details down pat but, you'll get the gist of the situation. This was told to me over sum illegals so lets see if I get the story right. If I don't Mr. Smoke and Mirrors will correct me in the comments, I'm sure.
Well to sum it up, Mr. Smoke and Mirrors went to the chick's house, who I must say seems quite the Amazon of women(6'2) and smoked with her and her brother. Said brother left and they fucked.
Wellllllllll in the morning, they woke up giving each other the googly eyes and shyt. Him thinking that they were gonna get it cracking again. Her, well, ummmm..ion thank she was giving him the googly eye. This bitch was having a damn seizure!!!
She took a kamikaze leap to the floor(Mr. S&M words, not mine)and got to shaking and shyt. On her way to the floor she must have hit her head on sumthing and got a big ass gash and was bleeding like a stuck pig. This is where it gets funny to me. All this is going on and Mr. S&M is bucket-naked! He's running around in a damn silly ass circle with his meat hanging out. He was worried that the chick's brother would come back down and catch his narrow naked ass standing over the bleeding chick and think the worst. He wreastles with her to turn her over, remember she's an Amazon and Mr. S&M is, as Thunda can say, skinty. So he gets a pillow under her head and called 911. They took the poor girl to the hospital. He had to sit there with her family and answer 1,001 questions about what had happened. I wonder if he told them the truth, that he sprinkles heroin on his dack. Cause that must be what happened. I refuse to believe that he doesn't after this episode. The truth shall set u free Mr. Smoke and Mirrors. The truth shall set u free.
Wednesday, December 24, 2008
This Nicca aint shyt!
I.CAN'T.STAND.LITTLE BOY'S.DADDY!!!! AAAAARRRRRRRRGGGGGG! Every time I talk to this fool his antics piss me off more and more. He is a fucking buffoon and he likes to give off the illusion that he isn't. Ladies do not be fooled my this jack ass.
Lemme pose a scenario to you all....
I had a baby with my best-friends ex cut buddy. Majority of they cutting was in high school. Maybe an episode or 2 while grown(19-20 y/o). Me and him were in a quasi-relationship. Well that is until I got knocked up and he changed. Basically he thought he was gonna live with me and not contribute. Ummmmmm....N-O! Me and my friend both thought this nigga wasn't shyt and he could kick rocks since he wasn't taking care of his boy. We were gonna take care of this both with or without his ass.
Fast forward 9 fucking years later and all of a sudden these 2 feel they should be friends again. Ion care about all that. Be friends, nuthing wrong with that. But I know him..y'all know he tryna fuck on her and shyt. Will she fuck him..ion know... Allllls I know is she has yet to share with me that they speak. My thing is, if y'all ain't doing nuthing why y'all being all secretive and shyt? When I did talk to her about it, she said she felt it wasn't a big deal enough to tell me. Well, if one of y'all baby daddies start calling me and shyt imma let u know cause I don't want no shyt later on down the road.
Am I bugging????
Wednesday, December 10, 2008
What was ur worst...
I know I've been away for awhile. Guess I kinda had writers block..or maybe I was just being lazy. Actually Imma blame all the folks over at YKYDAW for me being lax on here. I'm all on there telling them my biz and leaving y'all out. So i asked my new buncha inna-net frens what to blog about. Sum1, Acolyte i think, said the worst sex ever...well don't be expected sum long drawn out story..Bad sex=quick. But here it goes..
I had been seeing the dude in the bar for a few months...then one night we were pretty much there alone and started talking. Had alot in common...he was kinda cute and he was buying me drinks. So we talked for a few times...he took me out a few times...came by to smoke illegals. Doing pretty good.
OH MY GAWD! I finally let dude hit it and well...I still don't think we actually had sex. Sex means that the penis actually goes in the vagina. Right? Right? Well if we're going offa that, we never phucked. And his face game was even worse. How da hell is ur mouth cold. Not "let me be sexy with sum ice" cold. Just plain out, this is my normal temperature, cold. UUUUUGHHHH.....I noticed the cold when he kissed me off guard. That's a big NO-No for me. Ion be kissing strangas. But, since he wanted to kiss so.damn.bad. i gave him sumthing to kiss. Big ass mistake! That shyt felt even worse on Miss Kitty...**thinks I shouldn't name my lady parts after my dead granny** UPDATE! Miss Kitty is now to be referred to as TPFKAMK(the pussy formally known as Miss Kitty)!...she was so shocked at the coolness of his mouth that the party was over after that. I just laid there and smoked a blunt and waited for the ride to stop. He was all grunting and sweating like he was putting in work. No sir. Well needless to say we never tried that again. Now I call him BBD-Big Baby Dick-behind his back and we're just frens.
What about y'all worst??? You know I'm nosey....
P.S.-BBD if you ever read this please don't be mad. What I said couldn't possibly be a shock to you. I'm so certain I am not the only one who feels like this about you. Thats why you got a wife and how she deals with it is beyond me. But I still luv ya. We cool? Right?
Tuesday, November 25, 2008
That Was My Jam!!!
BoogieMonsters! 'Nuff said!
or thier 1st
Monday, November 24, 2008
You know what? I was gonna clown the hell outta sumbody's daddy. But, I aint got the time or the energy for that mess tonight. Little Boy done got suspended AGAIN from school and I just can't take the pressure. So just get a gander at the wonderfulness that is TVC1954
Name: TVC1954
Height: 5'8"
Weight: 235
State: IL
Ethnicity: Black / African descent
Orientation: Straight
Expectation: None. Depends on your game.
And the best thing I have seen since..hell ion know...whenever
**DEAD** is that in the 2nd pic? "My First Microwave"???? Jesus be a gift card to Best Buy for X-Mas.
Wanna know who I hate?? I HATE T-Pain!!!
I came to this conclusion last night watching the AMAs. UUUUUUGGGHHHH....he makes me itch. Ion care how much that shyt in his mouth costs, hell he could prolly buy me and you with the $ that he spends on his mouth. But, that shyt looks nasty and wack as hell. Please don't get me started on his dreads and that damn TOP HAT. Really? Ur wearing a damn top hat for what reason T-Pain? What made u say to urself," Hmmmmm...maybe I should incorporate a top hat in my daily wardrobe."? Whatever it was, you should stay away from that shyt.
And is he or is he not the epitome of a fucking coon??? Ole Coony McCoon ass nigga. Got his gat damn ass on stage with Chris Brown and can't even close his damn mouth. That shyt looks like it smells rank. I almost wanna call his Step 'n Fetchit ass a damn NIGGER. Yeah I said it. Whatcha gonna do about it T-Pain? CAM said his security team would whoop my azz. Well it would be well worth it. Ole Niggy Tardust, looking like a damn chewed up Tootsie-Roll ass nigga. UUUGGGHHH!!!
OK. I'm done. Proceed with ur day.
Wednesday, November 19, 2008
10 Days
I saw this over at BlackShoes WhiteSocks and I thought I would give it a try.
10 days that were important in my life or made a significant impact on who I am
1. The day Big Boy was born-being adopted, I had never seen anyone that looked like me before.
2. The day my dad beat my ass-I had gone 14 years without this ever happening.
3. The day I found out my parents were getting a divorce-Seeing my dad's empty closet was crushing.
4. The day that Stinkums confirmed that he did indeed have a new baby-I knew it all along really. Just needed the confirmation.
5. The day that Big Boy's father put his hands on me for the 1st time-I've been quite beasty since then. Trust me. You don't wanna find out about it.
6. The day my best friend Kim died-I still feel like there was something I could have done.
7. The day my mother told me in a fit of rage that I really wasn't part of her family-Don't even wanna comment on that.
8. The day I found out that I wouldn't be getting my hearing back-Plug both your ears, welcome to my world.
9. The day I asked my dad to stop smoking crack for his grandkids sake and he told me no-I learned that I never wanted to do any drug that would control my life.
10. The day that I attempted suicide for the 1st time-Pills really aint the ticket. Or razors for that matter. Next time I know to go out with a BANG!
Friday, November 7, 2008
My Eyyyyyes!!!!
Damn you Fresh!!!!!
What in the bacon loving hell is this????!!!!???
And I'mma tell you whats real fucked up about the whole situation....I bet she get PAID!
Friday, October 31, 2008
Quality vs. Quantity
This is gonna be real short....
I was talking to Mr. Smoke and Mirrors the other night and u wanna know that this fool said to me???
He would rather have 10 ones instead of 1 ten.
Basically, he would rather have a gang of busted ass broads than to have one hot, scrum-diddly-umptious bird.
Really? Really? I can't even call it.
Mr. Smoke and Mirrors, what say you??? We demand answers!!!!
P.S. Momma Smoke and Mirrors was right. You know yo ass was out there Booty-Scooting!
Wednesday, October 29, 2008
That Was My Jam!!!
I didn't really forget to do this yesterday. I was a little busy yesterday. Little Boy's birthday party is Saturday and I was doing some stuff for that. it is. Do y'all remember when gangs were super prevelant? I guess they still bang on the east and west coast. But, here in Milwaukee, you don't really see it as much anymore. "But, I know they out there. Standing around with they hoodies on waiting to snatch my purse"(directly from my momma's mouth, she so damn scary).
I thought I was hard as hell sanging these damn songs.
What set did you rep???
Monday, October 27, 2008
You ain't gotta lie to kick it!
Man! WTF is up with dudes these days???? If I have one more nicca's girlfriend contact me....I swear, it's gonna be one. She is gonna have to **say it with me** Find Out About It!
Long story short, this cat I had been talking to for about 2 weeks, girlfriend texted me yesterday. She wasn't all brolic or nuthing like that (even though she called me a TRICK), it was just the fact that she contacted me. I didn't even bother to give her my usual horse and pony show that I usually give when some one's other contacts me. I didn't even have it in me yesterday. But, she did say something to me, she left me a voicemail, that kinda made me laugh. Basically, she said that I NEED to respect her and their relationship. Ummmmmmmm...NO! NEVERENDING doesn't need to do anything. I did advise her that I asked dude if he had an "other" and he told me no. Sounds to me like SHE needs to have a conversation with HIM about respecting THEIR relationship.
What has happened in the world that cats think that its A O-Kay to have a main chick and whatever dummy(me)on the side??? I mean gee! If ur not ready to settle down, then don't. And the thing about it is, if a guy would be forthcoming and honest about the situation, I just may have been with it. I mean, shyt, we don't even live in the same state. It wasn't all that serious to be lying and whatnot.**Le sigh** Men will never learn.
What is it exactly that they get from doing shyt like that?? Is it funny? Does it make them feel like they're "The Man"? Can men be nymphos??? Cause I truly think it's about the sex. Seeing as, initially, I met him on a sex site. Hmmmmm??? I wonder if she knows that her guy is running around showing folks, what's supposed to be just for her??? Well, he need not worry, I won't tell. I ain't even like that. She did leave me her phone number like I was gonna call her and shyt. Nah,I think I'll pass. That is, here it comes folks, unless she's proper ass hell and digs fat chicks. There. I said it. Y'all know how I do.
P.S. Yeah Yeah Yeah I know Stinkums, I could be blogging about all the wonderful things that you do. But, this is so much more entertaining. You know folks like drama!
Tuesday, October 21, 2008
That Was My Jam!!!
See..I'm getting pretty good at remembering to do this.
Today we have E.U. and "Da Butt". This song was featured in the movie School Daze and on my step-mommas tape deck on Saturdays when she cleaned up for about 2 months. They never really caught on in the rest of the U.S., prolly cause don't nobody like Go-Go music but folks over in D.C. But this song was pretty hawt for the time.
They had this cut too. I still listen to this one.
Thursday, October 16, 2008
Hellllllllllllllllllllll Naw!
I was over at Nicole Bitchie's today and saw this little gem right here! I am sooooo glad I didn't look at this at work. Cause when I saw! Speechless.
I NEED to know the background on this travesty! Po thang was prolly tryna shake it up for her Boo and then THIS happened. What I really wanna know is, who da hell put this on da net??? Cause if I sent this to my friend like "Girl, look what happened to my dumb ass today!" and she in-turn put it out there like that, we would so fight.
I like how she just laid there after she fell. Man! Ion even know what else to say.
**dead at 'We Fall Down' playing in the background**
Tuesday, October 14, 2008
That Was My Jam!!!
Today's Jam is Groove Me by Guy. That song was my jam fa' real. I even remember my uncle swiging by my house on a warm summer day, tossing me a copy of the tape and smashing off. I had seen the video for Groove Me and I Like by then so I was pretty excited. I guess I don't have to tell you what my 12 year old ears knew then. This damn albulm was a certified banger! I used to listen to this on my walkman all.the.time. You had sum fast cuts to get ya boggie on with and then you had some slow jams to be fast with(wink). I still bang the hell out of their first two albulms to this day.
Imma tell you what I did see the other day that put Guy on my mind. I'll be damned if I didn't see a girl get on the bus that looked JUST LIKE Aaron Hall. Then to my amazement, another one got on! Twins! Well I'll be damned. I think that maybe their moms musta got with Aaron when he was here on tour back in the day and these were the fruits of their love fest. But, damn why they had to look just like the nicca? I mean they had on glasses and everything. LOL! Oh well, I bet that incident of groupie love didn't turn out the way she wanted it.
Universal Music won't allow me to embed this video. So, click the link to see sum straight up New Jack Swing!
And by the way, yeah, I know. Who, at 12, has songs to be fast with at 12? Me! That's who. Don't judge me. Y'all know I'm fragile.
Monday, October 13, 2008
Tell me how you feel...
Don't I sound sincere? Lol! Like I really care about y'all's feelings.
I was reading a friends of mine blog today and she was bringing up sum pretty valid points. One of them was about dudes being Booty calls. How does that make you guys feel? When that certain chick calls you and you know she only wants one thing. Y'all know how I get down. I just want a dude to come though, do his thang and then roll the fuck out. I ain't tyna marry u, be ya Boo, hold u down, nunna that shyt. It's just not the right time in my life for all that. People always ask me when I'm going to "settle down". See the issue with that is the "settle" part. That word makes me think I'm losing out. Why should I settle for anything?
Guys, do you feel that a woman who is only interested in the wham, bam, thank you ma'am is a hoe? I mean gee-whiz, men have been slutting around for ages and it seems to be socially acceptable for that to happen. But, the minute a woman does it, she's a hoe, she's a slut, she's a freak. I don't feel that way and I know quite a few women that don't either. I think the tables have turned(finally) and guys can't handle being "used".
Tell me how you feel guys.
Can't you just feel the sympathy oozing as I type????
Thursday, October 9, 2008
Ok, I'm scared now...
This nicca right here
Every time I log onto Onlinebootycall ,this micky-ficky is on there trying to get me to be on his Booty Call list. and thank you.
What da hell is up with that hair???!!!??? Im so confused. It's not quite a mullet yet, not quite a full "curl". I wanna see it from the back. A bitch needs a 360 o this fool. Ion know. Well I just thought I'd share this one with y'all.
Here's another tasty treat to make u join OBC and get you summa dude.
Height: 5'8"
Weight: 225
State: WI
Ethnicity: Other
Orientation: Straight
Expectation: Meet new people
Wednesday, October 8, 2008
That Was My Jam!!!
I know I'm late. I didn't forget. My wireless connection that I "borrow" from my neighbors was acking funky last night. So. I'm doing it now. Sue me.
I love, love, love this video. What more could you want? Boxing, break dancing, and the ever so sexy Charlie Wilson and his birdcage chest all wet and shiny. But that curl nicca, that curl is the TRUTH! You know they had some money, cause ain't no po ass nicca getting his curl wet! LOL! Oh yeah, Robert and Ronnie Wilson are in the video too. Nuthing much to talk about there. Ronnie's shirt is super tight and Robert clearly wants some camera time. But, Charlie wasn't having it. Prolly thought he was gonna be the star-ra cause he had the "looks". Negitivo on that one. Charlie stole the show. Ronnie already knew what the business was, he didn't even try, po thang.
Good times, good times.
Tuesday, September 30, 2008
That Was My Jam Tuesdays!!
I guess I'm going to try to do this every Tuesday from here on out. It came to me outta sheer boredom at work. Bored=YouTube in my book. So without further ado, here is my 1st contribution:
Who remembers this dood? And where the hell is he now? I guess that Biv10 deal didn't take him very far. He was kinda sexy in a 1990's light-skinned brother type of way. I actually surprised myself the other day by knowing alllllll the damn words to this song. I must have felt very strongly about some damn Oochie Coochie back in the day.
Let's not forget his attempt at a rap ballad.
Good times. Good times.
Monday, September 29, 2008
Awwwww....I lost a friend
Meh...who cares? Not me of course. Truth be told, she was one sexy ass chick, whose ass I would have loved to wax. Buuuuuuuuuuuuut, she decided she wasn't feeling me. Why, you may ask would she not like the Fantabulous Neverending? Cause I said I wasn't attracted to a mutual friend of ours. Her and dude do what they do. And, I guess the plan was for me to do that with them. But, as for me, nah, I'll pass. Dude is hella cool, he's just not for The Kid.
See, she thinks I'm materialistic/superficial because I have to have a dude with sum swag to em. I mean, gee, a nicca gotta look and smell good cause 1/2 the damn time I have no clue what the nicca is saying(y'all know I'm deafer than a mutherphucker)anyways. And, it's not just the clothes, it's the whole attitude and demeanor. I love a cocky ass dude. I think thats kinda weird cause, I'm quick to tell a nicca he ain't shyt. LOL! But, deep down, I know I love a nicca that thinks he's all that and is. What I can't stand is the dusty, old ass AF1 wearing, neck stretched out on ya white-t, grimy jeans wearing cat that thinks his shat don't stink. I got news fa ya hommie, Ya Aint All That. Trust and believe. I will let it be known. Ur talking to the same chick that was addressing the weed man as Box, as in Dirt Box, one night after the club closed in Iowa. And told him what I was saying too. So my love of everything swagerific runs deep. My hatred for all things dusty and gloomy runs deeper.
I'm trying to raise sum men over here. I can't let my boys see me with just any old rusty, dusty cat that smiles my way. Then, they will think it's o.k. for them to be that way and still be able to pull a decent chick. Nope! Nada! Ain't happening. Big Boy's dad used to dress sooooooooooo nice, not really sure what happened there. Now he's all old and outdated. Hopefully the fact that I always tell Big Boy I ain't thinking about his dusty ass daddy will sink in. Now, Little Boy's father dresses really nice. But, we all know, that he doesn't dress himself. Whoever is dressing him, I say GOOD JOB! Cause, he's come a long way. He used to be that dusty dude. Yeah I know, I had a baby with the nicca. Well, I was young and dumb and called myself "stepping out"(that's what my granny calls it)on Big Boy's dad and got caught up in sum boolshyt. It's ok. Players fuck up. I learned my lesson. I'll never travel down that long, dusty road again.
If ya got that swag, holla at me in the comments!
Farewell, lovely light skinned with the big bazungas! We could have made beautiful music together.**drops tear for the butt nekid frenzy that would have ensued, if only I didn't open my big mouth**
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Wednesday, September 24, 2008
Players fuck up sometimes too....
I've been so neglectful. I know you all prolly hate me. I kinda figured that out after the 1st couple of "Bitch where u been?" emails. Maybe if I got more comments, instead of emails, I would blog more often...Hmmmmmmmmmmm
Well nuthin too much has been going on. Little Boy started football a few weeks ago. I love my baby y'all but I swear, he is the slowest running little fucker out there on the field. I guess he's having a hard time dragging all that ass he got piled high on his back. LOL! **Dang, maybe I shouldn't be saying that. I don't want any pedophiles googling Little Boy** Lemme tell y'all this shyt right here. I called Little Boy's "father", I use that term veeeeeery loosely, to see if he would cough up the $80 for him to play. I figure out of damn near 9 years, I could get a measly $80. Nope, no dice. He ain't got it. Of course. But, see, when you don't work and don't hustle and all you have the the allowance your new baby momma gives u everyday like sum damn milk money, then I guess you stay broke. Well long story short, Stinkems gave him the money to play. Welllllll, now all of a sudden, Deadbeat wants to come to the games. No problem there. But, it's after the game that we run into issues. You know this fool be tryna come over after the game and fuck. thanks, I'll pass on that. He is soooooo 1999. Im good. Besides, he has yet ANOTHER new baby. When will he learn. I guess all I can say to the new Baby Momma is, "Good luck with that, girl". She's gonna need it.
Lemme see...what else....
Found sum new penis! YES! And it's the greatest!!! Annnnnnnnd he knows his position. We do what we do, and then he takes his ass home. JACKPOT! YAY PENIS! I would tell y'all about some of the escapades but, this ain't that type of blog. Just know that it's scandalous. But, if u want the full details, please send a check or money order to:
4835 North..Yeah right. I ain't that damn stupid. LOL!!!
I guess thats all Boo-Boo Kitty Fucks.
Lemme do sum damn work before somebody figures out I ain't got shyt to do.
Wednesday, August 20, 2008
A Drunk Ain't Shyt!!!!!
Man-oh-Man!!! Where dies the time go??? I know, I know, BAD BLOGGER! I know y'all look forward to my bullshyt. It's kinda like crack huh? But, nuthin has been going on really. I'm on a temp assignment with a group of event planners. What a bunch of high-strung batches! I swear! I already had to tell one of them the phrase of death--"Don't talk to me like that." Of course I said it in a syrupy-sweet, "non-threatening" way, through clenched teeth of course. If you know me, then you know, that is not a good thing if I have to tell you that. I think she got the hint. Personally, I think she's threatened by me. She needs not to be. I DON'T want her gig. Trust me! Dealing with Bride-Zillas everyday is not my idea of a good time.
Anywho...back to drunks aint shit....Basically I have been trying to lure various victims to my Above Ground Lair for about a week now and I am not getting everywhere. I mean I have tried old dudes, new dudes, strangers(not really). And no one is biting. What da hell is going on???? I'm trying to give away some prime, Grade A kitty and no one wants any. WTF?!?!? Well, long story short, I got ahold of C.A.M. last night, after smoking sum other unfortunate cat's illegals (this dude is not Grade A kitty worthy)and he assured me that he would come by and knock this shyt out. Welllllll, I woke up about 3 A.M. this morning, sans penis. Curses! Foiled again!! I did call him this afternoon to let him know that he aint shyt! All I got was a whole lotta empty ass apologizing and a promise for sum dack tonight. Talking about, he was sooooooooo drunk last night, he slept in his car. Sure you did, if by "car" u mean wrapped up in-be-twixt sum other chicks thighs. Nope, can't fool me twice. I won't be counting on that shyt. I guess me and my right hand have another date tonight(wink).
Tuesday, July 29, 2008
Neverending cycle
Have you ever heard sum news that just floored you. Well with my "ex" Stinkem told me that he's contemplating getting hitched. WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOW(insert Flava Flav face here)! I mean contemplate, I mean like these sumamabitches got rangs and everythang. Not really sure how I feel about all of that. Hows that for a damn how-do-ya-do? I aint gonna do nuthing silly...I guess technically I could if I wanted to. But I'm not. Maybe I'll bust a move like this......
Man! Does this mean no more good dack????
Sunday, July 20, 2008
Al Green is my PASTUH!!!!
I think I had the Holy Ghost a little off of this one**waving right hand to God/left hand over heart/eyes closed tight** Do yourself a favor and take a listen. So, turn whatever random bullshit that is playing to the right, the fuck off and get you sum 'ligion this Sunday morning!
And of course, I had to be under the influence of illegals when I saw it. But, hey, u never know how or where he'll make Himself known to you. I just happened to be up smoking and watching an old ass episode of Soul Train.
Hot shit!! Oooops can you say a gospel song is hot shit??? Y'all know what I mean. I'm saying my prayers and going to bed. I think I may have had some sort of revelation. Maybe He is waiting for me........
Sunday, June 29, 2008
Come and get ur daddy PLEASE
I was browsing around OBC today and lo and behold, look who wants to have a bootycall
Height: 5'10"
Weight: 180
State: WI
Ethnicity: Black / African descent
Orientation: Straight
Expectation: Friends first, benefits later
ORLY! GTFOH!!! Are you serious???? Yeah lemme get right on that. Das exactly what I'm looking for! A damn Cat-Daddy! What would make him think that a fine, young tender-roni' such as myself, would be interested???? I guess I gotta Give him an 'A' for effort. Talking about his expectations are "Friends first, benefits later". What da hell kinda benefits? Social Security? Medicare? He is killing me softly with that pank ass(what is that rayon? silk?)short set. I bet you 2 Crispy Ranch Snack Wraps(no lettuce, extra ranch)that he has on some sort of slip-n-slides on with no socks. Y/N? I'm too dead that this shyt right here. Well put me in my casket and bury me a G!!! I'm done!
P.S. If you reading this, Mr. Old Dude, if u wanna come by in your El Dorado and share your Meals on Wheels lunch with me, I guess that would be cool. It's better than what I have going on currently.
Thursday, June 26, 2008
Stop the press! Who's that?
Great day in the morning!!!!! Have you ever seen such Big Boy Sexy before??? OMG!!!! Rick Ross is the truth!!!! He, to me, is the epitome of sexy. The things I would to to all of that...mmmmmmmmmmm man boobs! And to think that he's dating Foxxy Brown scorches my grits! So I'm putting an open invite to the heffa to an old fashion beat down. He needs a big girl to show him the Way, the Truth, and the Light. She doesn't know what to do with all of that. I do! Trust and believe. Well lemme go and dry my tears.....
Thursday, June 19, 2008
79 Missed Calls
My guy Mr. Smoke and Mirrors is over here tonight indulging in sum illegals with me and this cat's phone is off the meter. This chick has been calling him since about 9:15. As of right now we are at call 79! WHO DA FUCK calls sumbody like that? What is that fucking important? He thinks it's the dack. I had to ask him if he dips his shyt in heroin or sumthing? That would be a fucked up trick to play on a bitch. I would only want HIS dack. No other dack would do it for me. Pussy lips looking like Pookie's dry ass mouth. Willing to to anything for THAT dack. LOL!
Lemme shut my high ass up.....
P.S. I think she's just silly.
I know somebody’s gonna get mad when I say this. I know it’s a generalization….. but these Milwaukee dudes are crazy! Why is it sooooo hard to meet a nice guy? Why do guys try to talk to you and upon rejection they want to tell you how u aint this and that? Why do things have to get soooooooooo ugly? Why is every Milwaukee cat against dating? Why do all Milwaukee cats wanna get down but they say they aint “trix”? Everything on u is cool. Ur gas, ur time and whatever else you decide to add to the mix yet they don’t even have the common sense to buy a rubber if u wanted to give them sum.
Why is something simple as dating like pullin teeth? R the guys really that broke or just that damn cheap? What happened to chivalry? Why does a guy feel like if he takes you out hes a trick?
If you’ve been to a swing party (more than one) does that make u a swinger? Why does that turn a man on until he finds out that he cant cut? Why can a guy have the same amount of lovers but you be considered promiscuous and he not be? He's a player, pimp and ur a hoodrat, a bopper a jumpdown. did i miss something?
I thought I had found my new baby daddy. Nuthin lost nuthin gained. Well actually I’ve gained good friend/partner/lover. A cheap Milwaukee nigga’s loss, another’s gain. I’m good but im jus sayin. When does the vicious cycle end. The cycle where a guy is a trick if hes nice to a girl or “spends money” and if the guy don’t spend no money then the girl says he cant get none. Really the circle has to stop somewhere……
Remember this:
Anything worth havin is worth earning
Nothing meaningful is easy
You get what u pay for
I could go on and on but I wont. Not today anyways……
Wednesday, June 18, 2008
Stepping to da mike......
I have been having issues with keeping y'all updated on a daily sooooooooooooo I'm going to start having guest contributors. OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO....sounds fancy don't it????
Taking a stab at y'all 1st will be my girl Meltz! She, like me, is a natural DIVA! But, don't get it twisted, she'll verbally cut yo ass down to size. I swear she was gonna whoop the nurses ass after I had my youngest. U'll have to ask her about that one. : )
So without further ado........
MELTZ!!!!!! Where u at girl??!!??
Thursday, June 12, 2008
Speak up! I can't hear ya!
Heeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeey boo-boo kitty fucks!!! How y'all be? Wondering where I've been?? I know folks read this shyt, they just don't comment. How do I know? Cause they call and tell me. Leave a comment, then maybe others will too! :)
Guess what! I can't fuckin hear! If you know me, then you know that I haven't been able to hear in my left ear for over 7 years. Fine no problem, I have another one. Well now I starting to lose the hearing in my damn right ear! What kind of "Jesus Doesn't Love Me, This I Know" shyt is that? It's kinda scary. I talk on the damn phone for a living! Ummmmmmmm how da hell is that gonna work if a bytch can't hear??? I guess I really will be po', broke, and lonely. Damn! Speaking of which, who dates the deaf girl??? Nobody, that's who. All this cuteness going to waste. Niccas will be like "she's cute but, I can't talk to her cause DA BITCH CAN'T HEAR" Riiiiiiiiiiight...this scenario is getting better and better by the minute.
I bet Big Boy nd Little Boy will think this is the greatest thing since I "lost"(by lost I mean I think they threw it away)my big belt. I can see it now, cause I sure can't hear it, these little nigglets will be around here doing and saying anything. Damn!
You would think that as nosey as I am, by now I would have mastered the fine art of reading lips. Oh well...I'm going to do sum illegals and go back to sleep...
"Blindness cuts you off from things but, deafness cuts you off from people"
Helen Keller
Tuesday, June 3, 2008
Well, that's that.
Me and CAM are officially over.
Today IS my birthday mind you. What did I get? A series of IMs and a phone call with "the otha chick"! Greeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat! Just what I always wanted. It really wasn't that bad. I talked to her for about a hour. Really the only conclusions I came to were A) CAM needs a fucking leash and B)This chica is special. Alls I know is at the end of the conversation, I was left with the impression that she is gonna stay with him regardless. I told her myself that she deserves better than that(she's kinda cute, if she happens to read his, HOLLA!).
I'm over it though. It was in the works. Besides there's this young lady I'm interested in now.
Monday, June 2, 2008
CAM says
I'm too harsh.
Exhibit A-
u know what...i really don't have the time or the effort for u and ur shenanigans. this shyt is going nowhere fast. ur rude and i think that u think that the sun rises and sets on yo ass. i'm not really sure who would put such foolishness in ur head but, i aint the one. ur really not that big of a deal. yeah the dack is on point, don't get me wrong...but outside of that, you, as a person, pretty much suck. i'm not sure if u think that i should be lucky or thankful that u grace me with ur dack every now and then or what. cause im really not. i could be fucking with a nigga that i can get sum steady dack from. but, yet, i continually try to fuck on u. fuck that and fuck u. and lemme reiterrate just in case u missed it the 1st time...UR REALLY NOT THAT BIG OF A DEAL! so sat yo ass on the non-players bench and try again next season.
and thats one to grown on!
See thats not that bad. What do you think?
All I can say is he shouldn't have put me on hold. LOL!!!
Friday, May 30, 2008
Let me ask a quick question
Let's say there is a set of Siamese twins. They have their own functioning brain and they just share legs. IF,one of them were to rob a bank and on the video footage and all eye witness accounts the other one was clearly not down with the shyt. He's telling the other one not to do it and he's screaming "I'm not a part of this shyt!!" How do they get sentenced? Do they have to go to jail? Would they go to some sort of hospital? House arrest? Alls I know is, if I was the "good" one, I'D.BE.PISSED.DA.PHUCK.OFF!
Weed is a helluva drug.
You know who I can't stand??????
MY MOMMA!!!!!!! Oooooooooo-weeeeeeeeeeeee! That little black ass lady know she gets on my very last nerve! Y'all know I got Big Boy and Little Boy, right? Well, you would have thought that she laid up on that table and pushed those big-headed jerks out. She always got some damn input on how they should be raised, what they should eat, what they should wear...blah blah blizzy-blah! When I was coming up, my granny let her do her thang. Whatever she wanted to do, whatever dusty ass negro she wanted to live with us, whatever social security number(mine)she she wanted to work under, my granny didn't bat an eyelash. So I really don't know where all this shyt comes from(insert blank stare here). Maybe she's just lonely. Or maybe she feels that she failed as a parent. Ion know. What I do know is, talking to her makes my ass itch. She should just send a note or sumthing. I wish!
She likes to think we don't get along cause I'm bi-polar. Nope! That ain't it. We don't get along cause I'm grown and she can't understand that. She likes to think that I argue with her cause I'm "off my meds". Nope! That ain't it either. We don't get along cause I won't let her run my household. I've even offered her to have my boys, just so that I don't have to deal with her. I know, that ain't right. So you know it must be bad. LOL! The funny thing about the whole situation is that, she doesn't even like kids. Trust me, I know, I was kid in her house once. I know how she gets down(ask me about the hot curling irons). Always screaming she gonna get foster kid. Oh no! Not if they gotta ask me anything, she won't. Cause I'm singing like a bird.
I've gone as far as to tell her that it costs X amount of dollars to run my house. If she pays that, she can do whatever da hell she wants to do in here. I'm still waiting on that dough.
BTW, if there are any cute dudes reading this, the offer stands for you too(wink wink). Ya just can't be dusty, my momma turned me off to y'all a long time ago.
Wednesday, May 28, 2008
The way I woke up.......
Back hurts.....head hurts.....hip hurts(don't ask). So I'm not doing shyt at work today. The 1st person that asks me to do something will feel my wrath!
Tuesday, May 27, 2008
Back at the slave camp.....
picking digital cotton for the man.
Uuuuggggh! A damn 3 day weekend wasted. I pretty much spent it on my deathbed. A bitch was ill y'all. It was like 1000 degrees yesterday and I'm in the crib swaddled in blankets like a newborn and shit.
Needless to say, goin to work today was not #1 on my list of fun shyt to do. I pretty much dicked around on the internet and made a few(by few I mean 3)calls that actually pertained to my job. I have come to the conclusion that I only like the black folks at my new gig. The white ones can pretty much kiss the full flatness of my ass. They put my desk across from the old pervy black dude there. Yeah, that's the ticket. Put me and my luscious 42DDs right across from his ass. Give him all day to say inappropriate shyt to me. I hate that shyt....OK I'm lying, it's actually kinda funny. He's safe, I won't tell.
Only to come home to this...
Big Boy: Momma! I hit a boy and he hit me back. His momma said she's gonna press charges!
Me: Do you have a note, 72, or a warrant for your arrest?
Big Boy: Nooooooooo.....
Me: What's this kid's name?
Big Boy: (insert ethic sounding 1st name here) Jackson
Me: Figures(mumbling that I'll kick his momma's ass). Well if you ain't got none of the above then fuck it!
Big Boy: I don't wanna go to jaaaaaiiiilllllll.
Me: Boy bye!
I know...hold your applause...I am the greatest parent ever!!! But, my kids are sum DRAMA KINGS!!!! They think that evvvvvvvvvvvverything is an emergency. I kinda(giving Little Boy the side-eye as he contemplates drinking my leftover cocktail from last night)ignore the fuck outta a lot of the nonsense that they tell me. I'm trying to get them to fight their own battles. I ain't no punk and neither are their fathers(so what). So, I don't get why they are so wimpy. I blame my momma. She doesn't want any of my male friends wrestling, slap boxing, kung fu fighting..none of that shit with her grandsons. That's a good way to get CPS called. Trust me, I know! LOL!!!
Monday, May 26, 2008
Priority vs. Option
OK, so I have been seeing(fucking)CAM since the summer of '06. We have the most unhealthy type of relationship possible. While I put forth as much effort possible, he...well...doesn't. I do all the calling, texting, and emailing. The problem is, while I shouldn't want this dude, I love him to death. The thing that makes the situation so much more "extra" is that i know he doesn't feel the same.
Well last week he went to ATL for his daughter's kindergarten graduation and I call him. Mind you before he left all I got was a series of text messages telling me that he "needs some" before his trip. Truth be told, I was thinking the same thing. But, he, of course, was pressed for time and we didn't get the deed in. So I call him after he had been gone and this is the convo
Me: Did you make it alright? Ur breathing? Are you being good?
CAM: Yeah i got here, I'm at my daughters graduation.
Me: Well tell her I said good job and..
CAM: (cuts me off totally) My daughter is talking to click apply if ur on a cell phone?)
Hold the fuck on!!!! You hung up on me 'cause a freaking 5 y/o is talking to you??? WTF is up with that? My kids know that if they see my phone on my ear, they don't speak to me unless it's a fucking emergency! I know, I know...I'm being a bitch right? I know it was her special day and all. But, what she doesn't know is that her daddy presents me with his penis on a regular basis and I feel that kinda gives me some kind of one-up on her. It does doesn't it?? Couldn't he had just told her to hold on for a sec, daddy's on the phone? Oh well. That whole situation prompted me to send him a text. I wished i had saved it. But it basically said that I'm not some bootleg bitch and refuse to be treated as such. I am not an OPTION! I am a PRIORITY! And if he can't treat me as such, then I'm done. I erased his number from my phone and set my phone to just accept calls from folks I have saved in my contacts. That was on Thursday. I have no clue if he has called or not. Let's see how long this lasts. I'm officially on strike!
Who? Me? A virgin?
Hello world. This is a new blog for me. So, while I'm not quite a virgin, I'm not a blog slut either. My other one was quite...errrr ummmm.....anonymous to say the least. So now I'm out in the open for everybody to see. I have come to a point in my life where I feel that I shouldn't be ashamed or feel sorry of anything that I do or say. Keep checking back and tell your friends!
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VS 2015 extension for Azure resource manager Template
Category: azure stack
Atul Gupta123 on Tue, 11 Sep 2018 09:53:37
Hello team ,
I could not find Azure resource Manager Template extension on Visual studio 2015.
Could you please help me here
AjayKumar-MSFT on Wed, 12 Sep 2018 06:25:49
You have posted the question on Azure Stack forum which is dedicated to Azure Stack related questions only. Just to confirm, are you attempting to leverage Azure Stack or Azure (Global) for your scenario?
You may download the latest SDK for VS 2015 and then check to see if that helps.
Checkout these documents for more details on this topic.
Quickstart: create Azure Resource Manager templates by using Visual Studio Code
Creating and deploying Azure resource groups through Visual Studio
Working with Azure Resource Manager Templates in Visual Studio Code
Also, do share a screenshot of the issue after concealing any private details.
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TOEIC Listening Part 1 - Photographs
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Listening Part 1 - Photographs
Choose the sentence that best describes the photograph:
Click here for the listening exercise:
Click here for the correct answer:
The correct answer is "The men are using a machine."
Click here for another exercise.
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5.66 x 39 MPS cartridges near Kiev
N.R. Jenzen-Jones
The seizure of former president Viktor Yanukovych’s estate in Mezhyhirya, an hour’s drive from Kiev, turned up a range of interesting arms and munitions. Nearby, a variety of ammunition was recovered from a private lake, including the cartridges shown in the image above. These are 5.66 x 39 mm rounds for the Russian made APS (Автомат Подводный Специальный) underwater “assault rifle”, which are available in three types. Two are designated as the MPS (МПС; морской патрон специальный) and MPST (МПСТ; морской патрон специальный трассирующий). The final is a training cartridge of unknown designation. Whilst the APS is commonly referred to as an assault rifle, the barrel of the Avtomat Podvodny Spetsialny or “special underwater assault rifle” is not actually rifled, and the projectiles are stabilised by hydrodynamic effects.
The MPS (Morskoy Patron Spetsialnyy; “special marine cartridge”) and MPST (Morskoy Patron Spetsialnyy Trassiruyushchiy; “special marine tracer cartridge”) cartridges feature long, slender dart-like projectiles of a nominal 120 mm length. The projectiles are of lacquered steel, with the MPST projectile featuring a tracer canister at its base. The lacquered steel cartridge cases are sealed at the case mouth and the primer annulus to prevent the ingress of moisture. The cartridges above appear to be MPS rounds.
Ukrainian military frogmen are known to use the APS rifle and associated MPS/MPST ammunition. Sources in Ukraine have also indicated that the presidential security detail also had frogmen on the team, and it seems likely that the ammunition documented belonged to that unit.
Whilst there is little public domain information on these cartridges, the following specifications (for the MPS cartridge) and diagrams are taken from the Russian language book Ammunition For Small Arms, by L.V. Kolomiytsev, V.T. Nikitiuk, I.S. Sobakar, and V.V. Somov, published in Ukraine in 2003.
МПС (MPS) Cartridge Specifications
Calibre: 5.66 x 39
Cartridge length: 149.6 – 150.0 mm
Cartridge weight: 27.5 – 28.0 g
Muzzle velocity when fired from APS above water: 350 – 365 m/s
Muzzle energy when fired from APS above water: 1237.3 – 1365.6 J
Propellant type: smokeless pyroxyline
Weight of powder charge: 1.40 – 1.42 g
The maximum pressure of the powder gases: 295.9 MPa
Lacquered steel projectile
Bullet weight: 20.2 – 20.5 g
Bullet length: 119.8 – 120.0 mm
Cartridge case
Weight of cartridge case with primer: 5.50 – 5.57 g
Cartridge case length: 39.5 – 39.7 mm
Material: lacquered steel
The following is an extract from a TSNIITOCHMASH flyer advertising the APS rifle for export. Note the inset image showing MPS (left) and MPST (right) cartridges.
With thanks to Yuri Lyamin and Ivan Kochin.
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0451 | ADMT IV: At Lady Molly’s | Anthony Powell
0451 | ADMT IV: At Lady Molly’s | Anthony Powell
Context: Visited Yarm High St on Teesside in the UK while reading this. The free parking there is now a distant memory.
Perhaps the most forgettable, for me, of the four volumes so far.Having nearly completed two more memorable volumes since finishing this one off, I had to go back to the web to remind myself of exactly what took place.
Marriage is in the air for a few key characters and Nick reflects on that quite a bit. There’s also a fairly dramatic dissolution of a marriage as well.
Overall however, this is more about discussions between characters than events that occur. There are long stretches of conversation over dinner which involve art, literature and politics to a lesser extent.
This is definitely an essential novel in the series, but it’s not a stand out episode by any means.
We had known General Conyers immemorially not because my father had ever served under him but through some long-forgotten connexion with my mother’s parents, to one or other of whom he may even have been distantly related.
Marriage as I have said, is a form of action, of violence almost: an assertion of the will. Its orbit is not to be charted with precision, if misrepresentation and contrivance are to be avoided. Its facts can perhaps only be known by implication. It is a state from which all objectivity has been removed. Nothing disturbs feeling so much as thinking. Got to have a plan, of course, but no use in knotting yourself up in it too tight. [War is] not an exact science, but a terrible and passionate drama. Something like that. In fact, marriage is rather like that too.
RATING I’ll not be rating each individual volume of the novel but will give the novel a rating after finishing volume 12.
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What do you think when you read the acronym in a text message "tbh?" In the world of SMS coverage, "to be honest" seems a simple jargon phrase that says, "I'm telling you the truth." Of course, that kind of phrase makes me wonder about all the other phrases and other statements the person with whom I'm communicating. Were they being honest earlier? Will they continue to be honest?
On TV, the interviewer kept the slogan "Can I be honest with you?" when the Hollywood star is being challenged to tell about the latest movie blockbuster. What is the interviewer to respond? Please, be honest with me. Of course, but were you being honest earlier or will you continue to tell me the truth?
My mother used to inquire into my disclosures, when I was a young man, even a teen. She heard me tell her about my (lack of) homework or about a person with whom I had a disagreement, and she would ask, "Honest engine?" (Of course it might have been more "Honest injun?" but I have to worry about Native American reaction today.) Her inquiry had to do with a 2nd-level verification, almost like a captcha code.
Some today use the phrase, "Are you kidding me?" for such verification in personal conversation. Others would simply take the comment on board with "Wow" or "That's amazing!"
What about you? When you speak, or text, or write... do you need to say "I'm telling you the truth" or "TBH?"
I'm glad when God wanted to speak, long ago, or today to my heart, He simply spoke. He simply speaks. He calls us to know Him. And His Word is true. And truth. And reliable, verifiable, trustworthy. Yeshua said, "I am the Way, the Truth and the Life." He said, "If you abide in My word, then you are truly disciples of Mine; and you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.” Freedom. Sounds good. Honestly.
Bob Mendelsohn said…
A Singapore friend wrote these two quotes from history
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Wednesday, August 29, 2012
16-bit tabletop roleplaying
OK, I'm not going to run this weird stupid idea but I wouldn't be able to stop thinking about it until I wrote it down. So here it is:
Most of the time when we play RPGs our default mode is to visualise the imaginary world as something like a movie or a memory. There aren't any particular stylistic visual choices, we just let the images appear in our minds as the DM says stuff. However there are some cases where these images might be different, like if you were playing a game that's explicitly tagged as 'anime style' you would probably picture everything as anime, or in Marvel Heroic Roleplaying I think they refer to game turns as 'panels' so that is also something that could affect your visualisation.
I want to visualise a tabletop game like this:
And not just visualise, but everything about this game is designed to put you in the idea that you're *not* really fictional heroes doing mighty deeds, you are just characters in a videogame. It's pretty disassociated, you could say.
So you can't tell the DM 'we go west' or 'I examine the wall in greater detail'. What, you think you're a guy with actual eyes or something? You're just pixels on a screen. Instead you can say things like 'We move to the right' (new stuff is always to the right) or 'I punch the wall and see if it shatters'.
Your options will be different depending on which 'screen' you're currently occupying. Combat and exploration will take place on the 'Action Stage' screen (see above). The other screens are:
overworld map - for travelling to different locations which each have their own screen
shop - for buying things
camp screen - to manage your party's inventory (you can only take one item each when you enter a battle stage)
cutscene - when the GM just wants to show you something. However this isn't entirely non-interactive. Usually a cutscene will show a character talking to you, and then you can choose what the possible responses are.
minigame - for any other dumb thing that the GM made up to throw at you
Now hold on a minute buster, you might be saying, what is the goddamn point of this game? if I wanted to play a videogame I could just actually play that? why do I need to turn a tabletop game into some other game that it's not?
The answer is: flexibility and imagination. Though this is the hard part of the design, the idea is for the players to have much greater agency and creativity than they would in a real arcade game, and at the same time allowing the GM to improvise things that would never happen in a videogame.
The system to make this work is "Secrets". Secrets are some things, little or big, which you can do in the game but aren't explicitly spelled out for you. They might include a particular item dealing bonus damage against a boss, or a well-placed punch breaking open a false wall, or a hidden area on the overworld map that only appears after you've picked a certain dialogue option.
And of course, all the Secrets are invented by the players. I'm not quite sure how you would regulate it, maybe with some sort of Fate Point-like system. But this system basically replaces all lateral thinking that you would do in a 'realistic' RPG. You can't just say "well it makes sense for my fireball attack to deal extra damage against the ice zombies" because since when did old videogames make sense, or account for every eventuality? But what you CAN say is "I just discovered a secret - look, when I use fireball these ice zombies melt immediately" and the GM can go "FINE you get bonus damage".
If you want to go to a place that the GM hasn't mapped, then you just need to 'discover' the warp zone that leads you there. If you want to carry your dinosaur mounts to the next stage, you just need to jump across the invisible platforms instead of leaving them at the stable. If you want to combine an axe and a gear into a spinning death device you just need to try putting one on top of the other in your inventory screen.
When talking to NPCs, the GM will give you some 'canned' dialogue (you pretend it's canned but it may be made up on the spot) and the players, collectively, will devise exactly 3 'canned' response options. You always have to list three, even if you think you know what you want to say already. So maybe the king says "Will you undertake this quest for me?" and the players come up with the responses "Yes, of course" "No thanks" and "Taste my steel, baldy!"
There is no 'character generation' in this game, only the 'character select screen'. But you the player picks who will appear on this screen. Your stats are SPEED, POWER, HEALTH and SPECIAL, which are rated from 1-4 and assigned by point buy. You pick one special ability which is powered by your SPECIAL meter. Then you describe your character's name, sprite and a brief one-sentence description. The special abilities are generic so you can reskin them as just about anything. The default setting is some sort of Mortal Kombat/Street Fighter type world so it's cool to have commandos, ninjas, wizards and aliens adventuring together.
When you die you are dead forever (it's coin-operated I guess) but you have 3 lives and can sometimes acquire more. You cannot advance or level up your character in this game. The only form of advancement comes from unlocking new and stronger characters. Although sometimes this new character might be a powered up version of your old one, like with a cyborg arm or something.
When you kill enemies or break things, you can roll on a table to see what items fall out of them if anything. Maybe there is a combo system that affects this d% roll in mysterious ways. Sometimes you can collect letters that spell out S-U-P-E-R and when you get them all you can use a special team attack. Now that's a disassociated mechanic.
Your party as a whole knows one cheat code. You can choose what it does, picking from a list, which might include things like temporary invincibility, but also things like 'input the code here to automatically have a cutscene turn out the way you want it'. You can only use the cheat code once and probably can't find another one ever.
Combat... this is the tricky part because you would spend a lot of time in combat so it would need to be good. I would make it some grid based thing distilled from D&D4E, except your minis would represent sprites moving up and down the screen. That's the main reason I'm not going to run this - I would have to come up with proper combat rules which is difficult, and I couldn't run it over hangouts because it would need minis and a grid.
Well that's all I guess. This whole post was pretty pointless but at least you got to see this picture from the Simpsons beat-em-up game. And that has to be worth something, right?
1. Aw Doug couldn't make it to today's session. I guess his connection timed out.
Yeah, that thing that was too easy changed because the devs released a patch.
On a crit fail- you clip through the terrain and fall endlessly.
2. This could also switch up how items work. If you're playing Mario you have to move to catch that power star when it comes out of the box or else it's gone. Bonuses in games are often something you can't store for later.
That would give the DM a new tool to play with when creating encounters.
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The access system
Access System
CCDB Request form viewed through the global tracking box
1. Find a computer that has the Access System on it. If you can’t find a computer with it in any lab in the science complex, go to BIO and use the computer in the room with the incubator and lysis solutions.
2. Under “Short cut to dataserve” on the desk top, go to “Databases”, then “Collection_data”, then “BIO_collection”. If you want, you can click and drag “CCDB_lab.mdb” to your desktop.
3. On the first page that comes up, under the heading Batch Tissue Processing select Submit a CCDB research request form.
4. Enter the BOLD project code (eg. HIC).
5. External Collaborator: type in their name if you know what it is.
6. Location of Samples: type in the exact location of the samples (ie the building, freezer number, and shelf).
7. Type of organism: Choose one of invertebrate, vertebrate, fungus, plant, or protist).
8. Taxonomic descriptor: (chose the closest descriptor – for example if you have an unknown insect, chose “Insects” but if you have a butterfly chose “Lep” for Lepidopteran)
9. Geographic region: the region that the samples were collected from.
10. Material submitted: Choose one of Tissue sample, DNA extract, PCR product, or Sequencing product.
11. Tissue type: select the best description from the list.
12. Sample age: Choose one of fresh, 1-5 years, 6-10 years, 10-20 years, old (>20 years), ancient (>100 years).
13. Type of analysis requested: check off Standard COI barcoding.
14. Stages required: select all the stages that are going to be done by BIO as well as the stages that will be done in the Science Complex using the reagents from BIO. For example, if you check off “PCR reactions” you can take pre-made plates from the freezer in BIO back to the Science Complex to run your reaction.
15. Comments: In this section type in what will be done by BIO, and what will be done in the Science Complex.
16. Submitted by: Type in your name.
17. Pricing: U of G internal.
18. Bill to: Bob Hanner.
19. Under the heading Associated plates to process, under Plate number type in the box number (eg. BOX-3452, or CCDB-00519), under Source type select the type of container the samples are stored in.
20. Save the request.
21. Print out two copies of the form. Keep one in your records, and bring the other over to the lab manager in BIO.
Return to Barcoding in the Hanner Lab Wiki.
Next you need to do Tissue Lysis.
NOTE: If you are unable to find or log onto Dataserv see Finding and Logging into Dataserv. If you need to edit a previous request form see Reviewing and Editing Old Request Forms. If you need to Hit pick plates, see Getting Plates Hit Picked and Dataserv.
Updated June 25 2009
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Sunday, January 5, 2014
Back to Summer Update...
The summer was seriously great. I really worried about having a Cherry Hill pass with a one month old and taking my other two kids by myself. But, it was just fine. London was kind of my babysitter for Madden. If he disappeared, she had to go find them. Luckily the baby was fine, although she did not like nursing under a cover in the hot sun...neither did I.
Family vacation was wonderful, as always. Monica and I shared a room since we were both nursing. Funny thing about that was that in the middle of the night we would be feeding our babies at the same time. It seemed like they just always had the same schedule.
They even napped the same time with Mandy's baby on our hikes!
One thing Mom and Dad did is give all the kids "Warrior" shirts and taught them about Nephi.
On the front of the shirts it says, "When the goings get tough. (Then on the back) the tough get going".
So whenever we were hiking at the kids got tired, they just said over and over, "The TOUGH GET GOING!"
We started the vacation by going to the lake first thing and letting the kids swim on the beach.
The days are just so short when you're having a good time.
We did all of our favorite hikes, went canoeing,
went and got ice cream, and just had lots of fun!
As always, I had a baby at my feet in the canoe. She was perfect.
Dean also taught Mom and some of kids how to fly fish.
London became obsessed. I did try to get pictures of the other families but, for some reason my new camera takes a year to upload photos.
Of course, we have a ritual on the Sunday that we're there, we have family pictures. Mom, Dad, Madeline, and Olivia.
Dean and Mary's Family
Danny and Emily's Family
Mandy and Trent's Family
For some reason Monica and Brad didn't get on my camera.
Sorry Monica, but this is what I have of you! Oh and of course, little Russell:)
I think what I love most about McCall, was that every morning Madeline, or Monica and I would go running. It was a time to talk to family, it was time away from work, away from the gym, and it's always a time for memories.
Before I forget, a little update on Madden. Madden has become really quite funny. He is colorblind and we deal with color issues on a daily basis. he asked me if I knew that his paint set had six blacks. It was actually dark purple, dark blue, dark green, black, brown, etc. Other things that he asks about is how old everyone is and things about Jesus and Satan. For example, Madden asks me how many brothers I have, I'll say two. Then he says, "No, you have three. you forgot about your big brother Jesus."
Another time I was cutting his toenails and he started screaming, "Oh big brother, Jesus! Where are you! Please help me, Jesus!" I started laughing because he sounded like he needed to be in a Baptist church. I asked him why he would talk like that. His only response is that his primary teacher told him to pray if he ever needed help.
Madden also got the flu and asked why would Jesus make him throw up. I said that he didn't. Madden then asked if Satan made him throw up.
The kid is pretty funny. Daily I'm annoyed with him but, at the same time laughing hysterically. Stayed tuned for another update!
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What is each band members favourite track for inspiration/signature tune that defines them?
My favourite song that makes me me is "just the two of us" by Bill Withers as I love all things romantic.
Would be nice to know also fans choices of songs for themselves as its lovely to know what makes us us so to speak through song :-D I think Gary Barlow mentioned this subject on the Take That magic105.4 special that there was a duet that defined him.
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Tuesday, June 30, 2015
Johnny Nolan has a patch on his ass
by Lawrence Ferlinghetti
From his collection entitled A Coney Island of the Mind
Johnny Nolan has a patch on his ass
Kids chase him
thru screendoor summers
Thru the back streets
of all my memories
Somewhere a man laments
upon a violin
A doorstep baby cries
and cries again
down steps
Which helps the afternoon arise again
to a moment of remembered hysteria
Johnny Nolan has a patch on his ass
Kids chase him
Sunday, June 28, 2015
Thursday, June 25, 2015
From the Manifesto of the Selfish
by Stephen Dunn
From his collection entitled Landscape at the End of the Century
Because altruists are the least sexy
people on earth, unable
to say "I want" without embarrassment,
we need to take from them everything
they give,
then ask for more,
this is how to excite them, and because
it's exciting
to see them the least bit excited
once again we'll be doing something
for ourselves,
who have no problem taking pleasure,
always desirous and so pleased to be
pleased, we who above all
can be trusted to keep the balance.
Tuesday, June 23, 2015
Sunday, June 21, 2015
My Father Holds the Door for Yoko Ono
by Christopher Chambers
Courtesy of the Poetry Foundation
In New York City for a conference
on weed control, leaving the hotel
in a cluster of horticulturalists,
he alone stops, midwestern, crewcut,
narrow blue tie, cufflinks, wingtips,
holds the door for the Asian woman
in a miniskirt and thigh high
white leather boots. She nods
slightly, a sad and beautiful gesture.
Neither smile, as if performing
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the loss of a son or a lover.
Years later, Christmas, inexplicably
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my brother's wire-rimmed glasses,
and strikes a pose of clowning
with my second hand acoustic guitar.
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and a door whispers shut,
like cherry blossoms falling.
Wednesday, June 17, 2015
I bled the morning you saw her
by Kat Comer
I bled the morning you saw her,
a fallen angel
two dogs circling her legs.
In her lap a book
open like her face.
I lay in bed forgotten
as your gaze dropped
two stories to the yard below,
my stomach wrenched
my heart a naked howl.
Sunday, June 14, 2015
Elegy to A Goldfish
Elegy to a Goldfish, Ashleigh Hartsock, 2015, acrylic on canvas
Inspired by Matthew Dickman's poem in the collection Mayakovsky's Revolver
Friday, June 12, 2015
Tenth Birthday
by Marjorie Knapp
She woke before the sun. She heard the still
Small sounds which whisper when the night is gone.
Though all the curtains of her room were drawn,
She saw the gray light creep across the sill.
This was her day. How would it help fulfill
Her destiny? She looked out at the dawn
Stepping across the velvet of the lawn,
She saw the purple of a distant hill.
In cloak and slippers, she glided through the halls
Softly - she would disturb none still asleep -
Then looked through maple branches to the sky;
Her small heart beating against its delicate walls,
The marvel of ten years too much to keep.
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Homoeopathy Explained
Homoeopathy is one of those topics that drives some people crazy because it seems impossible. We've seen so much vitriol poured out over homoeopathy, it makes us wonder why people feel so threatened by it. Stop reading about it and just try it for yourself. It's cheap, noninvasive, painless, and there are no side effects.
However, for the intellectually minded, let's take a closer look.
Breaking News
Before I start discussing various aspects of the mystery, I highly recommend that you read either of the following studies which confirm that homeopathy is nano-medicine. This explains a possible basis of how it works.
Study 1 -- Adaptive Network Nanomedicine: Solving the Homeopathy Puzzle One (Small) Scientific Step at a Time
Study 2 -- Nanoparticle Characterization of Traditional Homeopathically-Manufactured Gelsemium sempervirens Medicines and Placebo Controls
And now back to our regular discussion:
There are two main steps to creating a homoeopathic remedy, and these are repeated over and over again -- dilution and sucussion.
1. Dilution is done by mixing one drop of a substance with either 10 or 100 drops of purified water.
2. Sucussion is certain way to shake the bottle containing the diluted remedy. It involves holding the container in one hand and tapping it on the opposite hand in a brisk up-down motion. One tap is one sucussion. Normally a remedy will be sucussed 100 times before it is diluted again. Sometimes this is done by machine.
After about 12 dilutions and sucussions, there is not a single molecule of the original substance in the remedy. Many more dilutions and sucussions can be carried out on the same remedy, and each time this is repeated, the remedy gets a bit stronger.
Here are the main objections, which I will address one at a time:
1. Is there scientific evidence to prove that homeopathy works?
2. If there’s nothing physical left in the remedy, it must be placebo.
3. Homoeopaths claim that the reason the remedies have an effect is because the water holds a memory (or energetic imprint) of the substance that was once in it. How can water possibly have a memory?
4. If water has a memory, then why doesn't it contain an effect from every substance it has ever come in contact with?
5. Homoeopathy is based on the law of minimum dose, which means that the more you dilute a substance, the stronger it gets. For most people, this is all they know of homoeopathy and therefore they discount it, claiming it's all placebo.
6. How can a homoeopathic remedy have the opposite effect of the original substance? For example, sometimes a remedy made from coffee is used for insomnia.
7. Why do two or more people with the same diagnosis need different homoeopathic remedies? Shouldn't a remedy always work for everyone with a particular problem?
8. How do we know it's not placebo?
So let me attempt to explain these issues.
Issue 1 – Scientific Evidence
I love this one. It's the catch-all phrase that pseudo-scientific types use frequently to stop any debate dead in its tracks: "there's no evidence".
So, is there any scientific evidence in favour of homoeopathy? Yes, actually, there's quite a bit. I've compiled a PDF document with 193 different studies, (122 on humans, 33 on animals, 8 on plants, 16 in vitro, and a few others). This file is a good place to start your review: Scientific Evidence. Note: I haven't updated this file for several years -- there are more studies coming out all the time!
The Swiss government has recently completed the largest study of homeopathy ever undertaken. The conclusion: homeopathy works and is safe. Click here for a summary and click here for the abstract of the study.
Another excellent paper which compares statistics on the effectiveness of homeopathy versus drug-based medicine can be found here. In this paper, there are tables showing mortality rates for pneumonia (present day data) as well as data from all the epidemics since the year 1799. You'll see that homeopathy is significantly more effective than drug-based modern medicine.
Issue 2 – Nothing physical therefore placebo
If all we do to create a remedy is serial dilutions and sucussions, how can it possibly have any effect? Nothing physical remains. And we all know that we need something physical to have a physical effect, right?
Not so fast! Radiation is not strictly physical, yet we all use radios, TVs, mobile phones, microwave ovens, magnets, computers and they obviously work. Is it such a stretch of the imagination to think that what is left in the homeopathic remedy is some form of wave pattern? Actually, it has been proven that homeopathic remedies have a magnetic emanation.
If you are given 2 identical cassette tapes, one blank and one with music recorded on it, and you do not have a cassette player, can you tell them apart? The one with music on it contains "information" but it can only be detected or interpreted using the right equipment. If you analyse the materials looking for the information, you will not find it.
That is the challenge of homeopathy -- we supposedly do not yet have a device which can interpret the "information" it contains. Or do we? See this article: Homeopathic Potencies Identified By A New Magnetic Resonance Method: Homeopathy--An Energetic Medicine.
Issue 3 – Memory of water
How can a wave pattern be maintained in water?
A physicist named C. W. Smith (and colleagues) has investigated this phenomenon and found a rational, scientific explanation for how water can hold a pattern. I will quote from James Oschmann:
Smith and colleagues have published such a mechanism in which the hydrogen bonds hold water molecules together in a helical structure that acts as a solenoid. A magnetic flux would induce a current flow through the helix, which would regenerate the magnetic flux. Once this metastable state is achieved, current flows and resonances would persist after the original magnetic flux was removed. [Oschmann, J, PhD, 2003. Energy Medicine in Therapeutics and Human Performance. Elsevier, Philadelphia PA USA. Page 212.]
For a much simpler view of this effect in action, see the work of Dr. Masaru Emoto, here. And if you want even more of the latest information on the structure of water, read this book: The Fourth Phase of Water, by Gerald H. Pollack.
Issue 4 – Infinite memory
And so to the next question -- If water has a memory, then why doesn't the ocean contain an effect from every substance it has ever come in contact with?
Homoeopathic remedies are made under very strictly controlled conditions. The water used is distilled for maximum purification. Sucussion is a particular method of causing impact to the diluted water with a downward motion which jars the water in one direction (not haphazardly the way the ocean might wash the waves up against the rocks).
Using newly developed infrared analytical methods, there has been considerable study of molecular clusters in a variety of liquids. Some of this research, using FT-ICR spectra (Jongma, 1998) confirms the existence of stable molecule clusters in water using technologies involving surface impact. [Connelly, Brian R, 2009. “How does Homeopathy work? http://hpathy.com/homeopathy-scientific-research/how-does-homeopathy-work/]
Sucussion creates a condition called cavitation. Cavitation is demonstrated by the small bubbles you see when you sucuss a fluid.
Using FT-ICR spectroscopy, (Jongma 1998) showed that the cavitation is moderated by dissolved air or alcohol, so that the lower attenuated cavitation energy actually creates quite large stable clusters in water. [Connelly, Brian R, 2009. “How does Homeopathy work? http://hpathy.com/homeopathy-scientific-research/how-does-homeopathy-work/]
The clusters of water take different forms (isomers), and this may be the mechanism by which the information is stored in the water.
So just to repeat -- only under certain conditions can information be stored in the water. An analogy might be the difference between using a camera to take a random photograph versus using a laser to create a hologram. A hologram stores a lot more information than a photograph since it is 3 dimensional, but it can only be done under strictly controlled conditions.
Issue 5 – Dilution makes it stronger
How can a substance get stronger the more it is diluted?
The answer has to do with coherence. Coherence is a word that describes organisation. The light from a laser is more coherent than the light from a light globe. The sound produced by a professional violinist is a lot more coherent than that produced by an amateur, or someone totally untrained. In the same way, when the homoeopathic remedy is repeatedly diluted and sucussed, the pattern in the water becomes increasingly coherent.
This has been proven by using spectroscopy. Again, quoting from Oschmann:
Spectroscopy is the main method used by physicists, chemists, and even astrophysicists to study the structure of matter of all kinds. When energy is applied to atoms or molecules, they vibrate and produce luminescence or radiation. Spectroscopists study these radiations to determine the precise structure of matter that is too small or far away to be examined directly.
As you can see from these spectroscopic photos of a homeopathic remedy at different dilutions (called potencies), something has changed in the substance, even after not one molecule of the original substance remains. Each potency displays a different degree of coherence, clearly seen by observing the white star-like pattern in the centre of each image.(1)
Issue 6 – Opposite effect
Now we get to the sticky question of how a remedy can have the opposite effect to the original substance. Homoeopathy uses the principle of “like cures like”, which seems counterintuitive. How can I cure insomnia by taking diluted coffee?
In order to answer this I will use the example of noise-cancelling headphones (as sold by Sony ® or Bose ®). If you’ve ever switched these headphones on and put them over your ears, you will have experienced a blissful silence. When you play music through the headphones, it sounds clear because it is not competing with background noise.
These headphones work by the principle of “like cures like”. They contain a microphone on the outside of the headphone, which picks up the background noise of the surroundings – electrical hums, background chatter, mechanical sounds such as air conditioners, etc. A computer within the headphones analyses this noise and produces a phase inverted mirror image of the background sounds and feeds this into the headphone. This cancels the noise and you hear silence.
I suggest that this is what homoeopathic remedies do, too. The process of creating the remedy causes the original substance’s information to be imprinted on the water as a mirror image. This then has a cancelling effect on the symptoms normally produced by the original undiluted substance.
Issue 7 – Different strokes for different folks
These questions presuppose that we are all identical, that we get ill in the same way, and that a diagnosis is a sacrosanct pronouncement of the real situation within the body. None of these premises are true for health. It is a very individual thing.
For example, I know many people who get a runny nose and weepy red eyes when they have hayfever. I know many other people who get a blocked nose and a headache as their version of hayfever. So which is right? Both, of course. It’s an individual reaction, even though the medical diagnosis is still called hayfever.
Homoeopathy relies on the complete symptom combination of a person, in order to match the symptoms (as with the noise-cancelling headphones).
This is why clinical trials of homoeopathy can be misleading. If a trial assumes that all participants are identical (which can never be the case), then they will attempt to use the same remedy for everyone. A particular remedy will only work on those people whose totality of symptoms is matched and phase-inverted by the information (energy signature) in the remedy.
Issue 8 – Placebo?
How do we know it’s not placebo? The easiest way to know is to test homoeopathic remedies on infants, plants, animals, microbes, enzymes, and similar. These subjects are incapable of having a placebo effect, since they can have no emotional investment in the process.
Here are some studies on microbes, enzymes, plants, animals and even on humans (2):
• Noiret, P. “Activity of several dilutions of copper sulfate (Cuprum sulph.) in different microbial species,” Proceedings of 31st Congress, International League of Homeopathic Physicians, Athens, 1976, pp. 137-147.
• Brack, A., et al.,“Effect of ultra-high dilutions of 3,5-dichlorophenol on luminescence of the bacterium Vibrio fischeri", in Biochim. et Biophys. Acta 1621:253-260.
• Davenas, E., et al., “Effect on mouse peritoneal macrophages of orally-administered, very high dilutions of Silica,” in European Journal of Pharmacology 135:313-319.
• Petit, C., “Effect of homeopathic dilutions on subcellular enzymatic activity,”Human Toxicology 8:125-129.
• Shabir, S., et al., “Effect of homeopathic drugs on in vitro activity of alpha-amylase from human saliva,” Indian Journal of Homeopathic Medicine 31:93-98.
• Betti, L., et al., “Effect of high dilutions of Arsenicum album on wheat seedlings from seeds poisoned with the same substance,” British Homeopathic Journal 86:86-89, 1997.
• Binder, M., et al., “Effects of Arsenicum album 45X on wheat seedling growth,” Forschende Komplementärmedizin und Klassische Naturheilkunde 12:284-291.
• Banerjee, P. “Comparative efficacy of two dilutions of Arsenicum album to ameliorate toxicity by repeated sublethal injections of arsenious trioxide in mice,” Pathobiology 75:156, 2008.
• Fisher, P., “The influence of the homeopathic remedy Plumbum metallicum on the excretion kinetics of lead in the rat,” Human Toxicology 6:321, 1987.
• Doutremepuich, C., et al., “Aspirin at ultra-low dosage in healthy volunteers: effects on bleeding time, platelet aggregation, and coagulation", Hemostasis 20:99-105.
(See also Issue 1 -- Scientific Evidence. I've compiled a PDF document of evidence including animal, plant and in vitro studies.)
Here are some of the well-documented successes of homoeopathy in epidemics of the past:(3)
• During the European Typhus Epidemic of 1813, those treated in homeopathic hospitals had a mortality rate of less than 1 percent while those treated with allopathic medicine had a mortality rate well over 30 percent
• Documentation for the Russian Cholera Epidemic of 1831 confirmed a death rate of under 10 percent for those treated homeopathically while conventional treatments had a death rate of up to 80 percent.
• During the Spanish Flu Pandemic of 1918 that claimed the lives of millions, homeopathic hospitals had a remarkably low mortality rate. Twenty-six thousand cases of the flu were treated homeopathically with 1.05 percent mortality rate while the 24,000 cases that were treated allopathically (ie, pharmaceutically) had a mortality rate of 28.2 percent.
• During a 1902 smallpox outbreak in Iowa, a Dr. Eaton reported that 2806 people were given the homeopathic remedy, Variolinum, as a preventative. The rate of protection was an astounding 97 percent which was unheard of in allopathic (ie, pharmaceutical) medicine.
• The British Medical Journal reported that during the 1974 meningitis outbreak in Brazil, those who were given homeopathic Menigococcium prophylaxis were protected from developing the disease 23 times more often than those who did not receive treatment.
• Homeopathic medicine has also been shown to be astonishingly effective in preventing polio. In several studies involving over 11,000 children, homeopathic Lathyrus Sativus was given as an 'immunisation' (orally) against the disease. Not a single case of polio was reported nor were there any documented side effects.
What have you got to lose?
One of the greatest features of homoeopathy is that the remedies are very inexpensive. It costs little to experiment, and you will be well repaid by the success you achieve. You don't have to make the choice of "regular" medicine vs homeopathy. Why not use both? Start with Arnica for bumps, bruises and pain. Another popular remedy is Nux vomica for nausea and indigestion. Don't wait for scientists to catch up -- let your own body decide if it's worth using.
(1) Spectroscopic photos from Brugemann, Hans (ed.), Bioresonance and multiresonance therapy (BRT); New, forward-looking forms of therapy with ultrafine body energies and environmental signals; Documentation on theory and practice; Volume 1. Haug International, Brussels, Belgium. 1993. ISBN 2-8043-4010-4. Pages 236-239.
(2) From Dr Richard Moskowitz, MD, "For Homeopathy: A Practicing Physician’s Perspective" American Journal of Homeopathic Medicine, 104:(3). Pages 125-130. Available here: http://homeopathyusa.org/uploads/Research/Moskowitz2.pdf
(3) This information is quoted from: http://www.naturalnews.com/035030_homeopathy_infectious_disease_medicine.html
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Wednesday, April 9, 2014
Silver Bells - no, I mean bars
You may not be aware of this, but there are people who collect (or is it "hoard"?) silver and gold bars.
They call themselves "stackers". It's not just bars; companies sell "rounds", which are coin shaped designs of .999 silver, gold and other metals. Silver is probably the most popular though, as most stackers are certain that its present $20 or so price per ounce is far lower than it should be.
The rounds and bars can be quite artistic. They can also be campy and quirky:
Copper Zombuff
But wait, there's more: some of these stackers like to pour their own PM (Precious Metal) bars. It's probably mostly a guy thing: there's very hot fire, destruction (melting whatever you are using, other bars, coins, battery cable lugs) and there can be creativity in the molds. An element of danger adds to the allure, I'm sure.
Things don't always turn out well. At Test run silver bar a stacker described the result of his first attempt as a "silver turd". He promised a video of the process, but his wife and daughter nixed that idea.
Strictly speaking, this has little to do with coin collecting, but stackers often branch out into coins and coin collectors have been known to buy a few stackables.
Peruse the wide variety of PM products at this link (no, I get no commission or anything else for sending you there).
1. And I almost forgot to give thanks for the cameo spot with the Test Run. I'm honing my skills. It's all in a steady hand, my friend. A steady hand...
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The legend of Rivers Mureș and Olt
True facts
Mures is a river which crosses Romania and Hungary to finally drain into Tisa. It is 761 km long and more than 80% of it flows on Romanian territory. Some of the most important and beautiful spots located on the river Mures are: Arad, Lipova, Ocna Mures, Targu Mures, Reghin and Geoagiu Spa. Toplita is situated at the Mures and Toplita river junction and Alba Iulia, Deva and Aiud are situated on only one of the river banks. Olt is one of the most important rivers of Romania as there are almost 30 barrier lakes and reservoirs built on it. It is 615 km long and drains into the Danube. Some of the most important localities to be crossed by this river are: Miercurea Ciuc, Sfantul Gheorghe, Fagaras, Ramnicu Valcea and the Spa resorts Caciulata and Calimanesti.
The legend
Once upon the time, when the stories were reality, on the top of the Eastern Carpathians, there was a fortress with two towers. The prince and the princess had twins. The boys were alike; only their faces were, not their nature. They were fighting to blood from nothing. The boys grew. One day the prince went to a battle and didn't return. The princess sent messengers to find her husband. The truth was that the prince was dead ,but the princess didn't know this thing.
"What am I going to do with my boys?" she said."They are fighting and fighting all over again. I built for them two different towers. In the northern one leaves. Mures and in the southwest leaves Olt. Soon they will have to marry, but still don't understand each other."
"Olt, my brother", Mures said.
"Mother is still crying after our dad. What are we going to do?"
"Mures, my brother, let's forget our argues and let's go to find the prince. Maybe he's somewhere into some prison and he needs our help to rescue him."
The twins went to their mother, the princess, and spoke to her about their decision. When she heard, she burst into tears. The queen did not know whether to be glad or sad about that decision: was she to be happy she had such brave and determined children or should she fear they might be lost for good like her much beloved husband and king. She advised the two young men to stay together and not to argue with each other during that long and probably difficult quest as she knew they were very different and proud. She reminded the brothers they were much stronger together than divided.
"OK, my boys", the princess said. "Go and find your dad. I advise you to stay together as horses on carriage".
And the boys left. But as soon as they came out the fortress they were already arguing which way to go.
"Let's go to the north", Mures said.
"No, let's go to the south", Olt said. And, like in their childhood, they started to fight.
"Because I grew into the northern tower, I will go in this direction", Mures said.
"And I will go to the south", Olt said ," 'cause I grew into the southwest one."
Like this, they separated each other. After a while Mures was thinking:
"With all our argues, we are still loving each other. Also our mother asked us not to separate. Can I find again my brother?"
On a valley he turned to the south, but Olt wasn't anywhere. Mures was lost and went to the west through plains which were so beautiful that he forgot his brother. The princess found out what was happened, and angry ran to return his sons, but never caught up them cause they were running as fast as their legs carried them. She was praying then:
"Dear Lord, please take care of my sons. Make them immortals."
God heard and transformed then the sons to immortals rivers. The paths they took down to the valley became their river beds. And rivers they are even today maintaining their names: MURES and OLT. Nowadays, in our places wandered by the Mures river, every children must know the tale of Mures and Olt rivers, beeing proud to leave such a wonderful place.
Sugested Tasks:
• Form four groups: the author, critics, readers, adolescents. Each group has to say their opion about this legend.
• Locate on Romania's map the routes of the two rivers.
• What other legend about those river do you know?
• What other rivers' legends do you know?
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King Minos demanded that seven Athenian boys and seven Athenian girls were to be sent to Crete to be devoured by the Minotaur, a half-man, half-bull monster that lived in the Labyrinth created by Daedalus. Theseus volunteered to slay the monster. Like the others, Theseus was stripped of his weapons when they sailed. On his arrival in Crete, King Minos' daughter Ariadne, out of love for Theseus gave Theseus a ball of string so he could find his way out. As soon as Theseus entered the Labyrinth, he tied one end of the ball of string to the door post and brandished his sword which he had hid from the guards inside his tunic. Theseus came to the heart of the Labyrinth and also upon the sleeping Minotaur. A tremendous fight then occurred. Theseus beat the Minotaur with his fists, until death. Theseus used the string to escape the Labyrinth and managed to escape with all of the young Athenians and Ariadne.
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Challenge: Sleep Confessions
5 Rules for Bedtime by Toddlers
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Toddlers usually march to the beat of their own drum, especially when it comes to bedtime. As parents, we try hard to make a consistent bedtime routine, but it can be exhausting when your toddler is not down with your rules. We reached out to some MomCo moms to weigh in on the subject.
If toddlers were allowed to make their own rules, here is what they probably would be...
1. I can sleep anywhere except in my own bed.
We let them pick out their own sheets, give them stuffed animals and blankies, and decorate their rooms in amazing and creative ways. They don't care. Toddlers will sleep where they collapse from exhaustion.
2. If it has a character I love, I must sleep with it.
Toddlers LOVE their princesses, super-heroes, Hello Kitty, My Little Pony, etc. They love them so much, they will sometimes bring them to bed. They don't care that it's just an umbrella or a box of Orajel toothpaste, they're going to sleep with it.
3. If you bought me something new today, I'm taking it to bed with me.
It doesn't matter what it is, if it's new and they've claimed it as their own, they're sleeping with it.
4. I didn't eat all my dinner because I want to take food to bed.
It's almost an involuntary reflex... when we say it is bedtime, they say, "I'm hungry!" And sometimes we give in...
5. I don't need naps.
They need a nap. We know they need a nap. Every last person who comes in contact with your child between 4:00pm and 6:30pm knows they really needed a nap, but they always fight it. Until they can't fight anymore and then this happens... usually right before dinner.
Jillian Darlington is the CEO and Founder of the MomCo app. The MomCo app helps moms locate, connect and meet up with other moms that live close by with similar aged children and common interests. It also helps them find play dates and activities that are happening in their area. Jillian is also a contributor for many parenting websites and a regular parenting expert on Fox5 and CW6 News in San Diego. You can follow Jillian and MomCo on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Pinterest and at
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