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global_01_local_2_shard_00001658_processed.jsonl/12206	Spinal Curves Peer Reviewed In the womb and for a period of time following birth, a baby’s spine is shaped like the letter C. This curve is termed a primary curve, which is Kyphotic. During the time the baby is learning to lift his head and eventually walk, muscles develop. As muscular strength and ability is gained, the baby’s activity will shift body weight to the spine. Gradually secondary curves develop in the cervical and lumbar regions; Lordotic curves. These curves will continue to develop until growing stops. Spinal curves are either kyphotic or lordotic. In a normal spine there are four types of spinal curvatures important to balance, flexibility, and stress absorption and distribution. spine, lateral, labeled, color drawing Type of Spinal Curves Curve Description Kyphosis or Kyphotic Curve Concave anteriorly and convex posteriorly Lordosis or Lordotic Curve Convex anteriorly and concave posteriorly Curvature Normal Curvature Cervical Lordosis 20 to 40 degrees Thoracic Kyphosis 20 to 40 degrees Lumbar Lordosis 40 to 60 degrees Sacral Kyphosis Sacrum fused in a kyphotic curve Commentary by Mary Rodts, DNP Understanding the terminology associated with spinal problems is very important as health care providers discuss the problems and the solutions for the spinal disorder with patients and families. This article helps clarify a difficult topic. Updated on: 05/07/18 Continue Reading Vertebral Column Mary Rodts, DNP Associate Professor Rush College of Nursing Chicago, IL Continue Reading: Vertebral Column Get an expert-written spinal anatomy lesson on the vertebral column (your spine) by reading this article. Read More
global_01_local_2_shard_00001658_processed.jsonl/12219	Monthly Archives: December 2016 Accessing HttpContext outside of framework components in ASP.NET Core When developing web applications with ASP.NET, it is common to end up in situations where you require access to HttpContext. This wouldn’t be anything special, but outside of the context of framework level APIs such as controllers, middleware and so on (which would always give you a way to fetch the current HttpContext), it can be tricky. While generally speaking, HttpContext could be passed around as a regular dependency to the logical components that require it, that solution is often impractical. Let’s have a look at how you can get a hold of HttpContext in ASP.NET Core. Continue Reading Writing C# build scripts with FAKE, OmniSharp and VS Code In this blog post I’d like to show an extremely – in my opinion – productive way of writing build scripts using C#. As a basis, we’ll use the excellent core FAKE library called FakeLib, which is written F# and consume it in C# scripts. Sure, there are other projects/task runners like Cake or Bau that allow you to write C# build scripts (few more actually out there) but the approach I’d like to show you today, is I think the most productive of all, so bear with me. More after the jump. Continue Reading
global_01_local_2_shard_00001658_processed.jsonl/12227	What are some alternative words for jackknife? Synonyms for jackknifeˈdʒækˌnaɪf This thesaurus page is about all possible synonyms, equivalent, same meaning and similar words for the term jackknife. Princeton's WordNet 1. clasp knife, jackknife(noun) a large knife with one or more folding blades clasp knife, jackknife 2. jackknife(verb) clasp knife 3. jackknife(verb) dive into the water bending the body at the waist at a right angle, like a jackknife 1. jackknife(noun) Words popularity by usage frequency Find a translation for the jackknife synonym in other languages: Select another language: Images & Illustrations of jackknife 1. Images & Illustrations of jackknife Discuss these jackknife synonyms with the community: Use the citation below to add these synonyms to your bibliography: "jackknife." Synonyms.com. STANDS4 LLC, 2018. Web. 21 Jun 2018. <https://www.synonyms.com/synonym/jackknife>. Are we missing a good synonym for jackknife? Free, no signup required: Add to Chrome Free, no signup required: Add to Firefox Nearby & related entries: Alternative searches for jackknife: Thanks for your vote! We truly appreciate your support.
global_01_local_2_shard_00001658_processed.jsonl/12238	General discussion Displaying Long File Name By jclito1 · A CD image burned with LFN to be installed to new machines, but when booted in new box without OS using W95 or W98 boot disks it does not display long File Names instead 8.3 format. On w2k it does display LFN. Are there any other techniques or switches that need to be added because I tried different techs and APIs but no chance, we?ll appreciate any suggestions. This conversation is currently closed to new comments. 0 total posts (Page 1 of 1) \| Thread display: Collapse - \| Expand + All Comments Back to Community Forum 0 total posts (Page 1 of 1) Related Discussions Related Forums
global_01_local_2_shard_00001658_processed.jsonl/12239	Vista Evaluation By jimmy-jam · Does anyone out there know if Microsoft is planning on releasing an evaluation edition of Vista? My group would like to start testing how Vista is going to play with the primary application we support. Some of you may be thinking why not just buy a copy to load on a test PC, the cost isn't that much in the grand scheme of things and I would have to agree however, our group has zero purchasing ability. This conversation is currently closed to new comments. 8 total posts (Page 1 of 1) \| Thread display: Collapse - \| Expand + All Answers Collapse - Why not by cmiller5400 In reply to Vista Evaluation Why not ring Micro$oft and ask them for one. I am sure that they would provide one for eval... Collapse - If you have "zero purchasing ability" ... by OldER Mycroft In reply to Vista Evaluation What the **** is the point of getting an evaluation copy? If you are blinkered enough to eventually like it - you won't be able to buy it! Collapse - I think what he is trying to say by jdclyde In reply to If you have "[i]zero purc ... Is that after they test it and can build a case supporting it, then it can go through the purchase channels. They just can't get anything on their own, and can't get approval for testing. Of course any company that isn't looking to overhaul their hardware shouldn't even consider Vista as a viable solution. Collapse - by jimmy-jam In reply to If you have "[i]zero purc ... It isn't a matter of liking it, it is a matter of one day the "powers that be" will say hey we're gonna upgrade our desktop environments to Vista. I work in a hospital and the application support model is not the most well concieved and the people making the desicions don't always think things the whole way through. Big shock right. My motivation is more of a proactive approach to attempt to stay ahead of the curve. Novel concept. Also some of our doctors will begin buying PC's which they will log in from home via VPN using their spanking new Vista PC and wonder why they can't run the app or wonder why it doesn't look the same. We had the same issue when IE7 came out. The hospital took the stance that IE7 was not approved but the doctors started to whine and administration said make it work. Such is life. Collapse - I would reccomend by Dumphrey In reply to Because a technet membership with MS. Their download only is like $380 (after tax) for a ton o non-time limited software for testing and evaluation. (No home or media versions, just business type software.) Its also tax deductible. Thats how I got Vista and a ton o Info on Vista. I have since erased it from my hard drive and gone back to XP, but I used it daily for just about a month. Collapse - I want to say that by Dumphrey In reply to Vista Evaluation its available on MS's Technet site, im pretty sure I saw a vista buisness VM good for 60 or 90 days.... ick..30 day eval. Collapse - Do you know by jimmy-jam In reply to I want to say that Which on of the selections I would need? It says to choose the one that is right for you but includes no documentation to guide you. I am assuming you only need one but could be wrong. Collapse - Additional Options by TheChas In reply to Vista Evaluation In addition to the trial version, there are other options you should consider. For the long term, you should work with your manager and purchase a MSDN subscription for the group. Among other things, this gives you access to all current Microsoft products. For your current needs, consider downloading the VHD version of Vista and testing your application in a virtual environment. Again, the VHD version is time limited. But, you do not need a separate system to install it on. Back to Windows Forum 8 total posts (Page 1 of 1) Related Discussions Related Forums
global_01_local_2_shard_00001658_processed.jsonl/12250	Media Horrified By Mirror "Most popular" On “fake” fly-by-night news sites as campaign tools: The NRCC’s single-page sites are designed to appear to be a local news portal, with logos like “North County Update” or “Central Valley Update.” The articles begin in the impartial voice of a political fact-checking site, hoping to lure in readers. “We’ll take a look at her record and let you decide,” starts one. Then they gradually morph into more biting language. At the very bottom, in a box, is the disclaimer that the NRCC paid for the site. A perfect plan! And unassailable within its horrible context: The intent is to mislead, obviously, but that is true of literally every political ad; the disclosure is present, because it has to be; the “trick” is not totally revealed before the end of the story, where nobody will ever see it, but where everyone agrees, obviously, that people should have seen it, and cetainly they would have seen it, because they read and process everything with reason and rigor; by the time an ideological opponent (your online acquaintance, friend, or family member) notices and comments or emails back saying, “this is and ad designed to look like a story,” it will be too late. Point made, message spread. Why dwell on your mistakes?
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global_01_local_2_shard_00001658_processed.jsonl/12266	Obama’s America: Labor Secretary Urges Graduates to be Unexceptional Tom Perez Big Labor collectivists have a friend in U.S. Labor Secretary Tom Perez. Perez addressed the commencement ceremony at Oberlin College, a far-left institution, then tweeted his parting thoughts: How uninspirational. How quintessentially un-American. And is it lost on Perez that his boss created the “selfie culture?” h/t Twitchy
global_01_local_2_shard_00001658_processed.jsonl/12268	From the Uranium One scandal to rigging the Democrat primary race in 2016, Hillary Clinton is up to her ears in corruption. Underneath the surface is a little known scandal about what Clinton knew concerning Libya’s thriving slave trade and genocidal death squads. Zerohedge reports: A new CNN investigation has uncovered a network of slave markets operating in warehouses in various cities across Libya six years after NATO-led intervention in the country toppled the government of Muammar Gaddafi in support of US and UK backed rebels. And not only did CNN confirm the presence of slave auctions where human beings are being sold for as little as $400 in “liberated” Libyabut CNN’s crew was actually able to film a live auction in progress, while also gathering the testimonies of multiple victims. Though CNN’s footage and accompanying report is shocking, such practices have been quietly documented for years, and clear warnings were issued starting in early 2011 that Libya’s black as well as migrant population would be the first to fall victim at the hands of the Islamist Libyan rebels that NATO’s war empowered. From the outset critics of Western intervention in Libya loudly sounded the alarm of a genocide against black Libyans in progress committed by the very rebels the US, UK, France, and Gulf allies were arming – a fact so well-known that then Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was personally briefed and warned on the matter. One of the few international correspondents to actually report the truth in real time while writing from inside Libya was The Independent’s (UK) Patrick Cockburn. In an August 2011 story he wrote as if attempting to warn the world about the future war crimes to come at the hands of the US-backed rebels. “The rotting bodies of 30 men, almost all black and many handcuffed, slaughtered as they lay on stretchers and even in an ambulance in central Tripoli, are an ominous foretaste of what might be Libya’s future. The incoming regime makes pious statements about taking no revenge on pro-Gaddafi forces, but this stops short of protecting those who can be labelled mercenaries. Any Libyan with a black skin accused of fighting for the old regime may have a poor chance of survival,” reported Independent UK reporter Patrick Cockburn. Below is an example of black Libyans being tortured by anti-Gaddafi “revolutionaries” by making them eat the former Libyan flag. Libya is not the only country where this is happening… Public slave markets are parting out human beings from West Africa for up to $500 with some being held for ransom while others are forced into labor roles or are sexually exploited. Armed networks round up the individuals and facilitate the eventual enslavement. Once purchased, the usual route for a modern day slave ends with becoming a day laborer working in agriculture or construction. As migrants continue to pour into Europe – with no sign of stopping anytime soon – the danger now is in keeping your nation safe from this mass exodus of displaced people. Zerohedge has more: The answer lies in a March 27, 2011, intelligence brief on Libya published by WikiLeaks. The brief, which was made public in 2015 as part of a large batch of Hillary emails released by the State Department, was sent by long time close adviser to the Clinton family and Hillary’s personal intelligence gatherer, Sidney Blumenthal, and contains clear reference to rebels summarily executing “all foreign mercenaries” – which had already become the common euphemism for black Libyans then being targeted by the US-supported rebels. Citing a rebel commander source “speaking in strict confidence” Blumenthal reports to Hillary: Source Comment: Speaking in strict confidence, one rebel commander stated that his troopscontinue to summarily execute all foreign mercenaries captured in the fighting… But even years later, as such race-based war crimes have now been exhaustively documented, Hillary has consistently indicated that she has no regrets. Though her beloved Libyan rebels, legitimized and empowered through broad support from the West, were literally killing people based on the color of their skin, not a single one has ever been convicted in a court of law or punished for their crimes. What Clinton knew about the African slave trade and death squads is even more shocking in the context of how badly the former Secretary of State managed the removal of Gaddafi and the Benghazi attack. As The Gateway Pundit’s Joe Hoft reported, the ‘tick tock’ emails show Hillary’s team taking credit for many actions that led to Gaddafi’s toppling in Libya, including, but not limited to: suspending the operations of the Libyan embassy in Washington; evacuating US embassy personnel in Tripoli and closing the embassy there; obtaining sanctions against Gaddafi and his family; working to suspend Libya from the Human Rights Council; appointing Special Envoy Chris Stevens to be the U.S. representative to Benghazi; engaging with UAE, Qatar, and Jordan to seek their participation in coalition operations; holding meetings with House Democrats and Senate Republicans to persuade them not to de-fund the Libya operation; an lastly, Hillary’s State Department worked to construct a $1.5 billion assets package to the TNC. The Clinton State Department took credit for being the architect behind the overthrow of Gaddafi in Libya and the subsequent horror as a result. Now new information released earlier this week and reported at Infowars revealed that a peace deal was worked out in Libya in 2011 but when presented to Hillary, she nixed it. According to the report, General Clark, who was part of the negotiations, was so pleased with the outcome that he personally arranged a teleconference with Hillary Clinton on the line to congratulate those who put the deal together for “getting the job done in the face of such danger.” But there was a problem. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton didn’t want peace. As a result the war went on and Hillary’s actions in Libya resulted in the eventual death of four Americans in Benghazi, including Chris Stevens.
global_01_local_2_shard_00001658_processed.jsonl/12270	The voyage home Circe herself was quite transformed and became a perfect hostess, entertaining them for a whole year. Only then did Odysseus's thoughts turn home again, but first he had to make an excursion to Hades to consult the dead seer Tiresias about his homecoming. His men begged him not to and wept and wailed, but all their weeping and wailing was of no avail. To get there they had no need of a guide, for Circe used her power to help them. They simply hoisted the sail, boated their oars and sat there; the wind did the rest. For one whole day they sailed to Ocean, the water that encircles the Earth, and as the sun set they made a journey across to its further shore. On the banks of Ocean they found a dark pool, where three underworld rivers met, and dug a trench and made offerings to Hades and Persephone and filled the trench with sheep's blood, which, when drunk, would allow the dead temporarily to recover their senses somewhat, to remember and to speak. First Persephone sent up Odysseus's mother, Anticlea, and she came to drink from the trench, but Odysseus drew his sword and kept her away, for Circe had warned him that Tiresias must drink first, if he was going to get anything out of him. Then Tiresias appeared and drank and told him of his future: "Your troubles are not over. You have a god against you whose dear son you blinded. You will have another god against you if you do not keep your hands off the cattle of Helios the sun god. If you touch them, your homecoming will be delayed much longer than it has been already. You will come home alone and find your house full of scavenging suitors eating up your property while they compete for your wife Penelope's hand." Odysseus could not believe his troubles would continue and resolved to keep his hands off Helios's cattle. Tiresias now returned to the depths and other ghosts came to drink. Odysseus spoke with Anticlea and the ghosts of his fallen comrades of the Trojan war, and others he did not know were dead, including Agamemnon: "Great king, what are you doing here?" asked Odysseus. "My wife, bitter Clytaemnestra, sent me," said Agamemnon. "She blamed me still for killing Iphigeneia, and formed an adulterous alliance with Aegisthus while I was away in Troy. Clytaemnestra killed me most treacherously when I was in the bath, putting her lover on my throne. I have been looking for Iphigeneia ever since I came here, wishing to see her again and beg her forgiveness. But she is not among the dead." Odysseus was anxious to leave that terrible place, but before he left, Persephone opened up a window on the deepest parts of the underworld and Odysseus could see all those who suffered endless torments for impious crimes. Here Tantalus stood in a pool of water which drained away whenever he stooped to drink while over his head grew wonderful fruits which moved out of reach whenever he tried to take one; he had served his own son Pelops to the gods when once they had come round for dinner. Here Sisyphus rolled his great boulder up a mountainside, sweating and straining all his muscles, but when he reached the top, the rock rolled back, and he had to begin his task all over again; he had cheated death once and escaped from Hades' halls, but Hades had retrieved him and made sure he would have something to keep him occupied for eternity. Odysseus returned to his ship and Circe's isle and Circe gave him instructions for his voyage home. First he had to pass the Sirens, bird-women whose beautiful voices drew men to their destruction. Odysseus had himself tied to the mast, while all his men had their ears plugged. When he heard the song, he longed to join the Sirens on their meadow, which was strewn with the smiling, rotting corpses of sailors who had listened and been unable to tear themselves away. Odysseus begged his men to release him, but they neither heard nor heeded him, and only tied him tighter when they saw him struggling against his bindings. Next they had to pass through the narrow straits between the rock of six-necked Scylla and the rock of Charybdis, who sat on the seabed and sucked down great whirlpools of water and then spouted it out again, three times daily. "Lose some men to Scylla," Circe had advised, "or lose all your men to Charybdis." Odysseus took her advice but told his men only the half of it, for Scylla kept herself hidden. Unknowingly they rowed close to Scylla's cave, watching Charybdis's whirlpool, and as they watched the whirlpool, Scylla pounced. Six necks snaked out from her hidden lair and six men went missing from the rowing benches. She ate them at her leisure, feasting on them at the mouth of her cave. They called out to Odysseus to help them, but he ordered his men to row faster. So they passed through the straits, exhausted and mournful, missing their comrades. But the setting sun shone its slanting beams upon a lovely island of grassy meadows filled with the most magnificent herds of cattle. It was as if the sun was caressing them. "Keep going. Do not stop," said Odysseus, for he knew this must be the island of the sun and Tiresias the seer had warned him off it, as had Circe his ex-mistress. "We need a break. We need to sleep," said a spokesman for his men. "We will not venture from the ship. We have the food that Circe gave us. Tomorrow we will sail again at first light, rested, refreshed and strengthened." And Odysseus yielded. That night the wind changed direction and strong gusts blew from a south-easterly direction. For one whole month the same winds blew. They could not leave the island. The food ran out so they hunted birds and fished and scavenged the forest floor for acorns. But the birds ran out and the fish ran out, as did the crop of acorns. Odysseus went up to the highest point of the island and prayed to the gods to deliver them, but while he was gone his men held a council. "Would that we were pigs again in Circe's sty, for then acorns were more digestible. Instead we starve, surrounded by food, like Tantalus, but with one difference: Tantalus has no option. We will vow to build the sun god the biggest temple ever to rise on Ithaca. We will not be stealing his cattle if we sacrifice them to him first and give him his due portion. It is worth the risk, at any rate, for we are dead men otherwise, and of all deaths there is none more painful or ignominious than death by slow starvation." As Odysseus returned to the ship, he was met by portentous aromas. He rebuked his men when he discovered what they had done, but now there was no undoing it. They feasted and nothing happened; indeed, seven days later the contrary winds ceased and they were able, finally, to leave the island. Only when they were far out at sea did Zeus show his fury, for Helios had threatened to shine in Hades if he allowed the crime to go unpunished. So Zeus smashed the boat to smithereens with thunderbolts and lightning, leaving only one survivor clinging to the wreckage. Odysseus thanked the gods for sparing him. But the storm had blown him all the way back to Charybdis, the tug of whose current he could feel already. At the last minute he grabbed the branch of a fig tree that grew from her rock and while he hung on to it he watched the sea disappear beneath him and his flotsam vessel with it. He hung there for hours until finally Charybdis regurgitated the wreckage again and gave him back something to hold on to. He found himself washed up on a beach. A beautiful woman was standing in front of him. "Your luck has turned at last, mortal mariner," she said. "You have reached the secret island of the goddess Calypso. Your odyssey is over."
global_01_local_2_shard_00001658_processed.jsonl/12285	In a December 1st letter published on, Vaughan D. Hall responded to a November 18th letter urging readers to do more research into the writings of the U.S. founding fathers, such as Thomas Jefferson, in order to understand their intention of using the First Amendment to bar religion from the public sphere. Hall responded by criticizing the author’s assumption as reflecting superficial research in itself. However, Hall’s response is problematic for several reasons: first, Jefferson’s writings do not exactly show acquiescence to the influence of religion in government—if anything, they challenge it; second, if Christian services are allowed to be held in the House of Representatives, it is only fair to allow other religious services—including atheist ones—to be held there as well; third, even if the writings of the founding fathers do allow for religion to influence government, this does not mean that religion should influence government. In the original letter, the author mentions Jefferson’s January 1st, 1802 response to a letter from the Danbury Baptist Association, a group of persecuted Baptists in Connecticut, and argues how this letter proves that the First Amendment is intended to bar religion from the public sphere; in response, Hall argues that the letter, if placed in its proper context, does not imply this. He argues that, The Danbury Baptists were concerned that the young republic might institute a church established by law as Jefferson, a Republican, believed the major opposing political party, the Federalists, desired to do. The Danbury Baptists were concerned the Constitution as written was not specific enough and desired reassurance that “no man ought suffer in name, person, or effects on the account of his religious opinions.” Jefferson, seeing an opportunity to respond to the Federalists [sic] charges that he was an atheist, used his response as a political statement supporting the Republican belief that these were things that belonged to the kingdom of Christ. Given this context, suggests Hall, Jefferson was concerned chiefly with preventing government from legislating religion, but also with proving to the Federalists that he was not an atheist by admitting that there existed a separate, divine mediatorial authority to deal with religious matters. He did not intend, suggests Hall, to exclude religious influence per se from the legislative process. But what is the legislation of religion if not the influence of religion in government? Clearly, if a lawmaker’s personal religious beliefs are affecting their decision-making, they are passing laws on the basis of religion. One might argue, “technically, this isn’t passing a law respecting an establishment of religion—just bits and pieces of it.” But that, too, is a means of establishing an entire religion. A legislature can establish religion in an insidious, piece-meal fashion through individual laws rather than through one all-encompassing bill. At the end of the day, what’s the difference? Besides, right-wing, evangelical Christians would be the first to decry an incremental legislation of sharia law by invoking the First Amendment’s establishment clause, so why shouldn’t progressives adopt the same tactic in preventing the legislation of, say, the Pentateuch? So, yes, religious influence in government can and does lead to legislation respecting an establishment of religion. Just look at Saudi Arabia. Hall then goes on to point out how Jefferson supported religious influence in government by participating in religious ceremonies held in public buildings. In particular, he mentions the services held in the U.S. House of Representatives and in various government offices: Jefferson saw no problem with religion extending into government as shown by his attendance at a religious service held in the House of Representatives on Jan. 3, 1802. He continued to frequently attend weekly church services held at the House during the remainder of his two terms, also granting permission to various denominations to worship in executive office buildings. The use of government facilities for prayer, sermons, and other church activities, Hall would have us believe, not only proves that Jefferson and his peers were devoutly religious, but that religion should be allowed to influence the legislative process. This is not necessarily so. First, the fact that the founding fathers used the House to conduct religious services does not mean that they believed their services should influence their decision-making. There is a difference between using a government facility to conduct church services on one hand, and passing laws to reflect those beliefs on the other. It hardly makes sense that Jefferson would mention a “wall of separation between church and state” only to break down that wall by insinuating his religious beliefs into the decision-making process. Besides, if Christians are allowed to worship inside the House, it is only fair, then, that other religions be allowed to worship there too—including pagans and atheists. Understandably, many atheists avoid describing their belief system as a religion, given the term’s connotations of blind faith and group mentality, but this is one of those times when it might behoove them to do so. Christians are constantly saying, “Atheism is a religion too!” Well, if atheism is a religion, and if religion should be allowed to influence government, then atheism should be allowed to influence government every bit as much as Christianity. But the differing doctrines of the world’s religions conflict with one another, and they cannot all be satisfied without creating contradiction, so what is the best way of avoiding such conflict? By taking a position of neutrality and excluding religious influence from government. Finally, even if the founding fathers did intend for religion to influence government, so what? We’ll just amend the Constitution. One might argue, “The letters of the founding fathers allow religion to influence government, therefore it is good for religion to influence government.” But this statement is fallacious. First, it presents an is/ought fallacy by stating that something is a certain way, therefore it should be. That something is a certain way does not mean it should be, because the terms is and should are not equivalent. Second, it might be seen as an appeal to authority, which posits that a statement is correct because the person who made it is in a position of authority or respect. That a statement is made by an authority figure does not make the statement correct, though, because that authority figure (in the present case, the founding fathers) might be wrong. If religion should influence government, this conclusion should not be arrived at by an appeal to authority or tradition; it should be arrived at through ethical reasoning and a careful consideration of present-day exigencies. Sometimes when events are placed in their context, they are done so with the effect not of clarifying their meaning or significance, but of distorting them and rendering them utterly meaningless and amorphous, until they lack any common sense whatsoever. Most likely, though, Jefferson possessed some measure of common sense about the danger of theocracy (even if he was a misogynistic slave-owner), given his and his peers’ understanding of the religious persecution that plagued Europe in the centuries preceding the drafting of the Constitution, as well as their literacy in Enlightenment philosophy. In light of the context, then, perhaps our interpretation (for authorial intent is not always of prime importance) should be that it is inappropriate for lawmakers to dabble in religion while on the clock. Jefferson’s Wall of Separation Letter Leave a Comment
global_01_local_2_shard_00001658_processed.jsonl/12288	Detecting Gravitational Waves 24 March 2014 Interview with Clement Pryke, University of Minnesota This week a team of astronomers announced that the BICEP2 radio telescope in BICEP2 TelescopeAntarctica had detected evidence of primordial gravitational waves, residual ripples in the fabric of space from the big bang. These findings are very exciting because they may reveal what happened during a period called "inflation" shortly after the birth of the Universe. To find out more Chris Smith spoke to one of the BICEP2 team Clement Pryke from the University of Minnesota. Chris - So, kick off first of all and tell us what are gravitational waves. Clem - Well, gravitational waves are distortions in the fabric of space-time which propagate through space with the speed of light. They can come in various different flavours. As you said, the kind that we are announcing a discovery of this week, are primordial gravitational waves which come from the birth of the universe. There are also gravitational waves potentially produced by compact objects in the nearby universe, but that's a different story. Chris - So, why has it taken so long to spot these waves? What's special about them that makes them difficult to detect? Clem - Well, the gravitational waves that we're seeing - what we're doing is we're seeing the imprint of them on the pattern of the cosmic microwave background as it was kind of written at 400,000 years after the beginning. So, in the first 400,000 years, the universe was a hot dense plasma. As it expanded and cooled, eventually, it decoupled and we see the cosmic microwave background coming to us from that time. What we're seeing is a subtle imprint, an additional imprint on that pattern caused by the gravitational waves from that super-early time kind of written in that pattern of 400,000 years. And the only plausible source of those gravitational waves that we're seeing, they fit exactly the predictions for gravitational waves coming from the very, very early universe. So, trillion, trillion, trillionth of a second after the beginning. Chris - So, to sort of put this into a nutshell, you have a point source which explodes in this catastrophically powerful explosion - the Big Bang. This is impenetrable to our current ways of looking with standard telescopes. And so at the moment, it's something of a black box. We don't know what's gone on in there. It does however produce energy and light which the echoes of which are still knocking around in the universe today and we call that the cosmic microwave background. And you're able to then read out of that signal that's still around today. These waves which you can then use to infer what must have happened in that first 400,000 years or so. Clem - Right. So, studying the pattern that comes from 400,000 years is a well developed science at this point. So, we've been studying that for several years. The temperature and isotropy, the temperature ripples as it were, just the differences in brightness from place to place on the sky and then measuring the polarization pattern. And to start with, we were measuring the kind of generic version of polarisation which occurs just because you have small deviations in density. That's called E mode polarisation. So, the big deal this week is the first detection of B mode polarisation. The B mode is the kind of swirliness of the polarisation pattern. If you think of a bunch of little vectors on the sky and then if you decompose the pattern, if you can see a kind of swirl in it, that's the signature of the gravitational waves. As I said, those gravitational waves come from the very, very beginning. It's a way of seeing back further. As you said, we can't see back using light any further that 400,000 years, but we can use the gravitational waves to get information about earlier times still. Chris - What can they tell you and what are they telling you about what happened during that first 400,000 years or so? Clem - What this week's discovery is all about is the first trillion, trillion, trillionth of a second, right? And in that period of time, there's this theory, this hypothesis that the universe hyperinflated, expanded essentially superluminally, for a tiny fraction of a second by an enormous factor. That process of inflation sets up the initial conditions for the subsequent hot Big Bang. So, this is essentially kind of a preface before the hot Big Bang. And there's been strong suspicion that this inflation actually did occur based on various observations about those initial conditions. But there was an additional prediction from that theory that the inflation process should have injected gravitational waves into the fabric of space time. But they'd never been seen. And so, that's the big deal this week, that we actually see a new prediction from inflation. So, this is kind of a smoking gun that inflation is actually the correct theory for the birth of the universe. Chris - I mean, having a look online and Peter Coles is Professor of Theoretical Astrophysics at Sussex University. He's got a blog and he says that he is slightly sceptical of what you're finding because he's saying, if you look at your results, you've only found this in one particular frequency regime of microwave, the polarisation, the twist. Why haven't you found this in others or have you just not looked in other frequencies? Clem - So, we're very convinced the signal that we've found is true and on the sky, but then the question is, what is it? Is it really the primordial signal that we think we're seeing or could it potentially be foreground emission from our own galaxy. So, while our galaxy emits rather weakly at these wavelengths, it still does a little bit and we're down at a fantastic level of sensitivity now. So, the concern is that since we've only really achieved really high sensitivity at one frequency at 150 gigahertz, potentially, we don't have a guard that this signal isn't galactic foreground because the foreground would have a different frequency spectrum than the thermal emission from the cosmic microwave background. If you have multiple frequencies, you can discriminate different kinds of signal that you can rule out foregrounds. Now, we have ruled out foregrounds to reasonably good confidence, but he's right that it's not as high as one would like. Chris - And the European Space Agency have spent an absolute arm and a leg sending the Planck Mission into space to make these sorts of measurements. They haven't found this yet or at least they haven't said so. So, why did your telescope in Antarctica find it, apart from the fact that you're obviously very clever and they didn't? Clem - So we stuck our necks out further. So, we're a small ground based experiment and highly targeted. So, we designed the experiment specifically to look for these primordial gravitational waves. And had we not found them then we would've basically been empty handed. Whereas the Planck Mission which is vastly more expensive as you say is much more general. So, it can do all sorts of science with the standard kind of CMB anisotropies and also, with galactic science, and a lot of things. It's a very general experiment. And so basically, the reason that we're first is just because we decided to target this very specific niche science and go after it very aggressively. Add a comment
global_01_local_2_shard_00001658_processed.jsonl/12295	Strange Loop September 26-28 2018 Peabody Opera House St. Louis, MO Gradual typing of Ruby at Scale Stripe maintains an extremely large and growing Ruby code base in which ~3/4 of Stripe's engineers do most of their work. Continuing to scale development in that code base is one of the most critical tasks to maintaining product velocity and the productivity of Stripe engineering. Based on a wide range of experiences, we believe that adding static types for a significant subset of that codebase helps developers understand code better, write code with more confidence, and detect+prevent significant classes of bugs. This talk shares experience of Stripe successfully been building a typechecker for internal use, including core design decisions made in early days of the project and how they withstood reality of production use: Dmytro Petrashko Dmitry works on developer productivity at Stripe, Making it easy to confidently write maintainable, fast, and reliable code at Stripe by improving language, core abstractions, tools and educational materials. Before this, Dmitry co-architected Dotty, the compiler slated to become Scala3. Paul Tarjan Lifelong nerd and engineer. Nowadays he works at Stripe mostly on developer productivity and infrastructural components like rate limiters, core abstractions, large code refactors and language design. In the past he helped build HHVM and Hack at Facebook, worked on the Open Graph and changed your search results to not just be 10 blue links. Nelson Elhage Nelson is a software engineer who enjoys working and learning at any and all levels of the stack. He currently works on developer productivity at Stripe. Previously, he's worked on live kernel patching at Ksplice, built super-fast code search for, and generally dived deep into systems and the Linux kernel.
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global_01_local_2_shard_00001658_processed.jsonl/12321	How does Gift Aid work? Make sure your gift goes further for children Gift Aid is a tax relief scheme that allows charities to claim 25% of the tax already paid on all eligible donations made by a UK taxpayer. This means you can increase your donation to Unicef UK by an extra 25% at no extra cost to you. So for example, if you donate £10, this becomes £12.50 with Gift Aid. Get the Gift Aid form. How can I Gift Aid my donation to Unicef? You can make sure that every donation that you’ve made to Unicef in the past, and everything you donate in the future, is eligible for Gift Aid by completing this simple Gift Aid declaration form. This is a statement from you to Unicef UK confirming that you are a UK taxpayer and that you want the charity to claim gift aid on your donations. It covers all donations, whether you make them online or in another way. Please remember to tell us about any change in your tax status, or if your name or address changes so that we can update our records. Am I eligible for Gift Aid? You’re eligible for Gift Aid if you’re a UK taxpayer and have paid income or capital gains tax within the financial year. You don’t necessarily have to be working to pay tax. If any of the following situations apply to you then you could still qualify for Gift Aid: • You have taxable savings, a state pension or other pension plans • You have taxable investment or rental income • You pay capital gains tax. Only UK tax counts, so if you pay tax outside the UK then unfortunately we won’t be able to claim Gift Aid for your donation. Remember: if you pay less income tax or capital gains tax in the current tax year than the amount of Gift Aid claimed on all your donations it is your responsibility to pay any difference. When can Unicef UK claim Gift Aid? • Gift Aid only applies to voluntary gifts and can be claimed on individual or sponsorship donations made to charity. • Unicef UK can’t claim Gift Aid on donations made in return for tickets (raffles, events and auctions). • We can’t claim Gift Aid on goods and services. • We can’t claim Gift Aid if you’re making a donation on behalf of someone else or a group of people. For example, if a friend gives you £10 in cash and then you add it to your fundraising page using your own card, the donation is not eligible, even if your friend is a UK taxpayer. This is because HMRC needs to know the details of the person actually contributing the funds. • We can’t claim Gift Aid on a donation made on behalf of a company. You can only make Gift Aid declarations on your own taxpayer status when spending your own money. However, a company can claim tax relief on the donation when donating directly to the charity. What does it mean for Gift Aid if I pay higher rate tax? If you’re a higher rate taxpayer, you can claim the difference between the higher rate of tax and the basic rate on the total value of your donation, which you can keep or pass on to charity. Just indicate how much you’ve donated when completing your tax self-assessment form. If you have any questions on Gift Aid or you forgot to add Gift Aid to your donation, please contact our Supporter Care Team on 0300 330 5580 or
global_01_local_2_shard_00001658_processed.jsonl/12328	Justice has now joined 20-state coalition and Texas Public Policy Foundation: Opposing view The Trump administration’s decision to argue that part of the Affordable Care Act is unconstitutional — the requirement that every American purchase health insurance, known as the individual mandate — raises real doubts about the law’s future. The Supreme Court initially upheld the mandate, ruling that the penalty for not purchasing health insurance would raise revenue and therefore is allowed under Congress’ taxing authority. But last year, Congress eliminated the penalty, meaning the mandate would no longer raise revenue. A 20-state coalition and the Texas Public Policy Foundation have now been joined by the Justice Department arguing that because the individual mandate no longer satisfies the court’s test, it cannot be a constitutional use of Congress’ authority. OUR VIEW:The president's pre-existing condition The rest of the law begins to fall apart. For example, the provision that requires insurance companies to insure individuals who are already sick, often called “pre-existing conditions,” depends on the individual mandate to work. If this provision is left in place without a requirement to pay into the system, two negative effects are likely. Young and healthy people will simply wait until they get sick to buy insurance, creating an untenable burden on the system. Insurers will pull out of the individual market making it impossible for people to find insurance, leaving the most vulnerable with few or no options. Congress expressly didn’t intend for the law to work this way. It is “the polar opposite of what Congress sought,” Justice wrote in its legal brief. If the court agrees with Justice’s filing, the ACA will be left as no more than a combination of onerous regulations and burdensome taxes — all of which should be repealed. President Trump is standing by his pledge to repeal Obamacare, even as Congress fails to act. That’s why we’re asking the courts to state the obvious: The ACA is unconstitutional. The whole thing should be set aside. Robert Henneke, with the Texas Public Policy Foundation, represents two men challenging the Affordable Care Act. Read or Share this story: https://usat.ly/2LQYpZO
global_01_local_2_shard_00001658_processed.jsonl/12360	Pen Your Pride Chapter Eighteen. 1K 35 29 They're dead. That's all i can think about, and that's all that matters. My parents. My own parents. The two persons That made me, me.That made me come to this life. they're not here, they're gone. And in that moment, everything else seems worthless. Zach 's secret. Life. All of it. It's all worthless. The worst thing is, i didn't tell them how much i love them. They don't and they will, probably, never know. And life at this moment seems silly. And what am i supposed to there something i can do? Can i bring them back? can i remind them of how much i love them? My Mom. The one that spent her whole life looking after me. She's gone. My Dad, the one that spent his whole life working to give me a comfortable life. He's gone. ....and what's there left to live for? "Emma, i'm here. Stop crying." Zach's voice wake me from my suicidal thoughts. "Zach.." i sob, "i have nobody left." I continue crying and crying. "What do you mean? I'm here Emma, i'll always be. Try to stay strong. Try to hold on. Everything will feel better if u put that in your mind. They're dead because their job here in earth is finished, It's your time now. I'm not telling you that you shouldn't cry over your parents. And am not telling you that you shouldn't feel sad or depressed. But am telling you that your life shouldn't stop at this. If your parents were still here, they would want you to continue living your life, cause That's the right thing to do." "Oh..Zach. how do you know just the right words to say?" "Remember, i've been there too." He looks like he's remembering something. The sadness crosses his face for a second, and then it disappears. "Oh Zach, i'm really sorry. I forgot about you and how this brings you a lot of sad memories. I'm so stupid." "No, Emma. Don't worry, it's all good." He gives me his beautiful smile that can light a full dark planet. he's so adorable. "Okay, i won't worry. By the way, you were going to tell me about something. " "Oh yeah, but i don't think the time and all are really suitable right now." "Nah, i don't really mind. Go ahead." "Well, Emma, have you ever got this feeling? Like, when you feel you're connected to this certain person in a certain way that you can't even, yourself, figure it out? well, that what i was feeling toward you." I interrupt him. "But- .." "If you want to listen to it let me continue cause it's a long story." "You were confused by the way i was acting toward you right?" he didn't even let me answer his question. "Well, let me tell you this story. You know, there was this guy, who was really vulnerable. He was 15 years old. He fell in love with his bestfriend, when she was around he felt nothing but joy. Those two kids got in a relationship. He thought she loved him. She told him she did. But it was all a lie. They were together for two years. And one day he came to his bestfriend's house to find them both -his bestfriend and his lover- sleeping with eachother. She told him she never loved him. But that wasn't what she said before, he thought. he was confused. He was broken. And from that time he couldn't trust any girl. He started sleeping with different girls. Not caring about anything. He reached a point where all he could think about was death. He was suicidal But then one day, a girl from school ran into him. She was sassy,clumsy so clumsy yet, so innocent. He thought he wouldn't like her. 'He would never fall in love with her' that's what he said. But he was wrong. Cause he fell and he fell hard." End of chapter 18. OHMAGOSH, that chapter was really emotional and oh my god i wrote this from all my heart. And OHMAGOSH 'Veronica Roth.' Is life. I finished reading insurgent and OHMAGOSH it's really good. I CAN'T wait for the movie!!! Am reading Allegiant now and jdj sj sj dhshsjs arghh i really want Theo james. . The Clumsy Girl's Love Story.Read this story for FREE!
global_01_local_2_shard_00001658_processed.jsonl/12389	The Rebellion's of Upper and Lower Canada. Essay by kuat00University, Bachelor'sB, March 2004 download word file, 8 pages 3.8 Downloaded 43 times The Rebellion's of Upper and Lower Canada What economic, political, and social factors contributed to the rebellions of 1873 in Upper and Lower Canada? There are many different factors that contributed to the 1873 rebellions of upper and lower Canada. There are immediate causes and long term factors that influenced the uprising of these rebellions. An important aspect to first consider is the French and English history in Canada. French Explorers first landed in Canada during the sixteenth century. The first permanent settlements were Port Royal, Montreal, and Quebec. French colonists came to settle the land. This new land of Canada boasted many resources such as fur, timber, and wheat. Other mother countries began to see the value of Canada's resources and a market for produced goods made in Europe. The mother countries began squabbles over who controlled which territory. In 1759 General Wolfe in control of the British army was sent to the Plains of Abraham outside of Quebec. By the end of the day Quebec belonged to the British Army who defeated the French General Montcalm (The Illustrated History of Canada, Wynn Graeme p.213). In 1763 Quebec was officially passed over to the British Monarch. Ben Franklin tried to pursue the French to join the American colonies but was unsuccessful. The Constitutional Act was passed in 1791. This act divided the land into two parts: Upper Canada (Present day Ontario) for the English settlers and Lower Canada (Present Day Quebec) for the French. The territory separated the French from the English to avoid conflict, the idea that the French could maintain there own institutions separate from the English. Due to the wealth of the trade industry many English merchants moved to Quebec (1837: Reveloution in the Canadas, Greg Keilty p.65). In both Canada's the monarch was represented by...
global_01_local_2_shard_00001658_processed.jsonl/12410	Saturday, January 30, 2010 A health care strategy in Obama's pregnant pause? Two days ago, I started a post in which I was planning to contrast this intrepid declaration by Nancy Pelosi with what I viewed as mixed messages from Obama: "You go through the gate. If the gate's closed, you go over the fence. If the fence is too high, we'll pole-vault in. If that doesn't work, we'll parachute in. But we're going to get health care reform passed for the American people." Paraphrasing Steve Benen, I wrote, "Compare Pelosi's strength and determination with the ambiguity emanating from Barack "identify those core elements of this package" Obama" (Benen's comparison was with Mary Landrieu). The epithet came from Obama's Jan. 20 interview with George Stephanopoulos, in which the President had seemed to me to be pulling in two directions -- first suggesting that a health care bill might have to be stripped down to win some Republican support, and then explaining why the core elements of the bill could not be pulled apart. But a funny thing happened on the way to "publish post." I reread the interview, searching for the wording for my epithet, and began to think I had misread it the first time. That's partly Obama's fault; his language was unclear. But his thinking at that point was, I think, completely consistent with his presentation of the health care reform task in the State of the Union address a week later. In both cases, he studiously avoiding speaking as a tactical party leader. He gestured toward one more reach-out to Republicans. He left the door open to picking up a Senate Republican vote or two and therefore going back to negotiating a merged Senate-House bill, rather than trying to navigate the much messier process of the House passing the Senate bill and negotiating fixes to be achieved through reconciliation. But also in both, he asserted that the HCR bill had been misrepresented, that its key parts were interdependent, and that a full-scale bill must be passed. In the interview, when he said, " I would advise that we try to move quickly to coalesce around those elements of the package that people agree on," he was not talking about a scaled-down package. "People" may have nominally included Republicans (or not nominally, if he thinks that his own advocacy may pull in a Republican or two). But essentially, Obama meant that Democrats need to recognize that the core elements in both bills cannot be pulled apart, and that they therefore need to find a way to negotiate or live with whatever parts of the bill they find objectionable and get the core elements -- i.e., in all likelihood, the Senate bill -- passed. Below is the by-now-somewhat-infamous "core elements" statement in the ABC interview. Look at the passage in light of the SOTU address and Obama's re-presentation of the bill to House Repulbicans yesterday: is very important to look at the substance of this package and for the American people to understand that a lot of the fear mongering around this bill isn't true. I would advise that we try to move quickly to coalesce around those elements of the package that people agree on. We know that we need insurance reform, that the health insurance companies are taking advantage of people. We know that we have to have some form of cost containment because if we don't, then our budgets are going to blow up and we know that small businesses are going to need help so that they can provide health insurance to their families. Those are the core, some of the core elements of, to this bill. Now I think there's some things in there that people don't like and legitimately don't like. If they think for example that there's a carve out for just one or two particular groups or interests, I think some of that, clearing out some of that under brush, moving rapidly.. I originally thought that that statement was at odds with this one: If you ask the American people about health care, one of the things that drives them crazy is insurance companies denying people coverage because of preexisting conditions. Well, it turns out that if you don't -- if you don't make sure that everybody has health insurance, then you can't eliminate insurance companies -- you can't stop insurance companies from discriminating against people because of preexisting conditions. Well, if you're going to give everybody health insurance, you've got to make sure it's affordable. So it turns out that a lot of these things are interconnected. Now, I could have said, well, we'll just do what's safe. We'll just take on those things that are completely noncontroversial. The problem is the things that are noncontroversial end up being the things that don't solve the problem. But in fact they're complementary. The only pull-back that Obama is really suggesting in the first package is in the carve-outs for Nebraska and Louisiana. The weakness in that interview lay not only in the charged ambiguity of the injunction to "coalesce around the core elements of the package that people agree on" but in a weak response to Stephanopoulos' misinterpretation of the passage in which that phrase appeared: STEPHANOPOULOS: So start again with a smaller core package. OBAMA: Well, look, I'm not going to get into the legislative strategy. First of all, my job is to as president, is to send a message in terms of where we need to go. It's not to navigate how Congress... STEPHANOPOULOS: It's to set direction. OBAMA: It's to set direction and the direction I think that has to be set is to identify those core elements of this package and to get that done. That would be fine, if Obama made it clearer that the "core elements of this package" are essentially the whole shebang -- exchanges, subsidies, individual mandates, employer mandates, coverage rules, cuts to Medicare Advantage. He didn't, when asked directly, though he did suggest as much later. Was it ambivalence? Deliberate ambiguity, designed to give an appearance of being open to 'new ideas'? Just a failure of clarity? Who knows? I'm convinced, however, that "core elements" meant "full package" because of the internal consistency in the strategy that Obama laid out and has begun to execute in the interview, the SOTU, and the meeting with the Republican caucus. Here are the steps, reiterated in all three forums: • Re-present the bill, explain what it does • Explain why its "core elements" cannot be pulled apart • "Reach out" to Republicans, which means expose the bankruptcy of their "ideas" • Find a way to get the Senate bill -- or, if things go optimally, a properly merged Senate-House bill, passed. The bad news this week is that Rahm Emanuel is making noises about putting health care on a back burner -- coming back to it after accomplishing various other Herculean tasks. The good news is that Obama has taken a couple of master-strokes at doing what he says he's so far failed to do: re-present the bill to the American people and counter egregious misrepresentations of what's in it. He did that poorly in the Stephanopolous interview. He did it well, if briefly, in the SOTU. And he did it masterfully in his 90-minute tussle with the House Republican caucus last night. In executing this strategy, Obama is trying to thread a rhetorical needle. He wants to appear as President of all the people rather than as a partisan Democrat. He presents the bill, as he said to the Republican caucus last night, as "pretty centrist." In the SOTU, he challenged and called out Congress as a body, rather than Republicans per se. And rather than advocate for or insist on a particular strategy (in public), he is trying, rhetorically, to close off all alternatives but one: passing a bill that's got the basic architecture of the Senate and House bills. That's the import of his "let me know" challenge both to Republicans and cut-and-run Democrats: The meeting with the House Republicans was a masterstroke, because he was able to call Republicans out directly for their egregious misrepresentations and intellectual bankruptcy without seeming petty, since they had the opportunity to respond. His complaint that they were denouncing a centrist plan as a "Bolshevik plot" was the signature sound bite, and rightly so -- it's pitch perfect, it's short, and it was backed by citing Bob Dole and Howard Baker's endorsement of the basic plan architecture. Equally valuable, though, was his engagement with specific nostrums that his interlocutors were pushing: PRICE: But what should we tell our constituents, who know that we've offered these solutions, and yet hear from the administration that -- that we have offered nothing? OBAMA: Let me -- I'm using this as a specific example, so let me answer your question. You asked a question, I want to answer it. OBAMA: It's not enough, if you say, for example, that we've offered a health care plan and I look up -- this is just under the section that you've just provided me -- or the book that you've just provided me, "Summary of GOP Health Care Reform Bill." "The GOP plan will lower health care premiums for American families and small businesses, addressing America's number one priority for health reform." I mean, that's an idea that we all embrace. But specifically it's got to work. I mean, there's got to be a mechanism in these plans that I can go to an independent health care expert and say, "Is this something that will actually work or is it boilerplate?" You know, if I'm told, for example, that the solution to dealing with health care costs is tort reform, something that I've said I am willing to work with you on, but the CBO or other experts say to me, you know, "At best, this could reduce health care costs relative to where they're growing by a couple of percentage points or save $5 billion a year, that's what we can score it at, and it will not bend the cost curve long term or reduce premiums significantly," then you can't make the claim that that's the only thing that we have to do. So I am absolutely committed to working with you on these issues. But it can't just be political assertions that aren't substantiated when it comes to the actual details of policy, because otherwise we're going to be selling the American people a bill of goods. No comments: Post a Comment
global_01_local_2_shard_00001658_processed.jsonl/12412	Index Home About Blog Subject: Re: Ephedra Alkaloids versus pseudoephedrine From: (Steve Dyer) Date: Thu, 15 Jul 1999 05:58:03 GMT In article <>, John W. Barron <> wrote: >Pseudoephedrine is the d,l isomer of ephedrine. Pseudoephedrine is not racemic ephedrine. The ephedrine molecule has 2 chiral carbons, or centers of symmetry. A carbon atom can attach to 4 other atoms with single bonds. When 4 distinct groups are attached to a carbon atom, the atom is said to be chiral (or -handed), because there are two distinct mirror-image arrangements of the 4 atoms possible, each known as a stereoisomer: E E \| \| \| \| A -- C -- B B -- C -- A \| \| \| \| D D Just as you can't superimpose your left and right hands on top of each other, the two isomers abstracted above can't be superimposed: they each have a distinct 3-dimensional "shape". Most organic chemicals, whether synthetic or found in nature, have at least one center of symmetry. OH H H H \| \| \| \| \|* \|+ \|* \|+ Phe -- C -- C -- CH3 Phe -- C -- C -- CH3 \| \| \| \| \| \| \| \| H NH-- CH3 OH NH-- CH3 Because the phenethanolamine skeleton has two centers of symmetry, ephedrine has 4 possible stereoisomers; two of the isomers are used in medicine: d-pseudoephedrine and l-ephedrine. These have identical configurations around the alpha-carbons, but the orientation of the functional groups on the beta carbons are mirror images of each other. (The alpha-carbon is marked with a plus sign; the beta-carbon is marked with an asterisk.) >Ephedrine is the naturally occuring alkaloid in ma huang. One of them. Pseudoephedrine also is one of the alkaloids in Ma Huang. >It does have "stimulating" properties, as well as bronchodilation. >Pseudoephredrine has a much lower incidence of stimulating properties [sic.] >than does ephedrine. And, it's claimed, more alpha-adrenergic activity and less beta-adrenergic activity than ephedrine (though I doubt this has been taken much beyond clinical anecdote), which explains why pseudoephedrine is used as a nasal decongestant. Ephedrine is virtually obsolete as a bronchodilator in the treatment of asthma due to the rapid development of tolerance to its effects on bronchial smooth muscle, though it lives on as a component of many OTC asthma nostrums. >That is why the heads convert Sudafed to ephedrine using chemistry. There are no illicit make-shift kitchen laboratories converting Sudafed to ephedrine. First, because ephedrine is itself widely available OTC in most states, and second, because as a stimulant, it's quite unpleasant and inferior to amphetamine and its analogues. The -OH group on the beta carbon of both ephedrine and pseudoephedrine can (with some effort) be reduced to a hydrogen, yielding (in both cases) d-methamphetamine, the most desirable methamphetamine isomer. (I like to think of this as God's joke on the DEA.) Or the -OH can be oxidized, yielding the phenylaminoketone known as methcathinone, yielding a substance which is more amphetamine-like than ephedrine--like. This is why drugstores, at the urging of the FDA and DEA, have placed signs "voluntarily" limiting the number of bottles of Sudafed that can be purchased at once. (I'm not sure that this makes a big difference to biker gangs churning out tons of illegal methamphetamine though it's a source of befuddlement to the millions of cold and allergy sufferers who buy Sudafed and its generics regularly.) >Steve Schmidt wrote: >> Can someone explain to me the difference between ephedra alkaloids >> and pseudoephedrine? The former is an extract from ma huang >> that is touted as a stimulant in various sports supplements >> and the latter is whats listed on products like sudafed. >> Thank you in advance for your response. Steve Dyer Subject: Re: Metabolife From: (Steve Dyer) Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2000 07:37:02 GMT In article <FCLx5.53026$>, rxempress <> wrote: >To those of you who are not in the know... this is not a question of abuse. >There are documented deaths out there with these products and I do not >recommend them because I could be held liable if someone dies from a product >recommendation I made. >Does anyone out there have the current statistics of morbidity and >mortality? I am also sending a letter to our corporate HQ to protest this >inclusion on our shelves. I'm no fan of these concoctions that manage to skirt general accepted standards of safety and efficacy thanks to Orrin's Hatch's bill that eviscerated the FDA's power to regulate drugs when they're labelled as "nutritional supplements", but there's nothing unusually dangerous in these pills, unless you're also advising your customers that Sudafed can kill. Most deaths associated with ephedrine-containing products have involved overdose, either in a misguided attempt to use them as amphetamine substitutes, or they've been formulated in such a way that leads the hapless customer to forget he's taking a rather powerful drug (such as the so-called "Ripped Fuel" and similar bodybuilding meal-replacement protein drinks that include ephedra alkaloids.) You can find _candy_bars_ containing 12mg of ephedrine on the shelves of Walgreens these days, which really shocked me! I believe the FDA has at least a press release on its web site about its concerns, though when I read it a while ago, it didn't seem to have very much detail, and seemed like a lot of ominous bureaucratic pique and muscle flexing. There actually have been a few controlled clinical studies of ephedrine, frequently in combination with caffeine and aspirin, that suggest it may have some value in assisting with weight loss, and in short-term supervised clinical settings, it appears to be safe. Of course, that's a very different environment than unsupervised self-medication with a witches' brew of "herbs" that include ephedra alkaloids for an unbounded length of time in a population very likely to have risk factors that would add to the risks of using this drug, so I think that your advice is still sound. Steve Dyer Index Home About Blog
global_01_local_2_shard_00001658_processed.jsonl/12417	What is sound doctrine today? Does sound doctrine mean- it feels right so it must be true? Does sound doctrine mean- it makes me feel good so it must be true? Today there are so many doctrines out there, that it is difficult for many to discern what is truth, and what is fiction. What is good and what is evil. Many eastern religions sound very good to the ear, even as sweat as honey, yet what is their basis? Many doctrines that currently exist in various Christian churches also sound as sweet as honey, yet are they all accurate? Can opposing doctrines all be truth? The obvious answer is that this is impossible. The existence of thousands of different doctrines today is proof that all the world has been deceived in some way. While there can be millions of different perceptions, there will always remain one truth. One man says the apple is blue, another says it is orange, another says purple. At the end of the day it is red, and in truth, the apple is red. One man says Yeshua/Jesus was a prophet, one man says he was a wise man, and another says he was a nobody. At the end of the day, He was the Son of God, the Word made flesh, the way, the truth, and the life. One can only know this truth if the Holy Spirit- the very spirit of the living God/Yahweh himself reveals it: There are many winds of doctrine today. These winds of doctrine have blown men back and forth between many different belief systems. Even within Christianity, there are a multitude of divisions on what is truth. One Christian leader says one thing, another gives different meaning. How can we as individuals know truth? How can we as individuals identify the deceivers from the servants of the one and only true God? To identify those that have knowingly or unknowingly decieved, ask yourself: • Does my leader claim to be a prophet but remains untested? Yes= Caution • Does my leader claim to be Yeshua’s/Jesus’ one and only representative/ambassador on this earth? Yes= Caution • Does my leader or advisor instruct me to listen to them only? Yes=Caution • Does my leader claim to hold “hidden” truths that can only be taught by them? Yes=Caution • Does my leader claim that they alone possess the spirit of truth? Yes=Caution • Does my leader even obey the commandments of Yahweh/God? No=Caution • Does my leader claim that these commandments of God are irrelevant? Yes=Caution • Do I rely on a “man” to enlighten me with a Word from the Holy Spirit? Yes=Caution • Does my leader harp on “tithing” constantly in their speech or are they constantly fundraising in God’s name? Yes=Caution • Does my leader claim to be the “authority” on truth today? Yes=Caution • Does my leader or advisor tell me that I can only understand truth through them? Yes=Caution • Does my leader allow me to openly question them on doctrine? No=Caution • Does my leader constantly preach feel good, or prosperity teachings? Yes=Caution • Does my leader put into practice the teachings of Moses, the prophets, Yeshua and the Apostles? No=Caution • Is my leader well liked and admired by the majority of average people? Yes=Caution • Is my leader theatrical seeking to entertain in their deliverance of a sermon? Yes=Caution • Does my leader acquire vast earthly wealth and riches by leading me, or do you even know? Yes=Caution • Does my leader instruct me to read and study the Bible prayerfully for myself to find answers free from their guidance? No=Caution • Does my leader profess that though I may have the Holy Spirit myself, I still require their influence to lead me into all understanding? Yes=Caution • Does my leader use the excuse “times have changed” to discount biblical teachings? Yes=Caution • Does my leader blatantly contradict the teachings of the scriptures on one or multiple points? Yes=Caution These questions highlight warning signs which may help to identify false teachers. Realize, many false teachers remain unaware that they are false teachers, and rather have continued in false doctrines that have been passed to them from generation to generation over the span of centuries. Also realize, no servant of Yahweh will contradict His never changing Word found in scripture, both OT and NT. No servant of Yahweh will seek earthly riches, claim superiority to their fellow man, disobey God’s commandments wilfully, or disregard the biblical account. One man is no better or worse than another. Chances are, if to this very day you have never read the Bible and considered ALL of it’s writings for yourself independently, you have been falsly led. The servants of Yahweh are not in this world to direct us in every small decision of life. They are not here to tell us how to think. They are not here for our entertainment, or to make us feel good about our sins. They are not here to be our main source of guidance. They are not here to bring us “enlightenment” or to lead in worshipping the universe. They are not here to unite all people and all religions with a blending of beliefs, on the contrary their mission is to bring the one and only message of truth (Yeshua- the truth, the way and the life) to the inhabitants of this fallen world in love. They are here to point us to the Word of God to direct our paths. They are willing to teach, but they instruct the learner to read the Bible for themselves prayerfully to understand its message. They are here to point us to a direct relationship with our Creator through Yeshua (the Word made flesh) and the never changing Word that can be found in scripture. They are here with a message of repentance. They are here to plant seeds of obedience. Because of this difficult message of repentance and change towards obedience to God, they are usually unpopular, shunned, and thought to be fools (as has been the case for God’s servants throughout history) working to live according to what men feel are “unnecessary” burdens. They are led only by Yeshua through the Holy Spirit and knowledge of the Word. They obey God rather than obeying men. They do many good deeds in secret, not to be seen and praised by their peers. They are here to care for the hungry, the sick, the imprisoned and afflicted, the elderly, the orphan and the widow. They value genuine kindness, gentleness, goodness, faith, love, joy, hope, longsuffering and self control. They are here to be the servants, not the served. They are here to be a light in actions far more than words. They are obedient to Yahweh through faith in Yeshua (Jesus). They don’t seek earthly riches, fame, or position, rather they speak the truth even though it is unpopular and persecuted. They carry no judgment for their neighbor (including the false teacher), and live to extend love and truth to every human being. They mirror the image of the one and only Creator, by walking in the image of the Son Yeshua and in His footsteps of obedience to Yahweh’s commandments out of true love for Yahweh, and for their neighbor. They aren’t interested in the things that this world offers, rather they have set their sights on things that are not seen, higher things, the things of heaven. If you have a spiritual leader today other than Yeshua (Jesus Christ) himself, we caution you. No leader that exists on the earth today possesses the way, the truth or the life in and of themselves. The way can only be found in Yeshua, the Son of God/Yahweh and through His Word. Forgiveness can only be found in Yeshua. The teachings of Yeshua are easy to be understood and can be found in the books of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John of the New Testament. Study them prayerfully. The Apostles of the NT echoed His teachings and walked in His footsteps. The Apostles and prophets also instructed the people to study the scriptures and search them, to rightly divide the word of the truth. Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth. But shun profane and vain babblings: for they will increase unto more ungodliness.” ~ 2 Timothy 2:15-16 The Apostles and prophets didn’t claim that the truth was only found in their speech. Paul even taught the people, NO MAN is above what is written (referring to the OT writings that were available at the time). The prophet Hosea and the prophet Isaiah mentioned- men are destroyed because of their lack of knowledge: “Therefore my people are gone into captivity, because they have no knowledge: and their honourable men are famished, and their multitude dried up with thirst.” ~ Isaiah 5:13 To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them.” ~ Isaiah 8:20 We encourage you to seek Yahweh with all of your heart, and prayerfully read His Word that is unchanging. “For I am the Lord, I change not.” ~ Malachi 3:6 “Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning. ~ James 1:17 “Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and to day, and for ever.” ~ Hebrews 13:8 “My covenant will I not break, nor alter the thing that is gone out of my lips. ~ Psalm 89:34 Don’t take any man’s word for it- these times are full of deception and darkness. There is only one source of “sound doctrine” today, and it can be found in the holy scriptures- the Bible. It hasn’t changed, men have. The Bible is available for all to read and study independently. It reads as a story that unfolds throughout many centuries. It contains the history of the earth, the history of man, and the future to come- the beginning and the ending. If you use these free bible study resources available on this website, we encourage, and we even beg that you deeply and prayfully study the bible texts for yourself, so that you establish a connection with the Creator directly through Yeshua, and so that He leads you into the one and only way, truth and life.
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global_01_local_2_shard_00001658_processed.jsonl/12442	(1) What is an Asset Based Loan? An asset based loan is secured by a company’s accounts receivable, inventory, equipment, and/or real estate, whereby the lender takes a first priority security interest in those assets financed. Asset Based Loans are an alternative to traditional bank lending because they serve borrowers with risk characteristics typically outside a bank’s comfort level.” back to top (2) What’s the difference between Asset Based Lending and traditional Bank Financing? The primary difference between asset based lending and commercial bank financing is what the lender looks to first for repayment of a loan. A bank will look first to the cash flow for the repayment, then to collateral. An asset based lender looks to collateral first. Since banks underwrite cash flow as their primary repayment source, they typically require less collateral controls and monitoring but more financial covenants. For “asset rich” companies, an asset based loan may make more funds available because it is not based strictly on the anticipated levels of cash flow. Additionally, the structure often requires fewer covenants, providing more flexibility for many borrowers. back to top (3) What is Asset Based Financing used for? Asset Based Loans offer flexible financing solutions for the following uses: Working Capital The assets available to apply to a business’ operations are considered working capital assets. At times, working capital loans are needed to bridge financial gaps during the lifecycle of a business. Working capital loans can be secured by a variety of asset types, including accounts receivable, inventory, equipment, and/or real estate. To grow a business, a company may look to acquire a strategic partner or even a competitor. Asset Based Financing is often an efficient means to obtain funding for business acquisitions. Learn how Simplicity doubled its size through acquisition and asset based financing. Turnaround Financing Turnaround financing is often used by under-performing businesses that are not achieving their full potential. In some cases, it is used for businesses that are either insolvent or on their way to becoming insolvent. Asset Based Lenders are accustomed to the bankruptcy process and asset based financing is ideal for turnarounds because of its flexibility. Capital Expenditures Capital expenditure is the money spent to acquire and/or upgrade physical assets such as buildings and machinery. Capital expenditure is also commonly referred to as capital spending or capital expense. Debtor-in-Possession (DIP) financing Debtor-in-possession (DIP) refers to a company that has filed for protection under Chapter XI of the federal bankruptcy code and has been permitted by the bankruptcy court to continue its operations to effect a formal reorganization. A DIP company can still obtain loans–but only with bankruptcy court approval. DIP financing, which new debt is obtained by a firm during the Chapter XI bankruptcy process, allows the company to continue to operate during a reorganization process. Asset Based Lenders also provide exit financing or confirmation financing to companies coming out of bankruptcy. Typically, as a company grows so does its need for financing. Also, as a company’s collateral grows, its assets can strengthen its ability to borrow. An experienced and creative asset based lender can assemble a credit facility that can scale to grow with a company. Recapitalization is the process of fundamentally revising a company’s capital structure. A company typically might recapitalize due to bankruptcy or replacing debt securities with equity in order to reduce the company’s ongoing interest obligation. A leveraged recapitalization typically achieves just the opposite–by taking on a material amount of debt, the company increases its ongoing interest obligation but is able to pay its shareholders a special dividend When a company enters or exits a growth stage, refinancing or restructured financing maybe key to creating a capital structure that better meets the needs of the company. This type of financing is often used for market expansion, completing an acquisition, restructuring operations, or following a successful corporate turnaround. A buyout is the purchase of a controlling percentage of a company’s stock. In a leveraged buyout (LBO), the acquiring company uses the minimum amount of equity to purchase the target company. The target company’s assets are used as collateral for debt, and its cash flow is used to retire debt accrued by the buyer to acquire the company. A management buyout (MBO) is an LBO led by the existing management of a company. Most LBOs are also MBOs. Leveraged ESOP (Employee Stock Ownership Plan) A leveraged ESOP allows a company to raise its capital-to-asset ratio by issuing new shares of stock to an employee trust, which finances the transaction with an Asset Based Loan. The ESOP loan is repaid in pretax corporate dollars, and dividend payments to employees as well as the dividends reducing the bank loan are tax-deductible expenses. ESOPs may provide new capital for expansion or capital improvements, to buy out the stock of a retiring owner, to divest a division, to make acquisitions, and buy back publicly traded stock. back to top (4) What is an Asset Based Loan agreement? A typical loan agreement with an asset based lender provides protections, rights, and remedies for both parties. It also establishes guidelines on how the Asset Based Loan is to be administered and how expectations are to be met. In addition, the Asset Based Loan agreement may include a limited number of restrictive and/or financial covenants, but these are typically fewer than conventional commercial loan agreements. back to top (5) How does an Asset Based Lender monitor its borrowers? The level of controls and monitoring by the Asset Based Lender is directly related to the credit-worthiness of the borrower. Typical controls include: Borrowing Base Formula Is a borrowing base formula that monitors the relationship between the value of the collateral available, to secure the outstanding loan and the actual balance of the loan on a regular basis. Collateral Reporting Funding controls, or collateral reporting, may be required daily, weekly, or monthly and range from submission of sales invoices/shipping documents to accounts receivable aging and listings/inventory listings. Collection Controls The asset based lender requires dominion, or control, over cash by establishing a collateral account into which accounts receivable collections are deposited. Access to this account is restricted to the asset based lender. Ongoing Audits Ongoing audits are also used to monitor the account. The asset based lender will audit the borrower’s books and records periodically to verify the accuracy and validity and to substantiate collateral values as represented by the borrower. back to top (6) What is a Revolving Credit Facility? A revolving credit facility, also known as a “revolver,” is designed to optimize the availability of working capital from the borrower’s current asset base. As the borrower repays a portion of the loan, an amount equal to the repayment can be borrowed again under the terms of the agreement. Eligible assets commonly included in calculating the current asset base are accounts receivable and inventory. The term “revolver” is used because the amount the asset based lender is willing to lend increases if the amount of the assets securing the loan increases. Funds are loaned to a company based on a certain percentage of the value of eligible accounts receivable and inventory. Such loans are limited by the predictability of cash flow to service the debt. A revolving line of credit typically has a term of one-to-three years with renewal provisions. The advantage of a revolving credit facility is that the company can use current assets as collateral to secure a loan rather than wait until the collateral has been converted to cash. back to top (7) What is a Term Loan? One component of senior debt is a term loan. This is typically an Asset Based Loan that is based on a certain percentage of the orderly liquidation value of the machinery and equipment and the appraised fair market value of the land and buildings. Asset Based Loans against equipment and real estate are often made in the form of term loans that include regular periodic payments of both principal and interest in order to retire the debt at a fixed maturity date. Asset Based Loans using real estate as collateral have longer maturities than equipment loans because of the generally shorter economic life expectancy of equipment. back to top (8) What is Debtor-In-Possession (DIP) financing? Debtor-in-possession (DIP) refers to a company that has filed for protection under Chapter XI of the Federal Bankruptcy Code and has been permitted by the bankruptcy court to continue its operations to effect a formal reorganization. A DIP company can still obtain loans–but only with bankruptcy court approval. DIP financing, which new debt is obtained by a firm during the Chapter XI bankruptcy process, allows the company to continue to operate during a reorganization process. Asset Based Lenders are well versed in providing DIP financing, confirmation financing, or exit financing as companies emerge from bankruptcy protection. back to top (9) What is EBITDA? The term “EBITDA” stands for, Earnings, Before Interest, Taxes, Depreciation and Amortization. It is a financial tool often used to measure a company’s cash flow and ability to service its debt. It is a legitimate tool for analyzing lower-rated credits, but less appropriate for higher rated credits. To compute EBITDA, add back interest expense, depreciation expense, and amortization expense to pretax income. back to top (10) What is LIBOR? The term “LIBOR” is an acronym for London Interbank Offered Rate, which is the market interest rate charged by lenders and paid by borrowers for U.S. dollars outside U.S. borders (commonly called Eurodollars).LIBOR is quoted on a daily basis representing fixed time periods ranging from 30 days to 360 days. The rate is set not by banks but by market forces in the supply and demand of Eurodollars. Interest rates on senior acquisition financing are normally based on a floating rate related to either the prime rate or LIBOR. back to top (11) What types of financing are offered by Advance Commercial Finance? Unlike cash flow lenders, ACF asset based lenders finance loans based on tangible assets. We focus first on the collateral’s cash conversion cycle for repayment and second on cash flow. Asset Based Loans ACF provides asset-based credit facilities ranging from $10 million to $200 million and more throughout the U.S., Canada, and Mexico, representing companies with annual sales typically between $20 million and $500 million. ACF services the financing needs of manufacturers, wholesalers, distributors, and service businesses. For larger loans ($50 million+)–syndicating or distributing the debt among a group of financial institutions helps to better manage risk. A syndicated loan is typically structured and priced by a lead arranger, or agent, who then sells portions of the credit to other lenders or investor groups under terms negotiated by the agent. Syndicating asset-based deals requires a particular set of skills–collateral exams as well as machinery, equipment, and real estate appraisals. Critical to syndication is the reputation of the lead arranger and administrative agent. Senior Stretch Financing Senior Stretch is a hybrid financing solution that falls between an asset based loan and a cash flow loan. Also known as an “over-advance loan”, it is structured with both asset-based and cash flow components, providing a higher level of leverage and delivering more capital up front than cash flow only loans. Second Lien A senior secured second lien works in tandem with an asset based loan and provides a company with some liquidity when other capital sources may be less accessible. It holds the same rights and covenants as a traditional bank loan except that it is second in line in terms of repayment priority. High Yield Debt High yield debt offers a highly flexible and less restrictive financing alternative for many companies. High yield debt is typically used to meet longer-term fixed rate financing needs related to working capital, refinancing, recapitalizations, acquisitions, or capital expenditures. High yield securities are non-investment grade debt instruments with an S&P rating of BB+ and below or a Moody’s rate of Ba1 and below. High yield securities are registered with the SEC and commonly sold to institutional investors such as pension funds, mutual funds, and insurance companies–where a higher level of credit risk and leverage is acceptable. Junior Secured Loans A junior secured loan, also known as tranche B loan, provides incremental liquidity and leverage to borrowers who are tapped out with their existing senior lenders. As a form of junior debt, tranche B loans are riskier than traditional senior debt and therefore require higher returns. Mezzanine Financing Mezzanine financing falls between senior debt and equity on a company’s balance sheet and is typically used to fund a growth opportunity such as an acquisition, new product line, new distribution channel, or a plant expansion. back to top Advance Commercial Financing LLC Est. 2008 Visit Us On TwitterVisit Us On FacebookVisit Us On Linkedin
global_01_local_2_shard_00001658_processed.jsonl/12450	Syntactic and Semantic Input to Prosodic Markup in CommandTalk Elizabeth Owen Bratt and John Dowding The CommandTalk military spoken dialogue system uses Semantic Head-Driven Generation in Gemini grammars, which have compositional semantics, permitting the identification of parse tree nodes corresponding to logical form subexpressions. This method of generation gives the CommandTalk prosody agent access to appropriate syntactic and semantic information to provide markup on generated sentences so that specialized military terms are pronounced correctly and so that general English language constructions important for dialogue can be given appropriate prosody to enhance their intelligibility and effectiveness. Specific military examples are map grid coordinates and unit call signs consisting of strings of letters and digits. The most salient English language construction supported is alternative questions, with contrastive stress on the distinguishing parts of alternatives.
global_01_local_2_shard_00001658_processed.jsonl/12452	Laid back: Snoop Dogg sets Guinness World Record by making largest gin and juice EMBED </>More Videos Snoop Dogg used 180 bottles of gin to set the record. (Amy Harris/Invision/AP) In honor of his infamous song "Gin and Juice," rap icon Snoop Dogg is now a world recorder holder for making the largest paradise cocktail. The rapper was performing at the Bottle Rock Napa Valley Music Festival on Saturday. Snoop Dogg, hip-hop singer Warren G and "Top Chef" winner Michael Voltaggio were seen on stage making the world's largest gin and juice that was certified by Guinness. The crew filled a vessel that stood five feet tall and three feet wide with 180 bottles of gin, according to the Mercury News. The juice was donated by Whole Foods. Snoop Dogg's "Gin and Juice" was produced by Dr. Dre in 1993. The song was a part of the artist's multi-platinum album "Doggystyle." "Gin and Juice" peaked at number eight on the Billboard Hot 100. Related Topics: entertainmentsnoop doggalcoholcocktailmusicmusic newsworld record
global_01_local_2_shard_00001658_processed.jsonl/12481	Encountering the Supernatural at Fort Benning, Georgia After his tour of duty in South Vietnam, Tom was sent to Fort Benning, Georgia. It was at this point that he rededicated his life to the Lord and determined that he was going to do His Will. It was during this time that he began to encounter various types supernatural entities: both good and evil. In time, he would understand more fully, the Power of the Name of Jesus Christ and how the evil ones could be defeated. Learning how to use this would make a big difference in his future life. Georgia State University - J. Mack Robinson College of Business On the earthly plane, Tom was assigned to the Human Resources Experimentation (HUMROE) Project, working to improve the individual soldier's rifle marksmanship. Experimentation is probably the wrong word for what the Army was attempting to accomplish. Every soldier knows that their success on the field of battle is a function of how well they handle their rifle. This program helped the Army figure out how to make soldiers better marksmen. Tom also began graduate studies to receive his Master of Business Administration Degree (M.B.A.) from Georgia State University. It was also during this time that Tom began to develop a prophetic ministry. Early on in his Christian life, the Lord had showed him how the Cuban Missile Crisis would work out, but he was too timid to attempt to share that information with the Kennedy Administration. Now, after many years, it was happening again. The book describes his vision of Jesus Christ. Picture of a Banyan Tree A Banyan Tree The book also describes a vision of the Banyan Tree in relation to the future of the United States. Tom would learn from this Divine vision, the true Will of God for the United States of American and its Federal Government. Similar to visions given to George Washington (1777), William Branham (given in 1933, the prophecies are in Rev. Branham's sermons, which you can download for free), and A. A. Allen (1954), he saw a destruction of the United States government that was heart-rending. It also clarified and expanded the prophecies received by General Washington and Revs. Branham and Allen. This prophecy has also been confirmed by others as well. It is spelled out in detail in the Major's book Alive on the Edge. Reassignment to South Korea When it came time for Tom to complete another overseas assignment, he was initially assigned to be a Military Advisor in South Vietnam, just as he was before. Just before he was getting ready to ship out for Vietnam, his orders were almost mysteriously changed and he was headed to South Korea. Had he gone to South Vietnam, he would have likely never came home. When the Tet Offensive of 1968 fell apart, the Viet Cong were mostly wiped out and the North Vietnamese Army (NVA) took over the Communist insurrection. By 1972, United States forces were beginning to leave under President Nixon's new Vietnamization Program. In place of the departing U.S. troops, the United States sent Military Advisors to help guide the Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN). This program did not fare well against the NVA and many American Military Advisors were either killed or captured. Had Tom gone to Vietnam a second time, he would have likely not come home. When Tom got to South Korea, he would soon learn that the Communists had not forgotten about their neighbors to the south. He discovered that his company had been infiltrated by members of the U. S. Communist Party who were there to start an uprising in South Korea. Making things worse, there were racial tensions between the black, white, and Korean troops. It seemed like an unsurmountable task, but in time, the Lord showed Tom how to turn his company into one of the best in South Korea. Because they were so proficient in their movements around the mountains of South Korea, they were called "Baird's Mountain Goats." By the time Tom had reformed his company into one of the best in South Korea, the United States Army had an even more difficult task for him: back in the United States of America. Click here to read the next section. Active Search Results
global_01_local_2_shard_00001658_processed.jsonl/12549	Thursday, May 28, 2015 Updating An Inconvenient Truth I recently re-watched Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth (2006), which is now somewhat out of date, and was wondering what's happened to CO2 since the movie came out. Here's a recap. First, the most recent year's worth of data from Mauna Loa: Carbon dioxide levels (which for 2015 are above 400 ppm) vary more-or-less sinusoidally throughout the year. Why? Most of earth's land masses are north of the equator. Plants bloom in summer and consume most of their CO2 in the warm months. In the (northern-hemisphere) winter, CO2 builds up because northern-hemisphere plants shut down and Australia is largely desert. Here's Mauna Loa data for the last 55 years: The graph shows that CO2 levels in the atmosphere have gone up about 75 ppm in 50 years, so around 1.5 ppm per year. We have ice-core data going back 800,000 years, and it's reliable because the snowpack accumulates in definite layers, and we can sample the actual air bubbles in the layers to get CO2 ppm: In the past 800,000 years, CO2 tyically has rarely been above 250 ppm and got to 300 ppm (briefly) just once. Temperatures (not shown) tend to follow CO2 levels closely, albeit with a bit of lag due to oceanic entrapment (and subsequent release) of CO2, with 100 ppm of CO2 equivalent to about a 10-degree (C) change in air temps. (Sometimes CO2 appears to lag slightly; sometimes air temps do. But overall, the two correlate strongly.) Which means that at 400 ppm, we're due for +10C higher temps over historic levels. Exactly how long it will take for that +10C increase to show up, I don't know (many people say it's already begun, of course!), but a +10C increase is pretty much inevitable. Skeptics can argue all they want about whether the CO2 buildup is man-made. But there is no question that CO2 levels are higher (by at least 100 ppm) today than at any time in the last 800,000 years. That part is not open to debate. Also, the fact that CO2 is a greenhouse gas that traps heat is not really open to debate. So connect the dots however you like. Presidential candidates, please discuss. ☙ ❧ ☙ ❧ Please retweet this post's URL. In the meantime, I want to thank the following people for retweeting me yesterday: Have you added your name to our mailing list? 1 comment: 1. Based on this reasoning, I must immediately stop giving my Type 1 diabetic daughter insulin, because her current usage is associated with an 800% increase in the risk of kidney failure. Correlations don't imply causations, and this very simple logical fallacy underlies much of the alarmist confusion about atmospheric CO2 levels. Extend the temperature/CO2 graphs in your blog back 600 million years, and you will see the correlation largely fall to pieces. Add a comment. Registration required because trolls.
global_01_local_2_shard_00001658_processed.jsonl/12557	I was asked recently by a Facebook friend the following: [C]an you explain to me the canard about how Austrians don’t believe empirical evidence or statistics factor into the study of economics? Is this true? It is often argued that Austrians work on presupposed axioms which may or may not have empirical evidence for it, and that if any empirical proof be brought which might challenge a conclusion of the Austrian School, then it is dismissed as being a subject of nuance. Statistics and other such methods of measuring men’s actions, it is alleged, are eschewed. This is strange since I see Austrians use graphs and such like to illustrate things like economic booms. Can you explain all of this to me? And did Rothbard diverge from Mises in anyway on this? Thanks. Immediately, we should draw a distinction, as Ludwig von Mises did, between economic theory and history; the former being the study of human action as it relates to man in a world of scarce resources and the latter being an actual account of how men, prices, goods, and services had interacted with each other in the past. In other words, by definition, there is a difference between what we claim to achieve via the theory of human action versus historical inquiry. And thus, Mises authored an entire book called “Theory and History.” Consider Mises’ statement in Human Action: [Economic] statements and propositions are not derived from expe- rience. They are, like those of logic and mathematics, a priori. They are not subject to verification and falsification on the ground of experience and facts. They are both logically and temporally antecedent to any comprehension of historical facts. They are a necessary requirement of any intellectual grasp of historical events. Mises called the general and formal theory of human action praxeology. Economics was one subset of praxeology. So then, the correct answer to the opening question above is that Austrians do not believe that economic laws can be discovered via empirical evidence/statistics. For by definition, the purpose of the evidence and statistics is to gather historical information, not to discover economic theory. Therefore, empirical information relates to “economics” only in a broad and general way; to get a better picture of the past, but never to acquire laws of human action. A good example of this can be found in Chapter 4 of Murray Rothbard’s “America’s Great Depression.” In preparing to make his case that the 1920s were marked by an inflationary monetary trend, Rothbard makes an observation regarding his method (paragraph breaks added): Most writers on the 1929 depression make the same grave mistake that plagues economic studies in general—the use of historical statistics to “test” the validity of economic theory. We have tried to indicate that this is a radically defective methodology for economic science, and that theory can only be confirmed or refuted on prior grounds. Empirical fact enters into the theory, but only at the level of basic axioms and without relation to the common historical–statistical “facts” used by present-day economists. […] Suffice it to say here that statistics can prove nothing because they reflect the operation of numerous causal forces. To “refute” the Austrian theory of the inception of the boom because interest rates might not have been lowered in a certain instance, for example, is beside the mark. It simply means that other forces—perhaps an increase in risk, perhaps expectation of rising prices—were strong enough to raise interest rates. But the Austrian analysis, of the business cycle continues to operate regardless of the effects of other forces. For the important thing is that interest rates are lower than they would have been without the credit expansion. From theoretical analysis we know that this is the effect of every credit expansion by the banks; but statistically we are helpless—we cannot use statistics to estimate what the interest rate would have been. Statistics can only record past events; they cannot describe possible but unrealized events. So then, statistics aren’t “eschewed” as such; rather, they are relegated to their proper place in the economic edifice. Just because the Austrian does not think that laws of economics are discovered by complex models, does not mean that statistics in general are never to be used. This would be like complaining that the laws of logic have never been “proven” by statistics. It is in the nature of logical laws that they are not determined by empirical investigation, but rather, are presupposed. So then, when we are accused of dismissing empirical evidence, we ought to point out that statistics by their very epistemological nature cannot disprove those things which are discovered by a priori thinking. Statistics are chock full of their own assumptions, correlations, temporal conditions, and more, which render them wholly insufficient to provide unbreakable laws of economic theory. Bring me a study that proves price controls don’t work and I will point you to another than proves minimum wages are the secret to a prosperous economy. Now then, what about a Rothbard and Mises distinction on this point? As has been indicated on this site before, I always want to emphasize the fact that Rothbard saw economic theory as an a priori study, that is, he defended an economic methodology which stressed the fact that economic theory and economic laws must be attained by an application of the laws of logic and reasoning onto the “human action” axiom (human beings act purposefully; they each employ means to attain valued ends). Stated differently, Rothbard was squarely in the economic tradition of his mentor Ludwig von Mises as to the proper economic methodology. But we must look back one more step to the axiom itself. How do we “know” that humans act purposefully? How do we discover the action axiom? Observe the following from the above excerpt of Rothbard’s: Rothbard’s position was that one needed to reflect on, and apply experience to, the real world in order to achieve this axiom of economics. Thus, categorically, Rothbard was technically an “empiricist” in the Thomist sense. But his empiricism was a long way removed from the more modern empirical “logical-positivism.” But in any case, Mises rejected Thomas Aquinas and instead preferred a more “rationalistic” starting point: presuppositions and laws of thinking. Mises saw the action axiom as such that to deny it was to prove it. That is, in the words of Hans-Hermann Hoppe commenting on Mises’ epistemology, [axioms] are self-evident because one cannot deny their truth without self-contradiction; that is, in attempting to deny them one would actually implicitly admit their truth. Mises considered axioms not as empirically derived but as, in the phraseology of Immanuel Kant, synthetic a priori propositions; propositions that were not discovered by experience and that were also not merely true by definition. I should re-emphasize, so that no one questions this, that despite Rothbard and Mises disagreeing on the foundation of an axiom, they both considered economics an a priori science that rested on a deductive methodology (see Murray Rothbard’s in Defense of Extreme Apriorism).
global_01_local_2_shard_00001658_processed.jsonl/12562	Henry, The Gaoler Henry, The Gaoler Book 2: Serenity House Imagine if Rapunzel’s parents were Edwardian preppers… Hazel’s parents saw the 1912 sinking of the Titanic as a portent of doom and locked their daughter away. Isolated and alone, each birthday she wishes to be free, whatever the risk. If only her childhood friend Henry would return and breach the high walls. On the frontlines of the Great War, Henry kept a token of happier times – a worn photograph of a young girl with long blonde plaits. He returns from war damaged and vowing to do one brave thing to make up for his cowardice – release Hazel from her prison. But is it safe with the pandemic and its horrific aftermath? How can Henry reconcile protecting Hazel with setting her free? Or perhaps the sheltered young woman will teach the soldier a lesson about life, and liberate him from a tower of his own construction. Henry is a companion (prequel) novella to Ella, The Slayer. The direct sequel to Ella is Alice, The Player.
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global_01_local_2_shard_00001658_processed.jsonl/12582	Saturday, March 4, 2017 The Great Wall of America "The wall is going to be....a GREAT wall." - Donald Trump Feb 16th, 2017 Press conference, 15:45 In a previous blog, "The Mad Architect of Civil War," we looked at old American war propaganda posters as well as more recent billboards advertising various films and tv series. We explored how the media is not necessarily reflecting reality, but suggesting and DICTATING it, from various angles in order to maintain division among the populace. I couldn't help but notice a fresh new batch of them, so here is a few more for your consideration... I have not seen the film "The Great Wall," but presumably it is about "the Great Wall of China." Above is the main promotional billboard plastered all around major cities. What we see is a white man (Matt Damon) in military attire, about to shoot someone who is clearly below him on the other side of a wall (represented by the movie title). Behind him are 4 people of different races, also dressed for battle. The 4 individuals look unsure and fearful, but prepared for blood. They are staring directly at the viewer (you). This can be confirmed by looking closely at a large, blown up version of this billboard. Since the viewer is physically on the other side of the wall, the 4 individuals behind Matt Damon seem to be hinting that YOU are on the wrong side. This sends the message that anyone can be a foreigner, even YOU. In the background we see explosions and evidence of a destructive battle occurring. This stirs up very specific racial/political controversies without directly referring to any of them. A brief consideration of possible occult imagery reveals a few interesting details. The use of red and blue, colors used by Freemasonic Illuminists representing chaos and order, very much fits the theme of civil war and division. Red is worn by a man, blue is worn by a woman. Union/confederate, democrat/republican. There are 5 individuals pictured. 5 is typically associated with man, war, fire, and the color red. Matt Damon's character points an arrow at something or someone on the other side of the imaginary wall. The arrow represents the human will, strength, force, or the phallus. In this picture, the white man holds the phallus and directs the intent, whereas the other faces reflect a shade of doubt, hesitance to act, and fearful wonder - and yet postured to follow the will of the white man in the front. Finally, the words "the Great Wall" fit rather well inside of a hexagram. I didn't bother creating an image with the words inside a hexagram, but the inspired observer is encouraged to. The significance of that refers again to the theme of Freemasonic symbolism, as the square and compass are a different expression of the hexagram, the star of David, and the 3 dimensional cube (this is explained in more detail in a previous blog "Occult themes/symbolism within Star Wars: The Force Awakens.") A quick glance at the funding behind the film reveals that "The Great Wall's" biggest financial contributor, according to Wikepedia, is China based "The Wanda Group." They are the world's biggest private property developer and owner and the world's largest cinema chain operator. They purchased AMC theatres in 2012 and own 13% of movie screens in the USA. In 2016 Wanda Group also purchased Propaganda GEM, "The Entertainment Marketing and product placement agency becomes part of Wanda Group's focus on entertainment but also Hollywood content" (Notice the word "propaganda" and references to "Hollywood content" and "product placement.") There is also the interesting fact that The Wanda Group has "good relationships" with the Communist Party of China. The new King Kong film features "Kong" emerging from the sun, which is either rising or setting, depending on how you look at it. This indicates that the beast rises from the beginning and the end of time. The Sun is the most ancient symbol worshiped by mankind. Christ was the SON of god. Angels are typically depicted with rays of light behind them. The crown of a king symbolizes the rays of the sun. These rays signify divine rulership. The word "King" is omitted from the title of the film. But it is enforced instead by the symbolism of the monster emerging from the sun and also by the words above the title "All Hail the King." Clearly, the monster is the "king." Who is the king of America? That would be the president, Donald Trump. The orange, red, and yellow emerging from the top/behind "Kong" recall the colors often so sarcastically associated with Trump's infamous hair and facial color. The monster is the president, and the Monster is the KING. The monster emerges from the opposite side of the rocks. Or you could say, the opposite side of the wall. He is a foreigner from the view of the troops. The troops are foreigners from the view of the monster. There are 5 troops. 5 represents war, the color red, and fire. The troops are clearly ready to battle the monster. "All Hail the King" is written in the water between the troops. This is not a statement, it's a suggestion. The troops are depicted within the colors of deep blue/green. Blue is the color of democrats as well as order. Red is the color of republicans/chaos. The 2 helicopters are eyes and the troops form a frown. This represents the face of the observer, YOU. "Skull Island" references the head. A skull lies inside of a head. You are the foreigner fighting on the opposite side of the leader/king/monster. Or you can choose to be on the side of the monster emerging from the orange/red sun. The point is, TAKE A SIDE and FIGHT. This is only one interpretation of the occult symbolism within this poster. But the fact that the symbols are there for your consumption is pretty hard to dispute. These symbols are not recognized consciously, but the icons have an effect on the sub conscious nonetheless. This is done to catch your attention of course, as any good advertisement should do. But this is also a very loaded piece of propaganda. I imagine the film is also a loaded piece of eye catching propaganda. I didn't know this film was called "Get Out" because the billboard ad barely even looks like a movie advertisement. Again we have (very subtle) blue and red. You can't see very well in the picture due to the glare, but the sky and the house rooftops contain blue hues, while the front of the houses contain a dull sunset (or sunrise) red. These are not natural colors, they are obviously filtered to be stylized this way. Upon first glance, the ad blends in almost like graffiti. The message? Well, it couldn't get any less metaphorical so I don't see the need to type it out, as it can be read plainly enough above. Someone even did the work for me by snapping this photo of the billboard next to a political advertisement (also featuring the colors blue and red). Again, enforcing ideas of division, judgement, racism, and fear of foreigners. I've actually seen both of these billboards myself at more than one intersection, prominently placed next to each other. I briefly read the plot line for this and found that it is a "black comedy" horror film. It flirts aggressively with racial tension, even more bizarrely than I would have expected. It's about a black man who is dating a white woman. He somehow discovers a sort of shocking secret inside her house involving the disappearance of black people from the WHITE residence. A movie about black people disappearing from a white house? Hmmm....The movie is currently enjoying stellar ratings, and this writing is not intended to downgrade the movie - neither could I since I haven't even seen it yet. This is merely a meditation on the symbolic meanings translated through the poster and the plot themes. No surprise that they reflect the growing racial/civil war agenda so prevalent on the media's plate lately. It is interesting to see how more of these types of messages are being presented with a touch of comedy. But not the sort that diffuses tension, the type which ENHANCES it. Here's a new film starring Ice Cube and Charlie Day. I have not seen this film either, but by the looks of the reviews, it is pointless exercise in stupidity and gratuitous vulgarity. But perhaps these critics are missing the point... The poster shows a black man and a white man standing off. If it wasn't already obvious that they don't like each other, the not so subtle words FIST FIGHT are there in nice big letters so mentally handicapped people can understand what is being articulated. Apparently in the film, these two characters are teachers. Similar to some of the recent super hero films, we have iconic representations of social leaders (super heroes, teachers, parents) abandoning their posts in order to fight each other for no apparent reason (or for an extremely petty one). Teachers are the educators of society, so the idea of teachers fighting in a racially suggestive context hints that we are being taught to hate and to be racial for very petty reasons. It basically encourages every possible negative racial tension between blacks and whites for the most shallow reasons possible. But since it is labeled "entertainment" and "comedy" we don't take it at face value consciously. But subconsciously the message is the same as if it was delivered by a fascist government propaganda poster. Within the billboard we have the colors blue (turquoise?) and red again, signifying chaos and order. The black man is taller than the white man, encouraging thoughts of inferiority and empowerment on both sides of the ethnic coin. I don't know much about the white guy (Charlie Day,) but the black guy (Ice Cube) was in NWA in the 90s, a rap group who wrote the song "Fuck the Police." Although the name "NWA" is known to stand for "Niggas With Attitude," it was a pretty well established urban myth in the 90s that it stood for "No Whites Allowed." Whether it really stood for that or not, plenty of kids believed it. NWA was an extremely controversial group and popularized the entire "Gangsta Rap" genre probably more than any other group. This was around the time that I first started hearing arguments about gun laws, and it was largely encouraged by alleged youths obtaining them illegally and using them in gang violence in schools and in the streets. And yet somehow the recent film about NWA managed to soften their image and make their story more identifiable to people. The point here is not to debate whether the film was accurate or not, but to point out that the same media who banned "Fuck the Police" in the 90s and warned of the dangers of Gangsta Rap and youths bringing guns to school, is now using NWA's story, and their former members to deliver negative racial entertainment to mainstream America, hidden within the guise of "harmless comedy." From FX Network we have this nice depiction of a man and a woman both pointing guns at someone while being turned on and staring into each other's eyes. Almost to say that shooting people is sexy, chic, and the new trendy way to love someone. The couple look somewhat dead, as if they are turning into zombies or vampires. This is all done in a very stylish, attractive, hip kind of way. The word "Americans" has a reversed R to enhance a warped meaning of it. "These are the NEW Americans. This is the new YOU." The background again uses red and blue, with some yellow thrown in. The message here is a very clear statement to the American public: "This is what you are America! Shoot someone already! See, it's sexy! It's love! It's chic! Most of all, it's AMERICAN! Be a corpse! Be a zombie!" Are we getting the message yet? I know I am. "One of the most deliciously long-simmering rivalries in the history of Hollywood is dissected in Ryan Murphy's Feud: Bette and Joan, starring Jessica Lange and Susan Sarandon (above), premiering March 5." - Town and Country Magazine "in a Hollywood today where sexism, ageism and divide-and-conquer are still the status quo, the battles faced more than 50 years ago by the then 54-year-old and virtually discarded Davis and the broke but still striving 58-year-old Crawford feel unfortunately poignant in 2017." - These billboards are based upon the story written by Henry Farrell entitled "Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?" It's about 2 sisters, "movie actors, but Blanche has achieved stardom, while Jane’s films have flopped, leading Jane to drink heavily. One night, returning from a party, one of the sisters gets out of the car to open the gate leading up to the house, while the other attempts to run her over. The resulting accident leaves Blanche paralyzed transforming Jane into "an aging actress who holds her paraplegic sister captive in an old Hollywood mansion." The psychological thriller film adaptation of the same name was released in 1962. The bitter Hollywood rivalry between the film's two stars, Davis and Crawford, was obviously important to the film's initial success. "Feud" is a new show from FX Network featuring Susan Sarandon (70) and Jessica Lang (67) playing the roles of Betty Davis and Joan Crawford, acting out their "Feud" during the filming of the movie, presumably both in front and away from the camera. Given the multi layered concept behind the series, the above posters manage to conjure an incredibly complex amount of negative feminine concepts. I'm going color blind looking at all of these blue/red shades, but I think we have possibly HOT PINK set against a deep blue here. The first poster features Jessica Lang looking particularly reminiscent of K.D. Lang next to an overly made up, and decidedly feminine Susan Sarandon. They appear to represent the classic female nightmare of becoming old, unattractive, and unimportant. Their despairing facial expressions hint at a deep sense of guilt. The bars they clutch seem to represent punishment for whatever crime they are guilty of. All presented in a sensual, sexy dream like color scheme. Second poster has Sarandon suggestively postured above Lang, who stares up as if waiting to be punished/dominated. Obviously there is a sexual undertone here, but also ideas of inferiority, incest, helplessness, sadism, masochism, sibling rivalry, jealousy, gender role confusion, gender role reversal, and ritual torture among other things. Crawford and Davis were loudly applauded for their performances, as the film "Whatever Happened to Baby Jane" was nominated for 5 academy awards. They were both seen as past their prime by the public, and "washed up" before this. It's interesting to note that a film where women are depicted behaving badly, and where 2 actresses inject their own real life bad, self loathing behavior into the film is what gained it more notoriety in the end. The further dramatization of these actresses feuding and staring down their old age is presumably reflected by Sarandon and Lang - who are both OLDER than the characters they are depicting. Clearly the media is applauding THEM for further articulating the "delicious long-simmering rivalry" and would probably be very happy to see Sarandon and Lang vent their own insecurities upon each other and within the film. It's interesting to note that both "Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?" and "Feud" were both written by men. Men writing about women acting out their fears and insecurities, and being applauded for doing so. I guess it's like a wise woman once said, "well behaved women rarely make history." Finally, we have CBS's "The Good Fight." This billboard exploits the lesbian fantasy, presumably from the perspective of a heterosexual male. As far as I can tell, the series is a "political/legal drama." But judging from this poster I can only assume that some sort of "lesbian drama" is part of the plot at some point? We see a somewhat conservative looking blonde, blue eyed woman on the left with her fingers just barely forming a "V." If you've been to any rock concerts, you've probably seen the way this hand gesture is usually used by men to indicate "I wanna lick your pussy." In the center, we have a conservative looking black woman looking like she just had sex with a white man, who lays in the background with no shirt on. But she is staring somewhere else, indicating she is bored with what she just experienced and feels guilty for what she is considering. The man in the background is only pictured from the neck down. Above his crotch are the words "all access," subtly indicating that heterosexual men will have "all access" to this unrealistic lesbian fantasy. Finally on the right we have a woman looking turned on as she faces a woman who's mouth and nose are the only parts we can see of her. Obviously the idea that they are "making out" is being heavily suggested. Yet, all 3 women appear to be heterosexual. The title "The Good Fight" seems to indicate that all this Lesbian lust is causing a fight somewhere, but that it's good. The storyline seems to include lots of SCAMS and SCANDAL. I suppose the message here to women is to question their own sexuality and to regard any friction caused by their bad behavior to be good? The word GOOD is RED to highlight it. The billboard appears to also include the colors red and blue/black - again, indicating chaos and order. A bit about CBS Network - CBS stands for Columbia Broadcasting System. Colombia refers to the Columbian faction of Freemasons. This is why the logo contains the "all seeing eye." And yes, it's the same eye on the $1 bill and represents the "Illuminated Ones." Therefore, this show is sponsored by a very powerful Freemasonic order - as are all of the shows on CBS and probably everything mentioned on this page. Someone recently commented to me that this sort of thing is just "the media being the media." And I agree. But what is the difference between someone who closes the book right there on the subject and one who is inspired to look deeper? The media is like a giant megaphone being broadcast throughout society. We can listen, we can ignore, but we can't escape its influence. And to study the influence our environment is having upon our minds and bodies is the act of an intelligent, aware human being.
global_01_local_2_shard_00001658_processed.jsonl/12602	First steps (Primeros pasos) • Artist: Berni, Antonio Nationality Argentina (Argentina, Rosario, 1905 – Argentina, Buenos Aires, 1981) • Date: 1936 • Acquisition: Salón Nacional de Artes Plásticas (1940) • Genre: new realism, traditions, social • Support: On canvas • Dimensions: 200 x 180 cm. First steps (Primeros pasos) Enlarge Reference 1771 Work not on display Summary First steps (Primeros pasos) Antonio Berni returned to Rosario in late 1931, following a decisive stay in Europe during which he had come into contact with different avant-garde innovations, tendencies toward a return to order and grand Western figurative traditions. Although he continued working in relation to the surrealist experiences he had cultivated during the last portion of his stay in Paris, he soon veered in the direction of new realism (1), which was as different from 19th Century precedents as it was from the social realism being proposed in the Soviet Union (2). This was a modern, heterodox version of realism that the artist began to practice along with his young disciples at the Mutualidad Popular de Estudiantes y Artistas Plásticos (Popular Students and Plastic Artists’ Society), a group that had just been founded in Rosario and that continued an intense cycle of activities until the maestro left to settle in Buenos Aires in 1936 (3). As part of a two-fold activism promoting both new art and a new society that had been stimulated to a large degree by David Alfaro Siqueiros’ presence in 1933 (4), the group launched into different experiences with murals, decoration for political events and graphic pieces that oscillated between propaganda and traditional printmaking. Nevertheless, easel painting—above all in large format—continued its development on diverse scales and modalities, from transportable mural painting to paintings conceived of for unhurried, intimate contemplation. For this reason, contemporary occurrences abound in his works, along with episodes gleaned from newspaper stories, from the epic of everyday life to monumentalized portraits. Primeros pasos (First Steps) can be considered to fall within the framework of these last two variants that often worked their way into Berni’s pieces, a painting whose graceful, stylized characters share a monumental, hierarchic quality that can be found in many of the figures the artist painted during the thirties and forties. In this case Paule and Lily are portrayed, the artist’s wife and daughter who feature in various enigmatic scenes within a long series of works dedicated to feminine figures shown deep in thought. Such is the case in a hermetic painting that bears both of their names, also known as Composición (Composition) or Figuras (Figures, 1941, private collection) and the more serene but no less provocative Lily (1943, inv. 6534, MNBA). Although in some of these monumental portraits the figure stands out against a singular rural or riverside landscape, the majority are invariably situated in interiors with empty, undecorated walls,interrupted only by fragments of furniture or windows that open onto the outside world. Primeros pasos, as well as La pregunta (The Question, 1939, private collection), are both strange scenes in which time seems to stand still and the power of words is replaced by the characters in all the eloquence of their contained, melancholic gestures (5). In these scenes, some traces of Renaissance traditions and Christian iconography can be detected, especially the theme of the Annunciation. This is no coincidence if we consider the manner in which Giorgio de Chirico recovered certain zones of the past in his metaphysical painting, whose motifs and compositional modalities Berni seems to have transcribed in several of his works. By observing the characteristics of the domestic environment that envelops the figures, how they are situated in space, their activities and gestures, we can find certain parallels with some Annunciations: the little girl with her gentle movements as the angel, and the mother in the manner of a Virgin, engaged with elements associated to sewing or reading, two activities that Paule—a sculpture student and Henri Barbusse’s collaborator in Paris—carried out with equal delight. If we return to examine the room once more, with its parallel planked floors—a checkerboard pattern was used in a preliminary version—exposed ceiling beams, openings in the lateral and background walls and the mother’s position, leaning with her elbows braced on the sewing machine and a large piece of draped cloth, various connections can be traced not only with Annunciations, but also with several of Giorgio de Chirico’s compositions such as Il figlio prodigo (The Prodigal Son, 1926, private collection) and Mobili nella valle (Furniture in the Valley, 1927, Museum Ludwig, Colonia), pertaining to the artist’s Parisian period. These striking parallels might even suggest that historical sources may exist that were revisited by both creators with a similar intensity. The powerful impact of Franz Roh’s magic realism (6) must also be taken into consideration in this painting; fundamentally, his proposal of an art based on everyday occurrences inhabited by mystery. In this sense, Primeros pasos provides a perfect example of painting that is situated, as the German theoretician maintained, between “devotion to the world of daydreaming and adhesion to the world of reality” (7) or, in the words of Rivas Rooney, a critic akin to Berni himself, between “pure objectivity” and “beings’ most intimate aspects” (8).Guillermo Fantoni 1— Berni’s first written formulation appeared in a text published in “El Nuevo Realismo”, Forma, Buenos Aires, nº 1, August, 1936, p. 8 and 14; the same text was published again in Ars, Buenos Aires, March, 1941, [s.p.]. For a view of this modality, cf. Guillermo Fantoni, “La pura objetividad y lo más íntimo de los seres: claves de un nuevo realismo” in: Cristina Rossi (coord.), Antonio Berni. Lecturas en tiempo presente. Buenos Aires, Eudeba (in press). 2— Regarding the tension between realism and surrealism, cf. Guillermo Fantoni, “Una revaluación de los años 30 a partir de la obra de Antonio Berni. De la experiencia surrealista a la formulación del nuevo realismo”, Estudios Sociales, Santa Fe, UNL, Year 3, nº 4, first semester of 1993, p. 175- 185 and “Berni y el surrealismo: imágenes del viaje, visiones de la ciudad” in: II Jornadas de Estudios e Investigaciones en artes visuales y música. Buenos Aires, Instituto de Teoría e Historia del Arte Julio E. Payró, FFyL-UBA, 1998, p. 219-226. Also cf. Diana B. Wechsler, “Melancolía, presagio y perplejidad. Los años 30, entre los realismos y lo surreal” in: Territorios de diálogo, España, México y Argentina 1930-1945, exhib. cat. Buenos Aires, Fundación Nuevo Mundo, 2006, p. 17-33. 3— Cf. Guillermo Fantoni, “Modernos y revolucionarios en los años ’30. Berni y los artistas de la Mutualidad rosarina” in: Ana Longoni; Daniela Lucena and Julia Risler (coord.), Políticas culturales y artísticas del comunismo argentino. Buenos Aires, La Montaña (in press). 4— Regarding Siquieros’ travel alternatives and the state of the art field in Argentina, cf. Martha Nanni, “Los modernos” in: AA.VV., Historia crítica del arte argentino. Buenos Aires, AACA/Telecom, 1995, p. 53-69; Marcelo E. Pacheco, “Antonio Berni: un comentario rioplatense sobre el muralismo mexicano” in: Olivier Debroise (ed.), Otras rutas hacia Siqueiros. Mexico City, INBA/CURARE, 1996, p. 227-247; Cristina Rossi, “En el fuego cruzado entre el realismo y la abstracción” in: María A. García; Luisa F. Serviddio and Cristina Rossi, Arte argentino y latinoamericano del siglo XX. Sus interrelaciones. Buenos Aires, Fundación Espigas (Premio Telefónica for visual arts history research), 2004, p. 85-125. 5— Cf. Jean Clair, Malinconia. Motivos saturninos en el arte de entreguerras. Madrid, Visor, 1999. 6— Franz Roh, Realismo mágico. Post expresionismo. Problemas de la pintura europea más reciente. Madrid, Revista de Occidente, 1927. 7— Ibid, p. 37. 8— Octavio Rivas Rooney, “Antonio Berni y un nuevo realismo”, Ars, Buenos Aires, March, 1941, [s.p.]. 1940. GUTIÉRREZ, Ricardo, “El XXX Salón de Bellas Artes”, La Razón, Buenos Aires, 18 de septiembre, p. 8. — “Las dos obras que envió Antonio Berni tienen gran interés”, Argentina Libre, Buenos Aires, 8 de octubre. 1941. “El pintor Antonio Berni”, Nun, Rosario, a. 1, nº 1, marzo, reprod. [s.p.]. — Ars, Buenos Aires, noviembre, reprod. [s.p.] (número dedicado a Berni). 1944. DORIVAL, Geo, Antonio Berni. Buenos Aires, Kraft, reprod. [s.p.]. 1968. RAVERA, Rosa María, Antonio Berni y la pintura. Rosario, Universidad Nacional del Litoral, p. 36. 1979. SVANASCINI, Osvaldo, “Antonio Berni” en: Gabriel Levinas (ed.), Arte argentino contemporáneo. Madrid, Ameris, p. 64. 1980. RAVERA, Rosa María, Berni. Pintores argentinos del siglo XX. Buenos Aires, CEAL, nº 23, p. 4, reprod. color p. 6. 1994. ELLIOTT, David, “Art and politics in the avant-garde. Antonio Berni” en: David Elliott (ed.), Art from Argentina 1920-1994. Oxford, The Museum of Modern Art, p. 40- 49, reprod. p. 47. 1997. GLUSBERG, Jorge, “Antonio Berni: iniciación y afianzamiento del arte político en la Argentina” en: Antonio Berni en el Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, cat. exp. Buenos Aires, MNBA, p. 72-74, reprod. color p. 49. — LÓPEZ ANAYA, Jorge, Antonio Berni. Buenos Aires, Banco Velox, p. 24-25, reprod. color p. 95. 1999. WECHSLER, Diana B., “Impacto y matices de una modernidad en los márgenes. Las artes plásticas entre 1920 y 1945” en: José Emilio Burucúa (dir.), Nueva historia argentina. Arte, sociedad y política. Buenos Aires, Sudamericana, vol. 1, p. 301. 2004. ARMANDO, Adriana, “Entre telas: las mujeres en la obra de Alfredo Guido y Antonio Berni”, Separata, Rosario, CIAAL/ UNR, a. 4, nº 7/8, octubre, p. 48-49.
global_01_local_2_shard_00001658_processed.jsonl/12604	Do you like apples? Tis the season... for latkes - a dish that I have had at least once a year for probably my entire life. The only way to eat latkes is with applesauce. The only apple sauce that this apple snob will eat is the homemade stuff. The applesauce wasn't quite as good as what my mom's, but for that I blame the limited variety (and quality..) of apples available in Hungary. Nevertheless, I surprised myself with my culinary finesse. How bout them apples... (the ones simmering in the pot under the lid). 1 comment:
global_01_local_2_shard_00001658_processed.jsonl/12615	Thursday, November 11, 2010 Digestion song to the tune of "I'm Yours" My great friend Andrew (MTI in the ATL) has had me dig up a song I wrote around this time last year. For one semester, I worked with a doctoral student who was writing her dissertation on music therapy and weight loss in elementary school students. One of the goals of the practicum was to teach the students about nutrition. For this, I wrote a song that described the digestive system and how the food you eat travels through your body. The thing that made it successful was the fact that I "piggy-backed" a popular song. This is a lesson that you can take with you into any practicum, internship, or job. If ever you are writing songs for a session or facilitating a songwriting activity, it is very effective to write lyrics using a well-known melody. In this case, the popular song was "I'm Yours" by Jason Mraz. 1 comment: 1. That is such a cute song! And I must say, I absolutely love the photo you found! Yay for digestion! :- )
global_01_local_2_shard_00001658_processed.jsonl/12619	» Characters Name: Takeshi "Hoshi" Yamamoto Age: 14 (as of start of Book 1) DOB: July 10 Species: 3/4 Lycanthrope, 1/4 Human Race: 3/4 White, 1/4 Asian Star Sign: Cancer Description: Hoshi is the protagonist of of story. (as if you couldn't figure that out by yourself) He's pretty much a loser in almost all possible ways, but he always has Leigh and Reed there to take care of him; though sometimes he feels like the only people he can actually talk to aren't really people at all, and are, in fact, his two pet cats Monster and Sparkplug. He doesn't like it when anyone brings up anything about his name, as he's not really as Asian as all the nerds at school would like to believe; yet more so than the people who think he's a poser because of that. Also, he would prefer not to be confused with the Takeshi Yamamoto from a certain Katekyo Hitman Reborn. He's not nearly badass enough for such things, anyway. Fun Fact: In Japanese, his 'Hoshi' means 'Star'. Name: Reed Thompson Age: 14 DOB: March 3 Species: Lycanthrope Race: White Star Sign: Pisces Description: Reed is an elitist asshole. It's a miracle Hoshi and Leigh hangout with him. He claims that they do because he's so awesome, but Hoshi says he doesn't really know and Leigh says it's because she's trying to keep him from getting himself killed or some such out there in the real world. Reed and Hoshi grew up together, so know they see eachother as brothers. For the most part, anyway. They never did that tongue-touch thing. Fun Fact: Reed has a hamster named "Polish Bastard." He calls him Poba. Name: Leigh Malsum Age: 15 (as of start of Book 1) DOB: September 21 Species: Lycanthrope Race: Black/Asian Star Sign: Virgo Description: Leigh functions more or less as the brains of the trio, though her competency at such a task is constantly in question. Her parents were part of Hoshi's parents band of followers back in the day, so they always saw alot of eachother when they were little. Mostly it was just Hoshi and Reed playing practical jokes on her she denoucing them as nothing but stupid boys, but they've grown very close to eachother over the years. Leigh was adopted, as her parents are gay and unable to have any of their own. She loves them like they're her actual parents, though, since she's never had anyone but them and her little brother Joseph really, aside from Hoshi and his parents. Fun Fact: Leigh keeps a diary of every pickup line she hears. She's accumulated some pretty good ones over the years. Name: Isaac Turnfield Age: 17 (as of start of Book 1) DOB: April 14 Species: Human Race: White Star Sign: Aries Description: The guitarist Isaac is valued as a member of the Blufin Killies for his ability to successfully deal with the outside world in a manner the rest of the band seems to lack, which is good for auditions and explaining to the police exactly what happened. He and his pet hyacinth macaw, Copenhagen, live more or less in the boonies with his father, though they often go and visit his brother Aaron in the Garden. He never stays too long, however, for fear of one of his obnoxious younger cousins discovering him there and insisting on visiting. Overall, he's a really nice guy who wouldn't give a second thought at lending you his life's savings, though he does have a very quick temper, sometimes violently so. Usually Monroe can shoot him down fast enough for him not to cause any real trouble, though. Fun Fact: He absolutely depises it when people refer to him as 'Ike'. Name: Shamus Monroe Age: 18 DOB: January 20 Species: Human Race: White Star Sign: Capricorn Description: The drummer. As he detests his name 'Shamus' he insists that everyone call him by his last name, Monroe. He functions more or less as the leader of the Blufin Killies, though under careful scrutiny you would find that he tends to bend to Isaac and Madison's wills most of the time. When not spending his time with the band, he can be found either studying at the Metropolitan College for Applied Design towards his degree in industrial design, or, at home, tending to his younger siblings. He's childhood friends with Isaac, and has gotten him out of trouble so many times it's a miracle he still speaks to him. Isaac maintains that he secretly likes it, however, and he just might be right. He's very controlling and has to make sure everyone is doing things his way, whatever that may be. Despite this, he doesn't actually want to draw direct attention to himself. And though he may appear to be very rough on the outside, he's actually surprisingly sensitive. Not that he'd ever show it. Fun Fact: He has a small dragon tattooed on his shoulder. He doesn't remember how it got there and likes to pretend it doesn't exist. Name: Madison Jones Age: 17 DOB: October 4 Species: Human Race: Black Star Sign: Libra Description: Madison, aside from being a kickass bass guitarist, is also a good poet, if sort of abstract. She has the task of penning most of their songs, collaborating with Monroe for words and concepts and with Isaac for melodies. None of the rest of the band actually know where she lives, if they need to meet with her for whatever reason she tells them to go to some landmark or another. When spotted at school she's usually found sitting alone or with one or another of her small group of friends, whom no one else in the school seems to know, either. While Monroe may be the main organizer of the Blufin Killies, if you look closer you'd see that really it's Madison who's running the show. She never raises her voice to anyone, nor does she blackmail them, but for some reason they all seem to listen to her. Fun Fact: She has a hat for every occasion. No, really.
global_01_local_2_shard_00001658_processed.jsonl/12625	Monday, December 25, 2006 a flower for seymour This logo flower is out of Seymour Papert's first book Mindstorms: Children, Computers and Powerful Ideas. I've sent it to the flowers for seymour flickr group and have also signed the MIT card. I used George Mills MSWLogo to make it, which is built on top of Brian Harvey's Berkeley Logo. How to make the flower using logo: First make a quarter circle to q_circle :size repeat 90[fd :size rt 1] Then use the quarter circle to make a petal to petal :size q_circle :size rt 90 q_circle :size rt 90 Then use the petal to make a flower with 10 petals to flower :size repeat 10[petal :size rt 360/10] Then add a stem and an extra petal to make a plant to plant :size flower :size bk 135 * :size petal :size bk 65 * :size Finally, save it as a gif to saveplantgif :size setactivearea[-100 -200 100 100] plant :size gifsave "flower.gif 1 comment: Tony Forster said... Thanks for finding the MIT card which I have signed.
global_01_local_2_shard_00001658_processed.jsonl/12636	August 27, 2013 Food Craze! Food is food, diamonds may be immortal bastards and money makes the world go round, but for all living things, eating has always been the main priority. I mean look at Instagram, Facebook and Twitter, a status won't be complete without taking a pic of your meal. The same goes for Tumblr with all food porn and there's that infinite list of food blogs too. Plus in real life, people tend to follow food fads too. A new restaurant in town? Everyone flocks to that establishment. They have a new menu? Long lines await the cash register. Tastes good? Marketing through word of mouth persists. So here are some of the food fads/ food innovations I noticed: Macarons has been around for so long, but it is only these past few years that the cute meringue-based confection experiences massive popularity. They come in all sort of fillings and flavors. It's quite shitty to make however, and takes lots of love and patience to make your very own macarons from the basic ingredients. Making them might make someone go batshit crazy and give up, which in turn makes me wonder if it's expensive mainly because of the labor one has to invest just to sell customers these babies. This is the most fascinating one, not because it's actually cool but that I'm amazed how people seem to act like Nutella is the best invention ever despite the fact that the hazelnut chocolate spread has been around since forever. Too much of something is bad, but I continue too see "I love Nutella" all over the internet, oh and photos of people eating out of the jar. I could accept peanut butter, but Nutella? It tastes good but the fad sure makes my stomach feel crappy. The official site states that this pastry has "a short shelf life...if you do cut, please use a serrated knife, so as not to crush the layers... Since Cronuts™ are filled with cream, we do not recommend serving them warm." The biggest hype in the world of food this year. Cronut is the result by chef Dominique Ansel's creativity of marrying croissant and doughnut. What had been a new offering in his bakery have become a sensation that resulted to Cronuts wannabes in many parts of the globe. Even DIY recipes are sprouting all over the internet that making Ansel's Cronut a trademark almost seems worthless already. *shrugs Ramen Burger This next culinary history figure is Keizo Shimamoto's ramen burger! It is basically that, an all-beef patty between two lightly fried ramen noodle "buns". Others are saying that this isn't an original concept, however, Shimamoto used secret soy sauce too, and pretty much his creation is said to taste quite good which make this Ramen Burger one tier higher. Taco Waffle Taco Bell's newest experiment is hitting the news. What is this new addition all about? Taco waffles. Waffles folded like a taco with the different fillings. This is still in testing stage for now, testing the waters among consumers, but hopefully bound to go official sometime next year. Pizza Cones Anything portable is bound to be a success and everybody loves pizza, thus this pizza cones is the perfect formula for anyone. There are tons of Pizza Cone recipes online, but like a pizza, it's entirely up to you what toppings the use. After making it, you could just eat it on-the-go! Quite innovative. No comments: Post a Comment Related Posts Plugin for WordPress, Blogger...
global_01_local_2_shard_00001658_processed.jsonl/12652	Greek key trim (again) So I most definitely wasted waaaay more time on this than it was worth, but I did continue in my search for some inexpensive Greek key trim. Last week I finally gathered up the courage (and a bag full of snacks and teethers. and the double stroller. and the baby carrier.) to load all three kids in the car and head to the stores, and this is what I found: Joann had just a few color options, mostly in the neutral family. It was pretty nice trim, and was priced at $7/yard to start with. Add in a 40% off coupon (you can always find one for Joann's), and it was an inexpensive $3.5/yard. Not bad. Unfortunately, they were a few yards shy of the 12 I needed for my curtains. So I moved on to Hobby Lobby. (Or HollyLolly as Lula calls it.) They had some pretty colors to choose from. Just like the trim I had found online, it was $7/yard. (Again, 40% off coupons are always available, so it would come to $3.5/yard.) So many choices.....and not a single one with enough yardage. Stink. I opted not to place a special order and wait around for a week or two, only to have to go back to the store to pick it up when it came in. (If you've never shopped with three kids 3 and under, you may not understand. It's an ordeal.) And then I found this: Super inexpensive grosgrain with a printed greek key design. It felt a little like cheating, just a little bit wrong. But come on, let's be real here. I'm not an interior designer. Most people who come to visit me in my home won't even notice (or care about) the silly trim on my curtains. And chances are, I'm going to want to change it out in a year or two anyway. And it felt much better to spend $8 than $40, $80 or $100. Especially since I was sewing it onto $20 Ikea curtains. My inner cheapskate is quite happy. And even my inner design snob has to admit that you really can't tell from a distance (and nobody's going to be looking very closely anyway). post signature
global_01_local_2_shard_00001658_processed.jsonl/12656	I wish I could tell you… By \| Editorial, Poem I wish I could tell you, what’s going on in my mind… I wish I could tell you… A thousand things I want to have…. and a thousand things I want to do… But as I get near to them… I feel that my reality isn’t even true. I wish I could tell you the things going around. I was just looking for simple happiness. Even that I could not found… There are voices in my head, and I listen to music to shut them down. But all I could listen are just noises… to calm your soul there aren’t enough sounds… There are a million things I want to show and a million things I want to say. I hope that God is looking down on us… and just to get enough time, I pray… Not sure if there are enough words or there is enough time. And to tell you all that…I’m just making this rhyme… -Anurag Upadhaya Random Thoughts By \| Editorial, Pravachan Today will be different. It has to be. I will smile, and it will be believable. My smile will say, "I'm fine, thank you. Yes, I feel much better." I will no longer be the sad guy. I will start fresh, be someone new. It's the only way I'll make it through. I thought that I could smile and nod my way through it, pretend like it would all be okay. I had a plan, I wanted to change who I was, create a life with someone new. Without the past, without the pain. Someone alive. But it's not that easy. The bad things stay with you. They follow you. You can't escape them, as much as you want to. All you can do is be ready for the good, so when it comes, you invite it in. Because you need it. I need it. Today I convinced myself it was okay to give up. Don't take risks. Stick with the status quo. No drama. Now is just not the time. But, my reasons aren't reasons, they're excuses. All I'm doing is hiding from the truth and truth is that, I'm scared. I'm scared that if I let myself to be happy for even one moment that, the world's just going to come crashing down, and I don't know if I can survive that. Dear Blog, I know its been a while. A long while. I haven't needed or I haven't wanted to write this stuff down, but I don't want to say it out loud either. The thing is I'm a loser, and I hate it. I feel hopeless, depressed, angry. But most of all, I'm scared. Part of me just wants to end it, but then I think of people around me and find that I'm very lucky. So I need to find a way through this. No matter what it takes. The above lines are modified version of script from The Vampire Diaries Season 1 Episode 1. These T.V. shows sometime contain very emotional and touching script. These lines were played along with The Fray’s song “Never say Never” making it one of best episode. Short Moral Story – 1 By \| Editorial, Story \| No Comments Long time ago, in a village far, very far away in the foothills of The Great Himalaya, there lived an old wise man. The man was famous for his wisdom. People not only from his village, but also from nearby village come to get wisdom and blessings from this great old man. In the village, there were few young mind who were suspicious of his visionary wisdom, made a plan to prove wise old man wrong. Their plan was pretty simple. Their plan was to keep a alive butterfly in their fist and ask wise old man if the butterfly is alive or dead. The planned to kill the butterfly by crushing in their fist if old man says the butterfly is alive, or to leave the butterfly flying, if he says that butterfly is dead. With their motive to prove old wise man wrong, they visited him when he was addressing gathering with his wisdom under the Peepal tree(Ficus religiosa or sacred fig). Young men stopped in between of his speech and asked if the butterfly in their fist is alive or dead. It doesn’t took time by old man to know their intention of young men. Wise old man not only gave answer but also astounded the audience with his wisdom. Old man turned toward audience and told, “Our life is like this butterfly, it is in your hand to make it alive or make it dead. So what ever is the case, weather to make life happy or unhappy, it is your decision“. Spellbonded audience not only amazed by old man’s intelligence but their respect for him increases. The young men got their answer and were repenting for suspecting on Old man’s knowledge. Image Credit :
global_01_local_2_shard_00001658_processed.jsonl/12659	Monday, February 23, 2009 Ain't It The Truth. From a Facebook group titled "Who needs college when you have Wikipedia?" 1. It's sad, but so true. I used Wikipedia extensively in college, especially when I was stuck with crappy TAs that really shouldn't have been teaching upper level classes. 2. Yeah, in undergrad studies in the arts, especially in the humanities, most of the info you need is right there for you. Many tests were about memorizing things, and many papers had such broad topics that they could be "thoroughly" researched on Wiki. Plus they never required more than like 3 sources, so I mainly just ended up cherry-picking things from a few books, and piecing it all together with info from Wiki and elsewhere. It gets a little more intense in grad classes, however, sometimes... if you're in a program that... well, let's say that I still use Wiki in some classes. With the info available, hopefully undergrad classes will evolve into higher levels of learning... but I suspect things will stay the same for a while. Wow, too much of my rambling. I just had coffee.
global_01_local_2_shard_00001658_processed.jsonl/12668	Data infrastructure optimization software Data integration and quality software Data availability and security software Cloud solutions Linux vs. z/OS: Which Is the Best Fit for Your Mainframe? If you run an IBM mainframe today, you have to choose between two great operating systems options to power it: Linux vs. z/OS. How do you decide? Here’s a guide to choosing the right operating system for your IBM mainframe. Linux vs. z/OS: Which Is Best for your Mainframe? A (Very) Brief History of Mainframe Operating Systems If you have worked in the mainframe world for decades, you know that mainframes are much older than Linux-based operating systems. Mainframes originated in the 1940s. By the 1960s they had become common in businesses. In contrast, the Linux kernel was born in 1991, and GNU, the project that provides many of the utilities necessary to build complete Linux-based operating systems, dates to the mid-1980s. Download our free report: State of the Mainframe for 2018 So, for the first several decades of the history of mainframe computing, Linux did not exist. The only operating system choices for IBM mainframes were systems developed by IBM itself: first, OS/360, which was replaced by OS/390, which was superseded in the early 2000s by z/OS. z/OS remains IBM’s mainstay mainframe operating system today. But IBM is no enemy of Linux. On the contrary, IBM was the first big tech company to make a big bet on Linux, when it announced in the early 2000s that it would invest one billion dollars in the then-unproven free operating system. In addition to z/OS, IBM also offers a Linux-based operating system for its mainframes. Linux vs. z/OS So, in terms of support and official endorsement from mainframe manufacturers, there is little difference between z/OS and Linux for mainframes. IBM promotes both platforms. Functionally, there is also not much that is radically different between the two systems. You can perform most of the same tasks on z/OS that you can on Linux. Most mainframe apps can run on a Linux system, for example. However, some things are easier to do on z/OS than on Linux, and vice-versa. It’s Linux vs. z/OS. See the four considerations below to decide which is the best fit for your mainframe. Determining whether z/OS or Linux is the best fit for your mainframe, therefore, boils down to identifying exactly how you plan to use your mainframe and deciding which operating system platform will allow you to achieve your goals with the greatest ease. Toward that end, here is a list of four considerations you should factor in when deciding between z/OS and Linux: 1. Which apps do you run? If most of your workload involves native z/OS apps, run them on z/OS. While you can compile and execute apps written in COBOL on Linux, things will just be simpler using z/OS. On the other hand, if your main goal is to use the massive compute and storage power of your mainframe for hosting modern applications, you’ll be able to install and run them easily on Linux. 2. What’s your IT team’s background? It’s much easier to find engineers with Linux expertise today than it is people who know mainframes. If you have a dedicated team of mainframe veterans already on staff, they’ll have no trouble supporting z/OS environments. Otherwise, Linux can be a better choice from a support perspective. 3. Backward- and forward- compatibility How important is it to make sure your mainframe environment always remains compatible with the next generation of applications? If it’s very important, Linux may be a safer bet. Linux is less likely to become incompatible with next-generation applications than is z/OS. On the other hand, if you have decades-old mainframe applications that you expect to continue needing to support for decades to come, z/OS is a safer option. Linux may be able to run most of your mainframe apps today, but that could change in the future. 4. Efficiency Are you bent on making full use of every CPU cycle of computing power and every bit of memory that your mainframe has to offer? If so, z/OS is a better option. That’s not because Linux as an operating system is less efficient in general, but because Linux on mainframes typically runs in virtual environments (through z/VM). Virtual environments are not as efficient as environments that run directly on your hardware. So, with Linux on your mainframe, you take a small performance and efficiency hit. Keep in mind, too, that there is no reason why you can’t have the best of both worlds. You can use z/OS and Linux together on the same mainframe, thanks to z/VM virtual environments. Still, you must decide exactly which workloads to devote to z/OS, and which to Linux. The guidelines above can help you with that. Syncsort can help you plan your mainframe strategy too, by helping you optimize resources on the mainframe, saving time and money – money that can help you fund other projects, like one Syncsort can also help with by making it easy to access and integrate data from any mainframe environment into Hadoop and other modern analytics platforms. • Visda — August 11, 2017 at 9:29 am There’s also another differentiating factor that is worth a mention in “this vs that” analysis, is where the calculating power comes from. I believe it’s different processor for each operating system; this difference impacts the TCO. • Visda — August 11, 2017 at 9:30 am There’s also another differentiating factor that is worth a mention in “this vs that” analysis, is where the calculating power comes from. I believe each operating system uses different processor; which has an impacts on the TCO. • Walter Oliveira — August 12, 2017 at 11:12 am Hi Chistopher, Congratulations for your article! I agree with a hundred percent with what you said. But, I need to correct you about the first OS running on IBM Mainframes. Since the years 1960 and 1970, IBM Mainframes also running with others Operating Systems: VM (Virtual Machine) as a Hypervisor (with several versions, the last one, named z/VM) and DOS, DOS/VS. DOS/VSE and nowadays z/VSE. Best regards • Online QA Training — August 14, 2017 at 9:31 am Thanks for sharing a knowledgeable article about linux and zos..but I am thinking linux is awesome comparing to zos. Leave a Comment Related Posts
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global_01_local_2_shard_00001658_processed.jsonl/12693	Mister Rogers Flipping the Middle Finger For years there has been a single black and white photo of Mister Rogers in a cardigan and bow-tie, with a delightful smile and his head tilted slightly downwards circulating the web. Boring Pittsburgh readers have submitted this pic several times. It was ignored at first because frankly it’s old news, but more importantly because at the time it was believed by the Internets to be photoshopped – nobody knew what to make of it. Even Snopes.com and other sites swore it to be a manufactured image. All the research pointed to it being a fake. We did everything we could to dispel the myth once and for all, even blowing up the photo for examination of inconsistencies. But then, our post inspired someone to dig up the old video and upload it to YouTube and they sent it to us. The evidence could not be denied: Video Proof of Mister Rogers Flipping the Bird. We weren’t the only ones to be duped, in fact this quote is still on the site below: Like many well-loved public figures, Mr. Rogers was dogged by several odd rumors. Which of these is actually true? …The flipping the bird rumor has been circulating on the Internet, but the accompanying photo is fake. funtrivia.com Mister Rogers flipping the bird pic isn't FAKE As you can see, before the video of Mr. Rogers giving the middle finger, the viral photo could easily be deemed a fake. We weren’t sure whether the entire arm was added to the photo, or just part of the hand. However, If you look closely, there is a slight change in the texture of the middle finger, all the way down the hand. It turns out no changes were made because our childhood hero did indeed allow the Fuck You finger to be extended while keeping his other ones folded down. Mister Rogers middle finger myth Mister Rogers middle finger myth – evidence of photo editing? Not really. So there you have it. Mr. Rogers did flip the bird in the picture/video above. He would never intentionally do such a thing, and it’s a shame that the world is busy searching for this image rather than searching for his address to the United States Senate or his 1997 Emmy Awards Speech. Oh yeah, and this wasn’t the only time he flipped the bird on camera. Here he goes again, BUT IT WAS A COMPLETE ACCIDENT because he was holding a paintbrush! It turns out that Mister Rogers really did flip the bird. Click the link for video proof.
global_01_local_2_shard_00001658_processed.jsonl/12706	The “7-year itch” is a term used also to describe the itch caused by a scabies infestation. Early researchers felt that there was a cycle of 7-30 years for scabies epidemics. During periods of war the later observed that scabies epidemics may occur more frequently. One group of researchers, over a period of two decades of observations found only one in thirty-one persons exposed to scabies acquires the infestation. These infestations are more common in winter months. Apparently the mites live longer in cooler temperatures. People make more close contacts in crowded places during the winter months. This is felt to be one of the reasons for more frequent winter time infestations. Other studies revealed that the mite is sensitive… Source by dushan vaithilingam
global_01_local_2_shard_00001658_processed.jsonl/12723	Mission Statement Our main level of interest is C2 at the Operational level with a focus on C2 Processes and Structures, Information and Knowledge Management, and Human Factors (including Leadership). Joint Military Operations in the Urban Environment The majority of the world’s population now live in urban areas, and the trend towards Urbanization continues to rise. History has taught us that conflict and large-scale disasters often occur where people live. Therefore, if the majority of people are going to live in urban environments, including cities and megacities;… [read more…] A2/AD Simulation Study The A2/AD Simulation Study is employing simulation tools to examine issues surrounding the impact of A2/AD environments on NATO future capability requirements. It employs an experimental and exercise approach to organise itself. A2/AD operations include a variety of military activities that can occur on land, in the air, at sea,… [read more…] Trident Jaguar 2018 (TRJR18) TRIDENT JAGUAR 2018 (TRJR18) is an Allied Command Transformation (ACT) sponsored two-Level Command Post Exercise (CPX) with the Operational Level being its main focus, to independently exercise the MULTINATIONAL JOINT HEADQUARTERS ULM (MN-JHQ ULM) and the NATO RAPID DEPLOYMENT CORPS GREECE (NRDC-GR) in a JTF HQ role, planning and conducting… [read more…] Steadfast Cobalt 2018 In Summer 2018, the NATO Command and Control Centre of Excellence (C2COE) will provide expertise to the United States European Command (USEUCOM) as exercise evaluator and C2 subject matter expert for EXERCISE STEADFAST COBALT 2018 (SFCT 18). SFCT is the Communication Exercise used by NATO Nations to build, test, and… [read more…]
global_01_local_2_shard_00001658_processed.jsonl/12730	Wednesday, April 27, 2011 Crab Cakes- The Best in the World!! Crabcakes (the same for salmon or halibut) By Ann Crab- at least a couple of cups for two chopped celery, onions, peppers dollop (extra large tablespoon) of Poupon shake of Worchester about 1/4 to 1/3 c. grated cheddar cheese (xtra sharp) and a dollop of mayo or sour cream or one egg (maybe about 1/4 cup?) enough to bind it together but not sloppy. The trick is to start with less and add more if you need it, but you want them to hold together. mix it all up and make patties dust them in four (or Pride of the West) then egg, then Panko or breadcrumbs saute in evoo Top with garlic lime butter sauce or butter/lemon/capers or put them on a salad or pasta!! No comments:
global_01_local_2_shard_00001658_processed.jsonl/12732	The Carbon Footprint of Food Have you ever thought of how much fossil fuel was needed to warm the glass house where your strawberry has growth? Or how long your pineapple had to travel before you could have it in your dessert? Unfortunately, everything we consume have caused a certain emission of earth-warming gases. The carbon footprint is the total greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions caused directly and indirectly by a person, organisation, event or product [1]. With regards to foods, factors that contribute to the total set of GHG emissions are for instance the production proces of the food, packaging, storage, distribution to retailer and finally the transportation to your own house and the processes in your own kitchen. The way these factors are processed can make a major difference in amount of emission; growing fruits in a warmed glasshouse gives much more emission than growing on the land and distribution through shipping is more ‘green’ than transportation by plain. Our food system is responsible for one third of the total global greenhouse emissions [2]. Thereof, 83% is dominated by the productions phase, while transportation only counts for 11% in U.S. households [3]. So, although you might think to act ‘green’ and ‘ecological’ by buying a tomato which is produced in your own country, it might be the case that this tomato growed in a hothouse which was warmed by burning fossil fuels to power the hothouses. This might have caused much more emissions than the transportation of the tomato by shipping after it was produced in Spain, where it could grow on the land due to the warmer climate. It might be clear that the calculations of the carbon footprint of a products is not that simple and that a lot of factors have to be taken into account. But; what can you do to keep your own carbon footprint as low as possible? It is important to be aware of your food- choice and that you look at the alternatives and seasonal products that are available. First, and most important, much profit can be gained by eating less meat and dairy products, which are responsible for 18% of the total total anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions. Fruit and vegetables are ‘lower carbon’ options, but although fruits and vegetables as a whole category contribute fewer emissions than animal proteins, air-freighting or hothouse-grown are very emissions-intensive [2]. Since it might be difficult to know which fruits and vegetables have a low carbon footprint, the organisation ‘Milieu Centraal’ has made a fruit and vegetable calender (in Dutch/Flamish), where you can easily find what Energy label (from A, a ‘green choice’ to F, a fruit/vegetable with a high carbon footprint) a certain fruit or vegetable has in which month. This can be a help with making better and ‘greener’ food choices in daily life. [1] ‘What is a carbon footprint’,carbontrust, UK Carbon Trust. Copyright 2011. [2] ‘Low Carbon Diet’,circleofresponsibility, Bon Appétit Management Company. Copyright 2007 [3] Food-Miles and the Relative Climate Impacts of Food Choices in the United States, Christopher L. Weber & H. Scott Matthews, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Department of Engineering and Public Policy, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213 Received November 28, 2007. Revised manuscript received March 4, 2008. Accepted March 14, 2008.
global_01_local_2_shard_00001658_processed.jsonl/12746	Jun 21, 2018 Undergraduate/Graduate Catalog 2014-2015 COMM 298 - Second Year Seminar (Speaking Intensive) (3 credits) Prerequisite: _ _ _ _ 199; Open to all sophomores and juniors who have completed ENGL 101, and the speaking skills requirement. Students with 54 or more transfer credits will have this requirement waived. Cannot be taken if _ _ _ _ 298 or _ _ _ _ 299 are taken for credit. Second Year Seminars (SYS) are speaking-intensive, topic courses that build on the academic skills and habits introduced in the First Year Seminar. SYS courses engage students in a specific academic area of interest and provide them with the opportunity to reinforce, share and interpret knowledge. Students will improve their speaking, reading, research and basic information and technology skills while building the connections between scholarship and action that are required for lifelong learning. These courses will fulfill the Second Year Seminar requirement and may fulfill other requirements for the core curriculum. Each course may fulfill different requirements and topics may change each semester. Only one SYS course may be taken for credit. (CSYS)
global_01_local_2_shard_00001658_processed.jsonl/12760	Conference on College Composition and Communication Logo Students’ Right to Their Own Language (with bibliography) This statement provides the resolution on language, affirming students' right to “their own patterns and varieties of language -- the dialects of their nurture or whatever dialects in which they find their own identity and style” that was first adopted in 1974. The statement also includes as explanation of research on dialects and usage that supports the resolution, and a bibliography that gives sources of some of the ideas presented in the background statement; besides offering those interested in the subject of language some suggested references for further reading. The publication of this controversial statement climaxed two years of work, by dedicated members of CCCC, toward a position statement on a major problem confronting teachers of composition and communication: how to respond to the variety in their students' dialects. Read the full statement, Students' Right to Their Own Language (April 1974, reaffirmed November 2003, annotated bibliograhy added August 2006, reaffirmed November 2014) Document and Site Resources Share This On: Page Tools: Related Search Terms Document URL Document Owner Organization Name NCTE - The National Council of Teachers Of English
global_01_local_2_shard_00001658_processed.jsonl/12808	home page conceptual adventuring autotelic self autotelic mind biomindality ontogenic phenomenology of the developmental interest november 13, 2011 / May 25, 2012 I’m unwilling presently to really do this discussion properly because the vortex (which I mentioned in part 2: “...a Point (eonically distal, proximally living) of effective intelligence...”) is a mountain climb I’ve been doing too many years to now implicitly pretend it’s just a hill to attend to briefly now (but I want to be brief). Actually, a well that is also a forest is a better trope. What is the vortex? a proximal note How willing are you to immerse yourself into extended, deepening self reflection? A few hours? An hour per week in psychoanalysis (each hour ending with distraction back into the chaos of dailiness)? An extended retreat? A career in psychoanalysis or philosophy? The history of philosophy and Literature expresses interests of self-reflection which are ultimately phenomenological (proximally journalistic, autobiographical, cultural, etc., all integrable only as some narrative, ultimately about narratability). Prospects of understanding Deep Time experientially—self-examination or self reflection about feelings, presumptions (nonconscious and unconscious), etc.— is no direct application of a developmental model of understanding to one’s own experience. But models are useful, of course. Yet, the heart of the matter is that it’s all about how we already are, regardless of interpretive education. One is the ongoing result of an ontogeny, accessible through self reflection (phenomenal and analytical) and by applying interpretive schemes to that. One can’t remember much at all about early childhood, let alone infancy; but one’s parents might have documented a lot (though unlikely to have had the time). Indisputably, a lot happened, which developmental specialists and clinical specialists can recount generally. The child of a child development researcher might later dread to hear about their infancy and early childhood (e.g., Piaget’s own child?), so much might be said. Each day of infancy was a developmental milestone, a formation of mental ability mostly unnoticeable, but in principle highly documentable. The result of early development is later implied immanently (even wholly) by any focus of attention, as background capability is implicated as a horizon of a given phenomenon’s presence (including possible meaning). Developmental time shows as phenomenological constancy implying stable capacities, good temperament, effective learnability, durable interest, capability for categorization and conceptualization (“water,” “table,” etc.); capability to make, sustain, and remember differences; stabilization of preferences, etc. The entirety of developmental time can be implicitly implied by the presence of anything interesting. What can be said about that is inestimable, but “that” is living—embodying ontogenic time through an ongoing history of interests. horizonality of the thing Consider for a moment Maslow’s “Hierarchy of Needs.” Having physiological and safety needs met is a given homeostasis that emotionally (pleasantly) colors the experience of things, allowing happy emergence of interests, including focus on relations with others (thus openness to learning through others) and enjoyment of interpsychal relations. The emotional tonality of having basic needs met is a horizon on one’s focus on happy interpsychal relations. Given this, sense of self can come happily into focus: what I desire or my enactivity, distinct from what Is Needed. The happy presumption of belonging and flow of interpsychal relations is a background frame for happy focus on my enactivity—a horizon within the horizon of homeostasis. Then, given good flow of enactivity, interest in learning and knowing (capability formation, absorption of interesting experience, etc.) can be the happy focus within the horizon of well-flowing enactivity within the horizon of belonging within the horizon of homeostasis. Mommy says “S/He’s a happy baby,” thriving thanks to the whole home ecology that will barely remember the countless moments contributing to happy Baby’s mental growth. And years forward, Baby will remember nothing at all of it, but have the Flow of easily getting What Is Needed satisfied for the sake of interpsychal relations for the sake of enactivity for the sake of learning and making things. Maslow’s triangle can be usefully regarded as a slice of concentric horizons within horizons. For example, interpsychal relations don’t stand on satisfied basic needs; happy relations are contained by satisfied needs. Interest in learning is contained by happy interpsychal relations. Good establishment of infant development becomes the containing implicature or horizon of good establishment of childhood, horizoning good establishment of pubescence, etc. We may vaguely remember the ontogeny of our horizonality (mirroring the ontogenic vortex) as far back as preschool, maybe. We remember early childhood better, a nearer horizon, but that remains vague (all the better in later light of parental narratives and evocative keepsakes, like photos and videos). The definiteness of our mirrored vortex gets clearer, the nearer in time that it is. What is the vortex? a distal note We know nebulously that the vortext extends back into gestation, extending back into evolution, as if our shared primate background is a horizon of our epigenesis and early childhood. And mammalian characteristics of basic need are shared vastly, as we are mammals. (I suppose that an MD and a veterinarian could have much to chuckle about together.) Our intelligent life is mammalian, then primative, then human. Consider a difference between adaptive and enactive intelligence (or intentionality or desire). All mammals have some degree of capacity for enactive intelligence, but its flexibility stays near to hardwired dispositions. More flexibility provides for more fitness in chaotic circumstances, but mammalian intelligence is almost entirely adaptive, marginally enactive (i.e., actualizing little formulated preference). We love domesticated pets so much because we can so easily read enactiveness in their relations with us (more so with dogs than with cats). We remain mixtures of adaptive and enactive intelligence or intentionality or desire that becomes prevalently enactive (one hopes), but the difference is inherent to being a human animal. a bio-natural/psychal-natural difference One can model activity on a continuum of adaptive-to-enactive behavior, but as intentional behavior (which is action) that continuum would be adaptive-to-enactive action. A notion of enactive action seems redundant, but initiative or intentions that are chosen (inner-directed) are more than intentions happening, as if received. Enactivity is more than activity. Enactive intelligence is basically different from responsive intelligence which is not just reactive behavior. (One sometimes says “I didn’t mean to do that,” though it was not just involuntary behavior.) Responsive action is intentional, but adaptive, composed of assimilation and accomodation of experience. I’ll call this bionatural action, for the moment. Enactive action is appropriative, possibly composed of transformative and mediative experience (e.g., intervening, changing something, making something—beyond adapting to something). For the moment, I’ll call this psychalnatural action (associated with my preference for ‘psychalogical’ over ‘psychological,’ which is analogous to a difference between phenomenal experience and systematically-interpreted experience). Enactivity fulfills desires; responsiveness satisfies needs. (That is, I want to associate desire with enactive prospects; need with responsive prospects, for the sake of bonding one’s sense of self to enowned desire, which I’ve done variably elsewhere.) Such differences aren’t clearcut in any given situation because our activities are nested within activities they serve. For example, getting dressed may satisfy a need which serves a desire to go somewhere by high preference (i.e., a preference connected to what matters to oneself as who one is). Beginning a day is a very mixed bag. Life is made of little projects serving major projects serving general plans (let’s hope) serving life-defining aspirations (ideally). The ability to integrate levels of projects with plans with aspirations and to sustain fidelity to this Openly (as life changes eras and one grows—in principle, endlessly) is a keynote of lives that flourish. But differences between desire and need, enactivity and responsiveness, appropriation and adaptation are real, useful, and often importantnotwithstanding that my notion of appropriation would seem odd. However, I have a philosophical interest in notions of appropriation. For now, let my vague sense of appropriation just be the correlate difference irt adaptation, in a set of differences: between desire and need; enactiveness and responsiveness; transformation and assimilation; mediation [inner-directed] and accomodation [outer-directed]). Presently, I only want to establish that some differences can be analogously interesting. I’m satisfied to leave this rather vague. Generally gathering all of that into a difference between bionatural and psychalnatural aspects of activity is heuristic for indicating some features of individuational child development or ontogeny. But my prevailing interest is the claim that our especially-psychal enactivity is the natural feature of our animality that distinguishes us as human. Our enactive nature is nonbiological. Call it post-biological or transbiological, but our psychality is integral to our animality. We are the highly psychal animal, most saliently distinguished from other animals by our psychality. biogenic irt autogenic mentality Commonly in theorizing about learning or intelligence, we distinguish automatic activity from deliberate activity. The more that we deliberately do something, the more automatic that doing it may become. We easily say that it becomes “instinctive.” As we become very habituated to something, it seems “natural.” The horizon of the difference between enactive and responsive activity is a fusion of the difference between automaticity and instinct. Strong habituation is like hardwired intention, as if instinctive. High attraction to something repeatedly attended to is analogized as “addictive” when it’s not yet addictive because strong habituation is like hardwired intention. Inasmuch as an intention or desire is effectively like a hardwired intention, it could be effectively regarded that way (e.g., requiring methodic intervention to change). Highly automatic activity is like instinct. You know English as if it was hardwired. (“Votre accent français est très américain.”) In fact, highly habituated activity is thereby easily weaved into actually-instinctive activity, as an effective background of strong habituation doesn’t need to distinguish really-instinctive response from functionally-instinctive response. It all just works (or all doesn’t: Maladaptive habituation gets all mixed up with earlier development). There’s good reason to make a distinction between activity that works like instinct and activity that works like deliberate preference, such that actualization of want can evince from phenomenal need or from phenomenal desire (or both). Is apparent desire actually need? Is want ambivalent about its relation to need vs. desire? Experientially, there’s good reason to regard activity as if it’s generated from non-human animal/mammalian/primate “reasons” or is phenomenally-biogenic activity. But the more that activity evinces from deliberation, overt preference, and attentive choice, the more that the activity is phenomenally autogenic. One might be easily deceived about oneself, but it would be deception about a phenomenally-definite difference. Selfidentity can become variably composed of investment in biogenic intentions: feelings, strongly-embodied habits—even defining one’s sense of oneself—one’s Self—in “terms” of feeling or body Image: as the body one is, with all its “natural” dispositions or feeling—or literal appearance: the fashionable Image that is so “natural” for onself. (Classical phenomenology sought to escape “the natural attitude,” like an escape from sociocentric fallenness; but a phenomenal naturalism can be quite authentically part of one’s deliberate, individuated selfidentity. Of course, all this is a very elusive matter: life-historically, socio-economically, and politically—altogether: anthropological, implicating one's at-least-implicit sense of oneSelf as such.) However, autogenic psychality is strongly deliberative or self reflective in especially-accomplished or authentic senses (rather than adaptive), e.g., in terms of enowned aspirations and enowned idealizations. Sometimes, depression is related to implicit anger about outer-directed denial of one’s ownmost desire which has become confused as inner-directed (realized) fault. By now in my writing online, my use of ‘mindality’ might seem familiar. In short: We readily distinguish something mental from an entire mentality. Likewise, a “mind” belongs to an entire wholism of mindedness. Using ‘mindality’ is a way to express interest in a lifeworldly holism of mindedness (which is more than, but includes, dispositional “mindfulness”). Keynotes of development (ontogeny, individuation) can be usefully regarded along a continuum from biogenic mindality to autogenic mindality, i.e., relative to living as if the world is hardwired vs. living as if the world is chosen. Individuation involves decreasing prevalence of real and phenomenal biogenic activity in one’s wants, intentions, and purposes. (The teen’s so-called “raging hormones” expresses biological purpose, as does overwhelming desire to consume things or to control.) Though it’s inapt to simply associate individuation with autogenic activity, individation is a manifold of interests (ideally in bio-/auto-genic balance) for autogenic directions: interests, aspirations, etc.; i.e., a balance is for the sake of an ideally project-ive life. When we are healthy, happy, and fruitful, we’re wanting as much reasonable freedom as we can have. We want autogenic interests to prevail over biogenic interests, even though biogenic interests must be important parts of our life (so, we must be “reasonable” about our own freedom irt what’s feasible for our present life). It’s highly appropriate, I think, to emphasize interests of autogeny in understanding issues of “mind” as essence (so to speak) of our being, which is essentially temporal—essentially futural, rather than essentially constituted by a past. Good individuation increases the prevalence of autogenic mindality as much as feasible; so, it’s better to understand mindality relative to its intrinsic prospectiveness as much as possible. Of course, autonmous lives are full of needs and strong habits (as well as fidelity to constitution, remembrance, legacy, etc.). Lives flourish thanks to developed capabilities, reliable belief, and given values orienting activity. But intentionality, interest, etc. is primarily futural in flourishing lives. Regarding human development relative to its futurity is more important than regarding oneself relative to one’s development. Regarding a given context relative to its possibilities is more important than controlling it. Regarding a home ecology or life era relative to its potential is more important than being dependent on a given arrangement. For developmental modeling, that view can gel importantly with standard neo-Piagetian distinctions between preconventional (biogenic), conventional (sociocentric), and postconventional (autogenic) eras of life (though biogenic, sociocentric, and autogenic dynamics belong to every day of a life). For a long time, I’ve modularized this continuum: Some present aspects of one’s life will be prevalently conventional, while other aspects are preconventional; postconventional with conventional. Or preconventional (animal) aspects may really imply postconventional dispositions (e.g., the willfulness of a toddler). Some capacities develop more autogenic capability than others. One “has a talent” for one “thing” more than another; or becomes noteably “experienced” more in one area than another, due to modular differences in potential for “autonomy,” which is basically about autogenic capability (as autonomy is more about state descriptions than capabilities—though one might easily disagree, because the notion of autonomy is often ambiguously understood). One might feel preconventional with an unfair supervisor (I joke), feel conventional with family (boring), and feel postconventional with a best friend (adventurous). In any event for a given life, it’s useful to ask: Do prevailing values emerge from outer-directed initiatives or inner-directed initiatives? Do aversive imperatives seem “natural” (imposed) or deliberately appreciated (as, say, regrettable consequences of freedom)? (I’m not trying to be analytically clear, just rendering differences that are worth further attention.) biogenic/autogenic differences in modeling human development A leading specialist in infant and early child development, S.I. Greenspan, considers “7 ontogenic modalities” in evaluating “effective and defective functioning” which I want to consider briefly. (I mentioned this model two years ago, but didn’t discuss it. Greenspan is a leading psychodynamic theorist of child development.) His interest, indicated below, is diagnostic, relative to a highly-researched model of healthy development. My interest here is wholly developmental. mode 1: “Self-regulation and interest in the world (homeostasis): especially during 0–3 months of life.” One can formulate criteria for evaluating the extent of this, relative to standardized expectations. But one can also have a prevailing interest in educing or facilitating the developmental value of self-regulation and interest. Especially interesting here is that homeostasis is associated with mental development, rather than mere physiological satisfaction (Maslow). In the interest of educing durable interest in learning and curiosity, a parent would want to promote intentional self-regulation (e.g., learning to use crying fruitfully) rather than merely make biogenic regulation functionally satisfactory. You see here that the difference between biogenic and autogenic activity is immediately relevant for infant development. Interest in promoting individuation is pertinent from day one. We want growing interest in the world to be human, rather than just adaptive. At day one, human mental development is biogenically racing to establish spatial sense, kinesthetically and visually. (Our “nature” is a drive to form autogenically; or a self-formative drive of burgeoning psychality.) Concordantly, we want Baby to take charge of that rapt and rapid drive to comprehend and master (psychal ontogeny in biogenesis)—to make drives serve pleasures of taking interest in the surround. We want experience to be not only well responsive, but increasingly initiated. Almost immediately, Baby gains a biogenically-caused sense of its own somatic meaning, e.g., in “terms” of body contact, full-bodied need satisfaction, and feeling for the surround, which we want Baby to feel happy owning, not just assimilating experience or adjusting well. Much can be said about any one of Greenspan’s “ontogenic modalities” (the above being the first exsmple), and inestimably much can be said about any era of child development. I’m going to largely skip discussing Greenspan’s modalities for now, but offer a few comments, to emphasize that the bio-/auto-genic difference easily applies to clinically-based developmental modeling. (Extended discussion is appealing, but I want to move on to a sense of much-later individuation—a sense of high individuation). Below, presume (which can be shown) that each developmental mode becomes the phenomenal-background horizon (or capability horizon) for the later modes cumulatively. (You might recall my fondness for a sense of “horizoning child.”) To begin with (mode 1 above), self-regulation and interest in the world is the condition for the feasibility of .... mode 2: “Forming relationships, attachment, and engagement: 2–7 mos.” Does one’s capability for adult intimacy begin here? I believe that such capability does begin to form this early. 3: “Two-way, purposeful communication (somatopsychological differentiation): 3–10 mos.” Notice that this is way before acquisition of linguistic language. The “language” of communication is first olfactorial, kinesthetic, visual, auditory, and interpersonal long before it becomes linguistic. Indeed, “somatopsychological” communication is the background condition for easy linguistic language acquisition (I would argue, relative to an embodied cognitivist approach to intelligence—or “language of thought”—which becomes so linguistic for most persons, though perhaps not for mathematicians, visual designers, musicians, etc.). 4: “Behavioral organization, problem-solving, and internalization: a complex sense of self: 9–18 mos.” Less than 2 years old, the child is already desiring chances to regard oneself complexly (long before the classical sense of “ego formation” around age 3-4). 5: “Representational capacity: 18–30 mos.” Adaptive/biogenic dispositions will make all of early development happen to some degree. But adaptive motives are pre- individuational. In “good enough” parenting, promotion of individuation (autogenic activity—acting by self-assertive initiative and enowning available intentions) belongs to the beginning of activity. (A child has a natural right to child-centered parenting and education). I’m being abstract and general for the sake of my cherished distinction between autogenic and biogenic intentions. But the point is that the difference matters from the very beginning: individuational development vs. adaptive development—making the latter (so important in the short run) serve the former (more important in the long run), as much as feasible. 6: “Representational differentiation (building logical bridges between ideas and emotional thinking): 30–48 mos.” 7: “Higher levels of mental (ego) functioning.” As I said a couple of years ago, this mode delights me. It’s like saying, relative to the earlier modes: 1, 2, 3, infinity! Obviously, mental development is also self development. We want intellectual development to serve loved values and high aspirations, not merely adapt well. For example, perfectionism is perfectly adaptive, but will not be very fulfilling. The phenomenon of “mind” A tenable conception of “mind” is [1] neuropsychological (or biogenic or adaptive “mind,” not simply biopsychological; neuroscience is more than neurophysiology) and [2] psychological as such (enactive, always desiring autogenic or autonomous activity). This is analogous, within a conception of developmental psychology, to [1] child developmentality irt [2] adult developmentality—not that a child is essentially adaptive, and an adult is beyond that; rather, that the ontogenic distance between biogeny and autogeny is like the distance between infancy and adulthood; and the vastly temporalized, ontogenic biogenic/autogenic difference is fundamental for a tenable conception of mind as such. The child always variably horizons the adult (e.g., unfinished capabilities, potentially deep-seated feelings, and variable coping—regression?—under stress), which is sometimes endearing, sometimes frustrating, and ultimately an amazing holism or integrity of selfidentity over time that, in principle, is never limited by interest in learning. Accordingly, emotion always variably horizons value (grammatically odd to say, but—), which is sometimes appealing, sometimes frustrating, and always part of being. Psychiatric disorder and aging are dramatic reminders that a mind remains always neuropsychological or biogenic (in becoming maladaptive). Yet “the” difference between [1] a person’s neurology (so complexly elusive as to be a discursive prospectus when presumably instilled descriptively, as if scientific narrative becomes analogous to fiction!—which idealizes realism [or writes “against” that idealization]) and [2] psychology (ditto!)—“the” difference is vastly temporal, simulated in reconstructions informed by scientific and clinical knowledge that are weaved into discursive narratives. “Mind” is a conception of ultimately-cohering self-understanding, easily aspiring to clarify a sense of conceptuality unto itself (longing for comprehensively well-formed formedness, which is native to the history of philosophy). The concept of mind is an adult notion relative to a vastly developed sensibility. The nature of mind is vastly developmental. The emergence of mind belongs to infancy, a point I want to bring into leading others’ thinking about mind as such (way, way up the road). However, at this point, a claim that any tenable philosophy of mind is firstly (foundationally) abstracted from developmental psychology and might do well to dwell in this reality—such a claim likely seems naïve about contemporary philosophy of mind. I don’t mind. Next: section 4 of “biomindality Be fair. © 2017, gary e. davis
global_01_local_2_shard_00001658_processed.jsonl/12836	Thursday, July 14, 2016 It's Sharon and I want to see anything tropical since the weather lately has certainly been hot hot hot!! I used my Hero Arts hibiscus set to create these pretty flowers...they are almost exactly the colour of our hibiscus flowers you can see here in the background! I can't wait to see what kind of tropical goodness the other Party-Ers create this week! cs~ Neenah, PTI pp~ Basic Grey stamps~ Hero Arts,PTI inks~ Altenew, Hero Arts, PTI, Memento sequins~ Simon
global_01_local_2_shard_00001658_processed.jsonl/12856	Diablo Insomniac (Best if played back on a "jammi'n" audio system) (This song will sound "cheezy" on lap-top and phone speakers) Download Diablo Insomniac MP3 The Devil never sleeps! Save Me, Yea, From these wicked, evil dreams. C'est La Vie, Oh, Diablo never sleeps! I'm wasted away, I've sealed my fate- on a one way trip to hell as the sun begins to fade. Shadows fall, all across these lonely walls- as I try to make it through to the light of day. I close my eyes, embrace the night- and suddenly my empty dreams are shattered from inside. I'm holding on, I can only hope for dawn- as I ride this midnight train and the battle rages on. I'm feeling betrayed, I'm fading to gray- the shadows are closing in as my soul is ripped away. I'm all alone, down here on my own- and now I see, it's up to me, to take back my soul. (Chorus X 2) Want to E-Mail Me about this Song?
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global_01_local_2_shard_00001658_processed.jsonl/12900	Monday, March 30, 2015 Circus Train: New Release from Jennifer Cole Judd I couldn't resist doing an interview with my friend and author, Jennifer Cole Judd. Her newest release, Circus Train, hit the shelves last week. Jen is a brilliant poet and an incredible person all around as you will see from the brief interview below: Your latest book, Circus Train, is a rhymer, which you do very well. How hard was it to sell and where did the idea come from? How long did it take from its creation to is ultimate publication? Thanks, Johnell! The idea for Circus Train was born when (surprise, surprise) I took my young kids to the circus one day. It was watching my then five-year-old daughter's eyes light up with wonder that brought a wave of nostalgia and excitement for me. It was like a sensory explosion, and watching her take it all in was pretty special. I really wanted to capture that magic and wonder, so I sat down that evening to write a poem about it. The poem expanded and became picture book length. This was back in 2006. I had been taking Anastasia Suen's Intensive Picture Book Workshop online at the time, so the manuscript went through some great critiquing. I was really new to children's writing back then, and was focused primarily on poetry writing, so when I subbed the story out and got a couple of rejections, I put it away for a while. Well, quite a while, actually! I pulled the manuscript out in 2012, after having spent some years working on rhythm, rhyme, and learning the craft (and after my first publication, Eyeball in My Garden had been out!). It was then that I added the train to the story. I revised it, shared it with my critique partners, and subbed it to Two Lions. I was surprised (and thrilled) when they acquired it a few months later. I know that doesn't happen a lot in the industry, so I feel extremely blessed (and lucky!) that this story was acquired that quickly...but, I think the span of six years helped! (I wish I could say all of my other stories and poems came together that magically!) You've been doing author events already. What's been the best one you've done and what feedback are you getting? Which events seem to work best for you and what advice would you give an author preparing for a book tour? Wednesday, March 18, 2015 The Need for Local Literature I'm at a point where I feel comfortable talking about that hinted-at good news. It's not an agent or a book deal, lovely as that would be, but the formation of a writing group I started shortly after moving to my new home in Central America. I wrote about it in an article for Rate Your Story (RYS), which you can click over to read if you like. (RYS is an excellent resource if you haven't heard of it.) As stated in the RYS article, I lived in Africa for a while and saw the need for literature that spoke to the local situations with characters the children could see themselves in. Sadly, I wasn't writing then and not attuned to how I could change it. Now I am, and I'm hoping the group we are forming will change the literary landscape of the region, but the thing is, they already have great stuff to guide them. As so often happens in countries with economic struggles, most people don't see the incredible talent within their own borders. The grass is always greener because so often it really is. Or people in larger countries aren't often exposed to the literature from smaller countries because the gatekeepers don't know about it or don't realize that stellar literature can come from areas that make the news more for their struggles than their triumphs. I've been impressed with the artists I've met here. I speak the language well enough to navigate a Taco Bell menu, but with kind friends to translate for me, I've been introduced to some brilliant authors, like Salarrué who wrote Cuentos de Cipotes (Stories of Children), among others. The video above is a brilliantly crafted animation of one of his stories. It's in the dialect of a region in El Salvador, which makes it harder to understand, even for Spanish speakers. The basic idea is a group of children decide to play funeral, and they need a willing corpse so little Tanta is picked (Tanta is the feminine form of silly or dumb). Unfortunately, Tanta doesn't stink, so the the children look all over for something to make her whiffy. Once that's done, they add the lid to the "casket." But Tanta doesn't appreciate this realistic effect and raises a ruckus. Tanta's maid hears her cries and saves her from a fate worse than a fake death and, in essence, becomes the angel who brings her back to life. I hope to have even more good news soon. We have a talented guest speaker scheduled to speak to us this week and I can't wait to share what I learn with you all shortly. Have a great week. Tuesday, March 10, 2015 Carrie Charley Brown's inaugural ReFoReMo challenge is going on even as I write. I've been delinquent in sharing this with you, partly due to the good news I hinted at. Fortunately, it's not too late to catch Carrie's blog and all the great advice she's compiled. The basic idea of Carrie's ReFoReMo (Reading For Research Month) is to use picture books as text books. Well, I don't need much of an excuse to read more picture books, so I've loved it. One of my favorite recent picture books is Sophie's Squash (see video above) by Pat Zietlow Miller--unique concept, tightly plotted and an endearing MC. As for the good news, suffice it to say we're on the cusp of developing something truly incredible in my new home. Have a great week.
global_01_local_2_shard_00001658_processed.jsonl/12912	Sep 24, 2011 ASP.NET disable a button during postback Postback Ritalin has been getting a lot of search hits intended to find a button disable technique for full .NET postbacks. So, this example is for all of you searching for a non-AJAX solution. The trick is to use the OnClientClick and UseSubmitBehavior properties of the button control. There are other methods, involving code on the server side to add attributes, but I think the simplicity of doing it this way is much more attractive: <asp:Button runat="server" ID="BtnSubmit" OnClientClick="this.disabled = true; this.value = 'Submitting...';" Text="Submit Me!" /> OnClientClick allows you to add client side OnClick script. In this case, the JavaScript will disable the button element and change its text value to a progress message. When the postback completes, the newly rendered page will revert the button back its initial state without any additional work. The one pitfall that comes with disabling a submit button on the client side is that it will cancel the browser’s submit, and thus the postback. Setting the UseSubmitBehavior property to false tells .NET to inject the necessary client script to fire the postback anyway, instead of relying on the browser’s form submission behavior. In this case, the code it injects would be: This is added to the end of our OnClientClick code, giving us this rendered HTML: <input type="button" name="BtnSubmit" onclick="this.disabled = true; this.value = 'Submitting...';__doPostBack('BtnSubmit','')" value="Submit Me!" id="BtnSubmit" /> This gives a nice button disable effect and processing text, while the postback completes. If you found this but are more interested in an AJAX solution to disable buttons during partial postbacks, check out either Postback Ritalin or CSS style as AJAX progress indicator. Sep 22, 2011 Telerik Design-time Troubleshooting Source: Telerik API Documentation Starting from Q1 2009 (Version 2009.1.311) there is a brand new assembly installed in your GAC - Telerik.Web.Design.dll. We decided to separate the design-time code from the web control implementation code. The reasons are many - better separation of concerns, less assembly references for the main assembly (Telerik.Web.UI.dll). We now have the freedom to extend the design time capabilities of RadControls for ASP.NET Ajax without bloating the main control assembly. Why didn't we make it that way from the beginning? The only reason is that Visual Studio 2008 had a problem with loading GAC-ed design-time assemblies of control libraries deployed in the BIN folder of a web site. Strangely enough the problem didn't appear in Visual Studio 2005. The good news is that this bug has been fixed in Visual Studio 2008 SP1! The problem does not exist in Visual Studio 2010 RC as well. If you for some reason cannot upgrade to Visual Studio 2008 SP1 you might face the following exception after upgrading to RadControls for ASP.NET Ajax Q1 2009 or later: Error Creating Control - RadControl Failed to create designer ... Below is a screenshot of two ways this error gets represented to the end user: Important: The instructions below are not applicable if you used the RadControls for ASP.NET AJAX installer to setup RadControls on your machine and you have Visual Studio 2005 and/or Visual Studio 2008 SP1 and/or Visual Studio 2010. The design time should work properly out of the box with that setup. The Telerik.Web.Design assembly contains the Visual Studio designers of the controls. You don't need to add a reference to it into your project. There are three ways to solve this problem (apart from the obvious upgrade to Visual Studio 2008 SP1): 1. Bin-deploy the design-time assembly This solution would work only in case you have not installed RadControls for ASP.NET Ajax using the provided setup program. Assemblies installed by a setup program cannot be removed from GAC until the program is uninstalled. This approach is suitable when using only the dll-s from a zip (be that a hotfix or latest internal build). • Remove Telerik.Web.Design.dll from the GAC (this would fail if you have installed RadCotnrols for ASP.NET Ajax via the installer) • Copy Telerik.Web.Design.dll to your project's BIN subfolder. Ensure that the version of the Telerik.Web.Design assembly is the same as the version of the Telerik.Web.UI assembly. Don't add a reference to the Telerik.Web.Design assembly, perform a simple Windows Explorer-copy. • Restart Visual Studio The Visual Studio Extensions for RadControls for ASP.NET AJAX help handle this approach. 2. GAC-deploy the control library assembly • Add Telerik.Web.UI.dll in the GAC (see details in this topic) • Remove Telerik.Web.UI.dll from your bin folder • Make sure you have the following line in your web.config: <add assembly="Telerik.Web.UI, Version=2009.1.311.35, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=121FAE78165BA3D4"/> • Restart Visual Studio Using the third approach (copying the Telerik.Web.UI assembly to the [VisualStudioInstallationFolder]\Common7\IDE\PublicAssemblies folder) could itself cause the problem described above. If you open a project, using a different version of the Telerik.Web.UI assembly than the one in the PublicAssemblies folder, the IDE could display an InvalidCast error message. It is suggested that you ensure the version of the Telerik.Web.UI assembly used by your project and its version in the PublicAssembliesfolder are the same before loading the IDE. This instance of the error usually happens when upgrading RadControls for ASP.NET AJAX. Collapse imageUnknown server tag/Could not load file or assembly errors Problem: When a project using RadControls is open and a page is loaded, a page displays the “Unknown Server Tag” or "Could not load file or assembly 'Telerik.Web.UI, version='XXXXX'..." error. Unknown server tag Reason: This error usually happens when the project does not contain a reference to the Telerik.Web.UI assembly, or the reference is broken.Possible causes for the errors: • There is a GAC-reference for the Telerik.Web.UI assembly in the project and the GAC has been updated (the “old” Telerik.Web.UI assembly is deleted and a “new” one is added to the GAC). As a result, the Telerik.Web.UI assembly, referenced by the WebSite, does not exist in the GAC. • There is a BIN-reference for the Telerik.Web.UI assembly in the project, which has been deleted for some reason. As a result, Visual Studio cannot find the Telerik.Web.UI assembly. • The reference to the Telerik.Web.UI assembly (either in Register directive or web.config, or Telerik http handlers/modules registrations in web.config) contains hard-coded version number which does not match the version of the Telerik assembly referenced in your project. 1. Update the reference to the Telerik.Web.UI assembly in your project 1. GAC Reference: 1. Manually: By editing the web.config and/or the ASPX/ASCX/Master/UserControl files to reflect the assembly version change. You can also skip to specify the exact assembly version to prevent future conflicts. 2. Automatically: By using the Property Pages. You will still need to update the <%@ Register Assembly=”Telerik.Web.UI”… %> directives in your pages manually. Property pages Telerik.Web.UI project reference Note: To avoid the need to manually modify the <%@ Register Assembly=”Telerik.Web.UI”… %> directives, we recommend that you register the tagprefix in the web.config instead, as shown in the screenshot below Telerik TagPrefix registration 2. Bin reference: 1. Browse to the Telerik.Web.UI assembly through the Property Pages Browser to reference Note: When browsing to the Telerik.Web.UI assembly in the context of a WebSite Project, Visual Studio will always add a GAC reference if it finds the same version of the Telerik.Web.UI assembly. 2. Use the Convert To Telerik project menu item available under the Telerik -> RadControls for ASP.NET AJAX menu in Visual Studio. Available when the Visual Studio Extensions feature has been selected during RadControls for ASP.NET AJAX install. Collapse imageAn unhandled exception has occurred. [A][control type] cannot be cast to [B][control type] Error Message: Design time displays error rendering control (Error: "An unhandled exception has occurred. [A][control type] cannot be cast to [B][control type]. Type A originates from 'Telerik.Web.UI, Version=[Version], Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=121fae78165ba3d4' in the context 'LoadNeither' at location '[location1]'. Type B originates from 'Telerik.Web.UI, Version=[Version], Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=121fae78165ba3d4' in the context 'LoadNeither' at location '[location2]'.") Error Rendering Control Reasons: Using the Trial and the Dev variations of the RadControls assembly (having the same version) in a single instance of Visual Studio. • A typical scenario: 1. Start Visual Studio. 2. Open a project referencing the Trial variation of the Telerik.Web.UI assembly. 3. Load a page with RadControls in design mode 4. Close the project without closing Visual Studio. 5. Open a project referencing the Dev variation of the Telerik.Web.UI assembly (versioned as the Trial one) in the same instance of Visual Studio. 6. Load a page with RadControls in design mode The reason for the error is that the .NET Framework cannot distinguish the Dev assembly from the Trial one. Once one assembly loaded in the Visual Studio AppDomain, it cannot be unloaded until the IDE gets closed. Suggested solution: Restart Visual Studio between the reload one of the two projects Note: It is a good practice to use the Dev variation of the Telerik.Web.UI assembly in all your projects once purchased. This will ensure you avoid the design time error described above. It will also ensure you won't get undesired Trial messages when running your project.
global_01_local_2_shard_00001658_processed.jsonl/12915	The GOP’s Demographic Time-Bomb Nate Silver’s demographic and immigration reform calculator is worth a look. The graphic below shows what happens if you apply the model’s defaults to the next 35 years: Demographic Calculator Silver explains how immigration reform could change these calculations: Suppose, for example, that the voter population grows in accordance with the defaults assumed in the model. This would produce a net of 6.3 million new votes for Democrats by 2028. And suppose that 25 percent of the immigrants currently here illegally gain citizenship and vote by 2028. The model calculates that this would provide another 1.2 million votes for Democrats. But suppose also that, as a result of immigration reform, the Republicans go from winning about 28 percent of the Hispanic vote and 24 percent of the Asian vote (as they did in 2012) to 35 percent of each group by 2028. That would shift about 4.8 million votes back to the G.O.P. — about four times more than it lost from the immigrants becoming citizens and voting predominantly Democratic. However, it wouldn’t be enough to outweigh the Democratic gains from long-term population growth. Douthat thinks that immigration reform can help the GOP “only if such a reform somehow complemented a new conservative economic agenda rather than posing a substitute for one.” He isn’t holding his breath:
global_01_local_2_shard_00001658_processed.jsonl/12921	Thursday, October 29, 2015 Got Tech-Neck? Yoga is one of the best forms of exercise for improving your posture. Good posture is good for you over all body and especially good for your shoulders and neck. Rounding of the shoulders and neck pain is become a major issue as we spend more and more time hunched over our cell phones. Here are some easy yoga poses to improve posture and shoulder and neck strength. Stand tall! Doctor Lynn No comments:
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global_01_local_2_shard_00001658_processed.jsonl/12953	Types of dreams The Interpretation of Dreams We'll tell you all about your dreams ... Types of dreams Many people think of a fantasy as something sexualan imagined encounter with an acquaintance, famous person, or even a stranger. Still others think of a fantasy as akin to a fairy tale, the stuff of unicorns and witches and princesses in towers. But as a psychological term, fantasy means anything your mind conjures up while awake. The fantasy may be a response to a real situation: Your new boyfriend cancels plans with you and your fantasy is that he has met someone else and is going out with her instead. Or it may be a daydream or "waking dream": You are awake, and as your mind begins to wander, you lose yourself in an imagined scenario such as winning an award, saving the president's life, or attacking your former girlfriend and her date. The content of fantasy or daydream is unrestricted, and can be positive or negative. It is like a dream in that you follow your imagination where it takes you, rather than guiding the images as you would in normal waking thought. Research shows an inclination to daydreaming or fantasy for a period of 70 to 120 minutes during the waking day, but it differs from a dream in that you are in a waking state rather than a sleeping state while it occurs. Another kind of waking dream that is more consciously self-directed can be called a visioning dream. Phyllis Koch-Sheras and her husband, Peter Sheras, coined this term in The Dream Sharing Sourcebook to describe a dream "built on the foundation of your own actual experience," as opposed to a night dream or daydream, which may be random, or without any basis in reality. A visioning dream is similar to an affirmation or visualization consciously constructed to depict your future based on achieving certain personal goals. These kinds of dreams can be particularly powerful when created and shared with others. For example, a newly married couple may design a visioning dream for themselves that is more concrete and inspiring than "happily ever after" by stating and visualizing themselves as having an open, loving relationship, sharing feelings, and creating a comfortable home together. More information on working on visioning and other dreams together. Though we usually do not tend to analyze our waking dreams or fantasies, it is possible to apply the same principles of dream-work to this kind of dream and discover more about our conscious and unconscious selves. Whether it be your own daydream or a "guided fantasy", you have the opportunity to participate directly in your waking dream by engaging with the characters and themes as they develop. What may seem like a mundane or meaningless act in your fantasy has dream content of its own and can spark powerful insights if you pay attention to it. So, while you may be tempted to dismiss your daydreams as inconsequential, let yourself appreciate and work with them as with any other dream. Need to Know: Top Dreams Encyclopedia of Dreams © 2013 The Interpretation of Dreams
global_01_local_2_shard_00001658_processed.jsonl/12958	Anecdote XLX. Wrathful Reminders Before Alkesh Alushain, there were many others, drawn together by Fate for purposes only the Light understands. One of them, called the Alkesh of Timoral, was all that held back the forces of Darkness stirring the Civil War. There was but one human member: Edgar Alan Poe. His Luminara, Lenore, had an obsession with Darkness, was convinced it could be cured. Eventually, she came to convert a Demon, who joined them, her Shadow, and a Runner named Maridigron. Theirs was a tumultuous group, hounded by the Dark wherever they went. Wyatt, then unbound, and his alkesh of Viatrians protected them as best they could, but Zestir’s machinations were strong. With the corrupted Viatrian Tiermond at his side, Zestir’s alliance of evil would not be stopped. By Dark forces unknown, Poe was killed, and with him Lenore was snuffed out. Without their aldara, the converted Dark members despaired. Their Shadow faded and starved into nothing. The Demon was caught and tortured to death as a traitor. Only Maridigron survived. It happened that Lask learned of him in the Library one day. He was researching Alkesh Heirlooms– powerful magical objects passed between alkesh through the ages, coveted by the Dark, and many lost or destroyed over time. It was through tracking one, the Chessboard, Lask asked, “Whose were the last living hands to hold it?” The Library replied, Maridigron. Naturally, the Luminor inquired, “Who is that?” What he got was a woeful tale. After the death of his alkesh, Maridigron was captured by Zestir. Because he was but a Runner, he was too unimportant and too unsatisfying to kill, so the Demon made an example of him. He cut off the Runner’s hind foot, and forced him into slavery, until he was no more than an animal. As Lask read of his fate, he felt the familiar pressure of choice on his shoulders, a pressure than often came with knowledge. Since 1990, Lask had left his island cloaked in magic to allow Zestir the assumption of success– for 25 years, the Demon thought he killed Lask, and foiled the alkesh he would form. To rescue Maridigron from his clutches would be to lose that protection, for surely Zestir would track what he thought belonged to him. But when Lask went to the watchtower, and turned the dials, flipped the switches, and moved his fine lenses into alignment, he saw for himself the fallen Runner, curled like a dog under Zestir’s whip, chained by his remaining back foot until it bled. He was skin and bones, perhaps even too far gone in the mind to be anything more than animal. Lask sighed, took a cursory look at Zestir’s stronghold, then wrote down the coordinates. He passed the paper to Falient. “There is a Runner here. His name is Maridigron, I need you need you rescue him, Light of the Lost.” “Alright, alright, let’s see.” Falient unfolded the paper, and furrowed his brow. “You do know who this is right, whose gate you’re sendin’ me to?” “A Demon called Zestir.” “Aye, big guy. Started the Civil War, killed Wyatt’s alkesh, brought down Stefin, still goin’ strong last I saw. You might ought t’ve heard of him?” “Yes, that one.” “Alriiiiiight,” Falient said, tucking the paper into his coat pocket, accepting the challenge “But I steal that Runner out from under him, he’s gonna come lookin’ for us. You could be startin’ a war.” “Let him look,” replied Lask, “I hope he’ll be surprised.” February 27, 2015 Lask waited until night had fallen, and his family settled in with each other for the night. When he was sure he would not be missed, he began pulling on his armor. He had watched Zestir for days, and knew the Demon’s scouts had tracked Maridigron to Avigdell. Zestir raged with the knowledge of his enemy’s survival. Away to the north, an army of four hundred Dark soldiers was gathering, massing their strength before Zestir sent them word to march on the island. Lask did not intend to give them that chance. He fastened the sword strap across his chest, then pulled a crimson cape around his shoulders. He picked up his helmet, then slipped out of his room. He glanced down the hallway, ensuring no one was afoot in the night to spot him, then stole away down the stairs and made his way out to the stable. The horses snorted at him, craning inquisitive necks over the doors of their stalls as he entered. Lask opened the door for Theramancer, and the stallion clopped out into the aisle. Lask went to the tack room and began carrying out his horse’s armor as well. He fastened on the plates, Theramancer standing in steady obedience, until the stallion stood clad in magnificent golden armor to match his master. When his mount was tacked, Lask pulled himself into the saddle, and withdrew his key. He aimed the tip of the key into the empty air before him, and drew a wide arc, sparks trailing in air. A tall set of double crimson doors appeared just ahead of them. Lask nudged his mount forward, and rested the key between the horse’s ears. Theramancer nosed at the doors, and they opened, swinging out into a black land. Lask motioned him on, and the stallion trotted through. Lask waved a hand, a gust of wind swirling to close the doors behind him. He emerged on a hill overlooking a Dark encampment. The creatures below were busy in the night– sharpening weapons, squabbling over scraps of food– but the camp went silent as they registered the presence of Light. Lask made no effort to disguise himself; there was no point. He shined like a beacon in this bleak place, seeming to give off his own light in the blackness. He drew his sword, flames rising on his hands, sparking along the plates of his armor, the feathers of his helmet, the hem of his cape. The fires raced along his horse, swirling off the stallion’s mane and tail, sparks leaping from his hooves, until the knight and his horse seemed a living torch in the blackness. There were shrieks from the Runners below, and terrified howls from Warmongers. Lask gave them no time to organize. He spurred his horse, and raced down the hill, leaving a swath of fire behind him. Flames raced down the blade of his sword, and as he reached the perimeter of the camp, the night exploded in a tempest of fire. The noise was deafening. All around, Runners screamed, Serpents hissed and spat, Warmongers barked and howled. Lakvos yelped and scrambled in all directions. Lask cut through them all with his indiscriminate sword. His fire engulfed the camp around him, burning the life out of everything it touched. He moved like a living inferno through the place, the blazing hooves of his horse crushing anything that fell. There were two Demons in the camp. One was a lesser, and Lask stabbed him through the back as he turned to flee. The other was stronger, braver, and she came tearing through the flaming debris and threw herself straight at the fiery Rose. Lask deflected her claws with his sword, and Theramancer punctuated the motion with a swift kick. The Demon was sent sprawling, and Lask sent a bolt of flame after her. The fire burst over her hide and she screamed, scrambling in the wreckage. She came flying back, and her own speed thrust her onto the point of Lask’s sword. She slid backward off the blade, the fire hissing in her blood, and the Rose moved on. He seared through the camp like a red-hot iron. Desperate Warmongers and Lakvos tried to swarm his horse, snapping and clawing at Theramancer’s legs, but Lask crossed his arms across his chest, gathering his strength, then flung them wide with a fierce shockwave of fire, that leveled everything within fifty feet of him. The scorching wind of him swirled through the camp, igniting everything it touched, while the bodies of the soldiers crumbled to ash under the stallion’s feet. It only took minutes for Lask to reach the other side of the camp. He was winded when he got there, chest rising with great swells of breath, and his horse panted sparked beneath him. Lask’s crimson eyes cut like a blade over his shoulder, taking in the destruction with a glance. He turned back to the night before him, and caught sight of Dark things fleeing toward the twisted trees in the distance. He kicked his horse after them, his left hand renewing its grip on his sword, fires streaming behind him like the tail of kite. He caught up to the rear of the group, scorching the life out of them as his horse passed. He urged Theramancer faster, swinging his sword to cut down one of the Runners. The blade flashed and spun, slicing through two Warmongers in one swift pass. Theramancer’s hooves set fire to the rough scrub grass under foot, as they raced toward the trees. At least a dozen more Dark soldiers fell before they reached the forest. Lask pulled his horse to a rearing halt, Theramancer shrieking in the crimson firelight. Lask brandished his sword at the trees, and roared after the last of the survivors, “Run back to Zestir! Tell him what has happened to you at the hands of one. I have leveled his army by my hand alone. Tell him to imagine if I should turn my sword upon him with all of Alkesh Alushain at my back. Tell him to look to my allies, and tremble at the thought of us coming down upon him. Flee and keep your lives this night, but move toward the Halls of the Wind, and death awaits you there!” The survivors fled into the forest, leaving the wrath of the Luminor behind him, while the wreckage of the camp still blazed at his back. Watching them retreat, Lask turned back and walked his horse back to the wreckage of the camp. He reached back to his saddle bag, and withdrew a long crimson feather, edged in shimmering gold. He considered it a moment, jaw tight, then cast it to the ground, where it glinted in the ashes. He knew Zestir would understand. Share Your Thoughts
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global_01_local_2_shard_00001658_processed.jsonl/12993	. When we understand that Mrs Jordan is anxious we know that something about the exam is different, and this is further shown by the language Slesar uses to describe the husbands response. He answers sharply which leads us to think that Mr Jordan is trying not to bring up the exam... The boys description of alert eyed and quick, nervous manner implies that he is intelligent. The reader thinks nothing of this, until we realise that he is not meant to be clever, and so this constructs the story well and keeps the reader guessing... The language used to describe the parents, moistness of his mothers eyes and the scowl on his fathers face is not what the reader usually associates with birthdays, and so we get a hint hat this exam has a lot to be worried about... Slesar makes Mrs Jordan very vague with the language used Its nothing to worry about and so she is reluctant to speak about the exam and we get a further development of this idea because usually when someone says that it is nothing to worry about, it is because the person is trying to reassure the candidate... Mr Jordan is very vague with all of his answers to Dickies questions, Because it just did, thats all, and Five thousand miles. This is another example of clever use of language because we do not know until the very end of the story the reason why he is doing this. We are led to believe that it is because he is engrossed in the newspaper, but we later find out that it is actually because he is trying to make Dickie as un-educated as possible, so as to fail the test... With Dickies quest for knowledge, puckered his brow we understand that he is a keen and intelligent boy. It is again, only at the end that we realise the consequence of this use of language... The reassuring language of Mr Jordan Now, its nothing to worry about lulls the reader into a false sense of security as it is meant to do to Dickie. This however, changes dramatically when he says They give you this stuff to drink. This is the first hint we get that something about the test is not routine. This clever use of language and the words used beforehand give us a surprise because we expect the test to be normal, and suddenly it isnt. This line and the ones which follow, Its just to make sure you answer the questions truthfully. make us wonder about the seemingly insignificant comments that have been said previously, namely about Dickies intelligence, as it gives us an idea that this may have something to do with the un usualness of the exam... When Dickies mother composed her face into a misty smile, this language gives us the idea that she is only putting the smile on for Dickies benefit, which furthers the concept that the exam is not like others, and Dickies parents know far more about it than they are letting on to him. This becomes evident later on... When the room is described As cold and official as a courtroom, it is presumed by the reader that it not a friendly place to be, and so the candidate is not considered as important, and they are not at all worried about putting them at their ease. The reason for this is evident later. However, the main reason for Slesar using this language is to create a tense and hostile atmosphere so that the reader feels as though they are there and going through whatever Dickie goes through... When the movements of other boys in the room are described as leave his fathers side reluctantly then it is clear to the reader that the fear felt by both Dickie and his parents is not unique to them and other boys feel the same too. This implies that the exam is indeed something extraordinary and not just the Jordans paranoia. This helps build up the atmosphere in the waiting room. Another phrase that helps to do this is A concealed loudspeaker crackled because it makes the regime look all the more officious and something to get upset or curious about... When the attendant is grey tu nicked then this language furthers the impression of the hostile environment and so the build up to the test becomes all the more immense. When the attendants voice is described as softly then this is again, trying to lull Dickie into a false sense of security. This gives the reader that there is definitely an aspect of the exam to get worried about... When we learn that Dickie has a classification number, ... is 600-115. the atmosphere gets tenser as the exam becomes more officious, and instead of names, mere numbers are used. This suggests that the boys are not treated as human beings, but simply as statistics which pass through the hands of the attendants every day. This makes is impersonal and all the fears about the exam that Dickie, his parents and other families went through seems justified... The exam becomes far from normal when Dickie downed it [the drink] and the attendant flashed a tiny light into the boys eyes. This makes the reader excited because they do not know what is going to happen next, as the procedures are like nothing we have ever heard about before. It is the language which has built up the atmosphere and emotions which causes it to have this effect on us... We have not usually heard of an exam involving a multi-dialed computing machine and so this builds up the readers expectations even further, and the language used such as Ill leave you alone now is not normal for an exam either. All of this coupled with the reactions of the computer to Dickies voice, a mechanism whirred makes the expectations of the reader very high. However, the language is very clever, because although we are told that Dickie is clever, we do not join this with Mr Jordans negative reactions, the atmosphere and procedures until right at the very end, and Slesar keeps the reader guessing until the very end, which makes a good story... The emotions of Mr and Mrs Jordan Not speaking, not even speculating show us that the outcome of the exam is very important to them both and also to Dickie. This still leaves the reader guessing because we have absolutely no idea what the outcome will be... The language used up until the very end is very descriptive. Clipped; a brisk official voice and the voice droned on makes the reader aware that the Government are not perturbed by the outcome of the test. However, this contrasts very well with Mrs Jordans reactions, The woman cried out which shows that the Governments news is devastating. However, true to a good story, we are still totally unaware of the outcome... The final phrase, We regret to inform you... shows impending disaster, and this type of language is what keeps the reader on the edge of their seat. When the Jordans are asked what they want done with Dickies body, we understand that he has been killed because his intelligence quotient has exceeded the Government regulation. This has to be one of the most unexpected endings possible on a story and so this really surprises the reader, and the language makes the story an excellent read. It should also be noted the way in which the language has tied in all the ideas of the story, and we are not left with a shadow of doubt about anything, such as why Mr Jordan answered Dickies questions incorrectly deliberately.
global_01_local_2_shard_00001658_processed.jsonl/12994	Richard III, a wicked tyrant, an unscrupulous murderer, a deformed hunchback. Just some of the reputations and images that have been associated with this notorious king ever since his death on the fields of Bosworth. The one thing that is clear is that Richard III is the most controversial of all kings and this controversy may go some way to explaining his extreme reputations. There are a number of factors that one needs to explore before one can make such a clear and distinct historical judgement. There are two main reasons why he is lumbered with such a negative image, firstly of his own doing, the manner in which he usurped the throne and secondly the manner in which Richards unscrupulousness have been over emphasised by Tudor Historians. Politics in fifteenth-century England was cruel and violent. Richard III is infamous for murdering his way to the throne, but one must also consider such antics that had taken place previously. Edward IV had overthrown his predecessor and was responsible for the deaths of Henry VI and even that of his own brother. But Richard III most memorable misdemeanour was the murder of the two young princes, one of which was soon to be king. Although there is doubt over his guilt, and most evidence is circumstantial there is little doubt that he was responsible, he had a motive, access and the decisive point for me was that he could not produce them when under pressure during the rebellion of 1483. So, although his actions were not as extreme as we are made to believe he certainly didnt do himself any favours. His own actions gave a perfect platform for such writers as Virgil, Moore and Shakespeare to blacken his name even more so through there writings. Many peoples image of Richard III is influenced by Shakespeare portrait of a limping hunchback with a withered arm, but the sources he used were from the Tudor period, sources like those of Virgil, they were clearly hostile to Richard. For example Virgil gives contrasting accounts of Richard, little of stature, deformed of body, one shoulder higher than the other and his report of his death Richard alone was killed fighting manfully in the thickest press of his enemies, is he talking about the same man! I think it is fair to say that Richards physical and mental condition were not nearly as bad as these Tudor Historians would like us to believe. The historian Sir Winston Churchill said no-one in his lifetimes seem to have remarked these deformities, but they are now very familiar to us through Shakespeare play[1]Richard did have some positives, Richard III was a man of considerable, energy and attractiveness 2. The intellectual depth and political ability was always there 3. In my opinion Richard III doesnt deserve such a reputation. Although it is difficult to judge one must consider the context in which all this took place, this was a time of political instability. One thing is for sure; his antics and reputation will mean that he will never be forgotten in English folk law. [1] 1 Sir Winston Churchill History of the English Speaking Peoples 2 A. J Pollard Richard III and the Princes in the Tower 3 M. A Hicks Richard III, The Man Behind the Myth.
global_01_local_2_shard_00001658_processed.jsonl/12996	Episode 4 – Free Expression Interviewees Robert Simpson and Caroline West explore the nature of free speech and the role of censorship. Teacher Notes Content overview This episode is primarily focussed on ethical issues arising from freedom of speech. It questions whether (and in what contexts) speech should be restricted or censored, and whether there are some forms of speech (and expression more generally) which should not be protected. The episode considers the question of whether pornography should be considered as free expression, and briefly explores debates related to censorship of video games and other media. It raises the ethical dilemma of whether we should protect the freedom of people to express themselves, or protect people from the harm which can be caused by others’ speech. Links to Ethical Capability • Explore the contested meaning of concepts including freedom, justice, and rights and responsibilities, and the extent they are and should be valued by different individuals and groups (VCECU014) • Investigate criteria for determining the relative importance of matters of ethical concern (VCECU016) Complementary curricula VCE Health & Human Development VCE Global Politics VCE Media (Unit 2) 7-10 Syllabus PDHPE HSC Community and Family Services Questions and discussion points 1. Should we ban or restrict speech which is racist, sexist, homophobic, or otherwise harms individuals and communities? 2. How often does an opinion you disagree with appear on your social media feeds? How do you react when someone says something online which you disagree with? 3. Should I be held responsible for any harm which might speech might cause, even if I had no intent to cause harm?
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global_01_local_2_shard_00001658_processed.jsonl/13026	Saturday, November 8, 2008 What explains the opposition to gay marriage? Voters in three states--California, Arizona, and Florida--voted to ban gay marriage on Tuesday. I've never understood the opposition to gay marriage (or gay fatherhood, which is why the subject comes up here). A couple of years ago in Washington, at dinner with parents who were lobbying Congress for better care and insurance coverage for their mentally ill children, one woman revealed that she was a spokesperson for a group opposed to gay marriage. It was not a political gathering--it was supposed to be a non-partisan group united in support of mentally ill kids. But it quickly became political. Allowing gay marriage, the woman said, would undermine the institution of marriage. I asked how. "There are studies," she said. "I can send them to you." A few months before this gathering, Elizabeth and I had eloped to Key West to get married. Every detail of the ceremony, at Hemingway's house, was perfect, right down to the champagne and key lime pie. I can't imagine, I said at the gathering, how the status of gay marriage could have in any way undermined our marriage. the gay marriage opponent didn't have an answer for that; she just told me she would send me the studies. I told her I was eager to see them, that I wanted to understand her position. I meant it. When the "studies" arrived, a few weeks later, I was disappointed to see that they were not studies at all. They were anti-gay marriage columns by a conservative columnist in Sweden, as I recall. They merely repeated that gay marriage would undermine marriage; they didn't do anything to help me understand why so many people apparently believe that. Marriage is an institution only because it is renewed millions of times around the world every year by couples who recreate it for themselves. As long as people continue to get married, the institution will be sound, I think. When they don't, it will crumble. If we really want the institution of marriage to endure and be strong, should we not extend it to as many people as possible? By discouraging gay couples from marrying, aren't conservatives themselves undermining the institution? 1 comment: 1. I would like you to read my post on the subject and hear your comments. It is titled: As promised, my rant against the gay marriage bans. It includes all the standard arguments against gay marriage and counters each. Thank you.
global_01_local_2_shard_00001658_processed.jsonl/13044	30 May 2008 dial 2_ Shiny bright dangerous vacuum stellar nothing was my crib flamed spirits covered screws tightened to burst into mirrored looks it happened so fast it seemed opening doors of repetition through silence stapled luscinia’s call I would hang up ... she was born to reveal_ 1 comment: Robert said... right the fuck on, Jaan! i especially like how you ended it
global_01_local_2_shard_00001658_processed.jsonl/13053	Wednesday, September 10, 2008 Cool (Earth) Solar Now this is some cool solar technology. How do you make concentrating solar collectors cheap? Make them out of plastic sheeting and blow them up to the right shape like balloons! That's the basic idea from CoolEarth Solar. The inflatable collectors can be cheap enough to replace every two years, and they are so light, that the structure for mounting them and tracking the sun can also be light and fairly simple. As they say in this PDF presentation, "solar farming" should be taken more literally - make the individual parts cheap and scalable, like growing wheat in a big field, as opposed to growing it in a greenhouse. Concentrating sunlight onto photovoltaic cells means you need a lot fewer cells. This approach combines clever use of optics and mechanics, with cheap, ubiquitous materials (plastic sheeting, air, a tiny amount of aluminum to coat the reflecting surface). Here's the basic environmental impact (from the notes in the PDF presentation, slide 4): Our approach is to suspend concentrators on support and control cables stretched between poles. The ground under the concentrators is shaded only by about 10% and remains free for other uses like farming or ranching. Suspending the concentrators also preserves habitat. It is also inexpensive: telephone companies, ranchers, and farmers have already figured out how to set posts cheaply across vast spaces. Cool indeed. 1 comment: astropixie said... what a great idea!! thats pure genius and yet so... obvious! i hate to be so crass, but the two examples you show there look like a pair of boobs. is there a relatively more polite word to describe this? some equivalent of phallic, but for this particular body part? ;)
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global_01_local_2_shard_00001658_processed.jsonl/13068	Thread: Fbi View Single Post Old 12-15-2017, 02:38 PM bolts4knob bolts4knob is offline Registered User Join Date: Dec 2002 Posts: 35,962 Re: Fbi Originally Posted by TheFreakKingdom View Post Fair, but I haven't seen any evidence of these guys lying or committing crimes or doing anything other than disliking one of the worst human beings alive. but if they are removed and a Republican that voted for Trump replaces them - they will be more fair or even a republican that didn't vote for trump its nonsense - nobody would work for the FBI if you removed somebodies political leanings. Reply With Quote
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global_01_local_2_shard_00001658_processed.jsonl/13112	Your IP: United States Near: United States Lookup IP Information 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Next Customerization is the customization of products or services through personal interaction between a company and the customer. A company is customerized when its able to dialogue with individual customers and respond by customizing its products, services, and messages on a one-to-one basis. This article is an orphan, as few or no other articles link to it. Please introduce links to this page from related articles; suggestions may be available. (November 2007) Customerization is a neologism, defined as the combination of operational customization and marketing customization.[1] Customerization is considered one of the key drivers underpinning the new economy. Most companies today are changing their marketing model from a seller-centric to a buyer-centric one. This requires the company to be more proactive. Customerization is also a form a personalization that allows the customer to modify (technically, customize) a product or service according to their needs. Zan Sha References ^ Yoram J. Wind and Vijay Mahajan with Robert E.Gunther, Convergence Marketing: Strategies for reaching the New Hybrid Customer This marketing-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. v • d • e
global_01_local_2_shard_00001658_processed.jsonl/13123	Friday, November 16, 2012 Clematis Bugs In early fall, these bugs rapidly ate up my Sweet Autumn Clematis. The vine was simply filled with these creatures. I got pretty close to these beetles trying to see them well. I am so glad I did not touch them because I just found out what they are: margined black blister beetles! They are identified by bulbous heads, long legs, and narrow elongated soft bodies. They differ from black beetles by having grey margins on their wings. I remember seeing blister beetles a long time ago, but they did not look like these. No wonder. There are 7500 different species worldwide (Another example of God loving beetles as He made so many.) These particular ones have been known to kill cattle that ate hay they were in, even though the beetles were dead. The beetles have a substance in their blood called cantharidin which causes blistering. Imagine that on your insides and you feel a need to back away. They can be controlled by using a gloved hand to knock them into soapy water (and carefully dispose of later) or using a pesticide. I made no attempt to kill them, so next year I may be eaten up with them in the yard. No comments: Post a Comment Blogging tips Blogging tips
global_01_local_2_shard_00001658_processed.jsonl/13144	Featured Post Click Here for Reviews of "The Tunnels" Thursday, April 10, 2014 11 Years Ago: Rumsfeld on 'Untidiness' in Iraq Yes, it was 11 years ago this week that the Donald offered his famous press conference amid the looting and general chaos set off by U.S. "victory" in Iraq (which would only get worse). Here's link to it. You remember: "Stuff happens." Love this: "We've seen in that transition period there is untidiness. And there's no question but that that's not anyone's choice." For much more on Iraq disgraces see my book. And the classic: And does that mean you couldn't go in there and take a television camera or get a still photographer and take a picture of something that was imperfect, untidy? I could do that in any city in America. Think what's happened in our cities when we've had riots and problems and looting. Stuff happens! But in terms of what's going on in that country, it is a fundamental misunderstanding to see those images over and over and over again of some boy walking out with a vase and say, ''Oh, my goodness, you didn't have a plan.'' That's nonsense. They know what they're doing. And they're doing a terrific job. And it's untidy. And freedom's untidy. And free people are free to make mistakes and commit crimes and do bad things. They're also free to live their lives and do wonderful things. And that's what's going to happen here. . . . 1 comment: Harry Shearer said... You might prefer the musical version of Rumsfeld's rule: "Stuff Happens". https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/stuff-happens/id492927264?i=492928191
global_01_local_2_shard_00001658_processed.jsonl/13172	A Wild Ride With Robert Sapolsky My friend Brent sent me a link to a page on the web. It's a conversation with Robert Sapolsky, a quiet, funny, apparently brilliant professor of biological sciences at Stanford University and of neurology at Stanford's School of Medicine. Professor Sapolsky has written several books such as: The link Brent sent me was called TOXO and he suggested it to me because our book club is reading The God Virus: How religion infects our lives and culture, by Daniel W Ray. Now the video on that page was Robert Sapolsky talking about a most interesting parasite called Toxoplasma. This is what pregnant women need to worry about, and why they avoid cats and cat feces. It can wreak havoc on their unborn baby's nervous system. If you read The God Virus, which talks about parasites and viruses as an analogy for religion, I highly recommend watching this video. If you aren't going to read the book I still recommend the video. The transcript is underneath it too, which will make it even more accessible for you. But the video is longer than the transcript. So take 25 minutes and enjoy it. Here's another link to the video. I'm telling you, it's fascinating. As I mentioned, the video is longer than the transcript. He goes into telemeres and molecular age, which I heard a study about recently confirming what he is explaining. What he's talking about touches on evolution, common ancestors, parasites and how they go about getting where they need to be, motorcyclists and speed freaks, and schizophrenics, as well as the government's interest in this parasite. A wild ride indeed! Of course, as a skeptic, I thought I'd just look around a bit and see who this Sapolsky guy is, since I'd never heard of him. I found his books (linked to above), his Wikipedia page, and a very cool speech he gave to Stanford students about to graduate. It's about the uniqueness of humans. Here is the Stanford speech: TED likes him too. Here's his bio page. "If a rat is a good model for your emotional life, you're in big trouble." Robert Sapolsky I guess it's no surprise that he's an "unbudgeable atheist". Did I mention he was awarded a MacArthur Genius Grant? But if you watch the videos, you'll find that he's fairly easy to understand, so he's able to teach what he knows, which is awesome. Oh, and the connection between toxoplasma and schizophrenia? Science Daily has a few studies that I could find: Cross-posted from Morgantown Atheists No comments: Post a Comment
global_01_local_2_shard_00001658_processed.jsonl/13173	My original title for this article was 12 Ruminations of a Godless Heathen. I don't expect christians to read these questions and give me answers. I've read the bible. This isn't about wanting to debate anyone over minutiae. These are questions that I would have if the christian god existed. Since I'm fairly confident that no gods exist (due to lack of any evidence of anything supernatural in all the known universe), I'm merely throwing out some food for thought. You might find them interesting or challenging. Some of these originally came from stumbling around the interwebs. I'm not claiming that the concepts are all original, in fact probably none of them are. But these are questions I've come up with in dealing with christians over the years. I've never had any of them answered to any satisfaction. 1. Why is nature so cruel? Watch a cat (or my husky) catch a mole and toy with it for hours before killing it. Or watch killer whales catch a baby seal and throw it 30 feet into the air like a beach ball and play with it for hours before killing it. It’s brutal. So if God is Love, why would he create a world that is so cruel and so inhospitable? Why is most of the planet uninhabitable for humans - ie, either ocean or desert, either too hot or too cold - so that the only way we can even go to those places is through manmade technology? And why is 99.99999999% of the universe apparently and completely inhospitable to life, never mind human life? Why couldn’t a loving God create a loving universe that was based on mutual altruism, kindness and symbiosis, as well as where life can prosper in all regions and on all planets? 2. If God is Love, and if God is perfect, why are innocent babies born with horrific birth defects? Why would God let that happen to an innocent baby like that? Often these babies die or have very difficult and sometimes short, excruciatingly painful lives. How can you rationalize that away with an all-loving, all-powerful god? 3. Does God answer your prayers? On average, how many of your prayers are answered? Be honest. About half? Why is that only as good as chance and no better? Why does he only answer prayers on matters that can right themselves naturally or through human intervention? Why is it never against physics or a true miracle? 1. On a side note, when a human does something to help a christian (ie, an EMT gives CPR and revives a dying man, gets him to the emergency room, and then a team of doctors and nurses heroically works on the man to save his life and get him back to health) why does everyone praise God and not the huge number of wonderful, well-trained people who used human created science-based medicine and other human created technologies to do the actual work? Why didn’t God just make it so no one ever gets heart attacks, cancer or other diseases in the first place? 4. If we’re all made in God’s image, and if lizards and octopi are given the ability to grow back a tail or a limb, why are the prayers of amputees never answered? Why has he never grown back a limb for an amputee? In Africa, children lose their limbs to war, perverted forms of (usually christian-inspired) witchcraft, even just for being albinos. Yet God never answers their prayers and grows back their limbs. Not even a little bit. Or what about soldiers who fight in battle for our freedoms? Don’t they deserve some consideration from God? What does God have against amputees? (see more here) 5. Why would Jesus only cure a leper or a blind man but not all leprosy or blindness? Jesus’ “miracles” were parlor tricks, common at the time. If he was half god, why didn’t he actually do anything useful or wonderful with his abilities? 6. In Matthew 10:7-8 Jesus said, “And as you go, preach, saying, The kingdom of heaven is at hand.' "Heal the sick, raise the dead, cleanse the lepers, cast out demons. Freely you received, freely give. And in Mark 16:17-18, Jesus said, "These signs will accompany those who have believed: in My name they will cast out demons, they will speak with new tongues; they will pick up serpents, and if they drink any deadly poison, it will not hurt them; they will lay hands on the sick, and they will recover." So if the Kingdom of Heaven was at hand about 2,000 years ago, what’s the delay? And why is there no word of the disciples or followers of Jesus doing any of those miracles as he said they should then and now? 7. If God was so smart to create the entire universe, why did he always resort to incredible violence and sacrifice when things didn’t go his way? First there was the flood. What did all the animals do to get drowned and annihilated? What did all the innocent babies do to be drowned by God? Isn’t it juvenile of God to get so upset that humans behaved in human ways, that he had to drown them along with every living creature, like throwing out all of your toys because the building blocks fell down when you stacked them too high? And when he repopulated the world, why save just one family? Obviously this plan is incredibly flawed since these humans were still human and imperfect. So then he destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah in violence, along with Lot’s wife whose only crime was to turn her head. And then, later his brilliant plan is to impregnate a virgin with his son who he then has tortured and crucified. That’s the best he could do? That’s his best plan? Not that Jesus’ sacrifice was anything more than a hollow token gesture. He suffered for a weekend and then his reward for that relatively minor inconvenience to a half-god is to rule over heaven for eternity. If someone said I could rule over heaven and be worshiped as the only child of God and all I had to do was go through what he went through, I’d think that wasn’t such a bad deal. But why does everything that God involve himself in mirror the barbaric violence of the Iron Age people who were writing his missives down? God could easily have come up with any way to forgive humanity for being just the way he made them (which seems ridiculous, right off the bat! For instance, when my husky acts like a husky, I understand that she’s a dog. I don’t get mad at her and punish her with brutal violence or death for doing doggy things.) So why couldn’t God have found a helpful way to show that he forgave humanity? Why not a cleansing rain that washed away sins? This would be welcome in a desert. It would mean that those people would have abundant crops. Why the violence and brutality? 8. And why did God and then Jesus wait so long in human history to make themselves known? Why did God never show himself to any other cultures besides the ones in Mesopotamia? What about all the millions of people in China, India, the Americas, Europe? Why only to people who were previously exposed to the Sumerian and related religions of which early Judaism is similar? Why couldn’t God bring the same message to all people all over the world on his own? Why only have one contradictory, barbaric set of books that aren’t easily understood by all people on first exposure (assuming he can’t just make himself known at birth. Why are all babies born atheists? If he wants to be loved, why not give everyone a fair chance to love him and give him the worship he seems to obsessively need and crave? And why does God need to be worshiped anyway? He’s God. Why does he have such human needs, emotions and reactions? Why does his one set of books have to be soaked in violence (even by Jesus who reiterated time and again that anyone who doesn't follow and worship him will be damned to hell)? Why did God delight in the smell of burning goat flesh? Why did he ever need blood sacrifices at all? Why not find a loving way to get people to apologize for being the flawed humans that God created in the first place? And why didn’t God himself condemn slavery? Why did he even condone it? (Leviticus 25:44-46) What kind of moral guidance is that? 9. Why, after nearly 2,000 years, isn’t the love of Jesus universal? Missionaries have been all over the planet. If God’s message is so enlightening, and if the benefits of being a christian are so great, why do millions and millions of people forgo it? And why is there so much divergence among christianity if it’s the one true religion? Wouldn't all religions slowly converge on the "truth" of Jesus' message?Why wouldn’t God make it easy to understand his message to give people a chance? And in that vein, why in Mark 4:11-12 did Jesus say, “To you has been given the mystery of the kingdom of God, but those who are outside get everything in parables, so that while seeing, they may see and not perceive, and while hearing, they may hear and not understand, otherwise they might return and be forgiven.” Is that loving and compassionate? He had already made it clear that if you are not forgiven you are damned. 10. If God created humans as flawed - if you can call being curious about knowledge and gullible when you are completely ignorant sinful - how sinful can humans really be, and isn’t it his fault for making us this way in the first place? Even if we are sinful, do we really deserve to be damned to eternal suffering in hell? Why does hell exist at all? Why would a loving god create a place of eternal torment just for questioning or thinking for ourselves, or making mistakes and doing things wrong? Isn’t that the ultimate evil? Even Hitler, the most evil person I can think of, couldn’t be evil enough to be tortured for trillions and trillions of eons times infinity. If he was created by God, wouldn’t God find some small mercy after several trillion years? No. Not according to the bible. That’s real evil. And it’s very childish, too. What happened to forgiveness? 11. Why are more and more questions answered by science? Why does religion have to keep giving up more ground to the natural world? If God exists why aren’t more questions answered by “God did it” and more evidence of God piling up? Why does science, a human endeavor that is self-correcting, fill in the gaps and change as we learn and grow, while the only time religion changes its stance is to finally defer to science, usually after it has been proven and accepted for a long time? 12. How do you reconcile what Jesus said in Luke 14:26, “If anyone comes to Me, and does not hate his own father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, yes, and even his own life, he cannot be My disciple.” Are these the words of a loving Jesus? 13. UPDATE: This is an extra one. If God is perfect and loving, why did he create imperfection? Isn't that impossible? How could a perfect being create flawed humans, and also create malaria, cancer and heart disease, etc? This is a working list. If you have questions that you think belong on this list, feel free to comment with them. No comments: Post a Comment
global_01_local_2_shard_00001658_processed.jsonl/13184	Friday, 19 September 2008 Triac Mains Switching Mains switching is something I've always wandered about; relays always seemed like the way to do things, but what if you don't have a device that can supply enough current to throw the switch, or what if space is quite a limiting factor? I looked into triacs to solve my problem, and, with my new found knowledge, I set about creating the circuit detailed below: The MOC3020M is a triac optoisolator - basically, it's a light-sensitive triac with a small light source in one component. Pins 1 and 2 are used to turn the light source on and off, which in turn allows the internal traic (pins 4 and 6) to conduct. This internal triac is used to trigger another traic; one which is capable of dealing with larger currents. Mine, the 2N6073A, could handle 4A if heat-sunk properly. But, I've kept it well away from that with a 2.2A circuit breaker. There's a fair amount of information on the Internet about how traics work, so I won't put any here; take a look if you're interested. Basically, the triac will conduct (through the main terminals) as long as there is a voltage/current on the 'gate'. It stops conducting, after the gate voltage/current has been removed, as soon as the voltage/current over the main terminals crosses zero. I decided to put my circuit in a small plastic box to keep it safe and out of the way. I also attached a trailing socket so I could use it for more than one project, easily. The earth wire isn't connected in my circuit (except to the trailing socket) since the box is plastic. For the control cable, I decided to use a length of telephone cable (which normally has RJ11 connectors on the end) using just 2 of the strands - leaving room for expansion. The mains device can be triggered 'on' by applying 5V to pin 1 of the triac optoisolator. My intention was to have the circuit triggered by my Arduino, opening a world of possibilities. The Main Circuit The plug, triac circuit and trailing socket One thing I have noticed with my circuit is that when certain devices at home are turned on, but the triacs are off, the connected device (to the trailing socket) gets a bit of power for a fraction of a second. The traic miss-fires for a tiny period of time due to the magnitude of dv/dt - the change in voltage per small unit of time. These values are discussed on the triac's datasheet. If this becomes an issue, I'll have to design a snubber circuit to dampen the effect and solder it in (hence the large space to the left of the board). Anonymous said... Was thinking of doing the same thing. Is it possible to remove the second triac and somehow trigger the traic using a microcontroller directly? chris said... Yes, you can! Take a look at the 2N6073A's datasheet (below). It can be triggered with TTL level voltages, but the datasheet itself recomends using triggering devices (mine being the MOC3020). Besides, what's an extra £1 for completely isolating the microcontroller? Anonymous said... Any chance of using the following triac for this? It has better off-state characteristics: Anonymous said... BTW, the Triac I'm planning on using is a Littelfuse Q4025L6. The URL is (the previous one is the wrong datasheet) chris said... It certainly looks very good, but 25A is a lot of current! Have you chosen one capable of passing 25A because you need to pass just under 25A? I don't know what you're triggering; my circuit was for non-inductive loads. You may not have realised it, but the alternistor is a proprietary improvement upon the triac specifically to aid triggering inductive loads. If it is inductive loads you are triggering, you'll need a different circuit. There are a number available on the internet, so it shouldn't be too difficult to find one for your needs. Anonymous said... I am planning on using it to trigger basically anything whoever uses my device decides to plug in. See, I was making a relay box that you can control with an Arduino Mega, but then I figured out that triacs could be better and actually would be cheaper and smaller than a bunch of relays. I actually chose an alternistor just in case the user plugged in an inductive load. About the current... that was the only alternistor that Futurlec sells. I am assuming that an absolute maximum of 15 amps will e drawn from the AC side of things at once. That means that each triac needs to be ready for a 15 amp draw. Yeah, I know it's a lot, but better safe than sorry. Also, what heatsink should I use (assuming that 15 amps is actually being drawn from that triac?) GusPS said... What wattage is R3? I've tested it and I burnt two 1K ohm resistors. Tried with 1/4 and 1/2 watt. I don't have 2N6073, so I use TYN412. maybe that was the problem, but in the shop tell me that it's "the same thing". And, watch out about what you turn on. In the MOC3020 datasheet show different circuits in case of resistive or inductive loads. GusPS said... I'll answer myself. The problem was the TYN412. It's not a TRIAC. It's a Thyristor. I changed it with a BTA08-600C and worked ok with 1W, 1/2W and 1/4 W. But... low wattage bulb (CFT lamps) doesn't work. Anyone knows who can I make it work? Raymond said... Might be a stupid question, but how can you can run mains voltage into the gate of the 2N6073A when the datasheet says its peak gate voltage is 5V? Michael Motes said... The max gate current is 5V, that's the voltage between pins 1 and 2 from the MCU. The maximum voltage between pins 6 and 4 is the peak repetitive off-state voltage from the data sheet, which is 400V. NJC said... I believe that the pin orientation of the TRIAC is incorrect. The gate pin goes on the A1 side, and the resistor supplying the current to the gate should be connected to A2.
global_01_local_2_shard_00001658_processed.jsonl/13191	Update: Brand NEW Posts Coming Soon!!!! Sunday, July 8, 2007 Do we have a purpose? It is increasingly difficult to find meaning and purpose in a world that seems as if it is going to hell in a hand basket. We live in a world where it’s not frowned upon for fourteen year olds to have children, gay is the new black, a buffoon like Bush can be president, adultery and fornication are common place, materialism flourishes, violence is cool, and scandal is ubiquitous. I could continue to go on and on, but those things are not the purpose of this post. Yes, even this post has purpose. The big question is do human beings really have purpose even amongst the chaos that we call everyday life? Is there some larger reason for our short existences beyond our jobs, titles, struggles and shortcomings? Do the evolutionists have it right that life just evolved randomly without any real meaning, symbolic or literal, behind it? If this idea is true we are forced to consider its implications: that we live and we die and that’s it! It suggests that our purpose is only to die so that the next generation can evolve and then die. There is no heaven, no hell, no morality—no distinction between good and bad. That sounds brutally nihilistic. I cannot accept that. It would be hypocritical for me to continue this post as if I too don’t struggle to find meaning and purpose in my life. When I was in college my purpose was to be a good student and graduate. When I took a job at a non-profit my purpose was to do what the white people wanted me to do in order to get paid. Now I dip strawberries for a living. My life is free from accolades, conferences, intellectual pursuits, extracurricular activities and the proverbial rat race. It is free of all the things that previously drove me…to what, I ask emphatically? As I write this post, I am just inches away from the stand that holds all of my awards. There are trophies, plaques, and medallions that I have amassed: things that once meant so much to me, but that now seem to exist solely so that I can have something to dust off. Even the B.S. degree that I worked so hard for (it cost me insomnia, 2 visits to the hospital for stress related issues, lost of good social opportunities, and a large potion of my sanity) now seems worth less. The promised doors that it was supposed to open have now slammed shut; the honor that it was supposed to bring was short lived. Alas I dip strawberries, but I reflect on these things as I skewer the delicious red berries and gently submerge them in chocolate, twirl them and freeze them only to repeat the meaningless process over and over again. Yes, even strawberries have purpose. Yesterday I attended an annual church function where all of the churches in my conference get together to worship and fellowship and do whatever else church folk do. Ironically (or maybe perhaps not so ironically) one of the ministers there talked about this issue of purpose. His message was simple, yet meaningful and beautiful, and hope-inspiring. Though I am not gifted enough a writer to fully capture the essence of his message in this brief post, I can tell you that his conclusion was that our purpose—the purpose of the entire human race—is to glorify God* . That resonated with me. It was simple and profound. It is our ultimate purpose. It is the reason we were so lovingly created—not thrown together by some astronomically improbable chance. So in our struggles, our defeats, our successes, our careers, our relationships, our silence, our disillusionment, and even our strawberry dipping we are to live for God’s glory. I began this post with a question, one that has been overwhelming me for months or perhaps years. One that has caused me bouts of depression, weeks of exasperation, and what felt like insurmountable anxiety. I can feel those weights began to lift and hope’s light penetrate the darkness upon discovering the answer is a resounding yes. * Not that I didn't already know this. I am a Christian. We hear stuff like that all the time, but that this was the first time it ever really began to mean something to me on a deeper level. 1 comment: "L is for Loquacious" said... Yep, I totally jacked your subscription thing...(insert evil laughter here;-)
global_01_local_2_shard_00001658_processed.jsonl/13205	Thursday, 2 July 2015 4 Slap heads 4 Slap heads Pics soon, I promise I'm just aching so much, I can't walk into the kitchim to get my moby. I know I'm a terrible lightweight . Chemotherapy tomorrow at 10.30. Think of me? And Mr Hickmans not doing his job :) I needed 4 injections in my ever collapsing veins!! yesterday Good mood, it could just be because I'm off my face on steroids, which I need to take b4 during and after my chemo. 1. People taking chemotherapy react differently. Here's a brave woman with cancer, actually looking forward to this treatment. I highly appreciate her efforts. Hats off to her!!
global_01_local_2_shard_00001658_processed.jsonl/13221	Tuesday, June 16, 2009 Jason Voorhees in Your Own Home! No...I'm not selling my 6 foot tall Jason Voorhees prop....are you kidding? I love that thing! And then, to show his diversity and creepiness, we dressed him up as a clown for last year's Monster Bash: But...today is a special day! Today, Friday the 13th (2009 remake) is released on DVD! So you guys and ghouls can have your very own Camp Crystal Lake without leaving the comfort of your couches! Friday The 13th 2009 Pal DVD Cover by X-Records Pictures, Images and Photos In case you didn't already see my blog about this movie...since I saw it on Midnight on...Friday the 13th....here's the trailer: And here's unreleased footage with Uncle Phil from the Fresh Prince of Bel Air ....ok fine...that wasn't real....Or was it? Anyway, Jim and I already have the entire library of Friday the 13th films...so of course we need to add to our collection. I'll see you at Best Buy later. Jim said... I'd also like to get the "Killer Cut" which is, I believe, 15 minutes longer.
global_01_local_2_shard_00001658_processed.jsonl/13224	Saturday, October 03, 2009 A new question to ponder and explore... Jennica had massive sleep issues a few years back. If any of you parents out there have experienced sleep issues with a child, you know that this is the absolutely about the hardest thing in the world. I prefer to read about midnight in Cinderella, and not really experience it firsthand with a child still bouncing off the walls of my living room. At its worst right about the time she turned two, we thankfully found melatonin after about 5 months of nobody sleeping, and she still takes 5 milligrams every single night about 30 minutes before bedtime. Melatonin is something we make sure to never run out of. We have occasionally been able to cut the dose down, as 5 milligrams is a very large dose even for an adult, but for the most part, her brain demands the full 5 mg to do its thing. (For those of you that might not know about melatonin, it should be present naturally in all of our bodies and is released when the body is ready for sleep. Children with neuro-developmental disorders, for an as-yet-unknown reason, often don't have enough melatonin, or the melatonin they have doesn't trigger the sleep response that it should. So........its very common to supplement their bodies with melatonin to help trigger sleep. Interesting, huh?) In any case, melatonin supplementation worked instantly with Jennica. From all outward appearances, she now sleeps normally like everyone else in our house. As long as she has her melatonin supplement. All is good, right? Jen is suddenly struggling with staying awake in class in the afternoons. She hasn't napped regularly in over a year, so we have assumed that her brain is so exhausted by the massive sensory input that she is receiving that her brain is simply "quitting" for awhile on some days. She is typically falling asleep during afternoon circle time about 2 days per week, and the teacher is wisely allowing her the rest. We've just figured that she would slowly adjust to the sensory environment and no longer need this little nap. But this week, we had an odd question. Does she have a sleep disorder? My instant answer was, "No. Not as long as she has her melatonin. Once she is asleep, she sleeps long and hard." But an interesting conversation followed with some interesting points that made me stop and think. Bottom line........Jennica DOES show some symptoms of a sleep disorder. Hmmmm........ So, now we have something new to check out. She appears to be sleeping normally. But is her brain really dropping into the very deep level of sleep that allows true rest? Or is she experiencing only "survival sleep"? We are headed back to the neuro-developmentalist on October 12th. Now we've got a brand new line of questioning for him. I'm sure he'll be thrilled. :) No comments:
global_01_local_2_shard_00001658_processed.jsonl/13256	学術雑誌論文 Location-Unbound Color-Shape Binding Representations in Visual Working Memory. Saiki, Jun 27 ( 2 ) , pp.178 - 190 , 2016-02-09 , SAGE Publications 視覚認知において色と形の情報が統合される仕組み－位置に依存しない物体記憶の生成－. 京都大学プレスリリース. 2016-01-04. The mechanism by which nonspatial features, such as color and shape, are bound in visual working memory, and the role of those features' location in their binding, remains unknown. In the current study, I modified a redundancy-gain paradigm to investigate these issues. A set of features was presented in a two-object memory display, followed by a single object probe. Participants judged whether the probe contained any features of the memory display, regardless of its location. Response time distributions revealed feature coactivation only when both features of a single object in the memory display appeared together in the probe, regardless of the response time benefit from the probe and memory objects sharing the same location. This finding suggests that a shared location is necessary in the formation of bound representations but unnecessary in their maintenance. Electroencephalography data showed that amplitude modulations reflecting location-unbound feature coactivation were different from those reflecting the location-sharing benefit, consistent with the behavioral finding that feature-location binding is unnecessary in the maintenance of color-shape binding. このアイテムのアクセス数：回
global_01_local_2_shard_00001658_processed.jsonl/13295	Slicing Doors For what ? Show your realizations, photos, etc. in a only block. In the hovering or in the targeting (keyboard navigation), the legend of an image will be revealed leaving place with a rather free contents. See the demonstration As show it the demo, you can chose among 1, 2 and 4 doors. This type of tool is very simple to set up because it is a plugin of the jQuery library. It's also very light (6,87 Ko) and can be reduced thanks to the Gzip compression in approximately 1,6 ko. 1. The HTML structure of your document will have to look like it: <div class="juizCaption"> <a href="#"> <img src="img/photo1.png" alt="" class="juiz-thumbnail" /> <div class="caption"> <h2>Snow snow snow</h2> <p>If you jump, you jumped !</p> If your classes are different you will have to adapt the file CSS. <link href="css/juizSlicingDoors.css" rel="stylesheet" These styles are customizable, naturally. 3. Download the jQuery library, or make a link from the Google API . <script type="text/javascript" <script type="text/javascript" 5. Call the function by targeting exactly the elements to be placed in the Slicing Doors. Place this code following the previous two lines: <script type="text/javascript"> $(document).ready(function() { This plugin offers you quite a lot of customizations which will maybe be still widened afterward. For the moment here are those proposed and their default parameters. Name Description Value / "Default" nbDoors The number of doors in the animation Le nombre 1, 2 or 4 Default : "4" animOrientation The orientation of the animation. Useless option if the number A word among: "top", "bottom", "left" or "right" (for 1 door), "vertical" or "horizontal" (for 2 doors) Default : "vertical" showEffect Effect of opening animation A name of jQuery Easing effect Default : "jswing" hideEffect Effect of closing animation A name of jQuery Easing effect Default : "easeOutBounce" showDuration Duration of the opening animation An integer (milliseconds) Default : "300" hideDuration Duration of the closing animation An integer (milliseconds) Default : "800" Afficher la liste des valeurs de jQuery Easing • jswing • def • easeInQuad • easeOutQuad • easeInOutQuad • easeInCubic • easeOutCubic • easeInOutCubic • easeInQuart • easeOutQuart • easeInOutQuart • easeInQuint • easeOutQuint • easeInOutQuint • easeInSine • easeOutSine • easeInOutSine • easeInExpo • easeOutExpo • easeInOutExpo • easeInCirc • easeOutCirc • easeInOutCirc • easeInElastic • easeOutElastic • easeInOutElastic • easeInBack • easeOutBack • easeInOutBack • easeInBounce • easeOutBounce • easeInOutBounce If you wish it we speak about it on the blog, so don't hesitate to ask your questions! When you wish to modify a style, you just have to complete the function like that: 'nbDoors' : "2", 'animOrientation' : "horizontal" * *
global_01_local_2_shard_00001658_processed.jsonl/13301	Tuesday, September 7, 2010 I met this person a couple years ago. She was making sandwiches up at the sundance ski resort. The hair. The skin complexion. I left a note telling her I was a painter and wanted to paint her face. I think she was weirded out. This is one of my favorite paintings to date. Right now it's part of the mirror mirror show up at Meyer Gallery in Park City.
global_01_local_2_shard_00001658_processed.jsonl/13313	Topic: Cliffs - Overview Topic type: Cliffs are the separation points that keep the squabbling sea and grumbling land apart. Cliffs are the sacrificial pawns in a macabre game of chess that only the sea can ever win. In time, cliffs give birth to sea-caves, arches and rock stacks. However, like the cliffs, they too eventually succumb to the sea. The topography of both the land and the sea-floor, combined with the coastline’s orientation relative to the prevailing wind direction, dictates how the sea sculpts the cliffs out into hollows (bays, inlets and coves) and promontories. In Tongaporutu’s case, geologically speaking, this occurs at a breakneck speed. This is because the cliffs here, despite first appearances, are primarily composed of soft materials, such as fine-grained siltstone (often called papa), and sandstone. The top yellow-brown material (soil) is derived from sand and volcanic ash deposited in the last 125,000 years. Some cliffs, like those at Te Kawau Pa and Rapanui North are also highly folded. Water is the primary carver of the coastline. It comes in the form of waves, rain and stream runoff. It is both a creator and a destroyer. WAVES. Waves pounding into cliff bases, not only physically smash the cliff, they also generate shockwaves that radiate outwards and upwards through the internal structure of the cliff. Weak spots such as well defined fault-lines are particularly affected by these shock-waves. Wavequakes are the watery version of earthquakes. Stand on top of a cliff being shaken during a violent storm and you’ll know what I mean! Also, like earthquakes, they can instigate a ripple effect. The more powerful the wavequake, the further the shockwaves travel, the more likely they are to interact with other fault-lines and set up one or more daughter collapses. RAIN. Raindrops come in different sizes. All things being equal, below a certain size, a longer period of time is needed to see any noticeable effect. However, once raindrops reach a critical size, they have sufficient mass/force to penetrate soft rock. All of this can occur within a single heavy rain bearing event. The longer the duration, the greater the erosion. Rain also has another card up its sleeve: Liquefaction. Raindrops are a moving force. This has the effect of not only adding to the individual soil particle’s mass, (water being heavier than the air it replaces), but of adding a lubricating factor. Thus, when x number of soil particles are so binded together, then their collective mass is such that they act as a gigantic ‘whole’ and collapse downwards, usually along well-defined fault-lines. Adding to this is the shockwave generated by the raindrops hitting the cliff and travelling downwards. Because of the higher porosity, (air filled gaps), nearer the top, they can interact with wave generated shockwaves travelling upwards from the cliff’s base. Though the prevailing weather front direction is from the south-west, the most destructive rain bearing events tend to come from the north-west. Thus the primary sea/wave carving direction is from the south-west, while the primary rain carving direction is from the opposite direction. Generally speaking, this leads to a ‘handedness’ in how the cliffs, arches and sea-caves, are carved and eroded out. More detailed information on this process is given in the relevant sections. STREAMS. Streams flowing over cliffs on a permanent basis, (droughts notwithstanding), add to the erosion process. At site specific erosion hotspots, their action is highly caustic. They are both a destroyer and a creator, (as are waves and rain). On the one hand streams preferentially carve cliffs back, while on the other, they create rock stacks. Sometimes both processes occur at the same location. Very dry conditions aren’t often thought of as being cliff carvers. However, extreme drying out can cause shrinkage and open up cracks. The tops of cliffs are particularly prone to this because the material is more loosely bound together. These conditions favour shavings and partial collapses. Dry conditions can also create large crack lines where promontories branch off from cliffs. Then, when it rains they close up. This shrink/expand cycle works in a similar way to the freeze and thaw cycle. Both of which are just as destructive. This is because both cycles instigate fatigue. Fatigue always increases over time and leads to eventual failure. Drought can perhaps thus be looked upon as the ‘silent carver’. STATIC. Gravity can be seen as a constant force. It is always acting on the cliffs, irrespective of the presence or absence of other forces. DYNAMIC. Wave shock. This includes an initial energy pulse – physical wave slamming into the exterior of the cliff. Physical waves also produce shockwaves that travel internally through the cliff. COUPLING. This is where forces can be applied. A good example of this is wind and sea. The higher the wind speed, the rougher the sea – one force acts upon another to produce a greater overall force. This also affects RESONANCE. When the sea is relatively calm, it will resonate at a low frequency. The rougher the sea, the higher the frequency - the more energy the frequency carries. BEACHES. As everyone knows, standing on a beach in high wind is a most unpleasant experience. Sand gets blown all over the place, including into your eyes! Also, stand on a beach after a particularly virulent storm and you may wonder where all the sand has gone. CLIFFS. As I have already mentioned, with the cliffs at Tongaporutu being composed of interbedded layers of sandstone and mudstone, it should come as no surprise that they too are highly susceptible to the twin erosional forces of water and wind. To get some idea of what actually occurs, it might make things a little easier if one visualizes a cliff as being a series of thirds, starting at the bottom and ending at the top. THE BOTTOM THIRD. When a wave slams into a cliff base, the resulting shockwave preferentially follows the line of least resistance. That is, it will extend further into the line of least resistance. What this equates to is that at the cliff, there is the maximum amount of resistance to movement. (It is the most stable). As the base cannot move, firstly because it is fixed to bedrock and secondly because the material is so compressed, it has no ‘give’. This induces brittleness that renders it highly prone to fracturing and carving. Also, all cliffs have natural fracture/fault- lines. When a wave slams into a cliff’s base, the shockwaves it generates will travel along these fault-lines. The more three-dimensional the surface, the more prone to fracturing the cliff will be. If the shockwaves are energetic enough, they will travel right up to the cliff’s top. THE TOP THIRD. At the cliff’s top there is the minimum amount of resistance to movement. (It is the least stable). This is because, being less compressed than the bottom third, it has the maximum ‘give’. I call this the ‘wobble factor’. This renders the top third highly susceptible to oscillation. This is mostly induced by shockwaves travelling upwards from the base of the cliff. Adding to this, the top third is generally composed of a more loosely bound composite mix of volcanic ash, sand and plant created humus. This makes it highly vulnerable to rain induced ‘top down’ erosion. THE MIDDLE THIRD. This section of the cliff is for the most part above the splash zone, but also for the most part, below the wobble zone of the top. This could lead one to believe that the middle third is therefore the most stable part of the cliff, but this may not be so. The bottom third of the cliff, though subject to fracturing, is usually quite hardened, (compressed), due to gravity. If it wasn’t, it couldn’t support the top two thirds for very long. The top third, though fairly loose and only subject to a relatively weak force of gravity compared to the base, is, like the base, more likely to lose on average, an insignificant amount of material at any one time, but for the loss to occur on a fairly regular basis. (There is a notable exception to this, namely on Beach One). The middle third of the cliff by contrast, is the most likely to experience a catastrophic collapse, but on an irregular basis that can span years before such an event occurs. Why is this? The middle third is essentially the balancing act. How stable it is, is determined by the density ratio. That is, the ratio of mass to volume at any given point in time. The bottom third has the most mass, while the top third has the most volume (space). If this space is filled with water, then the ratio of volume to mass shifts and you have the potential for destabilization. Equally, if the bottom third has a sizeable chunk carved off it, the density ratio changes. Thus the primary reason why cliffs and rock stacks collapse is due to how the bottom third of the cliff and the top third of the cliff, impact, either separately or both together, on the middle third of the cliff. Some of the cliffs at Tongaporutu have wall-like features. The main ones I have documented are located at the Gibbs Fishing Point. I call them the Wall and the Mega-Wall respectively. These cliffs are remarkably two-dimensional in nature. They have been compacted and super-hardened by the biggest waves on the coast. Because these cliffs are so flat and relatively smooth, water is able to more efficiently flow over them, thus minimizing any external damage. At the other extreme are the ‘soil cliffs’ that form part of Beach One. These are composed of a higher ratio of loose soil and ‘rotten rock’ than most of the other cliffs on the Tongaporutu coastline. This makes them particularly vulnerable to rain induced erosion. (Liquefaction). CARVING. This has already been described, but to recap, waves cause direct carving of the cliffs. COLLAPSE TYPES There are basically two types of collapse. ROCK CLIFF COLLAPSE which can be further defined as shavings, partials, full cliff face collapse and the biggest of all, a total cliff section collapse. The latter two fall into the category of catastrophic or abrupt failure, whereas shavings and partial cliff collapses would be more wear and tear or erosion type failure. Another type of collapse is LIQUEFACTION. This is where loose soil or a mix of loose material flows like a liquid avalanche. The soil cliffs of Beach One as I have just mentioned, are particularly prone to this type of collapse. During extreme rain events, these cliffs literally ‘melt’ in gargantuan soil bleeds. You can also have a combination of the two as in the massive (and only) cliff section collapse that I recorded on the Three Sisters Beach in November 2008. My first impression upon seeing it from Pilot Point, was that it looked like a giant flood; not of water, but of soil/boulders. CRACK GROWTH. This is concerned with the stress factors that impact on the cliffs and in particular the fault-lines that honeycomb the cliffs. Over time they are continually being subjected to rain, drought, wave smashing, wave bounce and wind. In short, the cliffs and their inherent fault-lines suffer cumulative damage resulting in a failure end point. LOADING can be added to this. All cliff collapse types alter the loading on the surviving parts of the cliffs and their fault-lines as the cliff’s mass and energy is re-distributed. This in turn will reconfigure their failure end point. Lastly, we have the effects of climate change to consider. The warmer the climate, the greater the level of thermal expansion, the more severe the weather, the higher the wave impact zone, equals the rate of coastline retreat. In other words, the warmer the climate, the faster the rate of coastline retreat. TE KAWAU PA. Highly folded rock cliffs. Discuss This Topic There are 0 comments in this discussion. join this discussion
global_01_local_2_shard_00001658_processed.jsonl/13319	Back to top Literary news from the northern coast of the Gulf of Finland What is written and read in the 21st-century Finland? The article gives an overview of the Finnish literature of the current century. The focus lies on poetry and prose, leaving out drama, children’s and youth literature, and comics. What is observed as general trends are genre shift and mixing, disspation of a single ’I’ or narrator, a loss of the boundary from between fact and fiction, intertextuality, and the use of a wide range of topics defying taboos. It is pointed out that modern Finnish literature is personified and the name of an author will typically become a brand. In prose the salient topics include war, history, the role of a man in the modern society, immigration and multicultural Finland. The novels speak in several voices, whereas the short stories tend to integrate into comprehensive series. In autofiction, where the author is transformed into a character, the boundaries of memory, truth and fiction are knowingly violated. A lot of biographical novels are also written. Humour is popular both in poetry and prose, while often the laugh of a Finn is on himself. Modern Finnish poetry is experimental, often gauging the possibilities offered by digital media. The mainstream does not care much for classical meters, but the sound, voice and rhythm are often emphasized. At the same time, prose poetry seems to have regained popularity. Curiously, different modes, styles, topics, or languages can appear mixed within a collection or even in a single poem.
global_01_local_2_shard_00001658_processed.jsonl/13331	Recall the Earth The Guardian Knights of Terra - Book 2 About the series Recall the Earth is the second book in the Guardian Knights of Terra series. Immediately upon release, the novel soared onto Amazon science fiction, steampunk, bestseller list. At the same time the first book in the series, Seekers of Earth, was also on the steampunk bestseller list. The third book in the planned five book series, Return to Earth, is scheduled for release in late 2017. About Recall the Earth Recall the Earth is the second book in the Guardian Knights of Terra series. In the first book, Seekers of Earth, Lucas Baldwin encounters a lunatic girl while advancing through a captured facility. Only later does he realize that the girl, Rachel, is speaking English, a long dead language. Rachel talks of an Earth still in existence and more advanced than the horse-and-buggy world that had supposedly been destroyed. Reviewers Praise the Novel Recall the Earth is available only on Amazon.com! Amazon.com (U.S.) (Paperback) Amazon.ca (Canada) (Paperback) Amazon.co.uk (U.K.) (Paperback) Amazon Kindle (U.S.) (ebook) Amazon.au (Australia) (ebook) Amazon Kindle (Canada) (ebook) Amazon.co.uk Kindle (U.K.) (ebook)
global_01_local_2_shard_00001658_processed.jsonl/13338	the awesome factor is exponential 1. You're going to love your new camera :) My sister just bought the same one and she's having so much fun with it. And Yay! Congrats on another wholesale order. 2. Thanks so much Jennifer. Yes, it's so exciting to finally get the much to learn, but that is half the fun. hehe! :D
global_01_local_2_shard_00001658_processed.jsonl/13364	Sunday, January 24, 2010 Spain for Christmas I went to Spain for Christmas, and, being me, I took pictures of, almost exclusively, food. I did have some great food there; I think I gained a stone, but I didn't look! I thought I would share some Spanish culinary goodness with you all. Churros y Cafe Churros: Eating churros is like eating hot, crispy oil - delicious, hot, crispy oil. They are really wonderful, but I didn't need lip balm for the rest of the day. We had them at the famous Chocolatería de San Ginés Restaurant in Madrid. This picture sadly doesn't feature the coffee cup full of melted chocolate in which to submerge your fried tasties. Montaditos: Spain has about a thousand names for sandwiches, depending on what size they are. Montaditos are these little guys; they're a good three bites. We ate them at the conveniently named Cerveceria 100 Montaditos (so named because they have 100 different kinds to choose from). If you go on Wednesday, they are all 1 Euro - pretty sweet deal. 12 Grapes Grapes: You can't see all 12, but I swear I ate them. You're supposed to eat 12 grapes on New Year's Eve; well, as the clock strikes 12. I was in charge of getting the grapes, as I had been released into the green pastures of Carrefour for an hour to roam the isles in search of cheap olive oil and Nocilla (which is the Spanish [and better] version of Nutella) and seedless grapes. Fail. I mean, I found cheap olive oil and Nocilla (thank god), but I did not get seedless grapes. I even know the word for seed in Spanish. I just didn't see any. And these guys were little; they were American seedless grape size. Which brings us to a New Year's Eve anticipating crunching down on 12 seeded grapes with the hundreds of us that didn't make it to the center of the Plaza del Sol (bummer). I took it like a champ; my brother and sister-in-law weren't as enthusiastic. I figured I could use the fiber after a week of eating only ham, and, really they're not that hard to chew. Spain was fun, but I'm glad I'm back state-side. Mar's Ribbon Cake, part dieu And you thought I was long gone...I'm back and just as sporadic as ever. I have an update on the ribbon cake, and it's kind of sad. There was no ribbon cake this year! I was so disappointed. Of course this means I have to make a ribbon cake now, but I need a reason. I mean, you don't really need a reason to make a cake, but I will eat all of it if I don't have some means of getting rid of it. And that's repulsive. So. We'll see. Maybe I can make a pink - tan - pink ribbon cake for Valentine's Day?
global_01_local_2_shard_00001658_processed.jsonl/13405	Thursday, March 13, 2014 Check Out Crawljammer for DCC RPG! I don't play the DCC Role Playing Game by Goodman Games. I have heard good things about the game, though, and excellent things about the fan material. So when I saw several RPG blogs touting something called Crawljammer, a fanzine dedicated to fantasy adventures in space, I was interested. I love Spelljammer. So I checked it out. I went to Tim Callahan's Crawljammer blog and looked it over. Good overview of what's in the zine, inspirational ideas, and some Basil Wolverton art. I was impressed. It looked like a lot of fun. Ordering was easy via Pay Pal with Print, PDF, and Print/PDF Combo options. I picked the PDF option, mainly to give it an initial viewing, plus it looks good on my Nook and my Android tablet. The first issue gives a cosmology for space travel, basic ship rules, a new class (Lizardman Mercenary) and an adventure. I most definitely will check out future issues of Crawljammer, maybe a print version too. It's a great example of the new age of self publishing we are living in. More space fantasy please. No comments:
global_01_local_2_shard_00001658_processed.jsonl/13407	[Pdx-pm] Documentation Templates for CGI scripts Roderick A. Anderson raanders at acm.org Sat Aug 13 12:41:13 PDT 2005 That is probably a pretty simplistic ( simpleton ) way to put it. I'm about half way through Damian Conway's "Perl Best Practices" and having a great read. As a _very_ part time coder I had, and let grow, some very sloppy habits. Some of those, as I read the book, it seems are baggage from perl 4.0.36 on DOS. One thing that I didn't see addressed in the Documentation chapter is how to document _invisible_ scripts. Those that only a coder will look but aren't really modules. Maybe it's my naivety but I don't see the "normal" pod documentation doing much good in these since they should almost never be run from a command line. What I'm interested in is how those of you that write web apps document your code. More information about the Pdx-pm-list mailing list
global_01_local_2_shard_00001658_processed.jsonl/13417	Provided by: manpages-dev_3.35-0.1ubuntu1_all bug sem_wait, sem_timedwait, sem_trywait - lock a semaphore #include <semaphore.h> int sem_wait(sem_t sem); int sem_trywait(sem_t sem); Link with -lrt or -pthread. sem_wait() decrements (locks) the semaphore pointed to by sem. If the semaphore's value is greater than zero, then the decrement proceeds, and the function returns, immediately. If the semaphore currently has the value zero, then the call blocks until either it becomes possible to perform the decrement (i.e., the semaphore value rises above zero), or a signal handler interrupts the call. sem_trywait() is the same as sem_wait(), except that if the decrement cannot be immediately performed, then call returns an error (errno set to EAGAIN) instead of sem_timedwait() is the same as sem_wait(), except that abs_timeout specifies a limit on the amount of time that the call should block if the decrement cannot be immediately performed. The abs_timeout argument points to a structure that specifies an absolute structure is defined as follows: struct timespec { time_t tv_sec; /* Seconds / If the timeout has already expired by the time of the call, and the semaphore could not be locked immediately, then sem_timedwait() fails with a timeout error (errno set to If the operation can be performed immediately, then sem_timedwait() never fails with a timeout error, regardless of the value of abs_timeout. Furthermore, the validity of abs_timeout is not checked in this case. All of these functions return 0 on success; on error, the value of the semaphore is left unchanged, -1 is returned, and errno is set to indicate the error. EINVAL sem is not a valid semaphore. The following additional error can occur for sem_trywait(): EAGAIN The operation could not be performed without blocking (i.e., the semaphore currently has the value zero). The following additional errors can occur for sem_timedwait(): EINVAL The value of abs_timeout.tv_nsecs is less than 0, or greater than or equal to 1000 The call timed out before the semaphore could be locked. the use of the sigaction(2) SA_RESTART flag. The (somewhat trivial) program shown below operates on an unnamed semaphore. The program expects two command-line arguments. The first argument specifies a seconds value that is used to set an alarm timer to generate a SIGALRM signal. This handler performs a sem_post(3) to increment the semaphore that is being waited on in main() using sem_timedwait(). The second command-line argument specifies the length of the timeout, in seconds, for sem_timedwait(). The following shows what happens on two different runs of the program: $ ./a.out 2 3 About to call sem_timedwait() sem_post() from handler sem_getvalue() from handler; value = 1 sem_timedwait() succeeded $ ./a.out 2 1 About to call sem_timedwait() sem_timedwait() timed out Program source #include <unistd.h> #include <stdio.h> #include <stdlib.h> #include <semaphore.h> #include <time.h> #include <assert.h> #include <errno.h> #include <signal.h> sem_t sem; #define handle_error(msg) \ static void handler(int sig) main(int argc, char argv[]) struct sigaction sa; struct timespec ts; int s; if (argc != 3) { sa.sa_handler = handler; sa.sa_flags = 0; /* Calculate relative interval as current time plus number of seconds given argv[2] / ts.tv_sec += atoi(argv[2]); continue; / Restart if interrupted by handler / / Check what happened */ if (s == -1) { if (errno == ETIMEDOUT) } else printf("sem_timedwait() succeeded\n"); project, and information about reporting bugs, can be found at
global_01_local_2_shard_00001658_processed.jsonl/13431	Home > Problem of the Week > Archive List > Detail << Prev 2/24/2008 Next >> Ticket or No Ticket? Known Fact: The distance a speeding car takes to stop is directly proportional to the square of the car's speed when the brakes are first applied. Police Report: In a 70 mph speed zone, the Turbo-Chevy involved in an accident left skid marks that were 240 feet long. According to our data chart, a Turbo-Chevy requires 170 feet to stop if it's brakes are applied at a speed of 60 miles/hour. Question: What was the speed of the Turbo-Chevy just before the accident? Related Question of Interest: Suppose the speed of a car is doubled...what is the effect on the stopping distance (e.g. what is the stopping distance for 30 mph)? Source: Adapted from Ethan Bolker's Using Algebra, 1983, p. 212 Hint: What is the general formula for a direct proportion, relating the stopping distance D to the speed v? Can you use the known data to find the constant of proportionality? Solution Commentary: You should find that D = 0.047 V2, and that the Turbo-Chevy's speed was 71 mph. When a car's speed is doubled, its stopping distance is quadrupled! Now, how exact is all of this... Ask your local police force about the formulas they use....and how they take into account the type of car, road conditions, weather conditions, etc. Will this mathematical model stand up in court as viable evidence?
global_01_local_2_shard_00001658_processed.jsonl/13436	Jamie Dornan Who Shot Ya? Episode 24: 50 Shades Freed & Sex in Cinema with Drea Clark Who Shot Ya? Ricky Carmona April Wolfe Alonso Duralde Drea Clark Turn on the air conditioning because it's getting hot in here! The gang is joined, once again, by "kid sister" Drea Clark to talk about 50 Shades Freed. They talk the good, the bad, and the boring of the film. Drea dreams of getting a quote on the 50 Shades Freed DVD cover, April cites some issues that a gynecologist would have with the film, and Alonso points out the enjoyment of watching it as "luxury porn." PLUS the crew has an in depth conversation about the use of sex in cinema. Ricky has some great suggestions because he sure did his homework. Light some candles and turn the lights down low, because you're gonna wanna to set the mood to listen to this episode. In news, Christopher Nolan's kids won't stop calling him "Woodcock", Ava Duvernay and Mayor Eric Garcetti launch an LA diversity initiative, Doug Jones (The Shape of Water) doesn't love that they made a "Fish Man" dildo, and working with Jim Carrey caused makeup artist Kazuhiro Tsuji to go to therapy. Weekly Movie Recommendations: April - The Party Alonso - Double Lover Drea - The Crash Reel Ricky - Y Tu Mamá También, The Dreamers, and Sex and Lucia With Alonso Duralde, April Wolfe, Drea Clark, and Ricky Carmona. Produced by Casey O'Brien and Laura Swisher for MaximumFun.org. Syndicate content
global_01_local_2_shard_00001658_processed.jsonl/13439	Performance per Dollar Ryzen Build Guide Finally, a step by step guide on how to build the best Ryzen 5 gaming PC for the least money! Get iFixit's Pro Tech Toolkit now for only $59.95 USD at http://ifixit.com/linus Buy Ryzen 5 1600 on Amazon: http://geni.us/j6BAAS Buy MasterLiquid Lite 120 on Amazon: http://geni.us/SoIi Buy Vengeance LPX 3000MHz RAM on Amazon: http://geni.us/qeArbqv Buy Phanteks P400S on Amazon: http://geni.us/oeJPf Buy ASUS X370-Pro on Amazon: http://geni.us/uOF8 Buy ASUS Prime B350 on Amazon: http://geni.us/T0J8 Buy EVGA Supernova 650 G2 on Amazon: http://geni.us/6CNeJV Buy EVGA BRONZE 500W on Amazon: http://geni.us/iQhN Buy WD 250GB SSD on Amazon: http://geni.us/BT2Ly0B Buy EVGA SuperClocked 2 GTX 1070 on Amazon: http://geni.us/ZS89Tsx Buy Rosewill NEON K51 on Amazon: http://geni.us/V9QH Buy Rosewill NEON M57 on Amazon: http://geni.us/e3vYt9 Buy Acer XFA240 on Amazon:http://geni.us/klMvdux Discuss on the forum: https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/853060-performance-per-dollar-ryzen-build-guide/ Linus Tech Tips posters at http://crowdmade.com/linustechtips Our production gear: http://geni.us/cvOS Twitter - https://twitter.com/linustech Facebook - http://www.facebook.com/LinusTech Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/linustech Twitch - https://www.twitch.tv/linustech Intro Screen Music Credit: Title: Confessions (feat. Cozi Zuehlsdorff) by MYRNE Listen on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/track/4YquSHfespouUSHEG6ipH7 iTunes Download Link: https://itunes.apple.com/ca/album/confessions-feat-cozi-zuehlsdorff-single/id1280547888?uo=4&&app=itunes&at=1010ls5U&ct=LFV_081a695628f126ca85129e32c62a9613 Outtro Screen Music Credit: Title: Losing You (Instrumental) by Ephixa & Laura Brehm from Losing You Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJyAWzw8yuw Listen on Spotify: https://play.spotify.com/album/57y49FjPn1bm4i5a9oeZOM iTunes Download Link: https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/losing-you-single/id1200171166 Sound effects provided by http://www.freesfx.co.uk/sfx/ • Elite Trix no force at all (finger pushes down on the cpu) • YEET Do you really have to use an ankle strap? • Paradoxical Panda Personally I have the Ryzen 5 1600x and you said your price per performance was based off the included cooler which you then didn't use but that's whatever. I find that the better single thread performance of the 1600x makes it much better at gaming, also I have a 1070 and I found my self with 2666 ram out doing most of these benchmarks (none sli) if you're gonna get this build go for the ryzen 5 1600x, it's £20 more but worth it. • Ben Peng ryzen 5 1600 stock cooler 3.7 ghz 1.28 voltThere is definitely no point in buying a 40 dollar cpu cooler just to overclock it to 4.2 ghz for a mere small percentage increase in improvement. • Youtube Trash South Africa Great ,now I'm gonna spend the whole time worrying about whether he's actually wearing pants or not... • ThirtyOne Fifty I would build this set up if i had 1500 or less. This is a perfect rig for both beginners and professional gamers. • Bullrider What do u mean you will be able to play "most" modern titles. You can play any game with the 1600 and a good graphics card. • myskater 23 that intro is ＡＥＳＴＨＥＴＩＣ • Stuart Walker wtf is this episode budget 2 1070. coulda got a 1080ti, x370 lmao ?????? • Evil Nugget I picked up a Ryzen 5 1600 for 150 on eBay • Ecorigon IV I swear linus is incapable of using parts that the average joe will generally buy. SLI 1070's. Really? I was expecting a more budget build like a ryzen 5 and a 1060. • Frantix Raxx Why is Luke spliced into the video at 02:21 lol #Linus • Noah G Drums Here is is a cheap rygzen system, you know, the kind Linus can't seem to comprehend. https://pcpartpicker.com/user/DJNCG/saved/KctVYJ • Nicolas Rodriguez Budget build:CPU: Ryzen 3 2200GMobo: Gigabyte GA-AB350M-DS3H --- Dont get fooled by the name. Its not X350 Chipset, its X370RAM: 16 GB DDR4 2666GHz Patriot Signature Storage: Adata SU650 120 GB + Any 1TB drivePSU: EVGA 450 80+ BronzeCase: Rosewill Microcomputer case Micro ATXGraphics: GTX 1050 TiYou can run EVERY modern game with this setup, but don't expect to play all of them at 1080. You can for example on CS:GO, League of Legends, Dota 2, any call of duty.637.94$ • djay T-b "great price" • wilson brown I'm sorry Linus but sli? Thats a terrible price to preformance • Opiophobia NO ONE ELSE NOTICED HIS FACE at 2:20 when he said "slick settings???!!?"" • christos karagiannidis What happens if you use ram that is not in amd's list of supported memories? • Harry Jawanda Can someone help me Do the ryzen 5 1600X come with a cpu cooler • gradient602 This video helped me pick out and build my first actual PC build! NO MORE PREBUILDS FOR ME!! Really helped me on a couple parts I was unsure of too! I did go with the lower spec options you spoke of, AB350 gaming 3 mobo instead and I had to use a 4gb GTX 960 I had laying around because its what i could afford to do. The system is awesome and your step by step instructions really helped me build my first PC big time into my Phanteks 400s. This way Waaaaay better then the other build video I saw. Thank you so much for putting out a great step by step video! I'm glad I subbed after your video helped me, you videos are great! Gave me the confidence I needed to take the plunge! 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Normal people could wait for one. • Özgün Çalışkan I built mine a few months ago but with a more bugdet oriented approach. My system was built on Asus B350M Tuf series motherboard with Ryzen 1600X, Gigabyte Windforce GTX 1060 3 gb, 16 gb(8+8) 3000mhz Corsair Vengeance rams, 250 gb WD Blue SSD, 1 tb Seagate BarraCuda HD in Zalman R1 case that came with 600 W psu. Since I chose 1600X I also added Xigmatek CPU cooler. Zalman R1 came with 3 fans included. My main purpose is not gaming so I chose Viewsonic 23,8" VA2419SH monitor and Logitech MK235 keyboard with a basic M170 mouse(it was a set actually and I have another mouse) I of course did my research at that time but I wasn't watching LinusTech then. Now I see that most of my parts are the same. So, what do you think about my system? I am an architect so this built was mainly 2d-3d design oriented among other things. • Tyler c b350 boards wont work with ryzen 2nd gen anyway. Unless you buy an A series cpu to update the bios first. So stupid. • Emi Kadiev This guy used a 1tb ssd and i have ordered an adata ultimate su800, which only has 128 gb. I'm doing a build with a ryzen 5 cpu and a 1070 ti, although I am getting a 1 tb hard drive, did i rly undershoot the ssd? • Merp the Totally Radical Bodacious Awesome Dude 2:20 Did anyone else notice luke's face? • Greg waters "No force at all" 2:59 - 3:01 • GreatBritish World I had an AMD processor in my system, happily changed it for an intel and would never buy another AMD. How To Build a $500 Gaming PC in 2018 An ALL-AMD Gaming PC from DELL?? I used ONLY Ryzen for 30 days... So how did it treat me? $1,000 Gaming PC BUILD GUIDE! How to Build the ULTIMATE 4K Gaming PC Build Guide $69 Gaming PC Building a SWEET $1000 Ryzen Gaming PC! Why would ANYONE build a HUGE PC?? Cheap $45 Mechanical Keyboard Round Up! Should YOU Upgrade to Ryzen? © 2018 Майнинг биткоинов отзывы — Оптимальные видеокарты для майнинга, майнинг биткоинов отзывы. 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