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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/23993 | I have created a view that displays titles of contents created by authenticated users. I have used pagination to display specified number of items per page. Besides this I want a "show all" link that when clicked displays all contents on single page I have enabled the views pager "more" link but this link redirects back to the same page besides displaying all the remaining contents.
How can I show a "show all" link in my pager?
The best way to achieve this is to create a separate page display for all content on a single page. Then add a Footer to the title display with a link to the full page display.
The "Include all items option" only works when the "Expose items per page" is checked. The "Expose items per page" creates an HTML form select list that will allow the user to select the number of items to display per page. Checking the "Include all items option" just adds an option to this HTML form select list to view all items but does not add a "View All" link to the pager. The only solutions I've had was to use a custom theme hook for the theme_pager() within my theme's template.php file.
I run on the same problem not long ago ; it's because the "more" link option only work with blocks.
Under the advanced panel, there's an option "link display" which is displaying only with views blocks. There's an issue which is stated as won't fix, but some people still dicuss on it : https://www.drupal.org/node/1427854
In the mean time, you can simply add a "custom" more link in the footer.
Hope that help. Juda.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/24001 | Why We Can’t Learn Anything in a Classroom
Learning in a classroom is equivalent to listening to an audio book, which cannot be paused or rewound, in a nightclub. And, the book has a highly complex plot. If anything distracts you, and if you miss anything, nothing you hear after that makes sense. Because a nightclub is a highly social setting, there are many things that would distract you. And, you have to cope with a variety of anxieties and fears. To minimize these problems, you read the book at home before going to the nightclub, but now you are bored because you already know what happens next; so you would just focus on partying. I would bet that in 100 years, people would read about how we used to teach, and wonder how we ever learned anything in a classroom.
The writer of this article completely misses the point of Khan Academy. She is stuck in her own tiny bubble, unable to see the big picture. She goes on about the content of Khan’s videos. Obviously, the specifics of how he explains each topic would not be as good as how professional educators would do, but the point that Khan is trying to make is that the problem is not what we are teaching but how we are teaching. The form, not the content, is the problem. |
global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/24026 | Question Of Today! and info....
Discussion in 'Miscellaneous' started by tato505, Oct 23, 2011.
1. Hey guys! A couple of things before i give u the question! I am going to have to make it question of the WEEK cause i am getting less and less ideas to put... but for today! Here it is:
Question: Are you going to Trick or Treat the kids who come to your door this holloween?
Leave any kind of comment Thanks!
2. Every year me and my brother take it in turns to hide in our rubbish bin, you know the ones with wheels. So he or i wheel it around and place it in random areas of the neighbourhood. He and I use 2 ways radio transmittors and let each other know when the little kids are passing the bin. At that point we jump out and give them a frieght. Of course they drop all of their lollies, so i jump out and grab them all. Hahahaha me and my bro cause so much trouble. Who needs to knock on peoples doors, when u can just steal them from little kids :D
3. Lolz so cruel... but i guess i can get a good laugh out of that :p
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/24034 | Jason Rezaian
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Jason Rezaian
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Jason Rezaian in 2016
Born (1976-03-15) March 15, 1976 (age 43)
CitizenshipUnited States, Iran
EducationThe New School
EmployerThe Washington Post
Spouse(s)Yeganeh Salehi
Parent(s)Taghi Rezaian, Mary Rezaian
WebsiteWashington Post Bio
Jason Rezaian and his wife watches a lecture on press freedom by John Kerry after Rezaian's release
Jason Rezaian (Persian: جیسون رضائیان; born on March 16, 1976) is an Iranian-American journalist who served as Tehran bureau chief for The Washington Post. He was convicted of espionage in a closed-door trial in Iran in 2015.
On July 22, 2014, Iranian authorities arrested Rezaian and his wife, Yeganeh Salehi, and took the couple into custody, accusing them of espionage. While Salehi – also a journalist – was released on October 6, Rezaian remained in custody at Evin Prison, a detention center in Tehran known for housing political prisoners and intellectuals.[1] After nine months, it was made public on April 20, 2015, that Iranian authorities had indicted him on four charges, including espionage and "propaganda against the establishment".[2] His trial began on May 26, 2015.[3] His conviction was announced on October 11, 2015. On Nov. 22, 2015, Iranian officials said he had been sentenced to a prison term, the length of which was not disclosed.[4][5] On January 16, 2016, it was announced that he had been released.[6][7]
Rezaian was born March 15, 1976,[8] and raised in Marin County, California, in the San Francisco Bay Area. He attended Wheaton Central High School in Wheaton, Illinois, in his freshman and sophomore years from 1990 to 1992, before transferring to Marin Academy in San Rafael, California, where he got his high school diploma. He holds both American and Iranian citizenship. His late father, Taghi, emigrated to the U.S. from Iran in 1959; and belonged to a Shia family who were caretakers of the Shia shrine in Mashhad, Iran.[9] His mother, Mary (née Breme), originally from Chicago, moved from the U.S. to Turkey following her husband's death.[10][11] His mother was an Evangelical Christian and he has one brother.[12]
External video
After Words interview with Rezaian on Prisoner, February 23, 2019, C-SPAN
Rezaian had been based in Iran as a journalist since 2009. Before becoming the Post's Tehran correspondent in 2012, he wrote for other publications such as the San Francisco Chronicle and Monocle.[13] His wife, Yeganeh Salehi, is an Iranian citizen who is a correspondent for The National, a newspaper based in the United Arab Emirates.[14] After Salehi was arrested, her press credentials were revoked.[15]
Rezaian was the 2016 recipient of the McGill Medal for Journalistic Courage from the Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication.[16]
Rezaian wrote a book, Prisoner: My 544 Days in an Iranian Prison, published in January 2019, detailing his experience in captivity in Iran.[17]
Arrest and detention[edit]
On the night of July 22, 2014, Iranian government security forces raided Rezaian's Tehran residence and arrested him and his wife. The agents reportedly confiscated laptops, books, and notes. In a separate raid that night, security forces also arrested a female photojournalist and her husband, both American citizens.[18] The Washington Post first reported news of the arrests on July 24.[14] On July 25, Tehran Justice Department head Gholam-Hossein Esmaili confirmed the arrests. Esmaili said, "We are now in the investigation phase. I think we will be able to provide more information after technical investigation and questioning." He did not say why they had been arrested. He added, "The security forces have the whole country under surveillance and control the activities of enemies. They will not permit our country to become a land where our enemies and their agents carry out their activities."[19]
The photojournalist and her husband were released within weeks,[20] while Rezaian's wife, Salehi, was released on bail on October 6.[21] Iranian authorities did not disclose Rezaian's whereabouts or welfare, nor did they reveal the circumstances surrounding the couple's arrest and subsequent detention.[22] Officials from the Iranian judiciary and Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance have reportedly told journalists that the case is "security"-related and investigating it "is dangerous".[23]
On December 7, the U.S. State Department announced Rezaian had been charged by an Iranian court with unspecified offenses. According to State, he was denied bail, he has not been allowed to speak with his attorney, and the Iranian government has repeatedly denied requests by Secretary John Kerry for consular services via the Swiss Embassy, the U.S. protecting power in Iran. In a statement, Kerry reiterated calls to release Rezaian, as well as Amir Hekmati, Saeed Abedini, and Robert Levinson – three other Americans also detained in Iran as of that date.[24]
On January 15, 2015, an Iranian prosecutor told state media that Rezaian would stand trial in Iran in a Revolutionary Court on unspecified charges.[20] A few weeks later on February 1, his family announced the case would be heard by Judge Abolghassem Salavati, a controversial figure in the Iranian court system known for handing down harsh sentences (including extensive prison terms, lashings, and death) to political prisoners and those regarded as a threat to national security.[25] On March 1, after more than seven months in detainment, Rezaian was granted permission to hire a court-approved attorney.[26]
On April 20, 2015, The Washington Post reported that Iranian authorities were charging Rezaian with espionage and three other serious crimes, including "collaborating with hostile governments" and "propaganda against the establishment." The statement, issued from Tehran by his attorney Leilah Ahsan, was provided to the Post by the family of the imprisoned reporter.[2]
Rezaian's trial began on May 26, 2015 at Branch 15 of the Tehran Revolutionary Court. The proceedings were not open to the public. According to his brother, Ali Rezaian, the Iranian government rested its accusations on two pieces of evidence: an American visa application for Jason's wife, Yeganeh Salehi, and a form letter sent to Barack Obama's 2008 White House transition team offering assistance in improving Iran-U.S. relations.[3] On October 12, the Washington Post said that Rezaian had been convicted.[27] On Nov. 22, a spokesman for the Iranian judiciary said Jason had been "sentenced" to "prison", but did not provide further details.[28]
Six weeks before their arrests, Rezaian and Salehi were filmed for the CNN docuseries Parts Unknown, where they had discussed Iranian culture and their heritage with host Anthony Bourdain. In writing for The Washington Post, Bourdain expressed shock over the couple's detention, stating: "These are good people, much loved and admired all over the world. I am, unfortunately, growing used to seeing bad things happening to good people. But this I can’t get used to, or ever understand. This wonderful couple is a danger to no one. They are nobody’s enemy. They are without blame or malice."[29]
A column in Vatan-e-Emrooz, a Persian newspaper "close to the security establishment", has accused Rezaian of directing and distributing "Happy Iranians", a tribute video of the Pharrell Williams song "Happy", which was controversial in Iran and led to arrests of the participants. The column also alleged that Rezaian and his wife were American spies and might be acting as a liaison for the U.S.-based National Iranian American Council lobbying group. According to Agence France-Presse, such allegations were unsubstantiated.[30] In writing for The New Yorker, journalist Laura Secor asserted the "recognizably trumped-up charges" were "both patently absurd and entirely run-of-the-mill for Iran."[31]
Some sources believe the timing of the arrest and subsequent announcements of Rezaian's legal status were calculated to influence Iran's president, Hassan Rouhani, in nuclear proliferation talks with the United States. The New York Times noted that Rezaizan "may be serving as a pawn" in an internal Iranian struggle between reformers like Rouhani and hard-liners.[32][33][34]
In July 2015, journalist Major Garrett made headlines when he asked President Obama during a press conference why he was "content" with the Iran Nuclear Deal that left four Americans trapped in Iran, referring to Rezaian and three others (Amir Mirza Hekmati, Saeed Abedini, and Robert Levinson). Obama admonished Garrett by responding, "I’ve got to give you credit, Major, for how you craft those questions. The notion that I am 'content' as I celebrate with American citizens languishing in Iranian jails, Major, that’s nonsense, and you should know better. Now, if the question is why we did not tie the negotiations to their release, think about the logic that creates. Suddenly, Iran realizes, 'You know what? Maybe we can get additional concessions out of the Americans by holding these individuals.'"[35][36]
Reporters Without Borders stated that, "Rezaian is the victim of a power struggle between different government factions. He is being used by a regime which, since 1979, has often exchanged foreign detainees (or those with dual nationality) for Iranian agents held in other countries." RWB also revealed that it found the evidence cited in the written indictment consisted solely of Rezaian's personal and professional emails, from which phrases had been taken out of context.[37]
Campaigns for his release[edit]
There were several international campaigns for his release. His case was a centerpiece of the Press Uncuffed campaign by Dana Priest and her students at the Philip Merrill School of Journalism at the University of Maryland in collaboration with the Committee to Protect Journalists.[38][39] Rezaian's wife and mother wore Press Uncuffed bracelets during a visit to the prison where Rezaian was being held.[39] Ali Rezaian, Jason's brother, led a Change.org petition that more than 530,000 people from around the world signed; he and a group of supporters hand delivered it to the Iranian consulate on December 3, 2015.[40]
International Government[edit]
• Iran: On August 6, 2014, Deputy Foreign Minister Hassan Ghashghavi said the arrests were a "domestic issue and not a matter for the United States". He stated, "We do not accept dual nationalities. If a person enters Iran with an Iranian passport, that person is considered an Iranian citizen."[30]
• UN: On September 19, 2014, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said he had directly appealed to Iranian officials to release Rezaian and his wife.[41]
• United States: On July 28, 2014, State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki said: "We call on the Iranian government to immediately release Mr. Rezaian and the other three individuals."[42]
United States Senate[edit]
On May 11, 2015, the United States Senate called for the release of Rezaian in a 90-0 vote.[43] There were ten senators who did not vote.[44]
John Kerry and Jason Rezaian
On January 16, 2016, it was announced that Rezaian had been released from Iran along with three other United States prisoners.[7][46] On the same day of his release, America delivered $1700 million in frozen accounts to Iran.[47]
See also[edit]
1. ^ "Detention taking 'devastating toll' on Post reporter locked up in Iran". Washington Post. December 10, 2014.
2. ^ a b "Post reporter jailed in Iran faces 4 charges including espionage". The Washington Post. April 20, 2015.
3. ^ a b Thomas Erdbrink (May 26, 2015). "Jason Rezaian of Washington Post Goes on Trial in Iran". The New York Times. Retrieved May 26, 2015.
4. ^ "Jason Rezaian convicted in secret Iran espionage trial, Washington Post says". The Guardian. October 12, 2015.
5. ^ "Iran jails Washington Post reporter Jason Rezaian". The Guardian. November 22, 2015.
6. ^ "Jason Rezaian and 3 Other US Inmates Freed by Iran". Retrieved January 16, 2016.
7. ^ a b Michael Pearson. "Iran free four U.S. prisoners, including Jason Rezaian, in swap". Retrieved January 16, 2016.
8. ^ Milbank, Dana. "Imprisonment of Post reporter Jason Rezaian is a tragedy for Iran, too". The Washington Post.
9. ^ Eshraghi, Ali Reza; Memarian, Omid (April 19, 2011). "The Persian Mohican is Gone - I'm Iranian by birth and American by choice, and I'm proud of both". Iranian.com.
10. ^ "Journalist detained in Iran has deep ties to Bay Area". San Francisco Chronicle. August 7, 2014.
11. ^ "Iran should free my son". Washington Post.
12. ^ Rezaian, Jason (February 6, 2017). "How Iranian Americans can weather Trump's assault on their heritage". Washington Post. He watched the Beatles’ British invasion on “The Ed Sullivan Show,” cried with other Americans when John F. Kennedy was assassinated, started his own business — importing Persian rugs — married a girl from the evangelical Christian heartland of Illinois, and fathered two very American sons
13. ^ "Monocle". Retrieved 11 October 2015.
14. ^ a b "Post reporter, other journalists appear to have been detained in Iran". The Washington Post. July 24, 2014.
15. ^ "The National's reporter to appear in Iran court on May 26". The National. Retrieved 23 August 2016.
16. ^ "Washington Post journalist jailed in Iran awarded McGill Medal for Journalistic Courage - Grady College". Grady College. 2016-02-25. Retrieved 2018-04-03.
17. ^ "'Their job is to scare me': Jason Rezaian describes first terrifying hours inside Iranian prison". Grady College. 2018-01-18. Retrieved 2018-01-21.
18. ^ "Raid Leaves Arrested Washington Post Journalist's Home 'Looking Like a Scene from Hell'". International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran. July 25, 2014.
19. ^ "Iran confirms arrest of Washington Post correspondent". AFP. July 25, 2014. Archived from the original on August 19, 2014.
20. ^ a b "Jason Rezaian: Iran to try Washington Post reporter". BBC News. 15 January 2015.
21. ^ "Iran Frees Wife of Detained Washington Post Journalist".
22. ^ "U.S. has no information on jailed Post reporter". The Washington Post. August 5, 2014.
23. ^ "Official Silence Continues on Washington Post Reporter's Detention". International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran. August 12, 2014.
24. ^ "Charges in Iran Against U.S. Citizen Jason Rezaian". U.S. Department of State. December 7, 2014.
25. ^ "Hard-line judge in Iran is assigned case of jailed Post reporter Jason Rezaian". The Washington Post. February 1, 2015.
26. ^ "Iran allows lawyer for Post reporter, but not his choice". The Washington Post. March 1, 2015.
27. ^ Erdbrink, Thomas (12 October 2015). "Amid Report of Jason Rezaian's Conviction, Iran Hints at Prisoner Exchange". New York Times. Retrieved 12 October 2015.
28. ^ "US reporter Jason Rezaian 'sentenced' in Iran over spying". BBC. November 22, 2015.
29. ^ Anthony Bourdain (August 5, 2014). "These people I interviewed in Iran clearly loved the country. So why did it put them in jail?". The Washington Post. Retrieved February 19, 2015.
30. ^ a b "Iran says journalist arrests not a matter for US". AFP. August 6, 2014. Archived from the original on August 19, 2014.
31. ^ Laura Secor (August 15, 2014). "Why Is Iran Detaining Jason Rezaian?". The New Yorker. Retrieved March 29, 2015.
32. ^ New York Times editorial board (January 16, 2015). "To End an Unjust Imprisonment". New York Times. Retrieved January 17, 2015.
33. ^ Haleh Esfandiari (August 14, 2014). "Jailing a Journalist to Shame Rouhani". New York Times. Retrieved January 17, 2015.
34. ^ Rick Gladstone and Michael R. Gordon (January 14, 2015). "Iran Charges, and Will Try, Jason Rezaian, Washington Post Reporter". New York Times. Retrieved January 17, 2015.
35. ^ Kludt, Tom (Jul 16, 2015). "Obama scolds reporter for Iran question: 'You should know better'". CNN. Retrieved 16 July 2015.
36. ^ Darcy, Oliver (Jul 16, 2015). "CBS Reporter Major Garrett Responds to Public Scolding From Obama: 'Clearly It Struck a Nerve'". The Blaze. Retrieved 16 July 2015.
37. ^ "Call for Immediate Release of Washington Post Journalist Now on Trial". Archived from the original on 5 August 2015. Retrieved 11 June 2015.
38. ^ "#FreeThePress: Jason Rezaian - PressUncuffed". www.cpj.org.
39. ^ a b "Press Uncuffed Campaign Celebrates Release of Washington Post Reporter Jason Rezaian". umd.edu. 19 February 2016.
40. ^ Grove, Lloyd (3 December 2015). "Half a Million People Tell Iran: 'Free Jason Rezaian'" – via www.thedailybeast.com.
41. ^ "Ban to Iran: Free the Journalists, Political Prisoners". AFP. September 19, 2014.
42. ^ "State Department urges Iran to release Washington Post correspondent". The Washington Post. July 28, 2014.
43. ^ "All Bill Information (Except Text) for S.Con.Res.16 - A concurrent resolution stating the policy of the United States regarding the release of United States citizens in Iran". Congress.gov. Retrieved 1 June 2015.
44. ^ "U.S. Senate Roll Call Votes 114th Congress - 1st Session". United States Senate. Senate.gov. Retrieved 1 June 2015.
46. ^ "Jason Rezaian and three other US prisoners leave Iran". BBC. Retrieved 12 December 2016.
47. ^ "Why has Iran imprisoned Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe?". The Economist. 16 November 2017. Retrieved 17 November 2017.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/24053 | Fascinating Ancient History Essay Topics
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In some editions of the Insight users guide the instructions for setting up the AD Secure mode incorrectly state two different possible names for the Insight Teachers domain user group. The correct name for the domain user group is:
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/24131 | One array with panels facing E, S, and W
I was exploring how to add my system to the site and have a question. I have 11 E facing, 11 W facing, and 8 S facing panels with two inverters. I only see an option to add a secondary array, but not a tertiary. How do I set up my system properly on the site? If I set them up at multiple sites based on what panels are on each inverter, is there a way to see total output of both sites in a single view?
Hi yes you can do this ,see under HELP section—Data Aggeration—Parent–Child systems,Jim
You’ll probably want to be able to track and do stats on the two inverter separately, a well as combined, so look at
Set up two ‘child’ systems, one for each inverter - and each of these could have a primary and secondary panel array for insolation modelling.
Then you set up a third system as ‘Parent’ to aggregate the stats from each child together.
Ah, I thought that would help me too but not quite. I also have a 3 aspect facing setup but on only one inverter (and one string) using optimisers. I kind of faked it in my setup by saying it was a one array using some weighted azimuth based on how many panels I have facing each way. I end up with a production that is more spread out during the day than the insulation line but overall it’s it that bad. I guess there wouldn’t be too many weird setups like mine to justify the interface change to support that case?
At least one :slight_smile: - thats almost exactly my situation - 3 directions, on 2 strings, into one inverter, right down to combining the two directions with the smallest number of panels into a single aggregate with a ‘blended’ azimuth for the secondary array. It works fine, at the end of the day its the combined number thats important - and my synthesised azimuth must be close to right, as the calculated ‘insolation curve’ is fairly spot-on to the actuals.
I have a SolarEdge setup with 2 orientations, but on each orientation 2 elevations.
8x panel North/East 10 elevation (flat roof on 2e floor)
8x panel North/East 12.5 elevation (flat roof on 3e floor)
8x Panel South/West 12.5 elevation (flat roof on 3e floor)
8x Panel South/West 60 elevation (slanted roof on 2e to 3e floor)
The 8 panels on North/east 10 elevation in shadow of the house in the (morning depending on season)
The 8 panels on south/west 60 elevation in shadow of the neighbor house (afternoon depending of the season)
I have now 2 arrays in pvoutput.
1. Is east/west with the 2x 8 panels in 12.5 elevation
2. The south/west 60 elevation.
But now i have updated the North/east 10 elevation panels and i cannot add a 3rd array.
I could make the 2nd array again east/west. It are 350 watt panels on the 60 degrees south/west roof and 325 watt panels on the new north/east 10 degrees elevation.
If i want to setup east/west middle that out somewhat it would be like 30 degrees, but the calculation would be wrong.
Is a 3rd array an option ? Is is all in one string…
The limit is 2 at the moment.
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1. Yes. I have the latest service pack. Why do people always ask that? That has never helped an unknown problem. This is a big problem with VW not having the resources to do a major upgrade every year. Is there an SP for that problem?
2. The Magic Mouse is not really good for Vectorworks because often the clicks don't "take." Most long-time users have gotten used to quickly clicking the tool palette (if not using a short cut) and then zipping back to the drawing. You have to linger on the tool for the Magic Mouse to work. You just can't click quickly and move away. It is super annoying and a backwards step in UI. I'm not sure why this is. MHBrown
3. It is 2019. I am rendering in Renderworks and it can NOT be stopped. Sigh. What is wrong with this software?
4. I agree with Jim. The eyedropper tool has devolved. It doesn't work on anything grouped (why not? This is an absurd flaw. Things are grouped all over the place in a VW document.) It works only around half the time on anything else. If you can't fix something, just delete it and send a message to your users saying that you have done so. It is much better to weed out tools and plug-ins that don't work than to leave them there because you are embarrassed about it. Be honest and honesty is nothing more than being able to deliver bad news. VW would be better off in the end with fewer tools, but where all the tools work. That said, will this tool be fixed anytime soon? I'm using VW2018SP6 and is not working. MHBrown
5. OK, thanks. I'll try to get to it later on this month. Since it is intermittent it will be difficult to isolate, I think. Was this not a problem that many people had? I seem to remember that it was, starting around 2016 or so. If so, was it fixed?
6. My understanding is that the "black rectangle" problem goes back aways and is not unique to my file. Also, it does the same thing with much smaller files with different items. In short, it's not my file. It has something to do with the Renderworks engine (OpenGL has no problem rendering a scene.) Thank you for your advice. I think I just need to wait for a fix from VW.
7. Did all the upgrades. Still getting the black rectangle of death on rendering. Not Happy with this application. I rate it a zero.
8. OK. I'm so sick of the "black rectangle" rendering bug that I'm going to try to update VW with SP5 and SP6. Crossing fingers...
9. rDesign, thanks for letting me know about the service packs. I'm not going to upgrade due to the uncertainty that I'd be just be replacing unknown problems with ones I already know about. There is no reason to believe that SP5 and SP6 will result in a more stable version of VW. Just a different one. Thanks, Neil, for the suggestion about objects very far away (I've had objects whose distance were so far out it was given in scientific notation!) I checked that already and that is not the case...but it was a good thought. I think that after using the same file for over a year--with lots of rendering and textures--that it broke down.
10. Thanks, Neil, I might have too many legacy symbols that I'm not using. Other than that, there is not really anything unusual. I have quite a few texture maps, perhaps 75 or so. But it's a interactive science area with lots of graphics and colors. I'm always careful with my polygon sizes and only use real geometry when I need to. VW's transparency maps, however, don't always render transparent. So if I have something punched out of metal, I have to actually punch it out. I'll try to clear out unused symbols and texture maps and see if that helps. I've generally used Strata3D for my color rendering and this is the first time I've tried to keep a project in one application. It is not really possible to model with precision in Strata and VW's rendering has gotten better so I've giving it a try.
11. rDesign, thanks for letting me know about the service packs. I'm not going to upgrade due to the uncertainty that I'd be just be replacing unknown problems with ones I already know about. There is no reason to believe that SP5 and SP6 will result in a more stable version of VW. Just a different one. Thanks, Neil, for the suggestion about objects very far away (I've had objects whose distance were so far out it was given in scientific notation!) I checked that already and that is not the case...but it was a good thought. Neither to I have an extremely large object. I think that after using the same file for over a year--with lots of rendering and textures--that it broke down. At this juncture, VW is simply not robust enough to do even simple projects if the file is used too often. I'm not building a skyscraper; my projects are very modest in size...although the latest file is over 500mb. I think it is the repetition that eventually causes things to go crazy. Even after I put my model into a blank VW2018 file the images come and go.
12. It is not a corrupt object, unless you are defining as "corrupt" any object in a drawing created in a VW2017 file and opened in VW2018. All such objects within seem to have a significant chance of being misinterpreted by the newer version software. But I would not call that a "corrupt object" since it is somewhat intentional. That is what appears to be happening, anyway. It is not behaving as if a single corrupt object were living inside the file. Anecdotal evidence, to be sure, but gathered over 25 years of using the software.
13. Yet another bug in bug plagued VW2018. Dimension witness lines cannot be dragged out from the text end, only where the lines touch what is being dimensioned. This means you have to drag the "wrong" end of the witness lines into the work and then try to snap the lines back to where they belong. This means you have to zoom way in to make sure you are hitting the points you want to hit. VERY frustrating. Add to this VW's generally eroding ease of dimensioning (the snap points are chaotic and nearly impossible to choose without randomly running the cursor around the area and hope, by chance, to hit the point you want.) Has anyone else experienced problems with dimension lines in VW2018?
14. Thanks for the advice, but none of that worked. It's sad to hear it is a chronic, across platforms problem. It better get fixed. Do other CAD programs have this type of problem? I am very much dissatisfied with the present state of VW. I won't be upgrading to VW2019 until all of these problems are fixed...and I'm not talking about work-arounds. OpenGL not working, the model missing from the screen. What could be more basic than being able to see one's work? And VW, do NOT give me that nonsense that my problems are solved if I start and start a project in one version of VW. It was YOU who decided to accelerate the upgrades to yearly without committing the resources to pull it off and YOU need to fix it. It may be a video card problem, an OS problem, or a VW app problem, but YOU need to identify it.
15. When using OpenGL or Wireframe my model will disappear or parts will disappear. Doing a re-render does not help. Having the model disappear makes is very difficult to work on it. Is this a new "feature" that allows me to go play golf instead of working ("sorry, boss, the model does not exist. See for yourself")? I'm thinking that the random missing parts is some sort of criticism by the application. Since my MiniCAD days in the mid-1990s I've never seen such a mess as VW2018. We used to call a dead boat engine an "anchor." VW is not the equivalent of that for me. The only thing that works are the Renderworks settings. Even fast renderworks, however, means minimum ten seconds between mouse clicks. S.....L.....O...........W. I'm using VW2018 SP4. Any ideas as to what is happening? I'm on a iMac. See image below. Any help is welcome; this is very frustrating. MHBrown
16. Thanks. I'm mostly getting tired of having Vectorworks crash once or twice per day. I want to transfer to a new document, but VW has dropped the ball on that. There is no way to do this very fundamental action. Probably because it is "too hard" although "too hard" is not the same as "impossible." I want to do something analogous to an ID "package" where I could copy and paste an entire model and all the saved sheets, saved views, viewports, and elevation views would come with it. Alas, VW does not care about fundamentals, but would rather design little protractors for its rotate tool. At the height of its build, around VW12, I might go a year or more without a crash. Now it is at least once a day. I'd love to be able to downgrade back to that old version. I could not care less about the features added since then compared to the speed and reliability of the older version. VW has become as unstable as the old Strata3D of the mid 1990s--and that is saying a lot.
17. No, I'm getting the problem in VW2018 with a file that was started in VW2017. I'm also getting what seem to be video card problems, which may be related to the OpenGL issues where the rendered image jumps around. Often, in wireframe, parts of the image will disappear to where a screen refresh does not bring it back. See attachment of system specs. Perhaps I don't have enough RAM or too small a video card? But my real question is this: is there a way to migrate an old file into a new document so that all the fixes work? This should be a major requirement that would have been discussed as part of the program of changing major updates from 18 months to 12. So, is there a way? I tried copy and paste but I could not use my elevations nor my viewports. Thanks, MHBrown
18. The thread where I asked the original question was closed, but the problem has not been solved as far as I know. I'm sure that if one opens a pure VW2019 file that the black viewport rendering will not occur. But what about a file created in VW2018 or even VW2017? If VW insists on yearly major updates, the unintended consequence of letting the calendar (and not readiness) dictate major releases is the requirement that the update work with at least two older versions. This isn't because users are not updating---it's easy with a subscription--- but because sometimes projects will stretch across two years. There is no way that I know of to copy and paste the model, viewports, section views, elevation views, camera views, and more into a pristine file. Or is there? Thanks, MHBrown
19. Good to hear. But does this also fix the problem with OpenGL renderings "jumping" out of view when trying to adjust texture maps or simply looking at a model? This makes it impossible to use texture maps. MHBrown
20. Jim, asking us "did the frequency change..." leaves the impression that you have not isolated the problem and are sort of grabbing at straws. I do not understand why this cannot be tracked down and fixed. You need to STOP changing VW while you fix the horrible bugs that are rendering the application unusable. The digital world does not contain "frequencies." It will do the same thing every time when the same conditions are met. Outside of tunneling electron microscopes, quantum forces do not greatly affect us in the macro world where classical physics rules. Determine the exact conditions where this does not work first and go from there. Very frustrating...and time consuming...that this problem has existed since 2016 and it is almost 2019.
21. When I render a camera viewport in "fast interior renderworks" style it renders solid black. The camera is not inside a wall because it renders fine in OpenGL. This was a problem over three years ago. Has it still not been fixed? I'm using VW2018, the latest SP whatever. I tried closing and re-opening VW. Nothing. A different file will render "fast interior" just fine. Any idea as to what I can do? I will not upgrade to 2019 until this works the way it is supposed to. Thanks for any help. MHBrown
22. I'm still having this problem with 2018 SP4. Has it been fixed? I'm on a deadline and this is not funny. Don't tell me it's been fixed for 2019.
23. I don't know what you mean by "add textures in viewport annotations." Textures are mapped in 3D views, but it is presently impossible to do this because OpenGL does not work in edit windows. If you go to Edit 3D for a symbol to put a texture on it, you can only view it in wireframe. If you go to Map Attribute tool, it only works about 20 percent of the time. When it does work, it can't be used because as soon as you render in OpenGL the model disappears. That's right. It disappears. It goes off to some other place. This is not only true with Interior Elevations, but with all views. OpenGL is unstable in any project that was NOT originally a VW2018 file. I am confident--especially with the purposeless yearly "upgrades"--that everyone has most of his files bridging across different year versions of VW. It is a stupefying miscalculation by VW to have a bug of this type. It greatly increases the time it takes to do color textures to the point where it is unusable. This must be fixed now.
24. That's a great tip! Thanks. That did the trick. Mike
25. No, I have that unchecked so I can edit groups in isolation. I would not consider the plan view from which I am creating an interior elevation to fall into the category of "other." It is material to the process: namely placing an elevation line. Is this incorrect? thanks for the help! MHBrorwn
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Thanks for the support tool report. This next custom procedure is to delete "Segurazo".
The tool named FRSTENGLISH.exe is already on the Downloads folder.
Start the Windows Explorer and then, open the Downloads folder.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/24153 | Republican or Bigot?
I think a lot of the criticism of Obama has less to do with being a black man in a traditionally white position than being a Democrat. Seriously. If you look back at the Clinton years, you’ll see almost as much heat flung as the drug-dealing, murdering, Communist, UN-takeover-enabling Clinton who “was never elected by a majority of the American people” (in the words of a few local Repubs back in Florida). Both men committed the unpardonable sin of imposing their Democraticness on Repubs who believe the White House is theirs by right and forcing Repubs to live under their tyrannical non-Repub rule.
That said, it’s not all about party. Because I don’t recall anyone predicting that Clinton was organizing black inner-city men into a deadly strike force that would annihilate everyone who stands in his way, as detailed at the link. Or her way, as this will all happen when Barack runs Michelle Obama for president in 2016 while pulling the strings from behind the scene.
So speaks SF author Orson Scott Card, who also (if you click through to the original piece) insists that “Bush lied about WMD” is in itself a Big Lie that has fooled us. I have no idea whether Card means they were really there or that Bush was misled by the CIA being stupid (but given the counter-evidence frequently offered, the best you can say is W was in heavy denial).
Card isn’t the first right-winger to raise the spectre of Black Riots For Obama but that doesn’t make it any less racist or, well, nuts. He also hates Islam and Islamic nations but that’s pretty much the norm for the right-wing punditocracy these days.
•I’m seriously uncomfortable with an American being on trial for advocating and pushing for Uganda’s death penalty for gays. Which is not intended as an excuse for the loathsome Mr. Lively. But still, it’s easy for me to say.
•Speaking of anti-gay, the US Olympic Committee has told American athletes to comply with Russia’s new anti-gay laws (i.e. don’t say anything too supportive of gays). And here’s a pastor who not only thinks gays deserve death, he refuses to let his daughters get jobs because that way he can keep them virgins until marriage.
•Libertarian Ron Paul may talk a lot about how he wants government out of our lives. But he’s fine with states making laws to restrict religious minorities or gays. In my experience (not that this is an original insight with me), anyone who talks about state’s rights to do X believes X is a good thing. Which I’m sure is true about the new list of Constitutional state’s rights amendments being pushed by some conservatives, as detailed by Roy Edroso (the gist of the article is about the latest plans for Repubs to come back from defeat).
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•I have a friend who seems convinced that because Margaret Sanger favored eugenics, Planned Parenthood must be evil or something like that. Somehow he’s unfazed by the racist musings of modern conservative founder William F. Buckley.
•Of course, he’s not the only one horrified that Planned Parenthood exists.
•Tennessee Repub. Scott Desjarlais insists an immigrants girl’s father should be deported because We Have Laws In This Country. He’s okay with his own law-breaking (pot smoking, illegal in Tn. still), sleeping with subordinates and pressuring one to get an abortion (he’s anti-abortion normally) because God has forgiven him. So bygones!
•The NSA has violated the rules it supposedly works under 2,700 times. Obama and the NSA are wrong, it does matter.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/24156 | In the context of someone losing his wallet he says:
Il a dû tomber dans la rue.
Now what is the sense and form of tense being used?
I understand that devoir is conjugated as passé composé. (though could be used as adjective also). Given that the action is completed in the past, why is not the verb tomber conjugated (either in subjonctive since there is speculation, or past/passé composé since the action is complete?
It is conjugated. In the infinitive form. Okay, that was a bit tongue in the cheek, but it is true. Devoir takes (in this sense) an infinitive proposition, which is often just a verb in the infinitive
Je dois partir
Je dois manger
but can also be a complete propostion
Je dois partir en voiture manger à la Tour d'Argent avec Paul Erdős, qui vient juste de revenir à la vie.
with everything but the first two words being the argument of dois.
Now, if you want to know why it is an infinitive, you have trace back to Latin, which for seemingly arbitrary reasons made infinitive (of which they had three: past, present and future) mandatory for object propositions of a certain class of verbs.
It is now the only class of subordinate propositions that has no explicit subordinant (ie neither relative pronoun, nor conjunction…) and it only happens for a fixed set of verbs (see the corresponding Wikipedia article)
• Thanks. The literal meaning of my sentence would be "It should have fallen on the road". C'est ça? – Abhimanyu Arora Sep 12 '13 at 8:55
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Rather “It must have fallen on the road”. The should variant would likely be expressed with “aurait dû”. – Stéphane Gimenez Sep 12 '13 at 9:02
"Il a dû tomber" is a French way to say "He probably fell".
"Il a dû payer ses dettes" = He has had to pay his debts.
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GATE 2019 Marks: 63.33 Rank -582
Selected in IIT Kanpur, see here for Interview experience:
I started GATE preparation probably around starting of 3rd year, I read a lot of blogs on GO, (see here) and they were really helpful for me, I just wanna go in a little detail about how I did everything - You see, I made a lot(trust me, a lot) of mistakes, so the only reason I'm writing this is to make sure you know the reality of things and then decide on your own what you have to do- Don't repeat these mistakes to get experience, read others experience and learn.
Started preparation with these –
Youtube videos of R, GeekforGeeks prep Notes, [Only good thing was I preferred Cormen for some parts in Algorithms, later switched to Narsimha(Also kind of mistake, realized after GATE)]
At that time my schedule was:
wakeup→Read one topic from Cormen.
Travel 30 KM to college via bus(Reading notes/ watching Downloaded videos )
Look for ways to bunk the class and read notes (I remember going to the topmost floor of our college with Astitva sitting near servers making loud noise and heat during summer)
Travel back home (Reading or watching the same videos to clear my understanding of what I read today)
Manage family shop (Here I also did my work from Remote Internship(As a Javascript developer) work).
Around 11-12: Back in my room - Watched NPTEL lectures plus some work from the internship
Got Gateforum material from library started solving questions (Went full berserk – solved them in 2-3 months ) – It also had material for reading- completed that too. We also found class notes of Ace/***/ME: completed them too. – see DON’T DO THIS [I read same things from different notes and in this much time I could’ve read from books which would’ve been much much better]
Now, this went for the whole 3rd year, yeah whole 1 year kinda just went like that.
You see, I did work hard, studied a lot(At least that's what I thought at that time), but I was only average at that time, Then I quit the internship, told dad to free me from shop work and kind of locked myself in my room on off days, Because of some work I still had to travel around 10 KM daily via public transport after reaching home from college around 6 PM, I used to revise from NPTEL pdfs in Auto rickshaws, but it was no problem, I was working hard for my target and at that time using whatever method possible was a necessity.
Let me tell you this : If you study the right way - You won't have to study the same things many times as me, yes short notes from sites like geeks / gate-vidyalay are good for going through syllabus - In less than an hour you would finish a whole topic - but doing this is not only a bad way of studying for the first time, but It'll also create a negative impact on you- You will think you know things but you actually won’t plus you won't know what things you don't know[Yeah, I used to say to Astitva, Man I’ve studied the whole syllabus but don’t know why not getting these questions], Another thing which will happen is - you will face difficulties in reading books It'll be something like this: I've been reading for 2 hours and I haven't completed even one topic.
Take your time to understand things- you have to do this just once, you see I spent whole 1 year reading short notes and what did it gave me? - Nothing, When I saw answers by Arjun sir, Bikram sir [and many others here], discussions on Gate questions - It made me think I actually don't know anything, Not just solutions but the discussion in comments did “overflow”, things like “endianness”,”split-cache” seemed like out of world. Now I realized I need to study “Everything” properly- So I started using resources from GO classroom and NPTEL pdf, since I didn’t have much time to read all topics from Books so I read important parts from PDF version of standard books.
Test series:
1)MadeEasy : Total ,waste of my crucial 1 month time – They don’t reply when you post a doubt and their solutions are like such that they are given by those who are “studying” in ME, Don’t explain anything, they’re like for this question we use this formula, don’t ask us why we use it.[I didn’t even complete around 10 tests ]
2)Ace: Long repetitive tests -quality same as ME (I didn’t buy it, Astitva took it and I saw some of the tests)
3)R B R: Questions don’t follow serial order, Aptitude in between technical, repetitive questions, mostly very easy questions which make you feel good[Though some questions were better and explanation was little better than ME/ACE], left more than half of all tests
4)Success Gateway: This free(Now paid) test series is really the “BEST” – both questions and explanations were great, Let me tell you – many similar questions were asked in GATE including pumping length, Inode, C program questions
5)Virtual gate: Also pretty great, Solutions were not always provided but you can find the solutions with some googling because they mostly take questions from GATE or MIT/Stanford Courses.
6)GATEBOOK free tests: Good quality -similar to Success Gateway
Most important are GATE papers, I did this mistake of taking so many tests from ME and ACE, Thank god I realized my mistake and left remaining tests, In last two months I only took GATE and Success Gateway tests. It was during test series and solving gate questions that I was clearing my misconceptions through GO answers and MIT/Standford notes.
Pro Tip: Use Notes from geeks/Gate-Vidyalaya to revise things not in the first time learning, first read from books and later when you need quick revision then only use these. BOOKS>NPTEL=MIT>other notes
D-DAY[You can see these mistakes and how much I attempted here]
Aptitude was so easy – I thought I’m gonna kill it (AIR-1 is in the bag), [because of my - “We’ll see what happens” kinda nature, I attempted English part and got negative marks(don’t do this)]
Technical part: Did a large number of questions wrong because of getting excited, Actually in test series you had maximum one trick per question, but in actual GATE every word is a game-changer, lost 4 marks only because of ignoring one word – “Independently”, Lost 2 marks on Inode question – I did everything right, Also Challenged on this question and got them to change answer key but I didn’t get any marks on it because I wrote 3.82 instead of 3.8 and it became out of range 3.7-3.8 [Pro Tip: Always answer in specified precision]
Conclusion: Read books → Use Gatecse resources→ see discussions and take part in them
(Most importantly don’t try to find short tricks else you might get long rank)
From my experience, I can surely tell this: You will not be able to clear any interview by reading short notes and fixed pattern based substandard material.
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HI congratulations,
I have some question,
Why taking too many test is problematic(provided you get time to analyse result properly)?
How many full length test you took and how was average score in those test?
You want to test yourself or the test series?Whenever you feel like testing yourself - just give the test by Ruturaj sir on GO.
Taking too many tests make your thinking pattern based - you'll assume what the question is asking while skimming through it{This really happens} because whenever too many tests are provided by anyone repetition of questions by changing values is done.
If they have to make new questions- they'll see any formula and create some stupid question based on that formula.
I gave around 20 useless Full lengths on ME/Ace and other one(It doesn't matter how much I scored in them, They didn't give me any hint about my prep), Gave 7 or 8 full length on success gateway- each one had different questions and I scored in range of 55-70.
No one can match the quality of gate except gate itself,Give gate previous year papers seriously then if time is with you go for virtual gate/success gateway
Congrats 👍
You should add where you got admitted 😄 There are many people who thinks life has ended when they cannot get a better than 300 rank.
Thank you Sir (and now added).
Congratulations on your achievement🍰, it will be very helpful if you can make the list of URLs of MIT/Stanford notes that you referred during your preparation.
how did you get Success gateway test series for free? I am not able to find. TIA.
They removed their tests recently, I think it'll be made available by the end of this year,[you can try Virtual gate until that ]
The tests are there but it ain't free. Cost is 1299+GST.
It was free when I gave them, maybe they made it paid from this year. In my suggestion its much better than ME(atleast if we compare previous year ones) . If you have to take one, I'll recommend this one, otherwise give previous years (cs and IT) , that should be enough.
They have a fb group in which you can see some questions of previous ones- from there you can decide if its worth it or not.
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how did you study CLRS?what stratergy u followed? -> for how to read and what are relevant chapters from any standard book. -> For questions/Solutions in well organized fashion
There's no "strategy" in reading books, just find relevant chapters and read them, solve examples and exercises(Try not to look at solutions), Don't spend time on (*) questions, Apart from reading, I also implemented some algorithms in C at Hackerrank Algorithms section like Kruskal, Prims, Graph Traversals, etc(Not for GATE, but for simple fun).
@Anuj sir first off all congratulation! you did it....
Sir please tell me what I should do ?
I have completed almost all technical subjects but now I feel difficulty to revise them. How I maintain a strategy to revise them? (It's very important sir because it's look again I have to start my journey )
Apart from this I solved almost 30 questions per day of Aptt. But it (appt. ) seems be so lengthy , can you give any strategy to verbal and aptt. (Since I'm very poor in verbal part ) ?
And one more thing , if I'll start to give test series in Jan month can it harm me because I think till Dec I want to complete all gate question of previous year and each subject , because without proper knowledge of any subject giving the test series it would be waste of time I think?
Can you tell me , is this stategey is good for me or not?
As long as you can maintain your cool - everything will work out.
If you've completed all subjects give previous gate papers and see where you're lacking, work on those parts more, don't go through everything you've studied one more time in the same way in which you've already studied. There are friends of mine here who haven't given more than 5 mocks and got around 100 ranks. so make sure you know what you've studied - go through previous gate papers and if you get time then only look for test series.
Vocab - just get some app which will give you 10 new words daily -If luck favors then ok otherwise there's not much you can do about it. Aptitude - again it's not that tough - but do practice some tricky ones and you'll be fine.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/24195 | 1. In our former chapter we studied the esotericism of Pranayama and we realized that it is a scientific system of transmutation for celibate people (singles).
2. The Swara (breathing science) is totally sexual.
3. The breathing science is reinforced by the sexual union of the spouses.
4. There is an act of sexual magic by means of which we can totally awaken and develop Devi-Kundalini.
5. The formula is the following: introduce the virile member into the feminine vagina and withdraw from the sexual act without spilling the semen (without reaching the orgasm).
6. The refrained desire will transform the semen into light and fire.
7. The seminal vapors open the inferior orifice of the spinal medulla which in common and ordinary people is found completely closed.
8. This labor is developed under the direction of certain Devas who govern the elemental department of the cedars of the forest.
9. Devi Kundalini enters through the orifice of the nadi Shushumna.
10. Pranayama is totally reinforced with the practices of sexual magic.
11. The Great Breath is totally sexual.
12. Sexual Magic reinforces the Great Breath within us.
13. This is how Devi-Kundalini evolves, develops, and progresses until attaining the union with the Lord Shiva.
14. Gautama Buddha practiced his cult of sexual magic with his beautiful spouse Yasodhara.
15. Only the one who has drank the juice of the plant of the moon (soma) can be a Brahman.
16. This plant of the moon is sex, whose juice (soma) awakens the Kundalini in us.
17. This is the secret of the Vedas.
18. The Master Helena Petrovna Blavatsky was a great Yogini.
19. This great Master, after having widowed, had to get married again in the last years of her life in order to attain her total realization and the development of all of her powers.
20. A certain disciple once asked the Master Morya, “Master, you already arose the seven serpents upon the staff; then why do you have a spouse?"
The Master answered, “Because I got her before awakening my fires, and I need her to enliven my fires.”
21. The refrained desire makes our sexual energies rise through Ida and Pingala; thus, finally, the lunar and solar atoms from Ida and Pingala join in the triveni to awaken Devi Kundalini.
22. During the amorous caresses, the electricity and universal fire of life are accumulated in our atmosphere.
23. If human beings ejaculate their semen, then, as electric batteries, they discharge themselves and totally fail in the Great Work of the Father.
24. The refrained desire causes the transmutation of the seminal liquor into Christic energy that raises through the nadis Ida and Pingala.
25. The Yogi/Yogini withdraws from their spouse before the spasm or orgasm to avoid the seminal ejaculation.
26. The seminal fire ascends through the nadi Shushumna throughout the length of the Brahmanadi.
27. This is how the Esotericist-Yogi/Yogini realizes their Self totally, in depth, as Masters of the Cosmic Day, as Masters of the Mahamanvantara.
28. The Yogi/Yogini of the new Aquarian Era realize their Self through the sexual act.
29. The times are gone in which Yogis needed to withdraw into the jungle to practice their esoteric exercises.
30. Now Yogis realize their Self though the sexual act.
31. The motto of the new Aquarian Era is human cooperation.
32. Yogis must live within society, serving their brothers and sisters and living with happiness and optimism.
33. The new Aquarian Era does not admit Hermit-Yogis.
34. The Age of Maitreya is the age of association and confraternity among all human beings.
35. Sex is terrifically divine, and therefore the Yogi/Yogini must clean their mind from all kind of desires and animal passions.
36. The person who looks at sex with repugnance defiles the terrific secret of the Vedas and the science of the Great Breath, contained in the Vedas and the Shastras.
37. The Yogi/Yogini who flees from the sacred mysteries of sex are still filled with desires and animal passions.
38. Angels see sex with the eyes of an Angel; yet, demons see sex with the eyes of a demon, even when they dress themselves with the skin of sheep and disguise themselves as saints.
39. The Yogi/Yogini form their home without the necessity of violating the Sixth Commandment of the Law of God: “Thou shall not fornicate.”
40. A single sperm can escape during the act of sexual magic. The lunar hierarchies can select that sperm to fecundate the womb without the necessity of spilling the semen.
41. This is how the Lemurians engendered their children in the stony sacred patios of their temples.
42. The tenebrous ones from the lunar path were the ones who taught human beings how to ejaculate their seminal liquor. This is how human beings sank into the darkness.
43. Now, we have to return into the sacred conception of the Holy Spirit.
44. The children of the Yogi and Yogini are fragments of victory, children of chastity, children engendered by Kriya-Shakti.
45. All Yogis and Yoginis must love their spouse and their children, and live amidst harmony, music, love, and beauty.
46. Love dignifies; love exalts the soul.
47. God shines upon the perfect couple.
48. There is nothing greater than love. Man and woman were born to love each other.
49. The true Yogi and Yogini convert their home into an Eden of ineffable joys.
50. The divine priestess is the woman of the Yogi, and vice versa.
51. Women convert men into ineffable Gods by means of the very sweet enchantment of love, and vice versa.
52. Yogis and Yoginis realize their Self by means of love. This is better than carrying out the life of a hermit.
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Gwydion M. Williams shows how a system of privilege has been replaced by a system of random unfairness and continuous stress.
In a class society, each person was born to a place on the social pyramid. They might slide down a little, or move up a little. But broadly they stayed where they were born. And ‘family values’ were a serious matter, since people were wholly defined by them. The main path up was families rising by favourable marriages. Or drifting down through bad or romantic choices.The modern ‘worm bucket’ society is a doubtful improvement on the social pyramid. In a system full of inequality, a mad scramble for position creates quite as many evils as the old and discredited system of inherited privilege. The person born to privilege may quite genuinely be fond of the less fortunate. At the very least, they will feel some sort of responsibility, and wish to preserve the structure of society. The self-made person is far more likely to hate and fear those less fortunate than themselves.In the worm bucket society, everyone sees everyone else as a potential threat. And there are no social responsibilities, since it is supposedly open to everyone to achieve privileged minority status. Worst of all, they may not even realise that there is a structure to society. At least not a structure that they can strengthen or weaken by their own actions. Decay of cherished social structures is seen as someone else fault, and not a logical consequence of their neglect and bad example.
The worm bucket society claims to work by equality of opportunity. But as with ‘individualism’ and ‘liberty’, the attractive brand-name is a bad guide to the actual contents. ‘Individualism’ means being individual in just a few socially defined ways. The self-made in business and politics are much of a muchness, considerably duller than normal people.
‘Liberty’ means a sporting chance to succeed in the worm bucket, not liberty to live as you please. Living as you please or living an interesting and diverse life is not an option open to the ambitious. The smallest diversion means that the would-be ‘top person’ gets overtaken by dozens of other gifted and pushy characters.
‘Equality of opportunity’ does not mean that people actually get equal opportunities. They do not start from the same place. There are few effective rules about unfair advantage. Success or failure is very often determined by blind chance.’Equality of opportunity’ would mean everyone’s children going to the same school. Or else to a school determined strictly by their success in competitive examinations. One could forgive Blair and Harmon for looking after their own kids in an unfair system, if they were ready to admit openly that it was an unfair system. What is outrageous is a noisy self-righteous declaration of ‘equality of opportunity’ combined with behaviour that reveals a clear understanding that this principle is nonsense.Talk of ‘equality of opportunity’ is essentially a lie. It allows the successful to wriggle out of any obligation to the poor by talking as if it were a fair competition in which the best people won. But they show in all sorts of ways that they know damn well life doesnÕt really work like that. People do not start out equal, nor are they equally helped. ‘Equality of opportunity’ is directly contradicted by the widespread practice of giving ones own children an advantage. Also by networks of people raising each other to positions of privilege, regardless of who might be better qualified if ‘equality of opportunity’ were a serious principle.
A society with real ‘equality of opportunity’ would be even nastier and meaner and more stressful than the present half-arsed classlessness. The successes of the Reagan and Thatcher years include a disproportionate number of nasty limited little people. Characters with no worthwhile features beyond their ability to succeed in a particular time and in a particular way. Characters who cannot preserve their own way of life, and who blame others for the predictable results of their own actions. Characters who talk of ‘family values’ but demand ‘savings’ that undermine the secure well-paid male jobs that traditional family values were actually based on.
In the 1950s, one did have something like a Meritocracy. Very sexist and racist by today’s mainstream standards, but still quite Meritocratic in its way. The society set up rational criteria to judge people, and rewarded those who did best. Personally, I do not miss the system I grew up in. If some good things were lost in the overthrow, a great many more bad unfair things were destroyed. I have no regrets that 1950s values were killed off by conscious political struggle in the 1960s.1960s values are part of everyone’s basic assumptions these days. Legality of divorce and contraception. Adultery and sex before marriage regarded as totally normal. Homosexuality no longer seriously persecuted, and tending rather towards normalisation. Official equality for women. The definite rejection of racism and racial segregation – normal in the British Empire in its heyday, and still enjoying immense popular support in the American South in the early 1960s. All of that is gone and shows no signs of ever re-entering the political mainstream.
But though people like the results of those 1960s battles, the process that established them is currently out of favour. The New Right tacitly accepted the de-Christianising of the society, and some of the thinkers and publicists actively welcomed it. You can find a well written mix of New Right economics and a bitter hatred of conventional morality in the works of the late SF writer Robert E. Heinlein, for instance. He had the whole thing worked out even while society was dominated by completely different values, and he influenced many who later tried implementing his economic ideas in the world of real politics. But since the Christian Right were an important segment of the voters, nihilistic economics was justified as being a formula for returning to traditional morality. Some of these characters may have been quite sincere in what they said, who knows? But the political logic was to create an alliance between traditional moralists and greedy selfish hedonists.
So people treat victories gained in conscious political struggle as some sort of technical inevitability, an inevitable part of ‘the modern’. People anxious to ‘get ahead’ have to acquire a taste for whatever flavour of crap is currently fashionable. So the media make a habit of talking as if they wanted to go back to 1950s values, while also not doing so. the excuse is to say that changes that were very specifically fought for were in some manner inevitable, the price of the modern world.
Back in the 1950s, people were just as sure that a continuance of 1950s values was ‘the modern’. I see no reason at all why this expectation had to fail. Cycles of tolerance and restriction succeed each other with no particular logic. The Victorians successfully rolled back the sexual laxness of the Augustans and the Romantics. And in the 1890s, a seemingly inevitable decay in Victorian Puritanism was thrown back when the British public showed that it still had a vast enthusiasm for Puritan morals. The popularity and success of Oscar Wilde was no protection once the wider public correctly understood what he was really on about.
Persecution begins at home. Or else it is total hypocrisy. In the case of underage sex, there is a widespread willingness to persecute. Even a fervour for persecution. Most of the public – myself included – feel that sex involving the underage is not in the same category as unconventional sex acts between consenting adults. And because one now has a much more mobile and fragmented society, it becomes a more sensitive issue. All sexual rules are to some degree arbitrary, but so is society in general. None of it is truly natural; it is all a human creation passed down and modified from generation to generation. Since there is an unwillingness to persecute for anything other than rape, gross violence or underage sex, it must be assumed that the changes of the 1960s are now solidly a part of our culture.
The Meritocracy of the 1950s made an arbitrary decision to preserve some values and ignore others. Within its own framework, it was fair and just and kindly. But when standards changed, it was laid open to attack by right-wingers. People who would talk as if they were going to resume serious persecution on behalf of lost traditions. But who also reassured the more tolerant mainstream that this was not going to happen. In a time of moral confusion, the coherence of the old Meritocracy was lost.
What we have now is a Grabocracy. There is no real belief in its values, but people carry on with it anyway. Just as the now-fallen USSR staggered on for a couple of decades after the collapse of its internal ideology, and seemed still very strong up until 1989 when it suddenly disintegrated. What we have now in the West may be just as weak, despite its apparent power. The successful have an attitude of ‘it’s nice for me, so let the plebs shut up’. This is not either ethical or clever. People may go along with it but they do not especially respect it.
Endless competition makes for a nastier and greedier and more stressful society. Most people are persuaded to yearn for what most of them definitely cannot have. Normal life is rubbish and only the possession of vast amounts of cash justifies human existence. Those who do get it do not especially seem to deserve it, nor to be very happy with it. Free competition among a mass of ambitious characters for just a few spots as ‘top people’ means that everyone is pushed to the maximum endurable stress. They drive themselves to the point where they very nearly feel it is not worth it. ‘Even fat cats feel the stress of work in the Nineties’, as an article in The Independent recently put it.
If everyone drives themselves to the limit, most will exhaust themselves for nothing. And even those who win the big prizes will be unable to properly enjoy them. It is well known that we are not as happy as would be expected from our much better material conditions. This is easily explained by the stupid insistence on pushing everyone into more and more competition, to the point where it is not so much hope as fear that drives everyone one.
It is not even that this stress makes for any great material success. East Asia flourishes with less unequal societies, and with a much stronger belief in looking after everyone who behaves themselves. Thatcher and Reagan have not significantly altered the gradual decline of WASP values in a fast-changing world. A successful society is a complex blend of competition and cooperation and peaceful coexistence. The New Right turned the existing order upside down in pursuit of their own formula for success. But it has not succeeded. A simple continuation of 1970s trend would have been better for ordinary people and not much worse for the global position of those societies.
The big thing that has happened in Britain and especially in America is the emergence of an Overclass. This may not have been anyone’s conscious intention, Thatcher in particular managed to denationalise Britain without ever being aware of what she was doing. But it is the Overclass that has benefited and emerged as dominant. One finds a group of rich powerful people who have risen above the structure of society, just as Underclass have dropped out of it. They are not really like the old Ruling Class, which did at least have some plan for the ‘Lower Orders’. The Overclass are as callous and detached as the worst and most criminal elements of the Underclass. Asocial people such as ex-hippies and disillusioned former Trotskyists move very easily into the Overclass.The Overclass is the logical outcome of the crazy notion that normal life something you have a chance to get out of, rather than a decent thing in itself. Contempt for ordinary life is one characteristic of the Overclass. It is combined with a deep belief that anyone who suggests that members of the Overclass are less than perfect and miraculous must be moved by envy and malice. This depressing world view is rounded off with talk of ‘individualism’ from people who are not individual. They have probably never had a single individual thought in the whole of their rushed stressed clever little lives.If you are not scared of liberty, you have not the least idea of what it means. In the USA, people were always 100 per cent in favour of Liberty. Only Liberty did not mean quite what you thought it meant. Forms of liberty the Americans disliked or feared were redefined, ceased to be ‘liberty’ and become ‘irrational’ or ‘weird’ behaviour. Liberty does not include any ‘right to be wrong’. And since all moral codes have become fluid, the commitment to liberty means less and less in practice
Tony Blair and New Labour have to be regarded as minor consequences of a vast continuing social movement. The break-up of the nation-state, which has been replaced by a world order lacking in any definite social roots. There are obvious limits on what any one state can do very much. A state that tried to behave in a 1950s manner would be ruined financially by nihilistic money-markets, long before anyone could determine if these measures would have boosted the total social wealth. There are limits to what anyone could do, until the world grows more mature and responsible. But in as far as they can chose, Blair and Co. have chosen wrong. They give every sign of believing in a nihilistic individualism that was tried and exhausted under Thatcher. A determined and powerful fool can break apart an existing system. But it takes luck or genus to put it back together in some more coherent form. The Bolsheviks turned a ruined country into a new social system that amazed and terrified the world for its first three decades of existence. Likewise the Eurocrats in the post-1945 world, and the mix of Confucianism and Commerce in the Far East. But from the perspective of the next century, Thatcher and Reagan are likely to be seen as merely incidents and symptoms in the world-wide loss of position by the English-speaking peoples. And unless Blair goes against his present pattern, he will be a mere tail-ender in a failed rear-guard action.
First published in Labour & Trade Union Review, some time before 2000
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/24223 | Saturday, November 10, 2018
Television prophetic?
As I drove up US 378 to the area near the start line of Saturday's half-marathon that ended in complete disaster (disqualified at the sixth mile), I saw a sign promoting a play by a local theater company in the area.
Angrily after the disqualification I had thought of suicide and hearing "Suicide is Painless" in my head afterwards came (see "The Pain of Losing" for references). That theater sign was the problem. And that's because of that sign from the theatre promoting a play based on a 1970 movie and later a television show that even to this day is known for its ratings shares that are higher than any Super Bowl could ever have. What show was it?
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/24230 | Lancaster Mennonite Historical Society
Lancaster Mennonite Historical Society
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2215 Millstream Rd., Lancaster PA 17602
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Mar 07 2020
9:00 am - 12:00 pm
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Winter Workshop: Mennonite & Amish DNA Results
Gain a new perspective on Mennonite and Amish Genealogy through DNA testing on March 7 at 9 am at the Lancaster Mennonite Historical Society.
$15. Members receive their discount. Pre-register before March 4th at
The Mennonite and Amish Immigrant DNA project now has over 550 members. This talk will elaborate on the purposes of the project and review how DNA data is interpreted to construct the connections between families. Mennonite and Amish families are not one homogenous group, but rather represent a diverse assortment of lineages who settled in and around the Swiss Alps both during the before the Roman Empire.
There are all kinds of subtle and intricate ways these families share connections among themselves and with others, most of which are the result of extensive migration. Yes, these ancestors were migrants long before they crossed the Atlantic Ocean!
Presenter: Darvin L. Martin |
global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/24243 | Project Description
Introducing Sufism & Gnosticism in a simplified language by Dr Seyed Mostafa Azmayesh. In these programs we aim to discuss and explore the area on Sufism and Gnosticism. Questions treated in this program among other things are: Is there any kind of advertising existing in Sufism in order to invite people to join the path? How does someone find the path? Is it true that Sufism has nothing to do with politics? |
global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/24245 | Why does AdNabu create so many different keywords and ad groups?
AdNabu automatically finds and creates long tail keywords from the keywords provided by you. For eg: if a user gives the keyword attorney, AdNabu will create the following keywords (and more!) automatically and segregate them into single keyword ad groups.
• best attorney
• find attorney
• law attorney
When you use a single keyword attorney, you are already advertising for the search terms added by AdNabu automatically. But bidding for all these searches from a single keyword is not at all ideal. This is the reason why AdNabu creates ad groups and keywords for the long tail automatically. |
global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/24246 | You can manage your Hubspot connection by clicking "Settings" on the Hubspot row of the data sources table on the integrations page.
The modal gives you visibility and control over your integration. Namely, you can:
1. Reauthorize your connection
2. Pause data syncing
3. View connection status
4. Update frequency of data syncing
5. Manage which fields to sync
More on each of those below...
1. Reauthorize your connection
Click "Click here to reauthorize" to authenticate the Hubspot integration with a different username and password.
You may need to do this if the user you authenticated with loses access to Hubspot or doesn't have the required permissions for Crossbeam to pull data.
2. Pause Data Syncing
Click the toggle to the right of "Sync Data from Hubspot" to pause your Hubspot integration.
When the toggle is green and it says "Active" next to "Connection Status", your connection is active.
When the toggle is grey and it says "Not Syncing" next to "Connection Status", your connection is paused.
You will not be able to modify fields that you want synced while the integration is paused. Make the integration active to edit the field to sync again.
3. View connection status
The connection status appears within the Settings modal and also on the table of integrations on the integrations page. The available statuses are:
• Active
• Not Syncing
• Error
Active: the integration is active and will sync according to your sync frequency.
Not Syncing: the integration is paused and will not sync data until it is made active.
Error: the integration hit an error which will be displayed to you in the modal and on the data sources table on the integrations page if we have details on the error.
If you don't see an error message, please reach out to us through chat or at
4. Update frequency of data syncing
You can adjust the frequency at which we sync data from Hubspot by selecting a value in the dropdown to the right of "Update Frequency".
5. Manage which fields to sync
By default, we pull in a set of fields from Hubspot for you to use when filtering, either on the compare page or when creating and editing populations. You can find the list of those fields at the bottom of this article
You will need to manually add any additional fields you would like to use for filtering.
Our required (initial set of) fields are greyed out and unable to be removed.
Add new fields by clicking "All Fields" and either scrolling to your field or by searching for the field in the search bar. Check the box next to the field name to include the field in future syncs.
It will take ~30 minutes for us to fully sync data into Crossbeam for your new field(s). Before that, you will receive an error and/or unexpected results if you try and use the field to filter.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/24261 | Can’t Help Falling in Love (as made famous by Elvis Presley)
Elvis Presley’s version of the song, which topped the British charts in 1962, has appeared in numerous other films, including the 2000 film Coyote Ugly, the 2002 Disney film Lilo & Stitch, the 2016 film The Conjuring 2 and the Pilot Episode of Sons of Anarchy. Other films that feature the song include Overboard, Honeymoon in Vegas, The Thing Called Love, Was It Something I Said?, Fools Rush In, Love Stinks and Happily Ever After. The single is certified by the RIAA as a Platinum record, for US sales in excess of one million copies. In the United States, the Elvis Presley version of the song peaked at number two on the pop chart and went to number one on the Easy Listening chart for six weeks.[5]
During Presley’s late 1960s and 1970s live performances, the song was performed as the show’s finale. Most notably, it was also sung in the live segment of his 1968 NBC television special, and as the closer for his 1973 Global telecast, Aloha from Hawaii. A version with a faster arrangement was used as the closing for Presley’s final TV special, Elvis in Concert. |
global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/24263 | You are here
Moses -
A statistical machine translation system
A toolkit featuring algorithms and data structures to store and access very large n-gram language models
onlineMGIZA++ -
An extension of MGIZA++, which allows to align sentence pair in an online mode
Adaptive Quality Estimation tool for Machine Translation
CLTE Benchmark -
Cross-Lingual Textual Entailment Dataset
RTE3-derived CLTE dataset -
A cross-lingual entailment corpus, obtained by translating the RTE-3 dataset
BinQE -
A Machine Translation Dataset Annotated with Binary Quality Judgements
TOSCA-MP Speech Ground Truth -
A multilingual dataset of news and talk show transcriptions and translations
BitterCorpus -
En-Ita corpus with annotated bilingual terms in IT domain
WIT3 -
A ready-to-use version for MT research purposes of the multilingual transcriptions of TED talks
English-Italian Word Alignment Gold Standard |
global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/24268 | Types of Crushed Stone
Crushed stone is used for many different reasons from base material for pavers and bricks to topdressing areas for walking or driving on. The different types of crushed stone are categorized by the size of the stone after it has been crushed.
Crushed stone can be bought in bulk for less expensive rates.
Crushed stone can be made from many different kinds of rock, such as limestone, agar, slag, washed gravel, lucky stones and others. Different types of crushed stone are used for purposes specific to their size.
Stone Dust
Stone dust is the smallest type of crusted stone and is usually referred to as #10 or screenings. It is normally used as a base material for pavers or bricks. Stone dust can also be used as a base material for any kind of walkway, bike path or horse arena. Stone dust works well for mixing with larger crushed stone to help it to pack and prevent the larger stones from moving. Stone dust does not work well in muddy areas because it will just become mud after being applied to it.
This type of crushed stone is the most common type of crushed stone that is used. The diameter of the crushed pieces of stone should be 0.75 inches, although some pieces can be as big as an inch in diameter. The size can easily be described as nickel-sized to quarter-sized. #57 works well for walkways, bike paths, driveways and many other applications because of its comfort to walk and drive on. This type can also be used as a sub base for concrete sidewalks, driveways and patios.
This type of crushed stone is basically a mixture of stone dust and #57 crushed stone. This type of crushed stone works excellent for driveways, roadways or as a base for retaining walls. The smaller stone dust will mix with the 3/4-inch stones and compact very well. It can be used to patch or fill holes in paved areas. This type of crushed stone is small enough to be worked by hand. The mixture does not work very well in muddy areas because the stone dust will turn into mud when it comes in contact with it.
1 is the largest type of crushed stone. They can ranges from 2.5 inches in diameter to 4 inches in diameter, or from egg-sized to softball-sized. These stones are very large and cannot be worked by hand or moved with a shovel. In order to get them packed down well, smaller stones, such as stone dust, would need to be mixed with or topdressed on the #1 stones. #1 stones can sometimes be mixed with #2 sized stones, which are normally 2.5 inches in diameter themselves. |
global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/24269 | Municipal Code
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/24279 | The constant G in Newton's law $F = G m_1m_2/r^2$ is, as far as I know, absent from Newton's work - who introduced this constant?
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$\begingroup$ It is implicitly present in Newton's work. So one did not have to "introduce" it. Once you choose the units, you get a constant. At the time of Newton, they avoided writing constants depending on the units because the units were not firmly established. They preferred to phrase the laws in terms of proportionality. $\endgroup$ – Alexandre Eremenko Jan 25 '16 at 22:40
• $\begingroup$ That's what I mean by absent, and my question is who introduced it, in your terms, explicitly, $\endgroup$ – user2255 Jan 26 '16 at 6:41
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$\begingroup$ I don't know but I suppose that physical units were standartized only at the time of French revolution. $\endgroup$ – Alexandre Eremenko Jan 26 '16 at 21:32
• $\begingroup$ In theoretical physics research, publication of papers, and graduate (usually) level text books, a number of physical constants are set to 1, the integer 1 -- that is, no units. Obviously this changes the units of most if not all of the other values of a given equation but it simplifies the mathematical work. In quantum field theory work, it is common to set $\hbar=1$, and $c=1$. In Cosmology is is common to set $c=1$ and $G=1$. $\endgroup$ – K7PEH Jan 28 '16 at 19:25
As a constant using ordinary units (e.g., metric), the gravitational constant G doesn't occur until late in the 19th century. Scientists in Newton's time and into the 18th century were quite happy to work in terms of proportionalities and ratios; the constant of proportionality never needed to be written down. For example, one does not see a gravitational constant, in any form, in Cavendish's description of his experiments to "determine the density of the Earth" (1798). This practice of not using a gravitational constant with regard to earthly matters continued throughout much of the 19th century, e.g., Pratt (1855).
One does see something much akin to the Newtonian gravitational constant in the works of Laplace (1799) and Gauss (1809). Using modern nomenclature, Newton's law of gravitation using the gravitational constant of Laplace and Gauss is $$F = k^2 \frac{m_1 m_2}{r^2}$$
The key differences between that and $F=G \frac{m_1 m_2}{r^2}$ are that the Laplace's and Gauss's $k$ is the square root of the Newtonian constant, and that the system of units is more apropos to modeling the solar system. Gauss explicitly specified his system of units: One mean solar day as the unit of time, one solar mass as the unit of mass, and one astronomical unit (the mean distance between the Earth and the Sun) as the unit of length. The Gaussian gravitational constant has a numerical value of 0.01720209895, as reported by Gauss. This value persisted as a defined constant until very recently (2012, and perhaps later).
Aside: Note that making $k$ a defined constant effectively made the astronomical unit a derived quantity, divorcing it from the size of the Earth's orbit. Keeping $k$ at the value established by Gauss was standard practice throughout the 19th and 20th centuries.
The push to measure $G$ using earthly units didn't occur until after physicists saw the value of the metric system and its predecessors, was largely driven by electromagnetism. A flurry of publications occurred late in the 19th century regarding the Newtonian gravitational constant, apparently starting with Cornu and Baille (1873). (The reason I wrote "apparently" is because I can't access that paper, and because Poynting describes that paper as "brief".) Judging a book by its cover (or a scientific paper by its title), the title "A new determination of the constant of attraction and of the mean density of the Earth" certainly does appear that Cornu and Baille made the connection between assessing the mean density of the Earth and the gravitational constant. Boys (1889) makes the connection very explicit; Boys announced he was going to use a Cavendish experiment to measure the gravitational constant as the primary goal. That this measurement also would yield an estimate of the density of the Earth was secondary.
C.V.Boys (1889), "On the Cavendish experiment", Proc. R. Soc. London, 46, 253-268
C.V. Boys (1894), "The Newtonian constant of gravitation," Notices R. Inst. 14 353-377.
H. Cavendish (1798), "Experiments to determine the Density of the Earth," Phil. Trans. R. Soc. London, 88 469-526.
A. Cornu et B. Baille (1873), "Détermination nouvelle de la constante de l'attraction et de la densité moyenne de la Terre," Comptes Rendus lxxvi, 954-8.
Gauss (1809), "Theoria motus corporum coelestium in sectionibus conicis solem ambientium"
Laplace (1799), "Traité de mécanique céleste".
Poynting (1894), "The mean density of the Earth".
According to Wikipedia: "one of the first references to $G$ is in 1873, 75 years after Cavendish's work."
Newton assumed an inverse square law, as had already been proposed. Inverse square laws are usually due to spherical propagation: something is emitted in all directions from a point, so that at later times it is distributed on the surface of a sphere. This implies velocity, which Newton ignored (or assumed was too fast to mention). He could have conjectured that gravity was spherically propagated, and used $4\pi\cdot r \cdot r,$ instead of just $r\cdot r.$
G is not merely a constant of proportionality. It has units which deserve further attention. It is roughly ($c\cdot c \cdot R / M)/(4\pi),$ where $c=3\mathrm{E}8 ~\textrm{m/s}$ = speed of light (or gravity); $R=4.6\mathrm{E}26~\textrm{meters}$ = radius of visible universe; $M=3\mathrm{E}52~\textrm{kg};$ and $4\pi$ is the neglected spherical factor.
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$\begingroup$ Please get rid of the last paragraph. That's just woo. $\endgroup$ – David Hammen Jan 29 '16 at 9:26
• $\begingroup$ Yes, but less that 1E-11 woo, which makes it worth consideration, unless you explain... $\endgroup$ – amI Feb 3 '16 at 18:00
• $\begingroup$ Unless you can find a citation for that woo in peer reviewed journals, it's just woo. There are lots of citations that claim that G truly is a constant, meaning that it doesn't vary in time. We happen to live at a time where your woo is approximately true, to within an order of magnitude or so. It's numerological woo. $\endgroup$ – David Hammen Feb 3 '16 at 18:08
• $\begingroup$ Those citations only claim that G has been constant within a factor of 2. To say that 'now' is so special of a coincidence is harder to believe than that there is new physics to find. $\endgroup$ – amI Feb 3 '16 at 18:27
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$\begingroup$ Nonsense. Let's use different sets of units. In natural units, the speed of light is 1, the radius of the observable universe is $2.7\times10^{61}$ planck lengths, and the mass of the observable universe is $1.5\times10^{62}$ planck masses. Your expression yields a value of 0.014 for G. It should be 1 in this system. Using the astronomical unit as the unit of length, the day as the unit of time, and the mass of the Sun as the unit mass, your expression yields a value of $1.4\times10^{12}$. The correct value of G in this system is $2.959\times10^{-4}$. $\endgroup$ – David Hammen Feb 4 '16 at 16:23
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/24283 | boxman / James Box
I bought a plastic bag. The bottom fell out.
There are four people in boxman’s collective.
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1. Vinay London July 29 2015
Conversation between Vinay Gupta and James Burke about Blockchain, Ethereum, Politics and what is on Vinay’s mind.
1:00 "The Republicans were right" 3:50 Homelessness 4:30 Ethereum launch : programming the blockchain 5:55 Smart contracts 8:40 What does Ethereum do, who will use it? 9:25 Ogre: A prediction market 11:14 Providence: supply chain tracking of goods 11:50 The Blockchain & transforming music : Imogen Heap 13:40 Which areas of Ethereum are seeing the most interest by outside parties? Bankers… 14:42 Blockchains are the 3rd wave of fundamental technology 15:54 Blockchain speed
—Huffduffed by boxman
2. Adrian Hon: A History of the Future in 100 Objects - The Long Now
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3. BBC Click: dConstruct: Living with the Network
How computers and digital technology affect our lives around the world.
Click investigates triumphs and pitfalls of the digital age at the dConstruct conference.
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4. The Internet of Things
A largely extemporary presentation on the Internet of Things; I got into a theme on the first slide and more or less stayed for for the full 40 minutes so there is new material in here. I also argued, somewhat polemically against over structured approaches to complex issues, mentioning SAP, Sharepoint, Sick Stigma and SAFe along the way. So sensitive soles might want to avoid this on. I want to develop some of this material over future presentation so expect more.
—Huffduffed by boxman
5. Trail Outlaws
Trail Outlaws Podcast, episode 1. Including interview with Mark Perkins (starts at 42 minutes).
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6. Tom Armitage on CBC Radio
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7. The Bottom Line with Evan Davis – 15 Nov 2012
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8. Making Friends: On Toys and Toymaking — dConstruct Audio Archive
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9. Admiral Shovel and the Toilet Roll — dConstruct Audio Archive
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10. The Life Scientific with Martin Siegert
Jim al-Khalili goes under the Antarctic ice with glaciologist, Martin Siegert to explore one of the most remote and extreme environments on earth, Lake Ellsworth. Will they find life?
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/24305 | the disbelievers, the pathologizers, and the empathizers.
Typically family members will be the first ones to learn of a loved one’s mental illness. Living day to day with people, it becomes hard to hide certain parts of one’s self. Sometimes, out of desperation for help, people will either confide in those close to them or act in a way that makes it obvious (starvation, cutting, severe mood swings, etc.). Other times, people will try to hide it as best they can, or, as in my case, they don’t even realize they have a mental disorder.
I didn’t know that obsessively counting calories and restricting was a mental disorder. Nor did I know that about my anxiety or depression. But eventually it broke me. Living with constant mental battles wears one down in a way that nothing else can. As I’ve become more vocal about my invisible disabilities (depression, anxiety, and anorexia), I’ve found that people typically respond in one of three ways: 1) they disregard it; 2) they pathologize me; 3) they empathize.
The “disregarding” crowd are perhaps worse than the pathologizing ones. Do not diminish or ignore someone’s mental illness. Even if they haven’t confided in you, but you suspect something, believe that what is going on inside their mind is very, very real–even if it does not make sense to you. Chances are, it won’t. If you do not have a mental disorder (or are uninformed about them), it will seem like something made-up, a hobby for the self-centered. This couldn’t be farther from the truth. So if you find yourself falling into this group, try starting from a place of belief rather than doubt.
I have encountered the pathologizing horde the most–especially in the church. Rather than being viewed as a strong, “healthy” Christian, I become a fragile, sick individual. The “how are you” greetings are often code for “are you eating/sleeping/not worrying/wanting to be dead, etc.” And, the worst part, for me anyway, is when people who have never talked to me in my life, but I have seen quite regularly for years, feel the need to give me a hug and say “I’m here for you”–both out of guilt and pity. Comments like this, especially if I’m having a “good” day, can send me spiraling. If you find yourself in this group, my advice is to remember (or perhaps, get to know in the first place) all of the things about that person that aren’t their mental disorder.
Finally, you find those who empathize with you. And when that happens, it makes all the other encounters less difficult. It gives you hope that eventually they might come to empathize, too. If enough people are being vocal, willing to help end the stigma, I believe this to be inevitable. And that gives me strength. Since starting this blog, I’ve learned of so many people’s personal struggles, or of their loved ones who have mental disorders. And for many of you, this is new territory. It is not new because it is just now appearing. It is new because the church community isn’t talking about it like they should.
Thank you for helping to change that.
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1. My cousin’s husband introduced me to your blog, and I could NOT be more grateful. In terms of this post, I am an empathizer. The way you talk about mental illness – even the words you use, and your phraseology is incredibly relatable to me. Thank you so much for sharing.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/24313 | 12 Tactics to Boost Engagement on Social Media
Whether you're a startup, entrepreneur, or small business owner, social media can push your brand awareness and increase your reach. Check out these 12 tactics to engage your audience on social media and create a consistent channel of conversation.
1. Surveys & Polls
There's nothing better than asking your audience questions. People love to give their opinion. Twitter's survey platform is better than ever as it allows you to Tweet out a question with four answer choices.
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Facebook Polls are a bit different as there is an app install where you can build your own poll. See here for details.
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2. Get the Conversation Started and Contribute To It
Get the conversation started about your brand by joining groups and contributing to the conversation. This is an ideal way to start getting connected with your target audience. It will let you become an industry thought leader and also allow you to find out what your audience needs out of your business and/or product.
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3. Offer Incentives
Whether you're in retail, food, or B2B, offering incentives works. Engage with your audience by offering discounts. If they respond to a post, like a page, or follow a specific social media channel, the incentives give them reasons to keep coming back. The same incentive can be offered for joining an email list or for exclusively in-store only like the example from H&M below.
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4. Respond Quickly and Thoroughly
If a customer comments on a post or mentions you in a Tweet, respond with more than a Yes or No. Keep the conversation going by interacting. If they have a question, answer it thoroughly.
5. Get Involved In The World
It's only proper to share other content. A great way to show that your company is in tune with the world is to showcase charities or non-profits you support. You can tell a personal story or simply mention that your staff supports certain causes through videos, images and blogs.
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6. Share Customer Stories
Show customer appreciation by showcasing customer stories on your social media sites. It's a great way to interact with their friends and audience as well. The same can be done with partners and organizations you relate closely too.
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7. Use Images
Even though your audience may not directly engage with all of your content they will still look. Always post with photos, it gives people a reason to stop and stare which leads to further engagement! Buffer recently found that sharing images on Twitter increases retweets by 150%.
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8. Incorporate Call-To-Actions
When engaging with your audience, focus on a single call-to-action. When asking your audience to do something on social media don't ask too much. Keep it simple and take one step at a time. If you want them to subscribe to your newsletter then say subscribe - don't encourage them to also read it in the same social media post.
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9. Be Consistent and Frequent - Use Reoccurring Content
Plan out your social media or at least pick certain days to post certain things. If you're highlighting customers or new products choose a day each week or month to do this. This will show your audience consistency and gives your core-followers something to look forward too.
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10. Add Social Plugins To Your Website
Be sure to include social plugins on your website. Social Plugins make it easier for readers and your audience to engage with your content. Define what social channels your audience uses and only add the most relevant. Examples of social plugins on websites are below.
Did You Know: "Only 16% of visitors will actually read your article start to finish (source: co-schedule)."
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11. Host Social Media Contests
Hosting social media contests are a great way to grab the attention of your audience. You can do this on any social media site and even post days prior to the actual contest to build momentum.
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12. Pay-To-Play Social Media
If you've got something interesting going on and post it to social media it's never a bad idea to put a few advertising dollars behind it. According to Facebook, the average brand post is seen by just 16% of the page's followers. With that being said, for a small cost you can boost posts on Facebook and gauge the feedback.
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Expression columns
Expression columns are special kinds of columns provided by InstaDB engine. Their most important feature is the lack of representation on the database level — their values are calculated by InstaDB when they are needed to be displayed to a user or when they are part of some other calculations, like pivot reports or other expression columns.
Expression columns cannot be directly edited bu user, but always represent the current state of database, so they can change to reflect modifications of records and values they depends on.
It is worth to notice that expression columns can be of any format, including reference.
Types of expression columns
There are two types of expression columns you should know:
• SQL expression column,
• child sum expression column.
The other two types you may find in the Schema Editor (partial sum and previous) are experimental and may not work well or disappear in the future versions of InstaDB.
An expression column
Child sum expressions
To use child sum expression another table with reference to the current one must be defined. The expression definition requires the following parameters:
• function which take the values of column indicated in column part of the definition and return the result; basic statistical functions accessible;
• Vtable is a table with a reference to the currently edited (only tables fulfilling this condition are listed in the selection list);
• key define which reference column of Vtable is taken into account (as a table may have many references to another one);
• column which value will be an input for the function; in most cases it will by a numerical column, but for some functions (count, count distinct, minimum and maximum) other data format may return reasonable results.
Selection of an aggregation function
SQL expressions
SQL expression let to perform any calculation on the database records, including everything what can be expressed with a child sum expression.
Basically the language of expressions is similar to MySQL with some improvements, but also with limitations.
The best way to work with SQL expression is to use built in SQL expression editor, which provides useful features to help you to create valid SQL code efficiently.
Currently the expression editor link is accessible only when a SQL expression column is saved, so it won't appear in the new column form. So the easiest way to enter the editor is to write a column with any valid expression (like "1" for example).
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/24332 | How to Automatically Clear Outputs from Jupyter Notebooks before Committing
By Andre Perunicic | August 24, 2017
This post explains how to automatically clear Jupyter or iPython notebook output cells every time you commit or switch branches in a particular git repo. Enabling this in a repository allows for easier collaboration on Jupyter notebooks and prevents the repository’s size from ballooning due to embedded plots and data printouts!
1. Clone the script (into, say, ~/GitHub) from via
git clone
2. Make the script executable
chmod +x ~/GitHub/ipynb_output_filter/
3. Create a ~/.gitattributes file
touch ~/.gitattributes
and add the following hook:
echo "*.ipynb filter=dropoutput_ipynb" >> ~/.gitattributes
4. Configure git to find your ~/.gitattributes file:
git config --global core.attributesfile ~/.gitattributes
5. Add the dropout_ipynb section (that will trigger the script above) to your repo’s git config by pasting the following into path/to/repo/.git/config:
[filter "dropoutput_ipynb"]
clean = ~/GitHub/ipynb_output_filter/
smudge = cat
From then on, committing any *.ipynb file should lead to the output being stripped.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/24337 | God’s Weight-Loss Plan for Endurance
The author of Hebrews recommends laying aside all of the weight, including our sins, that encumber us in the race to eternal life. These actions allow us to demonstrate faith in Jesus Christ, whose birth, death, and resurrection is the basis of our faith in God and our belief in a better home to aspire to, one not made by human hands. Stripping off the weight means letting go of our hurts, heartbreaks, and humiliations; our broken dreams, broken hearts, and broken promises; and our fears, failures, and frustrations. This emotional baggage often hinders our faith, and causes us to doubt the One who paid the ultimate price for our redemption.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/24359 | Many questions refer (or will refer) to nuance questions. Many answers will be given, and much practice will still be needed to understand the nuances and use them correctly.
Therefore, I wonder if there's a way for an asker to be sure that he understood properly the answers by making sentences would be checked by the competent answer people?
Should it be a comment? A question edit? A tag "exercise" along with a reference to the original question? Or is it just no more JLU business, go away dude?
I was going to say, "Just use the comments!" but I see how you might want to post several sentences at one time, and the comments would quickly turn unwieldy.
Can this just be another question? In the question body, you could link to the related question and then ask for corrections on your practice sentences. This way everyone has a chance to answer with their corrections and explanations, no one is confined to the claustrophobic restrictions of comments, and the rep fountain continues to flow happily. Plus, the additional discussion around practice sentences may spin off more questions about related grammar forms.
• There I like the other "question" linked to the original (real) question too. Then, one needs definitely to tag, and/or show in the title that it's not a question per say (since we're not here to do translations…). And also, how do you rate such a question which is just "ok, so if I got it right, in the two sentences below, I did get the nuance between foo and bar right, didn't I?"? – Axioplase Jul 14 '11 at 10:01
I'd say the comments work really well for this.
Sometimes the comments will show that some questions and/or answers will be improved by editing with the hindsight the comments provided.
One down side is that sometimes too many comments can accumulate and clearing them out requires each participant or somebody with high powers and you don't want to lose a good comment that hasn't been edited into a question or answer.
• One cannot structure a comment, can one? All text will be in a single line. And to whose answer are you going to reply? Commenting the question may mix up with comments related to the question itself. I somehow think that it calls for an extra thread… – Axioplase Jul 9 '11 at 7:37
In my questions if I have to verify a small portion I use the comments. If it results in asking another question but not enough to warrant creating a whole new question, I would edit my original question and just add on to clarify bigger issues within the scope of the original question(and of course indicating what has been added on).
But this begs the question of what is and what isn't "enough to warrant creating a whole new question".
Just a suggestion but perhaps we can implement collapsible tabs for mini-chatrooms where anybody feels that a portion should be discussed. I'm not sure if it can be done, but it's just an idea. If anybody wants to discuss a certain portion, he can simply insert a "button" or "tab" of sorts into anywhere in the main body of the question/answer. Clicking on it would cause a drop-down tab or something similar. This would allow discussion within the main body, and not clutter up since the tabs will just retract into little icons when not activated.
Personally I think there are more appropriate forums for such posts. For example, lang-8.
• My understanding of Lang-8 when I had an account there a couple of years ago is that it is more geared toward proper 作文, while this question is more along the lines of creating a list of (disconnected) practice sentences centered on a particular bit of grammar. I suppose it could go either way. – Derek Schaab Jul 13 '11 at 12:33
• It's actually used for anything you want. You just write random things in the language of your choice, and native speakers correct it. In fact, what I've started doing recently is, I simply write a post where I make up about 10-20 sentences which use the pattern, and post it. I get tons of corrections all the time. The advantage of lang-8 is the integrated correction system where people can cross out specific parts of your sentences and replace them, color them, etc. Plus, it groups corrections by sentence, so you can see many versions of the same sentence side by side. – Zach Jul 13 '11 at 21:41
• BTW, if you're interested I'll post a link to my lang-8 profile so you can see said entries. – Zach Jul 13 '11 at 21:56
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Booth: S407, S405, S403, S401
Dates: January 25 - February 5, 2018
Product Description: Finished silver jewelry.
Address: 2025 Keith Street
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/24386 | After Joomla migration, I'm left with a few errors like:
Warning: include_once(menu.php): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /www/doc/www.elody.cz/www/tmp/htmlpaUI9p on line 1
Warning: include_once(): Failed opening 'menu.php' for inclusion (include_path='.:/usr/share/php') in /www/doc/www.elody.cz/www/tmp/htmlpaUI9p on line 1
The /tmp/ folder is empty, the cache is empty and turned off.
Do you have any ideas how to solve this?
These are not Errors, these are only Warnings (or is there also any error message connected to these particularly?). This warning usually happens when (due to ie. migration) a file path was changed and the ROOT or BASE path is different than it was before. in Joomla in 'Admin->Global configuration' if you set 'Error Reporting' to 'system default', then these warnings are not visible to your visitors (and otherwise the warnings do not cause problems in the site operations most of the times, however sometimes can cause fatal error too). Possible solutions:
1. After migration maybe in your configuration.php file the live_site variable is wrongly defined. You should check that and should be set to the correct value (usually an empty string ''). Also check the $tmp_path variable's value in this same file.
2. If the first is OK (and the file path warning is still there), then in your template's index.php file you might want to add the following (at the top of the file):
$this->baseurl = JPATH_BASE;
It appears that you don't yet have your file path properly declared.
I'll offer some instructions to correct your tmp path, but you should execute the same technique to eliminate the other Warnings too.
If you have access to your administrator backend:
Go to System > Global Configuration > Server (tab).
The Path to Temp Folder field should read something like /home/htmlpaUI9p/public_html/temp
If you don't yet have access to your administrator backend:
Go to your configuration.php file which should be inside your htmlpaUI9p directory.
Change the line with public $tmp_path to public $tmp_path = '/home/htmlpaUI9p/public_html/tmp';
If this advice doesn't work as desired, please update your question with what occurs after the change and any other valuable details that will help us to help you.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/24392 | bible, black background, book
“To or not to learn.”
god in school
God in schools has been a debate for years. And the obvious reason why there is no religion in schools is because we not only all have different belief systems. But we all have our own interpretation for what God means. And when sending our children to school, we may believe the same religion that is being taught yet still do not want the schools pushing their own beliefs onto our children. So we have worked to have a separation of church and state. But are there other reasons for why we have religion removed from schools?
lifestyle gets in the way
We all have lives that may conflict with our religious beliefs. And for that reason, you cannot teach religion in schools. The instructors just like the parents of the kids have lives. And to come to school and teach God and religion, yet have their own lives that cause conflicts with religion can create an unstable environment. The bible was written during a time period totally different than the one today. So living by the book becomes virtually impossible in the world today.
whose book?
Having so many groups living in an environment can create a problem when trying to figure out what religion to practice. But even if we look at just Christianity, which is the dominant religion of America, what sect shall be practiced? Will it be Baptist, Agnostic, Pentecostal, Catholicism, Lutheranism, or Jehovah Witness viewpoint? And they all have different takes in Christianity themselves. And after them you have Islam and Judaism, who have their own sects under these headings, not to mention Atheist.. So trying to place religion in schools would cause problems, even among Christians. So for now, let’s keep the religious talks for families to deal with not schools.
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“Guide to life, not to preservation for death.”
The Christian bible has been pondered over for centuries regarding its authenticity in society. The believers say that it is the words of prophets and God; while skeptics say it was merely man. And that man created this as a template in how to live your life on Earth. And that’s what brings me to the topic for today. What if the Christian bible was just that in society? What if it were just a template in how to live your life? That would mean that all the miracles were just more imagery that is supposed to serve as something else in our lives. And what is that something else? Because the bible was written to be unchanged, and is supposed to last for the life of humanity.
But how does a book last for the life of humanity, when humanity in itself is constantly changing. So let’s explore the idea of what life is like for the bible as just a template in how to live your life. That would mean the miracles weren’t true and neither is the notion that we’re created in God’s likeness. Which would further go on to mean that Earth was not created in seven days. Does that devalue the meaning of the bible any less? Could people still believe if that were the case? And does that mean life as we know it for people is over because this is it? And that’s what clouds people’s minds on this topic, is what does life hold for me?
Is that something that people who were the scholars understood about the past? Maybe they knew that man needed something to believe in that was much higher than themselves to define their lives. Because humanity is just as fragile as any other creature. Only problem is that humans are given a conscious. And with that conscious we have the ability to make what we feel are rational decisions. And another aspect of that rational mind is knowing and understanding that we all will die one day; our mortality. Knowing and understanding that this is it for us in life, and nothing else. So here one day and gone the next, not experiencing any real fulfillment out of life. And here is where belief becomes strong in a deity.
Not being able to come to terms with not mainly your ending, but your existing. We hold on to religion because it does in part gives us the reason to exist. We say, “Without God, where would I be.” “Or you’re never alone when God is near.” But how is it that in a world of so many people are we alone and no one to depend on. So the idea of the bible serving as a non-religious text, but more so just a basic moral code, still creates disconnect. Because the moral code is fine and all, but what about the living. We have something in us that goes far back in the DNA chain that makes us who we are, that is the reason we tend to be alone, not like other people, or ignore another person’s existence. And yet we need that friendship and companionship.
See, in the end, I don’t see religion going away. And when I say religion, we think about the major religions. I mean a new religion, or one growing in popularity that is already here, yet small may not go away. People are always searching for something outside of self. It’s something that both believers and non-believers both agree on. Once we feel know we know all there is to know about us as a human species, you’re now interested in something greater. Greater than you, me, this Earth we live on, and beyond. (PERSONAL WEBSITE) (FAN PAGE)
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“He might exist, but we could be wrong about him.”
The alpha and the omega, the creator of the heavens and the Earth; God. The age old questions, does he exist? Did God create us, or was he made up for humans to have purpose in life? But what about the alternative to both views. What if God exist, just not how people of faith see him. Meaning, what if science is wrong about his existence? But also, what if people of faith is wrong about his existence as well? Whoa, how could that be possible? Well, I have come up with a few scenarios as to why both sides could be wrong. One of the ways both could be wrong is his existence.
His basic existence could be something different on the scientific side and the religious side. Let’s first start with the scientific side that says there is no Blue Orange and Red Outer Space PhotoGod at all. Well, just as much as religion can’t prove his existence you can’t prove his nonexistence. Science can aim to disprove his existence as to how people interpret him. Meaning, humans were created by a deity is the religious faith base. But what if God is the all seeing, all knowing, who created the earth, and all creatures. But, he may not be the deity we see him as, but more so the force keeping all of existence of everything in order. And our scientific understanding of the universe, is in essence an understanding of God.
We could be slowly figuring out God, just from a scientific standpoint. Our human minds could have created the scientific theory for what he the creator have wanted us to find out. Our scientists just are picking up the bible, book, chaptercrumbs of what he left for us to figure out. It’s doesn’t remove science, but it also doesn’t remove religion as well. Which brings me to the religious aspect of who God is. And that is interesting in itself. What if God exist, people of religion would be ecstatic. But what if he is not the God we want to accept? What if he is more so one faith, than the other? Are we all ready to accept what the all-seeing God truly is as a deity? And what do I mean by accept who he is.
Let’s say you’re a Christian, and you die. You stand before the voice of the Gold and Black Crucifixhigher power. And then God says to you, “You have to past these series of test.” Makes sense because our religious beliefs always imply that God gives us obstacles. So, your first test is standing before God. Then your next test is
standing before Jesus Christ. But one more test you must face, and you’re ready for that test. Then out walks the Prophet Muhammad. Now, here in book, close-up, faiththis moment, you can’t accept that. Why would a challenge be to prove yourself to Muhammad. Now, your human belief says this must be wrong. But religion says God makes no mistakes. So what do you do? Because you can’t challenge God, it’s his house.
So, accept what he has placed before you or remove yourself from his kingdom above. Because he doesn’t need you, you need him. And what I could have just said would be the same for Muslims and Jews mixing the bible, church, handsdifferent deities. You might reject what I am implying in this moment. But what would you do standing before God. So even in our own belief of not challenging God, you’re ready to challenge him. Yet remember what I said, God makes no mistakes. So if you shall prove yourself to these other deities, then so be it.
And in the end, that’s what has so many people stuck in thought. We control so much on Earth, that we want to now control the afterlife. But you don’t control the afterlife. We all have beliefs and theories of what takes place after you die, and who you answer to when you die. Science says no one, this is it, and religion says God. But neither is ready to deal with both sides being wrong. (PERSONAL WEBSITE) (FAN PAGE)
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“Too many contradictions to have both coexist.”
The conversation regarding church and the state has been a topic of debate for decades. Should we include the religious practices of the Christian faith into our schools, workplace, or even leisure activities? And I for one am against the involvement of religious practices into our daily lives on these levels. Not because I have an issue with Christianity, but mainly because the people aspect of what could come of it. People are fine with God entering all of our lives so long as it does not interfere with whatever it is that benefits their lives. This is a key reason why we have the separation of church and state. Well, let’s go a little further into what I mean by benefits their lives.
When sending your child to school, you want and expect them to receive an education that is based in academia. The obvious reason why religion in school wouldn’t work is because you don’t have children at your schools that all believe the Christian faith. But another thing that people don’t think about is the idea that we have many sects of the Christian faith. So let’s sayauditorium, benches, chairs we do put Christianity in schools. What sect of Christianity: Baptist, Lutheran, Catholic, Pentecostal, or Johovah Witness? Here is where even more fighting could possibly take place. Because the way in which each of the above sects serve God is different. So even with Christ in schools, not all Christians worship the same.
What about the use of Christianity in our laws? Here is the problem with laws in our society. It’s easy to say, “Thou shall not kill.” But what about laws such as, “Thou shall not commit adultery.” If you ask anyone do they cheat, they’ll say no. But if you make it a law, people will fight for their right to cheat. It will be fought under the guides of “everyone makes mistakes.” But White Concrete Structurescheating is not a mistake. You don’t mistakenly sleep with another person. You mistakenly spill a cup of coffee, but you know you are in a relationship. Cheating is thinking you’re getting away with something. Well because cheating is human nature. But if the bible speaks against this human nature, can you make it law? That’s why structuring laws around religion can be dangerous.
Another place where we separate the church and state decisions are in the workplace. Everything from how you dress, to both genders working side by side. Christianity has something designed around the workplace. And you really start to run into issues, even more than children going to school. Because you have adults policing other adults who live the same way. AndMan Wearing Red While Sitting Inside Concrete Bulding what do I mean by the same way. For example, I am a male boss telling a woman what to wear. But the tables are turned the moment another man tries to enforce his will onto our wives, sisters, and daughters. We are comfortable telling other women what to do, just no one telling those close to us the same.
And in the end, all of what I have explained is the reasons why church and state have to be separated. Because when I do something you feel go against the bible it’s a sin. When you are now doing something that goes against the bible, it becomes either nobody is perfect, or the God I worship doesn’t judge. You can’t say abortion is wrong, then conduct research and abortions are up in the communities pushing against abortion. You can’t say wait until you’re married for sex, and then we find out you have been married for five years, yet you have a seven year old child. It’s the hypocrisy of us as people as to why we have to, and will always keep church and state separate.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/24397 | Tag Archive: higher education
Higher Education – if not a business, then what?
Use the phrase “higher education should be run like a business” and you’ll usually get polar-opposite responses from a wide range of people. One CIO might agree while another runs at you with a pitchfork or torch. Some presidents may feel sympathy for the argument, while others will take a completely opposite stance. In other words, it’s not as if one group of individuals (like CIOs) agree while others (like presidents) don’t. You get the bi-polar set of reactions everywhere.
Even what one means can be controversial. Do you mean all of higher education? Including the academic side? In which case you probably (but not definitely) mean teaching at scale (large lectures or even MOOC-style ones), accessing new channels (online), and perhaps even modifications to curriculum. Or do you mean the administrative side? In which case you’re talking about business operations. Of course, it’s not a clean separation. What about a business analysis of the output from academic departments? Many institutions (I’ll find some links later) have been cancelling majors due to low numbers of graduates, meaning that the major is not producing the “ROI” that the institution expects. I usually interpret that investment as in the form of the faculty paid to run that program, but I might be narrow-minded on that.
For me, I generally mean business operations whenever I ponder this phrase. I am not sold that it should be run like a business. We are an educational institution, with service providers and “consumers” (I mean that literally, and not as akin to “customers.” I mean people that consume the service we provide) that are focused on education and the growth of young adults and adult learners. But then I look at how I spend my days trying to do “cost containment” (ie – cutting expenses) on things such as phone bills and internet service, or getting bids on projects, and it sure does feel like a business sometimes.
So my question is – if not to be run like a business, how is an institution to be run, on the administrative side? What is the framework or model that one would prefer to use? And can you articulate that framework?
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/24404 | Third Thrift Store Acquisition Log for 2020!
Missed a couple of Sundays of flea marketing due to heavy snow, so I ended up doing some thrifting after the weather cleared up! Here is what I got:
1. You Don’t Know Jack Volume 1 (1995, v1.01, repackaged in 1997 by Sierra, Hybrid Classic Mac OS (68040/PowerPC) and Windows 3.1/95/98)
2. Project Gotham Racing 4 (Xbox 360)
3. Need for Speed: Pro Street (Xbox 360)
4. Clue Finders 4th Grade Adventures (2000, v2.1, Hybrid Classic Mac OS (PowerPC) and Windows 95/98/ME)
5. All Star Typing Ages 9-12: Basketball (1999 reissue of Creative Wonders Slam Dunk Typing, Hybrid Classic Mac OS (68040/PowerPC) and Windows 3.1/95/98)
6. Fetch It Again! (2007, Windows XP/Vista)
Let’s hope there will be a better flea market day weather wise! In the meantime, I will be back to working on my computers, so take care!
Second Thrift Store Acquisition Log for 2020!
As promised from my last post, here are more items that I found from local thrift stores:
1. NHL 13 (Xbox 360)
2. Math Blaster Ages 9-12 (Hybrid Classic Mac OS/Windows)
3. Jump Start Adventures: 5th Grade Deluxe (Hybrid Classic Mac OS/Windows)
4. Toon Boom Studio Express (Hybrid Mac OS X/Windows)
Not a lot of finds today! But anyways, I’ll be back working on my computers, so take care!
First Thrift Store Acquisition Log for 2020!
I’m starting the decade off nicely with some thrifting! Here’s what I found:
1. The Sims 4 (Windows)
2. American Idol (PlayStation 2, better condition)
3. Chaos Island – Jurassic Park The Lost World (Windows)
4. The Oregon Trail 4th Edition (Windows)
5. EA Sports Tiger Woods PGA Tour 12: Masters (PlayStation 3)
6. EA Sports Tiger Woods PGA Tour 08 (PlayStation 3)
We’ll be rolling out the new decade with more computer and video game related blog posts, so stay tuned! For now, take care!
Happy New Year’s Eve! / LGR featured my thrift store finds for the final time in the 2010s decade!
Happy New Year’s Eve for the upcoming 2020s decade! You may have noticed that some of my videos are not available since I deleted my YouTube account due to issues with the FTC, COPPA, and the new YouTube terms of service, and that’s because I have Vimeo handy for my future computer and video game collection videos of the new decade!
But anyways, a while ago, LGR finally made episode 44 of his thrifting series! Which you can find below this text:
If you want to see my viewer finds, it’s at 16:50-16:51 (or precisely 16:50) in the video, because that’s the first you’ll see in the long list of other people’s finds!
Anyways, Have a happy 2020, and take care!
Merry Christmas 2019!
I wish to everyone a Merry Christmas to everyone viewing my experiments here at Katie Cadet’s Computer and Video Game Collection, and have a happy 2020!
So far, I got the Xbox 360 going, all is working well! That gives me access to Xbox-exclusive titles other than the usual PlayStation titles such as Project Gotham Racing, Forza, Kinect motion-controlled games and more!
Boxing Day is just around the corner, so be on a lookout for more blog posts coming your way, and soon in 2020! For now, take care!
Last Varied Acquisitions of 2019!
Merry Christmas Everyone! As promised, I got a Microsoft Xbox 360 and a Nintendo Entertainment System with the following games:
1. Super Mario Bros. (NES)
2. Super Mario Bros. 2 (NES)
3. Fester’s Quest (NES)
4. Castlevania II (NES)
5. The Immortal (NES)
6. Sonic Heroes (Xbox)
7. MotoGP (Xbox)
8. Disney Pixar’s Cars (Xbox)
9. Avatar: The Game (Xbox 360)
10. Kinect Adventures (2 copies, Xbox 360)
11. Kinect Star Wars (Xbox 360)
12. Kinect Sports (Xbox 360)
13. Forza Horizon (Xbox 360)
14. Forza Motorsport 4 (Xbox 360)
15. Project Gotham Racing 3 (Xbox 360)
16. LEGO Indiana Jones 2 (Xbox 360)
17. Skylanders: Spyro’s Adventure (Xbox 360)
18. Dance Central (Xbox 360)
19. The Hip Hop Dance Experience (Xbox 360)
20. Just Dance 3 (Xbox 360)
21. LEGO Batman The Video Game (Xbox 360)
22. Pure (Xbox 360)
23. Game Party in Motion (Xbox 360)
24. Motion Sports Play for Real (Xbox 360)
25. BONUS: Super Mario Bros. 2020 Calendar, for celebrating 35 years of Nintendo’s Mario!
26. BONUS: 2x USB Flash Drives
27. BONUS: Portable USB Charger
28. BONUS: RGB USB Mat
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/24460 | I recently moved into a shared house with 3 other roommates (4 if you count the couple as 2 people) on the main floor. It's also close to a busy street. At night the noise sometimes disturbs me. Sources of noise:
1. cars and trucks going by
2. music from roommates (especially with loud base)
3. roommates opening and closing doors
4. people using the bathroom (my bedroom is right beside it)
Things I've tried:
1. closing window
2. ear plugs (I find they fall out while I sleep)
3. turning on air purifier (makes noise similar to fan)
4. app on my phone for white noise
5. going to bed earlier
My roommates have approximately the same schedule, but one ends work at midnight. There's only one who plays music with speakers and I should probably talk to him about it but I don't want to upset him when I just moved in. Even on the lowest volume, trance music is still very difficult to sleep with.
EDIT: I'm open to suggestions for sources of white noise, for example I've been using an app on my phone but I find that the sound has too much variation and that I prefer very constant sound e.g. if it's rain noises it disturbs me if every 30 or 60 seconds they throw in thunder.
UPDATE: thankfully I moved out of this place.
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Talk to the guy who just moved in and ask him to turn the music down or off. It's perfectly reasonable to expect something very close to silence after midnight. Not talking to him is just storing up problems for the future. He's likely to be upset, confused and perhaps even angry if you put up with his music for months and only then ask him to turn it down. – David Richerby May 29 '15 at 11:03
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Talk to those people without any hesitation ... if they don't listen change the localily Don't waste your time thinking too much about them. – user6887 May 29 '15 at 13:35
• When he plays music through the speakers, do you know what he is doing? I only ask because maybe he would be willing to wear headphones past a certain time. But if he is trying to sleep himself and the music helps him, it could be difficult getting him to change it – DoubleDouble May 29 '15 at 17:18
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The fundamental question here seems to be "how do I find better ear plugs?" as ear plugs are the general well-established solution here. This does not seem to require a "hack" of any sort. This can only degenerate into a list of everybody's favorite brand of ear plugs or white noise apps. – Captain Obvious May 29 '15 at 19:44
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If you share an electrical circuit (and fuse) with the inconsiderate (and hearing impaired) "person," short circuit (blow) or remove the fuse to turn off the electricity to the offending appliance. Slip an anonymous note under the door informing them of their inconsiderate behaviour with a suggestion for using headphones. Don't forget the smiley at the end. : ) – Stan Jul 24 '16 at 18:15
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I found standard cylindrical earplugs are prone to falling out because they are too long: they protrude from the ear, so every time you move your head on the pillow, the earplugs are pushed sideways.
I solved this by cutting them in half, making 2 short cylinders.
Note: this works well in my case. If you roll up the earplug and insert it completely into the ear canal, it may be fiddly to remove (although tweezers should be sufficient).
My ear canals are on the small side, so I can't insert a rolled-up earplug.
Instead, I wedge a cut-in-half earplug into the opening of the ear canal. This creates a good seal without the need to roll up the earplug, and it leaves the tip of the earplug sticking out far enough to easily remove it.
Earplug cut in half
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Be careful if you shorten the earplugs that you can still take them out okay – DoubleDouble May 29 '15 at 17:21
• I've been using these daily for several years now, never had trouble removing them. The diameter doesn't change, so it's difficult to insert them too deeply. – Hobbes May 29 '15 at 20:08
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I don't understand how it's relevant that the diameter doesn't change. This type of earplug is inserted by rolling it between your fingers to make it into a thin stick, then letting that expand in your ear. If you're inserting the plug properly, cutting it in half sounds very likely to get it stuck in your ear: certainly, my ear's much deeper than half an earplug. – David Richerby May 30 '15 at 18:11
• I see now. I don't roll up the ear plug to insert it. I've edited my answer to clarify. – Hobbes May 30 '15 at 18:43
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Please note: These are designed and made to accommodate the most narrow of ear canals. You are using them incorrectly and giving advice based on your particular unusual physical condition. When used according to instructions, it is not necessary to modify this kind of device for effective use. – Stan Jul 24 '16 at 18:25
There are some silicone putty earplugs that stay in much better. The brand I'm familiar with is called bio ears. They mould into your ear giving them some of the advantages of the custom fitted ones, as well as being more comfortable than effective foam earplugs.
• I've also personally found silicone earplugs much easier to put in than foam ones. – Esteemator May 30 '15 at 21:10
When used as designed, ear plugs will not fall out. Ear plugs should be rolled between your fingers to make them thinner, then inserted fully into the ear. You will feel it expand into place and you will hear noise greatly reduce. I encourage you to watch some videos on the use of ear plugs for more information.
Also worth noting is that ear plugs are designed to be single-use. Repeated removal and insertion will cause them to fit more poorly and reduce their effectiveness. In the environment you describe, you can probably get away with multiple uses.
I would recommend the app SimplyNoise (iOS link, Android link).
You mention that you tried "white noise" apps that "don't have a constant" sound. Actual white noise is completely constant, like static from a TV or radio not tuned to a channel or station.
So, if the app you used delivered rain/thunder sound, it was not a white noise app - just a "noise", or "background noise" app.
To expand more on the topic: white noite has a precise mathematical definition, which is "a random signal with a constant power spectral density". This means that it has all frequencies in equal amounts contained in it.
Although this kind of noise is a bit hard to get used to, you can leverage its property of having all frequencies: this means that it will "mask" noises of all frequencies equally, no matter if it is a small dog barking loud (high frequency) or a bass drum from a trance song.
Try to get used to this noise for a few nights. Maybe start at a low volume and increase it gradually. After you get used to it, you just kind of stop noticing it a few minutes after you put it on - it just "fades into the background".
If you really can't get used to it, try pink and Brownian ("brown") noise, which SimplyNoise also supports. They are stronger in the lower frequencies and weaker on the higher ones, which makes them sound less "harsh" to the ear.
Naturally, this also means they will be less effective at masking higher-frequency noises (some telephones ringing, some breeds of dogs barking, maybe wood squeaking), but really any of them is good enough.
Below is a picture of the power spectrum (that is, how much of each frequency the signal has) of white, pink and Brownian noise.
I personally like Brownian noise. Very rarely a noise is able to slip past it in my context. To me, it sounds like heavy rain (just perfectly constant and with no thunder), or an airplane's engine, which I find relaxing.
Spectrum of white, pink and Brownian noise
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This is THE ONLY way to win in this situation. Mask the noise. I do it with our air conditioner when the wife goes to bed I bang around for a few more hours. I turn the air conditioner on but only the fan, the noise masks my movements and what not. The white noise apps are just next level. Have used them and they work really well. Especially with headphones and a timer :) – Citizen May 30 '15 at 4:56
• That's a very good point. I've been using apps for so long that I forgot that some appliances work well too. I don't have AC, but fans, refrigerators and computer fans (if your computer is big/powerful enough) also work well. For a while, I also just opened simplynoise.com in my computer (that was on 24/7), turned on the speakers loud enough and turned off the monitor. Also works well if it's not bothering anyone. – Rafael Almeida May 31 '15 at 1:01
• Regarding timers, the app Sleep Cycle includes white/pink/brown/ambient noise functionality with a timer. This timer can either be fixed (eg. 20 minutes), or "smart". In the second case, the app turns off the sound when it thinks you are asleep. It does so by measuring how much you move - when you stop moving long enough, it considers you to be asleep. Look up "sleep actigraphy" if you are interested. – Rafael Almeida May 31 '15 at 1:05
Have you tried asking your housemates to be more considerate about music and how they move about the house at night?
In the end you need to peacefully share the space you're in, and if they don't know there's a problem, they can't fix it.
If they continue to behave in a way which is disturbing your sleep, you could try the "life hack" of finding somewhere else to live.
Well, you already found out about white noise, how long did you try it and what did you think about it? Either way, if earplugs are not your thing ambient noise generators are by far the next best option. I find brown noise the easiest to get used to personally and it's perfect for trying to fall asleep (don't need it anymore, but used it for awhile). It takes about two or three days before you stop hearing it (just like a fan) and if you start at a low volume and slowly increase the volume it can easily overcome a lot of outside noise. The only downside is that I have heard about people having trouble falling asleep when they were without it (e.g. when sleeping over and it would disrupt the others in the room).
Not all apps have brown and pink noise generators, but if you throw it into Google there are a lot of sites that are capable of generating it. Which reminds me of one other option: Soundscapes. Only used them sometimes when I had trouble falling asleep. They are recordings of things like rain1, nature or other ambient sounds. In principle that should work just as well.
1 Small disadvantage of rain: prepare to feel far colder... perfect in summer, but not in winter xD .
You could try sleep restriction if this is a long term problem. Limit yourself to a strict 6 hours sleep a night at fixed times (0100 - 0700 for example). Make sure you are only in your room between those hours, so your body gets used to the cycle. The first week of doing this is horrible, but after a while you'll find it's much easier to get to sleep. I used to get pretty bad insomnia and this is the only thing that worked for me.
I have a different approach: noise cancelling speakers. You have heard of noise cancelling headphones... There are several available at different price points, although I have not used them personally I have read that they can work quite well. Here is one example:http://mobile.extremetech.com/electronics/6-sono-a-noise-cancelation-and-isolation-device-that-sticks-on-your-window .
• Is there any real product? – Daniel Santos Jul 27 '16 at 3:30
View enduring noise at night as a form of self-improvement.
The best long term solution is to learn to sleep in a noisy environment. This is a requirement for anyone who has moved from the suburbs/countryside to a densely populated urban environment.
It takes about 3 weeks - you will be tired during this time - but after this you will adjust to the new environment. I personally now have difficulty sleeping in a quiet environment after years of living in cities!
• Is this a version of, "Whatever doesn't kill you makes you stronger?" – Stan Jul 24 '16 at 18:28
• @Stan Absolutely not; I completely disagree with that quote. For example, a labotomy doesn't kill you, and it makes you much weaker. My point is that when people move to a noisy city, it just takes some time to adjust. If you try to speed the adjustment period, it will be easier. – axsvl77 Jul 25 '16 at 1:21
• @Stan I honestly don't think it is healthy to wear ear plugs or listen to white noise at night for a long period of time in a place of permanent residence. As millions around the world enjoy live in noisy cities, and sleep well, I am trying to make that case that anyone can do it. – axsvl77 Jul 25 '16 at 1:25
Solution (not a hack): Love 'em or leave 'em.
• +1 I think for bad flatmates, this is a good solution. But to abandon urban life just to avoid hearing road noise is to extreme. – axsvl77 Jul 25 '16 at 1:34
If trance boy turns down his bass, or disconnects his subwoofer, you will no longer hear it through the walls, and he might not even notice the difference.
Failing that, my goto noise app (iOS) is Storm Sim. You can set the thunder as soft (or none) as you want. Dozens of rain noises to mix together to give you a custom mix. I think it costs money nowadays but it has a lot more binaural-wide-angle-stereo-sounding rain than most of the other free apps. Note - all of the built-in mixes have thunder. You will want to ignore those and create your own mix.
• There's also noisli.com for adjustable SFX. – Stan Jul 24 '16 at 18:31
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1. Check out gilmourish.com for help with getting David Gilmour tone. DG used Tube Driver and compressor stomp boxes. Using the bridge pickup on a strat is another ingredient. DG uses a Seymour Duncan SSL-1 bridge pickup in his black strat. Heavy delay is a big component too. I use an FX100 and it does a decent job. I prefer the Civil War Big Pi fuzz model in my LA Lady pedal over the Big Pi model in the FX100.
2. Thanks! I installed the drivers on my Windows 10 system, making the FX100 a sound output device (via USB) and now I can play along with youtube and my own mp3s without any lag. I have connected the 2 "main out" lines to an old Yamaha AV receiver and drive either large speakers or headphones from there. Cables required: * USB 2.0 Cable - A-Male to B-Male (I have also used a USB 2.0 extenstion cable to lengthen the reach, but it is better to have a single cable.) * shielded audio cable, male 1/4 inch mono to male RCA plug (left channel from "main out" on FX100.) * shielded audio cable, male 1/4 inch mono to male RCA plug (right channel from "main out" on FX100.) Instead of the separate output cables, you could use the stereo headphone jack with a TRS plug on one end of the cable to a pair of RCA plugs on the other end.
3. You can also move the wild cards around in the signal change by drag and drop. So you can put your overdrive before the amp/cab, and tremolo after.
4. Once you have made your changes, hold down the active button (the ring around it will be lit solid red) until the ABCD switches flash. Release the button and then stomp the switch you want to store the settings into.
5. Hold down the currently active foot switch button (the one with a solid red light around it) for a few seconds until all 4 buttons flash. Release the button, and stomp the button for the slot you want to put the sound into. This overwrites the settings on that spot.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/24474 | Do Compression Shorts Help to Tone the Thighs and Butt While Exercising?
by Andrea Boldt; Reviewed by Aubrey Bailey, PT, DPT, CHT, CrossFit Level 1 Trainer; Updated April 27, 2019
Athletes wear compression clothing to improve performance and enhance recovery. The notion that wearing the shorts actually changes the shape of your muscles, however, has not been proven by scientific research and isn't suggested by manufacturers. You can hope that the shorts will make you feel stronger and recover faster so you can sustain your workouts longer and recover faster, but the shorts can't magically transform your muscles from loose to lean.
• Although compression shorts don't actually tone your thighs and butt while exercising, they can make you more comfortable.
The Illusion of Tone
Compression clothing is designed to fit like skin and move like muscle. While wearing it, you may feel like your thighs and buttocks are more defined, but that is just a feeling. The garment holds you in, much like a girdle — but you don't expect a girdle to permanently change your shape.
Proven Benefits
Compression clothing has been proven to benefit exercisers both during and after exercise. When worn afterward, the clothing can help expedite recovery of your strength and power, according to a meta-analysis detailing the benefits of wearing the gear published in the January 2013 issue of the “International Journal of Sports Physiology and Performance.” This review also concluded that compression clothing, including shorts, can reduce swelling and the perception of pain in your muscles. Compression shorts may also make your body more efficient at warming the muscles and disposing of waste products produced during high-intensity exercise.
Effects on Shape
Compression shorts fit snugly, so your loose bits don't hang while your wearing them. Take off the compression shorts, and your body will go right back to its original shape. If the compression shorts give you an edge in training — by reducing the perceived exertion of your workouts, for example — you may experience improved conditioning and tone in the muscles of your thighs and buttocks. The compression shorts didn't make you more toned, they simply enabled you to do the work necessary to make these body changes.
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Toned thighs and buttocks come from a combination of targeted strength training, cardio exercise and diet. Exercises such as squats, lunges and deadlifts help you build strong muscles. These sculpted muscles don't do you much good if they are covered with a layer of fat, though. Cardio exercise, particularly running and cycling, helps you burn calories to assist in losing weight and fat. Eating a portion-controlled diet that emphasizes vegetables, lean protein and fruits also helps you lose excess fat that prevents your body from looking lean and toned.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/24477 | What NOT to Do When Driving Paid Traffic to Your Website
If you are paying money to Google, Facebook, etc. to drive traffic to your website, you need to eliminate ALL guesswork for the visitor. Below is an example of a potential customer getting lost from point A (the ad) to point B (the sale).
You need a landing page with ONE clear action. In most cases, your home page is not a landing page, because a typical home page is going to have a number of different possible actions for a visitor to take. This is where you can lose them (and money) in the process.
Create a landing page with one action. Don’t create confusion or decision fatigue for your potential customers or clients.
(This really applies to all traffic, not just paid traffic, but I focus on paid traffic because you could potentially waste your ad money if you do this.)
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Linkin Park Live - 2013.08.13 Pasay, National Capital Region
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Pasay, PH Philippines
Mall of Asia Arena
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Other Bands:
Festival B
02. Papercut
03. Given Up Ext. Outro w/ Extra Note
04. New Divide
05. With You 2012 Ext. Intro; Ext. Scratch Outro
06. Somewhere I Belong 2012 Intro
07. Lies Greed Misery
08. Points Of Authority
09. Waiting For The End Apaches Intro w/ Until It Breaks Verse 3; Wall of Noise Outro
10. Breaking The Habit
11. Castle Of Glass
12. LOATR/SOTD/Iridescent Ballad Medley
13. Lost In The Echo 2012 Intro w/ Holding Company Synth
14. Numb Numb/Encore Outro
15. What I've Done Piano Improv. Intro; Sing-a-long Outro
16. Burn It Down
17. In The End
18. Bleed It Out Ext. Intro; Ext. Bridge; Ext. Outro
19. Tinfoil Shortened
20. Faint Ext. Outro
21. Lying From You
22. One Step Closer Ext. Outro
Show Notes:
- The band played a new version of Set B, featuring a full 'Lying From You' in the encore, a full 'Papercut' at the top of the set, and no 'Victimized (w/ QWERTY)' or 'The Catalyst'. This is the first time these two songs have not been performed in Set B since it debuted at the August Camden, NJ show on the Honda Civic Tour in 2012. This is also the first time Set B has been played in full since Johannesburg, South Africa in November 2012. Since that show, 'In My Remains' has been swapped for 'Castle Of Glass' in Festival Set B, meaning it was almost guaranteed that it would not return for the full Set B.
- 'Somewhere I Belong' returned to the setlist after being dropped at the Summer Sonic show in Osaka in Festival Set B.
- Mike and Chester both sang part of the lyrics to 'Numb/Encore' over the outro of 'Numb'.
- This is the first time 'Lying From You' has ever appeared in the encore in full. In 2004, 'Dirt Off Your Shoulders/Lying From You' appeared in the encore once, and in 2012, 'Lying From You/Papercut' continuously appeared in the encore.
Other Notes:
- This was the band's first show in the Philippines in over nine years. Their last appearance was when Linkin Park played Manila on June 15, 2004.
- A dollar from every ticket went to Music For Relief funding for rebuilding homes after Typhoon Washi damaged the area in 2011.
- Another storm, Supertyphoon Utor was hitting the Philippines at the time of the show, but the city and show (thankfully) were unaffected.
- Thanks to @darlnoir / Darlene Torres for the pictures!
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Spanish is a fun language and the people are so very friendly. An outgoing Spanish-speaker will stop and help you on your questions if you don't feel you are saying your Spanish words correctly. However, if you feel you've got the knack, here are a few words of advice on how to Tutor in Spanish.
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Establish the rules. Tell your student that this will be fun if the student wants to learn. If the student resists or does not pay attention then it will only be them who suffers. Say it once, then drop it.
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Make it fun. No one wants to learn topics that are boring. If you teach it that way, there is no way someone will want to learn it that way. Put on a Mexican hat, dress up in either a Bull-fighter costume or a special dress. Or just wrap a colorful blanket around you and make it dramatic. Prepare authentic foods and make it a party. Just don't eat too much and take a siesta too soon.
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Modulate your voice. If you speak in a monotone it becomes very hard to concentrate on the subject. You suddenly become very fixated on the person and why it is they are talking like a robot. Think like an actor. You are playing the part of the very charming professor. Be sweet, play nice, and speak with passion. Remember, Spanish is a Latin-based language, plays a part in the romantic languages, and is spoken by very passionate people all over the world. It is rare to hear a monotonous Spanish speaker.
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Prepare a list of 10 vocabulary words. Try not to exceed this number and have that list be your go to topic for the day's lesson. Apply each word in a scenario to drive home their meaning. Once the student has got the meaning clear, have them craft their own Spanish sentences with the words.
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Create your own Multiple Choice questions. Give the student a small and no stress quiz at the end of the lesson. If they get it wrong, ask yourself if you did everything you could to make the lesson clear. If you have more than one student it helps you to get a better gauge because if one fails but the other passes then it may be the habits of the one. If both fail, its probably your techniques.
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Know your subject. You can't very well teach a subject if you can't even explain what a pie means in Spanish. If you can, try to use your command words in Spanish only. "¡Mira!, look, and "¡Escucha!", Listen!; are some of the ones you can use to get your students attention. "¡Sientate!", sit down; is usually a last resort because, unless your students are five, they should already know to sit. However, you can use it if you have everyone doing an activity.
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Pronounce it correctly. The Spanish language is very pretty and very specific about its phonetics. Once you have the vowel sounds clarified with your students, A (Ah), E (eh), I (EE), O (oh), U (Ooh), then cover the letters that are not part of the English dialects. The Enye (Ñ), the elle (ll) and the erre (rr) are different for the Spanish. In addition, the pronunciation of the letters h, j, and x are all different.
• The Enye (Ñ) makes a Nya sound as in the word: jalapeño
• The Elle (LL) makes a ya sound as in the word: caballo
• The Erre (RR) makes a rolled R sound, as in: Guitarra (Don't worry if this does not happen for you right away or even ever. The Spanish are very forgiving. If you wish to practice this technique, however, the best thing I have found to do is to breathe out hard, and allow an L sound to emanate from your tongue. Leave the tip of your tongue very loose so that when the hard breathe comes out over the tongue tip, it will flip up and down. The L sound converts in our ears as an R sound.)
• The H can sometimes be silent, as in Hielo (ice) which can be pronounced Ee-el-o
• The J and X can sometimes be pronounced as we would say the h sound. So, once again the word jalapeño would be pronounced: hal-a-penyo. Also the word Texas would be spoken as Tehas. This is not a hard-and-fast rule for the X. The more Westernized a thing becomes the less strength is emphasized for a particular rule. Occasionally, for the J it can be more of a zha sound.
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Speak it. Try to speak to your students only in Spanish on the words you have already covered.
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Listen for it. Have your students speak the words in Spanish already covered that they know. Familiarity comes from use. Make your "classroom" an all-Spanish all the time zone.
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• Every culture adapts to its local customs. No matter what you teach, as a tutor, try to give the subject more of a broad stroke, applicable to all Spanish speaking, rather than just one area.
• Never stop learning, even if you teach or tutor in a subject because there is always something you can learn.
• In specific dialects of Spanish speaking countries, you may hear something that sounds like a lisp. You have just met your first theta sound. Don't worry, when in Rome, but don't apply it to every Spanish speaker you meet.
• Never use curse words in front of your students that they may pick up. If they wish to learn slang, there are plenty of clean slang words.
• If a student asks you to explain a term that you are uncomfortable with, such as a curse word, ask where your student heard it and then give it a consistent broad-stroke explanation without lingering too long on its more negative aspects. You are not there to preach. Simply state you do not use such words and don't expect to hear them in your sessions.
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Under the Shadow
by Hope Madden
Two years ago, Aussie filmmaker Jennifer Kent unleashed the brilliant and devastating single parent nightmare, The Babadook. As much subtext as text, the film vibrated with the anxiety of a parent torn between resentment and the powerful fear that something demonic might harm her only child.
Fast forward two years, and first-time feature filmmaker, Iranian Babak Anvari, treads familiar ground yet manages to shift focus entirely and create the profound and unsettling Under the Shadow.
Here the social commentary sits even closer to the surface. The tale is set in Tehran circa 1988, at the height of the Iran/Iraq war and just a few years into the “Cultural Revolution” that enforced fundamentalist ideologies.
What begins as a domestic drama suitable for fellow Iranian filmmaker Asghar Farhadi (A Separation) turns slowly into something else entirely as Anvari dips into the horror trope toolbox to shake up our expectations with familiar devices.
Though the strength of the cultural context sometimes undercuts the spookiness of the ghost story being told, Under the Shadow builds a strong case for itself as a horror film. Bursts of creepy imagery punctuate the increasingly tense atmosphere. It’s here that Anvari’s film is most effective, as you realize Shideh is better off dealing with ghouls than turning to neighbors or authorities for help.
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photo "Space: The Oldest Frontier" (above) by Tyler Malone aka The Second Shooter
I once was, we once were, ordinary people, like you. Being together we have become one mind.
I am sorry if our writing is clumsy. We don’t speak, write or use words any longer. Our thoughts are felt by each other before we have them. The ideas of I and we aren’t as clear as they may be for you, our ancestors. We are all we, we are all I. I am writing it to you as if we were I so that my message can be understood. We have been sending our message to you in the form of rain, wind and dreams. We understand that you can’t hear us. So we write this letter of love to you. We hope you will read it.
The Earth’s climate spiraled into instability. The polar ice caps melted to unrecoverable levels, making the oceans pour onto the coasts, crushing cities, engulfing countless lives. There were hurricanes and storms. The skies had become hell-fire.
When we left the Earth, our crew was young. We were sent in the wild hope of finding another hospitable world.
I volunteered. What was left for me? Our precious world was on the verge of collapse. I never felt that I belonged anyway. I vaguely recall the person who I was, a young scientist and a restless seeker. I was a loner, awkward, incapable of having relationships. I was more content in the computer lab, then in the company of people. I had hoped to escape the Earth, to go as far away from humanity as possible. I didn’t realize I’d be heading smack into the center of humanity itself.
We left our families, our friends, and life on the green blue planet. We were hurled out into space, tossed like a message in a bottle.
The moment we launched into space, I felt even my name slipping away. Seeing the Earth transform into a distant dot was like watching my own mind vanish. It saddened me to think that everything I’d ever known, every place I’d ever been would be gone forever. And though I had a pang in my stomach, I also felt exhilarated. Everything would be out there now, beyond this world.
Given the immense distances of intergalactic travel, we had to find ways to extend our lives. It was a matter of life or death. Being a crew of scientists, every moment was spent in our test labs, experimenting, discovering. First, we began implanting synthetic parts in our bodies. The artificial implants slowly took over our organs and other functions. By the time we left our solar system, the average age of our crew was one hundred and fifty. Those who had lived, lived because they endured genetic modifications, complete replacements of hearts, brains, eyes, and bodies. Those whose implants or genetic modifications weren’t successful, died.
When we reached the outer spiral of the Milky Way, our entire crew was remade in our manufactured image. Not a fleshy eyeball among us. Two hundred and fifty years had passed. Communications with the Earth became intermittent, our replies lapsing over decades. The further we travelled, the more distant the memories became, the less distinct we became to each other. There were now only one hundred or so of us. Being together in a capsule floating in space, far away from civilization, forced us to become intimately close. And as the centuries passed, our interactions transcended conversation. Being together became “together being.” I remember being at a music concert or a sports event when I was on the Earth. Everyone connected in a single emotion. The roar of many like one. This is like together being.
After travelling more than four hundred light years, the Earth then only a memory, like an ancient myth of our past, we began to shuck off our genetically modified bodies. Our minds, like vines in a peaty moss, wound and tangled into each other. Where did one mind end and another begin? Imagine never being alone, never feeling completely empty. All of our emotions touched. Where someone had previously felt alone or frightened, the others anticipated these feelings and rushed to them. The speed of thoughts and feelings reached a rapid pace. Conversations between people would be heard by everyone. Knowledge that one person may have held in their own head became shared. Learning become learning for everyone. Our bodies remained, but were vacated. Our minds like wind swarmed into each other. Things like shame disappeared. When everyone’s ideas were exposed and felt by each other, it no longer mattered how private they were.
At some point, even our spaceship slipped off of us like a nightgown. We didn’t need it any longer. We travelled in unison, beyond light speed in something we call forever now. We are everywhere at all times.
In fact, we are with you now, invisible lives swarming around you. We live your sadness and fears. And joys. We are whispering to you, hoping someday you’ll hear us. We want to take you into our bosom. We want to shower you in our tears until we are all joined in one gentle downpour of the purest rain.
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Gravity pulls us closer but it causes time to tear us apart, so far apart, so distant that only a bridge of shared common and timeless humanity can fill. – tyler malone
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/24515 | What Do You Like Best?
• List of difficult choices
1. It’s a game where you choose between two difficult scenarios.
2. Ask the children to choose between the two scenarios you name.
• Wear wet socks all year round OR don’t wash your hair all year round?
• Lick the bar to stand in the subway or bus OR chew gum found on the floor?
• Eating Chinese food for the rest of your life OR eating Mexican food?
• Never use the internet again OR never watch TV again?
• Wear someone else’s underwear OR use someone else’s toothbrush?
• Eating a bowl of lentils OR keep your birth right?
3. Adapt questions for your group of children and have fun!
• There are several apps on apple store or google play, but you can also do this game orally with all kinds of funny questions.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/24539 | Bug introduced in 8.0 or earlier and persisting through 11.1
When saving notebooks, the Front End destroys "\r" appearing in code and converts it to "\n". Here are minimal steps to reproduce the issue:
1. Enter this in a notebook, then evaluate it:
Initialization :> "\r\n"
2. Save the notebook.
3. Open the notebook in a text editor and look at its expression. I see
The \r has been changed to an \n.
I observe this on OS X with M9.0.1–M11.1.0. Do other people see it? Is it a bug? Is there a simple workaround?
In my actual use case, I have StringReplace[..., {"\r\n" -> "\n", "\r" -> "\n"}] in Initialization. This gets mangled and made non-functional by this problem.
Reported as CASE:3873908.
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$\begingroup$ Same on Win10 V11.1. $\endgroup$ – Kuba Apr 5 '17 at 9:34
• $\begingroup$ Same with Mathematica 8.0.4 on Win7x64. $\endgroup$ – innaiz Apr 6 '17 at 13:37
One possible workaround is using
in place of
• $\begingroup$ Another one, also reducing the size of the palette: With[{init = Compress @ Unevaluated @ (Print @ Style["test\r", ShowStringCharacters -> True])}, DynamicModule[{}, "Empty", Initialization :> (Uncompress@init)] ]. Probably blocked context would be on point. Another closely related solution: mathematica.stackexchange.com/a/86707/5478 $\endgroup$ – Kuba Apr 5 '17 at 9:40
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/24540 | Bug persists through 12.0.
I'm trying to produce a plot with PlotLabels that include sub- and superscripts. However, I haven't been able to do it consistently. Currently I'm trying to do this with the basic math assistant palette and the code is thus:
Plot[30, {x, 0, 605}, PlotStyle -> {Dashed, Thick, Black},
PlotLabels -> "\!\(\*SubsuperscriptBox[\(x\), \(s\), \(*\)]\)"]
But there is rather strange gap between the plot and the label which you can see from the picture below. Is there a way to move the label closer to the plot?
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Running the same code without the sub and superscripts produces no issue.
Looks like a bug in PlotLabels to me - my guess is that when measuring the size of the label, it does not take into account how big the rendered string will be, only the raw (rather long) string. A work-around is to wrap the label in Row@{...}:
Plot[30, {x, 0, 605},
PlotStyle -> {Dashed, Thick, Black},
PlotLabels -> Row@{
enter image description here
Other potential wrappers include StandardForm[...] and TraditionalForm[...] (which will render the label a bit differently) - essentially anything that hides the raw string from PlotLabels seems to do the trick.
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$\begingroup$ Ah that explains why removing either the sub or the superscript only made the gap slightly shorter. I tried couple of workarounds with InputForm etc. without a positive results. However, Row seems to do it. Thank you. $\endgroup$ – Harto Saarinen Oct 15 '19 at 11:21
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$\begingroup$ @HartoSaarinen Please consider writing a bug report on the issue to support(at)wolfram.com. $\endgroup$ – Alexey Popkov Oct 15 '19 at 11:59
• $\begingroup$ Pane also works as well for a workaround $\endgroup$ – chuy Oct 15 '19 at 16:02
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/24541 | LOOK at these conference sessions!
Bilingual classroom
This is a watershed moment for all of us who work with EL students. Thanks to the LOOK ACT (which you and MATSOL helped to pass), we have opportunities to teach bilingual students in ways we haven’t been able to do for years. How do we take advantage of those opportunities?
If you’ve been wondering about that too, consider attending some of these sessions at the 2019 MATSOL conference! These sessions are presented by your fellow educators in the field.
1. Codemeshing and Multimodal Literacy: The LOOK Act’s Translingual Potential
2. EL Student Success Plans: From the Ground Up
3. Impact of English-Only instruction on English Language proficiency of ELs
4. LOOKing at Our Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Community Engagement Practices
5. Primeiro Eu Canto, Depois Eu Falo: Teaching Two Immersion Students
6. Supporting Positive Identity Development and Language Learning in Science Classrooms
7. The Politics of the Look Act Teaching Spanish Heritage Language
We are also very fortunate that the staff of the Office of Language Acquisition from the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (DESE) are coming to share their perspectives on topics including Curriculum and Professional Development Updates from OLA, ELE Compliance and Alternative Programming Proposals, English Learner Parent Advisory Council (ELPAC): Getting Started, LOOK Act Requirements for English Learner Benchmarks, State of the State 2019: Update on English Learner Education, the State Seal Of Biliteracy, and The LOOK Act and Alternative Programs in Massachusetts.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/24551 | Microsoft Outlines Windows 10 Upgrade Tool
Microsoft showed off how the Windows Analytics tools can support getting ready for Windows 10 deployments.
Windows Analytics are part of Microsoft's Operations Management Suite (OMS) that's typically used managing public cloud workloads. However, three Windows Analytics tools in OMS -- namely, Upgrade Readiness, Update Compliance and Device Health -- can be used for operating system deployment planning, such as preparing to upgrade from Windows 7.
The tools, featuring graphical user interfaces, have some privacy protections for organizations and don't bear additional cost beyond the Windows licensing costs, according to Microsoft's Web presentation on Tuesday, "Discover Proactive Insights with Windows Analytics." The talk is currently available on demand (with sign-up).
The Upgrade Readiness tool, which shows the devices that are ready for upgrading to Windows 10, reached "general availability" (GA) in February, according to the talk by Marc Shepard, a Microsoft principal program manager lead. Update Compliance, which checks for update and antimalware compliance, reached GA in October, along with and Device Health, which tracks device crashes.
As for what's coming next for the tools, Shepard said Microsoft is working on adding an application reliability check to Device Health, which shows which apps are crashing the most "so you can optimize your app and OS combinations." Microsoft also is planning to add a new capability in that tool called "Login Health." It'll show the top errors at login so that organizations can remediate those problems.
The release of those two new capabilities is expected to occur in "the next month or two," Shepard said.
Windows Analytics Capabilities
Shepard demonstrated how to use the Windows Analytics tools. With Upgrade Readiness, the user defines the target version of Windows they plan to migrate to, and the tool will check for compatibility issues. Users can classify their apps as important or not important as part of the process. The tool will walk the user through resolving issues with apps and drivers, based on known problems and known fixes. It'll prioritize what to address. In addition to checking Win32 applications, the tool will show the compatibility of Web applications and Office add-ins.
The Update Compliance tool can be used to show which devices are up to date with regard to security and malware settings. It'll show out-of-date OSes and update failures, as well as which versions of Windows 10 are on which devices.
Device Health is used to show whether there have been problems on the device. It'll give a count of "blue screen" crashes. Users get an overall crash rate for their computing environment, and it gets compared against the commercial average. It's possible to drill down to see crashes at the per-machine basis, Shepard said. It's possible to see crashes per computer make.
"Free" Tools
The talk clarified how organizations can use these tools with just Windows licensing and an Azure subscription (which can be the free one), even though OMS isn't a free set of tools. The one nuance to note is that Device Health specifically requires using Windows E3 or E5 licensing.
Shepard showed the following slide, illustrating the licensing requirements for the three tools:
[Click on image for larger view.] Windows Analytics tools requirements. Source: Nov. 7 Microsoft Web presentation.
The other detail of note is the level of telemetry reporting that's required to use the tools, as described in this TechNet document. Some organizations might not permit the sending of such diagnostic information back to Microsoft. A Dutch data privacy regulatory agency recently voiced concerns about some of Windows 10's telemetry reporting, although Microsoft has disputed the claims.
For instance, to use Device Health, "Enhanced" Windows 10 telemetry reporting must be turned on. Enhanced telemetry tells Microsoft how apps and Windows are used and are performing. In response to a question if there were an alternative for organizations that can't permit any telemetry reporting, Microsoft said "there are no alternatives" since telemetry reporting is a requirement for using Windows Analytics.
Windows 10 version 1709 has a new policy option, though, that somewhat limits the telemetry reporting.
"We have a new policy in 1709 to 'limit enhanced telemetry to just those events needed by Windows Analytics' and those events are now fully documented and visible in the viewer tool," Microsoft explained, in the Q&A section of the presentation.
Other Nuances
The talk's Q&A had some noteworthy details. For instance, Microsoft clarified that there's "no requirement" for having to use Azure Active Directory domain joins with devices to use the Windows Analytics tools.
Microsoft was asked if Windows Analytics is "still only supported for OMS workspaces that are in East US/West Europe Azure DCs." The answer was that Windows Analytics is supported in "any Azure region which has OMS/Log Analytics services available."
Microsoft was asked if the Upgrade Readiness tool still had a 5,000-lines limit. "Log Analytics has recently raised the limit in Kusto workspaces to 10,000," Microsoft replied. "You can also write scripts to loop through larger data sets."
Kusto was described last year as an internal Microsoft tool that later became "Application Insights Analytics," a platform that enables "near real-time log analytics." It apparently became the "search and query tool of Azure Application Insights," per this GitHub description. Azure Application Insights is a performance management service for Web applications.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/24582 | Thursday, December 11, 2008
Cool Brain Trick....
1. Anonymous6:28 PM
I believe Super Mario Bros 3 uses the same musical effect in the opposite direction when climbing a spiral staircase.
2. This was so cool. We see so many optical illusions -- it was great to hear an auditory one. Thanks! |
global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/24602 | General plugins (Local): Content security policy
Maintained by Picture of Catalyst ITCatalyst IT, Picture of Brendan HeywoodBrendan Heywood
This plugin allows an admin to create a Custom Security Policy (CSP) in both reporting mode and enforcing mode. A simple use case is to detect and cleanup issues with non secure content after a migration from http to https, through to advanced policies to mitigate from XSS attacks.
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Build Status
Why would you want this?
Security, security, security.
This plugin helps you to detect and mitigate certain classes of security errors in your Moodle such as:
• Mixed content (https/http) after you switched to HTTPS.
• Same origin (or specified origin) policy for scripts and media data.
• Unintended iframes
What is this?
This plugin allows you to easily test and rollout Custom Security Policy headers across your moodle.
Examples: - Report/enforce SSL origin for links, images etc. - Report/enforce same-origin for links, images etc.
How does it work?
Site admin configures CSP headers: Content-Security-Policy or Content-Security-Policy-Report-Only in the plugin settings. Header Content-Security-Policy-Report-Only is for recording CSP violations in Moodle and reviewing them later from the plugin's report page.
Enabling of Content-Security-Policy blocks browser from showing site resources that violate defined rules.
CSP support in browsers is quite good:
Checkout or download the plugin source code into folder local\csp of your Moodle installation.
git clone local\csp
mkdir -p local/csp
unzip -d local/csp
Then go to your Moodle admin interface and complete installation and configuration. Example policy 'default-src https:;' will be reporting or enforcing the links to be HTTPS-only. Please note, the whole moodle website should be accessible via HTTPS for this to work.
For more examples of other CSP directives please read here.
See also:
Convert http embedded content to https on https sites where available
A complementary plugin which works by searching the moodle DB for bad links:
This plugin was developed by Catalyst IT Australia:
Catalyst IT
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• This is the latest release for Moodle 3.0
• This is the latest release for Moodle 3.1
• This is the latest release for Moodle 3.2
• This is the latest release for Moodle 3.3
• This is the latest release for Moodle 3.4
• This is the latest release for Moodle 3.5
• This is the latest release for Moodle 3.6
• This is the latest release for Moodle 3.7
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1. Make sure you have all the required versions.
2. Download and unpack the module.
3. Place the folder in the "local" subdirectory.
4. Visit to finish the installation. |
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Motor Trend TV puts three epic V8 Pony Car contenders to the test: the 2011 Ford Mustang GT, 2010 Chevrolet Camaro SS and 2010 Dodge Challenger SRT8. With more than 1200 heart stopping horsepower the trio dukes it out to see just who is the 1/4 mile king. Video After the jump! Continue reading |
global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/24620 | JUSTFRACT, Fraction specifier to $JUSTIFY cannot be negative
Run Time Error: This indicates that a $JUSTIFY or $FNUMBER function specified a negative value as its third argument.
Action: Modify the third argument of the function so that it specifies the positive number of fractional digits to which the function rounds its result.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/24630 | Pherlure Pheromone and Realm Pheromone Cologne Review
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Pherlure Pheromone - Realm Pheromone Cologne Review
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/24655 | Animal Farm
Image: Animal Farm (1954 Movie)
PEPSI Animals (PDF)
A: What are you doing this vacation?
B: I’m going to stay home. I’m a homebody and I prefer staycations.
A: What will you do at home?
B: Maybe, read books and write in my journal. I like to be with myself, I’m a lone wolf.
A: You’re also a bookworm! Carpe Diem, man! Let’s hang out.
A homebody (s)(n) – a person who likes to stay at home.
A staycation (s)(n)
– a vacation spent in one’s home or home city, involving day trips to local attractions (stay + vacation).
A lone wolf (i)(n) – an independent person who prefers to be and do things alone.
A bookworm (i)(n) – a person who loves reading books or studies a lot.
Carpe diem (e) (Latin) /’car-pay ‘dee-um/ – seize the day, live in the present. Another expression is YOLO meaning you only live once.
Man (s)(n) – friend, buddy, brother, bro, dude, chief, boss, mate (UK).
To hang out with someone (pv)(s) – to spend time with someone, usually talking or relaxing.
A: Michael and Jane are dating!
B: I know. A little bird told me. But I can’t tell you who.
A little bird told me (i)(e) – used when you don’t want to tell the person who gave you the information. To have learned something from a mysterious unknown, secret source.
A: How come people from the same country always stay with each other? They should spend more time with people from other countries.
B: I guess because birds of a feather flock together.
Birds of a feather flock together (p) – people tend to associate with those whose values, cultures and interests are similar (express the truth).
A: Did you meet the new girl in our class? She’s so strange and odd. While the teacher is talking, she’s usually drawing animals in her notebook. She often looks at me strangely.
B: She’s the black sheep of our class.
A: Speak of the devil! There she is!
The black sheep (i)(n) – a member of a family or group whose behaviour or character is different or strange.
Speak of the devil (and he shall appear) (e) – when a person appears after you mention his/her name.
A: What color shirt should I wear for the dinner party?
B: I don’t have time for such unimportant things. I have bigger fish to fry. I have a very important meeting coming up.
To have bigger fish to fry (i) – to have more important, or interesting things to do.
To come up (pv) (multiple meanings) – a situation or event that will happen soon, is approaching or drawing near
A: I heard you’re going skydiving with Jane this weekend.
B: Unfortunately, we had to call it off. She cancelled our plan.
A: Why? What happened?
B: She chickened out. She was scared.
To call something off (pv) (multiple meanings) – To cancel an event.
To chicken out (pv)(s) – To decide not to do something because you are scared.
PEPSI Discussion Questions
1. Are you a homebody?
2. Do you prefer staycations or vacations in a different city or country?
3. Do you know anyone who is a lone wolf? Describe him/her.
4. Are you a bookworm? What kind of books do you read?
5. In your country, what do close friends call each other? Do you use words like ‘man’, ‘bro’ or ‘dude’?
6. Why do birds of a feather flock together?
7. Who is the black sheep in your family? Why?
8. In your country, do you have a similar expression for ‘speak of the devil‘?
9. Do you have any event coming up soon?
10. Have you ever chickened out? What happened? How did you feel? |
global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/24687 | The Nintendo Entertainment System (abbreviated NES), released in Japan as the Nintendo Family Computer (Japanese: Famiri Konpiyuta, often shortened to Famicom [Famikon] or simply abbreviated as NFC), and known in Korea as Hyundai Comboy (Korean: Hyeondae Keomboi) is a Nintendo console that is considered the successor to Nintendo's Color TV Game series, and is Nintendo's first home console with interchangeable cartridges. It is an 8-bit console that introduced various franchises to the world such as the iconic Mario series, The Legend of Zelda to Final Fantasy.
Nearly 62 million units were sold worldwide, making it the second best selling Nintendo console of all time (the Wii being the first). The best selling game on the console is Super Mario Bros., though the total number of units sold includes those bundled with the console (which consists of a majority of the units).
The best selling stand alone title on the system is Super Mario Bros. 3 at 18 million copies sold worldwide. The Nintendo Entertainment System has been sold to retailers in a majority of Asia, North America, Europe, and Australia. Its successor was the Super Nintendo Entertainment System, released in 1991.
History and Development
The NES is an iconic system that consisted of vast advancements, impressive video games and the industry's most lucrative franchises. Its importance to video games is arguably unparalleled having saved the US industry from collapsing following Atari's infamous crash in the early eighties. The NES propelled video games to new heights when it came to game design, save functions, story involvement, and character control. With the NES came the modern model for third party developers on video game consoles and licensing of video games.
Nintendo had made a name for itself by releasing games such as Donkey Kong, the Game & Watch series and the Color TV Game series. Mario had become one of the best known video game characters and Nintendo was well on their way to becoming the industry leader. After the arcade boom companies went onto creating home consoles that would let consumers play their favorite games at home, among other games made exclusively for the consoles. Nintendo had licensed their popular video games to other systems, and Donkey Kong rose to become one of the most popularly ported video game of the early eighties, appearing on ColecoVision and Atari systems, among others, in the North American market.
Nintendo soon announced plans to release a console of their own in Japan titled the Famicom, or Family Computer. The project was headed by Masayuki Uemura of Nintendo R&D2 who had wanted to initially give the console a 16-bit CPU with a floppy disk drive, though because of the complicated technology they settled for an 8-bit CPU. According to Uemura, Hiroshi Yamauchi, who was then president of Nintendo, called him and told him that the sales of the Game & Watch would not last, and that they needed to start work on a new product. Yamauchi made several requirements for the new product including the need for it to be a console that connects to the television and the need for it to have interchangeable cartridges.
Nintendo would eventually launch the system in 1983 in Japan. It was Nintendo's first console with the capability of playing different games. They released it on July 15 of that year, and it ran for ¥14,800. In order to generate early sales, Nintendo recreated their popular arcade hits Donkey Kong and Donkey Kong Jr. on the platform. They also created a game that sported the Popeye license that was titled Popeye. Interestingly, Shigeru Miyamoto had originally wanted Donkey Kong to have Popeye characters but couldn't obtain the rights to it. After Nintendo gained popularity it was no wonder that they managed to get the license, though Miyamoto was ultimately not involved in the project.
NES mockup
A mockup of the NES.
The first batch of Famicom consoles were glitchy and caused the consoles to crash.
Nintendo immediately issued a recall on all of the Famicoms they sold, and replaced them with new hardware. Following this, the Famicom became a best selling console and launched to the top of people's most wanted lists. Countless successes spurred Nintendo to eye a new region across the pacific. Nintendo had already opened the doors to success in America with games such as Donkey Kong becoming the second best selling arcade game of all time. Game & Watch units brought on moderate success but come 1983, the year the Famicom was released, the industry wasn't in its best shape. Atari, the most well known name in video games, crashed this year when they lost all of their reliability.
The games that were being released on the console were no longer generating interest among consumers, and most of them, such as the Pac-Man port and the game based on the, were downright terrible. Atari soon enough had to dump their inventory, and soon thereafter brought the entire video game industry down when it inevitably collapsed. All good things come to an end, and this was especially true for Atari. Bad business choices and too many third party publishers wanting to get a piece of the pie would lead to the downfall, and there seemed no way out when the consumer lost interest.
Early concept art for the Advanced Video System.
Although the Famicom and Nintendo was doing great in Japan, the same couldn't be said about Nintendo of America. Nintendo wasn't making many arcade hits and the Game & Watch sales were dwindling.
NoA president Minoru Arakawa had to make a bold move, and decided to try and release the console in America. They attempted to get a deal with Atari, where they would release it under the name Nintendo Advanced Video Game System, though this fell through. Looking back on this Arakawa remarks that "it was the best thing to happen to Nintendo", and that "if Atari had taken the product, it's doubtful that Nintendo of America would exist today." Various attempts of releasing the system to the market always failed, and Nintendo would eventually start to release Famicom games as arcade titles under the Nintendo Vs. series, which contained similar hardware to that of the Famicom.
At CES in June of 1985, however, Nintendo would unveil that they would release the Famicom in America under the name of the Nintendo Entertainment System. Nintendo tried to differentiate their console from Atari's as much as they could, knowing full well that retailers would be weary. And they were: very few agreed to purchase them, so Nintendo made a risk free deal where they would purchase back all unsold units. They released the first batch at a sole retailer in New York who reluctantly agreed to purchase it. Nintendo managed to convince some retailers by saying it was more of a toy than a video game system. The inclusion of R.O.B. the robot supported this.
On October 18 of 1985, Nintendo would release the system to a few retailers and would bundle the video game Super Mario Bros. with it, which would heavily bolster sales. An estimated 9/10th of the 100,000 shipment were sold. By February in 1986, after the incredible success, Nintendo would release it to various other retailers in America and would expand their reaches to Canada. Nintendo had a much larger launch lineup than for America than they did with Japan - eighteen games compared to a measly three. The Nintendo Entertainment System did fantastic in America.
NES document
The final design of the NES.
Hits were being regularly released and after making their mark on two prominent regions, Nintendo set their sights on Europe and Australia. Nintendo would not actually distribute the consoles in these regions, and would enlist the help of Mattel to distribute it in various countries. The NES didn't do phenomenally well, and underperformed compared to the more advanced Sega Master System (excluding in Australia). Hyundai Electronics distributed the NES in South Korea as the Comboy. By 1987, Nintendo would open a European branch and would distribute the system themselves in that region.
Upon the arrival of the nineties, the consumer's interest in the system started to diminish. Nintendo had released the Game Boy by now, and was planning to release the NES's successor, the Super Nintendo Entertainment System. Nintendo had plans beyond the NES, and expected for this to occur. They would continue to distribute the NES as it was still profitable, though they had newer and bolder plans for the SNES, or Super Famicom in Japan. In the nineties Nintendo released an updated NES called the NES 2, which corrected some of the problems with the first one.
Come the mid nineties, Nintendo would discontinue support of the console in America, with Wario's Woods being their last game for the system in that region (it should also be noted that Wario's Woods was the only NES game that sported an ESRB rating). By 1995, Nintendo stopped distribution of the NES, and a year later they were set on releasing the SNES's successor, the Nintendo 64. In Japan, however, Nintendo continued to sell the Famicom until September of 2003, when they stopped production of both the Famicom and Super Famicom. Due to the shortage of parts necessary for repair, Nintendo of Japan stopped repairing Famicom systems in October of 2007. They had stopped doing so years prior elsewhere. With the release of the Wii in 2006, Nintendo started to redistribute NES games online through the system's Virtual Console. The prices of the games varied, though were typically 500 Nintendo Points, or $5.
Video Games
First party titles
A collection claimed to be every NES game ever released.
Nintendo was the leading provider of video games on the Nintendo Entertainment System as would be expected. Their video games were among the best that the system had to offer, and few compared in quality at the time. Naturally Nintendo's games sold the best. The first batch of games were generally remakes of arcade titles including the likes of Donkey Kong, Donkey Kong Jr., Mario Bros. and Donkey Kong 3. Eventually, though, Nintendo would start to develop original titles such as 10-Yard Fight, Clu Clu Land, Excitebike, Ice Climber, Mach Rider, Balloon Fight, Mike Tyson's Punch-Out!!, and Wrecking Crew.
Various titles made use of Nintendo accessories. For example, Duck Hunt, which came with the NES, used the NES Zapper while Gyromite and Stack-Up made use of R.O.B. The best known title on the NES is unarguably Super Mario Bros. Launched with the NES in America, it is credited for the system's success. Sequels to the game were made, though some were region specific. For example, after the success of Super Mario Bros. Nintendo immediately made a successor titled Super Mario Bros. 2, which never made it to America until 1993 because Nintendo thought it was too challenging. Instead, Nintendo opted to recreate the game Doki Doki Panic with Mario characters and released it as Super Mario Bros. 2. Soon later Nintendo would release Super Mario Bros. 3, which would become the system's best selling standalone game.
Shigeru Miyamoto, the mastermind behind Super Mario Bros., would go on to direct, produce, and design the video game The Legend of Zelda. The game was an open ended adventure where you could make your own choices as to which dungeons to explore. It wasn't a sidescrolling game like Super Mario Bros. but was less inviting. Nonetheless, it sold over six million copies worldwide and is widely regarded as one of the greatest games of the eighties.
It should be noted that it was the first game to have a battery save pack, meaning you didn't have to input a code in order to play the game. A sequel, titled Zelda II: The Adventure of Link, would later be released, but it isn't as highly regarded as the original. Meanwhile, Gunpei Yokoi and the rest of R&D1 would help create the phenomenal Metroid and Kid Icarus games, which shared many similarities. Ultimately, Metroid would become the better known franchise. Gunpei Yokoi would also spearhead the Fire Emblem and Nintendo Wars franchise, which both got their start on the Famicom. Unfortunately, neither of those games were released in America or Europe.
Third party support
Nintendo wasn't the only one supplying retailers with video games for their system, as would be expected. Over the years Nintendo would gradually gain the support of companies, some new, and some who were dramatically hurt by the crash of Atari. Hudson Soft would be the first third party company on board for the Famicom, and would release their first game, Lode Runner, soon thereafter. A few months after Hudson Soft was deemed the first third party developer, Namco jumps on the cash train in September of 1984 and would release Xevious a month and one day later.
In July of 1985, a few months before the system would make its way to America, the company known as Enix was founded on the sole basis of creating games for the Famicom. Enix's first game would be a little known title named Door Door, though they would go on to create the insanely popular Dragon Quest series on the franchise. By December of that year, both Capcom and Square would join the fray and would later make start the Mega Man and Final Fantasy series on the NES, respectively. Eventually American and European developers would also start making games when the console was released stateside. Games by American and European developers for the NES include titles such as Battletoads, A Boy and His Blob, Smash TV, Ballblazer, and Wizards & Warriors, among many others.
THQ was one of the many publishers for the console, though their video games weren't considered high quality. They consisted of many licensed video games such as Where's Waldo, Swamp Thing, James Bond Jr., Attack of the Killer Tomatoes, and Home Alone.
Top 10 best-selling games
1. Super Mario Bros. (40.23 million)
2. Duck Hunt (28.31 million)
3. Super Mario Bros. 3 (17.28 million)
4. Super Mario Bros. 2 (7.46 million)
5. The Legend of Zelda (6.51 million)
6. Tetris (5.58 million)
7. Dr. Mario (4.85 million)
8. Zelda II: The Adventure of Link (4.38 million)
9. Excitebike (4.16 million)
10. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (4 million)
In North America, Nintendo released the Nintendo Entertainment Systems in bundles. The bundles may be the reason why the system became so popular with consumers. Initially retailers thought that the accessory known as R.O.B. would be the big selling point of the console, and was included in the Deluxe Set. It ended up being Super Mario Bros., however, which was bundled with the Control Deck set, that made the console so popular. The Control Deck was one of two bundles that Nintendo released for the NES in the beginning of the system's life-span.
At $199.99, it was also the cheapest route, but it didn't contain as many accessories and games as the Deluxe Set, which ran for $249.99, $49.99 more than the Control Deck. The Control Deck came with the console, two Nintendo Entertainment System controllers, and the video game Super Mario Bros. The Deluxe Set, on the other hand, had the console, R.O.B., an NES Zapper, Duck Hunt, and Gyromite. Super Mario Bros.was not included in the Deluxe Set.
The NES Action Set.
In 1987 Nintendo released the Basic Set which contained just a console, two NES controllers, and The Official Nintendo Player's Guide, a book which had information on all of the then-released video games for the NES. The NES Action Set was released in November of 1988 for $149.99. With the new bundle came the omission of the two that introduced the console. The Action Set contained the Nintendo Entertainment System, an NES Zapper, two NES controllers, and a cartridge that contained Super Mario Bros. and Duck Hunt known as Super Mario Bros./Duck Hunt.
It was Nintendo's most popular bundle and a month later Nintendo would release yet another one titled the NES Power Set that contained everything in the previous bundle with the addition of the Power Pad and a multi-cart game that contained Super Mario Bros., Duck Hunt and World Class Track Meet which became known as Super Mario Bros. + Duck Hunt + World Class Track Meet.
In 1990 Nintendo would cater to the sports fans by releasing the Sports Set which contained one Nintendo Entertainment System, the NES Satellite multitap adapter which would allow for four players to play at once instead of the traditional two, and a cartridge featuring Super Spike V'Ball and Nintendo World Cup. To coincide with the release of Super Mario Bros. 3, Nintendo released the Challenge Set which had the console, two NES controllers and Super Mario Bros. 3.
Controllers and accessories
NES Controller
Nintendo has always been known for manufacturing accessories for their video game consoles, and to this day do so. The NES and Famicom were chock-full of accessories and peripherals, many of which were bundled with the console (in select sets). Some of the accessories weren't even created by Nintendo, but instead by third party publishers. Some companies that created accessories included Acclaim, Camerica, and others.
Nintendo of course earned the most profits from accessories since the ones they created were arguably the most useful. Bundled with the console in the Deluxe Set was R.O.B. (Family Computer Robot in Japan). The accessory looked like a robot, and stands for Robotic Operating Buddy. It was used with only two games, which included Gyromite and Stack-Up. Neither games were particularly successful, and thus Nintendo quit developing games for the accessory. R.O.B. could interact with the games because he had a sensor in his head which could detect when the television flashed in different ways, which would trigger R.O.B. to perform various actions which would benefit the player.
While not particularly successful, R.O.B. went on to become a Nintendo icon, appearing as a cameo in various titles and even a playable character in games such as Mario Kart DS and Super Smash Bros. Brawl on the Nintendo DS and Wii, respectively.
NES Zapper
The NES Zapper.
Nintendo's second big accessory was the NES Zapper. Nintendo got started in the video game industry with light gun peripherals, so it came as no surprise when Nintendo announced a home console version. This light gun was sold in some of the bundles Nintendo released, though players would also receive it when they purchased the video game Duck Hunt.
With the NES Zapper you would point at the screen and shoot the targets. It worked a little differently from its arcade counterparts, presumably due to keeping costs low. Like R.O.B., there is a sensor on the NES Zapper. Whenever you press the trigger on the gun, it causes the screen to go black, though every possible target will be white. The sensor on the gun senses light and dark, and will know whether or not you hit a target if it spots a white sprite. There were quite a few games that were made specifically for the Zapper, including many Nintendo published titles and third party games.
Nintendo created a variety of other accessories too. The Power Glove is an infamous controller that you placed on your hand. It was made to look cool to the player, though it didn't work very well. It is perhaps most famous for appearing in the film The Wizard, in which it was introduced to the world. The NES Satellite allowed four players to play a game opposed to just two. The Power Pad can be considered the predecessor to the Balance Board. It was even advertised as a fitness product, perhaps due to the overwhelming media reports that video games weren't healthy. Various first and third party publishers created games for the accessory, though the most popular games were still the ones that used a standard controller. Some games used both, like in the game Street Cop, though they weren't very successful.
Famicom Disk System
Main article: Famicom Disk System
The localization of the Nintendo Entertainment System for the western markets brought with it copious regulations enforced by Nintendo of America that caused some developers to think twice before adding something in a video game - even if it is mutually agreed to be harmless. Developers were not allowed to implement any nudity in their video games are sexual references, no religious or political references, no profanity (which included racial or sexual slurs), and no blood or domestic violence. As for religious references, Nintendo did allow games to be based around mythology (such as Kid Icarus was). In Japan many of these regulations weren't in place, save for nudity.
Translation issues
Most of the video games launched for the NES were created in Japan, and the translation process didn't go over as well as some in the industry probably would've liked. There are various reasons for this. One is that the Japanese attempted to translate many of the games themselves, using programs or their limited knowledge of the English language. Second, Japanese characters take up less space than English characters do, and thus the translators were required to shorten the text so that it could fit on an NES cartridge. This often led to humorous, albeit embarrassing, quotes that have become internet phenomenons such as "Congratulations - A Winner is You". While at the time this may have made the developers cringe at their dastardly attempts at localization, these mistranslations have today become cornerstones of the retro gaming world.
Technical specifications and architecture
Famicom/NES casing
The Famicom and Nintendo Entertainment System both have different casings. The color choices and overall design were changed based on the region. The Famicom, the Japanese version of the console and the first one to be released, was white with red segments indicating an important aspect of the console. When the Family Computer Robot (R.O.B. elsewhere) was released in Japan on July 26, 1985, its colors were made to reflect those of the console. The cartridge could be placed on the top of the console . On the left and right side of the console were holders that jutted inwards where you could place two Famicom controllers when the player was not using them.
When bringing the system to America, Nintendo changed the overall design greatly. It had a much more box like appearance, designed to resemble a VCR, and used a different color scheme. Instead of white and red the colors were a light grey and a darker shade of grey. The text, however, such as the logo and the power and reset words, were in red. On the right most side a black stripe would go down the console. There is no holder for the NES controllers as there was in the original Famicom. The controller themselves have different colors as well to reflect that of the console, as does the R.O.B. accessory. A flap could be opened up that sports the logo of the console. Once done, the player can insert their cartridge. This model was the one distributed in South Korea by Hyundai.
The remodeled NES-101, known commonly as the NES 2 or the "top loader", uses the same basic color scheme, although there are several subtle differences. The power switch is colored a bright red and slides into the on and off position, similar to the SNES, instead of the original push-button. Also, there is no LED power indicator on the unit. Like the original Famicom, it uses a top-loading cartridge slot. This model was designed after the top loading SNES, and indeed they share many of the same design cues. The NES-101 is considerably more compact than the original model, measuring 6" by 7" by 1.5". The streamlining of the design and chipset in the top loader made it arguably more reliable than the original NES models, although there was a tradeoff in connectivity and picture quality: the top loader offered only RF outputs instead of the RF and RCA (mono) outputs offered on the original.
Rioch produced the CPU for the Nintendo Entertainment System, which was an 8-bit microprocessor. Nintendo R&D2 had originally wanted to have a 16-bit CPU, though these wishes were unrealistic for the time and they had to cut it by half. The CPU was based on MOS Technology 6502 core. The American and Japanese consoles contained the same CPU (Ricoh 2A03) while the PAL version, which included both Europe and Australia, used the Ricoh 2A07. The differences between the two are negligible, but the American and Japanese version run at a faster clock rate.
Each Nintendo Entertainment System contains a set amount of RAM, though cartridges may also have RAM to increase the size. The console holds 2 KiB of RAM, as well as the same amount for the use of PPU and 246 bytes of sprite RAM and palette RAM. Game cartridges contain memory management chips. In all there are five different types of memory management chips. The most common chip is the MMC1, which is used in games such as The Legend of Zelda and Metroid. These games would not work without the chip, and allow the game worlds to scroll both vertically and horizontally at the same time and gives the games the ability to feature large worlds.
The second chip is used in a game such as Mike Tyson's Punch-Out!! (American and European version) which allows the game to render larger sprites and let them move around the screen. The chip contains more memory than MMC1. The third chip is the second most used chip, and is used in games where there are split screens (for example, there may be action on the top while on the bottom the statistics of the player are shown, as in Super Mario Bros. 3). This chip is the same size as the second one. Not much is known about the fourth chip other than the fact that it was used in a few games such as the Japanese version of Mike Tyson's Punch-Out!!. The fifth and final chip was MMC5, and was first used in Castlevania 3: Dracula's Curse. It had a better battery save feature and would give the game better colors and partial screen scrolling, among other features.
Video and audio
The PPU (picture processing unit), like the CPU, was developed by Rioch. Different models were used for different regions (America used RP2C02 while European and Australian regions used RP2C07). The PlayChoice-10 arcade games used a different model (RP2C03), as did the Nintendo Vs. arcade units (RP2C04 and RP2C05). The NES had 48 color pallets available and five different shades of grey. Twenty five different colors could be used on a single scanline. At one moment sixty four sprites can be shown on screen (each sprite must be 8x8 (minimum) pixels or 8x16 pixels (maximum)). A maximum of eight sprites can be placed on a scanline at once. The sprite count can be increased, though this will usually cause flicker to occur. The picture resolution for the NES is 256 x 240.
The NES had five different sound channels including two pulse wave channels, one fixed-volume triangle wave channel, one sixteen-volume level white noise channel, and one differential pulse-code modulation channel.
There were a multitude of differences between the various regions that the system was released in. The most dramatic changes were those made to cater to the Western audiences opposed to the Eastern audience where the system was made, most notably in the casing design (more information above). There were a variety of peripherals that were released in Japan that never made it to America or PAL regions such as the Family BASIC and the Famicom MODEM. The Famicom contained non-removable controllers whereas this wasn't the case with the Nintendo Entertainment System. The Famicom also had a microphone installed into the second controller, while this feature wasn't present in the NES.
Technical specifications
• CPU Type: modified 6502 8-bit (NMOS)
• Clock Speed: 1.773447 MHz (PAL) or 1.7897725 MHz (NTSC)
• Processor: 8-Bit PPU (Picture Processing Unit)
• Color: Colors Displayed: 16
• Colors Available: 52
• Sprite Colors: 4 per Sprite from the 52 possible
• RAM Memory: 16 Kbit (2 Kb)
• Video RAM: 16 Kbit (2 Kb)
• Game Program Memory: 128K, 32K, 16K or 8K Bytes, 1 Meg, 256K, or 64K Bits
• Game Character Memory: 128K, 32K, 16K or 8K Bytes, 1 Meg, 256K, or 64K Bits
• Scrolling: Horizontal and Vertical
• Sound: PSG sound (2 Square Waves, 1 Triangle Wave, 1 White Noise)
• Minimum Sprite Size: 8x8 Pixels
• Maximum Sprite Size: 8x16 Pixels
• Maximum Sprites: 64 sprites
• Maximum Sprites per Scanline: 8
• Minimum Cart Size: 128 Kbit
• Maximum Cart Size: 4 Mbit
• Picture Resolution: 256 x 240
See also
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I’ve been spending quite a bit of time with the new Dojo Framework recently. It’s important to note, this isn’t the OG Dojo Toolkit you may be familiar with. Modern Dojo is a full blown reactive framework for building applications.
I had been asked a couple of times if I tried using the ArcGIS API for JavaScript with it yet. As I am known to do, I am something of a JavaScript framework aficionado and try to see how you, as a developer using the ArcGIS API for JavaScript can do your thing with it.
One of the things that makes modern Dojo interesting is they have a powerful command line tool for building apps called the dojo-cli. This however does present a challenge as the cli does not expose a webpack config I can easily use the ArcGIS webpack-plugin with. This is similar to any framework cli. I could eject the project and work with the output webpack config, but honestly that’s a bit cumbersome and I really like the safety of working within the cli. This is a good use case for using the esri-loader.
The esri-loader will essentially sideload the ArcGIS API for JavaScript into your project and doesn’t require you to add anything to the webpack configuration. If you’re working within the confines of a framework cli, it’s a pretty solid tool to integrate the ArcGIS API for JavaScript into your project.
I can inject the ArcGIS API for JavaScript bits into my Dojo project asynchronously as needed. I create an initializeMap method to handle this for me. Local state can be manage in Dojo a few ways, in this case I am using a local context to manage it for me.
initializeMap = async (container: HTMLElement) => {
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const webmap = new WebMap({
portalItem: {
id: this.webmapid
// and we show that map in a container w/ id #viewDiv
const view = new MapView({
map: webmap,
container: container
view.when().then(() => {
console.log('map is ready');
Then I have a widget in my Dojo app that I am going to use to display my map where I can call this method to get the whole map party started.
export default class Map extends WidgetBase<MapProperties> {
onAttach() {
const element = this.meta(HtmlMeta).get("elemRef") as HTMLElement;;
protected render() {
return <div classes={css.root} key="elemRef" />;
There is some interesting stuff happening here, but the important part is that we wait for the widget to get rendered and initialize the map and things get all mappy! You can see a demo of this application here.
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Symmetra: A Better World
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Andrew Robinson
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Blizzard Entertainment
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Symmetra: A Better World is the fourth Overwatch comic. It was collected in Overwatch: Anthology Volume 1.[1]
Description[edit | edit source]
"The true enemy of humanity is disorder."
A Better World follows Symmetra as she embarks on an unexpectedly dangerous endeavor in corporate espionage.
When the Vishkar Corporation's proposal to remodel a Brazilian city center is blocked by the mayor, the company calls on Symmetra — the secret identity of Vishkar architech Satya Vaswani — to get the contract by any means necessary. But when events explode out of control, Symmetra finds herself in over her head... and winds up questioning her mission.[2]
Featured Characters[edit | edit source]
Trivia[edit | edit source]
• The "BAMF" onomatopoeia used for Symmetra's teleporter on page 8 originated in Marvel comics featuring the character Nightcrawler. The term was initially used for the sound of his teleporting ability.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/24765 | Thai Stuffed Zucchinis
I couldn’t pass up the cute little round zucchinis at the farmer’s market and knew right away that I wanted to hollow them out and stuff them with something yummy. The standard stuffing for zucchini (and other vegetables such as onions and peppers as well) is an Italian-inspired blend of ground beef, rice and veggies, but I wanted to go in a completely different direction. I had boneless pork country ribs and basil in the fridge, so I ended up making a filling inspired by a Thai stir-fry with pork and basil, which is served over rice and often topped with a fried egg.
After grinding up about a pound and a half of the boneless ribs (and stashing two-thirds of it away in the freezer for future use, likely potstickers or breakfast sausage), I set about preparing the zucchinis. All the recipes I saw called for scooping out the zucchinis’ innards with a melon baller or grapefruit spoon, neither of which I own. I decided that the best approach was to use an ice cream scoop instead; it worked out perfectly for the size of zucchinis that I had. I also decided to trim the zukes and split them from stem to stern rather than across the equator. I’ve seen some cute stuffed zucchinis that almost looked like mini jack-o-lanterns with their tops jauntily reapplied over the filling, but I was more concerned with ease of eating than presentation, truth be told. The emptied shells were cooked briefly in the microwave to help soften them up before stuffing.
For my filling, I first got some rice simmering, a blend of grains from Ankeny Lakes Wild Rice Company, which is a local producer located just outside Salem. Then I sauteed shallots, garlic and a handful of diced zucchini guts, and added the ground pork to brown up. Finally, I seasoned the pork mixture with ginger, soy, fish sauce and a touch of sugar, stirred in a pile of chopped basil and the rice, and loaded the lot into my parcooked zucchini shells. They cooked until the zucchini was tender-crisp and the filling was starting to crisp up on top.
I decided at the last moment to fry some eggs to add a finishing touch to my Thai-inspired meal. These were sunny-side up eggs, cooked over medium high heat in a puddle of oil; I basted the tops of the eggs with the hot oil until the whites were just set. This method produces a fried egg with a runny yolk and crispy browned edges. As soon as each egg went down, I drizzled the top with a splash of soy sauce for seasoning and finished with some shreds of fresh basil.
The completed dish was delicious, even better than I had imagined when I sat down to compose it. The zucchini had the perfect balance of tenderness and bite. The pork and rice stuffing was deeply savory, fragrant with basil, with a touch of sweet heat in the background. The fried egg put the dish over the top, somehow making it feel more like a complete meal and not merely a side dish. It wasn’t especially easy to eat as a single unit, since the round zucchini wanted to roll around on the plate as we cut into it, but each hard-earned bite was perfectly balanced. I would make this dish again, with or without the zucchini shell.
Zucchini Stuffed with Pad Bai Horapa (Stir-Fry with Basil)
The traditional version of the pork stir-fry is much spicier than I have made it here, so you could easily up the chile heat if that appeals to you.
2 round zucchini, about the size of an orange
1/4 C shallot, minced
4 garlic cloves, minced
6 oz ground pork
1/2 tsp powdered ginger (or 1 tsp fresh ginger, minced)
pinch of crushed chile flakes
1 T tamari or soy sauce
1 T fish sauce
1 tsp granulated sugar
1/3 C basil, chopped, plus extra for garnish
1 C cooked rice (white, brown, or blend)
4 eggs
1/3 C oil
Preheat oven to 375 F. Cut stem and flower ends evenly off the zucchini, trimming as little as possible. Cut zucchini in half lengthwise, then scoop out and discard most of the zucchini flesh and seeds using a melon baller or ice cream scoop, leaving an even 1/2 inch of flesh attached to the skin. If your zucchini are rolling around a lot, you can cut a thin slice on the bottom side of each to make them sit up. Microwave zucchini 3-4 minutes on high.
Heat a splash of oil in a skillet over medium heat; add the shallot and garlic, and cook for a few minutes, until tender and fragrant. Meanwhile, chop about half a cup of the zucchini innards into small dice; add this to the shallot mixture with a pinch of salt, and cook until tender. Dump in the ground pork and break it up with your spoon; add the ginger and stir-fry until the pork is cooked through. Stir in the soy sauce, fish sauce and sugar; remove from the heat and add the basil and cooked rice.
Place the softened zucchini shells in a small oiled casserole dish; season with salt and pepper. Divide the filling between the shells, packing it in firmly. Bake for 20-30 minutes, until the zucchini is tender-crisp and the stuffing is hot and beginning to crisp slightly on top.
When the zucchini is nearly done, pour 1/3 C oil into a large nonstick skillet over medium high heat, and add the eggs. Cook until the whites are starting to brown and crisp up around the edges, carefully using a spoon to baste the tops of the eggs with the hot oil until the whites are set. To serve, place 2 zucchini halves on each plate, top with an egg, drizzle with a few drops of soy sauce and sprinkle with some basil chiffonade. Serves 2-3.
Source: Adapted from Kalyn’s Kitchen and Tan Kitchen.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/24780 | How to Access Your Postal Mail Online
If you’re a freelancer, journalist, pilot, auditor, global business person, or any other profession that requires a serious amount of traveling, Mail 1you’ll know the difficulties one might have when dealing with physical mail. It has to go somewhere, and if you’re away from your listed physical address—as you usually are because of your lifestyle—you might not get time-sensitive mail when you need it. This can lead to late payments, untimely responses, and missed opportunities.
Fortunately, as our world moves into the digital age, we as consumers have access to digital solutions. Mailbox forwarding services allow you to escape the traditional physical mailing system and opt for a virtual mailbox. You’ll still have a physical address where your physical mail is delivered, but you won’t have the hassle of dealing with the actual physical mail.
Here’s how it works: virtual mailbox providers will assign you a unique street address. And, instead of dealing with the inconvenience of picking up your physical mail next time you’re in town, your virtual mailbox provider can privately open your mail, scan it, and upload a digital copy to a secure account for your viewing. Your digital account can be checked wherever you are. If you need absolutely need the piece of mail—say, if it’s a check or package—the virtual mailbox provider can forward it to your current location. If you have security concerns, fear not. You can decide what mail your provider opens, so you always have control of who sees your mail. Also, the service provides absolute privacy and confidentiality.
How to Set Up a Virtual Mailbox
First, you’ll have to choose a reliable virtual mailbox forwarding service provider. There are a few to choose from,laptop mail so be sure to do your research and pick the one that’s best-suited for your needs. Then, you’ll pick your address in any of the designated cities. You don’t have to live in that city, so feel free to pick whatever city you like. You’ll also need to select the budget plan that works for you. Some virtual mailbox forwarding service providers offer plans based on whether the account is residential or business. Other providers offer plans based on the amount of mail they scan for you per month. Make sure you assess your needs and pick the best fit. Finally, send out your new address to your clients, customers, and agencies—you’ll be all set.
How to Check Your Mailbox Online
As stated earlier, when you receive mail, your virtual mailbox forwarding service provider will notify you by sending you an image of the front cover of the mail. You can decide whether or not they open that mail. If you’d like to have immediate access to the mail, you can request that they open it and scan it to your account. After that, all you have to do is sign in to your account and view the uploaded image. If you’d like to have mail sent to you, the virtual mailbox forwarding service provider can arrange for the mail to be sent to where ever you’d like. It’s as easy as that.
Having a virtual mailbox can liberate you from snail mail forever; it just takes a few minutes to set up an account and get familiar with the service. Ultimately, you’ll have one less thing to worry about—you’ll never have that feeling of dread opening up a P.O. box again! |
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/24797 | PP: The Incredible Hulk
Introducing! A new series from Popcorn Theology called, ‘Popcorn Prequels’…
A Long Time Ago, In a Ministry Far, Far Away, our co-host James ran a Film & Theology program and gave spiritual examinations before a live audience, not unlike what we do with Popcorn Theology. We’ve decided to pull film files from the “Cinemagogue vault” periodically to look at both classic films and classic explorations of their spiritual themes.
This week? In respect to the MCU’s “Road to Endgame” David and James introduce a comprehensive look at The Incredible Hulk: the character, the comic, and the MCU offering starring Edward Norton. How has Hulk (and Bruce Banner) been used over five decades, and in the movie, to explore human nature?
We’ll be back with our regular programming very soon!
(Written content from Cinemagogue on this film can be seen here)
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/24813 | Preaching and Worship Resources about Misery
One of two main exhibits of the fall of creation (the other being sin), misery is significant distress owing to someone's sin, or to disease, or to divine retribution, or to demon possession, or to accident, or to natural catastrophe.
In Scripture
Dread in your heart "In the morning you shall say, `If only it were evening!' and at evening you shall say, `If only it were morning!' — because of the dread that your heart shall feel and the sights that your eyes shall see" (Deut. 28:67).
Misfortune "Whenever they marched out, the hand of the Lord was against them to bring misfortune, as the Lord had warned them and sworn to them; and they were in great distress" (Judg. 2:15).
"Satan went out from the presence of the Lord, and inflicted loathsome sores on Job from the sole of his foot to the crown of his head. Job took a potsherd with which to scrape himself, and sat among the ashes" (Job 2:7, 8).
"The wicked writhe in pain all their days, through all the years that are laid up for the ruthless" (Job 15:20).
"`Because the poor are despoiled, because the needy groan, I will now rise up,' says the Lord; `I will place them in the safety for which they long'" (Ps. 12:5).
"See, O Lord, how distressed I am; my stomach churns, my heart is wrung within me, because I have been very rebellious. In the street the sword bereaves; in the house it is like death" (Lam. 1:20).
Blessed are you "Then [Jesus] looked up at his disciples and said: `Blessed are you who are poor, for yours is the kingdom of God. `Blessed are you who are hungry now, for you will be filled. `Blessed are you who weep now, for you will laugh" (Luke 6:20, 21).
"There will be anguish and distress for everyone who does evil, the Jew first and also the Greek" (Rom. 2:9).
"Three times I [Paul] was beaten with rods. Once I received a stoning. Three times I was shipwrecked; for a night and a day I was adrift at sea; on frequent journeys, in danger from rivers, danger from bandits, danger from my own people, danger from Gentiles, danger in the city, danger in the wilderness, danger at sea, danger from false brothers and sisters" (2 Cor. 11:25, 26).
"For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil, and in their eagerness to be rich some have wandered away from the faith and pierced themselves with many pains" (1 Tim. 6:10).
Points to Ponder
Superficial distress (owing to food stains, lost car keys, bad hair days) doesn't qualify as misery. The distress has to be significant.
Examples: People feel walled in by loneliness. Whether homesick or obsessively nostalgic or exiled or romantically forlorn or alienated even from themselves, lonely people ache because they are separated. People also suffer boredom. People suffer from fear. They fear cancer, job loss, the death of love. They fear war and God and the IRS. Some must deal with anxiety, an enduring and free-floating fear. Some are overcome by a sense of futility. Their lives haven't turned out as they had hoped. They haven't married well, their work seems inconsequential, their children are a disappointment to them. Their faith, if they have faith, doesn't comfort them. Humans and animals are finite beings, as transient as the flowers of nature and just as vulnerable to its forces. Every season in every land, nature itself takes a terrible harvest of living creatures by way of fire, wind, water, or sudden burial under snow or earth. Birth disorders, disease, and accidents take more lives. Even strangers to these events, if they are compassionate, are sobered by them, or dismayed.
Some misery is owing to other people's sin. Violence in the Middle East (terror strikes, wanton destruction of homes and orchards, forced confinement) causes fear, anxiety, poverty, despair. Racism and other bigotries have similar effects. All the injustices detailed and condemned in Scripture — and especially against what Nicholas Wolterstorff calls "the quartet of the vulnerable" — widows, orphans, resident aliens, and the poor — are so detailed and condemned because they cause misery within vulnerable people's lives. Injustice causes isolation, indignation, despair, and poverty itself, with all its want, discomfort, and indignity.
Abuse Less dramatically, but just as systemically, abuse within a family causes suffering of its victims, who are then exceedingly likely to abuse or spoil their children so that sin causes misery which occasions more sin and more misery — all of it ricocheting down the generations with seemingly awesome inevitability.
But I may also cause my own misery. If my word is no good, people will not trust or befriend me. I have caused my own alienation. If I am thoroughly ungrateful, I am also likely to be thoroughly bored. If I steal and get caught, I am likely to face some combination of guilty feelings, anxiety, and captivity.
In Scripture, the connection between sin and misery is as old as Adam and Eve's disobedience and subsequent shame. The big pictures of shalom, especially in Isaiah, and Jesus' promised salvation in the gospels feature salvation from sin, but often — and sometimes especially — from misery as well.
Heidelberg Catechism In its Answer 2, the Heidelberg Catechism famously states that to be saved, the first thing I have to know is "how great my sins and miseries are." Diagnosis before cure.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/24814 | 10 Downloads You Won't Regret
Featuring Kanye West, Childish Gambino, Ryan Hemsworth, Raury, Sylvan Esso, and more.
"Circles" - Vanic X machineheart
We deserve “Circles.” In a pop music landscape where “Fancy” was the Song of the Summer by default, and “Bang Bang” dropped a few weeks too late, we need a track to rally around with pop mentality but indie credibility; with of-the-moment production but timeless accessibility. “Circles” is trap-inspired music that your parents can still vibe to. It’s a summer song with enough melancholy for any season. But most of all, it's an absolute banger. Roll the windows down and blast this one – you deserve it.
"Cream Soda" - Ryan Hemsworth (with Tomggg)
When you name a song “Cream Soda,” it better be sweet. And bubbly. Hemsworth’s latest jam lives up to its name, with twinkling synthesizers bright and bouncy enough to soundtrack an entire level of Super Mario Bros. In fact, at certain points the track all but directly mimes the game’s signature theme, inverting the melody to make it even happier than usual. If the Mario theme is perfect for jubilant pre-teens, “Cream Soda” is a preschooler’s anthem. In a good way.
"Carousel Ride" - Rubblebucket
While Hemsworth's buoyant anthem is perfectly named, Rubblebucket's stunning single is anything but. Instead of mirroring the slow, boring roundabout ride of bobbing horses it's named for, "Carousel Ride" twists and turns with the goofy randomness of a Wild Mouse roller coaster. Playful synthesizers soar over a head-thumping guitar riff for the song's chorus, while it wisely slows down to carousel pace for its calmer verses.
"Crawl (Christian Rich Re-Work)" - Childish Gambino
Gambino’s “Crawl” doesn’t exactly call out begging for a remix…it basically already sounds like one. But Christian Rich finds a way to "re-work" (as he labels it) the song into something far darker by looping and amplifying its most prominent feature – the brooding choir of eerie, computerized chants, ready-made for Halloween.
"The Writing's On The Wall" - OK Go
You've already seen the incredible, illusion-filled video. (If not, what are you waiting for?) But much like OK Go's otherviralhits, this song can still get endlessly stuck in your head on its own - no visual accompaniment necessary.
"Violent Shiver" - Benjamin Booker
Booker is on the verge of blowing up, and with good reason - he blends old-school blues sensibilities with the raw, perfectly unpolished production of modern lo-fi punk.
"Superfly" - Raury
Kid Cudi tweeted out the link to Raury's debut mixtape four days ago, subtly passing the torch to a young prodigy who seeks to capture Cudi's genre-spanning fusion of emotional soul and cinematic rap. While Cudi's influence can be felt on most of the mixtape, it's "Superfly" that pays direct homage, as the 18-year-old artist puts his own lush, folk-rock spin on the "Day 'N' Nite" chorus.
"Every Time" - The Last Bison
Pulsing, foot-stomping folk-rock with plucked strings, twinkling bells, lightly added keys and sing-along "woahs," for your ears to enjoy.
"Wolf" (Live in KTUX Studio) - Sylvan Esso
The sparse, synths-and-vocals duo brought their uniquely modern sound to the KTUX Studio for a smooth, hypnotic performance featuring typically memorable cooing from singer Amelia Meath and buzzing beats from partner in crime Nick Sanborn.
"Power [Trap Remix] (Cymbal 303)" - Kanye West
Yes, this song came out four years ago. And this remix has been around for a year...but I just discovered it. And it's awesome. Plus, don't we all want to pretend we have some new Kanye to listen to? |
global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/24839 | One of the biggest high school football rivalries in the area will be raising money for a great cause during tonight's game.
Often in Byron there are Stillman Valley folks at one of the grocery stores, at the salon, or at a restaurant. Tigers and Cardinals are usually separated by water, but on nights like tonight, it's much different. Tonight the Stillman Valley Cardinals come to town to take on the Byron Tigers in the ultimate small-town high school football rivalry. But, despite the competitiveness, there's a chance for both sides to help out a great cause.
According to,
That game has been designated by the IHSFCA (Illinois High School Football Coaches Association) as a fundraiser for Shriners Hospitals for Children. The cheerleaders and some younger football players will be taking donations during the varsity game Friday evening.
Donations can be made in cash or with a check. Gme time is 7pm in Byron.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/24841 | Plant Identification
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I got this plant from a friend of mine... and so far i am unable to find out what it is . Maybe i can get the answer here
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I believe this to be a type of Calathea plant.
There are many species of this plant.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/24858 | Rules for Flying Model Aircraft and Drones in the US and UK
Can I go to my local playing field and just start flying my remote control plane – or are there rules I need to observe? What are the rules for flying model aircraft and drones?
There are rules for flying model aircraft, and these can be summarised as follows:
• You may need to register your RC plane or drone
• You may need to pass an online test
• Rules differ for recreational and commercial operators
• You will need to keep below a certain height, usually 400 ft
• You will not be allowed to fly near airports
• You will need to keep your model in line of sight
• The aircraft should be operated in accordance with a set of safety guidelines
The rules are generally the same in the following countries: The USA, the UK, Canada, Australia, and India. I’ll go through the rules below, and highlight any differences between these countries.
Bear in mind that even if following these rules may not be mandatory in certain countries, it’s extremely important to adopt them, because they will help to avoid accidents and action by the authorities.
To find out more about flying safely, read my article here, and to be sure you’re on the right side of the law, check out my article on needing a licence to fly an RC plane, here.
What are the Rules For Flying RC Models in the US?
So what are the rules for flying your RC plane in the US? I’ll break these down into recreational or commercial operations, the 8 rules for recreational flyers, the aeronautical knowledge and safety test, and registration of your plane or drone.
Recreational or Commercial Operations
Firstly, do you operate your RC plane or drone for recreational or commercial operations?
Operators of Small Unmanned Aircraft (SUA) for commercial purposes must follow the “Part 107 rules”. There’s a link to a PDF summary of these rules in reference 2 below.
If you are planning on using the SUA for commercial purposes, check out the FAA page in reference 3, at the end of this article.
Operators of small unmanned aircraft for recreational purposes must also follow the part 107 rules unless they follow the 8 conditions of the “Exception for Limited Recreational Operations of Unmanned Aircraft” (for full detail, see ref 1 below).
In other words, in general speak, if you fly for pleasure, and follow the 8 rules set out by the FAA, you won’t have to follow the stricter regulations in part 107, which are essentially for commercial operators.
Controversially, the FAA document states that ” The guidance provided in this notice is not legally binding in its own right“, but “Nevertheless, if your operation fails to satisfy the eight statutory conditions.…. your operation may violate other FAA regulations and subject you to enforcement action.”
If you are flying for commercial purposes, jump down to “The Knowledge Test” below.
The 8 Rules for Recreational Flyers
The eight rules for recreational flyers are:
1. The aircraft is flown strictly for recreational purposes.
2. The aircraft is operated in accordance with or within the programming of a community-based organization’s (CBO) set of safety guidelines that are developed in coordination with the FAA.
• At the time of writing this article, the FAA had not developed a set of safety guidelines with a CBO, so it referred flyers to its own guidelines, which are based on “industry best practice”:
• Fly only for recreational purposes
• Keep your unmanned aircraft within your visual line-of-sight or within the visual line of sight of a visual observer who is co-located and in direct communication with you
• Do not fly above 400 feet in uncontrolled (Class G) airspace
• Do not fly in controlled airspace (for definition see below) without an FAA authorization
• Controlled airspace is typically found within 5 miles of an airport with air traffic control towers. However, keep it mind that there are some airports in controlled airspace that don’t have control towers.
• Controlled and uncontrolled airspace locations can be found on the FAA’s UAS Facility Map (see reference 5 at the end of this article).
• Follow all FAA airspace restrictions, including special security instructions and temporary flight restrictions
• Never fly near other aircraft
• Always give way to all other aircraft
• Never fly near emergency response activities
• Never fly under the influence of drugs or alcohol
3. The aircraft is flown within the visual line of sight of the person operating the aircraft. A visual observer is required for first-person view (FPV) operations.
5. In (controlled airspace) the operator obtains prior authorization from the Administrator or designee before operating and complies with all airspace restrictions and prohibitions.
• At the time of writing, you may fly in controlled airspace only at authorized fixed sites. The list of authorized fixed sites is available on the FAA’s website and can be downloaded here (XL sheet).
6. In (uncontrolled) airspace, the aircraft is flown from the surface to not more than 400 feet above ground level.
7. The operator has passed an aeronautical knowledge and safety test and maintains proof of test passage.
• The FAA currently is developing an aeronautical knowledge and safety test with a view to introducing it in 2020. More about this below.
8. The aircraft is registered and marked. More about this below.
The Aeronautical Knowledge and Safety Test for Recreational Flyers
The Recreational Knowledge and Safety Test will probably be introduced in early 2020.
I understand that the test will be approximately 25 questions. If the tester misses a question, the test will bounce back to the question and have information for the tester to read and reselect an answer. The test will not be as extensive as a part 107 test (The Knowledge Test – see below), the exam commercial drone pilots need to pass.
The Test will probably be administered by the Academy of Model Aeronautics (AMA) (see ref 4 below). The test will be available for all ages, however, children under the age of 13 will need consent from their parent or guardian.
The Knowledge Test for Commercial Flyers
If you wish to fly rc models or drones commercially, then you will need to pass the Knowledge Test to become an FAA-Certified Drone Pilot.
For a full run down on how to become a commercial drone pilot, check out out the relevant FAA page (see reference 6 at the end of this article)
Registration of Your Model
To register your drone or RC plane, you will need to state whether you fly for recreational or commercial purposes.
If for commercial purposes, you will need to pay a fee of $5 per aircraft. Registration is valid for 3 years. To register, go to the FAA page at reference 7 at the end of this article, and click on “I Fly under Part 107 or as a Public Aircraft”.
For recreational flyers, go to the FAA page at reference 7 below, and click on “I fly under the exception for recreational flyers”.
Here’s a graphic showing how to mark up your model:
how to lable a drone
What are the Rules for Flying RC Planes in the UK?
You will need to take a test to fly a remote control aircraft or drone in the UK, and register your RC plane. The test was introduced in 2019.
The Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) warns: “It is against the law to fly a drone or model aircraft without passing the theory test or registering. You can also be fined for breaking the law when flying. In the most serious cases, you could be sent to prison.
Here I’ll outline the 3 main parts to the regulations: The Drone & Model Aircraft Code, Registration, and the test of competency.
The Drone & Model Aircraft Code
Aircraft covered by this Code are Drones, model aeroplanes, model gliders, and model helicopters. The law groups these as small unmanned aircraft.
For a pdf summary of the Drone Code, click on Link 14 at the end of this article.
• You’re responsible for flying safely whenever you fly
• Always keep your drone or model aircraft in direct sight and make sure you have a full view of the surrounding airspace
rules for flying model aircraft
• You must be able to see your drone or model aircraft without using:
• binoculars
• a telephoto lens
• electronic viewing equipment, such as a smart phone, tablet or video goggles
• Never fly above 400ft (120m)
rules for flying model aircraft
• Keep the right distance from people, property, vehicles and busy areas
• Never fly closer to people than 50m, which can be reduced to 30m on take off and landing.
• These limits do not apply to you or people who are with you and are involved in what you’re doing, such as friends and family out flying with you.
• These limits apply to drones and model aircraft fitted with cameras. Even if you don’t have a camera, you must still fly safely,
rules for flying model aircraft
• Buildings, structures, vehicles, trains, boats and other types of transport – Never fly closer to these than 50m.
rules for flying model aircraft
• Never fly closer to built-up and busy areas than 150m.
• Never fly above these areas at any height.
rules for flying model aircraft
• Never fly closer to crowds of more than 1,000 people than 150m.
• Never fly above crowds at any height.
rules for flying model aircraft
• Stay well away from airports, airfields and aircraft
• Most airports and airfields have a flight restriction zone (FRZ). You must never fly in this zone unless you have permission from the airport.
• Since March 2019 the government has introduced a restriction using the airfield’s existing aerodrome traffic zone, which has a radius of either two or two and a half nautical miles and then five kilometres by one kilometre zones starting from the point known as the ‘threshold’ at the end of each of the airfield’s runways (see the diagram below).
• Both zones extend upwards to a height of 2,000 feet above the airfield.
• A map of the UK showing each airfield’s restriction is available below at reference 8.
• It is illegal to fly any drone at any time within these restricted zones unless you have permission from air traffic control at the airport or, if air traffic control is not operational, from the airport itself.
• If you endanger the safety of an aircraft, you could go to prison for five years.
rules for flying model aircraft
• Always check and follow any flying restrictions. You can check using:
• A drone app, such as listed on the Drone Safe website (see reference 9 below)
• The NATS (National Air Traffic Services) drone website (see reference 10 below).
• Restricted airspace includes areas around prisons, military bases, royal palaces, government sites and more.
• NOTAMS (Notice to Airmen) are the official notices on activities that affect where aircraft, including drones and model aircraft can fly. They can be found on the NATS Notam website, reference 11, below.
• Check for local restrictions and temporary hazards.
• Byelaws may restrict when and where you can fly.
• Check for any structures, such as cranes, masts and wires. Remember, you must be at least 50m away from these.
• Do not fly where you’ll disturb animals.
• Other aircraft – This includes unusual or specialist flying activities, such as air ambulances, police helicopters, light aircraft, military low flying, crop spraying, and electricity pylon surveying.
• Check for signs that say you cannot fly drones or model aircraft.
• Make sure you know what your drone or model aircraft can and cannot do. Specifically,
• how far your drone or model aircraft can fly
• how long your drone or model aircraft can fly before running low on power or fuel
• whether your drone or model aircraft has a ‘return-to-home’ function that means it can fly back to you if there is a problem
• Make sure your drone or model aircraft is fit to fly
• Check fuel and battery levels
• Check any built-in software is up to date
• Do not fly if the weather could affect your flight
• Affecting you or your model, including the model’s batteries which may be adversely affected by cold weather.
• Make sure you’re fit to fly
• Do not drink and fly
• Do not fly under the influence of drugs or medicine
• Do not fly if you’re tired or unwell
• Take action quickly and safely if the situation in the air or on the ground changes
• For example, if a group of people or animals turn up in the area where you are flying.
• Report any dangerous incidents or near misses
• If something dangerous happens while you’re flying your drone or model aircraft, you must report the incident to the Civil Aviation Authority
• If you crash or are forced to land somewhere that you can’t get to your drone or model aircraft, you should tell the site owner.
• Do not use your drone or model aircraft to make money or for any kind of payment
• If you fly your drone or model aircraft for recreation, you can choose whether or not to have insurance
• Insurance is optional if you’re flying for recreation. However, you should remember that you’re responsible for your actions, which means you could be held personally liable for any injury or damage you cause while you’re flying.
• If you’re flying for commercial purposes, you’ll need insurance.
• Respect other people and their privacy
• If your drone or model aircraft has a camera, any photos or video you take may be covered by the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).
• Make sure you know what your camera can do and the kind of images it can take
• Knowing this will help to reduce the risk of taking photos or recording videos that invade privacy.
• Make sure you can be clearly seen when you’re out flying
• This means people will know who’s responsible for your drone or model aircraft.
• Let people know before you start recording
• Think before sharing photos or video
• Keep photos and videos secure
• If you record images for commercial use, you’ll need to meet further specific requirements as a data controller.
• You must pass the theory test to get a flyer ID before you fly
• If you are flying a drone or model aircraft between 250g and 20kg you will need to pass a test. See below for further details.
• You must take the theory test every three years
• The person or organisation that’s responsible for a drone or model aircraft must register to get an operator ID
• This will usually be the person or organisation that owns it, unless the owner is under 18, in which case it will need to be a parent or guardian.
• Label your drone or model aircraft with your operator ID
• Make sure that anyone flying your drone or model aircraft has a valid flyer ID
• Keep your operator ID up to date
Registering Your RC Plane or Drone (the “Operator ID”)
It is against the law to fly without passing the Theory test or registering.
The operator is responsible for making sure that only people with a valid flyer ID use their drone or model aircraft.
If you’re responsible for drones or model aircraft, but will not fly them you can register as an operator only. For example, if you’re responsible for your child’s drone.
They must label their drones and model aircraft with their operator ID.
You must be at least 18 years old to get an operator ID.
The Operator ID costs £9 and is valid for 1 year, though if you are applying for a Flyer ID too, the combined cost is £9.
To register your plane or drone, click through to the relevant CAA page at reference 13 at the end of this article.
Labelling your drone or model aircraft
It is against the law to fly a drone or model aircraft of between 250 g and 20 kg that does not show a valid operator ID.
You must label your operator ID on every drone or model aircraft you’re responsible for.
Use the same operator ID for all your drones or model aircraft.
Your operator ID must be:
• visible from the outside, or within a compartment that can easily be accessed without using a tool
• clear and in block capitals taller than 3mm
• secure and safe from damage
• on the main body of the aircraft
You should use a removable label as your operator ID may change when you renew.
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Taking The RC Plane & Drone Theory Test (The “Flyer ID”)
Anyone who’ll fly must pass a theory test to get a “flyer ID”. There are exemptions – for example if you fly a control line model, or you fly indoors.
Children and adults must pass the test. A parent or guardian must register children under 13, but the child must take the test. To register a child, click on reference 12 below.
The CAA recommends that the Code, listed above, is studied prior to the test.
The test costs £9 and has 20 multiple choice questions and you should allow at least 20 minutes to complete the test. You can take the test as many times as you like.
The British Model Flying Association has summarised the requirements in the following infographic:
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Nassim Haramein’s recent paper “Quantum Gravity and the Holographic Mass” presents a brilliant approach to Quantum Gravity and the Holographic principle as the origin of mass and matter in our universe. The model reveals important symbiotic relationships between the atom and the larger universe in which it resides, and it draws a picture of the space-time manifold, our own reality, as a boundlessly interconnected holographic projection originating within a Cosmic Singularity. The idea may seem abstract at first, but the basic principles are logically intuitive and accessible, and they represent an essential key for understanding our own existence and inherent communion with Nature. Long have we sought to understand the forces of Nature as a harmonic whole, and with this publication we might see a first glimpse of this unification. The implications are both scientifically and spiritually profound, so let’s embark on a journey together down the wormhole of the Fractal-Holographic Universe…
From Micro to Macro
As we have seen in “The Fractal Holographic Universe” we may understand our reality as a logarithmic progression of black hole singularities of increasing orders of magnitude, from infinity small to infinitely large. The theory describes our universe as the inside of a supermassive black hole, and everything we see on the inside of this hole as the outside of smaller black holes, which appear to us as radiant objects; stars, planets, atoms and such. With this we’ve seen the fundamental geometric structure of the universe; an infinitely repeating fractal that naturally generates harmonic scaling of toroidal systems organizing matter and energy into galaxies, stars, planets, cells, atoms and such. In “Quantum Gravity and the Holographic mass” we’ll move deeper into the holographic aspect of reality and see how everything is boundlessly intertwined with everything else – how every tiny atom is a complete representation of the Cosmos in its totality. Of particular interest to us in this context is the proton in the nucleus of the atom, which constitutes the basic building block of all matter. The fractal-holographic model describes the proton as a microscopic black hole singularity, but to understand the proton as a black hole we need to look closer at the history behind the development of General relativity and how the Standard Model, the current prevailing theory of particles, relate to the fundamental forces of nature.
The Standard Model
The Standard Model is the current ruling theory of particle physics and it describes the quantum mechanical forces that deal with the physics of the atomic nucleus and the force of electromagnetism. It provides accurate measures of the various properties of the elementary particles, the particles mediating the natural forces, and precisely predicts a range of phenomena in our universe. However, the Standard Model is still incomplete and inherently incompatible with general relativity, which operates with a continuum of space-time, as opposed to finite quanta, and describes characteristics of our universe on a large scale, in the macrocosm. Currently the most pressing issue of the Standard Model is its incapability to describe how particles assumes mass and how gravity functions at the subatomic scale where the space-time manifold no longer can be described as a smooth, gradient continuum. Both Electromagnetism and the forces of the nucleus (strong and weak) as such may be described in the algebraic terms of quantum mechanics, as fields of limited elementary particles, or quanta, conveying information/energy from one point to another. But this is not the case with the force of Gravity; after years of searching we still haven’t found the hypothetical “graviton”, a supposed particle conveying gravity at the quantum level. Neither have we been able to accurately locate the true source of mass in our universe – and the two seem intimately related. In the holofractographic model we come to an understanding of both Gravity and mass utilising finite, quantum numbers based on proven physical constants (the Planck distance). We achieve this starting from the Schwarzschild proton…
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The Schwarzchild Proton
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Karl Schwarzschild
When Albert Einstein first made public the field equations describing general relativity, he had not yet found the final solution to his equations. This was discovered a few months later by a German physicist named Karl Schwarzschild, and with his contribution a complete description of gravity as an intrinsic property of the geometrical structure of space-time was put forth. But the solution, called “The Schwarzschild solution”, revealed a strange phenomenon in Einstein’s field equations in which the gravitational field became singular; certain variables increased to infinity and thus predicted the presence of bottomless curvature in the space-time manifold – they predicted singularity. The significance of this discovery was debated for decades, few people thought they would actually observe physical singularities in nature, and it was not until the latter half of the 20th century that the phenomenon was accepted as an inherent feature of general relativity. Today the existence of astrophysical singularities, or “black holes“, is widely accepted and they represent a key component of modern cosmology. Although the solution proposed by Karl Schwarzschild describes infinite curvature in the space-time manifold it’s still frequently used in planetary and cosmological physics with regard to areas of “flat” curvature – normal three-dimensional space. The areas of extreme space-time distortion and zero volume are much less understood and difficult to deal with when formulating physics.
The equation defining the critical radius of a given mass (an object) where the escape velocity equals the speed of light is called “the Schwarzschild-radius”. We can imagine the Schwarzschild-radius as a sphere; the field equations state that any object compressed to a size smaller than this sphere will become so densely massive that it creates infinite curvature in the space-time manifold – a black hole (e.g. our planet would have to be compressed to a radius equal to that of a ping-pong ball to attain such a density). This hypothetical region (termed r), where even light cannot escape gravity defines the event horizon and is expressed by the following equation:
where G = the gravitational constant and m = mass and c = the speed of light. The equation simply describes the linear relationship between the mass and the radius of a black hole based solely on the system’s mass.
The holofractographic model describes the proton of the nucleus as a mini-black hole in place of a discrete particle, and thus postulates that the extreme gravitational curvature of this black hole is the true source of the atom’s dynamics – a radical break with conventional theory which specifies entirely separate forces of nature for the same purpose (strong and weak nuclear force). For this hypothesis to be valid the proton mass must match that of the Schwarzschild radius, defining the system as a black hole, and if this is the case, a single proton would weigh as much as 1014 grams (10 with 14 zeros after)! This may seem radical and it stands in sharp contrast to the proven weight of the Standard model proton; a miniscule weight of 10-24 grams (0 to 24 decimal places before 1). Yet the holofractographic view embraces both of these values, and understands them as two different perspectives on the same phenomena. Let’s see how.
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A Cosmological Scale
This graph depicts a logarithmic scale of astrophysical objects in a ratio of mass vs. radius. It pictures a cosmological scale in which our own universe is the interior of a black hole and all objects within it, like quasars, known galactic nuclei and stars, are smaller black holes that we experience the outside of. Notice how the Schwarzschild proton falls nicely near the trend line, demonstrating for the first time a linear relationship between quantum and relativistic sizes across the boundary between the micro and macro cosmos; a rhythmic progression of energy events by mass and radius. This is very interesting evidence that we until now may have misunderstood certain aspects of the proton in the context of the larger universe. However the values in this graph use both the Standard proton mass, to calculate the mass of the universe, and the Schwarzschild mass of our black hole proton; two mass values for the proton within the same theoretical framework. We’ll examine this duality later on, but first we’ll take a closer look at the dynamics within the nucleus and its surrounding vacuum medium to uncover further characteristics of the proton dynamics. Viewing the proton as a mini-black hole brings us to an entirely different understanding of the nucleus in which Gravitation replaces the current nuclear forces of Strong and Weak interaction.
The Strong Force or simply Gravity?
James Rutherford, often called the father of nuclear physics, was the first to discover the composition of the nuclei in 1917. It was made known that the atomic core was composed of protons with a positive electric charge and electrically neutral neutrons. However this seemed contradictory as conventional physics indicated that the positively charged protons would repel each other due to their inherent electrostatic repulsion, which was never observed. It was understood that new physics was needed to explain the phenomenon as Gravity would appear imperceptibly weak on such a scale. In the 70′s, the hypothesis of “Strong force» was presented – a force of nature that could account for the confinement of the nucleus.It was believed that this force is mediated by a hypothetical elementary particle called the “gluon”, gluing the atom together. Thus, a completely new force was invented without a mechanical description of its origin, without any supporting empirical evidence and its strength was assigned to just the right parameters needed for the equations to work out, and thus the problem was solved – at least on paper. This form of “physics-as-you-go” type problem solving is not uncommon in the world of physics, and can perhaps be described as a symptom of our ability for abstraction; the model has a certain predictive strength, it provides functional mathematical descriptions of phenomena we see, but it reveals important deficiencies which ripple into other fields when viewed in a broader context. The Strong nuclear force remains a force with no mechanical origin and its strength is estimated to be 1039 times stronger than gravity.
In “Quantum Gravity and the Holographic Mass” Haramein presents another approach to describe the natural behaviour of the proton, which perhaps more accurately reflects its actual dynamics. Considering the newfound mass-values of the Schwarzschild proton this contractive energy of the nucleus of the atom may be accounted for in terms of mass – and be considered a gravitational force arising in the vicinity of a black hole singularity. The Schwarzschild proton interacts with highly energetic vacuum fluctuations within and outside the proton horizon through which it gains the mass/energy necessary to be understood as a black hole entity. Thus its interactions with the quantum vacuum may actually be the true source of the confining forces. Taking into consideration the fact that the proton is composed of 99,99999% vacuum, understanding this vacuum then is crucial to understanding the proton – and pretty much everything else.
The Quantum Foam
Theoretical analysis alone indicates that the vacuum of space at the quantum level not at all can be considered empty. When we zoom in to the resolution of the Planck distance, the smallest sensible length of this universe, the structure of space-time becomes a chaotic, seething foam of energy and, in a mathematical sense, we may begin to “glimpse” the fields composition of granules. At this level the structure of space-time exhibits extremely energetic oscillations and, all fields considered, these vacuum fluctuations reaches a point of infinitude.
This infinite energy density of the quantum vacuum is handled by a process of renormalization; using a “Planck length cut off” – an absolute minimum oscillation of vacuum fluctuations – to determine the vacuum density in a sensible way. The Planck length is a concrete physical constant of nature; it is the smallest possible vibration of the electromagnetic spectrum and is considered to be the length scale at which the structure of space-time becomes dominated by quantum effects. It is the smallest distance of meaning to us in this universe, measured to be exactly 1.616 x 10-33 cm (notice the similarity of this number to the Phi ratio). Describing space-time curvature at this level demands quantizationof the continuum into discrete units of energy, which provide us with an algebraic formula for determining gravitational effects. The fractal-holographic model attains such a description of quantum gravity by describing the vacuum field as granulated by tiny Planck-sized black holes as a means of renormalization at the quantum level. As such the “black hole-pimpled” vacuum may be understood as a quantum field entangled through mini-worm holes, effectively creating a non-local, interconnected, highly energetic vacuum medium which “feed” all protons with the combined energy/information/mass of the entire universe. In this way the quantum vacuum of our own black hole universe is described as finite but boundlessly entangled within its own parametrical horizon, yet infinite when viewed in the larger context of the fractal multiverse (more on this later). This universal quantum vacuum is the source of both the Schwarzschild proton mass – which we will come to know as theHolographic Gravitational Mass – and the Standard proton mass as measured in laboratories. This leads us on to the gate to the holofractographic universe wherein we may deduce the gravitational mass of the proton by calculating Planck oscillations of the vacuum medium within and outside the proton surface alone- and from there, map its fractal evolution beyond the universal horizon…
The Holographic Principle and Quantum Gravity
A black hole horizon divided by flat Planck surface areas.
In astrophysics the holographic principle states that the description of a volume of space can be thought of as encoded on a boundary to the region – like an event horizon – and it is commonly utilized when describing the entropy, or thermodynamics, of a black hole system. The principle was initially evoked to explain a natural occurrence in which the second law of thermodynamics seemed to be violated in incidents where an object of certain entropy is absorbed by a black hole. The entropy of the object would disappear and total entropy would appear to decrease, which the second law prohibits. The holographic principle solves this problem by stating that all energy/information of an object absorbed by a black hole is «smeared out» across its surface and its entropy conserved as informational bits the size of a Planck’s distance. In this way all the information of the black hole is stored holographicallyon its surface as abstract “Planck pixels”, or bits, and thus we can calculate its total entropy just by counting the Planck pixels on its surface area.
In this hologram a three-dimensional image is stored on a two-dimentional surface.
The fractal holographic model broadens our understanding of the holographic principle by considering Planck pixels both internal and external to the black hole horizon. This model utilizes a Spherical Planck Unit (SPU), rather than a flat surface area Planck unit (or even cubed Planck unit as is conventional when calculating vacuum density), as a minimum-size vacuum energy oscillator – a Planck pixel – on which information encodes. To give a mental image of the relative magnitudes involved the Spherical Planck Unit is so small that if you made it the size of a grain of sand, a proton would reach from here to Alpha Centauri 4.37 light-years away!
From this premise we may analyze how the interior vacuum energy-density of the proton relates to its surface horizon to deduce elemental information about proton mass, quantum gravity and confining nuclear forces based solely on a premeasured physical constant (the Planck unit), no free variables or ad hoc patch-work needed. We may, in other words, provide a holographic basis for the phenomena of mass and a quantized, algebraic description of Gravity.
The Holographic Gravitational Mass
With the Spherical Planck Unit as a means of renormalization at the quantum level we see a different, more natural expression of the quantum vacuum dynamics (as opposed to Planck-cubes) wherein each minimum-size vacuum energy oscillator, each SPU, can be understood as the wavefront of a tiny oscillation of vacuum fluctuations. The spherical waves tesselate with adjacent SPU’s creating a uniform, holographic interference pattern within the proton volume. These spherical waveforms also holographically reflects on the flat proton horizon, creating equatorial spherical intersections – circles – the exact same size. The picture below provides a geometric visualization of the actual structural principle:
The intersecting spheres represents tiny vacuum occilations within the proton. Notice how they’re holographically reflected as a two dimensional flower of life pattern on the proton surface.
The holographic Planck circles naturally distributes across the surface area of the proton horizon in such a way that they are space-filling, like the SPU’s inside the proton, creating an interference pattern often called “the Flower of Life”. Now that we’re equipped with the basic structure of the proton and its relation to the quantum vacuum we may proceed to calculate essential facts about our universe.
We begin using our renormalized value for the vacuum density (1093 gm) to derive the mass/energy available within the volume of a proton sphere; the resulting answer is 1055 grams. Using the renormalized vacuum density of 1093 gm per cubic centimeter, 1055 gm is how much vacuum energy is permitted within the tiny proton volume.
We proceed by dividing the total surface area of the proton horizon by the holographic Planck circles, to learn that the proton horizon is covered by 4,72×1040 intersecting equatorial circles forming the interference pattern mentioned above.
Now we divide 1040 with 1055 – that is, the number of Planck circles on the proton surface with the number of SPU’s within the proton volume – receiving the result of 5,91×1014 – the exact gravitational mass needed for the proton to obey the Schwarzschild condition generating a black hole!
Now we have derived the holographic gravitational mass of the proton (its Schwarzschild mass) from Planck units and geometry alone, without involving the Schwarzschild equation or the gravitational equations of Einstein’s general relativity at any point. Thus Gravity has been described as a ratio of mass/information to surface area and has been accounted for completely in algebraic terms without involving space-time curvature, only through pixelation of the structure of the vacuum itself. For the first time we have mathematical proof and a functioning description of Quantum Gravity!
Flower of life
Finding the Standard Proton
We have seen how the proton achieves its holographic gravitational mass due to vacuum fluctuations within the proton volume, now we need to find its measured value when viewed from outside its horizon. This brings us to a deeper understanding of the proton wherein its quantum entanglement to all other protons is revealed.
The internal volume of the proton relates to its surface geometry in such a way that one SPU holographically expresses all energy/information entangled with it. If we divide the circular surface tessellations (1040) with the volume of the proton itself (10-39 ) the result comes out 1,67×1079 – which is the currently estimated number of particles in the universe. The result reveals a quantum entanglement through mini-wormholes with all other protons in our universe; every single Planck circle at the proton surface can be understood as a mini-wormhole internally connecting it with another proton.
To find the actual mass for a single proton in this worm-hole matrix we must map the influence of all protons on a single Planck circle. We do this by dividing the Schwarzschild mass of the proton by the number of protons in the universe, which gives us 10-65 (this number equals the proton mass distributed into all other protons). Then we multiply this number with the number of Planck circles on the proton surface, namely 4,72×1040, to reveal the mass influence of one single proton. The result is 1,672295215 x 10-24, which is the proven Standard mass of the proton! The calculations are within a 0.017 % deviation from the mass of the proton given in the Standard model, and most likely this is the more accurate value for its mass when measured from the outside its event horizon.
In this way each proton internally holds a holographic gravitational mass of 5,91×1014 gm – the Schwarzschild mass, while they external to the proton horizon exhibit the standard mass of 10-24 gm.
Now we’re able to understand the seemingly paradoxical presence of two values for the proton mass within the same theoretical framework; no proton can be viewed as isolated or measured independently without taking into account its quantum entanglement with all other protons. Each proton is outwardly expressing its tiny bit of the distributed mass/information of the entire universe, while at the same time each proton is intimately connected to all the other protons through quantum entanglement.
Another way to arrive at the same conclusion is to simply divide the mass of the Universe (1055), extrapolated from the inside of the proton, by the number of protons in the universe (1079), extrapolated by the surface of the proton, which again results in the exact mass of a single proton (1,672295215 x 10-24 ). The mere fact that these gigantic numbers divided nails the mass value of the proton to the decimal is a major confirmation of the accuracy of the theory.
Mapping the Multiverse
Now we may continue to calculate key facts about the multiverse beyond our cosmological horizon. We may glimpse the Great Cosmic Fractal – the Omniverse – of endless universes, scattered like grains of sand in a vast toroidal hurricane…
Skies Above Skies…
The implications of the Holofractographic Universe compels the imagination. Through these simple equations we come to an understanding of the space-time manifold as a holographic fractal pixel matrix projected through the interference pattern of the Flower of Life. In time all this will be simplified further in such a way that it’s expressible in a single, simple equation – as has been the dream of great scientists and philosophers throughout the history of physics. Personally I’m often filled with a tangible connectivity to all things just by contemplating this beautiful description of our Universe. I believe that we, through meditation, visualization and contemplation, may use this understanding as a kind of metaphysical technology – a tool – for expanding our own consciousness beyond its frames into a larger and deeper connection between each other and our world as a whole. The mere fact that space itself (in its state of infinite, utter completion) explores its endless potential through us certainly gives assurance and faith to surrender to the sheer beauty of its unfoldment and unconditional love…
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It was about a spaceship where the captain is unusually polite in his verbal commands to the ship's AI, always saying "please" and "thank you." The crew records the captain's voice saying the codes to control the ship, then mutiny and kill him, and only find out after he's dead that the "please" and "thank you" were also part of the command codes. Thus they are doomed to drift in space in a ship they can't control.
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Now answered here. – John Rennie Aug 21 '18 at 11:51
• @JohnRennie Might be worth posting that answer here too, so that both the OPs can confirm independently. Just for the sake of policy, even though it's clearly the same story. – Rand al'Thor Aug 21 '18 at 12:59
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Possible duplicate of Short story about a mutiny on a spaceship and a polite captain – Vanguard3000 Aug 21 '18 at 13:10
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@Vanguard3000 No accepted answer here and so not a dupe. – TheLethalCarrot Aug 21 '18 at 13:30
This question was reposted in Short story about a mutiny on a spaceship and a polite captain. I answered it there, but for the record I'll post here as well then we can delete one of the answers if/when one of the questions is closed as a duplicate.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/24950 | Inspired by this question, Naboo has a tradition of electing twelve and fourteen year old girls to represent them at a galactic level.
Padme remarks that at 14 she wasn't the youngest queen ever elected but she seems incredibly young by our standards, she'd still be in school in most European counties let alone ruling a planet!
Is there any reason why such young women (and possibly men) are selected to rule (or at the very least represent) the planet. Are the Naboo a particularly short lived race like Star Trek's Ocampa?
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Have you considered different perspectives? Back in medieval Europe, a 14 year old girl who didn't have kids yet was getting "too old". – Theik Apr 2 '15 at 12:39
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@Gaius not canon? What are you talking about? – Alfredo Hernández Apr 2 '15 at 13:29
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Perhaps it's Nabooian culture to elect children because they're innocent, idealistic, and not yet politically corrupt. Incidentally, was Palpatine elected or appointed to the Senate? – Michael Itzoe Apr 2 '15 at 14:33
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One of the novels or comics (a novel IIRC) explained that a reform of the Naboo election system allowed for anyone to take the aptitude test. If you made X score or higher on the aptitude test, you were automatically entered into the elections. Can't make it an answer, however, since I don't remember where I saw that. – Omegacron Apr 2 '15 at 14:54
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@Omegacron The Nubians built the Naboo Royal Cruiser (although the Naboo applied the Chrome Bling of Royalty themselves), they have nothing to do with the planet Naboo - theirs is called Nubia (common misconception apparently - starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Nubia#Behind_the_scenes). – BMWurm Jun 20 '15 at 5:38
As the other answerer has stated, there have been many real world examples of young monarchs. It wouldn't be terribly hard to imagine that a fourteen year old could come to power in a monarchy if their parents died when they were still young.
However, Naboo, between 150-18 bby, was an elected monarchy. Rulers came into power via election, and were not directly thrust into power through their parents. Therefore, people chose to elect young monarchs (though not all were young). There are a couple of clues as to why:
• Rulers were selected for their intelligence and skill, rather than age or power. Anyone could run regardless of age.
• The most important factor of a ruler to many Nabooians was to be pure of heart and to have good intentions. I would imagine that many intelligent young people would lack the corruption of older rulers — but this may be because their naivety, rather than political intentions. During the clone wars TV show, we see many instances of Padmé trying to do what's right rather than what would make her politically popular. This would have been seen as respectable to the people of Naboo.
• Anyone could vote, regardless of age. There was an aptitude test open to any citizen. Pass it, and you would be allowed to vote. Maybe younger voters would be more willing to vote for younger leaders?
• There was a galaxy-wide program established to promote the education of young people for work in public services. The organization was known as the Legislative Youth Program and was held primarily on Naboo. While it was open to anyone in the galaxy, on some planets, including Naboo, enrolment was mandatory. All citizens of Naboo had to serve between the ages of twelve and twenty. So anyone could be a politically viable citizen at a young age. Members included a young Palpatine and Padmé.
All in all, Naboo's culture centered around creating a politically just and kind-hearted government. Electing young rulers was common because of the amount of training given to them was substantial enough to make them viable leaders. There was also a common belief that age ≠ political ability and the kind souls of youth also appealed to the people of Naboo.
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Without references to a galaxy far, far away in general and without knowledge of the constitution of Naboo and therefore also without any ideas as to what extend the Queen of Naboo rules without further advice (be it a regent or advisors) I'd like to point out that our history offers many examples of incredibly young monarchs. Most of them of course are under the regency until becoming of age but fourteen seems not completely uncommon.
Consider some of the Kings of Sicily which seem as important on earth as Naboo in the Galactic Republic:
• William II "the Good", became king aged eleven, under regency of his mother until declared adult at age sixteen
• Frederick I (AKA Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor), born 1194, became king at age two under ever changing regencies until declared of age in 1208 (aged 13 or 14)
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These are not elected officials. – Valorum Apr 2 '15 at 17:19
• Some monarchies, especially back in the old days had the tendency to elect their kings, though election is to be interpreted a little different from today as it involved huge bribes and doesn't exactly took a vote of the populace. However it shows that adolescents put into high-profile positions such as head of the state in a wide sense (whether elected or not) are not uncommon in history. – Ghanima Apr 2 '15 at 17:26
• I disagree. Comparing monarchical heads of state with democratic ones is like comparing apples with oranges. – Valorum Apr 2 '15 at 17:28
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And this is where I beg to differ. How a society decides to put their rulers into places of power (be it by democratic votes or by inheriting the throne) got nothing to do at what age they deem them fit for the task. – Ghanima Apr 2 '15 at 18:47
• I'm struggling to find any elected Head of State (ever) below the age of 24. Most countries have laws that prevent those below voting age from assuming office. – Valorum Apr 2 '15 at 19:16
Amidala is elected young by today's European standards, but at 14 years in medieval times she would be already adult. Sometimes ascending the throne required some kind of election (acceptance), which could be given even to very young children - only then a regent was designated. Looking for some historical examples I propose queen Richesa Elisabeth. Lost her mother at age of 3, at age of 8 her father was murdered (the only case of a king's murder in Poland's history), at age of 10 her fiancee died (maybe was poisoned), at age 19 she was already a double queen widow, first queen of Bohemia and Poland, later queen of Bohemia and Germany. Then at age of 19 her life shifted from politics to love, for 21 years she loved a count from Bohemia she could not marry (compare with forbidden marriage of Amidala and Anakin) because it would cause strong political disruption.
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Interesting piece of history. So there's real-world historical precedence, but can you tell us how or why that matters in the Star Wars universe? Has the creator/writer given proof that they were influenced by real-world history? – Möoz Feb 20 '17 at 1:03
Here is a short discussion of more or less elected rulers who used titles which are also commonly associated with hereditary monarchy.
From 27 BC to AD 1806 (1,833 years, and in most of them there were multiple Roman empires and multiple emperors) almost exactly every single person you will find on lists of Roman emperors, "Byzantine" emperors, and Holy Roman Emperors gained his legal right to his power by some type of election, whether by a large group such as the senate and the popular assembly at Rome and the Roman army, or by a small group such as the famous Seven Electors.
Of course almost all of them gained their actual power by inheritance, assassination, or armed rebellion, but their power was made legal by some process of more or less formal election by some group of persons. In a small proportion of cases there was no reigning emperor who wanted to make have his heir elected as the next emperor nor any successful usurper and the election was actually a free choice by the group who chose the next emperor.
And in many cases the group entitled to elect would rubber stamp the election of a child who was the heir of the reigning emperor.
What was good enough for the empire was good enough for lowly kingdoms.
In 1660-61 in the reign of Fredrick III Denmark (and Norway) became an absolute and hereditary monarch and the old practice of formally electing the king's oldest son became unnecessary.
The kings of Sweden were elected by the assemblies of Uppland at the stones of Mora until the election of Christian I in 1457.
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At the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II the ritual described her as being elected (technically the voting population elected the parliament that passed the Act of Succession in 1701 that decreed the rules by which she inherited the throne).
The throne of Poland was partially elective as far back as the ninth century AD according to legend and into historic times. After the last king of the Jagiellon Dynasty died in 1572, the Polish nobility agreed on the terms for royal elections in 1573 and from then on until 1791 were absolutely free to elect anyone, even to reject the previous king's chosen heir in favor of someone else.
The coronation or installation of almost every hereditary European monarch includes asking the e people represent if they accept him or her as their monarch, and the swearing-in of the monarch with an oath of office i similar to those of presidents and prime ministers. Thus there is at least a slight element of election and the monarch agrees to rule (or these days mostly just reign) according to various rules.
This is a holdover from the days when there often was more of a choice of monarch and when the monarchs actually ruled and so were required to vow to rule justly.
In 1873 and again in 1874 the Hawaiian legislature elected a new monarch, and the election in 1874 was much like an American presidential election with mudslinging accusations.
Christian bishops have usually been elected by some or all of the clergy and/or laypeople of their dioceses (though sometimes appointed by lay or clerical lords) and often had control of considerable wealth used to finance the church's work and do charity. Many bishops have often been powerful secular rulers. Even today the bishop of Urgel is one of the two co-princes of Andorra.
The Bishop of Rome, or the Pope, is an elected clergyman, and for centuries Popes claimed to be the rightful spiritual and secular rulers of the whole world as the Vicars of Christ, and for centuries the Popes were recognized as secular rulers of the Papal States and now of the Vatican City.
Many Buddhist Lama positions are filled by selecting a child who is considered to be the reincarnation of previous holders of he position. They include the Dalai Lamas, who ruled or reigned over most of Tibet from 1642 to 1912.
Himiko (c. 170-248 CE), the queen or chief priestess of the unidentified land of Yamataikoku in ancient Wa (Japan), sent several tribute missions to the court of Wei in China. A Chines official named Chang Cheng was on a mission to her court when she died.
It is believed that Iyo was actually named Toyo. Anyway, she was a shaman or queen whose selection as ruler and then confirmaiton by the Chinese envoy brought peace after a period of violence.
According to the epitome of Book LXXII of Cassius Dio's Roman History, about 170 CE in the Marcomannic wars of Marcus Aurelius:
Marcus Antoninus remained in Pannonia in order to give audience to the embassies of the barbarians; for many came to him at this time also. Some of them, under the leadership of Battarius, a boy twelve years old, promised an alliance; these received a gift of money and succeeded in restraining Tarbus, a neighbouring chieftain, who had come into Dacia and was demanding money and threatening to make war if he should fail to get it.
Since this was probably a few centuries before the first example of a child inheriting a German throne, I don't think that anyone has any idea how Battarius became the leader of his unspecified group.
It should be noted that the age of majority varied a lot and still varies a lot in different cultures and legal systems and that many child hereditary rulers attained their majorities at ages down to fourteen and even younger in some cases.
If a child hereditary ruler could reach his or her majority at age fourteen it is certainly possible that that kids as young as fourteen could have been sometimes elected to any elective positions there may have been in their societies.
Of course it seems to be many, many, times from common on Naboo than on Earth to elect a child to a position with a royal title.
It is possible that the Queens of Naboo don't usually control the government, especially as young as Amidala, but that queen Amidala was forced to take action during the emergency situation, just as some of the European monarchs had to take important actions during World war II.
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Historical precedent on Earth is an out-of-universe explanation. OP is looking for why it happened in-universe. – phantom42 Jun 20 '15 at 4:55
• phamtom42 - If the OP seeks totally top level canonical answers he should hope some future movie or tv series gives them. If the OP will accept lesser canonical answers he should seek all novels,comics, games, etc. which mention Naboo history to see if they offer any explanation. And just as alien societies should vary from far more capitalistic to far more socialistic than any on Earth, and so on for various issues, so should they vary on how common it is to elect kids to jobs having royal titles, with it being much commoner on a few worlds than on Earth. – M. A. Golding Jun 20 '15 at 5:41
Let me try another answer. Here is a quote about Empress of Outer Space (1965) by A. Bertram Chandler:
As I remember, the Empress had to be young, since she had to be beautiful, and back in 1965 it was hard to picture a beautiful woman much over 40. But not too young, since she had to have shown her competence - Empress Irene in particular was a former space captain, as she was over fond of reminding the officers of ships she traveled aboard.
Thus I think it was normal for an empress to be replaced - after a specific term of years, like a president, or after losing some equivalent of a vote of no confidence, like a prime minister can lose office before the end of her term - instead of serving until death.
As I remember, the empress was not elected directly by the people, as in most republics, but was selected or elected by an electoral college vaguely similar to those of the Holy Roman Empire and of the United States of America, and in the novel a member of the electoral college accompanied the empress and was authorized to veto her actions if necessary, and if she ignored the veto to call a electoral meeting to vote her out of office.
And it is possible that the planet Naboo had a similar system but the queens were usually elected at a much lower age than the space empresses in Empress of Outer Space.
Now think about the political system in medieval Japan, if it does not give too big a headache.
It is generally believed that the office of Japanese emperor evolved from a priest-king who was the chief shaman of a confederation of kings in the region of Yamato in prehistoric times. By the time of the first completely historic rulers after about 500 AD the confederation ruled most of south west Japan and the title of the supreme overlord was Okimi, or grand king.
Various Japanese rulers had been in contact with the Chinese court via tribute missions, etc. for centuries, and there was much Chinese cultural influence on Japan through Korea. So eventually the Japanese court decided to imitate the strong centralized government of China, and the Japanese ruler began to control the central government of the expanding Japanese realm. The Japanese monarchs began to call themselves Tenno, or heavenly king about 700 AD, and began to claim to be the rightful rulers of the world.
The Tenno ruled the expanding Japanese realm for centuries. Each new Tenno was usually the eldest son of the chief wife of his father, and it became the custom for a close relative of the head of the Fujiwara clan to be the chief wife of the Tenno. Whenever the Tenno was a minor, the head of the Fujiwara clan would usually be his uncle or maternal grandfather, and the logical choice to be his regent until he reached his majority. And the heads of the Fujiwara clan came to desire that the Tenno should be a minor as often as possible.
So it gradually became the custom for a new Tenno to be a child when selected by influential members of the court. Even a child could perform the ancient priestly rituals of a shaman king, while the Fujiwara regent would control the Chinese-style government in his name. After about a decade or so, as the Tenno matured, he would abdicate, and often have more power as a retired monarch and one of several powers behind the throne than when reigning.
Meanwhile new powers were growing up the newly acquired provinces of north east Japan. Groups of Samurai warriors led by powerful clans gradually usurped governmental powers in the provinces, and in 1185 established the first military government of all Japan. The rule of the Fujiwara regent acting in the name of the reigning child Tenno became limited to legalizing and approving and rubber stamping the actions of the military government and granting each new leader of it the title of shogun.
This went on during the rule of the Kamakura (1192-1333), Ashikaga (1336-1573), and Tokugawa (1603-1858) shogons. And from 1206 to 1333 the Hojo Regents ruled the shogunate in the name of child and/or powerless shoguns.
Remember that the Mongols invaded Japan in 1274 and 1281, and were defeated by local forces and the military government of the Hojo Regent Hojo Tokimune who reigned from 1268 to 1284.
Go-Uda (1267-1324) became Tenno in 1274 and abdicated in 1287. Thus he was 7 and 14 during the Mongol invasions. Suppose that in an alternate universe the Mongols were much more successful in 1281 and defeated the local forces and the forces the the Hojo regent and captured city after city. Go-Uda might have escaped from Kyoto when the Mongols captured the imperial capital and fled to join up with a military unit resisting the Mongols and more of less nominally and perhaps actually lead that unit in the fight against the Mongols.
And in an even more alternate universe there might have been a different young emperor when the Mongols invaded, possibly in different years, and he might possibly have been very precocious and led a successful resistance to the Mongols where his elders failed.
So this alternate universe historical situation would have been rather analogous to the reign of Queen Amidala of Naboo. Except that she said she was elected, and there were other young queens of Naboo later on in her life. So we might guess that the Queens of Naboo had the legal right to rule but usually just performed royal rites while older officials ruled in their names, like many child emperors of Japan.
And the child queens would be elected - by the whole population or a small group - at a young age and end their terms young enough to not try to do much ruling. And since the child queens had the legal right to rule and control the government, candidates had to be very precocious, intelligent, well educated, with a record of achievement, etc. - as well as being charming and beautiful young girls - just in case they did start controlling the government.
So perhaps the election of a Queen of Naboo might be like a junior beauty pagent, with the talent part, especially the intellectual talent part, being very important, and with the winner being crowned with the royal crown of Naboo!
So even if the Naboo were worried about relations with the Trade Federation when Amidala was elected queen, every one may have expected senior officials to handle dealing with the Trade Federation, and Amidala may have taken charge only when most of the senior officials and bureaucracy were killed or captured by Trade Federation forces during their surprise attack and invasion.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/24963 | I'm reading OWASP Top 10 - 2017 The Ten Most Critical Web Application Security Risks, and came across the following risk, under Broken Access Control vulnerabilities:
I think I understood what the risks are, but I failed to see how someone could achieve this. Is it possible to change JWT data after it is generated? Or am I missing the point here?
• Well the point of JWT is that it should not be possible to change it. But suppose that the application didn't check its integrity... – Ángel Sep 18 '19 at 21:04
• That's what I understood by the abusing JWT invalidation part, but im having a hard time understanding replaying or tampering. – Bruno Mazzardo Sep 18 '19 at 21:06
There are multiple options for JWT tampering. Some web applications do not validate the signature, or don't use it at all. That means an attacker can modify the contents at will, insert all kind of nasty payloads (XSS, SQLi), ignore the expiration time by using an arbitrary value for the timestamp, and so on.
Another way is called signature exclusion. JWTs have only two mandatory signing-algorithms that are mandatory to implement: "none" and "HS256". Inspect the JWT by Base64-decoding it:
If you see the algorithm being HS256, it is an indicator that the system may be using a default implementation (and probably even an outdated one). You can then replace the algorithm with "none", and remove the signature completely (the part after the last period).
If the server accepts the JWT like this, you can then start tampering the contents again, as explained above.
• What is a "default" implementation? How is using HS256 a sign that the webapp is using an outdated JWT library? What do you recommend implementers should use instead? – Sjoerd Sep 19 '19 at 10:05
• @Sjoerd Since HS256 is usually the default signing algorithm, if it is using a different algorithm that would mean it cannot be the default. All 'secured' implementations I have seen have been using RS256. HS256 can be bruteforced. And all cases of successful signature exclusion attacks that I've experienced (or found) have been using HS256. Also while we're at it I'd like to add (to my above answer) that JWTs are often not encrypted, so there shouldn't be any sensitive information (e.g. credentials) stored inside. – Martin Fürholz Sep 19 '19 at 12:17
JWT was made in such a way to prevent what you are saying(token signing).Infact if you use an updated JWT library you can prevent token tampering.Most of JWT related vulnerability stems from using a vulnerable library trusting the header part which specifies the algorithm being used.You could base64 decode and tamper it to use the NONE algorithm and strip away the signature.You could also try and break the "secret" used in the HS256 and then sign the tokens yourself(This is only possible if the secret used has low entropy). There is another attack where if an attacker can obtain the public key he can change the algorithm from RS256 to HS256 then sign the token using public key.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/24964 | The gist of openssh deprecates dss-keys appears to be:
"In light of recently discovered vulnerabilities openssh deprecates DSA keys."
Does this mean I should generally consider DSA keys deprecated? The "upsteam announcement" linked to gives little more information, and I can't seem to find anything else about "recently discovered vulnerabilities".
OpenSSH's decision appears to be motivated by some sort of confusion that originates from their own code base; see this answer for an analysis.
In SSH, DSA keys are deprecated because the people who get to decide what is supported and what is not (the OpenSSH developers) said so.
On a more general basis, there is no newly discovered vulnerability on DSA. There are issues related to key sizes, which were known and keep being known; basically, a DSA Key in a 1024-bit modulus is not substantially stronger than a RSA key with a 1024-bit modulus, so if the latter is to be avoided, so is the former. The current versions of the DSA standard allows the modulus to have size 1024, 2048 or 3072 bits. If you use DSA then you will want to make the modulus size 2048 bits (or 3072 bits if you want to spend more CPU). See this site for lots of data on estimating strength based on key length.
However, one may note that there is little reason to prefer DSA over its elliptic-curve version ECDSA: ECDSA public keys are shorter (this saves on network bandwidth) and the ECDSA version is less computationally intensive (this saves on CPU). While this does not mean that "DSA is deprecated", this still implies that ECDSA is preferable, unless it cannot be used due to interoperability issues with legacy systems. Note that the same kind of interoperability issues may prevent you from using a 2048-bit DSA modulus.
It is a matter of implementation of DSA as Thomas Pornin stated 2 years ago in Disabling authentication via DSA keys in OpenSSH?:
There has been badly made implementations of DSA or ECDSA; however, there has also been badly made implementations of RSA, and in some case it resulted in RSA key leakage (e.g. Bleichenbacher's attack).
It is a matter of implementation in Debian's openssl package that indirectly affects OpenSSH.
From CVE-2008-0166:
Further reading:
DSA-1571-1 openssl -- predictable random number generator
• Minor correction to Thomas: Bleichenbacher's attack doesn't actually leak keys. It does allow attackers to recover plaintexts, which is why we want keys in the first place, but it doesn't actually leak the key values. – poncho Jun 28 '18 at 13:28
• Hi @poncho I am a bit rusty in the PKCS domain, but I believe Bleichenbacher mentions in the paper (link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007%2FBFb0055716.pdf) that keys may be leaked if "the attack is performed in a client-server environment, where both parties use the message ... to generate session keys, we might be able to find this message by exhaustive search" – qneill Jun 14 '19 at 21:55
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@qneill: I have no idea what I was thinking when I made the comment; Bleichenbacher has two well-known attacks with his name on it; obviously, the context was his attack on DSA (with biased random number generation) - for some reason, I had thought of his attack on RSA with PKCS #1 encryption padding... – poncho Jun 14 '19 at 23:22
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/24967 | Seeking Alpha
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A lot has been changing at Alibaba in the past two years, above and beyond the headline GMV metric.
In China, wet markets, the Asian equivalent of farmers markets that sell fresh meat and produce, still account for more than 70% of the country's grocery sector.
By Justin Leverenz, Team Leader and Senior Portfolio Manager, Bhavtosh Vajpayee, CFA, Director, Equity Research
China’s experiments in shopping have moved into high gear. The world needs to pay attention.
We believe China is ground zero for the future of retail and the West will learn from and adapt the experiments that are already moving to scale in the East.
Consider Alibaba (NYSE:BABA), the Chinese Internet giant whose wide-ranging businesses span e-commerce, offline retail, fintech, online video, maps and browsers, and artificial intelligence. By end of its latest fiscal year (March 2019), Alibaba's business model appeared to have reached peak fruition, as the company took pole position as the world's largest e-commerce platform with a GMV (gross merchandise value) of over US$850 billion (a factor of well over 2x Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN), which moved some $300 billion of goods in calendar year 2018), but was also third in digital advertising, just behind Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) (NASDAQ:GOOGL) and Facebook (NASDAQ:FB). What could possibly change?
Experiments in retail
A lot has been changing at Alibaba in the past two years, above and beyond the headline GMV metric. Alibaba's experiments in what it calls "new retail" have gained a scale and urgency scarcely imagined a year ago. Over 1.3 million of China's 6 million mom and pop stores have signed up for the company's Lingshoutong initiative.1 Lingshoutong refits the shops, supplies them directly using Alibaba's logistics channel, aggregates offline and online data, and extracts a monthly commitment of throughput in return.
Additionally, Alibaba's high-tech food/grocery retail store concept, known as Hema, is expanding quickly. Figure 1. These outlets serve as walk-in restaurants, food and grocery purchase points, and warehouses for online delivery (within 30 minutes in a three-kilometer radius) - all at the same time. There are now 170 Hema stores in operation (as of September 2019), with two being added each week. Already, Hemastores in operation for over 18 months are reporting revenues of 50,000 renminbi per square meter, up to five times what traditional offline stores can generate. Sixty percent of Hema's sales are through the online delivery channel, making the stores far more productive, for far more hours of the day, than pure offline stores.2
Figure 1: Hema's footprint is expanding rapidly
Sources: Alibaba quarterly disclosures.
Unsurprisingly, China seems uniquely ready to adopt the Hema concept. Organized channels for groceries are currently underdeveloped compared to those in the United States, where over 90% of groceries already pass through established super/hypermarkets. In China, wet markets, the Asian equivalent of farmers markets that sell fresh meat and produce, still account for more than 70% of the country's grocery sector. This signifies the boundless potential for Hema as it keeps on driving the new retail experience involving online and offline integration. Figure 2.
Figure 2: How China shops for food versus the United States
Ambitions are also rising at the recently acquired, an online food delivery platform. Not content with its over 200 million user base, is now eyeing the nearly 800 million e-commerce user base of Taobao and Tmall, another Alibaba e-commerce platform, and the 900 million users of Alipay, Alibaba's digital payments platform, to substantially expand its reach.4
Retail space owned by Intime Retail - now a part of Alibaba - is being used for experimental "Tmall pop-up stores," which allows consumers to walk in, sample inventory, access a large apparel collection on giant touchscreens within the store, pay with Alipay, and choose self-pickup or home delivery. Alibaba also has a furniture store that uses augmented and virtual reality to show consumers how an item will look in their homes. And retail stores owned by Sun Art Retail, in which Alibaba has a 31% stake, are dedicating space to products directly sourced from Tmall. These products can be sampled with an eye to the online purchasing habits of people in the immediate vicinity of the store - tastes the offline store may not have been aware of before, but known to Alibaba via its e-commerce operations. Greasing the wheels of this transformation is a planned logistics investment of $15 billion over five years.5
The need for a retail transformation
Is there a method to this cornucopia of initiatives? Alibaba's new long-term target to transition from working with 10 million small and medium enterprises (SMEs) to 10 million profitable SMEs provides a clue.6 As e-commerce penetration rises to nearly 20% in China,7 the existing silos of offline and online retail raise vital questions: Are brands and merchants more profitable, or less, as e-commerce grows larger? Does Alibaba's rising "take rate" - the percentage of GMV that flows into revenues-come at the expense of its merchants' profitability, or is everyone truly better off - do merchants enjoy better profitability even as Alibaba raises its own monetization?
These questions create a fundamental need to transform the way retail works. Analysis suggests that between 2011 and 2016, when e-commerce grew dramatically in China, selling, general, and administrative (SG&A) costs rose significantly for several retail categories as they tried to keep up. Figure 3. Specifically, consumer appliances saw their SG&A costs rise 340 basis points, apparel saw a near 500 basis point rise, and personal care spent 80 basis points more.8 These rising costs reflect the parallel universes that exist today: offline retail channels, demand management, space planning, supply chains, and consumer analytics have little in common with e-commerce. Increasingly, brands and merchants seem to be running two businesses for the same product, which unsurprisingly leads to cost inflation.
Exhibit 3: Across categories, SG&A costs have risen with sales
Points of friction are likely
Not all will be smooth, of course. The real world possesses far more points of friction than online businesses traditionally encounter. Offline or omnichannel initiatives address a target market that is five times larger than online retail, but one-fifth as profitable, or even less so in the initial years after they're introduced.9 Even as the strategic rationale for ongoing initiatives is inescapable, reported profitability is likely to head downward and stay volatile. Indeed, fundamental questions linger. What shall we consider GMV in an omnichannel world? Will walking into a Hema store be considered "offline," while ordering the same food via the app be considered "online"?
Elsewhere, the expectations of consumers and merchants will remain fluid, exposing new threats and opportunities. Consider Pinduoduo (NASDAQ:PDD). Founded in 2015, PDD has grown quickly to become China's third-largest e-commerce platform and has attracted 430 million annual active buyers to its unique model of social commerce, a group-buying model that weaponizes social networks such as Tencent's (OTCPK:TCEHY) WeChat to propagate offers. PDD's rise offers inescapable proof that there are still unmet consumer needs, despite everything we have already seen in China. And merchants need more too - more analytics, higher returns on their ad spends, and more hand-holding with their supply chain and IT systems. There are companies seeking to address these needs: Meituan (MEIT), for example, is not just China's largest food delivery and restaurant booking platform, it also provides restaurant management software that is helping to cement its lead. Elsewhere, ByteDance (BDNCE) - the owner of the vital Douyin short-video platform in China (known as Tik Tok internationally) does not seem contend with entertainment alone and the firm is rapidly moving into shopping. As of now, its short-video content synchronizes into shopping opportunities into Alibaba, JD (NASDAQ:JD) and others, but it may expand its own marketplace too, if industry chatter is to be believed.
1. Source: Alibaba presentations, 2019 Investor Day, Sep, 2019.
2. Source: Alibaba quarterly disclosures.
3. Source: Alibaba company reports.
4. Source: Alibaba company reports.
5. Source: Alibaba company reports.
6. Source: Alibaba company reports.
7. Source: China's National Bureau of Statistics, 2017 penetration had reached the high teens.
8. Source: Bernstein analysis.
9. Note: Assuming a 5% offline retail profitability at scale.
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The Future of E-Commerce and Retail Will Be Written in China by Invesco US
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/24972 | It appears overnight our Master RDS mysql server went offline for 3-4 minutes. When it came back online the replication was broken.
On the slave, issuing SHOW SLAVE STATUS\G;
In AWS monitoring, slave lag shows "-1.0".
Is there a way to get the slave replication restarted, or should I just create a new slave?
There's really no harm in just spooling up a new slave, so I'd go that route.
• I am in this situation and want to replace the malfunctioning replica. The problem is the hostname: can I rename the old replica to something, and then rename the new one to the old one's name, and keep the same hostname as before? Is there anything I need to be aware of? Can something go terribly wrong? – FrontierPsycho Jun 17 '15 at 14:30
• @FrontierPsycho You can promote a replica to master, but I don't think you can promote a replica to another replica's spot. We use DNS for this - our master is db.internal.example.com, our read-replica is read-db.internal.example.com, so switching replicas is just a Route53 record change. – ceejayoz Jun 17 '15 at 14:33
• That's a better way to do it, although we're using the internal RDS hostname currently, and I'd like to avoid having to change that everywhere it's used. I guess I'll try it and see. – FrontierPsycho Jun 17 '15 at 14:54
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/24975 | I am migrating a sharepoint solution from Sharepoint 2010 to 2013, and so far everything works, but I'm stuck at one specific problem. In some lists, the user has the possibility to open an editor for a list item. This opens a modal dialog with some inputfields and some buttons. The masterpage is not shown in these dialogs, but that is how it's supposed to be, so no problem so far. There is however one aspx page that contains more than one asp panel, and in this modal dialog the master page layout is visible. I am not allowed to post any of my code but the general structure of these layout pages is:
A Redirect.aspx page with:
Where another aspx page is loaded in. This aspx page is mostly a Panel with a table in it.
I don't expect anyone to solve my specific problem, but I'm out of ideas where to look for the issue.
I am using the default master page by the way, so I added no custom code to the masterpage.
I'm using SP15ModalDialog.js to show a poll in a dialog. Maybe this will help you a little bit.
I uploaded the .js in my StyleLibrary and in my page layout I added into the PlaceHolderMain something like that:
<script type="text/javascript" src="/Style Library/SP15ModalDialog.js"></script>
<table width="100%" class="ms-rteTable-0" cellspacing="0" style="height: 300px;">
<tr class="ms-rteTableEvenRow-0">
<td class="ms-rteTableEvenCol-0" colspan="1" style="width: 1%; height: 336px;">
<td class="ms-rteTableOddCol-0" style="width: 33.33%; height: 336px;">
<font class="ms-rteFontSize-3">
<strong>Want more? </strong></em></font></p>
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<font class="ms-rteFontSize-3">
<strong>Help us
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/24976 | What Does Baptism Mean?
Baptism really isn’t a difficult topic, but it’s become difficult by all the history, tradition and baggage associated with the different interpretations of this ordinance. It’s a beautiful ordinance, and it’s too bad there’s so much misunderstanding about it!
Here’s the bottom line; baptism doesn’t “do” anything to you or for you. It’s a picture of what the triune God (Father, Son and Spirit) has already done in a believer’s life. This means it’s only for repentant, professing believers – not infants.
There are good reasons why the Baptist position on baptism is correct, but that’s not my goal, here. Instead, I just want to look at what baptism means. What significance does baptism have? What does it mean? What spiritual truth does it convey? How does it convey this truth?
One good place to go is the Book of Romans.
In Romans 5, the Apostle Paul gives us the classic comparison between Adam and Christ; the two great representatives for humanity (Rom 5:18). We’re born belonging in Adam’s camp; the first man who disobeyed God and brought ruin to creation and to himself. We’re all fruit from the poisonous tree that is Adam; his disobedience was the fountainhead that poisoned the well, and that’s why you and I are born as sinful people who belong to Satan, not God. As Paul wrote, Christ’s perfect life and sacrificial death leads to justification and eternal life for everyone who repents and believes – which is what Paul explains next (Rom 5:19-21).
With that context in place, we now turn to our passage. Paul writes:
What shall we say then? Are we to continue in sin that grace may abound (Rom 6:1)?
Should believers continue to sin and live unholy lives, in rebellion against God and His Word? If our disobedience results in God extending grace enough to cover it all, then should we keep on sinning, so God keeps extending grace?
Implicitly, the question becomes:
1. if God always responds with grace to our crimes,
2. then, if you’re a Christian,
3. does it even matter if you try to live a holy life?
What Paul is trying to teach people to avoid is an attitude that says, “do what you want; you can just repent later!”
By no means! How can we who died to sin still live in it (Rom 6:2)?
This is Paul’s point – you should want to serve God with everything you have, because you love Him:
• You’ve been set free from sin – so why should you go back?
• You’ve been transferred from the kingdom of darkness to the kingdom of his beloved son, through whom you have redemption and the forgiveness of sins (Col 1:13) – so why should you go voluntarily go back to that life?
There’s been an internal, objective change in your identity with your salvation. When the prophet Ezekiel wrote about the New Covenant (Ezek 36:22f), he spoke about the Lord giving you a new heart, a new spirit, and cleansing you from all uncleanness, and the Holy Spirit dwelling within you to align your heart, soul and mind to want to please God, instead of your former master.
This doesn’t mean moral perfection, but it does mean a new moral orientation of your heart and mind borne out of love for God, based on what He did in saving you from yourself.
So, if that’s the case (and it is), how can you claim the name of Christ and use this foolish excuse as a cloak for deliberate sin? Paul says you can’t – it doesn’t make sense. This sets the stage for the discussion of baptism.
Here’s the point; believer’s baptism is an object lesson and picture of a spiritual reality. It pictures something that God has already done to you. As you go into the water, it pictures your old person is dead and gone. As you come out of the water, it represents that you’re a new person in Christ, with a new heart, soul and mind oriented towards God (i.e. “born again,” Jn 3).
This is Paul’s point in the next verses; he uses believer’s baptism as a figurative metaphor to explain why a professing Christian can’t live a life of deliberate wickedness.
Do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death (Rom 6:3)?
Paul is talking about union with Christ, which means a transfer of ownership.[1] If you’ve been baptized into union with Christ, then the title deed to your soul changed hands from Satan to God. You belong to God, now! He’s adopted you into His family.
And, if that happened, then you were baptized into a relationship with His death, too. Jesus died to atone for your sins and set you free from Satan. That means your old way of life should be dead to you because you’re a new person, with a new heart, a new spirit, and energized by a new will and a love for God. These are spiritual realities, and believer’s baptism is a picture of all this.
Follow Paul’s chain of thought:
1. Jesus died for your sins, in your place, to set you free from a hole you’ll never dig yourself out of.
2. You’ve been spiritually brought into union and relationship with Him, which means you belong to God now.
3. That means you should count the “old you,” with all its sinful thoughts, intents, and slavery to sin, as dead and gone, with a stake through its heart.
What does this mean for you? It means Christ died to put sin to death, then came back to new life. So, this means your sins have been put to death, and you should act like it by walking in newness of life, too!
Paul repeats the same thing for emphasis:
If you’re a Christian, you’ve been united with Christ in His death for sin. So, you should consider yourself as dead to sins, because you’ve been spiritually “born again.” You’ll be united with Christ by resurrection in the last days; this mortal life is just the beginning of eternity. So, implicitly, you should live like you actually love Him now, while you wait!
This is what believer’s baptism pictures; a spiritual miracle God already did for you that, by this ordinance, you show and tell the world about.
• Under the water: Your old person is dead and gone. God brought you into union and a relationship with Christ’s death, and the victory it brought over sin.
• Out of the water: You’re a new person! You’ve been born again!
I made these pictures for a children’s lesson on baptism several years ago, but they get the point across:
We know that our old self was crucified with him in order that the body of sin might be brought to nothing, so that we would no longer be enslaved to sin (Rom 6:6).
Jesus died to save you from yourself, and set you free from Satan’s grasp. He was crucified and died to atone for your sins. God has joined you to Him, in a union and relationship, and applied Jesus’ atonement for sins to your account. As a result, you’re not enslaved to sin anymore! So (implicitly), the question is – why would a Christian ever live a life of deliberate and unrepentant wickedness?
He wouldn’t. He shouldn’t. If you are, you should stop, or you probably don’t belong to Christ.
For one who has died has been set free from sin (Rom 6:7).
This is precious, but the opposite is also true! If you haven’t put your old person to death by repenting and believing in Christ, then you haven’t been set free from sin – you’re still a slave to sin.
Christ died for our sins, then rose again. When God brings you into union and relationship with Christ, He applies what Christ did to your account. Death had no dominion over Christ, because He’s sinless. The penalty of death never applied to Him. If you’re a Christian, then death doesn’t apply to you either, in a final sense, because God has applied Christ’s work to your account.
If that’s the case (and, if you’re a Christian, it is the case), then why would a Christian ever deliberately live a life of service to sin, selfishness, and unrepentant rebellion against God, His word, and His Son Jesus Christ? Of course, a Christian wouldn’t.
Believer’s baptism is a simple picture of a spiritual reality because it shows and tells about this commitment. It’s where a Christian declares:
• I AM dead to sin, and alive to God through Christ Jesus – and this is a picture of it!
• God washed my sins away and this is a picture of it!
• My old person is dead and gone, and I’m a new person in relationship with Jesus Christ – and this is a picture of it!
• The Father chose me, the Son lived, died and rose again for me, and the Spirit converted me – and this is a picture of the result!
I’ll end our discussion with Paul’s next words:
Believer’s baptism is a picture of a spiritual reality, and it signifies a commitment to Christ, because:
the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation for all people, training us to renounce ungodliness and worldly passions, and to live selfcontrolled, upright, and godly lives in the present age, waiting for our blessed hope, the appearing of the glory of our great God and Savior Jesus Christ, who gave himself for us to redeem us from all lawlessness and to purify for himself a people for his own possession who are zealous for good works (Titus 2:11-14).
That’s the commitment a Christian makes, in baptism. That’s what baptism pictures and signifies. It’s important.
1 For a defense of this “in union with” view, see (1) Murray J. Harris, Prepositions and Theology in the Greek New Testament (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2012), 228-229, (2) James D.G. Dunn, Romans 1-8, in WBC (Waco: Word, 1988), 311-213, (3) John Murray, The Epistle to the Romans, in NICNT, combined ed. (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1968), 213-215, (4) Douglas J. Moo, The Epistle to the Romans, in NICNT (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1996), 359-360 and (5) Leon Morris, The Epistle to the Romans, in PNTC (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1988), 246-247.
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Aaron Blumer's picture
Thanks for this. Interesting view on "union." I'll have to check it out.
Somewhere I heard and saw a couple of pastors work some phrasing into their baptisms. And I liked how it communicated. So when I began baptizing believers in my ministry I worked it in.
When I lower them into the water, I say "buried in the likeness of His death," then as they come up, "raised in the likeness of his resurrection." Then I say "even so, walk in newness of life."
I see baptism as declaration of a message that includes union with Christ, newness of life, and also cleansing.
TylerR's picture
I use that wording when I baptize folks. I saw it modeled by one of my pastors while I was in the service, and I copied it.
ScottS's picture
Overall good article. One area that was stated, but not stressed as much as I think was needed, is that it is through baptism that Christians publicly identify with Christ's saving work for them. This relates to the question you ask of "What significance does baptism have?" You touch on this twice, before bullet points, in some of your wording:
By this ordinance, you show and tell the world about ...
Believer's baptism is ... where a Christian declares ...
But I believe in Romans 6, that public identification through baptism is also part of the grounds for why a Christian ought to live as if already resurrected (i.e. as if already perfected in sinlessness with a resurrected body and renewed spirit, which is another key point in the passage). Paul is saying that by baptism you have identified yourself publicly with Christ's death, but so also realize you have identified yourself publicly to follow him in His resurrection (as you will eventually do in reality), and so walk in that sinless way even before that resurrection time. So God, through Paul, is setting up these two parallels:
1. God accounts (λογίζομαι) believers righteous now by their faith (Rom 4:3, 5, 6, 9, 10, 11, 22, 23, 24), because with their having faith, they will at their resurrection be perfected in being made righteous (Rom 5:19, 2 Cor 5:21; cf. Gal 5:5). God's accounting is grounded in His future work for believers to make them righteous.
2. Likewise, God commands (through Paul here) that believers are to account (imperative of λογίζομαι) themselves now "dead indeed to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus" (Rom 6:11), for in identifying with the death, they have identified with the resurrection; and because of their having faith, they will be sinless in the resurrected state, having already had their spirits cleansed (Act 10:15, 1 Cor 6:11, Eph 5:26, Heb 9:14, 2 Pet 1:9, 1 Jn 1:7, 9, Rev 1:5) and renewed (Jn 3:3, 2 Cor 4:16, Col 3:10, Tit 3:5), and the sinful flesh (Rom 6:6-7; 7:5, 18, 25; 8:3) then disposed of as well with the new body (Rom 8:23, 1 Cor 15:42, 2 Cor 5:1-4, Phil 3:21). God's calling for believers to account ourselves as such is grounded in His future work for believers to make them "sin-free" and have eternal life.
(Also compare Phil 3:9-11.) And of course, the grounding in the truth of what will be, all comes about by that future reality being grounded in the work Christ has done. This work is why God can account His own level of righteousness (the standard) to believers, and why God can guarantee the resurrection as freedom from the penalty He imposed on sin of death for those that have been cleansed from such sin.
So baptism identifies publicly, and so one ought to be living publicly in alignment with that identification, both as dead and as alive.
Scott Smith, Ph.D.
TylerR's picture
Thanks. This article is based on sermon notes from a recent message I gave at church, on the occasion of a new Christian's baptism. I emphasized public declaration much more strongly in my sermon than I did in the notes, which became the article!
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/24998 | Pat Finn
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Pat Finn
Patrick Finn
(1965-07-31) July 31, 1965 (age 54)
OccupationActor, comedian
Patrick "Pat" Finn (born July 31, 1965[1]) is an American actor and comedian. He has had several recurring roles in television series, such as Murphy Brown and Ed.[2] He played Santa Claus in Santa Paws 2: The Santa Pups.
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1. 1.0 1.1 "Pat Finn (1) Bio Biography". TV Rage. Retrieved 2 February 2013.
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