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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/35550 | Imagine There’s No Islam
As Syrian Heart-Eating Rebelcivilized people, we are naturally loathe to ban any ideology from acceptability, but there are times when we simply must do so in order to remain civilized, and World War II gives us two excellent examples of this. After World War II, the Nazi Party (including its emblems and much of its ideology) was outlawed in Germany, since it was correctly recognized as being responsible for hideous and destructive behavior on a grand scale. And as a condition of surrender, the Japanese Emperor Hirohito renounced his claim to divinity, which had been a driving force for so much of the devastation caused by Japan before and during the war. We must not give an ideology a pass simply because it’s a religious ideology.
A tree is recognized by its fruit, and when we taste the fruit of Islam we find it to be regressive, brutal, disingenuous and intolerant, bent solely upon seeing the planet succumb to a one-world caliphate under which all dissent is stifled and is ultimately punishable by death. When stronger than its neighbors, Islamia has always tended to invade, bringing with it three options: conversion, slavery or death. When weaker than its neighbors, Islamia has always infiltrated through the Religion of Peace colonization efforts until it reaches critical mass, after which it demands its way by force or subjugation.
Church BurningFurthermore, Islamia is the poorest of national neighbors, for wherever it exists next to non-Islam there is a bloody border which must be guarded unceasingly by those on the other side. And when that border is breached, all that existed before Islam will be systematically destroyed and dismantled, and it will not go well with those minorities who resist the forced conversion. How are the Hindus doing is Pakistan, the Zoroastrians doing in Iran, the Christians doing in Syria and Iraq, and the Jews doing in Egypt?
There have been more than 21,500 terror attacks committed in the name of Islam since that fateful day of September 11, 2001, and today in Syria the world is faced with the choice of either supporting the bloody Assad regime or the heart-eating cannibals of Al Qaeda who love flying planes into buildings and blowing kids to pieces. Meanwhile, in Egypt the Muslim Brotherhood is enjoying its version of the Nazi’s Kristallnacht, committing wholesale and virtually unhindered murder, rape, destruction and mayhem upon the Coptic Christian minority.
Human trafficking, pedophilia and child-bride-taking all thrive behind the Islamic Curtain, and black, non-Islamic Africa is being subjected to an astonishing degree of genocide, murder, slavery, rape and dispossession at the hands of Arab and African Muslims, while a silent world and its cameras look the other way.
I will be the first to acknowledge that there are noble Muslims upon Earth, but let us be honest enough to admit that Islam is little more than the MS-13 cartel of the religious world. It deserves no place at the table of rational ideas, and we had best stand up and take note of this. Islam does not play well with others, and it will strangle all dissenting ideologies when given the chance. Fourteen centuries must be allowed to teach us something. If, that is, we’re still capable of learning.
9 thoughts on “Imagine There’s No Islam
1. Barry when I told you that (in my opinion) islam is not a religion, you corrected me sighting the fact that it does in fact fit the definition of a religion. How does a people (grammar) remove it from their midst. A constitutional amendment?
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It would have to be up to each nation as to how to handle such an issue in order to ensure its survival as non-Islamic, whereas I’m trying to speak generally in terms of Western civilization. Things need to start with an honest and blunt discussion of why Islam has proven itself incompatible with all other forms of thought, and then move on to the inherent dangers of multiculturalism (for any culture – including Islam). No people should be bound to honor any ideology that will eventually subjugate or destroy them. Period.
When someone is bent upon your national destruction, you separate, build a fence and then patrol. It’s not comfortable, but it beats the alternative. Especially for our grandkids.
2. If you judge others you have no time to “love” them… and we are called to love ….hard? Well…He loves us, right?
• I’m confused – does this mean you would’ve held Hitler’s hand as he gave you a tour of Auschwitz? Your idea of love would require you not to criticize a genocidal ideology?
3. I fear it is too late to build a “Muslim fence” around the United States. It is too bad that we did not have the foresight and backbone of Japan; there are no Muslims there, at least not knowingly.
4. Renee,
I think there is a failure to understand how much a muslim hates anyone who is not muslim. (yes I am not capitalizing that on purpose) I will not go into my history in dealing with the religion.
If we think that a Muslim would not do something horrible (think the most vile, awful, things you have ever seen on a movie) to us in a instant because we
1. are not muslim
2. not male
3. an American
4. are white. (yes most muslims are scared of black folks)
5. are a Christian
Wait a second, I just described a sexist, oppressive, racist organization. Love? Peace?
I am sure someone will apply all these labels to me.
Either way understand they want conversion or death.
5. Barry are you familiar with Bill Warner @ Dean
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/35555 | Vertebrates and invertebrates: differences and similarities
The planet earth has a great biological Diversity, which translates into a large number of living beings that populate different ecosystems and have genetic differences, which allows very varied life forms. In order to study and understand animals better, we humans have developed different classification forms, for example based on food, forms of reproduction or structure. The classification of animals according to their structure separate those who have spine from those who do not.
In this Animal Expert article we will explain in detail what vertebrate animals are, what invertebrate animals are and we will offer you a list with examples of vertebrate and invertebrate animals so that you know explain the differences of vertebrate and invertebrate animals for primary school children, for example. Do you want to know everything about their differences or know some curiosities? Take note!
What are vertebrate animals?
The Vertebrate animals or "Vertebrata"They are a diverse group of animals that have a backbone or spine, composed of vertebrae. The skeleton of vertebrate animals can be bony or cartilaginous and thanks to its ease of fossilization it has been key to be able to study the evolution of animals on planet earth.
The vertebrae They are highly specialized bones that, together, form the spine. The function of the spine is to protect and support the spinal cord, as well as connect it to the nervous system. Vertebrate animals are characterized by having bilateral symmetry and possessing a skull that protects the brain.
The body of vertebrate animals is divided into three zones: head, trunk and limbsIn addition, some species also have a tail. Another characteristic to highlight of vertebrate animals is sexual differentiation, which in some cases may be more evident than in others. In total, it is estimated that there are more than 62,000 species of vertebrate animals.
Vertebrate animals
The vertebrates they are all those animals that possess spine or spine. Vertebrates began as water animals, but have evolved to be present in numerous habitats. The 5 classes of vertebrates that exist are the following:
Invertebrate animals
On the other hand the invertebrates they are animals that they have neither articulated internal skeleton nor spine. They are very numerous, with 95% of the animal species belonging to this group. Their large number means they have more classes than vertebrates, these classes being the following:
Insects and other invertebrates in danger
In Chile, very few insects have conservation problems. However, there is a species that has been in Vulnerable state since 2006 and is the dragonfly Phyllopetalia excrescens. This is endemic to central Chile, the Metropolitan Regions and Maule. Its conservation status is due to the high degradation of its habitat due to agricultural, mining and construction activities.
There are also other threatened species such as the Mother of the Snake (Acanthinodera cummingi) and the Flying Deer (Chiasognathus Grantti). These two species are large, so they are striking and people catch them as ornaments or other purposes (sale). As for the rest of the invertebrates, the list is much longer.
Some of the species that are in danger of extinction are: the crabs Aegla papudo, Aegla laevis laevis and Aegla spectabilis, the shrimp Virilastacus rucapihuelensis, the crab Lithodes antarctica and the crab Paralomis granulosa.
In Vulnerable state they are: the shrimp Cryphiops caementarius, Samastacus spinifrons, Parastacus pugnax, Parastacus nicoleti and the crabs Aegla laevis talcahuano, Aegla bahamondei, Aegla cholchol, Aegla manni, Aegla hueicollensfi and Aegla alacalui. Among the mollusks, the best known case is that of Loco (Concholepas concholepas), which is in danger of extinction, since its exploitation has been very intense in recent years and for this reason constant vedas are applied.
What are invertebrate animals?
The Invertebrate animals or "Invertebrata"they are a group of animals that They are characterized by not having vertebrae, spine or articulated internal skeleton. They are usually small and most have an external skeleton that protects them, known as exoskeleton, which can be shown in the form of a shell or shell among others.
As a curiosity we must add that invertebrate animals they represent 95% of all species of animals of planet earth and that, unlike vertebrate animals, do not have the ability to colonize or adapt.
Examples of invertebrate animals
What else can we add from invertebrate animals? We can highlight that they exist 6 main groups: arthropods, molluscs, worms (flatworms, nematodes and annelids), echinoderms (sea urchins and starfish), cnidarians (jellyfish and corals) and porifers (better known as sponges).
Below we will show you a list with examples and names of more than 10 invertebrate animals:
• Octopus
• Mosquito
• Bee
• Ant
• Spider
• jellyfish
• Sea urchin
• Snail
• Coral
• Ground slug
• Oyster
• Mussel
• Giant squid
• Scorpion
• Scorpion
• Dragon-fly
• Praying mantis
• Crab
• Locust
• Irons
• Grasshopper
• Fly
• Butterfly
• Stick insect
If you want to read more articles similar to Examples of vertebrate and invertebrate animals, we recommend that you enter our Curiosities section of the animal world. |
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Posts tagged ‘character development’
Reveal your characters through their circle of friends
I’ll share my experiment with you, but first a bit about how to use the friendship circle. Read more
How to use the six basic human needs to make your characters come to life, part 1
The key to writing strong, believable characters is to really know and understand your characters as if they’re living, breathing human beings.
You want to know your character’s background, what makes them tick, what has happened to them to make them who they are today, what they dream about for the future, and more.
You need to know all this even if it’s not in your story. I keep separate journals for each of my main characters so I can write about them and write from their point of view.
One tool that has helped me delve deeper into my characters’ motivations comes from human needs psychology which has defined six basic human needs.
Motivational speaker Tony Robbins has written a great article on these needs, “Tony Robbins: 6 Basic Needs that Make us Tick.” The six needs are: Read more
Using your grief and other emotions to deepen your characters
Here are a few exercises that have helped me:
1. Have an open mind.
Draw on personal pain to write believable characters
I started reading a new paranormal novel last month that I had high hopes for based on how quickly and easily the first few chapters hooked me. The plot was refreshing, unique, and action-filled from the beginning. Interesting, quirky characters reeled me in. But it quickly went downhill from there.
I’m the type of reader who usually doesn’t give up on a book. I always have faith that the author will pull out of the temporary bog and finish, if not strong, at least well. I have only given up on two books in my life. My new paranormal novel was the third.
What went wrong? Read more
The importance of place for writers and our characters
All This Blue
At the casino hotel, I set up my computer
near the stone fireplace while you arrange
candles on the mantel, tease the barkeep
over club soda and bitters.
At Barnes and Noble, I finger pages
of new fiction while you devour books
on everything from Android apps
to Taoist secrets of love.
At the coffee shop, I scribble poems
about endings, not realizing these words
are the start of a long grief, while you read
quantum physics and chat with local police
in pressed blue uniforms.
Winters, we eat endless bowls of soup
at the Poulsbohemian Coffeehouse.
Summers, we lounge against Fay Bainbridge
driftwood, watch Salsbury Point fishermen.
After you die, I try go back
to our places. But I cannot find you
in the park, the clouds, or the sea.
I cannot find you in fireplace flames
or at the end of a fishing line.
But I do find you in the coffee shop—
in the calm of police uniforms,
in my words that grow strong again,
that find meaning in this place
where even time lies down
in the midst of all this blue. Read more
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/35611 | Journal: Moral Intellectual Vacuum in USA
02 China, 03 India, 05 Iran, 06 Russia, 08 Wild Cards
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You gotta love it when the War Party reveals its desperation to come up with yet another soundbyte to justify continuing the long Afghan War — a war becoming known to cynics in the Hall of Mirrors that is Versailles on the Potomac as the Great Afghan Cash Cow, because it is a golden cornucopia for so many, including, inter alia, the Pentagon, defense contractors, USAID, NGOs, Warlords, the family Karzai, and even the Taliban, which is helping to fund its anti-US operations by running a protection racket paid for by the US-funded trucking companies running supplies to the US forces in Afghanistan.
To wit: The Pentagon just entertained the booboisie with recycled old Russian reports of Afghanistan’s supposed mineral wealth (the Saudi Arabia of lithium, for example), which the New York Times and Fox dutifully amplified as new news. Now, if the attached essay by Steve Levine is correct, we are about to be subjected to another recycling as well as a grand synthesis of old theories about turning Afghanistan in a “superhighway of roads, railroads, electricity lines, and energy pipelines for the entire Eurasian landmass.” And lying in echelon behind this assault on our senses is the romantic magnetism of a new Great Game, perhaps devolving ultimately into a never-ending competition between the US and Russia on the high ground of Eurasian Continent.
It is easy to poke fun at such grand strategic nonsense, and Levine does a good job of dissing the latest. But when these delusions are coupled with domestic politics, like …
• the hysterical hype surrounding the FBI’s allegations of a keystone-cops spy scandal where incompetent sleepers infiltrated the PTA meetings that fewer and fewer parents attend,
• the now likely scuppering by Congress of a new nuclear arms reduction treaty with Russia,
• the likely torpedoing of the Obama-Medvedev rapprochement,
• the increasing possibility of a congressional election debacle for the Democrats in 2010,
… it begins to look like the building blocks are falling into place for a return to political-economic normalcy in the Military – Industrial – Congressional Complex — a normalcy taking the form of a permanent new Cold War with Russia.
Blaming Obama for losing the un-winnable Afghan war and for either ineffectually attacking or being afraid to attack Iran should ice the cake in 2012, thus paving the way for a new burst of defense spending in the second decade of the 21st Century, accompanied by its handmaiden, the politics of fear, and funded by greater debt as well as a renewed assault on Social Security and Medicare.
So, don’t be surprised by the sound champagne corks popping in the Hall of Mirrors.
Chuck Spinney
Pilos, Greece
Steve Levine, Foreign Policy, 29 June 2010
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/35617 | Some great logicians and mathematicians (e.g. Gödel) in the past have pointed (perhaps implicitly) to the possibility of formal philosophy (can be referred to as "exact philosophy" as well). I read it to be more of a desire, rather than something that has been actualized. But it's believable, if one considers for example the success of the scientific method, which is a set of rules taken from a larger set of rules (the set of all rules that can be taken) and which lead to more well-defined knowledge.
But what is formal philosophy? Is it different from mathematics (perhaps augmented or extended to natural language)?
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Welcome to Phil.SE! I haven't come across the term 'formal philosophy' - it's not, I think, a standard term; in which case it might be useful to provide a link to it; otherwise it would appear to be a term of your own invention - this on its own is not inappropriate, but it's useful generally to leverage (ie use) the properly philosophical language; there is a mode of thought in the philosophy of mathematics called formalism - generally (ie conventionally) associated with the mathematician Hilbert - is this what you are referring to by the term 'formal philosophy'? – Mozibur Ullah Aug 29 '15 at 12:28
• The other possibility is how Deleuze describes scientific thought in practise as a 'function' (as a function of axioms or 'rules') in your terms; or Kuhns notion of 'normal science'. – Mozibur Ullah Aug 29 '15 at 12:31
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I disagree; it's a standard term. – ChristopherE Aug 29 '15 at 16:20
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@christopherE: see comment above, I've voted the question up. – Mozibur Ullah Aug 29 '15 at 16:55
Formal philosophy is an approach to philosophical questions which attempts to answer them by developing formal systems. Formal systems are those in which ideas (terms, claims, etc) are formalized, meaning symbolized. In such systems, conclusions drawn are typically reached as a function of the form of premises alone, which is to say their logical structure. An example is formal epistemology, which develops formal models (mathematical and otherwise symbolized models) of knowledge-justification.
Formal philosophy, as others pointed out, is an approach with formalized language. To ease things here, let us assume that the main idea is that by formalization it is possible to infer the thruth value and propositional content directly from grammar and syntax. The ultimate goal is a perfect scientific language where equivocations and misunderstandings are impossible (like in mathematics), but still a language. And not only in an analogic sense like mathematics are called a language, but a medium for communication about the world.
It would be "the" medium of philosophy, as every sentence in this language would be true or false and every true sentence would presumably be knowledge. Contradictions and fallacies could easily be identified.
Ideas like this have been persued by Frege, Carnapp, early Wittgenstein and early Husserl, for example. Wittgenstein being the best known example of a person later rejecting even the possibility of formal philosophy. In fact, every try so far failed.
A good start could be SEP, like the entry for Frege.
Firstly, I suggest that you make sure that we're talking about formal philosophy and not 'formal logic', 'formalism' or other areas of philosophy that might use the term in their title, as these likely have much more specific meanings.
As far as I know, there is no real definition for what formal philosophy is. In my experience, most people and writers seem to use it as a distinction between philosophy that adheres to certain standards of rigour and explanatory completeness rather than simply asking questions and proposing ideas that seem relevant to a given philosophical concept. Analytic philosophy tries to adhere to this for the most part.
Depending on the context, it might also refer to the way that philosophy is taught or learned - e.g. studying at a university under a philosophy professor might be called "studying philosophy in a formal way", etc., as opposed to, say, reading a few books and asking/answering questions on the internet - this might be called "informally studying philosophy" (though I am not saying that one is necessarily better than the other).
• I think it's reasonable to say that formal phil. has to have a set of formal rules. Like mathematics. We could even say that it "should behave like" mathematics. – mavavilj Aug 29 '15 at 13:54
• @mavavilj One would assume so, but it really depends on what the author is saying more specifically. – DTR Aug 29 '15 at 13:56
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/35699 | Why I Wrestle With Faith
And then there’s us, reading Tolstoy.
And I have to wrestle with faith.
You know, like Jesus…
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1. Your location in NC resembles much of the south. I find it frustrating (almost nauseating, at times). That sounds almost hateful, and that’s not my emotion at all! Actually, I just want to wear a sign that says, “Really? You know exactly what the bible means? It really answers every question you have? It’s really your “owner’s manual” for life and raising children (you literally think it means you should hit your children???)? AND, the bible is always either a ‘happily ever after’ fairytale or it’s God’s way of explaining your misery?”.
While I find nothing more peaceful, comforting, and beautiful than the simplicity God’s love (in the sense that it just is), I don’t think the bible is in any way “simple”. (Jesus’ message of love IS very simple. Well, it’s very clear. We know that love is the greatest commandment, and that’s a lot!)
Sometimes, I feel like an outsider in the “Christian community”. Am I the only one that thinks so deeply? Am I the only one that feels God when I wrestle? Am I the only one that sees the complexities and wants to delve deeper?
Anyway, thank you for your posts. Your thoughts and wisdom are also comforting. God’s love is felt in them. 🙂
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/35739 | The Heavy Metal Matador (rydain) wrote,
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Why the fuck do people keep parroting the same oldy-and-moldy cardio-related bullshit that has been clinically demonstrated to be, well, bullshit?
Do cardio in the fat-burning zone (60-70% VO2 max) to lose the most fat!
Cardio is useless for fat loss unless you do it on an empty system, like first thing in the morning before you eat!
If you run too hard, you're burning muscle!
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Back in the real world where real scientists collect and observe real data, we've learned that consuming fat as a substrate during exercise does not translate into increased bodyfat loss. Actually, the opposite seems to be the case. The 1994 Tremblay study demonstrated that high-intensity interval training (HIIT), in which trainees alternate short anaerobic work intervals with longer, lower-intensity recovery intervals, induces fat loss up to nine times more efficiently than endurance cardio although the HIIT trainees' cardio used mainly glycogen (stored sugar) as fuel and didn't even burn as many calories as the endurance program overall. I don't know all the reasons for this, but a simplified explanation is that HIIT causes your body to consume fat as it recovers from the exercise.
The empty system myth is just silly. Essentially, they're claiming that cardio doesn't "work" if you eat first because you're "burning off what you just ate". As I mentioned above, some cardio does its best fat-loss-related work when you're done exercising, so there's no point in worrying about what you're burning off. Even if you don't do HIIT, as long as you consume fewer calories than you expend, you're going to lose fat. Your body needs those missing calories to help it operate, and it can't exactly create them out of thin air. Claiming otherwise is tantamount to saying that you can take as much money out of your checking account as you want to as long as you do so after you deposited your paycheck. Unfortunately, money doesn't seem to work that way. Who'da thunk it?
In fact, if you're doing HIIT, you must eat first so you have enough glycogen to fuel the exercise. Myth #3 is actually more of a misconception because it can indeed be true if your glycogen stores are low, forcing your body to break down muscle in order to generate fuel for your workout. (The reason I put it on the myth list is that I generally seen it treated as gospel - i.e. if you work out too hard, you'll automagically start gobbling up that precious muscle tissue.)
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/35760 | PDS_VERSION_ID = PDS3 LABEL_REVISION_NOTE = " 2008-11-20, M.T. Capria - inital version; 2013-07-01, J. Mafi - Vesta peer review updates; 2016-02-24, J. Mafi - Ceres Approach/Survey review updates;" RECORD_TYPE = STREAM OBJECT = INSTRUMENT INSTRUMENT_HOST_ID = "DAWN" INSTRUMENT_ID = "VIR" OBJECT = INSTRUMENT_INFORMATION INSTRUMENT_NAME = "VISIBLE AND INFRARED SPECTROMETER" INSTRUMENT_TYPE = "IMAGING SPECTROMETER" INSTRUMENT_DESC = " Instrument Overview =================== VIR is an imaging spectrometer having moderate spectral resolution that combines two data channels in one instrument. The two data channels, Visible (spectral range 0.25-1 micron) and Infrared (spectral range 0.95-5 micron), are committed to spectral mapping and are housed in the same optical subsystem. The instrument is composed by the Optics Module (OM), the Proximity Electronic box (PEM), housed inside the Optics Module, and the Main Electronic box (ME). The proximity electronic box (PEM) contains all the electronics needed to interface the Main Electronics, to drive the FPAs, the scan mirror and the cover mechanism and to perform the acquisition and conversion of the science and housekeeping data. The Main Electronics manages the operation of the two channels, gathers data and housekeeping information, stores the data, performs data compression, controls the cryo-cooler and interfaces the instrument with the S/C. A complete description of the instrument and its performance can be found in [BINIETAL2005]. Technical Description ===================== The optical concept is inherited from the visible channel of the Cassini Visible Infrared Mapping Spectrometer (VIMS-V) and from the Rosetta Visible InfraRed Thermal Imaging Spectrometer(VIRTIS). This concept matches a Shafer telescope to an Offner grating spectrometer to disperse a line image across two FPAs. The optical subsystem is housed inside the Cold Box of the Optics Module. The spectrometer has the ability to point and scan along the direction perpendicular to the slit. VIR can be divided in three modules: the Optical Head, the Proximity Electronics Module and the Main Electronics. VIR OPTICAL HEAD ---------------- The Optical Head contains the following items: - telescope optical components, mountings and optical bench, and scan unit - spectrometer optical components, mountings and housing - internal calibration system - slit and shutter mechanism - visible detector assembly - infrared detector assembly - external and internal baffles - cover unit - radiators The VIR optical system is a Shafer telescope matched through a slit to an Offner grating spectrometer. The Shafer consists of 5 mirrors mounted on an aluminum optical bench. The primary mirror is a scanning Beryllium mirror driven by a torque motor. The bench is machined from a single aluminum alloy billet and acts both as a cold plate and optical support structure, mounted on the ledge of the Cold Box. The Offner spectrometer consists of a mirror and a spherical convex diffraction grating housed in an aluminum structure that is flange mounted to the telescope. PROXIMITY ELECTRONICS --------------------- The Proximity Electronics consists of the following items: - box structure - mother board and connectors - CCD boards - IR board - scan mirror and cover board MAIN ELECTRONICS DESCRIPTION ---------------------------- The ME is physically separated from the Optics Module. It consists of the Digital Processing Units (DPUs), the S/C interface control units, the power supply for all the sub-units of the instrument excluding the cryocooler, the interface units and the coolers electronics. The DPU, S/C interfaces, instrument interfaces are also called DHSU (Data Handling and Support Unit). The VIR sub-systems (PEM, coolers, covers and scan mirror) are switched on/off by means of the Power Distribution Unit (PDU) of the ME/power supply unit, controlled by the DHSU. The main tasks of the DHSU are: - acquire, pre-process, compress and format the science and calibration data - control and power switch the sub-systems, the coolers and the Covers - health check the instrument and provide the operational status of VIR to the S/C - execute uplink and downlink activities to and from VIR - interpretate and execute the telecommands - manage and synchrone the activities between VIR and the S/C - store the science data in the instrument Mass Memory (2 Gbit), before downloading to the S/C solid state recorder. Scientific objectives ===================== A Multispectral Imager - covering the range from the near UV (0.25 micron) to the near IR (5.0 micron) and having moderate to high spectral resolution and imaging capabilities - is an appropriate instrument for the determination of global (size, shape, albedo, etc.), and local (mineralogical features, topography, roughness, dust and gas production rates, etc.) properties of Vesta and Ceres. The primary scientific objectives of VIR during the Dawn mission are: - to study the mineralogy of Vesta and Ceres, and their environment - to determine the nature of rock-forming minerals and their relative abundances - to measure the temperature of their surfaces - to generate physiographic maps of the surfaces Secondary objectives are: - provide synthetic maps of the surface - merge data from different instruments through data fusion Techniques - identify gaseous species emitted by the surface and physical Condition of the exosphere- if any. Calibration measurements ======================== Before the integration of the VIR experiment on the DAWN spacecraft a full calibration of the instrument has been performed to completely characterize the instrumental performances. The fundamental calibrations necessary to correctly retrieve the scientific information from VIR data are: 1- Geometric calibration: measurement of IFOV, FOV and in field distorsions; 2- Spectral calibration: correlation between spectral dispersion axis of the focal planes with wavelength; 3- Spatial calibration: evaluation of the flat-field matrices necessary to homogenize the focal planes responses; 4- Radiometric calibration: determination of the Instrument Transfer Function (ITF), that allows to convert digital numbers (DN) in physical units of spectral radiance (W m-2 micron-1 sterad-1). These quantities, continuously checked during the flight at each switch on of the experiment, are used in the data pipeline before the scientific analysis. Principal Investigator ====================== Maria Cristina De Sanctis Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica, Rome References ========== - C.T. Russell et al., 'Dawn Mission to Vesta and Ceres', Earth, Moon and Planets 101, 65-91, 2007 - M.C. De Sanctis, et al., 'The VIR Spectrometer', Space Sci Rev, doi:10.1007/s11214-010-9668-5, 2010 " END_OBJECT = INSTRUMENT_INFORMATION OBJECT = INSTRUMENT_REFERENCE_INFO REFERENCE_KEY_ID = "RUSSELLETAL2007" END_OBJECT = INSTRUMENT_REFERENCE_INFO OBJECT = INSTRUMENT_REFERENCE_INFO REFERENCE_KEY_ID = "DESANCTISETAL2010" END_OBJECT = INSTRUMENT_REFERENCE_INFO END_OBJECT = INSTRUMENT END |
global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/35766 | The Class 730 Aventra trains are used for WaterLine services. These trains are 3 cars in length, with a max speed of 100 MPH. This train costs 1000 points.
• These trains are the cheapest WaterLine trains you can purchase, at a cost of 1000 points. Because of this, these units are quite frequently operated and diverted many drivers' plans to buy Stepford Connect trains, which are usually priced at 1500 points.
• Just before the release of the One Million Update, the train was labeled "Class BTS" in the menu and painted black so you could not see the designs.
• The game incorrectly stated that these trains had a max speed of 110 MPH. If so, then it would have been the fastest in SCR. However, this was not true. The Class 43 and the Class 801 holds the record of 125 MPH.
• In real life, the class 730/0 has a top speed of 90 MPH while the 730/1 and 730/2 have their top speed at 110 MPH. If either of the latter two were put in, they would be the fastest trains on WaterLine.
• This is the only train to not have the class number shown on the outside. Regardless, the variant used in the game is for the most part the 730/0 as the 730/1 and 730/2 variants have 5 coaches as opposed to 3. The class number will probably be shown on the outside when this train becomes a Next Generation train.
• The Class 730 is painted in a special livery (designed by BanTech) instead of the standard WaterLine livery. It now sports the new logo.
• In real life, these trains are not in service yet, but they are being built; it is unclear whether or not the Class 730 in-game represents the one being built. This may potentially be the only fictional train in SCR. In a sense this is also the newest train in SCR.
• The Class 730 had the highest class number out of all trains, but the Class 802 took this spot as of V1.1,
• This train used to be infamous for derailing while returning to Benton from Cambridge Street Parkway as well as other locations. Thankfully, this bug is now fixed.
The Class BTS (see trivia)
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Use an Arduino Nano to build a game inspired by the popular memory game Simon Says, constructed using LEDs of different colors, push buttons and a piezo speaker. The patterns become increasingly more difficult as you use the buttons to recall a sequence of color lights. We'll explore the circuits and code to build the game, which you can then take home with you!
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Seeing Through Rock: Mathematics of Inverse Wave Propagation
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Bill Symes, Rice University.
The following is a short introduction to an invited lecture to be presented at the upcoming 2018 SIAM Annual Meeting (AN18) in Portland, Ore., from July 9-13. Look for feature articles by other AN18 invited speakers introducing the topics of their talks in future issues.
Most of what we know about Earth’s interior comes from measuring physical fields on or near the surface and inferring subsurface structures from these measurements. Apart from inspecting outcrops, the optical band of the electromagnetic spectrum is useless—you cannot actually see through rock, despite the title of this talk—but there are many other choices for probing fields. Seismic fields (roughly speaking, elastic waves in Earth) have a few key advantages as subsurface probes. They cover relatively long distances—measurable waves of the lowest frequency excite all of Earth—and combine this range with resolution, propagating a few hundred wavelengths before disappearing into Earth’s background seismic noise. To some extent, they exhibit space-time locality and directionality (that is, locality in phase space) and definite velocity, which makes them waves.
Whether elastodynamics or a more complex model of wave physics is adequate to predict measured seismic data, and what information about Earth’s structure might result from doing so, is an inverse problem. One can only answer these questions affirmatively by exhibiting a distribution of elastic (or other) parameters for which the solution of the associated partial differential equations (PDEs) actually predicts the seismic measurements to satisfactory accuracy. Joe Keller proposed this “find the question given the answer” definition of “inverse problem” in his 1976 American Mathematical Monthly article. However, Keller’s examples do not clarify how instances of such problems involving nonlinear relations between billions of data points and billions of parameters, mediated by complex systems of PDEs, might be wrestled into computational practicality.
As I will explain in my 2018 SIAM Annual Meeting talk, answers to this question began taking shape in the 1980s, as Albert Tarantola and many others elaborated the “outer loop” point of view mentioned in Bruce Hendrickson’s November 2017 SIAM News piece. The outer loop perspective posits that posing data fit as an optimization problem over choices of elastic parameters invites selection by iteration over solutions of the elastodynamic (or similar) wave equations. Tarantola’s classic text, Inverse Problem Theory and Methods for Model Parameter Estimation, republished by SIAM in 2005, shows how tools from control theory make the computation of artifacts needed for local (descent-based) optimization more feasible.
The first practicable algorithms required another 20 years of computational and mathematical advances and inspired a very active research area known as full waveform inversion, with branches in industrial and academic seismology. The computational needs were obvious consequences of the world’s three-dimensionality. The mathematical issues were more surprising — already evident in the 1980s, they stem from the simple observation that perturbation of wave speed effectively differentiates the waveform. Combined with the nonlinearity of the elastic wavefield as a function of the coefficients in the (linear) wave equation, this hypersensitivity with respect to wave velocities—which are functions of the coefficients—can cause local optimization to stagnate far from a useful elastic model of Earth, no matter how many Pflops are expended. I will review some of the numerous ideas advanced to overcome this obstacle, and show why they might work via simple examples.
Bill Symes is the Noah Harding Professor in the Department of Computational and Applied Mathematics and a professor in the Department of Earth Science at Rice University.
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MyPiFi LCD Support Board on Kickstarter
Whilst my first kickstarter was running I was using the above LCD display on a breadboard with lots of wires to view my kickstarter stats. There was always one problem, one of the wires would randomly come out this needing to go through it all to find the problem and remedy it.
Then I thought, I need a board I can just plug my HD44780 LCD display into and get going and sure enough I designed and asked to make so I could see if it would work.
Although it's a couple months old to me,it's a new idea I have had and can take the 44780 LCD boards be it 2x16 or 4x20. The 2x16 sits perfectly without the need for the nylon hex spacers whilst the 4x20 LCD is slightly heavier.
I have since started a kickstarter up for them
The software needed takes about ten minutes to set up and a nice walk through guide is at thank you Jason for the hard work and the code to inspire my add on board.
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The Joker & Angry White Men
The Joker is a magnetic character who always keeps the reader guessing, and like many other DC fans, I am excited about the upcoming film Joker, which stars Joaquin Phoenix.
However, people have complained about the clown prince of crime. Many have claimed that the Joker represents ‘angry, white men’ and that such a film has no place in today’s world. Other claims are that by making the Joker sympathetic to viewers, that will lead to violent behaviour by white men. From the perspective of writers from The Mary Sue and Refinery29, it is dangerous for white, angry men to see themselves in fictional characters like The Joker.
I disagree.
In fiction, there are different rules than in real-life. Being a fan of the Joker is not the same as that of Charles Manson. Yes, the Joker kills people who aren’t real. And sometimes, the audience will associate such acts with the violence that infects our real world.
Yet, there needs to be nuance. Being associated with cruelty doesn’t make you the cause of such violence. For every fan of the Joker who commits violence, there are hundreds of thousands that don’t.
It’s ludicrous to blame fiction for real tyranny. There is no logical argument for that position, and it’s evil to use the victims of real-life tragedies to rebel against media you dislike.
In the late 1990s, people blamed Marilyn Manson for tragedies such as the Columbine shootings. Not only was that gross and unfair, but society has not learned the relevant lesson. Blaming movies, music, TV shows and video games for actual violence will not solve any problems. It will only cause more societal division and anger.
When I was a teenager, entertainment and fiction helped me comprehend life’s difficulties and made me feel less alone. And I’m not the only one. I believe that when people feel connected; they are less likely to commit acts of terror. So, if ‘angry, white men’ watch The Joker and feel validated, then I don’t believe that’s the worst thing in the world.
One of the great things about fiction is that the audience can relate to a variety of characters. And who is to say that these characters have to be morally righteous?
When I was a young girl, I related to fictional characters ranging from Jo March to Anakin Skywalker. Am I a better or a worse person because of that? Well, I refuse to have my morality judged by my taste in fictional characters.
What characters people relate to is no sign of their personal worth. I mean, let’s be better than that. Are we going to judge someone’s character by who they relate to? At Snowy Fictions, I try to be understanding, but that’s pathetic.
Fiction should create relatable characters that are three-dimensional and feel real. When a work of fiction creates strawman or weak characters, then that work of fiction has failed. From a storytelling perspective, the Joker should be interesting. And personally? I like characters that make you think about morality and humanity. It makes for a richer, better story.
What’s dangerous is when we constantly berate young men and their problems and act as if they have no right to feeling emotions such as anger. That will lead to lethal acts of violence. We need to talk to each other more, not be so hateful that we label any anger from a white man as ‘evil.’
I will always encourage civil dialogue between people who may not agree.
Anger is a human emotion that everyone, including white men, has a right to experience. Being angry doesn’t equate to acting like an abuser. It means you are human and feel things.
In conclusion, there is no concrete evidence that characters such as the Joker lead to actual deaths. When people take inspiration from fiction, there is an underlying mental health issue or sociopolitical reasons. I hope people remember that when Joker hits the cinemas.
But maybe it’s easier to blame a work of fiction than analyze the causes of lethal violence.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/35853 | I've been doing some searching and I can find some technical details about the flight computer of the New Horizons spacecraft. What I've found is:
It has a Mongoose-V 32-bit CPU (a radiation hardened MIPS R3000) running at 12MHz.
I'd like to find out what operating system is running New Horizons and any other details around this. I am guessing VxWorks but I haven't found any sources to validate this.
Close, but no cigar. If New Horizons flight software was built by Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), then I guess Wind River's VxWorks RTOS would have been their first choice (it's also a popular choice for hardware on Mars - Pathfinder, Sojourner, Phoenix lander, Spirit, Opportunity, Curiosity,... all use it). But New Horizons flight software was built by Johns Hopkins University's Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) and they decided to build it atop Nucleus RTOS by Mentor Graphics.
Refer to Linux and the Spacecraft Flight Software Environment, E. Birrane et al., JHU/APL (PDF) for more info. Mind that despite document's title, neither VxWorks nor Nucleus are Linuxes. I selected this document to link to as it's a good source of background information on both Nucleus and VxWorks, both commercial RTOS'es used on spacecraft, but it discusses possible evolutionary path of flight software and Linux' role in it (there are real-time Linux microkernels available, such as RTLinux), thus the title.
An overview (but oddly no mention of OS) is also available in Spacecraft Systems and Components page over at New Horizons at APL.
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$\begingroup$ This was actually the last APL mission to use Nucleus or the Mongoose processor. Since then, we have used VxWorks and RTEMS, depending on the flight computer hardware chosen (which depends on a wide variety of factors) $\endgroup$ – Nate Parsons Jul 10 '15 at 20:53
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The new "Snapshots" system in Spectral Workbench brings the ability to maintain different versions of a spectrum for different uses. This feature has been largely implemented in Github and will be coming online in January 2016.
What are Snapshots?
Snapshots freeze a specific state of your spectrum so that the data as it exists at that moment can be used in other contexts, for example by other users. It's like version control for your data -- if you use a spectrum by reference, such as to calibrate, or in a comparison, you can expect that you'll see the snapshot of that spectrum just as it was when you made that reference (see References vs. Snapshots below). No later changes to the spectrum will affect referring work.
Snapshots are listed with a small "thumbtack" icon next to the operation that generated them (see below). They look like this, and you can hover over them for more info:
When are they created?
Most Operations applied to spectra cause snapshots to be created automatically, so that a "frozen" version of the spectrum is permanently available for that operation's use. These include the calibrate:, subtract:, transform:, range:, crossSection:, smooth:, and flip operations. A full, current list of tags that generate snapshots is in the tag.rb model file.
Who can create them?
Since only the owner of a spectrum (or an admin) can add operations, the same is therefore true of their corresponding snapshots.
References vs. Snapshots
We refer to snapshots in two contexts, which should not be confused. Basic snapshots are those generated by an operation. References are the snapshots which operations refer to, and appear in the operation name after a hash mark - #. This will typically look like:
Here, the subtract: operation will have generated a snapshot, but it also contains a reference to another spectrum, and a specific snapshot of that spectrum -- the snapshot with id #151. Note that creating this subtract: operation will lock that reference snapshot #151, so it cannot be deleted or modified. That's the point of snapshots!
Locking and forking
You'll see a "padlock" symbol next to some snapshots, preventing you from deleting them. Basic locking is just ensuring that if you delete snapshots, you do it in reverse chronological order. These lock icons will appear dark grey.
The other kind of locking displays a blue padlock icon. As mentioned just above, referencing a snapshot will lock it -- and any registered user can reference a snapshot. The idea is that once someone -- you or anyone else -- begins to rely on a given spectrum, that version of the spectrum (as captured in the snapshot) should be permanent and uneditable. You can rest easy that nobody can change a snapshot that you've relied upon in your own work.
If you or someone else has caused one of your snapshots to be locked, but you really must do something different with that spectrum, you can fork the spectrum. This makes a copy of the spectrum, all its tags, and all its operations, none of which will then have a lock. You can then delete the operations and do what you like with the spectrum.
Why are they necessary?
Snapshots ensure that if you rely on a spectrum for any of the operations above, any subsequent changes to that spectrum do not (by default) affect your reference to that spectrum. Your reference is to the snapshot, not the spectrum, and nobody can modify that data unless all references to that snapshot are deleted. So if you use one spectrum over and over, for example as a calibration reference, or as a baseline to subtract with, you'll always be accessing the same data. If you change the referred-to spectrum later, you'll be able to manually update the reference to a more up-to-date snapshot. But this won't happen automatically.
Changing reference snapshots
You can update the reference in an operation only if that operation's snapshot is not itself referenced (if it is, you'll see a blue lock icon and won't be able to delete it). That way, you can re-assign the referenced snapshot, but not if it'll affect any referencing operations. In terms of permissions, this works similarly to deleting snapshots. The menu looks like this:
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/35867 | Charles E. Leiserson
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Charles E. Leiserson received a B.S. from Yale University in 1975 and a Ph.D. from Carnegie Mellon University in 1981. He joined the MIT faculty in 1981, where he is now Professor of Computer Science and Engineering in the MIT Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) and head of the Supertech research group in the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL).
Professor Leiserson’s research centers on the theory of parallel computing, especially as it relates to engineering reality. He coauthored the first paper on systolic architectures. He invented the retiming method of digital-circuit optimization and developed the algorithmic theory behind it. Retiming is now a foundational optimization method in all major electronic-design systems. On leave from MIT at Thinking Machines Corporation, he designed and led the implementation of the network architecture for the Connection Machine Model CM-5 Supercomputer, which in- corporated the “universal” fat-tree interconnection network he developed at MIT. Fat-trees are now the preferred interconnect strategy for Infiniband technology. He introduced the notion of cache-oblivious algorithms, which exploit the memory hierarchy near optimally while containing no tuning parameters for cache size or cache-line length. He developed the Cilk multithreaded programming technology, which featured the first provably efficient work-stealing scheduler. He led the development of several Cilk-based parallel chess-playing programs, winning numerous prizes in international competition. On leave from MIT as Director of System Architecture at Akamai Technologies, he led the engineering team that developed a worldwide content-distribution network numbering over 20,000 Internet servers. He founded Cilk Arts, Inc., which developed the Cilk++ multicore concurrency platform and was acquired by Intel Corporation in 2009. Intel now embeds this technology in their Cilk Plus multithreaded programming environment, which is available in the Intel C/C++ compiler and in the open-source GCC main branch.
Professor Leiserson has made numerous contributes to computer-science education. He is well known as coauthor of the textbook Introduction to Algorithms (The MIT Press), which was named “Best 1990 Professional and Scholarly Book in Computer Science and Data Processing” by the Association of American Publishers. Currently in its third edition, it is the leading textbook on computer algorithms, having sold over 650,000 copies, and is one of the most cited publications in all of computer science. He developed the MIT undergraduate courses on algorithms and on dis- crete mathematics for computer science. He was for many years the head of the computer-science program for the Singapore-MIT Alliance (SMA), one of the first distance-education collaborations. The lectures for SMA of his undergraduate course on algorithms were videotaped and were one of the first freely available course videos on MIT OpenCourseWare. He developed MIT’s undergraduate class on software performance engineering, which teaches parallel programming not as an end in itself, but as one of several techniques for writing fast code. He has graduated over two dozen Ph.D. students and supervised more than 60 master’s and bachelor’s theses.
Professor Leiserson has contributed to faculty and student development in the area of leader- ship skills. His annual workshop on Leadership Skills for Engineering and Science Faculty has educated hundreds of faculty at MIT and around the world in the human issues involved in leading technical teams in academia. Besides MIT, it has been offered at Berkeley, Carnegie Mellon, Harvard, Purdue, and Singapore. He was the founding Workshop Chair for the MIT Undergraduate Practice Opportunities Program (UPOP), which teaches MIT School of Engineering sophomores how leadership skills can leverage their technical skills in professional environments. He developed many of the modules for this workshop and teaches in it regularly.
Professor Leiserson has won many academic awards. He received the IEEE Computer Society 2014 Taylor L. Booth Education Award “for worldwide computer science education impact through writing a best-selling algorithms textbook, and developing courses on algorithms and parallel pro- gramming.” He received the ACM 2013 Paris Kanellakis Theory and Practice Award “for contributions to efficient and robust parallel computation through both provably efficient randomized scheduling protocols and a set of parallel-language primitives constituting the Cilk framework.” He has received several “best paper” awards and the ACM SIGPLAN ten-year retrospective award for most influential 1998 PLDI paper. He received the ACM 1982 Doctoral Dissertation Award for his Ph.D. thesis, Area-Efficient VLSI Computation. He is a Margaret MacVicar Faculty Fellow at MIT, the highest recognition at MIT for undergraduate teaching. He is an ACM Fellow, an AAAS Fellow, and a senior member of IEEE and SIAM.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/35873 | I would like to use Fourier terms to model seasonality in an ARIMA model. The reason for using Fourier terms instead of a seasonal ARIMA model is that the frequency of the time series is very high (672) and that I want to model some special days as if they were different weekdays (e. g. I want to treat Easter Monday as if it was a Sunday). I first wanted to do that by using seasonal dummies but 671 seasonal dummies are probably to much. Thus, I want to use Fourier terms which I would adjust for the special days to get the correct regressors.
Now, I have two questions:
1. Does anybody have a good reference for using fourier terms as regressors in ARIMA models? I only find online references like blogs (e. g. http://robjhyndman.com/hyndsight/dailydata/) but no paper or book I could cite.
2. Does anybody have comments on whether this approach is useful or not?
Note: I have to use ARIMA models, so I do not need suggestions regarding alternative methods.
• $\begingroup$ If you have daily data then the frequency probably shouldn't be 672. 7 or 365 makes more sense. Post your data and also flag your holiday variables with a 1 on those days. $\endgroup$ – Tom Reilly Jun 2 '16 at 14:01
• $\begingroup$ I do not have daily data but one data point every 15 minutes, thus I have 96 data points per day resulting in a frequency of 96 * 7 = 672 for weakly seasonality. I cannot use just 96 because weakdays are quite different. I am not allowed to make the data publicly available. I do not only have holidays but also other types of special days. The problem is that I do not have enough training data for using a variable for special days (e. g. in some training sets there is not even one special day). Thus, I would like to model the special days as if they were normal days but from a suitable weekday. $\endgroup$ – Lila Jun 2 '16 at 16:52
1. It appears to me that this approach is sufficiently intuitive that many people must have looked at it, but I can't locate a useful reference in my bib file, either. Searching for "Fourier ARIMA" or similar at the International Journal of Forecasting (IJF) does not yield anything very useful. Ludlow & Enders (2000, IJF) do combine ARIMA and Fourier terms, but not as regressors in the way you envisage.
A similar search at Google Scholar turns up a couple thousand hits that you would need to refine. This older paper seems to use this approach (so it's been around for thirty years at least), but I'm not sure you want to cite it.
2. I'd say this approach is eminently useful. Rob Hyndman seems to agree: Forecasting with long seasonal periods and Forecasting weekly data. I see that you have to use ARIMA models (why?), but note that he writes that TBATS performs comparably well. Rob's recent update to the forecast package is also relevant.
(Don't disregard these because they are "just blog entries". Rob Hyndman is one of the forecasting gurus, highly active in the community, and the Chief Editor of the IJF. I'd trust anything he blogs more than much of what other people publish in journals.)
• $\begingroup$ Thank you for your answer! I also did the search in the IJF as well as in Google Scholar and did not find anything suitable. But the old paper you found might be a good starting point for me to search (maybe other papers with a similar approach cited it later). If I find a good reference I will post it here. Regarding your question why I have to use ARIMA: I am doing a comparison of different methods for a certain problem. So I do not only use ARIMA but I definitely want to include it in the comparison. $\endgroup$ – Lila Jun 2 '16 at 11:29
• $\begingroup$ I will leave the question open for a few days in case somebody has a good reference at hand. If nobody comes up with a better reference I will accept your answer. $\endgroup$ – Lila Jun 2 '16 at 11:33
• $\begingroup$ Leaving it open for a few days makes perfect sense. If you found my answer helpful, please consider upvoting it. $\endgroup$ – Stephan Kolassa Jun 2 '16 at 14:33
• $\begingroup$ I did upvote it but I do not have enough reputation points so my votes are not counted so far. Once I have enough points the upvote should become visible. $\endgroup$ – Lila Jun 2 '16 at 16:46
• $\begingroup$ I accepted your answer as it was helpful and no one else seemed to have a better one. $\endgroup$ – Lila Jun 9 '16 at 17:55
Maybe you can look this https://medium.com/intive-developers/forecasting-time-series-with-multiple-seasonalities-using-tbats-in-python-398a00ac0e8a
This article compared tbats and SARIMAX with Fourier Terms .
The answer to your question :
SARIMAX with Fourier Terms One can apply a trick [4] to utilize exogenous variables in SARIMAX to model additional seasonalities with Fourier terms. We will keep modeling the weekly pattern with seasonal part of SARIMA. For the yearly seasonal pattern we will use the above-mentioned trick. I have compared multiple choices for the number of Fourier terms and 2 provides the most accurate forecasts. Therefore we shall use 2 Fourier terms as exogenous variables.
# prepare Fourier terms
exog = pd.DataFrame({'date': y.index})
exog = exog.set_index(pd.PeriodIndex(exog['date'], freq='D'))
exog['sin365'] = np.sin(2 * np.pi * exog.index.dayofyear / 365.25)
exog['cos365'] = np.cos(2 * np.pi * exog.index.dayofyear / 365.25)
exog['sin365_2'] = np.sin(4 * np.pi * exog.index.dayofyear / 365.25)
exog['cos365_2'] = np.cos(4 * np.pi * exog.index.dayofyear / 365.25)
exog = exog.drop(columns=['date'])
exog_to_train = exog.iloc[:(len(y)-365)]
exog_to_test = exog.iloc[(len(y)-365):]
# Fit model
arima_exog_model = auto_arima(y=y_to_train, exogenous=exog_to_train, seasonal=True, m=7)
# Forecast
y_arima_exog_forecast = arima_exog_model.predict(n_periods=365, exogenous=exog_to_test)
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/35874 | I know that priors need not be proper and that the likelihood function does not integrate to 1 either. But does the posterior need to be a proper distribution? What are the implications if it is/is not?
(It is somewhat of a surprise to read the previous answers, which focus on the potential impropriety of the posterior when the prior is proper, since, as far as I can tell, the question is whether or not the posterior has to be proper (i.e., integrable to one) to be a proper (i.e., acceptable for Bayesian inference) posterior.)
In Bayesian statistics, the posterior distribution has to be a probability distribution, from which one can derive moments like the posterior mean $\mathbb{E}^\pi[h(\theta)|x]$ and probability statements like the coverage of a credible region, $\mathbb{P}(\pi(\theta|x)>\kappa|x)$. If $$\int f(x|\theta)\,\pi(\theta)\,\text{d}\theta = +\infty\,,\qquad (1)$$ the posterior $\pi(\theta|x)$ cannot be normalised into a probability density and Bayesian inference simply cannot be conducted. The posterior simply does not exist in such cases.
Actually, (1) must hold for all $x$'s in the sample space and not only for the observed $x$ for, otherwise, selecting the prior would depend on the data. This means that priors like Haldane's prior, $\pi(p)\propto \{1/p(1-p)\}$, on the probability $p$ of a Binomial or a Negative Binomial variable $X$ cannot be used, since the posterior is not defined for $x=0$.
I know of one exception when one can consider "improper posteriors": it is found in "The Art of Data Augmentation" by David van Dyk and Xiao-Li Meng. The improper measure is over a so-called working parameter $\alpha$ such that the observation is produced by the marginal of an augmented distribution $$f(x|\theta)=\int_{T(x^\text{aug})=x} f(x^\text{aug}|\theta,\alpha)\,\text{d}x^\text{aug}$$ and van Dyk and Meng put an improper prior $p(\alpha)$ on this working parameter $\alpha$ in order to speed up the simulation of $\pi(\theta|x)$ (which remains well-defined as a probability density) by MCMC.
In another perspective, somewhat related to the answer by eretmochelys, namely a perspective of Bayesian decision theory, a setting where (1) occurs could still be acceptable if it led to optimal decisions. Namely, if $L(\delta,\theta)\ge 0$ is a loss function evaluating the impact of using the decision $\delta$, a Bayesian optimal decision under the prior $\pi$ is given by $$\delta^\star(x)=\arg\min_\delta \int L(\delta,\theta) f(x|\theta)\,\pi(\theta)\,\text{d}\theta$$ and all that matters is that this integral is not everywhere (in $\delta$) infinite. Whether or not (1) holds is secondary for the derivation of $\delta^\star(x)$, even though properties like admissibility are only guaranteed when (1) holds.
The posterior distribution need not be proper even if the prior is proper. For example, suppose $v$ has a Gamma prior with shape 0.25 (which is proper), and we model our datum $x$ as drawn from a Gaussian distribution with mean zero and variance $v$. Suppose $x$ is observed to be zero. Then the likelihood $p(x|v)$ is proportional to $v^{-0.5}$, which makes the posterior distribution for $v$ improper, since it is proportional to $v^{-1.25} e^{-v}$. This problem arises because of the wacky nature of continuous variables.
• $\begingroup$ Cool example, Tom! $\endgroup$ – Zen Mar 7 '14 at 13:41
• $\begingroup$ +1, though could you expand the answer to the OP's last sentence? Is this whacky posterior meaningful (can you do the kinds of things you'd usually do with a posterior), or is it more analogous to getting a NaN or Inf from some calculations? Is it a sign that something's wrong with your model? $\endgroup$ – Wayne Mar 7 '14 at 14:48
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$\begingroup$ There's nothing wrong with the model. This posterior is meaningful in the sense that if you receive another observation, you can multiply it in and possibly get back to a proper posterior. So it's not like a NaN, upon which all further operations are NaN. $\endgroup$ – Tom Minka Mar 7 '14 at 14:59
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$\begingroup$ Although this is probably too late to matter,I do not think using such "counter-examples" help beginners: the problem arises because you use a specific version of the Gaussian density at $x=0$, when it can be arbitrarily defined on this set of measure zero. And hence make the posterior proper or improper depending on the chosen version. $\endgroup$ – Xi'an Dec 20 '14 at 22:06
• $\begingroup$ Interesting - if you take the general $x $, then the posterior is a generalised inverse gaussian with parameters $-0.25,1,x^2$. @Xi'an - it would be good to see the alternative way to get a proper posterior out of this. $\endgroup$ – probabilityislogic May 9 '16 at 11:11
Defining the set $$ \text{Bogus Data} = \left\{ x:\int f(x\mid \theta)\,\pi(\theta)\,d\theta = \infty \right\} \, , $$ we have $$ \mathrm{Pr}\left(X\in\text{Bogus Data}\right) = \int_\text{Bogus Data} \int f(x\mid \theta)\,\pi(\theta)\,d\theta\,dx = \int_\text{Bogus Data} \infty\,dx \, . $$ The last integral will be equal to $\infty$ if the Lebesgue measure of $\text{Bogus Data}$ is positive. But this is impossible, because this integral gives you a probability (a real number between $0$ and $1$). Hence, it follows that the Lebesgue measure of $\text{Bogus Data}$ is equal to $0$, and, of course, it also follows that $\mathrm{Pr}\left(X\in\text{Bogus Data}\right)=0$.
In words: the prior predictive probability of those sample values that make the posterior improper is equal to zero.
Moral of the story: beware of null sets, they may bite, however improbable it may be.
P.S. As pointed out by Prof. Robert in the comments, this reasoning blows up if the prior is improper.
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$\begingroup$ You once wrote: "If we can start with a proper prior and get an improper posterior, then I will quit inference." $\endgroup$ – Tom Minka Mar 7 '14 at 14:23
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$\begingroup$ A little bit tongue in cheek, there was an implicit quantifier: If we can start with a proper prior and get an improper posterior, for every possible sample value, then I will quit inference. ;-) $\endgroup$ – Zen Mar 7 '14 at 15:39
• $\begingroup$ By the way, remarkable memory, Tom! $\endgroup$ – Zen Mar 7 '14 at 22:01
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$\begingroup$ @Zen: I think there is a problem with your reasoning in that you assume that $\mathrm{Pr}\left(X\in\text{Bogus Data}\right)$ is a probability, hence that the joint measure on $(\theta,x)$ is a probability measure, which implies that the prior has to be a (proper) probability measure. $\endgroup$ – Xi'an Dec 20 '14 at 22:15
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$\begingroup$ You're correct. The reasoning in the answer only works with proper priors. Good point. I'll add a note. $\endgroup$ – Zen Dec 20 '14 at 22:57
Any "distribution" must sum (or integrate) to 1. I can think a few examples where one might work with un-normalized distributions, but I am uncomfortable ever calling anything which marginalizes to anything but 1 a "distribution".
Given that you mentioned Bayesian posterior, I bet your question might come from a classification problem of searching for the optimal estimate of $x$ given some feature vector $d$
$$ \begin{align} \hat{x} &= \arg \max_x P_{X|D}(x|d) \\ &= \arg \max_x \frac{P_{D|X}(d|x) P_X(x)}{P_D(d)} \\ &= \arg \max_x {P_{D|X}(d|x) P_X(x)} \end{align} $$
where the last equality comes from the fact that $P_D$ doesn't depend on $x$. We can then choose our $\hat{x}$ exclusively based on the value $P_{D|X}(d|x) P_X(x)$ which is proportional to our Bayesian posterior, but do not confuse it for a probability!
• $\begingroup$ @Zen would you mind being more explicit about what you think is wrong (or fundamentally incomplete) about this answer? $\endgroup$ – whuber Mar 7 '14 at 21:20
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$\begingroup$ One way to interpret the OP question "does the posterior need to be a proper distribution?" is to ask if it is mathematically possible to start with a proper prior and end with an improper posterior. Minka's answer gives an explicit example in which it happens. I tried to complement it with my answer and point out that this can only happen inside a set of zero prior predictive probability. $\endgroup$ – Zen Mar 7 '14 at 21:55
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$\begingroup$ @Zen It seems to me that a closely related interpretation is "if the posterior is not proper, what information can I get from it?" This accepted answer looks like it provides useful and correct advice related to that in a special circumstance (which is clearly described). The acceptance looks to me like a signal that eretmochelys struck home with a shrewd guess about the circumstances. $\endgroup$ – whuber Mar 7 '14 at 22:03
Improper posterior distribution only arises when you're having an improper prior distribution. The implication of this is that the asymptotic results do not hold. As an example, consider a binomial data consisting of $n$ success and 0 failures, if using $Beta(0,0)$ as the prior distribution, then the posterior will be improper. In this situation, the best is to think of a proper prior distribution to substitute your improper prior.
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$\begingroup$ This answer is incorrect. See my answer. $\endgroup$ – Tom Minka Mar 7 '14 at 13:07
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I must tell you, the gospel readings for these last two months have been challenging to me. Words that started the month with “those who exalt themselves will be humbled.” A couple of weeks ago, the story of the prodigal son, and this week the story of poor Lazarus and the rich man. Most of the remarks from Jesus are directed to his disciples…that’s us. The words of Jesus around discipleship are both hard and easy at the same time.
Hard, because Jesus’ call to give up everything and follow him, means letting go of all the protections we have built up over the years. Protections which mask our shame, imagine our control, and falsify our security.
Easy, because of the realizations of the false, paper protections they are. What does God want from us? In short, he wants our response to the unconditional love he offers, and has been offering since he “knew us in the womb.” Why do we, including myself, find it so hard to believe God will provide?
Instead we struggle, we scheme, we try to make life work, and when it doesn’t, we run to God like injured little children run to their parent. I am sure God doesn’t mind how we come to him, but I also know the peace of really letting God provide, and knowing, even if sporadically, that his love lets us lead the best life possible. We could be distressed by the commands of Jesus by trying to be humble, to be compassionate, to be empathetic. The revelation in these attempts is the word “be”. If you wish to know what it takes to follow God, just remember who we are…his beloved, and stop trying so hard to “do” and instead…be-loved.
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Faith. If God loves us, why do bad things happen? That isn't an easy answer. Some of the bad things that happen are the result of God loving us enough to give us free will. We are free to choose what we do and what we don't do. God created us with a conscience, reason, and gifts us with a whole lot of grace, so that we hopefully choose options that are in line with His will. Working counter to God's will results in actions with less than great consequences. That makes sense.
But what about those things that randomly happen. To this I would say, especially as it related to natural disasters, that the Earth has been doing what it has been doing for millions of years. Plates shift and move, air masses collide, stuff happens. People get in the way. The Earth is bigger than people. That makes sense. God has empowered people to develop ways to track storms and warn people so choices can be made.
Then the questions of illness, pain, suffering pop up. Indeed, these are the toughest because one can't reason it away. That is where faith steps in. When we struggle to understand why, our faith compels us to action. There's a reason in the suffering somewhere. It can be hard to find what the reason may be but faith leads us to it. This level of "bad" is to compel us toward God; to a dependence on Him. It doesn't make sense but it will if you have faith. It is said that hindsight is 20/20. When a person takes time to think back to a time of suffering, the fruit can be seen. What was to be learned? What was the reason? In fact, long suffering is a fruit of the Holy Spirit. How is suffering good? It brings us to dependence on God. Faith.
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In the past three weeks, I’ve had my credit card compromised, I’ve received three fraudulent emails (hackers trying to get me to click on a link to steal my identity), and one suspicious phone call with a man asking me for money.
My trust level is at an all-time low. And I know I’m not alone. We live in a world of looking over our shoulder and questioning “does this look and sound right?” Unfortunately, we have to be prepared for the worst as the scammers are out in full force these days.
But then I think about my faith. Has my trust worn thin in my faith? Do I truly “put things in God’s hands” and let him guide my life? Or do I worry and obsess over things? Do I let the little things in life bother me?
True trust means letting go, even when we’re afraid. God has told us so many times, “I’ve got this. Trust me.” Yet we don’t always let go of our anxiety. Isn’t it time we let down our guard? Isn’t it time we let God lead the way.
You can check your email and watch your credit card. But when it comes to your faith, just remember one thing. God’s got this.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/35908 | 1. Help Center
2. Quality of Input Data
Data Quality Overview
Distortions, Resolution, Bad Data? This section breaks down some of the common errors found in the inputs.
For the best performance from AirWorks web app high quality accurate data is required. This section breaks down each of the common errors in the orthomoaics and point clouds and provides explanations and possible solutions.
The first place to search for why the orthomoasic and point cloud have distortions or errors are the flight images. Optimal flight parameters are essential to creating high quality orthomoaics and point clouds. AirWorks' recommended parameters can be found here: "link"
Table Of Contents
• Resolution or Ground Sampling Distance
• Geo-location
• Distortions - Errors in Image Stitching
• Homogeneous Features: Forests, Water Bodies
• Distortions at Edge of Project
• Overexposed or Light Glow Distortion
• Stitching Error: Distortions throughout site
• Ground Control Tie points
• Location Accuracy
• Before and After location
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/35909 |
A wide variety of pre-built buttons with an assortment of colors is available in Claro. Simply pick a button from the color palette and then add a label and an action or link event to it.
You can re-size the button on the page to accomodate a long label. You can also edit a button later in order to change the label or other properties.
To insert a pre-built button:
1. Click the Insert tab.
2. Click Button in the Widget section.
3. Select a button color from the Button Interaction palette.
4. Click your page to place the button into position.
5. The Button Properties right-panel opens.
6. Give your button a Title (this makes it easier to identify in the Layers or Actions panel).
7. Add Alt Text, if desired.
8. Enter the Label text for your button. Click the arrow in the top right corner to format your label text.
9. You can also use Advanced Styles to enter Custom CSS Properties if you'd like. See Advanced CSS Styles for more information.
10. Click the Actions button at the bottom of the properties panel to choose an event for the button right away. Or, click Update and then add an action or link event later.
To re-size a button to fit a long text label:
1. Select the button on your page.
2. Drag the side handle to the right to fit the long text label onto the button. The text remains centred on the button.
3. You can also drag a corner handle or the bottom side handle to make a taller button.
To edit a pre-built button:
1. Select the button on your page.
2. Press the Enter key on your keyboard OR double-click OR click the Edit button on the Home tab ribbon. The Button Properties right-panel opens.
3. Make the changes you required and then click Update.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/35912 | Bulleted Lists or Hanging Indents
1. First, select the text that you want to format with bullets and a hanging indent, and choose Style > Formats.
2. To specify how far a paragraph is indented from the left edge of the text box or column, enter a positive value in the Left Indent field.
3. Enter a First Line value that is the negative of the Left Indent value. This will pull the bullet back out to the edge of the text box.
4. Finally, place a tabstop at the same position as the Left Indent. You can do this either in the ruler that displays above the text box while this dialog box is displayed or in the Tab tab of the Paragraph Attributes dialog box). Click OK.
5. In your text, type the character of the bullet you want to use (you may need to change the font in order for the correct character to display).
6. Press the Tab key to move the cursor to the tabstop where text begins. As you continue typing, the text will maintain the left indentation until you type a hard return to end the paragraph. However, subsequent paragraphs will continue to possess the same hanging indent formatting, until you change it or apply a new paragraph style sheet.
7. TIP: You can create a paragraph style sheet in QuarkXPress to apply your bulleted list formatting for quick use (Edit > Style Sheets).
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Keyboard Shortcuts:
The keyboard shortcut for the default bullet in QuarkXPress is Option (Mac OS) or Shiftɛ (Windows). If you are using the Symbol font and you know which key produces the symbol character you need, you can press Command䨘龷 (Mac OS) or Ctrl䨘龷 (Windows); the next keystroke will be in the Symbol font. Subsequent keystrokes automatically return to the original font. The same applies for entry of one Zapf Dingbat character when Command㪛抢羙 (Mac OS) or Ctrlɛ (Windows) is typed.
NOTE: The Symbol and Zapf Dingbats fonts must be installed on the system in order to use these shortcut combinations.
To explore the different bullet possibilities, view the entire font character set in either the Macintosh Key Caps utilities or Windows Character Map. You can also view special bullet glyphs in the Glyphs palette if they are available in the font.
An Alternative Method for Hanging Indents
If you have only a single paragraph that needs a Hanging Indent, or if you want manual and precise control in its placement, you can simply use an Indent Here character (Command [backslash]) immediately before the character on which you want subsequent lines to indent. The remaining lines of the current paragraph then wrap to the location of the Indent Here character.
Note: QuarkXPress 8 includes Hanging Character features that include additional controls for managing Hanging Punctuation and bulleted lists. |
global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/35916 | Water Module Basics
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The Water Module in the Tygron Platform is an implementation of a 2D grid based shallow water model based on the 2D Saint Venant equations (see surface model). The module is further enhanced with infiltration, evaporation, groundwater flow and hydraulic structures. This module simulates a water model for your project area, based on rainfall, breaches and existing open water.
Take a look at the testbed water module project, available in all domains, to see some of the components of the Water Module in a project.
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To perform the calculations, the project area is divided into a large grid of cells. Each cell has a specific quantity of water and specific hydrological parameters based on the data in the project. The total time which should be simulated is divided into discrete timesteps. Per timestep, each cell communicates with its adjacent cells to exchange water, based on it's water level, surface height, current flow direction and other factors. Accuracy and reliability is obtained by dividing the project area and simulation time into sufficiently small cells and steps, at the cost of more computation time.
The Water Module enables users to implement a water model for their project which is accurate and delivers fast results. To ensure accuracy, the Water Module is repeatedly tested against multiple (internationally) acknowledged hydrological benchmarks and tests. Fast results are achieved by executing the water calculations on High performance GPU servers.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/35924 | Part 2: Melatonin and sleep
The chemical structure of Melatonin
Melatonin, one of our bodies’ hormones, controls our sleep/wake cycle and, by extension, the degree of relaxation and quality of sleep we achieve. Melatonin is produced by various tissues in the body, although the major source is the pineal gland, a small endocrine gland located in the center of the brain but outside the blood-brain barrier. This gland, however, needs darkness to produce melatonin effectively. Bright light inhibits the pineal gland’s production of this hormone. This may also account for why some people sleep poorly when the moon is full.
As we age, our bodies produce increasingly less melatonin, which explains why many older people sleep less and not as deeply. When we have insufficient melatonin, we cannot relax enough for our bodies to complete all of the processes of renewal and regeneration that they normally would during sleep. Without these processes, we become prone to illness including insomnia, colds, inflammations, allergies, immune deficiencies, and cancer.
Melatonin from the pharmacy
Melatonin can be prescribed as a drug for severe insomnia or sleeplessness. In the United States it is also used to counteract jet lag.
Melatonin slows aging
Melatonin has many additional properties. As an antioxidant, it destroys free radicals and, in turn, slows aging. Free radicals are aggressive oxygen compounds that damage cells by oxidation—like rust on iron. People say that when we age we get “rusty.” This accurately describes how age-related melatonin decline affects us.
Melatonin protects against radiation
Numerous studies show that melatonin can shield mammalian tissue from ionizing radiation by up to 30%. The National Health Research Institute has collated and reviewed these studies on their website ( In 1996, Russel J. Reiter, a professor in the Department of Cellular and Structural Biology at the University of Texas (San Antonio), co-authored Melatonin (Bantam) with Jo Robinson. Reiter is a world-renowned expert on melatonin and has been studying its functions and its role in sleep, illness, and the reproductive system since the 1960s. He maintains that it is five hundred times more effective than Dimethyl Sulfoxide (DMSO) in protecting against radioactive radiation. It is also provides better protection than a lead apron against X-rays. A more in-depth discussion of melatonin and its role in sleep and overall health is available on our electrosmog pages.
Next: Part 3: Causes of Sleep Disorders |
global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/35931 | An American Addiction Centers Resource
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Getting Addicted to Gum?
Discussion in 'Other Substances' started by GenevB, May 10, 2015.
1. GenevB
GenevB Community Champion
I know it sounds silly, but I've had a few times in my life when I would chew 2 packs of the strongest mint gum out there a day. I remember that when I woke up the second day my throat was dry and I felt like a zombie, it was even worse than after smoking a pack of cigarettes. I remember that I was chewing even if I was drinking a bear, I was chewing before and after the meal, it simply helped me think. It an addiction I got rid of pretty hard, have you ever experienced anything like this?
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2. kylerlittle
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I've heard of it before, I know a few cases and no I've never experienced it myself but I guess there is hope for you to overcome that. Gum isn't that bad but it may contain sugar and if you consume it a lot it may be bad for you and also your teeth because they are in constant movement and chewing. I would recommend you to try and cut it slowly.
3. missbishi
missbishi Community Champion
I wouldn't exactly call that an "addiction" now, more of a bad habit. Chewing a small amount of gum after meals can be beneficial to teeth but too much can be extremely harmful.
4. kana_marie
kana_marie Community Champion
I'm wondering if maybe some people don't know the difference between addiction, need, want, and bad habit. The lines get a little more blurred everyday. I have more bad habits than I can count, but have had only a few addictions. The bad habits are annoying but harmless. Addictions have done more damage to my self and my life than gasoline does to an anthill. I don't need chocolate, I want it. I don't want blood pressure medicine, I need it. I can't explain it so that people will understand the difference. Can anyone help me explain this?
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5. 6up
6up Community Champion
Try and get out of that. Am sure that you have heard of the bad side. You better stop now as it will affect your life later.
6. kylerlittle
kylerlittle Community Champion
True. I would call it a bad habit too so it's good to make a distinction since there's nothing that the brain finds addicting about chewing gum, but it may be a bad habit and I don't think of it as something hard to overcome.
7. tasha
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This is just a bad habit and it can be stopped. Tell your brain that every time you chew gum your stomach is thinking that there is food in there and you are messing up your digestion. Stop buying the gum and focus on eating healthy snax instead.
8. kana_marie
kana_marie Community Champion
There are a lot of alternatives that are still healthy, too. Crackers, fruit, all sorts of food. Or you can get your tongue pierced. That's fun to play with. A Ruebics cube.
9. SunnySkies
SunnySkies Active Contributor
I have heard of this kind of addiction before. At your current state, it sounds more like a bad habit regarding food. Try eating some healthy alternatives instead, such as small snacks. It doesn't seem to hard to get out of.
10. kana_marie
kana_marie Community Champion
This is getting to be the time of year where you can get some home grown watermelons. That would be my strategy. In serious, too. No worries about dehydration, no worries about insane weight gain, the taste is wonderful!!
11. katherine25
katherine25 Senior Contributor
To be honest I have never heard of people being addicted to gum so this is interesting. I don't think its impossible to be addicted to it, people can become addicted to anything!
12. Charli
Charli Community Champion
I've gone through a lot of different phases in my life where I got kind of addicted to certain things but they always went away pretty much naturally. Sometimes I would have to put in a bit more effort but luckily I guess my type of personality is one that gets tired eventually.
13. vegito12
vegito12 Community Champion
I, think chewing gum can be a addiction and also a person can use it everytime in the day and also they can think it is not a bad habit but the oral health can be affected and bad teeth as well. I think it can be a addiction as someone can want to eat or drink at odd times so may use gums to satisfy the desire which can be good or bad for the mouth. Trying to overcome, can be done by eating some fruits or some healthy food and fruit juices and water also as that can be good for the mouth and teeth as well.
14. kylerlittle
kylerlittle Community Champion
I like them too! Not too much though but they're alright.
15. GenevB
GenevB Community Champion
It's the way you always chew something that makes the addiction not the substance itself. It actually helps you focus and think better through times, so I guess that's another reason for the addiction.
16. oraclemay
oraclemay Community Champion
I have never heard of this, but I guess you can become addicted to almost anything. I don't think this is very harmful unless you are taking it in excessive amounts, even then it may be better than many other substances. This may just be more of a really bad habit that needs to be broken.
17. Damien Lee
Damien Lee Community Champion
Totally agree with you. It was a bad habit of mine back when I was a teenager. Chewing too much gum actually contributed to tooth decay, as they are sugary after all. It also altered the rate in which I digested food, which wasn't natural. Once my dentist alerted me to the negatives of chewing too much gum, I stopped immediately.
18. amin021023
amin021023 Community Champion
As missbishi mentioned, it shouldn't be called an addiction. more of a habit. Gum makes people relax because it deceives your brain that you are eating while you're chewing and when you eat you're in no danger so you keep calm while chewing gum.
19. Jasmine2015
Jasmine2015 Community Champion
I love chewing gum when all I want to do is chew on something but not necessarily eat something. I have never heard of gum addiction but I guess the sugar from the gum or just the act of chewing us what gets addictive.
20. FuZyOn
FuZyOn Community Champion
I can relate, it took me a long time to get rid of chewing gum. While it's not something that dangerous I think you can really damage your teeth by chewing gum regularly, so I got rid of this bad habit slowly. |
global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/35935 | Street Beat Tokens
Copper plated zinc tokens allow you to avoid paying more for brass tokens, and TokensDirect has plenty of this affordable option. These tokens work in most coin mechs, although their light weight may affect weigh count accuracy. Since the tokens are copper plated, they are naturally anti-microbial and won’t rust. Call the company at 1-800-514-6312 or order stock tokens online at |
global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/35939 | July 11th, 2011
Cute pictures of children
Something I've noticed about LJ and my flist - pictures of kids. Now I'm not really a big fan of kids, however other people's kid pics manage to be remarkably cute - probably because I don't have to live with them! Also, they're little people..
Anyway, most of the people who post kid pics on my flist have younguns, like, preschool or early primary age. Hardly any of my friends have teenagers or if they do, they don't post pictures of them. Maybe teenagers aren't cute?
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OK, puzzle time. I saw this sign for the first time on Saturday and am wondering what it stands for. It's obviously a danger warning sign, but to me it looks like starbursts in your heart, which probably would kill you but is kind of a nice thought anyway:
So if you actually do know what it means, please tell me. If you don't, you get points for imaginative/amusing possibilities. One day I'll tally these points and we'll have a winner. The prize is knowing you're not Charlie Sheen.
Finally, today is the one year anniversary of Mum's death. Much has happened in that time. Tonight I'll light a candle for her on the ancestor altar. |
global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/35946 | #stepUp to help children with cancer
Our kids are the brightest stars in our lives. #StepUp in support of more funding for childhood cancer research to make sure every child can shine on and live a long, bright life.
Taylor was high spirited, fun loving, brave and determined. She used contagious laughter and smile to brighten every one’s day. Above all else, Taylor believed, that in life…”All You Need is Love”. Taylor bravely fought her illness for 5 years with a strong compassion for helping others.
Taylor knew the agony of the current state of the art in pediatric treatments and she knew how little is being done to keep other kids from knowing her pain and fear. She had 14 surgeries that did serious and lasting damage to her little body, 18 rounds of high dose chemotherapy, dozens of blood transfusions, weeks of torturous hospital stays, and countless days hooked to machines in the clinic. These treatments had ravaging effects on her little body.
She knew that chemotherapy is a toxic poison that often CAUSES secondary cancers. She knew that one of the chemotherapy drugs had harmed her hearing, another could have damaging heart effects and all have damaging effects on the kidneys and liver. Most of the drugs used on cases like Taylor’s are the same as were in use 20 years ago and cure rates for solid tumors have hardly changed in the last 10 years. Recurrence is all too common as well.
#StepUP to fulfill taylor’s dream that “someday no child will have to face cancer.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/35949 | summer memories
A night of dancing on Granville with an insta-queen and now real-life friend. We bonded over 90's hiphop and perusing a late-night sex shop. Getting lost on Burnaby mountains and shopping makeup, sipping sangria and sharing stories of men, family, and dreams. Eating tacos and getting lit at 11 AM, thick accents on point as we laughed and teared up, mourning and celebrating in the moment, like Indigenous women do. And finally, pasta and poetry shared on an adventure of lost restaurants, a decade's worth of friendship, and planning the next sleepover.
traveling Indigenous – Lana Garcelon, Guest Blogger
It was amazing to listen to my friends laugh and joke around in te reo Māori (the Māori language) and never apologizing if I didn’t know what they were saying. It made me want to learn my Dene language.
Traveling + a Baby
Yellowknife known as Sǫ̀mbak’è (money place)
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/35950 | Christmas Days
Today I held two sparkly, handmade tree ornaments in my hand thinking that one day, many years from now, I’ll be unwrapping them from a box to place back on the tree, like I do every year, and a teenage Oliver may be sitting on the couch reading a book, not wanting anything to do with decorating the tree.
Teenage Chloe might help me but she’ll be as tall as me and will gaze at her own handmade ornament and wonder when it was that she made this. I’ll remember. I’ll look back to little 6 year old Chloe, up to my waist with lovely bobbed hair, brimming smile and eager creativity wanting to decorate the tree. I’ll close my eyes after I stare at my grown girl and remember the smell of her hair, the smallness of her hands and her constantly wrinkled, wet thumb that she use to suck. I’ll tell her the date when she made the ornament and she’ll just shrug and say, “Oh. Cool.” then put it up on the tree. She won’t close her eyes and see or smell back into those memories and years. She won’t remember how sweet and small she was or see how anxious and giddy she use to get around Christmas time. She’ll just see the tree in front of her and some old ornament that I told her she made and she’ll hang it on the tree.
But I will watch her hang it and stare at her lovely, growing face, her carmel colored hair and I’ll watch her young lady hands put the ornament on the tree and I’ll wonder, “Where did all the days go?”. |
global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/35959 | Although Damon had ample time earlier in the month to complete the paper he is scheduled to present at a professional...
on October 30 at 03:24AM
Why is E the correct answer?
Hello, Could you help explain and diagram answer E? Thanks!
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Irina on October 30 at 04:18PM
We would usually only diagram conditional statements, but I can explain the logic behind (E). The argument tells us that Damon can only get the paper done in time if he works without interruption. But his daughter has a dance recital and he promised to take her there and go to ice cream afterwards. It means that he cannot fulfill both his professional and family responsibilities - two situations cannot occur at once because something necessary for one situation (he must take the daughter to her recital) is incompatible for another situation (he must work uninterrupted). Therefore, since these necessary conditions are mutually exclusive, the argument proceeds by saying that he could only pick one - take the daughter (family) or finish the paper (professional responsibilities). |
global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/35961 | What is Erasure Poetry?
An examination of the history, form and use of Erasure Poetry, a type of found poetry.
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Erasure poetry is a form of graphic found poetry, including blackout poetry, as well as other styles of poetry.
The first use of erasure poetry may be in the 1965 work by Doris Cross, entitled Dictionary Columns. Doris is mostly known as an artist rather than a poet, and as such is often neglected from the canon of erasure poetry. In Dictionary Columns, Cross navigates a dictionary, painting and drawing over sections to discover poetry hidden throughout.
Following this, several authors began to construct elaborate examples of erasure poetry, inspired by the artistic practice of Altered Books. This includes A Humument: A Treated Victorian Novel by Tom Philips, a work built upon the 1892 novel A Human Document by W H Mallock, and Ronald Johnson’s Radi Os, which revises the first four books of John Milton’s Paradise Lost.
In more recent times, erasure poetry has been used for political purposes, such as Jenny Holzer’s Redaction Paintings which use large scale reproductions of declassified military documents. By working with these documents, the concept of erasure within the military system is addressed. In some cases, the entire document may be blacked out.
Current Poet Laureate of the United States, Tracey K. Smith, has created several erasure poems, including ‘Declarations,’ which is a revision of the Declaration of Independence, and ‘The Greatest Personal Privation,’ taken from letters regarding slaveholding.
There are several forms of erasure, the most common of which is blackout poetry. In this, dark black pen is used to cross out words, leaving behind selected words in order to form a poem. Some choose to use a single black line, circling the remaining words, while others prefer to black out the entire page baring the chosen words.
Another form of erasure poetry uses illustration to mask out words, creating a link between the poem and the art.
Cut-up poetry could also be thought of as a method of erasure, in which the chosen words are cut out from the original text and re-ordered. Some modify this form and leave the poem as a skeleton of a page which has been cut apart.
Poetry written in these ways has a tendency to follow a choppy rhythm, bridging words that have jumped out as particularly fascinating or images of interest.
The beauty of erasure poetry lies in its ability to use a source material to comment on itself. While any poem can be made from any text, it might be considered that a great erasure poem is that which offers commentary on the source. An essay on poverty can be an excellent starting ground for a poem about the effects of poverty.
The poet should always be aware of the source, but also consider the manner in which erasure is practiced. Can the method used reinforce the point being made?
Erasure poetry is an interesting way of brainstorming new poems or moving into a more visual practice. I’ve also found it great to use in a workshop setting, once people get comfortable with ruining a book.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/35984 | Rottie Shepherd
How big will a Rottweiler Australian shepherd mix get?
You can find out all about the German Shepherd Dog in our extensive guide here. The Rottweiler is a member of the working group of breeds. Rotties are much larger in size, typically maturing to 77-130 pounds and 22-27 inches tall.
Do Great Dane puppies get growing pains?
Breeds that are predisposed to panosteitis include German shepherds, Great Danes, Dobermans, Golden retrievers, Labradors, Rotties and Basset hounds. The dog may show hesitance to walk, run, jump, or exercise. If the affected bone is squeezed, the dog will exhibit pain as well.
At what age should a German Shepherd be potty trained?
Most puppies can learn to be fully potty-trained by 4 months of age.
Are Australian Shepherds easy to potty train?
Australian Shepherds can typically be potty trained very easily. The key to potty training your puppy is consistency. One of the easiest ways to housebreak an Australian Shepherd is by crate training. Remember that consistency is key to housebreaking an Aussie.
Are German Shepherd puppies easy to potty train?
Where should my German shepherd sleep?
Place the crate in a room where you are both happy with your German Shepherd sleeping at night. He might like to be near you or he may want a cool, quiet place to sleep at night. When your pup is sleepy, even during the day, place him in the crate. Before sleep, be sure to take him outside to go potty.
How long does it usually take to potty train a German Shepherd puppy?
At approximately 20 days your German Shepherd puppy is able to control her bodily functions. In other words, she'll eliminate when necessary. At 8 to 16 weeks your pup can only hold her pee for approximately 2 hours. Take her out every hour to be safe. |
global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/36045 | I Can Help You
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1. Hi Antonia! just came across your profile while surfing the web. You are doing a great job out there and would like to work with you at some point. May 2016 be your best year yet!
2. Scrollable content on your iPhone App course. I’m doing your tutorial. On the scrollable content section the home app screen suddenly has a scrollbar on the right. Now it does not look so clean. you also didn’t explain about positioning that element? Am I missing something?
• Hi Simon, with Axure RP when you create a scrollable page using a dynamic panel, the vertical bars can be made to appear as needed, which is what I did. It is a basic function of the application (at the time) There are workarounds to this which the axure rp forum http://www.axure.com/c/forum.php comes in very handy to help with.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/36051 | Why doesn't the Tor Browser (4.5.1), even on the highest security setting disable cookies? They could be used to trace a user, potentially making it possible to build a profile.
Tor browser allows only session cookies. Afaik persistent cookies are treated as session cookies. Press "New Identity" under the green onion menu if you wish to clear cookies without restarting.
• How to change Tor to enable all cookies? – Pacerier Nov 23 '15 at 18:12
• It's Tor Browser, not Tor. It's a configuration option somewhere, but maybe you'll want an extension like self-destructing cookies, or a cookie saving and reloading extension instead. – Jeff Burdges Nov 25 '15 at 0:34
• This answer is incorrect; New Identity is just a shortcut for restarting the browser and wipes all state, not just cookies. – chrylis -on strike- Dec 4 '18 at 6:24
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/36054 | Can you hear me now?
Don’t say we don’t give you options! 🙂
2 Responses to “Can you hear me now?”
1. 416pictures Says:
I subscribed to the mailing list on this site, so I haven’t been missing announcements. BTW, is there a way to subscribe to the whole TOPW calendar, so any scheduled event is automatically added to a personal calendar, instead of adding each event separately?
2. paul Says:
Glad to hear that!
I use Google calendar so you can find the iCal feed @ http://www.google.com/calendar/embed?src=53aouvahi5tvfhjgl2n4dp6q2o%40group.calendar.google.com&ctz=America%2FNew_York
How you import it into your calendar will depend on what tool you use, but Google is probably your best bet 🙂 If it’s gCal then it’s easy – there’s an “add to Google Calendar” button down in the bottom right corner when you follow that link. |
global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/36056 | Ambient Piano V1
Ambient Piano V1
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Pianos for days. And nights. Pianos for Film and TV, for Radio and Records. Instant inspiration and vibe for producers, writers, DJs and composers.
Ambient Piano V1: A Chord and Roll from this Pack, 2 loops from Glitch Drums V1 and 2 Drones.
Ambient Piano V1: A Chord and Roll from this Pack, a loop from Pop Drums V1, the "Old" drone, Serum and the TAL.
Ambient Piano V1 gives you 10 unique sets; each set contains 16 cuts that are 8 bars long. Parts for verses, choruses, breaks, intros, etc... These cuts are divided as Chords and Rolls. Chords give you chord changes and comps, while Rolls give you more melodic samples such as arpeggios, melodies, and patterns.
Each set also contains 4 long-form samples that are 32 bars in length, also divided as Chords and Rolls. Drag one of these long phrases into a song for an instant verse part, or use cuts for a more edited/modern production approach.
For a given set, the Chord and Roll files will work together. Drag a long form sample into your session and make your own loop or populate a control device or sampler with cuts and have hours of ideas. Use as is or cut it like a sample. Change the pitch, the speed. You are in total control. Use this Pack to start new songs or flesh out existing tracks.
With this Pack, you get actual performances. Session ready, studio-level playing. If keys aren’t your strong area, this pack will elevate your production... but experienced keys players will benefit from the fresh perspective these parts bring. Some are quantized, others are left a bit loose. It’s all about helping you capture the vibe you hear in your head; it’s all about adding a bit of mystery and ambience to a track.
Like every other Track-Fox Pack, Ambient Pianos V1 uses consistent tempos and keys to effortlessly blend with other packs. In particular, adding Chords and Rolls to loops and drum programming will get you down the creative road quickly.
Specs: 10 unique sets of Chords and Rolls in varying tempos and keys. 156 8-bar Cuts. 40 32-bar long-form samples. 2 GB |
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In this project, we install Visual Studio Code and the recommended Salesforce Extension Pack.
1. Download and install the latest version of Visual Studio Code for your operating system. If you already have Visual Studio Code installed, there’s no need to reinstall it.
2. Launch Visual Studio Code.
3. On the left toolbar, click the Extensions icon Visual Studio Code's Extension icon. .
4. Search for Salesforce Extension Pack and click Install. If you already have it installed, then you just need to click on the Reload button.
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Note: Some features, particularly Apex support, in Salesforce Extensions for Visual Studio Code depend on the Java Platform, Standard Edition Development Kit (JDK). Only JDK 8 and 11 are supported. If you have another version of Java installed, you need to also install JDK 8 or JDK 11. Once you install the right JDK you can follow the steps here or here to configure your setup.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/36077 | • Koundouri P., P. Pashardes, T. Swanson and A. Xepapadeas, "The Economics of Water Management in Developing Countries: Problems, Principles and Policies", Edward Elgar Publishing, 2003.
• Pashardes P., T. Swanson and A. Xepapadeas, "Current Issues in the Economics of Water Resource Management: Theory, Applications and Policies", Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2002.
• Swanson T., P. Koundouri and B. Groom, "Cyprus Integrated Water Management", Report prepared for the European Commission, 2002.
• Pashardes P., "The Cost of the Turkish Invasion and Proposals for its Equitable Distribution", Council for the Equal Distribution of Economic Burdens, 2000 (summary) (in Greek). |
global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/36093 | UrsulaV (ursulav) wrote,
So last night, I went to a fetish party.
This is not something I normally do, but what the hell. A buddy of mine had offered to act as my mobile shield wall/native guide, and while you can accuse me of many, many things, lack of curiosity is not among them. The reasons I wanted to be an anthropologist were not all related to having seen Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom five hundred times.
And it was interesting. Not terribly well-populated, and admittedly there is only so much amusement I can derive from watching drunken frat boys electrocute various bits of their anatomy, but...interesting. (Personally, electricity is of no erotic interest to me whatsoever--after that nerve conduction test a few years back, I can't even hear a bug zapper without twitching. Still, whatever floats your goat...) I suspect I am not enough of a voyeur to find such things really interesting, but like anything, it's probably more fun if you know more people.
This morning, I got up, entirely too early given how late I was out, and went to the flea market. Since my Fiestaware was the only survivor of my move, I took it as a sign and picked up an assortment, plus a couple of earthenware bowls that appealled to me. And a duck decoy. I suspect I should resign myself to collecting duck decoys--I bought one a year or so back on a whim before I realized just how much I liked it, and have been keeping an idle eye out for them ever since. Mind you, this is not particularly a point in my life--living in a friend's house, everything I own in boxes, income severely curtailed--when I need to be buying duck decoys, but I run across them so rarely, and I have learned, like all collectors, to buy it when you see it, damnit.
So now my personal effects in my temporary base of operations consist of one suitcase of clothes, a radio, a stack of used books, a barong sculpture, a laptop and a duck decoy. Because you gotta have the essentials, right?
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/36097 | Removing an Empty Line
I am wondering how to remove an empty line at the end of the string. For example, if the string is:
"Hello World
It is nice out
I would like to remove that third line. Is there a way to use replace to do this? Happy Thanksgiving and thanks for any help!
How about trimming the end of the string? |
global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/36098 | Trouble with the lettre crate
Hello rustaceans, recently I was working on a project using the lettre crate ( After my code would take user input and process it, my function sendmail() would send the results to a certain email. The program seems to run correctly, however the email never arrives at the specified inbox. would someone please help me with the code?
extern crate lettre;
extern crate env_logger;
use lettre::{EmailAddress, Envelope, SendableEmail, Transport};
use lettre::SendmailTransport;
fn main() {
sendmail("test message".to_string());
fn sendmail(message: String) {
let envelope = Envelope::new(
let email = SendableEmail::new(
let mut sender = SendmailTransport::new();
Could you check your sendmail's logs? Maybe GMail is blocking you as spam, for example.
here are the sendmail logs. (using sendmail on mac)
344C815EAB68 305 Fri Dec 13 20:38:21
(connect to[]:25: Operation timed out)
30E6A15EAAA6 305 Fri Dec 13 20:37:03
(connect to[]:25: Operation timed out)
Apperently the operations are timing out.
Any suggestions?
Ask a real smtp server to send the email for you. Sending email correctly is nigh-impossible and requires all sorts of crazy setup at both the server and dns level.
AFAIK that's exactly what SendmailTransport does - it simply calls the system sendmail. Or do you mean "use some external server, not your own"?
If you can set up your local sendmail correctly, go ahead, but doing that is very difficult, so I recommend using an external one you know works. |
global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/36099 | Usage of mutable reference having one immutable
Every time i try to compile implementation of one of advent of code's task I get following error:
error[E0502]: cannot borrow `wires` as mutable because it is also borrowed as immutable
--> src/
195 | let mut collision = Collision::new(&wires);
| ------ immutable borrow occurs here
205 | for each_wire in &mut wires {
206 | each_wire.get_shortest_num_of_moves_for_collision(&collision_pts);
Here is my code:
let collision_pts: Vec<&Point> = collision.detect_on_wires();
println!("Found collision points: {:?}", collision_pts);
// part 1
let shortest_dist = get_shortest_distance(&collision_pts);
println!("Shortest distance: {}", shortest_dist);
// part 2
let shortest_moves_for_collisions: Vec<u32> = vec![];
for each_wire in &mut wires {
And fragment of Collision structure:
struct Collision <'a> { wires: &'a [Wire] }
impl <'a> Collision <'a> {
pub fn new(wires: &[Wire]) -> Collision {
Collision {
wires: wires
The problem is that Collision::new(.. uses immutable reference to wires, but then I need to perform some operations on wire elements. I know that this is a problem and I can't have mutable and immutable references of same element at the same time, but to be hones I have no idea how to solve that. Could you please explain me how to avoid such situations? Regards!
Does Collision only have that one field wires (or did you cut out the rest for simplicity's sake)?
Yes, it only has wires field
Is Wire your own type or is it contained in an external module?
Also, does Point contain a reference to Wire?
Both structures are mine. Here you have some more code:
Depending on how Point is defined, it might even be cheaper to copy it than to reference it.
Please post the type definitions in this thread.
Get rid of the Collision struct. Convert the methods of Collision into free-standing functions, that take &[Wire] as their first argument. You never mutate Collision and it doesn't own anything, i.e. chances are very high the struct is useless.
You can define a type alias, instead, if you want to:
type Collision<'a> = &'a [Wire];
fn detect_collision_pts(collision: Collision<'_>) { … }
Yeah, that is a solution and it will definitely work in this case, but I can think of some cases in which having such struct will be required and my question remains valid. Do you have idea of handling those? I mean, is there any chance in which my implementation may work?
What happens, if you get rid of the collision variable and instead just use collision like this?
let collision_pts: Vec<&Point> = Collision::new(&wires).detect_on_wires();
You may have to wrap Collision::new() in pair of (). Not sure if Rust likes Type::method().method().
Then we have a new error:
| ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ - temporary value is freed at the end of this statement
| |
| creates a temporary which is freed while still in use
After some analysis it wont solve it either :frowning: Problem is that i still need to borrow 'wires' twice.
1. First time in
let collision_pts: Vec<&Point> = detect_on_wires(&wires);
2. Second time in
for each_wire in &mut wires {
Result is the same -> I have mutable and immutable reference for the same variable :frowning:
Return Vec<Point> instead of Vec<&Point>. Derive Copy and Clone for Point.
Thank you all for your help :slight_smile: |
global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/36103 | Defeat Distractions, Purpose, Uncategorized
Are You at a Crossroad?
Purpose, Uncategorized
Let’s Talk Purpose (Part 2): Who Am I?
Hello, Warriors! This week, we're continuing our discussion on purpose and focusing on identity. Why? Because if you don't know who you are, it's impossible to walk in your purpose without falling down from time to time. In fact, how can you fully understand your purpose if you don't understand who God created you to… Continue reading Let’s Talk Purpose (Part 2): Who Am I? |
global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/36112 | I've got a canon powershot. It has an inbuilt mic. I usually take interview-type videos, mostly indoors. The audio quality is poor as far as the purpose is concerned. I use pitvi as my editing software.
The question I have is...how easy is it going to be to record audio from another device and merge that with the video using pitvi?
I also would want to know about audio recording devices which support a lapel or a collar microphone.
I don't know Pitivi but in general it's not hard to do what you need, just sometimes a little time consuming. Use a digital audio recorder that can record 48K at 16 bits at a solid fixed rate.
In this case since you already have sync audio from the camera, you can use it as a reference track to find and check sync with the separate track. It helps to use a clapper at the beginning and end of each scene, but since you have both tracks you might not need a visual clap, just a recognizable audio clap. If possible announce the scene and take so that it's audible on both.
If the sep sound drifts out of sync you can use those start and end claps to find the exact frame duration and adjust the rate of the sep sound to match. If Pitivi does this, great, but you can also use a free tool like Audacity.
You can do it with any decent video editor (I use openshot -http://www.openshot.org/)
The process is as Jim Mack says. You clap your hands 3 times in front of the camera and then you combine the video track and external sound usings these claps.
Regarding audio, your best and cheapest solution is the Zoom H1 (recorder) and the Audio Technica 3350 (lapel microphone)
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/36115 | On the Margins: Non-maximum Suppression with Tensorflow
I’m writing a series of posts on supercharging object detection inference performance in video streams using Tensorflow and cool tech from NVIDIA: step-by-step, starting from 6 fps all the way up to 230. But before I start, this small post is about a cool little gem, which I think is often overlooked.
Anyone in the object detection business knows that non-maximum suppression is indispensable to it. But try finding an implementation in a machine learning library of your choice! I couldn’t. Naturally there are lots of implementations on GitHub, so not a big deal, but still I would think that if I am using a machine learning framework something so crucial should just fall out of the box.
Turns out Tensorflow does this! Thank you, Google!
So here is my five-liner to wrap it:
def non_max_suppression_with_tf(sess, boxes, scores, max_output_size, iou_threshold=0.5):
Provide a tensorflow session and get non-maximum suppression
max_output_size, iou_threshold are passed to tf.image.non_max_suppression
non_max_idxs = tf.image.non_max_suppression(boxes, scores, max_output_size, iou_threshold=iou_threshold)
new_boxes = tf.cast(tf.gather(boxes, non_max_idxs), tf.int32)
new_scores = tf.gather(scores, non_max_idxs)
return sess.run([new_boxes, new_scores])
Note, that boxes and scores can be numpy arrays. This does require an active Tensorflow session for the results to materialize.
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High deductibles suck, even when you know about health savings accounts and no-deductible freebies. On the bright side, it’s possible to buy extra insurance that just covers your deductible.
Some employers offer gap insurance for deductibles, but you can also buy it yourself. Kind Health, for example, charges $25/month to cover a $2,500 deductible, or $50/month to cover a $7,500 deductible.
There’s a catch, though: since deductible insurance isn’t a full-fledged health insurance plan, it’s not subject to most regulations of the Affordable Care Act. If you have a pre-existing condition, for example, Kind will refuse to pay for care for that condition for a certain time period. They will still sell you the policy, though, and they will pay for care that’s not related to that condition. So these policies aren’t a perfect answer to high deductibles, but they’re a good option to know about if you’re having trouble filling up your HSA.
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To start the ball rolling ...
This 6 page guide to "Spirals of Inquiry" by Canadian educators Judy Halbert and Linda Kaser, might be an example of the kind of resource that people will suggest, along with videos, websites, events etc, etc.
Next up ....
A colleague has suggested including this link to the NZ Theses Database - certainly seems a useful source of NZ education research.
If you do have any other suggestions for resources/texts, please let us know and we'll add them here. This is particularly useful for any links that could add value for folks beyond those who are involved in a particular discussion thread, where you might already have posted the link. |
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While traveling, we continue doing the things on the Internet that we are used to doing such as reading news, checking email, making online payments, or posting pictures in our social media accounts.
These routine actions may seem to be inoffensive but performing them outside your password-protected network, you jeopardize your personal data. Connecting to public or semipublic Wi-Fi at the train station, airport, hotel, café or another public area you make your credit card details, passwords, photos, and other information identity thieves’ target.
Moreover, being outside of your home country you are likely not to be able to use some of the websites you prefer due to the restrictions and censorship in that particular country. The list of such countries is quite big. It includes China, Indonesia, Turkey, Thailand, Saudi Arabia, Vietnam, and many more. For instance, in Thailand, you can’t access The Daily Mail to read the latest news. In Bali, you can’t watch Vimeo videos. In China, you can’t access Instagram to post updates about your amazing holidays.
Get ready to travel with VPN
All these problems can be easily solved with a good VPN, which is a must-have for a modern traveler. Encrypting your connection with VPN, you ensure yourself comfort and information security during your holidays.
However, you may face some pitfalls, such as low speeds or logging in problems, which may cause frustration. Here are some tips that will help you optimize your VPN-travelling experience and enjoy your holidays to the full.
Slow speeds
A lot of Wi-Fi networks in resort hotels provide an extremely slow connection at peak times, while you still have to pay per minute for such unreliable access trying to load a page with VPN on in vain. In this case, it’s better to change a VPN server location, and the best option is to use a nearby location, that is to choose a country that is closer to your current location.
Logging in problems
There is a possibility that you may face troubles with logging in to a public Wi-Fi hotspot that requires entering credentials provided by a café (or another public place) with your VPN on. In this case, you need to disconnect your VPN just for the time required to log in, and once you’re successfully connected, turn your VPN on. Do it as fast as possible and always remember to reactivate your VPN before using any app or site.
Unsteady connection
If you’ve got an unsteady connection or the Internet stops working at all for some time, your VPN may disconnect and not connect automatically again. Thus, always make sure your VPN connection stays active by keeping an eye on the icon in the notification or taskbar.
Tying a laptop to a phone with VPN on
If you’re on ‘workation’ and need to access, for example, your company sensitive data, VPN is a must. So using a laptop, it’s better to have a VPN on it, because there may be troubles with tying an Android phone to a laptop to ensure a secure connection. This limitation is common within new Android versions and allows using VPN OR tying to the laptop — not both options at the same time. While iPhones allow tying and remaining VPN on the phone active, but in this case, your data on the laptop won’t be encrypted.
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The bottom line is, you can relieve some stresses associated with traveling abroad and protect your privacy simply by having a VPN. Equip your device with VPN protection to browse freely in any part of the world, but make sure to do it before arriving in the destination country cause the VPN download pages are often blocked. |
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Invasion of Banu Lahyan
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Invasion of Banu Lahyan
DateSeptember, 627 AD in Rabi‘ Al-Awwal or Jumada Al-Ula, 6 AH
Result Banu Lahyan tribe members escape
Commanders and leaders
Muhammad Unknown
200 Unknown
The Invasion of Banu Lahyan[1] took place in September, 627 AD in Rabi‘ Al-Awwal or Jumada Al-Ula, 6 AH of the Islamic calendar .[2]
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Muhammad wanted to get justice for the killing of 10 Muslims in Expedition of Al Raji. The Banu Lahyan were situated deep in the heart of Hijaz on the borders of Mecca, and due to deep-seated blood-revenge between the Muslims on the one hand, and Quraish and the Arabians on the other.
When the power of the allied Confederates collapsed and they began to slacken and resign to the current unfavourable balance of power, Muhammad seized this rare opportunity and decided that it was time to take justice on Banu Lahyan.[1][3]
Muhammad set out in Rabi‘ Al-Awwal or Jumada Al-Ula in the year six Hijri (July 627 AD) with 200 Muslim fighters and made a feint of heading for Syria, then soon changed route towards Batn Gharran, the scene of where 10 Muslims were killed in the Expedition of Al Raji. Bani Lahyan were on Alert and got the news of his march, the tribe then immediately fled to the mountain tops nearby and thus remained out of his reach. On his way back, Muhammad despatched a group of ten horsemen to a place called Kura‘ Al-Ghamim, in the vicinity of the habitation of Quraish in order to indirectly confirm his growing military power. All these skirmishes took 14 days, after which he left back for home.[1][3]
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Hadith literature
The event is mentioned in the Sahih Muslim hadith collection:
See also
1. ^ a b c Mubarakpuri, Saifur Rahman Al (2005), The Sealed Nectar, Darussalam Publications, p. 205
3. ^ a b Mubarakpuri, Saifur Rahman Al (2002), When the Moon Split, DarusSalam, p. 205, ISBN 978-9960-897-28-8
4. ^ Yahiya ibn Sharaf al-Nawawi (2005), Riyad-us Saliheen, Islamic Books See no. 1309
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/36167 | Reconstruction Tag - PaganSquare - Join the conversation! Thu, 23 Jan 2020 01:45:58 -0800 Joomla! - Open Source Content Management en-gb What can we compare Modern Minoan Paganism to?
When people hear about Modern Minoan Paganism, they often ask, "Oh, is that like Wicca but with labryses and that snake goddess?" Um, no.
Granted, a lot of my early Minoan rituals were very Wiccan in flavor, because like many modern Pagans, Wicca is where I started out. So my first book about Minoan spirituality, Ariadne's Thread, has rituals that follow a roughly Wiccan outline. But once we started developing Modern Minoan Paganism as its own thing, we moved away from that framework and to something more in keeping with the way the ancient Minoans probably worshiped. So the rituals in Labrys and Horns are definitely not Wiccan in flavor. (You'll find a discussion of the differences between the two books here.)
But saying that Modern Minoan Paganism (MMP) isn't like Wicca doesn't tell us what it is like.
If I had to compare MMP to any other modern Pagan tradition, I'd choose Druidry. Why? The similarities turn out to be a bit surprising.
First, modern Druidry isn't exactly a reconstructionist tradition; there simply isn't enough information to recreate an accurate version of ancient Druid practice (as compared to, say, Norse or Hellenic Paganism where there are loads of texts to do the reconstruction from). So modern Druids have had to fill in the blanks themselves, using both gnosis and educated guesses based on what we do know and what works in practical terms.
This is very much the way we do it in MMP. There are no Minoan texts to tell us how they practiced their religion (I promise you, clickbait titles notwithstanding, that no one has translated Linear A yet). We have loads of artifacts and the ruins of temples and other buildings, but nothing written by the Minoans themselves. So we take what we do have and fill in the blanks with shared gnosis and educated guesses based on our experience as practicing Pagans.
But wait, you say, what about all that stuff written in Linear B? That's another thing MMP and modern Druidry have in common: both traditions are based on cultures whose history we know mostly from the writings of people who weren't exactly friendly to them.
We know a certain amount about the Druids and their culture from stuff the Romans wrote. But the Romans aren't exactly an unbiased source; they viewed the Druids as backward and primitive and worked hard to wipe them all out.
Likewise, the Mycenaeans (early Greeks) weren't exactly friendly to the Minoans. Those Linear B tablets record the Mycenaean Greek language and show how the Mycenaeans, who took over Knossos and apparently tried to take over all of Crete, became wealthy and powerful. But they don't really tell us much about Minoan religion. And the few fragments of Minoan myth that made it through the Bronze Age collapse into Hellenic times were purposely twisted into versions designed to make the Greeks look good.
Another parallel is an interesting example of confluence that no one really noticed until after the fact: both modern Druidry and MMP have a reverence for the three realms of land, sea, and sky. In MMP we have three mother goddesses who represent these realms. We often refer to them simply as The Three.
So there you have it. If you want an analogy, a way to get your bearings about Modern Minoan Paganism, try comparing it to Druidry rather than Wicca. Though the two traditions are different in many ways, they share some interesting parallels that show us how ancient spiritual practices can be reborn in the modern world in ways that have meaning and value.
In the name of the bee,
And of the butterfly,
And of the breeze, amen.
Image: Isopata, original artwork by Laura Perry based on the Minoan gold seal ring from the Isopata cemetery near Knossos
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Modern Minoan Paganism: Reviving ancient spirituality
I've been in relationship with the Minoan gods and goddesses since I was a teenager, but it was only a few years ago that Modern Minoan Paganism began to take shape as a specific spiritual path. I've been walking that path with the lovely folks in Ariadne's Tribe, and together we're creating a tradition that works for us as Pagans in the modern world. The hardest part, believe it or not, is explaining what we do to other people.
The name Modern Minoan Paganism gives you a pretty good idea from the start: We're combining the bits and pieces we know about ancient Minoan religion and culture in a modern Pagan context. We can't really reconstruct ancient Minoan religious practice in detail. There are too many gaps in our knowledge, we don't live in the same kind of culture the Minoans did, and we probably don't want to go back to sacrificing bulls and goats (and possibly people) anyway.
But if we're not a reconstructionist tradition, then what are we? How can what we do be expressed in less than, say, four paragraphs?
We're a revivalist tradition.
The Roman Revivalists put it really well on their website: Their tradition is about "recognizing historical sources while adding the breath of our modern culture to create a vibrant, living, fully immersed spiritual practice."
I think that describes Modern Minoan Paganism pretty well. We begin with what we know about the ancient Minoans, but we add our experience as modern Pagans. We listen to the gods and let them guide us.
We acknowledge that Minoan religion was a somewhat syncretic practice as well. The Minoans traveled far and wide, and people came to ancient Crete from all over the place to trade. The Minoans adopted versions of the Egyptian deities Bes and Taweret into their spiritual practice. They brought in sphinxes from Egypt, griffins from Mesopotamia, lions from mainland Greece and Anatolia to add to their religious iconography.
Many of us honor deities from multiple pantheons, depending on our personal inclinations and backgrounds. The Minoans would have understood this; they were a cosmopolitan people.
While we can't (or possibly, shouldn't) reconstruct ancient Minoan religion in full the way it was practiced four thousand years ago, we do aim to restore Minoan spirituality to its rightful place in the world: practiced out in the open, available and welcoming to all, a support and (I hope) a balm for our time.
So welcome to Modern Minoan Paganism, a revivalist tradition and a welcoming path.
In the name of the bee,
And of the butterfly,
And of the breeze, amen.
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Is Modern Minoan Paganism true for its time?
Joseph Campbell said that all religions are true for their time. Of course, the religion the ancient Minoans practiced had meaning and value in Bronze Age Crete. But what about the spiritual path we're creating with Modern Minoan Paganism? How can we be sure it's true for our time?
First, I should point out that we're not trying to reconstruct ancient Minoan religion - really, we couldn't do a proper reconstruction even if we wanted to because we can't read what the Minoans wrote and we're missing a lot of the original mythology. And even if we did manage to reconstruct it all, it probably wouldn't fit well in our modern world: We have a different lifestyle, value set, and worldview than the Minoans did, even if we're Pagans.
So here's what we have to work with: garbled fragments of myths, many of which were purposely altered by the Greeks, and huge amounts of archaeological finds, from tiny seal stones to whole cities. And because we're modern people, we have no choice but to interpret it all through the lens of our modern mindset.
How can we make that work and have meaning for us? How can we make it true for our time?
I think we have to start with the aspects of Minoan civilization that drew many of us to it in the first place: the high status of women and the apparent equality of the sexes, the reverence for nature, the Goddess (or perhaps the Three) as the focal point of a plentiful pantheon full of many different kinds of gods and goddesses, both "civilized" and wild.
Sure, it's nifty to see that the Minoans had flush toilets and paved roads and enclosed sewers, but what really resonates with so many modern Pagans is the way they appear to have viewed the world as a sacred gift. Many of us value that concept, especially given the way much of humanity treats the environment and their fellow human beings these days.
So we begin with these thoughts that resonate with us from Minoan Crete, and we listen: The gods and goddesses still speak to humanity, if only we take the time and patience to listen. I think the gods understand that the world changes over time. They understand that the world isn't the same as it was in the Bronze Age. And they walk alongside us as we experiment, as we try out different ways of being in communion with them in our modern world, from quiet solitary meditations to big public rituals.
So that's how we make Modern Minoan Paganism true for our time: by living fully in our time while looking back to the ancient Minoans, their goddesses and gods, to find the truths that resonate across the ages.
In the name of the bee,
And of the butterfly,
And of the breeze, amen.
Artwork: Modern art interpretation of the Archanes Phourni Minoan seal ring by Laura Perry
Read more]]> (Laura Perry) Paths Blogs Tue, 26 Jun 2018 04:52:38 -0700
Modern Minoan Paganism: A How-To
When I first discovered the Pagan community, I never dreamed I'd end up as the facilitator for a new spiritual path, but here we are. Modern Minoan Paganism is a thing and a lot of us are doing it. So what, exactly, are we doing?
Like many Pagan traditions, there are no rules about what you must believe. Some of us are hard polytheists; some of us approach the Minoan deities from a psychological or symbolic perspective. All that really matters is that the connection works, however you make it. The central focus is the Minoan pantheon, the gods and goddesses of ancient Crete who are still very much alive today.
We make that connection with those deities in the modern world. So our practices must by necessity be contemporary: We're 21st-century people. But we also do our best to reflect back to Minoan times, to the ways the people back then probably "did religion." Since our information about the Minoans is limited, our spirituality ends up being a combination of historical reconstruction and spirit-led practices, what I often call sort-of-reconstruction. And what that gives us is a bunch of practices that we all share.
Probably the single most common activity we all share is setting up and maintaining a Minoan altar of some sort. Archaeologists have found lots of altars throughout the Minoan world, in big temples and small homes alike. This is one practice that virtually everyone shared back then and that helps us make those spiritual connections now, in the modern world.
What do we do with the altars we set up? We meditate and pray. We make offerings and libations. We enjoy the presence of the gods and goddesses in our homes. Sometimes we get a few friends together and use the altar as the focal point in a ritual.
Walking the labyrinth, either literally with a full-sized one or via meditation or a finger labyrinth, is also high up on the list. The labyrinth is a marvelous spiritual tool for reaching our own inner aspects and integrating them. It can also be used as a portal for shamanic journeying to various deities or for healing.
Many of us also use ecstatic body postures as a way to connect with the divine. These poses, depicted in figurines found at Minoan sacred sites, can be used by themselves in meditation or as part of a more complicated ritual.
I would like to point out that Modern Minoan Paganism isn’t the only Minoan path out there. The Minoan Sisterhood and the Minoan Brotherhood have been around for several decades. I've been asked why I didn’t mention them in my two Minoan spirituality books, Ariadne’s Thread and Labrys and Horns. The answer is simple: because they’re separate paths from Modern Minoan Paganism. For instance, I wouldn’t expect a member of one Druid tradition to write a book that discussed the spiritual practices of a different Druid tradition. Modern Minoan Paganism is its own path with its own evolving traditions and practices, open to people of all genders, sexual orientations, and ethnic backgrounds.
In the name of the bee,
And of the butterfly,
And of the breeze, amen!
Art: The High Priestess card art from The Minoan Tarot deck by Laura Perry
Read more]]> (Laura Perry) Paths Blogs Tue, 15 May 2018 05:00:15 -0700
Modern Minoan Paganism: What about the rules?
Different people approach spiritual practice in different ways. Some people like detailed rules for how to set up their altar, prepare for ritual, perform ritual, and clean up afterward. Others prefer a more open approach, following general guidelines but allowing their intuition to guide them for much of what they do.
Some spiritual traditions fall squarely in that first category as well, practices such as Hellenic and Roman Paganism, simply because we have extensive texts from those cultures telling us exactly how those people practiced their religion: What was allowed, what was required, what was forbidden. But for many ancient religions, we have few to no written sources to tell us how it was done. The religion practiced by the Minoans of Bronze Age Crete is one of those.
First of all, we can't read Linear A, the script the Minoans used to record their native language. The closest we can come is Linear B, the script the Mycenaeans used for administrative records at Knossos and several sites in mainland Greece. The Linear B tablets are records of temple donations and offerings, which only tells us what people gave to the big religious institutions during the time the Mycenaeans were pretty much running Crete. So we have no written sources to tell us how the Minoans practiced their religion.
We do have a lot of art and artifacts: frescoes and seals showing ritual scenes; offering tables and libation pitchers; votive figurines left as offerings at peak sanctuaries and cave shrines; altar furnishings and incense burners.
As modern Pagans, we can make some educated guesses about what went on in those ritual scenes and how many of those artifacts were used. In fact, we're probably better positioned to interpret those objects than most archaeologists are, since they have no experience of actual Pagan spiritual practice. But interpretation is the key word here. We're not ancient people with a Bronze Age worldview. We don't have written instructions so we have to try things out and see how they work. This is where things get uncomfortable for people who are used to having hard-and-fast rules to play by.
If you come from a background like eclectic Wicca or some of the African syncretic traditions, listening to the gods and goddesses and following their lead may be familiar to you. In our materialistic modern world, it can be difficult to learn to hear our own inner voices, much less the things the deities are trying to communicate to us. But in Modern Minoan Paganism, that's a big part of what we do. We listen, and then we experiment.
I don't guess what we do really counts as experimental archaeology, but it's kin to the practice in some ways. We take what we know about Minoan religion, listen to what we think the gods and goddesses are telling us, then go ahead and do the ritual and see what happens.
Sometimes it all goes smoothly and it feels like the gods are happy with what we've done. Sometimes something feels wrong, off-kilter, and we back up and try again. And sometimes we get strong messages that we've gone off the rails. I've had people repeatedly trip over thin air in ritual; I've had ritual tools knocked out of my hand by invisible forces, in full view of the entire group. When we get that tap on the shoulder, we back up and try again, listening more carefully via meditation, shamanic journeying, and similar methods. All the rituals in Labrys & Horns and Ariadne's Thread have been through this "vetting" process; some of them were trickier than others.
When we find practices that work for us, we share them and let others try them as well. When a bunch of us have success with a particular ritual or format, we add it to our collection.
But we can't assume that anything we do, even the powerfully successful rituals, is identical to the way the ancient Minoans practiced their religion. We're modern Pagans relating to the Minoan gods and goddesses in the modern world. I'm pretty sure the gods understand that the world changes over time. I'm just glad we're still able to connect, because my life would be much poorer without them.
In the name of the bee,
And of the butterfly,
And of the breeze, amen.
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Imperfect Canes
As we learn—or relearn—our native paganisms, the lessons sure do come from some strange places.
After surgery, a friend needed a cane. He told me what he wanted and I went down to the store to get it for him.
It soon became clear to me that his dream cane didn't exist. Eventually I bought the one that was closest to what he wanted, on the principle that, when you need a cane, it's better to have an imperfect cane than not to have the perfect one.
Planning this year's Samhain, we needed a song to call the ancestors.
In a traditional society, of course, we would call the ancestors with the song that they themselves had handed down to us. We'd all know this song, and it would have the quality and the worthiness that centuries of honing can give.
Alas, that song—along with so much else—is now lost to us.
Instead, we have a new song which, frankly, isn't as good as I would like it to be: the dilemma of much modern paganism.
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Faking History: Minoan Spirituality on the Line
Minoan ivory snake goddess
In the early 20th century, hundreds of fake Minoan artifacts circulated among museums and private collections. Even some of the archaeologists themselves got in on the act, which is a shame, but I understand the pressure to provide 'shiny' items for museums and to produce enough interesting finds to keep the funding coming so you don't risk having your dig shut down. Snake goddess figurines are so much more captivating than old stone blocks and bits of broken pottery, aren't they?
The problem is, all these fakes make it difficult to reconstruct exactly what a real Minoan shrine might have looked like - what the people actually put on the altars in their homes, in the cave and peak sanctuaries, and the temples. Since we don't have written records from the Minoans, we have to build up a picture of their religion from the artifacts, and that means sifting out the fakes, which can be incredibly difficult.
The snake goddess is iconic of Minoan civilization, but did you know that these are the only snake goddess figurines we can be sure are genuine?
Minoan snake goddesses at Iraklion Museum
We know these are the real thing because we know where they came from, what layer of the ruins at Knossos they were dug up from. That's called provenance - the record of where an item is from. A lot of forgeries have stories like "a local kid found it while playing in the ruins" or something of that sort, if they have any kind of background at all.
Even knowing the two snake goddess figurines above are genuine, we can't be sure how they were used. Maybe they were part of a formal ritual and cult practice in the temple complex where they were found. Or maybe they were personal items, owned by a priestess or a scribe or even one of the temple artisans. Many of us who practice modern Minoan Paganism use them to represent Ariadne, the central goddess of our practice. That has meaning for us in the contemporary world, but we can't honestly say we're sure that's how they were used four millennia ago. At least we know they were actually used by the ancient Minoans in one way or another, and maybe one day we'll find more ritual objects - or maybe translate Linear A - so we can better understand their original meaning and use.
I said there were a lot of forgeries floating around in the early 20th century, but the problem hasn't gone away. Many of the early fakes are still around in private collections, or even being auctioned off at Christie's (I feel sorry for whoever forked over $8000+ for this piece - I hope it was worth it to them). Most private owners can't afford expensive scientific dating procedures such as carbon-14 for organic materials like ivory and rehydroxylation dating for ceramics. And there isn't any kind of accurate dating method for metals like bronze, so those are still totally up for speculation. So the one from Christie's that I linked above and this probable forgery that's currently in the Walters Art Museum can't be dated:
Bronze snake goddess
It's hard enough trying to reconstruct spiritual practices from three or four thousand years ago without having to become an expert in archaeological forgeries. The general public relies on the professionals - the archaeologists and museum curators - to sift out the real from the fake for us. Unfortunately, due to a combination of lack of dating methods plus the pressure to have lots of 'pretties' on display, we're sometimes presented with fakes instead of the real thing. I don't think there's a magic solution to this problem, but it's definitely something to be aware of if you're basing your spirituality on an ancient culture.
I'll leave you with one more piece that's probably a forgery:
Terracotta Minoan statue
If you'd like to join the discussion about modern Minoan Paganism, head on over to Ariadne's Tribe, our welcoming community of spiritual adventurers.
In the name of the bee,
And of the butterfly,
And of the breeze, amen!
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/36178 | Of or traveling between moons.
I'm (as far as I can tell) inventing the term interlunar to describe travel between moons in a single planetary system.
Travel between
• Stars = Interstellar travel
• Planets = Interplanetary travel
• Moons = Interlunar travel (within the same planetary system)
• Asteroids = Interasteroidal travel (within the same asteroidal group, e.g. Trojans)
Normally I think the word "Lunar" implies Earth's Moon (Luna) but I think we can control this through capitalization (capital Luna = Earth's moon, small luna = any moon).
1. Ignore life support requirements for the moment.
2. Assume a technological civilization develops on one of the moons of Saturn.
What is the minimum level of rocketry technology (perhaps type of rocket capable of performing the task?) required to support a civilization that spans the breadth of Saturnian moon system?
If you can, try to equate that to a year of human technological development (e.g. liquid fueled rockets developed by Robert Goddard circa 1926).
• $\begingroup$ I can't help but think you also have to consider what level of tech is needed to extract rocket-fuel-materials in large volumes. Here on Earth we seem to have been able to find/discover/create fuel without much of an issue, but what if an explosive fuel was very very rare on your home moon? $\endgroup$ – JPhi1618 Oct 7 '15 at 22:22
• $\begingroup$ I worry more about the ionic and electromagnetic environment around Saturn... "Relatively speaking, MeV ion and electron weathering is most important closer to Saturn, e.g. at Janus and Mimas, whereas keV ion weathering is most important farther out, at Dione and Rhea." from the abstract of people.virginia.edu/~rej/papers08/paranicas-icarus08.pdf $\endgroup$ – Eric Towers Oct 8 '15 at 0:21
• $\begingroup$ I think of the Saturnian system as "benign" but that's benign in relation to the Jovian system. That's one reason I asked to ignore environmental / life support considerations for the moment. My actual thought was a life form adapted for life under water. Meaning perhaps the ship's environment possesses enough water habitat to protect the crew. But I don't really want to tackle that aspect yet :) $\endgroup$ – Jim2B Oct 8 '15 at 2:39
• $\begingroup$ "Luna" is not the name of our moon. The name of our moon (according to the IAU, who is responsible for such things) is "The Moon". $\endgroup$ – corsiKa Oct 8 '15 at 19:20
• $\begingroup$ "Luna" is the Latin word for "Moon" $\endgroup$ – Jim2B Oct 8 '15 at 21:30
Out of Saturn's 62 moons, only 13 are larger than 50km. Titan is by far the largest one and along with the next 6 largest moons accounts for over 99% of the combined mass of all moons. So let's focus on those 7 major moons. 5 of them are relatively close to Saturn, within 500 000 km, which is roughly comparable to how far the Moon is from Earth (384 000 km). Titan is a bit farther out - 1 220 000 km from Saturn, but only about half that from Rhea. I would expect that with Apollo type technology, you can put and sustain exploration stations on those moons and eventually inhabit them.
Since those moons are not very massive, you won't need super powerful rockets and should be fairly cheap to fly resupply missions between them. Moon's gravity is 1.622 m/s^2, compared with 9.8 m/s^2 for Earth. While Titan is almost twice as heavy as the Moon, it's still 4 times less than the Earth. The next largest moon Rhea is only 1/25 of the Moon's mass so there is virtually no gravity to overcome. A Saturn V rocket (which were used for Apollo) can deliver 48 600 kg payload to Moon orbit, so between those moons you'll be able to move enormous amounts of cargo very cheaply.
It's totally plausible for a civilization with 1970s type of tech to spread out through those moons similarly to how the pacific islanders spread through Polynesia. This scenario works even better if you take into account all the other smaller moons and use them to hop between the larger ones. You don't even have to have a rocket, you can drive a ground vehicle up a ramp and launch it in space. You can imagine "people" living in caravan like habitats that can just speeds up a hill and fly off into space on it's way to the next moon.
I ran a couple of quick calculations and came up with escape velocity for Rhea of 96 km/h (compared to 11.2 km/s for Earth), which is just about 60 mph.
Travelling between the moons is not going to be the hardest part, surviving on them is the problem. As ventsyv's excellent answer says even low power rockets and 1970's tech could handle travelling between moons in orbit around one planet.
However surviving on them is a far bigger challenge. We still don't know now how to make a stable enclosed ecosystem viable in the long term. You somehow need to shield people from radiation, deal with health issues from microgravity, grow food, run industry, etc.
To realistically do that you are going to need technology well ahead of the 70's in areas like robotics, automation, networking, agriculture, genetic engineering, etc.
With enough resources thrown at it we could do it now, and could probably have done it in the 90's. I'm not convinced it would be possible before then though.
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The purpose of chiropractic care is to address structural issues in the neck and improve its stability. Massage therapy works to relax tense muscles in the neck, and physical therapy works to improve range of motion and strength. Together, these treatment modalities alleviate the patient’s neck pain and help the patient avoid future injury.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/36257 | One binge drinking session could cause permanent harm
One binge drinking session could cause permanent harm
According to a new study, even a single episode of binge drinking can have serious negative health consequences. Researchers found that one binge drinking session results in bacteria leaking from the gut, which leads to higher levels of toxins within the blood. These bacterial toxins—endotoxins—force the body to produce immune cells that are involved in fever, tissue destruction and inflammation.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has defined binge drinking as a pattern of drinking that “brings a person’s blood alcohol concentration (BAC) to 0.08 grams percent or above. This typically happens when men consume 5 or more drinks, and when women consume 4 or more drinks, in about 2 hours.”
Further, estimates show that more than 38 million U.S. adults binge drink, about 4 times a month, and the largest number of drinks per binge is on average 8. This behavior greatly increases the chances of getting hurt or hurting others due to car crashes, violence, and suicide. Drinking too much, including binge drinking, causes 80,000 deaths in the U.S. each year.
“Binge drinking takes a tremendous toll on your body,” says Dr. Adam Rubinstein, an internal medicine physician with Advocate Condell Medical Center in Libertyville, Illinois. “Over time, binge drinking raises blood pressure and can significantly damage your liver. I typically tell patients that if they are going to drink at all, I’d rather they have one glass of wine with dinner each night rather than four or five glasses of wine in one sitting one time a week because of the negative impact of that kind of binge drinking.”
The CDC defines a single alcoholic drink as any drink that contains 0.6 ounces (14.0 grams or 1.2 tablespoons) of pure alcohol. Generally, this amount of pure alcohol is found in:
• 12-ounces of beer (5 percent alcohol content)
• 5-ounces of wine (12 percent alcohol content)
• 1.5-ounces of 80-proof (40 percent alcohol content) distilled spirits or liquor (e.g., gin, rum, vodka, whiskey)
Dr. Rubinstein adds, “You should always disclose to your physician how much alcohol you consume. If you have any underlying conditions or are taking certain medications, alcohol consumption may have a negative impact them.”
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/36263 | The actual setting of Alangara.
Alangara is set in the Inner Realms. A demi plane first created in the Core of Aber Toril, far below
Faerûn in the Forgotten Realms setting.
As such, Alangara sponsors all the gods and lore of the standard AD&D settings, but also that of
the Planescape settings and any other known gaming world. The Inner Realms also draw upon the
lore of the nordic mythology and other gaming universes, such as Warhammer and more.
The underlying storyline and setting of the Inner Realms is the struggle of the God "Zertihn"
to prove the power and worthiness of the mortals ( players ).
This means that all players may choose to embark on a journey towards becoming divine beings
after reaching level 40 - granting them vast strength and power to overcome the many
challenges of the Inner Realms. These become the mighty "Reborns".
Another specialty of the Inner Realms setting is that even though players may become extremely
powerful so does the monsters. and no player is even close to battling the might of the
worldbosses on their own. The "out-of-game" mentality is that there should ALWAYS be something
new to strive and aim for!
Grouping up is also encouraged via the XP-system that allows highlevels to aid lowlevels in lowlevel
areas. 2 players in a group get the same xp per mob as they would alone ( calculated on the
base of the level of both mob and player ). Thus 2 players in a group may get vastly different XP from
killing the same mob.
Alangara Rising sponsors both heavy RP and regular Action. People are expected to be in-character
when meeting others, but what a group decides to talk about amongst themselves, is 100% their own
business. It should also be noted that asking "should we join up to slay some…" is just as valid RP as
"Cometh ye might hither to vanquish thus foul threats to the realms with us", or what not. Fun is the
most important thing in the Inner Realms !
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/36302 | The versatile and simple to install Boral Masonry Connex Mortarless Block System is an innovation in building materials.
Developed by one of Australia’s leading manufacturers, this new dry stack system is the first of its kind. In contrast to other systems, Connex is comprised of just three units and requires no additional accessories, such as clips or wedges.
It is faster to install than a standard block wall, saves time and money, and ensures less wet waste on site.
Suitable for load bearing walls, retaining walls, lift and stairwells and as an alternative to concrete formwork or noise walls, this mortarless system can be installed during or after wet weather.
Connex includes three components that key together without clips, eliminating the need for mortared joints above the first course.
The grey Connex blocks are 200mm thick and the system includes three units - Stretcher, End and Corner, and Half Unit. The first course is laid with nibs on top, in a bed of conventional mortar, given that footings and floor slabs are seldom level. The following courses are dry-stacked.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/36343 | A holiday-timed poem on digital distraction that’s perfect for busy B2B professionals
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The author helps produce and facilitate all manner of conferences and events for business professionals, and occasionally ends them with an original poem. The following is an example.
Some say embrace the digital disruption
I fear it’s more like digital corruption
What’s happened to my span of attention?
Not to mention my powers of retention ?
Yes it may help us as we work
But why’s it so rare to just sit down and talk?
You remember, old school, face to face
The way it used to be for the human race
Look what digital’s done to the state of the nation
The U.K. now has a minister of social isolation.
Because amidst our technology fixation
Real human contact’s become an aberration.
Human plus smartphone is the new mutation
Turning it off a form of deprivation
So think about the smartphone in your hand
It only cost you about a grand
It’s so powerful, so seductive , so light
The screen it flickers – oh so bright
It’s how I keep all my memories, connect with friends.
I’m sure they’ll all love me to the end
Who are they all you ask, who?
To tell the truth I don’t have a clue
I collect friends like a philatelist stamps
Whoever has the most wins, they’re the champ
It connects you to a world of news
But it can also lead you to the blues
Unlimited Data you’ll gain but your soul you’ll lose
You can turn it off you know, if you choose.
So wonder – amongst all this networked wealth
What’s the toll on your mental health?
Try putting the phone to one side
Take a deep breath. Go play outside.
Working all hours hell for leather
Ask yourself is this a high speed connection or is it a tether?
We live in a world of infinite connection
Why then do I feel such a lack of direction
Like I’m naked with no protection
Alone craving contact, some genuine affection?
When did I last give or get undivided attention?
So please I beg you, step away from that screen
And reflect on the lesson of Banksy’s little scene.
If you ever find yourself in a situation like this
Forget the email the text, the tweet, the pin, the post you just can’t miss
And focus instead on the one you are about to kiss
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/36352 | We never learn, do we?
January 5, 2018
Every time an effective marketing channel is created, it's not long before we (as in marketers) ruin it by flooding it with irrelevant message after irrelevant message, until consumers finally switch off (or unsubscribe, or opt out, or ad-block).
First it was Direct Mail. By inundating people with huge volumes of barely targeted and terribly written mail, we made sure that these days most people a) barely get any post at all and b) throw most of what they do get straight into the bin. We sucked all the joy out of receiving letters and aided the creation of the word "Junk Mail".
Next came telemarketing. We harassed people non-stop with awfully scripted sales pitches for unwanted or irrelevant products, until they finally demanded that we stop. So then we had to create the Telephone Preference Service so they could block our calls. Instead of asking them what they did want, we just told them to block us. Genius. (Oh and we didn't really learn from this did we?)
Luckily, email came along at just the right time, so we just shifted our budgets to that and dumped trillions of crappy emails into inboxes. Because it was so cheap, right? Who cared if millions of people unsubscribed or blocked us?
What idiots we were. Nowadays, sending a marketing email to anyone requires us to navigate a maze of IP reputation, compliance, data protection, and deliverability.
The latest channel we are killing is display advertising. We have shot ourselves in the foot by bombarding our Web visitors with an array of intrusive ad formats – pop-unders, pop-overs, interstitials, auto-play videos, etc. – to the point where many people have had enough.
Figures from the IAB released last November tell us that 18% of consumers in the UK have ad-blocking software installed.
You'd think we would learn, as an industry, not to kill our cash cows. But we haven't.
So what's the answer? That's probably too hard a question to answer here (although I welcome your thoughts), but here are six things we should definitely be doing to counteract ad-blocking:
Stop lazy and stupid retargeting. After looking for a pair of trainers on Amazon, and then buying them (from Amazon), I was retargeted by Amazon for 3 weeks with trainer adverts! That's just idiotic and presumably completely ineffective.
Be smarter with our data. So few ads actually use what we know about our customers/prospects to drive creative and targeting in a joined up way.
Let people block us. Giving people the option to turn off ads completely in return for something - money, data, endorsement, whatever is of value to the business you're working for - is great customer experience and may actually improve the relationships you have with your customers.
Educate people as to what the purpose of advertising is - for some businesses (like the one I work in) advertising is absolutely vital in providing free, high quality websites to our local communities and we shouldn't be ashamed to admit that. Sometimes just explaining why we run ads is enough.
Invest in technology. If we do want to run ads, then let's make them load quickly, and display correctly
Finally, consider what the visitor wants. If we want to ask someone to sign up for an email, or complete a survey, or enter a competition, let's allow people to SPEND SOME TIME ON OUR SITE before we bombard them with calls to action, shall we?
You never know, just by being patient and looking at what they are browsing, we could learn something and serve them with much more relevant, personalised AND effective ads.
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What is Pediatric Androgen Insensitivity Syndrome (AIS)?
Androgen insensitivity syndrome is an example of disorders of sex development (DSD). An androgen is a hormone that causes a male child to develop male characteristics. Testosterone is the most well known androgen and is made by the testes (an also in the ovaries and adrenal glans of females).
What are the different types of Pediatric Androgen Insensitivity Syndrome (AIS)?
There are two general types of androgen insensitivity syndromes:
Complete Androgen Insensitivity Syndrome (CAIS)
CAIS is a syndrome where a child’s body is completely immune to the effects of androgens. When these children are born, they generally appear to be normal females and often the diagnosis is not suspected. The complete form of the syndrome is rare and occurs in about 1 in 20,000 live births.
These patients have male chromosomes (46XY), but because androgens have no effect they develop normal female external genitalia. Internally these patients have gonads that are testes but reside inside the abdomen and the upper part of the vagina, uterus, and fallopian tubes are absent.
These children most commonly present in one of two ways:
• An inguinal hernia before puberty
• Failure to start menstruation (periods) with puberty
• Failure to develop pubic hair despite normal breast development
These children do go through puberty with breast development because their androgens are converted to a hormone (estrogen) that causes breast development.
Once the diagnosis of CAIS is made families and patients typically have a lot of questions and concerns. It can come as quite a surprise because these patients appear to be completely normal females.
Generally, these patients do not have any other health problems. They typically have a female gender identity because the androgen receptors in the brain also do not sense any androgen which can lead to a male gender identity. Unfortunately, pregnancy is not possible due to the absence of uterus.
While it is somewhat controversial, some specialists may offer removal of the gonads after puberty because of a slightly increased risk of gonad tumors. If the gonads are removed, estrogen replacement therapy is needed. Occasionally, but not always, the vagina is too short. Serial dilation, taught in the office is the most successful and preferred method for vaginal creation. Rarely, reconstructive vaginal surgery is needed.
Partial Androgen Insensitivity Syndrome (PAIS)
(PAIS) is another form of androgen insensitivity. As the name suggests, PAIS patients are only partially sensitive to androgens.
Externally, the patients have ambiguous genitalia ranging from mostly female to almost completely normal male. Internally, the patients do not have a uterus or fallopian tubes. The testes can be in the abdomen, in the groin, or completely descended. These patients typically present soon after birth due to the ambiguous genitalia.
The diagnosis of PAIS is sometimes difficult to make and the management of patients with PAIS can be challenging. Because there is a variable amount of male hormone exposure in the brain, it is difficult to predict with certainty male or female gender identity.
If a patient is raised male, they may require reconstructive surgery surgery and may have dissatisfaction with final penile size and function in the future. In addition, due to the conversion of androgens to estrogens males may have breast development that may require surgical management.
If a patient is raised female, there is a risk for gender dysphoria and requesting conversion to a male.
What are the signs and symptoms of Pediatric Androgen Insensitivity Syndrome (AIS)?
Symptoms may not be noted until puberty and may include:
• A short vagina (blind pouch), but no cervix or uterus (found upon pelvic exam/ultrasound)
• No menstrual cycle, due to an absent uterus
• Normal breast development with little or no pubic and armpit hair
• No acne during puberty
• Hernias or lumps in the groin or abdomen (which are actually testes)
• An inguinal hernia with testes that can be felt during a physical examination
• Testes in the abdomen or another unusual place in the body (discovered via ultrasound or during other surgery)
• External genitals that aren't clearly male or female (ambiguous genitalia), in the case of partial or incomplete androgen insensitivity
How is Pediatric Androgen Insensitivity Syndrome (AIS) diagnosed?
Complete androgen insensitivity is typically discovered at puberty, when a girl fails to start having periods or doesn’t develop pubic or underarm hair. Occasionally, a child is diagnosed when a growth is felt in the abdomen and determined to be a testicle during surgery.
Diagnosis starts with a thorough medical history and physical exam, including a pelvic exam. Additional testing may include:
• Blood test – to check hormone levels
• Genetic testing (karyotype)
• Pelvic ultrasound or MRI of the pelvis to see the internal organs, confirming the absence of internal female reproductive organs
Partial androgen insensitivity is usually discovered when the baby is born because the external genitals aren't clearly male or female (ambiguous genitalia)
How is Pediatric Androgen Insensitivity Syndrome (AIS) treated?
Testicles that are in the wrong place may not be removed until a child finishes growing and goes through puberty. They sometimes are removed because they can develop cancer, just like any undescended testicle. The risk of cancer is very low, however, and some individuals may choose to monitor over time with serial imaging, rather than undergo surgery.
• For complete androgen insensitivity, your child’s doctor will prescribe estrogen replacement after puberty, after the gonads are removed, to prevent menopausal symptoms and osteoporosis.
After puberty, some patients use vaginal dilators over 3 to 6 months (or undergo surgery) to lengthen the vagina.
• For partial androgen insensitivity, gender assignment surgery can be performed on a child’s external genitals – after discussions with specialists and genetic testing.
Treatment and gender assignment can be a very complex issue, and must be targeted to each individual person. Your doctor can recommend counseling and psychological support for your child and your family.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/36557 | He Changed Our World
Recognize him yet? He's the helpful character that taught a first generation of pioneers how to program computers.
He never had a name, he just added humor and commentary to what is arguably one of the finest user's manuals ever written, the TRS-80 Level I User's Manual.
This manual, written in 1977 by Dr. David A. Lien, was designed to handle an amazing task. Teach people how to use their new "computer" when no one knew what a computer was.
It's hard to imagine, but in 1977, the TRS-80 was the first-ever computer for the public. A handful of hobbiest systems, notably running CP/M, or kit systems like the Apple-I had been out, but it took Radio Shack to try and sell a computer to John Q. Public right next to a new CB radio or 9-volt battery.
Computers for everyone was a radical concept, for one big reason - there was no software.
No joke, the first TRS-80 Level I 4K computer came with built-in BASIC. In fact, initially there wasn't even a cassette deck. You bought a computer that came up in BASIC when you turned it on. If you wanted to run a program, you had to write it. Then and there.
Just to make it interesting, realize that no one else had a computer either. There was no one to ask questions of. Outside of a university minicomputer, no one really knew what a computer was, or what it was for.
And that's where our hero comes in. The TRS-80 Level I User's Manual, after using 2 pages to explain how to set up the computer, went straight on to teach a user how to write software so it could do something.
A legion of people learned to write software from this volume. The easy to read, conversational style and short, understandable examples made it possible for someone to sit down and learn to program on their own.
And we do mean on their own. Computer magazines, user's groups and working code examples didn't exist yet. And rest assured, the Radio Shack staff didn't know what to do with it!
Charles Petzold's Programming Windows is often cited as a masterful piece of writing, and it is. But Dr. Lien's relaxed style and bite sized samples were like potato chips. Just one wouldn't hurt, but then it worked, and the next one was only a couple more lines and, "hey, I can do that."
Many times someone would flip through the manual wondering what the heck a computer was, tried the first example, and left the store at closing time. Good thing. Radio Shack didn't figure out how to market it until the Model III.
From Chapter 1
"Just What Is a Computer Program?
A program is a sequence of instructions that the Computer stores until we command it follow (or "execute") those instructions. Programs for the TRS-80 are written in a language called BASIC - and that should give you and idea how easy it is to learn!
Let's write a simple one-line program to let the TRS-80 introduce itself. First be sure the last line on the screen shows a >, which we call the "prompt". This is the Computer's way of saying, "Go ahead -- do somthing!" Now type the following line, exactly as shown:
Do not hit the ENTER key yet!
If you made a mistake, don't worry -- it's much easier to correct typing errors on the TRS-80 than it is on a regular typewriter. No rubber erasers or white paint to fuss with! Just use the backspace key..."
Alas, even this fine volume couldn't withstand the ravages of time and the Politically Correct revolution.
Well, unless there were riots outside Tandy Corp that we didn't hear about back in 1977.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/36562 | Societies 4 protection off-limits
Filtering societies for good
There are certain types of societies, that other ones strive to mingle with. Those societies tend to have less accidents and unwilling surprises by far. They live moderate happy life. Everything is well predicted and calculated in their lives. No unnecessary spending and wasting in the market. Every unit of a social group knows its role. And the authorities wisely spend their sources on the needs of all. Now that is what I call a social security. What is more important, they tend to invite new groups into their house. Isn’t it beautiful? It is.
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The other ones cannot, do not want or have not any other reasons to change anything with their lives. Construction worker might have been building the roads, buildings and significant objects, and yet never build it to the final point of exploitation. A doctor might cure their patient, prescribe expensive medicines, book the appointments, yet never heal. A driver can drive the heavy car that is very dangerous, can loose his focus and kill someone on the road. Where that’s has just become a habit, to name a few. How far that society will move ahead? The answer is obvious.
Where is the faithful connection between authorities and public, and how to make it evenly tight? Think of it. Responsibilities and precise watch over those who collecting taxes and managing others’ lives. It is prescribed in the written form and strictly followed by executives. It is full duty of the government. Such societies will never fail.
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Sunday, February 05, 2012
Crabs In A Barrel
Profanity is heavily used in this one. So, if you don't want read it, don't read it. One of my biggest weaknesses, is not getting constructive things done. It is extremely difficult to resist Racism / White Supremacy. It's a battle on all fronts:
What do I mean by "Crabs in a barrel"? It comes from the fact that crab fishermen don't have to put a lid on top of a barrel of crabs, because the crabs will pull each other down, as they struggle to get out of the barrel. Such behavior is a characteristic of many Victims Of Racism.
1. My Mind- there is a constant day to day battle against what I call the "nigger within". In the minor area of people activity known as psychology, it is referred to as the subconscious mind. I call it the "nigger within", because it represents the negative behaviors that I see within myself and other "non-white" people. It's a "slave mentality" that is constantly telling me that I am cursed, that I am inferior, I am a piece of shit failure, unworthy of justice because I am "black", and that because I am "Black" permanently, I am cursed forever. It kind of reminds me of the "Uncle Ruckus" character from The Boondocks series. I've tried so many things to try to get rid of this feeling. Astrology, Buddhism, Christianity, the teachings of the Hon. Elijah Muhammad, Orthodox Islam, Sunni Islam, the traditional Yoruba belief system of Ifa, Taoism, The philosophy and opinions of the Hon. Marcus Garvey, Afrocentrism, African History, African-American history, Black History, whatever, and many other beliefs that aren't coming to my mind right now. Self-Help methods- Think and Grow Rich, Think and Grow Rich- A Black Perspective, Rich Dad, Poor Dad, The Richest Man In Babylon, The Millionaire Mind, The Celestine Prophesy, The Leader Within, As A Man Thinketh, Tony Robbins, Les Brown, and plenty of other self-help methods that I've used. Marijuana, Cocaine, Crystal Meth, Crack (I tiny bit in a marijuana joint, once), PCP (also in a marijuana joint), Malt liquor, Imported beer, Micro brews, red wine, white wine, Newports, Kools, Marlboro Red, light, menthol, whatever. Hip Hop, Rock and Roll, R and B, Classical, Jazz, Blues, Reggae, I've talked to "black" male, "black" female, "white" male, and "white" female, therapists. Talking to myself in the mirror. No matter what I've tried to use to help stop the fear and worry that comes from being a victim, I always end up still being a victim. I am so beat down right now, I don't know what to do anymore. I am tired of fighting. I am so fed up, that I am tired of being tired of fighting. I wanted to follow in the foot steps of the other warriors against White Supremacy, Malcolm, Martin, Marcus, Elijah, WEB, Huey, Geronimo, Nat, Toussant, Ho Chi Minh, Nkrumah, Mugabe, (I'd like to name them all, but, it's just so many), but they had people around them, that to some ex stint believed in the same things that they did and that helped them get through, I think. I don't know at this point. I do know that not having others around who think or share the same objectives, really slows me down.
2. Attempted Wife- I long for the day when I can meet a female (not an invitation) that doesn't believe that I am supposed to worship her because she has a pussy (queens of the chess board). I've had relationships with "black" females (I am currently in my second attempted marriage to a "black" female), "white" females, and other "non-white" females, and they all wanted me to do what they wanted me to do. Not one gave a shit about me and what I wanted to do, unless it related to their agenda, which most of them didn't actually have, because they never sat down to think about. Logically, I know that all females aren't like this, but, so far the ones that I've met have all been the same but, thought that I never met anyone like them before. For example, many of the ones that I've dated, wanted to change how I dress, like I am a fucking Ken doll! Each one acting as though I needed a "woman's touch". I am constantly arguing with her about what "I am doing wrong." She's always looking over my shoulder, when I am on the internet, because she thinks that finding more pussies to fuck is always on the mind of the black male. He can't possibly want to truly replace white supremacy with justice...whatever that means to her. I am not the sexual fiend that the system presents me as. I know how to keep my dick in my pants (which on many occasions has caused some "White" females, to ask if I knew that they've dated "black" guys before. And then I am supposed to be a fucking work horse with energizer batteries that never run out. Drive here, pick up this, get that, take out this, cut that, fix this, kill this (insects! not people!) go to the store and get this or that. All with no consideration for what my objective is at that time. The T.V. and the internet are blasting me with sexual images of females (mostly "White" women) showing their legs, feet, and curves, laying on top of something, trying to tap into that "nigger within", every single day, day in and day out. And my attempted wife is acting as if I have cheated on her already? I think that this makes for a not so good combination of things that could make me crack. I am attempting to be strong, I know that it was apart of the "slave mentality" of the "black" male to be having sexual intercourse with lots of females, but it was the same for the "black" female too. The system has branded us both as sex hounds, but damn, you'd think that both of us knowing this would keep us strong and trusting of one another... well she doesn't know it like I know it, and refuses to here it from me. Slavery talk "makes her depressed" or "do too much thinking." DO TOO MUCH THINKING? That's the damn problem, right there. I didn't know that she didn't like to think to much! Hell, I never thought that such a person existed. I mean I heard of such people, but, I didn't think that any would cross my path. Wow, I guess I didn't think to much about it. I think that was what they call a pun. Neely Fuller nailed it to the wall when he said that most conflicts in a relationship, start with the words "I didn't know....."If you aren't in an attempted marriage or sexual relationship with a "Non-white" female yet, please sit down as soon as possible and write down at least 200 questions (another Fuller suggestion) to ask her, so that you can be somewhat prepared. Because if your a Victim of Racism, you're already fighting with yourself, and you don't need to bring in another nigger to join sides with the "nigger within" and they start tag teaming you. I am trying to get things done, by keeping my office in order (it has become our office, now that I am trying to get organized). Malcolm, Marcus, Martin, Elijah, all had their own offices in their houses. She says "You ain't them!" We're crabs in a fucking barrel.
3. Some of my "Non-white" Family members and Friends- Having other Victims of Racism for friends....................... where do I start. Most of mine, (just like my attempted wife) try to get as much of my time and energy as they can, while giving me back the least amount of theirs. Money represents energy. Energy is needed to acquire resources. Hustling, is what we used to call it in the streets. But, the way I was brought up, you hustled your enemies, not your friends. Unfortunately I guess I've never really had any friends that believed this, so I am on my own here. There's a difference between someone genuinely needing your help and someone who just uses you for their own objectives. I noticed that a lot of times, my time and energy is most needed from them when I am attempting to do something constructive, like Resist White Supremacy. My friends fight with each other and want to place me in the middle of it, by making it appear that I am on their side, and then turn around and call me "two-faced". Yeah, I got two faces, one is the "conscious me" and the other is the "nigger within", and most of the time, I try to stay conscious by reading, studying, and learning more about myself in relation to White Supremacy. These friends "borrow" things without permission ( I mean at least let me know so that, I don't drive myself crazy looking for it). They borrow books, cars, clothes, etc, and give it back to me in a worse condition than it was in when they first got it from me, and have the nerve enough to say it was like that when they got it or just act as though nothing ever happened to it. In both cases for me it was books. I loaned a victim a brand new (out of the wrapper) copy of Message To The Blackman by Elijah Muhammad. He returned it to me two weeks later, cover pages all bent up, stains on the pages, and smelling like fish. This nigger handed the book to me, and said absolutely nothing! I was like "what happened to the book?" He got an attitude with me about it! "Aw, nigga it ain't nothin. you can still read it, can't you?" But, I'd of been incorrect if I'd of killed him over a book, right? There's still others who will borrow from you and then act as though the item they borrowed was never borrowed. I loaned another victim, a so-called Guamanian (under the system of White Supremacy, they're niggers too) a book The Richest Man In Babylon. He kept it for about three months. I asked for it back, because I already knew that the longer time a victim keeps something that belongs to me, increases the chance for a conflict between us. He says "I gave that back to you." After a few minutes of going around in circles, like a dog chasing his tail. "No, you didn't." "Yes, I did." "No, you didn't." "Yes, I did." I didn't say anything else. Fuck the damn book. Another, month goes by. I open the passenger side door of his car, as we're getting ready to go somewhere when, what do I see? My book lodged in that space between the seat and the door. I said "hey man, here's my book, right here!" "That ain't yours, that's the one that I bought after, I gave you back yours." N-I-G-G-E-R-S. I should have known better. My dad had rubber stamped his name in all of his books. I have a rubber stamp now, but, I have made up in my mind that if I loan something to someone, I will not expect to get it back. The same idea applies to money. My dad used to say if you don't want to see a friend come around anymore loan them some money. I say if you want to stop people from asking you for money, ask them for collateral. they'll stop. If I see that someone really needs it, and I have it, I don't loan it to them, I give it to them. I am a member of the Bynes Family. It's a family that has been having family reunions for over 100 years. It's divided up into committees. About 3 years ago, someone who finally made it to the head committee, decided that because my Great-Great-Grandfather had a different mother than all of his half-brothers and sisters, that his descendants aren't apart of the family and aren't allowed to participate in the reunions. If that ain't no nigger shit, I don't know what is.
That's my rant for the day. I don't know if it makes since or not. I just don't care at this point. The Racists White Supremacists are responsible for us being crabs in the barrel, because they say and do things that keep us believing that we have to fight each other for the few crumbs that they drop off of the table.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/36598 | The Blockchain Summarized in 5 Minutes
The Blockchain can be a difficult concept to comprehend. This post will at least tell you enough info to sound intelligent at your next dinner party.
Don’t get discouraged and angrily click away! It’s going to take some time for the ideas to stick in your mind, and the details can get a little blah rather quickly.
It’s something that is new to the greater majority of people, and there are going to be tons of new terms and concepts that will take a minute to stick in your brain.
That’s okay!
Hopefully, after reading this blog post you will leave with a basic understanding of what Blockchain technology is. If you can pass the grandparent test, then we’ll consider it a success.
The Blockchain summed up in one sentence:
A giant spreadsheet that anyone can access, and is continually updated and checked by multiple users for accuracy.
So what is it already?
The blockchain is an incorruptible digital ledger that can be used to accurately record financial transactions, as well as other applications of value. It’s a completely open source digital ledger, which means that anyone can have access to it that wants it. Since anyone can gain access and participate in the process of verifying blocks, also known as block mining, it is completely decentralized. This means that there is no single person, or organization responsible for verifying transactions. By distributing the power to verify transactions, this allows for much more accurate record keeping.
It is not possible for one entity to control the blockchain, and therefore it has no single point of failure.
Example of how a transaction works on the blockchain
1. Someone requests a transaction.
2. This request is sent out to a P2P (peer-to-peer) network that consists of computers that are referred to as nodes.
3. Each node is given a master copy of the digital ledger to validate
4. The network of computers (nodes) validates the transaction using known computational algorithms. (Each node creates it’s own updated series of events on the blockchain.)
5. Every node in the network comes to the same conclusion, and each node updates the transaction independently. The most popular record continuously becoming the effective master copy.
6. Once the transaction is verified, it is combined together with other transactions to form a new block of data.
7. The new data block is added to the existing chain of blocks. The updated blockchain is permanent and can not be altered.
8. The transaction is now complete.
Blockchain technology is the combination of three different previously known technologies that work together as one.
1. Private key cryptography
Each user is assigned two separate keys which are essentially large, randomly generated strings of characters. The two keys are paired together but are not identical to each other.
• The first key is a public key. The public key can be shared with anyone and is accessible to anyone.
• The second key is a private key. This key should not be shared with anyone else. The private key is used to both encrypt and decrypt the data.
If I were to send you 1 Bitcoin, the private key is what encrypts the Bitcoin transaction. When you receive the Bitcoin in your account, your private key then decrypts the message for you allowing you to access it. This renders the message unreadable to everyone that does not have the private key associated with the public key that the Bitcoin was sent to.
It’s why Bitcoin transactions are very secure and difficult to hack.
2. P2P (peer-to-peer) network
A distributed network with a shared ledger is how transactions are verified on the blockchain. The shared ledger is available to anyone and can be monitored and verified by anyone. There is no single entity responsible for the validation of transactions. The larger the network of users that participate in the validation of transactions, the more secure the network becomes.
3. Program & Incentives (the blockchain protocol)
So why would a network of millions of users use their time, effort, and computing power to verify transactions?
They are incentivized to do so.
A blockchain is verified willingly by numerous people who have their own self-interest in mind. By accurately and quickly verifying transactions on the blockchain, users are rewarded for their efforts. It’s an interesting spin of the economic theory, the tragedy of the commons. This is where each individual tries to obtain the biggest reward possible from a given resource. The resource is one that is typically open to anyone in society. The tragedy arises when the individuals neglect the well-being of society in the pursuit of personal gains.
With blockchains, the users’ personal gains and self-interest are used to help service the public need.
With Bitcoin, for example, the incentive for verifying transactions in a block is a small percentage of Bitcoin for themselves in return.
Congratulations, you now have a basic understanding of Blockchain technology and how it works. Now cross it off your bucket list and go find someone to impress with your newly acquired knowledge! If they seem uninterested, just speak progressively louder until they are.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/36613 | Why Artificial Intelligence Needs to breath on Blockchain ?
When two tech AI & Blockchain join hands to make human lives better, can this, in flip side of coin, prove a disastrous effect to mankind ? What were Stephen hawking's views about AI and why does it matter ?
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/36635 | Mite-y Matters: Mange in Dogs
You’ve probably heard the phrase mangy dog. As in your mom saying, “Stay away from that mangy dog!” But what, exactly, does the adjective mangy mean? And, more importantly, could your dog ever be described as mangy?
Mangy means having mange
Mange is a skin disease caused by microscopic mites living on or in a dog’s skin and hair follicles. Some of these mites are normal residents of canine skin, but others aren’t. These common external parasites can produce mild to severe skin infections if their populations are allowed to grow unchecked.
The two most common types of mange in dogs are demodectic mange and sarcoptic mange (also known as scabies), and they’re caused by different species of mites. Demodex canis, the most common cause of demodectic mange, lives deep in hair follicles. In contrast, Sarcoptes scabiei canis, the mite responsible for canine scabies, can be found living just under the surface of the skin. Both the mites and the skin diseases they produce share similar characteristics; however, there are also important differences.
Demodectic mange is more common, especially in young dogs
All healthy dogs have a few Demodex mites living among the bacteria, yeast and other naturally occurring microorganisms on their skin. Nearly every mother dog carries and directly transfers these mites to her pups within the first week of life.
mange in dogs
As long as a dog’s immune system is working properly, small numbers of demodectic mites won’t cause problems — the immune system keeps the number of mites in check and no signs of skin disease are seen. But in dogs with compromised immune systems, like puppies who receive poor nutrition or are infected with other parasites, or dogs with chronic disease, the mite population can grow to excessive numbers. Since the mites prefer to live in hair follicles, hair loss is typically the first visible sign of a problem.
There are three types of demodectic mange seen in dogs:
demodectic mange, the most commonly seen form, occurs most often in young dogs (3 months to 1 year of age) whose immune systems are developing. In these cases, mite populations “bloom” in one or two small, confined areas, producing scaly bald patches and creating a polka-dot appearance in the coat. The most frequently affected body areas are the face, around the eyes, mouth and ears. However, demodectic mange can also be found on the front legs and, occasionally, the trunk of the body. Reddened skin is common, but itching is not.
demodectic mange affects larger areas of skin (more than five spots) or the entire body. A dog with this form of mange often develops secondary bacterial infections, which are very itchy and smelly. Generalized mange could signal an underlying hereditary condition, an impaired immune system, an endocrine system disease (such as Cushing’s syndrome, hypothyroidism or diabetes) or other health issue.
Demodectic pododermatitis
is one of the most difficult forms of demodectic mange to diagnose and treat. In these cases, mange is confined to the paw and accompanied by bacterial infection.
Sarcoptic mange is highly contagious
Sarcoptic mange is an extremely itchy skin condition caused by mites that are easily transferred between dogs and even from dogs to people. Unlike demodectic mange, which is seen most frequently in young dogs, scabies can develop in dogs of any age, breed or gender.
The female sarcoptic mite tunnels into the upper layer of skin (the epidermis) where she lays eggs. This burrowing produces intense itching and inflammation of the skin, causing a dog to frantically scratch. Dogs with sarcoptic mange may also have hair loss, reddened skin, sores and scabs, with the most commonly affected areas being the ears, elbows, face and legs. However, if left untreated, scabies can rapidly spread to a dog’s entire body.
If passed to people, sarcoptic mange mites cause a rash of red bumps.
Does nutrition play a role in mange?
Nutrition may help play a role in managing demodectic mange, but not sarcoptic mange. Dogs pick up sarcoptic mites by coming into direct contact with an infested dog — improving a dog’s nutrition won’t change the risk for infestation.
Experts don’t completely understand why some dogs develop demodectic mange while others don’t. They suspect the underlying cause is a defect of the immune system. However, genetics, poor nutrition, stress and breed have been associated with demodectic mange in young dogs. Since a good diet is important to a dog’s overall health, providing a complete and balanced dog food to pregnant dogs throughout their lives — not just before and after whelping a litter — is important to creating a healthy immune system for her and her puppies.
If you have any concerns about your dog’s skin health, or if you’re thinking about breeding your dog, be sure to talk with your veterinarian. Not only can your veterinarian determine if your dog has a skin condition, but he or she can recommend an appropriate diet for your dog, whether you have a puppy or an adult dog.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/36638 | 'Cruel Harvest'
Charlie arrives in Romania with Connie to save his son.
Charlie and Connie embark on a mission to save Charlie's son Louis, which takes them to the darkest corners of Bucharest, Romania.
When Charlie arrives at the hospital in Bucharest, he discovers that Louis is a heroin addict and has got involved in some nasty business. Louis escapes from hospital in a car driven by drug dealer Cristian.
In their search for Louis, Charlie finds out that he is planning to sell his kidney to pay his debts. By the time Charlie gets to the hospital, Louis is already in theatre. Charlie battles to stop Louis from selling his kidney, but will it end in life or death when Cristian finds out the operation has been stopped?
Meanwhile, Connie finds comfort in the arms of Alex, a Romanian doctor who is looking after Louis, but she later feels betrayed by him.
Elsewhere, Louis's girlfriend Sofia finds refuge with Connie.
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Lec 10- A Discussion on Diasporas
"Lec 10- A Discussion on Diasporas"Dr Alan Gamlen (Victoria University Wellington) interviews Professor Robin Cohen (Emeritus, University of Oxford) for the Oxford Diasporas Programme, February 2012. This debate covers the etymology of the word diaspora and the varying interpretations of the concept.
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In the Safety of the Christian Bubble
I read a story the other day about a young pastor who stopped at a gas station to fill up his car, and he had a meaningful conversation with the gas attendant about faith. When he got back in his car to drive away, he realized that had been the first conversation he had with a non-Christian since he started in pastoral ministry a short eighteen months earlier.
He resigned the next day.
I’ve been pastoring churches full-time for the past 28 years, and I get it. I know how easy it is to stay in the safety of the Christian bubble where we speak the same language, share the same values, and live the same lifestyle. But there’s only one problem with this.
That’s not what Jesus did.
Jesus was a friend of sinners (Matthew 11:19). He ate with a disreputable tax collector named Zacchaeus (Luke 19:1-10). He sat at a well with a woman of the world (John 4:1-30). He spoke the truth with love to a woman actually caught in the act of adultery (John 8:1-11). And He didn’t care what people thought of Him when a prostitute wiped His feet with her hair and anointed them with oil (Luke 7:36-50).
Jesus lived no cloistered life, separated from the struggles of humanity. And, yet, I fear I have remained far too insulated from the very people with whom Jesus would sit and share a meal. I’ve done this not from a judgmental attitude or from fear of getting tarnished with the sins of the world. I’ve done it simply by default of church busyness, and in that, I have lost sight of my calling.
Os Guinness warns us, “When Christians concentrate their time and energy on their own separate spheres and their own institutions—whether all-absorbing megachurches, Christian businesses, or womb-to-tomb Christian cultural ghettoes—they lose the outward thrusting, transforming power that is at the heart of the gospel” (The Call, 219).
Well, 2020 is a new year filled with new opportunities. And if you’ve found yourself, like me, isolated from the very ones we need to be loving and reaching for Christ, then here’s some good news. We can make a change. We can choose to be salt and light, to be in the world but not of it.
I love the words of C. T. Studd: “Some want to live within the sound of church or chapel bell; I want to run a rescue shop, within a yard of hell.”
I leave you with the same challenge given by Os Guinness, “Is your faith privately engaging but socially irrelevant? Is it as consistent in your place of work as in your home? Are you acting as `salt’ and `light,’ or do you need to be locked out of a Christian ghetto? Listen to the commanding invitation of Jesus that is both a call and a charge: `Follow Me’” (ibid., 220).
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Is it Time to Choose a Different Path?
Here we are only a couple of weeks into the New Year. So, how are you doing? Are you already feeling overwhelmed, burned out, and ready for another vacation? Or are you ready to drive a stake into the ground, take a stand, and declare, “This year will be different! I will not give up, fade away, sit back, and wither away! I choose a different path that may be less trodden but take it I will! My current path is well worn but leading nowhere! I’m ready to step off the old and onto the new, and may God help me!”
Although I’ve never seen the movie simply called 300, the history upon which it was based has always intrigued me. The year was 480 B.C. The Persian army, led by King Xerxes, was the greatest the world had ever seen. Eighty thousand men rode on horseback or in chariots, and around them marched foot soldiers and archers beyond counting.
When they marched, it was said the ground trembled. When they ate, it was as though locusts had devoured all in their path. When they drank, it seemed that entire ponds were dried up and rivers reduced to a trickle. It took a full week for this colossal and terrible army to pass by the king in review.
After four years of preparation, King Xerxes set out from Susa to avenge the defeat of his father, Darius. He intended to conquer Greece, which at this time was not yet the shining empire it would once become. The quarrelsome Greeks were as much at war with each other as they would be with the Persians.
So it was that this super-army of perhaps 250,000 soldiers (Herodotus said three million) was opposed by a rag-tag force of 7,000 Greeks from five city-states. At their core, 300 Spartans were trained to stand or die. They were led by a 55-year-old prince named Leonidas, and they took their stand in a narrow pass, twenty yards wide.
At first, the Persians must have looked at this encounter as a simple mop-up operation, but for two days the unstoppable were stopped. Only after a betrayal did the Spartans find themselves surrounded, and when swords were gone, according to Herodotus, they fought on with their hands and teeth. Before their imminent death, they sent home this stirring message which became their epitaph: “Stranger, tell the Spartans that we behaved as they would wish us to, and are buried there.”
That little band of Greek warriors had no idea what was to come. They could never have known how their courage would trigger a surge of pride and inspire their fellow countrymen to eventually defeat the Persians, and within thirty short years, Athens became the most influential city the world has ever known. (Adapted from Os Guinness, The Call, 87-89.)
Dedicated and courageous, the 300 did their duty. They did not give up, fade away, sit back, or wither away. They chose a different path that led to greater triumph, even in the wake of defeat.
My question for you is this: Will it be said of you, “Stranger, tell our Lord that I have behaved as He would wish me to behave, and I am buried here”? For when you take a stand for Jesus, regardless of the immediate outcome, victory will one day follow.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/36679 | Finishing Laboratory
This is the place where the ideas becomes...almost always... reality.
This laboratory is equipped with all the machinery that needs for finish the skins.
Ebro's finishing Lab is equipped with the following machineries:
1. Manual spray with conveyor belt together with dryer (for small leathers till half calf)
2. Iron Machine
3. Polish machine with felt or stone
4. Plane Plate
5. Continuous ironing machine
6. Glaze machine
7. Dry drum for soft leather milling
Beside the above listed equipments, this Laboratory has also machinery for make physical tests.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/36680 | Community Authors – Creative Writing Lessons – The Beginning
It’s true, because we need a narrative to have the world make sense.
Think about it. Primitives are sitting around a fire. Speech has arrived on the scene. What are they talking about?
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/36714 | Safety / Loss Prevention
How infrared gas detectors work
Infrared gas detectors work based on the principle of infrared absorption.
Their mode of operation can be briefly described as follows: an infrared source illuminates a volume of gas that has entered inside the measurement chamber. The gas absorbs some of the infrared wavelengths as the light passes through it, while others pass through it completely unattenuated.
The amount of absorption is related to the concentration of the gas and is measured by a set of optical detectors and suitable electronic systems. The change in the intensity of the absorbed light is measured relative to the intensity of light at a non-absorbed wavelength. The microprocessor computes and reports the gas concentration from the absorption.
When there is no gas present the signals of reference signal detector and measurement signal detector are balanced. When there is combustible gas present, there is a predictable drop in the output from measurement signal detector because the gas is absorbing light.
Picture 1 - Infrared detector measuring scheme
Infrared gas detectors present several advantages over catalytic type detectors. These advantages are briefly presented below:
- Their speed of response is very quick, typically less than 10 seconds.
- They are immune to contamination and ''poisoning''.
- They are practically fail-safe, since any failure of the source or detector, or blockage of the signal by dirt, is immediately detected as a malfunction.
- Infrared gas detectors are able to operate reliable in oxygen-rich or oxygen-poor environments.
- They are virtually maintenance free (only maintenance consists of periodic cleaning of the optical windows and reflectors in order to ensure reliable performance) and their use is therefore strongly recommended for inaccessible areas.
- Infrared gas detectors are able to measure gas concentration at a single location (use of point infrared detector) or over large areas (use of open path infrared detector).
Open path detectors are particularly useful in situations where a gas release has been dispersed either by wind or other natural diffusion. Use of open path systems also allows to monitor large areas including multiple potential leak sources, like for example a set of valves or pumps.
On the other hand, infrared type detectors also have some disadvantages compared to catalytic-type gas detectors, the most important of which are the following: higher initial cost, they are not able to detect gases that do not absorb infrared energy (such as hydrogen), infrared emitting source can not be repaired in the field and must be returned to factory.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/36747 | Exchange Rates UK
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Rwanda Franc (RWF) to Russian Rouble (RUB) Historical Exchange Rates on 23rd May 2019 (23/05/2019)
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23/01/2020 vs 23/05/2019 CLOSE = -8.69%
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1 RWF = 0.071512 RUB 13.984 RWF = 1 RUB on 23/05/2019
5 RWF = 0.35756 RUB 69.918 RWF = 5 RUB on 23/05/2019
10 RWF = 0.71512 RUB 139.84 RWF = 10 RUB on 23/05/2019
15 RWF = 1.0727 RUB 209.76 RWF = 15 RUB on 23/05/2019
20 RWF = 1.4302 RUB 279.67 RWF = 20 RUB on 23/05/2019
25 RWF = 1.7878 RUB 349.59 RWF = 25 RUB on 23/05/2019
50 RWF = 3.5756 RUB 699.2 RWF = 50 RUB on 23/05/2019
100 RWF = 7.1512 RUB 1398 RWF = 100 RUB on 23/05/2019
500 RWF = 35.756 RUB 6992 RWF = 500 RUB on 23/05/2019
1000 RWF = 71.512 RUB 13984 RWF = 1000 RUB on 23/05/2019
2500 RWF = 178.78 RUB 34959 RWF = 2500 RUB on 23/05/2019
5000 RWF = 357.56 RUB 69918 RWF = 5000 RUB on 23/05/2019
10000 RWF = 715.1 RUB 139837 RWF = 10000 RUB on 23/05/2019
25000 RWF = 1788 RUB 349592 RWF = 25000 RUB on 23/05/2019
50000 RWF = 3576 RUB 699183 RWF = 50000 RUB on 23/05/2019
100000 RWF = 7151 RUB 1398367 RWF = 100000 RUB on 23/05/2019
250000 RWF = 17878 RUB 3495917 RWF = 250000 RUB on 23/05/2019
500000 RWF = 35756 RUB 6991834 RWF = 500000 RUB on 23/05/2019
1000000 RWF = 71512 RUB 13983667 RWF = 1000000 RUB on 23/05/2019
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/36823 | Ch 5 quiz questions plain text.txt
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1. skin facts
• - largest organ in the body
• - 16% of body weight
2. epidermis characteristics
• - avascular
• - composed of keratinized stratified squamous epithelium
• - contains 4 layers (thin skin) or 5 (thick skin)
3. epidermal layers
• stratum basale: deepest layer, where mitosis occurs, sites of Merkel cells and melanocytes (this layer also called stratum germinativum)
• stratum spinosum: 8-10 layers of keratinocytes (site of Langerhans cells)
• stratum granulosum: transition to dead keratinocytes (cells undergo apoptosis), lamellar granules form, which are lipid secretions that help fill the space in this and the remaining layers, also acts as a water repellant
• strata lucidum (only in thick skin): dead cells in palms and soles)
• stratum cortex: outer surface - contains flat dead keratinocytes (callus forms with constant friction)
4. 4 types of epidermal cells
• - keratinocytes
• - melanocytes
• - merkel cells
• - Langerhans cells
5. keratinocytes
• makes keratin, which is a fibrous protein that provides PROTECTION
• about 90% of the cells in the epidermis
6. melanocytes
makes melanin, which acts to protect the nucleus of keratinocytes against UV radiation
7. Langerhans cells
involved in immune response (ie: with HPV or gonorrhea, pus comes out of genitals due to langerhans cells immune response). cells come from RED bone marrow
8. Merkel Cells
involved in sensation of touch - have nerve structures that they are in contact with (deep in the epidermis)
9. keratinization
process of keratin accumulation as going from the stratum basale to the stratum cortex
10. dandruff
dead keratinized cells shedding from the scalp
11. dermis characteristics
• vascular
• elastic, resulting in the cause of stretch marks and wrinkles due to too much stretching
• composed of connective tissue containing collagen and elastic fibers
12. dermal layers
• papillary region: superficial region that is 1/5 of the dermis, has nerve endings and areolar connective tissue containing collagen and elastic fibers
• reticular region: deeper region, has dense irregular connective tissue containing collagen and elastic fibers, adipose cells, hair follicles, nerves, sebaceous glands (oil) and sudoriferous glands (sweat)
13. how can skin color vary
• different amounts of 3 pigments
• 1. melanin
• 2. carotene
• 3. hemoglobin
14. melanin
yellow-red or brown-black pigment produced by melanocytes. People have similar amount of melanocytes, but differences in production of melanin determine skin color
15. how does a mole form
a mole (nevus) forms from a localized overgrowth of melanocytes
16. carotene
yellow-orange pigment found in stratum corteum, subcutaneous layer and dermis
17. hemoglobin
red color pigment from erythrocytes (RBCs) flowing in dermal capillaries
18. subcutaneous layer
below the dermis, not actually part of the skin. Attaches to underlying tissue and organs. contains LAMELLATED Corpuscles that detect external pressure applied to skin
19. hair
• composed of dead keratinized cells
• shaft: projects above the surface of the skin (composed of medulla, cortex and cuticle)
• root: penetrates into dermis (more layers, same as above but after cuticle there is an inner, external and dermal root sheath (furthest out)
• epithelial root sheath: consists of inner and external roof sheaths
20. arrector pili
muscle around hair that makes it stand up when cold, for example
21. oil glands
sebaceous glands: connected to hair follicles, secrete sebum - oil that prevents dehydration of hair and skin and kills some bacteria
22. sweat glands
• sudoriferous glands - there are two types
• eccrine: helps to cool the body by evaporating, also eliminates waste (ions such as salt, ammonia and urea)
• apocrine: located mainly in the skin of axilla and groin, secretes when physical, emotional stress. hypohydrosis is excessive sweating (can be treated with bottom)
23. Skin types
• thick skin: palms and digits and soles (contains stratum lucid)
• thin skin: other parts of the body (also called hairy)
24. nails
• composed of keratinized cells, have 3 parts
• free edge
• transparent nail body
• nail root
25. Skin FUNCTIONS
• 1. protection
• 2. absorption and secretion
• 3. regulation of body temperature
• 4. blood reservoir
• 5. site of vitamin D synthesis
• 6. cutaneous sensations
26. Types of wound healing
• epidermal wound healing: basale epithelial cells migrate towards each other and fill the gaps
• deep wound healing: blood clots, then the SCAB forms as the new cells fill the gaps and push the blood clot to the surface.
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Tips on Thursday: Reddit
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In last week's tips post, I shared an experiment I did with Reddit. In addition to huge amounts to comments, Reddit can also drive a lot of traffic to your site (for me, a post gets more traffic from Reddit than it does from StumbleUpon). However, Reddit is a bit tricky and my first go around with the site I was banned. In an effort to help you not get banned and also increase views to your blog I'm offering a few tips.
Tip #1 Understand what Reddit is
Reddit is a social news site. Users submit links and text posts. Users of Reddit are looking for newsworthy items and discussion.
Tip #2 Build Karma
There is no user profile on Reddit. Instead, a users credibility is built through link and comment karma. Users are able to up and down vote the content you submit. I submit content from big sites like Huffington Post, Galley Cat, Book Riot, Publisher's Weekly - these stories almost always do well. I will also occasionally submit content from blogs I follow - these do moderately well.
I recommend having 50 - 100 link karma points before submitting any of your own content.
Build up comment karma by leaving useful comments on your content submissions as well as other submissions. Remember discussion is an important component of Reddit.
Tip #3 Read the Rule of Each Subreddit
Subreddits are categories to which you submit content. Each subreddit is its own community with its own moderators and its own sets of rules. Some subreddits do not allow any self promotion (no links to your content). Sometimes the moderators are nice and will just remove your content if you violate their rules, others will report you and you will be banned. Reddit moderators are strict and patrol their communities more so than any other site I've been a part of, so be careful.
I typically stick to Books and Selfpublish (selfpublish is a small group, but really nice). Writing and Blogging are other subreddits to check out.
Even if a subreddit allows self-promotion, many times they require special tags. Always read the subreddits rules before submitting
Tip #4 Submit Self (text) Posts
One way to get around self-promotion bans, is to do what I did in my experiment. Do a self or text post. Summarize the content you had on your blog into a post on Reddit. It will generate discussion and during the discussion mention that you said more on the blog post and perhaps leave a link for those interested.
Self posts also demonstrate you are interested in the Reddit community and not just there to drive traffic to your site.
Tip #5 Spend time on Reddit
Like any other social media network, you need to spend some time there. I find Reddit to be a fun place to have discussions and one of the easier (once you understand the rules) tools to use. There are always trolls, but for the most part people are friendly and helpful. I make checking into Reddit part of my daily social media checks. See what's new, upvote a few submissions and comments. If a big discussion gets going (like for my Mockingjay post) then I will set aside a larger chunk of time.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/36862 | Happy Friday, ladies! This morning I have a little request: If you haven't clicked through our slideshow of 10 tips and tricks from beauty bloggers we love like Amber Katz of Beauty Blogging Junkie and Daneen Baird of Spoiled Pretty, I insist you do so now. No, really, I'm not kidding, I insist. There are some real gems in there like this one:
If you buy a new lacquer and end up being disappointed with the shade, add a few drops of one that you do love to the bottle to create a new version of your fave.
—Michelle Mismas of All Lacquered Up
I'm all about this—it saves you money and makes you feel all artistic and stuff. But that's just one—click here to read the other nine. Then, if you've got a sec, come back and tell me if you've got a favorite or a tip of your own to add.
p.s. Here's a nail polish recipe straight from Fashion Week, a hair part trick I spotted on Julia Roberts and a few beauty tricks to steal from Barbie (yes, Barbie).
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Britain’s air commander Arthur Harris was convinced that by “bombing Germany city by city”, would bring the war to a swift end. The bombings against densely populated areas often avoided armament hotspots, which served to lengthening the war. |
global_01_local_0_shard_00002368_processed.jsonl/36900 | F7 chord
F7 chord for guitar in different forms, including closed and barre chords.
F7 chord diagram
The most common way to play the chord. The index finger should bar all strings. F7 is a four-note chord consisting of F, A, C, Eb.
Alternative shapes
F7 barre
• F7 barre shape
• F7 chord diagram
• F7 chord diagram
• F7 chord diagram
Relevant chords
• F7sus4 shape
Theory and information
There is no common version with open strings for this chord in standard tuning.
Try in a chord progression
F7 - Gm7 - C7 - Bb7
Chord names
F7 is a dominant chord. F7/A, F7/C and F7/Eb are inversions of the chord.
Notes in the chord
The notes that the F7 chord consists of are F, A, C, Eb.
To get F9 add G.
To get Fmaj7 replace Eb with E.
Written in tab format (main barre version)
- 1 -
- 1 -
- 2 -
- 1 -
- 3 -
- 1 -
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[Spoiler] 'The Girl Who Sees Smells' Park Yoo-chun begs Shin Se-kyung to stay with him
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'The Girl Who Sees Smells' Park Yoo-chun asked Shin Se-kyung to stay with him.
On the May 7th episode of SBS' 'The Girl Who Sees Smells', Choi Moo-gak (Park Yoo-chun) told Oh Cho-rim (Shin Se-kyung) how much he loved her.
Oh Cho-rim revealed to Choi Moo-gak, "I know I'm the witness. And I am aware my original name is Choi Eun-seol. As soon as I became aware that it was my original name, I should have realized something. But I realized it a little too late. I'm so sorry that your little sister had to die because I was the witness and my name was Choi Eun-seol". She cried in tears.
Choi Moo-gak said "It's not because of you. It's just that the bastard killed my sister. It has nothing to do with you". Oh Cho-rim said, "Even if that's true. It changes nothing. I can't do this".
At this, Choi Moo-gak said, "If that's the reason, I cannot let you leave. Don't think too much. I'm going to love you, you just take my love. Stay with me. Don't leave".
Oh Cho-rim said, "No, I can't do it. I feel too sorry to stay with you". And then she left the spot.
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